An Indepefidenk
Farmer’s Weekly Owned‘and
Edited in Michigan

MT. CLEMENS, bAl‘URI AY, I.‘EBRUARY 26, 1921

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labor in rushing to completion the great buildings, with, theif 'equip- _'
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and independent packing plant. . 2 y - _ ‘ > V
Fortunatelf, We did not—get W811 under way with our Econstruction‘work
before brick, cement and lumber had begun to Come dowfiih priceand we fig-
ure today that we are Saving at least 40 per cent on most 0f the material’which
goes into construction over what it would cost us in the market of one year ago.
Our labor is also considerably lower and in this great metropolis, which issuf—
fering from unemployment we have no trouble in picking good 'men'to do this.
work, who are willing to give an honest dollar’s worth of work for every dollar,
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I'd" LANSFOR a farmegjpwned national mar-
 ‘ :flk-e’tingr‘; association; to-ihandle the” surplus
 grainircmps of theUnited States Were adopted
last week at Kansas City. The new grain mar-
v 'keting plan, in the opinion of the committee
"  of the grain marketing experts whohave
.37 been consultedb'y the Farmers2 Marketing
,  7! ' _;Comm"ittee. bf . 17, ":Will . eliminate Waste in dis-
 tribution, iprévide fer  marketing and
 » ,‘I‘morestable priccs,ai1dfladdj‘materially to the
.-  met, returns to, the grOWer Without increasing
,"the‘ price. to the consumer.  V ‘ V --
”  Grain I selling will ' be concentrated in the
‘ ' handsof a “national sales ass0ciation, Iwith
' membersihip and veting control limited to ac-
_._-,;'gtt-rfal grain growers. ' This sales association will
-v . 5.1 establish bradch sales (offices at all principal
,‘grain markets, including seats on boards of
 'V trade if that is found to be desirable. It will
 1 gas; ' establish a. complete system of gathering and
 ,i, I interpreting statistics of world conditions, af-
  ‘fc‘cting supply. and demand. It willprovide
 3' "-‘adec'mate means, for financing orderly grain
77 ' marketing through a-subsidiary finance corpor-.
" ation. A subsidiary warehousing corporation
_ Will'provideterminal and district warehouses ,
‘  With clearing and conditioning machinery. An
 corporation, also raj, subsidiary of the
_ national sales association, will find foreign out-
, g, lets-fer surplus grain. All money received for
 grain, less operating and handlingecsts; will
4 j . be returned to the‘gro‘ycrsn ‘_ ‘ h ,
iv  Ersting'farmers’ elevator companies which
l-W'havc done so much“ Valuable 'pioneér. work in;
 Iced-Operative grain marketing willbe' made our
sjl'iiutegtral -part_’of the new marketing, system.
 " " The best features :of all Sumo! ctr-opera-

tive marketing companies have been included
in the new marketing plan, in the opinion of
the committee. The plan makes no attempt
to put grain marketing on at once on a nation-
wide pooling basis, but provides means for the
development and extension of a pooling as ex-
perience proves itsg'adaptability to the grain
business. ’

There are threefundamental elements in the
proposed grain marketing system: (1) The
grain grower. (2) The local co-operative ele-
vator company or grain growers’ association.
(3) The central sales association.

The term “grain grower” includes any per-
son who raises grain, and any land owner who
receives all or part of his rent in grain. .To
become a member of the proposed grain mar-
keting organization, the grain grower must do
two things: (1) Join the National Sales As—
sociation, paying the membership fee, which
will probably be $10 for a five-year member-
ship. (2) Sign a contract to deliver all his sur-
plus grain to the local elevator company or
grain 'growers’ association, for a period of five
years. ’

. The surplus grain of the members in a given
locality may be handled in any one of three
ways, these members to. decide by three-fourths
.vote the plan to be followed: (1) It may be
pooled. In such cases the directors of the el-
evator company or grain growers’ association
'- will sell the grain at such time as seems most
advantageous, and at the expiration of the
pooling period, will return to each grower the
,average price, received for the. grain of his
kind, variety and grade’ less cost of handling.
Pools may. cover any period of time up to one

   
 
   
   
     
    
    
  
 
 
 
     
   
  
 
 
    
   
  
     
    
 
  

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to St. Clair county is noteworthy. After two
years of rather preparatory work Mr. Brody
got the-idea across, despite the large invest-
ment involved. Today’more than 600 acres are
tile drained and their productivity is greatly
increased. That total is growing steadily.
While the expensiveness of the tiling work
dampened the early enthusiasm, the county
has recognized Brody’s work ‘by the appdint-
ment of a county tiling engineer under the

l I, DARK L. BRODY, one. of the strikingly
 ’1 successful agricultural organizers in
'  fi-Miehigan, and deanof thestatc’s cbunty agri. .
1  iiycnltnralgagents, “Whig.,iwasjéppointed secretary
i, ‘- 6r¢ait3Michigan stats; ram .B‘ureau by the
 executive committee, ,- sitting" at Lansing .Fri-
ffday,)of last week comes .tothe ,organitation from ~
, jSt," Clair, county with a long record, ofiunp‘rec-
, oriented success in rural. develOpement' and or-
 ganization, says the state » farm bureau. He
.  «has‘just'complcted 'six' years , service as St.
f'.""t~':~_ClaEr ‘cmtnty ’s agricultural agent, and of him
/ ' .Lhe farm bureau, says:  ‘
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N I . Reward of Crop Diversification
organization of

i . . N THE PRICE decline of their products

 f  '- 2335.0 St: Clan" countY_fa_rmers 311130 23 co'op‘ I during the latter half. of 1920, farmers

5:; ‘ » r crative marketing associations, ninety per cent in'jmogt of the upper Mississippi Vaney

 3   of whom he made farm bureau members; for states and in some or the states east of Tex-

ri’; :" * ' ' - " 7 ' ‘ s suffered more severe] than elsewhere.
. L,  raising the number of farmers clubs In his a  Y ,

   county from five to twelve; for the introduc- The value of an "Ops Of 1920’ as detemm'

ed by the Bureau of Crop Estimates, United
States Department of Agriculture, is below
the average of 1914-1918 by 25 per cent in
South Dakota, by 23 per cent in Illinois, by
20 per cent in Nevada, by 19 per cent in
Georgia, by 18 per cent in Minnesota, Iowa
> and Manama, by 17 per cent in North Da-
kota, by 15 per cent in Indiana, by 14 per
cent. ha Nebraska, by 12 per cent in Louis-
iana, by 9 per cent in Mississippi, by 3 per
cent in Ohio, find by 2 per cent. in Missouri.
- my speaking, wheat. corn, and cot-
., predominating crops, caused the
33..th total value of all crops.
‘  flu Wham}, the‘higbest crop values
01" * 7min relation to thafivebym average
' ‘    and. Oregon, some of
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tion. and adoption of tile draining for the flat

lands of. St. Clair, and an energetic disciple

of better things for rural! dwellers,‘—these are

p the high lights on Mr. Brody ’s‘record as the
county agent who has  the longest in
gone county. , . p  - 9   

Mr. Brady’s story is " e of earnest prepare
afion, thorough farm seasoning for “his. future ' l

- work-and (a record of progressive farmins in ‘
 county. He wisborn in St. Joseph

 
    
  
   
   
   
  
  
 
 
   

   

 

 

   

  

  

  

    
   
     
    
   
       

      
   
 

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' . ICOmmitteeo'zf17 Adopts Plans for‘Farmer-Orvned Association to Market Grain

year. (2) It may be sold for the members on
consignment. (3) It may be purchased out-
right from the members by a local elevator
company or grain growers’ association.

The local co-opcrative elevator companies,
which have been so successful in solving the
grain marketing problem locally, are to be re-
tained as a basic part of the new grain mar-
keting system. In order for an elevator com-
pany to become an integral part of this system
however, it must meet the following require-
ments: (1) It must be truly co-operative.
(2) Stock .must be available at a reasonable
price to every grain grower in the territory.
(3) Stock ownership must be limited to grain
growers. (4) Stockholders will probably be
required to become members of the national
sales association.

A reasonable time will be allowed for el'eva-
tor companies to make readjustments necessary
to meet these requirements.

In case an elevator company does not meet
the requirements within the time allotted, and
in localities where there is no farmers’ elevat-
or company, the members of the national sales
association in a given locality will organize
themselves into a local grain growers’ associ-
ation. This association may then provide for
the handling of its grain in any one of the fol-
lowing ways: (1) It may contract with a lo-
cal farmers’ private or line elevator to receive
its grain and load it for shipment for a hand-
ling charge mutually agrecd upon. (2) It
may rent an elevator. (3) It may build or
buy an elevator. ,

The relations of the local farmers’ elevator
company or grain grow- (Continued on page 9)

:{w‘Gl’ark  Appointed Secretary Michigan State Farm Bureau

county farm bureau who is developing the
project to its utmost.

Included in Mr. Brody’s marketing activ-
ities are the separate incorporation of the or-
iginal 23 marketing associations into farm
bureau associations and the establishment. of
four local. markets which dispose of St. Clair
county farmers’ fruit, milk, eggs and cream.

Bidding St. Clair county of tubercular cat-
tle was another activity of this progressive
county agent. Of more than 1,000 cows he
tested in 1920, five to seven per cent were
found to be diseased and were destroyed. St.
Clair county farmers are now trying to get
an expert tester from the state to test every
cow in the county. The Port Huron city com-
mission has recognized Mr. Brody’s work for
better milk by requiring all milk sold in Port
Huron to be tested as to its safety.

Mr. Brody served the farmers well in sup-
plying them with labor. He placed from 125
to 180 men annually and during the war was
agricultural adviser to the county draft board.

Beginning with an appropriation of $1,000
the St. Clair county supervisors have voiced
their appreciation of Mr. Brody ’s work by
each year increasing the appropriation until
111 1920 it had reached $5,000.

Mr. Brody is married and the father of six
children. In the words of one of his associ- .'
ates, a former county agent and one who
worked with Mr. Brody in the state farm bur-
eau organization movement, Mr.‘ Brody is “a
quiet rather reserved man who wears well.
Heinspires confidence wherever he goes and

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Survey: Shows Children
HE CHILD is considered the

“‘raison d’etre” of the family,
Our social unit brought into existence '
and maintained chiefly for its protec-
tion and rearing. In order'to insure.
for it the best of care and an (oppor-
tunity for normal developement, the
family must have the element of 3 sta-
bility and a certain amount of geo-
graphic fixity. \Nediave been accus—
tomed to think of the term “migra-
tOry labor” as applying only to the
individual who, free from family ties
and responsibilities, travels about
from job to job as necessity or will
prescribes. For it stands to reason
that the family man, realizing that
the welfare of his children demands
a more or less fixed habitation is less
apt to try his luck and stake the family bread
and butter on a chance employment. Yet each
year, the early spring season witnesses an ex-
odus of families from the foreign quarters of
industrial centers to rural districts, their des-.
tinations being the cranberry bogs, onion
fields, sugar-beet fields and other sections
where seasonal agricultural work isgcarried
on. Here they remain working during the
summer, sometimes returning to the cities in
the winter. More frequently, however, they
are lost to their original communities, and
their children mysteriously drop out of the
schools. ,

A study of migratory labor in the Michigan
sugar—beet fields was made
by the National Child
Labor Committee with the
aim of learning something
of the conditions under
which the families live
and of the work they do,
.and primarily of determ-
ining the effect of their
migration upon the school
attendance and education
of the children.

Five representative beet
counties were visited: Sag—

inaw, Bay, Tuscola, Hur—
’0n and Shiawasse. One
hundred and thirty—three
beet workers’ families
Were interviewed and the
information obtained revealed the existence
of extensive child labor, lack of educational
provision, a shocking degree of .insanitation
in living quarters, and an exploitation of
adult, “and for the most part foreign labor.

Child Labor and Education
To promote the physical and mental devel-
opement of the child, we forbid his employ-
ment in factories, shops and stores. On the
other hand, we are prone to believe that the
right kind of farm work is healthful and the
best thing for children. But for a child 'to

crawl along the ground, weeding beets in the 9

hot sun for 14 hours a day—the average work
day——is far from being the best thing. The
law of compensation is bound to work in some
'way and the immediate result of this agri-
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tendance. In the 133 families visited there
were about 600 children. Families .With toil
and twelve children are frequently found

While those with six and eight children are the ’
Of course, it’s the large beet ‘

family that does the most work. , .
In .the 133 families interviewed there were
186 children under 6 years of age, their ages
ranging from eight weeks up»;
from 6 to 8 years old, of whom approximately
two~thirds had never attended school; and el-
even over 16 years of age who had never been
to ‘school in America. These beet children be—
long almost entirely to foreign families who
came to America to earn money. There is no
' way of proving

36 children '

‘have to prov'de. for

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,back,"‘rreques‘r-to,return to sch, 1—..A
. Thefsehodl'l authoritiesfail to 'i“
Pup”   beet-workers, , I

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normal for a-child of “'7- to". 8._y_ears,
the second for a child '8 or 9, etc.—'—0n—Vf
1y 28 per cent ’of, the beet children of
compulsory school age attending school

maini-ng, 72‘perpen’t are‘retarded. 
' The school?supergntendent4 of ,Sa‘gi;

naw, ‘a city - serving as?“ the. :Winterfig .
home for many ‘beet-weeder's’ families, 3_sa1d,:, , I
“saginaw is afiecte'd‘by‘the' lateentrance m g  I;
the‘ fall; of ’a-certain,’number of fifamiliesfflwhq;  I
Spend ‘the season out in the .,beet;.fields.' Theses.-.
families leave .the city as early in‘_the spring;
as the work‘calls them, usually the 18.31; of   ,
ril or early, May, depending uponth’e season; 
‘ Two schools are affected by the att‘endancegofw
thechildren of these m'gratory families. ‘7

territory adjoining these schools is alikegi‘n,

this respect—many small cheap dwelling-SJ aid ,1.

The number of children we
at " the Potter school
amounts to one roomfull—varying in differ-

ent years from 28 to 42 pupils. '
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their age other
than the statement
of the parents,
and consequently
they have been
able to elude the
compulsory educa-
tion laws of the
states in which
they“ live. Alto-
.gcther about 15
per cent of the
children of the
‘ ‘ beet families ’ ’
interviewed, had
never attended
school. Many of
the children of the .
6 to 8-year group did not attend school be-
cause they had to take care of their younger
brothers and sisters.
never attended school because he was a men-
tal defective, and a Mexican child of 9 was

practically blinded by cateracts; this young- -

ster was found groping his way down the
beet-rows, pulling out weeds and feeling for
the beet plants—the glare of the sun made
him lose all sense of light and dark.

Of the 340 children who were attending or
had attended school, only four were gradu-
ates; just one had gone on to high school, and
less than one per cent had reached the 8th
Their. failure to graduate was a di-
rect result of the migration of the family to
the beet-fields in the early spring; naturally
when they'return to the city in the fall, the

 
   
 

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Industry requlres
labor for but five
or'slx months In
the year; famll-
lee therefore. be.
gln movlng from
thelcuy ,ln April:
and stay In the
country um hf-
tor the herv 3!. ln
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ember. ‘I'he oh“!!-
no lose approx!-
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weeder - pul- It;
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One 10-year-old lad had *

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is to put them in an _Iun-
fit well into . regular grades

late in October or

:in April or ,May. - I
Only 56 Children

' from the time the investig

“number ‘but 17 had actu-
ally completed ‘the A.gs'ch001
term in the rural schools;
Seventy-two children left
. ._ , school» one month previous
to the investigation and.2_l left school, ' tWo
months befOre» ’
school three . months.__before-'~.-j—'inv ether; words

practically one-third of“ théféhildi‘en of beet-V
weeders lost three whole months of schoolg;'in

the sprin term alone l. Seventeen children,

’ noti” Even when thefchildrendo’ Ire; 
turn to» school 011 the completion Off} g
the beet work'the‘yr are behind in their _
classes. On the two-years graduation
basis, i. e.‘,~taking the first grade as

are;.in their normal grades; the “re?

 

We find the “

graded loom; they may,

‘ as they do not enter until - ..
earlyxv...‘ .
.Noyember, and their par-l '
ents flit. away with them.

left. I;
schoolless’ than a month 7

gation: was made in (the ' ‘L
month of June, and of this a '

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all under 4 years of age, hadnga sighed-sari: 

i but more than thrée1mgheh;§;aggg
fore the investigatiml Wassbegu_n..  — .

By multiplying these attendance figures

to “beets” We get a long-distance view (if what

we may expect from these children as future, 

American citizens. '

‘In sugar-factory toWns, Where many of the 7 '1

beet-workers ,seek factory employment after
the beet season, the educational authorities
have started “beeters’ classes’?-’,——ungraded
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These, illustrations drawn from actual photographs
 mow the difference limestone makes in» the grthh of
-» Nialfa. ?,The large picture'is of a field in which two

~ tons of Solvay Pulverized'Limestone to an ac ‘e have
,~ been used. The circular insert shows an unlimed strip
in, the same field. . " -

Limestone Establishes Alfalfa and Clover

Many Michigan farmers especially in, sections long cultivated are having
great difficulty in getting a good catch of clover or a paying yield of alfalfa.
They are losing their seed and other crops are suffering because rotation is inter-
. fered with, And these are only two out of many crops that are seriously affected
by the lack of limestone. . ‘
,- Lime is, of course, the cure for this condition. Researches by the Michi-
, gan Agricultural College and the U. S Department of Agriculture prove that the
need of lime is much greater than is generally supposed. Over 80% of Michigan
. farm land is “sour” and needs lime in greater or lesser quantit es. ,
' No farmer in -Michigan should wait until an actual crop failure announces
- - _ his farm’s lack of lime. You should know the tests for “sour” land—should
 ;  j: i , . ‘ v  r - r 4a _ ' understand the benefits of limestone applied to sandy soil—to heavy clay soil.
   j . w ' ' , ~' _ '. _ You shou‘d know Whether your land needs lime, how to judge how much to the
  , V h) S BOOk  r ‘ - acre, and should know the probable dollars-and—cents value of limestone for each

    I _ ' 7 _ of the crops you raise on your farm. '

 -- 3TB: v'bojo'k       '-‘;_ ;'¥Ou don’t have to read a dozen .or so technical books and pamphlets to
 35111,:postpaid,  f  sf;    f5...";i"--get’ t’l'nsilnformation. The subject with especial reference to conditions 1n Mich)-
?fl‘“ °°“P°“-Vi  '  igan' today. is thoroughly and interestingly treated in a book we have just
apomafl'L'   g3}:  , r, 7f "   published. We have gathered the facts from the most authoritative sources and
- “ V ‘ I. "  a "f .   . _‘ have "Supplemented them by investigations as to the actual results obtained by

v?1¢.ase send‘cppyéf AGRICULL; .  =-~-'  -. gMichigan farmers on all varieties of Michigan land.
L, /   " " ‘ "  ’ Z 7:f_5__‘_ I  The book is short and interesting, but it gives you in ha‘f an hour an accurate knowledge

 

’ \ this ’vital subject, which will put you in a position to obtain greater yield and greater profits
V  erom your farm'fOr the rest of your life. '

.-     5 ‘    . -_A_RCADIA'N SULPHATE OF AMMONIA
 Strbnger fruit budséeliminates off-year bearing of apple trees—insures good even crops——
" "Wrelmmmical any other ammonia fertilizer—20.75 actual nitrogen content, equivalent
to gazssggmmenia; .. ’ . r -
' . ,» '_  . ',§‘A&¢adian Sulphate of Ammonia and ‘U. S. Potash

 

 

 

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 .,  BEST and most‘ldesirable‘seed pov
' tatoes are grown. from parent took as

nearly as possible, disease free, treated with

Corrosive Sublimate, planted late, in rich
earth where potatoes have not been grown for
,at least six years prior to the time of plant-
ing; the crop properly‘sprayed and 'rogued
and dug while the vines are still green. These
essential features apply to the production of
seed for both late and early planting, and to
all varieties. '

How do we secure disease-free parent stock?
By hill selection and seed treatment. .In Mich-
igan, a hill to pass muster, must show no
| signs of Fusarium Wilt, Black Leg, Leaf Roll,
Curly Dwarf, Spindly Sprout, Mosaic or
other of the numerous potato ailments. Hills
selected for seed should have either three or
_ four main sprouts. The tops should be

strong, vigorous, and of good, but notover—
grown size.

s. The best time to make the selection is When
a some of the tops in the field are beginning to
' die. Select the hills that are still alive and
vigorous. Do not choose hills cont'aining too
many tubers. In a year of normal rainfall
, in lower Michigan they should contain not less
V than six or more than ten potatoes of the
shape and size desired.

Inasmuch as it is impossible to properly
hill—select enough potatoes to plant‘a field of
‘ any size after the hill selection is made, two,’
three, or four years of breeding is necessary
before enough seed can be grownfrom the
progeny of the original selection to plant a
good-sized field. During these years of breed-
”ug, each year’s seed should be band‘sorted

just before planting and all irregular shaped

and undesirable potatoes thrown out. The
seed should always get its bath of corrosive
'sublimate, to eliminate possible black scurf
and scab.
‘ Each year’s crop should be thoroughly
iogued and "all undesirable hills removed from

the field. A selection of seed that is healthy .

1n the beginning, in two or three years will.
begin to show some weak plants; and symp-
toms of disease will make their appearance.
When, after the necessary number of years
of, patient effort, the breeder secures his 200
bushels, more or less, of seed that is practi-
cally disease-free and uniform in type, then
he is ready to plant the fields from which he
will raise a crop of seed potatoes.

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Take-y-Jason’s Advice
.. HE ACCOMPANYING article is the ‘sub-_-
Tetance of a speech which Jason Wood-
man of Paw Jaw,.potato farmer, erst_-.
while county agent, and member of Board.
of Agriculture gave before the annual meet»
in; of the Michigan Potato Growers’ Ass’n
at East Lansing. When .Mr. Woodman talks
about potatOes.—aor anything else for that
mutton—all who are in ear shot listen for
he generally knows what he is talking about.
Mr. Woodman has raised better than 400
bushels of potatoes to the acre on his farm
in Kalamazoo county, which, considering“
the fact that the average for Michigan is
Well under-100‘ bushels, is a pretty fair yield.
‘ Michigan "can grow 'more potatoes to the
‘ acre. She ought to beat any state in 'the-'
union. She can increase her yield by the
planting of better seed. And this article
tells what constitutes good seed and 110w
it can be secured. . Every spud grower,
ought to read it.—Ed.itor.

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If the breeder really means business, he will
not grow his crop of seed potatoes on a field

~where potatoes have been raised within at

least six years; eight er ten years between
crOps is better. Some potato diseases stick in

   

, while, plantingspfthé game, Stock madenf 
\ weeks earlier resulted in .3. crop, containing,,a

, ,. .  imelg
» ‘,._or plants causes degeneration, ofttheibf "

,ohis‘vwater supply... 'In' Michigan, where-53m deg-a.
,‘ pend' on rainfall,-I shouldrsay that a"fiel-dit0'5‘ /
produce the best seed, should be in a consign,

the soil for years and volunteer potatoes in'

Southern Michigan at least will show for two

or three years after a crop is grown, thus pro-

longing the existence of active disease germs

in'the soil. ' - '
Late Planting

The best seed stock is grown in cool weath-
er and dug before the tops are dead. Some
of our potato, diseases, notably
seem to get hold of the tuber about the time
the tops dry up, and generally speaking, the
plants grown from stock dug while the tops
are still green are more vigorous than those
grown from potatoes that have remained un-
dug for days, perhaps weeks, after the tops
have withered up. ,

The southern potato grower sends north for
his seed because experience has taught him to
plant stock that is somewhat immature and
grown in a cooler climate than his own. The
northern seed grower plants late so that his
crop shall fully meet these requirements.

Seed to sell well must be smooth and sym-
metrical in form. Late planting is less liable
to produce irregular shapes than early plant-
ing. In our neighborhood, potatoes planted

(Under Whal Conditions Will Dangerous Gas

ANGEROUS gas may accumulate in
silos under certain conditions. This gas
is carbon dioxide or “002” as the chemists

call it, the same gas which all animals give off I

from the lungs during breathing or respira-
tion. 002 is heavier than air and for this
reason may be found in a more or less dense
. layer just above the silage. It is colorless,
however, so the thickness of this layer 33annot
be seen. The best way to detect its presence
is by lowering a lighted lantern torthe surface
of the silage before anyone is allowed to go
into the silo. If 002 is preSent the lantern
will soo nbe extinguished. Just as the flame
goes out when the oxygen of the air is replac-
nl by this gas, the life of a person is snuffed
out when he has to breathe air heavily charg-
ed with 002. .

("arbon dioxide in. the silo may come from
,two different sources,» (1) from respiration},
01‘ breatliing'processes of the dying plant cells,
and (2) from the microbial fermentation of
sugars and similar compounds of the silage;
’ Ithas been determined, ,however,’ that 'the
'> C02 whichis. occasionally responsible for sea.

‘ den death in silos comes from the first men-U

‘ tioned source, that is,;~‘from the respirationpf
dying-plant .-“cells‘, and not from mlcrobial

   

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READ an article in the Business Farm-
1 er_ some time ago telling how poisonous
gas in a silo 'vcaused the death of two
boys. I would like to know what causes
this gas, why and under what conditions it
will form. How can we prevent its forma-
tion?——P. L., Jackson County, Michigan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

“the leaf ho" persover to yOur neighbor’s'fiel'd, i f ._
fusarium, -

' mixture to your potato crop, and that is to‘ get ‘

. ’   .3,"
Accumu ate in  
' fine pieces and  “in the silo at intervals;
, (Shaw), conditions which would, be met in the 
- daily filling- withaniightly interruptions. " ’

’ gas in the silo, keep the .doors immediately '-

ier than air is retained and collects in' and at”

the surface of the silage. In one silo in which

several deaths'occurred, 38 per cent of. 002 ,

was found in the air. Even in badlycrowded,
and ill—ventilated rooms the percent of .002
seldom reaches 1.5 per cent. It takes about
3 per cent to show an immediately perceptible

effect on respiration, and as much as 5 percent.

' Employed;

must be present before poisonous effects are

produced (Parkes). . .
“The amount of carbon dioxide deveIOp-

ed in a silo' filled with immature corn may

reach .75 per cent-of the .total gasses present”

(Hayhurst and Séottl‘whil‘e ten - per cent.

._ causeswaSphyxia which ‘, is" neually fsitd'den
.(Raliabousek‘). jThemor‘e mature the, corn the r
"“  5.: it sired-"01$;  conditions faves pa
 1315911; for ‘asmaxiinum assistion’bf fears;
ill-1;"  

   

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. ,   ', Elia réofz \fi,ndg--vaid=in_ removing the gasses. by. 
it should be when filled), the 002 being heavér‘

. poorly constructed of any material would

   
 
  

    
 

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large. percentage of “dumb-bells” and other:
irregular-shaped pctatoes. "The same ,' thin ,
happened in 1918 and to, a less. degree in’lglfif'

  
 

   
   

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tion to. grow the
cality. _ I I _. ., _ .
Before I paid an extra price for any  ., 
er’s seed, certified or otherwise, there are two _
things I ahouldmake it my'business to know;  
first,.what was the yield per acre; second, what '
was the rainfall during: the, growing period of
the crap? .I suggest to the seed growerithat , 1
he have a rain gauge and keep a record sixthe ' '
rainfall. In a year of drbuth he  
why he did not get] the maximum yield one
expects in a good year; but'even infa'dry year
if the crop is grown from ‘z‘good  v .' a
“planted in.rich earth,’ l’a fairly» satisfactory

yield can be secured.  . _  " i , ij 
. In 'order‘to control late x'bligh‘t or early 
blight, if either should appear, and to drive]

“maximum yield for 

  
  
 
  
  
 
   
  
   
 
  
   
 
  
 
  
  
 

it is nece sary to spray. If You‘do not know
how to make Bordeaux mixture and make it
the right way, it is the business of your coun-
‘ty agent to see that you. are shown how. Build V _
a potato spraying attachment for your spray- .‘ 
er after the plan shown in Special Bulletin ~ " V " ‘
No. 85 issued by. our Agricultural college.

There is only one best way to apply Bordeaux

       
  
 
 
  
    
 

 

it" on both sides of the leaf and all parts of, ,
the plant; the ,spraying attachment referred *'
to does the business. ' _ ‘ '   ,
Dug‘ Before They are Ripe. 

If your seed stock is free from disease}? ‘
planted late on disease-free soil, and properly
sprayed, the tops will remain green till frost
comes. . Dig them before the stems are. dead
and dry. The potatoes (Continued on. paye‘lfij

To avoid‘ danger'from' the collection of this ,

 

above thelevel of the silage open, or have un- ‘
hinged doors which fall in as the silage settles ,
below them. This enables the air to circulate 

and dilute the gases present; If the silo has. 

  

suction.  The: 002. may  driven 01511; easily . i 
by! usingthe‘ leafy'branch iof, a tree, bunché'ofg 
hay, or by employing the "blower'used in fill: ‘
ing the silo to promote diffu'sion,"but in case of" L
doubtthelighted lantern test Vshould first be 

 
 
   
  
   
  

The material .fromjwhich _'a,,;s,ilo is built will .
not influence the ,afieiimiulat'ibnf'of ‘002. {The-5
ideal silo has'airLtiglit'walls.‘ carbon dioxide;
would-not be apt” t’0.'a<3i3'11m111ate, in dangerous
prbportions in a silo through"whose walls air:-

could pass readily; \ Thus it is seen that a. silo ,

 
  
 
   
 
  

    
   
 

 
 

.cinnulation’ of quantities of".002.‘3  -
. otcdrbbn‘disfide ea
prevented, as 'it.._is-‘  t, "

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" ‘  listener.

' =  seen him there yesterday.”

_ : "quit."
"‘1 r This Was unbelieveable."

 ‘Fo

:A‘UTHO'R animate. mat-tan

is based ' ’ . information

tamed mam an interview with “the '

tare faker” and front personal ob-
  itt‘ion. of: his 'methods of work.
“lithe have decided to passit‘along
 our subscribers to read. We have
 ved many complaints! within the

t “few Months regarding agents for
:p’io‘ture enlarging companies and the
,, methodsemployed in some of the cas-
“ es were very similar to the ones used
in“ this "story. After. you have read
 we hope all will steer shy of any
" lick; chap selling enlarged pictures.
zen-Assooiate Editor. 2

didn’t sell the same. kind of

v- 9 . a. frame to Ted Johnson, my
neighbor just over the ridge, for
Welve dollars less than I paid him/f

.He was angry. Very angry.

'7 I"‘was in a community where most

4‘“  ND IF THE 'blamed hound

”" l. of the people were acquaintances of
' an 'eager

'mine, so of course I Was

"3 ,_‘.‘Who was the man?” I asked.
“‘Here’s"is name on the receip ,”
. he spluttered, as he handed it over to
me. I took the little slip of paper
and read, "Sam Lyons.” I knew
Sam. He had been in the enlarged
picture :business for many yars.
v "So I asked, “Where is-this man now.
do you know?” _
“He over in Perryville,” volunteer-
 ed the rural free delivery man, “I

' SO‘ I went to Perryville and looke
up Sam, . .. ~
' ‘ “Sam,” said I, “Why are you g_ -
ing the filthy lucre out of my frigilis
in this ciVilized and thrifty nei
v borhood? Why don’t you go to Mex-
ico or some'other place as hot or hot-
terhto ply your nefarious tnade?"
- “Can’t- answered Sam, “There’s

 more money here than there is around

.Mexico, and besides .I’m going to
So I led
gshiminto a' cool interior—an ice cream
fpanlor-and asked h'i'm about his bus-
iness. ‘ .‘ ' Q -
“How do 'you' do it, Sam? You are
going :to quit this business, so you
"may. as well confess.” . ,
7Well,” began Sam, "I had to make

that otherwise I would not.

- 4‘

"   HeEmployed to Victimize-the

  

By HENRY E. SCHULDT

And his children are being educat-
ed in the best of schools. How had he
been able to do all this? Yea-rs be-
fore Sam had been connected with
one of the legitimate picture houses
——for there are manyxfirms that do an
honest and square business, firms
that would not have any but an hon-
est representative work for them——

’ but now Sam was in a different bus-

iness, .But here is his story:

-"‘Yes Sir, there is money in this

‘wbrk, but I am quitting it today, so

I am going ,to tell you a few things, .
I want
to advise everyone to beware of the
‘Picture Faker.’ I have played the
game myself. This is my modus op-
erandi.

‘,‘After,-the enlarged picures are fin:
ished, I have them with a supply of
frames shipped to the nearest rail-
road station in the territory I want to
work. And then the fun commences.
If I haven’t..too many pictures, I do
the work alone. I put‘the enlarge-
ments in frames of various designs, ’
and start out. Coming to a place
where I have an order, I show the

picture in its frame, and dwell upon
the prettiness of the scene; how nice
it is to have a painting of this kind
to show to visitors, and, eventually to
hand down to the next generation,

asked in surprise,

\game,” he continued.

sort of an heirlOom as it were. Well
finally the lady or her husband will
ask about the'price, and I tell them
in this way:

“ ‘Of course your order for the two

pictures amounted to‘$25.00, (or what-

ever the‘case may be) and I agreed
to enlarge three photos for you free
of any charges, but we have them al-
ready framed, so as to make shipping
easier. These frames are fimished in
genuine gold leaf and will never tar-
nish. You can wipe them off with
any piece of cleam cloth at any time,
even years from now, and they will
be' just as bright as new. These
frames would" cost you about $35.00
in the large cities_ but We are offer-
ing them to you for only $27.50-’

S‘Well sometimes I have to come
down on my price. In a hurry I
have dropped to as low as $10.00.”

Here I interrupted, “$10.00?” I
“Why how much
were they worth?”

He gazed pensively out'of the win-
dow. “I have purchased ‘Genuine
Gold Leaf’ frames for One Dollar and
up," he finally remarked.

Noticing my astonished look, he
smiled, “Yes there is money in that
“I have come
back to my headquarters in the ev-
ening with over $500.00 in my wal-

‘ assist me in the deliveries.

Public

let, the proceeds of the day’s sales.
But I have been in some mighty tight
places, such as- an incident which oc-
curred , several years ago.

“I had a large list of pictures and
frames to deliver in a certain com-
munity in the middle west, too many
to handle alone. For I always plan-
ned to have my work done in a week
or ten days, for reasons you soon shall
see. So I induced a friend of mine to
Well, the
first night we planned our routes so
we could work our territory wi-thout
interfering with each other, and ev-
erything was lovely for a‘ week. Mon-
ey was coming into our pockets in
rolls. Two more days would finish
our territory. Our routes were
drawing to within one half mile of
each other. On the first night of the
second week_ after getting back to
our boarding house, we compared
notes as usual, and found out that I
had sold a frame to a farmer for $27.-
00. While my friend had sold, to this
farmer’s brother, just over the ridge,
barely a half mile away, the same
kind of a frame for $12.50_ a differ-
ence of,$15.00 We both felt rather
glad that we had only one more day
left to finish our work.

“After eating our evening meal, I
went to the telephone—one of those
old systems, where anyone can listen

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largement of a photo at their home. '
.. i . “About fifty per cent of the. people I
 [fvisit will order, the amount of the or-
ders varying from $10.00 to $30.00,
' to be paid upon delivery of the work,
‘ and I leave with a signed order in my
: , pocket, which means a cash commis-
‘z—‘sion. This is'the hardest part of my“
32 work,” he laughed as he spoke, f‘but
“Vi-t is; worth it"’ he concluded. , - '
, And I thought it must betrue, for
hadmet Sam quite often in the past
‘ - ten- years. He always had. been the
fly-same urbane, well dressed, prosper— v
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TRADE AND -MARKET REVIEW
‘  Is at present no pro-
nounced upward treud to busi-
'ness and trade and no marked
increase in industrial or commercial
activity has been noted during the
past week, The cloth manufactur-
ing mills are taking the lead in pro-
duction of new goods and the de-
mand in this branch of manufactur-
ing is said to be increasing rapidly
as the season advances. No change
is noted in connection with the iron
and steel industry; the recent cut
in prices for strontium] steel “Wine
by the independents not having
brought the new orders that “we
looked for, there is a fair prospect
that the daily output nlllst be some-
what reduced in. order to prevent an
accnnm‘lnfion of manufactured pro-
duct in this branch of the business.
- 0n:n of the encouraging signs of
the firtm 2': the rapidity with which
the Yvi’f‘fi<‘if‘i"-<H?(l if stock in the
l‘crr‘mt “H22?”- l<‘ixmn(~in;r Corpora-
tion is: l~v?':-»'\‘ taken; this stock is be-
i'”: "9""? T" iz'niiniowflno'nion in :2?!
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GENERAL MARKET SUMMARY A.
DETROIT :~——Wheat shows dullness.' Corn firm. Gerreceipts
increasing. Rye inactive. Hay steady. Cattle higher. Hogs dull.
' CHICAGO z~Receipts of Wheat decreasing While demand is in- 

creasing; tariif outlook also helping bull side of market. Corn
strong. Oats weak. \ Cattle lower. 'Hogs steady to lower.

 

 

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directly. Call money has fluctuat-
ed, up and down, fro] 4,6 to 7 per
cent. Bradstreet, w‘hje. summing
up the entire bushst situation,
states (that there are more gains
than losses of late and that, on the
whole, general trade and manufac-
turing have moved-forward during
the current month, more rapidly
than conditions seemed to warrant.

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money from their corn by converting
it into pork. This being the case re-
ceipts will continue to drop off until
it will be impossible to take care of
the domestic demand which will
mean producers will be offered bet-
ter prices to entice them to again
market some of this coarse grain in
its original form.

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prices will go  higher levels; 111;, .
we; predict the” manor levels- win-.- 4
come within the next aixpor‘ heaven 
weeks. ‘ ,  
BUREAU OF 
, MIGRAM _ .. '.

Washington, D. 0.. Week ending.- .-
Feb. 21, 1921. I I'

LIVE STOCK AND MEATS I

Sheep and 111mm prices qt Chicago
advanced sharply the past week.
Most grades of cattle were moderate.-
ly higher, While hogs declined,5@
500 per 100 lbs.
clining most. Fat lambs and 'year-. 
llngs up 75c@$1.25; feeding lambs. I
were steady to 25c higher. Beet ‘
steers, best cows and heifers gained
500; lower grades butcher cattle on};
changed. Feeder steers advanced”
50c@$1. Feb‘ 21 ChiCago, pricesr
Hogs,. bulk of sales $8 85@$9.50;
.medium and good beet steers $8.25
@$9.90; bntche‘r Cows and heifers ,
$4@‘$9.25; feeder steers $7@$8..7_5l;3-
light and medium weight veal calye‘s'
S9.25@$12: fat lambs $7@$10.25‘1;
19min: $6.25@$7 25; Year-
«5.716971%; fat ewes $3.75

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vduc‘ers are very backward about part-
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amid shippers are not endeavoring to
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OUR FRONT COVER
What do you 'think'gof the front

' hover on this issue? Iii-might be en- ,

titled “The Farm Woman‘s Dream”
or “Released from W-asheDay Drudg-
 _ not? Owing to the
 reasonably low «cost of installing and
funperating electric systems/many bus-
iness farmers’ wives are nowadays
realizing their dreams of not only
fl electric .Washing machines but lights
3 and. many other appliances.

It is through the courtesy of the‘

‘L‘alley Light Company that We were
fable to secure the picture on- this
week's cover. 

-. PLAN *NATIONAL Gum MAR.-

KETING ASSOCIATION
|Oontmued from page 3):

ere" association to the grain grower
have been explained. Its relatiou to
the central sales association will be
as follows: .(1) It W111 sign a con-
'tract with the central sales associa-
ion, agreeing to delivbr all its sur—
plus grain to that sales agency for
sale for a period of five years. (8)
‘It may ship its gnain to the central
sales association on consignment, in
which case determination of time and
place of sale will rest with the local
elevator company or grain growers‘
association. The sales aesociation
will sell the grain to the best possible
advantage, when received, and remit
the proceeds. less selling costs. to the
local elevator company or grain grow-
ers’ association. (3) It may pool its
- grainwith the grain of one or mere
other similar farmers’ elevators or
train growers’ associations. Such
pools may cover any desired territory,
time, and kind, variety, or grade of
, grain. All peels involving more.
than one locality will be. under the,
direction and management of the
central sales association and the time
and place of sale will be determined
by that association. Money for such
advance payment on pooled grain as
, may be determined upon-will be tur-
nished by the sales association. When
all the grain in any pool is sold, the
balance. due the local elevator com-
pany or grain growers’ association
will be paid to it. based on the aver-
age price received for that kind. var-
ietvgnnd made. and less necessary
handling and selling costs,

The central sales association will
be governed by a board at directors,
the number of which has not, yet been
decided upon. These directors will
hire a manager. department heads
and other employees,= and willldirect
the business policies of the‘assccla—
tion. Directors will be elected as
follows: (ll Each local elevator,

I or grain growers’ association Vwill
elect one delegate for each 100 mem-

~ hers or major fraction thereof. These

de‘egates will represent the mem‘
bership at an annual meeting to he
held’ in each congressional district.
"(2) The congressional district will
elect one'delegat‘e to the annual nav
,tional meeting. This delegate will
5 ‘ cast one or more votes at the nation-
‘ a! meeting. depending either on the
number oi: members represented or
the amount of: surplus grain produc-
.~,erl. or both. .(3) The national meet-
I ing will elect-the board of directors
' of the national sales asacmiation.
The sales association will be a
non-profit. non-capital stock organ-
ization.’ All ‘money received item.
the sale of grain will be returned to
f the growers through the local claret-
or company or grain unwors' associ.
ation, less. thaooet of operation. ~
The sales association. will have the
(01loth departments. and, other: it
the directors “seem: m. ' Re-
search and statistics. It. will be the
‘ ' 6. >61: thisdepartment tO’collect

  ml- .ihoroush \ --‘

and the necessary equipmentr

fish

  or Otherwise-r The
 rtessentialfpt these subsidiary
cur oratiouehre as "follows:
Warehousing corporations. To own
Ur .lease terminal and other elevators
(2)
Export corporations.- To handle
grain for eXport. (8) Finance cor-
porations. This corporation will not
do a general banking business. Its

~principal function will be to accept

warehouse recailpts, issue debentures
against them, and 50 provide funds to
assist in financing the whole. grain
marketing system. (4) Selling ‘com~
panics. To acquire seats on ‘grain
exchanges. and to dispose of grain
thereon in the usual way. Legisla-
tion to open these exchanges to farnn
ers‘ companies is now being pushed
in several states, with the backing of
the Committee of 17.

Practically every feature in the
proposed plan has stood the test of
experience in one or more successful
farmers’ marketing organization. The
committee. realizes keenly that there
are many problems in grain market-
ing that are not found in the mar-

 , 1.1.“
per comrolof'

drew-espsrlcnca; .

arketing experience, and
has crystal-l zed that study into a plan
which it'belleves will- prove more

emclent than would any plan t-rans-,

planted bodily from some other sec-
tion or industry to the grain belt of
the United States. '

Some of the special advantages of
this plan are as follows:' (1) It does
not scrap the existing system of farm-
ers' cooperative-elevators but makes
them an integral part or the grain
marketingplan. (2) It will not be
necessary to, secure contracts cover-
ing a large percentage of the grain
of the, United States before the sales
association can begin to Operate. (3)
Grain can be handled at first with al-
most no change in present methods.
While the greatest ,results will not
come until later. when a large por-
ion of the grain is controlled by the
national sales agency, the immediate
benefits will be great. Farmers will

be on the inside of the grain market- ,

ing system, instead of outside. They
will be able to make their influence
felt at once in minimizing and finally
eliminating the unfair practices which

.. 4!"- .

.   . it hit?"
made} thereutrstudy of all past co?

. operative}

34%,  ' s: a movement,
"over the shoutest‘ajn , , pest routes
a tremendous saving in freight and
other handling charges can be made.
(4) A way is provided for, the devel-
opment of grain pooling as 'v rapidly
as this is found to be desirable, with—

out staking the success of the move-j": ' .
ment on a rigid pooling plan without  "

other alternatives. (5) Financial
difficulties are guarded against by the -
provisions for a strongly finance ._
farmer~owned finance corporation. ( )
The success of the plan is not depen-
dent on special or class legislation.

The Committee of 17 has appointed
a. sub-committee of sevento~ perfect
organization plans to put the new
grain marketing system into o‘pera-
ion. A meeting of delegates from
farmers’ organizations in the grain
belt will be called at :an early date to
approve the plan. In the meantime
contracts and by-laws are being
drawn, and will be submitted to some
of the leading lawyers of the United
States for approval as to legality be-
fore submitting them to the full Com-
mittee of 17 for final approval.

The Committee hopes to be able to
handle a. portion of the 1921 crop
through the new marketing system.

 

 

 

 

j Harvester Company
" Brands Story False

URING the past month; reports have come to us that at farmers’ meetings

charges have been made, sometimes directly and sometimes indirectly, that

this Companyhas adopted a policy of refusing'to supply repair parts for old machines

in order to compel the purchase of new ones. This statement is absolutely false.
Such a policy has never been considered by this Company nor suggested to it.

Ordinarily we ignore such ‘reports, because we have learned that any large
company, no matter how fair and high principled, is subject at all timesto unjust
criticism. The facts are this Company has always recognized the importance of
repair service and has Used every effort to make IHC service the best. We believe
we can truthfully say that the repair service furnished wherever this Company's
goods are sold is equal if not superior to that furnished on any manufactured line. ,

\Ve call attention to the fact that machinery “Fix-up Weeks,“ instead of being
something new and originated by the farmers in 1921, as some seem to think,
were really an outgrowth of the incitement started by manufacturers and dealers’
associations in connection with the Council of National Defense as a war con~
eervation measure. Perhaps no other agency has done so much to promote
“National Repair Weeks” as this Company.

The farmer needs machines which will be efiicient and economical. If his old
machines can be repaired so as to render efficient and economical service, he
would be foolish to purchase new ones. Whether the farmer utilizes and repairs
his 0ch machines o: buys new ones is a question for him to determine. But in
making his decision, we give to every farmer who owns any IHC machines the
assurance that a full stock of repair parts will always be provided by this

Company.

Today. our repair stocks on the territory available for the farmers are 21 re:
cent water than ever before atthis time of the year. An average of a quarter
million pounds of repairs are shipped from IHC factories for every working
day in the year. Thirty million dollars’ worth of repair parts are now ready, as
insurance for the farmer when he needs this service.

In every International Harvester Works manufacturing orders call for repair
parts first and even when furnishing them has meant cutting down production
of new machines for which we had orders; repairs have always had preference.

At every one of our 91 branch houses trained men are on duty to see that all
orders are filled and  promptly. Thousands of dealers scattered every-
where with an assortment oi repairs in stock are always ready and willing to
tender every assistance.

, This service which this Company has rendered through the years to those who
have purchased its machines has been a matter of great pride to the Company,

. and is the foundation of the cordial good-will existing between it audits customers.
We» feel it is due the Company and those who have purchased its machines

 

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‘ that we~ give the widest publicity to the fact that this service of repairs will be
maintained and improved, and that anycharges to the [contrary are untrue.

HAnvEerR COMPANY

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'< I Name “Bayer-7" fjon Genuine

\
Take Aspirin only" as told in each -—mold.

package of genuine Ba’yer Tablets of
Aspirin. Then you will be following
the directions and dosage worked out
by physicians during 21 years and!
proved safe by millions. Take noi
chances with substitutes. If. you see
the Bayer Cross on tablets, you can
take them without fear for Colds,
Headache, Neuralgia, Rheumatism,
Ear-ache, Toothache, Lumbago and
for Pain. Handy tin boxes of twelve
tablets cost ft‘v cents. Druggists
also sell larger packages. Aspirin is
the. trade mark of Bayer Manufact-
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PIGKLED anus

Will you ple s'e publish in .ycur paper
a recipe tor‘plc ling beef so it will keep
through the warm weather7—I. L.. En-
gadine, .Michiga‘n. ’ ‘ '

Beef, which is to be corned-or pick-
led should :be-taken care ofas soon
as possible after the carcass 'ha‘s
thoroughly, cooled out. It should
not be allowed to freeze or start'to
Before being placed in the
pickle,‘ the meatshoul'd be cut ihto
such sized pieces that it will pack
well in the bot-tom of.the barrel or
crock and be packed in layers met
more than four to five inches thick,
care being taken to remove all bone
and all pieces thatlare bloody. After
'the meat has been cut into the desir-

, ed sized pieCes, it should be weighed

and in pickling about 8 pounds of
salt used for each hundred pounds
of meat.“~ Each piece of meat should
be rubbed thoroughly with the salt,
a layer of salt sprinkled on the bot-
tom of the crock, a layer of meat
then packed in, sprinkled with salt
and another layer of meat until it is
all packed. The meat should be al-

 

 

8 to 12 Tons of Hay Per Acre
Finest hay and pasture a
lit-fies drought—resists cgldli
always ylclt s_ abundantly. Easy
and inexpensive to sow. Pm-
iluccsthrcc crops sseason. An an-
niial—nCVPrnpest. Used exten-
sively by all leading farmers and
stockmen, giving wonderful re-
sults everywhere.

Don't let Feed Problems Worry You c

~i few acres will do. Broadcast 10 to 20
ounds Northern Grown per norm-drill 3 per
6 pounds: B}! be cro within 6 to 8
weeks from sowmg. et ls ell'a Big Seed 
Calling. and samples FREE. Write today. ' ‘
s. M. ISBFLL A 00., Jackson. Mlch.
(19) 351 Mechanic Street

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ATTENTION BEE MEN

“'0 all know that the bees in the south
wilwinilli- away in the winter and in the north they
{‘lwlllii v away in the spring, after they are taken
out of their winter quarters. -

l‘onip‘icte information will be furnished how to
make your boss increase instead of decrease for
the small suiii of $1.00. ‘

More: DOCS means more honey and more honey

:; more money. Your money back if not
,, ,:..i*i :ai‘mr. you have tested it. It will take
Plhnlli. .‘3 months of your time to put them in shape
' » Hm tz'st. For your One Dollar you will get

’. llll'Lliiillttl‘S how to handle them Address:

WQRREN WING. Winn, Mich.. Isabella Co.

 

 ii”: YGUR ADDRESS LABEL
" Eli'- THIS COPY BEARS THE
ELSE PENGILED X“

it, is a sign your subscription has
expired according to our records,
and we will greatly appreciate a
prompt remittance in the enclosed‘
envelope. \ ~

lli‘ YOU HAVE RENEWED and
the date has not been changed,
please advise us wry-hen ' and' how
you remitted. Or if‘you are re—
ceiving two copies ' each, week,,
 send ' us’_bo~th“ labels, so‘ we‘ can
 {correct  error: . f i ‘
, 1WE"_.A."R€:E" 150' have;
_:iyou?fi.receive all . copies- promptly
‘ édndnicoizyectly; semester. so tell us '
;’«‘vshé.n{jany=‘lerrciroccurs; " ' '

 

'lowed to stand for 12 to 24 hours
and then the following brine made.
for each 100 pounds; 3 pounds of K

, granulated sugar, 2 ounces of baking

soda and 2 ounces of saltpeter dis—

' solved in one gallon of warm; water

and add sufficient water to cover the
meat completely after it is weighted

‘, down. If any part of the meat is out
‘ of the brine it will spoil. With any

kind of pickled meat, it is necessary
to watch the brine very closely to see
that it does not ferment or-become

_ ropy. This is especially true during

warm weather. If at anytime the
brine becomes ropy or discolored, the
meat should be removed and the re-
ceptacle cleaned out and. new brine
added.
pickled ‘beef throughout the. summer,
it must be stored in a coul,well-vent-
ilated place and it is» well to "elim-
linate the sugar in making the brine
as a brine inwhich sugar is used is
far more apt to ferment and spoil.—
Geo. A. Brown, Professor of Am'ma
Husbandry, M. A. C’. -

MUST PAY RENT
We rented a hoUse to a. party. After
a While another family moved in, then
the others moved out and since the first
parties have gone we \have been unable
to get any rent. They say they won't
pay or move for the house leaks. I told
them to get a better house but they re-
fuse to move or pay their rent. They
are back two months rent which means
3 I am looking for my rent money
to pay our expenses, Can you tell me
what has to be‘ _done or can they stay
on without paying ,rent?—E,‘ A.

Hil‘sdale. Michigan.

The tenant must pay rent or be li-
‘able to be removed and sued for the
rent. past, due. Consult a local at-
torney and he will tell you how to
collect your past due rent and also
how to put the tenant out for non-

editor.

EXPRESS CO. TAKES'FOURTEEN
MONTHS TO SETTLE

Sept. 22, 1919, I shipped 30 dozen cas«
es of eggs to the American Butter &
Cheese Co.. of Detroit, They claim they
never received them, Therefore, I put
in a claim for $15.27 on Oct_ 17th to the
American Express (‘30., that being the
amount I received for the previous case.
I also wrote to the claim department in
Detroit but they do not answer. Will
you help me to collect this?—Mrs, J. B.
K, Lupton, Mich,

The above complaint was referred
to_ us5 on '..,March 29th of last
year. _.The.history of our efforts set
down in chronological order,‘ to col-
‘lect ‘this sum for our ,subscriber,
would 'form' most interesting reading,
and might reveal one ofrvthe reasons
Why the .sxpi‘esé . business}:is__ rapidly

‘ i1; ,ianq.~;patrbns by

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I L .:. in closed gimp-union: var mm» ova-Y d
1M: dew-mom.   to um you. All inwl

~ years.

Where it is desired to keep'

payment of rent.—. E. Brown, lcgal- ;

being superseded {by the; parcel post.
What express ' companiesfihope .to’ gain -
by their intentionaILdela-ys’ in adjust.
ing claims, we do not"~kn§w:’hut;;wgg '
.51 -911: s.- pqlipy s.  L
rgh ’ ' ' ' ‘. Michigan and also onetfthat excl
e labpve‘ Claimswa's? " '
rflie: claim. depart?
March ' ‘ ' ”‘

:Ji_l)91).k_

"fr mahlu.'Pi-ompt. Olmflll eunuch] masts“.

us must be accompanied by Jun name and. address.

referred'to' K. Asecond let-

ter ‘wri-tten Apr'l'l 16th advised us" to '

take the matter up with the local
agent at Luptdn. I will not tiremy
readers by going intothe endless de-.

tails o'ffi‘the subsequent correspond-P

ence. Suffice to say that, it entailed
an exchange of seventeen different
letters.,between this office, our sub-
scriber and. the express company.
Let-tars were written by us under.
dates of Masr 11, June 9, July 6, July
23, Aug. 10, Oct. .5, Nov. 16 and Dec.
14, and finally under date of Dec. 17.
One year and three months after the
original complaint was filed, the ex-
press company advised that the claim‘
had been paid. -—Editor.’

SECRETARY OF DETROIT PACK-
, ING COMPANY

I “noticed in the Michigan Business
Farmer the advertisement of the Detroit
Packing Company. I have had consld-l
erable experience in packing plants, cool-
ers. etc.
Swift 8; 00,, working out of the Chicago
office repairing and constructing 'pack-
ing houses for them for the past four
I am now on a short lay—off
and think I might like to get in on the
job_ Will you kindly refer me to the
head of this company as I do not know
whom to write to?7-—-C. D. R., Crystal,
Michigan,

. The'man you wish to get in touch
with is Mr. Frank L. Garrison, who
is secretary of the company. Ad—

dress him at Springwells Avenue and "

Michigan Central R. R., Detroit,

Michigan.——Associate Editor.

CHATTEL MORTGAGE
I wish to have a better understanding
why a chattel mortgage paper when
satisfactorily paid is not returned, ex-
cept copy of the above papers and notes,

Is that discharge correct?——V. M., St, 1

Charles, Mich.

The law provides that the origin-
al chattel mortgage, or a copy, is to
be filed with the town clerk. There
is no reason why the original mort-
gage should not be returned when
discharged; but it is possible, and I
might say probable, that the town
clerk has only a copy on file with
him and he can deliver only the cOpy
he has on file and the original would
be obtained from the one who holds
upon its payment.—W. E. Brown, le-
gal editor.

DESERTION

Please print the law regarding a man
who left his wife and went to another
state, where he lived with and supported
another woman. What action could his
abandoned wife take to get pay from
the other woman and her husband?!—

‘ T. 13., Breckenridge, Michigan,

Sec. 7789 of ,the C. L., 1915, pro-
vides: “Any person who deserts and
abandons hiswife or deserts and
abandons his minor children under
fifteen years of age and without pro-
‘viding necessary and proper shelter,
food, care and clothing for them,
shall upon conviction be deemed
guilty of a felony and punished by
imprisonment in the state prison for
not more‘than three years nor less
than one year, etc.” If the facts and
circumstances will warrant a cen-
viction under, this statute, complaint
should be made to the prqsecuting at-
torney of your county, and, if he so
advises, cause warrant to be issued
for his arrest:

governor Will issue a requisition for

him to be turned over to the sheriff .
I of your county. If the other Woman

has violated any law you may make

gal‘edit'or. _ {I  ._  
v I ELECTIONWAWS; 
"Cd’uld' you telb me .where 1’ co}

arbook containing the election?”

on" ca

I have been on the road for-

The sheriff may ar- '
rest him wherever found and the.

u " hummus"
V s not

such DEPARTMENT on Sir,
\ FARM BUREAU  ‘;>
Would you please print the address; ,
the ‘Seed‘ department of the Michigan“
State Farm Buream?—C. .‘l’.l Pinconnl '-

‘ "Michigan; .‘

The seed Department is locateda
the Farm Bureau’s headquarters'at.
221-227 North? Cedar Street, Lane
lug, Michigan—Associate Editor.‘

EXPORT OIL AND PIPE LINE 

My father has in his possession cm“?
hundred shares of stock in the Export ‘.
Oil and Pipe Line Company of Beaumont. ,
Texas, which was purchased in 1902 at #

$1, per chare. Could you find . out if
these shares are of any value?—A Read-
.er, South Boardman, Michigan.

The two largest banking houses in ,

Beaumont, with whom we immediate:

lygot in touch with, advise thede~ ‘
not know of any concern in that tel-‘5

ritory operating under this name. It

is in their, belief, according tO‘the‘lr: 

letters, that this is one of the con-

cerns. organized in that town‘d‘urlnigpf.
the boomr-years of 1901 and 1962 "
which have long since gone out of .

existence.

In other words, this cempany was ..
undoubtedly like many other so-calli ‘
ed oil companies where you get ‘in,

on ,the ground floor, and the only

“operating” carried on was that of
removing money from unsuspecting;
It is best to make a thor-fl

victims.
ough investigation of any concern
before signing on the dotted line and.
turning over your hard earned mon-
ey.—Assoctate Editor.

e

.SWE'ET CLOVER AS SILAGE
Can buckwheat be sown with sweet
clover, and also can SWeet clover be
used to fill a si‘ro for summer use?—
J, K. N,, Pinckney, Michigan. '

In the northwestern part of the

lower peninsula buckwheat ls fro-9

quently used as a nurse or compan—
ion crop, for. alfalfa or sweet clover,

with comparatively good results. This- V

is not to be advised as a general prac-
tice over the state. '

Sweet-clover usually gives best re-ffi

sults when seeded in the early spring
consequently either cats or barley are,
to be preferred to buckwheat. ’
Sweet clover has been used to fill
the silo and in some cases has'given
very favorable results. It is con-
siderably more difficult, however, to
make ensilage out of a le-guminous
crop than out of a crop such as cum.

.-——0. R. Mcgee, Ass’t Prof. of Farm

Crops, M. A. 0. -'
.__,____‘

CIDER WITH A KICK

A man had a barrel of hard cider {rid 

a. young man 21 years of e stole. 3.
gallon of .it. The sheriff :5): the jug

and had the cider. analyzed andvfound‘ If

it intoxicating. He is now under bail
for trial in circuit court. Is it lawful to
keep hard cider? And what penalty
will the man get for bringing it to the
village?—.T. P., Osceola. county. '

The owner or apples‘may have the." '
same manufactured into cider and_

take the cider to 'his residence where
he may allow it to become vinegar
without violating. the federal law.
The department distinguishes be—
tween the commercial use and the

home use of cider as you will also 
note and does not permit the sale or " "

use of cider in a commercial sense
unless the same is absolutely sweet-
containing less than one half of one
per cent of alcohol by volume, and,.
either for immediate consumption on"

I ‘the premises whether manufactured ‘
.complaint against her for that viola- ~ ’
tion either in. this state or 'iwhere j
found and cause her to be punished -
for .her violation of. the law. 'If. she I
has means and a judgment against;
her could be collected she may be ;'
sued for alienating the affectionsl‘otff
the husband; if she caused theialiena 
ation of adections—W. E.‘ Brown Ie-xr

or treated with a proper preservative

or put up in sterile sealed containers 5:

so that at all times the alcoholic con-5 

~tents will not-exceed'the legal limit] ‘E
Those who wish to engage, in the“. ~

manufacture and sale or cider, cide'
stock and‘vinegar for commercia.
purposes may obtain a. permit from
this-department by making applies-T
, ;,  filing a bond In the sum '1
$2l000.—-A:  '.»' Graham, rfit'ede’rczl~~ Pr

 ':1g3¢tianéDihcctor‘of' Michigan.“ 1 ~ ‘

 

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 "-iature and who

 is comparable to

 works.

V‘ i -~ schools Dr.

‘ R. BUTLER so;
- {real honest to
H . .God farmer who
ii‘cpr‘esen-ts Lap eer' ‘
County .m the Mich‘i-  ; 
asanslegisl'ature. He "ownsand opera
cites a 160, acre farm in Deerfield
township _.in that county v- where _‘he
flay beseen any day‘ With 'hi over-

allsoh digging into the work’ with ~

that vim and energy which account
~. in a large measure for his marked
"j,.succ'ess ’as a farmer., .Mor'. Butler is
not _appolitician nor‘ an oflice seeker.
, He was dragged into the race. for rep-
LJresentative to .oppose the “Gentle-
 with the ivory dome”
~vétho has three times repre-
r7”s‘ented Lapeer, in the legis-
" made the
‘rsmistake of assuming to pass
on what amendments to the
conStitution could safely be
‘, submitted to the people. and
ii what \could not. Irn the pri- -
 mnai'y Mr. Butler attacked’~
wmm -on‘“his record on the

“warehouse amendment and

~ V-d'eifeated him decisively..Mr'.

‘ Butler gives promise of mak-
 ing a very useful member and
the public is to be congratu-
lated on the « flact that his ad-
vent in the legislature marks the
passing of another figure in the. “pub-

lic be damned” group who have been

_ altogether too numerous.

A CHAS. EVANS
5 - W ‘ ‘HEN representative Chas. Ev-
'  ans of Lenawee county was a
. _‘ candidate for reelecitiOn to the
HouSe last summer, he ,“promised”
his constituents that when the legis-
 . 'latlure met, if he was there, he would
_ try to repeal the primary law, and it
appears that he was elected in spite
of that “promise.” Now Mr. Evans
a is preparing to make good 011 it. He
is drafting a bill to pull this thorn
- out of the side of the has-been, the
' is, and the is-to-be political boss
Whose manifest love for the primary
_ the esteem with
 'which his satanic majesty is said to
‘ regai‘d the holy creater:
' Quoting Mr. Evans one of the state
dailies says: ‘
“How the new device has worked
.is a matter of common knowledge.
It works well in a small political un-
it; the smaller the unit, the better it
It is pretty satisfactory in
choosing county candidates. It is
v less so when the 'unit- is a congres-
’ , siona’l'district. For the state at large
V “it is a failure. When the idea is car-
ried still farther, in the presidential
, preference. primary, the result it not
, gonly. a failure but a farce.”

To be sure we know how it has»

: Worked. We know it has worked as
._Well in congressional districts, in
gubernatorial and senatorial. con-
tests as it] has in the selection of

_ZUn‘Cle Sam’s Hired Men Who Serve Farmers.

av cannon HERBERT '
F. BAKER

DAVID H. BUTLER

‘peal the primary law, but we

‘A

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county oificers. All our
present ’1, congressmen
were selected through
the primary. To which
of them doesMr, Evans
object? Yet we all
know there are several of them who
would not have had a look-- in under
the convention system.

Five of Our_ governors have been
nominated by primary. Do they not
compare‘favorably with the five who
preceeded them and who were chosen
by boss ridden conventions? Sena-
tor Townsend was selected at a pri-
mary. Has our friend‘ any fault to
find with that selection. and does he

' think it could have been

made at that time- in a con-
vention? Was not the bet-
ting right up to" the primary
runnirng two to one against
him? 7
As t o the
primary it gave

presidential
not ice to

the other states whom the.

people of Michigan favored,
without the assistance of
any self appointed inter-
preters of the public will,
and all that law needs is
amendment so as to insure
a delegation in sympathy
with the candidate who is the
[choice of our people. The ills of de-
mocracy are to be cured not by re-
action, but rather'by more democ-
racy. We hope Mr‘. Evans will make
good on his promise to try and re—
also
hope he will show his sincerity of
purpose as an interpreter of. the pub-
lic will by attaching a referendum
thereto. Then
the convention and their bosses to
come ‘baék they will say so. »

POLICE
VE‘RY successful propaganda
campaign in 'favor of the state
policeis evidently in progress
throughout the state at the present
time, as a considerable number of
petitions from puzzled women clubs
and letters from addle pated preach—
ers demanding retention of that body
are being received. If our friends
should awaken to the fact that their
pious faces were being used as a
smoke screen behind which the Mich-
igan Manufacturers’ Association was
planning to permanently in‘gnaflt onto
our state governlment, this Cossack
organiza‘tion’uinvolving an annual ex-
pense headed toward a million dol—
law and that its chief purpose was
not to guard grave goods and to
grab bootleggers but to .fight the
working man (and the farmer too, if
he should get away from his hard
.picked leadership, and begin to get
gay) we .won'der if they would not
lay off on this cat’s paw stunt in

which they are functioning so effect-

ively at present.

1 'Dr.‘ Henry C. Taylor, Chief ~of the Office of Farm Management,
_ U. S. Department of Agriculture . '

a1 work oflere‘d, :inlthe country,

 PIER completing the education-.

Tay-
-'lor, wen-t to the Drake
{University wit h o u .t
ever having seen the'
inside of a 'high school,
He completed his Work ‘

t at this school in 1894,
and was graduated
from A-mes, 11118-96.
He then went after
farm economics in ,
dead earnest, entering
the University 01! Wis- ,
consin,‘ where he was
given his degree of Ph.
_D. in 1902." Begin-

 ning. in. 1912‘ he ran a 

farm for 8 years}. not,

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lgermany studying at Ha‘lle and Ber—
11.

He taught fiarm economics in
the College or Agri-
culture at Madison,
Wisconsin for some
time and in 1919 he
went to Washington as
Chief of the Oflice of
Farm Management.

The office “of Farm-
Management is able to
tell just how a farm-
or may combine the
gdifflerrent farm ente‘r-
prices in such a man-
ner as to provide prof-

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The Cry is for Cheaper Freight Rates -
J. BRAND, former chief U. S. Bureau
0 of Markets, told the farmers at East
missing the other day that it cost as much
to ship California oranges to eastern consum-
ing points as it cost the grower to raise them.
He said that the very existence of certain
branches of farming depended upon an im-
mediate reduction of freight rates.
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of western live stuck petitioned the Interstate

Commerce CommissiOn for a reduction ,in
freight rates, saying that the existing rates
were absolutely prohibitive, and that they
would be ruined if compelled to continue pay-
ing them. -

Two weeks ago the owners of the iron mines
announced that at the present price of iron,
they could no longer aflord to pay the new
freight rates on iron ore, and unless some out
was made they would have to close their
mines.

Here are three out of a vast number of spe-
cific petitions that have been addressed in
late months to the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission pleading for special privileges in the
matter of lower freight rates.

. They indicate merely that every class of
people has the temcrity to come out in the
higher freight rates, and while no class of
people has the temerity to come out in the
open and challenge the fairness of existing

' rates, each is using its influence to reductions

at the expense of some other class.

A farmers' organization with headquarters
at Washington says that during the first six
months after the roads were returned under
the Cummins-Esch law, they ran behind 656,
million dollars or within 245 million of the
total deficit incurred during
months of government operation under war
time conditions. This organization also says
that the cost of operating the roads under the
Cummins-Esch law which guarantees a profit
on gross operating expense, will be seven bil-
lion dollars a year fortwo years at least,
which is about half of the total price the
farmers will receive this year from their

crops.
It isaxiomatic that the farmer is the
nation ’s biggest freight-payer. He‘ pays the,

freight both ways. Increased rates are a
pop—gun blow to the average merchant and
manufacturer, but they hit the farmer with
the force of a double-hamled shot gun. And
in the hands of the Oummins-Esch law, which
a lot. of misguided farm leaders and farmers
themelves fell for, this shot gun is working
'with..,deadly effect. The farmer" suitors be.

 ,4 cause he was credulous enough to believe that
'  ‘pgovernment operation "was a force and failure,
fund a, step toward socialism.
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on More on
V I enormous losses. Condition
sense may yet force-us to demand the repeal
of the CumminsEsch low and the operation
of the railroads once more under unified gov-r»
grnment control, “for service instead of pro-
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8': pin’ Presidents ‘
BEFORE '1‘ next issue comes to your
hand it will be President Warren Hard-
ing and plain Mn Woodrow Wilson. In mon-
archies it was the century-old custom to shout,
"the king is deadwlong live the, king!” be-
fore his former majesty ’s body was cold. In
this country it is rather the custom to begin
blaming conditions 011 the president, whom-
ever he may be, on March fifth, and‘thereafter
until his term of office expires. Also on the
morning of the fifth and thereafter we read-
just our glasses and look at the eat-president
with a rather friendly and more sympathetic
interest in ,what he has accomplished.

Perhaps in this year 1921, which marks the
ascendency of. our 29th president of these
United States Of America. we will look with
even more critical eyes on the actions of Pres-
ident Harding and with more sympathetic eye
on the past record of Mr. Wilson, because‘..as
has been repeated so many tithes of late, no
president, save Lincoln, ever felt the lash of
adverse criticism and unpopularity as has
Wilson during his last year and a. half of the
eight tremendously trying yearsho has served
as his country’s executive.

President Harding takes up the reins of
government at atime when vital problem‘s,
many of his own party ’5 making, confront
us not only in Our relations with practically
every civilized natiOn in the world, but in our
own internal affairs. His difficulty in scour-
ing a cabinet satisfactory to the Variou fac-
tions of his party let alone to the press, the poo
plc and incidenally himself, is a mere inci-
dent in the multitudinous problems he must
unr/avel and decide. Placed in oflice by the
greatest popular vote ever given this nation ’5
executive, his responsibility is only magnified
and our earnest prayers mingle with a hund-
red million of true Americans who hope he
can fulfill the obligation.

Woodrow Wilson leaves the white house a
broken man. Broken in body, but one would
do him gross injustice to say- broken in spirit,
for whether he was right or wrong in what he
believed was right, he has never for one mo-
ment lost faith in it ‘nor in himself. Passing
years and historians yet unborn will record
the deeds of our generation and place the true '
valuation upon each~—as one must See a mas—
tcr’s: painting from a distance to judge of its
worth, ‘ for at arm’s length the eye sees only
ugly dsubs of paint on oft-cracked canvas.
So we must leave the measure of WoodrOW'
Wilson’s eight years of service to the crucible
of time. _ “ ' _

President Harding has the faith of America
and the hope of the World in his hands; God
grant him the strength, the courage and the
guidance to measure up to these respons1-
bilities. ‘ .

“The king is dead——long live the king!”_

The Price of Independence _
EWSPAPERS could not survive With-
out advertising patronage. The rev-

enue from advertising is frequently from fiVe
to ten times the amount of revenue from sub-
scriptions. Deprive a newspaper of its ad-
vertising and it would be forced to increase
its subscription rate to a, figure which only a
few people could aficrd to pay. There is noth-
ing objectionable about this situation so long
as the advertiser does not try to dictate the
editorial policies of the newspaper which he
pamnixes.’ ’But the instant he does that, the

. freedom of the press is threatened, and sub: 
.sidization is‘undor way,  n ~ _ _ 

Not long ago the Canadian Grain Grammy. \ V  
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asking them to discontinue their advertisi 
Many ofthem coinplied with the, request 1 
the result that in a sirr‘o month ’8 “m
Canadian form paper was confronted 
an enormcus loss of revenue. But the coura-
agoous Guide never wavered in its attitude.)
It not only hammered out its convictionsj
harder than ever but exposed the elforts
the Association to subsidize the press, thereby
strengthening its position all along the line,
and convincing many of the manufacturers]
that their boycott‘t was a boomerang which  ..
hurt them more than it did the. Guide. . . i ‘

The Business Farmer estimates conserva- 
tivob that it has lost fifty thousand dollars
in advertising patronage the last three years
for having opiniOns; Farm papers that have
no opinions, or having them, dare not express “ ‘
them, have profited to the extent of millions f 
of dollars by keeping a discreet silence on
great national issues in which farmers’ inter- ‘
ests were involved. '

     

These practices will cease only when the U i , '.  '

readers of, newspapers themselves scan the ads

I. vex-tising columns of the press, learn to 

tinguish between policy advertising and cOm- -
modlty advertising, and, refuse. to support '

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The-National Tractor Show

T COLUMBUS. 1351; weekithey told 118,, *3 .

that there were “quite .a number" of
Michigan farmers at the National Tractor'
Show. We of course corrected them and as-
sured them that every man who was there from
Michigan was a business farmer and We meant ”
it! '

Of course most of you who OWn tractors or
hope to own one did not get to Columbus. It
is just a little too espousive a trip for the av-
erage man to make unless he has some axe to
grind other than simply learning more about
the iron horses. This is unfortunate because
we know that even with deflated crop prices
as they are today, there'are still thousands of
our business farmers in ‘ Michigan who are
looking forward to the day when they can
have a, tractor not only for plowing, but for '
hauling and belt work on their farms.

'One thing was quickly demonstrated to the
visitor at Columbus this year. The day of
experiments and freaks in the tractor manu-
facturing business is passed. Most of the
models shown were built on the two or three
conservative plans of construction which hm
been proven adapted to the various soil and
traction requirements of different sections;
Like the automobile and truck, the tractor, 
finally getting on a safe and sane basis where I

the business farmer can afford to purchase

one and know that the particular model which
he buys, will be manufactured for years to
come, on practically the same lines and there .
are so many 'of the old line manufacturers.
now making tractors that it is no longer nec-‘
essary to gamble with the product of some i
new or fly-by-nig'ht stock company.

We predict a satisfactory selling year to { 

every tractor manufacturer who has taken the
loss of ‘ his war-time bOught steel and. labor,
and has ‘or will bring his prices down to the
level which the farmer has been forced to so.
cept ‘for his crops. The business farmers of
Michigan need tractors as they need many
other farm necessities and they will start buy-

ing just as soon as they can be shown that they  .

manufacturer hes taken his loss, is (item
when? ttlgey are‘anélh meltinsdto gix'ef service and -
sumac 01158111‘60, aye eorethe war-
god  tore all good'things asunder. " '-

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AM IN a position to have access to
' r the leading term papers, but I
may say without any hint of flat-
tery, that because of your able edi-
torialsland. your fearless stand on
public questions. ’in my opinion, the
M. B. F. beats them all.
When I read your editorial in the
last issue in regard to capital pun-
ishment I felt like saying “Amen”

and have decided to try to “hold up .

your bad "” as it were. and to do my
bit (even though it may be a small

one)’ to try to prevent that blot of ’

capital punishment being put on the
fair name of the state of. Michigan.

‘ I am unalterazbly opposed to capi—
tal punishment for it is contrary to
scripture. My Bible says: “Thou
shalt not kill. Vengeance is mine.
I will repay,” saith the Lord. ' ‘

This means the state of Michigan
as well as it does individuals.

Two wrongs never made one
right. The executionzof the murder-
er will not restore life to his victim.

We/m'ay take life but we cannot
give it. God does that. We may
transmit the lite principle, but it is
God that gives life to the germ.
Paul may plant and Apollos may Wa—
tor, but God giveth the increase.
Man was created bfGod in his own
image and no matter how sunken in
sin, he still retains a, spark of Di-
vinity. No matter how depraved a
man or woman may be no matter
how old or how young he or she
may be; they were once upon a time
some mother’s boy or some mother’s
girl. Some mother‘s hand has rock-
ed them to sleep. Some mother is
Watching over them and praying for
them on earth or in Paradise. But
you may ask, “what is to be done
in the face of this wholesale murder
and robbery that is going on at the
present time?” In reply I would
suggest establishing the whipping
post. Use the “cat 0’ nine tails”
The Bible says to use forty stripes.

Establish a pardon board. Make
the laws such that a life sentence will
be a; life sentence and make it im-
possible for some fool (or misguid-
ed) governor to have .a pardoning
bee. Have a law forbidding the sale
of firearms to Tom, Dick and Harry.
Restrict the sale to those who handle
large sums of meney'or whose duty
it is to enforce the law. ’
, Legislators, do you want capital.
punishment for your boy or your
girl? ‘But for the grace of God it
might apply to yourboy. or mine.

If you do not want. the death pen--
alty for your boy should he go
wrong, then in the name of justice,
in the name of humanity. in the
name of God do not establish it for
some mother’s boy—401' some fath-
er’s box—C. 0., Branch loamy.

First, let me thank you for the very great

- out you have paid the M. B. F. Second.
let me endorse all you have said upon the subject
of capital punishment. If we could but com—
municate the views of all our subscribers on this
Josue 'to the legislature; I am very sure they

would have n lame effect in bringing about the
defeat \f the bill—«Editor.

MR. BINGHAM EXPRESSES HIS

' VIEWS
, 0 THE PUBLIC; So that the
u thousands of farmers in the
state who have helped me build
up the Michigan State Farm Bureau

A

may know why I an: no longer at
work for them this statement is
written. '

For two years, at first with very
few supporters, later with many, I
have tried to bufyld an organization-
of the farmers of the state that
would be the representative and re-
spected spokesman of all and also
_ would be in position to simplify their .4

buying and selling problem. _
' The job has been done. The Mich-
igan State Bjorn: Bureau'lnu grown
from nothing into “the greatest and
most farmers" «lo-operative 9mm:
_ fixation in the Country. It  .8740“) '
members  do a business of

 I hundreds,cf-th0‘usands of dollagon

ut -nethins;-ntftliis sort  do? 11

organizations, Some business come
petitors visioned embarrassment.
Active opposition from these sources
was to be expected. '

. In the faée of these facts, instead
of keeping the organization stead-
fast along the successful lines which
have been followed the past two
years, a few members of the execu-
tive committee, influenced by out-
side interests, have' put in operation
a policy that means absolutely a. dis-
integration of the organization, the
scattering of its great“ strength
among several organizations, and a
direct breach of contract with the

thousands of farmers who have sign--

ed up ten dollar membership checks.

The new policy is absolutely con-
trary to that which brought to the
organization the support of the ma-
jority of the farmers of the state.

Under these conditions it is appar-
ent that I could not stay in the or-
ganization as executive secretary,
nor could three other men who have
been in the work since the start he
party any more so than myselLto
any such program as is beingput in
operation. They leave the organiza—
tion with me.

It is my earnest wish that the
Michigan State Farm Bureau might
have continued another year along
the lines it has been so successfully
progressing. It already had become
a model for farmers ot other states,
and given a little more time, would
have become too substantial to fall.

But in fairness to the many tarm-
ers who have helped me in its build-
ing. I must take this means of as~
suring them of my regret that I can-
not make good my promises to them
of what sort\o'f an organization
they would have in return for their
financial support, and further, that
it is with genuine sorrow that it is my
earnest belief that the revolutionary
policies now in client will not only
sap the organization’s strength, but
shatter the confidence of the mem-
bership in it and place it in a few
short months on the scrap heap
among «other organiZations that
have “farmed the tumor” in the
past

It is too bad that its enemies ap-
pear to have accomplished their
purpose~0. A. Binvhozm.

 

“'9. think Mr. Binghnm needlessly alarmed over
the future 01;th Farm 11. \Vhile we sym—
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deeg conviction that the organisation which he an
“he"hae built 11 will, jog along quite so.“
factonly without in; guiding hand. We say this
with,“ due respect to Mr. Biiwhun. We say it
With all due respect for the time, thought and
energy whichfiie has given to the perfection of
communism. He deserves a. lot of credit for
his work, and he has received a lot of credit. But
the was at the Farm Bureau has been no
one man job and no one man is entitled to all the
credit for its success. Those whom Mr. Bingham

ids in snow as the “enemies” of the
Farm ureau have been quite as instrumental as
. Bingham in bringing the organization to in
Mt can!» When Mr. Binghnm declares that
"revolutionary policies now in elfect (which
were approved by. nearly three-fourths of the,
delegates to the annual meeting) will place the
farm bureau on; the wrap heap," he almost leads
one ‘ think that this is no hope as well as his
belief. 'Anwog, his "letter slums a mighty poor
spirit, yes, in' eed

 

, o. mighty poor spirit—Editor."

 

W. C. T. U. DIEMBERS AG’IN
STATE POLICE

E CONGRATULATE you on

your policy of frankly and hon-

estly expressing yqur convic-
tions of right and wrong. We do not
agree always with your opinions but
believe you are absolutely right in
opposing the State Constabulary.

A gold lace bunch of overlords
with special powers and privileges
is un-American, a. menace to the
present and future happiness and
rights and liberties of the citizen. To,
teach the citizen and child to fear
strange or unknown oflicers is but
paving the way of training the mass-
es to be the abject slaves of the
classes. The right of the people
to choose their own law enforce-
ment officers is a cornerstone of Dem-
ocracy and when the powers of the
legally elected law enforcement ma-
chinery of the state is usurped by
the people only in a very indirect
appointive overlords responsible to
way, then we substitute minority and
class rule for majority and mass
rule. ‘

The state constabulary is wrong in
principle and should be strangled
now before it becomes so thoroughly
intrenched by special privilege in
law as to cause open warefare.

We are W. C. T. U. members and
Workers and contributors to the anti-
saloon league and loyal to the high-
est ideals of America but this man-
n-ér of law should be obnoxious to
every patriotic lover of justice and
right-11. Ill. 'liitll'iams. Branch 00.

'l‘d like to come down to Branch County and
shake hands with you. It's refreshin to find
someone who hasn’t been fooled by e [Wm-
ganda put out by the state police, and is still able
to think clearly upon this important subject of
but enforcer: ent . policy.——~Editor.

 

 

 

 

 

POOR HENRY]

fill ALWAYS :d‘id-vadmire Henry
Fox-d and , therefore feel sorry
for him now, as we note how

the financial octopus is getting its
tenacles about ‘him and avenging it-
self for his slights and 'effrontery to
its magnificent machine. Henry Ford
built up a great business and instead
of doing it on the time honored cold
blooded business plan, had the
nerve and audacity ‘to mix sentiment
with his methods and treat his work-
ers like human beings, rather than
like machines._He prospered but like
all business, was caught in the sud-
den business slump and as he had
refused to profiteer and skin the
government out of billions during
the war as he might have done, found
himself with a lot of equipment but
not enough cash for operating pur-
poses. So he had to go and borrow
and there is where the machine will
get even with him. The Daily Press
repbrts the deal as follows: 2
, “The Ford financing is at its final
stages. 'A, syndicate has been form-
ed and the, terms of. the loan form-
uulatevd. ,.'f'he, underwriting syndicate
is composed ef'v'Lee' Higginson, the

lBanker'szrust Company, the Guar-

anty Trustflo'nff  the [liberty
National Bank. ,Pahatm the mom

 of the namesPshould be. reversed ,
isince

  

.mnw Natl, and m mu-

     

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'_ other.

“The entire plan is acceptable to
Henry Ford except that the bankers
have insisted on either control of the
company or the direction of its fin-
ancial policy during the term of the
loan. Henry Ford has not demon—
strated an ability as a financier that
will prompt any banking group to
put $75,000,000 into his company
unless they can be assured as to how
the financial affairs of the company
will be couducted while the loan
stands.

“Mr. Ford -‘kicked like a steex.’ in
the words of an interested banker,
when this condition was expressed
and retired into solitude to reflect on
the matter. There is no industrial—
ist in the country who would pro—
test louder at giving anyone, unless
it be his_son, Edsel, inside or outside
“his organization a voice in the fin-
ancial management‘of the company
except himself.

_“A11d,” continues 'the' press,- “the
bankers feel that Mr. Ford will have
to accept their terms as he must
have the money very soon.” You,
bet he must do as he is told as the
man that controls the money has the
whip hand and that is true in any
case where a party is indebted to an-
Moral-grow slowly if noc-
cssary, outgrow so that you do not

' have to go into debt for your peace,
comfort and even business judgment

are gone when once the debts begin

 press youL— Omnizod Farmer.

    

 
   

CHAMPIONS M. A. C.
S AN M. A. 0. man I am express-
ing what I feel about your attic-a
ole-s in criticism of its policies,-
and of its work. First, are you sure
that M. A. C. is as unpopular with
the farmers as you are trying to
make people believe? It looks to
me as though a great deal of this
may possibly be politics. Next, you
are crying Out the University’s needs
in the same issue. That is alright. _
We from the M. A. C. want to. seen
them receive.whatever is necessary
for them to go ahead with their work.
M. A. C. has called for money too, tov
go ahead with her work. She doesn’t
always get it. The per cent that she
asks for in proportion to that asked
for by the U. of M. is small, but it is
needed every bit as badly and per-
haps if she received a little more you
would hear a little less of that scrap-
ping between departments and be-r ,
tween the secretary and the exten- _
sion men that you spoke of. Every
department naturally want to see 
theirs unhandicapped by having sufll— 
cient funds for the work. Now, find 
out whether M. A. C. receives as 
much money to carry on her work as 
some of the schools you tell of in ' '-
your article. .

Next, get out an alumni catalo ,
and find out what some of thealum- -
ni are doing, or look around and
find out through any means 'you
may. You will find out M. A. G.
men are far from dead. onesfalnd
they are RED HOT for their college
all the time. This is true of the
short course men as well as of those
that stay four years, and you have
a lot of them throughout the states
and their influence is far—reaching. I
can remember the spirit at the M. A.
C. toward the fellow that knocked
the college and more than one of.
them went around with a beautiful
hair cut or a pillow in their breech-
es for a while. My feelings toward
those articles are a little that way al—g
though possibly you may be trying to
get some of our needs before the
public, so that you may receive some
good.

Another policy I can’t say I agree
on. You speak of M. A. C.’s policy
being to increase production per
acre, etc. The policy mentioned at
holding this down seems to me Very
similar to the popular clamor agains‘t
power machinery throughout the
world when it first came in and yet
the world has adjusted itself to the 
new conditions and gone ahead the;
same as before. Producing more
might mean working less acres or
caring for less stock, but I do not"
believe would make an overaproduc-
tion.

M. A. C.’s slogan is “M. A. C. can-
”not live on her past, what will you
do for her future?” If in any way
you can help to get her to get some
funds to go ahead with the market-
ing work you speak of and to hold
some of the valuable men that may
be lost by other institutions pulling. ‘
them from us you will see M. A. 0.
go ahead by leaps and bounds—flan
W. Mather, Charlcvoix county.

 
  

  

 
 
 

    

  
          
       
      

      

     
    

  
  
 
 
 
 
 

   
   
   
    
   
   
   
  
  
     
   
  
 
  
  
   
    
  
  
  
   
   
  
 
  
   
 
  
 
 
   
 
    
 
    
 
    
  
     
    
   
 
     
    
 
  
 
  
   
     
    
  

 

   
     
  
 
   
   
  

  

I'll say the M. A. C. has done something to
graduate a young man who will stand by her so
loyally as you. But—mppropriatlons do not make
the college spirit or the policies of the institu-
tion. All the cash in the world wouldn’t make
Hm M. A. C‘. a ‘truly farmers’ college if those,
who shape her policies decreed otherwise. I
“out to say both frankly and gladly that the
M. A. C. policies to which many have objected
in the ‘pnst have undergone and are still under,
going rapid reconstruction. The college has fln-
ally sold itself to the farmers. because it has bow-
erl to the inevitable and become a. farmers’ col-
lege in spirit as well as in name. So long as
this new spirit continues to dominate tho-policies '
of the M. A. 0. you’ll find no further criticism *
of her work in these columns.-———Editor.

   
   
  
      
     
  
    
   
   
  
    

SATISFIED SUBSCRIBER‘S

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ha . I .am giving him my paper until he,’
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>  DEAR READERS

I ‘ . OU PROBABLY have no idea
g how much pleasure and satis-
 faction your good letters bring
to 1 me. I feel that the threads of
p‘COhfldence, knowledge and friend-
 ship, are binding us together more
 and more as we become better' ac-
'_‘_ 'quainted.

,, , I am thinking constantly of" what
will please you, what will interest

‘ u you and possibly sometimes help you

and when your letter-s come in, on
, many different subjects, it makes
,me feel that we are really getting to-
gether. /‘

The watch-word of this department '

is Service. Everything big and lit-
iztle is important and no request will
ever be slighted or pushed aside.
Any suggestions you have to make
about “our” page, not my page, will
be most welcome. .

Many fine recipes for bread have
come‘in and they will all be publish-
ed in time. It makes me hungry just
to read them over and I want to go
into the kitchen and \make some of
those crusty, sweet~smelling loaves.
You may be sorry for those of us
who have to depend upon the baker
for bread. Verily, we sometimes ask
for bread and receive a stone.

Young Housewife will have no
need of a recipe from the Dep’t of
Agriculture. She will have a dozen
to choose from given by our own
good cooks.

The country women are the salt of
the earth, the best-hearted, the most
intelligent and the most capable. I
do not say this to flatter but because
I have observed a good deal and have
come to that conclusion.

Perhaps Nature‘s great big whole-
some out—of—doors has something to
do with it. It must be harder to be
generous. far-seeing and ambitious
when sh’ut in within high-brick walls
with only a patch of sky above. So
we will follow Uriah’s injunction and
“be ’umble.”

CLOTHES AND EXTREMES
AM GLAD to know our editor be-
lieves in modest dress and I am
sure the good mothers of the M.
B. F. will welcome you to their
midst as a friend and helper.

It is true that American woman—
hood is disgraced by the wearing of
such disgusting styles as we have al-
lowed placed before us, expecting we
will buy. . We ought to rise with one
voice-and stamp it out. It is a fact
however we can give the farm wo-
men, at least most of them, credit
for, not adopting the extremes in
style. “

Of course it has given our more
unfortunate city friends a chance to
dub us countryfied. but bless them,
it’s a name we love. Both modesty
and necessity may explain our rea—
Snns for well we know if we get any-
thing accomplished we must dress in
such a way our movements will be
free. So practical experience taught
us to reject many of these up—to-date
modes and we gasp at the'wanton
waste of means and health that fol—
lows in the wake of extremes. To

 be well dressed does not necessarily

mean to be stylishly gowned. Many
times it is very far from that. How
pleasant is the impression received
as we‘meet persons whose clothes
are chosen to harmonize with their
. complexions and how‘ the remem-
- brandes of their faces linger and not
the dress. Colors should be careful-
, ly chosen, the dark and delicate col-
ors are safest. ‘» ._ .‘ 'I

' Good quality should always be,se‘~
,lecte‘d. Rather a N _
Vin-aide of good quality, than dollars
d7,dolla.rs spent for the flimsy, high-
Ve‘d-cniateriai which islruined by

sheer two 'Weai‘ing‘s -'or the cheap

rial that“ -‘pulls on fades , in 'no

um may bejadopt-

. , _,_r’-how neat and

. A - jkk-one- élooks‘Jn ',ihe_..t'rim
ts nickname; ' ‘orrtautrii'le be-

few clothes. well.

shill. V A Deiihrtmeut

Edited by MRS. canon NELLIS JENNEY'

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. Work _as a,SOul Cleanse-r

I . O MATTER how humble the task, when men work they ally them-
N selves With, and take on. the imagehof. that divine WORKER,
genius and glory are revealed alike in the processes and

laws of nature, and in the ideas, idealsran‘d
their origin in the spirit of man. —'  . V. t»: -
Life begins with. work._ It ends :.with_ idleness. The notion that

' work is a~curse is really a 'rorm'iof atheism4—Leslie’s Weekly.

institutions which have

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low the shoe tops and how sensible
are the durable, high top shoes with
the military heels. One can walk
miles in them and be comfortable
and make a good appearance after.
No woman can keep her health and
beauty and'stand the pressure of the
high or French heels because they
throw the body out of balance and
nature’s law will not stand meddling
with in that respect.

Many a man is down and out'to—

.day because the earnings of 'better

days were ‘spent in foolishness and
folly of the latest fads and homes are
wrecked by divorce because ,the
couple did not pull together and aim
at a home.

We are in danger of the high
ideals this glorious nation of ours
stands for, crumbling away. It is up
to the mothers of America now that
they are on an equal-footing with
men to get a new vision and so adopt
a mode of dress and living that will
place us on an equal footing that we
may not be ashamed.

There are many evils which follow
in the wake of immodest dress and
in the correcting of this one it will
lessen the tendency of the rest. Such

reforms cannot beaccomplished in a,

minute. The people must be educat-
ed but the mothers who do realize
the danger can make a long stride
toward the right while the rest are
being enlightened. _
Train your children to love the
modest dress. There are many ways
to make dainty garments and yet be
refined in the keenest sense of the
word. Teach them that rosy cheeks,
sparkling eyes and pearly teeth are
so far beyond the artificial as to be
worth one’s best efforts to attain and
when they are reared in such a man—
ner it will be a strong fortification
against the evils that threaten to en—
gulf us. -
May the proud banner of our na—'
tion wave over a free America. May
we shake off the chains that makes
us slaves to any habit that tends to
blight our health, our. morals and
our freedom. God has given us our
bodies and our children as sacred

charges to guard with jealous care.

What we choose to be ourselves and
teach our children to be is what our
nation will be tomorrow.

And the ideals we foster in our
children shall stand as a monument
in our honor after our work is fin—
ished.———Mrs. L. R. D.

.‘DEARIMRS. STUTSMAN

OUR LETTER asking for debat-

ing' topics for your club was

turned over to me and I send in
the following topics. The sub-heads
need not be printed on your program
but are just suggestions for working
out the subjects. I am prepared to

send you material or tell you where .

itmay be found for most of the top-

ics if you need any help—Editor.
America for Americans

Can we make 100 per cent A'merlv
cans of the immigrants-from central
Europe who are trying to come over?
Do, they wish to get to the land or
do they herd in cities?

. Shall the United States he flood-
ed with meat from Argentina an
wheat from Canada? '

Machinery on the Farm.

House, barn or both.

The New Spiritualism. .

“Having eyes they see not and
ears they hear not.”

The Crime \Va-vé. _

,It’s cure and prevention. A- respeét
for law, capital punishment. The
new crime commission of Chicago.

The Movies as an Educational El-
ement. ‘

Is the Budget System Practical for
the Farmer and his Wife?

In terms of dollars what does the
farmer’s wife contribute toward 'tihe
partnership of Husband, Wife and
Company? ‘~

The Conununity Life of the Coun-
try Dweller.

Social life, schools, clubs, etc.

The Home Demonstration Agent.

Applying scientific methods to
housekeeping.

A ULTIMATUM ON SKIRTS
T LAST your editor has received
positive information on the sub-
ject of skirts and it comes direct
from one of Detroit’s leading and
most exclusive ladie-s’ tailors
here it .is4—procured especially for
the readers of the'M. B; F.

Cloth skirts meet the shoe tops
and‘mea‘sure notices than 1 3-4 y‘ds.
around. Skirts hf light weight, silks
and summer materials measure'from
2 1-4 to 2 1-2 yds. around and reach
one inch below the shoe tops. ’

This is to allow for'rthe playful-
ness of summer breezes with light
weight materials. These widths and
lengths will be good for three years
to come. Let us draw a long breath
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Dad’s om

There’s a little girl I have in mind, She has noiuse'f'orthe riba-ld sengs

“Tho is happy as can be.

Youdon’t find many of her kind

As far as I can see. _ _

She rises at the dawn, of day

And the, sunlight of her smile

Seems like a wondrous inner ray

That nothing can defile.

She never kicks or rails at fate

But. always just digs in , I

To help her dad on the one-horse
rake ' -

0r store oats in the bin” - ._ '

She’s dad’s girl all" along the way‘,

My how he swells  pride ‘ 7

When she dresses ‘hp’ior Some great

. day I. > ,  .‘ - Z    '

And goes  h _ :fiojrldéi’ 

She does not care

'Or‘ wear her hair, o’er her“

to  '

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7 and

That somegirls like to hear.

But she loves to be with dad in the
fields '

And fondle the horses there

While the little furry things she
shields ,  '

Will follow her anywhere. . . -

She’s dad’s girl pure and ‘good an

; true I I , 4b

But when“ she becomes a wife

The skies "will be a. deeper blue

While ates helping in‘ the " strife. ,

For» dad’s girl seems to know whats

In this oldgworld of ours
Will:

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breath’isa‘ssured for the “Waist use; .
remains large and. necks roundfor
square and~ sleeves just where you

like them. , ; .
' Hats ’__ 
For springwear are close fitting“
comfy little turbans or small sailors“
madeotda‘ncy braids, satins-or silks _

or flower covered with ribbon, how. r

Hats of. pressed straw are. n‘ot;_so
much worn. Cellophane; tlhe"“new,
spring ibraid is much used. It is ‘so-
soft and shiny that no other trim-
ing is necessary but it is often com- ‘
bined with silk or satin. t '
Small hats of georgetter crepevde
.chene and braille are also used;
braille is a rough soft straw material.
If there are any questions you
wish answered on this subject which
interests us all, I will be glad'to get
information for you from reliable,
sources. '

ANOTHER GOOD BREAD RECIPE
S I HAVE been much 'compli-
mented on my ability to make
good bread, I am going to tell
Young Housekemer- how I make it.’
Take one medium sized potato
and cook it.” Put in a bowl 1 tea-
spoonful of sugar, 1 of flour and 1-2
teaspoon of'salt and ore-anncooked
potato in it, then add boiling Water
that potato was cooked in; ' v V
Soak 1-4 of yea-st cake and when
ingredients of bowl are luke warm
salt. 1 tablespoon of flour, 2 table-

,warm place until next day when it

will be very light.
call a starter.

The day before you intend to bake
bread make your yeast of thrae'me4
dium- sized potatoes, 1 tablespoon of
salt, 1 tablespoon of flour. 2 table-
spoons sugar and cream. Put togeth—
er and scald with water that potatoes
were cook in, beat smooth and when
cool add starter. .

When you set your bread'tak'e out
your bowl of starter for next. bak-
ing. If this rule is followed you
never have to use any more yeast
cake after you make your first
starter as long as you keep it in
cool place and use twice a week. Just
make your yeast every time and- stir V
in the starter that you saved‘before.

For 5 loaves of bread: 'To set,
reduce your yeast with warm water
(not hot). so- there are about two 1
quarts of liquid, stir ‘in flour to.
make stiff sponge. When light mix

That is what. I

in stifi loaf (not just plrt flour in

to make a hard loaf) but mix with a
capital M as that is the secret of
white and fine bread. ‘ i

If your bread is coarse and flat '
you haven’t enough flour in it. It

.dryv and hard you have too much

flour. . ~

When stiff leaf is nearly twice its
size put in loaves and when th y are
nearly twice their original size, bake
and have good hot oven . to start
with, then gradually let fire die down
and bread should bake, at least 45
minutes. I always have my bread
out before 'llOOIl.'—M7'S. A. R. L., Elsie,
Michigan. . ~

PROPER SAUCES FOR MEAT '
Roast beef—Grated horseradish.‘
Roast mutton—Currant jelly. '
Boiled Mutton—Caper sauce.
Roast pork—Apple sauce. '

Roast lamb—Mint sauce. ,
Venison or wild duck—Black cur-
rent jelly. . > » v ‘

Roast goose—Apple sauce. ,
Roast turkey—Cranberry or oys-
ter sauce. - - . '
Roast chicken—LBread sauce. '
Compote of

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-No. 3492,—Ladies' Dress. Cut in 6
sizes: 34, 36, 38, '40, 42 and 44 inches
bust measure. A 38 inch size will rea
quire 5 3-8 yards of 40 inch .material.
The width of the skirt at its lower edge
is 2 yards. “ . '

No. Milli—Girls! Dress. Cut in four
sizes: 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. A 14-year
.size will require 4 1-4 yards of 44-inch
material,

3468.—A popular apron
in sizes: Small, 32-34; medium,
. 36-38; large, 40-42, and extra large,
44—46 inchesbust measure. The width
of skirtgat lower edge is 2 yards. A
medium size will require 6 yards of 36-
, inch material.
.No, 333l.——Girls’ Dress, Cut in four
sizes, Q8. 1.0 and 12 years. A ten-year
size‘ Will require 4 5-8 yards of 36-inch
material; "
(Nos. 3489-3474. Ladies' Costume.
Waist‘3489 cut-in 7 sizes: 34, 36, 38,
40,_ 4 44 Vand'_46 inches bust measure.
Skirt 3474 out in 6 sizes: 24. 26, 28, 30,
32 and 34 inches waist measure. To
make the dress for a medium size will

' dress.

require 4 yards of figured and 2 1-2 yds.‘_

of plain material 44 inches wide ‘ h
width of the skirt at the foot is .2'ya’dese.
Two separate patterns. \.

No. 3480.—Girl$’ Dress.
sizes:
size requires 3 1—4 yardsof 3,821nch'ma-
terial, . ..’. p . -. _

No. 3476,—-Ladies’ Heuse’ 1G0“. ‘Cut
in 4 sizes: Small.'32.-34; medium; 36-38:.
large,» 40-42; extra large, 44.46 inches
bust "measure. A medium sizewill re—
duire 5 1-4 yards of 36 inch material.

< Cut in four

No.‘ 3481.——-Girls' Under Waist
.'Knickers. Cut in 5 sizes: 4, 6., 8, 10 and
 12' years. ’-A temyear size will require‘»
C . 2- 5.8- yards, of 367inch materiai. ., 

 

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he orange in . 1"” cold water. ‘
It you have a number ’of egg

'1: Whites to beat‘, as for. an angel cake,
r they, will beat in; one-halt the time

if you use two wire Whisks instead
of‘one. Have one whisk lap half
way over the other. .A pinch of
salt and a few drops of water will
also tend to make eggs whip more
easily and lighter. -

POLITICAL POINTERS

FARCH brings the Township
D/ caucus at call of Township

Committee to nominate candi-
dates for township offices.
, Women‘s Status on Committees

Woman have been courteously and
generously placed (in all political
committees of importance although
their activities only began in the 1900
presidential year. -

' ‘ Primaries

A' meeting of voters of a political
party in an election district at which
the first steps are taken towards the
nomination of candidates.

Doubtless many women voted for
President who may not go to the
polls on other elections until their
attention is again called to their civ-
ic,duties, and as vice—chairman of
your county I trust you will assist

in stimulating interest in state poI-'

itics and advancing those policies
which are for the best interests of
our state. ' v .

Municipal and state elections are
far‘more important to our OWN wo-
men and closely related to our daily
life and our-pocketbooks than the
Presidential election, and just now
there are many questions of import—
anvce coming before ‘our people for
consideration. An efficient business
administration in every department
of public adairs, that the community
will receive value for its disburse—
ments should be of interest to every
woman. Women are experienced in
accounting for their home affairs,
and public affairs is only housekeep-
ing on a larger scale,

A SURVEY OF FARM HOME
CONDITIONS

HE FARM home is a vital part of
the farm. The business of farm-
ing, unlike banking, storekeep—
ing_ and manufacturing, is a family
matter. The wife is a necessary
partnerin the business. Heretofore
much attention has been given to

l

the farm and the farmer, but rela-

tively little to the farmer’s wife and
the home. V
With the desire to extend to the

'farm woman the most practical and

acceptable aesistance possible in
promoting her work, the Department
of Agriculture, in co-operation with
the state colleges of‘agriculture and‘
county vfarm bureaus made in 1919 a
survey of about 10,000 representa-
tive farm homes in the rural regions
of the 33 northern and western
states to learn from the farm women
themselves their real problems and
how the extension service may aid in
solving them.

This survey is believed to be one
of the most significant pieces of work
yet undertaken in the field of farm
home studies. One needs but to

,, follow the average woman of the sur-

vey through a week’s routine to rea-
lize her many problems and to gain
some conception of the vitality and
skill, called into play by her duties
as cook, seams-tress, laundress and
nurse; family purchasing agent;
teacher 'of her children; and factor
in community life; as well as pro-
ducer-or dairy, garden and poultry
products. ‘ ‘ '
Interesting lights

side revealing

~7what was‘really-in the minds of

some ofuéthe farm~women when they
filled out the blanks of the survey

are shownwby. comments written _as. ,

footnotes get, on; 2',.8he‘ets attached.
These I o‘rig’i and intimate 2 express-
ionsof op’ L on and conviction; ‘which
range from “mme‘n slih'on ‘ih‘di’vidiial‘

a”

.scientific arrangement or

gas j to‘ I uni-yells",

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‘ » .WGQIIVe'de , ,  ,
  ficflné biscuits?” induired his mother,

' jwihe .they;were alone.

 , y_ a 
_’ 1’: mini livingand working conditions“
_ :“in: thenfarm hoine.
 jlfers greater opportunity :for satisfy—
' i-nglii’e‘ than the city, and country

“The country "of-

women have as great capacity as city
women for-the enjoyment of life, but
are more handicapped with routine
which absorbs‘their time and their
strength.”

Because of the shortage of help
prevalent throughout the
women consider it especially import-
ant that m-odern equipment and ma-
chinery, so ’far as possible, do the
work which would otherwise fall to
women. I
. The questions are asked: “Does
the farmer lack business sagacity
who invests in the sulky plow, used
only during one season of the year,
and puts off the purchase of a wash-
ing machine?” “Is it an error in
judgment to, justify outlays which
result in better crops and buildings
and consider home investments an
extravagance?”

The farm woman does not wish to-

put up with an unsatisfactory to-day
in the anticipation of something bet-
ter tomorrow or in her old age, but
wants a chance to enjoy today as the
only possession she is sure of. She
feels that she owes it to herself and
her family to “keep informed, at-
tractive, and in harmony with life
as the years advance."

Women realize that no amount of
laborsav-
ing appliances, will of themselves
make a home. It is the woman’s per-
sonal presence, influence, and care
that make the home. Housekeeping
is a business as practical as farming
and with no romance in it; home
making is a sacred trust—U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture.

_ UNUSUAL AT LEAST

HE FOLLOWING notice was tak-

1 en from a paper published in

Haiti and at least shows a brand
new point of view. It was publish-
ed in English so it is perfectly cor‘
rect:

“The Central Supplementary Al-
lowance Committee (with the ap-
proval of His Excellency the Gov-
ernor) is prepared to supply a new
pair of boots free of charge to each
ex—soldier, as above, who suffered
the loss of one or both legs during
the war. g It has been discussed as
to‘the necessity of giving these
wounded soldiers boots. The neces—
sity is obvious but it may be pointed
out that the appearance of the men
with boots will be far better than if
they were to be given wooden legs.”

This is word for word. What do
you make of it?

MAKING EASY MONEY SELLING
ENLARGE-D PICTURES

(Continued from page 7)
in—and placed the receiver to my
ear. Imagine my interest as I over-
heard a conversation something like
this. ' -

“$12.50?

Why I paid $27.50 for

w mine.’

“ ‘Well, let’s go down there tomor-
row and find those fellows.’

“ ‘Alright, meet me at nine o'clock
and we will driVe down.’

“This was enough. My friend and
I gathered our belongings and de-
parted on the midnight train for
‘parts unknown’. We left a few
fr'ames there, and for all I know they
are there yet."

Upon questioning Sam, he told me
that this method was only one of
many that are procticed by others.
Such as drawing envelopes containing
slips of paper, If you draw the lucky
one, the price of the work is re-
duced. And the drawer is always
lucky as far as drawing the marked
slip goes—but it is safe to say that
he pays well for-what he purchases.

So it is a wise policy to remember
Sam «Lyon’s (which by the way is not
this gentleman’s name at all) advice:

“Beware of the, ‘Picture Faker.”

. V'Forced Compliment I
“I ’mu’st‘say those jbisCuits. 'are.

2 fine,” exclaimed the young husband;

'_“How could you say those were

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5 EAR CHILDREN: What do you
 A suDDOse I received on St. Val—

;Valentines' from

, Both of the girls live at Adrian and
their names at Merien Wiley
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I received two
by nieces.

"entine’s Day?
two of

and
It was very kind of.

thank

Last week I received a letter from

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was old. and grayheaded or bald or
just common.
I you have wondered as to how I look-
ed but did not ask for fear of of-
tending.
to!) you. Why?
have, pictured in your minds as
, how I look and it I told you just how
I looked manyof you would be dis~
appointed.
not write to me
would lose your friendship.
sure many of you have pictures in
your minds that resemble me, but
for fear of losing some of my nieces
and nephews I am not going to de—
scribe myself for you.
all understand what I’ mean.
think of me as your Uncle Ned and
write often—UNCLE NED.

No doubt many of

Well I am not going to
Because you all
to

Then'maybe you would.
anymore and I
I am

I hope you
Just

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS:
Dear Uncle Nedz—V’Vc just began tak-

ing the Michigan Business Farmer this
your. 192:1. and at first I taught I would
not like it at all, but Just today I notic—

’seventh grade at school.

.. .ur.
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ed the Children’s Hour, so I hunted out
all the rest of the issues and read every
one of them, and now 1 think it is fine.
I- am a girl 12 years old and am in 'he
My birthday
I read that you were :40-
ing to give a prize for the best New
Year’s resolutions. Mine are: Try and
be good to everyone; to get my studies
good:- to be kind to dumb animals; say
my prayers every night; to clean my
finger nails and to brush my teeth. For
pets I have two kittens whose names are
Midget and Toodles; also a little puppy
whose name is Tony. I live on a 133-
acre farm. We have 6 horses, 12 cattle
and 18 hogs, also about 100 Buff Rock
hens, We get about 32 eggs a. day. I
have a sister 19 years old whose name
is Gretchen. I hope that some of the
girls will write to me and I will surely
answer v them—Mary Frances Scott,
Quimby. Mich... R.F.D, No. 1.

is June 14th.

 

Dear Uncle. Ned:———I nave not read any
letters from Union City and it is such
a nice little village, built on the banks
of the St. Joe river, that I think you
ought to get a letter from near there,
I live on a farm of 252 acres of which
80 acres is. a wood lot. On the very

back of the farm is a river. As we
have a boat I can, en'oy it. My birth—
day is on the 22nd of ebruary. I have

a yellow pet, cat that is about 1‘9 years
old. His name is Pug and. he is. so
much older than 17 that he seems to think
he knows more, and that ‘I‘ should do as
he wants me to. He sits on my shouer
when I slide down hill, gets the mail
and does other things. He rides on
my brother’s shoulder when he is shoot—
ing sparrows and then gets off and finds
tlwm and eats them. I have a. brother
attending M. A. C. and a. sister who is
one of my four teachers. I ride horse.-
back. roller skate. swim a little, sew
a. lot and draw pictures all over every-
thing markaNe. I- have written] several
short stories, one at the best of these is
“When My Dream Ship Comes In."

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Some of my ’friends roller skate down to
the pond which is about six blocksfrom
and then take ice. skates and
skate on the pond, As my letter is get-
ting. almost as long as a novel, I will
write my great long name—La Vendee
Adolph, Union City, Michigan.

Send me some of your stories, La'

Vendee so I may publish them on our
page for the other children to tread.

 

Dear Uncle Ned:——I am a girl 12
years old and am reviewing the eighth
grade. My teacher’s name is Mrs. War-
ren and I like her very well. I have
two sisters and their names are Fern
and Ruth. My New Year’s resolutions
are: To clean my teeth every day and
to study hard so I can go to high Schoo-l‘
next year; to learn one verse, if not
more, of the Bible, every day; to prac-
tice my music lesson every day; to go
to school when I am, able. 1 am: also go-
ing to raise a large garden this. summer.
I am going to raise flowers to give to
people when they are sick. Well, I do
not Want my letter to get too long. so I
will. close with some, riddles:

Why is a chicken like a. farmer? Be-
cause they are both Blessed with a. full

cro , .

130w is wheat like a baby? Because
they are both cradled, threohed and: bee
come the. flewen (flour) or the family.
-—Gladys Bishop. RED. No. 1.. Hender-
son. Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Ned.:--My~ resolutions for
1921 are: To obey all commands giv-
eh to me; do all I can for the good of“
my friends and parents; love my neigh-
bor as myself. and obey- all of God’s. oom-
mandments; not to. quarrel with my
brothers; instead‘ of saying evil things
about people to find: some good thing to.
say about everyone. good or bad; to: do.
a thing that I am told to do without
waiting to be ’told again .or until I for-A
get about it. and: .to work in all ways to!
the best that is. in me. If I do these

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things I can think of inynvll? as Li._.‘.‘00d
christian and a good girl,-—Kathryn Mur-
l‘ey, Gladwin, Michigan. ‘

Dear Uncle Ned:.—I would like to join .
your girls’ and boys’ club_ I am a. girl
eight years old and am taking the fourth
and fifth grades this year. I saw in the;
M B F. that you are offering a prize.
to the one who has the best New Year‘s
resolutions, so I thought I would send
mine in and try for the prize. -Mine are
as follows: I say my prayers every
night; help my mother wash dishes; I.
bake pies and cakes. sweep the floor,
dust and bring 'in wood; study hard at
school to get good marks, and obey my
teacher. I have two brothers. I will
new step so as to give the other ’boys and
gir‘s room.~—-Edna May Holmes, howell.‘
Michigan.

‘ . l
I am 9. boy 11 years on! and in the
sixth grade at school. My teacher’s name
is Miss Jones. For pets I have a dog
and cat. I have a sister who is teaching
school in Vermontville. Michigan. We
take the M. B. F. and like it very much.

We have three cars, a Ford, a. Hudson

and Essex and a Reo Speed Wagon and

a Samson tractor, nine horses and ten _
cows. If some of the boys will write to -
me I will surely answer them.—F‘rancis

C. Hall, R.F.D‘, No. 1, Elsie, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I am a farmer girl
nine years old and in the fourth grade
at school. Sometimes I\ride home from
school with a boy named Walter Lusch-
er. «He has a. pony and cart. We are
going to a. skating party Sunday night’
at his home on the river. I have four .
sisters and four brothers and two neph- ‘
ews named James and Keith—Dorothy
Gilbert. Portland, Michigan,

 

 

 

Dear Uncle Nedz~I am a. boy 11
years old. At school I am in the 5th
grade. VMy name is Donald Briggs. We
live in the city. For pets I have 12
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Ora-guns Duo Dads Should have a
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that: they should go for. a. sleighr de.

Doc hitched m ad the swift.“ goats

1' on his ranch to a large sleight and piled ,

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the .idog‘s to their toboggans

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Winter Fun in Dmuillej

-Even the dog that had been left .at
home‘tied safely to his kennel in which
Sleepy Sam had fallen asleep, chased \
the cat. The old man of Doovflh won-.1
mod what all! the  
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snow down his neck when the Doc

Dads above him sweep of! the roof.

The twins, Rely amt! Poly, seem to,
than): it an mat sport Nth» loss ‘
can't an too but to: than. Percy Ham
Ham looks as ii he thought firm jolly
sport, too, and is taking it. 1., a. real.
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over the tones; Percy is in for a pretty
tumble, One sl‘eighload' met a tree on
the way and stopped very suddenly;
Funnelfeet, the cop, is badmi'thfi pro-
cession much against his will. Old man
Grouch would like . stop the whole
thing as he is very much opposed to
all thfs confusion: but. it does not up:
near to be. something which can easily ,
be stopped. The 1300' Dads, have - a. .: a
habit of starting things  no 
can tell where; they are minute, end.

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illness Uncle 'lfledzs—EI new mitten to

' you boilers but thought I would write
 again. do’ you care? You wanted usto
{send you; our New Year's resolutions so

m as mine: “tam Mg walnut: my

 ourymrnh my finger
I; mean ; .to Sunday school every
gum _ l ;, ’ my Runny whom papers
my  a; gut them, and 1 am mom
to try to be loud to everyone and make
them happy am 12 years old and am
mug?“ grade. I haw two sisters. They
are Eucemem and Leah. They are
, I .also have a baby brother,

He has been sick with pneu-

~- mm 1. filHe $311511: old, My birth-
, s e 4 s o, ugust.——-Doroth
chalker, Bancroft, Mich, V .‘ y

Dear Uncle Nedz—I am a boy ten.

gears old and .in the forth grade, We
have three horses, six cows and a flock
‘hogs. My_ sister and I gather the
eggs every night—Floyd A. Blair, Ak-
run, _Mlchig‘an_ \

Dear-Uncle Ned:-——I read the M. B. F.
eVery week and enjoy it. I don't know
what -I would do without lt‘now, I am
. V1_3 years old and in the 8th grade.

like to go to school. We have 4 horses
3 cows and 4 hogs. and about 200 chick-
ens. For‘ pets we have four cgts and
two lrahlnts, I have two brothers but
no Sisters—«Nellie Sherwood, Blanchard.
Michigan. ' -

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Dear Uncle Nedt~~I am :1 NM 1.2
yc‘nrs old and in the fith :rrmlc. NV
1r-r-0l1nr'v 7W2)?» is Mr. F77:v-i“"’l l lwx
two I‘l'nil‘w“: ."ml Two "vtm‘ ' ml 1"» :‘

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Would work but her little ones must
have “education. The two little
girls did help in‘bhe fields when they
came home from school.

The Michigan 'Sngar‘ Company
loaned to th'eiPe'r-s Marquette Rail-
road a train load of Mexican famil-
ies sometime in the end of August.

" These tamlil-ies had werked at beets

during the entire spring season, and
were now living in box cars on a side
track in the city of Saginaw, the woé
men keeping house while the men
worked for the railroad. ‘ The city
school authorities found fifteen ‘chil-
dren of school age in these cars and
decided to form a special claSS at'a
nearby school. For three weeks these
Mexican 'children attended. ‘ One
morning in October, when the har—
vest season was at its height, the
‘teacher telephoned the superintend—
ent of schools’that none of the Mex—
icans had appeared; An investigr-
tion was made and it was learned
that early that morning 3. 10001110-
tive had been attached to the box
cars and the families carried off to
the beet fields.

Nine schools were Visited in 83;:—
lililW County to tlctcrl'nizn in rubs!
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I have a 400-acre farm in Saginaw Valley, 18 miles from
Saginaw. This farm is in A1 condition. Just spent $10.000.00
on buildings. Most modern cow barn in Michigan. Two silos
and can feed and stable all stock including young stock under
one roof. All machinery and tools new, including tractor, feed
grinder, silo filler and buzz saw. A city man owns this farm
and has discovered that he is no farmer. Mr. Farm Seeker, if
you are in the market for a farm of this kind, this is your
chance.

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uros. both'ln body of ad. and in 'address. Copy must be ‘in‘ o I' hand:

A wono PER Issu‘z—s immiom m‘ioo POI' Farm  .a
.Tmmy “words is the minimum accepted more",
Cash should accompany-ll orders. Count on one Wrench initial Ind .o‘ioh group. of

we». Saturday, for In“!

'1 dated following week. The Business Farmer Adv. Dept... M Clemens. Mich.

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$650 SECURES 62A. WITH HORSE. cow
and fodder. etc. Near large RR town, rich dark
loam soil, wire fenced pasture; 1,000 cords {V000,
variety fruit, snug house 2 barns .DIEBOPY. 3-“
$1,300 easy terms. See Page 48, Illus. Cata-
log Bargains. 33 states. STROUT AGENCY. 814.
BE. Ford Bldg., Detroit, Mich.

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LANDOLOGY SPECIAL NUMBER JUST OUTI

containing 1021 facts of clover land in Marin—
ette County, Wisconsin. If for a home or as an
investment you are thinking of buying good farm
lands where farmers grow rich, send at oner-

this special number of Limdology. It is free on
request. Address SKIDMORE—RIEIILE LAND
(.20.. 308 Skidmore-Riehle Bldx..' _Marinette, .

 

FIRST CLASS FARM HOME. STATE RE-
wurd road. 3-4 milemarket. schools, churches.
For particulars address owner. JOEL G. PALM-
ER, Orleans, Mich.

 

FOR SALE—CHOICE HEAVY CLAY LOAM
hardwood Land, old cuttings, in live farm set-
tlement near Millersburg and Onaway. Sweet
clover seed crops y for your land in this wond-
orful clover seed bet. It is doing it for others——
why not for you? JOHN G. KRAUTH, Direct
Dealer, Millersburg, Mich.

118 ACRES IDEALLY LOCATED ON STONE
road. 4 1—2 miles from live R. R. town, good
‘nTarkets, R. F. D., two houses, three barns. dark
clrv loam soil. eleven acres heavy bearing apple
orchard. eight acres wild with spring water, bal-
ance cleared, orchard will pay for farm in few
years, must sell to settle estate. prim very
cheaply at $75 per acre. No ziuczi‘s, ilcnl direct
with heirs. A. M. KNIGHT, It. I“. i'. Sterling,
Mich.

d0 ACRE FARM FOR SALE—LOCATED IN
Missmikee Co. Price $1.500. For particulars
a'ldress ALVIN ASPY, 401 King St.. Saginaw,
Mich.

FREE! DESCRIPTIVE LIST 100 FARMS 'IN
"Thumb" District, the Garden of Michigan. REED
l‘lCAlfl‘Y (70.. Carsonville. Mich.

‘ 80 ACRES LAND AND GREEN TIMBERL
50.000 mine props; 75,000 ft. logs for $1.700.
J. F. BARBER, Turner, Mich.

FOR SALE—120 ACRES. NUMBER ONE
inn; and bust of buildings, fruit, timber. One
"mile to Dixie Highway, station, church and school.
‘30 miles from Detroit. R. \V. ANDERSON,
Clarkston. Mich.

FOR SALE—20 ACRES, BL-ILDINGS, MOE}:
now, 1—2 mile from town; $2.250. Ford or .lib-
crty bonds part. C. CUTLER, Benzonia, R1, Mich.

MUST SELL BEFORE APRIL. 40 OR '80
acres good level land. building worth the price.
(‘lose to market. gravel roads. W. CLEMENTS,
Six Imkes. Mich.

’ 438 1-2 ACRES GOOD LOAM SOIL, GOOD
buildings. 20 acres timber. three miles from
town, goml hoot ground, $14,000. 1—3 cash, bal-
ance 5 per cent.
J. W. PRATT, Byron, Mich.
FOR SALE—122 ACRES HIGHLY IMPROV-
ed. (‘rmirl buildings. 40 rods to school, 3 miles
from Lansing. $152 per acre if sold soon. 8.
\V’. HICMPT. ll 7. Lansing, Mich.

5250 SECURES FARM WITH COZY DWEL-
linsz. Overlooking beautiful bay; 10 acres in
famous resort section; on good road, near beach,
convenient. city: 8 acres tillage. ideal vegetables
an dtropical fruits; oranges, guavas, eta; ar-
tosian wail: owner unable occupy, makes low
price $1,000, easy terms. Details page 55 Cat,
' 1 FREE. STROUT AGENCY 1210 FA, Gm-

lll.ig.. .I acksonville, Fla.

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FOR SALES—4120 ACRE FARM. 50 ACRES
under cultivation, 70' in good pasture.

pig house. granary. corn .crib.
mile. Trunk road 1 mile. Terms easy if sold
soon. For particulars write or See 0. A. OLSEN,
Spruce. Mich. ’

house,

FARM BARGAIN—420 ACRE FARM SANDY
loam clay bottom. good soil to raise shy kind of
CTQDS- Large house with basement; good well;
large barn, metal lined granary; silo. Will sell
with or without stock and machinery.
acre. Requires down payment of three thousand
dollars. EDWARD HESSE. 1996 Qratiot Ave..
Detroit, Mich. ,

FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE—40 ACRES OF
good landr good buildings. 8. B. NIBBS,-uid-
dleville. Mich. ,

 

CERTIFIED STRAWBERRY PLANTS. SEN.
Dunlap and War-field. $4.0 Oper 1,000: $2.00
per 500; $1.00 per 250. HAMPTON &. SON.
Bangor. Mich.

BUY FENCE POSTS DIRECT FROM FOR-
est. All kinds. Delivered prices. Address‘ "M.
M," care Michigan Business Farmer, Mt. Clem--
ens. Mich.

WANT THE CHEAPEST. HANDIEST BELT
power? Then” ask me about the LITTLE TlVlST-
ER Power Transmitter for Ford and Dodge ca“!
FRANK R. WEISRERGER. Selina. Kansas. ’

 

SENATOR DUNLAP STRAWBERRIES.
Plants at $4.00 per 1,000, 38.50 per 1,000 in
lots of 3,000 or more. Certified and: true to
name. C. H. STANLEY, Prop.. Flower View
Farm. R 2, Paw I.Paw, Mich.

 

FRANCIS' STRAWBERRY PLANTS. $2.00
per 100. $15 per 1,000. postpaid. TINDALL,
the Ever-bearing Strawberry Man. City,
Mich.

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CHOICE VIGOROUS SENATOR DUNLAP’

and \Varfleld strawberry plants 500 per 100 post-
paid or $4.00 per 1,000 not prepaid. H.
liALlCSKY, Fosters. Mich.

CHOICE WISCONSIN PEDIOREED BARLEY
5 bu. or more $1.50 per bu. Bags free. Cosh
with order. B. I“. HELLEM. Morenci, Mich.

 

KENTUCKY TOBACCO—2 YR. OLD LEAF
rich. mellow, nature cured. Chewing and smok-
ing Special trial offer, 3 lbs. $1.00 postpaid.
KENTUCKY TOBACCO ASSN. Dept 222,
llawesvillc, Ky.

 

VICTOR SEED OATS FOR SALE—MADE
l01 bushels an acre, 12 to 25 bushels more than
others; longer fillers; great stubbers. $1.00 per
bushel. Bags free. White Elephant Oats, 75c
per bushel. A. D. NELSON. Wheeler, Mich.

 

CERTIFIED PETOSKEY GOLDEN RUSSET
Seed Potatoes. Nine years: hill selected for Ups
and yield. $6 per 150 pound sack. D. POST,
Twin Boy Farm. Alba. Michigan. -

I HAVE RECLEANED WHITE BLOSSOM
Sweet ~Clover Seed at $7.50 per bu., bags in-
cluded. Send for samples. ARTHUR CHURCH,
Rad Axe. MiCh.

FOR SALE—LIMITED QUANTITY OF CAN.
adian field peas, recleaned $2.50 bu., bags includ—
ed. F. O. B. Shepherd. WALTER BROWN. R
1, Shepherd. Mich.

 

MOGUL 8-16 INTERNATIONAL TRACTOR
in perfect mechanical order with full plowing
equipment. Will sacrifice for quick sale. Write
1.. G. OLK, Lesle; Mich. -

FOR SALE—2.000 BLOWERS. ALSO. 2.000
Mercereau Blackberry plants, $35 per 11,000_
FRANK SEATON, Fenton, Mich.

 

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--;.DEPARTMENT~,, « .4 p  .

, DREW ,HAN‘one million'pounds ,
of seed have been handled. by‘

' the’Michiga‘n State Farm Bu-
reau seedvdepartment for 97,000
fax-mm of the state since November

_1, '1920, seed that in every case has

gone to its legitimate destination
ticketed- and tagged with absolute
assurance on the origin, degree of
adaptability, purity and genuineness
of the seed and what could be ex-
pected of it. This, according to the
state farm bureau, has been an
epoch making step in Mich'iganag-

' rlculture in that for the first time the

greatest of the farmer's seed gamb-
les,——the origin and adaptability of
his purchased» seed,—-—has been set-
tled. -

Michigan has a. state seed law in-
tended to give the farmer adequate.
protection, but it falls short, says the
state farm bureau: in that it fails to
insist upon the origin of the seed be-
ing stated. ,No‘one has ever felt
obligated to eliminate that risk with
an iron-clad statement and guaran-
tee, but the farm bureau has been
willing to take that trouble and has
made that statement its keynote of
protection as a matter of improving
Michigan agriculture.

Northern states cannot use many
southern grown seeds to advantage.
Government reports say that Italian
and other such southern grown clov—
er an-d alfalfa seed is not adapted to
our severe winters and is more sub-

' j’ect to disease than our hardy north-

ern grOWn seed. Yet last year near-
ly twen‘ty million pounds each of
clover and alfalfa seed not adapted
to conditions common. in northern
states was imported and no doubt
much of it found its way into those
states, according to the state farm
bureau. v

The ordinary systems of distribu
tion, says J. W. Nicholson, head of
the farm bureau seed department,
are such that the buyer gets no real
information and has no possibility
of successful investigation of the
stock he is introducing to his farm.
The farm bureau has settled
problem by excluding suspected seed
from its warehouses and by insisting
upon the origin and history of all
seed that it handles.

Some idea of the farm bureau seed
department’s job in ascertaining the
percentage of purity, per cent of in:
ert matter, dead and foreign seeds
may be ascertained from the fact
that its figures show that the aver-
age 'bushel of clover seed contains
about 15 million individual seeds.
Impurities may be present which
would escape the careful scrutiny of
abyone but a trained seed analyst.

Acting as the authorized agent of
the Michigan Crop Improvement As-
sociation, thefarm bureau seed de-
partment reports the distribution of

Michigan pure seed throughout the!

state. The department is an ardent
advocate of the use of pure bred and
registered seed and is lending its ef-
forts toward the improvement of
Michigan farm crops through that
medium. Working as it does thru
the co-operative elevators and ex-

" load.

More  gums trim
dollars worth of seed was. 11' "

by the department. during the mofithi'~ ' 

of January alone, according to magi-s-

,‘port. to.) the farm bunflqutiv’

Committee. More than 85 per _-c¢_nt

"of the alslke seed in’ the stanzas.»
from the farm bureau seed- house" ' '

found its way to the

p _ department's, ‘.
Warehouse, which 'also contains than"
remainder of one third of the world’s.“

supply of genuine registered Grinim ,,

alfalfa, purchased last fall by the. dos”

partment." Other seed 'in storng

crowds the warehouse to "the point ~.

where it is predicted that .a new
farm bureau seed warehouse is im-‘
minent.» - ' - »
J. W. Nicholson, director of the
seed department,_a nationally recog-
nized authority on séed,‘former sec-
retary of the Michigan Crop Improye-

ment Associatioii, and M. A. C. .023.

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tension. specialist in farm _cro'ps,


assisted by Fred, G.__Mock, a~commevrél
clally trained seed expert, 'R. V. Tan-re

nor, for several‘years a county agent: 

and .n'otedas an organization expert;

and Carl F. Barnum, who maintains. 

the seed department’stouch with'the‘
associa: ‘-

fiarmers and co-opera'tive'

tion‘s throughout the state. Those

with eight others constitute the _seed‘ 

department force that handled a mil-
lion pounds of seed in four months.

SYRUP MAKERS JOIN FARM

v BUREAU ‘ ‘ ,
0MPLETE reorganization of the
Michigan Mapler‘Sfrup Makers’
, Association and . its, 'aflil‘iation
with- the Michigan‘State Farm Bu-
reau indicates that a revival of the

\ maple syrup industry in Michigan is

this ,

changes of the state, it believes that .

its connection with the producers is
close and begets confidence.

Studies in increased germination
through s'cariflcation at the farm bu-
reau seed warehouse will benefit
Michigan farmers next spring, ac-
cording to the men who handle the
seed. Practically all Grimm alfalfa
purchased last fall had an unusually
tough seed coat because of the long

growing season and'tests showed an'

average germination of 62 per cent.
Thorough scarification brought the
germination up to 92 per cent.

All hard shelled seed is soarified
at'th-e state farm bureau warehouse.
A machinewi-th an hourly capacity
of 100*‘bus-he1s is kept busy~~all day.

seed is driven by air pressure'thru'
"a long V, circular sandpaper tube and.

comes out with the rough: coat thin-

'~nedi._apd1 broken so that water will
Tread-fly ith “into ’the seed when it is
‘ " planted. ;_ Two seed cleaners.
: enchilncomin‘g} shipment." .

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They. have»

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Questionnaire on‘ the caries}: 1i ‘
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imminent, and that an'eifort will be
made to lift, the state’s product-ion
ran~k from sixth to third. at position
it occupied until a. few years ago,
says the state farm bureau.

Today, although the flavor ‘of

Michigan syrup surpasses that of any -

other, state, not exc'epfin‘glvermont,’
the association’s figuresshow that
1,800 producers in the state have
permitted the production to decline
from 200,000 gallons inv"1,910 "to
150,000 gallons in 1920,>having a
value of $350,000. Five states now
le'athichigvan in maple 'syrup pro-
duction, New York, Ohio, Vermont,
New Hampshire and Wisconsin, ‘in
the order named. However, Profes-
sOr F. H. Sanford of the farmlbu;
reau forestry. department and the
maple syrup makers’ leaders believe
that times have changed and that
better times are coming ,for the
maple syrup industry with the imé
which is planned. ‘
For years the state
maple syrup makers

\has had a
Organization

which has had as its secretary a man.

who gave of his time and efforts tow-

ard marketing the product of the,

producers in central Michigan, with
marked success, says the farm’bu-
reau, until within the last few years
when a. number of factors combined
to undermine the industry in Michi-
gan, chief among them the lack of
an advertising campaign on- maple
Syrup flavor to combat the educa-

tional campaign waged by the firms

_provement in marketing. facilities

making _cahe and 'other‘ leSs empenr 

sive syrups, and the fact that the
farmer in his wartime and early post-
war prosperity abandoned the strain;
uous spring jo'b'of syrup making.

Then came the decline in the indu's- 7

try and today it is estimated that
not one bush in four will be, tapped
this spring unless the syrup‘makers
are given some incentive to "gel:
busy. , 1‘  -
‘ Many. of the-finest sugar bushes'in
the state have been cut, down and
sold for'lulmber, dueto the recent

peakwprices' for maple timber, ac-v‘

cording to leading men in t-he'ixidifs-g‘

try.‘. I p _r ‘ 

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The farmers ‘ ot_ "Michigan
own about oneehalf of the auto-

mobilesjn the state, yet it is ,

estimated that in 1920 their
losses, through fire, theft, prop—
erly ,da-mage', personal
» and collision, amounted to ov-
er ONE MILLION DOLLARS.

0n accountvof the large hum.
her of entomobi’les sold each

year, traffic has increased and v
easily becomes congested , and; ‘
1 traffic accidents, damage claims

and many law suits result.
With a readjustment cf prices
the careful man will protect his
property- and himself against
liability claims by the proper
insurance policy. The BIG
MUTUAL Automobile Insure
ance Company of the state has
' been carrying farmers" busi—
ness for six seasons and has
paid out a total of 5004 claims
to January lst,
amount of $643,285.00. »
I The Company has experi-
enced officers, adjusters and at-
torneys in every part of the
state to aid the policy—holder in
case of trouble. Stolen cars
' have been recdvered in Chicago,
. St. Louis, New Orleans, Cleve~
Ian-d, Columbus and Toledo and
the, Company is well known to
the Auto Theft Department of
all of the cities of adjoining
states. The Company is there-
fore eouipped to assist the pol-
icy~holder in the recovery of
stolen cars , and to give a
prompt settlement in case of a
loss.

No insurance is accepted in
the City of Detroit and a special

rate is made on‘ farmers’ auto— .

mobiles, covering fire, theft.
and the damage claims made
against thevowner of the car, of
$1.00 for the pdlicy and 39¢
per horse power. The collis—
ion rate is only $2.00 per hun—
dred.

'In 1906 there were 364 peo-
ple killed by automobiles in
the United States and in 1920
there were 10,000 people kill-
ed. That’s why the prudent

man keeps his, automobile in- I

sured in the
Citizens’ Mutual
. --Automobile

insurance 'Co., '_
'of H well. Michigan
It not insured see local agent
or write the. above company
today.~ ' i »

 

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Grow on fruit. reduce living cost. Improve value,

_ flagrauce and production of farm. garden or or;
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"Quoted in its on stionhairo Gayernor

'Grmbeek‘s statement to the legislate

tune that real estate ‘now pays 80
per cent of the state taxes and per-
sonal property but 20 per cent.
Friends of the state income tax idea
say that the present. intangibles tax
is easy to. evade and is evaded.
Corrective legislation with respect
to Michigan timber lands is sought
through the Joint action of the Mich-
igan State Farm Bureau forestry de-
partment and the' Michigan Hard-
'wood Ass’n. The latter organiza-
tion has appointed a committee of
three to work with the farm bureau,

.headed by M. L. Saunders of Cadil-

lac.‘ A yearly tax on the bare land
with a deferred tax on the timber at
the time it is marketed is favored.
The present system taxes the timber
each year and is responsible in a
large way for many lumbering evils.
according to F. H. Sanford of the
farm bureau forestry department.
Readjustment' in freight rates be-
tween Michigan and‘ Southeastern

pers into the south an undue advan-
tage in marketing agricultural pro-
ducts, will soon be effected, accord—
ing to the traffic department of the
state farm bureau. Railroad traffic
managers met recently with indus-
trial traflic men and it was agreed
to file joint rates which would give
both sides a basis on which to remove
the Michigan discriminations. '
Railroads are considering the pro-
posal to accord seed shipments into
'Michigan. the stop-oner privileges on

- transit freight, according to a Michi-

gan State Farm Bureau trailic an-
nouncement.

Upwards of a million pounds of
wool have been marketed from the
Michigan State» Farm Bureau pool,
says the wool department, adding
that manufacturers like the way in
which Michigan wool is being graded
and appreciate the fact that they can
get what they want in quantities.
or the remaining 2.500.000 pounds
in the pool over a million pounds
have been graded and the work is
progressing at the rate of 20,000
a day. The farm bureau now has
two inactories manufacturing blan-
kets and auto robes.

HOW JASON WOODMAN GROWS
GOOD SEED POTATOES
(Continued from page 6)

will “skin-up” a little._ Iwould not

buy certified seed unless it did peel

a little when dug; that is its cer~

tificate of character.

As you value your reputation,
market your seed potatoes in your
own neighborhood, or to the South.
Do not send seed very far north of
your latitude; i'f'you do, it is prob-
able that the grower who uses it
will be disappointed. I ‘

’ It, is not necessary that every po-

tato’grewer'should be a’seed breed-

er; but there should be at least one

man in every potato, producing 10—

cality who will and can breed prop-

erty, seed stock for that locality.

Neighboring growers can secure seed

from him every three or four years

to replace stock which has begun to
deteriorate. A difference of 20 per
cent, often very much more, in the
yield of marketable tuibess, is the
reward the grower will get for the
extra price he has paid the breeder
and an increase of 50 or more bush-
els to the acre will bring an addi-

‘tional income which will pay several

times over the small increase in the

cost of seed. _

In_~order to properly carry on the
work of potato breeding, I have
found'it necessary to secure help of
men wiser than myself. The assist—
ance of the specialists from the 'col-

' .lege has been of great value; and

in my'opinion no tanner can afford
to undertake . this work without
availing himself at the skill and
knowledgeythese men will bring to
him. ' _ / ' ‘ _ .

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of those great varieties which
reach perfection in this superior
oats-growing region. Wisconsin
No. 1, Improved Kherson (Iowa N0.
105) and Improved Swedish Select
are big producing varieties.

. Send for catalog of
Northern hardy,
Strong - germinating
field seeds “Grown in
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Marinette Clovers,
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Barley, \Visconsin
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write outs-inst you,hava.to organilet‘us put it In type, show; you 1a
size of ad. or more: ,often as you .wlsh.,cp ynortezan'gfs m
r e o ay. , '

BREEDERSI DIRECTORY. THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER, Mt.

here at special low rates: ask for them.

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pronoun tell you'what It will cost for 18. 28 or.82 times.
ustfibe received one was before: date of Issue; Breedere’ Auction Sales advertised ‘

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Better so".
You can change

Clemens, Michigan!

 

 

To avoid confllctlng dates we will without
cost. list the date of any live stock sale In
lchlgan. If you are considering a sale Id-
Vlse us at once and we will claim the data
for you. Address. lee Stock Editor. M. a.
. Mt. Clemens.

“Mar. 5, Durocs.  Monore,
. il'l.

May 10, Shorthorns. Central Mich. Short-
horn Breeders' Ass'n, Greenville Fair Grounds,
Greenviile, Mich.

 

Yearling, Bull For Sale

Bull born Septfi28, 1919, evenly
.marked and a fine individual. Sir-
ed by my 30 lb. bull and from a
20, lb. daughter of Johan Heng;
Lad, full sister to a 3:4 lo. cow.
Dam will start on yearly test
Nov. 15.

ROY F. FICKIES

Chesaning, Mich.

 

 

 

 

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LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEERS
Andy Adams, Litchl‘ieid, Mich.
Ed. Bowers, South Whitley, Ind
Porter Colestock. Eaton Rapids, Mich.
John Hoffman, liudson, Mich.

,,I). L. Perry. Columbus, Ohio.

J. I. Post, Iliilsdale, Mich.

,J. E. lluppci'l. l'crry. Mir-h.
Harry Robinson, l’iymoulh, Mich.
\Vin. Waffle. Goldwater. Mich.
John P. Hutton, Lansing, Mich.

CATTLE 

_ “nonsg‘fiugmnmsmn

SHOW BULL

Sired by a Pontiac Aaggie Korndyke-llenger-
vcid DeKoi bull from a nearly 19 lb. show
i'IlW. First prize junior calf, Jackson Fair,
1920. Light in color and good individual
Seven months 0d. Price, $125 to make
room. Hurry!

Herd under Federal Supervision.

BOAROMAII FARMS

JACKSON. MICH.

Holstein Breeders Since
FOR SALE—$450.00
CAS H OR TE RMS

A show bull from A. ll. 0. llam born

camber L”; 1018. sirol by our Show Bull
MODEL KING SEGIS GLISTA

‘whose grand dnin, (liJS’l‘A ERNESTINE

six tinirs made hotter than thirty

butter.

Buy

calves.

GRAND RIVER STOCK FARMS

111  Main Corey J. Spencer, Owner

imder Federal Supervision

TWO BULL OALVES

Registered ll-nisleLn-Friesian, sired by 89.87 lb.
bull and from hes vy producing young cows. These
calves are '
Ioid soon.

HARDY T

 

 

 

 

 

1908

 

 

 

 

De-

has
pounds of

now in order to have 1921422 winter

State and

 

TUBES. Elwsll. Mich.

 

$1ou.e0 mu. nuv HOLSTElN-FRIESIAN
bull (talvvs, neuriy ready for service, from sire
whose dsrx ilenrcst dams average 33.34 lbs. butter
Ill r his.
OSCAR INALLIN. Virrcr‘qin Farm
Unionvilie, Mich.

 

LAKEVIEW DAIRY FARM HOLSTElN-FRIES-

inns. llerd sire l’nui Pietorje Wane Prince.
’l‘wu nearest. dams nvpruge 31.9 lbs. butler, 672
lbs milk in 7 days. lluin milked 117 lbs. in W":
day; 3,218 lbs. in :m days; 12237 lbs. buth
in 30 days. llis bull calves for sale. One from
a. 2" lb. two-year~olri. Good individuals. Prices
l'eaSUllRIl'e- Age from 2 to 5 months.

E. E. BUTTERS. Goldwater, Mich.

H To SETTLE AN ESTATE

7 registered Holstein cows, 5 yet to freshen
bred to a 30 lb. bull. $1,200 takes them. '
BERT SLOCUM, Byron. Mich.

  BORN MARCH 27, 1920, VERY

nice, straight and well grown,
sired by a’ son of Flint Ilengerveld Lad whose two
nearest dams average over 32 lbs. butter and
785 lbs. milk in 7 days, Dam is a ‘20.“1 lh.
.lr. 2 year old daughter of Johan Hengerveld Lad
68 A. ll. 0. daughters. Price $1.30 1‘. n. u.
Flint. Pedigree on application.

L. C. KETZLER. Flint. 7Mlch.

 

 

very nice and will be priced cheap if ,‘

 

 

"MR MiLK PRODUCER

Your prob em is more MILK. more BUTTER.
more PROFI . per cow.

A son of Maplrcrest Application. Pontiac—
182852—Ir0m our heavyyearly-milking‘good-but-
tor-record dam will solve it

Maplecrost Application Pontinc's darn made
85,103 lbs. butter in 7 days; 1344.3 lbs. butter
and 28421.2 lbs. milk in 365 days. .

He is one of the greatest long distance sire

His daughters and sons will prove it.

Write us for pedigree and prices on his sons.

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

Pedigrees and prices on application.

R. Bruce McPherson. Howell. .Mlch.

SOLO AGAIN

Bull calf last advertised sold but have 2 more
that are mostly white. They are nice straight fel-
lows, sired b a son og King Ona. One is from
a 17 lb. 2 r. old dam and the other is from s
2 lb. Jr 3 yr. oid.dam, she is by a son of
Friend Hengervcid De Koi Butter Boy, one of
the great bulls. -

JAMES HOPSON JR.. flwosso. Mloh.. nz.

HOWBERT HERO

WHERE TYPE. CONSTITUTION AND PRO-
DUCTIVE ABILITY IS ASSURED.

TWO grandsons of King of the
Pontiacs from A. R. O. Dams of ex-
cellent breeding. ‘

H. r. EVANS
Eau Claire, Mich.

 

 

 

 

YOUR CHOICE OF THREE
REAL SIRES

1 born Dec. 20th, 1920, nicely marked
and from a 25 lb. 3 year old dam sired by
a 25 lb. grandson of be $50,000 bull for
$100.00. No. 2 born ec. 4th, 1020. Nearly
white and from a 15 lb. 3 year old dam.
Sired by a 38 lb: bull. Dam a grand daugh-
ter of King Segis Pontiac. Only $75. No.
3 born Feb. 2nd? from a nearly 20 1b dam
and sired by a 25 lb. 3 year old grandson of
King Segis Pontiac Alcartra. Nicely marked
and yours for $70.00. All papers free.

JOHN BAZLEY
319 Atkinson Ave.

DETROIT MICH.

 

 

 

 

  LARGE REGISTERED HOLSTEIN
cow, five years old, well marked
and a good milker. Also her bull calf born Oct.
27; sired by a son of Johan Hengerveld Lad, and
a 22 lb. two year-old dam. Price $250 for the
air. ‘ . .‘
p R. H. BARNHART. R 1, St. Charles, Mich.
OLVERINE 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 con of
“King of the Pontiacs" from a daughter of Pon-
tiac Clothilde De [(01 2nd. A few bull calves (0!
mile T W, Sprague. R 2. Battle Creek. Mich.

ULL READY FOR SERVICE, 16 MONTHS
old. His two grand dams averaging 80and 31
lbs, butter and his dam 24 lbs. butter and 519
lbs. milk in 7 days.
WILLIAM SCHWEITZER. R 3, Bay City, Mich.
Bell Phone 6125~F-14

 

' Spaulding
4O - Registered Holsteins - 40

~ Sale includes 25 young cows safe in calf to'a 35' lb. [son of Friend
Hengerveld De Kol Butter Boy, or to a 28.5 lb. son’ of Sir Veeman
Hengerveid, or just fresh with calves by side sired by these bulls.

Old State Block

Sale Managed By *

' Michigan Holstein-‘Friesian Association

REDIEMIBER

Dispersion . Sale

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‘ s.

, .lv two.
0 '  ’  dams
31¢ IEmSAOODO so 8200.00: .Au.

 

 . .HOLSTElNe-FRIESIAN BULLS
.. ‘ r .  From a State 9 a federal Accreditedflflifllrod by  »
r '  1 EEK BYONS‘l‘zfijfzi    
“'°-~°°'i:..r°.s:*.':.rl.i” “W
9.3101: ..

. .. . albums {rota 692 _md:
to 26.3" as erztonrfirur old-09nd are
Susanna-Mien. ,

\

" at M.’ Lb‘g.

is unsure .
a high class bred gilt. Bred to a chairman sow

of Scissors. Bred in furrow April lst. This gilt
weighed 320 lbs. Feb. 1st.

her back at my expense. '

Price_$l25 delivered. . ‘1
‘ H. E. BROWN

' Breedsvllle, Mich.

Breeder of Dumcs only

BBAIIOOIIHILL FARM

Ortonvllle, Michigan
\Ve have cut our price one-half: -
Bull calf, 35 lb. sire
Bull calf, 41 lb. sire, 30 lb. dam
Bull ready for service
Bull, 41 lb. sire, 31 lb. dam
All good individuals from
passed Third Clean Federal Test.
JOHN P. HEHL
1205 Griswold Street. Detroit. Michigan,

HOLSTEIN @ULLS
19' 1-2 and 24 1-2 1b..
Herd on ac»

Mich.

a

0R SALE—2 REG.
ready for service from
dams. Price $100 and $125.
credited list.
’ Wm. GRIFFIN, Howell.

NOTIOE

Having sold one of my farms
I will sell the herd’of coWs on that
farm, consisting of cows, heifers,
and calves. My herd is under
federal supervision, having pass-
ed one clean test last month. Sev-
eral prize winners, bull calves
from 70 to 80 1b. cows, among
them at the Lenawee and Hills-
dale county fairs. Had Grand
Champion bull at Michigan State
Fair. ‘ ' ‘

C. E. WINNS, Adrian, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A HOL~
Both
$50

OR SALE—TWO BULL CALVES.
will and Durlit'm iblllll’ 3 months old.
have heavy milking dams. Not registered.
each if taken at once.

CHASE STOCK FARM. Mariette. Mich

 

0R SALE—REGISTERED HOLSTEIN COW.
Three heifer calves. 1 bull calf.
R. J. BANFIELD. Wilton), Mich

WORLD’S RECORD BREEDING

Back of. Carnation Champion, whose she is
Johanna McKinley Segis (the only 40 lb. son
of King Segis) sire of the world’s champion Jr.
two~year-old, Carnation Pioneer Segis, 31 lbs.
whose dam is Tietje Queen De Kol, 42 lbs. the
dam of the world’s champion Sr. two-yr. old, Glen
Alex Queen De Koi 42 lbs. We are now offering
some of his sons from A. R. O. dams that are
real bargains. Herd under federal supervision.

VOEPEL FARM, Sabewalng, Mich.

FOR SALE

At Fairchild Farms, where good ones are baing
developed. ' »

 

 

Kol and good producing dams.
Some with high records.

JOHN SCHLAFF
277 Tillman Avenue
Detroit, Mich.

FOR SALE—~F‘OUR PURE BRED HOLSTEIN
yearling sires. Full set of papers given with
each animal.

cso. w. PUFFER. So.'noardman. Mich.
 BORN' JAN. 2nd, BEAUTIFULLY

marked. more white than black.

straight and fine individual. Sire: A sun of Sir
Vceman Hengerveid—Tho great Century sire with
125 A. R. 0. 'daughters, 17 above 30 lbs.

-Dam: A- 21.83 1b. butter in 7 days with 5 8

lbs. milk from a grandson of King Segis. Send or
pedigree if interested—priced for immediate ship-~

ment $75.00. . .
FRED M. sovo. Waidron, 'Mlch.
SHORTHORN

 

 

 

 

ENTRAL MICHIGAN SHORTHORN BREED-

ers' Association offer for sale 75 head; all
ages, both nfllk and beef breeding. Send for new
list. ~ _

M. E. MILLER, Soc'y, Gmnvllle, Mich.

 

IF YOU WANT To BUY 0R SELL I MAY
have just what you want. I handie'from one
animal up to the largest consignment sale in the
country. ‘

0. A. Rosmusssen Sale, 00.. Groonvlllo, M'ch.

SOOTOH SHOBTHOBIIS 1% 33?..70'32133
Priced right, also my herd bull. .
THEODORE NIcKLAs. Metamora, Mich.

 

 

on’Your Earm?

Sher-thorns at the Feb. 25th sale
I held at 1 P. M. We are listing
four females and two show bulls that will lift
your mortgage if they are cared for.
‘ * RIOHLAND FARMS ~

 

sflonrllonlls V 1*:  
ed.

5’bnlls. 4 3 mos.‘ old. all min, pail

«3' cu.

 

.  M.

\

Pigeon]. v   

If not perfectly -'satisfactory on arrival. ship. _

. . . . . . . . . . . ..s1oo '

Bull calves out of I’oilitier Pontiac Dora De,

Have You a Mortgage

 u. Prescott a. sum. Tammany. mini 1 '

 

7mm wood mil on. the [flamen' kind.:.atk'.fstm-V

the live stockfrece ts f‘thegebgull
try is far too large ,s time an
the price :is»: steeds b cafse’ot thin,
fact. *Itrhas comesobe «a fact that

"a‘heavy crop of corni’thé’iwuntry over _ 

means that nearly [80, percent offthe   
stock sent 'to market for- the-ensuing  '

Year Will .be much heavier‘than; th'é,_'“‘“'

"demand requires.
1! It I E

p

, The Chicago horse market for the ‘ '
week ending Feb. 12, showed more'

“pep'fnnd general activity than any

session so far: this. winter. The de.-. .17

mandwas mainly for farm chunks, 

, hoWever. the, call for» heavy. horses

being conspicuous " by‘ri-ts absence
Prices paid were unevenly higher and“
the attendance the best-03f the sea-
son. Buyerswere present from all

points of thegeompass. «Estimated.
receipts for this week are the highs; 

est for the season and another'good
market is looked for. V
- t 3F ii 1* . '

Southwestern ca‘ttle growers, who
have leased a tract of land in the
San Carlos Indian reservation, are
having serious trouble with the wild
horses and wild burros which run at
large on the reservation. The In-
dians claim to own the horses and
the'burros which number more than
12,000-and refuse all propositions’to
purc‘haSe, made by the cattlemen.
The horses are practically worthless
except for their meat which the In-
dians use for food.

> a: w an at , _ ,

Reports from all of theisa-ding'
live stock markets of the country
reflect an extremely light demand for
all kinds of’ feeding cattle.
sas City and Omalha‘,‘the movement
has dropped to the smallest volume
in ten years. The cause of the feed-
er’s lack of interest is the tight mon-
ey market and the extremely low
‘prices at which fat cattle are selling.
In Chicago recently, scalpers have
been 'obiiged to carry over
from day to day and wee-k‘ to week
although offering to sell them
'prices far below cost to them. The
facts, recorded above, do not augur
well for the future of the fat cattle
supply. ’ '

1‘ t ' t' 3

At its recent meeting at Lansing,
the Michigan Live Stock Exchange
passed a resolution favoring co-op-,
oration with the Michigan State

Farm Bureau as a separate depart"

ment. It was also voted to request»
a representative from the Exchange
to sit, ex—officio with the executive
committee of the Farm’ Bureau. The
board of directors of the Exchange
were instructed to investigate - the
practicability of establishing co-op-

‘ era'tive livestock selling agencies to: I V

compete for business ‘with the pri—
vately“ ow e‘d commiSSion firms now
located at etroi-t' and Buffalo.
. I ' n- it all e V ' ‘
.In its issue of February '10, The
Chicago Breeders’ Gazette published
the. following: '
“January, usually a. period of
heavy accumulation in packers’ cel—
lars. added only, 35,916,733 lbs. to
stocks out or: cut meats, the lightest
since 1917, and with that exception
since 1910. On February 1 the stbck
of cut meats at Chicago, Kansas City,
St. Joseph, Milwaukee and St. Louis.
was 239,458,116 lbs. against 3.28,—
092.064 3. year ago and 409,956,340,
in 1919. The stock of lard was 48,-
023,683 lbs. against 61,942,864 8.
year ago and 80,177,220 in 1919.

Stocks of hams actually decreased.

At Kan-.4. ‘

cat-tie .,

at .. '

This would be a bullish set of ,fig-  

urea if export. domain" *‘was normal
and the industrial sit ation enCour-."
aging. As it is, considerable hog
product is geing across the Atlantic
‘10,990;00.0*“lbs. of lard and 14,049,-
.OO'O'lbs. of meats finding the export
outlet week' beforeflast‘ against '5,~_.
796,000 “and 17,757,;000’1bs

er, but domestic con.
vbsen‘matsrim” ‘
wees [gr '

1w" ‘

 


1.; ‘ and While recovery
‘ canyne cured; the
‘ found

H  night. '

‘gdered nux vomica two drams

.V/

'i g‘-ve;two tablespoonfuls morning and.

gifnigiitu. ~ . 4 a

_ things.

av some. kind
inltheir nuance and .'
lion {they {act‘- get
 3.x

_. j I

4' This is. one rat the" rams {of eczma
' I ' Will be slow, it
treatment I have
, , p'i'ghly‘ successful consists 'of

..x

,v 'f3b0th”loca1 and internal~use;' locally
 i use the following:

Zinc sulphate and
arts .one ounce,

sugar or lead- émial p _ '
fifteen ‘grains,

corrosive. sublimate,

" :‘add sufficient water- to .make a quart;

shake well before using and‘apply a
I small amount to afiecte-dmarta twice
daily. The internal'treatment eon-
sists of giving the following: Po-
"tas'sium Iodid two bunces,,Fo‘w1erfs
Solution," add to make one pint and
give one tablespoonful morning and

x

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‘ T ' DERANGEMENT OF STQMACH-

'Have a cow“ that now for about three
.Weeks at night Spits out all the coarse
feed she has eaten (hiring the day. Does
not spit up the mats, or grab}.- Both
Veterinarie’s In Ithaca have said she is
pertcctly healthy. What's. the trouble?
-—§ubscriber. ‘ Ithaca, .Michigan,

'This condition is caused by' some.
derangement of the first stomach;
first clear the stomach by giving a
good purge consisting of epsom salts
'th0- pounds, pewdered ginger and
gentian equal parts one ounce, powé

an

powdered Capsicum ione dram; mix
all together and dissolve the entire
contents in two quarts'ot hot water,
and give slowly at one dose. After
bowels become normal givethe fol-7
lowing tonic powders and you will
have no further trouble. Powdered
gen-tian five ounces, powdered nux
vomica two ounces. powdered capsi-
cum‘ one ounce and sodium bicarb,'
[eight ounces. Mix thoroughlyfiand‘.

———————"‘~—‘ .
RING WORM 
Can you tell me through the Michigan

Business Farmer what to dado/r ‘9ur
young cattle? They have 'white—lookmg‘
or scabs, around their eyes an
their heads ‘look'very bade—’F. F, R., ‘
Huron county. ~

This is an affection of the skin,
commonly known as “Ring Worm.”
The disease commonly isinfectious
and transmissable in nature, usually
affecting a numberbt animals in
the’herd. It is transmiSSahleto-man
ralso, the caretaker .ot the affected an~
irialspotten developes. the . disease.
The disease , is;slightly more common
in voting cattle than in old ones. The
first svmptom?‘.consists,of the appear;
ance or very small». hard, and, round—
ed. wart—like nodules. In the'c'ourse
of three-pr .fOur weeks these nodules:
increase to a. considerable size. They.
are, no longer'rounded‘but 'now ap-
pear irregularly. flattened; and V are
slightly {raised on the skin enforce:
their color" is _of a grayish, ashlike
tint, and their thickne'Sssometimes-
,evqeeds half an" inch. The disease
evidently interferes in some manner
with nutrition, the animals affected
lose some weight, almost always;~
this. is no doubt due to the irritation
w‘ngcu mists because, as a rule; after
the nodular stage has passed, there
seems to he :more or less uneasiness

.  ‘on the part of the animal" affected.

 f tr‘ootm out is very satisfactory,
‘Those not the‘ format-ions - tlia;  are

loose should befcijcibly removed and...

“the affected part painted twice. daily
"With-pure-tinblure 01‘- ibdme-fA week
of: .th risenpaintings Will...usually stop
the td3se‘a_se_. , '.T,he:.formations Which
9' be. safely-extracted. or pulled.
__ uhee‘fsoaked-zseveral times,_

1;! w. tn olive

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a;  I ..

(SPECIAL .Abh

git-Ito out "whit you an to elm.

hero or _:ooolof'lovl rates: uh for them.

I

f MILKING sucnr’uonus. nuns mom cows

making cords. Priced reasonable.
. o: vonx. Mllllnoion. Mlch.

BOY SHORTIIORIIS l.§§'l..fd'.'- 33?“;
right, at ‘ readjustment prices,
_ JOHN SCHMIDT  SON. Reed City. Mlch.

I represent
Can put you in
Bulls all
President
Mc-

HAT DO YOU WANT?
HQHTHORN breeders. v .
touch wllh best milk, 'or beef strains.
jlges. Some. females. .0. W. Crum. ,
-.(.‘entral' Michigan Shorthorn Association.

Brides; Michigan.
SHORTHORN sum. “was FOR SALE.
Milking and Scotch Top, 3100 and up.

8. HUBER. Gladwln, Mlch.

THE VAN BUREN CO. SHORTHORN BREED-
ers' Association hue stock for sale. both milk
and beef breeding.
Write the secretary. '
‘FRANK BAILEY. Hartford. MIOIL

 offered at attractive prices

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

 

COWS, HEIFERS, BULLS

 

Foo SALE—REG. SHORTHORN BULL‘CALV-
es ready for service. Also Oxford Down l'chs.
JOE MURRAY &~SON, Brown City. Mich.

aplo Ridge Herd of Bates Shorthorns 0f-
fers for sale a roan bull calf 9 men. old. A‘so 2
younger ones. J E..TANS\VELL. Mason, Mich.

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HORTHOR‘N CATTLE AND OXFORD DOWN
sheep. Both sex for sale. "
- ‘ J.. A. DeGARMO. Mulr. Mlch.

I cHESTnuT RIDGE srocx mu

offers 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.

 

KENT COUNTY SHORTHORN BREEDERS'

Ass'n are offering bulls and heifers for sale. all
Sell the scrub and buy a purebred.

A. E. RAAB. Sec’y. ,Caledonla. Mlch.

MAPLEHunsr mu

'Newton Loyalist 2nd in service, short horn bulls
for sale. -. '
G. H. PARKHURST. R 2. Armada. Mlch.

MILKIIIG SHOBTHORII

I888.

 

 

I AM OFFER-
ing for sale at

Prices reasonable.
Mich.

er: also a few females.
POV 8. FINCH. Fife Lake.
CATTLE OF

EGISTERED RED POLLED
“'rite'f r

' both sex for solo. at farmers prices.
descriptions to . . . -
WALTER LUCKHARDT. R 3. .Manchester.'Mlch

"f HEREFORDS
HEREFORD BATTLE "ifé‘s.

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

Write us. tell us what you want and get
our» prices. 7 ‘

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

REGISTERED. HEREFORD OATTLE

King Repeater, No. 713941 heads our herd.
A grandson -of the Undefeated Grand Champion
. Repeater ‘7th No. 386905. We have S‘nie fine
bulls for sale and also some-heifers bred to Re-
pcater Tony Fox, Proptietcl'.

THE‘MARION STOCK FARM. Marlon. Mlch.

-HEnEFonns Eon SALE

Fairfax and Disturber blood, 150 Reg. head in
herd.- $35.00 reduction on all siresu Choice fe<
males for sale. Write me your needs.

’ ARL c. McCARTY, Bad Axe, Mlch.

 

“mama.

 

 

 

150 HEREFORD HEIFERS.‘ ALSO‘ KNOW
of‘10 or In loads fancy quality Shortshorns and
,Angus steers 5 to 1,000 lbs'_. Owners anxious
to. sell. Will help buy 50c commission.

- BALL. Fall-field, low:

I  strong boned

young hulls, 12‘ months old for sale. Also high
class females any age. Inspection invited.
E J TAYLOR. Fremont. Mlch.

 

coon TYPE.

 

 

 

MEADOWVIEW JERSEY FARM. REG. JERSEY
. wilt-‘4‘ .f'-l‘., Rule

 4;: MORRIst sou. Farmlnqtcn, Mlch.

 .. Get Your Start in  p

v Rggigteied Jerseys for $500.

g». v'e era ,lroinfif'inoe. .to 1 y.‘ 'll b -, Id
li.“i’i.r"fi§§.iihl§§°h“ cw “I’m?
I  . VVFBED‘, Hamming. soottlggmmh.

 

 

 

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bulls" "in, .; ~- 3 ~  :~ .. ., I _ , _
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,BREEDERI' DIRECTORY. Tl-ll‘ MICHIGAN ousmsss names, on. comm, mm...

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_._ GUERNSEYS
REGISTERED GOERIISEYS

A bull calf; nearly ready for light service—ho
Is a dandy—we have a price that will sell him.
J. M. WILLIAMS
North Adams. Mich.

 

 

F OR SALE

PURE BRED Gl ERNSEY BULL
SHADDOOK'S CASTERILIUS 42084

Born May 8th, 1917. Color, light~
Three cows on
averaging 574 pounds fat.
HARRY HUNTER.

UERNSEY BULL CALVES—TWO NICE 5
~ months old bull calves for sale. Cheap. Write
for prices. . h

F. NELSON. R 1-. McBrides. Mich.

GUERNSEY BULL CALVE S}

From tested and untested dams.

Satisfaction guaranteed.

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

Bancnoft. Mlch.

 

 

 

 

ANGUS

 

 

The Home of

Imp. Edgar of. Dalmeny

Probably
The Worlds’ Greatest
BREEDING BULL

 

present four bulls. two yearlings and two young»

. . . JERSEYS . .

.» I o coma; Mlch. »

in .
' Orange rice '9. d

‘ 2 bo’Jb'rcd to.
as m. '

I Blue Bell,

Smithficld Show.
hum Show, '1920,
of I)aliiieny.

The. Junior (‘hampiou Bull,
Champion Female. Champion L‘alf llcrd
and First Prize Junior Heifer (.‘alf, Mich-
igan State Fair, 1920, were also the get
of Edgar of Dalmeny.

A very choice lot, of young bulls—sired
by Edgar of Dalineny are, at this time,
offered for sale.

Send for Illustrated Catalogue.

\VILDWOOD FARMS
Orion, Mich.

Supreme Champion at the
Lilli), and the Birming—
IS a (laughter of Edgar

Junior

W. E. Scrlpps. Prop., Sidney.Smith, supt,

 

 

 

 

SERDEEN-ANGL’S CATTLE FOR SALE. FIVE
cows, some with calf by side and rebi’cd. Two
yearling heifers. One heifer calf.
. MARSHALL KELLY. Chariotte. Mlch.

 

BARTLETT W“ 3"" ABERDEEN-
S T‘ATTLE AND 0.4.0.

Swine are right ind are priced right. (tuna.

Ipondence solicited and inspection invited.
CARL BARTLETT. Lawton. Mlch.

~Ir\
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‘ The Most Profitable Kind l

heifer!
from LENAIVEE COUNTY'S heaviest mllk pro-
ducers to include a pure bred ANGUS hull of tho

of farming. a out load of grade dain-

moat gxtrcrne beef type for combination beef and

dairy arming.
Gar lot shipments assembled at GLENWOOD

FARM for prompt shipment.
Methods explained in SMITH'S PROFII‘ABI.E

STOCK FEEDING. 400 pages illustrated.
CEO. 8. SMITH Addison. Mlch.

AYRSHIRES

 

 

FOR SALE—REGISTERED AYRSHIRE
bulls and bull calves. heifers and heifer calves.
Also some choice cows.

FINDLAY BROS..

SWINE

POLA ND CHINA

BIG BOB MASTODUN

Sire was champion of the world.
His dam’s sire was grand champion
at Iowa State Fair. 8 choice spring
gilts bred that are pictures, sired by
him.
for March and April. Priced low
and guaranteed in every way. Get
my prices. ' ' ‘-
C. E. Gamant, Eaton Rapids, Mich.

HERBS SOMETHING GOOD

THE LARGEST BIG TYPE P. C.1I.N MICH.
Get a .big’ger,.and better bred boar pig from my
hard...“ a reasonableprlce. _Come and see thou.
Expenses, paid if not.“ represented. These bog"
as e: L's ‘Big' Graham. Lord Glam”,
n L’s Long Prospect;
. LIVINGSTON. Parma. Mlch.

R 5. Vassar. Mlch.

 

 

 

 

 

‘  - :INIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS '
_, so, choice spring boars and kills sired by
I A on ‘ yd," ii good son of “SmoothI Half
‘- A ion of Michigan in41918. “G'llts will
:J‘umbo’s Mastodon 2nd, son o£.Big
ch and April furrow. ’
I 08.. Merrill, Mlch.

 

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poultry am he not on «Hue». "coitu- um.“

. faun
his sire's side have official records

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Also some sows bred to him _

r

 Eva,
456$
INTIQ“

' , ummmumn."

You can change-

FARWELL LAKE FARM

_L. T. P. 0. hours all sold. A few sprung boars and
some gilts left. Will sell with breeding privilege. ;
Bears in service: Clansniun's Image 2nd, W. B.) E‘
Outpost and Smooth Wonder. Visitors welcome.
W. B. RAMSDELL
Hanover, Mlch.

 

HE BEST BRED POLRND CHINA PIGS SIR-
ELI by Big Bub Mastodon at the lowest price
. DerTT 0. PIER. Evert. Mich.

 

L s  c'FOUR CHOICE SPRING AND FALL
I boars left. A few extra nice Kim
lrii bred for April farrow.

H O. SWARTZ. Schoolcraft. Mlch.

 

 

IG TYPE POLANDS. AM OFFERING TWO
good growthy fall gilts, from best sow in our

herd.
Mich.

W. CALDWELL a. SON, Springport,

 

IG‘ TYPE P. C. BRED SOWS ALL SOLD.
(‘llosimtr out n few choice hours at a bargain
also some extra good full pigs, either sex. From

growtliy stock.
L. W. BARNES & SON. Byron.

Em TYPE

Ninc fall gilts
thirun-i- f vr snlc.
\l. E MYGRANTS, St. Johns.

Mich.

 

POLAND CHINAS
WITH QUALITY
litters of eleven

Mlch.

out of and

 

BIG TYPE POLAND OHINAS

'I‘lirce August boars for Wile. (loud llzit'ks
good lieuvy bme. Write for prices.-
HIMM BROS., Chesaning, Mich.

and

.T. P. C. A FEW TOP GILTS BRED TO

Highland Giant, the $500 boar. Others bred

to \Viley’s Perfection. Weight. 700 at 13 months.
JOHN D. WILEY, Schoofcraft. Mlch.

L. T. P. C.

l have a fine lot of spring pigs sired by Hart's
Black Price. a good Son of lllzark Price, grand
champion of the world in llllS. Also have a
litter of 7 pigs. 5 sows and :5 hours, sired. by
Prospect Yank, a son of the $40,000 Yankee,
that are sure Humdingers.

F. T. HART. St.

' BIG TYPE P. 0. SPRING
 s boars, bred sows and the best lit-

Louis. Mlch.

 

ter of full pigs in the state. Come and see or write
E. R. LEONARD. R 3. St. Louis, Mich.

Sowa,

Am Offering Large Type Poland Ohlna
Also

bred in F's Orange at reasonable prices.
fell in LN \Vrlfe or call.

CLYDE FISHER, R 3, St. Louis, Mich.
IO TYPE POLAND CHINfiS. 2 SPRING
gills, one open and one bred. also fall pigs
of both sex. These are good onus and priced to
sell. Write for breeding and price.
,MOSE BROS., St. Charles,

GLOSIIIO OUT SALE .

of Big 'l‘vpe l‘olzuid China hogs. which represents
the work of 25 years of constructive breeding.
Everything: goes including our three great herd
boars. Mich. Buster by Grant Buster. A. Grant,
Butler's Big Bob. 'I‘Wo of the best yearling
prospects in Mich. Modern type, high arched
backs, great length, big bone. Come and pick
ul what you want. Our prices are right.
JNO. C. BUTLER. Portland. Mlch.
(‘., 3 fall sow

WALNUT ALLEY  

daughters of the Senior Grand Champion how of
Detroit, 1020, $12.50 each. Also bred gilt:

priced right.
A‘ D. GREGORY. Ionla,

Mich.

 

BIG TYPE P.

Mlch.

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINA BARGAIN. $15
buys a bred gilt and a 250 1b. spring boar.
Also choice gilts bred for $40. Guarantee satis-

faction. _
DORUS HOVER. Akron. Mlch.

DUROCS

 

mt DUROC
Breakwater JERSEYS

BOARS-READY FOR SERVICE
BRED SOWS AND GILTS
Write Us For Prices and. Pedigrees ,
Mail orders ii specialty. Satisfaction guaranteed.
BROOKVVATE R FARM

Ann Arbor. Michigan
.1 w. Mumford. Owner J. B. Andrews, Mar.

.,'9\
Spring pigs by Walt’s I),
Orion, First Sr. Yearling

Detroit. Jackson, Gd. Raplds and Saginaw 1919
Phillips Bros, RigaMich.

FOR . SALE—LDUROC ‘Je‘nssvs; GILTS BRED
for April furrow to Gladwln 001. 188995. Also
Several extra good Spring boarS' ready for ‘service.

HARLEY] FOOR & SON, R 1, Gladwln. Mlch.

DUMB .JEBSEYS'..?‘..2'§".§.§°$5. ‘53::
bale Juiced .reaaonable; . ‘ '  .  .
*  4- O. E.’ DAVIS a, ' '

 

 

sen, Ashley. Mlch.

éhbowVIEw FARM’ use. JERSEY Hons.
' -holc’e boar'pigs for as e.
 1|. E. MORRIS.‘ SON. Farmington. Mich. .»

 

 Unoc JERSEY ’BOARS.“»'Boors of tho‘ lag-9;,  "
heavy-boned type. at reasonable prices. Write, ,

 

. or better. come. and, 302.. ~_. ...- .  .« . 
. DRODT, R 1, Monroe. hitch. f

 


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vsnmme anus nuder this heedlng’lo henhtvhreedere oi'llve stock and poultry win so in... on Much.
are to offer. let us out It In type. show you a proof and» tell you what It will» cost for 1a,
031‘ or‘czenga [must be received one week before date of issue.
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'i‘SREEDERB' DIREOTORY. TH! MIO‘HIOAN BUSINESS FARMER. ML; Clemens. Michigan.

I f (SPECIAL
, wrlto'uct hat you
. alzexol a . or: tour as often as :you man.
here at special “ low rates: ask for them.

.V \ LI will sell a well
sows and gilts

F.  DRODT, Owner

  Type Bred sum and (Hits-40

bred, well grown, thrifty lot of Duroc-Jersey.

at Plum Creek Stock Farm
MARCH'Sth, 1921

MONROE, MICH.

This is an opportunity for the small
farmer to get high quality stock at a reasonable price.
alog and attend the sale, March 5th.

H. S. Iglehart, Elizabethtown, Ky., Auctioneer.
Press Representatives: W. 'P. Penry, Duroc Bulletin; R. J. Evans,
American Duroc (Association; H. H. Mack, Michigan Business Farmer.

  i ii  ‘ ”
..mnennuImlmnl it.
,, m . <‘um.
Ber 62 times. You can chance
Nodm’ Auction Sales advertised

*’ BOAR PICS $15.00 ._
AI: 8 Weeks Old I, A
W..‘A. EASTWOOD, chosenlng. Mich.

 

An Opportunity To Buy v
Hampshires Right

We are offering some good_sows and gilts, bred

for March and April farrowing. Also a few

choice fall gigs, either sex, Write or call
GUS THOMAS, New Lothrop. Mioh.’

 

 

 

breeder and, progressive
Send for cat-

 

B‘ETTEB BREEDING, STOGK

For the best in Shropshire and Hampshire rams
write or 't
KOPE-KON FARMS. s. L. Wino, Prop.
Goldwater. Mich. _ ‘
See our exhibit at the Ohio and Michigan
State Fairs.

 

OR SNROPBHIRE EWEO BRED TO LAMB
in March, Write or call on v
ARMSTRONG BR08.. R 3. Fowlorvllls. MICh.

Monroe, Mic-h.

 

 

 

 

 

 

PEACH HILL FARM _
ofl’ers tried sows and gills bred.to or sired by
Peach Ilill Orion King 132480. Satisfaction
Busrantecd. (Tome look ’eni over.

Also a fmv open gills.
INWOOD ‘BROS..

Romeo, Mich.

 

AM OFFERING SOME HIGH CLASS

Spillllfi DUBOG BOARS

at reasonable prices . A few gilts bled for Sep-
tember furrow at bargain prices.

. C. TAYLOR

Milan. Mich.

Duroc sows enu glits .red to Walt's King 829119
who has sired more prize winning pigs at the
state fairs in the last 2 years tiwn env nth!” h‘i-
roc boar. Newton linmhart, St. Johns. Mich.

 

SALE: REG. 50W PIGS OF Sci-T. 
row. Maple Law's Pathfinder is the name of
my new llPTil boar. Nut seti.
V. N. TOWNS. R 6, Eaton Rapids, Mich.

OR

 

WANT FROM A
at prices you can
Satisfaction guar-
Mich.

UROCS. ANYTHING YOU
spring gilt to a herd boar.
‘ afford to pay. Cholera immunn
anteed. G. L. POWER. Jerome,

 

HAMPSHIRE SHEEP

A few good yearling rams and some film
' lambs left to ofler. 25 ewes all H“ for Nile
0.   ALL AGES- FROM BIG BOARG, AGED for fall °delivery. Everything guaranteed as
‘ sows to fall pigs. 35 spring‘gilts, wt. represented" ‘
2.00 to  Service boars, none better in the
state. \\ rite and get acquainted. Registered
free. l-2 mile west of depot.

OTTO B. SGHULZE. Nashville. Mich.

O. l. C.

GILTS BRED FOR SPRING FARROW
and .one Shothorn bull calf eight months old.
Milkmg strain, pail fed.

0. BURGESS, Mason. R 8. Mich.

PURE BRED O. I.‘ C. HOGS

30  ft r sale. Service boars and hred

tilts. 16 head of {all pigs. Papers furnished free.
J. R. VAN ETTEN, Cllfiord, Mich.

 

CLARKE U. HAlRE. West Branch. Mich.
1

 

 

 

GOOD CIG-
Mich.

ERINO RAMS FOR SALE.
h‘ned. heavy shears, .
R 4. Albion.

HOUSEMAN BROS .

HOFSES

 

 

 

0. I. c. SWINE—MY HERD CONTAINS THE
blOUd lines of the most noted herd. Can furnish
you stack at “live and let live" prices.

A. J. GORDEN. Dorr. Mich..

 

 ‘l.  BRED GILTS FOR MARCH AND
I Dr) arrow. Also a few choi‘e service boars.
CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM,L Monroe. Mich.

 

 

 

0R SALE—DUROC BRED SOWS AND GILTS
pricvzl reasonable and double immune. Write
us your wants.
JESSE BLISS & SON. Henderson, Mich.

 

DURoc BOAR FROM
(‘hnlce spring piss

Mich.

OR SALE: ONE
Brookwater breeding stock.
JOHN ORONENWETT. Carleton.

@AKLAHDS pussies gins:

Herd linnr——Reference only No. lL’U‘Jlii

1919 Chicago international
4th Prize Jr. Yearling

BOOKING ORDERS FALL PIGS AT $25
BLANK‘ & POTTER
Potterviiie. Mich.

 

 

OR SALE—REG. DUROO—d‘RSIY,
_ gilts bred in Rambler of Sanguine “lst.
‘hoar that sired our winners at Michigan
Fair and National Swine Show.
F HEIMS s. SON

Davison, Mich.

The
State

 

mock. um Crest Farms. Bred and open cows

and gilts. Bears and spring pigs.» 100 head.
Farm 4 miles straight S. of Middleton, Mich”
Gratiot Co. Newton & Blank, Perrlnton, Mich.

DUROC BOARS FROM P n r z E

“’INNING STOCK
really for service. Geo. B. Smith. Addi~
. son. Mich. I

 

DUROQ'JERsEY SEnvvce BOARS. $50.00
.Flne early fall pigs. 1.000 lb. herd

DOA! 103. Stilli'i‘H l.l“.R_ \Yoidmnn. Mich

 

WE OFFER A FEW WELL-8350 UELEOlo
_ .«l spring lluroc Hours. also bred lows and
Grits in moon. Call or write

MoNAUGHTON & FORDYOE. 8!. Louls. Mich.

 

UROO JERSEY BRED SOW SALE FEB.

let. Also sows for sale at private treaty. Sat—
isfaction guaranteed.

MICHIGANA FARM LTD., Paviflon. Mich.

 

F or Exchange--Duroc Boar

The undersigned has a registered Duroc Boar;

not two years old until April, that he will exchange
same breed but unrelated to his
‘bmnd sows. This beer weighs 500 and is a
splendid stock-getter. He is son of Rochester Red
Flurry, a sow purchased of W. E. Scrst and his
sire is Mr. Scripp’s Perfection. His dam’s sire
was Col. Farm \Vonder 4th and her dam. \Vld-
wood Cherry Lass 224792. if interested write
‘ H. H. MAOK, Roohostor. Mich.

FOR SALE

 

, ’ Three Rec. beer piss. born in October. Cherry

Brookwater breeding out of] litter at
so“. guaranteed or money back. $15.
It. L'IIQARD,‘ Newer-lo. Midi.

0.1.0.'

3. to}. one causes Waiveewma. on
choice beer a Prince 1m 3m Medial. ‘A

as"; «lbw. priced to sell. Some an m.
' W 1',



 

senmq

 

 

BE RKSHIRES ‘

0R SALE: I REG. BERKSHIRE BOAR 2
yrs. old; 5 reg. Berkshire sows born Sen. 4. ’20.
Wm. DEGE, R 1, Lachine, Mich.

 

 

IDEAL TYPE REG. BERKSHIRES.
for. Choice pigs all ages, either. sex,

low-him. Satisfaction guaranteed.
H. WHITNEY. Merrill. Mich.

has, both sex.
RUSSELL BROS.. R 8. Mmlll,.Mloh
ARE QUALITY HOGS.

 \Veaned pigs of the very

bestblood lines of the breed is our specialty. WC ,.
guarantee to please or nothing stirring.
AR A A. WEAVER. Chesaiilno. Mich..

WE 0 F-
best

 

I -
BOAR , FOR N t   '
immeditrasgeiZe; also 0  0 
I own more Belgian and Percheron Stallions
than any man in Michigan, including International
and State Fair prize winners, and put them out
on my breeding share plan. Have placed over
one hundred head in this stoma. It‘ your 10-
cality needs a good draft stallion or Short Horn

bull, let me hear from .you. ’

Fred ‘6. Stevens

Breckenridge, V Mich.

Belgian and Percheron Horses and Short/Horn
Cattle
:‘p.

 PET STOCK, «

on SALE, FLEMISH GIAN‘I- RABBITS. DOES.
breeding are. $6. Three months old pair, $6.
Registered does $12 each. Stock pedigreed. Qual-
ty guaranteed.
E. HIMEBAUOH. Goldwater. Mich.

 

Gannon“; FARM annxsmnas FOB
prom. Choice stock fOr sa‘le. Write your
wants, W S ’Yorsa. White Hall. Ill.

——
M

YORKSHIRES

GILTS IRED FOR LATE

YDBKSHlflES .....w...
BAGOH.BBED W"‘..';':‘“:‘..:.,W.:.I.E“”“"
HAMPSHIRES
REGISTERED HAMPSHIRE OILTB ARE NOW

ready to ship. Sprin boars nd
bargain. g a fan pm “ ‘

JOHN w. suvozn, a 4, St. Johns, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scotch Collie Puppies-

Thoroughbred Sable and White Collie Pup-
pies. bred from farm trained stock that are.
natural heel drivers with plenty of mt. Ped-
igrees furnished. Fifteen dollars ($15.00)
for quick sale. Send check in first letter. All
stock, guaranteed. , " .,

BATH CITY 'KENNELS
Dr. W. Austin Ewalt

Mt. Clemens, Michigan

so" Hector [8'

. FOR RESULTS! »
 YOUR Livesfirockvan m

F’s.  

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preaching when you sac
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.ing except chores

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ending: ebru’ ,y-.,1‘9th. as,,,foiiows='   *
, WHEAT:-'Ayerage. $1.57 213; highfi.
est, Gladwin, $1.75; - lowest. Cadillac,
$1.44. CORN: Average, on ear, 61 2-3c;
highest, , Cadillac, ,60c; lowest, Trufant';
45c. OATS: Average, 47c; highest, Tru-
fa-nt, 50c';v:low,est, Gladwin, 38c. It
Average: $1.29 2-3: highest,

Creek, $1.38; ' lowest, Bear Lake, $1.20.
BEANS: Average, per cwt.,-.$3.16; high-
est, .Lakeview,”(}ladwin and Cadillac,.
$3.25; lowest, .Hespei'ia, 33,00. POTAA
TOES: Average, per cwt., 58c;,highest,
Battle Creek, 75c: lowest, Hes eria, 45c.
EGGS: Average, 25'1-20; hig est, Bat-
tle Creek, 350; lowest. cutcheon,« 20c.
BUTTER: Average. 35c: highest, Colon,
37c; lowest, Hesperia, 250. “

V ' "
_GRAND TRAVERSE—Have had a
little cold weather and a flurry of snow
but is nice again today. Farmers are
cutting flash _wood and stOVe wood,
Some beanshavebeen sold—C. L. 3..
Williamsburg; Feb“ 18. '

GLADWIN—‘The farmers are hauling
gravel. The weather is nice. Farmers
are selling cattle and hogs. It is muddy‘
here. Everything is coming down—F.
A. F., Gladwin, Feb. 17.

WEXFORD—Very nice weather until
today; it has been snowing and blowing
quite badly. What you might call .9.
young blizzard, But probably won’t last
long. That is, it the old sign doesn’t
fall, by Seeing crows, which we saw two
of yesterday. They say 3 ring is ap-
t ose gents.—
S., Harrietta, Feb, 17. .

MONTCALM—Jl‘he farmers are doing
chores. hauling potatoes, and hauling
manure, A heavy w'ndstorm reached
here the first of the week which did not
do much damage. The ground is cov-
ered with snow but not enough for
sleighing. A few farmers are selling
potatoes but most of them are holding
them. Some grain is being sold,—-M, C.
P., Trufant, Feb. 18. ’

ST. JOSEPH—Farmers are cutting
and hauling wood. A saw mill in the
big woods (220 acres); expect to furnish .
work for 2 years. The carpenters have
built a. bank barn during Jan, and Feb;
some work for mid-winter. The weath-
er has been 0. K. all Winter and just
like spring three days this week, but it
changed the latter part with real mid
weather. Selling some grain. The ‘
writer and several others attended the
Farmers’ Week at M. A. C. and report
a, fine time, Lots of auction sales and
thin-gs sellings just fairly well.——W_ W.,
,Colon. Feb. 18.

‘Ml‘SSAUKEE—Farmers are not do-
ing much just now but chores, getting
a little wood. and some are clearing 1
land. The‘ only winter we ever Had'~
with the ground hare in'February. A
small blizzard yesterday with about an
inch of snbw and five below zero this
morning; the coldest of the Winter. The
is clear and the sun is shining
bright, .Nothing being sold except a.
few potatoes at 50 cents per hundred.
This week will finishthe graveling of
the .‘road from Lake City to Moorestown
except two miles, Let the good roads
go OIL—H. E. N.. Cutcheon, Feb. 18.

CALHOUN There is not much' do-
and cutting wood,
There has been more.wood got out than
usual. The weather is fine for winter,
not very cold, no snow, ground frozen
some, . The freezing and thawing is not
very good for clover but grain holds its
own yet. There is lots of hay going ,to
Battle Creek. No sale for potatoes.
Some oats being sold. Vick Hicks is-
huilding a large barn. The frame is all
up.~—C, E. 8., Battle Creek, Feb. 19.

MONTCALM—The farmers are not
ver busy, Nothing much doing; a few
ch es, getting up wood and visiting-
(most ofwthe ‘latter being done), attending
-the A'id‘Society and going to town, The
'soil is frozen some but not deep, the
warm wave taking out most of the frost.
It is cooler now but bright and clear.
The farmers are neither building, buying
nor selling'much. Some potatoes and
beans are being held, but most of them
are being sold to pay taxes which are
very high. Mrs. 0, King died in Lans-
ing Saturday. She has been almost a.
life resident of this 'place, No auction
sales have started here yet. but soon will
lg‘ebtlril; for them.—-G. W., Lakeview,

e , .

MAINISTEEmFarmers are still doing
chores and getting wood; there sure will
be dry wood for another winter from the,
looks of the wood yards around here. As
to weather we have all kinds; last 'Mon‘
day we had another wind storm that did
some damage in these parts. A neigh?
bor by the name of Cycle Reed was on
the road with his team when the wind
struck, him and blew the rack othis
trucks and he was thrown under it and
hurt .so badly that he is laid up with his
arm in a sling, And the night of the 17
another neighbor, William Sletter, lost
his house and contents by fire. The fam-
ily had all they could do to save them-
selves. One. of; the,men was badly hurt;
he had. to Jump from the upstairs win-
dow with his little brother in His arms
and he broke his arm in, the fall. There
is not much selling at present and not
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and straw is about all.—-—C, H. 8., Bear
Lake, Feb. ’19.

OCEANA (N. E.)-——Weather is fine.
Farmers are holding potatoes and beans
Not much' business going on. leaneré'r“
met at home of G. ,V. 'Hendha‘me‘
Thursday. Companion with r'
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