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(L during W Week proved te be failure, and his message was read instead. In put it follows: ,- “In a.“ will: other farmers. you have Mex-ed severely because at its relatively low prices or your crops and Extesmk thrills the magnum: ons.but I believe that worst u ever and that mnewontliere ' im-t provement. 1928 should be a better year tor m then we. 1’81. and to ell go into the fields this spring with assurance of a fair return tor our work. _ We had a great National Agricultural conference here in W last week. here we 8‘38 . of them real farmers. state was represented. The president's 0 address showed that be under- stands the farmers' difllculties and will do all that he can to help overcome them. The delegates worked hard and submit- ted reports which have been sent to the president and congress, and I hope later will be printed for general distribution. Everybody feels that the conference did much good and brought to the people here a better understanding of the farm- ers' difllculties. "The work of the Department of Agri- wflture is being strengthened to give farmers more help in the markwa their crops and more information t prices and how to adjust production to danmd. We expect to give the same emphasis to farm economics that we have been giving to production. We think the farmer wants dollars as well as bushels and pounds. we are all working hard for the folks in the open country and want to help in every possible way. Let us go into this crop season cheerfully and hopefully and with faith that we have made the turn in the road and are now on the way to better times. ,_._.._____ BELGIUM AS A BREADSTUF‘FS MARKEI.‘ removal by the Belgium gov- ernment of restrictions on the sale of wheat has resulted in an immense revival of. business in the Antwerp grain market, says Acting Trade Commissioner Cross, at Brus- eek, in a report to the Department of Commerce. as Belgium must im- port at least 55,000 tons of wheat per month to feed its population. Most of the flour used locally is new milled in Belgium. the quality I of local might! being prim-113' equal to the imported article. with a price just enough lower to hinder excessive importation. The your 1921 saw a striking decrease in imports of American wheat flour, which has been oflset by an increase of 180 per cent in imports of American wheat during the first nine months of 1921 over the corresponding period of 1920. GOVERNMENT some OF IN- TEREST Di FEBRUARY following List of Farmers“ ? Bulletins and Circa}!!! '11” are of general interat during rem-m many he obtained free by addressing the Division at Publica- tions. United suns Department a! Ame-lune. Washington. D- 0‘8!»- cify number and name and whet” W Bulletin or Cit-11cm. Farmers' Bulletin 609. Bird Houses and How to Build Them; maWongricdt— ure' hes'deflnibeiy proven “mm: detect the sex. - recently issued by the Itchigan Fruit Association the pool- iu price for Concord grapes in 1921 was $94.62 a ton. The association sold «0 cars. on HONEY FOB TRIBE]! LAND Department I. m, depot q themed! “libthpendnlumotedoek. butiftheeumoftheop)‘ “the bel: would lie-urn» line a small iron disk. the whole.“- pended by a. cord. The telltale mo- tionswm'eclsimedtobethermerse «mum-aloud”- male with the other instrument. One ing the loose end of the wire. Tests on eggs and other things by a number of persons showed that all 3‘ the instruments were useless. two persons got the same result pullets and cockereis. WANT $2.00 WHEAT T the closing session at the Tri- State Grain Growers Ass’n con- vention at Fargo, a few days since, a resolution was adopted ask- ing for co-ordinstion of existint farm organizations and a congru- sional. that is to say govu'nmeut. guarantee of $3.00 wheat, with the revival of the Grain Common . KALKASKA FARMERS FORM CAME CLUB T a dairy meeting held in Kni— kasko. Jan. 13, s “Jar-u Catfle Clu " was organized with n P. Rosenberg as president. Ghn Gotten ' at vice-president and Paul Hayward as semetary-treasurer. GRAPES AT $94.62 TON . RAPE prices averaged slightly lower last year than the year before. According to I. report Southern BEVELOPMENT 1' the $15,000,000 31ch by the government for the. construc- tion of nationsl'forest roads and trails. Man has been awarded 33,858 it was announced Saturday. Feb. 4. Secretary at Agriculture among 2'! states, Alaska and Porto Rice. California lead the list with “484593, while the smallest sum. $8,798, was given Porto Rico. The money Was divided by Wallace W0“: LOSSES sum ‘. lees to the government on its purchase during the war of smite“ worth of wool will hhimuwcmtmfim Number 24 ‘ i ‘ ,_\ ‘ .“ ' ' I / I B. . 81:53 team FARM ER 1922 - f Governor Demands Roads Lower Freight Rates A Interstate Commerce Commission Petitioned to Remove Discrimination against :OWRNOR GROESBE’CK has caused an order to be issued to railways operating in this state to show cause why the “zoning” system which was foisted upon the state. during the we: should not be done away with and Michigan freight rates put on a par with those of other states. It is alleged that as a result of this sys- tem many sections of the state are paying the highest freight rates of the entire country. The man hit the hardest by this discrimination is the dunner who pays the biggest freight bill of all. The Public Utilities Commission has known for some time that this discrimination existed but it has failed to act lost it might incur the die- pleusure of the Interstate Commerce Commission which has stripped most of the state railway commissions of their powers for daring to rake voice against railway rates and practices. But the state commission has finally reached the con- clusion that it might as well be shorn of its pow- er as to have it and not be ableto use it. Hence, the order. : The date of the hearing has been set tor February 15th at Lansing. HOW MICHIGAN FARLIERS ARE HIT In an address to Farmers‘ Week visitors Gov- ernor Groesbeck cited a number of instances in which farmers 01 this state were being discrimi- nated against. A portion of his statement is as follows: “With respect of distance from the sections of Michigan which most substantially produce po- tatoes, hay, grain, dairy products and farm and orchard products generally, Michigan is more ad- vantageously located than is Wisconsin, one of its progressive competing states. Notwithstanding the differences in distance in favor at Michigan territory, the adjustments to freight rates are such as to make the costs of transporting Michi- Michigan Curtail E proposal to sell another $10,000,000 worth of state highway bonds in 1922 has brought a storm of protest from the tax-ridden farmers. The state's present bonded indebted- ness is $50,000,000 on which it is paying over 810,000 a day interest. Computed annually this interest charge represents about onesixth of the total state tax for the current year. A. B. Cook, master of the Michigan State Grange, insists that no more bonds be issued, but that all tuture road building be financed by the levy of a. direct tax. He has asked the members or the State Grange to circulate petitions with this end in view, and expects to secure the support of at least 50,000 rtarmers. Mr. Cook’s plan has the pantial sup- port at least of the Michigan State Farm Bureau, whichwhileitdechreditselftobeiufnvorot gmdrmdgflsoadoptedareeoluflonoskingthnt no hands be tuned for the year 1922-. To these demands State Highway Commiuion- aPrnkP.RogetsrepliesthxtKichigxn must spend $5,000,090 on federal aid roads alone this year in order to qualify for the $5,000,000 ap- pormmthkmtobythofederd govern- ment. To complete construction projects on other highways will require another sa,coo,ooo our-o. Aconcu'tedpropagnndaishelngconduct- edthroughcivlcorgnintionstocombatthepro- pogandn'otthe-{armmudunlntereeting scrap in in prospect. The controversy takes us back nearh three yearsogowhen, upontheodoption oftheumend- ment to the constitution authoring the issuance of $50,000,009 road bonds, the question arose u tohowmzny.ifanrbonds.shouldbeisnedm anysingleyeur. Atthadtime the Business Far-er declared the]! as follows: "Michigan Business Farmer supported the bond issue because it believed that the legislature should not be handicapped by in. ‘c of funds in Oarrying out the good roads program. But the Michigan Business Farmer is unalterably opposed to the] issuance of a single bond. providing the . cogsary lunds canzbe raised irom other sources. Shippers gun's products to the principal important and competitive markets much greater than are the costs of transporting the same commodities from the more distant points in other states. "Distances considered and in consideration of what are or should be the natural markets for Michigan’s farm products, the rates paid by the Michigan farmers are actually and relatively higher than can be found in any other compar- able section of the United States. “To illustrate——Waupaca, Wisconsin, is the price basing market tor the Wisconsin potato shippers. The distance from Wauptco to Chicaso i322}. miles; therateonpotatoeeisz3 cents per one hundred pounds. The distance from Bart, Michigan to Chicago, is 234 miles and the rate on potatoes is 36 cents per one hundred pounds, a disadvantage of 13 miles in distance and 13 cents per one hundred pounds in freight charges. To Toledo, Ohio, the distance from Waupaca, Wisconsin is 409 miles and the rate is 35 1-2 cents. From Hart, Michigan the dis— tance is 266 miles and the rate is 35 1—4 cents. In this instance Hart, Michigan has an advantage of 145 miles in distance” but no advantage in freight rate. The distance from Waupaca, Wis- consin, to Cincinnati, is 505 miles and the freight rate is 35 1—2 cents. From Cadillac, Michigan the distance is 595 miles and the freight rate is 40 cents, Cadillac having an advantage of 110 miles in distance and a disadvantage of 4 1-2 cents per one hundred pounds in freight rate. From.Waupaca, Wisconsin to Detroit the distance is 376 miles and the freight rate is 35 1-2 cents. From Greenville to Buffalo the distance is 349 miles and the freight rate is 35 1—2 cents. In this instance ‘Greenville is 37 miles nearer Buff— Her state and Federal Road Building Program? If funds are needed immediately to carry on the road work for the current year (1919) it will pro- bably be necessary to sell some bonds. But we believe that all of the money that can be spent with economy next year and the next and the next can and should be raised by direct tax in- stead oi irom the sale of more bonds.” In this opinion Auditor General Fuller, “watch-dog of the state treasury“ concurred and still does. At the time the above was written Mr. Fuller said to the editor of this paper: “It is not necessary to issue bonds to secure all the required funds that can be spent with economy in the building of roads. The people will have large enough tax burdens to bear the next twenty—five years without putting on their shoulders that enormous interest charge on $50,- 060,000 worth of bonds.” In hopes that the legislature might be induced to go sparineg in the Nuance at bonds the editor suggested four itinerant methods by which the money could be raised to carry out the road building Program. Tables compiled to illustrate these plans showed that if bonds were issued at the rate of $5,000,000 per year they would all be dispomd of at the end of 1928, but that the r——~--ClipthisCoupon———~—1 (The tsurgentlynrequeotedtomdlate hisorherviewsuponthetonowmgquestione' and-mtmtoEditorBusimhmcr,Mount mm) ooyo-benem'thummmm-m mmmménimr Doyoubelievethnfiwm imamymro-dmudllmtraise 10.31% b! M. tum, thereby sav- ing interest on bonds? (ya or no) Do you favor a tax of one amt a gallon on gasoline to be used for road building pur- poses? ‘--~ (yum-no) shouldnot (yes or no) -_‘___~——~--9_-.-~ rh~—- ‘-———o—- do than Waupoca is to Detroit but pays the same » rate for the haul. To Pittsburg, one of the most important potato markets, the distance from Waupaca, Wisconsin is 651 miles and the freight rate is 44 cents. From Cadillac, Michigan the distance is 410 miles or 181 miles less than from Wanpaca and the freight rate is 42 1-2 cents. In this instance an advantage in distance of 181 miles yields an advantage in freight rate of only 1 1—2 cents per one hundred pounds. , “In the Pittsburg market it appears that an advantage to Cadillac of 181 miles in distance gives Cadillac only 1. 1-2 cents advantage in- freight rate over Waupaca, Wisconsin. To Chi- cage, Illinois the distance tram Cadillac-is only . 61 miles greater than from Waupaca but that [55 places Cadillac at a disadvantage of a 13 cents per one hundred pounds freight rate. The rates. on apples, beans, hay, onions, potatoes and straw in earload lots from Fort Wayne to Grand Rapids, 142 miles, is 26 ’cents. From Traverse City to Grand Rapids, 145 miles, the rate is 28 1—2 cents. From Chicago, Illinois to Detroit, 272 miles, the rate is 31 cents. From Chéboygan, Michigan to Detroit, 275 miles, the rate is 35 1-2 s? cents. J “The principal reason why rates on farm pro- ducts from Michigan points to all competitive markets are so much higher than are the rates from points in other states such as Wisconsin not- withstanding the fact of much less shorter hauls from Michigan points is that without exception class rates, and principally the fifth class rates, are applied to Michigan shipments whereas from all other and competing agricultural states spe— cial and specific commodity rates much lower than would be their class rates are applied. The only exception is with respect of rates on grain. Because of representations (Continued on page 23) burden of retiring them and paying the interest ‘ would run on for another fifteen years. Up to the present time not a single bond has been re- deemed although lt was originally planned to re» tire $2,000,000 worth each year beginning with 1920. Failure to retire any portion of these bonds now will run up a larger interest item than originally anticipated, and means placing a heavy mortgage upon the future which cannot be paid off for at least a quarter of a century. It v was calculated that the interest on these bonds would represent a sum of money sufficient to construct approximately 190 miles or concrete, 400 miles of macadam and 900 miles of gravel roads. Had the legislature issued no bonds but levied a direct tax the rate to raise $5,000,000 would have been 81.20 per thousand on the 1918 vul— uation. The total rate to build $50,000,000 worth of roads would have been 312 per thous- and. But the total rate to build the same amount of roads by the issuance of bonds will be 317 per thousand, the diiference being due to the inter- est. Again the question arises, “Is it greater economy to build $50,000,000 worth of roads at a cost of $12 per thousand valuation or $17?” A copy of these tables was placed in the hands of every member of the legislature and had the effect of influencing the legislature to agree upon , a somewhat more conservative road building , policy than some of the good roads zealots were seeking. But the highway department has been insistent in its demands for more money and the 1921 legislature took the bars down and opened the way for a riot of spending. Economy, he been sacrificed to speed and there are numberle. instances of waste and inediciency. g ' In order that the Business Partner may intel-e. ligen'tly represent readers views on the pending issue we urge every reader to write us his or her, views upon the subject. Shall the state issue a road bonds in 1922? Or shall the state issue 11’ more road bonds at all" but pursue a pay-ap-yo go policy? ‘ " - ally drawing the farmers of . sented. All were accorded recognition sion as members of one great family. 1 L rganized armers Agricultural College is Host to Five Thousand F arm F olks Representing Every ""NOTHER Farmers’ Week has passed into his- .‘tory and another golden chain has been added to the bonds of fraternity which are gradu- Michigan into a “united, sympathetic, broad-minded, and construc- tive co-opera'tive ody. Farm Bureau, Grange, Gleaners, Farm 3 Clubs—all were well repre— .q.~ . .1- Organization in Michigan and Extension Director Baldwin down as well as' members of the student body, bent his or her best efforts to make the farmer visitors feel at home, and to insure the success of the occasion. It was a success in every sense of theword and A furore was created among the farm bureau delegates and visitors when a- Detroit daily newspaper appeared upon the Campus with the announcement that Secretary Brody's report showed a drop in membership from 97,000 to 32,- 000. Examination of the report failed to reveal any such condition. The financial statement of the Bureau showed that approximately on the program. All laid aside their trival difierences, if they had any, and entered happily together into the occa- ‘Night after night the great gymna- sium was thronged to the doors by dirt farmers, their wives and children, mem— bers of the student body and interested folk from the nearby city of Lansing. A number of the speakers scheduled to talk Were unable to take their accorded place on the program due to a variety of causes. These included J. R. How- ard, president American Farm Bureau Federation; David Friday, president elect M .A. C.; Grant Slocum, president of the Gleaners; A. B. Cook, master State Grange; but by the substitution of other speakers the program was car— ried out to the satisfaction of all con- cerned. Neither hard times nor inclement weather seemed to have much effect upon the size of the attendance or the spirits of those who came. Because of the increased necessity for economy this year the college authorities were prepared for a much smaller attend— ance than last year, but the registra— tion was almost exactly the same and estimates place the crowd as almost, if L. “’I-llTNEY “'ATKINS (‘hairmun Board of Agriculture < College Heads who Welcomed Farmer Guests DEAN ROBERT S. SHAW Acting President M. A, C. 32,000 members Were delinquent in the payment of their 1921 dues leaving a total of 65,000 paid-up and in good standing. «The percentage ot delinqu- ent members is larger than the pre- ceedi'ng year, Secretary Brody explains, because of the low financial condition of the tiarmers and the desire of the Bureau to give them more time when needed to make their payments. Secretary Brody’s report discussed the problem of financing the Bureau after the expiration of the first three years. He recommended and the con- vention decreed that another inten- sive membership drive be carried on, a study of the situation indicating that from sixty to seventy-five per cent of the original membership can be signed up a second time. The secondary aim of another membership drive is to cre- ate a surplus fund of a, million dollars which invested in good securities would yield the Bureau an income sufficient to meet all overhead expenses for all time to come. ' BUREAU REVISES POLITICS STAND The delegates revised the Bureau’s stand on participation in political af— fairs to the extent of permitting officers not quite, as large as a year ago. Pos— sibly there was a little less gaiety. Possibly the enthusiasm and the jolliness did not bubble up quite so spontaneously as a year ago, but if so it were only natural for there was probably not a farmer present who had not been “deflated” and was considerably poorer in the world’s goods than he was a year ago. Adversity has a habit of drawing folks closer together and while the crowd might have been more sober—minded than on like occasions of other years, this but served to make them more friendly and interested in each other. The first two days of the week were warm and fine. The third day it rained. The fourth it snowed and the wind howled about the campus. The fifth it snowed some more. But neither rain nor snow, wind or blizzard kept the crowd 'away. Each day witnessed fresh arrivals by automobile, steam and electric railway. All meetings were well attended and all attractions and exhibits had their full quota of spectators. In years gone by the M. A. C. has been ac- cused of being a “high-brow” institution and of holding aloof from the farmers of the state. But if such an attitude ever prevailed it is gone. Not a vestige remains. Every individual connected with the college, from Acting President Shaw every guest felt a keen appreciation of the cor- dial reception accorded and the splendid enter— tainment provided. The Business Farmer pre- dicts that with a continuation of this happy com- radeship between college authorities and farmers the time will come when-the present facilities of the M. A. C. will be wholly inadequate to take care of the great body of farmers who will come there in constantly increasing numbers to enjoy the festivities of Farmers’ Week. So mote it be. FARM BUREAU HOLDS ANNUAL HE annual meeting of the Michigan State T Farm Bureau was as usual the big event of Farmers’ Week, Delegates attended from every farm bureau county of the state. Rumors that factions which were ousted from the Bureau a year ago would try to stage a come-back were apparently without foundation or else finding so little encouragement the dissenters withheld their program from the convention. The con- tests for the various offices were few and unim- portant. The vote on both officers and resolu- tions showed a surprising unanimity of opinion and a desire to avoid anything which might be construed as a criticism of the work of the offic- ers or a division in the ranks. ' to engage in management or control of “educational, administrative or regulatory insti- tutions having to'do primarily with agriculture.” The original constitution did not permit an officer or representative to hold any public ofice of any nature whatsoever as long as officially connected with the Bureau. The real purpose of the amend- ment was to enable Secretary Brody to retain his position on the State Board of Agriculture. The board of directors was increased to eleven members in order to give each of the four com- modity organizations, viz., the .Michigan Potato Growers Exchange; the Michigan Milk Producers’ Ass’n; the Michigan Live Stock Exchange and, the Michigan Elevator Exchange, representation on the Board. The convention vigorously denounced the pro- posed amendment to the state constitution to eliminate the moiety clause in the Constitution and place representation upon a purely popula— tion basis. Opposition was also announced to the proposed commission form of government for counties. Agricultural credit and usury practices came in for discussion and resolutions were adopted urging that every effort be made to secure for the farmer adequate long and short term credit accommodations from all sources available, and l r . l l r . 1 I l i l _, President Michigan State Farm - - Bureau JAS. Nicor. A. B. coon Master Michigan State Grange 11.11, HALLADAY Commissioner of Agriculture, Michigan Farm Leaders who are Paving the _Way for Closer Co—operation and a Better F arm . GRANT SLOCUM President the Gleaners LEE 8. NOBLE President State AssociatIOn Farmers Clubs ' Future , * J ‘ I ‘ \ Hie.» m d a: n A-‘1-—Ju‘-ll 4&1HI\AA.H.--.aa ' adeedate __ prac~ tical remedy for t h e usurious n o w charged farmers in .many sections. ‘ proval went up when a. resolu- tion w a s pre- sented and unan- mously adopted “opposing any— thing that in any way belittles or tends to tear down the 18th ( p r o h i b i,- t i o n ) amend- ment.” ' Con,- gressman Bren- nan, please take notice. / The‘ conven- tion went on re- cord as favoring the adoption of the amendment to be submitted next fall to provide for a state income tax, and recommended that in the event of the adoption of the amendment the legislature pass an income tax law which will secure sufli—' cient revenue to "pay all state expenses and dis— place the general property tax for state purposes, the surplus if any to be used to retire the sold- iers’ bonus bonds. A tax of one per cent per gallon on gasoline was also approved. Another resolution which reveals the increas— ing desire for closer harmony and cooperation between farm organizations urged that a joint meeting be called of Farm Bureaus, Grange, Gleaners and Farmers’ Clubs “to conduct a sys— tematic campaign to secure the adop- tion of such measures as will aid the property and welfare of the citi- zens of this great state of Michigan. Other resolutions adopted opposed the further issue of tax exempt bonds, reconfmended that the pro- perty of municipally owned util- ities lying outside the corporate lim- its be placed upon the tax rolls of the townships in which it is located, that the stock of all trust, finance, mortgage companies and building and loan associations be assessed and _~taxed on the same basis as the stock of state and national banks, that the state reimburse from the primary school funds all school districts for the sums paid out for tuitions of its students in high schools, that the motor vehicle license money which is returned to the county be placed _in the control of the board of super- visors instead of the county road commission, that the state adminis~ trative board be requested to sus- pend the issuing of any state high- way bonds during the year 1922, I DR. MARION LEROY BURTON President University of Michigan Farmer-8’ Week Speaker H Does—the Average Farmer Do a Gross Business of Only $1,500 a Year? * STIMATES secured from 237 farmers in 12 communities show that on the average 80 acre farm, gross income last year was $1,470, cash expenses $97 5, is the statement made by Mr. H. B. Killough, farm management demonstrator, Michigan Agricultural College, who has been working with farmers over the state for the last two months in an effort to determine what the av- erage net farm income is under present condi- tions of low prices and high costs. “I have estimated that I can sell $3,500 worth of produce next year off of a one-hundred acre farm at prevailing prices,” says an Eaton county farmer. “Am I too high?” Here is a man who is thinking from the top down; too many of us do our thinking piece-meal fashion from the bot— tom up. Surely, if gross sales are only $1,500 and cash expenses are $1,000 the net income'is not very .large. Are you unable to find a way to add a few dollars to your gross income next year without working all day Sunday? How much did you sell last year? A record of sales is easily kept; a farmer’s turnover is once a yearzand he ’seldom has to deliver a dimes worth of wheat or fifteen cents worth of pig. Studiesof thousands of records secured an ever , the: United States show that farms having the :1] ’ ‘ gross income areudiflerent from ‘other ” it” * "st 1" ”r respects; . t ‘ v i :9 area/‘86 tor; the ‘ . [an . rates of interest ‘ A roar of ap- ~ '1. :flA' 5‘de “NW? 1mm limit of $5 per thbusandvaluation for road repair and road improvement be reduced to $3. Resolutions also endorsed the work of the American Farm‘ Bureau Federation, the work of the State Farm Bureau “in the methods of devel- oping commodity control ‘in co-operative market- ing, and their friendly co-operation with the farmers’ organizations,” endorsed the lakes-to- ocean waterway project, endorsed the work of the wool department, approved Secretary Brody’s efforts to reduce the overhead expense of the state farm bureau, opposed free seed distribut- tion, recommended an adequate reforestation policy for the state of Michigan, \opposed the zoning system of fixing rates in the state and urged that Michigan rates be placed on a par with transcontinental lines, approved the estab- lishing of a marketing agency for produce in the city of Detroit. . OFFICERS ELECTED The following persons constitute the new board of directors, part of whom hold over for another term and part of whom were elected at the annual meeting: Directors at large: Jas. Nicol, South Haven; L. Whitney Watkins, Man- chester; George Friday, Coloma; E. E.‘ McCarty, Bad Axe; M._B. McPherson, Lowell; Mrs. Edith Wagar, Carleton; A. C. DePue, Faithorn. Com- dolity directors: W. E. Phillips, Decatur, repre- senting Elevator Exchange; Fred Smith, of Elk Rapids, Potato Growers’ Exchange; Elmer Beam— er, Union City, Livestock Exchange; M. L. Noon, Jackson, Milk Producers’ Association. All ofl‘icers Were re-eleoted as follows: Jas. Nicol, president; M. L. Noon, vice-president; Clark Brody, secre— tary; Fred Van Orsdall, treasurer. KETHCHAM DEFENDS FARM BLOC To Congressman John C. Ketcham undoubtedly goes the honor of bringing the message which ass/23.3% a... 1.- .s, ..-. Illa-unu*aunmoe~ “ ‘“Wa..£&fif§;ffrm.$i is. 3:; . ) ’5‘ ‘ » am .‘JIW, 3.".. I Exhibit of the lilichigan Crop Improvement Association, one of the Many “'onderful Agricultural Displays of Farmers’ Week 2. Livestock production is greater per ani- mal unit. 3. The farm is large and well equipped. 4. More than one kind of produce goes to market. In less than thirty ’minutes the other day a group of men classified their sales for the past year as kept in an account book put out by the Michigan Agricultural College. The gross sales varied all the way from $600 on one eighty acre There’s a time for everything and farming-success depends upon doin3~ the thing at the time and in the ’manner it sh old 0 done A well-equipped farm 1: , in ll ed farm. that trachea read aw be repeaied, that the m emu use smut) Mm found the great- V ' est response in hearts of the farmers w h o jammed the gym- nasium to its very doors to hear him. Mr. Ketcham came to East Lansing direct from the halls of congress and in his usual earnest and con- vincing fashion kept his audi- ence at close at- tention for more than an hour with his recital of what the farmer is doing at Washington. Some of those HON. JOHN C, KETCHAM Mich. Congressman who brought Message from Washington who pose as the farmers’ friends are still warning him to “keep out of politics,” yet there is no sub- ject in which he is more greatly interested or con- cerns him more vitally. Ketcham’s defense of the farm bloc, of pending farm legislation and his words of approval of the tax program of the Michigan farmers, as well as his plea for a square deal to all, brought forth loud and long applause from his audience. Mr. Ketcham told of the activities of the agri- cultural bloc of which he is a member. He de- scribed how the House of Representatives had passed the surtax bill cutting the tax on incomes over $68,000 from 60 to 32 per cent but making no reduction in the «tax on lesser incomes, how the bill went over to the Senate, was attacked by the agricultural bloc, amended by in- creasing lthe rates on large incomes. from 32 to 50 per cent and reducing the rate on lesser incomes, sent back to the house where the house bloc was organized and mustered enough votes to pass the Senate amend- ments. .This was one of several in- stances which he recited of the large influence of the bloc. He told his audience that the bloc .would survive all criticism because it stood only for a square deal to all parties con- cerned, and he warned that if it strayed from its avowed purposes and enacted class legislation it would fall into disrepute and lose its power just as the labor and capital blocs had done. The congressman lauded Michi- gan farm leaders for their efforts to work in harmony and recalled to mind the time not so very long ago when «the “president of the Farm Bureau, the master of the State Grange, the president of the Clean- ers and the president of the Farm- ers’ clubs could (Continued on page 16) may." , “a; farm to $3,600 on an eighty not two miles away. ; Maximum net income is the final goal. High- er prices, more sales, less expense may all have a similar effect in increasing net income. What are some of the big items of expense on an eighty acre farm? 2 1. Taxes—$200, a fixed expense. 2. Insurance—$20, well spent. 3. Feed bought—$200. Suppose I check upon my feeding once a month and figure out a bal- anced ration for cows, hogs and hens. It may make the feed bill less or it may make it more. Either way chances are that more milk, hogs; and eggs will be sold for every $100 worth of ; feed you use. If not, better sell the boarder cow and cull the poultry. The bill for hired labor: How much is it? not the milk flow from the dairy herd begin aft- er potatoes are dug and silos are filled in the fall and decrease in busy spring and summer months? Is threshing over before bean pulling begins? When is the haying season? Does the farmer l with a large net income cultivate more acres per man and per horse because he works more hou»ra_,.'i V a day or because he works more days a year? “More work, better seed, more potatoes and no price,” says a Montcalm county farmer.” theory sound? Whatever the answer may be i:th time is at hand when those of us who stay in the}. game must figure more, think harder, and ma ’ age better. ' _ -_ _ . I. . '- How much should it be? May ; I l 1 Is his ‘ 51’ cysteine, etc. Addre- ofic YD“- ' PORTLAND CEMENT ‘ ASSOCIATION A W We to [We eel Extend It U2: eICenaue m Indiana: PI clue... Lee Angelou let: us. on; menus Mllmukoe Cue Francine n Me "I. “e. m 1m 8!. Lode De“ I 0. do. ‘ Sweet Clever A Huh-m isahstgmw- "1' 1 hgwhiihcsweetdaver— ‘ mastoSfeetthesameseaeon. Ana. ceilcnt hay, big yielding and nutritious. In «ops-(nation. Hubem eevesu your, a 1 it is on submit means thousandsd extra dollars in the £Ckets of growers. Huibam’haebeenac 'med; metam- portnnt crop development in years. Plant Northern-Grow- Hahn: Isbell has adopted this Southern 1 clover to northern conditions- has made it hardy, yet big-yield- ing. Make sure of big crops by amour- in: Michigan wn Bell Brand 11 direct from the growers. Write Today For Special file” CATALOG Isbeill’s 1922 Catalog gives cult- ; ural directions ~descr1bes the best seeds—points:e ti)? wtaty’dto bigger' '. better crops. 11 or uy I die freewund it um web ! able to you. 8. M. ISBELI. 8: COMPANY 559 Modunlc St. (24) Jacksonr Mich. i to- u- Potato ground should be in excela condition to receive Hubam E It altalta and red clover grow well on the land both Hubam and bien— nial sweet clover will do well with- omt liming. Acid phosphate, how- ever, is advisable when Hubam is planted for seed purposes, since it hastens maturity and increases the yield «of seed. Both Hubam clover and the bien- nial white sweet clover can be so- cured from the Farm Bureau Seed Department, 221 N. Cedar St... Len— ‘ sing, Mich. White sweet clover can be seeded ‘ with success in the tall or if scarifled seedisuseditcsnbeseededlflreor- dinary red clover in the spring and lam-rowed in. The method is wood. impugn: 590:1!!!me theirunuing. Azenotmeoneeltook memmhnmmmsihietnrmhal- with whom you contracted they are responsible for the value of your ser- vices at the contract rate taking in- to consideration the extra. dimculty that occurred in completing such ' work as was done by your—Legal : Editor. PIPING WATER INTO HOUSE Have a spring about 200 teet from house with about 40-foot grade up oto the house. Can it be piped into its house by using a. pump? Would it be very ex- pensive?—-A Reader. Traverse City, nigh. This is an entirely practical pro- position and not a very expensive oneAlinchpipeshou‘idbeueed ' and should be placed below the trost lina’liiecoettorthiepipelwould' estimatetobeabouttZOunlflneu- pansestordigginzu'enchu-Iluyinx pipeabommmpodhlyeline lass; Acommms'eem'fllh satisfactory.!bmiupounds per square “mum m:- to Iodine-111. Itmb-Mmmbe automatic and man have u m tron thespringtefierunduet In thanZteetund-nltbeeuppued withnotleisthnllulleul d waterpermtuuteundhuveedrtn subscriber ha these conditions I pipeatleautZGMlan‘Hm hanthesecondiflnnllmed— vise that you write to repub- lable manufacturers a! rams tor notationsastothecostote M Department for tanner! every day mum-s. Prompt, c m t have b sung-u. en hunk-II: m \ ' also adviseusto thesizeetrum to use and the amount of m which the rum will deliver. I am giving the addresses-ct some manufacturers of hydraulic rams: Deming 0)., taken, 0hio.; Barnes M12. Cm. Mansfield. 0.; Goulds mtg. 00., Seneca Falls. N. Y.; F. E. Myers e Bret. mun. O.——Floyd “E. Fogle, Ass’t Prof. of Farm Mecha- nics, M. A. 0. mm 13 mm In the year 1918. the latter part at August, P. M. R_ R. set flreto 15 acres ormyhnihmttheteneesundl m of hay. Can I collect damages? A man came to me and wdfiuehed the damages. did not hear any more. I made inquiry later on and they said the government paid no Is fire claim out- lawed?—Wm. 1L. Atkins. Midi, The statute provides: “Action to recover damages for injuries to per- sons or property shall be brought within three years from the time such accidents occur and not anter- wards."—5Legal Editor. PARK PAPERS Can you give me the names at same ram papers and where they are pub- lldred in (h A part of Indians. and Ohio?—-A Subscriber. Nashville. The Indiana. Fanner’s Guide is published at Huntington, mm; The Rural Tribune, a small local farm paper is published at Montpelier, Ind, and the Purdue Agriculturist is published at Purdue by the Agricul- tural m In Ohio than i the J. F. Rutha'ford and others were convicted of violating the espionage act. Seven of them were sentenced to twenty years and one to ten years. They served nine months in the Alt—- lent: penetentiary. at which time the Court of Appeals reversed the judgment at the lower court. and remanded the case back for a new trial. Based on this decision the . parties were admitted to bail pend- ing a new trial. However, in May, 1920, the department, .after mature consideration, reached the conclu- sion that the case should be dis— missed and action was taken accord- ingly. It is understood by the de- partment that Pastor Russell died some rtime prior to the institution of these proceedings—Depantment of Justice,'Washington, D. C. EXECUTION 0F DEED 1N FOR- EIGN COUNTRY _ I wish to know through What channels I can secure a quit claim deed from per- son living near Stoddlolm, Sweden, We have agreed on price. etc” but do not know how to go about it, so as to have it lega1.—C, A. H., Gaylord. Mich. The direction for execution of a. deediuumnaigneeuntry can be toenail m 116 7 of the C. L. at 1915. You can them form of thedeedyuudmireand have them go m the proper oflieer named in fine above section and comply with the requirements of that see- flou so that you may place the deed on record. Your Mm attorney will be able to find you the section awful attentlon given to all ocmpld" .- m tr m n- . to momma by In! - -d I“. ' insurance can be I lupus—lire.“ easements. If you do ndt pay, lose your protection and make you an assessment erureunefieret thumb mussels-thrush attummbm‘mmlom'n. aresomofthereasomwhy-utuel said co m cheapsrthanthesoesned"old-lhe" insurance—Editor. assessor-moss}. “mum-lemme fodder belong to'Y—B, 8113s., m. I an of the opinion that m and can fodder are personal pne- m and would belong to the torn- er owner if he reserved the personal property. The barn, of course, 1|were!!! belong to the purchaser of the farm flotwitMmding it was an old barn. It is still I. burn beleag- in: to the turn until it has been severed item the soilrud put in the shape of timber and lumbar—Legal Editor. WHEN CAN A PUBLISHER ' COW? I would like to know whether or not a publisher can collect for a paper after your subscription has ran out, it you do mt notify them to discontinue Sending H. B...‘ Sand Lake. men. This question has already been answered a number at times in this department. It a publisher continues to send you his paper after your time has expired and you do not want it any longer, notify him. If he cen— finnestoseadthepaper,.deuetuh it from the mail box. The law pre- sumes that when you «take a paper from your mail box, you get valm out of it and must therefore, pay for it. Your mail carrier will take the paper back to the postofllce and the postmaster will notify the publisher lecL—E (liter. NOT A CRIMINAL 011mm Two years age hst Buick unto, 5 passenger, 3725. He paid down $2 0 note lbr the balance. Eh _ the note. These are Signers. He paid interest year a: the note about at: it was due. The second We 18 still unpaid and is almost 4 over due. I have wrltl‘m three E l . He pay the second year's on the, < N r . st ‘ ~ " ’ (the: L. 111. kinsa'sen- [penaltion‘fit01 fie causes me , to Iy “doubthis-t honesty. The auto I “Serf mm the agent tells me Was worth al- most-$9001. so .thatJ did not overcharge him—A Weekly Reader, If you .did not reserve the title to the machine in the note signed by the man and his wife you have no criminal charge to make against him. If he fails to pay the note it is breach of contract for which you might\sue him and take judgment for the amount of the note. You could seize any property he has on execution. It is not a criminal 0f- fense to fail to 'pay one’s note when it is. due—Legal Edi-tor. LOTS ARE WORTHLESS Can you give me any information in regards to cottage lots at Lake Breeze Grove, Mich? I have some which I am anxious to dispose ore-P. M., Akron, Ohio. These lots are valueless. They are about two miles from Lake Hu— ron on sand plains and about 10 miles north of 'this place. There were something like 18,000 of these lots sold mostly to out-of—state peo- ple and the Michigan Central Realty Company would still be selling them it the government had not stepped -in and stopped them from further sales. I can not say any more about them only that rthey are no good and never will be as they are nowhere near a lake or, stream and they are on barren sand plains and about 5 miles from the nearest habitation.— County Clerk, Rogers, Mich. ' a FOAM Nor POISONOUS Just a line to settle an argument. A neighbor claims she killed a calf by feed- ing it separated milk with the foam on it. Is the foam poisonous? is not. She says it Jackson, Mich. The only Way it is possiblefor a calfrto be affected so as to cause its death from separated milk that contained foam, is that the calf is free to put its head down to the bot— tom and 'draw this foam down into its lungs and cause congestion there. It is best to scrape the foam off be— fore offering .to the calf.—O. E. Reed, Professor of Dairy Husbandry, AM. A. C. I claim it is.——R. E. W., How TO POST LAND I am writing you in regards to “posted property”. I understand that the fine for trespass is only six cents. which wouldn’t worry anybody to pay. Can you tell me how much the line would be on posted property and the proper way to post pro- perty as required by law? Also who am I to report the trespass to, the sheriff or game warden, as it is to protect the game on my premises that I want to.post? I have signs up _at the present time, but hunters do not pay any attention to them. The signs I have up are plain boards. having written on them (Keep off to avoid trouble.) I am tired of city hunters slash- ing through my farm and would like to know the law.——O, W. J., St. Clair, Mich, The notices for “posted” land should forbid the hunting thereon and have the name of the owner on the notice. Similar to this form: “HUNTING HEREON FORBIDDEN JOHN JONES, OWNER” Section 7500 provides the penalty that: "Any person or persons violating any provision of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and ,upon conviction thereof for the first offence shall be punished by a fine of not less than $10 and not exceed— ing $100, together with' costs of prosecution: or by imprisonment in the county jail or the Detroit House of Correction, not exceeding 90 days or both such fine and imprisonment in the descretion of the court.” It would be proper to make com- . plaint to the prosecuting attorney or to the game warden, 'but you may make complaint to the justice of the peace who has the ability to draW' the complaint—Legal Editor. FUTURE OF KALKASKA What do you think of Kalkaska as a farming county? I have a farm there 'and as soon as conditions are better I Want to go back there to live. Do you think' the soil survey will increase the price of land in the northern part of the state and how long before it will be com- filleted? Could you please tell me whether 9 .Willis St. Claire Auto 00.. of Marysu kv la is a. part of the Willis-Overland (10., '0 Toledo, 0. How far is the plant from ~’ “Port Huron?-;—J. D.——South Lyons, Mich. Asi'you known good deal of the 'tlui‘ldalkaska county is worth- " crops but there so. ' The soil ket. The survey will not be com- pleted for several years. There is no postofilce in the state by the name of “South Park.” The auto concern to which you refer is the Wills gnot Willis) Sainte Claire Co. It has no connection with «the Willys (Not Willis) Overland Company, of To— ledo.' The former concern is headed by a man by the name of Wills who was formerly a high officer in the Ford organization. Marysville, the home of the Wills Sainte Claire is located about eight miles south and west of Port Huron—“Editor. DUTIES OF SHERIFF A neighbor’s child comes to your house frightened and says her father has threatened to kill them all and wants you to call the sheriff by phone and you tell the sheriff and he says he cannot come unless they come personally and swear out a warrant for his arrest. This makes the second time our sheriff has refused to go on such a call, perhaps he is right, but what is a sheriff for if it is not to go on such calls. When the party tells the sheriff who is calling, etc. So- I am writ- ing to you for an answer.—Re’ader. There are only a few circumstan— ces where the sheriff may interfere with an individual without the order .I ’ V holders of sand , lands frbm putting them. on. the mar-- j“? , ~. 6. to exercise his best judgment when "complaints similar to those you re- late are given to him. Because he has only such authority as the court shall give him. It is a reasonable request of the sheriff that the par-' ties shall make a sworn complaint andlallow him to have the written authority, a warrant of the judge, to interfere in matters similar to what you have described. In only a few cases can a sheriff arrest Without a warrant. He has a right to inter- fere in a breach of the peace com- mitted in his presence—Legal Edi- tor. ENTITLED TO RECOVER ON SHEEP KILLED BY DOG In 1916 I had seven sheep killed by dogs in Saginaw county. I was allowed $5.00 per head but as there were several other claims in and not enough money in the dog fund to cover the total I re- ceived but $5.00 on my share. Am I still entitled to the balance of $30 and, if so, how should I proceed to get it?——S. B., Williamston, Mich. Your claim for damages is good until paid if there is enough col- lected in the dog fund to pay the same. You should take up the mat- ter with the treasurer of the town- ship where you filed the claim.— Legal Editor. 'I‘héish‘en , is entitled " N'o RIGHT 'zro seats: - ' keep the water from running across I would like your advice as tow the highway commissioner or t board would (have any right to‘ tile across a road where there has before been tile, when 8 or 10 rods such low point there is a countydr—flin. If this drain were cleaned out it won drain the water from the road as the. surface is nearly level to this county drain. By putting a tile across the re, at this low point the water would drained off the road and off the‘fa'rm, one side of the road onto the farm , the opposite side where there h s new been a ditch. Also Would the ' commissioner have a right to widen an raise the road to keep the water from running across the road until this count drain is cleaned out? ' out—W, T.. Allegan, Mich. m . The owners of property on'ea'elhfg side of the road are entitledvto h the water flow therefrom as in state of nature. If the highw commissioner blocks up the flows water the highway commission would have the right and it would be his duty to place a tile therein" to restore the land as near as pos—‘ sible to its original condition. The distance of a county drain would no be material in the matter. The high? way commissioner would have no right to widen and raise the road to the road until tne'county drain is cleaned—Legal Editor. r Grasmere Farms. for the world. Notice the good sound kernels from end to end and the well filled cob from butt to tip» And most of all—notice closely, the big heavy ear and hard flinty corn. 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Bondsman and ad- dre- c. L'llAflFSuuSM scum TAXES AND W6 As just radius a piece iron Mt. Clemens Monitor, saying it would make the taxpayer grind to pay his taxes this year. But it. was just what he voted for. Now how many people in our county vote for raising money that never pay one dollar tax and never will. They don’t care if we lose our home or not. There was $60,000 ~votcd for to build a county hospital for a few poor people. Word comes they have used $96,000 and are not done yet. Who voted for that. Who voted to raise our county‘officials’ salary. and who will pay that? And now it is our country schools. We are satisfied our children are heal— thy and as far advanced as the city children but they want another chance to rob us, make three times the school tax we have now. The farm papers talk of helping the farmer and sending people to Washington to help us. It looks like a farce to me rior they are robbing us at every turn. Men we trusted and put in office are taking the bread out of our chil- dren’s mouths, and our homes. Truly we are surrounded by thieves. Our tax for 1921 is three times as much as it was in 1918 and no di- rect road tax either. So you see what help we are gelt- ting. It would be some better if people who do not pay tax could not vote to raise money, but as it is we will soon he done paying taxes.— O‘ld Subscriber, Macomb County, Mich. Yes, it does seem a little hard upon the tamym to lot non-taxpayers vote upon questions involving the expenditure of money. There is no doubt but what a. good many bonding propositions and other schemes to spend the people’s money would never had been authorized without the non-taxpayer’s vote. The county hospital you speak of was needed, very badly. Conditions at the county farm were such that no self-respecting” community could permit them any longer. Seems like a large sum of money they are spending, however. But it has to be done sooner or_1ater and doing it now means that it will not have to be taken care of later. The trouble is that we have authorized too many money-spend- ing projects in too short a period of time. This is true of state, county, city and town. The Business Farmer is frankly Worried over the tax problem and won- dering how the burden is going to be carried the next ‘four and five years.— Editor. SANTA CLAUS JUST finished reading Uncle Rube’s letter to the kiddies, in regard to Christmas, in the Jan. 14th issue of the M. B. F. and I honestly must say I do not approve of it. I believe it very wrong to im— press on the mind of a. child the thought that there is such a person as Santa Claus. For the time will come, when they will be made to realize that there is nothing to it. So why try and make a child believe such stuff. I would far rather have my chil— dren know that the presents they re— ceive at Christmas, come from papa and mama, than from some mys— terious person, whom no one has ever seen. But that is not the real issue; it is putting Santa Claus in the fore-ground, and putting the Christ Child in the background. I believe that every christian father and mother ought to teach their children the real essence of Christmas, and impress on their young minds that we celebrate it to commemorate the greatest gift that was ever given to mankind, the gift of God to the world, of his own dear Son, and that through that gift, we might have eternal life; and that when this child became a man, he gave out the invitation, “Sufier the children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.” _ To tell the kiddies that” the thought of there not being a Santa Claus, is preposterous, and that the people are cruel and wicked, who claim there is no Santa Claus, is im- pressing thc child’s mind with a wrong thought. Then again. the child reasons things. For instance, a poor family and a. w/ell-to-do family, live across the street from each. other. The children or \ .. the poor tsmllyrm given _, to understand that Sonia is muthisyoar, “willth able to give rthem much, and that they must not expect much. Vary well, after Christmas morning the poor children cull- cn the children or the woll—to—do family, and tote note at the nice and expensive proo- onts Santa Claus has given them. and mind you itis the some Suits Claus. And then they reason to themselves, it Santa Claus ms rich enough to give the wolHo-do tamily’ children such nice presents, he surely ought to he table to give them the same. And so they con- sider that they did not get a square deal. and they become dissatisfied with their own presents, whereas, if they had been informed of the true state of things, they would have been contented. Our children are grown up now, but we never deceived them, they knew who was the giver of the presents they recieved. Now I am sure Uncle Rube will pardon me for writing this‘way, and finding fault; but it grieves my heart to think that the Christ Child is put in the back- ground, and the kiddies made to be- lieve that all Christmas is for is be- cause on that day Santa Claus comes to bring them presents, which they in later years must. find out is noth— ing but a delusion after all. And then they lose their respect and rev- erence for the day in which our Saviour was born—Luke Hyman, St. Clair County, Mich. People do wrong who do not teach their children the true meaning of Christ- mas at the same time they fire their little imaginations with stories of Santa Claus. But it is very hard to make little children understand the great deity called God. and harder still to make them \md- erstand how He gave His son for the salvation of mankind. They may ask us who God is and where He lives. we tell them God is our father and that He lives in the heavens. In a. sense of the word we deceivo them for even we our- selves do not know the abode of God. As a. matter of fact we cannot impress these little minds with the great spiritual truths without deceiving them. We must resort to simile, metaphor, personifica- tion and other figures of speech in order to convey to them a. picture which will form an impression upon their But we cannot move them to under- standing by abstract instruction, How much easier it is to paint them a. picture of a big jolly fellow who lives at the North Pole and each year drives his gal- loping reindeer through the sky hear- ing gifts to good little boys and girls. Here the idea of reward for being good is impressed upon their minds. True, it is a material reward. but they are' too young to understand the spiritual re- ward, and when they are old enough to know that Santa Claus is not a physical being they will be old enough to under- stand somo‘hing of the spiritual. But the incentive that has been given them for being good will have had its effect. One of my little girls will not reach another Christmas without knowing that Santa Claus is a myth. She suspects as much now. She said the other day: “Mama, is there really a Santa Claus?”,. "Well, haven’t you seen him?" was the reply. “Y-e—s,” she said hesitatingly, ‘it I could see you and daddy and grandpa and grand-ma. sitting there on the couch together and Santa. Claus came, then I’d believe for sure he was real.” Before next Christmas comes around she will know the truth and then will be the time to take her on our lap and tell her as best we can what Santa. Claus typifies and why we havo taught her to believe in him. She will not be disappointed, for the 'truth will have «dawned on her gradually. Having an— tertained a. belief in a Santa. Claus will I am sure. more readily accept and un- derstand the divinity of God and Christ. By all means let us teach our children early in life to know and love Christ and the trgetfineanlpséhof thristmas. we r0 em 0 air oy in Santa. 0 us at the suns thus?-—Edltor. la LUCE COUNTY AGENT MAKES MONEY FOR FARMERS N YOUR issue or December 10. F. E. B., Luce county, Mich, statea:' _ “We are coming to the concluv smn here that the county agents are an unnecessary bill of expense. I know a lot of our neighbors can not see where we benefit a dollar a. year and look at the expense ‘to the- state." ' Last year we bought a tow bush- els of certified Roses Rye through the agricultural agent of ' from it would not sell any this fall, We ordered first from the county agent about 39 bushels and a little later enoush mars to m " n 9993. an up Stanislaus. I (motioned colour ('1': 7.; but need . Luce- county. As those who raised a. crop, , “3116’ . l . a “MT BEST YAHETXES 0F APPLES TO ' PLANT HERE on more than a thousand [ varieties of apples. The wise , orchardi'shmay choose half a damn. Later he will wish he had three or four. Of all varieties the Spy has been called the king of apples. Probably no variety has more friends. The chief objection is the long wait be- fore a crop of importance is to be had. Fifiteen years is hardly long enough. But by new methods a crop can be had in seven or eight years, which ought to double the popu— larity of this tree among planters. The Baldwin has been a favorite, but not:’ it is little planted. The trees do not stand the winters of the northern apple district and in warm- er localities the fruit is poor. Ac- cording to the government reports there were few Baldwin trees left uninjured by the winter of 1917-18. An old variety that still has many friends is the Rhode Island Green- ing. It does not bring the highest price on account of the color, but it is a reliable bearer and is always in demand by those who know it. 'Un- fortunately, the Northwestern Green- ing, an inferior variety, has been sold for it, which has brought it into disrepute. . Few apples sell better than the Fameuse or Snow. It is liable to ap— ple scab and the disease of a similar "nature, but when well sprayed there is little trOuble from this source. The Red Canada is a firm fruit, but a poor tree. It