‘The Independent Farm, Live Stock and Market Weekly

 

 

 

Vol. V - No. 37

SATURDAY, MAY 18th, 1918

$1 PER YIAB,--No Premium.
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HIS OWN HOME TOWN

Colorado Friends Believe Bean Division
. Propaganda Insures Profitable Pinto Ma:-
ket for Years to Come and are
Planning on Larger Acreage

 

 

That the efforts of the bean division of the U.
S. Food Administration is popularizing the pinto
bean at the expense of the navy bean, were not
designed primarily to move the present year’s
crop but to establish a future market for the
pinto, is the conclusion one gains from the west’s
own version of the deal.

The May 1st issue of Western Farm Life, a Col-
orado agricultural paper contains an article,
"History of the Pinto Bean in its own Home
Country," by Chas. E. Smith, county agricultur-
ist, Las Animas county, Colorado. We quote por-
tions of the article as follows:

“In years past the price of pinto beans depend-

ed simply upon the amount of local market that“

could be developed, and practically no beans were
shipped out. If there was a slight oversupply,
the price went as low as $1.75 per hundred, ac-
cording to some of the early planters. If they
were scarce, they were, such an item of importance
in the diet of the Mexican people especially, that
the price went up to five cents per pound.

It is only within the last three years that any
considerable amount of beans have been shipped
away from the immediate locality, and we are
indebted to the brokers who have trade relations
outside of the state for the first movement toward
getting something more than local market for
this crop. We still have people in the state of
Colorado and even in Trinidad, the supposed home
of the pinto bean, who believe that the pinto bean
is not adapted to the high class trade; but this
idea is rapidly breaking down, and more and more
this excellent food crop is finding its way to the
tables of all classes of people.

“The final boost has been given it by the Food
Administration which purchased practically the
whole crop in this state, as well ‘as other states,
and put it on the market in localities outside of
Colorado. However, other sections may have tak-
en to this disposition

these localities no great curtailment will be done,
and we may even expect some increases in
acreage." .

No secret is made in this article, or other ar-
ticles coming to our attention, that the assistance
rendered by the bean division in bringing pinto
beans betore the eyes of eastern buyers has been
for the purpose of creating a permanent demand
for the crop. It is for this reason that the injury
inflicted upon the pea bean industry this year may
be felt for years to come, and despite the super-
iority of the navy over the pinto, the eflect may
never be entirely removed.

MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING is trying to secure
additional information upon the pinto deal, from
western sources. We are firmly convinced that
there is much yet to tell of which the public has
no inkling, and which should properly be made
of public knowledge.

$374,100 LOANED T0 MICHIGAN
FARMERS IN APRIL 1918

 

A report just received from the National Land
Bank at St. Paul, Minn, discloses that over a
third of a million dollars were loaned to farmers
of Michigan during the month of April. In that
period, 49 loans, aggregating $111,950 were ap-
plied ior, and 70 loans, aggregating $59,100 were
approved. This brings the total of applications
approved for Michigan to 1526, and the total of.
loans closed to $2,621,900. During the same per-
iod over nine million dollars were loaned to the
farmers of North Dakota, so it is apparent that
the farmers of this state are not taking as much
advantage of the new loan law as they can and
should.

There is no indication that the bankers of the
state are profiting any from the inroads of the

‘federal farm loan law.- Instead of doing away

with the usurious cut-throat methods of previous
years and trying to deserve the farmer’s business,
many of them are pressing a little harder. Very
recently reports have come to our office of the
most infamous treatment accorded farmers in
sparsely settled sections of the state. and we
have come to the conclusion that Mammon is, in-
deed, the only God that some men know. We
hope to see the farmers taking a greater interest
in the federal farm loan plan and teach the
“Shylocks” of the state a well-deserved lesson.

DEI'ROIT’S “BUY-A!
BUSHEL” CAMPAIGN

Strenuous Efforts Being Made by City Folks
to Move the Incoming Flood of Michigan
Potatoes and Keep the Market in
a Stable Condition

 

 

Mayor Marx bought the first bushel of potatoes .

from the D. U. R. car which was placed in front
of the city hall on the Campus Martins last Satur-
day, and throughout the day and until the car
was emptied of its 300 bag contents rich, who
came in limousines, and poor who brought wheel—
barrows or baby carriages, bought the two and
one-half bushel sacks of fancy Michigan stock, the
finest in the world, which was sold at 900 per
bushel or $2.25 per sack.

Newspaper men’s cameras clicked and moving
picture machines whirred recording pictures of
the event'so hundreds of thousands who did not
even see the car, now know that a great drive has
been started in Detroit throughout the state, and
is rapidly spreading nation-wide to help eat up
the great crop of potatoes save wheat and thus
help to win the war.

The publicity committee of which the publisher
of M. B. F. is chairman have been bending every
eifort to make the campaign as widespread as
possible, not with the hope of righting the whole
market or changing an already bad condition.
but of helping to move the potatoes so that they
will not rot, for want of a possible market, in the
farmers’ hands.

A “Potatriot Pledge” card is being issued this
week, a reprint of which accompanies this article.
and over 100,000 of these will be passed out by
the school children and boy scouts of Detroit alone
this week. Other cities will be asked‘ to co-oper—
ate and it is possible that within the next thirty
days from two to three million of these cards will
have been signed.

The newspapers throughout the country are run—
ning recipes on the woman’s page daily showing
the many ways in which the potato can be used as
an item of food on every menu. Few city fami1~
ice are familiar with potato flour, potato pancakes,
potatoe soup, etc, and during the period of high

prices which they have

 

of the 1917 crop, the
growers in Las Animas
county in general are
disposed to feel very
grateful for the assist-
ance given, and to be-
lieve that the advertis-
ing gained from this
operation will put the
pinto bean definitely
on the market for years
to come.”

Discussing the cost
of raising pintos, the '
author says: “There
are a few localities
where the growers be-
lieve they can scarcely
afford to raise pinto
beans at eight cents a
pound, even tho the
price is much in ad-
vance of- ordinary pric-
es of previous years.
However, with the
knowledge that beans
have nearly always
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been paying for pota-
toes during the past
two or three years have
gotten into the habit
of consuming only the
barest portion of this
great American food
product.

So the campaign now
being conducted will
not only help to re-
lieve the present dis-

will get the American
people into the habit of
eating more potatoes

we may get a glimpse
of the bright side, even
to the potato cloud
which now hangs over
us.

Local merchants are
being asked to contrib-
ute their show-windows

ing the coming week,
every grocer should co-

 

 

fair returns, it is be-
lieved ' that' even in

Scene on the Detroit Campus when rich and poor alike came in limousines and a—foot to “buy-a-bushel”

of Michigan spuds.

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problem of supplying man
'~‘- I ' ,, . nation is new commandingfilo at-
tention of the. United States employment bureau.
, The supply and distribution of labor is as impor-
tant duty of the government as the recruiting of
men for the military preparations, andit isre‘al-
q ized that a steady supply of good labor to the es-'
.sential industries of the nation is as important in
promoting the war as maintaining the strength
of the army and navy. The employment agency
is seeking the aid of all employers the country
over to facilitate the canvassing and redistribus
tion of help that it may be placed where it can do
the most good. Eventually the plan suggested in
the Senate several weeks ago to register and
possibly conscript for industrial service all per-
sons unsuited for military service, may have to
be carried out. The situation must, however, be-
come much more acute than at present to warrant
any such extreme measures as this.
O I O

The problems of transporting soldiers to France
is as nothing compared to the problems of trans-
porting equipment and supplies. The average
mind does not grasp the amount of shipping space
required for carrying the impediments that forms
apart of every properly-equipped field force. Des-
pite the limited shipping facilities the government
has already transported overseas the following:
1.400 field guns, 2,240 heavy machine guns and
15,360 light automatic rifles, 1,760 combat wagons,
1,280 rolling kitchens, 1,760 baggage and ration
wagons, 1,280 ration carts, 1,930 machine gun
carts, 4,720 riding horses, 64 riding mules, 26,560
draft mules, 160 motorcycles with side cars, 80
motor cars and 3,360 bicycles. In addition to this
bulky freight there have gone across 60 battery
wagons. 120 store wagons and reel carts and
9,780 horses for the artillery regiments. Owing
to the lack of “bottoms" for shipping the full com-
plement of equipment needed, it has been neces-
sary to call upon the French and English for cer~
tain heavy machine guns and artillery, but with
the rapid going forward of the present shipbuild-
ing program, it is hoped and believed that the
future will see all the supplies needed across
shipped promptly.

t t t

The investigation into the aircraft production
scandal carries on with many startling and inter-
esting developments. Sensational charges of
graft, treasonable delays, misuse of funds, etc.,
presented by Gutzon Borglum, sculptor and per-
sonal friend of President Wilson, have been met
with counter-charges equally as sensational, de—
nouncing Borglum as a graftér and accusing him
of trying to use privileges conferred upon him
by the President, to promote the organization of
an airplane factory and the sale of its products.
Borglum answers that these charges are trump
ed up by agents of the enemy for the purpose of
halting the investigation. The investigating com-
mittee however, declares that the investigation
will continue, not necessarily into the specific
charges made by Borglum, butvto determine how
the $700,000,000 air fund was expended, and why
so small a number of airplanes have been turned
out. Sensational disclosures involving betrayal

of duty and gross mismanagement are looked for.
I 0! ‘

Profiting by the bitter experiences of last win—
ter, which caused much suffering and forced in—
dustries to lie idle for lack of coal, Dr. Garfield
the fuel administrator, is taking every precaution
to speed coal production and encourage early buy—
ing. Despite what appears to be extreme efforts
on the part of the coal operators to mine sufficient
coal for next Winter’s needs, Dr. Garfield has
warned that production must increase if this is
to be done. With his assistants. the fuel admin-
istrator is gathering details which may assist
them in spurring on production and delivery. In
order to lend emphasis to the need of early buy-
ing for next winter’s fires, the fuel administrator
has announced that he will name a coal buying
week beginning June 3rd, when everyone who can
will be urged to lay in their winter’s fuel supply.

. t O

War or no war, the game of politics must go on
undisturbed. Republican and democratic leaders
are laying plans for a hot partisan scrap at the
fall primaries. Champ Clark has predicted that
the next house will be democratic, a statement
that the republican leaders refuse to accept. Will
Hays, chairman of the national republican com-
mittee, Senator Gallinger, Medill McCormick and
other good republican band wagon drivers who are
in Washington to confer with republican legislat-
ors. predict a majority in the next house of 35
to 40 members. In fact, so confident are they of
success in the house that they concentrate their
efforts in swinging the senate over. A democratic
majority of eight now control the senate.

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for the essential industries :91 the.

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‘to'-.trau;sport, food products from-the amine. '

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tions to the cities;
opposed by certain senators on the grounds that

the present was “‘no time to be conducting ex—.

periments.” but the sponsors of the bill argued

. that inasmuch asthe plan was already being worlo

ed successfully in some sections of the country,
congress ought to be willing tohelp the good work
along. Now, farmers,
good roads, and your worrisome marketing prob—

lems are solved!
0 t t

In order to enable soldiers in training camps
to visit their homes more frequently, Mr. McAdoo,
director general of the railroads, is considering
the advisability of reducing their fare rate to one
cent per mile. Where soldiers’ homes are located
at great distance from their place of training, the
present cost is almost prohibitive to the average
soldier. .

t O C

It is announced that efforts will again be made
this week‘to complete the investigation into the
disloyalty charges against Senator LaFollette.
The matter has been hanging fire for several
months, and the senator’s political enemies are
afraid lest it go by default if it be permitted to
hang much longer without at least another agi-
tation. ’

O O 0
The senate has passed a resolution presented
by Senator Thompson of Kansas, to authorize the
federal trade commission to investigate the pro-
duction, supply and prices of agricultural imple-
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Fruit growers of Ca‘lfornia have declared in favor
of importation of Chinese “and other labor.”

Iron ore is found in almost every Chinese province,
but it is mined extensively in only a few.

Immigration from Europe fell one million during
the first year of the United States' participation in
the war.

Canners of the United States will have to fill close
to 70,000.000,000 tin cans in a year to feed our army
and navy.

Belting used on machinery in Russian Oil fields is
made of camel’s hair, which resists grease better than
rubber, cotton or leather.

The Dominican republic plans to establish an agri-
cultural experiment station that will try to improve
the live stock of that country.

Explosions in flour mills, grain elevators, coal mines,
etc., are often-due to the fact that dust and air com-
bined in certaln proportions are explosive. ,

Germany’s newest war department is an imperial
clogs office, for the acquisiti n and distribution of
wood suitable to use as soles for boots and shoes.

Sweden has 16 principal war ships. Some are thirty
years old and only three have a displacement of as
much as 7,100 tons, but these three are thoroughly
modern. '

The war has created a great boom in the fishing
industry of the British Isles. .Some of the fishing
skippers are said to have paid taxes this year on in-
comes amounting to $35,000 'and over. a.

French protect the bases of telegraph poles against
decay ‘by surrounding them with earthenware pipes
and filling the pipes with melted resin and sand, which
solidifies and becomes waterprdof.

Exploration parties to discover the lost wealth un-
der the waves are being organized in England to begm
work immediately the war is ended. The route from
England to India is strewn with treasures of lost
vessels estimated to "total $400,000,000.

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get busy and build your

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Conflicting reports to e-effect that the American
forces in France are to he held in reserve untusu'ch
time as a large American army is'avallable. has named
a furore in Washington. The orignal report - which
came from Ottawa, and was regarded as official stated
that the British and French considered themselves
capable of checking the German ~‘onslaughts. and that
the American. army was to be made readly for the
great Allied offensive. Gen. Foch’s strategy, the die-
patch stated, had been and evidently would continue
to be one of conservation. He has made it 'a point
to hold the Germans back with the minimum forces
possible, and keep a great reserve force ready for a
smash when the proper time came, according to the e
reports. Ofi‘lcial Washington is silent regarding t e
Ottawa dispatches, while London has. issued a denial.
The reports have caused a great deal of discussion
among army men. The reports have caused a great
deal of discussion among army men. The disposition
of American forces is, entirely in the hands ovaeneral
Pershing and General, Foch, the Allied commander in

chief, it is said.
. I O 0

Russia is threatened with a new revolution. Hun-
ger, which is stalking across the country from Siberia
to the Caucausus, is responsible. In spite of the
treaties of peace ratified between Petrograd and Ber-
lin, the Germans continue to advance into Russia,
~seizing anything they can lay their hands on. Lenine
has made an appeal to the Huns for a cessation of all
hostile acts, and warns them that further advances
may result in a revolution, which might be directed
as much against them as the present Russian govern-
ment. Russian Poland has been taken Mist by the
Germans. Although the Kaiser’s government. has
many times asserted that an autonomous Poland was
to result from the war, it is very evident that Germany
will hold the Polish territory as long as she can. Food
conditions are becoming worse in Austria—Hungary,
hunger causing many minor disturbances. Even in
Germany, especially western Prussia, the populace is
said to be almost without food. although the German
people are too much under the heel of the govern-
ment to make more than feeble protests.

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Submarine losses have been reduced to a minimum.
The tonnage lost during April 1918, was only about
half that for the same month in 1917, according to
official reports by the French government. American
naval forces, which have been assisting the British
and French since May 1918, have done much to com-
bat the undersea menace. It is planned to put in ser-
vice large—sized submarine Chasers, which are to be
known as Eagles. These boats which are of a type
half-way between the present gasoline propelled
chasers and the destroyer, are large enough to mount
guns of sufficient calibre to deal with any U—boat.
They are speedy, and are heavy enough to weather
rough seas with less trouble than the present craft
engaged in the work. These boats are to be man-
ufactured by Henry Ford, the Detroit auto king.
When his new plant is in full operation three of
these boats will be manufactured in a day.

0» O O

\

Having weathered one of the most furious political
storms. which has stirred England for several months,
Premier Lloyd George appears to be again safely in-
stalled in the confidence of the English people. The
charges by Gen. Maurice, a prominent official of the
war office, that the government was not making public
a great many things that the English people had a.
right to know, first started the turmoil. The charges.
coming as they did from a well-known English army
officer, holding a position of trust in the government,
were at first taken to mean that the government was
trying to cover up scandals. For a time it appeared
that the present cabinet might be forced out and the
opposition headed by Asquith placed in power. The
charges were refuted by Lloyd George in parliament
in such a manner as to silence the opposiflon. The
attack has only served to enhance the brilliancy of
Lloyd George in the eyes of the British people.

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Instead of the long expected German-Austrian of«
fensive on the Italian front, the Central Powers have
been forced to act on the defensive in that quarter.
The Italians have made a number of small advances,
and seem to be outflghting the Austrians all along the
line. Apparently there are few Germans on this front
nearly all having been withdrawn to help in the west.
The Italians have always outfought the Austrians
when they have met on anything like equal terms.
The enmity between the two racecs dates back to the
early part of the last century when Austrian troops
were used time and again to hold the Italians under

the yoke.

I t O

The appearance of American national army men on
parade in the streets of London aroused the enthusi-
asm of the English as have few events in many days.
Since the thrilling days of the first months of the war,
London has not known such a notable scene of en-
thusiasm .as that evoked by the appearance of the
American soldiers. The men were a fine—looking body
and appeared to be in the pink of condition. It was
the women who gave the Americans a special wel-
come. “God bless you," they cried all along the
route. Mothers lifted their children that they t
have a look at the soldiers from across the sea w 0
Were going to fight side by side with daddy.

t t O

A repitition of the successful attack on Zeebrugge
took place a few nights ago when the obsolete cruiser
Vindictive, loaded with concrete, was sunk m the
harbor entrance of Ostend, another U—boat base in
Belgium. The attack was partly successful as the boat
was sunk in a position to nearly block the passage of
the harbor. Only one small British boat was lost in
the attack. The casualties of the attackers were light.
Berlin, aswas anticipated, has issued an official state-
ment denying that any damage was done. or the harbor
entrance sealed.

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it appears, has acceded to the German
demands. The Dutch people were overawed by the
concentration of a German army of some 80,000 men
as if for a smash across the boundary.
The people of olland have been in a position to ob—
serve the atrocities committed on the women 'and
children of Belgium, they have given a shelter to hun-
dreds of thousands of refuges who have crossed the
frontier, and know at first-hand what German ruthless-
ness means. _The government of the Netherlands evi-
dently does not want the country laid waste.

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A LESSON FROM GEORGIA
* FOR OUR MARKET DIRECTOR

Writing in the Southern Rumh'st, a corres-
pondent says: “In August,11'917, the Georgia leg-
islature appropriated $15,000 for the creation of a
state bureau of markets. Today, after less than
a year of operations, this bumamhas found a mar-
ket for thousands of carloads of Georgia products
and saved millions of dollars to the farmers of
the state.

“Today it has over two hundred ‘buying units,’ -

'as the buyers and co—operative associations are

called, employs two field agents, and handles hun- ,

dreds of questions daily. No order is too big for
it. One day a big St. Louis firm sent in a hurry-
upoall for fifty earloads of velvet beans.
rector never turned a hair.
velvet bean buyers, and by evening the sale had
been made and the beans were on their way.

“The method Of procedure is simplicity itself.
The Bureau keeps a list of firms that might- need
Southern products, and keeps reminding them
by notices and bulletins that the South has these
products. Sooner or later one of those firms is
going to send in an order. Then the director
simply notifies his list of buyers _and lets them
go to it. Goods are always sold direct from buyer
to purchaser; all that the Bureau does is to find
the market.

“The most remarkable work of the new Bureau
has been in maintaining stable prices. When the
Bureau went into effect last year sweet potatoes
were selling for 50 cents per bushel on the Atlanta
market. After it had been operating a month
the price went up to $1.20 a bushel, and it has
not been below the dollar mark since. The Bur-
eau simply found a better market for those pota-
toes somewhere else, relieved the overloading,
and restored the balance. It has proved the most
effective stabilizer Of prices yet devised.

“Later-on in the summer when snap beans were
selling on the Georgia market for 40 cents a bush-
el, the Bureau found a market for them in Jack-
sonville at.$2.75, and in Tampa. Florida, for $3.25.

“It found out that sweet potatoes had been left
Off the army ration, and went after the Federal
authorities until they were finally put in their
proper place. It found out that many buyers in
small towns were only paying farmers for the
oil in their peanuts. It developed a market for
peanut meal and forced the buyers to add this
value to their buying price. Last fall, when the
bottom began to fall out of the cotton market, it
gathered data to showthat cotton was worth 30
cents, and iSsued warnings everywhere to hold cot-
ton. As a result the market climbed back to nor-
mal and has been around the 30—c‘ent mark ever
since.”

CALIFORNIA IS PROPOSING
UTOPIAN RURAL COMMUNITY

 

The Ladies” Homc Journal tells of California’s
efforts to lighten the burdens of her farmers and
make the farming business more profitable and
pleasant as well. According to this publication,
California proposes to make it easier for farmers
to get and keep land they cultivate. and to build
up a rural social organization which will be more,
of a joy and a privilege than a hardship and
penalty. .

The state is going to buy land to sell to [arm-
ers without "Emulation, without profit and on
easy terms. cutting by two-thirds the amount of
capital usually required nowadays of the man Who
wants to build up for himself on a farm. These
lands will be divided so as to make real farms,
and before selling. the state will build roads, make
irrigable lands ready for water and even plant
some crops, thus giving the farmer a chance.
Purchasers can take their own time, up to forty
years. about paying and will be charged only five
per cent interest. Those who improve their farms
can borrow money on the value of their improve-
ments. The services of experts will be available
to advise and guide them in‘ their farming, mar—
keting and community problems. From the out-
set each settler will feel that he is not only the
one interested in his success; he will be part Of
an organized community, and not left to success
or failure or isolation.

Farms will be sold to only actual settlers who
do not own farms elsewhere, and each purchaser
must give evidence of sufficient capital and abill
ity to give him a fair chance of successfully cul-
tivating the land and meeting his Obligations.

Each farm owner will be expected, even requir-
ed, to co-operate with his neighbors in the com-
mon interest as well as‘to act in his own interest.

The di-
He simply wired his

The speculator, the exploiter, the parasitic mid-
dleman will be eliminated, and the gains made by
the elimination will be divided among members
of the community not only in cash income from
their production, but thru the realization of a more
wholesome, equitable and better organized rural
community life.

U. S. GOVERNMENT PROVIDES
FREE INSPECTION SERVICE

The Food Products Inspection Service has now
been made available to shippers in all the principal
markets of the country. This means that if a grow-
er makes shipment to a certain market and is
dissatisfied with the grade placed upon it he can
wire the Government Inspector'and have an Of-
ficial inspection made without cost except any nec.
essary expense incurred in getting to the point of
inspection. It has in the past been common prac-
tice for certain commission men and receivers to
reject cars of hay and produce on a falling mar-
ket, claiming not up to grade. Therefore the fed—
eral inspection will be a great service to shippers
generally.

We give below the names and addresses of the
inspectors in all of the principal markets reached
by Michigan shippers. In wiring them for an in-
spection be sure to give car initials and number
and full information as to whom the car was
shipped, .etc.

Boston, C. E. Merrill, 405 Fidelity Bldg, 148
State Street.

Buffalo, Geo. E. Ingels, 232 Post Office Bldg.

Chicago, E. B. Pratt, City Hall Square Bldg, 139
N. Clark Street.

Cincinnati, Howard E. Kramer, 209 Johnston
Bldg, 5th and Walnut Streets.

 

Detroit, Frank A. Bloom, 404 New Telegraph

Bldg, 72 Shelby Street.
New .York E. L. Markell,
Bldg, 204 Franklin Street.
Pittsburgh, F. G. Robb, 303 Kellerman Bldg,
18th and Penn Ave.
St. Louis. Fred T. Bryan, 413 Old Custom House
3rd and Olive Streets.

OVER 13 MILLION DOLLARS IS
LOANED TO FARMERS IN APRIL

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During April $13.988,619 were paid out to farm-
ers of the United States by the Federal Land
Banks on long time, first mortgage loans, accord-
ing to a statement of the Federal Farm Loan
Board. The Federal Land Bank of St. Paul clos-
ed loans during the month amounting to $2.870,-
300. The other banks made loans as follows:
Omaha, $1,912,300; Spokane. $1,586.380; Houston,
$1,514,844; New Orleans, $1,198,955; St. Louis,
$1,016,035; Wichita. $768900; Louisville, $756,700;
Columbia, $737605; Berkeley, $569,700; Baltimore,
$538,1000; Springfield, $518,800.

On May 1st the total amount of money paid out
to farmers since the establishment of the Federal
Land Banks was $91,951.886, covering 40,451 loans
closed. The total amount of loans applied for up
to May 1st was $299,984,835, representing 126,630
applicants, and in process of closing the amount
was $174.858,616 which is awaiting abstracts of
title release of mortgages or other formalities.

The grand total of loans closed is divided by
Federal Land Bank Districts as follows:

Springfield, $2,876,045; Baltimore, $3.407,750;
Columbia, $3,192.77F; Louisville, $5,407,600; New
Orleans. $6,091,315; St. Louis, $5,128.935; St. Paul,
$15,424.900; Omaha. $11,438,390: Wichita, $11.191,~
700: Houston. $7,755,791; Berkeley, $5.806,900;
Spokane, $14.229,785.

CANADIANI PRICES ON ABOUT
SAME LEVEL AS AMERICAN PRICES

 

A resume of the market situation in Canada
discloses that prices of staple farm products are
about the same as those prevailing in Michigan.
Wheat is a'little higher, the average for all Of
Canada for the week ending May 11th being $2.11
per bushel. Oats run about 95 cents per bushel;
barley, $1.50; baled 'hay, $17; butter. 50 cents;
eggs, 40 cents,‘beans, $7.50 to $8 per bushel; on-
ions, $2 per 75 pound sack; potatoes, $1.50 per
bag.

Feed prices in Canada do not run as high as
in Michigan. Bran is $35 per ton; timothy hay.
$20; clover hay, $18; wheat, $2.10 per bushel.
Prime beef prices range from $14.75 to $16 per
hundred; hogs, $20.50 per hundred.

GOVERNMENT ADVISES FARM-
ERS TO HOLD THEIR 1918 WOOL

   

 

Reports from Washington and Boston, Mass.
state that members of the Boston Wool Trade a2:-
sociation have agreed to accept Major-General
Goethels’ proposal to fix the price of all wool in
storage at present on the basis of the price July
30, 1917. The government will take over all wool
in the warehouses on this basis. If holders do
not agree to sell the wool will be commandeered.

The government will use the greater part of
this wool for uniforms, and that which remains
will be distributed among the mills for civilian":
needs. Major General Goethels, advises all wool
centers that the 1918 clip Should not be disposed
of during the next thirty days, to give the govern-
ment time to determine its exact needs for the
coming year.

A telegram from Washington to the University
of Missouri College of Agriculture announces that
the government will arrange to receive the 1918
clip on the basis Of the price mentioned, but urg—
es producers nOt to dispose of their wool until
more definite information is made available.

Hence it would seem advisable for Missouri
wool producers to pack and store this season‘s
clip in the best possible way. for at least a. few
weeks until the government has issued more de—
tailed information. Wet dung tags in the center
of the fleece should be kept, out as they will came
staining of the good wool around them and muy
admit mildew. The clip at the Missouri College
of Agriculture, stored from the 1st of Apr. un-
til the last Of July, 1917, did not shrink any. in
packing wool away, either store it. in wool sacks
or in a clean dry bin.

NEW GOVERNMENT BULLETINS
ARE OF VALUE TO FARMERS

 

The United States Department of Agriculture
issues from time to time bulletins upon prevail-
ing crop topics, which are at least of interest. if
not of actual value to every man who farms. "he
n’laterial contained in those bulletins is the re
sult of exhaustive research and carci‘ul cxpcrinlerr
tation by men who have h min thozoly trained in
the science. of agriculture liccuuse of the fact
that the bulletins cndcuror to cover the subjects
from a general standpoint. instead of local. their
value is not so great as tho they confine them-
selves to special localities. yet inasmuch as they
are provided free of charge to all farmers upon
resues't, we would urge our readers to form the
habit of writing for these bulletins. M. B. F. is
advised from time to time by the department of
all now bulletins. and we will keep our readers
posted in these columns. The following bulletins
are just off the press and ready for distribution.
If you desire to procure one or all of them. write
to the Division of Publications, U. S. Department
of Agriculture, Washington, D. (1., giving the
number of the bulletin desired:

Farmers’ Bulletin, No. 939, “Cereal Smuts and
the Disinfection of Seed Grain.”

Farmers' Bulletin NO. 954, “The Disinfection
of Stables.”

Farmers’ Bulletin No. 943, “Haymaking.”

Farmers‘ Bulletin NO. 966, “A Simple Hog
Breeding Crate.”

SEED CORN IN AMPLE'SUPPLY
AND DEMAND IS VERY SLOW

One of the largest seed corn concerns in the
country reports that it has plenty of the grain on
hand, but says the demand at present, is anything
but good. Many in the trade are. inclined to
think that there has been too much quS over the
seed corn Situation and that farmers will find all
they need, especially in view of the many efforts
that have been made to distribute it. It requires
only about 13,000,000 bushels Of corn to seed the
total area in this country and this is a small per-
centage of the 3,160,000,000 bushel crop raised
last year.

“The fact that prices are so high and that the
warning has been so general‘ will make farmers
more careful than usual and the chances are that
of the corn planted this year a larger percentage
will germinate than in normal years," says a crop
expert. “We may have a smaller acreage of corn
because of the increased acreage in small grains,
but it is Safe to say that the corn that is planted
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Marion—The 671311013 County Shorthorn Breed-
ers’ Association was recently organized. Ofiicers
elected were Chas. Carlson, of LeRoy, president;
Spencer Postal, Evart, vice president;
Schmidt, Reed City, secretary-treasurer. - Osceola
county is now one of the leading counties of the
state in the number and quality of registered
Shorthorns and it is the purpose of this organiza-
tion to let this fact be known throughout the state
and the country at large. It is also planned to
bring buyers from the outside; to keep a list of- the
stock for sale so that buyers can make selections

of stock needed, to hold sales in the county from?

time to time.
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Charlotte—With only partial reports in from
mills and elevators, the total amount of wheat
marketed in'Eaton county shows a total of three
thousand bushels. It is expected that this will be
increased to five thousand bushels when all re-
ports are in. Several elevators report that farm-

ers took only time to draw one load and stated -

that they would get the balance in during the next

few days, as fast as their time would permit. A

detail-ed report will be made later. Keep on with

the good work. Food will win the war! Food to-

day means first of all, wheat.
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Sandusky—Although many business men and
farmers favor the organization of a county farm
bureau and the immediate hiring of a county ag-
riculturalist, a majority of the members of the
Sanilac county board of supervisors apparently
think otherwise. A public meeting was held last
week, attended by business, professional men and
farmers to consider ways and means of providing
the necessary funds for the work until such time
as the board of supervisors can be convinced of
the value of an agent and the necessary appropri-
ation made.

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Grand Ledge—One of the largest condensed milk
plants in the state, located here. has closed down
and consequently hundreds of farmers who have
invested heavily in cows have no market for their
milk. The dozen routes were discontinued with-
a day’s notice, and farmers were totally unpre-
pared to care for the milk. Having disposed of
their calves that they might have all of their
milk for the market they stand a show to meet a
heavy loss. Tons and tons of skimmed milk will
go to waste.

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Petoskey—Northern counties of the lower pen-
insula are fast lining up on the county agent
proposition. This was manifested by the meeting
of the county agents which was held at this place
April 30, May 1 and 2. Represented at the meet-
ing were the counties of Alpena, Antrim, Char-
levoix, Cheboygan, Emmet, Grand Traverse, Kal-
kaska. Leelanau. Manistee, Otsego, Wexford and
Presque Isle. ‘

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Sandusky—Sanilac county will produce thous-
ands of tons of. sugar beets this year. On one farm
alone, known as the Bowen lands, 60 acres will
be planted to beets. Four new houses have been
erected on the farm to accommodate the workers.
A new weighing station will be installed on the
Detroit, Bay City & Western railroad at a conven-
lent point near the farm.

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Baxy City——Alien enemies have no right to ob-
tain or use dynamite even for the necessary farm
work. Fred Leonard, an Austrian farmer living
near Estey, has been arrested and held to the fed-
eral grand jury because dynamite was found in his
possession. Leonard insists that the explosive
was purchased before the war and was being used

to blow out stumps.
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Sanduskg~Sanilac county exceeded its Liberty
loan quota by more than $25000. The quota was
$557,447. There is probably no more representa—
tive agricultural county in Michigan than Sani-
lac. The showing speaks well for the farmers
who responded loyally to the call, a large percent-
age of them buying before the committees called.

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Big Raz)idS~—Sixty farmers, repiesenting every
part of Mccosta county, organized a potato grow—
e1s association last week. Articles of association
were :1 1wood John Wagner of Remus was elect-
ed ,.. ant. The society went on record as fav-
oring, .11: one anu three—fourths inch screen only.

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Clarksville—The organization of the Clarksville
Stock Shipping association was effected last week
with 90 members. Fifty more members are prom—
ised. The first car of stock was shipped on May
8th, 1918.

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Croswcll—~Good progress is being
canning factory being erected here. It is being
given the most hearty support by the farmers
and is now assured of plenty of raw material.

made on the

WILL PAY FARE OF HANDS WHO‘
LEAVE TO WORK ON FARMS

Money to pay for the transportation of workers
to the farms of the state, where this is necessary
has been appropriated by the war preparedness
board to the labor agencies conducted by Michigan

John .

The appropriation, which was 31111111121111 so

clent, will be used as a revolving mirth-that is. '1"
men whose tickets are bought for them will be

required to reimburse the board. The system is

one that has been adopted in several states with

practically no loss in any of them, and from the
agricultural standpoint has added greatly to the
efficiency of the employment agencies maintained
by the states.

“Conditions at present indicate that farm labor
is fairly plentiful, and is going to be available
in sufficient quantity, at prices not unreasonable,
all things considered,” Director Cook .declares.
“The farmer must stand ready,” he adds, “to pay
a reasonable wage, though he need not permit
anyone to hold him up.”

DETROIT’S “BUY-A-BUSHEL”
OF POTATOES CAMPAIGN

(Continued from page 1)

find one in your trading) town that is not pushing
the sale of Mchigan potatoes by making a special
low price get after him, because he is not living
up to his promise to co-operate with the U. S.
Food.- Administration of which undoubtedly he
is a member.

Every possible means of discouraging the use
of Southern potatoes until after July fourth is
being made. Florida potatoes dropped in price a
dollar and eighty cents a barrel in one day on the
Detroit market after the campaign got under way.
Some patriotic grocers have even refused to sell
any but Michigan potatoes and some hotels and
restaurants have in answer to urgent request, tak-
en the new potatoes off their menus entirely.

Below is the pledge that Michigan housewives
will be asked to sign in order to help move the
surplus potatoes:

POTATRIOTS PLEDGE

I will buy-a—bushel of
Michigan Grown Potatoes

 

 

 

Buy-A- Bushel
Campaign to relieve
the Michigan Pota-
to Surplus — save
wheat and thus
help win the war.
Auspices of U. S.
Food Administra’n
Detroit Pub. Com.

 

 

 

 

 

Trude-Hark, "Buy-a-Bushel” Campaign

Taken all in all, the present campaign cannot
help but have a good effect on the market, which
means the public in general, and although it
should unquestionably have been started two or
three months ago and cannot possibly save the
situation, it is commendable and points a real
way in which the market departments of this
state can make itself of some real value to the
farmers if it cares to.

 

 

 

Late County Reports

TUSCOLA (Eas)——Farmers have their oats all in
and are now planting potatoes and corn and sowing
carrots and bee.ts The weather has been rather cold
fm good growing weather, but the ground is in good
condition to work Some farmers are selling a. few
potatoes at 500 a bu The following prices were paid
at Caro last week. Wheat, $2; corn, $1. 75; oats, 67,
rye, $2; hay, $21; beans, $10. 50; potatoes 50; onions,
50; butter, 35; eg s, 31; sheep $6 to $8; lambs, $9
to $11; hogs, $13.1 beef steers, $4 to $8; veal calves,
$10 to $13.~—R. B. C. Caro, May 13.

MONTCALM (Northwest)—Farmers are getting
1eady to plant corn. Some of the grain is looking
fine while some not so good. Most of the oats up.
SB\eIaI farmers are building new barns. The fol-
lowing prices were paid at Greenville last week: Rye.
$2. 20; wheat, $2. 06; corn, $1.75; bats, 75, potatoes,
55c per cwt.; butter 40; butterfat, 42; eggs, 30; sheep,
10 to 12; lambs, 15; hogs, 16; beef steers, 8 to 9;
ve eal calves, 8 to 10.——E Gowen, May 13.

EMMET (East)—Heavy rain on Thursday stopped
all farm work for the week. Oats, spelts and barley
going in now. Spring wheat a. fair prospect. Pota-
toes and beans will be a light acreage in1 this sec-
tion this season. —W. H. C., Alanson, Mayl

BERRIEN (West)~—Farmers are plowing 1and. drag-
ging for corn. Some have planted. The weather has
been fine. Wheat is looking good and cats in fine
shape. Prospects for crops are good at present. ——0.
Y., Baroda, May 10.

 

 

 

 

 

sends us a copy of a letter he recentl

pert, who owns a large dairy farm near Pontiac,
regarding two bays furnished him by the Reserve.
The letter goesto show that, while some of the
boys sent out from the cities to help on the farm
may not prove satisfactory, that a great many, if
not the majority, do. We have no doubt that
farmers needing extra help during rush seasons
will find the older boys of the ._U. S. Boys’ Work-
ing Reserve very willing and capable workers For
the benefit of those who are skeptical of the value
of these boys, we reproduce below Mr. Pelletier’s
letter:

“I am delighted to inform you that the young
man you first sent me has proven to be one of
the best men I ever had on the farm.

“The second boy who is now working in the
cow barn, also seems to be working out fine. He
had had little or no experience in milking or
with cows and the foreman of the cow barn is
rather impatient but I think he is working out
fine and will be glad to let you know just how he
does do.

“The young man is an excellent example of
what you can furnish the farmers.

“He is intelligent, clean, interested in his work,
anxious to learn and he already had a good work-
ing knowledge of gas engines and other machinery
so that, as I stated before, he has proven to be
one of the best men we have ever had.

“I thought this information would be valuable
to you and you are at liberty to use. it in any
way you choose ”—10 LeRoy Pelletier.

OUR MINNESOTA LETTER TELLS
OF WESTERN POTATO SITUATION

There 'will probably be less planting of pota-
toes this year than last even with probable fair
price this fall. Fewer potatoes are being planted
in city gardens, and the potato consumption has
been stimulated materially during the last few
days by the potato consumption campaign. This
should have been started several months earlier
in the year or last fall. The market demands are
being met largely -by potato warehouses with
very little local buying. Starch factories have
purchased large quantities of potatoes paying
daily a much better price than that offered by
the general market. The present quotations aver—
age around 750 per hundred pounds for clean but
ungraded stock. Much dissatisfaction is found.
particularly among the Burbank growers in the
application of the grading rules. this because the
present rules discriminate unfairly against the
variety.

For the reasons of the earliness of spring, farm
work is much farther advanced this year than in
average years. The corn acreage will be consider-
ably less with an increased acreage of barley
and oats, particularly barley. Recent rains have
done much in the way of spreading optimism
among the farmers as far as crop production is
concerned for this year. A cold period is being
experienced now with the prospect of warm
weather returning soon. Flax production will
also be materially increased—M. B. F. Reporter,
Milaca, Minnesota.

GOOD POSITION OPEN FOR
BOOKKEEPER AND TYPIST

M. B. F. has a good position open for a young
man or woman who has a working knowledge of
bookkeeping and typewriting. Can any of our
readers put us in touch with someone with these
qualifications who is looking for a better position
than they now have? Applicant should state age,
experience, and salary expected in first letter.
Any assistance our readers can give in helping
to locate such a person, will be greatly appre-
cated. '

MANUFACTURERS TO DISCONTINUE
MANY STYLES OF MACHINERY

As the result of a meeting between manufac-
turers of agricultural implements and members
of the Council of Defense it was decided to dis—
continue the manufacturing of a great number
of plows, seeders, drills and other implements
that have been added by manufacturers from
year to year in the course of peacetime compe-
tition, says the Organized Farmer. It was agreed
that this could be 'done‘ without serious incon-
venience to anyone and must be done to conserve
materials, labor, capital and manufacturing facil-
ities for war use.

War is an ugly thing but - German peace is
uglier—Russian farmers are producing German
food. ”'

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The damage that is done by grasshoppers during
long, hot seasons cannot be estimated. “but the
farmer who has seen his yield cut from ten to
twenty per cent by their depredations knows that
it must be very large in the aggregate. When the
grasshoppers get' busy many farmers fold their
hands and let the enemy run rampant over the
fields. They have no fai‘h in the preventive
methods'which are used so successfully by others.

A hot summer is predicted. Within another
three or four weeks Mr. Grasshopper will make
'his appearance, and what a feast he will have
from the juicy stalks and shoots of growing hay
and grain. No business farmer will let a single
stalk fall ‘victim to "the greedy grasshopper this
year as long as it is within his power to prevent.
The following methods for .destroying grasshop-
pers are time-tried and proven successful. Clip
them and try them when grasshoppers show up.

THE CRIDDLE MIXTURE

The mixture known as the poisoned bran bait
has proved to be a simple, reliable, and cheap
method of destroying grasshoppers, and has been
applied with signal success throughout many por-
tions of the United States. It is made up as fol-
lows: Wheat bran, 25 pounds, paris green or white
arsenic, 1pound; lemons or oranges, 6 finely chop-
ped fruits; low grade molasses, such as refuse
from sugar factory, or cattle molasses, known
as “black-strap,” 2 quarts; water, 2 to 4 gallons.
The bran and poison are thoroughly mixed while
dry, the fruits are then finely chopped and added,
and lastly the molasses and water are poured over
the bait and the whole thoroughly kneaded. A
coarse-flaked bran is most desirable, although
where this cannot be obtained easily ordinary
middlings or alfalfa meal may be substituted; a
low grade, strong-smelling sirup or molasses, how-
ever. is essential to the entire success of the un-
dertaking. Crushed ripe tomatoes, watermelons, or
limes may be substituted for the' lemons or or-
anges, if necessary.

THE POISONED BRAN BAIT -

Another effective bait of similar character is
the modified Criddle mixture. This is prepared as
follows: Fresh horse droppings, one-half barrel;

1 paris green, 1 pound; finely chopped oranges or

lemons, 6 to 8 fruits; water sufficient to make a
moist but not sloppy mash. This bait must be
mixed thoroughly before being distributed, and
as most people object to handling this mixture
with the bare hands, a pair of cheap rubber gloves
or a small wooden paddle may be used for the pur-
pose. Both the poisoned bran bait and the modi-
fied Criddle mixture are distributed over the in-
fested fields by sowing broadcast, either on foot
or from a light wagon or buggy.

In“ applying the poisoned bait in orchards, care
must be taken to avoid distributing it close to
the trees, because severe injury to fruit trees oc-
casionally results from heavy applications of ar-
senicals.

The time of day chosen for distributing the
poisoned baits has an importanbbearing upon the
results secured. In Michigan the bait is best ap-
plied in the early morning. Do not be discour-
aged if the grasshoppers do not drop dead imme-
diately upon eating the poison, as it usually takes
24 hours or more for the full effect of the baits
to become apparent.

A POTATO AND ALFALFA RO-
TATION FOR MICHIGAN

One of the features (f good management on
the farm consists in growing those crOps which
will follow each other with the least expense for
preparation of the soil. Further, certain cr0ps
do especially well when followed by others. A
good example of this is the case of potatoes and
alfalfa. The preparation and care of the soil dur-
ing the growing season of the potatoes seems to
put in the ideal condition for the seeding of alfalfa
or clover. This is due to the fact that the soil is
‘generally well supplied with plant food and or-
ganic matter for the potatoes, and the frequent
tillage through the summer tends to liberate plant
food and conserve moisture, which are so neces-
sary in getting a good stand of alfalfa.

Another reason for combining these two crops
in the rotation is that the acreage of pot?’

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alfalfa on a single farm is likely to be quite small,

since considerable labor and expense is necessary
in handling them. Furthermore, alfalfa does not
maintain a stand for many years in the eastern
section of the country. On the lighter types of

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'then back to alfalfa again.

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‘parly potatoes do well on such soil. A
re , io‘n"th_en which. will include bothalfalfa and
early potatoes is one where considerable labor is
saved in fitting the soil, and the'residue plant
food from the potato crop can- be used to the best
advantage for the alfalfa. For example, a small

' rotation, consisting of two years alfalfa and one

year potatoes, might be followed on many farms.
Since the early potatoes are harvested in August,
there is yet time for preparing the land for al-
falfa. If the potatoes have been kept free from
weeds the land. may be disced and harrowed after
digging, which will be all the preparation neces-
sary. ‘

It is a question of whether ‘it would be better
to plant'corn one year following alfalfa and then
follow the corn wth potatoes. Some hold the
idea that the potatoes will not make as good use
of the alfalfa sod as will corn. If corn is includ-
ed in the rotation, then we would have alfalfa
two years, corn one year and potatoes one year,
This style of rota-
tion would appeal to the average farmer since
the acreage of. the alfalfa and potatoes is gen-
erally small and the fields may be located near
the farm buildings so that the minimum lhaul is
required for such bulky crops as potatoes and
alfalfa hay. The chief features of such a plan
are the saving of labor in preparing the land for
alfalfa, a better use of residue fertilizer follow-
ing potatoes, which in turn lessens the cost of
plant food for the alfalfa, and finally the certainty
of getting a stand on land prepared in this way.

GET AFTER THE CHOLERA IN-
FECTION CARRIERS AT ONCE

Pigeons, sparrows, crows and buzzards are active
hog cholera infection carriers, according .to the
University of Missouri College of Agriculture.

Crows are especially dangerous because of their‘

habit of feeding upon the carcasses of dead hogs.
By smearing their bodies with the blood or tissue
juices, they carry this infectous material to heal-
thy hogs and set up a new outbreak of cholera. The
only effective methods by which crOWs and buz-
zards can be kept away from the premises is by
avoiding those things which attract them to the
place.‘ Carcasses or other food material should
not be left exposed to them.

The dog is likewise an infecction carrier.
Since by nature he is a meat eating animal, he
feeds upon the carcasses of dead hogs and when
his immediate appetite is satisfied he almost in-
variably gathers up pieces off the diseased meat
and carries them to his home. It is of the utmost
importance therefore if cholera is in the immedi-
ate neighborhood to confine the dog, and under-
take to prevent strange dogs from trespassing on
the farm.

Human beings are carriers of infection. The
person who understands the possibility of infection
on his shoes and clothing wil‘ refrain from vis—
iting the hog lots of his neighbors where there
are or have been sick hogs. He will also see that
persons visiting his farm for any purpose what-
soever stay out of his hog sheds and pens when
there is any hog cholera in the community. In
exchanging labor with neighbors or in transferr-
ing farm implements, farmers sometimes up:-
wittingly carry infections home to their hogs.

“FARM KNOWLEDGE” THAT

EVERY FARMER SHOULD HAVE

One of the most complete treatises on farming
subjects that has ever come to our attention, is
“Farm Knowledge,” comprising four volumes and
published by Doubleday, Page & Company, for
Sears, Roebuck & Co. The volumes cover every
phase of the farming business in a thorough and
intelligent manner. The articles are prepared by
well-known agricultural authorities and are pro—
fusely illustrated with color plates, engravings
and drawings. The following subjects are dis-
cussed: “Farm animals, their Care and Diseases,”
“Soils and Crops;” “Farm Implements, Vehicles
and Buildings:;” "Business Management and
Farm Home.”

THE USE OF LIME WILL INCREASE
THE YIELD OF AIMOST ANY CROP

Corn has (been increased in yield 91A, bushels
per acre, oats 6 bushels, wheat 2 4—5 bushels and
hay 3,010 pounds by an application of two tons of
ground limestone once in five years on the farm
of the Oh“ uxperiment Station at Wooster. A
i' .otation of corn, oats, wheat, clover and
tummy is followed on this land. The limestone
is spread on the land after the plowing for corn
in the spring.

WILL BRING BETTER PRICES'

It has been a common experience of many sheep;
men in marketing spring lambs that docked lambs,

have an advantage over undocked lambs. This
comes about first by the fact that they look better
They look more uniform and decking squares the
hind quarters and makes them appear larger and
fuller. The first impression that a buyer gets of
a load of lambs has very much to do with the
sale of them. On weak and unsteady markets
salesmen in the "sheep house" say that docked
lambs will have the preference in every case over
undocked lambs of equal quality. It is a common
opinion of salesmen that docked lambs are worth
about twenty-five cents more than undocked ones.
In regard to castrating, Howard Hackedorn of the
University of Missouri College of Agriculture says
that up until the first of July little difference is
made in the price of entire castrated lambs. How-
ever after the 1st of July, February and March
lambs which have not been castrated will be dis-
criminated against. In the first place, they usu-
ally will be in poorer condition than: wether lambs.
as rams do not fatten as readily as wethers; in
the second place, packers claim that the grain
and flavor are not quite so good with the rams
as with the wethers. Docking and castrating
may be done with very little danger. The Univer-
sity of Missouri College of Agriculture prefers to
dock and castrate lambs from a week to three
weeks old, at which time the shock of the opera-
tion is felt very little. Hot irons are used in
docking lambs because in this way all danger
from loss of blood is avoided since the hot/ ion
sears the blood vessels and thus closes them.

POISONS WILL CONTROL THE
DESTRUCTIVE CABBAGE WORMS

Spray the cabbage plants just as quickly as the
green colored wo’rms begin feeding upon the
plants. This will destroy the worst enemy of the
cabbage plant.

The danty white butterflies which are now fly-
ing about the gardens and hoverng over the cab-
bage plants are the parents of the green cabbage
worms. These butterflies will soon lay their eggs
upon the cabbage plants and these eggs will
hatch in about a week or ten days into tiny green
worms which begin to feed at once.

“Spray the cabbage.” says T. J. .Talbert of the
University of Missouri College of Agriculture, “as
soon as Injury is noticed with arsenate of lead
paste at the rate of two tablespoons to one gallon
of water. An effective dust spray may also be
prepared by using one tablespoon of the powdered
arsenate of leal to a pint of air slacked lime or
fine road dust Apply the poisoned powdered
mixture with some sort of Sifter, as a pepper can.
talcum powder can or tin can in which a few
holes have been made with a small nail.

IT IS A PAYING PROPOSITION
TO MAKE CAREFUL COW TESTS

Three years of results from cow testing are in—
cluded in Extension Circular 43 of the University
of Missouri College of Agriculture which recently
came from the press. There are four cow testing
associations in the state, the oldest of which is
the Jackson County Associaton, organized May 1,
1914 by E. A. lkenberry, county agent. Cow test-
ig associations have been organized in Pettis,
Johnson and Marion counties. The results re-
ported in Extension Circular 43 are from the
Jackson County association. '

The heaviest milk-producing cow in the Jackson
county association has a record for a year of
11,082 pounds of milk, containing 418.7 pounds
of. fat. Another cow in the association, which is
the heaviest producer, milk and butter consid-
ered, produced during one year 10,4752 pounds of
milk containing 567 pounds of butterfat. This is
approximately five times as much as the lowest
producer.

PASTURE CHEAP FEED FOR
PIGS WHEN GRAIN IS HIGH

Pasture is a cheap pig feed while grains are high
priced. A pig pasture will mean more than ever
this year. Alfalfa is one of the very best pasture
crops. It starts early and keeps on sending up
new tender shoots anr1 keeps green throughout
the summer. Sweet 91' wr is also very good. In
case neither of these is available then. some crop
as barley ”.in be sown. Rape is another good
plant for this purpose. Peas planted by May 1st
wll be ripe by August and make a good hog feed,
while corn can be planted for hogging down. This.-

will cut down on both the labor and feed cost.—

Emtension Din, N. D. Agricultural College.

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ONE AND ONE-HALF POUNDS or
FLOUR PER PERSON PER WEEK

I would like to get some information as to grind-
ing of wheat into flour. The millers here tell’ me
that one and a half pounds of flour to each
one of the family is all we can get ground at one
time or every 30 days. As I have a large farm
and hired help is required it is impossible for me
to operate on this. The wheat is my oWn grown
and as the freight rate is so high I can’t afford
to send such ,a small amount at a. tme. We are
workng and trying to produce all we can but
we can’t get men to work on this small ration of
our—J. J. M., Beulah. Mich.

Your reply was referred to the federal food

 

administrator for this state, who, apparently mis-

understanding the situation, replied as follows:
“The dealer was Complying with the food regu-
lations in refusing to sell your subscriber a larger
amount of. flour than one and onehalf pounds
per week for each member of his family. If the
party referred to has to feed the men who are
u oxking on his farm he could purchase flour for
them at the same ratio.”

We have written again to the food administrator
reminding him that our subscriber is a farmer
who, according to the ruling can secure only a
thirty day supply of flour for his family needs and
that therefore, the miller should grind approxi-
mately four times one and one-half pounds, or six
pounds per member of the family for the thirty
day period.

ST. CLAIR COUNTY RESIDENTS
WISH TO CHANGE NAME OF TWP.

A number of residents of Berlin township. St.
Clair county, wish to start a movement to have
the name changed to something more American.
Kindly inform us how we must proceed in order
to bring about this change. We have been inform-
ed that a special legislative enactment will be
necessary. some of us think that the board of sup-
ervisors has power to make the change—Mrs. (7.
11“.. Capac.

It is well settled that the Iname of a municipal
corporation cannot be changed without legislative
sanction.

Formerly when it was permissable for the leg-
islature to enact purely local legislation, the pro-
ceedure was comparatively easy but since the
adoption of our present constitution no general
act has been passed under which such action may
be taken.

Section 30 of Artivle V of the present Consti-
tution provides that the legislature shall pass no
local or special act in any case where a general
act can be made applicable.

I am, therefore, inclined to the opinion that
the only proceedure that can be followed is to
have introduced at the next legislature a bill
specifically providing for changing the names of
townships—Leland W. Carr, Assistant Attorney
General.

WHEN AN ARTICLE BECOMES A
FIXTURE AND WHEN NOT

When a person buys a farm, does the line-
shafting in a building go with the place, or is it
personal property of the former owner, the same
as the separator, or engine, that is also fastened
down?—]u’. P., Coopersvillc.

It is not so much the manner of fastening to
the freehold as it is the intent that determines
Whether an article becomes a. fixture or not. if
a special building is built for the purposes for
which the engine and machinery or shafting is
to be used, then it would evidently be the intent
that it should become a permanent fixture, but if
it is only placed for temporary use, then it would
not be a permanent fixture and become attached
to the real estate. If it was intended by the for-
mer owner to make of it a permanent attachment
to the building, then it would be real estate and
would be conveyed by the deed. "

 

 

IF YOU USE THE OTHER FELLOW’S
' PASTURE YOU WILL HAVE TO PAY

 

Can I pasture commons or land that is not
fepced around my place without being liable for
a pasture bill if I hire the stock and keep them
f1om doing any harm to anyone’s crops?—-L. 11.,
Fibre.

Unless partition fences have been assigned and
determined, no obligations to build exist, and

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adjacent owner neglects to build his. then each

must take care of his 'own cattle and other ani-
mals, and should you wilfully go upon his prem-
is’es to pasture animals, you would be lable for
the amount of damage caused by Such trespass.

IF YOU WANT SUGAR FOR CANNING
YOU’LL HAVE TO APPLY IN WRITING

The Federal Food Administrator, Geo. A Pres-
cott, sends us a copy of a blank term which all

 

housewives must fill out when applying for sugar .

in larger quantities than allowed under the regu-
lar federal ruling. The maximum that can be
secured under the special ruling for canning and
preserving purposes, is 25 pounds. The wording
of the pledge is as follows: “I do hereby declare
to the United States Food Administration that I
desire to purchase from (blank) at (blank) an

amount of (blank) pounds of sugar (not exceed-*

ing 25 pounds) for immediate canning and pre-
serving purposes. I do hereby pledge myself to
use such sugar exclusively for said purposes."
This application is signed by both the purchaser
and the dealer, and is later filed with the food
administrator at Lansing.

PINTO BEANS. WILL NOT GROW
WELL IN MICHIGAN CLIMATE

 

I am a reader of your paper and like it very
much, and have also been reading of the pinto
bean deal, and can you tell me if they will grow
to any advantage on Michigan middling light soil
and do better than the Pea bean. If so, give me
the address of some firm.—F. K., North Branch.

The pinto is a Mexican bean. We have tested
samples of them again and again but never had
any of them ripen satisfactorily in Michigan. Most
generally they do not flower until the middle of
September or perhaps about the time the frost
comes. Pintos may be considered failures in Mich-
igan—Frank, A. Sprogue, Plant Breeder, Depart-
ment Farm Crops, M. A. C.

BARB WIRE CAN BE USED TO
CONSTRUCT BOUNDARY FENCE

 

Is barb wire lawful for a line fence, and can the
meridian line be moved from the old survey?"
M. E., Cheboygan.

Barb wire may be" used to construct a lawful
fence, but if damage occurs to an adjacent pro—
prietor from the use of barb wire, I believe it
would be a question for the jury whether a man
who built the fence would be liable for damages.

Old surveys and old monuments prevail over
modern surveys, and cannot be moved Without
consent of party.

COST OF DAIRY FEED NOT RE-
SPONSIBLE FOR HIGH MILK COST

George F. E. Storey, Worcester county, Mass,
agent, made the following remarks before the
Food Administration in Washington recently on
the milk situation: '

“Determining the exact cost of producing a
quart of milk is about as difficult a proposition as
a man could undertake, owing to the fact that
costs vary greatly on different farms. The one
point which I desire to lay before this commission
is that the price of grain is not the only factor
to be considered in a discussion of production
costs. I say this not to condone the high prices
of grain. but rather to prevent a boomerang which
is sure to occur if the consumer is led to believe
that the high price of grain is responsible for the
high price of milk. With government regulation
of wheat feeds he might easily be led to believe
that the price of milk should be greatly reduced.
This would not be true owing to the very small
part wheat feeds play in the cost of producing
milk. Figures recently compiled in the New Eng-
land states indicate that the cost of all grain
amounted to from 22 to 30 per cent of the total
cost of a quart of milk. Labor varied from 22 to
30 per cent of the cost, while all feed and labor
ranged from 76 to 85 per cent of the cost. I cite
these figures to show that if all grain were reduced
$10 per ton the cost of producing would not be
lowered a half cent a quart.

“The commission has power, however, only to
fix the price of wheat feeds and this would show a
still smaller saving. so that even were the wheat
feeds as ordinarily fed given to the milk producer
it would not seriously affect his production costs.
I feel that this information should come before
the commission at this time in order to prevent a
feeling on the part of the public that the milk pro-
ducer should greatly reduce ‘his price with the ad'-
vent Of government regulation: of mill feeds."

 

 

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Michigan milk products [up naturally utter

'ested in what producers in Other sections are

receiving for their him: At the national dairy
convention recently held in Chicago it developed
that there is a great variation of prices in dif-
ferent sections of the country. Generally speak-
ing, farmers in unorganized sections Were Inor.

getting as much as those who belonged to associf

ations. Following are the prevailing prices in
sections outside of Michigan:

MINNEAPOLIS—91‘. PAUL

Prices paid in the Minneapolis and St. Paul
district for April were $22. 65 per hundred pounds
for milk testing 3.5 per cent. The retail price in
the cities is 100 per qt. and 6c per pint. The con-
tract of the producers with the distributors or-
iginally stood at $3.10 per cwt., testing 3.5 per
cent Ibutterfat This price was to remain in effect
until May 15th. However, at a meeting of the
producers this was voluntarily revised to the
above» named price for April and $2.50 for May
and $2.35 for June. The association comprises 12
counties surrounding Minneapolis and St. Paul.
but does not include any Wisconsin territory. The
chief condensary located in the association paid
$2.40Ifor milk during April.

COLORADO

The Colorado Milk Producers’ association com-
prises the state of Colorado and supplies chiefly
the city of Denver, receiving for April 75¢ per lb.
for butterfat, which is the basis upon which all
milk is bought. The retail price is 120 per qt,
and 7c per pint.

NORTH AMHERST, MASS.

Producers belonging to the North Amherts assoi
ciation are receiving 7 to Sc per quart for the milk
from the distributors. The milk retails. for 14 to
16c per qt. in cities. A milk commission is regu-
lating the prices here; as in other parts of New
England. Producers are not impatient with dis-
tributors’ claims as to the costs of preparing the
milk for market, but the producers argue that the
investment of the distributors is mainly made up
of producers’ money and that they do business
Therefore not all of the distributors
claims are justified. The North Amherst associ-
ation is part of the New England Milk Producers‘
Association.

VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND

Virginia and Maryland Milk ,Producers’ asso-
ciation is receiving 35c per gallon for milk. It is
supplying the city of Washington, where the
milk is retailed at from 10 to 20c per quart. ac-
cording to- the grade, with the pints in proportion.
The association, numbering about 1,000 members,
is affiliated with the National Milk Producers’ Fed-
oration.

CHICAGO PIICES SETTLED

After more than 20 hours of conference between
the producers, distributors and condensers of milk
in the Chicago district and W. E. Lamb attorney
for the milk division of the food administration.
an entirely new list of prices has been agreed up-
on. It will be Operative thru June. The March
price per hundred has been set back to $2.90, a
reduction of 20c.

Inasmuch as the distributors pay their milk
bills on the 15th of the month following delivery
and the latest price dates back to March let, the
producers are sacrificing this 200 out on more
than 2,000,000 pounds of milk consumed in March
The price for April was set at $2.65, an increase
Of about 10c over what the commission’s findings
and feed prices of the agricultural reports would
have fixed automatically.

In May the price will drop to $2.05, and for
June, when the flow of milk is at its height, the
price will reach its lowest mark. $1.80.

These prices will apply to all 31/_. per cent milk.
with a further allowance of 3c per one-tenth of l
per cent of butterfat above 31/; and a similar per-
centage of‘ reduction below.

OAKLAND, CALIF.

The Milk Producers’ association of Central Cal—
ifornia received 25c per gallon for 3.6 milk dur—
ing April.

DAIRYMAN GETS $800 A MONTH
INCOME FROM TWENTY COWS

W. S. Woodcock, Edwards, N. Y., is proving that
Holsteins pay, notwithstanding the high cost of
feed. He writes that for the past five months
he has been milking twenty pure—bred Holstein
heifers and has turned the milk over to a retailer
on a contract at $4 per cwt., with the result that
these twenty heifers have actually brought in an
average of $800 in cash every month—on 150-
lbs of mill feed per day. “SO you see,” adds Mr.
Woodcock, “it pays to milk good cows if we can
get the price for milk ” The five months were
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Additional reports coming in at
this time indicate that the general
condition of. wheat was never better
at this season. Abundant rains and
tavorable weather are reported from
all the great wheat producing sections
and indications now point to a yield
of over 1,000,000,000 bushels in the
United States and Canada. Of course
them is still plenty of time for adverse
conditions to develop, but the fact re-
mains that the crop has made a flying
start and that 'means that the battle
is half won. This Condition is very
encouraging in view of the great need
this year for an' exceptionally large
wheat crop. .

The Michigan wheat crop is in a
had way and many hundreds of acres
have been abandoned, but as Michigan
is not one of the big wheat-producing
states the effect on the general situ—
ation is not great.

Investigations are in progress in
each county looking toward the mov-
ing of all wheat supplies beimg hoard-
ed. From day to day come reports of
stocks being commandered, but, we are
glad to note that these cases are the
exception, growers in the great major-
its of cases having compiled with the
request of the food administrator to
market the residue of wheat at this
time.

 

 

 

 

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Oats have held a somewhat strong-
er position this, week. The market
apparently reached a point where sel-
lers withdrew temporarily, causing
firmer conditions. Export demand
continues light although export clear-
ances have increased during the week.
Canadian oats are moving freelly. Do-
mestic demand, outside of Government
orders, is very quiet, consumers ap-
parently having stocked up during the
past few weeks, since the market be-
came easier.

If possible. crop conditions are more

promising than ever. Warm weather,
following copious rains, has given the
growing plant just the proper stimu-
lus and reports from all sections are
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The corn market has worked off
just a little but considering every-
thing has held its own fairly well dur-
ing the past week. One of the prom—
inent features is the price being paid

for the lower grades. The Government
having prohibited the use by distil-

' animal

leries of any grain fit for human or
consumption, distillers are
heavy buyers of the lower grades and
as the supply of this grade of corn be-
comes less, and the demand increases,
we would not be surprised to see the
price work up near that of the mill-
ing grain.

The demand for both white and yel-
low corn flour continues and other in-
dustries such as starch mills and glu-
cose manufactories. With the rush of
spring selling about over we look for
a fairly steady market with perhaps
a slight decline.

It now appears certain that the corn
acreage will be considerably less this
year than last. Several factors have
contributed to this, chiefly among them
being the trouble experienced with
the 1917 crap.

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Rye continues to work lower and
there is very little trading going on
at any point. No demand from the
milling interests although offerings
find a fairlyready market at prevail—
ing prices. Detroit is now quoting
No. 2 at $2.25. Unless the demand in-
creases from some unexpected sour-(ace
the market will probably reach the
even money before many days.

Barley

Milwaukee—Barley prices have de—
clined 12 to 15 cents during the past
week, due to the slackening of demand
from all classes of buyers. Receipts
showed a slight increase .\ over the
previous week, but still were very
small. The demand even for choicest
grains slowed up perceptibly. There
is considerable accumulation of infer-
ior. Current quotations are: Choice

big-berried Wisconsin and eastern Io—
wa, testing 48 to 50 lbs, per bushel,
$1.72 to $1.75; 45 to 47 lbs., $1.68 to
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Growers continue to .market the
last of their crop and many elevators
find they have stocks of doubtful
beans on their hands and they have
been offering rather freely during the
past week. The market has worked
lower under theseconditions but with
any kind of a demand we would see
stronger conditions. The pinto bean
advertising of the Food Administra-
tion has had an effect which will have
a bearing on the market for some
time to come. even tho the pintos are
witlheld. from the trade for the time
being.

Reports from different, states indi-
cate tlat there will be a considerable
acreage of beans planted in sections
which ordinarily do not raise beans
to any extent. Nebraska farmers are

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Last bulletin gave forecasts of dis-
turbances to cross continent May 17 to
21, and 23 to 27, warm waves 16 to
20 and 22 to 26. cool waves 19 to 23
and 25 to 29. These storms will bring
hlgh temperatures on meridian 90
near May 19. followed by fluctuations,
but more falling than rising temper—
atures ad northern frosts near May
28. All weather event dates not oth-
erwise specified, are for meridian 90
and the reader must estimate the east—
ward drift which requires four or five
days to cross the continent, about 600
miles a day. Storm forces will in-
crease from near May 19 to May 28
and then decrease. Most rain will con-
tinue about the great lakes and east-
ward to the Atlantic, but for south-

 

OETBOII‘ SFECIAL—Jluy market just a trifle stronger under a some—
Potatoes coming in greatly increased quantities but ad—
vise continuing shipments as new potatoes will soon be plentiful. Poultry in
very light- supply and .demand 800d- Advise shipping at this time as supplies
will undoubtedly be more plentiful later.

,NEW YORK CITY “IRE—Hay market inclined to work lower.
increasing and the bulk of arrivals are of the poorer grades.
points report fair demand but generally sales are slow.

CHICAGO “WEE—Onion market now in somewhat better shape and ap-
pears to be a good time for cleaning up on stock now held by growers.
market inactive but stocks held firmly.

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preparing to raise a large acreage of
beans and we note that the State Sup-
erintendent of Public Instruction of
Iowa has started a campaign to in-
crease the edible bean acreage of that
state owing to the “extreme necessity
of raising more food." A. O. Liebers,
head of the Bean Division of Color-
ado Food Administration estimates
that the pinto beam acreage in that
state this year will be very much lar-
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We have now reached the dull seas—
on in cloverseed and trading will be
light for some time. The growing
conditions of the new crop are very
satisfactory at this time with the ex-
ception of some few reports of winter
killing. The world’s spply at this
time is almost exhausted and a good
crop this year is of great importance.
Detroit quotations: Prime red clover.

$18.50; October, $14.50; alsike, $15.25;
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Market: I Timothy Timothy Timothy
Ddroil 20 .0 20 50 19 00 19 50 18 00 18 50
Chicago 24 00 26 00 20 00 22 00,15 00 18 00

Cincinnati 23 00 25 00 20 00 23 00‘15 00 18 00
Pittabargh 26 00 26 50522 00 23 00‘1700 19 00
New York ;29 00 32 00125 00 28 00,20 00 23 00
Richmond 28 00 23 00 24 0’1 25 09‘18 ”0 20 00

 

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Cininnah 22 50 23 00119 00 2100115 01 18 oo
Pillsburgn 20 50 21 50515 50 1 00512 50 14 50
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The Detroit hay market has shown
an additional decline and is far from
strong at this time. Receipts are very
plentiful and consignments enroute
are sufficient to keep up the supply
for some time. The demand there
has not been any 100 good during the
past week and this in connection with
the liberal supplies. has pushed the
price down. Chicago is also having a
light demand right at this time and
supplies are amply sufficient to take

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valleys 3. castcrn sections 4, real-hing
vicinity of Newfoundland near June
:3. Storm wave will follow about one
day behind warm wave and cool wch
about one day behind storm wave.
The change in weather conduions,
suggested for last two weeks of May
will continue lhru first weck of June.
Less rain is expected in west (.lulf.
middle and lower Mississippi valleys
and an increase of rain in south At-
lantic states for May 19 to June 10.
During the week centcring on June 10
dangerous storms will occur and crop—
weather on this continent Will make
a radical and important change. Next
bulletin will give details of that great
change, those dangerous storms and
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care of the same. The lower grades
are in heavy supply and find a slow
market. The better grades do better
but are not selling as high as they
were a week ago.

While the good quality hay is find
ing a fairly satisfactory market in
Cincinnati, there is a heavy oversup-
ply of the poor stuff and the market
is still far from what might be de-
sired. It will perhaps remain in its
present state until the supply of poor.
grassy stuff is exhausted.

The Pittsburgh market is unchang—
ed. Good timothy hay finds a ready
sale but other grades are in poor de-
mand. There is practically no sale
there at this time for clover or heavy
clover mixed. Judging by the quan-
tity of hay arriving on the market and
the amount in transit we expect to
see lower prices in the near future. °

The Richmond market is well sup-
plied and the demand is mostly for
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Chicago I 1.20 l 1.00
Cincinnati ‘ 1.61 ' 1.40

New York 3 1.45 1.25
Pittsburgh 1 3*) 1.00
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Two fat-tors have tended to strength—
en the potato market during the past
week or so, and the price, so far as
Detroit is concerned. has gone just a
trifle higher. Growers and shippers,
to a certain extent, discontinued con-
signments when the market reached
a certain point. Then again. growrrs
have been very busy on their farms of
late and have not paid particular at»
tenllon 10 hauling potatoes. Every
effort is being made to increase the
consumption of spuds and a campaign
was started in Detroit with the idea of
greatly increasing sales. \Vhile the
men behind this movement are sin-
cere in their labor. we do not. think
their efforts will meet with any great
measure of success. The public will
consume just about so many potatoes
and ullitflSS additional uses are found
for the tubers. their sale will not in—
crease, especially 111 this time of the
year when the consuming public is
turning more to fresh fruts and veg-
etables. The one l'culurp of this cam-
paign which may haw :1 bearing 0n
the case is the ugrccmcnl amongr the
dealers not to push the sale of new
potatoes for the time being This may
prevent the disaster which would have
been almost certain to follow free re-
(-cipts of the new offerings. But as this
affects the Detroit market only the
ultimate result is doubtful.

We advise disposing of potatoes
without further delay. While the prire
under aritficial stimulus hay work
higher. there is every possibility of its
going lower and leaving old stock on
the hands of the grower.

 

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lhe feed situation remains practi-

cally unchanged, the demand being
somewhat lighter. Supplies moderate.

Flour—per 196 lbs, in eighth paper
sacks. straight winter. $11.25; spring
straight, $11.40 to $11.70; rye flour,
$13.40 in jobbing lots.

Feed, in 100-lb. sacks. jobbing lots,
bran,,$36; standard middlings. $38;
fine middlings, $45. cracked corn, $65;
coarse cornmeal, $65; chop. $53 per
ton.

. Hides and Furs

No. 1 cured, 140; No. 1 green, 13c;
No. 1 cured bulls, 12c; No. 1 green
bulls, 10c; No. 1 cured veal kip, 22c;
No. 1 green veal kip, 20c; No. 1 cured
murrain, 141:; No. 1 green murrain,
13c; No. 1 cured calf, 35c; No. 1 green
calf, 35c; No. 1 horsehides, $6; No. 2
horsehides, $5; No. 2 hides leand No.
2 kip and calf 11/20 lower than the
above; sheepskins, as to amount of
wool, $1 to $3.50 each.

  

 

 

     


 

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SATURDAY, MAY 18TH, 1918

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Mr. Farmer a Rank Outsider

HEN UNCLE SAM staged his big war show

a year ago nearly everybody climbed aboard

the band wagon to have a hand in leading
the parade. Everybody ’cept Mr. Farmer. He got
left. The day the circus struck his town he was
out in the field planting crops. Ever since then
he’s trailed along in the dust at the tail end of
the parade; watered the elephants; played the
part of the villian in the side-show; and in fact,
acted as a sort of chore-boy and general utility
man.
1 The first blare of the war—trumpet brought the
capitalists and manufacturers a-scurrying to
Washington. T'hey flocked about the President and
his aides, offering their services to the govern-
ment free of charge. Their counsel was heeded.
War contracts were let on a cost plus profit basis.

Organized labor sent its big chief, Samuel
Gompers, to Washington to look after labor’s in—
terests during the war, and Mr. Gompers, while
serving the government most faithfully in the
work that is given him to do is likewise serving
his constituents most faithfully as well. When
organized labor is displeased with government
action, it vents its displeasure thru Mr. Gompers;
when organized labor wants a hearing, it peti-
tions thru Mr. Gompers, and invariably organized
labor is given a respectful audience.

Capitalism and labor have both made their sac-
rifices but they cannot compare with those ex-
pected and demanded of the farming business.
Why? Because—remember———the capitalist and the
laborer have been riding in the band wagon while
the former trudged along at the foot of the parade.
The former have sat in counsel with the Big
Boss of the show. They have deliberated and ne—
gotiated; after months of compromise perhaps,
they have agreed upon a program that would pro—
tect their interests and at the same time satisfy
the government.

Where was the farmer when the wheat price
was fixed? Where was the farmer when the wheat
and potato grading rules were established? Where
was the farmer when the pinto bean deal was
pulled off? Where was the farmer when the
Beer bill to lend money for the purchase of seeds
was defeated in the house? Where was the farm-
er when the milling rules were established?
Where was the farmer when the Food Adminis-
trator sent forth broadcast an order to seize his
wheat? Where was the farmer when the Liberty
loan committees were organized?

Home!—growing food. “F‘bod will win the war.”

Mr. Farmer makes a mighty good chore-boy.
He’s got lots of brawn and willingness, and doesn’t
kick on a little over-time, but, honest, Uncle Sam,
he gets tired of marching in the tail end (if the
procession all the time. He’s just like all other
folks—he likes to get up near the head of the
parade and hear the band play and take a hand
in the doin’s. Take him in, Uncle Sam; give him
a fiddle to play; make him a partner in this war
business. He’s got brain as well as brawn; 10*
him use it in helping the government direct '1
more intelligent hand over his kin; mebbe some
day you’ll regret it if you don’t.

Site-Value Tax

HE FARMER is a chronic tax kicker. He
has a right to be. Despite the lumbleness
of his estate, he carries a big tax load. His
property, both real and personal, is assessed at
more nearly its actual cash value than the prop-

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Without being told 20,

der the present system, to build a silo or “a new;
barn, or make other improvements upon the farm,

is to invite a reassessment and a. higher tax.

Not all states use the same system of tax rais-
ing as employed in Michigan. Some of them as-

sess taxes on what is known as a site-value basiS;-""

In other words they collect taxes on land at full
assessed value, but give certain liberal exemptions
on personal property and improvements. An in-
centiVe is thus offered 1301‘ those of enterprise to
improve their lands, and the land speculator who
under the Michigan system profits by the improve-
ment of adjoining lands without contributing one
cent to the improvement, is made to pay his share
of the bill.

Some of our readers have shown a considerable

interest in the site-value tax proposition, and Mr.
Judson Grenell, secretary of the Michigan Site-
Value Tax League, sponsors of the proposition in
this state, has agreed to tell our readers all about
the subject in next week’s issue. So if you are
interested in a more equitable distribution of the
tax burden, be sure to read Mr. Grenell’s article.

“Jones Pays the Freight”

UPPOSE JONES got peeved because the rail-
road that runs by his house didn’t give him
good service, and he built a. little railroad all

his own to carry his crops to market and give
his family an occasional outing. Suppose, too, in
order to make the venture of a strictly business
nature, Jones should charge himself a certain
rate for patronizing his own line, to cover the
cost of operating. Expenses go up, and instead
of reaching in his left pocket to pay the deficit,
Jones goes down into his right pocket and pays
himself a higher rate, and all is lovely. In either
case, you’ll agree, Jones pays the freight.

A few months ago Jones took over all the rail--
roads in the United States and all the Jones’ and
their aunts and uncles and cousins are riding on
Jones’ lines and sending their freight on Jones’
trains. Jones agreed to pay the railroad com-
panies an apprOximate profit of ten percent over
the cost of operating. Abnormal conditions have
run the cost of railroading up very rapidly since
Jones took the throttle, and the revenue now de-
rived under fares and tariffs formerly sufficient
to pay the roads a profit, are found inadequate.
What is Jones to do? He must either charge him-
self and his aunts and uncles and cousins a high-
er rate for patronizing his lines, or else he must
run himself into the hole, and collect later from
his relatives. Practically it amounts to the same
thing.

Therefore, so far as the public is concerned, Mr.
McAdoo may go right ahead with the contemplated
increases. The American people are with him;
they are not saying much but the most of them-
realize that he took control of the roads at a most
difficult time to make a showing. Increased cost
of raw materials is felt by nearly everyone, and
the people are intelligent enough to know that
railroads cannot thrive on the income of a few
years ago. They’ll stand for a. higher rate with
better grace than they will for a deficit of several
hundred million when the government relinquish-
es control.

Let’s be entirely fair with Mr. McAdoo. We
think he’s going to prove that the American people
can own and ‘operate their public utilities as sat-
isfactorily as can private corporatid’ns. Let us give
him the same rein as we would have to give the
railroad companies if they were still in the saddle.

A Home Without a Boy

HERE ARE two boys in Michigan without

a home. Mebbe there are more boys with-

out homes, but all we know about are these
two. ‘ One of these boys is seventeen years old,
and the other is fourteen, kinda small for his age,
These boys want a home and as I read the letter
of the older boy, I can see his wistful eyes shin-
ing right out between the words, and somehow I
feel that here are two boys who could appreciate
and love a real home, presided over by a motherly
woman and a kind husband.

So we’ve been trying to find homes for them,
and what a surprise we have had. For these two
boys without a home, there are exactly seventy—
eight homes in Michigan without a boy. And
each one of. these seventy-eight homes has opened
wide its door for either or both (if these homeless
boys.

Some of these homes have had a boy, but he's
gone now, and he won’t come back and father and
mother hope to fill up the aching void by taking

the average farmer in- '
,stinctively feels that the present tax system is:
wrong, because it puts a penaity 0n progress. Un- '

1' “their wives offering their homes to these boys have

‘ stimulants.

‘where the rabbits p153? an '
asehoolhouae. just over the hill and .
nine; a. lonely little girl that Win «this ',

‘ a horse, an) automobile, a gun, an’ ever’thing‘flo de‘”
. light the heart of a boy.

And of course, there's ,-
work, but where’s the boy that can’t work when
there are such rewards on these. ' .

The letters We have received from farmers and '

been a revelation to us, and we have come to know
to a certainty what big-hearted generous people
the folks who live in Michigan farm homes really
are.

National Prohibition Up to the President
HE CHURCHES are making a strong effort
to induce President Wilson to abOlish- alco-
hol t-hruout the nation during the period of

the war. The President’s argument against such

a move has been that a nation 'must “sober off”

gradually and that it would be dangerous to ar-

bitrarily and suddenly cut off. the sale of alcoholic
Yet, this is precisely what the people
themselves are doing by their votes in many states.
If Michigan can vote itself dry without any harm-
ful social or physical eflects, why should fears
be held out that New York, for instance,_ would-
respond any differently to prohibition. The war
has added many good reasons to those already ex-
isting for prohibition, and if the President still
refuses to carry out what must now appear to
be the will of the majority and put a stop to the-
waste of foodstuffs, fuel, and labor which are be-
ing so carefully conserved by every patriotic cit—
izen, we shall be obliged to say that the Presi-
dent lacks the courage to perform a most mani-
fest duty.

State Food Administrator Prescott is urging
the people of the cities to eat Michigan potatoes
in preference to the new Florida potatoes now
coming on the market in quantities. In fact,
Mr. Prescott declares that it will be considered
unpatriotic for any Michigan citizen to eat a
single new potato before July lst. Many of the
city folks will abide by the suggestion, but there
are others, who are so thoroly convinced that the
farmer is a profiteer and that it is his own fault
if he has any potatoes on. his hands this spring,
that they will eat new potatoes just for spite.
What a great help it would have been in market—
ing the balance of the Michigan crop if the ef-
forts now so enthusiastically put forth had been
inaugurated three months ago.

Efforts of an M. B. F. representative to secure
an audience with William Randolph Hearst, the
newspaper magnate, who is nursing a sprained
ankle at one of Mount Clemens’ famous health
hostelries, have so far proved unavailing. The
gentleman appears to have as many private secre-
taries as Henry Ford, and a body- guard sufficient
for the Kaiser. We understand that he has been
so busy, moreover, dictating replies to the recent
attacks made upon him by Theodore Roosevelt
that he has had no time for curiosity seekers.
However, if we have to ascend the fire escape
and talk with Mr. Hearst thru a crack in his
window, we expect to tell our readers what this
celebrated newspaperman and authority knows
and thinks about the farmers of America.

The government is tackling many big problems
these days and proving itself equal to the task of
solving them. There’s one problem, however,
that it steers clear of, and that’s the problem of
an economical and equitable distribution of farm
products—in our :judgment the biggest economic
problem of the nation today.

Thevstatements coming from overseas that the
French and English are highly pleased with Amer-
ica’s early participation in the conflict do not ex-

actly jibe with the criticisms of Mr. Roosevelt
and others. According to what our Allies say,
the United States need not be ashamed of her
first year of war preparations.

It’s awful dead in Detroit, No accidents. no
drunks, no killings, no arrests, no—nothing!
Cobwebs are forming over the cell doors and they,
squeak from the rust. Detroit, y’ know is “suf-
fering” the first month’s pangs of prohibition

The good governor of Michigan has long since
declared himself in favor of a state rural credits
law. We may any time now expect him to an-
nounce his program for putting it into effect.

Patriotism,——-what crimes are committed in thy '
name! ’ ,. .

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A. Comparison Between the North and South

I. have been interested in what has been said
in the last issue of M. B'. F in rb’gardto the pinto
bean deal. There are some other things which
should interest you, but which apparently ‘goun-
questioned. I have just been reading an article
in an Atlanta, Georgia, paper in regard to fixing
prices on cotton, in what is known as the Emer-
son bill, proposing that the powers fix the price
of raw cotton at 20c per lb. As Mr. Emerson is
on Ohio republican congressman, of course the
billwlll not receive the UK. of the President with-
out which lt stand-s no chance to pass. Also
Representative Moore of Pennsylvania Offered a
cotton price-fixing bill in the house which did not
survive for more than ten minutes. These bills.
although without any chance of becoming law,
seem to be causing quite- a flurry in, the south.
The paper goes on to say that southern members
of congress will oppose such legislation as a unit
un'leSS the President himself shall show the ne-
cessity of it. So far there has been no intimation
in administration circles that the President will
broaden the price-fixing program to include the
staple products of the south. Representative Em-
erson introduced his cotton price-fixing bill about
the time the senate adopted an amendment to the
agricultural bill for $2.50 wheat. Both bills were
referred to a committee and had been practically
forgotten when the secretary of the treasury re-
ceived a telegram from New Orleans protesting
against the Emerson bill. The telegram to Sec.
McAdoo read as follows: “The introduction of
the Emerson bill, fixing the price of cotton at 20c,
has had a most demoralizing effect which if not
promptly counteracted will materially decrease
the Liberty loan subscriptions in the south. A

summary reduction to 20c of stock now held in

the south will mean serious financial embarrass-
ment and will to a great extent affect the ability
of our citizens to take bonds. We do not believe

- it possible that such an ill-considered» and ruinous

bill can be adopted by congress, but the fear
caused by the pendency of such legislation may,
and probably will if not immediately Withdrawn,
accomplish disastrous results. The critical nature
of the situation warrants us in bringing the
matter to your attention, and urging you to issue
promptly some encouraging statement, and to take
such steps as may be best calculated to prevent
such a calamity to this section, and a serious set-
back to the Liberty loan in the south. Signed,
James F. Butler, chairman of the Liberty loan
executive committee; John F. Clark, president
New Orleans Cotton Exchange.”

In the same paper there is another article head-
ed, “Government Takes Over All Raw Wool—-
To Distribute Surplus." And then it went on to
say that the Government had decided to take over
all raw wool held in warehouses at the price pre-
vailing on July 30 last. If the holders do not
agree to sell at that price the wool will be com-
mandeered. Wool that is now being clipped in
the west also will be taken. The wool will be
used for uniforms largely and the balance will be
distributed for general use.

Michigan farmers have, many of them, been con-
sidering the raising of sheep for wool and mutton,
but you see, friends, the enterprise is being
blocked. With our long winters it would not be
advisable for us to raise- the products under the
present prospects.

Why should the southern crop, King Cotton, be
disturbed and the price lowered to 200 when it
has been bringing 35c, and from the foregoing arti-
cle we learn that it is still being held for higher
prices, and then the cottonseed which until recent
years was considered worthless, is now selling for
from $50 to $75 a ton. Oh no, don’t touch a south-
ern product orthey won’t buy Liberty bonds. They
only have from nine to twelve months a year in
which to grow crops.

Now this is fair warning by these southern
gentlemen that if the U. S. does not allow them
the full benefit of war profits they will not buy
Liberty bonds. These people who have from Feb-
ruary to December to prepare their ground, raise
and harvest their crops, and the U. S. is pouring
millions of dollars into their part of the country
through camps and shipbuilding, etc.

Now, let us contrast what is the attitude of the
people of the north and west. With their potato
crop sacrificed at half cost, their wheat taken at
about two-thirds of What it would bring if allowed
the same chance with cotton, and wool prices
fixed in the same way with long cold winters as
a handicap which require warm and eXpensive
barns and large quantities of feed for stock, be-
sides heavy expenditures for warm clothing and
fuel. What is being done by these people? They
are responding to the call of the government al-
most to a man. Many of them are borrowing
money at the banks to take Liberty bonds." You
know what that means, with high rates of interest
and bonuses for renewals. Why are they doing
this? Because they realize'that the government

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makejthe world worth living in; because they
pan that those braVe boys ‘fover there” who
have, sacrificed everything and are ready to give
their lives for the principles of democracy, shall
hie/backed up with every resource of this great
coun~try.—-—J. A. B.

Why the Wheat Report is Wrong
I would like to say a few words in regard to
the wheat situation that we are hearing so much
about, as to farmers hoarding. Now, we know of
no onegin this vicinity who is hoarding. Some

- farmers in this vicinity have the habit of holding

their wheat until they know what seed they want
and what the new crop will be. I have spent over
45 years working for farmers and for myself, and
I want to say a few words about wheat. For ex-
ample, say a man threshes a thousand bushels of
wheat from fifty acres—threshed from the field,
machine weight—we know by observation and
experience that this wheat will shrink from five
to seven per cent before Jauanry, and it will clean

' away another 0 per cent in marketing. Now he

wishes to seed 50‘ acres and wants good seed, so
he takes 120 or 150 bushels to town to have it
cleaned by the seed man of his town. The seed
man does a good job and (he has about one-third
of it to take home for feed; then he keeps out a
little for his own bread and markets about 700
bushels, then the food men of the state take the
threshers’reports and the millers' and elevator
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Reuben’s View

AAL, yes, it’s gctting kinda hard to buy
another bond.

I reckon that it’s just as tough to fight
across the pond.

Two of my boys are “over there” to wrestle
for our freedom;

You bet your life I’ll work and tug to raise
the stufi‘ to feed ’em.

I don’t deny I don’t just like these substi-
tutes they’re choosing,

If Kaiser Bill was running things, ground
hay we would be using.

So Bill could loll in finest silk and talk of
world dominion,

And laud his kulturc to the skieswleastwlsc
that's my opinion. 3.

Why wrangle o’er the price of spuds and
sundry other lingo?

Might better raise a bumper crop, and win
the War, by jingo!

Before we talk “mob law and strikes” we
better can the Kaiser.

Dogged if I’ll be a kulturcd Hun; perchance
he may be wiser;

I’d rather be with Washington asleep in the
silent tomb,

Than be afraid to do my part to seal the
Kaiser’s doom.

Why, just supposing Bill should win, would
he recompense these dufiers

Who talked of “peace at any price” along
with other blufi’ers?

Not much! He’d lock ’em in the jug with
all the other traitors, *

To live or die on sawdust cakes and peel-
lngs 017 from tutors.

Small matter would it be to Bill, once he
was sure of rulin’,

Whether we talked of peace or war he’d
set about to ruin

The things our fathers died to save and
taught us to cherish;

Better we all were in our grave than Lil)-
erty should perish.

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I farmers of a sertionn are hoarding or feeding their
wheat, when the trouble is that they know nothing
about the handli1.g of grain while in farmers’

“ hands, in fact many farmers don’t know and cuss

the thresher for their grain not holding out.

A large per cent of the wheat around here is be-
ing Worked up and put to oats or barley.

Last year a good many in this county got the
bean bug very bad, but this year we don’t hear
of anyone going into the extensive planting of
beams. There is no market for,potatoes.—C. B.,
Hillsdole, Michigan.

Right, Brother, Right!

Just a line‘or two to let you know I am on the
war path. I have been intensely interested in the
M. B. F. I have taken it now going on two years
and will continue to do so. If we farmers could
only get through our heads that we are being
beaten nicely by well organized associations,
we would just simply say, “here, you fellows,

‘ either go to work or keep your hands off what we

raise.” There is one sure thing and that is that
as long as the farmers produce enough for the
middle guy so he can make his stake, just so long
will the farmers have less, and just so long will
there be leSS production. There is today one big
fault that has been overlooked, and that is the
population of this country has drawn itself above
labor and production. Over two-thirds do not do
anything'only profit on what the other third pro-
duces. Am I right or wrong?—W. M. G., Burt.

   

 

       

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There‘has been so ’much' said and published
in the daily papers about farmers not doing their “
share in the first and second Liberty loans, that .

it is with contempt that we hear and read of the
city critic's tale of woe about our being slackers.

The farmers have done much in all of the Lib-'
erty loan drives but did not get credit for it...
Mr. Critic, you‘ ask why he did not? Because the a
farmer went to the bank and bought his bond and -‘

the city got the credit for it and the farming com-
munities were made the goats. But look out for
the goats when they get “riled.” As a member
of the school district committee on the Third
Liberty loan drive I know that some farmers
have taken bonds in all of the drives and some
only in two issues of the Liberty loan. But very
few that did not subscribe at all, and that was
on account of being in dire circumstances. There
has also been a number of subscriptions taken up
among the farmers for the Red Cross, Y. M. C. A.
and K. of C, all of which was given with a cheer-
ful heart. _

The women of the farms have clubs organized
for social purposes, but in this time of stress have
devoted their time to sewing and knitting for our
soldiers at the front.

It is with pride that I proclaim that the farm-
ers are not slackers as our city critics see them.—
B. S., Owosso, Michigan.

The Farm Labor Problem

I would make the suggestion that the draft
age be raised to 40 years of age, but at the same
time leave the farmer on the farm. There must
surely be men in the large cities who are just as
able to fight as the boys from the farm between
the ages of 21 and 31.
the ages mentioned and have been born and raised
on the farm, can do more toward helping the
farmer than any young man from the city, who
knows nothing about the farm. and would not
make a farmer if he had the chance. Sure the
American women will help out all they can but
they are not all strong. It needs good strong
muscles to do most kinds of farm work. The
boys of the farm are willing to go to the front
and fight; to be sure they are going in every call.
Some say “you should worry; Uncle Same will
look after that.” Yes but who is Uncle Sam? I
say it takes all the true-hearted Americans there
are to make Uncle Sam. Some farmers right
now have more land than they can rightly work
if the weather keeps fine. What will these farm-
ers do if the weather thrOWs them behind with
their work? Would they ever be able to teach
a new or green man how to work and make it
pay? Would like to see the above question ans—
wered in favor of the farmer. I}. C. 1)., Camp
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What is the Labor Situation in Your Par-
ticular Locality?

In order to know the labor needs of the farming
commuities of the state. M. II. F. requests that
readers report the situation in their respective
townships. Up to the present time there has been
a lot of guesswork as to the amount of labor need-
ed and the amount of labor available for farming
operations, but no one seems to have any positive
information. as to whether the supply is scant or
ample. If‘farming in Michigan is suffering or is
apt to suffer from lack of labor, llucle Sam ought
to know it. but we do not want to make a fuss
about the labor shortage unless one actually ex-
ists. Our readers will be performing a real service
by reporting at once the exact status of the labor
situation as they know it in their own township

or county.

I am sending you a copy of a pamphlet that
was recently distributed among the farmers
throughout our section of the state.

It has been widely discussed in this commun-
ity, and it is the unanimous opinion that it was
sent out by German propaganda, for the purpose
of injuring the loan drive. If so, it failed of its
purpose becausc of its utter ridiculousness. 1
would like to have you comment on it in the M. B,
L‘s—W. I}. Lzlmsdcn, Ludinglon, Mich,

I saw an article or two some time ago in M. B.
F. relative to foreign-born subjects. In our town
all offices are held by foreign—born subjects, ex-
cept one, and to hold or be elected to any office
you have to be an Orangeman: If the plans sug-
gested could be carried out it would be a good
thing.~S. M. H., Albany Island, Michigan.

Enclosed please find a copy of “Play Fair, Mr.
Farmer.” In reading it over a person would think
that the farmers were not doing anything at all.
That is going. pretty strong. I don’t think it is a
fair shake at this time. I am a reader of your
paper and: wish to thank you very much for the
good work you are doin-g.——F. J. J., Cadillac.

Farmers are sometimes the last to heat up;
but they stay hot; and in a long fight they are al-
ways found sturdily carrying the “battle across
No-Man's land to the foe, in the last grim struggle.
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How Michigan Farm Women are Conserving

Time and Labor

SN’T IT SURPRISING how many labor saving
devices we find are being used among our dif-
rent readers? In so many cases necessity has
proven “the mother of invention.” and the results
have been invaluable in saving hours of hard
labor. There are very few homes but have
their conveniences. Every progressive housewife
has conceived some plan of easing her daily duties,
but so often she becomes so accustomed to using
these improvements that she fails to realize they
may not be commonly used in every home. Just
as a. suggestion, what means have you for storing
your winter bedding and woolens? How do you
provide extra space in your clothes closets? If you
have no clothes closets in your home, what have
you contrived to take their place? Have you any
“built-in" furniture in your home? What do you
use for ‘a refrigerator? Do you possess a home-
made fireless cooker? '
Are you willing to spend a few moments of your
time and perhaps gain a percolator, carving set
or casserole? May 24th is the closing date of the
contest. *

Many Useful Suggestions

N ANSWER to your request for letters con-

cerning little things that help lighten the

work in the farm home, I am going to write
you a few simple little things that I find have
helped me greatly. One is the use of oilcloth——
White being my preference—in the kitchen and
pantry. I have my kitchen cabinet painted and
enameled white and the top covered with white
oilcloth which is pasted on. The enamel makes
it very easy to keep clean. I always spread a
newspaper on my cabinet when working on it,
then when work is finished I fold up the paper
and put it in the stove. and my cabinet is clean
and sweet. My cupboards are fixed the same way,

» with white oilcloth pasted on the shelves, and I

find it no trouble to keep them clean. No fancy
sh'elf papers, but always a clean, neat cupboard.
Another thing that makes hard work for farm
wives is the use of carpets and larger rugs, which
require sweeping. There is always more or less
dirt tracked into a farm house, no matter 110w
careful all are. Then when carpet or rug is
swept a cloud of dust settles on everything which
must be wiped off. I believe if more women would
once do away with large rugs 0r carpets they
would never use them again. Linoleum is fine
for kitchen and dining room, and for living room
and bed rooms just try painting your floor first
with a paint called ground finish. then after that
has thoroughly dried varnish over with floor var-
nish. graining it if you wish. Then by the use of
gin ill rugs which may be home-made if so desired,
you Will have a very pretty room and one which
is very easy to keep clean. The dust is readily
brushed Off with a broom or wiped up with a
dustless mop, ‘vhich any woman can make by
using a little separator oil on cheesecloth or out-
ing flannel. If the floor has cracks in it fill these
with crack-filler first. You will find that the cost
is alm'ost nothing for the paint and varnish, espec-
ially if you send to the mail-order house for it.
I found I could get it there for about half what
they wanted for it in the stores at home. The
catalogues explain just what to get and the cost
is almost nothing. And last let me add that you
should have nothing around that cannot be used,
for it. only makes more work. Keepsakes and
heirlooms are all nice, but a contented mind and
happy mother and wife are much nicer and it is
hard for any woman to be these when all tired
out from her work. Yours for a happy home.~
Farm Wife, Burt, Mich.

How to Improve Your Kitchen Floor

EAR PENELOPE1—I saw your letter, asking
D the women to write and tell something they

had done to make kitchen work easier, so I
thought I would write and tell you what I had
done. I have a very small kitchen, which must
serve the purpose of dining room too, and it had
a rough floor in it, which I could never get nice
and white, or keep it so ten minutes after I did
get it that way.
it looked so, horrible. This spring I purchased a
half gallon of floor paint and gave it two good
coats, and now it is easily kept clean and looks

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"Penelope,”ll‘arm Home Department,h1t. Clemens, Mich.
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bright and cheerful and I am no longer ashamed
of my kitchen noon—Mrs. N. E. L., Clare, Mich.

For Rough Floors

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“Something for a, Soldier Knitting”

“ OMEBODY'S boy that.was a baby
Soon shall wear it, and it may be I

He shall write and tell his mother

Of the kindness of another.

And her spirit shall caress you.

And her prayers at night shall bless you. "

You may never know its story, '

Cannot know the grief or glory

That are destined now, and hover

Over him your wool shall cover,

Nor what spirits shall invade it,

Once your gentle hands have made it.

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Something for a soldier knitting,

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()‘er the needles in your fingers,
And with every stitch. you’re weaving
Something of yourself you’re leaving,
Iv‘rom your gentle hands and tcndei;,_
There may come a nation’s splendor;
And from this your simple duty,
Life may win a fairer beauty."
—-—EDGAR A. GUEST.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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small pieces over them and tacking down. When
you have it nice and smooth paint with floor paint
and when good and dry paint again. This makes
a very smooth floor and saves hard scrubbing. By
painting every year" this lasts for a very Long time
and is not very expensive—Mrs. M. 0. 0., Har-
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Children’s Week

HE FIRST SUNDAY in June is Children’s
I Day. Since this year has been proclaimed
“a children’s year,” this day will assume a
greater importance. It is our desire to make the
Home Department for the week preceding that
day a children’s page, and if any of our readers
have any contributions to offer I shall be very
much pleased to receive them. Any remarkably
clever saying or some kodak picture bf your child—
ren. Perhaps some boy or girl would like to tell
the other children of his or her bird houses, or
what he is planning on doing this vacation.
Watch for this page, boys and girls. There will
be something for you and you alone—June 2nd.

children of

Marjorie Frances and Clarence Roy,
Mrs. Bruce Smith, Beaverton, Michigan.

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A Few Contributed Recipes

HE HOUSEKEEPER who has an abundance

I of milk and eggs should consider herself
rich in resources. This is the milk and egg
season. Let us follow the first law of: conserva-
tion—use our home supplies in season. Milk is
both meat and drink, and has a hundred uses——
asa beverage, a soup, the foundation of a main
dish; or converted into a dessert. Use your vege-
tables in cream sauce when possible. Use eggs,
milk and cheese sauirle in place of heavy meats.

_ SURPRISE COOKIES

Two cups of sugar, creamed with one cup of lard, or
two-thirds of a. cup of oil, add two eggs, one Cup Of
sour milk, one teaspoonful of soda dissolved in milk. .
Stir in flour until stiff, add teaspoons of baking powd-
er, flour, roll thin; cut same as for ordinary cookies.
Lay one layer of cookies on the pan, spread each with
the filling, cover with another layer of cookies and
bake in a moderate oven. '

Filling—One cup of chopped raisins or figs. half on
of sugar, half cup of water, teaspoon of flour. Cook
up well until it thickens. Mix flour and water before
adding to fruit mixture.

_ DROP BISCUITS

One cup of sweet milk, one tablespoon lard, .one
teaspoon soda, two teaspoons cream tartar. a little
salt, flour to make a stiff batter. Drop from end of
spoon onto buttered pans. Bake in hot oven—Mrs.
S N., Vanderbilt. .

Note: These biscuits are the lightest, most delictous
sweet milk biscuits I have ever used—Penelope.

CHEESE SCALLOP
Soak one cup of bread crumbs with milk; beat
into it three eggs, one tablespoon of butter, one half
pound of grated cheese; spread on the bread crumbs
and bake a delicious brown. ~

BUTTEBMILK SALAD DRESSING

Excellent for potato salad. Two tablespoons salad
oil or butter mixed with half teaspoon mustard, one—
quarter cup cornstarch, quarter teaspoon paprika, two
teaspoons salt. Beat all up well; add two well beaten
eggs and One and one-half cups buttermilk and two
tablespoons white corn syrup. Cook until it thickens
in a double boiler then add two-thirds cup of Vinegar
and stir until thick.

DANDELION \VINE

Three quarts blossoms, one gallon boiling water. Let
stand 36 hours. strain and add three pounds of sugar, .
three lemons sliced and seeds removed; put all togeth- .»
er and boil five minutes; then stand two weeks, strain ;
and bottle. ;

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Items of Interest to Women
The Remington Arms company is seeking 1,000
additional women employees for work in manu-
facturing and inspecting rifles for the American
troops.

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allowed to, wear high heels—~but they will carry ,.
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In order that parents may be informed on the
various professions and occupations open to girls
a conference was recently held in England to fur-
nish this advice.

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Philadelphia has a volunteer Red Cross factory
operating night and day. Helpers work in eight
hour shifts. New York and other cities are
planning similar factories, since the need of sup-
plies is constantly increasing.

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A country-wide campaign under the name of
committee for free milkfor France is being at
present conducted by a group of American wom-
en. Their obje-ct. is to ship abroad each day one
ton of dried milk, the equivalent of 8,400 quarts
of liquid milk, to relieve the suffering caused by
scarcity of milk products in France.

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The Louisiana legislature may employ girls as
pages. A body of Campfire Girls has petitioned
Governor Pleasant to appoint them to replace boys
during the coming session of the legislature which
begins May 18th. With Arkansas and Texas wo-
men voting in the primaries. no one need feel
surprised at the advance made in the south. 3

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Two to one in favor of woman suffrage was the
vote in the Michigan Democratic State Central
Cimmittee at. its recent meeting. Chairman A. E.
Stevenson put the reason in a nutshell when he
declared women will be the deciding factor in the
coming elections. . “They are going to vote," he
said, “you can’t stop them. Why not meet them
gracefully? They will be with the men who were
for them, and what we ought to do is to get our-
selves into a position where we will have reason
to claim some of their support.”

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Jury women? Sure! not any harder to sit on a
jury than stand at a washtub, or work in a mu-
nitions factory. California has juries composed
equally of men and women. Also a Woman’s
Court with a woman judge, women lawyers and
women jurors who deccide the merits and penal-
ties of cases affecting domestic troubles, public
morals and safeguards for young girls and chil-
dren. Just as California began to boast about the
superior ability of her women in conducting court
affairs, along came a newspaper paragraph from
Cheyenne, Wyoming, which set California back

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ers have left their post in Washing-

- ton, D. 0., in the past week because

of poor housing, reveals a tendency
on the part of women to balk at-in-
conveniences. No doubt the housing
condition is very disagreeable and
those women were subjected to many
discomforts, but surely war work of
any sort carries with it many un-
pleasant features. Our boys
not given to desert because they are
lonely or their quarters are over-
crowded. If women enter war work
they should be wlling to put up with
many discomforts.
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ies of women in war time is the care
and protection of the nation’s child-r
ren. The nation that takes the lead
in the future will be the one that has
the strongest, most vigorous genera-
tion growing up to take the place of
the present one, ravished and broken
by war. This is a patriotic work for
women. The brunt of this burden
falls upon the mother. She must care
for her children’s physical life; she
must guide public opinion and press
for and support any agencies in her
community that work for the good of
the community’s children.

This Week’s Fashions

 

No 8845—A girl’s jumper dress—and
what a clever way to use an outgrown
garment for this year’s wear. The
skirt is straight, one-piece or may be
gored if so desired. This is set onto
the jumper section slightly below the
normal waist line. The jumper is cut
out in a graceful U-shape, showing a
separate guimpe of contrasting ma-
terial. This little guimpe buttons
down the back and may have either
long or short sleeves.

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So often the waist of a dress wears

out before the skirt, but by using this
pattern one may yet 'have a good dress
by buying new‘ only for the separate
guimpe. If all new material is to be
used. a pretty shade of Alice blue,
green or shell pink in linen, galatea
or palm beach cloth would be very
pretty for the skirt and jumper; and a
plain white muslin for the guimpe
with collar and cuffs edged with nar-
row valencienes lace or organdy bias
ruflies.

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many/different .‘st'yies in suits as
girls, but they must not be neglected
The ready-made suits are
really as inexpensive as those one
makes, but so many times they need
so much altering it is more work

'than to make the whole suit—~and

when you buy the material you always

'get a more durable grade than the

ready-made manufacturers put in their
suits.

The “Boy Blue” cloth, galatea and
heavy repps are all very durable and
make such good looking clothes.

No. 8823 is especially adapted to
the baby boy of 2. 4 and 6 years—-
just a step out of dresses. Every
mother dreads to take her baby boy
out of dresses and curls and get him
into trousers. But No. 8823 is almost
a dress and yet the long blouse but-
toning down the front and showing the
knickerbockers below makes it decid
edly a boys’ suit. The blouse buttons
down the front and with collar, cuffs
and belt of a starched white linen and

.a little silk tie, one may make this

simple suit very dressy.

No. 8822.—Ladies’ shirt aist. A
plain tailored'style, closing in entire
front and shoulder edges-of both ex-
tending over in a shallow yoke effect.
The pattern is cut in short or long
sleeves, a small roll collar and deep,
tight-fitting cuffs. Fullness is added
ito side fronts by invisible tucks which
are formed from shoulder seam. The
pattern is cut in sizes 36, 38, 40, 42 and
44 inch bust measure.

No..8808.——Ladies’ house dress“
just a comfortable slip-on morning
dress; but what garment in a woman's
wardrobe is more necessary. This
style is easily made. The plain fitted
waist and three—gored skirts are al-
ways a saving of material and requires
but little fitting. The skirt has a wide
center front closing. A navy blue
and white striped percale is one of
the most serviceable material one can
use for house dresses.

No. 8831.—-This presents a slight
variation from the strictly tailored
separate skirt. This pattern is four-
gored, with triple plaits on both sdes
of front and back gores. These plaits
are especially good-looking when used
with a large plaid or striped material.
A flat hip pocket on one side, only, is
a new feature, shown on many of the
later summer skirts. No. 8831 comes
in sizes 16 and 18 years, or 26, 28. 30.
32 inch waiste measure.

No. 8836.——Ladies’ one-piece bunga-
low apron. The new U—shape neck and
large armholes with inset sleeves,
which may be long or short, gives this
simple slip—on more the appearance of
a house dress. Two lengths of ma-
terial and enough for sleeves is all
that is necessary for this practical
work apron. The pattern is cut in
sizes 36, 40, 44 inch bust measure.

MARKET FLASHES

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Turkey 24-25 17-22 20-22
Duck: 22-24 21-25 28-30
Geese 15-16 13-14 13-20
Springer: 27-28 26-27 33-35
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No. 2 Grade 2 to 3 Cents Less

The poultry market, while inclined
to be inactive, is firm and the expect-
ed heavy'run of fowls has failed to
materialize. There has been no heav-
ier run than during the embargo. The
farmers. have found it profitable to

hold their hens for egg production.
Some attempt has been made to lower
the market but without success. East-
er'n points report /only moderate re—
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There has been a decided let-up in
egg receipts On all of the principal
markets. The demand is excellent and
receipts are just about cleaned up
from day to day. Detroit is .quoting
fresh firsts at 341,5 to 35c; ordinary
run of fresh, 33 to 340. Chicago quo-

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Blue Bird water set offer so

you ladies who did not see it last week will not be forever accusing ‘me
of playing favorites, for I know if ever you get your eyes on one of these
beautiful sets you'll want to know right away where it came from and

how you can get it!

So this is what I said last week’-

Mrs. Business Farmer, I want you to have this Blue Bird water

Set.

it makes to any tablel

Really it would be hard for me to tell you What a beautifuladdition
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

never to wear off!

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 if 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.

You do not need to canvass, for

when you send in this coupon we will mail you a bundle of sample copies,
hand them to some of your farmer friends or relativesflTHE PAPER IT-
SELF DOES THE WORK and you send in the names!

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Supplies of butter are increasing on
the Detroit market but up to this
time there is no decline in the price.
Fresh creamer}: extras are quoted at
42 to 421/20; fresh creamery firsts,
41130. The market has been very pc-
culiar this week. On Monday quota-
tions on all grades of butter jumped
up one and a half cents. Extras on
that. day Were quoted at, 48c. The
reason for that marked price was that
practically all stocks of fresh butter
had been cleaned out on Saturday and
very little was received on Monday.
On~Tuesday considerable butter was
received on Monday. On Tuesday con-
siderable butter was received and less
excitement prevailed. The market be—
came very easy and-the quotation fell
one cent on all grades. Very little
movement of butter took place as buy-
ers seemed to scent a further decline
in price. On Wednesday there was
considerable receipts and there was,
another decline of a full cent. Since
that time the quotations of Wednes-
day have prevailed. While there has
been no great influx of butter during
the last days, of; the week receipts have
been about heavy enough to meet the
demand with the result that the mar-
ket has been fairly active, but not
strong enough to “cause a higher quo-
tation. On Friday there was a shorter
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previous but fuller receipts are ex-
pected soon which tends to keep pric—
es down. There is a strong demand-
for butter of extremely high quality
an da lesser demand for lower grades.
A large number of shipments show
garlicky and weedy flavors which
work to the detriment of the shippers.

The demand for unsalted butter still
continues strong. At the close on
Friday the quotations were as fol-

lows: Extras, 4Cc; higher scoring
than extras, 461/2 t0 47c; firsts, 43 to
45l2c; seconds, 38 to 42c. Unsalted
butter is selling at a differential of
about two cents above corresponding
grades of salted.

Cheese

The eastern cheese situation is sum-
med up in our weekly letter as fol—
lows:

“While there has been little change
in the situation on fresh made cheese
the past week the market on old stock
appears more irregular and is Iess
firm. More of our large local buyers
have turned from old to new and the
past few days rather more old cheese
of certain shapes has obeen offering
from outside points. With the nearer
approach of the Food Administration
time limit on old stock our local deal!
ers have been more cautious in tak-
ing on round lots without an assured
prompt outlet for hte same. The make.
of cheese is steadily increasing but
prices at primary points as a rule are
low enough to permit first-hand buy—_
ers to dispose of any surplus above
domestic_trade wants to the allied
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though of course sales at that to the
Commission are not strictly net.
“Quotations. on Wisconsin and Mich-
igan offerings: Twins, colored, held,
24 to 25; twins,‘fresl1, 22% to 22%,;
single daisies, colored, held, 25 to 251,5
double daisies, colored, held, 25’to
251/2; double daisies. fresh, 231,4, to
24; Young Americas, held, 27 to 271/2;
Young Americas, fresh, 23% to 24%.

Wool

No definite announcement has so far
been made as to the handling of the do-
mestic clip from the smaller produc-
ing sections, under which heading
Michigan is included. There appears
to be much dissatisfaction over the
plan as recently announced and dealers
and others are again in conference
with the,Washington officials. What
the result of this conference may be
is problematical. In the meantime
there is very little doing in the wool
market. The clip is being taken from
the sheep and is not moving forward.

Latest Boston quotations on Michi-
gan fleeces are as follows: Fine un-
washed, 62@63c; Delaine unwashed,
73c; it blood unwashed, 75@76c; $6
blood unwashed, 75c; it blood unwash-
ed, 74c; ’79, it, 1,4 clothing, 670; com-
mon and braid, 66@67c.

Dressed Hogs and Calves

The market on dressed hogs is
steady and firm at current quotations.
20 to 21 cents per pound, delivered,
Detroit.

Dressed calves have become firmer
under a slightly better demand and
quotations run from 17 to 21 cents,
Detroit. During the recent warm
weather some shipments arrived in
poor condition, at least one or two of
them were spoiled entirely. Shippers
cannot be too careful in this matter
at this season of the year. All ani-
mal heat must be out of the carcass
before it is shipped. Do not allow a
shipment to stand out in the sun on a
track waiting for the train. Either
deliver it to the depot just before train
time or else insist on its being placed
in the wareroom until loading time.

Live Stock Letters

Chicago, May 13,1918.——The cattle
market of the past week has been
quit erratic. It has undergone fluc-
tuations that did not appear to have
any very radical excuse for existing.
A week ago-"today general values ad-
vanced 15 to 25 cents. This was fol-
lowed by a. very light supply Wednes-
day, but as a sort of protest against a
too rapid appreciation of values, Mon-
day’s advance was eradicated. The
market was inclined to a little more
activity the latter part of the week,
but the finish was not altogether sat-
isfactory. The extreme top for beef
cattle was $17.60, the same as the
week preceding. Yearling cattle were
rather hard hit. Buyers are decidedly
critical of this class of cattle, unless
they are in exceedingly good flesh. A
good many are selling at 14 to 15c
per pound that would certainly be
greatly enhanced in value if held a
few weeks longer. The market today
is ruling 100 to 15c higher on the
heavier weight cattle, While yearlings
are in better favor, with instances of
250 advance on this class, this apply-
ing. of course, more particularly to
the better finished kinds. The top to-
day is $17.70 for three loads of good
weight branded Herefords. This is a
new top for the year.

The moderate run here today and
also the fact that comparatively mod-
erate supplies are on hand at other
points indicate decreasing stocks of
beef cattle in the country without
doubt. If the existing high range of
values would not bring them out they
certainly are non-existant.

April and the year show tremendous
increases over last year in cattle re-
ceipts, but the month of May is not
going to record any such condition——
in fact receipts this month will prob-
ably not be very different from May
1917, and in view of the big runs that
have been arriving this condition is
going to have a serious effect upon
general beef stocks: There is, of
course, the most unlimited outlet for
live stock and while it has been dem~
stated that ehter,should be unrestrict-
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light butchers, $9.00m11; best cows,
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other meats. decreases. ,
The general rank and file of butch-

sire‘ for the consumption ‘of beef, like . '

er stuff—that is to say, cows, heifers, , -

bulls, etc., are-15c to 25¢ higher today,

showing what an urgent demand pre-o

vails for these cheaper classes of kill-
ers, With good rains and” succulent
pastures the demand for young cattle
has increased and anything at all de-
sirable is obtainable only at pretty
good rates. ’llhe best heavy weight
feeders are sellng up to 131,50, but of
course these cattle carry a pretty good

degree of flesh and feedershave te_

meet killer competition on them. At
the same time they make an excellent
class of cattle to take back for sixty
days feeding or to feed corn on grass
this summer. In the past week we
bought quite a string of 500 to 700
pound stockers at 101,50 to 12c .per
pound. These make an excellent class
of cattle to put on grass with the idea
of feeding them out next fall and win-
ter.

General conditions in the cattle line
are certainly most healthy, with every
indication of high and possibly higher
values prevailing indefinitely.

Like the cattle market the hog trade
was also erratic last week. Specula-
tive activity carried values as high
as $18.30 upon at least one day, but
there was a. break from, that point
and itis hard to keep the 18c mark
once it is attained. Today, on a run
of 54,000, the market was 150 to 25c
lower with best hogs—that is_ to say
prime medium weight shipping —
at $17.85. There seems to be no lack
of hogs in the country. The breeding
season has been favorable and the
markets, as also other sources, have
been drained of young pigs by country
buyers.

During the past few days the sheep
market has been somewhat dull, with

level. Best wooled lambs have sold
up to $20.50, this being about $1.50
lower than the record price. S'horn
lambs have been selling up to $16.25.
The bulk of the offerings at the pres-
ent time are from Colorado. Those
feed lots are pretty well depleted now
however and by the last of the month
the entire supply wll have been ab-
sorbed.

Detroit, May 13.~——Cattle: Canners
and bulls steady; other grades 100 to
15c lower than last week’s close. Best
heavy steers. $15.50@16; best handy
weight butcher steers, $13.50@14.75;
mixed steers and heifers. 12.50@13.50;
handy light butchers, $11.00@$12.50;

best heavy bulls, $9.50@9.75; bologna
bulls, $8.50@9.25; stock bulls, $7.50
((58.50; light off-color stockers, $7@8;
good stockers, dehorned, $9.50@
10.50; milkers and springers, $55@115

Veal Calves/~Market 50c lower;
best $13.50@$14.00; others,‘$8@12.

Sheep and Lambs—Market dull and
500 lower; best lambs, $16; fair lambs
$15.@15.25; light to common lambs,
$10@12; fair to good sheep, $11@
12.50; culls and common, $7@8.

Hogs—Market 25c lower than last
week's close; all grades. $17.75@
17.85.

East Buffalo, May Iii—Dunning &
Stevens report: Receipts of cattle, 170
cars; market 25@400 lower; prime
heavy steers, $17.00@17.25; best ship-
ping steers, $16.50@17.10; fair to good,
$15.50@16.25; plain and coarse, $14@
$15; yearlings, $15@16.25; best handy
steers. $13.25@14; fair to good kinds,
$12.50@13; western heifers, $12@
13.50; state heifers, $10@11; best fat
cows, $11.50@12.50; butchering cows,

8950691050; cutters, $7.50 @ 8.50;
$7.50@8; fancy bulls. $11.50@12.50;
butchering bulls. $10@11: common

bulls, $8.50@9.50; best" feeders, 900 to
1000 pounds, $10.50@11.50; medium
feeders, $9.50@10.50; light common,
$8@9; stockers. $8.50@9.50; best milk-
ers and springers, $100@150; me-
diums, $75@100; common, $50@60.
Hogs~Receipts, 80 cars; market 40c
lower. Medium and heavy,. $18.50@
18.38; yorkers and pigs, $18.40.
Sheep and lambs—Receipts, 30 cars.
market slow. Top lambs $17.75@18;
yearlings. $15@16; wethers, $14.50@
15; ewes, $13.50@14.
Calves—Receipts, 2,500; market 500
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Thirty-four years have made the
Ferris Institute the poor boy’s sal-
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chemists, clerical workers, book-
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typists, telegraphers, civil service
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March 25. The First Summer term
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E Central) , ——j-_Farme
ave work well along for
' Some have their-beets
-,is~w.orking up in fine

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up. Some are

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still-{plowing up'f.their._whejat. and it looks _,

as .tho h, Oval-halt or, it .in this county
wouid- .; e’ ~~ ployfedf up. The following
quotations weret‘mnade . at .Owosso _ last
week; ‘ Wheat, 32.06; corn,— , g ;, oats, ,85‘;
'- hay. $15; beans..:s1o; potat es, 90;_but-
ter, 88; butterfat, 44: eggs, 34.-—J. E. W.,
Owosso, May 6. '

SAGINAW (Western)-—The weather is
cold again, most of the farmers'are ready
to plant corn but they are waiting for
' it to thaw out a. little. The wheat stand
is very bad in this section, and the ma-
- jority of farmers are putting their wheat
fields to some. other crop—G. L..
Charles, May 11.

GENESEE (South)—Farmers are in
the midst of getting corn ground ready
for planting, shearing sheep, building
fence, and some are putting in tile. The
weather has been warm during the past
week and crops are looking better. The
soil has been in fine shape for working
and several farmers are getting ready to
plant corn next week. Farmers are sell-
ing some livestock, hay, potatoes and
beans, wheat and rye are looking a lot
better than they did a week or so ago.
The Grand Ledge condensary is paying
$1.90 for 3.5., milk for May. Mayor Mott
of Flint has appointed a committee to
investigate regarding a city market for
Flint. The followmg prices were paid
at Flint this week: Wheat, $2.10; corn,
$1.75; cats, 77; rye, $2.35; hay, $18 to
$23; beans, pea, $10.50: red kidney,
$12.50; potatoes, $1.25; onions, $1.25 per
crate; creamery butter, 44; dairy butter.
35; lambs, $14 to $15; hogs, $16; beef
steers, $10; beef cows, $6 to $8: veal
calves, $11; wool, 65.-—C. S., Fenton,
May 8

MONROE. (West Central)-—-We are all
domg our bit in this part of the county.
Some have _their corn planted while oth-
ers are fitting their ground. Oats look—
ing good; wheat is looking better since
the rains. soaked the ground. New seed—
ings‘lqokmg fine. Apple trees are in full
bloom. Peach blossoms very scarce and
the'trees badly winter killed. The fol-
Iowmg prices were paid at Petersburg
last week: Wheat. $2.10; corn, $1.75;
oats. 71: rye, $2.20; hay, $22; barley.
$3.50 per cwt.; butter, 38; butterfat, 50;
eggs, 32; hogs, $17; dressed hogs, $20;
veal calves, $11.——. H. L., Dundee, May 11

MISSAUKEE (North Central)——Oats
about all in the ground, not as many
sown as expected, on account of feed
being high and scarce. There will not
be as many crops of all kinds planted
here on that account. One-half of the
farmers are out of grain and by the
first of June there will be no hay left.
Potatoes are being sold at the cellars
for 450 a bushel.——H. E. N., Cutcheon
May 10. ’

BENZIE (Soutliwest)——The weather is
cold and some rain. Most of the farmers
are late in seeding oats, and farm work
is behind on account of no help. The
followmg prices were paid here this past
week: Oats, 90: rye, $2; hay, $30.00.:
beans, $5.40: potatoes, 75c; butter, 35;
butterfat, 42; eggs, 30; hogs, 15.—G. H.
Benzonia, May 10. '

ABENAG (East)——This has been a
good week for the farmers in general and
the oats are beginning to look finch-some
yet to be sown. The writer made a trip
thru the west part ‘of the county this
week and noticed in particular the condi-
tion of wheat rye and meadows, and am
sorry to state that they look very poor in
two-thirds of the fields. Thursday night
we had a very heavy rain-fall accompan-
ied by thunder and lightning, doing dam-
age in some sections. The wind was blow—
ing a terrific gale.

Oats are declining, beans about the
same, butterfat and eggs hold their own
while hay and potatoes are one the skids.
Sugar beets are being sown and in some
places are up. Auctions are still num-
erous and prices are high—M. B.
Twining, May 10.

BAY (Soutlieast)—The weather has
been fine for the past few- days and oats
and barley are in the ground, and some
beets are in. Farmers are getting along
nicely, the land is working fine but we had
a bad wind storm which did much dam-
age to barns. About 25 buildings were
blown down in Frasher township.

The followmg prices were offered here:
Wheat, $1.12; corn, $1.75; oats, 720;
rye, $2.24; hay, No. 1 timothy, $19.00;
hay, No. 1 light mixed, $17.00; wheat—
oat straw, $8.00; beans, $10.25; potatoes.
$1.25; onions, 750; hens, 24c; ducks, 220;
butter, 38c: butterfat, 440; eggs. 320:
sheep, $14; lambs, $19; hogs, $20; dressed
beef steers, $16; beef cows, $15; veal
calves, $16. .

_OQEANA (Nortli)—Leaf buds are be—
ginning to open up and the pastur. are
beginning to look green in this section
of the country. The wind and lightning
of Thursday night did but little damage
in this part of the county. Early-sown
peas are beginning to show up fine since
the weather has warmed up. The scil
seems to be in fine condition for all the
cold weather. Oats are bringing $1.12;
potatoes 500 per cwt.: butter, 38; butter-
fat. 48; eggs, 30.-—f~W. W. A., Crystal
Valley, May 11.

CHEBOYGAN (West) --Farmers are
"preparing ground for corn, beans and late
potatoes. Oats are about all sowed and
the weather has been ideal for quick ger-
mination of seeds. Spring wheat looks
‘ fine but winter wheat is a. total failure
here. Winter rye promises a fair crop.
Pastures are excellent. The weather has
been cool and very wet. Practically the
'_entir'e crop ofpotatoes is; still in the hands

- .of'the farmers and there seems to be no
gospect, 'of a marke We believe- that
ichigan Business ing could have

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‘ "rendered the farmers of the state a much

greater service had it devoted its atten-
"tion to the matter of securing better
shipping conditions than it has been able
to render them by lending its aid to the
task of securing a modification of the DO—
tato grading rules. Very few will deny
that the grading rules were unjust but
any sensible farmer would rather run his
potatoes over a one and seven-eighths
screen than not sell them at all. Per—
haps we shall have more to say about
this later.—L. E. B., Conway, May 13.

’DAIRYMEN SHOULD NEVER
NEGLECT THE PASTURE

If we are to continue and extend
stock production we must depend upon
our pasture lands as the cheapest
source of milk, growth and fat. in
view of the present high price of gram
it is necessary that these neglected
pastures be improved so that they
will contribute toward the support of
stock and make it possible to grow
more grain on our tillable land.

During the era of cheap grain and
by-product feedlstuffs, the pasture
lands were regarded as of small im-
portance. Many pastures were al-
lowed to become overgrown with weeds
and were overstocked with cattle un-
til the native grasses gave up the
struggle and were crowded out by
plants of inferior chanaicter. These old
pastures may not yield a great income
but they are not so depleted of the
natural elements of plant food! that
cannot be profitably restored to their
former productive condition.

Dairy farmers have made an un-
pardonable mistake in allowing their
pasture lands to decline in productiv-
ity. By turning cattle out too early
in the spring the ground becomes so
compacted that the roots of the plants
'cannot penetrate the soil particles
and get the necessary plant food, and
the few plants that do survive are
grazed so close that they have very
little chance to produce much forage
for the stock. Then, too, many dairy-
men believe that unless they keep
their pastures closely grazed the weeds
will take possession. In many instan-
ces this is true. but the fundamental
cause of weeds getting a foothold is
over-grazing. A striking example of
the fact that close grazing encourages
weed growth has been shown in many
parts of the country. On many pas-
tures there was a good covering of nat-
ural grasses that were relished by
livestock. As these grasses were de-
stroyed by close grazing their plaCes
were taken by plants less palatable
and nourishing to the stock. The fact
that they were less palatable encour-
aged stock to eat the more palatable
varieties until they were destroyed.
Then'their places were taken by plants
of very inferior character. This con-
stant close grazing of the grasses de-
pleted the soil of its vegetable matter
and the direct rays of the sun upon
its surface evaporated the moisture
and baked the surface so that desir-
able grasses could no longer survive
and provide suitable grazing condi—
tions for the stock.

In many instances farmers look up-
on the pasture as a panacea for stock
ills engendered by neglect rather than
as a means of safely carrying them
through the grazing season in condi-
tion to produce an even amount of
milk, growth or fat. Men who turn
out a lot of thin, gaunt, emaciated cat-
tle in the spring cannot expect them
to recuperate their strength and flesh
and turn the winter’s loss into profit.
and yet this is precisely the practice
in many sections where pastures have
been seriously neglected. Then, too,
many dairy farmers keep the cattle in
the barns or yards during the night
and deem it sharp practice skinning
the fertility of their pasture lands in
order that they may save a few loads
of manure to be sold out through the

‘first cash crop. Such methods may
yield immediate cash returns, but be-
fore many years. the farmer is at an
end of his rope and the pastures so
run down that five or six acres afford
only semi-starvation rations for one
cow during five or six months of the
year. Cows'that run in such pas-
tures use up the greater part of their
natural energy roaming about looking
for feed.

, On the majority of farms, pastures
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The dam, a 20—lb. senior 2-yr-old, is by the $60,000 King
Her dam. a 30-lb. cow, is from a 33—lb.

The sire is making a most remarkable showing. He is three-
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He has 50 per cent the same breeding as Mabel
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.His daughters'are proving that he has extraordinary transmit-

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200 A. R. 0. daughters or two 40-lb. daughters and the only
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us and potash to encourage thag'roilvth

of stable manure it _ , prod 9 won-
derful results, and, undoubte y, pay

buy chemical fertilizers for the c‘ulti~
vated lands. Many pastures have been
greatly improved by the use of lime
and phosphorus. Better results are
sure to follow if the lime and phos-
phorus are worked into the soil with
a disc or barrow and a few pounds of
grass seed! sown on the thin spots. By
going over a portion of the pasture
each year in this way, better econom-
ical results will be obtained than by

to do the work all at once.

If the ground is smooth enough to
permit plowing it will pay to break
it up, plant a crop of. corn or potatoes,
use an excess of fertilizer, and reacted
as soon as practicable. The use of
libeml quantities of fertilizer will re-
sult in a profitable money crop, give
. the grasses a good start and hold the
weeds in check until the ground is
thoroughly covered with a thick, heavy
sod. Then if the advantage thus gain-
ed, is maintained, the pastures should
improve each year. '

In re-seeding such an area timothy,
red top, red, white and alsike clover,
and bluegrass makes an ideal mix-
ture and one that will furnish grazing
throughout the growing season. If
the grasses grow faster than the stock
can eat them, they may be cut with
a mowing machine and left as a mulch
to protect the roots of the plants dur-
ing winter. Such a mulch will prove
beneficial and insure a good growth
of grass the next year. The managers
of the best pasture lands in the coun-
try make a practice of mowing their
pastures just before the we: ds natur-

the grass and weeds afford ideal pro-
tection for the grass plants during
the winter.

I doubt very much the economy of
applying lime, phosghorus and potash
broadcast on pasture land, unless it
is worked down into the soil so that
root growth will be encouraged down-
ward instead of upward. There is
no danger of loss of soluble material
‘during the growing season, because
soil water is moving upward instead
of downward. Some men say that to
advise top dressing with stable man-
ure and the under-surface application
of lime. phosphorus and potash is not
logical and consistent. The top dress-
ing of stable manure, however, is
more than the direct application of
chemicals. Manure is largely com-
posed of nitrates which act quickly
and effectively from the surface. It
is also valuable as a mulch, prevents
close grazing and affords such protec-
tion to the roots and soil that bacter-
ia action is stimulated. I do know
that whenever a mulch is applied the
results are marked even when no
chemicals are added. We all under-
stand that a coating of straw around
and under small fruit bushel will
cause a most luxuriant growth, entire-
ly out of proportion to the actual fer-
tilizing content of the straw. No
doubt conditions on some farms might
warrant the use of the manure on
pasture lands and the application of
chemicals and clover upon the l'illable
lands;—W. Milton Kelly.

 

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As I am a reader of your paper I
would like to ask you about a peculiar
ailment afilicting my lambs. The old-
est of my lambs are about 3 or 4 weeks
and I never had such a fine lot of
lambs. All at once some of them, and
just the best ones. can harldy walk,
and some of them can’t walk. they just
drag along. and look as though they
were paralyzed; their heart is rapid
and they breathe fast, otherwise they
seem to’feel well. They just lie on
the ground, as if nothing was the
matter with them and simply can’t
get 11“, and I have to carry them to
their mothers so they can get food.
NOW, I would like to know what is
the cause, or where it comes from,
as I‘mever had any trouble before. I
have asked others but no one seems
to know what it is. Is the silage to
blame? This is the first year I have
fed silage, the ewes got about 4 or 5
bushels daily for 50 ewes, and that
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of native grasses?” 19 he has" plenty

to use it on the pasture lands and\

going to a heavy expense and trying

ally re-seed themselves, and find that‘

as, .
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lambs got different kind of milk, as I
thought that might'help. I have had
the ewes out about three days' now and
the lambs seem to be a little better.
I gave them from one to two drops of
homeopathic tincture of aconite and
from one to two drops of unit vomica.
My father had the same trouble with
his lambs and that is what he gave
them, the aconite for fever and the
nux vomicwfbr bowels, and he claims
it did them good, but we don’t know
yet what caused it, so I thought I

would write to you—G. W. 8., Ann

Arbor.

Paralysis in sheep is frequently a
result of some acute infectious dis-
ease, such as poisons, intersan para-
sites or sists in the brain. The first
mentioned, viz. poisons, are so num-
erous that it would be difficult to
even attempt to name them, as there
are some hundreds or more that are
more or less common to the sheep;
they may, however, be classified as,
first, mineral poisons; second, vege-
table poisons; and third, animal pois-
ons.

The more common parasite causing
paralysis in sheep is the Strongylus
Contortus, a brownish —colored thread-
like stomach worm. The first symp-
tom noticed in the affected animal be-
gins to 'hang back, so to speak, from
the rest of the band; “off color,” em-
aciation becomes noticeable. and the
walk is hesitating, like a sick person
getting out of bed and taking a first
few steps. The wool becomes harsh
and rough, and the sheep or lamb be-
comes very weak. Later the vi im
staggers about, keeping from tun'i' ling
on the ground by the greatest efforts.
Sometimes a swelling is noticed on
the lower jaw, just between the an-
gles of the inferior maxillae, while
the visible mucuous membranes are
pale, and the skin like parchment.
The animal becomes paralyzed and
death may take place in from two
weeks to two months. The treatment
in a small band of sheep can be insti-
tuted with a fair degree of success if
started in time. Segregate all sus—
pected cases and keep them in a cor-
ral. Drive the apparently healthy ones
to another pasture. preferably a high
and dry one. Keep all food away
frpm the ones to be treated for a whole
day, allowing plenty of water; that
evening give to an ordinary lamb one-
half ounce each of gasoline and raw
linseed o‘l, to which may be added
four ounces of fresh cow’s milk. Re~
peat this dose for three evenings. al-
liowing food several hours after giv-
ing each dose of medicine. Very weak
lambs may be fed more often, and a
little stimulant given.

In lambs paralysis is often associ-
ated with milk fever of the ewe,-both
being caused by poor food, exposure,
or the infection that causes abortion.

If none of the above conditions ex-
ist among your sheep or lambs and
the cause is of non-parasitic origin
such as you have stated in your letter,
ten grain doses of potassium iodide
given in an ounce of water three
times a day is the best treatment that
can be given. The change of padure
or feed will also help a great deal.
The, small doses of aconite you are
giving will do no harm or good. Nux
vomica does not loosen the bowels ex-
cept that it is a nerve tonic.

 

 

 

MON G‘ THE BREEDERS

By W. MILTON KELLY, Field Editor

Home Addreas: Howell, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In discussing poultry breeding prob—
lems Mr. G. W. Allen of Village Farms,
Grass Lake, Mich, said:

“In the mating of our pens for 1918,
we have- had in view the fact that we
must, above all things, have in our poul-
try yards this object in view—Produc-
tion and Utility.

“While we have many birds that can
win, birds that have won, and we are
sure that they can produce chicks that
will grow into fowls. that will Win—one
thing we have insisted upon, every female
must be a profitable producer of eggs

(Continued on page 16)

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ticéd edge, (rendition they were: in I
turnedthe’ cries out on grass, so that

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HOLS'I‘EINs—A herd. of 50 Eloi-
Steins, headed by the Bull,.King ger-
ma Alcartra Pontiac, son of King
Segis Pontiac Alcartra, the $50, 00 bull.
f Fa 11y "of four, Tatty Topsy Dawn,
four year old Dam and three Daugh-
ters from this herd, is, for sale. Also
other Cows and Heifers. “

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 Business
Farming to write us, stating 1115“
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.

HOMESTEAD FARMS,
Bloomingdale, Michigan

Several young Bulls sired by King ‘

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   

       
 
  
   

RATEl.--Up to 14 lines or one inch
heading, fifteen cents per line.
we will quote rates.

110 Fort St., West, Detroit.

Title displayed to best advantage.
For larger ads or for ads to run 13 issues or more we will make
special rates which will cheerfully be sent on application to the Advertising l)ept.,

   

 

and for less than 13 imaertions under this
Send in copy and

 

 

HOLS'I‘EIN BULL CALVES

Sires dams average 37.76 lbs. but-
ter 7 das. 145.93 lbs. 30 das. testing
552% fat. Dams ,good A. R. backing.
Calves nice straight fellows 4% white.
Price $65.00 each while they last.
Herd tuberculin tested annually.
Boardman Farms, Jackson, Michigan.

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‘Top- N etch’
HOLSTEINS

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

quest.
McPherson F arms Co.
Howell, Mich.

 

 

 

E. L. SALISBUR Y
SHEPHERD, MICH.

Breeder of purebred"
Holstein-Friesian Cattle
Young bulls for sale from A. R.

O. Cows with creditable 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. milk in 30 days. Price
$125. F.O.B. Flint. Write for Photo and
pedigree. L. C. Ketzler.

 

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

 

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

 

 

WASHTENAW FARM HOLSTEINS

30 1b. 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.
\V'. “H WYCKOFF, Napoleon, Mich.

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

HOLSTEIN F RIESIAN CATTLE

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

CATTLE FOR SALE

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

Holstem-Fnenan 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-pound
bull. J. Fred Smith, Byron, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

 

CHOICE REGISTERED STOCK

PERCHERONS,
HOLSTEINS,
SHROPSHIRI-LS,
ANGUS.
DUROCS.

”ORR D. Bun-L, MIRA, MICK.
I. F. I). I0. I

 

 

 

  

MUSOLFF BROS.’ HOLSTEINS

We are now booking orders for
young bulls from King Pieter Segis
Lyons 170506. All from A. R. O. dams
with credible records. We test annu-
ally for tuberculosis. Write for pric-
es and further information.

Musolfl Bros., South Lyons, Michigan.

 

 

 

WOLVERIN E STOCK FARM

Breeders of Holstein-eFriesian 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.

 

 

 

 

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

 

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

HORSES

' BELGIAN
for sale. Can be reg-

3 year Old istered in purchaser’s

name. Price $300.00. Geo. M. Williams.
Route N031, Big Rapids, Michigan.

 

 

BELGIAN STALLION

 

PERCHERON

 

OR SALE, Percheron Stallion 121705.
Black, Heavy bone fellow——-foaled
June 23rd. 1915. J. F. Glady, Vassar.

Michigan, Route No. 7.

 

SHETLAND I’ONIES
For Sale. Write

SHETLAND PONIE for description &

prices. Mark B. Curdy_ Howell, Mich.

‘ HOGS

0. I. C.

Bred dGilts

Serviceable Bears
J. Carl Jewett, Mason, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Purebred Holstein bulls, 7 months old

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

 

a few females for sale. Right prices.
Arwin Killinger, Fowlerville, Michigan,
l’hone, 58F15.

JERSEY

 

 

THE WILDWOOD JERSEY FAR'M
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 tuberculoszs.
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.

 

 

 

 

FOR SALE 131(itegI'JaJrreirSiesy aBnullinlgoxr‘rtlgd

 

Daughter of Noble of Oakland. Price,
$90.00. Tosch Bros, Capac. Michigan.
0R SALE—Registered Jersey (lows

Fenton, Michigan.

and heifers. C. A. Bristol, Route No. 3,

 

 

 

Half Ton—O. l. Car-Half Ton

Spring pigs sired by the Five great—
est boars in use in one herd in Amer-
ica and from the sows that were unde-
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.
Crandell’s Prize Hogs, Cass City, Mich.

 

 

 

 

OUNG 0. I. C. sows of fine quality.
Boars and bred sows all sold. Floyd H

Banister, Springport. Michigan.
for service; also fall pigs

0' I. C. either sex; sired by lst

prize yearling boar Mich. State Fair 1917
RICK!” 1Leaf Stock Farm, Monroe, Mich,
. o. .

Choice young boars ready

 

DUROC

 

UROC SOWS and GILTS, bred for
June farrowing, to Orion Fancy King
83857, the biggest pig for his age
ever shown at International Live Stock
Show. Also Fall boars registered crated

 

 

and Shorthorns.
quality sorted to size, age and breed. In
car lots.
Faii'field.

HEREFORD
250 STEERS FOR SALE
Ones, twos, threes, Herefords, Angus

600 to 1200 lbs. Choice

Write your wants.
Iowa.

C. F. Ball,

 

 

 

81ml] calves Prince

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

 

 

 

 

SHORTIIORN

 

WHAT DO YOU WANT? I represent 41

touch with best milk or beef strains. Bulls
all ages.
Secretary Central
Association, McBrides. Michigan.

SH ()RTHORN breeders. Can put you in

Some females. C. W. Crum,

Michigan Shorthorn

 

dale who has 3 sons & 2 daughters that
have won the Grand Championship at
the International and American Royal, as
well as won lst Prize on get of Sire 4
times at the above named shows.
just tubercaline tested without a single re-
actor.
Michigan.

OR SALE—8 Reg.
from 9 ‘to 17 Mo.
Monarch a son of

Shorthorn Bulls
By Maxwalton
the noted Avon-

Herd
John Schmidt & Sons, Reed City.

 

GUERNSEY "

and delivered anywhere in state.
Newton Barnhart, St. Johns. Michigan.

UROC-JERSEYS,

weaned, registered
$15.00, two for $27, either sex, f. o. h.
Hillsdale. They will sell quickly. Satis—
faction guaranteed. B. E. Kies. Hillsdaln,
Michigan.

Big, thrifty pigs,
and transferred,

 

 

DUROC JERSEYS 0f the Heavy
boned type. Service. boars and Spring
Pigs for sale, also Reg. Shorthorn Bull
Calves of Milking Strain 4 mos. old,
the price is $100 each.

M A. Bray Estate, Chas. Bray, Mgr,
()kcmos, Michigan

 

 

 

 

EACH IIILL FARM—Registered Ilui‘~
00 Jersey Swine. \Ve are booking or—
ders for weanling boar pigs $20 each at
weaning time. Excellent growthy indi—
viduals. 1nw00d Bros, Romeo, Michigan.

 

0R SALE—Reg. Duroc Jersey Swine,
10 yearling Sows bred fonMaylarrmv,
1 yearling boar, also spring pig ready

 

 

for shipment. Best of blood lines and
splendid individuals. L. l'nderhill,
Salem, Michigan.
POLAND CHINA
IG TYPE POLAND CHINAS. Brood

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

 

calf for sale.
McBrides, Michigan.

UERNSEYS for sale.—One registered
Yearling Guernsey Bull, also one Bull
H. F. Nelson. R. No. 1,

 

‘ A . i -
LEONARD’S 5.2L..1:2.9.Hs.s..flpis_
Orders booked for R

Spring pigs. E.
Leonard, St. Louis. Michigan.

 

 
  

 

. Michigan.

   

  

 

 

 

 

Big ‘l‘ype‘l’oln’nd China bled 'I‘
Recorded sows and. gilts,, for Sale.
Leading blood lines of the breed, at our.
‘herd's head. C. 'A. Boone, Blanchard.‘

 

IIAMPSHIRE

 

REGISTERED HAMPSHIRE BOARS
for sale. John W. Snyder. R. 4. St.
Johns, Michigan.

 

 

SHEEP

FOR AUGUST 1) [VERY 50 Register-
ed Shrop hire 1 arling ewes and 30_
Registered Yearling Rams of extra qual— *
ity and breeding. Flock established 1890. _. ',
C. Lemen. Dexter, Michigan.

POULTRY

PLYIVIOUTH RO(. K

 

 

 

rect blood of a well-known ZOO-egg
strain. Eggs for hatching $1.50 for
1.3; $5.00 for 50; $9.00 per 100.
L. Seamans & Son, Belleville, Michigan.

BARRED ROCK Eight years of care-

ful breeding, large, heavy—laying fowls.
Eggs $5 for 50; $10 for 120. Chas. I.
Cook, Fowlcrville, Michigan,

“'YANDOT’I‘E

M ISHLAND'S WHITE ROCKS—~The di-

 

The farmer’s kind.

 

 

ILYER, GOLDEN and “’HITE Wyan-

dottes of quality, fine large cockerels, .
$3100 each. Eggs, $2.50 per 15. Clarence '
Browning, I} .No. 2. Portland, Michigan.

 

I . PIGIIORN

 

20 000 Standard bred \Vlilte Leghorn
7 (Young strain) and Ancona
chicks for April delivery at $13 per 100.
Satisfaction and safe arrival guaranteed.
Order at once and get catalog. HOLLAND

HATCHERY. R. No. 7. Holland, Michigan.

 

 

WE HAVE THEM
If you want Leghorns that will pay
for their feed a dozen times over, write
us. We have eggs for Hatching and
Breeding Stock, hcns and pullets only.
HILL CREST POULTRY FAR‘AI,
Ypsilanti, Michigan.

 

 

ROFITABLE RUFF LEGIIORNS—We
have twenty pens of especially mated

Single Comb Buffs that are not only mat—
ed for exhibition but, above all, for prof-
itable egg production,
onable price.

Eggs at very reas-
Our list will interest you

 

 

——p1ease ask for it. Village Farms,
Grass Lake, Michigan.
CHICKS
We ship thousands
CHI each season, different
varieties, booklet and

testimonials, stamp appreciated. Freeport .
Hatchery,

Box 10, Freeport. Michigan.

 

CHICK

$3.50; 50, $6.75;
ery guaranteed.
count \Volverine (Thickery. 711 Delaware
St., S. E. Grand Rapids. Michigan.

Young's Heavy Laying Strain.
S. C. White Leghorns. 25 chicks
100, $13.00. Safe deliv-
Order from this ad. Full

 

 

HATCHING EGGS

 

LEGIIORNS

 

ATCHING EGGS and Day-Old Chick. ‘
for immediate delivery from our .
Barron English 240-egg strain white

winter

 

 

ING done: at 30 per egg.
Iianch,

livghorns. llczlvy layers, largeF
birds, easy hatchcrs and raisers, quicki
growers. Hatching eggs $6.00 per 100;
and Chicks $13.00 per 100 chicks. Sat- '
isfaclion guaranteed. Devries Leghorn]
Farms & Hatchery, chland, Michigan, ,
i-iox B222.
PLYMOUTH ROCK
HATCHING EGG from our_ Bred—to-
liay Strains. Bar—
red Plymouth Rooks $1.50 per setting,
$2.50 for 30 eggs, $8 per 100, S. C. White
VlAighans $1 per setting, $1.75 for two
:w-Ltings, $5 per 100. (‘lfS’l‘UM HATCH-

liusscll 'l’oultry

l’elci-sburg, Michigan.

 

EGGS From Prize—VVin- .

A'I‘(‘IIINU
H ning Barred Rocks, Thompson strain.

$6.00 Hundred;_ $3.25 Fifty; $2.00“
’l‘hii'ty. Special mating $1.50 per 15.
Sam Stacie], (.‘hclsea. Michigan.

 

strain with

‘ From
Barred ROCk Eggs records to 290 eggs
per year.
cel
Constantine, Michigan.

$2.00 per 15 Prepaid by par-

post. Circular free. Fred Astling,

 

50 for $2.50;
Weaver, Fife Lake. Michigan.

(iGS FOR liAT(‘l[IN(} from Pure bred
Ringht Strain Barred Rocks 15 for $1.
100 for $5.00. Mrs. G. M.

 

ORI’ING’I‘ON

 

Black and Buff Orping-

IIAMI’ION
"tons. Stock and hatching eggs for

sale. James A. Daley, Mohawk, Mich.

 

RUNNER DUCKS

 

$2.00 per 30.
Roy Mathews, Vermontville. Michigan.

ENCILED RUNNER DUCK eggs, $1.00
per 13. Buttercup eggs $1.25 per 15,
Good Hatch guaranteed.

 

1%,

buaiilfx, ‘
\Prodtfcnonj; ,

families.

   
  
 

  

Fair 1917.

and whose dam and
yearly butter records.
months old for sale.

100 REGISTERED HOLSTEINS 100 ~
A herd of high producing females from the breeds best
Herd headed by Dutchland Colantha Winana Lad
114067, Senior and Grand Champion Bull at Michigan State
Junior sire .
132652 a 35.16 son of Friend Hengerveld De Kol Butter Boy
% sister hold 6th and 7th highest

B. BRUCE DIcI’HERSON, HOWELL, MICH'.

Maplecrest Application Pontiac

Sons of these great sires up to 15
Prices and pedigrees on application.

 

May 28.

 

 

 

SALE DATES CLAIMED

Saginaw Valley Breeders' Holstein sale
Saginaw, Mich.

Michigan Shorthosrn Breeders’ sale at

Flint, Mich, June

Robert R. Pointer‘s Holstein-Friciian

Sale at Wayne. Michigan, June 3

   
 

 

  
 
  
 

 


      

     

    

  
    
  
  
  
 
 
 
     
    
  
 
 
  
 
   
 
    
   
  

  

   
 

 
 
  
  
 

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.Shape. or that would in any way be dis-
Iqualified, but we will not keep a drone
simply for its show qualities.

.“The bulk of the country’s enormous
crop of poultry products come from many
yhundreds of thousands of small produc-
iers. It is estimated that the average
number of birds kept on farms is f’l‘litiy

s
-number could very easily be increased to

» lone hundred head of pure.bred, profitable

growls and the supply of eggs and poul-
.try greatly increased. -
; “Now and for some time to come, ev-
,ery person who can possibly do so, should
‘do his utmost to increase the supply of
,poultry products, especially eggs. Most
’every family in towns and cities could
;easily, With a little expense, set a few
tuttings of eggs and raise poultry. They
lcoul have brOilers in the summer and
tall and fresh eggs during the winter and
following spring and summer. A great

of the feed required to feed these
i irds could be of such waste from the
itable as is now wasted. Besides the prof-
ilt and the enjoyment of fresh foods, they
gWOuld find the raising of poultry very
interesting.
3 “We believe single comb Buff Leghorns
;are the most profitable and at the same
itime one of the most handsome breeds
:of fowls, and;are sure that if you are
ithinking of gomg into poultry raising, or
if you are now in the business and want
.to change breeds, the quality of the Vil-
:la.ge Farm birds will please- you. We
also believe that some of our blood will
be of great help to breeders who have
been breeding this variety.”

1: e

Many farmers who have scorned city
boys and men who have volunteered for
work on farms during the coming season,
should change their attitude and do some-
thing towards encouraging and training
this class of labor. The farmer of today
is not merely facing the question of get-
llllg‘ boys and men who are skilled as
farm. workers, but of getting them and
training them so that they may become
profiment farm workers.

Other industries have recruited their
labor forces from the farms and devoted
a vast amount of attention to training
farmers for work in shops and manufac—
turing plants. but when farmers are ask-
ed to give untrained boys and men an op-
gportunity to become skilled farm hands
‘they at once set up the cry that such
ihelp is useless for a few weeks. Of
course it is useless; one has the common
isense and patience to plan the farm work
» so that the more complicated work is done
iby experienced men. The farm labor
iquestlon Will never be solved until farm-
iers begin to recruit and train young men

from the cities for farm work. Every
other industry in America has trained
.and developed its workers. This has

- to learn ‘ e

,y in; page "149:, 3; an

; ”and every male must be, in ‘ou‘i-i estima- .' ,3
.3 ‘tion; a bird 'that will sire producers. We
;_ . ,have taken every. care that no, bird is re—,
ltain‘ed that has any defect, ingcolor-or

   
  
 

 

n . 1 ho .the us; ;. .
uldw ye mailman», oppo
.. e .th‘e. same as

could aoqu re it in oneof the infirm ,
plants. There never has been a more op-
portune time for Michigan farmers 'to

train an army of boys and men, who if

  
 

     
   
  
   
   
  

 

properly trained, will Swell the ranks of

farmers and farm laborers in the years
to come. The time to begin training a
new force of farm laborers is right now,
and if fond is to win the war there is
just as much need for a trained force of
farm laborers as there is in placing a
trained force of men in the army. An

3 efi‘lcient force of trained men in the fields

of this country is one big hope for this
country in growing the food necessary to
win a prolonged war.
more men for farm work if we are to
maintain our normal production of food

products. 0
n- o m

In spite of the fact that many breed-
ers of dairy cattle are disposing of their
herds or cutting them down to meet the
present prices of feedstuft‘s and labor,
there seems to be a lively demand for
pure—bred cattle. In many parts of the
south and west farmers are beginning
to breed pure-bred dairy cattle and the
demand for good cows from these regions
is proving a great benefit in maintaining
prices in the older dairying communities.
These men are sure to come back to the
Northern and Eastern states for more.
breeding stock. so that the man who
'holds onto a few of his good animals is
sure to find a good market for them in
the years to come. 'Many Michigan breed-
ers are meeting the present situation by
selling their producing cows and growing
up new herds of young cattle in hopes
that by the time this young stuff begins
producing there will be a demand for
milk at much higher prices. The pres-
ent surplus of dairy products is not due
so much to increased production as to
the general tendency on the part of our
people to cut down on consumption of all
foods. With a surplus of dairy products
now on hand it is the height of folly for
people to rely upon substitutes. for the
time is close at hand when the world
will face a scarcity of dairy products
unless means are devised to stimulate
an increased consumption of butter.
cheese and milk. until conditions are more
favorable for shipping the immense sup-
plies. which have accumulated, to other
countries. Lack of shipping facilities
and a decreased home consumption is
proving a mighty bad combination for
the dairy farmer who is trying to be
patriotic and hold o.nto.his cows.

I

Few herds of Holstein cattle in Mich—
igan can boast of so uniform a lot of fe-
males as the Walnut Grove herd owned
by W. W. Wyckoff of Napoleon. All of
Mr. Wyckoi’f’s cows and young things are
descendents of that grand old cow Inez
Pierterje 90989. butter seven days 28.25,
milk 589 pounds. The striking uniform-

 

We must train.

any W.

' . son's. he‘liiv‘e ..
800 I ‘ n anhnalawili-see .
ample 0 'what me 'be. scoomplished in
few years of car ’ l breeding by v
this farm and examining the progeny of
this grand old:~ matron. At the present
time she is reducing profitably and
breeding regu arly.‘ Every one of her
daughters old enough is, in the advance
registry. Visi’tory to Walnut Grove farm
are sure to find a warm welcome and

  
 
  
  
 
  

   
   
    
      
      
 
 
 

.will be met at the M. 0. trains at Na-

poleon if arrangements are made by lat-
ter. If in nee of some meally choice
young things do not fail to get» in touch
with Mr. Wyckoff and visit this farm.

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Even tho .feed prices are extremely
high I believe it will pay every farmer
to set another hen. As a rule Michigan
farmers are not making the most of their
opportunities in keeping well bred flocks

of poultry. As a result of the high pric-‘

es of feed many farmers have disposed
of their flocks and the storage houses are
full of poultry meat. The owners of'the
big commercial egg farms hung on for
a long time hoping for cheaper feed, but
they are beginning to cash in on their
flocks, for there is little prospect of get-.
ting it. The one bright spot in the hor-
izon is the farm flock that can Scratch
’round the farm and consume the odds
and ends of feed from the barns and
house. Such a flock can produce a lot
of meat and eggs at a comparatively
low cost. Our hope for Sunday chicken
dinners and eggs for next fall depends
chiefly upon how many farmers’ wives
set another hen this spring. If they will
recruit their flocks in this way~many of
us will have enough poultry products
next fall and winter, but they must set
the extra hen. Set the extra hen, even
tho it is a little late. Every brood of
thrifty chicks will help to furnish food
for our people the coming winter.
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The more I study the problem of farm
power on Michigan farms the more
am coming to see the falacy of attempt-
ing to work the farms efficiently without
good horses. The tractor surely has its
place; in the economy of present day
farming. It has proved its worth, thd‘
it has its limitations, just as the horse
has its limitations. Where large fields
are the rule the tractor will'replace
horses economically. It is the light
work, such as drilling, cultivating and
the hauling at harvest time that the
tractor fall a little short. Big fields
where the soil is uniform may be cheap-
ly plowed and disked with a tractor.
Our Michigan farms need both tractors
and horses. You can run a farm with-
out horses, but you can’t do it economi-
cally. Good horses are needed to sup-
plement the tractor. A light tractor
and three good horses make an excellent
combination of power for the two or
three hundred acre Michigan farm. Feed

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tan. :» , a * ,
Yards'in the state; n; disc , . .
cost and utilit of this paved y 3»~M 3
McPherson sai : “At present prices "for
commercial fertilizers- it‘ is. one of ., ., .0
.best investments. 1. coal have rm ,
besides we find that a dry and (213::-
_ barnyard is essential for producing cl n
milk. Cows must be clean when. they
are in the yards. as well as when they
are in the barn. A clean, well-kept barn- _
yard is of as much importance to a breed-
er of pure-bred dairy cattle as a clean
and attractive show window is to
merchant. Good stock. like good mer-
chandise do not show up to good advant-
age it displayed amid unfavorable sur-
roundings. With our herd of. one hun-
dred dairy cattle the amount of valuable
fertilizing elements saved by having a
paved barnyard amounts to a big item
each year."

    

 

  

Creston Roosje Marie Segls is the first
two—year-old Michigan heifer to produce
more than 30 pounds of butter in seven
days. She is a daughter of Burtondale
Prince Korndyke and Roosje Marie De
Kol. This heifer is owned by Ruth Bros,

. Oomstock Park, Michigan, and her record
was made ri ht in the stanchion in .her
place in the erd. Such butter and milk
records as this are a big factor in at-
tracting buyers of pure-bred cattle to
Michigan. There is, always a demand for -
Helstein cows and young things from
dams that have credible records, while
the best (if untested cows and their pro- .
geny sell at a. discount, especially to
buyers from outside who depend largely
upon records as a guide in estimating

'"values of their purchases.

The farm boy instinctively warms up
to good livestock. Pure-bred livestock
is the best substitute for bright lights
and companionship of the city that
has ever been discovered. It is the boy
raised on the livestock farm who follows
the business of his father. You may call
it sentiment. but is not sentiment the
real basis of permanence and success in
agriculture? Even tho, the prices of feed
are high and the labor situation perplex—
ing let us save our herds and flocks of
pure—bred livestock and have our. boys
follow the business of their fathers.

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M. H. Daniels and Son of Okemos, re-
cently sold to Mr. A. R. Jettner_ of Chi—-
cago an excellent young bull. This young
bull goes to the Jettner farms at New
Carlisle, Ind., to be placed at the head of
the herd owned by Messrs. Jettner and
Frame of that city. More evidence of the
out of the state advertising we are do-
ing for our Michigan advertisers. We
will have more to say about the herd; of
Holstein cattle owned by M. H. Daniels
and son in one of our later issues.

 

  

 

   

 

S. T. WOOD, Sales “Director;

AUCTION SALE!

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

60 HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN CATTLE

Sale will take place at my farm one'mile east of Wayne, on Michigan Ave.,
Ann Arbor Car line, sixteen miles west of Detroit on

onday, June 3, 1918

The herd contains some of the very best Holstein strains, including one son and two daughters of
the famous “Concordia 'Howtge Sunlight DeKol.”
31.69, and 654 1—10 lbs. of milk inseven days.
cattle than are in this herd.
There are also three herd bulls with records.
An extended pedigree catalog of the herd will be provided, and all stock will be given a tubercu—
lar test and are guaranteed from all contagious diseases. ' ' V

ROBERT R. POINTER

DEARBORN, MICHIGAN ’

Concordia made a seven-day butter record of
It would be hard to find a better lot of registered
If you are looking for a good calf, heifer or cow, come to this sale.