E’LL MEET YOU AT
EAST LAN_S_l_l_lG MAR. 7-8

Dorr ,D. Buell, President of Potato Growers’
Ass’n, Extends Cordial Invitation to
Michigan Business Farming Readers
to Attend Annual Meeting

 

Elmira, Mich, Feb. 18, 1918
To the MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING and its readers
who are in any way interested in Potatoes:—

At East Lansing on the 7th and 8th of March will
be held a meeting of the Michigan State Potato Grow-
ers’ Association. This association was formed for the
betterment of the potato industry and all those who
are interested in the things the Association should
stand for have always been welcome to become mem-
bers. At this time I am especially anxious to have
with us the editors and readers of MICIHGAN BUSI-
ans FARMING and have them join with the rest of us
who have the good of the potato industry at heart.
We should like to have you all become members of
the Association, and you are Welcome.

Yours very truli,
DORR D. BUELL,
President.
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Thank-ee, thank-ee, friend Buell. In behalf of our
readers we accept your kind invitation. We’ll be
with you to HELP solve the manifold and import-
ant problems now confronting the potato growing
industry of Michigan.

We look upon the coming meeting at East Lan-
sing as one of the most important ever held under
the auspices of the potato growers of the state.
The meeting should be, and if President Dorr Buell
has anything to say about the matter, it will be
an open forum for the utmost freed-om of discussion
of potato production, grading and marketing. Ev-
ery potato grower in the state should have an op-
portunity to present his views at that meeting
upon any of the phases of the potato business, and
he should be given a respectful hearing.

We believe that the meeting at East Lansing will
settle once and for all the grading question, not only
for Michigan but for the United States as well. Mich-
igan has made the most vigorous protests against
the new grading rules. Michigan is the most im-
portant potato growing state in the union, and Mich-
igan’s wishes MUST BE RESPECTED. Although we
have not as yet received a copy of the official pro-
gram, we understand
that the speakers will ‘
include men from the
U. S. department of ag-
riculture, the food ad-*
ministration, and rep-
resentatives from var—
ious growers’ organiza-
tions of other states.
But for all that, there‘ll
be an opportunity for
the farmer to present
his claims.

There are many things
to bc discussed and set-
tled at that meeting,
and among them is the
grading question.

There is no gainsay-
ing the statement that
the great majority of
farmers of Michigan
are opposed to the doub-
le grading. In the first
place, the present grad-
ing methods mean prac‘
tically a single grade
for many sections as on-
ly a comparatively few
dealers in Michigan
are buying the sec-

 

at prices so low that most of the farmers prefer to
feed it to their stock. We will all grant that IF the
dealers would pay what the second grade is worth
to the farmers, it might be desirable to have a second
grade, but there’s no way under the su
to induce the dealer to pay more for this grade
than the market will stand, and it is a matter which
the farmercan’t DOSSibIY‘L‘L‘Sl‘IOI. Secondly, the double
grading adds largely to the expense of handling,
which, of course, comes out of the farmer.

Granting that the farmers of Michigan are pro—
gressive enough to favor a fair grading of their pro-
duct, and we believe without question that they
are, the next question that arises is what shall con—
stitute a proper and satisfactory grade. After an
exhaustive investigation We have come to the con—
cdusion that the majority of Michigan potato grow-
ers will be satisfied with a single grade obtained
by screening potatoes over an inch and three-quar-
tre’s mesh. This would take a much longer percent-
age of their crop, and still give the consumer a

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WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN TO
MICHIGAN’S LITTLE PEA BEAN?

PINTO BEANS FOR. ECONOMY

“Calling attention to beans as an excellent substi—
tute for meat. the U S. Food Administration Fat-ll-
iions tho comparativr cln-npness and excellence of the
variety known as the domestic pinto or speckled bean.
Pinto beans are grown in Colorado, Kansas and New
Mexico and are now being used by our army and navy.

“The present retail price of those beans should be
from 10 to 12 cents per pound, which makes them an
economical food, (:(msidering that pinto beans contain
about 5 per cent less water than the more familiar navy
beans, which are now in the luxury class,

“Pinto beans are therefore a very “bonny" bean, furn—
ishing more food value for the purchase price than the
varieties with which the public is perhaps better acquaint—
ed. In cases where retailers do not bundle pintos, per—
sons desiring to try them are asked to write the Bonn
Division. U. S. Food Administration, VVzlshington, l).
C., which will furnish the names of shippers.”

The above is one of several notices that have been
sent by the bean division of the Food Administration
to wholesale dealers all over the country urging
them to buy pinto beans in preference to the com-
mon variety. If it is true, as insinualod that there
is an overproduction of pinto beans in the west, it
may be within the bounds of fairness and good
judgment for the food adminislrznion to advertise
the merits of the pinto, providing it had any. How—
ever, it seems as if the bean division is ovcrdolng
its praise of the pinto just a trifle. for really the
pinto isn’t in it with the lllichigan pea bean, the
analysis of the government of the food properties

(Continued on page 16)

 

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Scene on the Farm of Aaron Erickson, Tustin. “I am strongly in favor of sheep raising," writes hlr. Erickson,

on d gra d e a n (l “1 have a small flock but intend toincrease it.”

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NATION AROUSED BY
lMPENDlNfifOOD CRlS

Economic, Students Urge Govern ent Remove
Restrictions from Farming Operations
and Give the Farmers an incentive
to do Their Best
During the past week economic :«iinlents :1: mil
parts of the country have addrcssod pleas in

government to take immediate union toward '.
venting a shortage ol.‘ food and world hunger vu

they claim are inevitable llllll‘H‘n‘ lims‘s‘ ll‘lzi'llgL-Yll ,n
the farming business are givcn greater and inr-
mediate incentive to inmcnuo pro'lm-iion. ii, is sig—
nificant that the recommendalion:z whirh have boon
been made follow almost identically the some lines
as those suggested several Wi‘lfilis ago in ilnwc =ol—
umns, and as presented to the ll. S. ill-purlnn‘ni of
Agriculture and the senate commiiiwc a your ago, by
Grant ‘locum, oi the Gloui'ors.

“Of all the greatest problems of lhir (”Ur-mill world
war, the food problem is now he llmsl important,"
said Jacob Gould Schurman, president of Cornell
University, to a gathering of farmers iii llhz‘n‘n, N.
Y. “I believe it no exaggeration to say that we are
confronted with the danger of starvation in the
next twelve months. Does the government wont
to stimulate agricultural prmluction‘.’ ’l‘hwn szrike
the shackles oil the former and leave him as l'rrv as
other producers. ln lhc nzimo ol‘ common :zmine,
of justice, and of patriotism. l ll'lzlliO this appeal to
the president and congress. Food will win the war.
Give the farmers 21 chance to win it."

“I agree ilioloigc sill; l'ri-siilcnl fit‘lllll‘lllllll llm' to
lix maximum price-z of food products will diminish
production," said lll-nry (‘. Adonis, prolfor-tsor of :ro-
‘,1()n]i('_\' at {be l'nivm-siiy or" l\li('hig:in. (pmlin-z zil-
most the identical language used in previous Til. ll.
E. issues upon this subject. “The government would
enter info private contracts with each individual
throw)", and seizlo the whole question ol‘ l'ood pro‘
duction easily and quickly and equitably. instead of
acting like a dicinlor. The former, like any other
producer, cannot be exported to produce food at a
loss. The government could guarantee every inrnzcr
adequate profile and thus, insure pl‘orluwlioll to the
extent of tho produciivvnoss of the country.”

ll l1; evident, from
lllw‘t‘ mprcssions l‘nzit
Rome of lho Rooney-It
minds of the nation are
giving earnest tho! it)
the problems: and drill-
cullics that. stand in
the way of increased
produciirm. ’l‘ho ei‘forls
ol' silt‘ll men to arouse
the notion lo a great ~r‘
I11-pl‘flwldllnll of its ob—
liwi‘ions lo the farming
business must bear fruit.
ll't limo is llcoflng.
.r\m‘:-'b~r month nild
farmers will be, out in
lb? Hold. (‘apilnl lllh-
or. wed and a reason-
able assurance of a
profitable market for
(“rims are the lubricants
that“ will oil up the
many farm factories
and start their wheels
a-going at a maximum
speed. Will the Presi-
dent and the Congress
realize the importance
of supplying them soon
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ministrator on several different counts. William
Smith & Son, proprietors of; the mill maintain
that they did not at any time have more than a
30-day supply of wheat stored, and that While
some farmer customers hadl large quantities of
wheat made into flour for their own use (one
bringing in 1,900 pounds which made six and 011e-
halt‘ ba1'1el s) that the mill (lid not knowingly vi-

olate the 1111ings. The names of farmers who
‘ecured large quantities of flour were turned
over to Mr. Prescott.

* >9 *

Adrian~~This city is to have a community mar-
ket. A. E. Allenden is chairman of the count\
10mmittee having the matter in charge. '1 1111
rounty has been divided up into five districts and
twelve men assigned to each distiict. It is plan-
ned to give every farmer in Lenawee county an
opportunity to purchase stock in the market.

11*:

(‘r'oope‘rsvillc —— As the result of a meeting last
week, a local branch of the Michigan Crop im—
provement bureau was organized here with a
large membership. The use of pure seed will be
pledged by members. Demonstrations and 11x
periments will be conducted by the association.

* * *

Chariot/c A number of Eaton county farm~
11rs proved their patriotism as well as their kind-
ly feeling towards the town people of this place
by turning over their surplus s11: ."111 to the mer-
1hants he1e. Beet sugar 1'11is111s in this vicinity
have each been permitted to purchase 400 pounds
of sugar from the factory to which they shipped
their beets. More than twenty farmers turned
over to a committee representing the grocers
various amounts of sugar from a few pounds to
more than a hundred pounds, which brought
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Nashville—Tapping the many large hard maple
shade trees in this place is advocated by the Nash-
ville News as a means of reducing somewhat the
scarcity of sugar here. The News estimates that
there are nearly two thousand maple trees avail-
able to be tapped, and that at least 3,000 pounds
of maple sugar could be made. That a ton and
a half of maple sugar would go a long way to-
wards meeting the present. shortage, is quite evi
dent.

* Ill *

11111711811/~l‘ar1ners interested in the raising of
chicory in this vicinity have it that the price of
that product has gone up to $12. ’10 a ton, station
deliveiy. While the announcement has not been
made officially. the farmers are demanding this
price, and it is probable that they will be suc-
cessful, in view of the fact that beet growers
were successful in their demands for better prices.

* * *

.1'1‘. .m- 1171 - Reports of the St. Joseph Co- on

erative association made at the annual meeting
1:114 “(111k shou th 1t the organization is in a fiouz-

ishing condition. The grape industry has long
:1 1:1 111.. of the most. important of Berrien coun-

11111l when it. is learned that the St.
Joseph, Michigan Fruit association alone handled
nearly a half million dollars worth of business
last season something of the importance of the
grape raising is 1eali7ed. The association loaded
a total of 79 9 tars at an average price for Cham—
pions of 17.97211, over 11.110, in 1916; Moores Early
at a price of 2l.77 over 14.1.“. in 1.916; Concords
17.290, over 16.88 for 1916 and eight pound baskets
brought a price of 19.70 over 17.98 cents for the
previous year. To the fact that St. Joseph is
federated with other Berrien and Van Buren
county asseriations is credited the excellent prices
maintained in spite of adverse conditions.

ty‘s :1 SSt‘is‘

.. .'~ - z p: - . -.-- ey
will be valuable, however, in showing Whether the
tendency abong the farmers is to plant mo1e
or less than last year, as well as the reasons
why. Every report received makes our sur-
vey more complete and our estimate more authen—
tic, and we believe that the information given in
these reports will be of greattinterest and value
to every farmer not only in Michigan, but thru-
out the United States. We earnestly request
every reader who has not made a report to fill
out, the blank on this page and mail it to us at
once.

Below are some of the comments that have been
received:

Wm. C. Dicken, Smy1na——“Potatoes would be 5
111- res (instead of one) if it were not; for grading slig—
tom.

Schwanebeck Bros, Fenton—Rye, corn potatoes and
hay about the same as last year; beans, cattle and
hogs Will be less. “The above are not representative
of the average to be figured for this section on beans
and potatoes for most farmers are cutting their ac-
leage .10 percent on more of these crops ”

L. D Yerkett Mt. Pleasant—~15 acres more oats.
Would put in some spring wheat if could get the seed
also some peas Will raise a few more cattle if
11111 es are 1ight; some mangels; no beans and pota—
toes, except for our own use; no sugar beets. Will
1' .Llse some suga1 cane for own use. Have one brood
«:ow to farrow in April "

W. B. Norton, Walkerville—One half as many beans
and potatoes as last year.

(has. Ginter—Less corn potatoes beans hogs. The
price of help is too high; I will have to [arm alone ”

W. L. Hoover, Greenville-—All crops l1ss by one-
hzlll’ on account of labor and poor market. c.onditions.
“ill drop three- fourths of potato 1-ur1-uge on tl((0llllt
of the grading.

                   

Alv' he cash (reps of the neigh-
borhood are potatoes and rye, also some stock and
some cream. Potatoes are our main crop and there

is not a. grower in this section that does not back up
y‘om work. We had a very poor 11011 last year and
wh: 1t we have got we cannot sell at any price. One
man at Evart offexed my neighbor 60 cents per hun-
died last week 101‘ No.1 sto< 11 It the (lmermnent
screen continues unothu‘ )uu‘ we will have to stop
raising potatoes entircl), as we cannot raise them and
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WASHINGTON, - Deep—congress
is giving its undivided attention
just now to the problem of increas-

‘ odver has been confining his efforts almost ex-
v..lusively to good conservation. He kIIOWS how
to appeal to the average consumer and his ef-
forts along this line have met with creditable
success. But his half-hearted and badly-engin-
eered plans for the stimulation of food produc—
tion have been practically resultless. It is now
apparent that Mr. Hoover is not sufficiently ac-
quainted with the practical difficulties in the way
of increased production to be able to map out a
campaign that can satisfy these difficulties and
speed up the farm factories.

On the eve of another planting Congress begins
to realize the gravity of the problems which
threaten to rear themselves as insurmountable
obstacles in the way of increased production.
There is }ess talk now of patriotism, and more

of common sense preparedness.
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Measures have been introduced by Senator Gore
of Oklahoma, increasing the minimum price of
wheat to $2.50, and by Senator" McCumber, of
North Dakota, boosting the price to $2.75 a bushel.
In fixing a new wheat price standard the commit-
tee is seeking to guarantee the farmer a price
high enough to stimulate wheat production, but
at the same time it is trying to keep the guarantee
price within a limit that will not justify an in-
crease in the cost of bread.
will stop raising wheat and turn his attention to
growing other cereals, Senator McCumber pre-
dicted, unless higher wheat prices are guaranteed.

5! * *

Preliminary investigations into the cost of
constructing the Hog Island shipyards indicate
that many of the wealthy men of the country who
hurried so eagerly to Washington when the war
broke out to offer their services gratis to the gov-
ernment, have been using their positions to secure
patronage for firms in which they have a remote
financial iterest In order to speed ship construc-
tion the government offered to purchase sites,
buy materials and pay the labor for construct-
ing suitable ship yards, and also to advance the
necessary capital for the building of ships. One
of such contracts was let to the American Inter-
national Ship Building Corporation. after this
concern had agreed to accept a profit of 3.3 per
cent on the job in lieu of the 6 per cent which
they first demanded. After the contract
had been let and the work of construction started,
it was; discovered that the corporation’s estimate
of the cost of the job had increased from $21,000,-
000 to $17,000,000, which meant larger profits than
their original proposition. even tho the percentage
of profit was less. Tlie‘read'er should understand
that under the shipbuilding contract. the govern-
ment furnislfes capital, supplies, labor. ~—every-
thing. with the exception of the science of: ship-
building. which the American international Ship
'hiilding (‘orporzition provides.»~at better than
a clean million dollar profit. No chances to take,
and the higher it makes, the costs the, greater its
profits will be. Here are some of the stockholders
of the corporation mentioned: J. Ogden Armour,
the packer, whose patriotism has been extolled to
the skies ever since the war broke out. Mr. Ar-
mour himself doing a large part of the extolling;
l’icrre S. du l’ont. of the munition supplies cor-
poration by that name; Otto H. Kuhn. New York
banker. who has been travelling thru the country
making speeches and reviving the people’s War
spirits; Percy Rockefeller; Theodore N. Vail, pres-
ident of the American Telephone and Telegraph
Company; Frank Vanderlip, New York bunker.
who has been a leading figure in the Liberty Loon
campaign. Most, if not, all of these men have
been active in various war preparations. but it
now appears that some of them at least were

thinking of patriotism only in terms of profit.
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Congressman (larl E. Mapes of the Rib district
of Michigan doesn’t believe that the idle, rich
should make Washington their playhouse during
these stern times, especially when the only a nil-
able quarters are so badly needed for those who
have government, connections and whose presence
in Washington is needed. From the day that war
was declared thousands of well-to—do-people. have
been lured to Washington by the blandishments
of military operations. They have filled the ho-
tels and rooming houses to a point of congestion,
and as a result rents have increased to abnormal

proportions.
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The Fuel Administration is already laying its
plans. for the mining and distribution of coal for
next season. Anthracite operators, as well as
bituminous miners, have notified the administra-

tor ot-lth’eirireadines' . to .keep_..coal shipments in

  

\ ing the nation’s food supply. Mr. "

The American farmer

motion throughout springcand. summer months.

. Under the system which the administrator is

\considering, consumers will furnish to designated
dealers an estimate of tonnage required. Dealers
will in turn give total estimates to local adminis-
trators and'shipments will be made on these ad-
vices.

ATTENTION, MILK PRODUCERS!

Milk producers ‘will be especially interested in
this bit of market neWS furnished to the daily
press by the firm of O’Hara, Ferriss & 00., stock
brokers. In view of unsettled conditions with
the producers possibly the exchange of a good
cow for a share of stock might be considered prof-
itable. We pass along the information without
further comment:

 

CREAMERY STOCK HIGHER.

 

Made on Local Exchange at; Substantial
Advance

Sales

The Detroit Stock Exchange opened quietly but
good business was confirmed. Reo, Paige, Edison
and Detroit Creamery appearing in the trading, the
feature being the Detroit Creamery, which has been
consistently strong. Today’s price was at a sub-
stantial advance. The markets apparently stand
the war news well, reflecting the strength of under—
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London reports that Germany has resolved to renew
military activities against Russia. This decision
was reached at a sepecial conference attended by
Emperor William, his generals and high officials of
the government. It is claimed that invasion off Rus-
sia. will be continued with Perograd as the objectivc_
The Germans take the View that the “no peace. no
war” attitude of the Bolsheviki, though it did not
end the war, automatically ended the armistice. The
Bolsheviki are now moving on the Ukraine and the
new republic will be given every :tsistance by the
Germans, their idea being to prevent the ccnpture of
that territory by the Bolsheviki.
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A call has been made for five percent of the draft
quota from each local board which will be taken
from the deferred percentage. This wild require
1,500 White men from Michigan, who will be sent to
Camp‘ Greenleaf, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., instead of
Camp Custer. The railroad schedules are in prep-
aration and the movement will begin on March 1
and be distributed over five days so that the last will
leave on March 8. -

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Bola Pasha; whose trial for high treason, held in
Paris, has created a great deal of interest, has been
convicted and sentenced to death. The French court
found him guilty of using (lei-man gold in an attempt
to debauch the Paris press. (‘hicf t‘\'i(lt'liz't‘ was fur-
nished by the l'nitcd States govcrnmcnt. who found
that; Former Ambassador you icrnstort't' bud turned
over to Rolo nearly $2 000.000.

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Chairman Hurley of the shipping board has insist—
ed that striking carpenters and joincrs return to
work pending action of the wage adjustment bonrrd
within a few days will recommend a. general wage.
scale for 75 percent of the yards rm thet Atlantic,
coast. The strikcing carpenters are demanding the
wage scale of $0.00 recently gruntcd for l’uciilic.
coast yards.

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Writish naval authorities assert that (lcrmuny's big—
gest submarine drive may be expcctcd in April Ger-
many has: been active for the past few months. re-
fitting and overhauling her submarine llect. building
biggcr Illinois and mounting longwuhgc gun,- upon
them.

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a billion dollars
house by Chair—

An upprtmriutiou bill calling for
has been favorably reported to the.
man Sherley, of the appropriation committee The
money is to be used to supply ammunitioin. provide
a. plant for the filling of poison gas shells, and meet
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—Ireland in the Columbus Dispatch.

R‘AIL HEADS ARE BLAMED'FOR _
CRIPPLED CONDITION or ROADS

Those who had an idea that Hon. W. G. McAdoo
had his hands full as Secretary of the Treasurer
and could not give the railroads of the” nation
sufficient time to unravel the knotted skein, have
another guess coming. As Director General of
the railroads he is bringing order out of kaos.
and at the same unearthing some of the real
reasons why the whole transportation system of .
the nation broke down under private ownership
His very first act was to lop off the salaries of a a
hundred unnecessary officials; then he got after
the equipment, which he found in mighty bad
shape. His next step was to find out why there
were no cars for coal or to transport farm pro-
ducts and manufactured goods.

Commissioner McChord, active in the man-
agement under the Rirector General has just
filed a report with his Chief, which brings out
some startling revelations. He has located thous-
ands oi’ crippled cars, which have accumulated
during the fall and winter, which occupy miles
of tracks in the congested centers of the east.

These reports, based on first-hand information
gathered by a corps of. trained inspectors. cover
the six weeks’ period since the government as-
sumed operation of the railroads and indicate
that one of the most critical ills of rail transpor—
tation under private management “'11s the side
tracking of cars needing repairs. ‘:

Conditions are worst at. Philadelphia. l’itlsburg. I
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was shown. The Pennsylvania early this wec‘:
had 1.00:3 so—culled bad order cars at Altoo:1.:,
1.923 at Harrisburg. more than 1,000 at (‘ouwzi‘s
yard, near Pittsburg; 890 at, Cleveland, 478 :I:
Philadelphia and 510 at Buffalo. it was estimated
crippled curs even at these main terminals 0.
cupied 53:") miles of track.

These cars could have been repaired uuicl-tl‘

during the winter it' railroads had made proper
preparations for covered repair trucks in admin ~
according to railroad administration officials.

Of the many empty cars congested in the Phil-

adelphia yards of the Pennsylvania more than
2.400 are coal cars. At no time within the iris:

month have there been less than 1.500 empty coi‘
cars there awaiting movement while coal mine
operators cried for more cars.

Freight, train movement throughout the en:
has been at. the rate of about eight, miles an hour-
or two-thirds normal. causcd mainly by runnin:.:

trains too heavy. by faulty engines. poor cost"
and bad weather. A result has been the ovcr-r
working of train crews and their removal after
shifts of 10 hours” legal maximum.

in it‘s-alimony before the railroad wage con.»
mittec. represcutntives of road employcs rece‘i'
ly charged that railroad managements encour
aged this lax :ulministration to discredit, the
Adamson law.

HERE’S A FAIR DEAL THAT
WOULD MAKE FARMERS HAPPY

A yestcrdziy‘s dispatch from \\':i.~~hin_e‘tou nix
nouuces an agreement that was i'c:ichcd llt’i\\'t‘z"’
President Wilson and the zinc plum inanul'uv'lurv
crs. We publish the agreement more as an ill-1a:-
ration of what can be done to protect both ])i‘w~
ducer and consumer. than as a matter of ncws,

A maximum price of 11 cents a pound for plain
zinc f. o. b. at plants and 1:”) cents per pound
for sheet zinc, f. o. b. at, plants was fixed, subject V:
the usual trade discount.

The following conditions werc laid down:
First. that the producers of grade. “A“ zinc, plate
and sheet zinc will not reduce the present. wages.
Second. that the allies. the public and the gov:

crnn‘rent will be. sold zinc at the same prices,
Third. that they will take necessary measures to
preccnt zinc from falliig into the hands of tin-

spticulniors, who might increase the price to the
public. Fourth. that, they exert every effort. to
keep up the production. so as to assure an ads--
quatc supply during the war.

The farmers of the nation would be delighted
to have such -21 proposition submitted to them; and
like the zinc manufacturers. the President, could
rest, assured that the men of the farms would do
their level best to keep their factories running
full time during the period of the war. And it.
can be done. Federal Government, can as easily
contract for its needs in the way of: food products
as for its needs in the way of zinc.

Complete records for 1917, secured by the U. 5-3.
Food Administration, give the total pack of canned
tomatoes as 15,076,074 cases of two dozen cans
each. This is the largest amount packed since
191-4 and is equivalent to more than three cans or‘
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Michigan” Congressmen, Agricultural College,
State Food Administrator Prescott, De-
troit News, and Others N ow Line
Up Against Potato Grades

 

Recent Washington dispatches show that the

efforts of MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING to secure '

the abandonment or at least a modification of
the potato grading rules are bearing fruit. ' One
such dispatch to [the Grand Rapids Press under
date of February 15th, is 'as follows:

“Potato grading rules which have proved par-
ticularly obnoxious and discriminatory against
Michigan and have resulted in losses by Michi-
gan growers may be abandoned or at least
largely modified for this season. Lou D. Sweet,
chairman of the potato committee of the Food
Administration soon will call a conference 'of
potato growers, and dealers from all parts of
the country to reconsider the potato grading
question.

“It is evident that consistent criticism of the
grading rules finally has had an effect on food ad-
ministration ofiicials. Forrest A. Lord of MICHI-
GAN BUSINESS FARMING has been active in” this
work. In a recent letter to members of congress
he quotes a telegram from the Pennsylvania de—
partment of agriculture stating that grading
rules are little observed there. Mr. Lord‘adds
that a great injustice has been done to the farm-
ers of Michigan, that Michigan potatoes are bring-
ing the least on the markets of any state crop
and are being sold in direct competition with
the ungraded stock from other states.

"Some idea of what the food administration
may decide to do may be found in the recommen-
dation of Mr. Lord that the potato grading rules
be abandoned this year because it will be a phys-
ical impossibility to enable dealers to pay grow-
ers a fair price. Next year modified grading
rules might be gradually put in force."

A Lansing despatch to the Detroit News, Feb-
ruary 14th, says that Jason Woodman, member
of the state board of agriculture has been sent
to Washington by George A Prescott, state food
administrator, and the Michigan Agricultural
Gollege to endeavor to obtain from Herbert G.
Hoover, federal food administrator, a modification
or repeal of the federal order which compels
the screening of all potatoes into two grades with
respect to size.

Mr. Sweet’s sudden change of attitude and Mr.
Wood’man's hasty departure for Washington con-
stitute in effect a plain admission that the
grading rules have failed to accomplish the pre-
dicted results, and that those who have been re-
sponsible for putting the grades into operation
this year are making last minute efforts to clear
their skirts and to partially overcome the damage
already done.

While it is, of course, a matter of great satis-
faction to MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING and its
readers that the fight they have waged against
the iniquitous grading rules has finally enlisted
the support of: both state and federal authorities,
we regret that the impending victory will come
too late to be of very substantial benefit to‘ the
farmers this year. Most of them have sold their
No. 1 potatoes and fed the number twos to their
live stock. Others have a portion of the crop
still on their hands, and for their benefit we hope
that the rules will be modified as suggested.

As we look over the potato situation of the
past few months we are moved to compassion for
the utter stupidity and incompetency of those who
engineered the potato grading rules. When we
think of the millions of dollars that have been
lost to growers all over the United States. of the
absolute indifference of those who sit on the
Food Administration at Washington and the con-
ccited stubborness of those in authority within
our own state within whose hands the power lay
to remove the restrictions that Were working
havoc in the potato growing sections, words al-
most fail us.

The attempted regulation of potato production
and marketing last year was a huge bungle from
start to finish. From the very day the govern-
ment’s increased production propaganda until the
very moment, the potato industry has suffered a
set—back at every point. Theory, theory, theory,—
the hobbies of individuals and experts who had
no material interest in the welfare of men en-

 

gaged in the potato growing business,—'—=haVe re.-
peatedl'y and successfully throttled every'natural
bent or the marketing movement." Result: ,All
winter long many consumers have .been going

without potatoes while a hundred miles distant

farmers had mdre than they "chuld sell. The
simple fact is that the new grading rules abso-
lutely paralyzed the movement of the cr0p in
many sections during the normal marketing sea~
son. and despite the protests of the farmers, the

  

theorists and experts who controlled the situation

sat tight on their hobby horses and successfully
blocked the road to market. .
Four months ago, after a careful investiga—
tion, and in response to the pleas of its readers,
MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING sent a letter of pro-
test to the Food» Administration against the grad;
ing rules. Mr E. P. Miller of the potato division
answered this letter, defending the rules and set-
ting forth in glowing language the anticipated
benefits that were to be derived from their op-
eration by producer, dealer and consumer. alike.
An exchange of exhaustive correspbndence upon
the subject then followed, without results. Mr.
Miller persistently refused to make any modifica-
tion of the rules; the Food Administration had
made its decision and would abide by it. In vain,
we went into the details of the situation in Mich-
igan, pointed out to the potato committee time

and again the great financial loss that the rules

were imposing upon our farmers, and begged it
to at least conduct an investigation in Michi-
gan and make some provision for remedying
the situation. Five thousand petitions were sent
to Mr. Hoover; at no little expense to us. tele-
gram after telegram was dispatched to Wash-
ington, imploring those in authority to take some
action. We were referred to Prof. Waid, who as
secretary of the Michigan Potato Growers’ Ass’n.
had given his sanction to the grading. We laid
argument after argument before this gentleman,
undeniable proof of the harmful effects that the
grading was having upon the state’s potato in-
dustry, but the Professor turned a stubborn ear
to the growers' pleas and altho admitting the
apparent injustice of the grading. refused to rec-
ommend a single remedial measure.

Time was flying. Already the marketing sea-
son had advanced into the heart of winter. Some-
thing must be done and done quickly to save
the growers from a tremendous less. Finally
despairing of securing help "from those respon-
sible for the situation we turned to our represen-

tatives at Washington, laid all the facts before

them and asked them to act. Almost to a man,
they responded. Separately‘and collectively, the
members of the Michigan delegation appeared be-
fore Mr. Hoover or sent him letters protesting
against the discriminatory ruling and asked that
it be modified. These protests brought results.
Mr. Hoover apparently has instructed his lieu—
tenants to reconsider the grading rules and listen
to the arguments of the farmers of this state.

During all these months, MICHIGAN BUSINESS
FARMING has conducted the‘fight practically alone.
Various mass meetings have been held- thruout
the state and some of the country editors who
have minds and backbones of their own took up
the fight and stood valiantly by the growers.
But no other agency of a state-wide influence had
the interests of the farmers sufficiently at heart
to lend their influence against the grading. Op-
posed to the farmers from the very start were
the Agricultural College, Prof. Wald, secretary of
the Michigan Potato Growers’ Ass’n, all the coun-
ty agents, and the gentlemen comprising the po-
tato committee at Washington. Now that some
of them have shown a willingness to respect the
wishes of the farmers, the opportunity has been
opened to settle the grading proposition fairly
and satisfactorily to all.

' “A VICIOUS RULE FOR WAR

TIMES,” SAYS DETROIT NEWS

“Michigan farmers are complaining because the
federal food administration's grading regulation
is preventing the sale of a large part of the emer-
gency potato crop which federal authorities in-
duced them to raise. They have just cause for
complaint, and with them should join in plain-
tive wail the much-abused ultimate consumer.
Both alike are the victims of utter ignorance and
incapacity.

“But before the consumer can wail he must know
what has been done to him. U. S. grade No. 1
and U. S. grade No. 2 mean nothing to him in
connection with potatoes. The government did
not instruct him; the dealer did not let him in
on the secret; he knows only that potatoes are
high, and because of that he eats them sparingly.

“When asked for an explanation, a food admin-
istration ofi‘icial said: ”The answer is very

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The government istrying to bring aboutthe 3:1in .

stitutiOn of pctatoes' for wheat as _a"tood Lwh'er

possible. To make potatoes ’more attractive; “3,7

is trying to see that the potatoes that get-item

ket are of the highest/grade, give the consumer >'

the most value for his money and really make
a food bargain for him as compared. with wheat.‘
‘ “To do this it has instituted the grading regu-
lation,, fixing the standard thus: All" potatoes
that will not pass through a screen of 1 7-8 inches
are first class. All that will pass through such
a screen but will not pass through a screen of
1 1-2 inches shall be classified as grade No. 2.
All others are culls and should out be offered for
sale.” '
"‘Analyze this: The administration influenced
the farmers to raise the largest potato crop on
record. The administration was anxious to have
the people eat potatoes to the exclusion of other
food stuffs. The administration devised a grad—
ing regulation ~which sorted out and branded
as inferior more than One half of the crop and
permitted the buyer to reject these inferior po-
tatoes or to offer for them a much reduced price.
“But the administration did not follow up its
regulation with any provision} for enforcement.
Therefore, naturally, the buyer after he had
graded the farmers’ potatoes and paid the mar-
ket price for a small part of them, bid anything

he liked for the seconds. If he did not get them, _

the consumer lost. If he did get them he .was
immediately at liberty to dump them into the
bin with the potatoes graded No. 1 and the con-

' sumer paid the market price for field—run. stock.
“No regulation could have been better calculated ’

to discourage the production and consumption of
potatoes—the production, because farmers treated
so shabbily will not this year take seriously any
efforts to induce them to plant potatoes largely;
the consumption, because it arbitrarily interfered
with normal marketing, kept from distribution
millions of bushels of excellent potatoes and
maintained ‘a price so high as to deter consum-
ers from buying.

“The effect was so obvious that even state oili-
cials balked. Michigan’s food administration
made no attempt to enforce the measure. But
the potato buyers, who were the sole beneficiar-
ies of the measure, held the farmers to it. They
told the farmers that they were licensed. They
pointed to the stenciled “U. S. Standard Grade”
on their screen. ”Government orders," they said.
“Got to do it. Wouldn’t have us lose our license,
would you?” -

“A delegation of Michigan potato growers is
in Washington to tell the senate committee on
agriculture the workings of the potato grading
regulation. They should be heard with defer-
ence. If the government expects the farmers to
produce food for the nation and (for the army,
it must quit hampering their business with
“regulations" which limit the marketing of farm
products at reasonable prices."

BEET GROWERS APPRECIATE
OUR EFFORTS IN THEIR BEHALF

 

Editors MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING:—

At a meeting of the farmers held in our neigh-
borhood last night I was asked to write you a .let-
ter, expressing the appreciation of the beef grow-
ers of this section for the splendid service given
us in our efforts to secure an increased price for
our beets. Had it not been for the weekly visits
of your splendid paper, and the able manner in
which you handled the growers’ side of the ques-
tion, many in this section would not have held on
until the victory was won.

It is my opinion that if the beet sugar manu-
facturers could raise beets themselves at less cost
than they are obliged to pay the growers, they
would engage in the business of sugar beet grow-
ing as a profitable side-line. In the “Thumb” of

Michigan, where the first sugar factories were

established, the farmers remember the experience
some of the companies and many of the manufac-
turers had in raising beets. In order to secure
the factories both at Croswell and Caro, it be-
came necessary for the different communities to
guarantee a certain acreage of beets. To accom~
plish this many of the business men of these
villages contracted for a certain number of acres.

They went out and rented the land. paid for the
help, delivered the beets—and when they got their
checks in the fall they found that they had lost
from twenty to one hundred and fifty dollars on
every acre of beets raised. They did not try rais-
ing beets the second year. Then, it will be re-
membered, the manufacturers went into the grow—
ing business—~they were going to show the farm-
ers just 'how to handle the proposition. This
scheme did not prove successful in a single in—
stance; the farms purchased by the companies
have been sold, and their losses in growing beets
themselves, has been made up by the farmers.

MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING comes as a welcome
messenger every Saturday, and to your efforts,

more than any other single agency, can the beet.

growers give the credit for their receiving ten
dollars per ton for beets raised this year.-
Wilmot, Michigan L. E. J.

 

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Detroit Chiulo New York
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Wheat is moving freely and the
output of flour during the past week
has decreased considerably under the
average as maintained for a month or
more. The storms of January made
the hauling of grain from the farms
almost impossible.“ Then came the
thaw of last week, just about en-
tirely cutting off country receipts.
This thaw was general over the nor-
thern part of the wheat belt. Much
of the drifted snow has been removed
from the roads and with more fav-
orable weather we should see wheat

moving to market in goodly quan-V

tities. The farmers will be looking
forward to spring work and at that
time they are too busy to haul much
grain. It is only reasonable there-
fore to expect an increased movement
during the balance of this month and
the fore part of March.

There is nothing to be gained by
holding this wheat and it is badly
needed right at this time. In fact
with the coming of warmer weather
there is always a considerable shrink-
age on grain and all other things
being equal we have always felt that
it should be disposed of rather than
held on into the late spring or summer
months. This, of course, would not
apply during years when the price
had been unsatisfactory through the
early part of the marketing season,
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No. 2 Yellow 1.87 1.82 1.78
No. 3 Yellow 1.851-2 1.80 1.77
No. 2 Mixed 1.83 1.77 1.761-2

 

 

 

 

 

The railroads, under the Govern-
ment priority orders, are making ev-
ery effort to move corn to terminal
markets, The weather is now more
favorable, after one of the most severe
winters of years, and one Which at

times just about suspended trans-

portation movement. It is expected
that the visible corn supply will in-
crease greatly from now on. The
quality of arrivals is very poor, show-
ing much cob rot. The recent warm
weather gave some indication of what
is in store for wet corn. Much of it
arriving during that period had begun
to show the must odor.

Seed corn is selling at high levels,
and will perhaps advance with the
season, acting independently of feed
corn. The supply of real good seed
is... rather limited. Investigation of
cars arriving at terminal points shows
about one in one hundred fit for seed—
lng purposes. The quality of the
seed being offered is far from that of
other years.

There is a very good demand for
white corn and millers are taking it
at a good price when in condition for
their purposes. It is being used to
a large extent in the war flour and
by bakers generally.

Michigan buyers of corn should ex-
amine each car on arrival and this ex-
amination should be thorough. While
the quality will not be found up to the
average of other years, there is great
danger of the corn heating in transit.
This trouble may not be apparent on
top of the car but develops as the car
is unloaded and the grain underneath
is reached. For this reason it is well

_ to sample all parts of the ear.

All seed corn this year should be
thoroughly tested for germination.
This is always a good plan, taking no
one’s word for it, and this year the
rule applies with more force than
ever. There will be a big question
regarding much of the corn which will
be offered for seed.

 
 

 

the market remains firm.

moderate quantities and demand good.
market firm at prevailing prices.

deliveries and the man-last has taken on
limited way and demand is good.

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GRADE Detroit Chicago New York
No. 2 White
Standard .91 1-2 .90 1 02
No. 3 White .91 .89 1.01
No. 4 White .90 .88 1.00

 

 

Last week, in discussing the oat
situation, we stated it as our belief
that despite a somewhat heavier move-
ment of oats, we would not see lower
prices for some time, owing to the
fact that all markets were bare and it
would take a considerable amount to
take care of the daily demand and at
the same time create sufficient sur-
plus to have any bearish effect on the
price.

The latter part of the week justi-
fied this assertion, the cat market,’
notwithstanding additional supplies,
reaching the high mark of the season,
Detroit quoting standard at 911/20.
The demand continues excellent, ex-
port buyers, cereal food manufactur-
ers and feed mills all being’actively
in the market. We advise our read-
ers to watch the market closely, how-
ever, and it should be remembered
that one of the main factors in the
recent advance was the fact that there
Were not sufficient stocks in reserve
to tide the dealers over a period of
st ddenly increased demand. There is
a large reserve back in the hands of
country dealers, much of it bought at
lower prices than now prevail, and
ti ey are anxious to sell. There is no
doubt, but what better Weather is at
hand and this, together with the gov—
ernment’s priority order issued last
w'ek, will result in larger receipts.
Eventually this will have an effect on
the market. The growers will also
be hauling their grain to market be-
fore the rush of spring work. It is
the general aopinion that there are
large stocks still in growers hands.

 

The past week brought about no

DETROIT SPECIAb—Beans are firm and demand increasing sosadily. Pota—
toes in plentiful supply and market not so strong. Poultry arriving in very

PITTSBURGH W'IRE—Potato receipts have increased somewhat during the
past week but with better weather less
a better feeling Ray is arriving in very

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CHICAGO WIRE—Receipts of corn at primary points have doubled during
the past few days and train loads of empties to all western states. Much uncer-
tainty prevails in the corn market with a general trend to lower prices. Oats
are moving in increased quantities but all ofi‘erings are quickly absorbed and

  
   

Eggs arriving in greater quantities but

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The market continues strong and ar-
rivals are not sufficient to take care
of the constant demand. There is some
difference of opinion as to the future
of the rye market but it is generally
believed that the price will not ad-
vance much higher. It is now con-
siderably over wheat. The warmer
Weather and improved conditions of
the roads may bring out stocks still
in the hands of growers, but it is our
opinion that these stocks are not
large and that so far as they are
concerned the effect on the market
will be small. Detroit is quoting No.
2 at. $2.18 and Chicago quotes $2.10
for the same grade. Other markets
arein the main nominal.

I Barley

ChicagowTho barley market last
week continued very strong, and in
spite of predictions to the contrary
prices continued to advance, the scarc—
ity of-wheat flour having of course,
stimulated the demand for the nc":
barley product which is rapidly coming
into deserved popularity. The demand
was keen for both the spot and barley
to arrive, and loadings of barley in
store have been as rapid as circum—
stances permitted. Some of the malt-
sters even sold their holdings to mil-
lers to ease up the pressure, never-
theless the top price for barley for the
week stood above a parity for wheat.
There is, of course. the usual amount
of gossip that the Food Administration
proposes to place maximum priccsup-
on barley as upon wheat but nothing
has as yet been done. The demand
for feed barlcy was good; screenings
held firm at advanced prices; malting
sold up to as high as 11.82. On Mon-
day there was some reaction tltho
the receipts were not as heavy as an-
ticipated. There were among the re-
(‘9st some 10 cars of malting which
sold at a range from $1.81 to $1.87 and
a quantity to arrive was quoted at
$1.87 to $1.89. Sales of food were re-
ported at $1.72@1.7214 and screenings
at $1.30; malting ranged between $1.77
and $1.90 for poor to fancy; $1.77@
1.85 for standard; $1.85@1.88 for good
to choice. with fancy up to $1.90; feed

and mixing, $1.70@1.85; screenings.
material change in the rye situation. $1@1.40.
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evere Storms

WASHINGTON, D. 0., Feb. 23—-
Last bulletin gave forecasts of dis-
turbance to cross continent Feb. 23 to
27, warm wave 22 to 26, cool wave
25 to March 1 This will be a first
class storm, important in many ways.
Great warm wave followed by severe
2 cold 'wave, blizzards, freezing weath-
E er, going farther south than usual,
- bad weather for farm work and trans—
; portation. Whatever grain you in—

tend to market before taking up your
a strenuous farm work for next crops,
E better get thru with it before that
3 storm comes. It will bring a week
E or ten days of bad weather.
5- Next warm wave will reach Van—
; couver about February 28 and tem-

peratures will rise ,on all the Pacific
5 slope. It will cross crest of Rock-
E ice by close of March 7, plains sec-
; tions 2, meridian 90, great lakes and
51

THE WEATHER FOR THE WEEK

As forecasted by W. ’1‘. Foster for MICHIGAN Busmnss FARMER

 

 

Ohio-Tennessee valleys 3, eastern sec—
tions 4, reaching vicinity of New—
foundland about March 5. Storm
wave will follow about one day hi“
hind warm wave and cool wave about
one day behind storm wave.

All weather conditions, changes and
events are causcd by such disturb~
ances as are described in above para
graph. Those who give most study
to these forecasts will get most out
of them.

The storm described in last‘abovc
paragraph will be a continuutlon of
the great storm period desorvbcd in
first paragraph and all should pro—
pare for a. continuation of sovol‘o
weather in the far west and middle
west up to March 5 and in eastern
sections three days later Wlule this
storm will have many bad features,
the good featurcs will outweigh tho
bad. From those grcat storms a
great improvement in cropwcather is
expected, particularly south of lati-
tude 40, where improvements are
most needed. The what crop will
be greatly improved and the condi-
tions will be very favorable to oats
and the farmers should sow largely

Of' that (TOD.
. .3355).

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GRADE Detroit ' Chicago New Yorlr
C. HJ’. 12.70 13.50 13.75
Prime 12.40 13.35 13.65
Red Kidnevx 15.50 16 00 13.75

 

 

 

 

 

The bean market is firm under a
fair demand and scarcity of good, dry
stock. The price is advancing and
should show considerable improve-
ment. We have all along maintained
that our friends who had good dry
stock would do well to hang on to it
for a time tand we still feel the same
about it. Let’s get rid of the wet
stuff first. not all at once, but grad-
ually, and the dry stock will take
care of itself. Regardless of all the
talk of imported beans, pintos, etc,
we are firmly convinced that there
will be a most cxccllonl, market for
Michigan pea bcans later on. Seed
stock is going to bo scarce. And right
here we want to say to our friends,
be careful what, kind of wood you pur-
chase this year. If you. have any rca-
son to suspect that, it has been touch-
ed by tho frost. do no! plant it, cvcn
though it does gcrminntc. We saw
this triod out, lost your and with very
unsatisfactory rc'nlts.

We note with satisfaction that wot
beans which have stood in the straw
all wintcr are coming out in much
bcllcr shape than lhosc which were
llrrcshcd curly and slorcll in bins.

Many growcrs did not :4th :1, machine
in to lllrosh bcforc lhc roads wcro
bloclnwl with snow and they arc now

finding that this cii'cmnslunce ulti-
mately workcd to thclr advantage.

chorls from Colorado in'licate that
growers there who hnvc 51041; on hand
fcel that it, should bring higher prices
than now prevail and are holding.
This should prove a bull l'uclor so far
as Michigan bcans are concerned. The
fact that the Government sci'md i‘wcn-
ty million pounds of bonus on the Pa-
cific coast, beans which we undcr-
stand were imported. did not help
the Michigan situation any, to say
the least. But at that. lhcy will nccd
our beans, and badly. bcl‘ore another
crop is ready for market.

     
    

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Tho clover seed market continued
strong up to the close of last. week.
at which time considerable weakness
developed and prices worked lower.
The principal cause of this was a
desire on the part of holders to dis-
pose of a part of their holdings. There
is much uncertainty as to the immed-
iate future although we fail to dis-
cover at. this time any underlying
weakness which would permanently
effect the situation.

Detroit quotations today. with pros-
pects of a somewhat lower market to- ’
ward the nod of the Week, are as fol-
lows:

Prime red clover, $20; March $19;
‘alsike, $18.60; March alsike, $16.6i;
timothy. $4.

 

 

Marke's 1‘40. 1 Standard No. 2
‘ Timothy Timothy Timothy
Detroit 25 50 26 00 24 50 25 00 23 50 24 00
Chicago 30 00 31 00 29 00 30 00 28 00 29 00
Cincinnati 32 75 33 00 32 00 32 50 30 50 31 50
Pittsburgh 31 00 30 50 29 00 29 50 26 00 26 50
New York 37 00 39 00 33 00 37 00130 00 34 00
Richmond 33 oo ‘32 00 128 00

No. 1 No. 1 No. 1
Markets Light Mixed Clover Mixed Clover
Detroit 23 50 24 00 22 00 22 50 21 50 22 00

Chicago 28 00 28 50 27 50 28 00 27 50 28 00
Cincinnati 32 00 32 50 31 50 32 00 35 00 35 50
Pittsburgh 29 50 30 00 30 50 31 50 30 50 31 50
New York 34 00 36 00!“ 00 34 00 32 00 34 00
Richmond 32 00 131 00 29 00

 

 

Shippers have nothing to fear so
far as the present hay market is con-
cerned. Light receipts are the rule
at all markets and under a good
stiff demand trade is'brisk and prices
rem in firm.

Receipts at Detroit are improving

  

 


      

 
  
  
 
 

 

Chicago-reports a very firm mar-
ket with light supplies and- active trad-
ing. Both local and shipping demand
has been exceptionally good for the
past week. The demand for straw
is also good, No. 1 rye and oats bring-
ing from $14 to $16 per ton. Wheat
straw is selling around $12.00.

Conditions at Cincinnati are much
better, the cold-er weather of the past
few days having relieved the flooded
conditions of the plugging yards. There
has been some advance in price at
that point.

Richmond rcports very light re-
ceipts and an active demand. Our

reporter there states that consign-'

ments to that point are light just at
this time and that, they expect a good
firm market, until such time as sup~
plies are greatly increased in the
spring.

(“lover hay is greatly in demand
at St. Louis, according to a wire just
received from our correspondei‘it
there. offerings being limited and ar—
rivals cleaning up from day to day.
There is also a good demand for
prairie and packing hay.

Pittsburg and Philadelphia report
a shortage of all grades of sound
hay and this. together with a heav-
ier demand than has existed for some
time. has made an exceptionally
strong market.

After the rush of. deliveries fol—
lowing the Garfield closing order, the
New York market has cleaned tip in
good shape and the situation there
is again firm.

     

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IVIainit'actnre of food stuffs, so far
as Detroit millcrs are concerned, is
about at a. standstill. Very little feed-
stuft's material is left from the manu-
facturc of war flour. and oats and corn
are not arriving in volume sufficient
to be of any account. The same con-
dition is true of other markets. New
York reports nothing to fill orders for
spot or future delivery. Dealers are
trying to fill existing contracts and
finding great difficulty in doing so.

Detroit. quotations: ll‘lourw Per 104‘;-
lbs.. in eighth paper sacks: Standard
patent. $ll.l0@ll.15; straightt win—
ter. $10.80flll: spring patent. $11.20
011.510; rye iionr. 11.80 in jobbing lots.

Feed: ln 100—lb. socks, jobbing
lots: Bran. $1tt.50: standard middlings
$30.50: fine middlings, $43.50; crack
corn. $75; coarse'cornmeal, $74: chop
$00 per ton.

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l’rrtzttocs arc moving quite freely

:xt tilt: present time. ltoceiycrs report.
car lots as plentiful and the market,
has an easy tone. The price so far
has remained about stationary, show-
ing but small decline. No doubt ship-
ments will increase from now on, the
warmer weather permitting shippers
to work to better advantage.

’l‘hcre is much speculation as to
what will develop when the pits and
.:»‘.':ars are opened and the contents
1horoughly investigated. It is the
gcncral opinion that much at the
'ocli has been more or less affected
my the severe winter. Whether or not
this is the case will have an effect on
til“ future market. If the frost has
‘1 'urc'l much of the stock in Michi-
'21.:l, \‘i'isconsin and Minnesota, there
. ill. of course. be just; that much less
a.) (‘tliltt’ on the market and this will
bc a bull factor.

Seed potato men say they are hav-
ing a fair demand for seed stock but
are finding difficulty in securing cars
for shipment. The car situation will

 

spring weather permits free move-
ment and where supplies are plentiful
this usually causes a lower market.
With the supply of cars somewhat re-
stricted this movement will be more
evenly distributed over the spring
months.

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The onion market is just a litle off
at the present time. Detroit dealers
report a. light demand and free re-
ceipts. They believe that this condi—
tion it but temporary and that before
a great while the surplus will clean
up and the trade become more steady.
Detroit quotations on No. 1 yellow
stock run from $3.00 to $3.50 per 100—
lb. sack. Red onions are not in de-
mand on this parket.

New York—The receipts of onions
this week were the lightest ever known
for this season of the year. Through-
out the week the arrivals did not run
higher than eight or ten cars a day~
in fact, they would not average over
seven carswyet there were more on-
ions than were needed and sales had
to be forced, in many cases. and prices
shaded. Some of the Offerings qhnwpfl
the effects of the recent cold spell and
this frosted stock was hard to move
at any price. Reports from the pro-
ducing sections especially New York
state . indicate that the quantity of
onions in storage is extremely heavy.
All shippers are crying for cars but;
the railroads are unable to furnish
but, very few. However. it may be
just as well. as a heavy accumulation
here would drive prices down so low
that. in the rong run it, would mean
a bigger loss than if the onions were
held in the country. Most of this
week’s supply consisted of the yellow
variety and because of this, the best
reds and yellows sold at the same
price. $2 per 100 pound bag. This price
was not. realized except in a small
way. and quantity sales were seldom
made higher than $l.50@$l.75. The
poorer stock sold as low as 50c@
$1.50 per 100 lb. bag.

(‘tliicagoevThe onion marker contin—
ued to weaken under a slow call and
liberal offerings this week. Reds and
yellOWs were held at prices ranging
all the way from $1.85@$2.10 per
cwt., f.o.b Wisconsin, Michigan and
Indiana shipping points.

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v APPLES"

The apple market is firm and sup-
plies are only moderate. Shipments
have increased to a. certain extent but.
the demand has kept. pace with them
and the market today is in good con»
tlition and promises to continue so.
Detroit: quotations: (lrvcningt, $0.01?
$0.25! York. $5@$5.50; Baldwin. "
No. 2, Efiiditfitfitflfi pcr hbl. ‘.’\'(1:‘i:'l'::.
$2.75tt'r353i per box.

Chicagc , Apples moved rather free
13’ in a local way under an active dc—
iuand this week and if :~.hipping facil—
ities were equal to requirements, so
that. outside orders could be handled,
trading would be on a. firm basis. The
limited number of cars available, re—
stricted the outside movement mater-
ially. The local call was a sufficient
strength, however, to maintain prices
on a steady basis.

Quotations on barrels Wm'u as fol—
lows: York lmperials, $5@$5.25; Wil-
low Twigs. $4.50@$5; Baldwins, $5.25
@3575; Golden Russets, 55561328550;
Kings, $5.50@$6; Jonathans, $5.50@
$0.25; Greenings. $6@$6.50; \Vinesaps,
$5fo7$6z Ben Davis. $4@$4.25! North-
ern Spy, $5.50@$6.50; Ganos. $4@
$4.50. and No. 2 stock $2.50@$3_50.

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BUTT??? ‘ _'

Our New York butter letter, giving
conditions for the week ending Feb.
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Thursday another quarter cent was
added, making the quotation 52c at
which price the market stood firm
on Friday. Higher scoring butter
closed firm at 521/2@53C; firsts were
moving at 49%@511/_,c, and a few
seconds were moving at 48@49c; the
demand for that grade being rather
limited. Traffic conditions have clear—
ed up considerably and it is expected
that there will be a more regular move—
ment of buter toward New York than
there has been during January and
February. Considering the irregular-
ity of arrivals during those months
the market has been very consistent.
It is difficult to predict what changes
may occur in the future but shipperss
had best prepare for some decline in
price.

The following suggestions are offer-
ed to those who wish to secure the
top of the market on their shipments:

1. Be sure that the creamery sup-
ply houses furnish you with clean,
well~made tubs. ’

2. Be sure that the tub has a clean
attractive appearance when it leaves
the creamery.

3. Do not use more than four fas-
teners. but see that they are placed
at equal intervals and firmly nailed.

4. Have as few identification marks
on the tubs as possible. Use your
stamp once on the cover and once on
the side of the tub.

5. Use top cloth circles. Insert
liners carefully and have them lap
over not, more than one inch on the
upper surface. '

Cheese

Sheboygan, Wis—The cheese market
remains firm and practically station-
ary as far as country markets are con-
cerned. The make throughout. the
country seems to be slightly increas.
ing but not sufficiently so in order to
make any change in the situation or
any appreciable increased offerings.

Trading throughout the state, or
home trading, has been active for the
last week and continues so at this
writing. Daisies and Longhorns are
in special demand. Prices have reach-
ed a point, where the cost of carrying
stocks is increased and this results in
wholesalers and jobbers buying more
or less in a hand-tovmouth basis, for
immediate requirements only.

The Twin situation is somewhat. un-
certain and difficult to fathom. While
reports of heavy holdings conti'nue°to
be made. operators are finding no dif-
ficulty in moving their stocks at the
basis of present cost, and the past week
has seen many sales of held goods
made on the basis of 25c fob con-
centration point.

At the. Plymouth market: held this
week the following sales were made:
28 Twins. 20c; 700 Daisies. 2714c; 100
double 'llziisies, 271m; 100 double Dais-
ies, 27c. 21.“; Longhorns 277,5”,c; .‘j'i5
Spuarc Prints. 2814c.

At, the, Appleton marker; the same
prices “revailcd. Twins srill‘ng at 20c
and double Daisies at 374'.

Michigan flats,

  

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)etimf cuctatrn.

3mg.?r,“t2l1.wt m "fork flats, 27c;
brick. i“f\i".f"‘20l.’_.c: lonahorns. 293%!”
Nit-lasing daisies. il'i'c; '~.‘.’iscoiisin dais

it's, 2713c; domestic Swis. iiicfl-tiic;
for prime to fancy: Limbnrgcr, 5101/;
fifth per lb.

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The egg market is firmer under lim-
ited supply and good demand. Arriv-
als from the southwest have been lim-
itcd owing to transportation difficul-
ties and this has helped the Chicago
and Michigan situation. Detroit is
quoting fresh firsts at 54 to 550 per
dozen.

t‘hicago reports a firmer tone to the
market the past week. following the
steady decline of the preceding week.
Both local and shipping dealers are
buying actively and although receipts
are increasing owing to the milder
weather, holders of fresh have been
able to obtain somewhat higher prices
Firsts are selling at 55 to 5514c; 0r-
dinary, 52 to 531,40; miscellaneous lots
cases included, 52 to 541/2c.

Turkey

Ducks

Geese ‘\

Springer:
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No. 2 Grade 2 to 3 Cents Less

 

The poultry market is firm at a
slightly advanced range of prices. r-
rivals are light at all points and every-
thing appears favorable for the spring
market.

Last week we mentioned that the
Food Administrator was considering
forbidding the shipping of hens or
pullets and this order has since been
issued. This order, we understand,
holds good until May ,1. This action
has been taken to increase the egg sup-
ply. At this time of the year it is
customary to dispose of hens and this
movement has been heavy this year
on account of the high prices of feed.
It became evident that the egg supply
would be away below normal at a time
when the country needs a greater pro-
duction than ever before, to relieve
the food situation. Hence the action
of the Cimmission in forbidding the
shipment of hens and pullets for the
time specified.

Furs and Hides

No. 1 skunk, $5; winter muskrats,
ggcgoNo. 1 mink, $7.50; No. 1 raccoon,

HIDES—No. 1 cured, 17c; No. 1
green, 140; No. 1 cured bulls, 13c;
No. 1 green bulls, 110; No. l cured. veal
kip, 20c; No. 1 green veal kip, 180;
No. 1 cured munrain, 17c; No. 2 green
murrain, 14c; No. 1 cured calf; 260;
No. 1 green calf. 24c; No. 1 horsehides,
$6; No. 2 horsehides, $5; No. 2 hides,
1c and No. 2 kip and calf 11/20 10Wer
tan the above; sheepskins, as to
amount of wool, 25c@$3 each.

Dressed Hogs and Calves

The dresed hog market is firm, good
clean, nice appearing stuff bringing
2-c per lb. Receipts have been just a
little heavier during the past week,
but there is a good market for all of-
ferings.

Dressed veal is in good supply,
fancy bringing 18 to 20c per lb; choice
170; common, 10c. Shippers should
be careful in preparing veal for mar-
ket. A great deal depends on the ap-
pearance when it arrives at destina-
tion. Dirty looking stuff sells at
discount at all times.

Rabbits

Michigan rabbits are in fair de
mand, bringing $3 to $3.75 per dozen,
according to condition. With the
warmer weather receivers are ex-
pecting the usual run of off-grade
stock. Be sure the shipment is not
held too long before moving forward.
Rabbits arriving out of condition are
liable to be sent to the dump by the.
inspector.

Vegetables
Beets, $3."5 pcr cwt.; carrots, $2 per
cwt.; turnips, 312 per cwt.; rutabagas,
$2 per cwt.; parsnips, $2.50 per cwt.;
radishes, 35c per don.

Live Stock Letters

('lticogo. Illinois. ir'cbrzzary/ 18, 10‘18
~ .\ further Hithlli itlt't'czlse in rcccipts
of live stock at Chicago last week and
a material gain in outgoing shipments
came as additional proof that the
railroads are gradually getting in bet-
ter shape to handle the traffic and
leads to the expeCtation, in View of the
fact that lack of adequate transpor-
tation facilities has held vast amounts
of live stock in the country which
owners have been anxious to unload,
that the marketward movement dur-
ing the next 30 days or more will be
of generous volume.

Last week’s cattle rade was very ir-
regular. The beef steer market show-
ed its best phases on the plain to
good 1050 to 1250-lb. classes of warm-
ed-up and short—feds selling largely
between $10.00 and $12.00. Such clos~
ed last week showing little change in
value from the close of the week pre-
vious. An indifferent demand, how-
ever, prevailed all week for good
choice steers selling from $12.50 to
$13.80, the latter figure being the to
of the week, and these kinds, along
with many of the morexommou light

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we believe, be profitably held back for
a better finish, ,alhough supply pros-
pects are such as appear to warrant
the marketing of all classes of live
stock as fast as ready for the market
and stock that is not paying its board.

Revival of demand for stock and
feeding cattle has been an outstanding
'feature of the cattle trade within the
'last fortnight. While the trade on
country account has not yet reached
large dimensions by any means, the
fact is patent to those in close touch
with market developments .that unless
unforseen handicaps appear the
broadened inquiry for thin and light
fleshed young cattle that has been evi-
denced since the January and early
February period of severe storms. sub-
zero temperatures and demoralized
transportation service is but the be-
ginning of a season that will be mark-
ed by an investment demand that will
grow in volume as grazing time draws
nearer. Prices advanced about 250
last week. with the bulk selling at
$8.50 to $10.00 and a few loads of the
best selected feeders up around $11.

Butcher cattle were irregular Hel-
lers all the week. but, showed at the
close a full steady basis with the close
of the previous week with the excep‘
ticn of common and plain light heifer
stuff Which was dull and droopy. The
heavy cows and canner and cutter
classes were good sellers throughout.
Bulls showed little change but the
calf market dropped to the lowest lev-
els hit in many weeks past. It, took
choice vealers to sell at the weel-i-end
at $13.00 and sales were made at: $1.50,
to $2 declines from the close of the
week previous.

Today with 15,000 cattle in the pens
the market was generally steady on
all classes. Top steers sold at $13.85,
but sales above $13 were few and the
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New 40x80 full basement barn, round
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Outside cement potato cellar. Auto gar-
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doWn to $16.05 and the general aver-
age to $15.75 on Tuesday, but recovery
.was prompt and under a material ex-
pansion in, shipping demand toward
the week end the market became a
runaway affair, closing the week at
the high point of the period, 80 to 90c
above the Tuesday low spot and 10 to
200 above the close of the preceding
week. The average hog weight for
the week was 233 lbs. the heaviest
since last September, 31 lbs. heavier
than a year ago and 14 lbs. heavier
than the corresponding week of the
last seven years.

Today, with 45,000 hogs on the mar-

ket, the trade ruled unusually higher,‘

the average being fully 25c above Sat—
urday. The top was $17.10 and sales
up to $17.00 for good butcher hogs
were numerous.

The sheep and lamb trade has been
in a bad way during the past week,
lambs declining fully $1.00 per cwt..
yearlings 500 and matured muttons
generally 25c. Best lambs finished
last week on a $16.75 basis. but a good
kin-d not of the most desirable weights
sold down around $16.00 and $14.75
to $15.50 bought a lot of 95 to 110-1b.
lambs toward the week end, such wts.
finding a very narrow outlet. Handy
weight yearlings topped at $15.00, and
best, aged wethers were quotable at
$13.50 and good to choice fat ewes sold
from $12.50 to $13.15. Dressed mut-
ton trade East was in bad condition
throughout, the week. Meatless days
and the opening of the Lenten season
are depressing~ influences and the trade
lacks confidence in the ability of the
narket to attain and hold much bet—
ter levels than now prevail during the
next few weeks.

Today, with 20,000 head here. sheep
held steady but l‘ambs showed a fresh
decline of 15 to 25c. Best tidy wt.
lambs sold at $16.65 to shippers. but
the practical top to packers was $16.50.

East Buffalo. N. 17., Feb. 19.———Re-
ceipts of cattle Monday, 100 cars, in-
cluding ten cars, left from last week’s
trade. Trade opened 25 to 50c lower
on medium weight and weighty steers
which were in light supply; butcher
steers and handy weight steers sold
steady; fat, cows and heifers sold very
steady; bulls of all classes sold steady:
fresh cows and springers were. in very
light supply. sold steady; stockers and
feeders were in light supply, sold very
steady; yearlings were in very light
supply, sold 15 to 25c higher than last
week. At the close of our market 15
cars went over unsold.

Receipts of cattle Tuesday. 25 cars.
including ten cars left from Monday’s
trade. The market, was 15 to 25c low-
er on all grades and trade was slow.

Receipts of hogs for the opening day
of the week totaled 9.600 head, or 60
double decks. and with a good local
and outside demand our market open—
cd ton to fifteen cents higher. with the
lionvies selling: from $17.00 to $17.40;
mixed. $17.50. with two decks of late
arrivals reaching $17.60; yorkers. at
$17.50: pigs. $16.23; roughs, $15.75;
stairs $121.00 to $11.00.

Receipts of hogs 'l‘uesday totaled
about 2.600 head and the market, open—
cd steady. Yorkers sold at $17.50, but
a few reached $17.60; mixed and medi—
um hogs sold from $17.10 to $17.60;
heavies. $17.25 to $17.40. Pigs and
lights were a quarter lowcr. selling
from $15.75 to $16.00; roughs. $15.50
to 015.75; stags generally $11.

The receipts of sheep and lambs on

Monday was called 9.000 hczul. The
market opened 10c. higher on best
lambs which sold from $17.50 to
$17.75; throwouts, $15.50 to $16.25.

There were quite a number of heavy
lambs here Monday and the demand
was very light for this class of stuff.
They were very hard sellers and sold
from $15.25 to $15.75. Yearlings sold
from $151.50 to $14.00; wethers. $12.50
to $13.50: cwes, $12.00 to $12.50, as
to Weight and quality.

Receipts of sheep and lambs Tucs—
(1ay were about ten cars fresh and five
cars holdovers. The market was very
slow and very little trading was done.
Best lambs sold from $17.35 to $17.50
which was 25c t0 40c lower than Mon-
day; throwouts, $15.50 to $16-5;
yearlings, $13.50 to $14.00: wothers.
$13.00 to $13.50; ewes. $12.00 to $12.50
as to weight and quality.

We quote: Choice to prime weighty
steers, $12.50 to $13; medium to good
weighty steers, $12.00 to $12.50; plain

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The Knocker

T TAKES no brains to knock”, says the Al-

legan county farm agent, referring to those
publications which “knocked” the grading
rules. Incidently, the gentleman’s remark hits
about 50,000 “unprogressive” farmers of the state
who have likewise opposed the grades. It really
seems that the remark is superfluous. The whole
idea of the farm agent movement, as applied in
some sections of Michigan at least, seems to be
based upon the assumption that the farmers are
devoid of brains, hence an advisor to tell them
how to farm, how to grade, how to market.

The charge is that MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARW'
me is a “knocker.” We plead guilty. We “knock-
ed" the price of wheat that some of the elevators
were paying to farmers, and after a succession of
knocks, secured an increase of three cents a
bushel. True, that isn’t much, but we thought the
farmer might better have that three cents than
the elevator man. It isn’t recorded that our farm-
agent friends in the counties affected raised a
single hand to help the farmers get a square deal.

Last fall the government attempted to set a
price on Michigan beans. Because we knew that
the farmers of Michigan would lose money if
forced to sell at the government price, and believ-
ing that the government was not fully acquaint-
cd with the Michigan situation, again we knocked!
Protest after protest was sent to Washington,
with the final result that the government turned
clsewhere for its bean supplies and left the Mich-
igan product free to follow the open market.

For four months we knocked the potato grades.
And even after the county agents in convention
at East Lansing had given their constituents
back home a slap in the face by endorsing the
grades, we continued to knock. Our knock grew
so loud and prolonged that finally it was heard,
and within the last ten days the arguments that
MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING presented against
the grading rules have won over Michigan’s sen-
ators and congressmen, State Food Administrator
Prescott. Jason Woodman of the Board of Agri—
culture, and no less influential newspaper than
the Detroit News. but NOT the county agents.

Wc knocked the sugar beet price. When other
publications that. falsely assume to represent the
farmer stood silently and supinely by while the
boot growers took their stand against the manu-
facturers. Mlt‘lilflAN BUSINESS FARMING hoisted
its banncr. plunged into the fray and helped to
the farmers to secure a profitable price on their
beets. Strange as it may seem, we fail to recall
the name or residence of a single county agent
who helped to attain that notable victory.

The salvation of the farming business lies in
good cffcctivc knocking. Like the thieves in the
Temple. the speculators have been helping them-
selves to the farmcrs’ profits since time immemor-
ial. and have gobbled up the second blades of
grass as fast as the production experts showed
the farmers how to grow them. The farmer has
been bosscd long enough. It’s time for him to
throw off the Icash and assert his right and ability
to have something to say about how the mar-
keting end of his busincss shall be conducted.
The Lord loveth a cheerful knocker, because hé’s
Satan’s worstl enemy. Be a knocker, brother
farmer, if you would grow in dignity and power.

Despite our knocking propensities we’ve got
a lot of friends among the county agents, and
experience has taught us that those who are our
friends are likewise the best friends of the farm-

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’ Look well to your county agent, Mr.

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owner himselfi—tlfe slave of rule and rota and
custom, ' who looks upon MICHIGAN Busmnss
FARMING with hostile. eyes.
were! so inclined. they could revolutionize the
farming business within the next decade. Let
them show that they are truly interested in the
welfare of the farmers; let them show that they
are willing to HELP solve his marketing problems
as well as his production problems, let them
stand steadfastly by his side in times of stress
and trial, and we shall hail them as s-aviors.
Farmer.
If he proves your friend, thru thick as well as thin
hang onto him forever; he’s a priceless jewel;
but if you suspect him and he plays you false,
give him. the grand bounce.

Protecting the, People Who Pay the Protec-
tive Tax ,

ISGUISE THE proposition as you may, the
D fact remains that the “tariff is a tax.” It

has been fairly well demonstrated that tar-
iff taxes must be levied upon Certain imports—in
some instances for “revenue only;” in most cases
to “protect our industries.” The recent settlement
of the controversy between the manufacturers ‘of
beet sugar and the growers of. sugar beets, fixed
up the fences for another twelve months, and” then,
no doubt the battle must be fought over again.

We are glad, indeed that the matter has been
adjusted and feel sure that the farmers will now
take hold with a will, increase their acreage over
last year and do their level best to prevent an-
other sugar shortage next year. However, it is
to be regretted that at this time, when the Govern-
ment is adjusting so many difficulties and solving
so many of the nation’s real problems, that the
question of the supply of sugar should not have
been settled once for all. Just so long as the cost
of manufacturing sugar from beets is an un—
known quantity, just so long will there be trouble
between grower and manufacturer.

The manufacturers of sugar in this country en-
joy the benefits of a protective tariff. Every pound
of sugar used by the people of the United States
bears a portion of this protective tariff tax. The
manufacturers of sugar claim that this tax is nec—
essary to protect them from the cheaper imported
sugar; and we are not in a position to refute this
statement. We do know, however, that were it
not for the sugar manufactured from beets in the
States we would be in the midst of a sugar fam-
ine of no mean proportions.

'But the fact remains that every person in the
United States contributes something to the sugar
manufacturers. This being true, the Federal

Government not only has the right but should in- _

sist upon knowing what the beneficiaries under
this tax are doing with the money contributed
by the people. If the tariff tax increases the prof—
its to the manufacturers, and the growers are paid
less than cost for producing the raw material.
then something is wrong. and the producer and
consumer both are being discriminated against.

The day is not for distant when the Government
will protect the people who pay the protective tax.
We must maintain infant industries. Germany
gathered her strength through government aid to
commerce and manufacture. At the same time,
if the support given by the Government fails to
aid all interested in that particular industry—-
capital and labor, then the whole scheme fails ut-
terly. Government regulation of all tariff benefic-
iaries would simply mean giving “protection to
the people who pay the tariff tax."

Where Does the College Stand?

HERE DOES the Agricultural College
stand on potato grading?" asks an M. B
F. subscriber. We dunno. The College
officials have flopped so many times on the propo-

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'sition that we don’t exactly remember just what

the last flop was. A few weeks ago. the College
openly boasted that the grades had its sanction,
and publicly accused those who were opposing the
grades of trying to create friction between the
dealers and the growers. Then came a dispatch
from Washington to the effect that Mr. Dougherty
of the Board of Agriculture had put his stamp of
approval on the grades. But the very next day it
was announced that Mr. Jason Woodman, also a
member of the Board of Agriculture, had been
sent to Washington by State Food Administrator
Prescott and the AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE to
endeavor to obtain a modification or a repeal of
the grading order.

The tactics of the College are much like those
of a frightened calf. Quite patently. those affiliat-
ed with the institution, who gave their support
to the grading proposition, are afraid of the cars.
They seem to be willing to do almost anything

If the . county agents .

the mischief that has already been wrought. Even

_— so, the farmers may not have paid the price in
vain for the interference cf experts and theorists .

in the marketing end of their busrness. There is

reason to believe that the college officials will,

profit by their latest experiment and experience,
and in the future be guided by the: wishes of
the men whose interests they are supposed to be
looking after.’ As an agricultural institution, the
M. A. C. should have been the first to lend ancar
to the farmers’ pleas on the grading proposition
and to lead the fight against it. And it is the ev-
erlasting discredit of the authorities of that col-
lege that they aided and abetted the scheme to
victimize the farmers of Michigan, despite the
latter’s protests.

Better Days Coming for the Farmer

66 FIRMLY BELIEVE that there are better
I days ahead for the farmers," writes a
Michigan farmer’s wife to Anne Campbell
Stark, editor of our Farm. Home department.
So do we, and it is encouraging to know that the
farmers themselves haveso optimistic a view of
the future. There are'a lot of disappointed farm—
ers in the country today. The last several years
have been discouraging ones, and many farmers
are beginning to wonder ‘if it lies within the
range of possibility to place the farming busi-
ness upon a permanently proflable basis. We
believe it is. We believe that the farming busi-
ness is undergoing the greatest revolution in the
history of the world, and that no farmer need
fear the outcome. Those who in the past have
ridiculed the farmer as a “hayseed,” who have
imposed upon his rights, taken advantage of his
credulity and his ignorance of the influences
which have set the prices on his products, face the
possibility that the world may have to hung-er un-
less production of farm crops is very materially in—
creased. The fear of cuch an eventuality, remote
as it may be, arouses within the hitherto indif—
ferent consumer a new respect and appreciation
of the work of producing the stuff that keeps
body and soul together. He is showing an un-
usual willingness to assist the farmer in solving
his many problems, and may be expected to con-
cede many privileges to the farmer which form-'
erly he denied. The government, also, is' ac-
quiring a better understanding of. the farming
business, and after floundering about for years
trying to put hit-and-miss production theories
into practice, is now willing to admit that there
may after all be a more important aspect to the
business that the production end. Even as we go
to press Congress is deep in the discussion of the
economic phases of farming. The biggest minds
of the nation are right now struggling to uncover
the most; practical and profitable methods to put
farming on a business basis and see that it pays
those engaged in the industry, substantial div-
idcnds on their capital and labor invested.
Something of permanent valuc must come from
this awakened interest in farming affairs.

Who Gets the Credit for. the Beet Victory?

OHN C. KETCHAM, chairman of the beet
J growers' committee,'has personally acknowl-

edged the indebtedness of the committee and
the growers to MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING‘S edi-
torial support of their demands for $10 beets.
Some of our good friends have even insisted that
the credit for this victory belongs to us. Jhile it
is true that ours was the only weekly publication
to take up the cudgels in behalf of the growers
and conduct a clean, consistent campaign, we
have modestly refrained from publicly claiming
any of the credit. Howbeit, we have our own
ideas upon the subject.

There is no single agency or organization, in
our judgment, who is entitled to run off with all
the laurels of this victory. The organized grow-
ers made the stand in the first place for higher
prices, but in view of the fact that their member-
ship is small, it is not to be supposed that they
could have secured their demands, single-handed-
It must .be remembered that they had the support:
of the Gleaners and the Grange, and the. official
publications of those organizations, The Gleaner
and the Michigan Patron. But probably more ef-
fective than these combined influellfl'JS was the
weekly visit of MICHIGAN Busmnss FARMING into
the beet growing districts, urging the growers to
stand by their guns until their demands had been
conceded. The effectiveness of these demands
was gauged entirely by the solidarity of the
beet growers, and the influence which kept them
from signing contracts on the old basis, must be
accorded recognition.

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Farms 100 Acres Alone With Tractor

I am an" appreciative reader of the M. B. F.
and noticed you ask for tractor experience.

I have farmed with a. tractor two years and”

am well satisfied. I farm 100 acres alone, driv-
ing my own tractor. I plow about 4 acres per
day on 20 gallons of kerosene. I have a 10-20
H. P. one Wheel drive. This is a very fine con—
struction." having only three drive pinions and be-
. ing a. two cylinder opposed it does not need heavy
fly wheels. The machine only weighs 2500 which
makes it work satisfactorily on plowed ground.
It is strong in the belt. I draw a two bottom

plow and a two furrow roller in any kind of plow-

ing and draw .4 sections of spring tooth drag the
first time over. .

I use a. L-ailer disk for oats, besides drawing
the manure spreader and the wagon and. hay
For drawing a hay loader, a light tractor
I tried mowing with two machines
but that was not satisfactory as the machines are

sloader.
can’t be beat.

apt to plug up and be torn to pieces.

Gasoline in a tractor is most easily handled but
cheapest and gives good power

kerosene is the
if you have a
good vaporizer.
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lotte, Mich. P.S.
—-M. B. F. helps
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‘ only the most daring will undertake the pioneer

mark of overcoming. these stumpy, brushy wastes.

The lack of timber for building and fenceposts

is a great obstacle for much of this land has been
completely skinned! of everything except stumps
and fires have swept over it in"‘dry times doing
very great damages to the soil.

I am not knocking the cut over lands of Mich-
igan. They are a future mine of» great wealth to
the people of the state. The point I wish to
make is that state is being hurt by the private
speculation in these lands and the holding them
out of use by asking an impossible price for the
average sheep farmer to pay. Would it not be
better statesmanship in Michigan to pass a law
that men should not hold land out of use for an
advance in. price than it would be to pass a law
that will absolutely prohibit the killing of lambs
and desirable breeding stock for the next three to
five years as Mr. Hartman suggests? If such a
law were passed many of us‘ivould have to slaugh-
ter our flocks before the law went into effect, or
we would be completely at the mercy of the great
speculating land holding hogs of the north. Nor
is the big' land holder of the north wholly to blame
for the lack of development of our beautiful and
productive'northern lands. The small speculator
gets a forty or greater section of what he thinks
is “the best land around there” and goes off. and
makes an easy living somewhere else leaving the
hard- pioneer work for poorer men on poorer land.

GRAVES OF THE FIRST AMERICAN HEROES KILLED IN FRANCE

ten times'theipresm‘t mamas:

land policy needs overhauling if the gates ag-
ricultural resources are to be rapidly developed'

It will develOp slqwl‘y of course, by letting these

speculators‘hold their land out of use till they get

sick of paying the small tax that is levied against

it but this is unjust to the pioneer fer the specu-

lator reaps the benefit of the settler's hard work

and does nothing but deceive innocent people.——-_

J. 0., Lawrence, Mich.

Marketing Problems Are Most Important

Have been reading the samplecopies of MICH-
IGAN Busmnss FARMING you have been sending me.
I have taken many different farm papers for more
than thirty years and can truly say I believe your
paper is worth more to the farmer in general
than any publication I have read. The trouble
with the farm papers is that they have been urg-
ing more production with the result that farm-
ers had to sell the fruit of their labor at a very
low price which was to the detriment of the
farmer, while your paper is trying to help the
farmer dispose of his crops at a living profit. If
farmers would tylopt the same rule as the manu—
facturers do, and c..ly manufacture as many goods
as they could dispose of at a reasonable profit,
the difficulty would be solved. I, as a farmer,
want to do my share to help the government win
this great war, but when the government or any
one else wants to (and does) run our products
over a screen and take out a lot of our best pro—
duce, it is time to call a halt on the grounds of
unfair dealing. Brother farmers, run your own
business. Don’t
let anyone tell
you what to do,
as the other fel-
._ low usually has
his own inter-
est in view. Find

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Sheep Raiser’s
Ideas

The chief dif-
ficulty of get-
ting the prop-
er number of
sheep on the
cut-over lands
df'Michigan is
in the speculat-
ive value placed
on these lands
by the owners.

check for $1.00
for which con—
.tinue to send
' me M. B. F.
i Yours in the in-
terest of square
deal for farmers.
—«I.B.H.. Mason.

Least Profit
for Farmer

I take great
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terested in the is the only real
article by Mr. farm paper in
Hartman in the Michigan. I do
Feb. 8th issue not see why the
9f_ M- B- F" on 1'. S. Govern-
Egg? Egiiri mcnt should not
bilities. Mr. set prices on po-
H a. r t m an is tntoes and beans
tackling the its well as on
problem at the WllOzlt. 0f COUI‘SG
wrong end when we farmers dont
he suggests that know very much
we farmers who -‘ ‘ itlnlws the man
have no grazing with the big fat
land for our e, pocketbook to
sheep be com- 9 “34?? V W ~“ W99"? get what he
pelled to keep ' ' " _ , _ ‘ 'j' ' wants. W h y
all on r e w e The graves of the first American heroes to die in France are 1n a little cemetery Just outside the rumcd vil- should not the
lambs. It would [age of Bethelemont, in Lorraine. The simple inscription on the graves. in addition to giving their names, home farmer have at
be "111011 wiser towns and the date of their deaths, tells how the Americans died fighting in the engagement of Noycmbcr 3. Sim- least something
to compel the ple as are the graves, they are the first American monuments erected by the American expeditionary force under to say about the

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Mr. Hartman says that “hundreds of thousands
of acres are being offered on most attractive
terms.” The attractiveness of these terms varies
with the point of view. My experience is that
they are attractive chiefly to the man who has the
land to sell. And there are millions and mil-
lions of acres of this land all idle, a few hundred
thousand acres offered on attractive terms by the
speculators who own them, is not a very great in~
ducement to us men who actually raise lambs
and wool.

Some of us have been searching for a location
on these cut over lands to start a sheep farm.
There are probably a million acres tributary to
the G. R. & I. R. R. between Big Rapids and Pe-
toskey which are kept out of use by land speculat—
ors. This million acres is in its present condi-
tion capable of supporting, by a system of mov-
ing over fences, a quarter or half million or
more sheep. ,

After 6 months’ search, however, we have been
unable to find a single section for sale at a price
that would warrant the inevestment of the nec—
essary amount of money in high priced sheep
and woven wire fence and lumber for buildings

and cleaning machinery and all the things neces-
sary to have an economical unit and self-sus—

taining industry. The price asked for this land

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Americans are beside the graves in this photograph.

i believe that lV'ltcnchN BUSINESS FARMING be
lieves in farming as a busiess and not as a land
speculation and will therefore publish this ar-
ticle. Too many of us farmers have been land
speculators instead of farmers. We have lived
more in hope that sometime we can sell the farm
for the big price and take it easy ever after. 01‘-
ten we have been willing to work and scrape and
save in order to make a mere livelihood and sell
our products for a fraction of their real cost in
life’s effort in the hope that some one would come
and buy the old farm at a fancy price. Often to
be disappointed in the end as thousands of aban—
doned farms in all the older settled states wit~
ness. It is time we farmers quit company With
the land speculator, demand a fair return for our
labor in the crops we produce and hold up to
scorn the land shark who locates city people on
forty acres of wild‘ land in Michigan.

At a. meeting of the sheep men in Grand Rap—
ids last December, at which some of these land
sharks were present, Dean Shaw of the Agricul-
tural College said that “a man who would sell
a city man with a family forty or eighty acres
of wild land and expect him to make a decent liv-
ing on it was little less than a criminal.” These
were brave words and true. Dean Shaw is an in-
telligent friend of the agricultural development
of Michigan. The land owners who hold land
out of. use by asking an impossible price are ene-
mies of the state.

I will close this article by saying that Michigan’s

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the produce he
raises ? Manu-
facturers of ev—
thingr set the prices on their goods, then why not
the farmers? [ am a firm believer in organiza—
tion for the farmers, the same as the manufactur—
ers, and then say what we will sell our products
for. For are they not the most imphrtant manu-
factured products in the world?

The whole world is looking to the farmer for
food and We are gettingthe least profit for our
produce of any producer in the world. Now is the
time to get busy, farmer friends. and get every
farmer in Michigan to join hands and run our
own business. Every daily paper you see has
some advice to give the farmers in some way or
another, and why don't some of these smart news
paper men come out on the farm and show the
farmer how to farm?

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I think every farmer should keep an account of
his year’s business so he can tell just what each
field of crops has cost him, and when this is done
it will be easy to tell just what he should have for
each kind of crops that are raised. This could be
done by reporting the year’s crops to the local or-
ganization and then average up thefost from each
farm and then set the price accordingly. We can
do this if we will only stick together. I believe we
should have one or two grades of potatoes and
when they are shipped they should be labeled from
whence they were shipped and who shipped them,
so the consumer will know where his potatoes
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LABOR SITUATION

State Labor Administrator A. B. Cook Gives
Michigan Business Farming Readers
Some Good Advice on Solving
This Year’s Labor
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Enclosed please find coupon out from last iSsue of
your paper. This does not cove1 hay and harvest
operations. As much hay will be put up as help and
weather will permit. I am operating 240 acres, have
all necessary tools and equipment including 6 horses.
a 12- 25 tractor, with machines to do all power work
on the farm. There wasn't even a hired thresher
power on farm last year, the tractor does it all. You
will notice that acre-ages are all lower than last year
and there is but one reason, lack of competent help.
With the aid of one man I can practically double
the acreage now planned and go to 40 acres of beans
again and 10 acres on beets. Am offering $50 per
month beginning April let, for man who is capable of
taking 01119. of six horses and working 4 to 6 of them
at one time. This offer includes board. lodging and
plain washing. I have been looking for past two
weeks and there. is nothing in sight at present writ-
ing. There is some day help available in this locality
at harvest time, othe1-wiS—‘c l will be alone and I must
not plan to put any more high—priced seed into the
ground than l can harvest myself. Have you any
suggestions to make?—-—.I. R. (3., St. Johns, Mich.

>1: :1: 11':

I am in bad shape this year. Thcy put my hired
man in class No. l. “'11. tried to get an: 1111pc11l but
they would not listen to us \ll they said to us
was that it was no us11 w 11 would not get one anyway.
What am I to do about it? I h11\11 not b1111n well £01
a good many years (11111 112 years old), that leaves me
and 111v lS- -y11111'— —old son all alone on 11 EBA-acre farm.
We raised lots of stuff last year for our government.
All I can do now is to let lt lay idle. We farmers
can't hire anyone around here at any price. as there
is no one. to work. My hired 1111111 was the best, man

on earth; he was 111,11111ing my tractor and 1111d11rsta11ds
machincry from A to 7.. He, was the foreman of my
farm. If you can furnish me with a good farm hand
who understands farming I will pay you $50 for your
troublc, providing he stays with 11111 9 months. or I
will hire him t"o1 a whole year. I will pay for a,
good m; 111 from $10 to $5 0 per month .0 11'1nntl11:. with

w::1 hing o1 M11000 to $7100 pt 1' year. for
single 1118.11, of course. I can not 111'1111’11'stand what the.
Iovernment is thinking of in taking the best. farm
hands away from us .if we are to win the war. We
certainly cannot win the war if we farmers can not
produce enough. If I cannot get someone I will be
forced to let the land lie idle and do just what we
can.——~P. S., I’ewamo.

board and

* * *

Is the farm labor problem in Michigan as
serious as has generally been supposed? Has
the drafting of farm help into the national army
resulted in so great a shortage of help as to
seriously interfere with the planting of a normal
acreage this your? All who have investigated
the situation at all answer in the affirmative,
and many farmers have written to M. B. 11‘. de1
claring that lack of labor will necessitate their
cutting tl1ci1 111reag1 from 20 to 50 per cent.

It is not the purpose of this article to discuss
the .19hort—sightcdncss oi’ the government in draft-
ing farm hands into military service. “'0 have
expressed ourselves upon that point on numer-
ous past occasions. The innuediate duty is to
make 11 survey of the farm labor situation and
to draw upon every source of help that is avail—
able.

We recently asked Mr. A. B. (‘ook of ()wosso.
who has been named federal farm labor adminis-
trator tor the state of Michigan. to furnish us
with an article on the labor situation, and to
tell our readers in what 111111111111' the government

expected to till th1ir needs Mr. (‘ook’s reply fol-
lows

The '- '11-.'ity of the farm labor situation is
pretty generally 11ppt'cciatt1(l. Agriculture. 11 de—
clining industry and unllcrmnucd called upon to
“go over the top" and keep going over with no
"back to the farm” 111ovc1ncnt on the part of con-

.1:1111111rs in evidence and 11 general shortage of food
Is a condition which would make any one “sit tip.”

The condition which will correct this is for
agriculture to bccontc relatively prosperous. The
same amount of labor by farmer 01' farm laborer
must; yield as g1'11111t 11 rcturn tor the sacrifices in-
volved as other lines of effort and the price, our
products bring must pay it if the more is able to
go and go she must. As to labor the. farm must
compete with other industries and must be in a
financial position so to do if it, gets the labor. It
is 11 business proposition. This fact also is getting
to bc- (utitc generally recognized and its general
recognition 11111111111r thinkingr people gives me con—
fidence to go ahead and pay the price and pro-
vide the conditions necessary for me to get the
help in the face of very brisk competition. I am
doing this without any guarantee of “cost plus
a fair profit." nevertheless I am doing it with
confidence

After twenty-five years experience would say
that help secured near home is the safest prop-
osition. If you need help advertise in your local
paper. You may be surprised at the number of
replies you get. You may not get a reply, but
try it. One of the largest farmers in Washtenaw
county in reply to a letter from me offering my
services to help in securing help for this year
on his farm replied that he needed no help in

agent he placed a small advertisement in a Jack-
son paper and got over twenty replies and out of
this list had secured his quota, all backed by rec
ommendations as to character, etc.

Many farmers delay hiring and if they can not
get a man just when they want him with no ef-
fort at advertising or making their wants gen-
erally known or their willingness to pay an at-
tractive price, will declare that help is scarce.
Some seem to think that we should go to China

or Russia for help and it may be necessary to-

send to Chicago, Detroit or some other great
clearing house for labor but before we do, lets
be sure that we made the best use possible of our
local supply. The Government maintains an em-
ployment bureau at Detroit in charge of B. J.
81111115 in the old Postoflice building and in Chi-

ango in charge of P. F. Prentis, 845 South Wabash

avenue. Both of these men report to the that
they have many more inquiries for farm work now
than they have inquiries for laborers. The gov-
ernment has promised to maintain a man at both
points especially to select and dispat;h farm lab-
or. The Boys’ Working Reserve is being organiz-
ed by Federal State Director C. A. Parcells, 922
Ford Building, Detroit who is doing a splendid
work enlisting the youth of the State.

The government is taking an estimate of the
amount of labor needed the coming year and
other needed information along agricultural lines
with the aid of the public rural schools. I en~
close blanks. These blanks will be left in the
hands of the County Agricultural Agent and the
summaries will be in the keeping of the State
Farm Labor Director. It is up" to the county
agent, to organize his county which he will do as
soon as ossible after the results of the govern.
ment estimate are a'ailable. Counties having

a serious shortage of labor and have no county‘

agent. will be requested to select some one to
assist, them in farm help. This is the or;r ani-
zation that the farm labor Direct or will utilize.
With the above agencies (to-operating with the
farmers and the farmers making their wants
known, with wages. conditions as to length of
service, etc. at the earliest: posible date, when
the assistance of outside agencies is considered
advisable the government, hopes to see the farm
labor problem handled in a. fairly satisfactory
manner. Should these agencies and the farmers’
efforts combined prove insufficient. the govern-
ment contemplates further and more drastic ac-
tion to see that the farm needs are supplied.

Will you and your readers help me to arrive at
what constitutes a fair price for farm labor
this year? Standardization along this line, if
possible would help tremendously

Any service that I can render any of your read-
ers along this line at any time will be a duty and
a pleasure. Yours truly,—A. B. (7001:, 0100330.

NEW YORK LETTER

Ochoa/011. N. Y.. Iv‘cb. 18, 19l8.—~It is safe to say
that fully one—third of the 1917 crops are No. two
and for these we are receiving only fifty to sixty
cents per bushel. There has been considerable
loss from freezing, perhaps from 10 to 15 per
cent of the remaining crop. Last year at this
time there was perhaps 75 per cent as many pota—
toes in the growers’ hands as now. Therefme.
that would leave an increase of approximately 25
per cent over last; year‘s amount. At the present,
time. this is fast disappearing as they are being
moved rapidly now. The prevailing prices are
for No. 1. $1.50 per hundred pounds, and about $1
per hundred for No. 2‘s. How do these prices
compare with the Michigan prices?-~«-—().s'mond I1}.
Noblc.

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Are you in need of farm help?

the coupon below and mail to M11 11111.11: Busi—
NICSS FARMING.

Name .........................................
Size of f1111n ............................ Acres
Postofl‘iee ......................................
R.F.D .................. Telephone..........
County ........................................
Number of farm hands required ...............

When will you need them? ..... '. ..............

For how long a period?. ...... . ....... . ........

What wages do you offer? ...... . .....
Would you accept members of Boys’ U. S. Work-
ing Reserve if experienced adult help cannot be

Remarks . . . .

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Monmouth, M6,, Feb. 10, 1918.—Northern Maine
and Southern ‘Maine are quite as distinct o'r dif-
ferent in the matter of potato raising as almost any
two states could be. In Southern Maine the farm-
ers raise potatoes for a leading crop, with '01--
casionally one who makes it his entire business.
In Northern Maine potatoes are everything, par-
ticularly in Aroostook county and sections bor-
dering it.
will have two acres, another five, a few ten, or
two or three fifteen to twenty. This is about
what you will find in the ordinary community.

In Aroostook county in the north, at small farm-
er has fifty acres and from that up to two hundred
and fifty, with sometimes one hundred to one

‘ hundred and sixty acres in one field. -

Last year more grain was sown and more other
crops raised in response to the Government’s ap-
peal, but prior to last year. very little has been
raised except potatoes. almost no live Stock.

Immense fortunes have been made in potato
raising there and also in poor years there have
been some big losses. Two years ago a, fertilizer
agent who had been all through that country told
me that many potato growers were in financial
straits, many of the farms were mortgaged for
fertilizer bills not paid, but last year they came
out with flying colors and Aroostook county is
now said to be the richest agricultural section in
the United States. There are immense quantities
of potatoes raised throughout this section whom
I am located, that is the southern section. We,
are nearest the markets, have the earliest sea
sons and get our potatoes in first. The north
country probably raises the most with ordinary
the largest yields and is undoubtedly a greater
controlling factor because of better organization
among potato growers a more compact, area given
over to potato raising le ‘18 diversification of crops.

There are Aroostook farmers in this section
who have come here and bought farms and we get
our best reports from them as to what is doing
in Aroostook. In conversation with one today
he stated that. they are moving quite a number
of cars out of Aroostook each week, and whereas
the papers from that section state that they have
a. large quantity in the store houses, he said it
has been an experience of the past that there is
never as many to unload in the spring as is re
ported to be on hand.

Last year in Aroostook farmers harvested from
forty to ninety barrels per acre, ordinarily they
harvest from seventy-five to one hundred thirty-
five barrels per acre.

The p1ospects of this coming year in Aroostook
are a smaller acreage to be planted owing to high
price. of fertilizer and impossibility of getting i1
in some cases. 4-8—4 fertilizer costing about sev-
enty—three dollars where it can be obtained. Then
another factor is the scarcity. of help which will
also tend to cut down tht1 acreage.

In southern Maine the yield was about the s11m~
per acre this past year as in the north. Farnr
ers have been slow about marketing their crops
looking forward to higher prices. They wore up
to two dollars :1 little while in the fall and early
winter but it did not stay there long. They 111'11
selling,r to retailers now at $1.50 to $1.65. The r111
tailors are buying only what they need from do
to day as they expect a slump in the market when
the cold weather lets 11p. They believe that the,
potatoes that are held back, with an influx of
western potatOes, will make them go out in the
spring at a low price The farmers claim thar
at $1.50 per bushel they are not making anything.
and from the financial standpoint, there is 1111'
much encouragement: to plant heavily in 1911?.
Yet, I believe from patriotic motives growing our
of the present. war situation, they will plant. more
than they otherwise would—(7. P. chzcr. Mow
mow/71.. Mainc. Scc'y. Androscoooin county Nol-
glcin—I-‘ricsion Brccdcrs" ASS'N.

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Ncu‘porl. Pcnohwot county. le'tliuc. Iv'cb. lie—The
Government has estimated the Maine potato crop
for 19‘1"] to be 20,250,000 busels. l‘p to February
12 the Government claims 8,000 cars or approx—
imately 6.000.000 bushels have been shipped. Best
judges in the state‘. farmers and dealers believe the
Government estimate was 50 per cent too large.
Certainly two-thirds of the crop has been dis»
posed of, to date. The starch factories and potato
flour—factories many of which are still running.
have consumed large quantities of potatoes that
were large enough for No. 2 grade. Fully one-
third for the state and one-half in central Maine
of the 1917 crop was too small to confirm to the
grading recommended by the wise professors’
who are paid to advise the farmers about his
affairs. Heater cars have been hard to get all
winter and at present are almost impossible to
get and for this reason dealers are “holding off

(Contimu l on page 16)

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(A clearing department for marketing troubles.
Prompt and careful atte on given to all complaints
addressed to this depart out. We are here to serve
you. Call upon us.) -

BARMA FARMER PUZZLED OVER
INCOME TAX PROVISION

 

 

Referring to the article, “How the Income Tax
Affects the Farmer,” in your issue of January 26,
will say that I am a farmer with two sons, one
Single and one married with one child, all of us
living on the 'farm. We all use what money we
want and do business with the rest. What ex-
Will it be nec—
essary to file returns if our income is more than
$2,000? The property is still in my name—J. R..
th'mtt: Mich.

If the property is still in your name, and you
have no agreement with your sons whereby they
are renting all or any ’pOrtion of it to them, but
are all working together, you will have to file a
statement if the net income or profit from your
farm or any source whatever is more than $2,000.
You doubtless have some understanding as to
the amount each son is to get from the farm re-
ceipts, which 'would have to be considered as
wages drawn by the sons.

If the single son draws in wages, is credited with
or receives from any source one thousand dollars
or more a year, it will be necessary for him to
make income tax report before March .1. Like-
wise if the money drawn by the second son ex-
ceeds two thousand dollars he will have to make
the return, although he will be allowed an extra
two hundred dollars exemption for the child.
We would suggest that you take the matter up
with your lawyer or banker, who can assist you
in making me returns. Many farmers keep no
books, in which event it is necessary to estimate
net receipts for the year as nearly as possible.
taking the gross receipts less the expenses. You
are of course permitted to include as expense in—
tcrest paid on mortgage. etc... cost, of improvements
made (except to dwelling). In computing the
expense of running your farm, you are not per—
mitted to include the cost of keeping 11p your
house, living expenses, etc.

DEALER REQUIRES GRADING OF
SPUDS STORED UNGRADED IN FALL

I am a reader of Ml(‘Ill(lA,\' BUSINESS FARM-
INC, and would like your opinion about a little

matter. Last fall 1 hauled my potatoes to Cedar
Springs when the price went below $1.00 per
bushel. I stored the remainder or “3:30 bushels.

 

Lethe-Ia, anti-3a. , ‘ '

part of the feed at the mill and took a‘due bill
for the banshee.
a ton?

’ E, Lansing.

Am I entitled to more than half
Bran is now selling for $28 per ton. ——A. E.

When the price of feeds was adjusted by the
Food Administration, it was not’their idea that
trades were to be cancelled. We should say, how-
ever,~ that if this party purchased one-half ton of
bran at $20 the trade would stand, and the fact
that entire delivery was not taken at the time
would not enter into the transaction—Unitcd
States Food Administration, Geo. A. Zabriskic.

EXORBITANT PROFITS OF EAST
TAWAS CO. UNDER SCRUTINY

 

After the ruling of the Food -‘ulministration re-
garding the prices of bran and feeds, can the
Wilson Grain Company of Tawas City still sell
bran at 21/2 cents per pound or $50 a ton, and
shorts at $3 per cwt., or $60 per ton at the mill?
I got these prices out of their owu mouths and I
refused to buy of them. Can they ignore this rul~
ing and get away with it?~~]". . 8'. East Tarmzs.

I appreciate your calling my attention to this
matter and will at once make an investigation.
It is very evident that this company is either tak-
ing an exorbitant profit or that some exorbttztnt,
profits were taken before the .feeds reached it. I
shall endeavor to find out who is the guilty party
and take the proper action.~—('}. .1. Prcscott, Fedor-
al Food Administrator.

PRICE PAID FOR WHEAT AT
ALMA AND ST. LOUIS IS TOO LOW

regard to the price of
$2.05 for No. 2 red wheat in Alma. I heard that
the mill in St. Louis was paying $2.10. I called
at this mill and they are paying $2.10 for No.

“Since writing you in

1. and but $2.04 for No. 2 red. The elevator man
said that be guessed that ho was paying too

much as some one had reported him to the gov-
ernment, for overpaying. I suggested that ho had
been reported for paying too littlc, but ho said
no. that he must take Chicago price and deduct
freight and one cent, elevator charges and that
he was a little high. Are they givingumc “hot
air” or are they paying tip about fight? If
they are doing it about rigl1t.plcase let me know
and I will shut up. If they arc not, I would like
to help see that they do."—-»~(". M. P.. Alma.

I was to Alma Saturday. Feb. 2, with a little
wheat, and the price was $2.05 and $2.03. I spoke
to them saying I thought in this zone it should
be $2.12 but they said no. If We are entitled to
that, price I would like if we could get it. I want—
ed some spring wheat to sow and talked to them
about it and they said it Would bx around $2 .733
sell 11 bushels of
I did not want any
some spring wheat

At those prices 1 would have to
wheat to buy 8.
at that price. I

I told them
would like

'fine

stats pay the farmer‘s 3210732108 for'lthis gr
and have written all the dealers to that all

At St. Louis, Mich” price for No. 1_ Red Wheatf';

should be $2.10, possibly $2.11 and for No. 2 Red

wheat 3 cents less, say $2.07~—2.08. I have written '

to this miller to the same effect, hoping to correct
the difficulty of which you complain. Will be glad
to advise your correspondents accordingly.

As to seed wheat would say that we are work-
ing on this to help the distribution,.etc., and be"
lieve we will succeed.-~F00tl Administration Groin
Corporation H D.» 1.7‘Itrin nml Vice President.

ONIONS IN MUCK LAND MUST
HAVE A “QUICK” FERTILIZER

1 would like to know if any of your subscrib—
ers have had any experience with raising dry
onions. We set in about 1—4 acre last spring in
iron/1 black muck, the plants were started on up-
per land and transplanted in the latter part of
June on account of the wet season, the plants
were set two inches apart. They grew and looked
all summer, but would not get ripe. We
only harvested about ten bushels when there
should have been about 200 bushels. The others
were lci't in the ground, now what I want to know
is, will those onions make bulbs this summer if
left there or what can one do to make anything
out of them if they don’t freeze. they have been
under snow siince the middle of December. Thank—
ing you in advance for any ltelp.~~M7’S. A. V., Bcn-
{on Il'III'IIoI‘. JII’I’clI.. R 5.

The trouble with the onion crop last season was
largely due to the unfavorable weather conditions,
the weather being cool causing the crop to devel-
ope slowly and the late summer and fall being
wet and cold, resulting in the onion crop failing
to mature and dry down. In many cases, the crop
was still in the ground when the early freezing
\ycthct' occurred. resulting in much decay in thc
bulbs that were harvested after that time.

It is important. in growing onions on muck land,
to fertilize with a form of t'crtilizcr that is

quickly available rather than with a slow acting
fertilizer as the latter tends to induce a Int-e,
growth. can ing the crop to ripen slowly. This

is cspctiullv true in using nitro gcnous Iertilizers
l‘lE‘Sll stable tnunute should not be used but all
the manure should be well decomposed.

It is possible that the onion bulbs still in the
ground might lII‘llU‘ :I satisfactory seed crop the
coming scason it let! there but. it is probable that
most of those have boon so severely frozen MS to
kill thcm and cause them to rota-(7‘. 11‘. Mulligan.

lh'ptIr/IIIcIII of llrII'HcI/ltm'c. All. .I. C.

FLINT DEALER SEI LS IDAHO SPUDS
IN COMPETITION WITH MICHIGAN

 

 

 

The dealer at the time am not have the grader, and would be obliged to you it' you would help Mr. llvnuttt ‘Il incg Itden is the name of the
but the potatoes wele sorted in the held and me to get it __]Y, (I F “m _ - ‘ . . 2
wetc of good quality. As the dealer did not have . . ' " “ " ‘ "- gcntlcmttn who is selling ld.Iho potatoes at I.
much store room left We did not stoic by them— A shipment, 0f N0. 2 red wheat from Alma cents ;1 pound while thousands of Michigan
selves. but dumped them in with others, and he “’Ollld net Shipper about 952.12%; and I think they spuds can be bought within :1 hundred miles
gave me the weigh bill marked of Flint t'or one cent It pound. It
”SIOI‘E‘d." TWO weeks ago I decid- ww: :his s‘rtme sztgacious individ-
ed 10 1M them go. and the dealer 11:11 who blundercd into print
would not pay me without allowing . It I'cw \\'.-cl(s ago, and raised :tll
him at least, ten bushels per hund— S d h b d h IIwI'ul howl because the farmers of
rod 101 smonds l<“itsts brought at atur aY'-"t e lg ay at t 6 Michigan wanted $1 21 bushel for
that, timc. in Cedar Springs $1.2 I pcr . thcir potatoes. “Tho farmers have
Int. 21nd St conds 601 91 (wt Vv ’zhtt N O 1 F ' it H nothing to grumble about,” said this
I want to know is, (lid he have a _, ew r eans rUI ouse n\'l\'(;.'lt'l“i‘ (probably rclzIIod to Solo—
l'lflm to milk“ m9 “(Term 7h“ mic“ TheBestThingWe Can Offer to the Public to Help the Co:1ntry"‘5ave the Wheat”l. mm” I.“ they “WM “"0 mm"
o'. a stated number of seconds when ‘ , :IIoucy II they had ol.‘t IthI potzttoe
he had taken them without question " " ‘ III the, begin.-ing III 7.» tc'II -I :I hushci
when hauled? Please advise me in IDAHO :Is the crop was II 11,“ At '..'I cents
this matter. The loss is not great. ,3; II. bushcl. llltf p11: ii ii'fI‘ I": 1'»
but I don’t like to be imposed 1111- r" ‘. 1119.1: can fill-4’3 1‘113117’7‘“ I‘ll't‘l”_‘:ll ”I'M
our—C. 11.. ('CW’I' Sprinoe I’If'icIlI. ‘ PO fATGEfg ' Icctton ot the country tor. L’I Innis
' - ,j :I. hushel." ztll‘l .... on ad It'I'énzta‘Itu.

We do not hello 0 there is may ’I‘o Inc/w I‘IIIII, he is consistent.
yay for you to secure redress from VVCI‘RVC 5' i caved IOU' €375 H inf: 31,11: ‘\‘\li11/‘I;'_1§'Jlg‘tl :Ipt: 3‘me rol'used
the buyer you mention. At the time Idaho Ii‘wivi and they certainly it“: a . ‘ :Io buy of the “pt‘oI'II-Icrt'ing" farmers
you “01.0.1 your potatOOS. the grad— pleasazifitsu‘I III.3c in the way of quality. 77;; III' LVIII-higun. :I‘IHI bccztuso he might
ing “110$ were not in compulsory Their cookingaswellas their eating qual- * have been able to gct thctu for a few
cents a busltcl less, shipped in four

effect. but, they have since been made
compulsory and the dealer would
take a chance on having his li-
cense revoked in case he purchased
your potatoes all as No. 1. and sold
them as such. There may be some
question, of course. as to whether
your potatoes would grade 10 pet
cent No. 2, but inasmuch as potatoes
are grading from 25 to 30 per cent

N10. 2. in other sections, I feel that
the dealer in this particular case

has been fair. to you.

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MILLING RULES SHOULD
NOT CANCEL TRADES

 

I see regulations 011 mill feeds in
issue of the 2nd inst. 011 the

 

You can buy in as small
quantities as you wish---
We have every confidence that you will enjoy the eating of these

Business Hours Tomorrow

RETAIL DEPARTMENT

ities are better than any of the potatoes
we’ ve had before.

fine tubers and come back for more

A Shipment of Strawberries Is Expected to Arrive Here

Tomorrow to Sell At 600 Per Quart

The Greater

New Orleans Fruit House

 

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3 C Pound

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car loads from over two thousand
miles away, and sells spuds to Flint
consumers at the remarkably low
price of 12 cents :1 pound.

If dealers over in the country are
following similar tactics in purchas
tug supplies in remote sections that,
ed conditions of our transportation
can be secured near home, we need
no longer wonder about the confus-
facilities. lI'ndoubtedly this is a
constitutional right if they choose
to employ it, but we are asking the
federal rail authorities to give us an.
opinion on the matter anyway.

We have sent one of our men to
Flint to purchase some of Mr. Wine-
garden’s Idaho potatoes. If our sus-
picions are confirmed we think We‘ll
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Were I placed back where I was before my mar-
riage (which was more than thirty years ago)
with the knowledge I have gained since, I expect
I would do just as I done then. It seems to me
that those wives who have deliberately placed
themselves where they are, might forget them-
selves and face square about and try and» make
their home as happy as possible for their hus-
band and children, and by so doing, I am sure
they would be happier themselves. It is too
bad to allow such a, trifling matter to spoil our
happiness and dissapoint ourhusbands.

And to those girls who contemplate marriage
I would advise them if they expect to change
their environment to consider well whether they
love the one they are about to marry well enough
that they can be happy with him anywhere, and
if necessary follow him to the end of the earth.
It is much better to take time to consider this
question before the marriage takes place than
to have the experience of those who have told us
the dissapoinied lives they are living by not con-
sidering everything as they should have done.—
Mrs. T. W. B., Petoskey, Mich.

Marry a Farmer to be Happy

COULD not help but, smile when I read of the
I troubles Mrs. S. has had since she married her
farmer and the advice she gives young people.
Well it really does take all kinds of people and
opinions to make up this world of ours doesn’t
it. Now I would[ advise every girl wherever
raised to be sure and marry a farmer if she wants
to be happy. I too was born and raised in the
city and a large one at that and when I was twen-
.ty three years old I married the best farmer
lad that was at least I thought so and do yet.
But let me say right here that long before the
knot was tied I made up my mind that I would
live and be contented wherever he could best make
a living for work he must as we were not blest
with riches as counted in dollars and cents. Now
that was almost fourteen years ago and I have
never been sorry once that I married my farmer.
Don’t think for a moment that it has always been
smooth sailing. for we have had much up hill
work. Many a day when help was scarce and
money scarcer, I have worked in the fields, to
help save what little we had, and I didn’t enjoy
that kind of work one bit, but on the other hand
I can’t see it hurt me either, and of course, I could
not help but miss many of the pleasures that
we all know aelarge city can give, but I always
found where I lost on one side I gained on the
other. We, like others, have had much to dis-
courage us, for instance, one year it rained and
rained and drowned out all of our saleable crops,
another year it was so hot and dry we had only
little potatoes to eat and few to sell; then the year
we had a big crop of potatoes we had to sell
them in the spring for 13 cents per bushel, and
three years ago the big frost hit us in August and
what we had left wasn’t worth mentioning, and
this year, well, when they get thru sorting I
guess there wont be anything left but the sorter
and a little pig’s feed; but we had our good years
too, and by being real saving we have always
had the necessities if we couldn’t have many lux-
uries. We have our eighty acres most paid for.
have a few good cows, 3. good team of horses and
colts and last but not least we have three of the
prettiest, best and smartest children ever was.
If you don’t believe it come and see them. So
you see we are real wealthy after all.

Yes, I am sure if the right kind of a city gal
marries the right kind of a moss back they will
live happily ever after, and I firmly belive there
are better days ahead for the farmer. Then even
Mrs. S. will be so thankml she married a farmer.
—-A Happy Farmer’s Wife.

could save their money for a rainy day, she de-
clared and proved that they had quite enough
to do them if they neither of them worked a tap
the rest of their lives. He is more or less of a
gentleman farmer now, and I believe he enjoys it.

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Loneliness

MISS the old red tablecloth,

I miss the hanging lamp.
I infss the frog’s croakin’
When the weather’s kinda damp.
I miss the old home paper,
I miss the old town hall,
I miss the dear old folks at home
But mother, most of ,all!

       

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MISS the rooster crowin’

In the very early morn.
I miss the glowing sunsets;
I miss the wavin’ corn.
I miss the old frame schoolhouse
Where I learned to read and write,
But on, I 9 [rs my mother
The most of all tonight!

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MISS the old square woodbox
That I used to have to fill.
I miss the jolly coasting
We had on Sterling’s hill.
I miss the quiet evenings,
So filled with peace and love,
But oh, I miss my mother
All the other things above.

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MISS each board unpainted

That made up my old home.
I miss the fertile meadows
O‘er which I used to roam;
But the lovin’ heart that mode it
The home I used to know
Has gone away forever
And oh, I miss her so!

——~ANNE CAMPBELL STARK

 

 

 

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As for her, she has her little roadster and flies

around the countryside at a great rate. They
take a trip twice a year, and are really having
a good time, and enjoying to the fullest the money
the first Wife killed herself to save.

If wife No. 1 had spent a little as they went
along; if she had put a kitchen cabinet in the
house, and saved her steps here. If she had had
the step between the kitchen and dining room
removed, as wife No. 2 did immediately, com-
plaining that it hurt her back; if she had had
water pumped into the house, another improve-
ment which wife No. 2 accomplished immediate-
ly; if she had gradually improved the house and
saved herself work; if she had insisted on help
when she was carrying and rearing her baby
—as she had an opportunity to do—as a young
girl had applied who asked little pay, but a home,
she might have been alive today. ‘

No doubt she and all the neighbors around her
thought she was doing her duty when she broke
down her health and strength in order to help
her husband, but they would have got along just
the same, only a little slower, if she had taken
better care of herself, and conserved her health
and strength. I think if any woman who is
doing the same thing would consider when she
is overdoing and accomplishing more than a

 

man’s work that she is laying up riches for a
second wife, she would perhaps insist on a few
of life’s little luxuries along the way. If you ”put
a silver dollar iipto your eyes, you can shut out
the view of the sunset, or anything else you may
look at. Too many folks see everything through
the rim of a silver dollar, and don’t take time
to broaden into the real helpful citizens of the
world, because of their anxiety to accumulate
as many of these round cartwheels as possible.
“Lay up your treasure in heaven.” And don’t for-
get too, that any money invested in good books,
a phonograph or music box, pretty pictures, and
an occasional good time, is money contributed
to your spiritual well being and mind content.

Write to me! '

Anne Campbell Stark, Editor Home Depart-
ment, MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING, Mt. Clemens,
Michigan.

Michigan Farm Women Aid U. S.

ICHIGAN FARM women have been quick to
M realize they must standi with their sisters in

cities behind Uncle Sam ready for any ser-
vice they are able to perform. Letters from our
own readers prove that they have been quick to
pledge themselves to food conservation. “Food
will win the war. Do not waste it,” has been
the motto of the farm women since the war he-
gan. As most of the women on the farm knit,
sweaters and other articles from them are beau-
tifully done.- As you all know the Red Cross is
glad to furnish wool for knitters.

On February 16th, a big meeting will be held
at Owosso by the women’s defense committee for
members of farmers’ clubs, county and local teach-
ers. A school of registration will be conducted
by Mrs. Frederick B. Perkins, state director.

Mrs. Frank l‘odge, regent of the Adrian Chap-
ter of the D. A. R. will act as registration chair-
man of Adrian during the week of‘ March 18th.
Mrs. Dodge is training 250 women to act as reg-
istrars.

Under the direction of Miss Bina M. West, state
head of the department of child welfare of the
woman’s defense committee, plans are being
made for strengthening the work throughout the
state.-

We will be glad to report in our columns work
done by farm women for the Red Cross or other
patriotic organizations.

Cleaning the Baby’s Bottle

HE IMPORTANCE of keeping baby’s bottles

and nipples clean and sanitary cannot be

overemphasized. Many disorders of their
stomachs can be traced to unclean nipples. Thrush
generally arises from dirty nipples. As soon as the
baby’s milk is finished, the bottle should. be
rinsed with hot water and clear soap, and rinsed
in a pan of boiling water, Where the bottle should
stay until the next feeding. Before the food is
made up for the day, the bottles and nipples should
be thoroughly washed with hot suds and then
rinsed and boiled in clear water for ten minutes.
The nipples should! be rinsed in cold and then

hot water, and allowed to stand between feedings:

in a solution of boris acid. eTime should be taken
once or twice a day to turn them inside out and
scrub them with a brush and hot water. Several
bottles and nipples should be in use at the same
time.

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, - lye. remain the; diet’isgovor-
looked? Qnarjt; tor quart it‘co‘n‘tains a:
"little,.m01"o. protein'fand a little more
'milkiiigth than whole milk, but much;
less fat.» Because,,ot the lack of fat
it cannotflbe used 'in place of whole
' milk for children. It is, however, a
most valuable adjunct to the-diet on
meatless days,_*and the- cheapest pro-
tein‘food for the farmer’s table.
Aside from its food value skimmed
milk adds much to the quality and
flavor in cooking, and is a first aid in
converting left-overs into palatable
dishes. Milk used in bread in place
of water adds as much protein to a
pound loaf of bread as there is in one
egg. It gives a softness of texture to
bread that adds particularly to the
palatability of graham or bran bread.
Cereals cooked in milk instead of
water gain in flavor and food value.
A particularly nourishing dish is pre-
pared by cooking down 10 to 12 parts
of skimmed milk to one of rice, oat.-
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Two pretty spring dresses for girls
are shown among this week’s fash-
ions. No. 8649 comes in sizes 4, 6,
R. 10 and 12 years. The dress has
a new blouse buttoning at the center
front; the simple one—piece skirt is
gathered all around to the wide belt.

No. 8674 can be used either as an
,apron or a dress. lt_comes in sizes
' 2, 4, 6, 8. 10 an d12 years. The plain
waist is in the, kimona style and the
one-piece skirt is straight. at the low~
er edge and is gathered to the short
waist. One of thx, new spriing waists
notde for their simplicity is numbered
8651: This comes in sizes 36. 38, 40
and 42 inches bust measure The
waist is slightly gathered at the shoul—
ders to the back, which extends over
to give the effect of a yoke.

Isn’t the dress numbered 8675 girl—
ish and pretty? This little spring
model comes in sizes 36' 38, 40, and
42 inches bust measure. It seems to
me the peplin effect would be more "
becoming to a slim figure. The skirt
has two gores. 'l‘hc peplum effect is
accomplished by raising the waist line

A neat. extra skirt, such a useful
article in a person’s wardrobe! is
numbered 8656. This is two gored
The back gore is gathered at the
Slightly raised waistline; the front
gore is almost straight and it is gath-
ered to the waistline under the belt.
it comes in sizes 24, 26,28, 30 and 82
inches waist measure.

A neat house apron is numbered
8683. This comes in sizes 36. 40, and
44 inches bust emasure The apron
is all in one piece and it is to be
slipped on over the head. The apron
may be worn loose if preferred.

These patterns are ten cents each.

Address, Fashion Department, Mich—
igan Business Farming, Mt. Clemens.
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lof‘cream with stewed fruit.

Milk soups or purees are made with
skimmed milk and the pulp of beans,
peas, onions, potatoes or celery. Fish
chowder made with milk is a most
substantial meat substitute. A few
oysters or a. litle meat stock will suf-
fice to lend a. flavor to a milk soup.
Skimmed milk thickened with flour
and served hot on hard stale bread or
toasted biscuit makes a comforting
cold-weather dish for breakfast or
supper.

White sauce or cream dressing can
be used with bits of meat to make at-
tractive dishes.‘ or with warmed-over
vegetables. Cheese added to the sauce
gives another variation. This can be
served on rice, macaroni, hominy, or
cauliflower.

Skimmed milk can be used in mak-
ing such desserts as blanc mange, jun~
ket, tapioca. custard, cornstarch and
bread puddings.

SAVE YOUR WOOD ASHES
THEY’RE WORTH $1 A BU.

Wood ashes worth at least, a dol-
lar a bushel! Startling, but that is
what its value is at present price of
the fertilizing material it contains.
Some of us remember when the “ash
man” exchanged a bar of 3c soap for
a bushel. Even then the farmer was
buncoed according to the chemist who
calculated that a bushel was worth
35 cents. That was “before the war.”

The fuel shortage has caused many
in central and northern Michigan to
use wood. The ashes from wood con-
tain some of the most valuable con-
stituents needed by the soil; lime,
phosphoric acid, and potash. It is
especially high in the latter. which
is the hardest kind of fertilizer to
secure as, it is produced largely in
Germany.

Analysis of wood ashes shows it
contains from 5-6 percent of potash,
2 percent phosphoric acid, and 30-35
percent of lime all substances especial-
ly needed on Michigan farms. The
potash is especially available and one
of the best fertilizers for fruits and
root crops. Since the supply has been
out from Germany the price has in-
creased from ten to twenty times itse
original price depenring on the form
desired. A bushel of ashes weighing
40 pounds would contain 2.4 pounds
of potash which in a purified form is
worth a dollar a pound. the raw pro—
duct is worth about 1-3 as much which’
makes $.80 for the potash in a bushel
It is worth saving and every ounce
should be replaced on the soil.

The phosphoric acid in' wood ashes
is in less amounts and not so soluable
as the potash, every bushel contains
nearly a pound valued at 20c. The

lime in the ashes is directly available.

would be worth applying to the soils,
if the ashes contained no other con-
stituents. It neutralizes the acids of
the soil. liberates plant, food and keeps
the soil in good condition for the
growth of soil bacteria necessary to
the growth of. the soil. Most Mich-
igan soils need lime.

Wood ashes should be protected
from the rains as the potash is read-
ily soluable in water and the phos-
phoric acid is partially so. Years
ago the potash was leached out, for
use in soap making. After leaching
there is left some potash and phos-
phoric acid and most of the lime co
leached ashes should be applied to
the soil.

“What about coal ashes?" someone
asks. Unfortunately it does not con—
tain lime or other fertilizers and is of
no direct value. However. on heavy

clay soils. coal ashes might be of
value in rendering it more loose and
open if not added in too great
amounts.

Would it pay to save ashes to sell?
Certainly. in communities wherethere
is considerable ashes so as to pay
to collect and ship. But the high cost
of feed, the necessity of heavy pro-
duction, the need of the soils means
that no wood ashes should be wasted,
it should be added to the soil. The
placing of the ashes on the soil should
be the same as the uSe of. any wertii-
izer. It is best to add it it the soil
at the time of planting or a little be—
fore. Ashes may be used on the soil
in any amounts up to half a ton on an
acre. The results in better crop from

the use of ashes will be worth while.

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Hollow Tile has proof
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\LAPEER (Central—~We have been
having some very soft weather the past
week but it is colder now. The water is
very high in some places and the fields
{are bare in many places The roads are
very rough and have been nearly impass-
able on account of the deep snow banks.
The farmers are not very busy just at
present and no produce is moving. News
has just been received here that “Billy"
Johnson was one of the Tuscania victims.
——0. E. 1)., Lapcer, Feb. 16.

TUSCOLA (West)———Farmers have not
been able to get on the roads for a Week
on account of snow and water. Some of
our farmers have onions to sell but can-
not get them to town. Farmers are buy—
ing hay and feed. Nothing moving here
now. Some farmers are planning to put in
sugar beets-«R; B. C, Caro, Feb. 16.

MECOSTA (Northeast)——The weather
has bee? much warmer the past few
days. he buyers are not anxious to
buy potatoes and the farmers are not
selling on account of the‘grading rules.
It is a fine thing when a. man who has
the crop cannot sell because of unjust
conditions while the man who wants to
buy cannot get them except by paying
double price. Why don’t the government
set prices on other things except wheat?
Why does not cornmeal sell for what it
oucht to? 100 lbs. of shelled corn will
make at least 90 lbs. of cornmeal, yet
shelled corn sells for less than 4c per
lb. and mcalat 90. Sell the cornmeal
_:Lt a price it should be sold at and the
{people will buy it without being forced
to. I just saw an item in a farm paper
that we “cannot ship potatoes to Eur—
ope ” Why can’t we? ’A few years ago
they were shipping whole shipload: into
this country to force down the price.—
F. M. E, Feb. 2

CHEROYGAN (Nortliwest)-—\Vc had
a few days of nice mild weather the first
of the week. however, we have had a
real old blizzard since and the snow is
again piled high. The farmers are all
busy shoveling snow; all else is at a
standstill. A lot. of the farmers hcre get
the M. l3. li‘.. and they say it is the best
])£lllt‘l' they ever got for a dollar.——0. W
’2. lliggsville, Feb. 15.

 

GRAND TRAVERSE
tle warmer weather at present. The
roads arc in bad condition. Farmers
are rushing their wet beans to the mar—
ket Some potatoes are being sold, price
is $1.25 per cwt. The wet beans are be-
ing sold to the canning companies. Your
paper is simply the only one, and I will
try and get all the subscriptions l more
l“. L. B, Williamsburg, Feb. 12.

(Nori‘li)—A lit-

)fON’I‘t"ALH Southwest)—»-l<‘armci's le‘t"
not, doing much cxccpt shoveling snow
and doing 'cliorcs. Many potatoes are
frozen in collars of the farmers in this
neighborhood on :u-i'ouiit of the small
amount of oil that can be purchased at
our stores. The oil has bccii use-d to burn
to kccp collars from freezing. Hay and

 

 

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other kinds of food arc not being held for
higher prices but many seem to think the
present poi’ul‘o grading rules will not be
upheld and am holding spuds for this
reason—HY. l... Crecnvillc, Feb. 15

BAY (Southcnsil—VVVO have had more
moderate weather just like Foster predict-
ed. No quotations on liens or pullets; we
are not allowed to sell them. Pretty soon
the farmers will not be allowed to do
anything but be slaves to tho upstarts or
educated fools who arc getting paid for
t:ill<iiig.r-—.l. ('3. 1\., Mungci', Feb 15.

.\l0.\"l‘(‘.\LM (‘VPsilfl-Jl‘ll!‘ l'zii‘mcrx' of
this vicinity are outing wood and there
urn some potatoes moving. they are. all
going” to ('lreeuvillc :ind arc bringing
3H5!) pci' cwt. Some hay is being sold
iLl $22 per too, but it is poor stuff. i was
reading in M. R. F. about co-opcration
of farmers. There is a co-operative vom-
pany at (‘lreenville and potatoes llli~l‘t‘
are 500 higher than at Lake View. A
co-opcrativc company to handle the pro—
duce of the farmers would be a good
thing in every community. ll? XV” Coral.
Fcbruary 12.

BI'JRRIEN (Soutliwest)—~—Most of the
snow has gone except that in the roads.
which is anyway three feet deep. Farm—
ers are using their wagons to haul up
cornstalks which they will now husk in
the barn. Wheat fields are covered with
waterland ice. There will be a. large
acreage of oats sown here if the weather
Most of the farmers arc
unable to tell just how many potatoes and
bonus llicy will plziut lll the spring.‘tl.
\V. Rz‘ii‘odu. Feb. 15,

l’u‘l‘l‘ll-‘R (Hill-éll—lt‘éll‘llll'l'b' are busy
looking for sr-od corn that will grow The
prion ranges from $2 to $10 per bu and
come only tests around 65. Have had
thaw of the scuson. Lots of
ivillt‘d‘ standing on wheat and rye, and it
will no doubt be damaged some. Sonic
cattle going to market with the price low—
or than a week ago. No hay or bonus
moving. Some oats being sold with the
price around 800. There will be lots of
changes on the farms here this spring—4
‘ A. B.. Imlay City. Feb. 10

HURON (West)———’l‘hc farmers are cut-
ting and getting out wood. They are sell-
ing beans and that is about all. We have
no seed corn or seed beans horn. Will
some one please advise us whore we.
can secure them?~—C..T.(l._ Casevillc, Fob-
ruary 15.

IONIA, ((‘cntraD—Farmers are not do—
ing much on their farms just at present.
The snow has been so very deep that it
has been almost impossible to cut wood
or to draw manure from stables to the
fields—S. W. K.. Lyons, Feb. .

ANTBIM (Nortlicrn)—The cold has
somewhat subsided and the farmers are

 

  
 

selling some pctatoes at one cent per
pound. A car of cattle and hogs were
shipped to Chicago by our stock buyer
this week. Stock is looking good so far
considering the cold weather. Some of
the farmers are selling their beans; not
many dry ones and all are a. very poor
quality We understand that some have
lost nearly all of their potatoes by the
cold we ther. There is no doubt now
that the farmers will not raise as many
potatoes the coming year as they did last
year.——F. N. F., Alden, Feb. 16.

KALKASKA (Southwest) —- The roads
have been so bad that the farmers have
not been able to get out much. Weather
is a little milder at this writing Farm-
ers are buying hay and grain—Pt. E. B.,
South Boardman, Feb.

ARENAC (East)—Weather has been
milder and it has been appreciated. Some
hay and grain moving at a fair price.—
W. B. R, Twining. Feb. 1.6

ALLEGAN (SoutheasO—Activities of
farmers still limited to cutting wood and
odd jobs abou the farm. Very mild the
past week resulting in much high water.
Farmers not selling anything except an
occasional load of hay when the roads
permit of its being hauled. A few pota—
toes are being held. Many are frozen in
pits—W. F., Otsego, Feb. 16.

LENAWEE (Southeast)—There has
been a lot of oats loaded from this place
at 830 per bu There are a number of
auctions this spring and stock sells very
high; common cows selling at from $60
to $100; farm tools the same: for instance
at one sale oats went for 881/24; per bu.,
,burley. $3.75 per cwt., pigs weighing 120
lbs, at $21.00 each; a team of horses
weighing about 25 to 26 hundred sold at
$452.00. The roads are in such condi—
tion that the milk haulers cannot make
their routes and the farmers are deliver-

ing it themselves—J. F. Palmyra,
Feb 16
BRANCH (Southwesfi—Fui'mers are

doing chores and cutting wood. Weather
has been warmer for the past few days.
Snow is all gone in the fields. it is im-
possible to draw any loads now as the
roads are in bad condition. Farmers
are not selling anything now for the
simple reason that they have nothing to
sell. Quite a. number of auction sales are
being held around here—D. M. H., Bron-
son, Feb. 15

SANlLAC
report we have

(Central)—~Sincc the last
been having some cold
and stormy weather. There is still some
hay being pressed. Have heard of two
cases of lockjaw among horses here. A
two days’ farmers’ meeting was held at
the school house in Sundusky on Feb.
14 and 15, well attended—A. B, San-
dusky, Feb. 15.

GLAD“'IN (“"L‘St (‘cntraD—fi'l‘lle fariii~
ers are baling hay and hauling it, and
are also selling beans. They are build—
ing and buying as little as possible.—--—
F. l“., (ilzidwin. Feb. 15.

ALFONA (Ens Central)——l<‘:.t1'mcrs are
getting up wood and bailing hay. Some
beans and wheat. going to market The

\vcullicr has been very cold but it is
warmer now. Stock is Wintoring well.

Feed plentiful but beef cattle are going
down in price. The meatless day is be-
ginning to count, or there is some other
skin game on the way toward the
farmers Beans were a very uneven crop,
some had good yields, others very poor.
Uur farmers did not go heavy to spuds,
we were afraid of the back—yard compe—
tition. They did not grade potatoes in

-tlll.\‘ county that l liezii‘d of.—l). (3., Lin-

coln, lf‘t‘l).

I().\'l.-\ (“'est)——’l‘lic weather condi—
tions have been so bad this winter that
farmers have not been able to accomp—
lisli much work except chores, shoveling
snow and cutting wood. The ground is
fit zen very deep. and lots of water pipcs
are frozen. Beans are selling for $13 it
hundred. 'l‘lic wheat fields that :n‘c barre
are looking horde—A. \‘V. t2.. Sardinia.
Fob. ‘

EHMET (Northeast)fiv'l‘llc ‘o'cittlit-l‘ is
line and lots of tubers are moving to the
\\'{ll‘(‘l10llSO.\‘ for storage, most of the
farmers are holding for better prices.
llay is moving rather slow at present.
Beans are not all thrashed yet. There
seems to be quite a demand for good
owes, but their are \'(‘l‘y few in this
neighborhood Lots of farmer. want to
misc sheep as potato growing is getting
on most oi" the t'ni'nwrs ’iici'vcs herew-
ll. \\".. Levering, li‘i'li. lti.

MISSAK‘KEE ((‘cntrullwm‘volhing tl~‘-
lIlS; lit-i'c but chores and Mining wood.
Nothing being sold but hay which is $30
to $25 at present, and there is quite it
call for it.~——H. E. N., Cutchcon, Feb. 1.6.

LAKE (Northeast)«W’etttlier warmer,
Smile farmers selling potatoes and beans
but not many. Frost is out of timber. a
good time for cutting wood. 1"). G. D.,
Luther, Feb.

TI'SCOLA (Nortlieast)——Rain and a
thaw this week. Many fields covered
with ice, probably will damage wheat and
clover. Farmers are busy making in-
come tax reports. Many find the outgo
greater than the income. Some beans
are being sold ——S. 8., Cass City, Feb. 16.

SANILAC (Southeastk—Somelce is be—
ing packed and some wood being cut.
Markets are practically at a standstill.——-—
N. J. V.C., Croswell, Feb. 18.

ST. JOSEPH (East Central)——Farmers
are cutting wood and shoveling snow out
of the roads to admit the mail man t-
ting through, drawing corn and bucking.
They are selling wood and hay—W W.,
Colon, Feb.

, BENZIE (Southwest)——Farmers are do-
ing chores and getting up wood, cutting

 

 
 

:and'vdrewlof pews » m 5
selling a. 'iitt (3' wood." A v ry few mean.
moving and nothln doinfirtn' thepota‘to
line. Here’is a t ot: '
reach of beet sugar'factories as far as
raining them commercially is concerned,
but-1f" the Food Administration would ar-
range with the nearest sugar factory to
manufacture sugar out of our own beets
the farmers could get ogether and raise
a few car-loads, say limit each family to
500 lbs. We, of course, to pay the cost
of manufacture. That would give us the
sugar we need and would release the sug-
ar we now use to someone else. It does
seem that it could be arranged some way
to relieve ‘the shortage. They seem to
be closing in on us a little more all the
time. The millers have now refused to
grind buckwheat. rye or corn flour for
us, or wheat either. Another thing that
looks sort of bad is a merchant who
buys beans told me that he had written
to four different elevators for prices 0n
beans. He heard from three of them. and
they declined to quote prices on beans
unless handpicked. Is this another
scare they are trying to throw into us?
Nearly every farmer around here says
he will not plant potatoes next year only
for his own. use this season—J. M., El-
berta, Feb. 1.4.

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Uelerlnary Dem rtmciit

I have a heifer 18 months old, he?
first calf is now about four weeks old;
also a cow five years old. Both began
going back on their feed, acted as tho
they wanted something different, com—
menced chewing on old boards. 1 am
feeding some pea‘straw. hay, but the
main feed is corn stalks. also feed
buckwheat bran. A little sweet corn.
I would like to know what to do for
them. Please answer thru your dc-
partnienl.--T. S. St, Moors.

Give each of your cows the follow~
ing: ()lium Proton, ten minunis; r-al-
omel, one dram; linseed oil, one (wart;
shake well and give at one dose. Al‘-
ter twenty-four hours give nux vomic‘ ,
powdered, tw’o ounces; gentian, powd
cred, five ounces; sodium bicarbonate
add to make sixteen ounces. Mix and
give one tablespoonful dissolved in
one-half pint of warm water three
times a day. Discontinue feeding the
sweet corn and feed any good substan-
tial grain in its place.

    

     

I have a mare that eats good but
does no good. She is weak in. her
hind parts and can not get up when
she gets down. Her blood is not good.
Please advise me what to do. -»~.\'. .l,.
Bom- Loire.

Give your mare the following: i‘o—
tassium iodide and F. E. nux voniica
equal parts two ounces; Fowler’s solu-
tion of arsenic add to make sixteen
ounces. Give one tablelspoonful on
the tongue with a syringe three times
a day. Also give animal at least four
quarts of oats and two quarts of bran
three times a day.

I have a 5-year-old
Last spring I worked him as third
horse. He was taken with bowel
trouble. 1 turned him out to pasture.
llc would get, some better and than
go back again. in the fall 1 had his
teeth iixo'l. He was 21 little better for
a time. For the last three months- he
has been bad. He is crazy for salt
and drinks lots of water. i have tried
scvc‘zil things. I see in M. B. F. of
Dec. 29. about giving Fowler’s solu-
tion of arsenic. I gave it for three or
four weeks. Sometimes I tliot, it was
helping him then he would be as bad
as ever. He is very poor but has a
good appetite. What must I do for
him '.’ , “.1. SC. Mai-lotto.

Your horse is suffering from indi-
gestion. which. has been gradually
brought about by an over-acidity of
the stomach, caused by improper di-
gestion; therefore. a successful treat-
ment of this case can only be [Li’i'OUI‘
plislied by. first of all removing the
cause.

First give an aloetic laxativo (on-
sisting of Barbadoes aloes draclims t‘.
calcinel lind powdered nux vomica
equal parts one draclim. This can
best be given in the form of a ball. or
dissolved in fairly hot water and given
at one dose. Keep animal quiet, allow-
ing no exercise until bowels are nor-
mal; after which give two tablespoons
sodium sulphate in the drinking wat-
er twice daily for about a week. then
give the following: Powdered nux
vomica, one ounce; powdered gentian,
four ounces. Mix. Give one tablespoon
one-half, hour after feed, three times
a day.

driving horse.

e are not in-

 

 
 
 
  
   
   
 
   
 

 
 


 

 

 

Rutes:-—-—U to 14 lines or one inch and
for less this! 13 insertions under this
heading, fifteen cents per line. Title dis-
played to best advantage. Send in coply
and we will quote rates. For larger 3 s
or for ads to run 13 issues or more we
make special rates which w 11 cheerfullly
be sent on application to th Adm-rile n8
Dept., 110 Fort St., Detroit.

 

 

One 2-year-old Black Per—
or sale cheron Stallion, weighing

1800 lbs., also our aged
Stallion In omar 30047, that has been at
the head 0 our stud for 10 years, M. A.
Bray Est, Chas. Bray, M512, Lansmg,Mich

HOGS

 

 

 

 

 

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13.1.. SALISBURY

SHEPHERD, MICH.

Bre‘e’der of purebred
Holstein-Friesian Cattle
Young bulls for sale from A. R.

O. Cows with creditable records.-

 

 

 

 

. \VOLVERINE STOCK FARM

FOR SALE, a beautifully mark-
ed bull calf, born Aug. 3, 1917. Sire
Judge Walker Pieterje whose first
five dams are 30 pound cows, hlS
darn a. 24 pound 3 year-old grand-
daughter of King of the Pontiacs,
and second dam a 26 pound cow.
This calf Will please you.

Price, $200.

T W. SPRAG'UE,

. Route 2. Battle Creek, Mich.

 

 

 

READ WHAT MR. HOOVER SAYS

"We have a very good lot oi young bulls coming on
that will be fit for service in s few weeks. These bulls
are sons of Feirviow Colanths Rog Apple 141,297,a son
of the great Bug Apple Korndyke 8th.”

”We always hsve a number oi choice females irom
which to make your selectionl.’1‘hey are all daughters
of 30 pound bulls, the on] kind we use at Rosewood
Farm.” ROSEWOOD ST CK FARM, Howell, Mich.

 

 

 

250. STEERS FOR SALE

()nes, twos, threes, Herefords, Angus
and Shorthorns. 600 to 1200 lbs. Choice
quality sorted to size, age and breed. in
car lots. Write your wants. C. F. Ball.
Fairfield, Iowa.

HATCH HERD HOLSTEINS

 

YI’SILAN'I‘I We have been “breeding
Up" for the past eleven
MICHIGAN years. Pontiac Korndyke

and King Korndyke Sadie
Vale bulls in service. Select your next

sire now.

For Sale, Registered Holstein Bull

10 months old, whose sister is champion 2-
yr.-old of the state. Record, 26 months,
26 lbs. butter in 7 da. Sire a son of
Pontiac De Nijlander, Record 35.43 but—
ter in 7 da. Dam’s record as 3-yr.-old 21
lbs. butter in 7 da. Price, $100.00; L. C.
lietzlc’r, Clover Dairy Farm, Flint, Mich.

 

 

()LS'I‘EIN COW 8 yrs. old, due to fresh-

en in April. ls right in ex'ory way.
.~\.I{.(). 18.46, dam 26.28, 3nd dam 24.78.
A. F. Loomis, Owosso, Michigan.

 

llA’l‘ DO YOU \VANT? I. represent 11
Shorthorn 'hrccdors. Can put you in
touch with best milkor beef strains. Bulls

LEONARD’S POLAND CHINAS Bred
sows, fall pigs, either sex,
at reasonable price. E. R. Leonard, ,St.
Louis, Mich, R. No. 3.

0 B RE D GI L T S
To Wm. B. No. 47049. Longfellow
I No. 18575 Sire of 1st prize. young
herd at Iowa State Fair. Fall pigs and
C breed serviceable boars.
J. CARL JE‘VETT, Mason, Mich.

 

 

CHOICE REGISTERED STOCK

I’crcherons——Colonel 104833, a grand-
son of Morse and Olbert; 'a great
grandson of Besigue and Calypso, at
head of stud. Holsteins—-—Senior Sire,
son of Pontiac Aaggie Korndyke and a
28.22 pound dam. Aberdeen-Angus—
Senior Sire. Black Earl of Woodlawn
152209. A Blackbird. Shropshires—A
small but choice flock, large, and wool—
ed from- nose to toes. Durocs—The
large, prolific money-making kind. It
in need of a first-class sire, write me.
DORE D. BUELL, Eunira, Mich. R. ].

 

 

 

 

BOARS
John W.

EUIS'I‘EKEI) HAMPSHIRE
and bred gilts for sale.
Snyder, R. 4.. St. Johns, Mich.
BOARS and SOWS of fine

0° 1' 0 quality. Prices reasonable.
Registered free and will ship C.O.D. Floyd
H. Banister, Springport, Mich.

(‘hoice young boars ready

0 I C for service; also fall pigs

. . . either sex; sired by 1st

prize yearling boar Mich. State Fair 1017

(fiiov‘er Iseaf Stock Farm, Monroe. M1ch.,
.No. .

 

 

 

SHE E P
Shropshire Ewes

 

A limited number of
bred ewes; bred

right! Prices right! A son of Tanner's'
Royal in service. H. F. Mouser, Ithaca,
Michigan.

 

YOUNG DELAINO I'JH’ES, bred, and
yearling Ram, $60.00 to quick buyer.
S. H. Saunders, R. No. 2, Ashtabula. Ohio.

 

OR AUGUST DELIVERY 50 Register—

ed Shropshire Yearling ewes and 30
Registered Yearling Rams of extra qual—
ity and breeding. Flock established 1890.
C. Lemen, Dexter. Michigan.

 

 

POULTRY
WE HAVE THEM

S. C. IV, Leghorns; Trapnested stock.
Hens, Pullets. (,‘ockcrcls and Cocks. Will
take orders for hatching eggs now. We
also have good seed beans. Write us.
Hill Crest Poultry Farm, Ypsilanti, Mich.

 

Wllllt‘ lughorns -

FOR SALE—S. (l.

 

 

 

 

 

  

all news. Some females. C. (.‘rum, Your Old Hens. Pullets, Cot-howls. Ferris

Secretary Central Michigan ShOl'thOr‘n Strain, $1.50 Each. flusscll Poultry
.As’sooiation, McBridcs, Michigan. .lnnch, Pctcrsburg. Michigan.

FOR SALE ltefiistgretil Holstein Hull S e F “'thitl- \Vyztn;

'ea y 'or service; :1l:~'o do ts, 'ln ()1

hull calf. These bulls are of choice brtwtl— uperlor arm wintnr lnyI-rs.

mg. For particulars write Fred Loni, and fit for any show room, we Hl'lt‘l‘

Stookbridgc. Mich. March 1st, $2.00, $11.00 111111 $13,011 ilt‘!‘ 1:7.

$51.00 per 100. Send “for muting list

FOR SALE One 11 mos. old grandson , C. \V. Honeywell, 'l’l‘ymoutl: .\li«-his.1:1n.
of Royal Majesty whose i__. ~

dam as a 3 yr. old produced 406.24 lbs. of ' v . .

l"lll.l“l' III 1 yr. SOlld 00101.. Il‘lI‘St Check E ‘W? TIMI) lll;>vli-.;llitl§1

of $510 takes him. icgistered, trans— 3 ,4 ‘31P“ f‘(\”"“"”> “WWW”

ifcrred and delivered to any point in l \arietu ”WM” ””1

 

Michigan. Fred A. Brennan, Capac, Mich
A Rog.

FOR SAL 01,,

Daughter of Noble
$90.00. Tosch

OLSTEIN FRIESIAN CATTLE——

Howbert Maplecrest .Tetske, Sirc‘s

dam 30 lbs, full sister with 1200 lbs.
butter, semi-official, dam of calf 20
lbs. butter from 452.6 lbs. milk in
seven days. Well marked; born Jan.
12. ’17. Price $75.00 F. O. B. Bull onlf
born Jan. 9, ’18. from untested dam
Price $50.00. Howbcrt Stock Farm, Frau
("lairc, Michigan.

Jersey Bull 10 mo.
Dam is an imported
of t‘iakland. 1’1-iw,
Eros, ("ztpnc. Michigan.

 

 

 

HORSES

lCRCIIERON STALLIONS, one 3 years
old, driven single and double One ten
years old, thoroly broken single and doub-
le. 'VVill work like :1. more. Heavy boned
gentle fellows. Price $100 and $300. Fred
N. Randall. “Itiht‘linsior, Nit-h

SHETLAND PONIES

 

 

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For Sale. Write
for description &

 

prices. Mark P. Curd): llowoll. Mich.
On SALE Percheron Stallion, black,

 

No. 121705, foaled June 23; 1915; No.
131951, foaled June 29, 1916. J. F. Glady,
R. 7, Vassar, Mich.

 

testimonials. stamp 21.1)lll‘t‘t‘lr‘li:‘-tl,
Hatchery, l: -.\’ 10. it‘l‘wgw-v‘t,

Procporl
.‘xl it'liign n.

 

I BRICI) ROCK POCKERIGLS‘ 101‘ breed—
purposes from good layers. $3.00
( 21. Write R. It. Bowman. l’igt'on, Mich.

 

ARREI) ROCK COCKERELS for sale,

$2.00 to $5.00 each for strain with
records to 290 eggs a year. Circular free.
Fred Astling. Constantine, Mich.

BARRED ROC

 

(‘OCKERELS from
Prize Winning stock
Thompson strain. $3 and $1. Yearling
breeding hens. $2. Well Barred. Sam
Slade]. Chelsea. Michigan.

 

OHN’S BIG BEAUTIFUL BARRED
Rocks are hen hatched and sold on ap—
proval $3 to $10 each. 1 male and 4 fe-
males $12.00. Good layers. Circulars,
Photos. John an‘fl’loll. Clare. Michigan.

ANCONA COCKERELS

From $2.00 to $5.00 each. Also 3 llt"l‘lS and
cockercl for $5. W. C. \Vcst' & Son, East
Lansing, Michigan, 11.101). No 1.

 

 

ARRON’S \VHITE “'IANI)OTTI<}
Cock and cockerels for sale. Bred
from imported trapnested birds with

265-283 egg records. M . '
'Route 3, Linden, Mich. rs L' A. Riggs,

 

 

 

 

having made that record.
daughters.

a year.

in a year.

greatness ?

the summer.

 

'Holstein-Friesians

MAPLECREST KORNDYKE HENGERVELD

Senior Herd Sire—MAPLECREST KORNDYKE HENGERVELD,
whose dam, grand dam and great grand dam each made over 30 lbs. of
butter in 7 days; his dam and grand dam each making better than
1200 lbs. of butter in a year, and the only mother and daughter ever
He already has 13 advanced registry
He was sired by Friend Hengerveld De K01 Butter Boy
who sired 4 daughters averaging better than 1200 lbs. of butter in
Maplecrest Korndyke Hengerveld is probably, for long dis-
tance breeding, the peer of any bull living.

KING ONA.

Junior Herd Sire~KING ONA, whose dam made 1315 lbs. of but-
ter in a year and her dam made over 1100 lbs. of. butter when 12
years old. Thus the dam and grand dam of
average production of over 1200 lbs. in a year.
of a novelty when the great effort is being made on short records.
The Junior Sire mated with the daughters of the Senior Sire rep-
resenting four dams with an average of more than 1200 lbs. of butter

Why should not their yearly production be the measurcxnrnt of
We have to keep them the full year and it is at the
end of the year that we make our return on net income.

A few heifers coming two years old in calf to King Ona will be
sold at reasonable prices as we will have no pasture for them during
If purchased they can remain with us until May 1st.

D. D. AITKEN

FLINT, MICH.

the Junior Sire have an
This is something

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROBT. R. POINTER & SON

Breeders of

Registered Holstein-Friesian Cattle

DEARBORN, MICHIGAN

Stock for sale at all times.
for some of the best, see US.

If you are looking

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Will be uttered for sale at l)lll)ll1.‘1\il(‘lltlll in the City of

For pzu‘tlt‘nlzu‘s :ultll'css

C. M. RICE, - -

 

What the Neighbors‘Say! ‘

like to be without the
Michigan Business Farming. My Wife
and '1’ both enjoy the, paper very much.
—~l<l. 1“. lloMBerritt, lionnwvc county.

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the farmers net-d a paper along the lime
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find $1.00 for the Michigan
1 am highly delighted
with the M. H. 1“. methods. Trust the
Michigan 1' rmcrs will become better or—
ganized and that every one would read
1110 .\l. '1’». 1“. and keep an eye open for
the other fellow at all times, for the
farmer t-zln’t afford to have such rotten
deal}: put oxwr on them. Stop, look and
listen, and see to it that 1917 won't be
repeated in 1918. 'With all good luck to
the Michigan Business Farming and its
editors.-——-James B. Lunney, Montmorency
county.

Enclosed .
Business Farming.

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“Milk production is an inherited ability. Good cows
must he bred to good purebred hulls ii progress in dairy-
ing is to be made."

Extract U. 8. Dept. of Agric. Bulletin.
Buy this young hull and give your milk mid butter pro—
duction I) ”push."
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Ilis Sire's 3 nenrest{ Butter 7 days 30.87
Dam- average Milk 7 duvs 579.60
Butter 7 days 30.59

His Dsm's Dunn’s Milk 7 days 565.00
Record Butter 30 days 124.1.

Milk 30 days 2436.“

(She heads one or the ten only combinations of three
rlirect generations of thirty pound cows.)

His dnm’l record at 3 years Butt" 7 days 23.33
Milk 7 days 429.40
His the nearest: dams average { n‘f‘L" 7 days 29.30
Milk 7 days 540.68
(Including 2---3 andl-——41-‘.’yr. old_)
Ideally marked, about half rind half. Price $250.

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son, . Livingston county.

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1 This is the

' the Government and the

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:.1R'eportsl from 1 ' Michigan, Maine

> and New York‘ Show Petato
Holdings About Same as
a Year Ago

For the past several weeks MICH-
IGAN BUSINESS FARMING has been con-
ducting investigations not only in
Michigan but in other states as well,
to determine the percentage of the
1917 crop still remaining in the
farmers’ hands, together with a com-

: parison of holdings a year ago. No

evidence has been found to bear out
the Government and county agent re-
ports that there is a large surplus of
potatoes still in the growers’ hands.

Some of the earlier readers of M. B.
F. will recall that we persistently de-
cnied last fall that there was an over-
production ef potatoes, and endeavor-
ed to Show how the Government re-
port was grossly exaggerative of the
actual facts. In our final estimate
after the Michigan crop was dug, we
stated that the Government figures
were, in our judgment, 15 to 20 mil-
lion bushels too high, and that they
were correspondingly high in other
states. Subsequent developments now
seem to prove that we were right in
our contention. Authentic reports re-
ceived from Maine, New York and
Minnesota during the past few weeks.
show that somebody made an awful
blunder in making up the final esti-
mates of the nation’s potato crop.

The most startling development of
the national potato situation is the
discovery that. tens of millions of
bushels of potatoes have frozen in
pits and cellars, who have yet to open
their pits and are prepared for the
worst.

In a succeeding issue we will be able
to publish the reports of closer inves—
tigations now being conducted in
other potato growing states, and we
hope then to have our Michigan sur-
vey more complete. Our readers can
help tremendously by reporting at
once. We give a summary of reports
received to date:

VDowagiac Daily News:—--“The Daily
hows has learned of several farmers who
have dug into their potato pits within
the past few days and found their pota—
.tocs badly frozen, One farmer north of
this City who had covered his pit with
alternate layers of dirt, straw, dirt, man—
ure and dirt. again, says his whole crop
ls lost. the potatoes being frozen solid.
As a rule the frozen potatoes are found
frozen_1n the shallow pits but in ordin-
ary Winters they would be well enough
protected. If. this loss is general there
Will be fewer potatoes to go on the mar-
ket than supposed.”

A. 13.. Mayville.---“Some farmers in
this neighborhood have more potatoes on
hand than last year. but many have less.
My opinion would be a few more on hand
than last year, if we do not lose too many
from frost and rot.”

., Thompsonville:--—"There are not
many more potatoes than usual in this
Vicmity, and a fourth of them will be
frozen.”

.1. W., White Cloud:--“No potatoes in
this section of the country for sale.”

C. ., Grant:---“Around here every
farmer seems to have from 200 to 40?
bushels of potatoes. A great many re-
fused to sell on account of grading.”

T S., Orion:-~“I would say that there
are ,not more than 25 per cent of last
years crop in_ the hands of the farmers
of the townships of Pontiac, Waterford.
Independence and Orion, and 25 per cent
of these are frozen in the pits and cel—
lars. The motor trucks from Detroit
came last fall and took them all. I
should think that there were 50 per cent
more on hand this year than last, for
last year there were practically no pota~
toes here."

I am enclosing a few gleanings, just
as they are. being discussed by the farm—
ers while Sitting warming their shins at
the country stores in Alcona C0,: Says
farmer No. 1: “My potatoes were nearly
all frozen last night.” Says farmer No. 2:
“Mine also got touched by frost, but I had
a lantern and pail * water in the cellar,
which I think saved quite a quantity of
If I hadn’t taken this precaution
I am sure I would have lost heavily.”
. general topic at present,
and I believe that at least 25 per cent of
the potatoes in root houses and cellars
have been frozen during the cold weather.

. When the Potato Growers’ Ass’n meets

at Lansing on March 7th and 8th, they

: will have at least 25 per cent less pota—
, toes to find a market for.

From the
very commencement the estimates of both
State were 20
per cent in excess of the real supply, and
also there is a large amount of small

, potatoes, which is proof that although the

acreage might have been more the crop

. of marketable potatoes was much less,

and in the spring when root houses and
cellars are opened up I think you will
find that a very large per cent of the
cro that was not marketed will be found
to e frozen. Also these potatoes that
were raised in the small patches in the
cities and towns which were stored in
cellars, will be found to be frozen and it
will be up to the farmers and the potato

 
  

  

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11y bring'from $1.75 mica-per
J. B., Alcona county, . - .‘

 

 

(Continued from page 10)

as they refuse to buy unless they can
ship promptly. The farmers of Maine
have been told over and over again
that there was a surplus of fully 40,-
000,000 of potatoes in the U. S. this
season. Last spring seed potatoes
were worth $5 a barrel, fertilizer $50
per ton and farm labor so high and un-
satisfactory that the 1917 crop with a
favorable season would have been an
expensive one. Added to all of these,
such a season as the summer of 1917
and you have the most expensive po-
tato crop in a century. ~

If the Government would guarantee
the farmer a fair profit on his invest-
ment, labor, etc, they would put their
hands to the plow, and, season per—
mitting, raise a bumper crop of pota-
toes for 1918. But with no guaranv
tee from the government and farm
labor depleted by the army draft, and
also the thousands of men who are
getting large salaries working eight
or nine hours for some corporation
that is making enormous profits out of
the war, the farmer has very little
courage to try and raise anything
more than they can care for them-
selves.——W. H. Smith.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO
MICHIGAN’S PEA BEAN?

(Continued from page 1)
of the two varieties, notwithstanding.

Somebody seems almighty anxious
to give the eastern navy bean a black
eye and curry favor for the western
variety. Of course, we have our sus-
picions, and we imagine that there are
others in Michigan who have similar
suspicions. We can’t believe that the
bean jobbers of this state are going
to sit supinely by while the bean di-
vision at Washington uses the govern-
ment’s franking privilege to extol the
merits of the pinto over the Michigan
variety. It does not add to the popu-
larity or the demand for the Michigan
bean when the government publicly
proclaims it a luxury, and urges people
to buy pintos in preference and at a
much lower price.

’Tis a matter that the dealers and
the growers of Michigan should have
something to say about, and unless we
miss our guess they’ll be asking the
bean division for an explanation.

WE’LL MEET YOU AT
EAST LANSING MAR. 7-8

(Continued from page 1)
uniform and desirable grade.

And now, farmer friends, we want
you to accept Mr. Buell’s invitation
and come to Lansing on March 7th and
8th. Already word has been received
that a large delegation of Montcalm
county growers will be present, and
on February 26th the potato growers
of Benzie county will hold a mass
meeting at Beulah for the purpose of
electing a committee to attend. Scores
of letters have also been received from
individual growers stating that they
would he on deck. and we anticipate
one of the biggest turnouts of the year.
The time is short; immediate action is
imperative. Every Gleaner arbor. ev-
ery’ local Grange and Farmers’ Club,
or‘ other farm organization should at
once call a meeting of the potato grow-
ers in their localities and choose as
large a delegation as possible to attend
the East Lansing convention. In
numbers there is strength, and if we
can have two or three hundred potato
growers present, they may rest assured
that hteir wishes will go a long ways
in settling the grading proposition for
the entire United States. Neglect this
opportunity to present your views
upon this important subject and you
will have no license to complain.

MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING will
have headquarters at one of the Lan-
sing hotels and plans on calling a
meeting of the growers who arrive
early upon the scene, preliminary to
the meeting at the college. We want
to have as many present as possible
to decide upon some line of action.
Write us at once if you can be present,
so that we may keep you advised of
the hour of the meeting and other de-
tails.

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How and When to Apply
Limestone.

There is a perfect way to bundleapplica-
tions of ground limestone. The trouble with
perfection is that it depends upon a hundred
things that can happen "to upset well-laid
plans—first on the farm, then upon all sorts
of delays that can hold up shipments nowa-
days, and lastly on fair weather, that most
uncertain of all.

You can avoid most of these pitfalls if you
have a place to Store '

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LIMESTONE

on the farm. You can pack it in grain sacks at
the car or order in paper sacks, and this extra
cost will be readily repaid by the benefits of
applying exactly when you and the soil are
ready for it.

The funny part of it is that all the general
rules can be broken and limestone may still
show wonderful results—which indicates how
frequently the soil badly needs it.

But remember first that the labor cost, yours, your
hired men and your teams, is the largest item in the
whole operation. Therefore, always ask for the percent-
age of water, of carbonates and of fine particles in the
product you buy. Labor spent on handling coarse in—
soluble particles, or water, or on insoluble minerals, is
entirely wasted. Choose a season when roads and fields
are hard and, if possible, when work for horses and men
is slack. Never apply until after plowing. .

If you are buying in bulk have your wagon boxes
tight, and if you have not enough labor or horses to un..
load a car in two days order two cars with a neighbor and
work together on each one as they arrive a week apart.

    
  

 
    

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Use a lime spreader—they only cost forty dollars—
thcy save labor and spread evenly. Don’t apply on soil
that is too wet. Cultivate in after application—these
two things because you want to sweeten every tiny soil
particle and thorough mixture is necessary for that.

BUT—if you have determined that your soil is acid—
get limestone on it the best way possible—but get it on
when you have the money to pay for it and when you
can get the most money for the extra tonnage it will pro-
duce. That’s the first rule of economy.

SOLVAY PROCESS CO.
14 582W Jefferson Ave., DETROIT, MICH.

   

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you better silage

Vitrified tile—theideal silo material
-—lasts for generations. No upkeep

“ cost—no painting-no hoops to tighten.
Write for catalog.

IlV' ‘f‘ d "1"] Si] '
itri 1e 1 e o '
—With the "ship lap” blocks. Ends overlap-add.
, strength. Notches in ends prevent mortar from slip- .
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Dean 31 7 . Lansing, Mich.
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NOVV IS THE TIME to buy .
FARMER your Seed Corn and Beans BEA SEEP; 10g) Del" cent
while it can be gotten. No. 1 Seed Tested puri 3' amp 8 and.

price on request.
Mayer’s Plant Nursery. Merrill, Mich.

Registered Holsteins—

or eBulls ready for service,

and bull calves from 30

lbs. bull and A. R. O. dams; also females.
of all ages,

Wm. Griffin, Howell, Mich, R. No. 5.

to grow. Send 3 cent stamp for prices."
Ionia, Mich, R. No: 5. Box No. 127.

 

 

FOR sALE FRANCIS Fall - bearing

. Strawberry plants $1.50 per
100: $10.00 per 1,000. W, F. Tind‘ail,
Boyne City, Mich.

 

 

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