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Detroit Federation of Labor. and
Other Agencies Circulating
False'Reports .on Up-State

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For a number of weeks past the
Detroit Federation of Labor has
been circulating reports to the ef-
fect that it would be able to supply
potatoes to Detroit consumers this
,winter at 65 cents per bushel. It is
quite apparent that the organization
has been mislead by the earlier fore-
casts of Michigan’s yield and the mid-
summer predictions of low prices. We
can discover no other foundation up-
on Which the Federation bases its
promises.

Michigan positively has not pro-
duced this year the greatest crop of
potatoes in her history as claimed in
recent issues of Detroit papers. In
1909 the state raised 38,243,000 bush-
els Which is considerably in excess
of her present year’s production. Un-
der date of October let, the United
States government placed the fore-
cast of Michigan’s potato yield at
38,919,000 bushels. or over 5 million
bushels less than the September fore-
cast. Yet this report is only a guess
as no potatoes had been harvested at
the time it was compiled. Merely to
illustrate how great a difference there
may be between-the government’s es-
timate before and after harvest, we
call the attention of our city cousins
to the government’s September 1st,
1916, estimate and their final estimate
_the following December after the crop
had all been harvested and much of
it placed upon the market.

On September 1st last year the gov—
ernment estimated the state‘s potato
crop at 19,800,000 bushels and the’na-
tional crop at 318,000,000. The final
estimate for the state was 15,360,000
or a 25 per cent decrease from the
September forecast; and for the na-
tion, 285,437.00 or a 10 per cent de—
crease from the earlier estimate.

Assuming that there will be the
same proportion of discrepancy this
year between the estimated and ac-
tual yields, we could safely figure
the state yield at about 28,000,000 and
the national yield at less than 400,-
000,000.

Regardless of all government re-
ports, hOWever, we are in a position
to say to the Detroit Federation ’of
Labor and to the consumers of the
city of Detroit that they will NOT
be able to buy potatoes this year or
for a number of years to come for
65 cents per bushel, and they may as
well become reconciled to that fact at
once.

So far as Michigan’s 1917 yield is
concerned, it is below normal, in spite
of the increased acreage. The yield
has been very disappointing in .most
sections. Localities which anticipated

a yield of 100 bushels to the acre and
better harvested less than 60 bushels.
Only in a few isolated eases has the
yield been better than 150 bushels to
the acre, and the average for the po-
.-tato sections is not over 80 bushels.

largest in history and that it

There is no agency in the state in "

closer touch with the. crop conditions
than MICHIGAN BUSINESS 'FARMINQ.
Every week 150' farmers‘write- us
from nearly every-county in the state.
telling us how the crops are faring,
what the yields are, and other infor‘
mation upon which we may base our
crop estimates. We know of no bet—
ter organized crop statistics gathering
body than our farmer crop reporters.
When the Detoit Federation of Labor
says that the yield this year is the
:an
purchase potatoes for 65 cents per
bushel; we know that somebody is
doing a very bad bit of guessing, in-
deed. .

Since the Detroit Federation of La-
bor is so well posted on the crop and
market conditions of the state per-
haps it will explain to our farmer
readers and the people of Detroit why
jobbers are today paying $1.40@$1.50
per bushel for potatoes in carload
lots F. O. B. Detroit. We would also
be interested in knowing how the
Federation is to sell potatoes at 65
cents when there isn’t a single mar-
ket in the state of Michigan on which
potatoes are quoted at less than 75
cents to the farmer, while the major-
ity of these markets are offering $1
or better. Farmers are receiving $1.30
per bushel today in Montcalm county,
the leading potato county of the
state, the freight rate from this
point to Detroit is about seven
cents a bushel. Please explain
how these potatoes can be sold to your
Detroit consumers at less than $1.50
per bushel. As a matter of fact when
a local buyer pays a farmer $1.30 a
bushel for potatoes, it means that the
consumer will have to cough up from
$1.75 to $2.00 for the same spuds.

Just for the information of the
Detroit Federation of Labor and the

  
 
 
 

   

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‘Detroit‘ consumers as well as our own

readers we call attention to the fact
lthat'on October 10th, 1916, Detroit
jobbers were offering EXACTLY the
same amount for potatoes as they are
today. Six months later jobbers‘ were
paying $2.40@$2.50 per bushel. There
is no probability that the price of po-
tatoes this year will go as high as
they did last year but a comparison
of the prices on the opening markets
of the two years convinces us that the
tendency from now Oh will be up-
ward. We can see no hope of $1 po-
tatoes for the Detroit consumer and
the newspapers of that city are only
deluding their readers when they
even suggest such a thing. As for
the Detroit Federation of Labor, it
has got a lot to learn yet about the
marketing proposition as it will soon
discover when it goes out to buy its
first carload of 65 cent potatoes.

NO. 2 RED WHEAT IS
WORTH $2.15 AT BRONSON

A Bronson, Mich, subscriber asks
what the local dealer should pay for
No.2 red wheat. The Food Administra-
tion Grain Corporation gives the in-
formation as follows:

“A shipment of No. 2 Red Wheat
from Bronson, Mich., to New York
should net $2.15 F.O.B. car at Bron-
son. The way to figure it is take New
York price, $2.25, for No. 2 Red
wheat, deduct therefrom export rate
of freight, 14.80 per hundred, makes
freight 8.880 per bu.. add 1c commis-
sion, and we have total costs say 9.880.
Deduct this cost from New York price
and you have the net. The price
which your subscriber mentions,
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market manipulator.
With less profits than in the past.

Now Mr. Hoover is after the retailer who must. be satisfied

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OPPOSES TWO
POTATO GRADES

Farmer Sees No Need or Demand
for the Two Grades Recently
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“I would like to get a little more
light on the graded potato situation.
I was down town today to see about
selling a few spuds. Our local buy-
er told me they would start in Mon-
day grading potatoes according to
Government specifications. Now then,
the spuds are first to be run over a
one and seven-eights inch screen, then
over a one and one-half inch screen.
The ones going over the big screen
are No. 1; those that fail to go thru
the 11/.) inch screen are No. 2 grade,
for which they will pay 60 per cent
of the price of first grade.
st noun oi aim pinom 1 ieun A\ON,,
why the two grades? Is there a de-
mand by the consumer for two grades
of potatoes? If so, who buys the
first grade and who takes the second

grade? What is the object of the gov-
ernment in demanding these two
grades? Are they going to feed the

officers of the army on one grade and
the privates on the other grade, or
is our government going to raise
spuds next year and want a good
grade of seed?

“Now i have never heard of a de-
mand for two grades of potatoes only
as eating potatoes and seed potatoes
and it looks to me as if this second
gradc would make mighty good seed.
Do the potato buyers figure that seed
will be high next season and intend
in this way to get a corner on seed
at a price 40 per cent below the actual
value of the potatoes and then sell
them back to the farmers at a big
profit? Anyone who knows anything
about potatoes knows that this sec-
ond grade is really the best grade for
eating purposes. and as for seed are

firmer, cook better and bake better
than larger ones. Then why this
grading?

“Another thing: When we take a

load of potatoes to the warehouse we
have got to wait while our potatoes
go over two screens or at least part
of them. Of course that will be a
nice thing on a cold snappy (lay and
eight or ten farmers lined up to get
unloaded. Of course out time doesn‘t
amount to much but what it‘ a few
loads got frosted while we wait, will
they take them just the same or will
we have to take them back to the
farm for fertilizer?

“But why the two grades? Did the
government call in the consumer and
consult him and then dccidc on these

grades? if they did i never heard
of it. Who was it, they called to
VVashinron, and consulted, was it
the big, po§ato buyers? That is what

the papers told us, and now these
buyers have got in line and are going
to buy according to the Government
specifications. How about it. can you
tell me?”~e—B. E. 8.. Van, Mich.

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Well, Brother Farmer, you’ve got
us stumped, by gum. If you’d asked
us why a chicken crosses the street,
we might have given you some en-
lightenment. but this one floors us.
Nobody attempts to explain every-
thing that the government does and
the government would have a hard
job explaining some of them itself.

In our judgment the running of

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STATE POTATO
PRICES HIGHER

Scarcity of Cars, Unwillingness of
Farmers to Sell and Poor
Yield All Tend to Keep
Price Up.

Potato prices thruout the state con-
tinue on the upgrade, despite the fact
that digging is practically over and
that there are millions of bushels
“ ready for the marrkets, if the markets
were ready for them. Greenville pric-
es have advanced from $1 to $1.30
per bushel in the last four weeks;
at Gaylord, another potato center, the
prices jumped from 80 cents on Oc-
tober 11th to $1.00 on October 13th,
and similar increases have been noted
in other sections. The average price

being paid for potatoes today in Mich- -

igan is $1.00 per bushel.

Many causes contribute to maintain
the present prices. The primary
cause is the farmers’ refusal to sell at
the opening prices of 75 or 80 cents,
and as a matter of fact few of them
are selling at the $1 price. With
tubers yielding only 50 or 60 bushels
to the acre, no farmer can afford to sell
for less than $1 and it is certain that
the majority of them would lose money
at that figure.

The city commission houses are
telling the consumers that the pres-
ent prices are due to a car shortage
and as soon as this is relieved the
price will go down. There may be
a car shortage, but it cannot be very
severe when local dealers are so anx-
ious to tie up a lot of money in $1
potatoes. If there is a shortage of
cars at the present time, it can only be
exaggerated within a few months with
thousands of tons of coal and many
perishables yet to be moved, to say
nothing of the constantly increasing
tax upon the railroads by the de-
mands of the huge cantonments about
the country.

Few farmers will sell their spuds
at $1 unless they actually need the
money, and our advice to our readers
upon this point early in September
has been fully substantiated by re-
cent developments. The majority of
the farmers will doubtless dispose of
their crop when the price reaches the
$1.25 mark, while some as always will
hold for still higher prices. Reports
from other potato states reflect the
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ALBION—J. A. Richards is presi-
dent of the Albion Farmers’ Elevator
Company at Albion, capitalized with
stock of $40,000.

MARSHALLnCalhoun Co-operative
elevator Company has let the con-
tract to the Burrell Engineering &
Construction Company for a new
concrete elevator here, with capacity
of 17,000 bushels. -

ANN ARBOR A ju1y
awarded 6 cents to Walter McKenzie
of Shelby in a suit against the De-
troit, Jackson & Chicago railway for
$10,000 damages for injuries received
when he fell from the platform of a
car as it was rounding a switch at
Ypsilanti in 1914.

CLARE~Near1y a half day was tak-
en up by the board of supervisors dis-
cussing how abstracts which will be
accepted by the federal farm loan
banks can be obtained from the local
abstractor who ,is also county clerk
and register of deeds. County farm
loans under the new act have been
held up waiting for abstracts. The
only abstracts are owned by the coun-
ty.

Monday

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JACKSON—~The federal food admin-
istration has named Acting Warden
Frensdorf of the Michigan state pris-
on to serve on a commission, to regu-
late the price of binder twine. A pos-
sible outcome of the work of the com-
mission through‘ price regulations may
be the saving of some $8,000,000 to
the purchaser of binder twin, or 10
per cent of the $80,000,000 used annu-
ally by the American farmer.

EAST JORDAN—Here is a new and
easily raised winter food for stock.
Walter Arnold, of Williamsburg last
spring drilled in at once three seed-
ings, oats, cowhorn turnips and clov-
er. The oats were harvested six weeks
ago. Not until then did the turnips
appear above the ground. They are
now ready to be pulled. A turnip
pulled at random has a wide spread-
ing coarse top and a pure white root
24 inches long and about four inches
Mr. Arnold will have
1,000 bushels of this valuable stock
food with only the labor incidental
to harvesting, no cultivation being
necessary. The clover, of course, will
come on in the spring.

SUGGESTS TWO
BEAN GRADES

President Cook of Bean Growers’
Association, Believes That it
Would be Advantage to
Industry

That there should be two standard
grades of beans is the opinion of A.
B. Cook, president of the Michigan
Bean Growers’ Association.

“This year,” said Mr. Cook, “there
will be many bushels of frosted beans
which will increase the pick material-
ly, and reduce the farmers’ profits.
Every farmer in the state this year
will need every cent it is. possible
for him to get from his beans if he
is going to make any money on
them, and the larger the percentage
of discolored beans, the less of course.
will'be his profit.

”As you know, the discolored beans
are picked from a sample bushel by
the elevator men and the farmer‘s
crop paid for on that basis. The ele‘
vators keep the discolored beans and
the farmer pays for the picking. The
beans that are picked out are sold
to canning companies, who palm them
off on the public at prices nearly as
high as are paid for the standard
product.

“I do not advocate.” continued Mr.
Cook, “in selling c1111 beans to the pub-
lic, but inasmuch as such has been
the practice of the canning companies,
I see no reason why the farmer should
not have the profits from these beans.
I would therefore, recommend that
there be established two standard
grades of beans and sold under those
grades to the consumer. The first
grade would, of course, consist of
hand—picked beans; farmers whose
product contained so small a percent
age of discolored beans as to make
their pirking profitable would sell
them under this grade. Beans con-
taining 21 larger amount of frosted or
otherwise discolored specimens would
be sold under the second grade. Un-
der such an arrangement the farmer
would receive considerable more for
his yearfs crop and the consumer
would be able to buy second grade
beans at secondgrade prices.”

Our readers are requested to write
us their opinions on Mr. Cook’s sug-
gestion.

DETROIT WAR CONTRACTS
EXCEED 250 MILLIONS

Detroit is doing a “1211 business of
$250,000,000 in motor trucks, aircraft
and munitions. This is the figure
generally accepted in financial circles

as approximating the value of con-
tracts held by not more than a dozen
of the large factories. And these
are merely the contracts placed by
the Government to warrant the
changing of equipment. Alonzo P.
Ewing, newly appointed general man-
ager of the Michigan Copper & Brass
Works, says the Government is about
to let contracts for 40,000,000 rounds
of ammunition, a large proportion of
the metal for which probably will be
rolled in this\city. Some of the most
influential financial interests in the
city are backing plans for the organ-
ization of three big aircraft engine
plants here. Several smaller enter-
prises manufacturing aircraft parts
are in view, and there are indications
that the industry will have :1 develop—
ment similar to that of the motor car
plants. The war orders coming to
the city are beginning to show in the
stock markets, as many of the plants
profiting have their stocks listed in
both the New York and Detroit ex-
changes. Recent heavy buying of
General Motors and Chevrolet stocks
are credited to persons closely con-
nected with both organizations and
are said to be based in part 011 profit-
able Government contracts. In this
connection, market operators are
pointing to the fact that many stocks
are being quoted at prices below the
price levels of the panic year of 1907,
at a time when these concerns are
doing a bigger business than ever be-
fore.

STATE TAX RATE
$3.93 PER THOUSAND

The 1918 state tax rate is to be
$3.98 per thousand of assessed valu-
ation. This calls for a total levy of
359.609.339.36 on property worth $2,-
800,000. Thirty-five counties will re-
ceive more primary money than they
have paid in. The tax will be spent
for the following purposes: Educa-
tional purposes. $299,792. 64; charit—
able purpos'eS, $716. 11,. 9"4; penal purpos-
es, $564,494; public health, $122,690 21
hospitals for insane. $1,820,572.83;
military purposes, $800,911.27; high
way purposes, $860,000; general pur-
poses, $1,575,480; state boards and
commissions, $628,860.16;
eous purposes, $630,674.25.
609,339.36.

Total, $9,-

DEALERS HOLD UP FARM-
ERS ON SEED WHEAT

I received your paper and it is the
best yet. There are lots of potatoes
to dig and beans to pull yet in my
part of ("harleyoix county. Both crops
were damaged by the early frost.
Farnmrs are not, sowing much fall
wheat, for simple reasons. The Mil-
ling companies are doing a big busi‘
ness in this county. They are only
paying $190 per bushel for wheat
and are asking $4 for seed wheat. It
seems to me that if they want to help
the farmer they would sell them seed
wheat at a reasonable price. But
every dog has his day. These com-
panies have set their price on our
produce long enough and then they
say what. we must pay them for their
stuff. How longr will you continue
on this basis. Mr. Farmer? Our
county board of supervisors have vot-
ed to raise money for a county agent
which perhaps is all right but not to
my estimation. Only a short time ago
we had a. man running a farm for
one of our rich farmers who told the
proprietor his seed oats and potato
seed were run out and he must get
new seed. Afterwards he hired out for
a county agent and shipped this same
seed that he said had run out to his
own county and sold it for good seed
at a high price. How is that for a
county agent?——G. H. E.

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M. B. F. QUERIES

State Bean Head Again Denies
Complicity _ in or Knowledge
of Alleged Deal to “Bear”
The Market

The following statement has been
received from W. J. Orr, in response
to the several questions asked Mr. Orr
in the Oct. 6th issue of M. B. F. rela-

tive to his dual connection with the

bean jobbers and the U. S. Govern-
ment:

“At the time of my appointment I
did not know where there were 100
cars of beans in the U. S., such as
would fill army and navy specifica-
tions, and I will reduce that by-saying
I did not know where there were 50
cars, and here is an offer for $1000.00
spot cash for evidence that will prove
to the‘contrary.

“When war was declared on the 6th
day of April, I reached my home in
Saginaw late on the evening of the
7th, and feeling the necessity strong-
ly of having all the beans that could
be possibly grown in our good state,
and knowing that in order to secure
good crops you must first have good
seed, I spent Sunday, the 8th of April
in my office, and called up every deal-
er I could get on that day, and asked
him to use any strictly pea beans he
had on hand that would germinate at
least 90 per cent, and asked him if he
would not hold them as I felt that
on account .of the war, this state
would be short of seed. I found the
dealers very patriotic in their re
plies, and they said in many cases
that while they did not have any,
they would proceed at hnce to get all
they could and would hold same un-
til after planting period in order that
every‘customer who wanted to plant
beans might be satisfied. Following
this up, on the 26th day of April I
called a patriotic meeting in this city,
which was largely attended by bank-
ers and e'levatormen,_where all of the
elevatormen agreed to handle beans
without expense to the growers, and
assist them in securing the best seed
possible, and every elevator man
agreed at that meeting. but one, to
hold all first-class seed beans in his
possession until June 1st. which was
done. During this time. however.
while from $9.50 to $10.50 was being
paid to the growers of this state for
beans, the Conservation of the Tin
Plate Committee had been appointed
at Washington and notice had been
sent out to the pork and bean can-
ners of the U. S. to conserve their
cans and not can pork and beans un—
til further notice. This action. O‘l
the part of the Government. stopped
the purchasing of beans for cannng
purpOscs. and the writer, with the
Governor‘s assistance of this state,
went to Washington, and on the 30th
day of June got the Committee to no—
tify the canners they might. resume
canning beans again. This, however.
did not help the dealers throughout
the country who carried over stocks
they had been unable to sell as the
result. of canning being stopped. be-
cause canners simply canned stocks
on hand when they were stooped, and
no trade developed until about the
first. of September. But notwithstand-
im: all of this, I know of no dealer in
this state who was carrying any (37(-
ceotional load. and as stated to you 1’11
mv former letter, notwithstanding
the Government’s order for 7,500,000
lbs. of beans, we were only able to
secure out of Michigan about 75 cars
to apply on the order. and 25 cars of
those belonged to the Dominion Can~
ners Co., at Simcoe, Out. I sent you
a copy of a circular which I sent out
to every dealer in beans in this state
that I knew anything about, which
you apparently overlooked in your
publication, which gave to every deal-
er, large or small, the opportunity
for awards or allotments of beans
for the Government. I did not enter-

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WASHINGTON,

j! ago we were told
that President
Wilson was in fav-
or of certain new
regulations being made under the se-
lective'draft law. These have now
been made public, and they really give
to the draft law the first “selective”
features that have so far been ob-
served. Under the new classifications
an opportunity is given for skilled
farm laborers and owners to secure
exemption for a limited time.

The classifications are as follows,
and show every man registered to
which class he belongs, and in what
order the different classifications will
be called to service:

CLASS I.

1. Single men without dependent
relatives.

2. Married men 01' widower (with
children) who habitually fails to sup-
port his family

3. Married men dependent
wife for support.

4. Married man (or widower with
children) not usefully engaged; fam-
ily supported by income independent
of his labor.

5. Men not included in any other
description in this or any other class-
es.

6. Unskilled laborer.

CLASS II.

1. Married man or father of moth-
erless children, usefully engaged but
family has sufficient income apart
from his daily labor to afford reason-
ably adequate support during his ab-
sence.

2. Married nianm—no childrenw-wife
can support herself decently and with-
out hardship.

3. Skilled farm laborer 1111 ga11'ed
in necessary industrial enter'piise.

4. Skilled industrial laborer en-
gaged in necessary agricultural e11-
terprise.

upon

CLASS HI.

1. Men with foster children. de-
pendent on daily labor for sugqsi ort

2. Man with aged. infirm or in-
valid parents or grandparents depe1 1d-
ont on d111' ly labor for support.

3. him with brothers or sisters: i11—
competent to support themselves. de-
pendent on daily laboi for support.

4. County or municipal officei.

5. Fireman or policeman.

6. Necessary officers or wo1km11n
in arsenals, aiinmies and navy yards.

7. Necessaxv custom house c.lerk:

8. Persons necessary in t1ans1nis-
sion of mails.

9. \lecess ary employes in
of Un ted States.

10. Highly specialized administra—
tive experts.

ll. Technical or mechanical ex-
ports in industrial enterpris 1s.

12. Highly specialized agricultur-
al expert in agricultural bureau of
state or nation.

13 Assistant: or a so<iate m111'1—
gcr of neccs' 111v indust1ial enterprise.

ll Assi<tant o1 associate mana-
ger of necessary agricultural enter-
prise.

service.

CLASS T"

l. Marr’cd man with wife (and)
or children (orb \K’l'lil‘l'fl“ 11'1'tl1 child-
ren dependent. on dailv lal'or t'or sup-
port and no other reasonably ade-
quate support available.

2. Mariners in sea service of mer-
chants or citizens in llnite'l States.

.91. Heads of necessary industr’al e11—
terprises

4. Heads of necessary ag1i<ultur-
al enterprises.

(‘LASS V.

1. Officers of states or
States.

1 2. Regularly or duly ordained min-
1sters.

3. Students of

4. Persons in
service.

5'1. Aliens.

(1 Alien 111117'1111'es.

7. Persons morally unfit.

8. “Persons physically, 1'1111'11121‘nently
or mentally unfit.

9. Licensed pilots.

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The attention of the Food Admin-
istration is now turned from the pro-
ducer and the speculator to the re-
tailer. Mr. Hoover says his lll‘iCCS
must come down. It is not claimed
that the average retaler is making

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divinity.

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exorbitant profits; it is merely stated
that his methods are extravagantly
wasteful and his costs unnecessarily
high. Heretofore he has been able
to charge what was necessary to pay
his costs and net him a profit, but if
he continues in busineSs1 after the
food administration gets after him
he will have to revise his methods
of do’ng business. Mr. Hoover has
promised that as a result of the co-
operation he has been given by the
producers and the wholesalers and
with the concessions he expects to
have from the retailers, the price of
most commodities should be less be-
fore the end of the year.

OPPOSEDTO TWO
GRADES OF POTATOES

(007117111011 from, page 1)

potatoes over two different screens
for the purpose-of securing separate
is a waste of time, effort and
money, unjust to the farmer, value-
less to the consumer and giving the
dealer the opportunity as you have
suggested of making additional prof-
its at your expense.

We have had this matter up with a
number of potato authorities, none
of whom as yet have been able to give
reason for such grading of potatoes.
It may be that a few fashionable ho-
tels in a few fashionable cities de-
mand a uniform size of spuds for a
few fashionable guests, but if this be
any reason for the establishing of
such a grade then common sense has
taken its departure.

There has been no demand from
the consumer for t1i'o grade»; of po-
tatoes. But now that thc Go'ern—
ment has suggested such a distinction
tho dear old fickle public will prob-
ably want it.

" 1»; we all know, an inch and scvcn-

git 1s mesh will drop a potato, which
as 0111 coriespoudent says, is of just
the proper size [01 table purposes \‘111
are ‘aware that many dealers are 11.12
ing this large a screen; others the
inch and fiveeights. but we do not
believe that: many of them are urg-
ing or even suggesting that the
smaller potatoes be passed a second
time over a finer screen. Our sug-
gestion to all our readers is that they
make no effort yet to sell the pota-
toes that pass thru the inch and
seven-eights screren. Take thcm
home. It looks 110w as though SOPfl
potatoes would be at a premium again
next spring and if so there‘ll be :1.
good stiff market for thee despised
tubers that passed thru the sc‘:1(c'1.

ED S MESSPG
T0 DAIRYMEN

Field Secretary of Milk Producers
Reviews Work of Past Year
and Tells of Future Prob-
lems to be Solved

W’aste of 11117111111 Encrm/
There has been a tremendous waste
of human energy in the days past in
the misguided zeal to produce food
products, regardless of whether there

. was an over or under supply and re-

gardless of whether a compensatory
price was obtainable for this product.
The law governing our efforts should
be as fixed and immovable as the law
of the Modes and Persians, and should
be in control [Of the production and
sale of human foods; today; that foot
production should be encouraged and
directed in those channels which
should maintain a proper equilibr‘um
of all the food supply of tho land.
To this end your artst'ic'ation started
out son .1 months ago with this 1111’. lo
ery which we believe is both 1111117111—
matc and patriotic, namely: “A price
for our product that equals the cost

or production plus a reasonable profit.
This is the only way that any busi~
ness can be stabilized. This is the
foundation upon which every indus-
try must find permanent basis.

The most potential factor to bring

" 'the realization of this aim to the milk

producers of our land would be to
reduce production, that is what every
other large industry does and we be-
lieve it is a part of wisdom for every
milk producer to put a part of his
energy and a part of the measure of
his life that he is now putting into
the industry into some other line of
food production, cut out boarder
cows. You all have them Send them
to the shambles, so they Will not be
a. further burden to you or others i11-
terested in this business. Decrease
'milk production twenty per cent and
increase pork and lamb production
twenty per cent.

In this way you will apply the
etiualizer to your business that every
other great enterprise is usng today.
If after that the food you produce
fails to reach an equitable position
with other industries, then make a
still further reduction until it shall
have the full share of recognition and
compensation. We must not expect
to reach this point in one year. The
evolution of public sentiment is too
slow to reach this at one bound but
the principle is right, and it will stand
the closest scrutiny, and for that we
are fighting and will continue to
wage the battle until your great bil—
lion dollar industry inio which sir.
millions of American freemen are
putting a large part of their life and
energy has been lifted to a. higher
level and on a plane with other great
industries of the land.

in pursuaucn of this conviction we
choose, as «1111' slor:j2111: Education,
Legislation and (“o-operation.

lloxv little \‘1‘1', 31' 1.11 1 about the 111117111
(11" HI 1'31 pror’irc‘ l1 .,/ mctlzods of curc,
11.11.111.11f11c1’111‘1: and disposition. We do
not at all agree 011 some of the meth-
ods used for obtaining a proper rec-
o1:11i‘1io11 and proper price. We have
but little sympathy with strikes and
look—outs. \Vc are sure that, in the
near future a better method of settling
these questions will be used than have
been resorted to in the recent pat
In the future W11 believe that the, sell-
ing of this product to any concern
will be in the hands of one man who
will announce that, on a certain day
he will have a certain amount of milk
to sell; that this milk an be had for
a certain price. if this price is not
obtained he will not scll, There can
be no law against this kind of pro
ceedure. This involves one principle
to which you are strangers and that
is confidcncc in your fcliowa. This
is an education that milk producers
of Michigan need. We are confident.
that our c211'11p'11ign of education has
not been devoid of results. We are
sure that there exists today among
the people of this state a better ap—
prcciation of the value and need of
:1 better knowledge of every part of
this business than has ever existed
before.

Legislation

Not all has been accomplished along
those lines that should have been. but
some results may be noted. The Mich-
igan Milk Association by some of the
members of the Holstein Fresian As-
set-iation Went to the recent legisla-
ture and secured the passage of a law
increasing the compcisation to own-
ers of cattle slaughtered by the State
for the purpose of eradicating disease.
This one legislative action has ap-
plied to many as of great importance
to the live stock industry of Michigan
and especially to the milk producing
mung-dry. 111.1hc1'eas, in the near future
a special e111pl1asis must he placed
upon the onulitv of milk and the
heal‘h of the animils producing it.
111' this legislat' on those heid owners
1.1.‘l1o am anxious to have clean herds,
free from disease. will not be, as se-
pe11uli1'r1d is 711 former days
for now the State will bear twice as
much 11" the loss as before.

((‘ontinucd on page 4)

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German cas-

PARIS-«The latest
ualty list comprising killed, wound-
ed, prisoners and missing from Aug.
ust, 1914 to September, 1917. fills 30

folio volumes of 22,000 pages He
calculates the total number of names
at 8, 250 ,.000

A FRENCH

* )ll *
PORT—Survivors of
the U. S. transport Antilles, which
was sunk by a German submarine
while being conveyed on her home—
ward trip by American warships have
landed here and are being cared for by
the American censulate.
* * 1'1
LONDON—The 1 big British guns
along the Flanders front are again

engaged in smashing the German
works for another drive. The loit-
1sh have consolidated the positions

so far won and all enemy attempts
to retake them have failed with ter~
rible loses to themselves.
O t '1
WASHINGTONfiAt least ' 8 000, 000
men are bearing 211 ms in the present
war, 28 ,,000 000 Entcnte allies and 10, -
000,000 on the side of the Central
Powers, according to latest figures
given out by the war department. The
figures do not include the personnel
of the navies, which would raise the
total several millions.
It 1. i
PETROGRAT)—The Russian fleet
has succeded in eluding the German
fleet and making its escape from Moon
Sound and is now guarding the north-
eastern entrance to the sound off
VVormso island. The Russians 111ade
their escape without further losses
than the battleship Shiva. it ‘1: re-
ported th.1t. a number of German ves-
sels were disabled in the running

fight.
1'1' * *

(‘AMl’ 11-Alt’t‘lll'll. \VA(‘:1, ’l‘cx.
-, it 11:11: llt‘mi 11111101111111! that (Unscr—
11or Ellccpcr ot' T1li1'l11’11'21n will he in
‘1aco during~ tl11 1-11-‘11'1 palace 111:;1o-

s1tion next month, and it 12:: 21111.11 ex»-
pectcd that ’l‘hcodorc ltoo'c"c’1 will
he hero at the same tin'c ’t‘hc day
that: Governor Sleeper will :Itt-111'l the
exposition has been sci :1:-:31l1' '1; Kitch-
igan llav and thcrc will be :1 1'111.'ic'.1.’
at (‘amp Mac A1tl1111

(‘AMP (“l""il‘l'dt l‘h11 Y. j‘.l. f‘. A.
auditorium. with a seating capacity
of more than 4,000, was dcdicatcxl
Oct. 10th by officers of the, Y. .‘.l (‘.
A. Many entertainment features are
planned by those in charge. The
boys will always find there music and
good fellowship during the evenings
and other spare time. Many of the
new soldicrs‘ parents have paid them
visits and many others besides pan
ents are included in the list. The
marriage license clerk does a rushing
business on the forenoons which the
Sammies have off duty.

* 18 fi .

.AMSTFlltllAMill‘he Russian gov—
ernment has decided to move to Rios-—
cow. The Germans have landed
ll'titil‘t: on llago island. south of the
entrance to the Gulf of Finland. They
have also captured Oesel and Moon
Islands and threaten an invasion of
dsthonia. The Russian ilect is out-
1111111bered and the (111111111111 guns also
outrange those of the Russians. in-
ternal affairs in Russia arr1 turbu-
lent and the opoi'iing of parlia111cut
was the. occasir 11 for further out—
bursts against, the government by the
Maximilists.

at an 1.1

PARTS ~Thn French forces of Gen-
eral l’e‘oin have struck a mighty and
unexpected blow against the lerman
lines north of Soissons. The gains
are of more importance than any made
since the army of the German crown
pr’ncc was thrown back at Verdun,
The German lines at certain points
were penetrated to a depth of two
and onc‘half miles. More than 7.7100
prisoners wcre taken and in addition
an enormous 21111111111t of war mater—
ial was captured. Some of tho ho-zt
troops o“ the Ile1'111r111 11ro11r11
were encased but they were unable.
to stop the rush of the lt‘reuch 1'l1'1
were detcr111i11cd to win positions
which would later give them the ad-
'antage in operations toward Laow.

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T take five farm papers but; none
comes up to M R. F. You can’t help
but succeed with a paper fighting the
farmers" cause as you d0.7~11'. M. 0.,
(‘lu'.11'1111i11(,1. Mich.

  

 
    


fit of the lemon

California Fruit Growers":
change Returns Over 33 MH-
lion Dollars to its 8,000
Members in a Year

At the moment when the subject of
farmers’ co-operative associations
again has come to the front because
of unusual conditions and because of
the necessity for economical market-
ing of agricultural products, the an-
nouncement is made by the California
Fruit Growers’ Exchange that in the
year closed August 31, 1917, it return-
ed to citrus growers the enormous
mm of $33,611,000.

The California Fruit Growers’ Ex-

change long has been recognized as
the largest co-operative organization
of farmers in the world and has been
the model held up to the agricultur:
alists of America. Such authorities
as Sir Horace Plunkett, Herbert Quick,
Charles Holman and Charles McCar-
thy have made studies of its success
and have sought to have its methods
adopted in other localities.

According to the report for the
year recently closed, the Exchange
now markets 69 per cent of all oranges,
lemons and gra1efruit grown in Cal-
ifornia—«a business which last year
totaled 15,492,990 boxes of citrus fruit.
This tremendous volume of fruit was
marketed at a cost of 4 3-4 cents a
box and not a single penny was lost
through bad debts or other causes.
The annual report points out that
in the last fourteen years the business
of the Grower's’ association has
amounted to $226,100,000, on which
losses from bad debts and all other
causes have been less than $8,000, or
35-10,000 of one per cent. The total
California citrus crop of last season
amounted to 58.830 carloads.

The exchange is composed of 8,000
growers and acts as a clearing house
for the bulk of the California crop.
Growers pool their fruit, which is
then graded in 150 packing houses
and, under the direction of the cent-
ral office, is distributed through the
organization’s sales offices to all parts
of the country. The service is per-
formed at absolute cost.

The citrus industry has virtually
been organized upon a manufacturing
basis. For advertising in newspapers
and other periodicals each box of or-
anges is assessed 2 1-4 cents and
every box of lemons 4 cents. Last year
this netted a fund of nearly half a
million dollars for publicity work.
According to 'the report, the growers
look to advertising to increase the
consumption of oranges and ‘lemons
and thereby make room for the rapid—
ly increasing crops. During the ten
years in which advertising has been
done the consumption of citrus fruit
has increased 80 per cent or four
times as rapidly as population.

The growers in the Exchange have
their own mutual insurance compact
They operate a Supply Company which
last year purchased for its membeis
packing house and orchard supplies
worth $5 495, 574. A large tract of
timber land with saw mills and lum-
bering equipment from which box
wood is made is owned and operated
by the growers. In order to dispose
of the unmerchantable lemons a By-
Product plant has been constructed
which last year converted 6 per cent
of the lower grades into citric acid
and other by—products. The interests
of the growers are guarded by a Traf-

muummmm ”If"!

“I have read the BusINEss FARMING
and I think it is a splendid paper that
is filling a great need. It is just the
kind of a paper the business farmer
will want to read and it cannot help
but pay him to do so. ——B. E. 0., 86.
Louis. Mo.

“Ex. _

icb '1-‘he balance .Wereximph'
In order to provide an efficient mar:

keting medium for California farm-
ers who have planted vegetables ex-
tensively in response to the requests
of the Government the Exchange is

temporarily opening its marketing fa—

cilities to vegetable shippers.

'M. B. F. A VALUABLE

ASSET TO THISFARMER

Just a little word of praise for your
paper. I consider it a valuable as
set to every farmer who professes to
be a farmer. In this day and age it
takes men mad-e of the right stuff to
so forget themselves as to be of ser-
vice to the farmers 24 hours of each
day. In the past we farmers have
been at the mercy. of those elevator
men, but thanks to Grant Slocum and
his worthy helpers better conditions
prevail and are on the increase. A
few words about crop conditions in
this county. Beans will not average
5 bu. of low grade to the acre. Po-
tatoes will run about 40 to 60 bu. of
graded tubers to the acre. Corn is
not 20 per cent of a crop, in fact there
is no good corn. I have two fields of

beans that have been pulled two weeks .

and not a day of drying weather. Are
about a total loss. Hired help can
not be had at any price—H. 11., Men-
don, Mich.

. 57c; rye, $1. 66'

eat; $208? o6ts,
hay, $13. 65; potatoes,
$1. 06; eggs, 38%c; hogs, 1716c; hens,
17c; butter, 40150. .

OCTOBER ESTIMATE or,

SUGAR IS LOWER ,

The latest estimate -of the coming
sugar beet crop of the United States,

as contained in the October crop sum--

mary of the Bureau of Crop Esti-
mates at Washington, is 7,832,00 tons
from the crop indicated by conditions
on September 1, but still exceeds the
December, 1916, estimate by 1,600, 000
tons.

The condition of the crop on Octo-
ber 1, is given at 89.7 per cent of nor
mal as compared with an average 0c-
tober condition forten years previous
of 88.7 per cent. The present indicat-
ed yield per acre is 10.67 tons, as
against a December, 1916, estimate of
9. 36 tons. .

It is with pleasure that I am send-
you the names of four subscribers
to MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING. .I
have received six of those papers
and think every one is better. I am
patiently waiting for thewnext one.—
H. T., Freeland.

NATIONAL QLOP REPORTS

Benton, Pa.—-Potatoes are selling
at $1.15 bu., apples, $1.70, with cider

‘ stock around 600.

06116360, Pa.—Shippers commenc-
ed carting potatoes her-e last week.
They are paying $1 bu. a car. Stock
not coming very freely yet.

Walloomsac, N. Y.——The potato crop
which is being harvested shows a gen-
eral yield of 30@35 bu. to the acre,
which is about 60 per cent of normal.
The price to farmers is $4 bbl. Apple
crop is light.

Engcl, Team—The poultry move-
ment is 5@10 coops weekly and about
25 cases of eggs. Eggs and turkeys
are very scarce owing to the dry
weather. There will be a very few
turkeys to be shipped.

Wilsomn‘lle, Ora—«Potatoes are turn-
ing out better than was expected at
this point and onions are pretty good,
but about half a crop. We will have
about 100 sacks of good onions to the
acre.

Philadelphia—The cheese market
was quiet this week but steady under
moderate offerings. Prices remain the
same with New York full cream fancy
June bringing 26 1-2c, fresh made best
25 3—4 @ 26c, fresh made choice 25 @
25 1-2c, and fair to good 24 @ 24 1-2c.

I/Vinchesfer, Va.,—~.The largest fruit
deal made thus far in Jefferson county
W. Va.. was closed a few days ago,
when Logan B. Shutt, of Kabletown,
sold the output of his orchards, ap-
proximately 7,000 barrels, to F. A.
Beck of Winchester. All grades of
the fruit were sold at $1.75 per barrel.

Chicago—Offerings of Michigan
grapes were quite large this week,
causing some reduction in prices, but
a satisfactory demand continued with
Concords the main variety wanted.
Small baskets were salable at 20@21c
with extra fancy label stock bringing
22c. Other stock brought $1@$1.10
in 16—qt. cases and $1.25@$1.50 in six-
basket crates.

Shushan, N. . Y.—Potato harvesting
is well under way here. The stock
is good "and the yield is 90 per cent
or over. Shippers are paying the farm-
ers $4@$4.25 although Giant seed po-
tatoes are a little higher. The farm-
ers are very firm in their ideas and
and the situation seems to be in their
hands entirely. They are putting a
lot of stock into the cellars.

Kansas City—Good advances were
made this week in the cabbage mar-
ket here, due partly to car shortage
and small supplies of homegrown stock
Colorado and Wisconsin stock in bulk
jobbed at $1.75 @ $2 per 100 pounds
and the market ruled firm at quota-
tions with movement good. 011 ac-

count of the poor quality, homegrown
stock sold lower at $1.50 @ $1.75 per
100 pounds.

Chicago—The supply of peaches con-
tinued large this week and demand
was not active. Bushels of Elbertas
were offered freely from New York
and brought $1.50 when fancy. _Less
attractive stock ranged lower and
poor grades brought as low as 50c.
There was no longer much offered in
the way of Michigan peaches. There
was a good supply of Elbertas from
the west in flat cases and these isold
generally at 75c@$1.

New Yorke—All the peaches on the
market this week came out of storage
and while their appearance was good
the flavor was poor and this fact to-

gether with the heavy receipts kept '

trading at a standstill. It is reported
that there are many cars still .in stor-
age up state and it looks now as tho
the deal had several weeks longer to
run. Bushel baskets of state peaches
were selling anywhere from $1 to $1.50
while baskets ranged from 40 to 65c.

Oswego, N. Y.——During the last few
days frost has knocked out many bean
and corn crops in this county. All
white beans and sweet corn, suitable
for canning and not matured, were de-
stroyed. Thousands of bushels of un-
ripe tomatoes are also lost, in addi—
tion to cucumbers, melons, squash and
pumpkins. The season this year was
very backward. Yet there has sel-
dom been a better yield of potatoes
and the acreage has been unusually
large. Late cabbage has suffered from
worms. Beets, carrots, and parsnips
are doing well.

Mosinec, Wis—Fields of potatoes
yielding from 150 to 200 bushels to
the acre are found here frequently,
but fields yielding from 50 to 100 bu.
to the acre bring the average down
to something like 125 bushels. From
the good yielding fields the stock is
of very good size ,while the poor yields
were brought about chiefly by impov-
erished soil or by the early September
frost stopping the growth of the crop
before the spuds had their growth.
The farmers are bringing in potatoes
more freely since the price passed
the dollar mark; $1.10 was the pre—
vailing price on Tuesday and Wed-
nesday of this week.

Coloma, Wis—The average yield
of potatoes in this section is not ex-
pected to exceed about 85 to 90 bu.
to the acre. The size and quality of
the stock is much better than last
year. The freezing weather of Fri-
day last week froze a few of the po-
tatoes close to the surface of the
ground. The work of harvesting the
crop has been inte1 fered with by the

. -.'. , ‘ ,3 » n1". _.
" “its 51 the large increase in '

- , ,efifie. White pea beans have
Been. gréwn here for a. number of
years. Generally the quality is good.
This is too early to judge the. bean
situation as many of the fields have
not been harvested yet and threshing
has not commenced anywhere.

REED’ S MESSAGE ,
TO DAIRYMEN

(Continued from page 3)
(Jo-Operation
This one part of our slogan must
be the-one point of contact, the bond
of sympathy, the powerful lever that
will lift many of the burdens that

due held the milk producers of this

nation in the years past the object
lessons of the last year, should, prove
a sufficient stimulus so that no more,
should be needed, to insure the most
hearty co-Operation of every milk
producer in Michigan. Our co-operaé
tion has made it possible to secure
the price raise that has been gained
in every place where a contest, has
been made in the‘last year. Men of
keen business perception assert that
the raise in price of milk in Michigan
in the last year, due to the activity

.of your association, will mean not

less than $2,000,000 a year to the pro-
ducers and will come that much near-

“er equalizing and stabilizing this in-

dustry in the state.

We cannot overestimate the import-
ance and good effect of co-operation,
constructive and not destructive. We
must be builders in the broadest
sense of the word. We have 110 do
sire to undermine or destroy, Our
every ambition is to build up and put '
this industry on a permanent basis. .
Let us then understand that we have 1
in our hands absolute control of the
perplexing questions that surround .
this industry. If you do not become
masters of the situation it is your
fault. The Government is desirous of ,
a thorough organization of this indus- ,
try. The buyers of our product are ;
not averse to our organization on con-
structive lines. Had we had a strong -
organization on the 25th of June last,
we would have today on Mr. Hoover’s
board a man with constructive ideas,
who is not averse to the milk produc-
ers side of the problem. So looking
at it from any angle in view of the
history of the past, therefore success
depends upon you. Will you not co-
operate, we must stand together; We
must organize in the fullest sense of '
the word.

It took seventeen years of constant .
effort at organization to bring the‘
railroad men of the country where j,
they could speak as one man and con- ,
grass and the president of the United ‘
States stopped, listened and acted f
upon their request. Should we be '
discouraged at the effort of the past? .
No, we should be encouraged and
weave the fibre of the organization '
so strong that the powers of our gov- '
ernment would listen to the request Q
of six million loyal citizens who hold .
in their hands the food supply of this '

nation.
it It * t it

We have as milk producers, entered
this,our war, against commercial au-
tocracy, believing as we do that the
people have a right [to determine the
selling price of their product based
upon the COst of production. For this
ideal we shall contend, for this ideal
we should broaden our battle line and
deepen our trenches. . 1

For the sake of this great principle
we have a right to expect co-operation
of everyone who is to be benefited, es-
pecially the producer. He surely is
a slacker if he fails _to co-operate in
his onward movement for commercial
democracy.—R. 0'. Reed.

 


   
    

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The movement of wheat to terminal
markets andmills is still nowhere
near sufficient to meet the demand.
We believe that the price at different
loading stations in Michigan has now
been fairly well established and that
with the bean harvest out of the way
and the potatoes fairly well taken
care of, Michigan "wheat growers will
soon begin to sell more freely. Just
as soon as the grower is satisfied that
a fair price has been set at his load-
ing station, he will be as far ahead
to sell and avoid loss from shrinkage,
rats, etc.

Canadians are free shippers, evi-
dently taking advantage of the lake
carriers before the close of naviga—
tion. These shipments are all mov-
ing eastward and no doubt will soon
be enroute to Europe. Argentina at
the present time promises to have a
large crop of wheat and it is to be
hoped that these promises may be ful-
filled. The world will need every
bushel available if an actual short-
age does not develop.

Much of the Michigan wheat is
grading high under the Federal grain
standards and we are glad to learn
this as it was feared that the reverse
would be the case.

We have before us a press state-
ment to the effect that at one time
in September, New York had only 36
hours supply of flour, and that with-
out any publicity about it the Food
Bureau commandeered 400,000 bar-
rels that had been prepared for export,
and distributed it. The dispatch
states however, that this action was
at once taken advantage of by cer-
tain retailers who bought at the low
Government price and are charging
$2 per barrel more to the consumer
than decency would dictate. With
farmers receiving a fixed price for
their wheat and the grain exchanges
working to help the Government it is
about time that certain of these fel-
lows receive attention.

There is no doubt but what the
Food Bureau has accomplished won-
derful results in a very short time.
They are deserving of every credit.
We have no desire to say or do any-
thing which would interfere with
their work or lessen the co-operation
they are now receiving from the
growers, especially those of Michigan.
And you can bet your last dollar they
are receiving this co-operation. des-
pite a whole lot of newspaper talk to
the contrary. But we do think that
the time has come, now that the prices
etc., to the grOWers have been taken
care of, when a whole lot of grafters
and profiteers should have an appli-
cation of the big stick. This would
open the eyes of the public as to just
Who are raising hob with prices on
certain markets. Let them give the
farmers a rest.

Receipts of wheat in eleven pri-
mary grain markets for 15 weeks from
July 1, 1917, to Oct. 13, 1917, with
the comparison with 1916:

1917 1916

Chicago .......... 7,413,000 23,256,000
Milwaukee . .. 1,259,000 2,587,000
Minneapolis . . 25,756,000 38,583,000
Duluth .... ...... 5,408 000 15,251,000
St. Louis . . ...... 9,431,000 16,018,000
'l‘oledo .. . . ..... 2,107,000 3,680.000
Detroit .. .. . . .. 756.000 959 000
Kansas City . ..12.048,000 33,667,000
Peoria .. .. ... 520.000 1251,000
Omaha . . . . 1,649,000 15,763,000
Indianapolis 1,735,000 1.244.000

Total . .. . .68.082,000 152,259,000

Receipts of wheat the past week at
primary markets. compared with 'the

preceding week and corresponding
week last year:

Oct. 13 Oct. 6. Oct, 14

1017 1917 r91 6

St, Louis. . 229.000 362.000 962 000
Kan. Cty.. 512.000 622.000 2.065 000
Omaha 272.000 233,000 1,314,000
Toledo 182.000 160.000 86.000
Detroit 89_000 65 000 66,000
Tnd’nap. 60.000 91 000 6400 0
Peoria 34,000 47,000 64,000
Chicago 462.000 551.006 1.552 000
Milw’kee 85.000 160.000 427.000
Min’p's 2,945,000 3,186 000 3,581,000
Duluth 555,000 1,214.000 1,320,000

 

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DETROIT SPECIAIr—Market away short on all kinds of apple offerings.
Shippers will find returns very .satisfactoryb The hay market also continues
under-supplied and the demand increases each day.
in a few cm at least so as to take advantage of present conditions.

CHICAGO WIRE—Potato market somewhat firmer.
good. Reports of lower prices being made by western shippers causing buyers
Hay in good demand for all grades.

NEW YORK WIRE- Exporters out of bean market temporarily. Waiting for
new crop movement ond any adjustment which may come with it. Oats in
good «lewd, arrivals somewhat lighter.

 

 

 

GRADE Detroit Chicago New York
No. 2 While ‘
Stalled .62 1-4 .61 .67
No. 3 White .51 3-4 .60 1-2 .66
No. 4 White .60 3-4 591-2 55

 

During the past week export demand
has increased but the arrivals on the
seaboard have also shown an increase.
We note a prevailing feeling among
grain men in the east that the price
should work a little lower. Well, pos-
sibly it'may, temporarily, but we be-
lieve the government is keeping an
eye on the situation and that prices
will not vary greatly one way or the
other.

Movement of oats from the west is
somewhat hampered by the annual
car shortage which sets in at the time
the crops begin to move freely. Ship-
ments of war material are adding to
this scarcity but no doubt the Gov-
ernment will see that cars are fur-
nished for the necessary movement of
grain supplies just as for other com-
modities needed. Even with this sit-
uation the movement has been except-
ionally heavy, compared with this time
last year. Receipts ofoats in New
York last week were 688,000 bu.

The Detroit market is somewhat
stronger at the time of writing, as is
also that of Chicago. New York mar-
ket remains the same. Other markets
report large receipts with a good de-
mand and small accumulation.

 

 

GRADE Detroit Chicago New York
No. 2 Yellow 2.05 2.00 2.051-2
No. 3 Yellow 2.04 1.99 2.04
No. 2 Mixed 2.04 1.981-2 2.031-2

 

 

 

Corn is showing additional firm-
ness as per our opinion expressed

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You Lose Too, When Your Neighbm’ Dumps His 5
Crops on a Glutted Marlee”

Most times we like to let our neighbors do just about as they 3
please, for “mindin’ other people’s busmcss” never pays very

But here’s the exception that proves the rule:

When your next door neighbor dumps bis beans or wheat
or potatoes on a market that is already glutted, you smile because
you have been reading M. B. F. and you know that now 18 not the

BUT THE LAUGH IS NOT ALL ON YOUR NEIGHBOR!

For his bit helps force the market way down, from which it
may be hard to recover the fair price that you have set for your

Sowvery time you show the new weekly to a neighbor you not
only do him and us a favor, but you help keep the market steady
by keeping one more farmer posted on when and when not to sell!

He in turn shows our paper to his neighbor and on and on,
until all the farmers of Michigan from Lake Superior to the Ohio
line will stand united in Business Farming and that means
ing the farm products of Michigan for a fair price that will net

Show this copy to a neighbor, tell him why you want him to
send in the coupon on page 13 and see that he does mail it!

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last week. We have some reports of
small quantities of new corn moving,
but not enough to consider. We need
not look for new corn to move in any
quantity for another month or more.
In the meantime, we repeat, we look
for higher prices.

The new crop is coming through in
fine shape. The [frost loss seems to
have been greatest Where the least
corn is raised for export. There will
be some adjusting necessary to get
from the basis of old corn to the new.
As yet the government has made no
move to regulate the price although
they have arranged for a license sys-
tem under which handlers must se
cure licenses. This does not" apply
to growers. This is taken by some to
be a forerunner of Government con-
trol. Whether this is the case or not
we are unprepared to say but most
handlers in the principal corn mar-
kets feel that the Government will
have a hand in what the bulk of the
crop sells for, after all is said and
done.

We have before mentioned distilling
activities as increasing rather than
decreasing. The following sums up
this phase of the corn market in good
shape:

“The suspension of much of the dis-
tilling activities early in the year
has prompted frequent enquiry re-
garding its effect on new corn. It is
interesting in this connection to note
that distillation from both grain and
molasses of alcohol prior to the war
was approximately 10,000,000 gallons
per year, and Government figures for
1916 show ‘approximately 282,000,000
gallons. This increase apparently as-
sures an enormous demand for corn
for munition purposes as long as the
war continues, and we are informed
that more distilleries are operating
for this purpose than believed neces-
sary to furnish sufficient alcohol sup-
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Michigan Business Farming is
trying to do something for YOI'.
You can render us a valuable
service by mentioning this paper
when answering advertisements.

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The rye market is not showing very
much life just at this time. The de-
mand continues to fall off and we
would not, be surprised to see at least
a slight decline in prices. The grain
is being neglected in the rush to so
cure wheat. Detroit market is quoted
at $1.81 per bu. for No. 2; Chicago
No. 2, $1.81.

 

 

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C. 1'1. 1’. 9.00 9.15 9.00
Prime 8.85 9.00 8.9.
Red Kidneys 6.50 r 6.50 l 7.00

 

 

 

 

Old beans are pretty well cleaned
up. Government orders have been
heavy and exporters have been free
buyers. The market is firm at pres—
ent quotations. Some new crop beans
will begin to move in Michigan in
the course of a couple of weeks al-
though movement will not be general
for another month. A few new Col-
orado pintos are moving but not to
any extent. The quality is very good
and they are quoted at 100 per lbw, f.
o.b. Colorado common rate points.

The California growers have ad-
vanced their price in sympathy with
the price set by Michigan growers.
Current quotations at present are as
follows: New choice recleaned small
whites, 13166 per 1b.; large whites,
1314c; pinks, 10%(3; limas. 14c.

A few Japanese beans are being of-
fered, quoted as follows: Long cran-
berries, 9168 per 1b.; pintos. 90 per 1b.;
red marrows, 814C per lb.

While these beans are offered on
the American market. not many of
them are being sold at the present
time. The demand is for domestic
stock. in most cases for pea beans.
Thor.o is no doubt but what Michigan
growers vrill find a good market. when
their stock is ready to move, (“outli-
tions {luring the last few years have
been entirely different from former
times. it is no longer 21 question of
finding a market but rather one of
finding: supplier sufficient to last from
one si‘fison to the next. The price
whi'h hl’lliiguvi growers have placed
on their crop is fair enough. We un-
derstand the overhead was placed at
$20.00. We don't believe the work
can be done for that sum. There is
fillf'll a fill-’19: fl": .‘Trl'l'iilifr ”in price up
in {1 point ivlwm'o Il0‘1‘ifxtffp consump-
tion would greatly :ll‘f‘l'C“l“-" But the
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No. 1 Standard No. 2
Markets l Timothy Timothy Timolh y
Detroit :22 so 23 21 so 23 0020 so 2']
Chicago ,24 25 00 Z3 Z4 N 1 '0 22 3
Cincinnati 1.23 00 23 50 22 50 23 m 21 5. 23
Pittsburgh 25 00 24 50 25 ~ 50 23 a
New York ‘24 50 25 50 24 25 23
Richmond 25 75 26 25:25 50 25 2‘ 50 25
No. 1 No. 1 No. 1
Markets Light Mixed ‘Clovor Mixed Clover
Detroit '21 50 22 ‘18 50 19 0016 50 17 II
Chicago 123

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Hay is not moving freely and nearly
all markets are firm and higher. The
transportation situation is in great
part responsible for the limited offer-
ings at most points. At the same
time baling is going on only in limit-
ed way although it will greatly in-
crease from now on. Now is the time
for hay growers to get in on the mar
ket. As hay moves more freely the
price will be almost certain to de—
cline.

Both the Chicago and Detroit mar-
kets are in exceptionally good shape
and shippers can make no mistake in
billing to these points. As before

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stated, the bulk, of the demand at De-
troit is for the better grades. Chica-
go can handle about anything which
may be offered.

The eastern situation is good, but
the exceptionally strong markets there
just now are due in a great measure
to light supplies. With increased ar-
rivals prices would decline. New York
reports the 33rd Street market as al-

. most bare of hay and buyers having

to go elsewhere for supplies. The
amount in transit is small and al-
though the New York Central embar-
go has been raised not much addi-
tional hay is moving. Brooklyn has
been somewhat better supplied with
hay and the market is not quite so
strong. Low grades are slightly re—
duced in value.

Baltimore reports arrivals of hay
as. small and selling readily at quota-
tions. Values have advanced during
the week and are holding firm. The
supply of cars is small and railroad
congestion acute. There will be a
st1ong ma1ket there as long as this
condition continues. There is also
a fair demand f01 wheat and rye
‘ll'c‘tW there. good rye biing ,aing around
$16 .50 to $17.00.

The ~Pittsburg market is still short
of hay and prices are from 90c to $1
above last week. All arrivals are eas-
ily disposed of, regardless of quality.
The Philadelphia market is veryfirm
on account of light receipts. Pres-
ent. values are considerably above the
average price which was looked for
earlier in the season.

Southern markets continue good“.
the same conditions of shortage pre-
vailing as on eastern and northern
markets. Richmond reports receipts
of hay light and demand active. Re
ccfipts of hay for the past week were
102 tons. against 233 last week and
322 for the same week last, year. New
Orleans dealers report light receipts
and heavy demand. All arrivals clean
up rapidly and all grades are wanted.

St. Louis continues to be a very good
market for timothy and clover mixed
for No. 1 and N0. 2 grades. Lower
grades just, now are not so much in
demand. Offerings there are lighter
than last week and with a good gen-
eral demand the situation is gaining
strength.

It will be seen from this review of
conditions on the different markets
that the situation generally if very
good right now. We beleive that
shippers who are able to get in on
the present market will find it just
about the most satisfactory of the
year. '

 

    

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Markets Choice round Medium Round
_ W white-sacked white-sacked
Detroit 1.50 f 1.45
Chicago 1. 25 1.20
Cincinnati 1.45 t 1.40
New York 1.75 1 1.70
Pittsburgh { 1.60 ‘ 1.6.
Norfcll',Va. 1.40 1.35
Light, receipts and a continued

strong demand are the main factors
in the potato market. Detroit deal-
ers are not receiving enough ship-
ments to take care of business offer-
ed. ‘v'hile the price is :1 its pres ent
level it would seem a good idea for
growers to ship whatever they are not
going to store. Danger of freezing
will soon increase the risk of shipping
and will also add the necessity of
firing the car:: through to destination.

The Chicago market, has shown some
tendency to weaken just a little.
Stocks on —track there are reported as
somewhat increased on certain days.
This would seem to indicate that wes—
tern shippers are selling more freely.
We beleive that the strong eastern de-
mand will more than take care of any
surplus which may be received at Chi-
cago. 'l‘ransportation facilities must
be taken into consideration however
and with a car shortage supplies
might increase at Chi *ago in sufficient
volume to lower the market. Ship-
pers should watch the situation close-
ly.

New York market has been excited
this week with prices inclined to ad-
vance. The unfavorable weather 1'11
up=state shipping sections prevented
a free movement and receipts were
away under normal. Demand is in
excess of supply and all arrivals clean
up promptly. Formerly at this time
of the year the yards were filled but

    

 

   
  

 

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now there is not one-fifth of the wall
quantity. Unless weather conditions

etc., improve so that. farmers can ship ,

much higher prices are expected. The
trade is taking New York stock in
preference to Maine’s which are run-
ning small and are not smooth. The
Maine cr0p however promises to be~
only about fifty per cent of normal
and quality not up'to standard. The
state stock however is fairly good.
What few western shipments are get-
ting through are finding an immediate
market. The quality of such ship-
ments is very satisfactory.

The past week has been “potato
week” and reports from all over the
country are to the effect that the gov-
ernment’s request has been meeting
with the hearty co-operation of the
public generally. An increased diei-
mand has been noticeable and pota-
toes have been substituted wherever
possible, for other foods. The main
idea of this course is to conserve the
wheat supply. Potatoes contain a
large percentage of water and there-
fore are not so well suited for ship-
ment to our Allies as is wheat.

 

Receipts of cabbage on all markets

are only moderate. Reports would
indicate that car lot shipments from
Michigan would soon be over for this
year. Shippers are getting their
stock out of the way fast before the
freezing weather. Those who have
warehouse facilities are holding in
some cases. The Detroit market is
firm around $15.00 to $16.00 per ton.
Chicago. $15.50@$16.00. The car
shortage and other considerations are
affecting the New York and other
eastern markets as the ofllowing ar—
ticle will show:

“The New York cabbage market
bids fair to rival last season when
unprecedented prices prevailed. There
has been rapid advances since Sat—
urday when the market was around
$25 a ton. Every day it has been a
jump in prices for the past week or
more, and the rise in values has been
greater than at this time last year in
the same period. In the yards at the
close of the week sales were $35@$36
ton on Danish with indications of
still higher prices in the near future.
Cabbage can hardly be bought at
loading stations and sold at a profit.

Receipts are moderate as the yard
holds from 10((212 cars; mostly do-
mestic. Domestic cabbage will be

cleaned up in about 10 days and give
the field to Danish. Last year at this
time cabbage was bringing about the
same price as now and early Novem-
ber is was bringing $40 ton. There
is every indication pointing to a high-
er price this year before the open-
ing of November than last year. Last
season during November and Decem-
ber prices rapidly climbed until $50
and better was touched before the
New Year opened. From the way
that cabbage has been going into
consumption and has been taken by
the kraut cutters, it is apparent that
the high prices will prevail all sea-
rzon. Practically all of the surplus of
canned ifl‘illli, was exhausted last
spring and kraut cutters are packing
large quantities in cans this year.

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TH E WEATH ER

As forecasted by W. T. Foster

Oct 28 29 30 31 1917

Severe
Storm

 

SI,IINGTON D C, Oct. 27.—
List bulletin gave forecasts of dis—
tinbance to cross continent Nm. 1 to
a, warm wave Oct. 31 to Nov. 4, cool
wave Nov. 3 to 7. This will be a
fierce Winter l1ke swim with heavy
1ains\in cotton states and rains or
bl’lOWS in northern sections and on Pa-
cific slope.

An extended series of fierce storms
will come into telegraphic touch in
the far northwest not far from Oct.
27 and will continue on or near the
continent till near Nov 5. During
55 this world- wide series of great storms
' a hurricane is expected on the Carri-

bbean Sea and in the West Indies,
but we cannot now determine whether

FOR IHE WEEK

for MicnicAN BUsiNicss FARMING

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Receipts of onions on the New York
market this week have been the larg-
est ever known, totaling 90 cars for

the first four days. Offerings on Mon-
day were sixty cars, a record breaker.
The other three days show better
than 40 cars each. These onions came
from almost every onion section in
the United States. Despite the heavy
arrivals the demand kept the market
on the upgrade, and the docks clean-
ed up fast, all arrivals being dispos-
ed of before night. Trading has been
unusually good. Jobbers are buying
unusually large supplies and appar-
ently they do not intend to be short
as" they were last winter. They are
stocking up ahead of actual require—
ments. The top is realized on Cal-
ifornia browns, which are selling up
to $4.25 per cwt. This is secured be
cause the sacks contain better than
100 lbs. Offerings from other sec‘
tions’ sell at $3.50@$3.75 on reds,
mostly $3.25 and $3.50@$3.75 on yel-

lows. Large whites are quoted at
$3.50; boilers, $3.75@$4.00; pickles,
$4.00@$4.25.

About half of the offerings are from
local York State shippers. There is
quite a heavy sprinkling of Massa-
chusetts onions, with cars from all
western. shipping points. The feeling
generally is bullish and many ship-
pers are holding for higher prices.

The Chicago market, which has
been unusually high for two weeks,
weakened early this week under a
lack of demand. Prices have been
forced pretty hard and the trade hes—
itates to take stock at the price.
There are plenty of home growns
which go to the local trade, selling
well at $2.25 for 70 1b. sacks. Bulk
of offerings are Californias, both yel-
lows and browns, which have sold at
$2 .35@$3.50. Wisconsin, Indiana and
illitois offerings have been slow,
reds. selling at $2.9’0@$3.00; yellows,
$300623 .25.

Demand continues good on the De-
troit market, yellows selling around
$3. 00 per cwt. Arrivals are only
moderate and shippers will find con-
ditions satisfactory.

 

Detr01t marke. continues good and
strong for all varieties of apples.
Supplies entirely inadequate. Ship—
pers who are coming to this market
are more than satisfied with results.
In many cases sales are reported at
figures above current quotations.
Jonathans, $5.75@$6.00; Wealthy, $5
(12555.50; Alexanders, $5.50; other va-
rietiesrieties, $4.00@$4.50; No. 2, $3
@$3.50 per barrel.

Chicago market is in good shape.
More of the later varieties are com-
ing and the demand is good from all
sources. Fancy stock has an unus-
ually ready sale. Peddlars are tak—
ing better hold and even undergrade
stock moves rapidly. There is a big
demand for Jonathans and for large
apples generally. Thereane more

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it will reach the continent. A great
cold wave is expected during last days
of Net. and first days of Nov.

Next warm wave will reach Van—
couver about Nov. 5 and temperatures
will rise on all the Pacific slope. It '5
will cross crest of Rockies by close of *
Nov. 6, plains sections 7, meridian 90,
great lakes and Ohio valleys 8, east-
ern sections 9, reaching vicinity of
Newfoundland about Nov. 10, Storm
wave will follow one day behind warm
wave and cool wave about one day
behind storm wave.

By end of Nov. 5 these great storms
will have spent their forces and quiet
weather is expected on the continent
till about Nov. 13, except taht the
tropical hurricane may continue near
our eastern coast after Nov. 5.

November promises warm waves
near 3, 13, and 25. with average tem—
peratures between 3 and 13 and un-
usually cold between 13 and 25. A
cold wave expected during fiv days
centering on 16. Precipitation will
be general and continue till near 20
when it will go tO‘SOUth America and
India, except that rains and snow
will continue on northern Pacific
slope.

 

 

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morn box apples being offered with -

good specniative as well as current
demand. Market is extremely firm
on' all box apples.
36; extra fancy high colored, $6.50;
'No. 2, $4@$5; Grimes Golden, $5@

$5.50; Alexanders, $5@$5.50; Wolf
River, $5@$5.50; extra fancy Kings,
$6; Northwestern Greenings, $5.50@

$6; twenty ounce $6@$6.25; Winesap,
$5; Wealthy and Maiden Blush, $4.50
@$5; Ben Davis, $3.75@$4; large p'p-
pins of various varieties 34.42% 50;
No. 2 stock all varieties $2@?2.50. ‘

New York reports the barrel mar-
ket in very strong shape. Receipts
are abnormally light for the season
and. the demand is very active. The
trade is at a loss to understand the
cause of the exceptional light receipts.
There never was a time when offer-
ings were so light during October.
Many shippers feel that. the crop is
light and that better prices will pre—
vail. For this reason they are stor-
ing a greater proportion of their fruit
than ordinarily. This is keeping the
market bare. October is theharvest
month and ordinarily the market, at
time would be over—supplied. Fries
are about double those of the five year
average. There is a market scarcity
of high grade fruit. There would be
more northwestern fruit on New York
and other eastern markets if it were
not for car shortage. Some shippers
are using box cars for harder fruit.
The general range on best Kings, $5
@$5.50; Jonathans, $6@$7.50; Weal-
thy $5. 50.7.2336; Snow, $6; Mackintosh,
$6 50 @ $7. 50; York Imperial, $4. 75
@555. 25; Greenings, $4. 50@$6. Second
grade apples are selling euuallv high
in comparison, bringing $2.50@$4, a

.price which [ordinarily would be con-

sidered good at this time 0 year for
the bset fruit.

    

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The eastern butter market is lower
than it has been at any time dur-
ing the past three weeks. Consump»
tion is not sufiieient to absorb cur-
rent receipts. The surplus of last
week has increased and some of this
has been put into the box so that it
now looks as if the storage holdings
on Nov. 1 would be equal to those of
a year ago. So far this season there
has been a marked shortage in stor-
age supplies this year, over last, which
gave the market statistically a much
better aspect than that of last sea-
son. Every receiver is becoming more
and more impressed with the'wide

use of butter substitutes. Hereto-
fore oleo was largely regarded as a.
poor man's butter, but it is now being
used by the middle classes, and even
the well-to—do, more freely than in
former years. The sale of nut butter
all over is reported unusually heavy.
This is plainly shown in the demand
for butter, which is nothing like it
was a year ago. When the market
reached 46c on extras, trading fell off
materially and since it has declined
to 43 1—20 there has not been a cor—
responding increase in consumption.
Trading in all lines has been slow all
week. Jobbers have not’ taken on any
more stock than enough for their im-
mediate needs. Some think.» that fur-
ther declines will follow, but others
are more optimistic. They believe
that the bottom has about been reach—
ed and that there will be a reaction
in the near future. The shrinkage in
receipts has continued. but this is
not offset by the light demand. Neith-
er has there been much inquiry for
export and the outlook for foreign
shippers is too indefinite to count up-
on wiht much safety. Quite a lot of
centralized butter which was bought
in the west before the recent declin-
ing, is arriving, and most of this is
not being offered. A present~ quality
is showing some deterioration so that
extras and higher scoring lots are
not as plentiful as a few weeks ago.
First and under grades are weak,
while held butter which was develop-
ing quite an outlet, has also been slow.
Many of the cutters are preferring
fresh as long as they are getting it
at favorable prices compared with the
héld. Renovated has felt the decline
in creamer‘y and only the best grades
have had anything like a normal call.
The lvadel market has been easier, so
that the buyers have had no trouble
in getting good No 23 at 370. In
the absence of a brisk demand for

   

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less; "flrmly' than fiat“ any time “ during
the past few weeks. Both Detroit and;
Chicago markets are quoted a trifle
Detroit, fresh creamery firsts,

1811651540 0 36k

lower.
41@41 1-20; freSh creamery extras,
42@42 1-20. Chicago, fresh creamery

extras, 42c; firsts, 40 1-2@41c.

 

The egg market generally seems in-

clined to work lower. The present
range of prices On most markets has
affected consumption so that hand-
lers are of the' belief that lower prices
must prevail. The Detroit market
seems to be in just a little better
shape than any other at this time.
l-"ancy white firsts are quoted as high
as 48c; fresh gathered firsts. 42c; or-
dinary run of receipts, 39:: to 400. It
will pay shippers to ship often and
sort their offerings.

There is very little activity in eith-
er fresh or storage on the Chicago
market. Receipts of fresh eggs at this
time are heavier than at the same time
last year. Only a very small per-
ceutage of arrivals are fancy or new
laid. Exceptionally heavy shipments
or held stock are coming from 'coun-
try dealers. It would appear that they
are trying to get rid of this stock 1'-
t'ore the market breaks. Fresh are
quoted at 37c@37 1-20; ordinary firsts
35c@35 120; checks, 26c@29c.

New York reports a small reduc-
t'on in the acmtmulation of held
fresh. but trading has not been good
enough to make much of a (181*1‘easc
in the large supply which has been
carried for several weeks. Fresh re-
ceiuts of strictly new laid eggs are
in demand, but undergrades find a
poor market. It is the general opin-
ion among dealers that the consump—
tion is at the low point and that it.
will not increase to any extent until
the price has been shaded, Rc—
rsveipts last week were around 60,000
ti“"'“.'». The increase in arrivals is
due in great measure to storage ship-
ments from the west. Extra firsts

are quoted at 421(‘(044 l-2c; firsts, 40c
seconds.

a; :5‘.» .‘17c@39c.

 

 

Lin. 171. Detroit Chicago New York
Turkey 24-25 23-25 25-27
Ducks 24-25 16-18 1-2 20-22
Geese 18-20 17—18 18 20
Springer; 18-21 19-20 20-23
Hens 18-21 1 18—19 20-24 _«

N0.A2_drac1efl2>tro 3 Cents Less

There seems to be a fairly good sup
ply of poultry on the Detroit market
but the price is maintained very well.
Receipts are heavy and many of the
offerings consist of thin stock. It will
more than pay any shipper to put his
fowls in good shape before shipping.
Poultry should be shipped so as to 31"
rive on the market not later than
Thursday afternoon. Poultry which
arrives on Saturday at this season of
the year is liable to remain over un-
til Monday before finding a market.

The Chicago live market has been
rather unsteady for the past week
and prices have varied from day to
day. Much of the stock arriving there
is also on the thin order. The market
for dressed poultry is draggv and
shippers will do well to withhold such
shipments until colder weather.

New York and other eastern mar-
kets are somewhat dull this week
with a slight tendency to decline. Ac.-
cumulations at the time of the last
Jewish holidays have been slow to
clean up and have more or less affect-
ed the market ever since.

cmw

, GRADE Detroit Chicago Buffalo
iteerl, goodto prime 9 50-10 0'. 9 00.1100 9 50.11 25
Steers, com. to fair 8 50- 9 00 8 00« 9 00 8 25—10 25
Heiferggoodtoprimc 7 00« 8 00 6 75- 8 00 7 00- 825
Cows, average 6 75- 7 50 7 00- 8 00 6 50- 7 50
Cunners,—Cutters 4 50- 5 20 4 75- 5 25 4 50- 6 00
Bulls, average 600- 7 oo 6 00- 700 625- 750
. 1.1airto mod 1100.12 00: 12 00.13 00:12 25.13 25
The Detroit cattle market in gen-
eral with all other markets, has been
rather dull for the past week with de-
clining prices. Receipts have been
liberal and at times shippers have
experienced difficulty in disposing of
their offerings, especially in the way
of off grades, canners and cutters, etc.

 

 

 

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The’mark’eti- as been effected by the
trend'of" ‘the' Chicago market; There~
has been, a. good run. of veal calves
and at‘ times the quality of offerings
has been nonetoo good. The market
on all grades has shown a declining
tendency and the price has worked
considerably lower. ,

. On the Chicago market during the
past week, under enormous market-
ing of cattle, has witnessed severe
crashes. Chicago broke its own and
the world’s record for one week’s cat-
tle supply, receiving 102,593 head, ex-
clusive of 14,630 calves. The mature
cattle supply was 7,069 head in excess
of Chicago’s former yard record and
2,089 more than Kansas City received
during the week ending Oct. 13 last.
when a new record was made. How
enormous current cattle marketings
are, is‘well indicated by the fact. that
seven western points received approx-
imately 1,100,000 head during the first
three weeks of October. an unprece-
dented three weeks total and 180,000
more than a like period last year. Had
it not been for a car shortage, which
may prove a blessing in disguise, and
for a disastrous fire at the Kansas
City yards early last week, the cur-
rent month’s receipts would have
been still greater. While liberal re-
ceipts are seasonable at this period
of the year,» as it is the heart of the
range shipping season and a period
when farmers in most other sections
show a desire to clean up ahead of bad
weather, the movement at this time
has been augmented by the scarcity
and high price of hay in the west
and by a pretty general desire to grab
prevailing prices for cattle rather
than risk the running up of winter
feed bills. The run has worn the
brand of liquidation and in our opin-
ion can only result in relative scarc-
ity and high prices during the late
winter and spring months.

The, past week closed with beef
steers mostly 75c to $1.00 lower than
the close. of the. week previous. At
the close $11.00 to $15.00 took most; of
the, corn fed steers. native, grassers
selling largely at $9.00 to $10.50. (inc
sale of four cars of 115:! lbs branded
Iowa fed llerefords, last Weinesday,
at $17.00, was, the extreme top of the.
market by 15c per cwt. and even stich
kinds which are specialtie.‘ in the
run. were at least 50c lower than the
week previous. Most everythingr in
the cow line, finished the week at a
dollar decline and medium to good
heifers showed as much as $1.50 de«
cline in extremes. (‘anners were put
down to $4.75 to $5.25 basis and com-
paratively few beef cows were good to
pass $8.00. Bulls lost mostly 50c in
value. and veal calves declined 500 to
75c, putting the best vealcrs down to
$15.50, while strong weight and heavy
calves finished $1.00 to $2.00 lower.
Qualitied classes of feeder cattle. get—
atively well. losing not, more. than 10c
ting a broad country call. held up rel-
atively well. losing not more. than
10c to 25c in value, but medium and
common stockers declined around 50c.

On Monday. with 25.000 cattle on
the market, the strong technical po—
sition of the trade, was evidenced by
a 25c advance on most of the decent
to good beef steers and 10c. to 25c

gains on all other cattle over the close
or low time of last week.
sold at $1075

Rest steers

 

 

GRADE I Detroit . Chicago , Buffalo
Heavy 240-290 14 50 15 00‘ 14 75 15 50115 5016 25
Medium 20024014 25 14 50 i 14 75 15 00‘ 14 9017 00
Mixed 1507200114 2514 50,14 5015 4016 5017 25
Packers 1007150; 12 5013 501.12 73 '3 75 . 14 00 16 00
Pin mo claw" H2 0013 (ll) 12 50 4 30 13 0014 00

 

 

 

The Detroit hog market has shown
lower prices during the past week as
was only to be expected in view of
the condition of other principal mar-
kets. Pigs sold around 50c lower
and mixed grades around 75c lower.
The first days of this week have seen
further declines. We believe it will
be to the interest of shippers to with-
hold shipments for a week or so until
such time as there is a change. We
believe there is much rough feed in
Michigan which can be used to good
advantage in putting thin stock in
shape, and it will certainly pay to
wait ‘just a little longer rather than
to supply the market too freely just
at this time.

Chicago’s hog receipts last week.
119,594, were the largest for any week
since July last, although they were

 

 

over' 46,000,sh‘ort of. the ~cor‘rre‘spond—
ing' week l’ast year. Eleven markets
received 436,000 for the week, a gain
of 93,000 over the week previous. The
run carried a largely increased num-
ber of pigs and light hogs and the av-
erage weight for the week at Chica-
go fell to 212 lbs.,_the lightest since
April, and 8 lbs. below the average
for the corresponding week of last
year. The market closed Saturday on
the bottom of declines of $2.00 to
$2.25 from the close of the week pre-
vious, same pigs selling as much as
$2.50 lower. The top Saturday was
$16.80, but packing grades sold down
to $15.00 frequently, the best pigs
around $13.75. On Monday of this
week 28,000 hogs were received, the
market steady to 250 lower. The
top was $16.65; bulk of the best hogs
sold at $16.00 to $16.50; good mixed
from $15.40 to $15.90; light mixed and
heavy packing $14.50 to $15.40;'pigs

and underweights, $12.50 to $14.50.

 

 

 

GRADE , Detroit Chicago Buffalo
Top Lambs 15.75-15.00 12.50-17.00 16.00-16.85
Yearling: 15.00-15.50 12.00—15.50 13.00-14.00
Wethers 8.50-10.50 8.80- 10.75 11.50- 11.75

we: 850—1050 8.5041. 00 10.75 11.00

 

 

 

 

The trend of the Detroit sheep and
lamb market last week was down-
ward at all times. There was a large
run of fair quality. The dressed mut-
ton demand is not so good as might
be desired and this, in conjunction
with the condition of the live stock
market generally, has had a bad ef—
feet.

The Chicago market, while inclined
to weaken, has not shown such wide
breaks in prices as on hogs and cat-
tle. The dressed mutton trade, how
ever, is in a droopy condition, and as
receipts are holding up to pretty
good volume, the tcudcuvy in values
is downward. .\t the clone last. week
sheep and yearling: were weak at 2351-
lowcr, fat lambs 23c lower and feed-
ing and breeding stock 25c to 50:- be-

low the. close of the week previous.
At the. week end $1750 was an out-
side. quotation for prime fat lambs.

Best owes sold to killers; at $11.50. The
spread in values is due to widen out
from now on as quality is detoriorat.»
ing.

On Monday of this week, with a
liberal run of 37.000 sheep and lambs,
sheep sold 25c lower. fat lambs 25c
to 50c down. Best fat ewes sold at
$11.25 and a. fed western lamb top of
$1685 was made.

We advise holding back all half
fat stock that is responding to good

feed with good weight gains. The.
market should regain its strength
with lighter receipts. 1Vith contin-
ued heavy receipts no doubt further

declines in sight.

W. J. ORR MAKFS ANSWER
TO QUESTIONS IN M. B. F.

((‘onrinttcd from par/c 2)

into any thought of pulling any coals
out of the fire in this initial sale to
the flirtt‘l‘llnlt‘lll, because 1 would like
to have you understand that when
notice, was sent out 14) all the I’lgzllprg
in beans throughout the 1', Q as it
was through the press and by cit-cu,
lar letter. all they were reonired to
do was to advise the writer. and ”Er-
writcr in turn advised the Committe-
on Supplies, who through the Quarter
masters in 'hcir y'espective 'f'ocaliHm:
throughout the country. made he
awards.

“1 have. no knowledge whatsoever
of being criticised by any member of
the Dean Jobbers’ Association As
the, result of my visit to Washington.
the price was raised from $7.35 to
$800 per bushel for future purchases.
and for your special information, I
was called to Washington in connec-
tion with other members of my com-
mittee to discuss the licensing sys—
tem. but notwithstanding that the
dealers in this state who patriotically
carried over stocks of beans last
spring that they paid from $9.50 to
$10.25 per bushel to the growers for,
in order that all growers of beans in
this state might ’be amply supplied
with seed. 1 haVe yet to learn of the
first complaint. notwithstanding their
loss. So far their statements to the
writer have been “Anything to win
the war."

“I am inter
state, but t’

‘ elevators in this
”my; that I am

 

 

, titty»

interested in. cannot participate in
any Government business, either di-

rect or indirectly, as long as I am‘

connected with Government work,
and will not sell any beans to the
Government during the period of my

appointment.

“The $7.35 price applied only on the
initial purchase. The Government,
however, on my last visit to Washing-
ton for strictly CllP beans allowed
$8.00 to be paid, but I do not know of
one car in Michigan having been sold
to the Government for that price. I
was unable to locate their additional
requirements in this state, and van;
forced to purchase Oriental bean:
that I found in warehouses bel‘onging
to local people in St. Louis and Kan-
sas City, also Colorado plums, and
California came forward with a lot
of colored beans, so that Michigan
dealers did not participate in any of
the $8.00 business to my knowledge.

“As to my knowledge of what the
growers might have in their hands,
would say that many growers and
dealers are much alike. in that they
are reluctant to state whether or not
they have any on hand. There are
quite a few dealers I am informed,
in this state who have considerable
old beans on hand of the 1916 crop,
and one grower has his crop of 1915,
and at different occasions refused
$10.00 per bushel for them. I was
asked by our Government, same as
every member of my committee, what
I considered a fair and just price for
beans on the initial allotment; before
the price was fixed, and I gave it as
my honest opinion that it should be
$7.90 per bushel, based on the u‘tarket
prevailing at that time. and our Gov—
ernment had been offered a lot of
beans at from $7.25 to $7.35 per bush-
el at that particular time, and Cal—
ifornia was offering at lower prices
and they failed to see why the price,
should be cstallishel at $7.30 until
after my 1111:: yisit. and upon return—
in': liouzc after my last visit, 1 ms
{ltl"l;::'fl tlrut l tould otter 31:100. (trow-
cr;: Wt 1c l‘.t-i‘-t;'; llllltl 54;.113 to $7.50 “per
bushcl, and quite a few here were be
ing marketed throughtntt the.
at this price. at that particular time,
I am just as much intcrested in the
welfare of the, growers of beans. in
this statp as the. ltlditor of the Mic”-
[HAN llt'stxnss lt‘Anntxo can possible
be. I operate a 1.9:”; acre farm, my
interests are closely allied with grow
ers. and 1 think if you vill make
a little investigation, you will find
that they have 1101‘01‘ had any better
friend in Michigan than the writer.

I wrote to you a few days ago. ad—
vising you what the army require
ments were. We have got the grade
established that the Government will
buy upon. The oucstion of containers
is unsettled. but I hope. to have it
determined at an early date. It took
pic from August 21st until a week ago
to get the grade established. so that
the grower, dealer or any American
citizen who wants to pnl‘ticilzlte in
government business can u‘trlcrstaud
exactly how to proceed. and any sub—
scriber to your paper who wants ad»
ditional irfornmtimi. or‘nuy group of
your Ut’bscribcr; who may at any
time dcsire to participate in (love-rd
men: business. if they will advise me.
1 will be. glad to cm‘rcspond with them.
direct and give them the, benefit o"
every particle of information i may
have in my possession that. will assist,
them. At the present time. I am ar-
ranging with a farmer in Kentucl'y to
turn over one thousand bushels of
red kidney beans to our Government
all through correspomlence.

“As long as I am performing this
work for the Government. free of
charge no interests that I am con
nected with can participate in any
benefits, either directly or indirectly."
11'. .1. ()7‘)’.

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SMALL FARM WANTED

. llayc luiycrs or farms, 3 to 10 acres,
lair butldlngs, small payment (low 11, cast’

tcrms. (live us this information: Loca<
tion, section, township, county, acre;
work, waste. and woodland, hilly. lcycl,

rolling, soil, lake, streams, well, cistern,
windmill, silo. barns, all outbuildings,
painted, fences, orchard. fruit. berries
school, roads, distance to market, price:
terms, possession. On receipt of this in-
formation we will write you what we can

 

do. (1111' reference, this paper. \VAL—
Twit C. I’ll’lCll. Largest lt‘arm .airl
Operator in Michigan, 420 lrlolden §Ul1d<
ing. Detroit Mich. .

ARRON’S \VIIITE W‘YANDG'I‘E

(lock and cockcrels for sale. Brel
from imported trapncstcd birds with

2053.333
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egg records. Mrs. L_ A. Riggs,
Linden Mich.

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SATURDAY. OCTOBER 27m. 1917
GRANT SLOCUM
FORREST A. LORD
ANNE CAMPBELL STARK
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EDITOR WOMAN'S DEP’T
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The Milk Profiteer

UST NOW the attention of the ultimate con-

sumer is centered upon the subject of milk

' and‘ its steadily increasing cost. For some
reason the public readily reconciles itself to
the high prices peculiar to the period on all other
commodities but cannot understand why the price
of milk should be affected in the slightest degree.
The consumer apparently has no appreciation of
the fact that of most of the important commod-
ities, whole milk has advanced the least in price
during the last two years.

During this period coal prices naVe doubled,
shoes have advanced fifty per cent, clothing twen-
ty-five per cent, farm implements forty per cent,
commercial live stock feeds forty per cent—~and
milk from ten to twenty per cent.

Whenever the prices of foodstuffs begin to ad-
vance the consumer invariably lays the blame
against the door of the unfortunate producer.
The average consumer knows little and cares
less concerning the problems daily encountered
by the farmer. He has not the least idea of what
it costs the farmer to produce food products, nor
how even a trivial increase in the prices of feed,
farm implements, etc., may rob him completely
of his meagre profit. As a result the farmer is
criticized when the prices of foodstuffs advance.

The recent governmental disclosures of the
practices of certain middlemen to hoard and ar-
bitrarily fix prices on commodities passing thru
their hands have done much to enlighten the
consumer as to the actual status of the farmer
in the economics of food production and distri—
bution. Yet, even these apparently have failed
to entirely eliminate the suspicion from the con-
sumer’s mind that the farmer is taking advantage
of the “war prices” to secure a few additional
profits for himself.

But this is not true. It merely happens that
the farmer is just beginning to taste the fruits
of his organized struggles extending over a period
of years for more equitable prices on his prod-
ucts. The higher prices he is now getting are
largely coincidental with the war conditions, and
not primarily the result of them.

At present the country seems to be pretty well
divided in opinion as to whom is responsible for
the high milk prices, and the indictment of
the heads of the Illinois Milk Producers’ Associa-
tion on a charge of conspiring to monopolize the
source of the Chicago milk supply, has of course,
accentuated the feeling against farmers in gen-
eral. Here again, however, innocence pays the
penalty for the ignorance of the consumer.

Notwithstanding much damaging and wholly
unfounded evidence against the farmer. muni-
cipal investigations have repeatedly shown that
for every additional cent per quart which the
milk distributors have been compelled to pay the
producers, from one and a half to two cents have
been charged against the consumer. Compare.
for instance, the figures compiled by the New

York Sun, showing what happened when the
farmers’ pi‘it'es were raised after September 1916:
Month V‘Vholesalc Retail
September, 1916 24
October, 1916 ......................... 4.46 10
December. 1916 ....................... 4.67 11
July, 1917 ............................ 4.46 111/;
August,1917 549 121/;
October, 1917 ......................... 6.59 14

We deny that the average of present milk prices
obtaining the country over are too high. We in-
cline to the opinion of Mr. D. D. Aitkin of Flint,
the nationally-known breeder of Holsteins and one
of the best posted authorities of the day upon all
matters pertaining to the dairy industry, viz.,
that the selling price of milk should not be de-
termined by the cost of producing it, but rather
upon its actual food value in comparison with
other foods.

The truth is that instead of present prices be-

g'too high, former prices were too low. The
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.An Unnecessary and Harmful Practice
HE FARMERS of Michigan should not
countenance any longer-the practice of the
county agents to exaggerate prevailing crop

conditions in their reports to. their superiors.
With but minor exceptions the reports given out
by the county agents the last’ few months have

wholly misrepresented the conditions and over-'

estimated the probable yield. These reportsare
given wide publicity in the state press and in the
official publications of both state, and national
governments and lead the peeple to belieVe that
there is a super-abundance of crops when actually

the promise is very poor.

This year a special effort was made thru the
War Preparedness Board and thru the organiza-
tion of the county agents to increase acreage
and yield of all farm crops. Faithful promises
were made that the Peninsular state would do
her “bit' ’to repleniSh the world’s larder, and in
all justice to those concerned, be it said that
earnest, conscientious effort was expended to ful-
fill the expectations of the food administration.

The results have not been encouraging. Yet
nobody can be blamed. Acreage was increased,
probably 40 per cent on all crops, loyal sons and
daughters hoed up the back yard and some of
’em the front yard; roadsides and railway rights
of way were ploughed-and.planted and grew up
into endless miles of weeds and potatoes; every-
body talked farming and most of them practiced it.

But we conquer old Mother Earth only to be
assailed by the elements. Hopes were born with
the planting of the seed only to be stunted by
the long stretch of cold, ungracious weather, and
the few balmy days that chanced along in mid-
summer were not sufficient to revive the pining
faith in our city cousins. Long before the har-
vest time they buried their hopes among the
thistles and potato bugs which thrived so lux-
uriantly and joyously in the crowded environ—
ment of their two-by—four lot.

But the county agents did not lose hope. Des-
pite the inroads of unfavorable weather and the
visitations of early frosts, the agents continued
blithely and blindly along, sending in their op-
timistic reports, discounting the frost damage by
half and overestimating the final yield by 25 to
40 per cent. , - .

Quite pardonably every county agent desires to
make a good showing for his efforts; it may be
natural that a spirit of competition enters into
the work, certainly it is a matter of pride for an
agent to be able to report that his county planted
the biggest acreage and produced the largest
crops; yet there is no justification, aside from
this personal gratification, in his giving publicity
to statements which do not reflect the actual con-
ditions.

There is every evidence at hand showing that
the War Preparedness Board, thru the county
agent organization, has placed the estimate of the

state’s crops too high. Particularly ‘is this true

of the potato crop. The average yield of 103
bushels as estimated from the reports of the
agents is fully 20 bushels too high, and figured
in the total of 350,000 or more acres, indicates
a total of eight to ten million bushels in excess
of what has actually been produced.

As a result of these padded figures the consum-
er labors under a wrong impression which very
seriously affects his buying judgment. Few con-
sumers have made any effort to lay in their win-
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It is not our intention tomininiizegthe 'impor4
tance of the agricultural agent vrmovement. It
has progressed especially well in this state under
the capable leadership of Mr. Eben Mumfordythe
old' feeling. of resentment harbored -by many
farmers who misconceived the real purposes back
of the movement is gradually passing away; the
agent has proven his'worth and his field of use-
fulness is rapidly broadening. He is earnestly
seeking and rapidly securing the co—operation of
the farmers, and we honestly believe that, in spite
of the comparative newuess of the movement, it
has been of substantial benefit to the state’s agri-
culture, and‘ will continue increasingly so.

The success of the movement, however, will al-
ways depend upon. the active co—operation» of the
farmers. If for any reason the farmers are an-
tagonistic, the county agents may as well throw
up the sponge. There is no surer way of arous-
ing the farmer’s enmity and'suspicions than by
misrepresentation of the crop conditions. It can-
not be said that farmers are lacking in pride in
their home communities; but a stable market and

'a steady demand for the products they raise are

of infinitely more value when the tax collector
comes around,4than the most flattering crop re—

port ever issued.
A kins of St. Joseph county sends us a clip-
ping .from the Kalamazoo Gazette, setting
forth the learned opinion of one E. D. Hulbert,
president of the Merchant’s Loan and Trust Com-
pany, of Chicago, that the farmers as a class are
the worst kind of “slackers” and raking them
over the coals for what he characterizes their un—
willingness to “buy Liberty bonds, pay income
taxes, sell their produce, or fight.”

The article continues in this strain: “The
farmer has been pampered by politicians until
he seems to feel that he is in a preferred class.
It is about time the farmer should appreciate
his position in the country and help do his part
in the war as much for his benefit as for those
who are putting up the money and doing the
fighting for him.” ‘

Mr. Hopkins comments upon the article as fol-
lows:

“I know this rot about the farmers is not true. I
have a neighbor who has bought v’ery liberally of Lib-
erty bonds of both issues and he says he will mort-
gage his farm if the third issue or bonds appears on
the market. is so full of grain, and no
cars to be had, that the farmers cannot sell any more
grain if they wanted to. About farmers not wanting
to fight we have lost thirty—one of our good farmer
boys thru the draft and several by enlistment. I feel
the farmers are more loyal than they are given credit
or."

Yes, friend HOpkins, so do we, and we can’t
help but wonder a little bit why the gentleman
who is so free with his criticism isn’t at Fort
Sheridan training down his avoirdupois for duty
overseas.

There is a lot of bunk about this “patriotism"
talk and the man who exalts his own patriotism
thru the press usually contributes nothing more
to the “cause of democracy” than hot air. He
gains the reputation as a patriot from his words
rather than his deeds. The cities are full of
publicity seekers, who court public attention and
favor, by constantly harangueing upon the sub-
ject of patriotism and villifying those who give
no more than they can afford to give of either
their time and their money. But when the bugle
sounds, these long-winded, silk-hatted, Prince Al-
berted “patriots" scamper like the rats of Ham-
lin, but they go the other way. Nine times out
of ten the man who publicly criticizes another
for lack of patriotism does not know enough
about patriotic impulses to be an authority upon
the subject.

If the farmer is not selling his products, it is
because to do so at present prices would mean a
financial loss to him; if the farmer is not fighting
it is because he has not been called and because
he was told by his government that he would be
spared; if the farmer is not paying an income
tax it is because his income is so small that it is
exempted under the present law; if the farmer is
not buying Liberty bonds, it is because he hasn’t
the money or because the government has made
absolutely no effort to explain the bond issue to
him'in understandable terms.

The farmers are as patriotic as any other class
of people in the United States; but they don’t do
quite so much talking. Patriotism with them is
not a fever nor a skin disease, contracted at an in-
spirational meeting and gone the next day; it is
born in the heart and abides there three hundred
and sixty—five days in the year, and when Uncle
Sam reviews his great army of fighters, Red

. The Farmer’s Loyalty
FRIEND of M. B. F., Mr. Howard Hop-

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by a desire to render a new version of the old gag of
“milking the public” rather than to picture the truth
of the present situation. Fortunately not many of
the big city dailies incline to this view of the high
milk prices, and when present investigations are
completed the public will have some very interesting
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,PROPHESYING THE
' . 1918 WHEAT CROP

Iam going to chance my repu-
tation as a prophet just once and
predict that the average yield of
wheat in 1918 in the State of Mich-
:igan will be below the five year aver-
age. I base my judgment upon the
following facts:

In the first place, much of the wheat
sown in Michigan is sown after the
oat crop. This year the oat harvest
was exceedingly late, consequently
the farmers could not get the oat
ground plowed in time so that they
could prepare a first-class seed bed.
Much of the wheat following oats has
'gone in the ground freshly plowed
. and hastily fitted. The conditions are
not good for a big yield.

Some farmers, in order to get in
extra acreage of wheat have plowed
old meadows and sown them to wheat
under much the same conditions. Any-
one Who has had experience in farm-
ing knows that oat ground and sod
ground should be plowed early in the
season a long while before seeding
time and should be thoroughly work-
ed and allowed to settle so the sub-
soil is fairly compact with a fine loose
surface soil for a seed bed. The sea-
son this year wouldn’t permit this.

Again, many farmers in order to ill-
crcase the wheat harvest next year
have put in more acres than they could
well get in in good shape. Some of
the land wasn’t: in condition to grow
wheat. This extra acreage has com-
pelled them to fit it hastily and c011-
sequently the wheat isn‘t sown under
the best of conditions. Again ,the
corn crop and the bean crop were so
exceedingly late that people who havr
followed a common practice of sewing
wheat after beans and after corn are
putting it in so late that the chances
are it will not get growth enough this
fall to stand the winter in first-class
condition and consequently will be a
light crop.

To be sure, an exceedingly favorable
winter and spring may offset all of
these adverse conditions and give us a
splendid crop of wheat, but, the odds
are against it. All of us, or at least
many of us, have sown more wheat
than we would had it not been for a
guaranteed price and had it not been
for the fact that the world is hungry
for wheat. Everybody will say that
this increased acreage is all done
because there is a profitable price guar-
anteed. There is no use in attempt-
ing to explain this because people
wouldn’t believe you. nevertheless,
there has been more than one acre of
wheat put in this fall that wouldn’t
have gone in if it hadn’t been that
the farmer felt that this might in»
crease the food supply of the world in
this cereal. As a matter of fact,
every acre most that has been put in
by farmers over and above the usual
acreage 011 land that was planned for
wheat, and was in normal condition
to grow wheat under normal condi-
tions, every acre, I say, above that has
been put in not with the particular
idea of gain from $2.00 wheat but
from patriotic motives. It was done
for the flag.

Thc Fall Plowing

Notwithstanding the fact that there
are many quite serious objections to
fall plowing, We like to do all the
fall plowing that We can possibly do

. and while we know that in some in-
stances harm will be done, yet the
good accomplished we believe more
than over-balances the bad.

Fall plowing leaves the ground bare

. without any cover crop which is not a
good thing. Cover crops are excell-

""ent things. They cover the ground

during the time of year when land is

subject to being washed by heavy
rainsvand the roots of these cover
crops prevent this Washing, and all
surface crops washed in this way
have lost fertility. Again the tillage
of summer leaves some soluble plant
food in the soil. This is liable to wash
and leach out during the fall and
winter ,especially if the winter is an
open one. The roots of these growing
cover crops utilize this available ,plant
food and store it in such a way that
it cannot be washed or leached away.
Of course, this plant food is not as
readily available after it is used in
building the tissues of the cover crop
but nevertheless it is fixed so that it
cannot be wasted and just as soon as
these cover crops decay in the soil
the food becomes available again. It
doesn’t take long for these ground
cover crops to decay so that there is
very little available fertility lost by
saving it in this form.
Notwithstanding this, the practical
side of the question tells the farmer
with experience that every day’s work
that he can do plowing in the fall
puts him so much farther ahead with
the spring work. The seasons in this
country are none too long. We have
to hurry from the time the land he-
comes dry and warm in the spring to
get our crops in on time.
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land is so wet that it is impracticable
to plow, but usually the ground is in
prime condition, not too dry nor too
wet. -The weather is cool and horses
can be utilized to the very best ad-
vantage. It makes a big difference
with a farm team whether they plow
an acre in the fall when the weather
is cool, or they have to plow that next
spring when the weather is hot.

Sometimes, there has been so much
moisture in the fall that we couldn’t
use the tractor to plow. After we
learned that lesson thoroly we haven’t
attempted to plow with the tractor
when the ground was too moist, we
simply laid it by and did the work
with the horses. Unless conditions
are right the tractor is a very imprac-
ticable tool, but when conditions are
just right it does one good to see the
work that it can accomplish.

Frosted Corn for the Silo
A farmer told me the other day that

he didn’t think this frosted corn was

worth putting into a silo; it had no
food value. Now, this man was wrong.
If the corn can be cut and put into
the silo soon after the frost, I doubt
if any of the food value of the crop
has been destroyed. How can freez-
ing destroy the food value? Of course
if you allow the corn to stand in the
field exposed tO' the weather. sun. the

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THE BUSINESS FARMER’S CALENDAR:

Rem: riders of the Things That Should be Done
On the Farm This Week

1. (let your storage cellar in condition to house the potatoes anthothcr veg—
No business farmer w1ll take his entire crop to

:1 part of the winter.
this fall.

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boards,
promise a

protect the live stock
long and hard winter.

3 For the sake of the wife and the children, at least,
install this fall some of the modern conveniences that should be in every farm
First in importance is the sanitary closet. .
igan should'by this time have discarded the unsightly_ unsanitary, cold and
foul outhouse, for a running water toilet system or a sanitary closet.

house.

9 Have a look at the outbuildings, .
from the chilly Winds,

Patch up the holes, nail up the loose
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impossible to get the spring crops in
011 time. The result is frosted, imma-
ture corn, frosted, immature potar
toes and also beans. Hence, to get
the crops in on time in the spring is
a very important question. There is
no one farm practice of any more im-
portance than this one in this country
of getting the crop in at the proper
time, and one has to do all of the plow-
ing in the spring. Unless he has an
unusually large supply of horse-power
or tractor power and plenty of avail-
able help it is practically impossible
to plow the land and properly fit it
and get it into spring crops on time.
Consequently, though we know there
may be a loss in fall plowing, if con-
ditions are right the amount of time
gained by being: master of the situa-
tion in the spring and getting the
crops in on time is of so much more
importance and value to the farmer
that we feel that every acre that can
be plowed this fall should be.

Several years ago when we made
a practice of raising sugar beets we
couldn’t do very much fall plowing
because the harvesting and marketing
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the fall, sometimes until after the
ground had frozen and some years
we got little or no fall plowing done
and we regretted this always the next
spring but since we have commenced
raising canning factory crops instead
of sugar beets these crops come off
earlier in the season and it gives us
a chance to do some fall plowing. For
the past two years we have plowed
the larger share of the ground that
we intended to put into spring crops
in the fall. Of course, some falls the

4. This week and next week and all
Every good business man plans his campaign weeks in advance
and makes no move until assured it’s the right one. Be
Just for an experiment, plant a fOW' acres to a new crop or to
not tried for several years.

the weeks following, plan on next

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wind and the rain, for any consider-
able length of time, much of the food
substance is lost but if it is put into
the Silo within a reasonable time you
have got all the food value it ever had.
Of course, if the corn is immature it
isn’t as rich in food nutriments as
corn that had the opportunity Of ma-
turning before freezing. No one will
dispute that. But take a crop as it
stands when frost comes and its food
value depends largely upon its matur-
ity and whatever food value it has
at that time can be injured little if
any by a freezing provided the corn
is taken care of before it is unduly
exposed to the weather.

I will admit that I know of no chem-
ical analysis of the corn just before it
was frozen and after it was frozen
which would prove what I say. I
wish some chemist would make this
analysis. But I base my judgment on
experience. More than tWenty years
ago I built a silo because it was im-
possible to get our silage corn plant-
ed before the first of July. I expected
it would be frosted before it matured
and it was. We had the silo ready
and the morning after the frost came
we commenced to fill it. Now, I judge
from the results of feeding that sil-
age that the frost hadn’t destroyed the
food value of it. I say to every farm-
er, don’t neglect to take care of what
corn you have got even though it
was frozen. Put it into the, silo. You
will have something that will cheap-
en your ration this winter for your
live stock. This corn has got a good
value. It is well worth saving—Colon
C. Lillie.

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RENOVATE THE ORCHARD
INCREASE APPLE YIELD

During recent years the University
of Missouri College of Agriculture at
Columbia in co-operation' with a
number of practical orchardists has
been carrying on demonstration ex-
periments in the value of spraying,
pruning and general renmating of
neglected orchards in Missouri. '

The results of these demonstrations
show that apple orchards Well man-
aged can be made to yield the largest
profits“ of any Missouri farm crop.
On the other hand neglected orchards
in the same neighborhood hardly
yielded interest on the valuation of
the orchard.

During 1917 the results of proper
spraying and pruning have shown
larger profits than in any previous
year. During the last year neglected
orchards have set very little or no
fruit. The little fruit which has set
here and there was for the most
part small, wormy and of low mar-
ket quality. Orchards properly spray-
ed and pruned during the last two
or three years have set anywhere
from a fair up to a heavy crop of
fruit. The quality of apples on well-
managed orchards this year has been
the best produced in Missouii in re-
cent years.

Orchaids properly sprayed and well
managed have yielded anywhere from
$100 up to several hundred dollars
per acre. net. Neglected orchards
in the same neighborhood have yield-
ed anywhere from nothing up to $18
to $20 per acre, hardly enough to pay
interest on the valuation of the land
and the expense of growing the orch-
ard.

Some orchardists have hesitated to
assume the expense of equipping for
spraying, and Of employing the labor
necessary to properly prune the or-
chard. There is a fear that should
the crop fail the orchardist would
not be in a position to pay for his
spraying outfit and his spraying ma-
terial.

OTSEGO COUNTY FARMER
WANTS $1.50 FOR POTATOES

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You ask ideas as to whether $1.00
per bu. is enough for potatoes this
year. I say decidedly no. I live in
a potato country and it is my best
judgment that Otsego county won’t
have an average yield of more than
05 bu. to the acre this year.. Now.
where are We coming in for much
profit at $1.00 per bu, according to
itemized accounts of raising one acre
of potatoes this year of which I read
in your paper, and which to my
knowledge as a potato raiser I know
to be accurate. These accounts run
from about $73 to $103 per acre. You
can readily see that at an average
yield of 05 or even 75 bu. per acre
we are doing business at a loss. Our
bean crop was a failure. also our corn.
Now if we lose on potatoes where are
our chances for a living? I am not
one to kick at everything that comes
along, but I do like a square deal and
I appreciate your methods in fighting
for us to obtain square business. My
idea is $1.50 per bu. for potatoes this
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CAN THE COCKERELS
'SUGGESTS UNCLE SAM

Can the cockerels when it no long-
er pays to feed them, is the advice
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture is giving to the boys and
girls of the poultry clubs in the north
and west. Canning saves feed and
puts on the pantry shelves material
for a chicken dinner when poultry is
highest in price. This is the method
taught to the club members:

Kill fowl, dress at once, cool; wash
thoroughly, draw, then cut into con-
venient sections. Dip into cold water
to insure cleanliness. Place in wire
basket or cheesecloth and boil until
meat can be removed from bones eas-
ily. Then remove from boiling liq-
uid to separate the meat from bones.
Take the meat off in as large sec.
tions as possible; pack hot meat into
hot glass jars or enameled cans; fill
jars with pet liquid after it has been
concentrated one-half; add level tea-
spoonful of salt per quart of meat, for
seasoning; put rubbers and caps of
jars into position, not tight. (Tap and
tip tin cans. Sterilize for the length
of time given below for the particular
type of outfit used.‘

Water bath. homemade or commer-
cial (quart jars) 3 1-2 hours.

Water seal, 214 degrees, 3 hours.

Five lbs. steam pressure, 2 hours.

Ten to 15 lbs. steam pressure, 1
hour.

Remove jars, tighten covers; invert
to cool and test joints.

CAUTION: Only the very best
types of rubbers should be used.

SLAUGHTERINEAT HOME
SAVES FARMERS MONEY

Slaughtering home meat on the farm

1. SaVes the farmer money.

2. Saves freight on live animals
to market and the return freight on
finished products.

3. Utilizes labor on the farm at a
time of the year when it is relative-
ly unproductive.

4. Permits the housewife to in-
crease her bit in food production and
conservation.

Much of the commonly practiced
farm killing is wasteful in that fat
from the ofi'al is not carefully saved.
If kept clean all fat is edible. That
which is soiled should be saved for
home soap making. Check and head
meat of beeves should not be wasted.
It is splendid meat for mince, meat
or hash meat. First and second
stomachs make valuable edible meat
(tripe) and are not hard to clean.
They can be worked up into sausages
and head cheese. 'lvery farmer can
afford a bone grinder to utilize the
bones for poultry and hogs. Non-ed-
ible offal should be cooked for feed
for hogs and poultry. This is a bet-
ter practice than feeding it raw.

In the short course in butchering
and cutting and curing of meats at
the University of Missouri College of
Agriculture special emphasis is plac—
ed on the economical handling of the
meat animals under farm conditions.

Meats cured on the farm do not
have the uniform cure of the packers'
meat. Much of the bacon is too salty
to eat. This is largely the fault of
the farmer in' not giving careful at-
tention to details. Country cured
meats can be made uniform. and of a
flavor and quality not attained by the
packing houses.

Every farm boy in the Short Course
in agriculture has an opportunity to
learn how to cut and cure meat prop-
erly. Making of sausage. head cheese
scrapple and bologna are practiced
With special reference to the utiliza-
tion of by-products. To learn to waste
less is more important than to learn
to consume less.

 

 

 

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CLEANLINESS KEEPS
THE ANIMALS WELL

 

Proper nourishment and i clean
surroundings are helpful in combat-
ting animal disease. Feeding balanc-
ed rations will take care of the nour-
ishment factor. The University of
Missouri college of Agriculture re-
gards clean and sanitary surround-
ings as essential as proper nourish-
ment. Drainage of quarters, ventila-
tion, keeping sheds and stalls free
from manure, dust and other rubbish,
a liberal use of lime and other disin-
fectants, and eternal war on parasites
will reduce the veterinary bill to the
minimum. ~

THE DAIRY COW
AND THE FARM BOY

 

Recently at a sale of dairy cows
where I chanced to be, a self-made
man, a bully good fellow who has
achieved no little success in the pro-
fession he has adopted, bought four
fine Holstein heifers. He had with
him at the time of his purchase two
of his sons the has three sons but
one of them remained at home to
attend to the home duties—this was
the oldest. son.)

The boys. straight, clean looking
young fellows. These two the father
had with him are yet under fourteen
and they were as keenly interested
in the sale as their father.

In speaking of the purchase after—
wards the gentleman remarked that
these four heifers were all the dairy
cattle that he was going to buy. He
purchased them for the three boys,
and it is his plan to turn them over
to the youngsters with the understand-
ing that anything that they can make
from them, taking into account the
cost of feed and equipment and the
handling will be theirs to use and
invest as they wish under his guid-
ing directions.

It strikes me forcibly that this is
a splendid illustration of farsighted-
ness and wise judgment. It must
be a fact that the man who anchors
his boys to the soil by means of the
dairy cow is taking the wisest means
that can possibly be found. The dairy
cow fits into the economy of agricul-
ture better than any other animal.
and not only this but she offers one
of the best fascinating lines of work
for the young man to follow.

These boys who are buying their
first cows, if they carefully attend
to the details, which T feel sure they
will, will have added to their train-
ing lessons or judgment, of precau-
tion. of carefulness and of business
insight that will be worth inestim—
able sums to them in later life.

Suppose the boys do not follow the
work on the farm. Suppose they a-
dopt the profession which their father
has graced so well. or suppose they
go into commercial life. In any of
these cases the lessons that they have
derived from taking care of tho heif-
ers bought at this sale will be of
great service to them in many differ-
ent ways.

A prominent business man in a town
I know quite well keeps a fine cow
at his home in the crowded city. She
is a perfect family pet and everyone
would be at a loss were she to he tak-
en away from the home. Great as
are the comforts derived from the a~
bundant use of milk in the family
where there are several children. they
are not. equal to the value that this
cow is in the development of the young-
er son in the family. This gentle-
man says that lessons which this
little boy is learning simply through
the necessity of delivering the milk
to a few customers each day are of
sufi‘icient value to justify the keep-
ing of the cow for no other reason.

  

,Should these young boys or any of
the other hundreds of boys through-
out the country who find themselves
blessed with the task of milking and
caring for a cow, or delivering the
milk to the customers in the near
neighborhood, handle their work ju-
diciously, they will find that when
they have reached the age where it
becomes desirable to take a higher
education, they will have the funds
wherewith to enjoy this privilege.

Many a dairy cow has paid the ex-
penses of a young man after he has
left home and gone to higher schools
of learning. Surely the dairy cow
as a factor in the develoument of bus-
iness manhood is worthy of the great-
est consideration and attention, as
she will be found to be one of the
strong posts to which we can tie our
financial ships.

Now come, boys (mine are in the
ring) and give another pull for the
good old reliable dairy cow and see
if in a short period of time your ac—
count don’t, swell at the bank. Then
you will forget about your hard strug-
gles to get along and will feel like
patting yourself on the back and say-
ing thank you “old boy” for getting
in the game. If you are not careful
first thing you know you will get in-
to itvI mean. get into the dairy hus-
iness so deep and it will prove so
satisfactory that you can’t get out,
without losing 1n011ey.——R. 7?. Rushing.

 

REPORT SHOWS VALUE OF
HOLSTEIN AS HERD SIRE

The worth of a pure-bred Holstein
bull as a herd sire is st1ikingly shown
in a report of the results of experi-
ments upon a scrub herd by the Iowa
Experimnet Station. Prof. L. S. Gil-
lette in the October issue of the Aza-
ricultural Student. sets forth the re-
markable results of the test.

Pure—bred bulls were mated with
scrub cows and the resulting heifers
were bred back to approved bulls of
the same breed as were their sires.

The tabulated results of this grad-
ing up are shown to be:

Dam Av. Dau. Av. Grl’d, Av.
Bull used hiilk Fat Milk Fat Milk Fat
Holstein 3,255 101|6,311 26111.205 431
Guernsey 4,168 181314.634 218 7,001 355
Jersey .. 3,003 186:5,400 287 5.2179 291

Prof. Gillette states: “The scrub
dams mated to Holstein bulls were
poorer producers than the others which
gave them an advantage when the re-
sults are studied as percentage in-
creases.”

The per cent increase in produc-
tion of first and second generation
grades over scrubs is shown to be.

l-‘ rst (.011. Sec. tion.
Dull used \li lk l1‘ 1t Mill. Fat
Holstein ............ 9-1 62 t 245 108
Guernsey ............ ll 17 t 70 91
Jcrsey ............ . 39 :11 l 40 56

WASTE IN HOLDING HOGS
FOR FUTURE SHIPMENTS

A loss of live weight of hogs and
waste of feed result from the practice
of purchasing local hogs in small lots
and holding them in local stockyards
until a carload shipment is collected,
according to specialists of the United
States Bureau of Markets. They point
out that at this and other seasons
when runs are light. it often takes
local buyers four or five days to as
semble enough small lots for a. car-
load. As facilities for feed and wat-
ering are inferior in small yards, the
hogs make no further gains on their
feed and often suffer actual loss of live
weight. Local buyers, therefore,
would do well to specify a certain day
for the delivery of lots from the var-
ious farms and load and ship without
holding. Farmers also could club to-
gether to make up co—operative car-
load shipments on regular week days,
thus saving the margin lost in indi-
vidual small lot selling.

 

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VKTD'Iq'OR’s NOTE This article points
9w and why the French Army reo

1a‘ti’on also some of the; methods used.
StretCh the rapidly d'lsap ring Bqu-v
plies of grain and meat. he agricul-

essation of imports of. new machinery‘

mm the United States. The deplorable

situation is vividly pointed out in a way

to secure the sympathy and understand-
,. 'ing of American farmers]

OW MANY times I have heard

soldiers on leave from the

front say, “I would rather

have our bread at the front than your

bread here in Paris.” The same thing

*‘swa trueof coffee. Soldiers would say,

.“What do you call this stuff?
real coffee at the front.”

At the roar the civilians drank 1a
compound from chicory, for the cof-
‘:fee‘ supply was short, while the real

We get

coffee was reserved for the army. ' In

like manner, the soldiers get the pur-
er wheat flour than do the civilians.
The wheat supply being so much cur-
tailed, two measures have been nec-
essary to try to increase the amount
of flour.

A law has been passed requiring
the. mixture of thirty per cent of
other grains with wheat in making
flour, while another law raised the
percentage of extraction permitted in
the manufacture of flour. Before the
war this percentage was seventy, it
has been raised successively to 74,
77, 80 and 85. Seventy-seven is the
extreme limit of nutritive extraction.
After that the flour becomes permeat-
ed with particles indigestible for hu-
man beings.

The result of mixing grains and
high extraction has been a flour that
is often not only unpalatable but in-
digestible and it has caused not a
little sickness. particularly gastric
troubles among the children. Adults
frequently throw away the soft inside
of the bread and eat only the hard
baked crust. Very often I have found
this “war bread” an unpleasant dark
brown in color, with a soggy. glutin-
ous inside. It is no one’s fault. It
is the best that can be done under the
circumstances.

SHORTAGE OF ALL CEREALS

second Article on Food Situation m France Showing: How Lack

 

of Farm Labor and Scarcity of. F arm Machinery Limits
Production and Mfikes France Dependent on "
Food Supplies of United States

11y FRED a. ”run

tion, but with regard to the fact that
it must be used very largely to sup-
plement and replace wheat. "2
With rye the normal consumption
was about the same as for barley,
with imports of about .eight per cent
of. the requirements. In 1915 the ‘pro-
duction was about 400, 000 tons under
the normal consumption and in 1916
it was about 350,000 tons under the
consumption, while in both of‘those
years there were practically noiim-
ports. Thus there was less rye than
was needed and rye could only help
out wheat by reducing still further

the amount given to its normal‘uses..

The annual consumptionof corn av-
eraged 1,150,000 tons, about one-half
being imported. The production of
imports
thirds. -

The annual consumption of oats be-
fore the war was 5,500,000 tons, of
which 500,000 tons were imported. In
1916 the imports rose to over 1,000,000

in 1916 had risen to two-~

.tons and the stock was still short.

600, 000 tons. ,
AGRICULTURAL LABon SHOBTAGE
When one travels over’ France, one
speedily learns the reason for the
shortage in the grain crops. It is..be-
cause'there is not the labor to do the
farm work. Cultivation has to be left
tolthe old men, the women and the
children. All others have been taken

' for the armies and the defense ‘of the

country.

In crossing and re—crossing the
French agricultural regions it has
been a continual source of wonder to
me how the few workers‘in the fields
have been able to produce the crops
they have achieved. One sees plows
with the handles held by women" and

.the horses led by small boys, women

stooping among the long rows of corn
cultivating the ground, groups of wom-
en slowly crossing the fields, creeping
on their knees, painfully tending the
newly planted crops. Occasionally one

- ican make.

' Sees a white-bearded patriarch among

the women, 1 should say that the
proportion is roughly one man to six-
women. This, however, is by no means '
an official figure. It is only my own
rough guess. ..

There is no wonder that with this
tremendous shortage in labor, fields
are aft bare, While those that can be '
cultivatedproduce less than the nor-
mal amount per acre. What would
our western farmers think of turning

the land in the spring with longblad-

ed hoes? Yet Ihave seen this very
thing being done in many parts of
France'because of the dearth of ag-
ricultural machinery.

FABM'IMPLEMENT SHOBTAGE

Most -of the farm implements of
France befOre the war were of Amer-
One saw the American
mark on the plows and barrows, the
rakes and reapers and binders and
threshers all over France. Since the
war much of this machinery has de-
teriorated sadly and a great part of
it is entirely unfit for use, because
there are not mechanics to keep it in
repair, and there has not been the im-
portation of new machines and parts
to replace the old and worn-out piec-
es. (Continued on page 15)

Practical Farming by one who Knows

Nathan F. Simpson Gives Us Some New Ideas on the “Practical,” “Scientific,” “Theoretical’

and “Successful” Farmer.
Appear in Later Issues.

6‘ RACTICAL Farming” as des-

cribed in this article, should

not be considered as opposite

from “Scientific Farming,” but only a
different course the operator may have
taken to reach “Successful Farming."
Practical, Scientific and Successful
are synonymous as applied to farm-
ing in this article. The “Practical
Farmer” has taken a long road to
success, profiting only by his own ex-
periences, While the “Scientific Farm-
er” has taken a shorter road to reach

fined plans for the future;

the same successful conclusions. One
taking a “Life Course” filled with al-
ternating successes and failures, the
other a “College Course” supplemented
by actual farm operations.

One has become a “Successful Far-
mer” by'many years of close “applica-
tion, the other has reached the same
success—the result of early and well
directed training. One has reached
the “objective" in middle life, blessed
with matured judgment and well de-
the other

Other Articles frOm this Authority’s Pen will
Watch for ’em.

has reached the same position early
in life, still full of youthful vigor and
enthusiasm for further action.

One is content to phaVe earned the
reputation of being a "Successful
Farmer,” and to so stand among his
associates. The other has acquired
the same degree in agriculture, and is
looking for further “fields” to an
quer. One has been helpful to agri-
culture by practical things worked
out. The other is destined to revolu-
tionize farming.

' Now that we

 

Another prob-
lem enters with
the authorization
to mix other
grain with wheat
in making flour.
It is the shortage
of the other grain.
For it is not only
wheat that is
short in France
but all cereals.
We can have re-
course once more

' to the official fig-
ures.

The annual
consumption of

‘barley in France
before the war
equalled approxi—

=mate1y 1,250,000

' tons, of which
about 15 per cent
w a s imported.
The production

'has fallen off tOu
such an extent
that nearly one—
“1le of the
barley had to be

‘ imported last

year. This year,

' owing to special
reasons, thn pro-
duction will he
S“£htly h 1' g h c 1‘,
but there will
still be a deficit
far above normal
Furthermore. the
yrdeficit . in barley
‘must be consid-
ered not only in

relation to the

‘r normal consump-

 

French peasant
the spirit of woman
raising food for the
the Somme. Many
a heap of stones.

woman reaping grain while her chubby little child plays in the heaped-up grasses.

in Frame today “’hile the men are
poilus who must be fed.

of the

fighting the Germans in the trenches, the women work in the fields
This photograph was taken in the district recaptured from the Germans along
inhabitants hearing of the retreat hurried homeward and foundvthelir places of birth reduced to

have practical,
scientific and suc-
cessful farming
defined, do not
confuse these
terms with “The
oretical farming”
By “Theoretical
Farming” I mean
the kind based on
“Government Re-
ports,” Anticipa-
tion, Sentiment,
and “The Love
of Nature,” in-
stead of “Actu-
al Yields.” Rev-
elation. Experi-
ences and the
Elements. The
“Theoretical far—
mer” is a great
thinker, with so
much mental ac-
tivity that he has
had no time for
actual farm oper-
ations, while liv-
ing in his dreams
in advance of
the present gen-
eration.

The “Theoreti-
cal Farmer‘s ” ex-
periences, on pa-
per, extend over
long periods and
cover numerous
topics. The great
agricultural sub—
jects are discus-
Sed and great
problems solved.
Plant breeding,
(Cont. page 15)

This scene typifies

 

 


 

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CLINTON (SouthWest) --Tw0'- very
heavy thunderstorms this week. ,but no
damage, The ground was thoroly soaked.
Notover one-half of therbeans have been
secured. 20 per cent uncut. A few
silos yet to fill. J. W. Bush, J, B. Low-
ell and M. L. Hunt have each put up new
silos—J. W. 1-1,. Grand Ledge.

MDLAND (Northwest)——It was very
wet heg‘ei the 12st ofd the weegraipgs it in:
still ra n ng. goo many

‘ then-sugar beets Some are
pulling beans and some are threshhu
beans, Some farmers are still putting
in rye, and some are doing fall plowing.
Some of the farmers have sold hay—F.
A. L., Coleman.

TUSOOLA (Northwest)——Bean harvest
not going very fast on account of the
wet weather lots of them to pull. yet,
Corn is mostly cut but not over 25 per
cent of it was ripe. Fall wheat is look:
mg good. The Hives Condensed M31]: 00.
shipped three earloads of condensed milk
this week, each car containing 1,000 cases
and each case contains 48 cans of milk.
-—-J. A, McG., Cass City.

CLARE (Northwest)—'1‘he farmers are
sowing rye, pulling stumps and doing
some road work. We had three nice
days but it is raining and cold again,
making it unfavorable for potato dig-
ging and caring for other root. crops.
The farmers are putting in a large acre-
age of rye this fall, but not much wheat.
C. A, Gilmore sold 17 spring hogs which
brought him about $340. Lots of sales
now and cattle are selling high, but
horses seem to be on the slump. Apples
are scarce this year and other fruit!
the same here—D. 13., Lake.

BENZIE (Wag—Filling silos, pulling
beans and sowing rye, Cold and rainy.
Apples are scarce. Will not sell pota—
toes for less than $1, and some are bold—
ing for $1.50. There are some here who
flunk that beans will go to $10, and will
not Sell this fall for less than $10—
F. M., Elberta. '

KALAMAZOO ((lentrnl)'—The farmers
are getting their vacation now for a few
days, while it is raining. The rain has
stopped several farmers from sowing
wheat and'rye. There are a good many
who are Just cutting their corn now,
some are gathering their beans, but it is
poor weather for that bu :iess. Corn is
a very poor quality around here this
fall, some say they will make it into
Cider for winter.—H. F., Kalamazoo.

HURON (Northwenn—Frequent ruins
delaylng bean harvest. Sugar beet har-
vest mcely commenced, rather short crop.
A, F. C., Pigeon.

HURON (Northwest)—Clear weather
first of. the week with white frost for
three nights. There will not be any clo-
ver seed this fall to thresh; it is a fail-
ure. Grain threshing is all done; bean
threshing has not started yet, the late
beans are in poor condition since the
frost. Potato digging is on this week
and y are yielding around 150 bu,
get acre. There are no apples to pick

is fall. Ruta-bagas are a good crop.
I don’t know of any corn that hardened
up good enough to make seed, frost came
too soon.'—G. W., Elkton,

.WEXFOBD (Central)——Farmers are
digging. potatoes and many fields are
only yielding around 60 bu. per acre.
Bye seeding finished. Rain on the 18th
followed by light fall of snow every day
since, Temperature hovering around the
freezing point. Some beans still in the
fields—A. A, EL, Boon

CALHOUN (Northwest)—October so
far has been very rainy but one or two
pleasant days. Silo filling done except
some re—fllling. Harvesting beans and
diggmg poatoes is the order of the day
for the farmers at present. I do not
believe that one-third of the corn in this
section will ever be husked; farmers are
cutting it with the binders and will leave
it in the fields until they wish to feed
iL—V, H. J.. Battle Creek.

OSOEOLA (Northwest)———-Having rain
almost every day, Farmers digging be-
tween rains I think your M. B. F. is
doing more all the time for farmers are
not flooding the markets. Stay with it.
Slocum, you are doing fine.—W.'A. 8.,
Marion,

OTTAWA (Northwest)—WB have had
very few days of nice fall weather. The
farmers are having some time with po-
tatoes and beans; about two-thirds of
the beans are a long ways from shelter.
1 don’t think there is much of any live
stock being held by the farmers for high-
er prices. Neither will the bean crop
pay more than, our annual taxes—B. J.
K., Conklin.

TUSCOLA (West)-—On account of the
cold, wet weather, the farmers are get-
ting behind with their farm work, they
have about one—third of the bean crop
yet to harvest, which can not now be
done on account of the wet weather. The
farmers are selling very little grain. too
busy with farm work Some farmers
are beginning to draw sugar beets, which
run about 10 tons to the acre Potatoes
are yielding good. some are beginning to
rot—C. B,. Reese.

VAN BUREN (East)~——A very anxious
bunch of farmers harvesting grapes, wet
and cold weather making it very slow.
Most impossible for fruit growers to get
hay or cats without paying exorbitant
prices. Shortage of baskets is hinder-
ing harvest; help continues to be scarce.
Frost and wet weather is affecting the
corn and bean harvest—V. T. G., Matte;—
wan.

OGEMiAVV (East Centrnl)v——The farm-
ers are threshing, pulling beans, digging
potatoes, baling hay and straw and
plowing. The weather is cloudy and
some snow has fallen, The farmers are
selling hay and straw and some grain.
a few potatoes and roots, and some
stock. All are bringing good prices e1;-
cept old and small horses. The soil IE
{:15}: right for plowing,——E. 13., Se]—

  

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'MIDLAND' (Southeast)—The first snow
of the season. arrived the 18th. A large
quantity of beans in this neighborhood

are not pulled yet, being of a. good qual-’

ity but a poor stand, 10 bu. to the acre.
Some potatoes are being dug and they
are yielding good. and of good quality,
Gardens are about all harvested and are
of good quality. being the best they have
been for some years—A. B, Midland.

HILLSDALE (Northeast)—-Good fall
weather the past week but rains have
set in, Corn 'is about all cut and the
last of the rye is being sown in corn
stubble ground. ~Apples are being pick-
ed and are of poor quality. New York
State peaches are selling off the car at
Jackson at from $1.50 to $1.70 a bu., at
the stores they are asking $2.50 a bu.—
, H. B. Somerset Center.

. OTSEGO (West)—-The average pota-
to crop per acre runs 30 to 150 bu, I
only know two or three places that will
go 225 bu. to the acre. The weather is
wet and cold. There are lots of potatoes
yet to be dug—C. A., Gaylord.

GENESEE (South)——-Fanners are sow-
ing rye, digging potatoes, picking apples,
harvesting beans and cutting corn. ~Most
of the beans are threshed but there are
still quite a few acres to harvest yet.
The silos are nearly all filled. Most of
the corn crop has been out and. shocked
by this time, Fanmrs are just starting
to dig potatoes, and no estimate on the
yield can be given, Com crop proves to
be poor. Wet weather has delayed har-
vesting beans.—-C. 8., Mn.

MONROE (East)——Silos most all 'filled,
some good corn and some poor. Some
wheat and rye yet to be sown—E. H. M.,
Monroe,

GRATIOT (Southeast)—Farmers are
resting while it rains, They are selling
their produce in Small quantities. Beans
are just being threshed,———J. E. 0., Barn
nister. ‘

MECOS'I‘A (Southeast)—The schools
are all closed to allow the children to
help dig the potatoes, which are going
about 100 bu. to the acre—F. M, 173,,
Millbrook.

ANTRILI (West)—Farmers in this 10-
cality are cutting corn and filling silos,
pulling beans and all plow‘ing. The farm-
ers are selling some cattle—H. H., Cen-
tral Lake.

PPRESQUE ISLE (Central)———-Rainy
weather and cold. Some of the beans
are pulled and some potatoes are dug,
some fall plowing is being done. Some
poatoes are most too poor to dig—D.
t). S., Millersburg. '

MANISTEE Northwest)—The armors
are trying to harvest their beans and
cut their corn but the weather is bad
or such work. There is some buckwheat
yet to thresh and it is a poor grade,
badly frosted. Some are digging pota—
toes, report light crop rom 25 to 100 bu.
to the acre. Corn is light, about one-
third crop and also a poor grade, Lots
of small pigs for sale, nothing to feed
them, Milch cows sell at auction at
from $70 to $80.——C. H. 8., Bear Lake.

osconn (Central)—Bad weather for
the farmers, lots of rain, Farmers are
most done threshing, grain turning out
good, oats 30 to 40‘bu. per acre, spring
wheat not good, all wheat good quality,
about 25 to 35 bu. per acre; speltz good,
50 bu. per acre; barley, 20 to 25 bu; mil-
let, 15 bu. per acre; potatoes, about 110
to 200 bu. per acre. Lots of clover seed
in the fields to hull as soon as it dries.—
A. C. M., Mio.

ISABELLA (Southwest)—-—’l‘he Weather
has cleared up and everybody and his
brother wants to hire his brother and
the other fellow to get $10 beans in the
barn and 31,25 potatoes in storage. A
number around here are pulling beans
for feed for sheep this winter as the
hard freeze of the third- finished what
was left. We should have had three
weeks more of good weather. It all goes
to help to make $10 beans and $1.50 po-
tatoes. They will have to come to these
prices if the farmers make anything on
them There will hardly be a hard car
of corn in the field around here, and we
find that in feeding such corn to hogs
they consume twice as much. I think
that with another year or two of this
kind of weather we will see every farm
with a silo Potato digging Will be start-
ed in earnest here this week; they will
not go over 100 bu. to the acre, Where in
years gone by l have harvested 200, We.
find here that the back yard truck patch
was not a success, many laboring men
that thought they would have enough
for their own use found that their crop
of potatoes did not materialize. and they
are in the market for their winter sup-
Blanchard

BENZIE (“'ost Contrab—Weather lS
rainy and cold. All farm work is de—
layer]. Silo filling the order of the (lay.
——C. H, Benzonla, ‘

TUSCOLA (CeIrtral)-——F‘armers digging
potatoes, pulling bean and beets. VVoztth-
or wet and cold, Farmers are selling
rye, potatoes and wheat. Potatoes Is the
best crop this year in these parts: one
man got 100 bushels on l—4 acre. another
90 bu. on 1—3 acre and just 27 potatoes
filled a basket.~«B. B. C. Caro.

TUSCOLA—Bean harvest in full swing
but going rather slow on account of the
bad weather. The heavy frost of Mon—
day night froze the green beans even af-
ter they were pulled and in the bunch.
and will help to make the pick heavy——
J. A, McG.. Cass City.

LIVINGSTON (West)—-Some beams
not harvested yet, also corn to cut: soil
too wet to work. Some armers are sell-
ing oats and potatoes. The sale 0 pure-
bred cattle on the 27th was poorly lat,-
tended on accohnt o the cfold. rainy
day, but most everything brought good
prices—«G. W., Fowlerville.

NEWAYGO (Southwest)-——Farmers dig-
ging potatoes and taking care of beans.
Lots of rain and not good weather to
gather crops—C. B. White Cloud,

 

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(N orth) ——Farmers cutting
Weather wet and
some hay and

oats. F. S.,

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corn, digging potatoes.
cold. Farmers selling
grain and stock, holding
Union City.

MACOMB (Northwest)—ll‘armers are
digging potatoes, Weather has been
unsettled. Ground is terribly wet. The
farmers are selling some wheat and rye.

D., Almont.

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are too small for market. _
one man digging in 10 at-rc field is not
uncommon, Beans not throshcd yet but
yield will be small owing to so few in
pods—F. 8., Big Lipids,

JACKSON (West)———The farmers are

trying to get up their beans and sowing
rye. It is about time to harvest beans,
I had my beans ready to draw and would
have threshed the 17th but it began to
rain and rained for two days and now
it is snowing. They have been out
three weeks and there is only seventy
acres of them to turn over. It looks to
me as if $8 per bu. was not any too
much, and I think they will have to illl~
vance as nearly all of the beans in the
county are out in the bad weather. The
com is no good: it wouldn‘t fatten a
chicken—B. T.. Parma.

INGRAM. (Southwest) ——The heavy
rains of the past week have soaked
beans and it will take a week of good
weather to dry them fit for drawing.
Silo filling is about done for this year
Three—quarters of the corn is soft and
will have to be fed up before winter. Lots
of rye yet to sow; wheat all in.——-B. W.,
Leslie.

BAY (West)-———Corn and bean harvestr
ing is about done here. Farmers are
harvesting and hauling beets, which are
not very large, tare, is from 1 to 3 per
cent. Bean threshing has not begun yet.
Corn is a little wet for husking. Some
hay is being sold at $15. The rains will
help fall plowing, Some second crop clo-
ver is being cut but there will be no
seed—G. G., Linwood.

MANISTEE (Northwest)—Farmers are
filling silos and digging potatoes; some
few are trying to do some building but
the scarcity of carpenters makes it slow
work, The only thing I have heard the
farmers talk about buying is oats and
they are looking around to see Where
Elegy can get a carload.~{‘, .H. 8., Bear

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PRESQUE ISLE (Contain—Farmers
are digging potatoes. Most of the beans
are yet 1n the fields on account of the

wet weather; some are too poor to har-
vest. Potatoes run from 50 to 200 bu,
to the acre—D. D. S., Millersburg.

RALKASKA (West)—The farmers are
digging potatoes; they seem to be turn-
ing out pretty well, averaging about 90
bu. to the acre, There will be no hard
corn in this vicinity. Beans are nearly
an entire failure—R, E, 13., South Board-
man.

MONROE (West Central)—The farm-
ers in this part of the county are digging
potatoes and husking corn, Some farm-
ers are disappointed with their potato
crop. There is a. lot of soft corn to be
taken care of this year. Seed corn will
be a scarce article next spring. The
farmers are selling most of their wheat
and some hay, but they are holding oats.
W. H. l._. Dundee.

BlONTCALM (Southwest)—‘I<‘al‘nlcrs in
this vicinity arc digging potatoes and
preparing clover seed for the thresher.
Potatoes are yielding poorly, work is
mostly completed and price is increas-

ing as. dealers receive many loads. The
price is quoted from $1.20 to $l.25 at
Miller station 22nd of October. A large

acreage of clover seed is being out which
is filled medium and a large crop is ex-
pected by this part of the county. Beans
are mostly harvested, frequent showers
were received last week which prevent-
ed drawing of beans, yielding Very poor
and onertli‘v" t’ crop is not going to be
harvested, tther is cold and snow
was received by most parts of the county
Thursday. Soil is wet, but not too wet
to prevent working. Small amount of
produce is being held for higher prices.—
W. L., Greenville.

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“ WISH I could think up a new booth for our
church bazaar,” said Adeline. “It’s the
same old thing every year. Besides Mrs.

Merrick has moved in the neighborhood since last

year; They bought the Perkins farm, you know,

and I do wish we had another booth for her to

superintend.” .

“Why don’t you have a Conservation booth,”
I asked. “There's so much talk of conserving
food nowadays, and women are canning more than
they ever did in their lives. When are you go-
ing to hold your bazaar?”

“We always hold it just after Thanksgiving,
when everybody begins to think of Christmas
presents,” said Adeline. “This year I certainly
would like to make one booth the big feature of
the bazaar and your suggestion is a fine one.”

“See to it that everybody has a chance to lay
in a stock of Christmas presents of the good
things all you folks conserved during the sum-
mer.” I suggested “The bachelor i‘o’k would like
a chance to buy small fancy jars and attractive
iackages of home stuff. Now I know very well
that Mrs. Canfield, who lives in the village has
been so ill all summer that she didn’t have a
chance to put up a thing. Folks like that would
like a Chance to buy all their needs.”

“Let’s begin planning right now,” said Adeline.
“We can tell everybody not to waste a thing in
the garden and Orchard. 1 know very well that
mother canned more than she will eVer use. And
she put up pickles enough to feed the whole army.”

“If we make definite plans now,” I said, “orig-
inal ideas can be worked out by the time the
bazaar is held. Sales will depend largely on at-
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ieties of apple paste, pumpkin chips. crystalized
fruits and chutney would have a ready sale, I
know.”

“We could get the young girls at work making
original bags, and fill them with'hickory nuts and
walnuts,” said Adeline. enthusiastically. “Nut
meats in bright boxes would be easy to sell, too.”

“The Conservation booth well carried out will
prove a moneypniker for church societies every—
where,” I remarked.

And in our particular community it was a huge
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The Self-Made Slouch

“ 7E HEAR a lot, about the self—made man
nowadays, the man who started at the bot-
tom and climbed steadily to the top of the
hill, where honors and financial success awaited
him.
How many of us have observed the self-made
slouch? She starts married life with a hope
chest full of linens, a pretty home, several new
house dresses, and a firm resolution that her hus-
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Drop in on her some morning two years later!
Her hair is untidywturl papers would at least
keep it out of her eyes, but she has become too
listless and indifferent. to bother with them. Her
bungalow apron has a big rip on the shoulder
and is for from clean; she has on sloppy bed-
room slippers, and her complexion shows clearly
that she has gone to bed with a soiled face every
night since she's been married, with the excep-
tion, maybe, of the first week. She has acouire'l
an infant. whom you would like to kiss. oplv the
poor little, thing hasn’t had its bath yet, and is
plainly uncmnfoi‘tablc. and longing to be changed
to clean clothing.

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that her nmther always told her that she was
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failure in it. When she assumed the management,

of her home, she, and she alone, was‘responsible
. for the success or failure other work, and her
husband’s «happiness. Her husband had ample
means to purchase labor-saving devices for her.
She could get 'a carpet sweeper, a. washer, a fire-
less cooker, and other appliances that would
lighten her work. She could get up early, slip
into a fresh apron, and comb her hair! She
could Wear decent kid shoes, and keep her woolen
slippers for her bedroom, which is the only place
to wear them. She has failed to make her work
agreeable, to keep her mind fresh and alert.

If each day had been met with the right thot,
she would have systematised her work, and be-
come more capable. After all, it is a matter of
having pride. Her husband was one of the neat-
est young -men in the neighborhood. Naturally,
since she doesn’t pay any attention to his cloth-
ing, and fails to mend for him, and sew on his
buttons, he too, is"‘going to seed.”

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Broken Vows

USED to say so many things
Before I was a mother!
I wouldn’t do this thing and that,
I wouldn’t do the other!
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I think it is so cunning!

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Thc pain I would bear for him,

And hang upon his baby words,

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and so often degenerate into a self-made slouch?
No wonder the divorce courts are full of eager
seekers after single blessedness! You certainly
can’t blame some of our well-brought up men,
whose mothers have taught them clean, neat
habits, for falling out of love mighty soon with
the self—made slouch.

How to Make a Home for Bees

‘ ‘ VliEN I was up to my uncle’s farm in the
summer, and we were talking, as every-
body does nowadays, about the high cost

of living, he made a remark that one thing that

really paid the farmer was keeping bees. They do
not cost anything to feed, and their product can
be marketed at a good price. '

I recently read some good practical sugges-
tions to beginners in this business in the St. Louis
Post. Dispatch, and am going 'to tell you about
it, because I know you will be interested.

A good foundation for each hive is important,
they go on to say. as the hive should always be
kept perfectlylevel and never allowed to settle out
of this position, The best, plan where a consider-
able number of hives is contemplated is to set

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A WAY TO UTILIZE STALE BBEI‘D

Here is a. way suggested by the United States
Department of Agriculture to utilize stale bread
and left—over milk:

French Toast ‘

Beat up together one egg, one cup of skim or
whole milk, and salt tp taste. Place a small
quantity of butter, bacon fat or other suitable
fat in a broad-bottom frying pan. Dip slices
of stale bread into the egg and milk mixture
until they are thoroughly moist and fry on
both sides until a golden brown. Serve hot
with or without syrup.

       

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them in rows not less than four feet between
them each way, upon flat base of Portland ce— _
ment about two inches thick and two by three in
size.

The easiest way to prepare the base is to con-
struct a square frame sloping upward; and after
securing and leveling each way in the proper lo-
cation, mix and pound in the cement, being care-
ful by means of a line to construct them all upon
the same level, then level off the ground neatly
between them and seed to grass. Such a plan
renders it easy to occasionally run a lawn mower
between the hives each way and prevent tall
grass and weeds from accumulating around them.

A good bee stand is as important to a hive as
a foundation is to a home. Any old nail keg or
box won’t do if you want things right. The
simplest. cheapest and best plan is to construct
an oblong box 10 inches high, 15 7-8 inches wide
and 24 inches long on the outside, with no bottom
and no top except a strip 3 12 inches wide and
34 of an inch thick nailed across the top on the
front end. This corresponds in height with the
hive bottom. thus extending the bee porch in
front of the hive. Thc hive bottom covers the re-
maining portion of the stand and is kept from
slipping off by means of two cleats nailed upon
the inside. of the stand and extending about 2")
quarter of an inch above. so as to come between
the side cleats of the bottom board of the. hive.
A couple of good coats of mineral paint will help.

Many beekeepers make a serious mistake in fail-
ing to give their bees enough storage room on
time. The addition of this room at just the right,
time. for the storage of the season’s crop of honey
requires good judgment and an intimate knowl<
edge of the nectar resources of the particular
locality and season. Very few people realize that
in many localities the entire season’s crop of
surplus honey is gathered and stored within a '
period of a few weeks. It is exceedingly impor—
tant during these few weeks that the progress of
the work in the supers be watched closely and ad-
ditional room be given as rapidly as the bees can
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Keeping the Hands Smooth

RS. KNOX. after a long and busy life of
M toil on the farm, had moved to the vil-
lage to spend the rest of her life in ease
and comfort as so many of our prosperous farm-
ers do. She writes me that she is invited to a
great many functions and is ashamed of her ’
work-worn hands. .
Of course, if I told Mrs. Knox that work~worn —
hands are beautiful, much more. so than the
smooth, white hands of her youngest daughter, ,
she wouldn't believe me, but we who see the soul's %
beauty know that this is true. But this doesn’t
help Mrs. Knox out. She wants to look her best
in town. and I don’t blame her! That’s the right :-:j
spirit, Mrs. Knox; some of our careless. younger :
folks should follow in your wake.

Do you own a pumice stone, Mrs. Knox? It“
not, go right over to the drug store and buy one.
This is the hardest toilet article you can have.
Its constant use will. remove the callouses on your tie
bands, and incidentally, will prevent many a

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rough and yellow. Every few days give them a
treatment with pumice, washing them first in hot,
soapy water. Go over them carefully, gently
wearing off the yellow skin with the stone. Then
massage the hands thoroughly with cold cream,
any good, standard make. It is a good idea to use"
cold cream on your hands every night, and for
the first. two or three nights, wear rubber gloves
over your cream-soaked hands.

Pumice stone can be used on the nails, too, to
Wear away the ugly ridges that sometimes form.
Rub your nails with vaseline every night, and
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cattle to Detroit last week—Mayv-ille
Monitor.

Chi :ago stockyards have purchased
21??) 000 acre farm in Cheboygan and
will start a ranch at once with 15,000
heads—Evert Review.

llcans in this vicinity are about all
milled and under cover. and potato
riigging well under way. but the yield
is. light. although quality is good.—
I'Ivuart Review.

 

Fred Dovey finished digging his
large field of potatoes near the village
Tuesday p. m, and several ladies of
‘he village aided in picking them up.
lrle shipped a car the latter part of
the week—Bronson Journal.

Oakland county is going to get. in
line with other progressive counties
and have a governmentauthorized
farm agent. This was settled by the
action of the board of supervisors
last week when a motion was made
and carried that the cOuntv establish

a county farm bureau—Holly .Atdrcr-
ifscr.
N (I‘crshenson, of Detroit, is still

at the Fermei's‘ elevate" loving cab—
bage and potatoes from Portland furni—

ers. and is planning to remain here.
for a couple of weeks more, This
week he is guaranteeinir‘a price of
$1.05 per busheh for l‘ll‘tliOei and

$14.00 per
up to
scrncr.

ton for cabbage delivered
Saturday night—mPortlamI ()1)-

(‘ouuty Agent 0. L. Rose. is boxing
various samples of grain and farm
produce to be shipped to the Wes‘ern
Michigan Development Bureau for
exhibition purposes in various parts
of the country. Although Osceola
county failed to make approoriations
for the support of the organization.
the county is still receiving indirect
benefits. which accrue from. its splen-
did organization.~—Evart chiczc.

Hall Brothers of Bellevue township
sold a load of fifteen hogs. last week
which brought. $400. They make a
specialty of growing bogs for the
market and usually have a hundred
head on hand the year round. Their
hogs last year brought them nearly
$4.000. “Toot” seems to be as suc-
cessful coaching hogs as he, was coach-
ing football teams in Olivet College.
and finds time to sell a good bunch
of Overland cars on the side.~»('liar-
lottc chublican.

 

The season’s sugar-making cam-
paign at the Continental factory here
has begun. Many improvements and
alterations have been made for the
facilitating of work. especially in the
unloading of beets. The huge derrick
on which a large force of mechanics
have been laboring all summer is
completed and the boilers and other
machinery have been set in the new
potash plant which will produce am-
other valuable byproduct from, the
refuse of the, mill. Bee‘s o" good
quality are coming in, both by rail
and wagon load. and there is now on
hand :i largo quantity. A hundred
(lay run is expected at the plant. ~s
Blissficld Adm/71cc.

exclusively of Michigan fruit held in
Detroit Oct. 29th to Nov. 3rd by the
Commonwealth Savings bank at their
general office. Fort and Griswold Sts..
Hammond building. The idea is that
of Comfort, A. Tyler. yi'1 president of
the Commonwealth bank and a very
close student of the agricultural re—
sources of Michigan. He wants De-
troit people to become. better acquaint-
ed with Michigan apples. learn more
about their flavor. Mr. Tyler is also
desirous of showing to the land own-
ers in this part of Michigan the great
pmsibilities in the fruit way, so a
special invitation is extended to these
people to attend the coming exhibit.
After the show ‘the apples will be
sold and the proceeds given to the
growers. all the expenses incidental

-to the show being borne by the bank.
Wayne County Courien.

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A majority of corn fields failed to
fully mature and many late bean fields
got caught by the frost—Charlotte
Leader.

It seems like old times to see po-
tatoes being brought to market in
Brooklyn. The price, $1 per bushel,
tops the fall market here for twenty
years—Brooklyn Exponent.

This week Tuesday Charley Taylor
paid Blue Bros. $969 for 26 spring
pigs and Stephen Clink of Mu-skegon,
$472 for 21 pigs. Some_m0ney for
pork, eh?—Coopersville Observer.

 

Beans in this section, as far as
threshed have turned out well. l‘t‘lar—
ion Foster got 80 bushels on four
acres, lVilbur Martin l07 on five acres,
Fred Voungs had 11.0 bushels, and
Lipps 97.——Ch.arlottc Lcadcr.

Sandusky farmers, by getting busy
and securing 25 signers. can have a
two weeks’ course in agriculture in
that city free of charge and the course

will be conducted by ihe l'lichigan
Agricultural (‘ollegeg .h'm/cillc Mon-
1707‘.

(lood weather for clover. seeding
and fall pasture. but tough on tl:e
farmer who is trying to get, his. (rows
llll‘lfll'\(‘()V(»‘.l'. The weather ii‘ti‘l is
giving help and comfort. to the enemy
c“o‘ild he investigatedg- .lli/lrllc-
t‘illc Sun.

R. P. Baldwin is highly elated over
the way hi: suuash crop turned out
this fall. Mr. llaldwiu says that. the
collective weight is «too or 500 pounds
and that, one in the lot weighs :‘9 1-2
pounds, which in quite exceptional.—
Porflaml Obscrrcr.

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Worth has the
this season.
formed spud

Hiram Utley of
champion potato so far
He sent in a perfectly

on Saturday that is smooth and
round and tipped the scales at two
pounds and ten ounces. (‘an .Vou

it?—(‘ro.s*1ccll

The sugar beet crop in Wayne
county will not. be very strong. many
farmers reporting that their yield will
not average more than $1“: or seyeu
tons per acre. Disease did consider-
able damage and then the season was
unfavorable.—»—Wu_2mc County (‘ouriczz

beat elcflcrcon ion.

J. M. Hickey purchased from G. S.

Kerswell and sons 23 prize steers.
which were sold by Mr. Hickey on

the Detroit market and attracted much
attention and received special ireu-
tion in the Detroit, papers They wc"e
sold for $11 a hundred weight. the
herd bringing $2500gwt.’lmlmin ('ozon
{l/ Akron].

The canning factory lltls finished
the season's campaign. lteport has
it that \V. R. ROztt‘ll is litlg’tiiizitins: for
a site at (‘roswcll on thch to build
what will eventually be one of the
finest canning factories in Thc l'niicd
States. The factory here will still
be operated however. to care for the
berries which have madc Lexington
famous.

The couu'y ro‘uto show which will
be held at :‘uistiouc November tl-Sl,
this yca' will embody many new fea-
tures as well as all the old ones. Some
of the new features will be, the lloys'
Clubs exhibitions with their reports.
There are about fifty of these and this
alone would be a show in itself. There

is considerable interest among the
boys and these potato growers will

have something worth while.~~3l[rmis-
tiquc Pionccr-Tribmzc.

A carload of cattle was spilled along
the track near the Ramsey-Alton fac-
torn when several cars forming a part
of an extra freight. running from
Grand Ledge to louia, left the rails.
The cattle Were strewn about in the
wreckage, some dead, some dying, and
nearly all the others injured more or
less. In all 21 were killed outright
or were put to death as an act of
mercy. The car containethabout :13
head of feeders and was consigned
to Ionia parties—Portland Review.

 

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The Gleaners of Allegan paid about
$7,000 for live stock last week... Geo.
H.,Brant of Fennville marketed thir-
teen hogs‘for which he was paid $755.
-——,Alleg‘an Gazette.

Here is a market report of. twenty
years ago: Eggs, 13c; butter, 12c;
beans, 75c; pork, cwt., $5; potatoes,
:35c; oats, 10c; ticur, cwt., $2.80; ap-
ples, 300., Compare these prices with
similar articles v hen you buy nowa-
days.—-Kindc Visitor.

A. M. Todd is having his hemp crop
harvested, a field containing over 300
acres, and it has grown to a height
from six to eight feet. He is also
erecting a large cement building for
a hemp factory which will give em-
ployment to his force of help this win-
ter.—Allcgun Gazette.

The Hires Condensed Milk Co’s
plant at Cass City made the first ship-
ments of condensed milk last week.
Three carloads, each consisting of
1,000 cases, left the factory. Two more
carloads .were ready for shipment at
that time, but because of lack of cars,
shipment could not be made. Orders
were received this week for 6,000 more
cases for immediate manufacture.
Each case contains 48 cans of milk.
#Cass City Chronicle.

H. T. Crandell returned home Sat-
urday night from a 2,900 mile trip
through .the middle west laden with
silver cups, medals and ribbons won
by his herd of O. l. C. swine which
were exhibited at six stale, and na-
tional fairs. Plr. (‘1':vudell accompan—
ied by Jacob \Viso a:: nil assistant, left
(‘ass (‘ity Augrtt El and had been on
the road or at the fairs ever since that

date. (‘i‘ziiiltill‘;; hcrd won the prem—
ier brccdcr and cfzhib‘ior prize»: at
every fair «horn; also two silver

cups, Zil champions and reserve chain—
pious, Bil first priyes. 118 seconds, 18
thirds, seven fourths and one fifth.—
(‘uss ("My ("Ilronicltz

The city council of Detroit has
heeded the appeal of the farmers for
a little more privileges on the local
markets, which is expected will on-
courage the matter of commercial yo:-
etable growing. The ordinance com-
mittee on Tuesday voted in favor of
amending the present market ordin—
ance to allow a grower to bring in
and sell as agent the produce of his
neighbors. The market gardners and
commission merchants were success-
ful in preventing the market being
thrown open to hucksiers and port
(llers. It was pointed out. that many
farmers raised a surplus of some ar-
ticles, not sufficient to make a market
load, which would find its way into
the Detroit markets if given the prop-
er opportunity. It was to care for
these people that the change was made
which was unopposed. The market-
ing committee of the council is giving
the matter of a new Eastern market
consideration.——’l'hc thu/ni» (‘oimri/
('ouricr.

Another boost. in the price. of milk as
announced by the Overtou Creamery
i’l‘l Why wili interest different classes
of uwople differently. The dairymen
vsiél unite naturally think that the new
rho is inrfi ouiic so much as they
should have had longr ago. while coin
suuicrs in the city will throw up their
hands in amazement and despair. But,
it's all on account of the war. The
rc‘ail lll‘lt'o of milk very likely will
advance in accordance with the cream—
cry rate because some of the retail-
cr»: have to buy their supply and the
farmers- will not sell them cheaper
l mu they will‘ to anybody else So
there you are. A “milklcss” day will
help still more: but who will enjoy
the change? Patriotism may be bet-
ter exercised at cost in almost any
other way than when it hits a man’s
s‘Olllflt‘ll. Singing the Star Spangled
l’nuner and waving the flag will not
make an unpalatable breakfast. seem
MW the less unendurable. If Mr.
Farmer will only use his increased
gains in buying Libcr‘" bonds. as he
did not do to any extent during the
making of the first loan, he will be
forgiven for that offense and milkless
coffee will seem more tolerablerfidllc—
mm (loeclfc.

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snow T. is COPY TO A NEIGHBOR

tell him how you like Michigan’s new
farm and market weekly, and get him
to send a dollar bill for a full year's
subscription today! He will never for-
get your kindness, nor will we.

   

FOOD FOR FRANCE MUST ,

COME FROM AMERICA-

(Continued from page 12)

France is a country at war, very
really and terribly at war. The in-
vader is on her soil. Her mines and
furnaces and fartories are in German
hands. Her richest manufacturing
provinces are in German hands. Her
men must go to the trenches to defen'l
their country and drive back the
hordes from across the Rhine. A111
those men of the armies must be fel
and have the means to fight. Above
all, they must have arms and muni-
tions, big guns and shells.

Rusot‘ncns HAVE SI‘FFEREI)

Every thought of France for three
long years of a bloody and sacrificid
war has been given to “les braves” at
the front. Little has remained for
the civilians at the rear, who have
borne their trials in stoic calm for
the sake of the soldiers in the trench
es. And in those years the reso arms
of France have suffered, especially
the farm resources, for imports have
had to be directed to the army. The
steel brought in has bee: for shells.
the machinery to make more. shells
and guns. The plowshare has been
beaten into a sword, while the reaper
has rotted idle in the fields with only
the hands of women and children to
tend it.

Now. France needs grain. She must
have grain to wake bread both for sol-
diers: and civilians. And only Amer-
ica ("in supply it. The burden of vic-
lics as heavily on our western
farmers as on the soldiers on the bat—
tlefields of France.

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PRACTICAL FARMITYG BY
A PRACTIFV-‘vl. TXRMER

H'on/[HHW/ from [ii/oc if!)

plant feeding and F""""lO‘.l of
seed, rotation. t‘cz‘lili“ali(>‘i, mult-
ching. and soil testing, animal
husbandry. cost accounting and mar-

keting, All arc subiects Worked out
by thc theorist on paper, and circulat-
ed as authority.

The “’l‘heoretical Farmer.” who
never sowed. cultivated. or harvested.
who never produced, graded, fed or
marketed. will determine by exact
percentages and deductions, by com-
mon averages and statistical compu-
tations, the exact result of proposed
agricultural adventureswrall farming
on paper, but presented as real.

And as the result of such exploit-
ing. inexperienced people are mislead,
and misdirected capital enters all
kinds of investments. Roth innocent
and vicious organizers are busy pro-
moting fruit tracts on desert lands
where fruit won't grow. goose farms
with fortunes to be made, not esti-
mated but determined in advance of
productions. In fact, all sorts of pro-
jects are worked out and recommend-
ed for you to follow: all by men who
if placed on a real farm could not
make a living.

So now that. the “Practical” and
“'l‘heoretical ll‘al'mcr” is well defined.
let us turn away from the “'l‘heorist,”
his dreams and his hobbies, and fol—
low the “Practical li‘armer" in his
successful farming operations. Fun-
damentally, no farmer can be consid-
ered successful unless he has kept up
fertility of thu soil. otherwise his ap-
parent gain only be absorbed
by the soil depreciation. To increase
production at the expense of the soil
would be folly, and eouivalent to sel-
ling your farm on the installment
plan.

would

So under the caption of “Practical
l4‘arming,” this article will subse-
quently treat: of details necessary in
“Successful Farming,” covering all
its various branches such as General
Farming. Dairy Farming, including
Butter Making; Fruit Growing and
Canning, the Raising of Live Stock,
including feeding and marketing, all
based upon practical experience in
the various lines.

 

Don’t be content with doing your
bit for the country, do your best.

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