The Independent Farm, Live Stock and Market Weekly

Vol. V - No. 27

WORLD FACES FAMINE,
SAYS L0_R_D RHONDDA

British Food Controller Issues Warning and
Emphasizes Need of Increased Production
if the World is to be Spared
From Hunger

 

“The food wanted by mankind does not exist. The
word SHORTAGE is not strong enough for the situ-
ation. To put the matter bluntly, the whole world is
up against a nasty thing, familiar to the people of
India, called FAMINE."——Lonn RHONDDA, British Food
Controller.

 

Thus reads a bulletin sent out a few days ago by

the United States Food Administration, without com— ,

ment.

Are these mere words, or does Lord Rhondda, who
is probably without exception the best posted food
authority in the world today, actually believe that
only a few brief months stand between the nations
of the earth and starvation?

The hint of this thing has been contained in every
government bulletin issued during the past several
months, and it will be remembered that Prof. Schur-
man of Cornell University sounded the same warn-
' ing in an addreSS to New York farmers about a
fortnight-ago. There has been an insistent cry for
increased production from the very day this nation
entered the war, but very few farmers, farm publi-
cations or farm organizations could believe that the
situation was anywhere near as acute as Lord Rhond-
da’s short, ugly words would indicate.

And why? Because those in authority who have
sounded the warnings have absolutely failed to fol-
low them up with a single practical plan for help-
ing the farmers to produce the food needed to pre-
vent a famine.

If the world faces famine and those in authority
, know it, then why hasn’t there been ACTION to

PREVENT it?

If the world faces famine, why is there a maxi-
‘ mum price on wheat which allows so narrow a mar-
, gin of profit that it has discouraged the planting of
. this vital essential?

If the world faces famine, why has not the Amer-
ican farmer been provided with capital, immediate
capital, ample capital with which to finance his un-
dertaking?

If the world faces famine, why has the Food Admin-
istration put into effect a grading rule on potatoes
which parayzed the movement of that crop last fall,
and which is entirely responsible for the tens of
thousands of tons of potatoes that have been frozen
in pits and cellars, or fed to the live stock? A rule

SATURDAY, MARCH 9th, 1918.

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WHAT EXPERIENCE DO YOU HAVE IN BOR-
BOWING MONEY?

A farmer recently sent us a. promissory note
which he had given to a. certain bank up-state,
showing that the bank had charged him a bonus
of $5 for a loan of $60 for seven months. The bank
had included the $5 bonus on the face of the note,
and had then charged the farmer seven per cent
on the whole thing! Usury, pure and simple!
Contrary to the laws of the state of Michigan.

We want to know what experiences our farmer
friends are having this year in borrowing money.
Is it difficult to get? What interest do you pay?
Will your local dealers take your note for machin-
ery. tools, fertilizer, eta? Every property owner
has borrowed money at some time or other. Tell
us about it. Your name will be held in strict con-
fidence if you so desire. We want to find out just
exactiy what the farmers are up against in this
respect.

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that has cost the farmers of Michigan a million dol-
lars and will force them to cut their 1918 acreage
almost in two.

If the world faces famine how do we explain the
wholesale drafting of farm helpers into the national
army, crippling the farm factories and curtailing
production?

If the‘world faces famine, why is the machinery
of ifood production subjected to all kinds of arbi-
trary regulations, price control, labor shortage and
kindred handicaps which cause friction and destroy
the efficiency of the machine?

No, no, Lord Rhondda must be mistaken. There
may be a little Shortage, but—hunger and famine,—
preposterous!

If the world faces famine today, the governments
of the world should have sensed its coming six months
ago, in which event they would have taken steps to
ward off the disaster... Abundant capital would have
been provided to finance the farm factories; min-
imum prices, flexible enough and high enough would
have been guaranteed so that every farmer might be
reasonably sure of a profit; there would have been
no regulations to hamper the movement of agricul-
ture; and not a single farm hand would have been
drafted into military service.

The world facing famine? It cannot be true,—
and yet, Lord Rhondda ought to know.

LOWER MILK PRICE IN THE
DETROIT AREA APRIL FIRST

Detroit milk consumers are preparing for a novel
departure from a hard and fast rule of many years
standing. Beginning April lst, the price of milk
will be’DECREASED from 14 to 13 cents per quart
and from 8 to 7 cents per pint. Oh, no, this con—
cession isn’t one entirely made by the Detroit deal-
ers,—far from it. Approximately eleven-twelfths of
this decrease comes out of the pockets of the pro-

(Gontinued on page 16)

$1 PEBYEAB.-1N0Premlum|,
Free List or Clubbing Ullorl

FARMERS STILL HOLD
MANY WET BEANS

State Bean Authority Estimates That Nearly
a Million Bushels of Wet and Frozen '
Stock Still in Growers’ Hands and
in Danger of Spoiling

Three quarters of a million bushels of beans still
remain in the hands of the farmers, not including
large quantities which have not been thrashed, and
which on account of their condition never will be,
according to F. E. Lewellyn, of the Lewellyn Bean
Company of Grand Rapids. Of those in sight, he es-
timates that nearly 60% are damp or frosted.

The gravity of the Michigan bean situation is real-
ized by all who have been in close touch with the
situation. As recently as a fortnight ago, the bean-
division at Washington communicated with M1011—
IGAN BUSINESS FARMING and asked this publication it
it could make any constructive suggestions as to how
best the Food Administration could assist in util-
izing the balance of the crop still in the growers’
hands and saving them for human consumption.
What could we say, with warm weather less than
thirty days away? What machinery could be got
in motion during that short period of time to do any
material good? The time to have planned for the
saving of these beans was right after harvest when
the entire winter lay before us, and not on the verge
of spring.

Several causes have contributed to aggravate the
situation. In the first place, the Food Administra-
tion attempted to set a price on Michigan beans, and
during the normal marketing season kept the grow-
ers and dealers on the anxious seat by the threat
that the government might commandeer Michigan
beans for the use of the army and navy. Of course,
this discouraged all trading, and was responsible
for holding back many beans which might otherwise
have gone onto the market earlier in the season.

One of the first men in Michigan to appreciate the
real gravity of the bean situation was Edward Frens-
dorf, acting warden of Jackson state prison, and his
efforts to induce the Food Administration and Mich-
igan War Preparedness board to lend their aid in
saving these beans, is now history. Altho the state
legislature voted the sale of five million dollars worth
of bonds to create a war fund for just such emer-
gencies as this, for some reason or other, it flatly
refused to use any of these funds to equip state in-
stitutions to can or dry these beans, and if it is a
fact that hundreds of thousands of bushels yet remain
in the growers’ hands because of the lack of canning
or drying facilities, someone has got something to‘
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' THE FARMERS OF MICHIGAN ‘ can be utilized. Five or Six poundsvot‘ seed will assist the farmers by sending men to the farms”.
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WOULD GROW SORGHUM AGAIN plant an acre, maklng seed for a few acres 3 Ever loya eltlzen of. Gladwm who w1shes t
small 1tem. work on farms whenever they‘can find the time
Accor din to th Be 1 din B th f MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING has, already had are registering. Many business and professional
of Ionia cog t e g anner e ”armers several requests forthe names of firms who can men have pledged themselves to assist farmers
. un Y are ShOWMS a renewed Interest supply this seed, and .our investigations along this in times of pressing need by going themselves to
1n sorg-humgrowing. A few years ago sorghum \ line have disclosed the facts that the seed is very the farms for a certain number of hours each day.
wasralsed ln more or less abundance in various scarce this year and difficult to get. Ewart—The milk condensary,, destroyed by fire
SBCthDs of. the states but the increased produc- If any of our readers are interested in the 0013- on the morning of January 4, is to be rebullt at
non of sugar beets materially lessened the demand mercial growing of sorghum, we shall be glad once. The insurance has been adjusted, and plans
for sorghum syrups, and the industry gradually upon request to secure all information DOSSible for aniodern, fireproof bulldtlng aretfilownzgvadyléglt‘
declined. The present shortage of sugars of all regarding the kind of soil required for the crop, the workmen. The capacli ° 3 t old by
kind b'd f ' ' th ation d'n a e nd harv ti W111 be much larger than t e one ‘ as my
s 1 S a” to establlsh a larger and perhaps e prepar ’ see 1 g’ C r a es ng, fire and will furnish an excellent market for
permanent demand for sorghum, and it is probable and the marketlng. milk to the rapidly developing dairying section
that many farmers W111 take up lts culture. Sorg- surrounding EVEH‘L .
hum Is a_ foreign plant to many people of Michi- Gladwm—The business men of Gladwin, un- Gaylord—The Gaylord-Mackinaw road “18151500:
gan. It Is specms of millet, but grows more like like those of. many other places, are going to offer be a promlnfnt thogoughfal'lea mggggesegecegfy
corn. The leaves are Slmllar to corn and it has the farmers something besides advice in meeting of nine fgunigeficatfotr 9th agegv route The route
a tendency to succor. The seeds grow in a clus- the coming labor emergency. An organization Xepgrinof 11:19 SDetroit toeMackinaW t6“, which is
ter at the. top and resemble broom corn, except called the Business Men’s and Farmers’ Emer- being pushed by various interests in the state.
the head 1s shorter. The seed makes excellent gency club which recently had its advent here The route has many seenic attractions, and passes
goufltgé' feedf , and the leaves cannot be surpassed will do a great deal towards solving some of the through several important towns, and skirts a
S 0 or or COWS- Hence every part Of the plant problems. The avowed object of. the club is to number of lakes.
REPORTS FROM FARMERS ON 1917 AND 1918 ACREAGE AND LIVE STOCK PRODUCTION. SEND YOURS TODAY
Wheat Corn Oats Bye Beans Potatoes Hay S. Beets Cattle Hogs ,
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164161111.- SltDate Sanatorlum, Howell. 60 30 "“ ’—" 7*‘1 ' 10 1'21 38 28 ' 55 50 cerium ..t Howell will also raise
L: A Beater, Isabella ........ ‘ 15 10 8 10 2 18 3 10 12 14 9 9 38 acres of alfalfa, 25 acres of
Bert 'M lowen, Isabella """" 7 1% 10 15 10 17 19 - 19 1 17 20 7 17 11 18 buckwheat, 25 acres of garéen
W R %1nger,nl(1}ratlot ....... . 25 50 18 30 10 7 20 40 1/2 2 40 25 15 15 2 120 and small fruits; all showmg
Delos. G nyatrrt. hecosta ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' 4 8 24 4 18 ‘10 8 12 7 14 30 6 12 3 3 increase over last year.
W J C11 hug} t' Clare 10 4 8 8 6 1% 14 6 18 32 1 1 19 12 12 29 1 11 Moslck o. L.-—I think farm-
J .B. Kigrgn, Grand Traverse . . 8 8 8 8 30 8 4 8 16 20 28 4 5 1 ers shoul'd circulate petitions in
A J. Wis: 1'4 gemaw ....... . 6 4 4 8 7 7 1 1k 1% % 12 19 1 11 12 10 10 the state to discourage county
E E- Eaenpsrwsm 13 32 2; 12 12 25 1% 3 ’6 s 6 =6 16 2° 1; 2% ...... ...... M- ... C-
- , ....... 12 12 15 ' 5 standing 0“
£15111 tgflesgamore. Jkrenac .. .. .. 8 5 25 6 -3 5 3 21A» 1 37 10 8 3 1 1 ggisilfie goriferggfent grading of
Jesse Ijoderrr-lplg'a ient .. . . . . . . § 7 5 5 20 25 15 10 33 28 10 20 37 33 1 5 5 1 6 potatoes.
Geo H Brown gArlllw ” """ _ 8 10 9 5 - 10 1/2 1/3 5 8 1 2 2 6 13 Marion D. .L———Wheat went
Jose h 'J Y (i, egan .. .. .. 5 10 15 14 9 101 g 6 3 25 19 7 9 1 18 26 bu to'the acre last year and
Date}; M. 01 er, Ne“ aygo . .. . 8| 7% 13 /2 9 7 43/| 1 61/2 19 20 12 9 9 7 is looking very good this year.
Aaron Jgfi‘ggflel, 1111432122112 """ 1g 8 1g 12 10 5 11 16 Z 113 12 f3 1 6' 13 1 g Potatoes 50 bu. to the acre last
sienna: OEEEEE .. -~: ::: .3 u 12 .1 E 6 4 n 16 E ' 1l 1° 7 EW' 6.15.61: 22’.-
Ierrn‘arA 11?. Weber, Midland 18 1o 14 5 14 11 5 12 20 18 . 1 1 3 7 3 12 leanseg‘en '
4:011? Hart rfigggrl, VanBuren . . 141,4 8 1(5) 111/?) 11% 13 1 1 1 2(5) 23 1 1| 9 9 0 aSRoZebnSh J E S—My land
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1t121v12. Sml—th, Lapeer ..... 8 8 16 18 1% 9 1% 8 1,5 8 1 1 10 10 is mostly :1: ”fig‘gfihe $335,
1.3. 8.1355011, Ingham .. .. 5 10 13 16 14 5 8 1 1 19 10 6 81 8 21 blank was t ‘3“ ever published
15; E 2286. sagasrltle-WW- l E Elm/9 12 14 7 4 31/3 31/8 3 3 ll 11 ' ll 13‘ 3 6 22121:???
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$0011; $121152??qu Eaton .. .. 8 8 14131/2 71/2 10 6 7, 1 1 17 20: 1 1 8 9 7 9 Sheridan. 8- 5053;31:023ng
lVIrs F V W'flgmatW K11. ‘ ' 10 16 18 18 18 23 18 4 1/4' 1A" 20 181 15 15 40 40 put In 20 acae radels3 would be
F .N C .0 lmo, a (asl<a.. 4,5 8 8 8 7 4 1 5 8 20 2‘2: 1 I 10 11 10 10 the prices ansfg t _1 to the
s" (5 L613 flefnntial-Xfi - - -- 5 15 16 15 15 10 13 21 1311 I 3 1 1 3 arranged 18am 330 3f; yune who
3' E. Small lab 11 ...... 8 6 2 8 10 6 71 5 13 13 3 7 12 161 | 5 .5 1 7 farmer. n11: n t the one who
D- J. 0' 51 e a 8 5 10 12 12 101 1 8 1/4 1/2 12 8 does'the wor , no (1 do s his
F. Aonses, sceovg .. .. 9 2% 9 7 12 71 1 3 5 2 2 21 28 1 | 12 12” 1 17 s1ts m the office an e -
0‘ L“ W375 " 12 3- 12 6 27 2 1° .01; i 12 .3 s 10' 2 12. l W65 “'12.: 6:. E v E-
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{I}.hW.FB2(1:lf0111r & Son, St. Clair.. 20 20 20 23 23 14 5 2 1 1/2 1,4 32 32 1 23 1911 4 2 Can't plant more potaitoes 03
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_ VI tta F . 1 1 (1' Kus egon ...... 5 41 4 4‘1/2 15 5 9 9 1 1 16 12 1 8 101 2 1 hlgh cost of all materla 13). t o '11
: :Na ‘r YES 3:11 , ent‘ .......... 21 16 10 10 17 13 10 16 4 5 25 23 11 171 1711 7H 5 know about beans ye‘.‘ u W] ‘
E 011010. .Mmlth, Mecosta .. .. .. 4 12 7 14 4 5 5 14 2 5 10 8 1 11 81 511 probably not plant as many as
. reassess: 8 8 12 12 Ii 23' l l: .2 1 12 l 1:. 611 l l Ere” E s B ..
- . - , 10 more, . . -—,
g 3717'}? $111311}, St Joseph .. 1 1 4 5 1 1 15 1/2 1/2 1 1] farmers going to put m less
2 J . ., vngston ...... . .. 10 28 10 28 25 8 10 15 12 1 24 20 25 2511 30 10 potatoes, othersabout the same.
E— 1:111 32. lgfu’vm. Muskegon 9 5 15 15 15 10 4 8 25 1 3 37 43 1 25 251 » 8 20 Everybody klckmg on the grad—
:5. J mE s. Ksoni1 Cheboygan . 5 15 15 15 9. 5 1 4 12 8 25 301 3 2 mg rules. I have
E (‘- l.L Eb $100 ,EMontcalm 20 20 10 11 25 30 7 10 18 14 I 1 3 5 2 3 Dansville, C. M. Afl— rin ’
s 11211 E Held? m’gefi -~ ~ -- 3 7 5 1 817. 294 3 1 1% 16 14 9 7 1 1 two sowS to fan” t lsistsag :5;
i: 1v . . a stun llnton 23 16 18 15 12 18 1 1 1 16 12 1 11 9 4 4 Not many potatoes ra .
é alter F. Crawford, Montcalm 16% 21 2% 71,6 (51/, (31/, 73/, 8 8 1 1 12% 8 1,4 1/ 4 2 2 1 market here. The general 0pm-
5 L. J. Johnson, Manlstee. .. 16 15 12 12 5 5 10 7 7 35 38 22 23 3 4 ion is a much smaller acreage
E A; 11 Cleveland, St. Clair ...... 40 5 15 10 30 15 25 12 5 50 40 20 10 3 of beans. . Sh' 11
E .\-. I11; Higgms & Sons. Ionia 10 17 13 10 25 7 8 15 1 2 24 21 17 27 2 9 IMLAY CITY, _C. A. 8.~ d
2 l3. 1. Klnney, Ingham .. 35 2 40 30 30 20 ,45 5 20 40 101 5 40 20 17 15 5 4 0‘“ out Dommes ‘f pmSpeCts 111
3 Carl (1. Marschner, Otsego 2 2 5 9 12 8 6 2 7 25 18 2 6 3 11 not show a. market that W
E Bell Richards, Wexford .. 4174 10 14 8 1,5 1,4 2 8_ 40 40 10 10 1 2 any and raise grain of 501136
E Ed\‘%l‘dKEmery. Allegan .. .. 12 14 15 18 14 12 1 1 15 15 5 5 4° 2° kind- Have ”Otatoeb Unchan '
3 (3‘1, 'R nsox, Wexford ........ 7 7 6 3 1% 1% 2 5% V4. 1 11 6 2 8 5 1 1 can’t get anyone to any 5Tb
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g q. S. Wllson, Ingllam .. .. 31 221 24 30 38 23 8 32 2 2 40 28 81 1 21 24 9 17 peaches and a few Pears» plums
E Edward‘ Knaup, Ingham . . . . . . 6174 .10 81/2 10 22 14 8% 8 1 154 17 24 4 11 20 and cherries. ‘YVe ve enlisted
g 14. STVVlft, Montcalm . . 10 20 10 35 7 6 14 12 2 12 26 18 12 23 1 10 for the war as farm soldlers
E Q G. Vi eeks, Ionla 1 10 25 20 30 19 14 3O 2 1% 30 24 11 10 10 24 and expect to be on thesob to
E l‘almer Blgler, Montcal \ . 4 8 7 7 4 5 10 5 4 2 5 16 15 fl 9 91 21 2 make democracy safe 111 the
2 (5630.1 Lgttenbaiéher. Sag naw ‘1) 71 2 1'; 12 12 5 8 g 33/4 176 22 25 1g) 13 g g world. AlflighItI to‘vtheLgrsltShyear
E . 1. \C(‘(, ason . ........ . 0 5 5 5 20 10 Alamo, - - -‘—‘
3 Ben .7. Marshall. Pres 6 Isle . 7 1 8 7 5 22 1/21 3 7 7 I 4 ‘ 9 I was positive. even hired 2“
E “1.1., Horton. Wexfo d 8 811 5 8 12 8 3 2 7 5 11 35 40 1 Same as last year acres of land for $300 cash
g llvmg B. Dams. Bay .. . 11 5 5 11 13 11 10 111 1/2 10 7 1 7’ 1011 4 10 rent to help Uncle. Sam. From
; Martlll Anderson. Tuscola 81 10 10 18 15 1 8 15 8 8 20 20 18 18 15 35 all reports the middleman got
g T7. 1). Hanson,“ Mot‘osta . . 5 16 18 16 24 4 5 5% 6 6 35 24 1 25 2011 8 10 the benefit of my laborlng early
E S. E. Hopklns, tlralld Traverse” 5 4% 4%) 7|» 2 2 l 2 10 6 4 211 4 1 and late and SundayS- Have
g A. 11., Mocosta .. .. ........ 6 10 15 10 6 23 18 10 3 5 1 18 15 1 12 811 12 9 about 1000 bus. of No. 1 pots.-
g A. R. Bemamln. Mason .. 8 4 8 5 2 1% 2 11/, 14 9 1 11 311 2 2 toes. Last year at this tlme I
5 Fred J. Reeves, Ionla ...... 10 9 14 8 10 18 10 18 30 8 161 10 10 1 1 81 8” 20 10 had 350 bu. There are a few
5 John Mueller, Saglnaw .. 5 15 13 16 14 5 3 7 17/2 1/211 14 211 2 2 1 9. 7: . 8 more here than a year ago.
:2 Roy S. Moody, Osceola 8 1 12 8 18 17 5 51 10 10 5 5 23 25! 11 51 1.511 2 2 St. Charles. J. L. The pota-
E Hiram Vannetter. Kalkaska 4 1 121 6 4 8 20 151 3 3 9 12 71 11 1 11 2 1 es that were held arm d here
2 Jose Lake Frmt Farm. Ogemaw.. 1 101 61 5 3 6 2 I 2 31 2 5 5 31 11 51 311 12 16 were half frozen so the e wi)!
g— E. 1W. Newark: Allegan . 1 151 10 27 25 1 14 221 1A2 1/2 I H 21 211 1 be but a few for. sale here. The
g P. W. S. Toma .. .. ........ 1 321 411 301 53 18 25 91 1‘ 2% 11 10, Same llve stock bean acreagawfll be cut down
3 S H .Slagle. Wexford ........ 1 41 l 41 4 4 1 31 11 1/21. 1 2174 151 81 || 11 7 about halt this year.
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;- ‘ _' WASHmo'rON, D. , c.——wom '
comes tram Russia that American ‘

. . Ambassador Francis has taken re-

. . fuge as Vologda, 375 miles east of
Petrograd, where he awaits the culmination of the
impending struggle between the invading Ger-
mans and the Bolsheviki. The Germans have
been reported within less than five hours ride
from the Russian capitol, and allfifactions are
rallying about the Bolshevik flag to repel them.
Lenine and Trotsky, who formulated a separate
peacexwith Germany and Austria to meet the
popular demand, now admit the folly of such a
course, and since their plan of arousing the
proletariat of those two countries to rise in
revolution has failed, they are forced to renew
fighting if Russia is to be spared the‘fate of
Poland and Belgium. Ambassador Francis’ decis—
ion t0° remain so near the theater of the struggle
is looked upon as a comforting sign that he does
not believe Germany will succeed in her effort
to over-run Russia. The new menace which Ger-
many presents to Russia may be the very thing
needed to bring the Bolsheviki back to earth
and inspire them to save Russia first from. her
outside enemies and postpone the inner salvation
until the German danger has. been effectively re-
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The President is preparing an answer to the
German councilor’s latest peace “feeler,” which
is expected to be the hottest arraignment of Ger-
man militarism the President has uttered. Count
Hertling’s attempt to draw a comparison between
the British and American alms wj,lrthose of Ger-
many’s has aroused within the President a deep
resentment. However, von Hertling has asked
some very pertinent questions which must be an-
swered completely. Mr. Balfour, Britain’s secre-
tary of state, believes that all peace discussions
should be taboo until Germany is defeated, and
he cannot subscribe to President Wilson’s repeated
attempts to draw forth from Germany a clear
definition of its war, aims. In Balfour’s opinion
no peace proposal that Germany might make could
be depended upon, and that consequently further
parleys are not only useless but weakening to
the morale of the allied countries. Fortunately,
the President has his own views on this matter
and will continue to make all honorable efforts
possible to hasten the blessed day of peace.

* it III

Equal suffrage last week added another strong
champ-ion to its constantlyincreasing ranks in
the person of Senator Gallinger of New Hamp-
shire, t-he Republican senate leader, who openl,r
announced himself in favor of the measure [now
pending before the senate and which has already
passed the House. He told the senate he hoped
the bill would pass. Senator Gallinger is one of
those politicians who maintains a discreet silence
upon measures‘of this kind until popular opinion
has given them its approval.

* It *

Congress would employ the most drastic meas-
ures in detecting and punishing German sympa-
thizers and agents who destroy or attempt to
destroy munitions or supplies of war. A bill that
has just been reported out of the house judiciary
committee provides a penalty of a $10,000 fine or
thirty years’ imprisonment, or both, for the dos-
truction of arms, ammunition, food supplies, or
the burning or dynamiting of war factories, mines,
machinery, bridges, docks and vessels.

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The railroad bill as finally passed by the house
gives President Wilson unlimited power to fix
freight and passenger rates, and extends the
time of government control until two years after
the close of the war. The senate amended its
previous action in determining that control should
end with the war by extending the time limit to
eighteen months. The bill now goes to confer-
ence between committees of the two legislative
branches.

* =3 It

American ingenuity will be put to a severe test
when the “non-sinkable” ship, “Lucia” leaves the
port of New York this week to bid defiance to the
German submarines. Little is known by the pub-
lic of the method that has been employed to make
the “Lucia” impregnable to the submarine’s tor-
pedo, but her sponsors fearlessly claim that she
will make the journey safely and successfully foil
any efforts made by the enemy to sink her.

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Mr. Hoover has modified his ban on meats by
temporarily suspending his meatless meal and
porkless Saturday order. Increased meat produc-
tion and the necessity for still greater saving in
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The Government has taken summary action against
mismanaged shipyards. Twenty - four steel ship
contracts have been cancelled. Inspection of ship-
yards is now being made within a View to commander
and place them under government control.

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During the last four weeks the United States has
run ahead of England in the war savings drive by
thrift stamps, England selling $37,000,000 of them.
against $40,000,000 by the United States. The total
American savings are now in exceSs of $70,000,000 and
are coming in at the rate of 2,000,000 a day. ~

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The Russian situation continues to hold the center
of the stage in the world war drama. Latest advices
state that Ambassador Francis, together with the
French and British embassies, has left Petrograd.
and as an indication that conditios there after
the departure of the Ambasador and staff, has also
left the capital. So far as is known at this time
the Germans still continue their advance on Petrograd.
Austria has refused to join the present offensive. dc—
claring a. sort of neutrality, which is taken to indi-
eats a difference of opinion between the Berlin and
Vienna governments, and that Austria is tired of the
war and does not wish to again arouse Russian sen-
timent against her. Many authortities contend that
this attitude on the part of Austria will compel
Germany to abandon the present offensive in Russia.

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America and the entente allies are now seriously
considering joining Japan in a. campaign in eastern
Siberia to counteract German activities there, The
main object is to save the vast supply of military
stores at Vladivostock and along the Siberian railway.
Should America decide to join in this movement troops
would be dispatched from the Philpihine Islands
and the Pacific coast. Japan is anxious to co-op-
crate with the allies and only awaits the word to begin
operations.

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American troops are being constantly transported
to France and the number now there, while no pos-
tive figures are available, much greater than is gen-
erally suppossed. American artillery forces are now
operating with the Italian armies in Italy, and many
American big guns are now in action on that front.
Receipt of this information has caused considerable
surprise as it was not generally known that an Amer-
ican expeditionary force had been sent to Italy.

a: * a:

An official note announcing that Roumania has de-
cided to enter into peace negotiations with the cen-
tral powers declares reports that Roumania would
accept peace at any price are unfounded. The gov—
ernment, it is added, will only enter into negotia-
tions it assured that they will be conducted on a
basis acceptable in every way.‘

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Reports have been received of an action between
American troops and Germans in the salient north
of Toul, during which the. fighting was the most seri-
ous of any so far participated in by the expedition-
ary forces. The German attack was a complete fail-
ure and after their withdrawal the ground on before
the American trenches was strewn with German
dead. There were also severe losses among the
Americans, 21 list of dead not being available at this
time. The attack was launched during a storm of
driving wet snow. The Germans opened the attack
by loosing great quantities of gas, followed by heavy
artillery fire. Then came the attacking party and
a desperate hand—to—hand conflict ensued. In this
fight, as in all others since the one which occurred
the first night the. Americans were in the trenches,
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WASHINGTON, D. C.—Exports 'of important
foodstufls, including wheat, corn and pork, showed
a marked decrease for the seven months ended
Jan. 31, 1918, over the period the year before, fig-
ures issued today by the bureau of foreign and
domestic commerce show. Export of beef pro-
ducts and oats increased during the same period.
Exports of wheat fell from 90,166,662 to 29,538,826
bushels; pork shipments decreased from 871,078,-
192 pounds to 551,384,376 ponuds, and corn ex-
ports from 32,269,707 to 14,417,728 bushels. Flour
exports increased from 6,960,986 to 10,144,494
barrels, and feed products exports increased from
148,185,742 to 191,551,886 pound-s. Oats gained
from 54,931,735 to 65,164,474 bushels? The total
value of all breadstuffs exported for the seven
months was $311,797,743, as against $291,480,773
the year before. Meat and dairy products in-
creased from $190,035,557 to $218,607,573. Exports
of cotton and cotton seed oil also decreased, as
well as crude oil and gasoline.

CHICAGO—W. F, Priebe, head of the poultry
and egg division of the Hoover food board and
H. B. Collins, assistant chief of the division of
(to-ordination of purchases for Mr. Hoover, have
been revealed by Francis J. Heney, special fede-
ral investigator who is examining the files of
Chicago's huge packing firms, as “dollar-a-year-
men” for the government and at the same time
so-called “$10,000-a—year~m-en” on Swift & co.
payrolls. '

It is believed 'that a closer scrutiny of the per-
sonnel of the food administration would reveal
many more “dollar-a-year” men receiving retain-
ers from corporations who expect to profit by
their hirelings’ presence in Washington.

It is predicted there will be a house-cleaning
in the food administration in the near future

’when aspiring politicians and graftcrs will make

way for men more representative of the people
and more careful of their interests.

FRENCH BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY
HAS BEEN GREATLY CURTAILED

 

Information secured by the U. S. Food Admin-
istration on the beet sugar industry of France in-
cludes these important facts. In 1914 the battle
line eliminated from French possession 203 of the
213 factories and a large proportion of them are
still in the possession of the Germans. Last year
not more than one-fourth as much sugar was
produced as before the war. The yield of sugar
per ton of beets shows a slight falling off since
the war began, which maybe due to shortage of
both labor and fertilizers.

This serious decline in sugar production of
France largely explains her dependance on im-
ports and the necessity for the United States to
share its normal supply with France.

THREE MILLION LESS SHEEP IN
UNITED STATES SINCE 1914

Sheep in the United States averaged more than
51, 600,000 head during the three years before
the war. but since 1914 have. gradually decreased
to less than 48, 500,000, a falling off of about a
million a year. These figures emphasize the need
for increased attention to sheep raising to meet
the demand for mutton and wool.

LESS BREAD INSTEAD OF
THE VICTORY WAR BREAD

Canada is faced with a wheat situation that
is even more difficult than the American problem.
After a careful survey of the needs for livestock.
Canada finds she has no surplus of grains gen-
erally used as wheat substitutes. There are not
sufficient supplies of barley, rye and oats in the
Dominion to justify a regulation compelling the
bakers to produce a mixed cereal bread. For
Canada, Victory must come through “less bread”
instead of “Victory bread”.

UNITED STATES URGES SUBSTI-
TUTES FOR'WHEAT MILL FEEDS

Present demands for wheat mill feeds exceed
the supply to such an extent that they can only
be partly filled during the present season. In
calling attention to this fact, the Food Admin-
istration recommends the use of other by-product
feeds such as rye feeds, barley feeds, oat feeds,
rice feeds, hominy feeds, gluten feed, linseed meal,

cottonseed meal, peanut meal, soy bean meal,
dried grains and molasses feeds. The by—product
feed mentioned are generally selling at lower

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THE NAMES OF THE MEMBERS OF
PRESIDENT, WILSON’S CABINET

Will you kindly’ give in the next issue of M.
B. F. the names of the officers in the President’s
cabinet?—Mtss Lena Button, 8th grade, South
Mabel School, Williamsburg.

The heads of all the executive departments
constitute the President’s cabinet. They are as
follows: ’ /

Secretary of State, Robert Lansing; Secretary
of the Treasury, William Gibbs McAdOO; Secre:
tary of War, Newton Diehl Baker; Attorney
General, Thomas Watt Gregory; Postmaster Gen-
eral, Albert Sidney Burleson; Secretary of the
Navy, Josephug Daniels; Secretary of the In-
terior, Franklin Knight Lane; Secretary Of Ag-
riculture, David Franklin Houston; Secretary of
Commerce, William Cox Redfield; Secretary of.
Labor, William Bauchop'Wilson -

Joseph P. Tumulty is secretary to President
Wilson.

WE HAVE SENT AN “S. O. S.” TO
R. R. M. OF INGHAM COUNTY

R. R. M. of Ingham county put his foot in it
when he wrote the M. B. F. a letter telling about
his tractor experience, and mentioned the car-
buretor he improvised to equip his tractor to
“eat” kerosene instead of gasoline. It seems as
if most everybody wants to buy a tractor now or
to equip their old tractor with a kerosene car-
buretor. At least a number of farmers have
asked for R. R. M.’s full name and address, and
if they ever get it, R. R. M. will have to get a pri-
vate secretary to care for the inquiries. Luckily
for R. R. M. he failed to sign his name to his
letter, so we can’t enlighten our subscribers as
to his identity and place of abode. But we are
sending this S. O. S. in hopes that R. R. M. will
see it and heed it, and permit us to send him the
names of his inquiring friends.

WANTED—A BOY TO WORK ON A
FARM AND GO TO SCHOOL

I am in need of a boy fourteen of fifteen years
of age, who would like to learn dairy farming. I
would expect him to attend school during school
year and would pay him wages during the sum-
mer. Must be a boy of good habits, no tobacco in
any form. It is about ten minutes walk to good
lZ-graded school, five minute walk to church and
Sunday school. I have a 180-acre farm and keep
about 15 cows. A good chance and a good home
for the right boy—Subscriber, Lake county.

Somewhere, there is undoubtedly a. boy who is
looking for just such an opportunity as this.
Will our readers help to find him?

WANTS TO KNOW HOW TO MAKE
SYRUP FROM SUGAR BEETS

I would like to see thru the columns of the M.
B. F. the method the Montcalm county subscriber
uses in making syrup from sugar beets which
was mentioned few weeks ago. B. J. M.. Onaway.

The editor will greatly appreciate the favor if
this Montcalm county subscriber or any other
reader who has made syrup from sugar beets will
kindly pass the information on to our Onaway
subscriber.

HERE IS A GOOD SUGGESTION
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Last week A. W. M., of Lyons wrote that, he

had several tracts of land suitable for sheep graz-
ing for sale.
acres to 3,200 acres, were all fenced with woven
wire fences and had good buildings. on them. The
communication was referred to Mr. W. P. Hart—
man, agricultural agent for the G. R. & I. R. R.
(70., who has been taking an active part in adver-
tising the merits of h/Iichigan cut-over lands for
sheep-grazing purposes and encouraging western
owners to bring their flocks to the state. Mr.
Hartman replied as follows:

There is a wide and very substantial interest
in the proposed sheep program. Our one im-
mediate problem is to get the sheep here from
the West. which requires capital, and I regret to
have to admit that we have been a bit slow in
getting independent capital interested in the prop-
osition. However, we are hopeful. The matter
of grazing land fenced, today is a mighty impor-
tant consideration. If you will write me or Mr.
Carton at Lansing perhaps something can be

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M. B. F. readers will recallthat several weeks
ago we published a communication from K. P.

Kimball, head of the bean division, of the U. 8.:

Food Administration, showing the costs of the

. several operations required in moving abushel

of beans from the farmer’s hands to a cdnsumer
living in Washington, D. ‘C._ For the benefit of
those who have since joined the M. B. F. ranks

we are reprinting the statement below:

Cost Of beans to grower ................ $11.00
Elevator expense and‘profit, about 10%. . . . 1;.10
Freight, 400 per cwt. ............ . . . . . . . . .40
Brokerage, 10c per cwt. ...... . . . . . . . . . . .10
Wholesale grocer’s profit, about 121/270. . . .- 1.55
Retailer, about 20% ................ . . . . . . 2.85
Total net selling price to consumer, cwt.. . 17.00

The example cited above does not show the
situation in its worst light, for investigation on
our part has shown that the majority of dealers
have been selling beans at 18c to 20c .per. pound,
which would make the profits of the agents em-
ployed in their distributiOn much larger still.
We asked Mr. Kimball if he thought the five dif-
ferent agents thru whose hands the beans passed
from farmer to consumer were necessary agents
or entitled to the toll exacted. Mr. Kimball's re-
ply to this follows:

“If you will refer to my original letter of the
24th, you will note that we did not justify in any
way any of the prices that were taken by the par-
ties in the case mentioned. We merely submit—
ted them to you showing the exact distribution
of profits from the grower to the consumer. So
far as the wholesale grocers’ 121/._.% is concerned,
the average percent of cost of doing business as
submitted up-to-date' to us runs in the neighbor-
hood of 10%, so that if a wholesale grocer took
121/2% his net profits would be about 2%% on
the transaction.

“The real meat of the matter is the question
Whether the wholesale grocer is an economical
necessity in the process of distribution; is the
elevator one, or is the broker or the retail grocer.
In other words, can the entire crop of the State
of Michigan be moved from the grower to the
c0nsumer through a smaller quantity of hands
and move in an economical way? I think that
the present war time is going to prove absolutely
whether or not any organization is an economical
If they cannot prove their worth in
the process of distribution, they are going to be
eliminated—United States Food Administration,
per K. P. Kimball.

KENT COUNTY AGRICULTURIST
MAKES REMARKABLE DISCOVERY

Please study carefully this cleverly worded state-
ment. I wonder how many farmers it will fool.
And from a “county agriculturist,” too. Look him
up. Yours for justice—F. M. 0., Stanwood. The
clipping follows:

“TEST IS FAVORABLE TO U. S. GRADING”

“Much complaint has been made by the farmers as
to the government grading of potatoes. The present
regulations require grading into No. 1 and No. 2, and
it has been claimed this is unfair to the growers.
County Agriculturist H. G. Smith made an experi—
ment with 1,000 pounds of potatoes on a farm in
northern Kent county a few days ago. The test turned
out 478 pounds of No. 1 which at $1 would be worth
$4.78, and 522 pounds of No. 2 which at 60 cents
would be worth $3.13, a total of $7.91. The same po—
tatoes were then run thru a one and a half inch
screen, which some of the growers claim would he bet-
ter, and this yielded 613 pounds of NO. 1 worth $6.13
and the balance were culls worth nothing. The gov-
ernment grading was $1.78 better than the plan fav-
ored by the growers.”—Grand Rapids Press, Feb. 28.

Historian, lay not down your pen until you
have inscribed the name of one H. G. Smith. coun-
ty agriculturist, upon the roll of honor. For has
not he solved the unsolvablc. attained the unattain-
able, and demonstrated to the whole world the fal-
sity of the theory that two plus two equals four.
According to the Smith hypothesis, two plus two

equals three, and here's the evidence to prove it.

Mr. Smith is one of those sapient mortals who
has long since forgotten all the modern farmer
knows about farming. He lives exclusively in the
realms of higher science. Among others, he thinks
farmers should grade their potatoes, and, by heck,
they don’t want any farmer gettin’ up in the
meeting'and Saying as how he won’t grade his
potatoes, either. Mr. Farmer’s got to grade his
potatoes whether he would or no, and Mr. Smith
is going to demonstrate the advantages of gov-
ernment grading over the old system. Here goes:

We take 1,000 bushels of potatoes and pass them
gently or vigorously (depending upon whether
it’s the farmer or the dealer turning the machine)
over one and fifteen sixteenth inch screen. Re-
sult, 478 pounds of No. 1 potatoes. The balance
of 522 pounds drop thru the screen on to the inch
and a half chain, and grade as No. 2; no culls.

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Some “tester” isMr. Smith, b’lievelme. Itis
our candid opiniOn that Mr. Smithvbecame so fa;

. tiguedl riding his hobby horse that¥he had a bad
attack of night “mare”, and'whilst in slumber

deep, arose in his pajamas and conducted his re-
markable “test”. What other alibi canwe give.
this gentleman who aspires to tutor and instruct
the farmers of Kent county‘l ‘

150 BENZIE COUNTY FARMERS LINE
Up AGAINST THE U. s. GRADING

At a meeting of one hundred and fifty farmers
of Benzie counrty held at Beulah. February 25th,
the following resolutions were unanimously

. adopted:

To the United States FoOd Administration, Washing-
ton, .. . ' .

RESOLVED, That we. the loyal citizens of the
county of Benzie and State of Michigan. in convention

assembled, do hereby -commend our great President

of the United States for his splendid effOrts in pre-
serving to us the freedom of citizenship. and for the
great work he is .doing for World-wide Democracy,
and believe with him in the great principal self gov-
ernment as enunciated in his recent great speech
when he said: “That no law can last long, nor can
peace exist long, or ought to last, which does not
recognize and accept the principle that governments
derive all their just powers from the consent of the
governed.

2. We believe it is our duty as representatives of
the great producing class in the United States to
furnish to our armies and citizens and to our allies the
greatest amount of food at the least possible cost
to the consumer. 1L .

3. That Michigan is ‘one of the great producing
States of the Union and that the growing of pota-
(tioes and beans constitute two of our principal pro—

ucts.

4. That the farmers of Michigan were encouraged
to produce all the beans and potatoes in their power
last season, that they entered into the spirit of the
calil,t with splendid results from the producers' stand-
po n .

6. That some person or persons unknown to the
great producing community of this State and without
their knowledge or consent invoked. and promulgated
an obnoxious grading scheme Of potatoes grown in
this ’State, which works an injustice both to the pro-
ducer and consumer. ,

6. That by using the double grading system the
larger mesh being one and scven-eighths inches
square, the second grade being one and one-half inches
square, and taking into consideration, the lack of
market for the second grade or amount received for
them, it practically cuts the potato yield in half.
thereby greatly injuring the producer.

7. That this rule has been only enforced in the
State of Michigan and Wisconsin and has done a.
great injustice to this State and particularly to
Benzie county because it discriminates against a food
product produced by the loyal citizens here and has
assisted in the marketing of the potato product in the
other States as against Michigan.

8. RESOLVED, That we view with distrust and
condemnation the position taken and the work done
by Prof. Waid of Michigan Agricultural College and
J. W. Hicks of Wisconsin and E. P. Miller of the
Commission firm of Albert Miller of Chicago, and
all agricultural journals supporting their position.
in promulgating the double grade system upon the
farmer of this State, and without their knowledge
and consent. Which has destroyed and is destroying
a large amount of food products of Michigan, greatly
to the detriment of the consumer and producer alike.

9. RESOLVED, That we, pledge ourselves and
our utmost endeavors to do all in our power to pro-
duce the greatest amount of food stuff to support the
nations. to help win this great war for humanity and
respectfully request the abolishment of all obnoxious
rules governing the production of food that will in
any way have a tendency to reduce or curtail such
production, and that the government do all in its
power to assist the farmers in this effort.

10. RESOLVED, That we recommend the adop-
tion of a single grade system, for potatoes of an inch
and three-fourths, round mesh, also the elimination
from markct Of all diseased, injured or over grown
potatoes.

11, RESOLVED, That we extend Grant Slocum
and Forrest A. Lord of the Michigan Business Farm-
ing our sincere gratitude for the splendid work that
they have done and are doing in the interest of the
actual farmer, and trust they will continue in their
splendid efforts in our behalf.

We, the undersigned committee appointed as com-
mittce on resolutions and permanent organization. do
hereby unanimously recommend the adoption of the
foregoing resolutions.

H. E. MORRIS. B. W. WOLCOTT, II. LA’l‘llWICLL,
DAVID E. BURNS. STVICRT BEVER.

The foregoing report and resolutions was concurred
it by the convention of One Hundred and Fifty farm—
ers without a dissenting vote.

P. A. REED, Beulah
Chairman of Convention

JOHN EIIMAN, Elberta
Secretary of Convention

Ra12c7z,na%Fai'Iiiers in the vicinity of Ravenna
and Conklin will have electric lights and power as
the result of action taken recently by a number
of public spirited citizens. Development of the
water power available in Old Crockerty creek will
cost $87,500 it is estimated. but. .the number of
homes which will take the light and power will
render an excellent return on the investment, it
is thought.

Mt. Pleasant—Here is .a new way to dry beans,
credited to F. J. McRae. Simply heat a few bricks
and place them in‘ the beans. The heat of the
bricks and the circulation of air drys the beans,
it is said. '

 

One of our subscribers asks us where to secure
an oat sprouter. Can any of our readers help
him out? *

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Receipts of wheat during the last
week were much less than for several
weeks preceding and many of the
large mills received scarCely a suf-
ficient quantity to keep running. Dur-
ing the past two weeks congress has
been discussing the Wheat situation
and price and bills were introduced
seeking to establish a much higher
price on the 1918 crop than now pre-
vails. No doubt many growers held
back their stocks on hand, waiting to
see the outcome of the congressional

‘ action.

The matter has apparently beenflset-

tled by the Presidntial proclamation
establishing a new price of $2.20 per
bushel at Chicago, for the 1918 crop.
No doubt this is the price which will
prevail. This will mean that farmers
will receive the same price forvtheir
1918 crop as for that of 19817.
‘ There is no surplus of flour in this
country. In fact what stocks there
were on hand at the time the price
agitation started, have been greatly
depleted owing to the reluctant sell-
ing attitude of growers, and no doubt
this brought about the decisive ac-
tion on the part of the President.

Conditions of the new crop general-
ly are reported favorably at this time.
From New York state comes the in-
formation that the planting of spring
wheat there will be greatly increas-
ed this spring.

 

 

 

 

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till I .97 .92 1-2 1 06
No. 3 While .96 1-2 .92 1.05
No.4White .95 I~2 .91 1-2 1.04 1-2

 

 

 

All markets have placed maximum
prices on oat futures: While the re-
ceipts have increased at primary mar-
kets during the past week, they have
been quickly taken and the price re-
mains about stationary. A large
quantity of oats are going direct to
the Gulf for export. Exporters on
the Atlantic coast are unable‘ to get
their supplies moved freely and some
uneasiness has developed. The rush
to move the wet corn has delayed the
movement of oats with an increasing
demand the markets generally are
bare.

Nothing can effect the market now
except exceptionally heavy receipts
and there is very little prospect of
anything of the kind. We believe the
demand for oats is such as to more
than take care of any receipts which
may come between now and the com-
ing of the new crop and see very little
prospect of any material decline.

 

 

GRADE Detroit Chicago New York
No. 2 Yellow 1.88 Nominal 1.94
No. 3 Yellow 1.87 “ L93
No. 2 Mixed 1.82 “ 1,90

 

 

 

 

 

 

Corn value have been well main-
tained during the past week despite
a heavy run to primary markets. This
run has been greater than at any
time this season and it is found that
about 60 percent of arrivals must be
dried before the grain ca ngo into
storage. The car supply is much bet-
ter and the more favorable weather
is also a big factor in the situation.
Receipts from growers are satisfac-
tory and everything points to a rec-
ord movement from this time on. In-
dustries have been able to accumulate
somewhat of a surplus, at certain
points, for the first time this season.
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CHICAGO WIRE—Corn receipts continue to increase and growers are free
Warm weather over the western belt is bringing about conditions
"feared for some time and every effort is being made to move corn while oats and
other cereals, except wheat, await. their turn.

PITTSBURGH WIRE—Receipts of potatoes today are heavy and dealers pre-
Bean demand Just a little quiet but prices

DETROIT SPECIAIr—The egg market continues to develop—a weaker feeling
on receipt of increased shipments, particularly from the southwest. Butter allso
Hay receipts Monday and Tuesday somewhat
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great that no material effect on the
price is in immediate prospect.

Just as soon as transportation fa-
cilities can be furnished there will be
an exceptionally heavy export trade
with the Allies. This corn will move
from the Atlantic and Gulf ports, the
southern shipments consisting of the
grain showing least moisture content.
Europe is calling for American corn
and other grains, providing ocean ton-
nage can be provided to tranSport the
purchases, and it is gratifying to see
the improvement in the corn move-
ment and to know that present condi-
tions indicate that a good share of
the present crop will be moved to
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Rye continues to work upward in
price, in fact it is making a regular
balloon ascension. Where this market
will stop no one seems to know. The
constant demand for this cereal as a
wheat substitute in flour, and its
great scarcity at the present time,
have combined to push the price away
up out of all proportion to its real
food value. The increase in price has
not resulted in any increase in the
volume of grain coming and it is very
evident that stocks back in the hands
of growers and country elevators are
very limited. At the time of writing
this article the Detroit quotation on
No. 2 rye is $2.50 but sales have been
reported at considerably higher fig-
ures and we are quite sure a much
better price could be secured any
time for spot grain. Chicago is quot-
ing No. 2 rye today at $2.80 per bu.

Barley

The constantly increasing demand
for barley as a wheat substitute is
forcing the market higher and there
Will be no relief for this pressure so
long as the need for substitutes exist.
There has been some talk of a fixed
maximum price etsablished by the
government but so far nothing has
been done along that line and the
price has continued to advance. There
is not much barley back in producers
hands and it appears that present
profits are going to those who pur-
chased the bulk of the crop out of

first hands. The present price is the
highest known in many years. Not
only are millers active in the market
but seedsmen are also bidding for
choice grain and the demand for good
seed is greater tha never before.

The following prices prevail at the
principal market for choice big-ber-
ried barley testing 48 to 50 lbs., per
bushel: Milwaukee, $2.02; Buffalo,

$2.05; Duluth, $2.00; Winnepeg, $1.73;
Omaha, $2.00; Chicago, $2.03.

 

 

 

 

No. 1 Standard No. 2
Market: Timothy Timothy Timothy
Detroit 26 50 27 00 25 50 26 00 24 50 25 00 \
Chicago 30 OR‘ 31 00 29 00 30 00 28 00 29 00
Cincinnati 32 25 32 50 32 00 32 50 32 00 32 25
Pittsburgh 32 50 33 00 31 00 31 50 29 00 29 50
New York 38 00 39 00 34 00 38 00 30 00 35 00
Richmond 36 50 37 00 35 00 36 50.32 00 33 00
No. 1 No. 1 No. l
“"h“ um Mixed Clam Mixed Clover
Detroit 25 50 26 00 25 00 25 50 24 50 25 00
Chicnxo 28 00 29 00 28 00 28 50 27 50 28 00
Cincinnati 32 50 33 00 31 00 32 00 33 00 33 50
Pittsburgh 31 50 32 00 31 50 32 50 31 50 32 50
New York 34 00 37 00 32 00 35 00 32 00 34 00
Rirl‘mnrd ‘35 50 38 “"435 00 35 50 21 50 22 00

 

 

There is a great diversity of opinion
at this time as to the future of the
hay market. Some authorities claim
that reserve stocks back in the grow-
ers hands are just about exhausted
and that there will be no material
decline in prices. On the other hand
there are those who claim that it is
just a matter of transportation and
that as soon as more cars are avail-
able there will be heavy receipts at
all marketc and a corresponding drop
in price. It is no doubt true that
there is considerable hay held in stor-
age at certain points, awaiting trans-
portation, and it is also true that in
some localities the supply is well
nigh exhausted and how these two
conditions will balance up is a mat-
ter for the future to decide.

The Detroit market is somewhat
firmer and the price has improved.
Arrivals there are only moderate at
this time and with a good demand
conditions prove very satisfactory to
shippers.

The Chicago market is firm under
light receipts and a good demand.
Dealers there feel that the present car
shortage is the cause of light receipts.

 

 

 

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Offerings of prairie hay are light and
all grades are in good demand.

The St. Louis market ’is strong
and receipts there are somewhat in-
creased over those of last week. There
is a very good demand there for
clover and clover mixed and it appears
to be a. very good opint for consign-
ments from those who can reach the
market.

Our Philadelphia correspondent re-
ports that market as practically bare
of hay, most of the consumers having
low supplies and the demand exceed-
ing the supply daily. Prices remain
about stationary with those of last

' Week.

Boston is proving a better market
right now for the medium grades
than for better class of offerings. The
situation there is firm, demand good
and general volume of receipts light.
Poor grade hay is not wanted at this
time.

The New York market is just a
little easier. There is some varia-
tion in price between the different
harbor points owing to uneven distri-
bution. Dealers there believe that
any material increase in supplies
would break the market and cause a
seVere decline in values.

 

The clover seed market has been
rather quiet during the past week,
as compared with previous weeks, and

the price worked downward. Stocks
have been greatly reduced however,
and the general feeling is one of
strength. The sale of seed is now on
in earnest and dealers over the coun-
try are buying in rarge quantities.
Much dealing among the farmers them-
selves is reported and those who have
seed are not anxious to sell or con—
sign right at this time.
Quotations—Detroit: Prime red
clover, $19.75; alsike, $15.50; timothy,
$4. Toledo: Prime red clover, $19.-
75; alsike, $16.25; timothy, $3.55.

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GRADE Detroit Chicago New York
C. H.1’. 13.25 13.50 13.75
Prime 13.05 13.35 l3.60
Red Kidneys 15.50 15.50 14.75

 

 

 

 

 

 

The bean price has advanced still
further since our last article was
written, and despite statements now
appearing in different papers and trade
journals to the effect that the mar-
ket is more quiet and the demand
again subsiding, we want to say to
our readers that we have every con—
fidence in the situation. Remember
please, when we make this statement
we are not by any means advising
our friends to hold wet stock. We
have tried to make this very plain at
all times and we shall no doubt re—
peat it hereafter. Wet stock must be
dried on the farm in some way or
moved to points having driers. Do
not under any circumstances leave
it in the bins when warm weather
comes. But to those who have dry
beans we say, have no fear of the fu-
ture market.

There is now a movement on foot
to have all pinto beans taken over
by the Government, paying the grow-
er 8 cents per pound, re-scroened has-
is. Should this deal go through it
will mean the absorption of around
100,000,000 pounds of beans. On the
face of it this appears like a consid-
erable contract and one likely to ef-
fect the price of the really good Michi-
gan pea beans. But when you come
to think of it, it will simply be a case
of riding the market of the undesir.
able pintos and making an excellent
future for our beans more certain and
secure. So let Uncle Sam have the
pint0s now, if he wishes them. It

really seems a shame, though, to make
our soldier boys eat them, especially
boys from Michigan, who have been
accustomed to pork and beans “like
mother used to make," the real Mich-
igan pea beans with its delicious flav-

  

 


 

 

 

 

or; makes us hungry to write about

It is estimated that perhaps ‘20 per
._ cent of the beans in York State are
still to be threshed and that the en-
tire crop will have been moved by
June 1. Beans in that state suffered

      
   
 

from the weather last fall but not to
the extent of
Michigan crop.

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Choice round Medium Round
Markets ’ white-lacked white-sum

Detroit 165 cwt. 1 so cwt.
_ Chicago 1.50 1.35
i Cincinnati 2.00 1.85
New York 1.80 1.70
Pittsburgh 1.75 1.60
Baltimore, Md. 2.00 1.90

 

 

 

The potato market during the past
week has worked lower at nearly all
points. Receipts have been more free
and the demand somewhat light. We
believe that one important factor in
the situation has been the belief on the
part of the consuming public that the
supply‘would greatly increase with the
improved weather conditions and
they are holding off in consequence
and buying on a hand—to—mouth basis.

Eastern advices state that the mar-
ket there is the lowest of the season
and the market shows a steady ‘de-
('line. This, however, has caused an
increase in consumption, especially in
New York city, and as a result ac-
cumulations are not so great as would
otherwise be the case with the in-
creased receipts of the past week. .

Stock arriving at this time shows
less frost injury and is of much better
quality than were the receipts of a
short time ago. Receivers are inclin-
ed to believe there will be more frosted
stock in evidence as the pits are open-
(1 and also that this will disclose the
fact that much stock so stored has
been frosted so as to no longer be
marketable. Whether or not this is
the case will soon be known. We be-'
have there has been considerable loss
here in Michigan. from this cause.

Every effort is being made on the
part of the food authorities to increase
the consumption of potatoes, and they
have been made one of the substitutes
for wheat flour. A meeting is to be

held this week at Chicago to discuss
means of moving the potatoes from
states having a surplus to those where
the tubers are needed.

 

Receipts of apples are light on all
markets and the arrivals show less
variety now than formerly. Receiv-

_ crs expect more liberal supplies of
barrel stock in the near future provid—
ing shippers can secure cars. Ad-
vices from different sections indicate
that there is still considerable of this
stock to move to market, in fact the
movement has already started. East—
ern markets report a firm situation
at the following quotations: Baldwins,
A grade, 2% inches and over, $4.50@
$5.50 per bbl.; ungraded, 50c less; A
grade Greenings, $5.50@$7.50. On box
stock the quotations run as follows:
Spitzenburgs, $2.25@$4.25; Winesaps,
$12.00./(3553.00; Rome Beauties, $1.80@
2.75: Pippins, $1.50@$2.50; Ben Da-
vis $l.50@$2.10; Black Ben, $1.60@
$22.),

The Detroit market is firm and
prices have advanced. The demand
”101‘!“ is fairly active although this
inrkct might easily be over-supplied
at this time. Quotations follow:

Baldwins. $6.50; York Imperial.

Western boxes,

fl: 1 50@$6. 00 per bbl.
Spitzenberg,

$3.25.

 

Receipts of onions have been heavy
during the past two weeks and the de-
mand exceptionally light. Even the
lower prices have seemingly failed to
stimulate consumption and the im-
mediate future is doubtful. The onion
market has been more or less of a
disappointment ever since the first of
the year and perhaps one of the main

      
   
  
     

 

  

ed stock otered during that than.
Buyers who roteivod this stock found
it unsatisfactory and hesitated to
take more. Receivers have felt from
week to week that the market would
certainly show improvement but to
this time such has not been the case.
Detroit is quoting the best grades at
$1.90@$2.25 per 100-lb. sack. Chica-
go quotes the best grades at $1.50 per
IOO—lb. sack. New York is Quoting
both yellow and red onions at $1.00@
$2.00 per 100-lb. sack, according to

quality.
Vegetables
Beets, $4 per cwt ;carrots, $2 per
cwt.; turnips, $2.50 per cwt.; rutabag—

as, $2 per cwt.; parsnips, $4 per cwt.;
hothouse cucumbers, $2 to $2.25 per
dozen; radishes, 350 per doz.; green
peppers, 90c per basket; parsley, 40c
to 60¢ per doz.

Celery

Receipts of celery at eastern points
has been heavy this past week and
much of the stock arriving has been
of rather poor quality. The Detroit
is firm at the following prices. Mich-
igan, 25 to 300 per doz.; Florida, $2. 75
per crate; California, $4. 50 per crate
and 500 to $1 per doz

 

The Government has established a
price on bulk Wheat feeds as follows:
38 per cent of the cost of wheat at the
mills, $2 per ton over for shorts, $4
per ton over for mixed feed and $9
over for flour middlings. The gener-
al market is quiet, owing principally
to the great shortage of offerings.
Detroit quotations: In 100-lb sacks,
jobbing lots: Bran, $3b.50; standard
middlings, $36.50; fine middlings, $43..-
50; cracked corn, $75; coarse corn—
meal, $74; chop, $60 per ton.

FLOUR—Per 196 lbs., in eighth pa-
per sacks: Standard patent, $11.10@
11.15; straight winter, $10. 80@11;
spring patent, $11. 20@11. 30; rye flour,
$11.80 in jobbing lots.

 

NEW YORK CITY, Mar. 2.—That
supply and demand are the two great
factors governing the prices of com-
modities would not be doubted by the
most radical pessimist were he on the
New York butter market this week.
Last week we stated in the letter that
on Thursday morning of that week,
according to the daily report of the
Bureau of Markets, there were 55,236
tubs of fresh butter on mand. Yester-
day morning according to the daily
report there was a total available sup-
ply of 66, 238 tubs. This morning

shows the receipts still larger although '

the exact figures are not yet available.
With the receipts constantly increas-
ing, and at the present time being
greater than ever known' at this sea—
son of the year, the most conservative
handlers of butter predict that a fur-
ther slump can be expected.

The demand of the consumer for
butter is not so strong as it has been
in the past years. The high cost of
butter this winter has caused increas-
ed demands for so-called butter sub-
stitutes, such as oleomargerine, nut-
maggerine, etc. Without doubt butter
will again come into its own with the
decline in price but at the present time
the lessened demand can be attributed
largely to the use of substitutes. The
element in New York which may tend
to strengthen the market is the chain
store. Up to the present time chain
stores have been drawing largely on
held stocks but after this week they
will handle largely fresh stock.

On Friday the .market closed very
sluggish with extras quoted at 471/20,
with some lots selling under that
price. Higher scoring lots of extreme-
ly high quality are selling at theusual
margin above extras. Firsts are
quoted at 46c@47c, and seconds at
441/2c@44%c. There is practically no
demand for unsalted butter. More than
20,000 tubs are in the market today.
The lots that are moving are selling
in most instance from 1&c to lo under
quotations for salted butter.

 
  
      

factors mi the large amount of ind:— '

_,, .

Detroit in. m
butter at this and the market is-
easy at' the allowing quotation:

Fresh creamery, firsts, 4.50; extras, 47%.

Cheese

Operations in cheese are practically
at a standstill. Only a few small lots
are moving. Buyers are unwilling to
take cheese ahead of their near future
wants. With a limited demand it is
extremely diflicult to state what prices
should be made as quotations. The
make of cheese is showing some in-
crease, but few sales are reported on
the fresh make that is received. Held

flats, specials, are selling at about 26”

to 26%c, while held flats, average run
range from 25 to 26c. Wisconsin
twins, held, range from 24174,; to 25c;
daisies 27c, and Young Americas 28
to 28%c.

 

Egg values declined radically dur-
ing the past Week. The snortage which
had obtained up to Saturday, Feb. 23,
was relieved the following Monday
when receipts were very liberal. In
addition advices regarding increased
production in the southwest together
with the moderation of weather caus—
ed a decline of about 10c per dozen
on all grades on that day. On Wed-
nesday, Thursday and Friday there
were further breaks of 60, 5c and 5360
respectively. Thus in five days there
was a drop of 270 a dozen. The mar-
ket remains unsettled and no predic-
tion can be made in regard to future

quotations. Quotations on Saturday
stand as follows: Fresh gathered
extras, per dozen, 37c@38c; fresh

gathered, extra firsts, per dozen, 36%c;
fresh gathered, firsts, per dozen, 351/40
@36c; fresh gathered, seconds,
dozen, 35c@35%c. Detroit is receiv-

ing a plentiful supply of eggs from
the southwest and Michigan receipts
are also increasing. Fresh firsts are
selling at 34c@35c per dozen.

 

 

LIVE WT. Detroit ' 0 Now York
Turkey 30-32 34-35 25-33
Duck! 30-32 30-32 30-35
Goon 30-32 20-27 30-35
Springer; 30-32 29—30 30-35
Hons

 

 

 

 

No. 2 Grade 2 to 3 Cents Loss

The poultry market is very firm and
receipts at the majority of markets
are very light. About the only ex-
ception is the New York market and
the condition there is no doubt but
temporary. Many shipments of fowls
were made to that market after the
governmental order forbidding the
shipment of hens until April 30. Be-
fore this order’went into effect heavy
shipments were made to eastern
points, particularly New York, and
this has resulted in an over—supply for
the time.

The Food Commission has estab-
lished a maximum price on poultry,
but this does not mean that all ship-
pers will receive this price. It all
depends on the quality. There is no
minimum price and off grades will
receive the usual discount.

Ducks and geese are coming in only
light supply, the season for such of-
ferings being pretty well over. What
arrivals there are do not show the
quality necessary to bring the top of
the market. Turkeys are also coming
only in very moderate quantities and
the demand for them is exceptionally
light although there is every prospect
that the close of the month will see a
shortage and good demand for almost
everything in the poultry line.

Horse Market

Boston reports the horse market as
not quite so active during the past
week, although fewer animals were
on sale. The demand was rather light
and all horses were not sold by the end
of the week.

Green western horses are arriving

' irregularly on account of the car short-

age, but the consignments received are
mostly of large, good quality horses.
of draft and chunk type, and prices
are within the same range as has
held steadily for the past few weeks.
Seconds that are of good quality are

, of March 5...are as follows:

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i‘onroe of supply comes

    

liked their work, and from firms that
are closing out their teams to be re-
placed with auto service. The poorer

horses of this type are slow sellers"

and sell cheap. Good quality, heavy
green drafters, of 1,650 to 1,900 pounds
weight, sold freely from $325 to $375;
good quality, medium weight green
drafters, 1,500 to 1,650 lbs., sold from
$275 to $325; chunks, $225 to $300.00;
heavy wagon and express horses from
$150 to $225; seconds from $40 to $200.

Wool

The wool market remains firm and
the demand increases from week to
week. Everything is very promising
at this time for the coming Michigan
clip. Boston quotations under date
Ohio and
Pennsylvania fleeces: Delaine wash-
ed, 83 to 85c; Delaine unwashed, 75c;
half—blood combing, 77c; 3-8 blood
combing, 77c. Michigan and ‘New York
fleeces: Fine unwashed, 63 t064c; De-
laine unwashed, 73c; half-blood un-
washed, 75c; three-eighths blood un-
washed, 76 to 77c. Wisconsin, Missou-
ri and average New England: Half-
blood, 70 to 72c; three—eighths blood.
75c; quarter-blood, 74c.

Furs and. Hides

The market on hides is somewhat
lower this week, and the fur market
has also been placed on the spring
basis. It is advisable to dispose of
hides and furs before the coming of
warm weather, especially those which
have stood for some time during the
winter. Detroit quotations on hides:
No. 1 cured, 15c; No. 1 green, 12c;
No. 1 cured bulls, 12c; No. 1 green
bulls, 10c; No. 1 cured veal kip, 21c;
No. 1 green veal kip, 200; No. 1 cured
murrain, 15c; No. 1 green murrain,
13c; No. 1 cured calf, 26c; No. 1 green
calf, 25c; No. 1 horsehides, $6; No. 2
horsehides, $5; No. 2 hides, 1c and No.
2 kip and calf, ll/gc lower than the
above; sheepskins, as to amount of
wool .500 to $1 each.

Furs: No. 1 skunk, $4.30; spring
muskrat, $1.20; No. 1 mink, $7.50; 'No
1 raccoon, $4.

Dressed Hogs and Calves

No change-in the pork or veal mar-
ket. Price remains the same as last
week, and market is working under a.
steady demand and fairly free sup-
plies. The time is approaching when
dressed pork will be shipped at some-
what, of a risk. It can safely be ship-
ped so long as the weathenremains
reasonably cold but with the coming
of the warmer days we advise great
caution. Now is a good time to get
your dressed pork on the market. De—
troit is quoting dressed hogs at 19 to
210 and veal calves from 17 to 210.

Live Stock Letters
Chicago, Mar. 4~Today’s receipts
of cattle on this market were estimat-

ed at 22,500 head, the largest run of-

the year to date and a supply of about
7,000 head in excess of the average
Menday runs during the past month.
The beef steer market was generally
15c to 25c lower than the close of last
week, the decline effacing advances
scored during that period on the gen-
eral run of offerings. A top of $14.30
was made on one drove of prime heavy
Iowa-fed beeves, feed-lot mates of cat-
tle that sold on Thursday last at
$14.50, the year’s top. Only a few
odd loads, however, were choice enough
to reach $14.00 and the bulk consisted
of fair 1,000-lb. to good 1300—lb. bun-
ocks that sold within a range of from
$11.50 to $13.00. Butcher cattle sold
on a slow to 10c lower basis with $7.00
the extreme limit on canner cows and
with $8.00 to $9.75 buying the bulk
of the fair to good fat cows and heifers
and prime heavy kosher cows selling
in odd lots up to $11.50 to $12.00.
Bulls of beef class sold mostly from
$9.25 to $10.00, with a rare, choice spec-
imen up to $10.50 to $11.00, while bo-
logna and ordinay light bulls sold
mostly from $8.00 to $9.00. Veal
calves held steady with $13.50 to $14
taking good to choice. .

One load of very heavy long-fed
steers reached $14.50 last week; in
fact on the last day of the month,
which made a new high record for Feb-
ruary. It was the first really prime
cattle that have been here for some
time. Outlet was particularly good
for the,,good to choice steers all week

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have been climbing up the
gradually for the last, an years. _In

February of last year top was $12. 25,

which was quite a sensation at that
time. 111.1916. February top was
$9.75, in 1913 $9.25. 1912 $9, 1910 $8.10,
1909 $7.15 and in 1908-$6.24. In other
words fat cattle have advanced more
than $8.00 per cwt. in the last ten years
with, of course, the greatest jump
since the war began and the demand
for beef became more extensive.

A better outlet is being noticed right
along for stockers and feeders. De-
mand has been strong throughout the
past week, the volume of business
larger. Many feeders have been hold-
ing back until the weather was mild—
er and transportation more certain
before putting in their stock. The ad-
vance in the market for fat steers has
also brought about a stock of greater
confidence and the country is loosen-
ing up noticeably. We look for a lib-
eral movement back to the country
soon, especially if the railroads will
supply the cars and haul them prompt-
ly. Some choice well-bred strong wt.
feeders sold up to $11.50 during the
past week and. the bulk of the stock
and feeding steers moved within a
range of from $9.25 to $10.65. Lighter
and commoner quality cattle have sold
down to $8, but‘outlet is good all
around. Good stock heifers have also
met with good demand, and where the
quality and weight were suitable sales
have been made freely at $7.50 to $8.25.
Buyers are putting a good deal of em-
phasis on quality.

Today’s hog receipts were estimat-
ed at 53.000. Choice light hogs clear-
ed at steady prices with a $17.00 top
scored on» that kind. Other classes
were generally 10 to 15c lower than
the close last week. Bulk of the good
to choice light weights sold at $16.65
to $16.85. while 225 to 270-lb. butch-
ers were slow at $16.45 to $16.65. ex-
treme heavy and heavy mixed to $16.25
to $16.40 and pigs and underweights
$14.50 to $15.50. An order from the
food administration making Tuesday
the only meatless day in the week and
it meatless only so far as beef and pork
are concerned. should prove an added
factor of strength to the numerous
other influences which are and have
been for months past big props under
the hOg market.

Sheep receipts today were estimated
at 15,000. The market was generally
10 to 15c higher. with best handy
lambs selling up to $17.65. Light-
weight lambs are much preferred. as
they yield a chop that is easier to sell
than the big cuts. Most of the Colorado
lambs coming are too large to suit the
requirements and 90 lb. and heavier
weights have to sell at, a discount of
$1 to $1.50 per cwt. from top classes.
This is an unusual discrimination to
make against heavy lambs at. this time
of the year. but it is mainly a ques-
tion of getting rid of the dressed pro-
duct. For the same reason the good
lightweight ewes have been the best
cellers at $12.: 5060551". 50. Choice light
yearling wethers reached $16.00 and
prime aged wethers are quotable to
$14.00. The lifting of the ban against
the consumption of lamb and mutton
on meatless days, giving these palat-
able and nutritious food products 11n-
restricted demand in all sections of
the country is a big factor in the strong
advance the market is showing as
compared with the low spot some ten
days since when $16.50 was the limit
of the lamb market.

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RAISE YOUR OWN SEED

Our greatest garden seed produuc-
ing countries are at war—France, Bel-
gium, England, Italy and Gemany.
The great seed producing areas are
devistated, the trained seed men are

scattered. Their seed supply is ex--

hausted and our seed bins are nearly
empty. As the result we will pay dear-
Iy for seeds this year; garden beans
at $35-45 a hundred pounds, ordinarily
$5-8; sweet corn $35—50 ordinarily $5-6
and carrot seed at $3 a pound—in
fact all available seed have increased
in price from 200 per cent to 500 per
cent. Many seeds are not onthe mar-
ket as mangles.

As the war continues the scarcity
will increase and a seed famine for
‘19 is possible. This especially is true
of all biennials as it takes two years
to produce the seed. Farmers and
gardners should plan on raising much
of their own seed. A row 25 feet long
will produce seeds enough for the
ordinary family and will require no
more work than a row of carrots until
it comes to harvesting and threshing
the seed. ,

The row might be made up as fol-
lows: 2 parsnips, two turnips. each
two feet apart; 3 celery plants a foot
apart: 5 onions 6 inches apart; 2 cab-
bages, 2 carrots each two feet apart.

Beets—Two beets will produce an
abundance of seeds. Select two well
shaped specimens. plant them a little
below the surface when the soil is
ready for planting. It may be neces-
sary to stake the plants later. When
the seed becomes brown and before it
is quite ripe, cut, dry and thresh. Pre-
serve the seed in a dry place.

Cabbag,c3.—~Two solid heads may be
selected and planted so l-? the head
is in the soil. make a slit in the top
so the stalk may grow readily. If pos-
sible plant a cabbage with the stalk
and roots 011. The stalk will grow
easily and develop pods which may be
harvested when they turn yellow.

7’11 r71 i118.
lect well shaped roots and plant ear—
ly so the top is a little below the
ground. One will be surprised how
much seed will be produced by a
single root.

Onions—Well shaped onions may
be planted 6 inches apart early in the
spring. If the onions are sprouted
the sprouts should be cut off so as to
give a straighter stalk. The upper
part of the bulb should be an inch or
so below the surface of the ground.
When the lower part. of the stalk
turns yellow the seed, balls may be
cut off leaving an inch or so of the
stalk attached. Allow the balls to dry
thresh and keep the seed dry.

Cclco‘;1/.—~Plant the depth they wer:
before and it will not be long before
a seed stalk will be sent up which
abundance of seeds. l‘he
seeds should be cut before the stalks
are ripe as they shatter easily.

The growing of a few garden seed
by many will insure the grower seeds
at, a reasonable price and will con—
serve the seed supply by allowing the
seeds he would buy to be used by
some one else. This will be more
than worth while. as it now appears
that the seed shortage may become a
calamity.

                              

SELLING PURE-BRED
LIVE STOCK
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100: $l0.00 per 1,000. W. F. 'I‘indall,
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bu. .HOLS’I‘EINS for sale as tradc for
light tractor. l.._vmu11 Baker. Morlcy,
Michigan, j.oute No. 3.

FARMER NOW IS TH E TIME to buy
your Seed Corn and Beans
while it. can be gotten. No. 1 Sced Tested
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breeding animals. it requires per~
sistent advertising and careful re~
plies to all inquiries. A careful study
of the different farm and live stock
papers circulating in the territory
in which you desire to make your sales
will give you a very good idea of which
ones are in a position to give you the
best service. Papers that hold suf-
ficient reading interest, to keep 11p
their circulation without giving pre-
miums worth more than their publi—
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The public sale is an cxcellenl way
of disposing of bred females and high
class males. Present only good stock
that is in good flesh at the public sale.
Flesh and condition in the sale ring.
the same as in the show ring. is an im—
portant factor in showing the animal
to the best advantage. Have every ar-
rangement, made early and plan to keep
the crowd in good humor and have
competent help to look after the stock
so that you will have time to entertain
your visitors to the best advantage.
Never make a guarantee that you will
not be perfectly willing to live up
to. Have your pedigree ready to hand
over with every animal that is sold.
If there is any one thing that pleases
the buyer of a pure bred animal it is
to have the pedigree and transfer
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FOR SALE—80 acres. 11 was two
10's side by side. Each 40 has a house
w1tl1 a cellar and well, orchard barn with
basement and hen house. One 40 haQ
windmill wih tanks. l1and nearly all
under cultiva'ion on main rcad. ha‘f
mile to school and 1huic.h 1152 miles to
market. Good sol John Edwards $81,113:
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FOR SALE—0n account of ill health
\11ll sell my 120 acrc farm 1‘; 11111cs west
of the city of lizll‘Tl1\\'iliO 111 Alcnnn ("11.
12111111 land, good buildings". ncw windmill.
N‘room house equipped with Vulcan steam
heating plant: nicc bath room, hot .ind
cold running water up stairs and down;
bath room all modern cxccpting lights.
scivcr connections. 5 acre orchard, all
bcaring. $4,500.00 takes it, with time if
desired, Chas. Vl'. Glover. l'lnrrisvillc.
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FOR SALE—Fine 140 acre farm. nczu‘
summer resorts. Best markets, Twelve
room house, furnace. two large barns, all
necessary out buildings. well watered and
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Large wood lot, General store and posts
ollice in connection making nice addi«
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cusy terms. Lihcral discount for all twh.
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This Splcndid 40 acre. farm, 11car live
village. Ingham Co. has 3?? acres “ork
land, 6 acres pasture. one acre fish lake.
clay and sand loam. woven wirH fences.
drivc \vell. operated by engine. (-emcpt
stOck supply tank, new silo. new hip roof
barn, full basement, another hip ro'f
barn 16x28, hay and tool barn 20x29,
wagon shed, poultry house, well hou‘c.
wood house. coal shed, granary with pig
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lected fruit. 2% miles from Lari in"-
Jackson electric line. Eave troughs on
all buildings. Price $4, 600, 3? 100 dcwn.
bat nice 10 years at 6 per cent.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 9TH, 1918

 

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EDITOR WOMAN'S DEP'T
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GRANT BLOCUM
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An O11en Letter to the President

R. PRESIDENT: It is a far cry from the

farm fields of Michigan to the White House,

and the message we are sending you today
may never reach your ears. But futile as the
attempt may be it is nevertheless our bounden
duty to make it and lay before you a petition
from two hundred thousand farmers of Michi-
gan that you stem the wholesale drafting of
skilled farm laborers which is rapidly demoral-
izing the state’s food production for 1918.

These are no imaginary grievances that we
lay before you. They are founded on in-
disputable facts from which there is no escape.
50 million acres of tillable soil await the coming
of spring to be ploughed and planted to the crops
which may save the nation from hunger ere
another spring has come. But to plow and to
plant, to care for and to harvest, requires labor,
Man power is needed on the farms of Michigan
today as never before, already the shortage has
become acute, and if the promiscuous drafting
of not only skilled farm helpers but employing
owners as well is permitted to continue. Mich-
igan, one of the richest agricultural states of
the union, will fail in its most heroic efforts to
supply its quota of food for the world’s bread
basket.

You havc said, Mr. President: “Under the
new draft regulations I believe that the farmers
of the country will find that their supply of
labor is very much less seriously drawn upon
than it was under the first and initial draft, made
before we had our present full experience in these
perplexing matters."

But such are not the facts. The district ex-
emption boards. composed for the most part of
men having their residences in the cities, and
without any conception of the vital necessity
of maintaining our farm factories at their high—
est efficiency. persist in placing skilled farm labor-
crs in Class 1. We grant that there may be jus-
tifiablc occasions where a skilled laborer might
be placed in Class 1. but, we have ample evidence
to prove that district boards have not follOWed
and are not following the intent of the new reg-
ulations in deferring the drafting of farm labor-
ers. We can cite you numerous instances where
an only son. upon who aged parents have de—
pended for the management of their farm, has
already been sent to training camps; where
young farmers han been unceremoniously sum-
moned from newly acquired farms leaving thous-
ands of acres to lie dormant at a time when the

world suffers for want of the food they should be .

producing; where some of the biggest farmers
of the' state have been obliged to curtail their
acreage twenty to fifty percent because the farm
hands they were depending upon have been
caught in the draft and no one is left to take
their places.

It is not necessary, Mr. President, for us to
follow such practices to their inevitable conclus-
ion. You are a man of great vision and fowré-
sight and you know well enough the disastrous
effects that would follow in the wake of such a
policy if carried out in all agricultural sections
of the nation. We appreciate what the government
is doing toward supplanting the nation’s skilled
man power with unskilled boy power but at the
best the mobilization of the youths of the na—

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need labor. skilled labor, emcleut label-,1
need it NOW. With the labor available sixWfi

d have removed all vestige of

days ago, they co
doubt as to who? their production would meet
the demands" ith the labor available today
there cannot be more than a normal acreage;
.with the labor available at planting time, pro-
viding the drafting of their help ’continues un-
checked, there can be no hope that they will be
able by any manner of means to supply the
world’s food needs the Coming yeah,

The weeks pass by; spring and planting time
approach; the labor problem looms up before the
farmers like a spectre, elusive and menacing.

How can any farmer, no matter how patriotic and ’

willing to do his part, go ahead and plan his pro-
duction campaign for the season unless .he knows
where the help is to come from to plant his crops
and care for them during the growing season?
Thousands of young farmers are in a state of
helpless uncertainty as to whether they should
plant their usual acreage, for they know not at
what moment they may be called.

You have it Within your power, Mr. President,
to compelthe draft boards to abide by the spirit
of the draft regulations, and six million farm fac-
tories are awaiting your verdict. Your silence
upon this subject another fortnight means the
permanent crippling of the farming business.
With a single flourish of the pen, a word of mouth,
you can spare the young farmers of the nation for
service another year in the farm factories. There
are many to take their place in the trenches;
there are none to supplant them on the farm.

“Wal, I Reck’un You’r ’Bout Right, Hoke”

HEN THEY WERE talking about fixing
the price on cotton .down at Washington
some time ago, Senator Hoke Smith got
right up in meetin’ and said "I-jim-in-ee-crickets,
no bill will ever pass Congress to limit the price
of cotton, unless the price of cotton goods is also
fixed.” And “Hoke” has had his way about it.
for neither the price of cotton nor of cotton goods
has been meddled with since that strenuous day.

A recent issue of the Cotton Oil News gave a
little information as to the, profits cotton manu-
facturing concerns were making, and as they, have
found some way to keep the price of the raw ma-
terial from going sky-high, the cotton growers
are now suggesting action.
says the Progressive Farmer, “but he demands a
fair and square deal.”

. By the way, just have a little talk with your wife
about the price of cotton goods these days! Cot-
ton goods are clear out of sight, and while the
southern farmers are getting good prices for their
product, the other fellows appear, as usual, to
be able to get most of the leverage on their end
of the “teeter-tauter board.” A little regulation
in this commodity would be appreciated by
“you’on fo’ks up norf.”

And, possibly, you might be interested in an-
other problem which the southern farmers are
discussing: “Shall we harvest and sell peanuts
at $1.75 per bushel or feed them to $15 hogs?"
Think of unexpectedly coming upon a sign some‘
where in the north: “Peanuts, $1.75 per bushel!”
Oh, gee; way up here in the “no’f” we pays five
cents for enough peanuts to fill a hollow tooth.

Well, We Are Making Progress, Anyway.
HE FARMER can take up his work this
spring with at least some assurance that
he is going to make good. True, he must

take all of the chances; frost. flood, drouth and
insects; but when it comes to disposing of his
products, he is going to be reasonably sure of
good prices. The price on wheat has been fixed——
he is sure of two dollars per bushel. And, by
the way, wheat is right now the cheapest grain
on the farm—but at two dollars, with a favorable
season ,the farmer will not starve. Neither will
he get rich.

The farmer who grows sugar beets will get
ten dollars per ton. To be sure he gets that
price by the grace of the manufacturers, and for
patriotic reasons only, mind you—but he is going
to get the “ten,” and he will not starve on that
price. No doubt the minimum price will be con-
tinued 011 hogs; and, unless there is less profiteer—
ing on the part of the distributors, other staple
products will be given the “minimum” injection
by the Food Administration

With millions of men 011 the fighting line, and
many more millions now consumers who were
producers, the future of agriculture is encourag-
ing.‘ However, the Farmer is not anxious to get
rich during the war; he would far rather have the
Government set the minimum price on everything
he raises, and apply the maximum price to we

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ing to tote his end of the load in all war matters,” W

materials Without following along down the line

and trying a maximum price on the finished prod-
not. And law knows, that would never, never do

The Farmer will take his chances, and will not
complain either, should the government desire to
try the “cost and ten per cent” plan with all
products.

However, Rome was nor builded in a day. A
year has not yet passed, since this nation turned
from peaceful pursuits and jumped into the war
with both feet. When you consider all that has
been accomplished in 'eleven short months, one

feels like taking off his hat to Uncle Sam and all‘

of his helpers. Things are going to adjust them-
selves all right, so let’sget busy: work like Tro-
jans and, in the meantime, keep our powder dry.

Spartans and Patriots

HE AMERICAN people’s devotion to the

cause of liberty, their ready acquiescence to

their government’s decisions, and their calm
determination to help rid the world of Oppression,
are beyond parallel in the world’s history.

We count it one of the miracles of the age that
a people so rapt up in the material things of life
and so characteristically deficient in national pride
and spirit as the American people have been,
should be so suddenly and completely transformed
from a passive onlooker to an eager participant
in a conflict, the daily chapter of which is one of
wholesale butchery and unutterable ,suffering.

Less than a. year has passed since the United
States declared war against Germany, but what
tremendous things have been done during that
short period! It has been claimed that the Ameri-
can people have been lukewarm, yet it is not with-
in the range of possibility that a nation could
take such huge strides in carrying On its war
preparations as this nation has taken, without
the fullest co-operation of its people.

Already nearly a quarter of million youths have
left mothers, fathers, wives and sweethearts and
gone to the battle front. And they have gone
cheerfully, even gladly! True, there were tears at

'the parting with the dear ones, and there are

many heart aches which perhaps even the sooth-
ing caress of time cannot comfort, but outwardly
all is calm and serene.

It is easy to understand how a people can mobil-
ize, fight and die to repel the invader; when a
nation’s homes are in immediate danger, the law
of self-preservation spurs'its people to super-
human effort. But the war in which we now en-
gage is three thousand miles across the sea, and
there is little fear in our hearts that even ambi—
tion-bloated Germany may span that. length of
land and water and become a menace to our
shores. It is not for that We fight and make our
daily sacrifices.

It is for something less selfish than self-pres-
ervation; something less material than conquest;
and something infinitely more worthy than the
satisfying of national passion that we have en—
tered this terrible struggle. There are great, vital
principles involved in America's sacrifice which
are felt rather than expressed. And the fact that
the inspiring incentive that drives us forward is
born of the abstract.—~the almost indefinable, in-
stead of a seeking after material things. makes
the miracle of our willing sacrifice all the more
wonderful.

The American people have proven themselves
patriots in the fullest sense of that pregnant word.
And the resoluteness with which they proceed in
every field of the war preparations discloses a
firmness of character, a fixedness ofo purpose, and
a disdain for physical privations which may be
likened to the Spartans of old.

We may complain and criticize because isolated
classes refuse support to the country’s war aims
and place hindrances in the way of preparations.
but let us not fool ourselves into thinking that
the American people as a whole are lacking in
patriotic devotion to the cause of world liberty.
There is no nation that has so little at stake in
this great conflict as the United States, and there
is no nation whose people show a greater will-
ingness to sacrifice and if néed be to die that op-
pression and the menace of militarism may be
swept from the earth.

Here is comfort for the rare specimen of farm-
er who voted for booze in order to save a market
fOr a few bushels of rye or barley. The distil-
leries have been closed six months and during
that time rye has advanced in price from $1.80
to $2.80 per bushel ,and barley from $1.35 to $1.90.
Now what argument will the booze makers put
up to the farmer that he ought to support their
rotten business?

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Allegan Millin2 Company Challenges the

. Statements of “M S ”

In your .1sspue of the 9th, instant there appear-
ed an article signed “M. S." as the article is so
misleading and so falsifying we take this oppor-
tunity to correct same.

“M. S." says that Allegan Mills are not pay-
Owing to be
curtailed as to the amount of wheat we may
grind, we are obliged» to ship out wheat and

hence must buy on a‘shipping basis, to handle,

wheat for less than a four cent margin is a los-
ing game. “M. S.” will find that $2.08 is the
prevailing price.

Why don't “M. S.” go to it, it is a free coun-
try. He further states that the mills now charge
one-sixteenth for custom grinding instead of
one-tenth. as heretofore.

This is a gross misstatement. We are doing

grinding as usual, only dlifferenCe is that it is

carried out in dollars and cents in accordance
to government ruling. The "farmers get as good
a deal as they ever did. We cater to farmers
trade and it would be foolish for us to take ad-
vantage of the farmer in anyway. We endeavor
to make Allegan as good a market as anywhere
in the state both in buying and selling, and such
false statements are uncalled for. —Allegan Mill-
ing Company.

Let’s Know More of Our Own Business
I have received a copy of your paper and be-

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a check. Will
try you out.
There are lots
of us—Michigan
farmers but not
so many bUSi‘
ness farmers. I
heard a speaker
say (at a farm-\
er's .club) that
it didn’t require
extra skill to
produce the
goods and put it
in the bins. But
to market the
goods Was when
we fell down.The
jobbers and ele-
vator men know
more about our
produce than we
ourselves. and
they don't pub-
lish it. I asked
an elevator man
two weeks ago
if he thought the
bean market
would pick up.
I thot it would
as soon as the
wet beans were
taken care of.
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me that there
were so many
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oh to doing etc do from now on.
his as if Mr. K was upholding the ele-
If it was chang-

fed around there would be a big holler and they
-would stop buying.

I think that there are tOo
many of these fellows with high collars and pen-
cils figuring to beat the farmer if they let the
farmer alone and give them a square deal, they
won t put in any holler—G. 8.. West Branch.

Weigh Your Binder Twine

I see in MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING the Food

«Administration will control the binder twine in-

dustry. I hope they will look after the weight
as well as price. Has any of the M. B. F. readers
ever weighed a ball of twine? »When we buy a
ball of twine we pay for 5 pounds. I weighed
several last summer and they only averaged 41/2
pounds. There might be 50 pounds in the sack
when green and the 5 pounds is the shrinkage,
but what we sell is the weight at time of selling.
We like the.M. B. F. as it gives a lot of home
truths—A. 8., Mariette.

Marketing Conditions Need Repairs

The writer has 60 bushels of beans which all
carried more or less dampness. I am trying to
dry them as M. B. F. described in the kitchen
and I believe I will save them all in good shape.
They only pick 3 to 4 pounds except about 8
bushels that were too green and left in" the field
until the others were cared for. I know of only
3 or 4, other crops in a radius of 20 miles that
ripened, some had as much as 20 acres and will
not get paid for seed. 111 my opinion if M. B. F.
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number and said
he did not see how they could get much better.
But he is paying 25c per bushel more now than
he was then and he did not tell me that there was
any spoiled or bad ones. While our beans will
only pick about one pound your paper states that
there are lots of heavy pickers.

Your paper seems to be the right thing in the
right place. Show us what you can do.——0. A.
A., Clare.

Some Good Suggestions

There is so much being said about waste and
saving, but nothing, or very little, about the waste
of food that is given to dogs. Some are keeping
even two or three. Where they take care of and
feed them they usually take good food from the
table. Where they do not give them much care
the dogs roam about stealing from the neighbors.

Also with heatless, meatless, wheatless, etc.,
days, why not have a smokeless day?. 1 There
seems to be no provision for the non-smokers in
the army; 'why not candy or some luxury for them
instead of tobacco?——-M7's. C. H. W.

Cull Beans Again

The farmer should have his cull beans. I am
writing a few lines on the bean questions. In
February 9111 issue of M. B. F. _I saw that Mr.
Kimball thinks that the elevatOrs should have
the cull beans for overhead expenses. I think if
Mr. K. had grown beans this year he would have
changed his mind as the beans are heavy pickers
and they are mighty good hog feed and they are
just as good to the farmer as to haul them to
town and give them to the elevators and pay for
picking. What does the farmer do for expenses

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we farmers are up against it. I am pinning my
faith to it for one.

It seems to me when we work three months to
produce a bushel of spuds we should get $71.00.
The marketing condition needs repairs. It should
be written on the black board before the food ad-
ministrator in big red leters, that if the bean and
potato crops come up short in 1918 the farmer
should not be blamed for it.

You can lead a horse to water and yet it may not
drink;

You can also fool a farmer and yet he may not
think

Let’s put our gray matter to work—.1. Subscrib—
er, Cross Village, Mich.

Farmers, Use Your.“Heavy Artillery”

I am enjoying the reading of your paper more
than any others. In the Readers‘ Editorials one
cannot help but notice the, dissatisfaction there
is among the farmers On account of the treat-
ment we are getting 011 every corner. We all
know the railroads get things their own way,
they are not run to serve you or me, they are not
run with economy, either. by? No competi-
tion, and if they don’t pay a fair dividend, that
is 7 per cent to the stockholders (watered stock
included, which in some instances probably is
100 per cent) they just raise the freight rate.
You see they are well
represented in the legislature. If the big four
(packing houses) make less than 100 per cent
a year on their investment they are not satisfied.
You'and I pay for it! Noticed in a paper a few
days ago that a potato dealer over in Flint had
made a quarter of a million in 10 years. That
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the only producers of wealth. We are feeding,
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keep on and fill a paper; and it 1111i comes l“out-d

tics tell us that farming is the poorest paid ocCu;
pation, and I think we all knew it before the
statistics said so. '

But let me tell you, fellow farmers, in order

to better ourselves we have got to do more than

write to the paper about it, or give our local buy-
er an over-hauling. He is not to blame. Truth is
we have no one but ourselves to blame. Every
one we have to deal with has his organization,
while we farmers are standing isolated with no
one to look after our interest. How could we ex-
pect it to be any better? The remedy lies in
organization. But when we organize it must be
as a class, and we should have our own packing
house, as well as flour mills and elevators so we
can deal direct with the consumer and let out
as many of the middlemen as possible. But in
order to do this we must go a step farther. How
are we as a class represented in the governing
body of the country? We must see to it that we
get men of our own class there, the more the bet-
ter. Our interests and the interests of the banker.
the lawyer, the business man and the capitalist‘do
not come together. It is to their interest to buy
from us as cheap as possible, and sell again to
the consumer with as big a margin as possible,
and surely we do not blame them for doing it as
long as they have the chance. but the minute we
take things in our own hands they are out of the
game. To prove that let me just mention the
co— operative c1eame1ies Statistics say that on
butteI the fa1me1s are getting? 1 per cent of what
the consumer pays for it, while on rill Oillel faim
produce farm-
ers are only get-
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you see the dif-
fcrence?
Twenty - four
years ago in
Denmark all the
packing houses
were in private
hands. Today in
Denmark there
is only one pri-
vately owned
packing house,
while there are
some 30 co—op-—
erative concerns
and the results
are that farmers
are getting 76
per cent of What
consumers pay
for meats. Four
years ago the
writer was in
Denmark and
was surprised to
find they could
buy Minneapolis
made flour as
cheaply there as
I could buy it
here in Michi-
gan. All this
goes to show
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business 1 11 t 0
our own hands.
(Io—operation is over Ihc c:-;pcri111oninl stage. I
think it is jusI as llI‘I‘OSS‘dl‘Y for us to organize
in politics as it is in business. Every time we
go to the polls to cast our vote for 11 candidate for
either congress or legislatures who has iho cndorse
ment of big business, wo ought to kick ourselves,
because we know he can‘t schc two 11121:;Icrs. and
theirs and our interests do not. mix.

There are hundreds of t'nr111crs who could rep—
resent us in ('(lllgl‘(“<s 11nd Legislature. 11nd do it
with more honor than the professional politician.
Surely the one who wears the shoe knows best
where It pinchcs. therefore let us get represented
by our own class. Election is coming next fall;
let us see what. we can do bciwccn now and that
time to better our condition in this matter. Re-
member. so lOllg‘ as the other classes. are making
the laws we cannot and must not expect to get a
fair deal, or full and fair returns for our labor.—
N, P. Id, ('oral.

Suggestions for the County Agents

Am still enjoying your paper and know it is
trying to help out the» farmers. The matter of
grading potatoes is getting serious. Farmers do
not want to sell potatoes when the dealers grade
them and then give them 11 price which does not
pay the cost of production. In Evert potatoes
have been about (300 a bushel 1r tely. This coming
year many farmers around here are not going to
plan on planting only what they need for their
own use and some for seed if the grading is not
stopped very soon. Why not have a minimum
price on potatoes so the farmer can make a fair
profit. He needs it and. the middlemen always
have a good profit. So much for the potato situa-

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Risen Cornbread for Supper

The spoon breads are equally good for sup—
per and always make a substantial dish with
a meat stew. When company is coming or
you want to surprise the family, try risen
cornbread for supper. It is not advisable to
attempt it for breakfast because meal fer—
ments so rapidly with yeast that the product
is likely to be sour by morning.

1 cake compressed yeast; 2 cups sweet milk,
scalded and cooled; 2 tablespoons brown sugar;
2 tablespoons law“ 21/; cups VVhltt' cornmeal;
] cup sifted flour; 1 teaspoon salt; ‘3 eggs.

Dissolve yeast and sugar in lukewarm milk
and add melted fat. Stir in the cornmeal. flour,
salt and add well beaten eggs. Beat thoroly.
Fill greased bowl two-thirds full. Set to rise
in a warm place for about an hour. Be care-
ful that it does not rise. It should be baked
as soon as light. The baking will require from
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A Busy Farm Woman Who Has Time for

Other Things

My Dear Mrs. Stark:—

This interesting discussion, which is the direct
result of Mrs. M. L.’s letter, as to how much wo-
man‘s happiness depends on her environment,
surroundings, etc, moves me to lift up my voice
(or pen) and add my sentiments to those Wise,
and other wise. already expressed.

I have always had an idea lurking in the
limited amount of gray matter granted me that
the Woman whose ,joy in life depended upon geo—
graphical position, climatic condition. or density
of population, must be very small mental calibre,
restricted outlook, narrow soul. limited literary at-
tainments and wocl'ully lacking in an interest in
all the beauties and mysteries of Nature with
which a beneficient Providence, has surrounded us.

I live on a farm of 160 acres,,4 miles from a live
town of 5,000 inhabitants. I do all my house
work. and the dairy work from a herd averaging
200 pounds per month. I do my sewing, care
for the chickens, and much of the garden work

falls on me during the busy season. Yet I find
time to belong to one civic, and one literary
club in town and do social center work in the

country. My home is not. pretentious, but always
hospitable. and is the mecca for my city friends.
I have plenty of good books and magazines and
I never have a lonely or unhappy moment; never
an hour that. does not contain sixty minutes of
joy that l can live and love and serve. In fact
time passes too rapidly; I can not accomplish
all that I want to.

I firmly believe a woman’s happiness depends
not on any phase of her environment. but on the
woman herself; for she is master of her fate
and makes her own environment. Life is what
We make it and We get out, of life just What we
put into it.

The girl who honestly loves the man she mar-
ries is able to say like Ruth “Whither thou goest.
I will go; whither thou lodgest. I will lodge. Thy
people will be my people and thy God will be
my God."

Given a home. husband
to center ones love and
agent does woman need to create happiness?
But if these be not sufficient. ye discontented
country dweller, make your own surroundings
that will bestow a happy frame of mind upon

and children whcreon
interest, what out side

you. Join a club. If you can't join one, invite
in a few congenial ones. Do something for some
one. Get. a hobby, a camera, or collect butterflies.

bugs or Wild flowers: above all get acquainted with
yourself. You may have many latent resources and
hidden possibilities hitherto undreamed of, the
development of which may place you in an abode
of Elysium, Utopia and Paradise combined wheth-
er your dwelling place be in the midst of the
Sahara. desert, on Pike’s peak or the most congest‘
ed district of the city—A Country W’oman.

Have You Any Left-Over Outing Flannel?

l I SUALLY the prospective mother goes and
buys a bolt, of longcloth, batiste, and flan-
nel. and proceeds to sit down and make

her baby’ outfit.

material left over.

More often than not. she has

’l‘hcrc's ouc sure thing, it she
has started to make, baby garments, she lOVcs to
do it. And the young mother usually “has her
hand in." and can whip .a baby dress together
in no time.

When you gaze on your own sweet baby, so
daintily dressed in its little handmade garments,
sown by you with such loving care. think of
the hundreds of babies. children of the refugees
sent back from tho, occupicsl districts in Nor-
thern France. and from behind the American,
French, English and Belgian lines, who are in
need of clothing The American Red Cross must
take care of tlrse babies, and it. needs the help
of every woman with the love of her own baby,
and every other baby, in her heart.

“Hing,“ 1-. ‘ . 31“,“... . . ‘,,_.. . .. .

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ANNA CAMPBELL STARK. EDITOR

The colors used in making these layettes should
be white, pale pink and pale blue only, and each
layette should be either blue'and white and pink:

The articles are plainly made, and do not re—
quire the hand work you thought» so necessary
on your own darling’s outfit.

Following is a description of the articles and
the number to be included in the layette:

Two dresses: Made of good quality Daisy cloth
or outing flannel. Thin cotton materials should
not be used. -7 .

One jacket: To be worn outside of dress. Good
quality Daisy cloth, flannel, or outing flannel; or
may be knitted or crocheted.

Three waists or brassieres. Made of white
bleached muslin of good quality.

Three waists or brassieres: Made of thin white
flanneL

One cape with hood. Made of either pink or
blue heavy Daisy cloth flannel. A wrapping
knitted or crocheted, or made of heavy Daisy cloth
yard square, may be substituted for the cape, if
desired.

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Life’s Sun and Shade Checkerboard

HEN it snows in February, .
Don't it make you kinda blue!
Planned to hear the birds (1 singin’
And to sec the grass peep through.
Thought that spring was surely comin’
And you look out in the night,
And instctul of warm rain fallin’
The world is still and white!
HEN if snows in February.
And your disappointment’s keen.
And March. comes like a lion,
A roorin‘ forth his Spleen;
You hang your spring clothes back again,
And get your muffler out.
And wonder as you grumble,
thn the sun is comin’ out.

    

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HEN it snows in February,

Just you kecp a smilin’ face.
And ichcn March comes a roarin’,
Don't you mind, for in a space.
April's rains will whisper Springtime;
May will bring her flowers to you.
And the summer days will follow.
Filled with gladncss thru and thru!

0 IT IS, with. everybody,

Sorrow comes with snow and rain,
And if only we‘ll have patience.
Summer skies will smile again!

Life is filled with. shade and sunshine.
God knows trhat is best for all.
Wc never love the sun so much
Until the Shadows fall!
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or outing flannel.

Two swaddling cloths or woolen blankets. Made
of all wool white blanketing, 28 inches wide by
32 inches long, and bound with white muslin
from 1 to 1 and one—half inches wide; stitched
several times to be quite flat. The binding Should
be cut out on the bias, 2 or 3 inches wide, so that
the tlnnncl may be alike on both sides.

Three flannel binders. Made of white flannel. 28
inches long and (S inches wide. This is a straight
strip of flannel. unhemmed. In placing these in
the luyettc they should be. rolled tightly and fast-
ened with R or 4 safety pins.

Twelve diapers. White diaper cloth, 20 to 22
inches wide and 36 inches long; hemmed on each
end.

Three undcrshirts. Woven wool and cotton,
long sleeves. These may be purchased or they may
be made from good quality case of underwear.

One bonnet. Knitted or crocheted of pale pink
or blue worsted. To knit, the bonnet, cast on
stitches of pink or blue to measure 14 inches, and
knit, plain for 6 inches. Break ol‘f yarn and join
on a tine white Wool; knit for six inches more
and bind off loosely. Fold the white wool over
the colored for a lining. Fold the 14 inch strip,
making it 7 inches and set the 7-inch edges togeth-
er to form back of bonnet. Run a $1, inch ribbon
in and out around the bottom, and leave ends for
tying. Crochet in similar fashion.

One bag of sundries. Made of either pink or
lue figured or striped muslin and should con-'

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Use these good meat-savers: '

Cottage cheese is a. delicious and easy dish.
You can buy it from almost any milkman or
you can make it yourself. Add salt and pep-
per before eating, and if you prefer it more
moist, stir in a little milk. It is good, too,
served With applebutter, or a bit of jelly. While
this is more of a dessert, it can still lessen the
amount of meat you eat. ’_

To make cottage cheese warm 'sour milk.
whole or skimmed, on the back of the stove or
put a bowl of it in a pan of hot, not boiling,
water for about 20 minutes. Stir occasionally.
When the curd and whey have separated, pour
off the whey through a sieve. Work the curd
with a spoon and let it drain. When fairly
dry work ,again until smooth. The whey is
good to use in making bread. ,

Nuts are concentrated foods, too. Twenty
single peanuts are about the same as the inch
cube of cheese. Remember that nuts are good
food. Chew them thoroughly or grind them up
for a coqked dish and eat them as an important
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tain: 6 large safety pins, 1 cake of coap wash
cloth,’ either knitted or of bath toweling, 1 box
talcum powder, small roll of old linen pieces,
piece of flannel or small case containing 6 needles.
spool of white sewing cotton, and thimble.

Patterns for dresses, jacket, waists, cape and
bootees can be procured as official Red Cross pat-
terns from the Red Cross chapters.

Whenever it is possible, the layette should be
made complete before it is delivered to the Chap-
ters for Shipping. Each outfit should be wrapped
tightly in one of the diapers and pinned securely
with several safety pins. Separate articles may
be sent to the Chapter headquarters. When this
cannot be done, they should be sent directly to
the Red Cross Supply Depdt, New York City.

This will make nice pick-up work for the busy
woman. It; is surprising, if you make up your
mind to it, how much you can accomplish for the
Red Cross. This war has gone far enough to im-
press upon each one of us that we women simply
MUST WORK. In our country’s great emergency
it is a little thing for us to spend our leisure
time sewing and knitting, when across the seas
brave boys have gone to give their very lives for
us. ‘Let every one of us resolve that not one day
will pass but We will do our bit, however small!

Dry Bread Made Appetizing
ASTE no dry bread. A single slice is val-
uable and every bit thrown away means
greater hunger in Europe. Here are prac-
tical ways to use dry bread and thereby keep in
the food saving campaign, as urged by the United
States Food Administration:

Cut it in thin slices and toast it. Crisp~toast
is appetizing with almost any breakfast drink.

Cut dry portions of loaves into cubes about
three-fourths of an inch square, put in a shallow
pan and toast in the oven to a. golden brown.
Serve for use in soup.

Revive the old-fashioned dish of bread and
milk,—an excellent use for dry bread.

Make into bread pudding, using raisins lib«
erally to give flavor and make the dish more an
tractive and ourishing.

Or break up the dry bread into small pieces
and crush with a rolling pin, saving the bread
crums for future use in the, place of flour. A
covered glass jar is a convenient receptacle for
storing them.

A Personal Word From the M. B. F. Editor

HAVE TRULY marveled at the splendid let,-

ters Mrs. Stark has been receiving from the

readers of this page, the women of Michigan
farm homes. Some of them are the best sermons
I have ever read. and I am sure that every reader
of NIH‘IIIGAN Brsixms FARMING who has followed
these letters, has been equally interested and up—
lifted. We are all seekers after happiness. Some
of us find it in the acquisition of material things;
others in the attainment of ideals; still others in
the interchange of human love and the reciprocal
benefits of everyday service to our fellow beings
and God. It is easy to be happy if we so will it.
and I am glad that so many of our farm women
have learned that lesson;—but here I am mount-
ing the pulpit for a sermonette. All I intended to
say was that I hope our women readers will con-
tinue to write us letters on any aspect of their
experiences on the farm or their opinions on the
desirability of farm life as a permanent state of
being. They teach us all truths that we ought
to knOW..—THE EDITOR.

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ation, and now comes wheat. In Evart
the elevator pays $2.00 for white
wheat and $2.02 for red wheat. What
should it be in Osceola county? Be-
sides giving a low price they even rob
a man on weight. Many have caught
them doing very dishonest work.

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Up-to-Date Fashions

The whole family is
this week.
In the
lightly turns to thoughts of clothes!
This is paraphrasing an old saying

represented

spring a mother’s fancy

and isn’t it the truth? She not only
thinks about her own wardrobe, but
her children’s and her husband's as
well.

The patterns for this week cover
the whole family. Little Boy Blue is
represented by No. 8677. This comes
in sizes 4, 6,8, and 10 years. The
coat is a double breasted model with
a diagonal side closing; the separate
straight trousers are included in the
pattern. Perhaps father’s old blue
serge suit can be cut up and used to
advantage in this way.

A classy little dress for spring,
which can be worn without a coat
15 Sister Sue‘s little model, numbered
8666. This comes in sizes 0‘, 8, 10, 12
and 14 years. The dress has a plain
waist with a straight, one—piece skirt
gathered to it; the long sleeves are
gathered into straight cuffs.

paddy gets a new shirt. Some folks
think shirts are hard to make but
I have found them very easy indeed.
This one comes in sizes 15,.‘16, 17, 18
and 19 inches neck measure. The
shirt has a soft, turn-over collar at-
tached to the neck; the breast pockets
are box—plaited and finished with neat
pointed flaps.

For mother there is a house dress,
a skirt and a nice little “best dress.“
The house dress, which is a very pret-
ty style and suitable for afternoon
wear is numbered 8648. It comes in
sizes 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust
measure. The shoulder edges of the
back extended over to the front where
the lower sections are gathered. The
skirt is three-gored.

The two—gored skirt, No. 8652, comes
in sizes 24. 26, 28. 30 and 32 inches
waist measure. The skirt has two
gores, and there are 2 inverted praits
at each side of the back and the same
at the front.

Unusually neat is mother's “best
dress." It comes in sizes 36. 38. 40 and
42 inches bust measure. The waist
fits rather closely and it buttons at
the center front; the two-gored skirt
is cut wider at the top than at the bot-
tom. This is one of the newest models
far spring.

These patterns are ten cents each,
and all questions about material, color,
etc, will be cheerfully answered by
the PATTERN DEPARTMENT. Mich-
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the farmers instead of dictating to
them some advice that, *hey - ‘don’t
even; know the first thing about. Why
don’t they do their part in securing
good prices for the products?’ Leave
it to the farmers to do their part, they
always have fed the world and will
now if given a fair chance by being
given decent prices and also leaving
the boys who have aiways worked on
the farm, where they are. They can
do more to win the war than if they
had a gun to carry. If “food will win
the war” give the producers a good
chance. I believe the time has come
when the farmers are going to stand
up for their rights—Subscriber. Os-
ceola county.

(Emron‘s NOTE: Our wheat chart
shows that the price of No. 2 Red
wheat at Evart should be about $2.06
per bushel.) ’

Farmers Will Come Into Their

Own Some Day

We raised very fine potatoes here
last year. I planted one acre and
had 751/.2 bu., about one-third of a
crop. Will only plant the same aomunt
this year. Help is too scarce to raise
potatoes. Also sugar beets will pay
better than screened potatoes, as no
sorting is practiced with the beets and
they will stand the frost. You see
the big ones are not doing business
for fun and we must copy after them
to compete and hold the balance of
trade.

Act 1—Big Business had its day.

Act 2—Highbrow has his day.

Act 3—Farmer’s day has come and

as we intend to join hands with High-
brow, we intend to make it the day of
all days. From now on we will make
it 50-50 or no deal.
,In 1920 we will show them how it
is done. With a brotherhood of work—
ers; Brotherhood party, and a new
ship of state, we will sail the seas of
peace and plenty. So say we all.—
G. B. H., Shepherd.

Will Not Raise Potatoes Unless

Grading Rules Are Removed

I could not do without the MICH—
IGAN BUSLNESS FARMING, the paper
that speaks out from the shoulder;
the paper the farmer has longed for.
I would like to meet you in Lansing
but I cannot leave the farm.

Unless they take the potato grades
off before planting time there will not
not be many potatoes raised around
here this year. My neighbor had 10
acres last year and only had 135 bu.
of No. 1 grade. He has quit the busi—
As for me, I am feeding my
potatoes to my stock; they would run
two-thirds No. 2’s. They are nice,
white potatoes. I treated them for
scab so they were all salable before
the grading struck them. A few men
can knock us farmers out on this
crop. but look out for the next! The
grade should be put out in March if
they want potatoes next fall. In the
bean deal my neighbor went in debt
$50 for seed last spring and got four
bushels of very poor beans. I got my
beans in before the rain; they pick 1
pound. They are fine seed. I am tak-
ing your advice through the paper to
hold good dry beans. Losing my pc—
tatoes through the grading rules I
must have $8 for my beans to pay my
last year’s enxense. With help and
seed so high I hardly know what to
plant. I shall raise oats in the place
of potatoes.——H. D. S. Kent City.

Farmers Left to Mercy of Jobbers

I have taken much pleasure in
reading your paper since the first
issue of the same. Will say I have
been a great admirer of the snappy
way in which you have wielded your
cudgel (the pen) in behalf of the
farmer, especially as regards the pres-
ent bean and potato situation. It
seems to me it would be no more than
fair to the farmer to establish a
minimum price on his products, giv—
ing him a fair return for his invest-
ment and labor expended. But so far
the farmer has not' been very success-
ful in getting in .with some senator
or other high official with pull enough
to flim-fiam the government into pay—
ing two prices for the products of the
farm.necessary to the successful car-
rying on of the war. At least I have
not read of any investigation being
held at Washington to expose a skin
game of that kind. So far the farmer
has been left mostly to the mercy of
the jobber and the local buyer. Just“
ask any farmer and he will soon en-
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those fellows show when we drive in
town with a load of farm produces
But if the other fellow so felt and
was willing to turn over the product
of his labor for the next 12 months
regardless of what that labor was,
farming or otherwise, except a living
for those at home, I would most cheer-
fully turn over the products of my
farm on the same terms, because I
think the sooner we get in earnest
about this thing and sacrifice some
of the things we have been accustom-
ed to, the sooner this awful thing
called war will be over and our boys
be back into God’s country, the good
old U. S. A. It may be that I am
pretty sensitive about this subject
you will say, but I think I have a
license to be as I have a boy “some-
where in France” with Uncle Sam.
Do you not think I would give the
product of one year or five years of
labor if necessary to have him back
home at the end of an honorable
peace? Any parent who would not
do as much stand upl—I. H. F., 001-
umbiam’lle. '

Building Up Fine Herd of H01-
steins in Washtenaw County

I believe your paper. will rattle some
dry bones from the energetic tone of
the few numbers I haveseen. The
farmer is not a profiteer; but he is
patriotic. He is just as much en-
titled to cost plus ten per cent as any
other manufacturer; and. measuring
costs I do not find him figuring the
labor at sixty to seventy cents per
hour, but at about twenty-five. If
farm produce was figured today on
the cost basis that is used for other
manufactured products, that is eight
hours as a day’s labor and sixty to
seventy cents per hour the cost of liv-
ing would go so high we would have
a revolution.

Perhaps you will be interested in
the pedigree of the bull we have to
head the herd of Holsteins we are
building up at Washtenaw Farm. This
bull’s dam has a record of 30 lbs,
which is nothing remarkalfie these
days, of course, but she has a very
good private record, 900 lbs. for a year
and it’s the yearly records that really
count. Her yearly record and the
sire's dam’s yearly record average
considerably better than 1000 lbs. of
butter for a year. Her sister made
1470 lbs for a year a world’s record
at the time; another sister holds the
world's seven-day record for age: an-
other sister held the seven-day
world’s record as a three-year-old.
She is also sister to the dam of the
50 lb. cow so we have both long time
and seven-day records in the dam’s
side.

The sire is out of a cow that made
1226 lbs. in a year and she has four
sisters with over a thousand pounds
a year. Her dam made 1088 lbs. in a
year- and has three sisters over 1200
lbs in a year. so I believe we have a
right to expect that we will have some
good yearly producers in a few years.
This bull is almost pure white and a
good square individuaL—(T. F. 3.. Ann
ATbOT. as:

“EAR TEST YOUR SEED
CORN,” SAYS UNCLE SAM

 

It is absolutely necessary that a
wide-spread campaign of ear testing
be begun at once. in order to obtain
a sufficient supply of seed corn of
strong germination for the Northern
States, and a large part of the corn
belt States as well.

The rag doll method of testing in
dividual ears is die of the simplest
and economical, and is efiicient. The
tester consists of a strip of cloth, pre-
ferably bleached muslin, sixteen in-
ches wide and from three to five feet
long. The cloth should be marked
off into squared sections and the
squares all numbered. The ears to
bow-tested should also be given corres—
ponding numbers. Six or more ker-
nels should be selected from diflerent
parts of each ear, and placed in the
proper section. When the tester is fill-
ed, fold over each side so that the
edges meet in the center, roll up and
soak the tester for a few hours in
lukewarm water. Drain the excess
water off. and place the dolls in a
warm place to germinate. They should
be covered with a wet cloth to keep
them moist, and in about five days
should be sufficiently well germinated
to show their fitness for seed.

Farmers’ Bulletin No. 948, “The
Rag Doll Tester,” describes fully this
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HANDLING LIVE STOCK
ON SWEET CLOVER

With the exception of alfalfa on
fertile soils, no other leguminous crop
will furnish as much nutritious pas-
turage from early spring until late
fall as sweet clover," when it is prop—
erly handled. Live stock thrive on it.
Animals which have never been fed
sweet clover may refuse to eat it at
first, but this distaste can be over-
come by turning them on the pasture
as soon as the plants start growth.
There is practically no danger from
bloat from sweet clover, according to
Farmer’s Bulletin 820, “Sweet Clover;
Utilization,” which__has just been is-
sued by the United States Department
of. Agriculture.

When sweet clover has been seeded
two years in succession ‘on separate
fields, the fields sown the first year
may be pastured until the middle of
June, when the stock should be turned
on the spring seeding. When hand-
led in this manner excellent pasturage
is provided throughout' the summer
and a. hay or seed crop may be har—
yested from the field seeded the prev-
ious season.

Some of the best pastures in the
middle west consist of a. mixture of
Kentucky blue grass, timothy, and
sweet clover. On one large farm stock
is pastured on meadows containing
this mixture from the first‘ part of
April to the middle of June. From
this time until the first part of Sep-
tember the stock is kept on one-half
to two-thirds the total pasturage ac-
reage. The remainder of the pasture
land is permitted to mature a seed
crop. Usually from 2 to 4 bushels
per acre of recleaned seed is obtained
from thin portion of the pasture. Af-
ter the seed crop is harvested, the
stock again is turned. on to this ac-
reage where they feed on the grasses
and first—year sweet clover plants un-
til cold weather. The seed which
shatters when the crop is cut is usu-
ally sufiicient to reseed the pasture.

It is essential that sufi‘icient stock
be kept on the pastures to keep the
plants eaten rather closely, so that
at all times there will be an abundance
of fresh shoots. Grazing induces the
plants to send out many young shoots
close to the ground, so that when

the plants are permitted to mature.

seed a much larger number of stalks
are formed than would be the case
if the first crop were out for hay.
Excellent stands of SWeet clover will
produce an abundance of pasturage
for 2 to 3 mature animals per acre,
from early spring to the middle of
June. Cattle which are pastured on
sweet clover alone crave dry food.
Straw or hay should be present in
the meadow at all times.
Experiments by many farmers in
the Middle West show that sweet
clover is an excellent pasture for
dairy cattle. When cows are turned
on sweet clover from grass pastures
the flow of milk is increased and its

 

  

Recently a Berkshire boar pig sired by Epocha'l, the imported Berkshire boar owned'
by H. W. Gossard of the Gossard Breeding Estates, Martinsvllle, 1nd,, was sold toMr.
Thomas Stanton, Wheaten, 11]., for $10,000, which is a new record
as Well as the highest price on record for a hour of any breed.

quality improved. Other conditions
being normal, this increase in milk.
production will continue throughout
the summer as the plants produce an
abundance of green forage during the '
hot, dry months.L If pastures are
handled properly they will carry at
least one milch cow to the acre duri
ing the summer months.

Sweet clover has proved to be an
excellent pasturage crop for hogs. It
is usually seeded alone and pastured
for two seasons. The hogs may be
turned on the fields the first year as
soon as the plants have made a 6-
inch growth. From this time until
late fall an abundance of forage is
produced as pasturing induces the
plants to send outmany a tender,
succulent branches. Pasturingi the
second season may begin as soon as
the growth starts it is advisable to clip
it occasionally, leaving an 8-inch
stubble so as to produce a more suc-
culent growth.

An acre of sweet clover pasture or-
dinarily will support 20 to 30 shoats.
For the best growth of the hogs they
should be fed each day 2 pounds of
grain "’per hundredweight lot the
stock. Hogs are very fond. of sweet-
clover roots and should be ringed
before being turned on the pasture.
The tendency to root may generally
be overcome by adding some protein
to the grain ration.

Sheep relish sweet clover and make
rapid gains when pastured on it.
Care must be taken to see'that pas-
tures are not over—stocked with sheep
as they are likely to eat the plants so
close to the ground as to kill them.
This is especially true the first year
before the plants have formed crown
buds. Yellow biennial sweet clover
probaw will not suffer from this
cause as much as the white species,
because the plants make a more
spreading growth and are not likely
to be eaten 'so closely to the ground.

PASTURE NECESSARY
FOR THE POULTRY
(Continued from preceding page)

fruit also helps to feed the fowis and
is readily eaten by them. Chickens
10Ve to rest under low fruit trees and
are better protected from hawks if
there are trees and growing crops
under which they can hide. Plowing
and cultivating the ranges not only
puts the ground in the best sanitary
condition for the fowls, but properly
managed, it can be made to contribute
largely toward the support of the flock.

Abundant range is essential to the
thrift of the flock and economy of.
feeding. Confinement is artificial and
unless feeds are supplied to replace
those gathered when free range is
given, one cannot keep the flock

healthy and producing profitably. Let
the runs be fertile and productive, not
sterile, of green feed and animal feed,
with plenty of shade. If confinement
in small yards must be practiced at
certain times of the year make the
rations approach as nearly as possible

 

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I wish you would tell me What I can

give this cow to make her eat more

and to loosen her bowels—A, H. H.,
Kingsley.

Anorexia, or lack of appetite, is usu-
ally only one of the symptoms of a
disease, however, there are‘ cases in
which the inappeteney or anorexia per-
sists for some time without any‘evi-
deuce of other disease or a sign upon
which to base a diagnosis; the cow
just “wont’ eat anything,” nothing else
of an abnormal nature can be seen;
the loss of appetite being the only
symptom, if such is the case with your
cow give dilute acetic acid, two ounces
morning and evening for two or three
days with an equal amount of water.

I have a heifer freshened the first

time last May. She is due to freshen

again in May. About six weeks ago I
noticed a whitish discharge when she
lies down, some of the organs pro-
trude, but as soon as she is on her
feet it is all right again. She is three
years old in July. What Can I do
for her?—A. P., Pentwate'r.

Your cow has “ante-partum vaginal
prolapse," due in this case'to some
catarrhal condition which is evidenced
by the discharge you speak of. An
examination should be made when the
cow is in a standing position to dis-
close if possible the direct cause of
the prolapse. If unable to find any
ulceration in the vagina a rectal ex-
amination should be made. If lesions
are present in either the vagina or
rectum cauterize the same with Tr.
iodine, (this can be done by the use of
a cotton swab). The after treatment
consists of mild antiseptic irrigations
twice daily unt

 

POULTRY
WE HAVE THEM

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

 

 

 

FOB SALE—S. 0. White Leghorns —
Year Old Hens, Pullets, Cockerels, Ferris
Strain, $1.50 Each. Russell Poultry
Ranch, Petersburg, Michigan.

Superior Farm White WW”

dotts, Good
winter layers,
and fit for any show room. Eggs after
March lst, $2.00, $3.00 and $5.00 per 15.
$8.00 per 100. Send for mating list
C. W. Honeywell, Plymouth, Michigan.

rect blood of a. well—known ZOO-egg
strain. Eggs for hatching $1.50 for
3; $5.00 for 50: $9.00 per 100.
L. Seamans 8: Son, Belleville, Michigan.

We ship’ thousands
CHICK each season, different
varieties booklet and
testimonials, stamp appreciated. Freeport
Hatchery, Box 10, Freeport, Michigan.

M [SHLAND’S WHITE ROCKS—The di-

healing takes place. ‘

 

ARRED ROCK COCKERELS for breed-
ing purposes from good layers. $3.00
each. Write R. R. Bowman, Pigeon, Mich,

 

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 Northon. Clare. Michigan

SBARRED ROCK COCKERELS

Prize Winning Strck, Thompson Strain,
$3.00 and up. Pullets and hens cheap.
Sam Stadel Chelsea. Mich.

BARRED ROCKS are; 1:12:

 

 

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is to compel- animal to lie with the‘ "

hind quarters raised considerably.
"This wll prevent the prolapse.

'PAS‘TURE NECESSARY
FOR THE POULTRY

One of the most important factors
in successful poultry-keeping is that
of providing clean yards and runs.
It is a mistaken notion that poor,

.rough and barren range is suitable

for poultry. Hens and growing chicks
require grass and green forage crops
in abundance and variety.

An acre of range is necessary for
every 100 fowls, but this does not
mean that valuable food crops may not
be grown on land utilized for range.
It is no wonder so many farmers fail
to obtain satisfactory returns from
poultry when they locate their yards
and runs on sandy and gravelly land,
where about all the fowls find in
sand and sharp stones. It is always
better to locate the yards and runs on
fertile land, for on such land grass
and forage is sure to abound. and
where vegetable growth is present in-
sects and worms are sure to be found.

Poultry can be kept successfully in
small yards if green foods and meat
are fed. Yards on poor, sandy ground
are usually destitute of vegetable and
animal foods. Fruit orchards, clover
meadows, old berry patches and fields
of corn with little brooks in proximity
make ideal runs for poultry. A small,
wet piece of ground with a small
brook in it makes a fine place for
poultry to gather worms, bugs and in-
sects; besides the problem of supply-
ing clean water for drinking is great-
ly simplified. The'sweet, juicy grasses
that grow in these places are an im-
portant factor in balancing up the
grain feeds and maintainiing the
fowls in healthy and vigorous condi-
tion. If such runs are bushy or con-
tain a few small trees it will afford
the fowls a place to retreat during
the heat of the day. Meadow land or
grain stubble fields that are dry
also furnish suitable range for fowls
of all ages.

For several years I have practiced
a method of rotating yards and 1uns
by growing field crops on the land in-
closed by poultry fences. On five acres
adjoining the hen houses and orchards
wheat, corn, clover, buckwheat and
rye are grown on the land utilized for
range during considerable of the year.
The wheat'and rye furnish green feed
at times when other green feed is
Scarce and more or less grain when
the crops mature. A cr0p of buckwheat
comes after the wheat and matures in
time to cut and save for winter feed-
ing. Clover seeded with buckwheat
tomes on and furnishes green feed for
the next spring and summer. If out
early it makes excellent green feed
for the winter. In fact there is nothing
better than clover rowen to feed lay-
ing hens during the time when other
green delicacies are scarce. Corn
planted in one of the runs matures a
good crop of grain for winter feeling.
put in place and the fowls given the
range of the field until the crop is har-
vested. This permits no waste of
land, it conserves fertility and a big
saving is made in the cost of feeding
during the Winter. Good land can be
made to furnish more than ’grass,
worms and insects. With long yards
and short end fences to remove it re-
quires but. a short time to detach the

slats from the posts and remove 11‘

few lengths of the fence so that the

 

 

 

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CATTLE

“TOP-NOTCH” HOLSTEINS

”Milk production is an inherited ability. Good cowl
must be bred to good pure-bred bulls if progress in dliry-
111g in to be made."

Extract U. 8. Dept. of Agric. Bulletin.

 

 

 

 

Buy this youngh bull and give your milk and butter pro-

ductionn‘
KingOolnnthahDGOnkdnlo, No.18'837, Born Nov 4 1915

His Bire’ a 3 nonrest{ Butter 7 days 311. 57
Damn "erase Milk 7 days 579,115
Butter 7 day: 30.50

Hil Dum's Dani’s Milk 7 days 5115.00
Record Butter 30 days 134.19
Milk 30 days 134311.80

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

. , Butter 7 days 23.33
Hll dam a record at 3 year! {Milk 7 d." ”9.40
His five nearest dams average {11:13:23, :33: 541::

(Including 2-—-3 and l---41»2 yr. old.)
Ideally marked, about half and half. Price £250.

McPherson Farms Co., Howell, Mich.

E. L. SALISBURY

SHEPHERD. MlCH.
Breeder of purebred
Holstein-Friesian Cattle
Young bulls for sale from A. P.
O. Cows with 7reditable records.

 

 

 

 

A R J B 11 10 o.
F OR SALE old. egDalelrsesy anu impoi‘ltled

Daughter of Noble of Oakland
$90.00. Tosch Bros, Capac, Michigan.

OLS'I‘EIN FRIESIAN

Howbert Maplecrest- Jetske,

Price,

CATTLE—a
Sire's

dam 30 lbs., full sister with 1200 lbs.

dam of
452.6 lbs.
marked: born Jan.

butter, Semi-official,
lbs. butter from

seven days. Well
12. ‘17. Price $75. 00 F (1.
born Jan. 9, ’18, from untested dam
Price $50. 00.
( lair,e Michigan.

THE WlLDWOOD JERSEY FARM I
Bree ders oi.le1sey csttlo strong 111 the blood of Royal
Vlajesty. \V e have stock for sale from R. of M. dams
and sire. Herd regularly tested for tuberculosis.
llerd ave. prollt per year $100 over cost of feed. The
kind that pays. \V e invite inspection. Satisfaction
guarantccxl.A1 \ 1\' BAI 1)11N,(‘apa1 Mic-11., phone
1134')

 

calf 20
milk in

B. Bull calf

Howbert Stock Farm, Eau

 

SHORT-HORN BULLS from 9

Reg Monarch

dale 8who has :1

2nd.

to 17 months old by Maxw‘alton.
A. son of Avon-
sons and 2 daughters

that have won the Grand ( hump'lonship at

lntel‘natiollnl and A11111ic111 1103111.
‘-‘ ‘hmidi & Sons, Reed City 115 ;\11ch.

John

‘ ‘ H l.‘t" 1 1 :111‘ ut of 12.2
EUR bAl-‘E 11001112112113?)u All g1‘1ihd11auglit-

or of Homestead (111‘1 lie K111
Lad 106 A. R. 0.
of the PontiaCS 231) dau.

Braun, Ann Arbor, Mich.

HOLSTElN-FRIESIAN CATTLE

I always have a few good individuals

Call F. & B.

for sale. Some young bulls from A. It.
0. cows. Not the cheapest. but Worth
what I £1111 asking for thcm. Arwin
Killinger, l<‘owlerville, Michigan.

 

mos. old. \Vrite for price and l‘cd.

FOR SALE—Registered Jersey Bull 15
Czll‘lton R. Lewis, Ypsilanti, Michigan.

 

 

 

“’OLVERINE STOCK FARM

FOR. SALE, a beautifully mark-
ed bull calf, born Aug. 3,1917. Sire.
Iudge Walker Pieterje whose first
five dams are 30 pound cows, his
dam 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.

WV. SPRAGUE,

 

T.
Route 2, Battle Creek, Mich.

 

 

 

READ WHAT MR. HOOVER SAYS

"We have a very good lot of young bulls coming on
that will be fit {or service in 11 few weeks. These bulls
are tons of P‘nirview Colunthn Rog Apple 141,297.11 son
of the great Rag Apple Korndyke 8th."

"We always have 11 number of choice females from
which to make your lelections.’l‘hey are all daughters
0130 pound bulls, the only kind we use at Rosewood
l“.11r111"RUSEVVOODSl‘Ul‘K FARM, How1ll Mich.

 

 

 

250 STEERS FOR SALE

Ones. 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'sH.A.\'TI 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.

Tor Sale, Registered Holstein Bull

10 months old whose sister is champion 2—

y'.1-old of the state. Record, 26 1110111114,
’6 lbs butter in 7 da Sire
l’ontiac De Nijlandcr, Record 35.43 but-
ter in 7 do. Dani’s record as 3—yr.—old 21
lbs. butter in 7 da. Price. $100,011, 1.. C.
Kctzler, Clover Dairy Farm, Flint, Mich.

OLS'I‘EIN (‘OW 8 yrs.

on in April. Is right in every way.
A111). 18.46, dam 26.38, 21111 (111111 31.78.
A. F. Loomis, Owosso. Michigan.

WHAT [)0 YOU “'AN’I‘? I represent ~_ll
Sho1tholn breeders. Can put \ou in
touch with host milk ol beef silains Bulls

old, due to fresh—

 

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Two Registered Shol thorn
For sale bulls 11 and ii months, roan
and white $125 00 each (.‘. \'. Tracy,
Ithaca, Mich. Union Phone.

SHORTHORN 1 bull 10 mos, old,

5 females, 2: years
to 7 years old. Frank lohrabacher,

Laingsburg, Mic_higan.
. . S“ .
Registered ”“ ”Y

("()\\S for sale.

three from a dozen, just ire-11 or due
soon. Waterman 1\'~ VVatcrmau, l’ncllard
Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

 

111111 calm-:1
high,
short

I‘X’iIS’l‘lCREI) IIOLSTI‘IIN
for sale—chcding \‘m'y
prices Very low for 11
Model Stock Farms. E. P.
East Lansing. Michigan.

“1111:.

Sarcastic
dau. by g1 Iandson King

Your (hohe of one, two or

but

Kinney, Prop,

 

DISPERSIO Twenty head of Reg-

istered ’l-lolsl'ein cow»
Stlong in the blood of Pontinc lx’orndyke.

Eight head sired by Sire .\bbol<irk llcl
K01 Marcella. Large, thrifty young cows
in good condition. A llllllllli‘l' of those
cows have made good records. 1 want

to sell this offering to men who have use
for a cal‘load or more of such stock.
Edgar Collier, Fowlcrville. Michigan.

. HORSES fl

ERCIIERO\ S1‘..\III()NS, one 3 years

old, driven single and double. One ten
years old, thoroly bioken single and doub-
le. Will work like a mare. Heavy boned
gentle fellows. Price 5400 21nd $300. Fred
.\' Randall. Manchester. Mich.
SHETLAND PONIES "W Sale W“

for description &

 

 

prices. Mark B. Curdy llouell. Mich.
()It ALE—Percheron Stallion, black,
\o 121705 foaled lune 23,1915; No.

1511051. foaled June 29, 1916. J. F. Glady,

Mich.

Vassar,
One 2-yca1—old Black Per-
or e cheron Stallion weighing
1800 1118,3151) our aged

Stallion Ingomar 30047 that has been at
the head of our stud for 10 years. M. A.

 

 

 

 

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HOGS
I’.()I.\Nl) (HIIN. S Bred.

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LEONARD m... m, mg, either sex

at1casonahle 111119. 11.11 Leonard, St.
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ful breeding large heavy—laying fowls ground can be plowed, hai‘rowod 311d (311 {gas Slim“ fiemlftl-‘Tfief; ‘2; ,lti‘wil' O ,. BRED GILTS
Eggs $5 101' 50: :10 forum. Chas. 12 cultivated. 32:13:11,155mam...“,,,:~.‘,,‘,,.,,,,_“ ‘ ’” I {33) ‘f'égTB-SNU {47?49- Longfellow
Cook, Fowlcrvllle. Michigan. A fruit orchard is the best kind of A H l 1 ' 1 l 11 l 1 ‘ C 11915.1 at 100wa 13,”: 10.11:: iiihlf‘iigyflifig
From strain wtll range for poultry Of all ages. GI‘QSS. l tegls ercl O‘H‘NIISH breed serviceable hours. I
Barred ROCk Eggs NOON-‘1 11' 3““ (‘ssb‘ shade. moths flies and other kind; of or a ,Bull'sb rfiadyl 1‘01 1.;0“1C_f‘d .1. c.1111. .lrzwlc'rr, 11.1mm, Mich.
per your. $2.00 per 15 Prepaid 111' par- - ‘ ‘ (“V u CE Y“, .0’“. " ‘ ‘ ,
cel post 1‘ roulnr mm 19ml «Kuhn: insect l1fe are always present. Fallen lbs. bull and A. R. O. dams, also females 1«.(.11s"r1<.‘1u«.'11 llAMrsnlluc 150.111.»;
’ . ' ‘ . , ' ' ' ' j (7- 0f .11 .1ges._ . . ant )red gilts for sale. Jrhn W'.
Constunlllll. Mllhlgan. (non’m'md on f0110u/mg pnocl “'m. Griffin, Howell M1011. 11. .\o. 5. Snyder. R. 4.. St. Johns Mich ,
One 11 mos. old grandson “OAKS and SOWS of line
FOR SAL of Royal “(”qu whose 0 l' C quality. l’rkes 111aS1111able

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

dam 21s 21 21 yr. old produced 401) 21 lbs. of
butter in 1 yr. Solid color. First check
of 590 takes him. Registered, trans—
ferred and delivered to any point 111
Michigan. Fred A. Brennan, Capac. Mich

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CHOICE REGISTERED STOCK

PERCHERONS,
HOLSTEINS,
SHROPSHIRES,
ANGUS
DUROCS

DORRD. —_BUELL, ELMIRA, ——MICH.
R. F. D. No. l

 

 

 

 

Registered flee and will ship C ..() D. P loyd
H. Banister, Springport, Mi<h
for service; also fall lugs

0.1. 0' either sex; sired by 1st

prize yearling boar Mich. State 11‘1111' 1017
Clover Leaf Stock 11.11m Monroe. Mich.
R. No. 1 .

 

Choice young boars really

 

 

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' A limited number of
Shrop slnre Ewes bred ewes; bmd
right! Prices right! A son of Tanner’s
Royal in service. H. F. Mouser, Ithaca.
Michigan.

 

0R AUGUST DELIVERY 50 Register-

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

    

 

 

 


  
 
  
 

    
  
    
   
 
   
   
    
   
       
       
     
   
     
 
  
        
   
   
   
    
   
  
  
   
  
   
 
   
   
  
  
  

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SEED CORN

Owing to the had railroad condi-
tions, our com is slow in coming from
the growers We expect to have our
stock complete this month. Do not
write us, we will make our announce—
ment in this paper.

We offer for immediate shipment:

Lincoln Seed Oats @ $1.50 per bu.
(5 Bu. or more sacks included.)

Six Row Seed Barley ' $2.75 per
Bu. (Bags extra. 400 each. 1.00 lb.
per bag.) All f.o.b_ Ypsilanti, Cash
with order.

MARTIN DAWSON COMPANY,

U. h'. Food Adms. Licenses (#35744 and E—lDill

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and little labor. Choice. mane W
stock for sale with sows in mom, fallow-
ing low prices for 30 dag-l:

' express. Dr.
,_ State St, St. Joseph, Michigan.

RAISE GUINEAPIGS

Large profit from W

females and 1 male 3 5.00
6 females and 1 male 8.00
12 females and 1 male 15.00
A few youngsters at 60¢ each.
Send 3L 0. pigs forwarded first
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in Sir All sunny

' . ‘ em as has?“ - be produced

on the farms and in villages by—the
use of ordinary kitchen equipment ‘to
help make up the average of<elghty
one pounds,_ the estimated sugar for
each person in the United States last
year. A few sugar maple trees, well~
kept colonies of bees, a hundred feet
of sugar beets raised in the garden,
or a. small patch of sweet sorghum,
and cull or other surplus {apples which
might go to waste unless made into
apple sirup may each be made to
contribute to our sugar supply.

The present limited sugar supply
can be increased if many more fam-
ilies, in regions where the sugar maple
grows, would each make maple sirup
of sugar from 10 or more maple trees.
Ten trees under ordinary conditions
can be expected to yield about four
gallons of sirup or thirty pounds of
sugar.

Maple sugar making is an art the
pioneer settlers of America learned
from the Indians and for years it has
been a home and farm industry. The
process is not so complicated that any-
one who has the opportunity need
hesitate to try it. Find a sugar maple
tree ten or more inches in diameter;
bore a hole three-eights of an inch
or slightly more in diameter; insert
a metal spout or one made by punch-
ing the pith from a. section of elder;
set a bucket under it that the sap
may collect; boil this down in a kettle
or shallow pan on the kitchen stove
to the proper density for maple sirup.
If sugar is preferred, boil it down
further until it is quite thick, taking
care that it does not burn, and let it
crystallize.

“Sugar weather” often starts by
the middle of February in the south-
ern part of the sugar-maple region.
The first sap is sweetest. There is no
time to be lost in talking; get ready
to take advantage of the first warm
sunny days. “Old timers” say the
outlook is fine for a good sugar season.

The 017108 of Sugar Investigations of
the United States Department of Agri-
culture upon application will send in-
structions for making sirups and su-
gars at h...ne.

LIVE STOCK ON FARMS
AND ON THE RANGES

During the first half of 1917, there
was particular apprehension lest the
number of live stock should be de-
creased. As a matter of fact, owing
to the greater abundance of food-
stuffs that the large crops of the year

prices. threw revealed if most;
gratifying increase in the primal-poll ‘
mm of live stock—«an. increase in.
the number of horses duringrt'hat m;
of 353,000 or 1.7 per cent; of mules,
101,000, or 2.1 per cent; of 11111011
cows, 390,000, or 1.7 per cent; Of
other cattle, 1,857,000, or 4.5 per centf
of sheep, 1,284,000, or 2.7 per cent,
and of swine, 3,871,000, or 5.7 per
cent. The increase of 4.5 per cgnt in
the number of “other cattle” is due
to an increase of 4.2 per cent in
calves; 22.7 per cent in heifers for
milk; 8.5 per cent in other heifers;
a decrease of 3.2 per cent in steers,
and an increase of 1.9 per cent in “oth-
er cattle” (milch cows not included.)
Swine over six months old increased
4.5 per cent ;those under six months
7.8 per [cent . Sheep over six months
increased .3 one per cent; under six
months, 11.1 per cent. '

It will be of interest to note that
the number of live stock estimated
on January 1, 1918, shows the follow-
ing increases over January 1, 1914,
the year before the beginning of the
European war: Horses, 601,000, or
2.9 per cent; mules, 375,000, or .8
of one per cent; milch cows, 2,547,000,
or 12.3 per cent; other cattle, 7,691,000,
or 21.5 per cent; swine, 12,441,000 or
21.1 per cent. It is especially note-
worthy that Within the last year, for
the first time in many years, the num-
ber of sheep has shown a tendency
to increase.

SEASONABLE SUGGESTION
FROM EDMORE READER

Here is a little suggestion, also,
which might prove helpful to the great
majority of farmers; for there are
few, I take it, who have sheds for
the barn-yard manure:

These frosty days when one can
do little else but chores around the
house and barn, it would be time
saved in the busy rush of spring, and
a conservation of value to gather up
the frozen chunks of cow and horse
droppings in the feeding yard and
barns and haul them out upon the
field and place in large piles here and
there. When the full spring thaw
comes, and the rains fall the leach-

~ ing of this manure will not be receiv-

ed. by the ground that needs it, and
not in the barnyard lagoon. The piles
should be placed on the highest parts
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and scattered over the field. A Sub-
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AMONG THE BREEDERS "

By W. MILTON KELLY, Field Editor
Home Adam-s: Howell. Michigan

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Clover Leaf Stock Farm, Monroe, Mich.
offers some bargains in O. I. C. boars and
fall pigs. These pigs are sired by.thc
first prize yearling boar at the Michigan
State fair and are from large sows.

With so many. excellent young pure
bred dairy bulls being offered at from
$50 to $200 it is time for our farmers to
cash in on their scrub males that are
spreading seeds of mediocricy and be-
gin in a systematic way some well de-
fined plan of breeding up their herds.

or

Mr. Chas. I. Cook of Fowlervill'e, Mich,
is offering hatching eggs from his choice
pens of Barred Rocks at $5 for 50 or $10
for 120. Mr. Cook has been breeding up
his flock for eight years. All of his hens
are large vigorous birds and his males
are from some of the best utility flocks
in the country. ~

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L. W. Barnes & Son of Byron, Mich-
igan, veteran breeders of Poland China.
swine, have a choice lot of young brood
sows for immediate shipment. The edi-
tor recently visited this herd and will
guarantee these young sows to be right
in every way. No farmer can make a
mistake by carrying one or two of these
young sows and their coming litters along
in good growthy condition until his grain
crops are fit for “feeding. ‘

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After many years of successful breed-
ing, failing health has made it necessary
for Mr. Edgar Collier to offer his entire
herd of more than 40 head of Holstein-
Friesian cattle for sale. Very few herds
in the country represent better blood
than will be found in this herd. Most
of the cows are granddaughters of Pon-
tiac Korndyke and from heavy produc-
ing dams. Any young .brcodor in search
of a few choice females of the right kind
will do well to visit Mr. ("ollier’s farm
and select some of these young cows and
heifers. And it will not require a for-
tune to take home a. lot of good stock.

In this issue you will find the adver-
tisement of Deveries Leghorn Farms &
Hatchery of Zeeland, Mich, breeders and
importers of the English Barron White
Leghorn, the greatest egg producing- Leg—
horrr' the world has ever produced and
are the real 240 egg per year birds and
winter layers. They are large and prov—
en money makers in egg production. This
plant is the largest exclusive Leghorn
farm in the state and with its thousands
of breeders is in a position to supply the
readers of M. B. with thousands of
hatching eggs in small and large lots.
This is an old reliable concern and all
farmers who want better poultry or to
improve their flocks will do well to write
Mr. Q. Deverios for hatching eggs and
get some of these money—making egg ma-
chines. Mr. Deveries takes pleasure in
referring his customers to the Zoe-land
State Bank or any business place in the
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ISABELLA (Ween—Farmers not do-
ing much. Weather warmer and snow
about all gone. Roads all ice. Farmers
are selling a few beans but are holding
potatoes on account of bad roads and
higher prices—E. B., Remus, Feb. 26.

MECOSTA (Northeast)—Farmers are
busy cutting summer wood, hauling ma-
nure and getting ready for spring. We
are very glad that report was sent on
from Washington in regard. to farmer
doing up all their odd Jobs in the win—
ter as we never even thought of. domg
them before. We can now begin our
sixteen hour day the first of January

"instead of working only ten hours a day

in the winter as we have always done.
'If the roll-top desk farmer Will only fig-
ure a little more to save our time we
will be able to work the whole 24 hours.
———F. M. E., Millrock, Feb. 28.

MONTCALM (Southwes)—The order
of the day is trying to locate our.U.
S. mail carrier and we have information
from our postmaster at the local town
that we will have no mail servwe un—
less more talk is stopped . Farmers are
taking advantage of the warm weather
by drawing corn in the shock which is
very disagreeable in drawng on account
of the thawing of the fields. No hay is
being sold as the roads are m a poor con-
dition for heavy loads of any kind.
Not much produce is moving except a
”few bushels of oats and there _is no sale
for potatoes at the nearby stations which
we imagine is on account of the shortage
of cars but they made us grade our pota~
toes on a first-class condition and now
they want us to give these produce gam—
blers the rest A carload of soft coal
was received at Millers this week which
was a very nice quality comparing to
coal that was shipped to other parts of
the county and was hauled away al-
most as fast as possible at $8.50 per
ton. Weather is warmer than usual
with snow and ice remaining on the soil.
—W. L., Greenville, March 1.

ALLEGAN (Soutlwastl—Farmcrz have
begun tapping their maple trees. Weather
quite moderate. Couplc inches of snow
on wheat at present. Farmers selling a
little hay. No potatoes being sold—W.
ll. Otserro March 2.

(‘.-\SS (West) All farmers who can
get. sap pails are tapping their trces
this spring. Maple syrup is bringing
a good price. Most farmers who have
opened their potato pits find them froz—
cu. Stock is about all shipped out of
these parts. We had a thunder storm on
the 25th ,one barn was hit and burned to
the ground with 20 tons of hay. No
stock lost. We are having some nice
weather just now.~——W. H. A., Dowagiac.
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BERRIE.‘ (West)——Farmers are prun-
ing fruit trees and trimming grape vines.
Many farmers report their peach trees
frozen; those who have maple groves are
making syrup whichretails here at $2
per gallon. A carload of corn arrived
llt‘l'e from Ohio, another coming. Price
“.05 at beginning fell to $1.25; corn
was in poor condition after thawing
out. Great shortage here of clover seed
and seed corn. Farmers are worried a—
bout getting a supply. Farmers who
planned a big acreage of potatoes are
going to sow oats and barley instead—O.
Y. Baroda, March 2.

(‘A’LHOUN (Nortliwest)—Farmers are
getting up wood. Weather fine and lots
of water and snow all gone. There are
some potatoes selling at $1.00. There
have been lots of potatoes grown in the
county. Seed corn is the next thing to
look for as there is but little in the coun-
try. Hay is very scarce around here—C
l}. H. Battle Creek, March 1.

LIVINGSTON \l‘cst)—~Most of the
farmers are busy cutting wood. Weather
fair and lots of frost in the ground yet.
although snow banks are about gone.
Home beans are going to market both
of the elevators at Fowlerville have built
buildings for drying them. Some are
instilling hay—G. A. W., Fowlcrvillc. Mui-
-nt.

MlSSAITKEE—Farmers are not, very
busy now, only chores and wood. VVezitli—
cr is more spring like. Farmers are sell—
iru' sonic pnlntocs now and are getting
73 wnts per hundrvd at Lake City. Quite
2i number of horses bring sold and at
good prim-cs a. good many old horses hnyc
air-d during the winter. A big demand
for lllll(‘l’l cows and good prices—ll. ll,
(‘iiii-licon. March 1

'rI7S(‘()LA (Northeast)——-\Veai.lier fine
and snow going fast. Some beans are
lwing sold. also grain and hay. Not
many potatoes for the market here. Rough
feed for stock is scarce. Spring elec—
tion is near and some, people are getting
excited.~S S. Cass City. March 2.

INGHAM ((‘entraD—The weather dll'l
roads prevent much doing but chores.
The rain has removed most of the snow
bunks. Fields are bare. Freezing nights.
\Vheat not looking good. Some. are ready
to tap sugar bush few having been done
my already. A, number of auction sales.
some farmers quitting farming as they
are not able to run farms alone and no
prospect of help. but high school boys
and not time to break them in and teach
them how to do farm work. C. J. M..
Mason Feb. 25.

 

NTONIA (West)—Austion sales are com-
ing thick and fast and everything has
been selling at high prices. Feed is the
gi-uatest problem the farmers have to
solve. There has not been many western
lambs fed in this part of the county this
winter. As the snow and ice are going
fast, traffic on our highways is getting
normal. All are looking eagerly forward
for spring with renewed hopes that the
coming summer will be more successful

(Oddly £1“ng Rerérfs

for the farmer and Uncle Sam.—-A. W. C...
Saranac. Feb. 25.

MISSAUKEE (South)—Farmers can
do litle now. Selling nothing but a feiv
potatoes. Some call for cattle but none
moving—H. E. N., Cutcheon. Feb. 21.

AREN c (lasso—«Very chang'eable is
the weat er lately. Farmers are signing
up $10 beet contracts. Hay is selling at

.a high figure and many of our farmers

are compelled to buy. Oats are being
marketed at 850. It looks as though good
seed will be very high,——M. B. R.

ST. JOSEPPII (East)——Farmers are
doing little but cut and sell wood, hay
and fodder—W. W.._Colon, Mar. 2.

TUSCOLA '((‘.entral)—There is lots of
ice and water on the wheat which does
not look very good for a big crop. There
is nothing selling here but hay and
Straw. There will be a big acreage of
oats sown here this spring, but not many
beans or potatoes.——-R. B. 0., Wells,
Mar. 2

SAGINAW (Ween—Some farmers are
tapping their sugar bushes. Mast of the
farmers are getting up their summer’s
wood.. Everything is selling good at the
auction sales.——(}. L., St. Charles, Mar. 2.

GENESEE (South)—~Farmers are get—
ting ready for their spring work. Soil
is without any protection and fall sown
crops look poor. Farmers are selling p0-
tatoes, wood. cattle and hogs, also \Vl't
beans if they can find a place to handle
them. The potato market is weaker and
prices are about $1 per bu. in Flint and
considerably lower in other parts of the
country—C. W. S.. Fenton, Mar. 1.

LAPEER (Southeast)—.\larch came in
like a. lamb all right—springlike weather.
Some hay is moving with the. price a
little better. Ice nearly all off the wheat.
At auction sales farm machinery is sell-
ing for more than it cost when new. A
hay loader sold the other day that five

years ago sold for one dollar, it brought'

$40—C. A. B.. lmlay City, Mar. 2.

HURON (Central) The recent thaw
followed by freezing has covered the
wheat and clover fields with a heavy coat
of ice. The horse buyers are shipping a
good many horses from here.~—A F C
l’igeon, Feb. 27

GRAND TRAVERSE (South)—Some
beans are being threshed here. Farmers
are getting up their summer‘s wood. Some
talk of a tractor being bought in this
neighborhood this spring. A few will
make maple sugar. There are some po-
tatoes_in the farmers’ hands yet. Seed
corn 18 hard to find, and the price is
very high. (lraham flour is selling at
8 1—3 cents per 1b.; cornmeal at 7 cents.
It is quite a problem to know how to
make everything go as far as possible,
and still make both ends meet. (‘. L. 8
Williamsburg, Feb. 28.

ANTBIM (Notthwest)——Fine weather
the past few days. Farmers are doing
chores and cutting wood. Cattle at a
sale here sold at an average of $62 per
head for cows and from $15 to $50 for
calves and yearlings. Hens sold for 86c
each. Horses were sold cheap. Hay
brought from $16 to $20 per ton in the
mow. The soldier boys from this sec-
tion arrived safely in France the first
of the week. G. A. D., (‘harlevoix lv'eb—
ruary 28.

SANILAC (Southeast)—Auction sales
are plentiful; machinery, cattle and poul—
try and selling high, horses are plentiful
and cheap. ’l‘hreshers are beginning to
thresh beans. Beans are bringing $13 :1
hundred.-—.\'. .l. \' t‘ l‘rriswcll. Mar. 1.

NEWAYGO (N«:‘~“\enst)——Some pota-
toes are being ll] 1' l \‘llll' some are
being held on account ol‘ pri-e. and ‘llSO
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a few potatoes frozen—ll. 'l‘. \anmlvil e
March 2

CHEBOYGAN (Northwest) a... S0111»,
farmirs have been h:iui g polatoc: ti
(.‘hel'ioygan and ih~ tha'vrs are paying

55 and 60 cents l).r bu 1h l. l'h"l“t‘."OI‘é th‘
farmers are disc ur'iged on accouiv of
the price. The Higgsvillo branch or” the
t‘liclioygnn (‘ounty Farm Bureau was or-
ganized by the county agent recently: 7
w, W. B. ltiggsville, March 2, ‘

BAY (SoutheasU—Thc farmers licrc
can‘t do much now on account of the
wet weather. Grain and hay arc mostly
disposed 0f.—J. U. A., Munger, l‘llll‘t‘ll 2.

SANILAC (Caution—Some farmers
are pressmg hay and drawing it to town.
Some are drawing cats to town; they are
a good price. now selling at 9lc per bu.
A big acreage is being taken here for
sugar beets. There will also be a lot of
whickory planted here this year, the price
being $l2.50 per ton—A. B., Sandusky,
March 2. i

CLARE (North)—A§l “vfarm produce
here was sold last fall. Farmers are
getting «ready for spring work—D. 8,,
Lake, March 2. /

MASON (North Central)—Farmers are
beginning preparations for the spring
work. Weather mild. Potatoes moving
to market rapidly; price dropped to $1
per cwt. Choice hand-picked navy beans
bring $12 per curt—B. M., LudingtO-n.
March 2.

HURON (“lest Contain—The weather
has been much 'warmer the past few
days. Plenty of water in the low places.
We have no seed corn here. Farmers
are buying feed, hay $20 per ton. Are
not selling much grain now.—-—G. W., Elk-
ton, March 1.

0_CEANA (North)—Signs of spring are
beginning to Show, and it will bring a
big problem to the farmers in the matter
of how to obtain seed. The failure of
all crops last year makes all seed very
scarce—H. V. V. B., Hesperia, Feb. 26.

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MORE CRP
From » LIME !

Must Limestone be
WH Finely Pulverized
Put one large lump of rock salt in a gallon
of water. How much stirring will it take
to make the salt dissolve? A considerable
amount to say the least. Try the same
amount of finely ground salt and only the
slightest stirring Wm be necessary. You get
the results in MUCH QUICKER TIME.

Its the same in using limestone on
yoursoil. Limestone in lumpsis used
for the foundations of your big build.
ings and the walls of your banks.
Does it dissolve? Of course not.

But when limestone is used on your soil, it
must be acted upon by the weak acids of the soil
exactly as the salt is acted upon by the water. It
must dissolve. That’s why the more finely the
limestone is pulverized, the more quickly and
more permanent are your results.

The Solvay Process Co. guarantees that 95% of

satay

LIMESTON

passes thru a 50 mesh screen. That this is the
correct percentage necessary to guarantee econo-
my for you is proven by the following quotation;

What an Authority
Has to Say

Wm. Freer, of the Pennsylvania State College, in a
special treatise on limestone records, "Pot experiments
with clover on sour soil, in which limestone, sifted into
different grades of fineness, was so used as to compare the
cficiency of these respective grades showcd,—- both in six
month experiments and in eighteen month experiments,
that the COARSE LIMESTONE HAD PRACTI CAL-
LY m NEUTRALIZING EFFECT within these periods
of time. Limestone crushed to one fortieth inch particles
had very good effect while that crushed to particles of on:
aixtieth of an inch had much more cfl'cct.”

SOLVAY PULVERIZED LIMESTONE
is pulverized so that 95% is finer than one
fiftieth of an inch. ,

Write {or full infor-
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The Farmers of Michigan Lose Annually more than 3 0 ,
$2,500,000 worth of Live Stock, Horses, Cattle, Sheep .

and Hogs from Accident and Disease.

The animals are destroyed and their cash value lost not only to the farmer
but to the community. the Slate ' ‘ ‘

This amazing sum of moncy can be. saved to the luriners and the State If
tlicy (the farmers) will but avail themselves of

Michigan Live Stock insurance Co.

organized expressly for the purpose of indcninifying owners of live stock against i
death from any cause. ‘

We want agents to carry this great message lo every farmer. ‘ .
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SENATOR DUNLAP STRAWBERRY
PLANTS, money makers. Propagating
rows trimmed; 1,000 for $2.25; 500 for
31.25. J. E. Hampton, Bangor, Michigan.

SEED BEANS.

Dry hand picked. Write to: prices
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The following is a Washington dis-
patch to the Grand Rapids Press, un-
der date of March 4th:

WASHINGTON, D. C.-—CongresSion-
211 action looking to the abolition of
the obnoxious potato grading rules
and the provision of cars to move the
immense crop was forecast in debate
in the senate in which representatives n
of four states made protest against
Senator Will-
declared
when the agricultural appropriation
bill was reached he proposed to test
the food administration was
to be allowed to enforce unfair grad-
He said that food
officials had been deaf to the appeals

existing conditions.
iam Alden Smith
w h eth e r
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regulations.

of farmers.

Senator Jones of Washington said
this was no time for inaugurating a
Senator Poindex-

system of grading.

tor of the same state declared

3.000 cars

in a small crop being
year.
stated that thousands
of carioads of potatoes,
many of them needed
for seed, could not be
moved in his state.

It is evident that
facts in relation to the
potato grading situa-
tion in Michigan, re—
cently laid before the
senate agricultural com-
.r‘ittee, have had an
effect. Michigan grow-
m's. headed by Jason
Vt'oodman of Kalama—
zoo. member of the
state board of agricul-
turn. made bitter com-
plaint. Senator Smith,
declaring that he iii—
temled to get some re-
form of the rules. said:
“Food administration
officials have disregard-
ed common sense and
resorted to the scien-
tific aspect of potato
growing only. They
arbitrarily classify our
immense crop and
throw out 70 per cent
of the output as un-
fit merely because the
circumference of. the
potatoes is not large
enough to suit them.”

LOWER DETROIT
MILK PRICE

(Cont. from page 1)
ducers. and one-twelfth
out of the pockets of
the distributors. How—
ever, there’s no reason
for complaint on the
part of the producer,
as the price of $2.85
which he will receive
for April milk and
.1245 for May milk will
be the highest he ever
received during the
same months.

The above action was
taken at a meeting of
the milk commission
on Monday of this week
and is designed pri-
marily to encourage
greater consumption of
milk. The price will
drop to 12 cents per
quart during May. This
will be the first time
that the public has
been given any part of
the advantage of lower
milk prices during the
summer months. In
fact, it may be sup-
posed that they have
lived all this time in
blissful ignorance of the

OPPOSE GRADING

Senator Wm. Alden Smith Takes
Lead in Plan to‘ Test Author-
ity of Food Administra-
tion to Fix Grades

were needed at once to
keep the crop from spoiling.
tor Borah of Idaho read telegrams to
show the situation was desperate in
his state and declared it would result
planted
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this fact that the distributing concerns

have been able to buy milk during the

summer for from one-fourth to one-
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HOW A CITY DAILY NEWSPAPER LOOKS UPON POTATO GRADING

 

 

 

 

 

 

R. CONSUMER, shake hands with Mr. Potato:

You think he is an old acquaintance? You must

be introduced again. He is a vegetable of class
now. There are three classes of him—U. S. grade No. 1,
U. S. Grade No. 2 and the proletariat.

It is with U. S. grade No. 1, the aristocracy among
tubers, that you should make your acquaintance. Has
he not been dubbed by the sovereign power of the great
American government. And does he not enjoy these
honors by right of his own inherent worth and bigness?
For it has been decreed that every potato which aspires
to] acceptance in the mart shall pass the ordeal of the
c u e.

To speak plainly———there is a ruling Of the United
States food administration that dealers in potatoes may
require every farmer to run his potatoes over two
screens, the meshes of which are respectively 1% inches
and 11,9 inches in diameter. All potatoes that roll over
the first screen are U. S. grade No. 1; all that roll over
the second screen are U. S. grade No. 2;all that fall
through both screens are culls which the farmer must
not sell.

Query for the consumer-—Are you getting potatoes
of U. S grade No. 1, or of U. S. grade No. 2, or both?
Your storekeeper could buy potatoes, U. S. grade N0. 1,
the nice, big, round white ones, this morning for $1 to
$1.10 per bushel. He is selling potatoes to you for from
30 to 50 cents a peck. He is making between 20 cents
and $1 profit on every bushel. He ought to sell you U
S. giade No.1 at the price. Are you getting that grade?

The man who put the potatoes into the car out of
which your grocer bought, dealt with the farmer. For

No. 1 grade he paid the farmer from 60 to 90 cents a
bushel, according to the market in his locality. But he
also bought the farmer’s grade No. 2 potatoes. For
them he paid from 35 to 50 cents a bushel. He ought
to have kept the two grades separate and given you
the benefit of the difference in price. Did he do it?
Have you seen any pota oes in your store labeled U. S.
grade No. 2 and priced about 40' cents a. bushel below
the price of the larger size? Or have you been paying
the long price for mixed No. 1 and No. 2 grades or for
straight No. 2 potatoes?

Look at the picture. These potatoes were screened
from a farmer’s load and graded No. 2. Some varieties
of potatoes grow long and some grow round. The round
potatoes grade evenly, but a. long potato, even though it
it pretty large, may go through a. 1%-inch screen if it
happens to fall upon the screen endwise. The potatoes
in the picture are each about three inches long, but
they grade No. 2 because in their short diameter they
measure less than 17/8 inches.

Farmers who grew the long varieties of potatoes lost
thousands of dollars by this grading rule for a large
part of every (‘1 op fell below the No.1 requirement and
was discounted in price at the caprice of the buyer.

But you, Mr. Consumer, were not benefitted, for the
dealer was at liberty to mix the grades and sell all at
the highest market price.

This is the federal rule for potato grading. The man
who has charge of the potato transportation department
of the United States food administration in Washington
is one of the largest potato dealers operating in Chi-
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Twenty-five carloads of Michigan
potatoes will soon be en route tQ the
Flanders dehydrating plant at Elba.
N. Y., Where the potatoes will be dried
for the use of the army and navy.
The potatoes were purchased
the War Preparedness Board f‘sdme-
where in Northern Michigan.”
understood that the proposition is in-
the nature of an experiment and that
if found to work out satisfactorily
and economically, a larger number of
potatoes will be purchased and sim-
ilarily dried.

The Preparednes Board also auth-
orized the purchase of 60,000 bushels
of New York seed corn, which will be
sold the farmers of the state at $5 per

thru

It is

HOW MANY BEANS HAVE _
YOU YET- TO SELL ?

It is claimed that nearly a million
bushels of wet beans are yet in the -
farmers’ hands.
know if this is a. fact, and would ap-
preciate it if our readers would write
us stating how many wet or unmar-
ketable beans they still have on hand.
Do this at once.
from representative farmers over the
bean growing districts will do much
to throw light on the actual situation
at the present time, and perhaps

We should like to

Reports'bf this kind

inspire last minute ef-
forts to save the situ-
ation.

N 0 PRICE SET ON
SEED CORN

There has been a
story going the rounds
that the government
has set a price on seed
corn. Please let us
know about this thru
the columns of Mi-cH-
IGAN BUSINESS FARM-
ING.—B. H. E., Rich-
mond.

The government has
fixed no price for seed

corn. There have been
rumors circulated to
that effect, and the

daily press has carried
stories about the prob-
ability of such contin-
gency.

Caro—Tuscola county
is laying claim to lead—
ership in new and im-
proved methods of farm—
ing. Lenawee county
has long been counted
among the banner
counties in the matter
of farm products and
the amount of money
invested in farms, stock
and implements. But
when it comes to real
enterprise among the
farmers, Tuscola coun-
ty, according to the
Caro Advertiser, has
long stood at the top of
the list. Improved meth-
ods of drainage are
coming in for much at-
tention. The scrub
sire is almost a thing
of the past in Tuscola
county. Farmers’ or-
ganizations are rapid.-
ly coming to the front.
In other words the
farmers of the county
are rapidly attaining
a place Where they may
soon be regarded as
leaders and models for
the remainder of .the
agricultural counties of
the state.

 

Fertility that runs
down the creek won’t
grow more wheat for
the Allies.

Putting—Tile in the
wet swales is one way

~01 helping Uncle Sam,

win the war