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Th?!fidépsndéfittFa'rm, Home and, Market Weekly, for MichigantB’usiness Farmers
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SATURDAY, JANUARY"'12th, 1918.

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i ‘ POTATO EXPERT “CON;- .

smusmnm: REVISION

twine s‘Latfgeiyfines'pansitlé? far? Put-ting Grades
into Effect This Year Asked to Recom-
mend Measures to Save Farmers
From Huge Loss

 

Ever since the present gradingmrules were put
into effect in Michigan, without the consent or coun-

sel of the growers, this publication has made repeat-'

ed attempts to fix the responsibility and place the
blame for__ the deplorable consequences that have
follpwed their compulsory observance in this state
and their almost total‘ disregard in other states.
Investigations completed some time ago lead us to
believe that those in'authority at Washington were
not so much to blame as certain individuals more
closely afliliated with the growers, who found the
present a good opportunity to test certain pet
theories at the expense of the growers.

Our first letter of protest on this matter was ad-
dressed to Mr. Lou D. Sweet, chairman of the potato
committee, who advised us to confer with Prof. C.
W. Waid of the Extension department at East Lan-
sing. Our second letter of ’protest was addressed to
Mr. E. P. Miller of the potato committee, who like-
wise advised us to confer with Prof. Waid, stating
that Mr. Waid had been endeavoring for several
years to secure better grading in this state. Letters
received from both the president and secretary of
the Wisconsin Potato Growers’ Ass’n, written at the
instance of Mr. Miller, also suggested that we talk
the matter over with Prof. Waid. Apparently, Prof.
Waid knew more about potato grading than any other
individual connected with the proposition, and so
we got in touch at last with Prof. Waid.

Before proceeding further we feel it is no more
than fair for us to state that we belieVe Prof. C. W.
Waid t0‘be doing a splendid work in behalf of
Michigan’s potato .industry. We believe his untir-
ing efforts to secure eradication of potato diseases,
and to improve the quality and increase the yield
in the state, is producing results, and that his un-
selfish work along these lines should be encouraged.
But when he attempts to decide matters of vital con-
cern to the growers, without being so instructed by
them, he far oversteps his authority.

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The scene opens in a room at the Tuller Hotel.

Detroit. The time is Saturday forenoon, Jan. 5th.
' Present: Prof. C. W. Waid, potato expert of the ex-
tension department of the M. A. C.; I. R. Waterbury.
member of the State Board of Agriculture and ed-
itor of a state farm paper; and F. A. Lord, editor of
MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING. The conference was
held thru the courtesy of Prof. Waid at the sugges-
tion of this publication. Mr. Waterbury, who as a
member of the Board of Agriculture, has more or
less influence over the actions of
the men affiliated with the college
and extension department, was
present at Prof. Waid's‘ invitation.
The purpose of the interview was
-to discover, if possible, the party
or parties upon whom the responsi-
bility of putting the potato grades
into effect rested, and With whom
the power to remove them lie. We
sought to secure this information
thru a series of questionss~ The
questions and answers are substan-
tially as follows: .

“‘Do you know, Mr. Waid, who
was responsible for putting the po-
tato grading rules‘into effect this
year?” _,

“The Food Administration. A
meeting was held at Washington

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sentatives of growers’ organizations were invited, and
the matter was discussed. It was the unanimous
opinion of all present that the potato grades should
be put into effect this year."
7 “Is it not a fact that’Michigan and Wisconsin
are the only two states in the union in which the
grading rules have been made compulsory?”

“To a certain extent, yes.

ally or effectively as in Michigan and Wisconsin.”

“Is it not a. fact, Mr. Waid, that Mr. E. P. Miller,
of the Food Administration, organized the Michigan
Potato Shippers’ Ass’n and the Wisconsin Shippers’
Ass’n last spring for the express purpose of securing
the-cooperation of the shippers in putting the grading
rules into effect? Isn’t it also true that he found
this comparatively easy to do because he was in clos-
er touch with the shippers of these two states than
with those of other states?”

“The reason that the shippers of Michigan and
Wisconsin -were organized,” replied Mr. Waid, “was
because these two states were considered representa-
tive states and it was felt that if the grading was

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Dealers Mix Potatoes

I have some news for you on the potato
grading. A farmer who was in the ware-
house at Bellaire saw a load of potatoes
graded and when the farmer who sold the
potatoes drove away, the warehouse man
took the No. 2 grade and threw them all
over the No. 1 potatoes in the car. Now
if that is not robbery,,I don’t know what
is. Do they all do that?—C. E. W'.. Central
Lakc. Mich“

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made compulsory here, other states would fall in
line.”

“May I ask. Mr. Lord,” interrupted Mr. Water-
bury at about this juncture, “what is the object of
this catechism. Don’t you think that it is our pat-
riotic duty to all turn in and help encourage in—
creased production instead of doing anything that
will keep the farmers from producing all they can
another year? What is to be accomplished by stir-
ring them up on this grading proposition?”

“Mr. Waterbury, I am amazed that you, a member
of the Board of Agriculture, and editor of a farm
paper, do not know the facts in this case or appre—
ciate the great injustice against the farmers of Mich-
igan. I should think that instead of counseling sil-
ence, you would lend your efforts to help remove
these obnoxious grading rules for the present year,
and thereby conserve the interests of the farmers.”

“The interests of the country come first,” replied
Mr... Waterbury.

“Who constitutes the ‘country’? Don’t you con-
sider the farmers a part of the country, and don’t:
you think their interests should be looked after?”

“We are looking after the farmers’ interests fully
as much as you, Mr. Lord."

“That may all be, Mr. Waterbury, but apparently
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WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE WET BEANS?

T IS CONSERVATIVELY estimated that thcrc arc a half million
bushels of beans still in the growers’ hands too wet. to place upon the
market. The drying facilities of the state are not largc enough to handle

them; already many have started to mould, and unless thc beans are dried
within the next sixty days they will be a total loss.
acting warden of Jackson state prison, has been trying to get financial aid
from the state to increase the drying and canning facilities of the prison,
in order to save some of these beans, but to date without success.

However, one of the largest elevator concerns in the middle west has
asked Michigan Business Farming to co—operate with them in saving these
beans. We are investigating the proposition now; if found practical, we
hope. tobe able to assist in saving bean growers of Michigan several million
dollars. Complete particulars will be given in the January 19th issue.

_ I understand that most .'
of the states are grading potatoes, but not as gener-‘

Edward Frensdorf,

BEET crowns WAW
TEN noun MINIMUM ‘

State Association” in session at Saginaw Declare
For Fifty-Fifty Division of Sugar Profit
and Leaves Decision to Food

Administration ‘

Over six hundred sugar beet growers of the state
gathered at Saginaw last Friday, January 5th, to
decide what prices they should have for their sugar
beets the coming year. The following recommenda-
tions were offered by State Market Director Mc-
Bride, and unanimously adopted:

“The Michigan sugar beet growers recognize the
national necessity of sugar production at the pres-
ent time. and will go to the limit of acreage for the
season that all the sugar factories may have their
maximum tonnage on the basis that will allow ade-
quate compensation as other crops. At the present
time sugar beets cannot be produced at a minimum
of less than $10 per ton; we recognize the necessity
of an adequate sugar price to be determined by the
U. S. Food Administration, and with wasteful and
uneconomic practices in handling the crop, result-
ing from established customs and competition.

We recommend the selection of a commission of
sugar beet growers to negotiate with the U. S. Food

Administration and manufacturers of sugar to secure

adequate basic. prices for sugar and sugar beets.

We recommend that this committee be authorized
to act immediately and ask that, deferral of sugar
beet contracts for lQlR. until this matter is determ-
ined not later than February lst, or as soon there-
after as possible. in case of adequate provision
being made for the production of beets that the
Michigan sugar beet growers pledge themselves to
aid in every way the sugar beet industry.

That, the commission also provide ways and means
for financing the sugar, beet growers’ organization
and to co-operate with other states in their work to
stabilize and maintain the sugar beet industry. We
recommend that the growers contribute 1 cent per
ton of beets for the maintenance of the Sugar Beet
Growers' organization, and the details of this to be
worked out by the growers’ committee. We further
recommend that this provision be made a part of the
contract. and the sum deducted by the sugar com-
panies for the purpose described.”

The Michigan Sugar Beet Growers’ organization
found its inception in the Saginaw Beet Growers'
Association, which was organized several years ago.
Last year the state Grange took the sugar beet
growers undcr its wing, and was largely responsi-
blc in securing the sliding scale arrangement under
which the 1917 tonnage will finally be paid for, viz:
$.22?» per ton (based upon present sugar prices).
This was accomplishcd partly thru the intervention
of Governor Sleeper, and was partly the result of a
rcsolution introduced in the legislature by a Detroit
roprcsentative asking for an examination of the prof-
its at the sugar manufacturing industry of the state.

in his report before the annual
session, Chairman Ketcham briefly
reviewed the work of: the past year,
claiming no little credit for the ore
ganization for what had been ac-
complished for the growers. He
presented figurest’rom the report
of the Federal Trade Commission,
made public last May to show that
the manufacturers were operating

a sufficiently wide margin to.

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that with a set price on wholesale.

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BIENNIAL MEET

 

- , Delegates From Thirteen ‘ States

Gather at Kalamazoo for the
Eleventh Biennial Session
of Co-Operative Or-
ganization

The eleventh biennial session of
the Ancient Order of Gleaners opened
Wednesday, Jan. 9th, at Kalamazoo,
with over 600 delegates present from
the thirteen states in which the or—
ganization is now chartered. Men
of national prominence took part in
the program, and topics of both state
and national import were discussed
at length.
vThe Gleaner organization, founded
twenty-three years ago in Michigan,
is rapidly extending its influence into
other states, and predictions are free.
ly made that in less than another de-
cade the organization will have estab-
lished its branches in every state in
the Union. The meeting at Kalama-
zoo, held as it was on the very thresh-
hold of the organization's greatest
field of activity, is looked upon as one
of the most important in- the organ-
ization’s history.

Mr. Grant Slocum, president of the
National Gleaner Federation, present-
ed the official address. touching at
length upon the many important prob
lems and duties confronting the farm-
ers of the state and nation. He re-
viewed the past work of the order
and showed step by step how it had
met first county, and then state needs,
until its scope had become of national
importance.

The speaker voiced the gratification
of the Gleaner organization over a
splendid advance of the prohibition
and equal suffrage movements and
prophesied complete victory of these
causes in the near future. The ad-
vantages and defects of the parcel
post were clearly explained, and the
speaker voiced his regret that there
seemed to be no satisfactory way in
which producer and consumer could
utilize this convenient mode of trade
to advantage at the present time. The
rural credits act, and government own-
ership of railroads, telegraphs and tel-
ephones were also favorably discussed.

Turning then to the specific needs
of this state, President Slocum ad-
vocated the commission form of gov-
ernment for the state; the substitution
of the site tax system for the present
system of taxation which levies
against personal property as heavily
as against real estate; Torrens sys-
tem of land transfers; increased taxes
on mine products; and cooperative
selling of farm products thru co-oper-
atively owned marketing organiza-
tions. The speaker paid a merited
tribute to the U. S. Department of
Agriculture, much of the work of
which is in charge of Assistant Sec-
retary Carl C. Vrooman, a staunch
friend of the farmers. and a far-see-
ing business man.

Criticisms were directed at the
State Marketing department, and at-
tention called to the fact that despite
the length of time the organization
had been in existence, only a single
successful co-operative enterprise had
been established along lines suggest-
ed by the department.

The speaker urged that something
be done at once to define the duties of
the marketing department, and either
make it an instrument of value to the
farmers or else prevent it from ob-
structing the cooperative efforts start-
ing‘with the farmers.

By far the most important recom-
mendation made by Mr. Slocum was

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OFFICERS
John C. Ketcham, Master
Dora M. Stockman_ Lecturer
Jennie Buell, Secretary
Frank Coward, Treasurer

Mrcn [CAN Bl'smnss FARMING,

tinned.

going.

MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE .

OFFICE OF TREASURER

Mt. Clemens, Mich.

Sirsz—through the courtesy of some of my friends I have
been receiving your paper for some time and wish to have it con-
1 am enclosing one dollar to pay for it one year. I cer-
tainly think it one of the best papers published for the farmer.

I can’t help but think the farmer is getting it. coming and

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
»- J. W. Hutchins
George B. Horton
N. P. Hull
Burr B. Lincoln
W. F. Taylor
J. W. Helme

Bronson, Mich., Dec. 27, 1917

Very respectfully, .
FRANK COWARD.

 

 

 

that the Government fix minimum
prices on the leading farm crops, and
he gave many excellent reasons why
this should be done and suggested a
plan of action.

An appeal was made to all Gleaners

to continue the splendid co-operatioir'

they had given the Government in ii-
nancing the war. He urged them to
buy liberally of Liberty bonds and
thrift stamps, and lend every effort to
help win the war. In this connection
he advocated a greater tax upon
wealth.

“Let me add,” concluded President
Slocum, “that the men and women of
this nation have a great work to do.
We are nearing a period of reconstruc—
tion and all should have a part in the
work. We must put personal ambi-

tion and selfish desires aside, and do'

our best for God, home and Native
land. ‘Co-Operation' means working
together for a common end; and let
that common end for which we are
striving be for the preservation of a
government ‘of tha people, by the peo-
ple and for the people.’ ”

AUCTION SALE OF DAM-
AGED OATS AT CUSTER

F. M., an Elberta subscriber writes
as follows:

“It is reported here that there are
thousands of bushels of cats stacked
up there in piles that have been dam-
aged by rain and lots of hay damaged
by water on account of a fire. Could
you look this matter up and see if it
could be purchased direct from the
government. We could use it for cow
feed if we could buy it for what it is
worth.”

We referred the matter to the com-
manding officer at Camp Custer and
have received in response the follow-
ing notice:

“Notice of Auction Sale at (amp
Custer, Michigan. Under the provis-

ions of paragraph 680 Army Regula-
tions, 1913, and approved Inventory.

and Inspection Report dated Decem-
ber 29th,‘ 1917, the Camp Quartermast-
er, Camp Custer, Michigan, will sell

for cashgto the highest bidder, at
Camp Custer, Michigan, on Wednes-
day, January 30th, 1918, at 2:00 pm.
the following quartermaster‘property,
viz: 245875 lbs. Oats. These oats are
slightly damaged by water but have
considerable value for feed for hogs,
chickens, etc. Sale will begin prompt-
ly at‘2200 o’clock p. m. and bidders
are requested to bring sufficient cash,
as checks will not be accepted. M. M.
Garrett, Major Quartermaster Corps,
Camp Quartermaster.”

MICHIGAN BEANS ARE
ALWAYS IN GOOD DEMAND

A state bean authority is reported
as having recently made the statement
that the government was not in the
market for Michigan beans, because it
could buy the western and Manchur—
ian beans at a lower figure.

“What keeps the price of Michigan

beans up,” says this authority, “is
that certain trade demands them. For
instance, I shipped only a few days
ago three cars of beans to Heinz at
Pittsburg. He wants and will have
Michigan beans.”
—We are at last getting nearer to the
truth about Michigan beans. The at-
tempt of the government to set a
price of $6.90 on its own purchases of
Michigan beans because it could buy
a poorer variety for that amount met
with such resistence from the growers
that the purchase of beans in this state
was finally abandoned. Altho the
government still has the authority if
it so desires to come into Michigan at
any time and buy beans, it is not thot
that it will do so. Therefore, the
Michigan price will depend largely
upon the prevailing' market prices.

It is true that there is no other bean
grown that compares with the quality
of the Michigan bean, and canners will
have this bean regardless of what they
have to pay.
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I think the paper will be a great help
to the farmer. l’ush it along by all
means. Elizabeth Thompson, Osceola
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Important Message Addressed -. to ,
All Milk Producers by: State
Secretary R. C. Reed

The Michigan Milk Producers’ As-~
sociation desires to call your\attention
to some very important facts.

First—Recently there has been a
very great increase in the amount of
milk coming into Detroit. The De-
troit supply has increased over 20 per
cent.

Second—Consumption has decreased
about 15 percent, duerto the following
reasons:

The United States Government is ad-
vising the conservation of all foods,
butter, cheese, cream and milk with
thgrest. The government has order-
ed the elimination of milk from some
of the baked goods, such as ‘bread.

The people of the cities have not
been educated to the food value of milk
and many think it is too expensive for
family use at the price fixed by.the
milk commission. Consequently this
surplus is growing larger each day.

The Detroit buyers cannot, contin-
ue to store great quantities of milk
in their refrigerators.

Remember that an. over supply, es-
pecially of a perishable product, is
a serious menace to any industry.

Another very serious fact is that cer-
tain producers have insisted upon ig-
noring the decision and finding of
their association and the Detroit Milk
Commission. They want to be inde-
pendent and are selling their product
to a party who is cutting the price
to a ruinous rate in the city. If this
continues, it will result in a milk
slaughter the like of which you “'we
never seen. The Detroit dealers can-
not continue to pay the commission
price for milk unless they can sell at
the commission price. If you ignore
the commiSsion findings and sell in-
dependently. your losses will be your
own choosing. We repeat to you again,
that the producer and buyer who will
not co-operate, who will'not be govern-
ed by the commission findings, are
a serious menace to their own inter-
ests. A stabilized industry is our on-
ly hope in this day of organized co-
operation.

Milk in Detroit today, at the com-
mission price, 14c per quart, is the
cheapest food product on the market.
but the people do not realize this. You
have never laid before them the fat‘s
concerning the food value of milk.
You have never advertised your pro-
duct.

Other industries organize, advertise
and co-operate. The farmer. in his
desire to be independent. wants to go
alone, and he does this always at his
own loss.

To relieve the present unfortunate
condition, every can of milk that
can be, should be kept out of Detroit
market for the next two months.

The Detroit distributors are ”now
making contracts with our Associa-
tion, by which they agree to accept

'no milk except that produced by mem-

bers of the Michigan Milk Producers’
Association. We advise all producers
to sign "the application and agreement
of the Michigan Milk ProduCers’ As-
sociation at once.

As. with a large surplus on hand, _
it is self—evidentathat a date in the-
near future must be fixed beyond
which we can no longer ask the De—
troit distributors to accept milk from
producers who are not members of'our
associaiton. ' -

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WASHINGTON, D. C.—-Nationswhol

  

came’the Kaiser at the Brest-Litovsk conference, with honeyed Words and sub-
terfuges. The German people wanted no indemnities and no anexations; they
-Were willing to let the peoples of the smaller nations now occupied by German
troops determine for themselves their form of government, but when asked
by the Bolsheviki to withdraw his troops from the disputed territory that the
people. might be left free to assert their voice without coercion, the Kaiser
balked and refused. And the Great Opportunity was lost. .Probably not again
shall Germany have so premising a time at which to sue for peace. Lastly,
comes Lloyd George of England, who in a recent ,great speech “opened the
door to an early and permanent peace if theGerman nation desired to enter.”
The British premier avoided all generalities and told the specific terms and
conditions under which the Allies would discuss peace terms. Here they are:

Complete restoration of Belgium.

Reparation as far as possible for devastated towns and cities.
Neutralization and internationalization of the Dardanelles.
“Reconsideration” of the “great wrong" done to France in 1871-—referring

‘ to Alsace—Lorraine. ~

. Establishment of an independent Poland—“comprising all genuinely Polish
elements, because this is necessary to the stability of western Europe.”
Arabia, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine——all entitled to separate

national conditions.

Russia—the British statesman left the future to decision of the Russian

people themselves:

Inhabitants of Germany’s African colonies to be “placed under an admin-
istration acceptable to themselves to prevent exploitation for the benefit of
European capitalists and of European governments.”

A great wave of confidence now sweeps the Allied nations.
already shown her desire for an early peace, but her selfish ambitions yet

blind her to all justice and to the peril she is in.

lermany has

But the German people are

awakening; peace promises have not materialized, and the'German people want

peace quickly.

At the same time, the recent utterances of the Allied govern-

ments have cemnted the confidences of the people, and the Allied forces now
gather their resources for a great united campaign against the central powers.
If Germany weakens from interior influences which now seems probable, she

will fall before the impregnable offensive of the Allies.

prediction of the day.

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That is the hope and

The Allied governments are expected to recognize the Bolsheviki within the

near future.

The refusal of Foreign Minister Trotsky to swallow the bait

prepared by the German Kaiser and his subsequent demands for a genuine
democratic peace and the right of smaller nations to determine their own form
of governm ,nt‘. has given the lie to the insinuatiou that the Bolsheviki leaders
Were in the pay of'the German government, and show that they may be trusted

to direct the destinies of the Russian people in the present emergency.

Amer—

i'an agents in Russia have recently admonished this government to be very
careful in its treatment of the Lenine representatives as the Lennie govern-
ment has a much stronger hold upon the Russian people than generally supposed.

* *

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As a preliminary step in the government’s operation of the railroads, the

railway executives have been asked to submit a statement showing muount of
capital required for the operation of their lines for the first six months ot 1
They are required to show in detail what-this money 1:; to be expended

year.

he

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for, and were asked to indicate what construction work they had none. way

could he stopped without detrii‘ncnt.

information

will gi

ye, l'nt-le Sam

some idea, no doubt, of the immense amount of money involved in the railroad
business. and show him what a stupendous job he has got into. 1
al McAdoo has notified all roads of new demurruge rates to take etlecl Jan. I :t.

on all lines.

)irector (loner-

'l‘hey are $2 a car for the first day after the first two free, days;

list for the SCt‘tllltiliuY;flnd$l add"tional for each succeeding day until the charge

per day reaches $10.
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As this is written plans are being
made by the suffrage leaders to force
' a vote Thursday, the 10th, on the wom-
an suffrage amendment. The result is
in doubt. both sides predicting a very
close vote.

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Next Tuesday the Senate privileges
and elections committee will resume
the hearing on Senator LaFollette’s
alleged disloyal, utterances during his

address before the Non—Partisan
League at St. Paul last fall. Wm.

Jennings Bryan will be a witness, and
will deny, it is understood. the state-
ments made by Sen. LaFollette regard
ing Mr. Bryan’s attitude toward war.
and his remarks about the sinking of
the Lusitania.

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Representative Jeannette Rankin,
the lady congress “man” from Mon-

tana, caused a mild stir in the house
the other day hen she introduced a
resolution providing “that this gov-
eminent recognize the right of Ire-
land to 1)" ical independence and
‘hat we account Ireland‘am ' ,9; those
countries for whose freedom and dum-
.‘ we are lighting." The reso‘“~

ov-ra
tion was referred to the 21' Tgn af-
t'a'rs committee. before which .“i 1::
Rankin will seek a hearing. Miss

Rankin also spoke briefly in favor of
the measure authorisfin" tb‘ secretary
of the treasury to lz-u' farm

(I once more the ’
For the first time since the beginning of
the War the chief belligerents have made public their war
aims and let the whole Wbrld know what they‘ are fighting
President Wilson mm: the initiative, the his “terms”

‘were clothed in rather vague and uncertain language but
left no doubtas to his attitude upon the general propositions involved. Then

' bonds. All in all, Miss 1Mnkin seems _

“to be deportinglherself quite 'ca-pably,
and is making 'splendid progress for
a novice. She professes to be trifle
lonesome among so many of the stern-
er sex, but
amendment, carries Miss Rankin will
have company of her own sex in the
next Congress.

 

URGES ESTABLISHING OF
COMMUNITY MILK PLANTS

“The more I study the milk prob-
lem,” said E. S. Brigham, Vermont
commissioner of agriculture, in a re-
cent addreSS before the Wisconsin
Dairymen’s Association, “the more I
am convinced the foundation of suc-
cess lies in the cooperation of dairy-
men of a local community in owning
a community milkplant.

“This is the time when business is
done in large units. The farmer who
has thirty or forty cows may be the
most eflicient producer because of the
personal attention he can give to his
herd, but he is not the most efficient
marketer. The product of the indi‘
vidual milk producer will make little
impression in the city market, but
the product of 100 producers, brought
together at a central plant located on
the railroad and processed to satis-
fy all health requirements, is a large
enough unit to command attention in
any market.

“Again, this is a time when an arti-
cle. to be readily marketable. must be
of standard quality. so that it, will
pass rapidly through the channels of
trade. Our problem is to make stan-
rard dairy products just as available
as standard oil, or any other standard-
ized commodity, the quality of which
no consumer questions. A dairy coni-
modity which will take the necessary
steps to bring together at a central
plant a marketable volume of stan-
dard milk has practically solved its
market problem.” Which remarks are,
in direct line with M. B. F. argument
on the same subject.

An lllinois arm paper recently
made the statement that it, 'as the
first farm paper to puhl’sh a summary
of the new draft rules and regulations
approved by the President, in October.
The paper in question published the
article on Novmnher :lrd and was not,
therefore, the li‘lllil'l‘ farm paper to
use it, as M. ll. lx‘. curried tho surn-
mary of the rules under its ll’a:<lrirrf:'~
ton letter on October Qith. However.
we shall forgive our contenrpornrp'
’I’llc Proirii' l‘ornzi'r for it’s one of
the few t'uriu papers which we he” re
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Major General Parker, Camp Custer
commandant, states that he has but eight
field guns to train three regiments ’of
fil'iil' "Y. while eighty guns are needed
for the work. The division is also short
of. trench mortarrs. A British officer has
been detailed for the work, and he brot
a number with him when he came from
France. These mortars have not been de-
livered and there is not a single one avail-
able. The division also ‘needs additional
machine guns, the number on hand being
inadequate. It is now expected that 17.-
000 men from Custer will be moved to
Waco, Texas, sometime during February
or March. The men will be used to fill
to war strength a skeleton u 't of the
regular army. It is also expected that
the- men who go to Waco will be sent to
France early next fall to finish their
training behind \the lines. The last 25
per cent of the first contingent will be
called to camp early in March.

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Latest reports from the Western front
indicate that unfavorable weather con-
ditions have brought a period of compar-
ative quiet. The usual artillery activity
goes on from day to day but trench raid-
ing during the past week has been reduc-
ed to the minimum. The Germans are.
said to be constantly adding reinforce-
ments to their forces there but whether
or not they contemplate an attack in the
near future is a matte; or conjecture. The
British campaign in the East continues to
meet with success and military authorit-
ies expect that the Austro-(‘lerman auth—
orities will soon find it necessary to send
reinforcements to the Ottomans. There
is also a, great deal of speculation at the
present time relative to a rumored \ustro-
German drive on Salonica. That this
drive is an imminent possibility is real-
ized by Allied authorites and all possble
steps are beng‘ taken to meet it.

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The Bolsheviki delegates to the Hermon
peace conference have returned to Firest-
l'litm'ski, accompanied this time by Leon
'l‘rotzky, bolsheviki foreign minister. The
Russian delegates are endenvoriuu‘ to have
the petrntiniinns mll'rierl on {it Stur'kilrllm
or other neutral tm-i'iti‘n'y. Turkey has
also presented her pence terms to Russia.
the document on its tune appenrimr to be
:r one—sided affair favorable in every way
to Turluy Germany is reported to have
tempm-wrily suspended the negotinthn‘s
with llussizi owing to their request for a
change of’ location.

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Analro—(‘lt-rmnn efforts in “My or)
about at n standstill and the Ti:lli;tlr< :U'o
:ig‘nio taking the oilieusiyo along t'vl'lnill
bot-lions ot' the line. \Vhile the (lnrurrr Fr
‘Teuiw- and the ltulinu plziins luis not been
wutir ‘lv removed and will not be until the
iuvml r': are driven back: still it is gen-
.mlly felt that the crisis has passed

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Administration

The National Food
.i Iv: llmt .\lfll‘l'l\'illll~‘
wally patriotic and helpful to the tlov-
er‘mnuiit in the. prosecution of the war
1Writ the use of sugar to .‘ltl pounds per
pwrmn :1, your. The French :tvei'usre l6
pounds per person (‘th‘h your, the “HQ."
'.‘ J . . , ‘
lash cl, \\hrle :\lllt‘l‘l<‘.‘lil\‘ are overnig—
in! till pounds per person since the \l.‘:ll‘
broke out. The French prior to the \'\'Jll'
overnight] til pounds per pursuit.

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who until H: be

Moro thnn LBS” colored men tairo
completed the course at the reserve or"-
tu'ers' training camp at Fort lies Moinew.
town. have been commissioned as old-
phynicinus nod surgeons have received
commissions as otlicers in the Medical
Reserve (‘orpka .«\ full fighting force (it~
Iltltloo colored soldiers. including repro-
serrtative‘: in all brunt-hes of military :~‘er~
vice,‘ will constitute the Ninetvseeontl
lhyision. to be detailed for duty in. France
under (.‘enerztl Pershing: ‘

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The retail price of milk in lvlng‘lam‘l
hits been advanced from ll to it} cents
per quart. The sale and use of (‘l‘i‘zll‘l
has been prohibited except for invalids.

infants, and butter making.
It i ’k
.=\ t'tcr July lst. 1918 all locomotives

inust lie.,,equippe(l with high-power head-
lights. Engines placed in service after
that date must be supplied with new lights
and old engines must. be so equippedthe
first day they are placed in the shop for
general repairs after that (late. ’

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Gasoline produetion in the United
States has increased from 35000.00!) to
Nominee barrels a year since 1914.

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The Government is soon to have an—
nounced the price. to be paid producers
for silver. It is said to be satisfactory
to them and will in all probability in“ $1
per ounce.

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Discarded civilian clothing of National
Army soldiers will be shipped to Belgi-
um for relief of :‘ilt‘t'erers. «v
. Guatemala city. cupitrtl of ’the repub-
11- or" (iilltl.t‘lllzl.iil, ltuly, was completely
(leslreye d by an earthquake on Christ-
mas day. The American Red Cross is
rendering aid.

  
   

 
    
       
     
   
 

 
 

 

   
 

   
 
  
  
    
   
  
  
  
 
   
   
 
  
  
    
   
   
 
  
   
  
 
   
 
    
    
 
    
 
  
   
  
  
  
  
   
    
   
  
    
     
        
    
  
 
  
      
  
     
   
   
     
  
   
 
     
     
     
  
 
   
  
 

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‘V'Much-‘Mooted Question Revived
This Year Because of Large
Bean Pick and Farmers
Ask M. B. F. Opinion
as to “Who Owns
the Culls.”

There has been a great deal of dis-
‘cu's'sion fpr years as to whether the
_ elevator should return the cull beans
to the farmer or whether, under the
Reardon schedule, the elevator pays
for the beans and is entitled to keep
them.

The question has been agitated this
year more than ever before because of
the unusually large percentage of
culls. Many farmers are protesting
vstrenuouslv erminst having ten to 20
pounds of their beans picked out. they
pay for the picking only to have the
elevators keep the beans. Ilere is
one of a score or more complaints
that have been laid before us since
bean harvesting began:

“The elevators bean pick charge
takes all the profit. is not that the
way most of the elevators do,‘ buy on
the Reardon schedule, deducting price
of beans and 4 cents for hand picking
them, and some are bold enough to
say they pay for them.”

MICHIGAN BUSINESS FAMHVG put
this question straight up to the man-
ager of one of the most successful co-
operative elevators in the state. the
other day: “Should the farmers re-
ceive back their cull beans. or else get
pay for them?”

“Yes,” replied this man,—and we
wouldn't hesitate a moment to accept
his opinion.

“The farmers ought to get paid for
' the‘r culls. They never knew it until

the farmers themselves got into the

elevator business. The elevator men
claim, you know. that‘the culls are
practically a dead loss to them. Of
course. I’m in the elevator business
but I don’t mind telling you that one
of our best sources of profit is in the
cull beans.”

Ask an elevator man this same
question and what would you get?
Why, he’d begin at once to talk about
the “Reardon Schedule" and tell vou
the thing had been all figured out. by
someone and that. of course the ele-
vator ought to have the beans.

We have examined the Reardon
schedule. but nary a word have we
discovered in it about cull beans. As
near as we can figure out. the only
useful purpose the Reardon schedule
serves is to establish a uniformity of
prices throughout the state. It effec-
tually removes any temptation what-

soever for any elevator man to pay "

more than his competitor for beans
of similar pick. ._ ‘
Under the old Reardon schedule. the
elevator men were SIIDYOSGO to dock
4 cents per pound for picking, but now
the elevator men claim that the cost
amounts to about 5 cents per pound.
Let us suppOSe that Bill Jones has
one bushel of beans he wants to sell.
He"..akes them to the elevator. The
prevailing price, just for instance,
you know, is $3 per bushel, or 5 cents
a pound. and the beans prove to be
one pound pickens. By taking out the
one pound of culls, there are left 59
pounds of good beans, worth 5 cents a
pound, or $2.95. But, the elevator man
charges 5 cents a pound for picking,
a legitimate charge which he also de
ducts, pays over to Bill Jones $2.90,
and keeps 1he culls. Immediately.
Bill puts up a holler and why should-
' n’t be. He grew the culls, they ori-
ginally belonged to him, and he pays
the elevator 5 cents for separz’tting
them from his good beans. The eleva-
tor buys the good beans but not the
(mils. He just keeps the culls and says
nothing. -‘ ' ' ‘
I It's as plainas the-nose on your
“ fatten- When the bean pick is light

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the' farmers do not care much about
the cull beans altho byright they be-
long to him. But when the pick is
heavy the cullsare worth considerable
money as 'h‘og feed, and the farmer
should have'them back ,by. all means.
The elevators this year are going
to make some good fat profits out of
the farmers’ cull beans unless some-
thing is done to prevent it. Ordinar-
ily, the farmers would have no pro-
tection. The dealers are organized
and the farmers aren’t.
can indulge in practically whatever
practices they desire, and the farmer
is helpless. ’But_\we can promise our
friends that an attempt will be made,
at least, to compel elevators to either

ray for the culls they keep or return

them to the farmer. - -

MILK PRODUCERS OF
THE DETROIT AREA

(Continued from page 2)

A very large proportion'ot‘ the De-

troit dealers seem disposed to treat ..

you fairly, and we are hoping in
years to come to secure to them a
a more uniform supply through the
months of the year, so as to avoid

The dealers C

and, fair in the treatmentuotflth

duCEr and buyer.‘. We propose to con: L

tinue this polidy, for upon such action
only can‘we hope to stabilize‘the dairy
industry in the Detroit area.

And, "in purs’uanCe of this“ thought '

and purpose we fear we will: be "com-
pelled to change our advice to the
farmer.

We have conscientiously advised in

the interest of food production and
soil conservation, the maintenance or
dairy herds, but we fear that .the best
way available at the present time to
avoid serious loss. is to follow the ex-
ample of all other successful indus-

tries'and to curtail production until .'

a point is reached where the industry
is stabilized and put on a paying basis.

We hear much about the- farmers’
obligation to supply cheap food to the
poor children of the city, but we hear
nothing about the city man’s obliga-
tion tosupply cheap shoes or clothing
to the children of the country; it
seems to us at the present time that
our only available recourse is to be
interested in our own over-worked
wives and children, remembering that
‘Charity begins at home."

Trusting for your co-operation, I
remain,

Very truly yours,
R. C. REED.
Field Secretary.

 

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INCREASE OF HORSES
IN THE BRITISH ISLES

The effect of the war on the horse
industry in the British Isles is strik-
ingly shown in figures announced by
the U. S. Food Administration. The
number of horses in England and Scot-
land increased slightly from 1916 to
1917, while “in Ireland there was a
small decrease.

The figures show a striking increase
in horses used foragricultural pur-
poses and a decrease in the number
used for pleasure and in mercantile
lines. In 1916 about 1,288.600 horses
were used for agriculture and in 1917
the number had increased to 1,320,383.
which is nearly'two-thirds of the to—
tal. The number of colts decreased
considerably, indicating less breeding.

THE CHEAPEST FOODS
ON ENERGY BASIS

Studies of retail prices for food and
the amount of vital energy obtained
from d‘fl‘erent foods are being made by
the U. S. Food Administration. The
last monthly summary. including 57

commodities, shows that 17 are cheap—'

er than bread (which is used as a
convenient basis for comparison) and
39 are. dearer than bread.

Staple foods, which form an energy
point of view, are relatively cheaper
than bread. and which American peo-
ple have been urged to use freely, in-
clude corn meal. rye flour, rolled oats,
hominy grits, corn syrup. rice and
sweet potatoes.

FOOD FIGURES OF
WORLD-WIDE SCOPE

Owing to difficulties in transporta-
tion from India, Great Britain is suf-

fering from a shortage of cottonseed.‘

Oil cake is to be sold only as food for
dairy cattle and pedigreed cattle. Al-
though the Egyptian crop of cotton-
seed has been bought by the British
government for distribution in Eng-
land, the general scarcity of cotton-
seed has caused a steady advance in
oil prices. Many of these prices long
ago reached the maximum set by the
Food Controllerand a higher schedule
of prices is expected soon.

New Zeeland”s"Whe‘at acreage for the

wearer AGRICULTURAL new are

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'new crop is estimated at 189,000 acres
as against 216,000 acres last year,
when the crop was 1,250,000 bushels
short of normal. Although it is one of
the most important wheat producing
countries of the southern hemisphere.

New Zeeland has this year been com~.

pelled to import 1,5500.000 bushels of
wheat from Australia. Early in No-
vember the supply of wheat and flour
in New Zeeland was scarcely enough
for two months’ consumption.

PRICE ON WHEAT BOTH
MINIMUM AND MAXIMUM

I would like to know just what the
outlook for wheat is. I understood

at the time the government set the'

price that the minimum price would
be $2.20 at Chicago and if the demand
for wheat would warrant, it would go
higher. Now they say the government
said wheat can’t go any higher than
$2.20 at Chicago but it can go as low
as the elevator men want it to. Idon't
believe that but would like to know

thru the Business Farming the truth.

—M. 3.. Flint.

The government's price of $2.20 at
Chicago is both maximum and mini—
mum so far as the farmer is concern-
ed. Any farmer who desire; to secure
$2.20 for his wheat could do so by
selling it direct to the government at
Chicago. He Would, however, be
obliged to bear all the expenses of
the transaction. It is not true that
local elevators may pay what they

'see fit for wheat. They are» required

to pay an amount which equals the
government's price. less charges to
the export market, cost of handling
use “fair practices," and the govern-
ment has requested that any instance
of elevator men figuring excessive
charges and exhorbitant profits be
called to their attention. You might
advise us what. prices your local ele-
vators are paying for No. 2 Red wheat

and we will tell you whether it is a »

fair price.

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Enclosed please find one dollar for my
subscription to M. B. F. I think your
paper is the most practical farm paper in
.I also think the farmer who
is not reading it is losing money. I am
wishing you success the.coming.year.———P.
W.. Charlotte. ' , -

We' think that. the Business “Farming "

is what every . business ‘ farmer needs.—
Frank Eglotf, Isabella county.

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Responsibilities and Opportunities. 7 f
of American Farmers Mtiifh ] '

_ Greater Than at‘Fi‘rst‘
SunnOSed ‘ " ‘

AUSTRALIANHWHEAT rfiosrno'rs, -

Due Chiefly to the shortage of labor- '
at seeding time, the new wheat crop
in South Australia is estimated' atW
26,000,000 bushels as compared with
last year's crop of"43,000,000 bushels.
Harvesting of the new crop has al-
ready commenced., ' .

Official reports received by the Unit-
ed States Food Administrationshow-
120,000,000 bushels of 'Australian old
wheat stiil'i‘n reserve but much is lia-p

-ble to damage from improper-storage, ‘
nor can it be marketed in Europe be-

cause of, insufficient 'ships and the
great distance. This condition pre-
vailing in one of the w’orld’s most ini—
portant wheat-growing countries in-
creases the responsibility of the Unit-
ed States for producing a large wheat
crop this year. -

DEPRESSING RUSSIAN CROP REPORT

Discouraged by low prices and gov- .“

ernment action on last year’s crops,
Russian farmers have‘reduced their
activity toward food production. The
acreage is less than last year and crop

conditions are classed as unfavorable.

FRENCH POTATO PRICES

Scarcity of food in France has re-
sulted in advanced prices for potatoes
beginning January 1, 1918, and con-
tinuing to the next harvest. Prices
to growers range from $2.87 per 100
pounds, for the fourth quality, to
$4.76 per 100 pounds for best quality.

Wholesale dealers are allowed a.
profit of 92 cents and retailers a profit
of $1.84 per 100 pounds of potatoes.
Before the war the total retail price
paid by consumers ranged from'
$1.56 to $2.60 per 100 lbs.

SWEDISH CONTROL OF WOOL

An official report on wool produc-
tion in Sweden states that the average
wool clip per sheep is 3.3-pounds. The
owners are allowed to keep only 2.2
pounds from their entire clip for each
member of the family. The remain-
der must be delivered to the govern-
ment. '
RECORD (‘ROP VALUES FOR. U 5..

Values of 1917 crops in the United
States based on prices paid farmers
have exceeded all previous figures.
Final reports also show that the fol-
fowing crops have established new
high production records: Corn, oats.
rye. white potatoes. tobacco, sweet
potatoes, beans and onions.

Because of the abundance of the
foregoing products, especially corn.
potatoes. beans and onions, the U. S.
Food Administration is urging their
liberal use. An important part of its
activities is to keep the public fully
informed of the amounts and kinds
of foodstuffs in the country.

What ttheighbors Say!

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I am sending you my dollar for»sub-
scription to Michigan Business Farming,
which is the best farm paper on the mar-
ket ——Flo_vd M. (lolc Jackson chunty.
at its a
beans and potatoes all cut by
frost. Will send it if I can. Think the
paper will be all right. You have al-
ways tried to help the farmer.——Wm. R.
Brace. Ncwaygo county..
is a :3

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The best ever for i'armers.———J. S. Bust-
ed. Antrim county.
an: at a:
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took I appreciate it very much—Adam
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tenaw county.

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’5..le - ' :~ 2.11, 2.15 2.25

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.Movement of wheat in this country
‘ ~ '. and..Can'adatat this time is very slow.
' . ‘Co'ld, stormy weather and the car sit-
uation are retarding shipments and
. 2 ~ . ‘ . many mills are having difficulty again
‘; i ‘ ' in securing sufficient supplies "for their
' ' 3 ' ' daily needs. Government control of
the railroads is expected to give re-
lief, not only‘in' the movement of
wheat but 013 all other grains.

The new‘ Government milling regu-
lations are expected to add 16,000,000
. bus. more wheat to the amount the
, United States has available for ex-

' L , port. Mills are now working on the
. new war flour but it will be some time

before it comes into general use.
There were quite extensive supplies
_ of flour held before the new milling
‘ - order went into effect. Bread made
' ' ' from the new flour is of excellent qual-

 

ity although a little darker in color. -

‘ The Allies have arrangedto take the
Argentine wheat surplus. the princi-
pal contracting parties being France
~, . L and Italy. They are also to furnish
. the tonnage to transport the grain.
It is expected that free shipments from
Argentine will be moving during the
present month.
Many reports of crop damage come
c from the winter wheat belt Since the
. recent zero weather. The reports will
not be confirmed until growing time
comes in the spring. The crop had
little 'snow protection during the
cold wave and the chances are that
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GRADE Detroit Chicago New Yorlr
No. 2 White
Standard . 83 83 94 1-2
No. 3White ' .82 1-2 .82 .93
No.4White .81 .81 .92 1-2
The past week has seen a great re-

vival of the export demand on oats.
, Sales for export during the last two
' days of last week totaled close to
"" ‘ , - 1,000,000 bus. Coming right now when
’ . .- ’ storms and transportation difficulties
make deliveries from the country light,
the effect on the market has been
marked. Under ordinary conditions
the advance would have been much
greater but the price now is up where
further additions are hard to secure.
a ’_ Opposed to this export trade is the
. - lighter buying of mill and feed men.
‘ They have not been active in the mar-
ket for some days and this would
have had its effect were it not for the
shortage of stocks at all terminal marv
,kets. Buyers generally feel that the
oat market is too high and that with
a freer movement we will see lower
prices. Personally we do not look
for a much of an increase in the move-
ment until well on toward spring.

 

 

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No. 2Yellow l 96 1-2 Nominal
No. 3 Yellow 1.95
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There is a weak feeling prevailing
in corn. Dealers generallyfeel that
with any kind of an increased move-
ment the price is bound to work lower.
There'has been a modest decline dur—
ing the past week but not of any con-
sequence. WP are liable to see im-
mediate efforts on the part of the Gov-
ernment to move that portion of the
corn'crop which is in bad shape and
u’hich must- move before the warm
~weather of spring. *

  
  
      
    
     
  
  
  
 
 
 
 
     

  
   

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indications of renewed interest soon.
.back. Expect lower range of prices.
ter conditions.

  
  

are light. There is an increased an-
xiety on the part of growers to move
their holdings but elevator men are
refusing to buy unless astiured 'of
cars for quick transportation. This
indicates a feeling on their part that
much of the corn will not keep after
warmer weather arrives. We feel that
this assumption is correct and that
there is bound to be some loss on corn
later.

. There is very little future trading
at the present time. There is some
talk of government regulation of the
corn market, mention having have
been made of a minimum price of $1
and a maximum-0f $1.30. With the
present spot prices far above that
figure it looks as though this talk
might bear influence on the market.
Added to the fact that there is cer-
tain to be a greatly increased move-
ment in the near future, we do not
see how a further decline can be pre-
ventml.

 

Coinciding with our opinion of last
week, the rye market during the past

few days has shown more activity
and has gathered strength. The price
has advanced 1 cent. Millers are on
the look out for cars and there is
also considerable of an export demand.
The demand would be greater were it
possible to secure cars to transport
the grain. The market seems able
to hold any advance and there an ears
at this time no reason why "t should
not continue to do so in the future.
Detroit is quoting cash No. 2 rye at
$1.84; Chicago. quotes the market as
nominal, indicating a shortage of sup-
plies.

ll!iI'i'it:i:umiillul'S'nwm'"'I'e'iizrzr'.ii'nwuwmzwwi W ,. 1

I wish :1 samplc copy of the pnpnr
could go into the home of every i'armcr
in Michigan. 1 do not think lbcrc would

be much trouble in getting subscriber:
Several I spoke in bud alrcazly scnt in
their names. This is just the paper We

need—A Reader.

'A Hill}: ‘HL““li‘3iillllii‘.‘2.!:'i.illi‘lllilllllllilifi3" .‘

THE WEATHER
As forecasted by W. T. Power
i Jan i 13 l 14
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WASHINGTON.
Last bulletin gave forecasts of disturb—

l'). C., Jan. 13W-
ance to ('lzlSS continent Jan. 3 to 17.
warm wave 12 to 11:. cool wave 15; to
10. Not a great storm generally but
its force will largely increase in the
northeastern states and eastern ("an—
ada and the cool wave will be a cold
wave of about average force. Most
"5“” and snow in northeastern sec,-
tions, on the east side of the trans—
continental low .

.\e:\'»t warm wave will reach Van-
couver aboutJan. 19 and temperatures
will rise on all the Pacific slope. 1t
W111 cross crest of Rockies by close of
Jan. 20, fplains sections 21. meridian
90. great lakes and Ohio—Tennessee
valleys _22_ eastern sections 23. reach-
ng vicmity of Newfoundland about
I. n. 24. Storm wave will follow about
one day behind, warm wave and cool
wave about one .day behind storm
wave. - ‘

DETROIT SPECIAL—Poultry firm with slightly advancing tendencies.
Potato market slow and steady.
creasing and demand somewhat lighter.
\ CHICAGO WIRE—Potatoes looking up just a. little under lighter receipts.
Not much speculation as conditions are too uncertain. ()at
market lively, with some of the large dealers free sellers. ,
NEW' YORK “'IRE—-Export demand for beans in rather quiet but there are
(.‘orn market uncertain and buyers holding
Potatoes in fair supply but market in bet-
Hay notmoving in such large quantities and market firmer.

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GRADE Detroit Chicago l New York
C. H. P 7.25 ' 7.95 8. 70
Prime 7.17 7.87 8.55
Red Kidnevs. 8.00 8.25 7.50

 

 

 

The bean market -continues to run
along at about the same pace as it has
for some time. Country elevatog;
are slow buyers owing to the high
moisture content of the greater por-
tion of the stock being offered. Not
only is the stock wet but as time goes
on the offerings seem to be increasing
in pickage. There has been some ad-
ditional movement since the Govern-
ment issued thn permit to canners to
use a certain portion in that way, but
this movement as yet has not attain-
ed nearly the~volume necessary to
take care of what stock must be mov-
ed before the warmer weather.

While up in the Thumb country
during the past week the writer saw
some very good stock, but it is not
plentifulfby any means. One lot in
particular, standing just as it came
from the machine. would not pick over
one pound. and was very dry and
hard. We. advised the owner to hold
this stock for seed and we feel quite
sure he will realize a nice little profit
on it. We found that many of the
farmers up there are bringing their
seed beans into the house and drying
them, a few bags at a time. by the
kitchen stove. They are then being
hand-picked and stored for the future.
\Ve venture to say that these beans
will sell for $10.00 or better when
seeding time comes. We believe this
is a good plan to follow. wherever p0:-
sible, rather than to sell the wet stock
on the present market,

With so much wet stock being offer-
ed. it is only natural that the market"
should be stagnant. It is a deplorable
condition all around just at present.
As this stock is disposed of there will
come a better market and those who
have -dry stock or who have been able
to dry a certain portion. will receive
the benefit of the advance.

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FOR THE \lr'iliEK

l'or MicuioAx lli'sml;ss F-Aimm
'l‘hi< will 1w prcccdml by a cold nave
and :iccmlipanicd by a grcnl I'i‘i" in
’ il‘illln'l‘nilll'i' 'l‘bc storms \\;ll 1w all
mm‘c than :i\'cr:i;:‘~ l'orcc and prccipi—
talion. :lllnlll normal. will bc yi‘cutcr
in nnt'lhcarilcx'u rim! i’\ll't‘lllt north—
\\'c<1c1'n sci-liuns lllill‘ t‘lt1<"\\'ll"l’4'. [inst
(lays Ml" .lunuai'y will be uni'mci' than
usual. l‘i'lwipilnliun will continuc in
111- n‘l'cnIl-l in imrllic:i"lcrn sew-lions
and on North l’ncilic slope up in Jan.
20. After that darn it will lie less in
the cxtrcmc lltll'lllu'owl. The cold wave

near Jan. [7 will bc about
of this winter,

February
(‘8 (in iiyc

an it \‘Pl'itg‘O

pvt-misca- \\'ealhe1' extrem-
days centering on 1. 14
and'QT. Balance of month will be
moderate. Some rain is expected in
southern Texas after Feb. 20. but most
precipitation will be in New England 7
and Eastern (‘anavlzL in large parts
of Canada the soil was frozen wet dur—
ing Fall of 1917 and that is quite fay-
nrable to the 1918 crops. This is also
true of our northern states. The worst
of the Mexican drouth is past, but it
will continue thru February. W'inter
gardening in the far south will be fair.

 

   

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M k No. 1 Standard I No. 2
" m l Timothy Timothy ‘ Timothy
Detroit ’24 50 25 00:23 50 24 00122 50 23 50
Chicago :27 28 00:26 50 27 50126 00 27 00
Cincinnati 29 00 29 25728 50 29 0028 00 28 50
Pittsburgh 29 50 30 00l27 50 28 7517 00 28 00 '
New York lZG 00 27 00l24 75 25 5023 24 00
Richmond 1:" 00 32 0031 00 31 503] 00 3’: 50
' No. 1 No. l l No. I
”"7." i light Mixed Clover Mixed l Clover ‘
Detroit i23 50 24 '20 00 21 0019 00 20 00
Chicago {20 22 oops oo 21 00,13 so 20 so
Cinci'nati 28 50 28 7528 00 28 "'—"'28 25 28 50
Pittsburgh 28 28 50129 00 30 03029 00 30 00
New York 21 23 :19 50 21 00318 20
Richmond 30 00 31 .29 00 29 50l28 50 29

 

 

Reports from the majority of the
hay marketsthis week indicate that
there has been, just a slight increase
in the movement and that stocks are
larger than for some time but still

far short of an accumulation. Condi-
tions at Detroit. remain as before,

with fair arrivals and a good demand.
Shipping inquiry has been somewhat
lighter during the past week but the
local demand has kept the tracks clear.
Buyers in Michigan report a good
demand by the Federal Government.
When sales are made to the Govern-
ment much less difficulty is experienc-
ed in getting cars. The Government.
furnishes the Bill of Lading and the
cars are spotted promptly. The hay
must be up to the grade in every way
or it is not accepted.

The Chicago market is just a trifle
easier under more liberal supplies.
The holiday season, together with the
heavy snows of recent days. cut off
buying somewhat. but there is no
doubt but what the market will aga’n
resume its strength until such time as
the movement becomes much stronger.

The Qt Louis market quotations
remain about the same. although there
has been a better supply of timothy
and clover mixed. The market there
on prairie. clover and alfalfa remains
firm. The market on off grades of
all classes is iust a little slow.

Cincinnati is calling for hay and the '

market there seems to be pretty well
cleaned up on all grades. Storms are,
delaying the movement of shipments
in that dirrection and there is a pros—
pect of a very good market unlevs ship—
ments in transit should accumulate
and be dumped on the market in a,
bunch.

Philadelphia. has only a light stock
of hay from day to day and there is
very little chance of a change in value
until such time. as receipts are greatlv
increased. Some dealers there seem
to feel that this great increase will bo.
slow in coming. That of course,
mains to be seen. We are of the op‘n-
ion that it will come later in the sea—
son but still many things may oc—
cur to keep the market up.

Arri axis on the. New York

rp—

mark (3 l:

have been lighter for the past ten
days and accumulations lher.n are ran-
dly cleaning up. The market seems
to have a stronger lone than it had
last week. They have been having
heavy SllOWs there during fhe past.
few days and this may ac'a‘n limit
*ht- moretpcu' throughout the city.

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Chorce round Medium Round
Markets while-sacked whitcvsacked
Detroit 1 2.15 (wt. 5 2.05 cwt.
Chicago l 1.71 l 1.00
Cincinnati ‘ 2.20 2.10
New York l 2.25 z. 15
Pittsburgh l 1 7S LGJ
Nortollr.Va. 2.2; 2.10
The different potato makers are

now in much. better shape than they
have been for some time. Demand is
good and prices are firm and is some.
cases, inclined to advance. Shippers

- should bear in mind however that this

condition has been brought about:
mainly through lack of transportaiton
facilities and recent heavy sto‘rms,’
There is. a great deal of stock back in -
the country and this will have to move“
to market so that to say.» the «least-.3

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in a healthy condition. . The extreme

-.cold 1weather and storm of the past

week have delayed shipping and this
lessening of arrivals has also had a
bracing effect on themarket. It seems
to be the general opinion among re-
ceivers and retailers there that a low-
er marks will prevail when the move-
ment becomes more general again.

. The Chicago s’tuation is very simil-
ar to that at Detroit. The same con-
ditions have effected that market. The
prices are just a little better for first
class stock. Loading at country points
has been much 1658 during the recent
cold spell, arrivals have been light and
the jobbing markets have been just
about cleaned up.

Eastern markets are stronger altho
the prices being paid there are in many
cases away under those of the middle
west.

             

Some inquiries for potatoes
have been coming in from Eastern
buyers within the last few days and
local operators look for a brisker
shipping movement soon. Quotations
for Western Washington potatoes f.

o. b. Seattle, graded and selected,
are $25 per ton, carload lots.
Jobbers anticipate a good increase

in the volume moved early in the New
Year. A fair Ea stern movement,
damage to pit. ho‘rl'ngs on the West
side of the Cascades and suggestions
by the food committee in advising
greater consumption of potatoes are
expected to cause a better trade.

Contractors who in October bid $29.-
80 per ton f. o. b. for graded Puget
Sound potatoes to be delivered to the
army cantonments are making money.
Prices have declined to $20 022 .10
at shipping point.

81.. Louis—The potato market is
unchanged. The demand is indiffer-
ent for the moderate holdings but a
steady tone is noted. Northern white
stock sacked is quoted track basis

at $1.80 W 2.05 per cwt., and Western
:1‘ ‘11 90 W 2.15.

 

The apple market
at prevailing prices.
and “1111' stock sell to good advantage.

is fairly active
The first grade

The severe weather of the past week
has tended to keep peddlers off the1
streets and has eliminated th’s sourc:1
of disposal of off-grade stock.

Detroit quotations 1'111111'11:11 about
the same level: 911111, S: («1151,11 green-
ing. Sitidhi‘iti .35: snou, . Q1150€D$700;
boldwin, 8561““: 50; No. 2 $3€n$350 per

barrel.
Chicago quotations for the week are

as follows: lrlaldwins, 85fl5§550
kings. $5dhfl‘6: Spies. 35 WWW-‘36: Starks

S‘AWW 50: (“.1111 :85 50613.35: Ben
DaVlS brought 9‘) 50673125 per harI-QL
“'ine'nns. slsomsz. Talman Sweets.
lfillflht’it'it (lolzlno 313619117. so:
Twenty Ounce. S2550m1m; Crimes (1,01-
‘1'“: $5fl‘1‘35-5lliy01‘k linpnr'al $11 ROW,

.5").

911 in :31:

l?11r.~ppt;‘1

F". Lousw—A slow demand 11 “1»- shown

for apples ths week and tho mot-rot
was dull. (lil‘cr'm‘s were not. P1118311
and the tone was about stcadv Red

T":Vi.s brought SS2 50fi1$425 per barrel,

Cono 32.50W3’l. 50 Rome Ronutv ‘1‘31‘11'1
son “lack Tvig and VVHlov. Twir: 5:11
(1“. "‘ -11‘~1l (‘4 \11r1' i1] CW?“ 1.

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BUTTER

   

The lo :11 llctrolt
5(111'11611'112 1: ho‘tt‘t‘ supplied with butter
duiinf: the 1121M 1.11-k than for some
time past. There has also been :1 good
movement of held stock. T1111 cream-
ery has held up to‘abont the former
pr'ce but, in some case»: l1-‘1l1l stock has

sold lower. Detroi‘ outs: ions follow;

13-15111 (reameiy firs-1s 47 1 2c; extras,
49(1349 1—20; storage creamery, 436.54%
per pound.

Eastern markets have seen renewed
activity and the demand has been
stronger for higher scoring lots than
for extras. This caused Sallie 11111311141113
on the part of the dealers The de-
mand for undergrades and hold. stock
has also increased and the Worket is
in a very satisfactory condi‘irv‘x. Ar—
rivals have been delayed and this has

market has been

well with the present good demand is

is a wide range

  
 

lug. Fresh receipts continue to show
alight preportionof into stock. being
made up principally of ordinary and
poor grades.

There is at the present a great deal,

of competition between creamerles and
condensaries. In many’ localit‘es the
latter are getting the greater portion
of the milk andthe creameries are

not receiving sufiicient to warrant”

their continuing operations. This is
all having its effect on the butter mar-
ket and it would seem only reasonable
to expect present prices to continue
on until spring brings new pastures
and in increased milk supply.

Washington—In November 2,781
creameries produced 32,068,334 lb. of
butter. In 1916, 2.784 creameries
churned 33.030.106 1b. Process fac-
tories numbering 26 produced 395,101
1b. in l“ovember and 1,397. 804 lb. in
November 1916. This is a decrease of
1.002.703 lb. or 71.73 per cent.

Uncolorod oleomarg arine in 30 fac-
tories totaled 22 35 5863 lb compared
w th 17.663939 lb. in November I916.
This is an increase of 26.56 per cent,
or 4.691.921 lb. Reports from 20 fac-
tories on colored oleo show‘1.87li 714
1b. and 1.55.37.103 in November, 1917,
or a decreased production of 339,612
lbs.. or 18.09 per cent.

 

It. has been many a long day since
fresh eggs were as scarce on all mar-
kets as they are at the present time.
This condition prevails at all points
and as a result there has been an ex-

ceptionally heavy movement. of storage
stock. There has been a small ad-
vance on the better grades of storage.
Detroit is quoting fresh Michigan re-
ceipts at 53c; storage at 40c @ 42 1-20.

Chicago has experienced a rapidly
advancing market on storage stock

and the demand has been so great that-

enormous amounts have been removed
from the coolers. Receipts of fresh
eggs are so small as not to be consid-
ered. It has been a sellers market
and prices on fresh have gone out of

sight. No straight lots are coming,
only small lots. Strictly fresh offer-

firsts are
ordinnary

ings are bringing
ouoted around
firsts. 4411603180

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A?“ ”3 POULTRY
5; Fly.

LIVE WT. ‘ Detroit Chicago ‘. New York
Turkc; : 27~28 : 23-2111 1 31.31,
Duck: 1 27-28 L 25-20 27-28
(11.1.1.1 3 26~27 I 21 26 2'8 31
Sp inyers 1 25-26 1 3 24 1 25-27

er. f 22—25 ‘ 20 .21 l 23 25

7111421 1‘. . 1. o 2 «Mam.

There have been fewer arrivals of

poultry, bot l1 live and dressed, since

the holidays. and 1.17.] markets seem to
be 11.1.11! cleaned up and at some points
tho demand is away beyond rcu-dpts

and prices have advanced according 1

Detroit. has‘had :1 fairly :n't've 111:11-
l-zct all week and receipts 11:11.1": 1‘301111—
cd up rapidly. Thcrc is a good do-
mnnd for all towls, ducks and goose.
The turkc)‘ demand 11:11: lct up just
:1 little but, there is still :1 very 53:11,»
isi'actcrv movement.

(‘hlcngo has not received nczirlv suf-

I‘cioro stuck to meet the demand and
14 :1 1111191111 the market has az‘lvanccd.
Th1 111111120: has cleaned 1111 from day

Dressed
good sale.
wh i1.‘l1

to 11:13:, even a: the advance.
poultry has been having :1
with the cizccption ol‘ turkeys.
have b'=eu rather slow.

Eastern points report a great deal
11" 1‘10‘11111lty in getting shipments de-
livered. also a firm margot with ad-
vancing tendencies.

[fungus (lino—ellimltry dealers clean-
ed up their stock well early in the.
week with a good demand in evidence.
and since the market has remained
iirm under light receipts. Fowls,
chickens, ducks. and goose show an
advance, over a week ago, with other
varieties selling about unchanged.
Quotations were as follows Fowls,
heavy, 21 1-2c; light, 180; chickens,
‘15.??121 1-2c;turkeys, 22%250; geese
'11: ducks, 20c; old roosters, 15c;
broilers, 25c.

due to the great variety of butter com».

_ middlings, $43.40;

   

“Detroit dealers recently made a big
reduction in the price of feed stuffs
not on account of any great increase
in the supply or decrease in demand,
but at the behest of the food authori-
ties at Washington. Current quota-
tions at this time are as follows: In
100 lb. sacks, jobbing lots: brran, $34.-
40; standard middlings, $36.40; fine
cracked corn, .381;
coarse cornmeal, $77; chopped, .360
per ton.

The New York feed market is in a
very unsettled condition as is shown
by the following reportz—No feed pric-
es are available. According to the
new Government regulations, the. mill
price on western m‘ddlings would av-
erage $37.85 a ton. which is about $10
below the recently prevailing levels,
but as yet no offerings have been made
at this figure Mills here are unwill-
ing to come under any circumstances
and probably will stay cut of the mar-
ket unti11something definite is done
to regulate flour values. Mills are
working on old orders. but shipments
are held unby the traffic situation. al-
thOugh with Government, regulation,
'1 better movement is looked" for. All
quo‘ationg have been withdrawn.

Hides ‘

No. 1 cured. 19c; No. 1 green, 15c;
No. 1 cured bulls. 14c; No. 1 green
hulls, 12c; N0. 1 c11red.veal kip, 220;
”11 1 green veal kip". 20c; N0. 1 cured
mnrrain, 190: No 1 green murrain,
15c; No. 1 cured calf. 26c: No. lflroen
calf. 25c; No. l horsehide, $6; No. 2
horsehide, $5; No. 2 hides. 1c and
No. 2 kip and calf. 1 1-2c off;
skin, as to amount of wool,
each.

$1@$3

Cheese
Michigan flats, 23 1-20;
flats 25c; brick, 27 1-4c;
2’7 1-4c; Mi‘chigan daisies.
Wisconsin double daisies, 23 1-4c;
mestic SWiss, 35@4OC; limburger,
290 per 1b.

New York
long horns,
24 1-2c;
do-
28@

Furs
No. 1 skunk, $4.30 winter muskrats
800: No. 1 mink, $7.50; No.1 racoon,
$4.50
Toledo Seed Market

Clover~Pri1ne $176017; close-d $17
bid: Doc” $171’Ol7; closed $17 bid;
.lan. S:l6 7001.170140sed $113.70: Feb,
$16.75f‘1675, closed $10.75; March,
9116 1‘0@16.50, closed $16.50 bid. No. 2
S'lti.l5@10.35; N0. 3, $15.80@16; re-
iected, $15.40@15.70; N. E. G., $3.60
@1530.

Alsike——l\lo. 2, $13.75@l.4: No. 3,
$13.40@l3.60: rejected, $12 Sill/rhl‘lltl;
N. E. G., (mixed with clover, timothy.
etc,.l 33.606012 85 Prime. $1450®
14.60. closed. W460; Feb, $14.5061‘1l4:
60: March,$l4.00@14.05 closed $14.-
65.

Timothy

 

No. 2. 5231106133 45; No. 3,
$3.305“ “‘1: reicc‘ed, 383106173 25: N‘, I11
G., 4512(115’53. Prime, 3:372 1:26?”- 80;
Dec, $3.72 l—2@3 80, closed $3.80; Mali.
953056134, closed $4.

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Lithium 1 .Ielv' 11'. Chicago Buffalo
Steers good toprime H) ”-170 32 “ll 1’- 50 l3 00.l3 50
Steers. com. to fair 1] 9 5?) 10 75 '00 it 50 ll 51H? 0‘«
Halters, goodtoprime' 9 ‘1)“;- 9 7:} 9 'l- 103 8 N) 9 (l
Cow , avtrage 7 7‘; 9 " :1 1301'0 50 C- 73 ‘< 5"
Carmen, Cullen- 5 73 6 7 5 7104 {'1 ’l" 5 2‘5- 510
Bulls, average 1 651.7 71.0 7 50 8 25 8 00 9'51
Veal. 11.5110 ml 1‘111111: 11 3 .111: no 1 :11; 1,

Most of the vicissitudes that; over.
took the live 11‘cck market during the

month ot‘ Dtécemli'rfltll'i’. may be :42: t'e-
ly charged to crippled transportation
facilities. During part of the 111011111
compotit'on was virtually eliminated
and during all of the month it was
more or less curtailed because East-
ern shippers were unable to get cars
needed to move their purchases. This
not "only greatly restricted the out-
put of fat cattle, hogs and lambs on
foot to Eastern killers, but also kept-
many prospective stock and feeding
cattle buyers off the market, and to
an extent interferred with the proper
distribution of dressed meats to the
eastern consuming centers. Toward
the latter part of the month the situ-
ation as regards railroad traffic condi-

  

is 11:91:11; 11611, ‘
tuned forthe- time being

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fluences the market registered strong

advances on both cattle and bags. The -

sheep trade failed to respond very ma-
terially, however, because ‘of bad dresss
ed" mutton markets, while subsequent
to the Chr’stmas holiday hog values
receded fully 60c per cwt. from the
Christmas week high spot.

The December receipts at Chicago
totaled approximately 370,000 cattle
and calves; 800,000 hogs and 340,000
'sheep,‘ compared with the actual arriv-V
al of 316.278 cattle and calves. 1.128 004
hogs and 346 993 sheep in Decem er
last year. The year’ s receipts at Chi-
cago will total approximatolv 3835-
000 cattle and calves 7175 000 hogs and
3,600,000 sheep, against 3. 240, 800 cat-
tie. and calves. 9.188.224 hogs and 4,-
292.024 sheep for the year 1916. Re-
ceipts of cattle. calves included, at
ten leading markets for 19l7 will to-
tal( in round numbers, 15,500,000 head
which is by all odds the heaviest run ,
in a numerical sense. in trade history
and around 3.200.000 more,than for
1916.

The December run of beef cattle
consisted very largely ot‘ warmed, up
and short fed stock, the bulk of which
sold within a range of from $10 to
$1250. the general average for the
month figuring around $11.25. For-
tunately for the selling side, very few
prime long fed bullocks were. left in
feeders’ hands after the first ten days
of the month. during which period
demand for such beef for Christmas
trade was satisfied- Buvers got, their
fill of such cattle, however. from the
International Exposition entries. the
sale of which although at new record
prices. was more or less disappointing
in the main to feeders in view of the
fact, that the cost of product’on of such
fancy beef cattle, was extremely high.
A few of the chief prize winners from 1
the show pens made excellent prices,
the grand champion car load of fat
steers selling at $42 50 per cwt., and
the single grand champion steer at
$2.10 per pound. but these figures were
of course. no criterion of open market
values. Bulk of the carlot show cattle
sold at 3‘6 75 to $18.00 The month’s
top, hOWever. on regulation market
cattle was 316 50 \and subseouent to
mid‘month the limit was $14 50. while
few steers showed class enough to
pass 313.550 Demand centered large-
ly 0n the cheap and middle priced clas—
ses, yet the market was generously
supplied with such stock laid in by
feeders in the late summer and full at
high prices to salvage soft corn 1and in
numerous cases the market failed to
rununerate f’V‘rlE‘l‘s for their labors
:1‘11l. expense of feed’pg. as weight gains
on soft corn were below normal. At
the cud of the year the trade was look-
fluff forward to a continued free move-
ment, of short fo’l cattle for another
eivtv rl-1 1's and market; conditions were
not such as to hopear to iusl‘ifv those
who have cattln, on hand that they
expect to market w’thin this interval
of carrying them along. However, if

the signs read aright. thn man who
will have a goodlv number of well—
11c“"i"1111ed beef cattle to sell on the

late spring and s11l‘lh‘el‘ markets will
have, cause for iubilation.

Fowler cattle trade was of much
1‘ volume during the past month
than that of "11111“1111011 The 11.2111 short-
one being :1 handicap in the distribu-
tion of supplies and the fiction of 1110
fat cattle trorlc such as to restrict in.
ves tn1e11t "cotand. Killm needs for
rhean beef l1c111ever. was 11 sustaining
l11f‘11ellcc, (111 the price list and the
t11r1 lie is of the n‘nininn Hint hottnr (107111]-
trv action will be had. t‘ollowing the
holi'lnv “wind Tt is gonor'i’lv (1m-
ceded that. stock and feeding- cattle
Will be. scarce and high next spring,
and that those equipped to take on son.
plies now and rough ‘lm, stock through
the winter economically are likelv to
nurse regret, if they fail to do so Most
of the stock and feeding steers during
the past month sold between $7 755 and
"'9 '75, although some fleshy selected
feeders suitable for a quick turn went.
out earlv in the month costing as high
at $11.00. .

Butcher cattle trade has been no-
toriously erratic. but the close of the
range cattle season put buyers in a
position to use a greater quantity of
“cheap” native stuff and at the month
end the market was shmving ahilltxy
to absorb sermons supplies at, pr'ces
relatively l1‘gher than prevailed for
good beef steers. Mo. t of the fat cows
" sold during the month

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HOGS
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good size. well covered and ready for
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BARBED ROCK COCKEBELS for sale.
$2.00 to $5.00 each for strain with
records to 290 eggs 3. year. Circular free.

Fred Astling. Constantine. Mich.
COCKERELS from

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Thompson strain, $3 and $4. Yearling
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Rocks are hen hatched and sold on-ap—
proval $3 to $10 eaclfl 1 male and 4 fe-
males $12.00. Good layers. Circulars,
Photos. John Northon. Clare. Michigan.

CHlCKS We .11?vo shipped thousands of
day-o d chicks each season

1904, different varieties. orders
booked now (or spring delivery, booklet,
stamp appreciated. Freeport Hatchery.
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ItCockrels for breeding Purposes. Prize-
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farm, or might workfor wages. Address
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OGEMAW COUNTY FARM LANDS

Very productive. Small payment dowu.
No further payments, interest or taxes
for five years. Harry 0. Sheldon, Alger,
Michigan.

Postal will
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An expected swelling of the supply
0f hogs, but a remarkably well sus-
tained market during the firstvhalt‘ of
the month followed by some wide price
swings later. featured the November
hog trade; From a. $17.35 top at the
month’s opening the market advanc—
ed until $17.75 was paid, early in the
second week. About that time the par-
tial elimination of shipper demand and
liberal receipts caused the trade to
show sharp reversal in form and at
midmonth for the first time since the
Lovernment’s tentative minimum pri as
of $15.50 was established, average
packer droves at Chicago were shoved
dangerously close to that level,‘while
the top on the low day was $16.30. a
break of $1.45 from the month’s high
spot. Curtailment of supply following
sent prices back rapidly and on light
runs around the Christmas holidays

was a reaction and at the month’s
closing only choice butchers could
make $17.00. The month’s general av-
erage price of hogs at Chicago will
figure about $16.85. The trade is
looking forward to an enlarged run of
hogs during January and the market
is not expected to hold current price
levels. Trade advice is generally to

let hogs come as ready.

      

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Top Lambs I7.00<I7.35 I4.50-I7.50 13 4043.11.
Yearling“ 16.25-16.50 I‘LOO-IG.‘ O l5.01l-—I5.75-
Welliers I0.00-Il.00 23.50-13.25 12.5041”!
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Live mutton trade during the final
month of 1017 was disappointing.
Feeders who had laid in lambs at a
cost of $17.00 to $18.50 were not able
to hold their money together. (up
sumptive demand was materially re-
stricted by meatless days, although
just why sheep and lambs should be
included in the government’s pro-
gramme for meat conservation is not
clear to the producer and market man.
In view of the fact that lamb and
mutton are not being exported and do
not enter into the rations for the mil-
itary. Supply was moderate, yet but
for a strong wool market it is doubt-
ful if prices paid could have been se-
cured. The run carried a generous
proportion of strong and heavy weight
lambs and discrimination against them
was severe. The top for the month on
killing account was $17.10 but on the
low spot a lot of heavy and medium
weight lambs of good choice class had
to sell at $15.50 to $16.25. At the
month nod however. few were selling
below $16 and the best handy weights
were making $17.10. This figurc com-
pm'ns with {13316.25 top at the low timc
aro $16.90 at the month’s oucpinfi. Tn-
Vestmcnt in feeders was discoumcurl by
the action of the fat lamb market and
by the car shortage and that trade
was of small volume. Early in the
mouth some feeding lambs went out
at $17.50. but toward tho mouth cud
$16.00 was considered the limit. Sheep
and yearlings were scarce and hold
a remarkably sfcntly basis. Most, of
the fat ewes sold during the month at.
$11.25 to $11.75, the best at $12.00
while $13.00 was reached by matured
wethers and $14.50 by light weight
yearlings. A better acting market is
looked for in the near future, although
the trade is not advising tho holding"
back of lambs that are fat and ready
to come. especially if they carry any
‘weight.

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Between the years 1916 and 1917,
the number of sheep in the British
Isles decreased slightly more than a
million head. More than half of this
decline, according to reports from the
U. S. Food Administration, occurred
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' Michigan Shartliorn Breeders’ Ass’n
will hold its

"THIRD ANNUAL SHOW

' - AND SALE
JANUARY 16-17-18, 1918

at the M. A. C., East Lansing, Michigan

Judging the cattle will be done on Wednesday, Jan. 16th. The annual
meeting of the Ass’n will be held at 4 pm. Jan. 17. Sale of cattle on
Friday, Jan. 18, at 1 p. m. ”

Thirty-five females, six with calves by their side, and thirty-five
young bulls.

Plan to attend our meeting on Jan. 17. Banquet in evening.

Send for Catalogue

w. w. KNAPP, Sales Manager

Howell, Mich.
T. E. ROBSON, WM. MILNE, ANDY ADAMS, Auctioneers

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Attention, Holstein Breeders

Present and Future
This is Not a BULL Sale

The Central Michigan Holstein Breeders will sell

At AUCTION, JAN. 18, 1918

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At Michigan Agr1cu:;-.: :11 College, East Lanszng, Michigan
'I‘hii‘ly-iive bowl of inspected and guui‘zmtccd females, more than
half of which Will be sxl‘rfgrhr, high quality Cows, fl‘CnlI or due soon to
freshen by bulls of good brooding and extra indivzduzility.
The balance are high—class heifers from eight months to two years
. old, some of which are well along in calf.
Watch this space and send for catalog if interested, to

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Home Office: Graebner Bldg., Saginaw, W. 5.. Michigan
Executive Office: 319 Widdicomb Bldg., Grand Rapids, Michigan

This Company is backed by more than 500 of the best live stock farmers of
the state, and we have more than $100,000 deposited with the State Treasurer
as a guarantee of the Company’s responsibility. . .

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an cause,

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herd policies, feeding policies, shipping policies. 30 day foaling policies, etc

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with us.

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McMULLEN, KNAEPEN & JACKSON

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Detroit, Mich.

Bisuor, BULLEN & HOLME

LIVE STOCK COMMISSION SALESMEN "

The Largest Live Stock Commission in Michigan
MICHIGAN CENTRAL STOCK YARDS - - - DETROIT

Geo. J. Sandel Geo. H. Stacy John R. Beadle B. C. Green

Sandel, Stacy, Beadle & Green

LIVE STOCK COMMISSION MERCHANTS

Michigan Central Stock Yards

Respectfully solicit your consignments. No shipment too small to receive our best care and, attention
None too large for our capacny.

CONSIGN YOUR LIVE STOCK TO

CLAY ROBINSON & CO.

LIVE STOCK COMMISSION

South St. Paul, Minn.. South Omaha, Neb.,

East Buffalo, N. Y., Fort Worth, Texas,
El Paso, Texas, South St. Joseph, Mo.

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A Farm. Home and Market Weekly Owned and Edited in Michigan

SATURDAY. JANUARY 12TH, 1918

GRANT swoon - -
FORREST A. Loan .
ANNE CAMPBELL sTAEK
Dr. G. A. CONN - .
WM. E. BROWN .

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EDITOR WOMAN’S DEP’T
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Entered I second

Minimum Prices and Increased Production
“IT IS the patriotic duty of every farmer in

this country to increase production of

crops next year to the maximum.” This is
the. substance, if not the exact wording of state—
ments that are being made by those who have been
entrusted with the responsibility of meeting the
food demands of our own and allied countries. On
similar grounds the agricultural press has been
admonished to preach the gospel of increased pro-
duction.

Before rushing headlong into an increased pro-
duction campaign, let us pause to consider 'its
dangers. Were every acre Of tillable soil in the
United States made to yield its maximum possi-
bilities during 1918. there would be an overproduc-
tion of foodstuffs and a consequent demoralization
of markets never before equalled. It could not‘be
otherwise.

Even in such abnormal times as these there is '1
a very definite limit to the amount of foodstuffs E

that should be grown. It is possible to overpro-
duce; it is very probable that we will overpro-
duce some commodities if we continue on our
reckless production revival. ‘

In solving the problem of feeding the world, we
must look not alone to the interests of the non-
producer, but to the producer as well. If 1917 un-

certainties as tO supply and demand, marketing

and distributing, prices and profits are to surround
the farming business in 1918, the present increas-
ed production campaign,—if followed to its logi—

cal conclusion,—conducted as it is, recklessly, hap- ,

hazardly and without plan or a due regard for the

consequences—will inevitably lead us straight in- .

to an era of overproduction and low prices .that
will spell ruin for many farmers.

Even in war times, no manufacturer of a nec-
essary article is unwise enough to manufacture
that article in larger quantities than the market
can assimilate at a profit to him. Nor does the
government require or urge that he do this, even
tho the probabilities that he might manufacture
more than sufficient to meet the anticipated de—
mand. seem very remote. The government gives
the manufacturer a contract which guarantees him
:1 profit. and permits him to go ahead on his pro-
duct'on campaign intelligently and without any
uncertainty as to the outcome.

Shall it be said that. the government should
give to the farmers of the nation any less consid—
eration than this. merely because the farmers have
always shown their willingness to respond to a
national
profit for their labor? As long as the government
has the power within its hands to provide against
an overproduction, to facilitate the marketing of
crops, to make. provisions against financial loss in
the farmer. ii, is manifestly unfair to throw the
entire burden of responsibility upon the farmers.

Congress is now in session; it has the power if

it so desires. to place a minimum price upon next

year’s crops. Such action would immediately re-
store the confidence of the farmer. give him a
credit basis for ihe borrowing of money to put
in his crops, and be a stimulus for increased pro-
duction. M'icumAy BITSlNlCHS FARMING believes
that this should be done before another plaming.
and will bond its every effort to secure such legis-
lation. Next week We will present a plan for the
successful putting into effect of minimum prices.

‘to saddle their hobbies "and; the
Patriotic? Yes. Practicalh For 'the' most part,“

: gardless of their financial conditions.
“pick representative mom—those who have’lived
'clo'se to the people, who know their problems

emergency without the certainty of a.

*’.'+gofi'e "to "Waqshinst n. .m'

gOyerntnent'f

no. Some of them, are {earning their salaries;

others = are doing more harm than good to the;

cause. Frequently, a :ten-thousand-dollar-a-year
executive is dirt-cheap compared to.a dollar-a-year
man. ' . ' - ‘ . . .-

It haS‘been said and it is true that the suc-

cess of the, United States arms‘in this‘war de-
mands
enthusiastic co-Operation Of-the people. A lack
of sympathy with their viewpoint chills their ar-
dor; a disregard of their interests turns them
from active supporters to indifferent if not ac-
tive antagonists. If 'the present friendly morale
of the American people is to be maintained and
strengthened their interests must be carefully
safe-guarded and no obnoxious Control should be
placed over the conduct of their business or
persons to secure a desired end which could just
as well if perhaps not a little better be secured
by a direct appeal to their patriotism.
‘ The majority of the dollar-a-year-men who are
directing the various branches of the Food Ad-
ministration at Washington are out of touch with
the common folks. They all have their ’heories
of how this and that should-be done, but they
have been almost wholly oblivious, in many
instances, Of the people‘s wishes and welfare,
in putting these into effect. The dollar-a—year-
men, it should be remembered, have not been
chosen for their special fitness, but because their
services were Offered free.

It would seem that a nation which spends twen—
ty or thirty'billion dollars on its first year’s
war preparations could afford to hire the BEST
brains of the nation, regardless of the cost, to d1-
rect the war work. It is false economy to leave
the administration of important affairs in the
hands of bungling theorists merely because their
services cost nothing.

Uncle Sam 'should give his dollar-a-year—men
who have, proven their incapacity for their jobs,
an honorable discharge to take effect at once.
He should then hire the best men he can get, re—
He should

and respect their opinions. He Should-pay ’these
men the full worth of their services. He should
throw the entire responsibilities ‘of their jobs
upon their shoulders. If they make good, he
should retain them; if they failed, he‘ should
“fire” them and make way-for better men.

Not until Uncle Sam puts his war business
on a business basis, and surrounds himself with

men who measure up to the full responsibilities

of their jobs, will the war preparations go for-
ward smoothly, rapidly, and efficiently.

The Next Liberty Loan

_ HE THIRD Liberty Loan campaign will be
launched early in February. War costs are
rising; the demands of our Allies for addi-

tional loans become more insistent. Money, money,

money is the need and the cry of the hour.
Money must be had; money will be had. If it
cannot be borrowed from the people of the United

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The New Train Dispatcher

in large measure upon the united and‘

LtiOn' have 'elfiread—va-ld
the GOvernment,“the-,sav-

try as security. —

The farmersof. Michigan are not as well fixed
in, annancial way as some of the city folks be
lieve. Moreover, most of the'farmers this ‘year
are going to need pretty nearly every cent they
can get their hands on to ,buytfertilizer, seed and
machinery for next year’s crOps. ,If their means

are too limited to permit them to buy both Lib-'

erty bonds and farm machinery, they‘will'render

a-,far greater service to their government by in- '

vesting their 'cash in machinery and letting the
other fellow buy. the bonds. ' ‘ V

It is going to cost the farmers of the United
States more to grow crops next year than eyer be-
fore. Machinery is high, fertilizer is high, labor
is high. Lack of hand labor necessitates greater
use of mechanical labor, and if production is to be
increased, it will he only at 'a very greatly in-
creased cost per acre. '

We do not believe that the farmers of the na-
tion are going to buy very liberally of the next
issue of Liberty bonds. It is not that they are
unpatriotic or unsympathetic with the govern-
ment’s war aims—not at all;
as many Liberty bonds per capita or in proportion
to their estimated wealth as their city cousins, it
will be solely because they need their money and
credit to grow foodstuffs. All other things being
equal, however, the farmer will invest as loyally
,and as largely in the third issue of Liberty bonds-
as anyone else. » .

Time and a-half for Over-Time.

HE FEDERAL milk commission which has

been in session at Chicago for the past sev-

eral weeks listening to the arguments of
producers for higher milk prices. has conceded the
justice of allowing the farmer to figure time and a
half for over-time, and will recommend that such
be made a part of his legitimate costs. ‘

Think of it,—time~and-a-h.alf for over-time,—for
the farmer! Lord bless us, what’s this world com-
ing to, anyway? Since time immemorial the farm-
er has labored from twelve to-fifteen hours a day,
without even knowing where he was going to get
enough to feed and clothe his wife and children,
let alone to pay him common day wages for his
labor. Altho in more recent years he has begun
to figure how to make a profit on his labor and in-
vestment, he never dreamed Of a time when he
would be able to dispense with the manual help
Of his wife and children or draw his own salary
for his own work at the end Of the week. Yet for
many, this time has also come. "

And now, time-and-a-half for over-time! HOW
do you figure it? Simple enough. According to
regular eight—hour—a-day time. you’re not supposed
to begin work until eight o’clock. But for some
reason or other. nature decrees that you must be
astir long before that hour. if you attempt to keep
union hours, what happens? There’s a terrible
hullabaloo from the barnyard. The calves bawl,
the horses neigh; the cows moo, the sheep bleat.
and the hogs and chickens put up an awful howl
because breakfast is late, and so you are obliged
to infringe upon the union rules and get up and
feed the animals. But ybu change it to over-time.
And despite union rules, you have to put in a
couple of hours over-time at night. No doubt some-
body will complain that you loaf on the job during
the day time for the sake of that extra over-time

‘ pay, but you know that it can’t be helped, and so

when Saturday night cpmes you draw a check for
your overtime, with a clear conscience. Now you.
can consider yourself a full—fledged union man,
drawing union pay and time-and—a-half for over-
time. The only difference is that the union man
cashes his check, and you don’t.

In the business of growing foodstuff; that the
world may be fed the farmer takes all the chances.
Fortunately and providentially the cost of pro-
duction and the supply anddemand have varied
but little. so that the farmer has been able to sur-
vive with few losses,——and small profits. ,Now
that we are facing abnormal conditions and a most
uncertain economic future, it is no more than fair
and right that the world should share with the
farmer the chances of unprofitable prices due to

‘ a possible ov-erproduction,—and guarantee him a

minimum price.

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plenty of money yet'lyi’ng» idle. in'the‘ banks, burs”;
eau drawers and family mattresses thatmight just -
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Unqualified Exemption .to Farmers
I have read the M. B. F. regularly and find it
is the best farm paper I hays ever heard of or
read.

Have been very much interested in the matter l;

_ or organizing the farmers and also about drafting
the. farmers for military service. It Surely seems
absurd to- make such a “fuss” and tell the farmers
to p'utout so many crops and then take the help
away when they are needed the mast. When
Secretary of War Baker wants to solve the labor
problem on the farm by sending the boys from
the army back to the farm duringplanting, grow-
ing and harvesting season he is far short of using
' brains. Doesn’t he know that if beef and pork are
to be had, someone has to stay on the farms dur-

ing the winter"‘to care for them and feed them. ’

The only way the army can be fed and the rest
of the world also, is to give unqualified exemption
to all registrants who are farmers, whether they
are owners of land or not. Many farmers’ sons
who are needed badly have been taken and these
farmers are not going to work harder because
their sons have been taken. In fact, nearly all
farmers who have boys of draft age are not able
to do a day’s work every day in the week, much
less than taking a mans splace on the farm. Some
say that one man 011 a farm is suflicient, why not
have one elderly man do all the clerking and man-
aging in a large department store? How many
farmers would be bothered with other help and
especially city help? All the city help want short
hours, good meals and lodging easy work, big

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APPOINTED DIRECTOR GENERAL OF RAILROADS

every night a week. A profit to the
farmers, is it not?

A great many farms are going to
lay idle and grow up to weeds, also
the stock will be sold off. Most of
the farmers will do only sufficient'
work to make a living and noth-
ing more, many would not be able
to do more.

Then also having a toWn fellow
who never was on a farm as county
agent. He doesn’t even know what
a good crop of hay, wheat or oats
is, much less be able to advise the
farmers what to do. At least the
one our county had was of no bene-
fit and a farmer isn’t willing to
take advice from one who has had
no experien’ce. .

Some registrants near here are

not claiming exemption——not be
cause they don’t deserve it—but be-
cause they are afraid that the local
board will be harder on.them if.
they do. Is that right?
‘ The paper's are full of talk tell~
ing everyone to save. Just leave
the average farmer out, because
anyone who lives on a farm has to
save or go to the county house. The
farmers are not getting rich in a
year or two. At the end of 25 or 30
years of hard work they may have
enough to keep them the rest of
their lives, if they have been very
saving—A Reader of M. B. F. from
Osceola county.

Wheat Prices vs. Flour Prices

I appreciate your paper very-
.much and think every farmer
should be a subscriber. Now, as to '
the wheat situation, our Grand
Rapids mills are paying $2. 04 for
white and $2. 09 for red. They say
the balance of 110 and 16c is taken
up by freight. When the farmeI
delivexs hiswheat at the mills why
should he pay the freight? It
seems to me that the freight should
go the other way and be called the
price of wheat when the consumer.

 

jwheatless days is all right.

regime Geri;

“unless I get what I should have for it. I think
it is just as fair fOr the farmer t6 feed his grain '

as it is to be patriotic and take same to the' mill,
'pay the freight to somewhere, then buy the bran
and pay the freight on that, too. This thing of
I don’t care if there
are 7 wheatless days a week as far as I am con-
cerned. We getting $2.04 for white wheat and the
miller getting $3.60 per barrel for flour and $44
per ton for his bran doesn’t look good to me. We
can raise wheat at $2.04 this year if we count
our time about 50c per day and I believe if it would
help out the poor farmers would not complain, but
to see the price our wheat is worth after it goes
through the mill and see the miller get what he-
longs to someone eise, doesn’t look good to a
man up a tree—J. B., Grand Rapids. Mich.

We need the Boys on the Farm;

In regard to the farm labor problem, I think

‘we need all boys to work on the farm because it

is so difficult to get farm help.

m1 140 acres of good land in Saginaw county.
township of Chesaning and have two boys, ages
14 and 21. The youngest attends school while
the other boy andmyself work the farm and I
don’t see how I could spare him, for he runs all
the machinery.

Last year we raised 40 acres of hay, 28 acres of
wheat, 25 acres of cats, 23 acres of beans and 15
acres of corn. We tried to produce all the crOps
we could in order to helpwin the war, for “the
boyS” have got to be fed and we want to help all
we can.

I hope -the government will exempt the farm-

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are; of" Refs broads;

we, 4. .~ , .
-Wili need their boys very much in the spring.——~

G. H. 07168111111157, Mich.- -
They Pay Us What They Please

Inclosed find one dollar for renewal of subscrip-
tion for your most valuable paper. You are the
pulley on the main shaft to drive business when
it is necessary. The farmers should be thankful
for men to express the sentiments of all Mich-
igan farmers at the right time and place.

Michigan farmers seem to be the target for
middlemen to fire at. Milk, potatoes and beans
seem to be the main things. The biggest graft
is on potatoes and beans, because of the potato
grading and bean picking. Farmers in going to
market. feel and know they will get beat. On
beans. 17c per pound is taken off for every pound
they pick, and the elevator man keeps the “pick.”
So you see they pay us what. they please and make
things come their way at the same time.

Potato grading is a great loss to farmers in this
county this season as a large proportion are No.
2. That means that there will be less acres
planted next spring unless something is done
to encourage and protect the farmers so that
they may ,derive some profit from their work:—
A. I). R. Rcmus. Mich.

The Buyers Don’t Like the Grading Rules
In this section We had an early frost in Septem-
her which cut the size of tubers and also the yield
1 know of several farme1s whose potatoes if sold
under the present grading system. 1-4 to l— ‘3 would
go in the N0. 2 grade. I sold one load of :2} bush-
els and sorted them the same as always or better
if anything and out of a load that MN! 1 had four
crates of No.2 all of a size and as nice a bunch
,u as could he wanted. ll is the grad-
ding that hurts here and farmers
are not inclined to sell. lut hardly
any would kick on a la“; in. screen.
But the buyers don’t like it. One
told me that he did not believe he
co‘uld handle over 530 or 600 hush-
els a day. where he has taken in
nearly double that amount in the
old way.
Thanking you for
doing for the farmer.
C. (7.. Com]. Mich.

r: .t

what you are
Yours truly.

“I am not Getting Enough

of the Consumer’s Dollar.”
Marketing is one of the greatest

problems that the farmers have to , "

think of. Production is an easy
question. A man goes to work in
the spring with hopes of a good crop
and a good price. and spends all of
his time. moncy and energy. The
goyernvneui asks the farmer to put
1‘11 all the crops he can. but they do
not make :1. clear market for the
farmer 1'11 the fall. I do not believe
it, is possible to prodnce'enough on
a farm to put it on 21 permanent
promuldn under the present
111:11'ke11'n2‘ conditions. If every
f"1‘mc1' should incrcnso his prodnc-
tion to the maximum. the present
conditions of the 111:11'kct will 2111—
(nor that question. I don't believe

11111 getting enough of 1hc consum-
1- 's dollar to pay for the chances l
tzvke and the profit on my labor.
'I he consumer pays enough all right
lut it never roaches the farmer,
—»~'l~.‘. G. (‘.. Howl. Mich.

Farmer Does the Work; Middle-
man Gets the Money.

\lill say in 1c211rd lo the present
sit notion that it is the some with
me 11:4 it is with others. I went in
dcht $277»: for 11 team. $2 for a har-
row to put in spuds for the U. S.
Bought my seed from the man I
rent of and paid him 34‘: a bushel.
We said they wore ‘ ’czuh of He-
l;1‘on." but they turned out all kinds
and very small at that, 1:0 or the

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The same song is sung to‘him and
they are told the wheat costs thel‘a

Va 83‘! PACER MKQ present price of $1 per hundred I 4
do not get my seed hock. That is
the way the farmers hayo made
money this year. Some are trying
t .~ lumber and haul but it has been
up-hill work as there has not been
enough snow. The poor farmer is
the man to stand the brunt and the

‘ 11‘ iddlemnn gets the money. F. H..

Gag/10131.

w(Additional editorials by our read-
crs on following page.)

William Gibbs McAdoo, who in bccmning Director General
.otf'I-lailroads Assumes the greatest reSpo‘nsihility in the history
”of transportation management, has a reputation for achicying
vast and difficult tasks. Having only small experience as apoli-
tician, he took a large part in the management of the campaign
that’electeh‘ lVoodr‘ow Wilson President, and with limited experi-
ence in finance he became Secretary of the Treasury, and, in addi-
,tién,f10ated the two greatest loans e1 er subscribed in this country.

$2.15 and $2.20 fob. somewhere,
and the same must be charged up "‘
to them for flour. It seems the
miller should get along all right
and be patriotic if he is allowed his '
percentage and freight charges both
ways.

Is .. there .a, new law that will
prevent a farmer from feeding

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, The Truth Shall Make You Free

MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING is read with in-
I-am delighted to note the facts given on
When Henry
Ford returned from his “Peace Trip” I endeavored
to reach him by letter, urging him to establish
a great independent newspaper by a permanent
endorsement, whose sole purpose would be to tell
the truth, to the people of America and the world:
as the greatest deed of helpfulness to humanity
that could be accomplished.

The truth in politics, the truth in, finance, in
business operations, in everything concerning hu~
manity’s interest, but of course, the under secre
tary to the assistant secretary replied that Mr. Ford
was too busy with greater matters to give any con-
sideration to such a preposition.

You will understand something of my pleasure

that there is at least one paper in Michigan which
endeavors to ascertain and tell the truth about
the greed of organized capital in its endeavor to
speculate upon the necessities of life. May the
Si‘OI)’: and power of MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING
constantly increase till the welcome day of univer-
sal enlightenment arrives.

Till we‘ are able to read each month the receipts
and holdings of the great sugar companies, the
details of the costs of manufacture and transpor-
tation and the sale of the products with the actual
net profits made by the stockholders these facts
we, the people are as much entitled to concerning
all the great corporations as they are entitled to
government ports on farmers’

The bringing of these tacts to light soon engou h
for intell gent remedial measures before America’s
millions become exasperated with f
high prices of sugar. coal, flour,
meats, eira, pimps the. 't'r‘V'W ‘(M
of the greatest blaze of Anarchy vs.
Capitalism that ever staggered thc
world—H. L. Mt. Pleasant. Mich.

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Farmers Should Have $9 for
Beans

I saw in my last issue that you
have been at Washington just re-
cently to look after the farmers’ in-
terests concerning potatoes, beans,
etc. Altho I raise some potatoes,
I am more interested in the price
of beans. Let me give you my ex-
perience with beans in the past
three years, since I have worked
my father’s farm and my own.

In 1915 I drilled 181/2 acres of
beans and one piece failing to come
up right I was compelled to drill
them twice and as I believe (from
experience in fighting weeds and
raising beans which go hand in
hand) in heavy seeding it required
about twenty bushels of beans at

 

I after they got. out of farmers hands
could see, what the middleman made in four hours,
- as' much as I made in one year and I don’t knew.

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what-_the market would be if we, could raise as

. much as they Want us to, we Would get Cleveland

times right in war-times. The M. B. F. protects the
farmer more than anything I ever ran across.
I don’t know whether .‘I am a business farmer or
not, but I know I am a busy farmer andif I keep
on reading the M. B. F., which I surely will, T
can’t help being a farmer. I raised 28 acr-eé‘ of
wheat last year, threshed 326 bushels; 23 acres
of beans, threshed 207 bushels—G. H., Chesahimg.

Potato Grading Legalized Robbery
I am a subscriber and inteIest-ed reader of your
valuable paper and am a potato grower, having

raised 2,000 bushels this year and am very much ,.

in favor of your stand on the present system of
grading. Nearly every field in thIs part of Oceana
Co. was more or less damaged by the early frosts,
and many fields did not yield over‘ 20 to 60 bushels
to the acre and I do not think the average would
be any over 100 bushels, much of which is second
grade according to the new grading rules.

The price in Hart at the present time is $1.25
per cwt. for No. 1 and 75c for No. 2 and much of
the stock around here will grade as low as 50 per
cent No. 2, which means that 50 per cent of the
farmers must sell at an actual cash loss to say
nothing about their own time.

To me it appears as legalized robbery of the
farmers who responded to the President’s call
for an increased average of farm crops.

I anticipate a much smaller acreage next season
unless we get a fairer deal than at present.

Assuring you of my utmost support in your fight
for a" square deal and wishing you a most Happy
and Prosperous New Year.—E. I. II.. Walkerm‘lle,

«for years ahd look thrOugh its, pages every week

s

~to see if there is anything of interest fer the

average farmer, but find very little—mostly stor-
ies. I am in the dairy business. Gladsto know
that you‘are trying to get us a square deal, both
milk and beans.‘ We have sold the beans. The
first loadrwe sold to a dealer who bought by. the
hundred. He beat us out of $1.00 on each bag.
The second load we sold by the bushel to another
man and got better treatment. We need a farm-
ers’». elevator at Owosso. Sincerely yours—U. G.
8., 01008.90, Mich.

,Plentv of Production Advice, But“ Little

7 Marketing Advice

My idea about the production and marketing.

I dare say there are today thousands of people
that don’t know What a potato or bean looks like.
We read every day about somebody telling the
farmer what to raise and how to plant and grow
his crops. But do you read anything from any-
body telling thefarmers how to sell his produce
and get all there is in it. '

I can’t understand why we as farmers and til—
lers of the soil don’t wake up and get together
and have a little something to say what we shall
have for our produce, not let the fellow sit in
his easy chair smoking geod cigars “and we pay-
ing for them” set the price onsour farm produce.
The farmer knows best about what he ought to
have for his produce. ‘ He should have a reason—
able profit over and above the cost of producing
his produce.

I hope the M. B. F. will get the farmers woke up
so they will try and do something for ourselves.

For the past thirty years the farmer has been
between H—ll and fire trying to make a living
and pay expenses—Subscriber.

 

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POTATOES. THEY'RE 40 “I;

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Farmer and Consumer Should
Get Cl/ser Together
Farmers. did you ever stop and
\\ think'a minute if we could get to-
pull together, and stick to—
we would have something

gether.
gether.
to say.

I took a sample of beans to the
elevator at Pontiac the other day.
They said they would pick out
about six pounds to the hundred
and would pay me $6.30 per bu.
Why I told them there was nothing
doing; I would grind them up and
feed them to the hogs before I
would take that price.

Now the whole thing is, can’t
We get this food stuff to the cone
sumer? Yes, I say, if we pull to-
gether. Keep on with your good
work, and we as tillers of the
soil will stand by you. I for one
will stand by you.

I think we can tell our consumer‘
if they will meet us half way we
will go fifty-fifty with them and
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$2.60 per bushel or $52.00 for the
seed, and now for the result:

The beans got an enormous growth of vines
and plenty of pods to yield, as the neighbors said,
30 bushels per acre and along came anthracnose or
blight and turned the pods about all black and
they brought $53.00 for the entire crop.

In 1916 I raised on nearly 5 acres,
bringing $6.00 straight, $168.

In 1917 I raised 12 acres of beans and by work-
ing day and night and drawing some of them in
the rain and putting them in every little cubby
hole, finally have them secured
dition. As I have not threshed, could speak no
further.
honest acreage from 4 to 9 bushels per acre.
will conclude by saying that farmers should re-
ceive at least $9. 00 for No.1 beans in order to
live at all ——W B. Fowlcrvillc. Mich” R2.

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Help ofM. B. F.-

I think the most interest to me would be mar-
keting. I have farmed about forty years in Sag-
inaw county and I have never seen the time yet
when I raised a good crop of any kind. Most ev-
ery farmer would raise a good crop and whatever
it was the price would drop and the middleman
would get the most of the profit and the consum-
er get a very little. I often thought it was a
fright when the middleman made as much in-one
day as the farmer made in one year. I’would
draw my wheat in a day or two and the elevator
man would handle my wheatkand beans in about
four hours, what I raisied in one year. I have
known wheat, beans and oats to come up one-third

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Stamping the Retail Grocer

“I Think Your Paper Will Help a Lot”

I take three other farm papers but yours beats
them all. You paper is What the farmers have
been needing for the last 25 years. I am on a
farm of 200 acres and produce a lot f stuff but no
corn this year. There is not one good field of
corn in 20 in Lenawec county. Not much wheat.
but a good oat crop. I think your‘papcr will help
me a lot. It makes me sick to hear the county
agents telling the farmers what to do. ’llhey need
not woriy, the faiineis am: not all fools, if they
will pay the price, they will get the goods. ——11.
Clayton Mich, R 3.

The Farmer Stands the Brunt

Will say in regard to the situation of many who
are the same as myself, went in debt $275 for a
team, $20 for a harrow So as to put in spuds for
the U,” S. Bought my seed from the man I rent
from and paid him $3 per bushel. lie said they
were Beauty of Hebron.‘ but they turned out all
kinds, and very small at that, so at the present
price of $1 per cwt,, I do not get pay for my seed.
Now how about the $295 debt? Of course the men-
eyed men have to have their money, or the pota-
toes, or beans, and that As the way the farmer
makes money. . The snow is now about 14 inches
above all of the roads. some are trying to lum-
ber and haul but it is up hill work and the poor
farmer is the man to stand the brunt and the mid-
dleman gets the money. ——F'. H. Gaylord.

Glad You Are Trying to Get Us Square Deal
I received two sample copies of your paper.

‘It. is the best farm paper I have seen yet. I

. times no.

man’s profits.

I grew apples and spuds for 14 years in the
Yakima, state of Washington. I could tell you
many interesting facts during that time with the
commission man and brokers. I can talk better

than write, some day it might be convenient for .,

me to meet with some of you old farmers. I’ll bet
We would have some time. I am farming 160
acres close to the Asylum HIV. J. 8., Pontiac.

Farmers All Disgusted With Potato Screen

I11 answer to your inquiry in M. B. F. in re-
gard to the problem of prdduction and marketing
of produce, which is of the most importance,
would say if production was doubly increased in
the United States, the farmer would get. no more
money for his bushels than one half the amount

produced new, and greatly increase the amount~

of his labor and expenses and decrease the fertil-
ity of the soil greatly. I say no, a thousand
Seed down. Build 'up your land and

raise hay and stock. That was a good illustra-

tion of the consumer in porch with flat iron in

hand talking with the producer. But why did
she not throw it at the head of that middleman?
Farmers all disgusted with the potato screen.
M. B. F. is all right—A. H. E. Sand Lake.

A Man With Few Words

Enclosed find one dollar for paper. I am a little 1
late, but I had to earn this dollar with saw and
axe, and potatoes. Say I aim feeding my-stock
potatoes in all different ways. I am going to plant
a very large pait of my farm to potatoes-about
half an acre, 10 acres was a lesson at 65 cents
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OTWITHSTANDING the fact
that the high prices of every-
thing connected with the pro-

duction of milk and its products
have resulte‘l in serious losses that
only time and good management
can make good, is going to be the
making of a better business in the
years to come. Economic changes are fast de-
veloping in which the dairy farmers of the United
States must play a much more important
part in furnishing sustenance to the civilized peo-
ple of the world. Dairy conditions, in common

.w1 ith other branches of the great live stock in-

dustry, [were vastly aggravated by the war situa-
tion. and complicated by the key factors—the
high prices and shortage of gxain feeds and labor.
The selling of dairy cows. followed to a degree that
caused economists" alarm. The dairy farmer,
thinking’only of the one year’s profits, sold cows
for beef at high prices. He did not. reason into
the future; his vision was circumscribed. The
c1onomist takes world surveys. having in view the
vital necessities of all populations. The dairy
Farmer who has sold himself short of good cows
has been shortsightcd. He may have ob‘aine‘l
good prices. but the. final accounting will show
that good cows kept on the farm whom the bulk
of the food supply is grown will move more
p1ofitable.

Wartime conditions have resulted in creating
new demands and markets for such products as
canned milk and cheese that contain a maximum
of nutritive elements in a form that can be trans-
ported long distances at a comparatively low
cost. Strict economy made necessary by the sear-
ing prices of milk and its products is also em-
phasizing the fact that the city consumer can pur-
chase h's milk in cans cheaper than he can pay
excessive city delivery charges to the men who
stand between him and the farmer. It will prove
a blessing to both consumers and farmers if the
whole rotten gang who control prices of bottled
milk in some of our big cities can be put out of the
running. The da ry situation in close proximity
to all of our big cities is in a chaotic condition.
It was developed on a basis of cheap grain and
by-product feeding materials and it has not paid
a legitimate profit in the past twenty years. it
has not only failed to pay decent profits, but it
has resulted in encouraging poor farming meth—
ods and depleting our farms of the best cows and
sending them to premature slaughter. thus pre—
venting the development of more profitable and
satisfying systems of farming and handling dairy
cattle. As it is the change is going to hurt 2.1 few
dairy farmers. but, it is going to result in encourag—
ing many more to adopt other types of farming.
It. is encouraging builders of condensaries to go
ahead at full spead in building new plants and
making their old ones more efficient. ln fact
war has resulted in putting an economic pressure
on the whole milk industry in proximity to a big
city that threatens to do away with bottled milk
and substitute the grocery store for the milk
wagon.

As a natural result of war-time economy in
placing cheese at the head of economic dairy
foods. hundreds of creameries, especially in New
York, Wisconsin and other sections. have been
transformed into cheese fa,ctc1'as. These plants,
however, could be changed back if necessary. at
small cost. Butter. on account of the compo-ti-
tion of condensed milk and cheese and the lll1'1'nris-
lug Encroachments of substitutes that take advan-
tage of every advance it makes, has had to as—
sume a comparatively humble position. There
ls every reason to believe that cheese and butter
will be shipped to the warring countries in large
amounts after peace has been declared. although,
of course. cheese will sell more readily than but—
ter. because it is regarded as an article of every-
day diet among the Eng lish lT‘iench and German
people.

For years Denmark, Holland and Belgium have
largely furnished dairy products for the, European
ma rkels. but the dairy industry of these countries
has suffered as a result of the war, and many
thousands of the remaining cows in the herds
of these countries will be killed in a short t'me,
now that America has put an embargo on the ship-
ment of grain feeds to neutrals. So long as it was
possible for them to buy American grain feeds
for their cows and sell butter, milk,,eggg, (2119999
bacon and beef to blockaded Germany they could
make enormous profits. regardless of what these
feeqs cost them Now that. all this is ended
9 WS comes iiom Holland that an order has been
issued to s aughter half a 1n llfon cattle for beef.
in Denmark the same condition must prevail
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By W. MILTON KELLEY

ing basis. Even then if conditions become more
acute in Germany there is every reason to believe
that a further slaughter of cattle will be ordered,
to say nothing of the high prices which will tempt
many farmers to sell their cattle from now until
afteripeace comes. It is going to take a long
time for these countries to put their dairy in-
dustry back on a. normal footing. and this will
.give American cheese and butter makers an op-
portunity to get their products well known and
markets established.

Among the dairy products'Which have been par-
ticularly boomed during the war has been condens-
ed or evaporated milk. This product, put up 'n
sealed cans, is used in increasing amounts by the
armies in the field, as Well as by the people in civil
life. Millions of European people are depending
entirely upon American condensed milk. 0111‘ c1111.-
ned m’lk has made an excellent reputation for it.—
seil‘ in England France and Italy. but of course
the industry will be forced to develop new mar-
kets for their product when the, war is over. Just
now there is an interesting light 011 in many re-
gions between the condensaries and choose fac-
tories for the milk produced by the farmers.

New York, Wisconsin, Illinois. ll'lichigan and
sections of the Pacific Northwest are the cent
of the condensed milk industry. The milk from
thousands of farms is used. but in most cases its
production is carefully supervised by dairy ex—
perts employed by the companies. The farmers
are expected to keep their cows under sanitary
conditions and deliver the milk as soon as possible
so that it is perfectly fresh immediately after it
is weighed in at the condensary it is tested, fil-
tered and sterilized.

In making sweetened condensed milk 16 pounds
of sugar is added to each 100 pounds of milk.
Then the milk is run into tanks from which the
air has been withdrawn. and is held at a tempera-
turn of 100 degrees. As the water is drawn off. the
milk gradually thickens until only one—third of
its original bulk is left. it. then passes into cool-
ing tanks and the whol11 temperature is lowered
sufficiently for canning and sealing This sweet-
ened milk is not. fully sterilized ‘during the pro-
cess. but: the, sugar which is added acts as a pro
servative. Condensed milk will not keep as well
as that which is put into the, cans unsweetened
because the latter is heated to a temperature of
235 degrees which completely sterilizes it in the
process. This unsweetened condensed milk is
sold under the trade name, of evaporated milk.

Condensed skim milk is 11 more recent product
and finds a ready sale among bakers and confec-
tioners. It, is cheaper than condensed whole
milk, and is really 21 valuable product. as it con-
tains all the nutriments of whole milk only the fat
being removed. Many creamer 11:; use the skim
milk in making condensed milk. In fact it is the,
only way that 11 creamery can successfully compete
with the cheese factories for their supply of milk.
many years there has, been more or less proi—

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form, b11111111 :11

udice against skim m’lk in any
of the. possibility of it being mixed pith-whole
milk. but when sold under its true, pump its use
should be encouraged in times like these when (‘1:-
ci‘l' pound of human food. is neededto‘fced-onr
people. Skim m lk is not suited for tuttiut tool.-
ing and one, of the prime objections to 11311-211
has been the ‘1"11'1 that many ignorant tnmlllus
might be induced to buy it for infants. It has
,‘1'1111t \121‘1111 when used for cooking and is begin—
ning to find 11 ready market. 11111111111; l11:’-.:l;. bak-
eries, and confectionary manulacturn-1‘s. There 1::
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NEW' YORK MILK l’liOlH'Clu‘kS lNllli‘Tlil)
ILIC PRODI' (‘ 1; I; , be on your guard. These
are trying times 1111 the cause of olgnnizul

farming. 'l‘llosc \\ ho lune Income int and SI(‘(‘[\
_ from the profits on your pioducis in other )czns
3: view your progress in the marketing end w: ill
N alarm, and are ever watchful to 1111111 you
napping. Less than three months ago, the of-
‘_E ficers oi’ the Illinois )lilk l’roduccrs’ Ass'n
"7 were indicted for violation of the anti-trust
laws, and now the old gong has handed the
New York producers the same dose. If 1s
maimed that officers of the Duirymcn’s League
, lmd arbitrarily fixed the price of milk and that
‘ producers who violated the agreements were
penalized. The milk combine is making one
last desperate stand uguim-l the advance of the
organized producers, and stop at nothing to gain
their ends. ’l‘ln-rcl‘orc, be on your guard, milk
producers oi’ Slit-Inigo". “The boot-LY man will
get you if you don‘t watch out."

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tions Affect the Dairy Industry

High Prices of Feed and Labor, Incident to the War
have Compelled Dairymen to Organize and
I Stand for Higher and More Profitable Prices

article of diet for sale in all gro-

can be put on the market at com-

'parative1y low cost and it would
be the saving of many tons of val-
uable human food.

Powdered milk, which can be put
in cans or glass jars, is gaining in
Popularity. It is particularly useful in camps and
for those who live some distance from transpor-
tation lines. It is made by remov'ng all the water,
the result being so much solid matter. Powdered
skim milk is finding a more ready market than
powdered Whole milk. Bakers and confectioners
who have a barrel of powdered milk on hand are
independent of milk men and delayed trains. They
can simply put seme of the powder in the required
amount. of water and proceed as with sk’m milk.
Most of the powdered milk plants sell their cream
Or make butter and use the skim milk for the
manufacture of the powdered article. in these
days of expensive transportation such products
are, sure to gain in popularity and find a ready
sale in European (“(lllllll‘liH. Maltod milk is some—
what different than powdered milk. but it has
reached tremendous popularity in hospitals. sani-
tariums, soft drink fountains and many homes.
Many in *alids who do not like whole, milk are
very fond of malted milk. Mailed with is produc-
ed by blending condensed milk with grains, par-
ticularly barley, which l"1s gone through the Writ-
ing process, which is a, fernunitation. Some of lh:
best managed dairy farms in the country supply
milk for the manufacturers of malted milk.

The ice cream industry and the soda fountain
demand for whole milk, butter milk and cream
is a lusty giant that has been growing at record
speed. Then. too. the great wave of prohibition
that, is sweeping the country is certain to result
in greatly increasing the demand for them, palat-
able and stimulating soft drinks. The great
bulk of commercial ice cream is made. from milk,
cream and whole milk condensed. Figuring the
annual output of about 150000.000 gallons of
ice cream in terms of the (1 commodities. the
industry uses in one year 30.000 000 gallons of
cream 255 000 000 pounds of whole Y“ilk and
15511110 ooo callous of conrlensel milk Figured on
a basis of gallons of whole milk, the industry used
a total of more than $455,000,000 wor‘h of dairy
prorluc‘v: t1llnu'i‘1g an average price of 20 cents
per gallon for the whole m’lk. The ice cream in-
dustry divides honors with the cold storage in-
dustry in preventing thL1 slump of prices that
formerly took place during the summer months
when there was :1 surplus of dairy products to
(”Finish oi”. l1‘11w dairy farmers realize to whet
an orient the ice, cream industry has exerted its
iniluonco upon the ralue of dairy products. it has
equalized the value of dairy products during th’1
season of the. year when the absorption of the
milk surplus would otherwise. be at a standstill
in other words it has stea1l"e(l the milk market.
clcrar round the circle. mobilizing values and put-
ting them on 21 substantial economic basis. llv
affording a market for great ounntities of milk
and cream it has raised the market price of other
products. The milk and cream used by the ice
1‘l‘t“llll 111:111111'111:l111‘111‘ must be absolutely sweet and
111‘ lwiv'h grade, so the indu rtrv has created a high/11‘
standard for the entire dairy industry.

Another milk product that is beginning to “~14?!
1111111‘1111ms 1111;111ti2i11s‘ of milk is milk chocolate.
This delicious and stimulating confection is be—
coming 1-(1111111111‘1'iz1.llv important with all sorts
owl conditions, of people. The sale of milk choc—
1.1"1t11 throuc'hout the country is reaching almost
fabulous limp-cs and the business‘is constantly
incrmsing.

While 1111111211111 conditions have worked hardship
to tl11111~11111lw of duirv farmers, the increasing de-
mand for canned milk. cheese. powdered mill:
and other products in soaring prices for all ‘llcso
1111111111111lil’cza. 'l‘llo 1'111121‘11 of this tremendous d11—
mtipd and higher prices for milk is already
sounding up dairy irovemcnts which have tended
to check the sale ol'd:1i1‘_v cows. The higher pric‘r
for grain foods is causing a lot of dairy farm-
ers to do more thinking; it is convincing breed-
ers of dairy cattle that economical production is
of more importance H1111 inrrca ed prr'vluction at
grzellei' cost: and it is disciplining former; in
ways of crop growing. feeding and managment
that effect economies never dreamed feasible.

he dairy cow must be uncovered. There must
l11, a way out. There will be a way out. ln sub-
sequent nitirles i shall 1'1rescnt some. conclusions
of how the changing demands for milk products
must result in the making of :1 better dairy busi-
ness.

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[RAISING POULTRY FOR

PROFIT. 0N ‘ THE FARM

At the present time poultry can be
kept on the farm at a profit}. but ii. is
necessary to keep high-grade chickens,
house them properly and feed system-

atically if profitable results are to be~

secured. Scrub chickens, draught)!
houses and careless feeding 'will ab-
sorb any profits from the keeping of
poultry.-

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poultry for both ,egg and meat produc-
tion. Several breeds are ideal for this
pu1pose;~Rhode Island Reds, Plym-
outh Rocks and Wyandottes are good
layers, and at the same time are ex-
cellent fowls for the table. It is not
necessary to go to heavy expense to
get good chickens.‘ A few pure-bred
hens. mated with a thoroughbred
rooster, will furnish enough eggs to,
start agood-sized hock.

The care of chickens during the
autumn, winter and early spring is of
particular importance. At this season
disease is almost certain if the fowls
are housed improperly, ‘while it is
impossible to get many eggs during
cold weather if the hens are confined

' in cold quarters and receive a poor

ration.

A serviceabl’e hen house can be built
without great expense. The first es-
sential is to select a, suitable site. A
southern slope is the best, as it' is
warmer in winter. If there are small
trees or brush in the vicinity of the
chicken yard so much the better.

The size of the poultry housc will be

governed by the number of chickens

on the farm, or the number expected
to be raised or purchased. In all cases
enough room should be provided to
prevent crowding. It. is a good plan
to erect a scratching 'room where the
fowls can exercise during cold weath-
er. if the hens are to be confined the
most of the winter season, at least
five square feet of floor space should
be allowed for each bird in the scrat-
ching pen or house, Where the hens
are confined only part of the time,
three or four square feet will general-
ly be sufficienf. if the farmer doesn't
care to go to the expense. of providing
a separate scratching room, the house
where the chickens roost, can be util-
ized for the purpose. Put in a drop-
ping board about thirty inches above
the floor. place the perches eight or
ten inches above the dropping board,
and the nced oz‘ 11 separate scratching
shed is eliminated. Hens must get
adequate cxfn'cisc if they are expected
to lay. For this reason about. eight
'nchcs of straw should covcr the floor
of the scratching room. The. hens
will be obligcd to seek their grain in
the straw. and will cxcrcisc vigorous—
ly while scratching for the feed.

Roup, ctc.. can usually be prevented
by vcut’lutiug the chicken house prop—
crly. There are no sci rules for ven-
tilating the building. As 11, general
rulc the curtain front method gives
best results. During cold weather the
openings are covered with muslin.
which admits air and checks: cold
droughts. (‘old droughts of air must
never strike the fowls. Ventilators
placed on top of the h0uSe will carry
off the impure air as fast as it accum-
ulates.

Both lumber and concrete are used

for building the chicken house floor._

A board floor is-satisfactory; although
a concrete floor will give longer ser-
vice. One advantage of the concrete
floor is that it prevents rats. skunks,
etc... from entering the building. '
Enough perches should be provided
to allow the fowls adequate room at
night. Six or eight inches of perch
for each fowl is not too much. Best
results are secured if the perches are
not set closer than fourteen or sixteen
inches.

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to cause colds and roup; this is why
plenty of roosts are needed. The roosts

can be made of 2 inch by 3‘inch boards.

and the boards should be' "free of
cracks, otherwise-mites are likely to
gain a. foothold.

Enough nests should be provided so
the hens will not be crowded when lay-
ing. It is a good plan to fix lids on
the nests which can be closed at night
to keep the interiors clean. A nest
fourteen inches square by six or eight
inches deep will give satisfactory ser-
vice —Olemcnt White.

Ucte‘rina r3 Department

We had a Holstein calf about 12
months old, which we intended to
butcher for beef. She always ate her
feed heartily each day,. and did not
seem to strengthen up. After butcher-
ing, we have found something simi-
lar to warts on her small intestines
by turning them inside out, they were
brown and about 1-4 inch in diameter.
By cutting them open I would find
a, hard substance of matter in each
one of them. Can you please tell me
what this was? I will watch for my
reply in your next issue—J. F.

The enlargements you referred to
were small lymphatic glands and no
indication of disease.

THIS COMMON “BIDDY”
PR'OVES WORLD BEATER

With eggs rapidly nearing the dol-
lar-a—dozen mark, there comes before
the public a hen which is no slacker,
and in spite of the cold weather which
usually makes hens stop laying, this
remarkable chicken is trying to break
all records for egg laying and at the
same time cause the egg market to
slump.

“Goldie" during the month of De-
cember. layed 26 eggs in 30 days, only
missing one day each week, and from
last. reports she is still laying eggs at
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.Overcrowding, has a tendency:

In November this buff leghorn hen
produced 21 eggs, November being a
warmer mouth than December in her
locality. this cold weather layer im-
proves as the thermometer recedes.
\i‘hcu other hens in the flock refuse
to do their bit on cold days. Goldie
keeps right on the job of laying 7-cent
eggs.

This remarkable hen is the property
of Mrs -Henry Grever of Cincinnati,
who keeps a few chickens in her back-
yard to supply fresh eggs for the fam-
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al of the M. B I' read the most of
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of them. so here is hoping your arm con-
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in time of sto1m—L

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BREED/[VG PROBLEMS

ONE WAY TO CURE A , ..
BALKY HORSE

Nohablt which horses contract is
more intensely provoking than balking
though it cannot be classed as a dan-
gerous vice. A horse that is a c011-
firmed balker has. not much selling
value. Very few wan-thim and those
who think they do are likely after a
hard experience with him to change
their minds. There is something in
the unbounded personal assurance of
the‘ horse that, quietly and .sneeringly w
refuses to do. his work which is very
exasperating to his owner: The vice
however is not hard to treat or cure.
There is no question that there is a
great deal of truth. in the saying that.
“there is. always good stuff in"a balk-
r”. Let us consider how the vice is
first formed. It is as a rule Contracted
by horses of considerable nervous
energy, dull lazy animals not being

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_much subject to it. The horse perhaps

from standing still too long or from
mere excess of energy is impatient. He
starts before his driver is ready. is
sharply reprimanded and very likely
jerked bylthe reins which serves only
to increase his‘ impatience and irrita-
tion. The same thing happens several
times. By this time his brain has been
worked up to a mixture of excite-
ment and resentment and he is in,
poor condition to understand clearly
what is required of him or to carry it
out cheerfully if he does understand.
Consequently he jerks himself back-
wards or sidewise occasionally leap-
ing into the collar and flying back
but not going ahead as desired. All
this is more likely to occur if he i is
harnessed to a wagon that is heavily
loaded but it} may also occur when he
is hitched to a light load. Let the
same thing happen several times and
a confirmed balker is the result.

Horses are of so many temperments
that the same treatment for this vice
is not best for all. It is certain how-
ever that palliative treatment should
always be given a fair trial before
coercive measures are used. A man
should be quiet_ deliberate and gen-
tle in his movements when with the
horse, avoiding that nervousness and
irritability .in himself which if ex-
hibited is certain to be communicated
to the animal. When the horse is
started it should be done with as
little delay as possible after he is
ready and always with a very easy
rein. If in this way he can be induced
1:0 start and the procedure is repeated
several times half the battle is won
for his temper will improve and in
time he will forget to balk. If he
stops on the road try to fool him by
saying “whoa" then get out of the
vehicle and pick up his fore foot as
if looking for some trouble there,
hammer upon it from time to time
with a stone holding his foot up un-
til his other leg is somewhat wearied.
Then get in the wagon or buggy and
start him up.

The treatment I have above sug-
gested is by no means always suc—
cessful scarcely fifty per cent, perhaps
of the really bad cases of balkiug be-
ing cured in this way but since it is.
the best'kind of treatment if itdoes
the work it should be given a fair'
trial before coercive measures are
resorted to. I have owned many balk-V
ers during my life never hesitating
in fact-to buy a horse on account of
this vice and a very considerable num-
ber of them. have been cured with no
other than the 'simple palliative

’ treatment that I have here described

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’GENESEE (Sodthwesfl—Farmers are
busy threshingbéans, filling their ice-
houses and working at their‘wood sup-
ply. The weather -has been cold and We
have not had much snow for the past sev:
eral days. Livestock and hay are mov—
mg Quite lively, but ’on other things the
markets [are slow and dull. Hogs are
being marketed before they are finished,

.due to‘ the high cost of feeds. No feed of .

any kind is being bought this year in any
quantity. A few auction sales are being
held and the—{prices received are good
with the exception of horses, which are
going cheap—C. W. S.. Fenton, Jan. 3.

IONIA (Egan—Threshing and market-
ing beans is the order of the day. The
weather is dry and cold, 10 below zero—
this morning—so that even the wet. froz-
en beans thresh nicely. Probably not
more than ‘75 to 80% of those harvested
will be worth marketing, as the weather
during the fall was so' cold and damp
that. it was impossible to get them dry.

‘ Many .were put up so wet that they are

not worth threshing, and farmers are
leaving them unthreshed, in the stacks
rather than pay the” high price for labor
and 25c per bu. for threshing. "lei-y few
cattle and hogs are being fed as -.the_corn
crop except for ensilage. was a failure.
~The larger sheep feeders have their pens
wbll filled. but the smaller farmers sold
their lambs during the fall or early wm-
ter rather than to run any chance on
profits in feeding so high-priced feeds.
Everyone seems to have plenty of coarse
feeds though the prices on same are stead‘
ily advancing. Concentrates. viz. oil meal
and cottonseed meal have been retailing

around $70 per ton. but since the govern- ,

mentt began regulating the price of mill
stuffs the prices on dairy feeds have re-
treated some. Several of the larger farm—
ers will tractor farm the coming season.
They think they will be able to accom—
plish more per man-labor than formerly
with horses alone. There are one hun-
dred or more tractors in the county at
present, but the number .will undoubtedly
be doubled during the coming season. The
tractor has come to stay until kerosene
buys an airplane and goes soaring the
same as gasoline has the last two years.
S. W. K., Lyons, Jan. 3.

JACKSON (South)—Zero weather and
storms. There is no sleighing as the
snow is drifted, but it is affording good
protection to. wheat which has suffer-
ed‘ from the open winter. ("cal and wood
difficult to get. anthe farmers who were
forehanded and laid in their winter’s sup-
ply of coal last fall were fortunate.
There seems to be a shortage in sugar,

 

but most of the grocers can supply cus-.

tomers from 1 to 2 lbs. Some grain is
m0ving. but no beans. Poultry was in
good demand New Years; dressed chick-
ens sold readily at the meat markets for
23c per 1b. Help of all kinds for the farm
is scarce—G. 8.. Hanover, Jan. 3.

ANTRIM (Southwest)—The old year
went out with cold and snow. The mar-
kets are quite dull. as the cold weather
has shut down the potato market and
beans are not being threshed very rap-
idly, and those who have threshed them
find they are turning out very poorly and
also of very poor quality. Stock is win-
tering very well thus far. Hay and feed
very high. Hay in the Alden market is
selling for $24 per ton. Wheat bran is

selling for $2.65.——C. F. W.. Alden, De- ..

cember 3 1.

HILLSDALE (Southwest)——The farm-
ers are drawmg hay and wood to the
giarkelt. tThere is not much snow not
noug 0 ma 'e good sl.‘ ' -—- '
Camden. Jan. 4;. elghmg' L. B"

SANILAC (Southeast)-Our sno S
all gone the last of the week. Whe‘avt mild
rye had a very poor covering. Farmers
are busy getting wood; no coal to be
had at any price. Bean threshing is go-
ing on; very poor yield in most places:
some beans on tile-drained land yielded
22 bu. to the acre: others yielding from 2
to 4 bu. Grain moving very slow; farm—
ers doing very little contracting for sug-'
ar beets and chicory. Labor very scarce.
Hay moving very good. There is no seed
corn in this section, and potatoes are verv
scarce—H. B., McGregor. Jan. 4. V

BAY (East)———Weather has been steady
cold with not very much snow. This cold
weather \is hard on the coal bin. The
bean market is not very strong, and not
many are being marketed. In fact all
markets have been rather quiet the
past few weeks. There is not much sale
for horses. and what are being sold are
not bringing a very good price.——G. G..
Linwood, Jan. 5.

BAY _(Sout_heast)——There has been no
change in the prices here the past week.
except oats and barley. Oats at the ele-
vator at Bay City is 780 and barley is
$2.50 per hundred—J. c. A., Munger. .l‘an-
nary .

CASS (Cannon—Plenty of snow. the
temperature around zero. Farmers here
are flailing beans and cutting wood. Local
potato buyers are still using 1% inch
square mesh screen, which they'call the
“government screen.” They‘are paying
75c per bu. for No. 1 and 40c per bu. for
No. 2. Quite a number of bean and po—
tato raisers are going to try corn and
hogs the coming season. The small yield
per acre and poor quality of beans and a
set price certainly will reduce the acre-
age this coming season to 'about 50 per
cent of the normal. The potato raisers
had to pay $3.50 per day and dinner for
help at harvesting time. The 1% inch
screenwill take out at least 40 per cent
of the crop raised in this county. “I wish
I ‘could‘ raise crops and be paid cost of
Production pins 10 per cent profit—— Se-

' lah!”—-—A.-'J._'W. Cassopolis. Jan. 5.

'_‘.v—y.

LAPE’EB(CQMraI).—*Farmers are busy
~gettingfypflfw00d and" hauling 'rma'nure
. 103» top dressfig.‘ The ‘weather has been

real cold and the ground bare 'uptil the
past few days, when a light snow fell. It
has been a poor winter for wheat in this
section. Little produce is being markoiel
at present. ‘Some hay being Sold but most
of it being stored by the dealers. This
county has lost one of its pioneers by the
death of Mrs. Loughnane, mother of the
postmaster of Lapeer and also the mother
of .the principal of the high school ,Miss
Emma. She was 84 years old—O. E. P..
Lapeer, Jan. 5.

CALHOUN (Northwest)———Farmers are
getting Up wood and doing chores. There
is little moving at present. The weather
has been very cold—C. 13., Battle
Creek, Jan. 4.”

CASS (Northwest)———_The weather has
been pretty cold; not much snow. Farin—
ers are cutting wood. Not much pro.
duce being sold. Some are selling wheat
to pay taxes. Farmers are holding po-
tatoes for a higher price. Not many hogs
left, and theyare going to market in a
pretty thin state; corn will not fatten
them ‘on account of the poor quality. Cat-
tle are lacking fair; horses are looking
thin—W. H. A., Dowagiac, Jan. 55.

CASS (Northwest)—Farmers in this _10-
cality are kept busy this winter cutting
wood and hauling feed out of the fields.
In some cases it is taking about the last
scrap of timber the farmer has to keep
the fires going on account of coal short—
age. Green swamp wood is bringing $3
to $3.50 per cord in Dowagiac. Practi-
cally all of the corn not put in the silos
is still in the fields on account of the
frosted condition and is being hauled and
fed as needed, much of it not having any
feednig value. We have had some very
cold weather and no snow and fall crops
generally are very backward. Rye in
many cases not up. About all that farin—
ers are selling at present is a few hogs
and some wheat. But very few potatoes
were sold last fall. farmers holding for a
price commensurate with the cost of pro-
duction. This locality produced about
two-thirds of a full crop per acre and the
cost was nearly double that of previous
years on accofint of high priced everyth-
ing required to make a crop. We had to
fight the blight and wilt, bugs and lice
early and late, and now they want to
screen them. taking out about a third of
the marketable stock and pay the farmer
about $1.25 per hundred for same. Every
potato raiser in this locality is standing
with Michigan Business Farming in its
fight for better conditions in the potato
market. Cass County is to have a form
agent this year. Mr. David Woodman who
began his duties on Jan. 1st.—-'.\i-.R. P..
Dowagiac. Jan. 4.

RIONTCAL‘M (Southwest) —— Farmers
are not very busy at this time, many are
cutting and hauling wood to use during
winter, owmg to the shortage of coal.
Produce is moving more than last “('(‘k
as prices are more favorable. A few 1m—
tatoes are being sold, but farmurs are
still thinking that the price may increase
and are holding on that account. VVheai.
oats and rye are moving slow. Vi'eather
is very cold with snow remaining on the
soil.——H L., Greenville. Jan-i.

ARENAC (East)——Ground covered with
Snow and it was needed by the fall grain.
The weather has been steady and cold.
Farmers are cutting ice and wood and
doing chores. Taxes are high and along
with poor crops it is a tussle for the
farmer. The army draft is taking the
cream of our young men and scarcity of
help is sure to follow next spring—M. B.
R, Twining, Jan. 5.

CLARE (Elohim—The farmers are do—
ing chores and getting up wood. The
weather has been very cold. There is
nothing moving in the way of crops. The
bean threshers have just finished thresh—
ing here; the yield was from one to four
bushels per acre. Farmers are very dis-
couraged—D. 13., Lake. Jan.

MIDLAND (Northwestl—The weather
has been very cold, not much snow on
the ground. The roads are good. iii-ans
are moving to market quite freely. 'l‘ho
farmers are busy getting up wood and
doing chores. Stock is looking good and
most everyone seems to have plenty of
feed—F. A 1... Coleman. Jan.

ALLEGAN (Southeast)—Farmers are
busying themselves mostly with chores
and getting up wood. Weather very cold.
W .13.. ()tsego. Jan. 5.

BRANCH (Koran—Farmers are cut—
ting wood and doing chores. Weather is
very cold. Some stock and grain are
moving to market. Farmers here are not

 

building or buying—h". 8., Union iCty,‘

Jan. 5.

HURON (Northwest)—V\'e are having
steady winter weather this week. Bean
threshing about all done. Farmers-are
getting up wood and doing Chores...,—Somc
grain is going to market. Auction sales
have ceased for a time. Everything is
coming to a cash basis; credit suspend-
ed; banks have refused to loan ionoy to
new customers—U W._ l-llkton. .inn, 5.

SANILAC (Central)—_l«‘ai‘mer.~; are now
busy gathering up tax money. Weather
18 cold; not enough snow for sleighing.
Wheat and meadows are suffering from
lack of covering. Considerable hay and
stock are being shipped. Some potatoes
are being held for higher prices. also
beans. Considerable milk is going t“
lzbly to the condensary. Many are buy—
ing bran. \gluten. cottonseed and arcade.
A good many have silos, and they came
in good for thesoft corn this year. Very
little coal to be liad.-—J. (T, 19., Dec-ker—
ville, Jan. .5.

SANILAC (SoutheastP—Farmers have
“Olfbeen "€31"! busy after the holidays.
The Weather has been‘coidand clear and
not very much Sndw.fSome farmers ., are

selling some gi’ain and hay; others are

How 8011 Becomes
Ac1d
When you consider acidity, think
of lemon juice, strong vinegar, muri-
atic acid or oil of vitriol. But think
further—Can you imagine the thou-
sands of bacteria of growth so neces-
‘sary to plant life flourishing in a soil
saturated with these acids ? Unques-
‘ tionably not, for the BACTERIA
SIMPLY WON’T LIVE.

_ Acidity develops in the soil on your
farm in one or all of three ways:

   

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or in

lOO'lb. Dry, .
‘1st ——The original rock or mineral cle- Air-tight Paper .
merits from which the soil has decomposed
were acid or of an acid-producing nature.

2nd—Rotting leaves and grasses, to the
yearly influence of which your soil was sub-
jected hundreds of years before put under
cultivation, have made the soil sour—for
rotting vegetable matter produces add just
as silage becomes sour when it decomposes.

3rd -—The turning under of green and
stable manures, in order to supply necessary
plant foods, continually produces sour soil
thru its decomposition. Poor drainage often
aids this acid-producing process, but careful
cultivation and rotation delays the process.

The Foundation of Fertility
No land can produce its maximum if
it is even slightly acid.

PULVERIZED
LIMESTONE

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SOLVAYPROCESS’CO.
‘1 SSZWJefferson Ava, DETROIT, MICH.

Farmers are not holding much; not much
to hold. Fuel is scarce and high; no dry
wood to be had. Help is so hard to get
threshed with a yield of from 2 to 5 bu. old people who have wood to cut can't
to the acre, and they are of poor qual- find anyone to cut it for them. Quite
iiy.—.\'. J. V .C., (‘i-oswell, Jan. 5 a number of our farmer boys have gone
105(‘0 (Pinon—Farmers are doing the idle“i‘giit fiagreatoégagfy lfggnzi. VF?“ .laii
chores and getting up wood. The wenth— going on _1 J Smiths Creek Jib-H 3301
or is cold and not much snow, which is IVGHANI‘ (fiz’outhwest)—Thyr amt).
hard on our fall grain. Most of the tall enough <60“. for slei hin the 1? tnot
grain did not~ come up in the fall before ued cold» weather “magi-es 81:11 1 “31‘4““ m‘
it froze up. Farmers who have beans green at a _ ‘. ‘ .r . 9. (FY 01‘
. . , ~ , .. V ,\ . , _ . .5 . pieiniuni. Haid, green wood
.iic holding to: d bettu price. Viet beans m H 50 Farmers are 99“., , -l'
lll‘t‘ being sold to prevent spoiling. No po- accou'nt'of the shorta e of ilgd bugx 0n
tato market at present. Mary is the imly Leslie Jan 55' g ee .— .
commodity that is selling. farmers; 19”" tussock: ier: (Central ——The i s
have little gram t0 sell.-——A. L., 3*“ ‘L‘ week has been very cold, and on thelt‘ia‘tl:2
( it). Jan. 4. a regular blizzard visited us with lots of
$3311.30 ((lentrul)-——Snlne fzii'iiiers snow, which has piled up now. Farmers
are threshing beans and buckwheat this ‘iu'e not doing much. Some are drawing
week around here. Beans are turning logs and mine lll‘ODS- Some are hulling
out from three to five bushels to the acre. clover. A few cars 0f potatoes have been
buckwheat is turning out about fifteen to SthIled from here recently.—-—l). I).
twenty bushels to the acre. Some beans Millersburg, Jan. 7.
are a better grade than others and some ANTRIJ—As l have never seen any
will pick heavier than others. Taxes are news from this part of Antrim county I
high this year. some farmers being taxed thot 1 would give you a report of the
about one dollar an acre. W'e are having crops here. Most farmers are holdin
$01110 pretty COM weather at this time. their potatoes until something is done i3 '
Stock eating lots of feed. and there seems regard to the methods of grading 39ml“:
to be lots of rough feed, such as straw are not threShed here yaet asuthere is .
and corn fodder. The oats crop was a about two feet of snow and the machin
large crop here. The potato crop was not jg unable to movg The beans, are 0111}
very large hcre.———.\ it. Sandusky, Jan. 4. averaging about 8 bu. to the acre and.
LAPEER (Nortlicnst)~—-VVheilt in this "10st of them a 11001”, quality. The local
vicinity is looking bad, very small but it buyers are only paying $10.50 per cwt.
is covered with snow just now. Clover and the farmers refuse to sell at that. :
also is small. especially new seeding. The ”no? as ”lo-‘5‘ 01 the!“ paid fl'mn $9.00 "
farmers are not doing much but chores to $19'50 139" bu. for seed. The farmers
and cutting wood. A little hay is being of this neighborhood held a meeting on
sold. (3mm and sheep selling high at the Dec. 17 and formed a company to be
auction sales. Breeding ewes are selling known as the Mutual Threshing i‘ompanir. ‘
as high as twenty-mo dollars each; cows The company “(m-"Ht“ 0" 3‘ Shwkholders.».
as high as ninety dollars each. Hogs They also purchased a threshing 'outfi-t'
are scarce—l. 8., North Branch. Jan. 5. :gngg‘tt‘gi 0t tdraction engine, two grain .
ST (‘LAgR—Farmers are drawing hay, segarator. 'gll‘fie rgl':-§191-:e}1:9§:edfig% Ema:
‘cutting wood and doing chores. The wea~ work to get their. thi‘eshingdbn ? iar
. ‘ , . . . e as there
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are in fine condition for drawing heavy country. . Bylbuving this outfit the “2"
loads. The ground is frozen solid and a get their threshing: done earl‘ier‘ly :71).
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Creamed Oysters

Drain liquor from a pint of oysters and add
to it enough water to make a pint of liquid;
follow directions for white sauce using this liq—
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bits of celery top; add oysters and cook until
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Creamed Fish

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A Farm Girl Who Married a “City Feller.”
Dearflrs. Stark:—

I am visiting my folks in the country; we went
over for the Holidays, and they take'MICHIeAN

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BUSINESS FARMING. I was interested to read Mrs.
M. T. C.’s letter, and thought I’d add my “bit.”
My experience is just exactly like her’s, only it is
twisted right around, because I am a farmer girl,
and I married a “city teller.” You have read in
books how the “city feller” with the soft hands
comes to the country and wins the farmer’s dau—
ghter! Wello, that’s something like my case. My
to-be-hubby was not well, and the doctor ordered
him to take a rest in the country. He boarded at
a neighboring farmhouse, and I met him there.
We sure enjoyed the summer, though of course, I
was busy with farm duties most of the day. But
after supper we took drives, and he sat on our
porch and talked to the folks, (and looked at me!)
Well, when he asked me to marry him, I certainly
was happy. because I had learned to care for him,
but figured that he would just go back to town.
and forget all about me. I had never been to the
city. I had often been to our village six miles
away. but he lived in a city of almost a million,
and I must confess I was scared to think of it.
But I married him at the end of the summer, and
he’has recovered his health completely. We spent
our honeymoon right on the farm, because my
folks hated so to have me go away from home.
Then we started on our great adventure, at least
it was an adventure for me!

I was as green to the city as Mrs. M. T. C. was
to ’the country. I know very well my clothes were
not up to snuff. Mother had made'them for me.
and while I had always given Mother credit for
being a good drcssmaker, I ‘could see that there
was something “different" about me when I got to
town. The women sure did dress extreme, and af-
ter five years of it I have never been able to put
paint on my face or wear as loud clothes as some
folks I see, nor would my husband want me to.
Tom was an adding machine salesman, and made
good money. IIowever. he knewscarcely any mar-
ried folks. but often had his men friends up to
dinner. Tom was proud of my cooking, and I
surely could get up a meal that made their mouths
water. I know I was more lonesome in my new
environment than Mrs. “M. T. C. was in hers, be-
cause it seemed so strange to me to

air as possible.
children are brought up. They live in apartments
——just think, four and five-room c00ps, perhaps
fifty of them in one great big building—no room
to play, and they just have to keep quiet.
Tom we would have to bring our kiddies up to be
as sturdy as their country-bred mother; I wanted
air and sunshine, and ground for them.

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ANNE CAMPBELL STARK, EDITOR

bacon and a 'ham or something on hand, or I'
would think I was ‘going to the poor house!

Well, I don’t believe my hubby has ever regret-
ted marrying a, little “Rube.” We have two dandy
children now. The baby is just ten months old.

We have bought a nice little home in the suburbs—

I just had to haVe as much ground and as much
It is terrible the way some city

I told

So we

bought our little home almost outside of the city
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First Footsteps

Y baby walked alone one day!
He started off so suddenly
It almost took my breath. away,
And he was proud as he could be!

 
   
   
  
  
   

I watched his steps so timid, slow
And trembling. and I knew he’d fall
And soon he did; was hurt. I know,
But not a tear was shed, for all!

He picked himself right up again,
And started in once more to walk.
a, A half a dozen steps. and then—
A bit of jabbcring baby talk,

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sandpile in the big back yard, and almost as much
room to run as if they lived right on the deai

old farm.
I know this, farm folks seem lots kinder than

city folks. They are certainly neighborly, but when

you get to know city folks you find out that after
The city
folks are kind too, and I have made some good
friends. 01' course. there are so many of them,

and lots living lives you and I wouldn’t live;
striving for nothing but amusement, and unworthy

things. But the people we know are people like
ourselves, with children, and sweet home lives,

 

live there and not have one of my
neighbors call on me. At home we
hardly waited for folks to settle be-
fore we went in and offered our ser-
vices. or brought over a cake or
invited them to dinner, or some-
thing, but I had never yet moved
mm a neighborhood in the city
where anyone has come to call on
me. Another thing that bothered
me was the “hand—tomouih" way
most city people lived. Of course I
made friends after a while. I met
the few friends Tom had, and the
people at the church we attended
were very nice, particularly two
couples of whom we grew very fond.
Well. when I got to know these
girls. and Visited at their homes,
and helped them do dishes. and saw
into liheir pantries. it reminded me
of “Mother Hubbard’s bare cup-
boart .” They just bought from
day to (lay a can of this, a loaf of
bread. a store cake, a piece of meat,
a half a, dozen pickles—wwcll. l nciL
er have been able to get used to

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Uncle Sam’s Thrift“ Thought

RICE CAN b0 A SUPER-BIT.

Ring around the meat, instead of the posy, a
ring of rice with each grain expanded to the
fullness of white perfection. Rice combines
well with any sort of fish, flesh, or fowl-30 let
meat do its bit and riCe a super-bit in these
dishes. The combination furnishes the nour-
ishment of both bread and meat. Nothing more
is needed for a dinner but a dessert of stewed

‘ fruit or a green salad.

Boiled Rico
Wash a cup of rice in several waters. Drop
rice slowly into a quart of boiling water, salt
to taste, boil for 15 minutes, then cover and
place on the back of the stove Where it will fin-
. ish swelling without burning; Do not stir.
Arrange rice, in a. ring on a hot dish and
place in the center any meat hash_ stew, cream~
ed fish or chicken. ,

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just as good and kind as country folks—~and that
is saying a great deal. .

We aregoing back 'home next week, after the
loveliest Christmas and New Years with my folks.
I agree with you, Mrs. Stark. “When love comes
into the window,” everything is adjusted, and it
doesn’t matter who you marry, if you care enough
for him to try to get his point of view, and swing
your life in Harmony with his.

Wishing you a Happy New Year, Sincerely.—
Mrs. A. E. M., Cleveland.

a: as is

Thank you for your letter, Mrs. M. Mrs. M. T.
C. will particularly enjoy it. We are certainly for-
tunate in getting letters on so many angles of
this interesting subject. I hope everyone else
with a like experience will write and tell us how
they managed to squeeze happiness out of mar-
riage with some one whose upbringing and tastes
were widely different.

Address, Mrs. Anne (.‘cmpbell Stark, Woman’s
Department, MiciUeAN anmuss FARMING, Mt.
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Put this recipe‘ in your new economy cook—book
at once. These cheap cakes are deservedly pop-
ular.

1 cup cornmeal, 1 cup rye flour, 1 cup wheat
flour, 1 cup washed chopped prunes, 1-2 cup mo-
lasses, 1 cup sour milk, 1 teaspoon soda. Scald
meal with enough boiling water to make a very
stiff batter; stir in flour; add other ingredients,
then fruit. Steam in mold three hours or bake two
hours or bake two hours in moderate oven. Serve
with swoet sauce or hot molasses.

Some Helpful Ideas from a Reader
Dear Mrs. Stark:—«

Here are somejdeas which may prove helpful to
our readers: ..

I have kept house for fifteen years, and have
learned many things during that time. For in-
stance I have found that common laundry .siarch
wet with cold water will take out iodine stains
and will not hurt the fabric and color. That
baked beans with a pinch of ginger in them are

much easier digested. The ginger

cannot be detected. That wood al—
cohol on a soft rag will polish mir—
rors and pictures. When I dust
doughnuts with sugar, I place the
doughnuts and sugar in a paper
bag close the top of it and shake
well. The result is perfect and very
little sugar is used. The dough-
nuts are covered evenly, a dozen at
a time. When I bake pumpkin or
custard pies I take a long strip of
cotton cloth, about an inch wide,
/ and bind it around the outside of
the crust when the pie is ready for
the oven. The crust will keep its

shape and is not easily scorched. I

always keep a small wash board,

just a ten cent one, for washing
out small articles. For the mother
of a small baby this is very useful.

Perhaps some one else will send
in some labor-saving hints and ex-
change them for these, in Mrs.

Stark's columns.

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(Continued from page 1)

Other interesting points brought out

in’, the discussion follow;
1 1. The cost per acre of producing
beets on 97 Michigan farms in 1913,
excluding depreciation, rental value,
taxes and supervision was approxi-
mately $42.00. The cost for 1917 is
estimated by your; growers’ commit-
tee to be $54 per acre, not counting
depreciation, etc. This 1917 cost is
distributed as follows: Preparation
of seed bed $7.00, hand labor $22,
lifting and hauling $13, fertilizer $3,
seed $3.
$5 per acre, rental .at $6, taxes“ at
$1.25 and supervision at $2.50, the
total 1917 cost would be $68.75 per
.u‘re.

2. The average yield of Michigan
beets for the eleven years period,
1004-1914 was 8.23 tons per acre. This
is the lowest average yielding section
in the country. The average extrac-
tion of sugar for the same period was
11.98 per c'ent. This is also a low
mark for the country with one excep-
ten.

3. The cost of producing sugar from
beets in 14 Michigan factories for the
five year period 1910-1914 was $3.93
per cwt.. without counting deprecia-
tion or $4.18 perhundred counting it.

4. The selling cost of 37 companies
for 1913-14 was $4.54 per hundred lbs.

5. The cost of beets averages 72 per
cent of the cost of manufacture of
sugar.

6. In 1912-13 the cost of manufac-
turing beet sugar in 71 factories in
the U. S. was $35488. For the same
period the N. Y. wholesale price of
sugar was $4.278. leaving a margin of
3’5 .7292 per hundred pounds. On this
margin the companies reported a 10
per cent profit on an average over-cap—
italization of 8.3 per cent. Granting
a 40 per cent increase in factory cost
to meet 1917 conditions we have prac-
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:getting this coat pattern. We have
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ready- to- wear coats are made after;
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consequent margin of three times that

of 1913 what ought the factory profit/

be for 1917?

’ In 1913-14 94 per cent of Michigan’s
sugar was sold from October to Feb-
ruary inclusive. In 1912-13 the figures
were 73.6 per cent.

“Our contention is as it has been
from the first,” said Chairman Ket-
cham, “that there should be such a
price paid to the growers as will se-
cure for them at least a fifty-fifty di-
vision of the net.proceeds of this
great Michigan crop. The capital in-
is practically an even thing.
The labor cost is heaviest upon the
farmers and the risk is much greater
to the farmer now that the selling
price is fixed so that. the factory
knows what its product is to bring.”

“Taking the two prices that have
been suggested, $8 and $10 per ton,
the comparative figures are as follows
with 8.23 tons as the average yield:
At the $8 price the farmer would re—
ceive $65.84 per acre. which would al-
low him a profit of $11.84 without
counting depreciation, etc. With
these counted his loss would be $2.91
per acre. The factory would fare as
follows at the $8 figure. Cost of the
beets $65.84. This being 72 per cent
of sugar cost the total factory cost
would be $91.44. From this 8.22 tons
of beets 1972 lbs. of sugar would be
obtained worth $6.80 with selling
charges out or $134.00, leaving net
profit of $42.65.

“At the ten dollar figure the farm-
ers would receive $83.30 per acre, or
a net of $13.55 with depreciation fig-

ured in. The factory would have a
factory cost of $114.33 or a net of‘
$19,769

"So the ten dollar figure does not :

reach the ideal fifty-fifty division that
the industry should give to the farm—
er.—”

The meeting was fairly representa—
tive, growers being present from Sag—
inaw, Tuscola, Shiawasee, Eaton, Liv—
ingston, Gratiot. Genesee. Huron, Bay,
Lapeer and a few adjoining counties.
A representative grower was also pres-
ent from the beet growing sections of
both Indiana and Ohio, and gave tes-
timony showing that prices of heels in
their sections were much lower than
in Michigan because they had no or-
ganization to enforce their demands.
Mr. George Miller of the Gleaner Co~
Operative Elevator at Chesaning, was
also on hand, gave the growers one of
his straight—from-the-shoulder ten min-
ute speeches and pledged the hearty
support of the Gleaner organization
in furthering the interests of the beet
industry of the state.

There was a ripple
when State Market Director McBride
asked the growers to gIVe their con-
sent to a plan for districting the beet
growing territory according to the lo—
cation of the several factories. and
compelling growers to sell their beets
to the factory within their respective
territory. It y'as felt that such a
scheme would place the groWors at the,
mercy of the manufacturers and per—
haps subject them to annoyance and
unfair treatment. The plan was
therefore; vigorously opposed.

The proposal to raise an expense
fund by levying one cent per ton
against" all beets was given unanimous
approval. This plan will raise a sum
of between $6,000 and $7,000.

There was little discussion among
the farmers during the course of the
meeting. Everyone seemed to e pret-
ty well satisfied with the $10 price
proposed and no objections were of-
fered. One grower patriotically pro-
claimed that he would be willing to
grow beets for $5 a ton if that Won”
mean 5 cent sugar to the consumer.
Another farmer, hpwever, declared
that he wouldn’t be satisfied with $10
if it (lid not represent a fair propor-
tion of the profits. He wanted a
straight 50-50 division or nothing at
all. Asked as to why Michigan grow—
ers were talking about $10 beets when
Western growers were asking $12.
State- Market Director McBride ex—
plained that Michigan beets were n0t
worth as much as the western product

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Considering the fact, that the Market

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Michigan Sugar Company, it is appar-
ent that some tentative agreement had
been made with the sugar manufactur
ers as to what price the growers would
be the most liable to receive. If this
be true then the holding of the meet-
ing to discuss the proposition was a
mere formality.

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any difficulty in the growers securir 1‘
a minimum of $10 for their beets. The
difficulty will be encountered when ‘7
comes to getting an additional per«
centage in the event of sugar pricm
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you and Prof. Waid decide for your?
selves what, is best ”for the 'farmer,
whereas we consult his own opinitm
in, such matters. The opposition to
these grading rules did not emanate
from us; it came first from
the fart-hers; they asked us to take up
this fight and when We found what
an injustice was being perpetrated
against them, we did so.”

“Mr. Wald, you are secretary of the
Michigan . Potato Growers’ Association,
are you not?"

"Yes.”

“How many members have you?”

"One hundred and twenty-five.”

“I assume that Mr. Miller confer-red

rrith you because he considered you

representative of the potato growers
of the state.”

(IS'es-!'

“Do you think that you represent
the opinions and interests of the ma-
jority of the growers of Michigan?”_

"Was. the progressive ones.”

“Your opinions do not. represent the
rcntiment of the growers of Montcalm

Foamy—those who were present at

that meeting at Greenville. do they?”

“Well. not all of them, but the pro-
taessive ones.” ,_

“Do you know whether the two
grades of potatoes are being sold on
any market to the consumer?”

“Not as such, because they haven’t
been marked yet. As soon as possible
“‘ey will be marked and the consumer
rducated to buy by grade.”

“But what is the farmer, who is
r‘rliged to grnflq his potatoes to do in
the meantime?"

“i find that the farmer isn’t so much
conosed to the grading as he is to the
"\w price that is being paid for the
“o. 2 grade. If that can be remedied

won’t have so much cause to co‘
r‘ain.”

"But when will that be remedied?
l ui’t it. true that. the organized dealers
‘ am. determined what price they w“1
‘- “v for the No. 2 grade, namely 60
ycr cent of that offered for the No. 1?’

“Yes. l believe they have.”

“Now, Mr. Waid, if the farmers of
"ichigan and Wisconsin are being
rompelled to grade their potatoes and
“‘0 farmers of Pennsylvania and New
“ork, for instances. are permitted to
i ll their potatoes upgraded, are not,
the farmers of this state being dis-
criminated against?”

“The rules are being put into effect
in the other states as fast as possible,"
("dried Mr. VVaid. 9'

“Don’t you think that the grades
york an injustice to the farmers of
Michigan?” K

“Yes, but only in those sections
that were hit by the early frost where
t“ereare large quantities of small po-
intoes.”

“But you think that the majority
of the farmers of the state favor the

.1 resent grades?"

“Yes, I have been to a number of
i‘ermers’ meetings and explained thc
c"'ades and except. for the meeting at
("‘eepville there has been no opposi—
t’on.”

“Tf T told you that out, of several
hundred 10tiers I had received on this
reposition from every potato grow-
‘t‘tg county in the state, all but one
condemned the grading rules. Won“
you still say that the majority of
1"‘rmers were in favor of the rules?”

“Well, you know people are more

motto tell you when they are opposed

to a thing than when they are in favor
of it.”

"I would like to know, Mr. Waid, if
yru and Mr. Hicks of Wisconsin recs
c‘nmended the adoption of these rules
the present year.”

“No more so than other growers’
r'presentatives who were at the Wash-
irgton meeting.”

“But, if Mr. Miller considered that
""u represented the opinion of the
growers of this state, your opinion
could go a long way wouldn’t it?”

"I suppose so.”

“Now then, you have admitted that
the grading rules are not. being as
efiectively enforced in other states as
in Michigan, and that the rules do
work an injustice against the farm.
ers, who were hit by the early frost.
This being true, why wouldn’t you be
willing to recommend either the
abandonment of the grad-es for this

I "Which his ~' morefl‘important,» .‘Mr.’

Wald, the establishment on these

grades another year, or the immediatef'

saving of a million dollars to our farm-
ers?” -- * ' »

“I think the farmer will find event-
ually that the grades are to his bene-
fit. Ii! we abandon them now we’d.
have to admit failure.” --

“I don’t think so. Here’s the propo-
sition: These grades were establish-
ed without the farmer’s knowledge or
consent, and those responsible knew
that it was physically impossible to
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all the potato growing states. Over'

three months of the marketing season
has passed. there are millions of bush-
els of potatoes still in the growers’
hands. held there because of the grades.
The public has not ‘been educated to
buy according to grade and cannot be
in time to affect the consumption of
the 1917 crop. Now, why wouldn’t it
be the fair and sensible thing to do
to admit that the time was importune
for putting the grades into effect and
abandon them. If grades are to the
growers’ benefit let us have them, but
let’s consult the growers as to what
kinds of grades they want, and give
them time t0_t.hink it over. If this
publication finds that grading is to the
benefit of the farmers, you’ll find us
most willing to co-Operate in the move-
ment at the proper time.”

“I have already written to the Food
Administration urg’ng that the rules
be put into effect at once in all other
states. 1 shall take your suggestions
under consideration, and if the Food
administration advises me that it i:
going to be impossible to operate tbc
grades effectively in the other states,
then I shall recommend what you sug-
gest.”

“You’ll take it, under consideration,”
again interrupted Mr. Waterbury, “and
act according to your own judgment,
but you won’t be pushed into it; is
that it?”

(Curtain) .

And there you are. Prof. Waid holds
the key to the situation; he will take
the proposition to save the farmers
of Michigan from a great loss, “under
consideration”. and if in the course
of a month or more. after all the po-
tatoes left on the growers’ hands have
rotted or their place on the market has
been takcn by New York’s ungraded
stock. he may recommend the aban-
donmcnt of the grades. Ye Gods, this
is the thing they call Justice!

AVERAGE MICH. PRICES
WEEK ENDING TAN. 5, 1918

Wheat, $2.60; oats, 75c; rye, $1.68;
potatoes. $1.19; butter, 42c; eggs, 460;
hens, 16c; hogs, 150.

BINDER TWINE NOW
UNDER U. S. CONTROL

Under arrangements completed early
in December, the U. S. Food Admin-
istration will control the binder twine
industry of the l‘nited States, includ-
ing ihc distribution of the entire sisal
supply _ of Yucatan. Binder twine
comers undcr the scope of food control,
being necessary equipment for the
production of food, especially wheat,
which is now such an essential com—
modity.

Commercial activities, incluling
shipbuilding, have greatly increased
the demand for manila hemp, and
higher hemp prices have been reflect-
ed throughout the entire fibre indus-
try. While unable to assure American
farmers low-priced binder twine in
1918, the Food Administration de-

'clares that profiteering will not be

permitted. Under agreements which
all of the binder twine companies in
the United States have. signed, prices ‘
will be based on cost ofsmaterial, plus
cost of manufacture plus only a reas-
onable profit. To administer binder
twine control, the U. S. Food Admin.-
istration has selected fienry Wolfer,
who established the binder twine plant
in the Minnesota State Prison, where
he was warden for 22 years, and de-
veloped its output of twine to the‘
third largest in the world.

 

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1917 PRODUCTION AND
CONSUMPTION OF COAL

Testifying before the Senate Sub-
Committee, Harry A. Garfield, U. S.
Fuel Administrator, announced facts
concerning the nation’s fuel situation
that are of public concern and should
especially interest persons having an
available supply of wood.

Production of anthracite coal for
1917 is estimated at 84.000000 tons, an
increase of about 11,000.000 tons over
1916. Bituminous coal mined in the
United States during 1917 was approx-
imately 552,770,400 tons or 50.000.000
tons more than the previous year. The
total increase in supply was about 61,-
000,000 tons. but the demand increas-
ed 100,000,000 tons. Most of the ex—
tra demand has arisen since April
1917 when the United States entered
the war, and is largely for the needs
of the government, munitions plants,
and public utilities supplying power
to war industries.

The Fuel Administration has used
its powers to stabilize labor condi-
tions and prices so as to insure a. large
steady coal output for the future. But
because of excessive demand, Dr. Gar-
field is also urging conservation of coal
in every way possible and asking for
a widespread substitution of wood as
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BARRY (Vorthe-ust)—As I have not
seen any crop reports sent in from our
county 1 will send you a few so you may
know what we are doing. Jan. 6 one of
the worst blizzards of the year visited us.
The majority of the farmers in these
parts are just husking their corn and are
feeding it out as fast as they husk it, as
it would not keep to crib it, however there
is some hard corn so that most of the
farmers have enough for seed. Beans
were very poor, running from 2 to 14 bu.
to the acre but the majority averaged
from 3 to 5 and all are heavy pickers.
We planted 17 acres and rowed 'them 3
feet apart each way so that we could
keep them free from weeds and that the

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15,000,000 bushels ‘of potatoes,.2;000,000 bushels ‘or‘beans, andthousands I ,
of bushels ofwheat, oats and rye,- yet remain: in thegrowers’shands; ‘ , ~
What are they worth today? What will they be worth. six months' -
hence? ”If you hold them, will you lose 'or will you gain? , ' ' ' .

 

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drouth would not affect them as bad as
it did the year before, but we were left
again. We put $00 in cash into the crop
besides all the work and the weather was
so bad at harvesting time that they laid
in piles on the ground for five weeks. We
took a sample to the elevator and they
would not buy them, and as we have a.
grandpa and grandma in the family we
are hand—picking them. As ours went 92
bu. to the acre you can figure out what
we will make from our bean crop. As
we could not draw our potatoes at dig~
ging time we put them in the cellar think-
ing we would get $1 per bu. for them
anyway. \Ve had about 300 bu. and we
hope We are not going to be left because
we paid attention to M. B.‘ F. and held
them for $1.00, Farm help in this section
is very scarce. A great many men are
alone on their farms now, so we don‘t
think there will be as much beans and
potatoes raised next year especially if
our experienced help has to go to war,
and we. have to depend on city school
boys. The farmers’ wives nearly all have
to help in the fields or else see crops
spoil. Eggs bring 44c now and milk
testing 4 per cent brings $3.15 at the
condensary at Hastings. Hay is sellin'r at
$25 :1 ion at: auctions, sheep from $15 to
$20 per head, \Ve are very much interest-
ed in M. B. F. and like to read the crop
reports from different parts of the state.
Think you are doing ymIr best for the
farmers all right—H. 0., Hastings, Jan—
uary 7

(HICKOYGAV (South)—-—Quite a bliz-
zard is raging here at present. About
in inches of snow has fallen and a heavy
wind has blown it into large drifts. Wal—
ter Roevcs,"\vho died at Camp Myers, Va.,
was buried here Friday. Jan. 4; he died
of pneumonia after a short illness. This
is the first soldier boy from Cheboygan
to pass beyond. John Donnelly, of Che-
boygan, who was at Camp (luster and
came home for Christmas, died at his
home in Cheboygan Sunday from the same
malady. A local dealer Is shipping a few
cars of potatoes from this place. We
.md 021$ )noqn s; eomd on; pumsaepun
cwt. Frank Ford, one of our best farm-
ers, has bought four head of Shorthorns.

oanNA (North)——Bean 'threshing and
getting up wood seems to be the main
business in this part of the country. Drv
wood sells at $4 a cord. Green wood from
.3 to $3.50 a cord. Most of the farmers
around here have lots of corn out Vet.
Corn was too green to keep if it had been
husked. Beans are in the same condi--
tion, green and wet. Potatoes are not
being moved yet on account of cold weath—

. er and the low price. Many of the farm-

ers are complaining of feed being so very

scarce—W. W. A., Crystal Valley, Jan, 5,

SAGINA‘V (Northwest)——Farmers are
cutting wood .hauling coal, basking corn.
Ice harvest has commenced. Practically
no sugar beets have been contracted. Ten‘
dollars a ton is not enough for beets if
they average the same as last year.—-M.

S. G., Hemlock, Jan. 5..

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