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WHE FINAL estimates of thecrons '1 produced in Michigan and the f United- States in, 1920 are now available. They should command the careful study of every farmer for they ’reveal certain information - , ”which should be helpful in guiding ‘ him in the marketing of the crops ' still in his hands. . A summary of the estimates is published in the boxing on this page. . Let us take each cr0p’ separate-l7. . .- compare the production for 1920 with the previous year, the known and prospective demands, etc, and 5 - seek to arrive at seme definite con-. _clusions regarding the future prices of these commodities. Let us take wheat first. Reference to the table shows that Michigan pro- duced. less wheat last year than the yearbefore. and that the total pro,- , du-ction of all wheat in the U. S. was ‘ nearly 150 million bushels less than g . in 1919. The United State-s 18‘ the ~ largest wheat producing country in 2 the entire world. Moreover, wheat 7 is a world crop, the prices in every country depending to a very large ex— tent upon the prices obtaining in the United States. An increase; or de— crease in the size of the wheat crop Wof’ this country has an effect upon the world price. In view of the large decrease of 1920 over 1919, and in the absence of no material increase .. ~ , in all the other countries combined ' f - to make up the loss, we may reason- ably expect that the price of wheat will advance and possibly equal] the highest price offered- for this com- modity during 1919. Michigan Still Short of Quota 1n Hoover European Relief Campaign AST WEEK I made a second ap— peal to our readers for suscrip- 1 tions to the Hoover Relief fund. ‘ I thought it would be the last. But ' ‘ the state has lagged in the campaign ‘ 7 ' audis short nearly a hundred thous— , anddollars of her quota. So there— fore, I am obliged to appeal once. more to our readers to heed the cries of the suffering children and send in, their mite to help feed them. Folks, do you realize that out of nearly 250.000 actual readers of THE ‘Bilsmnss FARMER, less than ONE j HUNDRED have responded to this appeal! I cann-otdaccount for this. I knew that many of our readers have no doubt already subscribed to . their local committee or send in their -‘subscriptions direct. I know that some of them cannot spare a single cent for even so great and worthy a cause as this, but I know there must be thousands of our readers who can aitprd to give something and have given nothing, probaby because they have not been sufficiently impressed with the gravity of the situation. I = wish I had the words to arouse my ' _ readers to a full appreciation of the ~ suffering in Europe, of the ',cripp1ed emaciated and diseased bodies 0f three and a half million children who ‘are slowly starving to death. It does not seem possible that there could be a human soul that could stand un- moved before so heart—rending a spectacle. _But_I have not been in Europe. I have not looked upon 1' on the words of one who has, Capt. ’H. Bailey, 1111 American who serv— Polish army asainst the pants to $10. .they could not send more. 3861 scenes myself; but I can quote. l and PotatOes 'FinhlEs’timates Show Large Crop Shortage eWheat, Rye, Beans and Sugar Beets Below 1919 Production, but Oats, Corn Show Increase REVISED ESTIMATES OF PRODUQTION, MICHIGAN AND UNITED STATES, 1920_ AND_ 1919 I .I . Michigan , United State—15 Crop I I Yieldl Total production . Total production I Acres I 10201020 I 1919 1920 1919 l 1920 . I Bushelsl Bushels I___ Bushels Bushels Bushels (‘orn .I1,675,,000 I 40.0 67, 000, 000 63. 375, 000 3, 232. 307 000 II 2, 858, 509‘, 0.00 W. Wheat I 890,000 I 15.5 13,795,000 19, 28" 1, 000 580,513,000 729, 503, 000 S. \1 heat I 48,000 I 10.0 480,000 952,000 209, 365 000 204 782, 000 All Wheat I 938,000 I' 15.2 I 14,275,000 20,237,000 | 780, 878. 000 034, 265, 000 Rye . .I 90,000 I 14.7 I 10,143,000 13,500,000 60 ,318, 000 I 88, 909, 000 Oats . .| 1 425,000 I 30.6 56,430,000 35,625,000 1,524, 055,000 1, 231,1 ".54 000 Barley ' I 240,000 I 26.0 6, 240. 000 5,320,000 202,024,000 161,, 345, 000 Buckwheat 42.000 14.5 700,000 621,000 1‘3. 789, 000 15,244,000 Potatoes .I 340,000 I 105.0 35,700,000 27,900,000 430, 458, 000 I 35’ 1,'7 542, 000 Beans 275,000 13.0 3,575,000 4,140,000 '9, 075 00110 I '11. 935. 000 01' yr Seed I 101,000 1.5 152,000 86,000 1, 760 000 I 1..341, 000 Hay, tame;i I 2,624,000 11.20] I3,140,000 I3,180,000 I 191, 193. 000 I ”11,883, 000 Hay. 50, 000 11.28I ‘I 4,000 56,000 I "17, 040, 000 I 117,, 209 000 Hay, Alld 2,674,000 I1.20 13,213,000 13,236,000 I 1108, 233, 000 I 1100 12.1000 Apples, all I 16,500,000 6,484,000 I 2401. 646, 000 I 1.1 3.238, 000 Ap'pl Com §3,167.000 §1.109.000 l §3n. 272, 000 I §26,2213 onto Peaches ,I . I 1,500,000 480,000 I 43, 097, 000 49, 578. 000 Pears . . _ 1,100,000 420,000 I 7, 279, 000,‘| 15 .472, 000 S. Beetsi 129,400 I 18.5 11, 106. 000 11,205,000 I IS, 545 000 16 421 478 *Six leading states. TTons. iPreliminary estimate, beet slicing not completed. §Barrels. . The United States is also the larg- est single producer of cats in the world. Its 1920 crops exceeded the former year’s crop by 200 million bushels. This fact alone is sufl’icient to warrant our believing that cats will not advance in the same degree as wheat,-or ,that .any material bet- terment of the price cannot long be sustained. Oat prices probably will go higher, but the dumping of the crop on the market will undoubted—, ly prevent values such as were com- mon during the early part of last year from being long sustained. With rye the situation is exactly the contrary. wise a large producer pf rye, and Michigan is among the leading rye states. The 1920 production shows This country is like—V some decrease from the 1919, which however, is not enough alone to en— ‘ert a very large influence upon the price. But there is a more important factor than this which should be tak— en into consideration and that is the demand for this breadstuff in certain European countries. The revival of the war finance corporation should open the way for Germany and Aus— tria to increase their purchases of rye, in' this country, and holders of this grain are almost certain to be repaid by materially higher prices than now prevail. Potatoes Show Big Yield The 1920 'crop of potatoes has been exceeded only once. 'It is great— er by nearly 75' million bushels than the 1919 crop. Potatoes are not an By THE EDITOR Niemen, cold, lousy hungry Icy winds were sweeping across the flat, Polish plains The sky was gray’ and frowning. I was thinking what a rotten, senseless thing war is, with its blood, its mud, and its stench Suddenly I heard a fee— ble cry behind me, It was the inarticu— late pleading of a child She stumbled toward me, empt pail outstretched Hunger! That tra ic little face tear- stained, ghastly white, absolutely un- narvcd me. I finally located a loaf of bread, or what was called bread at least, I had weathered many soul-sick- ening moments in Poland, but I was not strong enough to watch that baby eat, Look at the thin little dress ii the pho- tographs I enclose, And I with boots and gloves and a great-coat,. was shiv- ermg." The Honor Roll Up to‘ Tuesday noon, last, a total of $19.6. 75 had been received .at our office fer the Hoover Relief. Fund The amounts ranged from 10 Many big-hearted farmers voiced their regrets that Why, bless you, no sum is too small to be appreciated. Don’t hesitate to send what you can afford to send just because it is not as much as you would like to send. Several readers advised us that they had already sub- scribed to the fund through other channels. Of ,course, .we don't ex- "‘ — \ Clip This Coupon and Help EDITOR BUSINESS EARLIER, MOUNT CLEMENS, MICH. Enclosed find $........... European Relief Fund. I I I. I- 1 . I ,Address c.-,oo---yo.noco' pect them to duplicate their subscrip— tions. One woman who lives up in the Thumb writes: “I am sending only a dollar. I wish it could be more but this is all I have now. Husband is working oh the road to pay taxes and we don’ t know how much they are going to be. We have nine in the family so it is not selfishness that keeps us back, I thought perhaps I might have more after the taxes are paid if you will take contributions then, I would like to know how long a time we have and could money be sent any time if we can't give just now,” Another writes: “Received my last copy of M B F. in which you appeal to the readers to help the starving children or Europe I be- lieve you are delivering a God- -given mes— sage. Will say that our church paper has been making appeals and I contrib— uted to it, I thought I’d let you know so you won d not take me for a slacker I like the I. B F. fine and wish you success and a Happy New Year “Is Your Name Written There?” Subscriptions received up to Jan. 11th are as follows: $10 each——R Sa-uber, New Baltimore; Fred Fai ting, Charlevoix; Hugh Taylor, Ortonville;.Forrcst Lord Mt Clemens; Myrtle Lamb, Mt Clemens, $7—Har1‘3 Lee, Leonidas. $6-——H. Stinchcombc, IIaIrisville . $5 e9ch—«M1s.Joh'n Schoof, lmlay City; Fied S'chuster, Warren; E, J, Bell, Curtisvillc: 1V. K Straw Char? c- voix; Mr and Mrs, O. E I‘erman, Flush- Save a Child From Starvation -— —-—‘ .as my contribution to the Hoover i....o..'looo‘,coo,.I_.-..- Igloo.cu...4...,...... L' ' 1’ . Coleman, export crop. few hundred thous-‘ and bushels are shipped to immedi—. ately adjoining countries but the great bulk of the tuber prohibits long distance shipments. All but a neg— ligible portion of this crop must be consumed at home, hence on is led to wonder how these extra 80 mil— lion bushels can be consumed with- out loss to the farmer. The logical answer is, “they can’t.” And a study of the prices and the size of the crops the, last ,four years strength- ens that conclusion. In 1917 the production was 442 million bushels; the highest price received by the farmer for this crop was $1.45 in November and the lowest price 50 cents in June. The 1918 crop was 400 million bushels, and the high- est price received by the farmer was $1.38 in April and May and the low- est $1.02 in March. The 1919 crop was 357 million bushels; the farmer received $1.38 pei bushel in Novem— ber and $5.60 in June. Last year’s crop was 430 million bushels. The highest price that has been paid to the farmer on this year‘s crop was $2.25 per bushel. since which time prices have steadily declined, with a _ few Sligh't upward fluctuations. The ' ' only conclusion that is warranted from the above facts is that the crop remaining in the farmer’s hands is so large that there can be little hopesw of very much higher prices. Boots ~31 The government’s estimate of the tonnage of sugar beets produced in this state last year does not exactly jibe with the claims of the manufact- (Continued on page 23) S 11 go 1' ing; Mrs. Dan Snyder, Wheeler; Wm. Koster, Butterfield, $4,25———Chas, M. Weber, $4.00 cache—John Buchingcr, John Roberts. Wilmot. 33,00 each———Rollie Blair, Middleto‘n;' Mr. and Mrs, H, A, Blair, Middleton; Frank Scaton and family, Fcnton. $2.00 each—Mr, and Mrs, Martin Schmidt. Rhodes; Myron Vincent, Cros- well; Sylvia. Peterson, Kinde; Wm, Ken- dall, St, Charles; Lewis and S, M, M01- ler, Beaverton; Frank Martin, Marquette: Mrs. Fred Hutchinson, Caro; Mrs Henry Fulton. Mayville. $l. 25—«Mrs John Philpbt, Snover, $1. 00 each—Frank Debbmt, Albion; Harry Smith, White Cloud; Geo, Meg- gison, Charlevoix; A C ’Wilder, Millers- burg; Mrs McArthur, Clarkcsville; Mrs. W, W. Stuart, Clarksville; C. Houghta- lin, Cadillac; Gustave Kepsel. Sandusky; Chas. Thumm Ypsilanti, Mrs, Arthur Snyder and children, White Cloud; Wm, Bossack Manton; Lewis Martin. Har— bor Springs; Frank Adams. Marion; H, D. Mahler, Jonesville; Andrew Bradd, Bay Port; Herman Streubuhr, Leonard; J. C. Heil, Flint; Mrs. fitmuel Roe, Spruce; Aumst Enger, Posen; lSeely Arnsburg Elwell; Godfrey Sa,hn Ann Arbor: Steve Scott, Davison; J, K Sig- ler. Coleman; Mrs. Peter McCormick, Bad Axe; Chas, 'I‘, Carpon, Marion; E. . A. Botsford, Petoskeyz Chris Harvey," Carsonville; Ole Larsen. Ludington; Chris Miller, Onaway; Orin L._ Spider, Owosso Reese ; - Beaverton; Mr, and Mrs, Edgar Ander— son, Ithaca ; Mrs, Georgia Corothers, Fife Lake: Mr and Mrs. Lyman Dur- Gilbert F, Angus. Pe— phy, Coopersville; Davis, Tustin; to: key; Mrs Theodore Julia Meeker, St.‘ Johns; Mr. and Mrs, '- Ray Breiner, Osseo; Mrs Frank Bur- 1. hank, Quincy: Marion Essex and family, " Reed City; Jas .1" Laval], Manistique' T10 H11her.Climox;Wm Ager, lmnix; Minnie L, Haken, Lachine; Ge Cronsey. Marcellus; Simon Farber. " poria; Axel Nas, Muskegon: ,Pete c'-"'hwartz, Turner; Frank Schalck, Mt C‘emens: Kate Nichols. Wolverine; B Cline Alma; B N. Bricker, Chnsanin Bert Smith, Montrose; Wm. Wa’rWieA Melvin: Henry Myers Saginaw; Geo. Huyd Tustin Loss than $1 each—Lewis Schoemaker, Carleton: Fred Zahn. Ann Arbor; Mug. tin Beals. Manton; Wm Burger. v' dusky; Wallace Perry and C L Wen“ Lindon: E, A Barber. Lincoln; 1' chettn. Seven Lake; Chas. Brag ers City: Anonymous. Eaton ’ and McMillan; Mrs. E. Tessmen Bryant Borton, K311118115;- Alex, slon Again the Governor re- , views the needs of the state and ’makes his rccommeuddtions. Again g'ythis great business organization, the State of Michigan, is face to face with certain deflnile problems which must 'be grappled with and solved ‘ if the state is to continue to pay “dividends 9' in the shape of equitable taxation, ec~ chemical administration of The laws, and other benefits which make Ior a ' 1 contented citizenship. 7 r. ' ’llre question naturally arises. “Will. the new legislature and the new Gov- ernor have any greater vision. desire and ability to cope with these prob-‘ lems than were exhibited by the last legislature and the retiring G0vern~ or?" if they have not then nothing has been gained by last November’s election. We might as well have per-- petuated the old legislature and gov- ernor in office and be spared the'ex- pense of further elections. But if the new Governor has a ‘someWhathigh- or conception of the duties of. his 015' fice than the mere signing of bills and proclamations; if the added two years of experience and contact with the folks “back home” have increas- ed the respect of the returning legis- lators for the Wishes of their con- stituents: and ii' the new members have steeled themselves against inim- ical influences which assert them— selves at the opening of each session of the legislature,—then, indeed. we may have hope that the next two or four years will show a decided im' provement over the last in the con- duct of the public business. 8 n GAIN THE legisla‘- .ure is in ses- The Go vernor’s Message A most encouraging sign" that a new order of things is in the offing, is the message of Gov. Groes‘beck to the legislature. In language it is .most unbeautifnl. It is devoid of flowery idealism, of flattering ',1 references to the past accomplish-- ‘2 .. ,ments of the party, and con- tains no loose or meaningless promises. it is a most homely but practical document, written in .the simplest language and presenting facts and figures with a refreshing frankness. It may be said that the ' Governor’s message has been received ' . with approval by the large majority of the legislature and the people of the State. In the legislature there is al- ready an 1111der—cu1‘rent at work to bring about opposition to the reforms suggested by the Governor, but be-' cause of the overwhelming sentiment in favor of thse reforms it is not like“ ly that the reactionaries will get very far. In a brief and pointed introduction Gov. Groesbeck said: _ “While we do not assume that legis la- tion will remove all of 1111 ditlivulths and uncertainties incid1-11t to :1 proper re—ad- .justment of our social and industrial .affail'S, vet ih1 soliousucss oi lll‘tsuht , conditions must impress 11s ulth t‘m fact «J that we 1111\0 been sent here in 1‘1spouse to a. 1na111l:--111 from the ]1e01111-. \1l1icl1 ‘rarries \lith it. 11 compo‘ling obligation to "-1 Agulate and 1l1r1 C-t o-ul legislathe and ad— ministratixc 11%1111v'l1i11c1y so that as far as an efficient state government. 1:111 influ- ence it we, will have contributed some- thing worth “bile to the restoration of nonnal and pmspcrous conditions. “Time has proud that we hale a form of government which if properly con ducted can assure our citizens the high- est degree of happiness and justice If. h0\\’0\7‘.(’l there is discord and strife, rathm than co— operation in our 00- -ordinu ate branches—if the welfare of the poo,— ple is not at all times Our paramount obligation and unchangeable purpose, we shall not only be faithless to gun eon- Stituents but apostates to the canse of good govemment at a time when the in- terest of State and nation require the “highest patriotic s01 v1ce from its officials. State Budget; 1921-22, $72, 000, 000 “In 1919, the asseSsed value of all tax- able property in the state Was $4, 503,— 980, 981 The state tax (levy was $17,— 432, 51204 The rate per thousand dol- tars of assessed valuation- was $3. 87 “In 1920 the assessed value Will be approximately $4, 800, 000, 000, and the .~ state tax has been apportioned at $17, - .378, 328 35.‘ The approximate2 rate per " ‘thousand of valuation is $3. 62 '7 “The taxes for each of these two years 'Were almost double the highest amount var previously collected for state pur- poses; and it was thought that“ the limit of taxation had nearly been reached But is does not seem to be the ca'sa 7 “The requests and estimates of 0111' de— , “rt-ments, boards, and»; n‘stlt'htions sub- ,- "mitt to the budget commissimi for the ibiémlial period of 1921 and 1922 show for Effisldest this sum tr‘r Message to Legislature Acknowledges Grosslnequaltty :76, Present'Tax System and? Prevalence of Extravagance .q._e... —...‘. . Below are some of the high lights in Gov. Groesbeck’ 5 message - to the legislature: Reduction of taxes and adoption of new tax methods. Creation of Depa1tment of Agriculture to take over duties of an- imal industry, state veterinary board state apiary inspector, commis- sioner of immigration, geological survey, Michigan Agricultural Fair Commission. inspection of nurseries and orchards. agricultural division of the state department, inspection of seeds and fertilizers. State ownership and control of the Michitran State Fair. 1 A. more rigid conservation policy with respect to natural resourc- . cs. including reforestation. increased protection of forests, fish, and i game. ‘ State ownership and development of water power. Creation of State Industrial Department to t' 1k_e over all duties of cemmissions whose work relates in any way to labor and industry. . Naming of an administrative anrd, to consist of at least five elective state officers in addition to the Governor, which should have general Supervision over all state business. ._ Revisement and reformation of State Budget system to make it a thoroughly useful and responsible body. Better educational facilities for rural children. '1' of all state business and expenditures, with the veto :power in Groesbeck’s “Economy” Program 8' p' , U ' ued ' . tion except as applied to public .and agents are made subjects to its con 1 of a state income tax lée year of 19,22 the s , .173174,- _ . Revision of corporation laws. physical defectives. pendents. More human treatment of prisoners and treatment of mental and Repeal. of law creating Michigan Community Council Commission. ' State Aid fer disabled veterans of the world war and their de- the highway improvement bonds, togeth— er with interest On the war loan, and the amount nccessary to complete the state office building and general purpose irements. will amount to $7. 875. 0:00 3;} a total for the year 1922 of $40. 048. - 174 28. “For the year 1923 the sums request— ed in the tentative budget total $26,140 - 928. 83' and the mill tax for the unhel— sity. the Agricultural college. highway impr0\'ernen‘., and other fund require- $625. 000 or a total f01 the year of 1923 of $32, 765.92 883;:11111 a grand total for the biennial period of $72, 814. 103 11. a “These figures do not. include any ex— penditures of the highway department for. these two years The estimate of this de- partment for the year 1922 is $3, 357, 050; and for 1923, $3, 550 750 ‘Estimating ‘the state revenues from sources other than general taxation, such as fees, licenses etc., applicable to budget requirements. based upon the es~ timates of the different departments bonds and institutions, the state should receive 0,93 398, 615 for the year 1922; and for 1923 $3, 447, 353 “Deducting these amounts from the total asked for these respective years, we should have the sum of $36, 649, 559. — 28 raised by general taxation for me year 1922; and 929. 318.575 83, raised in like manner for the year 1923. 'Upon this basis the tax rate for 1922, using an estimate of $5. 000 000, 000 as the assessed value of. taxable property will be $7 33; and $5 86 for the year 1923, ' ments total $7. 33 Tax Rate Possible These figmes y no means complete the story. The ditor general informs me that there is a deficit in the. state treasury of approximately 96.006000 with a stiong likelihood that it will be . considerably augmented by the close of 1111111'1u1rt11t fiscal year, namely June 30., 192 "A compilation of the budget requests for 1922 discloses that an appropriation of 317.059.54154 is asked for capital out- lay including purchase of lands. new buildings and equipment. This sum does not include anything for the completion of H11" state otlicu building, uhich. it is (‘Stll’llé’li_1'd‘\\'lil cost in excess of $1 000- 009, it thus appears that the (apital out‘ay'requests for 1922 alone 11111 ex- tax for the. year m-nd the total state 1 2 . “Again by act 25 of the last special session there \xill be levied one- -half mill tax on the assessed valuation for 10’]..'111(1 each ye:1 r thu‘caftcr to be used in paymrnt of interest on road bonds and in reduction of the yearly bond is- sue of $5 000. 000 If bonds are issued to the limit allowable under this law by 1.923 we will have outstanding a total issue of $15. 067 000, carrying an interest charge of $753,350 with nothing in sight to retire maturities excepting the power of taxation” Recommends New Tax Methods While Mr. Greesbeck did not com- mit himself to- a' definite change in‘ the present'method of levying taxes, it is quite apparent from what he had'to say upon the matter that he has some particular change in mind. There ‘ is some whether Gov. Groesbeck is in favor has undbubtedly been converted to the income .tax at a comparatively recent date for if we remember core ' in the press-7. only a few month _ ago as saying that", he was opposed to that ferm ‘of taxg‘. b an d at- 'rect‘ly he was 1111311. I‘G- ' ' do so . consisting of the governor and conjecture as ' to. If he is, he. formed upon the advantages and justice of the income tax and is now prepared to sponsor such a tax in this state; We know, of no other method of taxation which he could have had in mind when he wrote the following: “About 89 per cent of our total taxes now falls upon real estate and 20 per cent on personalty. It is a settled prop- osition, not only that personalty does not bear its just share of taxation, but that '11: 1s practicalJy impossible to make it Experience evelywhere has dem— onstrated this “It is my judgement after a careful survey of these matters. that the burden of taxation cannot be much increased, so far as realty is concerned; and that if the legitimate requirements of the state On account of its more extended activity in' numerous lines~are such as tomake addi‘donal revenues. necessary, then it becomes a question of providing them from other and different sources. Various methods of securing a more equitable distribution of the tax burden have been recommended by the state tax commission_ All of them have in some form been adopted in other states and so far ascertainable are giving. general sat- isfaction. Our endeavor should be to solve the problem in an equitable man- ner, “It may, however, not be lmpertinent for me to hazard the opinion that the burdens of taxation are becoming all too onerous. It seems to be the practice to constantly increase them, The reasons for this are, not always confined to act— ual necessities or to an extension of the functions of government A" consider- able portion is attributable to extrava— gance and waste , - “Therefore. before it is determined that more taxes should be levied. we should make a studious effort to elimin- ate the last vcstige of wastefulness in connectiouwith administrative affairs." Administrative Board Mr. Groesbeck would centralize authority} eliminate duplication and fix responsibility through the ap- pointment of an administrative board not less than five other elective state of— floors. which the Governor makes .to the plan that has been adopted in Illi- nois and which was the leading plank in Milo Campbell’s platterm. Upon this subject he voice-s himself as vfollows: “In some states they have abolished all their institutional b0 ds. and named a central salaried boar, or director in their stead The advocates of the sin- gle board or officer with pay, point out that by so centralizing responélbility the executive can be held to direct account- ability to the ”people extent may be true. on the other hand there is a middle ground which it seems can be taken without uprooting all of our non-salaried boards, many of which have been and are rendering splendid service. “The experience one obtains from closle contact with state affairs brings home the realization that the most glaring de—' feet of our present system is the failure“ to previde responsible supervis on of state expenditures subsequent to appro- lack pf an one time he was opposed to the or-~ ! ganization. - lice. gentlemen of that ilk will be kept This is the nearest approach. 'slight to real ability and leadership While this to some " . his views have not changed f-i'have elected him to the legislat pri'ation by the legislature and the utt‘eg_1 ‘ the gown-1'1 Through such an agency, first ban re sponsi ility of the constitutional unless: of the state to- the people. could be cured, and the old and discredited ,pr tics of creating new boards and comm sions on the slightest pretext diabonti'n. I ‘1' es— 7”” usi'-. _ tress Every successful private cor-pm". -» ation has such a board and. its officers “There is nothing new in this su trol” Better Rural Education ‘ J It is' gratifying to note that Mr, Groesbeck has given some thought to the disparity between the educa-' tional advantages enjoyed by the children of the city and th'e'country, He acknowledges. that the children —-_‘ of the farming community do not . , _ have the opportunities for an fiedn'... 1 ’ .‘- cation which are enjoyed by the ‘ children of the .urban centers. He says: “In a democracy all should re- ceive the benefit of the best educa- tion obtainable; and while we- are ' - . 7 proud of our higher institutions 01" i}. - ,' learning. we muSt not forget that '31- f. tar all the cemmon school is the col- - 7 lege of the average man and Woman. ' It is such schools, and partiCularly ' , . thoSe in rural districts, ,whléh should receive the attention of the legislature at this time.” . . 1 . LEGISLATIVE .‘ Frank Vandenboom, NOTES -' .. '1 ','i upper penin- . ' 1 menode MHHd-Har’ar—aimn row-11.4- sula farmer, heads important com- mittee on taxation. , \- ~ ~ 1 1111111011: Some surprise is felt that Gov;""" " Groesbeck made no reference to the state constabulary in his message to- ' the legislature. It is said that at but has since been con- .~ verted. It is rumored that he will make recommendations at a future date relative to the work of the po- ‘7—._.. ~.. I . 111 111 a 111 - '1 Fred L. Warner, speaker of the ,1, 7 House, acts as if he was going to V' _ ' l “deliver the goods.” ~He has already smashed one precedent “as old as , the legisla'ure itself.” in refusing ' . ., chairmanships to any member of the ' ' important ways and means commit- tee. He also cautioned the members of the House that the fact that the House was solidly Republican did ‘fi n’ot give themlicen'se to disregard} the wishes of the people of the state, - but really increased the responsibil-‘ ' ity placed, on them by the lackof,‘a-' minerity 'check. Speaker Warner has no use for the professional lob: byist and if he has his Way about it t wagunomcwnmoemwonmee out of the legislative chambers. * I" * * The friends of :1 ' been: disabling-9 gauche: z-m 13 Sen. ’ Herbert F.- Baker are slightly resentful of the treatment which be received when ' the committee appointments were ’ handed out by Lieut Gov. Read Bak— er, a. thorough progressive, friend of .' agriculture, veteran legislator, form er speaker of the House. and a lead er in the last session, was given. the chailmanship of probably the most unimportant committee in the Sens 7 ate——the Nmni‘al Schools This is likely to react upon Mr. Read even in the. eyes of many who do not at l _. all times agree with “Herb’s ” 8.8-; Ti 1: gressive views. . - ' ' : V . . 1 . . g 7.111 In the person of Hon. GeOrg. 1 ~17 Lord, former state tax commission? ' Q: er, the House has a member of great -. 1. ability and wide experience especial- 1‘s ly as a student of tax problems. Pri r1 to his election Mr; Lord was. an ponent of the income tax We 1. ‘ coin teen ’ .1zation of Colorado farmers chal- ‘ 1611ng the big coal interests by buying a mine of their own, of how for. nearly the last quarter of a cent- dry the Colorado beekeepers have set their own honey price and have had their own marketing organiza- tion’, and of how this fall the Bright- . on cabbage producers for once buck- ;_ Denverjcommiesion houses and die- .ta-ted their own marketing policy. -' Altogether it is a story of as re- ,, sourceful and vigorous work on the - part Of farmer's’ organizations as f Can be found anywhere. It would be ~ 7 ~ possible to tell also of the work of 3 or." 1 a half-dozen or so other Colorado ‘ ”indium marketing plans, but for the most part this article will confine ,‘ f itself to those features which make ,> Colorado. rather unique in these lines. " When I walked into the offices of the Equity Union in Denver I noticed that. the. door also bore the inscrip- . .head-» tion;stating that it was the quarters of a coal company. As a , general. thing, I had understood that » farmers? organizations did not have offices in the same room with big “2. corporations which operate ,coal mines and the like, but I soon found ,- that the Jewell Coal Company was nothing moreor less than a com- pany owned. by the , EquityUnion. Arch Bean, a young business man who has made the coal business his , , life work, was in charge of the of— “! " Q - ‘fice. Like many other co- operative ' ' ' organizations, the Equity Union sup- plies its own coal 'yards with coal. But this association has gone a step further and gone into the actual min- ing business. ,1 . ‘ Coal Supply Cut 011' “The Equity Union had succeeded I the map, and then when we had just 3’ got well started, they cut us off ” ," said Mr. Bean. “One company cut f'~ off our supply of coal without warn- } ’ 5’ ing, while another began to let us ‘ 3 down easy and shipped only '1 cars when it Should have been 500 cars. 'I have been in the coal bus- 1 'ines‘s long enough to know most of the'coal men in Colorado from A'to Z, and I began to see what they were up to. It was going to be'neces— sary for us to have a regular supply -of coal. Of course as you know the . , demand for coal the last few years , ' has been such that no one needed a " - jo‘b‘ber to sell it. The buyers have * been waiting. 5']— ‘ “For some time I had had my eye on a mine down near Walsenburg, south of Pueblo. I had been study- ‘ ing the proposition for a couple of years and finally early this year suc- ceeded in getting an option. It pro- '1 ‘vided that we must pay $2, 000 Jan— ' nary 28; $10, 000 February 15, and .7. _ the balance of $65, 000 March 15, L,‘ The first thing we knew we had the ' coal mine on our hands and $63, 000 to pay. A letter was sent to every . Eduity Union with which we trans- , aced coal business. Meetings were held. at "various places in eastern Colorado. Fiva thousand dollars was raised at Yuma; in fact, the first two and a half days we had raised «$17, 000 and we raised $18, 000 the . next week. l l . , “The idea was to raise just enough money to finish paying for the mine. ’ We shall not try to Sell coal cheaper than the market price, but we shall pro-rate the profits back to the lo- cal's which invested it. Eventually- it is our plan for each local to have $1, 000 worth of stock and reduce the large amount held by the few. Our idea is also to lay up a surplus U11- der the plan of operation folloWed xyby mos; coal companies of building 'urplf_ s, .we shall have 0113 money - " ,1! seven years, even if we do H in ‘ a dollar’s profit in ‘divi~ " ed up against the power of the big ' in putting three coal companies on“ 50_ Farmers Buy Coal Mme and” also Learn How to Sell Their Own Products to Make a Profit _ ~ ' .By R. P. CRAWFORD . a coal company hasii‘been “purchased for approximately $30,.0.00.' The mine in southern Colorado turns out approximately 160 tons a day, and this possibly can .be greatly increas- ed, The. Routt cOunty mine turns ‘out 650 tons a day. It will probably sur- prise‘most people, however, to know that this branch of the Equity Union in Denver handles 2,000 cars, or about 800,000 tons of coal a year. At the present time it will be neces- sary to buy coal from two other min'es, but the union again be‘in the position where it can be starved out by the big com- panies. In the territories served by will never , Producers" Association is a story of one of the .oldest co-operative organ- izations .-in that state. In fact, 22 years ago there was no established honey market in Colorado. The com- mission men. bought whenever the spirit moved them, paid whatever they wanted to, and the producer had nothing to say about it. At that time it was estimated that it cost $2.25 to produce a ‘case of hon- ey, 'con’taining approximately twenty- four sections and weighing around twenty-tWo pounds. The. commis- sion men were offering only $1. 65 and $1.75 a case. The beekeepers held a meeting and were or one mind Market Street, Denver, where prices of Colorado the Denver oflice are.140 elevators, stores, and coal yards. Business is transacted with locals as far east as Bloomington, Nebraska, and Dres— den, Kansas, and as far south as Dal- hart, Texas. In fact, business is transacted in the states of Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Colo— rado and even in'the Dakotas. Last year $6,700 was pro-rated 'back to the local of the coal business, before the Equity Union had even engaged in the mining business. Mr. Bean, however, believes that the biggest opportunity in co- opera- tive buying lies in the ibrokerage bus— iness. He does the buying for ap- ~ proximately ten? lumber yards in that district. “It is needless to suppose that a manufacturer will not listen to co-operative enterprises when they have ordered nearly a million pounds of binder twine," said Mr. Bean. “That appears to 'be a most satisfact- ory way of handling things in the ' mercantile line instead of trying to carry a 'big stock of goods on hand.” There is more and more tendency I for co-operative enterprises'to pay better salaries. Mr. Bean cited the instanceof one elevator which now pays its manager $300 a month and house rent free. However, a single “elevator run by the Equity Union paid $49,000 profit in one year and another elevator $64,000, the latter being at St. Francis, Kansas. The story of the Colorado Honey I farmers’ ~rado. - with us.” products have heretofore been “fixed." that something should be done. They did not know exactly what, 'but each one present put in 25 cents to start OK the co-operative marketing of Colorado honey. , As Frank Rauchfuss, secretary and manager of the association, told the story, a buyer was found for one carload of honey at $2.40. Soon an- other car was ordered, and the hon- ey producers ‘had to hustle around to get‘up enough to fill it. They had no place of business and when the car was set on the sidetrack all the beekeepers would bring in their hon- ey“ Today 400 producers are mem— bers of the association, some in Wy- oming and Montana—as far north as Billings—besides members in Colo— The plan of organization is to have enough members‘in any 10— cality to make possible carload ship— ments of honey from a single point. Wherever the honey isshipped, some one from the, Denver office usually isdelegated to inspect the honey. The association stands back of any shipment it makes. "‘We are not soliciting members,” said Mr. Rauchfuss. / “If any pro- ducer thinks they can get along without the association, it is all right Formerlymembers were charged 10 per cent for marketing, but that has since been reduced to 5 per cent plus some small addition- al charges, depending on how much ClBlllllE Bunsimn IN THE FIELDS Thousands of dollars "Worth of cabbage could have been ship- ped at forty cents. Many poor growers who are renters need the mono badly to meet their obligations. WHY D N’T SOME OF THESE FELLOWS, WHO SAY f CABBAGE IS WORTH SIXTY CENTS, Buy a few cars at this price, if they are the farmers’ friend. Talk 18 cheap MONEY IS WHAT COUNTS What will the Renter do When his notes fall due. 30 his security for renewals. Will :11. sixty cent mun \ work the association does for the producer. For instance, in Denver there is a warehouse on Market. St. where producers may avail selves of storage facilities for 3.2 cents a case. If there has to be spec- ‘ial work done in. grading honey an- other small fee is charged. The plan has always been to pay 8 per cent dividends on the stock, the balance of the money being pro-rated accord- ing to the business done. At the ~present time 4 per cent dividends are paid and the other 4 per cent on the stock is credited to the building fund, thereby italized for $100, 000, and so far, $37, 000 worth of stock has been sold. There are both contract and non- contract members. A contract mem- ber agrees to deliver'90 per cent of his product to the association and to buy his supplies of the association. He puts up a bond to guarantee his fulfillment of the contract. Contract members always receive preference in the selling of honey, that is, their honey will be sold first, other things being equal. The association thought it a somewhat radical procedure to force all members to turn over all of their output to the association, since many of them can supply a. local market to very good advant- age. The association always sets a. price on the honey and then it is a. question of whether the market will stand it. Of course no efiort is made to boost the price out of reason. A careful study is made of all market reports, and a fair price is determin- ed for the year. The association is also endeavoring to popularize the honey business by conducting a mail order campaign. Cabbage Growers Organize The summer of 1920 saw a big awakening along co-operative mar- keting lines in Colorado. Last sum- mer the Northern Colorado Cabbage Growers’ Co—operative Association was formed at Brighton, as well as the Colorado Cabbage Exchange at the same place, while the Colorado Vegetable Growers’ Co operative As- sociation was organized in the city of Denver. All of these organiza- tions are for the purpose of co- -oper- ative marketing. Probably no vegetable marketing organization has had such an excit- ing time as has the Colorado Cab- bage Exchange this fall. It has ap- proximately 800 members, practical- 1y all of them living fairly close to Brighton in the cabbage district north of Denver. Cabbage was sell— ing from 30 to 40 cents a hundred pounds late last summer. At this price the growers practically refus- ed to move it. A group of them got busy at Brighton, foxmed an ex- change, and raised the price to 60 cents. At the time cabbage was at its low mark, only about 200 out of approximately 3,000 cars had mov- ‘ ed from the cabbage district. It ‘ was explained that it costs 50 cents a hundred pounds to produce the cabbage. A farmers’ and merchants’ association called a meeting at the little town of Brighton, W. 0 Hood, Jr., the president of the association, almost automatically became sales manager of the exchange. The pre‘ liminary finances were taken care of Ifrom contributions from farmers . and business men of the cabbage dis- trict Since 3,000 acres had been planted to cabbage in this district the past year it meant a big thing to both country and town people. The latter part of August a mass meet-. ing was called at which~350 growers were. in attendance. A committee of seven were appointed to meet every afternoon at Brighton and offer all of the cabbage of the district for sale, also fixing the prices for the next day. This committee was au- thorized by, eaCh grower 10 act as agent in shipping cabbage. ' The shippers and commission men - (Continued on, 1111.96.19) - 1 them- increasing the value» of the stock. The association_is cap-l HE CHICAGO Board of. -Trade is inseparably associated with the live stock and general commod-y ity markets of the country and the Chicago packing house outfits, com- monly known as the.» Big Five, are the connecting links. The connec-' -tion between the Chicago Board of Trade and the.Chicago live stock marketing system, is intimate and vital, price fluctuations in one being ‘ promptly felt in the other. For more than '60 years, the big Chicago pack- ers have exerted an important influ- ' ence over the live stock and provision trade of this country but for the last 20 years they have been complete masters of the situation; one of the most important and effective aids, which the packers have utilized in securing control of the American live stock and commodity situation, has been the listing of mess pork, lard and ribs in the option division of the Board of Trade. In no other country in the known world has the packing house business been brought up to such wonderful efficiency. The achievements, in connection with the complete utiliza- tion and saving of all by-products developed in the slaughter of domes- tic animals, reads like a fairy tale. All the details of organization and operation, of killing and curing plants and systems of storage and distribution have been brought up to a standing of absolute efficiency that has never been attained by any other line of business in this or any other country. The Chicago packers have located branch packing plants and distributing depots all over the western hemisphere and throughout Europe. Another tremendous achievement. the credit for which must be given to the big packers, has been the bringing about of a uni- formity in packing house products. It cannot be denied, then, that the modern packing house methods are vthorough and efficient and that they are‘up to the minute in everything that stands for perfection in the realm of manufacturing, scientific refrigeration and prompt distribu- tion. In placing an estimate upon the value of the modern packing. house business. the important of having 10,— catedhat the Chicago stock yards, packing plants that will purchase, slaughter and properly care for a million hogs in a month should not be overlooked. An institution is very useful and important that will cure and preserve the meat from such a tremendous crop of hogs, making a uniform finished product that will satisfy the most fastidious taste. It was during the late war that Americans learned what it meant to belong to a country which had at its command so wonderful 3 thing as the modern packing house. The fact of the matter is, however, that the average Anier'ican regards the big packer with a mixed feeling. He really don’t know whether to be proud of him or ashamed of him, he has heard so much about the under- , ways lose? “Big Five” Have Hand m Great Bear Raid Staged Against Farmers Markets By_.II n. MACK ' slow. other supplies. tion. Other prices but able of adjusting N CONNECTION with the situation confronting the farmers and live- stock producers of the country, Thos, E. Wilson of Chicago. presi- dent of the Institute of American Meat. Packers, states: . “Consumers are not fully consciOus either of the hardships of the farmers or of the influence misfortunes affecting the farmers have on the prosperity of the country as a whole. “Rapidly declining values are a severe trial in any business but particularly so in agriculture, since the farmers’ turnover is so very By the time he markets his products the level of prices can have fallen tremenduously since the time he purchased his feed and “It is estimated that if present farm prices should be the final ‘ prices, the farmers would actually get. for the four crops, oats, wheat, corn and cotton, $2, 057, 000, 000 less than the actual cost of produc- “We are all affected at the present. time by the same eoOnomic forces, but the general downward trend of prices has fallen on the farmer with greater severity than on any other group, not so much because prices for farm products have fallen more in proportion than ause farming. with its slow turnover, is loss cap- lf to rapid and great declines in values. _ fortunate that this readjustment could not have been extended over a longer period of time, so that it would have been effected by gradua- tion and not by a perpendicular drop—Wall Street Journal. It tsun- handed tricks that guilty of in building up his wonder- ful business. Both Ends Against the. Middle The statement above, that the live stock market is linked with the grain market by the options of mess pork, lard and ribs is, of course, true but in actual practice, the live stock market is in the middle, between the “upper and the nether mill- stones" as it were and it sometimes happens, during the season of plen- tiful supplies, that prices are ground down, far below the actual cost of production. In his study of market quotations, the reader has, without doubt, often noted the apparent in- fluence of a weak speculative pro- vision market 'upon the selling price of live hogs. Live hog prices are also very sensitive to fluctuations in the selling price of grain futures. Unde1 normal conditions, it is well- nigh impossible for both grain and provisions to go down, on the Board of Trade, without producing a slump in live hog prices. It will be seen, then, that the packer-speculator has two chances to produce a break in the live hog market if, by any means he can succeed in manipulating eith- er the grain or the provision market. Quite naturally, the question may be asked: What does it mean to man- ipulate the market? Another ques- tion is quite often asked by those not familiar with Board of Trade prac- tices: Why is it that insiders nearly always win and outsiders nearly al- In order to properly un- derstand the option deal, it will be necessary for the reader to remember that a record is kept of every trans- action made on the Chicago Board of Trade; in this record are two col- umns, one for purchases and oneifor sales. 'The insider, having access to the record, foots up the two columns and plays the market for a sure winner. If the market is over-sold he buys and slips out with a profit while the shorts are evening up. If hehas been. the market is over bought, he sells and again slips out with a while the long holders are running to cover. crop damage or great over supplies is another method of market manip- - ulation. The modern option operat- or is an adept in “slap-stick” meth— ods and all of the other buncombe that can be utilized to frighten the inexperienced speculator and induce him to let go of his tholdlngs at the wrong time. The Bureau of Statistics The big packer organizations have developed the most complete and ef- fective system of crop reporting and ’news gathering that has ever been known; their agents are stationed throughout the‘corn and hog-grow— ing districts of the West and the facts that they furnish make it possible for their employers to estimate, very‘ closely, the number of hogs, cattle and sheep that will be available, far ahead of the time they actually ar- rive in the market. It should be re- membered, however, that the facts that are collected by the packer bu- reau of statistics, are for the private use of the packers and the fact, that they completely control and domin- ate the live stock and commodity markets of the country, shows how effectively they use them. As has been stated before in this series of articles, a comparatively small coterie of brokers and pit trad- ers completely control Board of Trade operations; the Big 6 are the recognized leaders of the steering committee referred .to. They are the power behind the throne and theirs the master minds that plan and di- rect» the great slaughter parties that are'pulled off in the grain and pro- vision pits of the Chicago Board of ‘ Trade. Packer's Buying Methods Under existing conditions, the Am- erican live stock groWer is complete- ly at the mercy of the big packer out- . to make, a. dollar for himself unti. profit ' Starting fake rumors of ~ fits and he will never be permitted; these “gentlemen of the road” are? made to release their strangle grip“ on his throat. In the live stock mar— kets of the country, therepresenta— ‘ 1 tives of the packers employ every-'. known artifice to pound down values " so that they can secure the stock at . prices. that to the producer, netza7n. amount that is far below the cost" of; 5 '01th ' ' production. For , example, when big runs appear in the market; all of the packer buyers, by previous '; arrangement, stay away from the yards until late in the afternoon, when they do make an appearance, they pound down prices far below. the prevailing scale of values; Whenever shippers have been free _;-* buyers in the Chicago market. hog owners have received fair prices but ' whenever they have dropped out; values have taken a dizzy slump of from $1 to $2 per cwt. , - “A Perpendicular Drop" _ In the boxing on this page we print an interview given outr'by Thomas E. Wilson, president of the Insti— tute of American Meat Packers. the « organization Which, by the way, furs . nishes, on short notice, the particu- lar brand of “statistics" which is needed for any emergency in con- nection with live stock or speculat- ive provision markets; these are cer— tainly honeyed words and they, should go a long way toward heal- » ing the gaping wounds left by a, re— cent loss of more than two billions of dollars on four of the farmers staple crops. It is not a. trifle strange that Mr. Wilson says noth- ing about the ‘sluimp‘ in livestock prices? When he speaks ,of “a per- pendicular drop” no explanation or foot notes will be needed to make the American farmer understand what he means. Thegrower or ship- per who has had a shipment of live stock in the Chicago market on one of those days, when all of the-pack— -‘ er buyers by preVious arrangement stayed out of the ’market, knows very well what is meant by .the words, “a perpendicular drop.” - In the opinion‘of the writer, no more insincere and. hypocritical words. than thope used by Mr- Wil- son to express his deep- solicitude for the American farmer in hisrtime of great need, were ever spoken. Those who understand the situation best know perfectly well that the sudden break, in the price of farm products, was deliberately planned by the men who manufacture and merchandise the products of farm; they could have “graduated" . the drop had they seen fit but, as us-' ual, they were out after the farmers’ scalp and they got it. The stage was set. everything was put in order to suit the purposes of the “steerr ing committee,” the trap was sprung and chaos reigned If the Commit- tee of 17 or any other organization wish to reach the men who. control , the destinies of the Chicago Board of Trade and, incidentally, ‘the live. stock market, as well, let them train their guns on the Chicago packing house gang. Handv Hiram A Gas. Attack by cram-en MY (AR'S STUCK IN THE Moo AND 1 WANT To am You f To GIVE. MEA UFT —-0 'LL- YOU PUSH 8990 AND I'LL GET m auo mm ‘Erz‘guro ARE- vOu («=on ? was magmatic,“ 59v MOSTER— 1r: - you um. use LESS $6915" AND MORE GASOLINEG YOU WH-L ”A ET our . / Gamma-R: if”’%a\ the". , ‘ HEN the centemplated bridge spans the waters the Great Lakes where these of ‘St Clair and Lake Erie, for the sec- end time in history will the shores of V America and Canada be thus inti- ~mately connected. _ The necessity. for the construction of a Detroit-Windsor, O,ntar,io bridge is paramount with the industrial -VV. ritory in activities commercial and ' industrial The present plan con- 1templates the building of a suspen- sion bridge similar to that of Brook- lyn, with a 1770 foot span, and to cost approximately $28, 000, 000. 00. _ The plans under contem- f” plation call for two 28-foot 1t g] ' V roadways, ,..two 1; "187-1foot side- lf . V walk, two tram ' cartracks, and four railw a‘yIV. ,1. ‘ tracks. Th e ,‘S ' L span will of ne- i- ' cessi-ty be over a . V one hundr e d p. ,- ~‘ feet high for 1- . : the Great Lakes is Carrier agree- ,_ V ment callls for t.- a-clearance of. new .' {flow through the straits betweencLake ' 7 needs of this rapidly advancing fer-V / weather, heavy snows, moving ice floes and lake storms, the navigable, season in this territory necessarily closes With th‘e’nrst approach of Win- ter, and' remains closed. until all of the ice from thei'Uppe'r Lakes, as Su- perior and Huron are locally known, passes into the southern lake region, there to evaporate beneath the walm breath of a Lake Erie spring- t..ime As late as 1825 a. horse power ferry handled the interchange .Qf traffic, freight and passenger, between De~ troit and the Border Towns of Can- ada. Propelled by six over- worked hOrses, this “*"Manleeasons ’Why a Detrmt- Wmdsor, Ontario Bridge Will be a Benefit to Michigan By EMMY MATT RUSH not established until 1834, and in 1841 approximately 50 steamboats and sailing vessels were operating upon these waters. These figures compared with pres- ent day operations the growth indus- trially and commercially of Great Lakes navigation seems almost in- credible. - Some of the largest ship building plants of the Great Lakes territory are located upon the water front be- tween Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie. Before the war Ithese specialized in passenger steamers and lake freight— ers During the duration of the war these yards turned their . entire output, force and ernment and upon the Fourth of July, 1918, one of these plants launched FOUR 260 foot vessels .as a fitting Fourth of July celebration and contribu- tion to Uncle Sam’s :fleet! The Detroit lake yards taken as a Whole, launch- capital over to the gov-- ed eleven vessels that day, and in ’ the year that witnessed the signing of the armistice, one of these plants had launched THIRTY ships! -Even before Detroit’s recent and furious expansion it was found nes- essary to relieve the congestion upon the water highway at its front door, for with one freighter passing every nine minutes, and huge transports carrying entire train loads of freight and passenger between the Canadian and American shores of the Detroit river at this point, the congested con- dition of the water front forcibly re- '- tarded the propitious handling 'of the ever-increasing trafiic. This resulted in the constructiOn of a tunnel under the waters of the earth for the handling of a large percent- age of the freight and passenger traffic. A trench was excavated out of, the rock bottom of the river bed, and and huge steel tubes in sections of 2 0 feet were sunk therein and cov- ered with a. concrete enclosure. Each of these separated by a concrete wall the full height of tube, tubes contains two tracks, creating fundamentally ‘ two separate I» _~; ‘ . 110 feet at the w ‘ center . of the [_' ,,Detroit’ river to cover every ’e'mer- ,_ ’ gency, and the necessity of require- ments for wireless masts! - t,_ . With this 'height .in view it was necessary to consider carefully the length of the highway approaches to the bridge. These will be approxi— mately 2,000 feet long, with a four \per cent. grade. The railway ap- , proaches upon the other hand will ': be about one mile :in length with one and one-half per cent. grades. 1 A bridge to cross the waters of the Straits at this point has been long a , Subject of serious oonSideration, the ' main hindranCe in the past having ' been the great depth of the bed rock in the river bottom at this point. It now seems feasible to span the river with avsuspension bridge erected un- der the pneumatic process. The lowest estimate of passengers. carried annually between Detroit and the Border Cities of Walkerville, (home of Canadian Club Whiskey) Winsor and Sandwich, Ontario, is 10,585,000 persons. ‘ Approximately 521950 automobiles cross the river , annually 73, 000 automdbile trucks ' and 1, 000 teams. c With» the increasing industrial ac- tivities and consequent population of VthisV’vicinity, due to automobiles, it has been considered safe to eStimate a one hundred per cent increase in these figures before many years. Although considered an important commercial factor under British con- trol and possession, navigation and the commerical utilization of these waters, like unto everything else per- taining to American advancement made but. little progress until AFTER American possession When the American colonists from the east and the south after the close‘ ,_ of the Revolutionary War, entered l the‘ Great Lakes territory, this his- 1 l 1 0175130 “@HA'WT mma'l'om .mwwumprmmii—O U‘NLUHFFIHIUVIWWV‘ ' toric and beautiful, stretch of laugh- ing waters known as "The Straits Of Detroit” began to breathe anew. the life As late as 1796 under English pos- . session, the largest vessel built by the English'was the sailing .‘veSSel, Gen- . eral Gage; with a carrying "capacity of (164 tons. The General Gagemade its . maiden trip'upon the water highways 'i of the Great Lakes in the year 1771. _ ' Compared with this, let us note the wifi average freighter now plying these waters. These modern American- aide vessels carry an average cargo l " to the tonnage of approximately ,V hundred freight cars. : note that one vessel troit every nine. Tracks leading to Detrolt’s Sub-Aqua tunnel ,travel between Detroit * 9 11211151; in 111111th is 11,1- 7 little conveyance meas- ured but fifty feet in length. In 1835 there were 82 Detroit-owned ves- selsp'lying the waters of the Great Lakes, with an aggregate tonnage of 4,013 tons! The first regular line of boats for passenger tunnels, alt'ho built as one. The work on i this tunne-li commenced in October, 1906, and the tunnel was completed and ready for use in October, 1910. The tubes are lighted w i t h electricity thru— out, and the trains are car- ried through by electrically pro- the two of was and “Chicago, “miracle” town's . Water the last century, nghway of Detroit, With a 1,770-foot Suspension Bridge. - ——Courtesy of the Detroit Board of Commerce: showing the 0 anadlan Death by Gas Accumulating in Silo E HAVE spoken several times 1 of the great danger which comes from gas accumulating in the bottom of silos. Word now comes of a sad accident in Maryland which should be a warning to all our readers. In Harford county, Mary— land, Mr. Samuel Poplin had two large stone and concrete siIOs on his farm. 1 They were built together, with division walls betWeen, each about 10 x 15 feet and 30 feet high. Only one silo 'was to be filled this year, and this was partly filled up." The lower entrance into the silo- No. 2 was Closed and this cut off the bot- tom circulation of air. Mr. Poplins .two boys, 10 and 15 years old, were playing about-the silo and dropped one o-f't'heir shoes down into it. This silo had been filled the day before up and above the lower entrance. The boy begged his father for per- mission to go down into the silo and get the shoe. After some hesitation Mr. Poplin put a rope down into the Silo and promised to hold it while the boy went down after the shoe. A short distance down the rope the boy suddenly shouted that he was blinded. Mr. Poplin thought that the youth had been confused in the darkness and told him to come back at once. The child was apparently unconscious bythis time, for his gfath‘ervcalled him repeatedly, but re- ceivedno answer“ The other boy. Iii—years old then asked to go down and find out what the trouble was. The father hesitated, but thought that the first boy had bumped his . head on the sides of the silo and was dazed at the bottom, so he let the other boy so down. in search. The : second boy disappeared in the dark- -ness of the silo, and silence fell upon them; top and called repeatedly to his boys _ but received no ansWer. Thoroughly f alarmed he ran to a “neighboring 19.er and obtained help from his 1111 remembered This man about the dangerous gas but with great courage tied a handkerchief over his face and a rope under his arms and was lowered into the silo. A little more than half way down he began to feel the effects of the .gas, and creeping about he found the bodies of the two boys. One of them Was still breathing but the man fell unconscious before he could bring the boy out. Mr. Poplin final- ly succeeded in pulling his neigh— bor from the silo and then telephon— ed for aid. Neighbors, including two doctors rushed to the farm at once. One of them brought a gas mask with him, but even with this it was found impossible for anyone to live in the silo. The neighbor in the meantime was revived. They finally thought of the corn blower which had been used in blowing the silage into the pit. This was started down into the silo and after half an hour’s use several men Went down through the lower door. The two lifeless bodies of the little boys were found on the silage and the doctors said they had been dead for more than two hours. The gas which caused this tragedy was carbon dioxide which is always formed by fermentation in the silo when the doors are closed and there is no escape for the gas. It is heav- ier than air and remains at the bot- tom. A lightedlantern was lowered into this silo and immediately the light went out, a sure indication that human life. cannot endure in such a place. This sad accident . should be a warning to all who have anything to do with silos. The danger comes after the closed .silo ‘ has remained unopened for several. . hours. The father. {leaned over the , If the lower deems are left open the gas will generally leak away, and 110 one should' ever dream ' of entering such a silo in the morn- ’ ing until the blower has been work- ed into it for at lea-st half an hour. “Rural ENcw Yorker Border Cities beyond, soon to be crossed , chain. 'with the completion of the contem- Alright upon What was yesterady a pelled engines». _ The sub- -aqua l length of the ' tunnel is 2,665 feet. The Canadian approach and open cut measures 6,449 feet and the American or Detroit approach and open cut measures 3,658 feet, total Ilength of tunnel measuring 12,772 feet! The old-fashioned ferry boats, huge river transports, and the sub—aqua tunnel, faithful enough in their turn, are today insufficient to carry the ev- er-increasing commerical demands made of them, and for the second . time in the history of America its soil will be linked with that of Can- ada by an international span cross-' ing the waters of 'the Great Lakes The first international bridge between the States and Canada is the ~ cantilever or jack- -knife bridge at the 800. Many Detroit industrial plants al- ready have branches located in the Border Cities across the waters and' along the Canadian shores of the De- troit river. The 'new Steel Town of Ojibway will soon open its doors, adding to the already over-crowded conditions of this automotive center. It is here that the United States Steel Corporation’s 'Canadian project is nearing completion under the aus- pices of the Canadian Steel Corpora- tion, Limited, incorporated under the laws of Canada. The new bridge across the Detroit river will pierce a territory complac- ent and peaceful where life flows- along in an Eden of contentment and pastoral environment. Cress-lug the Detroit river in one of Detroit’s fer- ry boats, within the short space of _ half an hour, one. finds an old- world i atmosphere in a paradise of peace and ,‘ quiet. How long this pastoral tran- 1 . quilitvaill survive the wheels of “ commerce that are * rapidly being loosed therein, none can say. F01 o plated Detroit-Windsor bridge, and the lowering of the gates of the Lakes to-Ocean-Tide-Water Way, the com- mercial strides of this territory Will? small town of the oldtime West that sprang into life and activity otter! expanse of prairie primeval. ., 3;) : mason AND MARKET REVIEW , future fulfillment; ' provement in the general busi- -. ness. outlook, is already some- thing more than a fair promise for it is already. an actuality. It need no longer be said that there are encouraging signs of a coming business revival for the re- vival is already an accomplished fact. Laboring men are being called back to their work by the thousand; in some cases, at lower wages, it is true, but they are to be given an opportunity to help in bringing back the full measure of industrial pros- perity to the undertakings of which they have comelto be regarded as an integral part. That the resumption of manufacturing, in a small way, must be regarded as an experiment, is universally conceded and the suc- cess, of this experimental test, will depend very much upon the attitude of labor; if the men, who are called back at this time, speed up produc- tion and give an honest day's work for an honest day's pay, it will, in many cases, mean an early restora- tion of the former wage scale, but with much more satisfactory records of average daily production. There have been many business developments, since the beginning of the new year, that are encouraging to those, who for many weary weeks, have been looking for indications of returning prosperity, the most im- portant of which are perhaps the ap- pearance Of a dependable market demand for many staple commodi- ties which, for many months have T IIE PROMISE of an' early im- 4 l A; GENERAL MARKET SUMMARY" w Edited by" H. u. MACK. . » .- fl ' Oats firm. Beans in demand. and provisions oii. DETROIT—Wheat shows considerable strength. CHICAGO~Wheat market active. Other grains weak. Hogs Corn easy. list page I: sat in typo. iolng to prom—Editor. been positively without a definite market value. An increased demand for all grades of leather is noted and, based directly upon this fact, is a marked improvement in the hide. market which has been on the down grade for the past six months. Spot cotton and cotton futures have re- sponded, promptly, to the resump- tion of manufacturing on the part Of many of the cotton mills of the country. Information, given out by some of the leading manufacturers of clothing, indicates that a marked resumption of buying operations is taking place in this department of the trade; that stocks, now in the hands of retailers, are down very close to the “empty shelf" basis is a fact of common knowledge, Inaking it certain, that when once the buy- ing of goods for spring trade, gets fairly under way, the volume of bus- iness will be large. _ , During the first week in the new year, a marked revival in the de- mand for stock in motor manufact- --—would a little extra money come in handy? LET US show you how to earn it. Lot is show you how without any investment and by spending only a few hours a day “between chores” you can add $50 to $100 a mouth to your income. ical times, wouldn’t it. (6 That would help during these crit- EARNED $30 last week,” writes an honest-to-good- ‘ ncss farmer who has been taking subscriptions for the Business Farmer during his spare time. doing any farmer can do. What he is (‘IT’S EASY to sell the Business Farmer,” says another ,, who attends every farmers’ meeting in his neighbop hood, with a bundle of papers under'his arm and a recelpt book in his pocket. E WANT a representative to look'after our subscrip— tion business in every rural community in Michlgan, and adjoining states. The work is dignified, congenial, pro- fitable. Many of the “best” farmers of the state take sub- scriptions for the Business Farmer. Why not you also?‘ IT COSTS you nothing to fill out the coupon below and mail it to us. It may gain you much. Upon recclpt of the coupon we will send you full details of our Farmer- Agcncy proposition. If you are not then interested no harm will be done. But at least find out what we have to, offer. HIS OFFER is open to. men, wOmen and children over 12 years of age. ...————__._—_~—.q—_— l ' Circulation Manager, Michigan Business Farmer, l . Mount Clemens, Mich. 1 Dear Sir: l Without putting. me under any obligations you may-send me full details of your Farmer-Agency proposition. " If it interests me I will i the understanding that I may drop. it at any time I I l l l ._|~ l l ‘- l l. . l try the work with CLIP THIS COUPON —. ———————— J'Iwantto. ""_\Na-me .Mtlwss ll,'“.U..‘..I....'I.IOOOI>Il...l..ll..l.:.l......IOOIOCOUl .\ -;..o¢--nsoc-.-o-‘ov-ocoop->9aux-Jo‘Vuooodo'i ...— 'V(Noto: The above summarized Information was received AFTER the balance of the mar- It contains last minute information up to withln one-half hour of fl ~— , ' ers, needing financial uring enterprises and related indus- tries such as steel, pig iron, and rub- ber, has been noted; during all last weekr on the New York Stock Ex- change motors and other industrial. securities showed a steady gain, evi- dently. in anticipation of a partial resumption of manufacturing oper- ations and a large increase in bona fide orders for many of the leading articles Of manufacture for early spring delivery. Among the com- panies that are mentioned Sis ready to begin manufacturing cars -on a limited scale are the Oakland, the Studebaker Corporation, Piercerfir- row and the Packard Motor Co. 6 Continental Motors are, also slated to resume" operations next week; the discouraging feature, 'in connection with the local situation, is the lack of information concerning the. prOb- able future of the Ford Motor (30.. of Highland Park. It is evident that no immediate resumption of manu- facturing operations is co‘ntcmplatp cd by Mr. Ford, who, it is definitely stated, has cancelled all orders for “material that enter Into the 'manu- facture of the Ford motor cars and trucks. ‘ ' o‘ The recent announcement of Pres- ident Harding, of the Federal Re- serve banking system, that all dang- er of an acute financial crisis is past is surely reassuring but nimultan- eously with this ' announcement, comes the information that the cred- it situation in many foreign coun- tries is rapidly approaching the crit- ical stage. The recent rise in the value of the English pound sterling is partly accounted for by the fact that arrangements have been prac- tically made by which the loans due this country from the British gov- ernment, will be exchanged for se- curities bearing deferred dates of payment. One of the most disquieting rum- ors that has gained currency, of late , in Michigan agricultural circles, has to do with the interest rates “that farmers, in some parts Of'the state, are asked to pay on renewals and new loans, undertaken in connec- ~tion with live stock feeding opera- tions and much-needed farm im- provements; it appears that the big Chicago packers have sent notices to all of, the banks in the state, that they will pay 8 per cent interest on all surplus funds which these insti- tutions may have to spare and farm- accommoda— tions, are asked to meet this compe- tition. WHEAT WHEAT PRICES PER BIL, JAN. 11, 192_1_ Grade lDotrolt 1 Chicago! "ml; Rod 1.99 ‘1.81‘/; 2.06% 1.06 Whit. Mixed 1 .95 l 2.02 1% ‘PRIOEB ONE YEAR AGO No.2 Real No.2 Whltol No.2 mm 2.40. 1 2.44 1 2.44 No. 2 No. 2 No. 2 I Detroit l Nearly all the reports we can gath- er this week on wheat are to the effect that the tone is “very, decided- ly, unusually" bullish. A large number of factors are held account- able for the strength of this market. or foremost importance, in our” judgment. is the falling 0!! of sup- plies. Wheat .is simply ‘not coming to market in the quantities needed. The hears have tried to fool. them; selves in believing , that tax-paying. ' ' time and a tight -m0ncy inflation. would force the farmer's tou’uload. ‘ - but the farmers have deceived them! . ‘- - Exports are picking up ”every (1 , — India, and the practical ‘ million dollars - ..J.;'ui:8'l“§'f:_;f‘ ”Ia-r213.” The bears have been brand: the superior inducements altered to ' exporters by Argentine,~ but the lat? est news from that country» is to the effect that a tax on exports. imv'ake's, American wheat the most desirable purchase. Other factors which have , 1 in—- .- affec‘ted wheat advantageously clude a decided improvement in ex— change, confirmation of famine in . . certainty that the Fordney tariff bill will be- ~- come a. law, if not during the" short ’ '- session, then early at the opening of the special session. Still another factor which heretofore has received little attention is the probability Of, a large abandoned acreage owing to injurious weather conditions, a fact- or which should have a large in- fluence on next year’scrop and pric- es. The Secretary or State reports that only about 5,000,000 bushels or less than a third of Michigan's 1920 ' ' crop or wheat has been marketed. . This means that the farmer-3' of this state are going to receivé several more than they would have had for their wheat had they sold it at any time during the past three months. ,_ ... CORN 00!" PER OWE, JAN. 11, 1021- _ tirade IDetrolt thlcagol II. V; No. 2 Vollow,_old | I .72 .93 No.3 Yellow, new.| .15 I _ No. 4 IVollow. new I .72 | | snuggggugvuamao No.2 Vein 'NbTé Volt! No.4 Yell. Dotmlt ..l | 1.50 | 1.40 Opinions difler as to the future trend of the, corn market; dealers are inclined to feel bearish owing to the large receipts while others believe the market has reach- ed the bottom and should start climbing upward. In spite of large . receipts the market received sup— port from some heavy interests every , time the price shows signs of weak— ening which indicates theremust 'be some large financial interests who are as anxious as the farmer to see prices go to higher levels. The dos- ing of. the tax-paying season will be undoubted-1y marked soon by a de- crease‘ in receipts as the urgent need of funds will be lessened con- considerable and then, it is believed, corn prices will move upward. Un- til then we do not look for much higher prices. Rumors have it that Germany will be in the market for 4,000,000 bushels of corn as soon as credit can be arranged; if'this‘ be truQ we may see higher prices in the immediate future. However this news has not affected the markets yet and corn at Detroit is easy with prices the same as last week’s close. OATS OAT PRICES PEH BU., JAN/11, ‘22:] 0738‘s lb'éc'rliifi—oilc-nl N. VT" _ No. 2 White ...| .61 .47I/.l .60 No. 3 White ...1- .48'/: 46%! 10. 4 White ...| .4eI/a PRICES o'N’E__rEAR AGO lNo.2 Whltel No.3‘Whltol No.4 White , Detnolt l .89 l .88 _ l .87 Corn and oats have parted.com- pany on the Detroit market and while corn lost 3c last week oats held their own andpadvanced 1-2c Monday. There is not much do. ing in this branch of trading; noth- ing new has developed in the line of export trade and farmers ‘are in- aimed to hold on to their oats. Mightbetter flatten the horses with them. than give them away. the fann- ersappear to think. Oats should see! ’ higher prices within the next three months. ‘ BEANS , g . nulls I’ll m. an. 11‘, 10:4 m floomn Whigs-l 31.7. (W . r- 4.00 I450 ' and. ulanm ~ 0.00 ‘ about i ' .l l I l - ‘market‘. .. has been strong, the demand good, and while prices have shown no ad- vance, es 511611111 not be higher This also be construed as a desire to have the associations keep their beans off the market so the independent deal- \ers Would have a better chance. How- '. ever, -it is gratifying to note that there is real life once more in the For a week past the tone they must respond 'soon to the, laws of supply and demand. We st-ill expect to see beans at better than a dollar a bushel over their , present level. RYE - - . Rye is higher in sympathy with ~ . .whea't. There are reasons for as- suming that this cereal will follow ‘have been reached I am afraid there - clOsely every advance made by Wheat up to a certain point. $2.50 -rye_is not altogether improbable. POTATOES SPUDS PER 0WT., V_JAN.11>,~1921 __ _ i _Ssckedl Bulk Detroit ............... —I 2.15 I Chicago ............... I I 1 4 ._Now York ........ ....I2 I Pl'ttsburg ............. I 1 .gd-o I 1.14 '.__.. _PR'GEJLBNFJEPR 46.9 ‘ Detroit ..... ......... I 4.00 l 3. 50 I can offer no encouragement at this time to holders of potatoes. While the bottom in this market may will be but slight recovery in higher values. The. reasons for this *con— clusion may be found in the article published on page three of this is— one New York farmers are unable to get more than 60 cents per bush- el, which is less than some sections in this state are offering. The De— troit market was “slightly stronger at the opening of the week due to decrease in supplies. Farmers dis- like to sell at present prices and We don't blame them in the least. How— ever, they should keep their eyes on the track and look out for the cars HAY - 1 m 1 Tlm. 1 Stan. Tim. 1 No. ZTIm . Dem-m? .126.ob@27i25.00@26125 00@2n Chicago .1211. 002127124. 0041251 22. oooze New Vork' 133. 00 no 371 1110.00 m an _Plttsburg .129. so @ 29127. so @ 21125. 00 a 26 I No. 1 No. 1 In. 1 "Join Mix. {mover Mix. I clover ' Detroit .1211. on «124123.011 o 234122.110 @ 23 "Mango 124. 00 (a 25122. on @2 New rev-11' 132. on a 351211. on as 331 911111111119 .!26. so or 23125. oo 9 26I 1iA'v P‘mcss A vain: 1'1ch r“111a.111m.“1s'uin'.11m.1uo.2-r1m ‘ Bic-o1: .1211. zoo 31129.50 @ 3111231502 2__r . .1“ ‘ ___ll.lght Mix. IClovor Mix. I clover .I29tl) @ 3_OI28. 59 @ 29128. 50 Q 29 Detroit The activeness expected in the hay market the past week failed to ar- rive and the market held steady with continued light receipts and de- ' . mand. , for cattle qfalrly active demand for "(beef but the warm, open weather is “against the fresh meat deal in all of ,. ' its branches and no activity can be [age last Week), Weighed only a little. . LIVE STOCK MARKETS - - ‘ ‘There are many indications of im- provement in general business con— *ditions but as yet the live stock mar- _ket has not felt this improvement to ' any appreciable extent. The top in the. cattle department in . Chicago, early last week was $11.50 per cwt. that sold months ago for $18 per cwt. als continue fairly liberal but re- . '-.ceipts would not be considered bur- densome if business conditions, in Other lines were normal The lead- ing cities of the country report a dressed looked for until daily consumption shows a gain which almg's results j'trom cold Steady Weather. The highest priced, steers in Chi~ pounds. Very few - .110 as those or the week before e e is no reason why been. 11, and‘ ‘1 ‘ claims they would be higher if these “ associations would boost their quo- _1ta‘tions up a. notch or two. ' sounds like good logic, but it might readily 313;. Arriv— ‘ ’ no nearlywas large but slackness of the demand made it possible to stretch the supply until it reached around. Sheep and Lamb Trade ' The' sheep and lamb trade, like every other branch of the business, is dull and slow in spite of the fact that oflerings'are unusually light'in all markets. Never before in the history of the meat business, in this country, have buyers been so hard to suit; lambs-are coming to market as well finished as were ever seen but with their fat they have gained _ weight and buyers are discriminat— ing, sharply, paying top prices for only a comparative few in the rivals of each day. Aged wethers in Chicago go atw$5 per cwt., and yearlings have to be just the right weight to beat $9 per cwt.. The div— iding ine for weight, in both lambs and 'y arlings, is 85 pounds. Live Hog Trade The estimate for Chisago hog re- ceipts for last week was hogs but the actual count wit-l not show more than 160,000, with 10,- 000‘ less hogs on sale on Monday than the trade looked for, prices made a trifle better showing than on the close of the preceding week but 1} How to Paint 3.1" ' 200,000 ' 9 market,' nearly ‘all of the week, leaving shippers to take the offerings early in the day and when they did come in they offered prices that were far below the going prices of the day. Markets, outside of Chicago, all got light runs on thefirst two days of last week, twenty points receiving ‘ fully,200,000 hogs less than for the same period the week before. With the big packers in any other than the most conservative moods” these light‘arrivals would have ‘put up prices 50 cents per cwt. Very few times in the past have theBig 5 fought the hog- market harder than they did early this week; this must be taken as an indication that they have decreed that live hog prices must go lower. The warm, unsea— sonable weather and the aggravated conditions of unemployment, which still exists in many American cities, are the conditions that are holding down consumption of fresh meat .and causing live-stock of all kinds to sell right around the bottom for the season. Much cooler weather is in prbspect and the en: ly resumption of. man facturin-é operations by many oft leading industrial enterprises? state and country at larilfi L-g n N 121‘ ' "Hum“ refinish floors. ; - ' How to Varnish Other pages tell What to do with your furniture, walls, ' ‘ automobile, house, barn, outbuildings, implements, etc, and I ' how to save every kind of surface. This Book is free direct , frOm us or at our nearest dealer. There are more than 100 distinct Heath & Milligan Paint and Varnish Products for you to use—one for each paintableo purpose. A . _ To find these paints in your town look fer our Dependable Trade- Mark (shown above), the sign of character _and service for 70 years. HEATH & MILLIGAN MFG. COMPANY ‘ . 1831 Seward St, Chicago: lll. I EED REFINISHING? There are at least five ways to . Send for the Heath & Milligan Free 1 Book, “How to Paint. ” It contains 64 pages of practical suggestions about making old things do and new—inside . and out—every thing around the farm and home. 44 to 51 are all about floors (both new and old). How to Grain How to Fill Cracks pork and its products sumption of fresh and cured meats is anticipated. Since Nov. 1 520,000 less 'hogs have been packed in Chi-‘1 cago than for the same period last year. and shipped out 667 cars. The estimated live stock receipts for Monday of this week were 50, — 000 hogs, sheep and lambs; the actual arrivals on that day were 75,000 hogs, 20,— 000 cattle and 37,000 sheep and lambs. Receipts of hogs at all lead- ing western markets, last week, 650,000. for the week before 540.— 000 and for the same week, last year, 872,000. Since Nov. 1,_ 1920, 5,444,000 hogs have been received in leading western markets. For the same period,“ last year. 6,584,000. Detroit Market Conditions The local cattle trade has been just about the worst, ever, since the beginning of the new year. Monday of this week, opened with small re— ceipts and a trifle more activity to the trade but before noon the de mand let up and the close was dull as ever. Veal calves were active with a $16 top, good lambs brought $11 and hogs brought $9. 50 with a low a trifle higher. 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"selling a farm in y‘ ,Michigan and you deal direct withS the buyer No agents or commissions. ’14’ you want to sen or trade your farm, send in your ad. today. Don’t just talk about it. Our Business Farmers’ Exchange gets results ' Address The Michigan Farmer, Adv. I)t.,, 'of Millersburg, Presque Isle ’fire the pompa '1' -time durin . them or not. Business .LAND IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN I have been corresponding with both Thad Preston o’f Ionia and JohnCG Krath 0, - con- cer’n‘ing land which they own there (in Preequg Isle Co. near Onaway and M11- lersburg) I am thinking of buying some of this cut—over land it it is desirable and make my home there. They have both informed me that these lands are of productive soil and will raise crops equal to those raised here in lower Michigan ‘ excepting corn Can you give me any information about these cut- -over lands in Presdque Isle C.o ? If you can I will ap- preciate it—G C, Lake Odessa, Mich. There’s a lot of good land and a lot of . “'bum” land“ in Presque Isle county. Mr. Krauth has sold a good many thousand acres in’that couna ty, and we have yet to receive a com-' plaint against the quality of the soil. Do not, by any means. purchase land there or elsewhere on my say-so, or anybody else’s. The only thing for you to do is to visit the section your- self and make a. personal inspection. —Ed1‘lor. KEEPING ‘ BULL CONFINED My neighbm. Mr_ F., has an old breachy bull, which no fence can con- fine The lack of feed causes the bull to jump and destroy my fences and lets fifteen head of cattle into my corn field and destroys mv crops I have request- ed Mr. F to confine the bull but he per- sists in letting him out to roam over the neighboring farms and public road. What can I do to stop this public nuisance and get pay for my crops the cattle has de- stroyed?—~It. E, S., Climax Mich __._.-—.._¢ If you have a legal fence and the animals break through then the own- erwould be liable for all damage. ‘You’ have the right to impound all the animals trespassing upon your premises, collect for the damage done under the method prescribed 111' the statute, or you can bring suit against him for the damage. Im— pounding and suit for damage is about themost effective way to abate such nuisances—W. E. Brown. legal Editor. POULTRY V KILLED BY DOGS Will you kindly advise me if there is any provision made for poultry killed by dogs? I have lost several turkeys every year in this way ———Mrs E R.. Hanover, . Mich. #113 the turkeys were on your prem- ises and were killed by a trespassing dog the owner of the dog would be. liable for the damage; but if the turkeys were trespassing and the dog defended the premises you would have a hard time collecting, although I believe the owner of the dog would have no right to kill the trespassing turkeys to protect the premises. The owner of the turkeys would be li— able for whatever damage the tur- keys did—:li". E. Brown. legal editor. \VOOD FOR SALE ‘ (‘ an you tell me where 1 can find a re- liible uood dealer in Milwaukee or Chi- man? I haxe a carload of wood for ship- m.ei1t —-‘A Reader, V an Buren County, Michigan. I doubt very much if it would pay Von in chin wood out. of the state as the inter- state freight rates are now so-high as to make shipment of such a, commodity almost prohibitive, My advice would“ be to seek a wood deal- er in some Michigan city nearest to your Sliln-Ull'l“ point. A letter ad- dressed to the clerk of any city should bring you a list of the re- sponsib‘c wood dealers.——Editor. PAYMENT OF INSURANCE I notice in M B F or Oct 2nd your answer to payment of insurance question ~ m interested somewhat in this way $138 ixsplalning matters, I will say that when person takes out a policy in a mutuala company he pays for policy and bus assessm’p‘nt in advance, and contin- ues to do 50 11mg as he wishes to be a member id compafim Should he by' non- payment . ' be 1:51de for 111a e1?- .; ave a 055 y suing ye Stunt pay him one red cent It 1.5-.- that won ’t work both rm; 'lrke’to see the matter brim _-,,re a. of -12 men, I know tl'i ' ies t‘h eaten to sue, but 1-11ev 1’ their“. doing so Let“ s is man takes out a stated,fa1}d at a certain “it lie-sens out and policy once through the negligence of a clerk 1'1'1- notifyin the secretary to cancel part the pol cy, " r tai arson househ 1d goods ' price there. - dark and says he sold it ’ deal and pay the comm1s81on‘?_ had a auction 811111;" 1 was notified in the annual notice of an- other years does that I owed so much, when I had sold. out 9 months previous. —-F. H ,Otsego, Mich. Usually the by-laws provide for the payrhents of assessments and for the manner of terminating liability. The application for membership then, with the aCceptanCe of the applica; tion', makes a contract, with the by- laws as the designation of the fights of the company and member.’ companies have 'one kind of’la 'by'- , law and other companies have a. diff ferent one. The members make their own by laWs and are bOund by 'them.—-—W. E. Brown, legal editor, FARM RENTALS IN “THULIB” . COUNTIES I have been reading the Michigan Bus- iness Farmer for the past few months and as I am planning on locating in Michigan next spring I would like some information concerning the land and the Is the land in Lapee‘r, Tus- 0013 and Genesee counties adapted to general faming? What is land selling for in those counties? I want to rent a small farm of about 40 or 60 acres and buy in the fall as 1 could tell better Just where I would rather locate What do farms of that size rent for by paying cash rent?—-—O Tumbleson, West Frank- fort Illinois I wOnder if some friends of the M. B. F. living on route No. 1 out of, Caro, Lapeer and ‘Flint will be kind enough to write this subscriber giv—' ing him the information desired?— Edltor. 1 COLLECTING COMMISSION We listed our farm or 40 acres with an agent. I signed the contract of course without reading it not being pres- et while it was being made The agent hustled it up just as fast as words and pen could write. But in a few days I took the contract and read it and I found it was not at all as I thought. We wefinot getting as much for the place as I- thought and payments were very un- satisfactory We wrote him immediate- ly not to Sell the place and explained our reasons. In about a week we wrote him again, My husband saw him and told him not to sell it In about three weeks he brought a man on the place just at Now he says he is going to prosecute us if we don't pay him his commission. He charged us 8250 on a nineteen hundred dollar deal. Now what we want to know is do we have to let him have the place or in other words. do we have to close the Turner, Mich. — As I do not have a copy of the contract you signed I do not know whether the contract would bind you to transfer the property and pay commission or not. I censider the charge of 10 percent an unusual charge but if people are willing to pay it _I know of no law that will make_such- a contract void. People signing papers without knowing the con-tents pay dearly for the contract . privilege. You have the right' to know and understand the terms of a. contract you are asked to sign if it takes you‘a week to find out. You are presumed to know the .contents of what you sign. If your signature was secured by fraud or misrepre- sentation you may have some rem-‘ edy. It is agrnatter for local counsel to' pass on after a7full statement of facts.——W. 1"}. Brown. legal editor. COVE MOTOR COMPANY What can you telifme about the Gove Motor Company of Idaho? Agents are selling stock in this locality—Reader_ This company made. application to the Michigan Securities CommisSion for permission to sell stock early last June, but was disapproved. Supple- mental application was filed and was - approved on June 24th, 1920, per- mission being given for the sale of $100,000 worth of preferred stock and 2,500 shares of common stock were validated to be given as bonus with the preferred. Authorized com- mon stock is 5 000 shares, preferred stock, $500 000 Par value of pre- ferred. $1.01). Common, nogpar. The total of assets and liabilities shown to be $15, 000. The company Twas formerly located in Idaho, but As long. _ now has ofi‘ices' in Detroit. as there are so many proven motor stocks on the market at Way below. par I certainly could not advise you 1: ' to invest your money 111' this can.» to bet"- hard on automobile companies that __ corn. The future is going are in the experimentaljsta' Some - are ' Last spring I quit cided to stay on the farm ested in the rabbit business and as I school had some money which I wanted to invest " I decided to buy some rabbits from ,a. 111-111 where I could return my young stock Soon after I got in touch ‘wtth the Standard Food and Fur Ass’n‘ - New .York City, whose offer- looked good. to me. In March I ordered 3 rabbits: 0 the 5buy—back plan~ fer which I pal $27.5 They also sent me a contract-- with othe rabbits to assure me a lace to sell my young stock They tol that immediately upon receipt rabbits my check would go forward to; me. In November I sent them a. pair for which I was to receive $9 50 plus ex- Dressage which was $1 74 ' ter I sent the rabbits I received a letter from them stating that they received the rabbits and that I should send them the contract so they could send my check- together with renewal of contract, but I refused to do so They have sent me several letters asking for the contract. but I stuck to the contract so far They also state they are an 'mcorporated firm and need the contract to issue my check. I cannot understand how they can ex- pect me to send them the contract be- fore I received any pay. Will I have to send them this contract before they can issue my check or not. 9—W. J. ., Pe-. " wamo, Mich . There is nothing in your contract that requires you to’ return it and you exercise level headed judgment in retaining it. write for a renewal of the contract. You do—not state in your letter wheth- er you wrote them for shipping ine‘ structions before you shipped the pair you sent them. or the: You will. notice and de- ‘ I was lnter- ' A week af—‘. 2' _- It requiresyou to' , . that these-called contract is subject ' to the order contract. Was there anything in that vorder affecting your rights in this shipment. —W. E. Brown, legal editor. GRAVEL FOR ' SALE We have a hill ‘of No. 1 gravel cover-"' ing about twenty acres and it is about forty feet in height. We are four miles from the village of Kingston and one and one- -half miles from the railway; Could you tell me of firms liable to be interested in buying or of someone who would sell on commission for us. About how much would it_ sell for?-—L D.. Kingston Mich " ~ A good grade of gravel from 50 to 75 cents a wagon-load. ,Yohr county or the state ought to be interested. See your county road commissioner or write to the Highway Department. Lansing. They should be able to find you a market for the gravel.— Editor OWNERSHIP OF UNUSED‘ FENCE Last spring we purchased a farm of those who were heirs to this-property, the widow and mother of these heirs hav- ing died last year. leaving the household goods in the house At the time of pur- chase May 20th, the heirs asked for the privilege of leaving the goods in the house until such time as would be‘ con- venient for them to divide and remove them. In due time the goods were re< , moved, also a roll of. woven wire fence As there was which lay out in the yard, nothing mentioned about the Ifence, we supposed that it went with the place, the '. , ' ’ surviving owner having bought the fence some three or foumyears ago and never- put it up. Now who did the fence be: long to?——H, L, R, Van Buren Co,, Mich. \ . 1.7 If the fence had never been used , on the farm 1. would be or the opin- ' iOn that it belonged to the heirs and did not go with a conveyance of the farm. —W. E. Brown, legal editor. HUSKING OVVNER’S SHARE OF CORN Would like to know if it is customary for a tenant to husk lz 1diord's share of corn on moving from faim in fall when same is not mentioned in contract. corn being cut and in the shock fiW. S., Benzie County, Mich . . I am of the opinion that the agree?“ the _' ’ ment to do all the work on‘the‘ farm " in the usual lease from owner to tenant would contemplate the husk- ‘ing of the corn of the owner and. drawing and Storing or delivery 6:”: the share of owner at agreed place. —lV. E. 37017211, legal editor. ff PLOWING PUBLIC 111cm .. After E‘BW road has b1 , aded’ , not finishes ft with very course gray and not _ ked, ‘has anyone a. law. -right- to plow from the center of 61.161 fence every few ro "~er . eleven SEED IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN ,as Alcona, Butters through et- n'y. rate, for large yields,‘ year after car, we find them in- Alpena, Mont- oygan counties. tection _ Just the same, Michigan {‘3 has a “clever seed bel ” you will see, , pin a very few years, large quantities of hardy altaua seed grown here for ff} the market for it also yields abund- ' ':_ antly. 1 2 Farmers in the vicinity oi! Millers- burg harvested 4, 000 bushels of .clover seed this ”year mostly alsike, a—nd believe me, the profitable returns . ; from this Crop thus far marketed, in ' 1" this neversto-zbe-torgotten slump, ; __prjoved most welcome. Michigan farmers‘are not alive to the value of sWeet clover for feed, fertility and seedx 9f: 7 ' Mr. M. T. one of our prominent 1 " farmers, after, a five years trial with sweet clover, has this to say: “I se-’ ‘ . "cure an abundant hay crop from first ,. ' a cutting, the second cutting the same ' - year, is my seed crop, all the way from 9 to 14 bushels per acre The chaffeor hullings and hay are greed- , iiy devoured by the stock. Sheep. ' (cows and horses if given- their choice will leave alfafta and june clover for WsWeet clover hay, and 'the calves bafwl for it. rMy cows showimmedi- ~ . , ate gains in milk, flow, .when sweet " clover hay is substituted for either 14 "-_ .alfalrta or June clover. As a fertility ‘ crop, sweet clover” is second to j -i . none ”—John G; Krauth, ‘Millersburg, " 1 L . Mich. 1 V 1 -I have heard before of the wonderful _ success. you Northeastern Michigan farm- ‘ - ers have been having with clover seed " We’d dike to have any further informa- tion you have to offer regarding the crop—nature of soil, seeding, marketing. ‘ __ etc '—-Editor, - _ 1 , , . _ BRoPORTIONAL REPRESENTA- j . , TION PLAN .;- 'YOUR EDITORIAL in the issue ‘ of November 20, 1920, on “A . County Commission” ‘ ' me; - - . 1 Personally I cannot see why we ‘ a - should change a representative sys-* ! ' tem howeVer cumbersome for a sys- .> tem somewhat more efficient perhaps I ' but not so representative. I - If the commissioncould be chosen .by the Proportional Representation an: -. Plan as iused in various parts of the. 'v'vo’rld, e.-, Belgium, Transvaal, .‘Canada, Ohio—sit would 'be even 'mOre representative than the pres- ent system and we would have a real improvement. I would like to see the plan in use in the United States and think that a geod start could be.made in the smaller units-of government. 1. anmnss FARMER open up the dis' caseion of Proportional Representa- tion at an opportune time. l—Air1diew P. Campbell, Ann Arbor ' 1 . am glad to have your suggestions ThIe Proportional Representation League ‘ hes sent me a fund of literature upon. ' -this subject which I have not as yet had 3 the time to thoroughly digest A cas~ ‘1ual reading rather impnesses One that, ’the system is slightly complex. Yet, 1 ~»_;_1e1_;ceive certain definite merits to- -the nan and will be glad to give it my -.'fnrther consideration and later discus- -'sion in these columns. —-—-Editor. l ABCUT GAMBLING does not take the gambling situ4 "Hat-ion in hand Take the Liberty dollap‘for these bonds, and now , “TSLOVER sEED yields, as far south ' N :jtec'ts of the clover weevils—and, Retina county are in the same boat. At ' . I also believe. ,-:tha‘;t we get just enough snow pro-- -w... think, $16. 48 discount on $100. Why aren’t they worth as much today as when we bought them. I think it the government would get 'after the gamblers and make them live up to the law we would have better times. ' If they Catch a poor devil playing cards or shaking dice they pinch him. '35 to $50 and 5 to,90 days. And yet they think it is all right for the rich to gamble on our money, and if yOu say anything they reply,- “Sell or starve. -We are running this end to suit ourselves.”——0. 0. M., Flint, Mich; Well, my friend, I dont know as I blame you for feeling the way you do Hard times are fierce on poor men. but are ”pie" for the rich Now so far as your Liberty bonds are concerned [ feel exactly the way you do that there ought to be a way to prevent their slumping in value, and yet I can ’t for the life of me see how it could be done except by the government redeeming them at par » value whenever you wanted. to sell But the present state of the treasury would never permit the redemption of the mil— lions that would be oi‘tered. Have you not stopped to think that the only rea-, son there is a market for Liberty bonds is because they can be purchased at less than par. If the'government should pass a.” law' forbidding anyone to sell Liberty bonds for less than par what would hap~ pen? Why nobody would buy them, and those who needed the money they have tied up in these bonds would be ten times worse off thanthey are now. The only way that the government could prevent fluctuations in the market value of Lib- erty bondswould be to redeem them at face value, which I repeat, could not be done at the present time, It doesn’t seem just right, I’ll admit, but Wind 1.1111: we going to do about it?—Editoi-. AerMoBrLEs AND ROADS WOULD XUU not in your paper give a discussion of the methods pro- posed and in effect for tax rais- > ing to improve and build roads. Ac- cording to my observation automo- biles are responsible for approxi- mately nine tenths of the destructive wear on roads. that proportion of the taxes by a special automobile tax graduated to tonnage, horsepower and speed de- veloped. Certainly We know there are now automobile taxes but either . they are not sufficient for necessary road "building expenses or we need more effective methods of road re- pairing—S. V. L.,’Jones, »Mich. Any proposal to place a higher direct tax upon automobiles for road building purposes would, I am sure most with do— feat. 1 am not saying whether this should or should not be the case, but am merely stating what I believe to be a fact. It'cannot be disputed that the major number of the people who travel the public highways are owners of auto— mobiles and hence are in a position to dictate road financing policies. You might be interested in Knowing that the state's share of the 1921 auto license fund is large enough to pay all of the state’s share in the maintenance of trunk line roads and bridges, as well as the ad— ministrative expenses of the Highway .l)cp:‘1r1111o11t. The counties’ share of the auto tax is not large enough to pay an appreciable share of the cost of main- taining roads under the county system, 'so that a large amount of road tax must be raised by direct levy on all property owners, Personally I feel that there is a strong possibility under present road law‘- 111‘ il1-- road tax becoming too bur- 'u workable substitute Why not raise about ' _repaid for our densome to rural communities. though I must confess that I do 110;. as yet see This is a subject in which 1 am greatly interested hrm- over, and upon which I intend to confer with the road building authorities of the state and members of the legislature—— Editor, . A BOQUET AMONG THE BRICKBATS NCLOSEQfind my renewal. Keep Ethe M. B. 1‘. coming. The know- ledge and advice it contains to farmers of my calibre or old settlers is worth many times its yearly sub- scription price. I; firmly. believe it has no equal as a’t‘arm journal 'and should be in every farm home in the state. I am also convinced that if those who do get it could convince others of the policies it advocates the farmers in general would be on :1 better footing financially.~—Ph1i11'p J. 'Ma-chek, Ottawa County, Mich. .. We agree with you, only we are too modest to say '.so if, my loyal £111 11r1 - you alone have found help and inspiiaiion from tthe columns We have bean “oil effmts The (irculation of the Business Farmer is rapidly spread— ing into every county of Michigan We never expect to have all the farmers maul ing this paper, but if we can secure min- half of the two hundred thousand as per-- mancnt friends and readers, we are g0- ing to be in a position to do some really tangible and practical things for Michi- gan agriculture. Editor. 1 want to say that i surely appreciate loading your paper 1011' mmh—J S. W., Lapeei, Mich interests ' 1It- would be a-pleasure to see THE’ DO NOT see why the government. from; working classes and .. . ,ng slack, except in Walli ' has of Trade, we '- ' ”bonds tar below. . Mylnutations Prove Its Superiority How Much Milk Will it Produce? That’s what'counts in buying your feed. Nothow much it costs but how much milk it produces. How much profit it‘puts in the bank. You will find that the extra milk you get from Larro pays not only the extra first cost, but makes you a nice profit besides. You can afford to pay three or four cents more. to feed a cow when you get a quart or two more milk. Remember, that no matter how much milk your cows are now giving, you are assured that with Larro they Vmust give more—or you get your money back. ' ‘1 ' - Write for the names of successful dairymen in your neighborhood who use Larro year after year for just one reason—because it makes more money for them. . _’ _ The Larrowe Milling Company 2104 hanowe Bldg” Detroit, Mich. . ' &: I'nhfipl/"j . . «I ‘ no. uA'V'ON “no”: otmnm‘ ' '1 . .sa'runnu. JANUARY 15, 1921 '- Publlshed every Saturday by the k RURAL PUBLISHING OOMPANV. Inc. Mt. Clemens. Mlohlgan Members Azricultural Publishers Association . Represented in New York, cameo St. Louis and Minneapolis by the Associated Farm Papers Incorporated GEORGE M. SLOCU M ...................... PUBLISHER FORREST LOR ............................. EDIT F k ASSOCIATES Mn. ran R. S h l k ................ A i tent Business not" Milon Grinnilla c .................... s I? ..... Associate Editor Grace Nelliek Jenney ............ Editor Farm Home Department Mac ........... Q ..... Market and Live 8‘ ock Editor II. D. Lamb .................................... Auditor Frank M. Weber .................... Plant Superintendent William E. Brown ................... Legal Department W Austin Ewalt .................... Veterinary Department ONE YEAR 52 ISSUES. 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Disarmament HERE 1s something deeply sinister in the neck and neck race between the United States, Great Britain and Japan toward naval supremacy. Has the war taught 11s nothing? Have our sons died for naught after alllHave we fought the bloodiest conflict of all history Without learning that military preparedness . invites hostility and yet is impotent to repel it? naval armament is a desire of the devil. Our wildest imaginings cannot conjecture the ex- tent to which ‘such a Godless ambition may lead us. Distrust, hate, war, bankruptcy and ruin hover like evil spirits in the air and grin with malicious joy for every nail that is driven 4 ., and every bolt that is riven in these destroy- ers of the deep. The most superb navy that ever floated at anchor and the finest standing army that ever wore uniform cannot prevent war. Indeed, they encourage war, precipitate war. , _ The proof? The pages of every history of every country on the face of the. globe. Oh, why are” we so headless, so blind, so over! poweringly egostistical and proud that we cannot realize that even the great United States is not so invincible that it can avoid the consequencecs of military pomp and pow- cr? 011, why in the name of God and human- ity do we not seek a less 'deadly route to peace! England has long proclaimed herself mis- tress of the seas. No nation was ever more Jealous of her military power than England of her acknowledged supremacy 011 the water. Yet even this traditional builder of navies has lessons of the great war burned deeply into her conscience she stands for the first time in her history, hesitant, doubtful and even fearful of the ultimate'outcome of the present frenzied naval building. rivalry, Britain would call a halt in her navy-building pro- gram—~if Japan and the United States- would follow suit. Japan is sorely tempted to fol- low England’s example, ——but will the United States fall in line? And what about the United States? God pity her! In her su- preme ego that she can do no wrong and can manage her own affairs in absolute defiance of the- rest of the world, she turns a deaf ear to such proposals, and proceeds without a halt upon what is planned to be ly the greatest navy in the world.” We are a long suffering peeple. To a mere like ourselves to err in judgment, -——we dole again lead us into useless wars , Takes to pay the cost of old wars and prepare. "for new ones continue to form the major part5 ' of our national budget. National improve- . While We pay for dead horses ' The people are sovereign. The desire of the great nations to excel in come to the parting of the ways, and with the. “incomparab— , , handful of beings, human like ourselves, liable. .. a mistake on Mr. Dickinson 8 ’part in not im- gate powers whose abuse have led and may The national. ‘,- . , debt grows ever larger and more burdensomen; lacking. Isn’t it tinie fur the people, with the memory of the last great war still fresh in their minds, to call a halt on all military prep.- ‘arations and to insist that their diplomats take. the' initiative at once in bringing about a world-wide movement toward disarmament! Let them Speak now before it is too late. The Governor’s Message OV. GROESBECK’S message to the leg- islature, coming as it did in the midst of a riot of waste, extravagance and ineffic- iency in nearly every state department, is "like a tonic to the harassed and tax-ridden citizen- ship. It renews their confidence'in popular government and the integrity of public oflic- 13.18 and gives them hope that a brighter fu- ture is ahead. The Groesbeck message re- veals a crystal-clear vision of the needs bof the state, and sets forth in a. practical, straight- forward and concrete manner how many of these needs may be administered to. It de- serves to rank‘ among the state’s docments. The heads of certain state departments and spokesmen for the legislature have already assured Mr. Groesbeck of their hearty co-op- eration in carrying out the' reforms he has suggested. Let 11s fervently hope that there may be no hitch in the program. Get Behind the.College NLESS the agricultural interests of the state get actively behind the M. A. C. the appropriations which ,the college have asked for are quite likely to be cut, and cerf tain extension work planned by the college will either have to be curtailed or discontinued altogether. The College has its friends and enemies. The friends are like many friends, passive, while its enemies are forever on the alert. Slow as have been the college authori- tis-to recognize its duties in the field of mar- keting, the strides it has taken along this line have been fairly rapid since the awakening. There is no doubt but what certain privat~ interests of the state would put an end to the M. A. C. ’s 1 rlreting activities through the extension department and it is not surprising to find them. covertly attacking the college’s estimates of the funds needed to” carry onOLhis work. Great as has been the ‘disappolntmcnt over the college’s early failure to respond to the more urgent needs of the state’s agricul- ture, and well- founded as recent crlticism may be of the institution.’s shortcomings, the farm- ers of the state should take note of the fact that changes have been made and more chang- es are to follow in the personnel of the College ’ Board which should make the institution more responsive to the farmers and consequently a much greater power for the good ofMichigan agriculture. This college was founded by farmers 'for farmers. It has done a great work in promoting scientific agricultural pro- duction. It is destined to do an ever greater work in promoting scientific marketing of farm products. It therefore behooves every farmer to use such influence as he may have to impress the legislature with the importance of allowing the appropriations asked for by :he College. ‘ _____,__. The State Fair Squabble GOOD deal 'of fuss has been made over the bonus of $10,000 which the'directors of the Michigan State Fair unanimously voted to Secretary- Manager Geo. M. Dickinson, in, appreciation of his services. In view of the fact that Mr. Dickinson’ 8 salary is $15,000 which ought to be a fair recompense for even his capable services, it was probably a mistake for the directors to have voted the bonus and ‘ mediatel'y rejecting it At the same time Mr. the Fair’ a remarkable attendance and Enema strides is due to Mr. Dickinson’ a seal and and tiring e‘iforts. He has led: the-«1M. moot 1111 not be fought if the instruments .3 of War are . ' ._ or Mr. D1ck1n80n 8 management I! ' predicament. -. all other virtues combined. .fills the possessor with an all- pervading some m ., seemed at perfect rest With man and not: Dickinson’ 8 excellent record as manager of the g. Fair shOuld not be Wei-lacked or minimized, , It 1stundoubtedly true that. the major part 0 ed that the state take over the State Fau- run it for service instead of profit. In ' is message to the legislature Gov. Groeebeck recommends this step. Mr. Dickinson is re- ‘ , purted as saying that he will oppOse this move, " which if true, is a very foolish attitude far '. him to assume. ' We believe the state Fairy.“ " , v_ g. should be under the control 0f the state and , 5 3' I that every penny of revenue should be turned 3 back into 1mprovements. No eifort or expense" ' ’ that can be borne by the institution itself should be spared to make this great exposition fully reflect the agriculture and industry of the state. Care shOuld be taken, however, that the institution be made self sustaining, and not become an additional burden upon the - taxpayers. This eculd be virtually assured . providing the state would retain the services . _ of the present manager, Mr. Geo. W. Dick- inson. ‘ Mr: Harding’s Cabinet ‘- f R. HARDING has probably discovered" 3‘ by- this time that being elected presi; - dent is a lead-pipe cinch'compared with the . - job of naming the President’s cabinet. .No .~ 4? truly sympathetic soul could help but have . x ' compassion upon Mr. Harding in his present, ‘ He is the victim of too many friends. From north and south and east and " west, in person, by special emissary, mail, tel- ephone and telegraph they come to tell Mr. . Harding whom they would prefer to have sit ' ' in hiscabinet. And remarkable as it may seem they do not all agree.“ To some Mr. 1 I’Ioover‘is acceptable in any capacity; to 7 ot‘,he1s in none. One set of friends argue in favor of Root for Secretary of the State, while in the eyes of other friends Root is an arch enemy of the state. So it goes. And Harding, poor man, is fair distraught with all the conflicting advice, opinions and Wishes that envelop him like the waves the island rocks. Incidentally Mr. Harding’s reaction to these advances will be the true test of the man ’5; character. ’Tis well to listen to coun- . scl, but too much counsel is worse than none. . The manner in which Mr. Harding Sifts the mass of opinion presented to himb and pro- . f cecds without fear or favoritism to select the ‘ men whom he honestly believes the best fitted ~ ,3 to head the several departments of state will ' 1n a very large measure serve as a guage to his caliber. . - . . { .. \ ’14:? ._, ‘3 '.-m.... <-—~1::,.——- . . . The Power of Love RUMMOND, the great preacher-author, , 3 says that love is the “greatest thing in ‘ the Worl. It transcends faith, charity and ‘ “If you have love in your heart,”, says Drummond, “all things l else will be added unto you.’ The heart that 3 is in attune with God is a heart running over , with love. ‘ . 1 To most folks love is an ephemeral sort of thing, best if inelogantly described by the ,. ' . courting sWain as an “itchy feeling in the‘ region of the heart which cannot beb scratch- ~ ed.” Lives there a .man or 11 oman of mature , ' years Who has net felt that stlange “itching” and longed to “scratch it.” “ The better to have loved and lost, ” quoth the philosophic. lover, “than never to have loved at all.” Ay,_,»{"1 ‘ pity the mortal Who in the cold, grey evening of decrepit years looks back upon a life dcvoidrf’d of love. LOVe makes the heart to sing and the pulse'_‘.;‘.“ to th1ob with a strange delight. Leve dispels '7, the clouds, transforms the rain to sunbeamsfl-L and paints all nature in smiling colors. Luve of tolerance, generosity, kindlineas and happi- ness. Have you never. Walked down the; r on a bright spring morning when your- »'1 a . v hr F-Vw\'v VcTu Haw-r Flori HIM-i . "I (H. \U :V' ' J .< Arv‘yMS‘? ' .2: ‘z t 1 {am who has a! . . mac t smegma thatthey‘ n .. 'ff'. wayOIIsuch a-hallowe‘d morning as this the g ‘. Ifsight‘ 'of 'a‘little child may ‘for no apparent " g greasOn at all, bring happy tears to your eyes. " and you positively beam on, both man and ' beast as they pass you by. ‘ . It is toye, my friend, responding to the mag- ic tOuch M of spring that fills you with such ‘ a delicious sense, of well-being on thismorning , 1 have. just described. The world loses its sordidness, itsselfishness and all unlove’liness' and becomes for the time being a thing of matchless beauty. Everything is pleasing to the senses, It were as if the sighing of the “ winds, the scughing of the boughs, the songs of the‘birds, talking of men, the laughter of children andall the other sounds of the air _, were a part of some great melody which yes- terday was a discord but today is a perfect harmony, with your heart in tune. ,. These moments are rare in the lives of most men and women, yet there is no reason why they should be.‘ Every heart has the capac- ity to love, but in many cases the owner per- .mits the iron bands of selfishness and indit’feré _ ence to fasten themselves across the doors of ~- , the heart im-prisoning whatever virtues it may contain:- The keys to unlock the treasures of love are completeforgetfulness of self and perpetual thoughtfulness for others. Try these keys when you get up tomorrow morn- ing. Forget-for the time being your little dis- comforts and worries. Turn your attention to those about you. Do something kind,— speak a good word, .shed a smile, turn your hand to .help another. No. matter how trivial tne servme may be you will shortly begin to feel that itching sen-ition around the region of your heart. It will glow there like an en:- hen-warming that cold interior like a beam of sunlight in a chilly -room.' Keep 'it alive, fan 1t and some day it will burst into a great flame of passionate love for all human-kind. ‘ Again my thoughts go back ’to Quaker Benn’s famous homily: “I shall pass through tins world but once; any good thing, therefore, that Ican do and any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now;’let me not deferor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” Make that philosophy an integral part of yourdaily existence, and life .mll forvermore be one grand sweet song. A Chance To Earn Money THE CIRCULATION manager has asked ~ me_to call the attention of our readers to ' his advertisement on page eight .in which he offers to pay liberal commissions to farmers who Will take subscriptions ‘to the Business ,7} arme'r: I am glad to do this: I know there must be hundreds of our readers who are feel- mg‘the pmch of hard times and would be only , too glad to have this opportunity to earn .a little Spare money. Another reason way 1 am anxmus to have our readers take up this work is tospread the gospel of business farm- . mg into. every nook and corner of the land. The maJor part of our circulation has come » from those kind friends who have gone out of their wayto‘ do a good turn for the Business Farmer, believing that eVery new member add- ggag the (Emily is like one more link in the - r , . ' ' ’ in every dire? a mu WWI is reaching out orfiins”.-as you pass their ‘ a , , _ . ' . HIE-farmer has been called. the goat, but Fleecing the Farmer ' ‘ . he is also 'a sheep in the sense that he is continually being “fleeced.” A good deal of this .fleecing he .cannot escape, but in certain instances he walks straight into the shearing pen and stands patiently by while he is shoru of a substantial share ef'his worldly goods: We have repeatedly cautiOned‘ our readers against the innumerabfe worthless‘ stocks that are'being promoted by dishonest salesmen. Yet, it seems as if our warning had fallen up- i on a legion of deaf ears, for hundreds contin— ue tobe “fleeced” and complain to us atfer the operation is over. ' Again we say “Listen not to the Serpent-tongued salesman who ped- dles “bargains” or “guarantees” you a'hun- dred percent dividend on your investment. He is sure to prove a siren to lead you to your (ruin. Remember always, that “bonanzas” do not have to be peddled out in job lots, and they never are. For one “lucky strike” a hundred 'poor suckers are hooked. Sign no note or agreement for the purchase of any stock until \you have thoroughly investigated it and ascertained its value. If in doubt write the Business Farmer which maintains a de- partment for the purpose of looking up such matters as these. But do not by any means trust your savings to a smooth-talking sales- man or a fly-by-night stock company merely upon the promise of huge dividends. 4 Musings of a Plain Farmer Up before dawn and milking the cows, 12 in num— ,. her. My faithful wife assisting me. It t it It’s feeding time new. I am getting weary of this eternal grind! , It i l I meet the milk man who has his sleigh'for the first time this winter. , A cheerful fellow. # t It To breakfast of coffee, toast and doughnuts. t II: III To the stable again. Watering stock‘and clean~ ing stables. I wish I had (i, litter-carrier, this wheel-barrow is getting wobbley! / . fi # it My wife is breaking a young calf to the paih He is stubborn and she calls for my assistance. I am vexed and strike him vigorously with my fist. He drinks, she is petting him. It takes a woman to raise a calf! How those yearlings grow. They'll soon be cows. And then I’ll have to him them, top! I wonder what the price of milk will be next 'wlntcrf Someone knows, but not the producer! It 3 II Well, these stables are cleaned again. I must feed and go to dinner. _ t O t ' A short hour with the daily paper. They are having quite a time in Wa‘ehinaton with the tartfl'. Let’s all stretch! ' l t i I must go andflgroom the cows and then to the evening chores. . II t It ' To supper. at t t I am taking inventory this evening of our person- al stock and a present -prices it looks bad. Farewell to all my greatness. The Old year is over and I still have my shirt. But not a silk one! It It If To bed tired and despondent. i: t -t ' Hoping you are the same; -—A. P. B., Huron OOunty. ' who has not sat upon the floor in cross-legged ‘ 'W (3.3% . , , . ho has'notcome acres old poems". they ” loved to read" in‘ ,dayé‘gone by? Ana with other duties for the time lbeing‘forgotten‘, fashion and lost one ’s self in a prolonged re--; reading of'the familiar. verses. Nearly everya ; one has a favorite song or story. Occasionally“ there comes flitting through my mind frag: ments of the songs my mother used to sing to me, but strive as I may I cannot recall more than a few words.’ One, in particular, I re-T, member, fired my youthful imagination yet I now bring to mind only the title, “The Texas Rangers.” I wonder if any reader recalls this old song-story of the thrilling lives led by the cattle rangers of the great southwest, and if so, if they will. send me the song complete? . Would it not be a good idea to sendme copies - of your favorite songs or poems and let0 me publish them as space permits? If you can tell us something about the author so much the . , better. Looking back through the files of St. Nich- olas, for the year 1888, I came across the quaint rhyme below and thought my readers might be pleased to read it. It is by H. Maud Merrill. TWO LITTLE OLD LADIES Two little old ladies, one grave, one gay, In the self-same cottage lived day by day. One could not be happy, “because,” she said, “So many children were hungry for bread;” And she really had not the heart .to smile, When the world was so wicked all the while. . The other old lady smiled all day long, As she knitted, or sewed, or crooned a song. She had not time to be sad. she said, When hungry children were crying for bread. So she baked, and knitted, and gave away, And declared the world grew better each day. Two little old ladies, one grave, one gay; Now which do you think chose the wiser way? Ezra Levin, muck land- specialist of the M. A. 0., gives the Business Farmer a “na-wful" calling <' for daring to question the wisdom of some of the muck land policies of the College. Moreover, , with the charaéteristic nerve of his race, he asks ' us to hit ourselves with this brick-bat which he has prepared. Well, we like to be accommodate ing, so next week the readers of THE BUSINESS Fumes will be able to read in these columns the goshawfullest dressing that any farm paper ever. did get. ' f/ if, Mr. Harding’s decision to forego the usual pomp attending presidential inauguration cereé monies will receive the commendation o! the en,- tire world. The president-elect shows a clear ap- preciation of proportion when he refuses to par- ade in gilt and tinsel during an era of hard time and suffering. , The farmers who have stood pat while the prices on their crops tumbled, will not regret . their action. The trend of nearly all farm pro. ducts right now is unmistakably upwards. ‘ The dairy interests of the state will hold a meeting to discuss their problems. It seems as if we have had enough cussing and discussing, and that it is now time for a little action. Sheriff Jack Hornet, sat in a corner While the law was being defied; He said: “I should worry; there’s no cause to hurry . The state troopers will soon herd-abide.” Thousands of men and women, both old and young, have deserted the cities for the farms the last few months. Wonder how manyof ’em will 1 stick when industrial prosperity revives? , - - 'tion to bring the farmers into a circle of com- .m o n thought and action, I firmly believe * that it -w0uld v" _ pay every man, - t woman " a n d’ ; child .11an the ."WE (:01 To AS LONG 'As ’ \ ”I'VE (or To— ("‘l‘vsc.or‘ro l I , ingv It it the age of power . tarm- , As LONG as AS LONG Asa! \ ‘5 fling); iguana v HEDOES"" 0 ' . - "E DOES. - production in m face , of a ‘ crease in fa population be | counted- fer. ._..... I/ . iii—NI \‘ f’FIEET MRS. JENNEY, THE NEW 1. EDITOR OF THE FARM HOME DEPARTMENT By the Editor 1 T IS WITH a great deal of pleas- ure that I introduce to the read- .'ers of THE BUSINESS FARMER, Mrs. Grace Nellie Jenney, who on Janu- ary lst became the editor of the 1Farm Home Department. Mrs. Jen- ney is a resident of Mount Clemens. 130th her training and experience have been varied and have given her that broad, sympathetic vieWpoint of klife which is the prime essential of 7 editorship. As a public school teacha .er, a teacher of music, a writer, a housewife and mother, Mrs. Jenney has acquired a fund of practical knowledge-which I am sure will make her future work on the editor- ial staff of THE BUSINESS FARMER ~1nos't acceptable to our readers. I ask our readers to welcome her to this department and to assure Iher of their friendship and co-oper-ation. Although born in MIchiIgan, Mrs. Jenney comes of an old Canadian family of .editors and publishers. Much of her life has been spent in and near rural communities where she has been brought into intimate rontact with the every— day problems if the neighboring country folk. Her first contribution to the realm of lit- erature was made at the tender age of nine when she 'burst into print with an article on “Books, and the Reading of Them.” This was pub- lished in the school paper. Since Ihat time, however, she has not felt :hat‘she‘could handle so pretentious :1 subject and has consequently con— élned \her literary efforts to more simple themes. The next subject to .vhich- she set her pen was, “How‘ to Plan a "Chicken Coop,” which singu- larly enoug‘h took ‘first prize in a poultry magazine. The information conveyed, Mrs. Jenney tells us, was drawn both from practical experi— ence and observation. Notwith— standing this mark o-f recognition the youthful progeny of the pen for- bore to give further instuction in poultry Coop construction. ed musical talent which of later years she developed to a large de- gree, becoming a member of the De- troit Institute of Musical Art, teach- ing both in Detroit and Mount Clem- ens. 'She has taught in the public schools specializing in pedagogy and kindergarten work. some years ago Mrs. Jenney spent some time in the European countries, visiting the histonical places of Scot- land and England, more particular- .ply the art galleries and cathedral towns. We will ask her some time - to write an article on European trav— els, as I am sure there is not a read- er who has not at some time or other longed to be transported to the an- cient ruins and historical sites of the old countries. I: think you are going to like Mrs. Jenney. I think you are going to find that she is entirely in sympathy with rows, yourgio-ys, your hopes. I want you to feel free to lay your most in- timate, problems before Mrs. Jenney, for she has assured me that what- .ever advice she cannot give through these columns she will 'be glad to give personally through the mails. Problems pertaining to the home, to the children, to health, happiness, etc., should be brought to Mrs. Jen— vney’s‘attention, for she is here to “serve the women of the form. GREETINGS TR WOMEN readers: It is new iii-- privilege to edit— this page . things that you Early in life Mrs. Jenney display-1 your needs, your problems, your sor—, interest and sympathy your letters. I want to hear from the girls. on the farms, perhaps We might with profit occasionally, mention the subject of clothes, '1 amusements, books and music. ’ When you write letters for these short. columns, please make them There are at least eight” let- ters now, good ones too, in my drawer, begging to be puiblished and we have not room. If you that there- fin d are want that must be purchased in a big ‘city and it is not conveni- ent for you to get in, I will gladly be of ser- vice to you as I am in Detroit al- most every week, and will make it convenie n t t 0 shop for you. It is my very sincere desire that the new name on this page may become in time more than a mere name to you.—-Grace N. Jennei, editor. OUR REPRESENTATIVE ISS ALICE Robertson, who is the only woman elected to sit in the next congress, is a Re~ publican, always opposed to suffrage. She should be perfectly'safe. She. grew up in Oklahoma and is an au- thority on Indian education. and western conditions. Judging from her pictureVI venture. to say that there will be no hysterics, that she will take her seat with dignity and win the esteem of her fellow-cong- ressmen. WOOL LACE FOR AFGHANS NEW IDEA in robes for baby carriages is being shown in them, some of the stores. For making use double-faced eiderdown, instead of binding the edge with rib— bon, buttonho-le, all around with Germantown wool, not too fine, and ”then crochet a wool lace a‘bout six inches wide all around catching your crochet hook in the buttonholing They may be decorated with a ' wool flower in one corner. Eiderdown ‘batih robes may also be finished with a narrow wool la-ce around the cuffs and collar. I recently made one of rose—pink~ MRS. GRACE NELLIS JENNEY A Department for ’ the Women _... fl tableSpoon'ful of salt, 3 of sugar and salt-petre the size of a pea. Let this stand 48 to 62 hours, then put the beef on to cook in lthe same brine. Let it cook gently until tender or put in your tireless cooker and leave over night. , separately as the brine would spoil them. Cooking t h e meat i n t h e brine after ' 48 hours covers it sufficiently and it is delicious. .1 11 ~ I serve it With boiled cabbage, white turn i p s, toes. Tapioca Pudding Place '1 , quart of milk in an aluminum ket- tle, put on your fire and stir in ' while cold 3 tablespoons of tapioca. Stir con- stantly until the tapioca cooks clear, then ~add the yolks of 2 eggs beaten with 1-2 cup scant, of sugar and a 1—4 teaspoon of. salt, add to hot milk and stir gently until it thickens a little. Then remove from the fire, ‘bea-t your 2 whites very stifi and beat into the custard, add a- little nutmeg and a few drops of bitter almond or van- illa if you prefergit. Serve with cream and a spoonful of tart jelly. It looks pretty and is as good as ice cream. It stiffens a good’ deal as it gets cold. Use minute tapioca. Hashed Brown Potatoes 1.pinlt cold boiled potatoes chop- ped; 6 taiblespoons cream; 1 tea- spoon salt, a little pepper, mix to- gether with a fork. Put 2 table- spoons butter in frying pan, when hot, put in the potatoes, flatten down ' and cook slowly, until golden brown, turn out on hot dish and eat. Johnny Cake 11- 2 cups white corn meal; cup white flour (or 1 cup yellow corn meal and 1 cup flour); 1-2 cup sugar scan-t. Stir well together; 1 1—2 cup thick sour cream; 1 level teaspoon soda. Stir- into meal, a pinch of baking powder. Add one egg well bea‘ten. Beat well and back, this makes a soft, rich bread. Nut Bread Mix together 3 good cups flour, 4 eiderdown and trimmed it with light teaspoons baking powder, 1-2 cup 2: r e y w o o 1. sugar, add 11 Cords and tas- cup nutmeats. sels also grey ' ' Beat one egg are u n d t h e To My Son .well and add 2 neck and waist comple t e d a very attractive Do you know that your soul is of my all soul such part, cups milk. Stir together, - add 1-2 cup of The vegetables have to be cooked' carrots and pota- . until I was becomring'a wreck. When 1-2, garment. That you seem to be fiber and core raisins, cut up. 'l" Th e w o o] of my heart? ' Put in 2 pans, wears bet t e r None other can pain me as you dear. let fitand 20 than ri b b o n can do. minutes. Bake and is really None other can please or praise me in a. moderate - prettier. as you. over 3-4 of an ,'________ Remember, the world will be quick hour. with it's blame, _;__.___.._ Iggcgsfinsnke If shodow or Stain ever darken your TABLE LINEN corn beef 1.1111211311331211 like son is a saying OW that the with vege- so true ' ’ pric e of tables —. a real ’ ' d a m a ‘831 oldufashi o n e d boiled dinner? Then try this: Buy a center cut of dump, - about 5 pounds. Place in a. con- .tainer and‘ad’d 3 quartsof wa- ter in has 'been dis‘ solved, .1- large ' which- The world will judge mother by you. Be this then your task, if‘ task it shall be. To force this proud world to do homage to me. ‘ largely of "Be sure it will say, when it‘s ver- dict you've won, She reops as she sowed. .149! This man is her Son. 1 ---Your Mother. table linen is almost prohib- itive very good an (1 table may be had by buying crash resisornq ably. ’ 11:31:; forty-five“ inch- es wide.’ thirtyw inches will cut . p r e t t y ~ napkins , ~hard that I might reSt. .WOrk took him near the wood line 11‘ '_ visited with him, enjoyed the: --_air in God’ s out of doors}: six napkins. fifteen” inches square, " Roll the edges and sew over and ,_ 1. over with wool of one color going 1 1.. back with wool, of another color; bl ’ d rown make a pretty com- bination also, 'blue and 'black. These napkins are found in the Arts and Crafts stores in the cities also in stores where fine fancy articles are on display. They bring a" good' price being “quite the tad of the moment” and one may be glad_ to own a set or give them to a friend. HOUSE IMPROVEMENTS, 1 1.1.; (Editor’s note: ofiered a prize for the best article on “Home Improvements.” Among/the several contributions that came to hand was the following gem. Read it. It contains some lestons for all of . UR R“HOUSE Improvement" is at ’ , O a decided standstill and it need- ' ' ed so much, but our “Home Im- provement” is something I am proud of. We have two little daughters one- seven years past and one nearly six. Since the birth. of the youngest one , 7 my health has been gradually failing .1 I think of the past two years I, blush i ‘1‘ withshame. My nerves were in1 , ‘ " such a state that 1 was becoming a regular scold and at the same time was ruining the dispOsition of my little family. ' ~ This spring I gave out and on con- sulting Dr. N—- in a'nearby city, found what my trouble was. I was, one blue, despondent' woman for a. . p . time. My health was in such shape ‘ that in order to save myself for my husband and little ones I must rest, stop worrying and be. out in the fresh air and sunshine as much as possible. This was indeed a prob-. lem and one which would not seem, to add to the peace and comfort of " our' home. Our income .was .very " limited and our dream not soon i'm-m proving our little house faded aWay. But husband, like the noble man he is, said, “Anything to 'save our ‘mother girl.’ ’.’ I had always done _ my own house work, sewing and . found time for garden work and . ., - even helped in the fields duringvery 1 ~' 1 . busy times. But while doing 'all this I had gotten into such a state 1 that when meal, time or evening came I could hardly muster- a pleas- ~ ant word and the noise of the child- - .i , ren at their play almost drove me to distraction. Husband at once found ' " a neighbor to do our laundry and a young girl to come to theghouse two or three days a week to help with the work. And he too stood a share of the work. All summer long he got up early and got breakfast, alone, or helped me to. I tried to have the noon meal ready when he came in, but he often helped to get the meal at night and wiped the dishes arfter . ‘ his chores were done. Meantime my nerves calmed down. The rest has done wonders for them. I often think of the remark of a friend. that she guessed a man rather come _ 1 , in a night to 1a wife a little tired.11“/ and crossand the house clean and, , " meals on the table than to a pleasant cheery wife and no work done. It was hard to learn to let the Work go but really it paid, for we have been , - happier this summer trying tore: -- gain my health than we had been " " for some time. It- has taken 'quite a , bit of our hard earned savings to send me to a specialist every two weeks and to pay for the help in th house and husband has worked. wandered out that way after-no. Some time ago we' _ 5 .';-.-‘1‘v ' ' i i Damty , Desserts.- ' ‘ and Salads , .. Setts and salads let us send you, free, -- :5 ' the “Jell-O'Book.” It gives the newest and most popular recipes for the . r. famous desserts and salads that are . 'so, much in vogue just now. ' " ’ '. ', A‘ great variety of desserts and. , . saladsis made of each of the six dif- - ferent flavors of Inmfl You do. not have to cook to make any . , of them, but only dissolve the Jell-O 5: powder in boiling water. ' , For a fewcents you can serve six delightful desserts or salads. ,‘ sherry, Lemon _ Orange, Cherry, ' , ChoColate, 2 pack- . ages for 25 cents. . Jell-O is sold at '_ any grocery or any general store. If ‘ you cannot get - u ,7 Jell-O- at the store where you trade ‘ ' ., We will supply you . direct" by .mail at -,_ . the regular price, '5'“... g - paying, - postage ‘ " - , ourselves. , Tue-causal: PURE - roan COMPANY »-\ » LeRoy. N. Y. READY to, mail to you , .. In‘ this catalog we de- - scribe accurately the sturdy- growing varieties that ‘have helped us build one of the largest seed and nursery busi- , nesses in the world. For 67‘ years We have listed only‘ the strains that we-Were-sure deserved our support. S & H seeds and nursery stock will surely please you, however critical you are. 'Write—TONIGHT—for your copy of this interesting, well—illustrated catalog. ONE YEAR TO PAY Jr.lb.z "l" EASY Mi“ ' 'jnstead of nervousness? ‘: I; For the latest things in Jell-O des- (- :1 }._j 1 The flavors are: Strawberry, Rasp- _ States Department .Washington,. D. C. . that comes to our house: - with you 'for 3. ion ‘.'time' and hope to “Wegfflire all very Jmuch pleased- with. .‘t'he: pager. What cany these touches of' love and sympathy and: impa- tience but “Home Improvement?” Trusting that this may help some one who finds themselves in the same position I was, I remain—Mrs. N. R. B., Newayyo County, Mich. IF HENs coULn’ TALK THE LAYER. ,I can sing and I can lay, I like to scratch and work all day, If you'll feed me right and clean my coop I’ll pay my board and—some to boot, The city may not like my looks, I'm too ragged and dirty to suit the cooks My feathers I keep for my Winter's bed, For you know I haven’t the time to shed_ 01' mOl'e persons With ODCOf the most ' I know I get pale and'loose in behind, But this, everyone knows, is a very' good Sign, My eyes are clear and my comb always brigh , - For I lay eggs both day and night. ~When my time is up in the laying pen, I will be called a good breeding hen_ When my chicks get hatched so the farm— er can see, , He’ll always be glad he didn’t sell me. THE NON—LAYER I can squawk but I can’t lay, So my board you’ll have to pay. My legs are yellow, my eyes are dull, Yes, I am What they call a cull_ VI shed my feathers every one, While loafing under the Summer sun, You can see that this is so, For I'm yellow from head to toe, That I am 'fat there is no doubt, Just feel of my abdomen and‘ find it out. On me I know you’ll have no pity, No doubt you’ll ship me to the city. Hens that go there and that are able, Have tabIgOOd place on the. rich man’s a e. . > So here I go to win the day, For this is one place I know I’ll pay, —-D. W, Witter, State School of AgPicul- ture, Delhi, N. Y. GRADED EGGS BRING IHGH PRICES ‘AN IT be that Canadian citizens are profiting more by the ad- -Nice of the Bureau of Markets, United State Department of Agri- culture; regarding the marketing of eggs than our own people for whose benefit that advice is intended? Because of the superiority of Can— ' 'adia-n eggs, due to grading, packing and shipping methods similar to those advocated by" the Bureau of Market‘s, Canadian eggs sell for 3 to 17 cents higher in ”British mar- kets than American eggs. Canadian eggs are carefully grad- ed as to quality, size and color; pack- , ed lin clean caSes with clean 'fillers of proper weight, and provided with adequate refrigeration. , The wide difference ‘between the selling prices of American and Can- adian eggs should .not exist, say mar- keting experts of the Bureau of Mar- kets. Canadian hens do not produce better eggs than American hens; and that being so, all that lis necessary for American shippers preparing! eggs for foreign markets.’ The same (principles apply ”to, eggs marketed at home. ' . . Fulll information as, to methods to _ "be employ-ed can: be‘had upOn request to the Bureau of... Markets, United _ of Agriculture, _ The M. B. Fg—is' the best little pa...“ I haywbeenz stay a. while. yet. . eep ‘it-fcomin ,—-R DeB., Lucas,~ Mich. - v g . ' It ,1 tag. .. 7 mi“ call (this health ire- turn, thesesmiies instead ot'rrowns, ,_ to secure high. . ~ prices isv'th‘e use of greater care in s an . ideal. farm: 'pa .r _ the lwhole ‘ ' family, £531 . tea «the-“payment great; germi crops gr Our :92! MARINETTE SEED COMPANV Man‘nmt. Wisconsin . .. .Grown in C10 The climatic and soil conditions of Upper Wisconsin and Michigan make this one of the greatest seed regions of the world. Marinette Pedigreed Seeds are all Northern grown, most of them in that “‘Cloverland”. seeds for! Northern planters—plump, fully developed and. ripened, of strong Box 301 MARIN ETTE verland” .‘ [seed-growing region known as They are the favored nation, and sure to produce best SOuth as Well as North. Pedigreed Field Seeds. We specialize in those farm and field seeds which reach their highest development in the . Cloverland region, including— _ MarinetteV ,Clovers, Wisconsin Pedi- eed Barley, Wisconsin No.1 Oats, Improved Kherson and. Improved Swedish Select (Date, Wisconsin No. 25 and No. 12 Corn, Marquis Wheat,’ Grimm, Alfalfa, Early Black and Ito San Soy Beans. new illustrated catalog gives faithful descriptions and tells of adaptability to soils and climates. Write for copy. MARINETTE SEED CO. . Marinette, Wisconsin Pedigreed SEEDS producing TREAT Youn OWN LIVE STOCK PROMPT FIRST All) Is VERY IMPORTANT You never know when an animal is going to copy of the ‘Cattle Speci in cows. action. to prevent loss or permanent injury. . If on medicines on hand you can save a valuable amm There is a Dr. David Roberts Prescription for Every Animal Ailment Study the Practical Home Veterinarian. _ ‘ druggist. You can successfully treat Calf Cholera, Constipation, Abortion, Udder Troubles, Colic and dozens of other _ailments_common to livestock. If no dealer‘near you, write us direct. Veterinary advxce free. Ask be sick. or some accident occur, re uiring quick ow what to do and have t e necessary that otherwxse may be lost. Get our medicines of your local _ . . _ _ for free aiist" With full Information pertaining to abortion Tells how to treat your own herd at small expense. Dr. DAVID ROBERTS VETERINARY 00., lnc.866 Grand Ave.,Waukesha, Wis. a i 15.2 .1 V E B TH Sent Only On Appllcatlon Iss3 .- LU E Grimm and Common CLOVERS, VETCH, ALSIKE, GRASSES, . And All Seeds For Farm And Garden Are The BEST THAT GROW-Free Catalog The G. E. DePuyflGo" Pontiac, Mich. . ..,.~.. .. _.-....._. an ,c-zlL-aovEn‘ . T sill LI plasma .A AL. .CUHl'AxYRPi. BTiio Tin-Ann Alfalfa TANNING Send us your salted horse and cattle hides with the hair on and will cure and tan them so that you can have a warm, com- fortable coat .or robe made. Large, spready cow hides . make up best for coats. "l‘rude I" with your hide buyer and get 2 black hide. They make benu< tiful coats. “'e make robes from all colors in the natural color. Write at once for free catalog, circulars afid lining sampes. W. W. Weaver, Custom Tanner 30 Years’ Experlence , Reading Mlch. l “:5 Quality Al . ‘, n every walk of life, doing something beli- ‘ IS; tor than the other fellow spells J'uccess. 5..- ‘ being ahead in quality and workmanship j" living wearer: the greatest satisfaction E. GEORGE FROST CO..BOSTON.MAKERBO , ‘ Velvet Grip Hose Supporter-o" For Women,_Mi-un and Children ”xxx/«KH/rxfn . V .. ... Boston Garter‘aoucceso in just a matterof "l . ' :‘ _, EAR CHILDREN: or: , . and their own kind. » a dog saving the life of a horse and anotherof a Collie dog who saved' Recently a magazine titled, “Our Dumb Animals” came to our office. I glanced hurriedly through it and as it seemed’v‘ery interesting I laid it one side to read when I" had mere time. I forgot all about it but when going through some papers today I discovered it and took time to read several articles in it. It was pub- lished by a society for the preven— tion of cruelty to animals and con- tained photos of many differentkind of animals and stories about animals who had saved the lives of humans One was about the lives of 30 people in a burning tenement house in New York City. ‘These stories brought to my mind pictures of the several dogs I. - owned when a boy on the farm. ”I always had a dog of some kind who was my greatest chum. Most farm boys have a dog whom they think lots of. Girls, I think, prefer to have a kitten to play with but noth— ing suits a boy more than a. romp W'izh his dog, I also, thought how many times my dog had not under— stood what I wished him to do and when he had done something I did not want him to do I was often mean to him and many times I whipped him making him cry but as seen as I showed ”him -I was ready for another romp he forgave me in— stantly, barking and jumping around to show me all was well. , Now when I think how I 'mistreated the several dogs I had I feel ashamed. Do not. mistreait your pets. When one of them do anything you do not wish them to do talk ,to it. no: whip, especially your dog. Al- though a dog cannot talk like you can it is surprising how much he understands of what you say to him. Whipping, in time, makes him both hate you and afraid of you and an ugly dog ‘of him, but if you talk to him he will obey and love you and fight for your life at any time. Cats are smart too. The horse is anoth- er animal who understands you. Treat all the dumb animals about you with kindness. The farmer who treats his livestock with kind words instead of beating or cursing them is one of the most respected men in his neighborhood. Ask your “Dad- dy” if he isn’t. , ‘ ' The poem that I am publishing this week is about something that really happened on the farm of one of our readers and the lady made up the poem and sent it to me for our page. They ate the meat from the bear, she says, and mode doughnuts in the grease from the meat. M—u-m! who doesn" l‘ke nice fat doughnuts? —UNCLE Nl-JD. THE FARMER AND THE RAVEN A Farmer, who had neglected to shoe his horse, started to market carrying a basket of eggs on his arm. He had not ridden far before he saw a Raven sitting on an oak. ”Ah,” said the Farmer, “I don’t like that bird! His presence surely bodes me ill~fortune.” ‘ He had hardly said the words 'when- the horse stumbled and threw him, bruising him severely and breaking all the eggs. As he rose, he shook his first at the Raven: “Fool,” said the Raven. “you swear at me because you. were thrown from your horse, but the fault was that you were too careless to, look \after having him shod.” , Many people will blame any scir— onmstance’ to avoid admitting their Wu faults.———R. W. " - 3.0UR BOYS AND GIRLS Bear Uncle Ned:-‘-—We take the M. B, “1 00 and we think it fine. nm’e- is Mrs. Sawall, Her sister BILBichardson is teaching the fourth ' '{Eflfth ' es. Thejourth, fifth, sixth “ is ‘ ,1 an in one room, They have. ,If well done, this My teach- ‘ ' How to Make, an Eskimo Lamp -_ AKE AN ordinary tin can. With the scissors, _cut the ragged edge of the top off evenly. Then, . at equal distances, cut slits for half the depth of the can, ‘ and into the cork, holding the tin firm. ' Punch 3 hole in the tin, cor- responding to the hole in the cork. Ydu will thus have a tin-covered cork float, which will slide easily these slits about an inch apart. Trim the sides of the slits V—shap- ed,- as shown in the illustration, with a pair of pi i e r s, b e n d these strips at a ri g h t a n g l e. Three' quarters of an inch from the bend, make a second bend._ will \form a sec- up and down the inner surface of the tin. Take a small lamp wick, shred it out and form through the .hole, so that the little fuzz stand » up above the tin. Fill the tin with a slow burning oil, cottonsee d or olive oil will do, drop your float into the oil end can, inside the larger one, but the sides not coming quite to the‘ bottom. Solder on a wire to hang it by. Now take a flat cork'—such as is found in a pickle—bottle. Make a hole through it with a gimlet. Cut a piece of tin slightly larger than the work, lay it ,on the cork, out little pointed tongues of the projecting » ‘ .- and the Eskimo lamp is made and is ready to use. In the far north, such lamps are made of soapstone, and the oil that is burned is whale oil, or seal oil, or even fish oil. In their igloos the Eskimos use this tiny flame for heat—, ing and cooking, as well as for light- mg. It is safe practical, and easy to portion of the tin and bend down make. built a new building and we are upstairs. hardly any. I have a. very large tiger The high school is downstairs. I am 12 cat. 'He weighs about twelve pounds. years of age and in seventh grade, live on a hundred acre farm. We have twenty head of cattle. We have two colts and three horses and their . ames are Fanny, Ginger, Dan, Ted and ennie, We have a Shepherd dog and his name is Bounce. He is black and white, My oldest sister is married and has two boys, one two years old and one thirteen days old. Their names are Gerald and Rich— ard. I like to go to school quite well. only I don’t like grammar very well, and arithmetic at present. I like to read the children’s page. I would like very much to have my letter in print, Wish some of the boys and girls would write to me. -Edna Baughn, Breckenridge, Mich,, R, 14‘. D, 1. , . DearUncle Nedz—I am a girl thirteen years old. I am in the eighth grade and we have a, junior high school in 'our town so I am in high school. I have seen that all others tell about their pets but I live in town and so do not have We‘ .Mickey wore out, The Song Dad Sings When He Puts Baby to Sleep, For a while I called him Mickey, but the song and every- thing, so I call him just plain Mike, I envy him these cool days, he is getting so fat, for I am very tall and thin for my age, I am about 5 feet, 3 in; and I weigh ninety pounds. I live in Genesee county and this is where the county fair is held. They had a, very fine fair this year,‘ I love basket ball md hope to play on the regular team next year. I usually play jumping center being quite tall. I hope to go to college some day, I think I would like to learn to become a bookkeeper or a stenographer; I think college is a place long to be remembered, ——Evelyn Berry, Davison, Mich. Dear Uncle Nedz—I am a girl 12 years old, I am in the 7th grade. I go to the McLellan school. I have 3 brothers and 1 sister, My brothers’ names are Gil— bert, age 17, Melvin, 15,? and John, 7. My sister’s name is Loretta. I am just getting over the mumps, My teacher’s (filth, ‘J , will? Mrs. C. A._Byers, Hiawatha, Mid]. ‘ One bright day away last full I wondered among the trees Until I come upon some sign That looked like boars, by goo, I called the who and kiddies too To come ’und see my find, And then beneath the skies so blue I just made up my mind To catch his bear-ship in a. trap, For eating my apples sweet; » . . And he would not think he had a snap When held so tight and neat. . We set one trap in' the edge, of the wood With bait from, on old douid cow, . ~ And know we'd catch him with» the good; For stealing apples woopuldn‘t allow, The next day when we wont to look His bearehlp was not thou And no we guessed that [wind took A rest with!!! I!!! ,lolr.'~ ,. .1 But then It I!“ too ooll'y yet Forhhht‘ostoy asleep, 1,. - And we will set hill, in, yer-bot, , When he comes for "other pm. ., v He stuck his nose on the piece of meat And his foot was on the trap, It o'oeod upon his leg so neat _ That it made his Jaws go snap, He dragged the toggle on the ground And bit at-tho iron chain. , But it' only wound him round and round Tho he tried with might and main. Until at last all tired out, He curled him up to rest, Then wondered what ’twas a‘l about And wished for his leafy nest, \Vhen Dad went out in the early morn Aml saw. his bearship there, . He looked so sad and very forlorn, Dad called‘ the kids from everywhere, Mo came out with the babe in her arms And Bub come up with the gun, While. file was yelling out alums To tho others on the run, -, 11".. soon all over for Mr, Bout, We made a run; of his chin; _ ‘ And the neighbors came from hero And then - , . , To taste the steaks so thin. 'MiCh., R. 5. -- grade in school. ' years old and urn-tn tho . . ,sulck, MW? name is Alpha. Loftis. I like her. line, She 18 very kind to us. My father takes the M. B. F. I enjoy reading The Child- ren’s Hour, My father works on the P. M. railroad, There are 34 pupils in our school, We live on an 80 acre farm,‘ 2 1-2 miles from school. > We keep 4 horses, 6 cows, 2 pigs and about, 50 rab- bits. For pets I.‘have 4, kittens whose na s are Snowball. \ Tag-a-long, Spot a d eauty.—Alice Venett, Custer, Mich. Dear Uncle Nam—As I have to stay home from school today on accOunt of a sore throat, and having nothing else to do I thought I would write to. letter to you, I just got throught feeding my pets, which are four doves. .' For other pets we have a big shepherd dog whose name is Shep. him for a. hundred dollars. My father is threshing beans at the neighbors .r'to- day, We haven't Ithreshed yet not ex— pect to tomorrow. 'We killed a big pig yesterday, It weighed about 259 pounds, I would like to receive letters from the other boys and girls who belong to this happy circle—‘Your little friend, Fred Troge, Standish, Mich, R. 3, Dear Uncle Ned :-—-I have been spend—- ing a. few. moments this evening read- ing The Children’s Hour page. I thought» I would like to join by sending you 'a. letter. I am a boy twelveyears old. I live on a farm of 120 acres, located on the good road. Besides my father and mother, I have one little brother thir— teen months old, We keep three horses and one cow, I go to school most every day.. I am in the slxtn grade. I have a very nice teacher. Alger, For pets I have a Shetland pony. two dogs, one lamb and one hen, I hope I have not made my letter too long. Your friend, Clair Field, High- land, Mich., Box 47. Dear Uncle Ned:——I am a. girl 9 years old and in the 5th grade at school. . My teacher’s name is Mrs. Green and I like her very much. I, have 2 miles to go to school, My brother takes the M, B. F. We dike it very much and I like to read The Children’s Hour. , I wish that some of the girls and boys worf'd write to me. For pets I have 3 cats and 7 rabbits. We live on an 80 acre farm, My father has 4 horses, 2 pigs, '10 head of cattle and'85 chickens. We had 920 bushels of pota- toes this year. I have 3 sisters and 2. brothers. They are all older than I am. I only have one brother at homers—Mild- red Sundquist, LeRoy, Mich,, R, F. D. 1 Dear Uncle Nedz—I am 12 years old and I am in the 6th grade in school. ,My eyes are blue and my hair is light. I take music lessons. book, I have 1 sister and 2 brothers. My sister’s name is Mildred» and my 'brothers' names are'Earl and Harvey, I live on a 160 acre farm. We have 13 cows. 6 horses and a lot of sheep, For pets we have a dog named Tip and, two cats named Toots and Daisy. I wish some of the girls would write to me.— Ethel Schneider, Turner, Mich, ‘R. 1. Dear Uncle Nedz—I am a girl twelve years old. I am in. ‘tbe sixth grade at school. My father takes the M. B. I“: and likes it fine, I read The Children's Hour every week, I go to Maple Valley school. I have only missed two days of school this year and have not been late ’ I have three brothers and one 'Brown City, at all. sister.—Born-ice ' Bowers, Dear Ilnc‘e Nedz—I am a. boy twelve years old, My father takes the M. B. F, We live on a 120 acre farm. have three horses and four cows. For pols I have a cat and dove. I have one brother whose name is Ellis. He is,1.8 and helps my father farm, I also have one sister. Gladys. who is 16. She goes to high shcool. Morris Mumby, view, Mich, » \ Dear Unc‘e Nedr—I‘am a girl 9 years ‘ old and live on a. 120 acre farm. the children’s page and enjoy it very much, I go to a consolidated school at Haslett. Mich. at school. For pots I have a little yel- va kitten and a rabbit, I wishhome of the girls would write to mew—(Had)?! ‘Gulick, Shaftsburg, Mich. I read Dear Uncle .‘Iedt—I am a boy» twelve years old-and in the 7th grade at school. I live on a fnrm of 160‘ acres, For pets I have a. dog and two kittens. My dog will pull memn my sled and chase cat- ile, I have a now brother a wee-k old. I go hunting with my, father goes—Clark Whiteside, Lupton, Mich, I would not part with‘ His name is Min I am in the second ' I am in the fourth grade' when he 't Wee, Lake- ' Dear Uncle Nedz—I am a boy 9 years . of age and. am in the fdurth grade at school, My teacher’s name is-~-Mr. Hill- samia. He is a. good teacher. For pets I have ‘3 cats’.’.We have 2 cows and we live on a 40 acre farm.—-Ervin »Wells; z Copemis, Mich. . - Dear Ilncle Nedz—l am a. boy Eton ‘years old, My fathers-takes the. M.;.B. “ ,; 'and likes 'it very much. - I am in the 5, _ For-”pets.~ I have we: cats undone calf. I will answer ietter.—-:Abram Leefirakez Moscow Mich, Dear,Uncie Ned :é—I' am 1dim°w school. I' have 2 shrotpo ' and ' ,We have a com:,mfirt ‘ ' , ‘. \ ' ‘~ WOOL shownns 'ro Hem) son ‘ , HIGHER PRICES .IFTY COUNTIES sent represen- F. tativestoa meeting of wool .growers atfthe state farm bu— reau last Friday. More than twice that many wOoi growers attended. Most of the repreSentatives came in- structed ,by their county farm bu- reaus. ~ The meeting was character- ized by. a determination to stick to the present plan of pooling and a faith in the management of the pool ‘ by the state farm bureau. ' The delegates passed a motion that‘the meeting go on record com- mending the State Farm Bureau in the management of the WOOl pool and that there be another pool of the 1921 clip. Upon request of the State Farm Bureau the, delegates passed a. second motion providing for the appointment by the chairman of two experienced woo'l growers to act in an advisory capacity with the Wool Department. A. E. Illenden of the Executive Committee of the State Farm Bureau and Chairman of the meeting stated that he would announce the appointments. a little later since he wanted to give a good deal of thought to 'the question. The conference went on record in a resolution favoring the passage of the Natio‘nal Truth-in—Fabrics Bill. Another motion was passed which provided for sending a statement of the results of the meeting and of the‘condition of the wool market to all wool growers of Whom there were eighteen thousand. The State Farm Bureau has al- ready begun the preparation of this report but it will 'be at least two weeks before it can be issued. To send a letter to eighteen thousand wool grewers incurs a cost of $360 for postage alone. Because of this expense the State Farm Bureau has been unable to keep the membership posted at all times as it would like to have done. Mr. A. J. Hankins, marketing director, and Mr. Illen- den made a detailed report of the financial situation’with regard to the wool pool. , ‘ None of the representatives re—' ported that they had come with in— structions to sell. Some 'had been instructed‘to hold their wool for a year; most of -.them said they had been told to leave the matter entire— ly to the management of the wool pool and the final action of the meeting included this provision. MARKETING COMMITTEE AD- JOURNS MEETING UNTIL FEB. I-IE FARMERS’ Marketing Com- , mittee of Seventeen,- which [met ' recent-1y in Chicago, adjourned until February 14 to await reports of a number- of experts and economists who are digging out fundamental facts regarding the marketing of ‘ THE-NEW LOWER PRIGES for New Year 1921 Men’s ‘ Four Buckle First quality per- fect Arctics. fam- pus brands, ex- tra tap soles, sizes 6 to 12.— now— Eithercloth or _ all Rubber One buckle, $1.65; Boys’ one buckle, $1.65: Women’s four buckle, $3.95; Men’s cloth . shoe rubbers,- _$1.85; Men's ' ‘ red storm king boots, $3.95., . Send for: new footwear list. ’ "'nAvis' moments [ 111 Mich. 1 , . iiRS. CLUBS Ten of the Michigan Maple ‘ Agricultural College, East grain. The next meeting will ‘be 'held in Kansas City. The co—o-perative plan of market- iug‘ upon. which the committee has been working since October was put in semi-final shape during this week’s meeting. and; the committee reached an agreement on a number of the fundamental principles involved. It refused’ to -make any statement for publication. It is generally believed ' that .an agreement has been reached on every principle except the method of financing grain marketing, be- cause the experts employed by the committee are all engaged in gath- ering information relative to crop movement stabilizing the flow of grain to market, possibility of price stabilization and other questions all of which are closely related to the matter of financing a new marketing system. “We anticipated being able to complete our work 'and present our final plan for co-operative grain mar- keting at this time,” said C. H. Gus— tafson of Nebraska, chairman of the committee. “we find that we still 'need some important information to make sure of our position, and be- causeof the opposition of present or— ganized grain ,handlers we cannot make public the details of the parts of the plan to which “we have agreed.” FARM BUREAU NOTES ANAGER Nicholson of the Seed Department of the State Farm . Bureau is on a western trip for a few days. He appears on the program of Iowa Farmers’ Week at Ames and addresses the Idaho Grain Growers’ Association at Blackfoot Idaho. The alfalfa growers of that section have asked the assistance of the Michigan Seed Department in helping them organize. Michigan’s personal representative was in the western field for two months last fall arranging for the purchase "of alfalfa on the orders of farmers all over this state. Arrangements are now being made for similar purchases next year. *** The Forestry Department began its work January 3 with F. H. San- ford in charge. The initial project is fence post marketing. The names of all farm bureau members, who have fence post timber to cut or who are now cutting posts, should be turned in to the county agent at once. Any other information such as specifications used, length and top diameter of post3> and percentage straight, whether green peeled or not, etc., should be included. i t * A meeting of the Committee of Syrup Makers" Association is cal-led for Fri— day, January 14 to complete ar- rangements for better marketing of maple products. One of the import- ant projects before the committee is the action t‘aken by the membership through a ballot by mail .in which 72 per cent of the members favored a central canning and marketing ar~ rangement. whereby the product w‘ould be standardized and sold un- der registered» label and according to grade. 20 per cent of the meinbers voting directly opposed such a move. 8 per cent refused to express them- selves. ‘ O t t A special conference of elevator managers has been arranged for by the Board of Control of the Elevator Exchange to be held at the'Michigan Lansing on Tuesday, January 18 at 1 p. m. The object of this meeting is to dis- cuss problems of- elevator. manage- ment. organization financing, sales service and other matters of equal importance and in which all mem- bers are‘vitally interested. Special invitation.is extended tonal] Eleoator ' Managers, Presidents and Secretar- ies‘of Associations. _t .' t ' The purchase of binder twine is being made the subject oflnvestiga- tion by‘ the , Purchasing Department. Business in‘the various commodities is developing beyond all onwtatlons. ‘ .bm' ' ‘ marines UN l oNs ". GLEANEPs—GRANG E BEET GROWERS 'TO LEEET " FEBRUARY 2ND John C, Ketcham, president, and R. P. Reavey, secretary of the Mich- igan Sugar Beet Growers' Ass’n have issued the following statement: “In view of an unauthorized state- ment which has been given wide pub- licity throughout the state suggest- ing that individual beet growers make contracts With the sugar fact- ories on their 1921 acreage, the the Michigan Sugar Beet Growers' Ass’n make the following announce- ment: _ . “The executive committee of the Michigan Sugar Beet Growers’ Ass’n has called a mass meeting of all members of the association to be held at East Lansing on Feb. 2, dur— ing Farmers’ Week. In view of the unsettled condition of the sugar in— dustry we advise growers to defer consideration of any contracts until after this meeting. All growers are invited to be present at this meet— ing, and every local is particularly requested to send a representative.” Announcement has also been re- cently made that Jas. N. McBride and T. C. Price have bé’en appoint- ed as delegates to attend th'e nation- al conference of sugar beet growers which meets in Chicago on Monday, January 17th. FARM BUREAUS OF OTHER STATES HE LIVESTOCK Marketing De- ; partment of the Illinois Agricul- ‘ tural Association is planning a series of meetings for the managers and members of Co-operative Live Stock Shipping Associations in each county. The purposes is to give the managers the results of a study which has been made of best meth- ods for efficient operation and man- agement of these associations. The Finance Department announces it is ready to answer any specific ques— tions in regard to income taxes for members. * it It The American Farm Bureau Fed— 'eration has called a conference of sugar beet growers for January 17. * :1: * _. Illinois Agricultural Association’s contract for the output of two large rock phosphate mills has been ful- filled and arrangements are being made for next year’s contract. Seven hundred cars of rock phosphate were delivered this year, on .which they made a saving of more than $25,000. an :1: a: ' Kansas State Farm Bureau has adopted the same method of Michi- gan and is sending questionnaires among county farm bureau officers to ascertain the opinion of members on legislative matters. * II t At a meeting at Manhattan, Kan- sas, representatives of.county sheep and wool growers’ associations or- ganized an association with a view to marketing the Kansas wool clip co- operatively. Because wool buyers refused to bid on wool in the various farmers’ wool pools last spring, the sheep men of the state appointed a committee of three to decide the dis- position of the 1920 clip. The com- mittee recommended that the Kansas State Farm Bureau take over and store the 1920 clip to be marketed and to call a meeting for the forma- tion of a state wool growers’ organ- ization. I t It: Nebraska, like Michigan, is per- fecting a sugar beet grolwers’ as— sociation. at II: III The legislative committee in the .——. state farm bureau of California has reviewed the work of the College of Agriculture. The committee’s report contains commendation for much of p the work of the College but deplores the lack of finance and the shortage of men. The Engineering Division Was found in a sad state of. affairs; the Irrigation Divisionwas declared (Continued on page 23) I n! o ob Name “Bayer” means genuine ’ Say “Bayer”—In3istl Say “Bayer” when buying Aspirin. 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M, Hawesville, Ky. ‘ n sank—cube: 1111151111111?” mousing 1,-4.1. . 11111101111: Bordering lnke; only $2, ,-‘ ' Other standard these w-ordS—‘I‘Can‘ you imagine a ' reau happy, laughin’ Christmas with- out children?” "Well now I don’t know jest how it is with you but I surecan gay right ofi quick that I can’t» imagine any such thing. Christ-mas was made most ’s-pecially for children; it’s one of their days, but only one—every single day wuz made for children—made for them to behappy' in an’ seems to me, it’s only jest when we olde11_ ones kinda fergets about the little tellers—the boys an’ girls that were given to us to make us happyan’ to be made happy by us, that we think of Christ- mas as the only time when we must do somethin’ special'to let ’emknow we love ‘em an 'that they have a right to be happy jest f01 that one day. Surely Christmas day would be a rather tame affair if there were no children—the day would mean noth¥ in’ at all to most of 11s. but let’s go farther than that an’ ask what any day would be Without the kiddies? What would the whole 01 WOrld be if there were no little folks to make it glad? It would be a kinda dreary world wouldn’t it now? An’ yet I see many men an’ I’m sorry to say it, some women, who act jest as though children wuz in the way—as though they were sort 0’ forced onto us an’ should be handled“ like Small pox or measles or some- thin’ like that—kinda isolated you knowe—consider ’em in the way, think they have no rights—not even a right to be healthy an’. happy—you know thekind 0’ folks. I mean—the ones that holds their. heads up so awful high they can’t see the little fellers—all kiddies ’are little tellers to me—makes no difference whether they’re boys, girls or Jest kids, they are allus little tellers to Uncle Rube you know—an’ women—some of ’em anyway—that ruther carry a poodle dog ’round in their arms than to carry a child——r.uther have a green headed parrot in the house than one of God’s Own little‘ ones—:they’re‘the kind 0’ folks I ain’t got no more use fer than I have fer a yeller pup or a pump ’thout a handle or anything that’s jet as useless as a bachelor ’thout a sweetheart or an o’ maid ’thout a. hot water bottle. Yes siree, this 01’ world was made fer the little tellers an’ every day is their day! _When we begin to get along in yyea'rs we think we own the earth amaeverything that’s in or on it. Bait "we’don’t, We’ve had our day at it an’ new it b’longs to the little tellers. We are the dreamers now while they live the real life. 'I. don’t b’lieve in bein’ to all fired abitrary with children nor in mouldin’ ’em ’round jest because we’re bigger an’ stronger an’ able: to do it. Little tellers ain’t natcherly bad—— they may do bad things—mebbe they need to be corrected but they don’t need no beatin’ up ’cause that ain’t the proper way to correct kid- dies. If you want your boy or girl to be deceitful an’ revengeful—if you want ’em to lie to you an’ to fear you an’ hate you, jest beat ’em up. . .IW A Short of Type Our readers may be amused at this unique spelling, said to have been employed by a Western printer: 1 “We began the publication ov the Roccay Mountain Cyclone with a phew diphphlculties in the way. The . _ I. fit? type phounderds phrom whom we. bought out outphit phor this print- ing opphice phailed to supply us with any ephs or clays, and it will be phour or phive weeques bepihore we can get any. The mistake was not phound out till a. day or two ago. We. have ordered the missing 19th,. and we will have to get along without them Every time they do any little thing, that’s wrong Jest take this from me——-—if.-you1ca.n’t govern your little tellers by lovean'kindness, all, the maulin ithls'slde 0’ Germany won’t an kindness jest try it for a while an’ see how it works out. Somehow, I allus look with sus- picion on a man or woman .thatvdon’t like the little’tellers—they’re bound» to _be1s-omethi'n’. wrong with ' such folks an’ I don’t like to deal with ’em 911’ I don’t it I can help it. Children are all that makes life 1 worth while an we are only children older grown, but sometimes folks forgets they wuz ever little tellers—— ' they have ’bout’s much patience with the kiddies as a-hornet’s got when you put your hand onto him, an’ they’re jest about as pleasant too. Children’s noise upsets such folks~ something turrible—they musu’t play out loud you know ’cause it‘ ‘ annoys grandma, or' grandpa can’t be bothered an’ the little tellers are afraid to move in the house or. out for fear of bein’ called to account an’-all the'time they ain’t to blame for bein’ into the world, but now they are here, seems'to me they’ve got just as many rights as old folks, or any other kind of folks for that mat- tei, an’ a little noise more Or less won’t hurt if we only think right an’ keep our hearts young an’ in the right place. An’ say! The nicest way there is to do this is jest to love the little tellers an’ make every day like Christmas day for them. . When I first come to Battle Creek there wuz a Vacant lot down on West Main street an’ it wuz’a play ground for little fellers—a merry-go- round wuz there an’ swings an’ ev- erything to make the little tellers glad. I loved to go down there when I could, an’ watch the kiddies, they wuz so happy an’ had such times it took the tired ~l’eelin’ all out of me jest to watch ’em an’ some- times there’d be a little feller. with- out a nickle an’ he couldn’t ride an’ I’d give him the money jest to see him git happy an after a While I got to‘leavin’ a dollar or two every week with the man that owned the wheel an’ other things so’s little tellers could ride even if I wasn’t there, an’ I got more pleasure out of that man- ey than you can imagine. I wuz havin’ a good time, by proxy so to speak, an’ I thought it wuz great an’ so did the little tellers—you see they lived in the busy part of the town an’ play grounds wuz scarce an’ now this one’S‘ gone—they’re putting up a big buildin’ there an’ its goin’ to be a Ford home—a'place to sell Mr. Ford’s cars an’ such—well mebbe its all right, somebody’ll make some mon- ey probably, but money ain’t all there - is in the worldw—it wuz the little fel- lers’ play ground an’ all the Ford cars in the world couldn’t give! as much pleasure to the little tellers as jest this one 01’ piece used to do, an’ if I hadijest one of Mr. Ford’s many millions, I’d give more ,pleasure to thekiddies of this land than all the cars ever made or to be made, can do. An’ so I say Christmas without children would be the same as any other day ’thout ’em. But who wants such days. Cordially—UNC'LE RUBE. Sense and Nonsense @111 loox ov this cariety 0v spelings any better than our readers, but mixtaix .will happen in the best ov phamilies, and iph the ph’s and c’s and x’s and q’s hold out weshall ceep (sound the 0 hard) the'Cyclone whirling aphter a phasion till the sorts arrive.» It is no joke to us—it is a serious aph- phalr.” Related The husband,.who .had a' great habit of teasing his Wife, was but driving in the‘ country with her, When they met a farmer driving a span or mules. about to pass the tarmer’s gel; the do it an’ if you’ve never tried love house door. 1 Co., New York City, N Y '01] Co., Indianapolis, Ind good ' ‘not receive the twine. _they hadn' t the engine 111 see that if "-Mrs. P; 13., Pethkey, marriage. > Didn't Improve It V “Got any property abOut here?" asked the tax collectm' at the 1am... ~- “Yes, I got a small lot " replied _ 1 1 the buxom woman, with the gins» ,1 ham apron, who answered the knock. " “Where is it?” -' , “Abdul: two miles down the road from here. ” “Is it improved?’.’ “Well, I got a husband buried there, but I can’t say it improves it any !! Via the Belle System ‘ ' - ,f’ ‘ Bill: Have you ever done any pub- . 7’ . lic speaking? ~ ' ’ ‘ Joe: I once proposed to a girl oVer the telephone in my home town. GOODS RECEIVED Would you please help me in collecting ablll from the National Cloak and Suit About the 1' first. of July I sent them an order for!» 1,1 yards of white satin out of their sale M 1 book, price $2. 77 a. yard. They wrote . , saying they couldnt send the‘ order for. . , , . nearly two weeks So I wrote for them to send my money back, but they didn’t do that They sent the satin just the 1 same. .ThenI sent the satin 1back and wanted it. exchanged for , some other, goods. They wrote me they couldn’t send my last order because I hadn’t sent any money.———Miss I, B_, Washington, Mich. . This company received one letter from us. Miss B’s goods arrived 0. K. SUBSCRIBER GETS DISHES ‘ 1 Quite a number of months ago I read an adv. in the Farm Life of the Kibler If I would . sell 30 bottles of oil and return $15. 00 to . 1 them I Was to get a set of dishes or ' $4. 00 commission. I sold the oil and re— turned their money and have written to them seyeral times for my dishes or else my n1on‘,ey I see they are still ad'- Vertlsing for people to sell their oil Now I wish. you would please try and either- make them send my dishes or my com- mission. ——Mrs. C. P. Grand Haven, Mich 0111' subscriber received her dish~ es within two weeks after we wrote this Indiana firm. - , SPIEGEL, MAY, STERNS 00. RE— . TURNS GOODS - I sent for a. ring to Spiegel May' Stern Co., Chicago, 111, Which was $3. It was too large so I returned it by in- sured mail. » They wrote and told me to ‘ 1 send the receipt I did so but never ‘ heard from them, —Mrs. 11. C. H. Bailey, \, Mich This firm promptly adjusted this matter it appears as we received a letter from Mrs. H. C. H. in which _she stated her money had been re— turned. SHIPMENT LOST IN TRANSIT- I would like to have your help in col- lectlng $43.10 from Sears, Roebuck &. Co. On July 5th I Sent Sears, Roebuck & Co. an order for some binder twine In a few days they wrote and thanked me for the order I received. anoth'er letter dated July 21. They said the twine was shipped on the same day. July 21. 11 waited a. few days and did I have written them twice and they will not answer.— T. McC_, Capac, Michigan. We asked Sears, Roebuck 8; Com— pany to look this matter up which they did advising shipment had been .lost in transit and a short time later our subscriber received a re.- tund of his. money. RETURNS CHECK INSTEAD OF CASHING Last August my little son, 12 years old, sent to Montgomery, Ward & Co. of Chicago, 111., for a. small engine, and he sent $4.7 4, the cost price, and parcel post to Biay View, that was the address at that tl me. In a. few days Montgom- ery Ward & Co sent a. letter saying that: stock and sent him a check of $4. 94 ' The .‘ boy signed the check and sent ~1t back saying please send my money End in a. few days Mon mery Ward a Co. said We sent a choc and you signed it showing that you had got your money. I then wrote Montgomery Ward &.Co and said it was a. mistake The boy did not understand business but they could he had tthe check cashed he would not have the (max; to- have . mailed to Montgome e’ryIW Ce.-;-- . ichm1 1:," Replying t0. our letter this“ come Just as they .wér’efi- .’ " bers of this association. but in doing so they agreed to buy at the price 0 \ low price. set if they purchased at all. These that did so wereknbwn as accredits ed buyers. Actually, at first, there‘ —’vvere mighty few accredited buyers, since the big commission companies did not like the idea of a few grow: ers trying to fix the'price of cabbage. Then, too. the growers at the first meeting raised the ,price of cabbage from 30 centsto 60 cents a hundred. A certain clique of commission mer- chants in Denver agreed to become members of the exchange if they could be sales agents for all of the . cabbage of this exchange, thereby se- curing a monopoly. This was turn- ed down, however. and only a few independent buyers at first purchas- l ed any cabbage. For a few days there was move ment of cabbage greater at 60 cents a hundred than there had been at 30 cents. ' But just at this time the big commission men filled the markets in Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma with lower quotations than those smaller commission houseS'could offer for', bona fide business. These big com- mission houses were offering cabbage down south at 50 cents a hundred at the terminal markets, in an effort to discredit those who were doing business with the Exchange. But in most cases they did not have any cabbage to sell so they could not fill the orders that they received at the The big commission houses in a few cases did succeed in buying cabbage at outlying points at figures far below the price set by the exchange. An eflort was made to convert the growers of cabbage who were selling at the lower price. and bring them into the exchange, with fair results. All loading sta- tions were' picketed. After about two weeks of organization there was practically no movement of cabbage. Cars were everywhere, placed there by the big commission houses, but no' ‘one would sell cabbage below the price set by the exchange. By the third week conditions became worse and more mass meetinghad to be held. But by the middle of that week the Denver shippers had been practically defeated. There were a numbr of accredited buyers, but they did not represent ,any large commis— sion houses. Then two bankers Vis- ited Denver and took the matter up with the commission houses. These big shippers agreed to come in, pro— viding certain members of the grow- ers’ committee resigned These did so at considerable sacrifice to them- selves. In reality, this was merely an excuse on the part of the com- mission houses, for not doing bus- iness with the exchange At the same time the- exchange sent a representative to Kansas to look up business among cabbage buy- ers there. He explored most of the markets and found that the situation was not entirely hopeless. Shortly after this the principal shippers came in, filling such orders as they receiv- ed. Several orders were also receiv- ed fiom the representative sent out by the eirchange The first three days after the big shippers came in there was a great movement of cab— bage. Then the big shippers de- cided that they wanted to get out of the association, claiming that it was not satisfactciry. However, this was not permitted. It was found that in . many commission houses in Kansas cabbage was selling for $1. 75 to $2 a hundredweight, showing the big profit that the jobbers and big ship- pers were making. The Brighton growers were very fortunate in that the Colorado cabbage was practical- _, ly the only cabbage on the market at the time Iowa had practically ceas- ed shipping, and Wisconsin was Just about ready to begin. This past year the cabbage crop was approximately a . third larger than usual, and it is sold. probable that all of it will not be It‘is said, however,rthat there was more cabbage than the market could absorb and at all events no more could have been sold than was sold 111' spite of the light between the obi 11 and the re‘. This year ,andof buying breeding hogs, "Washington. zombie marketing “ associa- tion in Denver has picked one com-‘ mission house to handle its business. This house pays to each grower 75 per cent cash and 25 per cent in 30 daysat the regulargoing price for vegetables on the Denver * market. Then the price that it secures at the other end, minus the amount paid in Denver, and the regular brokerage charge, is credited to the association. In that way the association simply pays the brokerage fee for selling its products Other Organizations It is estimated that Colorado each year ships about 20,000 carloads of perishable vegetables, so it can be appreciated what preper marketing facilities mean to the growers. W. F. Hepps. agent in marketing at Denver, has aided in the formation of ' numerous - marketing associations over the state. There are now 30 'livestock association's, not including the marketing-association managed through the Farmers’ Union. At times fruit growers’ associations have been formed in the state which aimed to be strictly co-operative ventures. In some' cases, however, these have slipped back into pract— ically private control. There are still a few examples of co-Operative organizations over the state which handle fruit and cabbage. There is a co—operative fruit growers' asso- ciation at Canon City. The Farmers’ Union has taken a great part in helping out the co-op— erative marketing of fruit. This is handled through the exchange at Denver. During the month of Sep- tember the exchange which also sells mercantile goods did a business of a little over $200, 000. Over 60 per cent of the peach crop on the west- ern slope was handled through this organization on a brokerage basis. $25 per car being the charge. The peaches were shipped into Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Oklahoma and Louisiana. - -Eventually the Farmers' Union will have a big produce business de- veloped. In Colorado'there are 104 ‘Farmers’ Union stores, selling direct to the farmers. The Farmers' Union Exchange in Denver has only been in existence about a year andla half, according to O. T. Vinsonhaler, the manager of the exchange. The Colorado Farmers’ Union now has 15,000 members. An in- surance company sponsored by the union now carries $12,000,000 worth' of farmers fire insurance, according to Louis Roether, secretary of the State Farmers’ Union. The Farm— ers' Union also has a commission company at the stockyards in Den- ver," similar to those in operation in the Missouri Valley. AMERICAN BRED HOGS WANTED The attention of swine breeders 'is being directed more and more fre- quently to the growing imporance of the export trade, and its possibilities are demonstrated'almost" daily by in- quiries and buying orders from abroad. Following the record average price of $1,040.00 in American gold per head paid this fall in Buenos Aires, Argentine, for eight Poland China boars and sows shipped under the auspices of the National Swine Growers’ 'Ass’n‘" for exhibition pur- poses, is a. more recent shipment of 20 head to Italy. These hogs were bought by Marquis Idelfonso Stanga‘, Crotta d’Adda, Prov. of Cremona, It- aly, who with Madam Stanga came to this country lately for the purpose of studying agricultural conditions here Mar- quis Stanga represented the Depart- ment of Agriculture of the Italian .Government and came with creden— tials from the Italian Ambassador at The twenty head he purchased here have reached Italy safely and constitute the first impor- tation of Poland China swine every. brought into Italy, according to Mar- quis Stanga, who predicts a- great future business for us in this line with his country. Correspondence from Mexico and, our border states indicates a more stable condition of affairs in the neighbor Republic, and points to a strong and increasing interest there in swine bros _MAYER8 PLANT NURSERY. Merrill, E llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Write Today’for lsbell's 1921‘Catalog .~ . Some vegetable gardenspay their'owners $100 in returns for every $5.00 spent. They are a constant source of big profit. They give pleasure to everybody in the home .--old and young alike. They yield the finest vegetables . ,. . and yield lots of them, because they are planted with-- y ‘ loboll’s Gordono Pay-for the some reason that pure-bred cattle pro- 1 duce thoroughbred ofl-spring. Every ounce of Isbell Seed is tested. Isbell ‘ Seeds are produced in the North where oarliness. hardiness and sterling qual- ities are bred into them. 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Mich. - 'LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEERS Andy Adams, Litclifield, Mich. ‘ Ed. Bowers, South Whitley, Ind Porter Colestock, Eaton Rapids, Mich. John Ilofl’man, Hudson, Mich. Perry (‘olumhus Ohio. J. I. Post, Hillsdale, Mich._ ' ,- J. 1111111111..” 1'e1'r1y 3111.11. ‘1 ‘5 Harry Robinson, l’lymouthp MioI1. ‘Wm. “1111111., (Jolduattr, Mich. CATTLE . ‘ . v ‘--1 HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN MR. DAIRYMAN! Are you using a first class herd sire? _ You can’t afford to use a poor one. We have good ones of all ages listed at reasonable prices. Let us know your needs. MICHIGAN HOLSTElN-FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION H. W. N orton. Jr., Field Secretary Old State Block, LanSing, Mich. SHOW BULL Sired by a Pontiac Aaggie Korndyke Henger— veld DeKol bull from a nearly 19 lb. show cow. First prize junior calf, Jackson Fair, 1920. Light in color and good individual Seven months od. Price, $125 to make room. Hurry ! Herd under Federal Supervision. BOARDMAH FARMS JACKSON. MICH. Holstein Breeders Since 1906 HOLSTEIll FRIESIANS FOR SALE A bull calf ready for service. Combines show type and production. Herd sire, Model Kig Segis Glista, whose granddam is Glista Ernestine, the only cow of the breed that has six times made better than 30 l,‘ butter. GRAND RIVER STOCK FARMS Corey J. Spencer, Owner. 111 E. Main St. Jackson, BRANDOIIHILL FARM (FORMERLV HILLOREST) Ortonvllle. Michigan -.Mr Dairyrnan: Space will not allow full des- cription of my young bull born March 29th, 1920, except to say he is a perfect individual, light color, and well grown If you can find an 'animal to compare with him for 5300'1 will make you a piesent of him. -———My price $200—— for a limited time only. JOHN P. HEHL ‘ 1205 Grlswold Street, Detrolt. Mlchlgan Mlch. OR SALE—2 REG. HOLSTEIN BULLS ready for service from 19 1- 2 and 24 1-2 lb. dams. lrice $100 and $12.1. Herd on ac- credited list. -Wm. GRIFFIN, Howell, Mlch.‘ PRIOEO TO SELL SIX HEAD REGISTERED HOLSTEINS Two yearling heifers, bred to grandson of Traverse Princess \1 eg. Price $150 each. Three heifer calves, ages 5, 4 and 2 months 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. , 508.2 milk. Price $125. Pedigrees sent promptly on request. This stock is all nicely grown. E. BROWN. Bre'edsvllle. Mloh. WHEN YOU CAN BUV BETTER ’liED HOL- stein bulls for less money, we will sell them. Write for list. 42 lb. sire in service. A. R_. 0 dams. Federal tested herd. ~ - VOEPEL FARM, Sebewalng, Mich. 5 Three 2 year olds fresh in Sept. with the _ old dam ,A Real Foundation Herd " following records. No.1 made 13.126 lbs. of butter from 355. 2 milk at 21 months. No. ‘2 made 16 85 of butter from 362 lbs. milk It 21 months. No. 3 made 16. 28 of buttm from 363. 5 milk at 29 months. Sire to so with them is a 20 lb. grandson of King of the I'ontiacs first a year 'old. From an ac- credilc'l herd and only 51.050.00.11” the herd F. 0. JOHN BAZLEY 319 Atkinson Ave. . DETROIT - MICH. MR MILK PRODUCER Your problem is more MILK. more BUTTER .more PROFIT, per cow A son of Maplrcresl Application Pontiacm 132052—1'rom our heavy—yenrly-milking-g'ood-buf tern-«curd dam will she it. Muplecrest Application Pontiac's dam 85,103 lbs. butter in 7 days;1344.3 lbs. e111i;3421.2 lbs. milk in 335 days He is one of the greatest long distance sires 111,-; daughters and sons will prove it. VI rite us for pedigree and prices on his sons. Prices right and not too high for the avenge dairy farmer. Pedigrees and prices on application. R Bruce McPherson. Howell. Mich. Yearling Bull For Sale Bull born Sept 28,1919, evenly marked and a fine individual. Sir- ed by my 30 1b. bull and from a 20 ‘lb. daughter of Johan Heng, made butter Lad, full sister to a 32 lb. cow. Dam will start on yearly test Nov. 15. ‘ .- ROY F. FIUKIES Chesaning, Mich. Sow 1111111 Bull calf last advertised sold but have 2 more that.are mostly white. They are nice straight fel- lows, sired by a son 0g King Ona One is from e 17 lb. 2 yr. old dam and the other is from a 20 lb. Jr. 3 yr. old dam, sh is by a son of Friend Hengerveld De Kol Buetter Boy. one of the great bulls JAMES HOPSON JR.. Owosso. Mlchi. R 2. Howbert Mmlta Ormsby REGISTERED HOLSTEIN HEIFER. APRIL 18. 1919 . well marked, good condition. Sired by a 27 pound bull. Dam a well bred Qmsby cow. Herd Tuberculin tested under State and Federal Sup- erviswn. BORN H. T. EVANS Eau Claire. Mloh. ULVERINE STOCK FARM REPORTS GOOD 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- tiac Clothilde De Kol 2nd. A few bull calves for sale. T. W. Sprague. R 2, Battle Creek, Mich. TWO BULL OALVES Regieured Holstein-Friesian, sired by 39.8? lb. bull and from heavy producing young cows. These calves are very nice and will be priced cheap 1! sold Icon. , HARRY T. TUIBS. Elwell. Mloh. BULL cALF BORN MARCH 21, 1920, VERY nice, straight and well grown, sired by a son of Flint Hengerveld Lad whose two nearest dams average over 32 lbs. butter and 731'» lbs. milk in 7 days. Dam is a 20.61 lb. Jr. 2 year old daughter of Johan Hengerceld Lad 68 A. It. 0. daughters. Prics‘$150. F. O. 13. Flint. Pedigree on application. » . , L. C. KETZLER. Fllnt. Mloh. OR SALEe—TWO BULL CALVES, A HOL- tein and Durham about 8 months old. Both ave heavy milking dams. Not registered $50 ach if taken at once CHASE STOCK FARM. Mlch FOR SALE LARGE REGISTERED HOLSTEIN COIN five year old, well marked and a good milker, also her bull calf born Oct] 27. sired by a son of Johan Hengerveld Lad, one a 22 lb. two year Price 8250 for the peni R. H. BARNHART, R 1. St. pallharles. Mloh. OR SALE—REGISTERER HOLSTEIN COW. F ThreeR heifer calves. 1 1.1111ch BANE'FLD' Wlxom, Mloh~ Marlette. T0 SETTLE A'N ESTATE 7 registered Holstein cows, 5 yét to freshen, bred to a 30 lb. _bull. $1, 200 takes them. BERT SLOCUM, Byron. Mloh. of milk. priced from 8100 .1000 3‘20 11:51.. SAI...-BCRY_ From a state and Federal Acoredlted “My Slred I)! . . . 174771- ‘ ’ , whose twenty nearest dams have records averaging 30 11 pounds or butter from 592 pounds These bulls are from dams with records up to 263 as Jr. four year olds and are 0.00. Age. 9 months _ i7 HOLSTElN FRIESIAN BULLS 7 WALKER [lYONE s W” SHEPHERD MICE Mt. Clemens, You can change Imderr' Auction Sales advertised Mlohlgab- ONE-HALF INTEREOS‘I' ell. A PROVE" SIRE RBALE Flint Maplecrest FNomia De Kol 157613 has two tested daughters. One a 25 1b. Jr. 3 yr. old. The other a 12 111. Jr. 3yr. old made four months after ireshening. He is five years old and gentle. We have over thirty of his daughters. twenty of which will freshen next fall. is out of e 27 lb. cow. sired by Homestead Hengerveld Crown De K01. sire of 82 A. R. 0. cows including a 34 pounder and one with a year record of over 1,100 pounds. He is sire of two other cows which lave yearly record: of over 878 lbs. The sire of Homestead Hengerveld Crown De K01 is De Kol 2d’s Butter Boy, 3rd sire of 118 A. R. 0. daughters. The sire of this bull is a 30 lb. bull whose dam made over 1, 200 lb. butter from more than 25,000 lb. mlik and whose sire is Friend Hen- gerveld De Kol Butter Boy whose 47 A. R.‘ 0. daughters include six above 30 lbs. 1, 000 pounders. “ill sell one— —half interest in him for $250, the purchaser to have exclusive use of him for one year. KNOWLES BROS, Azalla, Mloh. snon'rHORN “ ._ scial Shortliorn Offer! 11‘ or the next 30 days we will make attractive prices on females with calves by side, bred and open heif— ers. Bred to our great imported herd sire Imp. Scottish Emblem 680,- 312. Also a few choice roan Scotch bulls of serviceable age by Imp. Scottish Emblem. A great opportun- ity to secure the blood of this great bull. Come and see them or write H. B. PETERS & SON Elsie, Mich. RIOHLANO SHORTHORNS Why buy Bulls that come from Herds you know nothing about? For the next thirty days we. are going to offer the best lot of Bulls ever sold in Mich. Prices mnging from $200 to $500. , C. H. PRESCOTT & SONS Herd at Prescott. Mich. Tawas City, SOOTOH SHORTHORHS 1‘2 ‘30??? .13.";3 Priced right, also my herd bull. THEODORE NICKLAS. Metamora. Mich. . Mich. HILKING SHORTHORNS. BULLS FROM COWS making records. Priced reasonable. 0. M. YORK. MIIIlncton, Mloh. BUY SHOHTHOHN FROM AN seem-:11. ited herd, that are right at readjustment prices JOHN SCHMIDT £1 SON. Reed Olty, Mloh. HAT DO YOU WANT?- I represent 41 IHORTHORN breeders. Can put you in touch wilh best milk or beef strains. Bulls a1! ages. Some females. . Crum, President Central Michigan Shorthorn Association. Moi Brides, Michigan. . HORTHORN BULL GALVES FOR Milking and Scotch Top. $100 and up W. HUBER, Gladwln. Mich. SALE. I SHORTHORIS ' Villager breeding. SHORTHORHS ' 5 bulls, 4 to 8 mos. old. all roans, pail fed. Dams good milkers. the farmers’ kind, at term- ers’ prices. F. M. PIOGOTT,‘ SON. Fowler. Mloh. HE VAN RUREN CO. SHORTI-TORN IKEED- ere' Association" have stock for sale. both milk and beef breeding. \ the secre reryta FRANK BAILEY. Mumford. Mich. HElFERS, BULLS COWS, offered a‘t attractive prices before January first. Will trade {or good land. Wm. J. BELL, Rose Clty‘, Mloh. ENT COUNTY SHORTHORN BREEDERS' Ass'n are offering bulls and heifers for sale. all ages. Sell the scrub and buy a purebred. A E. RAAB. Seo’y. Caledonla,‘ Mloh. aple Rldae Herd of Bates Shorthorns 0f- l'ers for sale a roan bull calf 9 mos. old. Also 8 younger ones I E. TANSWELL. Masoh, Mich. 0R SALE—JOLLED DURHAM BULLS AND Oxford Down Rams. . J DeOARMO. Mulr. Mloh. OHESTHUT RIDGE STOOK FARM oifers eight Scotch Topped Shorthorn Heifers from seven to twenty- two months old and one roan bull nine months old. Also two younger bulls RALPH STIMSON, Oxford, Mich. FOR SALE FOUR REGISTERED ROAN bulls from 8 to 10 months old. RV J. LYNCH. HEREFORDS MalVlllo. Mich. 3. "EHEFMD OATH-£11811": HAMPSHIRE >La FAYETTE eve ‘J c We“ can furnish registered bulls from 12 . months and older. best of breeding and at a very .Jow price. have also some extra good ~Herd headers We have also (a large .‘ofd relifered Hampshire Hogs. Gill's. Saws tn rgears. - ' ’ Write us. tell us what you want and get- onr prices. .51.. still. ‘ 1‘, and four ' sing Which already exists and press has ~ j 111111.; a. few questions to ask you in regard to diseases of stock What caus- es so many horses torhave trouble with and hoof? I have heard people express Otheir opinions and some think it is kid- ney trouble, others think it is caused from feeding,o hers think it just nature and I would 101 e to have your. opinion What can be used to stop it? - What will rid a horse of WorniS? What will give horses and cows. :an appétl to? What is the trouble with a. cow when about the size of a pea up to one inch in diameter and after a little while they get appear. These spots make their 11.11-- pearance all over the body. After a. time the seem to get larger as they ap- pear an disappear That is, the longer the disease lingers the larger they are- when they appear. I have used iodine without any results and‘I am now want- ing to know if this trouble could be a blood disease. and if it is what will cure it? I never saw ring worm but others who have had them say they don’ t look like ring worms but I tried iodine and didn't get any results and went to a veterinary and he give me a salve that he claimed would kill a. ring worm and I used all of it without any results. If this is a. blood disease 11 hat will cure it? —M, H_ S. Fremont, Mich Persistent stocking in the hind legs from the hock down is a some- what common condition. Closeob~ servation will disclose the fact that geldings are most. often- affected. Stocking affects mares as -. well in conjunction with various skin’dis- eases. such as scratchesfor- instance.‘ It is ‘chiefly. in geldings that stock-' ing occurs without apparent lesions of any kind on the extremeties in- volved. jority of cases of stocking in geld-. ings, the primitive cause. is improp- er castration; to‘ prove this, where stocking is .present, a close examina- tion willreveal either a condition "known as sci-rrhus cord, or an ex- cessive amount of soar tissue. In the later case, I would recommend giving one dram of potassium iodid cases the results Will be surprising. In cases Where enlargements has been formed, to a very great extent. ‘ surgical removal is the only recourse“ For stomachworms give three raw linseed .011. For pin, 'worms nothing better can, be, given than a. douche consisting of about one tablespoonful to a quart of warm water. This should be inject— ed well up in the back bowel as this is the lOcation of pin worms in the horse. Powdered nux vomica, two ounces powdered capsicum, one ounce, bi» carbonate of soda thirteen ounces. Mix thoroughly and give one table- spoonrful three times a day for ap- petite. little tumors in the skin along the back and loins of cattle, which con- tain a grub deposited by the ga'dfly. The larva. of this fly, when young, »is smooth, white and transparent; as it enlarges, it becomes browner, and about the time it is full grown is of a deep brown color. The larva having attained i-tsfull growth and size, affects its escape from the ab. scess in the back of the affected an— imal, and falls to the ground; it then seeks a. retreat in which to pu- pate.‘ The! puparium is of a dark brown celor, narrower at one end than at the other, flat on one side, and very round and convex on the other. They remain in this state for about six weeks, when the fly ap-: pears. The grubs usually escape during the months of May and June, occasion-ally as late as September; sometimes these grubs are very num- erous and cause a great deal of un- easiness in the animal, which be- comes thin in flesh, hidebound, and -‘ they do no ha-rm, except to the hides. Whenever cattle have these. tumors along the back in the winter,“ . it is advisable to enlarge the open- out the grub and paint the tumor with alcohol » , ‘—-r--——-'-- RHEUMATISM . A 'ow. 51'; about 7 thumbs (116 came so lame th she will no mpellcd I. their hind legs SWelling between the hook - there are yellowish spots on the body 5 gray, in appearance and eventually dls- ._ It is my opinion, that in the Ina-u twice daily, and in the majority of." ounces of turpentine in one pint 013,. turpentine, _ ‘ These grubs are characterized by. feverish;' more frequently however; ' 1 " ”‘7 -'11111111111mmunuuu‘n’lll" llwm (SPECIAL ADVERTISING RATES under this 11511111. to honest breeders 0' live stool}; and vault" will be sent on request -Bottor all) with out what you have. to odor let u; out It In two. show you a proof and tell u what it 1111;"! oost for 1s 2 2 :1 Y. ' h muscular and articular them on of ad. or copy u otten as ion wlsh. GOP! or ohmic: must _bo received one 31°»: before date of Issue '331321-5- 1113513111 52113611111223?” mtism may affect. Swine; no deubt, hero .1 211.9111 low mu: m for them. wm. today!) “ undue exposure predisposes the an- . BRESDERS' nmscronv. m; IIOHIGANTnusmsss ”amen, m. 01mm“ momm- 1111a! to both conditions, but there . , . . . . T _ mustmieo be some active 1111111111, such , r. .. » . . , - . . . t. V. fies 1111111111011 or absorbed injurious - HEIIEFIIBDS FOEOSQTEE 11.1.1111 . . . ..: < ".i .; , . . , . _. Chemical 31113511311093. 4 Muscular £35111: sggdocl) 1333;230:1333“ sires. “Choice ie- . ' O V I = ' . y, .. . . __ . ' ‘ «11191111111111.1111 primarily affects the 11111111211 for 1111111. Write me your needs. , ~ t r . _ ' _1 Gennec‘tive tissue of the muscles, E“ “L °- mc‘RTV' “‘1 ‘"' ”m“ cm Ina Ion . _ ow _ a e . while articular rheumatism affects 150 "Engronn "areas. ALSO KNow -- , ‘, _ . 1'1; Shortshorns and _ the joints. The onset of the articular King; (1)1111;ng 150113 ffygoflfgsfi 0mm anxious . T 50 HEAD 11111111 is more Sudden than the rims to sell. 1 u 111 help buy 501: commission. _ . BALL. Falrfiold, Iowa cular term; the affected joints be- °-- -’ 712.113.1135; 3.1.1.11:racism: ngpsggggn.15151919...9&111.E. Big Type Poland Chimes . es pain. . If more than one leg is af— A zr‘ndson of 1.11113 éé'b‘thmi‘v Grin}! $331132: . .. . . _ . 6 rue fiected the-anIm-al remains lylng down {$331123 :36 fgd also 351;”. 110111-111 1111211 1 u... arising only after considerable urg— renter. Ten 13. lmx prumiewr. “T'mg There is usually some rise of T'I'HE MARION STOCK FARM. Marlon. Mlch. ,. temperature and a diminished de- LAKEWOOD HEREFORD :2ng TbV'l’TETi Geo. MCKim, Albion, MiCh' ' 0 711.1 (ire ‘ ‘ sire for food. The disease runs a young bulls, 12 months old for sale 0 1gh . variable course, the attack being ll'lb class females any age Inspectiont ingitccgl. J . . . T termittenut An attack usually con- , , E. J. TAYLOR. Firemen. . T anuary , .. at the farm of tinues for abouttwo weeks, then the . ‘ JFRSFYS‘ _ - . animal apparently recovers,T but soon- ' “ ‘ Consisting of 9 tried sows, 7 fall yearlings, 31 spring gilts, 3 or or later the attacks recur.- The EADOWVIEW JERSEY FARM, nae. JERSEY Spnng boars- . t'reatmentxfor both muscular and “mm M 11111. articular rheumatism in swine is .5. MORRIS a1 SON Farmlngton, Mich. Sale under cover. Conveyances from Albion, a. m. of sale. ~. praetically the same. This consists 7 . _ GEO_ McKIM ~ _ of provid-ing‘good quarters. keeping ‘ Do YOU WANT PRODUCTION. Anet‘o'we's' . . 1111111111 ’ ".. 1 ”he bowel 1.0089 and iVlng thirty ‘ The grandfiun of Dogs 99th of 110m] harm Ed. BOVVCI'S, South ‘Vhltley, V 1 .S .- ' g " and Sophie .19ths Tormcntor two of the great- “"1“ Inman Albion E. ‘V. LAX DENBERGER. . grains of salicylate of soda. three -est sires ever known fheads tour lherd. 1131331111? M B F Fi‘eldmnn A. D Gregory Ionic I’arma .1 " ‘. _ _ strain is more noted 0r pas am muse 1n - - - - . . - . . ..'. g - times daily This is beat ad'miniSter tion. Bull calves and bred 11eife1s for sale at Write for Catalog _ ed on a fullstomach. In my ex- magnum. prices. Ml 11 perience, the outcome of. rheuma— 1'1“” "“VW‘Ro' sum" “' ' tism in swine is very. uncertain, in EAL BARGAINS IN{HIGTH CLASS JERSEY ._ cases or complete recovery, and cows. Herd tubvrtnl 11 item-1LT 1 P. NORMINGTON. lonla, M1ch.gan where the animal is in butcher com “um" SWINE GLOSIM GUT SALE of Big Type 1’11l_1md (31111111 hogs. which represents the work of 2.1 years of constructive Meeting. .-.~ dition it should be disposed of. on SALE—THREE PUREBRED JERSEY Evervtlilnr . . _ . .. . . , - . » - _ - 1.... 1.... 1......1... tested. POLAND CHINA 1...... 111.11:...‘51“.‘.fil“‘.‘...‘.:‘.‘ 11.115.11.112311‘9 J‘ L' CARTER. R 4' Lake Odessa. Mlcn' B‘WIH‘S Big "0b. TWO of 11.11 111-st .yL'urlinLE - 1. T 7 V . - .) - prospects in Mir-l1. 2.1111l1 1'11 type 1 1:1 1 --l d T . : T “ lilTE SCOURb IN LABILS . 1 BIG BOB MASTOD 0N bucks. great length, 1111.: 11111112 (11.: ”1c. I:1111lmpl3k . GUERINSEYS . ut Wlljl'lqoyoll want. (1111‘ 111-11w.~ “1‘9 right“ My lest spring lambs- have had what 0. BUTLER. Portland. M1311. ‘2’ the local veterinarian calls just diarrhoea ,__.,.-_ . » ' ’ and they have all had it by ones and tw os NSEYS TSiI‘e “:33 _Champion 01: the “01:111. . all summer and this fall Have l0 1 six REGISTERED GUER HIS dam s Ser was grand champmn . . so far They jw‘t seem to run at 11111- 11111” 11111111 1; months 11111—11200. at Iowa State Fair 8 choice-spring I. S P FOUR °"°"‘E 8PM” M"? ”F'- v n .0 1 1 t___ 100. boars left. A few extra moo nib the bn1.cl"'nd 11 n , get wcn.<. and line bull calves 6 to 8 months 1111 $ gilts bred that t d b left bred for A ril f rrow some die, others get over it I feed com All papers transferred. are INC 111'981 s1re y 'H 0' slAmn‘Iz S-choolcmn Mich fodder and clover hay WouldTT you Iplierfixe J. M WILLIAMS. North Adams. Mich. him. Also some sows bred to him ' ' ’ advise through yourTcolumns. . . . _, . for March and April Priced 10W Brooklyn. Mich. . - . ' BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS , H . GUERNSEY BULL CALVES and guaranteed 1n every way. Get Early 1111 1111.1 for 1.11 1111191 511 These .1. This disease is caused by a special 'T From tested and untested dams. my prices. “‘1” ““1“", ““311;ég’sT1‘11gg’ys1gnl1r’g1 [1311;00:- Organism: other germs may assist in 'Satisfaction guaranteed 0- .E- Garnant, Eaton Rapids, MiCh- ' .‘ the infection. The" usual symptom-s Write for prices and breeding to . 1311: TYPE POLAND chAs are. the lamb becomesdull, loses its MORGAN BROS., Allegan, 311011.. 1:]. HERE" SOMETHIHE GOOD “IlAlfhll‘v chloirxnspring bloom 11111fl gilts sired by _ appetlte, and the feces passed at the 7* ‘ T1111“ (‘11:11'1111u '. 11‘ -"”‘-"._ 50-" “1 15"")‘1t-h .H‘Uf . THE LARGEST BIG Type p c IN M10". 1 1 1111 (fT.I1cl111..1n 111 Lilo. (nits W111 first are a light yellow, later, a foamy REGISTERED GUERNSEYS h Gdet it: bigger 1mg better bred boar pie from my gebmi‘ld tt”1 Jmfnh" :1 )I1lrsiodolp 21”." 5”“ 0f Big . - _ . -s 1 . . ‘1 . ‘1 greyish White. The wool is matted, One bred 11eire1,.o11e 7 1111111111 11111 111-11111. 11nd Eirpengesapall1flfln’l111?firi$511.9§.?1’€.$1.“"5}1f§:.13:3, U “31211161537 8310‘s..dlher?lllfllr.1f12r11rf’w' and streaks 0f mucus ,are found Ol’l 2. 4 months old bull calves. Prices reasonable. in service: L’s Bii'. Orange, Lord (31110111111111, H. F: NELSON. Most-Ides, MIGN- 4 Orange Price and l.‘ 11 1.11113 lwrospcct it. In a short time the lamb becomes w. E. lemes-rom. Parma. Mich. BIG TYPE 1*. . ~, very weak; 'the,eyes grow glassy, AYRSHIRES ALNUT ALLEy 3 1“" ”"f’ . T ‘ . . . 1 . ;;S 1; r11 11(- 311': and the VT'lCtlm drops to the ground FOR SALE—REGISTERED AYRSHIRE FABWELL LAKE FARM (1.111'i1ters 1‘11Ttl1e $131111” (.rz1111l (illnunpion sow of .' 'l and dles In a Stupor- The tempflrfl" bulls and bull calves. heifers and heifer calves. .1, '1' p C b 1 , - ., . l.letr1)1t,T 1" 0- 51- 50 “(h 1“” bro“ K1153 . 1 - 4 . Also some choice c1ws. . - it .1 fears 111 sold. A few sprm. hours and prlccd right . . 1 1 s . 7“ - .: ' .. ' ‘ 11 ' . . pure IS. about normal' and” as death FINDLAY BROS.. R 5- V5533“ MICh- Booms; gillsscfvitce: ‘1‘,lalngfilzl11lxs‘tl11ngzied‘lllll haulage; A' 0' GREGORY' loma. M1ch. approaches, drops to subnormal 011111031111111 3111110111 111.11 :.1. 111.1111; 11"c1co111e.‘ . T Treatment: This is not a common RED POLLED whon RAMlaPELL Am 0111111119 Large Type Poland Chlna eom. — —-——-——-— __.,.,.- -~ —~—————A ._ a 0V8". IC bred to l1 51 Orange at roaropable pri'ces A150 disease 0f the range b1“ is usuallv ED POLLED oA‘r'rLE, YORKSHIRE sme fall 111gs.\Vrite or (all 5 found in low, marshy pastures. or 111110111 and Tunis 11mm HE BEST BRED POLAND CHINA PIGS SIR- CDLV DE F|5HER- R3 St- Lows. Michw E. S. CARR. Homer, Mich. ed by Big Bob Mastodon at tl1elow1-st price. sheds which contain the infection . _ DeWI‘TT c. PIER. Eva M1ch1 - The logical treatment-is to separate ANGUS . BIG TYPE POLAND GHIEA BQAIIS 2‘. aTl the apparently healthy ]ames_ and . 7W .. » _. .-. -——--—~~———~— ‘ THE THUMB HERD 1.111111. 111-1111‘ 111111111 spring 1111.115. Simi 11y glve the Sle ones intestinal antisep— _ B' T I‘ . (‘l' , T . . T . lirewlmker 1% Son‘s grout l1er1l 1111111“. (‘ririsrlulo I. __ f ‘ . .v T — ‘1g ypo ”11““ 3‘1“” ['11‘111‘5' 11"” ”1 {\11rt11- ’1‘1111111. Stock all (iambic immupml. .105 a ew drops of founahn 111 a , c.151er11 Mien. Bears 111111 151115 for sale. ~ 1 . 1 1 Tfle I—Iome of E M 0RDWAV Milli i. M' h H. C. OVEN, OVId. M1Ch. . little mllk, or Abbotts sulphocarho-. - - . "9 0'1» 1c. 1 . .lates These can be obtained thru' ‘ T P c A FEW TOP “”3 “1“” T0 ~ »» 1' -. - I 11 Ed er of Daimen . . : r. »- w” . Tc} YOUI‘ drugg1st or you can send direct l “1' g y My, Oh My. “Ihat 3“ Opportunity! 1.. K131“fluid11111-11111311..111f"\\‘1\-{:r‘1)1‘1) 171111111, (1‘1111‘1'11111111111: to the Abbott Alkalcidal Company ‘ PrObab'ly '\\'e are new HITI‘I‘E‘H; :1 f1-w choice big type ‘ JOHN 0‘ W'LEV' Schoocraf1., Mich. ' ‘ Preventi . i1 . l‘Ulilel China lilo-.1211, fr» 11‘» 11;; Sr 1 1,1 .111“ S. ' 1, _’—’—“"""‘"" "" on is the best method to pm- The ‘IQJOI‘IUS, GI'C inst of the breed's best slrm, 1111111 11111113111. 5111.11:a 111113181 1 v sue and the most satisfactory to all sires as 111111111 \1.s111-111:1.u1..1 111.1111“, 11.11111. 1 DUROCS Ir _ cqncerned -, T VB R E E DIN G BTUL L uilli’11ll-fn‘f‘lfl1lvt 211:;th ”1:53;“ I1:1”:1‘11111" individual! _W‘—'” 7 ’ the, Will 11.111111 31111. l’rlm 7510. T .. _ . ‘ . HILLCREST FARM, Ka- amazoo, Mich. DUROC- -'.' TI; BERCULOSIS ‘ 11311112 Bull. Supreme Champion at the 3.3% B§W&Q P? “ . You advise having my CO\VT examined. ‘ SlnitllfiL-ld‘ Shoo, 11.119. 111111 the Bll'll‘lilllw" IG TYPE POLRNDS. HERD HEADED BY J3: ‘W “Y8 T for‘ tuberculos15.P1easg tell me \‘1‘10 10 .. himllslillxr 1.1.20. is 11. daughter of Luger ‘.\-‘5 Hyilor 111111 Spring pigs, both sex for sale. BOARS—READY Fol? SERVICE T ,. write to and does the owner how; to u T 1 y.T . . . . _ w CALDWELL & SON. Sprmgport. Mich. _ . BRED SOWS AND GILTS :1 bear. the expense or does the stfiin at- The Jum‘" (mmmm‘ T111111. 5111"" ' ‘ ' ‘ 1 ' ’ ' ‘ tend to that—I H. Casevine M‘ h . Champion Female. 111111111111011 111111 111.111 . > 113 TVPE POLAND CHINA BARGAIN. 575 “ 1'11“ l“ 1“” 51'1““ 11“” 1611131993 , 1 _ TT , lc . and First 1.1.5.1“. T111323 ”9”.” CillI‘WMiCli- 111138 a 1,111.; gill and 11 330 lb. spring: 1).)“, Mail orders .1 s;»w‘1:1lt,\'. Siltisflli‘ilull guaranteed. , . - ' . 1;: I St to I’lir. I. , wer also t1e"tct .\l.‘n I-l r“ .‘ . .' l 1 '1 .1 .111 ‘ - ' ' . .' . . - 1 Y? mlghl‘. take the matter up W ”1’ ‘ of“ lildgaar of l)alme11y. e 3 7 & faotimnmue guts brul for 1340' ( 11.11111t11 “D BROOK“ ATER .FARI‘I ’ . 9;. tle (apartment of Animal Industry . A very choice lot of young bulls—sired DORUS ”OVER ”"0“ MW" 1“? w Mumforg'1'5w’lfior' M13hlgBanAndr M T, .T whose address is Lansing Michigan by Edgar of Dalmeny are, 111 this time, ' ' ' ' ”3' gm . ‘3 . . ! . ‘. uttered ‘fm sale. . IG TYPE P. C. 11113: r1514... Uv.b«1- «do..- if you are're‘asonably sure you have boars we are closing out 111 a bargain, .1. tuber-animals affecting your catne ‘ 31.11111: extr? sows bred to furrow in Apr‘nuilu ' — , , ’ _ ' am growt 1. ' - . and ask for a state test.- I think the . ' WILDWOOD FARMS 1.f w. BARNES a. son. Byron. Mch. same will be granted. As for the e‘1' . - . 91:10“. Mich- _. -- - 1' '- pensee, if. you should have a eew die “w E sci-1 N. P 8‘11 8 1 BIG‘TYPE ' " ”1,177+? 83:1:va . “111119 "11.93 by, Wan.a ”With tuberculosis, 01‘ slaughter one 'T 1T9 ' top" 1 no" mth, 5“”: Nine fall giits 11111 of 11mm of eleven and . 01‘!on. First SNVORI‘HNJ ' 5 / - thirteen. for sale. Detroit. Jackson. Gd. Raplds and Saginaw. 191. for beef, and she should be feund 1 1 , E MVGRANT... St 1011.11 MIC“ tuberoular. then the state would he , . . , ' ' o . . . runl _ . P . , under obligation to test your herd: BARILEIIS “on, $2$3LE11§§3°§E1 BIG TIP 'T.?L.,’?.'.‘.P.3.“l‘T‘.‘f11f’..i“l‘.f..§3.‘S1§ llllllps Bros, nga7 MICh “ithout any expense to y0u; in any SM," I." and (in. my!“ “‘1“- 00'1'“ prices. Registered in buyer‘s name. - d nee go ted 3- impact! in tad, 1. case the state will furnish the tuber- 31011 0 % 111111 S119“ 1“ 111-“"13 “01’- 1...... “‘11“ "' , I ,1... 5‘ 11111 11111151511511 nunocirnsr‘r $111111 for illustrated Catalogue. [in and you can have your. local Yet- , ' ~ ,. . . . . , 1 ' " 1 L Tt P C b03131 gills. 11ml 1'11ll pigs for sale ~ llcnl headed “. ~ . . by BIN-knot” 111'211rxrxstr11t111‘ 2371,11 No. 157.1217. 1 have 11 fine lot of spring pigs Hirer} by 11111:. ’. "H~._'E. .LIVEBMORE a. SONE‘TRomco Micln .Bltck Price a good can of1 Flack Prices" 3111an T . . .- _ of It mine a 1' :rlmmpion of the world i119.18 Also mm A '7. OR SALE—«,DUROC JEF‘SEYS. BOTH SEX.' from {mkwpcper 6% . [3.223; 0: {v "1’55, 5 SOWSf 3351 231601380 3“?”ng ‘ 8111711111 and fall 1111's. lime scum-11 extra good'F ‘ ‘. . ; or an a son 0 e . (fa ee. 1,1 1,1 1” s1“; “rite 11s a 'r ducen to include pure W 13an 111111 0‘ the - that are sure Humdinzers. '[ ‘ 9 53:1": 1"“ 5 1‘1 lv Dr W l u F- T- ”A 1"" 5‘ LOUIS» M16111; ‘ ‘ HARLEY FOOR a. son R 1. Gfadwln. Mich. T BIG Y? P. c.~'s ‘1 w: HAVE soul: ax; 5131;111:1111 and the 11:31:: Dunno JERSETEStm good bred sons. toy state Come and See or unity- sulc 'mit‘rtl 1-19. .. R 3 St. noun, Mini. .. c. c. DAwls '1. son. Ashiey. M11111. ,. angst efrtreme. beef T‘r’ypoTT for- c‘ mhlmtion beet find ‘ Hill.- - s » 1524 111nm. Come look on over. ,, _ Also 1'1.“ch “open guts. ' . 000 3808.,Ro1nom Mlch. ' ' “woo sows one qilu ma to Welt’s King 82949 rho has sired more prize winning pigs at the state fin rs in the last 2 years than any other Du- roc board. Newton Bunk-.11.. St. Johns.- Mlch. 'cLovzn LEAF STOCK r II 1. 0. 9111111 «L13 Iron sis-cu Al‘o April farrow. Also a few choice service boars. ARM. Mom-cs. moh- BERKSI‘IIRES AM OFFERING SOME HIGH CLASS SPRING DUROG BOARS at reasonable prices . A few gilts bred for Sep‘ ber (arrow subunit: prices. 0 6°04 bred Berkshlre Gllts for April farrow fo ' 350. One Shorthorn bull $125. r1111 Bork- nhire piss 110 and $15 each. Down ram lamb -$35. All above stock ellglble for registry . TAYLOR _ M“. .. Milan. Mich PRIMEVAL FARM, Osseo. 1 “snoowvmw- FARM nemomssv 11063., DEAL TYPE REG. aznxlsmnzs. WE 0"- -'hOl<‘0 boar pigs for sale. ' ' ‘ for choice pigs all ages. either sex. be“ J- E. MORRIS a. SON ,Farmlngton, Mlch. breeding. Satisfaction mmrantccvl. . H. WHITNEY, Merrill, Mlch. For Salk—Reg. Duroc Jersey Weanllng Pigs of good quality and breeding Either sex. Am offming spring gllfs also. VERN. N. TOWNS. R 6. Eaton Rapids. Mich. ””3063 5 Fa" Boar; of Last Sept. Farrow. 200 lb. big stretcmy kind, 4 good. wring boars also tilts of same litters. sired by liberty Defender 3rd. Col. bred dams. 'if you want good boars order at once. Prices $75 to $35. G. KEESLER. Cassopolls, Mlch. UROCS, ANTTHING YOU-WANT FROM: A spring gilt to a. herd boar, at prices you can Afford to pay. Cholera lmmune' Satisfaction cuar‘ sntccd. > C. L. POWER. Jerome, Mich. UROC- JERSEY BOARS. Boar-sot the large. heavy-boned type. at reasonable prices. Write, or better, come and see. F. J. DRODT, R 1, .Monroo, Mlch. REGISTERED DUROG JERSEY September pigs for sale. Prices reasonable. E. E. CALKINS, R8. Ann Arbor, Mich. 0111111111115 [1111511111511 3111131: llerd Boar—Reference only—No. 129219 1919 Chicago International 4th Prize .Ir. Yearling BOOKING ORDERS FALL PIGS AT 325 BLANK 8: POTTER Pottervi He. Mlch. OR SALE—REG. DUROO-JERSEY SPRING ailts bred to Rambler of Sangamo 1st. The boar that siredmur winners at Michigan State Fair and National Swine Show. HEIMS & SON Davlson, Mich. urocs. Hill Crest Farms. Bred and open sows and gilts. Boers and spring pigs. 100 head. ‘l-‘nrm 4 miles straight s. of Middleton, Mlch., Gratiot 00. Newton 6; Blank, Perrinton, Mich. DUROC ' BOARS ‘ F305? P R I Z E umsmd s'rocx ready for service. Geo. B. Smith. Addiq son. Mlch. ' OR SALE: ONE DUROC BOAR FROM Ilroolmater breeding stock. (hoice spring DIES. JOHN CRONENWETT. Carleton, Mlch. Dunes-JERSEY SERVICE BOARS. $50. 00 line 99.1 3 lel pigs 1,000 lb. herd 108. S“ lll III I I: ll, Mich. boar. \\ eidman, FOR SALE DUHOC SPRING BOARS. SOWS 11111 gilts of all ages. Write us your wants. EntJre ln-rd double immune. JESSE BLISS & SON. Henderson. Mich. 'WE OFFER A FEW WELL-BEE!) SELECT- etl spr 11g Dun:- lloxrs. talso bred lo“ and Film in Imsn'l. all or wri McNAUGHTON a FORDYCE. 81.. Louis. Mlch. MICHIGAN ounocs. WE CAN FILL vopfl wmts. Several lines of breeihng represented including The Great Sensation. Ssh..- fnction guaranteed. 0. I”. Foster, Pavilion, Mich. 0. l. C. 11156 11111115111111: scans 115on FOR 5:11111c.i1lc service, also Pigs. both 'sn-x. RUSSELL BRO$.. R 3. Merrlll. Mich ARE QUALITY HOGS. BEBKSH'RES “39115.11 11'- ;:5 of the very best blood lines of the breed is our specialty We guarantee to plmm- or nothing stiring. ARIA A. WEAVER Chesanlng. Mlch.. GREGOR.‘ FAR.“ BERKSHIRES FOB profit. Choice stock for sale. Write your wants. W S. Corsa. White Hall. Ill. CHESTER WIIITES ' REGISTERE vicc. Prices right. LYLE V. JONES. Flint. Mlch., R. F. D. No. 5 CHESTER WHITE SWINE. either sex. Bears ready for ser- HAMPSHIRES REGISTERED HAMPSHIRE GILTS ARE NOW ready to ship. Spring boars and fall pigs at 9- bargain. ' JOHN W. SNVDER, H 4, St. Johns, Mlch- BOAR PIGS $15.00 At 8 Weeks Old W. A. EASTWOOD. Chosanlng, Mlch. An Opportunity To Buy ampshires Right We are offering some good sows and gilts bred for March and April farrowing. Also a few choice fall pigs, either sex, “'rite or (all GUS THOMAS, New Lothrop, Mich. SHEEP Put your faith in BETTER BREEDING STOGK For the best in Shropshire and Hampshire rams write or visit KOPE-KON FARMS. s. L. Wino, Prop. Goldwater. Mlch. exhibit at the Ohio and Michigan .‘. 1.0 See our State Fairs. HAMPSHIRE SHEEP A few good yearling rams and some ram lambs left to offer. 25 ewes all ages for sale for fall delivery. Everything guaranteed as represented. CLARKE 'u. HAIRE. West. branch. Mich ANT A SHEEP? Let American Hampshlro Sheep Association send you :1 landv booklet with list of breeders. \\ rite COMFORT A. TYLER, Soc'y. 10 Woodland Ave" Detroit. Mlch. 0. I. C. AND CHESTER WHITE SWINE. ONE choice hour of Prince Big Bone breeding. A big type fellow, priced to sell. Some fall piss left. llro-l~sows nn'l gilts. ' CLARE V. DORMAN, Snover, Mich. 3O HEAD 1*1111‘19‘11111211 o. I. c. HOGS vair l 1 gm; 1J6 hcnj of f' ll pi”. e mars and ired R l’“pms~1 furnished free. VAN ETTEN. Clifford Mlch. 0. I. C.’s June and July boars and open gilts each one s. guaranteed breeder. Recorded and express paid in full for the next thirty days. . BURGESS. Mason, Mlch. o. I. 0. ALL AGES FROM BIG BOAR8,,AGED sous to fill pins. 35 spring gilts, wt 200 to 285. Service boars, none better in the state. \‘1 rite and get acquainted. Registered free. l—2 mile west of depot. TTO‘ B. sCHULZE, Nashville, Mlch. 0R BHROPSHIRE EWES BRED T0 LAMB in March, write or call on . ARMSTRONG BROS., R 3, Fowlarvlllo, Mlch. EdERlNO RAMS FOR SALE.v GOOD BIG- b‘nerl. heavy shearers. - HOUSEMAN BROS . R 4. Albion. Mlch. OR SALE—REGISTERED OXFORD DOWN Rams 21ml liwvs. l‘ricvs to sell. JOE MURRAY 0. SON. Brown City. Mlch_, R 2 PET STOCK FOR SALE, FLEMISH GIANT RABBITS. DOES, breeding age, $6 Three months old pair, $5. Registered does 312 each. Stock pedigreed. Qual- ty guaranteed. E. HIMEBAUGH. Goldwater. Mlch. 1111511111: rurs TW°‘ mm °L from registered stock Pedigrees furnished. Maze flne watch dogs to homes and poultry. Males 815. Females $10 R. G. Kl REY, R 1, East Lanslng, M'nh. 1;. .. name. J. CARL Jawsrr, O. I. C.BOARS Choice individuals; shipped to you c.,o. d. express paid and guaran— teed right or your money refunded. All stock registered in buyer’s - MASON, MICH- “SCOTCH COLLIE PUPPIES” SPECIAL'HOLIDAY SALE Two months old, Sable and White pedigreed Collies, also a few Shep— herd puppieshall bred- from farm traine‘d stock that are natural heel ~drivers; fifteen dollars ($15. 00) to? quick sale; send check in first let- ter, all stock guaranteed. BATH CITY KENNELS Dr. W. Austin Ewalt 11101»me SIM Bax'rsu's right leg ' waits in temporary retirement under 'a_ One Iiampfihil'd , Tfrom the use of layer of arnica-sdak'ed bandages. He regarded the injured member with a. glint of rueful humor and spake thus to a. neighbor who had dropped in for a chat with the cheer- ful invalid. ‘ “Bert, tell me somethin’. How can . a tailor tell when a, mean while mule named Anarchy is goin’ mean, how can he tell in time to do him any good?” “Human knowledge goes no furth- er than to say that a white mule is ALWAYS goin’ to kick. Is that the answer? Then let me ask you a. question: How do you know wheth- er to buy your ‘feeder’ steers in the fall or in the spring?_ Do you make anything by feeding the: in the winter, and will you make more if you let the other feller fee'l 'em thru? They cost more in the spring than in the fall. Is there any way to be certain?” ’ - Sim admitted that the thing was past his comprehension and confess— ed that he sometimes did the thing one way and sometimes the other, but that he never knew just how he was Coming out. No Hard and Fast Rule In reality, 'as to the time to buy stockers or feeders, there is no, hard‘ and fast rule. The usual time is in the fall when they must leave the grazing areas and go where feeds have been harvested or stored for cattle feeding, In the spring when everyone with grass for grazing wants them, cattle are higher than in the fall, usually enough’higher to pay for the wintering. HOwever, with a falling market, which no one can foretellwith any degree of cer- tainty, the cattle may not be worth enough more in the spring to pay for the Winter feeding. Yet they have been kept largely on feed for which there is no other market; Consequently, what, Sim and his neighbor should know is how much, it costs to keep stockersthrough the winter on various rations, how they lose or gain weight, and how they gain through the. summer as a result of the way they have been wintered. Being in a better position to carry on feeding experiments to answer these questions than the cattlemen, the tion work by the University of Missouri College of Agriculture has shown: That the proper use of supplement- ary foods like tankage, linseed oil meal or Wheat middlings increase profits derived from swine feeding. With corn worth $1.20 per bushel, a ton of tonkase saved corn to the value of $203,64—1ikewise, a ton of linseed oil meal was worth $113.80 and wheat middlings $45 80 That fattening hogs gained— 23 per cent faster on a ration of corn and middlings than on ,corn; 32 per cent faster on a .ration of corn and linseed oil meal on corn’ alone; 32.6 per cent faster on a ra- tion of corn and tankage than on corn alone; 38.5 per cent faster on a ration of corn and soybeans than on corn alone; 17.6 per cent faster on a ration of corn and germ oil meal than on corn alone. That fattening swine cent faster when 'Self f'e hand fed the same ration. That self fed' hogs require no more feed to produce a given amount of gain than when hand fed. Hence the practice can be recommended as a. method of decreasing labor. That when each. feed is placed in a separate .self feeder. the hogs will Choose the different feeds so 'that EXPERIMENTAL and demonstra- ain 7.4‘per than when “the gain Will be both rapid and eco- nomical That the saving of grain resulting pasture crops is from 20 to 50 per cent. The kind of, forage crops best adapted for hos pastures by show» but to kick? I ' _ the United States gorernmen Bureau of Animal Industry, co—o ating with the West Virginia Exnofl’,‘ 111th Station, conducted a series ,1: feeding tests in Greenbrier Count; West Virginia. gan December 22, 1914, and covered a period of fOur years, the resultsif now being published in Department 1" Bulletin 870.. Details of the Tests In brief, 30' yearling steer-Q were", selected each year and divided into, 3 lots of 10 steers each.- When the lots were carefully equalized, the average weight of the animals was 663 pounds each. The steers were on winter rations an average of 1303’ days, and on pasture an average of 158 days each year. _ The tests proved that an average daily ration of 19.8 pounds of silage, 5 pounds of mixed hay, ‘ and 2.5 pounds of wheat straw during the, winter would maintain these steers without: loss of weight. . , An averagedaily ration of 23.1 pounds of corn silage, 4.9 pounds of ‘ wheat straw and 1 pound of cotton- seed meal would give each steer an average gain of 62 pounds. A daily ration of 11.9 pounds of mixed hay and 4.1 pounds of wheat straw fed throughout the winter Will not keep the animal in good condi- tion. This ration was responsible for .a loss of 35 pounds per steer. Corn silage gave better results than dry roughage alone, and the steers that had silage as a part of their winter ration made greater total gains than those fed on.ha,y and straw. The cost of feed averaged through- out the four years was as follows: Corn silage ......... . .$6.00 Mixed hay .............. .18.00 Rye hay ..... . . . ...... 18.00 Soy bean hay . ............ 17.00 \that straw ............... 7.00 Cottonseed meal ........... 50.00 The bulletin records feeding tests that will be extremely valuable to the fa rmers of Pennsylvania, Ohio, \Vest Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee and the adjacent states, and for them, it" does much to answer the question that puzzled Sim and his friends. The bulletin may be had on application to the United States Department of Agriculture, at Washington, D. C.\ 'SOme Facts for the Pork Producer Bluegrass produced 324. 6 pounds of pork per acre. Clover produced 567. 7 pounds of pork per acre, Rape and out forage produced 414.6 pounds of pork per acre. Sorghum forage produced 275 pounds of pork per acre. Cowpea forage produced 275 lbs. of pork per acre. ’ Soybean forage produced 117.6. pounds of pork per aerc. Rye grain forage produced 211.7 , pounds of pork per acre. PUREBRED BREEDERS DISCUSS ' TRADE -WITII SO. AMERICA Representatives of 29 horse, cattle, hog and sheep breeding associations attended a conference called by George M. Rommell of the United States De- partment of Agriculture at Chicago, Jan. 4th, to promote eXport trade in purebred live stock with Latin Amer- ica. The conference listened to reports by E. Z Russell and L. B. Burk of, the federal bureau of markets, re- ,1: cently‘ returned frOm a trip to Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile,.where “ - they. made an exhaustive survey for the United States government. stated that all the Latin American countries could absorb considerable numbers of North American purebred stock especially hogs, and gave a (le-' tailed account of the prospects in each country. . D. S. Bullock of Wiscbns'in, recon 1y appointed live stock commissioner. flit Buenos Aires, made a lengthy ment shawm'g that Lani The experiments be: , .. They ‘ ' ’.—v an: MICHIGAN mm :prlcés paid- the farmers during . week cndl Jan. 8th as follows: EAT: Lyerfiofge 31.57 ; hi host. Battle Creek, 3.76;.West, Ca lilac. 9144. C. RN. ye» ,‘shelled. 74 8—40; in est. Cad- illac. 4c: lowest, Midlan‘ c c. OATS: Ayerage. 46120;,hi heat, _ lilac, Lake,- «, View and ‘Williams urg. 505:; lowest, rFowlerr: 88c- RYE: Average. 81.82 1-2c, . highest. Fowler. $1.5 lowest, $1.20, :“BEAN : Average'ger owt., $3.33 8-4c; highes Cadillac, '.50' lowest... Lake— vlew. 8.25,’ POTATOES: Average, per bu.. 60' hi host. Cadillac, 61c: lowest. Fr sic. HAY: Average, baled, 825,75; highest, Cadillac and Battle Creek $27: lowest. Williamsburg, $24. : Average, 16 Z—ucyhighest, Fowler 21c: lowest, Cadillac, 14c. BUTTER: Average. 43c; highest, Cadillac. 47c; low- est. Frederick and Midland, 40c. EGGS: Average, 67c; highest. Battle Creek and Cadillac, 65c; lowest, Lakeview. 50c, BEEF STEERS rAverage 7 1-10c; high- est Fowler, 8 1-2c, lowest. Lakeview. 6c. EEF COWS: Average, 4 3-4c' highest, Fowler and Battle Creek, 50; lowest at Lakeview, 3c, HOGS. Average, live ,welght, 8 1-2c; highest, Battle Creek I I Foivler, and Lakeview, 9c; lowest, Mid- - the hospital—C. L. and some, buyers have closed up, , 'Meview are to , ‘ .a day because ‘the Intel-urban is hurting. . - their trader—G. B. W.,~Lakeview, Jan. 7. land. 7c. CLINTON—At the 'Clintcn Co, Wool Growers’ meeting. called by the farm bureau it .was resolved that the lower grades of our wool at Lansing should be worked up into blankets. robes and sweaters and nearly all' members pres- ent favored to pool_ again this year. Quite an open winter out..here_ Farmers - are selling live stock but only very little wheat and oats is marketed at present. Not. much building done last year but there will be more this year as prices of lumber, cement and other materials will be considerably lower, Wheat acre- age is lOWer thah last year and stand. not ‘nearly 'so good. There was much, fall plowing done ——T. B_. Fowler. Jan, 10. GRAND TRAVERSE—Weather is fine; had a little flurry of snow but it is quite awrm again. now. Farmers are cutting wood and doing chores; Nothing much being sold here. There was a. fire in Traverse City last night: it burned part of the Wilhelm b‘cck_ The cause of' the fire being the explosion of the furnace. There were two deaths ,one a young girl of Rapid City, Miss Leona Aye, and the other an old resident of the country, Mrs. -Patrick Dockery. She lived in the building with her daughter, Three fire- men were seriously hurt, They are in 13., Williamsburg, Jan, 7. . MIDLAND (El—Farmers are cutting and hauling wood. [We have had rain but. it is colder now. The snow has al- most entirely disappeared. It is hoped that the weather will remain as it is for some time. The soil is in such a state that it would not be impossible to plow. Farmers are flooding the market with beans at $3_35 per cwt, There is no market for either hay or potatoes, Dur- ing this warm period everyone appears to be laying in a supply of wood for -fut- use use—«C, L, H.. Midland, Jan_ 6. -~.’ALCONA—Nothing much doing on farms just now; some are getting wood and quite a few are working on the road_ Weather is fine. Prices of all farm pro- ducts are low but if the prices of, other things were down accordingly we would be quite happy. Some farmers are suf- fering at the present time with the after results of too much credit in the past. Nothing much being sold off the farm but everybody has plenty to eat and I' guess are all right—D. 0., Lincoln, Jan, , CRAWFORD—.Farmers are busy cut- ting wood and doing chores_ As the wea- ther has been warm for the past week it means cold weather soon. There is no sale for anything the farmer has to sell at present, only eggs and butter, There are some farmers who have lots of po— tatoes to sell but they can’t get an offer on them, Some got returns a, week ago for a carload that brought them 350 per bushel—A, H,, Frederic, Jan. 5. CALHOUN—Farmers are busy cutting wood, fixing fences and doing odd jobs, The weather is warm. Soil is in' fine ,shape' and grain is looking good. There is no building going on. Some hay and oats going to market. Holding potatoes for more money and they are going down every day. The milk producers are hav- ing a time with the T, B. test, They are throwi out lots .that are no’t af- fected—0,}. 3., Battle Creek, Jan, 7, WEXFO‘RD—Snow‘ has gone down to such an extent that sleighlng is bad. The hills are bare, Good .time for wood cutting and a number of farmers are im- proving the time, Our prophet, Mr, Axln Morgan of Cherry Grove twp, says an open winter and two weeks’ sleighing is all We would have, so the rumor goes, Mr. Morgan hits it pretty close—S, H. 8., Harrietta, Jan, 7, . MIDLAND—~A few 01 ,the farmers are shredding corn and baling hay. The- wreatber is certainly fine for the month of January_ ~Not much snow on the ground. Some of the farmers were plow- mg. 'Some oats and beans going to mar- ket; Some of the farmers are holding beans for higher prices, Not much build- ing isbeing done. A few sales are being auctidned.-—-J_ H. M, Hemlock. Jan, 8 . MONTCALM-fi-The farmers are cutting wood and clearing land, The weather is fine; the frost in out and farmers can ‘stnm 1). Farmers are holding potalttoes is reported that the four trains a day to be dropped down to two , ALM‘—-FaMers are hauling warm and pleasant, Lots . _ g sold-at a‘very low . c holdingvpotatoes Tm! t Jan. Special crop mot-respondents report that.“ . ties. cod: and hauling potatoes. . R. '13.. M rewrruicka meat for so (ate and th f’Ari‘i'mal Husbandry. Division are deficient. -’ ,. _ ' eon} Missouri is pushing a farmers' co- operative elevator campaign. at O' O' A Utilities Department; carrying on work similar to that of the Mich- igan Trafilc Department, has been organized in California. It 0 * Because of a slack market and ’ prevailing low prices the Illinois Ag- ricultural AssOciation is seriously contemplating having blankets and woolen goods made from wool in their pool for distribution to farm~ ers. Illinois has .asked Michigan Farm Bureau for the results 0.: ex- periments which have been made in this state along the same line. 1 t O Seven counties in Ohio have or- ganized on the county wide basis for the marketing of livestock. The Farm Bureau Federation Marketing Department has organized livestock shipping associations in fifteen coun- Work is reported to be pro- gressing successfully. The executive committee has authorized the placing of a man upon the Cleveland, Cin- cinnati and Pittsburgh yards to rep- resent the interests of the livestock marketing “companies at these mar— kets. ' c t :- Four thousand farmers in north- western Ohio are now organized with a view to getting a square deal for sugar beet growers. Fifteen coun- ties were represented at a recent meeting at which state officers were elected. : t t C A Georgia Farm Bureau is getting started. Its slogan is “Safe Farm- ing” and they are taking up the eco— nomic as well as the educational side of agriculture. O O t The co-opera‘tive livestock ship- pers of Iowa and the Iowa Farm Bu- reau Federation have formed a defin- ite afliliation. All other cooperative shipping associations are to be in- vited to'join. A secretary is to be employed who will be working under the Secretary of the Farm Bureau Federation. The management of this department of work was vested in a joint committee of three men from each association. O t it “Ours will not be a speaking con- vention” announces the Missouri Farm Bureau, speaking of its annual meeting on January 19. Michigan State Farm Bureau has also an-. nounced a similar purpose. Solu~ tion of problems was considered bigger than listening to Verbose or— ators. Missouri is planning to raise its membership dues. FINAL ESTIMATES SHOW LARGE CROP SHORTAGE (Continued from page 3) urers who have loudly proclaimed that their 1920 tonnage would ex- ceed the 1919 tonnage. The official estimate for 1920 is 1,106,000 com— pared with.1,205,000 tons in 1919, or a decrease of about 100 thousand tons. We look for a still further re— duction in this estimate -when the beet slicing campaign is concluded. It will be noted that allthough the Michigan production is less than a year ago, the total for the entire country is considerably larger, due primarily to the fact that in the great sugar beet producing sections of the west the manufacturers paid the farmers enough to make it profitable for them to grow the crop. In near- ly all instances western farmers will receive a minimum of $12 per ton for their 1920 crop, but there is‘ no possibilitythat’f the farmers of this . state will receivamore‘ than their guaranteed minimum of $10. > . " ,llke‘the E. B. Egyvery much and” ‘We. ., , hope you?” keepxpegginz away till the“ garnaexit. getfs. decent téfaatmentu Yoelés or e er arming con , ons,.—G_ ;. . . HarLMich. . -. E‘ " Please renew my subscription for 3 years as ‘I would be lost without good. old .M. _B- 1“. Keep the good, Work up.“- w A nice for 18 time; 'or longer. it In type. and proof and q Advertising Department. Mt. " was. f DIRECTOR. I m/ " e'uFInccm' 6" under thin finding at dvcrt n, Write out who: you have to one PM by return mail. Address The Michigan Business Fm. ‘ Clemeno. Michigan. 4 \ . 80 cents per lino. Mllwp. 1 8M! odor and and n in. we will out It will pay you in se- lecting Chicks for the coming season to consider the unlit of our “Pure, Brod Practical Poultry We will send {limb our 112:“ spring catalog, w c exp no this breeding. Also the Cat.- - clog tell: how to brood your Chicks “1%“!!qu ; it de- scribes our High JCIBSG Egg Leghorn: And All Standard Breeds Both Chicks and Hatching Eu: from all breeds cuaranteed. and delivered post paid. ‘ STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION Kalamazoo. Michigan MUD-WAY—AUBH-KA FARM offers young stock and a few mature. breeders in White Chinese Geese. White Runner Ducks and “bite Wyandottes. Also 0 I. 0. spring alltl. \I rite today for prices on what you need. DIKE C. MILLER. Dryden, Mich. WHITE CHINESE GEESE, WHITE PEKIN ducks, R. C. Br. Leghorns. Place orders early. MR8. CLAUDIA BETTS. Hillsdalo. Mich. ORPINGTONS AND LEGHORNS Two great breeds for profit. Write today for free catalogue of hatching one, baby chicks and breeding stock. CYCLE HATCH-ER COMPANY. 1‘8 Phllo Bldg. Elmira. N. Y. caller-en a. Hons, Lechorns, Mlnorcas, Houdans. Reds, Rocks, Orpingtons, \Vyandottes‘. TVRONE POULTRY FARM. Fenton, Michigan. ’ LEGHORNS LADY DID 317 EGGS INmONn—vEAR 536$ CHICKS FOR By Hatching Parcel Post 100 pet can! Safe Arrival fertility guaranteed submit t e e ( Send for Send for our big Our Big catalog catalog S. 0. WHITE LEGHORNS We have the world’s greatest layers. You can have them too. If you get our eggs, Chicks or stock. There is big money in poultry if you have heavy laying stock. Send today for o 1' big free instructive catalog. It gives prices f0 eggs, chicks and stock and much other information. Send for it today before placing your order else- where. PURITAS SPRINGS POULTRY FARM Box E111, Berea, Ohio s. . WHITE LEGHORN COGKRELS. FEHHIS strain. Fine big sturdy fellows. ’l‘li best breeders that money will buy. Only $3, IH $5 and $6 each. Guaranteed to please. That‘ the way I do business. Unrelated blood for old customers. A. F. STEGENGA, Portland, Mich. RABOWSKE 8. C. WHITE LEGHORN COCK- erels for sale. only $2.50 each and up. LEO GRABOWSKE. Merrill, Mlch., R. 4 0R 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 B. LEGHORN COCKERELS FROM EX- . cellent laying strain. Prize winners at Sug— lnaw Fair, $1.50. A. McKeage, R4, Hemlock, Mich C. BUFF COCKERELS. EXCELLENT LAY- ing stock, $3.00 each. WILLARD LINDSEY, Otscgo, Mich. .__—-—/ WYANDOTTE liver Laced Golden and White Wyandottes. Choice breeding stock our specialty. Let us furnish your-good cunkercls. ’ BROWNING. R 2. Portland. Mich. HITE WYANDOTTES. 200 egg hens or better. $5 to $8. Eggs $2 per 15. FRANK DELONG. R 3. 'PLYMOUTH Fox SALE—45 BARRED ROCK Fungi-s $2.50 each. One cockerel, $5. Miss MARGARET wuom. Remus, COOKERELS FROM May and June hatch. Three Rlvcrs. Mich. ROCKS Mich. ROCK COCKERELI PARTBIDGE sale at 83 and 84 70“ Wm. cmsmoas, n z, Middleton. Mich. UnN's‘ BIO BEAUTIFUL BANNED ROOKI are hen hatched, grow quick, good layers. [Sold an approval, 84 to $8 each. Circulars. Photos. . JOHN NORTHON, Clare, Mich. COCKERELB AND PUL- BAHHED nocxslcu bred from Detroit and Boston winners. Low . So action guar- anteed. TOLLEB BR08., R 10, St. Johns, Mich. HIGH BARRED ROCK COCKERELB FROM strung producing strain. These will make breeders next year. 33.00 each. MR8 PERRY STEBBINS, Smnac, Mich. ARRED ROCK COCKERELB and a few Pul- lets $8.00 apiece. ' ~ Mrs. W. A. Eastwood, Chmnlno, Mich..'R. 2 BARHED ROCK COCKERELB, BRED FROM great layers. Bargain prices now. W. C. COFFMAN, R 3, Benton, Harbor, Mich. ' IIIIED ROCK CCCKEHELSJTK nested proven breeding stock, book your chick - and egg orders new. Large illustrated catalogue 25c. Stumps {or circular. NORMAN POULTRY PLANT. Chatsworth, Ill. OR ALE—BARRED ROCK COCKERELS. Thompson's Imperial Binglet strain, best early hatobgd, $3. Beet later hatched, $2.50. Oth- ers s . A. D. NELSON, Wheeler, Mich. PULLETS. HENS. COOKER- WHITE ROCKS. els. Flock culled and approved by E. C. For- man, poultry extension specialist of M. A. C. ROBT. E. KNIGHT, New Baltimore, Mich. RHODE ISLAND REDS HITTAKER'B R. I. REDS. MICHIGAN'S Color and Egg Strain. Both combs. Cock- erels, Chicks and Eggs. ,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 Black and White. llave some cockerels for sale. as in season. DR CHAS. W. SIMPSON Wobbcrvlllc. Mich. BRABJHAS UREBRED LIGHT BRAHMA COCKERELS Write for prices and description. MRS. E. B. WILLETS, R 1. Deadlng, Mich. TURKEYS IANT BRONZE TURKEVS. STRONG, VIOOR- ous birds. Write at once for {all prices MR8. PERRY STEBBINS. Saranac. Mich. 0R SALE. MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS Write for prices. Forest View Farm. MRS. H. D. HORTON, Fillon. Mlch. 0R SALE—BOURBON RED TURKEYS. Write for prices MR3. GEO. HULLIBERGER. Saranac, Mich. IFOH SALE BOURBON RED TURKEYS. THOS. G. GALLAGHAN, Fenton, Mich. WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS WHITE AFRICAN GUINEAS 80 acres of them. Reference (3/ ll. Professor Poultry, Mich. Agricultural Farm for sale. Whltcomb Turkey Farm, Burgess, College. Byron Center, Mich. BABY CHICKS BABY CHICKS 350,000 for 1921 Our 17th season. Chicks sent prepaid. Safe delivery guaran- tccd. Leghorns, Rocks, Reds, An— conas, Wyundottes, Minerals. Utility and Exhibiting quality at very reasonable prices. Catalog and price list free. 20th Century Hatchery, Box 5 New Washington. Ohio INGLE COMB BUFF LEGHORN BABY Chicks. Order now for spring delivery. Prices reasonable. Safe delivery guaranteed. J. w. WEBSTER, Bath, R 2, Mich. THE SEASON FOR baby chicks and grown birds. " the entire state. P '1 Ad ‘ ° ou try . vertismg IS HERE Don’t depend on your local markets to sellyyour hatching eggs. . , Putting your offering before the prospective buyers. of the en- tire state means better prices and a better market. ‘ .' ' By placing your’ad. hill. ‘13. F.’s poultry directoryxyou cover START YOUR ,AD [N M. B. r. Now. a s5}: 2-; 3‘ «injure f» -2u¢;-;,,-* gage-is a; _ p _ I _, a, . ...,_,. , l""11fort and cow clean- ’TI—i-E JAMES WAY E .1 fl. l1 9 trusses for 100-fl. barn like this requires % Which is the s 6354 board feet. At $60 per M—$381.24 Mistakes on paper are easily rectified and build- ings on paper are readily moved. Once built, changes . can be made only at great expense. It pays to plan a remodeling job or a new dairy barn, on paper, before the foundation is dug, before the carpenters come, before actual work is begun. The dairy barn is your factory, your workshop in use al— most daily throughout the year. If it is not built right, if it is not correctly planned, it may lose you money every day. Wrong location of posts, inconvenient arrangement of feed bins and feed rooms, incorrect arrangement of carrier track- : ing or stalls or pens, or the wrong designing of the hay loft, may compel you to take more steps, do more work and pay out more money for help each day during the life of the barn. Save Work Daily — A silo or a door in the wrong place, poor arrange- mentofequip— ment, venti- lating intakes or outtakes i m pro‘p e rl y installed, mis- takes in size .in stall floors, gutters, pas- sages and alleys—even these smal- ler errors may be a source of , daily expense and annoyance. A barn correctly designed and built right in every detail is a constant money maker because it is a constant money saver. If rightly planned, cow A chain is no atronzer than its weakest link. ‘ timber is no stranger than its tenon. lSave Building Costs liness may be assured; plenty of light, abundant ventilation and easy disposal of litter will be provided; floor space will be used to best ad- vantage; and all the chores made easy. In many a case, careful plan- ning has cut barn work squarely in half. What a barn will cost depends in no small degree on the care with which it is planned in advance. It is no uncommon thing to see a man with the “Know how” build a barnat 20% to 30% less cost than be tter way? Tv‘rIcAL TIMBER FRAME CONSTRUCTION another, although the barn accom- modates the same number of cows. And the man with the “Know . how" gets a handsomer building, ’ more convenient and better. How to Get the Low Bid , Regardless of who designs the barn it is well to submit the final plans to several contractors, getting bids from each. ' By having as many sets of blue prints and specifications as there are contractors figuring on the barn, ‘. you can safely let the contract to the lowest bidder. You get the low price, and the successful bidder binds himself to give you the same workmanship, construction and materials as those who bid higher. You hold him to the blue prints and specifications. National Clearing House of the Best ‘Barn Ideas To help our customers and others get the best barns possible, we, years ago, established the James- way Barn Plan Service under direct supervision of Mr. W. D. James, known as. the leading dairy barn authority in the U. S. Associated with him in this de- partment is an architect and engi- James Wenu/c'zetufing 00mpany. cj‘orzr.//t}ez'rz.son.‘lesc’onsz'n 7n 9 trusses like this requires 11,394 board feet at $80 per M--$91 1 .52. A difference of $530.29 neer of unusual experience in ven- tilation, reinforced“ concrete, steel work and structuraldesign. Another architect with many yeah; . of. experience in planning, building and remodelling of dairy barns, a large; force of skilled barn designers and draftsmen, and ham experts in charge 'of divisions of th - field force, complete-the office stafi. In the field, are Emore than sixty men who practically every day are consulted by farmers on remodeling and other barn problems, drawing preliminary ' plans and reporting new ideas and unusual conditions. For years, Mr. James and these associ- ates, have studied dairy barns—how to best remodel; construction, lighting, ven- tilation, drainage; how barns should be arranged for labor-saving. Every year they plan or help to plan thousands of dairy barns. ‘ The experience and help of these men is yours for the asking. No charge is made excepting when complete plans and speci- fications are ordered. Barn Book Free Much of their experience and the best of their ideas are contained in a 320-page book which will be sent postpaid on request. In addition to 28 pages of blue prints, 62 pages of pictures of barns in all sections of the country and many pages on barn plan- ning, ventilation, remodeling, etc., this 'book tells all about James inventions that save so much of labor, prevent spread of disease, promote better cow health, make simpler the care of calves and sick cows, pro- tect against dangerous bulls, and increase milk yields. Write us now. Tell us what barn problems are bothering solve them. If you want the book, ash you; perhaps we can help " for Jammy Book No.40. ' j