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of Michigan

is the

Citizens’ Mutual of Howell

This company has a membership of over 50,000, the result of
six years consistent growth, based on sound business and insurance
sense. It has lived and is living up to its original slogan, “Auto
Insurance at Cost Plus Safety.” . Its officers are men with a state-
wide reputation for business honesty and sagacity and their advent
into the insurance field has saved millions of dollars in premiums to
the automobile owners of the state.

Since organization, the company has paid losses and claims
amounting to over $700,000.00 and has always maintained a cash
reserve large enough to pay every claim on the day of its adjust-
ment. Its advertised assets are CASH, REAL ESTATE and OFFICE
EQUIPMENT, listed on March 27th as follows:

Cash in Banks  . . . . . ..$50,068.9-§
U. S. Bonds , , . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . 26,488.17
Office Building and Site . . \ . . . . . . . . . 27,613.44
Office Furniture and Equipment _ _ . _ . . . 13,354.97

Total . . . . . . . . . $117,525.53

The company occupies its own office building on the best corner
of the main thoroughfare of the prettiest and most progressive small
city in central Michigan. The building is new and modern and the
office equipment is up~to-date, representing a large additional asset
beyond the actual cost.

In addition to the officers, the home office staff numbers 20
trained executives and assistants. Thirty—two among the leading
attorneys of the state comprise the legal department. There are
three adjusters in the field and resident adjusters in practically
every city and large town in Michigan,

The company is fully and adequately equipped for service and
, is dedicated to the principle of A SQUARE DEAL.

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snows STRENGTH   M three or four million
THE state income "  dollars worth of in-
tax proposal show— 3, mom", 8m. Fm“ 3w tangible property of

ed substantial
strength when it sur-
vived a. preliminary skirmish in the
House on Wednesday, March 23rd.
After a heated and protracted ses-
sion which indicated appreciation of
the extreme importance of the pend—
ing legislation, the final vote was 64
yeas and 30 nays. Since the income
tax proposal is presented in the form
of a constitutional amendment, it
requires 67 votes in the lower house
to secure the submission of the issue
to the voters. Lacking three votes
of securing such a two—thirds ma—

‘ jority, Rep. Mosier, father of the

amendment, moved to reconsider the
vote by which the measure fell three
votes short of passing. His motion
carried and the bill was laid on the
table. Whenever there is a full at-
tendance Rep. Mosier will move to
take the bill from the table and place
it on its final passage. He counts
four or five staunch supporters of
the state income tax among those
who were absent when the measure
lost by a narrow margin of three
votes March 23.

Whether or not the state income
tax measure is passed by the present
session of the legislature, there can
be no doubt in the minds of anyone

'as to how the farmers of Michigan

feel on this issue. They have voiced
their attitude in no uncertain terms
through the resolution adopted by
the federated legislative committee
of the farmers’ organizations of
Michigan and through their repre-
sentatives, who spoke for the agri-
cultural interests of the state at the
public hearing recently held on this
question.

The justice of a state income tax
is evident, declare its friends. No
one could dispute Rep. Peter Lennon
of Genesee when in an eloquent plea
on the floor of the house when the
measure was being fiercely debated
he said, “I submit that the income
tax is the fairest tax ever conceived
in America.” The income tax is bas-
ed primarily on the individual’s or"

organization’s ability to pay—the

most just basis of taxation.
Authentic information indicated

that Rep. Mosier would move to

take his proposal from the table on
Wednesday, March 30th, when there
is every indication that a full attend-
ance will be present, for notice has
been given that the capital punish-
ment bill will also be taken from
the table on that day.

A final effort will be made to place

mu Leglslatlve Committee

which is .now, accord-
ing to the State Tax
Commission, escaping taxation, leav-
ing $5.300,000,000 of tangible prop-

erty to bear practically the entire

burden. -

Friends of the proposed state in-
come tax have adopted a new slogan
of “Protection without Taxation is
Class Privilege.”

 

AGRICULTURAL STATISNCS
ORE RELIABLE statistics rela—
tive to «Michigan agricultural
conditions will be available if
Rep. Hopkins’ bill which has been
introduced in the House becomes a
law. This bill has been prepared
jointly by the legislative committee
of the Michigan State Farm Bureau
and Mr. Verne E. Church, agricul-
tural statistician with the bureau of
crop estimates. It provides for the
collection by the township supervis-
ors at the time of making their an-
nual assessments of property of fig-
ures as to the acreages devoted to
the several crops, the number and
classes of livestock, etc. 95.4 per
cent of the replies to a state-wide
questionnaire conr‘“~ted by the state
farm bureau were .avorable ,to such
a proposition.
CONSERVATION BILL

Without a dissenting vote, the bill
providing for the creation of a
State Department of Conservation

received its final legislative consid- '

eration, March 24th and was sent to
the Governor for his approval.
The bill embodies all of the
recommendations of the legisla-
tive committee of the State Farm
Bureau and provides for the appoint-
ment by the Governor of a Commis-
sion of Conservation consisting of
six members chosen “with special
reference to their training and ex-
perience.”

In addition to taking over the
specific duties of five boards which
are abolished by the measure, sec—
tion 3 of the bill provides: “It is
hereby made the duty of the De-
partment of Conservation to protect
and conserve the natural resources
of the State of Michigan; to prevent
the destruction of timber by fire or
otherwise; to promote the re-forest—
ing of non-agricultural lands be-
longing to the State; to guard
against the pollution of lakes and
streams within the state; and to
foster and encourage the protecting
and propagation of game and fish.”

Freeze Kills Early Fruit and Injures Grain

Cold Wave Sweeps Country From Edst to West, Destroying
Millions of Dollars Worth of Crops

SSOCIATED Press reports from
east, west and north, and spec-
ial reports to THE BUSINESS

Fmvwa indicates that a large per-
centage of the early fruit crop of
the country has been wiped out of
existence, and grains and later
fruits materially damaged by the
cold wave which swept the country
from coast to coast Sunday and
Monday nights. The early spring
had started the buds of many early
varieties of fruit which suffered
complete ruin from the freeze.

The extent of the damage in Mic-h-
igan is not known at this time, but
it is believed that it will be less in
some of the far western and eastern
states which seemed to feel more
keenly the effects of the cold wave.
Up to noon Tuesday the Farm Bur-
eau office at Lansing had received no
reports of the damage done in this
state, and telegrams dispatched from
the office of THE Buernss FARMEB up
to the time of going to press brought
only meagre information.

Little Damage in Berrien

Mr. Otto Young, our crop corres-
pondent in Benton county, wires us
as follows: “Not much damage in

frozen."

this locality. Few early peaches
Newspaper reports from
the western section of the state sup-
port the belief that the entire fruit
belt of Michigan has suffered dam-
age to early'varieties.

Damage Large in Western States

0. W. Pugsley, editor Nebraska
Farmer, wires us as follows: “No
damage to grains. Plums, early cher-
ries, peaches probably killed. Late
cherries, early apples severely injur-
ed. Late apples and grapes damag-
ed considerable.”

Grains Probably Hurt- Some

It is extremely likely that later in-
vestigation will show some damage
to winter wheat in certain sections
where the crop was backward. In
fact, wheat quotations on Monday
were higher because of damage re-
ported to winter wheat by Sunday
night’s freeze. Monday night was
colder by several degrees than the
previous night, at least in this state,
and it would not be at all remarkable
if some wheat fields were cut by the
cold.

Correspondents are requested to
advise us in their next letter of the
extent of the damage to crops in
their vicinity. .

    

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Volume VIII
Number 31

 

THE MICHIGAN

BUSINESS- FARMER 

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Purchase of Majority Steele

HE CALIFORNIA Milk Producers’ As-
‘ sociation has just closed the most sue-
eessful year since its organization, not only in

, gain in membership, but also in results ob-

tained.

In July, 1920, the Secretary was called up-
on .by the Federal Fair-price Commission to
get data showing the cost of production. After
submitting the figures, .several of the members
were asked to testify to their own cost of pro-
duction, after which I think the Commission
was very well satisfied that the Dairymen
were not getting too much for their product.

In January, 1920, the Association secured
sixty per cent of the Burr Creamery stock,
which has been a profitable investment and
has enabled us to market a part of our own
product through a plant controlled and oper-
ated by the Association. In the month of De-
cember, 1919, the milk handled through the
Burr Plant amounted to 763,680 lbs, while in
December, 1920, it amounted to 1,404,349 lbs.,
or a gain of nearly eighty-five per cent. We
are selling milk to all the Creameries in Los
Angeles and also to the Riverside Dairy Com-
pany of Riverside, and to the Excelsior
Creamery Company of Santa Ana, and the
milk shipped to these Creameries by our mem-
bers is weighed and tested by the Association.

in May the California Milk Producers’ As-
sociation thought it wise to incorporate The
Dairymen’s Feed and Supply Company for
the purpose of handling feed and supplies.
About $76,000.00 of this stock has been sub-
scribed by our members, and the balance of
stock $24,000.00, should be taken to enable
the Directors to build and equip a mill. At
present all our grain and mill-feeds are
ground by other companies for us. With a
modern Mill equipped for grinding, mixing
and cutting Alfalfa, this Company would be
able to save its members a vast amount of
money, besides having the advantage of get-
ting the feed just when it was needed.

Oct. 5, 1920, the members voted an assess~
ment of %c per lb. butterfat, for the
purpose of advertising their pro-
duct. We felt that this was the
proper thing to do in view of the
fact that substitutes for milk were
being widely advertised. The

money that has already been spent 13:;
for advertising space in the news- 12:;
papers is bringing gratifying re- 1920

By T. H. BRIOE, Sec’y
California Milk Producers’ Ass’n

 

 

Why Not Follow Suit?

E ARE indebted to fonner Governor
WFred M. \Varner, who is in Los An- '

geles, for a copy of the annual report
of the California Mlilk Producers' Ass’n.
for the year 1920, extracts of which are
published herewith. This producers’ asso-
ciation holds a unique position in thatrit is
one of the few associations to enter into
the actual distribution of milk to city con-
sumers, which the Business Farmer has
long held is the only practical method of
insuring compensatory prices for milk. The
California ‘Association simply purchased the
controlling stock of one of the leading dis-
tributing concerns of the city of Los An-
gelcs and proceeded without any fuss to
pay their members what their milk was
worth. The table below shows how well
the Association has succeeded in keeping
milk prices up to a living level when the
prices of other food products were going
down. Additional information upon this
and other California dairy projects will be
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milk. The Creameries are working with us in an
advertising campaign. They are employing
Lecturers to go before the different W'omen's
Clubs and before the children in the public
schools to tell them the advantages of using
more milk.

We wish to impress upon our members the
necessity of producing Grade A milk. The
Association stands ready at all times to give
its members every assistance in producing the
best milk possible. The more we improve the
quality of our milk the greater will. be the
quantity consumed. Therefore it is to our
own advantage to produce Grade A milk, be-
cause we not only get a better price for Grade
A, but we also create a better market for our
product.

It is easy enough for an organization of

“California Dairymen Control Milk Distribution

in Los Angeles Milk Plant Solution of Marketing Problems

dairymen, or any other association to prosper
on a rising market, but the real test of the
success of our organization will come in the
next year. By comparing the figures of the
first year’s operation with those of 1920, you
will notice that there has been a steady in-
crease in price. The year 1921 is bound to
show a falling off in price of milk, but with a
corresponding reduction in the price of feeds
and with the co—operation of every member,
we have nothing about which to be alarmed.
We have the strongest dairy organization in
the State and will be assured of the cost of
production, plus a fair profit, to which the
dairymen are entitled, as the dairy business
is the most confining business in which any
one can engage, for there is no other business
that requires" all a man’s time, seven days in
the week.

The future of our Association rests not on-
ly upon the ability with which our dairymen
handle their business problems, but upon how
well they meet the present, vital questions
which are leading to world-wide social and
economic unrest. A cooperative organiza-
tion can not live for itself alone. It must
scrupulously fulfill its public or social rela-
tionship to its own members.

A co—operative organization of dairymen
should be an important factor in reducing the
cost of living, as well as in insuring the pro-
ducers a fair price for their product, if it is
to play a vital part in future social and even-
omic life. The producer is entitled to a fair
return on the cost of production, if the law
of supply and demand warrants it, but he is
not privileged, through the power of organi-
zation, to impose a higher price 011 the con—
sumer than the law of supply and demand
justifies.

\Vith the rapid rise in costs during the last
few years, efficiency in production has become
even more vital to the dairyman, as well as to
the public, and unless a producers’ organiza—
tion confers a benefit on the public at large,
as well as upon the industry which it repre-

sents, its future as a vital part of

 

 

COMPARATIVE MILK PRICES PAID TO MEMBERS CALIFORNIA

MILK PRODUCERS’ ASSOCIATION

Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov.
1.00 1.20 H.80 2.20 2.20 2.20 2.40 2.40 2.40

. . 2.40 2.40 2.1 0 2.1 0 2.40 2.40 2.70 8.00 8.00 835 8.50
. . 4.00 4.00 3.80 8.80 8.20 3.40 4.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 4.28
. .4.28 4.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 4.001 4.18 I30 4.20
. . 4.00 4.80 4.80 4180 4.60 4.60 5.20 5.20 5.20 5.20 $.20

the social and industrial fabric of
the country is problematical. Its
A“. willingness and success in meeting

Bec- y'g; such tests, as well as its ability to
2-40 2-16 serve its members, will determine
how large a part co-operation will

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dairy business.

 

,Potato Exchange Enters Into Reciprocal Relations With Farm Bureau

CLOSER cooperation between the Michi-
‘ gan State Farm Bureau and the Michi-
‘I gan Potato Growers’ Exchange has been ef-
, fected through a temporary reciprocal busi—
4 ness agreement entered into recently by the
)two organizations. The agreement places the
1 specialized potato and other marketing facil-
? ities of the potato exchange at the service of
1farm bureau locals and cooperative associa-
' tions of farm bureau members now affiliated
with the farm bureau elevator exchange in re-
. turn for similar service to potato grower loc-

1 £113 on grain and hay from the farm bureau

elevator exchange.

‘ This arrangement was brought about
through the potato growers’ exchange taking
a membership in the farm bureau elevator ex-
change and the latter institution taking a
membership in the potato growers’ exchange.
The result is that high class potato grower

exchange salesmen will be available to locals
of both organizations and grain and hay ex-
perts of the farm bureau elevator exchange
will also serve both organizations.

Each individual member of both organiza-
tions, through his membership in the associa-
tion handling his major crop is now entitled
to service from the other highly specialized
organization for the sale of his minor crop.
Expert salesmen who will now serve both or—
ganizations are A. B. Large of the Michigan
Potato Growers’ Exchange, 3. leader in his
field; and J. S. Bateman of the elevator ex-
change, a recognized authority 011 grain and
hay markets.

All marketing of potatoes and other com-
modities handled by the potato growers would
be done from the Cadillac exchange. Grain
and hay would be sold from the elevator ex-
change headquarters at Lansing.

The closer cooperation of the two exchanges
is viewed by their officials as a step toward
even more comprehensive business relations
under the state farm bureau’s new plan of
commodity control. It is not unlikely that
similar temporary arrangements will be
sought With the livestock, fruit growers and
other commodity organizations of the state.

The foregoing interpretations of commod-
ity control recognizes the commodity organi-
zations as separately incorporated business
bodies, says the farm bureau. Full realization
of the plan would see the various commodity
organizations working together, adds the farm
bureau, emphasizing the marketing of the
major crops of their respective clientele, and
cooperating with other commodity organize-l
tions for the best marketing of their respec-
tive minor crops. All organizations would
be served by common service departments.

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THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER

April 2, 1921

\ Sweet Clover Rapidly Gains Favor in Michigan

Crop Valuable for Hay, Pdsturage, Seed, Honey and Building Up Run-Down Soils

SWEET CLOVER furnishes abundant pas-
turagc from early spring until late fall
and provides considerable pasturage during
late July and August when June grass is in
a dormant stage. Cases of bloat are seldom
reported from pasturing sweet. clover; Though
stock may not. at first take readily to this
crop, they will become accustomed to it if
fed no other roughage for a few days. As
sweet clover is quite succulent cattle often—
times crave dry roughage while being pastur—
ed on it. When pasturing sweet clover a few
plants usually produce seed and when these
seed are tramped into the ground the field is
rc-seeded so that under favorable conditions
sweet clover pastures may remain for several
years. .
For Hay

When properly handled sweet clover hay
contains practically as much digestive pro-
tcin as alfalfa and more than red clover hay.
Some. authorities state that the quantity and
quality of milk produced is approximately the
same as when other legumes are used. The
stage at which sweet clover is cut has a very
great influence upon the quality of hay se-
cured. It should not be allowed to come into
blossom. After the blossoming stage, sweet
clover becomes very woody, the leaves fall off
and a very poor quality of hay results. \Nhen
sown on fertile soils well. supplied with lime
a crop of hay the first season is sometimes se-
cured. The height of cutting the first crop
the second year is very important. Sweet
clover does not propagate from a crowd the
second year as does alfalfa but propagates
from buds in the axils of the leaves, on the.
lower portion of the stalk. Consequently if
the first cutting is made below the young
branches which bear the leaves, the second crop
will not be secured. The cutting should be
made sufficiently high that a few leaves will
remain attached to the stubble. If the cut-
ting is made just before the blossorn buds ap—
pear the proper height will be from five to six
inches, if however the plants are allowed to
come into bolssom it will be necessary to cut
from ten to twelve inches high in order that a
second crop may
be secured. If '/
cut at this height ‘ ’
it will be neces‘
sary to replace
the shoe soles of
the mower with
higher soles, of
which may be
made of strap-
iron at an y
blacksmith shop.

The mowing
machine is the
poorest im p l e-
ment that can be
used for harvest.-
ing sweet clover
for seed due to
excessive shatter—
ing caused. The
best implement
to use will de—
pend upon the
growth made. If.
the growth is
not too rank and
heavy the grain
binder may be
used. However.
if very rank the
corn binder will
give better satis-
faction, A three
fOot swath may
be cut by placing
ten inch exten-
sions upon the
dividers of the
eOrn _'binder.
Sweet clover is

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By C. R. MEGEE
Assistant Professor of Farm Crops, M. A. O.

iiuleterminate in growth and consequently
does not mature all of its seed at Once. The
proper stage to cut for seed is when three—
fourths of the seed pods have turned brown.

Sweet clover may be threshed with the or-
dinary grain separator. If quite dry a ma-
jority of the seed will be hulled but if damp
most of the hulls will. be retained in which
case the hulls may be removed with a clover
huller or scarfier. Due to the greater capac-
ity of the grain separator it is better adapted
to the threshing of sweet clover seed than the
clover huller. Sweet clover seeds quite heav-
ily, yields varying from three to five bushels
per acre are quite common.

For Soil Improvement

Sweet clover will grow on soils that are
quite deficient in fertility and low in organic
matter provided they are well supplied with
lime. Another advantage is that it decays
much more rapidly when plowed under than
many other crops. These factors make it a
valuable crop for the improvement of heavily
cropped soils that are low in organic matter.
If used as a green manuring crop it should be
plowed under just before blooming if possible
since. at this stage the plant is succulent and
decay will be rapid.

There’are four important strains of sweet
(lover, of which the white biennial is common-
ly referred to as “sweet clover” and has prov-
ed to be better adapted to Michigan conditions
than either the yellow biennial or yellow an—
nual. The white annual is the new annual
sweet clover called IIubam clover. The white
biennial has a white blossom, an upright
habit of growth and matures seed the second
year. The yellow biennial has a yellow flow-
er, fine stems, is much more decumbent in its
habit of growth and only yields from one—half

to two-thirds as much as the White biennial.«

The yellow annual is a small, erect growing
plant and should not be sown in this state be-
cause of the very poor yield secured. The
seed of the white biennial is sometimes adul-
terated with yellow biennial and yellow an-

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—Courtaay Kansas City Weekly Star.

nual. This adulteration can be detected by
careful examination.

/ Hubam Clover

The possibility of this new sweet clover be-
coming a valuable forage crop was first rec-
ognized by Prof. II. D. Hughes of the Iowa
Experiment Station. This past year the Farm
,Crops Department of the Michigan Experi-
ment Station had a large increase of IIubam
Clover. Seed planted during early April pro-
duced a growth of forage that in July was es—
timated at two tons per acre. The seed ma-
tured On this crop in late September, and
the yield was exceptionally good averaging
about eight bushels of cleaned seed per acre.

On a light sandy soil at the G. R. & I. Rail-
way Experiment Farm near Howard City,
Montcalm County, a good yield of forage was
produced, this was not cut for forage how-
ever but allowed to mature seed of which a
very good yield was secured. At the ch-
ford County Farm near Cadillac, the Hubam
clover was seeded late (May) and only a few
plants produced seed. however, a good growth
of forage was secured. Seed did not ripen at
the Upper Peninsula Station at Chatham, Al-
ger Cminty. Considerable forage however
was produced. _

Professor Cox, of the Farm Crops Depart—
ment has charge of the distribution of the
seed and states that the distribution of seed
from the increase at the College will be ac-
complished through farmers skilled in seed
growing who are members of the Michigan
Crop Improvement Association and a propor-
tionate amount will be sent to county agents
for distribution, at cost. A certain amount
for increase will also be supplied at cost to
seed firms in Michigan desiring same. Farm-
ers who wish to try small Quantities will. 'be
furnished with a small envelop of seed. There
will be no seed for general sale this year, but
it is hoped that by next year the Michigan
Crop Improvement Association can furnish
a large supply for distribution through the
Farm Bureau Seed Department.

Lime

Satisfactory yields are very seldom secured
on acid soils.
Even though
the stand may
be fair at first
the plants will
be stunted in
growth and but
a small amount
of hay or pastur-
age see u r e d.
When the soil is
in this condition
it usually re-
quires from one
to two tons of
ground lime
stone or from
two to three cub—
ic yards of marl
POP acre to se-
(‘urc good yields.

lnnoculatio n
enables swe e t
clover plant to
make use of at~
mospheric nitro-
gen and this is
very important
in the case of
soils low in ni—
trogen and or-
ganic matter. A
ten of sweet clov>
er hay contains
about 40 pounds
of nitrogen of
which approxi-
mately 32 pounds

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the air when the
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Gustaison Predicts Farmers Will Rule Markets

Marketing Head Certain Great Good will Come to Both Farmer and Consumer as Result
of New Marketing Plan

 

HE ANNOUNCEMENT of the Commit~

tee of Seventeen that it has evolved a
new system of grain marketing which will
place the markets‘of the country in the control
of farmers has been met with derision on the
part of the Grain Exchanges and with indif—
ference on the part of the farmer. It is true
that in a certain few sections of the country
farmers have expressed enthusiasm over the
plan. It is also true that in certain other sec-
tions organized bodies of grain growers have
refused to endorse the plan, and as we have
already stated the mass of the farmers seem
not to have grasped the full significance of the
plan nor committed themselves to it. This
was to be expected. From now On the farm—
ers are going to' proceed carefully in endors-
ing eo-operative enterprises, no matter how
beneficial their objects promise to be, until
convinced that they are practical and give
some assurance of being an improvement over
existing methods. The present system of mar-
keting grain is almost as old as the ages. It
has many weaknesses, but its principal strong
point is that it is already established and doing
business and every farmer may be, reasonably
sure of a market for his grain whenever he
wants to sell it, at some kind of a price.

It should not be thought that the farmers
are going to scrap this system, inadequate, un-
just and wasteful as it is conceded to be, for
another which is still in the embryonic stage
in men’s minds. The Committee of Seventeen
should recognize this fact, and undoubtedly
does. It will find enough farmers and farm-
ers’ elevators who are willing to embrace the
new plan and give it enough substance for a
trial. If the trial shows that the plan is work-
able and that it promises economies and great-
er returns to the farmer than under the pres-
ent system, it need only open its‘books and
subscriptions will pour in from every corner
of the country.

Disadvantages of Present System

C. H. Gustafson, who is recognized as the
“big man” of the Committee of Seventeen,
seems to recognize the truth of the foregoing
statements and appreciates the fact that an in-
tensive campaign of education is needed to
point out to the farmer the evils of the pres—
ent system and “sell” him on the plan de-
vised by the Committee of 17. It is apparent
from the literature which Mr. Gustafson is
sending out that he has given the subject of
grain marketing extensive study and knows
whereof he speaks. In a general way he points
out the expensivencss and wastefulness of the
present system as follow:

“Farmers have been marketing grain in a hap-
hazard fashion which has ope‘rated to return the

minimum rather than the maximum of its mar-
ket value to us. For instance, we have market-

ed approximately 75 per cent of our wheat with—r

in four months after hanvest. The hazard of the
varying condition of world supply must be safe—
guarded. Someone must furnish the services of
financing, arranging for transportation to term—
inal storage points, warehousing, conditioning,
insurance and distribution to mills and export
trade as the grain is needed. As long as the
farmer does not market his own grain, that is,
merchandise it in the same sense that other man-
ufacturers carry their products to the consum-
er, he mpst expect to pay a good price for these
SGI‘VICES.
Accurate Crop Information

There is probably no farmer who assumes
to have intelligent knowledge of the factors
which make the price on his grain. Year in
and year out he must take his grain to mar-
ket, wholly. uninformed of the world supply
and demand, and uncertain as to whether the
price offered is a fair price based on what the
grain may eventually be sold for, or whether
it is a price dictated by the speculators on
the grain exchanges. As a! rule, experience
has shown, the price offered to the farmer in
the fall of the year is a price which takes very
little if any account of‘the value of the grain
or its ultimate price to the consumer. Farm-
ers have long recognized the inadequacy and
undependability of reports purposting to show

THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARM-ER

 

C. H. Custafson Heads Co-operatiue
Marketing Department

H. GUS'I‘AFSON, who is chairman of
C the Farmers” Grain Marketing Com-
. mittee of Seventeen and a member of
the Farmers’ Live Stock Marketing (‘om-
mittee of Fifteen, for many years has been
a prominent leader in farmers’ (to-operative
movements. He was born near Rockford,
111., in 1869. Early in his life his parents
moved to Nebraska and homesteadcd a
claim a few miles west of Omaha. lVIr. (lus-
tat’son has lived and farmed in that section
ever since. His farm is at Mend, Neb.
“"hile he was a member of the Nebraska
legislature, he was drafted into the presi-
dency of the Farmers’ lvlducational and (‘o—
operative Union of Nebraska. Mr. Gust-
;tt'son is president of the Nebraska
Farmers’ Union Exchange and of the Farm-
ers“ Live Stock (‘onunission Company. In
2 years and 9 months the Nebraska. Union
returned to the patrons of its live stock
commission company a patronage dividend
of $109,000 or almost half of the regular
conunission charge. Mr. Gustafsmi has also
been identified with a number of other
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the world's grain supplies and requirements.
and one of the chief aims of the Committee of
17 is to secure reliable information along
these lines. Speaking upon this subject, Mr.
Gustafson says:

“The hazard of changing conditions of world
supply and demand is used as an annual excuse
for depressing grain values at harvest time when
the bulk of the grain is sold. The farmer has no
reliable information of his own as to crop con-
ditions in South America or other producing sec—
tions of the world and is forced to accept such
reports as are giVen out from other sources. A
world crop information service is included as an
essential part, of the new grain marketing plan
and will inform farmers as to the real status of
crop conditions and possible exportable surpluses
in other exporting countries. It is planned to
gather this information through representatives
of the farmerswho will have permanent stations
in those countries just as boards of trade and im—
portant grain corporations have at the present
time. This information will be compiled and in-
terpreted in the farmers’ central agency and in-
formation given out directly to the farmer, and
farmers’ elevator managers, so that he may have
reliable information upon which to base his judg-
ment in selling.

“False reports on condition of world crops and
surpluses in the past, have, operated to the ad~
vantage of boards of trade and speculators and
the farmer has, perhaps. only learned that the
report was false, weeks afterwards, when his
grain was sold and the market had advanced.
This does not mean that prices need be increased
to the consumer. Market prices always reflect a
higher market value sometime during the year,
but it is when the farmer has little or no grain
to sell and it is those higher levels that reflect
the price that the consumer must pay for food
products. Two years ago, some corn started from
South America to the United States. The market
price of corn in Chicago was, at that time, approx—
imately $1.50 a bushel. The report of corn being
imported was circulated broadcast and farmers
were advised on every hand to sell. The price of
corn declined to approximately $1.00 a bushel.
Then before the next crop of corn was produced.
that same corn went to approximately $2.00 a
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produced in the entire world, we have the price
of corn changing from $1.50 down to $1.00 and
then up to $2.00 a bushel. \Vo farmers have
come to believethat there is something funda-
mentally wrong with a price determining machine
that, will function in that manner. \Vhen farm-
ers must take a loss on a market that pays only
$1.00 a bushel and consumers must pay for food
products on the basis of that grain costing $2.00
a bushel, it is time for the farmer and city man
to recognize that, they have mutual interests
which they can protect by getting closer together."

Short Selling an Evil
“Short Selling,” a term which very few

farmers understand, is common practice on

the grain exchanges and recently farm lead—
ers have declared it to be one of the greatest
evils of the day. Those who sell “short” do
so with the expectation of making a profit: on
the, declines of the markets at the expense of
those who expect to make profits on advances
in the market. Hence, we have a great num—
her of “short sellers" who are doing every-
thing within their power to depress the mar-
kets. regardless of whether actual conditions
warrant lower prices. Mr, (lustafson (Hes the
following incident to prove, the evil results Of
short, selling:

“During the investigations of the Committee
of Seventeen, a grain dealer, who has been a
member of boards of trade for more than forty
years. made the statement to the committee that
the first of the three great evils that farmers are
suffering from was short selling. The effect of
short sales in most cases is to cause and accel—
erate declines and they bear very heavily on a
market that is striving hard to hold up and ads
vanee and which would often do so if it were not
for short, selling. be, said. Short, selling on the.
Chicago Board of Trade is fifty—one times in ex—
cess of the actual grain marketed at ("hieago.

“\Vhen a sufficient number of farmers consign
their grain through a national (to—operative agen-
cy. which will deal only in cash grain to consum—
ing or exporting channels, short selling will be-
come so hazardous that it will no longer be pos-
sible. The result will be a more stable market
that will be of equal advantage to producer and
consumer."

Savings Prom Excess Dockago

“Excess dockage on grain and grading in the
classifications below that in which the grain ul-
timately sells presents an avenue of effecting a.
saving to farmers of great importance,” says Mr.
(lustafson. “A considerable quantity' of wheat
purchased from farmers as No. 3. for instance,
may be mixed with wheat purchased as No. 2,
but which is in reality No. 2 plus. In the same
manner. quantities of No. 2 wheat is mixed with
No. 1. It is likewise often possible for grain to
be conditioned into a higher grade. Grain dock-
(d for dirt content is often found to contain less
than half of the liberal percentage estimated by
the buyer at the time, of purchase. Farmers in
the Northwest have laid more stress on these
points than any other group and make the state-
ment, which they declare can be backed by in—
disputable evidence, that they have been ‘rob—
bed’ in, this manner of an amount that exceeds
$20,000,000 within the last decade. There is
no doubt. but that farmers can realize an appre-
ciable savings when they are prepared to condi—
tion, clean and reclassify their own grains.”

Orderly Marketing of Grain

In recent years we have heard a good deal
about. the “orderly marketing” of, grain.
Farmers who have waited for long hours be—
fore an elevator in the, fall of the year to un-
load their grain. and have seen the banks and
the railroads taxed to the utmost to finance
and transport it. have probably been impress-
ed with the (‘llr ‘rsomeness and inefficiency
of the whole, system. An ideal system, as has
often been said, would be that which would
take the farmers’ grain when he wanted to
sell or advance him money on the grain if he
wanted to hold, which would know the world
supply and anticipate the world’s require-
ments. and be able to mete out the grain which
it held in storage in exactly the right quanti-
ties and at the right time desired by the con—
sumer. Under such a system the farmer
would be assured of receiving the highest pos—
sible maximum price. The Committee of
Seventeen believes that its plan will insure
the “orderly marketing of grain” carrying
with it all the benefits described above. Gus—
tafson speaks as follows upon this phase of the
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Why Farmers are Barred From Grain Exchanges

Editor of Grain Trade Journal Explains Exchange Rules WhiCh Exclude Co-operative Companies

N REPLY to your letter of March 17th in-

quiring why Boards of Trade will not ad-
mit representatives of farmers’ cooperative
companies to membership, would say that the
boards of trade and grain exchanges gener-
ally do not refuse to admit to membership
representatives or members of farmers’ ele-
vator companies which are organized as joint
stock companies under the laws of the several
states. They do however, refuse to admit
members or representatives of cooperative
companies which are organized on the so-call-
ed “cooperative” plan, which rebate profits
to their shareholders or members on the basis
of business furnished the company. -

It is the inflexible rule of all grain exchang-
es that there shall be no rebating of commis-
sions to anybody under any pretext whatever,
and a member who does rebate any portion of
his commission directly or indirectly to his
customer will be expelled and his membership
cenfiscated to the association. The purpose
is to treat every customer absolutely alike.
There shall be no favors to anybody under
any circumstances, except that members trad—
ing for members are paid only half the com—

missions that are paid by outsiders. Now the
so-ealled cooperative company rebating its
profits on the basis of business furnished

would proceed to do the same thing as any
member of the Board of Trade, and the profits
would be distributed in the same way, and
therefore there would be a. distinction created
betWeen customers which is against the policy
of the grain exchanges. Great misapprehen-
sion exists as to this point, and the coopera-
tives are endeavoring to ecrate the impression
that the grain exchanges are against them,
which as shown above is not the fact.

There is also this to be taken into consider-
ation as to the latter point, that farmers co-
operative companies although regular in form
as stock companies are considerably different
in point of management from the ordinary
joint stock company, whose president, secre-
tary and manager are well known and are
known to be authorized by the Company to do
certain things, as for instance to negotiate
contracts for spot and future delivery. The
country cooperative company however is gov-
erned by a board of directors, farmers. Some
companies permit their managers to trade in
futures and some do not, and no one can know

‘ whether a manager has been authorized to buy
and sell for future delivery or not. Business
methods are usually very slipshod. The di-
rectors will sometimes authorize a manager to
go ahead and hedge his transactions and per—
haps the following month they Will “cut it
out” and withdraw that authority, but noth-

,. ing is said to the commission house as to with—

drawal of authority and in most cases nothing,

is said even about granting of authority, and
the consequence is that the trade they have to
deal with them are very much up in the air.
In other words, no one is responsible——they
“pass the buck” to escape liability when nec-
essary.

The. same condition would occur if they be-
came members of the exchanges and confusion
in the trade would necessarily be created. An-
other thing is that commission houses trading
on the floor of the grain exchanges are gen—
erally required to have behind them a certain
amount of working capital. Some exchanges
will not permit any trader to operate whose
capital is less than $10,000 cash. That rule
is not inflexible but it is generally understood
that every operating concern 011 ’Change has
a substantial banking of cash capital and not
wind capital. Cooperative companies rarely
are supplied with a good kind of capital. In
their own towns it is very rare that a cooper-
ative company can borrow money at its local

4 bank on its own paper, but it is required when
r it Wishes to borrow to obtain for the banker’s
satisfaction written authority for the manager
to borrow and have the notes further endors-
ed by the members of the directory in their
personal capacity. Of course such a condi-

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_ By EATON G. OSMAN
Editor Price Current-Grain Reporter

 

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Is it Discrimination?

EVERAL YEARS ago, we are told. the
Gleaner Clearing House Ass‘n sent its
manager, Mr. Nathan F. Simpson to

Chicago to seek a membership in the Chi--
cago Live Stock Exchange. Mr. Simpson
book along with him his credentials and a
check for $1,000, the regular membership
fee. Mr. Simpson was polime informed
that the Exchange could not accept the
membership of his company because it was
doing business on co-operaflve lines, the
nature of which would make it impossible
for the concern to conform with the Ex-
change’s rules and regulations. In more
recent times may farmers! oo-qpcraltive
comparies have sought memberships on the
Grain Exchanges, with the same result. In
a number of states bills have been intro-
duced to declare Grain Exchanges “open
markets” and force them to recognize farm-
ers’ co-opcrative companies. Inasmuch as
few people understand the flimsy excuses
given by the Grain Exchanges for barring
(go-operative companies. the Business Farm-
er recently asked Mr. Eaton G. Osman, ed-
itor of the Price Current-Grain Reporter
a grain trade journal, to explain these rea-
sons, and his reply is published herewith.
\Ve have our owu 'opinions upon this sub-
ject which we shall express later, but be-
cause of Mr. Osman’s kind and courteous
reply, his letter is published without 00m-
menu—Editor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

tion could hardly be expected of a cooperative
company operating on ’Change where the
amount of invested capital and borrowed cap-
ital is constantly shifting and particularly the
amount of borrowings enlarging or shrinking
according to the amount of trade carried on
by the company.

These reflections of course are subject to
some review and modifications as to the local-
ities considered, but generally speaking the
objections to the cooperative companies are
embodied in the above. As an editor of, a

farmers’ paper you will. doubtless appreciate ‘

that farmers’ companies as a rule do not do
business in the same way- that regular traders
do their business. They are not in the habit
of merchandising stuff and their practice in
that regard is more or less erratic. It is sat-

 

Beet Grower vs. Beet Worker

WESTERN farm paper, the Sugar Beet

Growers Journal, of Colorado, thinks
that the Michigan beet grower will be better
off financially this year to change places with
the beet worker. Says this journal:

“The stated prices for the hand work of the
eastern beet fields is $23 per acre. It is an
interesting mental exercise for anyone inclin-
ed to that kind of activity, to discover how
much money will be left in the pocket of the
Wisconsin grower getting $6 per ton for his
beets and getting 8.88 tons per acre over a
five year average, or how much the Michigan
grower can put into the bank from his 7.42
tons per acre of the last five years. VVages'
have surely come down in Michigan for the
man that grows the beets, anyway; he gets
$2.90 per ton for use of land, tools, capital,
his own labor and all other costs, and the mag-
nate who blocks and thins and tops the beet
gets $3.10 per ton for his peculiar qualifica-
tions. Figure it yourself, while there is yet
time to look’before you leap.

“Get the idea?

‘ ‘ Landowner :

Tenant, Implements, Fertil-
izer, Land, Buildings, Work-
stock, Taxes, Repairs, Insur-
ance, Insecticides, Etc.
“Hand Laborer:

Pipe, Smoking tobacco, No} $3.10
hoe, No file, No beet knife

$2.90 ’

isfactory enough when it is a mere matter of
consigning corn or agreeing to sell to arrive,
but when a company of that kind undertakes
to enter the exchanges and to do business in
the same way that members of the exchanges
do business they generally fall short of the
necessities of the case.

 

Food Exports Declining

HE TOTAL value of exports from the

United States as compiled from the re-
turns furnished by the Customs Service of the
Treasury Department amounted to $8,228,-
759,748 in the calendar year’1920, compared
with $7,920,425,990 in 1919, the first year of
peace. The exports in 1913, the last calendar
year before the war, were valued at $2,484,-
000,000, which dropped to ~$2,114,000,000 in
1914, five months of which were after the out-
break of the war, increased to $3,555,000,000
in 1915, to $5,483,000,000 in 1916, and to $6,-
234,000,000 in 1917, in April of which year
this country entered the conflict. In 1918,
the closing year of the war, the exports drop—
ped to $6,149,000,000, but increased in the
next two years to the unprecedented high val-
ues given in the opening of this paragraph.

Of the total increase of .$1,770,000,000 in
1919 exports over 1918 more than one-third,
or $657,000,000, consisted of raw materials,
the largest single item being raw cotton. The
gain of $688,000,000 in the exports of food-
stuffs in 1919 over 1918 exceeds another one-
third of the total increase of that year, the
largest items consisting of Wheat and other
grains, flour, meats, and sugar. The gain in
exports from this country during the first
year after the war over the last year of the
war is therefore readily explained by the
pressing‘demand of the war-ridden European
countries for food needed to sustain life until
crops could be raised and for raw materials
essential to the reestablishment of their man.
ufacturing industries.

It is known that quantities have not in-
creased anything like to the extent of the
gains shown in the values, but that the rise in
prices of commodities since the war has been
the principal factor in raising the values of
the exports as recorded since 1914. Various
calculations have been made to ascertain how
much of this increase is due to higher prices
of commodities and how much, if any, to in-
creased tonnage or larger physical quantities
of goods shipped abroad, the results of these
studies differing somewhat according to the
methods pursued or the period and the num-
ber of commodities covered. Enough is
known, however, to state that apparently the
physical quantities of the exports were some-
where around one-third greater in 1919 than
in 1913, whereas the values of the 1919 ex-
ports were over three times the values of 1913.

Exports of foodstuffs in 1920 fell off $606,—
000,000 from 1919, largely in meat products
and canned milk, which with a drop in the
exports of foodstuffs to Europe of $721,000,—
000 may be taken to mean that Europe was
self-supporting in the food line or Was no
longer willing or able to pay American prices.

The falling otf in the export value of food-
stufis is more than offset by an increase of
$641,000,000 in the exports of finished man-
ufactures in 1920 over 1919. This large in-
crease in last year’s exports of manufactures
is more especially gratifying from the fact
that it consists of larger quantities as Well as
values and includes a variety of products
covering many industries. Automobiles in—
creased 90,000 cars and to a value of near-
ly $150,000,000, including parts of cars. Cot-
ton cloths increased by 136,000,000 yards
with a value of $86,000,000, and knit goods,
clothing, and other cotton manufactures by
another $43,000,000. Illuminating, lubricat-
ing, gasoline, and other refined mineral oils
increased 517,000,000 ~ (Continued on page 19)

  

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The History of Michigan’s Famous Metropolis

Magic Growth of Detroit From Days of Cadillac to Present Time Reads Like Fairy Tale

HE HISTORY of Detroit, wonder-city

of the Twentieth Century, reads like a
romance, a fairy tale with all of the environ-
ments and glamorous background of magnet-
ism and charm!

Filled with the glamour of French voyag-
eurs, fur and Indian trading posts, days of
English possession under King George, third,
followed by the coming of the Americans af-
ter the close of the Revolutionary \Var, whole
chapters might be written covering this new
wonder—city of America and American in-
dustry. ~

History relates that it was not until the
AMERICANS CAME in the year 1796 how-
ever, that this settlement experienced its first
wave of prosperity, however unpretending as
compared with the present epoch in the city’s
history.

When Cadillac, the Frenchman, established
his colony of French and Indians upon the
shores of the beautiful straits connecting Lake
Erie and Lake St. Clair, was it vision or fore-
sight of the, geographic strategy of the loca-
tion that decided for the settlement here of
that inauspicious group of colonists?

The dynamic expansion of the city much ex-
ceed even Cadillac’s most sanguine aspira-
tions, and, as for its future, after contemplat-
ed improvements and expansions, both civic
and industrial, have been accomplished, and
the growth “from within out” becomes a
civic factor, a Bible quotation is most apt——
“We know not yet what it shall be!” A
master mind engineered the planting of this
colony of Frenchmen upon that plot of ground
which is today the site of a commercial prod-
igy of the world.

With 100 Frenchmen and 100 Algonquian
Indians, Antoine de la Mathe Cadillac, came
from Montreal to found a trading post that
would out-rival the English in contigous ter-
ritory. Choosingthe present site of the City
of Detroit, on June. 2nd, 1701, a village was
built and palisaded within an enclosure of
192 square feet. Native Indians, many of
them from the tribes of the Ottawas in the
north country, drawn hither through curios-
ity, were invited by the sagaeious French set—
tlers to join them. During the winter of
1701—1702 there were sheltered within the
neighborhood of this then obscure little vil-
lage, six thousand friendly Indians!

Such was the inauspicious birth of the city

By EMMA MATT RUSH

of Detroit! One hundred Frenchmen and one
hundred Algonquin Indians, within appalisad-
ed enclosure of 192 square .feet, and Six
thousand Ottawa Indians without the palisad-
ed enclosure!

,Sprang Up As if by Magic

\Vhat Was a wilderness of trees, Shrubs and
un’derbrush upon the 23rd day of July, 1701,
and upon the next day a barren village, min-
us buildings or homes, grew to be a rival of
Montreal and Quebec within less than a
year, boasting a population of Six thousand
people!

In 1701 corn and grain was ground by a
windmill owned by Cadillac, at a point known
today as \Vind Mill Point, facing Lake St.
Clair. This was the “automotive” industry
of the city at that time, and for many years to
follow. A11 interesting fact /in View of the
present automotive activities of this commer—
cial prodigy. There was one general bake oven
operated in like manner unto the ovens of
provincial Europe, where each housewife
takes her turn to the use of the oven for her
baked goods.

After the fall of New France, Detroit as
well as all of Michigan, became a part of Can-
ada,’ and consequently a British possession.
In 1796, however, upon the final surrender of
this territory by England to her victorious
American Colonists, the old English Fort
Ponchartrain, which occupied the site of the
present City Hall in Detroit, became Ameri-
can headquarters for all of this territory, and
Detroit was made the county seat of \Vayne
County, named after Capt. \Vayne, the of—
ficer commanding the first company of Am—
erican soldiers to enter Fort Ponchartrain.

A remarkable county was that of \Vayne!
It extended from what is now the middle of

’the City of Cleveland, westward to the His-

sissippi River, and included the northern
parts of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, the pres-
ent site of the City of Chicago, all of Michi—
gan and \Visconsin, and a portion of Minne-
sota.

The spirit of expansion was felt in this
territory those days already. Land was pur-
chased from the Indians, and farms of tre—
mendous proportions was the result. One
farm comprising 460,800 acres, was 120 miles
long and 6 miles wide! "

Before the Revolutionary \Var,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(‘King George, Third, bought approx-
, limately two acres of land for a, Gov—
_i vernor’s House in the vicinity of the
: old Fort I’onchartrain. One hund-
red and fifty pounds New York cur—
rency was paid therefor! This prop-
erty fronting upon \Voodward Aven-
ue, the main thoroughfare of De-

 

 
 
   
   
 
 
    
 

troit, is today valued at more than three
thousand dollars per front foot!

A tract of land in the Woodward Avenue
vicinity, comprising 1,280 acres, was purchas-
ed in the city’s infancy for $1,780.00. Its
present value is today estimated at between
fifteen and twenty million dollars!

In considering the expansion of land values,
Detroit is possibly no different from any oth—
er wide-awake and growing American city.
The only difference, being, perhaps, that in
Detroit, the expansion occurred so suddenly,
eyernight, so to speak.

Another curious comparison {In the mat-
ter of automotives, that industry which gave
to Detroit its real impetus forward, is the
fact that in the year 1799 the village of De-
troit boasted 77 conveyances, and in 1800,
only 55! Striking data for a city that sup-
plies more than sixty per cent of the automo-
biles of the whole world, and ranks next to
New York in the number of automobiles op-
erated upon its streets.

As the whole. world knows, Detroit 'anks
first in the manufacture of automobiles and
automobile accessories. But this is not all.
Detroit does not depend upon the manufacta
ure of automotives .absolutcly for prosperity.
Detroit was a fairly prosperous city, as pros-
perity went those days, outside of New York
City, in the, pre-automobile epoch of the
world’s affairs. Because of the many local in—
dustrial accessibilities, due to its position geo—
graphically, Detroit has always enjoyed its
full quota of prosperity. The, lumber busi—
ness coming into this market from Michigan’s
north woods above, was no mean factor in the,
city’s early prosperity. The tremendous salt
deposits all along the water front from St.
Clair to \Yyandotte. proved another commod-
ity not to be overlooked industrially and com-
mercially, in the pro-automobile days.

And stoves! Detroit made stoves in those
pre-automotive days were almost as popular
as Detroit made automobiles are today. At
the, present time, Detroit ranks with St. Louis,
it, has been stated in the matter of stove man-
ufacturing.

And Furs! In the early days Detroit was
one of the most important ‘fur trading posts
of the country.

In the, matter of chemicals, Detroit ranks
second. to none other than the City of New
York.

From a cursory examinatimi of the indus-
trial calendars of the United States, it will
be noted that Detroit, in addition to ranking
first in the matter of the manufacture of au-
tomobiles, likewise ranks first in the manu-
facture of aluminum castings. First, in soda
ash products. First in the manufacture of
adding machines. (Continued on page 18)

     

 

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TRADE AND» MARKET BnVIEW

' MARKED improvement. in
A connection with general busi-

ness and manufacturing, has
been noted during the past week; a
portion of this activity is, of course,
the result of a so-called Easter de-
mand. There are, however, many
influences at work which make for
better business in certain seasonable
lines. The money situation is loos-
ening up and the purchasing public
is showing a disposition to resume
buying operations, more nearly nor-
mal in scope, than anything that has
been noted since the beginning of
the adjustmet period. Manufactur-
ers of both cotton and woolen goods
report a rapidly increasing demand
for the products of their mills and
the manufacturers of read-made
clothing, for both sexes, are running
their plants full time and in some
cases, on over-time schedules. 1

Information, concerning drastic
wage reductions, is coming to hand
every day but very little is heard
about strikes and labor troubles. The
settlement of the differences between
the big Chicago packers and their
employes, arrived at as a direct re-
sult of concessions by both sides
made at the suggestion of the U. S.
Department of Labor, is one of the
encouraging signs of the times. Con-
ditions, in connection with the mo-
tor industry, are improving rapidly
as a direct result of a growing de-
mand for motor vehicles of all kinds;
a recent survey of the Detroit labor
situation indicates that fully one-
half of the 200,000 idle men, which
were credited to that district on the
recent peak of Winter unemploy-
ment, are now working.

That the lessons taught by the
war have resulted in great benefit to
the rank and file of American labor
is proved by the reports recently is-
sued by the leading savings banks of
the country; the statements referred
to Show, that since the signing of the
armistice, savings deposits to the
credit of laboring-men have grown
much faster than at any time during
the period of high wages, just pre-
ceding that date.

The current cost of living is
gradually declining to lower levels
than those that prevailed before the
war, thus making it possible to pur-
chase as much with the present scale
of wages as with the larger earnings,
available during the war. The retail
trade of the country at large has at
last reduced selling prices to a rea-
sonable parity with the average
man‘s earning power with the en-
couraging result that the increased
volume of business has made up for
some of the losses resulting from
shrinkage of inventories.

Reports are coming in from many
of the larger cities of the country
which indicate an early resumption

of building operations on a moderate -

scale. Building stuff and the com-
mon grades of building lumber are
said to be available at much lower
prices than those that prevailed last
year and large reductions in the
cost of nails and builders’ hardware
are also noted. With a few marked
exceptions, there are very few bun,
iness building projects under con-
templation at this time.

The domestic demand for all has-
ic products such as iron, steel, wool.
hides and leather is reported to be
very dull and with a smaller general
movement except in the case of wool
than at any preceding date since the
decline began; it is the general be-
lief, however, that the turning point
has been reached, in connection with
these commodities and that future
reports Will contain much more of
encouragement than those referred
to above. One of the most discour-
aging of recent developments has
been the sharp decline in the vol-
ume of our export trade during the
month of- February; one of the prin-
cipal reasons, which have prevented
foreigners from making purchases in
our markets, of late, has been the
fact that many of our leading lines
of food products were declining so
rapidly that purchasers preferred to

 
 

   
  
 

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Edited by H.’ H. MACK

 

 

GENERAL MARKET . SUMMARYW

 

 

tatoes easy. Beans steady-

DETROIT —— Wheat strong. Corn steady and quiet. Oats
firm. Hay easy and in liberal supply. Potatoes weak.

CHICAGO—All grains showing strength. Hogs lower. Po

 

 

 

 

 

463 a year ago. Shipping sales for
the week amounted to 775,000 bush-
els. The writer believes oat prices
have seen their lowest level but does
not look for any substantial advance
in the near future. What may hap-
pen within the next few months is
hard to predict with any certainty.

BEANS

 

REAR. PER Moo IAR. 20. 1821

 

 

 

 

 

 

(lob: Tho abovo comma-Ind Information was rooolvod AFTER tho bolonoo of tho mor- ondo IDou-olt Ichlmol II. V.
lot page I: set In type. It contains lost Inan Information up to wIthIn one-ho." hour of
Iolng to proso_—Edltor. 0. II. P. . . . . . . 8.50 I 5.13 I 4.85
Rod Kidney: . . . . 0.00 9.28

 

wait until they touched bottom be-
fore making their commitments.
Business has been fairly active
in the New York Stock Exchange
during the past week, some of the
leading industrial specialties making
new high records but the improve-
ment lacking the uniformity which
savors of general revival in the in-
vestznent demand for staple stock is-
sues. Call money has been plenti-
ful at 6 1-2 per cent and borrowers
for commercial uses have experienc-
ed less trouble iu securing funds
than at any preceding date since the
beginning of the current year.

WHEAT

WHEAT PRIGES PER IU.. MAR. 29.3921

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grade [Detroit Ichlcagol N. V.
NO. 2 Rod .... 1.91 1.“ 1.18%
No. 2 Whlto . . . 1.39
No. 2 Mixed 1.59 1.69%
PRICES ONE YEAR ‘80
[No.2 Rod! No.2 wnmI Nazism“
Om“ I 2.42 I 2.40 I 2.40

 

The opening of last week was
marked with strength caused by ex-
port buying ‘out the lt-arket soon
weakened and continued downward
until Wednesday when strength
again made its appearance and con-
tinued through that and the follow-
ing day after which no bullish fact-
ors appeared until Saturday morn-
ing and then it only lasted a few
hours with the market closing in the
favor of the bears. Liquidation
played a large part toward lowering
prices. The reports of beneficial
rains to winter wheat and that green
bugs are not damaging the crop to
a very great extent in the heavily
infested districts in the southwest
also help depress this grain. The
amount of wheat sold to houses with
seaboard connections was not as
large as the week before. Chicago,
received 256 cars, against 87 a year
ago. Belief that the cold snap had
damaged the crop caused the mar
ket to open higher this week but lat-
er reports showed the crop was not
hurt and the market again slumped.
Foreign markets are closed and will
remain so until the middle of the
current week after which we may
again look for renewed demand from
them. However, export buying does
not necessarily mean higher prices
as has been demonstrated the past

few weeks when in the face of good
seaboard business wheat continued
to seek lower levels. About the only
factor that would induce this grain
to renew its attempts to reach much
higher levels would be news of ex-
tensive crop damage.

CORN

CORN PRICES PER BU- MAR. 29. 1821
Grade IDou-olt IOhlcogo R. Y.
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| No.8 Voll.l No.4 Yon.
Detroit . . . . . . . . . ..I 1.00 I 1.50

 

 

 

 

 

To a certain limit corn followed
wheat last week being affected by
the weakness in the latter grain and
heavy selling of large holdings. Re-
ceipts are moderate and domestic
demand is only fair while export
trading is showing little activity.
Most marketing centers report this
coarse grain steady with only slight
changes in prices. Experts predict
corn prices will remain close to their
present levels for some time to come.
Last week Chicago received 2,218,-
000 bushels, compared with 1,839,-
000 a year ago; shipments were a.-

157,000 bushels. Export 83.15 for

the week totaled 2,989,000 bushels,
against 2,761,000 a week ago and
68,000 a year ago. The amount for
the season thus far is 26,708,000
bushels, compared with 2,758,000
last year.

OATS

OAT PRICES PER IU- MAR. 29. 1021

 

 

Grodo Inotron I chlcooo I R. Y.
No. 8 Whito . . . .4056 .41 i .32
No. 8 Whlto . . . .43 .40
No. 4 IAIth . . . .42

 

 

 

 

 

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like wqu m W No.4 mm.
mm I .9091. i .9895 I .9”.

The actions of oats continue to be
governed by that of corn but while
corn lost 2 cents in price at Detroit
last week oats in that city are at the
level quoted in last week’s issue.
Shorts and commission houses are
the main buyers at the present time
and they are taking quite a friendly
interest in the market at present
prices. Shipments from the coun-
try are small, Chicago only receiving
370 cars last week compared with

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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WASIHNG’B‘UN.
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Jamil

male, ca
stunting the storm—comes into tel-
egraphic view in the extreme no -
west of North America. These two
In one are nature’s twins. born. live
and die together. Should the 'im-
pulse that produces them cease it
would be as disastrous to Earth as o.
heart failure is to human life.

In early part of week centerln on
April 8 one of these weather or:
will appear in Alaska, its warm wave
crossing meridian 90 near April 8, its
center passing eastward a little south

 

 

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THE WEATHER’FOR THE WEEK
As Forecaster! by W. '1‘. Poster for The Michigan Businesl Farmer

' i M about 180 days and inaugurat-

of the Great Lakes and reaching the
Atlantic near April 10. Storm wave
will follow and cool wave bringing
up tho rear guard, these weather fea-

tures being one or two day- s .
This will ho an important storm,
out. tho old crop-weather per-

, themafncar thoumolenzth.

t Mo will determino the 1921
or? and I expect a fair average
wt o. bo

rain and greater extreme of temper-
aturo than usual in sections where
these have occurred during past five
months. But this is the last severe
storm that will be con-trolled by the

weather period. Next severe
storm, which will cross meridian 00
during the week centering on April
22. will be controlled by the new
weather period which will bring bet-
ter cropweather to large sections of
this continent.

Mam

 

 

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PRICES ONE YEAR AGO
IO. M. P.IRod Kidneys.
. . . . . . . . . . .l 8.50 I

While the bean market was
strengthening last week at eastern
points, it lost ground in Michigan.
The Detroit jabbing price has drop-
This is due in
part to increased marketing by farm-
ers who have becomeautterly dio-
couraged by the losses they have
sustained the last two years. no
immediate future of this market. de-
pends very largely upon the finan-
cial situation and the trend of grain
prices which at present show o
tendency to advance.

 

Detroit

 

 

RYE

The price of rye, like oat prices,
has held its own since our last writ-
ing and Detroit quotes it at last
week’s price, $150 for No. 8. Rye in
demanding a good price, in my esti-
mation, and active export demand is
the only factor that would cause an
advance.

POTATOES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .
New York . . . . . . . . . . .. - 1.8“
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Heavy receipts are knocking the
bottom out of the potato market. All
marketing centers are receiving more
than they can dispose of owing to
the anxiety of farmers to mat-loot
their surplus while the roads are in
good condition and before they got
into the midst of spring work. Deal-
ers and consumers are only supplying
their immediate needs. If I had a
large supply to dispose of I would
place them on sale at present prica
as I do not believe much higher
prices, if any, will be offered for po-
tatoes. Not that potatoes are not
cheap enough because they ore, but
the demand “does not justify any ad-
vances of consequence. Fax-mom re-
port to us that their neighbors are
hauling their supplies to market.

 

U. s. BUREAU or MARKETS
MABKETGRAM ‘
Washington, D. 0., week ending

March 28th, 1921.

HAY—Markets steady and firm on
better qualities. Scant offerings most
markets, Cincinnati receipts slightly
larger but at no time exceeded the de-
mand. Local demand more active, Ship-
lng demand unchanged. Terminal

ldings generally light; tracks well
cleaned up. Choice new (xx-0110:1132.“ in
loose bales altered at $25, es
old No. l at $18; No. 2 at $15. Load-
ing advices light. Kansas City dealers
estimate that from 50 to 60 per cent of
last year's prairie crop is still in barn:
in that section, Alfalfa meal mills buy-
ing sparingly, no outlet for meal. to
ed: No. 1 timothy $25 Chimgo, $1 at
Minneapolis, :19 Kansas City, 826 at
Philadc phia, $24.50 Cincinnati; No. 3
timothy :20 Chicago. 817 M
:17 Kansas City $22.50 Cincinnati: No.
1 alfalfa 820 Chicago ?20 Minneapolis,
819 Omaha, 820 City.
cinnati: No, 1 prairie, $10 mileage, $10
léfiinneapolis. $12.50 Omahg. 814 Kansas

ty.

DAIRY PRODUCTS—Butter markets
unsettled the past week domestic re-
ceipts sl htly heavier, but no now im-
ports ved and buying was on broad-
er cane. Undortone remained weak,
trading on the 28th on even weaker basé
Is with New Yorkdown 2c. Closing
prices, 92 scoro New York and Chic-go
44 1-2c: Philadol bin 48 1-2.3: Boston,
40. Latest arriva s from Denmark have
shown better quality and com tin:

with (ancient grades domestic. nose
markets wool: and lower. -On Mouth
Wisconsin cheese a change of March

28th prices dropped to levels
than low point in December. Twins 19c:
daisies 30 3-4c: double daisies 80c:
longhorna 210; no younx American 'of-

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fared. ‘Some cheese shipped on eon-
signment from Wisconsin primary; mar.
kets during the week. Southern amend
especially light due partly to declining
markets and also to discouraging busi-
ness conditions.

LIVESTOCK MARKETS
The passing of Lent sees all live
stock and dressed meat except sheep
and lambs on a lower basis with an
outlook for the future that has very

 

little encouragement in it. One of
the leading causes for the present
discouragement, is the growmg

trouble with Germany which promis-
es to practically wipe out for the
present our export trade with that
country. Another vital influence,
which has operated against the live
stock trade, has been the anticipa-
tion of a packing house strike which
interrupted the movement of live an-
imals to market through regular
channels and caused a temporary
"heading back of supplies at some
points and large oversupplies in oth-
er markets.

The Chicago trade in cattle was
a bad disappointment to the selling
side of the market, all last week; the
trade opened fairly active on Mon-
day, March 21, but it was easy to
see that the shipping demand, for
cattle suitable for eastern order
trade, had lost much of its strength
and activity since Monday of the
week before. As the week progress-
ed, the trade grew weaker and the
loss, in the steer department for the
week, equaled from 25 to 50 cents
per cwt. A decreased demand for
fresh meats in eastern and seaboard
markets, resulting from the use of
eggs and poultry, was largely res-
ponsible for the decline in shipping
demand from eastern order buyers.
Local packer buyers were decidedly
bearish all the week .and took very
few cattle, except at liberal conces-
sions for sellers. 4

Weakness in the cattle market at
Chicago was not the result of large
supplies in that market for the total
run was 10,000 'short of the record
of the week before and 20,000 short
of the corresponding week, last
year. Quality was fairly good, early
in the week, but during the closing
days of the period, nothing worthy
of especial note made an appearance.
The top price for mature cattle was
$10.40 and for yearlings $10.60 per
cwt. At the opening. last week, the
trade in butcher’s cattle was strong—
er than the demand for steers and
prices paid for the former, on Mon-
day and Tuesday, looked somewhat
higher than the weak close of the
week before; all of the gain was lost
and some lines showed a decline for
the week of 25 cents per cwt. Bulls
and canners were a trifle lower for
the week but the fairly good cows
showed the heaviest decline. All
grades of stockers and feeders, ex-
cept fancy light stockers which were
very scarce, showed a decline of 25
cents per cwt. for the week. Some
of the coarser kinds of feeding cattle
looked 50 cents lower when the
week’s trade was over. A fairly
large supply went over Easter, un-
sold; grass is reported to be rapidly
rising in the southwest and a better
demand is expected before long.

The Easter demand for mutton
.and the handy grades of fat lambs
caused a gain of from 25 to 50 cents
per cwt. for the week. A falling off
in receipts, from the showing of the
week before, helped the Chicago

 

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-sheep and lamb trade.

rffi‘n‘fircnxcin ‘Bfisunss ra’n‘nnn

Very few
aged sheep came to hand._ The
range for aged ewes was $6 to $6.50,
a load of Colorados bringing the lat-
ter price on Saturday. Best shorn
sheep turned, largely, at $5.25 per
cwt. Aged wethers were even more
scarce than ewes and the top for
a fancy bunch from Wisconsin was
$6.90; on the corresponding date,
last year, the same kind sold for
$16.10. Colorado sent in a bunch
of yearlings last week that brought
$10.25. The trade wanted light
yearlings; the range of prices for the
heavier kinds was from $7.25 to
$8.25, the bulk of shorn yearlings
going at the former price. The av—
erage price in Chicago last week for
all kinds of aged sheep, was $5.90,
being 15 cents higher than for the
previous‘ week.

Receipts of live hogs were cut
down, sharply, last week, in all of
the leading markets but some of the
decrease in live animals was made up
by generous arrivals of dressed hogs
to meet the needs of the Easter
trade; at some points, the latter prac-
tice was badly over-done, resulting
in sharp price declines. Chicago re-
ceived only 94,000 live hogs, last
week, standing 43,000 below the
record of the week before and 72,-
000 below the same week, last year.

Last week’s Chicago hog trade
was decidedly erratic, showing the
widest fluctuations and the most
uneven scale of prices that have been
known this season. On Monday of
last week, select hogs t0pped at
$11.75, being the highest mark of
the year to date. The week’s aver—
age price was $9,.75 being 25 cents
lower than that of the previous week.
During the early days of last week,
sellers were at their wit’s end in the
effort to satisfy their customers but
on the closing days the trade was
more staple and the average run of
prices much more satisfactory. On
Monday of this week, receipts were
somewhat larger at Chicago than
were expected and prices declined
from 15 to 25 cents per cwt. Under
persistent selling pressure the specu-
lative provision market has been de-
clining for ten days past with
scarcely a. reaction, up until the time
of going to press. Cash lard is sell-
ing 'right around top hog prices and
at current live hog values, mess pork
would cost $5 per barrel more than
it is worth on ’Change. The influ-
ence is certainly obvious, namely,
either live hogs must sell much low—
er or the product must advance.

CROP REPORTS

MONTCALM—The farmers are haul-
ing manure and starting spring work, A
good many are also hauling potatoes at
60 cents a cwt.; some think they Will be
higher but do not care to have many on
hand to haul when work is started. We
are having real warmr‘r weather and the
roads are good except for having a three
days rain which makes them a. little
muddy. The light ground is in nice
shape to work but the heavier is too wet
yet—«M. . P., 'l‘rufant, March 26.

GRAND TRAVERSE—Farmers are
beginning farm work now. Some are
hauling fertilizer, but no plowing to
amount to anything is being done as yet.
Having fine weather; warm and quite
a good deal of rain, Some potatoes are
beingrsold. A carload of bay has been
shipped into Barker Creek through the
co—operative association and is selling
at $20 per ton and local dealers are
selling bay for $25 and $29 per ton.—
C. L, B., Williamsburg, March 25.

SAGINAW ——- Nice spring weather,
plenty of rain. Some farmers have
commenced plowing, but most of them
are repairing fences, trimming apple
trees and doing other odd jobs around
the farm. There is quite a lot of stock
going to market at present, Auction
sales continue, one every day or two.
Cows and good horses are going at a
good average price—G. L,, St. Charles,
March 26

JACKSON (South)—Weather fine.
Roads much improved. Farmers busy
buzzing wood, sowin cloverseed, and at-
tending auctions. OI‘SCS, cows and
other live stock are not bringing the
prices they did formerly and many are
disappointed because their auctions have
not brwght them the returns that they
expected. Good roads contractors have
begun work and are paying 56 to $6.50
per day for man and team. Hired help
is more plentiful, and wages are lower.
—-G, 8., Hanover, March 28.

OAKLAND (N)-—~It looks as if spring
has come. Frost is all out and lots of

mud. Some farmers have started plow~.

ing. Wheat has greened up in last few
days. We are having lots of rain, A
good many are working at their apple
trees; something that is badly needed;
a good time to fight the scale. Not
much produce going to market. Roads
are so bad. A good many auctions and
farmers qulting. Hay is in demand by
farmers who are out. Not much call for
live stock; now is,a good time to get
started in registered stock. Horses are
very cheap. Not many buying tractors,
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Both the Planter and Harrow were formerly
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Absolutely accurate: lt plants just the number
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TREATING POTATOES FOR SOAB
AND BLACK SOURF

Will you please publish in your pap—
or how to treat potatoes for scab and
black scurf with corrosive sublimate?
How much per bushel and when is the
right time to use it?——R. A_ S.. Lansing.‘
Michigan.

The usual formula is to use one
ounce of the corrosive sublimate
(mercuric chloride) to eight gallons
of water. The sublimate should be
dissolved in hot water before it is
placed in the larger quantitycf wa-
ter. This material is a deadly poi-
son and should be kept away from
live stock and children.

The usual method of treating is to,
mix up, at least a half barrel of the
solution. This will require three
ounces of the sublimate and about
24 gallons of water. The barrel with
the head removed is then filled with
potatoes in loose form. They may,
also, be placed in the barrel in sacks
but it is possible to treat more of
them if they are placed in the bar-
rel loose. The solution is then pour-
ed over the potatoes and allowed to
stand for thirty minutes. It will do
no harm to leave the material on for
a longer time up to 1 1-2 hours. If
there is very much scab or scurf on
the potatoes the longer treatment
will be the more certain of killing
all of the germs. After the required
time has elapsed the solution should
be draWn off into a tub and the con—
tents of the barrel dumped. It is a
good plan to bore a two inch hole
just above the lower hoop in the
barrel and to plug this in such a
manner that it will be easy to remove
the plug to drain off the liquid. The
barrel should be placed on a solid
potato crate or similar support so
that in drawing off the liquid it, will
be. easy to draw it into a tub.

This treatment can be given some
little time before planting if it is
desired to do so. It may also be
given the day that. the planting is
done. If the potatoes are to be left
without planting for a day or more
after treating. precaution should be
taken to see that the solution on the
tubers dries quickly and completely.
if the treating is done during wet
weather and the potatoes cannot be
spread out where they can dry quick-
ly. it is a good plan to throw clear
water over the potatoes after they
have been removed from the solu-
tion, to stop any further action of
the sublimate. This should not be
done, however, if it is possible to
dry the potatoes promptly nor when
the potatoes are planted very soon
after treating.

If a grower intends to green sprout
his potatoes a practice which is get—
ting more and more common, the
treating should be done first. There
is an added advantage of treating
some time before planting and that
is to enable the grower to get the
work out of the way, during the wet
period or sometime when work is
not as rushing as it frequently is at
potato planting time.-—C'. W. Wald,
Extension Specialist M. A. C."

 

SELLING PLAN ’18 BY MAIL
Must I have a license, to sell strawber—
ry plants by mail? Kindly advise me in
regards to the law governing the sale of
nursery stock through the mails.———H. F_
B, Saginaw county,

The law with reference to selling
and offering for sale of trees, shrubs,
vines or plants will be found in sec—
tion 7411, et. seq. C. L. 1915. You
will be obliged to comply with its
provisions—W. E. Brown. legal ed-
itor.

 

BRANCHES HANG OVER FENCE

l have a piece of land with a woodl‘ot
joining. The trees hanging over the
fence do me a. considerable amount of
damage, I have been told that I could
compel my neighbor to cut the timber
along the line fence. If this be true
please state in the next issue of your

, B. , the law governing the same
and how far back from the line the tim-

ber should be cut—C, N. D., Leslie,
Michigan
—‘———4

If the trunk of a tree is wholly

within the boundaries of a person’s
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notwithstanding its branches may
overhang and its roots extend into
the land of another. But the latter
is not bound to permit the trespass
of these roots and branches. He
may cut them off at the line of his
property. You would have no right
to go beyond the line. You could
not compel your neighbor to cut the
trees along the line—W. E. Brown,
legal editor.

 

DOESN'T PAY NOTE

I sold property in Detroit on contract
$500 down, payments 540 or more pay-
able lst of each month at 5 per cent in-
terest, and thereafter 7 per cent interest
per year until paid. We extended time
three times and the note already over—
due has not been paid or neither have
they written to date. Can they do this
without prosecution any length of time?
If not. what court takes up such cases?
Also is the 7 per cent interest on the
$40 on on the whole amount owing till
this- $40 is paid?—C, H. I_. Caro, Mich.

If your contract provides for for—
feiture of the contract for non—pay—
ment of the payments then you
should declare it forfeited. Perhaps
you will have to serve notice in writ-
ing. The interest at 7 per cent
would be only upon the delinquent
payment and not upon the whole con—
tract unless it so provides in the con—
tract. Proceedings for the forfeit-
ure of contract and recovery of the
premises are difficult legal proceed-
ings and you need the assistance of a
good attorney—W. E. Brown, legal
editor.

 

FEEDING VALUE OF‘ GROUND
CORN COB

is there any food value in the. cob of
corn, VVhOl'l ground with corn and oats,
for a. dairy feed?—A_ P,, Newaygo
County, Mich.

 

 

Ground corn cobs have some feed-
ing value, and under certain condi-
tions such as lack of cheap rough-
age and with cheap means of grind-
ing can be used to good advantage.
Its chief merit seems to be in light—
ening up the grain ration. It con-
tains about 30 per cent crude fibre
which is not readily digestible. In
a mixture of corn and oats the cat
hulls would perform the function of
lightening up the corn meal, and it
would seem that the addition of a
cob meal would be all together un-
necessary and not a profitable addi-
tion to the ration. We would not rec-
ommend it. —— Andrew J. Patten,
Chemist, M. A. 0.

 

TAX 0N ROAD

Will you please tell me what per cent
the farmers have to pay on the good
roads? Also how far back do they give
a special tax? The good road is sup-
posed to be finished by our place next
summer and some say we are taxed one
hundred dollars on every ten acres.
Others say on the new law that was
passed in 1919 we are only taxed one
dollar an acre—C. D. II, Coleman,
Michigan

Act 59 of the laws of 1915, and
the amendments since enacted do not
provide for any definite percentage
to be assessed for benefits nor does
it provide for the exact distance
back from the highway land shall be
assessed for benefits. It provides
that an assessment district shall be
formed and a hearing thereon. It
also provides for fixing the assess-
ment and a day appointed for a bear-
ing—W. E. Brown, legal editor.

 

 

BOY LOSES FINGERS

In 1916 we worked beets for the Mich—
igan Sugar Company on Mr, B. D.'s farm
in Mt, Pleasant, Michigan_ On the first
of July I sent my children home about
five o'clock and my nine-year—old boy
picked up on Mr D.’s farm a. dynamite
cap. When he came home he bumped
into the door frame and the cap explod-
ed, blowing two fingers and thumb of:
his right hand. I had to pay doctor bill
and the boy is crippled for life and I
couldn’t get anything from Mr. D, I
gave the case to a lawyer in Mt. Pleas-
ant but he didn‘t do anything. Will you
kindly see what can be done?——S. H”
Clarence, Michigan,

This is a matter that will require
the attention of local attorneys. If
you do not get service from one at-
torney try another—W. E. Brown.
legal editor.

 

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INJURE HORSE WHILE WORK-
ING ON ROAD

Last spring while plowing on the road
with two teams on the plow, I had a
horse hurt. Cords on his front leg were
cut, disabling the horse all summer and
making a. “plug” out of him, We came
to an extra hard place and the team in
front of mine would not pull. The driv-
er went to their heads to start them and
they started with a. rush, The driver
jumped out of the way and let them go.
I was holding my team in at the time
and the other team pulled the doubletrees
and plow under them and cut the horse
as above stated and might have killed
one of them if the man holding the plow
had not run ahead and stopped the front
team. I was in my proper place on the
left side of the team and the other driv-
er on the right side. so that I could not
see what he was doing and I did the
only thing I could do by holding my
team. I have three witnesses to this
and I think I ought to at least have the
veterinary bill paid by the district. What
do you think?——M. B_ Fan, LaSalle.
Michigan.

 

I do not know of any law making
a road district liable for damages
caused either by your negligence or
the negligence of the other driver
in a matter where there was no neg-
ligence. In my judgment it would be
a matter of the liability of the driv-
er or owner and not the district.—
W. E. Brown. legal editor.

 

CONTINENTAL SERVICE 00.

Would you kindly tell us in your
paper if the Continental Service Com-
pany of Chicago, a supply house for the
middle west, operated by Otto Schneek-
loth is a reliable wholesale house to
deal with? It costs two ($2) dollars
to belong one year and then you are en-
titled to special prices for one year and
they pay all freight charges—«A, E. G..
Lyons. Michigan

 

Continental Service Company not
in phone book or directory. Learn-
ed Grossfeld and Roe, wholesale
grocers fill all orders for this com—
pany. Mr. LeMarten in active
charge. Have been conducting a di-
rect by mail campaign in Michigan
alone. So many stunts of this kind
have been pulled in the past and the
members always get stung, that
while this may be legitimate, I rec-
ommend that your subscriber, when
in need of good groceries, buy of the

dealer or from a well knOWn supply .

house—T. D. Morris, Mgr., Chicago
office, The Business Farmer.

 

OWNERSIIIP OF PART OF YARD
REFUSE

On October lst A sells his farm to B,
possession to be given March lst. Dur-
ing the intervening- time A feeds out his
rough feed and grain. To whom does
the manure belong? If possible, please
give book reference supporting your
opinion,—-W_ L. F., Lansing, Michigan.

 

The supreme court of Michigan
held as follows: “The owner of a
farm sold it and leased the barn and
barn yards thereon of his grantee.
At the time of the sale there was a
quantity of hay and straw in the
barns belonging to the grantor,
which be fed to his stock on the leas—
ed premiscs after the sale. Held,
that the manure made on such prem-
ises was personal property belong—
ing to the lessee, as manure is only
a part of the realty when it results
from a consumption of the product
grown thereon.”—W. E. Brown, leg-
al editor. ‘

 

LINOLEUM IS PERSONAL
PROPERTY

I have sold my place to a. man and
left the linoleum on the kitchen floor
with the understanding that he would
pay for it. Now he has moved in and
says he will not pay for it as the linol-
eum is nailed to the floor and is not
personal property, Is be right?. Is a.
board which serves a certain purpose in
a building but is not nailed to the build-
ing ersonal property?—R. S., Pinconn-
ing, glichigan.

 

I am of the opinion that linoleum
is personal property to be treated
the same as carpets. You would be
entitled to recover the price if he
promised to pay you for it. The
board used for a certain purpose
might belong to» the building or it
might not depending upon the use
to which it was put—W. E, Brown,
legal editor. I


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LIFE AS SfiE’S LIVED

N ALMOST any daily paper we
may pick up now—a-days, we may
read of some turrible thing done

by some man or woman—we read of
murders, of some big robbery—some
boy or girl—or mebbe some young
woman, bein’ kidnapped an’ held fer
ransom—we read of thousan’ things
unlawful, bein' done an’ most every
time it is done to get money—some-
body wants to git rich quicker’n he
can do it in a legitimate way an’
jest natcherly we wonder if the men
an’ women who make up the world.
is all bad—if they are so crazy after
wealth an' so anxious to get it, that
they forget how to be good or that
there may be others wronged by
their evil doin's.

We read of prefiteers an’ money
grabbers—men who keep jest within
the law, but are so crooked they
can’t lay straight in bed an’ seems
like sometimes that everything has
gone wrong—that somewhere in all
that makes life, a cog has slipped
an’ that we’re kinda runnin’ back-
ward, so to speak. an’ hardly worth
the struggle ’less we can do somew
thin’ crazy an’ git into the swim
ourself—lose ,our self respect, our
friends, lose all that we have cher—
ished fer so many years an’ jest run
amuck an’ grab off a bundle of mon-
ey an’ be with the rest of the guys
that are cutting a wide swath. takin’
things easy or gittin’ into politics or
somethin’, where graftin’ an’ prof—
iteerin’ comes natural an’ stealin’
is easier. I say we read about all
these things an’ our faith in life an’
in human nature is turribly shaken
an’ we kinda git to lookin’ with sus-
picion on most everybody_kinda
think mebbe there’ ain’t any good
men and women left an' that life is
all to the bad.

An’ then, all to once we read of
some great deed done by some man
or woman, with a heart big as the
world, an’ we brighten up an’ life
looks diffrunt to us an’ we’re glad
we’re in the world an’ a part of it.

Jest a short time ago we wuz
readin’ of somethin’ that happened to
a little boy and his mother—Emilie
Beaulue, the little feller’s name wuz
an’ he an’ his mother come over here
from Canada they had no money
an’ no friends—seemed like—an' the
mother wuz took sick and died—the
little feller was heart—broken, near-
ly—he couldn’t bear to think of his
mother bein’ buried in the potter’s
field an’ be had no money an’ no
friends an’ he wuz jest a little fel-
ler, 13 years old, an' what could he
do? Then we know what happened!
A kind—hearted man, an undertaker,
with a heart as big as could be, jest
took pity on the little feller——he
took the poor mother’s body, dressed
it properly, put it in the best casket
he had, got a woman to go along, an'
sent the boy an' the mother an’ the
kind woman, back to the home in
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little feller—the mother of the wo-
man in the casket, wuz waitin’ to re-
ceive them an’ to bury the precious
clay in her own family lot. An’ this
wuz not all—~the good people of the
town where grief had come to the
boy an’ death to the poor' little moth—
er, jest went to work an’ they rais-
ed about a thousand dollars an’
give to the boy so he could get a
start in the world—could educate
himself an’ do something worth
while.

An’ so our faith in humanity kinda
took an upward turn jest on ’count
of the acts of thisxone kindly man

an’ the other big—hearted people of

his town an' we remembered many
other great deeds of kindness done
by other men whose thoughts wuz
of somethin’ besides makin’ money
to pile up for themselves an’ it oc-
curred to us all to once, that life
wuz all right if we worked at it an’
lived it, in the right way—if we
sometimes thought of somebody he-
sides our own self an’ tried to make
some other feller’s lot a little more
pleasant an’ to make others happy.

An’ then sometimes, when we
read some of the things that girls
an’ young women are doin’ read of
an’ see how kinda silly they act an’
dress—things we wouldn’t hardly
expect ’em to do. an’ would lots
rather they wouldn’t, do, we git to
thinkin’ that our girls ain’t as nice
as they might be noi‘ as good an’
sweet as the girls wuz when girls
Wuz our hobby and when we didn’t
think of much of anything else.

An’ then we think of some of the
wonderful mothers we have met——
mothers that wuz girls when they
meant: so much to us an' mebbe we
thought some of ’em acted a little
silly——’t,hough of course we could
overlook a good deal in them days—
well we think of these wonderful
mothers an’ what they have done
an' are doin’ an’ it occurs to us
kinda suddenly that the majority of
the girls we call silly today. will
make just as Wonderful mothers in
the years to come——it will be that
way for nature has so ordained it——
an’ so we think, let the little dears
have their fling——we’ve all got to be
foolish an’ silly sometime in our
lives an’ it might better be while
we’re young an’ without the respon-
sibilities that have to come later. an’
I know most of our girls will turn
out all right, ’count of the splendid
mothers that bore them an’ give ’em
to the world. an’ life looks differunt
'cause we look at it from a differunt
angle an' we decide that the world’s
all right an' our own people the best
there is in it an’ we’re glad we’re
livin’ an' the sun seems to be bright-
er than common an' all because our
faith in humanity has been restored
by the acts of those whom we know
to be the best. an’ that lives life as
we all should. Cordially.—UNCLE
RUBE.

 

 

 

Sense and

Nonsense

 

 

Menu Enough

Old Portly found himself strand-
ed for an hour or so in a strange
town and decided to have something
to eat. He entered the only restau-
rant he could find and called for a
menu. v

“There ain’t one sir," said the
waiter, who looked as if he’d been
blighted in infancy, “but i can tell
you what’s on.” '

"Let’s have it then," said Portly.

The waiter took a deep breath and
reeled off a lengthy list.

“You have a good memory, my
man," said Portly.

“No, sir,” said the waiter meekly,
“I just looked at the tablecloth.”

 

Truth at Last

"I say, Harry," said a miner to his
mate, “what's so. cosmopolitan?"

“Suppose there was a Russian
Jew lived in England with an Italian
wife, smoking Egyptian cigarettes,
near a French window in a room
with a Turkish carpet on the floor.

If this man drank American ice
cream sodas while listening to a
German band playing ‘Come ack to
Erin,’ after a supper of Dutch cheese
made up as a Welsh rabbit, then you
might be quite safe in saying that
he was a cosmopolitan.”

Relapse Ahead
A physician claims to have restor-
ed two patients to sanity by pulling
their teeth. When they see the bill
they may go crazy again.

Eat and Be M
Most Of us would rather fight than
eat our oWn words.

Union Rules
The man who prints a kiss on a
pretty girl's lips seldom fails to call
for a second edition.

Weary
By the time they arrive at a con-
clusion some people are not so tired
as they make us.

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Welcoming France’s Envoy

HEN SIGN. KNOX heard that France

was sending one of its ablcst statesmen
to this country 10 plcad with us to accept the
ch'lguc of Nations without Article 10, he is
reported to have exclaimed, “\Vcll, if that is
the case, I don’t wish him any luck.” The
cruirc civilizcd world will doubtless applaud
this fine, courtcous, statesmanlike, and withal
diplomatic spirit. toward the representative of
our old friend and ally. The Senator’s cor-
dial treatment of the subject ought to increase
immeasurably the cstccm of the world for the
United States. As everybody knows there is
room for improvement in this respect.

’X‘ it i4 W 3!:

For one and a, half years the armies of the

United Status fought s'dc by side with the
armies of allicd Europe to crush militarism
and makc lllc world safe for democracy. In

typical American style the first part of thc
JOl) was done and done right. But then in a
manner quitc foreign to American prcccpts
we beat a. disgraccl‘ul rctrcat and left our suf-
fering allies to face the bigger job alone.
Whilst we in scllish solitude have rcstcd upon
our ours to enjoy the empty fruits of victory,
Europe, though crippled beyond belief, has
fccbly sought to gulhcr up the shattered ends
and kccp le faith. Without the moral sup—
port of 1hc [liiitcd States she has failed and
her dcslinics now rchSO in the hands of men
to whom (ll‘llllH'l'le‘y is mockery and universal
broihcrhood an impossible dream.
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During tlu- uwurly one hundred and fifty
.\l'2Ll'S of hcr national history the llnitcd Status
hus jculously guurdcd hcr moral obligations
in hcr intcrcoursc with forc'gn nniions. llcr
(iocumcnts of stoic all breathe El noble dcfonsc
of those virtues of honor, justice, tolcrance
and luinninilnrisui, which arc thc foundation
rocks of lllu rcpublic. In all the crises which
huvc confronted. this nation in its making, she
has I‘t’S'lllllOly dochch those principles and
inniniuiucd hcr rcputation for fair dculiug
with illc rcst of thc mcmbcrs of the earth.
\thu shc cnlcri‘d thc war in defense of de-
mocracy, sull'cring nations blcsscd her, and
upon the conclusion of the war looked to her
to loud llll'lll in a triumphant march toward
tho loiigvsought gonl of universal pcncc and
rglucousucss. llcr attcmpts, or rather the
nth-mpt of a minority of the people’s repre-
svntnlivcs in Congress, to Shirk her rcsponsi-
biliiics in the greatest crisis of all, is contrary
to cvcry principle which gave this nation life,
and has brought down upon our heads the
condemnation of an amazed universe.

Some day thc historian will takc his pcn in
hand to writc down the tragic events of the
world’s gl‘t‘éllCSt war, and the even more tragic
events of the aftermath. The United States,
justly proud of her triumphs in war, will not
hesitate to claim her share of the, credit for
the victory.

But what shall we say when we are asked

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for an account of our stewardship of the vic-
tory? What manner of excuse can we offer
for deserting our allies in their time of great-
est need? How can we color and camouflage
our treachery to our allies and our renuncia-
tion of our international obligations so that
the historian “will write a record which we will
be proud to hand on to future generations?
The American people have been taught to look
with horror upon the crimes of foreign gov—
ernment and the pages of history are black
with them. But unless this country recog—
nizes and assumes its post-war obligations to
the rest of the world, without much further
delay there will be another page of still black-
er hue to add to the book of history.

Let us not add insult to injury by turning
a cold shoulder to the man whom France is
sending to plead with us to accept our respon-
sibility as a member of the League of Nations
in bringing order out of the chaos of the
world. Let us receive him kindly; listen to
him patiently; and give him some kind of
message of cheer and hope to take back to his
country,

 

The “In-Betweens”

VERY ONCE in a little while we discov-

er what an “efficient” thing the American
system of distribution is. \\'c find that in
order to get a bushel of beans from a farm in
Huron county to a consumer in Detroit, it
must go through the hands of the local cleve-
tor, at least one jobbC' and somctimcs two, a
wholesaler and a, retailer. As a result the
consumer is taxed twice as much for the
pound of bonus as is paid to the farmer.
llcrc is still another instance of the marvelous
simplicity of the system. This is gleaned
from the report. of a committee appointed by
the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange on
the proposal to cstablish future trading in
refined sugar. The report names those whom
it says, “plays an important part indhe in-
dustry” as follows: (1) the planter or farm-
cr; (2) the producer (meaning the manufac-
turer of raw sugar); (3) the merchant (who
buys the raw sugar); (4) the refiner; (5)
the broker; (6) the wholesaler; (7) the re-
tailer. Could anything better illustrate the
wonderful opportunities that exist in this
country for men to engage in useless and par-
asitical enterprises? A lttle capital, a little
cleverness, a little courage is all that a man
requires to set himself up in business between
producer and consumer and add another tax
to the cost of living.

This reflection suggests the savings that
might be made by the farmers owning the
sugar mills. They are the real producers,
and as such are entitled to the best fruiis'of
their labor. The amount of labor and capital
ncccssary to extract the sugar from the beet
or lhc cane is but a mere bagatclle compared
with the amount involved in the productou of
the bchs. The farmers furnish the boots; the
farmers buy the sugar, at least a. goodly por-
tion of it, so why shouldn’t they ovm the fac-
tories and cut out the pa‘usitcs to whom they
now pay tribute? \Vhy tukc the rough,
roundabout way to town when a broad straight
highway runs right by the door?

The Emergency Tariff
llE FAILURE of the grain markets to
rcoct whcu it sccmcd ccrtain that the
l’ordncy cmcrgcncy tariff bill would become
a low during the closing days of thc \Vilson
adm'nistration, has caused a good deal of Skcp-

 

rn's n‘ncnrcur QUSINEss F‘A’RHER‘

ticism zunong farmers and farm organizations

as to whether the bill, which promises to be—
come a law immediately upon the convening
of the special session of'Congrcss, will produce
the results anticipated by its authors. A fcw
months ago this measure was hailed as the
genuine sure-cure for falling markets, but
time seems to have dampened the enthusiasm
and many who were at first strongly commit-
ted to the measure are now in doubt. If the
emergency tariff does no good, it can at least
do no harm. But if it‘succccds in stemming
the fall of farm products and protecting what
little purchasing power the farmer has left it
will be a great boon to all industry.

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April 2, 1921
Implement Prices Coming Down

HE LATEST implement manufacturer

to announce price reductions is the In1
tcrnational Harvester Company which has re-
cently issued a schedule of reductions rang-
ing from 10 to-15 per cent upon a large per-
centage of their lines. The articles affected
include plows, drills, cream separators, hay
rakes, hay presses, corn shellcrs, feed grind-
ers, wagon bOXes; thrcshcrs, gasoline engines
and tractors.

The company declares that in making these
reductions it is obliged to accept a loss on in-
ventories. In discussing the cost of making
implements spccral emphasis is laid upon the
effect of high freight rates on present manu—
facturing costs. In this connection the fol—
lowmg Significant statement is made:

“You are doubtless aware that present freight
rates are based on 101 per cent. increase over 1914
—an increase nearly 35 per cent greater than our
prosent level of farm implement prices—and that
this increased freight pyramids itself many times
-in manufacturing costs. For example, to produce
a ton of finished steel, practically six tons of ma-
terial must be transported to the mills, and to
manufacture a ton of farm implements approxi-
mately three tons of steel, iron, lumber, fuel, etc“
must be brought to the factory. If every other
item of manufacturing costs were to return to
pre—war normal, farm implements would still nec-
essarily carry a very substantial increase from
the freight advance alone.”

\
These reductions by the largest manufac-
turcr of farm implements in the world, will
I'cprcscnt a substantial saving to farmers who
must buy equipment to carry on their farm-
ing operations this coming summer. There
has been much uncertainty, to say nothing of
discouragement, among the farmers the past
fcw months as to the future prices of farm
implements, the feeling being that as long as
the prices _of farm products had dropped to
pro—war level and the prices of many manu—
factured articles were on the decline, farm
implement prices should follow the downward
trend. The action of the International Har-
vester Company at this time will clarify the
situation materially and open the way for the
purchasing of needed farm implements.

 

Concentration of Wealth .

IIE INTERESTING fact was brought

out at the Detroit conference of the Peo-
ple’s Reconstructiori League by Wm. ll. John-v
ston, president of the International Ass’n of
Machinists, that 136 billion dollars or 27 per
cent of the total national wealth, are in the
hands of 22,696 persons. This is quite a con-
trast to the early days when the govcrnmcnt
still rctaincd control of the public domain
and the natural resources, and the richest
counted their wealth by hundreds instead of
millions of dollars. It is a recognized fact
that private exploitation of the nation’s vir-
gin wcnlth of oil, copper, iron, timber, coal,
ctc., has brought about the concentration of
wcnllh into a comparatively few hands. And
as the value of these products increases the
icmlcncy toward conccntration becomes ever
grczitcr. In recent years people have serious-
ly argued the question whether or not this
concent'ution of wealth encouraging as it
does cnvy, grccd, arrogance, selfishness, does
not constitute a menace to the cconomic well-
being of the rest of the people and to free
govcrnmcnt. Thc increasing prosperity of
the masses and thc slow but steady improve-
ment of labor seems to bclic the fear that the
few who own great wealth are seeking to 0p-
prcss those who have but little. At the same
time a more even distribution of wealth among
those who would use it for productive pur-
poses would no doubt increase materially the
happiness and prosperity of the nation at
large. But the immensely rich of the coun-
try, operating through Wall Street, do' exert
a most unwholcsome influence upon our law-
making bodies, and are in that respect a
menace. The possession of great wealth
seems to imbue the possessor with the idea
that he is entitled to privileges which are de-
nied the ordinary run of mortals, and the
rich have been none too scrupulous in spend-
ing vast sums and using questionable influ-
ences to secure those privileges.

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1551‘ Tim PROFITEE'RS PAY

publication on the answer to Mr.

Ralph Steen of Nessen, Mich., on
page 13; It takes real nerve these
days to speak out on a subject of this
kind.

The people of this country in gen-
eral I believe are more than in favor
of a so—called bonus for ex-service
men and women with the exception
of the following, perhaps the great
ooncerns that made huge profits dur—
ing the war and for some time since
Inch as steel companies, powder
makers, gun makers, coal mine own—
ore, etc. These gents were the 24-
carat patriots when the youth of
this nation were being called to make
the sacrifice of war, these are the
powers that be and also the class
Hr. Steed and all others should be
demanding a square deal from today.
Ifliese companies made billions in
wealth and I would like to see about
90 per cent of it taken away from
them and given to exaservice men
and women and I don’t believe the
munition makers would be half so
anxious to make the world safe for
democracy next time.

People of the United States and
the world in general would not feel
so badly about the terrible cost in
men and wealth expended in’ the last
few years if the causes of war had
been removed and I,defy a single
soul to prove to me that even one
cause for war was removed. The
causes of war are economic in orig-
in and these causes have not been
lessened, they have even been made
more, by the peace treaty.

When England is holding Ireland
by force, also India and Egypt to a
considerable extent also U. S. ma-
rines shooting democracy into the
natives of Haiti, the state troopers of
Pennsylvania (state troopers are
misnamed, they should be called
Wall Street Cossacks) suppressing
free press and speech in among the
coal miners of West Virginia and
Pennsylvania, companies of great
wealth trying to break the unions,
etc” I would say we are still a long
may from peace even at home.

I honestly believe that conditions
are such that before long a still
greater war will have to be waged
unless the people of the United
Btates and the world in general wake

PERMIT ME to congratulate your

Just subscribed for your paper
tad hope you will keep up the great
cause of telling the truth—Carl G.
Harbin. Gratiot county.

o——-———-———-—-

Yes, it is true, the world is Still in a
lad turmoil and opportunity for class
.tr'uggles and war are everywhere abun-
dant. Few of the causes that make for
war have been removed and will not be
moved until the United States per-
forms her moral Obligations and takes
the lead as the most powerful nation in
mforcing the spirit of the League of
Nations. The terms of the peace treaty
are unnecessarily harsh and cannot be
enforced as the Allied nations are dis-
covering. Still France needs the Ger-
man indemnity very badly in order to

y for the destruction of a ,vast por-

n of her wealth. Without this indem-
nity France faces utter ruin. The Unit-
ed States could. by joining the League
of Nations. and injecting some of her
old time idealism into the proposition,
restore friendly and sensible relations
between nations—Editor.

MR. BRAUN AND THE FARMERS
NCLOSED please find check for
$3.00 for which extend my sub-
scription 5 years. Your com-
munication from Mr. Carl Braun,
read with interest.

It would seem to me Mr. Braun
greatly underestimates the intelli-
gence of the average farmer in two
ways, the first is the suspicion that
with the past four years of trying
times in which they have perhaps
proved themselves the furthest frOm
Bolshevik tendencies of any class.
That they can not be led into by
your paper or any other. And in
which I have never seen the slight-
est hint. But will say that in taking
your paper since the first issue, I
have always found it to deal with
the farmers problems with—a straight
from the shoulder attitude. And a
fearless looking over of wood piles
and exposure of facts which to say

 

  
 
 

THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER

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the least have been handled by far
too many farm papers with too much
caution.

The other supposition seems to be
with Mr. Braun that if everybody
keeps quiet the farmer will not re-
alize anything has happened to him.
I do not think we, the farmers, have
but to look over the last four years
opperations to see that something
serious is the matter. Our feeding
lambs bought at 130 to 14c selling
at $7 and $8. Our hides selling at
BC and a good pair of shoes $8 to
$10 and “‘H‘ncss at $100 or upward
a set. Wool unsalable, a good suit
of clothes, of course, not such as a
farmer wears. $50. And so on down
the line of all or nearly all lines of
goods. And most of this feeding
stock bought with borrowed money
from the bank at 6 per ‘cent and up-
ward, on notes properly endorsed
and collectable. I thank you, al-
though not the same regrets which
seem to so greatly trouble Mr.
Braun in regard to his farmer po-
litical affiliations. And that while,
I have often differed with your po-
litical policies.

I have always thought you honest
in your views and as much right to
your opinion as I.

It would seem to me something
far greater than any partypolitics
is more the trouble with us; that it
was now more. of a time for small-
er bank dividends, surplus, and un-
divided profits. For less high sal-
aries; for one busy man to do what
three idle one have been trying to
do all down the line: of getting
right down to business; the bank-
er and the merchant assisting the
farmer. i will say in conclusion
that any time you feel obliged to de-
part from your straight forward
method of dealing with these mat-
ters please drop me at once from
your subscription list. From one
who soon expects to view the world
from between the plow handles——
0. Lemon, Washtenaw county, Mich.

You are a true friend of the farmers
friend Lemen. I value your opinion
more than the combined opinions of all
the Carl Brauns on earth_ Those who
oppose organization among farmers and
laboring men never do give the rank
and file of these considerable classes of
people any credit for brains, Organ-
ization leaders are always agitators or
Bolshevistic bell-wethers whom the rank
and file follow blindly like sheep in a
storm. In their eyes the only thing
that IS necessary to curb unrest among
the masses is to kill off those who seek
to take the lead in economic reform.
The Busmess Farmer has set its course.
There will be no deviating or turning
back. Justice is our goal, and despite
the obstacles placed in the way by the
enemies of co—operation, we are well up-
on the journey—Editor.

 

PRICE OF BEETS SHOULD BE
BASED ON YEAR SI'CAR PRIPE

NCLOSED find check for renew-

E al and new subscription. The

new subscriber is a beet grow—

er and lives in the beet section of

northwestern Ohio. I did not grow
any beets last year but some of my
neighbors did. When they planted
they thought they would get $16 a
ton when they got their bonus check.
I recently asked one how much bonus
he got and he said $4 altogether, and
he had a good crop. He said they
are now wanting contracts for $6
this year. There is nothing fair to
the farmer in these contracts. Why
don't they make the time for the
bonus payment run to Sept. let, that
would give the farmer a fair show.
Their bonus price only covers the
months when the farmer is harvest-
ing his beets and the price of sugar
is low. Then after the run is over
the price goes up. .I like the M. B.
F.—A Reader, .Davison‘ Mich.

Haven‘t you ever guessed that the
reasons the manufacturers take the
months of November, December, Janu-
ary and February to determine the
price of beets is because the sugar
market is normally lowest during these
months? The new contract written by
the Boot Growers’ Ass’n provides that
payment for beets shall be based on the
price of sugar for twelve months which
is more equitable Nearly all the big
western beet factories are writing con—
tracts on this basis and there's no reas~
on why the Michigan manufacturers
shouldn’t do the same—Editor.

 

REWARD THE FIGHTERS, BUT
NOT THE SLACKERS
IP, HOORAH, for your answer
to Ralph W. Steed. I would
like to see every soldier who
was in the war zone, and under fire,
rewarded with a cash bonus, and this
money should be collected by an in-
come tax, levied on the manufactur-
er, jobber, wholesaler and retailer,
who were made rich by the war. But,
there were thousands who would not
go until the draft dragged them in,
and never got to the fighting zone at
all, many of them pro—German, and
other foreigners. These do not do-
serve and should not get any reward.
I say, reward the fighters, but not
the 'slackers.—Charles H. Sanford,
Alprna County.

 

Your proposal may be just but not
practical If the federal government
adopts a. bonus loan as it will. it must
treat all alike, volunteer, fighter, slack~
er and pro—German. Editor.

 

STARTS ANE‘V WITH PURE-
BREDS

HE FARMERS have sure had a

hard pull. We have met the sit—

‘wiinu by killing off all of_ our
cattle that were fit for beef and the
rest we sold at auction. We are
starting all over again with four
pure-bred Holsteins. So here is hop-
in" that good will come from the
bump we got. Hope our brothers
succeed in landing on their feet.—
Chrm Nclcm. 10300 County.

 

There’s a rattling amount of cheer
and optimism in that brief letter. You‘ll
win sure. with those pure—bred: Live
stock is coming back into ifs own and
the man with pure—breds will cop the
Drean] of the business. Editor,

 

 

 

 

Musings of a Plain Farmer

 

rIE HUM 0f the buzz saw is
I once more heard in this vicin-
ity. This is one of the most
modern implements of human tor-
ture known to farmers. A man that
can, follow it through the neighbor-
hood and survive is knOWn as a phy-
sical .marvel. We always carry a
few reserves in this vicinity. When
a man drops exhausted while carrying
a pole he is gently rolled out of the
way and another takes his place.
This prevents any obstruction of the
pole going to the saw.

I have been cordially invited to
attend all of the meetings of the
buzzers. I am jubilant. Our first
job is a small one. Approximately
75 cords. The poles ramge in size
from 2 inches to 2 feet in diameter.

I have been assigned the position
of throwing the Monks away {mm We

saw. The engine is snorting. The

belt is on and the curtain is raising
on the first act.

Here comes a log. This should
have gone to the mill. Some good 2

by 20’s in this. God! That block is
heavy. I carried it 15 feet and threw
it 10.

I must hurry back.

Well, that log is finished and the
next is a bunch of limbs.

Surely I’ll drop some of those I
did—Kicked them Ollit of the way
with my foot. So we go. The pile
of poles is getting smaller and the
wood larger. One of the boys has
relieved me.

The wor kis hard but fascinating.

There is a certain amount of pride
in looking at a good plic of wood at
your door.

Evening is here.
over.

We have had a bountiful supper
and I am home again.

Mrs, B. has finished milking. Wish
I could afford to buy her a bunch o;
Orchids.

Babe, will you unlock my bootsf
My back is sore. I am going to bed.
—A. P. Ballard‘ Ubly, Mich.

The tension is

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AGAINST CITY COMMISSION
GOVERNMENT

N YOUR issue of Feb. 18th F. J.

Stafford of Van Buren County,

registers three ways, and then

some, of cutting down the expense
of administration and easing the bur-
den of the taxpayers. Every point
advocated by this writer will bear
close scrutiny and should have the
most thorough discussion, for only
by such means are we going to de-
termine whether the majority of us
should agree with all the state—
ments advanced.

There can be no question that the
state will be the better for a drastic
house cleaning at Lansing. But that
is stating only half the point, not the
whole. What is to be done after the
house cleaning? The affairs of the
public will be then, as heretofore, in
the hands of officials who will have
to be taken on trust for their do-
ings in office. If, as occasionally
happens, the reformers prove to be
more costly and less, or no more,
capable (Heaven save the mark!)
than the old gang; and if we then
find that by more compact and less
responsible consolidation, we have
placed them farther from the possi-
bility of our getting at them, we will
certainly have no fewer problems to
work out.

I will say to Mr. Stafford that the
tovmship unit is the closest to him-
self of any, and he is a part of it.
The “horde of numerous tax—eaters.
foe-gaiherers and petty politicians"
of whom he complains are on the
job, IF AT ALL, by the suffcrunce of
the local voters of whom Mr. Staf-
ford is one. Conditions may be dif-
ferent in Van Buren county than
here; but this essential fact is the
same anywhere, that Mr. Stafford's
vote will count a great deal less
among two thousand others voting
for county commissioners, than it
does among one or two hundred oth<
ers voting for township officers.

Township expenditures are always
open to examination and inquiry.
Especially at township elections,

when the town clerk’s copies are
publicly displayed. Has Mr. Staf-
ford ever taken the trouble to inter—
est himself about these?

Has Mr. Stafi'ord ever held a town-
ship of‘i‘ice——treasurer, for instance?
If he has, and can say that he made
money out of it, he stands convicted
of having failed to fulfill his oath of
office; because a man cannot con-
scientiously perform his official duty
in its fullest demands and get ade-
quate compensation for his work.
That this is true is right, because a
man should not expect to make mon-
ey or get his living as a local office
holder. If Mr. Stafford has not hold
a township office he should become
a candidate at once, and not longer
neglect his duty as a citizen.

It is Mr. Stafford’s unquestioned
privilege to hold whatever opinion
and judgment may recommend itself
to him, but when he labors for a
new form and denounces the present
form of local government, he or any-
one else must expect that their state-
ments will be challenged. There-
fore will Mr. Stafford say in detail
exactly how he expects the saving of
tax money to result from abolishing
township government and substitut-
ing a county commission? I do not
understand that all this is advocated
in the present agitation.

The commission form for counties
would substitute three or five com-
missioners for a Board of Supervis-
ors. On its face this should save a
small amount of per dicm (i-o.r.p«-u-
sation, but even this is a question.
Certainly we would still have the
county officers as at present for the
ofiicial routine. This would include/.\
a county treasurer, requiring salary
and clericalhelp at least the same
as now. Probably more. Because
Mr. Stafford can feel assured that
tax collecting will always call for
fees and salaries, whether among his
neighbors in a township or at the
county seat. For Mr. Stafford’s in-

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INTERESTING TO “7OMEV

HE CALL to the second annual
Tconvention of the National

League of Women Voters has
been sent to more than 2,000,000
members throiTghcut the country.
Within the twelve—month the League
has not only perfected its national
organization, but has organized
leagues in every state in the Union
with subsidiary district, county and
city organizations, and at Cleveland,
Ohio, from April 11 to 16 will re—
port what has been accomplished
during the year just past. and plan
the work for the year to come.

As representation in the commu-
tion of the National League of “'0-
men Voters, according to their con-
stitution, “shall be in accordance
with population and shall be on the
same, basis as the state's representa—
tion in Congress.” about 1.000 dele—
gates and alternates are expected to
come tothe convention '

As outlined by the chairman, Mrs.
Catharine \Vaugh Mct‘ulloch. rec--
oinmruidations of the Committee on

I'eit‘orm Laws concerning women
follow last, year’s program with an
added suggestion for the removal

from women of all legal disabilities.

Au oath of allegiance to the l'nit-
ed States for every citizen. native.
and foreign born. to be one ou-ilifi—
cation for the vote. is an additional
recoinmendation to its program of

last year which the American (‘iti—
zenship (‘oniniittee will submit, to
the league convention thr'uigh its

citiii‘iwin. Mrs. lt‘rederick l’. Daglev.
education. schools of citizenship. cd~
ucational qualifications for the vote
in all states. and direct citizenship
for women are also advocated.

This is quite necessary as in some
states a foreign-born woman can
only become a citizen through mar—
riage to a man who is a citizen. Mich-
‘gan I believe is still among the
states that denies direct citizenship
to women. It is manifestly unfair.

An ey’tensive program of social
inviulrwtion. agreed upon at a confer-
ence in the office of Governor “lar—
ren T \ict‘ray and attended by mem—
bers of both houses of the legisla—
ture. members of the Indiana league
of women voters and representa—
tive< of several labor organizations.
provided for a stipulated number of

working hours for women. compul—
sory school attendance by children
through the eighth grade. and that

either father or mother may be the
natural guardian of children. It is
a good sign when men and women
counsel together!

Did you know that in Michigan a
father only is considered the natural
guardian of children and that a
mother a ter the father’s death, to
become a legal guardian must go
through the formality of being ap—
pointed by the, court?

HOI'SE (‘l/EAVIVG MADE EASTER
DWH‘ENT cleaning saves time
and strength in the long run
and is also better for the house

and its furnishings, because the,

fabrics and finishes receive less rub—
bing and wear. If dust. is allowed to
remain it may be ground in or cov-

ered with a grease film: in either
case it will be harder to remove.
Moreover, the, fine particles of dirt

rub against the fabrics and finishes
and tend to wear them out. Differ-
ent kinds of surfaces and furnish-
ings must be treated in different
ways to keep them clean and pro-
long their usefulness.
Walls and Ceilings

Ordinary plastered and papered
walls and ceilings should be clean-
ed with a wall brush or a broom
covered with soft cloth, such as cot-
ton flannel. Light overlapping

strokes should be used; heavy strok-

es rub the dirt in. Cotton batting

is good for cleaning places that soil

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THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMERS?

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 A Department for the Women

 

Edited by MRS. GRACE NELLIS JENNEY

more quickly than the rest, for ex-
ample the wall over radiators, regis-
ters and stoves. The wall should be
rubbed lightly with the cotton, which
should be turned as it becomes soil-
ed.

There are commercial pastes and
powders for cleaning wall papers
but, in general, these should be ap-
plied only by an expert. An ama-
teur is likely to have a streaked wall
if he attempts to use them.

The so—called washable paiers
used in kitchens and bathrooms may
be cleaned with a dampened cloth,
but water must be used sparingly;
if it seeps in the paper will be loos-
ened. Va-rnishing the paper in these

Cement floors and walls may be
washed by flushing with a hose, by
scrubbing or by mopping. Moisture
makes cement of this kind slippery,
but does not injure it. Cement
floors are usually equipped with a
drain, and it‘ properly laid the floor
slants toward the drain, so that wa-
ter runs oft—Farmer’s Bulletin No.
1110‘ U. S. Dep‘t. of Agriculture.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDEle
EAR MRS. Y.: Ever since re-
ceiving your letter I have been
thinking over your rooms and

their color schemes and would sug-

gest shades of soft gray for living
room and parlor, using the same pa-

 

She Does Not Hear

H-SH-SHE does not hear the r-r-robin sing,
S Nor f—f—ecl the b-h-balmy b-breath of spring;

Sh-sh-she does not hear the p-pelting rain
B-b-boat ta-tat-t-toos on the «xv-winder p-pane.

Sh-she cue-cannot see the Autumn s-s—sky,
Nor hear the wild geese s-string'ing b-b—by;
And, oh, how happy t-t-‘tis to know
Sh-shc never f-f-fcels an earthly woe!

I s-spoke to her: sh-she would not speak.
I kuk-kuk-kissfil her, but c-cold

I could not twine her \v-w-wondrous hair——
It w-w-was so wonderf—f—fully rare.

B-besidc her s-stands a v-vase of flowers.

A gilded cuc-cuc-clock that t-t-tclls the hours;
And even now the f-fire light, f-falls

On her, and d-dances on the. walls.

Sit-she’s living in a p-p-purer life, ,
Where there’s no tu-tuh-tunnoil and no strife:

No t-tong'uc can m-mock, no words embarrass,
For b-b-by g-gosh, she p-plaster penis!

was her check,

—Bcn King.

 

 

 

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rooms will make it more nearly im—
pervious to moisture and steam and
will prevent it from peeling.

Rough wall coverings, such as
burlap are hard to clean. The dust
should be removed by brushing or
with a vacuum cleaner.

Rome painted walls may be wash-
ed. but as in the case of all painted
surfaces the success with which this
may be done depends largely on the
kind ‘and quality of the paint. In
the case of ordinary oil paint the
wall should be rubbed with even
strokes. using a cloth wrung out of
light suds. then rinsed with a
cloth wrung out of clear water. and
wiped with a, dry. soft cloth. If the
paint is badly soiled and stained. a
fine scourer, such as whiting. may be
used.

Enamel paint (that is. pamt mix—
ed with varnish, which gives a hard,
smooth surface and does not catch
or hold dust so easilyl is dulled by
Such paint may be cleaned by
rubbing first. with a woolen or cot,-
ton flannel cloth wrung out of hot

water. and then with a clean, dry
cloth. Spots, stains and dirt that
will not yield to hot water alone

may be removed with a fine scourer,
but. it must be applied lightly in or-
der not to scratch the surface.

Calcimined walls can not be wash—
ed nor can they even be rubbed with
a dry cloth without streaking the fin-
ish. Recoating is for this reason
preferable to cleaning?

Tiling may be cleaned by wash-
ing with warm, soapy water, rinsing.
and drying thoroughly; or, when
necessary, a fine scourer may be us—

ed. If water is allowed to remain,

on tiling it is likely to injure ce-
ment of the kind in which the tiles
are set and thus to loosen them. The
wall finish known as metal tiling
may be cleaned in the same way as
paint.

 

per for both rooms, In the dining
room a soft. pretty yellow shade
would be good and your walnut fur-
niture would be attractive and bar-
monious against these colors. If you
use yellow in the dining room, I
would have white curtains of fine
dotted marquisette, frilled and tied
back. A bit of old blue china against
the yellow walls would be lovely.
Have all the woodwork through your
rooms finished with ivory white en-
ameled paint which cleans easily.
Ilse several coats of flat paint and
finish with the enamel.

If you wish over-drapes you could
use pongeo silk through all the rooms
or blue sunfast in the dining rooms
and old rose in the living room and
parlor. In these last two rooms use
your curtains of filet net at the win-
dows. Run your paper up to the
ceiling with the picture moulding at
the top. Drop freizes are not in
vogue.

If your ceilings have a putty coat.

have them painted with a flat oil
paint. If a rough finish plaster. use
calcimine. Very pale cream color is
the best tint usually. You will no-
tice on our last page the Heath &
Milligan Co. ad. They will send you
a splendid book on how to paint giv—
ing individual color schemes. He,
sure to use their street number 1855
Seward Street in sending for their
coupon.

The recipe for salt rising bread
you will find in the Gold Medal Cook
book which almost any grocer will
furnish you.

PLEASE SIGN LETTERS

No article written for this depart-
ment can be published without the
writer’s full name and address. We
will not use the name in publishing
the letter unless desired. This is a
rule that all publications have found
necessary to make;

7‘ ' "-Ap’ru 2, 1921
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ENJOYS LETTERS

E HAVE taken the M. B. F.

about ten months now and like

it fine, so got a new subscriber
and had 'our subscription renewed
about a month ago.

After reading the letter written
by Mrs. P. H. A., of Hillman, wished
I could have her for my neighbor.
We are just plain farmers and I like
to work out of doors whenever I see
wok that my hands can do. Den’t
know as my neighbors think it un-
ladylike but some auto tourist going
by exclaimed, “See that woman
working out there in the field.”

We farmer’s wives are just the
women that live well. We have all
the good fresh farm products to eat,
which with plenty of sunshine and
fresh air makes us strong and we
can do a considerable outside, keep
our house looking good, clothes clean
and feel like going to church on the
Sabbath day after our six days of
work is done.

Mrs. C. A. B., I think you have
given some good advice. I love my
girls and want to do by them what
will be for their best, good. Some-
times they work on my sympathy. I
believe your letter will help me. I
enjoy reading. the bread recipes.
Have spent several years cooking in
a boarding school. While there bak-
ed many hundred loaves of bread.
Think good bread can be made from
any one of your recipes. I always
keep some good whole wheat flour
on hand and when I put my bread in
hard loaf, I sift in from one and a
half to two sieves of whole wheat
flour. Bread is not so white but I
think it, better for the children and
it is just fine with good fresh but-
ter like we farmers have to eat.—
Mrs. A. R. (7.. Kingsley. Mich.

 

RECIPE FOR PICKLED BEEF
OTICING a request in Feb. 26th
issue for a recipe for pickling
beef, will send mine. which no
doubt. is too late to help I. L. who
makes the request, but may help
others.

This recipe leaves the meat with
a, sweet, fresh taste that ordinary
pickled meat does not have and
may be used for pork as well as for
beef. Meat may be preserved by this
recipe even in hot weather.

Make a brine to float an egg.
Brown sugar may be added to the
brine in the proportion of two pounds
to four gallons. Boil this and
while, boiling add the meat which
has been cut into rather small pieces,
say two or three pounds each, re-
moving all bone. Cook until there
is no trace of blood when a piece is
cut in two. Pack while hot into jar
or barrel and pour boiling brine
over to cover good, Weight down.

This beef is as nice as fresh meat
when served in any style except fry-
ing and requires only a little soak-
incr in cold water. If used in a.
stew it does not require freshening
at all.

If pork is preserved this way it is
nice sliced, soaked in water a few
minutes and fried.——Mrs. M. E. Hart-
ford, Mich.

TRIED AND TRUE \
A Simple Dessert

1 package of orange jello, juice of
one lemon, 1 cup of juice from can-
ned pineapple, 1 cup of cold water.
Pour boiling fruit juices over the
jello. When dissolved pour into a
mold and when set serve with whip—
ped cream, a little sweetened. The
jello will be perfectly clear. Or the
pulp of one grapefruit may be added.
This dessert is particularly good for
invalids because it is nourishing and
easily digested.

Salad ‘

2 cups canned tomatoes, 1-2 cup
celery (cut up), 1 bay leaf and a
little onion, salt and paprika. Cook
a little more than five minutes.

RECIPES

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Strain through a coarse sieve, add
two tablespoons vinegar and enough
water to make a pint. Bring to a
boil and pour over a package of lem-
on jello. Pour when thoroughly dis—
solved in small individual molds and
let stand over night to harden. Turn
out each mold on a lettuce leaf and
put a tablespoon of salad dressing
on each mold. Very pretty and
very good.

 

A HONIE MADE BROODER

HEN YOU remove little chicks
, from incubator, place them in
“L a galvanized tub or tubs, with
sand in bottom, resting tub between
two boxes with lamp between, under
tub to furnish heat. Don’t get too
warm. Put very thin cloth over
tub at night. Place this home—made
brooder away from your work so
their nose will not annoy you. Give
food fresh and often, put water in
low cup with stone in same, then
they can’t tpi it over or get wet.
Give plenty green food—A Woman
Busmess Farmer, Sand Lake Mich.

THE' MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER

REVIEW OF STANDARD BOOKS

Scribner's Series for the Young People.
Illustrated in color. Each, 31,00 not.
The Boy Scout and Other Stories for

Boys. By Richard Harding Davis.

The Steam—Shovel Man. By Ralph D.

Paine,

On the Old

Townsend Brady.
The (‘onscript of 1813: A Story of the

French War of 1813. By M. M. l‘lrck-

mann-Chatrian.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the

Sea. By Jules Verne_

From the Earth to tho

Jules Verne.

“'ith “'olfe in Canada: or The ‘Nin-
iiing of a Continent, By (‘r_ A. Plenty.

“'ith Lee in Virginia: A Story of the
(‘ivil War. By G A, Henty.

Kenrsarge, By (‘yrus

hioon. By

Kidnapped. By Robert Louis Steven-
son.

Treasure Island. By Robert Louis
Stevenson.

The Modern Vikings, By ll, lI. Boy-
eson,

Sara Crew. By Francis llmlgsoii
Burnett.

“'ill Shakespeare's Little Lad. By
Imogene Clark,

Stories For Boys. By Richard Harding
Davis.

The Hoosier
Eggleston,

The (‘ourt of King Arthur, By W. H.
Frost,

At “'nr “'ith Pontiac_ By Kirk Mun-
roe,

The Mountain Divide By Frank H.
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did, or a. trip you took? No one.
seems to take very much interest

would write a nice long letter to me
telling of interesting things where

sixty. chickens. For pets I have two
rabbits and three cats_ We have two

 

 

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in the contest. By the way isn’t it Svseullves 33)“ that I mighltqé’Uthh  £30 to school1 angingm  tigetlllrdl 85:3:
- - i you, ar area—U LE \IE , like my teacher fine. Well I guess
about .tlme t0 thmk 05 some 800d g ‘ this is enough for this time. I will
resolutions for next year? Why not H Write again.~—Arthiir Hule, Blanchard.
UNCLE NED' give the page up for one week ‘ to OUR BOYS AND GIRLS M’Ch" P“ F- D 3

 

little

Dear Uncle Ned—«l am a girl twelve
years old and in the sixth grade at

and have a
Won’t you please

a story contest,
interest shown?

Dear Uncle Nedz—As there are no

MT. CLEMENS, -
boys or girls writing from this county I

MICHIGAN school I ha.\e six brothers and five '
. I . i - . ' bellve I win try. I believe can 'oin.
Care of print this letter, although it Will sBisters. FMy brogiers1 nzmtgs are $1163? May_I? I am a girl 15 years Io: agegand
Michigan Business Farmer I probably have no effect upon the 15.2%?“ Jmest' aou' r m an ’ am 1” the 10th Em‘hi and go to U"

My sisters’ names are Alice, Em-
I am only twelve ma. Josephine, Eugenia. and Virginia.
8 1:Ve live onh an eighty acre farn'é. hWe
ave two . orses. three pigs an t irty also have a Ford.

henS- I wash some of the, boys andfllrls day and like it flne.I i°hétesi23$ tits,th
would write to me. ‘1 Will close with 5‘- ers. If someone will write to me I will
riddles Which state is round at each end gmle answer ____GIadvs Telgenhofli C-en_
and high in the middle? Ans. 0hio.——- tral Lake Mic‘higqn ‘R F D 1 ‘ ’
Leah Dimers, Cooks, Mich, Box 6. ' ' ‘ ’ ‘ ' ‘ '

Central Lake High School. We have 10
head of cattle, 5 head of horses, 1 dog.
2 cats and also some tame rabbits, We

 

letters received.
years old and would like to be
member of The Children’s Hour if
it were more interesting—Margaret
Horton, Oakfield. N. Y.”

Of course we will tell her right

— EAR CHILDREN: I received the
most interesting letter the past
week from a girl living in the

state of New York and I want you

all to be sure and read it so I am th t _ l d b
. . .y 1 : away a you girs an oys cer-
prmtmg n be OW tainly write more than once. But

“Dear [mew Ned: Wm you please I think she makes some very good
excuse me if I tell you what I think You would

 

Dear Uncle Nedz—May I join your
merry circle? Papa takes the M, B. F.
and likes it very much. I like to read
The Children’s Hour. I am glad that
our little Doo Dads have come back to

Uncle Nedt—I hope you will jump
over and give room for my letter. 1 am
writing to two girls. and hope I can get
some more to write to me. I am a girl
11 years old. have brown hair and grey

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suggestions, don't you?

Of "The Children's Hour?’ A“ Of all be more interested if you could eyes. 1 live on a homestead farm of us again. I am a farmer’s girl and live _7
the letters seem to be introductory. read stories Written by the members 160 acres. 1 aln in the sixth grade at 0“ an 80 acre farm. We haVe 4 Digs, 3 j;
school. We have two coWs, two horses, COWS, 3 Calves. 2 horses and about 1‘ i

of our circle, or letter telling of the
trips you have taken, or something
about what you are going to do this
coming summer or about that
garden you intend to plant and what

Don't any of their writers ever write
but once? Nearly every letter con-
tains the same items. First comes
the age and grade in school of the
writer. Then the reader is inform-

chickcns. We have a. lake back of our
barn and we go boat riding in the sum-
mer time. We can catch a few small
fish. I have a. little baby sister. who is .1
over a year old_ She is so sweet. She '
gas beautiful blue cyes and light brown
(111‘.

For pets I have a dog
Powell,

and one calf,
named Collie—Alma
Michigan. Box 106,

Sidnaw,

Dear Uncle Nedt—I have been read-
ing the children’s letters, They are very

' - - nice. 1 ust ot throu h doing the dish- Flor name is Pearl Irene. I have i
ed 01‘. the number or people In. the Y0“ 3"? gmng t0 ralse in lti . now (as We jhrtvegs cows.g5 horses, 6 tur- two sisters and no brothers. My oldest 
~ family including brothers, Sisters. wouldnt you? When you write to ke'ysv 15 Sheep, 53 chickens, For De 1 Sister is eight years old, I go to school 
eats, pigs, chickens and dogs. About me try and put interesting things in have do. 'i‘log naImtid Bob, :ndtha kit e3 :ger‘bi’n (1313!. 2327609727: haveronlyI 4lchilda I
' ' ' ‘ ' name ige. 3V6 a. T0 er name I1 L 13 yea. ill a. an
this time it is necessary to tell how your letter and make it different than William. I am 9 years old and m the I went to Dockery.s tonight. For ppm

We have two cats.
other is Tiger.

many acres the farm contains and any of the letters you have read on 5m brade.——Madge V, Ladner, Big Rap- one is Spot and the
‘ They never come to the

ids, Mich, R. R, 3

how much father enjoys the.M. B. our page. Of course, if you cannot house any more‘_Vi01et M. Phillips,
F. To conclude the letter it is very think of something original to write Deal. Uncle Ned_1 am . happy fawn- Williamsburg, Mich. R. R. 1. v
necessary to inform the reader that be sure and write anyway, but do er lad. Would like to join your merry

Dear Uncle Ned:-—I am a little girl
six years old. I go to School and I am -
in the second grade. There are thirteen
in my grade. I visited school down
town yesterday and had a good time.
From your little niece, Shirley Gilbert.
Portland, Mich.

circle. I am a boy nine years old. My
father takes the M, B. F. and likes it
fine. I like to read the Children's Hour.
I can hardly wait each week to get the
paper. I have no brothers or sisters,
My father owns 80 acres of land. We
have two horses, one cow. one pig and

your very best and we will show this
little girl from New York state that
we can make our page so interest-
ing that, she will be only too glad to
join our merry circle. I wish she

be is about to close. This sort of
letter is not very interesting. Why
not stop telling about yourself and
write upon a topic of general inter-
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Percy Haw Haw is so busy reading
the morning paper of Dooville that he
is not aware that he is walking right
into an open manhole. »Percy will

corner in the capital city in the
wonderful land of Doo. Flannel-
"feet the Cop is having a. busy time of

rrHlS WEE-K we see a busy street

Old man Grouch

themselves very well lately for Doc is

it d‘reCtmg the tram“ 5° m“ 31"” treating them to a ride in the new car. has been left behind. If Grouch soon have an opportunity to Study
'11 b bad accidents. Old Doc . . , ‘
W1 9 no 1 him If the The little fellow behind on the bicy- would not spend so much time finding stars from the bottom of the deep
SaWbones has bought or 3° cle is making good use of Doc’s ,car fault with other people, he would be hole. The D00 Dads are very Up—to-
V617 late“ make 01 3“ aUtomObfl° “‘4 in helping himself to get up speed, ready to start when others are. The date people. They have a yery grand
feels pretty DrOUGl 0f himself~ 301’ The motorman behind is frightfully conductor looks as it he enjoyed hotel and a splendid mov1ng picture 1
and Poly must have been behavint angry at the bicycle being on the leaving Grouch behind, theatre,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

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THENMIC'HIGAN BUSINESS FARMER

A De Laval wm bring,

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ARM BUREAU—FARMERs;cILpes——FARMEPS' UNIONS—GLEANERS-GRANGE ‘

FARM BUREAU DOES BIG SEED
BUSINESS

NE AND a half million pounds

of alfalfa, clover, sweet clover,

and timothy seed have been sold
to farmers of Michigan alone since
Dec. lst by the seed department.
This does not include another half
million pounds sold outside of the
state nor a large amount of those
seeds used in less quantities such as
seed grain, corn, grass, rape, vetch,
and soy beans.

It took fifty cars to carry this seed
to consignees. The actual amounts
delivered by the department up un-
til Feb. 20th were grimm alfalfa,

147,526; common alfalfa, 160,283:
medium clover, 5 43,04 5 ; mammoth
clover, 141,870; alsike, 130,528;

timothy, 329,392; sweet clover, BS—
669.

The handling of this seed has rep-
resented an immense amount of
work. The ten men. in the ware—

. househave worked days and even-

ings and on Sundays. The two
cleaning machines, the scarifier and
the two Dodder cleaning machines
have been almost constantly running
The greatest factor which prevents
any greater expansion to the de-
partment is the fact that it must
have cleaning machines of many
times greater capacity. All of the
machinery has been installed since
last September but it has already be-
come inadequate.

The amount of business from day
to day varies considerably but a rec-
ord of the deliveries made during
the week beginning March 14th will
show how the business runs. On
March 14th, 27,000 pounds of seed
were delivered. On the next day the
amount dropped to 23,000 pounds;
it was back to 28,000 on the 16th,
but dropped to 5,000 on» the 18th,
returning to 24,000 on the let. The
average for the week was over 20,-
000 pounds of seed a day.

 

FARM BUREAU NOTES

HE STATE farm bureau’s vent-

ure in pooling forest products of

the state to secure more stable
market condition and prices for pro-
ducing members as well as to raise
the quality of products offered to
the consumer has attracted national
attention and the organization has
been asked to join efforts with the
Central Logmen’s Bureau, a produc-
ers' organization in Ohio which
claims to do business in 27 states on
behalf of the logmen of those states.

The two organizations, says the
Logmen’s Bureau, are non-profit or-
ganizations and are working along
the same lines. They are funda-
mentally opposed to waste in lum-
bering operations and in the sale of
timber, particularly in buyers throw-
ing out merchantabie timber because
it would not bring a top margin of
profit. The Logmen's Bureau charg-
es that in the past millions of feet
of merchantable timber has been

‘thrown out and left to rot, causing

the producer and the nation untold
losses.

Both bodies are interested in as-
sisting the log man to market his
logs on a quality basis, and in the
formation of pools which will lower
his handling costs, says the logmen'l
letter.

Recognizing that the and of
Michigan’s lumbering industry is in
sight and that the supply of timber
is decidedly limited, F. H. Sanford.
head of the farm bureau forestry de-
partment, is studying the aims and
principles of the Central Logmen's
Bureau to determine if such afiili-
ation of eflforts would be helpful to
Michigan farm bureau members.

0 t .

Every county in Ohip ismrganized

and maintains a county farm bureau.
0 t 0

Members of the Missouri Farm
Bureau Federation contributed more
than $97,000 to an organization
fund for the state federation.~

t t t

Representatives from the National
Wheat Growers’ Association and
the farm bureaus at a recent meeting
in North Dakota decided to await

 

the adoption of the Committee of
Seven-teen marketing plan before at-
tempting to get farmers to sign con-
tracts for the sale of their grain.
t O 0

Minnesota Farm Bureau has start—
ed a campaign against blue sky
frauds and questionable promotion
schemes for the protection of its
members. An advisory committee
in every county will investigate all
propositions presented to the farm~
ers and pass upon their merits.

AGAINST CITY COMMISSION
GOVERNMENT
(Continued from page 13)
formation I beg to advance the
statement that a township treasurer
receives one cent on the dollar for
taxes paid to him between December
1 and January 9. He receives four
cents per dollar for taxes collected
from the latter date to March 1,
which is not an exorbitant commis-
sion. For his duties from March 1
to December 1 the treasurer receives

no compensation whatever, though
he receives and handles public
funds, disburses cash and checks,

keeps records, and is subject to calls
from the county treasurer for per-
sonal attendance. In certain town-
ships the treasurer may receive a
moderate salary equivalent to fees.
Would Mr. Stafford’s newly consti—
tuted county treasurer work for
less? Or would Mr. Staflford serve
for a more modest compensation him—
self?

The trouble with some schemes
which come to us described as “pro-
gressive” is that they are not prm
gressive at all beyond the label. The
people, that is, the editor and Mr.
Stafford and the rest of us, cannot
set up any plan of government and
then go oi! and expect the machin-
ery to run itself, or to run by mo-
mentum. There is no automatic
way, whether in state, county or
township affairs. We all hope and
expect to reach Heaven some time;
but we will not see a celestial ad-
ministration on earth so long as pub-
lic affairs are human; because the
best government ever to come will
be made up of more or less compe-
tent mortals. It will not help mat-
ters for Mr. Stafford to neglect to
vote at his township caucus and elec-
tion, nor will it reform things to in-
stall county commissioners on the
theory that they will serve for less
than common compensation.

Moreover, under a commission
form, many townships would never
be represented in the county gov-
ernment at all. Would this relieve
the present dissatisfaction, or pro
vent it for the future? With our
present form, the local people have
their government in their own hands.
Is it wise to put this government
farther away? It is all very well to
be “progressive” and complain about
present methods; but we should be
sure that we are not working for re
trogression instead of progress. Let’s
get down to cases—John E. Gillett,
A Kalkaska O'o. Supervisor.

 

You have some 'pretty strong argu-
ments in favor of the retention of tho
present form of county government I
think, you will find. however, that our
correspondent whom you criticize has
given careful thought to the comparative
advantages of the two plans, Mr. Staf-
ford is that type of citizen who believes
it as much his duty to go to the polls
and vote as to provide for the wants of
his 1 . I have no doubt but what
he has held quite all the township ome-
cs and many higher up. Personally, I
feel that the commission plan, if prop-
erly out would simplify and les-
sen the cost of county government to a
very great extent. The important dif-
ference between government by super»-
visors and government by commission in
the quality of the representation give-
to the taxpayer. Will the commission
be as truly representative of the tax-
payers as the supervisors? Can the
commission have as intimate a knowl-
edge of land values in the respective
townships as do the supervisors? In
short, can the commission administer
the affairs of the county in as intelli-
gent and satisfactory a manner as do
the supervisors? If not, then the sav-
ing is of no moment. The taxpayers
will probably prefer to pay a. little more
for government by supervisors than to
suffer their affairs to be bungled by a
commission elected at large. We would
like to have the views of other readers
upon this whim—Editor.

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never
Sprca er Pictured Here That Made the Wm. Galloway Com-

pavra Famous!

   

Iberybody had so much money
that they drought they wanted
something higher priced.

priced spreader but the could
t a better one than e Famous Galloway Waggn Box

sold them by the tens of thousands when our Company

started 15 years ago.
We perfected and refined the Famous Galloway Wagon Box
Spreader until it would handle any kind of

manure, under any

» . fl, and every condifiomonyplaeeandjustsswcllasanworsmo
. » I mac e.

But people paid little attention to it in recent years becam
YES, SIR! they had tho monorail! though; they wanted a higher priced
Times are changing—and machine, and many timu posed it up because it was cheap, but
changing fast] Any man conditions have changed—what  want now is the best possiblo
with brain, 3nd common spreader at the lowest  and one that will do the work.
hon. sen” know, that The Famous Gallows a on Box Spreader that fits any
when com, oats and live truck or Wilson seq-r you y W (mde or narrow). in exact-L7

stock are at their present WW0“ m 1001‘an for-

values, it is unreasonable
to expect the farmer to pay

It_will haul more manure with less resistance on your team.
your pocketbook and yourself than any manure spreader ever

‘ h ' hi h t manufactured.
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product. abfiflutel at coug- risk 1&3; it a full atapionthifon yogr own
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. i. “ pl 8' ow easy to handle on any kind of trial you can give it, it Will not cost

{:1 Kerybody—to get back you

o old order 0 things,

but it's got to be donel
Our Company is meeting
tho present situation by a
Stupendous Price Cut-

one cent.

Eleven different patents on this wonderful machine.

READ THESE LETTERS

t the
, Famous Galloway We on Box Spreader and more than I could
Woman. dependms tell you if I wrote a whtfio ’

The tell the
trut abou

page ad.

9" I. V°lum° 0’ "I" Peter Bom‘of Behieswiz, been out one cent for
and  profit lm your [on “ya, “Got my bosses on a Does work under all cow "
cooperation, rs than trot, slammed it in not. to Frank Shorter est Luci-
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of trial that you can tlnnk of, then be your own Judge and decide

whetherornotttiothobestsp

present conditions, not only
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manta.

Write Mo Personally
or Drop Usopoomlcard
before you lay this

in

ve ritemetoday. Ihavoasur-
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only lifts u have made the decision is it a sale.
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No. I57—DOG BOOKLET. Tells how to rid
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No. I607HOG BOOKLET. Covers the com-
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No. l85——HOG WALLOWS. Gives complete
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No. l63-POULTRY. How to get rid of lice

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History of Michigan’sFamous Metropolis

(Continued from page 7)

Amongst the Great Lakes ports,
this dynamic city whose infancy
boasted but one windmill, and that
owned by an individual, and but one
municipal bake oven, strands peer in
the mater of lake ports ship build—
ing.

Detroit’s reconstruction policy
dates from its very infancy, the very
beginning of its inception. And when
this dynamic wonder of the twenti-
eth century completes the municip-
al and industrial reconstructive pol-
icies and improvements now under
contemplation and erection. there is
no foretelling how or where it will
rank as a world factor for advance—
ment.

Geographically, Detroit’s strategic
location upon the straits connecting
the upper waters of the Great Lakes
with the lower, has been an incalcul-
able asset as a factor in the tremen-
dous growth of its automobile in-
dustry. An ocean outlet secured
through the Welland canal, the great
ore fields of the Upper Peninsula
supplying the raw material, its ac—
cessibility to all the markets of the
world, and its freedom from labor
troubles, have combined to make
possible the manufacture of this ve—
hicle of commerce to the economic
and tremendous extent of its present
proportions.

A marvelous tale it is. that of the
The raw material tak-
en from the bosom of Mother Earth
in the Upper Peninsula; carried
across the lakes in the bulls of gi-
gantic lake freighters, and in De
troit evolutionized into the perfect
finished product, which, self—pro-
glides over city roads and
country highways all over the world.

Detroit—made automobiles have
transformed not only the commercial
world. and the financial world, but
the roadways of the entire continent
have necessarily been transmuted
and redeemed due to the factor of
the automobile for freight and pas-
senger service.

If good roads all over the country
are the resultant necessity of the
automobile. then it follows that De-
troit has been an unconscious but
forcible factor for the betterment of
tho roadways and the highways of
the continent.

inventors of the automobile early
in the twentieth century little real»
ized that within less than twenty
years the automobile would revolu—
tionize the entire world.

In the year 1917, prior to the war.
it required 125.851 freight cars to
handle the material and the finished
product of just one automobile plant
in Detroit. Industrial figures that
staggering in their proportions
comprise the annals of this industry,
and these figures are being annually

increased

F'fty-eight nationalities are rep-
resented in. the personnel of the
working forces of one motor plant of
this unique and dynamic municipal-
ity. In this number there are mem-

bers of almost all of the religious de-
nominations of .the world. Roman
Catholics, Protestants, Greek Catho-

lics, Hebrews, Russian Orthodox,
Mohammedians, Hindu, Buddhist,
and Spiritualists, and curiously

enough, only fifty-three of these em-
ployes had no religion whatever.
And these figures represent the work~
ing forces of but one plant engaged
in the manufacture of automobiles
in the city of Detroit.

When the frightened community
awakened to the grim and desperate
reality that America had been forced
into the late world war, Detroit was
amongst the first civic centers to
shoulder industrial arms. Wonder-
ful transformations had already 'been
accomplished in this dynamic city.
but none more conspicuous and start—
ling than the changing of the entire
commodity output of a great major—
ity of the factories from normal pro-
duction to the production of war ne—
cessities. ln probably no other city
was it found necessary to institute
greater changes in the manufactured
product and in the method of manu-
facture. At one time. war contracts
placed by the United States govern-
ment in this city. aggregated four
billion dollars. Some of the plants
retained a 25 per cent basis and
some a fifty per cent basis of former
operations. but the majority turned
their entire working forces over to
the Government, and were doing a
100 per centbasis of war work. With
the signing of the armistice, radical
changes were again necessitated in
order to recreate the former work-
ing basis of the automotive plants.

in the face of the poignant fact
that every third man in Detroit was
born in some foreign country, there
is existent a manifestation of a
thoroughly civic pride vibrating the
heart of every one in this thoroughly
American city.

Detroit perhaps as no other Amer-
ican city. outside of New York, has
become what Znngwill fittingly des-
cribes as “the melting pot of the
races,” and nowhere perhaps as in
Detroit is the raw material of emigra-
tion so finely spun into the ideal
American.

Of such is the Romance of Detroit.

Could Cadillac arise from his long
slumber and witness this modern com-
mercial prodigy what would he find?
His little settlement of one hundred
Frenchhmen and one hundred Algon—
quinian Indians grown to more than
one milion population. and ranking

in the matter of population, fourth-

city of the United States. Outrank-
ing the world in the production of
automotives, ranking second in the
matter of exports, with a civic move-
ment for censervative reconstruction
and Americanism, the results of
which exceeds even the most san-
guine speculations.

And here are gathered together
people not only from every corner of
Europe. however remote, but from
all parts of the world.

Sweet Clover Rapidly Gains Favor

(Continued from page 4)
clover plants are inoculated. This
nitrogen would cost in a commercial
fertilizer about $10.00.

There are several methods of in-
oculation of which the pure culture
is the simplest and easiest applied.
The pure culture may be secured
from the Department of Bacteriology
Michigan Agricultural College. East
Lansing, Michigan. The price is
twenty—five cents per bottle and one
battle contains sufficient material to
inoculate a bushel of seed. Full di-
rections for application accompany
the material. Fields that have pro-
duced alfalfa with an abundance of
nodules upon the roots are inocu-
lated for sweet clover.

Seeding ’

Loose seed beds are responsible
for many failures. For best results
sweet clover should be seeded in the
early spring on a well compacted
seed bed. Sweet clover may be seed-
ed in the early spring on fall sown
rye or wheat or with cats or b rley.
Better seedings are often secured

0
when three—fourths of the usual
amount of oats or barley is sown.

From twelve to fifteen pounds of
scarified sweet clover seed per acre
is usually plenty to secure a good
stand. Scarified Seed is recom-
mended because the seed coat of
the sweet clover seed is oftentimes
quite impervious to water and re-
tards germination. Scarification
scratches the seed coat so that upon
sowing moisture is taken up amlost
immediately.

From sixteen to eighteen pounds
of unscarified seed or from twenty-
two to twenty—four pounds of un-
hulled seed is usually sufficient to
secure a stand. Under vary favor-
able conditions stands are some-
times secured by seeding from eight
to ten pounds of scorified seed per
acre.

Circular No. 46 on sweet clover
and‘ Circular No. 45 on Hubam
Clover are available for free distri-
bution and may be secured from Di-
rector of Experiment Station, East
Lansing, Mich.

 

' April 2, 1921

GUSTAFSON PREDIOTS FARMERS
WILL RULE MARKETS
(Continued from page 5)

“Orderly marketing refers to the
posibility, under the proposed mar-
keting program, of marketingonly
such part of the grain each week or
month as is actually needed for con-
sumption. Grains so marketed will
meet cash prices with casih grain
and break the chain of marginal
speculation which has heretofore
levied a heavy tribute on growers of
grain.

“A stable market, one that is free
from violent fluctuations, is a' most
important element which underlies
the whole marketing plan. Most of
the grief and dissatisfaction result-
ing from our present marketing sys—
tem can be attributed to our un-
stable market. When the farmer
can have some reasonable assurance
that the market will not drop to a
ruinous figure and the miller and
wholesaler can also be reasonably
sure that the market will not advance
by leaps and bounds, an element of
safety and saneness will have been
introduced in grain marketing that
will be generally satisfactory.”

Finance and Export

Finance and export are the other
two important links in this market-
ing chain. Mr. Gustafson points out
the fact that “although the farmer
is the source of approximately one-
half of the wealth of the United
States’. adequate provision has never
been made to carry his credit.” The
Committee of Seventeen proposes to
remedy this situation by organizing
a finance corporation which will
“sell short time securities, based on
actual quantities of grain in stor-
age,” from the proceeds of which
farmers can be financed from season
to season, at a low and uniformous
rate of interest.

Although over a half billion dol-
lars worth of food products were ex-
ported from this country last year,
very little if any of them were sold
direct by farmers of their organiza-
tions for export purposes. The prof-
its of the export trade were left to
other parties. Here, again. let it
be said the farmers’ business dif-
fers from almost all other kinds of
business enterprises who seek their
own foreign markets, make their own
foreign connections and their own
export shipments direct. A farmers’
co—operative exporting company in
Canada has cut the cost of exporting
wheat through private exporters
from five and seven cents a bushel to
less than tWo cents a. bushel. A
saving of four cents a bushel on half
of our exportable surplus each year
would represent an, annual saving of
more than three million . dollars.
“Furthermore,” says Mr. Gustaf'son,
“an aggressive foreign exporting pol-
icy of searching for markets' that
can be developed offers a wide field
of development that is comparatively
unexplored. Little or no attention
has been paid to the development of
a foreign market for grain. 'At the
present time, when a bumper corn
crop has an exceedingly low market
value the necessity for farmers tak-
ing definite action of this character
is extremely urgent.”

Farmers Must Act

“The farmer can no longer wait
for others to perform the task for
him,” concludes Mr. Gustafson. “The
farmer has been patient, hopeful
and overly trusting while those, who
have performed the service of mar-
keting farm products for him, grew
wealthy and disregarded his inter-
ests and his rights. The farmers
have the ability to conduct their own
business. The necessity for action
and of working together was a furth-
er essential. That necessity is now
present and the farmer will himself
see to it that he receives a higher
average price for grain when the
Committee of Seventeen’s plan is
put into operation and the farmer
husbands his 0Wn interests. The
capital invested in the marketing
machine will be his own. vThe dol-
lars will be his servants and their

.earning will revert to the farmer.

Moreover, the replacement of waste,
duplication and speculation with ef~
flciency, economy and fairness in
grain marketing will mean cheaper
bread, cheaper cereals and a closer
relation between the farmer and the
city mon that will have many last-
ing benefits.”

 

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WHY FARMERS ARE BARRED
FROM GRAIN EXCHANGES
(Continued from page 6)
gallons and $192,000,000; lumber.
principally pine, by 240,000,000 feet
and $32,000,000; other wood man-
ufactures by $18,000,000; machin-
ery other than electric by $84,000,-
000; iron and steel manufactures by
$60,000,000; chemicals, dyes and
drugs by $35,000,000; and tires and
other rubber articles by $32,000,000.
Another encouraging feature in
connection with the increases in the
exports of manufactured goods in
1920 over 1919 is the fact that they
apparently occurred in the trade
with the non-manufacturing coun—
tries of the world that send in ex-
change for the products of the United
States raw materials and foodstuffs,
largely of tropical origin, and mostly
of a non~competing nature with Am-
erican products. The largest in-
creases, of $237,000,000 each, were
in the exports to Canada and Cuba,
and the next largest, of $76,000,000,
to Mexico. Exports to South Amer-
ica increased by $182,000,000. Ar-
gentina with a gain of $58,000,000,
Brazil with $42,000,000, Colombia
with $35,000,000, Peru with $21,-
000,000 and Venezuela with $15,-
000,000, show the principal increas-
es

In the Far East the largest gain,
of $40,000,000, was made in sales to
China, followed by increases of $32,-
000.000 to British India, $29,000,000
to the Phillipines, $25,000,000 to
Australia, and $20,000,000 to New
Zealand, while exports to the Dutch
East Indies increased by $13,000,-
0000. To Japan, by far the largest
customer in that section of the
world, the gain in 1920 over 1919
was only $11,000,000.

Sales to Africa increased by $68,-
000,000, Egypt with $23,000,000,
British South Africa with $16,000,-
000, and French Africa with $18,-
000,000, showing important gains in
their purchases. _

It is generally recognized that with
the tremendous debts owed by Eur-
ope to this country, which, including
government loans, are estimated to
aggregate probably not less than
$14,000,000, with the exchange rates
depreciated to a point which seems
to make further buying from the
United States prohibitive, with de-
clining imports, scarcity of gold, and
strained credit facilities, it will be
impossible for exports from. the
United States to continue at their
present level. A permanent slump
in exports has been freely predicted
every time the monthly totals hap—
pened to fall below the figures of
previous months. In fact, a declin-
ing tendency is shown in the exports
during the last year if the monthly
totals are averaged by 6—month per-
iods. The average for the first half
of 1920 figures at $708,000,000 and
for the last half at $664,000,000,
with the January, 1921, total report-
ed at $655,000,000, which may be
the start of a permanent decline.—
Commerce Reports. 1’

CORRECTION

A certain editor and publisher of
a country newspaper in Kansas was
asked to leave the community as a
result of a typographical error in his
report of the wedding of the mayor’s
daughter, says a western exchange.

After exhausting his supply of
large words about the “blushing
bride,” he said: “The large ela‘bor—

. ate boquets of roses were punk.”

The mayor demanded a correction
and apology in the next week’s issue
all of which the editor was glad to
promise.

The next issue contained: “We
wish to apologize for the manner in
which we disgraced the beautiful
wedding last week. Through an er-
ror of the typesetter we were made
to say, ‘The roses were punk,’ what
we wanted to say was that “the noses
were pink.’ ”

SEEDS ALMOST GIVEN AWAY
Special to Business Farmer Readers
Big dollar box, earliest, best and
most delicious vegetables and pret-
tiest flowers—42 varieties. Big pack-
ets. Just what every planter must
have. 25 cents to introduce. 6 boxes,
$1.00, 25 for $3.50 postpaid.
A. T. COOK, Sc'edsman, Hyde Park,
N. Y. ' (Adv.)

 

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CHOICE FARM LANDS

l have the best proposition on earth for the
man who is tired of being a renter, of working for
others or who desires a. larger farm than he now
own;

I own lends In the famous clover Seed belt
near Onewuy. choice heavy clay loam soil un-
derlaid with limestone at $10 to $30 per lore-

The lands were beech and maple lands from
which all of the timber has been removed.

A reasonable cash payment is required after
which the clover and alfalfa seed Will take care
of your future payments.

While getting started and your home built. I

I. if necessary stand behind you.

is is one of the chances of a. life time if
you like farming and are a worker.

Paying for a farm in clover seed belt 'where
$100 per acre. entails no
hardship for the dairymsn or stock man. no
hay and chad crops more than pay the expense.
leaving the seed crops as the mortgage lifter.

Write today for full particulars and booklet.

THAD B. PRESTON. Onowav. Michigan

400 ACRES $4.500 WITH HORSES. 18
cowl and heiferl_ bull. machinery, cream separat-
or, equipment; near RR town. conveniences: ms-
chine-worked fields: 00-cow pasture; 1,000 cords
pulp, 2,000 cords wood; good variety frmt; 400
sugar maples: good 10—mom house. 70 ft. born.
silo, tenant house, horse barn, owner retiring;
any terms. Details go 16 Spring Catxlog
1.100 Bargains. STR UT AGENCY. 814 BE,
Pbrd Bldg.. Detroit. Mich.

FOR SALE-40 ACRES TWO MILES FROM
Fibre. 12 acres cleared. small hay barn, horse
barn cow barn. chicken house, hog house, and
nice creek clear through the farm. All easLIy
cleared. $1,200 if taken at once. Log house
suitable to live In Will take half down. J. S.
MCGINN. Fibre. Mich.

EXCEPTIONAL BARGAIN. 120 ACRES UN-
imp‘yed land 8 miles from Branch, Mich. 
class soil suitable for general farming . Splenchd
proposition for sheep pr cattle. Prosperous com—
munity. Price $960. Owner LULU A. CARL—
SON. 803 W. Madison St... Room 513. Chicago,
Ill. J

FOR OLE—160 A. HARDWOOD. CLARE
Co. 60 acres cleared. stock tools, DeLeval Sep—

arator, small payment down, balance, easy terms,
A. M. WICKERHAM. 1514 Turner St... Imus-
lng Mich.

 

CUT OVER CLAY LOAM LAND IN
Preeque Isle county's clover seed belt. Ten per
cent cash. balance payable with annual clover,
seed crops. The cash payment loaned to settler
for live stock 31111 long time 0 per cent—JOHN
c. xnxuru. llersburg inch.

FOR SALE—120 A.. 10 CLEARED, TEAM.
farm tools, tattle. hogs wheat. rye, corn 80 bu,

 

potetoa. chickens, limestone soil. house. burn.
Price $4,800. DAVID W. SMITH, Levering,
Mich.

IF vou WANT TO BUY A FARM 0R

ranch write DAVID KENNEDY, Evert. Mich,
for a list.

FIRST CLASS FARM HOME. STATE RE-
ward road, 34 mile mrket. schools, churches.
For particulars address owner, JOEL G. PALM-
ER. Orleans. Mich.

 

FREEI DESCRIPTIVE LIST 100 FARMS IN
"Thumb" District, the Garden of Michigan. REED
REALTY 00.. Carsonville, Mich.

 

FARM BARGAIN—120 ACRE FARM. SANDY
loam clay bottom, good soil to raise any kind of
crops Large house with basement; good well:
large born metal lined granary, silo.
with or without stock and machinery. $85 per
acre. Requires down payment of three thousand
dollars. EDWARD HESSE. 1996 Grstioa Ave.,
Detroit Mich.

FOR SALE—105 ACRES GOOD LAND. 70
cultvated, 10 wood lot and timber, balance past-
ure. Apple orchard. 2 1-8 acres berries Bank
barn. silo, brick veneer 7-room house. other out-
buildings. situated on concreu road. Beautiful
view Lake Michigan. Shipping point 2 1-2 miles
Charlevoix. 7 1-2 miles. ARCHIE CHEW, Bay
Shore. Michigan.

MAGIC VALLEY—80 ACRE DEMONSTRA-
fion farm in heart of the lower Delta of the Rio
Grande Texas. All plowed, fenced and under
irrigation. Wild land now selling at $450 per
acre. Raise 3 crops 9. year. Become Independ-
ent. Can exchange this beautiful farm for Mich-
igan property at $24,000. Encumbrance $8,000
at 0 per cent. BENJAMIN a. SON. 531 1-2 So.
Saginaw SL. Flint Mich.

 

 

 

FOR BALE—241 A. FIVE MILES FROM
Remus, all cleared. Brick house. Strictly mod—
ern, hot water heat, tenant house. Large born,
silo, buildings new. Would take small farm or
house In city. $18,000. CHAS. GILLMORE,
Remus. Mich.

FOR SALE—EIGHTY ACRES. THIRTY
cleared. house. barn, running water, 75 fruit
or: We a  as. in“  am-

a co co con rac es re . 0 . ARI.
BUTTO . Williamsburg, Mich.

FOR SALE—THREE ACRES WITH BUILD-
ings. .Ideal for poultry and truck farming. Price
$5 500. Privilege of renting 5 adjoining acres.
1502 S. WARREN AVE. Saginaw. Michigan.

FOR SALE—120 ACRES GOOD LAND IN
the beet belt. 4 miles from Merrill, Saginaw 00.
Good market. on main gravel read. 100 com
under cultivation. Some timber, good buildings,
well, some orchard. 600 rods page fence 60
acres tile-drained, 16 acres rosen rye 1 here.
new seeding. 30 Acres fall plowing. silo personal.
CLARENCE WATSON Merrill. Mich.

 

 

 

 

FOR SALE—IO ACRE FARM 000 P -
tote and clover land in Luce 00. Cut "31.131
Smell clearing. Price $1.000. Write

A. 0. BROWN_ McMillan. Mich. ° ‘

 

VAN BUREN 00.. MIOH. FARMS. HAVE
good producing stock and grain farm; Muck
land for truck farming. small fruit and mm
lands. Tracts of 10 800 acres. Best of
markets. schools, church and IL R. condition If
you think of buying for either home or luvs-tr
ment let me know what you want and I an
please you. WARD L. McKEE. Decatur. Mich.

 

FOR SALE—STANDING TIM-ER. TAI-
afil‘r’.e spruce1 3d some (ask, ash “grad e'lm. Aloe
rone ocreswiigodbl .
ANDERSON. 03mm .mchf n“ B” W

800 IU. CERTIFIED WOLVERINE SEED
oats, $1.00 1' ML. In lots of 5 to 24 bushels.
Mich. Crop mprovement Association prices. Writ.
FARLEY BROS. Albion. Mich.

NEW STRAIN YELLOW DENT SEED CORN
lhelh 58 1-2 lbs. Also ensiloge seed. Get this
seed first. FRANK WOODWARD_ Clinton. Mich.

 

COLLEGE SUCCESS SEED OATS FROM
crozedyielding 93 bushels per acre cleaned and
sec $1.00 per bu., 3 bus. per mck. CONK-

norms): mus. lin, m

 

GOING. GOING. AT PRIVATE AUCTION
min before April 15th, 110 acres Eaton Co. dark
clay» loam, lies level, productive. 15 wheat. 50
leading. Nice sugar bush basement born. new
silo. 8 room house other buildings, well.
Near school. five miles Vermontville. If you are
looking for a good form Investigate. Cash or
terms.- N. ELLSWORTH FENDER. R 8. Ver-
montvllle. Michigan.

MSCELLANEOIJfi

BERRY PLAN '18

SENATOR DUNLAPS AT 8.‘0 PE. 1 000.
32.00 for 500; $1.00 per $250. Gmnhteed
first-class plants or money refunded. C. K
ISITAINLEY 2Flower View Farm, Pow Pow, Mild.

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FOR SALE—IMPROVED SENATO D R—
hp strawberry plants, $3 per 1.000. R u
$3.50: Gibson. $3.50. State inspected.
STANLEY. 124 Main St... Bangor, Mich.

GRAPEVINE AND RED CURRANT RUSH-
es No. 1, $1.9 per dos. 100, $12. 100 Ev—
erlasting Strawb'y $1.95 with Cl. d
In lower Mich. 10.000 Dunlap Strewby only
{$029.freeB$)tc  RquOBlielrhr‘y} very cheap. Ask

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FENCE POSTS

WSF‘OIIIt SbALcE—TGRIAPE vPVOSTS AND FENCE
w 0 ea e prices. it
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ut. All kinds. Delivered prices. Address "M.
M," flair; Michigan Business Farmer, Mt. Clem-
ons, c .

 

0°dSEVEN FFOOJ 150g" INCH TOP PEELED
ar posts, . . . yn Falls. 23 h.
IIEADLEY BROS.. 018.2101: Mich. can“ “c

100 IU. DUSKY RURALS. RAISED 600
bushel from 19 bushels seed. 0 price $4.50
Per 150m. sock. FRED DOHERTY. So. Board-
man. Mich.

SEED CORN. JOHNSON’C EARLY LEAN-
Ing and Pickett‘s yellow dent won first on 10
cars and dumpion 10 en: and first on single
core at Saginaw count: fair. Abe first on 100

first on 10 can and second on single can
at using Shoe Corn show. Price $2.50 per
busheL A. W. JOHNSON A SON. St. Charles.
Michigan.

CERTIFIED PETOCKEY GOLDEN RUSSET
Seed Potatoes. Nine yarn; hill selected for type
and yield. $0 per 150 pound ICE. E. D. POST,
Twin Boy Form; Alba, Michigan.

 

 

CHOICE WISCONSIN PEDIGREED DARLEY
5 bu. or more $1.50 per bu. Bogs free. (lash
with order. B. F. HELLEM, Mound. Mich.

 

FOR SALE—ITO SAN 80V DEANS. FINE
quality, $5.50 per bushel. Also ‘ Worthy
seed nets. 0. P. PHILLIPS. Bellevue, Mich.

MCHINERY

FOR SALE—THRESHINO OUTFIT COM-
plete. CARL GORDON Mt. Pleasant. R 8.
Michigan. .

FOR SALE—INTERNATIONAL 8-10 (FOUR
cylinder) tractor and John Deere bottom
plow. Price reasonable. would take Brown Swim
cow or heifer in part payment or will give terms
on part. For particulars write J. HOWARD
deSPELDER, Greenville. Mich.

 

 

 

 

AGENTS

AGENTS MAKE IIO MONEY SELLING OUR
81105. Write today for catalog and big com-
mission proposition. NAPPANEII LUMBER h
MFG. 00., Nappanee, Ind.

 

 

 

HELP WANTED

 

 

SEED

 

FOR . SALE—REGISTERED WOLVERINE
mini" Heighbyiellditiaig, ‘e‘xcegent quality 75c per
., u. o . .
Juno“. Mich. ECKERSON. ll 4

 

FOR 8ALE——CHOICE RECLEANED SEED
barley. Yield past season 53 but. per one.
$1.25 per bu.. bag: included. W. B. WHITE.
Carson City. Mich.

 

SAVE THE MIDDLEMAN'S PROFIT. NOR-
thern grown recleane'd seeds. Hairy Veteh, 12
1-2c: red clover, medium. 20c; sweet clover. 1
per lb. Socks free. Prompt shipment—E.
F‘ollett, Hale, Mich.

 

I HAVE RECLEANED WHITE ILOCSOI
Sweet Clover seed at $8.00 per bu., bag; in—
cluded. Send for sample. ARTHUR CHURCH
Bud Axe. Mich. '

 

WANTED BY WIDOWER WITH CHILDREN
competent and experienced farm woman for
homekeeper. Middle aged lady prefered. One
who could get along with children. Good home
for the right party. BOX E, can Michigan Bru-
lnees firmer.

WANTED IY MAN WILLING TO GO ON
farm or live in town. Protestant housekeeper e!
companion. Best of references. BOX "C," can
Bullnu Farmer, Mt. Clemens. Mich.

 

GENERAL

 

LIGHTNING RODS. EXCLUSIVE AGENCY
and quick files to Live Dealers selling "DID-

DIE-BLITZEN RODS." Our copper test: -

99.90 per cent PURE. Write for Agency.

are right. L M. Diddie 00., Marshfield, W
GLADIOLI. NAMED VARIETIES. /LARGE

size at price of common mixed. Ame n pink,

Augusta white, Princess red. 25 bulbs for $1.

SUSIE MOSER. Conway. Mich.

 

 

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BREEDERS' DIRECTORY. THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER. ML Olgment. Michigan.

 

 

 

To avoid conflicting dates we will witheut
eeet, list the date of my live stock sele II
Michigan. If you are considering a sale
line or at once and we will claim the «to
for you. Address. Live Stock Editor, M. I.
F.. Mt. Clemens.

April 5. Holstein-F‘rleslans.
Clare. Mich.

Apr. 6—Shorthorn Cattle and Sheep. Mrs.
Brown City. Michlgngi.

Eaton C inty Hol-
Fsir Grounds. Char—

Bowler Bros. .

Joe Murphy.

Apr. 21—liolsteins.
stein Breeders ’Ass’n.
lotte. Michigan.

May 5—4horthorns. Southern Mich. Poll-
ed Shorthorn Breeders’ Ass'n., Branch 00.
Farm, Coldwnter, Mich.

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

 

 

LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEERS
Andy Adams, Litchfield, Mich.
Ed. Bowers, South Whitley, Ind
Porter Colestock, Eaton Rapids, Mich.
John Hoffman, Hudson, Mich.
D. L. Perry, Columbus, Ohio.
J. I. Post, Ilillsdale, Mich.
J. E. ltuppcrt, Perry, Mich.
Harry Robinson, Plymouth, Mich.
“'m. \Vafl‘io, Coldther, Mich.
John P. Hutton, Lansing, Mich.

 m CATTLE

HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN

$100.00 WILL BUY HOLSTEiN-FRIESIAN
bull calves, nearly ready for service, from sire
whose six nearest dams average 33.34 lbs. butter
in 7 days.
OSCAR WALLIN, Wiscogin Farm
Unlonviiie, Mich.

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

USE PURE BRED siRE's

Estimates furnished by the Dairy Division
of the United Stem Department of All'lQul'
tnre show that the dairy cows of the country
evenge only 4,500 lbs. of milk per 1911'-

A good Holstein bull will increase the pro-
duction of the ordinary herd 50 per cent in
the first generation.

Let us help you find s good one to use on
your herd. You cannot make it better 111'

vestdent
MICH. HOLSTEIN - FRIESIAN
ASSOCIATION

Old State Block Lansing, Mich.

 

 

 

SHOW BULL

Sired by s Pontiac Aaggie KorndykeuHenger—
veld DeKoi bull from a nearly 1‘.) lb. show
First prize junior cslf, Jackson Fslr,

c w.
10920. Light in color sud good individual
Seven months 011. Price, $125 to make
room. Hurry l

Herd under Federal Supervision.

"BOABDMAII FARMS

JACKSON. MICH.

Holcteln Breeders Since 1906

 

 

 

 

WOLVERINE STOCK FARM REPORTS GOOD
sales from their herd. We ere well pleased with
the calves from our Junior Herd Sire “King Pon-
tiac Lunde Korndyke Begin” who is a son 0
‘King of the Pontiacs” from a daughter of Pon-
tiac Clothilde De Kol 2nd. A few bull calves for
ule. '1‘. W. Sprsgue. R 2. Bettie Greek, Mich.

 

7 HOLSTEiN-FRIESIAN BULLS 7

‘- From e State and Federal Accredited Herd, Sirad by
\VALKER LYONS 174771
whose twenty nearest dams have records averaging 30.11 pounds

These bulls are from dams with records up to 26.3 as Jr.
9 month:

of milk.
pricedfrom $100.00 to $200.00.

E. L. SALISBURY

Ale.

of butter from 592 pounds
four year olds end are
“cars.

SHEPHERD, MICH.

 

 

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BULL cALF  35.21%? 33:53 3.3..

fired by s son of Flint Hengerveld Led whose twe
nearest dams everege over 32 lbs. butter end
735 lbs. milk in 7 days. Dam is a 20.61 lb.
Jr. 2 year old daughter of Jobsn Hengerveld 11d
68 A. R 0. daughters. Price 3150. F. 0. B.
Flint. Pedigree on application.
L. C. KETZLER. Flint.

HOWBERT HERO

WHERE TYPE, CONSTITUTION AND PRO-
DUCTIVE ABILITY IS sssunso.
the

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

H. r. EVANS
. Eau Claire, Mich.

FOR SALE

Mioh.

 

 

TEN HEAD OF REG. HOL-
stcins for $2000. .A head
of nine cows and s 26 lb.
bull calf. These cows are good size wt. up to
1,700 lbs., some with A. R. 0. records as high
as 20 lbs. butter in seven days Three ready to
freshen soon. This herd is tuberculin tested.
Write or come to see them. My herd is headed
by s 30 lb. sire.

THE SQUARE DEAL STOCK FARM

Will Ohrlsclnsko, Imlay City, Mich.

 

 

Yearling Bull For Sale

Bull born Sept. 28, 1919, evenly
marked and a flne‘individual. Sir-
ed by my 30 lb. bull and from a
20 1b. daughter of Johan Heng.
Lad, full sister to a 32 lb. cow.
Dam will start on yearly test
Nov. 15.

ROY F. FICKIES

Chcsaning, Mich.

 

 

 

 

SOLD AOAIII

Bull calf last advertised sold but have 2 more
that are mostly white. They are nice straight fel-
lows, sired by a son 0g King One. One is sirom
s 17 lb. .2 yr. old dam and the other is from a
20 1b. Jr. 3 yr. old dam, she is by a son of

Friend l‘lengerveld De Kol Butter Boy. one of
the greet bulls.
JAMES HOPSON JR.. Owosso. Mich.. R 2.

 

 

NOTE THE CHANGE IN DATE

 

COMPLETE

DISPERSAL SALE

HEAD OF REGISTERED

Holstein Friesian Cattle

It very seldom happens that such a large percentage of the cows
offered at a dispersal sale are of such desirable age. Just think, fifteen
of those heifers have recently freshened or are soon to freshen w1th

their second calf.

This gives you a chance to get foundation stock for

a herd with their whole life before them and of the very best blood

lines.

Our herd is rich in the blood of such noted Sires as De K01 2nd

Rutter Boy 3rd; King of the Pontiacs;

King Segis; Sarcastic Lad;

King Segis Pontiac Alcartra, the fifty thousand dollar Bull; Colantha

Johanna Lad, etc.

This sale will be held at Bowler Farm, FOur miles from Clare,
Mnalligzln, on Ann Arbor and P. M. railroads on

Tuesday, April 5, 1921

beginning at Eleven O’clock.

COLONEL D. L. PERRY, of Columbus, Ohio, will be the Auc-
tioneer with S. T. WOOD, of Liverpool, N. Y., as pedigree expert.

All of these cows and heifers that have been fresh long enough
are bred to our herd sire Wolverine Ormsby Segis who is a grand son

of the King of the Pontiacs, one of the greatest of all Sires.

His Dam

is sired by the Great King Korndyke Hengerveld Ormsby. She is
also a Sister to Ormsby Korndyke Lad thus combining the very best

blood lines possible to obtain.

This sire will also be sold at the sale.

He will be just two years old at time of sale.

The day after, (April 6th), there will be a general auction of
farm tools, etc., which will include seventeen horses, of this number
many are young heavy Belgian horses. ,

Pedigrees furnished on day of sale.

Bowler Bros.

Clare, Michigan.

AKEVIEW DAIRY FARM HOLSTEIN-FRIES-

ians. llerd sire Paul Pieterje VVnne Prince.
Two nearest dams average 31.9 lbs. butter. 672
lbs milk in 7 days. Dani milked 117 lbs. in one
day; 3,218 lbs. in 30 days; 122.37 lbs. butter
in 30 days. His bull calves for sale. One from
a 22 lb. two-year—old. Good individusls. Prices
reasonable. Age from 2 to 5 months. »

E. E. BU1TERS. Goldwater, Mich.

 

TO SETTLE AN ESTATE

March Zl—Ilolsteins. H. A. Smith, Wix-
7 registered Holstein cows, yet to freshen,
bred to a 30 lb. bull. $1,200 takes them.
BERT SLOCUM, Byron, Mich.

FOR SALE—43 GOOD BULLS, LIGHT, MEDI-
um and dark. llams’ records at 2 yr, Syrs.
and 4 yrs., 16 pounds, 24 pounds and 26.46
ones. {first two dams average 22.000 pourXillli

milk and over 1,000 pounds butter in year.
good type. Also a few .registered cows and
heifers.

M. J. ROCHE, Plnckney, Mich.
  LARGE REGISTERED HOLSTEIN
cow, five years old, vvell 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 darn. Price $250 for the
pair. ,.
R. H. BARNHART, R 1, St. Charles, Mich.

BBAIIOOIIHILL FARM

 

Ortonville. Michlsen
We have cut our price one-half:
Bull calf, 35 lb. sire . . . . . . . . . . . ..$100
Bull calf, 41 lb. sire, 30 lb. dam 200
Bull ready for service . . . . . . . . . . . .. 350
Bull. 41 1b. sire. 81 lb. dam . . . . .. 500
All good individuals from herd having

psssed Third Clean Federal Test.
JOHN P. HEHL
1206 Griswold Street. Detroit. Michigan

 

OR SALE: TWELVE HEAD TUBERCULIN
registered Holstelns. Females, $75 to
Bulls. $40 to $70.

CECIL SCRIBNER. Bervlile Mich.

 

FAIRLAWN HERD—HOLSTEINS

Herd Sire, Emblagaard Lilith Champion 108073

His sire's dam, Colantha 4th’s Johanna, world’s
first 35 lb. cow. and world’s first 1,200 lb. cow.
The only cow that ever held all world’s butter
records from one day to one year, and the world’s
yearly milk record at the same time. His dam
Lilith Piebe De K01. No. 93710. over 1.150 lbs.
of butter from 29599.4 pounds of milk in a
,vcar. World‘s 2nd highest milk record
made end Michigan state record for 6 years. Only
one Michigan cow with higher milk record today.
liin two nearest dams average:

Butter one year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1.199.22

Milk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28.515.9

(,‘hamp's sons from choice A. R. O. dam will
add prestige to your herd and money to your

purse.
J. F. RIEMAN. Owner
Flint, Mich.

TWO BULL OALVES
Re red Boistein-Frleeian, sired by 80.87 It.
bull end from heevy producing young eewe. These
eelvee are very nice end will be priced ehee) i!

eoid soon.
HARRY T. rune. llwell. Mleh.

 

 

‘ OLBTEINB FOR SALE—EITHER DEX.
Bulls ready for heavy service from damn Wit-h
A R. 0. records up to 31 lbs. Also bull celvel

 

with same breed. They are all fine individu-
als and nicely marked and priced to sell. Also
e few well bred females.

0. H HOOVER, Howell. Mich.

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’1 April; 1921»

 

 

 

i MACK’S NOTES .

There is a well—defined rumor
abroad in the land, to the effect that
the-Farm Bureau’s marketing plans
are far from popular with the Re-
publican administration.

 

 

 

 

 

The Michigan woo-1 pool is fairly
well liquidated, and as far as can be
learned, farmers are well satisfied
with the outcome of the season’s
business. It is generally understood
that Michigan wool growers will pool
their wool again this year.

. The National Live Stock Exchange
IS considering a campaign against
all Class I railroads in the effort to
secure a reduction in live stock
freight rates. In its recent address
to the government, the Exchange
calls attention to the fact that grow-
ers and feeders of live stock ‘the
country over, are discouraged be-
cause of high freight rates and the
many other conditions with which
they now have to deal.

 

AUCTION SALE OF‘ DUROCS

The auction sale of pure bred Dur-
ocs, which was held on the Plum
Creek Stock Farm, 8 miles west of
MOnroe, Saturday, March 5, was
from every standpoint an outstand-
ing success, the 40 hogs in the offer-
ing averaging a few cents less than
$64 each. This was the first sale of
bred sows to be made by F. J. Drodt,
owner of the Plum Creek Farm and
the Splendid condition of the animals
offered reflected great credit upon
their owner. The attendance was
good and the bidding was fairly act-
ive. from the beginning to the end
of the sale. The auctioneer, H. L.
Igleheart, of Elizabethtown, Ken-
tucky, is a first class salesman and
it is safe to say that the prices se-
cured were very close to the selling
values of the animals offered. The
press representatives, in attendance
at the sale,.were W. P. Penry, Rad-
nor Ohio, DurOc Bullotin: R. J.
Evans, Chicago, Illinois, American
Duroc Association and H. H. Mack,
of Tim MICHIGAN BUSINESS FABMEB,
Mt. Clemens, Mich.

The following is a detailed report
of the sale, including the names and
addresses of the various buyers and
the prices which each paid for the
animals he purchased:

Wm. Niche], Ida, sow. 580; E, Brewer,

Carlton, gilt, $5250; Herman Mathis,
Ida, gilt, $55; Wm. Rambovv, Monroe,
gilt, $50; Wm, Zimmerman, gilt, $51;
E. Brewer, Carlton, gilt. $52; Harlan

Wilt, Britton, gilt, $65; Geo. W, Batman,
B_ritton, $65; Irving W. Knapp, Monroe,
gilt, $55; Adiel Lambrecht, Monroe, $50;
J, A, Brown, Detroit, gilt, $56; F. L
Newcombe, Dundee, gilt, $60; F, L. New-
combe, Dundee, gilt, $60; J. A, Albain,
Monroe, R, 3, gilt, $58' F. W. Grassley,
Monroe, R, l, gilt, $54; Wm. Heiden,
Monroe, R 1, sow, $66; John Reber,
Monroe, sow, $66; Inwood Bros, Romeo,
sow, $85; Geo. F, Putman, Britten. sow,
$64: Alfred Monk, Dundee, sow, $70; J.
A, Brown, Detroit, sow, $71' Geo. Schro-
eder, Monroe. R, 1, sow, $77 . Arthur Nu—
dermeres, LaSaiie, sow, $65; J. A. Brown,
Detroit, sow, $66; F. B, Hill, Flat Rock,
sow. $6 ; Fred Milhan, Monroe, sow,
$64; , L. Newcombe, Dundee, sow,
$100; J. A, Brown, Detroit, sow, $52; J.
A, Brown, Detroit, gilt, $71: Ben Guth—
neckt, Monroe, sow. $70; Wm, Nickels,
Ida, sow, $70; C. W, Roan, Temperence,
sow, $62; G119 Albright. Monroe, gilt,
$66; Gus Albright, Monroe, gilt, 357;
James Albain, Monroe, gilt, $58; Martin
Albright, Monroe, gilt. $61; Alfred Monk, ~
Dundee, sow, $85; Alfred Bird, Peters-
hurg, gilt, 552; Charles Arnold. Monroe.
 $75; Rush Brothers, Romeo, boar,

FUNCTION OF PURE-BRED
STOCK

The following are quotations from
the- introductory remarks made by
H. L. Ingiehart, auctioneer, at the
Plum Creek sale of pure-bred Dur-
ocs, the other day: “I see before me
today a band of progressive farmers.
I am morally certain that 90 per cent
of the men who are looking up into
my face this afternoon are as near-
ly ‘up to the minute’ in connection
with management of their farms and
herdS'aS conditions will permit. Not
one of the men before me would
think of going into the field with an
old back number plow, harrow or
cultivator. They would not think of
planting the crop until they had pre-
pared a first-class seed bed. They
are all of them familiar with the,
penalty attached to the sowing of
any but the very best seed. When
the crop is ready to harvest not one
of them would think of going afield

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


"April 2, 1921

with anything but the most up—to-
date harvesting machinery.

“All that I have just said has to
do with producing the crop; after it
is grown and garnered, the crop
must, however, be marketed and it
is right here, it anywhere, that the
American farmer fails to measure up
to the standard of 100 per cent ef-
ficiency. What matters it, after all.
how successful we may be in crop
production if we fail to get the mon—
ey out of the stuff after it is grown?
The man makes the greatest success
in farming who markets his products
on four feet. If modern machinery
is needed in growing and harvesting
the crops it is also needed in trans—
forming them into money. Pure—bred
domestic animals are the modern
machinery needed in marketing the
crop which has been so carefully
grow-n. You do not need to tell me
that I am in a good corn country:
the character of your soil decides
that matter. Where corn is grown
in large quantities a machine is
needed that will change corn into

 

money, The Duroc hog is the most
economical corn consumer in the
world today."
HOLSTEIN AUCTION DATE
CHANGED
In last week’s issue of The Bus-
iness Farmer a 1-4 page ad. an—

nounced the Holstein sale of Bow1-.

er Bros., to be held on April 6th. Ow—
ing to the inability of the auctioneer
Col. D. L. Perry of Columbus, Ohio,
being present on the 6th, the date
of the sale has been changed to
April 5th.

A fine lot of 23 Registered Hol—
steins will be offered among them
15 heifers recently freshened or
soon to freshen with their 2nd calf.

The sale will be held at the Rowl-
er farm, 4 miles from Clare. Don’t
forget the date, Tuesday, April 5th
beginning at 11 o’clock.

 

 

‘ Veterinary Dep’t

Dr. W. Austin Ewart, editor

 

 

STRANGLES
I have a horse that had the distem-
per and lumps came, in the throat and
they broke leaving a hole through the
skin, and it runs puss all the time,
Please tell me what to do for it.—J. S.,
Harbor Beach, Michigan,

Strangles, commonly known as
distemper, is most common in young
animals, generally attacking animals
from two to six years of age; yet it
may occur in a sucking colt. or in a
horse twenty years old. After oc-
curring once, in a well marked form,
it very rarely attacks the same ani—
mal the second time. Sometimes an
animal, while appearing to be in
perfect normal condition otherwise,
will be noticed to move the head
and neck stiffly and on examination
an abscess will be found in the space
between the lower jaw bones. In
the irregular form of strangles,
these abscesses may form on the in—
side of the thigh, front leg or should—
er; in prolonged cases the abscesses
will often be found in connection
with the lungs, in fact an abscess
may form in any part of the body.
The tumor is at first hard, but en-
larges, becomes soft and finally
bursts, or has to be opened to pre-
vent its bursting on the inside.
Strangles, like all fevers, runs a
certain course, usually from eight to
ten days and in twenty days the an—
imal is usually fit to be put to work,
and the opening you speak of,should
be made large enough to allow prop»
er drainage and should be syringcd
out twice daily with a solution of
Creolin and water, about one tea—
spoonful to a teacupful of water. The
animal should be placed in a dry,
well—ventilated box stall; the food
should be of an easily digestive na-
ture, and the animal should be giv—
en plenty of cold water. Internally
give the following: Granulated or
powdered potassium nitrate, four
ounces, powdered nux vomica two
ounces, mix and divide into sixteen
powders and give one powder every
four hours; these can best be given
dry with a long handled spoon.

 

Have taken your paper for some time
and think it the best rm paper going,
and have received man helps. sugges-
tions and there seems to be something
for every member of the family—W.
W,, Glennie, Mich. R. F. D. 1

THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER

- FOR SALE—$475.00

A YOUNG BULL
CASH OR TERMS
From Junior two year old A. R. 0. heifer, 17.68,

born February 10, 1920, sired by

ODEL KING SEGIS GLISTA
whose grand dam, Glista Ernestine, has six
times made better than thirty pounds of butter.

This bull is bound to transmit high mi.k pro—

 

ducton.
GRAND RIVER STOCK FARMS
111 E Main Corey J. Spencer, Owner
Undcr State and Federal ijllllul’l'i‘dluii
0R SALE—2 REG. HOLSTEIN BULLS

ready for service from 19 1—2 and 24 1-2 lb.

dams. Price $100 and $125. llerd on so—
credited list.
Wm. GRIFFIN, Howell, Mich.

 

 

 

 

0R SALE—REGISTERED HOLSTEIN COW.
Three heifer calves. l bull calf.

 

 

 

 

R. J. BANFIELD. Wixom. Mich
I'OR SALE—TWO BULL CALVES, A HOL.
teiu and Ilurii-im about 3 months will l'w'l;
have heavy milking dams. Not registered. $.70
each if taken at once. ’
CHASE STOCK FARM. Mariette. Mich
HEREFORDS
HAMPSHIRE

HEREFORD CATTLE "32’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
Herd 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.

La FAYETTE STOCK FARM. La Fayette, Ind.
J. Crouch & Son. Pr‘oD.
REGISTERED HEREFORD CATTLE —- KING

lilCI‘l‘lA'I‘iCR 713941, and Bean Perfection
3237891) head our herd. Bulls are .sold; have
some very fine heifers for sale. brcd or HIN‘IIRI

bred to our herd bulls. Come and see them; they

wil please you.
Tony 3. Fox. Prop.. Henry Gehrholz, Herdsman,
MARION STOCK FARM. Marion Michigan

 

HEBEFORDS FOR SALE

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

EARL C. McCARTY, Bad Axe, Mlch.

 

150 HEREFORD HEIFERS. ALSO KNOW
of 10 or 15 loads fancy Quality Shortshorns and
Angus steers 5 to 1.000 lbs. Owners anxious
to sell. \Vill help buy 50c commission.

0. F. BALL. Falrfield. Iowa

 

LAKEWOOD HEBEFOBDS $3.3? 31.7.5.5
young bulls, 12 months old for sale. Also high
class females any age. Inspection invited.

E. J. TAYLOR. Fremont. Mlch.

IIIVEIIVIEW HEBEFOBOS riflflbuiii‘tni

a grandson of the $31500 Bullion 4th. Also a
few females.
Wm. C. DICKEN. Smyrna. Mich.

 

 

 

SHORTHORN

ENTRAL MICHIGAN SHORTHORN BREED-
ers’ Association offer for sale 7‘5 head; all
ages, both milk and beef breeding. Send for new
list.

M. E.

 

MILLER, Sec'y. Greonvmo, Mlch.

 

IF YOU WANT TO BUY OR SELL I MAY
have just what you want. I handle from one
animal up to the largest consignment sale in the
country.

0. A.

Have You a Mortgage
on Your Farm?

If so buy Shorthorns at the Feb. 25th sale
at M. A. 0. held at 1 P. M. We are listing
four females and two show bulls that will lift
your mortgage if they are cared for.

RICHLAND FARMS
Prescott 6: Sons, Tawas City,

Rosmusssen Sale 00., Greenvllle, Mich.

 

C. H. Mlch.

 

Huron Co. Shorthorn Brecders’ Ass'n
offer for sale Scotch and Scotch top-
ped males and females of all ages.
300 head to select from. For inform—
ation address
Jas. It. Campbell, Secretary
Bad Axe, Michigan

 

 

 

SHORTHOIIIIS

4 to 8 mos. old, all room, pail fed.
the farmers' kind, at farm-

Mlch.

5 bulls.
Dams good milkers.
ors' prices.

F. M. PIGGOTT I: SON.

MAPLEHUBST FARM

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

MILKING SHORTHORN    

Present four bulls, two yenrliugfl and two young-
er also a few females. Prices reasonable.
ROY S. FINCH, Fife Lake. Mich.

Fowler.

 

 

I AM OFFER-

 

SSOTCH-TOPPED SHORTHORN BULLS FOR
wil .
w. E. MORRISH. R 5. Flint, Mich.

  FROM AN ACCRED-

 

ited herd, that art
right, at readjustment prices,

JOHN SCHMIDT J: SON. Reed City. Mich.
WHAT DO YOU WANT? I represent 41
"HO-"THORN breeders. Can put you in
touch wilh best milk or beef strains. Bulls all
lL’cn. Some females. C. W. (Irum', l‘resuicnt
(‘eutral Michigan Shorthorn Assocmtion. Mc-
Brides. Michigan.

 

THE VAN BUREN CO. SHORTHORN BREED-
ers' Association have stock for sale, both mill
and beef breeding.
Write the secretary.
FRANK BAILEY, Hartford.

 offered at attractive DFiL‘Cl

before January first. Will trade for stood lflDLL
Wm. J. BELL, Rose City, Mich.

Mlch.

COWS, HEIFERS, BULLS

From the Maple lirlge herd of Bates Short
horns. i‘nlvcd in September 1030.

35XTRA GOOD BULL CALVES FOR SALE.
J. E. TANSWELL. Michigan.

Mason.

HORTHORN CATTLE AND OXFORD DOWN

sheep. Roth sex fcr sale.
J. A. DeGARMO. Muir. Mich.

ENT COUNTY SHORTHORN BREEDERS'

 

 

(687) 21

burst Fern Sultan. R. M. Breeding.

JERSEV YEARLINO BULL( SIRED BY PEN-
J. E. MORRIS & SON.

Farmlngton, Michigan.

 

HIGHLAND FARM JERSEYS..55353NT

ed herd. lligh pmductiou, splendid type and

breeding. Write us your wants.

Samuel Odell, Owner. Adolph Heeg. Mgr.
Shelby, Michigan

 

VEARLING BULL
Sired by Majesty's ()xforil Slivlor'k. Nothing better
RANK P. NORMINGTON. Ionla, Micnrgan

 

JERSEY BULLS FOR SALE

llcady for service from Ii. of M. dams. 'l‘. B.
tested. \Viil give time.
SMITH 8: PARKER. R 4 Howell. Mlch.

 

  TWO BULL CALVES SIX MOS.
old. by a son of Sophia's l‘rvmiur.

’l‘ulwrculin tested herd.
JAMES HARRIS. R 2. Traverse City, Mich.

 

LOCUST GROVE FARM—One Jersey Bull Calf
for sale it) months. Sii‘cll by )l'iviv
Marshland Kim.v 145208, Dam. Martha
of l‘llmwood NIL/26437“.

JUDD S. DENISON, R. No. 2 Ovid, Mich’aan.

L‘

Duke’s

 

GUERNSEYS
GUERNSEY BULLS
One four—year—old bull, best breeding, splendid
Individual. Ilis dnm produced 8969.6 pounds

milk and 423.45 pounds fat at. 2 years olzl, Also

some young bulls i) to 12 months old; best of
breeding.

SPRING DELL FARMS. LaPorto. Ind.
White Bros. & Surns R2, Box 20

 

Guernsey Bull for Sale

From A. It. dam. llerd under
state and federal supervision. Also Duroc bred
sow (registered) Write for particulars to

C. A. HENNESEY. Watervllct. Michigan.

+GUERNSEY BULL CALVE S

From tested and untested dams.

Satisfaction guaranteed.

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

of serviceable age,

 

 

 

 

 

Ass'n are offering bulls and heifers for sale. all
ages. Sell the scrub and in}: ,a l;)I.:'rr.brt‘~‘v1?i.c'b‘  
A' ' RAAB' s"\ “1" "(‘8' l ' Ilull ready for light service, $100. A yearling
‘ _ ln-ifcr, no relation, $200. The 2 for $250.
JERSIJ‘iS J. M WILLIAMS, North Adams. Michigan
A Great (lid Timer ANGUS
That longevity, pcrsistcncy and . .
pmpotenw have long been a marin The Most Profitable Kind
characteristic of the JERSEY is well _ _
of farming, a car load of grade dairv heifer!

ilustrated by the Jersey cow. Inter—
est F. 35 82C. Interest lived and died
on her native Island some
years ago. She milked until 18 years
old—longevity. During 7 years she
was not dry a single day—Persis-
tency. She had a butter test of 25
lbs. 6 oz. in 7 days, 56 lbs. of milk in

24 hrs. She was dam of the follow-
ing 9 noted cows—~I’repotency:

Butter Milk

’2' days 24 IIUuliS
D; bl! Interest .18 lbs. 1 oz 55 lbs. 07..
'l‘ilibyllntrrest .20 lbs. 6 oz 46 lbs. 1 07..
Daisy Interest .20 lbs. 14 oz 49 lbs. 0 07..
Maggie O'Mare .L-‘S lbs 6 oz 40 lbs. 0 oz.
Simple Interest .10 lbs. 10 oz 36 lbs. 0 on
Finance . . . . ..‘.31 lbs. 3 oz til lbs. 0 oz.
(‘ompound Interest.17 lbs. 8 oz 49 lbs. 8 oz.
Triple Interest . . .21 lbs. 3 oz 4:) lbs. 4 07..
Final Interest ...17 lbs. 15 oz. 41 lbs. 2 07.

Coupled with the abovv Economical Production

and what is there left to be desired?

V ‘t
‘ n e SEO'V HENDRICKSON

thirty

Bo wise.
grade up your dairy herd with a pure-bred Jersey
bull.

 

Shelby. Mlch.
. OLD—
  {"OEIIIIIFEERCEVV: lmeilk sired

by Majesty's Oxford Shylock 156,692 also young
bulls sired by Frolic‘s Master Pogis 177683. a
grandson of Pogis 99th and Sophie 19ths Tor»
Write for

mentor, two great bulls of the breed.
prices and pedigree.
GUY C. WILBUR, R 1, Balding, Mlch.

 

DO YOU WANT PRODUCTION?

The grandson of I'ogis 99th of Hood
and Sophie llltb's ’I‘ormentor,
est sires ever known beads our herd.

tion. llull calves and bred

 

scasonablo prices.

FRED HAYWARD. Scotts, Mich.

 

Owing to the death of my husband, I wil sell at auction, on

Wed. April ("5th. at 1.00 P. M.

(All registered except horses)

the following stock.

6 Reg. Shorthorn cows, with calf

1 Reg. Shorthorn Heifer, 2 yrs. old
with calf.

2 Reg] Shorthorn Heifers, 1 yr.

2 Reg. Roan Bulls, 18 & 15 mo. old

2 Reg. Red Buls. r9 & 12 mo. old

4 Reg. Oxford Down Rams.

2 Reg. Cheviot Rams.

Reg. Oxford Down Ewes, some
with lambs at side, others with
lamb.

4 Reg. Cheviot Ewes, with lamb.

1 Heavy Draft Mare, Blk., 1600 lbs.

8 years old.

3 Horses 4 and 5 years, 1200 lbs.

Farm Implements and a quantity

of grain.

1.7

All trains will be met A. M. of sale day at Watertown on D. B. & C.,

10 miles east, 1 mile‘south of Mariette, 5 1-2 miles east,

of Brown City. Hot lunch at noon.

Mrs. Joe Murray,

miles north

R 2, Brown City, Mich.

Farm
two of the great-
No other
strain is more noted for past and present produc-
hcifen; for sale at

 

 

 

from I.lC.\'i\VFlC COUNTY'S heaviest milk pro-
ducers to include a pure bred ANGUS hull of the
most extreme I)ch type for combination beef Ind
dairy farming.

('nr lot shipments assembled It GLENWUOD
FARM for prompt shipment.

Methods explained in SMI'I'II'S I’ROIl‘Il'Aliiifl
STOCK li'l‘lI‘lIlIka 400 pages illustrated.

GEO 8. SMITH. Addison. Mlch.

 

 

The Home of

Imp. Edgar of Daimeny

Probably

The Worlds’ Greatest
BREEDING BULL

Blue Bell, Supreme (‘hampion at the
Sinitbficld Show, 1919, and the Birming—
ham Show. 1920, is a daughter of Edgar
of Daimeny.

The Junior Champion Bull, Junior
l‘immpion Female, Champion Calf Hard
and First Prize Junior Heifer Calf, Mich-
igan State Fair, 1920, were also the get
of Edgar of Daimeny.

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

Send for Illustrated Catalogue.

WI LDWOOD FA RMS
Orion, Mich.

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

 

 

 

 

REGISTERED ABERDEEN - ANGUSHBULLS,
l

lloil‘crq and cows for sale.
’v r-iwl to move. Inspection invited.
RUSSELL BROS. Merrill. Michigan

 

BARTLETTS’ZSEES 'izlfi'its‘ffigi’cii'é?
Swine are right and are priced right. Corro-

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

 

 

A YRS HIRES

 

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

FINDLAY BROS.. Mlch.

R 5. Vassar.

 

 

BROWN S\VI§S

BROWN SWISS BULL FOR SALE WITH PED-
have; four years old Price $125 if taken

But)”.
H. SANBORN. Barton City.

 SWINE ..

POLAND CHINA

Mlch.

 

BIG BOB MASTODON

Is sired by Galdwell Biz Bob Champion of the
world. His dam Biro In A‘s Mastodon, Gmnd
Champion at Iowa State Fair. Enough said.
I have a fine September Boar Pig that will make
a herd boar sired by Big Bob. and a line lot of
spring pigs when weaned. Book your order now.
. E. OARNANT.
Eaton Ranlds. Michigan.

 


 

8-49‘, vminimum-g.'fliiiilitéillilil;i"?'-

(SPECIAL ADVERTISING RATES under this flooding
u who! It will cost

M you s proof snd toll

lroodoro' Auction Solos "nixed hero s

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 uni licensees» susmnss :A/R‘RER

tohenootsroomnotlmmelsnd

Ior1..lloI-Cauasoc. Youosn shonssslzoo!
t special low votes: on for them. Writs why I)

BREEDERI' DIRECTORY. THI MICHIGAN “BINEIB FARMER, Mt. Clemens. MIGIIIION-

 

HERE'S SOMETHING GOOD

THE LARGEST BIO TYPE P. O. IN MIOH.
Get a bigger snd better bred boar pig from .y
herd, st s remnsblo price. Come cod see then.
Expenses psid it not so represented. Thus bean
service: L's Iig Orsnge, Lord Clo-mg,
Orsnge Price cud L's Long Prospect.
w. E. LIVINGSTON. Psi-ms. Mich.

 

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS
A few choice spring bosrs snd gilts sirod by
"Ilaif 'l‘on Led," s good son of "Smooth Hslf
Ton" Champion of Michigsn in 1918. ' will
be bred to Jumbo's Mutation 2nd. son of Big
Bob Mastodon for Much and April fsrrow.
HOWLEY BROS" Merrill, Mlch.

FARVlELL LAKE FARM

L. T. P. 0. beers all sold. A few spring bosrs slid
some gilts left. Will sell with breeding privilege.
Boats in service: Clsnsmsn's Imsgo 2nd, W. B.'s
Outpost and Smooth Wonder. Visitors welcome.
W. I. RAMSDELL
Hanover, Mlch.

 

 

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINA IRED GILTS ALL
solll but hsvo some fall gilts st reasomblo
price. Will be bred for fall litters.

DORUS HOVER. Akron. Mlch.

 

,THE BEST IRED POLAND CHINA PIGS GIR-
' ed by Big Bob Mutodon ct the lowest price.
DOWITT C. PIER. Evan. Mlch.

L s F 0—4 IOARS IV CLANSMAN'B IM-
AGE and Big Defender, that sro
extra good I few guts letf bred for April hr.
row, st F‘srmers' W
H. Mlchl‘gsn.

 

Prices.
0. SWARTZ. Schoolcraft.

lG TYPE POLMDS. AM OFFERING TWO
h ,znod growthy fsll giits, from best sow in our
PM.

W. 'CALDWELL s. SON, Springpert, Mlch.

 

 

IG TYPE P. C. BRED SOWS ALL SOLD.
lilos'ing out a few choice bosrs st s bergsin
1150 some extra good fall pigs, either sex. From
growthy stock.
L. w. BARNES & SON, Byron. Mich.

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS

'l‘hree August boars for sale. Good backs snd
good heavy bone. Write for prices
HIMM BR08., Chesanlng. Mich.

 

 

.T. P. C. A FEW TOP GILTS IRED T0

Highland Giant, the $500 boar. Others bred

to Wilcy’s Perfection. Weight, 700 st 18 months.
JOHN D. WILEY, Schooicraft, Mich.

L. .T. P. C.

I have s tins lot of spring pigs sired by Hsrt's
Black Price. a good son of lack Price, mnd
champion of the world in 1918. Also hsvo I
litter of 7 pigs, 5 sowa snd 2 bosrs, sired by
Prospect Yank, s son of the $40,000 stkco.
that sre sure llumdingers.

Mlch.

HART. St.
 boars, bred sows snd the best lit—

ter of f‘ill pigs in the state. Come and see or write
E. R. LEONARD. R 3, St. Louis. Mlch.

 

Louis.

RIG TYPE P. 0. SPRING

 

Am Offering Large Type Poland

lunui In F's Orange at reasonable prices Also
Isl] Pits “'rite Hr call.

CLYDE FISHER, R 3, St. Louis, Mich.

Chins 80m,

 

IG TYPE POLAND CHINA BRED
\ 1‘. Some extra good {all
1‘ r :v i’. \Vrifc f'rr breeding:
MOSE BROTHERS. St.

GILTS
pigs of both sex
and price.

Charles, Mlch.

WALNUT ALLEY

herd has dznns mated to sires that will make Po-
land l'hinu history for Michigan.

Nothing to offer at present.
A. D.

GREGORY. Ionia. Mlch.

 

DUROCS

FOR SALE—SEVERAL EXTRA GOOD SPRING
Hours, ready for service. Our bred gilts are
nil sold. but we have some fine spring pigs com-
ing: on. Harley Foor & Son, Gladwln, Michigan

EADOWVIEW FARM REG. JERSEY H038,
"1H ' V'M's for spring: pigs.

J. F. MORRIS & SON, Farmlngton. Mich.

 

 

"

Spring pigs by Walt’s
» Orion. First Sr. Yearling
Down. Jsshon, ad. Rapids snd Isginew. 1010

Phillips Bros, Riga,Mich.

E OFFER A FEW WELL-BRED [ELIOT-
Od Ind!!! 0 Bests. slse bred sows sll

Gilt: in lesson. I! or
MeNAUIHTON O‘FORDYOE. It. Lsuls. man.
UROO-JERSEVS—PIGS FOR SALE.

BUTTERNUT FARM
Lupton. Mlch.

 

 

O. I. O.

 

lsroo,
Write.

UROC JERSEY IOARS. Doers o! the
heavy-boned type, at reasonsblo prices.

or better, come snd see.
F. J. DRODT, R 1, Monroe,»-Mlch.

 

PEACH HILL FARM
ofl'ers tried sows snd gilts bred to or sired by
Pooch Hm Orion King 152489. Satisfaction
tusrsnteed. Come look 'em over.
Also I You open (11m-
INWOOD IROS.,

Romeo. Mlch.

 

AM OFFERING SOME HIGH CLASS

SPRING DURCC BCARS

gt ressomble prices . A few gilt: bred for Sep-
tember fsrrow st bsrgsin prices.
W. C. TAYLOR
Milan. Mich.

Dune sows sno slits bred to Wsit's King .2849
who bu sired more prise winning pigs st the
stste fsin in the int 2

yosrs then sny othor_Du-
roc boar. Newton chhsrt, St. Johns,

Kick.

 

V 0R SALE: REG. SOW PIGS OF SEPT. FAR-
row. Maple Law’s Pathfinder is the rhino of

my new herd boar. Nuf sed.

TOWNS, R 6. Eaton Rapids. Mich.

OAKLAan PREMIER GHIEF
Herd lose—Reference only—No. 12921!
1919 Chicago International
4th Prize .Ir. Yearling

BOOKING ORDERS FALL PIGS AT $25
BLANK I: POTTER
Potter-ville. Mlch.

 

UROC JERSEY SOWS AND GILTS. IRED
for April and May furrow. 1,000 lb. herd boar.
J08. SCHUELLER. Weldmam Mich.

 

EG. DUROC BOAR PIGS, OCT. FARROWED.
Sired by Prince Col. Wonder No. 172017.
Don’t wait. Price $15.00

DALE GANGWER. ‘Hesporia. Mich.

 

UROCS—SOWS AND GILTS ALL SOLD.
Have a. few choice isll boars at reasonable price.
C. L. POWER. Jerome, Mich.

 

FOR SALE—DUROC BRED SOWS AND GILTS
priced ressonnblo snd double immune. Write
us your wants.

JESSE BLISS l: SON. Henderson, Mlch. ‘

 

OR SALE: ONE DUROC BOAR FROM
Breakwater breeding stock. Choice spring pigs.
JOHN CRONENWETT. Csrloton, Mlch.

 

FOR SALE—REG. DUROc-JERSEY SPRING
gilts bred to Rambler of Ssngnnio ’lst. The
beer that sired our winners st Michigan State
F‘Lir snd Nstionsl Swine Show.
F. HEIMS Is SON
Davlson. Mlch.

ll. I. C. AND CHESTER WHITE SWINE.
Choice spring pigs of Feb. snd March {snow
‘0 be Shipped at 8-10 weeks old: Prominent
bloodlines. My prices will surprise you.
CLARE V. DORMAN, Snover, Mlch.

0' I' C‘ REGISTERED STOCK

We are offering in the next 30 days 3 boots
weighing 300 lbs. st 340; 10 bred
June 1 st 540—200 lbs: 8 fall boars,
st 825. All stuck guaranteed. Papers I

odf .
no VsnETTEN. Clifford, Mlch.

J. R.
15 last spring gilts weighing from 225 to 340
pounds. Write for prices.
0 O I. SCHULZE, Nashville, Mich.

O. I. C.

GILTS BRED FOR SPRING FARROW
snd one Shothorn bull cs1! eight months old.
Milking strsin. pail fed.

F. c. BURGESS, Mason. R 3, Mlch.

 

 

 

O. I. C. SWINE—MY HERD CONTAINS THE
blood lines of the most noted herd. Csn furnish
you stock st “live and let live" prices.

A.

J. BORDER. Derr. Mlch..

 

o I. C. BRED GILTS FOR MARCH AND
April furrow. Also a few choice Service boars.
CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM. Monroe. Mlch.

 

FOR SALE 10 MONTH OLD O. l. C. BOAR
price $50. First check tskes him, papers free.
H. J. COREY. Alba. Mlch.

 

H E R D 0 F P RIZE WIN
.Iu n. and Feb. pigs ready
J 0h n Gibson. Foster. Mich.

AG I NAW VALL EY
ning 0. I. (."c.
priced reasonable.

 

 

CHESTER \VHITES
0R SALE—CHESTER WHITE BOAR NO
92833. F‘arrowed April 25. 1920. Good one.
JULIUS BUCHKOWSKE. Deckervllle, Mlch.

 

 

BERKSHIRES

 

 

SPECIAL SALE

For a short time will sell Berkshire Pigs,
rezistered, cmted and delivered to station
st $20 each.

These are boars ready for service and gills
which we. will» breed if wanted. All choice-
stock weighing near 100 pounds. How many
do you want?

0. H. WHITNEY.

 ARE OUALITY HOGS.
Wesned pics of the very

best blood lines of the breed is our specialty. We

guarantee to please or nothing stirring.

ARZA A. WEAVER. Chesaninq, Mlch.,

n.1,.va luv-u.

 

 

 

 

 

urocs. Hlli crest Forms. Bred snd oven rows
and gilts. Boers snd spring pip. 100 heed.
Fan 4 miles stmight S. of Middleton, Mich"
Grstiot 00. Newton a: Blsnlr, Perrinton, Mlch.
FROM P B I Z I

DUROC BOARS WINNING s'rocx

resdy for service. Goo. B. Smith. Addi-
son. Mlch.

 

BUY PIGS .NCYI

Registered Duroc Pigs crated snd delivered to
express station for $20 each. This is . ‘
stock sired by State Fair winners and weizhml
near 100 pounds. Write for particulars.

MIOHIGANA FARM. PnVIIIon. Mlch.

 

 

prices.

Owners of:

 

Every Up-to-date Farmer Should 'be
Interested in Duroc-Jersey Swine

Let us supply you with good Registered Duroc’s and at Farmers
We sell them right, raise them right and buy them right. Any-
thing you want: Baby Pigs, Gilts, Yearling and Brood Sows.
pound Boars, Spring and Fall Boars. All prices satisfactory or no sales.

That boy of yours would take more interest in your farm, buy him
a Duroc and let him have the profit, he Will surprise you and show you
that profit—sharing pays on the farm as well as the factory.

Drop us a card today, tell us what you want and about how much
you can invest and we will tell you what we have to fit your purse.

Schaffer Bros.,

1466 East High St., Detroit, Mich.

Addison Stock Farms, Leonard, Route
mile east of Lakeville on Rochester Road.

Broodwater, Cherry, Orion, Walt’s Orion Strains

800

1, Mlch. One
Visitors always welcome.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HA MPSHIRES

Copy or CW must b.

'on my breeding share plan.

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ltry will bo sent. on roquoot. Better still. write out what you have to oflor, Is! us put it In un-
or copy so often as you wish. a“

received wool before date of how

BETTER BREEDING STOCK

For thth in Shropshire snd Hsmpshiro roll
'1.

write or
KOPE-KON FARMS. 8. L. Wlnli
Ooldwater. Mlch.
Boo our exhibit st the Ohio snd Michigan
Shots Fsirs.

HAMPSHIRE SHEEP

A low good yurhng
Ismbs left to ofl’er.
(or foil delivery.
represented.

Prop.

 

rsms snd some rs-
25 owes sll sges for sale
Everything gusrsnteed ss

CLARKE U. HAIRE, West Branch. Mlch.

 

 

emuo nuns FOR SALE.
boned. hesvy shesrers.
H’OUSEMAN BROS,

GOOD NIG-

R A. Albion. Mlch.

 

 

Notice To Farmers!

I own more Belgian sud Percheron Stallion!
than any man in Michigan, including Intemxtionsl
and State Fair prize winners, and put them out
Have placed over,
hundred head in this state. If your 10-
oality needs is good draft stsllion or Short Ilorn
bull, let me hear from you.

Fred G. Stevens

Mlch.

one

Breckenridge,

Belgisn and. Percheron Herein and Short Hor-
Cattle

FOR SALE CHEAP

High class registered Percheron Stallion, 
yours old, color brown. 16 hands high, welghs
1.500 lbs. AbsoluteLy sound and right in every

way. Price $300.
Dell Phone. Portland, Mlch.

PET STOCK

FOR SALE, FLEMISH GIANT RABBITS. DOES,
breeding sge, 36. Three months old pslr. 35.
Registered does $12 esch. Stock pedigreed. Onsl-
ty gusrsnteed.

E. HIMEBAUGH. Goldwater. Mlch.

 

 

 

 

BOAR PIGS $15.00

At 8 Weeks Old

W. A. EASTWOOD. Chesanino, lch.

 

AMPSHIRE BRED GILTS
Spring snd fall boar pigs at a
JOHN W. SNYDER. R 4,

ALL
bargain
St. Johns,

SOLD.
.Mlch.‘

 

An Opportunity To Buy
Hampshires Right

We are offering some good sows snd gilts, bred
for Mnrch And April farrowing. Also s few
choice fall pigs, either sex, Write or call

GUS THOMAS, New Lothrcp, Mich.

HAMPSHIRE

will astonish you.
perfectly marked
Shipped on

A. E

 

—-I MP ROV E
Spring pigs
From the

YOUR HERD!
at prices that
. largest and most
litters I have ever ferrowed.
approval. Also yearling boar.
. TRERICE, Bentley. Michigan

 

 

YORKSHIRES
on BALE—REGISTERED YORKSHIRE Pics

either sex, $12 each at weaning time.
RAY JONES, R 1, Chesanlng, Mlch.

SHEEP

OR SHROPSHIRE EWES BRED TO LAMI
in March, write or call on
ARMSTRONG IR08., R 3.

n

 

Fowiorvllle. Mich.

HAVE A FEW CHOICE
$4 a trio.
Jonesvllle.

UINEA PIGS. I
(-rmuns at $3 per pair or
WALLACE GODFREY.

IF YOUR ADDRESS LABEL
ON THIS COPY BEARS THE
BLUE PENCILEII X—

it is a sign your subscription has
expired according to our records,
and we will greatly appreciate a
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the date has not been changed,
please advise us when and how
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send us both labels, so we can
correct our error.

WE ARE ANXIOUS to have
you receive all copies promptly
and correctly addressed, so tell us
when any error occurs.

MAILING DEPARTliiENT
The Michigan Business Farmer,
Mt. Clemens, Mich.

Mlch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Going to hold an 7
AUCTION SALE 0

Don't depend on just the "home-folks", they on not the best buyers; plsoe your
which resches s11 worth-while '

lent in The Business
miles of your ssle.

Fsrmer,

sdvertiso-
fsrmors within” s hundred

SEND US COMPLETE DESCRIPTION

llld remember your copy “must resch us one week in sdvsnco of the dots of I.“

Adm-ens.

Advertising Doonflmont, The Iuslnoss Former. Mt. Clemens. Mlchigsn.

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April 2, 1921

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'3 MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER

(689) 23

 

 

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I ine per issue.
Advertisements inserted under this heading at 30 cents per 1 . .
send it in. We Will put it in type. send proof and quote rates by return mail.

‘ POULTRY BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY

Write out what you have to offer and

Special rates for 13 times or longer.

Address The liIichigan Business Farmer, Adv.

Dep't. hit. Clemens, Michigan.

 

 

 

A

 

POULTRY

W. are now beginning to
ship chicks from our
PURE BRED PRACTICAL

P TRY

OUL _
This is the stock that Will
Day -on your farm. Duck-
lings and Hatching Eggs.
High Quality Egg Leghorn:
A All Standard Breeds
» ‘~  Send for 64-Dage illustrated
Catalog, which tells how to
Chicks. Delivered poleaid.

STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION
Kalamazoo, Michigan

  
  

raise
Desk 2

k

‘ MUD-WAY-AUSH-KA FARM

offers young stock and a few mature breeders in

White Chinese Geese, White Runner Ducks and
Also 0. I C.

White \Vyandottes. . spring 81113-
Write today for prices on what you need. .4
DIKE C. MILLER. Dryden. Mich.

 

 

ORPINGTONSAND LEGHORNS

Two great breeds for profit. Write today for
free catalogue of hatching eggs, baby chicks and
breeding stock. '

CYCLE HATCHER COMPANY. 149 Phllo Bldg.
Elmira. N. v.

 

ockerels & Hens, Leghorn}. Minoroas. Houdons.
Reds, Rocks, Orpingtons, Wyandottes.
TYRONE POULTRY FARM. Fenton. Michigan.

 

LARGE ROBUST COCKERELS. WHITE WY-
andottes. Anconas, \Vhite‘ Partridge. Columbi-
an and Silver Penciled Rocks. $3 ea. Catalog 26-
Sheridan Poultry~ Yards. 'R 8, Sheridan. Mich.

 

 

WYANDOTTE

SILVER LACED GOLDEN AND WHITE WY-
andottes. (‘hoice Cockerels $3, $4 and $5 en-
0. W. BROWNING, R 2, Portland, Mich.

 

 

WHITE WYANDOTTE COCKERELS, MAY a
June hatch. Fine birds $2.50 each.
MRS. A. J. FISH. Blanchard, Michigan.

UALITY BARRED ROCKS. CHOICE M. A.
(,‘. and Homestead Farms cocks head, range
bred Ringlets. Select cookerer $5 each. _ Book-
ing egg orders. Ship as required, postpaid. 15

 

$2; 30, $3.50; 100, $8. Guaranteed.
M. J. a R. A. WILSON. R 2, Kingsley. Mich.
ARRED ROCK CHICKS—400 per com safe

reduced. Write for circu-

delivery. Prices
Michigan.

1111'. H. H. PIERCE. Jerome,

HARRED ROCK EGGS OF A LAYING STRAIN,
large, well barred.I5 Pan: r)l(i)eaded 4virgith pedigreed
. 1.75 r ; .. per .
maleSN. sAYERgea SON. Sliverwood. Mich.

 

RHODE ISLAND REDS

 

WHITTAKER’S R. I. RED CHICKS AND EGGS
Both Combs. Michigan’s Color and Egg
strain. Prepaid and safe delivery guaranteed.
Sand for free catalog. N“ h

c .

INTERLAKES FARM. Box 4. Lawrence,

 

EDS. BOTH COMBS. EGGS FOR HATCHING
$1.50 per setting. 200—280 egg strain.
LEO VAN CONANT, R1, New Haven, Mich.

LARGE. VIGOROUS, SINGLE COMB RED
cockerels $3.00 and $5.00 each.
W S. HUBER. Giadwln, Mich.

B RHODE ISLAND RED EGGS FOR HATCH-
ing. Also some fine cockerels for sale.
MR8. ALBERT HARWOOD, Charlevolx, Mich R4

 

 

 

LANGSHAN

 

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

 

 

ORPINGTONS

 COCKERELS AND PULLETS
for sale. Buff, White,
Black Cockerels at $7, $8, and $10. Pullets at
$3 and $5. Also yearling hens $3 and $4.
Hatching eggs, $8 per setting of 15.
GRABOWSKE BR08., R 4. Mei‘i‘III. Mich.

ANCONAS

 

 

 

 

Baby Chicks and Hatching Eggs

Martin strain White VVyandottes. Grand utility
and exhibition matings. Winners at W. Mich.
Poultry. Show at Muskegon. Order early to avoid
disappomtment. Cockerels all sold. Send for de.
scriptive price list.

C. W. HEIMBACH, Big Rapids, Mich.

 

HOSE COMB, GUARANTEED, (SHEPPARD’S)
cockerels at $3.50 each.
EVA TRYON_ Jerome, Mich.

 WYANDOTTES. COCKERELS FROM
egg hens or better. May and June h tch.

$5 to $8. Eggs $2 per 15. a

FRANK DELONG. R 8. Three Rivers. Mich.

 

 

LE GHORNS

 

BRED TO LAY ROSE COMB BROWN LEG-

horn eggs, $1.75 per 15; $3.00. 30.
Plnconnlng. Miclh.
WHITE

LYNN DURKEE,
‘ LEGHORNS.
hatching eggs for sale

GRABOWSKE’S 8. C.
Stock and .
LEO GRABOWSKE. 4 Merrill. Mich.

Pure Bred Single Comb Brown Leghorn Eggs.
postpaid $1.50

. settin , 8 1 . 1
Registered 0. I. C. swing. $ per 00 “50
Maple Valley stock Farm. North Adams. Mich.

FCII SALE

COCKERELS, PULLETS AND HENS
White Orplnqtons R. C. R. l.
C. and R. C. Brown Leghorne
Anconas White Wyandottea
8. C. Black Mlnorcas
Price List Now Ready.
VALLEY RIDGE POULTRY FARM ‘
Bloomingdale, Mich.

mby DID 317 EGGS IN ONE YEAR

EGGS

 

Reds

 

 

FOR By
Hatching .
100 per cent ‘ Parcel 17°”
fertility g Safe Arrival
guamn t e e d guaranteed
Bend for
our big ’ $3813? 1%);
catalog ,1 ‘ I catalog
“H
W S}; 0. WHITE LEGHORNS
e ave the world’s great t
can have them too. If you getehurlaeheg? Chg]:

or stock. There is big money in oultr

have heavy laying stock. Send todaly foryohfr 311%:
free instructive catalog. It gives prices for eggs
chicks and stock and much other information:
Send for it today before placing your order else-

Whecpebm
TAS SPRINGS POULTRY FAR
Box E111, Berea. Ohio M

PLYMOUTH ROCKS
COCKEREL N c
  lets bred fronsi Setgoitpgili-d
Boston Winners. Low prices. Satisfaction gnar-

anteed.
TOLLES BROS.. R 10. St. Johns. Mich.

 

 

 C QRIE \‘AIAINN§R8 AT

THE BIG SHOWS
and the greatest of
layers. Eggs for
hatching and Baby
I Chicks from prize
’yards and heavy lay-
/ing flocks.

. C. \V. Leghorns.
Flock average 267
eggs per year per hen.
Eggs and Baby Chicks.
Also Baby Chicks from selected purebred,
range raised flocks in Reds. Barred and
“'hite Rocks, Brown and Buff Leghorns, Or-
pingtons, Minorcus. Get prices from us be.
fore buying elsewhere. All Eggs and Chicks
safely delivered by Prepaid or Parcel Post.

NEW LONDON HATCHERY
Lock Box 800 New London, Ohio

3. 0.
layers.
MRS.

HEPPARD’S FAMOUS
Contain blood world champion
$10. Eggs. $2 for 15: 
rates. HERMAN POHL,

     
   

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MOTTLED ANCONAS. EXCELLENT
Eggs $1.50 per 15.
GILBERT BROWN_ Wheeler,

WEST

Mich.

ANCONAS.
layers. Trios’
for 30. Special 100
Fowler, Mich.

BABY CHICKS

 

 

350,000 for 1921
‘17th season. Chicks sent
Safe delivery guaran~
Leghorns, Rocks. Reds, An-
conas, \Vyandottcs, Minorcas,
Utility and Exhibiting quality at

   
 
  

very reasonable prices. Catalog

and price list free.

20th Century Hatchery, Box 5
New Washington, Ohio

 

If chix and eggs are '
DANGER not Shipped right. CIHXISC Up
100,000 best blooded chicks ever produced,
selected utility, trapncsted stock. 20 varieties.
Hatching eggs. Catalog. Early booking avoids
disappointment.
BECKMAN HATCHERY

26 E. Lyon St.. .Grand Rapids. Mich.

HIGH STANDARD
QUALITY
BRED RIGHT
HATCHED RIGHT
Shipped direct from our
hatchery to your door.
BIG. STRONG, FLUFFY
fellows hatched from eggs
of good laying SII‘I‘II'B. and
under :ur ovn srnervisicn.
Nine leading varieties to

 

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select from:

Barred Rocks R. 0. Rhode Island Reds
\Vhite_ Rocks S. C. Rhode Island Reds
White Wyandottes White Leghorns
Golden VVyandottes Brown Leghorns
Anconas Mixed

P . TgieLwcouymcas '

rices reasons e. rite or F EE CATALOG.

NEW WASHINGTON HATCHERY. Dept. B
New Washington, Ohio

 

In S. C.

Rocks, 8. C. and R. C.

strong and healthy.

 

800.000 In
1921

 

stock is on free range. Standard and bred for
Hatched and shipped by most‘ modern methods. We
send you nothing but the best, hot out of our own 1ncubators, to your door
by prepaid parcel post and guarantee safe. live delivery.
BARGAIN OFFER on chicks and brooders and save money.

WOLF HATCHING AND BREEDING 00.. De Di... BF. Gihwnburg. Ohio.

, ABY CHICKS, Pure Bred

White, Bufl' and Brown Leghorns.

Anconas, White and Barred
Reds, White Wyandottes and W._ Orpingtons. Our
heavy laying. Chicks are

GET OUR BIG
Circular free.

 

“anterior? '

 

 

O...“ ‘
Basing

THE J. B. FARMS HATCHERY

S. C. White Leghorn Chicks. Best se—
lected stock; large, with capacity for eggs
which they DO lay. Only THE BEST
Brads. Write for terms.

LORING AND MARTIN COMPANY
East Seuaetuck. Mich.

      

 

 

   

BABY CHICKS

The flufiy lively
kind. The kind that
live and grow. All
eggs are from
FREE RANGE FARM

STOCK 

Chicks are hatched w“ 'L
in the most modern incubators built,
and shipped direct from our hatch-
ery to your door by prepaid Parcel
Post.

Catalogue and price list upon re-
quest. '

NORVVALK CHICK HATCHERY
Box B, Norwalk, Ohio

500,000 CHICKS

at very reasonable prices
from our heavy laying
strain of English and
American \Vhite LN;-
borns, Brown Leghorns
and Anconas. Shipped
ivy parcel post prepaid.
Spcciul priccs on 1,000

   

   

 

 

lots. (‘ataiogue free.
Wyngarden Hatchery
Box B, Zeeland. Mich.

 

. CHICKS—CHICKS
shipped Safely everywhere by mail.
Leghorns and S. C. Mottled Anconns, the great
egg machines. Guaranteed full count, strong,
sturdy chicks on arrival. 13 years reliable dcal—
ings. Lots get acquainted. Free catalogue.

HOLLAND HATCHERY, R 7, Holland, Mich.

Chicks with the ‘Pep

O.ur bred—today and exhi-
bition chicks will pay you.
Try them and be convinC<
ed. Safely delivered by

S. C. \Vhite

    

, 7 . prepaid postman. Rocks,

A _ w Reds, ()rpingtons, “"yan-

. ' . "-“‘ dottes, Anconas, Minor—

cas and Leghorns. Prices from 15c and up.

Get our catalog and buy your chicks direct from
the hatchery.
HOLGATE CHICK HATCHERY. Box B
Holgate. Ohio

BABY CHICKS

 

.Leading kinds, 11c each and up. Postpaid.
'Live arrival guaranteed. Quick delivery. 100
page book free. 0

LEN HATCHERY. Windsor. Mo.

 

  
  

.9Chicks

Better Produced Day Old Chlx
are the kind you want. Send today
for free catalog. Springfield Hatch-
eries, Box E, Springfield, 0.

FF
WHITE ROCKS
REDS
BROWN LEGHORNS
AND HILLCREST WHITE LEGHORNS
Send for circular describing stock and meth-
ods of hatching.
HILLCREST FRUIT AND POULTRY FARM

L. L. WINSLOW, Prop.
Saranac. Mich.

 

 

BAR

 

INGLE COMB BUFF LEGHORN BABY
(.‘iilcks. Order now for spring delivery. Prices
reasonable. Safe delivery guaranteed.

J. W. WEBSTER, Bath, R 2. Mich.

ABY Chicks: Standard Bred s. C. White and
Brown. Also English \Vhite Leghorns. Bred to
lay, large white eggs. Safe arrival gnurantecd,
sh1pped up to your door by parcel post. Free cat-
alogue with list.
WOLVERINE HATCHERY. R2, Zeeland. Mich.

S. O.
  and \V'l‘iiigTTI-ED ANCONt‘iif

 

, ’ Leg/horns,
worlds best egg machines, I $11 per 100 and up
parcel post paid safe delivery guaranteed. Cat-

alogue free.
KNOLL'S HATCHERY. R 3, Holland. Mich.

  HATCHING EGGS, BARRED
Rocks; Norman strain. trap-

nested, bred to lay. Expertly tested for many

generations. Large illustrated catalogue 250..

Stamps for circular.

NORMAN POULTRY PLANT.,.Chatsworth. Ill.

KNAPP’S
“HI-GRADE”
CHICKS
38 years building up
laying strains—begin
Where we leave off.
Day old chicks .from
12 leading varieties——
Safe delivery guaranteed.
BY PREPAID PARCEL POST
Send for prices and get early de-
livery.
Knapp's “Hi-Grade” Poultry Farm
' Herbert H. Knapp, Prop. .
Box B F 3 Shelby, Ohio

 

 

 

HATCHING EGGS

 

 

WHELAN’S EGG FARM STRAIN S. C. W.

Leghorns. Winners in the world’s laying 000‘
test . They say they are superior to the worlds
bcst layers. (.‘hicks, $1 per hundred. Ilace

your order early with a 15 per cent deposit.
WHELAN'S EGG FARM, Tlpton, Mich.

  HATCHING EGGS FROM
Parks 200 egg strain. inch
in the blood of Park's best pedigreed pvilS.‘ $2
per 15. $6 per 50, $12 per 100. l’rcpaid by
parcel post in non-breakable containers.
R. G. KIRBY, R 1 East Lansing, Mich.

GGS FROM BIG BARRED ROCKS BRED TO
lay. $2 per 15: $5 per 50;  per 10”.
MRS. THOS. FOSTER, R 1. Cassopolls, Mich.

 

 

ARRED ROCKS HATCHING EGGS. PARKS'
bred-to—lay strain, $1.50 per 15;  per 100.
Prepaid parccl post.
MRS. PERRY STEBBINS, Saranac, Mich R. 2

 

RED HATCHING EGGS. THOMPKIN’S

 

Strain. $12.00 per 100.
Wm. H. FROHM, R 1. New Baitimom, Mich.
URE BRED WHITE WYANDOTTE EGGS

for hatching at $8 per 100; $5 per 50 or $2
per 15. l’ostpuid.

MRS. TRACY RUSH, R 7. Ithaca, Mich.
ARRED ROCK EGGS FROM GREAT LAY~
crs with exhibition (punitive.

3.

C. COFFMAN, R Benton Harbor, Mich.

 

. C. BR. LEGHORN EGGS. $1.50 FOR 15.
Pckin duck $1.50 for R. \V. (‘hincso goose
eggs 400 each. Mrs. Claudia lictts, Hillsdalc, Mich.

 

0R SALE-—-HATCHING EGGS FROM PURE
bred 1V. llor‘ks. Fishcl strain.
CHAS. KLETZEN. Bath, Mich.

UFF ORPINGTON EGGS FROM EXCELLENT
laying, good utility stock $2.50 per 1.”).
CLYDE GODFREY. Jonesvilie, Mich.

 

 

NCONA EGGS FOR HATCHING, SHEP-
pard's, $2.00 15: $3.00. 30. Special rates
per 100 eggs. Em ’l‘ryon. .lcromc, Mir-h.

OR SALE: SICILIAN BUTTERCUPS, 500 PER
1:7 eggs. Exccllcnt layers, good tnblo fowl.
L. K. PRAUSE. R 1. Maple City. Mich.

(368 FOR HATCHING. SINGLE COMB R. l.
Reds. I‘rn of heavy luyim.r pullers, $1.50 per 15
E CRYDER. Alamo. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

FULL-BLOODED
parcel

FROM
eggs for $2.00 by

ATCHING EGGS
liui’f Orpingtons, 1'5
post prepaid.

 

ONY MATZ. R 1. St. Johns. Mich.
OR SALE—EGGS FOR HATCHING FROM
Rocks. $1,530 per 1:”):  100.

large Barred V
MRS. FRED KLOMP. R 1. St. Charles, Mich.

 

 

GEESE

 

STANDARD BRED GRAY AFRICAN GEESE.
Pairs and eggs. for sale. Prices and quality

right.
MRS. TRUMAN FRENCH. Big Rapids. Mich.

 

 

Read the Classified Ads
_._1N_.
M. B. F.‘s Business Farmcrs’
Exchange

 

 

   

€50

KIKRIKI

counts your chickens before
thcy’l'c hatched
—and tells whether they will be
hens or roosters.

KIRIKI tells you whether an egg is fertile
or unfertile and whether it will produce, a
hen or rooster after hatching. It .S the or—
iginal patented SEX INDICATOR. Indicates
the sex of persons or animals. Invulniole to
breeders of rabbits. birds. fish, foxes, cats.
etc.

  
    

“Kss’mnKLLE'

Many poultrymcn turning losses to prflots.

Simple to operate. Money refunded if not
satisfactory. . ._

A fascinating parlor cnterhuncr—nst of
interesting expeuiincnts furnished. Money—

maker for agents. None genuine except with

above trade mark.
$1.25 Prepaid

stamps or inoncy
Send for Circular

ALFRED D. NEUSCHAEFER
Dept. 3:? 51 East 42nd sv... New York. N.Y.

(check, order.)

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

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“K wrong if you

make this mark
your guide. ’ ’

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
 
 

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