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.Vol. V- No.32 . SATURDAY, APRIL 13th,1918 $1 mists-antenna

0: know of a single farmer who is withholding wheat
from the channels of trade, or it you happen

to be doing this very thing yourself, tell us about

  
The Spirit That Licks the Kaiser ——————
Michigan Business Farming Questions Food EirdFﬁiglggl‘Sm (:1er ﬁg]??? “gag: Preble County / Ohio) Banker Encourages
Administrator Prescott’s Statement planting time approaches they hasten the Farmers to Buy Tractors and
That 2,500,000 Bushels Wheat I to enlist for service with Uncle.Sam. .If Gives Them Financlal
. . , . the draft boards Will only be a llttle more Assistance
Stlll 1n Farmers Hands . lenient on agricultural rogistrants and thus ;
insure ample experienced help for the plant- =
4.} "Re or ‘ . lng. cultivation and harvesting , 0f crops, Like as not you never heard of Preble county. —
. m1) is show that the farmers of Michigan there won’t be many “slacker’ acres in Ohio? Preble county claims the distinction of 5:
are olding two and a half million bushels of Michi an this ear We ublish below tho . ~ :r,
‘ : thi 191 n g y ° p . , “ being the banner tractor county of the entire :
.1 91' 7 wheat crop, declared State FOOd Ad- ﬁrst two pledges we have recerved Since our U 't d St t (1 member of the family ;_
5' mlmstrator George A. Prescott to the Editor of appeal to the “soldiers of the soil.” Others m e 3‘ es ,an every d . t ht to han- =
_/ "as; MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING. will appear in succeeding issues. If you from the baby down “'3 gran pa ls hang. it
‘ "We do not believe it,” was our reply_ haven’t yet enlisted in the M. B. F. “Home dle the T9135 0f the 11‘011 horse t at 15 pu. mg ‘
2% “Those are the ﬁgures given out by the Bureau Guards,” send in your application today! , more Preble county acres to work thls year than .
E . . fore in Preble county’s history.
g of Cro Estimates,” contlnu . “ ‘ ‘ ' ever be *-
* I h p ed Mr Prescott, an.d I “We are glad to join the Home Guards of l But it is not of Preble county’s DI'OUd boast that; .j
ave been asked to secure this wheat at once If , loyal, patriotic soldiers of the soil," writes San- . l t d W 1 sed f c rse that
possible. We don’t want to use any harsh meas- 1 ford Grsenhoe: 0f Sheridan: MiCh-v Whose 50“ we write 0 ay. 8 are p ea ’ 0 cu ’ . '1
ures if we can avoid it, and I wish you would Siadméni‘ﬁnciigépir' Piyait'rkéidyaii'evewrisy hﬁiglg our neighbors on the south should show such ev1—
make an appeal to your readers to dispose of their grid meapon'é, arid the passwords have always dence 0f progressweness, but 0‘,” interlest centlers
wheat holdings at once. You don’t know how een nown. . . . upon one Waldo C. Moore-cashier of t e Peop es ;
badly this wheat is needed; I am sure if the “11111 compliance Vgitili tillge I'Ie‘quest ygu DUbtlliiSItetl 13:1de oiLeﬁZISbﬁgérO; W§;::ulsse lIlllePIi:b1t:1:0;:lll,e :
farmers realized the seriousness of. the shortage in. t e ‘3“ issue 0 ‘ ' " W0“ say. a W’ y I" e. ’ ' e
, 1 led d b .t t th - , . 5
they would need no urging to sell the balance of 3‘; p Angie rggnsiihfg Hairdo cilpyecteqto Soil??? m? who made poss1ble Preble county 3 tractor rewrd‘ g
l t their last year’s crops n meager resources for that purpose. My ideas Mr. Moore early foresaw the DOSSIbllltleS oi the g
" r ' coincide with your sentiments. . E
“They don’t, and they haven’t. I think when "We Wish to congratulate you on the succgss modern tractor and offered to help every farmer
the truth is out you’ll ﬁnd there is" very little {gt lysigiezlscﬂs'veﬁ,agflillllroflorh/Itilc‘higgrrlner. Wlth 0t Preble county to. buy one. Any farnller fan if “"
Wheat left in the hands of the farmers. We have 4 t * guy a tracioruby pay1§gt$100 dew? ”gen. fags if:
repeatedly advised our readers to diSp0se of their “As long as men go to the front at the risk een accep e as a 1‘8 paymen an glVlng l -
3‘ ' . H . Ll H. N l , - ’ :3
g :_ wheat holdings and have assisted them in secur- Eir'é’g‘yngrailﬁél, gingglettgdto thee TSJCTDS?‘ Egg mom to the PeOpleS bank for ms balance. ffqgﬁe g
3- ing the prices from the dealers that the Food “Aggynﬁggstgonigiig ﬁyclfgtgytomé 1(2u2tlyf‘gclil as}: farmer can take as long as he nee s to pay 0 9 g
g Control Law intended they should have.” ' in pl§ntin jas many acres. as my means will DOte' _ :
; We want to prove to Mr. Prescott that his ﬁg~ pexggving hi‘SaeIeoaTWSC’L‘irgoén£33313; I propoqe We need several hundred Banker Moores right :
ures are wrong, and that the farmers of Michi- making this yéag the fsupreme!effort of my ]ife_ up here in Michigan. There are lots of farmers
' ' If I male a goo pro t, it wil be fully earned. - - ‘ '
' gan have been 86111118 their wheat as fast as they If I but{make expenses“ and. produce four times in this state who ought to be buymg tractors right
. , could get it to market. Are we right or wrong? :tis mucth food asréalsztuyeati; 1gtivvgill£1eamytopgor now, but who are gomg to be prevented from so
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e rop. re e armers limit.” , par 0 9 man rom

. , .1; really the proﬁteers and the hoarders they have ‘ borrow the purchase price. Hence, many acres

”,1." , . 7 been pictured by those who delight in holding will lie idle this year because of. the lack of the

‘ :3 = the farmer up to scorn? Are they holding their it, will you? Perhaps there is a good reason, bankers’ conﬁdence in the farming possibilities

 
wheat in direct contravention to the wishes and local to your section. why this wheat hasn’t been and in the integrity of the farmers of their re-

 
the needs 0f- the F°0d Administration, hoping t0 sold. (Continued on following page.) specive localities. It is one thing for a state to
secure a better ' urge the farmers
price later on? "' to buy tractors;

There is only one

é; reliable source of
information which
can supply a 'cor-

rect answer to

these questions.

That is the farm—

er himself, and

. I We are leaving it
to our readers to
vindicate the

opinion we have
rendered Mr.

PrescOtt in this

matter. We want

to go before Mr.

Prescott with a

report from every

township in .the

‘ , . state of Michigan
showing the ap-
proximate per-

centage of the

‘ ‘ 1917 crop still in
‘ ' ' farmens’ hands.
Who will volun-
teer at this very
busy season of
the year to give
us what informa-
tion they can pro-

; cure upon this
subject? It you

it is quite anoth—
er thing to assist
them to secure
the money to
make the pur-
chase. Orders
have been plac-
for less than half
of the 1000 Ford-
son tractors pur-
chased by the
state and it is
safe to assume
that not more
than 500 will be
placed on Michi—
igan farms this
year. Why? Be—
cause the farmers
haven’t got the
ready cash and
because most of
the bankers hav-
en’tsuﬂicientfaitli
in tractors to help
ﬁnance their pur-
chase. All the
farmers of Mich-
igan need to make
them tractor buy-
ers is a little
cash and encour—
agement.

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WE DOUBT THAT FARMERS
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Now, folks, far be it from us to dictate how and
when you shall dispose of your farm products.
We ﬁgure that after you have toiled and sweated
and gambled with the elements to produce your
crops, it ought to be YOUR business when you
shall sell them. Neither is it our purpose in this
article, providing you have not yet sold your
wheat or intend to soon, to pronounce you dis-
loyal, unpatriotic, pro-German, etc. We leave this
privilege to. city journalists who seem to have
better powers of judgment and who are not ham-
pered by any cumbersome facts. We merely aim
in this article to tell you some things that you
may not know and to emphasize others which
may seem unimportant to you, and we hope that
you will act upon the concluding suggestions.

Because the war has lain in waste millions of
acres of European wheatlands, and because the
farmers and their boys have been compelled to
leave the furrow for the trench, and because un-
dernourished women and children could not whol-
ly ﬁll their places on the farms, there is today a
worldwide shortage of wheat. which the Ameri-
can farmer has been called upon to supply.

On March 1st there was a total of wheat and
ﬂour stocks in this country of about 176,411,000
bushels, from which the United States must feed
itself and the Allies, who require from us 75,-
000,000 bushels between March 1st and harvest
time. During the same period this nation normal-
There
will be left for home consumption only about
l00.000,000 bushels, or about one-half of what is
normally used.

In last weeks M. B. F. we explained fully Why
it was necessary that wheat be sent to the Allies.
and we may as well face the fact that unless the
Allied armies are provided with rations which
must of necessity be composed largely of wheat
products, their efﬁciency will be very greatly
impaired. There can be no guesswork about the
rations of an army. They must be planned months
in advance; they must be ready at all times; two
days of hunger means a battle lost and a victory
for the Huns. And in the tremendous conﬂict that
is now being waged, involving millions of ﬁghting
men, war rations must be supplied in quantities
unprecedented.

The present price of wheat was ﬁxed only after
a lengthy conference during which the farmers
were given every opportunity to present their
cost ﬁgures, etc. For many farmers this price
meant a fair proﬁt; for others it meant loss. But
nevertheless. it was the price agreed upon by
farmer representatives and it is the price at which
three-fourths of the 1917 crop has been sold.

We can conceive of no reason why farmers
should withhold the balance of their wheat, ex-
cepting sufﬁcient for their own needs, from the
market unless out of sheer intent to give aid and
comfort to the enemy. And it has always been
our opinion that there were fewer slackers and
disloyalists among the farmers than any other
class of people. There is no hope that the farmer
will be permitted to receive a higher than the
prevailing price on the balance of the 1917 crop.
In view of the fact that the majority of wheat
growers have already disposed of their holdings
at the ﬁxed price, it should not be expected that
the government will pamper those who have re-
fused to sell, by offering a higher price. The Food
Control law gives the President the power to com-
mandeer wheat: stocks and if the owner be nof‘
satisﬁed with the price offered. he may receive
75 percent of the stipulated price and sue for the
balance in the courts. In this manner, the gov-
ernment may secure the balance of the wheat
stocks in the farmers’ hands, but it is safe to
say that such measures would be employed only
as a last resort.

The farmers of the nation cannot afford to
force their government to take any such action
as this, even for the sake of the additional price
they might hope to receive for their wheat. We
repeat that we don't believe there are anywhere
near two an (12. half million bushels of wheat back
in the hands of Michigan farmers, but if-any of
our readers, for any reason whatsoever, are held-
ing their wheat, we implore them, in the name
of loyalty and patriotism to get it to market be-
fore the setting of another sun. We ask our
readers to take us into their conﬁdence in this
matter and tell us, heart to heart, why they or
their neighbors have not sold their wheat, if such
be the case. ‘
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Yes, we absolutely agree with you, considering
the prices of other products, the price of wheat

should be higher. And that’s a matter to which .

we should all turn our united attention during
the next few weeks.

 
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STATE AGRICULTURAL BRIEFS

Clio—One thousand drums .of powdered milk,
is being held by the Clio
branch of the Detroit Creamery 00., there being
no active demand for it at the present time. Dur—
ing the winter when the production of milk ex-
ceeds the demands, part of the milk received at
various stations of the company was sent, to
Clio and manufactured into the powdered product.
While there is little demand at present for powd—'
ered milk, this condition is bound to change in a
short time. The summer months will witness
much greater demands on the milk supply, and
the market will soon open for the powdered sup-
ply. Many tons of soft sweet butter have been
stored by the company, which through the employ-
ment of special apparatus can again be reduced
to cream. The increased summer demands for
cream will be met in part this summer.
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Marquette—Indications are that a much larger
acreage of spring wheat than usual is to be sown
in the Upper Peninsula this year. The crop is
usually a much greater success here than in the
Lower Peninsula. Northern Michigan farmers
wish to respond to the country’s call for more

 
‘wheat, and in many respects are in better po-si-.

tion to do so than the farmers below the Straits.

Spring wheat has always been fairly successful

here.
I! t a
Mason—Ingham county farmers are receiving
their Fordson tractors. One car load of the ma-
chines anrived last week and two more carloads
are expected. The demand for the tractors far

 
Milk Men, Attention !

Commission ﬁndings on price and
surplus milk for April is as follows:
Surplus 20%; price,$2.35 a hundred.
Balance, 80%; price, $2.85 a hundred.
——R. C. Reed, Mich. Milk Prod. Ass ’11.

 
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exceeds the available supply, as the War Prepared-
ness'board is trying to scatter them evenly over
the farming districts of the state, where they
will do the maximum amount of good. .

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Milan—Is there any relation between christian-
ity and agriculture? Dr. W. W. Diehl, who ad-
dressed a farmers' institute here last week said
that there is. No man can consider himself much
of a christian if he .robs the soil, according to Dr.
Diehl, and the man who keeps scab muck and al-
lows his buildings and implements to run down
is not much better.

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Albion—The Co-Opcrator, the ofﬁcial publication
of the co—operative movement in this vicinity, ed-
ited and managed by H. Eugene Bradley, a well-
known local farmer, is being widely circulated in
this county. Mr. Bradley hopes to bring the
farmers of this and surrounding counties into a
realization of the advantages of co-operation. Al-
ready the publication is showing excellent results.

* * 1':

A iron—The tractor as a means of increasing the
efﬁciency of farm work, and meeting the labor
crisis was discussed by the Hickory Farmers’
club at its meeting. The farmers of this vicinity
are interested in the tractor, and it, is probable
that a number will be seen in use here before the
Spring is over. Q

* i *

Outﬂow—A number of meetings are being held
in Charlevoix county to interest farmers in sugar
beet raising. A large number of sugar beet con-
tracts are being placed with a Holland sugar con-
cern.

HOW THE COUNTY AGRICUL-
TURAL AGENT PAYS FARMERS

 
County agent work in Gage county, Nebraska,
returned to the farmers nearly $60,000 in real
money for 1917, not to speak of other accomplish-
ments for the community which could not be es-
timated in dollars and cents. By systematic black-
leg control work the county agent saved the coun—
ty $22,500, 2,875 calves having been vaccinated. In
hog cholera control 4,658 hogs Were vaccinated,
saving the county $33,500. Sheep breeders were
induced to pool their clips with the result that
they cleared $1,200 more for their wool than if
they had sold individually.———The County Agent.

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POTATO SUPPLIES FALLOFF

'1 AND THE MARKET STIF‘FENS'

__;_._ _.

The ~potato market which has fallen steadily
the last thirty days shows signs of strengthening.
Wednesday the supply was so limited in the city
of Detroit that the price was forced up 10 cents
per huifdred.

It would appear that the crest of the potato
movement had been reached. Farmers generally
have been frightened into selling their spuds at
any old price, by such misdirected advice as that
given out by Robert D. Graham of the board of
agriculture a few weeks ago. who declared that
there was an enormous surplus alid the farmers
should sell their potatoes as fast as possible and
get what they could out of their crop. As a con-
sequence, the markets have been ﬁooded‘with
potatoes and the price has declined to a ruinously
low level. -

It does not seem that the potato market can
“come back.” Had the farmers used a little bet-
ter judgment and sold their holdings gradually,
it would never have declined to such a low level.
The potatoes still in the farmers’ hands are prob-
ably just about suiﬁcient to meet the needs of the
consumer until the new potatoes come on the mar-
ket. The price may advance a few cents per bush-
el before the wind-up; it doesn’t seem possible
that it can go any lower.

ALCOHOL PREDICTED, TO REPLACE
GASOLINE AS MOTIVE FUEL

 
A statement which should interest every farm‘-
er was recently made by Alexander Graham Bell.
inventor of the telephone, that the world would
come more and more to depend on alcohol, not as
beverage but as fuel, and that the engineer Will
shortly modify machinery so that it will use al-
cohol for its motive power.

Practically every vegetable and fruit known to
man contains alcohol in some form and in varying
quantities. Hitherto, it has not been considered
proﬁtable,'in this country at least, to separate th1s
alcohol because of the limited uses and demands
for the product. It is a well known fact that
Germany, however, manufacturers annually large
quantities of alcohol from potatoes and other
plants for various purposes and providing a
wider ﬁeld of usefulness can be opened up in this
country for the product, its extraction will be
made a proﬁtable commercial proposition.

It is not generally known, but is nevertheless
true, that just prior to our entrance into the war
Henry Ford began an investigation to determine
the adaptability of the sandy soils of northern
Michigan to a variety of potatoes which German
farmers raise for their alcohol content. The var—
iety. it is said, attains large size and is not suit-
able for table uses. Some months ago we endeav-
ored to secure from Mr. Ford a statement as to
what he had accomplished along this line and
what his plans were, but Mr. Ford’s secretary ad-
vised that owing to Mr. Ford’s war activities,
he had postponed his experiments until after the
war.

The fact that Mr. Ford has any time at all for
such experiments would seem to indicate that there
must be merit to the proposal to grow potatoes
for their alcohol and that Mr. Ford foresees a
commercial market for the product.

 
MILK ISRICE BULLETIN——
FEBRUARY AND MARCH

 
handled at different

Feb. ‘1’

Lake Odessa. Milk Co. 1,287,523 lbs. ”$3.11
Chapin- Sacks Co., Webberville l, 201, 969.. :..10
Hastings Cond. Milk Co., closed lack coal
Det. Cr. C0,, Owosso plant, 689 269 lbs.
Helvetia C0., Hudson, 2,736,938 lbs ..... 3.07
Ekenburg Co., Elsie closed lack coal 3.00
Clio Cond. C0., Clio 424, 283 lbs. besides

Milk prices and quantities
plants in Michigan.

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milk powder from Cond. Milk . . . . . . . . 3.00 2.75
Hires Cond. Milk Co., Ubly ............ 3.10 2.83
Ohio Dairy Co., Morenci .............. 3. 07 2.95
West. Res. Milk Co., Hillsdale, 420, 622 lbs. 3. 00 2.80
West. Res. Mk. C0., Coldwater 842,919 lbs. £13.00 2 80

*D troit Milk (in 150 zone) ...........
(653. 35 for 8597 and $2. 40 for 15% March.)

Gd. Ledge Milk C0., Gd. Dg..1,40 6, 866 lbs. 13.10 2.90

Sparta. 421, 608 Ib's ........ 90 2.75

“ Fenton, 331, 450 lbs. ........ 2.90 2 75
VanCamp Pk 00., Adrain, 2,927 251 lbs.. . 3.07

Libby, McNeil, Perrinton, 1, 341, 475 lbs. . . 3.25 2.90

Towar Plant, Imlay City, 271, 720 lbs ..... 3.15 3.10

‘The price for Detroit milk is based on the 150 zone
Outside prices are paid on this basis but deductions
made for freight.

——Jas. N. McBride, State Market Director.

Food will win the war! Yes, but while saving
food don't save your money in .a bank, but save
it in Uncle Sam’s Liberty Bonds and again help
to win the war.

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» . .WASHINGTON,

to put a gag in the mouths of all

critics of the government and its

. conduct of the war, has been

squelched by the Senate. The gag was in the
shape of a bill which would make it a crime, pun-
imprison-
ment, or both,“ for anyone to “utter, print, write
or publish any language calculated to incite or in-

ﬁame' resistance to any duly constituted federal

or state authority in connection with the prosecu-
tion of the war.” Senator Hiram Johnson, lead-
ing the attack on the bill, declared that the very
1anguage of the bill demonstrated that it was not
intended for the punishment of treason or dis-
loyalty. but to suppress the freedom of th*e press
of the United States and to prevent any man from
expressing legitimate criticism concerning the
present government, the present administration,
or any administration in respect to the war.
Amendments have been adopted to the bill which
very greatly modify its force and scope. One of
these provides that such acts should be “wilful,”
and another substitutes the word “intended” for
”calculated,” which puts the burden of proof that
the utterances mentioned in the bill were meant
to be treasonable or dieloyal, upon the courts.
Every liberty—loving person in the United States
should back his senator and representative to
the limit in opposing any effort to put a check
upon the freedom of the press or of speech, so
long as such freedom does not actually inspire op-
position to the war or give aid and comfort to
the enemy. The country has been surprisingly
free of disloyalty since our entrance into the war,
speedily
wiped out. Occasional in isolated communities,
some citizen of Germam‘kﬂkmﬁe heat of dis-
cussion, may make indiscreet remarks, but as a.
general thing they cause no harm and are frowned
upon so darkly by the community that they are
seldom repeated. One senator, discussing the gag
clause of the sedition bill, was overheard to re
mark that “one would think from a reading of
this bill that the entire country was a hotbed of
treason and disloyalty and that summary meas-
ures were needed to keep the people in the
straight—jacket of patriotism. I shall never vote
for this measure in its present form, for by
muzzling thepress and gagging the people. it
would put a premium on incompetency in public
offices and license every kind of extravagance in
the expenditure of the public funds."

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Spain is still "on the fence," but her neutrality
is only a question of days, is the opinion of
Washington diplomats. That Spain is frankly
“afraid of the cars” and doesn’t really know which
way to turn is evidenced by her failure ..to live
up to her various agreements entered into with
the United States during the past several weeks.
Supplies that were purchased by General Persh~
ing for the expeditionary forces in France have
not yet been delivered, and no indication offered
that they will be. Spanish ships are being held
in the harbors, the owners fearing that German
threats to sink them if they seek the high seas,
will be carried out. As a matter of fact, Spain is
between the devil and the deep blue sea. Her
people apparently are pro-ally, but some of her
high ofﬁcials are pro-German and German intri<
gue is said to be having a most pronounced effect
upon the thought and sentiment of the govern-
ment. It is the semi-ofﬁcial opinion that Spain is
ﬁnding neutrality too embarrassing for comfort
and will shortly cast her lot with one or the
other combatants It is also believed that she will
delay her decision until she sees which way the
great German offensive goes, for Spain likes to
“pick a winner,” when she casts her lot.

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Everyone does not agree with Mr. Roosevelt
that the United States should declare war on
Turkey and Bulgaria, altho we are in fact ﬁght-
ing those two countries at the present time. Dr.
Jas. L. Barton, foreign secretary of the American
board of commissions for foreign missions, re—
cently wrote Senator Lodge expressing a hope that
the Senate would reject the resolution declaring
war against these two countries. Dr. Barton
declares that Germany keenly feels the need of
such a step on the part of the United States, in
order to consolidate Bulgaria and Turkey in their
sense of dependence now and after the war. So
long as the United States refrains from such a

declaration of war, these two countries will have,

a refuge providing they Wish in the course of
events to withdraw from the Kaiser’s iron clutch.
O O O

The third Liberty Loan drive is on. Carefully
as the ﬁrst two campaigns were planned, the prep-
arations for the tihird have been far more elabor-
ate in every section of the country, and reports

D C.—An effortv

from werkars show an enthusiasm and co- opera-

tion quite lacking in the two previous loan drives.
Secretary‘of Treasury McAdoo has forbidden the
publication of unofﬁcial ﬁgures on the progress of
the campaign in order to prevent the false and
misleading announcements as to the amount of
subscriptions which characterized the ﬁrst and
second Liberty Loan drives. It is known that
some cities have already exceeded their quota.
but no ofﬁcial ﬁgures as to the exact amounts
subscribed will be given out until the end of the
current week. It is probable that YOUR commun-
ity has not oversubscribed, so don't delay another
day in buying your Liberty bond.

* 3 ﬂ

Nine billion dollars is the approximate cost of
our ﬁrst year in the war. More than half of this
sum, however, has been in the form of. loans to the
Allies and will be repaid; over a third, has gone
to the army; a tenth for the navy and a ﬁfteenth
for ship building. Huge as is this sum, it is less
by one-third than the original estimates. The
government expenses are now averaging about
$40,000,000 a day, or a billion dollars a month.

Motorcycles and bicycles are becoming popular
throughout Siam.

Both China and ‘lndia send thousands of tons of
peanuts abroad each year.

In the north of Quebec there are still 250,000 square
miles of unexplored country.

In high or rough weather, in angling for black bass,
light-colored and bright ﬂies are most effective.

A Massachusetts man in France is using his gas
mask so he can peel onions for the mess- w1thout
crying.

Virginia, now the only state prohibiting women from
practicing law, has taken legislative actlon to lift
the ban.

Adoo wrll visit Michigan in the interest of the
Thi (1 Liberty Loan drive, but the date has not been
deﬁnitely set as yet.

The green ink with which the American bank notes
are printed cannot be successfully photographed. Its
composition is secret.

Hot slag dumped into the river at Baltimore caused
an explosion which shook the city, and caused most
of the inhabitants to rise an hour earlier than usual.

A consignment of Chinese silk valued at two and a
half million dollars was received at New York City
last week.

Illinois farm boys are Liberty Loan salesmen. Five
hundred dollars in prizes is being given by_W. H.
Wilson, a Chicago banker, to the boys sellmg the
largest number of bonds.

The German language is being discontinued as a
study in nearly all of the schools of the country. _Rc-
ports from hundreds of cities are received at Washmg-
ton each day to the -ffect that German is under the
ban.

“Billy" Sunday,
evangelistic meetings
porary tabernacle ever
a rest," as he expressed it,
dred ministers.

The ﬁrst of the Ford Eagles. _ .
91's being manufactured by the autowking at Detroit,
are known, will be launched in June. The boats wul
have a high rate of speed, and their equipmcnt and 111'—
mament will surpriSe the Hun sulumtrlnes.

Bread costs $5 a loaf and good leather shoes $300
a pair in, Constantinople. The (ivrmahs with the con-
sent 0f the Turkish government have requistioned
all supplies that they can lay their hands on, and as
a result the maple of Turkey are suffering for tho
notessities of lit'c

ldvanmlllo, ludiuuu,

in the midst of a series of
in Chicago in the biggest tom
constructed, recently “took
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as tho subuuu'iuo chas-

lias started a campaign to
round up pro—(:ermans. Several persons who have
made derogatory remarks regarding President W'il—
son, or who have spread false reports rcgzu'diug tho
liiberty Loan, Red Cross and other wur Activiiics,
have been gathered in.

 
PLEASE: ’

THE FARMERS OPi’ORTUNlW‘

 
the Entente countries be-
lieve that the German general staff faces the most
serious dilemma. of the entire war.‘ Von Hindenburg
and his advisors have staked all on this great effort
to break the allied lines. If Amiens, an important
railroad center could be captured, and a thrust made
wh ch would reach the channel all of the Allied a: 'my
north of this point would be caught in the pincers and
either driven into the sea or captured. The Ger—
man general staff was willing to sacriﬁce a million
men, it is said, to accomplish this end.
already lost nearly half of that number,
they have made some important gains, are still far
from their main objective. The German people who
are just awakening to the awful toll which they paid
for this offensive, are demanding deﬁnite gains which
will insure an early peace, if they are to make such
sacriﬁces. The military leaders realize that to ob-
tain a. decisive Victory they must continue to feed men
by the hundreds of thousands into this machine, and
that even then their- prospects of a decisive victory
are small.

Military authorities in

and although

3 I O

The United States Military Railroad in l“1':111ce is
the formidable name of a line possibly tWo hundred
miles or more in length connecting two French ports
with the American army bases. As definite informa-
tion as’to the exact location, length, etc., of this
railroad might help the enemy, little has been given
out regarding it. The line was not built completely
by American engineers, but was part of a French
railroad system, which was turned over, to the United
States. Much new track was laid for better terminal
facilities, and new docks and warehouses erected
at the two ports. The lines are being administered
like'American railroads, and all locomotives and
cars were made in this country, and bear the letter-
ing, “U. S. Military R. R.” The line is. Of course. op-
erated exclusively by American railroad employé-s.

! O C

One hundred thousand tons of Swedish shipping
will be turned over to the United States if an agree-
ment which is now penumg between the two countries
is entered into. The pact provides that the ships are
to be chartered to the United States govermncnt on
condition that Sweden be supplied with foodstuffs,
oils, coal, fertilizers and other commodities in spec-
iﬁed amounts. Swedcn, unlike Holland, is willing to
consent to an agreement: which will not only provide
her people with food and other necessities, but will
insure the owners of the shipping against loss. Al-,,
though the Swedish government was intensely pro-
German for a long time, recent developments have
evidently opened the Swedes‘ eyes, and German pres—
sure is evidently not going to have any ot‘t‘ct on the
decision of the Swedish government.

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Following the attack of a party of Red t‘1oss Guard~
on a Japanese forte at Vladivstock, a small party Oi
Nippon sailors have been landed at that poit fox the
pxotei t10n of p10perty.'l‘l1is action, appears to be
fully warranted, as any nation has the privilege to
land troops to protect the lives and propcrly of it.»
Citizens, if the govermncul in control uppezu's unablv
or unwilling to do so. No effort has been made as yet
to land largo forces for the protection of the vasr
stores of supplies and 1111111itio11s. That the Germans
have designed on Siberia. there can be little) doubt
Former German and Austrian prisoners of war arr-
szild to be organizing and seizing place-s of strategic
i111port2111cc. The landing 01' :1 .lupanmw army in S14
bcria to counteract the Norman most would
little surprise in this, country.

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'l‘wo alternatives face the English parliament in its
efforts to provide for additional forces to replace thi
war losses. Either the draft age must be mist-d
above the present limit of 40 years, to 50 01' 7'15 }'*‘;l.".\
or conscription must be provided for Ireland. l‘ulia-
mcnt is hesitating‘ to raise the draft age, as it wu‘
further disrupt industrial conditions, but Should such
action be [illit‘ll provision will be made to not take
men 11ct'ussz11'y to war industries. Irish conscription
is lookod upon as a necessity, but the present unregi
on the island may deter parliament from action at
this time. Sum 10cm organizations are working open—
ly against the government, in some sections of lroland
notably the western part, there have boon serious rioh
and outbreaks of violence.

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Germany is continuing l1c1' grcal drive with
successes. The French line is holding, but the
mans claim small gams m the sectors defended by :11.
British \xhcre the greatest onslaughts have been mad~
Alllt'l‘li'zlll troops are now thought to be in Itt‘tlozz
with the French and English, but no casualty lists
have lmcn made public. No figures are available as
to tho number of casualties suffered by the variou~
ulllcd forums in the. great battle. British authoritlru
500111 in believe that. the Teutons losses will not :‘21:‘
short of half a million. No statement has been 111.1.dv
regarding British losses, which must have boon
Vere.

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After a brief lull in which to re—form shattorwd Iii—
visions, bring up additional reserves, artillery, muni—
tions, etc, the great. (icrmun offensive is being rc-
sumcd. The attack is being made on a much wider
front than formerly and indications are that it will
be pxessed home with the utmost vigor of which thc
lluns zue (apable. ’lhe Allies have made excellent
use of this period to add to their already strong de-
fenses and prepare for the renewal of the thrust.
American troops are now facing the Germans on the
line where the attack is being Hindu.

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’ll1e ﬁnal decision on the question of publishing :he
addresses in connection with casualty lists is to be
settled by President Wilson after the return of Sevre-
tary Baker from Europe. Just at present no casu:-11:_v
lists are being published at all, the govcrmueut sin.~
ply notifying near relatives of the dead or injurud.
Publishing,r the names without addresses is um 1'1)“—
sidcred satisfactory. President Wilson does not wish
to make a decision until after he has discussed the
matter with Secretary Baker and learned (:eneral
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GRADING AMENDM’T

Senator Smith’s Rider to Agricultural Ap-
propriation Bill Meets With Opposi-
tion in the-House.

We are advised by Congressman Cramton that
Senator Smith’s amendment to the agricultural
appropriation bill abolishing the potato grades
is meeting with stiff opposition in the House of
Representatives where the Senate amendments
are now under conference. The department of Ag-
riculture and the Food Adm-inistration have com-
bined with the jobbing interests to defeat the
measure, and Mr. E. Percy Miller is putting in his
best licks to show the farmers of Michigan who’s
really boss down there on the Food Administra-
tion.

Senator Smith sends us a letter written to him
by Clarence Ousley, acting secretary of agricul-
ture, in which Mr. Ousley states that “the senti-
ment of the Michigan growers seems to be that
a screen with a mesh one and three—fourths inches
square should be used for such potatoes and they
object to the minimum siZe proposed by the de-
partment grades. As a matter of fact, by the
very careful use of a screen with a mesh one and
three-fourths inches square the minimum—size re
quirements of the United States grade No. 1 in
most instances might be complied with. It is
felt that if this subject were thoroly understood,
the objection to the minimum-size requirements
would disappear."

—-Which shows how much the acting secretary
of agriculture knows about the farmers’ view-
point and wishes.

In further substantiation of his argument that
the grades have found favor with the farmers,
Mr. Ousley sends Senator Smith a copy of a letter
signed by the New York Potato Association, rec-
ommending that the Bureau of Markets be given
authority to inspect potatoes as to quality and
grade as established by U. S. grades 1 and 2, etc.
This letter is written on a letter heading of the
New York State COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE
and bears the signature of one E. V. Harden-
burg, an INSTRUCTOR in the college, as SECRE-
TARY of the potato association.

Michigan is not the only state suffering from a
surfeit of “professoritis.”

Will the potato amendment pass? E. Percy Mil-
ler is quoted in the Chicago Packer as saying that
it won’t. But then, Mr. Miller has met defeat be-
fore and it is Within the range of possibility that
he may do so again. There is yet hope, despite
Mr. Miller’s sanguine predictions. Representa~
tive McLaughlin of Michigan is, happily, a member
of the House agricultural committee and he has
promised his support to the Smith amendment,
or a modiﬁed form, at least, which will wipe out
the particular form of grading to which the grow-
ers are opposed. In a letter Congressman Cram-
ton is sending to potato jobbers in his district
who are protesting against the Smith amendment,
Mr. Cramton suggests a modiﬁed amendment,
reading as follows: “Provided, that no part of the
money herein appropriated or any unexpended
balance heretofore appropriated shall be used to
defray the expenses of the Food Administration
or any other department of the government in the
work of grading potatoes, and no regulation shall
be made therefor.”

Such an amendment would accomplish the de—
sired purpose, without interfering whatever with
any form of grading which the growers themselves
might desire to put into effect.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE STATE
GROWERS ASSOCIATION MEETS

The executive committee of the recently reor-
ganized Michigan Potato Growers’ Ass’n,' consist-
ing of the ofﬁcers and directors representing ﬁf-
teen counties, met at Grand Rapids April 3rd. A
Mr. Smith, of the U..S. Department of Agricul-
ture, was present and listened to the growers’ ar-
guments for a single grade of potatoes. He stated
that there ought not to be any difﬁculty in secur-
ing one grade of potatoes from one and three-
fourths inches up. He also made the interesting
statement that the average cost of raising pota—
toes for the United States in 1917 was 70 cents
per bushel.

A representative of the Michigan Potato Ship-
pers’ Ass’n stated he believed it to be the proper
thing to have one grade of potatoes from one and
three—fourths inches up, and believed such change
could be brought about.

President Smith of the State Ass’n was named
to go to Washington and also to seek the co-oper-

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'ot the .1917 crop; 1» : .,

g, The following resolution was adopted and or-' ’
dered sent by telegram to each Michigan con-

gressman:

We desire to call especial attention to the reso-
lutions passed by the Michigan Potato Growers'
Association at its last annual meeting, held at

the Agricultural College, March 7th and 8th.,

These resolutions express the opinions and de-
sires of Michigan potato growers

We ask that the minimum size of Grade No.1
be 1% instead of 1% inches in diameter. We ask
that this grade be honestly enforced, and that
there shall be no other grade established.

 
PLAN TO HAVE A COM-
MUNITY DRYING PLANT

A successful community plant located at Lin-
coln, Nebraska, for the drying of fruits and
vegetables , is described in Farmers’ Bul-
letin 916, “A Successful Community Drying Plant"
just issued for free distribution by the U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture.

Practically the same plan as is described in the
bulletin was followed in eleven other communities
—nine of them in Nebraska—during the sum-
mer and fall of 1917, and the information is given
at this time because of a demand for it for consid-
eration at farmers’ meetings. The plan proved
successful under conditions found in the locality
of Lincoln; in more humid or dryer sections of
the country, the bulletin says, the methods em-
ployed might not prove satisfactory.

Any person interested in the subject of com-
munity drying of fruits and vegetables will ﬁnd
valuable suggestions in Farmers’ Bulletins 841
and 903, as well as the new publication. They may
be obtained free upon application to the Division
of publications, U. S. Department of Agriculture.

DEP’T OF AGRICULTURE FORECASTS
LARGE INCREASE IN WHEAT CROP

The Department of Agriculture has placed its
forecast of the winter wheat crop for 1918 at 560.-
000,000 bushels, an increase of 142,000,000 over
last year. Assuming that the spring crop will
yield the same ratio of increase, there will be a
total wheat crop of 850,000,000 bushels or an in-
crease of 200,000,000 bushels. This forecast has
been exceeded in ouly two years, 1914 and 1915.
The condition of winter wheat varies from 94 in
Indiana to 63 in Oklahoma. In western Kansas
the prospects are not for more than a 20 per cent
crop.

Reports from England, France and Canada also
indicate large increases of wheat in those coun-
tries. United States rye shows an increase of
26,000,000 bushels.

THE FIRST YEAR OF THE
FEDERAL FARM LOAN SYSTEM

The Federal Farm Loan System has com—
pleted its ﬁrst year of actual operation. The ﬁrst
charter issued to a Federal Land Bank is dated
Mar. 1, 1917, and the charters for the other elev-
en were issued during that month. Borrowing
under the Federal Farm Loan System is done
through national farm loan associations, and the
ﬁrst charter granted to one of these associations
is dated March 27, 1917; so that while most of
the work of organizing the banks, systematizing
their business, appointing and training apprais-
ers and the like had to be done after the end of
March 1917, it may be said that the banks have
just about concluded their ﬁrst year of Operation.
A statement of the business done during this ﬁrst
year of operation is therefore of interest.

Before the system was put in operation it was
argued that our American farmers would not or-
ganize for co-operative borrowing. The answer to
this seem-s to be found in the fact that up to March
31, 1918, 2808 national farm loan associations were
incorporated. representing about four associations
to each ﬁve counties of the' United States. These
associations average about twenty members, rep-
resenting a total membership of about 56,000
farmers.

The twelve Federal Land Banks have received
applications for over 120,000 loans, amounting to
about $300,000,000. Many of these applications
have been rejected. reduced or withdrawn. About
80,000 loans have been approved, amounting to

over $160,000,000, and on over 30,000 of these loans

money has been paid to the farmers to the amount
of about $80, 000, 000 Many of the loans approved
were for leduced amounts which the borrowers
declined to accept.

Notwithstanding the unusual expenses incident
to the operation of new machinery and to the ap—
praisement and determination of title on many
loan-s that have not yet been closed, the expense
of the banks in doing business has been within

such limits as to justify the expectation of the

Farm Loan Board that these banks will easily be
able to operate on a difference of one-half of one
per cent between. the loaning rate and the rate
which they pay on the bonds.

Much of the acreage formerly allotted to melon ' s ,
groWing in Italy will be put under wheat this -‘

year. according to reports received by the U. S.
Food Administration. Native supplies of wheat
in Italy are light.

Production of corn, rice and potatoes in Japan-

during 1917 was in all cases less than in 1916.

The 1917 rice crop was about 1'00 millions budhels.

below normal, a decline of more than one-ﬁfth.
Japan is now making efforts to increase her
wheat acreage greatly; also to build ships for
carrying Japanese and Australian wheat in the
Paciﬁc trade.
Ukkraine stock-s of wheat amount to approxi-

mately 48 million bushels, according to informa-

tion reaching the Food Administration. The north
ports of Russia; however, are bare of supplies and
the past winter has been very unfavorable to ag-
riculture.

MINNESOTA TO INCREASE
ACREAGE OF SPRING WHEAT

The farmers of the wheat-producing states, par-
ticularly Minnesota and the Dakotas, are plan-
ning to greatly increase the acreage of this staple.
Minnesota farmers have been asked by the U. S.
government to seed ﬁve million acres to spring
wheat. This is very little above the average for
the state, although last year the acreage was only
about three and one- half million acres. Many
southern Minnesota farmers are planning to raise
spring wheat, although that part of the state has
produced little of the cereal for many years.

HARD DAYS LOOMrAHEAD
FOR THE WEARY WILLIE

GovernOr Cox of Ohio has issued a proclamation
to all county sheriﬁs to begin an immediate round-

, up of all tramps in the state and see that they go

to work on the farms or in the factories. Several
states are contemplating the enaction of laWS to
make loitering and loafing misdemeanors, pun-
ishable by imprisonment. If they pass the famil-
iar “please, mum, kin you giv me a bite to eat ”
will be no longer heard from the back door steps
and dad will have to split the wood in the future.

HIGH POULTRY PRICES BOOST
THE DAY-OLD CHICK BUSINESS

With the continued high price of poultry, the
business of. producing and selling day-old chicks,
is coming to be one of importance. Many poultry
raiser-s ﬁnd it more advantageous to purchase the
young chicks from ﬁrms and individuals which
make a business of hatching them, and thus
avoiding the ﬁrst difﬁculty of the poultry busi-
mess, that of successful hatching.

The professional dealer in day-old chicks must
be an expert in operating the incubator. The
chicks are shipped by express often hundreds of
miles, and if properly hatched and prepared for
shipment will not only arrive in good condition,
but will be the foundation of a ﬂock of chickens.
Twelve dollars per hundred is considered a good
price for the chicks, although it may be more or
less dependent upon the locality and the breed of
chickens.

SOME FARMERS WANT $3.00 A
BUSHEL FOR NEXT WHEAT CROP

Thomas P. Cooper, when with the State Exten-
sion Department of North Dakota, sent out 300
letters to farmers in the state, asking them what
they thought was a just price for No. 1 northern
wheat at Minneapolis and Duluth. Among the
surprising answers received were a few which de-
clared that $1.50 per bu. was a fair price and
would net the average farmer of the state a fair
proﬁt. Most of the farmers favored a minimum
of $2 per bu. Some declared they thOught $3.00
per bu. was not prohibitive and they anticipated
disposing of the coming harvest at this price.
The average of all the replies was $2.19 per bu.~
The County Agent.

DID NOT FIND A GOOD EAR
IN FOUR HUNDRED EARS CORN

Many farmers in Wells County, Ind., are be-
ginning to report the tests of their corn to the
ofﬁce of the Farm Bureau. One farmer recently
reported that he had tested 400 ears without ﬁnd-
ing a good seed ear in the lot. The corn was
gathered before the middle of October and hung
to the rafters in the barn. Another farmer re-
ports about 15 good ears in each hundred tested.
Many farmers coming to the oﬂice try to pick out
live and dead ears from those which have been
tested and their wild guesses usually cause them
to say that they will go home and test all their
seed corn .——'I'he Cdunt‘y Agent.

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pletely and Assiduously Engaged
in Farm Work

The emphasis that Adj. General Bersley has
placed upon the instructions of the Provest Mar-
thalf General’s ofﬁce, to local examining boards, to
exempt ﬁrom call in the April 26th draft quota,
all men actively, completely. and assiduously en-
gaged in/farmitig, must have'its effect in convinc-

‘ in: local boards that they must abide by the let-

ter of these instructions.

'Iihis should set at rest the minds of the thous-
ands of farmers who have been in the state of un-
certainty as to whether they would have sufﬁcient

'help to plant and care for their usual acreage,

and enable them togo ahead with their farm op-_
If any farmer’s son or hired
help can show that he is actually needed to help
care for the contemplated crops, there isn’t a
chance in a thousand that he will be called this
summer. If he is called it will be either because
his labor is proven unnecessary on” the farm or
else because the local board does not fully under-
stand its instructions.

A recent issue of the Detroit Free Press states
that district
board No. 2
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AMERICAN SUPPLY WAGONS PASSING THROUGH

“Replying to your favor, of recent date en--

closing copy of letter’addressed to you from F. A.
Lord, Editor of MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING, Mt.
Clemens. I am really glad that this has come up,
although I do‘not know anything about the spe-
I will say, how-
ever, that I have fought most strenuously the
practice of paying as much for wet beans as for
dry ones; in other‘words, buying beans without
the proper moisture deduction. I can’t get the
point of view of this editor or any other man of
intelligence who questions the policy of making
these moisture deductions. Let us take for in-
stance. the speciﬁc case to which reference is
made, that is, as far as percentage of moisture and
deductions are concerned. One hundred pounds
of beans with 26% moisture contain ten pounds
excess of water when compared with normally
dried beans, and in using these beans for food pur-

poses or for any other purpose, it is the total sol- '

ids which count, and there is no possible way
in which this excess of ten pounds of water to the
hundred weight can be adjusted except by deduct-
ing it. And as an illustration of how these wet
beans work out in canning,will state that our
records show that in normally dried beans we
have gotten from 160 to 165 2-pound cans per
bushel and that in beans of 26% moisture we
have gotten a yield of 144 to 148 2-pound cans per
bushel. There is no possible way of getting a-
round the fact that this excessive moisture is ab-

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The statement made by the gentleman; submit-
ting his protest to the effect, that the ‘beaiis are
not hand picked befOre canning is entirely in error.

" It is true we do not .dry,.these beans, because an

artiﬁcially dried bean is not as suitable for can-
ning as 'one which has not been dried, but every
one of them is carefully hand picked before they
"go into a can at our plant.

We have reached a. period of the year when we
will not only decline to buy any more excessively
wet beans without full moisture deduction down -
to 16%. but furthermore the seller must guaran-
tzee that they arrive at our factory in sweet and
sound condition.

I really do not believe that the Michigan bean
growers, or jobbers as far as that is concerned,
realize the situation they are up against, or they
would grasp most eagerly any opportunity to sell
these wet beans with the proper moisture allow-
ance while they are yet sweet and wholesome for
human food.

If there is any doubt as to the correctness of
my assertion regarding these beans, I would sug-
gest that you take it up with say Dr. ,Thom, Chief
Mycologist of the Department of Agriculture, in
the Food and Drugs Inspection Laboratory. I
think it would be helpful to the Michigan Bean
growers themselves to have some opinions from
such eminent scientists as Dr. Thom and others
who abound in Washington. It may bring them
to the realization that those whom they assume
are trying to knife them are in fact trying to
render them a distinct service.

Trusting that I have covered the matters in
question with
regards, I am
——J. M. McCall
Gibson Gan-
m‘ng Go.

 
troit and Hi-
land Park, and
seven adjoin-
ing counties—
Lapeer, St.
Clair, Macomb,
Oakland, Len—
awee,, Washte-
naw and Mon-
roe-is exempt—
ing from the
call for mili-
tary s e rvice

is qualiﬁed for
and needed in
.a g r i c ult ural
p r o d u c t i on.
The board ad-
opted the .rule
as a, policy to '

help and thus
insure f o o d
p r o d u c t i on
in its district.

We urge far-
mers to pro-
0 e e d w i t h
their planting
as usual. as
we are conﬂ-
dent that their
help will not

 
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We replied
to Mr. McCall
that he seem-
ed to have a
wrong concep-
tion of the ar-
titude of the
growers gener-
ally on wet
= bean trading,
but quoted him
the following
letter from
still another
subscriber in
substantiation
of our claim
that his Alma
buyer was not
giving the far-
mers a fair
pick and mois—
ture test:

“One of the
Alma bean
dealers, Mr.—
put an ad. in
the local paper
offering to pay
16 cents per

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CANNING COMPANY EXPLAINS
ATTITUDE ON WET BEANS

Some time ago an Alma subscriber wrote us
that he was not satisﬁed with the treatment that
he was receiving at the hands of the Alma buyer
for the Gibson Canning Company. “He picked a
sample of my beans in the usual way,” said our
subscriber, “docked me for the pick and for
hand—picked (5 cents per lb.) in the usual way;
also docked me for all moisture over 16 per cent,
that is beans that tested 26 peiii cent moisture
were docked 10 lbs. for excess moisture. Then 45
cents per 100 pounds for drying. He paid for them
after all this had been done on a $10 basis when
he was paying $11.50 for dry beans. The buyer
told me the following facts about his business:
That these beans would be shipped to the cannery
at Gibson,, Illinois.
he run over the rotary picker which picks about
a car a day and be canned without any hand—
picking; that beans would be cheaper; that the
president of the canning company was a promi-
nent member of the Food Administration; that
he had wired him (the buyer) to buy carefully
because beans would be lower. Now I have no

kick for the buyer nor his treatment of me, but

I don’t like that ‘system.’ I don’t like to pay
for the moisture and pay for taking it out, pay
for the pick and pay for the picking, then take
$1.50 per 100 pounds less than the price of dry
beans when by the buyer’s own admission these
beans would not be dried nor hand-picked."-

We reported the matter to Mr. Kimball of the
bean division at Washington, who referred our
letter to Mr. McCall and stated that the latter
was not in any way afﬁliated with the U. S. Food;

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tected by an armed escort of Uncle Sam’s soldiers, convey plenty of supplies for the boys in the trenches.

pound for good
dry beans. I
took a bag to
him and he

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solutely superﬂuous, and a dead loss to anyone
who buys them.

Let’s take the present market on beans for
instance. I think they are being quoted now by
bean jobbers at about $13.80 per hundred. Let
us assume that the buyer has delivered to him
beans of 26% moisture without the proper mois-
ture deduction, then his beans actually cost him
$15.65 per hundred instead of $13.80, which I
claim is absolutely wrong and an impositiion on
the buyer, who may never be familiar with just
what he is buying. My assertion can be proven
by anyone who has had experience in using these
beans or by anyone who has had experience in us—
ing these beans or by any mathematician as far as
that is concerned. It is not a question of simply
an opinion, but it is a matter of fact.

You know that I have been a conscientious
worker in trying to save these wet beans in
Michigan. I have canned no other beans this year.
because I have realized that if these excessively
wet beans in Michigan are not saved before the
germinating season, that most of them are going
to rot; furthermore that while it is possible to
transport them with comparative safety during the
winter months that when the moderating tempera-
ture of spring arrives they cannot be shipped
anywhere with safety. It has been a source of
wonder to me why the Michigan Bean Growers
were so blind to their own interests as to throw
any obstacles whatever in the way of saving these
wet beans while it is yet possible.

Mr. Smith, in Alma, who buys some beans for
us, informed me some days ago that he could not
get deductions for moisture. I immediately wired
him to discOntinue buying them for our account
and that these wet beans must be lower.

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contained 22 per cent moisture. He offered me
$12 per cwt., less pick and moisture. I did not
give him time to pick them as it made me so d—~
mad. I went on to the Roller Mills and they
pronounced them dry and only picked them a
scant one and onehalf pounds to the cwt., and
said they would make good seed. They offered me
at the rate of $12.50. I went to Elwell and the
elevator there picked them the same, but only
called them one—pound pickers because the beans
were so nice and dry. Now, I guess the Alma
buyer ﬁgured his 16 cent ad would bring the
beans to him and his wet song would buy them,
as after he screens the beans, many a man would
let him have them at whatever price he said.”
Two days later Mr. McCall advised us that he
had requested their Alma buyer to come to Gib-
son City and receive further instructions on how
to determine the moisture content of wet beans.

FORDSON TRACTORS TURN HUN-
DREDS OF ACRES DAILY IN STATE

Two hundred Fordson tractors are now busily
engaged in plowing in various parts of Michigan
and the remaining eight hundred purchased by
the War Preparedness board are either in transit
to places where they have been purchased, or
are held in readiness to be shipped.

The machines are giving good satisfaction on
the whole, and very little trouble has been report-
ed. In cases where farmers have had diﬁlculty
in operating the machines, it has been through
lack of information as to their mechanism.

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HOW TO PREPARE FISH BY ,
BOTH CANNING AND SALTING

Will you kindly give us some information as..to
how to lay up ﬁsh for summer use besides laying
them up in salt2—Subscriber, Brant.

When using coarse-scaled, thick-skined ﬁshes,

 
of the ﬁn and pull it out. Make an incision thru
the skin along the back, another along the belly,
and connect these two by a third encircling the
body just behind the head, impale the head on a
hook or sharpened nail driven through a plank,
fake hold of the skin at the angle of the two in-
cisions at the back of the head and remove it by
pulling toward the tail. Thin-skinned ﬁshes like
herring and alewives, should be scaled, and not
skinned.

Cut off the head, remove the intestines and
other organs and take out the backbone by mak-
ing a cut with a sharp knife on each side, inside
of the body cavity. Wash thoroughly, taking par-
ticular care to remove the blood along the back.

Cut the ﬁsh into strips to ﬁt the length of the
jars to be used and rub with dry salt, using a level
tablespoonful to each pint jar of ﬁsh. Fill the
jars with the pieces packed as tightly as possible,
put in the rubber rings, and place the caps on the
jars loosely, so that the steam can escape. Put
no water in the jars. Cook in a pressure cooker
for one and one-half hours after steam pressure
registers 15 pounds or the temperature 250 de-
grees. Tighten the caps of the jars and permit
cooling. Use the cooker as directed by the mak—
ers. There are several kinds on the market and
the Bureau Of Fisheries, Washington, D. C., will
furnish addresses of manufacturers on application.

Large ﬁsh having soft ﬁns, small scales, and
111111 skin should be scaled but not skinned. Re
move the head, split down the belly to the vent,
and remove the viscera. Make a cut on each side
of the backbone inside of the body cavity, cut
the bone in two as far back as it can be reached
and remove the cut—off portion, then make a deep
cut along one side of the backbone for the re-
mainder of its length and remove the tail. If
the ﬁsh are too large to go into the container, cut
them in the proper length. The checks and the
portion between the jaws, including the tongue,
of many large ﬁsh are excellent when boiled, and
they may be preserved by removing the eyes and
gills and packing the heads, after splitting them
lengthwise, in the same container with the rest
of the ﬁsh.

Slender ﬁsh, such as mackerel, whiting, large
herring, etc, should be split down the back to one
side of the backbOne for the entire length, the
belly walls not being cut. The backbone need not
be removed. Smaller ﬁsh of the same character
need not be split but should be carefully eviscer-
ated. Coarse-scaled, thick skinned, spiny-ﬁnned
ﬁshes like black bass. perch, etc., should be skin—
ned. and unless large and,thick-meated need not
be split.

Having dressed and thoroughly washed the ﬁsh
in water containing a,little salt, taking particu—
lar «are to remove the blood near the backbone,
cure them as follows:

Place a layer of coarse salt on the bottom. of
'z. tight kcg. barrel, or other suitable vessel, and
on this spread a layer of ﬁsh, one deep, sprinkle
salt thickly over these, add another layer of ﬁsh,
and repeat until the barrel is full or the supply
of ﬁsh exhausted. The salt and the moistune
from. the ﬁsh will make a. strong brine in which
the ﬁsh should be left a week or ten days. At the
end of that time remove the ﬁsh, thoroughly wash
them, repack in the barrel. and cover with a
freshly made brine strong enough to ﬂoat a fresh
egg. After a week this brine should be drawn off
and the barrel ﬁlled with a saturated brine; that
is, one in which a little undissolved salt will re
main on the bottom of the vessel after the solu-
tion has been subjected to long stirring. Do not
reuse the Old brine. The barrel or keg should
then be headed and stored in a cellar or the cool-
est place available. If there should be any leek-
age, which may be discovered by the sound made
when the barrel is struck with a stick at various
heights, it should be made good by adding strong
brine through a bunghole. If the receptacle can
not be ﬁlled at once. the ﬁsh may be preserved by
placing on top of them a cover made of a barrel

 
E head or of pieces of wood cleated together to ﬁt, the
E container and weighting it with a clean stone or
2 other heavy article which will not be alter-ted by
E the salt. The success Of the operation will do—
E pend on using ﬂash ﬁsh, exercising care in the
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WANTED—APPLICATIONS FROM
BOYS LOOKING FOR HOMES

Boys, are you looking for a home, a good home,
a permanent home, where the folks’ll take you
in and treat you like one of the family in return
for your services on the farm?

MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING has received more
applications for boys between the ages at 16 and
19 than we can supply, and we are sure there are
any number of boys in this state who would be
glad of the chance to ﬁnd such splendid homes as
are being offered thru the M. B. F. Every appli-
cant for a boy has been thoroly “investigated”
and found to be desirable. Most of them have no
children and want to give a good home to some
manly boy who is willing to work,—~and go to
school and church. If there are any boys in Mich—
igan who have had experience on a farm and thru
some misfortune are without a home, we want them'
to write to the M. B. F. editor at once.

 
TIMELY ADVICE ON VALUE AND

USE OF LIME ON FARM SOILS

 
Would you please tell me whether I could use
lime and how much and how applied, broadcast,
or if I could use grain drill to do it with, and for
how much to set it, to improve an oat crop with
seeding of clover on low, sandy soil; whether rain
will spoil it or not. Ground does not raise the
best crops lately and June grass appears in the
seeding the ﬁrst year. Is there such a thing as
losing the lime entirely through rain and water.
I get a poor catch of clover lately and I think
the land needs lime—O. J. ‘18., Brant, Michigan.

It is very likely that lira-e will prove. to be
proﬁtable on this soil, provided it is sufﬁciently
well drained. Although the lime requirements

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In your valuable paper appears a blank for
us farmers to ﬁll out, and I would like to ask,
will the government insure us a good price. 01"
insure us against an over-production? We have
to have a good price for what we raise for wag-
on are so high that I am almost afraid to go
into farming very heavy. \Vages up here are
$3.00 per day for man, and $6.00 per day for
man and team now. Now if the.government
will set a good fair price on the farmers’ pro-
duce they will get all the produce they need,
and if they will only-leave the farmer boys on
the farms we will try and get along. I for one
will double my acreage. If I was sure of a good
price for beans I would put in 30 acres, but
wages are so high it would be a big undertak-
ing unless the government will do something
for us. So many of the farmers lost money on
their beans and potatoes last year they are al-
most afraid to tackle it again this year. They
insure all manufacturers a good fair proﬁt, why
not the farmer? If they will give the farmer a
chance he will be patriotic, but if we should ,
have another poor season like last year we
would have to go to the bank and pay 12 per
cent for money. It would simply mean move OR
the farm. Thanking M. B. F. for what it has
already done for the farmers.—H. 0., Charle-
volx, Michigan.

 
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of soils varies appreciably in Michigan, standard
applications approximate one and one-half tons
per acre of ﬁnely-ground limestone, or about
three cubic yards of marl, or about 1200 pounds
of agricultural hydrated lime. The lime should
be applied to the soil after it has been plowed or
prepared for the oat crop and wellwvorked into
the soil when the seed bed is prepared for this crop.

If the limestone is used it is very doubtful if
the grain drill would be found to be practical
for planting, inasmuch as it is rather difﬁcult
to get on enough the ﬁrst time over by means of
this implement. Marl as a rule. is too lumpy to
pass thru a grain drill or lime spreader success—
fully at least until it is pretty well broken up.

It is true that lime is washed out of the soil
by the rain but this is somewhat gradual and one
should ﬁgure on the, loss amounting to approxi-
mately 500 pounds per acre annually. This, Of
course, means that applications of lime should be
repeated at least once in a four or five year r0-
tation. if either the hydrated or ﬁnely-ground
material is applied to the soil it is advisable to
mix it before rain falls upon it, otherwise the
particles form in small granules and the efﬁciency
of the same is appreciably decreased. Moreover,
it is not advisable to apply these forms of lime
to the soil when it is wet. I also suggest to your
subscriber that he apply either 14 per cent or 16
per cent acid phosphate at the rate Of 150 pounds
per acre, to this soi1.—M. M. M00001, Departmen
of Soils, M. A. 0. .

MILL SALES OF WHEAT ‘
FLOUR TO THE FARMERS

Can a farmer take wheat to the milL and got it
ground for his own use? And how much of a
supply of the same is he allowed to take home?~
II. I”. H.. Nor/Ilium], Michigan,

An order governing the amounts of wheat ﬂour
that wheat and rye millers can sell to farmers or

 
. he

  
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may knowingly sellquantities to exceed. a cue-
tomer’s requirements for 30 days.

The. miller must require the. customer to accept
wheat substitutes of equal weight to the ﬂOur
purchased, unless the customer submits in writing
a certiﬁcate showing that he has on hand a suf-
ﬁcent supply Of such substitutes. These are de-
ﬁned as hominy. corn grits, corn meal, corn.
ﬂour, edible corn starch, barley ﬂour, rolled oats,
oatmeal, .rice, rice ﬂour, buckwheat ﬂour, potato
ﬂour, sweet potato ﬂour, soy bean ﬂour, milo,
kaﬂir, festerita ﬂour and meals.

Each miller“ must forward to'the Federal Food
Administrator of his state on the ﬁrst of the
month the certiﬁcates thus received.

When a. farmer brings wheat grown by himself
to the mill to exchange for wheat flour, the
amount Of the ﬂour that can be exchanged shall
not exceed an amount that, with ﬂour already in
the hands of the farmer, will reasonably meet the
requirements of his household or establishment
during the next thirty days. In determining the

.. quantity of ﬂour to be consumed millers are re-

quired to conform to the Food Administration’s
statement Of March 24, asking all persons to cut
their consumption of Wheat ﬂour by 50 per cent
and limiting the amount of the sale for ex—
change to a monthly basis of 6 pounds for each
person.

'No wheat miller is allowed to deliver ﬂour
without an equivalent amount of substitutes in
exchange for wheat until the customer gives him
a written statement which the miller has reas-
onable cause to believe to be true. The form of
the statement follows:

........................ 1918
hereby certify that
me to the mill of
(address)
was grown by me on my farm, that the amount of
ﬂour to be delivered to me together with that already
on hand, will not give me a supply more than sufﬁ-
cient to meet the requirements Of my household or
establishment during the next thirty days, and that I
will not sell, lend, or deliver such ﬂour to any one,
nor permit such ﬂour to be used for any purpose, ex-
cept human consumption in my household or estab-
lishment.
(Signed)

I, ...........................
the wheat this day delivered by
at

.......................................

(Address)
At the time such card is signed the miller shall
also request the purchaser to sign the following
voluntary pledge card, and shall keep a record of
all persons signing or refusing to Sign the pledge,
to be delivered upon request to the United States
Food Administration. A copy of the pledge card
it signed, shall be delivered to the customer:
. PLEDGE CARD
Desiring to co—operate with the Government in win—
ning the war, I hereby pledge myself to cut down the
use of ﬂour in my household or establishment in every
possible way, and to use a. pound of wheat ﬂour sub-
stitutgs for every pound of wheat ﬂour used.
igned

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SOIL PREPARATION, SEEDING
AND THE CARE OF ALFALFA

Would you kindly advise me as to the best step
to take towards ﬁtting my alfalfa ground. Have
a piece which was rye stubble plowed down with
no manure for corn, then top dressed with ﬁve
loads‘ per acre and dragged in before corn was
planted. Have just manured it ten loads to the
acre and wished to know which would be best, to
plow the manure under or give a very thorough
disking before sowing alfalfa. Intend to lime the
ground. The soil is clay and sand loam.—F.E.
11., Rockford, Michigan.

For spring seeding with alfalfa, I am of the
opinion that clear corn land treated as you have
outlined. can be put in best shape by a thorough
discing. Apply two tone ground limestone or two
cubic yards of marl wthen ﬁtting, discing thorough-
ly into the soil. Would recommend seeding in
late April or early in May with one bushel beard-
less barley per acre.

If northern grown alfalfa of high germination
is seeded, ﬁfteen pounds per acre is sufﬁcient. The
seed should be inoculated with the proper culture
to insure the development of tubercles on the
roots, or earth from and successful alfalfa can be
mattered over the ground in the evening and
harrowed in, using several hundred pounds per
acre. Inoculation is not necessary with alfalfa if
sweet clover is grown vigorously on the land pre-
viously—J. F. Com, Acting Head, Dcp’t of Farm
Crops, M. A. 0.

 
THE CONTEST IS HARDLY
STARTED—GET INTO IT !

 
If you want to drive a brand new Ford touring
car on and after May 25th, sit right down this
minute and write our Contest Manager in care
of this paper that you want to enter the auto con-
test. All of those who are entering are just as
busy as you are, they are doing the work for us
in their spare time and getting paid for every
hours work in cash commissions besides. Lets
make it a lively race—come on in and let us
make you the proud owner of an automobile for

' this summer’s use!’

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A canvas is now being made by the
various state food administrators to
determine where the balance of the
last wheat crop is held and it is al-
together probable that prompt steps
will be taken to place the same on the
market should owners fail to take ad-
vantage of the Administrator’s request
that residue wheat be disposed of prior
to May 1 and 15.

There is much talk at this time
of establishing a wheat or bread ration
and no doubt it is only a question of
time until Wheat ﬂour and bread will
be an unknown quantity. Our sol—
diers and allies must be supplied if the.
war is to go on to a successful ﬁnish
and the Government will ﬁnd the A-
merican people willing to cheerfully
comply with their regulations.

Reports coming from the North-
west regarding the spring wheat seed-
ing are very encouraging. Seeding
is well under way and the majority of
states will show a fair increase in acre-
age. Rain is needed but no doubt it
will come before damage results. The
winter wheat states have had beneﬁ-
cial rains, especially in the South-
west. where they were most needed.

     
Detroit \ Chicago New York
No. 2 White ’
Standard 95 , .93 1-2 1 05
NO. 3 White 94 1-2 .53 1.04
No. lWhite 93 1'2. m. .91 1-2 1.03 1-2

 
The oats market is steady and ﬁrm
at about the same range of prices as
prevailed last week. Seaboard export—
ers have been freely in the market
during the past week and have made
large purchases. Receipts at country
elevators have increased Since the let-
up in the run of corn.

Reports coming to us suggest a rec-
ord acreage this season. There is a
marked increase in the Southwest.
The high price and the relative ease
with which the crop may be grown are
strong factors in favor of the increase.
Weather condition have been very fav-
orable during the past two weeks and
the cr0p is getting a good start. In
many sections seeding is completed
and the work is rapidly progressing

 
GRADE i Detroit | Chicago New York
No. 2 Yellow l 1.80 l 1.90 2.10
No. 3 Yellow i 1.75 l 1.55 2.00
No. 4 Yellow 1| 1.55 3 1.50 1.93

 
A further decline has been experi-
enced in the corn market. The run
to country points llils lessened, farmers
now being busy in the ﬁelds. Dur-
ing the past. few weeks a great amount
of corn of high moisture content. has
been received and much of the poorer
grain has been sold at a very low fig-
ure. Receipts are again showing bet-
ter quality and it seems to be the gen-
eral opinion that this condition will
increase from now on. .

The car situation is easier now
that the heavy run is ceasing, Ex-
ports are of fair proportion although
not so great 21s, was anticipated. The
total was somewhere around 300,000
buslhels less than for the correspond-
ing week of last year. Present indica-
tions are that the acreage this year
will not be so great as that of last year.
Planting is now well under way in the
Southwest.

Buying of seed corn in Michigan is

on in earnest and dealers report the
sale as about the largest in years. If
this may be taken as an indication it
looks as though Michigan farmers
were going to greatly increase their
acreage, regardless‘of what growers
may be doing in other states.

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The past week saw some smart buy-
ing in the rye market although there
was somewhat of a reaction toward the
close. The price has declined butw the
market is ﬁrm and there is no material
increase in the available supply. The
price ranges within a very narrow
limit and it is evident that millers reg
fuse to bid the market upon themselves
to any extent. As soon as the advance
reaches a certain point there is a fall-
ing off in buying until the inevitable
reaction occurs. Cash No. 2, $2.78.

Barley

Milwaukee—Barley prices range a-
bout 5c lower a week ago, a period of
weakness having set in as the week
came to a close. Previously there
had been a strong tone in evidence,
following an easy opening of the
week. On Saturday the market was
dull and entirely nominal. Buyers
reduced bids with no takers. Re-
ceipts for the week were 211 cars, a-
gainst 225 cars a week ago and 146
cars last year. (‘urrcnt quotations
are:

Choice bingerried Wisconsin and
eastern Iowa. testing 48 to 50 lbs. per
bu., $1.93@1.95; 45 to 47 lbs. $137617
1.92; Minnesota, western Iowa and Da—
kota, 48 to 50 lbs, $1.93@1.93; ~15 to 47
lbs. $1.87@1.92; all states, 41 to it
lbs.. $1.77@1.86; feed, $1.65 (131.75.

Bllffulo~The Government has issu-
ed orders to shut off all electric pow-
er from malt houses in Buffalo. Cour
ing at a time when there are so few
big houses running it will do little
harm at the moment, but there are con—
tracts to be ﬁlled for malt later on
which are worrying the maltster. A

committee will be sent to Washington 4

to explain the injustice of this ruling
There were no prices on barley here,
the nominal quotations being from
$1.80 to $2 opening shipment, c. if f.
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THE W’EA'l‘HHR
‘ As forecasted by W. ’1‘. Foster

‘Apni 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 1918

DangerOu

Storms

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\V-\Slll;\'(l'l‘().\'. D. (3., April 1.1.777.
Last bulletin gave forecasts of dis—
turhancc to cross continent April 18 to
32, \varln \vavc 17 to 21. cool wave
-_ 20 to :1. This storm will he most
3% sevcre on l'acitic slope and west. of
meridian 90 and will decrease in force
cast of tiici'idian 00. Very low tcni—
peratures will precede it and arc.
expected to gradually rise until near
May l. Rains of this storm will
precede it and are expected to grad-
ually rise until near May 1. llaiir:
of this storm will bc fairly well dis—
tributed. Most rain in eastern (‘an—
ada and New England. dm~rurr<ing
toward the middlc southw’cst.

Next warm wave will rcach \’an~
couver about April 2;! and tonipcr—
atures will rise on all the Pacific
Slope. It Will cross crest of litlt‘klt‘fr'
by close of April ‘34, plains sections
25, me l‘idian 00. grout Lulu-w and
Ohio-Tennessee valleys 36;, caslcrn
sections 27, reaching vicinity of Now-
foundland about April 28. Storm wave
will follow about one day behind
warm wave and cool \vavc about one

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CHICAGO “'lRlC—(lats are ﬁrmer and market is displaying advancini,r ten-

1)ETROIT SPECIAL—Egg market steady at prevailing quotations. All veg—
etables weak, especially potatoes, which are coming in greatly increased quan~
tities. I'oultry inactive and supplies light. .

NI‘J‘V YORK W'IRE——-Bean market ﬁrmer and buyers are more active. Hay
market inclined to work lower under-increasing receipts.

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GRADE Detroit Chicago New York
c. H.P. l 11.50 13.00 14.00
Prime l 11.35 12.90 13.55
Red Kidneva l ”.00 ”.50 . 14.75
Bean quotations have again been
lowered on the Detroit market. Oth-

er markets remain ﬁrm at previous
prices. Country elevators report fair
receipts from growers, many of them
hauling before the spring work gets
well under way. Growers is some
sections are still holding wet stock
and in many cases this will be a.loss
as soon as the real warm weather
comes. We advise disposing of such
holdings at this time, even though
the market may not be all that we
might desire.

So far as good dry stock is con-
cerned, we feel sure that if the mar-
ket is allowed to take its natural
course there will be better prices lat—
er on. Conditions will tighten up later
as they always do and those who have
good stock to offer at that time will
proﬁt thereby. We are satisﬁed that
the Detroit market is being kept down
with a. purpose as it is entirely out of
line with other markets. even some
right. here in the state of Michigan.

     
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’I'olctiow'l‘hc March futures closed
on Saturday without. any fuss. develop-
ing the fact that 0111_' a few contracts
were open on the final day of the fut—
ure and in some instances holders ac-
cepted delivery. The amount chang-
ing hands. howcver, was probably not.
in excess of 500 bags. The high point
reached during the scason was $20.10.
For the cash the season will soon
end with stocks on hand carried over
about the lowest: on record,

Alsikc continued steady during the
week. and in the timothy there was a
fair trade in spot, and sonic switching

 
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for Miciiit;.\.\' lil'sixiiss Within-:1:

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day lll'lllllll storm wuyc. . _ ~ .
Mississippi

\vost. lics lwtwcon lower
river and the llocltios.

This will he a. niodcrztto storm on
lilo l'uciiic slopo \yiil slightly ill—
crcasc as it mow-s mlslwurd but will
not. lic u. H‘Vcl' storm. .\‘ot much
ruin from this storm; most rain
riillllt‘ as last storm. ’l‘rcnd of twin»

[l~‘l‘:lllll'r‘.\' will be upward to a g‘rcut‘
or cxtcnt than tlic souson calls for.

iioncrully good crop weatllcr is t‘.\"
poctcd for lwztlzlnoo of April and 'cv—
crvthing' l'uvorablo to corn planting.
South of lutitudc 10, cast of incridian
‘Jlt and south of ~13. \Vost of that line.
lndiuu torn should he planted curlicr
than usual and north of lhosc lint-s
tutor than usual,

in ncul'ly ull crop sou'on-r:
months are much drior llizln others
and tho plunting‘, rowing and culti-
vuting~ should he guidcd ivy the dates
of most rains and greatest, drouths.
The kinds of crops to plant and sow
should always be governed by the
kind of soil you have and the amount
and times of thU principal rains and
droulh-a ln “‘Hllv‘ mucous corn should
not be planted; in others wheat should
not be sown. When we can follow
these rules millions in labor, seed and
inmlllt‘liozis t'klll iw savod. \Vt‘ :ll‘t‘
ncur tho time when those rules may
lio lvtllilﬁvod.

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of futures to the September. Toledo
stocks of timothy are large; in fact, ex-
ceptionally so.

Clover—No. 2. $‘l8.95@19.25: No. it,
$18.40@18.75; rejected, $18@1S.40;.\'.
E. G.. $3.60@17.50.

Alsike—No.2, $14.50@14.75; No. L-I.
$14.10@14.40; rejected, $13.65@14; N.
E. G., (mixed with clover, timothy.
etc), $3.60@13.50.

Timothy N0. 2, $3.40@3.50; No. 7-1.

 
$3.15@3.30; rejected, $2.90@f}.10; N. P].
G., 450@$2.75.

 
M I'ket No. 1 Standard No. 2
‘ ‘ Timothy Timothy Timothy
Detroit 24 50 25 00 23,50 24 00 22 50 23 00
Chicago 25 0° 26 00 23 00 24 00 20 00 22 00

Cincinnati 29 50 30 00 28 50 29 50 25 00 ‘28 00
30 50 27 00 28 00523 00 25 00

 
Pittsburgh 30
NewYork ‘30 31 00 25 00 29 00,20 00 24 00
Richmond 35 00 35 00 34 00 35 0"‘30 00 31 00
M ht 1 No. 1 i No. 1 No. 1
M e ' . Light Mixed ﬁClover Mixed Clover

Detroit 23 50 24 0022 50 23 00021 50 2?. 00

Chicago ‘23 $0 - 24 5022 50 23 0020 00 22 00
Cincinnati 127 50 28 0024 00 26 50;18 0t) 22 09
Pittsburgh ‘27 50 28 00 28 00 29 001.28 00 29 90

New York i24 00 2‘ 0018 00 23 0025 00 27 00
Richmond 34 00 35 00 32 (‘0 33 09 27 00 28 00

 
An increase in hay receipts at. De-
troit has resulted in a somewhat low—
er market. Cars have been arriving
freely during the past week and
there is at present. every indication
that this movement will increase.
Cars are more plentiful than for sev—
eral months and country shippers
are receiving a free supply now that
the roads are better, and they in turn
are anxious to move their ho‘lings
to market.

The Ohicago market is dull with
rather a light demand. The demand
is especially light on the lower grades
of hay. There has been a decline
there of from $1 to $1.40 per ton.
The St. Louis market is weak and
were it not, for a fairly active ahz‘p-
ping demand prices Would hay.u .lte—
clined materially during the past
week. The lowor gradcs showed :1
lower range as it was.

Philadelphia reports the receipts; of
hay as on the increase and prices off
on all grades. (lood timothy is hold-
ing up bcttcr than the other grades.
(‘onsignnicntg not up to grade are
tlnding ditlicull going and mus“ ho.
made attractive in price to find a.
market.

There is a. fair demand for the bet-
ter grades at Pittsburgnnd als. an
incraese in the supply similar to that
of other markets. Low grades are
not ﬁnding a satisfactory market :it.
this point.

New Yorkk, Boston and other east—
crn markets are freely supplied at.
this time and we expect to see prices
there work lower. This will almost.
ccrtainly result. when twisting em—
bargoes are removed and more mars
bot-onto. available.

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1:. q

 
Chﬂlce rouud Medium Round
Mukd' white—necked white-sacked

Detroit i 1.15 (wt 1.0!) cwt.
Chicago ‘1 1.05 .90
Cincinnati i 1 3! 1.00
New York | 1.50 . 1.30
Pittlhurgh l 1 30 I 1.10
Baltimore, Md. 1.25 ’ l. 5

 
liiberal supplies of potatoes a: Do
troit have caused a material deviine
in price since our last article was
written. Shippers seem to be very
anxious to dispose of their holdings
at this time although We believe the
different markets should be given
a chance to clean up right now by dis—
continuing shipments. Unless this is
done there will be a further decline
as the demand at present, is not, nearly
sufﬁcient to take the amount of stock
arriving on terminal markets.

The Chicago market is entirely de-
moralized. Shippers have found a
plentiful supply of cars and are all
anxious to move tl air holdings, The
result in a heavy accumulation at
all receiving stations and under a
light. consumptive demand that is in-
creasing.
‘ (Continued on page 11)

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“I. Too, Have Helped”

No nation can war

. ‘ AR MEANS sacriﬁce.
against another without exacting sacriﬁces

of pleasures, careers, money, happiness and
life. A people's liberty has never been purchased
for less; a world’s democracy cannot be saved at
any cheaper price.

The people of the United States feel only vague-
ly that the country is at war. They have not yet
felt the necessity that forces sacriﬁce. We have
sent our boys across the seas to ﬁght the Prus-
sian hordes, but not yet do we sense the
tragic disaster that most surely awaits them.
If we but had the imagination to follow our sol-
diers across the submarine-infested seas; if we
could but share their hopes and their fears as
they near the battle-line; if we could but stand
in spirit by their side while the shells shriek their
message of death and the earth trembles from the
ceaseless roar of cannon, then, indeed, might our
very souls be stirred with the consciousness of
the responsibility that we bear and the duty that
we owe to the boys who have gone across.

Thousands of American boys are in the trench-
es today, waiting hourly for the Signal that will
send them into the death struggle. They have
sacriﬁced. They have given up homes, careers
and loved ones, an in a few brief hours—per-
haps before the setting of the sun—many of them
will yield the most precious thing of all,—life
itself. '

Oh, we folks at home should blush with shame
that we continue on the even tenor of our selﬁsh
ways in comfort and in safety, with only an occa-
sional thought of our kin and friends who are
ﬁghting in a foreign land with death and a name-
less grave ahead!

Little has been asked of us, and the triﬂing in-
conveniences that war has visited upon us have
been met too many times with grumbling and
complaining. War taxes have touched the most
of us but lightly; we are scarcely conscious of
Of the Liberty bonds we have
been free to buy or not to buy as we have chosen,
and too many have chosen not to buy.

The third Liberty loan campaign is under way.
It comes at a bad time for the farmers, many Of
Whom are obliged to stretch their credit to the
limit in order to get their farm factories in shape
for the season’s run. It is not going to be easy
for our farmer friends to buy Liberty bonds this
year; you may have to ﬁgure more closely than
ever before; you may have to sacriﬁce. But after
all, what sacriﬁce can you make that can com-
pare with the sacriﬁce of the boys in the trenches
who offer their lives if need be to stem the Teu-
ton hosts?

Buy a bond. Buy it for the sake of the boys
“over there,” who may never come home.

Buy a bond. Buy it for the sake of your be-
loved country that she may gain victory over the
Hun and may never have to bow her knee to at
Kaiser.

Buy a bond. Buy it. for the sake of your home
and your loved ones, that they may never feel the
destroying hand of a Hindenburg.

Buy a bond. Then when the tide of battle
turns, and the life-blood of American boys red-

wounded; when the tales com-e over the sea of the

 
ens the ﬁelds of France; when the casualty lists
' grow long with their names of the dead and the

  
' Grid and all the

 
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world and. proudly any:
have done my part." ' ' ,_ I ’

   
_ More Farmers Needed on Draft. Boards

HILE A NUMBER ofdistrict boards are

shoWing the utmost liberality in their dis-

position of agricultural claims, this situ-
ation is not uniform thruout the state. Investi-
gations show that a number of local-boards. whol-
ly misunderstanding tlie intent ‘of instructions
relative to agricultural claims, have made whole-
sale recommendations that agricultural registrants
be placed in Class 1 and in many instances, it
appears, district boards have acted upon these
recommendations Without a mature considera-
tion of the claims. Thus great injustice has been

' done and many skilled farm laborers taken who

should have been left on the farms.

Practically the same situation prevailed in Il-
linois. Dean Davenport of the Illinois College of
Agriculture, went to Washington and protested
to the war department that food production would
suffer in Illinois unless the draft boards desisted
from taking so many men from the farms. The
Dean convinced the war department of the jus-
tice of his plea, and immediately upon his return
Governor Lowden added four members, mostly
farmers to each of seven of the nine district boards
in the state.

This should be done in Michigan. Agriculture
is the state's most important industry. Food pro-
duction is as vital as munition making. Farm
help is badly needed. Literally thousands of
farmers are in a quandary to know how many acres
to set to Work, because they don't know whether
they are going to have sufﬁcient help to care for
them. Every draft quota that has been called to
date has been ﬁlled with skilled farm laborers
and landed farmers, and this is what is responsi-
ble for the dearth of farm help that exists on every
hand today.

Governor Sleeper should follow the example set
by Governor Lowden of Illinois and appoint at
once additional farmers to the various draft
boards of the state. And when we say farmers,
we mean men who can and do follow a plow, and
not men whose claim‘ as agriculturists are a.
section of land and a. check-book from which to
pay someone else to do the work. Then the farm-
ers might rest assured that every agricultural
claim would be given intelligent and sympathetic
attention.

Dr. Wiley Speaks

R. HARVEY W. WILEY, formerly chief
M chemist of the U. S. Department of Agri—
culture, who gained considerable fame by his
activities in enforcing the food and drug laws,
writes in a recent issue of Good Housekeeping
one of the best articles we have ever read con‘
cerning the price-ﬁxing policy of the government.
“I may call attention to the fact,” says Dr. Wil-
ey, “that Congress authorized the ﬁxing of the
price of wheat but did not authorize the ﬁxing
of the price of ﬂour or bread. Nor did it author-
ize the ﬁxing of the price of anything the farmer
employs in cultivating his crops. ** This morning
as I came to my ofﬁce I stopped at one of the
best and largest grocery stores in Washington
and asked the price of a ﬁve-pound package of
wholewheat ﬂour. The reply was 50 cents; that
is, ten cents a pound. The farmer that produced
the wheat that made this hour got only $2.20 a
bushel for it delivered in Minneapolis. Deduct-
ing from this price the cost of delivery by wagon
to a railway and by freight to the miller and the
farmer was lucky if he got two dollars for sixty
pounds of wheat. The price to the farmer for
the wheat in ﬁve pounds of whole wheat ﬂour
was therefore seventeen cents. BetWeen the pro-
ducer and consumer of this ﬁve pounds of wheat
thirty-three cents were added. Congress should
authorize” the ﬁxing of prices on all the products
of wheat, based on the price paid to the farmer.
That. of course, would do justice to only one line
of products. If in the stress of war we break
away from the ordinary rules governing trade,
and this I think it is necessary to do, we should
include all commodities in the price-ﬁxing scheme
and prices for these commodities should be stand—
ardized on the basic food product or on the aver-
age basic food products. This should be done be-
cause food is the ﬁrst necessity and. therefore, all
other commodities should be adjusted on the scale
of the supreme necessity. There is no reason
why the farmer should pay three hundred percent
above peace prices for his nails and get only a
two hundred percent increase for his produce. If
wheat is $2.20 a bushel, nails should be four cents
a pound. This is a simple but illuminating illus-
tration. It is a matter of supreme economic in-

“I, .too,‘ * *‘ ‘

I

ers to sell the balance of. their 1917 crop.

  
- patriotic isociallism,

of which he so justly speaks.” '

The New Wheat Regulations

[ I NDER THE ~n’ew: regulations just issued by

the Food Administration, a farmer is for-
bidden to have more ﬂour in‘his possession
at one time than suﬁicient to last his family for
thirty days. When he takes his wheat to the mill

'to be ground, he must sign a statement to the ef-

fect that his toal supply will not last longer than
the prescribed period. '

It is unfortunate that the Food Administration
should have issued this order at the present time
when every effOrt is being made to induce the farm-
The
wheat subject is a delicate one with every farmer.
No farmer can quite forget or forgive the ﬁxing
of a maximum price on this commodity whilst
other articles, particularly of wear and utility

on the farm have been left unfettered. And every _

order that is issued which bears in any manner
upon wheat or wheat products only appears to" the
farmer as an additional infringement upon his
rights. - , ,

The appeal to farmers to market the balance of
their wheat holdings has been accomplished in
some instances, by threats of summary measures,
such as commandeering‘ the crop, arresting the
farmers and making their names public—tactics
that are wholly unworthy of the representatives
of a great, democratic government.

Now that farmers are prevented from seéuring
more than a thirty days’ supplyrof ﬂour, they
should be expected to retain sufﬁcient wheat from
the markets to supply their own family needs un-
til another crop is harvested, and such wheat no
doubt forms the bulk of the supply still in the
farmers’ hands.

Give the Farmer a Hand

T THE RECENT meeting of the executive
A committee of the Michigan Potato Growers’

Ass’n, Jason Woodman presented a reso-
lution asking that a practical farmer living on his
farm and familiar with the production of pota—
toes. beans and sugar beets be appointed on the
advisory committee of the U. S. Food Adminis-
tration.

This is identical with recommendations that
have been made repeatedly in these columns, and
we are pleased that Mr. Woodman and the Grow-
ers’ Association have taken such a step.

On the opposite page we print the likenesses of
the twenty-six men recently appointed as an agri-
cultural advisory committee. Of Mr. Milo C.
Campbell, the Michigan member, we have no crit-
icism, for we do not believe there is a man in the
state of Michigan more in sympathy with the
farmers or having a better understanding of their
general problems than Mr. Campbell. We do not
know whether Mr. Campbell is an extensive grow-
er of root crops; we do know that he is away from
his farm a great deal and traveling in all sections
of the country as president of the National Milk
Producers’ Ass’n. Therefore, we believe that in
addition to Mr. Campbell, a practical, active farm-
er with the qualiﬁcations named by Mr. Woodman
should be appointed.

The majority of the men on the agricultural
advisory committee have held political offices,

'which in our opinion unﬁts them in the majority

of cases for passing unbiased judgment upon mat—
ters of legislation affecting the farmers. Practi-
cally every member farms by “proxy.” One of
them owns 35,000 acres of land in Virginia all
of which are tilled by tenants. There is some
question as to whether this particular individual
could render an impartial opinion upon matters
which solely concern the 80 or 160-acre farmer.

Since the eyes of the government have been
opened to the advisability of such an advisory
body the farmers of Michigan should make their
preference known, and insist that at least one
and possibly more representative farmers of the
state he added to the committee.

Owing to the congestion of mail and the cur-
tailment of railway mail service we have found it
necessary in order to get M. B. F. to all our sub-
scribers on Saturday to “back up” a day in its
publication. Next week’s M. B. F. will be printed
one day earlier than usual, and every subcsriber
should receive his paper on or before next Satur-
day morning. If it fails to reach you by that time,
be sure to advise us so wecan locate and remedy
the trouble. _ .

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(This is an open forum where our readers may ex-
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ments appearing in this column will not necessarily
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El‘eyator May as Well Keep Cull Beans

I have recently read the letters in your valu-
able paper condemningpotato grading and bean
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In regard to the farmer claiming the cull beans
because he has to pay for the picking, it is to be
considered whether he would realize anymore
money by getting Uhe culls or letting the jobber
have them to pay expenses. It the jobber is in-
clined to make our beans pick more than they
really do there wouldn't be enough cull beans left
to go around. I don’t see Where it would make
any difference to us. There is nothing that I
know of to stop the jobber from getting what he
thinks is a reasonable proﬁt.

Never, since I can remember, has there been
so much dissatisfaction among the people as
there is at the present time. They seem to
think they are not getting their share of the al-
mighty dollar. Did you ever stop to think that
there is no value in money? It is just a commo-
ity used for exchange. If yOu want to know how
much you are earning ﬁgure how much labor you
have to give for what you buy.

It grieves me to ﬁnd fault with the government,
for I honor democracy and love our ﬂag, but

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this wiseacre would try to make such law ef-
fective. He would'disfranchise at least 90 per

' cent of the original settlers. Their sons of course

according to M. W. would be eligible for ofﬁce.
But the old man, the actual settler. the pioneer,
'who made it possible for the son to qualify must
be disfranohised as an ofﬁce holder. Now I am
not an ofﬁce holder nor am I aspiring for ofﬁce.
I have not the time, besides I think the aver-
age politician a pest. There are too many. The

I am trying to make a farm here, doing my best
and have no time for politics, and little time to
write, but I was so exasperated at reading such
a proposition of injustice, I could not resist re-
plying. Taxation. No don’t. People with the
backbone of the pioneer won’t stand for it.—-—
J. L. R., Brimley, Mich.

Farmers Will Simply Have to Pull Together

I am a reader of M. B. F. and will say that I
enjoy reading it. Every farmer ought to subscribe
for it as I think in time they will. There is no
use talking, farmers must stick together better
than they have been doing or they will be tramp-
led in the mud. Now if we were getting paid for
our crops according to what we have to pay for
seed, labor, machinery, etc., it wouldn’t be so bad;
but we don’t. It’s the middleman that makes the
easy coin. For example: A farmer is compelled

I sold some clover seed and received $16 per
bushel

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10 or 12 hours a day? That would not be asking
too much, would it? They are expected, as true
Americans, to help win the war, just the same as '
you and I. By putting them back on the old time
I forone, think it would help the car shortage.
There sure must be as many cars today as there
was a few years ago. There is hay in this
county, lots of it, to be shipped yet, There is a
car shortage n0w~—a bumper orOp expected, and
then another car shortage. Pray ask the govern--
ment how will the farmers be able to ship" their
bumper crop if the good Lord permits us to grow
such?~E. C. D., Lamb, Mich.

 
Immigration Law Should do More “Pruning”

In reading the MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING of
March 30, I ﬁnd an article on a law to conﬁne of-
ﬁce-holding to native-born. First of all, I con—
tend that some laws might be good for one state
and would do harm in others. Right here in the

  
many Canadians, highly educated and intelligent,
and a multitude of other foreign people from all
over the globe. They are, I might say, divided
into three classes, namely, 'the intelligent class,
the middle class and the low down slum-gullion
good-for—nothing class. If such a law was to be
enacted in the state of Michigan for the sole
purpose of keeping the slum-gullions out of ofﬁce
you would also bar some of our best citizens. ~
Of course we do not want the slumgullions here
at all. much less in ofﬁce, but federal laws could
be enacted to keep out the undesirables. I think
our immigration laws ought to be amended to do
more “pruning."

I will agree on one point, that no foreign—born
person shall have the right to vote until after ten
years of actual residence in the United States.
And furthermore, that it would be compulsory
for a foreign-born

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rebellion,, “our
country could not
exist and be half
slave and half
free." We either
had to be all slave
or all free.

If he was here
now I believe he
would say our
country could not
exist if the gov-
ernment was to
establish a price
on half of the
necessities of life
while the manu-
facturers controll-
ed the other half
I might cite your
attention to the
Fordson trac t o r.
Two years ago it‘
~ was advertised
that he was build-
ing a tractor that
he could sell for
$250. When his
son was drafted
he made a plea
for his exemption
claiming he could
do more good for
the country mak-
ing these trac-
tors than in the
army. But you
did not hear of
his asking the
government what price he ought to establish to
encourage the average farmer to buy.

A few years ago, you remember, the Standard
Oil Company was arrested and ﬁned $29,000,000
for organizing a trust. I read in the paper where
a committe appointed to investigate the proﬁts
of this company found that it received a proﬁt
of from seven to eleven cents on a gallon. It
looks queer to me that the government can set
the price on grain and stop speculators from
controlling the price and not be able to set the
price on gasoline and kerosene, and stop the
Standard Oil Company from controlling the price.
I hardly believe that all of our ﬁnancial troubles
lie at the door of our local dealers. If you will
take notice of our cities and towns you will ﬁnd
that most of the small dealers have been com-
pelled to close. Simply a case of where the blE,’
ﬁsh cats the little ones. This is one reason why
I dout' think it proﬁtable for us to buy of the
catalogue houses. Supposing we do have to pay
a little more at home; the more money you leave

 
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rotary Houston and Food Administrator Hoover.
consideration in dealing with the various agricultural and food problems which confront the nation. The 26 ann‘lel‘N repre-
sent all the most important agricultural states. Milo (‘. Campbell, (‘oldwnter (12th from left) in the only Michigan member.

 
.'—l‘urmers who have been called to
As a result of this plan, it is stated, the

things are going as they are. The work is hard
and money comes in slow. We can just blame
ourselves, for right now is the time to get to—
gether, so that when we go to market we can
set our own reasonable price and get it. too.“—
Subscribcr, Grass Lake. Mich.

“Down With the Kaiser”

Some one has sent the M. B. F. this winter and
I think it is a grand paper for every farmer to
take. So I want to know if I owe you anything;
if so, how much as I don‘t want the paper to stop.

We read the article about the law to conﬁne of—
fice holding to native born citizens. I believe it
is time we looked around to sec if we haven‘t
enough American born men to hold our state.
rounty and town ofﬁces.

There are twenty men in our court house in
Saginaw and out of the twenty there. is just one
American born, the rest are German. as parents
are from Germany. My father was from Germany

S in your home town the more people it will but he says “Down with the Kaiser” and so do
:55 support_ If We keep sending our money to Chi- I. The only thing I am sorry for is that I am
e cage We may have to send there for help at the too old to ﬁght. Enough said—«J. s. J12. M. Char-
; next harvest time.——(l. M. L., ll’illiamslon. lcs, Mi(?}1,ig(1,n_

s Suggested Disfranchisement an Injustice Suggests Remedy for Car Shortage

g I read a proposition by one. M. W., Rhodes, Per your article on page 5 of April 6 ,1918, in
S Michigan and it is putting it mildly to say that regard to railroad rates and service, would say it
5 it is provoking. But of course he is an Indian, really seemsltoo bad that there should be a car
E as there are no other natives who can(as far as shortage at this time. Here we farmers have been
3 I have read American history) claim themselves asked, I have heard it said, to work all the day-
; as natives. But even Indians surely have better light there is and twenty-four hours if need be to
2 sense of justice than to try and disfranohise good grow an abundant supply of food. Now I say if
E honest taxpaying citizen-s simply because they such be the case, why not ask the Government to
5 have not been born in the United States. Take put the railroad men back on their old time again,
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person to become
a naturalized cit-
izen of the United
States, as pre-
scribed by our
laws. and if not
willing to comply
with this feature
of the nw they
should be deport-
cd immediately.
I believe the im-
migration laws
should be amend-
ed to conform to
the above. so that
no person could
become a natural-
ized citizen of the
United States un-
til he had been
an actual resi-
dent of the coun—
try for at least
ten yearst. 8.,
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your paper. It
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“'ushington to consult with 890- “Iver to cover.
farmers” viewpoint will be given Nhghty inteTeSt‘

ing reading when
We ﬁnd someone
who sticks up for
us farmers. It is high time some one did. The
farmers raises grains and meats for the world,
and yet those of the city blame the farmer for the
high cost of produce. How much of this high
price does the farmer get for himself? Farmers
know only too well they get very little of the mon-
ey the city man pays for his living.

The elevators beat us on grains. beans, or anv-
tlhing we want to sell, and the farmer gets the
small end when he has to buy what the elevator
man has to sell. When he has to buy things the
price is soaked on heavy. The banks charge extra
for every transaction they make. If the farmer did
so there would be a great howl. But they say,
“oh, the farmer has lots of money—«more than he
knoWs what, to do with."

I did not raise any potatoes for sale as I knew
the situation would be so they would drop in
price. for they always do. But, I sold both grain
and beans at a loss last fall. The price was down
before tax time, now this spring it is high, after
most of the grain is sold. Only a few farmers
were able to hold grain over. Now the price is
set for grain, what is a farmer to do?

More power to you to help us.~A. A. 0., Spring-
port, Michigan.

Right You Are 1

How are Michigan bean gerers going to get
square deal with Kimball down at Washington.
He has been traveling 15 years for some of the
biggest dealers in the state. The Isbell Bean Co.
was always "bulling” or "bearing” the market, as
having no elevators until lately, it

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'the precipitation of the lime from the sap.

 
Helpfuli" Hints From Antrim Subscriber

EAR PENELOPEz—You don’t know how we
D appreciate the M. B. F.. Scarcely a day

goes by but that we refer to the paper in
one way 01' another. ‘atlier has often written
asking some advice or fanr and at times offered
a. few suggestions. and I have thot so many times
of doing likewise, but just kept putting it off.

That old saying. “A man Works from sun to
sun; but. a woman‘s work is never done." is cer-
tainly true of the women on the farms. Spring

brings additional duties to the women of the
farms as well as to the men. and we anticipate a
busy season. The meals require so much planning
these days, and trying out new recipes takes more
time. but I am glad to use the substitutes and
have made some valuable discoveries in this line.
I hope ,these fewu'ecipes I am sending may help
to solve someone's daily problems and meet with
as great. approval as in my family.

I consider it a great privilege for the readers of
M. B. F. to be able to exchange our “helpful hints”
thru the columns of your paper. I am sure we
all appreciate it. I hope everyone may do their
share—Mrs. L. J. M.. Anlt'im County.

1's1«:s SUBSTITUTE FOR LARI)

I was unable to make as large a quantity of lard

last yeai as usual and when that was gone I found

it very expensive to buy at 35c a pound. I had often
noticed the different cooking oils advertised, but rather

_ (‘ onununicntions for this page should be addressed to
"Penelope,”Farm Home Department, Mt. Clemens,Mlcli.

bottle, jug or other container, ﬁtted with a tight
rubber cork through which the tube passes. Fill
the container about half full of water, add car-
bonate of soda or washing soda crystals, then
drop in the sulphuric acid a little at a time when
necessary. Close tightly allowing the gas to pass
thru the tube. After the precipitation has been
carried on until the solution is neutral, or nearly
so, carefully draw off the clear sap into a pan,
using a syphon or other means, and boil down.

Maple ﬂavor can be added to the syrup, or rown
sugar can be made suitable for cooking purposes.
~~eM~iss L. (7., Coleman, Michigan.

Kodaks

If any of our readers have any kodak pictures
(if their children, their family pets or some inter-
esting scene of the farm, we would be- very glad
to receive them for use in these columns.

What the Women of the World Are Doing
In (:ermany nearly all of the tobacco workers are
women.
* ‘1 IF
The average working day of a woman in Germany
is 12 hours. -
all 4‘ III
In England many women over 60 years old are
working in munition plants.
* ¢

It is expected that 191 women will be elected to
places on the Democratic county committee of Queens
New York.

This Week’s Spring Fashions
lGAIN THIS WEEK we are offering styles
and suggestions for the young girls between
the ages of 6 and 14 years. These are, par-
ticularly well adapted to use in remodeling out-
grown or partly- -worn garments.

No. 8751——This presents a simple girlish style
in which with the addition of a small amount of
new material, several old ones may be used.
Make the deep yoke, the trimming band on the
skirt,” sash and cuffs of a plaid material, and com-
bine with plain for the body of the dress, sleeve-1
and collar. The dress buttons down the back, and
by using fancy buttons which «blend with the col-
ors in the dress, they serve as a trimming. The
narrow velvet tie may be added when desired.
giving a. more dressy appearance. The pattern
comes in 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years, but, is more
suitable for girls of 10, 12 and 14 years.

No. 8736-—This little coat is just what every
young girl needs, who lives on the farm. Her
coat should be serviceable and warm; a style that
requires but little pressing and covers her dress—
es well, for long walks or drives she often takes.

N0. 8736 is cut in sizes 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years.
There is a yoke both in front and back and the
skirt section is joined onto this without any full-
ness. This eliminates all plaits and shirrings,
which are so hard to keep in press, and makes
a perfectly straight line coat. The tiny roll collar.
pockets and cuffs of same or contrasting material
ﬁnish the coat in a tailored effect, necessitating
no other trimmings. Dark wool serge with white
linen collar and cuffs would make a most attrac-

tives as well as a serviceable coat for

 
hesitated to use them, but, now I was anxious to trv
anything that. would be 11 little more economical, so
bought a can of Mazola oil. I was hap-
pily surprised with the result. and have
since used some one of thc oils entirely

in my baking and frying.

I use half wheat and half 1'y1-
my buttermilk pancakes. my spicc
and cookies.

llour iii
cakes

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cup of bread crumbs. 1 cup of milk. seas-
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and stir into the well-beaten cggs: seas—
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add the milk.
a greased baking dish

 
children of all ages. If one desires a
lighter weight material the cotton
gabardine or pongee silks are very suit-
able and they launder well. Ilsing this
saute model for the real little girl of 6

or 8 year. the white cotton pique is
very dainty. But especially this year

it never before. while evei'yone's time
is so valuable. why...not use more dark
colored clothes? I'se those that sim-
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Raise stock is selling at very close to
the regular market ,price. y

We see no improvement in sight. for
the immediate future and on the other
hand look for a. further decline unless

. a decreaseihrthe volume of receipts

and there is a small chance of that
right now.

    
There is no change in the onion
market and conditions are very un-
satisfactory from the’growers’ stand-
point. Practically all markets have
an over-supply a d with stock still
coming in large Ihuantities there is
nothing better in sight for the imme-
diate future. It seems to be the gen-
eral opinion that old onions will ﬁnd
an unsatisfactory market until the
end of tlhe season. Detroit is quoting
$1 to $1.25 per cwt. sacked. Chicago

quotes 750 to 85c per cwt. sacked.

 
LIVE WT. Detroit Chicago ' New York
Turkey 34-35 25-26 I 34-35
Duck: 34-35 28—31 34-35
Geese 34-35 20-25 I 34 35
Springer: ’

Hens I

 
No. .2 Grade 2 to 3 Cents Less

The poultry market continues ﬁrm
under light receipts and a very fair
demand. Poultry now coming to mar-
ket is in the main of rather poor
poor quality compared with that re-
ceived some few weeks ago., Shippers
to the Detroit market are receiving
very satisfactory returns.

The Chicago market is not receiv-
ing live poultry in suﬂicient quantity
to make a market, and were it not
for the Food Administration's maxi-
mum prices much higher quotations
would prevail.

 
Eggs during the past week have
been arriving on all markets in.con-
stantly increasing quantities. Detroit
prices range from 32 to 330 per doz.
for strictly fresh arrivals.

 
rrice 01‘ patterns ten cents each. .Ad-
dress: Farm Home Dept, Michigan
Business Farming, /Mt. Clemens, Mich.

year and the choice Ohio and , '

 
There is a good supply of butter
coming to the‘ Detroit market and
buyers are inclined to take only suf-
ﬁcient for their immediate needs.
Fresh creamery ﬁrsts, 39@391/_.c; ex-
tras, 40@40%c. '

Our New York butter letter, under
date of April 6, says:

At the Close on Friday there was no
demand for butter other than that
that would score 92 or higher. Un-
der present conditions, however. it
must be understood that a butter that
would score 92 would undoubtedly
pass as a 93 or 94 score butter under
more fa'Vorable conditions. The mar-
ket is very unsatisfactory and there
are indications that a further decline
in price can be expected. On Mon-
day and Tuesday of this week the
market seemed fairly steady with ex-
tras quoted at 430. However, there
was comparatively little butter mov-
ing. On Wednesday there was a de-
cline of a half cent, followed by a
further decline of one to one and a
half cents on Thursday and a further
half cent decline on Friday. At the
close on Friday quotations stood as
follows: Creamery extras, 11011041513;
higher scor/ing than extras, 411,(_.@
420; ﬁrsts, 391,{_.@401,{_.c; seconds, 371/J
@39c a pound.

Cheese

There has been no important change
in the cheese market during the past
week. The British Government has
now been supplied with the large
amount of cheese ordered some time
ago at 24oseaboard, and is now in
the market at 23c. The cheese trade
is still laboring under the inﬂuence
of this trade and is in very uncertain
condition. The amount required by
the British Government at 23c is un-
known. The New York market quo-
tations follow:

State ﬂats, held, 23@251/2c; fair to
good, 21@23c; fresh, 22@231/2c; twins
23@241/2c; double daisies, 25@251/_.c;
Wisconsin twins. 23@24c; daisies, 25
@251/3c; Americas, 25@271/3c; State

skims, held specials, 1861719160; fresh
specials, 1660170;
14@15c.

Dressed Hogs and Calves
Hogs, best, 21@22c per lb.
Calves, fancy, 21@22c;

common, 190 per lb.

prime to choice,

choice, 20c;

       
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Detroit—Feed, in 100-1b. sacks. job-
bing lots, bran, $35; standard mid—
dlings, $38; ﬁne middlings, $45; crack-
ed corn, $70; coarse cornmeal, $70;
chop, $56 per ton. Flour, per 196 lbs.
in eighth paper sacks, straight win—
ter wheat, $11; spring patent, $11.30;
rye ﬂour, $14 in jobbing lots.

Milwaukee——The market on wheat
feeds continues very strong with light
offers and a brisk demand. Rye feed
is $1@$1.50 per ton lower, hominy
has declined $1 and barley feed is
off $3@$4, due to the relatively large
supply now available as the result of
the expansion of substitute milling.
Current quotations are: Sacked bran,
$35@$40.50; niiddlings. $tl7dii$il.50;
rye feed, $51; red dog, .55); barley
feed, $426045; oil meal, $58.50 100-11).
sacks, gluten feed, $19.80 bulk, $51.90
100—lb. sacks Chicago.

Wool

The wool market continues strong
at. the following range of prices:
Tubs, washed, 60@75; medium, un-
washed, 55@60; coarse, unwashed, 55
@60; Light, ﬁne, bright, 33@35; ﬁne
heavy. unwashed, 30; dark and dingy,
medium, unwashed, 40@55; taggy
ﬂeeces, hurry and black wool, 5c per
pound discount.

Chicago Live Stock Letter

Chicago, April 8, 1918—Breadth of
demand for beef was evidenced in no
uncertain manner here today. With
a run of 24,500 cattle in the pens—~11
liberal supply brought out by last
Week’s sharp advance, which ranged
from 500 on the plainer light killing
steers up to fully $1.00 per cwt. on the
better beef classes—the trade record—
ed a fresh advance of generally 100
on good to best beef steers. and was
steady to strong on cheaper kinds.

 
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The market was active. particular-
ly on good steers with weight, at the
advance, and a good clearance was
made. Prices are not only at the
highest levels of the year, but much
the highest for April on record, and
the future looks bright for still high-
er prices on all grades.

Killers secured comparatively few
steers on today’s market below $12,
and the big bulk of the! supply of med—
ium to good fat cattle sold between
$12.50@$15.40. An extreme top of
$15.80 was made on a two load of
prime beeves, dehorned.

Butcher cows, heifers and bulls
sold 15 to 250 higher than the close
last week and campers at a slight gain.
The latter and bull values are fully
50c higher than a week ago. while fat
cows and heifers are 750 to $1.00
higher. Most of the fair to good
butcher cows are at $8.73 to $11.25.
prime heavy kosher cow's on up to
$12.50 to $13.00. Heifers of fair to
good killing class are going largely
from $9.25 to $11.75, best heavy fed
heifers and ripe heifer yearlings oc-
casionally up to $13.00 to $13.50. Can-
ner' and cutter cows are selling at $7
to $8, fair light to best heavy bologna
bulls from $9 to $10, and good to
choice beef bulls from $10.50 to $12.
Veal calves had a dollar brczik today
from last Friday‘s prices. with $15
to $15.50 buying good to i-lioii-o. Stock
and feeding cattle are as high as ever
and generally 250 above a week ago.
with the bulk going at $10 to $11.50
and best fleshy. selected feeder wits
weight quotable on up to $12.50.

Today’s receipts of hogs at 05000
was second largest of the year. with
only one day larger since Foliriinry of
last year. Receipts here March 25 of

 
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FA ICMS AND FAR.“ LANDS

 
mm SALE—80 acres. It was two 40’s

 
this year were 72,956. The market
wcakcncd 11:1 the day advanced, with
bulk Efﬁi' lli‘liﬂi' 5:.‘7111‘11.ll"*i :iyo-i‘zigo.
i‘vlllit‘l“.¥'t‘i;_il". (-lwoi Ii£:-’2/'"7v below,
the ilé‘sl limo liléll do". 'l‘lws'a- was]
an curly lug,» :ii' ti‘l'i'fi. \x'iili SWAT: the
practical lop offer the ﬁrst round and
lowcr than ilzzii ‘;)l‘l"(? :71 the ﬁnish.

Hoary butchers showed least decline.

lchiiils of shcop and lambs today
Wei-o estimated 211' 111,000. including
around 1,500 to packers from other
markets. Aged and yearling sheep
sell steady with late last week and
equalling the highest level of the sea-
son. Most lambs steady to strong
with last'chk’s close, while some
sales show 5@25c advance. Some new
records were made. Colorado lambs
made $20.65 and some ewe lots to
breeders made $21. while shearing
stock lands at $20.25. Show western
lambs made a new record of $17.85,
while shorn western yearlings scored
$410.00. Prime wooled wethers were
quotable to $17.50; wooled ewes to
$16.50; lightweight wooled yearlings
“to $18.75; best shorn yearlings to
$16.50; shorn aged wethers to $15.50
and sliorn ewes to $14. The trade is
at the highest point in market history
and appears to be headed for a still
higher point.

 
side by side. Each 40 has a house with a.
cellar and well, orchard, barn with base-
ment and hen house. One 40 has wind~
mill with tanks. Land nearly all under
cultivation on main road half mile to
school and church. 11/3 miles to market.
Might sell separate. (100d soil. John Ed-
wards, Sears, Osceola C0., Michigan. R. 1.

 
SEEDS AND PLANTS
SEED CORN—rGolden Orange Flint, $5
bu. Red cob, $4 bu.

$3.00. Order early. Sample for stamp.

llarry Vail, Warwick. Orange (30., N. Y. .

 
SEED BEANS—Choice medium pea.
beans harvested before wet weather of
fall of 1917. Good quality $8.00 per bu.
Offer good to April 22nd, bags extra.
Roy Lute, Crystal, Michigan.

Earl SEED POTATOES—Irish Cobbler,

Y grcat yielder of round white po-
tatoes, Will stand close planting. Fine
stock $1.25 per bu. Jas. H. Billings,
Hart, Michigan.

DAHLIAS 20 good mixed $1.00; 10
Host Mixed $1.00; Gladiolas 40 fine mix-
cd $1.00; Iris ﬁne mixed 20 for $1.00.

 
Prepaid. l". A. Sl’lOW’el‘lllllll, Jackson.
Michigan.
POTATOES — Early Rose, Irish Cob-

bloi‘ $1.35.
lliishel, good seed. Early and Late small
l’oi.ziloc::. Cheap White African Guineas
llil‘ll‘I'Zjio. F. A. Showornniii, Jackson.
M win-gun.

 
EII'I‘IC I‘ILICPIIA .V'T Semi Potatoes.

Buell’s Rural Riissets $1.10 ‘

  
Grain Ensilage, ’

$1.00 per 1111., sacks included. These .

__ iuilulinvrx' are the northern—grown
ilii':ltii-.<, good yicldoi‘s and lino sellers.
on :iiiy lllill'Ki’l. Hrtlci‘s‘ :Lboi'i- in.» bushel
prolorrod. Sciid (iilSll with order. Fred
<‘:ii‘1:4on .\" Soil, Alniistoii, fi‘llcliigziii.

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Vegetables not Adapted to Ceneral Markets
, by Community Canning '

When the food producing farmer be-
comes successful in» making a ﬁnished
food product, then he may be classi-
ﬁed, not only 'as a successful manu-
facturer, but as one of a class of man-
ufacturers who is destined to share
a double proﬁt. First, the margin
of proﬁt he may realize in producing
the material to supply the “Food Fac-
tory.” Second, from the liberal proﬁt
arising from operating that factory.

The most‘independent manufactur-
er known to the industrial world is

the one whose factory is either sup-‘
plied with, materials from nature’s

unlimited resourées or from the an-
nual crop production made possible
by practical and intensive farming.

So the tiller of the soil in the duel V

capacity of farmer and manufacturer,
while producing ﬁnished food pro-
ducts, will proﬁt two-fold, and may
permanently control both the supply
and demand in the duel operation, fac-
tors so necessary in the success of
any industry. That is, the farmer’s
intensive production material helps
the operation of the factory by accum-
ulating a supply of material, while the
operation of the factory reduces the
supply of material, and creates a de-
mand for greater crop production, all
within the control of one interest.
So the intensive farmer with his
factories, produces abundant mater-
ial, as well as to create a demand for

the. same by manufacturing this ma-—

terial into food products. Thus, the
Farmer-Manufacturer has unto him-
self the entire proﬁts arising from
the two operations, besides control-
ling within his own resources, food
materials from farm to consumer.

Most prominent among the indus-
tries which are practical and possible
for farmers to operate, either by indi-
viduals or co-operative organizations,
are canneries, creameries, and elevat-
ors, together with such co-ordinate in-
dustries as packing houses, storehous-
es, buying and selling organizations,
etc.

The farmer owned cannery perhaps
is a greater factor than any other
in the way of encouraging intensive
farming, as it covers a greater vari-
ety of products than any other farmer
factory, and creates a demand for a
varied farm production, as well as sav-
ing numerous wastes at the time of
gluts in the city markets. While nu-
merous localities in an early day ex-
pedienced failures in farmer owned
canneries, still the writer recalls that
the early experiences in organizing
farmer owned canneries, as well as
creameries, were entirely 011 the
wrong plan.

Some company interested in manu-
facturing and selling equipments were
usually prominent in promoting these
industries thruoout the country, re-
sulting in a maximum initial cost
of factory and equipment, while the
organization was left with a minimum
of practical experience and material
product to can.

But under the present plan of organ-
izing, the farmer factory is equipped
and supervised by an experienced man,
and the growth of ample material to
can is promoted in advance. In fact,
the parties to be interested in the ulti-
mate success of the enterprise, under
the present plan, are the promoters,
and when experienced management is
added, successful operation of the fac-
tory folIOWS.

To the grower of small fruits, in-
stead of suffering a loss on shipments
during unfavorable markets, you de-
liver your berries to your own plant,
and at the minimum cost, your pro-
duct is placed in a can, then you may
hold until a favorable price is real-
ized. Under this arrangement you
have not only realized a proﬁt on the
production of. the fruit, but also a lib-
eral proﬁt in the canning operation.

To the Peach Grower: Your wind-
falls and seconds put into you.- own
canning plant in the way of pea vines.
sweet corn husks, fodder, etc., while
the canned product of peas and sweet
corn will net you many times more
per acre than you ever realized from
general farming. While to the can-
ning factory equipment there could be
added machinery for cleaning, grading

      
and picking beans; and with your
bean production put into cans, you
would never suffer from low prices
and glutted markets.

Again, you could never estimate the '
proﬁts arising from the growing of
vegetables to supply materials for
your own co-operative' canning plant,

’ say nothing of the major proﬁt arising

from the canning operation. Even
your smaller potatoes peeled by ma-
chinery would be utilized in canned
vegetable soups and stews, making
proﬁts from wastes never realized be-
fore; while the sale of the canned food
product brings quick returns in the
markets of the world.

So as the farmer manufacturer in
growing the products to supply your
own canning plant, you are perform-
ing an industrial stunt scarcely known
to your city brothers. You are inde-'
pendent, as you are in full control of
both the material and the ﬁnished
product. You are producing the ma-
terial for your own factory, and-your
factory is manufacturing the material
you have produced, into the most
staple of all products—food.

The farmer has been accustomed,
in the operation of general farming,
to sell at the buyer’s price, and buy
at the seller’s price, with no control
of either transaction; but, as a farmer
manufacturer, your beneﬁts will be re-
alized both going and coming, which
would be quite a relief from the jolts
the farmer has experienced while tak-
ing a. similar route in former years.

It is not a difﬁcult matter to organ—
ize and operate successfully a co-op-
erative Canning Factory, and if the
farmer is to take on the new ideas of
intensive farming, the local co-opera-
tive canning plant is essential, not
only in saving wastes and making pos-
sible better prices, but also in meet-
ing a demand for your intensive pro-
duction, as well as an additional proﬁt
for the canning operation.

So the producing farmer should,
when possible and consistent with. 10-
cal conditions, take up intensive pro-
duction of crops adapted to local soil
andclimatic conditions, and by the
medium of a farmer—owned factory,
convert the same into a ﬁnished food
product, thereby realizing for himself
full beneﬁts from his own investments
and labor, and in the most important
business of food production, avoid the
necessity of dividing the major proﬁts
arising from the canning operations.

 
GENERAL TREATMENT
FOR THE CHERRIES

 
Sweet cherry trees may be infested
with San Jose scale. Just before the
buds open, if the scale be present,
spray with the strong lime-sulphur
wash. To be succcessful. the work
must be done very thoroughly—this
means that every part of the tree must
be covered with the spray.

Just before the blossoms open, spray
with dilute lime-sulphur, or bordeaux
mixture. This is to prevent the rot
and leaf- -spot troubles.

Especially valuable on the English
Morellos for the latter. Our experi-
ments the last two seasons indicate
that the dilute lime-sulphur is just
as satisfactory as the borvdeaux for
cherries and either is better than the
self-boiled lime-sulphur.

Just after the blossoms fall, make
a. spraying like the above with the ad-
dition of 2 pounds of ar-senate of lead
to every 50 gallons of spray solution.
This spraying is directed against the
rot and leaf-spot curculio and slug.

Ten days or 'two weeks later-it may
be necessary to make another spraying

like the previous one for the rot and

leaf-spot. The need for this spraying
will depend upon the susceptibility of
the variety to the rot and to the weath-
er conditions of the season.

Large black lice may appear on the
leaves at any time. A spraying of to—
bacco water will destroy them if ap-
plied before the leaves curl too tight-
ly.

Slugs sometimes .appear after the.
fruit is harvested, 3. spraying of arse-
nate of lead (2 or 3 pounds in 50 gal-
lons of Water) will destroy them. ,

 
. . other jobs getting read

- Twining, April 5,

 
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: \ ‘ ' .

. E South) —— Farmers are
‘vllloﬁilfsm‘sandn ' Shwitig oats and ‘trziméng‘ig
. ' ‘ hau n manure an 0
trees, and also ,3‘ to; the “a?“ of
.. 3 Hit Work. The soil as een ex . eme-
'1: 'drg until the past few days when the
rain softened it up. The farmers are
selling seme' hogs, potatoes, apples and
beans, and they are buying small quan-
tities of fertilizer this year as compared
to former years, and they are also order-
ing their binder twine. Several new
tractors have been bought here this
spring. The farmers around Fenton are
getting $2.50 per cwt. for their milk at
the condensary at Fenton. This is 250
below the price last month and 60c below
the February price. and the farmers are
not “satisﬁed with it.—-—C. 8.,

Apr

JACKSON (Sonth)—The farmers are
very busy; help is scarce: weather ﬁne
and roads are good. Grain is now being
.marketed, 800 bushels of rye and wheat
was taken in from one farm here in one
‘ day. Farmers are not holding their grain
for higher prices. There is not much
demand for potatoes. Seed corn is very
scarce. Some corn is being shipped in
as the farmers have been obliged to feed
their corn to the stock on account of its
being too green to crib. Some have
ﬁnished ploiving for oats.—G. 8., Han-
over, April 6.

LAPEEB (Northern)—Farmers are in
the midst of getting ready for the rush
of spring work. Wheat is not looking
very good. and lots of ﬁelds do not look
as though there was any wheat on them
at all. There is nothing being sold here
just now except at sales. I think every
farmer in this part of the county will
do all in his power to produce the crops

to feed the world to win the war.—- . G.
S._ North Branch, April 4. '
MIDLAND (Southeast)—The farmers

in this locality are ditching, hauling tile,
doing some spring plowing and buzzing
wood. The ground is not very wet. Some
farmers upon opening their potato pits
found them all frozen. Many of the peo-
ple in this .locality are making maple
sugar.—J. M., Hemlock, April 3.

SHIAWASSEE (Central)_——The weath-
er is ﬁne‘ and the farmers are making
good use of it, putting in oats, barley
and a few are trying a little spring wheat.
A good many are going to grow sugar
beets this season, the price of the beets
and the shortage of sugar encouraging
them to try again. A few of the farm—
ers here will buy tractors this year.—J.
E W., Owosso, April

BERBIEN (West)—Wheat is looking
good. Some oats and early potatoes
have'been planted. Farmers who have
been holding their hay are selling now
for from $10 to $15 less per ton than
they could have sold for two months ago.
Farmers here are feeding their potatoes
to live stock, cooking them in large ket-
tles for that purpose.—-—O. Y.,'Baroda,
April 5.

VAN BUREN (Eaten—Farmers are
plowing gardens and drawing manure,
several carloads of the latter have come
here from Camp Custer. There are plen-
ty of grapevines to trim yet and help is
very scarce. Lots of potatoes in pits
here have been found frosted. The mar-
ket is unsatisfactory at 750 per cwt.—
V. T. G., Mattawan, April 6.

CALHOUN (West)—The ground is in
good condition for spring work. The
majority of farmers are plowing for
cats, and a few have sown.—-V. H. J.,
Battle Creek, April 5.

TUSQOLA (West)—Farmers are sow-
ing oats and barley. Farm help scarce
and wages run from $40 to $65 a month.
Several farmers buying tractors. Not
much grain left to sell. Farmers dis-
posing of their cattle at fairly good

price, which ranges from 8 to 9c live
weight. The farmers of Reese have
incorporated a co-operative company.
They raised about $4,000.00.——C. B.,

April 6.

LAKE (Nortliesst)———Farmers are plow-
ing. Everything at sales is selling at
good prices except horses.——E. G. D., Lu—
ther, April

BA’Y (Soutlieast)—The cold, dry weath-
er is killing the wheat, and if there is
not a change it will all be killed. The
ground is nice to work. Farmers are all
going to do all they can, they don’t need
anyone to tell them to work harder.
They are always trying to do all they
can—J. C. A.,.Munger, April

OTSEGO (“'est Central)——The weath-
or is nice, but it freezes nights. We are
in need of rain to make grass grow.

Farmers have started to plow.——C. A.,
Gaylord, April 6.

SAGINAVV (“’estern) —Weather is
ﬁne. Farmers have commenced to sow

oats, lay tile and haul manure and sow
grass seed. Very little demand for hors_
es this spring. Hay is brmgmg a good
Quite a good demand for seed

rice. .
{gate—G. L., St. Charles, April 6.
ARENAC (East)——Weatherv_has been

cool during the week, but farmers are
busy nevertheless. The writer has had
occasion to be present at several aucé
tion sales and took particular pains to

’ﬁnd out from the farmers just what

Fewer pota—

o the would ut in.
or N y p fewer beans.

toes, some spring wheat,
more beets, oats and corn. Lots of pota-
toes on hand and the price is around
$1.25 per cwt. Cellars froze and many
farmers lost all they had and areagain
buying seed. Farm tools are gomg at
exceedingly high prices at auctions, hay
coming down, while cattle at away 11D,
horses down. Sheep seem to be the
talk of the day but most of our farmers
think We ought to have Michigan sheep
instead of western sheep—M . B. B.,

 
Fenton, _

 
.oscnoLA (Norwegian—Weather fine.
and farmers are getting ready for spring
“drive.”—W. 8., Marion, April 6.

MIDLAND (Northwest)-—We have had

fine weather the past week. Farmers are
busy plowing and ﬁtting up their cats
and barley ground. Not much of any-
thing going on the market at present.
Wheat looks pretty bad, don’t think much
of it is good enough to leave. Eye is
not looking very good; the new seeding
is injured quite badly. Most every farm-
er has plenty of potatoes and some to
spare—F. A. L., Coleman, April 5.

TUSCOLA (Central)—Farmers are in
the midst of oat sowing. The ground is
in ﬁne shape. Weather a little cool but
dry. Soil in best shape it has been in
years. Some oats going to market, but
most farmers are holding until after seed-
ing, as there is a big acreage to put in
this year. Can not sell potatoes here
now. only to those who want seed, but
most of the farmers have their own seed.
Some beans here yet to sell, but we are
holding our dry seed stock for a little
more money. They will only pay us $10
per cwt. at Card—R. B. C.. Caro, Apr. 6.

CALHOUN (North Cannon—Farmers
are very busy sowing oats and barley;
the work is well‘advanced. Weather is
too cold and dry for wheat and it
is looking thin. There seems to be plen-
ty of help but what seems to bother the
farmers the most is to get hold of the
money to pay the help. The prices of
farm products is so much below the cost
of manufactured articles that there is
no encouragement to the farmers to pro-
duce more, and therefore it looks as
though all crops would be a little short
this year—G. B., Olivet, April

LAPEER (Eastern)—All farmers are
busy with their seeding; the ground 18
working up ﬁne. There are two new
tractors in this neighborhood this spring.
Horses are selling high just now, good
ones around $175 to $250. Some hay is
moving with the price around $20 for No.
1. Wheat seems to be nearly all killed,
.can tell later, but it looks now like a 25
per cent crop. Rye is looking fairly good.
Some sowing spring wheat—C. A. B.,
Imlay City, April 8.

GRATIOT (Northeast)———Some oats be-
ing sown. Very cold and backward
spring. Soil cold and wet. Not much
being sold by farmers. Holding some
beans and potatoes, but not many. Po-
tatoes badly frozen in the pits and cel—
lars. Farmers buying dairy feeds and
corn. Scarcity of farm help is the com-
mon complaint among farmers.——W. U.
B., Wheeler, April 6.

CHEBOYGAN (West)—Farmers who
are lucky enough to own sugar bushes
are busy making syrup. The run is very
good this season. Spring plowing is un—
der way but in this the farmers are
somewhat hindered by the hard freezing
nights. Weather is very clear and dry.
Some farmers intend to try spring wheat
this season. About the usual acreage of
crops will be planted. Farmers who have
depended on hired help will plant smal-
ler acreages as they do not intend to be
caught again as they were last year. If
the" government will guarantee the farm-
er a market for his products at a reas-
onable price, they need not urge him to
be patriotic—L. E. B., Conway.

MONROE (West Central)——We are all
busy ﬁtting the ground for spring crops.
The soil is in ﬁne shape. Barley is in
the ground, also a fair acreage of spring
wheat. There will be a good acreage of
oats sown, and some are in all ready.
Wheat is looking very bad, it is in need
of a warm rain. Weather is against the
wheat crop, too dry and too cold nights.
-—W. L., Dundee, April

KALKASKA (Ween—Weather is ﬁne
but we need rain. Soil is very dry. A
few farmers are selling potateos at 650
per cwt. The farmers are buying some
woven wire fence—R. B., South Board—
man, April 7.

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stylesth or powcrcnttcrs.5eudiorit. ‘5 i
The Silver Mfg. Co.

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SEED BEANS

 
1’1-11 or Xuyy Beans each lot tested
for (lei-nutrition. Nine Dollars per
bushel f.o.l1. lloynv (‘lly .\.ll north—
ern grown but protected from frost
by our lakes.

Farm Products (‘11., lloyni- Pity, .\li1-h.

Nulnc l’t‘olllit‘, Slate tested bigr
yielders, yield 00“, more than pea
or navy, $10.00 per 1111., bugs 251

A. A. anhcrlson, (‘cdar Springs, Mich.

 
CHOICE PEA SEED BEANS
Elegant sample. Write for sample
and price.
Thos. L. Shimmons, Sterling, )licll.

DAHLIA TUBERS

More titan thirty named varieties, ten
cents each; three for :35 cents; no less
than three mailed on account of postage.
Mrs. H. L. Lackey, VVilliamsburg, Mich-
igan, Route No. l.

SENATOR DUNLAP STRAWBERRY
PLANTS, -1noney makers. Propogating
rows trimmed; 1,000 for $2.26; 500 for
$1.25. J E. Hampton, Bangor, Michigan.

 
I have 40 bushels of the
seed Beans genuine One Thousand to
(me hand-picked variety, which I am of-
fering at $9.00 per bushel. Cash f. o. b.
Morley. John Buchanan. Morley, Mich.

1916 crop.. Send 10 cents
seed Beans for sample and price.
Robert J. Bowman, R. 1, Pigeon, Mich.

 
IMPORTANCE OF GRAD-
ING UP DAIRY HERD

With a scrub bull at the head of
the grade herd, at least three quar-
ters of the heifer calves will prove
to be failures, so those that do prove
to be good producers will be costly
cows, and the number of inferior cows
will be increased. With a purebred
sire of good breeding and individuality
conditions are reversed, at least three-
quarters of the heifers will develop
into cows, at least as good as their
dams, and many of them superior.
The number of good cows in the herd
will be increased and the value of
the herd in general greatly enhanced.
The money invested'ln a purebred
sire will be returned with large and
compounding interest.

In advising the dairy farmer to buy

a registered bull and mate him with

his grade cows we must not lose sight
of the breeder of purebred dairy cattle
to whom he must look for improved
blood to carry on his further ideas
of improvement. His ideal of the effi-
cient dairy cow is the ideal which the
dairy farmer should strive to reach.
There is no dairy farmer who does
not have ambition to some day own a
herd of high class animals. Nobody
has a more vital interest in the work
of grading up the common herds of
the country than the breeder of pure-
bred cattle. It makes a proﬁtable
outlet for the male progeny of the
herd. ‘

There is no way to become so thoroly
familiar with a breed as thru working
with its grades. By working with a
herd of grades a few purebred females
can be purchased, and in a few years’
time purebred females can be devel-
oped in sufﬁcient numbers to replace
the grades. Some of the best herds
in the country have been developed
from a modest beginning—with grades.

Both pedigree and individuality are
important in selecting a purebred bull.
He should not only be a good individu-
al, but he should come from a line of
producing dams and grand dams. It
is always safer to use a tried sire than
to depend on a young bull and trust
in luck. It is a deplorable, condition
that prevails on many dairy farms
where young and undesired sires are
used. Nothing can be told of the
bull's breeding powers until somé of
his heifers come into production and it
is regrettable that so many good bulls
are sacriﬁced when their time of use-
fulness is just beginning, while so
many young, immature animals that
ought to have been vealed are allowed
to sow their seeds of degradation in
our herds. The sire that demonstrates
his ability to get good calves, that
develop into good cows, should only go
when his power as a breeder is at an
end.

Many dairy farmers dispose of a
bull as soon as some of his daughters
are ready to breed. They do this to
avoid inbreeding. Then they buy a.
new sire. and the, one—half improvement
from tho ﬁrst sire is liltcly to be can-
celled with the second cross. and the
full half now will he on another blood
and inﬂuence. as family inﬂuence is
the thing sought; so they now have. a
four—blooded animal when they could
have had a seventvﬁve per cent all
of one family inﬂuence. in this
grading up business the closer one can
keep to one family inﬂuence, the better,
and get, the high two or three cross
grade . To derive the maximum ben-
eﬁt from the ﬁrst purebred site the
dairy farmer must keep to one line,
even if he does breed back two or
three times until the common blood is
neutralized and rendered harmless.
It is from the downward drag of
the grade blood that the greatest
chance of failure will come, and there
will be a continual reverting unless
one great force, superior in inﬂuence.
is used to carry on the forward move—
ment. Changing sires dissipates this
great superior force of family inﬂuence
and makes further progress slow and
uncertain.

In many communities where co-op-
erative breeding is being practiced the
tendency is to select better sires and to
exchange them when necessary to a-
void inbreeding. In thls way the pre-

 
onstrate his ability and his services
are not lost to the breeder who uses
him for one or two seasons. When
an entire community is breeding one
breed of dairy cattle, several aged
sires are always available and by a
careful study of their family lines
and also of their female progeny the
dairy farmer can gain..a pretty good
idea of their value. English breeders
owe their success, in a large measure,
to the fact that they have had more

good sires to work with than American ‘

breeders who have been working with
only a few sires of recognized prepot-
ency. .

INCREASE 0F HORSES
AND MULES NEEDED

“The price now being obtained for
good horses and good mules should
point the direction clearly to men
who have mares to breed," said E. A.
Trowbridge of the University of Mis-
souri~.Colleg-e of Agriculture recently
in disicussing tlhe horse and mule sit-
nation.

“At the outbreak of the war we had
a good supply of horses and mules.
Approximately. one and one- -half mil-
lions of horses and mules have been
taken into war service. Yet, until
recently no general improvement in
the price of horses has been noted.
Hogs have increased in price 50 per
cent and cattle and sheep have in~
creased nearly as much. The time
between the birth and the date of sale
of hogs is frequently not more than
a year. With cattle and sheep, also,
money may be turned quickly and the
proﬁt had. This is not the case with
work horses. It requires six years to
make a mature horse. Consequently
the feed item has been such a big one
that horse breeders have hesitated a-
bout increasing their operations. In
fact it is true in some localities that
fewer mares were bred last year than
the year before.

“Present prices for good horses and
good mules clearly indicate the de-
sirability of an increase in their num—
bers, but the insigniﬁcant price re-
ceived for mediocre and common horse
stock certainly indicates that the coun-
try would be better off without them.
It is true that. there never was a time
when the spread between the price
of a good horse or mule and a common
one was so great as it is at the pres-
ent time. Every indication seems to
point toward the desirability of an
increased production of good horses
and mules. There is just one way
to begin this increase and that is to
use good stallions and jacks as sires."

 
Nehru-Delia rtme‘nt

l have a Il-yearold cow that. I have
been feeding clover hay all winter and
for the last three weeks she has been
going down. When she gets down
she can hardly get up without help.
She still eats good. She seems to
have soreness all along her back and
for a time had a watery-like matter
under the skin. Some small lumps
formed along her back, which when
opened the water would come out.
She is losing ﬂesh every daylV. 1).,
Armac County.

Your cow has hypoderma bovis, com—
monly known as “bots.” They repre—
sent the larval stages of the ﬂy. The
adult ﬁles are about half an inch
long and resembles bees somewhat, 1n
appearance. They appear in warm
weather and lay their eggs, especially
in the open, upon cattle allowed to
run out late in the fall. Young bots
are found in the esophagus; older
bots appear under the skin in the form
of a small lump. These bots are in
the body by October or before and
appear under the skin along the back
usually about January; here they
grow until March. April or May and
as stated before, form these lumps so
to speak. If these lumps are squeezed
out before the larva mature they will
contain a. watery ﬂuid, such as you

 
potent sire has an opportunity to dem— ,

 
ground and remain there as pupae for

about a. menth, when the adult ﬂy ls-’

sues. Bots weaken animals, cause a

decrease of milk and ﬂesh and reduc’e,

the value of the hide. It has been. es-
timated these bots result in a loss to
this. country‘of at least $60,000,000 a
year. In this particular case _I would
advise you to give the following treat-
ment: Magnesium sulphate, two lbs...
powdered ginger and gentian equal
parts, one ounce, powdered capsicum
and um: vomica equal parts, two
drahms. Mix, dissolve entire con-
tents in two quarts of hot water, let
cool and give slowly at one, dose.
After bowels have become normal give

powdered gentian ﬁve ounces. powd-.

ered capsicum,and nux vomica equal
parts, two ounces; bicarbonate of sod-
ium add to make one pound and give
one tablespoonful three times daily.
Press out grubs and destroy them;
apply one part kreso dip to seventy-

ﬁve parts warm water twice a week.

What is foul brood and its symp-
toms, and remedy or preventive?—
Subscriber.

Foul brood is a contagious disease
afﬂicting honey bees, the germs of
which are carried in the honey. To
combat the disease it is necessary to
shake the bees onto new foundation.
The old diseased combs may be ren—
dered for wax and the inside of the
hive thoroughly scorched all over with
a. pluber’s torch. A strong swarm of
Italian bees will usually keep them-
selves clear of foul brood but. the
common black bee seems more sus-
ceptible to it.

SALE DATES CLAIMED

Howell Consignment Co. Holstein-
Friesian Cattle. April 25, Howell, Mich.

Livingston County 1/1.-Nlers’ Sales Co.
Holstein- Friesian Cattle. May, 16. How—
ell, Michigan. .

West Mithigan Holstein Biocders' A11-
nual Guarantee Sale, May 15,11rand
Rapids, Michigan.

 
HATCHING EGGS

This is bound to be 11. proﬁtable year
for the poultry raiser, egg and broiler
prices will (limb—double last year's
ﬂock, no matter how many you ruined!
.Vow is the time to buy your hatching
eggs or cl1i(-ks,1lon't \\ nit until 1:01) late
and then be sorry!

ADS lVDl“R ’l‘lllS ”1“!)qu fifteen
(cuts (1.11) per line for one issue or more,
for larger ads or for 13 times or more,
send for special breeders’ rates. Send 111-1
your ad today and let lls put it in type
and quote you 1i rule. \ddrem: M“ H-
lGLV BUSIVESS llAB.\llN(-, Breeder-14‘
Directory, Detroit, Mi1lligﬂn.

K. 1. R12!) 1111.» for
Pure BlOOdS liatt hing. 1111- es $1.10;
50 $2. .10 100, $5 00 Parcel1 Postage
l'r1 paid. Mrs. J. A. Kellie, Monroe,
Michigan, R. No. ‘1.

“TCHING EGG from our_ Bred~to~

llay Strains. ﬂar-
red Plymouth locks $1.50 per setting,
$2.50 for ill) eggs, $8 1111 100 S. 1‘. White
Leghorns $1 per srtting $173 for two
settings, $5 pei 100 (”lS'l‘UH HATCH-

 
l.\'ll dom at $1 ptt egg Russell l’oultt'y
l'tltll(:.,ll lettlsbutg Michigan.
ANCONA Best lu‘gg Producing Exhi-
bition Strum. lilggs for
hatching. Single (Tomb, $1.50 per 15:
lose (Tomb. $2.00 per 15; Extra, Select
White. (.lrpingtons, $2.00 per 15. W'. E,

VVlCS'l‘ .52 51)N_ it. No. 1, least, Lansing,
Michigan.

EGG for Hatching from a winter lay-
ing strain of S. (‘ I’. l, Reds.
15. $1.00; 30. $1.50: :70. $2.50; 100, $100

Mrs. Edith Park. MapleWoml Farm,
Coopersville. Michigan.

ATCHING EGGS From Prize-Win—
H ning Barred Rocks, Thompson strain.
$6.00 Hundred; $3.25 Fifty; $2.00

'l‘hirty. Special muting $1.50 per 15
Sam Stadcl. Chelsea. Michigan.

ronl sttain with
Barred Rock Eggs mom. ,, .,., eggs
per year. $2. 00 per 15 Prepaid by par-
cel post. Circular free. Fred Astllng,
Constantine. Michigan.

III'I‘E ROCIC EGGS le-i‘l I’l‘l" 15:
$7.50 per 100. -
C T1. Thompson, l‘jV'le'i' .\li<-h.. 1‘. \la '2.

 
lIAMPIOV Black and Huff Urping—
tons. Stock and hurl-hing eggs for
sale. James A. Daley. Mohawk. Mich.

5
HA'TCHING EGGS and Day-01d Chicks

 
.for immediate deli1cry lrom our

Barron English 240- -egg stiain while
Leghorns. Heavy winter layers large
birds, easy hatchers and raisers. quick
growers. Hatching eggs $6.00 per 100
and Chicks $13.00 per 100 chicks. Sat—
isfaction guaranteed. Devries Leghorn
Farms & Hatchery, Zeeland, Michigan,
Box B222.

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nut bebndto good purebred—bulls it. prep
mm: o. s. Dept. of Ame. Baum.

     
My this young. “11 end give your milk and butter pl.- ,
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walnut]: I). Oekdeie. No. 152837. Bor- l'ev. 4, 1m.

Hielire’o a menu Butter 7 due
Bum Iver-co hulk 7 dm 519..
Butter I dds,- “32,3
In Don’s Dem'u. {Hill on ,
B ”or 30 dlyl 114.10
Record M‘llk 30 day-

use."
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direct generations or thirty pougd cowl.) _1 d 23 a
utter on .
3" “m" "c‘m' “ 3 "m mm 7 a." 420.4.

' Butter 7 days 2'.”
ll..." unrest hm- nveruG {Milk 7 d." 5“.“

(Including 2---3 and l---4 1-2 yr. old.)
Ideally marked, about half Ind hell. Price $250.

McPherson Farms Co., Howell, Mich.

E. L. SALISBURY

SHEPHERD, MlCl-l.
Breeder of purebred
., . Holstein-Friesian Cattle
Young bulls for sale from A. R.
O. Cows with creditable records.

 
DISPERSION

Twenty Head of Registered Holstein Cows. Strong
in the blood of Pontiac Korndylre. Eight head sired
by Sire Abbekirk De Kol Marcenn. Large. thrift!
young cows in good condition. A number of these
cows have made good records. I want to sell this
oﬂ‘ering in men who have use for a. carioml or more
(ifsuch stock. lltlltlAlt COLLIER, Fow'leerlle.l\110h

 
that"
sin dolfyf

   
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Title displayed to best advantage.

Send in copy and

we will quote rates. For larger ads or for ads to run 18 issues or more we will make
special rates which will cheerfully be sent on application to the Advertising Dept,

110 Fort St., \Vest, Detroit.

 
THE “’ILDWOOD JERSEY FARM
Breeders of Jersey cattle strong in the
blood of Royal Majesty. We have stock
for sale from R. of M. dams and sire.
Herd regularly tested, for tuberculosis.
Herd ave. proﬁt per year $100 over
pOSt of feed. The kind that pays. We
anIte inspection. Satisfaction guaran-
teed. ALVIN BALDEN, Capac, Mich.,
phone 143-5.

 
ORNSALE—S Reg. Shorthorn Bulls

from 9 to 17 Mo. By Maxwalton

Monarch a son of the noted Avon—
dale who has 3 sons & 2 daughters that
have won the Grand Championship at
the International and American Royal, as
well as won 1st Prize on get of Sire 4
times at the above named shows. Herd
just tubercaline tested without a single re-
actor. John Schmidt & Sons_ Reed City.
Michigan.

Holstem-Fneslan Cattle
Under the present labor conditions

I feel the necessity of reducing my
herd. Would sell a few bred females
or a few to freshen this spring. These
cows are all with calf to a :lO—pound
bull. J. Fred Smith, Byron, Michigan

 
HOLSTElN-FRIESIAN CATTLE

Account present labor conditions and sickness in
the funily we offer for immediate sale our entire
herd of about no choice cows. 'i‘hls herd is com-
posed of large vigorous cows, or the most popular
lines of breeding. The individuals offered are in
excellent health. good ﬂesh condition and are cape-
ble of going on and doing a profitable year‘s work.
The entire lot will be priced right.

DELOSS EDDY. Byron. 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. lowa.

HATCH HERD HOLSTEINS

YPSILANTI 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. -

 
WHAT DO YOU WANT? I represent 41
sHORTHORN breeders. Can put you in
touch with best milk or beef strains. Bulls
all ages. Some females. C. W. Crum,
Secretary Central Michigan Shorthorn
Association, McBrides, Michigan.

Registered I-lolsteins—-—

For a eBulls ready for service,

and bull calves from 30

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

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

FOR SALE A Reg. Jersey Bull 10 mo.
old. Dam is an imported
Daughter of Noble of Oakland. Price,

 
$90.00. Tosch Bros... Capac, Michigan.
D0 0 S l gosewooﬁ
lspersmn a e ,, gag",

'1‘his sale will be held at my farm 1 mile
west of Howell on May 4th, 1918. Every-
thing Will be A. R. O. testcd, including
14 fresh cows, and many others coming
in soon, and a No. of yearlings and calves
that are bred in the Purple. 1 only have
2 bulls left ready for service that 1 will
sell privately. Watch for larger ad. next
week. D. H. Hoover, Prop, llowcll, Mich.

 
EGISTERED IIOLSTEIN BULL 11.

months old. Grandson of llcngcrvcld

De K01. Sired by Johan Ilcngcrveld Lad
who has 61 A.R.O. daughters and out of
a granddaughter of l’ontiac DcNijlaudcr
35.43 lbs. butter and 750.26 lbs. milk in 7
days. 3090.60 lbs. milk in :10 days. l‘rico
$125. ROB. Flint. \Vritc for Photo and
pedim‘cc. L. C. Keillor.

OLS’I‘EIN BULL (,‘ALF born Jan. 28,
1918. A ﬁne individual. niccly murkml
from a 20.42 lb. Sire and 23.80 lbs. 4 yrs,
old dam. A. F. Loamis, Owosso, Mich.

HEREFORDS “‘0“ SALE. two

big strong yearling
bulls ready for service, younger ones
coming on. For early mr iurity and ccon-
omical production unsurpassed. E. J,
’l‘aylor. Fremont. Michigan.

REGISTERED GUERNSEY BULL Calf

 
for sale. Four months old, well mark—

ed, of excellent breeding and a line in-
dividual. Eugene Wilcox, R. No. 2.,
Bangor, Michigan.

THE RINKLAND HERD
Registered .
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN CATTLE.
John A. Rinkc, Warren, Michigan.

CHOICE REGISTERED STOCK

PERCHERONS,
HOLSTEINS,
SHROPSHIRES,
ANGUS.
DUROCS.

DORR D. BUELL, ELMIRA, MICH.
R. F. D. No. l

 
One Car-load Registered Holstems
Yearlings sired,by 30 pound bull and
from heavy-producing cows. Also some
choice Duroc open gilts.
J. Hubert Brown. Byron, Michigan.

HOLSTEIN F RIESIAN CATTLE

FOR SALFr—Young Holstein bulls from
good A. R. O. dams and sired by 30 lb.
bull, few females whose dams have good
A. R. 0. records, bred to a 30 lb. bull.
Howbert Stock Farm. Eau Claire, Mich.

 
GUERNSEYS WE HAVE A FEW
Heifers and cows for
sale, also a number of well bred young
bulis——write for breeding. Village Farms,
Grass Lake, Michigan.

RAINBOW 11013“;le Y... .0...
‘- heifers, ‘heif-
er calves, g. daughters and g.g.d. of Hen-
gerveld DeKol (best bull in the world.
Large herd. Perfect Aug. bull calf for
$150, marked half & half. from 15 lb.
yearling daughter of 26 lb. b.. 600 lb. m.
cow. Will ship subject to approval. Cows
$150 to $175. heifers $75 to $125.
ROBIN CARR. FOW'LERVILLE, MICH.

FOR SALE One 11 mos. old grandson
of Royal Majesty whose
dam as a 3 yr. old produced 40624 lbs. of
butter in 1 yr. Solid color. First check
of '590 takes him. Registered, trans-
ferred and delivered to any point in
Michigan. Fred A. Brennan, Capac, Mich
FOR SAL Holstein bull calf out of 12.2
pounds 25 M granddaught-
er of Homestead Girl De K01 Sarcastic
Lad 106 A. R. O. dau. by grandson King
of the Pontiacs 230 dau. Carl F. & B. N.
Braun, Ann Arbor, Mich.

 
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choice Registered
Holstein Cows. High record ances-
tors. Pedigrees on request. Address
E. P. Kinney, East Lansing, Michigan.

HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN CATTLE

I always have a few good individuals
for sale. Some young bulls from A. .
O. cows. Not the cheapest, but worth
what 1 am asking for them. Arwin
Killinger, Fowlerville, Michigan.

0B.- SALE—Three

 
WOLVERINE STOCK FARM

Breeders of IIolzvein—Friesian""'€attle,
Battle Crcek, Michigan. Senior Herd

Sire. Judge, W'alkcr Pictcrjc whose
ﬁrst live dams are 30 lb. cows. Young

bulls for sale, from daughters of King
Korndyke licngerveld Oronsby.

 
EGISTEREI) IIOLS'I‘EIN llUIl calves

for sale Breeding very high, but

prices very low for a short time.
Model Stock Farms, E. P. Kinney, Prop,
ICast Lansing. Michigan.

 
HICKORY GROVE STOCK FAR)!
Offers for immediate sale 12 daughters of
King Hengerveld Palmyra Fayne bred to
Mutual~l’ontiac Lad. All of the cows in
this herd are strong in the blood of Maple-
crest and Pontiac Aggie Korndyke. We
can always furnish carloads of pure bred
and grade cows.

D. Owen Taft. Route 1. Oak Grove, Mich.

CATTLE FOR SALE

2Loads feeders and two loads yearling
steers. Also can show you any number
1, 2 and 3 years old from 500 to 900 lbs.
lsaac Shanstum, Falrﬁeld, Iowa. R—8.

 
heifer calves and one bull cal‘f out of

. . O. dams that have A. R. (1.

daughters. Sired by a 20-lb. 2—year-old

bull. Price $225 for the three. Rivcrside
Farm, 0. F. Turner, Vulcan. Michigan.

FOB. SALE—Registered Holsteins—Two

 
BELGIAN sumac

name: 'Price' $300.00. Geo. M. Williams,
Route No. 1, Big Rapids,,Michigtn.

HOGS -

0 Bred dGilts

C Serviceable Boar's
.I. Carl .lewett, Mason, Mich.

 
J1

 
Half Tom—O. I. C.s—4I'lalf Ton

Spring pigs sired by the Five great-
est boars in use in one herd in Amer-
ica and from the sows that Were uncle-
feated at 111., Mo., Ohio and Mich. state
fairs. Write for our catalogue, it‘s
free, we want you to see it before you
buy. We guarantee satisfaction.
(‘randcll’s Prize Hogs. (lass ('ily, Mich.

Choice young boars ready

. . . for service; also fall pigs

. . either sex; sired by lst

prize yearling boar Mich. State Fair 1917

gloxver Leaf Stock Farm, Monroe, Mlch.,
. .‘o. .

 
“(will 'I‘I‘IIEICI) II;\ .\I I’SIIIIEI‘} I5():‘ “8
7 for salc. John W. Snyder, R. 4. St.
Johns, Michigan.

 
OUNG O. I. (l. sows of fine quality.

ioars and bred sows all sold. Floyd H. ,

Banister, Spl'ingport, Michigan.

Big Type Poland (.‘hina bred
Recqrded sows and gilts, for sale.
Leading blood lines of the brccd, at our
herd's head. C. A. Boone, Blanchard,
Michigan.

 
1G TYPE POLAND CHINAS. Brood

_sows all sold. Have a few fall pigs.
Prices right. L. W. Barnes & Son.
Byron, Michigan.

LEONARD’ POLAND CHINAS. Noth-

ing for sale but fall pigs.
Orders booked for Spring pigs. E. R.
Leonard, St. Louis. Michigan.

 
UROC SOWS and GILTS, bred for
June farrowing, to Orion Fancy King
83857. the biggest pig for his age
cver shown at international Liv.- Stock
Show. Also Fall boars rcgistcrui crated
and delivered anywhere in state.
Newton Barnhart, St. Johns. Michigan.

 
HORSES

One 2-year-old Black Per-
For Sa e cheron Stallion, weighing
1800 lbs. also‘ our aged
Stallion .lngomar 30047, that has been at
the head of our stud for 10 years. M. A.
Bray Est, Chas. Bray, Mgr. Lansing,Mich

 
EECHERON S’I‘ALLION prices re-

duced. One coming four. steel gray,

will weigh a ton, broken single, driven
double, Price $350. One coming eleven,
black, will weigh 1900, broken single and
double, Price 250. Colts to show. Fred
N. Randall, Manchester, Michigan.

OR SALE, Percheron Stallion 121705.
Black. Heavy bone follow—foaled
June 23rd, 1915. J. F. lilady, Vassar,

r-

Michigan, Route No. l.

SHETLAND PONlES sardiilfsdiit

prices. Mark B. Curdy, Howell. Mich.

 
Fair 1917.

R. BRUCE

 
100 REGISTERED HOLSTEINS 100

A herd of high producing females from the breeds best
families. Herd headed by liutchland (Iolantha Winana Lad
114067 Senior and Grand Champion Bull at Michigan State
Junior sire
132652 a 3516 son of Friend licngl-rvcld De Kol Butter Boy
and whose dam and
yearly butter records.
months old for sale.
Itlc'l’IIERSON, HOIVELL, MH'll.

Pontiac

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Maplccrest Application
3/1 siritcr hold 6th and 71b highest
Sons of tln-sc great sires up to 15
Prices and pedigrees on application.

 
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Catalogs Apr. 15th.
COL. PERRY, Auctioneer.

The 8th annual sale of the Howell Consignment Rule ("0. of liowell,
Michigan, will sell

80 Head of Registered Holsteins
April 25th, E918 .

Rain or Shine in the large sale Pavilion
good condition, tuberculin tested and arc bred in the lines of great pro—
ducers backed by the best sires of thc breed.
bulls, heifers from A. R. O. dams, and a few bulls from record dams.
If interested write

HOWELL CONSIGNMENT’ SALE COMPANY

’l‘bzwc cattle are young and in

Many are bred to :10 ll).

MARK B. CURDY. Secretary,

 
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

 
SHEEP

’ A limited numbvr of
Shropshire Ewes bred mm; . Med
right! Prices right! A son of Tanner's
Royal in service. 11. F. Mouwr, lthac'a‘

 
M i ch igan -..\

 
OR AUGUST DELIVERY 50 Register-

ed Shropshire Yearling ewes and 30
Registered Yearling Rams of cxtm qual-
ity and breeding. Flock establishcd 1890.
C. Lemen, Dexter, Michigan.

 
POULTRY
S rior Far (X17839 yrs/ind 1
upe m whiter layers,

and ﬁt for any show room. Eggs after
March 1st, $2.00, $3.00 and $5.00 per 15.’
$8.00 per 100. Send for mating listi
C. W. Honeywell, Plymouth. Michigan,

 
rect blood of a well-known ZOO-egg
strain. Eggs for hatching $1.50 for
13; $5.00 for 50; $9.00 per 100.
1.. Seamans & Son. Rclleville, Michigan,

We ship thousands

J Mich season, different-
. varieties booklet and
testimonials. stamp appl‘cclated. Freeport

lintchcry, Box I“. Frecport. Alichigan.

BARRED ROCK Th0 f‘nn‘ri‘r's kind.

l‘jlfll‘ll. YPIH‘S of (”RFC-
fill brooding, largc. llcavyvlnymg (owls
Eggs {:5 for 50: $10 for 190 (‘has I.
l‘uok. 1“(>\\'lcr\'illc. Michigan. I I

MISIILAND'S WHITE ROCKS—The di- :

 
ISARKI‘II‘ INH'K ('ockrcls
Pure Bre for szllc $3 ouch. {latching
(‘zrirs 5." pcr 15. 11. R. Bowman, l’ien-ou,
Michigan. I

 
swul'l‘li \\'Y;\Nlil)l"l‘l€s of quality. lino

-' llll'L’l‘ (vm-luwrl, 333.00 (-lll'll. ICES“.

,._, 3,, ,,.,. lg; I‘f'im-lzl'n l’rm, lli‘zsr, Route
.1 ll,.rl‘,j]]i:ll Mil-him”)

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20 000 Standard Ill‘t‘5i El Illll‘ L0;:;luarn
’ (Young ‘itl‘l‘tllll and /\ll(‘»‘ll’iﬂ.

 
will-ks for April dclivcry at $1.”, Twl‘ 1m). ,‘

Satisfaction and safe arrival gururanlcrcl.
(nwle-r ‘11 once .‘lll(l got catalog. HOLLAND
ll \’l‘t"11E11V. Tl. .\‘0. ’7. ll‘ollanrl, Alicb‘trnn.

 
WE HAVE THEM
if you want Leghorns that will pay
for their food a dozen timcs ovpr, write
us. We havc eggs for Matching and
Breeding Stock, hcns and pullets only.
HILL CREST POULTRY FARM,
Ypsilanti, Michigan.

 
CHIC Young’s Heavy Laying Strain.

S. C. White Leghorns. 25 chicks
$3.50; 50, $6.75; 100, $13.00. Safe deliv—
ery guaranteed. Order from this ad. Full
count. Wolverine Chickery, 711 Delaware
St., S. E. Grand Rapids, Michigan.

ROII‘ITABLE BUFF LEGIIORNS—We

have twenty pens of especially mated
Single Comb Buffs that are not only mat-
ed for exhibition but, above all, for prof—
itable egg production. Eggs at very reas-
onable price. Our list will interest you
”please ask for it. Village Farms,
Grass Lake, Michigan.

INGLE COMB WHITE LEUIIOBNS
Eggs, Young’s strain, $1.00 per 15. Fer-
talty guaranteed. Harry Schliep, Turner,
Michigan.

 
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