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Equity (lo-Operative Exchange and Its Work

Western Farmers’ Organization Handled 5,307 Carloads

OW FAR may the cooperative handl-
ing of live stock by farmers safely go?
Shall it stop at the local stock yards, or
shall the movement follow the general lead
of at least two successful farmers’ terminal
selling agencies and reach to the packer
buyer and the farmer feeder? Shall feder-
ations of live stock shipping associations
confine themselves to state lines, mostly im-
aginary, or shall the movement be wide—
spread on strict commodity lines? These
are among the problems facing farmers.
Let us begin the discussion with a common
incident by way of illustration.
On December 2], 1920, G. R. McIntyre,
of Casselton, North

\Nhere so much speculative trading is
current, there. must be a reason. That
reason is the farmer’s own negligence in
attending to the building up of his own
machinery at terminals. As a rule the
commission men buy cattle from farmers
and hold them for a fill before selling them
to feeder buyers. Hence the trade is not
completed speedily, and buyers and sellers
seldom if ever meet. Since the Equity Co—
operative Exchange began operation at St.
Paul and Chicago there have been quite a
few “spot” deals without delay, and buy-
ers and sellers, both farmers, have gone to
lunch together with perfect understanding.

of Live Stock in 1920

ance sheet to look promising to the farmer
stockholders at their annual meetings in
Fargo. Most of the commission companies
which had their ears to the ground had put
in forms and equipment to handle group
shipments for cooperative units and pro-
rate their accounts. Yet this service did
not alone fill the bill for local shippers, who
were unorganized and playing against each
other in the same old, wasteful way.

The service in handling cooperative ac-
counts by the private commission firms (lid
not help the producers a bit when the fed-
eral order against unjust discrimination in
rates was made last year, following a case.
brought by the Wis-

 

Dakota, brought forty
head of feeder steers
to the South St. Paul
yards. After holding
them all day he vas
offered six cents per
pound by a, commis—
sion firm. Later he
went into the offices
of the Equity Co—op-
erativc Exchange, a
farmers’ company and
closed a deal with ,Mr.
Fred Real, of Edina,
Mo, at $6.85 a hund-
red. The steers weigh-
ed 46,080 pounds, at
six cents is $2,764.80.
At the price he got
from his fellow farmer
thru the Equity Co-
operative Exchange he
received $3,236.48 for
his load, or a gain of
$434.08 over the six-
cent price after dc-
ducting the Equity
commission charge of
$37.60.

We believe that this
one incident answers
all of the above men-
tioned questions. First, farmers’ commis-
si0n_firms shall reach out to the gl‘Oat
terminal markets, to the packer and to the
feeder buyer. Second, federations of live
stock shipping associations, with order buy-
ers at terminals in close touch with daily
movements, should not be formed on state
lines alone, as the trade is so extensive that
men from North Dakota meet men from
Missouri every day.

Very few farmers realize the magnitude
of the business they are supporting in
terminal live stock markets—some of it no
doubt legitimate, but much of it speculative.
In the Chicago yards alone there are 519
speculators and 100 privately owned commis-
sion firms all clamoring for business and
depending solely upon the farmer’s pat-
ronage. At the South St. Paul yards there
are 34 commission firms and 54 speculative
firms.

 

Equity (Do-operation Exchange Terminal

 

 

 

Elevator at St. Paul.

Similar relations have been built up by the
Nebraska Farmers’ Union with its commis-
sion houses at southwestern markdts. \Vith
two such good examples before us there
seems little reason to doubt the future of
farmers’ terminal agencies.

The Equity live stock terminal was estab-
lished on October 1, 1916, at South St.
Paul. Like its parent association, the
Equity Co—operative Exchange, which hand—
I‘es grain through a large farmer-owned el-
evator in St. Paul, this body had a stiff up-
hill wrestle with the various influential
interests among the private commission
houses and speculative firms. Barred from
membership in the local boards of trade,
and finding it hard at first to get skillful

. live stock estimators and buyers, the farm-

ers’ company had hard sledding and only
Within the past year or two has it met with
such success as to enable its financial bal—

 

It has a Capaclty of 550.000 Bushels of Grain

g eonsin Union of the
American Society of
Equity. Had the farm-
er shippers been fed-
erated in an interstate
organization with a
strong voice on the
terminals, this flat 
fusal to abide. by the
federal order would
not have taken place.
There would then ha ve
been no need for per-
sonal battles being
fought by a few loyai
farmers on behalf of
the federal order, and
instead of a few men
spending their money
in an effort to bring

 

about justice there
would have been one
strong demand made

by a federation repre
senting thousands of
shlppers sending in the

bulk of the business
from the Northwest.
The very fact that

such a federation
could turn away the
greater volume of co-
operative business from a private to a co-
operative tern'iinal agency would have
solved the question at once and forced the
private firms to abide by the federal order.

Yet, after all, as has been pointed out,
the commission itself is not the big end of
the question. The managers of the farm-
ers’ exchanges point out that the commis-
sions are small items comparatively in the
“basket of plums” which the private agen—
cies around the terminal yards shake down
annually. Just look at the following fig-
ures and see what is meant by this state.
ment:

At the annual business meeting of the
stockholders of the Equity Cooperative Ex-
change at Fargo last January there were
rendered two statements relative t0 the bus-
iness done by the live stock department.
The first statement covered the fiscal year
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DAIRY ASS’N CONDEMNS FILLED
CONDENSED MILK
ILLED CONDENSED milk, a
compound said to be manufact-
‘ ured from skim milk and vege-
table oils, principally cocoanut oil,
was attacked as a menace to the
dairy industry and oftentimes a
fraud upon the public by the Michi-
gan Allied Dairy'Association at its
meeting in Lansing, June 14. A
resolution was adopted favoring leg-
islation to prevent the manufacture
and sale of the product, as a meas—
ure to protect the dairy industry and
consuming public alike.

It was charged that last year
South Sea island cocoanut oil re-
placed more than 7,000,000 pounds
of American butter fat on the Am—
erican market and that filled con-
densed milk manufacturing had ex-
panded from 40,000,000 pounds in
1917 to 86,500,000 pounds in 1920.
Dairymen in the meeting pointed out
that while the filled condensed milk
industry depended upon the dairy
industry, it was working to the det—
riment of the dairy farmer because
of the effect it is having on hurting
his market for butter fat.

Several states have already pass-
ed laws regulating the filled milk
industry. They are Wisconsin.
Maryland, Ohio, South Carolina and

THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER

 

 

Wmegt A cultural News  '

Florida. Bills have been introduced
in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

The dairy association held an all
day session, joining with the Cream-
ery Owners and Managers' Associa-
tion at noon for luncheon at the
Lansing Board of Commerce rooms,
where directors of both organiza-
tions heard a series of addresses
during the afternoon.

Commission of Agriculture, H. H.
Halladay, Dr. R. M. Olin, head of the
public health service in Michigan,
former Governor, Fred M. Warner,
James Nicol, president of the state
farm bureau, Professor 0. E. Reed,
newly appointed head of the dairy
department of the Michigan Agri-
cultural College, Dean Sweeney of
the Home Economics department of
the college and N. P. Hull, treasur—
er of the allied dairy association
were the speakers.

Commissioner Halladay assured
the directors that dairy interests
would be presented in the new state
department of agriculture by a high-
ly efficient and cooperating dairy di-
vision, operated by men Who would
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tomobile insurance and in no other lines are so many complicated
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men who are in the dairy industry
and who would serve the public
best by seeing to it that they got a
strictly sanitary product. Mr.
Halladay predicted a great future
for dairying in Michigan and prom-
ised his cooperation in placing Mich-
igan to the front as a dairy state.

Dr. 01in wants to see every dairy
herd in Michigan 3. tuberculin tested
herd. He urged the dairymen pres-
ent to make this an accomplished
fact. It is his opinion that tuber-
culosis is often a disease of child-
hood and that many cases which de-
velop in later life that were acquir-
ed in early childhood. He promis-
ed the dairymen full cooperation
from his department in the matter
of improving dairy standards.

Mr. Nicols declared for the de-
velopment of the dairy markets in
Michigan, through an improvement
in dairy products, that would cause
Michigan people to consume all of
the state’s dairy products. Michi-
gan goods for Michigan people is
his slogan.

Mr. Hull said that too much poor
butter and cheese was getting onto
the market and that producers and
creamerymen must get together in
the matter of improving their pro—
duct. He predicted a great future
for the dairy industry in the north—
ern part of the state.

Former governor Warner counsel-
ed the dairymen to take a more op-
timistic viewpoint of the situation
as far as price was concerned. He
declared the cotton farmers of the
south and potato growers of the
north were in much more unfortun-
ate circumstances.

Professor Reed believed that no
improvement could be wrought ip
the quality of dairy products any-
where until some incentive, finan-
cial or otherwise, had been providJ
ed for both producer and creamery-
man.

Dean Sweeney presented to the
delegates what she considers their
duty to the growing generation—to
see to it that the public is educated
to the food value of milk and that
growing children get enough milk
to assure their normal development.
She told them that milk was abso—
lutely essential to the normal child’s
development and that instead of get-
ting a quart a day, or even a pint
as a minimum, children were getting
on the average but three tablespoons

daily. The result is that under-
nourishment is widespread among
children and school children every-

where average from eight to 20 per
cent under weight.

The :=~"nniation appointed a com-
mittee wk more favorable trans~
Doria?" Mes and accepted Sagi—
naw’s :z-iion for its second. an—
nual convention and Winter dairy
show, next February. The next
meeting of the association and

creamerymen will be held at Win-
ona Beach, Bay City, August 18.

DISCUSS RELATIONSHIP BE-
TWEEN FARM BUREAU AND
U. S. GRAIN GROWERS’

RESIDENT NICOL, of the state
farm bureau was Michigan’s
representative at the midwest
states conference of farm bureau
presidents and secretaries at Am—
erican Farm Bureau Federation
headquarters in Chicago, June 20,
which considered problems of rela—
tionship between the American Farm

Bureau Federation and the U. S.
Grain Growers, Inc., the farmer-
owned, national cooperative grain

marketing body formed as a result
of the labors of the Farmers’ Mar-
keting Committee of Seventeen.

While in Chicago Mr. Nicol rep-
resented Michigan at further con-
ferences of seven midwestern states
with the West Virginia Farm Bur-
eau Federation on the question of
West Virginia supplying coal to
midwest farm bureau members thru
their state organizations and the
West Virginia federation. West Vir-
ginia believes that she can supply
coal to midwest farmers cheaper
than they can get it from any other
source.

June 25, 1921

WOOL DEPARTMENT EN LARGES
OFFICES
EPORTS on graded wool made
by the five grading teams of
the state farm bureau last week
placed the farm bureau pool well
on its way toward the two million
pound goal, says the wool depart-
ment of the organization. The de-
partment reports that big totals are
being returned every day and is now
enlarging its offices so as to take
on enough help to keep up with the
figures that roll in every day.
Grading dates for the week of
June 27 follow: Monday, Lakeview,
Armada, Battle Creek, Brooklyn,
Perry; Tuesday, Fremont, Saginaw,
Butternut, Hanover, Lake Odessa;
Wednesday, Hart, Chesaning, Ionia,

Concord, St. Johns; Thursday, Big
Rapids, Merrill, Clarksville, Spring—
port, Fowler; Friday, Barryton,

Midland, Clarksville, Richland; Sat-
urday, Barryton, Coleman, Kalama—
zoo.

APPOINT MANAGER OF U. P.
BUREAU OFFICE
. G. AMOS, former county agent
in the upper peninsula, has
been named by the state farm
bureau as manager of the upper
peninsula branch office which will
be established at Escanaba. Mr.
Amos will take charge of the of-
fice about August 1, it is said. The
upper peninsula branch office will
act as a clearing house for all upper
peninsula farm bureau affairs. Mr.
Amos is now located at Manistique
in the creamery business.

FARM BUREAU ENDORSES DAVID
FRIDAY FOR M. A. C. PRES-
IDENOY

HE MICHIGAN State Farm Bur-
eau has endorsed Professor
‘ ‘David Friday of the University
of Michigan for the presidency of
the Michigan Agricultural College,
to succeed President Frank S. Ked—

” zie, who has offered his resignation.

The farm bureau action was taken
at the meeting of the state executive
committee, held in Lansing, June
14, when a resolution was adopted,
declaring Mr. Friday to be the best
equipped and qualified man to fill
the exacting requirements of the of-
fice.

LAUD OOOPE RATIVE FARMERS ’
ASSOCIATIONS

RMERS’ cooperative marketing
organizations are a “permanent
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economic institution,” George
Livingston, chief of the United
States Bureau of Markets, declared

recently in an address before the
convention of the Virginia Bankers’
Association. Enabling the farmer to
participate in profits of distribution
and at the same time opening a more
direct road to the consumer, such
organizations are destined to have a
far—reaching effect upon both the
farmer and the general public, Mr.
Livingston asserted.

“But development in this direc-
tion must be based on the safe
foundation of economic laws,” the
speaker continued. “Success de—
pends as much on a capable manage-
ment and competent leadership as
upon the plan of organization.”

WELL KNOWN ELEVATOR MAN
DIES

ILLIAM J. ORR, former presi—

ident of the Michigan Bean

Jobbers’ Association and part-
ner of ex—Governor Albert E. Sleep—
er in the ownership of several banks
of the Thumb district, died Sunday
night, June 12, at his home in Sag-
inaw.

TO RID ALSIIIE SEED GROWING
SECTIONS OF WEEDS
EEDS HAVE got to go in the
alsike seed growing region of
northeastern Michigan, the
state farm bureau has decided and
is going to back up its decision with
a clean—up campaign to be waged in
that territory during the month of
July. A weed expert from the Uni—
versity of Michigan, working with
county and state farm bureau men,
will visit farms in that district and
will give farm demonstrations, show-
ing what weeds injure the market

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Number 43

 

 

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BUSINESS FARMER

June 25,
1921

 

 

Cost of Producing Milk and Milk Products in US.

Nation Wide Investigation Shows Production Costs Average from $2.80 to $2.89 per th.

N FEBRUARY and early March of this

year it became apparent that reliable data
bearing upon the cost of producing milk and
milk products in the United States would be
essential for the use of Congress in forthcom-
ing tariff schedules. To that end, and at the
suggestion of the National Milk Producers’
Federation, Regional committees were at once
organized in various sections of the United
States for the making of investigations upon
the question of a dairy tariif and the assemb-
ling of material which would be of help in de-
ciding what tariii rates would be necessary to
protect American producers from foreign
competitioin.

The results of these investigations by the
United States Milk Producers’ Dairy Tariff
Committee show that the following tariff
rates on dairy products are necessary to pro-
tect the United States producer of dairy pro-
ducts from foreign competition: Milk, 3 12
cents per gallon; cream, 35 cents per gallon;
butter, 10 cents per pound; cheese, 5 cents
per pound; condensed milk, 2 cents per
pound.

These rates are based on the difference of
the cost of production in foreign countries
and competing sections of the United States.

Cost of Production

The United States cost of producing 100
pounds of milk testing 3.5 per cent in April,
1921, as obtained by two methods, was $2.80
and $2.89. The cost of production varied by
sections from $3.12 in Baltimore district to
$2.53 in the Chicago district.

The first result was obtained as an average
of costs reported by various sections of the
United States, the methods of determination
varying in each section. The following is the
cost by sections:

Cost of Producing 100 Pounds of Milk, 3.5 Per
Cent Test

 

New England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3285

New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.56

Philadelphia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.10

Baltimore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.12

Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.86

Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.53

California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.60

Average, United States . . . . . . . . . .$2.80

The second method of determination of
costs was to apply the average feed and labor
costs for these various sections to the “War-
ren Formula” for the cost of producing 100
pounds of milk. The costs obtained were as
follows:

Cost of Producing 100 Pounds of Milk “Warren

, Formula"
Item Quantity Price per Cost
ton or hr.
Grain . . . . . . . . .33.29 lb. $38.50 $ .650
Hay . . . . . . . . . . .43.3 lb. 16.00 .346
Add. forage .. . 10.8 lb. 8.00 .043
Silage ........92.2 lb. 8.00 .369
Add. succulents 8.3 lb. 8.00 .033
Labor, hours . 3.02 .38 .846

 

Total representing 79 pct. of cost $2.287
Final cost including overhead .. .$2.89

Cheaper Canadian Milk

Compared with these costs, Quebec, Can-
ada’s costs in April were $2.37 per hundred
for 3.5 per cent milk, a diflerence as compared
With New England of 48 cents per hundred in
favor of Quebec or 4.1 cents per gallon, and
of the United States of 43 cents per hundred
or 3.7 cents pm- on. Quebec, Canada’s
costs were obtain by an actual survey in
territory shipping milk and cream to Boston.

Based on these costs of milk production, the
cost of producing one gallon of 36 per cent

 

 

HERE HAS been considerable speculu-
T tion as to the cost of producing milk in

the I’nitod States but the figures were
never correctly cnmpiled. Knowing that
Congress would need reliable data upon the
production costs of milk and milk products
in coming tariff schedules the organized
dairymen of this country last February be-
gan an investigation in various sections.
The results of this extensive investigation
has just been made public and should
prove of interest to the readers of the Bus-
iness Farmer. \Ve are informed from a re-
liable source that the facts contained in this
article cost in the neighborhood of $25,000
to secure—Managing Editor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

cream is 40 cents per gallon less in Quebec
than in New England, and 41 cents per gallon
less in Quebec as compared with the United
States.

Based on these costs of 100 pounds of milk,
the cost of producing one pound of butter is
10 cents less in Canada than in New England
and the United States. The cost of producing
one pound of butter in Denmark as stated by

 

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How the Farmer Can Make
Business Better

IIE FARMER, as well as the folks in the
city, have been on a “buyer’s strike.”
Over a year ago people realized that they were
paying exorbitant prices for clothing, furni-
ture, food, etc., and decided to curtail.
Naturally this strike has helped to force
prices downward. The following comparison
shows clearly the decline and the readjust-

ment that has taken place.
Wholesale Price Index Number (1913—2100)

Group May March

1920 1921
Farm products . . . . . . . . . . . . 244 125
Food, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .287 150
Clothes and clothing . . . . . . .347 192
Fuel and lighting . . . . . . . . ..235 207
Metals and metal products ..193 139
Building materials . . . . . . . . . 341 212

Chemicals and drugs . . . . . . 215 171

House furnishings . . . . . . . . .339 275

Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246 167

All commodities . . . . . . . .272 162

Frankly, we believe that it is time to start
buying. Since the foregoing figures were com-
piled many products have taken a further
drop.

Now here is a big point that is apt to be ov-
erlooked—the farmer and city folks are inter-
dependent.

The city man. must have a job or he can’t
buy what the farmer produces. The farmer
must have a purchaser or he cannot sell at a
profitable price.

Right now is the time when the farmer can
help end the depression by patronizing honest
merchants. It is true that some retailers have
not reduced prices as they should, but verily
these profiteers must come down or close their
doors.

To put off buying new means that thous-
ands of men will continue to be unemployed
and a “kick back” to the farmer is inevitable
as there will be a dimished consumption of
farm products, which of course will mean low
prices. Let every farmer seriously consider
these basic facts and buy everything he really
needs and can afford. Farm prices will climb
only when city men can buy more farm pro-
ducts and city folks can’t buy farm products
unless the farmer buys what the city man
manufactures.—~Emerson J. Poag.

Mr. Harold Faber, Agricultural Commission—
er for Denmark, for 1920 was 40 cents per
pound, and as stated by Mr. 0. II. Larsen,
Professor of Agricultural Economics of the
Royal Agricultural College, Denmark, was 45
cents per pound. As compared with the cost
of producing one pound of butter in the
United States of 59 cents and of the New Eng-
land States of 55 cents, this gives the advan-
tage to the Danish producer of from 15 to 19
cents with the cost of transportation only 2 12
cents per pound to New York.
Transportation Charges

A study of transportation costs from Don-
mark to New York as compared with trans-
portation costs from lVlinnesota and Wisconsin
to New York shows that butter can be landed
in that market as cheaply from Denmark as
from the Middle West States, the cost of
transportation in each case being approximate—
ly 2 1—2 cents per pound, and transportation
costs from the extreme West give a decided
advantage to the foreign producer. (Trans-
portation charges in respect to milk and cream,
considered primarily from a New England
and New York State standpoint. The trans:
portntion charges for milk from the center of
production in New England compared with the
center of production in Quebec favor the New
England producer by 0 mills per gallon. Sim-
ilar costs of transportation on cream show
that the transportation costs favor the New
England producer by the same amount. The
cost of transportation of a pound of butter
from the New England center of production
to Boston as compared with the costs from
Quebec center of production is 3—10 of a mill
less.)

In 1897 when butter sold for 20 cents per
pound a duty of 6 cents per pound was adop-
ted. At the present price level of butter
which will average from 30 to 40 cents for the
year, a duty of at least 10 cents per pound is
necessary to give the same protection.

Foreign Dairy Products Not Necessary to

Supply United States Needs

A study of the United States production and
consumption of dairy products shows that
enough are produced here to meet all demands
without any imports.

In 1919, 416,000 gallons of cream were
shipped from Canadian points to Boston. The
butter produced by New England creameries
would have provided four and a half million
gallons of 36 per cent cream, or 11 times the
amount necessary to replace the Canadian
shipments. The butter production in New
England would have supplied 9 times the
amount needed to replace Canadian cream
shipments to Boston for the month of heaviest
shipment (June).

The Market Reporter, published by the U.
S. Department of Agriculture, for February
26, 1921, shows that we have changed from a
net exporting country in 1919 when we ex—
ported an equivalent of 500,000,000 pounds of
milk to a net importing country in 1920 when
we imported what would be equivalent to over
400,000,000 pounds. The butter imports from
Canada have increased from 350,000 pounds
in 1913 to over 9,000,000 pounds in 1920. This
has resulted in an over supply of dairy pro-
ducts which has resulted in a demoralized
market and a selling price lower than the cost
of production.

In order to maintain the standard of living
on American farms and meet the difference in
costs of production of dairy products in this
country and foreign countries, adequate pro-
tective tariff is necessary.

 


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Let’s Prepare‘Now to Fight the Grasshoppers

There is No Time Like the Present to F ortify Against this Well-Known Pest

RASSHOPPERS, both young and old,
injure crops in but one way, that is, by
gnawing and devouring them wholesale, and
where very numerous they have been known
to consume almost every green thing in sight.

' Even the bark on the tender twigs of trees is

‘ eaten by these revenous insects,

which are

. known to gnaw the handles of agricultural

tools, such as hoes and rakes, in order to se-
cure the salt left upon them by the perspiring
hands of the farmer.

It is generally believed in the middle and

. far western regions of the United States that
. when two dry summers occur in succession,
: the second one usually produces serious out-

' breaks of grasshoppers.

‘ the soil, enclosed in sacs, or

Whether or not this
be true, there is ample evidence to show that
dry weather faVors the successful hatching of
the eggs and the subsequent development of
these pests. On the other hand, cool wet
weather is unfavorable and grasshoppers often
die in great numbers from disease when such
Weather conditions prevail.
Life Histories and Development

The life histories of the various species of
injurious grasshoppers are quite similar in
character. The eggs are usually deposited in
“pods” formed

; of a glutinous substance furnished by the fe-

 

male. The grasshopper thrusts her tail or
abdomen, which is capable of considerable ex-
tension into the soil and starts laying her eggs
at the farther end of the tunnel thus formed,
which is then filled with eggs and afterwards
sealed. One grasshopper sometimes deposits
3 great many eggs.

The egg laying usually takes place in late
rummer or early fall and the young grasshop-
pers emerge the following spring, In some
of the Southern and Southwestern states the
young grasshoppers may emerge as early as
February. In Michigan the eggs usually do
not hatch until some time during the months
3f May or June.

In contrast with many other injurious in-
sects, grasshoppers when hatched closely re-
;cmble their parents, excepting their lack of
wings. There is not grublike larval stage nor
is there any resting or true pupal stage such
as is the case with butterflies and moths. The
young grasshoppers are active and able to

THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS 'FARMVER

. By W. R. WALTON
Bureau of Entomology, U. 8. Dept_ of Agriculture

 

 

Grasshopper Eradication

EPORTS WILL soon begin to appear in
the papers of damage to Michigan
crops from grasshoppers. This dam-

age is an annual occurence, especially in
the northern section of this state. Farm-
ers of Michigan lose thousands of dollars
annually owing to this pest andwill con-
tinue to lose if they do not prepare to fight
some time before hoppers are expected. Un-
doubtedly the outbreaks will not be as ser-
ious this year as other years owing to the
cooperation of the farm bureau and the
assistance which the state has promised but
each farmer must do his part and if he pre-
pares beforehand the damage will be still
less. This article deals with the conditions
favorable for an outbreak, development of
the hopper and the insect and bird enemies
of this pest. A later issue will contain an
article on plans used to control the hoppers
once they have appeared—Managing Editor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

hop almost immediately upon emergence from
the eggs. It takes from 70 to 90 days for the
young grasshoppers to grow to maturity and
develop wings. The farmer should therefore
endeavor to attack the pest during its young
stages, as this method not only requires less
labor and material, but the insects can not
then escape destruction by flying to untreat-
ed fields, as they may, and often do, upon be—
coming mature. VVhen the grasshopper reach-
es a certain stage of development its skin
splits and is shed, the insect usually acquiring
wings during the operation. It has then
reached its final stage of growth and is ready
to mate and reproduce its kind. So far as
known the injurious species of grasshoppers
have only one generation a year.

Insect Enemies

Several kinds of parasitic two-winged flies
deposit their eggs or maggots upon grasshop-
pers in their mature or nearly mature stage.
Among the most important of these is a blow-
fly or meat fly which has been observed to de-
posit live maggots upon the wings of the
grasshoppers while they are in fight. The

June 25, 1921

maggot of this parasite devours the internal
portions of the grasshopper’s body and soon
causes his death. Robber flies feed very large-
ly upon young grasshoppers, grasping them in
their long, stout legs, thrusting the strong
beak through the body wall of the grasshop-
per and sucking out the liquid contents of the
body. Several kinds of digger wasps kill or
stupefy grasshoppers by stinging them and
then drag them into their underground nests,
after which the wasp lays an egg upon the
body of the grasshOpper, which subsequently
becomes food for the newly hatched grub. A
number of blister beetles are known to prey in
their younger stages upon the eggs of grass-
hoppers, but as the adult beetle are sometimes
quite injurious to potatoes, beans, and other
cultivated plants, they can not be considered
as entirely desirable allies of the farmer.

Wild and Domestic Bird Enemies

The Bureau of Biological Survey has found
that Wild birds play a great part in the natural
control of grasshoppers. These feathered
friends of man are always present where
grasshoppers abound and work almost con-
stantly in aiding the farmer. The statement
that all birds feed upon grasshoppers is so
near the absolute truth that it needs only in-
significant modifications. From the largest
hawks to the tiny hummingbirds there are 110‘
exceptions other than the strictly vegetarian
doves and pigeons. Although birds of all
families prey upOn grasshoppers, the follow-

ing may be selected as the most important des-

troyers of grasshoppers for their respective
groups: Franklin’s gull, bobwhite, prairie
chicken, red—tailed, red-shouldered, broad-
Winged, and sparrow hawks, the screech and
burrowing owls, yellow-billed cuckoo, road-
runner, nighthawk, red-headed woodpecker,
kingbird, horned lark, crow, magpie, red-
winged and crow blackbirds, meadowlark, lark
bunting, grasshopper and lark sparrows,
butcher bird, wren, and robin.

Domestic fowls are also very fond of grass—
hoppers and feed greedily upon them when-
ever possible. Turkeys are sometimes killed
by eating too freely of grasshoppers, the
strong, rough hind legs of which cause severe
lacerations or even puncturing of the crops
of the birds. »

Why the Farmers Got Hit and Some Remedies for the Situation

HE WORLD demand is and at all times
during and since the war, has been
greater than the supply of farm products. If,
therefore, the law of supply and demand had
been in force the farmer would have sustain-
ed no loss.
The farmer produced his last cr0ps under

‘ the most expensive conditions and at the

greatest cost, therefore he was entitled to the
highest prices and in justlce there should
have been no deflation of prices for these
crops. ,

Based upon these facts and taking account
of all deflation up to date, the farmer has
sustained a total loss of seven billion dollars.

The principal direct causes of these losses
are, as follows:

1. Unnecessary profiteering of
which includes speculative gambling.
2. The arbitrary restriction of credit by the

middlemen,

' Federal Reserve Bank and the holding up of the

Federal Land Banks by litigation.
3. The unreasonable rise in railroad rates.
All of these causes have been created by
autocratic economic power exercised under

. unjust laws.

Profiteering and Speculation of middlemen
is shown by the following facts:
The farmer is both a producer and a con-

2 sumer. '

The laborer is both a producer and a con—
sumer. .
Each is the principal customer of the pro.

ducts of the other.
Out of the dollar which labor pays for the

 

 

HE ACCOMPANYING article is a por—
Ttion of the report laid before the Na-

tional Farmers’ Union by a committee
appointed to investigate the losses of the
farmers and the causes, responsibilities and
remedies therefor. The report shows con-
siderable thought and reveals some as-
tounding figures which explain in part why
the farmer got hit so hard. Complaints
over the manner in which the federal rc-
serve board has treated agricultural papers
are almost univm-sal, and it is safe to say
that some radical changes will take place in
the policies of this board which will make
it easier for the farmer to get credit for
holding his crops—Editor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

products of the farm, the farmer only gets
38 cents.

Out of the dollar which the farmer pays for
the products of labor, the laboring man only
gets 35 cents.

The cost of distribution each way is over

- 60 cents on the dollar and against this might

be cited a cost of less than 10 cents in coop-
erative Denmark.

We cannot reduce distribution to 10 cents
in America, but it might be reduced to 20
cents. This would make a saving of 42 cents
on farm products. If the farmer seeks to take
all of this he will receive no help from the
public . If he is willing to cooperate and di—
vide with his consumers the principal of which
is the laboring man, he can add over 50 per
cent to the price of his products and give a

reduction equal in amount to his consumer,
in this all labor will gladly join.

On the other hand there should be a saving
of 45 cents in the dollar in the distribution of
the products of labor. If labor seeks to take
it all, it will fail. If it is willing to divide
with its principal consumer, the farmer, it
will succeed.

The total wages of labor are approximately
25 billion dollars and this goes to about 35 per
cent of our people.

The total value of farm products since the
deflation including all sold and all used by
the farmers themselves does not exceed 20
billion dollars and that goes to about 43 per
cent of our people. ’

If all of the returns of the farmer be count-
ed as wages he gets 20 per cent less total than
the wages of labor and there are 20 per cent
more farmers than laborers. ,

In addition to this the farmer had a capital
investment of 80 billion dollars upon 'which
he got no return, although mortgages upon it
called for vast amounts of interest.

The business and other capital investments
were about double farm capital and if they
had received the same return it might there-
fore take two ciphers to express it. Instead,
this capital and the speculators got a return
of about 20 billion dollars and this went » to
about 7 per cent of our people. A just dis-
tribution of this sum would give the farmers
more than '7 billion dollars increase with but
slight readjustment of (Gontimed 0" W06 15)

 

 

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.Juneizs, 1921

 

 

prevent its escape by rapid evaporation.

  

 

THE MICHIGAN. ,BUSINESS FARMER

  

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Live Stock Breeders Should Support State Fair

A Plea for More Enterprise and Enthusiasm in Connection With Breeding Operations

’ I ‘HAT THE breeder of purebred live
stock is a public benefactor is now well
nigh universally conceded and it would cer-
tainly be a national calamity if anything
should happen that would cause a slackenlng
in the activities of the men who know how to
produce a type that will make the highest re-
turn for the smallest outlay in feed and care.
In view of the uncertain and unreliable de-
mand, the present day live stock breeder must
possess more than an ordinary amount of bus-
iness courage; in the effort to produce a per-
fect type he will encounter discouragement
and failure but if he is made of the right kind
of stuff he will keep everlastingly at it until
complete success crowns his efforts. Live
stock breeders should resort to the same meth-
ods practiced by dealers in.] other lines, going
’out after the business when it fails to come to
"them. The shrewd and sagacious business
man does not surrender when times tighten
up but, on the contrary, he redoubles h1s ef-
forts in order to overcome the strong compe-
tition which is developing on every hand.
Many of our breeders, of senior years, have
encountered experiences similar to those the
American stock raiser is grappling with now
and one of the reasons for the outstanding
success which they have made is to be found
in the fact that they drove straight ahead, In
bad as well as good times. They kept up the1r
breeding records and, from time to tlme,
strengthened their herds by the introduction

By H. H. MACK

ducted by Counties, districts and the state at
large, are absolutely essential to maximum
progress in up-to-date farming; they are the
paramount agencies in the development of
modern agriculture and, as such, they ShOuld
be supported by every patriotic and public-
spirited citizen of this republic. Exhibits of
purebred liVe stock should be regarded as
the leading features of every state and county
fair; in fact, a fair, minus a complete ‘live
stock exhibit, resembles more than anything
else, the effort to render the play of Hamlet
leaving out the character of the melancholy
Danish prince. The fairs that have been held
in the past have been regarded as successes
or failures just in the proportion that they
have been supported or neglected by the
breeders of pedigreed stock and poultry in the
surrounding country; this arrangement has
been by no means a one-sided affair for with-
out the assistance rendered by the fairs, the
business of improved live stock breeding
could never have attained its present wonder-
ful development. These two important in—
dustries have grown and developed together;
they are mutually dependent upon each other
and in order that they shall continue to
function normally, each must do its full duty
by the other.

While the opening date of the Michigan
State Fair is still some weeks away, it is none

too early for the breeder to go over his herd
and make his nominations for the coming
event. Because of the current business de-
pression, rumors are current to the effect that
some breeders who have usually had show
herds in the annual exhibit at Detroit, have
decided to drop out this year. If there is any
foundation for the reports referred to it must
be regarded as very bad news, indeed; if any
such resolutions have been made, it is to be
hoped that they will be immediately reconsid-
ered. This is the year of all years when the
breeders of Michigan should stand loyally by
their State Fair.
Crepe Hangers Not Needed
There is probably not a breeder in Michi-
gan who would not regard it as a calamity if
the State Fair should be discontinued; if they
feel this way let them discount the future and
stand by the fair in lean as well as in fat
years, assured of a ten-fold return for every
effort and every dollar put into the enterprise.
That the scaling down of selling values incii
dent to the current readjustment, has for the
time being well-nigh paralyzed the breeding
business, is universally conceded but this un-
dertaking has fared no worse than many
others. The scene is beginning to change,
however; there is a rift in the overhanging
clouds of business depression and the dazzling
sun of coming prosperity is shining through.
We are, at this moment, on the eve of a great
industrial and business revival and all that
the American farmer needs to do

 

of rich blood lines, available at
moderate prices because of the de-
pression. They increased their
appropriation for advertising, re-
alizing that farm papers must be
supported during lean years as
well as in prosperous times. They
exhibited their stock at the fairs
as they had done. in other more
prosperous years. They did every-
thing that ingenuity and farsight-
edness could suggest to increase
the popularity of their herds and
when economic conditions began
to change for the better they were

 

 

is to anticipate the future, just a
little. Before the date of the next
Michigan State Fair arrives, the
benificent influences of a. world-
wide pcaee will be felt right here
in Michigan and many of our
farmers will be wondering why
they ever permitted themselves to
become so completely discouraged.
The time has come when the chron-
ic crepe hanger should be consign-
ed to the scrap heap of oblivion.
A better day is dawning; let every
man put his shoulder to the wheel

 

 

ready to gather in the harvest.
Agricultural exhibits, as con-

The mllllon-dollar purebred llve stock parade which has always been composed of not only
Michigan’s best but some of the finest stock In the United States.

and send the chariot of progres-
sive agriculture forward.

Deep Cultivation of Com Crop Removes Much Needed Moisture

Crop Should Be Cultivated Often but Not Deep Except F ollowi

ACK of the cultivation of a corn crop are

several fundamental laws of nature which
profit-seeking farmers dare not ignore. Ob-
servation of these laws will show just when
and how to cultivate.

The corn plant, being a “surface feeder,”
has no long tap root. Instead, it spreads a
thieks network of lacy roots, most of them
through the upper eight inches of soil. Con-
sequently, most of the plant food and mois—
ture necessary to mature the plant must be
absorbed from this thin surface layer.

The moisture required to mature a corn crop
is greater than many suppose. Experiments
have shown that it requires three hundred
tons of water to mature an acre of average
yielding corn. This does not take into consid-
eration the immense quantity of water which
naturally evaporates from the soil the year
round. More corn crops are cut short from a
lack of moisture than any one other cause.
This is apparent. since fields situated along a
river or lake, where the subsoil is always well
filled with moisture, seldom fail to produce a
good crop.

. After the fall, winter, and spring rains give
the .soil and subsoil a good supply of moisture,
it is necessary that ithis moisture be retained
constantly within reach of the corn roots.
And, since these roots lie near the surface, a
good mulch must be maintained to hold the
moisture as near the surface as possible and
Ex-

By 0. R. FROST

 

 

should be cultivated deep the first

time over while others believe in con-
tinuouus deep cultivation because it kills
the weeds. This has been proven to be a
wrong practice. A test conducted by the
Illinois Experiment Station has shown shal-
low cultivation to be more profitable than
deep cultivation. On a deeply cultivated
plot the five-year average was 64.2 bushels
per acre while on a shallow cultivated
plot the five-year average was 75.8 bushels
per acre. The only tilne the crop should
be cultivated deep is when the ground has
become “water-logged.”—-Managing Editor.

3 GREAT MANY farmers believe corn

 

 

 

 

 

 

perience has shown that a mulch- two or three
inches deep is best, since a deeper mulch in a
cornfield restricts the feeding area, depriving
the roots of the most available plant food.
For this reason the general practice of deep
cultivation should be condemned. It is bet-
ter to use narrow shovels and more of them
than to use a small number of wide ones.
Narrow shovels, properly spaced, are effective
weed killers and they leave the surface better
mulched without deep penetration. While
corn demands a soil that is not too compact,
the loosening should be done before the corn
is planted—not after. The only time when
deep cultivation is beneficial is immediately
following a wet period, when the soil becomes

~

ng Wet Weather

“water—logged,” and while the plants are
small. In such cases, cultivation to a depth
of four or five inches will permit a deeper
circulation of air, drying the soil out more
quickly. Under any other coudition deep
cultivation is injurious. It may not result in
root injury when the plants are small but it
would open up the soil around the roots, per—
mitting rapid evaporation of valuable mois-
ture.

There is a widespread opinion in some sec—
tions that the first cultivation should be deep
since it is more effective in killing weeds. It
also permits throwing a thin layer of soil over
the planter tracks, thus preventing evapora—
tion and covering up little weeds. This lat-
ter argument is not wholly without founda-
tiOn since the packing of soil by the planter
wheels leaves no mulch to prevent evapora-
tion. It is also essential that weeds be kept
down in the row as well as between the rows.
However, this can be done without deep cul-
tivation by methods equally effective and more
desirable. v

Covering the field with a culti-packer be-

fore the corn comes up offers several advan-

tages. It, stirs the upper two inches of soil
sufficiently to retard the growth of newly
sprouted weeds, breaks any crust that may
have formed, and leaves the soil in a ridged
and finely pulverized condition. ‘And it has
one important advantage that cannot be
obtained by a cultivator—it firms the soil
around the seed, (Continued on page 13)

  


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Disarmament and Taxes
1 F CARRYING weapons was insurance
against hold-ups or bodily harm, then
there should be no laws against every man,
woman and child carrying a gun or knife with
which to protect themselves.

But sinCe gun totin’ has ceased to be con-
sidered necessary for this reason and we civ-
ilized folks have come to know that for men
* to carry weapons only encourages fights and
results in killings, it should not be hard to
convince the nations of the world that great
armaments .lead only to the same end.

If great navies and powerful standing arm-
. ies were insurance against war, as its sup-
? porters would have us believe, then we might
consider that although we did spend over nine-
tenths of all the money taxed from our pm
ple for past wars and preparation for future
wars, it was only a high rate of insurance
which conditions forced upOn us and must
therefore be borne.

It so happens however, that history, which
is the experience basis on which the tables for
this insurance must be prepared, shows that
it is Tim nations which are best prepared for

Virus or dominated by militaristic groups
which are first to go to war at the slightest
provocation. No one in our generation should
need any further proof of this fact.

Some men to whom the sight -of disabled
boys and mortality lists, seem soon to be for—
goticn, can be jarred into realization of what
big urnimncnts mean only by the dollar sign
and so we reprint here u rather startling coun
parison of the per capita federal tax for flu:
various years since 1.850, as they have been
prepared by Senator E. I“. lizuld, of North
Dakota:

Year Amount
1850 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 1.77

1860 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.01,

1890 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.75

1900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.39

191.0 .. . . . . .  . . . . . .  7.30

1919 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..144.77

In the year that followed the war, every
man, woman and child in the United States
was paying, directly or indirectly, $145 or an
average of $723.85 for every family of five, of
which ninety per cent went. to pay for past
and future wars. How much more the re
cent war is costing you in the, daily conduct
of your business, you know only too well.

At the beginning of the world war, England
and Germany, respectively, had the greatest
navies in the seas. In the four years of the
war, only one naval battle occurred and that,
was only a skirmish, which proved that bat—
tleships, the most costly of all armaments,

were antedated. Yet this very year the sen-
ate raised the amount of $396,000,000 appro-
priated by the house to $494,000,000, to be
peed very largely for the building and com-

THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER

pletion of giant dreadnaughts and battle
cruisers which are only floating targets for
airplanes and submarines.

England’s great navy was safely sheltered
in protected harbors along her coast during
most of the war and most of the few ships
which ventured out into the open were sunk.
Germany ’8 navy in the distress of her days of
defeat, was of absolutely no use and had she
known, as we know now, of the value of sub-
marines and been equipped with hundreds,
instead of the few she had when the war
started, the commerce of the allied nations
and perhaps even the participation of our
own army in Flanders might have been im-
possible.

Disarmament and the consequent peace of
the world might be a fitting victory for the
men who laid down their lives and it is the
crime of the century that the United States
of America in the dominant position it now
occupies, does not take the lead in a practical
phin, which has now been asked for by every
other great nation in the world.

 

Railroad Rates Must Come Down
ROUCHING behind the Cummii‘is—Esch

1 bill whereby the railways of America zil'c
guaranteed a safe percentage on their invest—
ment, irrespective of their operating costs, is
one of the most potential causes of the present
industrial condfion in America.

There is no need to recite to the business
farmers of this or any other state, the wholly
unwarranted cost of getting what they use
from the manufacturer and getting what they
produce to the consumer. One does not need
to have a friend tell him his shoes are too
tight!

The whole question now is summed up in
one word and that word is on the lips of not
only every farmer, but every other producer
——ACTION! The greater percent of railway
employees have taken their cut in wages, will—
ineg or unwillingly, it made no difference.
The cost of all materials, with the possible ex-
ception of coal, show a large decrease, yet
freight and passenger rates are higher in
Michigan and in every other state than they
were at the peak of war prices.

Surely so fundamental a support of all in-
dustry as transportatoion must receive first
consideration and it must have immediate an:—
tion if it is to be of any benefit to the fin-m-
crs of America. Threshing and groin culling
has already started in Texas and the south—
v.'cstcrn statics. Muny Michian crops will be
started on their way to market not many
weeks from now.

What is to be done about freight rates?

The Harding udministrnlion must take in-
stant; and drastic. action if they hope to stay
in the good graces of the people of this coun—
try. Smooth words ttlld empty meetings with
railway officials arc. not going to solve the
problcm. Let them arbitrarily lower freight
ruins and let the railway cxccutivcs worry
about how they are going to meet the situation,
just as the farmer and the small business man
has had to meet it. Necessity is the mother of
invention and those high-salaried officials
should be as clever inventors of ways and
means as we in the lesser positions of life.

 

Getting Ready for the State’s Fair

llIS YEAR the farmers of Michigan will

come to Detroit for the state fair with
more than simply a desire to note the agri-
cultural progress of the state and “see the
sights.” They will come with a proprietory
interest and consequently it behooves the men
now actively engaged in preparing for it to
do a better job than ever before.

It ought to be an easier task to get the real
business farmers of the state enthused and in-
terested in his year’s fair. Not that its con-
duct in the past has not been satisfactory,
but because many conditions which have sur-
rounded the fair, particularly in recent years
are not to be found this year.

In the first place our farmers and our
breeders have been pretty busy the past few
years in their OWn problems at home. The
boys have been away working in the factories
many of them, and naturally the “old man”
had less time to get his best together and plan

June 25, 1921

to place it in competition at the state exposi-
tion.

Then, again, many got the notion that the
state fair at Detroit was largely dominated by
the great crowds that poured out from Amer—
ica’s fourth city and all but crowded the folks
from “up-state” off the grounds. We predict
that the state fair will have to look to a
greater attendance of up-state folks to make
up the loss in gate-receipts from the great un-
employed and generally “broke” city folks,
who in recent years thought nothing of the
silver they tossed into the hopper, for a few
hours entertainment.

We are going to look for some announce-
ments from state fair headquarters as to the
special plans they are making to care for the
crowds that are sure to come from Lip—state, if
they are especially invited. The better the
state-owned fair is made to interest the farm-
er; the more stress that is put on every dc-
partmcnt this year to make it a farmer’s fair,
the more it will measure up to not only what
we have a right to expect of it, but what city
nicn, interested in farming, as never before,
will demand of it.

 

Packer Control Bill Passed

IIE HAUGEN Packer control bill, much

to the surprise and apparent consterna—
tion of those who have vigorously lobbied
against it at Washington, passed the senate
with only one amendment requiring packers
to file public statements concerning their bus—
iness with the secretary of agriculture.

This bill originated in the house and advo-
cated by most of the farmers and live stock
shrippcrs associations, places the control of the
packing industry of this country in the hands
of the secretary of agriculture and he is
authorized to create a department for its oper-
ation. ’

For a time it appeared that the Sterling sub-
stitute, which was designed to place the con-
trol in the hands of the federal trade commis—
sion, would meet with favor in the senate, but
this was defeated 33 to 31 when put to vote.

Gradually, it would appear, the powers that
be are realizing that the farmer must have
some control over the marketing of his produce
if the stability of this country is to be main-
tained. The passage of this measure is a long
step in this direction.

Luckily, in the present secretary of agricul-
ture, llcnry \anlacc, we have a man who is
wholeheartedly in sympathy with every move
to improve the present marketing conditions.
In the hands of a man loss in sympathy, we
would have serious doubts as to its immediate
efficiency, but as matters stand we are hopeful
that it will be of great value to the live—stock
producers of America and surely at no time in
our history were they ever in more need of
some measure of relief.

Gravel Roads Are Good Roads

ICIIIG—AN is lucky in the fact that there

is hardly a county in the state where
there is not an abundance of good gravel.
Good gravel roads for highways, where the
traffic is not excessive, can be built for a frac-
tion of the cost and maintained as cheaply as
paved roads and properly patrolled will last
as long.

We do not agree with the man who is for
all gravel roads any more than we agree with
the paving salesman who argues that gravel
roads are a delusion and a snare because of
their low first cost.

Right now we are at the peak of road-
building with the $50,000,000 appropriated by
the people of the state. We have seen no rea-
son as yet to criticize the work that is being
done or is completed The highway depart-
ment is, luckily, we believe, in the hands of a
man who cannot be biased as to the proper
material for the road at hand. His biggest
problem is, as we see it, that the roads he is
building be maintained, because no greater
catastrophe could happen than that the good
roads system of Michigan should “break
down” even ere it was completed.

 

That Detroit man who slapped another and
killed him sure had some kick in his hand—or
maybe it was a. package of raisins.

 

 

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June 25, 1921

OLEO AND THE FARMEB

NOTED the article in the BUS‘

muss FABMEB some time ago

about oleo. What is the matter
with the farmers anyway? A few
weeks ago I was in a store, a farm—
er came in, his cows were dry; he
bought 4 cans of condensed milk and
3 pounds fancy grease. I live on our
farm and am trying to farm it, but
if my cows went dry I would go
to my neighbors and buy milk, and
if I could not buy butter I would
buy cream and churn our own but-
ter. I certainly would buy no fancy
grease. but it is not only this man,
but. farmers that I know sell cream
and buy grease. that are they
coming to?

Let‘s see, in 1M7 the people of
the United States consumed 233,-
171,111 pounds of oleo. an increase
of 326 per cent ovor 1916; in 1918
326, 528,830 pounds: in 1919, 371,—
317.181 pounds. it is believed that
in 1920 400000000 pounds were
used. This hits the farmer directly.
It not only cuts down the price of
our butterfat but the price of our
dairy cows, as this amount of grease
supplies the fat product of about 2,-
000,000 dairy cows, and still they
kick about the price of fat. What
would it have been worth it people
did not eat oleo. A survey was made
in New York state three years ago
and it was found that 50 per cent
of the dairy men and farmers used

oleo. Am enclosing an article on
milk.—-F. B. Shaw, Missaukee
County.

Dr. Brown on Nfilk

"If T had to make a choiCe, I would
prefer every time the sound, uneducated
boy rather than the educated sickling,"
declared Dr. Ira C. Brown, medical in—
spector of Seattle public schools. ad—
dressing the annual convention of the
British Columbia Dairymcn’s Association.

“Most of Dr. Brown's talk was devoted
to a discussion of milk in its effect upon
child life.

“Milk is the ideal food for the growing
child and the ideal maintenance food for
the adult." declared Dr. Brown. "Milk
is absolutely necessary to the child up to
15 years of age if it is to be fortiied
against diseases in after life. The milk-
fed child is better able to resist diseases.
It may be news to you that tuberculosis
is never found in the well—nourished ped—
son, and milk prevents malnutrition.
People in normal physical condition nev—
er have tuberculosis. We have statistics
to prove that the public distribution of
milk to poor children who otherwise
could not afford it, is a better preventa—
tive of incipient tuberculosis than all
other agencies combined.

“Dr. Brown said that in Seattle the
school board distributed $800 worth of
milk to poor children every month. ‘It
is good business,’ he said. ‘It quickens
the mentality of the child and makes the
boy or girl quicker in his studies. We
find that it eliminates at least six months
from the school period of the child, and
therefore it saves money for the people
who pay for the school system.”

“The simplest and cheapest approach
to the ideal diet for the adult person, said
Dr. Brown, consisted of a quart of milk
a. day, peas, beans, whole wheat bread
and leaf plants, such as cabbage."

You're the second farmer I’ve heard
from who is going to stick by old Susie’s
butter. We may ask in all seriousness,
"What are we coming to?” Two facts
are outstanding. One of them is that the
dairy industry is stagnant, and the other
is that the oleo factories are running
over—time. I noticed in a recent report
that while exports of dairy products had
declined there was a corresponding in-
crease in the exports of oleo. This is a
good time for every farmer who wants
to see farm prices come back to their
former profitable level to consume all he
can of the products of the farm, and that
includes butter.—Editor.

EDUCATION AND OTHER THINGS

S YOU wish to know how I

would vote on the income tax
-* will say that I am in favor of
an income tax if we must dig up
more money to pay increased salar-
ies and increased expenses of our
state institutions. Just for the pur-
pose of having the grandest institu-
tions in the world even though it
bankrupts the state to build and
maintain them. If we could get
value received for the cost it might
be worth the effort but we are just
educating a race of spendthrifts. No
hope, no relief for the coming gen-
eration from evershigher taxes. We
are not turning out any more Abra.-
ham Lincolns, Horace Greeley! and
other great men that came to on
top by their own efforts. Scholar!
know very little about what educa-
tion costs nowadays and they care

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THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER

 

less. They are taught to idle away
a part of their time in athletics
which takes their mind off their
studies but that don’t make any dif-
ference to our educators, their tui-
tion is paid by the taxpayers of the
district and in some cases they are
transported to and from school by
the same means and if they become
dissatisfied with the rig they can
strike for a limousine. If our edu—
cators had not put a lid on our rural
schools, limiting them to eight
grades there might have been bar—
rels of ink and years of time saved
in writing articles on back to the
farm.

The people elected a reform gov-
ernor that taxes might be reduced.
His first recommendation to the leg-
islature was to raise the salaries of

the supreme justices and it went
through after the people had said
no by over 100,000 majority two

years ago. Where do the common
people come in in having anything
to say about the running expenses of

this state?—-C. A. Lintz, Lapeer
County, Mich.
Let’s be fair, friend Lintz. The ma-

jority of public servants are very poorly
paid. Most of them can earn more. in
private jobs. Unless we want to exclude
poor men from holding public office we
have got to pay them decent salaries.
Mebbo there are a. few folderols in our
educational system that might be (lis-
pensed with but I don't believe. it. he-
spite its cost the. cheapest. thing we. have
in this country today is education. V‘Vo
spent a. total of 762 million dollars last
year for educational purposes. During
the same year the people of the United
States spent 800 millions for Cigarettes
and nobody complained. This country
spent enough last year for tobacco to
support all the. high schools of the United
States for 247 years. Who kicked? i
think we are. spending too much for
“higher education” and not. enough for
common school education. 1 want to
live to sea the. day when the boys and
girls of the country have an equal op—
portunity with those of the city to learn
the things which broaden life and make
for better men and women. Add to the
clean and healthful environment of the.
country a well—rounded education and
what a race of people you would have !——-
Editor.

 

SELF-INTEREST AND PROS-
PERITY
B. F.: Your first

DITOR of M.
E comment on my industrial

congress plan is hardly accur-
ate. My “theory” is not that “each
party involved wants only a square
deal." Theme. are hogs among all
classes and in every industryu-even
among the farmers. But in no in-
dustry or class—not even among
capitalists—do the hogs form a ma—
jority. Most labor leaders admit
this. The official organ of the or-
ganized railway workers has de-
clared repeatedly that the present
unfair policies of railroad manage-
ment are dictated by certain finan-
cial interests who own the “control”
and do not represent the spontan-

eous personal desires of a majorl.y
of the stock and bond owners, or
even of the managers themselves.

Yes, some of us are hogs and even
the great well-meaning majority are

governed by self—interest. But the
success of my plan requires only that
this self—interest be reasonably in—
telligent. We farmers can’t get fair
prices unless other folks are pros—
perous enough to pay them. Most
of the other folks are workingnien.
Therefore our self-interest demands
good wages in all other industries.

The trouble is that a few shrewd
managers demand exorbitant, wages
for themselves and their canned la-
bor. Some hire the canned labor of
others at low rates and become prof-
iteering middlemen. Because they
have ability, self—assurance and good
clothes few of us class them where
they belong—as workingmen, en—
forcing extravagant demands by
threatening strikes—and our pres—
ent industrial system lets them put
it over. And because of continued
success their self-interest has ceased
to be intelligent.

Intelligent self-interest demands
reasonable prosperity for all. It
demands living wages for unskilled
labor, even though they be scarcely
earned, so that the families of such
workers may contribute to general
prosperity by consuming their full
share of all commodities at fair
prices. It demands that skilled la-
bor receive wages enough higher to
make efficiency and skill worth
while. It demands such intelligent
regulation of production and distri-
bution as well stabilize prices and
largely do away with the element, of
risk in businessm-the only excuse for
high interest. rates. But it also de—
lnands that skilled labor, physical
or mental, be content with reason-
able reward. And the success of any
scheme of democracy—industrial or
political depends on the popular
majority being controlled by intelli—
gent self-interest.——Stacy Brown,
Ionia County.

 

 

You have a prop-
of what should

Stacy, you’re right.
er conception. I think,
constitute. social and economic democ-
racy. l. ton, want to see. the laborer
paid enough to live decently not only be-
causc it will enable him to buy the Dro-
ducts of the. farmers, but because I he-
lieVe in the. square deal. It is plain that
the self—interest which fans the flames of
class struggles is not intelligent, for in-
dividual prosperity to be permanently
enjoyed must rest upon the prosperity
of the mass, a fact which few of our
large employers of labor seem to appre—
ciate. Right now we are about to wit—
ness labor being ground between the up—
per and nether milLstones simply be-
cause the supply is greater than the de—
mand. To pay labor less than it costs
labor to live may temporarily add to the
fortunes of the employers, but I fear
what the ultimate consequences may be.
I am for any plan which will recognize
the legitimate self—interest of farmer
laborer, capital and deprive neither of
his just rewards for the benefit of the
others. Editor.

 

 

 

 

IG DAY in Sandusky. Annual
meeting of County Farm Bur-

—‘ eau. It’s a long trip down, but
we are here and seated; 68 present.

“Come to order,” says the chair-
man, official like. Secretary’s re-
port read and accepted.

Committees on resolutions and
credentials ordered to work. Order-
ed is right.

Report of delegates to State Farm
Bureau. Applause!

Short discussion and then to din-
ner. County Agent Martin and his
assistant are some hash-slingers.
Those two fellows are always to
work.

Sanilac county leads the world in
F. B. membership. No! I guess
it’s only the state. I am thinking
In long figures today.

We are assembled again and hear
the county agent’s report. My word!
We no going forward with leaps

lid bounds. I am bulging with
pride.
Mr. Mumford is speaking. There

Musings of a Plain Farmer

is a punch in every sentence. Com-
mittee on resolutions report.

We are supposed to write our
state and national representative
about some bills when we get home.
We undoubtedly will if our wife has
milked and we are not too sleepy.
Our Secretary is going to wire in.

Some heated discussions about
extension work, Boys’ and Girls'
clubs, publicity, etc.

Zounds! One delegate has come to
bat against it. I don’t see the out—
field moving back.

Yours truly made a speech of 14
words and a motion that the reso-
lutions be adopted as read. Support-
ed by ten delegates with square
shoulders. Carried.

I have stopped panting. If those
resolutions had been turned down,
Sandusky’s leading clqthier would
have sold one yard of crepe for my
hat band.

Homeward bound with my three
associates. Singing! “Onward
Christian Soldiers!”—-Arthur P.
Ballard, Ubly, Mich.

(913) 7‘?

THE FARMER AND THE FEDER-
ALRESERVE
HERE IS considerable specula-
tions as to the farmer’s attitude
toward buking necessities these
next six months. Primarily the
farmer was accused of speculating
in his own crops and the common
verdict is—serves him right, he
should have sold last fall. The rail-
roads then were unable to handle
more freight, so it was impossible‘
for all to sell at that time.
If 60 per cent of the
could have sold their crops
fall prices would have tumbled low—
er than they did. The farmer lost
heavily. The farmer is accused of
not buying now—how can he since
he cannot get credit with his local
merchant nor get a loan at the
bank. It is immaterial now if he
is worth $5,000 or $50,000. The
country banks are loaned up and
have nothing for him. The dealer
cannot sell him for anything except
for cash, as he cannot do anything
with the note. Price is not so much
an object as time.

The farmer even in ready money
times expects time on his purchases, p
which the dealer could grant as he t
could sell the note to his local bank
and discount his bills. At this time
but few banks can discount the deal-
ers” paper and it keeps the farmer ‘
from buyingflor rather it keeps the ;
dealer from selling.

Possibly no one line is as hard hit 7
through this situation as the imple-
ment and farm specialty line. Deal- t
ers carried over large stocks last
year and in numerous instances were
unable to pay their bills, losing a
big cash discount. This means that
the manufacturers are carrying large
amounts of past due doalcrs’ notes
and accounts and they cannot. rea-
lize on them because the dealers
cannot pay yet most of these deal-
ers haVc stacks of farmer notes on
hand that they cannot sell to their
local banks. The result. is that fact-
ories all over the country are shut
down or only partly in operation,
and costs keep mounting higher and
higher, as sales and service depart—
ments must be kept up.

The farmer up to this time has not
been benefltted through the Federal
Reserve Bank. The three months
maturities that the Federal Bank
requires is insufficient time for him.
The local banks, even if they are
member banks, cannot discount the
farmer’s paper with the Reserve
Bank, as it usually is six, nine or
twelve months paper. The stock
broker, Board of Trade operator,
who can use short term loans is
helped out. Why should six months
maturities be taken by the Federal
Reserve Bank on export shipments
and not on farmer’s paper?

If the Federal Reserve Bank in-
stead of holding their vast reserves
would place them at the disposal of
the American farmer for his neces-
sities, business in these necessities
would be back to normal within a
short time. The farmer is financial-
ly sound. He will pay and in re-
discounting such notes, there would
be very little credit risk, as such "
notes would be endorsed by the
merchant and the local bank.

The American farmer has the :
right to ask for a change in the,
Federal Reserve bank laws, so that
it will help him. He will not abuse
any concession that will be made, as
he does not like to borrow. He must
have six months maturities at the
least and should have twelve and
would undoubtedly be willing to
mention on the note what the obli—
gation is for, so as to limit this to
necessities only.———The New Idea
Spreader Co., B. C. Oppenheim, Pres.

farm ers
last

 

It is quite unusual for the Business
Farmer to receive a. letter of this kind
from a. manufacturer. The manufactur-
ers as a rule persistently refuse to in-
form themselves concerning the position
of the farmer, and content themselves
by labelling all complaints about the
farmer’s condition as propaganda and
the monthtngs of agitators. It is surely
encouraging to find the president of a
great manufacturing institution taking
the time to find out the true facts about
the firmer. In nearly every paragraph
of his letter he describes the situati‘
almost exactly as it exists—Editor.

 


8 (914) .,

At the head of all science and arts
at the head of civilization and prog-
ress, stands—mot militarism, the
science which kills; not commerce,
the art which accumulates wealth;
but agriculture, the mother of all in-
dustry and the maintainer of human
life—James A. Garfield.

O t ‘1
KEEP THE GIRLS ON THE FARM

HERE HAS been much talk
Tabout keeping the boys on the

farm. Wailings, long and loud,
have marked their migration from
farm to city. Practically nothing
has been heard about the girls leav-
ing the farm, yet statistics show that
they are leaving more rapidly than
the boys.

Here is food for thought. You
cannot keep the boys on the farm if
the girls have all gone to town. We
need to keep the girls there every
bit as much as the boys.

The farm home is the foundation
of the nation. Never in history have
we needed more and better farm
homes than now. And it takes two
to make a home.

Great men have a habit of passing
on to the Great Beyond without leav-
ing great children to fill their plac-
es. The men who do take their
places often rise like Lincoln who
said: “All I am or ever hope to be,
I owe to my angel mother." Men
born of such mothers, raised in
God’s great out-doors and possess-
ing the strength and wisdom that
comes from clean living and con-
tact with Mother Nature, will large-
ly control the destiny of our nation
as long as it endures. Many of our
great men of today came from farm
homes; so it has been in the past
and so it will be in the future.

But in addition to this the farm
home must furnish the men and wo-
men of our future farm population.
who will till our soil, furnish great
men in the next generation and
maintain farm posterity. Surely
the importance of keeping farm girls
content with farm life must not be
underestimated.

t t t
A Few Suggestions

(1) Shortening the working day
of the average farm woman.

(2) Reducing the amount of
manual labor which she must per-
form.

(3) Raising the standards of
comfort and beauty for the farm
home.

(4) Safeguarding the health of
the farm family and especially that
of the mother and growing child.

These problems may be solved
most quickly by:

(1) Introducing improved home
equipment, chief of which are run-
ning water and power machinery,
more efficient methods of household
management and the installation of
a. modern heating system.

(2) Better knowledge of the
laws of nutrition and hygiene and
the installation of sanitary improve-
ments.

(3) Realizing that comfort,
beauty and health in the farm home
is a Wise investment and a means
for checking the drift of the young
folks to the city.

Given normal living and working
conditions on the farm not so many
of the farm girls .will‘ care to give
up its freedom fer city life. The
farm wife can find much enjoyment
in farm life if her time and strength
is not so fully taken up by her daily'
routine work. This will also allow
her time to make a better, more at-
tractive farm home, allow more time
for rural social center. activities,
more time to care for her own per—

 

 

An I Afternoon Frock

This is a rather
neat and becoming
style. .for a summer
dress. Plaids and
checks, are so, good
this "year, a little

hand w rk on collar
and cu will make
, It attractive.
'f These, as well as
belt and pocket-tops.
' can be of plain ma-
terial, to harmonize.
or of white.

Cut in seven sizes.
84. 36, 38, 40, 42, 44
and 46, ,,

H Price of pattern,

12 cents.

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Ins if’i‘cmoax BUSINESS FKR‘MER

 

 

help you.
awfully good farm weekly.

where we can have our own sweet way.

or some hints you have found tlmmvers.

 

sonal appearance and for reading
and keeping informed on the topics
of the day.

All this will exert a powerful in-
fluence toward keeping the farm
boys and girls content with farm
life. The result will be a better,
fuller life, a better citizenry and a
greater and better nation.

. t O

The young people may be inclined
to drift toward the city for a period
but it would seem to me that a short
sojourn should satisfy. The “beau-
tiful snow," is beautiful for only a
very short time in the city and then
it is as uninviting as mud and

Edited by MRS. GRACE NELLIS JENNEY

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you are doing. planning or thinking about—send me in some recipes you have found extra nice
I want. on, so much, to know you all betteri—
Mrs. Grace Neill: Jenney. The Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens. Mich.

too busy to

promise that
my ability,

In return I

glad to do to the best of

 

fiJ

effeminate." Do not say “A sort of
box,” if you mean a box of special
make. One may, however, separate
different sorts of grain or various
sorts of merchandise. See Kinds of.”

JOHN BURROUGHS

0U WILL notice this week that
our poem is one written by our
great naturalist, who recently
passed into the life beyond, John
Burroughs. Henry Van Dyke, an-
other great American has written
very appreciativer of him and I
believe you will enjoy reading just

a few quotations from his article.
“The making of America and of

 

 

SERENE I FOLD my arms and wait;
Nor care for wind, or tide, or sea;
I rave no more 'galnst time or fate,
For In! my own shall come to me.

I stay my haste, I make delays,

For what avails this eager pace?

I stand amid eternal ways,

And what ls mine shall know my face»

Asleep. awake, by night or day,
The friends I seek are seeking me:
No wind can drive my bark astray,
Nor change the tide of destiny.

What matter If I stand alone?
I wait with by the coming years;

 

 

' you mean good;

- actlyias if I. were
.bread.” a . ~ ,
“sort of. This phrase suggests in ‘

Waiting

By JOHN BURROUGHS

My heart shell reap where It has sown.
And garner up its fruit of tears.

The waters know their own and draw

The brook that springs In yonder height:
80 flows the good with equal law

Unto the soul of pure delight.

The flower nodding In the wind

Is ready pllghted to the bee:

And, maiden, why that look unkind?
For lo! thy lover ceeketh thee.

The stars come nightly to the sky:
The tidal wave unto the sea;
Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high
Can keep my own away from me.
‘

 

 

 

 

Worse for it is greasy with oil. In
summer you breath dry—baked air
breather over and over by thous-
ands of lungs. No. Give me the
blue dome of heaven and the in-
dependent life.——P1-ow and Tractor.

 

BETTER SPEECH .

OUR EDITOR had a bad dream

last night. She dreamed she
“ had used a double negative in
the last issue. You know she
would almost rather break her neck,
so she arose an hour early and look—
ed the paper through. Was it there?
You tell me.

II! t t

The Literary Digest is sending out
a very valuable little hand book
called, “Mend Your Speech." We
all need to for there is always room
for improvement. It is sent for the
asking, I believe. Address The Lit-
erary Digest, 354-360 Four Avenue,
New York City. Here are two little
excerpts from the book:

“Mend your speech lest it may mar
your fortune” is a maxim which
should be taken to heart by every
man and woman of culture, for the
best of us are given to err when we
speak our native tongue.

“love. Often loosely llSBd as a syn—
onym of like. “I just love cake; it’s
awfully nice," cried Peggy, taking
a large bite.

“You should not say you love
cake," chided her mother. “say you
like it. And don’t use awfully when
you mean very; don’t say nice when
now, dear, repeat
it.”

- -“And Peggy heartlessly said: “I

. likecake; it is very good,” then con-

it sounds ex-
talking about

tinued, “but mother,

itself a muddleheadedness, or an in-
dolent mind that refuses to grapple
with its own conceptions—an indo-
lence not extenuated by barefaced
insinuation that precision of ex-
pression is unnecessary.

“The phrase sort of is spreading
daily. Its use instead of “rather”
or “somewhat” should be avoided.
Say, “She is rather weary, not not
sort of weary;” “He is somewhat

genuine Americanism has been done
out—of—doors. From the days of the
Pilgrim Fathers when they dug
clams and caught ale—wives, and
noted that the right time to plant
Indian corn was when the young
oak leaves were about the size of a
mouse’s ear, down to the present
time when, the winners of the West
are still wrestling with the prob-
lems of irrigation and forestry the
true spirit of America has found its
strength with nature.

“He was born in New York state
in 1837, the son of a farmer and
got such learning as the common
schools could give him. " “ ‘ He
lived near his beloved Catskills on
his place called Riverby and fol-
lowed Adam’s calling as a fruit
farmer. But he loved to wander
and you were apt to meet him al-
most anywhere amid the forests and
mountains of America.

“He wrote ‘Wake Robin,’ the title
of course is the common name of
trillium erectum, that three-lobed
flower which stars our woods early
in the spring. But if you want to
know what it means you must read
John Burroughs. He also wrote,
‘Winter Sunshine,’ ‘Lolcusts and
Wild Honey,’ ‘Signs and Seasons,’
and so on. In everyone of them
there is the feeling of nature's real—
ity in touch with human sentiment.
‘ * * ‘ As you read his books you
see his ruddy cheeks, his high
thoughtful forehead, his clear, kind,
watchful eyes, yes, and his snowy
pa'triarchial beard."

Fine books to read for those of
us who live so close to nature.

 

CORRESPONDE NT‘S COLUMN

HE VERY best method of pre—

serving eggs is to immerse them

inwater glass. Il‘resh, clean
eggs may be kept from 6 to 10
months and are good for all house-
hold purposes.

Heat 12 quarts of water to the
boiling point and allow it to cool.
Dip out 9 quarts and add 1 quart of
sodium silicate and stir thoroughly.
Sodium silicate is the chemist'u
name for water glass. This'liquid
should be put in a clean dry 5 gal-
lon crock. This amount will pre-

-»

 

June 25, 1921 '

serve 15 dozen eggs which may
placed all at once or from time
time. Keep the crock in a dry, cool
place and cover to prevent evapor-
ation. Solid eggs can be cleaned
with a cloth dampened in vinegar.
0 t 0

Now For a Long, Cold Drink

For the noon day meal on hot
days why not serve iced coflee or
tea, the latter with a little sliced
lemon or orange? I have known
men—folks coming in hot and tired
at noon time to be put in an imme-

diate good humor by a cool delicious

drink. If coffee is left from break-
fast be sure to drain of! the grounds.
It can then be made ready for din-
ner quickly. It becomes rank if it
stands with the grounds in it. Tea
also should be drained as soon as
well steeped. Either may be pre-
pared right after breakfast and will
have plenty of time in which to be-
come thoroughly chilled. Green
tea is not good for iced tea. Eng~
lish breakfast, Salada, orange pekoe
or any first-class black tea.

This is all for the benefit of young
housekeepers. We older ones have
known all this for a long tinge.

t O 0

Where are the answers. to the
questions asked by A Farmer's Wife
published in the issue of June 11?

I am still looking eagerly in my
mail box. We do not want to dis-
appoint her.

You know we really do not enjoy
anything fully unless we have a hand
in it ourselves. I might add “It is
more blessed to give than to re-
ceive,”—a word to the Wise is suf-
flcient.

t O 0

I have a new method of preparing
grape juice, very good and simple to
make. Does any one want it? If
you have an especially good one
send it in. It may be better than
mine.

3 t 3

Did any one of our readers makg
that sweater-coat published and il-
lustrated a few weeks ago, and if so,
what luck?

0 t t

The recipes have just come in,

thank you.

 

SODIE GOOD RECIPES

I am glad to send the recipes asked
for in to—day’s Business Farmer. I enjoy
the Home Department very much, but
think it far too short. I will also send
the recipe for chocolate pie, which is
cheap and also very good.———Mrs. Grace
O'Connell, Montcalm county, Mich.

Chocolate Pie

One cup sugar, 2 tablespoons flour, one
tablespoon cocoa. Mix together and add
to one pint of water. Cook in double
boiler until thick. When cream is cool
add teaspoon vanilla and fill baked shell.
When perfectly cold cover with Whipped
cream. It can also be poured into sher-
bet glasses while warm and used as a
dessert for supper,

Lemon Pie With Two Crusts

One lemon cut up and grated rind. one
cup sugar, two-thirds cup water, two
tablespoons flour, butter size of walnut.

Cream Puffs

Half cup butter melted in one cup hot
water. While boiling beat in 1 cup flour.
Let 0001 and stir in 3 eggs, one at a time
without beating. Drop on greased tins
in spoonfulls and let bake in moderate
oven 35 minutes.

Custard

One and one—half cups milk, 2 eggs, 4
teaspoons flour. Sugar to taste, season
with vanilla. When cold fill pufls. The
puffs should be opened on the side, when
filled dredge with powdered sugar, This
will make nine puffs, and they are very
good.

 

A fliver in Newton, Kan., broke
the arms of four persons who at-
tempted to crank it in less than a
week. That’s what comes of cross-
ing a bicycle with a mule.

. For Play Time

Here is Dolly
Dimple with her
jumping rope. She
can tumble around
to her heart's con-
tent. for it is a
one-piece dress and
can almost be
made in an after-
noon, and is “just
nothing" to Iron.
No ruffles or tucks
and so cunning.
bonnet Is pretty. too. Out in live
my size requires 1

material and one

 

 

 

A m flowered material is shown here
even oretonnes. not too heavy. are used
for this design. ,

 

 


 

 

. ,cf‘hw

_”Michigan Business Farmer

June 25, 1921

ALWAYS ADDRESS ALL LETTERS

 

 

 

 

 

UNCLE NED,
MT. CLEMENS,
MICHIGAN
Care of

 

 

 

THE ROBINS AND THE CHERRIES
“ HOSE ROBINS are in our
cherry trees again and they are
eating all our cherries up!"

h

cried Elsie and Bobby as they came

running into the house all out of
breath.

“I am going to get my air-rifle
and scare them away," continued
Bobby.

“Just a minute, children," spoke
up grdhdpa looking up from the pa-
per he was reading. “Those robins
have paid for the cherries they are
eating." ,

"What!" exclaimed the children
in surprise. “How did they pay for

them ?"

Grandpa laid the paper aside and

said, “Sit down a moment and I will

tell you."

The children drew up chairs close
to the one that grandpa was sitting
in.

“The robins have earned those
cherries,” began grandpa. “Each
one killed over a hundred worms

.and insects every day this year

that would have ruined many of our
crops if they had not worked so hard

Into get rid of them.

“Cherries are but a small part of
what the robins eat. Forty-two per
cent of their food consists of insects.
Sixteen per cent of these insects are
beetles; five per cent are grasshop-

THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARM'ER

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pers, and nine per cent are cater-
pillars of various kinds.

“It has been discovered that a
robin will eat 68 earthworms in one
day. This means the birds eats
forty—one per cent more than its own
weight in twelve hours. If your
papa or I ate at that rate we would
eat about seventy pounds of meat a
day and drink five or six gallons of
water.

“And,” continued grandpa, “they
are so cheery and friendly I would
miss them very much if they went
away and never came back. Wouldn’t
you?”

“Yes,” said Bobby, slipping out of
his chair, “we would miss them.
They are welcome to the cherries. I
will not frighten them anymore.”

“I am so glad you told us about
the robins, grandpa,” said Elsie, and
turning to Bobby she continued,
"Let’s go out under the trees and
watch them."—UNCLE NED.

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

Dear Uncle Ned—Here I am again
but this time Lam not going to describe
myself or tell how many cows, etc., we
have because I told you that before This
time I am going to tell you about a trip
I took. The characters are my two cous~
ins, myself and a mad animal named Mr.
John~

One day last summer as it was very
nice out my cousins and I thought we
would go fishing. We started in the
morning and took our dinners. The
creek was about 2 1—2 miles from our
place. We put some bait on our hooks
and started to fish. We wandered up the
creek a ways and finally got through a
fence. Listen! We neard something!
Sure enough, we looked up and we saw
Mr. John coming through the woods

grumbling about somethin all to himself.
Maybe it was because he did not want us
to fish. Finally he stood still and one of
my cousins and myself went back while
the other one started up the creek. Dar-
ing. 1’11 say! Then Mr, John went back
and met her in the middle of the woods.
She got up a tree in the woods. My cou-
sin and I were on other side of the fence
but the fence was broken so we got in a
tree also. Mr. John kept on grumbling
and then we began to call back and forth
to each other which made Mr, John feel
mad. He couldn’t understand us. We
began to get worried because our mate
was up in the tree and she didn‘t call any
more til] finally we saw“ something run
past the tree we were in. We thought
it was Mr. John. but We gave a squeal
and found out it was our mate. W'c
came down out of the tree and talked
matters over, ate our dinners and then
it was time to go home. We went home
without any fish, but Mr. John didn’t
get us. Thank you for all the letters.
—-(x‘ladys Telgenhoff,

 

Dear Uncle Nedz—Here is another
girl who would like to join your merry
circle. May I‘.’ We get the Michigan
Business Farmer and like it very much
and I like to read the Children's Hour
best. I am twelve years old and am go—
lng to be in the eighth grade at school.
We live on a farm of 160 acres. For pets
I have some rabbits, a dog, two little
cats, some chickens and a pair of guin-
eas. I have three brothers and two sis-
ters living and two sisters dead. My
brothers' names are Lorrell, R0 and
Otto, and the sisters names are ..sther
and Viola. Wish some of the girls and
boys would write to me.—Helen Seifer-
lein. Hemlock, Mich., R. F. D. l.

 

Dear Uncle Ned:~—My grandpa takes
the M. B. F. and I read the Children’s
Hour and like it fine. I think that the
little girl in New York is right. I know
that I like to read stories the best. But
then some cannot always write stories or
about a trip they took. The other day
in school my teacher wanted me to tell
her a story for language class. When I
got home I looked in the M. R. F. and
found the story of the Wicked Little Elf.
I told my teacher the story and she said

(915) 9

it was a good one. We live near Fife
Lake and in the summer we go to the
lake quite often. We take our dinners
and go in bathing and boat riding. We
haVe a. good time. We live near a river
too. We go there trout fishing some
times. We take our dinners and have a
good time. We went once and stayed all
night. — Mildred Wheeler, Fife Lake,
Michigan, R—Z,

 

Dear Uncle Nedz—May I join your
happy circle? I am a girl nine years
old and in the third grade. My father
takes the M. B, F. and we like it fine
We live on my uncle's farm. We have
2 horses. 4 cows, 12 pigs and about 80
chickens. For pets I have 6 cats and a
pair of birds. My uncle’s house burned
five weeks ago and burned nearly every-
thing that was in it. Everything I had
to put on my head was burned. We are
livin in the grainery until he gets a
new ouse built. I have one brother 15
years old—Gladys M. Eiler, R. R. 3,
Cadillac, Michigan,

 

Dear Uncle Ned—I am a boy 8 years
of age and am in the second grade at
school. We have 7 cows, 11 calves, 18
pigs, 10 horses, 17 sheep, 3 geese, 10 old
ducks, 31 little ducks. 2'] little chickens
and 120 old hens. I live in the country
a half mile north of the school house.
We have 33 pupils in our school and the
teacher is Mrs. Milo Maynard. 1 have
a pet lamb at home—«Arthur Schrelber,
Elsie. Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Nedz—Here is another boy
who wants to join your merry circle. I
am fourteen years old and am in the
eighth grade. We live on a hundred
and si acre farm. We have thirty—
two hea of cattle and for pets I have a.
dog, horse, some pigs and guineas. We
get the M. B. F. and like it fine. I just
love to read the Children's Hour. 1 will
close with a riddle. Round as an apple,
deep as a cup, all the king’s horses can't
pull it up.——<Roy Seiferlein, Hemlock.
Michigan. R-i.

 

Dear Uncle Ned:——My parents take the
M. B. F. and I enjoy reading the Child—
ren's Hour very much and I would like to
join the circle too. I am a girl 10 years
old and in the 6th grade. We live on a
67 acre farm. 1 have one sister and one
brother. Their names are Esther and
Walter. I belong to a sewing club and
there are seven girls in it. belong to
a poultry club also. I am going to raise
45 chickena—JEmma Estella Ballenbach-
er, Durand. Michigan,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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Doc Sawboncs decided that the Doc
Dads needed a good wash. He sent
word to Flannel Feet the to
round up all the D00 Dads and ring
them to the bathing place of Doovino
at the certain hour. Doc arranged
the whole proceeding: from the first
to the last, soyoumaybo‘surothnt
it was not to be a. painless process.
Firsttheyhadtoclimhahddctoc
high platform on which stands u. very

 

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hard hearted Doohwho pusho- than

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Doo Dads Have a Cleaning Up

down‘ the slide with a. pusher. Plump!
into a huge tub of hot water they go
when a revolving brush and liquid
soap soon clean the dirty little men.
Thoyom aaodiineddout of the tub into an-

or on they go into anoth :-
big tub where they are given a cold
shower. They are then lifted out by
a D00 Dad with a long hook and hung

 

d .

up to dry. After this they are ironed
out nicely to make them smooth.
When the ironing is over they slide
down onto a platform when Poly
stands with a. vacuum cleaner III.
Percy Haw Haw with a feather din-
tar to take on! any possible remain-
ing particles of dust. As a. final stage
Old Doc examines them with a. mat-

nifylng glass looking carefully into the
ears of each one to make sure that
they are clean. One little fellow looks
stared u it he thought he were going
to hm to go through the whole thing

again. was: they are finished with
In. M shine like new pins.
glee” h Hobo hearty falls ov-

the
o: u the night 0: the clean little Doo
' on water and he is

“knightmthrouzhthosamo
pron... ,

 

 

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10 (916)

THE MICHIGAN Busmns‘s FARMER

 

TRADE AND MARKET REVIE‘V

HE SITUATION, in connection
Twith markets and general trade

has changed but little during
the past week and there is nothing
in the present outlook to indicate a
change of much importance until af-
ter the summer vacation season is
over. The most important. announce-
ment, in connection with interna-
tional trade relations is the making
of peace in'upper Silesia. The Brit-
ish coal miners and textile workers
are still out and there is now some
prospect of a general strike of all of
the labor unions of Great Britain.
It is a well known fact. however,
that the more conservative members
of the striking uniom are in favor of
calling off the strike in time to
make terms with the government
within the period fixed by Premier
Lloyd George; many of the miners
have already gone to work and oth-
ers are said to be ready to begin
next week. The general opinion is
that the English labor situation is
greatly improved and the calling of
a general strike is only a remote
possibility.

That the world is nearer a com-
plete realization of a permanent
peace than it has been at any pre-
ceding date, is evidenced by the fact
that France and Germany have
reached an understanding by which
mutual trade relations and an ex-
change of commodities will take
place in the not far distant future.

The most discouraing element, in
Michigan’s future trade outlook, is
the partial failure of the spring
crops of hay, oats, beans and early
potatoes resulting from a lack of
moisture. The labor situation, here
in America, seems to be rapidly
working to a more stable and dc-
pcndable basis: the settlement, dur-
ing the past week, of the long-drawn
out building labor strike in Chicago
has given more than 25,000 men the
opportunity to earn a decent living.

The commercial agencies report a
much larger volume of buying at
retail, of certain commodities, the
selling prices for which have seem-
ingly touched bottom; buyers are
still decidedly stubborn refusing to
buy many things which in their opin-
ion have not yet been properly re-
duced in price.

The New York stock market has
put in another week of declining
markets, oils and industrials taking
the lead in the downward trend;
call money has fluctuated between 5
and 6 per cent. That the money sib
nation is easing up, materially, is
evidenced by the fact that the re-
cent offering, by the United States
government, of notes on the national
treasury, was 50 per cent overxsub-
scribed. The weekly bank clear-
ings, as given out by Dun‘s Finan-
cial Review, are $6,548,179,090.

WHEAT

WHEAT PRICES PER. au., Jun. 21.49111

 

 

 

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fife—R337?“ 1.30 """1.se——1:552"/z
N0. 2 Whlte 1.23
No. 2 Mlxod 1.28 1.52%

 

PRICES one YEAR noo
mo.2 Re‘dl No.2 White! No.2fihllxed

Emu I 2701' i‘ 2.95 l_£95

 

 

The opening day of last week
wheat was strong at Detroit and the
price advanced 2 cent although there
was little activity in the market.
The middle of the week the bullish
tone, due to reports of damage from
hot winds, gave way in the face of
bearish news telling how rapidly
the harvesting was progressing in
the west and that there would be an
early movement to market. The Do-
troit market lost 6 cents on this
bearish news. The day before the
close of the weak dollar- again be-
came frightened over tho hot winds
butinspiteofthbflwhmb-
clined sharply. M m .
saturdny the at ‘
with and advance uh: I
weather but the if"
only held for about an hour.

that time reports came in that tho

Edited by H. H. MACK

 

 

1
m.-

(GENERAL MARKET SUMMARW

 

 

steady and inactive. Hay easy.

sions higher. Beans steady.

DETROIT—that, corn and rye decline.

CHICAGO—«All grains seek lower levels.

Oats dull. Beans

Hogs and provi-

 

 

(Note:
to! page is set. In type.
icing to messr—Edltor.

 

 

The above summarlred Information was recclved AFTER the balance of the mar-
It contains last minute information up to

within one-half hour of

 

 

 

 

 

wheat districts had received rains
and the weather was cooler and
prices declined, making the market
off 19 cents for the week. The Chi-
cago market followed the trend of
Detroit all week and finished lower
for the period. Prices for the 1921
crop advanced nearly every day as
the belief is growing that the new
crop will not be as large as has been
expected. Both winter and spring
wheat have had several set~backa
and at the present time are facing a
wet harvest period. Milling demand
was very poor last week millers ro
porting no demand for flour or feed.
Export business was slow but is ex-
pected to become active in the near
future. Prices declined again Mon-
day of the current week.

 

CORN
’EORN PRIOES PER BU., JUNE 21, 1821
7 ViGradem WWWIpiatrcltlgblcago lVN. 
“in. 2 Yellow  .62 .82 .88
No. 8 Yellow .81
No.  Yeliow . .l _ .58  ifififiwvwg_
' '7~;VVPVBICVES ions YEAR AGO 7___v
 W < I No.3 Yell.‘ No.4 Volt.
Dotmlt. . . . . . . . . . . .l 2.00 l 1.95

 

 

Corn was affected by the strength
in the wheat market the early part
of last week and prices went higher.
Two days later the Detroit market
dropped 1—2 cent with the tone
dull but steady. Friday evening the
market closed with the same tone at
an advance of 1—2 cent. The mar—
ket opened easy Saturday at Detroit
and Chicago and went through the
day Without change in prices. Heavy
receipts are having much to do with
the trend of corn but this grain
is rapidly gaining friends ow-
ing to the belief that; as soon as new
wheat is ready for market corn to
ceipts will take a serious slump. Do-
mestic demand was slow while m:L
port business was dormant. Mach
kets were weak Moday, June 20.

OATS

OAVLPRICEsiPER BU.,_JUNE 21’ 192-1

 

¥VvGrade W‘Wlpgtrolt‘ lcrhlcacrol l. V:
No. 2 White  my. .138“w ‘
No. 8 White .50 .81
No. 4 White ...I

 

”‘és_'_ces;§ié"its'iiiiéé
__l§_g.2 lyrical 59.3 wring} No.4 mm
1.28 l 1.21 l

swan l
The out market followed the
trend of corn last week with advanc-

1.20"

 

 

 

es and declines the same amount.
Receipts were small but sufficient
to fill the demand from buyers; in
fact, at Detroit on Saturday oats
were offered but no buyers could be
found.

RYE

On Monday of last week rye at
Detroit advanced 3 cents but by the
middle of the week the strength had
left the market and the price took
a drop of 7 cents. The inactivity of

the grain continued the rest of the-

week and on Friday the loss at De-
troit amounted to 8 cents and Sat-
urday 4 cents. No. 2 is not quoted
at $1.26 at Detroit.

BEANS

BEAN PRICES PER cum, .1qu 21. 1921
 meter? outdo}: Tit—v.—
‘ws’so 7'“ 4.50'Tm7‘

  912.5”

W Grade

c. "H. 'P. "Tiff
Red Kldncys . .77. . >
__F3'EES 05.ng6? A90  m, n
 __lc. H. P.
Dntrolt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .-l 1.25

 

 

 

During the fore part of the week
of June 13th the Detroit bean mar—
ket declined 10 cents and then on
Wednesday again dropped, this time
5 cents. From then to the closing
day of the week the market showed
considerable strength and firmness
but on Saturday weakened slightly
and declined 10 cents. The demand
remained fair throughout the week.

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WASHINGTON, D. C., June 25,
1921.—Near June 25 the northern
Rockies and all the northern parts of
the continent west of meridian 90
will be covered by a great warm
wave moving southward. When west
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and by June 29 will

all the Atlantic states.
A adios} weather change will fall
bdiind Went warm wave and
all of summer weather
march over the

wide swath

THE WEATHER FOR THE WEEK
As Forecasted by W. '1‘. Foster for The Michigan Business Farmer

warm wave.
about that
storm; it looks ugly on my June
weather chart, but I regret 'that I
cannot tell you exactly the kind of a
storm it will be nor the exact spot
where it will strike hardest. I re-
peatedly told you that the greatest
storms of the summer would strike
east of the Rockies early in June.
Next storm period will occur dur—
ing week centering on July 5. It is
not expected to be so severe as the
two great storm periods in June but
you should not get careless about it.

made by the previous
You should have a care

The storms destroy more lives and
property than war; principally be-
cause people do not hide from the

behind breastworks. 1116

storms
storm will

warm wave 0 this July
cross meridian 90. west of the great
lakes, and its general path eastward
will pass near 0:- a little south of the
great lakes not far from July I. I
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LIVE STOCK MARKETS

The cattle market scored a bra
break, last week, the cause being
too many of the in—between, grassy
kind, too good to go back to a.
country as feeders and not good
enough to satisfy killers” demands.
Last week’s Chicago receipts were
3,300 larger than those of the week
before, 2,300 larger than for the
corresponding week last year and
almost 11,000 larger than for the
same week in‘ 1919. The top in
yearlings was $9-15 and for maturo
steers, $9 per cwt. The yearling.
that topped the market, weighed be-
tween 750 and 850. The steers that
brought $9 were on the long yank
ling order, weighing only 1,211
pounds. Extra. qualitied steers, av-
eraging 1,350, made $8.75 and a
load of extra well finished 1,6”
pound steers sold for $8.60 per cwt.

The eastern market for dressed
beef was active and steady on the
first day of last week but a decline
started oh Tuesday that carried
prices down $1 per cwt. before the
week ended. There was a fair east-
ern order demand and exporters took
2,000 cattle. The demand for well-
finished light cattle was greatly
helped by both the eastern order do
mand and buying for export; owing
to active demand from various
sources, the tidy little cattle men-
tioned above, needed help less than
any other grade of cattle in the
market.

In the sheep and lamb department
the supply was chiefly noted for the
number of light spring lambs that
came to hand in nearly every mm

ket in the country; so generally
plentiful did these little, half—fed
fellows become the demand for

fresh dressed stock was over sup—
plied and prices went on the tobog—
gan. Fat sheep also met with m
indifferent demand and much lower

prices, the heavier grades being al-

most unsalable; the prevailing prie-
es for fat sheep range between $3
and $4 per cwt. Yearling wethers
were almost unsalable. The demand
for breeding ewes was active and
prices about steady with the week
before. Canners and common cull
sheep were not salable at any price.

The trade in spring lambs was
very unsatisfactory, all the weak.
chiefly because of the close sorting
done by buyers. The demand for
feeding lambs was not active at any
time; a few lambs were sold to go
back into the country for $4 to
$4.50 per cwt. and one extra line
load at $5 per cwt. The dressed mut-
ton and lamb trade was almost do—
moralized in all markets, declines
ranging from $5 to $7 per ch, be-
ing the rule around the market cir-
cle. Yearling lambs were very
scarce, the top for this kind being
$10.40 per cwt. Springers will,
hereafter, be classed as lambs and
stock from last year's lamb crop
will be called yearlings.

The market for live hogs is show
ing more independent activity than
It any preceding date, this year and
the writer can see nothing but high-
u'prioeltorthoncxt 60 days; o
M! run of hogs in Chicago on
Hominy of this week was takui
steadily at prices ranging from 10
to 30 cents per cwt. higher than

 

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June 25, 1921

were paid on the strong market of
Saturday of last week. The entire
Eve hog and provision situation has
experienced a change that has caus-
ed the chronic weakness, which has
daracterized the trade during the

t six months, to give place to a

mness that just as surely trends
upward as the aforesaid weakness
Inde for sharply lower price levels.

The speculative provision trade is
fitting quite differently than it did
a this date last month, the cash de-
mand for cured meats and lard
crowding up the quotations for fut-
ures and making the short interests,
in the provision pit, more and more
nervous as time goes on. The south
in buying cured meats and eastern
cities are good buyers of both cured
and fresh pork products. The ex-
port trade in cured meats has been
much lighter this year than last but
Supplies of this commodity, in pack—
ers’ cellars are smaller than they
Vere on this date last year, sug—
gesting an active domestic demand.
Enormous quantities of lard have
been going across the Atlantic all
this year. During the period from
Nov. 1 to June 10, exports of lard
were 485,000,000 pounds, making
an average monthly clearance of
70,000,000 pounds compared with
53,000,000 pounds sent out every
month, last year. The writer is will-
tug to venture the prediction that
the hogs will sell $1 per cwt. higher
than the present scale of values,
during the next 60 days.

1‘0 RID ALSIIIE SEED GROWING
SECTIONS OF WEEDS
(Continued from page 2)

value of alsike clover seed and how

i) get rid of them.

Seed containing noxious and for-
eign seed brings much lower prices
man clean seed, and farm bureau
Deed department sales records will
attest. It is claimed that seed
which may be worth $10 to $12 a
bushel may bring only $5 or $6 if it
contains a large amount of noxi-
ous or foreign seeds. White clover
is often present as a foreign weed.
Because of the similarity in size of
white clover and alsike it is almost
impossible to remove it. Vetch is
mother seed that bothers quite a
good deal. Noxious weeds include
Canada thistle, dock, buckhorn, dod-
der, cookie.

lWICIIIGAN STATE ABE {DEFIN-
ANGUS SALE

7 HF] BREED promotion sale held

L at East Lansing, Mich., by the
Michigan Aberdeen-Angus Breed-
ers’ Association drew bidders from

all parts of the state and a large
number of new breeders were start—
ed in the business. While the av-
erage price received was not high
the ccnsignors feel that the sale was
a success as the primary object in
holding a sale at this time, was to
put the cattle into the hands of be-
ginners who could not buy during
the reign of high prices. Each con—
signer had contributed a few head
not because he could spare them but
simply to help boost the breed and
a great deal of credit is due these
men for the support they are giving
the breed and the clean businesslike

THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER

way in which their sales are con-
ducted.

Wildwood Farms had the top an-
imal in both male and females. The
top bull was Black Hero of Wild-
wood selling for $505 to Fred S.
Smith of Hart, Mich. The top female
was the senior heifer calf Blackcap
of Wildwood sold to Thornhill Or-
chards of Thompsonville, Mich., at
$450. She was one of the nicest
things offered from a Michigan herd
in some time.

Col. John P. mutton sold the cat-
tle in his usual masterly fashion.

44 head sold for $6,607.50. Av-
erage, $150.17.

GERMANY BUYING FOODSTUFFS
IN UNITED STATES
ERMANY is buying heavily in
the United States and is paying
for most of her purchases. She
would develop into a still larger
customer of this country if credits
could be arranged. This was re—
vealed last week by Chicago bankers.
Recently Germany took 10,000,000
bushels of wheat out of this mar-

ket, a transaction involving $14,—

000.000.

DISCOVERER Oi“ IIITRAM CLOV-
ER VISITS MICHIGAN

ROFESSOR Hughes of the. sari—
Pcultural college at Ames, Iowa.

“discoverer of Hubam, the fam—
ous annual sweet clover, and Pro—
fessor Peters of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture at Washington, were
recent visitors to farm bureau head—
quarters in Lansing. They inspect-
ed at M. A. C. test plots where the
farm bureau is testing all the ex—
cellent northwestern and northern
grown alfalfa seed brought into the
state in an effort to learn which are
the very best for Michigan condi-

tions. The visitors were very fav-
orably impressed with Michigan
methods.

CROP REPORTERS \VANTED

Would you be willing to send a
brief report on how crops look in
your vicinity every week, if we
would send you the postal—cards
ready stamped and addressed for
mailing?

\Ve are very anxious to get one or
two loyal readers of the iii'sixicss
WARNER in every county in Michigan,
to do this favor for us. You will be
more than repaid by the publishing
of the other reports and you will do
a very great service to the farming
business in your home state. The
cards do not require more than 5
minutes of anyone’s time to fill out
and if you are too busy, tell some—
one eise in thefamily what to write
us.
This is a call for volunteers and

I shall greatly appreciate your re—
sponding. Your name, initials or
neither will be signed to the pub-

lished report as you desire although
we think it is no more than fair to
those who do this favor, to give them
full credit by publishing their names
however, this is optional with you.
If you will write us just a line at
once, we will send a bunch of cards
and full instructions. No previous
experience is necessary and there is
no obligation to keep it up, if at any
time you get tired of the work. Most
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Michigan Farmer, Detroit, to read the
editorial in the issue dated June 18th, 1921.
governor and the hard—working farmer legislators must have rubbed
their eyes and wondered if they were dreaming when they read—
“The opponents of the state income tax, in other words
the corporate influences of the state, succeeded in having the
propos1tion of the submission of a constitutional amendment
which would make possible the enactment of such a law kill-
ed in the state senate during the

I T MUST HAVE been a sudden jOIt to the conflding readers of The

Following this are seven inches of editorial comment bewailing
the fact that “(may coterie of legislators” can

The front page of our own issue of June 18th, was devoted to this
mighty big piece of news to the farmers of Michigan who had fought
hard for it, the article containing a history, resume and items of in-
terest concerning the legislative battle, before its passage.

We call the attention of our readers to these facts because we
fear some might be mislead by this misstatement appearing in the only
other Michigan farm weekly and the Busquss FABMEB wrongfully ac-
cused of error in our own up-to-the-minute report of the real facts
which appeared in last week’s issue.

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CERTIFIED WHEAT

Please give in this department as soon
as «convenient all steps necessary to have
wheat certified Is it necessary to sow
certified seed to have a crop certified?
To whom should one make application?
At what period of development must it
be done? W’ho must pay the bill, etc
G. E, W., North Branch, Michigan.

The Michigan Crop Improvement
Association produces registered
wheat. Anyone wishing to be a
grower of such should first obtaip
registered seed of the variety desir-
ed. This seed should be treated for
smut and grown on clean ground.
During the growing season all nox-
ious weeds, etc., should be rogued
out.

The Association conducts, under
the supervision of the Farm Crops
Department of the Michigan Agri—
cultural College, a very rigorous
field inspection. Before the arrival
of the inspector the grower should
thoroughly rogue his field, for in
case the inspector finds noxious
weeds such as cockle, rye or other
undesirabilities his report will not
be such as to permit the Association
to pass the field. In case the field
inspection passes, the grower after
threshing sends in welldcleaned peck
sample which he certifies to be rep-
resentative of all seed which he will
offer for sale. This is given a care—
ful analysis and in event that it
measures up to the high standards
established by the Association the
seed is given a registry number,
and the growers farm becomes a
registered seed farm, and is listed as
such in the Association records.

The cost of membership to the As-
sociation is $1 every year. The in-
spection fees are $8 for each va-
riety inspected, except in those cases
where four inspections may be made
in one day, in which case the grow-
ers come under the community pro—

vision, for which the fees are only
$6.00.

At the International Crop Im-
provement Association the inspec-

tion system and subsequent registry
system of the Michigan Crop Im-
provement Association was widely
praised, and it was the opinion man—
ifested by several present that the
plan should be adopted by all states.

For further information address
Secretary of the Michigan Crop Im-
provement Association, East Lans-
ing, Michigan—A. L. Bibbins, Sec-
retary-Treasurer.

LIABLE FOR PASTURE RENT

A has rented a pasture of B by the
year for several seasons which is water-
ed by a spring. The spring always fur-
nished plenty of water until last sum—
mer it dried up. A bad to take cattle
out for nearly half 01' season. Should
A pay full rent? C‘an B collect? Verbal
agreement and no mention made as to
guarantee of water. Suppose A rents
a farm for a year and the buildings burn
down during summer will A havo to pay
full rent if B does not help A in some
way. Subscriber. Illinois.

 

A is liable to B for the full rent
of the pasture; and would be liable
for full rent of farm if the buildings
burned unless exception from liabil-
ity in whole or in part by reason of
loss by fire was included in the
lease—Legal Editor.

CREOSOTE IN CEMENT BRICK
CHIMNEY

We have a chimney made of cement
brick. Can you tell me what 1 can do
to prevent the creosote from coming
through on the outside? Have painted
it twice with cement paint but seems to
do no good—L. A. B., Highland, Mich.

 

There are two ways that I might
suggest to correct the difficulty of
creosote in the cement brick chim—
ney. One would be to determine
whether the wood used or the drafts
to the stove could be adjusted so
that creosote would not form. Beech
wood is used extensively for ob-
taining creosote and other distilla-
tions of like nature and it may be
largely responsible for the forma-
tion of- creosote-which‘occurs eas-
ily when the drafts through the
chimney are Obstructed and a little

adjustment of them might show a
way to obviate the difficulty. As to
protection of the outside Of the chim-
ney so that the creosote will not
come through is a matter difficult
to overcome. Cement wash or
plaster would prove about as effect-
ive as anything. Other means which
could be used but which would be
objectionable from the standpoint of
appearance would be to paint the
outside of the chimney with asphalt-
um paint, by which means two or
three coats would make the chimney
practically waterproof. The sur-
face might also be waterproofed by
heating the surface with a blow
torch and applying hot paraffin
which would be drawn into the
concrete and fill the pores. The
later plan would have little effect on
the appearance of the chimney——
H. H. Musselmam, Professor of
Farm Mechanics, M. A. C.

WOOLEN MILL HOLDS FLEECE

Early last fall I wrote the Mt. Pleas-
ant Woolen Mills to see if they would
make me some batten if I sent them the
wool. They sent me their prices for
making batten, so I washed 8. choice
fleece and sent it to them to have made
up. A few weeks ago I wrote them and
asked about it In answer to my letter
they said the mill was shut down and
did not know when it would start up. So
a couple of weeks ago I wrote and ask-
ed them if they would send the wool
back if they were not going to run.
got a. card saying they had no time to
bother shipping my wool but if I would
come there they would ‘give me my fleece
or one as good. Now have they any
right to hold m wool under those con-
ditions?—E. 0., Marion, Michigan.

Unless you had an agreement with
the mill that they would reship your
wool if they did not run the mill you
would be obliged to take your wool
at the mill or authorize some one to
take it for you as you have no con-
tract with them to do anything else.
If they offer to deliver the wool to
you at the mill they have met any.
legal requirementr—Legal Editor.

 

 

Another “fly—by-night” mail order

tire concern has been discovered
and exposed. The company is op-
erating under the name of Franklin
Tire and Rubber Company and is
located at Chicago, Ill. The Na-
tional Vigilance Committee who ex—
posed this concern state they have
made a practice of trading on es-
tablished names. Two or three years
ago it was organized under the
name of Racine Tire and Rubber
Company of Chicago, Ill., and they
put out tires called, “Racine Qual-
ity Tires." At that time they were
selling to dealers and dealers un-
derstood this company was the well
known Racine Rubber Company of
Racine, Wis. The National Vtigi-
lance Committee took up with this
company the question of their name
infringing upon that of the Racine
Rubber Company and the name was
changed to Racine Quality Tire and
Rubber Co. This change did relieve
the situation so the Vigilance Com-
mittee again took the matter up
with them threatening suit and they
changed their name to the Franklin
Tire and Rubber Co. and put out a
tire called "Franklin." This time
they had chosen the name of the
Franklin Tire and Rubber Co., of
Kent, Ohio, who have been doing
business several years and are put-
ting out a tire under the same name.
As the company in Kent, Ohio, had
had the name “Franklin” registered
and used it as a trade-mark the
Vigilance Committee got in touch
with the Chicago concern and they
advised they would change the name
of their tires. They are now selling
a tire under the name of “Racing
Tire” and “Special Racing Tire."
This is somewhat similar to the word
“Racine.” Farmers beware of this
concern. They are flooding the
mails with attractive circulars and
form letters marked “personal.” M.
B. F. never handles advertising of
this nature.

DETROIT PAOIIING 00. STOCK
I received from a stock and bond
house in Detroit a postal card asking
if I would care to sell my stock in the
Detroit Packing Company and what
price I would make them on it. I have
ten shares for which I paid $60 per
share. Would you advise me to sell
them now?—J. P. M .. Tm“
County.

If we were as wise as Solomon
and as canny as Andrew Carnegie,
or if we were the seventh son of a
seventh son, we might be able to
advise our readers just when to buy
or when to sell not only stocks and
bonds, but precious stones, metals
and the products of their farms with
the partial assurance that our ad-
vice, if accepted by our earnest in-
quirer, would prove infallible. As
it is the Bosrmcss Fame can only
attempt to secure the available facts
from its vantage point, draw the ob-
vious conclusions and pass them on
to you.

It is the writer’s opinion in this
particular case that outside interests
having watched the rapid building
progress of the Detroit Packing
Company now nearing completion
and already in operation in several
departments, have determined to get
the control of the voting stock away
from the farmers in Michigan who
now own it.

Officials of the packing company
inform us that at this time, they
have no authorized agents selling
their stock in Michigan and that any
further issues of stock will be offer-
ed to their present farmer stockhold-
ers before outsiders are approached.
They appear anxious and in our
opinion, rightly so, that this stock
should be held by farmers and not
become a football on the stock ex-
change, although this would prob-
ably mean an initial profit to the
farmers who were inticed into a
small profit over the price at which
they purchased the original stock.

If there is a determined effort,
such as our reader seems to indi-
cate, from some outside source, to
secure control of this stock, it can
be secured in only one way and that
will be through purchase from the
present farmer—owners. This can
be accomplished only by offering the
present owners more than they paid
for the stock or “hearing” the mar-
ket by intimidating them with ma-
licious stories or propaganda into
selling at less than they paid for it.

The Detroit Packing Company is
not, as we understand it, a cooper-
ative institution in the sense we ap-
ply it to farm organization proposi-
tions, but it is, according to its
officia’ls, principally owned and con-
trolled by farmers and live—stock
shippers in Michigan. That control
will hold just so long as its present
stockholders stand by it and thus, it
would appear to us, for a farmer to
sell, even at a small profit when the
plant is just about to go into full
killing and packing operations,
would not only be poor business but
savor of desertlng the ship just as
it went into action.

The BUSINESS FARMEB has been in-
terested in the success of the Detroit
Packing Company from the start, be-
cause it is, in our opinion, an in-
teresting step forward in the prog-
ress of paving the farmers’ road to
market. It is, we believe, a. finish-
ing plant for a raw product of the
farm managed by men who have
had years of successful experience
in the packing business, but owned
and controlled by farmers, and we
have not found any reason to date
why it cannot be a success.

For the reasons as above stated,
we woud not advise any present
stockholder to 'sellhis holdings, and
if forced by circumstances to do so,
we think in justice to the livestock
industry in Michigan, he should
first get the price which the stoCk-
broker is willing to pay for it and
then sell it, to some man in his
neighborhood, to keep the control ‘of
the company in farmers’ hands.—
The Publisher.

 

 

 

 


 

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June 25, 192i

DEEP CUIII‘IVATION OF CORN
CROP REMOVEB MUCH
NEEDED MOISTURE
(Continued from page 5)
hastening germination, and the
weight of the machine compacts the
soil so that moisture is constantly
drawn up to and around the roots.
For this latter reason culti-packing
corn is very beneficial at any time
after the corn comes up and until it
can no longer be done without
breaking off too many stalks. The
downward pressure of the culti-
packer wheels is very effective in
killing cutworms and insects. If
used before the corn is up it is good
practice to drive the culti—packer at
an angle with the planter tracks so
that squirrels, gophers and insects
will not follow the rows from one
hill to another. The culti-packer
may be used with all wheels on until
the plants are two or three inches
high. For later work the detach-
able wheels should be removed and

the rows straddled.

A peg-tooth barrow offers ad-
vantages similar to those of the cul-
ti-packer. While it does not firm
the soil around the seeds or roots, it
creates the desired mulch and is
slightly more effective as a weed
killer. It the teeth are set at the
proper angle, corn may be harrowed
until it is four or five inches high.

From the time corn is planted it
should be cultivated just as often as
is necessary to maintain the protec—
ting surface mulch and keep the
weeds down. If weeds do not both—
er there is nothing to be gained by
cultivating of'tener than occasional
rains make necessary. The mulch
may get very dry—-even dusty—but
so long as it does not crust or pack
it will prevent evaporation, and
moist soil will be found beneath it.

The main point is to restore the
mulch just as soon after a rain as
the soil can be worked nicely. If
this point is allowed to pass and the
surface soil becomes hard and dry.
cultivation will serve only to break
it up into lumps which permit the
air to circulate too deeply. drying
the soil out even more rapidly than
before. This accounts for the dam—
age frequently done to a corn crop
by the last cultivation. And this
damage is often increased by the
tendency to ridge up the corn the
last time through. The deep culti—
vation necessary to do the ridging
severs too many of the corn roots
just at a time when the roots and
plenty of moisture are most needed
to properly develop the ear. While
ridging has its advantages in sec—
tions where high winds predominate
they generally are more than offset
by the damage resulting from torn
roots and “firing.”

It has also been proved that it
is not good practice to “lay the corn

by" simply because it is too tall for.

two—horse cultivation. At this time
the ears have already been formed
and what they need is an uninter—
rupted supply of moisture to develop
them to their fullest size. If the
surface mulch is destroyed by rain,
even when the corn is tasseling, it
will pay to giye it a shallow cultiva—
tion with a toothed one—horse culti—
vator. Corn frequently has been
damaged by too deep cultivation, but
no corn crop ever was hurt by too
frequent shallow cultivation—Cour—
tesy of Tractor Farming.

 

HUSBAND AND WIFE FARM BUR-
EAU MEMBERSHIP PLAN
OMEN are taking an active part
in state farm bureau affairs,
‘particularly in Wayne and

Monroe counties where the husband

and wife farm bureau membership

plan has been adopted—the mem-
bership of the husband entitles his

- wife to an active membership in the

county farm bureau, according to
action taken by these county farm
bureaus, says Mrs. Edith M. Wagar
of Monroe county, the woman mem-
ber of the state farm bureau ex-
ecutive committee.

Mrs. Wager has been urging sim-
ilar action to other county farm bur-
eaus of the state when speaking be-
fore them. She is also urging farm
women to taken an active interest
in the state farm bureau and its
work.

 

 

THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER

size of sci. or Cory as often as you wis
here at special ow

 

 

 

 

To avoid conflicting date: we will withoui
cost. list the date of any live stool: sale in

Michigan. If you are considering a sole Id-
vlse us at once and we will claim the date
for you. Address. Live Stock Editor. M. B.
F.. Mt. Clemens.

Howell Sales Co.

 

Oct. 21, Holsteins.

Howell. Mich.

 

 

 

 

LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEERS
Andy Adams, Litchflcld, Mich.
Ed. Bowers, South Whitley, Ind
Porter Colestock. Eaton Rapids. Mich.
John Hoffman, Hudson, Mich.
D. L. Perry, Columbus, Ohio.
J. L Post, Hillsdalc, Mich.
J. E. Ruppert, Perry, Mich.
Harry Robinson, Plymouth. Mich.
Wm. Wafl'ie, Goldwater. Mich.
John P. Hutton, Lansing, Mich.
J O. A. Rasmussen, Greenville, Mich.

CATTLE

HOLSTEm-FBIESIAN

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

USE PURE BRED SlRES

Estimates furnished by the Dairy Division
of the United States Department of Agricul-
ture show that the dairy cows of the country
average only 4,500 lbs. of milk per year.

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

Let us help you find a good one to use on

'your herd. You cannot make a better in-
vestment.
MICH. HOLSTEIN - FRIESIAN

ASSOCIATION
Old State Block Lansing, Mich.

 

 

 

SHOW BULL

Slrcd by s Pontiac Aaggie Korndykedienger-
veld DeKol bull from e nearly 19 lb. show
cow. First prize junior calf, Jackson Fair,
1920. Light in color and good individual
Seven months 0d. Price, $125 to make
room. Hurryl

Herd under Federal Supervision.

BOAROMAII FARMS

JACKSON. MICH.

Holstein Breeders Since 1906

 

 

 

 

  SIRED BY SEGIS FLINT

llcngcrveid Lad. The
average records of his four nearest dams are
33.12 lbs. butter and 730 lbs. milk in seven
days from A. R. O. dams representing the lead-
1ng families of the breed with records up to 29
pounds in seven days. Priced to sell.

L. C. KETZLER

Flint, Mich.

 

OLVERINE STOCK FARM REPORTS GOOD

sales from their herd. We are well pleased with
the calves from our Junior Herd Sire "King Pom
tine Lundo Komdyke chis" who is A son of
‘King of the Pontiscs" from a daughter of Pon-
tiac Clothilde De Kol 2nd. A few bull calves for
mid T, W. Sproguo. R 2. Battle Creek. Mich.

 

W0 REGISTERED HOLSTEIN HEIFERS
past yearlings, one bred of excellent breeding.
Photo and pedigrees. Herd federal tested.

HOWARD T. EVANS
Eau Claire, ,Mich.

 

I AM OFFERING LIGHT COLORED HOL.
stein—Friesian bull 1 year old from 21.51 lb.
dam and sire whose six nearest dams are 33.34
lbs. butter. Herd under state and federal sup«
crvision.

Oscar Waiiln, Wiscogin Farm. Unionviiie, Mich.

Registered Holstein Bull

Sired by a Son from King Gun and from a 22
1b. cow. $90 delivered your station. Write for

pedigree.
EARL PETERS, North Bradley, Mich.

Yearling Bull For Sale

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

ROY F. FICKIES

Chesaning, Mich.

HERD SIRES III SERVIOE

KING ZERMA ALCAR’I‘RA PONTIAC NO.
143401 e son 01 the 850.000 bull.

BIB ECHO NO. 247387 a double
gundson 01 MAY ECHO SYLVIA the champion

an offer nu s yearling son of K from s
cow with I day A. R. . of 18% butter.
427.8 milk. Next dam 15.11 butter. 87.
mi&‘ Price 8150. Also some yesriins rend
do rs o! KING Price 8150 each. P recs
sent ohms“.

. BROWN. Breedsville. lien.
Breeder of W Stock Only

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(OPEOIAL ADVERTISING RATIB under this heading to honest breeders of live stock and poultry will be sent on request.
write out what you have to offer, let us gut it in type, show yous proof and tell you what it will cost for 13, 26 or 62 times.
. Copy or changes must be received one week before date of issue.

retest sell for them. Write today')
BREIDERB' DIRECTORY. TH

OME GOOD YOUNG REGISTERED HOL-
steln cows. Fair size, good color, bred to
good bulls and due from July to December. Most-
ly from A. R. stock, prices reasonable and
every one guaranteed to be exactly as repre

sented.
M. J. ROCHE
Plnckney, Mich.

SOLO AGAIII

Bull calf last advertised sold but have 2 m0"
that are mostly wliltexrg-They are nice straight fel-
lows. sired by a son of King Ona. One is from
o 17 lb. 2 yr. old dam and the other is from a
20 lb. Jr. 3 yr. old dam, she is by s son of
Friend Hengervcld De Kol Butter Boy, one of
the great bulls.

JAME8 HOPSON JR.. Owosso. Mich“ R 3.

 

 

A ROYALLY BRED BULL

Born Nov. 13, 1920. Mostly white. Sirod
by e 35 1b. son of King of the I’ontiacs: dam
is 15 lb. 2 yr. old granddaughter of Pontiac Do
Nblhnder, whose records of 35.43 at 5 1-2 yrs.
2.73 at 4 142 years and 30.11 at 3 1—2 years
put her in the first ranks as a producer. First
check 8150 gets him. Herd Federally Supervised.

BRANDONHILL FARM, Ortonvliie, Mich.
John P. Hohl, 1205 Griswold St... Detroit, Mich.

 

OLSTEINS FOR SALE—EITHER SEX.
liulls ready for heavy service from dams with
A. R. 0. records up to 31 lbs. Also bull calv-
with some breed. They are all fine individu-
als and nicely marked and priced to selL Also
a few well bred females.
D. H HOOVER Howell. Mich.

 

0R SALE—TWO BULL CALVES. A HOLa
tein and Durham about 3 months old. Both
hsve heavy milking dams. Not registered. $50
each if taken at once.
CHASE STOCK FARM. Mariette. Mich

 

GLADWIN COUNTY PURE BRED LIVESTOCK
Association. Holstein. Jersey, Shorthorn and
Hereford cattle: Duroc-Jersey. Poland (lhina and
Hampshire hogs; Oxford. Shropshire. Hampshire
sheen.
A place to buy good breeding stock at reason-
able Dl'lf‘t‘s.
FRED B. SWINEHART. C. E. ATWATER.
_ President. Secretary.
Giadwin. Mich.

 

Fairlawn Herd—Holsteins

HIPO.SII:6, Emblaggaard Lilith Champion 108018

1113 Sire’s dam (.‘(llztfltlla 4th’s Johanna, World's
first 35') lb. cow, and world's first 1,200 lb. cow.
The only. cow that ever hold all world’s butter
yearly milk record at the same time. Ills dam
records from one day to one year, and the world’s
Lilith l’iebe Dc Kol No. 93710. over 1,150 lbs.
of butter from 20.5904 pounds of milk in s

year. World's 2nd highest milk record when
made and. Michigan suite record for 6 years. Only
one Michigan cow with higher milk record today.

His two nearest dams average:
Rutter, one your ,
Milk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..28,515..‘l
Charnp’s sons from choice A. R. O. dams will

add prestige to your herd and money to your

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

 

. AKEVIEW DAIRY FARM HOLSTEIN-FRIES-

inns. lierd sire l’nui l’icterje Wane Prince.
Two nearest dams average 31.9 lbs. butter, 672
lbs milk in 7 days. Dam milked 117 lbs. in one
day; 3,218 lbs. in 30 days; 122.37 lbs. butter

in 30 days. ills bull calves for sale. One from
s 22 lb. two~ycar—old. Good individuala Prices
reasonable Age from 2 to 5 months.

E. E. BUTTERS, Goldwater, MICR.

A PROVEN BLOOD LINE

KING SEGIS tranmitted to his sons the power
to transmit to their daughters the greatest of
production over long periods. It is his oll‘spring
that has recently made the greatest yearly pro-
duction ever dreamed of. 37351.4 pounds of
milk in a year.

We have for sale at moderate prices beautiful
individuals of show type KING SEGIS bulls.

GRAND RIVER STOCK FARMS
111 E Main Corey J. Spencer, OwneiI
Jackson. Mich.
Under State and Federal Supervision

TWO BULL OALVES

Registered llolsteinl‘riesinn, sired by $9.87 lb.
hull and from heavy producing young cows. These
calves are very nice and will be priced cheap LI
Iold soon.

ARRY T. TUBES. Eiweli. Mich.

REGISTERED HOLSTEIN CATTLE

for 82110. From calves to full-aged cows.
F. E. GOODAR, Richmond, Mich.

 

 

 

 

OR SALE—2 REG. HOLSTEIN BULLS
ready for service from 19 1-2 and 24 1-2 lb.
dams. Price $100 and $125. Herd on ec-
credited list.
"Im. GRIFFIN. Howell. Mich.

 

 

HEREFORDS
REGISTERED HEREFORD CATTLE —— KING
REPEATER 713941. and Bean Perfection

327899 head our herd. Bulls are sold: have

some very fine heifers for sale, b' 1 or opened,

bred to our herd bulls. Come and be them; thny

wil please you.

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

FOR 8ALE-—SMALL HEAD OF REG. HERI-

fords. Belvidere 569766. heads the herd.
RALPH 8. SMITH. Kewadln. Mich.

HEREFORD OATTLE .32.. "mm-n-

We can furnish registered bulls from 12
months and older. best of breeding and at .
Very low price, have some extn
Herd headers We have also a large
of registered Hampshire Hog; Gill's. 30-
end Boers.

Write us, tell us whet you went and on
our prices.

Le FAYETTE STOCK FARM. La Fayette. I“
J. Cumin e Ion. Prep.

 

 

 

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BREEDEFS DIRECTORY  a.

‘a.

Better still,
You can change
Breedsre' Auction Sales advertised

it.

E MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER. Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

150 HEREFORD HEIFERS. ALSO KNOW
of 10 or 15 loads fancy Quality Shortshurns and
Angus steers 5 to 1,000 ibs_. Owners anxious
to sell. Will help buy 50c commission.

C. F. BALL, Fail-field, Iowa

LAKEWOOD HEREFOROS.,,,I',”§;'....TT."¥3

Tiey are good ones. High class females, a
ages. Best of blood. Come and see.
E. J. TAYLOR. Fremont, Mich.

RIVERVIEW HEREFOROS .53.“...1153535

a grandson of the Si) 500 Bullion 4th. Also I
low females.
Wm. C. DICKEN. Smyrna. Mich.

 

 

EREFORDS FOR SALE. WE HAVE BEEN
breeders of Herefords for 50 years. Wyom‘
ing 9th, 1920 International prize winner beads
our herd. Have choice yearling bulls. 8
yearling heifers and a few choice cows for sale.
I11 us know your wants.
CRAPO FARM. Swartz Creek. Mich.

 

 

SHORTHORN

  ONE EXTRA GOOD 18 M03.
old Red Scotch bull suitable to

head pure bred herd. several cows and

heifers carrying the service of a son of Imp.

Lorne who was twice grand champion of Michigan.
OTTO, Charlotte, Mich.

 

 

HORTHORNS FOR SALE—BULLS OLD
enough for service; also a few cows and

heifers.
W. 8. HUBER, Gladwin, Mich.

 

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

From the Maple Ridge herd of Bates Short-
horns. (laivcd in September 1920.

3EXTRA GOOD BULL CALVES FOR SALE.
J. E. TANSWELL. Mason, Michigan.

 

HORTHORN CATTLE AND OXFORD DOWN
sweep. Both sex for sale.
J. A. DoGARMO, Muir. Mich.

 

ENT COUNTY SHORTHORN BREEDERB'
Ass'n are offering bulls and heifers for sale, all
Ins. Sell the scrub and buy a purebred.
A. E. RAAB. Sec’y, Caledonia. Mich.

 

ENTRAL MICHIGAN SHORTHORN BREED-
ers‘ Association offer for sale 75 head; all
ages, both milk and beef breeding. Send for now
lis
MILLER. Soc’y, Mich.

M. E. Greenvillo,

 

OR SALE—REGISTERED SHORTHORNS
and lluroc Jersey spring pigs. either sex; two
red bulls. one 11 months and one 5 months oi.L
Sevsml heifers from 6 months to 2 years old.
Scotch Top and Bates bred. Address
GEORGE W. ARNOLD or JARED ARNOLD
Williamshul‘a. R 1. Michigan

 

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

RIOHLAHO SHORTHORNS

Herd bulls for quick sale. Fair Acres Goods
and Collynie (‘ullen 5th. Both man five year
olds and tried sires.

Best of blood lines and show prospects.

Both quiet to handle.

A real bargain.

Write for particulars.

C. H. Prescott & Sons

Tawas City. Mich.

 

 

Huron Co. Slim-thorn Breeders‘ Ass'll
offer for sale Scotch and Scotch top-
ped males and females of all ageS.
300 head to select from. For inform-
ation address
Jas. R. Campbell, Secretary
Bad Axe, Michigan

 

NOW, 4TH ANNUAL
Some bargainl

UV SHORTHORNS
herd lost without a reactor.

in hulls.
JOHN SCHMIDT & SON. Reed Citv. Mich.

 

 

ANGUS

 

 

The Home of

Imp. Edgar of Dalmeny

Probably
The Worlds’ Greatest
BREEDING BULL

Blue Bell. Supreme Champion at the
Smithfleld Show, 1919, and the Birming-
ham Show, 1920, is a daughter of Edgar
of Dalmeny.

The Junior Champion Bull, Junior
Champion Female. Chunpion Cal! Herd
and First Prime Junior Heifer Calf, Mich-
Inn State Fair, 1920, won also the get
0‘ Edgar of Dunn-nu.

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undatolDohnenym,etthistine.
oilseed for uh.

lend to: Illustnfad “blouse.

WILDWOOD FARMS
Orion. Mich.

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ANGUS CATTLE AND O.I.°.

Ewin- m right and are priced right. 00m

wondonco solicited and i I invited.
CARL BARTLETT. Lawton. Iloh.

REGISTERED ABERDEEN - ANGUS—BULLS,

Heifers and cows for sale. .
Inspection inuted.

Priced to move.
Merrill. Michigan

RUSSELL BROS..

 

THE MICHIGAN BdSINEss ’ f‘ARMER‘

LARGE TYPE POLAND CHINAS. SPRING
Digs either sex sired by Wonder Bob. he by
King of Giants. n The big-boned, good-backed

kind. Pric to se .
WALTER AUGHEY,‘ R 4. Crown". Ilch.

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINA BRED GILTS ALL
sold but have some fall gilta at reasonable
Dnce. Will be bred for fall litters.

DORUS HOVER. Akron. Mlch.

 

 

AYRSHIRES

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

FINDLAY BROS, R 6. Vassar, Mlch.

 

JERSEYS

 

JERSEYS FOR PROFIT
WHY?

Because they consume less feed
for amount of products produced
than any other breed.

JERSEY products always bring
highest. market price.

JERSEYS commence returning

money early in life, at two years of
are or even younger and continue
returning profits until twelve to fif—
teen and even until twenty years of
age.

An investment in JERSEYS in-
sures profitable dairying.

Buy a JERSEY.

Write

SEC’Y HENDRICKSON
Shelby, Mich.
for free literature.

ERSEY YEARLING BULL( SIRE-ID BY PEN-
hurst Fern Sultan, R. M. Breeding. .
Jl F-. MORRIS 8. SON, Farmlngton, Michigan

  HEIFERS 1 YR. OLD——
Young cows in milk sired

by Majesty's Oxford Shylock 156,692 also young

bulls sired by Frolic's Master Pogis 177683. a

grandson of l‘ogis 99th and Sophie 19th‘s Tor-

mcntor, two great bulls of the breed. VVnta for

prices and pedigree.

GUY c. WILBUR, R 1. Beldlnc. Mlch.

 

F THE BULL IS HALF THE HERD, HOW

much would a son of I‘ogis ilflth's. lluke Slh,
who has 60 per cent blood of Sophie 10th. be
worth to your hcrd‘l _

lmt me send you pedigrees and prices rvn bull
calves from this hull and Sophie Tormentor cows.

FR HAYWARD
Scotts. Mich.

.NE OF OUR MAJESTY BULLS WOULD IM-

prove your herd. '
FRANK P. NORMINGTON. Ionla, Mich.

 

HIGHLAND FARM JERSEYSJERERH‘.

ed herd. High production, splendid type and

breeding. Write us your wants.

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

 

GUERNSEYS

GUERNSEY BULL OALF 1 MOS. OLD. SIRE,
Inngwater Prince Cluirmante, A. It. 4 A.
ll. daughters average 416 lbs. fat 2 1-2 yrs.
Dam: Lawton’s Lady Lu. A. . 416 lb. fat class
A. A~ (farmers class) 1 A. IL daughter. 409
lbs. fat D. D Write

MORGAN BROS.,
Allegan, R 1, Michigan

  GUERNSEY HEIFER WITH

more than forty A. it. ancestors.
Due Sept. 2. by a son of Abbie of Riverside,
record 14,201.10 lbs. milk, 816.12 lbs. butter-
fat. Herd tuberculin tested. Send for sale list

of females.
G. A. WIGENT, Watervllet, Mich.

SWINE 

POLAND CHINA

HERE'S SOMETHING GOOD

THE LARGEST BIG TYPE P. 0. IN MIOH.
Get 1. bigger and better bred boar Dil from my
herd. at a reasonable price. Come and use them.
Expenses paid if not as represented. The“ hoax.
In service: If. Big Orange, Lord Clannnaii,
Orange Price and L’s Long Pr
W. E. LIVINGSTON. Puma. Mlch.

 

 

 

ILTs ALL SOLD. SPRING P‘IGS SIRED
by Jumbo Lad. an 800 lb. boar. One fine
herd hour by Big Bob Mastodon.
DerTT 0. PIER, Evart, Mlch.

 

L s p ——4 BOARS BY GLANSMAN’S IM-
AGE and Big Defender, that are

Brod gilts all sold.

SWARTZ, Schoolcraft, Michigan.

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

W. CALDWELL & SON, Sprlngport, Mich.

extra good.
H. O.

 

IG TYPE P. C. SPRING PIGS EITHER SEX
from large growthy dams and sired by choice
herd boars. Home and see our stock, prices
reasonable.
L. W. BARNES & SON, Byron, Mlch.

BIG TYPE POLAN

China bonr ready for service. $23.00.
JOHN C. BUTLER. Portland. Mlch.

 

Am Offering Largo Typo Poland Chlna Iowa,
bred to 1'": Orange at reasonable prices. Also
fall pigs. “’rite or call.
CLYDE FISHER, R 8, St. Louls, Mich.

BIG TYPE P.
"T  One gilt for
sale with me by

the Grand Champion boar of Detroit. 1920. (1116
May 8th. First check for $75 takes her. Gilt
is right. ID is the price.
A. D. GREGORY
lonla. Mich.

 

 

DUROCS

BUY GOOD HOGS NOW

from one of the largest herds of registered Durocs
in the state. Open fall gilts at $25. Bows and
gilts bred for summer and fall furrow. Booking
orders for spring pigs. \Vill accept a few sons
to be bred to good sons of Great Orion Sensation
and Duration. \Vrite or visit us.

Mlchigana Farm. Pavilion. Mich.. Kalamazoo Co.

 

OR SALE—FINE MARCH AND APRIL PIGS
Hired by Gladwin Col. 188993. Write us

your wants.
HARLEY FOOR 8: SONS. R 1, Gladwin, Mich.

uroc Jersey Bred Stock all Sold. Orders taken
for wentling pigs. 1,000 pound herd boar.
JOS. SCHUELLER. Weidman, Mich.

 

UROC JERSEY BOARS. Boar: of the large.
heavy-boned type, at reasonable prices. Write.
or better, come and see.
F. J. DRODT. R 1, Monroe, Mlch.

REGISTERED DUROO PIGS

$10.00 each. Write your wants.
F. A. LAMB. Cassopolls, Mich.

PEAGH HILL FARM

TRIED cows and gilta bred to or sired by Peach
Hill Orion King 152489. Satisfaction guar—
anteed. Come look ’em over.
Also a few open gilts.
INWOOD BROTHERS
Romeo, Mich.

 

 

FINE LOT OF SPRING DUROC JERSEY
pigs, either sex. Brockwater breeding at rea-

sonable prices.
SCHAFFER BROS., R 1, Leonard. Mich.

 

AM OFFERING SOME HIGH CLASS

SPRING DUROG BOARS

at reasonable prices . A few gilt: bred for Sep-
tember {arrow at bargain prices.
W. o. TAYLOR
Milan. Mich.

 

EADOWVIEW FARM REG. JERSEY H068,
Booking orders for spring pigs.
. MORRIS J: SON. Farmlnnton. Mich.

OR SALE—REG. DUROO-JERSEY SPRING
gllts bred to Rambler of Sungamo let. The
hour that aired our winners at Michigan State
Fair and National Swine Show.
F. HEIMS l: SON
Davlson. Mich.

 

BIG BOB MASTODON

n sired by Caldwell Big Bob Champion of the
world. His dam Sire is A’s Mastodon. Grand
Champion at Iowa State Fair. Enough 581d-
I have a fine September Boar Pig that will make
a herd boar sired by Big Bob. and a tine lot of
Karina Dias when weaned. Book your order now.
c. E. GARNANT.
Eaton Rapids. Mlchlaan.

 

ERE IS SOMETHING GOOD. BIG TYPE
Poland Chinas. One extra good large long
big boned smooth gilt bred to Howley’s Clans-
nian. Price $100. Also younger gilts $30 to

$50.00.
HOWLEY BR08.. Merrill. MIch.

FARYIELL LAKE FARM

L. T. P. C. boars all sold. A few spring bean and
some gilts left. Will sell with breeding privilege.
Bean in service: Clansnian': image 2nd, W. B.’l
Outpost and Smooth Wonder. Visitors welcome.
W. B. RAMSDELL
Hanover, Mich.

 

 

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

Highland Giant. the $500 boar. Other: bred

to Wiley’s Perfection. Weight, 700 at 18 months.
JOHN D. WILEY. Sohoolctoft, Mich.

 

. T. P. C. DOES YOUR NERVE GAY BUY
hogs? Vote yes and order a good one. Fall
gilts $30 to $50; spring been. 815 b 825. Two
Prospect Yank gilts bred to Hart'l Bbck Prion
March 24th at $50 each.
F. T. HART. St. Louis. Mlch.

 

EONARD’S BIG TYPE P. c. BOAR PIGS
at weaning: time. from Mich. Chain 11 hard
:25 ‘mth pedigree. Satisfaction guaran .ed. Call
or write E. It. LEONARD. R 3. St. Louis. Mich.

 

 

o'AxLinns PREMIER cmzr

Herd Bosh—Reference only—No. 129219

1919 Chicago International
4th Prize Jr. Yearling

BOOKING ORDERS FALL P‘le AT $26
BLANK a. POTTER
Pomnllu. Mich.

UROCs—-SOWS AND GILTS ALL SOLD.
Have a few choice fall boars at reasonable price.
0. L. POWER. Jerome. Mich.

 

FOR SALE—ounce FALL GILTS. WE ARE
booking orders for choice spring pigs. $15. 8

to 10 weeks old.
JESSE BLISS a. SON. Henderson. Mlch.

ED BOAR
DUROO JERSEYmg.“i§"sSp§.de on...
King $15 up. Satisfaction guaranteed.
E. E. OALKINS. Ann Arbor, Mich.

UROG PIGS 8 T0 12 WEEKS OLD, $10.00

each. Pedigrez-d.
8. 0. WEEKS, DeGRAFF, Ohio

OR SALE: ONE DUROO BOAR FROM
Brookwater breeding stock. Choice spring pigs.
JOHN ORONENWETT. Carleton. Mich.

 

 

 

E OFFER A FEW WELL-BRED IILIOT-
ad Ipl’ing Duroc Bonn. also bred mo nd

our: in lesson. Call In
MoNAUGHTON a FORDYOE. St. Louis. lion.

 

 

o. I. o.
01 G AND OHESTER WHITE

'Bred Bows for August furrow. March .pIgS mt
W111 please. Prominent bloodlines. Write
CLARE II. DORMAN, Snover, Mlch.

 

 

O. I. C. SIAIINE—MY HERD CONTAINS THE
blood lines of the most noted herd. Gan furnish
you stock at "live and let live" prices.

A. J. GORDEN. Dorr. Mlch.. R 8.

 

o. I. 033. SERVICE BOARS. SPRING PIGS
at Farmer's Drlr‘rs.
CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM. Monroe. Mich.

 

 

CHESTER- \VHITES

  FOR JUNE FARROW. ONE

SPFVICC boar 9 mos. old. Also

young pigs. Write me your wants. I’rivcs right.
RALPH COSENS. R 1, Levering. Mich.

 

HAl'III’STTT RES

 

 

HAMPSHIRE BRED GILTS NOW READY TO

ship. A bargain in fall and spring boar pigs.
JOHN W. SNYDER, R 4, St. Johns, Mlch.

 

 

An Opportunity To Buy
Hampshires Right

We are offering some good sows and gills, brrll
for March and April farrowing. Also a few
choice full pigs, either sex, Write or call

GUS THOMAS, New Lothrop. Mich.

SHEEP id

OR SHROPSHIRE EWES ERED TO LAMB
in March, write or call on
ARMSTRONG BROS., R 3, Fowlervllle. Mlch.

 

 

ERINO RAMS FOR SALE. GOOD BIG-
h."an heavy sbearers.

HOUSEMAN BROS. R 4. Alblon. Mich.

FEW EXTRA FINE SHROPSHIRE AND
Hampshire Yearling Ewes for $25 each. These

are extra nice.
J. M. WILLIAMS
North Adams. Mlchigan

HAMPSHIRE SHEEP

A few good yearling rams and some ram
lambs left to Oder. 25 ewes all ages for sale
for fall delivery. Everything guaranteed as
represented.

 

 
  
  
  
 
 

CLARKE U. HAIRE. West Branch. Mich.

 

 

BETTER BREEDING STOGK

For the best in Shropshire and Hampshire rams
write or visit
KOPE-KON FARMS, S. L. Wing. Prop.
Goldwater, Mich.
See our exhibit at the Ohio and Michigan
State Fairs.

 

 

HOFSES

OR SALE OR TRADE FOR ANYTHING I
can use. Registered Percheron Stud. 3 years
old. absolutely right in every way. A high class
colt. I have no use for him.
JOHN c. BUTLER. Portland. Mlch.

 

 

 

 PET STOCK  I;

OR SALE, FLEMISH GIANT RABBITS. DOES,
breeding age, 86. Three months old pair. $5.
Registered does :12 each. Stock pedigreed. Opal.
ty guaranteed.
E. HIMEBAUGH. Goldwater. Mlch.

MAN WANTED

A reliable house, well and fav-
orably known among the farmers
in Michigan has an opening for
an honest, energetic man to sell
to farmers.

The man for this job must rea-
lize that he will be expected to
work hard and steadily and that
his advancement will depend en-
tirely upon the amount of energy
enthusiasm and loyalty he puts
into the work. Applicant should
have a Ford car or horse and
buggy. Previous selling experi—
ence desirable but not absolutely
necessary.

If you are only curiously inter-
ested do not apply, but if you
really want to better your condi.
tion by hard work, write

BOX K
care Michigan Business Farmer,
Mt. Clemens, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

uroo new: one gllu and to Walt's King 82948
who has aired more prize winning plgl at the
Itch (A111 In the Int 2 year: than any other Du-
nc boar. Newton Barnhart. St. Johns, Mich.

 

woes. Hm Crest Farmx. Brad and open saw:
and gilts. Doors and spring pigs. 100 head.
firm 4 mill: straight S. of Middleton, Micb,,
Gntiot 00. Newton k Blank. Perrinton. Mich.

 

WANT TO SELL
ANY LIVESTOCK?
Try M. B. F.’s Breeders’ Directory

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

June 25, 1921

THE EQUITY CO-OPERATIVE EX:-
GHANGE AND ITS WORK
(Conan/Md from page 1)
and showed a. loss of $8,203 at both
St. Paul and Chicago together. For
the five-month period ending De-
cember 31, 1920, the live stock de-
partment netted a gain of $7,183
at both places together and the
trend is now safely upward at both

terminals.

These figures show that the Equity
Exchange made only a few thous-
and dollars in direct commissions in
its operations. Probably not more
than $7,000 in commissions during
the last six months were collected by
the South St. Paul Equity live stock
department, and yet this repre-
sented from 12 to 15 per cent of
the total volume of business in a
yard Where 54 speculator firms and
34 commission firms thrive in evi-
dent prosperity. The 34 commis-
sion firms that handle 85 per cent
of the stocker and feeder business
at South St. Paul cannot seemingly
depend upon commissions alone for
security in trade and it is strongly
suspected that they do not. If a.
farmer wishes to buy a carload of
tenders he ordinarily orders them
through a privately owned commis-
sion firm, which in turn usually
places the order with a speculat-or.
The speculator must buy them from
another commission firm, for no
live stock is received by speculators
directly from farmers. Such triple
handling and trebling of fees is com-
mon to the so—called “scalper” mar—
ket facts showing and dealings of
that sort cost the farmers of the
country thousands of dollars every
year.

The Equity Co-opera'tive Ex-
change was launched by officers of
the American Society of Equity.
Each stockholder has but one Vote,
no individual may own more than
$1.000 worth of capital stock. and
8 per cent interest dividend is paid
on capital stock, and surplus profit
is divided among patrons. Voting
by proxy has hitherto dominated the
sessions and controlled the conven-
tion business, but at the suggestion
of its officers and directors at the
last Fargo meeting there will be a
change to a delegate system of con-
trol shortly.

The live stock department of this
association is housed in a good brick
building in South St. Paul, valued
at $70,000. This building has be-
come the headquarters for a num-
ber of co—operative institutions, and
order buyers for farmers’ organiza—

tions have offices here also. The net
worth of the corporation is about
$2,025,000 compared to $22,335

back in 1912. It owns elevator prop-
erty and real estate valued at $1.1
229,000, free from debt. The net'
incomes of the corporation in five
months last year was $109,468. The
surplus and reserve at that time
was $174,841.

In this great shippers’ movement
there have been three distinct ad-
vances made within the past five
years. First, the farmers became
rissalisfied with the waste entailed
by dealing with too many competing
local stock buyers and formed a
small shipping units in a local way.
Second, the farmers saw that in some
cases their own shipping managers
were playing to special interests and
receiving bonus pay or being other-
wise influenced to send stock to cer—
tain commission firms. This has led
to the formation, under the farm
bureau or other group. of county and
district shipping associations, which
hire a county manager and three or
four local resident managers. all of
them under bond. Details of the
work of shipment and consignment
are worked out with a permanent
board of directors. The proceeds
from the sale of stock less freight
and terminal expenses are sent to
the county managers who issue
checks to the shippers for their re- ,
turn, less the part set aside as pay-
ment to local managers, county man-
ager, and an insurance fee of about
two cents a hundred pounds. In
Sangamon county, Illinois, the coun-
ty farm bureau office acts as the
coutv manager at cost—Iowa Home-
stead.

v males;-‘a'-v:r*«W\w-wmnflfimav‘W w

 

 

 

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June 25, 1921

WHY THE FARMERS GOT BIT
AND SOME REMEDIES FOR
THE SITUATION
(Continued from page 4)
the wages of labor. The capital of
the farmer is just as sacred as the
capital of the steel trust, the oil
trust, the beef trust, the tobacco
trust, the cotton trust, or the tele-
phone trust and is entitled to an

equal return.
Little Credit for Farmers

The total loans and discounts of
the National Banks were 14 billion
dollars. Of this sum agriculture re-
ceived 14 per cent, manufacturing
21 per cent, merchandising 26 per
cent and speculation and miscellan-
eous 39 per cent.

Of the primary deposits in all the
banks of the United States, agricul—
ture furnished approximately 50 per
cent, labor 20 per cent and other
business 30 per cent. Upon these
facts agriculture would have been
entitled to 7 billion dollars of na—
tional bank credit and it got only
2 billion dollars; it was entitled to
more than manufacturing and mer-
chandising combined and it get less
than one—third as much.

Under the law the Federal Re-
serve allotment of credit is unfair
to agriculture and in addition its
administration has had the direct
and arbitrary purpose of forcing a
deflation in farm prices.

This conclusion is best illustrated
by the facts in a single state. In
Iowa the allotment of credit under
the law was 36 million dollars. They
in fact loaned Iowa 91 millions, but
as early as February, 1920, announc—
ed these excess loans would be call-
ed when the crops were matured.
This forced Iowa farmers to sell on
a falling market and sent more
farmers into bankruptcy than in all
the history of the state.

If Iowa's allotment has been an
average of the states it would have
been nearly 110 million dollars in-
stead of 36 million. But Iowa is far
more than an average in resources.
It was fifth in assessed valuation in
1919 and upon that basis was en—
titled to 8-134 or an allotment of
300 million dollars. In fact it got
91 million and was called for two—
thirds of that.

This illustrates the position of ag—
riculture throughout the United
States. As a result of this credit
monopoly the speculators were en—
abled to force down the price of
wheat 70 cents per bushel to the
American farmer in 1920. At the
same time they forced it up 33 cents
a bushel to the starving millions of
Europe. Over 800 million bushels
moved on this spread and not over
60 million dollars could be charged
to increased freight rates. There—
fore, tho speculators by this control
of credit were enabled to take an
extra toll of 240 million dollars upon
export wheat alone.

The remedy for this is to amend
the law and require the Federal Re—
serve to allot credit in proportion to
resources and deny all credit direct-
ly or indirectly to speculation.

 

 

The Experience Pool

THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS' FARMER

(921) 15

 

 

 

 

 

POULTRY BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY

Advertisements inserted under this heading at 30 cents per line, per issue. Special
“’rite out what you have to offer and send it in.
Address The Michigan Business Farmer,

 

. _ \Ve will put it in type, send proof and quote rates by return mail
Advertismg Department, Mt. Clemens, hijchigan.

rates for 13 times or longer,

 

 

POULTRY

PULLETS

4,500 White and Brown Leghorn and Ancona
8 weeks old Puliets: also 10,000 Yearling Leg—
horn and Anconn llcns. Send for prices and de-
seription of stock.

TATE FARMS ASSOCIATION
Desk 2, Kalamazoo, Michigan

PULLL'IS

Did you ever stop to consider that the proper
care and development of the young Chitik i5 illfit
as important as that the chicks should come
from good stock?

Our experience in the pullet raising business
together with our modern time saving equip»
nicnt enables us to svll A No. 1 stock at a price
for which you (‘uiiilot bother to raise them your-
Self or purchase inferior stock. “'0. raise

\VHITE LEGIIORNS and ANCONAS

 

of the highest quality. If you wish to mini»,

lish a flock of good layers, or if you have had
poor sucvcss with your own flock and wish to
till in, write us at tint-c. _
ZEE LA Ni) I’t‘ Illjl‘l’j.‘ FARMS
Zceland, lynch.

 

MUD-WAY-AUSH-KA FARM
ofl'ers young stock and n few mature breeders in
\Vhite Chinese (louse, \l'hite llunner Ducks and
White \l'yundottcs. Also (i. I. L‘. sprint: gills.
Write today for prices on what ycu nemi.
DIKE C. MILLER. Dryden. Mich.

ORPINGTONS AND LEGHORNS

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

CYCLE HATCHER COMPANY, 149 Phllo Bldg.
Elmira. N. Y.

 

 

QUALITY CHICKS, BLACK MINORCA, LIGHT
Brahma, 25c each. Barred liock. 1t. 1. Red
18 cents each.

TYRONE POULTRY FARM. Fentcn, Mich.

 

 

\VYANI)OTTE

 

ILVER LACED GOLDEN AND WHITE WY<
andottes. Eggs $2.270 per 15; $4.50 for 30.
C. W. BROWNING. R 2. Portland. Mich.

Baby Chicks and Hatching Eggs

Martin strain White \Vyandottcs. Grand utility
and exhibition matings. Winners at W. Mich.
Poultry Show at Muskcgon. Chix sold to May
lath. Order now. June chix at reduced prices.
Send for price list.

0. W. HEIMBACH, Big Rapids, Mich.

LEGHORNS
rabowske's s. C. White Leghorns, Cockercls,
cocks and yearling ln-ns for sale.
LEO GRADOWSKE, R 4, Merrill, Mich.

 

 

 

 

MOS. W. LEGHORN PULLETS. T. B.
English stmin. Ih'livcry guamntuml.
HENRY GEBBEN, Fremont, Mich.

 

 

 

 

PLYMOUTH ROCKS

iii-r 100 for June delivery. Pure brml, sale

arrival.
H. PIERCE, Jerome, Mich.

 

 

nuonn isnaffi) nun-s

 

hittaker’s R. I. Reds. Both Combs. Mich-
_ man's greatpst color and can: st rain. \‘.'c are
iiilarlzng some Xunusual burg ins in chicks .i'hi
ia :llll' ez's or i n it :1 ' ' 
[Ur {meg (“thug- Ju he i i t Lrly July. \\ up
INTERLAKES FARM

Box 4, Lawrence. filch.

 

 

 

 

LANGSHAN

 

DR. SIMPSON‘S LANGSHANS OF QUALITY
lIred for type and color since 1912. Winter
Luring strain of both Black and White. Ila"
some cockerels for sale. Eggs in season.
DR CHAS. W. SIMPSON
Webbervilie. Mich.
WW

ORPINGTONS _

 

 

Bring your everyday problems In and net
the experience of other farmers. Questions ari-
drmed to this department are published here
and answered by you, our readers. who are
graduates of the School of Hard Knocks and
who have their diplomas from the College of
Experience. If you don't want our editor’s
advice or an expert': advice. but. Just plain.
everyday business farmers' adva send In
your question here. We will publish one
and: week. If /you can answer the other
{allow’n question, please do so, he may ans-
wot one of your: some day! Address Exper-
Ionoo Pool. care The Business Farmer. Mt,
Clemens. Mich.

 

 

 

L—«h there any successful way of
getting rid of thistle-s when cultivating?
.JraJm a. hoe and cut the thistles just
under the tap of the ground. Go over
the patch this way every week all sum—
mer and you will not have any thistles
next year.——VV. A. T., Quincy, Mich.

Use a two-horse cultivator using
sweeps instead of shovels The sweeps
are winged knives and can be bought at
any hardware store. Use four on each
side. Follow with a hoe and you can
make a. good clean job of it.—A. Rich.
Sanilac County, Mich

 

QUESTION N 0. 4
How can I rid my barn, hen
hoqu and corn crib of rats and
mice? “ionld like to hear how
other farmers have accomplished
Chloe—B. II. I‘., Ithaca, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 CfgSKEHlELS AgDflPULLETS
‘ see. u , \ ‘
Black cockeren at $7, 58, md :10. P111131:
$3 and $5. 2130 yearling hens $3 and $4.
Hatching 8283. $6 per setting of 15.
GRABOWSKE BROS., R 4, Merrill. Mich.

 

 

 

ARRED ROCK AND ANCONA CHICKS $12.

 

 

 

 

HIGH STANDARD
QUALITY
BRED RIGHT
HATCHED RIGHT
Shipped direct from our
hatchery to your door.
lilli. STRONG. FLUFFY
fellows hatched from eggs
of good laying strains, and
under ur ovn sziiervision.
Nine leading varieties to
' - select from:

Barred Rocks R. C. Rhoda Island Red:
White Rocks S. U. llhoiie Island Reds
White Wyandottes White Leghorn:
Golden \Yyandottcs Brown Leghornl

 

Anconas Mixed
TRIAL convmces I
I‘riccs reasonable. \Vrite for FREE CATALOG.

NEW WASHINGTON IIATCHERY. Dept. B
New Washington. Ohio

 

ABY CHESS-{S ill"
EECOOEO 

us 1. ll. White and
rown and Eng—
;sh Leghorns
4.9.50 per 100;
Anconas $11 per
100; Broil 0 r
chic ks $7.50
per 100. Sent by
parcels p 0 s t
PREPAID. Order direct from this ad.
\V YN (iAltl ) Id N IIATUI IE ll Y
Box B, Zecland, Mich.

  

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E ARE BREAKING UP OUR BREEDING
pens and offering you this Valuable stock

at $1.75 per head. Both males and to
ma les must go. \Vi'ite us now how many
you want. Sutidfaetion guaranteed. This

change to be effective June lSth.
LORING & MARTIN
East Saugatuck. Mich.

 

BABY CHICKS [

EXTRA GOOD CHICKS

Plan now on more eggs next winter. Juno
hatched chicks lay when eggs are high. Eng.
\Vhite Leghorns, $11 100; Brown Leghorna
311—100; Aneonas, $12—100. Postpaid any:
where. Catalog free.

MONARCH POULTRY FARMS A HATCHERY
Zeeland. Mich.

If chix and eggs are '
 not shipped righL Chlx 11C 
100.000 best blooded chicks ever prodll('l'ii, A}.
ways 2,000 on hand 5 to 15 days old. 20 vari-
eties. Hatching eggs. Ducklings. Catalog. Early
booking avoids disappointment.
BECKMAN HATCHERY
26 E Lyon 8!... Grand Rapids. Mich.

12,000 STANDARD UALITY
  every Tuesday at reducgd prices;

Mottled Anconas, English and Amerimn \V. Len”

horns, 5rown Leghorns and Ilarrcd Rocks: all

single comb; sift- :irrivul guaranteed; catalog ficc.
Knoll’s Hatchery, R 3, Holland. Mich.

 

 

 

 

INGLE COMB BUFF LEGHORN BABY
chicks. (ho-i strong; ones from l'iocli on free
range. Write, for iirn s.
J. Vv'. L‘JEBS:ER. Bath. Mich.

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R. I. RED MATCHING EGGS, THOMPKIN'S

strain, >510 per 100; baby chicks. LIT”: inn-h.
Wm. H. FROHM. New Baltimore. Mich

"- HRTCHING EGGS FROM
  l'arlts 1300 egg strain. Rich
in the blood of Park's best pedigreed pens. $2
per 15. $0 per 50, $12 per 100. l‘rcpuid by
parcel post in non breakable containers.

R. G. KIRBY. R 1 East Lansing, Mich.

 

 

. c. BR. LEGHORN EGGS, $1.50 FOR 15.
I'ckin duck Sl.50 for S. W, (Yhinese [Joosi
eggs 40c each. Mrs. Claudia Belts, Ilillsdalc, Mich.

 

ncona Eggs for Hatching, 5c apiece. Chlx 10
cents. (‘orlanreis R wits. \\'rite fn‘ ‘-lll‘l'.i.ll Ill‘ixtpfl.
E TRYON. Jerome. Mon.

 

ARRED ROCK EGGS FOR HATCHING, BRED
.to lay, $1.771 per 15. $3.00 per 30. Other
prices on request. l’arr'cl post prepaid.
. M. Trowbridge. R 4. Box 41. Giadwin. Mich.

 

S C. Black Minorcas, Northrup Strain. E991.
' 15 for $1.777: 50 for $4.50; 100 or 53.00.
C. " .

J. DEEDRICK. Vassar, Mzch

 

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urcs, both in body of ad. and in address.
dated foflowing week.

 

    
  

 

 

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$1,000 157 Mars WITH 10 !
cows, :3 ..  vehicle-s, lllli
i'hinnr), Maz' . ins sm'ih u, t-omuniont ails
\nnlluzos; machine worked loam, i'nl
1 kit.) ions hay acre; 110 now springiwatcrual. wire
fenced pasture; Wood; annals, 1).;11‘5, plllilid, (hurt
rims, clan; T rm‘in house, niapie shaded lann, 137

i:::\\' basement horn, ii , owner’s advanced age
forcing sale. $1,500 lakes all, only $1,000 down.
easy terms. lintails page 2‘.) lllus. Catalog 1 loll
itrgzzilni. Elli-.1. t~§'l'l’t()ll’l‘ FARM AGENCY
811 ll 1'}, Ford Bldg” Detroit, Michigan.

 

 

3 FARMS, CLAY AND SANDY LOAM SOIL
partially fcnited, 2 wells, 00 acres crops, fair
buildings. ll- “0 Y, ltose City, Mich.

 

WANTED, TO RENT OR BUY, A SMALL
poultry farm in southern Michigan. Southch
llerricn Co. preferred. BOX Ii, care Michigan
Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens. Mich. ’

 

 

ANCONAS
H‘EPPARD’S FAMOUS—WEST SA‘NCONAS.
(,onia‘ln blood world champion layer, Tries
Eggs, $2 for 15: $3 for 30. Special 100
rates. HERMAN POHL. Fowler. Mich.
BABY CIHCKS

 

BABY CHICKS

350,000 for 1921
Our 17th season. Chicks sent
prepaid. Safe delivery zuaran—
teed. Leghorn], Rocks. Reds, An-
conas, VVyandottes, Minorcu.
Utility and Exhibiting quality at
very reasonable prices. Catalog
and price list free.
20th Century Hatchery, Box 6
New Washington, Ohio

  

SHIPPED SAFELY EVERY-

where by mail. \Vhite Lez-

horns. Anconas and Rocks. The
great egg machines. Guaranteed full count.
[liitrglnghstfirdy chlicks oisil arrival. 13 years re-
a 2 ea ngs. ’rice 0 er 1 ’
liable catalog free. p 00 up. Yul—

HOLLAIIO HATCHEIIY
R. 7, Holland. Mich.

 

FOR SALE—60 ACRE LIVINGSTON 00.
f“Y‘I‘i on trunk line road. For particulars write
JOHN B. HOFFMAN, 1t 3, Fenton, Mich.

 

I HAVE 320 ACRES LAND IN ALCONA
county. ’l‘wo good springs, some building timber
also, no improvements. \Viil Sell cheap. MRS.
SUSAN MOFFE’I‘T, Applcgatc, It 2, Michigan. X

 

80 ACRE FARM FOR SALE—GOOD HOUSE
two barns, silo, granary, new hcnncry. Clay loam
soil. two miles from railroad, high school, church-
es. Terms arranged. ERNEST FAST, North
Adams, Mich. X

 

 

 

MSCELLANEOUQ a ‘
MACHINEKI

mills for farmers' use. Make your own lum‘our,
Sand for new catalog. HILL-CURTIS 00.. 1507
No. Pitcher BL. Kalamazoo. Mich.

 

ment. Cash should accompany all orders. Count as one word web illitlf’
Copy must lie in our lian'is o.

The Business Farmer Adi.

   

C A WORD PER IssuE_._3 Insertions for 100 per word. Farm for sale ads. not accepted
Twenty words is the minimum accepted fer any ad. in this depart-

  

F'l'I ouch qronp of. fig-
.‘3;.tnr-:iay for issue

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Dept., Mt. Clemens.

 

FOR SALE»—10»2tl TiTAN TRACTOR
20 $17.? New   * li.:l'1‘.lwi'. ' " \
at Uill'l'. iilli‘l:li' .\l.\li'i‘l,\' .l.
li‘lin, Mich.

   

 

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KENTUCKY TOBACCCeeDll-HZCT FIIOM
growers. Sam 75 per wilt in your loliai'i'o li‘?
lliv'ii. n‘u'llmz' icul'. :i;’~ni 1n infli. ('lne‘viil and

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own .1 high grade trio-tor on tin,- “I'lusy l’ayineut
l'ian.” Address 1‘. O. Box lllll), Xlllilullullmlid,
Indiana.
SEED
FOR SALE—IMPROVED RED KIDNEY

Yieliied

seed beans. lland picked and graded.
KEANE;

:34 bus. per acre, 1020. IUIB’l‘. 1’.
& SON. Caro, It 1, Michigan.

 

 

FENCE POSTS

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

IS YOUR FARM FOR SALE?

Write out a plain description and
figure 100 for each word, intial or
group of figures for three insertions.
There is no cheaper or better way of
selling a farm in Michigan and you
deal ‘direct with the buyer. No
agents or commissions. If you want
to sell or trade your farm, send in

 

 

your ad. today. Don't just talk
about it. Our Business Farmers’
Exchange gets results.

Address the Michigan Business

Farmer, Adv. Dept., Mt. Clemens.

 


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A Going and Growing COncernl

Sound Basic Principles applied sensibly and honorably
CANNOT fail of success. '

The Detroit Packing Company has prospered for this very reason.

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SINCE January we have been turnlng out fresh
4 and cured meats, lard, sausage, etc., in ever increasing quantities

at our plant at Springwells Ave. and M. C. R. R., in the build-
ings completed and now up to capacity.

\NlORK has been progressing rapidly on new

buildings looking to throwing all departments into operation

this Fall, including slaughtering and handling of by-products.
This new construction work is about 75% completed and all neces-
sary equipment for the plant has been contracted for. Part of the
equipment is on the ground, some in transit and the balance. will be
shipped as we instruct.

’ INSPECTION of our plant by “men who know” including repre-

sentatives of U. S. Meat Inspection Department shows we have builded well, as

all admit we will have a most complete and comprehensive plant which can (and we
assure you will be) operated under very favorable conditions.

WATCH US GROW!

Each and every reader of this publication is invited to personallyinspect our plant and become
acquainted with us.

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