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Whole Number 3990

LARGE number of bean growers,
bean jobbers, elevator men, and
others interested in the great
Michigan bean industry met at the
Bancroft Hotel in Saginaw on Tuesday,
April 23.

‘f;,The large convention hall in the

a

, Bancroft Hotel was filled to. capacity

when the meeting was called at 2:30
p.- in. The meeting was called to order
byl'Mr. M. J. Hart, who briefly spoke
of the object of the meeting which
was‘called for the purpose of discuss-
ing what action should be taken in the
interest of the Michigan bean indus-
try to counteract the effect of the cam-
paign being pushed by the bean sec-
tion of theFood Administration to in-
troduce and stimulate the consumption
ofswestern pinto beans by appealing to
the patriotic instincts of consumers.

Only'a'CIear Right of Way is Asked.

Following Mr. Hart’s intrbductory ad-
dress 'Mr. Nathan F. Simpson was
elected chairman of the meeting and
M3. Fred Cross secretary. In brief
but well chosen remarks Mr. Simpson
discussedvthe situation which ‘led up to
the meeting and the attitude in which
bean growers and dealers of Michigan
should properly approach the question.
He emphasized the fact that all that
Michigan growers or dealers could ask
for Michigan beans was a clear right
of way in the market on even terms
with the product of other sections 'of
the country, and that if possible this
should be secured without causing fric-
tion which would reflect upon ‘future
production.

The meeting was attended by Gover-
nor Sleeper, who made a short address
in which he offered to accompany any
delegation which might be sent to
Washington to take this question up
with the Food Administration, and em-
phasized his belief that the govern
ment of the United States would not
knowingly discriminate against an im-
portant product of'Michigan,

Two Views of Price Fixing.

Mr. Almendinger, a former president
and secretary of the Michigan Bean
Jobbers’ Association spoke briefly urg-
ing conciliatory rather than drastic
action by the convention.
ed the opinion that the present situa-
tion was in part due to previous efforts
to force the price on Michigan beans
to a very high figure, thus stimulating
production in other sections of the
country. V

In response to this view of attempts
at price fixing by the Michigan Bean
Growers’ Association, Mr.‘A. B. Cook,
president of that organization disclaim-
ed attempts at absolute price fixing,
and emphasized the fact that the ac-
tion of Michigan‘ bean growers during
the past three years in designating a
priCe which would cover cost of pro-
duction plus a reasonable profit, based
on an accurate knowledge of the con-
dition of the crop at harvesting time

and the. conditions under which it was
produced. is in awed fl the govern- ‘

He express-‘

DETROIT, 'MICH., SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1918

Slogan of Allied Michigan Bean Interests
at Saginaw Meeting

which the average cost of production

plus a reasonable profit has been al-
lowed.
Effect of the Patriotic Appeal.

Mr. Cook had an interesting exhibit
composed of two jars of cooked beans,
Michigan white beans and western
pinto beans, which were passed around
among those present for examination.
As illustrating the method by which
the consumption of pinto beans is be-
ing encouraged Mr. Cook stated that a
local merchant induced his wife to buy
some of these pinto beans because it
was the patriotic thing to do, which
fact was a striking illustration of the
power of such a campaign. It even
brought pinto beans to the table of the
president of the Michigan Bean Grow-
Ci's’ Association.

With regard to the steps being taken

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to force pinto beans on the markets of
the country for domestic consumption,
communications were read showing
that special efforts were being made
along this line in Indianapolis, which
was taken as a typical example of the
large bean distributing centers. Mr.
Llewelyn spoke of the proposition from
another angle, intimating that united
western influence might be in a meas-
ure responsible for the pushing of the
pinto beans, and advocated a closer
affiliation of producing, marketing and
distributing interests in this state, to
the end that such influences might be
successfully combated.

Mr. W. I. Biles and Mr. E. L. Well-
man, large bean handlers, also spoke
briefly, expressing the same opinion
which had been advanced by other
speakers regarding action which should

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“Open Market for Michigan Beans”

be taken by the convention and urged
that a strong committee be sent to
Washington to make proper represen-
tations to the Food Administration re-
garding the need of an unrestricted
outlet for Michigan beans at the presi
ent time in order to aid growers in
moving the present. crop and stimulate
future production.
Future Contracts Suggested.

State Market Director McBride re—
viewed the history of government bean
purchases down to the present time,
pausing to comment on the fact that
California white beans were taken at
eleven and one—fourth cents per pound
on government orders, and pinto
beans at eight cents. He suggested
that the committee appointed might
well urge the Food Administration to
take a portion of the Michigan crop at
the present time, and to stabilize fu‘
ture markets and production by con-
tracts for next year at a price suffi-
ciently in advance of the pinto bean
price to represent the usual market
differential, it being stated that con-
tracts are now being offered for pinto
beans at eight cenls per pound for
this year’s crop.

Mr. M. J. Hart briefly discussed this
suggestion and moved that a commit—
tee composed of Chairman Simpson
and four other members to be appoint-
ed by him representing the allied bean
interests of the state be delegated by
this convention to take the proposi~
tion up with the Federal Food Admin-
istration at \Vashino gton, which motion
was unanimously adopted.

Growers Are Patriotiic.

Pending the consideration of these
appointments remarks were asked for
from representative growers. Mr. Cook,
president of the growers’ association
first called out Mr. King, of Montcalm_
county, who received an ovation from
the convention for his patriotic state-
ments declaring that while conditions
had been bad and the crop an unprofit-
able one this year, the farmers of
Montcalm county, and he believed of
Michigan, would plant beans to feed
the boys to help win the war, whether
they made a profit or not.

Mr. W. H. Keddy, of Genessee coun-
ty, believed strongly in the soundness
of the cost plus profit theory, and be-
lieved that farmers should follow this
idea as a business proposition, what
ever their action from a patriotic
standpoint might be. Mr. Fred Gosen,
of Saginaw county, also spoke in pa-
triotic vein, stating that he believed
the farmers of his county and the state
would do all in their power in the mat-
ter of food production this year. Mr.
Slichter, of Gladwin county, approach-
ed the problem from the standpoint of
the farmers of more newly developed
sections of the state.

The Bankers’ Attitude.

Mr. Rankin, of Huron county, spoke
on the subject from the standpoint of
a banker whose duty it is to finance
the operations of the bean jobberand

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Dairymen every-
The Dairy Outlook. where have been

much concerned
regarding the future outlook for their
business during the past year. The
general situation has been very greatly
benefited by the demand for condensed
milk for army use and for export to
foreign countries. This export busi~
ness has been greatly curtailed in re-
cent months by the lack of cargo space
and there is now a large accumulation
of condensed milk in tins stored in
warehouses in this country. This ac-
cumulated surplus, together with the
limited cargo space available for its
shipment in the near future seems very
likely to limit the amount of whole
milk which can be manufactured into
condensed milk products during future
months. .On this account the outlook
for dairying is a source of growing

, concern on the part of many who are

engaged in the business.

As is ever the case under similar
conditions, there are many dairymen
who can see no silver lining to the
cloud, and who feel that the only solu-
tion is a reduction in the dairy cow
population of the country. Before tak-
ing a radical step of this kind, how-
ever, every dairyman should pause to
consider the fact that when the war is
finally over there will be a very great
demand for dairy products of all kinds
for European consumption. The only
difficulty at the present time is the
lack of transportation facilities. The
demand is in evidence, and just as
soon as more ships are available, any
surplus of dairy products now-in re-
serve will be quickly exhadsted.

By keeping their dairy herds intact
and looking for a better solution of the
present problem, the dairymen of the
country will be pursuing the wise
course. Acting independently and
alone they can do little toward the
solution of this problem. Acting to-
gether through an effective organiza—_

, tion they will be able to find a better

solution for present problems than the
sacrifice of the dairy cows which will,

‘ be a valuable asset when normal con-
. ditions are. again restored. :Thelsuca
‘ , .gcess which has been attained by organ-

~- dairymen in this state, through the

   

   

escalation

organized effort. Through the effective
work of this organization the produc-
ers of market milk have been able to
secure a living price for their product
in many sections of thecountry. The
same organization has added many
thousands of dollars to the income of
dairymen who have contributed raw
material for the making of condensed
milk during the past year.

Every milk producer 'in Michigan
should afliliate himself with this organ-
ization at once. This would be an in-
spiration to the dairymcn of other
states to take like action, particularly
where the nucleus of such an organiza-
tion already exists, as is the case in
several states. Working in conjunc-
tion, these organizations could do much
toward the solution of the problems
now confronting the dairy industry.
Some effective work is already being
done along this line, as will be noted
by a careful reading of the milk news
from Field Secretary Reed, of the
Michigan Milk Producers’ Association
which is published in another column.
Disposing of valuable dairy cows as a
solution for the temporary difficulties
now confronting the dairy industry
seems like killing the proverbial goose
that laid the golden egg, in view of the
future prospects for profitable dairying
after the war has been won.

The proposal to ad-
vance the price for
wheat grown in 1918
above the price fixed by the President
and announced through the Food Ad-
ministration which has been under
consideration in congress for some
weeks, has failed of passage by that
body. Rumors are now emanating
from Washington that a more compre-
hensive plan of price regulation, in-
cluding necessary commodities other
than food stuffs is under consideration
by the government.

In the meantime there remains a
wide difference of opinion among think-
ing people of all classes regarding the
expediency of price regulation, even in
the present war emergency. Many
people believe that a disturbance of
the natural economic balance by fixing
prices on even the most vital necessi-
ties is not only an injustice to produc-
ers, but as well a menace to a future
adequate supply of such necessities.
Others believe just as strongly that
the price fixing program should be ex-
tended to practically all necessities,
including essential factors of produc-
tion.

The great economic difficulty encoun-
tered in any program of price fixing is
the factor of labor. The labor prob
lem was a serious one for farmers ev—
en before the outbreak of the war, and
is certain to be increasingly serious
during the war’s duration. The with-
drawal of millions of men from indus-
trial occupations for military duty is
certain to aggravate an already seri-
ous labor problem in other industries.
Labor difficulties have seriously hamp-
ered war work, and it has been neces-
sary, or at least has been deemed ex-
pedient to advance the pay of work-
men in almost every war industry, not
only once but repeatedly to even ap‘
proach the schedule of production
which had been laid out in these var-
ious departments of war work. Price
regulation of commodities will be fbund
a diflicult proposition under these con-
ditions.

The apparent intent of price regula-
tion so far as it hasbeen undertaken
in this country has been increased pro-
duction.’ Experience seems to teach
us that conditions may change so rap-
idly as to cause the means to defeat
the end for which it was devised. Ex-
periments in price regulation for other
purposes are still more problematical
in theispetcome... Castrol of the Chair
hols of distribution" would seem to
promise greater advantages in the’pres-

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OPEN MARKET FOR MICHIGAN
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in many cases of the bean grower. He
expressed confidence in the ability of
Michigan growers and dealers to cope
with the situation so far as natural in-
fluences were concerned, but stated
that if a further handicap was placed
upon them, such a factor would neces-
sarily have to be taken into consider-
ation by bankers in extending credit.

Mr. John 1. Gibson, secretary of the
Western Michigan Development Bu-
reau, talked briefly in his usual happy
style, and emphasized in the most pos-
itive terms that the only thing 'worth
living for under present conditions
was to lick the Germans.

The Personnel of the Delegation.

At this time Chairmah Simpson an-
nounced the members of the commit
tee to represent various allied bean in-
terests as follows: W. I. Biles,kof Sag

inaw, representing the bean jobbers,_

with M. J. Hart as alternate; Christian
Breisch, of Lansing, representing the
elevator men; Frank Gerber, of Fre-
mont, representing the canners, and
James B. Crawford, of Ithaca, repre-
senting the ‘bankers. These gentle-
men, together with Chairman Simpson,
Governor Sleeper, I. R. Waterbury,
previously designated by the State
Board of Agriculture, and others invit-
ed by the chairman, including Presi-
dent Cook of the Bean Growers’ Asso-
ciation, and prominent bean dealers,
will proceed to Washington and secure
a conference with Food Administrator
Hoover at the earliest possible date,
with a view of presenting to the Food
Administration all the facts relating‘to
the Michigan bean industry, and par-
ticularly to the effect of the pinto bean
campaign on the industry for the con-
sideration of the Food Administration.

Members of this committee as well
as growers and dealers generally are
confident that when this proposition is
thus presented, some action will be
taken by the Food Administration to
relieve a situation which threatens to
seriously affect next year’s production
in this state, as well as the free and
unrestricted marketing of the present
crop on an even basis with the pro-
duct of other sections of the country in
the open market.

Conservation vs. Production.

As the chairman well said, the course.
being pursued may be well calculated
to conserve the present bean crop.
since the trade accustomed to the
handling of white beans will not .pur-
chase pinto beans freely with the
knowledge that their trade does not
want them, neither will they purchase
navy beans freely in the face of a pa-
triotic appeal of this kind. While food
conservation makes the saving of the
entire bean crop necessary, this result
should, if possible, be secured without
hardship to the bean industry of any
section.

 

HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

 

. Wednesday, April 17.

Germans are successful in capturing
Wytschaete, W'ulverghen and Bailleul,
important positions near Ypres. In-
cluded in their successes is also a por-
tion of Messines Ridge. British hold
out before Merville and the French put
down raiding parties before Amiens,
while the Americans and Germans are
contending for positions near St. Mi-
hiel, southeast of Verdun—Turkish
and Bulgarian forces are contending
over claims to territory lost to Bulgar-
ia during the Balkan war six years
ago—British Houseof Commons pass-
es third reading of man power. bill.
Government is pledged to give Irish
home rule at meet—Chas. M. Schwab,

steel maker and shipbuilder is chosen

director general of the United States
emergency fleet corporation—Abattoir
at Union Stock Yard-s, Toronto, ,Ont.,
burns, entailing a' loss of $750,000.

' ' Thursday, April 18. " ' .
English yield ‘Ifoelcap‘ellefand Lange-

 

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tho‘Germahs,'» . fierce 1*: "
to redress “retires“ nor‘thern' 63d of
western front, and 600 prisoners are
taken—~21 tremendous artillery duel

' ranges along the entire nOrthern front.

-—Bri‘tish U-boat loss for the week is
fifteen boats, eleven being over 1600

"tons—English House of Lords pass

second r - ng of man power .bill now
before that body.—'—Liberty Loan cam-
paign goes on. with many districts
far over-subscribing their quotas. De-
troit’s over-subscription is estimated
at $15,000,000, making her total pur-
chase over $52,000,000.——-Secretary of
War Baker states that our military
power must be immediately increased
to 3,000,000 and ultimately to 5,000,000.
——Erie Canal is seized by Director
General McAdoo, for the purpose of re-
railway traffic between the
great lakes and New York City.

Friday, April 19.

French troops come to the assist-
ance of the English andthe Allied line
holds everywhere—Germans make ex-
traordinary violent attacks between
Givenchy and Robecq without results.
——The French carry positions before
Amiens.—Berlin admits counter at-
tack halts forward movement—British
war cabinet has a Shake-up in which
Viscount Milner becomes war secre-
tary and J. A. Chamberlain member of
the war cabinet—King George signs
the man power bill—Irish leaders
unite to resist conscription—Central
powers decide to dissolve the parlia-
ment of Ukraine and establish an Aus-
tro-German government—A new scale
of wages for civilian workers in At-
lantic coast navy yards is announced
for May 1‘.

Saturday, April 20.

Germans fail to make additional ad-
vances with the Allied line hdlding
firm at every point on the western
front—Italian troops arrive in France.
-——Allies predict a new offensive by
Germans—French losses during four
years are announced as 1,300,000 men
killed and almost as many wounded or
prisoners—Officers predict that the U-
boat peril will be ended by June:—
General Pershing reports that twenty-
two United States engineers are killed
in battle.——Schwab secures preference
in steel production for ship building
purposes—Liberty Loan sales are re-
ported beyond the billion dollar mark.

Sunday, April 21.

Allied positions in Flanders are ma-
terially improved by successful at—
tacks northwest of Bethune by the
French and near Givenchy by the Brit~
ish. Germans make a strong attack
northwest of Toul, but after furious
hand to hand fighting are obliged to re-
tire before the Americah troops—Ex-
perts believe that the German drive
has been stopped both on the French
front at Amiens and also in Flanders.
———Two American ships are reported
lost in war zone on which eighty-five
persons perished—Irish members
British Commons adopt resolutions to
remain in Ireland to fight the draft
measure—A foot of snow falls in
northern Michigane—Philadelphia is
put under United States police control.

Monday, Apnil 22.

American soldiers are successful in
ejecting Germans from the village of
Seicheprey, which was recently report-
ed taken from the Americans. Persh-
ing’s men also defeat the enemy's ef~
forts to separate them from the French
farther to the west—British forces
drive the Germans from Robecq
trenches—German troops fail in an ef-
fort to- break through the British lines
northeast of Ypres.—-Japan turns over
sixty—six ships for use of the United
States government—British and Ger-
man light naval forces clash east of
Heligoland and the latter retire behind
mine fields—Civil war is reported in
Russia, with the Soviet troops opposed
by an army under General Korniloff.—-—
Earthquakes shake southern California
coats towns, entailing a property loss
of $500,000.

Tuesday, April 23.

Events along the battle line in
France and Belgium portend new Ger-
man offensive. Violent artillery efforts
have been in progress along practically
the entire western front for nearly
two days. Infantry attacks have been
few however, which makes it difficult
to fortell where the next drive will oc-
cur—Baron Richtofen. famous German

aviator who has achieved eighty areo ,

victories, is shot down on the Somme
front.—.Guatemala breaks diplomatic
relations with Germany—American
casualty list contains seventy-one
names—Canada. is planning to raise
$500,000,000 additional war revenue,

this coming year—Large Mexican mil- .

itary‘ forces are reported near the
United States border—Norway will
place 500.000 tons of shipping at'the

disposal of American. interests—Addi-

tiOnal earthquake shocks shakesouth
ern California. ‘ . * '

   
    

           

   

 

 

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age in order to remove the coarser un-
dissolved particles. , Any kind of a

strainer having either brass or tinned
1 ' iron wire (never copper), thirty to
fifty meshes to the inch may be used.
With the usual type of strainer, how-
ever, the sediment will clog the wire
mesh more or less and thereby will
prevent the rapid flow of the solution
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RAT PROOF CORNCRIB.

The cominon practice of setting corn-
cribs on posts with inverted pans at
the top often fails to exclude rats, be-
cause the posts are not high enough to
place the lower cracks of the structure
beyond reach of the animals. As rats
are excellent jumpers, the posts should
be tall enough to prevent the animals
, from obtaining a foothold at any place
within three feet of the ground. A crib
built in this way, however, is not very
satisfactory.

For a rat-proof crib a well-drained
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general health conditions.

this belt of sheet metal about a foot in
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SlLO IN GROUND.

In the Michigan Farmer of April 6,
R. E. M. inquires about a‘ silo for two
cows, and asks if it is practical to build
such a silo in the ground.

I beg to differ with the party who an-
swered it, as I know from experience
that it is practical to have a silo in the
ground.

I have one that is seven and a half
feet across and twenty-one feet deep,
that I have used for four years, and
see no reason why one could not be
made three or four feet across and be
a perfect success.

For a large herd of cattle it might
be too much work to draw the silage,
but for a few head it is not. I am never
troubled with the silage freezing and
the silo never needs any repairs, and
for the man keeping but a few cows I
believe it is an ideal silo.

It is practical and cheap, and most
men can build it themselves, and it
can be filled with a common cutting"
box. .

Leelanau Co. C. H. MILLER.
HYGIENIC SIDE OF LABOR SAV-

ING.

There is a closer relation between
the use of labor-saving devices upon
the farm and the health of the country
people than is ordinarily suspected.
Save in regard to certain diseases and
the variations due to different locali-
ties there is no very alarming differ-
ence, according to most authorities, in
the average death rate the country ov-
er between people who live in the open
country and those who live in the cit-
ies. Certain diseases exert a heavier
toll in the country, while others claim
the most victims in the congested cen-
ters. Each locality averages up fairly
well against the other. But the death
rate tells nothing conclusive about the

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However, there are cheaper ways of
excluding rats from either new or old
corncribs. Rats, mice, and sparrows
may be kept out effectually by the use
of either an inner or an outer covering
of galvanized-wire netting of half-inch
mesh and heavy enough to resist the
teeth of the rats. The netting in com-
mon use in screening cellar windows,
is suitable for covering 0r lining cribs.
As rats can climb the netting, the en-

tire. structure must be screened, or, if
. #sparrov‘v‘s' are not"3~t'0"bé excluded, the
Entire 'nettinzrinay be carriedup about
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story of the average number of lives
which are terminated each year in var-
ious places but it tells nothing of the
average condition of those lives before
death ensues.

Observation and such statistics as
are available indicate that the general
health of country people is not as good
as that of city folks. Among men it
has been found that they “break” ear-
lier in life on the farm, due to the ex-
acting stress of farm work. Farm men
may live long, possibly longer on an
average, than men in the city, yet is
their “strength labor and sorrow,” as
the good Book puts it. They endure
a longer span of years during which,
their efficiency is less than the effi-
ciency of men who live in cities. In
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Corn grown by men who make a
business of growing corn for seed.
Grown far enough North to ripen in
Michigan. All germinates 70% or better.
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Wisconsin No. 12 " $h Longfellow Flint $3
King of the Earliest " $8 lit-d (fob Ensilage $4
Reid’s Yellow Dent. its Learning Fodder $4

Bags Extra 5w each.
All shelled corn, .30 lbs. per ML, f. o. l). Ypsilanti.

MARTIN DAWSON COMPANY,
Ypsilanti, Michigan

United Slims I'inHl .-i«lu1iustrution,
Lice/181' Number (v1.1.5?

Salvage and Feeding
81.15 - 895

Send torLSamplea

Carpenter Grain Company,
Battle Creek, Michigan

POTATOES

Plant a smaller acreage. and get. a bigger yield.
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Koger Bean and Pen Thresher for
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Threshes any variety of cow peas: navy,
kidney, soy or wax beans from the mown
vines,and breaks less than two percent.
This is guaranteed.

Can be had with grain attachment to
thrash wheat, oats, barley and rye ina
clean, successful way.

 
       
     
 

J. M. Rogers says “I thrashed 6,780 bushels
o beamynth my little beaner and a 6 H.P.
name in 40 days--white, navies, black and
wax_mostly Best work ever done is this
section-who a a. peach.”
Made in 3 sizes—16 and 20—inch for 4 to
12 H.P. gas engines; 30—inch for 10 to 15
H. P. tractors. Prices $250 to $550.
To demonstrate to you the efficiency or
this “beener”, we'll ship it to you on trial.
Write today for cabal and particulars of
our tree trial proposit, on.

The Arbuckle-Ryan Company,
222-34 Cherry St., Toledo, 0.

Headquarters for Tractor .iIach.
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whatever," said Mr. Stewart.

In the tough sod of the Northwest, the mucky ricelands of
the South, the gumbo of the Southwest, in the most difficult
soil and climatic conditions, the Parrett has for the past five
years been giving wonderfullyefiicient service. We can prove
that it will do the work on your farm and will sell you a
Parrett under a rigid guarantee.

It will pull 3 fourteen'mch bottoms—will operate a 20 to 26 inch seps-
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hitch required. Burns kerosene and is so snnp e to operate that a boy
can do the work which ordinarily requires a man. -

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Saves Time and Improves the Quality

‘ N 7 [TH Moline Haying Machinery you
can put your crop up in less time

‘“ and with less labor than by any other
method. and at the same time you w'
81:} a better quality of hay.

After your grass is cut rake it into loose.
fluffy windrows with a Moline Cylinder
Side Delivery Rake and Tedder. in this
manner it will cure rapidly, retain its
natural green color and nutritive value
because it is not exposed to
the direct rays of the sun in
curing. In case you desire
to ted the hay before put-
ting it up you can do so by
simply shifting a lever on the
Mo'l'm’e Cylinder Side Delivery
Rake and Tedder which re-
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Then straddle the windrow
with a Moline Hay Loader
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roll on a load in the shortest possible time.
avoiding the back breaking work of hand
pitching. If you desire you can load just
as well from the swath with a Moline
Hay Loader.

Moline Hay Loaders are built in M0
types, gearless and cylinder. Either one of
these will take care of your work.

In addition to hay loaders and side
delivery rakes, we build a complete line
of haying machinery including
mowers. Bulky rakes, sweep
rakes. swinging rakes
overshot hay suckers.

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no rrllbatter what youriyrequirerwnts
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HE potato growing states, includ:
ing Michigan, are deeply inter-
ested in \the tuber problem right
now. The bulk of the 1917 crop is un-
sold and in growers’ hands, with no

market for them, and the outlook is'
: dark. Potatoes are being fed to stock.
A. M. Smith, of Lake City, president of

the Michigan State Potato Associa-
tion, was in Washington recently and
he announces that While Senator
Smith’s measure to do away with po-
tato grades was killed, the agitation
over the present rules has brought
about a modification that should help
the grower somewhat.

The United States Bureau of Mar-
kets established two grades, the size
requirements being minimum diameter
of one and seven-eighths inches for
No. 2’s. A tolerance of five per cent
by weight was allowed for potatoes be-
low the minimum size for the partic-
ular grade and in addition a tolerance
of three per cent by weight was allow-
ed for potatoes below the other re-
quirements of U. S. Grade No. 1.

Greater Tolerance.

Now the Bureau of Markets has
amended this tolerance statement to
read as follows: “In order to allow
for variation incident to commercial
grading and handling, ten per cent by
weight of any lot may be under the
prescribed size, and in addition three
per cent by weight of any such lot
may be below the remaining require-
ments of this grade. In the grading of
potatoes no method 01' screen shall be
used which will place in the No. 2
grade more than five per cent by
weight of: the N0. 2 potatoes that are
above the size requirements for this
grade, provided that by agreement be-
tween contracting parties grades in
size and quality above the specifica-
tions of U. S. Grade No. 1 may be
made.”

This is a move toward establish
ing the single grade of N0. 1, made up
of potatoes that, as to size, will pass
over a one and three-fourths-inch
round mesh screen, and, as Michigan
growers have been asking for.

Michigan growers are organizing lo-
cal associations, with better marketing
methods as the chief end in View. The

‘Hobart Potato Growers’ and Sellers’

Association was formed recently in
southern Wexford county, starting with

twenty-five members and $3,000 sub-
; scribed. Oceana county grOWers will

meet at Hart on April 20 to form a
similar body.

Growers in the Grand Traverse reg~
ion are interested in the statement
that a factory at Traverse City has
been remodeled for the manufacture of
potato flour, potato chips and potato
stock feed. The No. 2 grade, or at least
field run stock will be used principally
and the plant’s capacity is estimated
at 1000 bushels a day. Potato starch

factories are reported opening in Min-‘

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nesota that are paying farmers seven-
ty-flve to eighty cents per cwt for the
field-run stock.

What we might Do. .

It is interesting to note what Ger-
many, our enemy country, has been
doing with her enormous potato crops
in recent years. We are even told that
the fate of Germany depends on the
potato behind the man behind the gun
in this war. Before the war consump-
tion of potatoes in that country was
about three and a half pounds per
adult per day, while the production

-was far ahead of that of any other

country. Germany raised fifty-five mil-
lion tons in 1914, while in 1915, the
first year of the war the production
was still over forty million tons, or
enough to supply her people with twen~
ty-flve pounds per capita per day. There
was a crop failure in 1916, with pro
duction estimated at twenty-three mil-
lion tons. The 1917 crop was much
better.

Germany learned almost twenty
years ago that potato drying plants
pay, and from three of such plants
found throughout the empire in 1903
the number had increased to 841 in
1916. Roller apparatus and drum dri-
ers are now generally,used and the
machines are easy to operate.

Germany grows great quantities of
tubers for industrial uses, including
starch, denatured alcohol and for dry-
ing. Thousands of tons are dried for
stock food and market quotations
there regularly cover potatoes for eat-
ing and potatoes for manufacturing,
the latter being about one-third less in
price. Potato breeding for starch con-
tent is common and experiment sta-
tions are maintained for this purpose.
The increase in starch content often
means smaller potatoes and less yield
per acre.

A Market Regulator.

Potato drying has developed from
big crops and low prices, and when the
yield is small nothing but the culls, of
course, are dried. Drying reduces the
Weight three-fourths and the dried pro-
duct is readily shipped any distance
and keeps indefinitely. Drying is no
longer an experiment in Germany.
There are two types of drying, the
shredding of the raw potato to pieces
the size of a small lead pencil, and dry-
ing under intense heat, and the flak-
ing process, when potatoes are first.
cooked by steam, then mashed and
dried by running through hot rolls.
Both are used as food for horses, cat-
tle, sheep and swine and are quoted
regularly in market reports. The flakes
are preferred, however, because they
are more digestible, even though the
cost of manufacture is considerably
higher, ranging from $2 to $2.50 per
ton. Out of 404 factories operating in
1911, 314 made flakes. This food is
used largely for hogs and replaces
corn ‘in the ration almost wholly.

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How'Farmers Can Get Flour

of wheat flour that wheat and
rye millers can sell to farmers
or give in exchange for wheat has been
promulgated by the Milling Division of
the United States Food Administra-
tion. ‘

The order limits all millers to the
sale of not to exceed forty-nine pounds
of wheat flour to a person living in a
rural district. In addition, no miller
may knowingly sell quantities to ex.
ceed a customer’s requirements for
thirty days.

The miller must require the custom~
er to accept wheat substitutes of equal
weight to the flour purchased, unless
the customer submits in writing a oer.
tificate showing that he" has on hand a

A. N order governing the amounts

sufficient supply of such substitutes.-

These are defined as 110951-1939 90m

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grits, corn meal, corn flour, edible corn
starch, barley flour, rolled oats, oat
meal, rice flour, buckwheat flour, pota-
to flour, sweet potato flour, soy bean
aflour, milo, kaffir, feterita flour and
meals. ,

Each miller must forward to the Fed-
eral Food Administration of his state
on the first of the month the certifi‘
cates thus received.

When a farmer brings wheat grown
by himself to the mill to exchange for
Wheat flour the amount of the flour
that can be exchanged shall not exceed
an amount that, with flour already in
the hands of the farmer, will reason-
ably meet the requirements of his
household or establishment during the
next thirty days. ‘In determining the
quantity of flour to be consumed» mil?

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Every farmer who changes from one
breed toganother finds that it costs
money. He finds that the new breed
may not be as good as ‘he thought and
his old stock was not given full credit

for its value. Of course, there are of-

d reasons for making changes,
but in general they should not be made
too frequently and it pays to remember

' that one year cannot tell a whole story

with any breed and the farmers who
stick to one line seem to have the best
success.

The hog breeder may become dis-
couraged because of lack of feed or the
low price paid for pork. “Therefore he
goes out of the hog business. Then
pork goes up and his neighborsfind it
profitable. He becomes interested and
buys stock when pork is high. It is
the farmer that sticks to his business
and bases his profits on a ten-year av-
erage who will find any breed of live

stock the most profitable and satisfac-

tory to manage.

Poultry flocks 0n the farm frequent-
ly become mixed because of. the prac-
tice of buying a few fowls or a few
hatching eggs from another breed

Costs Money “ 1

whenever the farmer becomes discour-
aged with his own stock. If the same
money had been used to buy better
stock of the same breed to improve or
breed up the home flock, the invest-
ment would have paid better dividends.
It takes some time to build up a large
flock of profitable fowls and if the
farmer is constantly shifting from one
breed to another the profits are re-
duced. ‘

Experience counts a great deal in
any kind of farming and constantly
shifting from one breed to another sim-
ply cuts down the amount of experi-
ence with any one breed and reduces
the chances for success. One farmer
will succeed with live stock without
any apparent effort after years of
studying the breed. Another farmer
may take the same stock and immedi-
ately begin to fail, although‘he seems
to be trying hard for success. It is the
factor of experience which makes the
first farmer successful and the experi—
ence is the result of sticking to one
line instead of shifting too frequently
from one breed to another.

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To Insure Health of Stock

The f llowing suggestions, if follow-
ed carefully, will go far toward insur-
ing the health of the animals on our
farms and increase their service, eith-
er as food or work animals. The Work-
horse Relief Association has given us
these pertinent facts:

1. Do not fail to provide clean, warm
quarters in which your cows, ewes and
mares can bring forth their young.
Navel ill comes from dirt.

2. It is dangerous to expose young
stock, especially foals and colts, to the
spring rain-storms. A day’s exposure,
if not fatal, may stop a month’s growth.

3. It is bad policy to turn the stock
to pasture before the grass has well
started—bad for the pasture and bad
for the stock.

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

5. Get your horses into condition for
the hard spring work—the young hors-
es especially. Many a colt has been
ruined by being put to hard work with-
out preparation. It is the same with
green horses.

6. Look out for sore shoulders and
backs, especially in plowing. Be sure
that your collars fit. A collar too big

‘is as bad as one too small. If the col-

lar rides up, use a martingale, or a
girth running from trace to trace, back
of the forelegs. ’

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

8. Wipe off the harness marks on
your horses when you stop work at
noon and at night, and clean the in-
side of the harness, the collars espe—
cially. The salt sweat, drying on the
skin and on the harness, is what
makes the trouble.

9. If the skin is wrinkled under the
collar or saddle, bathe it with witch—
hazel. If the skin is broken, bathe it
with clean warm water containing .a
little salt. Fix the collar, with padding
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the sore spot the next day. A little;
carelessness at the beginning mayi
cause a lot of trouble to you and suf»
fering to the horse. 3

10. Clean your horses at night, wa—i
ter them, give them a good bed, and?
water them again after they have eat-l
en their hay. Let them rest an hour
or more before they are grained. .The‘
observance of these simple rules will
not cost you a cent, and will make a
big difference in their condition.

CORNCOB ASH ES;

Wherever corncobs are used for fuel,
the ashes should be carefully preserv-
ed and used as fertilizer as they con-
tain about thirty per cent potash, or
about five times as much as wood
ashes. It would pay large feeders to
gather up the cobs and burn them for
this purpose. ~Many times millers are
glad to get rid of cobs and they may
be had for the asking. Farmers should
never let a chance like this pass by.

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The Spirit of War Service

Alone in the midst of wars summoning of reinforcements.i

desolation, the telephone line-
man crawls to mend the
broken wires.

On all sides the thunder of
artillery; in the air bursting
shrapnel.

in a dark hole hidden among:
sparse brushwood are the:
telephone Operators, some of,
whom have been for months:
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swept by shells.

And they are admirable, all
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light of day.

He faces danger with that
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service which permits him to
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The spirit of war service,
over here as well as over there,
furnishes the nerves, the en-
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against it for help. Hired hands are scarce, hard to get, and expensive.

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wheels of youi car (any make)
gives you the cheapest belt power
in the world, a wonderfully sat—
isfactory portable engine of 5- 8
H. P., that costs from $100 to
$250 less than any comparable
gas engine.

I... A. Young Industries, Inc.

Detroit, Mich., Dept. 49

Some farmers are going
to get LA Y Petra-Power
free, as the results 0!
my special ofl'er to early
buyers m each commu-
nity Better write me
now for all the particu-
lars, so you can be the
man to profit by this
offer in your locality.
Ask me about my plan,
(0-day.

L. A. Young)

THE CHEAP-
EST 511.0

The lowest price silo is not nec-
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last only a few years and prove
very expensive.

The cheapest silo is the one
that gives the lowest cost per
year of service ~~

The Century Creosoted Stave Silo

Century Silos can't decay and
are built to last a lifetime. They
cost very little 11101e than ordinary
untreated stave silos and are much
cheaper 1n the end.

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‘Orchd SiliFer lty

By W. C.

N considering the matter of fertili-
I zation of orchards perhaps it will

be well to first discuss somewhat
the different systems of orchard man-
agement.

While there are innumerable sys-
tems of handling orchards there are
only four which are very widely used
for bearing orchards. They are the
sod and mulch systems, the sod sys-
tem, the clean cultivation system, and
the cultivation and cover crop system.
The first and last named systems are
the only Ones worth considering where
planning a permanent system of or-
chard management.

The Mulch System.

With the sod and mulch system for
young trees there are at least two dis-
tinct methods which may be followed:
First, where all the land is in a. legume
and the crop cut and used to mulch
the trees, this is an almost ideal meth-
od but expensive; second, where the
tree rows are in sod ‘and the trees
mulched, with the spaces between the
rows cropped with either cultivated
crops or hay, or small grain crops. In
this case it is necessary to use at least
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removes from the soil 11.28 pounds of
nitrogen; 1.88 pounds of phosphorous;
and 13.16 pounds of potash. .As com-
pared to 37.44 pounds of nitrogen; 6.12
pounds of phosphorus, and 7.74 pound

of potash for a thirty-bushel ‘ t
crop per acre. This not including the
amount contained in the leaves on the
trees required to grow the apples, or
that in the straw of the wheat.

Orchards Need Fertilization.

We will assume that the leaves from
the apple trees are held to the land
which produced them by the cover
crop, and that the straw is returned to
the soil as crop residue.

In addition the plant food contained
in the fruit produced there is consider-
able being used to grow the trees
which sooner or later will be taken off
the land and used for fuel, also consid-
erable nitrogen is likely to be lost
each year in the burning of prunings.

From these figures one may be led
to believe that the fertilization of or-
chards is not as important as the fer-
tilization of land used for growing the
grain crops, but when considering that
100 barrels of apples per acre is not a.
large crop, and that thirty bushels or

 

 

The Result of Proper Fertilization and Care.

wheat per acre is quite a. large crop.
also that as a general thing orchard
soils are likely to be poorer naturally
than wheat soils it may be more im-
portant than at first would seem to be

case grains are grown the straw must
be returned for mulching. In case cul-
tivated crops are grown mulching from
outside sources must be secured, and a
cover crap should be sowed at the last
cultivation the same as in the cultiva-
tion cover crop system.

Personally the writer sometimes
thinks that it might be practical to
plant an orchard in a sweet clover field
and each year out the sweet clovei‘for
seed, and return the straw to the trees
as mulching, hoping to secure returns
enough from the sale of seed to pay
the cost of growing the orchard to
bearing age.

Humus a Necessity.

In using the cultivation cover crop
system for young orchards we can cul-
tivate all the land until mid-summer,
and then sow a legume for a cover
crop to be plowed down the following
spring, or we can cultivate only the
tree rows, and sow a cover crop there
while we are growing hay or grain in
the spaces away from the tree rows;
each year enlarging the cultivated
strips in the tree rows, or we may
grow a cultivated crop in the spaces;
each year cultivate the tree rows as
we do the crop, then at the last culti-
vation sow a legume for a. cover crop
to be plowed down the following
spring; each yeai leaving 111019 of the
land along the tree IOWS without a
crop.

The writer feels safe in saying that
the advantages of either of these sys-
tems in the way of a. better nitiogen
and humus supply over the plain sod
system, or clean cultivation system
will more than offset the added cost of
either of these systems. Assuming,
even, that we can by these systems se-
cure all the, nitrogen and humus we
need with legumes we still must sup-
ply .the mineral elements in some
form; for the average orchard soil in
Michigan is getting to be finle‘fllé‘t
depleted of the same. ‘

 

A 100- -barrel per acre crop of,apples

the case. However, it is very likely
that with the better orchard lands the
limiting factor in crop production, as
far as soil goes is a lack of organic
matter and nitrogen rather than a lack
of phosphorus or potash.

Many Orchard Soils Acid.

A great deal of the orchard land in
Michigan would be greatly benefited
by an application of from two to five
tons of finely ground limestone to the
acre or its equivalent in marl. Not for
the direct results, but that the legumes
would grow better, it being very im-
portant to have legumes grow well in
an orchard no matter what system is
used. If mulching they are needed to
mulch with; if using the cover crop
and cultivation system they are need-
ed to plow down to furnish organic
matter and nitrogen.

Personally the ~*writer believes that
when we have solved the problem of
maintaining the fertility of our soils
we have solved the greatest problem
connected with the orchard business.
Soils are not what they once were, no
matter whether they have been grow-
ing orchard or farm crops. The change
has been so very slow and gradual
that it is hard for us to believe our
soils are constantly decreasing in fer-
tility, but such is the case as we are
forced to admit, when occasionallywe
get a chance to see what a new soil, or
practically new soil will do, as com-
pared to what our old worn soils
will do.

Peaches Need Cultivation.

The above was written with special
reference to apples, pears, plums and
cherries. >I have grave doubts as to
the advisability of attempting to grow

peaches commerciallgby any asystem ,

other than the cultivation and cover
crop.

  

 

 


  

   
 

4 of 289 tubs of butter, amounting to

Alchin; manager, Fred Perry.

 

farmers met at Bad Axe and
took steps toward forming a
cooperative mercantile association to
operate-a general retail store and con-
duct live stockselling for its members.
The pr0posed capital is $30,000 and
the company will be incorporated when
$20,000 is subscribed. The subscrip-
tions at this first meeting were $4,900.
Consider Organization.
Farmers of lonia, Kent and Mont-
calm counties met at Belding to, dis-
cuss plans for forming a cooperative
elevator company. Fred Thompson
was elected chairman and Floyd Jenks
secretary. The leading speaker from
outside was George Miller, manager of
the farmers’ elevator at Chesaning. It
is proposed to organize with $40,000
capital to build an elevator at Belding
and a committee of eight members was
named to secure pledges for stock.

A Good Report.

The Central Barry Cooperative Ship-
ping Association met at Hastings and
elected the following officers: Presi-
dent, C. A. Woodruff; vice-president,
Peter Kunz; secretary-treasurer, A. N.
Williams; manager, C. J. Moore. Ship-
ments for nine months beginning May
12, include 561 head of cattle, 594
calves, 3,745 hogs, 2,285 sheep and
lambs and the net receipts for same
were $166,961.09. Orders for feed
stuffs or fuel as listed by members are
placed in carload lots.

Farmers and Business Men Meet.

Farmers in the vicinity of Belding,
Ionia county, met with the business
men of that city and after extended
discussion voted to take the first steps
toward establishing a farmers’ cooper-
ative market in Belding. A committee
on organization was appointed, with
Fred Thompson of the Belding Grange
as chairman, and the following mem-
bers: Thos. Bookey, Grattan Grange;
Louis Jenks, West Otisco Farmers’
Club; Clyde Beach, East-Otisco Farm-
ers’ Club; Edward Woldridge, Orleans
Farm’ers’ Club; Ira Richmond, Smyrna
Gleaners; H. S. Gardner, Fairview
Farmers’ Club; Ralp Hall, Grattan
Gleaners; F. W. Belding, Shatter Har-
bor Gleaners; W. F. Sandell, Belding
Board of Commerce.

A Big Season’s Run.

The Conklin, Ottawa county, cooper-
ative creamery, has closed the most
successful year in its history, having
paid out to farmers $115,562.97, or $44,-
000 above the previous year. The an-
nual dinner was well attended and offi-
cers and directors were reelected. C.
J. Lazenby continues as manager.

The cooperative creamery at Litch-
field, Hillsdale county, is a busy insti-
tution. A recent shipment was made

M ORE than fifty- Huron county:

nearly $10,000 for one and a half
Weeks.
Another New Association.

Farmers of Lincoln township, Osce—
ola county, have termed the Lincoln
Farmers’ Cooperative Association, with
the following officers: President, C.
N. Fleming; vice-president, ‘Michael
O’Brien; secretary, L. E. Green; treas-
urer, James Pease. One of the early
plans considered is to get rid of their
potatoes at a fair price.

Doing Good Business.

The Shiawassee Cooperative Asso
ciation met at Bancroft and elected
the following officers: President, Em-
ery Lewis; vice-president, B. D.
Stephenson; secretary-treasurer, Jesse
Since
September 1 stock has been shipped
as follows:

and lambs. The association has a. cash
balance in the bank and is in a flour-

ishing condition with about eighty-five ‘

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money is going to be loston many
farms—and saved on many other farms—in
the short space of a few weeks. A very few
days' delay, a rainy day or two, poor curing
facilities, and hay values vanish like magic. Everything
depends on haying machine preparedness. Will you be
ready for haying?

Good hay is made in fast time with little help, year
after year, on farms equipped with mowers, rakes,
tedders, side delivery rakes, loaders, etc., sold by Inter—
national Harvester dealers.

Champion, Deering, McCormick, Milwaukee and
Osborne Mowers, Dump Rakes and Teddere have
been too long and favorably known on forty million
acres of hayfield to need description.

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construaion of the new International, Keystone and
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Work in Joint Ellort the Soil ol the U. S. and Canada---co-operative ‘ "
Farming in Man Power Necessary to Win the Battle lor Liberty ‘

The Food Controllers of United States and Canada are asking for greater
food production. Scarcely 100,000,000 bushels of wheat can be sent to the ,
allies overseas before the crop harvest. Upon the efforts of the United ;

States and Canada rest the burden of supply.

Every Available Tillable Acre must Contribute; Every Available 5

Farmer and Farm Hand must Aeeiet.

Western Canada has an enormous acreage to be seeded but man power is
short and an appeal to the United States allies is formore men forseeding .

operations.

Canada’s Wheat Production last Year was 225,000,000 Bushele;
the demand lrom Canada alone, lor1918,is 400,000,000 Buehele.
To secure this she must have assistance. She has the land but needs the
men. The Government of the United States wants every man who can effec-
tively help to do farm work this year. It wants the land in the United
Canada. When-
er ours are sup-

States developed first of course; but it alsowants to he]

ever we find a man we can spare to Canada’s fields all
plied, we want to direct him there. Apply to our Employment Service,
and we will tell where you can best serve the combined interests.

Western Canada's help will be required not later than May 5 th.
Wages to competent help, $50 a month and up, board and lodging.
Those who respond to this appeal will get a warm welcome, good wages,
_ et a rate of one
cent a mile from Canadian boundary points to destination and return_ Dort-
For particulars no to routes and places where employment may be heel. apply to

U. S. Employment Service,

good board, and find comfortable homes. They will

Dept. of Labor.

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lt rakes clean, teds thoroughly, and handles bay gently.
it is a left-hand-delivery rake, which means it can
follow the mower closely and strike the heads first (not
the stems). It does clean work, piling two swaths at
once on the clean stubble (not on an unralced swath),
which means prOper curing. Quickly adjustable to any

condition of hay and ground.

International, Keystone and Osborne Windrow
Loaders are built to last. Pulled easily by two horses,
they load uniformly, leave the field clean, lift hay over
l0 feet, do not thresh off blossoms and leaves. Sold
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Hay values are high. These tools, which put hay
under cover in prime condition four or five hours after
more, to your pocket.
The International Harvester dealer can furnish you with
types and special equipment. (The
lines include also sweep rakes, stackers, and combined
This is a
year of big demand for machines. scant supply and
handicapped shipping. Act early and be certain. See
the dealer—write to the address below for folders.

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does not. “lay down” on the
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whereby the Dairy and Food De-

partment of the state are to put.
a tester in the field, hoping to avoid
th: annoyances that are so frequent
between the buyer and seller of milk.
Our people must be fair in this propo-
sition and study to know all the con-
ditions that cute in to change the test
of your milk.

Another thing that we must stoutly
adhere to is the principle of receiving
compensation for the milk that is in
accordance with the ruling of the milk
commission and its appointed commit-
tees. Under no condition should the
milk producer allow the buyer to
change this price. As you very well
know,‘the amount designated for the
association does not come out of the
price which you were to receive for
your milk. You receive for your pay
the scheduled price for milk—the asso-
ciation for its work receives one cent
per hundred pounds for its pay.

Be Cautious.

In many states there are men who
are attempting to organize stock com-
panies and buy the milk from COWS of
certain individuals~if these individu-
als will pay for a certain amount of
stock for each cow from which they
expect to sell milk. Wherever a prop-
osition of this kind is made in your
community we urge upon every milk
producer to investigate thoroughly be-
fore he puts his $10 per cow into a
deal of this kind.

The Condensed Milk Situation.

In our meeting at Chicago last week
it was found that on account of the
lack of transportation facilities there

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NUMBER of readers have won-

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heard from the Field Secretary
of the Michigan Milk Producers’ Asso-
Eciation following the recent announce-
ment in these columns that regular
communications from him would ap-
. pear. The reason is that Mr. Reed has
'recently been obliged to undergo a
rather serious operation, due to the
over-taxing of his energy in the service
of Michigan milk producers.
1 Mr. Reed has a real mission to per-
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; dairy industry of the state, tht is quite

;unique. This program is getting the
‘ producer better results than is being
secured in any other state of the un-
ion—even in those states where dras-
tic measures have been employed. The
final success of his undertaking will
likely set the standard for sister com-
monwealths to follow. Our field secre-
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putting not only his heart and soul into
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Milk News from the Field Secretary

By R. C. REED

is today in the United States more
than thirty million cases of condensed
milk. Thiswould not be a serious ques-
tion if the way was open for immediate
shipment! but inasmuch as the oppor-
tunities for shipment are to be less in
the nearfuture than they have been
in the past, this question assumes ser-
ious proportions.
Seeking Relief.

A committee of three was appointed
at the Chicago meeting to go to VVash-
ington to visit the food and war de-'
p‘artments and see if it- would not be
possible to obtain a change of this rui-
ing at the earliest possible date and
also to get two ounces of cheese incor-
porated in every soldier’s ration. From
the best available sources we are in-
formed that there are about one mil-
lion American soldiers in France at
the present time. Could these soldiers“
each have two ounces of cheese it
would require one hundred and twenty-
five thousand pounds of cheese a day
to supply them and as this is the best
animal food nutrient available it can
be readily understood how vital this is
——not only to the dairy industry but
also to the well being of our soldier
boys who are fighting our battles.

Profitecring on Cheese.

In most places in Michigan cheese is
retailing at the present time from
thirty-six to forty—four cents a pound,
while the wholesale market price for
cheese today is twenty-one cents. Ev-
erything should be done that can be
done in the near future to change this
method of profiteering and, if possible,
to cause the people to consume more
of these vital food products.

a Big Task

in his enthusiasm for, and devotion to,
the great task before him—the task of
placing the dairy industry of Michigan
upon an economically Sound basis.

We are glad to announce that he is.
now rapidly recovering and has been
able to submit the above notes to keep

our dairymen in touch with the latest .

changes in the marketing of dairy pro-
ducts. We bespeak for Mr. Reed the
fullest cooperation of every milk pro-
ducer and every local milk producers"
association of the state to the end that

Michigan dairymen will receive and“

give justice and that she will enter ere:
long into that deseived position, the
leading commonwealth in the produc-
tion of dairy products.

How FARMERS CAN GET FLOUR:

 

(Continued from page 548).

ers are required to conform to the
Food Administration’s statement of =
March 24, asking all persons to cut
their consumption of wheat flour by
fifty per cent and limiting the amount
of the sale for exchange to a monthly
basis of six pounds for each person.

No wheat miller is allowed to deliver?
flour without an equivalent amount of‘
substitutes in exchange for wheat until.
the customer gives him a written state-

ment which the miller has reasonable; -
The form,

cause to believe to be true.
of the statement follows:
..1918.

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(address) .
was grown by me on my farm, that the
amount of flour to be delivered to me,
together with that already on hand,
will not give me a supply more than
sufl‘icient to meet the requiiements of
my household or establishment during
the next thirty days, and that I will
not sell, lend or deliver such flour to
anyone, nor permit such flour to be
used for any purpose, except human
consum

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SHORT while ago I went into

the stable of a farmer friend

who lived about a mile or so
from me. He was just feeding his
cows. I noticed that he measured out
the grain ration for the different ones
and also gave each one the hay that
was needed. There was one cow that
only received hay for her fed. I asked
him why he did not give her any grain.

“Oh! That one, why she is dry. I
expect that she’ll ‘come in’ in about a
month or so. After one of my cows
stop giving any milk, I do not give
them any more grain,” he told me.

“But, in her case,” I asked him,
“don’t you think that she is so near
freshening time that it might pay?”

“I do not see where there’d be any
profit,” he answered. “How can any
cow that is dry be worth giving any-
thing but hay to?” And he laughed as
he thought that it was quite a joke to
feed anything but hay to his cows that
were dry. »

As I looked at the cow that was get-
ting only hay, the one that he had told
me he expected would have a calf in a
few weeks, I was surprised. She was

By CHAS. E. RICHARDSON

    

 

gans which makes a tendenCy to loSe
the calf, develop.

When the time draws near for the
cow to have the calf, she should be
placed in a separate pen or box stall,
large enough so that she can move
around easily. The bowels should be
kept free by the use of laxative feeds.
Roots are valuable. A good feed for a
cow some time before and after she
has her calf, is whole oats that have
been swelled by having boiling water
poured over them. Three pounds of
these, three pounds of bran, and one-

' half pound of linseed oil meal mixed

with warm water and a little salt,
makes a good feed and has the ten-
dency to prevent the retaining of the
afterbirth. Of course, hay is to be giv-
en._ After calving give this feed for a
week or so, increasing one-half a pound
a day as the cow increases in her milk
flow, and gradually change to the reg—
ular ration. For at‘ least ten days be-
fore the cow calves she should have
water with the chill taken off; also for
two weeks after.

While, as a rule, cows have their
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The Dairy Cow Responds to Wise

very thin. To look at her I would not
have known that: she was to.freshen
soon. I felt that the joke was really
on him. I know that there are quite a
few farmers that feel as he does. They
do not think that a cow that is not,
giving any milk needs much to eat.

But a cow that is to have her calf
ought to be fed quite liberal. While
she is not giving milk perhaps, she is
using feed to grow the new calf to be
born soon.
her into moderately high condition,
without too much fatness. Excessive
fat is apt to make difficulty at time of
calving. But if the cow has a liberal
quantity of it with good flesh, she is
ready to start immediately to make a
large quantity of milk. Fat that: has
been stored up, is ready as a reserve
to be drawn upon to help at the time
that she is to make the largest quan-
tity of milk. _

While there are farmers that do not
dry off their cows for any length of
time before they freshen, most farmers
agree that ows should have from six
weeks to two months rest from milk-
ing, before they have their calf.

Cows should have exercise in moder-
ation during pregnancy, as with these
that are kept in too close confinement,
there is sometimes dimculty during
calving time. Of course, too much and
violent exercise or conditions which
mtight lead to slipping or jumping is
bad, as such may cause abortion, Cow
= yards where. they get their exercise

should be free from ice and be even
and smooth. Cows that are kept in the

stable, alarge part of the-time should
have the-platform or floor‘under them

.Iev'el; .noors‘ that , slope towards the

rear cause an unnatural pressure to be
finghtito, bearon the generative or-

 

She needs food to bring.

  

Handling at the Freshening Period.

should be watched carefully as the
time draws near, and if there are any
signs of difficulty, help should be got—
ten quickly, if it is to be of use. After
the calf is born the danger from milk-
fever should be guarded. While per—
haps it may not be necessary for every
farm to have a milk-fever outfit, therc
ought to be one at least in every neigh-
borhood and every farmer that has
many cows should understand how to
use it. It is very simple; in fact, many
times a common bicycle—pump with a
small tube attached to it that is small
enough to be inserted into a cow’s teat,
has been successfully used. After fill-
ing with air, the teat is tied with
strips, of cloth to hold it in for an hour
or so, and the process repeated, until
recovery takes place. Particular direc-
tions come with every outfit.

The capacity to give milk is devel-
oped in cows by breeding early. While
a heifer is not fully grown at two years
of age, it seems to be the rule among
most breeders that that is about the
right age for a heifer to have her first
calf, providing she is in no way stunt-
ed in her growth. To fix the habit of
persistent milking, a cow is not bred
so that her second calf comes within a
year and a half. Of course, the best of
care at this time is requisite so that
the future cow may have a chance to
develop as much as posSible.

While cows are bred until they are
twenty years old sometimes, the best
period is from four to five or six, up to
twelve years old. '

.To get the best from any cow, good
care is important at all times, and even
though she. is not giving milk, she

should have a prOperly balanced ration-

to prepare her for the work that is to
come to her as soon as she freshens.

   

 

 

 
 
 
  
 
  
  
  
 
 
 
 
  
  
  
  
  
 
  
 
 
  
  
 
 
  
 
 
   
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
  
 
  
 
  
   
  
 
   
     
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
  

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IF COWS
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"Good-morning, Mrs. Fawncoat. I hear that all the cows in
the county are joining the ‘lVin—the—V’Var’ Club.”

“Yes, Mrs. Start'ace; Secretary of Agriculture Houston says
we must increase the production of butter—fat, and we cows have all.
promised to do our ‘bit.’ ”

“There’s one thing I want to say right now,” spoke up Mrs.
Black. “The farmers have got to back us up in this movement.
I’m with the rest of you, heart and soul, but what chance have I got?” ,

“Why, Mrs. Black, what’s the matter?
barlr and plenty to eat and drink.”

“Yes, I know; but what can I do as long as they use that old
cream separator on the place? It never was any good any way, and
now it wastes so much cream I’m just plain discouraged.”

“Well, you’re not so badly off as some cows, where they haven’t .
any cream separator at all.”

“I don’t know about that. There’s a lot of cream separators in
this county that are only ‘cxcuses’—not much better than none at all._
I tell you, Mrs. Fawncoat, with butter at present prices and the 5
people at Washington begging everyone to save tat, it’s almost a .
crime to waste butter-fat the way some of these farmers do.” i

“That’s one thing I’m thankful for,” said Mrs. Fawncoat; i
“there’s no cream wasted on this farm. “'e have :1 De Laval Cream l
Separator and everybody knows that the Dc Laval is the closest
skimming machine.” ‘ 1

“Well,” said Mrs. Starface. “we never used :1 De Laval on our
place until last fall, and supposed one separator was about as good as
another; but, honest, the De Laval is the first cream separator we’ve
ever had that gave us cows :1 square deal.”

P. S.

Of course your cows can’t talk—but if they could you’d never have
a moment’s peace until you got a De Laval Cream Separator.

You have a fine warm

Remember that a De Laval may be bought for cash, or on 5 :ch liber-
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you don't know him, write to the nearest De Laval office as below.

THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO.

165 Broadway, New York 29 E. Madison St., Chicago

GEHL Ensilaqe (utters

 

The Simple, yet strong and rugged construction of Gehl Ensilage
Cutters makes it absolutely impossible to clog throat or blower, no
matter how fast the corn is thrown in. Gehl Cutters are strong, powerful, safe,
economical—that’s why the demand for Gehl Cutters grows bigger every year.
. Gehl Cutters have positive safety device, best knife adjustment, strongest
butlt all steel frame and other valuable features not found in others. Some of the seven
sizes of Gehl Cutters can be run by a 4 h. p. gasoline engine. In addition, any recent

model of the Gehl Cutter can use the

Gehl Alfalfa Attachment

To get-best results in feeding alfalfa it should be cut into meal—not shredded orcrushed
or ground in an ordinary feed mill. _By usmg a simple attachment. which fits any recent
modeltof thd Sigpetrzlzahn (it G§hl EnsxlaggdCutterByou can make alfalfa meal right. at great
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have two cutters for the price of one.

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alfalfa attachment.

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The general Writhed in agony. J ene,
fallen into a. Chair by the far edge of
the desk, had her head buried in her
arms, and was sobbing.

“And we are going to think, my Gen-
eral,” the Indian’s voice purled on.
“While 'we wait we shall think. Who
will General Crandall be after tonight
——the English sahib who ruled the
Rock the night the English fleet was
blewn to hell from inside the fortress?
How many widows will curse when
they hear his name? VVhat—”

“Jaimihr Khan, what have I ever
done to you!” The governor’s voice
sounded hardly human. His face was
blotched and purple.

“Not what yOu have done, my Gen-
eral—what the English army has done.
An old score, General~—thirty years old.
My father—he was a prince in India—
until this English army took away his
throne to give it to a. lying brother.
The armynthe English army—mur-
dered my father when he tried to get
it back—called it mutiny. Ah, yes, an
old score; but by the breath of Allah,
tonight shall see it paid!"

The man’s eyes were glittering
points of white-hot steel. All of his
thin white teeth showed like a hound’s.

“You dog!” The general feebly wag-
ged his head at the Indian.

“Your dog, my General. Five years
your dog, when I might have been a
prince. My friend goes up the Rock——
stepnstep—step. Closer—closer to
the lower, my General. And Major
Bishop—where is he? Ah, a knife is
swift and makes no noise—"

“Vi'hat a fool I’ve been!” Crandall
rocked in his chair and passed a
trembling hand before his eyes. Sud-
den rage turned his bloodshot eyes to
where the girl was stretched, sobbing,
across the desk. “Your man—the man
of you go to the cells until I Sift this
you protecied~it is he who goes to the
signal tower ,girl!”

“No—n0, it. can’t be, she whispered
between the rackings of her throat.

“It is! Only a member of the signal
service could gain admittance into the
tower tonight. Besides—who was it
went with Bishop down the Rock after
the dinner tonight? And I—I sent
Bishop with him—sent him to his
death. He was tricking you all the
time. I told you he was. I warned
you he was playing with you——-using
you fOr his own rotten ends—using
you to help kill forty thousand men!”

It needed not the sledge-hammer
blows of the stricken Crandall to bat-
ter Jane Ger-son’s heart. She had read
too clearly the full stOry that Jaimihr
Khan’s sketchy comments had outlin-

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his words dropping as molten metal
upon their raw souls

“Forty thousand men! A pleasant
thought, my General. Eight minutes
up the Rock to the tower when one
moves fast. And my friend—ah, he
moves veree—veree fast. Eight min-
utes, and four have already passed.
Watch the windows—the windows look-
ing out to the bay, General and Sahi-
bah. They will flame—like blood. Your
hearts will stop at the great noise, and
then—”

A knock sounded at the double doors
behind Jaimihr. He stopped short,
startled. All listenedf Again came the
knock. Without turning his eyes from
the two he guarded, Jaimihr asked:
“Who is it?”

“Woodhouse,” came the answer.

Jane’s heart stopped. Crandall sat
frozen in his seat. Jaimihr turned the
key in the lock ,and the doors opened.
In stepped Captain Woodhouse, helmet-
ed, armed ‘with sword and revolver at
waist. He stood facing the trio, his
swift eye taking in the situation at
once. Crandall half rose from his seat,
his face apoplectic.

“Spy! Secret killer of men-” he said.

Woodhouse paid no heed to him, but
turned to Jaimihr.

“Quick! The combination,” he said.
“Over the phone—afraid I might not
have it right—stopped here on my way
to the tower—be there in less than
three minutes if you can hold these
people.”

“Everything is all right?” Jaimihr
asked suspiciously.

“You mean Bishop? Yes.
the combination.”

Jaimihr picked the slip of paper
containing the formula from the edge
of the desk with his disengaged left
hand and passed it to Woodhouse.

The latter stretched out his hand,
grasped the Indian’s with a lightning
move, and threw it Over so that, the lat-
ter was off his balance. In a twinkling
Vi'oodhouse’s left hand had wrenched
the revolver from Jaimihr’s right hand
and pinioned it behind his back. The
Whole movement was accomplished in
half a breath. Jaimihr Khan knelt in
agony, and in peril of a broken wrist,
at the white man’s feet, disarmed and
harmless. Woodhouse put a silver
whistle to his lips and blew three short
blasts.

A tramp of feet in the hallway out.
side, and four soldiers with guns filled
the doorway.

“Take this man(” Woodhouse com-
manded.

The Indian, in a frenzy ,writhed and
shrieked:

Quick

ed. She knew now Captain Vi’oodhouse “Traitor! English spy! Dog of an
spy. The Indian was talking again, unbeliever!”
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and dragged him out; his ravings died
away in the passage.

A high- pitched scream sounded be-
hind Lady Crandall’s door ,and a pound-
ing on the panels.
to recover from the shock of surprise,
ran to unlock the door. ‘Ledy Crandall
in a dressing gown, burst into the
library and flung herself on her hus-
bald.

“George—George! What does all this
mean—yells—w—histling—

General Crandall gave his wife a pat
on the shoulder and put her aside with
a mechanical gesture. He took a. step
toward Woodhouse, who still stood
stiffly before the opened doors; the
dazed governor walked like a som-
nambulist.

“Who—who the devil are you, sir?”
he managed to splutter.

Woodhouse brought his hand up in a.
salute as he faced General Crandall.

“I am Captain Cavendish, General.”
Again the hand came to stiff salute on
the visor of the pith helmet. “Captain
Cavendish, of the signal service, sta-
tioned at Khartum, but lately detached
for special service under the intelli-
gence office in Downing Street.”

“The other spy, Almer, of the Hotel
Splendide, has just been arrested, sir.
Major Bishop has taken charge of him
and has lodged him ip the cells.”

The man’s eyes jumped for an in-
stant to Jane Gerson’s face—found a
smile breaking through the lines of
doubt there.

“Your papers to prove your iden-
tity” Crandall demanded, still in a fog
of bewilderment.

“I haven’t any, General Crandall,”
the other replied, with a faint smile,
“or your Indian, Jaimihr Khan, would
have placed them in your hands after
the search of my room yesterday. I’ve
convinced Major Bishop of my genuine~
ness, however—after We left your
house and when the moment for ac-
tion arrived. A cable to 'Sir Ludlow-
Service, in the Downing Street office,
will confirm my story. Meanwhile I
am willing to go under arrest if you
think best.”

“But—but I don’t understand, Cap-
tain—er—Cavendish. You posed as a.
German—as an Englishman.”

“Briefly, General, a girl secretly in
the pay of the Downing Street office——
Louisa Schmidt—Josepha, the cigar
girl, whom you ordered locked up a
few hours ago—is the English repre-
sentative in the VVilhelmstrasse at
Berlin. She learned of a plan to get
a German spy in your signal tower a.
menth before war was declared, re-
ported it to London, and I was sum-
mbned from Khartum to London to
play the part of the German spy. At
Berlin, where she had gone from your
own town of Gibraltar to meet me, she
arranged to procure me a number in
the W’ilhelmstrasse through the agency
of a dupe named Capper—”

“Capper! Good Lord!”
stammered.

“With the number I hurried to Alex-
andria. ”Woodhouse—Captain Woods
house, from Vi'ady Halfa—a victim,
poor chap, to the necessities of our
plan, fell into the hands of the Vv’il-
helmstrasse men there, and I gained
possession of his papers. The Ger-
mans started him in a robber caravan
of Bedouins for the desert, but I pro-
vided against his getting far before be-
ing rescued, and the German agents
there were all rounded up the day I
sailed as Woodhouse.”

“And you came here to save Gibraltar
—and the fleet from German spies?”
Crandall put the question dazedly.

“There were only two, General—Al-
mer and your servant, Jaimihr. Vi’e
have them now. You may order the
release of Louisa Schmidt.”

“The‘captain has ' overlooked one

Crandall

other—the most dangerous one of all.

General Crandall." Jane stepped up
to where the governor stood and threw
back her hands with an air of semis-
sion. “Her name is Jane Gerson, of

  

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New Yorkfiaifl sh‘e knew all along thfit

had met him, in fact, three Weeks be-
fore on a railroad train in France.”

The startled eyes of Gibraltar’s mas-
ter looked first at the set features of
the man, then to the girl’s flushed face.
Little lines of humor crinkled about
the corners of his mouth.

“Captain Cavendish—or Woodhouse,

 

make this girl your prisoner!”

 

CHAPTER XIX.
At the Quay.
IVE o’clock at the quay, and al-
ready the new day was being
made raucous by the bustle .of de-
parture—shouts of porters, tenders’
jangling engine bells, thump. of trunks
dropped down skidways, lamentations
of voyagers vainly hunting baggage-
mislaid. Out in the stream the Sax-
onia—a clean, white ship, veritable ark
of refuge for pious Americans escap-
ing the deluge.

In the midst of a group of his coun-
trymen Henry J. Sherman stood, feet
wide apart and straw hat cocked back
over his bald spot. He was narrating
the breathless incidentsof the night’s
dark hour:

“Yes, sir, a soldier
rooms about three-thirty o’clock and
hammers on our door. ‘Everybody in
this hotel’s under arrest,’ he says.
‘Kindly dress as soon as possible and
report to Major BishOp in the oflice.’
And we not five hours before the
guests of General and Lady Crandall at
G0vernment House. What d’you think
of that for a quick change?

“Vt'ell, gentlemen, we piled down-
stairs—with me minus a collar button
and havin’ to hold my collar down he-
hind With my hand. And what do we
find? This chap, Almer, with a face
like a side of cream cheese, standing
in the middle of a bunch of soldiers
with guns; another bunch of soldiers
surroundin’ his Arab boy, who’s as in-
nocent a little fellah as ever you set.
eyes on; and this Major Bishop walkin’
up and' down, all excited, and .sayin’
something about somebody’s scheme to
blow up the whole fleet out there;-
VVhich might have been done, he says,
if it wasn't for that fellah \Voodhouse
we’d had dinner with just that very
evening."

“Who’s some sort of a spy. 'I knew
it all the time, you see." Mrs. Sher-
man was quick to claim her share of
her fellow tourists’ attention. “Only
he’s a British spy set to watch the
Germans. Major Bishop told me that
in confidence after it was all ever——
said he’d never met a man with the
nerve this Captain Woodhouse has.”

“Better whisper that word ‘spy’
soft,” Henry J. admonished sotto voce.
“Vi"e’re not out of this plagued Europe:
yet, and we’ve had about all the excite-I
ment we can stand; don’t, want any-
body to arrest us again just the minute
We’re sailin’. But, as I was sayin’,
there we tall stood, foolish as goats,
until in comes General Crandal‘l, fol-
lowed by this Woodhouse chap. ‘Ex-
cuse me, people, for causing you this
little inconvenience,’ the general says.
‘Major Bishop has taken his orders too
literal. If you’ll go back to your rooms
and finish dressin’ I’ll have the army
bus down here to take you to the quay.
The Hotel Splendide’s accommodations
have been slightly disarranged by the
arrest of its worthy proprietor.’ So

back we go, and-b)’ CI‘iCkY. mother, ‘.

here. comes the general and Mrs. Cran-
dall now!"

Henry J. broke through the ring of
passengers; and with a waving of his
hat, rushed to the curb. A limousine
bearing the governor, his lady and Jane
Gerson, and with two bulky hampers
strapped to the baggage rack behind,
was just drawing up.

“Why, of course, we’re down' here -

to see you off—and bid you Godspeed

to little old Kewanee!” Lady ‘Cran-

dall was quick‘ to anticipate ‘the Sher-

mans’ greetings. General Crandall,
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BY M. A. cnonchn.

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With sunbeams gleaming through,

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INSIDE Iii-IE LIRES
(Continued from page 557).
beaming indulgently on the group of

homegoers, had a hand for each.

“Yes—yes,” he exclaimed. “After
arresting you at three o’clock we’re
here to give you a clean ticket at five.
Couldn’t do more than that—what? Re-
grettable occurrence and all that, but
give you something to tell the stay-at-
homes about when you get back to—

“Kewanee ,Illynoy, General,” Sher-
man was quick to supply. “No town
like it this side the pearly gates.”

“No doubt of it, Sherman,” Crandall
heartily agreed. “A quiet place, I’ll
wager. Think I’d relish a touch of
your Kewanee after—ah—life on Gib-
raltar.”

Jane Gerson, who had been standing
in the car, anxiously scanning the mill-
ing crowd about the landing stage,
caught sight of a White helmet and
khaki-clad shoulders pushing through
the nearer fringes of travelers. She
slipped out of: the limousine unseen,
and waited for the white helmet to be
doffed before her.

“lwas afraid maybe—” the girl be-
gan her cheeks suddenly flaming.

“Afraid that, after all, .it wasn’t
true. 9” the man she had found in war’s
vortex finished, his gray eyes compell-
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Lsage. “Afraid that Captain Cavendish
’might be as vile a deceiver as VVood-
.thouse? Does Cavendish have to prove
himself all over again, little girl?”

,“No—no!” Her hands fluttered into
his, and her lips were parted in a
smile “It’s Captain Woodhouse I want
;to know—always; the man whose
pledged word I held to.”

' “It must have been—hard,” he mur-
mured. “But you were Splendid——
splendid!”

“No, I was not.” Tears came to dim
her eyes, and the hands he held trem-
bled. “Once—~—in one terrible moment
this morning—when Jaimihrrtold us
you were going to the signal tower—
when we waited—waited to hear that
awful noise, my faith failed me. I
thought you—-”

“Forget that moment, Jane, dearest.
A saint would have denied faith then.”

They were silent for a minute, their
hearts quailing before the imminent
separation. He spoke:

“Go back to the states now; go back
and show this Hildebrand person that
you’re a wonder-4a prize. Show him
what I’ve known more and more surely
every moment since that meeting in
Calais. But give him fair warning;
he’ 5 going to lose you.”

“Lose me?” she echoed.

“Inevitably. Listen, girl! In a year
my term of service is up, and if the

'ar’s over 1' shall leave the army, come
to the states to you, andaand—do you
think I could become a good Ameri-
can?”

“If you have the proper teacher,” the
girl answered, with a flash of mischief.

“All aboard for the Saxonia!” It
was Consul Reynolds, fussed, perspir-
ing, who bustled up to where the Sher-
mans were chatting with Lady Cran-
dall and the general. Reynold’s sharp
eye caught an intimate tableau 011 the
other side of the auto. f‘And that
means you Miss Step-lively New York,”
he shouted,"‘much as I hate to-—ah——-
interrupt.”

Jane Gerson saw her two precious
hampers stemming a way through the
crowd on the backs of porters, bound
for the tender’s deck. She could not
let them out of her sight.

“Wait, Jane!" His hands were on
her arms, and' he would not let her go.
“Will you be my teacher? I want no
other. ” .

“My terms are high.” She tried to
smile, though trembling lips belied her.

“I’d pay with my life,” he whispered

in a quick gust of passion.
promises—4”

He took her in his arms, and be-
tween them passed

pledge of man and girl.

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Our Real Opportunity

rifice is ever lost,” said a thought-

ful writer, who must have had
more than the usual share of respect
for human nature. Certainly it seems
to us many times that not a few of the
sacrifices we make are lost, so far as
their attainment of the end We desired
is seen. We give up a thing which to
us is of heroic size, and the one for
whom we make the sacrifice accepts
our offering as calmly, and ungrateful-
ly, as a child takes its daily bread, with
never a thought of what the gift means
to us. But if we look at it in the light
of our philosopher we will see that the
sacrifice is not lost. Its influence
shows up in our lives if it makes no
impression on the one for whom we
sacrificed. So that no good deed dies
so long as the soul of the doer lives.

I LOVE to think that no heroic sac-

It’s a sustaining thought for those
who are seeking for good out of, the
present world chaos. Certainly if the
amount of good derived is in propor-
tion to the sacrifice,a colossal amount
awaits this poor world as a result of
the stupendously heroic sacrifice now
being offered up. Life will never be
the same again to the wives and moth-
ers who have given their all. Can it
ever be the same to the rest of us?
Can we go back to our old careless,
selfish way after it is over, calmly for-
getting the blood that has been offered
up for our peace and safety? If we
can, then our old philosopher is wrong
and the most vital sacrifice offered up
since Calvary will have been in vain.

Surely we who are old enough‘to un-
derstand it all can not accept the sac-
rifice unchanged. We have been gross—
ly selfish, demanding that life give all
to us, and refusing to give in return.
Looking upon our little chance here on
earth as a time to get all we could and
give as little as possible. But we can
never do it again.

Already there is a change. \Vomen
who have never roughened their hands
with work are scrubbing hospital
floors on the other side, and doing the
' most menial forms of service. On this

side women who have scarcely entered .

their own kitchens except to give or-
ders, are letting cooks go and are
themselves trying the conservation
recipes sent out by the government, in
order to save the foods so necessary
to win the war. And men who thought
they could eat nothing but choice
steaks and roasts, flanked with hot-
house products, are eating stews and
rutabagas with an appetite whetted by
the thought that they can help in this
way though they may be too old to
carry a‘gun. If the boys can give their
lives, if the mothers can give their
hearts, those of us who are not called
on for this sacrifice, see that we can
easily give our pleasure. . .
We have entered into a new dispen-
sation, the dispensation of service. Our
thought no longer is to see how much
we can shirk but how much we can do.
For the first time in our selfish lives
we are mindful of the injunction of
Christ, and after we have done all we
can we say we are unprofitable ser-
vants. One woman who is taking care
of four children, two .of her own and
two whose father has gor'ie to war, and
cooking for three boarders so as to
' _ help‘ out the meager income, was found

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crying the other day because she had
no time to knit. She bought a $50 bond
of each issue, given to every form of
relief work, is paying fifty cents a
week to help keep a Syrian baby, and
yet feels she hasn’t done enough be-
cause she can’t turn out a pair of socks
a week. .
The heroic sacrifice is at work in
our hearts now. Will it continue when
the victory is finally won? Or wlil an-
other generation find Americans slump-
ed back in their old habits? Will we
give to our children and our children’s
children a passion for service? Will
we make them see that the real things
of this world are the things of the
spirit? Or will they gather that the
chief thing in life is to work for mate-
rial success? We have been blind wor-
shippers of what we termed success.
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been the wrong one. If this war brings
to us the abiding idea that the great
man is the one ‘who gives, not the one
who takes, then it will not have been
in vain. This is what Galsworthy’says
to America: . _

“The burden of proving that a dem-
ocratic ‘live and let live’ world-civiliza-
tion can stand will be on her shoulders
more than on those of any other na-
tion. It will all depend on what Amer~
icans make of their inner life, on their
individual habits of thought, on What
they reverence and what they despise.
If they despise meanness and cruelty,
injustice and oppression, shoddiness
and blatancy; if they reverence chival-
ry, freedbm, toleration, good order,
and pride of work—America’s star will
shine before all peoples not so blessed
by fortune. She will be loved, not fear-
ed; she will lead in spirit and truth,
not in mere money and guns. She
stands, at the door of her real great-
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Substitute Brains

Do you remember the day you pick-
ed up the coffee pot and off fell the
top? The rod had slipped out of the
hinge. Without a moment’s hesitation
you slipped in a bit of wire, bent it in
position and secured the top—the rod
was gone but you substituted brains.

That is just what you are called on
to do in bread-making—substitute
brains.

The object of the wheat campaign is
to cut consumption. Keep your eye
on that goal; let nothing turn you
aside. We are in a race with Ger-
many. “Food Will Win the “far”—
but whose food?

The American people have been ask-

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The attractive feature about this
dress of the ever popular navy serge,
is that it may be worn instead of a
suit and blouse, the pretty guimpe and
collar of checked silk gingham giving
the effect of a, blouse. Running diag-
onally across the skirt are bands. of
wide black silk braid, While down the
right side .is‘ a longblack satin sash
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and Save Wheat

ed to save 100,000,000 bushels of wheat
by July as a military necessity. You
are a military unit in the campaign
and three times a day you are called
on to do your share. If you fail you
imperil the safety of the army on the
other side. No reason, no excuse mat—
ters; the only thing that counts is sav-
ing the wheat—the cut must be made.

“But biscuits are the quickest to
make,” objecs one woman.

That’s an excuse not a reason—if
you must have biscuit why not barley
biscuit, rice biscuit or corn flour bis.
cuit instead?

“I must keep light bread on hand,”
says another, “my oven is often not
hot enough for cornbread.”

Another excuse—~mush, rice, pota-

toes or hominy are excellent bread subs

stitutes and can be cooked on top of
the stove. .

“But,” and this is heard from many
Women, “my grocer has no substitute
flour for victory bread.”

\Vell, why not i-pota‘toes? Potato
bread is excellent and potato biscuit a
treat. There are always potatoes too
small to bake that can be turned into
bread. Small potatoes make large
loaves. Substitute brains and the will
to conquer for excuses, and the wheat
will be saved.

One woman who could buy'no sub~
stitute cereals at her store, and had no
money to order elsewhere, made two
weeks’ supply of flour do for three.
She did the job; she cut fiour consump-
tion one-third, and that’s the point.

How to save your share of that 100,-
000,000 bushels of wheat is mostly a
matter of ingenuity. When you get in
a tight place use your head—substitute
brains—shut above all do the job.

Give King Corn a royal ’welcome to
your home. ‘

.Silent pro-German appetites are as
hostile to the allied cause as disloyal
utterances. ,

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

The diflerence between the patriotic
American housewife and the one .who
is indifferent 'or disloyal is measured
by, the amount of‘wheat fiou
kitchen. . .

   

     

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Do You Know
Oatmeal?

0 you know that oat meal’ makes
delicious puddings and other
good things? Of course you know

it is a good breakfast food, but it is
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per. To cook oat meal, stir slowly
two and a half cups of rolled oats into
five cups of boiling water which has
in it one teaspoon of salt. Cook for
one hour, or over night, in a double
boiler or fireless cooker. This will
serve five people. If you want it for
two meals, cook twice the amount to
save time and fuel.

Other Ways with Oatmeal.

Oatmeal Betty—Two cups of cooked
oatmeal, four apples cut up small, one-
half cup of raisins, one-half cup sugar,
one-fourth teaspoon of cinnamon. Mix
and bake for one—half hour. Serve hot;
or cold. Any dried or fresh fruits,
dates or ground peanuts may be used
instead of apples. This Will serve five
people.

Scotch Soup—Two and a half cups
of water, one and one—fourth cups of
rolled oats, five potatoes cut in small
pieces, two onions sliced, two table—
spoons of flotir, two tablespoons of fat.
Boil the water and add the oatmeal,
potato and onion, salt and pepper to
season. Cook one~half hour. Brown
the flour with the fat and add to the
soup. Cook until thick. One cup of
tomato adds to the flavor. Serves five
people. With bread and dessert it is
enough for lunch or supper.

Oatmeal Bread—One cup of milk or
water, one cup of rolled oats, two and
a half cups of wheat flour, one-third
yeast cake, one teaspoon of salt. Scald
the liquid, add salt and pour over the
cats; cool half an hour, add the yeast
mixed with onequarter cup of luke-
warm water and the flour. Knead and
let rise until double the size. Knead
again and let rise in the pan until the
size is doubled. Bake in a moderate
oven for fifty minutes. Makes one
loaf weighing one and "a quarter
pounds. Is delicious with all 'ineals—
try it.

Spiced Oatmeal Cakesf—Onehalf cup
of cooked oatmeal, one and a half
cups of flour, one-fourth cup of sugar,
one-fourth cup of raisins, one-fourth
teaspoon of soda, one—half teaspoon of
baking powder, one-half teaspoon of
cinnamon, three tablespoons of fat, one-
fourth cup of molasses. Heat the m0-
lasses and fat to bpiling. Mix with all
the other ,materials. Bake in muffin
pans for thirty minutes. This makes
twelve cakes.

Scotch Oat Crackers—Two cups of
rolled oats, one—fourth cup of milk, one-
fourth cup of molasses, one and a half
tablespoons of fat, one-fourth of a tea-
spoon of soda, one teaspoon of salt.
Grind or crush the oats and miX'with
the other materials. Roll out in a thin
sheet and cut in squares. Bake twenty
minutes in a. moderate oven. Makes
three dozen crackers.

Baked Oatmeal and Nuts.-'—-—Two cups
of cooked oatmeal,‘ one cup of crushed
peanuts, one-half cup cf milk, one ta—
blespoon: of ‘vinegar, one-feurth tea-

spoon of pepper, two and a half tea-
spoons Of salt." Mix togeth‘erwand bake,

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the apparently arbitrary demands I different ways. Rich milk added to
had made on my children at times beans before baking will make them
when they were most deeply absorbed, . 7. . - . ~
, Just as good as if pork had been put in.
I was forced to admit that If “’2’ had If a well beaten egg is put into pan-
been all too often a fun-speller. ‘Vie cake batter, the griddle will not need
mothers are a thoughtless. lot, and are greasing. When baking pie crust, if
apt to forget ”Fit the fights 9f the the pie can be eaten the same day,
children as 1nd1v1duals are. quite as suet (tried out) may be need for short-
sacred as our owu right to liberty. ening by adding one cup of boiling wa-
lthen we want a. child to do some- ter when mixing it.———Z. I. D.
thug for our convenience, we do not If you have fruit juice left after us-
hemate t0, call 1‘1?“ Way. from IT‘S ing the fruit for pies, do not throw it
Play to do at, even if he is 1n the mid- away as many do; instead, prepare ap-
dle 07 placmg a beam m 8' shack he 16 ples as for sauce, put into a granite
bu1}d1,llg' We demand our small daugh‘ or earthenware baking dish, add a lit-
ter s immediate and cheerful attention tle sugar, pour the juice over them and
at the c’f‘m‘al moment 1n her dolls bake till well done, keeping covered,
dressmaking when, ,lf she drops her and stirring occasionally.—Mrs. J. C. T.
work, the stitches Will all be lost. To Do you know that goose, duck and
them these matters are of tremendous chicken oil is an excellent shortening
importance, and we should respect for cake? You will not need to use as
them. We Shéuld .glve them the much as of other shortening—Mrs.
thoughtful consrderation that‘we are J. (1T.
training them to give us.. This 1s not My children will not eat fat pork,
1'0 say, Of course, that children should therefore I trim off the fat instead of
not learn the lessons of obedience giving it to them to waste, and save it
cheerful servtce and unselfishness. It until I have some lean beef leftovers, -
does mean, however, that the parents when I chop the fat pork and lean beef
should not demand a service Wfth9ut together, mix a very little chili sauce
stopping to consider the children s side with it and set aside for making sand-
Of lt’ whether 1t WI“ interfere WIth Wiches for school lunches. The dear
some task he hle set himself, or even kiddies do not suspect the presence of
“spell hlS fun. The service should the fat. The sandwiches are fine.—
be asked as a favor, and time allowed Mrs. J, C. T.
for the completion of the matter al— Sometimes I boil rice in fruit juice,
ready on hand. . _ using a double boiler, of course. The _
If we expect children to appremate fine with sugar and cream.——Mrs.
the loving things done for them by J, C. T. .' 3
their elders, We must "in?” apprecia- After a dinner of boiled ham and 4
tion for the things the children do for cabbage, or any b ofle (1 dinner, strain. :
us. If It seems necessary to call 21 off any remaining broth, and you will
child away from play to perform some have when it cools a cupful or more
errand'or household duty, the Chad of clear fat, slightly seasoned perhaps
5‘10“” be consulted; the FM” which with the vegetables of the dinner. Mix‘
and-a. reasonable time g1ven for ad- a part of this with chopped potatoes,
gusting Its thoughtsto a change 0f 00- a little pepper and a small chopped on-
cupation. Due consxderatlon should be ion and vou have a delicious hash to
given to their plans and if possible we frv.—L. M T.
3110”“ arrange our W°rk so that “1‘?” ‘When bits of several different kinds
play shall be reasonably free from in of meat and vegetables have accumi
terruption. _ ulated, cut in small pieces and mix,
Ever since that little lad gave me an placing all in casserole. Pour in one
unconscious warning, .I pause before ‘cupfiul or more of cooked tomatoes and
summoning my children to carry out my bake rather slowly until done.-——L. M. T.
WiSheS' even when I know my way Is I have found that carrots make as
right, and murmur to myself, “an good a pie as pumpkin. Boil them in
spoiler.” Then I try to be as consrd- salted water, mash in their own juice,
erate of their convenience and happl- brown down, run through .collandar
ness as I like others to leave me free and then proceed as if it were pump-
to follow out my plans, always allow- kin—Z. I. D.
ing for the proper guidance and over-
sight that is a mother’s duty. Chil-
dren are individuals with individual HOME QUER'ES-
ngth and progress to make, and it is Household Editor.——Would you kind-
I‘Ot the parents place to form and 1y print a recipe for rye bread with full
mold children- to their owu personal directions?——M. S.
wishes, but to help them unfold in the A good rye bread is made as fol-
best way for their own good. lows: Pour one pint of boiling water,
__————-—-——-- or of scalded milk, or a mixture of
MENDING. both, over two teaspoons of salt, and
two tablespoons each of sugar and
There is an old saying, “One stitch shortening. Allow to get lukewarm
in time saves nihe.” Thisjs especially and add one cake of compressed yeast,
true in the mending 0f stOCkingS- BY which has been softened in lukewarm
laying aside a ragged stocking as soon water. Stir well and then mix in one
as a hole is discovered that it may be pint, or two cups of wheat flour. D0
washed and mended, three pair 0f gOOd this in the evening, and set away, cov-
quality hose wear my children about a ered with a clean cloth, to rise until
year. As the boys wear long overalls, morning. 'In the morning work in rye:
only the stocking feet are worn out. flour until the dough will not stick to’
The tODS make good mittens for the the hands, and set away again to rise
younger children. . until double in bulk. Then form into
VVornout garments are not allowed loaves, let rise again, and bake as
to accumulate. If they contain mate- wheat bread. If you are in the habit
rial that can be made into any useful of making bread, use your own rule
article, that is done as soon as possi- and finish with rye hour after sponge
tile and put away till needed.~ Winter is light. Many prefer a sour rye
garments taken Off in the spring are bread. This can be made by adding a
mended before putting away for the piece of sour dough to the new bread
next winter. '_ when it is set to rise after the first
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wives’ Congress at the Michigan
Agricultural College, one of the

l T the.recent Farmers’ and House-
! l s
i

‘displays that attracted considerable at-

tention was the Boys’ and Girls’ Club
Exhibits which were given consider-
able prominence along the left side of
the pavilion. Part of this display was
given over to the Red Cross work of
the girls’ sewing clubs and part to the
handicraft work of the boys, but the

state exhibit of the boys’ potato clubs.

The past year was not a good one
from the standpoint of the potato club
members of the lower peninsula, but it
did not keep them from finishing up
and making a fine display at the final
show. About thirty of the best dis-

[plays from the upper peninsula exhibit

were sent to the state shqw by the
boys, and they certainly demonstrated
the fact that they can produce pota-
toes in that region.

The potatoes on exhibit were accom-
panied by the reports and stories of the
club members. The work of these
junior potato growers was judged on
the basis of the qualityof the exhibit,
the amount raised per acre, the profit
made and the report and story. The
potatoes themselves were judged by
Mr. J. E. Milward, Potato Extension
Specialist for the University of Wis-
consin, Madison, Wis. The reports and
stories were graded by a committee
from the Junior Extension Department
of the Michigan Agricultural College.

When the reports, stories, yields and
profits had been averaged the judges
announced the following results:

State Champion—Gifford Felt, Na-
tional Mine, Marquette county. Age,
15 years; size of plot, one-fourth acre;
yield of plot, 126 bushels; profit from
plot, $146.40; grade on report, 95 per
cent; acre yield, 504 bushels; acre
profit, $593.20.

Second Place—Fred Bickola, Trout
Creek, Ontonagon county,“ age, 17
years; size of plot, half an acre; yield
of plot, 181% bushels; profit from plot,
$151.90; report, 931/2 per cent; acre
yield, 373 bushels; acre profit, $313.80.
Third Place—Roy Wiltse, Big Rap-
ids, Mecosta county. Age, 15 years;
size of plot, half acre; yield ofplot,
129 bushels; profit from plot, $90.05:

 

   

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State Potato Club Champion

By A. C. ‘SPAULDING

bushels; and one acre profit, $193.50.
Fourth Place—Willard Miller, Man-

istique, Schoolcraft county. Age, 13
years; size of plot, one-fourth of an
acre; yield of plot, 56 bushels; profit
from plot, $43.45; acre yield, 224 bush-
els; acre profit, $173.40.

Many of these boys were enabled to
make extra money from their potato
crop this year by hill selecting a quan-
tity of good seed. In fact, several of
the best clubs in the upper peninsula

 

Boys’ Potato Club Exhibit at the Farmers’ and Housewives' Congress.

are at work at present making a spe-
cialty of such seed.

The work which these potato club
boys have been doing in the last few
years is double interesting now in the
light of our present need for all kinds
of food. The following story may give
some idea of how the actual raising of

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Walker, with the result that my re-
turns this fall were beyond even What.
I had hoped for.

The plot of ground selected was 104
feet square. Last year this plot had
yielded 75 bushels of potatoes, that is
at the rate of 402.6 bushels to the acre,
yet I was sure that the soil had not
been completely robbed of its fertility.

About May 30 this sandy soil was
plowed to a depth of five inches. Green.
Mountain potato seed was cut, two
eyes to the piece, and planted by hand
to a depth of four inches. The rows of
potatoes were planted two and one-half
feet apart, and one and one—half feet.
separated the hills in the row. After
harrowing lll'y plot it appeared to be in
fine condition and I felt sure, right
from the start, that a bumper crop
would greet mo in the fall, I knew, .of
course, that to realize my ambition
meant work. The soil had to be en-
riched and for that purpose two team
loads of manure were scattered evenly
over the plat, and then turned under.
Twice (luringr the growing season the
soil was cultivated by hand. Happily,
treatment of ihe stalks and leaves for
insects and plant diseases was unnec—
essary. In fact the potato plants grew
so fast and so thick that I was convinco
ed that I could do little to improve
conditions. About October 1 my first
crop seemed to have reached maturity,
but it was not until the tenth that I
began the pleasant work of harvesting.
Every hill I turned up ‘tickled me,’ be-
cause of the large number of potatoes
I found under each one. When I had
finished a pile of large, clean, white
potatoes, measuing 126 bushels, had
been dug up. -

“I do not believe I was ever happier,
for I had accomplished what I set out.
to do, namely, grow more potatoes on

 

Handicraft and Boys’ Bean and Corn Club Exhibit.

a crop of potatoes appeals to a good,
bright, normal American boy. This
boy’s story and his achievement are of
more interest when we learn that his
brother won the state championship
for potato growing last year, using the
same ground. ,
How i Grew my Potatoes.

“Spurred on by my brother’s success
last, year, I enrolled as a member of
the Boys' Potato Club. Eager to do
better than my brother, I followed as
closely as I could the instructions giv-
en me by our club supervisor, Mr.

  

that one one-quarter of an acre of
ground than my brother did.

“Boys, if you want some real fun,
join the Potato Club.”

 

BOYS’ ‘AND GIRLS’ CLUB NOTES.

The Michigan State Fair is plan-r
ning to construct a model rural school
on the grounds for the coming fall fair.
This building will be the headquarters
for the Boys’ and ~G‘rii'ls’ Club Depart-
merit. All contests and demonstrations.
will be held in the'model school.

 

  

 

 

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.Some of the larger breeds of hens will

persist in becoming broody and they

sometimesflrefuse, to give up without
we go to extremes with them. Lhave
had Orpingtons 'set on boards on the
bare ground .and with no protection
from the elements, and keep it up until
they became poor. In most cases I
can break them up quickly, though,
for a special coop for the purpose is a
part of my equipment.

I have found that three things help
me: Air circulating under the hen,
plenty of water and feed for them to
work on when they are restless, and
the society of the flock. Because of
this I use a coop with a bottom made
of narrow slats or of laths, preferably
on edge, and set this coop where the
other hens work all around it, and
have a water fountain and a self-feed-
er attached to the side. Seldom do I
have to keep the hens in this 000p
mere than three days, and I have had
hens lay in the coop.

Breaking up quickly is important, for
a hen is a laying machine, and it is
necessary for her to keep up her vigor
and condition to be laying at her best.
If we leave the hens on the nests a
week or so they become poor and have
the setting fever so well established
they are much harder to stop, and it
takes them longer to get back to egg
laying. If the hens are taken off as
soon as they stay on the nest over
night it will be easy to induce them to
stop, and then they go to laying again
with almost no interval between. At
the price of. poultry feeds now it be-
hooves us to have no unproductive in-
tervals.

One of the reasons why the smaller
breeds lay more eggs is their non-
brooding habit, and by care we can re-
duce the trouble from broodiness in
our flock of larger breeds to an equal
extent. I have kept the Silver Span-
gled Ham/.burgs and it seemed that
these little hens were always on the
job in the spring and summer, but I
have had Orpingtons that I have kept
equally busy and for a longer period.
I never could induce a Hamburg to
lay anything like a dozen eggs a month
in the late fall and winter, and I have
done this with the Orpingtons when I
had good range and a small flock and
gave well balanced rations.

Kansas. FLORA DEAN.

 

DO NOT NEGLECT LATE HATCHES.

 

I have found that with proper care,
chickens hatched out in April, May
and even in June, will mature and start
laying before cold weather comes. If
the chickens are not cared for properly
then, of course, they will not do as
well and will not mature as early as
those that have had plenty of feed and
care. Much depends upon caring for

' young chickens, whether hatched early

or late. Early hatching, however, re-
quires more care and expense than will
be the case with late hatches, when
the weather is warm and seasonable.
Then again, better hatches are usuahy
secured when set in the latter part of
April or in May. The eggs are much
more fertile than those used for early
hatches.

It is during the month of May that
we— are often surprised by seeing a
large brood walking around proudly as
a result of the hen stealing her nest,
and this is an indication that the best
natural conditions are more favorable
for the young at this particular season
and they can be raised with less care
and attention than at any other time.

It is a good plan, however, to raise
early chicks also, and especially where
they are to‘be sold on the market as
broilers, but is a mistake to think that
it is absolutely a- necessity to get early
batches in order- to have chickens in
condition for winter laying. - Our May

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We furnish container for eggs to be sent us and
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Our Capacityu-Two-tllirds of a Million or
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We also sell purebred Barred Rock. White
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Get new Rhode Island White and Bud Le horn
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Eggs~Plymouth Books (all varieties) An-
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' Egg- from our Barred Pl 'mouth Rooks 81.50
"alum“: per settin $8 per 100, S. C. White Leghorns
glper setting $5 or 00. Custom hatching 30 per egg.

SSELL POU TRY RANCH, Petersburg, Mich.

 

 

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There is a scarcity of berry
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crates. We can make immediate shipment-
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M. H. HUNT & SON,
Box 525, Lansing, Mich.

 

 

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My Bred-today Young's Strain 8. C. White be hem
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W. VAN APPLEDORN. B. 7. Holland, Mich.

 

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layers 30 6% . 38. hatch guaranteed. re-
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‘ Giltl bred for March furrow earl
CheSter fall igs both sexes from best bloo
llnel. l‘. W. ALEKANDER. Vassar. Mich.

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1- SERVICEABLE BOARS
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0 I C 9 ~ all sold except some fall gilts.
' ' ' 8 your spring pigs now.
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Orde :-

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Good growthy stock mile west of Depot. Citizens
phone 124, ‘O'tto B. Schulze Nashville, Mich.

o I C For sale fall gilts and a few gills
‘ ° ' bred for June furrow.
F. C. BURGESS, Meson. Mich. R. F. 1).

FOR SALE

Smooth Jumbo n grundson of Peter Mouw's old boar
Smooth Jumbo a 600 lb. yearling. A top notchcr fit to
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if éou et one you will have to hurry.

J. . BlJ‘l‘LIR. - - - Portland. Hichidun.

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Barred Rocks—EGGS FROM STRAIN with
records to 290 eggs 3 your: 82 per

1|. Delivered bro-reel poet. pron d. Circular free.
FRED ASTLING. - - - Constantine. Mich.
240 egg strain White

Barron Enqlis Leghoms. he... w...
ter layers. lorge size irde.. Hatching eggs per 100.
Chicks $13 per Ill). Guarantee satisfact on. Devries
Leghorn Farms and Hatchery, Box A. Zoolond. Mich.

Barred Pl mouth Rock 3‘s for hatching from
full blood stock p ze-winuing strain 31.50
per 18. J. A. BABNL M. Union City. Mich.

AKRON Strain B. C‘. White Leghorn: Bred to Lay
long bodied vlgroue stock. Eggs and Chicks,prices
right. Bruce . Brown. . 3, Mayvillo. Mich.

ABY Chicks. Brod-today B. 0., White Leghorus
But last ear's price. 812 per 100. ho catalog or cir~
oular. Color direct from thioadv. Coshlntull wither-
der. Hatchovory Tuesday. beginning Apr-H2. Sunny-brook
Poultry ["urms. C. G. Burroughs. Prop“ Hillsdole. Ileh.

BU?!" Leghorns. Cockerels at redhead prices. Egg
from a great laying strain. $1.50 up, per setting.
Cheaper by tho hundred. Dr.Wiliium Smith.Petersburg.Iich.

gs 81.25 for 15, $2 for hi, 83.50 for 50.
Pixie POULTRY FARM, 11.2. Grand Rapid-,Mich.

ARRED Plymouth Rock eggs $5.00 per 100, bags!
hick. $12 per 100. Fine healthy stock nicely burr .
H. H. PIERCE. - - - - -

RgED-To-Lay sow. Leghorn. and Barred Rocks.

Jerome, Mich.

B.P. Rocks 120 each sent by P.Post or Express. Cat-
alogue free. Knolls Hatchery. R. 3, Holland. Mich.

' April and May hatched heavy
Chill“! C hie ks breeds and Le ornc 62 foe”.
104 {0111150. Eggs per setting of 1:3, 31. ; er 108. 87.50.
Crescent Egg Company. - - - A egan. Mich.

 

Ch' k We ship thousands, booking orders now
10 8, for 8 ring delivery. free booklet.
Ennmon'r Khrdnnnr. Box 12. l‘reoport. Mich.

hicks and eggs, standard bred stock.Leghos-ns,mngr.
cuc.\‘ponisli.Rock8. Reds. Orpiugtnns. Wyandottcs.Cumplnec.
Boudons.Pollsh,Scotch G rays. Tyrone Poultry Form. Feubon.l1'ch

holce White and Brown Leghorn chicks at 3-10; An-
Cconas at $14 per 100. Order at once to insure promgt
delivery. M. D. Wyngarden. R. 4. Zeeland. Mic .

DAY OLD CHICKS

250.000 for 19l8. 810 per 100 and up. Purebred. Hatch-

ed right. Strong guann ee. 10 leading varieties.

JHutchin eggs. 1 brooder oii‘er. Western Brunch,

$11811“ to. Kennel. roe catalog. Stmps oppncic .
e

s
n Relisbefiotchory. 333 W, Fremont St. . Pomrlo. 0.
86‘s for hatching, from free range arm flockof
(lattes brig-Jim brog usténo'; Strfiin drag”. Wynn-
. ' . or on .
VANO FARM. .. linl Box ,1 , Hartford. Mich.

Chick: lhil lilo $13‘iegxkgfluiiii 3in 1" fill-“f

* E ULTRY

 

wmmature and; startlaying in Novem-

  
 

 

g ; Infill. E» 0. SfVOPE- fir“? cf?" Grand Rapids. tllich.

aby Chix Youugs Strain S. C. ‘V. Leghorncl 100 and V

 

Pl“. cI'CSl White Orpingtons. hens and pullets $3.00
each. eggs special grice Sfifller [5. utility

“21er 100. MR . WIL S ROUGH.
PI E CREST FARM. Royal Oak. Mich.
RHODE ISLAND REDS and Plymouth Rocks Malo-
5 to 1?. lbs. aocordin toa e 'l to $8: . R. hens
weight 5 to 10 lbs.. eg for £1.50: 100. $10: Mammoth
Bronle Tom Tur‘heys to 38 lbs. according to age “to
.25, 10 eggs 84. J. Morris A J. Barsan, Vassar. Mich.

R. l. RED both combs. Chicks g

9 eggs. Most popular
str lnin Michigan. Write for catalog.
IN ERLAKES FARM. Box 39, Lawrence. Mich.

R l Reds and B. I. Whites. Both combs. Eggs for
. 0 sale. also a. few ood cockerolu. Good stock.
prices reasonable. 0. E. uwley. RJ. Ludiugton, Mich.

 

 

 

 

Island Bods. R. 0. Famous for alit c
RhOde for hatching, prices roasonab a?“ y In
BURT SISSON. - - - - Imlay City. hiich.

 

81LVER fiangled Hamburg eggs for hatchln sapor

1.33:ng ha greatest layer? effort? as wel as the
n m on mos -eoonom co 0 re so.

RIVERVIEW FAR . - - - Vassar, Mich.

Brown Leghorns. Heavy layers. E c 15.1.35.
5. . 30-32.50 45.33.50.100-37. prepaid byggnil.
FLOYD aannTsoN. n. 1. Lexington. Indiano

' Comb Black Minorc k l , '
Slngle ulOlb cock bird. A fall gogr:l’e.05. frllodighe'.
R. W. MILLS. - - - - - Saline. ioh.

S C White Leghorn hencfiullete. day old chicks.
e o oggu(Ferrll struin)go free range stock riceo
reasonable. HorbertHummond. Williamston. iIich.

leVER Golden a White Wyondottec. Four Golden
cockerell $2.50 each. Eggs 1.3. 82.50; 30. 85 by P. Post
0. W. Browning. R. 2. Portland. Mich.

 

 

prepaid.

 

INTERLAKES FA M. Lawrence, Mich.

' Chi is d f
Wklh wym’ll.‘ anyiiig stizinfswrltleoflgr highllgf

 

Large Type P. 0. no inblic sale this year: 50 nows'and
gllts all ([Luecns of t e brcod go at private treat .
W. J. HAG tLHHAVV. - - - Augusta. lch.

B' I P.O. Big boned follow: from Iowa'sgreateut
I! ll” horde. Splecial prices on spring boars.
E. J. MATHEWSO. . - -

lg Type P. (l. bred for March it April furrow sired
by Peter's Jumbo A Grand b‘uperba and 201' 3 year-
ling sows at bargain prices. (LE. Gur’nnnt,Euton RupidsJfirh

Large Type P. C.

Bred (lite and hours all sold nothing to ofler at present.
W. E. LIVINGSTON. Perms. Mich.

EONA-RD'B Brod sowe all lold.fall pi c.0rrlers book<
'ed for cfiring pigs at weaning time. hipped 0.0.“.
E. R. LEO ARD. - St. Louis. Mich.

P. ll. Sow: For Sale. 3;:d.£2;.,:ml. “‘"W'
A. A. WOOD & SON. - - - - Saline. Mich.

- Burr Oak. Mich.

 

 

 

Largo TyggoP. 0. fall glits, sire 800 lb. yearling to be
_ bred to 1 lb. Zf'oar old for July It Aug. 2 extra goml
fail boars. WL . J. CLARKE. RIF, .iason. Mich.

Blll llFE POLAND will“.

G. W. HOLTON. ll

 

Booking orders for
spring pigs.
Kalamazoo. Mich.

 

Large Strain. PC. A few giltc left bred for June far-
row and 2 nice boars ready for service at farmers

 

prices. H. (l. SWARTZ, Shoolcraft, blit‘h.
Bl“ "P Poland Chinae: Brood cows alloold. Have

a few full pigs. Prices right.
L. W. BARNES & SUN. - - - Byron. Mich.

‘ lit a barglin. Book.
Hampshire Boar: h, 0...... ,0, 5 mg
pigs. JOHN W. SNYDER, R. . 81. Johns. lch.

HORSES

 

 

 

White cm” gxooie‘gagu 25 coats) eacli5 PR. (l:
. 0 O o I

Duck use for 11. Beat of mill?” p" ' m“

Mrs. CLAUDIA BETTS. - - Hillsdale. Mich.

 

out of choice stock: send for a 19

DAVID RAY. 709 Norrll 83.,

circular.
Ypellouti. Michign.

Turkeys. Toulouse Geese and S. C. W.
"I B. Leghorn cockorels. Also Berkshire. both

HOGS

hite Wyundotto eggs forhmhlu also baby-chick

cox. Stamps appreciated. Chose Stock Form, R l. Inlettelich.
____—__.._———___—_

REGISTERED PERC HERON

Mum and Stallion- priced to all. In -
.,c. on EATON I DID“... ‘h'n‘é'fl.

ultimo" msrnsn

The entire herd of the late A. A. Palmer
w1ll be closed out; 25 pure bred er-
cheron mares 8200 to 8400 except wo;
also young stallions ,

 

 

DUROCS

for service. A few cowl bred (or

NEWTON BARNHABT. - - St. Johns. Mich.

Jersey's—Pall boars of the lar o h '
gurllchtype. giltssbrod to iJunlor Chain on y boned

une rrow, so pnng pain not i . '
F. J. DRODT, I“? orllroe. Mich.

WROC JERSEYS

I. D. HEYDENBERK. - - - Wayland. Mich.

Dunno fall boars siredbv Crimson Critic T.. Satisfac.

tron and Brookwoter Princi al. priced right. Brod

sows all told. M. C. TAYLOR. Milan. Mich.
Can «pare two or thre b d

Durocs Joe Orion 2nd the 350003.03. “Mme" °f

A. FLEMING, - - -. Lake, Mich.

Clinic. Dune Jomy Elli: For Sale.
CAREY U. EDMONDS. - - Katina. Mich.
DUROCS lh’lmfin?’

J. H. BANGHABT.

 

bred sown.
press old.
. Lancing. ich

 

noes. write for doscl ti (1
J. D. CRANE a son. Plolnlwgllylidlldh.

DIR Jerseys for sale. Service boarsd: 9 rl l

(K: also Shorthorn bulls p n“ ”gs
.calves, milkin Strum.

CHAS. BRAY, - -. - - - . Okemgs. Mich.

Big Type O. L'C's.

prices.

 

hire and won more champlo

lor er and E hibt
ed. 'We Breedtho bestfwesgl at we” hi
the. to be the bent.

 

 

too
0 t l .w
' ‘ 0“" wii‘u”l"eomh. mom. Mich.

You want more size.feeding qualities. Full bourcroody
J uue furrcwiug.

on boar for

our” Jmm: Sept. boar ply. for sale at formexs' _

Stock of all ages for sole. W china“ at four state

. u d

. than all the :other breeder: mastherldacllibfizvneglgg'

the boot W!" Wm"
. e or ~'

Writ. your wants. Got :1?!

PALMER BROS, Balding Mich.

FOR SALE £1303??? Brelgian Stciillion <Ell
. ». en year . .1.
1800. color brown. ('all or address. a 0 WC hm
ANDREW HAbIbiERBACHER.
201 So. Linn St...

 

Arlington Hotel,
West Bay City, Mich.

"'°“tliliz"3l‘l'.iitlf“.t.ilf't'fltillm"

 

Stallions and mares of re bl
Pel'Cheronbrrioes; inspection invitedfiw1m e
F. L. KING-i! SO . - - » Oharlotte. Mich.
Percherons grill: zll’iarsz’ldfind fillies. Stal
J. M. HICKS dc SONS. R. 2. “'illlamston, Mich.
F0" 8ALE glioregefleiflistered Perchefi'on stallions and

re oron mares 1: .

E. J. ALDRICH. - - - . cfehuthllhfiqglldll:

 

Pure blood eleven months old Bl . -
F05 £2,256.81“ vgllllgible}; will tgglgh over 1ddo€g§}-s§llr%
we ‘ . me e a o roe ' '
Wr te. or telephone No. J72. 0 when dewelgpeil.
CHRISTLEY. Three Oaks Farm, Constantine. Mich:

TWO Large Shut"! Jennetc cheAp. and same
for. hounds. e lmd Ponies and several ood

W. E. LECKY. Holmelvlllu. hie

SHEEP
KOPE-KON FARMS.

Goldwater. Mich.

Hampshires 8: Shropshires.

It's a. wise man who. orders his ram for Augult
elivory now. .

 

 

 

 

About Jul 1 we will cfler (or sale chap.
anemone ahos..'h'fi?'al.lm 3‘

ml.
l'owlervlllo. Mich.

 
     
  

   
 

  
 
 
 
   
      
 
 


  
    
    
   
   
   
     
     
         
         
         
     
     
     
     
     
  
 
 
  
  
 
  
  
 
   
   
 
  
    
  
  
    
   
  
   
 
   

  
  

 

 

 

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Grand:Rapids, Michigan

 

The Farmers of Michigan Lose Annually

More Than $2,500,000.00 Worth of Live Stock

g Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Hogs

‘FROM ACCIDENT AND DISEASE

The animals are destroyed and their cash value lost not only to the farmer but to the commun-
ity, the State. This amazing sum of money can be saved to the farmers and the State if they (the

farmers) will but avail themselves of

O O O .
The Michigan Live Stock Insurance Company
organized expressly for the purpose of indemnifying owners of live stock against death from any
cause. We want agents to carry this great message to every farmer.
Colon C. Lillie, Pres. and Sup. of Agts.,
319 Widdicomb Bldg., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Harmon J. Wells, Sec. and Gen. Mgr. ,

BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY.

Change of Copy or Cancellations must reach us
Ten Days before date of publication.

We Offer a Few Special Barng
In S. C. White Leghorn cockerels, Ram-
bouillet rams, Hampshire pigs (either
Iex) and Holstein bulls. A good chance
for a small investment to reap-the bene-
fit of a large expenditure of capital and
years of expert breeding.

Flanders Farm, Orchard Lake, Mich.

CATTLE.

ABERDEEN
ANGUS ‘

ForZSale—Three high-class bulls of the
“Blackbird Families” ages 17 to 23
months. All sons of Black Monarch 3rd
three times Grand Champion Bull at

Michigan State Fair. Write

SIDNEY SMITH, Supt.
W. E. SCRIPPS, Prop.
Wildwqod Farms, Orion, Mich.

WOODCOTE ANGUS

Trojan-Erica: and Blackbirds only Breeders of the
dam and former owners of the sure (our herd bull)
or the Grand Champion Bull at the International
Chicago for 1917. . .
WOODCOTE STOCK FARM. Ionia. Mich.

 

 

. Cood uality bulls of serviceable
Cloverly Angus a’ge an youn er. Inspection invit-
ed. Geo. Hathaway and n, vld, Ilioh.

must reduce hard. so offer
a few choice females of
reading also bulls. all stock of A. Ii. breed-

   

Graebner Bldg., Saginaw, W. S., Mich.

Registered Guernseys

A fine 3 year old heifer and her heifer calf—right in
even? way $3M. F. 0. B. you town.
J. . WILLIAMS. - - - North Adams Mich.

' Very choice grade Guernsey
Guernsey “NI"S- heifers and heifers calves. of
good dairy type. thrifty, in good condition, and 0. K.
in every respect and out of high grade Guernsei’cows
and pure bred sires. Also grade Guernsey cows. rices
reasonable. The JENNINGS FARMS, Bailey. Mich.

 

a 45 Registered head. all th. tested. Nora's
"BIBS!!! Ma King, snn of Imp. May Rose King
heads our herd. of his half sisters sold averaging $1950
each. His bull calves are booked ahead at reasonable
prices. Avondale Stock Farm, Wayne, Mich.

GUERNSEYsaisae-a

Oontainin blood of world ohameéorés. Mi h
s u 0

 

 

IICKS' 0U! IY FARM. Saginaw,

Registered Guernsey bull cal-
For 88 I6 vea May Rose breeding.
JOHN EBELB, R. 2. Holland, Mich.

 

' bulls of the best blood
,For Guernsey 1...... “m...
WALLACE BROS.. - - - Bay Shore. Mich.

CLUNY STOCK FARM

100--REGISTERED HOLSTEINS--100
When you need a herd sire remember that we
have one of the best herds in Michigan, kept un-
der strict sanitary conditions. Every individual
over 6 mos. old regularly tuberculin tested. We
have size. quality. and production records back-
ed by the best strains of breeding.

Write us Iyour wants.
R. BRUCE McPHE SON, Howell, Mich.

 

accepted in payment of finely bred reg-
‘ 600d "OI. istered Holstein bull calves. %flllty
of the best, and at prices within reach of all. rite.
GEO. D. CLARKE, . - - Vassar, Mich.

’ Pedigree Stock Farm oflerl Re .Hol-
Parham 8 stein cattle. Chester White wine,

extra barglnl in calves and fall pigs. Bulls half firioe.
R. B. R A . Bronson. ich.

Heidi‘s: ii. 821.?

h i heifer- o! a 30“:
$225 takes gall: (dug of: 0 try to 823 lb. son or
Johanna Iorn. DJK. ”lam if - ‘

 

h tbboro linteltod
' a u .
H. £13038. - - - ' - Battle Creek. Mich.

wan . , m:
n. L. mucus. -‘ ,- lesion. was.»

   

tween, for many years yet.

 

The Grange and the " Rural Comm

'By W. F.

EVER before in the history of

agriculture have there been so

many people watching the farm-
er. Never before has there been such
widespread interest in rural problems.
Teachers and preachers are talking
about agriculture, authors are writing
stories about the farm, magazine writ-
ers are racking their brains to find a.
solution of difficult rural problems that
have puzzled farmers for “nobody
knows how long,” and the daily press
is giving information and instruction
in the art of farming until it would
seem to anyone who knows little or
nothing about it, that all these good
people have made the way so plain
“that the ‘wayfaring man though a fool,
need not err» therein.”

A Social Question.

Speaking of magazine articles about
rural conditions and possibilities, re-
minds me of a recent contribution to
one of the most reliable magazines in
the country, relating to the problem of
farm management under the growing
scarcity of farm labor. ‘

The author says that it is not high
wages that induces our country boy to
go to town. They would not stay on
the farm if wages were as good as they
are in the city. They are tired of long
hours, and of the isolation of country
life. They want a short day, and a
chance after their work is done, to
meet with their fellows. The farm
must be run like any other business or
manufacturing. There must be no more
hours in a day, and the workers must
be given an opportunity to meet when
the day is over, for social privileges.

Community Management.

He suggests the taking over of sev-
eral small farms into one large estate,
and the management of it by compe-
tent parties who will employ men liv-
ing in towu. He suggests that these
laborers can reach the farm by means
of autos, motorcycles, and that to do
so will be a very simple matter.

He says, however, that he knows of
sufficient good land adjoining several
cities that might be gotten, and he is
anxious to see the experiment tried
out. I make mention of this article,
not to discuss its merits, because farm-
ers are going to read what I am writ:
ing and the insuperable difficulties in
the way of carrying out the plan in-
volved will appear to them. But I re-
fer to it merely to show the interest in
the calling of agriculture on the part
of prominent men in the city.

The reason for much of this anxiety
is clear. The farmer produces the food
and with meatless and wheatless days,
the memory of three dollar potatoes
fresh in our minds, and with talk of
eight dollar beans to the farmer, it is
small wonder that city people are get.
ting anxious about what they are going
to eat at no distant day.

Then, too, it is cheerfully admitted
that'a part of this interest in country
problems springs from an honest de-
sire to help their brothers out on the
farm.

Evolution Not Resolution.

We need not look for a revolution in
agriculture. We may expect evolution
instead. We do not doubt.the ability
of a good business man who under-
stands how to operate a farm, to run
a large area of land with greater effi-
ciency than is possible with that land
divided into small farms and tilledrby
men who are ignorant or careless or

both, of the methods that bring results. '

But we have not the least idea in the
world, that it would be possible to buy
up these small farms at a price, that
would make it practical to assemble
them in large estates and devote them
to agriculture. No, we are going to
have large farms, small farms and be-

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TAYLOR , ,
will be rural neighborhoods having rur-
al Schools, trying to maintain the
Granges and other farm organizations,

with rural churches and other centers
of activity of one kind and another.

The Stability of a Community.

The rural community where'people
own their farms, where they are con-
tent to live, and so pass the greater
Dart of their lives, is not much of a
problem compared with the commu-
nity composed largely of renters who
do not usually remain in one location
more thana year or two. But in any
community certain things should be
made possible. There should be a good
school, a good Grange, a prosperous
rural church, unless it is near enough
to town to permit the people to attend
church there, and these educational,
social and religious centers should be
so supported as to make .them powers
in the moulding of the lives of the
young, and in adding to the happiness
of all.

To build schoolhouses, Grange halls
and churches requires money. While
we are building them we ought to add
to the comfort and convenience of our
homes, and that will take money also.
If we are to do any of the many things
that we are so often told will increase
our happiness and our power to do
good in the world, money must be had.

True, there are many Granges that
do little or nothing for the neighbor-
hood where they are, there are church-
es of which the same may be truly
said. It is not so strange either, for if
there are men and women who live
with no purpose save their own en-
joyment and so miss that, then why
should there not be organizations of
those people whose collective vision is
as dim and restricted as that of the
individuals who compose them?

Rural Organization Necessary.

If agriculture is to maintain its place
among the activities and callings of
men, then it will be through organiza-
tion. The Grange is here, and ,so we
do not have to build it save where it
has grown weak, or failed altogether.

Through the Grange, the best people
of every rural neighborhood should
give expression to their best and Wis-
est plans for community betterment.
First, there is the matter of better
farming. The Grange should be ever
at the front in every movement toward
better agriCulture. In a fruit section,
spraying programs should be so fre-
quent and so serviceful that not a sin-
gle member can stay in that Grange
and not get the information which he
should have if he is to operate an
orchard. If the community is a dairy
center, then dairy programs should en-
lighten all upon this important subject.

Work for Improvement.

The Grange in each locality should
give its support to every movement
calculated to better the condition of
agriculture. If there are sufficient peo-
ple in the community or in reach of
the Grange, then cooperative selling
associations should be formed.

The Grange should cooperate with
the county agent if there is one, and if
not, steps should be taken to secure
one. We meet now and then one who
questions the county agent plan, who
objects to the program of our agricul-
tural college, and who is using a. lot
of energy in objecting to things that
he is going ‘9 like very much after he
knows more about them. '

_Now, everything is changing—much
of our fertility has been lost by bad
methods of soil handling, combinations

r

0f capital and organizations of labor' '

have alike. limited our privleges, pro-r
ducts of the farm are sold under the
widest competition by those who have}
paid for them, labon.~hag' ‘_

 

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HOMESTEAD FARMS

Holsteins

Lherd of 50 Holsteins headed by the bull King
Zema Aloartra Pontiac, son of Ki Se ls Pontiac
Alcartra the $50.11)!) Holstein Bull au ful brother to
Mable Seals Korndyke; 40.321bs. of butter in ”(days
at four years old.

This herd is of the very highest class of Holsteins
and are the kind that the practical farmer should
have who wants stock that is sure to pay out.

The following farmlf; is offered as a foundation for
a bi h class practical erd:Dam, Tait .To sy Dawn. 4
vrs lust freshened-lst daughter l’nu me adie Dawn.
32 yrs. old, bred Nov. "i. 1917. to bull with 29 lb. dam: 2nd
daughter 1 yr. old and full sister of 1st daughter; 3rd
daughter born Apri 13. Let us send you photographs
and full description of this family.

Heifer calves. bred heifers and cows. Please tell
what you want and let us describe and send lhoto-
graph of the individual such as we thin you
would like. _

Young Bull, sired by King Zerma Alcartra Pontiac;
Grandeire King Segis Pontiac Alcartrs, the So ,
bull. Dam is Genesee Wonder. direct descendent on
both sides from De Kol 2nd Butter Boy 3rd.

This young hull was born Jan. 30, 1918; is 95 per cent
white. a straight. upright animal. 9 will send you
description and photograph. Other young and older
bulls of high class.

A fine Holstein herd; animals of all‘. ages to select
from. Please let us hear from you.

HOMESTEAD FARMS, Bloomingdale, Mich.

8th Annual Sale Bill

80 Hulstein-Friesian Battle 80

To Be Held
April 25, 1918, at Howell, Mich.

by
The Howell consign-
menl Sale Go.

These Cattle are a high class of stock
nearly all are from one to four years
old, bred in the most noted families in-
dividually fine, and bred to bulls of the
30 lb. kind. Catalogue ready.

Mark B. Curdy, Sec’y.

Col. Perry, Auctioneer.

I Always Have Holsteins
To Sell

It wanting Registered cattle write me your wants
before placing your order elsewhere.

L. E. CONNELL, Fayette, Ohio

AK. Leaf Farm. Herd sire Lenawee Pontiac Cal-
amity King ofler Registered Holstein bull calves
from A. R. 0. cows and the above sire whose dam holds
the lilk and butter record in the state of Ind.
days milk 796.3. butter 32.51—315 days milk 23782.3, but-
ter M775.
E. H. GEARHLRT & SON. R. 4. Marcellus, Mich.

“Top-Notch”
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 request.

McPherson Farm? Co., Howell, Mich.

5 HOLSTEIN BULLS

ready for service, on account of selling farm and
entire herd will sell these choice bulls from
world record families at 1/2 actual value.

Don’t wait come see them

LONG BEACH FARM,
AUGUSTA, MlCH.

The Traverse Herd

Great Values In Bulls

from A. R. 0. Cows with records up to 30 lbs.

Let us know your wants. We will send extend-

ed pedigrees and prices.

TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL,
Traverse City, Michigan.

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

If you want
cows that yield
the greatest net

profit learn why

HOLSTEINS

Are the Most Profitable Com-on Earth.

They yield the largest quantities of
milk, butterfat and profits. They are
strong. vigorous. persistentimilkers and
thrive an where. -
11;!th s w you—send for free book-

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. “Hf MIC H IGAN . ~. . . . . .
Extraordinary ' Opportunity‘
The Livingston County Holstein Breeders Sale Co., will Hold its

Fourth Annual Public Sale, Thurs, May 16, "18!

At 10:30 A. M. at Howell, Mich., at the Sale Pavilion on the Fair Grounds

100 Head of Registered Holsteins “will :tillffma‘“

This sale will be the Dispersion. of the entire herd of S. B. Rubert, How-
ell, Mich., who contributes 40 head.

Among the bulls will be a herd bull by the Mighty Rag Apple Korndyke
8th and out of a daughter of Pontiac Kornclyke. Several of the bull calves
are of choice breeding and are fit to head herds. Their dams have records
from 22 lbs. as Junior two-year-olds, to 29 lbs.

Among the females will be found: A 28-lb. daughter of King of the Pon—
tiacs and two of her daughters by an extra good sire.

Two daughters of Pontiac Korndyke and some stock from each.

A 26-1b. Junior three-year-old; a 26-1b. Senior three-year-old; a26-lb Jun-
ior four-year-old; a 25-1b. cow and her daughter by a 30—lb. sire; two 22-lb.
Junior two-year-olds; two granddaughters of Colantha Johanna Lad, both
with records; 20 daughters of Smithdale Alcartra Pontiac who has six Two-
year-old daughters that average 19.7 lbs. butter each in seven days and two
three-year-olds with‘25 and 26 lbs. He is a son of that famous cow, Alcarl'ra
Polkadot, who has three daughters with records above 31 lbs, and is a broth-
er to the sire of Tilly Alczlrtra, the World’s Champion Long Distance Cow.

A large percentage either have records themselves or are from record

dams.
Many of the females are bred to bulls Whose dams have records from
30 to 35 lbs. and nine are bred to King Segis Champion Mobel whose dam has
a 40-1b. record at four years old, and who is a full brother to King Model who
sold in the Steven’s Sale in 1917 for $10,000.

We believe they are the best bred lot of cattle ever offered at Public
Sale in Michigan, with the single exception of the National Sale at Detroit
in 1916. Remember the Date and Place and plan to be present.

Catalogs May lst.
F. J. FlSHBECK, Secretary, Howell, Nlich.

 

Auctioneers: Perry and Mack.

FIRST Alllllllll SALE

Michigan Ayrshires

27 head of Registered Ayrshires, including
White Marmaduke 18882
Grand Champion at Michigan State Fair 1916
. at Flint, Michigan
Wednesday, May 8th, 1918

- at 12.30 o’clock P. M.
All animals tuberculin tested and guaranteed.
Write for Catalogue

Michigan School for the Deaf

W. L. HOFFMAN, Steward

 

 

West Michigan Holstein Breeders’ Annual Spring Guarantee Quality Sale of

Registered Holstein Cattle, Wed. May 15, 1918

At the West Michigan State Fair Grounds, Grand Rapids, Michigan

A real Guarantee Quality Sale of 75 head of lligll class registered Holstein (lllltli‘, from
the breeding llerds of the lending Holstein Breeders of \Vcstcrn Michigan.

Nearly all these Hel'ds are under Michigan State and Government supervbiou (lllll are
being regularly tuberculin tested by State or Government Veterinarians.

\Vc hold two Guarantee Quality Sales czich your and our “Guamntcc” menus just what
it says, and is not worded to fool the prospective purclmscr.

Remembcl‘, we guarantee all fenlalcs to be blccdcl's if of breeding; age, if they .‘ll‘C‘ placed
in herds which are fl‘cc from contagious abortion. “’0 also guarantee all cattle to stand the
Tuberculin Test, if retested within sixty days from the date of the sale, if plat-ml in known
healthy l-lcl'tls, or kept where they can in no way collie in contact with any other cattle.

\Vc have two :11) pound bull calves ill the Sale. ()nc is from a cow that milked over
100 pounds of mill. per dzly, and made over 30 pounds of butter in 7 «lays, null is sired by a
high record son of King chis Pontiac that is out of a cow with :1 41) [quml daughter. The other
is from :1 1:0 pouull dam and is sired by :l 31 pound son of the famous (‘olzlutllzl JOllElllllll
|.:l(l. These two bulls are handsomely marked and are splendid individuals, and should illiL‘l'-
est any owner of :1 high class llr‘l'il who is looking for a 5:0 pound Sire that possesses botll
“breeding and individuality.”

“'9 also have a bull calf from a 20 pound junior two year old Dam and out of :l liigll
record Sire.

“”6 will sell 40 clloicc cows. several with A, R. 0. rccords, of from ‘20 to ‘26 lbs. of bullet
in 7 clays. A large number of these cows are safc in calf to bull.s out of tile licst Sires
of a Breed and from Dams with A. R. 0. records from 30 to 37 lbs.

There are 3’0 choice yearling heifers and heifer calves out of lligll (:l:l<s Sires and many of
them from good A. R. O. Dams.

These cattle have all been carefully inspected by the Sale Committee and all undesirable
animals have been rejected

Remember, this is a Sale where the buyer can get “Good, Healthy Cattle" and a square
deal. If interested, write for a Sale Catalog.

VV. R. HARPER, Sale hianagel‘, .Vlidtllcvilic, hIiCll.

AUCTION SALE!

I Will sell at Public Auction on my farm located in the township of Nan-
kim one mile west and one mile north of Inkster (conveyance will meet all
local cars up to noon at the Jim Ruff Road on the D., J. & C. Electric Line),
three miles east and one mile north of Wayne, on

TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1 9 1 8

Commencing at 9 o’clock (Hot Lunch at.Noon ), the following
Registered Holstein-Friesian Cattle
The Cow Mercedes Butter Boy Colantha. She is in the advanced registry,
with a seven-day butter record of over twenty pounds. .
My Herd Sire, Dear-born Butter Boy No.1?0874.

Huron Hill Pontiac Boy No. 211246. .
son of King of the Pontiacs. Also'l‘his choice yearling bull is out of a

67 High Grade Holsteins and Five Durham Cows

AUGUST BEWERNITZ, Proprietor.

Charles Thompson & Son Auctioneers
James: M. Butler and Thomas Jameson, Clerks ~_ .

 

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S’lnnyhursl Stock Farm.

Bull born April 10th 1917. Dam 8.13 lb. Junior 2yr.
dam of Ma lecrest Korndyke Hengerveld whose dam
and grand am both have yearly records of over 1230 lbs.
butter, Sire is King Ona whose dam has yearly record
of 134.") lbs. and her dam a yearly record at ll years of
over 1100 lbs. Bull is % white and as straight as a
string. l’riced cheap for immediate sale. Other
good ones from $75 up.

F. A. BARNETT it SONS.

H olstein bull, nearly ready for service, large straight
deopbodied, handsomely marked 5’3 white. His 81:

Rochester. Mich.

nearest dams have A. lt.(). records that average butter
'7ldays 24.13 milk 534 lbs. W. H. Header. Howell, Mich.

The Pontiac Herd

“Where the Champions come item”

filial-Bull Calves sired by sons of Pontiac Korndyke.’
Hengerveld DeKoLPontiuc Dutchland.or Admiral
Walker Pietertje.

Do you want a Pontiac in your llcrd'.’

Pontiac State Hospital, Pontiac, Mich.

I ()LS'l‘lCiNS chuulity. Bullczllves from dams with
records high as Iii lbs. in 7 days. Also collie puppies.
E. A, HARDY, - — - Rochester. Mich.

' llolslcin bull calf. born Sopt.1917, dam
RegIStered da‘ugiller of 21 lb. cow. writo'ior podi-
greo and price. l".U.B. your station.

E. E. S’l'l‘lttilb‘, Ii. 3, St. Johns, Mich.

 

' cillvesflfl heifers, .i- 2 bulls15-16ths ure,
HOISteln 5 necks old, beautifully marke .
eaclncl-zll ed for sliiplllont on) where. Buy only the best.
EDGEWUOD FA HMS, - - Whitewater, Wis.

Parkside Holstein bulls. 8 and 16 mo. Both sired bv

noted bnll. 37 relatives are 30 lb.cows. Priced to sell.
J. E. TIRRILL & SUN, . . Charlotte. Mich.

HEREFORDS

10 bull calves for sale, Perfection
Fairfax and Prince Donald breeding.

ALLEN BROS.,
PAW PAW, MICH.

Bob Fairfax 494027 at head
Herefo rds of herd. ll bulls for sale
all ages either polled or horned. EARL C.
McCAli'l‘Y. Bcc'y Mich. H. B. Ass'n, Bad Axe, Mich.

' ready forservice. Also heifers
ChOICC Bulls for sale. Strong in the Blood
of Royal Majesty. Come and see them or write for
particulars. 'i'liE WILDWOOD HERD

Alvin lelden. Capao. Mil-11.. Phone has.

 

  

 
      
    
      
     
     
   

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Ready for Sen-Vice
b‘ired by butter bred bulls and
out of high testing dams.
The Producing Kind
with Jersey type and capacity.
Prices reasonable. Also a tow
bred gilts (Durocsi and boars.
Brookwater Farm .
Herbert W.Mumford, Owner,
J Bruce Henderson. Mgr.
Ann Arbor, Mich.

 

‘ Reg. Jersey Bull Calves. 2 bulls 3 mos.
Ch01ce old from dams that are doing better

 

than ‘11) lbs. montlll) grandsons of Majesty's “'estcrn
King l’l'ice Sill reg. .i' lrztllsi'ol'ed.
Flilu’l) A. BRENNAN, - — Capac, Mich.

 

M ztplo Lune li.of M.Jcrscy herd. Forsule bulls. bull
calves and helium-sires sired by a grand-son of the
greatest Jersey bull in illt‘ world, Pogis 99th of Hood
.r‘arnl. IltVlN FOX. ll. 3, Allcgnn, Mich.

lilltSl‘lY bull and bull calves for sale from R of M,
r cows. also heifers and cows of all ages.
Allegzlll, Mich.

 

 

C. B. W EHN Eli, R. 6,

F O R S A L E RegisterenlJersey
bull calves.

SMITH and PARKER. ll. 4, Howell, Mich.

 

Ready for service bulls
Jerseys fQY sale Hi. Lambert, Raleigh
Majesty. breeding. “'A'l‘EliMAN & WATlilliMAl‘i
Meudowlzlnd Farm. - - - Ann Arbor. Mich.

 

illio Farmstead Jersey Cattle. Several heifers bred
. J10 freshen next fall. Also a few heifer and bull cal-
vcs oi‘ cholco breedlng. Colon C.Lillie, i‘oopcrsvillr,l\iich.

A fine, dark. solid color Jersey bull
For sale 16 mos. old, Double grandson of
Royal Majesly and out of R. of M. cow.
C. d (l. DiuAKE, - - - - Ypsilanti. Mich.

Shorvt‘llorn Callie 01 both Sex ior Sale

NAPP. Howell. Michigan.

BlDWELL sunnmnnus

For Beef and Milk.
Registered bulls, cows and heifers-Good Scotch and
S(mtx2h-'l‘opped for sale. In prime condition. Modern
sanltnry equlpmcilt. Farm 10 minutes from N. . .
depot“ 1 hour from Toledo, Ohio. Automobile meets
all trelns. Write

BlDWELL STOCK FARM,

Box ii, Tecumseh. Mich.

Richland Farm

Short horns.

IMP. Lorne in Service. Grand Chain i
Mich. Special offer on 14 head of Short oorlilfuiiogi
with calves at foot.heifers two years old and heifers
one year old. Also a number of ‘ilull calves. We
invite correspondence and inspection.

. H. PRESCOTT a SONS.
Farms at Prescott, Mich. Oflice at ’l‘awas, City, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

Francisco Farm Shorthorns

and Scotch Topped cattle. They are well bred -
erly handled and price reasonab e. Come and degrovib

like to show them.
P. P. POPE, Mt. Pleasant, Mich.

 

Fair Lawns Shorthorns
Yearling bulls by Canada's beet sires: Mlssie Augusta

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April 23, 1918.

WHEAT.

Reports show Wheat stocks to be
low and receipts both at country ele-
vators and primary points to be unusu-
ally small. The visible supply decreas-
ed 266,000 bushels during the past
week. A year ago No. 2 red wheat
was quoted locally at $2.61 per bushel.

The latest quotations are:
No. 2 red ............... $2.17
N. 2 white 2.15
No. 2 mixed ............ 2.15

CORN.

Corn values are considerably lower
on the Detroit market, but firmer at
Chicago than a .week ago. Early this
week there were signs of an improve-
ment in the demand with the receipts
running rather small. Restriction in
exports due to the shortage in ship-
ping facilities aids the bears in keep-
ing prices down. Farmers are getting
on nicely with their work which in-
creases the probability that the corn
ground will be well prepared and that
planting will be done at a seasonable
time, thereby improving the chances
for the 1918 crop. Our records show
that a year ago local trade was paying
$1.51 for No. 3 corn. Present prices
for cash corn are:

No. 3 corn .............. $1.55
No. 3 yellow ............ 1.65
No. 4 yellow ............ 1.50
No. 5 yellow ............ 1.25
No. 6 yellow ............ 1.15

At Chicago futures were in good
demand, while cash corn moved .com-
paratively slow at the followmg prices:

N0. 2 yellow ...... $1.68@1.72
N0. 3 yellow ...... 1.60@1.68
No. 4 yellow ...... 1.45@1.57

OATS.

Our reports show a slight falling off
in cat values this past week. At the
opening Monday, however, there was
some improvement in the deal, due to
rather liberal purchases by agents of
our Allies. Stocks in the central west—
ern markets appear to have decreased,
while seaboard points report large_in-
creases. There is a general feeling
that, this deal will be sustained some-
where near the present basis of val-
ues. There is, however, a bearish fea-
ture in the large acreage that is being
sown in this country, and the unusu-
ally'early date that this is being done.
The visible supply shows an increase
of a little over 1,000,000 bushels. Ac-
cording to our records, the local mar-
ket paid 761/20 per bushel for standard
oats a year ago. The following are the
latest prices for cash oats on the De-
troit market:

Standard oats ............. 91
No. 3 white ............... 901/2
No. 4 white . .............. 891/2

RYE.

There is very little doing in this mar-
ket, millers seemingly not anxious for
the grain. Prices have declined dur-
ing the past week. Present quotations
for cash No. 2 are as follows:

Detroit ................. $2.45
Chicago 2.52

BEANS.

This market lacks life, which may
be due in part to high prices and also
to the crowding of some of the larger
markets of the country with other vari-
eties of beans, principally pintos. Most
of the stock, however, is now in the
hands of dealers. The Detroit price
for cash beans is $11.50 per cwt. A
Chicago trade conditions are about
what they were a "week ago, with the
demand slow and offerings fairly lib-
eral. Present prices at that point are:

Hand—picked pea beans $12@13
Red kidney . . . . . . . . 11(61314

FEEDS.

There is practically no change in the
bran market. The maximum price
to consumers as fixed by the food ad-
ministration is $31.10 per ton in car-
load lots, or $31.60 in less than carload
lots, but these prices are not being ad-
hered to by many Michigan dealers.

l tOther feeds in 100-lb. sacks, jabbing
o s:

Cracked corn .......... $70.00
Coarse corn meal. . . . 63.00
Chopped Feed .. ....... 56.00

HAY.

Offerings are large and market is
weak. Prices in carlots at Detroit are:
No. 1 timothy. . . .$23.50@24
Standard timothy. .. 22.50@23
Light mixed ....... 22.50@23
No. 2 timothy. . . . 21.50@23
No. 1 clover 20.50@21
. Pittsburghg—Our, correspondent ad-
vises us that terminalsare still con-‘

       

gested with hay, and do not advise

shipping to that market. '
No. 1 timothy ...... $27.00 J27.50
No. 2 timothy. . .. 23.00@ 4.00 .
No. 1 light mixed 23.00@24.00

POTATOES.

With few exceptions, the markets
east of the Mississippi river are steady
to firm, with values generally higher
than a. week ago. Farmers are also
securing higher prices at country
points. In order to save the surplus
potato crop the U. S. Department of
Agriculture and the Federal Food Ad-
ministration now have 10,000 represen-
tatives working in the various cities
throughout the United States encour-
aging the consumption of potatoes.
This action should bring about some
relief from the extremely discouraging
situation prevailing in many potato
growing communities. Jobbing prices
paid at various important marketsper
cwt. for U. S. Grade No. 1 and the
condition of trade are as follows:

Detroit (unsettled).$ 1.50
Cleveland (steady). 1.70
Buffalo (firm) .. . 1.50@1.65
New York (steady) 1.67@1.73
Cincinnati (firm) .. 1.55
Indianap’ls (steady) 1.50@1..60
Pittsburgh (slow). . 1.60@1.67

At country loading points in Michi-
gan farmers are receiving 70@90c for
round whites U. S. Grade No. 1 in
bulk; in New York they are getting
$1.25;r in Wisconsin 950@$1; in Ore-
gon 75c; in Maine $1.27.

BUTTER.

Our reports show further improve-
ment in the butter trade. Demand is
strong and supply is diminishing. Stor-
age stocks of butter in leading mar-

kets show a decrease of nearly 2,000,-.

000 pounds since April 1. Detroit
prices are advanced a- full cent over a
week ago. Extra creamery firsts are
generally quoted at 42@441/2c, with
some houses quoting as high as 450.
Fresh creamery firsts 411/20. The Chi-
cago trade reports moderate receipts
and a steady demand. Strictly fancy
butter is in specially good demand.
Extra fresh creameries 42c; firsts 38@
40c; packing stock 30@301A2c. New
York trade is a little easier, with the
creameries at 42@450.

CHEESE.

There is a fair amount of cheese
being sold. The older makes are ~meet-
ing with a good demand, while new
cheese is going a little slowly, due to
increased supplies. October cheese
sells to trade in Detroit at 24@26c,
while 22%(61323c is being paid for new
cheese, which is sold to retailers at
about 24c. Dealers claim that they
fear the government will undertake to
regulate cheese prices, for which rea-
son they are restricting their purchas-
es. In Chicago Daisies are quoted at
211/2@21%c for doubles, and 21%@22c
for singles; Young Americas 21%@
221,40 per pound.

EGGS.

. The central western markets are
higher and firmer while the seaboard
cities report a steady trade. In Detroit
prices have advanced one cent to 341/2
@35c for fresh firsts, while eggs for
storage are quoted at 351A@36c. The
Chicago trade is paying 32@33c for
miscellaneous lots, cases included, and
33@33%c for fresh firsts. The new
York market is steady at 38@381/20 for
fresh gathered and 361/2@371/zc for
storage packed.

POULTRY.

Live poultry is in demand and the
market is firm. Embargo on. selling
hens and pullets has been amended to
end April 19, so farmers can sell these
classes of poultry on and after April

t 20. Detroit prices are:

Hens ................. 34@35
Old roosters .......... 24
Ducks ................. 34@35
Fat geese ............. 30

Chicago—In live poultry the demand
for fowls is very brisk, and receipts
not up to expectations.

Fowls.......... ........... 30
Ducks 25

WOOL

In some of the important sheep
states of the west shearing is now in
progress. This work will soon be on
in the more southern fleece. states. A
year ago at this date probably more
than one—half of the wool in the terri-
tory states had been purchased. Prac-
tically none has been bought so far
this year. This is due probably to the
agreement among d'ealers not to pur-
chase wool before it is removed from
the sheep. Independent buyers may
take advantage of this situation to in-
fluence producers to sell at a reduced
price. The scarcity of the wool sup-
ply warrants farmers receiving quota-
tions commensurate with the cost of
production.

grade than usual.

.36 was 0: a. .1]...
cl is re rt as* n o a' - er" . , .
‘1 p ‘ 'po Mg ~ ~ : g, - _ “'down‘to"'~$1_6.25fari'iiiteriorlutfiig'h‘ear.

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Our market representative found a
fairly good'trade at the Eastern Mar-
ket Tuesday morning, with potatoes
selling at $1 per bushel; parsnips 85c;
apples $1.75@2.25; cabbage 750@$1;
onions $1.50; carrots 750;" beets 750;
eggs 40c; hay $24@26 per ton.

 

GRAND RAPIDS

No special change is noted in the
potato market except a slightly better
inquiry. The movement out of the
state to date has been close to 8,000
cars and at present shipments from
Michigan average about the same as
from Wisconsin and Minnesota. With
cars scarce and farmers busy with the
spring work, the movement is slow and
the price prevailing during the past
week has been 60@85c for bulk round
white No. 1 stock, trackside at country
loading points. Greenville quotes at
900. White beans are worth $10.50
per cwt. Reports show a decided slump
in the hay market at Portland, Ionia
county, prices dropping from $24 a ton
to about half that figure. The Grand
Rapids market, up to the early part of
this week at least, continued at $22
@24 per ton.

BUFFALO.
April 22, 1918.
Cattle.

Receipts 160 cars; prime grades 50c
higher; common 25c lower; prime
heavy steers $15.50Qg17; best shipping
steers $14.50@15.75; fair to good $13.50
@1450; plain and coarse $12.50@
13.50; native yearlings $14@15; best
handy steers $12@12.50; fair to good
$11.50@12.50; handy steers and heifers
mixed $11.50@12; western heifers $12
@1350; state heifers $10@11; butcher
cows $9@10; best fat cows $11(_(Q12.50;
cutters $7.50@8.50; canners $6@6.50;
grazing cows $7.50@8; fancy bulls $11
((1)12; butcher bulls $9.50@10.50; com-
mon bulls $8@9.40; best feeders 900 to
1000 lbs, $10@11; medium feeders $9
@10; light common $8@9; stockers
$8(u)9; best mi-lkers and springers $110
@150; mediums $75@100; common
$50@60.

Hogs.

Receipts 70 cars; market 25c lower;
heavy $18.25@18.50; yorkers and pigs
$18.65@18.75.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 25 cars; steady, wool lambs
$22; clipped $18.75@19; yearlings
$15.50@17; wethers $15@15.50; ewes
$14@14.50.

Calves.

Receipts 2500; market $1.50 lower;

$7@15.50.

 

CHICAGO.
April 22, 1918.
Our special representative at the
Chicago Stock Yards reports:

Cattle.
Receipts.
Monday, this week ..... 24,000
Total, last week ........ 78,025

Total, preceding week..69,817

Total, week year ago. . .48,345
Notwithstanding the greatly increas-
ed cattle receipts last week, the strong
demand for the better class put them
75(a285c, and the bulk of the steers
sold 25@50c; while most light lots
closed 50@75c below the recent high
time, with too large a showing of these.
Cows and heifers closed largely 25c
lower than a week earlier, and canners
and cutters declined 50@75c with bulls
off 500. At the week’s close steers sold

at $11@17.25, with the bulk of the'

week’s, sales at $14@16.50. This week
starts off with a further widening out
of prices, with choice heavy beeves
selling at $17.35 and over, three cars
bringing $17.50. Butchering cows and
heifers are lower, with sales at $8.10('a}
13.50 and a few at higher figures. Last
week a load of fancy heifers broke all
past records by bringing $15.40, but
such sales are rarely exceptional. Bulls
bring $8@12.50, and calves have been
going at $8@14.50, while stockers and
feeders are taken at $9@11.60 and a

. few loads of strong weights taken for

a short finish at higher prices.
Hogs.

The event in the hog market today
is the offering of 72 hogs by as many
farmers of Grinnell, Iowa, for sale for
the benefit of the Red Cross. Hogs
received last week averaged 242 lbs.
There was an early morning top at
$17.85, with a later decline of 10((D150
andsales down to $16.25 for the rough
heavy packing lots. Pigs are bringing
$13.50@16.90, with not many offered
and recent sales of feeding pigs at
$16.50@17.25.. At last week’s best
time prime hogs brought $18.05; "The
prime light hogs go highest and prime.
heavy ones about 40c below them. ‘

. Sheep and Lambs. . . “6

Shorn lambs‘have‘ made a fresh high

record! by "bringing 318;??5. with - antler 3

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lots now held at $22 or more. Shorn
wethers bring as high as $15.60, and a.
few wooled Colorado yearlings brought
$20 per cwt. ,

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city, men in the fields and women in.
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Recogn zlng the need for additional nurses for military
and civillan purposes, the Mayor's Advisory War
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University have made this (‘ourse possible, the for-
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Thursday’s Market. ‘
«April 25, 1918. f
Cattle. ;
The cattle trade this week was fairly
active but at a. decline of 25@50c fromi
last week. Unusually high market;
bulk of the decline was on canners.
while prime steers and butcher grades
dropped about a quarter and bulls held
'full steady. Prices held strong at the,
decline‘all the week the quality was
fair. .
Receipts 2109. Bulls steady, canners‘
50c and other grades 15v@25c lower
than last week.
Best heavy steers ........ $14.00@14.50
Best handy wt. butch. strs 12.50-@13.50
Mixed steers and heifers“ 11.50@l2.50
Handy light butchers... 950(41100

Light butchers .. ......... 8.50 10.00
Best cows ...... . ....... 9.5'0'@10.50
Butcher cows . . . ........ 8.00-@ 9.00
Cutters ........ ,, . . . . . . . . 7.501;) 8.00
Canners ................. 7.00 7.50-
Best heavy bulls ...... ,, . 9.50(d;10.‘00
Bologna bulls ........... 8.50@ 9.25
Stock bulls .............. 8.00@ 8.50
Milkers and sprigglers. .. . 55.00@ 100
a es.

Butchers—~15 av 748 at $10.25.; 10 av
934 at $12.60; 17 av 775 at $10.50; 16
av 808 at $9; 10 av 713 at $10.90. .

Stockers.—-9 av 600 at $9; 29 av 500
at $8.85.

Steers—4 av 850 at $10.25; 15 aV;
1000 ,at $13.75; 10 av 1040 at $13.35;
12 av 666 at $11; 19 av 1016 at $13.40;
20 av 842 at $12. ‘

Veal Calves.

Veal Calves broke bad and were,
from $1@1.50 per cwt. lower than lasti
week and very dull at the decline; a.
few extra good sold at $14.50 and an.
occasional small bunch at $1’5.((1;15.25,
but the bulk of sales for good was at
$13@13.50, with common and heavy at
$8@12. Indications are that prices will'
continue to drop.

Receipts 1104. Market dull at mg?
1.50 lower than last week. .
Best ......................... $13@14
Others ........ , ................ 8‘@12

Sheep and Lambs

Sheep and lambs were scarce and'
sold fully steady with last week.

‘Receipts 1425. Market steady.

Best lambs .............. $ 17 .75.

Fair lambs .............. 15.50@16.00'

, Light to common lambs. . 1250(0B1400‘3

Fair to good sheep ....... 12.50 (113.100:

Culls and~common ....... 7.00 8.00
Sales

Lambs—22 av 70 at $17; 114 av 55
at $15.25; 42 av 77 at $17.50; 154 av.
63 at $17; 104 av 70 at $17.75; 5 wool
lambs av 55 at $18. . .

Sheep—2 av 80 at $12; 5 av 95 at:
$12; 3 av 80 at $11.

Hegs.

The hogs trade was very dull, all.

grades ‘selling at $17.25@17.35, or 356)

40c lower than the opening on Mondayi

Receipts 4469. Market 20@2'5c lower;
than on Tuesday. ;
All grades .............. $17.25f@17.35!

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