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Voer 4 No. 14 .

“sarcasm DECEMBER 8th, 1917.

PRESIDENT SAYS WAR MUST GO
ON nu. PRUSSiiRiSM lS DEFEATED

Executive Sees No Hope of Peace
As Long as Kaiser Continues
Ruthless Methods and
Treads Upon Rights
of Other Nations

President Wilson addressed his mes-
sage “To Congress and the World;"
on Tuesday, departing from the time-
honored custom of including only the
interests of the people of the United
States, and covered completely the full
scope of the issues of the great war,
and the part the people of the nation
were expected to take in the great
struggle across the sea. “Eight
months have passed,” said he, “since
last I had the honor of addressing you.
They have been months crowded with
events of immense and grave signifi-
cance for us. I shall not undertake
to detail or even summarize those
events.”

lie asked all to “consider again. and
with great scrutiny our objectives and
the measures by which we mean to at-
tain them; for the purpose of discus-
sion here in this place is action and
our action must move straight. towards
deﬁnite ends.”

The necessity of making clear the
definite aims of the government in con-
nection with the world war, was band
led in a masterful manner. which
clearly shows that the President has
kept close to the people:

“Our objective is, of course. to win
the war, and we shall not slacken or
suffer ourselves to be diverted until it
is won. But it is worth while asking
and answering the question, when
shall we consider the war won?

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“i believe that it is necessary to say
plainly what we here at the seat. of
action consider the war to be for and
what part we mean to ’play in the set—
tlement of its searching issues. We
are the spokesmen of the American
People and they have a right to know
Whether their purpose is ours.

_ ‘They desire peace by the overconr
111:: of evil. by the defeat once for all
of the sinister forces that interrupt
peace and render it, impossible. and
”10." Wish to know how closely our
thought runs with theirs and what
at‘i‘mn We propose.

They are impatient with those who
sire peace by any sort of compro-
nilse‘deeply and indignantly impa-
t;:n:‘—li'iit' they will be equally impa-

In With us if we do not make it
pain what our objectives a re and what
We are planning for in seeking to make
CORQUBSY of peace by arms.

T believe i speak for them when I
say two things: First. that the intol—
erable thing of which the masters of
Germany have shown 11s“~—tlie ugly face
this menace of combined intrigue and
force which we now see so clearly as
the German power, a Thing without
001180181106 or honor or capacity for
QO‘fenanted peace. must be crushed and,
If It be not utterly brought to an end,
at least shut out from friendly inter-
course ot the nations; and, second,
that when this Thing and its power are

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indeed defeated and the time comes
that we can discuss peaceawhen the
German people have spokesmen whose
word we can believe and when those
spokesmen are ready in the name of
their people to accept the common
judgment of the nations as to what
shall henceforth be the basis of law
and of covenant for the life of the
world—we shall be willing and glad
to pay the full price for peace and pay
it ungrudgingly.

That Germany must answer for
some of the ruin her ruthless warfare
has caused, was set forth at some
length, and closed with this para-
graph:

Administration Denies

Long before the opening of the bean
market last fall, scores of articles ap-
peared in the newspapers telling about
the enormous crops of Manchurian
beans that were to be imported into
this country. Some of these reports
went so far as to say that the Food
Administration was encouraging the
importation and would force the farm-
ers of the United States to compete
with the oriental product. We have

   
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“It must deliver the once fair lands
and happy people of Belgium and
northern France from the Prussian
conquest and the Prussian menace,
but it must also deliver the peoples of
Austro-Hungary, the peoples of the
Balkans and the peoples of Turkey,
alike in Europe and in Asia, from the
impudent and alien domination of the
Prussian military and commercial au-
toeracy.”

The President then dealth with the
alien enemies in a paragraph which
can be easily understood, and he plac-
ed among the enemies of the govern-
ment those who have used the war as
a means to increase their profits;
those who have “replaced the law of
supply and demand with the law of
unrestrained selﬁshness."

“It is likely that as time goes on
many alien enemies will be willing to
be fed and housed at the expense of
the government in the detention camps

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“Bearish” Bean Tales

made repeated attempts to run these
stories to earth, and expose their ly-
ing authorship.

Under date of Nov. 26th, we sent the
following extract from an article that
had appeared in a number of news-
papers, to the Food Administration:

“This policy is adopted for the protec—
tion of the producer as well as for the
consume-1: and it is much to be desired
that morn bean grower using soil adapt—

(Coniinucd on page T)

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Novcnibcr 30, 1917

Editor Michigan Busincss lt‘arming,

 
contcnts carefully notcd.

Mount Clemens, Michigan.
Dear b‘irszour letter of the 26th inst, is received and the

While 1 have only been in charge of this bcan dcpartmcnt for
thc past thrcc days, moving licrc from Michigan, and am not in :1
position to say that this statcincnt came through the li‘ood Admin-
istration. l. pcrsonally i'ccl that such a lcttcr would be impossible,

as it is directly against thc tlicory and policy of the Food Admin-

ist rat ion.

tiur principal lnisincss hcrc is to watch the process of distri—
bution from the growcr to the consumcr, sccingr to it that, thc
grrowcr rcccivcs a fair profit for his stock so as to increase produc—
tion, and also to scc that no unnecessary cxpcnscs are added to thi-

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price in the process of distrilnitiion, to the end that ilic consumer
can buy his necessities at as rcasonahlc a pricc as possible.

it, occurred to me that it would be to thc bcttcr intcrcsts of
this department if we could have a widc—awakc ."Wll't-l' l'armcr who
understands the cost of production and could look into the propor-
sition from thc farmer‘s point of View. with us licrc. While I have
always been in tlic elevator busincss. l have also operated a farm.
. and know that the farmer many times feels that he docs not haVc
9.7 a voice in tlic handling,r of policics that he should have.
In the Food Administration. we are all working l’rce ofcharg'c.
- paving Our own expenses, in an effort, to handle the food of the
country that. we may assist in winning the war. If you or Mr.
Slocum care to rcconnncnd such a man. or onc,of your li‘armm-s'
Associations care to stand the expense of sending him to \Vashing—
ton, we should like very much to hear from you.

. Very truly yours,
UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION,

 
By K. P. Kimball.

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MILK PRODUCER
WIIUICTORY

Commission Concedes Their Right
to Cost Price Plus Reasonable
Proﬁt and Grants Raise
to $3.25 per Hundred

As suggested in last week’s MICHI-
GAN BUSINESS FARMING, the milk
commission looked favorably upon
the request of the milk producers
and in their ﬁnal report made pub—
lic last Friday recommended that the
distributors pay $3.25 per hundred
pounds within the 15c, zone during the
month of December. This price is on
the 3.5 basis, with an additional 4c
per point for every point above this
standard up to and including 4.2 per
cent, milk. The commission based its
decision upon the figures and argu-
ments presented by the otliccrs oi" the
Michigan Milk Producers Association
who showed that the cost of produc-
ing milk during the month of Decem-
ber would be upwards of $3.17 per
hundred pounds. The commission
recommended that the following
prices be charged by the distributors
during the month of December:

Retail quarts, ddclivcrml. it cents.

Retail pints. delivered. 8 cents.

Wholesale quarts. dclivcrcd. liic.

Wholesale pints, delivered, 7c.

Bulk. gallon. delivered, tic.

Retail at. selling stations per quart
llc, with a, 5c charge for bottle. to be
refunded on its return.

Field men of the producers‘ associ-
ation who have been out thru the De-
troit area since thc making of the new
price report that the farmers are ap-
parently satisfied with it. Altho it
does not give to them a clear in per
cent, protit, it more than covers actual
cost. which cannot be said of the price
paid under the old contract for a
single month of its operation. The
ofﬁcers of the Association met with
the distrilnitors in Detroit. Wednes-
day of the present week to draw up the
new contracts. It is understood that
the price of $3.17 for the month of
licccmber will also obtain during Jan-
uary and li‘ebruary, unless markll ad-
\‘ances or decreases in production
costs make it, advisable to raise or
lower the price.

The special milk (‘UlllllllSHOIl has
agreed _to continue to act for a period
of one year and will meet, at, any time
during that period at its own dis-
cretion or upon the petition of pro-
ducers, distributors or consumers, to
review any claims for readjustment:
of ”M price which may be made by
any o. tnose concerned.

Mit'lIlGAN Bi'sixizss FARMING would
like to have its readers’ opinion on
the new milk price. It is sufﬁcient, and
satisfactory? Will it enable you to
produce milk at a proﬁt during the
winter months? Write us your views
of the situation.

   
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RESUME 0F WAR
WORK IN STATE

Food Preparedness Committee Did
Much to Stimulate Production
and Assist Farmers in Se-
curing Seed'and Loans
for 1917 Harvest

Believing that our readers would be
interested in learning what was ac-
complished by the Food- Preparedness
Committee which was appointed last
spring by Governor Sleeper to repre-
sent the government’s food production
campaign in the state, we asked
Merle Dafoe, secretary of the commit-
tee, to furnish our readers with a
brief resume of the results ccomp-
lished. This he has done and tells
about everyone excepting himself who
was afﬁliated swith the work. Mr.
Dafoe is the able young editor of the
Charlotte Republican, and as secre-
tary to the Food Preparedness com-
mittee, did a large part of the routine
work and should share no small part
in the credit for the results secured.
His article follows:

Without a precedent of any kind,
the Food Preparedness Committee is
quite content with the success of its
six and one-half months’ campaign to
stimulate and increase the food pro-
duction in Michigan. While prospects
of good prices of necessity had consid-
erable to do with the million and a
half increased acreage over last year,
nevertheless the state-wide campaign
conducted by the committee was re-
sponsible in no small degree for this
unprecedented response on the part
of Michigan farmers for greater pro-
duction.

The Food Preparedness Committee
had its critics the same as all other
ofﬁcial organizations whose business
is more or less an attempt to instruct
and exhort. The farmer, that is, the
average, is never very keen for out-
side suggestion. If it comes from the
Michigan Agricultural College the in-
struction savors too strongly of the
classroom expert; and if the city man
is courageous enough to volunteer ad-
vice . it is regarded with the element of
susprcron.

This is not intended to be an of-
fensive criticism—far from it, as we
believe there is a considerable defense
for the farmers' position on either
theory.

Govrnor Sleeper Names Committee

The Food Preparedness Committee
grew out of a state-wide meeting call-
ed at Lansing by Governor Sleeper
early in April, to discuss ways and
means for increasing the production
of Michigan agriculture.

Governor Sleeper named the follow-
ing committee: William J. Orr, Sagi-
naw; Hon. Nathan F. Simpson, Hart-
ford; George W. McCormick, Menom-
inee; Nathan P. Hull, Diamondale;
William K. Prudden, Lansing; and
John S. Haggerty, Detroit, with Fred
M. Warner, three times governor, suc-
cessful dairyman and a farmer of
state-wide prominence. as chairman.

The committee was somewhat hand-
icapped by a late start, and hurried
steps were proposed at the initial meet-
ing to secure as far as possible a state-
wide survey of available seed, pro-
posed acreage, etc., through supervis-
ors, the detail of which was supplied
the county agents, twenty-ﬁve tempor-
ary agents being named at this same
meeting to work in counties and dis-
tricts not then covered by the regular
federal service.

At subsequent meetings a dozen or
more temporary agents were named,
practically the entire state being cov-
ered by this service during the period
of the campaign. It may be privileg-
ed to state that twenty of the agents
named by the authority of this com-
mittee have since been retained to
continue the work in their respective
counties.

 
This information collected by the.

supervisors, uncovered surplus seed
stocks and proved to be invaluable

knowledge in many instances. Several
carload shipments of seed, notably po-
tatoes, were transferred from one sec—
tion of the state to another, the county
agents acting as a clearing house for
the banks, commercial clubs or pri-
vate parties interested in the purchase.

Banks Give Splendid Aid

This Committee was largely respon-
sible for the state-wide policy initiat-
ed by the banks to extend credit to the
farmers to cover their seed require-
ments. The county agents did splen-
did service in this connection, arrang-
ing for the credit that resulted in the
planting of thousands of additional
Michigan acres that would have re-
mained idle except through some such
ﬁnancial arrangement. This plan was
adopted by many counties, including
Alpena, Cheboygan, Chippewa, and
others, while in many cities civic or-
ganizations did yeoman service nota-
bly Cadillac, Battle Creek and ‘Kala-
mazoo Chambers of Commerce. This
committee took the lead in this impor-
tant problem and in the promotion of
this work had the personal and efﬁ-
cient help of Banking Commissioner
F. W. Merrick and State Treasurer
Samuel O’Dell, both of whom came to
the assistance of the smaller northern
banks, where this type of loan taxed
their available resources. Without a
single exception the banks of the state
showed a commendable patriotism
and in a way. that counted substantial-
ly in the ﬁnal results.

Factories Supply Farm Labor

When it became apparent the farm
labor shortage would be acute, a can-
vass was taken of all the factory em-
ployees of the state with previous farm
experience. Upwards of ﬁfteen thous-
and names were compiled and the in-
formation supplied the agents of the
county where the factory men had been
previous farm workers. Several thous-
and of the names had to be summarily
withdrawn from the available list be-
cause the factories had in the mean-

(O’onttnued on page 15)

MEANING OF TERM
“PRIMARY MARKET”

 
What does the term “primary mar-
kets” mean. I note you use this a
great deal in your paper.—L. W., Hur-
on county.

“Primary” is not used here in its
sense of being ﬁrst or near. It means
the market of chief importance. There
are twelve primary interior markets,
as follows: Buffalo, Chicago, Duluth,
Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwau-
kee, Minneapolis, Omaha, Peoria, St.
Louis and Toledo.

D. D. AITKEN GIVES VIEWS
ON THE MILK SITUATION

Some of the soundest suggestions
made at the recent session of the milk
commission were given by D. D. Ait-
ken of Flint. Mr. Aitken, as most
everybody knows, is president of the
National Hilstein—Friesian Association
and one of the bset-posted authorities
in the United States on milk produc-
tion and marketing.

“The public isn‘t interested in this
matter,” said Mr. Aitken, “unless you
can prove to them that milk is a nec-
essary article of food. If you can
show the people of Detroit that this
food is essential in human growth and
development, then it is to their inter-
est to see that it is produced and dis-
tributed as economically as possible.

“The public isn’t required to accept
these costs that you will lay before
them unless it can be shown' that
efﬁciency was practiced in the pro
duction and distributing of the prod-
uct. All the milk that is consumed
within the city of Detroit can be pro-
duced within a radius of 50 miles,
but as it is now the creamery compan-
ies gather in milk from many more
miles, adding greatly to the cost of
transportation. -

“It costs 25 per cent more to deliv-
er milk in Detroit than it does in
Flint,” continued Mr. Aitken. “In

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Flint, we encourage monopoly if it
beneﬁts the public, .and it surely will
beneﬁt the public when under control
of supervisory commisSion. The con-
sumers of this city should see to it
that the distributors are compelled to
divide their territory to eliminate the
wasteful duplication of.routes, and to
see that commissions are appointed
to compel economical distribution.”
Mr. Aitken decried the practice of
the destruction of skim milk and its
diverting into dairy products, on the
assumption that it was not ﬁt for hu-
man consumption in its raw state. He
declared that only about ﬁfty per cent
of the food value of the milk is lost
when the cream is separated, and that
the public should be instrdcted as to
the great food value of skim milk.

WHO GETS THE PROFIT?
ASKS ALLEGAN FARMER

 
I see the Jackson editor has learn-
ed something about farming. Yes,
we farmers are getting rich. He
speaks about the prices going down by
the time he gets his bossies fat. I won-
der if he knows what he could get if
they were fat and ready to sell today?
I have some fat ones now and ﬁve
cents a pound is all they will pay me
for them. But if I go into their mar-
ket to buy a pound of steak they will
charge me 24 cents a pound for it.
Who gets the proﬁt?—J. J. 8.. Allegan.

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Middletoanilk producers of this
locality will meet Saturday, December
8th, at the Gleaner hall to listen to R.
C. Reed, secretary of the State Asso-
ciation, talk on the milk situation.
This is an important meeting and
every milk producing reader of MICH-
IGAN BUSINESS FARMER in the Middle-
ton ter’ritory will ﬁnd it to his ad-
vantage to attend the meeting.

Lansing—Food Administrator Pres-
cott has asked Jackson prison ofﬁcials
if the prison canning facilities are
large enough to take care of the wet
beans that must either be canned at
once or go to waste. Since the Food
Administration has removed the ban
from canning operations, it is now
possible to save the moist beans if
there are sufﬁcient factories with large

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enough capacities to handle them
quickly.
' Greenm‘lle—At a recent Grange

meeting Mr. Clair Taylor was appoint-
ed chairman of a committee to circu-
late 'a petition protesting against the
present potato grades, and recommend-
ing a single grade and a screen of not
larger than 1 and one-half inch mesh.
The Grange’s delegates will present
the petitions at the annual meeting of
the State Grange to be held in Jack-
son the week of December 10th.

Flint—Genesee county milk produc-
ers have asked the Flint distributors
for higher prices. The present con-
tracts call for $2.85 a hundred during
the month of December. Milk is re-
tailing in Flint at 12 cents per quart.
As a ﬁnal measure to settle their dif-
ferences with the dealer, the produc-
ers will seek the services of the spec-
ial milk commission which adjusted
the Detroit situation, to give them like
assistance.

Lansing—Dairy and Food Commis-
sioner Fred Woodworth has wired his
disproval of a recent recommendation
made by the Food Administration that
bakers limit the amount of skim milk
used in the making of bread to six
pounds to a barrel of ﬂour. Such ac-
tion is declared by Mr. Woodworth to
be wholly contrary to the food conser-
vation program. He correctly points
out that skim milk retains one-half
of the food properties of the entire
milk, and should be used as a food
whenever possible, and especially in
the manufacture of food products of
which milk is a component part. Mr.
Woodworth’s department has been co-
operating both with the milk produc-
ers and the Food Administration.

COST CITY MILK
‘ DlSTleBUTlON

Figures Presented by Creameries
Show That it Costs More to
Distribute Milk Than it
Does to Produce it

 
The Detroit creamery companies
submitted many interesting ﬁgures to
the special milk commission to show
that they were losing money in the
milk business. Most of the companies
were able to show a cost of between 4
and 5 cents per quart for handling
and delivering the milk after it had
reached the city. They all showed a
proﬁt during the spring months of the
present year but a loss during the fall
months. _

We reproduce below the statement
submitted by a special auditor for the
Arctic Ice Cream Co. We do not pub-
lish this for the purpose of giving any
undue publicity to this company’s bus-
iness affairs, but merely to show our
readers how very carefully the fellows
who are handling their product ﬁgure
their costs in determining the selling
price of their product.

We want every reader to scrutinize
every item included in this statement,
and compare with the detail of his
own cost system. We don’t believe
there are many farmers in the state
who are so particular in charging up
their costs when they ﬁgure out what
they ought to get for their milk or
beans or potatoes or butter and eggs,
in order to make a little proﬁt.

Operating Expenses ,
May Amt. ()ct. Amt.

Milk bottles and caps. .$ 571.42 $ 328.02
Can and bottle washing 440.48 271.25
Checking and weighing 484.49 283.92
Paseurizing .. .. ... 408.86 191.66
Bottling labor ...... 446.67 335.24
Inspectors and foremen 348.38 324.02
Night man, other lbr. 353.41 439.60
Repairs, ,maintenance. 284.17 96.29
Miscellaneous expense. 23.95 511.70
Inventory variation... 636.34 244.36
Station expense ...... 561.79 412.10
Power plant expense. 618.88 554.54

 
Total factory Ex...$5,178.84 $3,992.70
Delivery Expense

Drivers’ labor .. ....$3,992.94 $4,041.63

Horse feed, bedding. 1.089.24 733.55

 
Wagon expense 540.44 363.21
Harness expense . . . .' 57.19 23.04
Automobile expense 227.10 285.08
Barn expense .. 571.75 764.59
Garage expense . 56.85 13.48

Total Dclivery cost$6.535.51 $6,224.58

General Expenses

Managem‘t, traveling.$ 223.00 $ 57002
Ofﬁce Sal. and Ex... 66078 819.62
Miscellaneous general. . 117.20 211.45
Selling expense ...... 358.04 189.88
Depreciation .. .. ... 833.33 833.33
Taxes and insurance. 480.95 540.02
Dad debt reserve. . .. 250.00 250.00
Repairs and maint. . .. 333.33 91.20
Interest .. .. ....... 83.30 250.00
Trade discount .. .... 416.66 185.09

 
$3,756.59 $3,940.61

(Apportioned according to number of

quarts sold, the cost for May would be
.0481 cents and for October .0497.)

An additional statement by this
company shows that it handled
321,760 quarts of milk during the
month of May, on which it made a
proﬁt of $1,319.21. In October it hand-
led 282,664 quarts and lost $536.36.
According to the company’s ﬁgures it
cost them $1.85 during May and $3.05
during October to purchase and trans-
port the milk to its city plant. The
total cost per quart of handling and
selling in May was 8 3-4 cents and in
October 11 and forty-ﬁve hundredths
cents. The average selling price in
May was 80.0916 and in October $ .1126
per quart.

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FRANCE IS NOW IN
DIRE NEED or FOOD

 
Falling production of wheat in
France gives considerable insight in-
to her distressing food needs. Infor-
mation received by the U. S. Food Ad-
ministration shows her production of
wheat to have been 146,3583,330 bush-
els in 1913; 128,216,660 bushels in
1914; 101,050,000 bushels in 1915; 97,-
350,000 bushels in 1916, and only 66,-
500,000 bushels in 1917. '

In all foodstuffs, comprising cereals,
potatoes and beet roots, her p:oduc-
tion has decreased from 35,800,000
pounds in 1913 to but 22,200,000,000
pounds this year.

The fear of famine is as demoral-
izing as an advance of armies, on one
side or another, is a statement of
Maurice Long, minister for General
Revictualling of France, authority for
the above ﬁgures. Speaking in the
Chamber of Deputies September 29 he
stated that France was threatened
with both food shortage and further
increase in living costs. He also fore-
casted the application of the rationing
system for additional articles of con-
sumption.

GRADING POTATOES A
BENEFIT TO SHIPPERS

 
The potato buyers have at last con-
fessed and our good readers need pon-
der no longer as to who are the real
beneﬁciaries of the new potato grades.
We’ve been accusing the buyers right
along of proﬁting thru the new grades
at the xpense of the farmers, and now
they’ve come right out and told the
truth. Grand Rapids dispatch to the
Chicago Packer, under the caption,
“Grading Potatoes Helps Their Sales,"
continues as follows: “At the time
the potato shippers of this state met
with E. Percy Miller of the United
States Food Administration, and or-
ganized the Michigan Potato Shippers’
Association, they adopted the stand—
ard grades recommended by the Unit-
ed States Department of Agriculture
and the United States Food Admin-
istration. The members of the associ-
ation who have been grading the’r
stock according to the suggested grades
report that the same is giving much
satisfaction among the carlot buyers
and that repeat orders are coming in
for similarly graded stock.”

BUREAU URGES A
LOWER TAX ON OLEO

 
In the annual report of the internal
revenue bureau just issued is the rec-
ommendation that the tax of ten cents
on colored oleomargarine be lowered
in order to encourage greater consumn
tion of the product and bring it with-
in the reach of the poor people who
cannot afford to buy either butter or
margarine at present prices. The re-
port showed that 225,158,000 pounds of
uncolored oleomargarine was produced
during the year, yielding a tax of over
a half million dollars. The principal
collections for the year were as fol-
lows:

Distilled spirits, $187,288,000; fer-
mented liquors, $91,094,000; individ-
ual income tax, $180.108,000; corDOF'

ation income tax, $179,539,000; manu-
factured tobacco, $102,230,000; muni-
tion manufacturers’ tax, now discon-
tinued, $27,663,000; miscellaneous spec-
ial taxes, $23,271,000.

TOTAL CEREAL INCREAS- .
ES OF 1917 OVER 1916

It is estimated that the 1917 yield
of corn in this country exceeds the
1916 Yield by over 607 million bushels.
The oat supply represents an increase
Of 329 million bushels; barley 21 mil-
lion; rye, 8 and one—half million. The
inCI‘ease in eereal crops was accom-

 
' business will be turned topsy turvy

panied by a decrease in hog produc-
tion. In 1916 there were 65,654,000
hogs on American farms. At the pres-
ent time there are about 60,000,000, a
decrease of over 5 million, and becom-
ing greater every day of the war. The
Food Administration is using these
ﬁgures to convince the farmers that
increased hog production is not only
an obligation but an opportunity.

NEWAYGO COUNTY
ENJOYS SPECIAL HONOR

When the farmers of Newaygo coun-
ty organized a cow—testing association
back in January, 1916, they probably
did not know that they were estab-
lishing a precedent which was to be
quickly followed by farmers in prac-
tically every state of the union.

Such was the fact, however. The
association organized at that time was
the ﬁrst of its kind in the United
States, and is still in existence, now
representing 30 herds with a total of
304 COWS. The year following three
new associations were organized in
Michigan. In 1908 the movement had
spread to Maine and three associations
were organized in that state and one
in New York the same year. At the
present time there are 459 associations
in 40 different states.

On July 1, 1917, there were 11,720
herds, with a total of 211,966 ('OWS be-
ing tested regularly in these associa-
tions. The total number of milch
cows in the United States at that time
was 23,372,200, of which 0.91 percent
were numbered in these organizations.

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Wisconsin now leads in the number
of associations, 81 being in operation
in that state. Other leading‘states are
Vermont with 47, New York with 43,
Iowa and Ohio with 30 each, Minne-
sota with 26 and Pennsylvania with
24. During the year ended June 30,
1917, 95 new organizations were es-
tablished.

OHIO FARMERS WANT
‘ HIGHER PRICES

 
The farmers of Belmont county, in
southeastern Ohio, are holding pota-
toes for $3 per bushel. Offers deal-
ers have regarded as ﬂattering have
been ﬂatly refused. Wheeling, West
Virginia, the best market for the Ohio
product, has been paying as high as
$1.80 to $2.40 per bushel, according
to grade.

HOW NEW YORK IS SOLV-
ING THE MILK PROBLEM

 
The city of New York is doing the
very thing to reduce the cost of milk
to the consumer and yet give the farm-
er a proﬁtable price, that was suggest-
ed for the city of Detroit. The com-
mittee named by the Food Administra-
tion to investigate the milk situation
in New York have recommended that
the city be divided up into zones, giv-
ing certain companies the exclusive
rights to sell within specified limits,
thereby eliminating the duplication of
routes to which is blamed the excess-
ively high costs of milk distribution.

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Wizard Burbank Grows Super-Variety of Wheat

Luther Burbank, the wizard botan-
ist and expert in plant propogation,
has announced the results of some ex-
periments he has been conducting to
increase the size and productivity of
wheat. He has evolved a new variety
which he describes as follows:

“The small ﬁeld of this new wheat,
which was grown th‘s season,” he says
“has been the wonder of thousands
of people, from almost every state who
have seen it. They have marvelled at
the beauty of the growing grain and
the size and perfect uniformity of the
heads, which are very white, square,
well ﬁlled and average a little over
four inches in length.

“On good, common valley soil this
season it produced 48.99 bushels per
acre, and it has all been raised from

a single kernel, it is perfectly clean and
uniform in every respect, all ripening
at the same time.”

As to the character of the new wheat
Mr. Burbank says:

“It resists rust well, and the straw,
though long, is rigid, and is not sub-
ject to lodging. It may, like all other
California - grown wheats be classed
as a winter wheat, as all wheats are
sown here in the fall to be harvested
the next summer."

In telling how he produced the sup-
er—wheut Mr. Burbank says that it is
the result of ten years of “careful and
expensive work," which have proved
to him that all grain crops may be

greatly improved not only in quan-
tity, but. also in uniformity and
quality.

MILK DISTRIBUTOR ASKED TO EXPLAIN

THAT M AN ONLY

 
“Some day the Detroit consumer w

ill ask for an accounting, and then the marketing
again and be ready for another rcndjustzncnt.”

MAINE FARMERS CLAIM
YIELD OVER-ESTIMATED

 
Maine potato farmers are holding
tight and have been for some weeks.
One reason that Maine farmers have
refused offers to sell at $3.50 to $5 a
barrel is their belief that the govern-
ment has made a serious mistake in
computing the Maine yield and that
these mistakes may haVe been made
all over the country. We can safely
assure our Maine friends that a bad
mistake has been made in the govern-
ment’s ﬁgures in Michigan.

TIN CAN BAN REMOVED;
BEANS MAY BE CANNED

 
Another argument of the elevator
men as to why they cannot pay better
prices for beans has been knocked in-
to a cocked hat by the removal of the
ban. on tin can making. Owing to
the scarcity of tin plate, the Food Ad»
ministration had refused to permit the
further manufacture of tin cans, but
upon being assured that a European
supply would be available, and con-
vinced that the ban would result in
great loss to the bean growers on ac-
count of the large quantities of wet
beans, the Administration has ﬁnally
removed the ban, and canning com-
panies are putting in their usual sup
ply and will proceed at once with their
customary operations. This should
have a stimulating effect upon the
bean market all over the country.

NON-PARTISAN LEAGUE
IN NEW YORK STATE

 
The National Non-Partisan League
has turned its broadsides against the
New York middleman and opened a
campaign to eliminate him altogeth-
er from the scheme of market'ng. At
a recent meeting in New York City A.
C. Townley, president of the League,
broached his plans for bringing the
producer and consumer more closely
together. The plan has the approval
of John Mitchell, chairman of the
State Food Commission and State Mar-
ket Commissioner Dillon. The state
will be asked for an appropriation of
$75,000 to carry out the proposed pro-
gram, one detail of which is to estab-
lish co-operative markets thruout the
state. It was announced that the
League would open a branch in New
York state. and plans for conventions
are already under way.

HOW MILK PRODUCTION
COSTS HAVE MOUNTED

Milo D. Campbell of (‘oldwaier, pres—
ident of the National Milk I’roducers’
Ass'n, knows the milk producing busi—
ness from a to z. and can tell oil-hand
what it costs to feed and care for a
dairy cow in these days of high prices.
The following: interesting comparit on»-
of feed costs for the years l916'and
1917 were ghen by Mr. (‘ainpliell at
the recent meeting oi‘ the special milk

commission.

Costs of feed l916 1917
Corn ................ $ .98 $ 2.30
Oats ................ .6011, .70
Bran ................ 81.00 39.00
Middlings ........... 11.50 44.00
Cracked corn ....... 45.00 84.00
Coarse corn meal 32.00 77.00
Corn and oats ....... 29.00 50.0’)
Timothy hay ........ 16.00 21.50

Cost of meats 1910 1917
Dressed hogs . .$12.50-$l3.00 $22—$23
Pigs ...... $8.00 $17.00

87-588 $10.25-$11.50
Do these ﬁgures explain why the
number of dairy coWs in M‘chigan
have decreased 15% the last ten years,
and the depletion is still going on?

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WASHINGTON,
' D. C.,——0nce again
Congress takes up

the weary work of

    
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. ""4 H tions to meet the
constantly increasing expenses of war.
It has been estimated that the grand
total of conducting the nation’s civil
and military business during the year
of 1918 will be over $13,500,000,000.
-Members have returned from their
two months’ sojourn among their con-
stituents more ﬁrmly determined than
ever to wage the war to a successful
conclusion. Conﬁdence in the ulti-
mate outcome is expressedby the ma-
jority, and there seems no inclination
to oppose the President’s future poli-
cies with respect to the conduct of the
war. '

Aside from the numerous war
measures there will come up at this
session two very importantrmeasures
of national concern. Both will be in
the form of amendments to the con—
stitution providing for national prohi-
bition and the submission of the wom-
an suffrage question to the states for
ratiﬁcation. It is too early yet to es-
timate with any degree of accuracy
what chance these two amendments
have of passing. Powerful inﬂuences
are being brought to bear against the
continuance of the liquor trafﬁc. Men
of national repute are already coming
to Congress to work in behalf of the
amendment and petitions from all over
the country are beginning to come in
urging the immediate prohibition of
the manufacture and sale of all alco-
holic drinks during the period of the
war, in order to conserve food, fuel
and manhood. Many congressmen
are known to be in favor of national
prohibition, and it, is doubtful if the
great majority who in the past have
kept silent on the subject, will be able
to resist. the arguments that will be
prsented to them against the trafﬁc.
Furthermore it is no longer consider-
ed effeminate for a congressman to
express himself in favor of prohibi—
tion, and with the entire country now
very greatly interested in the subject,
it is expected that national prohibition
will be completely cussed and discuss-
ed during the present session.

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The government's plan for enlistng
the ﬁnances of the millions who cannot
afford to buy Liberty bonds, has been
launched and early returns would in-
dicate that the government's estimat-
ed revenue of $2.000,000,000 from this
source is not too high. The plan is
this: Thrift stamps of varying de-
nominations, from 25 cents up. have
been placed on sale at postofﬁces and
other public places. Sixteen of these
thrift stamps may be exchanged at
any time for a $5 war—savings stamp,
by the payment of 12 cents. In other
words the investor pays $412 for a
war-savings stamp which in ﬁve years
will be redeemable at $5, together
with interest at. 4 per cent. It will,
therefore. pay any man, woman or
child who may have a few pennies
tucked away in the corner of the bur-
eau drawer or dime bank to get them
out and invest in thrift stamps. Ask
your postmaster for further details of

the plan.
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Qomething of the magnitude of na-
tional and international Red Cross ac-
tivities is conveyed in a recent report
by the war council of the American
Red Cross. The report shows that the
American people have paid into the
treasury more than 88 million dollars,
about one-half of which has already
been spent, for relief work at home and
abroad. Of this amount $7,059,000
has been advanced to chapters for the
purchase of materials and .will be re-
funded. For work abroad $30,885,816
has been appropriated, $20,601,240 of
the amount going to France, where
suffering has been “beyond descrip-
tion.”

For work outside of France, ex-
clusive of $750,000 recently sent for

 
'ing appropriations have been made:
Belgium, $7,200,000; England, $1,066,-

520; Italy, $214,000; Russia, $1,359,-'

440; Rumania, $1,518,398; Serbia,
$493,203; Armenians and Syrians,
$1,800,000; others, $113,012. " _

The great aims of the war ocuncil
are set forth as follows:

“(1) To be ready to care for our
soldiers and sailors on duty when-
ever and wherever that care may be
needed.

“(2) To shorten the war by
strengthening the morale of the "Al-
lied peoples and their armies, by
alleviating their sufferings in the
period which must elapse until the
American army can become fully ef-
fective abroad.

“(3) To lay foundations for an
enduring peace, by extending a mes-
sage of practical relief and sympathy
to the civilian population among our
Allies, carrying to them an expression
of the ﬁnest side of American Charac-
ter.”

 
I C O

Somebody blundered, The peasants

' and soldiers of Russia, stung by the

wrongs of a thousand years, threw off
the yoke of military despotism and
claimed a democracy to the world that
was ﬁghting for democracy. For weeks
they struggled alone; the defenders
of democracy in other countries offer-
ed no word of encouragement; on
the contrary they called their former
Russian Allies traitors and anarch-
ists and forsook- them in their polit-
ical crisis. But the ever watchful
Kaiser did not: run from them; he
approached them with honeyed words
and pictured to them the blessings
of peace. When a country is forsak-
en. left alone in the darkness of doubt
and despair. even the friendly hand
of the Kaiser is welcome. The inev—
itable result followed. The Bolshevi-
ki government, stronger now than
ever after the recent election, has gone
over to the enemy, and the Allied
cause has lost a potential supporter
because of the short-sightedness and
prejudice of its diplomats.

The Allied governments are still
“protesting” against the Russian sep-
arate peace which now seems inevit-
able; with peace already in their
grasp and the friendship of Germany
assured, the Russians are not likely
to be frightened by the threats of
the Allies. A little diplomacy on the
part of the Allies, a little more friend-
ly spirit and greater recognition of
the new Russian government as rep-
resentative of the people, might yet

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emergency [relief in' Italy, the follow-

    
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must be ’iinddé—

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President - Wilson

with new strength and determination.
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A. C. Townley, president of the
National NON-Partisan League, was
in thecity last week paying his re-
sects to President Wilson and Mr.
Hoover. He told them that the farm-
ers of the Northwest were almost on
the- rocks ﬁnancially because of the
failure of their crops and urged that
measures be taken to give them re-
lief. It is anticipated that a federal
investigation will be made of the sit-
uation and if found as bad as repre-
sented by Mr. Townley, aid will be
forthcoming.

    
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The Dutch government has taken a
ﬂing at the sincerity of the claims of
the United States that it is in this war
to make the world safe for democracy
and to protect the rights of smaller
nations. As a result of the U. S. cm-
bargo on food stuffs to the Nether-
lands, a strain in the friendly relations
between this and the smaller country
now seems imminent.

It will be remembered that the em-
bargo was clamped on food stuffs to
Holland because it was suspected that
her merchants were passing them on
to (‘rermany The embargo has brot
real hardship upon the little country,
and her people are facing actual hun-
gcr. Dutch newspapers are very bit-
ter against the United States and um
less action is taken at once to remedy
affairs, a breaking off of diplomatic
relations will be the logical outcome.

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Canada is considerably wrought up
over the question of conscription which
promises to be the leading issue in
the election soon to be held there. Sir
Wilfrid Laurier and Sir Robert Bor-
den are the candidates for premier and
each is-making his campaign upon this
issue. It seems to be no crime in
Canada to publicly discuss the poli-
cies of the government relative to the
conduct of the war, and Sir Laurier
is very bitter in his denunciation of
the conscription law. Mammoth
crowds attend his meetings and it is
evident that the Canadian people are
pretty much divided over the question.
Recently Sir Robert Borden attempt-
ed to speak in behalf of his candidacy
and conscription, at Kitchener, but a
mob of over 500 people hooted down
his remarks and forced him to cancel
his speech. Much bitterness is looked
for thruout the Dominion during the
balance of the campaign.

 
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National Guard units, representing

every state in the 'Union,-Michigan
units included, have arrived in France
to take up intensive training, prepar~
atory to taking their places in the
trenches. The censors do not permit
the disclosure of the identity of the
units, but have informed the public
that all those who sailed have arriv-
ed safely in Europe. The Americans
were given a great ovation on their
arrival‘in France. They are billeted
in different French villages, many of
which had not hitherto seen any of:
the American troops. The enthusiasm
of these people knew no bounds.
Many of the units are training with-
in sound of the great guns on the
western front. 'A substantial van
guard of American aviators have
arrived near the front. The general

health of all is excellent.
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Building operations are about to be
started at Camp Custer on the new
gymnasium which will be one of the
largest buildings in\ the clamp.
Work started this week on three riﬂe
ranges. The new riﬂe range has been
opened also the revolver range. The
machine guns, which have been in use
by the oﬂicers, have been turned over
to the men and training in their use
is well under way. Selects are to be
used to drive 5000 motor trucks from
a Detroit factory to eastern seaports.
The trucks will be driven overland in
ﬁve days. Things generally are in a
much more settled condition than in
the early days following the opening
of the camp. The health of the men
is exceptionally good. the percentage
.of illness being very low considering
the number of men in camp. With
Thanksgiving over the men are. spec—
ulating on the coming Christmas
festivities. * * ,

The Austro-German drive into It-
aly has seemingly come to a stand
still. The most bitter ﬁghting eon-
tinues all along the new front with
the odds turning in favor of the Ital-
ians and their allied reinforcements.
Some of the most bloody lighting of
the whole war is taking place along
the lines defending Venice. The It-
alians have taken for their slogan the
the words made famous by the French
at Verd 11, “They shall not pass.“
The German forces, under the lash
of their ofﬁcers, have come on in the
usual solid formation. wave after wave
of men slaughtered by Italian machine
guns. The Italian losses have'also
been such as to stagger the imagina-
tion. The Teutonic forces. as re-
ported by allied ﬁyers. are busy dig—
ging in and consolidating their lines.
The allied offensive in France has
had a certain effect. preventing the
still greater concentration of men
and guns along the Italian front.
While there is still a chance of a re—
newed offensive on the part of the

  
. invaders, it is. generally felt that the

crisis has passed.
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The German forces have assumed
the aggressive in the (‘ambrai salient,
intent on recovering the ground re—
cently won by the British. They are
using their old tactics of mass forma—
tion. sending line after line of men
against the Allied lines. They suc—
ceeded in throwing back the British
from some of the advanced positions
but these were again occupied in bril-
liant counter attacks. The German
turning movement in the region of
Gouzencourt caught large numbers of
American engineers Working there on
construction of ﬁeld railways. These
men laid aside their tools and taking
up their riﬂes took part in the de-
fense. The Americans are receiving
great praise for their gallant behav-
ior. The British have evacuated Mes-
nieres in order to strengthen their
line, the occupation of this salient
forming a dangerous point in their
lines and one to be held under ex-
isting conditions only at great: cost
of men and effort. In Palestine the
British lines are being constantly at-
tacked by the Turks. but these at-
tacks have everywhere been ,repulsed
with heavy losses. British forces in
East Africa are making preparations
for their ﬁnal drive at the single re—
maining German forces in that col—
ony. For this purpose troops are be-
ing concentrated to the west of the
Mohesi valley. It is unofﬁcially an-
nounced. but on good authority, that
the number of submarines destroyed
daring the month of November was
close to forty.

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No. 2 Red 2.17 2.15 2.25
N,_ 3 R... 2.14 2.12 2.22
No. 2 White 2.15 2.13 2.23
No.2 Mixed 2.15 2.13 . 2.23

 
While deliveries of wheat from the
growers continue free, there is again
Somewhatmf a shortage in supplies at
mills and terminal points, due to the
par shortage. Minneapolis stocks have
shOWn a small decrease during the
past week. Last year the correspond-
mg week showed a big increase. It
is understood however, that the gov-
ernment has taken measures to rem-
edy the trouble- The movement of
(‘anadian wheat continues heavy, ship-
pers being anxious to have as much
as possible reach the head of the lakes
before the close of navigation. The
time of closing has been extended so
as to make the best possible use of
the lake carriers. The great bulk of
the Canadian wheat is being shipped
to Buffalo and other lake ports for ex-
port to Europe via. Atlantic ports.
During the past week clearances from
Port Arthur and Fort William aver-
aged over 1,000,000 bu; per day.

Drouth conditions continue west of
the Missouri river and reports of
damage continue from the winter
wheat belt. Crops in Western Kan-
sas. Oklahoma and Texas seem to be
going into the winter in rather poor
condition. The wheat belt needs some
good soaking rains.

Reports from Australia say that
mice and the weevil are doing enor-
mous damage to wheat piled on the
docks ready for shipment. The loss
has already run into the millions of
dollars.

 
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No. 3 White .75 1-2 .73 .80
No. 4w11ite .75 1-2 .72 .731-2

 
__While the oat market has worked
on just a little, still it is exceptionally
strong and there is a much greater
demand than there are supplies to
meet it just at this time. Growers
are willing to sell, realizing that the
present price will perhaps not bold,
but the shortage of cars is holding 11p
receipts at terminal points. The con-
tinued demand by the government and
Allies has more than cleaned up the
market. Were there greater shipping
ldt'llltleS there is no doubt but what
the export demand would be much
greater right at this time. Just what
portion of our crop this export demand
Will require is a matter of the future
to decide. We feel that, oats are too
lllgh and that with the present corn
(TOD considered, we may look for low-
er prices as soon as the shipment of
fall commodities decreases and cars
become more plentiful.

We feel that now is a good time to
sell oats. There is a chance of high-
m“prices if present conditions continue
but on the other hand there is ever.V
chance of a decline. Not many weeks
w1ll elapse before corn will be moving
freely. no doubt by the end of this
month. This will have a certain ef-
lect on oats. It should also be borne
in mind that there is a very large
oat crop in this country and in Can-
ada and this crop will eventually
come on this market. Right now the
advance has been caused by a short-
age of railway equipment. not by a
shortage of supplies. Those of our
readers who feel inclined to specu-

late will no doubt hold their oats for'

further developments.- But remember
that, holding oats for higher prices is
a Speculation, pure and simple, with
the odds against the speculator. Up
*0 this time we have felt that there
Was a possibility of feeding the pres-
ent CF01) onto the market in such a
Way as to prevent accumulation. But
now. from the fact that farmers are
rI‘ee sellers and the trouble is coming

are light but demand is very limited.

market ﬁrm but arrivals increasing.
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through lack of cars, we cannot help
coming to the conclusion that a little
later on the marketward movement
will greatly increase and a lower price
result. A greatly increased export de-
mand, together with increased con-
sumption of oats and oat products in
this country might work to prevent
this decline, but we hardly think this
Wlll be the ease.

  
GRADE Detroit Chicuo New York
No. ZYellow 2.121-2 2.15 2.25
No.3 Yellow 2.11 2.131-2 2.24
No. 2 Mixed 2.07 2.10 2.20

 
The price of corn remains at the
same point as last week and the move-
ment has not increased to any extent.
Western roads are to receive an in-
creased number of cars in the near fu-
ture on orders furnished by the War
Board on the plea of the Grain Ex-
changes. One ro‘ad is reported to have
delivered around 250 cars in the cen-
tral part of Illinois in one day. It is
estimated that 10,000 cars will ulti-
mately be received from the east by
western lines. This will soon have a
decided affect on the movement mar-
ketward. .

Husking is now well under way all
over the belt. Corn which was left on
the stalk for a couple of weeks longer
is coming out in better condition. The
cold weather is also having its affect
and this will be especially noticeable
in the case of wet corn which can be
shipped to much better advantage (lur—
ing cold weather, being less liable to
heat in transit.

Receipts still show a large propor-
tion of poor, wet grain. Increased buy-
ing by distillers is helping the mar-
ket on this class of offerings. The de-
mand for oats is comparatively light.
buyers working on a. hand-to-mouth
basis. feeling that the price is too high
and bound to work lower as the crop
begins to move.

The next few weeks will. in all prob-
ability, see a readjustment of the mar-
ket to meet new crop conditions and
increased movement. Just what, at-
fect, on price may be is hard to tell
at this time, but it is the general opiir
ion that values will work lower.

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CHICAGO WIRE—The corn and out markets are showing some additional
strength, corn being helped by strength of oats.
. Buyers playing a waiting game.

DETROIT SPECIAL—Still too many potatoes coming.
stockdn Inst couple of days. Advise shippers to hold 011’ for few days until
market cleans up. All grades of timothy and good timothy mixed hay in strong
demand.. Heavy clover does better on other markets.
coming and at times the market inclined to drag.

PITTSBURGH WIRE—Potato market slow.
supply the trade. Buyers going easy on account of so much frozen stock. Hay

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Bean market quiet. Supplies

ltlueh ﬁeld-frosted

A good supply 01’ poultry

Arrivals more than enough to

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1-. ye remains stationary with just a
moderate demand and a movement
about sufﬁcient to meet it. Detroit is
still quoting $1.80 per bu. for cash No.
2 and Chicago $1.79 for the same
grade. There has been some bear talk
during the past week but so far with-
out much effect. As long as the de-
mand continues even as good as it is
and there is no increased movement.
and we do not think there will be for
some time, we expect to see the price
remain close to its present level. One
of the principal factors in the rye sit-
uation is the continued increase in
the use of rye ﬂour. While many op-

erators do not seem inclined to give
this matter much consideration just
at this time. we feel that it is a fac-
tor to be reckoned with.

 
Marketa No. l ’ Stand-rd ’ No. 2
~ Timothy Tnnothy l Timothy
Detroit 4 50 25 00 23 50 24 00'22 50 23 50
Chicago 27 28 00,25 50 27 50:26 00 27 00
Cincinnlti 29 00 29 2528 50 29 00:28 00 28 50
Pittsburgh 29 50 30 00 27 50 28 75:27 00 28 00

 
NewYork l26 00 Z? 00 24 75 25 50.23 24 00
Richmond 3100 32 no 31 oo 31 50 3100 31 50
Market: 1' No. 1 i No. 1 I No. 1

Light Mixed [Clover Mixed Clover
Detroit :23 50 24 in 00 21 0019 00 20 00
Chicago 120 22 00:19 00 21 00l18 50 20 50
Cincinnati 28 50 28 75(28 00 28 50128 25 28 50
Pittsburgh 28 28 50,29 00 30 00129 00 30 00

New York 21 23 Jin) so 21 00313 20

Richmond ha 00 31 .29 oo 29 50:23 so 29
Lack of supply is still the main
factor on most hay markets. Detroit

has been receiving just. a. little more
hay during the past week but. arrivals
are still far short of the demand. This
market calls for the bcttcr gradcs of
clover mixed and timothy and other
grades are as a general thin}.r being
consigned to other markcts. Detroit.
dealers expect some rcl‘icl' before a
great while as baling is quite well un-
der way in nearby territory and there
is promise of cars to move some of it.
One dealer assured the writer that,
just as soon as the crest of the potato
movement, had passed there would be
more cars available. cars which would

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T HE \IVliA'l‘HliR FOR THE “7 1.9.1th

As forecasted by W. T. Foster

          
15 1917

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WASHTNGTON, D. 0, Dec. 8._—
Last bulletin gave forecasts of dis-
turbanccs to cross continent l)cc, it
to if}. arm wave 8 to 12, cool wave ii
to 15. This will bring the most scverc
series of storms of the month and
from seven to ten days of bad weath—
er is expected. Farmers who still
have corn standing in the field will
suffer loss. These storms Will be of
unusually great force. But the read-
er who gives no study to weathcr mat-
ters is requested not to read these
bulletins and is not invited 1’0'\V1'ltG
us. I do not mean that a blizzard
will visit the equator nor a .hot wave
visit the north pole. An mtelligent

 
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for hilt‘llltéAN Bt‘sixicss lt‘umicn

pcrson can nmkc a sensible applica—
tion as to the cffccts of g‘rcat storms
passing along tlic middle latitudes.
He will know tltc probable difference
bctween Manitoba and New Orleans.
He should know that storms progress
eastward.

Next two warm waves will reach
Vancouver about Dec. 12 and 16 and
tcinperatures will rise on all the P21-
cilic slope. They will cross crest of
llockies by close of Dec. 1. Band 17,
plains sections 14 and 18, meridian 90.
great lakes and Ohio—Tennessee val—
lcys 15 and lil_ eastern sections 16
and 20. reaching vicinity of New—
foundland about Dec. 17 and 21.. Storm
waves will follow about one day be—
hind warm waves and cool waves
about one day behind storm waves.

There will be continuances of the
storms described above. Nature seems
to be preparing better weather for
the Christmas holidays.

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not carry grain but would do very well
for hay. There seems to be good logic
in this argument. We have felt all
along that now was the high spot in
the hay market although prices on
some markets seem inclined to work
a little higher even now. Buyers are
taking only just such supplies as they
must have for immediate use as they
all feel that the market is bound to
work lower.

Arrivals increased somewhat at Chi—
cago during the past week and the
market is down a little on timothy
grades. The demand is active and
market, firm at present values. Re-
ceipts of hay last week were 10.956
tons, against 7185 tons the previous
week. The St. Louis market remains
ﬁrm. Current. receipts are absorbed
as fast as they arrive on selling track.
Receipts of hay there during the past
week were over 1,500 tons less than
those of the preceding week.

The Pittsburg market is easier. Re-
ceipts during the past week have been
heavier than for some time and em
bargocs are restricting the shipping
movement from that market. Arriv-
als must in the main be sold for local
use and this has had a weakening ef-
fect. Receipts of. hay last week were
2544 tons against 1932 tons the pre-
ceding kee. There dis a good (lGllllnd
for straw, arrivals being light. Looks
like higher prices for good rye and
oat straw. wheat straw selling around
50 cents per ton less than the ﬁrst
named grade.

Philadelphia during the week has
continued to take up arrivals about
as fast as they came in and the, situa-
tion is very strong with advancing
tendencies. Any period of severe
weather. delaying arrivals oven in
present, volume. would sure result in a
great shortage and advance rrices.
Straw of all kinds is scarce and the
dcmand exceptionally good.

Receipts of buy on tho ltivlttnond
market are increasing but tho supply
is still short of the demand. ltcccipts
of hay last wcek were 431 tons. The
previous wcek they were only 151 tons.
(‘incinnati reports a firm market and
a continued strong demand for all
grades. They have again instituted
the plugging system of selling there
after having discontinued it for some
time owing to lack of track facilities.

Eastern points report a consider-
able incrcnso in arrivals and at Bos-
ton on additional increase will perhaps
rcsult in lower prices. The trade there
has been fairly well supplied so far
as their immediate needs are concern-
cd and are holding off expecting a de—
t-linc from present levels. lteal choice
hay is scarce. grades of timothy are
more plentiful. New York prices re-
main about as they were last week
but, arrivals are increasing and buy—
ers are holding off for a drop in val-
ues. They feel that the bresent range
is too high and that a readjustment
is bound to come soon.

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Choice rouud ; Medium Round
Market: white-ueked l white-sacked

Detroit 2.15 :wt. 2 05 cwt.
Chicago 1.75 : [.60
Cincinnati 2.20 l 2.10
New York 225 . 2.15
Pittsburgh 1.75 1.61)
Noriolk.Va. 2.25 2.'0

 
Conditions in the potato market con-
tinue very unsatisfactory. The ma-
jority of markets report a free supply
and in most cases a light demand.
Much frozen stock arriving on all
markets has made it a case of full in-
spection before buying. Many points
have a good big carry-over from day
to day, and shipments do not seem to
let up as would be expected under
present conditions. Many growers
either have not the storage facilities
or they do not wish to store. Contin~
ued heavy shipments can only result
in further depressing the market. Ship-
ments from now on should be made in
refrigerator cars or in lined box cars,
heated.

Conditions in Detroit are unchang—
ed from last week. There is a fairly

   
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. good demand but the suppli'has heen'i

altogether too great. The frosted
stock seams to be cleaning up but
there is still enough.“ it to cause
trouble. It will perhaps be well along
toward the ﬁrslt of the new year be-
fore conditions become satisfactory.
Chicago has been having a market.
very similar to that of Detroit. Local
growers are not hauling to any ex-
tent but quite heavy supplies contin-
ue to arrive from north and west.

‘ Thanksgiving brought more of a slump

than usual. Supplies on track remain
about the same from day to day and
the entire situation there lacks life.
What is needed is a breathing spell.
Buyers became nervous on account of
frosted stock, etc., and have bought
only as needed from day to day. Poor
markets at other points have made
reshipments slow.

Eastern points still unsatisfactory
but there are some indications of im-
provement and a little better demand.
There is very little real good stock
being offered at Pittsburgh- The mar-
ket there is draggy, buyers working
on hand-to-mouth basis on account of
so much ﬁeld frost. The bulk of the
New York City receipts right now are
of state stock. Shipments have fallen
off to a great extent from western and
southern points. There is a slight
increase in the demand, and this, to-
gether with fewer receipts, may mean
a better condition of affairs on the
market before a great while. Very no
tle Maine stock is coming to that mar-
ket. Farmers there are not shipping
much and are of the opinion that the
price will be better as soon as the
present surplus cleans up.

 
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GRADE Detroit Chicago New York
C. H. P. 7 95 8.95 9.00
Prime 7 87 8.85 8 80
Red Kidney! 7 50 8.25 8 7S

 
The bean market is working a lit-
tle higher but it is still an uncertain
proposition. Buyers are waiting to see
what the future developments may
bring and what price the government
may determine is right for its pur-
chases. In fact no real market has
yet been established. Everyone seems
to be in the dark as to where the real
basis should be placed. .Elevator men
at different points are paying widely
different prices and are handling the
wet beans very carefully, not knowing
where the market may ﬁnally settle.
Growers in California have recently
held a meeting seeking to establish a
price which will show them a proﬁt
on the year's business. Conditions are
unsettled in Colorado and other grow—
ing sections. It is a very difﬁcult mat-
ter for anyone to ﬁgure out at this
time just what the future may hold.

If western growers become nervous
and let their beans go right now at
the best price they can get, we look
for a decline in the market, but We al-
so feel certain that the Michigan grow-
er who sits tight, will get what his
crop should bring, in the long run.
We do not see how the great major-
ity of Michigan growers can sell this
year at anything under an $8.00 basis.
We believe that sooner or later the
market will settle close around that
ﬁgure, and when it does we advise

'selling gradually. And remember this,

do not, try to haul all your beans in
the day the market reaches this ﬁg-
ure. It will not drop so fast and if it
does it will work back again. Dump-
ing at any time produces a slump, as
we have all seen time and again. This
is the one thing to be feared right now
on account of so much bear talk go-
ing. There are always those who
lack the nerve to sit tight and then
again some of our friends cannot af-
ford to do so. But there are enough
who can afford to sit tight, to hold
the market where it should be. Don’t
lose sight of the fact that we are at
war with hundreds of thousands of
men to be fed. Beans form one of
the principal articles of diet of ﬁght-
ing men. It is a long way to another
harvest. Just at this time of the year
and along in January there is always
a lot of bear talk. But as the days be-
gin to lengthen, along in February,
the market begins to harden. We be-
lieve this year will be no excption.
Dryers are running day and night
in many sections and the Government
has also informed the canners that
wet beans may be canned. They do
not come under the head of “dried
peas and beans.” This decision on

 
them of the authoriues'shooo.,g lot

argued-Sound judgment and a desire
to do all possible for the prodiicer. We.
believe 5 they will also give him at

square deal so far as price is con-
cerned.

 
The apple market continues good
at. Detroit with the bulk of arrivals
belng off grade stock. Offerings there
are limited to small lots in most cas-
es, being sold to retailers for immedi-
ate sale. Buyers for storage are not
active, this being due to the limited
receipts. Good stock sells at a prem-
ium but very few such sales are re-
ported. Looks like a good steady mar-
ket ahead unless something entirely
unforseen should occur. Present quo-
tations are: Spy, $7; Greenings, $6@
$6.25; Snow, $6.50@$7; Baldwin, $5@
$5.50; No. 2, $3%$3.50 per bbl.

The Chicago market is easy, most
of the storage trade having supplied
their immediate needs. Many ship-
ments have arrived in poor condition
owing to length of time on the road.
There is a very large percentage of an-
der-grade stock. This ﬁnds rather
slow going due to the fact that un-
seasonable weather has kept.the ped-
dlars off the streets. Barrel stock is
slow and the same is true of box ap-
ples. Trend of the market this week
about as follows: Baldwins, $4@

$4.50; Greenings, $5@$6; Yorks, $5@
$5.50; Spys, $4.50@$5; Ben Davis, $3
@$3.50; Snow, $5@$6; McIntosh, $5.50
@7; Jonathans, $5.50@$6.50.

 
There is very little life in the pres-
ent onion market and dealers all over
the country are at a loss to understand
the situation. Supplies are not excep-
tionally heavy for this time of yea",
at any point. On the other hand the
demand has fallen off so that what
onions do arrive ﬁnd hard going. From
our observations and from what we
learn from dealers we believe the situ-
ation will greatly improve later on
and we advise onion growers to with-
hold shipments for a time. Early in
the season buyers on all the terminal
markets, fearing a repetition of last
year’s high prices and scarcity, stock-
ed up freely. They now ﬁnd that these
onions are not keeping as well as
might he wished and for this reason
they are moving this supply out of
storage before taking on more.

The Detroit market held up mighty
well all during the fall and up to a
short time ago. Then the demand fell
off greatly, for no apparent reason
other than the one already given. On
the other hand, in view of the market
there being about the best of any, it
became popular with shippers. The
increased arrivals did not help the
situation any as may readily be real-
ized. We believe the Detroit market
will clean up along about the ﬁrst
of the year.

Many cars of frosted stock are re-
ported at Chicago. As the cold
weather draws nearer shippers are
getting stock moved from temporary
store houses, barns, sheds, etc. This
stock is bound to come on the market
at this time, especially at Chicago.
It should clean up and discontinue be-
fore long. While it is moving there
will be no general improvement there.

From 15 to 20 cars arrive daily at
New York. Dealers there are also
trying to move frosted stock from stor-
age. The low temperatures of the
latter part of last Week found stock
piled up with only a. roof over it and
much of it has since been found badly
damaged and scarcely ﬁt for sale.

 
Bums ‘

£93

The butter market has settled into
a good strong position. Extras are
very scarce and supplies generally are
running lighter from day to day. The
price at Detroit continues about the
same as that of last week, creamery
extras having a top of one cent high-
er. Demand thene continues better
than the supply so far as high scoring

 
odoring: . mm at mm.
present-minds. 01! in: surely.” would

 
not be surprised to see anti-titer in-;,

crease in price on e’xtl'asOn other
grades butter substitutes are used
when the price gets. above a certain
point. Creamery extras ‘ are quoted
at 44 1-2@450; ﬁrsts, 42 1-2@430. '

Chicago reports a great shortage of
fresh fancy grades. What does arrive
goes to a particular trade and does
not ﬁnd its way onto the general mar-
ket. Creamery extras are quoted at
45@45 l-2c; ﬁrsts, 44@45c.

Eastern markets are strong for all
good quality, high-scoring stock, but
the medium grades are somewhat slow.
New York reports ﬁne fresh butter
more scarce and higher than at any
time since last April. There is a rap-
id falling off in the quality of ship-
ments from all producing points.
Many creameries are now turning out
ﬁrsts when formerly they made ex-
tras. There is a very strong demand
for all grades of ﬁne table butter and
dealers feel that present prices will
rule for some time. The undergrades
are feeling the effect of oleo competi-
tion and the poorer the grade the less
the demand. The past week has seen
some movement of held butter but only
the top scoring article has found fa—
vor. Under grades meet with too
much opposition from fresh under-
grades and chain stores, and other out-
ters are slow buyers. Extras have

been bringing as high as 480, and some
exceptionally high—scoring offerings
have sold at high as 49c; ﬁrsts, 43%0
to 471/2c.

. “3

 
As the cold weather season advanc-
es receipts of strictly fresh eggs fall
off more and more. There is a good
demand for this class of stock on all
markets despite the high price. At
Detroit the demand is greater than
the supply and present prices will
perhaps be advanced before the time
for winter laying. Strictly fresh re-
ceipts sell from42@46c; storage eggs
and off grades sell from 32@330 per
dozen.

Fresh eggs are very scarce at Chi-
cago and the spread between that class
of stock and storage is now around 17
@18c. There is a trade there as in all
cities which will buy only the best
of strictly fresh stock and dealers are
having trouble ﬁnding sufﬁcient sup-
plies to meet this demand. Refrig-
erators are moving more freely. Lo-
cal consumption has increased and a
good shipping business is reported on
less than car lot sales. Quotations:
Fresh ﬁrsts, 47@480; ordinary ﬁrsts,
42@4Gc; checks, 26c; dirties, 29@30c
per doz.

Eastern markets are experiencing
about the same shortage of fresh stock
and all report good strong markets.
High prices have limited the demand
in Boston, Philadelphia and New York
but still the shortage of good fresh
new laid stock is so great that all
offerings are taken up at once. These
points also report a much better move—
ment out of storage. Many of these
shipments are going to interior points.
Extra ﬁrsts have sold this week in
New York City at 57@580; ordinary
ﬁrsts, 54@56c; seconds, 47@53c.

 
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LIVE WT. Detroit Chicago

New York
Turkey 31 ~32 32-33 30-32
Ducks 25-26 21-24 21-24
Geese 24-25 18~20 2324
Springer: l8—Z4 17-20 ”3-22
Hens ’ 18-24 15-20 19~ZZ

 
7N0_2C:rade7to 3 CentsiLﬁess

Toward the end of last week ship-
ments greatly increased, many of them
coming in too late for the Thanks-
giving trade and ﬁnding rather a
slow market as a result. During the
present week supplies of both live
and dressed have cleaned up and the
market will soon be back where it
was before the rush. The holiday
trade is near at hand and this will
just about see the ﬁnish of the heavy
run of fall sales. From that time on
the supply grows lighter toward
spring. The turkey market at Detroit
is in poor condition. Sales are slow.
Buyers at Thanksgiving time in the
great majority of cases substituted
geese and ducks. Perhaps sort of a
war—time economy.

     
4- chicam~~ reports " . today C. that! both

hens autism-lugs are weaker and the

market of! a cent. Live turkeys haye
been reduced from 3 to 5 cents to
move them. Geese and ducks have
also come in for a slight reduction.
. Accumulation are cleaning up in fair
shape at the decline and it will be
lsdtiinitted that prices are still far: from

a .
. Eastern markets are active and Ship.
pers have little cause for worry. We
realize that readers of M. B. F., as a
general thing do not use far eastern
markets, but at the same time those
markets have a certain bearing on
our markets nearer home and it is
well to keep a line on them. Ship.
ments to New York are usually made
in car lots from this section of the
country, and when eastern markets
are off much of. this stuff is diverted
to nearby markets, thus affecting
small lot shippers.

A good story is going the rounds
of the produce papers at the present
time and it is worth repeating here.
Did you ever hear of turkeys learn—
ing to chew tobacco? We have heard
of pigs getting drunk on the pulp
from cider mills, and putting green
glasses on horses so that they would
eat sawdust for oats, but this has
them all beaten to a standstill. It
appears that the representative of a
certain trade paper, conversing with
a cub reporter, remarked that he had
once purchased a turkey which on be-
ing co'oked, tasted bitter. That he
had investigated and found that it
had been raised in the tobacco grow-
ing district of Virginia and that its
ﬂesh had grown bitter from eating to
baccb leaves. The reporter swallowed
the story, hook and sinker, and the
next day several prominent New York

,dailies came out with an article

warning their readers to be careful
in buying their Thanksgiving turkeys
and see that they were not raised in
’Virginia or North Carolina as stock
from there would be almost sure to
taste of tobacco. The truth of the
matter is that turkeys from those dis
tricts are about the ﬁnest in the land.
The best part of the story is that duru
ing the succeeding days many city
folks, in buying turkeys, speciﬁed that
they must not be from Virginia or
Carolina because “turkeys there chew-
ed tobacco.” The next time some of
our city cousins tell us about the
farmer who hung his boot over the
electric light bulb because he couldn’t
blow it out we'll ask them if they
have furnished their pet turkey with
a cuspidore.

 
GRADE : Detroit [ Chicago 1 Buffalo

Sleeu, good to prime 10 0'1-“ 0 ‘ill 00-12 00% 13 (ll-l3 50
Steers, com. to lair \ s 50. 9 no} 9 50.10 75111 50.12 on
Heifersgoodtowimei 7 00- 8 503 7 -25 9 50 800- 8 50
Cows,uverage I 6 50- 7 03} 6 75- 7 50, 7 50- 8 00
Cannons—Cutler: 3 5 OJ- 5 50, 5 25- 5 5m 4 50- 5 50

 
Bull-.uenge i 650- 7 {0, 1 no- 7253 675. 7 50
Veal, m: to md ‘10 can so 11 00712 no 13 50-14 no

 
Increased receipts of cattle at De-
troit have resulted in a decline in
prices. Canners are steady but other
grades are off 15 to 250 and indications
of a further falling in values are evi-
dent. There has been a free run of
all grades on this market for a num-
ber of weeks now and this, together
with the condition of markets gener—
ally, could not fail to affect the De—
troit market.

Receipts of cattle at Chicago last
week, 95,431 head, were the largest
on record for a holiday week and
stood 17,600 larger than the preced—
ing week and 45.200 larger than the
corresponding week last year. This
big run and holiday inﬂuence result-
ed in severe declines in values, the
market breaking sharply on all class-
es excepting a few loads of top notch
beef steers and calves.

”Week-end prices were the lowest and
stood 50 to 850 lower than the close of
the week previous on most grades of
steers, exceptions being the few choice
to prime long-fed native beeves of
value from $14.00 to $15.00, the latter
ﬁgures topping the best in lots offered
other than a few lots of fed show stock
The run carries an immense prOportion
of warmed and short-fed steers selling
all the way from $9.50 to $12.00, ac—
cording to weight and condition. Such
kinds, that sold to best advantage thI
preceding week, suffered the most loss.
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are now practically all in for the .

$225011, which mea'nslless competition

for natives, and the broad demand for
army beef is expected to hold prices
up W611. .

More butcher and canning cows and
heifers took a dollar decline last week
than a. lesser break. Supply was
away the largest on record and sus-
pension of killing 1n Packingtown ov-
er the Thanksgiving holiday was a. de-
cided factor. Fair to good butcher
cows sold late in the week largely at
$6.75 to $7.50; very few passmg $800,
while heifers ‘above $8.50 were scare.
er. Canner cows closed largely on a
$5.25 basis and cutters from $5.60 to
$6.00. Bulls lost about as much as
the stock with $7.25 the lumt at the
close on choice heavy bolognas and
only choice fat bulls passing. $8.00.
Veal calves closed higher With a
$13.75 top at the close.

Monday, with 29,000 cattle on sale.
the best good to choice heavy and best

yearling steers held steady,_but others.

were mostly 10 to 15c down, putting
bulk of the common and med1um
steers 60c to $1.00 lower than ten
«lays 3-80.

Buffalo. on Monday of this week, re-
ceived 235 cars of cattle, including 20
cars of Canadians. Trade opened
steady to 100 higher on medium weight
and weighty steer cattle which were
?n very light supply; butcher steers
and handy weight steers sold steady;
fat cows and heifers sold steady; bulls
of all classes sold 10 to 15c higher;
canners and cutters were in moder-
ate supply and sold 15 to 250 higher
than last week. Practically all cattle
were cleaned up at the close. The re-
ceipts on Tuesday were 22 cars; all
grades sold 15 to 25c lower.

 
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The hog market in Detroit is in
rather a bad way just at present and
shippers will do well to withhold ship-
ments until present accumulations
clean up. There has been a heavy run
of hogs to this market and with much
of the stock on the pig order and as
such not in good demand, a large
number have remained unsold from
day to day. The market is also af-
fected by the decline on other mar—
kets, principally ,at Chicago. Detroit
packers are within easy reach of that
market and it always exerts a strong
inﬂuence.

A severe break occurred in the Chi-
cago hog market last week. The de-
cline of the week was 75c to $1.00 per
cwt., with pigs: $1.25 to $1.50 off. This
decline was to be expected as the Chi-
cago market has been somewhat. out,
of l‘ne with eastern markets. Short—
age of labor in Packingtown, soft
Weather, liberal receipts for a holi-
day Week and a prospective liberal run
this week were inﬂuences of depres-
sion. The top of the week was $17.95.
but at the close. $17.35 was the limit
and the general average price, pigs not,
included. stood at, $16.95, against an
#1800 top and 9117.78 average on the
lll‘eceding Saturday Medium to cho'ce
Digs closed the week at $14.00 to $15.
The week": local receipts of hogs tot—
aled 189.000, the largest since Febru-
m‘l’. The week’s average weight of
hogs at 211,000 lbs. was 2 lbs. heavier
than the previous week. 18 lbs. heavier
than a. Year ago and 25 lbs heavier
than the unusually light average for
the corresponding week two years ago.

Monday’s hog receipts were estimat-
“11 at 47,000. The market opened
Sready to lower but closed 5 to 100
Elbow; Saturday’s average. Top was
$17.3 . Bulk of the good hogs sold at
$17.00 to $17.25, mixed packing at
$10.75 to $17.00 and lights at $16.50
‘0 $16.85. Pigs sold unevenly higher,
largely at $15.25 to $16.25 to feeder
I)llyers.

The Buffalo market. with 11,200 011
SF118 Monday, opened steady to strong
With Yorkers selling around $17.25
and heavy hogs from $17.50 to $17.65.
TUesday the receipts totaled 8320 and
the market strong to'5s higher.

 
Detroit I Chicago Buffalo
16.00-18.15 J 16.65-16.90 17.00-17.50
1100.15.00 14.25-15.50 14.00—14.50
9.so.le.oo| 10.09-11.50 11.50—12.00
9.25. 9.75 1 10.00.11.110 105011.00

 
Contrasting strongly with the cat-
tle and hog market, the sheep and
lamb division continues to show
strength with very little decline at
any point. The Detroit market is
healthy and the demand continues to
be good. Arrivals clean up from day
to day and trading is brisk at prevail-
ing prices.

Receipts for sheep and lambs at
Chicago last week totalled nearly 71,-
000 or within 9,000 of the run of the
week previous. Demand there was
restricted by holiday inﬂuences, and
lambs forming. about 85% of the run
broke early in the week. The market,
closed with some of thewloss regained,
Being scarce. mature muttons were.
immune to the decline and ﬁnished
on a steady to strong basis with the
close of the week urc'Iions. Bulk of
the desirable weights sold at $16.65
to $1690 but, discrimination against
his weights was severe and 95 to 110
lb. lambs sold up to $17.50. During
the present week the demand for
choice lambs for the Christmas trade
has been fe‘t and the same will be
the case next week. With moderate
receipts it will nrove a strong factor
in the trade. High pelt values are a
sustaining influence in the trade as
lambs and mutton are actually cheap,
relative to other meats, at wholesale.
although retail prices look exhorbi-
tant. There is no logical reason for
lamb and mutton consumption being
restricted as it. does not, ﬁgure. in the
army ration and what industry needs
at this juncture is the support of a
broad market.

Monday with 22.000 sheep and
lambs on sale the Chicago market
was strong. Packers paid $16 90 free-
ly for choice handy weight lambs.

Buffalo. on Monday, received 6,400
head of sheep and lambs. The mar‘
ket opened steady with Saturday’s
close. Tuesday, with 2,000 head, the
market opened with best lambs sell—
ing from $17.50 to $17.65; throwouts.
$16.25 to $16.50; yearlings, $14.00 to
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proﬁts.

producing of ﬁnished farm products,

the hay.

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ARE YOU GOING TO SELL YOUR PRODUCE AT A LOCAL PRICE—OB
GET THE SELLING PRICE AT A CONSUMING MARKET?
The Detroit produce market handles a large volume of business daily. The

demand for POULTRY, BUTTER, EGGS, VEAL CALVES DRESSED. I‘IOGS.
APPLES, POTATOES, ONIONS AND BEANS is increasing as the city Increas—

AS A PRODUCER you should reap the beneﬁts of this live market by ship—
ping direct and have the same sold to buyers who are willing to pay‘ the Di'lce
when they know it comes DIRECT FROM THE FARM to them. No delays on
account of passing through unnecessary middlemen who take a slice of your

Our facilities for handling all lines of produce, poultry, and dressed meat
are the best. With a force of competent salesmen who are working for your
interest. you will have nothing to lose but everything to gain.

NOT ONLY THAT—WE CAN SUPPLY YOU AT WHOLESALE PRICES
Cottonseed Meal, Purina Dairy Feed Mill Feed. Fertilizer, Binder Twme, Fence
Posts. Auto Tires, and other commodities used on the farm in the growing and

Don’t miss that good Hay business we are now getting—remember we will
have to pass up some of these good «rulers now coming in, if you do not supply

Let us knmv what you have to 51-11 or wish to buy.

CLEARING HOUSE ASSOCIATION

N. F. SIMPSON, Gen'wal Manager
4 323-327 Russell St.

 
DETROIT

 
less and other similar institutions,
where they could be made to work as
other criminals do.

ﬁ‘llecent experience has convinced
me that the congress must go farther
in authorizing the government to set

«limits to prices. The law of supply

and demand, I am sorry to say. has
been replaced by the law of unre-
strained selﬁshness. While We have.
eliminated proﬁteering in several
branches of industry, it still runs im-
pudently rampant in others. The
farmers. for example. complain with a
great. deal of justice that. while the
regulation of food prices restricts their
incomes, no restraints are placed up-
on the prices of most of the things
they must, themselves purchase; Fl'ld
similar inequities obtain on all sides.

“One very embarrassing obstacle
that stands in our way is that we arc.
at war with Germany, but, not with
her allies. I therefore, very earnestly
recommend that the congress immedi—
ately declare the United States in a
state of war with Austria-Hungary.
Does it seem strange to you that, this
should be the conclusion of the argu-
ment. 1 have just addressed to you?
It is not. It is, in fact, the, inevitable
logic of what I have said. Austria-
Hungary is for the time being not
her own mistress, but simply the vas-
sal of the German government. We
must face the facts as they are and
act upon them without sentiment in
this stern business.”

That there should be no misundel"
standing as to the policy of the gov-

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ernment as to the future conduct, the
President closed his message with
these ringing Words:

“Let there be no misunderstanding.
Our present, and'immediate task is to
win the war, and nothing shall turn
us aside from it until it is accomplish—
ed. Every power and resource we pos-
sess, whether of men, of money. or of
materials, is being devoted to that
purpose until it is achieved.

“1 have spoken plainly because this
seems to me the time when it is most
necessary to speak plainly, in order
that, all the world may know that even
in the heat and ardor of the struggle
and when our whole thought, is of car-
rying the war through to its end, we
have not forgottenaany ideal or prin-
ciple for which thewname America has
been held in honor among the nations
and for which it has been our glory
to contend in the great generations
that. went before us.

“A supremo moment of history has
come. The eyes of the people have
been opened and they see. The hand
of God is laid upon the nations. He
will show them favor, I devoutly be-
lieve. only if they rise to the clear
heights of His own justice and mer-
('y."

ADMINISTRATION DENIES
“BEARISH” BEAN TALES

 
(Continued from page. 1.)

ed for bean growing and exercising due
care and diligence should receive a. fair
proﬁt over the cost of production. Of
course, no agency of the governmcnt
could undertake to protcct individual or
districts which have been unfortunutc in
weather and crop conditions of the, gun—
cral supply operates in such a way as to
market values disappointing for particu—
lar sections. While. the, crops in Now
York State. and Michigan 111‘“ disappoin—
iug, the enormous increase in Colorado.
New Mexico and t‘ulit'ornizi for more
than offset lhcs'c shortages and must ncc—
cszrzlrlly afford the gvncrul market values.
In rm-cnl yours I:11""c impm'tutions of
Manchurian bonus of good quality have,
hccn brought into this~ country. and the
roports now arc that tho Manchurian
crop 1:4 vastly incrmtswl ll\'rl' any provi—
011” your. Hy rcu‘um of the \‘IlUl'lZlﬁU‘ of
tmmg‘l‘ and the‘ dangers in the. sul‘miav‘nm
21-12“ the Manchurian lwznm :ll‘l' \w-ry
naturally sci-king :1 murkct in thi: coun-
try l’lhcy would hardly IIIUVP in anv oth—
er direction." ‘

We concluded our letter as follows:
“Never in all our experience, have we
seen such concerted efforts on the part.
of someone to confuse the farmers as
to the bean market. We cannot be—
lieve. that oneihulf of the publicity
mutter going the rounds of the coun-
try press of this state comes from
your department and wish to have a.
veriﬁcation of the above report."

The letter reproduced on the ﬁrst.
page 0t~ this issue we consider the
best proof obtainable that none of the
stories about the Manchurian crop of.
beans came from the Food Adminis-
tration. Our investigation along this
line has not yet ended. “ We purpose
to locate the proﬁteering sneaks who
are out. to gouge both the farmer and
the government, and show them up.

It Will Help Farmers
l’ll become one of your allies and
will send $1.00 on receipt of the ﬁrst
issue. Wishing you success. Thos. J.
Clink, Tuscola county.

     
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Setting the Price of Milk

HE VERDICT of the special milk commis-

sion constitutes a complete vindication of the

producers’ claims and is by far the most
substantial victory ever scored by them in their
long struggle for equitable prices. In one sense
the result is far-reaching; in another only tran-
sient. This public acknowledgement of the farm-
er’s right to a price that represents the cost of
production plus a reasonable proﬁt will be the
prime factor in settling all future disputes over
the farmer’s marketing prerogatives, but to our
mind does not by any means afford a. permanent
settlement of his grievances.

The differences between the producer and tho
distributor havc been merely patched 11p. Patch-
es are always unsatisfactory appurtenances wheth—
or on the seat of a boy’s pants or in joining to-
gether the dismembered ends of an economic rip——
they’re always coming loose revealing the bare—
ness beneath. As long as the cost of production
and distribution stays where it is and the con-
sumer continues to live in blissful ignorance of
tiresome milk facts and figures. all will be lovc—
ly. 011cc, however, either the producer or the
distributor kicks over the traces and the consum—
er some ﬁne morning wakes up to the fact that ho
is paying for tho inefﬁciencies of tho iiiost waste-
ful and costly marketing system on the taco of
the carth the patches will split asunder.
Farmcr will bc right, back whence he started.
And thou he will proceed to do it all ovor again.

The Michigan Milk Producers‘ Ass’n should not

be disarmcd by tho, lamb-like submission of the
Detroit milk dealers to the wishes of the milk
commission. The companics have tasted fat div—

idends before and they were good. Vthn the war
has passed and it becomes less of a crime to prof—
iteer, the companies will smack their lips for
more of the old-fashioned sugancoatcd dividends.
We may well bcliovc that cvcn now thcy are fond—
ly hop"ng thc dcm old public and the milk pro-
duccrs will go peacefully to slccp in cach othcr‘s
arms. with the milk c' standii g guard.
Be that as it may, it wcrc wcll for
to kccp both eyes open.
be too greatly flattered by tho congenial chumming
liavc rcfused to accord

"nmission
tho produccrs
and not lct thcir ('(mcoii
of those who in the past
tbcm cvcn common courtesics.

The present arrangement between
distributors

has been satisfied;
but the rights of the most
portant Mir—the consumcr. have
been practically disregarded. Thc l'armcr gets an
additional cent and three-quarters per quart.
the distributor gcts an additional two cents,
the pays the bill or
milk.

But. some day Mr. (‘onsumcr will tumble to
the fact that, the d’sfributing companies arc charg-
ing just a triflc more for the service of delivery
than they are paying for the milk itself. and will
ask for an accounting. Then the whole marketing
will be turned topsy turvy again and
be ready for another adjustment. For be it re-
membered that, as long as there stands between
the producer and consumer of farm products a
single individual who is accountable to no one
but himself for the conduct of his business there’s
bound to be trouble.

the produc-
can be only temporary.
the distributor

crs and tho
Tho producer
szitistlcd,

individual of

has boon i111»

and
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message to Congress
the World '

HOSE WHO have been expecting that the

dove of peace would ﬁnd a. place to, light,

somewhere in this battle-torn world, will be
obliged to bid good-bye to their hopes, and boldly
wade in and help win the war; for there will be
no peace—“there can be no peace without vic-
tory—until the German powers of evil are
crushed." President Wilson did not mince mat-
ters in the least; he carefully reviewed the 0b-
jectives to be obtained; made no excuses for the
part the Government has so far played in the
world-wide struggle, and with conﬁdence in the
ability and courage of the army and navy, and the
loyalty of the American people, he promised that
every power and resource we possess, whether of

 
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Here’s a Valuable Suggestion from

a Midland Subscriber:

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Midland, Mich., Nov. 20, 1917

Mr. Forrest Lord,
MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING.
Mt. Clemens, Mich.

Dear Sin—«I take MICHIGAN Busmnss
FARMING and read every line of it as I
think it good sound sensible reading and in
my estimation the farmer that doesn’t take
and read it. is losing money. He can rely
on every word. That is why it should be
in every farmer’s home in Michigan. Reli-
able market prices, just what every business
farmer in Michigan wants. Those who do
not read it are in my judgment losing the
best and most valuable paper of its kind
ever published.

1 would suggest that you name a date for
a 50,000 Circulation Drive. I know it, can
be accomplished with the help of every
reader of MrcchN BUSINESS FARMING. Let }'
every one of us work hard and try and
place the l\I1c111o.\.\' B1's1xnss FARMING in ,E
every farm home in Michigan. 1
With success to the M1c111oAx B1's1N1-3ss :f
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Yours truly,
:2 D. W. STOKES.
:' Midland, Mich, R. 8.

 
Friend Stokes" idea is not exactly a new :
one. Other farm papers have tried it with
varying success. Recently the Souihcrn
Ruralisf had a Booster Day, and raised its
subscription list to over 300.000. There is .
no subscription plan which puts the loyalty l
of a publication’s readers to puite so, se-

vere a test as this. With the united help of

iilli.

'. fill: .

E our subscribers a Booster Day could put
5 Mu'numx Bl‘sixztss FARMINo Into over one-
t‘ourth the farm homes of l\'lichigan, and

lilillk what that would mean to you and to
11s, and to the new homcs it would enter.
One new subscription from each of you .
would take us “over the top", two would --=_-
give us all certain victory over those who
-- block our path to the n‘arketing place ex~ s
:7: acting excessive tolls for trivial scrviccs and
. speculating upon the products that we grow.
—’ ltcmcmbcr, in union and numbers there is
strength.
7 What, do you think of it. folks? Can we
top that 50,000 mark? Are you all willing
to lend us a hand and Boost for one, or may- _
be two new subscribers? VVe’re not going
to name a Booster Day unless you promise '
that you‘ll help. “’9. Wish every one of you
who would like to have us try the plan and
who will help make it a success, would write
and tell us so._ and suggest the bcst day of
the month on which to make the drive.
Faitht‘ully yours.
THIC ICDlTORS.

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men, of money or materials. would be devoted to
the purpose until it is achieved.

The President warned the allies that there
must be no land-grabbing conquest as the fruits
of victory, and said that America must deliver the
pcoplo of the smaller nations of Europe from the
impudent and alien domination of the Prussian
military and commcrcial autocracy. He told en—
emy aliens in this country that unless thcy behaved
themselves they would be conﬁned in prisons,
where they could earn their keep, instead of in
detention camps, and delivered a knock—out blow
to the fellows who have been using the war as a
pretext for boosting prices and pocketing extra
proﬁts.

He urged the full use of the nation’s resources
to meet war conditions, acknowledged that waste-

     
ful methods could no be wholly eliminated
_. asked Congress; to get: busy and keep busy, to the

 
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2 end that delays could be avoided and the army
and navy given the materials necessary to wage
a successful warfare. The suggestion that the
United States at once declare war upon Austria-
Hungary met a prompt and hearty response, and »
Senator Martin, majority leader, .at once announc~
ed that the resolution would be presented and
undoubtedly passed on Friday.

The President’s message has met universal ap
proval; the Senate, House and the pe0ple stand
squarely behind him, and it will be necessary for
us to take another hitch in our suspenders and
get into the game and see it through. Our Presi-
dent was laughed at when he said that there was
such a thing as “being too proud to ﬁght,” but now
that he has enlisted in a just cause, the fellows
who “came to scoff are liable to remain to pray,”
for the-rules haVe been suspended; the ﬁght is on,
and you can go just as far as you like with your
knock-out blows.

The Message—Business and the-Markets

HE PRESIDENT’S fearless message will

settle many questions which have seriously

interfered with business during the past
ninety days, and the business of the United States
will be immediately placed upon war-time foot-
ing. No longer will there be any uncertainty
about what Uncle Sam intends to do. and as the
war is to be waged to a victorious conclusion, we
shall bear no more of peace talk for a time.

Manufacturers will and must get busy. The
millions to be spent here for war materials will
cause every wheel and spindle to hum, and the
greatest need will be man powor to maintain all
industries. The ﬁnancial situation has been kept
on even keel, through the reserve banks, and it
matters little how long the war lasts, a ﬁnancial
panic is not Within the raqu of possibilities.

The farmers of the Nation can now lay their
plans for another year with certainty. Food
stuffs are more essential than gun powder and
bullets. for the army must be fed, and the mes-
sage will have the immediate effect of stabilizing
the market. Manipulators will ﬂourish so long as
the government gives them license, but before
many months the Food Administration will ﬁnd it
necessary to absolutely control the price on all of
the necessities of life. Farmers should welcome
the action, for the market conditions during the
past. month have proven that it is still possible
for the gamblers to carry on their schemes, and
as the president has. well said: “Replaced the
law of supply and demand with unrestricted self-
ishness.”

With a certain demand for
with a limited supply and growing need.
flit: farmer must watch the manipulators until
such time as the Government takes a hand in the
(list1‘il~'1tioii of farm products. To hoard food
stuffs for unwarranted profits is a crime; to turn
food stuffs over to the manipulators, that they
may profit through war-time needs, is extremely
foolish. A word to the wise should be sufﬁcient.

at least a year to
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Editor Slocum Goes to Washington

DITOR GRANT SLOCUM will leave the
E ﬁrst of the coming week for Washington.
where he will plead the farmers’ case in a
number of important matters soon to come 11p
before the various administrative departments.
He will take with him hundreds of letters and pe-
titions protesting against the present potato
grading methods, and will exert every effort within
his power to secure a revision 01' the grades. It
has just been learned that not all the states are
observing these rules. If this Is a fact, then the
farmers of Michigan are being discriminated
and greatly increases the likelihood of
our getting action from the Food Administration.
Let every reader put his shoulder to the wheel
now and boost. Flood our ofﬁce with your pro-
tests; let us send Mr. Slocum such a stack of let,—
ters from the farmers of Michigan as will com-
pel the Food Administration to investigate and
right this wrong that has been perpetrated against
them.

Write us for petition blanks to circulate among
your neighbors; send us letters; NOW~by re-
turn mail. We must strike while the iron is hot,
——but we need YOUR help.

While in Washington Mr. Slocum will appear
before the bean committee and show them why
the farmers of Michigan musthave $8 a bushel
for their beans in order to make a profit. If you
have any bean facts that you think he ought to
take with him, send ’em along by the next mail.

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Lots of Money (?) in Beans This Year

Here is my experience in bean growing this
year. Planted 13 acres, $81 for seed; cleaned 11p
beans 33 bu. 52 lbs. Had them tested 3 times,
pick 23 lbs. per bu.; present price is $7. Value of
beans H. P., $148.85, minus seed $81 leaving
$67.85 for a S" 1mer’s work on 13 acres. On
request I can give you names of farmers who will
not get their seed back.——S. R. I).

 
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. ll’cxford county.

Thinks Government Should Consult Farmers

In my opinion the present g1ading of potatoes
is an injustice to the farmer. At our home mai-
ket on the 24th they paid 60c a bu. for potatoes
run over a 1% inch screen. and 30c for the under
size. The government asked the farmers to do
their might and we did. I say, why don’t the Food
Administration consult those who produce instead
of those who speculate on the farmers’ mops—
A. 3., Mason county.

Suggests Taking Clerks and Exempting the
Farmers

There are three or four clerks in eve1y grocery
store; half as many would do There are about
ﬁfteen men on the streets of our little town try-
ing to make a living by catching the farmer. but-:-
ing poultry and cattle or whatever they can get.
If Uncle Sam would draft them or put them in
the ﬁelds to work they would be more useful than
they are 011 the street. All we farmers have to
do is to hold our heads and they will soon have
to ”root hog, or die.”——I«‘. J. E., Ogcmaw county.

Sixty Per Cent of Crop No.

In regard to potato grading I would say it is
rotten. We grew about 600 bu. this, year. Sold
250 bu. for $1.00 at digging time.have the balance
in the cellar. If I don’t, get $1.00 for them will
eat and plant. the big ones and feed the smaller
ones to stock. Easily 60 per cent would be No. 2
and I have neighbors who are worse than we are.
Money in that p001 crop: $2? 10 f01 seed. 65c for
Paris green $250 to $300 £01 labor. At this writing
our 111a1ket oﬁ'ers $195 per hundredweight for
N0. 1. Now say, s11 t that rotten? llcre's hops
ing the future will be betternA-S. R. 1)., 'chw/‘ord
county. '

A Very Small Potato
Acreage Next Year

Potatoes are a poor crop in
this part of Montcalm coun—
ty, Belyedere township. The
farmers all around here. are
not satisﬁed with running
their potatoes over the screen.
The farmers could not draw
their potatoes to market
when it was cold for fear
they would freeze while they
were waiting to unload. I
think if there isn't something
done about it this year there
will llc (I may small (I(’)‘('(l_(l(’
plontcll marl Hair. 1 think
your paper is a very good
paper; hope you will contin-
ue to publish it. Beans are a
very poor crop in this part of
the county; they are yielding
from two to ﬁfteen bu. per
acre, but very few yielding
the latter ﬁgure; the most of
them are wet on account of
bad weather.lh’. B., Mont-
calm county.

Farmers Satisﬁed With
Old Sort; Not New

The bean crop in this sec-
tion was very poor and the
potato crop was only fair. But
notwi‘listamling the high pric-
es paid by farmers for seed
potatoes, paris green and
labor, they began marketing
their potatoes freely in Seps
tember. satisﬁed with the fair
price of from $1.00 to $1.25
Der bu. for them. The sort
was fair and reasonable, too;
all were satisﬁed. But since
the price dropped and the
new method of grading and
sorting began farmers are
“sitting down” and not sell-
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the farms down and raising less expensive crops
for speculatOrs to gamble on. The time has come
when the farmer can demand a square deal.—'—-F.
L. P., Isabella county.

Farmer Ought to Have Chance

Enclosed ﬁnd $1.00 for subscription for your
paper. I like the paper very much. I like to read
the crop reports. I think thegovernment ought
to give the farmer a chance once in a lifetime, any-
way. $10 for beans would not be any too much
for Antrim county. Threshing is under way now
and a lot of farmers ﬁnd their beans in bad con-
dition. I have two neighbors here who both plant-
ed 15 acres, and am sure that they will not get
over 80 bu. of beans, and their seed cost them $10
a bu. The majority of farmers would not make a
big stake at $10. Potatoes are in bad shape, the
most, of them were dug after the frost, and they
average agout 100 bu. to the acre, but about ,a
third of them are frozen so that a farmer ought to
have about $1.50 per bu. for them to make a proﬁt.
Buyers are not buying at all now, or it they do
75c per bu. is all they will pay for the No. 1 grade.
——Iv]. V., Antrim county.

Believes in Present Potato Grades

With reference to the new potato grading sys-
tem. Well, I had the experience of selling about
half of my crop and to ﬁnd a great number of my
tubers coming out as number two. These seconds
however are the better potatoes of the two brades
and I am of the opinion will sell for as much as
grade one as the hotels and many housewives pre-
fer them to the larger ones. But for the present
year and crop we farmers are losing money. I
am an advocate of selling by grade. We will all
come to that sooner or later. The thing will stim-
ulate production for we farmers will get busy
with better seed, better seed bed, better spraying.
more and better cultivation—in short will try and
not have so many small potatoes—l). .11. Italics-on,

Potato Screen Main Discussion of Farmers
at Meetings

Something must be done or potato acreage will
drop one-half in this Vicinity. The potato screen
is the main discussion in public and p"1’yate meet-
ings. I happened to meet 011 the 20th in Grand
Rapids. a representative of one of the largest po-
tato buyers in this section. selling his so-called
‘government sorts‘ at 80c per bu. lie was telling
the proprietor of the market there was more food

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grade.

Now within less than 15 miles of Grand Rapids- ,
1 they are offering $1. 25 a hundred for No. 1’ s and "

and 50c and less per bu. for No.2 8.

This man was selling these potatoes saying that

it was the ‘government screen’, which brought on
a very warm argument between him and me.
I have been quite an extensive potato raiser for
a good many years but so far as I am concerned
I will raise no potatoes for 1% inch screen.
Farmers generally in thisvvicinity are of the
same opinion—11]. B. W., Montcalm county.

Potato Grading Working Havoc in Wexford
County

The present grading of.potatoes is going to work
havoc in this neck of the woods. I had 2 1-8 acres
that produced about 80 bu., but with the grading
about three-quarters would go into the small and
seconds. I had 4 acres that went about 90 bu. to
the acre, and they were fair sized stock. Now
if the Government (or the Potato l‘ealers’ Ass‘n)
wants to do something to cripple the potato in-
dustry here, I think they have got a good start.
I think grading beans would be a good thing, as
then we would get something for part of our poor
beans, as it is now we get nothing unless we hand-
pick our own beans. I can‘t see how, under the
weather conditions for the last summer the farm-
er can sell his beans for less than $8 and live.
I raised 0 acres this year out of a planting of 11
acres. dragged up 5 acres and sowed to millet,
and it did not, get, large enough to cut. Have not
threshed my beans yet. but I don’t expect more
than 25 or 30 bu. With beans at $5 or $0 per
bu. it would leave a very small proﬁt, it anyr~
M. H. T. ll'crford county.

Potato Situation Worse than Bean Deal

Guess the farmers around here appreciate what
you have done to save the bean market. but the
potato situation is so much worse on us here on
account of the frost. that if tlic buyers keep on
using the large screcii \yc will lose :70 per cent,
of our crop. lt sccms to mo this is 11 bad time
to try out .liis grading scheme. l.o1s of farmers
here increased tlicir acreage and borro1.yerl money
to do it. but the curly fiost hit hard hero and
the potatoes run small. some loads that
from here sorted away one-hall".

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PROPER "DEPTH TO
LAY TILE DRAINS

 
What is the most serviceable depth
for tiling? The land has natural
runs which are from 18 to 24 inches
IOWer than the rest of the ﬁelds, and
fall of 3—8 inch to the foot—L. H. M.,
Charlevoix county.

The proper depth of tile drains de-
pends in a measure upon the kind of
soil to be drained so that this question
cannot be answered positively. On
land with heavy clay subsoil or on
lots of land where the clay comes
clear to the surface, it is not practi-
cal to put tile drains as deep as it
would in a more porous soil because
it takes the water so long to percol-
ate through the nedse clay that many
times it is not drained off quickly
enough for best results.

If one had uniform soil of clay, my
judgment would be the drain shouldn’t
be over two feet deep and close enough
together to make up for being so
shallow. On this sort of soil the
drains ought to be as close as three
reds apart to give best results. then
the water is drained off quickly enough
so that the crops are not injured but.
on the other hand, if these drains are
put down three and three and a half
feet. as would be advisable for some
soils. it takes so long for the water to
percolate to the drains that the crop
in many instances will be injured.

On our level prairie soils, many
times the tile are laid four feet deep
and the soil is so porous that water
will not readily percolatc through to

g the tile. On t‘s kind of soil the drains
can be many rods apart and still be
efﬁcient.

In this particular instance where
the land is rolling, with natural water
runs, the tile in these natural rims, if
laid from two to three feet deep will
drain quite a large area of land, The
depth of the natural runs if laid from
two to three feet will drain quite a
large area of land. The depth of the
natural runs really be’ng ﬁgured in
with the depth of the ditch and yet
the soil will be drained much more
readily with a comparatively sha‘low
ditch in the natural run that it would
if the land was level. The surface of
the ﬁeld here assisting the drains ma-
terially in removing the water.

Much of our land is loamy or sandy
soil on top with tenacious clay sub-
soil. If we should go down into this
clay subsoil for a considerable depth
in this instance for our tile for the
water will readily soak through thc
sandy loam portion of the surface soil
and follow the lay of the clay down
to the tile drain. On such soil that
is assisted so much by the natural lay
of the land I should say two t’cet, or
21!, feet would be an ample depth for
the tile.

Of course, in every instance. we
should take into consideration that
the tile should be laid hc‘ow the frmt
line, especially if you use porous tile,
because the continual freezing and
thawing of the tile wi‘l soften it and
make it crumble and decay.

Stating the proposition in a gener-
al way——a tile drain should be laid as
deep as practical. taking all condi-
tions and soil into consideration, be-
cause the deeper the tile is laid the
further it will drain on either side of
the ditch.-»—--r(‘olon (7'. Lillic.

VALUE OF SCALES ON
THE FARM THIS YEAR

 
At this season of the year the need
of scales on the farm is strongly felt.
Cattle are bought and sold; corn is
husked and marketed. Many farmers
have gotten in the habit of weighing
the corn shucked by hired help, so
they will know for a certainty the ex-
act number of bushels which each

 
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hand should be paid
This insures a square deal for
parties. .

Whenever buyer and seller meet to
determine the value of a product,
scales are a necessity. Inall cases it
is advisable to have a set of good
scales at hand to determine the exact
value of products. When grain and
livestock sold cheaply the need of
scales was not so acute; but under
present day conditions, when a moder-
ate amount of produce is worth a
large sum, “guessing” is not advis-
able. The man who merely estimates
in his mind the weight of a cow, a
steer, etc., before selling the animal,
may lose a considerable sum. The
best policy consists in having scales
on the farm, then weighing every an-
imal, or load of grain, before selling.

Feed of all kinds is so expensive
that it is necessary for the stockman
to exercise judgment in compounding
his rat’ons. He is in search of the
best ai/l most economical ration, and
in order to determine the combination
of feeds which give best results he
must know the exact gains his ani-
mals are making. This is easily de-
termined when scales are at hand.

The farmer who uses scales doesn’t
have to trust the buyer; he knows
whether or not he is getting a square
deal. Scales are also needed when the
divis'on of products between renter
and land owner takes place. Modern
scales are easily installed and give
long servicex~('lcnz,cnt Whiic.

SHELL YOUR SEED
CORN BY HAND

Seed corn should always be shelled
by hand, says the United States De-
partment of Agriculture, which advis-
es care in every step connected with
seed selection.

After seed corn has been selected
from the most productive stalks as
they stand in the field in competition
with other surrounding stalks, and
stored‘in a dry place free from in-
sects and roduuts, the job is only half

for shucking.
both

 
done. Shelling is one of the most im—
portant of the tasks.
Seed ears should first be nubbed

and the kernels from the tip and butt
should be discarded from the seed
supply. The small kernels from the
tips are less productive than the
other kernels on the ear; the blunt.

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are just as productive as any of the
rest, but because of their shape and
size they do not plant uniformly when
used in a corn planter with other ker-
nels.

Shelling by hand takes more time
and labor but it is proﬁtable. The
mechanical corn sheller is likely to-in-
jure the germ tips of the individual
grains, and to thus destroy or impair
their power to germinate. No matter
how large the required supply, says
the department, it will still pay to
shell it painstakingly by manual labor.

Each ear should be. shelled separ-
ately into a shallow pan or box, and
every blemished, misshapen, or worm-
eaten kernel should be rejected. As
the seed from each ear is found satis-
factory and sound, and free from poor
kernels, it is poured into the general
supply, and another ear is shelled in
the same way. It is much easier to
pick out defective grains from a single
layer in a small receptacle than from
a large mingled quantity in a bushel
measure or bag.

WHO PAYS FOR ABSTRACT
WHEN FARM IS SOLD?

 
Who pays for the abstract of a farm,
the buyer or selIer?

There is no rule of law or practice
that says who shall pay for the ab-
stract. Usually the seller has to pay
or the abstract- as the buyer will not
buy the farm without an abstract
showing a perfect title; and before the
seller can comply with this require-
ment he must purchase an abstract.
It is a matter of agreement, and it may
be agreed that either one or the other
shall pay for the abstractsi-ll'. E.
Brown.

WRITE THE EDITOR
ABOUT YOUR PROBLEMS

 
Questions about any phase of the
farming business will be cheerfully
answered by the editors. We are in
constant touch with practical farmers
whose experiences have covered prac-
tically every branch of farming and
are qualiﬁed to give our readers de-
pendable suggestions. If you are puz-
zled with any problem lay it before us.

Convenient Arrangement of Farm Buildings

A number of readers have asked us to suggest the most attractive and

practical
given by Prof.

arrangement

1. Have the buildings near
idcration to other advantages.

2. Have the buildings on a slight elevation whenever

of the farm buildings.
J. D. Davidson cover the matter very completely and well:

The following pointers

the center of the farm, giving due con—

possible; a

outhern or eastern e:;posure is desirable.

3. Buildings should occupy the poorest ground,

drained ground.

4. Buildings should be conveniently located with reference to water

supply.

5. A timber windbreak should be secured.

6. A garden and fruit plot should be near the house but not con-
spicuous from the road, and screened from the house.

7. Pastures should be adjacent to the stock barns.
8. The buildings should be so arranged as to serve as wind-breaks.

9. Buildings should be located on the side of the farm convenient
to the school, town, church and lodge hall.

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12. The shop and machine shod should be convenient to house, barn

13. Where there are streams, the ﬁelds should border the streams so
as to facilitate cultivation, watering stock and drainage or irrigation.

14. Have as many ﬁelds as possible in direct contact Wlth the barn.

15. The size of the ﬁelds should be in proportion to the size of the
Fields should be nearly the same size.

16. The land of the same quality should be in the same ﬁeld.
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SPRING PLOWED son
GOOD FOR BEANS

 
Is there a way of making a success
of raising beans on spring plo‘wed
sod?—L. H. M., Charlevo‘w county.

I cannot conceive of a ,better con-
dition for growing a good crop of
beans than spring plowed sod, espec—
ially if it is a clever sod. One other
condition would make this much bet-
ter and that is to have this clever sod
covered during the winter with stable
manure. The best conditions for a
splendid crop of corn are the best con-
ditions for a splendid crop of beans,
and the only reason that c0uld be of-

fered for fall plowing is that this
would save time in the spring. If one
has time to plow this land in the

spring comparatively early and prop-
erly prepare a seed bed by liberally
harrowing and packing you could get
no better conditions for a bean crop.

Sometimes people haVe poor results
in growing beans on spring plowed sod
because they put the plowing of the
sod off so late. If the spring is dry
so that they didn’t have moisture
enough to properlystart a crop they
might. have poor luck. On the other
hand, if the spring is a wet one the
late plowing may be better than an
early plowing. It is risky, however,
to put off the plowing until late. The
only sure way to do is to plow as early
in the spring as possible, to barrow
the land ,say, as often as once a week,
getting it in thoroughly good condi-
tion and destroying the weeds and
then when it comes proper time to
plant the beans, you have almost an
ideal seed bed and your crop isplant-
ed under ideal conditions.»~(‘olon ('.
Lillie.

INTERESTING QUESTION
BY IOSCO SUBSCRIBER

ln regard to beans, Nov. 2nd Mna
told me beans were $8 per bu. and on
the 8th I took 4 bu. and 37 lbs. to see-
how they would pick. Last fall they
picked 2 lbs, I also sold some last
spring and they picked 2 lbs. but on
the 8th of Nov this year they picked
6 lbs so all he would give me was $6.
in th‘-e1e 01 four days after that he had
$7. 75 on his caid I suppose if some
one brought in a few they would go
back to $6 again? Mine were last
year’s crop, nice and dry. He said
the government would only pay $6. 90,
and he could only pay $6. The farmer
has 9 cents proﬁt and the elevator 91
cents—J. A. A , Iosco county.

Your local elevator man is merely
practicing the tactics employed by
many speculative commission men
and dealers. Very frequently a slight
raise of price 011 a, commodity in the
trading p’t is nothing more than a
bait to snare farmers into selling. but
about the time he niakc: up his mind
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2 LIVE STOCK ON THE FARM
DAl an N c

 
INCREASING THE INCOME
FROM THE FARM HENS

Several years ago I became interest-
ed in better poultry as a means of in-
creasing the farm income. There had
been a small ﬂock of scrub hens on
the place as long as I could remember
but the proﬁts were anything but sat-
isfactorY. They supplied the table
with eggs in the summer, with some
to sell, but the price was not very
large. In the winter they seldom
produced any eggs.

I purchased two settings of pure-
blooded Rhode Island Reds from a re-
liable breeder. The number of chick-
ens hatched was very encouraging
and I took the best care of them I
knew how. They were a ﬁne lot of
healthy, V‘gorous youngsters in the
fall and they produced more eggs dur-
ing the winter than we had ever had
before from our scrubs. And the flock
of scrubs was nearly four times as
large.

I have found since that time that
good poultry is one of the best paying
lines on the farm. Few of us really
. know the results that it is possible to
secure with them under the right
methods of management.

The most common mistakes made
with poultry is improper feeding. It
is just as necessary to feed hens a
properly balanced ration as it is to
feed it to the live-stock. The hen

«us the feed she consumes into eggs.
If we do not supply her with the
feed in the proper amounts she cannot
do this in an economical manner and
we do not make a proﬁt. Some hens,
just the same as some live—stock, can
not turn even a balanced ration into
eggs at a proﬁt. That is where the
pure bred hen is capable of returning
a much greater proﬁt than the men-
grel because the ability to turn feed
into eggs with the least possible waste
is in the blood. It is what the men
who have worked to develop a high
egg producing strain get fancy prices
for.

The ﬁrst step toward poultry prof-
its is good, full bred fowls. The next
is proper feeding and care. And the
third, which is almost universally ne-
glected is better marketing.

I like to feed each day ground grain
in a mash. This may be fed either
wet or dry in the night or morning.
A mash made by mo‘stening the
ground grain with skim milk makes
a good feed.

It is not necessary to feed grain in
a mash but it is a good way to use
cheaper food often that lowers the
cost of egg production to a large ex-
tent. The fowls will eat more feed in
a mash than they will of whole grain
so they should be given jur t as much
as they will clean up in ﬁve minutes.
Then in an hour or so a little whole
grain can be sprinkled in the litter to
keep them busy. This is an excellent
feeding method. The mash should be
fed in troughs which can be made of
plain boards in a short time.

It is necessary to feed some kind of
animal food during the winter time
1’01‘ the best results. Green bone is a
good way of doing this. The bone, as
fresh as possible, with the juice still
in them, can be ground in one of the
machines on the market as needed. It
should be fed at the rate of a hand-
ful to two or three hens about three
times a week.

There is some bother in feeding
this material and where only a small
ﬂock is kept the meat scraps sold on
the market for this purpose may be
cheaper. There is a very little mOiS'
ture in it and it can be kept for a
considerable length of time. There is
very little labor required to feed it
and many poultry raisers prefer it to
any other.

     
Green food must also be fed for
the best Proﬁts. Cabbage, mangles,
beets, carrots, apples and the like can
be fed f01‘ this purpose and requires
little trouble or time. A great many
DQUltI‘y raisers neglect to do this and
they do not get as much proﬁt from
their poultry as they might.

Grit is necessary. In the winter

the hens cannot pick this up as they
can when running out during the
summer and it has to be fed to them.
Old plaster, or some of the prepared
grit on the market will supply the
need very well. It is very cheap and
the cost is small. It should be placed
in a box in the hen house where they
can get at it at any time.
‘ There is no way of telling how much
money is lost to poultry raisers every
year through wrong systems, or lack
of system, in the marketing of eggs
and poultry. But it is a vast sum
that could be saved by a little extra
work and thought. And a lot of prof-
it can be added to the income of most
poultrymen by working up a high class
trade in clean fresh eggs. I know a
farm girl who has built up a trade of
this kind and her annual net proﬁt
would make a lot of city business
men sit up and take notice. She has
developed a good ﬂock of laying hens
and purchased a number of neat,
strong boxes that hold a dozen eggs
each. Then she had a quantity of
fancy labels printed that called atten-
tion, in an attractive style, to the fact
that the eggs were strictly fresh and
unfertile. In the short time of two
years she has built up a big trade.
She is now delivering eggs once or
twice a week to her customers in the
small city near her home in an auto
truck and she has more orders than
she can take care of. She is planning
to greatly enlarge her poultry plant.
She gets considerable more than the
market price for the eggs because her
customers know that the eggs are
fresh and they are packed neatly in
the boxes. .They are as near of a
size and color as possible and clean
as a new dime. She is also supplying
a select trade with poultry for the
holidays and thru all seasons of the
year. Her success could be duplicated
in nearly every other community in
the United States.

Males should be kept from the lay-
ing hens when‘ the eggs are for market
purposes. Swatting the rooster is a
proﬁtable thing to do in this case.
Candling the eggs takes but a little
time and will save a lot of loss and
trouble. l‘lvery egg should be clean
and graded as to size and color.

Business methods in marketing the
poultry products is needed. We can-
not hold our eggs for a week or two

 
Early Du“ II I’I‘cp 2d, a purcbrcd Hol-
stcin cow, utl’oIIlcd one of thc scnsutions
at the National Dairy Show at Colum-
bus, ()hio by making at typical Holstein
reIorIl of 33.." )2 lbs. of butter in a w.cck
“'hilc that is a good reI:,orIl it is not an
exceptional one for a Holstein Iow. It is
unusual, honcxcr in How of the IonIli-
tions under which it was made. The strain
of traveling to thc show, the strange burn,
the I-"Io\\Ils of the unions and thc cXIitc-
mcnt incident to flu show “Irc all sIri-
ous obstacles to thc making of a rcIorIl.
It is a wonderful rcIorIl in view of these
trying conditions. ller record for seven
days at the show was 634 lbs. of milk of
4.22 per cent fat, yielding 33. 52 lbs. of
butter. Early Dawn Peep 2d last year
made the semi-ofﬁcial record of 1287. ’72
lbs. of butter in a year. She is owned by
Peter A. Small of Chesterland, Ohio.

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into market baskets
and trade them out at the local store

and pile them

with good proﬁts. There is a good
demand at good proﬁtable prices for
good eggs and it is only necessary to
use a little business sense to realize
good returns. You bet there is money
in poultry and the marketing end is
about the most important end—Ber-
nard Iv}. Coffin.

 
FARM BUTCHERING
SAVES PORK COSTS

“Hog Killin’ ” on the farm, in spite
of much encouragement given it in
recent years, is not yet a general prac-
tice. The custom of buying meat from
local stores or hucksters is increasing
among farmers in spite of the fact
that meat, especially pork, can be
grown and cured at home for much
less than the cost of purchased meat.
These statements are made by animal
husbandry specialists of the United
States Department of Agriculture in
a new publication of the department,
Farmers‘ Bulletin 913, “Killing Hogs
and Curing Pork, ” which is intended
to aid in popularizing farm butIher-
ing.

The cheapest meat a farmer can
use is the product of his own farm,
say the specialists. This is also true
of the suburban or town farmer who
fattens one or two hogs on kitchen
and truck garden wastes. Many farm-
ers, it is said, will have their own
meat supply for the ﬁrst time this
year. The publication just issued
takes the farm butcher step by step
through the process of slaughtering,
cutting up the carcass, lard making,
curing, sausage making and smok-
ing. It tells also how to make a small
ice house which may be used not only
for meat but for other perishable pro
ducts. Suggestions as to how farm
butchering may be made a paying
enterprise coIIImercially are given and
it is declared that selling farm ani-
mals as meat is one of the best ways
to market them.

This is the equipment needed for
slaughtering: An 8—inch straight
sticking knife, a cutting knife. a 14-
inch steel. a hog hook. at bell-shaped
stick scraper, a gambrel. and a meat
saw. More than one ot‘ each of these
tools may be necessary if many hogs
are to be handled and slaughtered to
best, advantage. A barrel makes a very
convenient. receptacle in which to
scald the animal. It should be placed
at an angle of about 4;“) degrees at the
end of a table or platform of proper
height. The table and barrel should
be securely fastened to prevent acci—
dent to the workmen during the scald—

ing. A small block and tackle will
reduce the labor of handling the ani-
mal.

Only hogs which are known to be
healthy should be butchered. There is
always danger that disease may be
transmitted to those who eat the

meat, while the duality of the meat
is always impaired by fever or other
derangements. Hogs can be killed for
meat. any time after 8 weeks, but the
most proﬁtable age at which to slau-
ghter is 8 to 12 months. An animal
in medium condition gaining rapidly
in weight yields the best quality of
pork. chs inten led for slaughter
should remain unfed for at least 24
hours or better 30 hours. and all the
clean, fresh water they will drink
should be provided. Temperature can
not be controlled on the farm but it is
possible to kill when the weather is
favorable. In the fall it is best to
kill in the evening, allowing the car-
cass to cool over night. In winter a
day when the carcass can be cooled
before it freezes should be selected.

  
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Colon C._ Lillie, speaking of Own
Experience, Says it is More
Valuable to Agriculture
That Far-Famed
Alfalfa

Alfalfa is truly a wonderful plant.
It has been advertised so much the
past few years through the agricul-
' tural press and from the farm rost-
rum that the word “alfalfa” which
means in the Arabic language “the
best fodder,” iS on every man's lips.
Successful growers get three cuttings
averaging from a ton to three tons
per cutting, each year, and it is truly
a. wonderful plant for the Michigan
live stock husbandman.

. So much has been said lately about
this wonderful, comparatively new le-
gume that the old—fashioned red clover
has dropped into the background. We
don’t hear so much about red clover
as we used to. Some people think
that alfalfa has driven it out of the
rotation, that it will supercede it as
a legume on which the Michigan farm-
er places his greatest reliance.

I don not believe this. If the Michi-
gan farmer could have only
these two plants, in my judgment, he
better pin his faith to common red
clover. Some people may smile at
this opinion but after working with
alfalfa for a number of years and with
red clover all my life. I feel that I am
justiﬁed in asying that red clover is
the more important to Michigan ag-
riculture than alfalfa. Understand, I
am not. saying a thing against alfalfa.
I think every farmer should grow some
but I know that every farmer should
grow red clover. I am positive that
it is the very basis of successful agri-
culture in Michigan. Without red
clover our farms would soon become
almost barren, worthless in the pro—
duction of crops. Without red clover
it would be so expensive to produce
crops in the future that the price of
food stuffs today are cheap in compar-
ison to what they would be then.

Red clover, like alfalfa, takes free
nitrogen from the atmosphere through
the bacteria on the nodules on its root
and after these bacteria have used the
free nitrogen, the residue is converted
into a form that can be used by agri-
cultural plants. In all probability red
clover furnishes nitrogen as alfalfa.

Again, red clover improves the phys-
ical condition of the soil. First, by
increasing the organic matter in the
soil. and. secoudﬁby its deep tap root
system permeating the subsoil and
prying apart, mellowing it up and pui-
ting it into good condition is consid-
red by many agriculturalists the most
ered by many agriculturalists the
most important function of red clover'.
I can remember hearing the late
Robert. lx’cdzio of 1\i. A. (‘.. lecturinj‘;
to our class in organic chemistry. say-
ing with a great deal of emphasis.
“that the greatest good that red clover
does and ever will do is improving the
physical condition of the soil.” Many
of us treat this idczi of the physical
condition of the altogether too
lightly. Unless the soil is in good
physhal (ondition you can't grow good
crops of anything no matter how rich
the soil is in available pl int food. To
illustrate: You take one of our pub-
lic roads and compare the soil right,
out of the center of the road with the
soil in the adjacent ﬁeld. The adjac—
ent ﬁeld is fertile. It grows corn and
potatoes and wheat luxuriantly. The
soil in the road would grow none of
these plants. None of them could live
at all. If you would take a cubic foot
of the soil from the road and a cubic
foot of the soil from the ﬁeld and send
them to Dr. Patton, the chemist at
Michigan Agricultural college, and ask
him to analyze them, it is quite likely
that he would ﬁnd as much plant food
in the soil taken from the middle of
the public road as he would in that

so'l

once?

one of ~

will produce nothing.

of the soil.
cal condition that it is a congenial
home for plants, it is permeating with
bacteria, live organisms that are work-
ing in the inert matter of the soil
making it available. This soil is pour-
ous enough so that it contains air. . It
has vegetable matter enough in it so
that it will hold moisture and so on.
In fact, one soil is a living soil and
the other is a dead soil. In growing
red clover in a rotation of crops on
the Michigan farm it has more power
to keep the soil in good physical con-
dition than any other plant.

If ’you handle red clover correctly
you can get two crops at bay a year.
This makes it a very valuable plant
for the live stock husbandman. If
clover is cut at the proper time and
properly cured, the hay is almost, if
not quite, the equal of alfalfa in qual-
ity. Hence, clover performs every
function toward successful agriculture
that alfalfa does. The only question

is, can you get as much fodder from:

an acre of ground with clover as you
can of alfalfa] Probably not quite so
much, but on the other hand, it is
much simpler to use clover in a rota-
tion of crops than it is alfalfa. It is
much easier to get a stand and have
the plant thrive. In other words, red
clover is more reliable than alfalfa.
But there is another point in favor
of red clover and that is that if the
ﬁrst crop is out early enough we are
almost sure of a second crop to get
seed which is available as a- market.
crop. I will admit that the clover seed
crop is a ﬁnicky proposition. You
can't depend upon it. So much de-
pends upon the weather and yet the
same thing can be said of any crop.
The principal reason why we don’t
regularly get a crop of red clover is
because we don’t cut the ﬁrst crop
early enough. We have been educated
right from the very beginning with

the alfalfa that we must cut the ﬁrst-

crop just as soon as the new crop
starts from the ground, that is usual-
ly when the ﬁrst crop begins to blos-
som. Now, we should do the same
thing with red clover. Make the ﬁrst

cutting when the ﬁrst blossom appears '-

or even before, when it is nicely head—
ed or when it is beginning to head is
better yet. What we want to do is to

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Simply the Dhysical- condition“
One soil is in such physi- '-

. ler and my own power to run it.

e ' _ ‘ ..
to pay to cut it for " ‘ ’1.“

y This year, I had ﬁfty acres of red E
clover.

We cut the ﬁrst crop when
you could now and then see a head in
blossom, and we got a fairly good crop
of hay. . The second crop came on and
did very nicely. There was favorable
weather for a period and it seemed to
ﬁll out well enough to pay to thresh.

' I cut this earlier than one ordinarily

would, because I needed the hay. The
ﬁrst ﬁeld of twenty acres yielded
nearly two bushels of seed per acre.
The next ﬁeld of twenty acres ran a
little less than a bushel per acre‘and
the last ﬁeld of ten acres only turned
out about onehalf bushel per acre. I-

" am satisﬁed the reason I didn’a get a

larger seed yield from the last ﬁeld
was because I cut this seed crop too
green. It wasn’t ripe enough so that
the huller could separate the seed. Had
I waited another week or two weeks
I am satisﬁed that my average for
the whole ﬁfty acres would have been
at least 1 1-2 bushels per acre. Clover
seed is quoted at the present time at
$16.00 per bushel. Now, this seed cr0p
will go quite a ways toward making up
the extra yield in alfalfa hay.

Of course, I have my own clover hul-
We
cut this‘second crop just as fast as two
mowing machines would cut it, raked
it up and cocked it up and left it un-
til it was dry. We had a bad rain
which wet it and injured it some for
hay, but we ﬁnally drew it to the hul-
ler and blew it directly into the barn.
It probably COSt a little more to take
care of it in this way than it would to
have drawn it for hay, but I ﬁgured
that with my own power and my own
huller that it was nearly as cheap to
run it through the huller and—blowing
it into the barn is it would be to har-
vest it and put it into the barn in any
other way, and after it comes through
the huller the clover straw occupies a
much smaller space in the barn than
it would had we unloaded directly in-
to the barn. In fact. we never could
have gotten the whole thing into the
barn in the form of hay.

While alfalfa is a wonderful plant
we cannot afford to neglect common
red clover. I believe that the late Dr.
Robert Kedzie was right when he
stated that common red clover is the
basis of permanent agriculture in. this
climate—Colon C. Lillie.

 
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Over the Top! to give all that’s worth giving.
Over the Top! for a Freedom world wide.

Over the Top! while the home folks are praying.
Over the Top! see the Harvester sow.

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Over the top! where our “pals” were laid low.

Over the Top! may mean
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Over the Top! to the Father
Over the Top! face to face with your God.

 
for all that's worth living.

for the wives and the mothers.
Over the Top! to save home from the Huns.

Over the Top! with your allies and brothers,
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“back to Old Blighty."

Almighty.

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“We’ll Stick. to the Old Farm as
Long as ’We Can.”

My husband and myself certainly
appreciate what you have done for the
farmers this fall, especially in the bean
deal. Inclosed you will ﬁnd a clipping
from our Detroit paper, which we
think a great deal of but don't like
this editorial about hogs. What do'
you think about it? I think that if
the writer of the article had passed
through our part of the country this
fall and had taken a good look at.the
corn crop he would haVe thought that
it was something besides uncer-
tain prices that made the farm-
ers sell even their brood SOWS, and
it certainly does not pay to buy feed .
for hogs at the price they are now.
There are quite a few farmers in this
county selling out and going to town,
but we expect to stick to the old farm
as long as we are able to work it our-
selves, or ”until the war is over, and
the Sammies come . marching home
again. We are interested in every
page of M. B. F. and especially so in
the edit‘orials’by the people. I_ wish.
we could have two columns at least of
editorials from Grant Slocum each
week.~——Mrs. F. E. E., Isabella county.

Must Get $1.25 to Break Even

Just a few words regarding the new
potato grades. I do not think this is
a square deal for the farmer, as the
average yield of potatoes in this vicin-
ity will be around 65 bu. per acre, and
potatoes not going over that will sort
out about 50 per cent seconds and 8
per cent culls. Now, where is the
farmer going to make any proﬁt when
it costs right around $85 to raise an
acre of potatoes. I, for one, must get
at least $1.25 per bu. to make any
proﬁt, and at that they will all have
to be run over a 1 1-2 inch screen and
then it will leave mighty little proﬁt
for me. All we ask is a square deal,
which is not two grades of potatoes
unless they pay 11s within ten cents of
the price of ﬁrsts for the second grade.
—W. F., Wcmford county.

Doesn’t Know What Farmers Are
Going to Do.

The fall work is almost all done;
the potatoes that were in the ground
after the frost were badly frozen. Some
potatoes are fairly good and some not
worth digging; they run from 50 to
90 bu. to the acre. I don’t know what
farmers are going to do when they
are cut in two with the potato grades.
They will have to leave the farm when
they can’t make both ends meet. Isn’t
there something that can be done?—
E. M. G., Antrim county.

Half’are No. 2’s.

I am a reader of your paper and I
feel that you are doing a good work in
trying to get a square deal for the pro-
ducers of food and necessaries of life.
Am thru all parts of Michigan and
note the prices paid and the prices
charged by dealers and thought per-
haps I could help you to some infor-
mation. At Harriette. today buyers
are oﬁ’ering 80 cents for No. l and 42
cents for No. 2 potatoes. The buyers
are using the new screen. I saw a
load today of which over half were No.

DETROIT CREAM—DRY
DOES BIG BUSINESS

The Detroit and Towar’s Wayne
County creameries are the biggest dis—
tributing concerns in Detroit, their
combined gross sales amounting to
over 200,000 quarts of milk per day.
During the month of June the De—
troit Creamery Company purchased
and sold over 121,725 quarts of milk
per day. In October this had afllen to
70,389 quarts. The company present—
ed these ﬁgures to the milk commis—
sion to substantiate their statement
that the supply was variable and it
cost them a great deal to handle the
surplus during the spring months.

 
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ANTRIiVl (SOUtht‘ﬂHt)-rl“ll"‘ -n':: i
nearly all done here excepting beans and
some have threshed their beans. and tind
them not turning out even as well as
was expected. One neighbor threshed 40
bushels from 6 acres, and that is about
the way they are turning out around
here. The past _few days of cold weather
have frozen quite a good many potatoes
in the pits and is making a lot of trouole
at the potato houses, as we have had zero
weather for some time here. There have
been a good many auction sales here this
fall and winter. Stock sells high except
horses which sell very low.——C. F. VV.,
Alden.

GLADWIN (Southwest)——Tlie ground
is frozen hard and many farmers have
gone to work on the new gravel roads.
while some are getting up their winter
wood. Some land is changing hands and
many auction sales. As so many boys
have been drafted it is going to leave
us mighty short of help next year. If
all of our good brother farmers keep
selling out and going to the city to live.
who is going to raise the food for them
and our boys at the fr()llt?--V. l{., Beav—
erton.

MONTCALM (Northwest)—’l‘he tarm-
ers are not. doing much this kind of wea-
ther; we have an inch of snow which has
put. a stop to much of the corn liusking.
A new barn is going up here this week.
a new wagon shed and a dozen new gar-
ages. Three auction sales this week in
this vicinity. Hay sold at $25 per ton.
oat straw for $10 per ton. Everything
goes high but horses. Potatoes have
stopped moving and the price is gaining
a little. Beans. are quoted at $7.60 but
they are not moving. Bean threshing is
not over yet. The beans are a little bit
damp.~l«l. VV., (‘oral

I’RESQUE ISLE ((‘entraD—Tlie weath-
er has been very cold the past week, but
it is warming up now Farmers are get—
ting up wood and getting ready for win—
ter; some are baling hay and threshing
clover seed. Some hay is being sold.
will say a word in regard to the two po-
tato grades: They run them over a long
sorter made of 3—8 inch rods 1 3—4 inches
apart, which is about three feet long. and
if a potato lays on the. screen they drive
it thru and it goes with the culls, which
any man knows is not fair; if they were
run over a square mesh screen there
would be more saleable tatoes and the
farmers would be. better satisfied. All to
whom I have. talked about the two grades
of potatoes are. dissatisfied with it.—D. D.
S.. Millersburg.

BAY (Smitlieast)——’l‘he farmers here
are dressing the meat and selling it that
way as there is more in it for them. No
fruit here this fall—J. C. A.. Munger

“'EXFORI) ((‘enlraD—Wcather win-
try, two inches of snow, ground frozen
deeper than usual at this time of year.
Farmers are selling cattle and hogs very
close on account of the lack of feed. Many
settlers here will be compelled to use
brush from the cut-over lands for fuel
this winter. Some beans are being thresh-
ed; they yield around 4 bu. per acre. A.
A. ., Boon

,MACOMB (Northwest)—-—l<‘armers are
husking and drawing in their corn. It
is cold and rainy.. Farmers are. selling a
few hogs and iambs. Sonic farmers have,
threshed their beans and ﬁnd them a very
poor crop: lots of ﬁelds were, never gath-
ered at all. Not much hard corn through
the county. Early sown wheat looks fair.
but late sown is just through the ground
—i-l. l) Almont.

(HONESEE (Southeast) Farmers are
hiisking corn, cutting wood and thresh—
ing beans. The weather has been quite
cold and we have had a little snow. in-
dications point to warmer weather before
long. The ground has frozen quite a bit.
varying from a couple of inches where
ground has a heavy cover crop. to several
inches in bare ground. Farmers are sell-
ing wheat and other grains in medium
quantities, Potatoes. hay and hogs are
moving more lively. Not any special
grain or other produce is being held. The
farmers are not buying very much this
fall. Some are buying feeds but not in
as large quantities as usual. The beans
that have been threshed are a very poor
lot. Mi them pick very heavy. while
others are wet and mushy and do not
keen after they are thresh d. Elevators
do not buy those that are not entirely
(“IV and farmers are beginning to realize
the best way to do is to let them get
dry before threshingrvt". W S lt‘ciiioll

ANTRIM (Southeastl—W'eatlicr has
been cold for the past week, Farmers
moving potatoes from pits when weather
lK‘rniits. with a large percentage of frost
thru the pits, making a heavy loss. The
lman crop was almost a total failure.”
0. M. B. Mancelona.

()St‘l‘ltniA (Northeast)-——Farmers are

”UV-“hint: beans. which average three to
tﬁght. bu. to the acre. and pick heavy
Fm‘mW‘H are selling chickens some tur—
keys}. hogs and cattle. They are not buy-
mg much for the reason that the two
grade-r ”f Potatoes hit us pretty hard in
this locality—s 7. A. 8.. Marion.
. ’I‘I'St‘OLA (NortheasU—Bean llll‘l“'ll—
mg is in progress where coal is available.
Beans do not average over 5 bu. to the
acre and many will pick heavY- SW11“
fill'mel‘s are advertising young piﬁl‘e‘ for
sale on account of the scarcity of feed——
J. A. McG.. Cass City.

’I‘US(‘0LA ((‘entrnD—Tliere has been
snow on the ground the past week. Farin-
ers have not done. much work but cut
Wood. ‘Veather has been quite COld but
. is warmer today. The soil is frozen tOO
much to admit of plowing. Farmers are
selling hogs, beef and poultry but" not
much grain: quite a lot of wood that_\vas
out last spring is being sold. Wood is in
good demand as there is no coal to be
had. Lots of potatoes have been Dltted
here as the price went down before the
farmers could get them to the market and
we can’t sell for Mic—R. B. 0., Cam.

 
amount of beans are being threshed iii

yielding poor, according to last week's . n ' . .
1‘01)!th The weather is cold with Snow MONROE (Nortlieust)—lhe faimers
remaining on he ground The soil is Very are. husking corn and drawing in the

market. If they continue the present rate.
disposing of their hogs for another

corn
handle. Not much of it ﬁt to husk. Since
the. weather got so cold potato drawing or. vTh‘T 1 1
has stopped. Some hay is being preswl of year. t“
at $20 to $22 per ton. N0 grain moving.

market has gone, 10 smash, and the farm— good (lOlllflllll. (‘ ll Fl. Rear l.:il~:o llilhl‘i 1‘”

‘ KAiKASKA Western—The farmers I . . i i h
are taking care i)! their potatoes It has NATIONAL CROP REPORTS
bﬁen iverymeold an}? haﬁs frgzen mlalnyt in 7- , ' . p

e p ts. e weat er as een co , wo — _
below zero. The potato market is conges— Cortland, N. Y.—On one farm near

“1' S“ ht efarmers are “Ot able :10 SB“ here are 27 acres of winter squash. It
:33, aiii iﬁﬁffﬁiei‘; té'glft'h Eggitg’maﬁf‘“es is estimated that the crop Will bring

MIDLAND (Soutlieast)——Beans are all $11000 at present market prices.

 
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' w .- r ' . u Harrisburg Pa.—The apple crop
BAY (EMU—Farmers are threshin threshed in this \l(.lnlty and they met
beans, although some are wet and toughg, aged about 5 to 10 bu. to the acre. Haxe. for the state 18 about 50 per cent of a.

and threshing is going slow; there will be 3323s trig??? eagcgﬁzntniiﬁipgai‘biirilgt iii]; normal yield. but the Southern apple

:rehetii‘iiigpéglfd iiiiuiiicgiifitﬁogz‘igin M‘anty helpito farmers [who are unloading tilt” belt ShOWS about 70 per cent 0t a nor:
, . . - . re . ’ L- ' ' ‘

The. Weather has been fair. Some: are Three cars 0f tile have been drawn mm mal crop.

buying tile—G. (1., Linwood.

this section in the last two weeks‘ which

~ - - ~ - - . . ' ~ . > . - —— A holdinﬂs are
., . . Will be laid in the spring. This is some- 1.0.3 -ingtlrs. Apple a _
MON I‘LALM (SouthwesU—A ~large thing this section has needed as the. farms 450,000 box-93‘ which is an excess OI

have been pretty wet the last couple of H) l . . 1‘ last vear Onion
Dart of the. county, and they are . ‘- , Salli )oxes me (w _ , . .
yeals. PM B" Mldhnd' supplies are 40.000 bags. While l3St

year they were only 10.000 bags.
Potatoes are being held for higliei" stalks. The weather ll‘rlb‘ llt‘t’ll damp Ashlmlrl. ()I'f‘.~—Al)l)le picking about

prices and farmers are preparing to hold and f‘lggy- and the ground l” :1 “Hi" done. Fruit was small and showed 21
until spring‘xv. JJ“ (:reenyiiie_ frozen. Farmers are selling hay. grain

Saginaw (“’.(‘.entral)-——The ground has
frozen so hard that the farmers have had
quit plowing There. has been more . ~ . . . .-
. . r; , ~ .‘ . . id n it ll ll h (or d
blownig‘ done this fall than has been done, hm‘K' the (”m 1‘ w” n ( l ( h ’
for ’a number of years. The farmers are
buying a lot of tile. They are still tak-

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poultry, hogs and cattle. and they are not heJV.‘ De“ entage 0t “Ollllh: Th9 it 'lll
holding anything for higher lil‘lcc’i: “‘9 age of shocks and (‘EllS was I0. c
“9 “Wing MM ”m“ ”Vi“: ‘” "”1““ season. (‘anneries are taking calls at

feed in it: very few have as good corn $7.50 W $10 DCI‘ ton. .
as last year. Most every farmer around XVII? YOI‘Ii'Hs-Tlletf‘ was fl. rumor 1n

- . w .‘ e min from a \lr. \Vill— . ' w us
their *attlc. hogs and chickens to tag: figugilg: Kﬁt‘lﬁ' King Sevdir‘yy. and the trade today that ((lnlmlbleneI‘

none oi’ it got ripem-lt ll. (‘arlcton Dillon had rescinded his order to

. . .. . . . .. ‘ w '. Dillon
month hogs Will be a curiosity next year. BRANCH (Nﬂl‘lhlrr—rl‘llé‘ lariiiers are stamp all sloiilgc 93%” .Ml H ill
——(‘.. [1.. St. Charles getting ready for winter. Vl‘l‘lP-“T‘ltlllﬂl‘ said there was no truth to it. e sa .
Ottawa Northeast ——-'l‘hreshin beans is. “"‘t and ”ll-“‘Hlpd- Th" 8"” ‘8 ”"7”“ int, he did not have inspectors enough
g s . .
is the order of the day: the vield per acre ‘00 much to “V"rk‘ 1‘ ﬁrmer"; ”W “lump: t l \‘tliin outside of New York
is from one to fourteen bushels' quality some stock “” ”“mmlll "r “‘“T‘W‘L‘: “f 0. (0 an, g r 1 oust he
poor: a good many of them around here feed; they are not holding anything lrom City. but. ho was dmng tie o. 1 ..
are. not. fit to thresh yet Just starting to market. 0“ “""mmt "f ”l.” “'"“’“"‘t“'. ”f could. He. insisted that his ort eis
and freeze the beans in the barns. feed a lot of cattle are being sold‘tnat . 11 st‘illtl and all violators here
Another month of this weather would ““3,” to. N‘ kept on m“ “H'ms'nm' 3" “0111 i ( .1 ii
make threshing better. Farmers are lim’m OW"- “"’“1d he. DIVOFONHH‘

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gettinglup tlheir wood and some are liaiil- N'lsl\'_‘1‘!(lij|‘) (North ”min.” dying ('hil'rllm . .Tlm Modern Mllloi s (.100
ing coa . ’l‘ ie weather being very change- fan-mp“ are putting wood and doing their 7‘ ~ ., \.\.. The winter
able. freezing hard with light snow tiur— r-liores A few are \\'Ol'l{illg' on in.- road outlook bullet”? 5‘1; ‘ :H'lcd will 9‘.

Not much doing in the line of po— drawing gym-piuynr ii}, .\'_. (“op-11.7...” whom crop zilicatl) .S(_(« '/‘-t
lllﬂl‘l{9tlllg.——~—T{. J. l{.. ("onkliii (HI BOYl \\' (- t!) \'i r \\'('llllll‘ ('eed 42.000.000 acres. in some dis“-

.. , . .‘.. .~ .‘ ‘ 4) L. Min 1—. I" *« . ‘ '3‘ ‘. , .3 Sti
‘Of'i‘lflﬁlfl’? “(#:“hwerh:)r‘xi‘ilttllltIs" 1; ground frozen hard but no snow It is i‘icls ol the. solilllutvs‘l .Hl.(\, (li(()k1-i.
(’ (tilidlgroiind‘ “002:3“? It‘llt‘lll"i‘l'lll((tl‘S“3:0 ”'1 ”m “win” “"7“" mm mm" “PW" mm” seeding. mainly iii lcxas .iiir. ..

. . l . .. x . l ‘ . r . . . , , i» v . . . ‘_
getting re-idv for winter The l'ist week 1” stay m; ”(l/“"8 “I‘lllnd' H) “: loo_].;tif;¢1|; honla The sceilillt‘f in the (ll.V dis
. 4 . < . . . ‘ v ‘ \. ‘1 ‘Hl'lllhl‘S‘ :l 7, l“. ) ~ . V V U . .1 ‘
has been hard on the wheat that was sowil :le \dhrdttlitliiiig care of corn fodder: very ll‘il'ls‘ oi \\ (islcl‘n l\;ius.is l.\ lollOi‘ietl

()ii the 20th of November Mr. and

S. l3}. lliscock. old pioneers ”1‘ this little hard corn hero. .\n Agriwiiltural linisllcll. (m H”, Paciﬁc coast there 15

county. celebrated their ﬁftieth .weddiiig "V‘Xtmwum WWW] H ”in”: held 1" mfm‘ )‘cl Hllllt', seeding to «‘l!‘ lll’llt‘. lh“ (.101)
anniversary on the same farm that Mr.
Pliscock was born and lived on all his
lil'e.——V. H. .T., Rattle (‘i'eek

ent laces in (‘heboygan county this .. _ . , \ . . ‘V
week.” state and national speakers are Will] the (‘\l’(‘llll“ll “l ll“ lllll'll‘Ctl (hie
in attendance. Some farmers sold their districts ill the soiilllvximt has n1a(

hav earl in the :cason at $10 per ton ., . .. . , ,.. <5. iintlcl‘ good pond]—
MIDLAND ‘(Nortliwest)-——\Ve arc en- mm are 310w kinking ommsoi-vpg‘rur imy- lfl‘m‘ml‘ promo . . m. ”w W.“ stock
joying good weather. The :“round is froz— pm are now offering $18 to 520. \‘o p4 — “(”153 I” “mm ””1“ ‘ ' ’l‘ I ‘1'-
hard. Farmers are selling hay quite. iatoes moving at present farmers are nit— jg grazing (ill the plain. .liies .llllg
freely; not many beans moving; farmers ting them for winter. Some claim they and n]0\v(in](lnf ill lio‘li bells continue
holding for higher prices, The farmers Will feed them to stock before they will ‘ . . . (t. . t-li i'l'iop ie :1 men—
arc busy getting ready for winter:~~~l.. A. take less than Mrs”. W'. T., “'olverine. l” lll"i“"1*“~ ‘11 ”"0 ‘ h '

Coleman. are. 'i‘hH-U is much stilt corn and los-

 
OAKI‘A‘VD (N”r‘l'.(“’“”“l) Farmers (‘l3l‘il\qull:l‘l:!\ lid-i‘irl‘i‘iliiheﬁlBean's)“. lililgllllll‘k; Nil/‘ilr'I/Nl’. .\'. l'. (lllt‘liltlilflil county
lizue {:ﬁﬁgaedthgg (.1130‘flofraﬁso‘fxﬁalit. “2:: ("are of coriihiiid buzzing wood of which l‘;ll‘lllt‘l'\'. ill l‘tlllllllllll with Others

the most of us are in llf‘t‘tl of this wcal‘m
weather is fine for this time , 1
ground is fi‘ozcii too hard Willi llel‘licl'l llooVi-l' and tilt l‘00(l
to plow but the different townships are .-\dinini.<ll‘:llloll in the 1.1.“... (,1 lit‘illlh.

throughout the state. have taken issue

~. . ~ . doing some grading on the roads Tlio-rr- “w ‘ __ ‘ .‘_x1.:.. 1”,: \\'t*t‘il hilt
it looks as though we would be. obliged is “0”]in being Wm eycept Wild and (“IL 5. .i 1.11 ltllllt lt ll \. - . . r [hn
:%.Cllt.n{” timber I“) keep from “1‘97““: tle the buvers are buying feeders and Hoover and l'cpi'esciiizltn(-s 0 ..
I$Fi‘;:1r-l':{on‘LS coa can “at be had-ml; shipping S“ ”‘0 “WWW“ “r0 “0mm" ’ﬁ" :isrriviiltui'alists have been held. Mr.
7‘ h l “r their IMH’AFMI'W‘] “2”!” and hugs ll ”nor is *i‘lltl to l'uvor taking the
('HEBOYGAN (“'Nit)—’l‘lie weather is ’l‘liere are some fat cattle and hogr licrw 0.. . ' “ ‘ . l .m )Ul'lh' from
very COM and U10 ground is frozen to a but there are more poor ones than fat (‘alitoi'iiizi crop (liltl l lc l l‘ ~
depth 0f SOVN'HI lnf‘hP-S. so no plowing or ones, Lots of horses for mil.) but no \hmwhmd“. ““1241 ”ml lnrllzl as the
other field “V“rl" can b" (lone, Th" lmlato one wants to buy. hillch cons ~~'tll! iii ‘ llio lll‘ii'c ill llll‘-1 ”HUN?“

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are holding Ior higher prices. l’rob— hp“ \ oi lv State in. iiici. (llllll’t l. l

ably 75 per cent of the crop here is being . Kl“[:3x",g1:"29:31.9”1:33:74{.r't‘ will"; i'lariiig that it i'tiSlS them at least. 50
.' "l. :02” l 'i‘.‘ i . W‘uu; ”I": )8 l ‘ l. ). '1 i" '\ " .1, l ‘1 ‘ i . -. i m. i- ‘ ‘
qmmniaiiv viellllsI $1315. (l:\—(,l?m\.£':(,)fu'.‘. beans are being sold. Many are planiniir: per cent moie lo lawt Mulls hen»
i -__ .“. l ,‘ ‘--- . . 1' I)” to get tile this winter for use iii the . ' “is lllc (‘alilol‘nia grower.
mm L l.. l. (onway , than it, (( .

i I " " spring. More ivood tliaii ll"ll:ll ‘\\'lll lw “ ‘ 4 H sclllll” 1-“ Hvl'm‘llSt‘ {ll $9
HERON (Nortliwesl)—'l’lic ground is out this \\'illlt'l'. Many humus haw- “Hm“ “” ‘ h ‘ ‘1 . (‘Ailifoi‘nia
frozen and the farmers did not get their Signed the pledge of the l'. S, Ii‘ood _\rl— to $10 pci' l)ll.. and H l H r

plowing all finished ’l‘ln-y are mar— ministration and should «dist-mo ill" price was adopted as :1 standard. the
kctiiig stock. Bean threshing is a slow rules laid down by WWW. l‘TW‘Tl' lllllé‘ - , i , . vet one-third.
input}. \V.. Elkton bit helps: M. g a” Timnlm-k price, would lit (ill at lea.

 
What Shall the Verdict be?

VERY VARMICR in Michigan is interested in the outcome of lllc potato grading situati‘n.
As announced last wvck Allt‘lllliAN .l-il'SlNICSS lt‘ARMlCR has laid all the facts before
the Food Administration and asked for an impartial investigation with a view to saving
the farmers of the state from otherwise inevitable loss.

Watch This Paper Next Week

EXT WEEK we hope to publish the, Food Administration‘s reply to our protest against . the present
method of grading potatoes. Of course. YOI' will want to know what, the outcome is going to be; 'lt
means DOLLARS in every farmer's pocket, if these potato grades are revised. ’l‘o tl(‘t'()lllpllShr this.

however. we need and should have the loyal support ot’ every grower iii the state of l\lirhigan. The BEEF
way you can give this help is to get on the list and BACK up our protest.

 
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N0 Farmer Can Afford to Delay | .VllClllCAN 'iii'sixiotss manna.

I Eli. ("leiiieiis. Nlii’liigan.

Time is precious now; the marketing season ad- I I am a ”(Halo grower and need your crop and market
VE‘tllt‘eS; farmers need the money they have tied up in I
their potato crop. Get in line with the rest of the I
farmers of the state; align yourself with lVilt‘lllUAN
BUSINESS FAiiMiiii and HELP BOOST for decent po- I

reports to guide me in selling my crops. l‘illl'll)"t‘.ll you
will ﬁnd $1.00. Please snid the paper one year to the
following address:

tato grades that will give NOT” the farmer and I Name ...............................................
consumer a square deal ' I ‘
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placed in your mail box next Saturday 111“ ‘ing.

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This Week’s Tested Recipe

CORN, SOUTHERN STYLE

Two tablespoons butter, one slice of onion,
chopped ﬁne; one slice green pepper, chopped
ﬁne; two tablespoons flour, half out steWed t0-
matoes, half teaspoon salt, one cup corn, tea-
spoon of parsley, chopped fine; yoke of one egg. ,
Cook the chopped onion and pepper in the but—
ter; add the ﬂour; stir; add the tomatoes and
salt; stir till boiling; add the corn and parsley;
stir until well boiled Add the beaten yoke and
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Here is Something to Remember About Babies
0 NOT play with the baby as if she
were a toy; keep the ﬂies away, as
they carry disease; keep baby away
from. folks with colds and all sick people;
don’t kiss baby on the mouth; don’t use paciﬁers;
don’t give the baby candy, bananas, patent med-
icines, soothing syrups; don’t allow baby to suck
her thumb or the nipples of empty bottles; don't
put baby’s bottle in your mouth to test its heat,
try a drop on the inside of your wrist, or near
your elbow; don’t sneeze in baby’s food or face;
let baby sleep out of doors as much as possible;
give baby all the sunshine and fresh air you can;
don’t let the intense glare of the sunlight shine
into baby's unprotected eyes; he sure and get baby
into regular habits of sleeping, feeding and bath-
ing; weigh baby every week or two to see if she
is gaining or losing, a normal baby weighs 7 to
7 1-2 pounds at birth, 15 pounds at 5 or 6 months,
21 pounds at 12 months, so she is then three
times as heavy as when born, baby should gain
about 4 to 8 ounces weekly; a normal baby meas-
ures 20—21 inches when born, 26 inches at six
months, 29 inches at 12 months; baby should start
to walk from about the fourteenth to the seven-
teenth month; baby should start to say words at
one year; and short sentences by the second year,
or thirteenth month; baby's birth should be reg-
istered by your doctor, it often saves trouble when
she is grown and means positively that she is a
citizen of her country; be sure that baby’s bow—
els move every day, convulsions are caused by
failure to remove the waste from the body; rock-
ing, tossing and tickling are bad for baby’s ner-
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(TONVl‘LSIONS

It is very important that a mother should know
what to do in case of convulsions until the doc-
tor arrives. Keep the child perfectly quiet with
ice at the head, says that authority, Dr. Holt's
baby book. Put the feet in a mustard bath. and
roll the entire body in large towels which have
been dipped in mustard water (two heaping tab-
lespoonfuls of mustard to one quart of tepid wat:
w‘ owl have plenty of hot water and a bath tub
at hand; so that the doctor can give a hot bath
if he thinks it advisable. If the convulsions have
continued until the pulse is weak, the face very
pale, the nails and lips blue, and the feet and
hands cold, the hot bath will be useful by bring-
ing the blood to the surface and relieving the
heart, lungs and brain. The temperature of the
bath should not be over 106 degrees F., this should
always be tested by a thermometer if one can be
obtained. Without this prcI-aut'on in the ex—
citement of the moment, infants have frequently
been put in baths so hot that, serious burns have
been produced. it no thermometer is available
plunge your arm to the elbow into the water. It
should t'cc‘ warm but not so hot as to be at all
uncomfortable. One half a teacup of powdered
mustard added to the bath often adds to its efﬁ-
cacy.

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This is croup weather. and no doubt a great,
many mothers have been alarmed by this disease.
The ordinary croup of infants is spasmodic croup
and though it is rarely dangerous, the symptoms
seem very alarming. The same authority tells
that in the case of an infant with croup, the room
should be very warm, hot cloths 0r poultices
should be applied over the throat and either a
croup kettle or an ordinary teakettle kept boiling
in the room. This is more efﬁcacious if the child
is placed in a tent made by a raised umbrella
with a sheet thrown over it, and the steam intro-
duced undm‘ the tent. If the symptoms are ur-
gent. ten drops of the syrup of ipeeac should be
given every fifteen minutes until free vomiting oc-
curs. Whenever the symptoms reach a point where
breathing is difﬁcult, a doctor should be sum-
moned without delay.

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A List of Clothing for the New Baby
HREE FLANNEL bands; three knitted
bands with shoulder straps; two doz-
en diapers; three ﬂanhel shirts, cotton

and wool, or silk and wool; three ﬂannel
shirts, Gertrude style; four nightgowns; at least
six dresSes and slips, the more the handier; three
ﬂannel sacques; two pairs bootees; two ﬂannel-
ette wrappers; cloak; silk bonnet; worsted cap;
mittens; stockings.

Canned Chicken Conserves Meat

LTHO CANNING of chicken is a new idea

to many farm wives, there is no reason

why it cannot be done successfully with no
other equipment than is found in the average
kitchen. A waterbath canner may be made of a
bucket, lard can, wash boiler or any vessel with
a tightly—ﬁtting lid. The vessel must be deep
enough so that the water will come at least an
inch over‘the top of the jar. A false bottom is
necessary to keep the jars from breaking. For
the woman who has canned fruits and vegetables
by the cold pack method, the canning of chicken
offers no difficulties, since the method used is
much the same.

“Even the amateur can do this

 
SOME LETTERS

EAR EDITOR, writes Lucy Lute,
I‘m just simiecn and rather cute.
My hair is b7 own, 111 1/ face half right.
How can 1 make my cycs 31 em bright!
Dear Lucy Lute, I 11 ould advise
You let some smiles come in your eyes.
Be cheerful, Lucy. and you’ll sec
How very bright your cycs will be!
EAR EDITOR. writes Jennie Linn,
I‘m awful (all and awful thin.
I’m sort of one of Nature's jokes.
How can I make (I- hit with folks?
Dear Jennie, just forget plain you,
Of others think, for others do!
Be good 10 others and you'll ﬁnd
That they‘ll be good to you. and kind.
EAR EDITOR, Irritcs Margie Sands,
What can I do about my hands?
They are not pretty hands at all,
Not smooth enough, and they're not small
Dear Margie. just take my advice
And folks will think your hands real nice.
Just help your mother and she'll know
How strong and helpful bands can grou‘!
EAR EDITOR. writes Mabel Sivcct,
I'm worrying about my feet.
Such (litik‘wfll‘d feet as I havc got!
Though [ don't grow. fhcy (II'UH‘ 11 lot!
llcar Mabel. if your fccf cuch day
Take you along your chccry way
And hclp you, scuilcr killtlllt'b‘b‘tbs'
I gucss fhcy‘ll bring you hoppincss!
HA I" LORD. I think you did just right
thn you made heaven out of sight.
For if you had a street address-
You'd II(I'l‘(’ (1 lot of carcs. l gums!
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’I‘hcy‘rl 11‘1171'! (hcir fcafurcs rcorrongcd.’
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work successfully if she follows directions :are-
fully,” says Miss Wenona Windsor of the Missouri
College of Agriculture.

There is no question but that the best place for
cull chickens is in a jar, ready for table use. Can-
ning changes a non-productive fowl from a liabil-
ity into an asset. Such a chicken does not, eat
high priced feed, does not require daily attention
and takes up much less space on the pantry shelf
than it does in the poultry house. At a few mom-
ents notice the canned chicken can be prepared
for the table in any one of many appetizing ways;
fried chicken, smothered chicken, stewed chicker
with dumplings, creamed chicken, chicken a la
King, chicken and rice, croquettes, loaf. salad, or
practically any any way fresh chicken can be
prepared except baked whole.

Method 1 given below is for small, frying-sized
chickens. Methods 2 and 3 may be used for
chickens of any size. -

Method 1. Dress the chicken, separating it iii-
to sections or leaving it whole as preferred. Seas-
on try as for serving. When the meat is
three-fourths done remove from the ﬁre and pack
the pieces into a clean, hot glass jar. If the

and

 
BREAKFAST FILLEBS—POTATO LEADS

Count over your breakfast ﬁllers—hominy, po-
tatoes, apples. Cross of)? hominy for the present.
The new crop of corn is not yet hominy, and
when it is it will keep for winter and spring.
That leaves you apples or potatoes or both The
big crop of potatoes calls for the service of all
housekeepers. The growers stood by the ﬂag,
and now—the housekeepers must stand by the
growers. That is their service.

Fried potatoes, haShed brown, creamed?
Cross off fried potatoes Try some new ways.
Frying' means fat trouble, and often a poor
food product. And fats must be conserved care-
fully. Hashed brown potatoes please every one,
and though they are usually regarded as a. hotel
luxury, you can turn out a better dish at home.

ﬂashed Brown Potatoes—Chop 6 boiled pota-
toes and season with butter, salt and omon and
parsley chopped ﬁne. Moisten with milk and
mash lightly. Place in a hot greased pan, pref—
erably an iron skillet. Spread potatoes evenly
over the pan. Cook until golden brown. Fold
over like an omelet and serve.

Creamed Potatoes—Cut boiled potatoes into
cubes. Cover with milk and cook in a shallow
pan until milk is nearly absorbed. To each p1nt
of potatoes add half a teaspoon of salt, a dash
of red pepper and a little chopped parsley.
Thicken the milk with a teaspoon of flour stirred
into a tablespoon of fat. Serve in pan in which
cooked.

Savory Potato Loaf Three cups hot riced po-
tatoes,'ha1f cup of sausage meat, two table-
spoons of milk, one teaspoon chopped parsley,
half teaspoon salt, half teaspoon grated onion.
Mix together all ingredients. Place in a baking
dish and bake half an hour. Serve from dish.

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chicken is whole break the neck and legs, roll
the chicken up into a small roll, tie with string
or fasten with tooth-picks. A quart jar should
hold two or more chickens. Pour over the chick-
en the hot liquid from the frying pan, if neces—
sary adding hot water to ﬁll the jar completely.
Adjust the rubbers and tops. leaving the latter
slightly loose. Place in a waterbath canner and
sterilize from 90 to 120. minutes, depending upon
the size of the chicken. Remove and tighten the
covers immediately. -

Method 2. Dress the chicken and leave whole
or cut into pieces as preferred. Cover with boil~
ing water and simmer until the meat can be sep-
arated from the bones. Return the bones to the
liquid and boil it down one-half. Pack the meat
eloselv in hot glass jars, add one level teaspoon-
ful salt to each quart and ﬁll the jar with the
hot liquid. Adjust the rubber and top, leaving
the latter slightly loose. Sterili 2133 to 3 1- 2 hours
in a waterbath canner. Remove and tighten the
tops immediately. The liquid remaining may be
placed in a jar, sterilize 90 minutes and kept for
soup or gravy. Two pounds of dressed fowl should
make one pint of solid meat and a pint of thick
stock.

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converient sections. Pack into glass jars, add one
teaspoon salt to a quart, fill the jar with boil-
ing water. adjust the rubbers and tops as above
and sterilize in a waterbath canner 3 1—2 to 4

hours.

Sugar Trimmings

First cross off soda fountain and ice cream treats.

Reduce candy consumption to an after-dinner
bonbon.

Omit icing from cakes and fancy breads.

Use fruit and nuts, candied honey or
sugar for cake fillings.

Try cakes that call for honey or sirup instead
of sugar.

If you must sweeten breakfast cereals. try figs.
dates, raisins, sirup or a light sprinkl'ng of maple
sugar.

Use honey, corn sirup. dark sirup or maple sirup
with hot cakes and in bread and mufﬁns.

Tide over the sugar shortage by using 110111 your
jellies, jams, preserves, and fruits canned with
sugar. _

Replace white sugar candies with sirup can-
dies, or sweets made from ﬁgs, dates, and raisins
combined with nuts.

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Dear Anne Campbell Starkszou ask in the
M. B. F. for us to tell how we are doing our little
bit to help end this terrible war. I am sewing
and knitting for the Red CI‘OSS society, also knit-
ting for friends that are gone, sending little gifts
of cheer and writing postcards to other mothers’
boys in camp, and last, but not least, have just
bidden goodgbye to ‘a dear boy from my own home,
feeling proud of him for going freely to do his
little bit and trying to cheer up other lonely
homes.—~From a Lonely Mother, Ortonville.

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Augustus Harmon raised 700 bush-
els of beans from eight acres. He sold
the yield at $9 a bushel. (?)—Char-
lotte Republican.

 
Edward Walsh, the stock buyer, ship-
ped 60 hogs and 45 head of cattle that
cost him $4,000. In the shipment were

.15 hogs bought of Nelson Plude of

Grout for $452.—-Gladwtn County Rec-
0rd.

H. E. Peters sold 40 head of thoro-
ughbred cattle for $11,009.00. Twenty-
one of them were yearlings or calves.
Mr. Peters lives about 2 1-2 miles
east of Elsie and has shown his stock
at the Clinton county fair many times.
——St. Johns News.

 
Corn experts from the M. A. C. in
looking over Frank Steffey’s corn ﬁeld
recently estimated 500 bushels of. good
ripe corn, and said that the price would
be at least $2 per bu. in the ear, owing
to the scarcity of ripe corn—Stock-
bridge Brief-San.

 
The past season F. C. Remington
sold from a little less than 5 acres
54,490 pounds of grapes, the cash re-
ceipts for same being $1,406. Mr. Rem-
ington fertilizes heavily and sprays
thoroughly and gives his vineyard
good care in every way—Lawton
Leader.

Chas. Worth of Athens township,
had a big potato yield this year.
From one and three-quarters acres
he sold over two hundred dollars’
worth of tubers and had sixty bu-
shels in addition for his own use.—
Union City Register.

 
A very unusual sight is to see a silo
built on a solid foundation tilt over
when full of ﬁensilage. The 12x36 ft.
silo on the Arthur White farm tilted
over about ﬁve feet, fortunately how-
ever, it was stayed before crashing
into the barn.——0nsted News.

 
Dogs have again made a raid on
sheep near here. This time at the W.
W. Slote farm where a ﬂock of 60 be-
longing to Mr. Slote and Ed. Mecklen-
berg. ﬁve were killed and ﬁve were so
badly injured that they will probably
die. Five others were bitten, but it
is believed they will women—Constan—
tine Advertiser-Record.

 
W. L. Doyle reports the closing of
the local beet weighing station, with
but 645 tons of beets received. Four
years ago this station received over
3,000 tons. Because of the abnormal
bean market of late years farmers de-
voted their land to that product, but
the man who grew beets this year was
the winner—Clio Messenger.

 
There is a forty-acre apple orchard
in Gunplains township, Barry county,
that has nothing but Northern Spy
apples. Last year 0. W. Brayman of
Grand Rapids purchased it for $23,000.
He gave the orchard expert care this
Year with the result that he has just
harvested a crop of 12,000 to 15,000
bushels of apples which he sold for
an average of about $6.50 per barrel.
The entire crop produced over $25,000.
~Allcoan Gazette.

 
John Loucks, owner of what is
kIlOWn as the Church farm, near Map—
le Hill cemetery, will at once place 50
COWS uDon his place, and Berry Sess-
ions, On the former Harry Towe farm,
already has 50 cows and will as early
as possible add 20 more. Barns on
how Names are being completely re-
modeled inside for dairy purposes
with new stalls, mangers and ﬂoors.
The Clever Bros. have the work in
charge, It may be added that these
bUilders are contemplating placing
themselves in shape .to manufacture
90W stanchions and other dairy build-
lng ﬁxtures—Charlotte Leader.

That the upper peninsula is border-
ing on a hay famine was the asser-
tion of a commission man. He says
hay is now selling at from $25 to $35
a ton wholesale, with very little to be
had at that price. He does not be-
lieve there is an actual shortage of hay
this year, but trafﬁc conditions and

, ment of ﬁve months’ old wether lambs

.cultural section assume a position of

bad roads .which prohibit the farmers
from hauling in hay, are responsible
for present conditions.

 
Cloverland May lambs marketed in
Chicago when 5 months old, to return
the owner $11.98 per head, is George
M. Mashek’s proof to be oﬁered west-
ern sheep men as to the sheep- raising
possibilities in this district, states the
Escanaba Press. Mr. Mashek’s ship-

hung up an average weight when de—
livered at the Chicago stock yards of
74 pounds. The shipment was sold at
the time of the market for the day,
was $16.50 a hundred, thus netting the
owner nearly $12.00 a head.

 
Although ﬁgured as an off year, says
the Lawrence Times, some idea of the
magnitude of the apple industry in this !
immediate vicinity can be gained
when it is known that the two Law-
rence cooper shops which have just
completed the season’s work, have be-
tween them manufactured about 20,-
000 barrels. T. J. Sweet closed down
Tuesday and his factory turned out
very nearly 11,000, and the Bunnell
factory made about 9,000. Practically
all these barrels were sold to the apple
growers of Lawrence and Arlington
townships and it would perhaps be
safe to say that 5,000 barrels were
used by these growers which were not
bought here. As these i“.ll‘l’els are
practically all shipped from Lawrence
it gives a grand total of in the neigh-
borhood of 25,000 barrels of. apples, to
say nothing of several cars of cider ap-
ples and bulk stock which was not bar-
reled. With apples bringing from four
to seven dollars a barrel there is lit-
tle doubt that the crop in our terri-
tory is worth at least $100,000, and
when the peaches, pears, cherries,
plums and small fruits are counted
the fruit products of this great agri-

 
importance.~—Lawton Leader.

RESUME OF WAR
WORK IN STATE

 
(Continued from page 2)
time, taken on government contracts
which precluded releasing any men.

While it is true this factory help
in many cases (lid not satisfy. never-
theless the great majority of the tarni—
ers who .were forced to utilize this
labor did not complain on the theory
that city men were in most cases try-
ing to be accommodating and patriot—
ic at the same time, which made cens-
sure seem like rather scant appreci-
ation. Labor Commissioner, l-lon. It.
ll. Fletcher, directed his, employment
bureau heads in various parts of the
state to give farm labor applications
and requests preferred attention, and
hundreds of men were sent out to
farmers through this medium.

Railroads Display Iv'ixnc Spirit

Early in the campaign the question
of transportation loomed up as an im—
portant angle. Accordingly all of the
railroads of Michigan were asked to
send a representative to Lansing, and
at that meeting the transportation
heads agreed to handle as preferred
shipments any seed or fertilizer that
carried one of the tags designated by
the committee.

Michigan railroads since the crea—
tion of the War Preparedness Board
have maintained an ofﬁce in the state
house under the direction of their
capable secretary Mr. C. E. Webb, and
many shipments have been speeded
up through their attention to com—
plaints ﬁled with the Food Prepared—
ness Committee and in turn referred
to Mr. Webb’s ofﬁce.

Many concrete examples could be
told of the value of this work, notably
the service given a tractor shipment
that reached Alpena from a Wiscon-
sin point before the local committee
headed by the Hon. H. K. Gustin _was
prepared to unload it. The Mlchigan
Agricultural College department made
good use of many of these tags thIS
fall in the shipping of their Red Rock
wheat and Rosen Rye seed stocks t0
the various parts of the state. People

generally are apt to criticise the rail-

 
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at so low a cost to you.

  
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for Policy
25c. per H. P.

Some Day, Mr. Business Farmer,

this may happen to you; what then? A Michigan jiiry has awarded
$5,000 to the victim of an auto accident.

CITIZENS MUTUAL FIRE, THEFT
AND LIABILITY INSURANCE

Tell us what car you own on a postal today!

  
.THEFT ' LiABjL

Wm. E. ROBB, Sec’y

CITIZENS MUTUAL AUTO INS. CO.,
Howell, Michigan

 
Can you afford the risk? No

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road at the slightest excuse. We found
these rail chiefs intensely human, and
deeply interested in their part of this
campaign.

Somcthing of the Conunillcc

While this article is necessarily a
very limited resume of the work, to
say nothing of: the exhaustive details
carried on by this organization, it will
be entirely incomplete to (lose it with—
out a reference to the patriotic and
high-minded public service rendered
this commonwealth by the members
of this committee, personally and col-
lectively. With the exception of Mr.
l\lc(“ormick. the upper pcninsulaymem—
her who received his actual traveling
expenses. this Committee worked with-
out a pcnny of salary or expense. All
members of the committee traveled
quite extensively about the state
speaking on matters associated with
the work of the committee, in addi-
tion to attending the regular meetings
held at the Capitol sometimes as often
as once a week.

It is a fine commentary that suc-
cessful men of the high character of
this committee can be enlisted for such
an assignment, carrying with it the
usual hazards of public life and tossed
about between failure and success by
seasons that were as treacherous as
they were unusual. for in the minds
of many the early August frost was
due to the ofﬁcial inertia of the Food
Preparedness Committee.

In conclusion, an unbiased observer
will find plenty of proof to sustain
the brief existence of the Food Pre-
paredness Committee which ofﬁcially
expired November 1st, when the duties
previously handled and records col-
lected by this organization were for-
mally turned over to Federal Food Ad-
ministrator Hon. George A. Prescott
of Tawas City, whose position carries
deﬁnite authority and is for the period
of the war.

AVERAGE MICH. PRICES
WEEK ENDING DEC. 1, 1917

 
Oats, 64c; Wheat, $2.03; Eggs,
410; Rye, $1.641A); Hens, 15c; Pota-
toes, $1.07; Butter, 420; Hogs, 141/20.

 
WANTED

Men for the Woods. Lumber Jacks
Coal Miners
Laborers for Coal Mine

Free Railroad Fare. Steady Work.
KlNCAlD, 71 W. Fort St., Detroit.

 
' Est. 1853 Capital $600,000.00 Inc. 1889
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Feed. Grain,

Saves Money. Delivered carloi quotations

furnished.

GRAIN GROWERS GRAIN CO. Minneapolis, Minn

 
ARRIGI) ROCK (‘OCKL‘RELS for sale,

$2.00 to $500 each for strain with
records to 200 eggs a year. (‘irculur free.
Fred Astling, Constantine, Mich.

 
19A RM ICXC HANG IQ LIST

Send for our list of Detroit properties
offered in cXi-lntng‘e for farms. \Ve may
have something you want. \VAL’l‘ICR C.
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IRII’ORTANT NOTICE TO OUR
SUBSCRHHCRS

 
\Ve desire to thank the hundreds
of subscribers who have been so
prompt in paying their subscrip-
tion according to their pledge. Only
a comparatively few have failed to
remit, and we take this opportunity
of reminding them of the fact. There
may be many good reasons why
these have not been able to send
in the money as they promised. If
they do not have the money to
spare just now, we will gladly ex-
tend their time until it is conven—
ient, but we’d ,apprecinte their
writing as and explaining the cir-
cumstances, at least. \Von‘t you 1
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What Detroit offers._ Think‘ what it

o B means to learn in the Michigan State Auto School.

Factories endOrs'e our school, glad to employ our gradu-
ates. Unlimited opportunities. 71% of Automobiles are made
in Detroit. You’re right in the Heart of the Auto Industry. Men are
needed everywhere as testerS, repairmen, chauffeurs, garage men and
Hundreds of our graduates start in business for themselVes.

 
salesmen.

. Earn $75 to $300a Month

We teach you to handle any auto proposition. Y on graduate in from ten to twelve weeks. Our equip-

ment is new, up—to-the-minute, and complete. No old obsoletemotors, chasses or electrical equipment used.
Students actually build cars from start to ﬁnish, gettingfactory training in assembling, block-testing,road-testing,
everything. Special complete course in Oxy-Acetylene brazmg, welding and cutting, separate from regular course.
Also complete course in Tire Repairing separate from Auto Course. Learn to .time motors, rebore cylinders, adjust
carburetors, niagnetos, valves and bearings quickly and accurately. SIX-CYlIIld'eI‘ LOZleI‘, Chalmers “6”, Detroiter “6”, Over-
land, and 8—cylinder king are used for road instruction. We have 25 motors in our block testdepartmenh—Z cyl., 4 cyl., 6 cyl,,
8 cyl., and 12 cyl. Our electrical department is complete, having every standard starting, lighting, and ignition system, includ-

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lEl Three classes daily: morning, afternoon, evening. All instructors are mem-

  
. DetI'Olt is the Place to Learn-'5tal‘t/any time bers of the Society of AutomobileEngineers (S.A.E.)
There are 44 auto factories in Detroit and vicinity and 140 ac- FACTORIES ENDORSE OUR SCHOOL

cessories and parts factories. Our students have the privilege of The Leading Automobile factories in Detroit, as well as in. other cities.
/ going tln‘u any or all of them. Students get actual experience in hand- endorse our school. They have been watching our school and graduates for
ling all kinds of electrical auto equipment and taking care of trouble years and are satisﬁed. They are putting their latest model, complete chas-
We have a Sprague Electric Dynamometer for block-testing purposes for ses in our school for students to work on. ‘They are employing our gradu-
students’ use. Ours is the only Auto school having this equipment. Fac- ates in their factories and service stations and assisting them in opening
tories and garages are paying big salaries to men who know how to handle garages and salesrooms. They allow our students to go thru their factories.
electrical equipment quickly and properly. There is a great demand for The Michigan State Auto School in Detr01t, the heart of the Auto Industry.
Michigan State Auto School students. School open all year. Enter classes is endorsed by the Leading Auto Factories, is receiving their hearty co-opera-

any time, any day. tion.

Complete Tractor Course New Given-J: REE

With the co-operation of one of the largest trac- '

 
INTERNATIONAL HARVES’I‘ICR COMPANY .or manufacturers in the world, the International
i’llgcglggiggd‘} Harvester (30.. we have arranged a complete course

'llurycsiers and Other Lines of hlacliinen' ill the ‘ial'ey repair, maintenance alld operation Of
llzii‘ycstcr Building. the farm tractor. This course 18 given Free to the

l‘liicugo, November 20, lfll”. :tudents taking the complete Auto Course. It is
iir. A. H. mum: l'l‘csidclit, not a make—shift course but is complete in every

 
Michigan Slntle {Wit} till“?ﬂl. respect. Students will be given instructions in
ci'oi,.ici , , v, .. . .

“M”. Mr, 7‘01“”..kﬂwtm, :1 WV). ”worm 9,“,th .ipeiating the I, II. C. 'litaii Trattm undei actual
”mm (,r 3“,”. WWW]. “.0 an. satisﬁed that it will i... working conditions. 'Ihey Will do actual wmk.
:i yci'y \\'i.\'c lliing‘ for 'us to co—opci‘utc Willi .V'Illl- The Titan 10-20 uses kerosene and operates at a
Y” ”I." ”WWW” “mil”? ‘” 91"” ””19"" l” ”'.‘ vorv low expense. It has a special kerosene car-
siiuctiou puiposcs, onc oi our litiin ill—-0 iléli‘ilil';. ' . . . , , , -
“Hi-“um. “.m, ”,1 “mm, (.mnnmmqy “Humbug r,,,~ buretor With many big impiovements. I‘lie Titan
block tcsl and a complete transmission. 10—20 has become popular wherever “Mid and has

\\c urc rcmly lo (‘(l~ll|')(‘li.'lil‘ Willi you in tlic cxi had a big sale. There is a big demand for com.
(“(‘li"lli \xorh you are doing by gtying your school _ . ,
:11] um (lulu. :ind iiii‘ol‘iiiuliiiii not only on tractors, petent practical tractor mechanics and operators. Many states are planning
ill” ".” ‘.""“m“’“‘" “‘““"'””Y ”m "f”.l 1'“ “5“‘1 I" ‘1‘“ to loan tractors to the farmers. Thousands of men will be needed. Use
\clopmc thoroughly practical. cllicicnt ti‘uclor op— .
croloi's and mechanics. ('()lll)()11'“TNOW-

Your practice of co—opi-ixilinu; \\'liil llic l'uctol'ics‘
is ycry <.:oirimciid:ililc. for it brings toucihcr the his;—
g'ost iiioii :iiid mos! succcssl‘ul idi-us to lio lind. Art
you know, iill'l‘l' is :iii ui'u‘cut domniirl i'oi' ti'ucioi' ero anes are t 6 es 0 ' e rm
men who arc ti‘uiucd :iiid ciliciciit. \Vnr lius iul<cn
thousands of HIV“, from tho i‘ui‘ms‘ :ind tlicsc will
linyc to be ri-pluccd and thousands more will lH‘
necdci‘. to cow for tlic big crop increases. A course in Aeroplane lVlOi;

\Vc \vill sz‘lridly co—opci‘ulc with the Michigan - . ' ein
State Auto School through our ninety branches in m hieclldllltb 1&8 8110:] Sb WE
tlic ['iiilcd States in placing your ti'zictor m-mim taught At the . . . . .
:itcs. There is It constant demand for competent have Clll‘tlSS Aeronautlcal
trained ti‘uctor men at very good wages. "Vlolors for practice and study

Very truly yours. ‘ , ”W, 7 . . . . -
International llurycslci' l‘oinpziny of .\llll‘l'l(‘2l: DUIDOSLN, Vie dlzjo llldve £021

Signoil by l<‘. \rV. llclskcll, Advertising- Manager. plete .Aeiop (tile ant a 510.

quantity- of aeroplane mater-

 
ial. Students get practical 7 _. ;_ .. _ 3..
instriiclions on the Aeroplane Motor and complete knowledge of the plane in general. The course is under direct super- Not a One-Man School
vision of zi (‘iirliss expert who is an authority on aeromotors and aeroplanes. Weeks have been spent in perfecting this This school is founded on

com-Sp. ll 15 mmrpiy separate from our Automobile course. Acroplanes will w’n the war. They are the eyes of the the best, most practical and
army. They must he in perfect running condition. Thousands of keen, well trained men are needed by the Government to Pe‘V'efillmncgples 1‘“ the Alla
-. _ ‘ ‘ . . ‘ .. . ‘ ,. ( ‘ , . ‘A . . _ , x ., _ _. , ‘ _ . . .omon e, A ei'opane an
(air, 101 the aeioplanc inolois and dUODldllCS. Men (lit, needed in the aeioplaiic tattones. Tlcllned Aeio Motor Mechanics Tractor business. It is the
“.1“ get I)relpr(i11(~e_ . result of the keenest co-op—

eration with manufacturers.
service stations, garages and

' o - 0 owners. lt is not one. man's

idea, but the ideas of the

Money Back Guarantee. et Into ls ew [1 us ow biggest, best and most suc-
“'c gunrunlcc to qualify you in a short cessful men in each ﬁeld.

timc for a position as cliaui’t‘ciii', I'(‘))2lll‘ A. (i. ZELLICR. President.

 
2 i szi csnuiii. tcs or, dcmoiisli'utoi'. “"ll‘- . . . , . .
1.11;: ' ”Hi” .Hmmmim‘, (10.1191. .H,,.,,I,’f’.:m, Men who become trillllt’d Aeroplane Motor Mechanics now \Vlll lie the big
mop”. n,,.,.imm(. ”1. ”mm”. Uppnum. mp- men in the aeroplane business. A short time ago the automobile business was DETRO.T

clnmic. imyinu‘ from $7.7 to $300 monthly, starting, the men who got in then are the Big Men now. The Aeroplane busi-
or refund your moncy. new is in its infancy. The war will give it it big start. The Work is extremely [HE "EA" 0F IﬂEAm I'DumY
interesting and will grow. Aeroplanes will be used for every purpose. Trained

Aero—motor Mechanics will always be in big demand in army and factories.

The far—sighted. keen fellows who enter at once will reap the big benefits. A
MICHIGAN STATE AUTO SCHOOL,

RI‘JFFNI) \YILL BE GIVEN T0 STUI)ICNTS (U‘LIAICI) T0 THY: :‘RNIY.
687-89-91 Woodward Ave,

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2272 Auto Bldg., Detroit, Mich., U. S. A.

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Michigan State Auto School

The Old Reliable School—A. G. Zeller, President 44. Q .
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