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VoL V - No. 36 SATURDAY, MAY llth, 1918

$1 PER YEAR, ~NoPremlu1-e.
Free Lin or Clubbing on."

      
Practically Every AgriCultural Sec-
tion of Country Goes‘ ‘Over the
Top” and Takes Farmers’
Critics off their Feet

   
“ 7 . - It was last October that E. D. Hulbert, presi‘
" ‘ dent of the Merchant’s Loan and Trust Company
of Ohicago, made the statement that “farmers as
a whole were neither ﬁghting, paying income
tax, moving their produce nor buying Liberty
, , bonds.”

' ’ . In the Liberty loan campaign just closed the
l . farmers proved that Mr. Hulbert didn’t know
1:. what he was talking about by oversubscribing
1. ‘ their quota. Instead of coming forward, however,

" like a good fellow and confessing to these patri-
ots that his statement was misleading and unjust,
Mr. Hulbert sticks his thumbs under his front
suspenders, throws out his chest and says, “Look
what I did; I woke ’em up to their responsibility;
the farmers ought to thank me for showing them
their duty.”

Now here are the facts: In the ﬁrst two Lib-
,erty loan campaigns, the committees practically
ignored the farmers. Many, many agricultural
sections of the country were not visited: The
farmer was not asked to buy Liberty bonds. Was
it to be expected that he would respond to a gen-
eral plea any more than those living in the cities,
whose patriotism had to be stirred up by brass
bands, parades, soap-box orators, and every other
known inﬂuence for loosening up the emotions
and the pocketbook. The farmers ‘yvho bought
Liberty bonds in the ﬁrst two campaigns did so
in spite of the Liberty loan committees and not
because of them. The farmers purchased third
Liberty loan bonds at positively the worst time-of
the year for them to part with their

 
OPEN LETTER TO SEC. McADOO

ESPITE THE FACT that the
farmers were practically ignored
in making up the personnel of the bur-
eaus of publicity of the various federal
reserve districts, and that harmful and
ineifectual publicity matter was sent in-
to the agricultural districts, they sub-
scribed a larger percentage of their
quota than any other class of people.
Future Liberty loans must depend in a
large measure for their success, upon
the farmers. Therefore, we respectfully
request that you, as Secretary of the
Treasury and as director of the Liberty
loan campaigns, place in the supervis-
ory committees of the various districts,
men who are thoroly representative of
the great agricultural interests, in or-
der that intelligent co-operation may
be added to patriotic effort in selling
bonds to farmers—Editors Michigan
Business Farming.

 
was the farmer who made possible an oversub-
scription to the Third Liberty loan.

WHAT OF THE FUTURE LIBERTY LOANS?

The United States government has successfully
ﬂoated three Liberty loans during the ﬁrst year of
its entrance into the war. If the war contin-
ues, there will be many more such loans and each
successive loan will fall a little harder upon the
the farmer. Why? Because he is a perpetual pro-
ducer. His wealth does not lie in banks like that
of his city cousin, to be dissipated by recurring

Farmers Oversuhscrihe 3"(1 Liberty Loan Quota

If Future Loans are to Succeed
Farmers must be Taken into the

Councils of those who Head

Various Dist. Committees

demands. His wealth is in the soil, inexhaustible
in its potentiality, but requiring capital and hard

’ labor to bring forth.

It is Ihighly essential,
ory Liberty loan committees be made up in large
part of men interested in farming and having a
proper understanding of the ﬁnancial resources of
the farmers at the various seasons of the year.
In the past, there has been a total lack of co—op-
eration in this respect. Liberty loan committees,
having in charge the plans and publicity for the
campaigns have consisted wholly of men living
in the cities, wholly incapable of enlisting the sup-
port of the farmers. As a result, much of the
publicity matter put out to induce farmers to buy
Liberty bonds, has had exactly the opposite effect.

On April 8th, two days after the opening of the
Third Liberty loan campaign, a bulletin came into
our hands, accompanied by a letter from Wilbur
D. Nesbit, director of Liberty loan publicity for
the seventh federal reserve district, of which Mich-
igan is a part, requesting that we publish the arti-
cle in our columns. We read it,—the most unjust,
false and dastardly piece of literature that has
come to our attention in many days. Then we
sent Mr. Nesbit the following telegram:

“If you value the support of the farmers to the
Third Liberty loan campaign recall instantly Al-
bert Louis Lamb’s article, “Play Fair, Mr. Farmer.”

We followed this up with this letter:

“Supplementing our telegram of even date, I
Wish to cite a little bit in detail my reason for
urgently requesting you to recall Mr. Lamb's
pamphlet. “Play Fair, Mr. Farmer.”

 
money. They weren’t shamed into
buying these bonds; they weren’t
forced or cajoled 1nto buying them
Farmers aren’t the kind of folks to

 
sidered it their patriotic duty to
buy them' because they wanted to

“One of the most pleasing results
of the Third Liberty Loan," says
Secretary McAdoo, “is the wide dis-
tribution among the farmers. The
agricultural states generally were
the ﬁrst states to attain their quo-
tas. This achievement is considered
all the more remarkable in view of
the fact that this loan came at a
time when the farmers borrow
money rather than lend. The results
:1! the Third Liberty loan indicate ‘

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“It would be like shaking a red rag
in front of a bull to ﬁount this lit-
erature before the farmers at this
particular stage of the game. The
entire inference one gains from this
article is that the farmers are not
patriotic and that a special plea has
to be made to them to induce them
to subscribe to the Liberty loan. I
do not know where Mr. Lamb gets
his fats and ﬁgures concerning the
enormous proﬁts the farmers have
been making the l..st year. He talks
very glibly of the high prices the
farmer has been getting for his
products but says nothing Whatever
of the exorbitant prices the farmer
has been obliged to pay for his raw
material He says nothing either,
the greatly decreased
,0 yield per acre in practically all farm

/ crops the last two or three years. He

says nothing of the over—production

  
therefore, that supervis'w

ers in the fourth loan, if it should
come during the harvest season.”
Too much emphasis cannot be laid
upon the Secretary’s statement. The
success of the loan in the agricultur-
al districts WAS an achievement, a
’ far‘ bigger achievement than the
average city man, Mr". Hulbert in-
cluded, can appreciate. The buying
of Liberty bonds in the spring of the
‘ year means actual sacriﬁce for many
farmers, which should make his
support to the loan all the more ap-

   
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preclated. Let us not forget that it-

mandatory that the farmer receive
two to three times as much for his
product as Ihe did in former years
if he is to break even.

“Of couise the farmer will need a
little urging, like any other man to
subscribe to the Liberty Loan, but he
won’t need" any more. and you will
ﬁnd he will be just as quick to re-
spond as the majority of the people.
It is the eternal suspicioning and
insinuations on the part of the peo-
ple who know nothing of the prob-
lems he is up against that keep him

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Third Liberty loan has been over-
subecribed. On May 5th, the trade-
" - ury department reported .total sub“-
scriptions ,of 3,316,250,000 with many millions
‘yet to be turned in. Itis believed that the ﬁnal

returns Will bring-the bond sales close to the

four billion dollar "‘mank‘, ”which falls short, how-
' ever, of the anticipated and hoped-for subscrip-
tion. The campaign has been productive of at
least two most unexpected and gratifying features.
Apropos of the showing by the farmers, a. treas~
ury statement says: “One of the most pleasing
results of the Third Liberty loan is the wide dis-
tribution among the farmers. The agricultural
states generally were the ﬁrst states to attain
their quotas. This achievement is considered all
the more remarkable in view of the fact that this
loan came at a time of the year when farmers
borrow money rather than lend. The results of
the third loan indicate magniﬁcent participation
by farmers in the fourth loan, if it should come
during the harvest season.” The wide distribu-
tion of the loan has given the President and Sec-
retary McAdoo grounds for especial gratiﬁcation.
Commenting upon this phase of the campaign,
Secretary McAdoo said, “The enormous number
of individual subscribers, indicating a wide-spread
distribution of the loan among people, is particu-
larly gratifying. This is the soundest form of
national war ﬁnance—the distribution of the loan
among the people themselves. The results show
that every section of the nation has joined in send-
ing aheartening message to our gallant sons across
the sea that we are trying to do our part at home,
even though we cannot do it as gloriously as they
are doing their s upon the front.”

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“Unless unfavorable weather conditions devel-
op, this will be one of the country’s banner Wheat
years,” says a report just issued by the Chamber
of Commerce of the United States. “The present
wheat acreage now standing in winter wheat is
20 per cent greater than the acreage at the same
time in 1917. But the greatest promise of a high
yield of winter wheat is found in the general high
condition of wheat, a condition that has steadily
improved since the ﬁrst of April. There is a prom-
ised production of 600,000,000 bushels of winter
wheat which may go as high as 650 million, if all
goes well.” Comparing the wheat prospects in
Michigan, with other states, the report says, “The
prospect in Michigan does not compare well with
that of her neighboring states because of an un-
favorable start in the fall, followed by winter
killing and dry weather well into the spring.
Recent rains, however, have greatly helped. Ohio
and Indiana had somewhat the same experience,
and in consequence they have some ploughed up
ﬁelds. Both of these states have come back strong
because of recent abundant rains. The middle
states are in much the same condition as last year.”
The report shows that southern states which in
former years raised little if any wheat will pro-
duce a huge crop of winter wheat this year.

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Diplomatic WashingtOn is preparing its diplo-
matic mind for the reception of the periodical
peace overtures of the German government which
are now due, if not over-due. There is ample evi-
dence that the peace dove is being assiduously
groomed for another flight, but repeated German
reverses on the western front have considerably
upset the Kaiser’s plans and delayed the bird’s de-
parture. Had the Germans’ offensive brought the
decisive victories and opened the way to Paris, as
promised by Hindenberg, Germany would have
undoubtedly long since proffered new peace terms
to the Allies. Germany loves to talk peace when
her armies are winning and she feels that she
can dictate the terms, but when she ﬁlls the role
of the loser. her “terms” verge upon the ridicu-
lous. The Allied nations refuse to be swerved in
their course by the persistent rumors of the new
peace plans that are being hatched by Germany,
and are going right ahead with their war prepar-
ations as vigorously as possible. However, it is
conceded in Washington that any peace advanc-
es coming direct from those having authority to
speak for the German government, will be met
with a reception and response as digniﬁed as the
gravity of the subject warrants, but as unbending
as the laws of right and justice demand. It is
urged that the American people watch closely the
unfolding events of the war, and particularly the
developments which may lead Germany into an-
other declaration of war aims and peace terms.
The time may come when the people of this coun-
try will clamor for a peace which those who have
watched the course rf events may know would be
inopportune and ignoble. It is only by a careful
study of the diplomatic moves of. the various coun-

    
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“Better. have wheat at 30’ cents a bushel more“
than the present price than no wheat at all,” was
the substance of blind Senator Gore's remarks
when the Senate conferees refused to recede from
the Senate’s amendment to the agricultural ap-
propriation bill raising the minimum price of
wheat to $2.50 per bushel, following the action of
the House of Representatives in repudiating the
amendment. The Senate will stand by its decis-
ion, according to Senator Gore, who is the spon-
sor of the amendment, and unless the House can
be shown the error of its judgment and accept
the $2.50 price, passage of the appropriation bill
will be indeﬁnitely delay-ed. Copies of the M. B.
F. article, “How to Solve the Wheat Conundrum,”
which appeared in the April 27th issue, have been
distributed among the members of the House in
hopes that it may convey some new light upon the
subject.

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Three years age, the 7th day of May, the Lusi-
tania was sunk and the anniversary of the trag-
ic event brings a rush of memories and a grim de-
termination over the Allied countries to aveng
the deaths of the innocents who went down with
the great liner, a victim of the German submarine.
A great change has come over the American peo-
ple since the Lusitania went to its watery grave.
The murder of the women and children upon that
boat was like a fresh wound to the nation's pride
and principles. It shocked, but it did not hurt.
The wound has become old with the years, and
the later tragedies staged by Germany have open-

 
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ed the wound many times, and like an old wound
it has begun to hurt. People who formerly ex-
cused the sinking of the Lusitania upon various
pretexts now look back upon the event with horror
and unforgiving eyes. The memory of the Lusi-
tania. will ever steel the nation to the task that
lies before'it in the destruction of the German
military menace.
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Howard Cofﬁn of Michigan, formerly head of. the
airplane production program, has demanded that
President Wilson conduct a searching investigation
into the charges that delays in airplane produc-
tion have been due to inexcusable negligence, if
not to actual treasonable attempts to handicap the
war preparations. The investigating committee
claims to be in possession of facts which, if sub-
stantiated, will mean federal prosecution and pris-
on sentences for those responsible for the failur
of the airplane program. .

 
Glycerine is now made from sugar.

Peru was the ﬁrst country to add instruction in av—
iation to its public school curriculum.

European factories each week make about 16,000,000
pounds of ariﬁcial butter with cocoanxut oil as a base.

Lincoln Highway, beginning at New York City and
ending at San Francisco is about one-third ﬁnished.

Chairs are being made of paper, twisted and rein-
forced steel rods.

The Fuel Administration has issued a warning
against the use of domestic sizes of hard coal by in—
dustrial plants. j

Manufacturers of civilian clothing who get any of
the output of the mills will do so under special govern-
ment permits.

The war department has just announced that nitrate
plant No. 3 will be located at Toledo, Ohio. This is
composed of two units.

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than thirty centuries; ’ ‘ -

A process has been invented in Holland for man-
ufacturing a food or wine from ﬁsh refuse that
“does not affecti the ﬂavor of the pork. .

The hi hest railroad in the world is in central Peru,
whose r is reach an altitude of 15,865 feet and which
has its highest station at 15,665 feet.

In Norway, where no gasoline has been obtainable
for many months, and automobiles have practically
ceasedrunningﬁexperiments are being made to oper~
ate cdrs ith acetylene gas.

All woolen mills in the country have been directed
By the war department to hold their looms at the ser-

ce of the government from now until July 1st, in or-
der to insure adequate supplies of cloth for uniforms.

The waters of, Scarles lake in California hold in
solution 20,000,000 tons of potash, enough to supply
the needs of the country for commercial fertilier for
a half a century or more.

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give a little heat later on.

 
Germany has an army of six million men in the‘
ﬁeld, according to reliable estimates from neutral
sources. Half of this great force is said to be on the
western front. These ﬁgures are for all armed forces,
including the navy. It is estimated that 900,000 men
are held in Ukrania and on the Balkan fronts. A re-
serve force of two million men is held for oﬁensive
purposes in the west. The Entente commanders have
every reason to believe that the offensive will be con-
tinued during the summer in spite of the frightful
losses sustained by the Teutons. The lulls in the
ﬁghting have resulted from the necessity of the Ger-
mans pausing to reorganize their shattered divisions
and bring up fresh reserves and additional munitions.
Great Britain on the other hand, admits that of the
ﬁve million of men put in the ﬁeld since the war start-
ed, nearly all of those still available are taking an
active part in the ﬁghting, and that she has no large
reserve forces. The French have a reserve army,
which they are holding in readiness for a counter
smash when the proper time comes. The American
forces are depended on to furnish the balance of
forces for future operations.

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“What effect will the participation of America have
on our chances of ultimate success?" is the question
heard on every hand in Germany. “None.” say the
military gangsters, who are responsible for the war.
“In the ﬁrst place, the Americans were in such a.
state of unpreparedness that it will be a year or so
yet before they can organize their resources, train a
large army and transport it to Europe, even if the
U-boats didn't interfere. And the U-boats will not
permit American transports to reach France,” contin-
ue these professional liars. Even the reichstag is un-
able to get information regarding the participation of
American forces in France. The military party is
evidently afraid to vouchsafe any facts regarding this
country’s share in military matters. The Kaiser, Von
Hindenburg and the rest of the plotters are evidently
worried over the reports that are reaching them. Re
cently inspired reports have been published to‘ the
effect that the war cannot be won this year, but that
a campaign of attrition which will ﬁnally exhaust the
Allies, is the only salwtion of the Central Powers.

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Bohemian troops are deserting in large numbers
and joining the Italians. Bohemian and Slavs who
have been ﬁghting with the Austrians have all along
evinced a. lukewarmness for the cause and individu-
al desertions have been numerous. Now whole com-
panies and regiments are said to be leaving in bodies
whenever opportunity occurs. That Austria-Hungary
is being held in line with an ever-increasing difficulty
on the part of the Potsdam gang, is more apparent
every day. People of the dual-monarchy are thorough-
ly tired of the war, and it is only the fear of the mail-
ed ﬁst of Germany that keeps them in the ﬁght.

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Turkey and Bulgaria, although allies,
speakable Hun, are at swords points. Each appears
to be jealous of the other. Neither is satisfied with
the plans of Germany to reward them for their par-
ticipation in the war. Germany, however, cannot 21f—
ford to have a rupture among her allies. Such an oc«
currencc would interfere with her Pan-German plans.
She will probably be able to hold them in linc by in—
timidation, as it is well known that all of Germany’s
allies fear her more than they love her. ‘

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The British attack on Zeebrugge resulted in blocking
the channel, and crippling the U-boat operations from
this base, according to observations made by allied
aviators. Berlin, as usual, issued a number of in-
spired reports, stating that the attack was entirely un-
successful. Oﬁ‘icial lies of this kind failed to impress
the commander of the expedition, who was certain
that the object of the attack was attained. That the
severe losses sustained by the British in bottling up
the harbor were not expended in vain is now evident.

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A new peace plan is being hatched by the Germans.
Already agents of the new peace propaganda have
reached England. They came in the guise of neu-
trals, of course, but were at once recognized for
what they were by the English secret service. Their
business is to enter Entente countries ostensibly on
commercial business, but to grasp every opportunity
to spread stories of the German strength and to en-
courage peace proposals. ‘

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In accordance with the plan of Secretary Baker, the
draft quota for May is much larger than that of the
previous months Michigan will be required to fur-
nish 10,149; of these 5,000 Will go to Camp Wheeler
and 5,149 to Camp Custer. Secretary Baker an-
nounces that the United States will have one million
ﬁghting men in France by July 4. It is hoped to
have nearly three million men under arms at that
time, including those in American training camps.

     
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Inclosed ﬁnd clipping from the New York Oom-
mercwr relating to the Pinto bean marketing.
This report, dated May 6, does not seem to agree
with editorial in the MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARM-
ING, Vol. 5, No. 35—0. G. Freemam Pontiac, Mich.

Philadelphia, May 6.——Uncle Sam, acting through
the Federal Food Administration, is about to in-
troduce Pennsylvania to something unusual in the
way of beans—the pinto bean, which has been
selected by government experts for home duty in
place of the bean that made the navy famous.
HowardtHeinz, State Administrator; Jay Cooke.
city food director, and all the various county food
control oﬂicials throughout the state are being put
to work to cultivate a market for the pinto beans
and boost them as a substitute for meat. ..

This is the second pinto bean campaign the
national food authorities have sponsored. The
ﬁrst pinto bean drive began in New York and im-
mediately “back-ﬁred.” The drive had been plan-
ned right down to the minute. A barrage of pub-
licity was ﬁrst laid down, making the pinto bean
resemble angel food and getting the populace all
on edge for a taste of the strange food. A de-
mand for the new beans was created in a jiffy.
But it was quickly discovered by would-be pur-
chasers that no retail dealers had ever heard of
the pinto beans. The wholesale talent was also
in the dark. Inquiry developed the fact that only
on the‘Paciﬁc coast could the pinto bean be suc-
cessfully tracked to its lair and snared in the
boiling pot. New York, it turned out, was entirely
bereft of anything resembling the pinto bean, and
so the drive fell through.

Not so with this campaign in Pennsylvania.
Mr. Heinz has issued a letter of instruction to
county administrators urging them to push the
sale of the pinto bean. Mr. Heinz suggests to each
Adminisrator that he arrange immediately for at
least one shipment of 600 bags of pinto beans to
his territory.

Among Mr. Heinz’s suggestions to county ad-
ministrators are: That there should be a sales
organization consisting of a committee of whole-
sale grocers, retailers and brokers, to see to it
that stocks of the pinto beans be placed in the
hands of all retailers and made available to can-
ners, hotels, restaurants, and other public eating
houses. The channels of distribution suggested
are the wholesale grocer, the “chain” store, the
canner and the small retailer.

In regard to prices, Mr. Heinz says: “It is de-
sired, wherever possible.‘ that the pinto beans be
sold to the consumer at 130 per single pound or
two pounds for a qua ter. In no case should
single pounds retail at more than 14c.”

Mr. Heinz also sets forth the following state-
ment of distributors’ proﬁts: Wholesale bean
dealers, 5 per cent, gross ;
10 to 121/2 per cent; retail g. were, 20 to 25 per
cent.

Pinto beans are one of the new foods that the
government has hunted up to meet the world’s
present food shortage. In the southwestern part
of the United States they are not strangers, but
in the east they have not been well known. Mex-
ico and Colorado have been the three principal
sources of supply, because these beans are pecu-
liarly adapted to a. dry climate, although they can
be grown anywhere. - :

Pinto beans are spotted red and white, hence
the name. The appellation pinto as applied to
spotted horses, is well known. Some of the whole-
salers in food' products object to the name think-
ing it does not sound appetizing; nevertheless,
it seems to stick and the prospects arethat it will
be permanent.

So far as food value or flavor is concerned,
pinto beans are exactly as good as white beans.
They can be baked with the same recipes, and
when prepared for the table are a rich brown
color. They can be cooked or made into any bean
combination desired and, best of all. they sell from
30 to 40 per cent cheaper than white beans in
almost every market.

For the army and navy commissary white beans
are in demand. Ofﬁcers in charge of the food
for the ﬁghting men say that the sailors and sol-
diers are accustomed to the appearance and exact
ﬂavor of white beans. and for that reason they re-
gard it as undesirable to introduce any food in-
novations at this time.

The National Food Administration is in touch
with the pinto bean market and is able to bring
about a general distribution to the entire coun4
try. It is entirely likely that pinto beans will
soon be as familiar a sight in the markets and
grocery stores of Pennsylvania as our white bean,

SCOTLAND TILLS PASTURE
LAND TO GROW MORE CROPS

Never before has so much land in Scotland been
placed under the plow for grain and root crops.
Ofﬁcial reports received by the United States Food,
Administration .tell of extensive grazing land

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improving the food situation in the British Isles.
Although such an agricultural policy means a
probable decline in the ”famous sheep and general
livestock industries of Scotland, the tillage of
more land is considered vitally necessary and in
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Scotland’s potato crop last year amounted to
1,110,000 tons, which was more than double the
crop of 1916. This year there is in Scotland a
shortage of nearly all vegetable seeds excepting
seed potatoes, and as a nesult a huge crop, exceed-
ing that of 1917, is expected.

“It will take months, possibly years,” says a
Scotch report, “to demobilize the armies, and until
the millions now under arms have been for six
months or a year on the land, the total quantity
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The necessity for changes in the agriculture of
the British Isles emphasizes the critical food
situation there and the responsibility of the Unit-
ed States for sending cereal grains. meats, fats
and sugar in order to assure the British people an
adequate nutritive ration. Any agricultural
changes which the Allies may adopt however do
not indicate that such methods would be suitable
in this country where abundance of land makes
farming problems entirely different.

KALKASKA COUNTY FARMERS
ORGANIZE FOR BETTER MARKETS

 
A delegation of directors of the Farmers’ Pro-
duce Companies of Fife Lake, Kalkaska and South
Boardman met at Fife Lake, May 4th to devise
plans for the standardization of the potato crop
in that section both with respect to the quality
and the varieties, to secure a more direct route to
market and better transportation facilities. The
meeting went on record as favoring the Russet
Rural potato as a standard variety for that sec-
tion. The next meeting is called for May 18th at
Fife Lake, when each company will be represent—
ed by two delegates, and otlier'co—operative com-
panies operating in that part of the state are in-
vited to send a representation and take part in
the movement to better existing conditions. We
are indebted to Mr. George Stults, man;.ger of the
Farmers“ Produce Co., of Fife Lake for the above
report. We welcome reports from any of our read-
ers of the activities of farm organizations.

FOOD FOR GERMAN PRISONERS
REGULAR U. S. GARRISON RATION

The treatment of interned German prisoners
in the United States is now being used by Ger
man propagandists in an effort to create unrest
among the American people. The food administra-
tion, however, ofﬁcially denies rumors that (lor—
man prisoners are being prodigally fed on bread.
pastries and cakes made entirely of wheat. The
Germans interned in U. S. detention camps are
while well fed, being made to observe all rules and
regulations of the Food Administration.

The military prisoners—prisoners of waxw—
receive the regular garrison ration of the United
States army. This is according to the Hague
convention.

 
lBENZIE FARMERS PROUD OF

THEIR LIBERTY LOAN RECORD

Enclosed please ﬁnd $1 for subscription to your
ﬁne Paper. We have just got our honor flag.
Old Benzie has exceeded her quota and stands
second in western Michigan, and sixth in the state.
Our quota was $65,000. At dedication of serviCe
ﬂag here just two townships have 55 service stars.
We raised an additional $1500, bringing our total
subscription to $100,500. We’ll beat the Kaiserl~
L. K. Canker, Thompsonvillc, Mich.

Emron‘s No'i‘Ez—We congratulate Benzie county
on her achievement. We take a particular pride in
it, because most every farmer in that county is
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BIG GAIN SHOWN IN FARM WAGE
RATES DURING THE YEAR 1917

Deﬁnite information concerning the great in-
crease in the wages of farm labor last year has
been provided by the U. S. Department of Agri-
culture in a recent publication. Wage rates per
month in hiring by the month or season with
board in 1917 ranged from $21.88 in the South
Central states to $36.23 in the North Central
states west of the Mississippi river and $44.25 in
the Western and; Paciﬁc with a national average
of $28.87.. Without board, the monthly rate for
the United States was $40.43, with a range from
$30.80 in the South Atlantic states to $49.46 in
the west north central and $63.59 in the Western
and Paciﬁc. Harvest wages with board were as
high as $2.71 per day in the west north central
states and as low as $1.55 in the south Atlantic,
while the United States average was $2.08. The
rates without board were 35 to 59 cents higher in
the various sections.

Outside of harvest, day rates of wages with
board ranged from $1.17 in the south Atlantic
states to $1.91 in the north Atlantic and $2.01 in
the west north central, and the United States av- ::
crage was $1.56. Without board, the rates were
35 and 95 cents higher.

As a general average for the whole country. j
the increase in the rate of wages per month with :3
board in 1917 over 1916 was 24.2 per cent. The
increase over 1910 was 50.3 per cent. In the av-
erage rate of wages for harvest labor with board.
the increase in 1917 over 1916 was 23.1 per cent:
without board 22.7 per cent. For day labor out—
side of. harvest, farmers paid 23.8 per cent more
with board and 24.7 per cent more without board.
The general fact is that the rates of wages for
farm labor increased alInOst one-quarter in one
year and about two-fifths to one—half in seven
years.

The lowest relative advance in rate of wages
from 1916 to 1917, 12 per cent, is found in the
western and Pacific states in hiring by the day .
with board for work outside of harvest; and the ,_ .
highest, 36.1 per cent, in the South Atlantic in ‘
hiring by the month with board.

The south experienced the greatest effects of the
increase of farm Wages in 1917 over 1916, express-
ed as a percentage of increase but the greats1
effects in terms of absolute increase in dollars
and cents were felt in the other great groups oi”
states most all in the western Pacilic. next below
in the north central, and third in order in the
north Atlantic group. The largest absolute in- :
crease in wages in the south was in the south At- .3
lantic states in hiring by the month-or season
with board. Monthly wage rates increased abso-
lutely in the average for the United States by
$5.33 in seasonal or yearly contracts when with-
out board, and $5.62 when with board. Day wage
rates increased by :10 to 47 cents in the several
varieties of contracts.

Farmers found a trying situation in 1917, when
their needs for farm labor increased and the sup-
ply of labor diminished. with accompanying ad-
vancc of wage rates over those of 1911;, averaging
24.2 per cent for all classes of rates. During the
same time the prices paid by them for 94 articles
of common use on the farm. by the family. and in
the household increased 30 per cent, and the prices
received by them for their crops increased 60.7
per cent.

NATIONAL FORESTS TO SUPPLY
HERD OF CATTLE AND SHEEP

To meet the war needs of the country sheep
and cattle will be grazed on the national forests
in increased numbers this year. Half a million
more sheep and nearly a million more cattle will
be taken’ care of than last year, according to
the ofﬁcials of the Forest Service. This will bring
the total number of stock grazed under permit to ,—
nbout 9.000.000 sheep, 2,360,000 head of cattle and ’
51.000 swine. _

This increase is on top CL an increase of 200,000
sheep and 100,0"0 cattle made last year, when
it was recognized that the country’s need for beef.
mutton, wool and hides called for the fullest possi-
ble use of the nation-a1 forest ranges.

The largest increase has been made in the ("o‘—
orado and Wyoming forests, where 51,000 addi-
tional cattle and 151,000 more sheep will be gra;:-
ed. In the state of California there will be 137.0111;
more sheep. The provision for more cattle is
Wide distributed through relatively small increases
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FACTSVABOUT-THE POTATO SIT-
‘U‘ATION INSTATE or MICHIGAN

From the very best sources of information ob-
tainable the potato situation in Michigan is as fol-
lows:

There were about 6,000,000 bushels of potatoes
in Michigan about April lst. This estimate was
mainly based on information gathered fr m the
members of the executive committee of t e Po-
tato Association, from the Shippers’ Association
and the U. S. government estimate. This estimate
was lower than the Shippers’ Ass’n estimate by
more than 1,000.000 bushels and lower than the
government estimate by several million bushels.
* now believe it was at that time too high. While
there are good many potatoes in Michigan yet,
more perhaps, than the market will readily absorb,
nevertheless, I believe that if growers will put
their potatoes on the market as fast as possible
this month, that there will be a sale for them.
But delay will be dangerous.

Any grower who has a car of potatoes. and who
will screen them over an inch and three-quarters
screen will ﬁnd the market perfectly satisfied with
that grade and I would advise every grower to ship
his own potatoes, either to the Gleaner Clearing
House Association or some other reliable commis-
sion house or potato broker.

At present I would think that Indianapolis, De-
troit and Pittsburgh are our best markets. A
wire to the Gleaner Clearing House Association,
Detrcit, if you ship thru them will give you im-
mediate advice as to the best terminal market.

As to our next crop, my best judgment is that
there will be about normal acreage, or perhaps a
little less planted this year, and my advice to the
grower is, plant your usual acreage, and remem-
ber that at least 1.500000 soldiers will rot be eat-
ing potatoes in America next fall, and in all
probability they will not have American potatoes
shipped to them.

Do not be mislead by the idea that this will
be the year to plunge into potatoes. It may be, of
course, and if you want to gamble, go to it, but I
believe that a normal acreage, well cared for, will
be the paying crop this year. You will make more
net dollars off ten acres well cared for than you
can off 20 acres half attended to and with potatoes
a glut on the market.

Regarding the Wm. Alden Smith potato amend-
ment, it should be clearly understood that had it
passed and become a law, all grading of potatoes
would have been illegal. Michigan potato grow-
ers have spoken unanimously in favor of grading
potatoes ~ver an inch and three-quarters round
mesh screen. The thing to do now is for all of
us to work unitedly to have that grade established
as a Michigan grade.

In last week’s article the printer failed to make
clear one paragraph in which I stated that under
the amended rules of the Bureau of Markets I be-
lieve that the grading of potatoes will be about
the same when graded over an inch and seven-
eights round mesh screen, as when they were for-
merly graded over an inch and three-quarters
square mesh screen. I have the assurance from
the Food Administrator that this new grade will
be enforced as soon as shippers have a chance to
obtain new screens which will probably not be
before next August. In the meantime we should
plan to move quickly and unitedly for an inch and
three-quarters round mesh screen. How we can do
this I will take up in. a subsequent article—A. M.
Smith, I’rcs. Michigan Potato Ass’n.

SECRETARY REED DISCUSSES
MILK SURPLUS SITUATION

 
A meeting of the board of directors of the Mich-
igan Milk Producers’ Association was held Thurs-
day in the city of Detroit. The advertising prob-
lem is a large one and calls for much money and
thought. The result of our last advertising cam-
paign in the city of Detroit, which reached 100,-
000 homes has resulted in an increase of consump-
tion of about 5 per cent. It is hoped to launch a
new and larger campaign in the immediate future,
which will greatly increase this percentage of
consumption.

Detroit area milk prices are from twenty to
forty cents per hundred pounds bett'r than any
nearby city, and yet this does not correspond with
the cost of production, neither is it on a par with
the high price of farm labor in the Detroit area.

The Dairy and Food department of the State of
Michigan has assigned a man to co-operate with
1he Michigan Milk Producers and he is now in the
Detroit area at work. When questions of test
arise, he will help to settle them.

   
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The nation-wide milk situation is the meat. un-.
favorable that has faced the' producers for. years. .'
There is at present a surplus of 35,000,000 cases-
of condensed milk, and 37,000,000 pounds of cheese.
This is largely a result of. a lack of shipping fa-
cilities forforeign trade. It is also claimed that
there are 362,000 more cows in the country than
one year/ago. This statement is, in our estima-
tion, much like the widely-heralded reports last
fall of the tremendous corn crop and the surplus
of 600,000 tons of cottonseed meal, neither of
which materialized.

But these facts stand before us. We have a
surplus that will affect the market until it is
disposed of. If. we have more cows than one year
ago, we will have more milk. We are not now get-
ting cost of production. With greatly increased
over-production, there must be increased consump-
tion, or ruin to the industry.

EVery other industry of any magnitude, if facing
such a. condition, would move at once in two ways.
First, for increased consumption, and then for de-
creased production. What shall the dairymen do?
First, eliminate every unproﬁtable cow. Cut them
out just as the manufacturer of any other prod-
uct would eliminate his unproﬁtable machine. He
would throw it on the junk pile and be considered
more patriotic because he had the courage to el-
iminate unprofitable over-production. The dairy-
man should dispose of his unproﬁtable cows at
once—sell them, and be sure they go to the butch-
er, then increase consumption. Begin at home.
Use more milk on your table. This is the best
obtainable food product for your growing family
—in fact. it is indispensable to the growth and de-
velopment of every normal child. In some recent
experiments with children with defective vision,
it was found that by the addition of butterfat to
their diet, that the eyesight was strengthened and
restored, and present investigation may show that
much of the eye trouble to which children of
recent years have been subjected, is the result of
lack of milk and egg fat in their diet.

Use more butter on your table. Don’t use oleo,
or butterine or any other butter substitute. Mer-
chants. the country over, tell us that farmers who
were contendng for a higher price for milk and
milk products are large users of oleo and butter
substitutes. This is one of the inexcusable freaks
of human nature. You, farmer, ought to blush
with shame when you put oleo on your own table
because it is two cents cheaper than butter, and
then ask the city man to buy your butter and use
it on his table and give you a fair price for your
product.

Then we must enlarge and continue our adver—
tising campaign. Every man who owns a cow is
interested in this matter. He is beneﬁtted a hun-
dred times as much as he will ever put into the
campaign, by the great work that is being done
by the local, state and national associations. Let’s
be fair, have a heart and backbone to stand for
the right in this matter.

We are told that it will require nine months of
continued effort before we can secure that ruling
which will be necessary before we can get cheese
as a part of the soldiers’ rations. This is one of
the most concentrated forms of animal nutriments.
The soldiers are hungering for it, we have mil-
lions of pounds piled up awaiting for them and it
should he used in all of the cantonments in the
United States, as a part of the soldiers’ rations,
even though it can't be sent across the water just
yet. We are making «every effort to protect and
encourage your industry and give to the American
people these most needed food products at a fair
price, and we want your help.

 
. Late County Reports

 
MONTCALM (Northwcsi)——The farmers are plow-
ing for corn; some early potatoes are being planted.
The weather conditions are getting better, also the
soil. Every township in this county got a flag for
their over-subscription in the Third Liberty Loan
drive. Two townships over-subscribed their quotas
100 per cent. so they were given flags with blue stars
instead of white. The following prices were paid at
Greenville this week: Oats. 90; potatoes, 90; beans,
$11.50; butter. 40; butterfat, 42; cggs, 3l.——'E. W.,
Gowen, May 6

KALKASKA (Southwest)—The farmers are sowing
their oats and planting early potatoes. The weather
has been very cold, but it is milder at this writing.
The soil is in pretty fair condition. The farmers are
selling potatoes for 60c a hundred pounds. The follow-
ing prices were quoted at Kalkaska this week: W'heat,
$1.74 to $2.10; oats, $1.10; hay, $25' beans, $10; po-
tatoes, 65; butter, 40: butterfat, 40: eggs, 30; beef
cows, 12 to 1’6; veal calves. 10.—R. B.. Smith Board-
man, May 5

EMMET (East (telitral)——~The fore part of the week
was cold and cloudy with some rain, which retarded
farm work this week. Farmers are undecided in re-
gard to the potato and bean propositions, and undoubt-
edly a short acreage will he planted—W. H. 0., Alan—
son, May 4.

MASON (Each—Oats and peas nearly all in. Some
oats up. Corn ground is now being prepared. Weather
is cool and showery. Pastures are greening up nicely.
Soil in good workable condition. The women of the
county are registering this week. 'Thls county has
nearly doubled its quota of the Third Liberty Loan.
farmers haVe bought heavily.—B.M., Dudmgton, May4,

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'ass City—Members of the agricultural class of
the Cass City high. school are rendering an im—
portant service to the farmers in this vicinity
by testing seed corn. No charge is made for the
work. One farmer who brought corn to the school
was dissatisﬁed with the 37 per cent test which
was determined by the school. Both he and his
neighbors tested the seed later and the best they
could get was 36 per cent. Members of the agri.
cultural class are all seniors and have been testing
more or less, regularly for the last two months.
They use the “rag doll” seed tester, which accord:
ing to the U. S. Dep’t of Agriculture, has proved
to be one of'the most convenient and satisfactory
formsrand also One of the least expensive methods.

Hastings—A cow that will produce 7685 lbs of
milk with a butterfat Of 338.8 lbs. and a proﬁt of
$137.10 in four months is surely backing the boys.
This is’t-he record of one of the cows owned by a
farmef in the Branch County Cow association.
This cow was fed silage, alfalfa and a prepared
feed at the basis of one pound of grain to four
pounds of butterﬁwt. But with these there are
also cows in the association that a 2 blest with the
ability to convert feed at $45 a ton into manure
at $5 a ton which is all the farmer gets back for
his labor and feed. Testing not onl, shows up the
poor ones but also the good ones and the longer
it is continued the fewer b..rder cows will he
kept. '

Blissﬁcld~W. J. Uckele, one of the few men in
this country conversant with the growing of beet
seed, and who has been associated with beet sugar
concerns in the state for more than~ ﬁfteen years.
has accepted a position with the U. S. Dep’t of
Agriculture as assistant agriculturalist in sugar
plant investigations. During thelast three years

 
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new industry in this country, made necessary by
the European war. During this time Mr. Uckele
has been employed here the beet acreage in this
vicinity has increased from 200 acrcs to 1300
acres.

“BUY-A-BUSHEL” OF POTA-
TOES AND BE A PATRIOT

These slogans will be heralded in Detroit and
throughout the larger cities of Michigan by the
publicity committee appointed by the food admin-
istration to help relieve the surplus of Michigan
potatoes which is now coming to market in large
quantities.

Every means of encouraging the buying of
Michigan potatoes, in preference to the southern
and Florida product will be used, not only to the
consumers but to the hotels and restaurants which
are asked to double their portions, place potatoes
on all menus and thus save the wheat and other
products for our soldiers.

As chairman of this committee,‘the publisher of
M. B. F., was selected and is devoting every min-
ute tothe work, and aided by the best advertising
and selling brains in Detroit, it is hoped to put

on a “buy-a-bushel” campaign which will rival
the famous “buy-a-bale-of—cotton,” which relieved
a similar situation that faced the southern farm-
ers the ﬁrst year of the war.

How successful a potato drive can be made is
suggested by the success of the 119 A. & P. stores
in Detroit, which last week made a special window
display of potatoes, pushed the sales and thus in-
creased their normal sales of nine cars of potatoes
a week to more than twenty-seven.

One string of these stores, which are run on the
cash and carry plan, are today quoting potatoes
at 22c per peek of 15 pounds. or 88c per bushel.
About a year ago potatoes were selling at $1.10
per peck in Detroit.

The whole potato situation which we have fol-
lowed this year, has been unfortunate for the
grower, and the campaign now started should
have been going for several weeks.

While the efforts of the Food Administration in
the above respect are to be commended
while they may no doubt succeed in moving a
large quantity of potatoes that would otherwise
go to waste, it is unfortunate that the movement
was not started several weeks ago before (the new
potatoes came into the market. It is just another
case of locking the barn a month after the horse
is stolen. But it is to be hoped that the govern-
ment and the food administration will proﬁt by
the potato ﬁasco and another year show an inter-
est in the distribution of the crop that will be of
substantial help in moving it. ‘

    
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no I minty and in a most

 
‘ “1 bays read Mr. Lamb's article very carefully
and I. want to tell you frankly that if I were an
actual farmer and thought that the entire country
entertaihed‘ the same thoughts and sentiments as
Mr. Lamb, concerning my patriotism, I think I

.mould feel inclined to harbor some very uncharit-

able feelings against the rest of my fellow men.
You will ﬁnd that the farm press of the country
is doing everything it consistently can to keep the
farmer alive to his responsibility in this war.
The farm press is close to the farmer, knows what
his needs and problems are, whereas the metro-
politan press and particularly all whotlive in the

city have no sympathy with the farmer’s viewpoint

and only mess things up when they attempt . to
Such
trash as put out by Mr. Lamb can do no good, but

only antagonizes the farmer and injures the great

cause for which we are all working.
“This letter is written in the kindliest of spir-

it. It is prompted by our desire to see the Third

Liberty loan meet with the success that it de-
serves and I absolutely know that Mr. Lamb’ s arti-
cle can contribute nothing whatever to its success
and will only be like rubbing salt into a wound
to place it before the farmers at this particular
stage of the game."— ‘. A. Lord, Editor. .

’ Up to April 22nd, no reply had been received to
either the telegram or letter, and inasmuch as we
began to receive very indignant letters from our
subscribers who had been favored with one of the
pamphlets in questiOn, we again wrote Mr. Nesbit
asking for an explanation. To this letter, Mr.
Nesbit replied on April 24th, as follows:

“This acknowledges your letter of April 22nd. I
am very sorry that your telegram and letter re-
ferred to in this particular letter were either mis-
laid or overlooked in the great rush of work last
week.

“I am enclosing you a copy of the pamphlet,
“Play Fair, Mr. Farmer ” However, I gather from
your letter that you are already in possession of
a CODY-

“The pamphlet referred to was not given general
circulation by this committee at all. It was sent
out to a limited extent in Wisconsin and Michigan
It was prepared in good faith at the suggestion of
one of the Wisconsin men and received such en-
thusiastic endorsement from' various members of
the organization that it was included in the matter
being sent out by mail. However, when We re-
ceived several objections to it, we at once with-
drew it from circulation and it did not go any
further than I have 1nd1cated—W11bur D. Nesbttt,
Director of Publicity.

paragraph As one of our readers writes.

 
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There is a lie in almost every
llIt
seems‘f‘that the author wanted to say something
nasty about the farmer.” More than that it looks
as if he intended to maliciously injure the farm-
er’s character in the eyes of those who are ever
readyto believe that the blame for the high cost
of living rests upon the food producer. It is no
wonder that our readers have characterizedthis
article, “German propaganda.” Nothing could be
calculated to better antagonize the farmers of the
nation and keep them from subscribing to the
Liberty loan; nothing could better arouse class
hatred and create friction between the forces that
ought to be working hand in hand for the nation’s
cauSe.

We cannot conceive of any man who has ever
lived upon a farm or has the slighetst appre-
ciation of the farmers’ problems, giving his sanc-
tion to the publication and circulation of such an
article and Mr. Lamb's arraignment of the Amer-
ican farmer shows very potently the need of men
on the Liberty Loan Campaign committee who are
familiar with the farmer’s viewpoint. Perhaps
those responsible for the circulation of this pam-
phlet should not be too severely criticised. They
acted according to the light that had been given

them. Had Mr. Lamb’s article been submitted to

someone speaking the farmer’s language and um
ﬂerstanding his situation. it never would have
gotten into print. But, the sting has been felt;
the wrong has been done. Confession has been
made that those having charge of matters of
national import that should require an intimate

acquaintance with the sentiments and conditions

of all classes of people, are absolutely ignorant
of how to deal with the farmers. Future Liberty
loan campaigns cannot meet with the utmost succ-
cess unless the supervisory committees are made
up largely of men who know the farmer and his
problems.

WHAT OUR READERS SAY ABOUT MR. LAMB’S
ARTICLE

I am enclosing pamphlet with this mail which
I suggest you read, and if possible. ﬁnd some
space in your paper to refute the lies and unjust
statements contained therein. We farmers surely
need not care what this particular “Lamb” thinks,
but a good deal of mischief is made by this sort of
stuff being printed and sown broadcast, for as
you see, nothing is said about the c<‘st to the
farmers in getting those “enormous proﬁts” refer-
red to. There ought to be some way toput a stop
to these lying statements and reports. A half-
truth is a nasty thing, and anyone who knows the

was: that the cost of production has

' easily .:
kept pace with the rise in price of the ﬁniﬁhod

"vproduct—almost without exceptiOn, and any main
' With one ounce of common sense knows that this .
‘ is what settles the question of proﬁt.

    
7 I have felt almost frOm the hour that I received
that it was written with malicious intent.

 
say something nasty about the farmers. Just
why, I am not fully certain, possibly to cover up
some of his own dirt in this way. I can’t believe
that any man in his right senses would write such
an article for the sole purpose of helping the
Liberty Loan; and I am more than anxious to

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.seems to me that for‘ysome reason Lamb wished to -

  
know as much more as possible about this man ‘

Lamb and also the other members of the commit-
tee. After reading your comment in the M. B. F.
April 20th, that you wired them, also wrote them
and that they paid no attention to your warning,
I have felt still more certain that the advancement
of the Liberty Loan was not the main object of
this pamphlet. This pamphlet appeared in our
box without envelope, address or stamp of any
kind, and I wrote the postmaster general to this
effect, also stating that this pamphlet has stirred
up a bad feeling among us because of its false and
misrepresenting statements, and asking if any
special privileges had been granted this kind of
literature. Today I received a letter from the
department at‘ Washington asking for this pamph-
let, also stating that certain kinds of Liberty loan
literature had been granted the use of the mails,
but they were unable to say whether this pamph-
let came in that class. I mailed the pamphlet this
afternoon, also the page from M. B. F. on which
appeared your comment, as I felt that this would
clinch what I hadvpreviously told them, and I es-
pecially wanted them to know of your warning to
this committee. I am telling you of this action on
my part that you may be ready for them should
they addresa you in the future regarding the
matter.

In closing I wish to say that this is one of the
meanest, most detestable thrusts ever put over on
the farmers, and ’trust that when you do attack
it you will show it up for what it is—mop the earth
With it. I feel that the farmer has had enough
from the city man and the daily newspapers, and
unless we strike back and strike hard, the ﬁrst
we know they will have us snowed under.—Geo.
A. Waterman, Ann Arbor.

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I am taking the liberty of sending you pamphs
let I received by today’s mail, which I wish you
would give airing in your paper. As I am a farm-
er and have bought two Liberty bonds and know
that nearly all the farmers in this vicinity have
done the same, for rank injustice to us I think it
beats anything I have seen. Take the increase
in wages which it states as 46 per cent, which I
personally know that in this vicinity have increas-
over 100 per cent in the last year. Am also send-
ing you a clipping from the Ann Arbor Times-
News of April 12, which tells another story. Please
let me hear from you.——C. Lemon, Dexter, Mich.

 
PLAY FAIR, MR. FARM-ER
By LOUIS ALBERT LAMB

The American farmer has been patriotic on
the food production side of the account. In
order that the ﬁghting forces of America and
the Allies should be fed, the Government drew
lightly on the farming population for recruits.
Men were not largely called from the furrow
to go into the trench. A man with a hoe was
rated on a par with a man carrying a riﬂe.
Feeding was put on a level with ﬁghting, and
so the farmer got an honorable discharge, so
to speak, from the military sacriﬁces that fell
on city men.

Well, the farmer’s patriotism in raising big
crops is O. K. and 14-karat, as far as that part
of the war goes. But it is a kind of patriotism
that isn’t very painful, considering that the
former has been getting nearly two and one-
half times as much for his foodstuffs as he got
in 1914. Dun’s Index Number shOWS an in-
crease of 146 per cent in the price of Bread-
stuffs during the three and a half years of the
war. That big increase has gone to pay the
farmer for his patriotic zeal with the plow and
the hoe.

The farmer is getting 56 per cent more for
his meat product.

The farmer is getting 77 per cent more for
other food products. He is getting more than
twice as much for wool, cotton and other clo-
thing materials.

Pretty good reward he has had, the patriot-
ic farmer, for his ﬁghting the war in the fur-
row!

The talk about “proﬁteering” among the
metal and munition people of the cities loses
all its point when you compare the increased
prices the farmer has been getting against the
advances in metals and manufactures. Where-
as foodstujfs have advanced 146 per cent since
1914, metals have risen only‘88 per cent, and
miscellaneous (including most staples outisde
of food. textiles and meta-ls) have advanced
only 53 per cent

If there is any sense in talking of “proﬁt-
eering” it cannot be gainsaid that thejarmer
has had the lion’s share of the big proﬁts.

‘Do You Wonder that Farmers who Received Copies of this Article Called it “German Propaganda?”

Getting down to ofﬁcial “brass tacks” look at
the Government’s “Monthly Crop Report” for
March, 1918, and compare the prices being paid
to the farmers now with those paid them by
the 1910-1914 average:

March 1918 Av. '10-’14
Wheat (per bushel) ............ $2. 027 $0.890
Corn (per bushel) .............. 51.43 0.605
Oats (per bushel) .............. .862 0.401
Barley (per bushel) ............ 1.611 0.629

Average increase in price to producer

(these items) 140 per cent
Average increase in cost of farm labor. .46 per cent

It is very evident that the proﬁteering has
been done on the farms as well as elsewhere.
In fact most of the big proﬁts have gone into
the pockets of the farmers to pay them for
their patriotic work in raising food for Amer-
ica and the Allies.

All the necessary details about advancing
farm proﬁts can be found in the appended
table of Dun’s Index Numbers, the authoritive
criterion of price movements in this country.

Farm production isn’t the whole of Patriot—
ism. Not by a jugful! It takes money, Hard
CASH, and lots of it to prepare Armies and
ﬁght Wars of the size of this one.

Working in the furrow and selling crops at
enormous proﬁts is not the whole duty of the
farmer. .

He ought to be just as liable for his part of
the Cash Raising as the city man is. But has
the farmer risen to this level of patriotism?

The ﬁgures obtained in the ﬁrst and second
Liberty Loan campaigns indicate that he has
failed to do his fair share in the subscription
of cash to carry on the war for the United
States against Prussia and the Tyrant.

As a matter of policy, the Farmer. has been
relieved of the heavy burden of the conscrip-
tion for military service. He stays at home to
farm. .

The nature of the farmer’s business has
shielded him from the full force of the Income
Tax, from Corporate and Excise Taxation, and
from a variety of direct taxes imposed for the
raising of war money. * * *

. The evidence from all the Federal Reserve
districts is in agreement on this fact:

Farmers have conceived an erroneous idea

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that all they need to do is raise crops and sell
them at enormous proﬁts. They do not feel
that it is up to them to pay income taxes, busi-
ness taxes, or other direct taxes. They do not
think it is up to them to send men to the ﬁght—
ing line. They do not think it is a part of their
patriotic duty to invest their money in Liberty
Bonds. But the duty of subscribing to the
Liberty Loans is precisely as binding on Farm-
ers as on anybody else. * * * *

It takes more than food to win this war.

It takes hard cash. All the money and credit.
of the country must be mobilized—~and that in—
cludes the money and credit of the farmers as
well as of the merchants and manufacturers
and clerks and store help.

It is a fact that in some parts of the United
States the farmers have subscribed only one—
hundredth as much for the ﬁrst and second
Liberty loans as the average of the industrial
regions.

Careful statistical analysis shows that in one
of the most patriotic states in the Union the
farmers have done one tenth as much as the
city people in support of the ﬁrst and second
Liberty loans.

This matter is serious enough to warrant
straight talk from the heart. Everybody Who
has a dollar that is not needed to keep life in
his body and clothes on his nakedness, holds
that dollar in trust for the U. S. A.

The money you have is your money, but it
is subject to the supreme law of National Self
Preservation.

Get it out of your system that your money
is yours no matter what happens to the United
States of. America.

If the country is lost all is lost—including
your money, your farm, your liberty, and pos-
sibly your life.

Every dollar you have is yours in trust for
the country.

1t is time for the farmer to wake up on Lib-
erty loans.

Bring out your idle money and credit. turn
your enormous cash proﬁts into the United
States treasury and use your credit to help win
this war.

 
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THE LATE APPLICATION OF
FERTILIZER WILL PAY WELL

Do you think it-would pay to use fertilizer on
my potatoes after they have been planted?‘ I am
already to plant my early potatoes, but no fertil-
izer. Our local dealer has been expecting a sup-
ply for several weeks, but it hasn’t come yet. He
tells me I can use it just as well after the crap is
planted. I never heard of this before—A. 0., Al-
pcna county.

We just received a bulletin from the Soil im-

provement committee of the National Fertilizer.

Ass’n upon this very Lubject and thirk it answers
your question fully:

“A late application of fertilizer as a side dress-
ing to rowed crops, or as a top-dressing for other
crops,-is often quite as effective as when applied at
planting or seeding time.

“Certainly it is much better and wiser to make
the delayed fertilizer application in this way than
to attempt to grow a crop with no fertilizer at
all, or with less than the usual quantity. Remem—
her that fertilizer conserves farm labor by mak-
ing it more productive. The big problem is to
apply the fertilizer with the least possible amount

of labor, but at such a time and in such a way,

as to make it more effective.

“Within an astonishingly short time after the
corn is “up” the roots meet and interlace between
the rows. Plant food in fertilizer applied any-
where between the rows is soon available to this
network of root hairs. The principal thing, then,
is to get the fertilizer on and worked into the
soil, so that the growth,of the plant will be unin-
terrupted. Since the food in the seed is exhaust-
ed by the time the corn seedlings reach a height
of six or seven inches. the application should be
made before that stage of growth has been reached.

How to Apply

1. . Use the common grain drill with two of the hoes
or discs set high over the rows of corn. Close the
openings in these two tubes, so that no fertilizer can
drop on the corn.

2. Apply with a regular fertilizer distributor

3. Use the fertilizer attachment on the cultivator.
This cultivates and fertilizes at one operation.

' 4. Use the two-row corn planter with fertilizer at-
tachment, driving astride the rows. This is better
than hand application but not as good a method as
the others mentioned.

_ 5. Ilse the one-horse or ﬁve-hoe grain drill, such as
is used for seeding winter grains in standing corn.
This machine is also most excellent for applying side
dressings of fertilizer to potatoes, cabbages, tomatoes,
and in fact to all rowed crops.

if you use a fertilizer broadcaster cultivate or work
the 3011 immediately after applying the fertilizer. This
mixes the fertilizer through the soil so that all the
small feeding rootlets can get it. Do not work deep
enough to cut the roots.

Side Dressing Potatoes

For years practical potato growers have followed
the practice of making a second application of fertil-
izer when the vines are from six to eight inches high
—sometimes even up to the time the ﬁrst blossoms
appear. This is probably too late, but if the amount
of fertilizer applied at the time of planting has been
out down, or fertilizer omitted altogether, it is all the
more necessary and proﬁtable to get at it shortly after
growth has started.

Apply as for corn except take pains to get the fer-
tilizer nearer the row. Potato roots do not forage as
far nor as widely as do the roots of corn. The pota-
to plant is “lazy," and needs an abundance of food
near at hand.

Side—Dressing Truck, Garden and Canners’ Crops

In large truck and vegetable gardens and for most
canner's crops the fertilizer may be applied with the
same machines and in the same way as for corn. The
five—hoe wheat drill is especially serviceable for side—
dressing this class of crops.

Wherever the work must be done by hand. care,
must be taken to avoid dusting the wet foliage with

fertilizer. “Fertilizer burn" may result. Otherwise
apply the same as for other crops—get the fertilizer
iwtween the rows and work it into the soil as soon as
possible.

“Remember that fertilizers furnish concentrated
plant food. A single bag of high-grade fertilizer
often contains more plant food, and in a more
available and quick-acting form, than a ton of
manure. Thcncfore do not get, too close to the
plant, but let the roots reach out for what they
need. The only danger arises from getting fer-
tilizer on wet foliage and this may be easily
avoided.”

“WHEN IS THE BEST TIME
TO SOW ALFALFA?”

When is the best time to sow alfalfa, and how
much does it take to the acre?—~L. D., Spruce.

Alfalfa may be sown in either spring or fall.
The season for spring seeding is already well
along, but in Michigan latitudes it may proﬁtably
be sown as late as June 1st. Spring sowed alfal-
fa secures a ﬁrm root-hold before winter comes
on and there is less danger of winter-killing than
with the fall sown crop. Offsetting this advantage
however, are the troublesome weeds of spring and
that this season is a particularly busy one. The
average amount of seed used in this state per

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sour, impoverished or weed-infestedsoil, but is
successfully grown on extremely light soil-s. Al-
falfa should not be sown ’on land that is lacking
in lime. Ground limestone should beap‘plied to
sour soils, one ton per acre being sufﬁcient in
mdst cases to correct the acid condition of the
soil‘.‘ We shall be glad to give you more detailed
information concerning the culture of alfalfa up-
on request. ‘

ADDITIONAL SUGGESTIONS ON
CROPPING WET MUCK LAND

Some timeviago a Montgomery subscriber asked
us for advice on cropping wet mu‘ck land, We
answered in part, and thru «the courtesy of Prof.
Levin of the Extension Department of the Agri-
cultural college we are able to give more exten-
sive suggestions upon the subject.

Wet muck land is a puzzle. My own erperience
with wet muck has been disappointing. The crop
obtains its nitrogen from the composition of the
muck by the germs in the soil. Continuous mois-
ture prevents their, efﬁcient activities and this
most important plant food is not made available
rapidly. However, an ordinary season will en-
able one to obtain a medium crop of sorghum hay.
If your subscriber feeds cattle, one of the best
crops to put in is mangels. Carrots of any kind
will do well on muck which is moist. Alsike and
timothy have proven successful, especially if the
muck receives a light application of barnyard
manure. The cropping of mu-‘.: is in its experi-
mental stage. We are carr: ing on, in co-operation
with farmers in the state several demonstrations
which may give us more data on this important
question. We will be pleased to take up any ques-
tion concerning muck and muck crops with you
in deta.il.~—Ezra Levin, Extension Specialist in
Muck Crops. M A. O.

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THE FARMERS’ EMANCII’ATOR

I have been a reader of your excellent paper
for nineteen years and wish to congratulate you
upon the excellency of the present paper. I have
Mao taken the Breeder’s Gazette several years.
It’s chief purpose is to sell full-blooded live-
stock, which is i-Ommendable, while yours is to
bring life, liberty and happiness to the farmer.
Prof. Henry styled the Breeder’s Gazette “The
Farmer’s Greatest Paper," while I would term
yours “The Farmers' Emancipntor.”——-Elmer H.
Nevins, Ovid, Michigan.

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BEAN DIVISION SAYS GOVERN-
MENT NOT IMPORTING BEANS

I don’t think it is right for the government to
import beans from Manchuria when there is a
large crop in this country. After the farmer has
been urged to grow beans it doesn’t seem fair for
the government to treat. him that way. Is the
government still importing beans? If they are I
think Michigan bean growers should protest—M.
T., Lapecr, Michigan.

The Government is not importing any beans
from China or Manchuria, although as you are un-
doubtedly aware. the Army and Navy command-
eered on the west coast all Japanese white and
red beans. We believe the average price was
about 9“'iC per lb. for choice hand—picked white pea
beans, and this stock was only taken on account
of its immediate availability at seaboard.

We have had innumerable offers/from Japanese
and other governments to sell us for future de-
livery quantities of white beans, but our Govern-
ment, has refused absolutely to make any contracts
for future delivery, and stated that should they
make any contracts the preference will be given
our own farmers ﬁrst and that they only will take
foreign goods when they are much below domestic
goods in price or their immediate availability
makes it necessary on account of transportation.—
United States Food Administration. per K. P. Kim-
ball.

HOW LIQUOR INTERESTS PROPOSE
TO RESURRECT LIQUOR TRAFFIC

I’d like to know more about that amendment
the “wets” are trying to“ get thru to permit the
sale of wine and beer in this state. I think the
farmers should vigorously oppose the measure.—
W. H.. Wcmford county.

The state brewers have ﬁled with the secretary
of state a petition form for an amendment to the
constitution repealing in general eﬁect the state-
wide Prohibition amendment adop'teu in 1916 by
nearly 70,000 majority.

The petition would by initiative bring the pro-
posed amendment to a vote-at the November elec-
tion of this year.

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of the circuit judge, but c‘dmpelhim to‘issue a
license on request of 25 citizens;
(.4) Would increase the license fee from $500
to $750, a part to go to the general highwivay fund.
(6) . Would create small unit local option pro-
visibn for the no license sentiment of a community
with wet and dry elections each year. ‘

HOW TO KEEP SILAGE OVER FROM
SPRING TO LATE IN SUMMER

I have about ten tons of silage which I would
like to carry over the summer as feed is so high.
What can be done to keep the silage from spoiling
and in good condition?—Subscriber.

The common method and one which is perhaps
as good as any, is to cover the surface, which
should ﬁrst be leveled off perfectly smooth, with
fine chaff to a depth of ﬁve or six incches. This,
chaff shOuld then be weighed down thoroughly
and‘tramped to make it as compact as possible.
It may then be covered with boards with weights
or with dirt or sod, so as to make it as nearly air
tight as possible. Instead of.covering with chaff
some small -grain, preferably oats, may be sowed
on it to make a thick covering. Almost any means
by which a good air tight cover can“ be secured,
will accomplish the desired results—H. W. Norton
Jr.. Specialist in Live Stock, Experiment Station,
M. A. C.

A GOOD WORD FORiTI-IE BOYS
OF THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL

In May 4th issue I notice your article on taking
boys from the Industrial School, and for fear there
might be some who have the same idea that I
used to have—that all boys in that institution
were bad boys else they would not be there—I
should like to say a word in their behalf. Two
years ago I made the acquaintance of a. lady who
had been a teacher in the Industrial School at
Lansing for several years, and she told me that
not all the boys are there thru faults of their own
but quite the contrary. Some whose parents have
died, or have separated and neither care to bother
with the boy. Hence he is sent to the Industrial
School. This teacher friend told me that many
of the little fellOWS only need a little love and
care to make them ﬁne Americcans. Give them a
corner in your heart and home; it will be adding
an extra jewel to your crown.-—-Mrs. J. H.

STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, ‘ MANAGE-
MENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., REQUIRED
BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS 0F
AUGUST 24, 1912
of Michigan Business Farming, published at Mount

Clemens, Michigan, for April 1, 1918.
State of Michigan, County of Macomb,

Before me, a Notary Public, in and for the state
and county aforesaid personally appeared .Forrest A.
Lord. who, having been duly sworn according to law,
deposes and says that he is one of the editors'of Mich-
igan Business Farming and that the followmg is to
the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement
of the ownership, management (and if a. dailypaper,
the circulation), etc, of the aforesaid pubt‘licatvv- for
the date shown in the above caption, required by the
Act of August 24. 1912, embodied in section 443, Pos-
tal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of
this 'form, to—wit: , _

1. That the names and addresses of the publisher,
editor, managing editor. and business manager are:

Publisher, Rural Publishing Company, Mount Clem—
ens, Michigan.

l'lditors, Grant Slrwim and Forrest A. Lord, Mount
Clemens, Michigan. _ .

Business Manager, Geo. M. Slocum, DetrOit, Mich.

2. That the owners are: (Give names and address-
es of individual owners, or, if a corporation, give its
name and the names and addresses of stockholders
owning or holding 1 per cent or more of the total
amount of stock.)

Grant Slocum, R. F. D. No. 4, Mount Clemens, Mich.

George M. Slocum, 1012 Helen Ave. Detroit. Mich.

Forrest A. Lord, 108 South Ave, Mount t‘lemcns,
Michigan.

Estate of Chas. Hampton, Detroit. Mich.

3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and
other security holders owning or holding bonds. mort—
gages, or other securities are: (If there are none,
so state). .

None.

4. That the two paragraphs next above giving the
names of the owners, stockholders, and security hold-
ers. if any, contain not only the list of stockholders
and security holders as they appear upon the books
of the company, but also, in cases where the stock-
holder or security holder appears upon the books of
the company as, trustee or in any other ﬁduciary re-
lation, the name ‘of the person or corporation for whom
such trustee is acting, is given; also that the said two
paragraphs contain statements embracing afﬁant’s full
knowledge and belief as the circumstances and condi-
tions under which stockholders and security holders
who do not appear upon the books of the company
as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity

other than as a bona ﬁde owner; and this aftiant has

no reason to believe that any other person, association,
or corporation has any interest direct or indirect in
the said stock, bonds, or other securities than as so
stated by him.

5. That the average number of copies of this pub—
lication sold or distributed. through the mails or oth-
erwise, to paid subscribers during the six months pre-
ceding the date shown above is. (This information is
required from daily publications only).

FORREST A. LORD.
Editor.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 3rd day of

May, 1918.
BERT V. NUNNELLY,
(My commission expires Sept. 5th, 1920.)

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The Food Administration continues
to make every effort to locate large
holdings of wheat and does not hesi-
tate to requisition the same where it
is apparent that the holder is delib-
erately refraining from selling. Cases
of actual hoarding are scarce. The
great majority of Michigan growers
have disposed of their surplus and in
many cases have actually sold them—
selves short in order to increase the
available supply. We are advised
however that one grower near Adrain
was found to be holding 4,000 bushels
and that he was taken into custody
by Federal agents and the Wheat seiz-
ed for the use of the government.
believe this is as it should be and will
meet with the approval of growers gen-
erally.

Crop reports continue to become
more satisfactory and with a spell of
warm weather at this time conditions
will be very satisfactory. The great-
est loss seems to be in Kansas. Mich-
igan wheat is far from satisfactory
and much of it has been plowed up.
The prospect in the Northwest is most
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GRADE Detroit Chicago New York
No. 2 Yellow 1.65 1.57 1.55
No. 3 Yellow 1.60 1.60 1.60
No. 4 Yellow 1.45 1.50 1.55

 
While the price of this cereal has
worked lower since our last writing,
it is now showing more strength on
local buying. Eastern demand has
fallen off greatly since the embargoes
have been modified and shipments al—
lowed to reach destination. Condi-
tions. there have entirely changed dur-

"ing the past few weeks and the mar-

kets are now well supplied and under
a light demand are extremely weak.

There has been much more activity,

in the west and as an illustration of
this, during the past week a car of
corn was shipped from Buffalo to
Toledo.

The next corn crop is a matter of
much speculation at this time. Much
of the seed which a short time ago
was showing a fair germination test
is found to have deteriorated and this
is taken to indicate weak vitality and
pressages trouble for the present plant-
ing. It is now well established that
the acreage this year will be consider—
ably smaller than that of last.

  
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little demand now that the grain is
no longer used for mixing purposes,
very little being used for straight rye

Rye remains stationary and

market is very quiet.

ﬂour. Offerings are light, very few
shipments being received in any one
week. Stocks back in growers' hands

__ are negligible.

Barley

Milwaukee—Barley prices advanc-
ed 100 during the week, the market ﬁn-
ally having come out of its period of
stagnation. Strength was created by
the sharp falling off in receipts and a
resumpttion of buying of maltsters,
millers and shippers. However. only
choicest qualities were in demand.
Current quotations are: Choice big—
berried Wisconsin, and eastern Iowa,
testing 48 to 50 lbs.. per bu., $1.86@
$1.90; 45 to 47 lbs., $1.82@$1.86; Min-
nesota, western Iowa and Dakota, 48
to 50 lbs.. $1.86@$1.89; 45 to 47 lbs,
$1.82@$1.86;. all states, 41 to 44 lbs,
$1.75@$1.81; feed. $1.60@$1.75.

B'u,ffal0.——The barley situation re-
mains where it was a week ago. No-
body wants it and there are no of-
ferings for shipment. Dealers quot-
ed opening shipment at $1.85 to $2.00
1:. I. F., Buffalo. A few cars of Ohio

on track sold at $1.62 to $1.68 through
billed.

 
The cloverseed market is steady and
firm at prevailing prices. There is a
strong speculative market. Trade in
both September and October timothy
is active. Alsike is ﬁrm at prevailing
quotations. The world’s stocks of seed
are about the lowest point in years.

Detroit is quoting prime red clover
at $19; alsike, $15.25; timothy. $3.90.
Toledo quotations: Prime cash, $18.40;
October, $14.50. Alsike, prime cash,
$15.25. Timothy. prime cash, old
$3.80; new, $3.85; September. $4.47;
October, $4.25.

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worked considerably lower. lxport ‘ ﬁg 5;

demand is very light just at this time
and all news is against the market.
Crop reports indicate an enormous
acreage, planted under the most fa.)-
01'able conditions. Receipts have been
increasing at. primary points in great-
er'proportion than was expected. About
the only thing which can bolster the
market at this time is greatly renew-
ed buying on the part of exporters.
The price has dropped to a point
where it may remain stationary for
a time, but it will be almost sure to
work lower as we get nearer to a new
crop. Oats in Michigan seem to be
well out of the hands of growers, they
having taken advantage of the higher
prices. One strengthening feature of
the market is the regular amount pur-
chased by the government. This has
been of great help right along and
will continue so.

 
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Last bulletin gave forecasts of distur—
bance to cross continent May 11. to If).
warm wave 10 to 14. cool wave 13 to
17._ This belongs to the great storm
per10d centering on May 11. and will
be a general and very severe storm.
It has been difﬁcult to determine which
of the great storms would be most
dangerous from May 5 to 15. Severe
storms cause temperature extremcH
and often cause damaging frosts. 111x-
cept frosts and relatively small dam—
ages to crops by winds, cropweather
is expected to be good.

Next two warm waves will reach
Vancouver near May 16 and 22 and
temperatures will rise on all the Paci—
ﬁc slope. They will cross crest of

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CHICAGO “’IRE—Oats are very weak and the market shaws every evidence
Corn dull and ﬁve cents lower.

DETROIT SPECIAIr—Old potato market. firmer and demand good.

Pou‘ltry continues in light supply.
Shipments in transit: reported lighter and
dealers, anticipating lighter supplies during the. rush of spring work on farms,

CINCINNATI “'IRE—Advise withholding shipment of 113,. for another week.
Market at present, time is over-supplied.

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C._H.P. 11.50 12.50 13.50
ane 11.35 i 12.40 13.40
Red Kidney: 1 13.511 13.511 14.25

 
There is very little change in the
bean market. The demand has improv-
ed somewhat but during the past week
offerings have been plentiful and if
anything the market is not strong.
The coming of warm weather has brot
out the last of the wet stock and the
growers have in many cases suffered
a considerable loss. Many are still
holding their dry beans in an effort
to get enough out of them to pay for
the seed. There are so many things
to consider that it is very difﬁcult at
this time for anyone to say what the
future of the bean market may be.

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Detroit 121 00 21 50120 00 20 50118 50 19 00
Chicuo 124 00 25 00120 00 22 oo 15 00 is 00
Cincinnati 524 50 25 50:22 00 24 0011700 21 00
Pimburgh ‘26 00 26 50 22 00 23 0017 00 19 00
NewYork ‘30 oo :12 00‘26 00 29 00 2000 25 00
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Chicago 21 oo 22 00,16 00 18 0015 00 15 50
Cincinnati 22 so 23 00'21 00 22 so 14 00 16 00
Pimburgb 20 511 21 50,15 50 17 0014 so 16 50
New York 27 00 29 00 24 00 26 Mn 00 23 00
Richmond

No general description of the hay
market ‘an be given at this time.

(‘onditions differ greatly at different
points owing to amount of stock ur-
riving and the general demand. The
prices remain about the, same at De-
troit and arrivals have fallen off to
some extent. GrOWers are not haul—
ing much hay right now, being busy
on the farms. There is still a. consid-
crable quantity to move before the
first of the new crop comes and we
would not be surprised to see the
price work lower. After the first rush
of spring work is over the balance of
the old crop will move to market and

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unless there is an exceptional demand
and such is not likely, we will have
a market that is not so strong, to say
the least

The Chicago market has shown some
advance. the demand being better and
supplies only moderate, campared
with those of the preceding weeks.
Conditions at' Cincinnatti are still far
from satisfactory. Supplies there
have been entirely too heavy and while
less has been coming in during the
past week, there is still more than the
market can assimi‘ate.

The supply at Pittsburgh is in
excess of the demand and the price
as again fallen during the past week.

’ Large amounts of hay are said to be

in sight of that market, much of it
being at present held back by em-
bargoes We do not believe it advisa-
ble to use this market to any great
extent during the next week or so. It
now looks as though the price there
would go lower under heavier re-
ceipts.

Eastern points report plenty of hay
on track and at terminals but a ﬁrm-
er tone on the better grades. Much
hay is arriving there in heated con-
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Detroit ‘ 1.20 cwt. 1.00 cwt.
Chicago 103 .80
Cincinnati 1 6 s 1.35
New York 1.40 l 1.10
Pittsburgh , 1 30 , 1.05
Baltimore, Md. 1.25 1 1.05

l’otatocs liavc been moving freely

and the supply is constantly increas-
ing. We cannot see much better pric-
es ahead in View of the fact that the
time has come when stocks on hand
must, be disposed of without much

further delay. All markets oi.‘ the
middle Wcst seem to be in about the
same condition. (‘hicugo reports a

plentiful supply of the old stock and
nia"ket is weak. The same may be
said of Detroit. Pittsburg and some
of the eastern markets have been more
satisfactory. but they also are receiv-
ing plentiful supplies. and there is
every pacspcct of an 1'1verloaded mar—
ket, in the near future.

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[Flour Per 1915 lbs. in eighth paper
sacks: Straight winter. $11; spring
patcni. $11521; rye flour. $14 in job-

biog lots.

l‘ccdwln ind-lb. sacks, jobbing lots:
Bran. $05; standard middlings. 33;
tinc middlings. $45: cracked corn. $70;

coarse cornmeal. $02; chop, $56 per
loll.
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Th 10‘E‘ill‘011, buttcr market is firmer
fresh creamcry firsts, 42 @1 421.80;
fresh creameries extras, Attic.

Our New York letter. under date
of May 4, says: Receipts have been

considerably below normal this week.
’l‘lic result. is that the law of supply
and demand has become very active
and the market has been very strong
and prices have advanced. The de-
mand for butter has greatly exceed-
ed the supply. A greater demand than
usual has been created because of a
large order which has been placed.
by the army and» navy and which is
already being filled. As practically
all dealers have felt that abundant
supplies of butter would be available
at any time it has been the policy to

sell. as soon as the butter arrives,
which has been possible, generally
speaking, during the week. The re-

sult has been that no large quantities
of butter. especially the better grades,
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What of the Michigan Potato?

VERY FARMER who grOWs potatoes com-

mercially should read the article that ap-

pears elsewhere in this issue, upon the po-
tato situation, by Mr. A. M. Smith, president of the
Michigan Potato Growers’ Ass’n. It is full. of
cnsiblie suggestions. It should prove an aid in
“he marketing of the balance of the 1917 crop and
in the planningr of the current crop.

Mr. Smith has charitably refrained from a crit-
icism of the factors that have combincd to disor-
ganize the normal movement of tho crop from the
day the poiatoes were dug up to the present time.
Perhaps this is wise; but we think not.

When State Food Administrator Prescott pub-
licly proclaims that “Michigan potato grin-wort; urn,
paying the penalty and will continue to pay so
long as they refuse to sell,” we suddenly remem—
ber that charity begins at home. and we haven’t
the slightest desire to forget or condone the in-
terference of the federal experts in the matter of
grading. or in the failure to supply the cars to
move the crop so patriotically grown at Uncle
Sam’s behest.

Commenting upon the subject, the Detroit Nous

pointedly remarks:
. “The situation is bad enough to call forth more scr—
ious ofIfiCIal actiVIty than mere scolding. There are
three Victims of this penalizing—tho farmers, the con—
sumers and the nation.

"If three or four thousand carloads of potatoes re—
main .unmarkcted in Michigan this spring, the farm~
ers will lose upwards of $2,000,000 which they worked
for andcarned last summer. If three million bushels
of Michigan potatoes did not go to market during the
winter, the consumers have been deprived of that much
food and have been charged a proportionately higher
price-for the smaller amount they were able to procure.
And-if this important addition to the nation's food sup-
ply is wasted, the nation’s program of food conserva—
tion is thereby made the more difﬁcult.

“The large batch of federal encouragement pourcd
out so freely on the farmers at potato planting time
last year did not hold out over the marketing season.
The elaborate operations of cost accounting commis-
Sions which proved beyond pcradventure that the farm-
ers couldn’t raise potatoes for less than a dollar a
bushel didn’t avail to get the dollar a bushel when the
potatoes were dug. And all the government’s intcrcst
1n the farmers’ welfare was not suflicicnt to put gm"
eminent controlled railroad cars into the, potiito-grmv~
ing districts.

“To small purpose then will the food administration
blame tho farmers now. when already an cnormous
new crop of southern potatoes is pouring into the
markct. lf would be wiser for a govcriiincnt depart—
ment which originated the celebrated “Food will win
the. war; don't waste it,” to makc surc that anothcr
spring scvcral million llllSlIPlS of good Michigan pota—
toes do not rot in the farmwrs‘ bins."

No. we don’t intend to forget where the responsi-
bility for the potato situation should rest. It does
not belong on the farmer’s shoulders, and we re-
sent the State Food Administrator’s efforts to
place it there. Be fair, Mr. Prescott. Isn’t it bad
enough for the farmers to have to pocket the loss,
without being criticized for someone else’s mis—
takes and meddling?

Had the potato crop been permitted to move up-
molested during the entire marketing season, there
wouldn’t be a bushel of potatoes left in the farm-
er's hands today. And they would all have got
their dollar a bushel, too.

But somebody blundered and the farmers are
paying the penalty. According to President Smith
there is now nothing for the farmers to do but
sell-their remaining potatoes at once. The advice
is good. Concerted last-minute efforts re being
made to increas; consumption and may maintain
the demand at present prices until the crop is dis—
posed of. Mr. Smith agrees with MICHIGAN BUSI-
NESS FARMING that the 1918 acreage should be only
normal, and reminds us that ere another harvest a
million and a half of our population will be in
France where they won’t be eating Michigan po-

 
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dollar potatoes are a thing of the "past, war or no
war. ’ ‘

Figures do not Lie, But—V

’ S IT CHEAPER for the Michigan farmer to
feed corn or wheat? The farmer says,

“‘whea. ,” but the chief statistician ofthe U. S. ».

Food Administration says “corn.” The farmer
is dealing with facts: the statistician with ﬁgures.
Figures do not lie, runs the old saying, but any-
one With a little imagination can juggle them to
suit most any purpose.

The statistician points out that the average
price received by the farmer during the 3 pre-
war years was $ .869 per bushel; the present price
is $2, or a percentage of increase of 131. On the
other hand: The average price of corn for 'the
same pre-war period was .665; present price, $1.388,
or apercentage increase of 109. Conclusion:
Corn is cheaper than wheat to feed.

This reminds us of the old pun in the funny
column of the daily, “If it takes the old family

. rooster.thirty seconds to ﬂy over the corncrib,

[how long will it take seven pigs to climb a thirty-
foot silo?” or, “If the furrow’s forty rods on a
windy day, how far will the corn—stalk when the
frost is on the pumpkin?”

If your corn was hit by an early frost so that
none ripened, and you had to pay $2.50 per bush-
el for a half-moldy grade, would it be cheaper to
feed your home—grown wheat or your neighbor’s-
grown corn? , L

Figures are fascinating things; they are tire-
some, too; apt to give a fellow a headache if he
studies them too long. “Oh, well,” you’re apt
to say, “I can’t see thru the durn things, but if the
chief statistician says they don’t lie, it can’t be
they do.”

Statisticians are useful persons—in a way; they
keep the pencil manufacturers busy and help
utilize one of the country’s natural resources; but
when they attempt to prove by a mere compari-
son of ﬁgures that a million or more farmers who
have found by daily experience that it IS cheaper
to feed wheat than corn, don’t know what they
are talking about, our sympathy for the pencil
makers vanishes, and we want to be shown.

Mr. Pinto Stubs His Toe on the Social Ladder

ESPITE HIS erstwhile lowly estate, Mr.
D Pinto Bean is quite a popular fellow when

his cousin “Navy” isn’t about. Born in
the shadow of the sand dunes of New Mexico, of
uncertain parentage, the ambitious chap has
scaled the social ladder in a single year. Person-
ally, he’s something of a low-brow, but he has
his friends who have groomed and coddled and
pushed him from one rung to another. Not with—
out reason, however. Honors and recognition for
Mr. Pinto mean honor and money for his sponsors,
and to some, honors and money mean more than
honor and justice and patriotism.

But to continue. Groomed and coddled by his
aspiring friends. Mr. Pinto had all but supplant-
ed Mr. Navy in the ﬁckle affections of the whole-
sale grocers and the consumers of the east, ’ei'e
the friends of Mr. Navy awoke from a long in-
difference and sent a committee to Washington,
headed by the governor of the biggest navy bean
growing state of the union, to plead for the rein-
statement of their favorite in the public graces.

The committee got what it went after. an open
market for Michigan beans. No explanations
were made, no apologies were spoken, no regrets
extended by those who had been using the money
of the United States to buy, advertise and sell
pinto beans. Only the assurance that “pintos
would be withheld from the general trade pending
the marketing of the Michigan crop.”

Is that enough? In our judgment it: is not. A
great wrong has been done a great industry, a
wrong that may take years to right. While the
concession granted by the bean division is in ef-
fect an acknowledgement of wrong-doing, it cer-
tainly seems that the farmers of the navy bean
states are entitled to a clear statement of the reas-
ons for the pinto deal and a deﬁnite announcement
of the bean division’s future policy upon this mat-
ter. ‘While we may be permitted to infer from the
report of the committee that the bean division
will cease all future advertising of and trading
in pintos, the inference is no‘. plain enough to
guide the growers and dealers of this state in
their future operations, with any degree of cer-
tainty.

If it is true, as stated by one of the members
of the committee, that things had been done by
the bean division without Mr. Hoover’s knowl-
edge or consent then this publication and the

 
, _g- , defer,”
.31 per bushel. With every twwby-fburI-Vcity let .
planted to tubers. it is our judgment that three_

   
Mr; Hoover. They have new , ._
upon him to“); mistakes of his-subordinatesv_
If mistakes has been made. the just‘aml 20.12,
age'ous thing to do is to ac’knov’vledge and recti
fy them. '

After so much has been done to injure the
standing of the navy beam—reﬂects that may .be
felt for years to coma—the least amends that the
bean division can make is to apologize for its.
crass interference and pledge itself to an abso«
lutely square deal in the future.

A Good Season Portends

E STARTED our garden last week. It’s a

V» twenty by thirty foot piece £13 the toughest

clay I ever laid eyes upon 0 stu 'I a spade
into. Last year it was virgin sod, or at least I
thought so when I 'spaded it. 'It hadn't been
touched by plow or spade for at least a dozen years,
and I slaved during my spare hours for a solid
fortnight turning that sod and breaking it up
into particles at least as ﬁne as goose eggs, and_
when dry, as hard as granite. But we had a gar-
dcn, nevertheless. True, the corn didn’t mature;
'he muskmelons didn't ripen; and the squash ab-
solutely refused to grow into anything but leaves
and blossoms. The ground isn’t so bad this year;
I really think we shall have the banner garden
in the vicinity, a claim that is vigorously dis-
puted, however, by my neighbors. .

it has just developed that we made the fatal
mistake of planting our garden in the wrong phase
of the moon, and I must confess that I never once
gave Mr. Moon a single thought. He seems not to
have been offended, however, for the radishes
we planted ﬁve days ago are all up. and there’s a
suspicious looking crack in the earth where we
put in the peas.

It's great growing weather for the early crops.
Wheat that escaped winter killing is fairly spring-
ing out of the ground, and early planted oats nev-
er looked better. The ground is in excellent shape
'in all parts of the state. The warm weather of
latter March and early April got the frost out of
the ground in short time. and the balmy weather
and copious rains have warmed the soil into a
most mellow mood. How different than the spring
a year ago! Rain, rain. day in and day out; cold
north winds; no chance no plant or do anything
else out of doors. Planting was delayed in every
section; corn rotted in the ground. It was a
mighty discouraging spring, and it passed into a
chilly summer and a frigid fall. Every season
in 1917 was consistently cold and unfavorable
for the farm work to be done. .

We believe nature is going to be especially kind
to the farmers of Michigan this year, and that

~the failures of 1917 will be turned into glorious

successes in 1918. Michigan does not need to have
one hundred per cent weather to produce good
crops. Given fair weather for the planting, she
will take her chances, year in and year out, with
any state in the union so far as the growing and
harvesting weather is concerned. '

A good season portends, and we predict that 1918
will be the biggest and best crop year ever en-
joyed by the' farmers of Michigan.

A labor crisis is approaching. Men are wanted
for the farms, the factories and the trenches.
The bidders for this labor are the tarmers, the
manufacturers and the government. For the best
interests of all concerned this man power must
be equitably divided and every man placed where
he can be of greatest service to his country. The
farmer will want to retain his farm hand; the
manufacturer will want to retain his skilled me-
chanic; the government will want as many men,
and more perhaps. than can readily be spared from
the essential industries of the nation. Every de—
partment of the go ernment is in control of men
having a direct. interest in industrial enterprises.
Farming is little represented. It is most natural
then that industrial labor might be exempted at
the expense of agricultural labor. We believe
the farmers should take the initiative and show
the concrete results of the indiscriminate draft-
ing of skilled farm labor. MIcIIIcAN Bcsians
FARMING would like to have every reader make a
report on the farm labor situation in his locality.
If lack of labor is interfering materially with
production, the farmers should not hesitate to
say so, and the fact should be impressed upon
those at the head of the government.

 
Keep your eye open for a mysterious fat man,
who resembles the advertisement for lager beer.
He may be around to call upon you some day to
sign a petition to resubmit the prohibition ques-
tion. If you see him coming, lock the front yard
gate, and untie the brindle bull.

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Why Fix, the Price on Wheat .VAlone?

You’ve got the best farm paper going. Will you .

please send me a list of your subscribers in White
(Oak township? 1 have run up against a lot or
them'who claim they have sent their subscription
in. I have a question I would like to ask: Will
you answer it in your paper for the beneﬁt'of
your readers? \

Mr. Hoover wants the people of the nation to
eat more cereal food to save the white ﬂour.
Why is it that cereal food is dearer than wheat
hour? We have to pay So a pound for corn meal,
So a pound for whole wheat ﬂour, 15c a pound for
corn starch, 8c a pound for rolled oats. We can
buy white ﬂour, 241/2 1b. sack for $1.45, which
makes it not quite 6c 3. pound, and it don’t cost
any more to grind whole wheat ﬂour than the
white because we get the bran and all, and the ele-
vators here haven’t been paying more than $1.98
for wheat, and 2 bushels of wheat will make 120
lbs. of whole wheat ﬂour and their customers have
to pay the “hogs” Be a pound for it. Do you call

er? And sugar is in the same ﬁx.

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that a square deal to the consumer and the farm-.

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psi-file girl's .rori’pick-ing.

  
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. _.plcl§er‘ which takes out about 4 lbs;, the girls take
”out 4 lbs. and 2 lbs. they leave in which are worth

250.. The 4 lbs. for which I pay for picking which
the rubber picker takes out, 200; the 8 lbs. of culls
10c, (culls sell at 255C), 550. So they have 55c
that belongs to me. Then lots of beans pick 20
lbs. and more, to the 100 pounds, so they double
on them. I see one man says he would rather buy
hand-picked beans, but they try to pick them and.
charge the farmer 2 or 3 lbs. pick on them: it their
can; they know the heavy pickers are what. they
want and so do we. If I could buy a sheep with
wool on at the same price as one with wool err,
which one would I take? One man says the mains
go toward 'paying expenses of machinery and:
keeping the room warm. A farmer has no rams.
no horses to buy and feed, no machinery, and 3-1.:
girls and boys do not need comforts. Then. it

.beans are culls when the farmer sells them my;

should another man can them and other {Minis
eat them? If we could have the culls they wont/i
make more meat, butter and eggs to go to market.
Where is our pure food man? I guess most of us
understand this furnishing seed at cost—very pat-
riotic—C, M., Midland.

No Hoarders Around Here

I thought I would write'and let the government
know how many wheat hoarders there are around

5c 1 r each; ”Farmer m,m

 
. Most of the, thrillers fmii'st'have cre
their factories on.

not’do if they farm at a loss.
for the men at the neaa or our national affairs, but

think they are in wrong with their minimum and
their meatless and wheatlessr
etc., days, until we scarcely know where we are:
If wheat and potatoes or any other crop;
The farmer.
will turn to some other crop. That is what a lot ‘

maximum prices;

at.
will not pay out the result is this:

of farmers are doing, and they should not, as their
lend, their tools and themselves are best suited
wad. equipped to raise what they have been rais-
mg When they change it means a curtailed pro-
ton-r“. our.

   
'. zj'n'ernment would give us cost plus ten

ao- 1fr: could go on the labor market and
warrants-“1:: nut-"z the manufacturers. and meet the
weaning ,... on machinery, tile, etc., we would
" with the elements and give Amer-

 
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its 2.3; it-‘zr eliiee all the meat and wheat they
maid eat

Making pe-‘.;.Ie buy four or ﬁve dollars’ worth
of other things 7.0 get a 25-1b. sack of ﬂour is not

saving food. but wasting it ,as there are thous-
ands who throw mos: of it in the garbage pail ,or
feed it to the hogs. I am a subscriber to your M.
B. F. and would not be without it. Here‘s hoping
we win the war before another wheat harvest—P.
B.. St. Louis, Michigan.

 
One man can get one pound at a time
and another one can get all the way
from 250 to 750 worth‘ at a time. I
think it is all a graft among the mer-
chants, and if Mr. Hoover wants to
keep the people from kicking he had
better ﬁx the prices on all cereal foods
or give the farmers about $3.50 a bush-
el for their wheat. and then they will
willingly put their wheat on the mar-
ket. The elevators want to rob them
when they bring their grain to town,
and they can’t blame the farmer for
holding up when the government
stands by as though its hands are
tied.~——D. 0., Webberm‘llc.

Why Don’t the Government Give
Farmer “Cost plus 10%”?

I Wish to express my satisfaction
with the stand you are taking for the
Also wish to assure
you that I am doing all within my pow—
er to help produce bumper now. The
reason for not answering your call
to enlist soldiers of the soil was too
much work. As far as our, govern-
ment, or rather the Food Administra-
tion, is concerned, they do not seem
willing, or able, to give the. soldiers
of the soil a. square deal. I note the
case of pinto and white beans. Sag—.
inaw county food administrator is
quoted as saying that growers have
themselves to blame, for they set pric-
es too high. Now, what I and others
would- like to know is this: If food is
as necessary to win this war as guns
and ammunition, why is the maker of
guns and ammunition guaranteed a
10 per cent proﬁt which is denied the
farmer? Can Symons, Prescott, Hoov-
er, or the President shed any light on
that? And as is claimed, if bread
grains are so scarce, why does not the
President in plentitude of power

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“Get Rich Quick" on the Farm

A year ago last January I traded a
general store for a farm and expected
to get rich selling high—priced farm
products. Here is the result:

I planted ten bushels of ten-d wllar—a-
bushel seed beans, thrashed 9 bushels
of $6.40 beans that picked 7 pounds to
the bushel. Big prom, eh‘.’ Eight ac—
res of corn. not a ripe our. Big pro—
ﬁt! Fifteen bushels of $1} seed potatoes
grade half, sell for 60c per bushel.
yield. 108 bushels for the entire patch.
Another big prom! That early frost
got the whole bunch.

I am enclosing a speech
by Mr. Louis Albert Lamb,
“Play Fair, Mr. Farmer." i would
like very much to have Mr. Lamb
get off. that. boiled shirt. and celluloid
collar and get right next to Mother
Earth, work 16 hours a day and see his
whole year’s hard labor go to the dam-
nation bow-wows in one night, as the
farmers of this secction of the country
did last fall. when that freeze got us.
I don't liink he would harp so long
nor so loud about the big proﬁts the
farmers are making. I am willing to
admit that everything is; high—mach—
inery. tools, help and living. and the
farmer must have all these and more.
he must feed his horses $25 a ton hay,
75c. to 90c per bushel oats, not only
while he is working them but 12 long.
months. for the privilege of working.
them about 4 months out of the 12.
if Mr. Lamb would stop and ﬁgure a
little, when the average horse will eat
about 4 tons of hay and 100 bushels
of oats a year, he will wake up to the
fact that the farmer has got something
to think about to make both ends meet
oven with the high prices of farm pro-
ducts.

Well I guess this is enough of my
indignation, so will say in closing

 
herewith
entitled,

 
granted him, shut down on the wast-
age of barley in the breweries?——O’. T.
I., Brant, Michigan.

Hides Lower; Leather Gone Outof Sight

We have been reading M. B. F. for about a
month and we like it real well. Have been read-
ing about the potato grading and hope the pota—
to growers will get their rights. but I think we
have other kicks besides potato grading. In the
winter of 1916-17 beef hides were 23'to 25c, and
this winter, 1917—18, the same kind of hides were
worth 16 and 170, with shoes and harness away up
in price. Can you tell me What is the cause of
it? And it looks as though wool was going to
travel the same way. Do they think the farmers
can buy Liberty bonds and be used that way? Just
Stop and ﬁgure what that would be on one beef
hide and see who gets the proﬁt. Had they ought
to expect the farmer to be loyal and at the same
time let them be rob-bed in all of these little
ways? When the government set a price on wheat
why not set the price on ﬂour, bran and middlings
at the same time? The farmer uses the most of
the bran and middlings, then why Should they not

have set a price on it so he could get it back at,

a reasonable price to feed. I think the farmer is
more loyal than the manufacturer considering the
way he is used—0. E. W.. Olivet.

Farmer Certainly Should Have Cull Beans

Am farming over 200 acres; raise a good many

- beans. and would like to say a few words in re-

gard 'to cull beans. There is nothing fair or just
about it. ,‘It‘ I take in one hundred pounds of

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I do not know of a single
person holding any wheat. Chances look pretty
slim for a crop around here. Most, all wheat
ground seeded to oats. I put in 18 acres last fall
at a cost of $306 and not a live spear this spring;
had to put in oats, so I haven’t even any for seed
or for ﬂour. Would like to ask where the farmer
will get his proﬁt on wheat this year..

Thinks M. B. F. the Best Farm Paper

We’ like the M. B. F., as it gives the true con-
dition of the farmer. I think that the government
should let the law of supply and demand govern
the price or else ﬁx the price of everything they
want. They ’want the people to buy tractors to
help out the labor question, and just see where
the price of kerosene and gasoline is going to.
We are trying our best to get in all the crops we
can to help the boys over there—F. L. 13.. Ply—
mouth, Michigan.

Wheat Cheaper Than Other Chicken Feed

I read and enjoy the editorials by your readers.
But there is one thing I never saw mentioned.
The writer is throwing enough good milling wheat
on the ground every day for the chickens to keep
two or three families in ﬂour. Why? Because he
can’t sell his wheat for what he has to pay for
chicken feed. Practically no corn here. Beans
went from 2 to 7 bushels per acre and pick as
high as 24 lbs. ‘ The elevators here deduct 15c for
every pound they pick—E. J». 8., Stockbridge.

this part of Michigan.

that I certainly appreciate the way

that the good old M. B. F. is ﬁghting
immer's battles. and anything 1 can do to help
you I am yours to command—~13. U., Billings.

City Laborers Unproﬁtable to This Farmer

I want to thank you for your plain statements
as to the labor question in your editorial of May
4th. It puts the case as it stands, it seems to me.
All this talk about boys and women from our
cities coming out and saving the day for the
farmers is getting almost unbearable, to some of
us at least. I have had quite a liberal experience
with these town and city boys from time to time
and very few of them have ever made good, and
if they are at all susceptible to out teaching there
is a great tendency for them to pull up and leave
just when they are most needed, and after we
have spent a lot of our valuable time teaching
them. They always want full pay, too, while they
are learning, and take it all around it has been
a losing proposition for me. Anothler disgusting
feature of this movement is that next fall, if we
do not succeed in raising all the food our city
brother thinks we should, he will tell us that he

tried to help us out, arranging all this extra help ,

for us, but that we turned it down and so did
not try to do all we could. .Beally it almost makes
one dizzy sometimes, thinking of how many people

there are who can talk so freely, give so much ad- '
vice about something they know so little about.———'

G. A. W.. Ann Arbor.

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How Michigan Farm Women Solve the Prob-

lems of Home-Keeping
1 _ ’VE RECEIVED some splendid-letters from my
‘ readers about the farm home conveniences

they are using, and just to give an inspiration p

téigthose who haven’t yet written me about how
they, too. have lightened the household work, I' m
publishing some of the suggestions that have been
received. Realizing that every farm woman is
very busy at this particular time of the year, I
have decided to extend the closing date of the
prize’contest two weeks, or until May 4th, which
will give everyone ample. time to take part. I
just know that the majority of farm women in
Michigan have got some simple contrivance which
lightens their work and which other farm women
do not know about, and I want to get every sug-
gestion possible for the beneﬁt of these other
readers. Don’t forget that I am going to give
every reader whose suggestion I use on this page,
a dish drying rack, which is a wonderful time-
saver and should be in every farm home. And
don’t forget either that for the BEST letter re-
ceived upon the subject of home conveniences, I
am going to give the writer her choice of coffee
percolator, carving set or casserole.
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DEAR PENELOPEz—Having read your letter
in M. B. F. asking the farm women to write

and tell you of the conveniences that have
helped to make their housework easier, I thot I
would write and tell you about my “dumb waiter.”
As we don’t have ice to use as our city sisters do.
we have to keep our milk, cream and butter in the
cellar. which makes a great deal of running up
and down steps. When my husband built; my
cupboards in the kitchen there was one space
about four feet long that was to be built into cup—
boards, so I just thought why not have a cupboard
built in the lower part of that space that I could

lower into my cellar and save myself so many
steps. Well, I began talking of it, but “oh. no,
that couldn’t be done no way,” so my husband

said. But the more I thot about it the more sure
I was that it could be done and I finally persuad-
ed Mr. John it could be done and he built it just
as I sugget ted and I never had anything that
saved the steps that it has. It looks from the
kitchen just like any other cupboard. There are
two doors about three feet high that open, and
there is my dumb waiter. It is plenty 1arge so I
keep my bread jar, cake and cooky jar on the top
shelf. and the other shelf I keep just for milk, but-
ter, etc. It is lifted and lowered by pulleys and
is easy to manufacture, and oh, the sHps it saves!

Don't know if I have made my meaning plain
enough. but hope 1 have and that it will help some
other farmer’s wife to solve the problem of running
up and down cellar steps so m11ch.—~Mrs. J. G. S.,
South Haven, Michigan.

A Few Suggestions Which May Help You
EAR PENELOPE:——Seeing you request in
your paper for home conveniences, I will
endeavor to give a few which have been a

help to me in my housework:

No. 1. I want to tell those tired housewives who
suffer with bunions to rub them with coal oil, or
kerosene.

No. 2. Take your everyday towels off the line
and after folding them run them through the
wringer and they will look just as nire as though
they were i1oned, and it saves woik and fuel.

No. 3. When making meal mush to slice cold
for frying, put in a tablespoon of flour and one of
sugar and it will then slicc off and brown just
as nice as bread.

No. 4. To (lean galvanized tin pails use gas-
oline.

No. 5. Use kerosene oil to clean copper boilers
and ,such.

N0. 6. Rain water and salts is a fine powder

Dissolve the salts in the rain water
a bottle and rub it on the face.
some more and you have a
is also good for the face.—
Michigan.

for the face.
and keep in
When it dries rub
nice powder which
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«-Another Chicken-Canning Recipe

. SAW IN M. B. F. Mrs. T. J.’s request for a rec-
I ipe for canning chicken. Prepare chicken as

usual. Joint and pack, omitting .giblets and
neck (it is bony.) Add tabletpoon of salt Place
new rubbers and can tops in position screwing
down loosely. Place in kettle o1 tin can (I have
a ﬁfteen-pound lard can with bail that holds
three Cans); ﬁll with cold water until it reaches
% way to rubber on cans. Put top on tin pail and

 
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Communications for this page should be addressed to
»Ponelopo, Farm Home Department, Mt; Clemens, Mich.

and boil tviro hours. Remove and tighten if neces-
sary. Set aside for 48 hours, then loosen can tops
and boil again for two hours. ’If any spores were
not killed at ﬁrst boiling the second processwill
surely kill them. __No water is necessary on chicken
as some liquor will accumulate but even it not cov-
ered a. vacuum will be formed in can and it Will
keep. As an extra precaution I dip my can tops
in paraﬂne after cans beccome cold. I can fresh
meat of all kinds this way and never lose a can.
This spring I canned sausage, tenderloin and fresh
beef by above process. Hope this will aid some
readers of good old M. B. F.7Mrs. L. A. R., Lin-
den, Mich.

Keep Clean While Cleaning Chimney

D EAR PENELOPE:—As I was reading last
week’s M. B. F. I saw your sketch on Home

Conveniences, as I have one that is, a conven-
ience in my kitchen thot I would send it to-you,
hoping I will be lucky enough to secure one of
your coffee percolators. When the chimney is
being cleaned just place an elbow in the chimney

 
It 3011 look closely among the daisies you will see
the smiling (ountennme of Master Donald (‘uster
Higgins, age ", who helps his mama gather ﬂowers
on the Higgins farm near Benzonia. Photographs of
the farm and children and the grown-ups, too and
the animals—are always welcome. Send in sour
kodak prints and let; me use them on this page.—
P] Nl‘ LOPE.

hole. and tie a paper ﬂour sack in the opposite
end The sack will catch all the soot and dirt
tha t is often spilled on the ﬂoor and other uten-
sils—M7s. L. M. Coleman, Michigan.

Potato Recipes as Suggested by the U. S.
Food Administration

Potato Soufﬂe

Four cups hot mashed potato, 1 tablespoon melted
fat 2 'tablespoons milk, 1 teaspoon salt, 1’ teaspoon
111111111111, yolks of two eggs, whites of two eggs beaten
stiff.

\lix all but the whites of the eggs in the mdei
ghen; beat thoroughly fold in the stifliy beaten whites.
pile in a baking dish and cook until the mixtuie
puffs and is brown on top.

Stuffed Potatoes

Select medium-sized, smooth-skinned, oval potatoes.
Bake in a hot oven until tender, being careful not to
overbrown the skin. Cut the potatoes in two length-
wise, remove the potato pulp, being careful to leave
shells unbroken. Mash the hot potato. add either milk
or cream as for mashed potato. Season as follows:
To each cup of potato add 1-2 saltspoon salt and 1—8
saltspoon of pepper. Fill the shells with this mixture,
rounding the surface so that it is the shape of the or—
iginal potato. Bake for ten minutes in a hot oven.

Variations: Fold into the two cups of seasoned po-
t.1to pulp the beaten white of an egg; pile lightly in
lht potato shells and bake. (‘rated cheese. 1-2 cup-
ful to 3 cups of potato pulp may be used.

Pittsburgh Potatoes

One quart potato out in cubes, 1/; pound milk cheese,
1/2 (an pimentoes 1 onion, 2 cups white saute (use
balk} or rice ﬂour for thickening), 1,.) teaspoon salt.

Cook potato cubes and onion ﬁnely chopped in boil—
ing salted water 5 minutes Add pimentocs cut in
small pieces and cook 7 minutes; then drain Turn
into oiled baking dish and pour over white sauce mix-
cd with cheese and salt. Bake in moderate oven until
potatoes are soft.

Potato Puffs

Two cups mashed potato 1 cup grated
eggs 1,4. cup milk 1 teaspoon salt.

Add the milk to the.potato and beat until thomugh—
1y blended. Add the beaten egg and salt, gradually
adding the grated cheese. Bake in greased tins or
ramekins in a slow oven.

Potato Fish Loaf

()ne pint mashed potato, 1 cup chopped cooked fish
2 teaspoons salt 2 eggs, 1/. teaspoon pepper, 1/2 cup
milk, 2 tablespoons fat.

Beat the entire mixtuie together and place in greas-
ed baking dish; set in a second pan containing hot
water and bake in the oven until ﬁrm. Serve with
tomato sauce.

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Items of Interest to Women

es 9. recent ,rumor that Germany now pro-
poses to raises crbp of soldiers for the
war need of the next generation of that country
by cqnscripting healthy women to bear children.
The Free Press says, “Whether they (the women)
will resist such an attempt to place them on the
footing of mere breeding animals depends some-
what upon the spread of the American doctrine
of. woman’s freedom, rights. and independence."
“The fatal defect of this alleged German-born
scheme is that it disregards the instincts and in-1
terests of women, the sex most intimately con-
cerned. Once it might have been made possible;
today there are too many German women who
have been inoculated with the virus of the mod—
ern woman’s movement.” The Free Press speaks/
truly. The woman's movement for rights, politi-
cal and' civil, is one of the chief factors in self-
respect, morality and dignity. A subjugated wom-
anhood is a menace to nations as. well as an im—
pediment to individual development. This is the
underlying. fundamental reason in the demand
of women for political equality.
III * t
The blot on Michigan’s political escutcheon is
nearly wiped out by the action of United States
Senator William Alden Smith, of Grand Rapids.
who has given his promise to vote for a Federal
Woman Suffrage Amendment. When the vote on
the question was taken in the House of Repre-
sentatives. only one of all Michigan’s congress-
men opposed freedom for American women. He
was but a ﬂy on Michigan’s wheel of progress,
however. for a double opportunity awaits the
women of the state of Michigan. The voters will
be able to give women suffrage by state referen—
dum November 5th, and the legislature may rati-
fy as soon as the Amendment is submitted by the
I’nited States Senate. Oh, yes, Michigan women
will arrive.

‘ THE Detroit Free Press editorially discuss-

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Just, think of having a hospital as a war baby.
The Nationol American Woman’s Suffrage Asso-
ciation has adopted one. It is known as the ﬁrst;
unit of the Woman’ s Overseas Hospital and quite
an expensive baby it is. It will cost $175,000 per
year to maintain it, but suffragists think it like
all babies, well worth the price. The Michigan
Suffrage organization will sustain a share in the
expense, as a part of its service plans. The staff
of the Overseas Hospital is composed entirely of
women and these women surgeons and doctors
work side by side with the French military sur-
geons. The hospital is situated back of the ﬁrst
line and is one of the nearest to the trenches.

* * *

Some stunt to recruit 10,000 men for the Army
and Navy. but that is What Chief Yeoman. I)nr«
othy D. Frooks of the United States Naval Ro—
serve .force accomplished. Miss Frooks has been
presented with a gold medal by the American

"Patriotic Society. The United States Treasury

Department has borrowed her from the Naval
Reserve force to boost the sale of Liberty bonds.
She can make a success in selling them, for she
received her training as a suffragist in the New
York campaign for votes for women, and suffra-
gists everywhere have made a record for effec-
tive war service.
it 1‘ 10!

The clericals, the reactionaries and the junkers
in Germany are solidly opposed to any extension
of suffrage to women. So is Kaiser Bill. Nix on
democracy for him. Women are coal heaven
stieet cleaners munition workers truck diheis
and even dig trenches back of the lines to union c
men for action. but no German woman must, as»
spire to voting. That’s a man’s job, though :1.
small-sized one—in Germany.

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Canning clubs throughout the western states
have proven a great success. Montana girls re—
cently made a net proﬁt of $256.00 from the sale
of fresh and canned vegetables. One Iowa girl
cleared $114.05 by canning tomatoes. A Kansas
canning club composed of 29 mothers and 29 dau-
ghters, in 1916 made a net proﬁt from its canning
work of nearly $2,500.

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Detroit’s women 111ail-carriers are proving a suc-
cess. “An unqualiﬁed success.” is what the post-
ofﬁce oﬂiicials say. Twenty-seven women have
been put on the carrier force in the last few days
and more are to be appointcl as fast as they can
be trained.

 
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Our Girl Scouts are getting into real scout work.
A troop 01' mounted girl scouts armed with auto-
matic riﬂes, are now preparing to patrol the coasts
of Florida.

 
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The news is being spread in the country that
in Austria-Hungary the women are being organ— ‘
ized for actual ﬁghting service.

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Mrs. Lloyd George, wife of the British prime
minister, is said to be a sympathizing, home-lov-
ing housewife. She enjoys the same experiences

 
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been.
shaken out‘of our grooves, we will
soon learn to accommodate ourselves
to the new conditions. Successful
housekeeping in war times with its
limitations depends largely, as it

does in times of peace and plenty,

upon thegexercise of forethought and
system.” is Mrs. George's ﬁrm belief.

 
This Week’s Fashions

 
A short, longshort.» -

“Hello.” .

“Hello, is this Mrs. Martin?”

“Yes, Ch! How are you, Mrs. Lee?
You see I recognized your voice at
once. What are you doing this gloomy
afternoon?”

“Well, it is gloomy and dark, isn’t
it? But you know I never mind that.
and I believe it is a blessing to me.
I am getting so much of my indoor
work done, my sewing and such things
that I would simply neglect if the
weather was nice so I could be out.
But this afternoon I have been rest—
ing awhile and looking thru this
week’s M. B. F., which just, came.”

“Oh, ours is probably in the mail
box. I must send Henry down for it.
right away. I am always so anx-
ions—”

“I thought I would call and" see if
you had seen it yet. You remember
you and. I were speaking the other
day about getting a pattern for over-
alls if we could ﬁnd one. Well here
it is right in this number. Penelope
must have known we were looking for
one. And it comes in Sizes 2, 4, 6, 8,
10. 12, 14 and 16 years.”

“Well, I do declare, I am so glad,
for I was just telling Mary yesterday
if I could get hold of a pattern I
would try to make both of the younger
boys suits out of Don’s and Henry’s
and I believe if I have the time I
shall buy material and make some
new ones for Pa. 1 know I could buy
so much better' cloth than is in those
you buy ready made—and they would
be cheaper, too.”

“That is a' good idea, Laura, I be-
lieve I will do the same. Of course

' I haven’t any little boy to wear over-

alls, but I do believe I will put them
on Mary Anne and Jane. They get
so dirty and wear‘out their stockings
so fast. I am going to order my pat-
tern right 'away.”

“That’s a good idea, and while you
are ordering I will have you order
mine if you will and I can pay you.
Get me one, size 16, and one, size 6.”

 
‘rrice or patterns ten cents each. Ad-
dress Penelope, Michigan Busmess Farm-
ing, Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

    
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-'7boolt: “ ﬂhe simply shifts». as. best she ‘.

i. .'can,' and “altho we have all . youpened." "

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“Good

Here is the very pattern Mrs. Lee
and Mrs. Martin were so-' anxious to
1get—-—No.' 8827. ' ,

No. 8839.‘—A most comfortable one
piece dress for little girls, comes in
sizes 4, 6, 8,'i:0 and 12 years. The
front panel is cut in with the yoke,
but-toning from the neck to the hem.
This style is particularly becoming
to “real fat" little tots. It hangs
straight from the-shoulder in front and
gives the appearance of an Eton jack-
et around the sides and back. A
ﬁgured lawn or dimity with colored
or white lawn collar and cuffs makes
a dainty Costume. The plain ging-
hams in blue, pink or tan, with white
linen collars and cuffs and large pearl
buttons make up very attractively.

No. 8817.—The popular French slip-
on is again presented in No. 8817.
Everyone who has tried one of these
comfy waists think them the practical
thing for summer. Made up in candy
stripe wash satin or striped voile with
either white wash satin or organdie
collar and cuffs. They are very serv-
iceabe and always ready. No buttons
to come off, no button holes to make
or snaps to sew on—and easily slipped
on over the head—however, for those
desiring a fastening one is provided,
down the center back. This pattern
is cut in sizes 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42
inch bust measure.

No. 8816—This one-piece frock is
as much worn by ladies as by children.
For a woman doing her own sewing.
ﬁtting herself is often diﬁicult, but if
one has a plain ﬁtted pattern it is
easy to add the little extras and thus
use the same pattern for several dress—
es. No. 8816 is perfectly plain, but it
has excellent style. The long shawl
collar is brot down in revere effect
and ends in the taps below the belt.
The skirt is two—piece. having a
straight lower edge, and may be eith-
er gathered or pleated. This pattern
is cut in sizes 36, 38, 40 and 42 inch
bust measure.

No. 8824.——The ﬁtted ~yoke ending

in large hip pockets, is one of the dis

tinguishing features of this season’s
separate skirt. The front gore ﬁts
smoothly under the yoke and the back
is gathered onto a slightly raised
waist line. The sport corduroys or
linens are extremely good-looking
and very serviceable for these Skirts.
This pattern comes in sizes 24, 26, 27,
30 and 32 inch waist measure.

No. 8821.—-Misses’ or small women’s
dress. Cut in sizes 16, 18 and 20 years.
The same idea of a one-piece, easily
gotten into dress. This is so girlish
and simple. The square neck, made
by an inset vest is always very be-
coming to Sthe younger girls with
plump necks. The skirt is a straight,
one-piece and gathered onto a crushed
belt

SAM RAY ON “THE
TASK IN HAND”

 
(That guy had something in his
bean who wrote that “distant ﬁelds
look green.” For every chatffeur
seems to yearn to try the road “just
’round the turn.” It matters not how
soft the berth a man is in, he wants
the earth. John Thomas covets Bill
Smith's land and Bill Smith would
like to make the sand that Tom Jones
“picks up easy’s seat.” and so it goes
from this to that. But never had I
met a bloke who longed to wear a
poet’s cloak until a chap, not Worth
his salt, confessed he envied Uncle
Walt. This neighbor man was big
and strong, but never seemed to get
along. His hogs were lean, his steers
poor and burdocks grew about his
door. Instead of reaping bumper
yields, his eyes were ﬁxed in distant
ﬁelds. So, when one day this gink
drooping chin, I leaned upon my trusty
hoe and listened to his tale of woe.
“For years I’ve planted corn and
oats," quoth he, “I’ve milked the cows
and goats. I pluck my geese; I sell
my beans; and stuff the greenbacks
in my jeans. I storm the markets
ditch byditch, but somehow, Sam, I
ne’er grow rich, for when I scrape
up thirty yen, I ﬁnd my piglets need
a pen. My bull breaks loose and rais-
es Ned. The shingles all blow off my
shed, and always when the bills‘pour
in, my little sock is minus tin. ‘
“I’m tired of this production wheeze
by guys that set the price . f cheese.
spout to others would be nice, instead

 
Mrs. BuSiheSs
Farmer—

I Want You to have
this Blue Bird Water
Set!

it makes to any table!

  
never to wear off!

  
If you want the Blue Bird Wa-
ter Set, send in the coupon right

   
away, so we will know how many

   
to order—0r if you can send in
the three subscriptions right
away with the three dollars we
will have the Blue Bird Snet ship-
ped you direct from the factory.

  
Really it would be hard for me to tell you what a beautiful addition
Of course you know the Blue Bird stands for
happiness, and in this set they are applied as shown to the hand blown
pitcher and tumblers by a special process, known as Cameo Etching,
which gives them a really beautiful effect, guaranteed by their makers
Tumblers and Pitcher are full standard size capacity
all carefully packed, shipped parcels-post with safe delivery guaranteed.

How can you get a set right away?

Not by buying them, for we do not know of a store in Michigan that
has as yet secured a. sample set and we do not care to sell any. We want
the wives and daughters of our true friends. the business farmers of Mich-
igan, to each have a Blue Bird water set and if you want one of the ﬁrst
lot we are going to order right away from the factory, use the coupon be-
low just so we can order a set for you.

Then when you have sent us three one year subscriptions, one of
which may be the renewal of your own—a total of three dollars for the
three subscriptions—the Blue Bird Water Set will come to you by the next
mail, post-paid and carefully packed.
when you send in this coupon we will mail you a bundle of sample copies,
hand them to some of your farmer friends or relativesw’l‘lllﬂ PAPER IT-
SELF DOES THE WORK and you send in the namesl

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sample copies right away so I can
get the three subscriptions.

  
You do not need to canvass, for

I want a Blue Bird Water Set. send

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of listening to advice. Why should
I toil my life away at pulling stones
and baling hay, when I might just as
easy wear a limpid smile and six-inch
hair? A poet’s life to me appeals. For
sundry bills I need, the wheels that
all the leading papers pay to Uncle
Walt for ode or lay. And speaking of
this change de loose. 'tis said Walt
Mason’s like a goose that turned out
fruit of solid gold, that ne’er went
bad on growing old. He stacks his
plunks behind the door, he ﬁlls his
socks and feeds the poor. So if old
Walt should chance to croak, I’d like
ﬁrst-rate to buy his cloak.

“Stall-feeding calves and grooming
pigs and eating pcrk and beans and
ﬁgs is not the life for me. I thinkw
it almost puts me on the blink. Our
mooley cow won't give sweet cream.
the hens won’t lay; in fact, ’twould
seem as if the farm had got my goat.
so if you ﬁnd Walt Mason’s coat, just
slip it on express or mail and I’ll
remit the needful kale."

“What ho!” said I. “Gadzooks, for—
sooth, you’re nutty man. You must,
in truth, have hookworms in your
dome of thought. Each man should
use the brains he’s got. Old Wal-
ter’s mantle wouldn’t hang upon your
shoulders worth a dang. And if you
wait for him to pass, to close his eyes
and push up grass, you’ll wait a

blamed long while. You’ll ﬁnd that
Walt is not the (lying kind. And'
hanging ’round won’t feed the pigs,
nor grease the axles of the rigs. So
up, my friend, skidoo, go hump. and'
keep your horses on the jump. Tear.
up the sand with might and main
and bind your sheaves of golden‘
grain."

Then up he jumped and grabbed a
hoe and cut the thistles, row on row.
He pruned his corn, manicured his
hops, and later on he had such crops; 4
that when he hauled them to the cars.
he had to borrow eighteen jars to:
hold the kale that tumbled in. Full.
soon he had suﬂicient tin to paint the,
barn blue, green and red, and build a.‘:
silo to the shed. And from a friend-;
1y agent man he bought on the install-
ment plan two kegs of beer. 21 set of
books and chairs for all the angle:
nooks. Sam. Ray.

 
I am enclosing one dollar for which
scnd me the Michigan Business Farming.
for one year. \Ve liked your sample’
copies very much—J. M. E, Jr.. Mont-i
calm county. ’

 
I think the paper is ﬁne; many thanks'
to you for getting up such a paper.—-v
Charlie Shotts, Roscommon county.

 
I received your sample Copy of M. B.,
F. and will say was more than pleased,
with it; just the paper needed by allt
farmers—Sam Crooks, Wayne county. .
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be next few months is the time you will do your buying for the coming 5
Check below the items you are interested in, mail it to us and we will ask .

 
spring. T

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dependable manufacturers to send you their literature.

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We have had the same varieties from the same people for years and
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lowing for corn, potatoes and alfalfa,
everal acres will be seeded ~to alfalfa
this year.
sheep. while others are 7’ building .fence
and repairing buildings. , ‘We' have had
some rain and the soil is in ﬁne shape

ing extra slow this year but the good
weather 'we are now having is making
them look green. Wheat and rye are
quite poor. Several pieces of alfalfa
that we sowed last summer are greening
up and looking good. There will be an
increase in the acreage of hay and corn
over that of last year. There will be a
decrease in the acreage of beans and po-
tatoes. The following prices were paid
a; 813nm 13st 9week:
. ; oa s,. 0; rye, $2.35; hay, $18 to
23; beans, $10.50; potatoes, $1.25; on-
ions, $1.25; creamery butter, 43,; dairy
butter, 37; sheep, $10; lambs, $15; hogs,
$16.50; beef steers, $10; beef cows, $8,
vMeaylr cglves, $11; wool, 65.—C. S., Fenton,
a .

ANTRIM~ (Northeast)—Fair Weather
the last few days, although we had a
hard rain Sunday and Monday, April 28
and 29. Most farmers havetheir oats
,in and are plowmg for corn and beans.
A few p0 atoes still in the farmers’ hands.
Local ele ator paying 65c per cwt. Some
of the farmers have loaded a car and ship-
ped to Southern Michigan. Some farmers
had cloverseed hulled this spring and it
is quite a help this year as it is $23 per
bushel here. Ground is working up fine.
Everybody buying Liberty bonds and
planting as large an acreage as pos-
sible. Twenty-nine of Charlevoix coun-
tys young men left for Camp Custer on
last Monday—G. A. D., Charlevoix,
May 1.

CLINTON (Central)-—Oats and bar-
ley all'in. .There will be a large acre—
age this spring owing to the failure of
the wheat crop. Farmers are busy plow-
ing for corn and beans. The soil is in
good condition. We have had some good
showers the past few days but it has
been so.cold that little could grow. The
third Liberty loan is meeting with good
support from the farmers of this section.
The followmg prices were quoted at St.
Johns this week: Wheat, $2.03 and $2.05 ;
oats, 80; beans, $10; barley, $3; tim-
gtzhy b13123, $145000; clover hay, $12; eggs,

; er, ; otatoes, .— . . ‘.
Merle Beach, May) 1. 50 R C 1 ’

LAPEER (NortlieastQ—Farmers are
busy sowing beets and plowing for corn.
Wheat. 15 looking better. Some potatoes
are being shipped at 500 per bushel. No
market for hay. Wheat all sold, as well
as. oats. Farmers are not holding any-
thing that they can sell regardless of
price. Farm tools are very high. The
iollowmg 'prices were quoted at North
Branch this week: Wheat, $1.90Ib$2.20;
beans, $10; potatoes, 50; butterfat, 42;
eggs, 32; sheep, $14; lambs, $16; hogs,
$15.~J. G. 8., North Branch, May 2.

MISSAUKEE (South)—The weather is
dry and cold here. The grass is getting
green. Wheat and June clover on ex—
posed land is very badly winter killed.
More oats are being SOWn than usual, al-
S," barley, spelts and peas. The Holland-
St. Louis Sugar Cp. has a nice bunch of
contracts for Falmouth delivery this fall.
Scarcity of farm help and the high wag-
es Will reduce the amount of cultivated
crops. The following prices were paid
here last Week: Wheat, $2; oats, 96;
rye, $2.15; potatoes, 80.—-H. S., Modders-
Ville, May 2.

BENZIE (Southwest) ——Farmers have
marketed about all their crops except po‘
tatoes and they are holding them for bet-
ter prices. The following prices were
paid at Beulah this week: Rye, $1.50;

 
hay, $30; rye straw, $9; beans, per bu.,
$5.40; potatoes, 80; hens, 14; springers,
18; ducks, l4; butter, 35; butterfat, 43;
hogs, 15; beef steers, 8; beef cows, 6;
veal calves, 1$.—G. H., Benzonia, Apr. 28.

ARENAC (East)—The week in gener-

' a1 has been very cold, freezing hard eVery

night. Wheat and rye begin to show a
very discouraging outlook. Some farm-
ers are plowing it up. Meadows hurt bad-
ly. Farmers are busy hauling manure,
trimming trees, plowing, etc. Some oats,
peas and spelts have been sown. The
following prices were paid here last week:
Corn, $1.70; oats, 80: potatoes, 90; beans,
$10; butter. 40; butterfat, 42; eggs, 30.—
M. B. R, Twining, April 27.

. MONTCALM (Northwest)—Oat plant-
ing is nearly completed and corn ground
is being plowed. The grass is getting
green. The following prices were paid
at Greenville this week: Wheat, $2.06;
shelled corn_ $1.75: oats, 90; rye, $2.40;
hay, $25 up; beans, $11.50; potatoes, 90;
butter, 40; butterfat, 42; eggs, 37- sheep,
10; lambs. 14; hogs, 16; beef steers, 7 to
9; veal calves, 10 to 12.—E. W, Gowen,
May 1.

ISABELLA (West)——Weather is cold
and rainy. Farmers are busy plowing
for corn. Not selling anything much at
present. Potatoes took a slump. Some
houses and one big barn are being built
in this neighborhood. The following pric-
es were paid at Mt. Pleasant this week:
Wheat, $2.05, oats, 90' rye, $2.30; hay,
$23: beans, “10.50; '00 atoes, 50; onions,
$1; roosters. 20; butter, 42; butterfat,
40; eggs, 32; hogs, 8 to 9; veal calves,
10 to 11.—E. B., Remus, April 29.

GENESEE (Benin—Farmers are busy
getting ground ready for sugar beets.
Quite a large acreage will be planted this
year. Most of the cats and barley are
sown. A good many are sowmg spring
wheat; most of the Winter wheat was
killed, and many have worked up their
winter wheat and sowed the ground to
cats and barley. . New seeding is killed
out very bad. Seed corn is very scarce
and hard to get. There is not much in
he farmers’ hands for sale. There is some
hay here for sale yet. The farmers of
Mont'rose township can prove that they
are not slackers for they went over the

 
top in the Liberty loan drive by several
thousand dollars. Several farmers have

  
have their cats and barley‘sown and are.

Several farmers are shearing

, for plowing. Pastures have been =grow- '

Wheat, $2.10 ;‘corn,

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bought_,tractors ‘ this, ’ spring. The follow- g
ing prices were paid here this week:
Wheat, $2.04; oats; ’85; butter, 35; eggs».
32; wool, 65.———J'. C. S.,'Burt, April 2?.

SHIAWASSEE (C_enttal)~‘-Very 'ﬁne .
,weather. Oats looking ﬂ-ne never saw so ,
many nice cats the last, ofA'pi-il. Some
farmers have their. beets in. If the
weather conditions are good there will-

be a busy time putting in beets this week. -- ‘

Most farmers have their corn ground all
ready and some are plOwing‘ for beans.’
Some farmers had their hay bailed and
held it, and now the market is off. The
following prices were paid at Owosso this
week: Wheat. $2.08; potatoes, 90; but-
ter, 38; butterfat, 42: eggs, 34.—J. ‘E.
W., Owosso. April 30.

LAPEER (Central) —- Weather cold
and some rain. Grass don’t seem to have
any growth at all.
move yet. Market very dull. No wheat
hoarded here. Farmers are—-lucky if
they have enough fer bread and seed.
The following prices were paid at Owos-
so this week: Wheat, $2; oats, 80 to 85;
. . hay, $15; beans, $13; pota-
toes, 50; butterfat, 41; eggs, 33; hogs,
13 to 16.50; veal calves, 10 to 12—0. A.
B., Imlay City, April 30.“

MISSAUKEE (North)—Sowing oats
is in order. Some are plowing for corn
and potatoes. Weather is cold, too cold
to admit .of much growth to crops. 8011
is in good condition if the weather warms
up grass and oats ought to come‘along
ﬁne. Farmers are selling their potatoes
at 65c per cwt.—H. E. N., ,Cutcheon,
May 3. .

TUSCOLA (Essen—Farmers will have
most of the oats seed in this week. Some
are planting early potatoes. Weather is
not so good just now, soil wet and cold.
Farmers are not selling much but seed
beans and a few potatoes; holding noth-
ing. Lots of farmer boys are gomg to
Camp Custer every week now. The fol—
lowing prices were paid at Caro this
week: Wheat, $2; corn, $1.75; oats, 80;
rye, $2; hay, $21; barley, per cwt., $2.75;
rye straw, $8; beans, $10.50; buckwheat,
$3.25 cwt.; potatoes, 50; seed corn, $5;
liens, 25; roosters, 20; ducks, ‘50; geese,
18; turkeys, 20; butter, 35; eggs, 31;
sheep, $10; lambs, $11; beef steers, $8;
beef cows, $4; veal calves, $13.——R. B.

-C., Caro, May 3

CHEBOYGAN (South) —— Nice spring
weather, and the farmers are all busy
with spring seeding. Oats, spring rye and
peas are being sown extensively. The
farmers are “going over the top" in
these lines, but a very small acreage of
potatoes and beans will be planted. I
mentioned in my last that we were “go-
ing over the top” in the Third Liberty
Loan, and we did by $50,000, and are
ready to do the same thing for the next.
Seed grains are scarce and are hard to
get on account of the freight congestion.
Winter wheat and rye are very poor, and
some is being plowed up and seeded to
spring Crops. No market for potatoes.—
C. W T., Wolverine, May 3

CALHOUN (Northwest)—Oats are all
soWn and a good deal up. Farmers are
plowing for corn. Weather has been
cold but it is warmer now. Farmers are
not selling much just now. Following
prices were paid at Battle Creek this
week: Wheat, $2.09; oats, 90; rye, $2.50;
potatoes, 75; hens, 28; butter, 42; eggs,
32; lambs, 14; hogs, 16; beef steers, 7;
veal calves, 11.—C. E. B., Battle Creek,
May 4

10800 (Southeast)———The weather is
dry and cold; nothing growing. Farm-
ers most done seeding, and are now work-
ing on corn ground. A number of our
farmers put in spring wheat. Fall wheat
and rye look had up here. Not so many
beans and potatoes are being put in as
last year, as the draft is taking our help,
so we can only put in what we can take
care of. The following prices were paid
at Tawas City this week: Wheat, $2;
oats, 90; rye, $2.10; hay, $18; beans,
$10; butter, 40; butterfat, 43; eggs, 30.———
A. L., Tawas City, May 4.

OCEANA (Nortli)——On account of the
cold, bad weather farmers in this sec-
tion are behind with their sowing of peas
and oats; many are just sowing now. The
nights are cold and the ground freezes
most every night. Buds have hardly
made any showing yet. We have not
had rain enough this spring, so that the
most of the ground is in good shape to
farm, and most all are getting ready so
that when the the weather does warm
up they can rush the work—W. W. A.,
Crystal Valley, May 4

BRANCH (North) —- Farmers sowing
oats and plowing for corn. Weather wet
and cold, lots of wind. Soil getting rath-
er wet on heavy land. Farmers selling
wheat, some stock; not holding anything
to my knowledge. The following prices
were paid at Union City this week:
Wheat, $2.08; oats, 86; hay, $15; pota-
toes, 60; butter, 38; butterfat, 43; eggs,
33; hogs, 16 L beef cows, 7; beef steers,
9@121,4; veal calves, 13.-—F. S., Union
City, May 3.

ARENAC (East)——This week has been
rather cool, but farmers are making every-
thing hum. Prices are declining rapidly,
except the things the farmers have to buy
and they are going up. Hay is down to
$15; oats, 80; beans, $10.—M. B. R.,
Twining, May 4.

BAY (Southeast)—AbOUt 90 per cent
of the winter wheat is or will be worked
over. So far as I can ﬁnd no farmers
are holding wheat, except some for seed,
as is usual with some. The last of April
was cold and wet, but nice since the first
of May. Farmers are preparing corn and
sugar beet ground, some are planting
beets. Oats and barley coming up. Every—
thing the farmers have to sell seems to
be coming down and expenses going up.
M. B. F. is the best farm paper going.
The following prices were paid at Bay
City this .week: Wheat, $2.12 :7 oats, 84;
rye, $2.24; hay, $20; beans, $19.50; pota-
toes, 70; butter, 43; eggs, 32; hogs, 21;
beef steers, 16; beef cows, 15; veal calv- ,, '
es, 16.—J. C. A., Munger,'May 3. ~ ‘

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,ute._itrupon a deﬁnite basis of com-

 
from day in;

At the close

extras was quoted from a. half to. a.

43%@46c, and seconds at 39%@43c. .-

Unsalted butter is selling at a differ-
ential of abbut two cents of corres-
ponding grades of salted butter.

Cheese

Eastern markets are ﬁrmer on both _

old and new cheese. The make is in-
creasing but the Allied buyers are
still willing to take all ﬁne stock of-
fered in the east, at 2214a Detroit is
quoting Michigan ﬂats at 21@211,éc;
Michigan daisies, 230. New York is
quoting twins, colored, held, 24@24~34;
fresh, 22@221/2c; daisies, 25@251/;c;
Young Americas, 24@27l/2c.

 
Packers

The egg market is ﬁrm.
are still holding off and very little

stock is going into‘ storage. Fresh
ﬁrsts are quoted at 42@421,4,c on the
Detroit market; ordinary run of ar-
rivals, 33@43c.y

   
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POULTRY

«assesses

   
LIVE WT. .

 
Detroit Chicago New York
Turkey 17-22 18-20
Duck! 26-27 21-25 26-21
on 23-24 15-15 18-20
Springer: 27-28 25-26
“all 29-30 29-30
No. 2 Grade 2 to 3 Cents Los_l

 
Not a great deal of poultry coming
in on any of the markets. There is a
good-demand and all arrivals clean
up quickly. Fowls have not moved
in the volume expected and what are
arriving are quickly taken. Geese are
about off the market and what few do
arriwe are in poor shape and do not
sell well. Very few turkeys "coming
and no demand.

Dressed Hogs and Calves

Very little dressed pork coming to
market at this time. The weather is
such now as to make shipment dan-
gerous and it must be thoroughly
cooled and prepared for shipment if
the shipper expects to avoid loss.
The price remains about the same
at Detroit, 20@210 per lb.

There is plenty of veal being of—
fered both at Chicago and Detroit and
the market is inclined to become eas-
ier. Veal at this time of year must
have the most careful attention if it
is to arrive in good condition. De-
troit quotations remain the same as
last week, running from 17@200 ac—
cording to quality.

Hides and Furs

Furs—No. skunk, $4.30; spring mus-
rats, $1.20; No. 1 mink, $7.50; No. 1
raccoon, $4.00.

Hides—No. 1 cured, 140; No. ‘1
green, 13c; No. 1 cured bulls, 120;
No. 1 green bulls, 100; No. 1 cured
veal kip, 22c; No. 1green veal kip, 200;
No. 1 cured murrain, 14c; No. 1
green murrain, 130; No. 1 cured calf,
35c; No. 1 green calf, 350; No. 1 horse
hides, $6; No. 2 horsehides, $5; No.
2 hides 1c and No. 2 kip and calf 11/2c
lOWer than the above. Sheepskins, ac-
cording to the amount of wool, $1@
3.50 each.

Wool

Government plans for controlling
the wool market have 110w progressed
far enough so that a deﬁnite plan of
action is being worked out. The gov-
ernment’s announcement relative to
the matter, so far as details have been
given out, is in part as follows:

“The government has deﬁnitely
taking as a
basis, the scoured value in Boston on
July 30, 1917. The arrangement was
arrived at by a conference between
the representatives of the growers, the
dealers and the government. It is de~
sired that the wool shall, as nearly as
possible, follow its usual channels, and
to this end the growers have agreed to
deliver to the dealers the new clip,”
and the dealers have agreed to distrib

ran on .7
day There has been sonic lagging ' "
ﬁsthe selling of under grades but the -

1 majority of those are very. Well clean- -
fed up. On Monday extras were quot}.
ed at 44%@54c, on Tuesday, 451190,

on Wednesday and Thursday 46c and
‘ on Friday went to 4617110.
"on Friday butter scoring higher than

  
“The. government has not obligated

7111191110 buy the any. but does have
ﬁrst call upon any portion it requires ‘
" and it will allot the balance of the

.wool to mills throughout the country,
such balance to be made use of for
civilian purposes. The Boston .prices,
as of July 30, 1917, are net to the grow-
er, except that he has to pay trans-
portation charges to the Atlantic sea-
board and interest on such advances
as may be made to him at the time of
shipment.

“The dealers are to be permitted to
make a charge of 3 per cent of the
selling price, if the wool is not grad-
ed, and 31/2 per cent, if it is graded.
This commission is to cover all stor-
ageLcartage and insurance. The com-
mission charge is to be added to the
price of the wool as. it leaves the deal-
ers’ hands. The dealers are arrang-
ing to make a blanket advance to the
grower at the time the wool is ship-
ped, the balance of the price of the
woolto .be paid to the grower when the
wool is sold and delivered by the deal-
er.

“A method of handling wool in the
ﬂeece wool sections and other sections
where the clips are small, is now be-
ing worked out, which will probably
allow selling in small lots. This plan
Will be made public as soon as it is
deﬁnitely decided upon. The full
schedule of prices will be distributed
without delay by the wool trade asso-
ciations, or can be obtained from the
wool division of the War Industries
Board."

Live Stock Letters

Chicago, May 6, 1918.——Last week’s
receipts of cattle fell Slightly under the
supplies of the corresponding week
last year, the ﬁrst time anything of
this kind has occurred for a consider-
able period. It would seem to indicate
that high prices are responsible for
having caused free liquidation of live
stock and that nothing more than
moderate supplies can be expected
from now on. It is certainly a fact
that during the past few weeks there
have been marketed a very large
number of young cattle that would
have been tremendously beneﬁtted
from a beef standpoint by anywhere
from'two to four months longer feed-
ing, but which could not resist the
high prices the market afforded. Some
of these cattle were taken out by feed—
ers for short feeding 01' to run on
grass this summer, but the majority
of them found their way to the sham-
bles.

When in the face of high markets
receipts fall oﬁ materially it is pretty
good evidence that the stocks have
been pretty well depleted. Prices to-
day are three to four dollars per hun-
dredweight higher than a. year ago
and when one considers the high cost
of production and the growing diﬂ‘i-
culties in the matter of labor, etc, it
is hardly to be wondered that the cat-
tle are turned off before maturity. At
the same time we urge feeders to hold
back their cattle just as long as they
can practically do so as there seems
no question but that a higher range
of values is going to prevail indeﬁnite-
ly and that every pound of beef we
can produce is going to be needed.

There has been a good outlet for
stockers and feeders. Warmer weath—
er and better grazing facilities natur-
ally stimulate the demand for young
stuff. Not much, if any, quality is
available under 11c per lb and as high
as 1314c has been paid for good weight
feeders. These prices are about $2 to
$2.50 higher than a year ago. In our
opinion they are an excellent invest-
ment at their present valuations.

There has been such a nice adjust-
ment of hog supplies to trade require-
ments that the ﬂuctuation in this line
has been rather narrow. If it were
possible to export more a higher range
of values would no doubt prevail, but
more or less stocks have to be carried
and while the market has for some
time hovered close to $18 for prime
butcher hogsat Chicago it touched
that ﬁgure only twice or thrice dur-
ing the past month. The big weight
hogs have been discriminated against
to some extent, the best demand cen-
tering in the 180 to 220 lb. hogs, so
that a wide margin in values exists.
Pnesent values are about $2 higher
than a year ago.

The past week or two saw changing
conditions in the sheep market. Prime
Colorado lambs touched the record—
breaking ﬁgure of $22.10 on Tuesday.

Within a few days of practically $1. 50.
Then follOwed a little reaction, last
week's prices indicating an extreme
top of $21.00. The Colorado feed lots
which supply the trade at this time
with the great bulk of its supplies are
now pretty well depleted and by the

end of May the great bulk of the fed.

sheep and lambs will have been mar-
keted. Then will come a period of
comparative quiet or until the western
grass lambs begin coming. Conditions
have been exceedingly facorable in
the west this winter and a liberal
movement of lambs is anticipated
during the summer months. Wooled
lambs at $21.00 indicates a market
about $2.75 higher than a year ago.
Detroit, May 7.——Cattle: > Market is
steady on good grades; bulls and light
butchers 15@25c lower; best heavy
steers, $15@$16.25; best handy-weight
butcher steers, $13.50@$14.50; mixed
steers and heifers, $12@$13.50; handy
light butchers, $10@$11.50; light but-
chers, $8.50@$10; best cows, $8.50@
$9.50; cutters, $7.75@$8.25; canners,
$7@$7.50; best heavy bulls, $10@10.50;
bologna bulls, $9@$9.50; stock bulls,

$8@$9; milkers and springers, $55@
$115.00.
Veal calves—Market steady; best.

$14@$14.50; others, $10@$12.

Sheep and lambs—Market dull; best
lambs, $16.75; fair lambs, $15@$16.50;
light to common lambs, $10@$12; fair
to good sheep, $11@$13; culls and com-
mon, $7@$8.

Hogs—Market strong, 10@12c high-
er; mixed grades, $17.90@$18; good
pigs, $17.90.

East Buffalo, N. 1’. May 7th, 1918-~
Receipts of cattle Monday, 175 cars.
including 15 cars of Canadians and 15
cars left from last week’s trade. Trade
opened 25c higher 011 medium weight
and weighty steer cattle which were
in moderate supply; butcher steers
and handy weight steers sold 15 to 25
cents higher than last week; fat cows
and heifers sold 15 to 25c higher; bulls
of all classes sold steady; canners and
cutters were in light supply, sold
steady; stockers and feeders were in
moderate supply, sold 25 to 50c high—
er than last week. The prospects
for next week on all classes of cattle
$16.25; stags, $10 to $13.
look favorable.

With about 9,600 hogs on sale Mon-
day the market opened 5 to 10c lower
with the heavy hogs selling from
$18.10 to $18.25; heavy mixed, $18.40;
yorkers and light mixed. $18.45; pigs
and lights, $18.50 to $18.65; roughs,

With 2080 hogs on sale Tuesday the
market opened 40 to 45c higher on
yorkers and light mixed hogs which

sold all the way from $18 75 to $18. 90;
pigs were 25c to 35c highei, selling
from $18 85 to $18.90; heavy hogs
were 10 to 15c. higher, selling from
$18.25 to $18.40; roughs were steady,
selling at $16.25; stags, $12 to $13.

The receipts of sheep and lambs on
Monday were 8,400 head. The mar-
ket opened 50c to $1.00 lower on all
grades of lambs. Yearlings sold 50c
to 75c lower; wethcrs, 50 to 75 c lower;
ewes, 25 to 50c lower. We would not
be surprised to see them go still lower.
The lambs on the market Monday were
not very desirable; mostly all on the
weighty order. The handy weights
were in good demand and sold from
$17.25 to $17.75. A few loads of choice
lambs sold up to $17.85. Lambs (':11‘-
rying considerable weight were very
hard sellers and sold generally from
$17.25 to $17.50: heavy lambs, $14.50
to $15.00; yenrlings, $14.50 to $15.50;
wethers. $140010 $11.50; ewes, $12 to
$13.50.

Choice to prime Weighty siccrs.
$16.50@$17.35; medium to good weigh-
ty steers. $15.50@$16; plain and course
weighty steers, $l4@$l4.50; choice to
prime handy weight and medium
weight steers $14.50.(r$15; fair to good
handy weight, and medium weight,
steers, $14@$14.50, choice to prime
yearlings, $14.50@$15; fair to good
yearlings, $13.50@$14; medium to good
butcher steers, $13@$13.50; good but-
cher heifers, $11.50@$12; fair to med—
ium butcher heifers, $10.50@$11; good

to choice fat cows, $11.00@$11.50; fair
to good medium fat cows, $8.50@$9;
cutters and common butcher cows,

$7.50 to $8.00; canners, $6 @ $7; good
to choice fat bulls, $11@$11.50; good
weight sausage bulls, $9.50@$10.00;
light and thin bulls. $7.50@$S.00; good
to best stock and feeding steers, $10.50
@$@11; common to fair stock and
feeding steers, $8.50@$9; good to
choice fresh COWS and springers, $90
@$120.00; medium to good fresh cows
and springers, $75@$85.

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I want one farmer or poultry-raiser in each locality to build and use a. Perry
. Improved Brooder this season. It is easy to build ‘and operate, light on fuel.
lenty of beat out of doors. equally as‘good with hen-hatched as incubator chicks.
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bill today and have your brooder ready for early chicks.

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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.
Butter. Milk

Queen Pieterje Mink De K01 ............................ 25.48 578
Koostia Artis De K01 .................................... 22.17 574
l Lillie Burke Canary, A jr. 3-year-01d record of . ........... 26.21 498
. Brookﬁeld AAggie Wayne Pontiac, Jr. 2-yr.-old record ....18.17 408

Annette Segis Brook De Kol, 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 301,,2 pounds of butter in seven
’ days. His dam is a 29.11 pound cow that made this record after losing
l one-quarter. His sire is King Pieter Segis Lyons 170506.

1 Included in our consignment are 5 heifers of similar lines of breed-
ing. Meet us at Howell, Mich, May 16th, 1918.

MUSOLF F BROS, South Lyons, Mich.

 
First Annual Sale of the

Tuscola County Holstein-Friesian Sales Co.
Caro, Michigan, May 3lst, 1918

(it) ,Hcad of A No. l cattle, from the best herds in the County, having the
blood of some of the greatest sires and dams of. the breed. Some arc sired and
others bred to 30 lb. sires.

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Akron, Michigan.

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When you write any advertiser In our weekly will you mention the fact that you
are a reader 0" Miclligun Business Furming?——Tho2y are friendsgof our paper, too!

 
. FEENKé.. mwmmz

 
As a. rule we feed too much hay to
our work horses during the spring and
summer. The horse’s stomach is not

, large and cannot hold a feed of grain

and hay at the same time, therefOre-

it is reasonable that he grain feeds
will be more readily igested and as-
similated if not accompanied by too
large amounts of hay.

I have obtained the best results
from feeding my work teams onepcck
of cut hay with their grain ration
morning and noon. In this way the
horses have comparatively small
amounts of freshly eaten bay to be
digsted while at work, and since the
grain is more nutritious and more
easily digested than the hay, the horse
is well nourished throughout the day.

Hay is principally digested in the
intestines and the coarse ﬁbre of it is
mostly utilized by the large intes-
tines, so there is little gained in feed-
ing hay in the daytime when the horse
is working. At night feed a liberal
amount of hay. This gives it an op-
portunity to work along in the intes-
tines, Where it is greatly reduced in
bulk before active work the next day.

A hard-worked horse needs about
all the nourishment that he will take,
and should have all the grain that he
will eat promptly. It is the grain
that nourishes. but hay must be fed
to give the necessary bulk to meet the
demands of the digestive system.

The horse that is continually stuf-
fed with hay either must eat less grain
or else suffer from overworked diges-
tive organs, which make him dull and
sluggish.

Grass is an excellent tonic and as-
sists in carrying waste and impure
matter out of the horse’s system. The
mare and foal should have the run of
a pasture and be given their liberty,
but; it is not always safe to turn out
the work teams.

When practical work horses should
be watered frequently. It is poor
practice to allow a horse to become
extremely thirsty and then give
enough water to satisfy his thirst.
Give horses all of the water they
want, but when, as sometimes hap—
pens. they become extremely thirsty,
the supply of water in small quantities
every few minutes instead of allowing
them to drink too much at once is
the safer way.

if too much water is taken into the
stomach while the horse is overheat-
ed, it is liable to chill the system and
close the pores of the skin, causing
colic or inflammation of the bowels.
Soft water from a spring or brook is
best, but if well water is given, espec—
ially during warm weather, it should
be warmed or given very sparingly.

Mares that are suckling foals re-
quire more water than geldings. When
mares are at work in the ﬁelds it is
better to provide some way of water-
ing them during the forenoon and af—
ternoon than to keep them from water
a full half day. If a considerable dis-
tance from water, a pail and barrel
may be taken into the ﬁeld. The
mares will do enough more work to
pay the extra cost of labor and they
will also be more comfortable.——L. J.
Meridith.

AMONG THE BREEDERS

By W. Murrow: KELLY, Field Editor

Home Address: llowcll, Michigan

 
in discussing the outlook for breeding
bcef cattle in Michigan at a recent visit
to their farm Messrs. Allen Bros. of Paw
Paw, Michigan, said:

“The situation as a whole looks most
encouraging for the future. It indeed is
a slow process to accumulate any in—
crease in the number of cattle in the face
of the steady growing demand. The
agricultural schools, the country over,
are educating the masses to grow more
livestock as a food proposition and as a
means of rcstoring the fertility of the
soil. The whole world is, and will be, a
cattle market for several years to come.
\Vm. (.lalloway. well—known manufactur-
er 0f gasoline engines, cream, separators
and farm machinery at Waterloo, Iowa,
has been for some years one of the lead-
ing breeders of Guernsey and Ayrshire
cattle in the country considered thorough-
ly wedded to the dairy cattle business,
just recently gave his reasons for going
into the Hereford and selling his dairy

tcattle, making the following statement:

¥ “ ‘l have been looking the situation over
and l have come to the conclusion that
the production of beef is going to be one
of the. most proﬁtable branches of agri~
culture for the next decade. at least.
i have been engaged in the dairy business
pretty extensively, and it is a proﬁtable
business, but the labor problem takes all
the joy out of a dairyman’s life. I have
sixteen farms in Iowa, and I am going
to stock every last one of them with
Hercfords. I am going to keep at it un-

was.

ING~.THEWORK "mm .' ~

‘.,,,.

W‘ , .
Mm an» lute

  
I shall supply these tenant herds with
new blood as needed.
fords because I have fed a good many
steers, and -I have noticed, that when I
had a.Here.ford steer in a bunch he al~
most invariably fattened more rapidly
and was ready for market sooner than
any of the others.
we have got to‘ speed up our beef-produc-
ing operations as much as poslsible. There
IS a shortage of beef,- and,we cannot at-
ford to feed a steer a year in order to get
him ready :for market. We musthave
early-maturing, easy-feeding cattle, and
after studying the business in my own
feedlots, I am convinced that the Here-
ford IS the one that most nearly approach-
es the ideal as a feeding animal. There
are other good beef breeds, any one of
them a great deal better than the scrubs.
We cannot afford to waste any feed on
scrubs these days.‘

I“The impressiveneSS of the Hereford
Sire when used on scrubs or native cat-
,tle is a quality which recommends itself
to breeders of every section. There is no
bull of any breed which approaches the
Hereford in this respect, and to his abil—
ity to transmit his own good qualities
lS due his increasing popularity.

“The Hereford color, coat and markings
are all ideal, and are transmitted by the
Sire to his offspring, making a uniform
bunch of animals which will instantly
attract the buyer."

I t t

It is always a pleasure to visit a. farm
that has a herd of dairy cattle of the
quality found in the Rainbow herd of
Holsteins owned by Robin Carr of Fow—
lerville, Michigan. These cattle are of
choice breeding and kept under conditions
favorable for good development. Mr. Carr
is an experienced breeder and takes pride
in keeping his cattle in good condition.
He has a large herd and can always fur-
nish a number of choice females of ap-
proved breeding and individuality. Most
of the females in his herd are direct de-
scendents of Hengerveld De Kol, without
question one of the really good bulls of
the breed. At the present time Mr. Carr
offers some beautifully marked daughters
of some of his best cows at from $75 to
$125. Any farmer looking for a few
head of young cattle, that will grow into
money will ﬁnd what he wants at this
farm. Fowlerville is situated in the
famous Livingston county where there
are more registered Holsteins than any
other county in the United States. Vis—
itors from a distance “.11 be met at the
train at Fowlerville.

It i #

Among the new advertisers in Mich—
igan Business Farming it gives us great
pleasure to introduce Boardman Farms
of Jackson. Michigan. Mr. Boardman
has spent years in developing his present
herd of Holstein—Friesian cattle up to
its present standing among the real goml
herds of the country. Mr. Boardman is
one of our best posted pedigree experts
and he has promised to write a few notes
concerning his ideas of breeding for pro-
duction for the beneﬁt of our readers.
We look forward to some. mighty inter-
esting communications from this well-
known gentleman. Just at present Roard—
man Farms have some young bulls of
high class breeding that will be priced
right to those in need ol‘ such animals.
VVrite for further information and prices.

a:

Mr. E. J. Taylor of Fremont. Michigan,
has two big, strong Hereford bulls ready
for service, and a number ol‘ other ones
coming on. There is no question but
what Hereford cattle are adapted to econ—
omical beef production] on Michigan farms
and it is to be regretted that more. breed-
ers of this great breed of cattle are not
doing some kind of publicity work to ad~
vancc the interests of the Hereford breed
in this state. Labor difﬁculties and the
high prices for grain foods is compelling
many dairy farmers to dispose of their
herds and ﬁnd relief thru the feeding of
beef cattle. Right now is the time to in~
vestigate the merits of this breed of cat—
tle.

it it II

'0. Owen Taft of Oak Grove, Michigan.
offers for immediate sale some daughtcrs
of King Hengerveld almyra Faync. 'l‘lu-sc
heifers are safe in calf to Mutual l’onti-
ac Lad. All of the lot are thrifty. vigor—
ous individuals and well worth what Mr.
Taft. is asking for them. Mr. 'l‘nt‘t rc—
cently sold 30 head of mature cows to
buyers from Delaware. but he still has
a few good bargains on his :ifrm. He is
always in position to handle large and
small orders for Holstein cattle and young
stock.

It i it

.I. Ii‘red Smith of Byron. Michigan. has
a few excellent Holstein cows due to
freshen this spring that he will price
right. These cows arc all with calf to
:L SlO—lb. sire and would make excellent
animals for some man who is beginning
in the breeding business with a small
herd that he wants to pay immediate
proﬁts at the pail. Only the present

,scarcity of hired help has induced Mr.

Smith to reduce his herd l’or lllt‘ coming
year.
* it t

Eugene W'ilcox, of Bangor, Michigan.
has an cxcellent ﬁve months old (Puerp-
sey bull calf that he is offering to AL B,
l“. readers. This young bull is a choice
individual and should ﬁnd a hom.‘ on one
of our Michigan farms. Price and full in-
formation will be furnished by Mr. “’11-
cox.

Ii i t

'VVhen writing to breeders who adver-
tise their stoek in the M. B. F. always
mention the fact that you saw their ad
in M. B. F. This will insure prompt ser-
vice and will help our advertisers keep
track of the business they are getting
from our advertising columns. We want
to have our advertisers know how their
ads. are paying them.

 
The M. B. F. is certainly a God—send
to the farmers—Fred Holland, Charle-
voix county. -

\

 
Best farmers’ paper I ever read—E.
M. M., Cass county.

m’ ‘ an e ‘ '
Shin-the ca ,.
_ . , will havesom’e incentive ~ _
to stick . and devote the best there is ‘
In him to the usiness. I expect to main~
tain myself one central herd from which ,

 
I selected Here- .

Now in these days,

 
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L ”(HOMESTEAD FARMS:

HOLSTEINS—A herd of 50 Hal-
steins. headed by the Bulelng ZS!"
ma Alcartra Pontiac, son King

o
38:18 Pontiac Alcartra, the $50.000 bulL
Family of four, Tatty TODSY Dawn,
four Year old Dam and three Daugh- _
ters from this herd, is for sale. Also
other Cows and Heifers. .
Several young Bulls sired by King
Zerma Alcartra. Pontiac, are for sale.
These Holsteins are one of the very
best herds in Michigan. Dams have high
milk and butter records. . ,
We ask the readers of Busmess
Farming to write us, stating Just
What is wanted, and we will send de-
scriptions and photographs. .
Homestead Farms is a co-opera-
tive work, founded on a federation of
interests.
HOLIESTEAD FARMS,
Bloomingdale, Michigan

 
/

‘Top- Notch’
HOLSTEINS

The young bulls we have for sale
are backed up by many generations
of large producers. Buy on’e of these
bulls, and give your.herd a “push.”
Full descriptions, prices, etc. on re-

quest.

, McPherson Farms Co.
Howell, Mich.

 
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110 Fort St., West, Detroit.

 
HOLSTEIN BULL CALF born Jan. 28.
1918. A fine individual, nicely marked

. from a 29.42 lb. Sire and 23.80 lbs. 4 yrs.

old dam. A. F. Loomis, Owosso. Mich.

 
HOLSTEIN BULL CALVES
Sires dams average 37.76 lbs. b_ut-
ter 7 das. 145.93 lbs. 30 das. testing
552% fat. Dams good A. R. backing.
Calves nice straight fellows 5% white.
Price $65.00 each while they last.

Herd tuberculin tested annually.
Boardman Farms, Jackson, Michigan.

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

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

SUNNY PLAINS HOLSTEINS

Purebred Holstein bulls, 7 months old

and younger. Korndyke and Canary
breeding. From A. R. O. dams with
good records. Choice individuals. Also

a few females for sale. Right prices.
Arwin Killinger, Fowlerville, Michigan,
Phone, 58F15.

GUERNSEY

GUERNSEYS H.373. “AXE cé‘wsF‘EX
sale, also a number of well bred young

bulls—write for breeding. Village Farms,
Grass Lake, Michigan.

HORSES
BELGIAN

3 year 0| BELGIAN STALLION

for sale. Can be reg-
istered in purchaser's
name. Price $300.00.
Route No. 1, Big Rapids, Michigan.

 
Geo. M. Williams.

 
PERCHERON
OR SALE, Percheron Stallion 121705.
Black, Heavy bOne fellow—foaied
June 23rd, 1915. J. F. Glady, Vassar.
Michigan. Route No. 7.

 
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SHETLAND PONIES ﬁﬁrdﬁd‘fi'pﬂﬁii

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HAMPSHIRE

Rsuicrnnsp mimrsnnm scans
for sale. John W. Snyder, R. 4, St.
Johns, Michigan.

SHEEP

FOR AUGUST DELIVERY 50 Register-
ed Shropshire Yearling ewes and 30
Registered Yearling Rams of extra. quali-
ity and breeding. Flock established 1890.
C. Lemen, Dexter, Michigan.

'- POULTRY

PLYMOUTH ROCK

  
ISHLAND’S WHITE ROCKS—The di-
rect blood of a well-known ZOO-egg
strain. Eggs for hatching $1.50 for
13; $5.00 for 50; $9.00 per 100.
L. Seamans & Son, Bellevllle, Michigan.
BARRED ROC The farmer’s kind.
Eight years of care~

ful breeding, large, heavy—laying fowls.
Eggs $5 for 50; $10 for 1.20. Chas. 1.
Cook, Fowlerville, Michigan.

 
BARRED ROCK Cockrels

Pure BIC for sale $8 each. Hatching
eggs $3 per 15. R. R. Bowman, Pigeon, ,
Michigan. '

WYANDOTTE ,v

 
ILVER, GOLDEN and WHITE Wyan-’»
dottes of quality, line large cockerels. ,
$3.00 each. Eggs, $2.50 per 15. Clarence '
irowning, R .No. 2, Portland, Michigan. ;

 
LEGIIORN

 
20 00 Standard bred “'liite Leghorn
, (Young strain) and AnCona l
chicks for April delivery at $1}: per 100. ‘
Satisfaction and safe arrival guaranteed. 5
Order at once and get catalog. HOLLAND
HATCHERY. R. No. 7. Holland. Michigan.

 
HOGS

0. I. C.

 
E. L. SALISBURY

SHEPHERD. MICH.

Breeder of purebred
Holstein-Friesian Cattle
Young, bulls for sale from A. I‘..

0. Cows with credil‘abie records.

 
EGISTERED HOLSTEIN BULL 11

months old. Grandson of Hengerveld

De K01. Sired by Johan Hengerveld Lad
who has 61 A.R.O. daughters and out of
a granddaughter of Pontiac DeNijlander
35.43 lbs. butter and 750.26 lbs. milk in 7
days. 3090.60 lbs. Amilk in 30 days. Price
$125. FOB. Flint. Write for Photo and
pedigree. L. C. Ketzler.

 
RAINBOW HOLSTElNS You... .0...
heifers, heif-
er calves, g. daughters and g.g.d. of Hen-
gerveld DeKol (best bull in the world.
Large herd. Perfect Aug. bull calf for
$150, marked half & half from 15 lb.
yearling daughter of 26 1b. b., 600 lb. m.
cow. Will ship subject to approval. Cows
$150 to $175. heifers $75 to $125.
ROBIN CARR, FOWLERVILLE, MICH.

THE RINKLAND HERD
Registered
HOLSTEIN—FRIESIAN CATTLE.
John A. Rinke, Warren, Michigan“

 
WASHTENAV‘V FARM HOLSTEINS

30 lb. bull in service. No stock for
sale at present. Carl F. and Ben N.
Braun, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

 
WALNUT GROVE

STOCK FARM
Offers an exceptionally good bull calf.
Write for pedigree and prices at once.
“I \V. “’YCKOFF, Napoleon, )Iicli.

 
One Car-load Registered 'Holsteins
Yearlings sired by 30 pound bull and
from heavy—producing cows. A130 some
choice Duroc open gilts.
J. Hubert Brown, Byron, Michigan.

 
HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN CATTLE

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

CATTLE FOR SALE

2Loads feeders and two loads yearling
steers. Also can Show you any number
i, 2 and 3 years old from 500 to 900 lbs.
Isaac Shanstum, Fairﬁeld, Iowa, R—8.

Holstein-Friesian Cattle

Under the present labor conditions
I feel the necessity of reducing my
herd. Would sell a few bred females
or a few to freshen this spring. These
cows are all with calf to a 30—130qu
bull. J. Fred Smith, Byron, Michigan

 
CHOICE REGISTERED STOCK

PERCI-IERONS,
HOLSTEINS,
SHROPSHIRES,
ANGUS.
DUROCS.

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

 
WOLVERINE 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.

 
\

JERSEY

 
0 Bred dGilts

Serviceable Boats
J. Carl Jewett, Mason, Mich.

 
* , 10 .
FOR SALE pdldlftegDaTrgrsi? fnul‘impoi’ESd

 
Daughter of Noble of Oakland. Price.
$90.00. Tosch Bros., Capac, Michigan.
THE WILD‘VOOD 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.

 
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. Wiﬁte your wants. C. F. Ball.
Fairﬁeld, Iowa.

 
8 bull calves Prince

Herefords Donald and Farmer
Breeding. ALLEN BROS, Paw Paw, Mich.

 
SHORTIIORN

WHAT DO YOU WANT? I represent fil
SHORTIIORN 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.

()R SALE—8 Reg. Shorthorn Bulls

from 9 to 17 Mo. By Maxwalton

Monarch a son of the noted Avon—
dalc who has 3 sons & 2 daughters that
have won the lrnnd Championship at
the Intermitional and American Royal, as
well as won 1st Prize on gm of Sire
times at the above named shows. Herd
just tubercaline tested without a single re-

 
Half Ton—O. l. C.s-Half Ton

Spring pigs sired by the Five great-
est boars in use in one herd in Amer—
ica and from the s0ws that were undo—
feated at 111.. Mo, Ohio and Mich. state
fairs. Write for our catalogue, it‘s
free, we want you to see it before you
buy. We guarantee satisfaction.
(lrandell’s Prize Hogs, (lass (lity, Mich.

 
OUNG 0. I. (I. sows of ﬁne quality.
Boars and bred sows all sold. Floyd H.
Banister, Springport. Michigan.

Choice young boars ready

. I. . for service; also fall pigs

. either sex; sired by 1st
prize yearling boar Mich. State Fair 1917
Clover Leaf Stock Farm, Monroe, Mich.

R. No. 1

 
DUROC
UROC-JERSEYS, llig. thrifty pigs,
' weaned. registered and transferred,
$15.00, two for '27. either sex, 1‘. o. b.
llillsdale. They will sell quickly. Satis-
faction guzirunlwxl. l}. 1*]. Kie-s, lIillsdale,
Michigan.

I)I‘RO(‘ JERSEYS of the Heavy
boned typo. Service boars and Spring,r
l’igs for sale, also llcg. Sliorthorn Bull
Calves of Milking Strain 4 mos. old,
tln- prim- is $100 (‘tl('ll.

ii'ziy Estate, (Elias. Bray, Mgr,
()kcmos, Michigan

M A.

 
I'R()(‘ S()\\'S and (ill/1‘8, bred for
D June farrowing, to (lrion Fancy King
83857. the biggest pig for his age
over shown at International Live Stock
Show. Also Fall boars registered cruted
and delivered anywhere in state.
Newton Barnhart. St. Johns, Michigan.

 
I‘IACII lIILl. FARNI Registered hur—
oo Jersey Swine. We are booking or—
ders for weanling boar pigs $20 each at

 
actor. John Schmidt & Sons, Reed City. weaning limo. Jllxcellent growtliy indi—
Michigan. viduals. lnwood Bros., ltomvo, Michigan.
” POLAND CHINA

SALE DATES CLAIMED

West Michigan Holstein Breeders' An-
nual Guarantee Sale, May 15, Grand
Rapids, Michigan.

Livingston County Breeders’ Sales (‘30.
Holstein-Friesian Cattle. May 16. How—
ell, Michigan.

Saginaw Valley Breeders' Holstein sale
May 28. Saginaw, Mich.

Michigan Shorthorn Breeders’ s 1
Flint, Mich., June . ae at

 
IG TYPE POLAND CHINAS. Brood

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

Bi Type l’olund China bred
Recorde song and gilts, for sale.
Leading blood lines of the breed, at our
herd’s head. C. A. Boone, Blanchard,
Michigan.

LEONARD’SI’OLAND (lllINAS. Noth-
ing for sale but fail pigs.
Orders booked for spring pigs. F. .
Leonard, St. Louis. Michigan.

 
families.

Fair 1917.

months old for sale.

100 REGISTERED HOLSTEINS 100 _

A herd of high producing females from the breeds best
Herd headed by Dutchland Colantlia Winana Lad
114067, Senior and Grand Champion Bull at Michigan State
Junior sire
132652 a. 35.16 son of Friend Hengerveld De K01 Butter Boy
and whose dam and l};
Yearly butter records.

R. BRUCE McPHERSOh, HOWELL, MICH.

Maplecrest Application Pontiac
sister hold 6th and 7th highest
Sons of these great Sires up to 15
Prices 1. d pedigrees on application.

 
WE HAVE THEM
If you want Leghorns that will pay .
for their feed a dozen limos over, write ‘
us. We have eggs for Hatching and l
Breeding Stock, lions and pullcis only, ‘
vIIILL (‘RI‘IST POULTRY FARNI,
Ypsilanti, Michigan.

 
ROFITABLE Bl‘li‘li‘ LEGIIORNS—‘Ve
have twenty pens of especially mated
Single Comb Buffs that are not only mut—
ed for exhibition but, above all, for prof-
itable egg production. Eggs at very reas-
onable prior. Our list will interest you
#plcuso ask for it. Village Farms,

Grass Lake. Michigan.
each season, different

CHICKS varieties, booklet and

testimonials. stamp appreciated. Frecpm‘t
Hatchery, Box 10, F‘recport. Michigan.
Young‘s Heavy Laying Strain.

CHICK S. ('7. White Legliorns. 25 chicks
$3.50: 50, $6.75; 100, $13.00. Sal’c deliv-
l-ry guaranteed. Order from this :id. li‘ull
(-ount. Wolverine Chickcry, 711 Delaware
St. S 1‘}. Grand Rapids, Michigan.

HATCHING EGGS

LEG IIORN S

 
CHICKS

We ship thousands

 
OSE (30MB \VHITE LEG-HORN eggs
from good layers $1.25 per 13, postpaid. 1
Mrs. L. J. Pelky, Honor, Mil-IL, RFD. l'l

 
ATCHING EGGS and Day-01d Chicks}
for immediate delivery from our‘
Barron English Mil—egg strain white
Legliorns. Heavy Winter layers, large .
birds, easy hatchers and raisers, quick?
growers. Hatching eggs $6.00 per 100’
and Chicks $13.00 per 100 chicks. Sat-,

isi‘ziction guaranteed. Devries Leghorn .
Farms & l’latcliery, Zeeland, Michigan,
Box 822 2.

 
PLYMOUTH ROCK

HATCHING EGG from our Bred—to—

Lay Strains. Bar—\
red Plymouth Rocks $1.50 per setting,
$2.50 for 30 eggs, $8 per 100, S. C. White
lmgliorns $1 per setting, $1.75 for two
settings, $5 per 100. CUSTOM HATCH—
I.\‘(} done at 3c per egg. ll‘lﬁsell Poultry
Ranch, Petersburg, Mir-Mum.

 
ATCHING EGGS From l’rize-Win-.
ning Barred Rocks, Thompson strain.
$6.00 Hundred; $3.25 Fifty; $2.00
Thirty. Special mating $1.50 per 15.
Sam Stadcl, Chelsea, Michigan.

 
From strain w'th
Barred ROCk Eggs records to 290 eggs
per year. $2.00 per .15 Prepaid by pair-
cel post. Circular free. Fred Astling,
Constantine, Michigan.

 
GGS FOR HATCHING from Pure bred

Ringht Strain Barred Rocks 15 for $1.
50 for $2.50; 100 for $5.00. Mrs. G. M.
Weaver. Fife Lake, Michigan.

 
RIIOIH‘} ISLA N D RED

7 osn COMB RHODE ISLAND nEn,

Eggs for. .Hatching. Prize—Winning ‘
Stock. Fertility and stock guaranteed.

$1.50 for ﬁfteen, or $6.00 for 100. Wm. i
J. Rusche, Alpine, Michigan, Route No. 1. ,

 
l

ORPINGTON l
HAMPION Black and Buff Orplng-l
tons. Stock and hatching eggs for?
sale. James A. Daley, Mohawk, Mich. ~

RUNNER DUCKS

 
ENCILEI) RUNNER DUCK eggs, $1.00'
per 13. Buttercup eggs $1.25 per 15,
$2.00 per 30. Good Hatch guaranteed.)
Roy Mathews, Verinontville_»Michigan. "

 
TURKEY EGGS

H. TURKEY EGGS for hatching
° ($.25) twenty—ﬁve cents each.
Harry Coiling. Fostorin. Michigan.

    
On account of inablhty to secure
sufficient competent help, I have
decided to quit the cattle-raising
business and dispose of my herd Of

   
(oncordia Houthe Sunlight De K0], No.6 52403427
Butter 7 Days 3169. Milk 7 Daysﬁ

60 HOLSTEIN- FRIESIAN CATTLE;

Sale will take place at my farm

  
- \

     
,. . One Mile East of Wayne, Michigan, on Michigan
‘ Ave., Ann ArbOr car line, 16 miles west of Detroit

Monday, June 3, 1918

The herd contains some of the very best Holstein strains, including "7
. one son and two daughters of the famous “Concordia Houwtge
- Sunlight DeKol.” Concordia made a seven-day butter record of
l 31.69, and 654 1-10 lbs.iof milk in seven days. It would be hard
‘ to find a better lot of registered cattle than are in this herd. If you
are looking for a good calf, heifer or cow, come to this sale. There
are also three herd bulls with records.

 
An extended pedigree catalogue of the herd will be provided, and
all stock will be given a tubercular test and are guaranteed from
all contagious diseases.

 
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Concordia Korndyke Sunlight 360720, Concordia HOUWUB Sunlight“ De Kol 2nd 306121, Crown Honwtje Butter Boy 214105,
Born March 18, 1916 Born April 16, 191 Born Feb.5,1917

; ROBERT R. POIN

DEARBORN, MICHIGAN
S. T. WOOD, Sales Director

             
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