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' . ~_Ijlerbert C. Hoover Protests of ‘Mich-
' igan Bean Interests Against the

" ~ Pinto Bean _Deal

Mexico

'. .f of Pintobeans from growers in Colorado, New
About 1,000,000 lbs. of éxtra.

and . adjoining states.

dad Clayton and Albuquerque which
_ ,. , , will be old to
growers list the $8.80 price plus local freight, 30st of
abo t 9 nsurance and other incidental expenses, or
cl n d; .15 per cwt. These are dry land pintos, re-
, Jkeane and well sacked. The Corporation expects to
, eep movmg these beans as fast as they can get
eqytpment toEastern markets, it being the'first time
or: pintqs have been shipped in quantity to East-
“ fconsuming centers, so that the 'East will now be
t amiliar with the pinto bean as it is with the navy
a not that should make it easy in the future to hohi
is satisfactory market for pintoe. ' ‘
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1.131%" silt? cfifl’féé‘és‘iitt‘é’lnibfgtm‘eé‘o13:33., agv‘v’hifii
.salggsbeggddijsdgbggtseg it; New York City to the’ whole-
’~porter. , _ . — rice Current and Grain Re-
-, g _ . o t e o \.,
. At the biggest joint meeting of bean growers
jobbers, elevator men and bankers ever held in the
state of Michigan, at Sagin Tuesd Ap
23rd, Governor Sleeper was 11 cha
delegation representing the a v nte
to,xWa_shi_ngton and lay before rdHoover Mich-
igan. grievances arising from the discrimina-
tion placed against the navy bean
divisionof the U. S. ‘Food Administration. The
committee, consisting of the Governor, Nathan F.
Simpspn of Detroit, W. J. Biles of Saginaw, with

of Fremont and Jas. —B.,Crawford of Ithaca, will
' leave Detroit Saturday noon via the Pennsylvania
. lines and will arrive in Washington'Sun-day after—

noon. By appointment they will meet with -Mr
Hoover on the following day. '

The meeting at Saginaw came as a result of'a
general call issued by representatives of the var-
ious bean interests of the state. Its purpose was
» - for an open discussion of the bean situation .in
general and: the flooding of-the navy bean mar-
:ke’ts’ with pinto beans, by'the Food Administra-
tion, in particular. '

p-big'auditorium of the Bancroft Hotel were farm-
ers who came ’from several surrounding bean-
growing counties. ‘ They'not only took a lively
intereiilzl inbtihe proceedings. but a number of them
gave e can jobbers the fa

bean situation. rmer’g side Of the

Nathan F5 Simpson, manager of th

Clearing House Association of Detroit, vfasGdZanlileed‘
chairman of the meeting. Mr. Simpson felt it an
occasion for c0Lgratulation that it was the first
/ti’ine probably that. all interested in the bean in-
‘ dustryhad gathered so amicably for mutual ben-
efit. Heimpressed the audience with the thought
that if the Michigan bean industry was to thrive
theproduct must have a. clear right of way to the
market. "Do we went to see one class ofpreduct-s

legislated into. popularity at the expense of com-
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“The Grain Corporation has bought 41,000,000. lbs.’

by the bean "

M. J. Hart of Saginaw as alternate. Frank Gerber .

Vpetingv foods?” the speaker asked. “It is not"con-‘

this "week to Place Before]:

» clinics, seed has been stored at Denver, 'Greely, Trini- .

Fully onehalf of the big crowd that filled the

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_ Saginaw, M‘ich., April 23, 1918

‘ Herbert C. Hoover, ‘
Washington, ‘D. C.

- What day first of week can you meet
with me and delegation of been handlers
and growers. We are representing larg-
est meeting of farmers and dealers ever
held in Michigan here today. Will ar-
rive in Washington Sunday night.

7 Please answer me at Lansing.

ALBERT E. SLEEPER, Governor.

THE BEAN COMMITTEE

The committee appointed to ”go to
Washington to place the grievances of
the Michigan bean interests before Mr.
Hoover is as follows: ’

Governor Sleeper, Chairman.

Nathan F. Simpson, representing the
growers. .

W. J. Biles of Saginaw, representing
jobbers.

' reisc ansing, repr I

ent n5 lev or me C

F Ge e of e nt, represen - 3
ng n eres s.

Jas. B. Crawford, Ithaca, represent-
ing bankers.

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In addition to the above, several have
signified their intentions of going, and
it has been announced that anyone de-
sirous of attending this conference at
Washington will be welcomelto accom-
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servation of transportation nor food when a pro-
duct grown in the extreme west is shipped into
the east and its use urged in preference to a na-
tive product. We ask that all restrictions on
Michigan beans be removed.”

Mr. Simpson read from telegrams and press
dispatches showing the effect that the substitution
of pinto beans was haying upon the white bean
market. The substance of those read was that
large quantities of pinto beans were being re-
ceived in Indianapolis, and thru the columns of

"the daily press, the Food Administration was en-
couraging people as a patriotic measure to eat the

pintos in preference to the white beans.

A telegram‘was also presented disclosing that
a large buyer of navy beans had arrived in Wash?
ingtOn from Havana, Cuba, but had been unsuc-
cessful in getting a license to export the navy
beans. .

Mr. G. F. Allmendinger of Ann Arbor, formerly
president of the Bean Jobbers’ Ass’n, thought that
the forcing of the price of beans to $10 a bushel
last season was a great mistake as it encouraged
a. heavy planting in other sections that formerly
had. grown no beans commercially. (Con. page 7.)

HUGE MlLK SURPLUS .

* PRESENTS PROBLEM

Condensaries are Forced to Drop Prices to
Farmers to Unp'rofitable Levels and
Some Have 'Ceased Operations
Altogether

 

Will you kindly inform me thru the M B. F. or by
personal letter if the government has set the price of
milk. If so, is the Lake Odessa Milk Company paying
the farmer a just price for his milk? The company
will not take Saturday night and Monday morning milk,
claiming the government will not allow them to do so.

’If you can tell me anything about the milk situation

I will we very grateful, I enclose milk card they send
out the first of each month. You will note that_they
offer for April milk, $2.60 per hundred pounds With a
reduction of 25 cents per hundred for hauling—A. K..
Lake Odessa, Michigan.

A Sparta subscriber sends us copy of a statement
put out by the Sparta Condensed Milk Company,
and asks our opinion on it. Portions of the 01r-
cular are as follows:

“The urgent need of transporting large numbers of
men to France and diminution of shipping space as a
result of the submarine campaign, has led the Allied
Shipping Board to reduce materially the space avail-
able for all exports. In the case of milk, the reduc-
tion is estimated‘at from fifty to seventy—five per cent,

h fact that milk is a concentrated food

~ in great demand abroad.

e export of milk by Gov-

ted the outlet for evaporat-

. has resulted in a surplus in

the n . estic ‘ . which formerly would have

gone to foreign markets has been thrown on thedo-

mestic market and naturally prices have been driven
down.

“Our company was doing considerable. export bus-
iness and has been affected more seriously than some
other concerns who were not serving that trade. Tem-
porarily, we have been forced to sell our goods at very
low prices in order to market them. Wq thought it
better to do that, however, than to take other.meas-
ures and if our patrons will meet us half way in this
matter, we will be able to tide over the per1od of re-
adjustment. The industry will adgust itself. produc-
tion will be curtailed and domestic consumption in-
creased, but it will take time to effect these changes.

“In view of the conditions recited above, we cannot
pay more than $2.25 per hundred for 3.5 per cent milk
delivered to our plant for the month of April. At the
prices we are selling our product, we will lose money
paying this price, but we think we can see our way
clear to take the milk at this figure. We want to
keep our plant running and thus afford a permanent
market for your milk, and with your co-operation, we
will be able to do it."

The Government has NOT set the price which
condensary or creamery companies must pay farm-
ers for milk. We believe that a suggestion was
made by the dairy division of the U. S. Food Ad-
ministration that milk purchasing companies en-
deavor to make their prices as nearly uniform
as possible in all sections where they are buying,
and several companies, notably the Michigan
branches of Swift & Company, have misrepresent-
ed the suggestion to the farmers as a set price in
sections. where they had no competition to pro-
vide an excuse for a reduction of prices, in order
to make up for losses sustained by other branches
that were offering abnormally high prices for the
apparent purpose of forcing competing firms out
of business. We have absolute evidence that this
was done, and for several months have been try-
ing to get the proper authorities to take action
against any such distortion of government sugges—
tions and such violation of the trust laws. But
everyone consulted upon the matter, has “passed
the buck” on to someone else, claiming that they

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I fdollar-s loan with 20 million subscribers.
the enthusiastic mann 1r in which the campaign

campaign was half eyer with a lit— '. -.
tie: less than half cf the minimum: a

total or 3 111111011 dollars subscribed. While this, I
. showing is somewhat better than either of the
first two loans, treasury heads are plainly diesatr

sisiied as they are actually aiming at 11- 5 billion
From

,started'out, everyone had high hopes that this
‘ would be speedily reached, but the failure of the
people of means to subscribe their share is blamed
'for the slow progress of the loan. Reports from
all sections show that. by far a greater numberof
people in moderate circumstances are buying bonds
than in either of the two previous campaigns.
Despite the discouraging situation prevailing a
week ago, it is believed that the 3 billion dollars
(will be oversubscribed before the

closes.
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«A plan to register every man in the United,

States between the ages of 18 and 50, designed by
the prov'ost marshal general’s division of the war
department with a view to enlisting the man pow-
er of the nation in war work, is meeting with some

opposition from members of Congress and from;

the administratibn. The immediate object (if the
proposed bill is to give the war department ab-
solute control over the nation’s man power so that
it may have the authority in any emergency of
calling upon registrants for any branch of eith-
er civil or war service. All such registrants
would be classified according to their conditions
of dependency, physical and mental qualifications,
technical training, experience in specialized lines,
employment in ei’ective and non-effective indus-
tries, etc., with the object of placing them in the
positions they are best qualified to fill. Hence, all
civilians between these ages would be at the beck
and call of the war department in the same man—
ner as men in military service. The plan has
its dangers. It would :ive to the war department
an arbitrary control over the labor resources and
the ind 3tries of the nation, and might prove the
final step in completing a. militaristic organiza-
tion no less autocratic in its authority over the
government than the Kaiser’s military machine.
t it *

Washington is full of “slickers,” young men
who have succeeded in securing commissions in
non—combatant branches of the service, thru some
influence with the dispensers of such honors. The
“slicker” is only one step removed from the “slack-
r ” and that step is a rung nearer the bottom of
the ladder of honor and service. The slacker is,
in most cases, a conscientious objector to the war;
he openly “slacks.” The “slicker" is, in most cas-
es. the most ruthless enemy the Kaiser ever had,
but his attacks are vocal instead of physical. He
_ devoutly’belirves that the world should be made
safe for democracy, and to prove it he secures a
commission, dons a uniform and goes to Wash-
ington where he makes‘a public show of his pat;-
riotism. But Congress refuses to be. fooled any
longer by this brand of patriotism, and has asked
the war department to provide a list of all non-
- combatants of draft age in government service at
the capitol, and a history of each case. A “weed-
ing out” of men filling places that could just as
well be served by older men and an invitation to
enter active army service, are sure'to_follow the
investigation.

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Chas. M. Schwab, the boy who sta1ted life on a
dollar-a—day railroad job and became the world’s
second greatest steel magnate, has accepted a dol-
lar-a- -year position with the government as direc-
tor-general of the Emergency Fleet co poration.
Mr. Schwab’s job will be coniple e and put into
service in the shortest possible time the largest
possible number of merchant ships for the trans-
portation of troops and supplies to the war zone.
Less than a fortnight has elapsed since the ap-
pointment of Mr Schwab and he has already ei-
fected a complete reorganization of the ship build-
1ng program, has removed the offices from wash~
ington to Philadelphia in order to be nearer the
shipbuilding yards, and gives every indication
that he is alive to his duties and responsibiliy.
If Mr. Schwab gives all his time and his charac-
teristic energy to his new job, there is no ques-

tion but what the shipbuilding program will be

speeded to maximum efficiency and production.
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.Reassuring neWS to the effect that the war costs

are not as great as original estimates have been
made by the Treasury Dep’t. The first year of the
war. ending Apr. 6, cost approximately nine billion
dollars, as against a twelve billion estimate. The
costs are continually mounting, however, and for
the current fiscal year which ends June 30, will

campaign.

to only $8, 760,900“, 000. - ‘.-

Nearly one-half 61 the first nine billion. Went to “W0 the W
1 111g uponhfheéf neutral world

our allies as loans. The meney did not leave this
country, but was in the term of credits for gpur-
chasing here. These loans will, of course,
turned to us after the war.

Individual states and municipalities have ex-

pended millions more in war relief work in ad-
dition to millions for the Red Cross, War "Y, " etc.
Yet, the war has engendered a spirit of economy
which has resulted in the saving of millions. The
war has had and will Continue to have a sobering
effect on certainkclasses of the American people
who were intoxicated .with success, and were liv-
lng far beyond their means. This does not apply

to the farmers as a class, as even in prosperous ‘

years they cannot be charged with lack of thrift.
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The Chamberlain bill, providing military trial
and death penalty for spies and seditionists prom—
ises to be one of the most bitterly discussed meas-
ures that haVe been taken up. Half apologies for
mob violence against persons suspected of having
pro-German sympathies, have been made by those
who desire to see the bill become law, claiming
that the people-are taking action because the civil
law, is ineffectual.‘ Senator Borah pronounces the
bill' unconstitutional and says: “Under this bill,
a business or laboringman, or an editor, or any
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out warrant and without a knowledge of the charg-
es preferred against him, taken before a drum
head court-marshal, tried and punished or execut—
ed. I think if wee-keep our poise and hold on to
our faith in our institutions and the loyal people
of this country and vigorously exercise the powers
which are clearly ours under a republican form of
government there would be no necessity for laws
of this kind.” .

The United States produces about one-tenth of the
wool of the world.

Canada has only two inhabitants for each square
mile of territory.

There are now four times as many vessels in naval
service as a year ago.

The navy now has in its possession a stock of sup-
plies sufficient for average requirements for one year.

More than 70, 000 acres of land in this country have
been planted with castor bean plants to produCe oil
for the aeroplanes. _

Official figures just made public indicate that nearly
50, 000 women have replaced men employed in the
banking institutions in Great Britain since the com-
mencement of the war. .

While testing ground for oil near Mundy, Texas.
an engineer ran into a vein of metal which assays
84. 50 per ton in gold and $8 00 per ton in silver It is
believed that there is a large marine deposit of approx-
imately 20 square miles, with at; apprOximate value of
$200, 000 per acre.

There is growing agitation in many sections of
Canada in f vor of the Government gassing legisla-
tion whereby the duty may be remove from all farm!
implements, the farmers arguing that while all farm
machinery is now from 100 to 200 per cent higher
than before the war, the profits from the farm have
not increased orrespondingly, and with the dearth ’of
labor, geaused

steel.

y the young men leaving the farm8\
for the front, the farms cannot be worked unless labor
. saving machinery is employed. ‘

regard for the rights .‘or’
for more than three yeagrsfii
en: were
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one to blame but themselves.

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Secretary of war Newton W. Baker, who recently

' returned after several weeks spent in. both the west-

ern and Italian fronts is confident of the ultimate“

treme front close to the Hun lines. The hospitals.
field kitchens and everything which had- to do with

, the welfare of the men was inspected He announced.
that American soldiers were receiving the best food].

possible to procure, that the wounded were treated
under conditions as nearly perfect as it was possible
to provide, and that American parents could rest as-
sured that their sons “over there” were happy. Men
will be called to the colors in much larger numbers.
during the coming summer and fall than was at first
planned the numbers being limited only by training
facilities
a e e p ‘ /

Canada, according to a statement by Premier Bor-_
den. will endeavor to keep 100,000 men in the field"
continually although the drafting of additional lev-
ies wilt necessitate great sacrifices.
which has taken an active part in the fighting since
the beginning of the war, has sustained severe losses.
yet the people are bravely bearing the burdens and
are anxious to fight to the finish. The war spirit in
acute except in Quebec, where the French-Canadians
following the outbreaksof mob violence a few weeks
ago. are sullenly acquiescing to the draft law. The
labor problem, especially in western Canada, is more
acute than in the United States and an eflort is being
made to rehabilitate disabled soldiers so that they
can be employed in some of the industries.

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Not only are the Allied armies holding the Hun”

forces all along the line, but by brilliant counter op-
erations in which the Americans have played a con-
spicuous part have regained considerable lost terri-
tory. While the great German offensive is by no
means over. Von Hindenberg appears to be out-gen-
eraled. It is known that a large Allied “army of .of-
fensive” as it is usually designated by war corres-
pondents, is being held in readiness by Gen. Foch for
a mighty counter thrust when the proper time comes.
It is believed. that a large part of the American forces
are held in reserve with this army. That the Ger:
mans fear this menace, is very probable, as ‘t do
not know where or at what moment it will strike.
' O t h '

A breach is threatened between Berlin and Vienna
according to advices reaching the Allies through Hol-
land. That Emperor Charles of Austria favors peace,
and would be Willing to go to almost any limit to
is evident. ,He has no sympathy with the
mad schemes ‘of the Pan-Germans. That he had
sounded the French premier-“M. Clemenceau, regard-
ing grounds for peace, has been revealed An empire
wide strike is being agitated in AuStrla for “May
D31!” and should it occur, there is a possibility of
its spreading to Germany, as the Teuton workmen
are said to be very dissatisfied with lecent develop-
ments. -

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With American ship yards turning out a vast ton—
nage, greater probably than the combined shipyards
of -the world, and many ships being turned over to the
United States through agreements with foreign gov-
ernments the overseas shipping facilities of the Amer-
ican forces are rapidly improving. The latest acqui-l
sition is a. fleet of 66 Japanese ships, which will be
used by this government for the period of the war.
An agreement has been concluded with the Japanese
government whereby the ships are to be turned over
to the United States government in return for speci-
fied quantities of steel much needed by Japan.

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The Irish conscription bill has passed the British
parliament As a salve to the wounded spirit of the
Irish, who object to being forced to fight, immediate
home rule has been promised.
he considered by parliament, and it is expected that
in spite of the fierce opposition to conscription on the
part of certain elements and organisations in the
island, that the Irish will accept it as a trade for the
long-sought self government. Although news of the
passing of the conscription bill caused wild scenes in

industrial F
centers, and while attacks of this kind usually cause,
.' the death of non-combatants, the Germans have no

Hr. Baker visited the. '

The Dominion,“ .

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some parts of the island in other parts notably Dub- _

lin it resulted in an increased recruiting.
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American aeroplanes will soon reach France. The

numbers, types etc. of course, -will not be divulged at.

this time but while the aircraft production has not
come uptto expectations, it is known that American
planes Will soon be in use against the Boches. Here-
toforo American forces have had to depend on Eng-

lish and French planes and the sectors occupied by
our troops have Seldom had adequate air braft help. '

American troops are enthused by the reports that
ghehif own planes will soon be in the thick of the

The so-called peace with Ukrainla: has netted the
,Central Powers absolutely nothing from the food
standpoint, although it has opened up Vast deposits '
of manganese, much needed in the manufacture of ,
There is barely enough food for the inhabitanm"

and German forces sent” into the country’ found
necessary to obtain. th' Sunblles from home. The
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(-has nailed to. materialize and further, under the

115111" receipts there is a distinctly stronger tone
.to the market. Dealers will 'make no estimates

' 301 the amOunts now in possessiOn of growers, but

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conclusion that stocks may have been rather over-
,‘cbtimated.

.f, Reports continue to come in to the effect that "
there will be some reduction of potato acreage.

.. this season owing to the unfavoi'able conditions .
that Obtained last season in handling the crop. It;

is claimed that the acreage in Steuben county this

.year will be 19,000 as compared with 27 .000 last

year. Information from that county is that 1,140

harm hands have been drafted, have enlisted, or .

left the farms for one reason or another the
past year, and to make up this loss only 400 new
men have gone to the farms. '

There is still some opposition against potato
grading, although apparently the great proportion
of growers and dealers favbr it as a real prop to
the potato business. However, there are few deal-
ers willing to admit that they do not grade po-
tatoes, but investigation shows that grading con-
sists in a little hand sorting, rather than bonafide
grading over a mechanical device. By special re-
quest of the Federal Food Administration, Francis
G. Ferrin, secretary of the New York State Potato

_ Shippers’ Conservation Association, has been do.

ing some investigating. Dealers are paying grow-
ers $1.10@$1.30 per cwt.,’ for U. S. grade 1, track-

. side delivery. Dealers are shipping U. S. grade 1,

bulk, $1.45@$1.50 f. o. b. Rochester.———The Packer.

NEW STANDARDS FOR GRADING
OF CORN AND WHEAT

New standards for grading corn and wheat, ef-

fective July 15 next, have been announced by the
department of agricultuie.
The corn standards in the main involve the ad-
dition of weight per bushel requirements for all
numerical grades and the allowance of small quan-
tities of heat damaged kernels in g1ades Nos. 2
and 3. Separate grades have been established
for white, yellow, and mixed corn.

The department announces that the new wheat
grades will result in a greater proportiOn of the
crop falling into the higher grades. The more im-
portant of the changes are:

Dockage will be expressed in terms of whole
per cent, rather than half per cent disregarding
fractions, and the definition of dockage specifical-
ly requires recleaning and rescreening, so that as
large a proportion as possible of cracked wheat
will be removed.

The more definite term; “foreign material other
than dockage,” has been substituted for “insepar-
able foreign material.”

The allowance for wild peas, corn cockle, and
similar impurities, is more liberal.

The m1\nimum test weight per bushel require~
merits generally are reduced except for grades 2,
3, and 4 in hard red spring wheat and grades 1
to 4 in common white and white club.

The maximum percentages of moisture allowed
have been increased for all grades except for grade
No.2 in hard red spring and durum

The total weight of other classes permissible
No.1 now permit-
ting 5 per cent and other grades 10 per cent. Spec-
ial limitations for certain wheats of other classes
now apply to the first two grades.

SAME OLD NEWS FROM KANSAS— '
WHEAT CROP VERY poon

A Macomb county farmer confided to the M. B.
F. editor the other day that his brother who had
been farming in Kansas the past 5 years had sold
his farm and would return to Michigan, “What’s
the matter,” we asked, doesn’t he like Kansas
"Nope,” he replied, “the seasons are

he ever went out there.”
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wh t. was only 77. 6 per cent normal, we couldn’t

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“01 the nearly 9. 500, 000 acres sown to wheat in
,” says the report of the secretary

onethird is reported by cor-respondents of
board as worthless or so unpromising that it will
probably be abandoned or devoted to other crops.
Ninety per cent‘not this abandoned acreage is in
the northwest- portion of the state, this region em-

h~bracing 60 per cent of the total area. sown to win-
‘ter wheat last fall.”

Query No. 1: What do Kansas farmers live on

.. when their wheat crops fail?

Query No. 2: How does the Kansas farmer or

1 any other farmer for that matter, figure his pro!-

its, out of $2 wheat when he' raises only a halt

crap?

MONTANA RANCHMEN TO SEED
VAST ACRES TO WHEAT

Many Montana cattle ranchers, impressed with
the crying need for a greater wheat production
in this country, are planning to seed thousands of
acres of ranch land to this grain. One oil/the
largest cattle ranches in Montana, thatof Child
& Anceney, will devote a vast area of between eight
and twelve thousand acres to wheat. Practically
all of this is irrigated hay land. While still keep-
ing a large number of range cattle, the curtailing
of the hay crop which the ranch company uses
for winter, feeding will make necessary a great
depletion in the vast herds of cattle. The pro-
prietors believe that wheat is a greater necessity
than meat and are taking this step for the purpose
of assisting the government in its requests for
greater wheat production.

WASHINGTON POTATO ACREAGE
SHOWS DECREASE FROM LAST YEAR

Potato planting in Northwestern Washington
is now general, but less acreage is being devoted
to that crop than was the case last year. Pro-
portionately more persons are planting them in
Bellingham than in the rural districts. the activ-

oity in that direction locally being due largely to

the efforts of' the war garden committee of the
Chambe; of Commerce. In the country hundreds
of acres that last year were utilized for potatos are
this sea-son being planted to peas, the demand for
which Was very strong in 1917. This year What--
com county will have a pea mill and the builders
expect to handle thousands of tons.

INTERESTING NOTES ON FOOD
ADMINISTRATION ACTIVITIES

OVERCIMRGEI) r01: BEAN

Violation of Food Administration rules and reg-
ulations, led to the revocation effective April 1,
of the license held by. the Hays Milling Company
of Worthington, Indiana. It was shown that the
Hays Milling Company charged $45 per ton for
The. agreed maximum price is $36.06.

If the company gives assurance that it will
commit no further violations, it will be allowed
to apply for anothei license after suspension of
operation for 30 days. /

REFUSED EGGS, LOSES LICENSE

For failure to accept delivery of a consignment
of eggs, the firm of Mesh & Company, New York
City, has lost its Food Administration license.
Shipment was made to the firm from Richmond,
Va., on February 22 by express. The express re-
ceipt was held until February 27 and then 1e-
turned; the egg market had declined shaxply on
February 25.

CORNMEAL OUTPUT DOUBLE"

A canvass 01' the whole country by the Food Ad-

mininstration shows that the actual milling out-

°put of cornmeal increased from 3,000,000 barrels

in October to nearly 6,000,000 barrels for March.
During the‘ past 18 months, the output of corn
flour has increased 500 per cent.

FLOUR DONORS GIVE ALLIES DIRECT All)

Persons who offer their flour to the Government
are assured by the Food Administration that
their sacrifice is a direct and immediate help to
the fighters and people in Europe. While it is
impossible to ship some of this flour in the pack-
ages in which it is returned, arrangements have
been made to put_it into circulation and immedi-
ately ship from the mills an equal amo nt prop-
erly packed for export.

The exact quantities given will'be released, over

. and above the present program of sending over-

seas one- half of the total American supplies. All
lizouir given up will be paid for on a fair price
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MILLERS’ PROFITS 175 PER CENT

- Government regulations have practically elim-
mated the farmer’s profits on wheat but have
increased the miller’ s and middleman’ s profits on
This information
was disclosed in a recent report made by the fed-
eral trade commission to the president.

In 1912-13, without being subject to any gov-
ernment control, the averag.~ profit of millers
amounted to 11 cents per barrel. This had in‘
creas to 52 cents per barrel in 1916-17, which was
later reduced to 25 cents per barrel by the gov—
ernment, or over twice as much as the millers
received during the pre-war period. In a Summary
of the report the commission says:

"The present regulations of our millers’ profits
at a fixed margin above costs has the inherent
weakness of not encouraging efficiency in produc—
tion and, of affording unpatriotic millers tempta-
tion to dishonesty in cost accounting, difiicult to
detect or prevent. ‘

“While the actual profit which millers will
make during the present crop year cannot be
finally determined until the end of the period, it

appears from the information in the hands of the ,

federal trade commission that the regulations have
reduced the profits of most mills below those
made during the year 1916-17. This, with the
larger reductions secured by fixing the price of
wheat—a part of the regulation plan—has re-
duced the price of. flour to the consumer several
dollars a' barrel. Wheat and milling regulations
have kept flour prices fairly stable in Spite of
a shortage due to heavy shipments abroad.”

The report states that it is the opinion of the
federal trade commission that maximum prices
of flour might be established, which would cover
the cost of wheat and all manufacturing, selling,
and general expenses, and in addition would give
the miller a reasonablenprofit. The standardiza
tion of flour by the food administration renders
the plan of fixing flour prices much easier of ac-
complishment than heretoforef Maximum prices
would make it profitable to the millers to operate
more efiiciently and keep costs down.

On profits and production costs the report says:

“The average cost of production of a barrel of
flour for mills covered by the investigation in«
creased in the crop year 1916.17 over the preced~
ing year, due mainly to the increased cost of
Wheat, while operating profits per barrel as Shown
by their records increased nearly 175 per cent and
their rate of profit on investment increased more
than 100 per cent.”

CANADIAN CATTLE ENTER U. S.
UNDER TRADE AGREEMENT

While no definite 01' authoritative pronounce—
ment has been received on question of cattle en—
tering United States under new “restricted 1111‘
ports” regulations, it is stated at Winipeg that
American customs authorities are permitting ship-
ments to go through. They state that they have
no orders to do otherwise. This movement is
under the blanket license system which has been
in force for some time.

TEXAS CATTLE RAISERS HIT
BY WORST DROUTH OF YEARS

The number of cattle in Texas is much reduced
this year. Several causes have contributed to this
reduction, chief among them being the drouth
which has destroyed pastures and added to the
multifarious troubles of the ranch owners. Many
cattle have been shipped to better ranges in other
states, and large numbers sold before the time
when they are generally turned off.’

I. N. McCrary, interested in a ranch of 175.000
acres near Post City, said recently that there had
not been a good rain in his section since Febru-
ary 14, 1916. “If we don’t get a good rain within
30 or 40 days it is hard to predict just what will
become of the. cattle and their herds,” he said.
“For four years our range cleared better than
$100,000 a season. Last year we didn’t make a
cent and it will be the same this year.”

Hundreds of thousands of cattle perished of
thirst last summer. Those that were able to
stand the trip were sent to better ranges in New
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Tecumseh—The co-operative spirit" is spreading
in Lenawee county. The Tecumseh Cooperative
association has taken an option on the 'e'levator
- propertyat Britton, operated under the name of
.Walper—Dreher, which is located in one :of the
biggest grain producing centers. The TeCumseh
Co~operative association was organized 'in the
early part of 1915', with a capital stock of $25,-
000, taking over the property of C. A. Slayton &
Son. The capital was later increased to $50,000
to take care of the rapidly increasing business.
Last year the volume of business transacted by
the association amounted to nearly one-half mil-,
lion dollars, or to be exact, $448,000. showing net
profits for the year of 14.9% on its capital stock
after paying all expenses and charging Off depre-
ciation for wear and tear. Of these net earnings
a capital dividned of 6% was declared payable in
cash and the balance was turned back into the
working fund Of the company. ' .,

Jackson—Plans for the intensive development
of farm lands' in the southern tier of Michigan
counties was discussed by the county agents of'
those counties, who were guests of the Jackson
Chamber of Commerce.“ The meeting~ was called
for the purpose of securing the opinions of the
county agents of a movement to be taken in all
of the southern counties to encourage better fer-
tilization and better general development of lands
suitable for agricultural purposes. The prospect
of holding a Southern Michigan exposition each
year was also taken up at the Jackson meeting
but no action was taken on the question. The
county agents will meet again May 2, to continue
their discussion and if possible to take some defi-
nite action.

Admin—Of 97 claims for deferred classification
on agricultural grounds made by registrants un-
der the first division board of Lenawee county, all
but four were allowed by the district board at
Detroit. A very small number of the claims un-
der the second division board were denied. Of
110 registrants under this board who asked for
deferred classificatiOn, the percentage of denials
was about the same as for the first division board.

Detroit—Thirty—five carloads of southern pota-
toes are enroute to northern and eastern markets,
according to advices reaching here. While most
of these potatoes will go to eastern cities, it will
not be long before large quantities of southern
tubers Will be on sale here. The southern crop is
unusually large this year. A load of, Michigan
potatoes on the city market a few days ago was
Offered at 600 with no bidders.

Mason—Farm labor in some places is demand-
ing as high as $60 a month with board and wash-
ing, with stipulations to the effect that no milking
is to be required, according to County Agricul—
turalist Frank Seely. The farm labor situation is
becoming acute in lngham county, and hundreds
of boys are being released from the rural schools
to assist on the farms.

Grand {Imam—Although the proposed hiring of
a county agricultural agent was rejected by the
people on a test vote at the April election, it will
probably be considered at the next session of the
board Of supervisors. The vote was not binding
upon the_board, and that body may take action
at its next session tO create a county farm bureau
and secure the services of an agricultural agent.

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Vpany will. hold Openi’liouse'here on Monday, April ,. , - . . . , V
29, the date of the opening of‘the new condensary.-. that enter into change the.

Governor Sleeper will "be among the speakers.~
The local plant is onset the largestfof‘its‘ kind
in this part of the state. It will be supplied by ~
milk stations situated. in a’wide area surrounding
Sandusky. ' . . ' "

Benton Harbor—Twentyeight high school stud;

_ ents have already gone to work on farms of the

county, and nearly.forty others will be similarly

engaged within a few weeks. .“We are going on

farms to help win the'war," is the sloguanof
these boys, who although too, young to fight inth-e
trenches of Flanders,‘are doing their hit for the
cause. , ~

Crostvell—Machinery is being installed here in
one of the largest canning, factories in eastern
Michigan, which will give a truck products market
to the farmers for miles around. The main fac-
tory building is three stories high. The power
plant contains five large boilers. Anuimmense.
storeroom will be constructed later.

Mt. Pleasant—H. D. Corbus. has been named as
county agent of Isabella county. and will begin
work immediately. P. P. Pope of this place has
been appointed agricultural agent of Clinton coun-
ty and will leave in a few days fc'r St. Johns. He
will leave a manager in charge of his farm inter-
ests here. ' .

Laingsburg—The Farmers’ Co—operative /Ship-
ping association of this place took an active part,
in the Liberty Loan campaign. The association
paid for full page advertisements in the local
press, boosting the sale of bonds, and assisted in
the sale in every way possible. -

Shepherd—A farmer-s’ co-operative, association
is being organized here to handle farm produce
of all kinds. Already the organization has a
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Fires which raged during .the unusually dry
weather of the fore part of April have caused
considerable damages to northern farms. Small
farmers face serious losses to their buildings and '
stock in many places. Fires are burning in at
least forty counties in northern Michigan and
continued dry weather may cause a condition in
the woods that will result in serious damage.

Farmers in Ogemaw county in the lower pen-
insula, were reported to be plowing about their
buildings to check the brush tires which had al-
ready burned one building.

In Dickinson county many farm buildings were
endangered and a lumber camp burned out. Many
farmers were in the woods fighting to stOp the
spread of the flames.

Bad brush fires were reported between Kewee-
naw Bay and Mass and on the Lake Superior
shore on the eastern side of the KeWeenaw pen—
insula. Farmers are fighting the fires between
Keweenaw Bay and Mass. There has been but
one slight rainfall in this region this spring.

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~"milk that is ixtuaccwdance with ‘the-rulingsrqt th‘:
' commission-and; its'_-~app01ntsd committees. ~ ‘Uiide
no, condition should 'the'"mjlk1 producer allow _t'h
buyer to change this. price: As you very-we] “
know, the amount designatedfior AthecAbsociatipn :

does‘pot come' out '01:; the: [price which fyou“we"re,,
to receive" for your milk 'but is .a‘different “pro'po
sition. ‘You receive'yOur part 'of the pay and priCe *
for this milk—:the Associationtfor its work receive
espvone cent per hundred pounds for “its pay. '

In many States there are men who are attempt—I ,
ing to organize stock- companies and buy the.
milk from cows of certain individuals-41f these
individuals will ‘pay for a certain amount of
stock for each cow from which they expect to sell
milk. Whenever a proposition of this kind is,

” made in your community we urge upon every milk
producer to investigate thoroughly before he puts
his $10 per cow into a deal ofthis kind.

"In our meeting at Chicago last week it .was
found that on account of the lack of transporta~
tion facilities there is today in the United States
more than thirty millions of cases of condensed _
milk. 'This would not- be’ a serious question if
the way was open for immediate shipment; but
inasmuch as the opportunities fOr shipment are
to be less ,in the near future than. they have been
in the past, this question assumes serious pro-
portions. A committee of, three was appointed at
the Chicago meeting to go to Washington to visit
the Food and War departments and see if it would
not be possible to obtain a change of. this ruling
at the earliest possible date and also to get two
ounces of cheese incorporated in every soldier’s
ration. From the best available sources we are,
informed that there are about one million Amer
ican soldiers in France at the present time. Could
these soldiers each have two ounces of cheese it
would require one hundred and twenty-five thous-
and pounds of cheese a day to supply them. and
as this is the best animal fOOd nutrient available
it can be readily understood how'vital this is———
not only to the dairy induStry but also to the well
being of our soldier boys who are fighting. our“
battles. ‘

In most places in Michigan cheese is retailing
at the present time from 36c to 440 per pound,
while the wholesale market price for cheese today
is 21c. Everything should be done that can be
done in the near future to change this method of
profiteering, and, if possible, to cause the peOple ‘
to consume more of these vital food products—4
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‘ Lansing Chamber of Commerce will endeavor
again this year to co—operate with lngham county
rural districts in supplying farm labor. Charles
H. Davis, secretary, suggests that lngham county
farmers in need of help, register their needs by
letter or telephone with his organization.

The labor situation right now is not of the best,
it is conceded, since each community has lost many
of its able-bodied men through army selection.
Closer co-operation, is therefore, more necessary
than ever. The Lansing Chamber of Commerce
will do its utmost to assist the farmers in lngham
county. A number of laborers have filed their ad-
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U. P. POTATO ACREAGE WILL BE
. . moon LESS THAN USUAL

More spring wheat and less potato acreage will
be the slogan of the Upper Peninsula. At least
there is ”a defined movement for a much larger
acreage of spring wheat than normal. While.'of
course, no attempt has been made to get the farm-H
ers to reduce their potato acreage, the unsatis-
factory prices last winter and this spring will
have that tendency. UpperxPen‘insula- potatoes
are of a distinct duality. There are'numerous —
potato growers’ associations,.and the” tubers are
considered the “money‘icrop’ljus many places in
the peninsula. The high pricesgaof a Year ago was ,
responsible _for a much larger'acre‘age than nor-
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aborers or farm managers have been placed in.'

Glass 1 on account of misunderstanding or lack
of appreciation of the needs of the farmers. the
boards are encouraged to reconsider meritorious
applications supported by facts and aflidavits
made by responsible citizens.

draft, to leave to the last’. all men in Class 1 who
are assiduously and continuously engaged in ag-
riculture. Under this order it is not likely that
any man actually engaged in agriculture will be
called, even though he be in .Class1,.before this
year’s crops are harvested. The furlo'ugh rules
just announced give further relief by'permitting
men to return to farms for emergency work. and
provide for groups'of soldiers who can be spared
from military camps to ‘go into. surrOunding re—
gions to perform farm labor for a short period.

Team Men of Farm Experience. —‘ There is a
widespread movement to _mobilize town men of
farm experience [or a few days at a time, or for
certain days of the week during the period; of
labor strain, in planting, cultivating, or harvest-
ing. That was done successfully last year in many
of the grain regions, and in some places the stores
were closed for two or three days at a time and
everybody joined in saving the crops. This is not
the best farleabor;,the town men are not “hard,”
but they can at least work a few hours a day and
in the aggregate they can furnish the necessary
man power for emergencies.

Boys’ Working Reserve—Many thousands of
school boys between sixteen and twenty years of
age have been enrolled to do farm work. This is

not the best labor, but it will serve in an emer-'

gency. In many places last year the boys after
a few days learned to be quite skillful in certain
farm tasks. If the farmers will be _
patient with them they can—become E
useful. ,

Idlers and Loafers. —— In many
places sheriffs and town marshals
are rig-idly enforcing local laws
against vagrancy and loafing. In.
most towns it is against the law to-
'loaf on the streets. A rigid ens
forcement of such laws will compel
able bodied men to find work of
some sort, and whether they go to
the farm or find other employment,
the' effect will be to release labor
and increase the man power of the
country.- In view of the demand
for labor it is proper for communit-
ies, by law or by public sentiment,
to insist that every man; whatever
his wages or his wealth or his con-
dition, shall put in‘full time.

War Time Mothods.——It is not
possible for us to wage a War Of
such preportions as that in which
we are now engaged and at the
same time maintain peace practicw
and indulgences. We mustall sac-
rifice; we must all do things in
other ways than th ays to which
we are accustome . '
get the best we mu .
best we can get. War industries
cannot be suspended; ship building
must go on; munition plants must
be operated; Soldiers must go“ to
France. With all these activities
drawing upon our man power in in-

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.bbards, in furnishing their quotas for the new

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A HAPPY HOUR‘FOR AMERICAN SOLDIERS ON THEWESTERN FRONT

nor have We yet reached the point of us-
T'perll where it is necessary to conscript

or lto require farmers by law to grow cer-

. crops. The true test of a democracy is its
ability to meet a local emergency without the com-

L. pulsion of a natiOnal law. At any rate, it is im-

1 se instructions and farmers who conscien-

tiously feel that they are. well within their rights
:in' seeking deferment for farm help, should 1111.»

press. :upon the local authorities that they expect, '

'th-hem "to abide by the rulings of the War. depart-1,-

men-r in this tespect:
The Draft—As now operated the military draft
. will make the least possible drain upon tarm-

District beards are encouraged by the .‘
;_ sealant Secretary.

possible this year to organize a system of Federal

administration of agricultural labor, but is easily

possible fer each state, each community, and each
Not-
withstanding labor difficulties last year, produc-

,, "tron Was greatly increased; the situation this year
aggisbut little, if any, more difficult, but the more
L-fdi‘ffic‘ult it becomes the. more necessity there is for
’ united community action ——Clarence Ousley,

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' SPEED UP THE PLOW,

SAYS YOUR UNCLE SAM

L By hitching a third horse to a two-horse Walk-
ing plow a man can cover at least a quarter of an
acre more per ,day. according to the U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture. This makes a difference of
about five acres in twenty days or a saving of
from two to three days’ work, which is a big con—
sideration during the busy season. During an
unfavorable plowing season this saving of time
may mean the difference between a big crop and
a. small one.’ ‘ The time and labor thus saved in
one of the heaviest farm operations of the year
may mean also that an extra man does not have
to be hired. A farmer who has a little more
plowing than can be done by one two-horse plow
and who ordinarily employs an extra man and
another two-horse team might be able to dispense
with the second outfit altogether by simply hitch-
ing a third horse to one of his plows.

If the size of the plow can be increased along
with the addition of the extra horse, the gain
will be even greater.

Three horses to a‘16-inch plow should do at.

least half an acre more per day than two horses
to a 12-inch plow if the depth of plowing is the
same. Averages for the whole country as report-
ed by the Department show that a two—horse, 12-
inch plow, plowing .6 inches deep, covers about
1% acres a-day, and a-two-horse, 16 inch plow,
2V2 acres, a gain of about $541 of an acre per day.
The value of this gain when but, a few days are
available for spring work, as is usually the case,
is of utmost importanceLin getting the maximum
amount of land prepared for seed and in giving
the crop an early start.

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Recent examinations and reports to this do- ..

indicate that banking conditions in
' Michigan- are very satisfactory, and that the pres;

Lent banks are supplying the needs of the Several. 'L

communities. This condition has been brought

about largely on account of the fact that with a 1
been organized in"
Michigan/only in such places and at such times ‘
., as were required for legitimate. DKCESSitieS. L

few. exceptions banks have

While in a few cases banks have been, organized
where there was no apparent necessity, such or-
ganizations, in most cases, have eventually been
absorbed or consolidated with the older institu-
tion in the: locality. In many instances, however,
during the period of their operation they have
produced conditions which were unsatisfactory,
both to the community, the banking fiaternity,
and to this department. In some instances the
organization of these banks was instigated by so-
called promoters, or by persons having a griev-
ance, or so-called grievance, against the older in-
stitution.

The situation in Michigan has not been bur-
dened to any great extent on account of the 01"-
ganization of what might be termed “promotion
banks,” and in this respect Michigan has been
fortunate indeed. In many western states the
results produced in connection with promotion
banks have proven unsatisfactory, am. in some
cases disastrous. A promoter, as a rule, is not
interested in the local banking situation, his first
and only object is to secure his promotion fee,
and when that has been paid him he departs from
the community, leaving the local stockholders, in
many cases unexperienced in banking: business.
to try and fulfill the many glittering promises
made as an inducement to secure slocl, subscrip-
tions, and the results under theSL conditions can-
not be other than unsatisfactory, both to the com-
munity in which the bank is established, and to
the banking department. The Michigan Banking
department has always opposed the organization
of_ institutions of this character, and this rule
should be applied partially at the present time,
as the general policy of the government is to
discourage capital investments in any unnecessary
enterprise

Oui investigations in some recent banking or-
ganizations developed the fact that bank promot-
ers are again seeking Michigan as a fertile field
for their operations, and the Department has
therefore taken the position that applications for
new organizations, where it has good reason to
believe the necessity of a bank has been fostered
and nurtured by a promoter, will be denied and
disapproved.

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T! Situation '

Reader, how would you like totake a little mp

' with us'down to Washington and look in upon

the inner workings of the men you have elected
to represent your interests in’that august body.
No, we shall not travel by

we shall enter the conference chamber through
the medium of the Congressio’lol Record.

The discussion is upon Senator Smith's amend-
ment to abolish compulsory potato grading rules.
Participating are Senators Townsend (Michigan),
Swanson (Virginia), Reed (Missouri), Gore (0k-
lahoma), Page (Vermont), Martin (Virginia). A
careful reading of the discussion discloses that
Senator Townsend oflMichigan and Senator Reed
of Missouri voice the only intelligent comments
upon the rider. The Virginia senator feels priv-
ileged to speak with authority because two of the
counties of his state are large potato growing
sections, and he argues long upon his statement
that “if the farmers want their potatoes graded
why shall we prohibit them~from grading them?"
Like the bureau of markets agents, Senator Swan-
son would force upon the entire country a provis-
ion that seems to find favor with only a few
growers in a section that specializes in a fancy
potato.

In 1899 Virginia stood fifteenth among the states
in the production of potatoes. That yearvMich-
igan raised 23,476,000 bushels; and Virginia, 4,-
409,000. In 1909 Michigan’s yield was 38,243,000,
as compared with 8,770,000 for Virginia, or over

‘four and a half times as many as the southern

state. This proportion has been slightly decreas-
ed in later years, Michigan’s production having
been lowered, while that ofVirginia has increased.

In only one year has Virginia produced more po— .

tatoes than Michigan, in 1916, when this state’s
cr0p was practically a failure. In making an av-
erage comparison, it is safe to say that Michigan
produces over. twice as many potatoes as Vir-
ginia.

Senator Gore, the blind legislator of Oklahoma,
is inclined to be fair, but it is evident that he de-
sires no time wasted in a discussion of the potato
grading amendment. For he, also, has an amend-
ment to the agricultural appropriation bill, to in-
crease the price of wheat to $2.50, and he is
anxious to get this to a vote of the House.

We are especially impre33ed with the justice of.

Senator Reed’s remafks. He hits at the vital
point, the Food Administration’s usurpation of
legislative power to put into effect rules that are
arbitrary and obnoxious. “The question is,” says
this statesman, “whether certain men, being of-
ficials or claiming to be officials of the United
States government. can themselves set up the
right to grade potatoes * * * and whether the
Senate will appropriate the money of the people
of the United States to pay for those unauthorized
and illegal acts.”
Bill. let “S proceed with the discussion:

Mr lit-ml: Mr. President, I, wish to inquire about
the provision agreed to ill the Senate which provided
ln substance that there should be no regulation or
governmental inspection of potatoes.

Mr. Core: The Senate (:ollfel'ees receded on that.

Mr. Reed: ] ask the Senator whether I am correct
in my recollection that there was no law providing
for inspection?

Mr. Gore: No, sir; I think not.

Mr. Reed: And somebody undertook to set up an
inspection. The Senate undertook to stop the use
of' that arbitrary and useless power, and you have
receded from that action of the Senate?

Mr. Gore: The Senate conferces did recede from the
:llllclldment referred to.

Mr. llced: What reason is there to recede from an
assertion or a protest, for it may be so regarded, by a
legislative provision against unauthorized action?

Mr. Gore: 1 may say that it is the ancient reason
which characterizes every conference bethen two
Houses. The House conferees would not accept that
amendment. 1' may say, in addition to that. however.
that telegrams came to the conferees from various
parts of the country urging that the Senate should
recede from this amendment.

Mr. Reed: From whom did they come?

Mr. Gore:
toes., I may say, however, in addition to that, the
were here from the State of Michigan; that
this amendment was offered by the senior Senator
from Michigan” (Mr. Smith); and that the conferees

I think as a rule, from dealers in pots--

were practically assured that an arrangement had‘

been reached which would give satisfaction alike to
the growers and to those who insisted upon the right.

Mr. Reed: By whom was the arrangement ~made?

Mr. Gore: The House conferee, Mr. McLaughlin of
Michigan, had the matter up with those in charge of
the grading activities of the department. I do not
know whether it was the Department of Agriculture
or the Food Administration. Mr. McLaughlin was
very insistent that the Senate amendment should be

retained but his conferees would not agree with him.
>They would not accept thekamendment, but we were

given assurances that an adjustment was in prospect
wlii‘chwould.be satisfactory. , .’ . " l'

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«nude on the basis

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W'ef‘oniincb‘eo-M' _, “ "Inside“ 1
‘ diameter,_.rou dictate”, shoul be. 01.8
as No. .1. we were Plan " name“. tt'fli
practically been “elected. ‘- " ,, '
Who set up these regulations in jth‘efirst place?
. Mr. Gore: ’
Department or
Food 'Admlnistrati n. ,
under consideratlo for some time.

Mr. Reed: ‘By what authority? - i
Mr.’ Gore: » I do not believe there. is any authority.
Mr. Reed: Now let, us start with the assumption

'1 think

that there is no authority. There being no authority.
the gentlemen who undertook to usurp the

, authority
proceeds to make an agreement with some potato
grower or,.growers, and having reached an agreement

“with that individual. that fact is brought to the Coal-

gress of the United States and the sentence thereun-
on 'recede from a provisionput in the bill by the Sen-
ate which prohibits the expenditure of any money for
the doing of any illegal act. So by implication, as it
is now left, the money we are about to appropriate
may be used by the gentlemen who are seeking to
usurp authority for an illegal purpose, because an
agreement was reached between .the. usurper and some
individual.

Mr. President, I protest against that sort of thing.
The day has. pretty nearly come when the Government
of the United States ought to insist that no mun I
spend any of the money of the people in doing an un-
authorized act. * " " ‘ ‘

Mr. Swanson:. I should like to say a few words in
connection with this potato-grading matter. I pre—
sume Virginia grows as many potatoes as does any
other State in the Union. The gradln has-been
carried on largely at the request of g
Their desire to have their potatoes officially graded

 

LAST MINUTE INFORMATION

HE FOLLOWING telegram was

received from President A. M.
Smith of the Michigan Potato Growers’
Ass’n, just before going to press. While
it does not clearly set forth the details
of the new rules promulgated by the
Administration, it gives us ”hope that
Congressman McLaughlin was mistak-
en in his understanding of the conces-
sions that have been made. Mr. Smith
has just returned from Washington, and
in next week’s issue he will give a com-
plete account of his trip and the actual
facts onthe latest developments in this
complex situation.

WESTERN UNION TELEGRhM
Michigan Business Farming,

Mt. Clemens, . Michigan.

Senator Smith’s amendment made all
grading illegal. Executive commission-
er asks for 1% inch single grade. I be-
lieve new rules will permit such grading
and positively forbid more than five
per cent number “one potatoes being
graded into No. 2. Got all concessions
I could. Food Administration ordered
change of screen.

 

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grew out of thecircumstances that in many instances
when they have shipped their potatoes to the com-
mission merchants in the cities they had no proof as
to whether their potatoes were really graded'in the
first grade, the second grade, or the third grade, and
many of them were swindled. If an official grading
is provided the growers would have assurance as to
Whether the potatoes which they send to market are
correctly graded.

As I have stated. I have received a number of tel-
egrams from Virginia, and I think my colleague, the
senior senator from Virginia (Mr. Martin) has like-
wise received similar telegrams protesting against the
elimination of grading.

Mr. Page: I shoulddike to ask the Senator from
Virginia 3 question. Does the Senator understand
that there is any demand from the great potato grow-
ing sections of the. Northeast. Maine, New Hampshire,
and Vermont, that there should be any such classi-
fication as has been established?

Mr. Swanson: 1 nave not heard from any section
except Virginia. In that state there are two coun-
ties, Accomac and Northampton, which are the largest

growers of potatoes in the country; and I understand >

that they are opposed to the entire elimination of
grading.

Mr. Martin: Mr. President, I have received a tele-
gram. and laid it before the conference committee;
and I think the action taken by the conferees will
lqeet with the approval of the potato growers of Vir-
3 me.

Mr. Swanson: I also presented a. telegram to the
oonferees. The trouble in this matter is that farmers
send their potatoes to the market when. they are grad-
ed, but they have been swindled by the returns being
that, their potatoes were third grade
whenvthey were really of the second or first grade.
Consequently they are desirous of having some means
of ascertaining when they ship their potatoe?‘ to mar-
ket that they are to be paid according to t e proper

ades. . .
ngr. Pa e: Mr. President, I ask the chairman of
the comm tt‘ee,’ is this demand .purely local? Does it
come from Virginia and Virginia only? ~

I think that the telegrams came in from
other states. I have several on the subJect, quite a,
number of them. ' .

Mr. Page: I have had no Communication from New
England on the subtit, sofar as that is concerned.

Mr. Swanson: he potato growers of Virginia.

have not asked for a. change‘of the‘law. as I under-
: stand it: all they ask is that the law

remain as it is.
MrflBeed: A Is theregany‘lawiu ' , ,

'- Mr- Reed? But‘what '1 m tryirls to get at is this} ’
I understand that it was done by the

Agribulture in [Oomunctlon with the .
the matter has been

BTOW‘GI‘B. ' '

Senators. I desire to say now,

than “daemon“ {armors m , , _
MI untaggghgpotatoog or: sold in \ojon enmity wit}
rules“ regulations so 'up
3:31. I“ W the Senatewln up > .
07 of “temple of the United States, to pay for those
unauthorised-[and illegal acts? . ~' '
Mr. Gore-z , Mr. 'Presldent—e ‘

by these uniuohorlz'ed' ‘
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Reed: L.'Just.one moment and 1“le be through. .

Mr. -
If it is desired to have a ,federal grading of potatoes,
than let the law be brou
R, as we did the proposl ion togmde wheat. A very
bad bill was brought In" here of that klnd,’ but it was
defeated; and finally a my wear-worked out that is
reasonably satisfactory. So, in this instance, there
ought to be a bill brought in. . ' ‘ , ,

Mr ° "-»' * ‘ ' ‘ ,9 .Further. ln

. re, .
connection with what the Senator from Missouri (Mr:

Reed) has said, I would remind him that, the food—

°°ntr°l wt was ~“feartully and wonderfully» made,":»

and if the Food Administration should find power in
some obscure clause to grade potatoes it would not be
at all astounding to me. .
which gives the Food Controller or the Presuient the
power to 'buyg'vheat, flour, meal,” beans, and potatoes.
How extensive or plenary this power may be, I am
unable to say; but that is probably the source of this
power, if it has any
even, -

Mr. Townsend: Mr. President, I do not think it is

of much consequence to discuss the potato provision or;

the bill now, Inasmuch as,the conforees have agreed
to o o It from the bill; and I would not have
agreed to eliminate lt'jfrom the hill, and I Would not
havo,monflonod it had it not been brought up by other
however, that the farm-
ers of. Michigan, so far as they have spoken, either in-
dividually or as organizations, have p—otested very
strongly undue: the scheme of pctato‘grnding. which
has been put in force by the Food Administration.

I do not think the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Swan-
son, states the case quite correctly when he says that
the purpose is to protect the farmers‘against the no-
oossity of selling in the market a first‘grade article as
third grade. The rulepractically provided for two
grades, although there is a third grade, which in-
cludes potatoes which .pass through a screen an inch
and a half. I believe, in diameter: but the provision
that has been put in force does not guarantee quality
in any respect. A large-sized potato may be the most
inedible potato on the market, whereas the average
sized potato, the small potato, in many instances is
the most edible. Everybody knows that; there is
not a housewife in the land who does n know it.
Large potatoes are frequently hollow and not fit to
out It all. » '

The farmers of Michigan may be mistaken, but they
—-and I think their pot-to industry is quite as great
as that of Virginity—are opposed to it. Mr. Miller, of
the Food Administration,~ tells me that they do not
know what they are talking about. He has been in
to see me two or three times. He has also been up to
Michigan where he had a talk with the farmers, and
had considerable trouble, I am informed, at a public
meeting held at Lansing on this very subject. “'hen
I asked Mr. Miller why he put this rule in force now
he said because there was an opportunity to do so. I

asked him if he thought it was going to increase the,

food production or improve its edible quality, and he

said no; that was not the object, but it was to put in‘

force a rule that would be controlling in 71118 market
in the future and in the end would be beneficial to a‘l
parties concerned. I tried to impress upon him that
it was unwise at this time, in a- period of war, to ini-
pose a rule or a provision that was not going to in-
crease the amount of food or its quality but which
aroused opposition in, the farmer.

This amendment was put in the bill on the floor by
my colleague (Mr. Smith of Michigan). who is absent.
I felt that as a. war measure it was very well, indeed.
to eliminate this potato grading provision, and I still
think so. I think it would have been better for thr-
productlon of food ill the United States ii‘ the depart-
ment could have left this out, inasmuch as n ) one will

contend that it is an encouragement to the Dl'Otl'IPtill’l

of potatoes lll mly part of the United St ltGl-i.

RECEIPTS OF STOCK AT
STOCKYARDS DURING MARCH

Receipts of cattle and hogs at stockyards dur-
ing March of this year were greater than receipts
in March 1917, according to the monthly stock—
yards report issued recently by the Bureau of
Markets, United States Department of Agriculture.
Receipts of cattle and hogs for the first three
months of 1918 exceed receipts for the same per-
iod in 1917. . >

March receipts at 56 yards were: Cattle. 1918,
1688.029; 1917, 1,324,995; hogs, 1918, 4,372,136;
1917,>3,367,588; sheep. 1918, 1,223,120; 1917, 1,-
232,543. -

Shipments of cattle, hogs, and sheep from stock—
yards all Showed increases during March, 1918
over March 1917, and the first three months’ total
for cattle and hogs was greater in 1918 than in
1917. Total shipments for March, 1918, were
cattle, 642,910,; hogs, 1,707,170; sheep, 552,397. The
March 1917. figures were: Cattle, 469.187; hogs,
1,151,787; sheep, 439,840. Stocker and feeder ship-
ments as a class, included in above figures, also
showed increases in March, 1918, over March,
1917. -- .

More cattle and hogs were slaughtered at 45
cities in March, 1918, than in March 1917. The
figures, giving 1918 totals flr8tvwere:

653,783, 782,552. . . _
Increased receipts and shipments of,horses and
mules. at 43 cities-

March fightes, with 19718“=giv'en first ”War

' celspts,*1'17;768. "109.1%: ‘j-shipmelj‘l, .1.
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There is a section. in that bill»-

foundation in legislation what-V

Cattle,
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; if farmers to enter the milk busineSsr

e resdlt of decreased consumpt1on
13°15“? by :the people of the cities who
tobeliev 11y statements of the Food

a situation that the big national (30111161188,-
, ave taken advantage of by opening many
new plants in sections where milk was 'never he'—
tore commercially produced and inducing the
This, coupled

, 'With the reduced consumption has brought about
‘” a huge surplus. ”

' I
f ,TBut the guilt for this situation should not rest
‘ ”entirely;0n the heads of the condensary concerns

The” creamery companies of Detroit have been
guilty ”of similar practices. Despite the large sur-

fplus of milk that these companies have claimed
existed in the Detroit area by reason of which

they have reduced the price to the produc-

‘ers in that territory, the Detroit Creamery
, Co. has recently been advertising for milk in a

section two hundred and twenty—five miles

afrom’Detroit, in a town that has a co- oper- _
rative ,creame‘ry. We have called the atten-
' tion of RC. Reed,.secreta‘ry of the-Michigan

Milk Producers" Association, to this fact,

r-in hopes that it may be corrected.

As 'a. result of-the accumulating surplus,
many concerns are dropping» their prices to

the farmer to unprofitable levels, ”while

others are closing entirely. One of the lat-
ter is the Portland factory of the Grand
Ledge {Milk Company. Of this action the
Portland Obseruer has this to say:' "“The
milk production around Portland has in-
creased remarkably since the Grand Ledge
company has entered the ,field and up until
last Saturday the seven routes were haul-
ing in a combined output of 11,000 pounds

’ . concerned, for

bean industry’

91 areas R'apids, ”F. A. Lent at
Mount

.A 1?“;ka president of the bean growers’ as-
sociation, vigorously defended the action of the

growers in determining the price of $8 that they
”should. have for their 1917 crop. He stated that

the grower was entitled as any other business
medic place a price upon his products that would

new hire a fair profit, a principle that had been
, granted my the government.

Mr. Cook brought
along samples of cooked navy and pinto beans,
which were viewed with much interest. He ex-

”pressed his opinion that it was too late to ac-
'complish any definite results so far as overcom-

ing the discrimination against the navy bean was
the present year at least. "The
jobbers should have gotten busy last fall.” he
said, “and secured a place on the bean division
for a man whose sympathies were with the navy

F. E. Lewellyn of Grand Rapids charged that
political influences had been at work to build up
a great, pinto bean industry, and that the bean

Clemens] J

year to purchase {seeds did not secure enough cro
“We bankers are willing to

take a chance with the elements, but when thoSe
fellows out west injure the market for the pro-«

duct,” it is a different matter,” declared Mr. Ran-

If kin

The farmers expressed a variety of Opinions on

_ the duty'of the farmer to grow crops without as-
» ,surances» of profit.
“If we had to work acouple or years without

a profit to help win this war,” patriotically pro-

1 .claimed Farmer King of Montcalm county, “God
” knows we're willing to do it.” '

Mr. Keddy of Genesee county earnestly said
that all Genesee county farmers wanted was a
square deal with other interests. “The pinto
bean may show as gdod an analysis as the navy,
but if it hasn’t got palatability and the soldier
boys won’t eat it, what’s the use of canning it for
them? We've got to show our” government that
if the boys go over the top, they’ve got to eat
navy beans. and lots of them.”

Mr. Schlicter of Gladwin county, did not alto-
gether agree with Farmer King’s sentiment. “The
farmers should not be expected to grow beans if
there is no money in them, and the majority of
farmers will grow the most profitable crop. I
believe the farmers should havethe same kind of
a deal as other business men.”

The discussions were remarkably free of bit-
terness or adverse criticism. Everyone seemed
to thoroly understand that the pinto bean was

being pushed to the front by certain auth-

orities, much to the detriment of the Mich-
‘igan variety. It did'not seem to matter as
to whom these individuals were, nor what
their motives. It was enough that the rep-
utation and standing of a Michigan product
was being injured, and a great industry
threatened. All the opinions and discus-
sions resolved themselves into a determina-
tion,—not to show anyone up. or to cause
anyone trouble,——but merely to remove the
fetters from the navy bean and give -t an
equal chance in the markets if the world.

GOOD SUGGESTIONS FROM
WORK HORSE RELIEF ASS’N

1. Do not fail to provide clean, warm
quarters in which your cows, ewes and
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record as a Junior 2-year- old 05 450.1 lbs. of milk, 19.75 lbs. of
butter in 7 days. Her best day’s milk was 70.2. She is only

the females of exceptional class and merit to be offered at

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has been cut off some of them will meet a
loss. Tons of skimmed milk will go to waste
unless the stiuation can .be remedied immediately
as there is jnow'no‘ market for anything except the
cream. and farmers who have invested heavily
in cows‘have reason-to feel greatly discouraged.”

Many people who formerly drank beer during
the heat of the day will resort to cold milk or
ice cream, and the aggregate 41f the new converts
to milk as a beverage will undoubtedly provide
a much larger market for the product. Therefore,

we. advise our readers located in milk producing.
. centers, who have difiiculty in getting rid of their

milk, to sit tight and! wait a few weeks. The shut-
ting of condensaries will enable the export de-
mand to clear up some of the surplus stocks, and
We look for all concerns to resume operations
withiILa short period and offering good prices
again.

The federal government has no authority to did-
tate to the milk buyers what they shall pay for
milk. The market on milk, as on other farm
products, is largely a1matter,ot supply and de-
mand, and particularly so in Michigan where the
producers are so strongly” organized. The govern-:
ment would find it difficult to exercise any such
control over the milk business because of the per-
ishable nature of the, product "

There is” little that we can. do or suggest that
wi help our farmers secure a better price for
their milk at this time. It is our personal opinion
that the condition will be better-ed with the com-
ing of summer and prohibition.”

, GOVERNOR SLEEPER HEADS BEAN

COMMITTEE T”O WASHINGTON

(Continued from page 1)

”To this factor Mr. Allmendinger thot the huge crop;

at pinto beans and the importation of Asiatic beans
‘ ‘ 11:0: Hilkewise opined that the” action.

Hoover's. Dispersion Sale, at Howell, May 4th.

interests, backed by this influence, had put one
over on the navy bean fellows. He declared that
if the western bean men found it advantageous to
organize politically the Michigan bean men could
and should do likewise. He urged that the sup-
port of other navy bean states be enlisted in se-
curing a fair deal for the navy bean.

State Market Director McBride presented sev-
eral new and constructive suggestions, principal
of which was that the committee recommend
to the Food Administration the stabilizing of
prices on the entire crOp of both pintos and
navys. He did not believe that the Michigan bean
men should be alarmed over the inroads made by
the pintos. The pinto, he declared, is a very un-
certain crop, and while favorable weather re—
sulted in a huge crop this year, the crop next year
might prove an absolute failure, as it has a habit
of doing in that fickle clime.

' “In view of the present situation shall we plant
a big crop of beans or not? asked the Market Di-
rector: ‘Beans should bring $110 or $11 to make
an equaliprofit with sugar beets and other crops.
But I believe that there is a market for all the

”beans- that can be grown in Michigan next year."

Mr. McBride stated that 400,000acres were plant-
ed last year and that the average yield as report-
ed by.threshers was 6. 8 bushels to the acre.

Mr. McBride’ s suggestion regarding the stab-
ilizing of prices was opposed by Mr M. J. Hart,
"peaking for the jobbers. The statement was made

' ' by Mr.‘ Hart that pintos were being bought by the

government at 8 cents per pound, but that the

consumer (in Minneapolis) was obliged to pal

14 cents. 01,1 the other hand, Michigan gowers
recetve‘d 13 cents and the navy bean was selling

«to the consumer at 18 cents.

In order to make Mr. Hart's comparison abso-
lately correct, it might be stated that the major-
ity of Beans in Michigan have been purchased
at less than 13” cents. As a matter of fact. the

3. It’s a bad policy to turn the stock to
pasture before the grass has well started,-——bad
for the pasture and bad for the stock.

4. A gradual change from hay to grass is best;
but, if you are bound to make the change at once,
turn the stock out at night, instead of in the morn-
ing. Then they will feed through the night, and
not lie down until the sun has warmed the air
and the ground.

5. Get your horses into condition for the hard
spring w,ork —the young horses especially. Many
a colt has been ruined by being put to hard work
without preparation. It is the same with green
horses.

6., Look out for sore shoulders and backs, es-
pecially in plowing. Be sure that your collars
fit. A collar too big is as bad as one too small.
It the collar rides up, use a martingale, or a
girth running from trace to trace, back of the
forelegs.

7. When the horses are at work on a warm day
lift up the collars now and then to cool their
shoulders, and wipe off the sweat and dirt with
a. bunch of grass.

8. Wipe off the harness marks on your horses
when you stop work at noon and at night, and
clean the inside of the harness, the collars espec-
ially. The salt sweat, drying on the skin and
on the harness, iswhat makes the trouble.

9. If the skin is wrinkled under the collar or
sa'ddle, bathe it With Witchhazel. If the skinis
broken, bathe it with clean warm water contain-
ing a little salt. ”Fix the collar, with padding or
otherwise, so that it will not touch the sore spot
the next day. A little carelessness at the begin-

ning may cause a\lot of trouble to you and suf-

fering to the horse.

10. Clean your horses at night, water them,

give them a good bed, andwater them again after

they have eaten their hay. Let them rest an hour.“

or more before they are grained. The observance
of these simple rules will not cost you a, cent, and
will make a big difference in their condition. ,

The difference between the patriotic American;

housewife and the one who is indifferent or dis-

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OF’ THE WORKING RESERVEAC

I see by your paper that you know of so many.
boys willing to go on a farm. Now, as i am not
in the circumstances to pay a man’s wage I would

like to know how much a boy of 15 or 16 "would
demand as I could use one of about that age.
We have a 62—acre farm most of which is fruit,
the mist in corn potatoes and so forth. -—-H. P.,
Niles, Michigan.

The average wage Which the boys of the Re-

serve are getting who have been sent out so far.

is around $30.00 a month, but this is because so
many of them sent out so far have had previous

farm experience, and some of them are getting

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farmers are willing and glad to pay to start with.
Some of the smaller boys, without experience, are
starting in at $20 a month. There have been a
few cases of boys starting at $15, but the general
feeling is, expressed by the farmers themselves,
that boys of 16 and over ought to be worth $20
a month if they are worth anything at all, and
the country ware committees all seem to consider
this a fair minimum wage. We are taking care
of the men who have applied and have a good
rumber of boys available from the UppervPen-
insula and from the larger cities so that there
should be no section of the state but what we can
help out if the farmers will only get their appli-
cations in right away—Charles A. Parcells, Fed-
eral State Director for Michigan, U. S. 'Boys’
Working Reserve.

The following wages for members of Boys’
Working Reserve have been suggested by wage
committee of Eaton county:

‘1. Incxpcricnced boys up to 17 years of age to re-
ceive a minimum wage of at least $1.00 a day for the
first two weeks.

2. Experienced boys up to 17 years of age to re-
ceive a minimum wage of at least $1.50 per day for
the first two weeks

3. Inexpcrienced boys from 17 years and up to re-
ceive a minimum wage of at least $1 50 per day for
the first two weeks.

4. Experienced boys from 17 years old and up, to
receive a minimum wage of at least 5". 00 per day for
the first two weeks

In addition to the above scale of wages,
is to receive board, lodging and washing.

After the first two weeks the question of wages
must be agreed upon by the farmer, the boy, and the
Local Committee of the township.

the boy

SORGHUM AND MILLET GOOD
CROPS FOR MUCK LANDS

 

Would like some advice as to cropping 10 acres
of muck land which is too wet and frost catches
corn crop. Have been raising millet on this
ground. Is there any other crop I could grow on
it? Would sorghum hay grow on this kind of
ground?-——-A. W. H., Montgomery.

In view of the high cost of sorghum seed, and
difficulty in getting same. do not think the millet
should be substituted for sorghum for hay pur-
poses on this land. A heavier yield of forage
would result from the sorghum though coarser
in nature. On much soils it is frequently difficult
to secure a'stand of sorghum owing to the poor
germination of seed. If well drained and well
warmed up, however, this difficulty will not be
met with. The Early Amber variety of sorghum
is best adapted and can be secured from the S. M.
Isbell Company of Jackson, Michigan.~—J. F. 00:10,
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SORGHUM AS A CROP FOR
SIRUP AND FORAGE

Will you please tell me what is the best sorgh—
um seed corn to be planted in Michigan, both for
forage and for sirup making, and can you give
me any special pointers on cultivation that sor-
ghum requires?~—L D. W., M onroe county.

Early Amber is the earliest maturing and best
adapted variety to Michigan conditions. Sorgh-
ums are planted ten days to two weeks after corn.
The good are small and if 'the ground is cold they

'do not germinate well, resulting in a poor stand.

The land is prepared in much the same way as
for corn. ,Sorghum makes a slow growth at first
and it is essential to get rid of as many weeds as
possible before planting. For sirup. drill in rows
36 to 42 inches apart with corn planter, using
6 to 8 pounds of seed per acre. Cultivation is
the same as for corn.
given with spike tooth barrow, this is quite ef-
fective in killing young weeds.

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are strippéd while canes are standing The seed
head with six or eight inches of the upper cane

should be cut off as this part contains many 1111-5,»

purities. Suckers should be discarded for the
same reason.
corn, binder. In Warm weather canes should not
be cut more than two days before using, as there
is" danger of fermentation. When a heavy frost
occurs the sorghum should be cut and placed in.
large shocks at once.
but little damage provided the canes can be worked

up at once upon thawing, butafter thawing they"

will 'spoil in a very short time. A ton of canes
will yield 500 to 1000 pounds of juice which will
make 8 to 25 gallons of sirup. Four to eight
tons of canes per acre is a: good yield.

Sorghum for foragefl Since the foliage of sor-
ghums remains green until the head‘sare mature.
at fair quality of coarse forage is secured. Time
of planting is the Same as for sirup, that is, ten
days to two weeks after corn planting time. Sor-
ghum for forage is either sown thick in drill rows
about 3 feet 6 inches apart at rate of 15 pounds
of seed per acre and cultivated or sown with

grain drill or_broadcast at rate of one bushel per'

acre. When cultivated in rows the best method
of harvest is with corn binder and the bundles
set up in small shocks to cure. After curing for

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FARMERS FORCED T0 FEED \VHEAT

‘Have read your editorial in regard to farm-
ers hoarding wheat. There are always two
sides to a story. When a farmer has hogs and
hens and he has no corn and‘oats what is he .
gomg to do? If he has wheat he is going to
feed it.

“Go to the elevator and see the corn blue
with mold, which they will try to sell you at
high prices. Ask the price which you will have
to pay for oats, and hogs cant live on oats any-
way. And altho the government has fixed the
price of feed see if the millers don’t charge you
more, or else if they think you’re going to
complain about the price, lthey're ‘all out, haven’t
a bit and can’t get any.’

”We can't sell our hens; we can’t let them
starve, so if we have wheat We feed it. But
few hogs are left around here on account of
the scarcity of feed; only a few brood sows.
and we must feed them something. \

"I don’t think there is any wheat being hoard-
ed around here, but it is being fed to keep dumb
brutes allve.’.’-——J C

 

DOESN’T BELIEVE FARMERS ARE BOARD-
‘ ING WHEAT

“About hoarding wheat: I think Mr. Pres—
cott’s statement in regard to farmers holding
wheat is wrong. I myself threshed 800 bush—
els. I planted 90 bushels, saved 30 for bread.
cleaned out 30 bushels of screenings. 20 of
the 90 was thrown away trying to please the
government; it had to be dragged up. The
thresher gave in 800 bushels; I ‘sold 630 bush-
els. I suppose they think I have the 170 bush-
els hid somewhere. Now then, if Mr. Prescott.
will go after the manufacturer of food stuff and
let the farmer alone; he has troubles enough.
I purchased some rye flour; called‘ for buck-
wheat flour as substitute and got what Mr.
Henkel of Detroit had marked on the sack,
‘pure buckwheat flour.’ We could not use it,
and I took it back to the dealer. He said he
knew it wasn‘t what it was represented to be.
I exchanged it for Ovid flour and that was a
little better. but far from being pure. I would
like to see all obey the law and come across
as well as the farmer."——A. C., Merle Beach.

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four to six weeks several smaller shocks may be
set together in a large shock and tied near the
top. When sown broadcast the crop i5 cut with
a mower or grain binder and handled as coarse
hay. When out with mower 1a stubble of six
inches should be left as this facilitates drying and
gatheringfihe heavy fodder with a hay rake.
Heavy sorghum hay dries very slowly and should
be left for one or tWO weeks in swath before rak—
ing and cocking and should be thoroughly cured
in cocks before stacking. Average yield varies
from 4 to 8 tons per acre. —0' R. Megee. Farm
Crops Department Michigan Agricultural (Jol-
lege.

[Enrron’s NOTE: Additional information rela-
tive to the making of sorghum sirup will be fur-
nished any reader upon request]

SEVENTH CONGRESSIONAL _
DISTRICT HAS 30,000 FARMS

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Can you give the approximate number of farms

, in the Seventh Congressional district?—-R. S. S.,

Attica.

The number of farms for the various counties
is according to the last census, as follows: Hur-
on, 4,;728 Sanilac, 5,659; Tuscola, 5,244; Lapeer,
3,808; Macomb, 3,764 and St. Clair, 4,527, with a
total of ,27, 730. '

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good crop Muck lands are seldom suitable for

- general tanning, Some'muck- soils are denotenit“

in. phosphorus. It would be necessary for? you to-

. have the Soil analyzed in order to accertain if
it needed fertilizer. (See letter of A. W. H.,. on);

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CAN GET SEED CORN OF GOV’T

AGENT 1N MONTCALM- oouer“

 

Will you kindly give me the name and address

of agent for government seed corn in Montcalm ,

county, nearest one to Edmore. Thanking you in
advance. ——F 0., EdmOrc. Michigan. * '

Mr. John .I. Bale of Lakevi’ew has been named
chairman of the Montcalm War Preparedness

, committeeand as'such is autho i‘Zed to accept or-
ders for seed corn in behalf
the information of other readers we would state

f the state.

that the chairman of eaéh‘c‘ounty'war committee
and the county agent is similarily authOrized to
accept these orders. _

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PEPPERMINT AND SPEARMIN T PRO-

 

DUCTION YIELDS econ RETURNS.

An article on peppermint raising, selling, pric-
es, and consumption will be appreciated —L J.
0., Cassopolis, Michigan. —

The culture of peppermint and Spearmint, main—.

ly for their essential oils, is a well established in-

dustry in this country, tending to become central-V

ized in a few states where soil conditions espec-
ially favor the development of the plants, but ap-
pears capable of considerable development in
other localities, should greater commercial need
arise. , .

Peppermint and Spearmint thrive best in the
deep soils which. are rich in! humus and retentive
of moisture but fairly open in textureand well
drained, either naturally or artificially. These

conditions are more frequently combined in effec-’

tively drained swamp lands, such as are used for
the special culture of cranberries, celery, lettuce,
onions, and other cr0ps for which a strong, rapid
growth is desired.
may, however. be commercially grown in well-pre-
pared upland soils. such as will produce good
corn or potatoes. For this purpose fertile loams,
sandy or gravelly in character and of good texture
and depth, should be selected. Light, loose, dry
soils and sticky clays are alike unsuitable.

0n the muck lands planting begins in the spring
as soon as the properly shod horses or oxen can
be driven over the fields. The soil, cleaned by
well cultivated crops the year before, is plowed,
leveled, and marked off in fui‘rows 3 feet apart
and 4 inches deep. The runners are dropped by
hand, as in upland culture, but the soft footing
renders the work more laborious, and it requires
an expert laborer to plant an acre a ,day. The
furrows are filled in with a drag wide enough t'o
cover two or more rows of runners, and the weed-
er or light spike-tooth harrow is run over them
to loosen the trampled surface. Harrowing is re-
peated at frequent intervals in various directions
until the sprouts are too high to be further dis-
turbed; after which corn cultivators are used be-
tween the rows until July, when the runners be-
come so numerous-as to renderwfurther tillage
difficult. .

Yields of 2 to 3 tons of mint herb per acre may
be expected. When a market for the dried herb
can be had. packers appear to prefer it chopped
into 1-inch pieces and dried under cover, in or-
der that the natural green color may be preserved
as far as pessible. The price received by grow-
ers for the properly cured mint herb of either
species ranges from 3 to 5% cents a pound. but
the output of even a few acres would stuck the,
market so that it would be difficult to dispose" of
any further quantities at paying'p’rlices. ‘

Mint culture on, suitable so‘ils appears to give

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operate a milking machine
'tion has given good results on thousands of farms.
”There are other machines that are equally as good
‘ however, and we are asking manufacturers to,
send you their catalogs.
.‘pu-bliSh an article on the milking machine sub-
ject which may be of value to farmers owning or

n: distilling imp .t one to: may;

, 25 cent“: 1% no 11d.

MILKING MACHINES ARE PRO.

FITABLE BUT NEED ATTENTION

- We have been thinking seriously of installing“
. a —-—- milking machine, as it is almost impossible
‘ get reliable help. We plan to milk 20 c0ws'

this eiimnier. Would you recommend this machine

.or any omen—A. J--., Charlotte. .
» It has been satisfactorily demonstrated that the’

average farmer milking 20 cows can profitably
The make you men-

In a later issue we will

contemplating the purchase of these machines.

LOAN ASSOCIATIONS WILL_NOT
BE DISCONTINUED DURING WAR

Please advise me if the government plans to

~_ discontinue the federal loan associations 0n ac-
count of the war?—J. H. 8., Allegan.

By no means. It is during this period that the
farmers are in need of ready money, and we are
quite sure that no such action as you mention

‘has ever been, suggested or even contemplated.
‘While it-is true that the farm loan banks have

encountered a "little difficulty in selling their bonds
owing to the higher rate of interest offered on
other investments, and the oabnormal demand
from money on all sides, thru the assistance of

the U. S. treasury department, the banks have

been able to secure enough money to date to care
for their applications. Should the demands from
farmers exceed at any time the amount of funds
on hand derived from the sale of farm loan bonds,
there is no question but what the secretary of the
treasury will\be authorized -to make additional
purchases of these bonds; It is just as essential
to the success of the war that the farmers be fi-

. nanced for the greater production of food supplies,

as that the munitions be made, and we are sure
that the government regards the federal farm
loan plan in precisely that light. If you are con-
templating organizing such an association, do not
hesitate because of any rumor you may have heard
that the plan was to be discontinued. Go right
ahead, and if we can be of any assistance to you,
let us know.

FARMERS EXEMPT FROM HOARDING
PROVISIONS FOOD CONTROL LAW

While I do not approve of farmers holding their
wheat when it is needed so badly and when there
is no hope of their getting any highe1 price for it.
but I would like to know if the state Food Admin-

'. istrator or the civil authorities have any right to

invade a man’s premises and forcibly take his
wheat from him I don’ t approve of these tactics
at all. I think less harsh methods could be u
with as good results. I’ve sold my wheat, but
I’d like your opinion On this just the same.—.—~W. 3.,
Barry county.

-The Food Control law positively (lees not give
the food administrator the right to enter upon a
farmer’s property and take his wheat from him.
In fact, it expressly 'exempts the farmer. Sec. 6
of the Food Control law reads: “That any per-
son who wilfully hoards any necessaries shall up-
on conviction thereof be fined not exceeding $5,000
or be imprisoned fer not more than two years.
Necessaries shall be deemed to be hoarded within
the meaning Of this act when“ * it * (c) With-
held whether by possession or under any contract
or arrangement, from the market by any person

" for the purpose of unleasonably increasing or

diminishing the price. Pravidt’ng, however that

- any accumulating or withholding by any farmer

or gardner, cooperative association of farmers or
‘ ’ no d‘ng live stock- farmers, or any

"permanent homes.

O bushel for spring wheat seed,

, coming year.

M iii; 61’ “the Army or maintenance or the

other public use connected with me.-

* ‘4' and he shall ascertain
If the com-

onset
st compensation therefor.

pensation so? determined be not satisfactory to ..

the persomentitied to receive the same, such per-
son shall be paid seventy-five per centum of the
amount so determined by the President, and shall
be entitled to sue the United States to recover
such farther sum as, added to said seventy-five
per centum will make up such amount as will be
just compensation for such necessaries. "

Wev'do not believe there is any authority grant-
ed under this act to permit the forcible taking of

' supplies from—the farmer; excepting by an order

signed «by the President. We do not believe this
act was created for any such purpose. Our inter-

- pretation of this act was that it was 'not to apply

to individual cases where there was evidence of a
withholding from the market, but to assist in the
movement of supplies needed for the national de-
fense, under the organized control and facilities
of the gOVernment.

It is regrettable that the Food Administrator

has‘permitted such wide publicity to his avowed
intentions of seizing wheat supplies in the hands
of isolated farmers, as it merely furthers the gen-
eral impression held by the consumer that the
farmer is» a profiteer and is_ not lending his'enj
thusiastic support to the war. All this talk of
hoarding will blow over in a couple of weeks) and
we think it will be found that there has been
very little malicious intent to “hoard.” What
farmers who are holding wheat are prompted by
motives other than disloyalty, and they should
be given an opportunity to be heard before re
ceiving the harsh criticism of both the consuming
public and the officials.

HERE’S TWO FINE BOYS
’ LOOKING FOR'A HOME

,Dear Editor: I am a boy of the age of 17 and
would like to get a home where I will be treated
like a son. I am willing to do plowing and cul—
tivating. I have a brother of the age of 14 but
is very small for his age’. We desire separate
homes and are willing to go to school and church.

We just know that these “tellers need a friend,"
and we are turning their names over to the sev~
eral farmers who have requested. boys looking for
But if there are any other of
our farmer friends who have got a spare corner
in their hearts and a spare bedroom for one of
these boys. we’d be glad to hear from them.

MILLERS SHOULD NOT 'OVER-
CHARGE ON SEED WHEAT

Why is it that the millers can charge $3.40 per
,when the govern-
ment price is $2.00? It don’t seem fair, as the
government wants all the grain it ‘can get the
Find enclosed a price list from the
Traverse City Milling Co. It is very discourag-
ing to farmers to plant much when seed is so
high. We would like 6 or 7 cars for shipping
potatoes-1. Can you help uS get some?—0. T. 0.,
Traverse City, Michigan.

You have asked a question that we cannot an-
swer. We know of no reason whatever why you
should be obliged to sell wheat at $2.00 per bushel
and to’pay $3.40 per bushel when you want to buy
it. We are writing the Grain Corporation this
day asking for their opinion on the matter.

MACOMB WANTS PRACTICAL
FARMER AS COUNTY AGENT

Nea six weeks ago the board of supervisors
of Macomb county voted to engage a county agent
and recommended the "man for the job, a local
farmer. The board was advised by the Extension
Department at Lansing that their recommenda-
tion would have to be passed upon by the East
Lansing authorities. To date Macomb county has
not received its county agent nor has any action
been taken on their board’s appointment. Macomb
farmers are beginning to worry lest the agricultur-
al college turn down their selection and foist upon
them a graduate of the college who can qualify
for the job, technically if not practically. There
is a sentimentthatit the farmers cannot have
their own way in the matter that they’ll worry
along fer another year without a county agent.

The return ticket for our boys in France will
be secured largely through American savings of
wheat. sugar and fats.

a“, ’ i

, demand for the tractors.

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o so'fup its tractor sale and have annOunced that“

, ~ was arms will be accepted after SatUrday noon at
titer supplies necessary to

the current week.

The, state failed to dispose of the thousand trac- -'

tors which it agreed to buy from the Fords‘on
company, altho under the contract they were per
mitted to take a lesser amount. No reason is ad-
vanced by the preparedness board for the lack of
It has been suggested
that many farmers who wanted tractors did not
buy because of the cash investment required, and
no effort was made to encourage or assist them
iii-securing the money for the purchase.

' Below, is a list of the counties that purchased
tractors, together with the number each took:

Alcona, 1; Allegan, 14; Alpena, 2; Arenac, 3;
Bay, 9; Berrien, 6; Branch, 13; Calhoun, 10; Char-
levoi-x, 1; Clinton, 17; Crawford, 1; Delta, 3; Eat-
on, 10; Emmet,'1; Genesee, 11; Grand Traverse,
2; Gratiot, 10; Hillsdale, 12; Houghton, 1; Huron,
16; Ingham, 22; Ionia, 7; Iosco, 1; Isabella, 10;
Jackson, 21; Kalamazoo, 8; Kalkaska, 1; Kent,.15;
Lake. 1;'Lapeer, 18; Leelanau, 1; Lenawee, 37;
Livingston, 10; Luce, 1; Macomb, 7; Marquette,
6; Mason, 1; Mecosta, 2; Midland, 1; Monroe, 3;
Montcalm, 14; Montmorency, 1; Muskegon, 9; Ne—
waygo, 2; Oakland, 20; Oceana, 3; ‘Ogemaw, 1; On-
tonagon, 1; Presque Isle. 1; Roscommon, 1; Sag—
inaw, 18; St. Clair, 6; St. Joseph, 6; Sanilac, 18;
Shiawassee, 9; Tuscola, 7; VanBuren, 12; Wash-
tenaw, 32; Wayne, 52; Wexford, 1.

The counties which refused tractors were: Al<
ger, Antrim, Baraga, Barry, Benzie, Cass, Cheboy-
gan, Chippewa, Clare, Dickinson. Gladwin, Goge-
bic, Iron, Keweenaw, Mackinaw, Manistee, Menom-
inee. Missaukcm Oscoda, Otsego and Schoolcraft.

Thousands of reservation Indians may be put to
work as farm hands in the southwest. The com«
mlissioner of Indian affairs has notified all reser-
vation superintendents that there must be no
idlers among the Indians on reservations, and
that those not employed on the reservations may
be placed on farms.

»Silent pro-German appetites are as hostile to
the Allied cause as disloyal utterances.

There are many substitutes for wheat flour but
no substitutes for peace.

“Catch ’em for Uncle Sam.” is the fisliern1an'<

slogan.

It is better to eat a corn dodger than to he one

UNITED STATES BOYS’ WORKING
RESERVE IS READY TO HELP

Cllas.\A. Parcells. manager of the Michigan di-
vision of the U. S. Boys’ Working Reserve advises
M. B. F., that he can supply additional demands
for boy labor on the farms. Thousands of boys
have already been placed O11 farms, and thousands
of others will be placed as soon as the schools
close and the need on the farms becomes greater.

We suggest that if any farmer is right up
against it for help, that he use the «lumen below
and apply to the U. S. Boys’ Working Reserve for
assistance:

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- The movement of wheat at this time
'is at a very low ebb. Not over 2,000,-
000 bushels of wheat are being re-
ceived at primary points. Clearances
from the seaboard are reported as
very small. The visible supply is so
low that further decrease seems im-
possible. Not in many years have
stocks at this season been so limited
as at this time. - The consumption of
wheat products is being curtailed in
every possible way, and it looks as
though we would (have to do without
wheat products entirely in the near
future, if we are to continue to export
to our Allies.

Present indications point to a rec.
0rd breaking crop of wheat this seas-
on and Australia is trying at this time
to arrange to move a portion of the
'wheat now standing on her docks. It
appears to be but a question of a few
months until we will again have a
free supply. In the meantime it is
up to the American people to make
' every sacrifice.

Winter and spring wheat condi-
tions continue to improve. Wheat
prospects in Michigan are far from
promising at this time, although the
recent rains have greatly improved
conditions. Much of the wheat was
winter killed and the balance has been
afiected by weather conditions so far
during the spring.

The efforts to advanCe the Govern-
ment guaranteed wheat price tJ $2.50
have met with failure, as was t) be
expected, the House of Representat-
tives rejecting the proposal. We be.—
lieve, however, that growers will be
well satisfied with the guarantee of
$2.20. this price, especially in Michi-
gan, being considered fair, all things
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GRADE Detroit Chicago New York
No. ZYelIow 1.68 1.68 1.70
No. 3 Yellow 1.65 1.53 1.58
No. 4 Yellow [.50 1.45 1.55

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No. 2 While
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Corn continues to move in liberal
quantities although farmers are now
busy and unless they have a consid-
erable stock on hand which must be
moved, they are not hauling. No
doubt the movement will show an in-
crease just before corn planting starts
in, the northern sections. No plant-

ing has been reported north of the_

Ohio river although it will perhaps
start within the next week or so. Far-
ther south the planting is well along
and in many sections the crop is up
to a good sband.

The market is not strong by any
means, although the price has man-
aged to hold up well. The poorer
grades are being taken in large quan-
titiés, by the distillers and they are
paying a price which makes the
spread less than was expected. Ex-
porters are not so active in the mar-
ket this week as they have been here
tofore, but some grain is being ex-
ported all the time and the quantity
runs high in the aggregate. Trans-
portation difficulties and embargoes
continue to embarrass the eastward
movement. ,

The acreage will perhaps be small—
er this year as was only to be ex—
pected after the experience of the past
season, but it is not being'cut as much
as was predicted some time ago.
Growers in the main are convinced
that conditions this season will be bet—

ter. There has been and still is a
great. deal of difficulty in securing
good seed. .

Some corn which was highly rec-
ommended has been found entirely
unsatisfactory._ The utmost care
mus-t be exercised this season. so
much of the corn having been damn
when placed in storage:

   
 

 

 
  

try in somewhat larger supply.

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south and they are cleaned up daily.-

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Conditions for the new oat crop

~ have been very satisfactory although

in some sections rain is needed very
badly. This condition has been rem-
edied to a certain extent durTng the
past week and, all things considered,
we have the prospect of an early and
most excellent crop of oats.

This cereal has been moving in
somewhat more liberal quantity of
late although stocks are limited and-
for that reason no material increase
is to be looked for, even with the op—
ening of navigation. Exporters,
active in the market for‘ many weeks.
have to a certain extent withdrawn
during the past week. This has help-
ed the accumulation of‘ a limited
surplus on certain terminals. Embar-
goes still hamper eastern shipments
and no doubt shippers will take ad—
vantage of the lake carriers at the
earliest opportunity and thus relieve
railway congestion to a certain ex-
tent.

The market has been inclined to
weaken at times and the price has
worked a little under that of last
week. We do not anticipate any ma-
terial decline in the near future, being
too far away from the new crop to ex-
perience much effect from that source
and that will be about the only fac-
tor to be expected.

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Rye at the present time is the weak
sister so far as the grains are concern:
ed. Theprice has further declined
and Detroit is now quoting No. 2 at
$2.45 per bu. It is still above a pari-
ty ‘with wheat, but we may expect

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THE WEATHER FOR THE WEEK

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WASHINGTON, D. 0., April 27.—-—
Last bulletin gave forecasts of distur—
bance to cross continent April 29 to
May 3, warm wave April 28 to May 2,
cold wave May 1 to. 5. This distur—
banCe will contain more energy and
develop more force than the average
storm. Its causes have the earmarks
that usually accompany tornadoes and
violent ‘wind storms. Tornadoes are
electric storms. The air which, when
in motion, constitutes wind, is ex-
cluded from the funnel of the tornado.
But official science, in ignorance of
the most simple laws of physics, per-
sist in saying that tornadoes are wind
storms.

Put your affairs in shape for gnlent
Wind storms where tornadoes do not
often occur and for tornadoes where
these electric storms are 'compara~
tively frequent. They are expected
on meridian 90 near May 2; earlier
west of that line and later east of it.

Next warm wave will reach Van-

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(71011.. Hay ooutinnes in plentiful. svi ply {and ,markot'—lneflne'd ta '

on market firmer. " '.' ' ‘ .4. “SJ,

cnrcnoo WIRE—cats .rnarket timer a. renewed buylng‘byj-htgi‘ptsvo}. as:
The general tone oftthe grain market is bearish on excellent any”.

ports. Beans are somewhat neglected‘but holdings. are firmly hold?“ , 3;...
PITTSBURGH WIRE—Potato receipts much lighter and gl'jnand. footie"
Cons‘nmption greatly 'increasod.- Only a. few new potatoes .arrivfn
. . > , .

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further declines. This condition has

come about entirely through the ifact

that .it is no longer permitted‘as 'a

substitute for wheat ”in flour. This ac,- ‘

tion c0uld ~ have but one result. Mil-
lers are no longer anxious for it and
lack of demand quickly had the ef-
fect anticipated when the ruling Was
put intoefiect.‘ There is very. little
rye back ingt'h'e country and offerings
are only moderate. '

, Barley

Milwaukee—Barley prices slumped
15@20c during the past week under a
lack of demand and considerable ac—
cumulation. The market ruled dull
throughout the period. Receipts, how-
ever, were rather dull. Milling and
malting buyers did practically nothing
their immediate requirements being
amply filled. Current quotations are:

Choice big-berried Wisconsin and
eastern Iowa, testing 48 to 50 lbs. per
bu.. $1.73@1.76; 45 to 47 lbs., $1.65@
1.72; Minnesota, western Iowa and
Dakota, 48 to 50 lbs, $1.73@1.76; 45
to 47 lbs, $1.65@$l.72; all states, 41
to 44 lbs., $1.60@1.65; feed, $1.50@
1.60. ' ‘

Bufialo—The ‘break in barley was
entirely unexpected here and some

of the dealers do not believe it has-

come to stay. In fact, they are an-
xious to sell at present prices. A few
carloads of Ohio barley on track sold
at $1.80@1.82, the outside price being
for good stuff, but there were no buy-
ers for more at the close at those 'fig—
ures. Opening shipment was quoted

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ERADE Detroit Chicago New York
C. H.P. 11.50 13.00 4.00
Prime 11.35 12.90 13.85
Red Kidnm _ 14.00 14.50 14.75

No material change in the bean

situation and the price \remtains sta-
tionary. We are surprised to See the
market remain at the present price
with the government placing pintos
in all the principal markets and push-

  

couver near May 5 and _temperatures 3
will rise on all the Paelfic slope. It g
will cross crest of Rock1es by close g
of May 6 plains sections_7, mer1d1an g
90, great lakes and Ohm-Tennessee E
valleys 8, eastern sections 9, reaching :=_‘
vicinlts of Newfoundland about May 5
10. Storm wave will follow about one 3
day behind warm wave and cool wave ‘51
about one day behind storm wave. 3
A severe cold wave will precede :
this carrying frosts farther 5
south than usual. The storm.will be a
closely linked with the preceding and
following storms, constituting a severe
and dangerous storm periodcovering
about 18 days. While these storms
will damage crops over small sect1ons.
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and promise much success for
grain farmers and cotton planters.
'But we cannot. promise continuous-
ly good cropweather for all parts .of
this continent thruout the season. In
weatherology coming events cast their
shadOws before, and there are dark
shadows pointing toward.some impor—
tant cro sections of this continent.
Closely ollowing June 15 disappomt-
ing cropweather conditions W111.de-
"res tillers of the soil in some sections
while in other sections the fine pros-
pects will be very encouraging.

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. 'of growers v-but, itiiis the? , _
A, We believe; the bean market. 1

varieties. ceases. ' . .

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report ‘ "wet

higher as soon as the flood "if

  

We have ., talkedlto, inan'yi‘ sir

   
   
   

ing and‘ feél sure the prices paid next

fall will proveJBaitisfacto'ry. ' It would
also seem as though we should have 13‘
, better growing season than last you

Many of our friends advise us that

“they are having difficulty in securing
satisfactory seed and as this is a meat”
important matter this year it is being . ,

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The Detroit market is somewhat
lower, under liberal receipts. The de-
mand continues good, especially on
the better grades. Arrivals have been

somewhat lighter again during the,

past two or three days but are still
plentiful. Receivers expect lighter re-
ceipts during the seeding time but
state their information leads to the
belief that there are still considerable
quantities of bay to move from coun-
try points.

Our Chicago correspondent advises,
“‘us that hay is arriving there in con:

stantly increasing quantities, espec—
ially timothy, and that the market is
The poorer grades of dam-
aged and unsound hay are finding 'very
little sale, the supply being greatly in
excess of the demand. Bad weather
conditions have further delayed and
interfered with the unloading and
handling and in general the market is
not in a very satisfactory condition
just at t'his time.

The St. Louis market is good for
the better grades but there is a sur—
plus of off-grades and that class of
stock is finding a very slow and unsat-
isfactory market. Receipts are liber-
al but the amount of stuff in transit
is reported less than that of a week
ago.

The Cincinnati market is lower and
arrivals of poor, off—grade stock are
entirely too liberal. The better grades
meet with a fairly good demand. The
same condition. prevails at Richmond,
the market being over-supplied with
poor hay.

Both New York and Boston report
somewhat lighter receipts during the

past few days but previous to that ar- ,

rivals were very plentiful and the mar-
ket has not recovered. Prices are
somewhat lower. Much damaged hay
is arriving on the eastern markets.

I Clover Seed

The clover seed season for the, old »
New prices started ' »
with the October at $14. Cold weathe‘
' er has retarded any demand for the .~
, cash although a: few owners of spot!

crOp has ended.

   

prime have made some oonceSsionsJini
order to diSpose of: their holdings."
There‘ is ~~very‘ little demand for the
lowerades. Alsike and timothy are
steady W1 very, little tradin' ‘ '
timothy; "etr‘oif

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‘ met the state of Michigan» duringt o
.‘ past‘tjg’vo weeksand it’isour opinion-at;
, this time that-the bean; ac‘reage' this
years will, .139, lighter? .in’ this; state."
however we {advise 'theregular ‘plédita

    

. No, 1 No. 2
Murals Timothy 1 Timothy
Detroit 3 50 24 00 22 50 23 00 2150 23 00
Helga 25 00 27 00 22 00 24 0° 13 00 20 M '
Cincinnati 27 00 28 002‘ W__2‘ 00 21 OI 23 0. ~. '
Pittsburgh 27 50 28 N 23:00 24 W 18 0. 20 00 ‘ ' ‘
New York 29 31 00 2G 0. 28 .0 20 W 23 00
m3 3’00 33 002100 3. 0024.00 L530:
No. 1 ' No. 1 No. 1'.
Markets Light M?d Clam Mixed _ Clover ’
Deficit 5. 2 00 21 50 22 0° 20 59 21 0' .
Chiulo ‘ 23 00 24 00 21 00 22 50 20 00 22 0.
Cincinnati 21 00 23 50 18 00 21 00 12 .9 15 0.
Pittsburgh 23 00 24 00 23 00 24‘ 00 22 00 23 a
New York . 23 00 24 00 17 00 22 00 23 W 24 09
Richmond 2_8 00 30 00123 00 29 00 23 00 25 00

   
 
 
 
  

  
 
  

     
 
  
   
       

 
 
  

   

   
   
 

 
 
   
     
     
 

 
   
    
     
       
         
   
   
    
    
 

  
   

 

 
 

   
   
   
    
  
  
        
      
  
     

 

    
    
 
 
 
  


  
 
 

 

 

 

 

",’south The

: . this ”way opened early this week. Car-
lots of Rose packed in double head
barrels arrived at Cincinnati and seine

' passed on to other markets further to

 

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supplies should arrive '

6qu continueto lumen.
ave been much lighter, the

another year or production
Brought about! the desired
as we pointed out from~time to

  
  

 
 

T demand could not take,

{teddy and every effort is" being
in
peso 'oi the pdtatoes but to decrease

. starch making and it is said the

«Government has plaCed- a large order
{gfor dehydrated p9tatoes for the army.

New potato s are moving from the
lorida potato movement

the north. The new stock in all Ohio
Valley centers was well received and

found an active consumptive demand.

The houses receiving the initial ship-

meats distributed the arrivals prompt— -

ly, which indicates the trade as a
whole will take on the early goods
freely. .The fore part of the week

.No.1_ Rose was selling at $8. 50@$9. 00
per barrel; No. 2 at $7 50@$8 and No.

3 at $5. 50@$6 A few. Florida Tri-

‘urnphs put up in bushel. packages,

were received at CinCinnati. bringing
$2. 50@$3. Old potatoes are doing a
little better. All, along the line of high-
er quotation prevailed compared with

, ‘ the previous week. No. 1 stock out of
‘ Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota,

brought. in a general way on valley
markets $1.40@$1.50 per cwt., sacked.
Staple varieties of seed, such as Early

Ohio, Rose and. Cobblers continue to -

move at prices in line with table
stock.
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' Detroit—Feed, in 100-11.. sacks, job-

bing lots, bran, $35; standard midd-

.lings, $33; fine middlings, $45; crack-

ed corn, $70; coarse cornmeal, $63;
chop, $56 per ton.

.Flour, per 196 lbs. in eighth paper
sacks. straight .winter, $11; spring
patent, $11.30; rye flour, $14 in job-

"bing lots.
Toledo—There has been a sudden-

slackening of demand for mill feed in

"this section. Millers say they welcome

this respite as they are operating only
on a 50 per cent basis and are able
to care for'only their regular trade.
Prices on mill feed are holding steady
at $27 50 a ton, bulk, for bran, and
$36. 50 for middlings on the same bas-
is with bags $6 higher in each instance
Feed millers say they are hampered

somewhat by embargoes but are 0p-

erating their plants at capacity.
Duluth, Minn.-—Busrness in the, feed
market at this point Continues slow.
Ov'ving to their reduced productions
millers. are not accumulating stocks
to any extent, and with stuff to go
forward at the opening of navigation
To bring
them in line with quotations in coarse

grains advances of $1. 61 per ton have ‘ ‘

been made in bran. shorts, red dog
and flour middlings and Boston mixed

2- feeds. ’ ’ . ,‘ 1

we . .
Tale-1g” t, thifi time 61‘6

rkets Were being over- -

, D
sumption of potatoes has increas- .
e to continue this, not only to dis— _

_ the use ‘51 cereals heeded elsevVhere. "
:They are also being used extensively

  

No 1's said 52 75; No.

”2's, $2. ”@3250 There has been a

decided change for the better in old
onions Califordia stock: meets with
good demand. There is a. better call
for Ohios ”and New Yorke than at any

 

» time. this season.

vegetables

“ Boots, 32. 50 per (mt; carrots, $1. 50

per cwt.; turnips, -.$2 50 per cwt. , ruta-

,ba‘gas, $2 per cwt.; parsnips, $4 per
cwt.; list-house cucumbers, $2@$3 per

1102., radishes, $25@30c per doz.; green
peppers, 50c per basket; parsley, 40@

600, per doz. \. ”

  

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The Detroit market has shown con-
siderable strength of late and the price
has advanced. Fresh firsts are quot-
ed at 34%@35c; storage packed
firsts. 35%@36c per dozen.

Our. Chicago reporter, under date
of Apr. 20, writes: The market was
quite active early this week, but be-
came top- heavy by Thursday. Where
there was quite an active trade from
local sources this dropped out and
shippingdemand was at a standstill.
This was true of both current receipts
and storage packed. There was no
buying for carlots on the Board Tues-
day or Wednesday. By Thursday
some holders were pretty well tired
out and storage packed extras sold on
the Boardr35'26c; storage packed firsts
35@35%c; current receipts, 33@33 1.4-0;
dirties, 28c; These are lower.than
eggs can be laid down here for»

The market closed firm but un-
changed. Receipts for the first five
days this week were 149, 553 cases;
last week 181,189 cases; the same week
a year ago, 160,184 cases

    
  
  
  

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The restrictions on the shipment of
fowls was removed' ten days earlier

‘than was expected, the new ruling tak-

ing effect at midnight, Apr. 19. Deal-
ers generally are expecting heavy re‘
ceipts of hens as a result of this ac-
tion, and shippers have been warned
not to rush fowls to market and cause
‘a surplus and loss.

There’is a good firm demand for
all kinds of fowls and up to this time
receipts have been comparatively

, " greatly reduced.

New York,Apr.20.1918-The week
of April 8 witnesseld a very strong
demand ”for 1) tier With the result that
stocks of {res creamery butter were
Wliiih the advent
of this week that condition still pre-

.vailed with the result that quota-

tions for all 'grades advanced a full
Cent on Monday. On Tuesday the
market remained firm but with a cer-
tain amount of nervousness as there
was a. prevailing feeling that stocks
that had been in transit for some time
would arrive and weaken the market.
On Wednesday the nervousness was
more apparent and because of a very
slight excess of arrivals over demand
the market declined a full cent On

Thursday the market remained firm

on Wednesday's quotations, but on
Friday there was another advance of
a half cent because of light receipts.
Quotations at the close on Friday
”were: Extras, 4416c; higher scoring
than extras, 45@45%c; firsts, 42@44c;
great scarcity of unsalted butter avail-
able with the result that the quota-
tion difierential between it and salted
butter is somewhat widened. Extras
are quoted at 45%@46‘/20 with quota-
tions in like ratio to similar grades
of salted butter.

Detroit~Butter; fresh creamery
firsts, 41 59c first creamery extras.
42@42‘,éc per lb.

Cheese

The market is rmer on high grades
of old State colored flats. These are
meeting a fairly active demand at 25
@251/2c and are held with increasing
confidence. 01d white flats also appear
steadier and there is a- fair call for
fancy qualities at 24@24%c, rare
sales a fraction higher. Medium
and low grades of old flats quiet with
quite free supplies of white. Old twins
are still dragging. A little local de-

rmand within ranges quoted. The Al-

lied Commission’s price on these is
still 23c, though this figure may not.
held after this week. Old Daisies
about steady, but freer offerings of
these from the west; most local sales
25c. 01d Young Americas offered
rather more freely; the few sales not-
ed range from 27@271/.>c. The stocks
of old cheese, according to Bureau of
Markets report of April 1 are still
much heavier than last year—32.049,-
542 lbs. in 423 houses against 9.842,-
325 lbs. last year. But a good many
of these cheeses are owned by the A1-
lies and await shipping room. Present
offerings of fancy old cheese here in-
dicate no dangerous surplus though
low grade old stock- to be marketed.

Our receipts of fresh cheese are
gradually increasing. The Allied
Commission is offering 22c for these

‘and we understand they ht've Secured

some large sizes at that, both on this
market and up state. State flats how-
ever are as a rule held for more money
and fancy lots are meeting a fail
lOoal demand up to 230,ra1e1y a frac—
tion more, for colored, and up to 2214.
for whites. This week’s receipts how-
ever are not closely cleared. Fresh
Wisconsin Daisies we offered here
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large supply but quiet.

Dressed Hogs and calves":

There is a good demand fur the
hogs at 21 to 22c; dressed calves are
also in good demand, fancy. 5515:,
quoted at 22 to 23c; choice, 20 to 210,
common, 19c per 111..

Hides and Furs

No. 1 skunk, $4.30; spring musk-.1.
rats, $1. 20; No. 1 mink, $7.50; No.1
raccoon, $4.

Hides—No. 1 cured, 14;c No 1 green
13c; No.1 cured bulls, 120; No.1
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medium, unwashed. $.55@.60; coarse ‘
unwashed, $.55@.60; light, fine,
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Continued light receipts of horses '
have been a great help to the horse 1
market. With offerings comparatively
small and a fair number of buyers
trading is fairly active. Receipts of
horses for the first two day-s of this
week at Chicago were 617 head com-
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last year. Drafters, 5 to 8 years old,
1550 to 1750 lbs. sold for $185 to
$265. '

Eastern markets report the follow—
ing scale of prices: Good quality,
heavy green drafters, 1650@1900 lbs.,
sold from $350@$400; medium weight
green drafters, from $275@$350; chks.
from $250@$325; heavy wagon and
express horses from $175@$250; woods
horses were sold at a wide range from
$100@$275, with some extna good
teams selling higher; seconds sold for
$'10@$175.

East Buffalo Prices

East Bufi'alo, N. Y., April 23, 1918.—
Receipts of cattle Monday, 180 cars.
Trade opened 50 to 750 higher on
medium weight and weighty steer cat-
tle which were in good supply; butch-
er steers and handy Weight steers sold
25 to 50c higher than last week; bulls
of all classes sold steady; fresh cows
and springers were in moderate sup—
ply,,sold steady; stockers and feeders
were in light supply, sold 35 to 50c-
highcr than last week; yearlings were
in very 1i ht supply, sold 50 to 750
higher. A the close of our market all
the cattle were sold. The prospects
for next week on all classes of cattle
look favorable.

Receipts of cattle Tuesday, 10 cars.
Good cattle steady; common grades
10 to 15C lower.

With 12,000 hogs on sale Monday,
our market opened 10 to 25c lower.
Yorkers sold at $18.65, and a few sold
up to $18.75; mixed hogs. $18.65; med-
ium hogs, $18. 50; heavy hogs, $18.25
to $18. 50 as to weight; pigs and lights,
$18. 65 to $18. 75; roughs, $1650; Stags,
$13.00 to $15.00 as to quality

Receipts of hogs Tuesday totaled
6400 and the market opened 500 low-
er on pigs and lights. and 25c lower
on all other grades, with the medium
and heavy hogs selling from $18 25 to '
$18. 30; mixed and yorkers, $18. 40 with
a few decks up to $18. 50; pigs and
lights, $18.15 to $18.25; rohghs, $16.00 ,»
to $16.25; stags, $13.00 to $13.75. . 21>

The receipts of sheep and lambs-—
Monday were called 7400 head. Th
market opened 10 to 25c higher than
Saturday’s close. Best clipped lamb
sold from 18. 90 to 19. 00, and w
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$15. 50 to $17. 00; wethers, $15. 0' '~ -
$15.50;ewes, $13.00 to $14. 50. ‘ "
was very little wool stock here. ‘13”
wool lambs, $22. 25 to $22.50, there '
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Michigan, Dry Michigan
EXT TUESDAY, April 30th, over 3,500
saloons will close their door in this state
and the curtain will fall on the great
tragedy that legalized liquor traffic has staged in
an almost continuous performance since Michigan

discarded its territorial pinafore and put on the

full dress of statehood.
Prohibition will ban no more than a. passing
efiect upon the majority of people. There will be

those who will follow the even tenor of their ways '

totally oblivious of the social change taking place
about them. True, they may miss the Saturday
night parade of village bums and the noise‘ and
the lights of the corner saloon, and they may
even notice a new air of respectability and so-
briety about the community that has passed from
the “wet” into the “dry" stage. F0; these are
invariable signs that the saloon has passed.

But to many the closing of the saloons means
much more than this. To a few who have gone
so far down the pathway of drunkenness that
the backward climb seems too great for them to
attempt prohibition looms as a tragedy which can-
not be averted or endured. These perverted out-
casts will continue to drink, despite all the laws
that are placed against it, and in a few short years
they will fill the drunkard’s grave in the potter’s
field. ,

For others. whose careless habits of youth
have made the salotm their social gathering place,
prohibition ushers in a period of reconstruction.
New tastes, new habits, new friendships must be
formed. It may be a" little difficult for these men
to accustom themselves to the new order of things,
but who shall say but that after the passing of a
few months, they shall find an infinitely greater
satisfaction in their new social environ-
ment and be glad a thousand times that the saloon
has been closed to them forever.

Prohibition comes to others as a wonderful
blessing. Many are the homes that have been
wrecked, the families that; have been ostracised
from decent society. the moihol‘s who have spent
their livcs'in hopeless drudgery and unhappiness,
the children who have paid for the sins of their
drunkcn fathers,—~all innocent victims of the
saloon. In recent years the moral aspect of the
liquor evil has been subordinated to the economic
aspect. but after all it’s a phase that we cannot
What is the loss of a few dollars com-
pared to the wrecking of a human life? And so
as the saloon closes its doors, it is not of the
saloonkeeper, nor of his patrons that I am think-
ing, but of the wives and the children of men who
have been spending their manhood in the evil at-
mosphere of the saloon. Ten thousand prayers
of thankfulness will go up to God from the lips
of these. ‘ '

It’s going to take some time for this readjust;
ment of habits, and everyone who rejoices at the
arrival of prohibition should be willing to lend

their every effort to help make prohibition a suc-

cess. Prohibitionwill not be a- success if blind
tigers or boot-loggers are permitted to operate.
Neither will prohibition be a success it those whom
it has outcasted are unable to find a welcome in
the homes and social circle of those who have
helped to vote the saloon out of existence. We
people all have a duty to perform from the, day
the saloons close and that duty is to help provide

places. of entertainment and amusement for those

ivho have spent their entire leisuie hours in the
. ‘We must

LEGAL EDINI

excess of their 'own ‘needs.~

be forgiving and tolerant

times» transgressed, and the. prohiblflo‘ low --
be no exception; But the machinery or. Mme-

moat. under the control of the State Dairy and

Food Commissioner Fred L Woodworth. . » . -
' being perfected to such a degree that it will pro“
Vent any flagrant violations. no first year of _
prohibition will have its wet spots, but from then "

on, if the people. stand firm in their convictions.
and watch carefully the kind. of men théy place
in Mice to carry out their wishes, prohibition
in Michigan should be a complete success.

Keep Your Eye on the-,Mai'n Issue
HE POLITICIANS are job-hunting". On Sun—
I day-s and rainy days they leave the chase
J long enough to perform some patriotic ser-
vice. But on bright, clear days they’ re out lam-
basting the Administrationand everyone Connect-
ed ‘with it. particularly the chap whose political
goat they are seeking to kidnap.
‘ As' we review the legislation of the past year
and the attitude of Michigan legislators on all

matters and particularly those affecting the farm-7
ers’ interests, we are impressed with the fact that-

great things have been accomplished. We can’t
think of a single reason why the people of Mich-
igan should swap horses right in the middle of
the stream, especially when the present incum-
bents have just learned the best places to cross.

Never before was there so little demandfor a
change in the personnel of the state’s delegation
as this year. Everyone’s too busy farming,. or
selling bonds, or taking Red Cross subscriptions,
to bother their heads about the claims of aspir-

ing candidates. And the only wind that sways

the political straWs comes from the immediate
vicinity of the respective candidate’s circle of
close, and likewise aspiring, friend-s.

This war is mighty serious business. There’s
a place for every man and a man for every place.
It’s hard to pick out the square pegs for the
square holes at first choice. Every man who
occupies an official position today must know his
business. There can be no guesswork, no theor-
izing, no monkey business.
we send to Washington as a senator or repre-
sentative. it will require the larger part of their
first term to get onto the ropes so that they can
be of real practical service.

The members of our present delegation are
just nicely broken in, and there's good teamwoi’k
among them. Why take out an experienced horse
and put in a colt just out of the pasture. Let’s
stick to business, forget politics this year, and
vote for the men who are qualified by their ex-
perience to represent this state another two years
intelligently and effectively What do you think
about it?

Get on the Job and Stick!

HE FARMER registrant who gets on the

job and sticks there 365 days out of the
year, producing food for the nations, needn’t

fear that he’ll be called into the trenches. Food
is too scarce, good farm help is too scarce, and
city boys who follow unessential' occupations are
too numerous to permit of any other conclusion.
A lot of farmers made a mistake when they
filled out their questionnaire and they’re paying
for it now. One of the purposes of the question—
naire was to find out how much every registrant
contributed to the essential “industry of the na-
tion. Farmers were asked to state the value of
the products grown the previous year in excess
of their own family needs. That stuck ’em. Some
thought the purpose of the question was to find
out how much the registrants were worth finan—

cially, and whether they had sold enough stuff.

the previous year to support their families so they
could be taken into military service. Consequent-
ly. and because it was something that most of
them had to guess at anyway, some of them put
down very small amounts which immediately
convinced the authorities that they weren’t con-
tributing very much to anybody’s breadbasket but
their own. Result: Class 1, division E.

But many farmers who unquestionably raise
year in and year out a considerable percentage of

- the state’s commercial crops also filled in small

amounts and adhered strictly to the truth. As
everyone knows the season was very poor, and
nobody get rich over the surplus they raised in
Of course, this is a
situation the district boards either did not know
or the significance’of which they did not appreci-
ate, and _as a result placed a number of men in

Class 1, Who should by all means have been given

deferred classification as skilled. farmers.

Some of these have succeeded in presenting suf— '
ficent additional evidence to cause the district

And no matter whom'

.~4ro Yo“ “Pill
'~-~ 'LD JACK FRos'r sat;

up in the heavens before he

chums! ”(he frigid gum who made such I we»
_ treated :vidlt in this section last "winter.

But de-

spite the, frosty mornings and the occasional cold. ,-

nOrth wind, th
is near and ting time is on its way.
Every farmer realizes that there must be no

111111 crops.

motto of every soldier of the soil this summer.

ProcrastinatIOn—the putting off until tomorrow ,'
. ,of the things you can do today—makes more fail-
urea in life than anything else. The "pluggerfl

the man who does the right thing at the right time,
invariably su‘rmounts all dimculties and succeeds.
But the farmer or any other man who kills time
today because tomorrow's coming, must ever wait
till “tomorrow” for his crown of success.

If you decide tonight or when you get up in the

,morning that you are going to do a certain Job at

certain time, Do IT. Form the habit of carrying
out your resolve. Don’t put it off until the next
day. because it may rain, or you may' be busy with
something else. If the job is disagreeable, it is
all the more reason why you should get it off your
hands as early as possible. The longer you leave
it, the worse you will dread" it.

The farmer who performs his work in a system—
atic manner, doing the job today that his judg-
ment tells him SHOULD be done today, is the
farmer who is the least often caught with his
plowing half done, or his fields half sown, or
his harvesting half finished, when the storms
come and drive him indoors.

Plan your work ahead. Knowtoday what you are
going to do next week, providing the weather per-
mits. And if you’ve formed the habit of “putinit-
off,” break it quickly or it will break you. Build
your air castles toniorrow, but plough today.

President Wilson has the power to prohibit the
manufacture and sale of all alcoholic beverages
during the period of the war. But he refuses to
act because he still has the old-fashioned idea
that certain classes of individuals must have
their beer, and if deprived of it, they would im-
mediately turn to whiskey as a harmful substitute.
We could name 23 states whose sovereign people
do not agree with the' President for they have al-
ready banished every kind of alcoholic drink from
their midst.

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Several farmers are insisting that Albert Louis
Lamb’s article, “Play Fair, Mr. Farmer,” which
has been circulated by the publicity department
of the Third Liberty Loan is German, propaganda.
Kinda looks that way, all right. With a little
imagination one can see the Kaiser’s ugly mug
between every paragraph of the lying, infamous,
insulting document. We consider (it our duty to
the farmers, of. this nation and the cause of jus-
tice that we answer every argument presented
in Mr. Lamb’s article, which will be done in the
coming issue.

“It is true,” says the County Agent, “that the
lack of transportation and properdistribution has
disheartened many farmers in some sections be
cause they have not been able to sell their pro-
ducts at the price expected. This must not, how-
ever, affect the grovVing of an immense crop of po-

tatoes for 1918.” In other words, Mr. Farmer, just.

because you were lead blindly into a hornet’s
nest and got stung last year, is no reason why
you shouldn’t walk right into another and get
stung again this year.

It is going ”to be extremely difficult for thirsty
ones to place their orders for wet goods with
out-of-state dispensers, after the state goes dry,
providing the determinations of Wm. J. ‘Nagel.
Detroitpostmaster, and. E. E. Fraser, postofiice
inspector. to censor postcards, letters, circulars,

publications and Other printed matter or writings ;

containing liquor advertising, are carried out.

, Keep a hen, is the advice “of the U. S. Depart?
.ment of Agriculture to Mr. City Dweller.
dogs,, cats, and babies taboc'ied‘r
lord say when he discdvers t ‘
bathroom being/used as a

was

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what’ll the {and ,

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prad' ' 111 this cereal and a grea‘ly augmented
planting of the (ther- cereals. '

This til not theory. It is a prediction based on
the some natural laws which prompt all industry
'.;;a1w¢1 unprofitable branches of its business
1.5: and profitable. Wheat at $2” per bushel, which
his about the average price received by the farmer.

has ceased to be as profitable a crop as rye, barley .

or even corn. Hence, with no material disturb-
ance of the present proportions in, the market
values of these cereals, millionsof acres hitherto
devoted to wheat will be planted this spring and
the coming fall to cereals containing competitive
food values.

If the country and the cause can safely stand the
anticipated reduction of wheat acreage there is
nothing more. to be said upon the subject. . The
feed control law was not-devised in the interests
of the “farmer; it was a measure to 'protect the
* government as a purchaser. and the ultimate con—
sumer. , So long as it serves this purpose, and the
farmer can be induced to produce sufficient for the
nation’s needs despite the hampering provisions
.of the law, we cannot expect that its objectives
would be changed at this time in order to pay the
farmer a living profit. But iffithe' wheat situation
is as bad as indicated by the enforced halving of
the civilian consumption of wheat products, and
by the harsh, summary measures being employed
1‘0 force farmers to dispose of remaining stocks,
congress shows a woeful lack of “horse-sense” in
disposing of the senate’s amendment so lightly.

In discussing the amendment, Rep. Madden of
(‘hicago is quoted as saying: “Wheat at $2.50 a
bushel will mean flour at $18 a barrel. It is an
outrage to impose such a burden on industrial
America. The farmer today is better off than any
other citizen. He is better off than most of us in
Congress. We! have been catering to the farmer
for votes. I say here and now that the farmer
needs no catering to.”

It would be well to remind this legislator that ~

me farmer did not ask for a fixed price on his
wheat. He has raised food products and disposed
of them under the laws of supply and demand
since the beginning of organized commerce and
he will continue to do so unless driven into other
channels of industry by the ruthless interference
of misguided politicians. But so long as the gov-
ernment has seen fit to establish a maximum price
on his products, even Rep. Madden must admit the
justice of adjusting this price to meet the con-
stantly changing weather and economic

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State Food Adrninuirator Prescott Says that
Farmers. are Hoarding ”Wheat. Read
What the F armers Say:

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No, there are no farmers holdin any wheat
around here to speak of, only a li tie for their
own use. lell pledge myself to grow all I
can and do Ian I can. to win the war. -—R.

. _‘ LITTLE WHEAT IN SAGINAW COUNTY

“You can tell Mr. Prescott that a man couldn’t

get ten bushels of wheat in Brant, St. Charles

and m townships of the 1917 crop. One-

half of the 1918 crop will be Iput into spring

fall in my Ford drove all thru

so! Maple Grove, Chesaning and

for seed wheat. Each farmer

send me to the next because they were

awll sold out. I found one man who had seven

bushel. to spare. I don’t think there is much

wheat in the southern part of ‘naw coun-’

ty in the farmers’ hands. I think when wheat

is of poor quality it will fall short of threshers’

reports from ten to twenty percent when screen-

ed for milling I am secretary-treasurer of the

Farmers’ Threshing Company of Brant. Our
givaehine tlfireshted only 977 bushels last fall. "—

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N0 BOARDING IN CLINTON COUNTY

“Enclosed find sample of wheat which will
perhaps explain to Food Administrator Prescott
. why he is so short. This is just as it came from
machine. Some of the farmers had ten acres
and got nine bags of. good wheat out of 100
bushels. The reason why farmers did not sow
spring .wheat is because they receive $2. 08 for
their wheat and elevators wanted $3. 50 to $4
a. bushel for spring wheat. Result,-———little sown.
It will be the same with winter wheat next fall
The farmer will be compelled to sell at $2. 08
and then let the other fellow charge what he
has a. mind to. No hoarding in Clinton county.”
——Subscriber.

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“IF THE GOVERNMENT ‘VANTS MY WHEAT
THEY CAN HAVE IT”

“In reply to your inquiry about wheat held
by farmers, I don’t know of any wheat in this
section I .have between 15 and 20 bushels that
I am holding for flour and seed. We only got
in three acres last fall on account of dry weath—
er and that looks as tho it would be better
ploughed up. We will put in between 30 and 40
acres this spring if weather permits, so you will
see I will need all that will grow on the three
acres, for if we get 25- or 30 bushels from the
three acres we will be lucky. This report is
for Clayton township and I think you will get
the same report from all townships in Arenac
county However, if the government wants my
wheat they are welcome to it, knowing you will
keep me informed through your paper. '—J ,
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make congress the wheat pit of the country. The
present price of wheat, he said, was abnormal,
brought about by abnormally low production and
unusually high demand during the war. Ap-
parently this congressman is neither a farmer
her a close observer of natural laws. Otherwise

Rep. Overmeyer of Ohio was quite sure that he
farmers of his state were satisfied with the Pros»
ident’s price of $2.20. He maintained that it was
too late now to influence this year’ s wheat acreage
As to whether or not he thought it a matter'ov
justice to refuse the farmers who had already
patriotically planted wheat, a profit, the Ohio rep- -
resentative did not render an opinion.

costs or PRODUCTION IGNOBED

During the entire discussion in the House, not
one word was spoken as to the cost of producing
wheat in 1918, which, if the selling price must be
fixed by law, should be the only determining factor.
The folly and injustice of an inflexible stipulated
maximum price lies in the fact that it takes no
cognizance of the score or more of influences
which over-night may cut the anticipated yield
in half and double the cost of production,

Thousands of farmers lost money on their wheat
last year; yet they are compelled by...federal edict "
to sell their crop at the price fixed by law. It will
cost more to produce wheat this year than in 1917.
The yield cannot be above average because much
of the fall planted crop has been winter killed.
With ideal growing and harvesting weather the
farmer may be able to secure as large a yield per
acre as last year. Hence, his profits, if any, will
be smaller, and in many cases, his losses larger.

“The farmers who in these times would feed
wheat to hogs,” authoritatively writes a contem-
porary. “is an altogether new specimen of animal:
that we have not yet classified. Of all the utterly
incomprehensible beings that this war has brought
to public notice, he is easily the limit. If not an
avowed friend of the Kaiser, he must be simply
an animal in the form ‘of a man, with a gizzard
where there should be a heart.”

These are the "sentiments, born of a distorted
understanding, that 'find their way into' the col-
umns of the press and poison the minds of the peo-
ple against the hand that feeds them. It is
little wonder that the farmer’s rights are being
constantly violated or that he is the victim of a
class prejudice that grows stronger and more dan-
gerous in its potentiality with the passing of each
day.

Millions of bushels of wheat have been fed to
live stock and millions more will be fed. And
the man who accuses the farmer of disloyalty
either does not know the facts in the case or else
has not the slightest conception of human justice.
The farmer is paying the penalty both in purse

and reputation for the one-sided price-

 

1-onditions which raise or lower the farm—
zl's' yield and costs.

Public opinion cannot justly determine.
the proper prices which the necessaries
of life should command. The value of
any article to its owner or producer de-.
pends upon the cost of producing it;
its monetary value to the user or con~
szumer depends upon the degree of ser-
vice that it renders. If wheat in indis-
pensable in maintaining life, there is no
price short of life itself too great to pay
for it, and $18 flour is the cheapest food
that can be bought today. How can the
proposal to increase the price 30 cents
per bushel be classed as an outrage, when
it is universally admitted that had the
government kept its hands off the wheat
market, natural influences would have
~ent the price up many times higher?
if it is an outrage upon’ the consumer to
so throttle the law of supply and demand
as to keep the price of flour down to
$18 a barrel as against a possible $30 per
barrel without federal contrdl, what can
the farmer style the failure of the self-
same agency to establish a maximum
price upon shoes, clothing, farm imple—
ments and other manufactured articles
he is compelled to buy? The only man
in the entire universe who has any logi-
cal ,kick to make upon the price-fixing
policy of the government is the farmer.
The consumer has been amply protected
so far as the prices of food stuffs are
concerned

A careful reading of the objections
voiced in the house of representatives
against the senate amendment discloses
, some amusing things and a not excep-
tionally intelligent grasp of the compli-
cated phases of the situation. Rep. Lever,

 

-1 chairman of the agricultural committee,

. ed the Opposition to the amendment. de~".
1111‘ 11g that the farmers Were trying to ' '

fixing fiasco. inasmuch as he had no
voice in the matter, is the farmer tobe
blamed that the price of wheat has been
fixed so low as to make it the cheapest
stock food obtainable? Should he be
criticized for the failure of the price-
fixing proponents to lock the back door
of the stable and leave the front door
widewide open?

If it is necessary to regulate the price
of wheat, *vhy not have both a. minimum
and a maximum price. The object of
the minimum price would be to stimu;
late production; that of the maximum
price to allow for variations in the cost
of production resulting from sub-nor—
mal yields and sharp advances in the cost
of materials such as fertilizer and mach-
inery. The scale of prices between the.
two extremes could be easily regulated
at the option of the food administration.

Hence, this vitally important matter
would be placed upon a strict business,
basis and the farmer could then have
some assurance that he might realize a
profit on his wheat despite the fluctuat-
ing costs of production.

The present arrangement‘disregards
all the laws of economics. If the prices ‘
of all materials and implements and the
cost of labor entering into the production
of wheat, and the fantastic whims of the
seasons be as ..rbitnarily controlled as.
«the price of the harvested product the"
theory of inflexible price -ifix 11g might be _‘
substantiated, Butso long as the earth ‘j
and the moon and the stars move on in
their orbits in bold defiance of earthly'.
edict, and the manufacturers of farm imrf
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any move to place a maximum price on» 1‘

their products, the wheat situation will
continue to be a farce and a conundrum.
——a. perpetual nightmare to congress and .
the nation. . . . <

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Administr/tion

  

F 6d Administration. We publish it here be-
? " it presents a, situation that is considerably

  

  

~‘y idea of. It shows the need of a more sympa-
the'tic understanding of the problems of bean and
'potato growers in this state, and the suggestions
'it 'contains should be followed ‘out:]

‘ You return my March report with advice indi-
. eating that certain answers are not satisfactory.

See attached carbon copy relating to the cheese

. matter.
' My answer of “zero” on cheese in column 8:
As ourselling price was 26c and our purchase
price 251,;c and freight, and as the cheese pur-
chased was some three weeks in transit. when it
should properly have come through in less than a
- week, and though shipped to have refrigeratOr
service likely a good part of the time in a com-
. mon box car. As the cheese was damaged to some
extent from freezing, to what extent we could not
tell, it was evident that our profit would be zero,
how much less an. impossibility to say for a long
' time as am unable to say what discounts we will
‘get from cheese moulding. A crack in the para-
ffin means a chance of mould working into the
cheese and a loss, again it may not result in any
serious discount; what the actual loss is cannot
be told until the cheese goes into consumption.

My answer of a blank in column 7 on potatoes:
As the cost of stock was some $1. 65 per cwt. and
selling value in March ran down to about $1.18
I was unable to figure any “higher per cent gross
profit " and therefore entered it “zero.”

My answer of “zero” in column 8 on beans: As
We have a quantity of damp beans which we are
trying to keep from spoiling, and as the market
has dropped in value so as to Insure a loss, I_
was unable to figure any “highest per cent gross
profit,” and therefore entered it “zero ”

Will the Food Administration kindly inform me
what my answers to these questions should be,
and oblige?

Suggestion: If the Administration Wishes to
handle the potato business in the interest of the
producer, consumer, small shipper and the gener-
al public, the government, the grading of pota-
toes for size should be left alone, the department
head should be other than any person who is
himself interested in handling on his own account.
The minimum of car load should be reduced to
30, 000 pounds. Reconsignments and storage
in transit should be cut out and recip1oca1 de
murrage be made effective. If the Administ1ati0n
wishes the business handled in the’ sole interest
of the few large operators, conditions should re—
main as at present. Of course. as it is, the pro-
ducer is simply disgusted and acreage will be re—
duced about fifty per cent from normal ——(J. G.
_ Freeman.

Little Wheat in Osceola County

Regarding the wheat situation in our locality,
wish to say there is very little wheat in the farm—
ers’ bins here. Owing to the scarcity of corn
wheat has been fed to the stock, could not get
corn atany price 11p to the middle of February,
from $4 to $5 per hundred when we could get it.
At the present time it is $3.25 to $3.50. There
was no hard corn and very little of any kind in
this county last fall, owing to the early frosts.
As far as we can find out it was the same practi-
cally all over the state. And now they are talking
of confiscating our flour, with a great many of
'our potatoes in the cellars, price too low to clear
us. Some of them at Washington are still buck—
ing our interests with E. P. Miller their head
leader.

Our city and village merchants are profiteering
at our expense. and giving the town people the
preference on the sugar deal. Give us from one
to two pounds of sugar whether there were 2 or
20 in the family, and whether they lived I or 10
miles from town. We had a merchant who was
doing the fair thing by us, the other merchants
tried to freeze him out, even sending word to a
flour jobber in Saginaw to “stop sending said
merchant any more flour.” Another unwise deal
was the chicken affair—must not sell or kill a
chicken, rather let them starve to death; with no
corn,fa1me1s who had it had to feed them wheat.
They want us to raise meat, but they must have
the grain to make rum.

Let us stay by each other and see if we can’t
help ourselves a bit, while helping the boys 1n
the trenches ——W. A. 0., Hersey. Michigan.

Rick on 12% Interest; Who Wouldn’?

I am sending my order through your paper for
a Fordson tractor and two-bottom plow. I work
{160 acres of land, all tillable. I have 120 acres of
spring crops' to put in and 80 acres of this has
,tuto be plowed, with help so scarce it would be
. .13 ssible to get all of my crops in. Do you

  
 

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Too Many Potato ”Buyers

It would be interesting 16 1.111, the ammo-‘-

opinions and ideas from all parts of Michigan

Here in Leroy we. hVave a plentiful supply of
merchants and nearly as many potato buyer‘s.‘

which seems rather extravagant, considering the

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THERE are jobs and jobs but none can
say which is the bigger one,

That must be classed as sacrifice ’ere this
sad war is won,

They all so interblend that none from him
who sows and reaps,

To him who by the “no man’s land’“ his.
watchful vigil keeps

Or from him who the throttle holds at sea
or on the rail,

To him who fights upon the air and rides
upon the gale,

Can there be found one that might be dis-
pensed with in the fight

Without more suffering and loss in win-
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UT no such job, so fine. so grand, so like
life’s even way—-

By which the Farmer, right at home, may
help win liberty,

Was e ’er before vouchsafed to Man, nor has
it been conceived

How much depends upon the soil, the na-
ture gifts received.

The food and clothing must be won by those ,
who till the soil,

And {he old farm the battle ground in na~
ture’s smile and mail,

And all at home, safe from alarm, no strikes
or hold-ups there,

And with all that makes home a home still
left within their care.

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NI) theres no worry for them save the
final victory

That will mean Freedom for them still in
loved America;

0 better that all margins go to Freedoms
holy cause——

:35 ’lhat you go right on in. your task and do

- not in it pause,

‘ ’lhan that in failing, all was lost, or others
sufie7 ed more

Because you did not do your best till all

was safely 0 'er!

5 0, is there not. somehow to you,
God‘s earth and right,

A. special sacred holy trust in this,
Freedoms fight?

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'ND while it may mean sacrifice, you
know that it is true

That all our Allies o’er
bled white for you,

They’ve been between you and the Huns
who planned that we should pay

The price of Freedom’s funeral pyre when
it in ashes lay;

And though ,there may be slackers and. the
Shylocks as of old,

Let those who with God's forces plan be
wise and brave and bold;

Let Freedom 8 soil so sacred seem in its ap-
peal to you

That you ll be glad of heart that you had
just your part to do!

~——L. B. MITCHELL,

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fact it only increases the cost of the potatoes to
the consumer, and what is more, lowers the price
for the farmer.
gentlemen with their faultless attire and high-
priced cars and yet they never bend their backs
behind the hoe or under the paris green sprayer
but the spud is undoubtedly their booster.

Seems as though we farmersought to be able
to handle our affairs with better results than we
have so far. As I understand it organization is.
the only way for farmers to come to a proper

ideas and join our hands in one strong chain,
and to help the farmers and city people come to,

a fight understanding and get us a fair deal ._

Like any other undertakingx it will- meet. with
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the good of the honest, hardworking peopk, and
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Seems rather odd to see those.

The M. B. F. is the right spirit
’to raise the farmeis out of the slow, ingrowing

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Don’t Raise Another Crop of Potatoes for»;

Stock Feed _ , -

You seem to .be trying to help the farmers; so
why not warn them every week until planting.
time to go show on planting potatoes. It has been»
decided by the powers that be that potato grad?
ing. is to continue practically just the same as it,
is now. The average yield for Michigan is neai"
100 bushels per acre and of those only 30 to 50 '

bushels will grade No. 1, and every farmer knows
he just simply cannot afford to grow them for
stock feed. For stock feeding he can raise crops
worth far more for the purpose and costing far
less to 1aise. The food committee is made up of
men who are profiteering in farm produce, if I am
carrectly informed. ——A. A. L., Cedar Springs.

Creed Has Not Yet Invaded the Country

Just received a sample copy of the M. B. F.
Am well impressed with the paper especially see-
‘ ing that it advocates theflinterést of the common
people.‘ With the country practically gone mad
over organization and big trusts’ methods, it is
indeed refreshing to see some encouragement to
athe men and women who have enough faith in
God and humanity to continue earning a living by
honest methods.

The enclosed editorial gives ,a glimpse of the
common man’s life in the city.
in the country simply because greed has not quite
gotten a-strangie hold there. The writer spenta
year in the gigantic Willys- Overland plant in
Toledo, 0., and knows the driving methods used
there to force production. What toll in injured

human lives, and what quantity of tears of blood _

will be required before the American people will
awaken and rescue their imperiled liberties from
internal vipers.

Keep up the good work of letting the people
know real Conditions, be optimistic and construc-
tive and our labors will be crowned with success.
——R. F..,L Litchfield.

Satisfied With M. B F.

As a pioneer farmer in this township since
1868 save the last few years spent in the village,
I feel that I have a clear titled right ’to speak for
them in these strenuous, abnormal and moment-

. ‘ous times.

I go to the old farm every spring to run the
evaporator at the sugar camp, and in the neigh-
borhood saw copies of your paper. Should I en-
deavor to formulate an ideal for such a publica-
tion, I am sure that yours would far surpass it
as your vision seems to be concentrated on the
lode star from every possible angle in the equa—
tion.

I have'always been forced to be a bit ablush at
the general attitude toward the farmer’s real in-
terest of many farmer’s papers, and especially of
late when there' 5 but just one target left at which
to shoot. So it follows that my unqualified con-
gratulations are sincerely yours—L. B. M., Hart.

Double Grading Blamed for High Cost of
Potatoes

In a letter of .recent date one the potato deal
which you were kind enough to give space to,
were a few things that, I wish now to explain
which my lengthy article seemed to forbid. I
have been criticised by government officials of
putting the cost of raising 1,000, bushels of pota-

~ toes too high, and told that 10 acres of good land
properly manured ought to grow a. larger crop,
thus cutting down expenses. Now the facts are
that this ten acres did grow from 150 to 175 bus.
to the- acre, and under usual grading rules would
have averaged 150 bus. of marketable stock, while
under the cut- throat system that was put in op-
eration last fall it was reduced to 100 bus per
acre. \And of course. it cost just as much to dig
and handle the unmarketable potatoes as it did
these that passed over the grader
into consideration Wauld add materially to” the-
total cost ~of production, but as they were worth

something far feeding stack I left them out. Will!»

. say that the physical condition of the soil was

ideal, being a; clover soil well plowed and fitted :

planted at the proper time, thoroughly cuitiv t
sprayed and 9410 ‘of the dirk hater
weather.

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I slaves of habit They become

accustomed o performing their werk at a certain».
time or in a certain way, and it is hard to: them
A3 a result," the average woman, and ~
more particularly the average woman of the coun-. "

try, continues to perform her work in the same ar-

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d_110us, un‘syste’matic manner that her grandmother .

and her mothers aunts and cousins and nieces
311 employed in .‘days of yore. .

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gene into a farm kitchen and en-

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height The height at which the board is placed
vartes with the height of the user... For a woman
01: average height it should be 31 or 32 inches,
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3 butt hinges. The leg or brace made of material
1 inch thick and 4 inches wide, is fastened with
:1. No.3 butt hinge to a board strip 1 by 4 by 8
inch The board strip is screwed to the under-
the board 11 inches from the free end.
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‘of the board, and when the board is in position
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the house whom I soon discOvered to
be so tagged from work that it re-
(wired the utmost will power to keep
her going And yet after a slight,
examination of the arrangement of
her kitchen and the way in Which
she performedher work, I knew that
she was partly to blame for her bed-
ily fatigue.

I know very well that the average
city woman wOuld marvel at the

-_ amount of hard work that seems to

be a part of the existence-of the av-
erage farm woman. With household
duties far fess difficult and numer~
cue. the city Woman, even of moder-
ate means, employs every conven-
ience she cane-secure to help make
her work lighter. ‘Fire'les‘s cookers,
kitchen cabinets, serving trays, dumb waiters,
etc., form a part of the properly appointed urban
kitchen.

Because the farm woman’s work is so much
harder and more exacting is all the more reason
why she should have these modern conveniences.
I want to help my readers to lighten their work
if I can; there’s no joy in living when one slaves
from morning until night; and I’ve decided to
begin the publication of suggestions for household
conveniences the most of which hubby can easily
and cheaply install duringhis “spare” hours. Some
of these will be found practical for all homes;
others may be of a questionable value, but I’m
going to print all that I have in mind right now as
I know there will be some of my readers who
can find relief from hard Work in each and every
suggestion. This will be a fine opportunity, too,
for everyone who has put into eflect some orig-
inal ideas on kitchen arrangement and farm home
conveniences, to tell the rest of us about them.

 

Figure 2. Contriuancc

for Folding Portable Ironing Board

I

For the best letter describing the conveniences ,

that have helped to lighten your work, or make
farm life more attractive, which I receive on or be-
fore May 10th, I will send prepaid to the writer
her choice of aluminum coffee percolator, stone
casserole in nickeled frame, or silver carving set.

For every letter upon similar subjects that I
think worthy enough to publish, I will send 'a
dish drying rack, one of the handiest things im-
aginable for the kitchen.

This isn’t a. conteSt at all. No matter how
trivial the improvement’ may seem

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easily ironed without changing the

position of the brace. A piece of galvanized iron
may be tacked to the board, on which the hot iron
may rest when not being used. The board is
folded up against the wall and may be held in
pltace~vby using the upper part of the rack for
holding the portable ironing board.

RACK FOR PORTABLE IRONING BOARD

The ironing board rack or holder may be at-
tached to the wall or to the inside of a closet

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Figure 1.

A Handy Ironing Board

door to hold a portable ironing board when not
in use. The upper part of the holder is made
of 21/; inch material and is 5 inches in depth. It
is 12 inches across the top and is shaped to fit
the contour of the smaller end of the ironing
board in place. The button is made of metal and
so shaped as to give it spring and to provide a
finger‘hold for easy movement. The upper part of
the rack or holder is screwed to the wall or door.

. .f beard begins to taper gradually. The free end is .
Hi”. 50 rounded. A strip 134 by 4 by 15 inches is securely
~;.; hastened by screws to the wall at a convenient

 

  

The bottom or lower part of the ‘rack'is 5?
wide and 3 inches in depth, and is mad
inch material cut in to form a rest for the i . ., ,
board. This part of the rack is fastened-

tv'vo screws to the wall or door.

    
   
 

 
 
 
 
 

    
     
   
 
   
 
  

  
 

Register for Service '

HE WEEK of April 27th has been appoint --

as registration week for the women of Mich?-~

igan. This is to be a government census taken

by the woman’s committee. Council of National
Defense. The registration is taken under the
authority of the Federal Government and by the.
proclamation of Governor Sleeper. ‘

Every loyal woman over sixteen years of age is _,
called to register. We have been .f .
given the opportunity to oiIer to: ,
our country whatever service we are- _
best fitted to render. .,

The registration is purely velun- "
tary. It at the time you are called
into service conditions have changed
making it impossible for you to ful-
fill your pledge, no punishment or
criticism will .be placed upon you.
The Gov’ernment simply asks for this
registration in order that the offer
of your services may be available
when needed.

Mothers, caring for their families,
managing their homes and provid-
ing for their children are doing
their share of war work. They are ren—
dering their country their most valu-
able service—and they may register
as housekeepers, etc., for their imme:
diate families only. There are those
who are unable to go out of their
homes for work, but who have the
time and are capable of doing sewing for the
Refuge children; some who can do knitting and
altho their services may be very limited, they
should register as doing or willing to do this
work.

The woman who is untrained in any line, may
register for training and choose any line desired.
Or the woman who has no volunteer service to
offer may register as a loyal busy woman.

No loyal, patriotic woman is excused. Let us
respond and gladly and willingly do our share.

Remember the date, week of April 27th. Each“
community has appointed a place for registration.
Don’t fall to do your duty. -

    

        

 
 

      
 
  

  
 

    

    
     
  

 
       
     
           
       
   
    
  
 
  
   
  
  
   
 
   
  
  
    
  
  
  

A Swing to Amuse the Children

E ARE ALL apt to throw away the empty. .
V» spools after we have used the last piece of

thread from it, thinking that it would 'be 7
of no use to us. They are especially valuable to
one who has in their home, or the home of a rel. '
ative or friend, a baby, which would enjoy hav-
ing a swing he could use.

By saving these spools and perhaps askingourj
friends to save theirs enough can soon be collect-
ed to make a swing, which would be a good piece.
of’work for the young lad or father of the fam-
ily. Enough rope which is strong, must be prOr
cured to allow to extend from the 10p of the door
to the, right height for the little one to swing.“
Four lengths will be required.

A wooden seat is cut out, or one-

 

to you, if it has helped at all to
lighten your work or to. make it
more eflicient, or has added in any‘
measure to the pleasure and com-
fort of farm life, send it to' me.
Address your letter, PENELOPE, Farm '
Home Dep’t, M. B. F., Mount Clem—
ens, Michigan.

With weekly greetings of friend-
ship to all my readers, I remain, cor-
dially yours, PENELOPE.

Folding Ironing Board
(Courtesy U. S. Dep’t of Agriculture)

HE IRONING board shown

I in Fig. 1, can -be fastened up
against the wall and is out of

the way when not in use. It should
be made of wellwseasoned 1 er 1%-
inch material. A board of conven-
ient size can be made by the fol-
lowing dimensions. 4 feet, 8 inches
long, 15 inches wide at the attached

 

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We are very gladto

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secure this photo of Mrs. W. Curtis and her five sturdy sons,
‘01 Coleman, Mich. There is no better way for us all to get acquainted than by

Let us meet more of our readers in this way.

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can buy a leather seat already made
at one of the hardware stores, or‘
where they sell household furnish»
ings, for as small an amount as ten ..
to twenty-five cents, depending uponl'
size and grade. To this is fastened,
securely the rope, then the spools are.
run on until it is high enough. This"
is done to each of the four corners,
with side pieces made of the spoolsf‘
laced on the rope.

A straight piece is made which
will slip up and down and go across
the front, so the child will not fall
from it. This is held in place
the spools

If the person making the sw
prefers, it would add greatly to. the
appearance if it were enameled}
or any other color desired

The seat may be upholstered :11
metonne which will perhaps in e
it a little more comfortable faiths
little one, as everyone that .I k

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That Fits You for Earning
a Worthwhile Salary

Thirty— four years have made
the Ferris Institute the poor
-3boy's salvation. The scarcity of
,‘teachers, chemists, clerical work-
ers, bookkeepers, bankers, sten-
,ographers, typists, telegraphers,
Vcivil service candidates is appal-
. ling. The World War has brought
Labout this condition. Who will
' ; answer the call? Putting off u11~
til tomorrow will not save the
country. American women must
respond. Woman’s position in
‘ the world has been revolution-
ized.

You can get ready at the Fer-
~ rls Institute. The Spring Term
ll Begins March 25. The First Sum—
mer term Begins May 20. The
Second Summer Term Begins
July 1. No entrance examina-
tions. Everybody is welcome.
{Self-boarding cuts down ex-
penses one-half.

ll Send for Copy of
“WHAT SCHOOL”

THE F ERRlS INSTITUTE

Big Rapids, Mich.
WOODBRIDGE N. FERRIS

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Burns any fuel— —even cheapest
kinds. Sends alllhe heat up through
onebig rcgister—heatsevery room.
Save moneybybuying direct from
manufacturers at VllllllSIll price.
Quick shipment—we pay freight
Cash oreasypavments. Satisiaction
guaranteed. Pipe Furnaces also.
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‘heapest Gasoline, using our 1918
buretor; 34 miles per gallon guaran~
Easy starting. Cheat power in—

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or us. 30 days trial. Money back
bee. Styles to fit any automobile
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News Items of Interest to Women '
‘ In Great Britain the women have ,

replaced 1,413,000 men in industrial,
professional, and civil service posi:
tions.

on the employment of women“ in Eng-
land, and has some valuable calcula-
tions. She claims'that 89,000 women
are employed in agriculture, 65,500
holding positions. classified under fl-
nance and banking and 94.500 filling
places of men in tramways, and in
general transportation.
I l '0
The sugar question is a most vital
one at present. The we are able to
procure enough for daily use by buy-
ing one or two pounds at a time, still
it is impossible to get any stock ahead
for the approaching canning season.
This has no doubt caused much co‘h-
sternation among the housewives who
desire to do their usual amount of can—
ning, or perhaps increase their pro-
duct. However, all may cease to wor-
ry, for Mr. Walter C. Hughes ofIthe
sugar division of the U. S. Food De—
partment has assured us that we will
be able to secure all we nerl. “There
is one requirement, that of filling out
blanks, which will .be issued firom the
state food administrator stating among
other things the purpose of the pur-
chase,” Mr. Hughes claims, and then
we may secure it in 25 pound lots.
0 O O

In the state of Connecticut the Coun-
cil of National Defense is awarding
honor certificates to girls who last
season canned or dried more than 100
pounds of food. This example might
well be followed in our own state.

Are You Helping Mr. Hoover?

N THE MIDST of plenty it is not
I easy for the farm woman to under—

stand why she should be careful
in the use of the foods which Mr.
Hoover is trying to conserve. It’s so
much easier and safer to use the ma-
terials called for in the old recipes

oi course, tors.;could baths-,-
tened to the swing and the mother is —
.gspared the trouble of watching ”9‘79”,

Miss Mary K. Conynyton has;
made a study of» the effect of-th’e war

proxy the American flag, and that the

armies fighting in our defense under
. these flags cannot be maintained thru
this winter unless there is food enough -
fer them and for their women and.

children at, home. There can be food
enough” only it America provides it.
And America can provide it only ‘by
the’ personal service and patriotic co-
operation ol all of us.

An Economical soup Meat

WONDER how "many have eyer
I used any other meat for bean soup

except the fat pork? The other
day, housecleaning week, it was, Iand
I always plan meals requiring as lit-
tle work as possible, I decided to have
bean‘soup. I, ordered my beans, pay-
ing 18c pe’r'pound, but was unable to
get the pork. The butcher asked me if
I wouldn’t try the end of a ham. I
had never heard of using it, but. al—
ways willing to experiment, I bought
a piece and. used it. We were more
than pleased with the tastiness of the
soup. The ham gives a richer flavor,
besides making a most economical
meat.

The ham end that I bought was 25

cents and I had one pound of navy

beans. This served four peeple and
two children the first day, then the
second day I had a few creamed car-
rots and peas which I added, boiled
all up well again and served the same
number again. Then I drained the
bone, cut off the meat, and you would
be surprised how much ham meat I
got,—~ a large soup bowl full. This I
chopped and added to three well-beat-
en eggs. seasoned with salt. pepper
and a little parsley and fried in an
omelet pan, making a most delicious
supper dish.

I use ham bones for stock for my
tomato soup also. It is fine.

Try using one-half rye flour and one
half wheat in your dark cakes and
pie crusts. Sift the flours together.

Remember, altho you must buy a
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For three years America has
Po ught starvation in Belgium

Will you Eat less -- Wheat

meat—~Fats and sugar

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is is "use, I‘a'm quite sure th the;
farm women, «too, can see the admitt-
' gage hf saving and substituting ‘
. Let us remember that every has;
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Raisins. curr‘an s, or dates add greatly ‘~
to the flavor, his well as to the nutri‘n _

tion. A slice of this graham bread
spread with jam or peanut butter
makes a tasty and nourishing addi-
tion to the school children' s lunch
box.

The Weekly Fashions

No. 8796:———This little one-piece dress"

for young girls is truly a conserva-

tion dress, of both labor and meter

18.1. The pattern comes in sizes 2, 4,
6, 8 and 10 years. For the wee little
tots one might omit the belt and it
would- be an excellent play suit, mak-
ing bloomers to- match. There are
only the twO side seams to sew, the.
neck button and cuffs to finish and
the dress is done, , As simple a pattern
as one could find, which will surely
appeal to the busymothers‘ just at
present. The round neck- may be fin—
ished with a bias band or just the
embroidered escalloped edging which
comes in colors and is-so handy to
finish children’s clothes with. There
is a slash at the left side, which is
all the Opening necessary. This fas-
tens With four buttons and loops.
Long or short sleeves may be used
but short ones are so much more com-
fortable for summer. .One twenty-five
cent patent leather belt will do for all
dresses and adds a great deal to the
appearance of any little costume.

No. 8807—Here is a pattern suitable
for the whole year ’round—for winter
and spring. Make the skirt of a
wool serge (a small shepherd plaid
serge is always good and washes about
the best of any wool goods.) With
this one could make little linen 0r
percale waists for the cold days and
the ginghams or finer cottons for
warmer weather. Then in the sum-
mer make. the little skirt of linen or
gingham. A blue or rose color with
plain White or stripped voile waist
makes a most attractive outfit for the
girls of 8 or 10, as well as those of
2 to 4. The little blouse is so small
for the little girls, one can often
make it out of a discarded blouse, and
I often make the little skirts out of
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.; » ’ if'mak‘e for the refuge babies in France -,
' and‘Belgium. >
,‘pieces‘ of outing flannel and cottons
_ '_ leftsfrom spring sewing, not large
j enough for “much of anything, but
. ~any one of these little garments takes

80‘: mantis-oi us have

so little material I believe if we just
had the pattern we might make a
great many of them. The pattern can-

sists'bf a cape _with hood, dress, jack—.

et,_ skirt and .bootees. They are so
simple even a child can make them.
The few mements‘dt, takes to ‘make

, these will never-be-missed; we will.
never know new much comfort they .

may, give. . .

No. 8806.7—Presents/a most desir-
able afternoon frock. The waist is in
the popular surplice effect, with ends
cut in square tops, which button onto
the waist. The front fits smoothly
over the shirred skirt. A soft roll col-
lar finishes the neck. Embroidered
organdy collar and cuffs give the plain-
est of materia-ls a dressy appearance.
A -coarse linen" Palm Beach or soft
silk- made in this style with either
dainty embroidered collar and, cuffs.
or the more tailored pique would make
a dress suitable for street or home
wear. The skirt is two—gored, having
large square pockets, button trimmed.
The pattern comes in sizes-36, 38, 40

" and 42 inch bust measure.

No. 8778.—-Anoth_er very pretty mod-
el in the separate skirt. This one is
unusually simple and easy to make in
that the lower section is all in one
piece, with a straight lower edge. The
fitted yoke is'stitched to a slightly

p raised waist line and over the Shirred

lower. section. The skirt comes in
sizes 24, 26, 28, 30 and 32 inch waist
measure. . .

No. 8772.——Bungalow apron. "These
aprons sell from $1.50 to $1.75 in the
stores and can be made at home from

, 31A; or 4 yards at the most of percale
or gingham. They are the most prac-
tical and comfortable work dresses
one can have. The slash. in front
which extends either below the belt
and buttons or if- desired one may
Open it. about seven or nine inches
and lace. The plain material used
on the figured, for trimming, gives
the apron a more dress-like appeal“-
ance. These aprons need no dress
underneath unless so desired. The
pattern is cut insizes 36, 40, and 44
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Live Stock Letters
(Continued from page 11)
Tuesday were ten cars. The market
was slow and best clipped lan‘bs sold
from $18.90 to $19.00, which was 15c
to 25c lower than Monday; throwouts
$16.00 to $16.50; yearlings were quoted
from $15.50 to $17.00; wethers, $15.00
to $15.50; ewes $13.00 to $14.50. No

wool stock on sale.

East Bufl'alo, Apr. 22—We quote:
Choice to prime weighty steers, $16.50
@1725; medium to good weighty
steers, $15.50@16.00; plain to coarse
weighty steers, $14.00@14.50; choice to
prime handy weight and medium
weight steers. $14.50@15.00; fair to
good handy weight and medium
weight steers, $14.00@14.50; choice to
prime yearlings, $15.00@15.50; fair to
good yearlings, $14.00@14.50; medium
to good butcher steers, $13.00@13.50;
fair to medium butcher steers, $12.00
@1250; good butcher heifers, $11.50
@1200; fair to medium butcher hei-
fers, ,$10.50@11.00; good to‘choice fat
cows, $11.00@11.50; medium to good

fat cows, $10.00@10.50; fair to good-

mediumfat cows, $\8.50@9.50; cutters
and common butcher cows, $7.50@
8.00; canners, $6.00@7.00; good 13,0
choice fat bulls, $11.00@11.50; me-
’ dium to good fat bulls, 10.00@10.50;
good weight sausage bulls, 9.50@10.00;
light and thin bulls, 7.50@8.00; good
to best stock and feeding steers, $10.50
@1100; medium grades of stock and
feeding steers, 9.50@10.00; common to
fair stock and feeding steers, 8.50@

9.00; good to choice fresh cows and,

spri'ngers, $90.00@120.00; medium to

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good fresh cows and springers,v$75.007

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_ . ‘ * .fl@11i0
b. ,, . .. .best cows,
$‘5G@1L90.~;‘ ~121th - W i

am, ‘ $17.75@s.25; - can—

   

310‘.’00@11.00;s bologna , bulls, ‘$8'.50@
9,50; std'ckbulls, $8.oo,@'s.25; milkers

and . springers. $125@$—17‘5.

Veal calves—Market generally a
dollar lower; few early sales at $15;
bulk of goodat $14; others, $8.00@12.

Sheep and lambs—«Market steady,
best lambs, $17.75; fair lambs, $\15@
15.50,; light to commen. lambs, $1261)
$14; ‘fair to good sheep, $10@12; culls
and common, $8@9.

Hogs—~Market prospects 10c lower.
Mixed $17.50@17.75; pigs, $17.50
@1175.

Chicago, Apr. 23—«Receipts, 18,000
slow. Bulk, '$17.05@17.60; light.
heavy, $16.00@17.30; rough, $16.00@
16.50; pigs, $13.25@17.15.

Cattle—‘Receipts, 13,000; market
weak; native steers, $10.50@17.50';
stockers and feeders, $8.30@12.60;
cows and heifers, $7.4013.90; calves,
$9.00@14.50. ' '

Sheep—~Receipts, 12,000;
weak: sheep, $13.00@17.80;

market
lambs

.$16.50@22.00.

MEAT PRICES FIXED BY hRMY AND
NAVY

The army, navy and marine corps
announce that maximum prices are to
be allowed for meat purchaser] dur-
ing the month of May. While the
government will control meat prices
only so far as they are affected by
purchases under government direction,
these purchases are so great at the
present time as to practically control
the market.

All ~meat purchases for the Ameri-
can and Allied. governments will be
consolidated under one bureau at Chi—
cago. The meat purchases will be al-
lotted among the packers at prices
based on livestock markets. The fol-
lowing will be the maximum prices
paid at any time during the month,
quotations being per hundred pounds:

Good steers, 500 to 600 pounds f. o.
b. New York, frozen and wrapped
commercial for export, $24.05; same.
600 to 700 pounds, $24.80;>same, 700
pounds up, $25.55. Navy requirements.
$24.65; cows, 500 to 600 pounds. $21.65.

CONTAINERS MUST CON-
FORM TO U. 5. STANDARD

 

All interstate shipments of fruits
and vegetables in containers must be
in packages that conform to the pro-
visions of the U. S. standard Con-
tainer Act, according to an announce-
ment from the Bureau of Markets, de-
partment of Agriculture. which is
charged with the enforcement of the
Standard Container Act.

The baskets, crates hampers and
boxes must be in sizes containing
half pints, pints, quarts or multiples
of quarts; slight variations either un-
der or over may be allowed provided
the average for any shipment con-
forms to the standards. Climax bass
kets for grapes can be make only in
two, four, and 12 quart sizes and of
the dimensions specified in .the act.

The variations from standard sizes
are made, it is stated, because of the

nature of the containers, they being_

usually rough finished. No allowance
for products heaped over the edge of
the container is made, and the ca—
pacity of a container is determined
by stricken measure tests.

Although the law applies only to
interstate shipments, is is probable
according to. the bureau that inter-

‘ state shipments will be generally made

in U. 8. standard containers, because
many manufacturers have arranged
to make no containers except those
that comply with the Federal size re
qu‘irements. Even shippers whose pro—
ducts are usually consumed in their
own state are said to favor packages

complying with the U. S. Standard

Container Act, because they have no
assurance that theierroducts will not
be, sent across state boundaries before
it iszeonsumed. ,
Enforcement .of.the act will tend to
eliminate deceptive-practices in mar-
keting fruits and vegetables, special-

ists say, ~and. will give a "square deal”?

to both the public and the trade. More

than .40 food products, inspectors al-

ready statiOnedl-in the large receiving
markets are available 'for enforcing

   
   

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’EXGRI’TIONAL erron'ronrrx men’s TO‘ your: out)! .n'oo'
- » The World’s supply of Binder Twine because ,of the continuous ,
. going o'n:in Mexico, where Sisal, the raw material is grown, isdlflicult' to

TheGrain Growers, of the Northwest and across the Seas must have tw
export demand will be sure to increase so long as the war lasts. ‘
ORDER. TO-DAYl—IF YOU DELAY YOU WILL BEGBET' 11;“

D'r" if ”tli FrmtoCo ' M‘rk“

We handle poultry, eggs, butter, veal calves, dressed hogs, maple syrup, 011mm,;
apples, potatoes, hay, beans, or anything raised on the farm. on circle}?
shipments we reach all the leading market centers through our chains! )1
sonal representatives. We get shippers the very outside market price boom-J .
we have the facilities and know how. -

WE SELL FARMERS AT WHOLESALE PRICES p

Fertilizer, Binder Twine, Paris Green, Spraying Materials, Grass Seed, Fence .
Posts, Auto Tires, Gleaner Brand Paints, Purina Dairy, Horse Chicken, Calf
and Hog Feed, Bran, Middlings, Corn, Oats, Nursery Stock. Erooms, Canned“
Goods, Soap and other staple lines used on the farm.

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free f. o. b. Elmira. No order accepts
for less than two bushels. You can'ha've
your choice between Grade No. 1 and
Grade No. 2. The number 2 are Just as
good for seed as the No. 1 and will 'go
farther. The supply is limited, order
early. . ,

I also have a limited supply of Bliss!"
Triumph which I consider the best early .
potato. The price is $1.50 per bushel.
conditions same as above. \fi

Remember, poor seed is largely respon- ‘
sible for the low yield per acre in the U. -.
S. Get the seed. It will pay you. Yours,,

DORE D. BUELL,
The Seed PotQO Man of the North1

Elmira, Michigan.

PLANT POTATOES AS USUAL BUT The price

USE BUELL’S RUSSET RURALS

It is an old saying that when potatoes
are low at planting time it is a. good sign
they will be high the following year. I
am planting my usual acreage this year
and urge my friends to do likewise. “

Plant potatoes, not only for business
but patriotic reasons. But don’t take a
chance on your seed Get a seed that
you can depend upon. Buell's Russet
Rurals are an improvement over other
Rinal types. Years of hill selection,
careful “breeding.” and disease control,
in the new, clean ground of the northern
potato section, insures seed of great vi-
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ty. I had to practice economy in my

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«yr re paid at Flint this week:
2.10; corn, 81.75—81.85;

2.50: hay, $19-$24; beans,
.oos. $1.15; onions,
ry butter, 41; dairy butter,
éfiireep, 89-810; lambs,
50—88; veal calves. $11;
6., Fenton, April 18.

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auling bay to market.

market.

it comes to

food.
.. ,. at Beaverton this, week:

$10.50; potatoes, 75;

. edin all lines of work.
4 oats are being put in here.
" rye looking poor.

Hogs, are in good condition. But

but upon in',- "
no "that there.
He farmersrhands than '1 had '»' :
Auction. sales: are nearly over
ood seedlcorn .is scarce
The Grand Ledge
Fenton. is only paging

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, Genesee ~ county have
that they are not to be classed as
‘ers "and in spite 'of the fact, that
farmers need a lot of money for seeds
» '? fertilizer and other things, at this
, have gone "over the
Liberty loan in most
avery township in the county. Genesee
figgnty has nearly doubled its quota and
» ‘ assed its quota. by thousands in the
.num er of subscribers, and has set a
mark that few counties in the United
The following prices
Wheat,
rye, ,
pota-
$1.25 crate; cream—

-'. (Southwest)-—Farmers are
glowing, sowing oats, putting in tile and
~, _ . Some seed corn
is being shipped 1n and it finds a ready
. We are all looking for a good
year; it’s up to us to feed the world, and
Vigif Uncle Sam would sit down on the mid-

dleman a. little hardergthe folks in the
‘city could lie and so could we, for when
‘ producing the goods we are
on the job, but‘we do hate to see Mr.
Middleman walk off with all of the mon-
ey we have worked 14 to 18 hours a day
: to produce and then have the people in the
cities give us h—l' for the high prices of
The followmg prices were quoted
Wheat, $2.07;
* oats, 88; rye, $2.35; hay, $18-$21; beans,
burner: 38; butter-

fat, 39; eggs, 25.—V. . K. B
April 15. . , eaverton,
INGRAM (Central)—Very fine weath-

er for farm work, and it is being improv-
A good many
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from here as yet.
a ton; oats $1.10 per bu.
have to take the old reaper
to cut their wheat as twine is $22.75 here,
and this year’ we have to pay $26 for a.
ommon walking plow.-—C. F. W., Alden,
April 16. '

farmers will

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Farmers are sowing oats and plowing
for corn and beans.
ing Liberty bonds.

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some wheat is in»
good for the com ng harvest. A»
ers around here are “lowing, eyery acre *
they can, and all are buying , Liberty
bonds.‘ Following prices were quoted at,
golonstllgis$%eek: tat '81 b tt 88

ay, - ; p0 oes, : u er ; - . . ‘nd ‘ .
‘l‘ikuttfirfalt,5 40; eggs, 30.-—W. W., olon, half 0: the wheat rou hero
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recs. Wheat has been disposed of

Wheat, $210 ; oats.

ANTBIM (South)——The drouth

broken today-With a nice warm rain. The
potato market is, dull, paying only 50c
per cwt.; the big screen does not cut, any
figure now. Apples are. bflgibging $1 per
box; eggs are 28c; butter, 3 c;
mand for cows, selling at from $75 to
890 Good horses are as
worth from
888‘s. c
$14-$15; hogs,
beef steers, $8-$10; beef cows,
wool, 65. ——

375 to‘ $450 per pair.
alves and

ISABELLA (South) -——Farmers

Rye

some are trying a
The potato acreage

ats, 85; rye, $2.00; hay, $20;

HURON

p; wheat does not promise much

old all their wheat that was lit

milling—4:}, W., Elkton, Apr. 2...

steers,” ,) .
XL M's M94”?!

fer: assess... (scene—Farmers 'plo'w- -.
dog for cats and potatoes; some cats are
in and some potatoes being planted. The

tanner-s are, commencing to spray: fruit

oor condition and entire A.
The .farm‘: - . .

Good de-

igh as ever,
Veal
pssed hogs bringing 14c per
1b.; cream, 48c; not much cream shipped _
Hay is selling at $28 -
i- am afraid

busy
in their oats and clover seed.
New seeding is in very bad condition,
nearly all frozen last winter.
also badly frozen.
discouraged,
spring wheat.
be smaller 'than last year; they are still
grading and the farmers are getting tired
of such work. The following prices were
paid at Remus this week:

Farmers , are badly
little

Wheat, $2.06;
beans,
$10.50; potatoes, 95; butter, 42; butter-

fat_ 40; eggs, 32.—E. B., Remus, Apr.

(Cannon—We had two days
of snow and rain this week, and plowing
is better since the rain; grass is picking

  

 
 
 
 

 
 
    
  

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75: where the wheat was winter k'i led, about;
will be
sown - to cats 0 th _‘
, looking better. he farmers» are sowing;
was every acre of their ground. seiner-are

'32: 1133’. $20; 3 -38; 'butterfat.
41; eggs, 32,—0' . B. H., Athens, Apr. 20.

EMME'I‘ (Northwest)—Spring is ‘here
with the usual activities. Many farmers
are plowing and dragging, preparing to
put in oats and spring wheat. Must of
the farmers who had; maple trees on
their places made ,ma lea‘sugar, and some
made a large quant ty; syrup sells at
from $2 to $3‘ per gallon. We are glad
to note that the county agent has done
much to organize the farmers to co-op-
erate. Forest fires have started and are
doing some damage. The following pric—
es were paid ‘at Harbor Springs this week:

Oats, $1; hay, $17; potatoes, 500 per
was cwt; butter, 45; eggs, 32.-—-C. G., Cross
Village, April 17.

ST. CLAIR (East Cannon—Oats are
nearly all in. There will be a large
acreage this year owing to the failure
of the fall wheat crop, over half of the
latter has been lost in St. Clair. county.
Rye looks fair :1 the soil is in fine condi-
tion. Quite a. number of sales of late
18 and everything going high. Cows going

' from $60 to $100. Farmers are not sell-
ing much and holding nothing, there
being nothing to hold. The' following
prices were paid here this week: Wheat,
$2.10; oats. 85—90; rye, $2.20,; hay, $18
to $20; straw, $9, beans, $8; potatoes,

will

yet.

Farmers are buy- $1 ;-' butter, 40; eggs, 30; lambs, $16 to
Farmers here have

.818; hogs, $17; beef steers, $10-$11;
beef cows. $7-$8; veal calves, $20.—-I. J.,
Smith’s Creek, Apr. 22. '

OSCEOLA (Northeast)—Farmers have

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keep posted on the market prices being paid in every county in »
Michigan so that you may know whether your local dealer is
paying the right price; if you want to be advised of the score 32;
of developments that will take place between the planting and
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It gives the FACTS and it gives opinions which are invalu-
You’re going to be mighty busy
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M. B. F. is the ideal paper for the BUSY, BUSINESS
FARMER, because it gives him theaews of the state, nation, and
world, in brief, easy-to-read manner.
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There isn’t a single in-

The coupon 95-

been busy plowing and getting ready for
spring crops. wThe writer was at Marion
today and the farmers are hauling wheat.
and rye in large quantities. .The follow-
ing prices were quoted at Marion this
week: Wheat, $2.02 ;, oats, 90; rye,
$1.70; hay, $20; beans. $7.50 bu.; pota-
toes, 60c cwt.; butter, 34; butterfat, 36;

eggs, 28; hogs, $12; beef steers, $7;
beef cows, $5.50; veal calves, $18.00.—
W. A 5., Marion, April 20. ‘

BRANCH (Scrum—Farmers are sow-
ing oats and plowing for corn. Soil in
good condition. Farmers selling some
stock and hay. Holding some beans. The
following prices were paid at Union City
this week: Wheat. $2.10; oats, 85; po-
tatoes, 50; butter. 30: butterfat, 42; eggs,

hogs, $16; beef steers, 88-81250;
beef cows. $7; veal calves, $15.-—F. S..
Union City, April 19.

LIVINGSTON (Fowlerville)—Farmers
are busy fitting the ground and sowing
oats. B. B. Morgan is doing his spring
work with a Fordson tractor. Mr. Smok-
er of Fayette was here this Week~and
bought fifty head of grade cows and
heifers, another party from Texas has
bought $17,000.00 worth of registered
stock here and will ship it Monday. The
following prices were paid at Howell this
week: Wheat, $2.10; corn, $1.85; oats.
85; rye, $2.55; straw, $12; beans, $10;
potatoes, 75; butter, 35; butterfat, 40 to
42; eggs, 30; beef steers, $13.50; beef
cows, $8.50; veal calves, $15.—-G. A. W.,
Fowlervllle_ April 20. ~ .

LAPEEB (North)—Farmers are busy
sowing oats and spring wheat; the most
will be inrthis week if the weather stays
good. The.recent rains have started a
good deal of the Wheat which looked
killed, to growmg. I believe the roots
of much of it was alive and it only need-

" ed a rain to bring it out. There is noth-
ing being sold around here just now ex-
cept a few horses which bring good pric-

Following prices quoted at North

Branch this week: Wheat, $2.25; corn,

$1.80; cats, 90; rye, $1.90; hay, $20: po-

tatoes, 30; onions, $1.25; eggs, 31.——I.

8., North Branch, Apr. 18.

GRAND TRAVERSE Soutliwest)—The
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There is not much to sell here except a_
little hay and a few potatoes, some of
the latter are frozen. The weather has
been cold and dry. Wheat is very poor;
I rye a little better. The talk here is not
so many potatoes on account of the Mil-
. ler grading, and not many hearts. Much
of the land will be in pasture as it is im-
possible for the farmers to get money to
hire help with. The _following prices
Karlin this week:
$1; rye, $1.65; potatoes,
35; eggs, 28.—-W. W.
Buckley, Apr. 18» .,

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est. Farmers have- more plowing done
at this time than is usualr; Many of the
I farmers“ have their peas in; some are

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l OEANA (Norrie—Farming in thi:

sowing seven and eight acres of, peas.
Foilow‘in prices were paid at Crystal
is week:~. beans, $5.50; pom-
toes, 75; butter, 40: butterfat. 47; eggs,
W. W., A., Crystal :Valley, Apr. 20. ,

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good» shower the“ gust meek, ' audit was
badly needed. It ’as. eenrnuch to cold
‘ for: anythingto grow. Emersare busy
_, plowing an ' putting in their ‘oats and.
/ barley. ' With fair weather the seeding
will be completed iii-another week. _e
following prices were aid at Coleman
' this week: Wheat, $2. ,5; oats, 85.;~- rye.
$1.10; hay, $21; beans,:$11; beef steérs,
$8.50—310: hogs. $16.50.——F. A. L Cole—
man, ,April 19,. - '
SANILAC (Cannon—Wheat did not

look very good up to this time but‘the
recent rains havo made a great improve-

ment. The ‘following prices were paid
at Sandusky this week: eat, $2.05;
oats, 89; rye, $2.70; barley, $3.75; hay,

$15 to $20; clover seed, $20; alslke, $13; _,

potatoes, 85; peas, $3.25; butter, '40; buta
terfat, 4'1;‘eggs, 30; beef steers, 8; veal
calves, 12.——A. B., Sandusky, Apr. 20.

EMMET 1. (North Cannon—The snow
is gone but weather is cold. Very little
seeding being done. Lots of (potatoes in
growers’ hands yet;
The following prices were paid at Petos-
key this week: Wheat, $2.10; oats, $1:
rye, $2.—W. H C., Alanson, Apr. 21.

.BAY (Southeast)—O‘ ate and barley
mostly sown; fall wheat looking poor. A
great many farmers are sowing spring
wheat at about $3.25 per bu., trying to
get wheat when they know spring wheat
is nearly always a failure in this part
of the state. Not much change in prices
in the last week, only'oats down to 880.
——-J. C. A., Munger, Apr.‘19.

KALKASKA (South) —- The farmers
are plowing. The ground has been cov-
ered with snow for the last three da 8;
it has gone 01! and 'is now raining. e
farmers are marketing their potatoes at
70c per cwt., and they are buying feed
and seed. Orange township succeeded in
getting their quota for the Third Liberty
loan. The South Boardman potato house
was burned, it entailed a. large loss. The
following prices were quoted at Kalkasv
ka-this week: Wheat, $1.75@$2.10:
oats, 95; rye, $2.00; hay, $25; beans.
$9.50 per cwt.; butter, '40; butterfat, 40;
eggs. 30; hogs, 18c; beef cows, $11@
$12; calves, $10; wool, 50@55.——R. B.,
South Boardman,‘ Apr. 21.

ST. JOSEPH (North Central) — Oat
seeding about finished and some have
started on corn ground. Quite a. lot of
barley sown. Corn is poor stuff, as a
rule it germinates anywhere from 10 to
75 per cent in the test. I look for a poor
stand of corn in Michigan, and espec-
ially if the weather continues ’cold and
wet. So many farmers have sent their
orders to seed houses for their seed, and

these farmers are bound to be disappoint- ‘

ed. I am not casting slurs on seed men,
but on the farmers’ judgment in so doing.
All kinds of feed scarce and high altho
bay has taken a drop of about $2 a ton.
Some have potatoes to sell, but buyers
are not shipping for some reason. Farm-
ers have gradually lost hope on the po-
tato deal, and the acreage will be re-
duced from 40 to 75 per cent in this
county. The Third Liberty loan is meet-
ing with a. rousing stipport from the
“slacker” farmers, as we have so often
been called, but no matter if we bought
this whole issue of bonds some city fanat-
ic would Call us slackers just the same.—
H. A. H., Mendon,_April 21.

QHEBOYGAN '(West)-—Farmers are
plOwing for corn. Some spring wheat
has been sown and oat sowing will be
general as, soon as the ground is dry
enough. ”Six inches of snow fell Thurs-
day and the soil is very wet. The wea-
ther is still cool and rainy. PoSitively
no wheat is being boarded in this section.
Many beans are- yet am the farmers'
hands, some still unthreshed. The mar-
ket is very unfavorable. Not nearly so
large an acreage of beans will be plant-
ed this year. Practically the entire “po-
tato crop is still in the farmers’ hands
and'the _market.is dead—L. E. B., Con-
way, April 22. -

MISSAUKEE (Contra!)-—-‘Farm§rs are

preparing their oat. ground, and a little .

has been sown... There will be more bar-
ley sown this sprin than is usual. ,We
had about, three inc es of shew the morn—

ing of the 17th, about anions now. Buy- , ‘

era are oflering 600 perjcwt .for' tatoes
, now and the farmers are dis . -, d with
them; will not be. many 1% ted this
1 f b . .. tog. Winthlie

a surge acreage o , ea. Wu. 5
year.—-H. E. N.‘, Cutoheom_.Apx-.; 19. .

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. , 93;; 301131 timers cant/We"-
"fd give. aspééi'anIace to the

" ‘1 'pumpkllis.~_"Let the land
properly fertilized; let "the' pump;

kings be planted with care and-- culti-
Twatoq jwitli‘care-and they will yield
Kmany tons. of valuable feed per acre.
:__-j"‘New Iknow that the chemical anal-
".ysis- does not give pumpkins a high

"place among our feeding (materials,
but 'with pumpkins, the same as with
grasses, that something called water
is Debulia'rly valuable when found in—
,clesed in plant cells. Water in grass-
es gives them' the power of making
Wonderful returns in milk yield and
growth of young stock. Take the

Ewat'er' out of the grassas by means of

the sun and wind, as.we do in curing
hay. and everybody knows that cows

cred hay do not yield much milk or
I, maintain as good flesh condition as

when being fed good grass. So the
water of pumpkins produces won:
derfully gnod results in milk produc-
tion and the growthy‘condition of cat-
tle, hogs and sheep. ~
A few years ago we fed a large crop

, of pumpkins to our cows and obtained

such satisfactory results that we have
found it profitable to grow them to
feed during the late fall and early
winter. Inour efforts to find new
crops of high proteincontent we are

overlooking one of the best crops for

milk production by. neglecting to
grow this valuable crop.

Many successful breeders of pure“
bred hogs and feeders of market hogs
have found pumpkins superior to

root crops for feeding during the fall-

and early winter months. In various
feeding experiments pumpkins have
been found of great benefit in assist—
ing in the more complete digestion
and assimilation of grain feeds. Hogs
are very fond of pumpkins and the
crop is ready for feeding at a time
when the other succulent feeds are
soarce.

Pumpkins are a valuable fed for_

sheep and many flockownms have
found them of great value in ridding
the flock of intestinal worms. One of
the leading breeders of Shropshire
sheept in the country stated to me
that by growing pumpkins and feeding
them to his flock when ripe and dur-
ing the early winter his sheep rid
themselves of internal parasites and
that it helps him materially in keep-
ing a clean flock. This is something
that I have never had experience with
but I do know that \pumpkin seeds
were our grandmother’s favorite renf-
edy for worms and that many doctors
prescribed them for the expulsion of
tape worms.— vW. Milton Kelly.

FACTS ABOUT THE

' SUMMER SILO‘

The first step in the economy of
feeding dairy cows in the summer is
that of providing an ample supply of
cheap and nutritious succulent food.

‘~ At present prices for grain and com-

mercial by—products the supply of
roughage must be subjected to a clos-
er invoice than has before been neo—
essary. If the pastures are small, on
there is- danger of dry weather cut-
ting down the Yield of grass, we must
have some kind of additional feed to
fill the gap. For this purpose there
is nothing better than corn silage.

One never knows at the beginning'

of the grazing period just how much
dependence 'can be placed upon the
yield of pasture grasses, but with a
silo full of corn one knows just how
much feed he can-taka from it and

how many weeks it will last. The'

custom of feeding silage as a supple-
"mental to pastures has come to stay.
Practical dairy farmers, experienced
with crops and cattle, have tried it
abdifind it~preferable to growingand

harvesting green crops to feed dur-

Ils“the.-‘summer,, New silos of small
3 are " ding up,» on the best
$12. arms. It surely pays

 

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graim "auditor the constitutions ,of the

Hours" it"contribuies’jnm morn vital-

ity snd’héfltli.’ And most important

of all,..;1vty‘s‘r§duces the cost of produc-

ing summer milk to the lowest pos-

f sible notch.

' -With a silo full of corn one is more
independent of weather Conditions

‘ than is the case when depending on

green soiling, crops. for as a rule
when pastures are beginning to de-
cline in productivocapacity the soil-
ing crops areiiot making sufficient
growth to make their use economical.
Then, too, there is always consider—
able loss in attempting “ to preserve
these crops for winter feeding after
one {has fed out what is needed to
supplement the pastures. It takes a
lot of time to cut and haul a load of
green feed to the barns every day and
there are sure to be many days when
field work or weather conditions are
such that the cows are neglected.
With Silage at hand there is no waste
of feed and the net result is a more
steady milk yield and general thrift
that makes dairy cows profitable. Even
young stock make better growth
when pastures are supplemented with
good silage. So valuable ls silage
for growing ypung dairy animals
that many progressive dairy farmers
keep; their young stock in' the barn
days and feed silage, allowing them
to run in the pasture nights when the
flies are not so troublesome. They
claim that it saves feed and results
in larger, better developed young
stock—W. Milton .Kelly.

HOW TO _PROPERLY
PLANT FRUIT TREES

After selecting sound, fresh and
healthy trees from the nursery, the
next thing is to prune them. This
can best be done with a pair of hand
pruning shears. Trim off all broken
branches; trim all side branches—cut
off entirely on young peach trees—~
and to within four inches of the main
stem on apples, plums and pears. Cut
down the main stem of the tree to
two feet for peaches; to three feet for
apples, plums and pears. This cut-
ting back of the main stem not only
relieves the roots of too much strain,
but it makes it possible to head the
tree at the desired height. Do not
leave more than three or four side
branches. Each stub or .side branch
left to form the head should have two
or more sound buds. The side branch-
es should grow in different directions
and should start at different levels
to avoid the danger of splitting down
under the pressure of wind, snow and
heavy crops of fruit.

Prune out with a sharp knife all
broken or mangled roots. making the
cut on the under side of the root,
sloping outward. so that as the tree
rests on the bottom of the hole the
cut surface of the root may come in
contact directly with the soil, Short-
en thc. straggling roots in the same
way as the broken roots. Skillt'ul
pruning to give a. proper balance bc~
tween the top of the tree and the
root system is the real secret of suc-
cess in beginning the growth of young
fruit trees.

The next operation is digging the
hole. The proper way Is to dig with
a spade a hole wide enough to re-

ceive all the roots of the tree without‘
Make it deep‘

bending or crushing.
enough so *that some loose surface
soil can be put in the bottom and so
that the young t‘ree placed on this soil
will be just a little deeper than it
stood in the nursery row. See that
the alignment of the trees in the rows
is correct, move the tree until it is in
its proper place. “‘

Thelree is now ready to be cover-
ed in provided some good 'soil'is at
hand for putting on top of the roots
and tampin’g it. As the loose top soil
is1 shoveled into the hole work in
evenly and keep it well tamped. When
the hole is about half full of earth
full pains should be taken to keep
the, soil packed firmly in the hole. If
the soil, is deficient in organic matter
or ‘plant food ”fertilizer or some kind/
ofmulch’ing material should be put
on top. of the soil aroundth’e trees—4

 

 

 

A 'markeddépfnrtnre inimcthods of

feeding-beef cattle has. been worked.

out at the University-pot. Missouri; Col-
lege of Agricultureby Prof. .H. 0. .Al-
lison. The new plan involves, feeding
relatively large amounts of corn. sil-
age. No corn - other than that con-
tained inthe silage is given the steers.
After three years of experimental
work with this method, the/College
of Agriculture is recommending it,
because it ofiers the possibility of fat—'
toning from three \to five steers on
an acre of corn» inatedd of a single

' steer whichcould be fattened under

the old system. In other words, at
least 160 steers can now be fattened
where only 40 were fattened under
the old plan.

This is the- greatest departure in
cattle feeding that has come within
the last '20 or 30 years. It has a num-
ber of advantages for the feeder since
it offers him opportunity for greater
profits. Even when the steers are fed
at a loss, this method has the advan-
tage over the old plan since the losses
are not‘so great. When the price of
steers shows a margin above the cest
of feeding, this method gives the feed-
er greater profits than the old system.
Therefore it is the safest method of
feeding under either condition, be-
cause it offers maximum profits and
minimum losses.

The College of Agriculture has found
that the steers fed no corn other than
that contained in the corn silage,
have made more money than those
fed under the old plan during every
trial that has been con-ducted. The
steers which made the most money
in the experiments conducted Last win-
ter received an average daily ration
per steer of 2.77 pounds of linseed oil
cake, 2.54 pounds of clover hay and
45.48 pounds of corn silage. This lot
returned an average profit per steer
of $15.04. The lot which made the
next highest profit, $14.02 per head,
received 4.40 pounds of linseed oil
cake per steer, 2.61 pounds of clover
hay and 44.98 pounds of corn silage.
AcCording to this trial. the increased
amount of linseed oil cake fed to the
second most profitable lot was not
justified. The least profitable lot
which returned only $5.27 per head,
received an average daily ration per
steer of 16.60 pounds shelled corn,
2.77 pounds linseed oil cake, 2 pounds
of clover hay. 27.21 pounds corn silage.

Those l‘ccders who are interested in
this method of feeding will find‘furth-
er information in Bulletin 150 of tho
College of Agriculture. Columbia, Mis-
souri.

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a 2 h. {farts-a burldslg‘e best engine in the world~
it will outlast the car—.- and you might as well can
you money'and use It to do all your farm work. ‘
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ninotes. .No permanent attachment to car. Cal-o.
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PRODUCE MORE HONEY.”
INCREASE YOUR PROFITS

With the prevailing sug—
ar shortage, honey 15.111
great demand and high
prices prevail. Make your
bees produce more this
year. Send for our cat-
alog for prices on Bee
Hives, Section Boxes,
Comb Foundation. Smok-
. ers, etc. everything for
the bees. Our beginner’s complete out-
fits are furnished with or without
bees. Beeswax wanted.
BERRY BASKETS

We advise that you
place your orders cur-'
ly for berry baskets
and lG—qt. crates be—
cause the demand will
exceed the supply. Let
us know your exact needs and we will
quote you prices. We can make im—
mediate shipments at present.

M. B. HUNT a SON,
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DON’T WAIT

Thousands of farmers will
buy Triple Wall Silos this
year. Beat the high cost of

. feed. Buy a TRIPLE WALL
SILO now. Take your extra
profit from the corn stalks.
SAVE YOUR CORN. Makc
more money. Feed ensilagc
from a. TRIPLE WALL SHA).
Free booklet tells all.
INDEPENDENT SILO (‘0.

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ROOKs’ APPLIANCE

w»... ‘ . the modern scientific
~ invention the wonder-

ful new discovery
that relieves rupture
will be sent on trial.
No obnoxious springs
or pads. Has auto-
matic Air Cushions.
Binds and draws the
broken parts togeth—
er as you would a. broken

Durable, cheap. Sent on
trial to prove 1L Protected
by U. S. patents. (‘atalo
and measure blanks mall
free. Send name and ad-
dress today.

c. E. Brooks, 463-A Sm. SL, Marshall, Mich.

“93'” NEW BEAN “‘"""

95 THE mmmm 55

AN ENORMOUS YIELDER, 1

Over 45 bushels have been grown on less than
an acre. Men who have grown beans for thirty
years say they never saw its equal: Plants ‘
loaded with pods producing snow white beans
will maturein about 75 to 80 days, “No danger‘o
Jack Frost:"excellent for home use. You shenld pla‘nt’
this NEW BEAN. as so many can be growri in-a ‘
small space: Five Courts have beengrown from'
100 beans. Try this been in your garden.yonwill
surely harvests good supply for next Season ‘

Growth of plants and yield will surprise you.
BOOK howtogrow garden Midfield buns FRIES Iridium ' .

Order at once, sold 0211 in sealed packets
containing 60 beans each. ticket. 10 c‘t‘s. 3
25 eta. 7 pkts. so eta. 1 011m swarm

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11 you want Leghornstfiat will pay" 1‘

“for their feed'a‘dozen times over, write
’ 8.2 ‘We

‘r reeding Stock,
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hens and, pullets 1 only.

CREST POULTRY FARM,
proilanti, Michigan. ' '

 

 

73.1NGLE COMB WHITE LEGIIORNS

Eggs, Young’s strain, $1.00 per 15. Fer-
‘lity guaranteed. Harry Schliep, Turner,
‘ chlgam. ~

 

 

 

1‘ PBOFITABLE BUFF LEGHOBNS—We
have twenty pens of. especially mated
Single Comb Buffs that are not only mat-
.edfor exhibition but, above all, for prof-
itable egg production. Eggs at very reas-
onable price. Our list w ll interest you
--plea;se ask for it. Village
Grass Lake, Michigan.
- , 1 . CHICKS
We ship thousands
each season, different
varieties booklet and
testimonials, stamp appreciated. Freeport
Hatchery, Box 10, Freeport. Michigan.
CHICKS Young’s Heavy Laying Strain.
S. C. White Leghorns. 25 chicks
83.50; 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.
HATCHING EGGS
LEGHORNS
08E COMB WHITE LEGHORN eggs
from good layers $1.25 per 13, postpaid.
Mrs. L. J. Pelky, Honor, Mich., RFD. 1.
ATCHING EGGS and Day-Old Chicks
" H for immediate delivery from our
Barron English 240—egg strain White
Leghorns. Heavy winter layers, large
birds, easy hatchers and raisers, quick
growers. Hatching eggs $6.00 per 100
and Chicks $13.00 per 1‘00 chicks. Sat—
isfaction guaranteed. Devries .Leghorn
Farms & Hatchery, Zeeland, Michigan,
Box B222. ,

LYRIOUTH ROCK

GGS FOR HATCIHNGr from Pure bred
Ringht Strain Barred Rocks 15 for $1.
60 for $2.50; 100 for 83.00. Mrs. G. M.

Weaver, Fife Lake, Michigan.
from our Bred-t0—

HATCHING EGGS Lay Strains. Bar-

red Plymouth Rocks $1.50 per setting,
$2.50 for 30 eggs, $8 per 100. S. C. White
Leghorns $1 per setting, $1.75 for two
settings, $5 per 100‘ CUSTOM HATCH-
ING done at 3c per egg. Russell Poultry
Ranch, Petersburg. Michigan.

A’I‘CHING EGGS From Prize-Win-
‘ning Barred Rocks, Thompson strain.
$6.00 Hundred; $3.25 Fifty; $2.00

Thirty Special mating $1.50 per 15.
Sum Rtadci, (‘helsezh Michigan.

From straih w th
Barred ROCk Eggs records t.) 200 eggs
per year. $2.00 per 15 Prcpaid by par—
cel post. Cr'ular free. Fre‘l Aotling,
Constantine. Michigan.

 

 

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(‘OMB RHODE ISLAND RED

Eggs for Hatching. Prize-Winning
Stock. Fertility and stock guaranteed.
$1.50 for fifteen, or $6.00 for 100. Wm.
J. Ruschc, Alpine. Michigan, Route No. l.

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ORI’INGTON

 

HAMPION Black and Buff Orping—
tons. Stock and hatching eggs for
sale. James A. Daley, Mohawk, Mich.

have eB‘B’S for Hatching and

Farms, '

, doubtful

 

RUN NER DUCKS

 

ENCILEI) RUNNER DUCK eggs, $1.00

per 13. Buttercup eggs $1.25 per 15.
$2.00 per 30. (lood Hatch guaranteed.
Roy Mathews, Vermmitville Michigan.

 

 

SEEDS AND PLANTS

l 916 crop. .

seed Beans for sample
Robert J. Bowman. it. i.

 

Send 10 cents
and price.
Pigeon, Mich.

 

SEED CORN—Golden Orange Flint, $5
bu. Red cob, $4 bu. Grain Ensilage.
$3.60. Order earl . Sample for stamp.
Harry Vail, Warw c . Orange Co, N. Y.

 

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

 

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.

 

IT'I‘LE NAVY SEED BEANS.
are hand picked and free from any
disease and yielded 20 bu per acre;
were ripened before the frost and dried
before the rains, $9 per bu. fob Lake—
view. Geo. W. Fountaine, Lakeview,
Michigan, R. F. D. No. 2.

 

 

50 Bushels of Shel‘ed Seed Corn,
yellow, 1916 corn, raised in Indiana.
tested by M. A,- C. College tested 80
per cent. Might be 0. K. for corn to
" .huskt but uould recommend‘for ensil-
page or silo. Price 35.3056 lbs. F.O.B.
wW.’ E- Rasmussen,, Staxnton, Michigan.

 

 

 

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I

, On some farms dairying pays. On
other ~farms it' is difficult to .d‘eter’m-
ine whet-her it pays or not, and on
many farms it’is a losing game. How

to make dairyi‘ng pay is a pretty big:

question; however, acareful analysis

of. the situation will frequently indi- ,

date a plan by which the owner can
work out the problem. .In' studying
the business on many farms one is im-

pressed with the fact that many dairy '

farmers are seriously handicapped . be-
cause of the size of their farms and
the fertility of their land. If one
has a large enough farm and decently

fertile land, dairying ought to pay?

The cost of building up a badly run-
down soil is too great to admit‘of‘prof-
it. One ought to have a farm that will
produce good crops of corn, clover,
grasses and small grain créps and

'then add to its fertility.

The next consideration is the size
of the farm. A farm ought to be large
enough to keep one man busy during
the year and two men at times when
field work is pressing.

a few hogs and a flock of fowls.
owners spend the winter months car-
ing for their stock. Even tho they do
their work well and the cows do their,
best. it is easy to mark the total pos-
sible income from the cows. A com-
fortable living may be secured, but if
one charges for his time. it is very
if he finds profitable the
farm that merely supports six or eight
cows. The cows might return an in-
come of $100 each, but- it is more like—
ly that they will return much less. So
that the dairy would have a possible
gross income of six or eight hundred
dollars a year and a probable one of
much less.

The point is that the man was not
sufficiently busy. He could as well
have cared for twelve or sixteen cows
during the winter. A man may make
a living from a few cows on a small
farm; to make a profit it must be big
enough to keep him pretty vigorously
busy. Land and cows do not yield
profit—that comes from labor expend-
ed on them. This is a different prop-
osition in pasture work, but during
the season when cows are in pasture
the owner is usually busy growing
food for winter so‘ the proposition of
milking and field work during the
summer more than equals the labor
necessary to provide for the cows dur—
ing the winter. in either case one
cannot hope for large profits unless
he employs considerable labor on his
farm. I am not saying that the small
farm that supports a few cows, hogs.
poultry and cash crops may not pay
you. I am speaking of dairy farming
as generally conducted in the leading
dairying sections.

Many farms that support only
enough cows to keep one man busy
could, through the use of a silo and
more cows furnish profitable work for
two men. By putting the cows on high
pressure and practicing more intense
methods or crop growing the owner
could double the gross income from
the dairy herd by keeping a hired
hand. The farm ought, to be large
enough to keep 'two men profitably
busy. Under an intensive system of
crop growing, soiling and depending
upon purchased grains a farm of 80
acres would keep two men busy dur-
ing the year. On the other hand a
farm of from 100 to 160 acres. depend-
ing upon how many acres are tilinble.
and how many head of young stock
are kept, will usually return a. great—
er net profit. “ With high-pressure
farming.28 cows, a few heifers and
heifer calves, the necessary work hors—
es and other stock could be kept and
a portion of the grain feed raised on
the farm.

The dairy farm is a factory and
should be kept 'in profitable operation
during the year. The problem is one
of producing cheap raw materials, se-
lecting efficient machines and employ-
ing competent labor. Efficiency should
be the slogan of the farm factory——~
to keep down operating charges
produce , superior, products.

A. gm

/ Some dairy.
farmers keep only six or eight cowsL
The

.penses?

and ‘

. - . .Tho snow.
icessfu‘l dairy farmer must be a master; 3

_ ' ‘ "DAIRY rARM3PAYsTa

- . " ‘ "which“cows anion.
,1 producers, j and keel) :9: Am
i of laborcostefan‘d-

too high-L V M ‘

' ,"After adapting the labortdthe‘n‘um
ber of c ws‘ 1: t, th in; t " " . . , 1 .. _:; ~, .,
' , 0 6‘" ~ 1" x ”mm in i'-__that thesestatemenlts creeper-sonar

making the dairy, farm, pay“ ig‘tdfploinf'
the distribution. of‘ labor so that * the.
men and work- teams msygworbgat

maximum efficiency in pfo.duc1fig ‘Buitzé
able food crops for the stoiik. . -, By-

adopting a system or. crop rotation:

that requirer‘ labor at different seasé:
one one can produc’e more food form:

the cows atless cost than When creps
that do not afford such a seasonal dis?

trihntion of labor are grown. Corn, ‘

small grains, clover, alfalfa and mix-
ed hay fit tagether in such a way-as
to keep the men and teams profitably
busy during the growing season. The
haying may conflict with cultivating
the, cornfield, but the work can be

sandwiched together so as oto ’avoid'
The‘

serious damages to either crop.
growing of a cash crop in the rotation

"will in many cases prove very prom:

able and result in better 'distributidn
of the‘labor. ‘ ' ' ~ .
In making a study of the different

‘ crops, the dairy cattle and the general

repairs on the/farm, the work to be
performed may be divided into into
classes; labor which must be done at
a definite time if it is to be effective;
and labor which can be done equally
well at any time prior to some fixed
date. Labor of the first class includes
plowing, planting, cultivating ,and
harvesting;-the second class compris-
es manure hauling, repairing fences
and buildings, the putting of machin-
ery into repair before the time for use.
fall plowing. The prudent dairy farm-
er never allows labor of the second
class to interfere with labor of the
first class.

Then there are the buildings and
equipmint; are they efficient? Are
the feedstuffs waSted in the weather,
or rroperly preserved in the barns
and silos? How much can the efficien-
cy of ‘the, plant be increased without
adding too much to the operating ex-
As a general proposition,
this is the end at which to work in
making the dairy farm pay. Make
the soil more productive and the plant
better.

When one makes the statement that
the dairy‘business is conduehfi with
the least efficiency of any busin‘essin-
the country, I suppose it would be dis-
cretion on his part to retire to a se-
cluded spot. I firmly believe that this
describes our dairy farming, but the
truth is, the dairy farmers are not
altogether responsible for some of the
factors that bring about this condi-
tion. Tl ey are not all in a position
to undertake comprehensive efficiency
schemes, but the fact still remains
that the average dairy farmer pays
'ittle attention to 'high producing
cows, to testing the cows in his herd,
to the use of improved sires, to the
adoption of systems of management
adapted to meet. his particular farm
and conditions to the thousand and one
items of knowledge, which if applied
advisabiy. would double the net in—'
come from his farm. He is satisfied

to grow food crops, feed and milk

"7a.... gthje‘ can cor]

th-Oughtful “iii-"ass?

"injustice to himself-he has» "but. to;

‘ "compare the milk records of his: herd 1,
-,w1th...5tlie;‘,3,500 pound average, of; £113} '
5*; chardonnay ’tofsee‘ how flinch ”0’92
or below’the average. efficiency hegat- 1

tinned» _ ., - .
Harris this "viéry. low?” average to be

'raised?; To 1 the: monomer whomn - .

.cows produce less than 6,000,-pounds,
«of milk per. ‘year- I: should answer:

_learn how to feed yourcows better. ’

'To the dairy farmer _who succeeds-in
continuously getting considerable bet:
ter‘than the above. figure I should say; ’
find out how to getbetter cows. Read ”3
thisaparagraphiover twice and you. will; .-

1. discover. that no play on; .Words is in-,_,, , "

i’tended to centuSe the reader.

Given a herd of efficient cows and.

equality of conditions, and on};~ mung
will produce. twice asumuch milk as
another. The first man feeds his
'cows better than the second man. He
has mastered the art of getting“ the
most milk from the‘hereditary possi-
bilities within his herd. ~‘Given ident-
ical barns, feeds and conditions, and
some men will Obtain double the milk
yield of others. This time theflmasters
of the situation feed better cows. It
was a question of giving the cows the
'best feed invthe first case, and of ob-
taining cows of the best hereditary
endowment in the second case. .

The reason for making these two
separate recommendations, when at-
tention to both feeding and breeding
is essential to greater profit is sim-
ple. Every dairy farmer should keep
the best cows he can afford to keep,
but feeding the cows one has in the
best possible manner is» mucheasier
than getting the best possible cows to
feed. and one cannot always start at
the top of the ladder.

Past dairy progress may have been
due more to improvement in methods
of feeding and housing than to the
use of superior bred cows, bu‘t in the
future our hopes must center upon the
breeder of dairy cattle. There are.
sound reasons for this statement. Feed-
ing is the application of principles»
of chemistry and physics, and these
two sciences are established on firm
foundations. Breeding is applied bi-
ology, and biology is yet in its in-
fancy because its progress is also de—
pendent upon the older sciences. Nev-
ertheless, the breedingof dairy cattle
has made great progress in the past
few years. Definite rules that give
results and give them quickly can be
given for the improvement of the
milking qualities of dairy cows, and it
is interesting that dairy breeding. has
proved to be a master key in unlockn
ing these mysterious hereditary forc-
es. First, let us make our farms pay
better through feeding our COWS bet~
ter; then as we become qualified to
handle them efficiently let us make
our farms pay still greater profits
through feeding better cowa—W. Mil-
ton Kelly.

 

 

 


. are for Sal
a one of the Very:
'ams havdhigh.

HOMESTEAD FARMS,
Bloominxdwle, Midilgan

 

11'." ksr"

 

 

SHEPHERD. MICH,
Breeder of purebred

. Holstein-Friction Cattle
Young bulls for sale from A. It.
0. des with “reditable records.

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HOBTElNgFRIESlAN CATTLE

Account present labor canditions and sickness in _
in run lly we otter tor immediate sale our entire

herd of about 20 choice cows. This herd is com-
“coed“ of large vigorous cows. of the most popular

”nos landing. The Individuals offered are in
excellent 1th grad flesh condition and are capa-
bio of going on and doing a profitable year' 11 Work.
The entire lot will be priced righ t.

DELQSS EDDY. Byron, Mich.

 

 

 

 

_ . , Registered Holsteins—
or eBulls ready for service,
,, and bull calves from 30
lbs. bull and A R. O. dams; also females
*of all ages.
Wm Griffin. Howell, Mich., R. No. 5.
EGIS'I‘ERED HOLSTEIN BULL 11
months old. Grandson of Hengerveld
e Kol. Sired by Johan Hengerveld Lad
who has 61 AR.O. daughters and out of
a granddaughter of Pontiac1 bDeNijlander
35. 43 lbs. butter and 750. 261 b.s milk in 7
days. 3090. 60 lbs. milk in 30 days. Price
$125. F...OB Flint. Write for Photo and
pedigree. L. C. Ket zl.er

a1. SALISBURY”

4‘ lines or one in h and for is... than 18 insertions under this

t 01' 11".
quote rates“. 1

Title dis layed to best advantage.
or Jam.- ads or for ads to run 13 issues or inom we will make.

Send in copy and

I rates which will cheerfully be sent on application to the Advertising Dept. .,

, St., West, Detroit. »

HICKORY GROVE STOCK FARM

_.,'Oifers for immediate sale 12 daughters of
"King Henge yeid Palmyra Fayne bred to

Mutual Eon lac Lad. All of the cows in
this herd are strong in the blood of Maple-
crest and Pontiac Aggie Korndyke. We
can always furnish carioads of pure bred
and grade cow

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

SUNNY PLAINS HOLSTEINS

Purebred Holstein bulls, 7 months old
and young nger. ornd kc and Canary
breeding. From A. 0. dams with
good records. ChOice individuals. Also
a few females for sale. Right prices.
~‘A'rwin Killinger, Fowlerville, Michigan,
Phone, 68F15 ' '

WOLYERINE STOCK FARM

*Breeders of Holstein- Friesian Cattle,
Battle- Creek, Michigan. Senior Herd
Sire. Judge Walker Pieterje whose
first five dams are 30 lb. cows. Young
bulls for sale, from daughters of King
Korndyke Hengerveld Oronsby.

 

 

 

 

 

 

' ‘Topé- N—Otch’
HOLSTEIN S

The young bulls we have for sale
are backed up by many generations
of large producers, Buy one of these
bulls, and give your .-herd a “push.”
Full descriptions, prices, etc. on re-

quest.
McPherson .17 arms Co.
Howell, Mich.

 

OLSTEIN. BULL CALF born Jan. 28.
19 918. Afine individual, nicely marked
from a 29. 42 15F Sire and 23 80 lbs. 4 yrs.
old dam. A. Loomis, Owosso, Mich

OR SALE—Three” choice Registered
Holstein Cows. High record ances-
tors. Pedigrees on request. Address
E. P. Kinney. East Lansing Michigan.

’1‘le BINKLAND, HERD
Registered '
HOLSTEIN—FRIESIAN CATTLE.
John A. Rinke. Warren, Michigan.

 

 

L

WASHTENAW FARM HOLSTEINS

30 lb. bull in service. ‘ No stock for
sale at present. Carl F. and Ben N.
Braun, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

 

 

 

 

 

EGISTERED HOLSTEIN bull calves

for sale—Breeding very high, but

prices very low for a short time.
Model Stock Farm-=1, E. P. Kinney, Prop,
East Lansing, Michigan.

One Car-load Registered Holstein:

Yearlings sired by 30 pound bull and
from heavy- -producing cows. Also some
choice Duroc open gilts.,

J: Hubert Brown, Byron, Michigan.

mn’eow HOISTEINS Young .0...
heifers. heif-

er calves. g. daughters and g...gd of Hen-
gerveld DeKol (best bull in the world.
_ Large herd. Perfect Aug. bull calf for
$15 marked half & half from 15 lb.
5:3; Iix%ifiauhgihterbcsf 26‘: lb. b. 600 lb. m.
s psu ec oa rovai. C 3

$150 to $176. heifer" $75 tpp$15 25 0w
ROBIN CARR FOWLERVILLE, MICH.

HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN CATTLE

FOR SALE--Young Holstein bulls from
good A. R. 0. 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.

CATTLE FOR SALE

zLoads feeders and two loads yearling
steers. Also can show you any number
1, 2 and 3 years old from 500 to 900 lbs
Isaac Shanstum, Fairfield, Iowa R- 8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JERSEY

 

 

DUROC JERSEYS of the Heavy
boned type. Service boars and Spring
Pigs for sale, also Reg. Shorthorn Bull
Calves of Milking Strain 4 mos. old,
the price is $100 each.

M A. Bray Estate, Chas. Bray, Mgr.,
Okemos, Michigan

 

 

 

 

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.
FOR SALE One 11 mos. old grandson
of Royal Majesty whose

dam as a 3 yr. old produced 406. 24 lbs. of
butter. in 1 yr Solid color. First check
of $90 takes him. Registered, trans-

ferred and delivered to any point in
Michigan. Fred A. Brennan, Capac, Mich

 

 

 

THE WILDWOOD 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
cost of feed. The kind that pays. We
invit~ inspection. Satisfaction guaran-
teed. ALVIN BALDEN Capac, Mich,

phone 143-5.

 

 

 

 

GUERNSEY

GUERNSEYS Heggs “SEE cgws FY13:
sale, also a number of well bred young

bulls—write for breeding. Village Farms,
Grass Lake, Michigan

EGISTERED GUERNSEY BULL calf

for sale. Four months old. well mark-

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

SHORTHORN

OB SALE——8 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
times at the above named shows. Herd
just tubercaline tested without a single re-
actor. John Schmidt & Sons Reed City.
Michigan.

HAT DO YOU WANT? I represent 41
SHOR'I‘HORN 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.

HEREFORD

‘250 STEERS FOR SALE

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

 

 

8 bull calves Prince

Herefords' Donald and Farmer
Breeding. ALLEN BROS., Paw Paw, Mich.

 

 

 

 

HORSES
BELGIAN
BELGIAN STALLION
3 ear old for sale. Can be reg-
istered in purchaser’s
name. Price $300.00. Geo. M. Williams.
Route No. 1, Big Rapids, Michigan.

PERCIIERON

I Grey Tower Farm _

 

 

 

 

 

.Serviceable Boar
J. Carl Jewett, Mason, Mi

 

 

 

 

 

 

Half Ton—0. 1. (is—Half Ton

Spring pigs sired by the Five great-
est boars in use in one herd in\Arne.r-_
ica and from the sows that were ‘unde-
feated at 111., Mo.. Ohio and Mich. state 3‘
fairs. Write for our catalogue, it's
free, we want you to see it before you,
buy. We guarantee satisfaction. "
Crandell’s Prize Hogs, Cass City, Mid-L1 -

 

 

 

 

OUNG 0.1.0. sows of fine quality.‘
Boars and bred sows all sold. Floyd. H.‘
Banister, Springport. Michigan.

0.]. C. either sex; sired by lot

prize yearling boar Mich. State Fair 1917'
$110111” Leaf Stock Farm, Monroe Mich.
. o. .

 

Choice young boars ready -

DUROC

 

 

 

 

Now offers for sale a few choice Hol-
stein bull calves, from high-testing-
dams with good A. R. 0. records, at
farmers’ prices write us about them
and our

Durocs & Berkshires A

 

M. D. KITCHEN, Mgr.
Grass Lake, Mich.

 

 

 

 

UROC SOVVS and GILTS, bred for
June farrowing, to Oiiun Fancy King
83857, the biggest pig for his age
ever shown at lntclnational Live Stock
Show. Also ball bozus legistexed Grated
and deliveied anywhere in state.
Newton Barnhart, St. Johns, Michigan.

 

POLAND CHINA
16‘: TYPE POLAND CHINAS. Brood
sows all sold. Have a. few fall pigs.
Prices right. L. W. Barnes & Son.
Blell, Michigan.

Big Type Poland China bred
Recorded sows and gilts, for sale.
Leading blood lines of the breed. at our

herds head. C. A. Boone, Blanchard,
Michigan. '

 

 

 

0R SALE. Percheron Stallion 121705
Black, Heavy bone fellow—foalcd
June 23rd,1915 J. F. (ii tidy \assar.

Michigan, Route No. 7.

LEONARD’S POL A N l) 1‘ HINAS. Noth-n
111g for sale but fall pig's.

Ordcis booked fo1 swing pigs. E.

Lco11a1d,St. Louis Michigan

 

HAMPSHIRE

 

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100 REGISTERED IIOLSTEINS

A herd of high pioducing females from the breeds, best
Herd headed by Dutchland Colantha Winana Lad
11401.7 Senior and G1a11d Champion Bull at Michigan State
Junior sire
3516 son of Friend IIengcrveld De K01 Buite1 Boy

Gun 11"" families.

rol‘ur non
{Milli-'1 ,’

Fair 1917.
132652a

- ..«nmllllllllllllllilIllIlllfllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

and whose dam and ~34
yearly butter records
months old for sale.

R. BRUCE BICPIIERSON, HOW'EI L, MIC".

lllll
100

Maplecrest Application Pontiac
sister hold 6th and 7th highest
Sons of these great sires up t”. 15
Prices and pedigrees on applicaiion.

.11I'- . 11.14.11Iwml ill‘llll'l:

1« or TEREI) HAMPSHIRE solute"~
for sale. John W Snyder, R. 4, .
Johns, Michigan.

 

 

SHEEP

08. AUGUST DEI [VERY 50 Register-
ed Shropshire Yearling ewes and
Registered Yearling Hams of extra qualv
ity and b1eeding. Flock established 1890.

C. Lemon, Dexter, Michigan

 

 

”THE BULL IS DIORE

of the' Pontiacs.
over 20 lbs.

BOARDMAN FARMS,

THAN HALF

King Korndyke Oriskany Pontiac

His dam and his sire’s dam average.
days, 537. 75, per cent fat, 5 52; butter, 30 days, 145. 93, milk, 2,213 80.
is sired by the $10, 000 bull, King Korndyke Pontiac Lass, a son of K 1’
Pontiac Lass, the first 44- lb. cow and the most famous daughter of King
His dam, a 31- lb. cow, has three young daughters well

Herd is annually tested for tuberculosis.
We offer a few bull calves from well bred A. R. dams.
CLINTON AVE.,

THE HERD"

butte1,7 days, 37. 76, milk,

He

JACKSON, .‘IICIIIGAN

 

Holstein-Fnesian Cattle
Under the present labo1 conditions

I feel the necessity of reducing my
herd Would sell a few bred females

01 a few to freshen this spring These

coivs are- all with calf to a 30- -pou_nd
bull. J. Fred Smith, Byron, Michigan

 

 

CHOICE REGISTEREI) STOCK

PERCHERONS,
f" 7.. HOLSTEINS,
' ‘ ‘ SHROPSHIRES,
ANGUS. .1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*ROBT R. ._ POINTER & 5011

Breeders of

Registered Holstein-F r1e31an Cattle

DEARBORN, MICHIGAN

59.33.) k forsalc at all times. If you are looking

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

POULTRY

PLYMOUTH

 

ROI’K
M ISHLANI)’S W HITE ROCKS-The di-

 

1ect blood of a well- known ZOO-egg
stiain.
;$‘.3. 00 for 50; $9. 00 per 100

111. Seamans & Son, Belleville, Michigan.

BARRED ROCKSThe farmer’s kind. ..

Eight years of care-
ful breeding, large, heavy-laying fowls.
Eggs $5 for 50', $10 fOI 1219.01133 1,
Cook, Fowlerville, Michigan.

 

BARRY)" ROCK Cockrola
Pure BIC for sale $3 each. Hatching‘
eggs $3 per 15. R. R. Bowman, Pigéon,,:
Michigan. . ,

 

W'YA N DO'I‘T E

 

Superior Farm do“? 3%

winter 19. ,
and fit 1'01 any show room Eggs a is»
March 1st, $2.00, $3.00 and $5. 00 pé 1,532:
$8 00 per 100. Send for matin .
C. W. Honeywell, Plymouth MIC

ILVER, GOLDEN and WHITE W
dottes of quality. fine large cookers.
$3. 00 each. B'g‘gs 52- 50 per 15.013.1‘81366
Browning, R..1\-'o 2. Portland, Micmg'

LEGHORN

20000 Standard bred White om
(Young strain) and4 Afi’
chicks for April delivery at $13 per "
Satisfaction and safe arrival guaihn .
Order at once and get 0 talogg. HQLW
HATCHERYJR no 7 1111. ii 6:114

 

for service, also fall pig‘s'32.~.

Eggs for hatching $1. 50 for


   
    
 
   

  

_ White Mdmidduke (18882,,G'rand Champion-éu
"i . _Michigan State Fair, 1916 " ,

27 head of R mistefed. dislikes-t,including

 

at 12:30 o’clock p. m.

All animals tuberoulin tested and guaranteed.
Write for catalogue.

‘ ;Michigan. School for the Deaf,

w. L. HOFFMAN, Steward, Flint, Mich. -

fiber are months.3b

tFlmt Michigan, Wednesday. May 3, 1913.7

.. I e '
- ° is there an danger of «hem *7”
and issttb’ere any ’dan y ' i '

 

 

 

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EXTRAORDINARY OPPORTUNITY

The Livingston County 'li-Ilglictfiin Breeders’ Sale C0;
’ . W1 0 Its

‘f‘l’ourth Annual Public Sale on Thursday, May 16, 1918, at 10:30 a. m.

at Howell, Mich, at the Sale Pavilion on the Fair Grounds.

-. We .Will offer 100 head of Registered Holsteins consisting of 91 females
and 9 bulls. .

This sale will be the Dispersion of the entire herd of S. B. Rubert, Howell,
Mic}-.. who contributes 40 head. ‘

Among the bulls will be a herd bull by the Mighty Rag Apple Korndyke
8th and out of a daughter of Pontiac Korndyke. Several of the bull calves are
of choice breeding and are fit to head herds. Their dams have records from
22 lbs. as Junior 2 year olds, to 29 lbs. '

Among the femalles will be found: A 28 lb. daughter of King of the Ponti-
acs and two of her daughters by an extra good sire. Two daughters of Pontiac
Korndyke and some stock from each. A 26 lb. Junior 3 year old. A 26 1b. Sen-

. ior 3 year old. A 26 lb. Junior 4 year old. A 25 lb. cow and her dau hter by a

30 lb. sire. Two 22 lb. Junior 2 year olds. Two granddaughters o Colantha
Johanna Lad, both with records. 20 daughters of Smithdale Alcartra Pontiac
who has six 2 year old daughters that average 19.7 lbs. butter each in 7 days
and two 3 year olds with 25 and 26 lbs. He is a son of that famous cow Al-
cartra Polkadot. who has three daughters with records above 31 lbs.. and is a.
brother to the sire of Tilly Alcartra the World’s Champion Long Distance Cow.
A large percentage either have records themselves or are from record dams.
Many of the females are bred to bulls whose dams have records from 30 to
35 lbs. and 9 are bred to King Segis Champion Mobel whose dam has a. 40 1b.
record at 4 years old and who is a full brother to King Model who sold in ‘the
Steven’s Sale in 1917 for $10,000.00 .
We believe they are .the best bred lot of cattle ever offered at Public Sale
in Michigan with the single exception of the National Sale at Detroit in 1916.
Remember the Date and the Place and plan to be present.

Auctioneers: Perry K’ Mack. (Catalogues May lst)

 

F. J. FISHBECK, Howell, Mich, Secretary.

 

 

 

 

We Hate to Sell this Kind of Stock

But we have listed them for sale at the Livingston County Breeders’ Sale
Company’s sale at. Howell, Mich, May 16, 1918.

Milk Butter

Queen Pieterje Mink De K01 ............................ 25.48 578
Koostia Artis De K01 .................................... 22.17 574
Lillie Burke Canary, A jl‘. 3-year-old record of ............ 26.21 498
Brookfield AAggie Wayne Pontiac, Jr. 2-yr.-old record ....18.17 408
Annette Segis Brook De fiKol. jr. 2-yr.-old record ............ 17.30 352
King Korndyke Segis Pieter 232927, born Jan. 9, 1918. This is a

wonderful individual. more than half white. He has five of seven nearest
dams in his pedigree that average above 3014, pounds of butter in seven
days. His dam is a 29.11 pound cow that made this record after losing
one—quarter. His sire is King Pieter Segis Lyons 170506.

Included in our consignment are 5 heifers of similar lines of breed-
ing. Meet us at Howell, Mich, May 16th, 1918. '

MUSOLFF BROS., South Lyons, Mich. '

din-g as frequently

 

 

 

If you need a Herd Sire get this one—horn Nov. 14, ’17

His Sire. Napier-rest De lx'ol Burton 94152. a son of Friend Hengerveld
DeKol Butter Boy, who has 5 daughters with year records averaging 1,118.06
lbs. butter and 23.730 lbs. milk. Maplecrcst De Kol Burton’s dam is Maple—
crest Pontiac Jennie, lwr dam Burton Ilighlawm 2nd, one of the only two
cows in the world to produre two 30 lb. daughters and have a (laughter to
do likewise. Mamet-rest l’tillllilt‘ Jennie is by l’ontiac Aggie Korndyke. who
has 10 daughters \vith year‘s records l.ltil.87 Hm. butter and above 20,000
lbs. milk each.

llis dam. lntz l’lt‘lt'l'je 2nd Jr. four—yenr-old record, milk 527 lbs, but-
ter. 20.53. 1 A. ll. H. daughter. l-lcr dam is Inez Pietertje. milk, 589 lbs.
butter. 28.25, with .l .‘.. it. 0. daughters. This last statement means a good
deal. Did you ever stop to think that every animal in the lwrd. is her pro~
geny live generations of females. if this appeals to you. come and see him.
Price, $175.00. Evenly marked and a fine individual.

W. W. WYCKOFF, Napoleon, Mich.

 

 

 

 

CONSIGN YOUR LIVE STOCK To

CLAY, ROBINSON & (:0.
LIVE STOCK COMMISSION

South St. Paul I

Chicago South Omaha Denver Kansas City
East Buffalo Fort Worth East St. Louis Sioux City
El Paso South St. Joseph

 

 

 

 

 

coder 0' Mulligan Business Earmiugfz—w'rlpey are friends of our‘ paper, too!

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th- the bunch. of Git-tile; his»
Februar , another heifer. flost‘h,
four an a half months. Ye
oldish oowiost .her7 calf-at at an
half months; she has not been w
buns nights. .Now‘I lined 8.: Ho
on the. second heifer ;~ is“ it esteem].
fig; oln others? have a- cow do "

  
     
      
 
 

     

 
    

ear, of my cow’s due

in thetfall and of my yearling heifers? '
Is’ this contagious abortion?“ Augearly,‘

reply would be reciatod.—L. .T.. Ch '
lotto Michigan. 3p? M.-

.You have infectious .. abortion in
your herd and if you follow" out the
suggestions .I‘ have given below ,.I'
firmly believe the disease can not only
be controlled but entirely eliminated:

«1.'.Beginning_ three weeks before
service to bull wash root of tail, vul-
‘va, buttocks and escutcheon‘ of cow
daily with spongeamd .solution made
by adding three ounces of compound
of cresol to one gallon of clean water
and continue this treatment daily
until three weeks after animal has
been bred and conceived.

2, Douch vagina daily""With three

teaspoons of borax to one pint of.

water or three ounces of borax to
one gallon of water for the same
length of time as suggested in ,preced‘
ing paragraph.~ Use about one quart
of the borax solution for each douch.

3. <Koep the hairs around prepuee‘
and lower surface of belly clipped and
irrigate sheath of bull with same so,
lution suggested for vaginal douch,
also wash lower surface of belly of
bull with solution suggested in para-.
graph one for cleaning external parts
of cow. .

4. Two or three days before cow
is due to calve, or if animal shows
signs of abortion, remove to a large
box stall, which has been: well disin-
fected and supplied with clean bed-
ding, away from other cattle and give
treatment advised in 1 and 2. Change
the bedding as frequently as is neces-
sary to keep C can.

5. Whethe delivery is normal or
an abortion remove the soiled bed«
as is necessary
to keep clean and spray floor and
walls with four ounces of compound
solution of cresol co one gallon of
water before adding clean bedding
and wash the tail, vulva, buttocks.
escutcheon and udder with three
ounces of compound solution of cre-
sol to one gallon of water once or
twice a day as long as there. is any
discharge from uterus. The. after-
birth and aborted calf, if the case
is one of abortion. should be immedi-
ately destroyed by burning or bury-
ing deeply. ‘

6. If there is a retention of the af-
ter—birth or a persistent discharge
from the uterus further treatment
should be carried out only under the
direction of a competent veterinar-
ian who is capable of making an ex-
amination of the uterus, through the
rectum and determining the exact
condition.

7. If sterility is giving trouble in
your herd and the value of the an—
imals justify it. it is advisable to
have all cows that calve, whether
abortion or otherwise, examined by
a competent veterinarian about. four
days after delivery. This examina-
tion should be made through the rec-
tum in order that. any abnormality
may be properly treated before ex-
tensive changes have occurred.‘

8. Vaginal explorations with the
hand or vaginal injections subsequent
to calving or abortion should not be
made except in cases of retained af-
te‘nbirth and when rectal examina-
tion indicates that such are neces-
sary and then these should only be
made after thoroughly cleansing with
a disinfectant, the tail, buttocks and
vulva of the cow and the hands of
(the operator. ‘

9. At no time should any instru-
ment be inserted into . the vagina
without previous disinfection'of the
root of the tail, buttocks and vulva,
and disinfection of the instruments.

In herds where.it is necessary to "
give several cows Vaginal douches the
same daynth'e instrument used should
be inserted into six ounces of com-
pound solution of cresole to one gal-

“L. the barn .65 that; their ' ‘13::in

1;: J15, per 9 t- twins

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segregate, such animals. tum

    
   
 

(filly Cleaned and disinfected

giitter daily and freely use some seed

sinfectamt in the gutter and on the

floor. of the stalls.

‘12. The udder, teats andhands of"
~ the military should be Washed . with

one to a, one7thou3and solutionfof bi:
chloride of mercury, before and after
milking. ' w “

NOTEv—If-the odor of. conipound’

solution of cresol is objectionable sub-

stitute one ’ to one-thousand 3 solution .

‘of bicthrlde of mercury. A

To prepare the solution of bichloride' ’

of mercury take two poundsof mer-
curic chloride and dissolve in five
pounds .of commercial hydrochloric
acid. Store in a‘stone jug or glass
container. ' ' »
'To make a one to one-thousand so-
lution take one ounce of the stock so-
lution and add to three gallons of
clean water.

AMONG THE BREEDERS

By W. MILTON KELLY, Field Editor

Home Address: Howell, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is‘iindeed gratifying‘to men who are
interested in-building up the great Hol-
stein-Friesian cattle breeding industry of
Michigan on a. permanently profitable
foundation to note the efforts being made
by the West Michigan Holstein Breed-
ers Association to raise the standard of

the animals listed at their sales. The ,

methods of conducting public sales in
Michigan have done more to give the
business of breeding Holstein cattle a
black eye than any other thing connected
with the industry. Inferior, uncouth of~
ferings‘ and insufficient publicity may re-
sult in finding good markets for cull
stock,‘but it is a mighty poor policy for
the great breeding interests of the state
of Michigan to allow a few cheap sale
companies to fix the prices of their pure—
bred dairy cattle. Just as long as these
sale companies allow inferior, untested
stock to be listed at their sales, just so
long will Michigan Holstein cattle sell
for less money than the Holsteins bred
in any other state in the Union. It is
high time for the real progressive Hol-
stein breeders of Michigan to awaken to
a realization of the fact that the price
set by buyers of this inferior stock that
is offered at these public sales automat-
ically fixes the price on every animal
they have on their farms. The man who
consigns inferior bred. no record animals
to the public sales, like the man who pro-
duces filthy milk to be mixed with clean
milk from careful dairy farmers, is a
mew-ace to the dairy industry and should
be eliminated. These statements may
bring criticism from men who are con—
ducting public sales. but l\lichigan Bus—
iness Farming is interested first of all
in doing everything possib‘e to raise the
standard of the cattln offered at public
sales in Michigan and to that end is in
sympathy with ny movement which will
raise the stan ard of the offerings at
these sales. * *

Musolff Brothers, Albert and August,
have been breeding and developing their
present herd of Holstein-Friesian cattle
for more than five years. They have a
well equipped plant at South Lyons.
Michigan, and have been makings some
excellent A. R. 0. records. Their herd
is tested annually for tuberculosis and
they have never found a suspicious ani—
mal. The senior herd sire in Musloff
Bros'. herd is King Pieter Segis Lyons
a three-year-old bull possessing a won—
derful good combination of blood lines.
Hs sire is that well-known transmitting
sire, King Pieter. whose daughters and
granddaughters are producers of extra-
ordinary ability. He is by a splendid
son of the first “century” sire‘, Henger-
veld De K01 and the 31 pound cow, Abby
Hartog Clothilde. from the famous 3::
pound cow Blanch Lyons De him. she by
the noted milk sire, Pieterje Hengerveld's
Count De K01, from Blanch Lyons, one
of the only 5 cows each having three 30—
pound daughters. His dam is a. cow of
great capacity and breeding. She . ro—
duced over 30 pounds of butter in 2 . ays
as a four-year—old, having had a record
of over 20 pounds as a two—year-old. She
is Wthat great young sire, King Lyons
from a 31-pound three-year-old daughter
of the renouned King Seals. and Eliza,
'Pieterje, a fine daughter of the great old
foundation cow Prilly. This bull is one
of the very best bulls in Michigan. both
by breeding and individuality. Among
the foundation cows in this herd We
find Mercedes Pieterje AAggie Texal 3rd.

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. an excellent individual with an A

record of 29.68 pounds of butter, 604 lbs.
of milk in 7 days. She is a granddaugh—
ter of Pontiac KOrndyke thru one of his
good sons. Few ever saw a better pros—
pect for the foundation of a great fa -
ily. Then we find Korndyke Belle Be

nardo, with a. recm‘d of 29.11 pounds off

  
 
 

 

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15 daughters of our Sr. Herd Sire (Fair'. Col. Rag Apple

141297) Who is the best bred son of ,Rag Apple Korn, 8th in ser-

vice today, being a 3-4 brother to the only 30 lb. 24 mo. old‘heifer
in the world and also to the only 42.45 Sr. 3 year old. His two
nearest dams average 34.42. His first daughter to be tested at 22
mo. is making over 17 lbs. Many of the cows are bred to him.

Six daughters of King Prilly Walker Gelsche whose 10 nearest
dams average over 30 lbs. One of them a 20 1b. Jr. 2 year old.

3 daughters of King Piet. Pet Canary who is a son of Mich.

1st. 30 lb. cow. ’

6 heifers that are bred to our Jr. Herd Sire (Utility Heng.
Segis Lad ’No. 227884) who is from a 30.47 1b. Junior 3 year old
dam and a 32 lb. Sire of great breeding.

D. H. HOOVER, Prop.,

g aturday, . May 4th, 1918—- Head .
' This herd is the product ~of 101nye‘ars of painstaking care and breeding, giving special attention

to sire, type and large milk production. You Will. have the opportunity to buy many family
groups. This sale includes:

3' daughters of Cleopatra Gelsche 2nd. Butter 28.32, (who is
a grand—daughter of Prilly) including a daughter of King Lyons
and her yearling daughter bred to a son of K. K. S. V.

1 daughter of a 30.79 cow due soon after the sale. 1

1 25% lb. 3 year old and 2 or her daughters from King Pontiac

Segis Korn. and Fair. Col. Rag Apple.

1 20-lb. Jr. 2 year old and her bull calf by Fair. Col. Rag
Apple. '

1 20-lb. cow and her heifer calf from a 35 lb. bull.

Numerous others with records from 20 to 28 lbs. Only 2 over
6 years old.

Write for catalog to

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~- AAggie Korndyke, are the only

sires each having at least twelve 30-lb.
daughters. Her dam is A.

Pontiac Korndyke, who with his two
sons_' King of the Pontiacs and Pontiac

R. O. daugh-

ter of Bernardo Advance Clothilde

Metta De K01 Prince, who is by a. son of
. Pieterje Hengerveld’s Paul De Kol, who
is a brother to the former world’s cham-
pion 7 day and 30 day butter producer
Another

\ ‘ ' . AAggie Cornucopia Pauline.
. great foundation animal found

outstanding lot of individuals.

; ~ . - ter freshening.
= ‘ cows in this sale.
is also listed in this sale.

Lillie Burke Canary. Sire Kin
d. ghe

Canary. Dam Lillie Burke 2n

a three-year-old record of 26.21 pounds
of butter. 498 pounds of milk in
She is a grand individual, of good
I will
predict that she will come near to topping
Other females offered by Mus-
oli! Bros. in the sale are Brookfleld
e Wayne Pontiac, a wonderfully
large two-year—old heifer with a record
as 3. Jr., z-year-old of butter 13.77 and
milk 408 pounds in seven days and An—
nette Seg1s.Brook De Kol with a 17.30
pounds or butter and 852 pounds otmilk
1 ,7 11;! igg—yfar—filfil record. She: is a grand
.» 1 us. w a. prospec or a 1

record. In addition to these argon
there are several daughters of King Piet-
U, , ‘er Segis Lyons listed in this sale. by
Musolfl Bros. You will not
bidding on this flrm's ofterln

, Michigan. May 16th-

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cattle sevenyear's.

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ores.-
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and a persistent milker.

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in this
herd is Mollie of At. Anna Pontiac 2nd,

,~ . with a record of 28.14 pounds of butter

\. and 538 pounds of milk in seven days.

. - , Her sire is by .a. brother to the dam of

.1 fig. - Fern. Count De K01 with a ten year old
“.951 record of 30.79 pounds of butter, 642 lbs.
-, 1 . . _> . . of milk in seven days. Her dam is by a
. . ’ -‘ brother to the sires of Elm Mink Korn-

. _ dirke 31.76 pounds butter, 618 pounds of

‘ milk and.Tietje Queen De K01 31.07 lbs.
butter, 494 pounds of milk in seven days.
Musolff Bros.’ consignment to the Living-
ston County Breeders’ Sale Company’s
sale at Howell. Michigan, May 16, is an
Koostra
Artis De Kol. is a. nice individual and a
persistent producer with a record of 22.17
pounds of butter and 574 pounds of milk.
'Her sire is Pieterje Hengerveld Haring
De K01 and her dam Koostra Artis. An,-
other great oflfering is Queen Pieterje
Mink Lady De Kol.
a fine individual that made a record of
25.48 pounds of butter and 578 pounds of
milk. This record was made 40 days at-
She is‘ one, of the best
Her yearling daughter
Then We have

She is a- large cow,

:0. wrong in
s at Howell. ‘

’Mr. Arwin Killinger, one of our new
advertisers, has been feeding Holstein
. . ' - In the spring of 1911
‘:'~.% 1 he purchased 80 acres of land and re-
- ' ceived a. gift of one pure-bred Yearling
heifer and purchased two more.
disposed of his grade cows and invested _
in two more pure-breds.
ings cover-a. period of two years.
this"farm in 1-913'he purchased Sunny
ck .Farm which consists" 013.150
0' once he‘ erecteda silo and be-
velopment of his present bus-
Duringihe sev myears he has sold

He soon

These happen-
Selling

enough pure-bred cattle to more than
twice pay for those he has purchased
and. at the present time he has 31 head
of pure—breds on his farm, twenty~five
of this number are females. During
the past two years he has nicely started
test work so that nearly one-half of his
cows have credited A. R. 0. records. One
3-year-old heifer making 22.84 pounds of
butter. 538 pounds of milk in 7 days.

" Mr. Killinger uses a. milking machine and

says that the cows take to it nicely. He
has never had any bad results from its
use and with the scarcity of labor be-
lieyes, it is a profitable machine for any
dairy farmer who is keeping enough
cows to warrant its use. His cattle are in
good condition and he is one of Livingston
county's most progressive young breed-
ers. M. B. F. readers who are looking
for well-bred Holstein cattle from a herd
that has been developed thru honesty
and square dealing will find a good bunch
from which to make their‘selections at
Sunny Plains Farm.
t t i

It is with deep regret that we announce
the sale of the well-known Rosewood
Stock Farm herd of pure-bred Holstein
cattle which takes place at Howell, Mich-
igan, May 4th, 1918. Mr. Hoover is one
of the cleanest and most likable fellows
connected with the Holstein industry in
Michigan, and his dispersion sale 5 a
real loss to the Holstein interests. Al-
ways alive to improve both his own herd
and those of his neighbors he will be
missed by many breeders. After many
years of painstaking breeding Mr. Hoov-
er has decided to close out his_entire
herd. He has been breeding registered
Holste'ins for more than twelve years. al—
ways using the best animals of the breed
to carry out his ideas of" building up his
herd. Those who buy the animals he
has for sale will find them as represented
in every way. Every animal will be A.
R. 0. tested or from A. R. O. dams with
records from 14 to 20 lbs. of butter as
two-year-olds up to 30.79 lbs. as mature
cows. The sale will start promptly at
one o’clock. All trains will be met at
HoWell in the morning oi‘.’ the day of the

‘sale. Howell is located on the Pere Mar-

quette, 50 miles west of Detroit and 33
miles east of Lansing; on the Ann Ar-
bor, 22 miles south of Durand, which is
on the main line of the Grand Trunk;
and 27 miles south of Ann Arbor, which
is on the main line of the Michigan Cen-
tral. Breeders who are looking for ani-
mals to improve their herds. or men
desiring to purchase foundation individu-
als for'new herds cannot afford to over.
look this opportunity to buy the kind of
animals offered at this sale. Everything
goes without, reserve._ Write for cats.-
lo 5 and do not fail to mention M. B. F.
w on you write.

SALE DATES CLAIMED

 

west Michigan Holstein Breeders' An-'

nual Guarantee Sale, Ma 15
Rapids, Michigan; . ' y ' Grand

Livingston::.County breeders’ L’s-ales Co.

., :Holstein—Friesian}Cattle.’ May 16. How-,

   

 

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WeSt Michigan Holstein Breeders’ Annual
Spring Guarantee Quality Sale of

Registered Holstein Cattle
Wednesday, May 15, ‘ l 918

at the West Michigan State Fair Grounds,
Grand Rapids, Michigan

A real Guarantee Quality Sale of 75 head of high-class registered
Holstein cattle, from the breeding herds of the leading Holstein Breeders
of West Michigan.

Nearly all these Herds are under Michigan State and Government
supervision and are being regularly tuberculin tested by State or Gov-_
ernment Veterinarians.

We hold two Guarantee Quality Sales each year and our “Guarantee”
means just what it says, and is not worded to fool the prospective
purchaser. ‘ ,

Remember We guarantee all females to be breeders if of breeding
age, if they are placed in herds which are free from contagious abortion.
We also guarantee all cattle to stand the Tuberculin tests, if retested
within 60 days from the date of the sale, if placed in known healthy herds,
or kept where they can in no way come in contact with any other cattle.

We have two 30 pound bull calves in the Sale. One is from a. cow
that milked over 100 pounds‘of milk per day, and made over 30 pounds
of butter in 7 days, and is sired by a high record son of King Segis Pon-
tiac that is out of a cow with a 40 pound daughter. 1

The other is from a 30 pound Dam and is sired by a 31 pound son
of the famous Colantha Johanna Lad. These two bulls are handsomely
marked and are splendid individuals, and should interest any owner of a ‘
high class herd who is looking for a 3Q pound Sire that possesses both
“breeding and individuality."

We also have a bull calf from a 20 pound junior two-year-old Dam
and out of a high record Sire. ,

We will sell 40 choice cows, several with A. R. 0. records of fro
20 to 26 pounds of butter in 7 days. A large number of these cows are
safe in call to bulls out of the best Sires of a Breed and from Dams with
A. R. 0. records from,30 to 37 pounds.

There are 30 choice yearling heifers and Iheifer calves out of high
class Sires and many of them from good A. R. O. Dams.

and all undesirable animals have been rejected...

. Remember this in. a Sale where the buyer can get “Good Healthy
Cattle” and a square deal. If interested, write for a Sale catalog. "

‘W. R. Harper, Sales .Manager

 

 

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VERY day one reads in the papers of automobile accidents. Some day it Will ‘
to you. Axchild runs out from behind a wagon—too quick for you to dodge or put on ,4
your brakes—you push back» to pick up the little body, perhaps only a leg 13 broken—per-‘

haps worse, of course you must pay for the doctor and hospital

Michigan I

Can you afford a risk like that? A risk that might take every dollar.
of your savings and mortgage your farm.

Every day one reads of automobile fires, on the
road, in transit or in a public or private garage or barn.
Is your machine protected or if it were burned to—day
would you have to give up the profit and pleasure you
will get from it thé‘ coming summer and fall?

Every day one reads of automobile thieves and
ujoy—riders.” Not only are the cities infested with these
parasites, but the small towns and even the farmers are
being molested. Some cars never return, others are
found days, weeks or months after damaged, sometimes
completely wrecked.

WHY'RUN THESE RISKS WHEN OUR MUTUAL INSURANCE PROTECTS?

At a small cost, we have provided for Michigan automobile owners living outside the cities of
._Detroit and Grand Rapids a complete policy which protects against Fire, Theft and Liability.

30124 owners, like yourself, have banded together for their mutual proteCtion—our assets have
increased to$70,000 and to-day over 400 agents in Michigan alone are ready to answer your call.

YOU KNOW THE MEN BEHIND THIS COMPANY

All are substantial business men and business farmers, who
are responsible for the successful conduct 01‘ this company
during the three years of operation. All claims are met
promptly, we have already paid over two hundred and ninety.

You can figure How Low the Cost would be on Your Car

Think of this protection, fire, theft and liability for 25 cents
per horse power plus One Dollar for the policy. No farmer

. in Michigan is rich enough to drive an automobile and assume

the risks which we are willing to take for him at this small cost.

The Important Thing Ia—fiDON’T PUT IT OFF I

Everyday our agents write of men who have “put of: gettin'
insurance” just a day too long, we can‘t help you after the
accident happens, unless you are protected by our policy.
Somewhere near you is a man who represents our company,
he is anxious to get your car protected—if you know who our
agent is, get in touch with him right away! Don’t put it
off and be sorry for years to come.

TELL.US THE NAME AND NUMBER OF YOUR CAR
ON A OSTAL CARD TODAY—LET US TELL YOU HOW
LITTL CITIZEN'S MUTUAL AUTO INSURANCE COSTS!

CITIZENS’ MUTUAL AUTO INSURANCE

_ N0 .FARMER ,CAN AFFORD
' T0 DRIVE AN {,UTOMOB’ILE Q
WITHOUT LIABILITY INSURANCEl/

    

  

bills and your liability is still more, $5000 has
been awarded the widow of a man killed by an automobile, right here in

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ASSESSMENTS

The success 01' a mutual company
depends upon the promptness with
which its members pay their assess-
ments. Each member who joins signs
an application that he will be govern-
ed by the by-laws and Charter and
pay all just assesements;

The first assessment levied by this
Company was in January, 1917, With-
in sixty days of time notices were sent
out about $60,000 was collected thru
the mail. This response indicated the
willingness of each member to per-
form his obligations, and an apprecia-
tion of the low cost of insurance.

This assessment has also provided a
reasonable reserve of $65,000 and with
new business coming in of five hun-
dred new members per week, the Com—
pany is enabled to pay many claims
each month and has sufficient funds in
sight to anticipate .the needs of the
year.

(JAN (‘ELLATION

Members may withdraw at any time
by sending in their policy to the Sec-
retary, properly signed on the back and
paying the amount due at the time.

If the policy is sent before the as-
sessment is levied, no charge is made;
after the assessment is levied, it is the
duty of each member to pay his as-
sessment before cancellation.

The Company also reserves the right

.to cancel a member, but after a loss

has been presented, it is their duty to
first adjust the loss before cancellation.
The above rule protects the member
as well as the Company, and is fair
to all.

P0110? GOVEBS

Fire, Theft, and Liability in excess
of $25.up to $1,000, and liability insur-
ance in excess of $25 up to $5,000.
By liability is meant damage claims
presented against the owner of the
car either for personal injury or pro-
perty damage; it does not mean dam-
age to your own car or to the people
riding in the car. ,

 

 

 

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HOWELL, MICHIGAN

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