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CURRENT COMMENT





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ITH a rapid re-

turn to a'peace

basis in prospect

there is the keenest

interest on every

hand in the problem

of the future trend of prices for both

manufactures and farm products. While

,there is no precedent comparable with

the present situation on which to base

absolute knowledge, yet this may rea-

' sonably be assumed to be one of the

proverbial cases in which history will

repeat itself. In the study of this prob-

lem. then, it will be profitable to con-

sider the price trend following the

’more recent of the great wars of the

world’s history. While our Civil War

cannot in any way be compared with

the titanic struggle which has been

raging during the past four. years, it

produced a degree of the disturbance

, in this country which is new general

throughout the world, and the price

trend which followed that war should

be in some degree an indication of

what may be expected to follow the

establishment of peace at the_ present

time.



It is generally conceded that iron

and steel are, basic materials which

_'quickly reflect changes in labor and

are largely instrumental in affecting

other prices because they constitute a

k large proportion of the raw material





Post War

Price

History





"inflict many of our largest manufacturing





enterprises. According to dependable

' ,_§tafistics recently collected, the price





of the war, the price was $47. 87 per





ton;in

per ton.





1867 $44.12. and in 1858 $39. 25





A comparison of these prices with l





the trend of wheat prices fer the same

period indicates almost a parallel con-

dition. In 1861 the seaboard price of





wheat was 31.38 per bushel, while in,





1865 at the close of the war wheat had

advanced to $2.45 per bushel. In 1866

it dropped back to a‘ little above $2.00

per bushel, While in 1867 it again ad-

vanced above the high war'point, and





in 1868 this staple bread stuff sold but





a few cents per bushel cheaper than

during the last year of the'war.





Similar statistics giving basic price

of these materials during the Franco‘

Prussian war Shaw that in 1870 pig

iron was worth $33.25 per ton, in 1871

$35.12, and in 1872. $48.87 per ton, thus

showing a greater advance after the

close of the war than during its pro-

gress. The price of wheat and other

food stuffs was affected to a very much

less degree, owing to the brief period

covered by that war.





In the case of the present war, the

world supply of food stuffs has been

reduced to a very much greater degree,

owing to the exceedingly large number

of men involved, while the property

damage has been many times greater

than in any preceding War. An esti-

mate of the probable price trend which

will follow a full return to a peace

basis is made much more difficult be-

cause of the price control which has

been maintained on many commodities

during the present struggle. With the

lifting of restrictions on materials,

however, and the subsequent abandon-

ment of price control, no immediate

upward trend of material prices can

reasonably be predicted because of the

relatively larger industrial demands

for material which seem certain to

develop.



Another factor which will very large-

ly enter into the future price tendency

is that of labor. On this point eco-

nomists seem to be fairly well agreed

that there will be no marked decrease

in wage scales until such time as the

food shortage is overcome and living

costs begin to fall, a condition which

does not seem likely to obtain in the

immediate future.





Another factor in the trend of prices

is the financial inflation always attend-

ant upon war or any other condition

which involves a large use of public

credit, and this condition will not be

likely to change materilaly so long as

bond issues are necessary to defray

the current expenses for war contracts

and the return and demobilization of

troops.



Another stabilizing factor is to be

found in the unification of our banking

facilities through the establishment of

Federal Reserve banks, which has ens

abled the country to endure a financial

strain incident to the war far beyond

the previous comprehension of the

most experienced financiers. Alto-

gether, then, it may be fairly assumed

that the“ reduCtion in prices of all

kinds following the return of a peace

basis willbe gradual and fairly well

balanced as measured by the compara-

tive values of different commodities

rather than sudden and confined alone





to either manufactures or food stuffs.





But if this condition is to be realized,

people must generally have a degree

of faith in the future which will lead

them to purchase materials and em-





ploy iabor at present price levels, both,





in the production of manufactures and

food stuffs. In other words, a condi-

tion ofgeneral confidence must obtain

and “business as usual" must be made

the slogan I'o‘f return‘to peace condi-

tions. We believe that the future de—

mand for goods and the demand for

food stuffs is so evident that there will

be no lack of this confidence on the

part of the American public, and‘. no





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~ an opinionfas to

1W1: whether a farmer who

is in debt on hlsfarm





borrow money for the purchase of Lib-

arty BoMs.



Inasmuch as further Liberty Bond

campaigns will undoubtedly be neces-

sary to liquidate the expenses incident

to the final closing .up of War projects

and the return and demobilization of

our 'troops when their work in Europe

shall finally be completed, this question

is a pertinent one which will perhaps

be, of greater moment during the next

Liberty Bond campaign than it has

been during the preceding ones when

the spirit of patriotism was more deep-

ly stirred by current war events. Avail-

able statistics show a very gratifying

participation in past Liberty Loans by

all classes of people, the number of

subscribers exceeding the estimated

number of families in the entire coun-

try. These people responded nobly to

the country’s need for financial sup-

port in the war crisis, and should be

given due credit for the sacrifices made

to this end. At the same time they

have in the majority of cases profited

by the transaction because of the in-

centive to save in other ways in order

to make this best of all available





There/ls small likelihood of any loss

in cases where money is borrowed gar .

the purchatse of Liberty Bonds within

the buyer’ s proper means, since there

is little question that these securities

will command a premium with the re-

establishment of peace and its assem-

panying commercial prosperity. While

there is, of course, no legal obligation

for any manta take this course, and

while every man must properly decide





for the moral obligation for himself,

yet there can be no doubt that the man





who buys bonds in future Liberty Loan-



campaigns, even thOugh it may be nec-



essary to use his credit to this end, as ‘

millions of purchasers have done in



previous campaigns, wianot only be



making a good investment, but one in



which he can and will continue to take



a just pride.



But the greatest advantage will ac-

crue to those who are able to buy

bonds with current savings. Dollars

are now cheap, as measured by other

commodities as an unavoidable result

of war inflation. With a return to nor-

mal conditions they will gradually in-

crease in purchasing power, to the ad-

vantage and gain of those who save

and invest them safely now. -





Clubs Hold~~ Lively Session





Farmerr’ C1745: Favor Board of Agriculture.





HE twenty—sixth annual meeting



of the Michigan State Associa-



tion of Farmers’ Clubs, held in

the Capitol Building, Lansing, Decem-

ber 3-4, 1918, proved one of the most

interesting meetings of recent years.

The close of the great war means great

changes in our industrial and agricul-

tural life, and these new problems fur-

nished interesting discussion, from

such state leaders in agricultural

thought as J. H. McBride, C. C. Lillie,

A. B. Cook, C. B. Scully, and others.





A. B. Cook, who gave an address on

“Efficiency and System as a Paliative

for the Farm Help Shortage," pointed

out the importance of drainage, adap-

ting crops to soil and climatic condi-

tions and not attempting to do more

than one can do to advantage as some

of the most important things neces-

sary to increase food production.





Among other things Mr. Cook mention-





ed the farm tractor as a tremendous

aid in helping to solve the labor prob-

lem on Michigan farms. "The labor

problems on our farms, said Mr.

Cook, "must be made to look attrac-

tive to the city man before we can in-

duce him to come to the country.”





Mr. Hale Tennant, Federal Food

Agent in Marketing, discussed the

problem of marketing farm produce

from the following angles: “The farm-

ers must be universally interested to

benefit themselves along these lines.

For fifteen years the fruit growers of

western Michigan have been organ-

ized so that they have been independ-

ent of local .buyérs and shippers of

this produce. There must the a spirit

of unity among farmers before they

can develop efficiency in grading and

marketing their products cooperative-





ly. Speculation should be eliminated





at both ends and the consumer should

come half-way~ to meet the farmer.

There must be some large and power-

ful organization to handle our market-

ing problems and this organization

must be free Erom graft and politics.





which “have wrecked so many farmers' .





organizations in other localities.



Hon" J. H. McBride, State Market

Director discussed “The.8‘armersNeed

of a State and National Chamber of

Agriculture.” There .will‘ be many





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problems after the war,” said Mr. Mc‘

Bride, “and other countries have al-

ready made plans to protect their ag-

riculture during this period of recon-

struction. If our farming interests are

to prosper and rural people must be

satisfied with country life, prices of

their products and have sufficient la-

bor to maintain production at maxi«

mum efficiency and profit. Agricul-

ture must be placed on a sound finan-

cial basis, for unless the farmers are

sure of a fair margin above the cost of

production they are going to produce

less and be content with the higher

prices. There must be some plan to

estimate and establish values to keep

agriculture on the same plane of'efli-

ciency as other lines of business. The

farmer has no way of expressing his

viewpoint at present, which emphasiz-

es the need of some powerful and in-

fluential organization through which

he can present his side of the case to

the authorities of the state and na-

tional governments.



Mr. Colon C. Lillie endorsed Mr.

McBride’s idea of a National Chamber

of Agriculture, and outlined an era of

grand and glorious agriculture in which

every farmer would be, entitled to the

cost of production plus a reasonable

profit.



The following officers were elected

for the coming year: President, Ed-

gar Burk, St. Johns; vice-president,

Alfred Allen, Mason; secretary-treas-

urer, Mrs. I. R. Johnson, Rushton; cor-

responding secretary, Mrs. J. S. Brown,

Howell. Elected to honorary member-

ship, H. H. Hinds, Stanton, Mich., C.

B. Smith, Washington, D. C.-——Mrs. I.

R. Johnson. . .





ODDS AND ENDS.





Less productive fields should be cul-

tivated only when a. profit can be

made.



The worst thing that can happen to

a community next to war. famine or ‘

pestilence. is absentee landlordism.



Farmers' organizations should not be

for their own sakes but for definite

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and successful agriculture de-

. pends .largely upon the bringing

about of better business methods on

the farm. While it is important, es-

pecially at the present time, for the

farmer to grow the maximum crops, it

is just as essential and to the mutual





advantage of both himself and those -





who’ consume his products for him to

place his enterprise on the most eco-

nomical and stable basis possible.

With this in View, the St. Clair County





'Farm Bureau is planning to give spe-





cial attention to the business features

of farming. In addition to promoting

the keeping of farm management rec-

ords, the organization of farm loan as-

sociations, etc., it has recently accom-

plished another valuable piece of work

along this line in the organization of a

Farmers’ Cooperative Marketing and

Purchasing Association. '



During the past three years, dairy-

men in the vicinity of Port Huron have

been cooperating in the purchase of

several carloads of feed at a saving of

Over one hundred dollars per car. Real-

izing that some kind of permanent ma-

chinery for handling this work would

be very desirable, thirty prominent

farmers in the eastern part of the

county decided to form a cooperative

association.



A meeting was called, and after a

thorough discussion it was decided to

organize on the following plan: The

usual officers and a board of directors

were elected, and a constitution and

set of by-laws adopted. These provide

for a membership fee of ten dollars,

and also that each man must deposit

with the secretary a hundred dollar

Liberty Bond or bank certificate of de-





 





UTTING the finishing touches on

a product before offering it for

sale yields the farmer the great-

est return of any labor. This lack of

“finish” is nowhere so clearly seen as





in on poultry products as shipped to '





market.



To prove that producers do not put

the care they should on their poultry

products before offering them for sale,





.one may visit any market and he will





find that a large proportion of the

poultry and eggs exposed for sale ex-

hibits a carelessness that no other bus-

iness could stand. Good farmers who

follow a systematic crop rotation, who

censerve all the available moisture in

the soil, who never market other live

stock except in a finished condition,

seem to forget all their business prin-

ciples when poultry and eggs are being

disposed of, and think only of getting

rid of them in the quickest and easiest

way possible.



The time it takes to prepare produce

before it is shipped from the farm is

time well spent. No matter what is

being sold, be it breeding stock, hatch-





’ ing eggs, live or dressed poultry, or

.. market eggs, it should never be sent

from the farm until it is in the best

' . possible condition. Especially is this





true when produce is intended for ta-





blouse.





Well-finished broilers or masters





the that are poorly fleshed, and





 

 





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Charter Members of St. Clair County COOperative Association.





posit. These bonds or certificates are

used as collateral security fer loans

which may be needed from time to

time'in handling 'carlot shipments. The

firm shipping the goods attaches a bill

of lading to a sight draft and sends it

to a local bank. The secretary then

deposits the bonds of certificates as

collateral security for a loan to take up

the draft. Collection is then made

from the various members at the car

as the goods are delivered, after which

he takes up the note and the bonds are

returned to him. All interest accruing

on the loan is apportioned and levied

on the commodity handled, and the

members secure the interest on their

bonds the same as though they had re-

mained in their own hands. A small

amount per ton, bushel, or hundred-

weight, depending upon the commodity

handled, is set aside to create a sink-

ing fund with a view to purchasing a

warehouse or other equipment that

may be needed later. A wholesale bus-

iness will be done and only with the

members. Arrangements are now be-





ing made for buying dairy feed, fertil-

izer, clover seed, binder twine, etc. In

fact, it is planned to secure any com-

modity that is needed by the members

in sufficient quantities to be handled to

advantage. The buying of flour and

coal has also received some considera-

tion.



It now seems probable that a consid-

erable portion of the business will be

transacted through local firms and that

the movement will do much toward

bringing about a. more friendly feeling

and better understanding between the

farmer and the merchant. In such cas-

es, the members will make payment to

the secretary and the dealer will de-

liver the article upon presentation of a

receipt from that official. The fact that

all of the business is done on a cash

basis and that sales are made in large

quantities, seems to make the business

of the association especially attractive

to local firms, and they are proving to

be very willing to quote a price that,

in many cases, is quite satisfactory to

the farmer. In fact, before the associa-





Profits in Preparing

Poultry Products





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from twenty-five to fifty per cent more





ble portion really costs less.

The neat, attractive package is a





goes a long way in determining the





t learner pound to? the producer per pound for them, as a rule, the edi- price of eggs and dressed poultry. The





person who will take the trouble to

make a neat box or crate and have it





 





tion was really an hour old, a deal, for

cottonseed meal aggregating many hun-

dred dollars was consumated at a say-

ing of nearly three dollars per ton, Or

one hundred dollars per Carload.



This association bids fair to be of

valuable service also along marketing

lines. The principal product marketed

by the members is milk, and through

the organization the dairymen expect

to agree upon a price and make a col-





lective contract with the distributors.





It is believed, too, that this progres-

sive step will have a most valuable in~

fluence in getting the farmers to grade

up their herds by better breeding, test-

ing for tuberculosis, and improving the

sanitary conditiOns of their stables and

premises. In fact, the farm bureau is

planning to develop a systematic edu-

cational campaign among the members

giving special attention to grading, the

proper use, and kind of commodities

bought or sold.





The movement is now proving to be'





very popular among the farmers, and

indications now are that it will soon

cover the greater part of the county.

Similar associations will be formed. in

the near future in other communities,

and it is ultimately planned that the

several locals will work together and

purchase supplies in still larger quan-

tities. The main object in view is to

improve the system of distribution and

to secure certain services more cheap-

ly and efficiently than has been possi—

ble in the past. While the movement

will undoubtedly affect the business of

some middlemen, the fundamental aim

is not to tear down other interests, but

rather to improve the farmer’s condi-

tion and enable him to better cooper-

ate with other legitimate enterprises.





 





all likelihood, have something good to

put into it.



Really good produce is sometimes

sold for less than it is worth because

it is packed in unattractive packages.

It is the neat package that will help

sell the contents every time. There—

fore, it is good business to. have pro-

duce not only of the best quality itself,

but packed in containers that will in-.

dicate the prime quality of contents.



The ordinary packages in which eggs

are shipped to market are not always

attractive. The outside is frequently

dirty, lacks neatness and is too often

more or less flimsy. Even though the

contents of such packages are of high

quality they do not bring the price

they should because of the unattrac-

tive container.



The best size package for ordinary

shipments is, without doubt, the thirty-

dozen case. For private or special

shipments, packages to hold twelve,

fifteen, or as low as six dozen eggs,

may be made, as the customer wishes.

It is an advantage to make these pack-





ages all uniform in size, or half-size, ‘





so that in placing them into the car 'or

buggy, they fit in square and fill up the

space.



Instead of placing his stock on the

market during two months of the year,





or at the season when there is an over- . ‘





abundance, which means poor prices,

the farmer should arrange to distribute





his produce over mere of the twelve





months than he does.

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VERY effort will be made by the



war and navy departments to re-

turn from France with the utmost'

'speed men who have knowledge of ag-

riculture and who are willing to work

on the farms, it was said in oflicial

circles this week. The need for farm

laborers was never more urgent than

at the present time. The food supply

of the world is dependent upon the

number of men who can be recruited

for agriculture



Among the plans suggested to the

farm service division of the United

States employment service is one to

'send a number of representatives to

France to confer with commanding offi-

cers with a view to obtaining a census

of the men who are ready and willing

to go on farms. It is not proposed,

however, to ask the war and navy de-

partments to give exclusive privileges



“of return to men who will be available

for farm work.



It is proposed to suggest that as

many of this class as practicable shall

be included in the early return of men

to their homes. It is contended in the

report by the United States employ-

ment service that there is a shortage

of two million men on the farms. At

any rate they say this number could

be profitably used in developing the

farms of' the country and increasing

production of fruits, cereals, vegeta-

bles live, stock and other kinds of food.



In the far west and southwest there

is great demand for cowboys. The

training the American soldiers have

received abroad especially fits them

for this kind of outdoor work. Stock

production must increase with the pro-





Movement Active, Prices Higher.





HE volume of leading lines of



fruits and vegetables had fallen



below 1,000 cars per day early

this month, but the movement has

gradually advanced to 1,200 cars per

day. Carlot shipments of thirteen main

commodities this week were 8,555 com-

pared' with 7,019 last week and 6,758

for the corresponding week last year.

All important lines show increase over

last week except onions and lettuce

and all show increase above the same

week last year except lettuce and cel-

ery. Prices continued strong with

slight to moderate advances in most

leading lines.



Potatoes Advancing.



Most markets are quoted higher this

week, securing the first flatly general

advance since the middle of October.

The hauling is reported as noticeably

light at nearly all shipping points. De-

mand continues slow to moderate in

.most shipping sections and slow in

most distributing markets. Minnesota,

Michigan and Wisconsin No. 1 sacked

white stock advanced to 10@15 cents,

reaching $1.75@1.85 per cwt. for car-

lots in Chicago and $1.50@1.70 f. o. b.

shipping points in producing sections.

Colorado and Idaho No. 1 sacked white

stock advanced slightly at shipping

points, ranging at $1.35@1.45 f. o. b.

and strengthened a little, in consum-

ing markets, ranging mostly at $2.05@



. 2.10 per cwt. sacked f. o. b. shipping

point. California sacked whites ad-

vanced to $1. 80@1. 90 f. o. b. Stockton.

‘ New York round whites gained 5@100,

reaching $1.88@1. 90 per cwt t‘. o. b. in



' bulk and strengthened slightly in con-



‘~ taming markets, closing at $2.10@2.25.



liable Green Mountains advanced to a



' mob: $3 @310 per barrel measure in



7 ,- bulk and $2.06@2. 10 per cwt. sacked





duction of cereals and vegetables. The

number of available cattle, sheep and

hogs has greatly diminished since the

beginning of hostilities.



“Before the United States” entered

the war abnormal world conditions had





'already brought about a shortage of





two million men on American farms,”

the report of the farm service bureau

says. “If the industrial draft on farm

labor is to contniue the spring season

of 1919 will find the farms absolutely

stripped of farm labor.”





BEET PRICE. SAME 'FOR 1919.





 





OR the first time in years’vMichi-



gan’s sugar factory managers and

sugar beet growers have agreed on the

price for next season’s crop without

any serious disagreements and so early

in the season that there will be no de

lay in making new contracts.



The price agreed upon is. the same

as is being paid for this season’s crop

-—a guarantee of $10 per ton for all

beets, with an increase of $1 per ton

for each one cent per pound increase

in the wholesale price of sugar above

nine cents per pound during the months

of November, 1919, to February, 1920.



Some time ago the executive com-

mittee of the Beet Growers’ Associa-

tion notified State Food Administrator

Prescott that they had decided to ask

the present prices for next year's crop

and asked him to take up the matter

with the manufacturers. He did so

and at a mebting at Detroit, the repre-

sentatives of the manufacturing con-

cerns accepted the proposition.



In this connection it is interesting

to note that an additional value of $35

per acre has resulted from ensiloing

sugar beet tops in Ventura county, near





Jaééiflg Price: and





FRANCE .TO- HAVE BOYS’ AND

GIRLS' CLUBS.





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RANGE isreo'nsidering the adoption '





of Uncle star 5 methods of teach-

ing better farming and home-making

to boys andvgirls. .4Representatives of

the French High Commission, lately in





this country made a point of studying ‘





carefully the methods of the Federal

Department of Agriculture and the





State Agricultural Colleges in eonduct-‘





ing boys’ and girls’ clubs. Much of the

information ’ thus collected has . been





widely reprinted by the French press, ‘





accompanied by editorial comment ex-

pressing ,the view that, man and wom-

an power, of France having been de-

pleted or disorganized by war service,

France for some time to come: will be

dependent in large part upon its

younger population for its food supply

and suggesting the formation in France

of a nation-wide system of boys‘ and

girls’ clubs patterned after those in

America.





OTSEGO COUNTY FARM BUREAU

ORGANIZED.

ECENTLY a group of representa-

tive farmers of Otsego county met

at the court house in Gaylord and or-

ganized the Otsego County Farm Bu-

reau.



Mr. L. R. Queal, Emergency Demon-

stration Agent, described the work

that had been done in Otsego and

Montmorency counties during the past

season without organization, and ex-

plained how greate1 results could be

obtained through organized effort.





 





Review of Fruit and Vegetable Markets





Sflzpmems Covering





Me Period Deeeméer 3rd to 91% 172 c/uii‘ve





at $2.35@2.40 in Boston but advanced

to $2.50@2.85 in New York. Shipments





to date from 13 chief winter and spring





potato shipping states show about 14,-

000 cars less than for the correspond-

ing time last year, although the esti-

mated crop is 24,000 cars less this

year. Detail by states will be given

in a special. potato bulletin issued with

next week's 'review. Shipments this

week 2,289 cars against 1,982 last week.





Strong Tone Continues in Apple

Markets.





The firm trend of the past month





continues. New York Baldwins A 2%,

reached $5@5.50 per_ barrel f.. o. b.

Rochester, and strengthened in several





consuming markets, ranging generally





at $5.25@5.65. Virginia Yorke, A 2%,

followed irregular ranges but advanced

to $5.75@6.50 in Chicago.‘ Virginia

Ben Davis sold generally at $4.50@5,

but reached ”@525 in various smaller

southern markets. Northwestern, ex-

tra fancy boxed Winesaps advanced 16

cents, reaching~ ”@235 f. o. b. ship-





ping points and still sold mostly at $3'





@325 in consuming markets. ' Sales to

jobbers for barrel stock weer 50c@$1

above last year's corresponding ranges





and for northwestern apples 50c@$1(





higher per box.

Onions Continue Nearly Steadv

California Australian Browns follow-

ed a stronger range of ”.2501.“ per.





'cwt. sacked t. o. b. Stockton. and sold





at $2. 50@3 in south central cities. The

choice yellow stock held at $1.50@1.60

f. o. b. in New 'York‘ andNew England

shipping sections. Eastern and middle-

western sacked yellow stock. advanced

hbout. 25 cents in leading mammar-





."jgd. ,3". '4.;





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kets, ranging mostly at $1.50@2 per

cwt., but -middlewestern markets still

range at'$1.40@1.85. Shipments again

declined with 338 cars, compared with

377 last week and 137 for the corres-

ponding week last year.





Cabbage Again Advances.



Price trends continued upward in

producing sections and in distributing

markets. Demand was generally good

in the cast but slow in the west and

southwest. New York Danish seed

stock again. advanced $4, reaching $22

@26 per ton in bulk f. o. b. . Wiscon-

sin Holland seed sold at $13 in bulk

to growers in shipping sections. New

York Danish seed advanced sharply in

consuming markets, reaching $28@35

per ton, and Wisconsin Holland seed

advanced, ranging at $276928 per ton

in middlewestern markets. Colorado

cabbage was weaker in some south-

western markets, ranging at $2.75@

3.75 per cwt. Shipments increased

Considerably, 405 cars compared with

298 last week. The movement was

chiefly from New York and Wisconsin

a few cars of new cabbage started

from Florida, Texas and California.





. Colo Markets Strong.

New ’ York l'denheart celery sold

at higher ranges, mostly $l@5 per





crate in the“ rough tofcold storage

stock 1.0. b Rochester. General range

in eastern consuming markets was $4

as but. sales reached $5@6. 5,0 in some

distant markets. California Golden-

heart advanced-to 65@70c per dozen

f o. 1). shipping points and to a higher

range of $6. 50@6 75 per crate in con-

suming markets. Shipments increased

to 264i compared with 201 last, week.





 





 





Washington, accordipg to word .reach- .

'ing the Department of Agriculture.





,f. o. b. shipping points and sold $2.75





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Mr. E. E. Twing, Kalkaska county > “ -' ~ '

agent, described results obtained in . 4 ;

that county and urged organized effort ‘

on the part of the farmers to eradicate

the grasshopper pest by using poison

bait.



It is estimated that Otsego county

losses from grasshoppers range from

$30,000 to $40, 000 and that by all farm- .

‘ers using poison bait these losses can ' ,

be cut to a minimum.



The farmers realizing the good that

has come from the organization of the

cooperative marketing association, vot-

ed to organize a Farm Bureau to con-

tinue the good work 'andelected the,

following officers:



President, Frank Wilkinson, vice-

president, A. J. Townsend; secretary,

Samuel Sellars; treasurer, Simon J.

Lewis; J. F. Love, chairman marketing

committee; Valentine Manpouski,

chairman live stock committee, John

Yuill, chairman publicity committee;



C. J. Franks, chairman potato im-

provement committee.





 





 





 





MAKE APPLICATIONS EARLY.





 





The Department of State conducts

the business of receiving the tax and

issuing motor vehicle plates and chauf— '

feur badges. All such registrations

expire on December 31, each year. Un-

der the Motor Vehicle Law we are now

receiving applications for the year

1919. The more we receive prior to

January 1, the less difficulty will our

patrons and the department experi-

ence in handling the businessthat usu-

ally floods the oflice at that time. We

would suggest that those‘ who propose

to make use of their cars at the begin-

ning of the new year send in their ap-

plications at once





Lettuce Values Gained.



Florida head lettuce strengthened,

reaching '$1.75_@2.50 f. o. b. Orlando

and advanced in most consuming

markets, closing mostly at $3.25@4 per

hamper, but selling at $2@2.25 in Chi-

cago. California Iceberg advanced 15

cents to a range of $1.95@2 per crate





@300 in most consuming markets.

Shipments were 95 compared with 100

last week. ’





Bean Markets irregular.

Additional government purchases of

11,000,000 pounds of Pinto beans are

reported, making total Pintos 36,000,000

pounds at seven cents f. o. b. sacked,

recleaned; total amount of government

bean purchases are around 70,000,000

pounds.



California small whites declined

slightly in producing sections, closing

at $8.50@9 sacked, recleaned basis

cash to growers. Oregon white stock

weakened slightly, ranging at $7.50@

7.75 sacked, cash to growers. Michi-

gan choice pea beans also weakened,

ruling at $7.75 per cwt. bulk, recleaned

basis, cash to growers, and ranged firm

in consuming markets at $10@10.50.

Colorado Pintcs held at $6 bulk, re- ,

cleaned, basis in producing sections .I‘ ‘ "

while recleaned sacked stock ranged '

higher in Kansas. City at $7.50. Last

year during corresponding week, grow;

rs of Colorado Pintos received. “@ A

8.50 and Michigan navys were sold at " ‘ '

$10 seem in producing sections. sup.

merits the past week. after several

weeks of decrease, had increased to

225 cars compared with 168 last week.

California shipments comprised over

one-half the week's total and one of

the total for the season: Northwestern

and Rocky Mountain states have shipv

pedmorethan four-fltthsoftbooon-
. successful feeders.





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screenings, ,





 





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HE present cost to produce a

hog, finished for market, where

maintenance, breeding and feed-



ing charges for the dam are properly

charged, and where a conservative per-





centage of the feeding and breeding -





costs is added to cover the overhead

charges and risk, would appear to be

about $20 from the best obtainable fig-

ures. A fair, but no excessive, profit

should be possible with present pork

prices, where good management is ap-

plied.



The feed situation, however, is far





from bright at the present time. Stan— _





dard hog foods comprise but a short

list—com, barley, wheat by-products,

and oats. Corn will be excessively

high where obtainable, and the price

is cOnsidered as prohibitive by many

Barley is far from

readily available ,in many sections,

and stands at top-notch prices as a

feed. -Wheat by-products are limited

to shorts and bran. Oats at present

prices may be used with economy only

to induce milk flow and the growth of

bone and sinew, that is, with the milk-

ing sow and the weaned pig. In short,

the whole matter of available hog

foods rests upon an entirely unstable

foundation. Are there any avenues of

relief? .



Canada has been under the pressure

of abnormal conditions sufficiently long

so that her farmers and experiment

men have learned more things worthy

of consideration in solving the problem

of maintaining a high pork production

under partial food supply conditions.

Of the concentrates which the'Cana-

dian feeders have used with profit in

hog feeding might be mentioned cot-

tonseed meal, gluten meal, gluten feed,

linseed oil meal, distillers’ grains, corn

oil cake, and corn bran. In 1915-16,

the following percentage additions to a

basic corn, shorts, barley rations gave

economical and healthful results—glu-

ten feed twenty per cent, linseed oil

meal seventeen per cent, and cotton-

seed meal thirteen per cent. The fol-

lowing winter a similar experiment

showed the injurious effects (protein

poisoning) of increasing the percent-

age addition in the case of linseed and

cottonseed meal. Where fed in the

original percentages good results were

obtained. Distillers’ grains were furth-

er shown to give good results as a





.twenty per cent addition.





Linseed oil meal may be safely fed

as indicated, and is a concentrate to

be recommended at the present time.

Gluten feed as high as thirty per cent

of the ration is another valuable sub-

stitute where procurable. Cottonseed

meal, while giving phenomenal results,

should not be widely recommended as

a hOg feed. Distillers’ grains are be-

coming increasingly difficult to obtain.

Corn oil cake, where procurable, is a

high-class concentrate fed with shorts

or bran and skim-milk. Corn bran, of

limited supply, may enter profitably

into the ration of the brood sow, or the

fattening hog. Not more than twenty

per cent should be fed owing to the

rather fibrous nature of the food. While

more in the nature of aby—product, ele

vator screenings, graded as buckwheat

has given consistently

good results, a fact worthy of note at

the present time. In the 1918 experi-

mental feeding tests in Canada, buck-





_wheat screenings and milk gave the





highest gains in both first and dupli-

cats lots. The addition of shorts, oil

meal and tankage, was apparently in





; I no wise an improvement over the whole

. screenings. .4





 





"e, one thing to be remembered





Vlittle vain’e for Wine feeding . ,





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not be so heavy that it will not allow

the clamps to open with. their own

.,, weight The arms astened to" '11s top over it;

of the head clamp bars may. be made the hole in .the' cross- :har at the top





of young pigs. A bone-bdilding ration

with low percentage fiber is necessary.

East of digestibility is essential. Wheat

middlings and skim-milk, while being

taught to eat, with middlings, sifted

oats, a little corn, and skim-milk after

weaning, form excellent rations. Skim-

milk is almost a necessity. To find a

substitute, three years of experimental

work was carried on at Ottawa sta-

tion. Tankage, oil meal, and skim-

milk were the chief centers of interest.

Briefly, tankage proved a poor substi-

tute where it-directly replaced skim-





rots from the Hog

By EARLE W G.4GE





 





milk, both in quality of pigs and cost

of production. As an addition to a ra—

tion containing skim—milk, it showed

consistently inferior to oil meal. In

fact, as has already been stated, no

benefit could be seen in adding this

expensive meat by-product to an al-

ready balanced ration. Thus, while

skim-milk and corn or barley gave

marked results over corn, tankage and

water, it also showed a slight superior-

ity over corn, tankage and milk for

weaned pigs.



Tankage, however, may be regarded





 





 





Getting Rid of the Horns





 





 





 





Home-made Chute for Dehorning Cattle.





11TH a home-made chute, several

farmers have removed the old

trouble at dehorning season. Rough

postsand scrap planks of various sizes

may-be-usedin making this chute, al-

though they must be strong enough to

held the animal in place. _

The picture shows a chute with the





head- clamps open ready for the animal





to be driven in. This clamp is_ operat-





.ed from the side by means of the lever.

~'A short rope is attached to the end of

this for. pulling it down. and fastening

. it when closed.- This handle should





 





of the lever. The lower arms are best

when made of wood. The distance be-

tween the bars when thelever is down

should be about four inches, and this

may be secured best by placing a block

between the bars on the inside of the

cross- peces. This not only serves to

steady the bars, but insures a more

secure chute at the very time when

strength is most needed. .



A type chute with a sloping side has

been found. best for dehorning small

stock. To hold the clamp closed, the

lever is notched .on the underside and

werks in a loop with a bolt or pin

through it so that the notches drop

A pin or belt is inserted in





11:: strap iron two inches wide, using hole in the cross-bar, which holds it in

four pars. Butwood is as seed. re





embatm bass, ocean each side





place. .For email animals this. .clamp

bar is left clcsed. _.‘





 





as a milk substitute.





dry in a. self-feeder, part of which was

partitioned off and filled with dry tank-

age.

quired. Water should be supplied at

all times. Grain only produced gain at

a cost of 9.8 cents; grain plus tankage

7.1 cents, as against the six or eight-

week—old weanlings. Tankage’s repu—

tation has gained largely through its

use as a balance to corn, 3. grain that

for the production of economical gains

must be fed with some protein sup-

plement. '



Skim-milk

rightly he claimed as the best single

food. The common statement that with

meal at $20 per ton, skim-milk is worth

twenty cents per cwt. is all too con-

servative. For light, growing .hogs,

sixty pounds and over, 400‘ poundspf

skim-milk has showed equal on the av-

erage to 100 pounds of meal, which at

present prices would give milk a meal

equivalent value of nearly seventy-five

cents. While the above may be taken

as an average, experiments too numer-

ous to mention specifically have dem-

onstrated that for the young growing

pig, skim—milk at pre-War prices for

meal, showed values ranging from

twenty-eight cents with heavier hogs,

to seventy-nine cents for lighter ones.



Butter-milk, fed fresh, is the equal

of skim-milk. Experiments show that

one hundred pounds of whey, fed fresh,

is capable of saving 19.2 pounds meal,

or attaining a value of almost twenty

cents per cwt. with meal at even $20

per ton. Much of the palatability, and

consequent value of whey, is frequent-

ly lost through feeding it in a badly

soured or decomposed condition. Of

all milk products, it may be generally

stated that the value of whey is least

appreciated.



Skim-milk must not be over-fed, how-

ever, for most economical returns. A

small proportion of the skim-milk fed

shows a high meal equivalent. Much

valuable feed is not only wasted, but

lost with disaster to the pig as well,

from over—feeding skim-milk. A study

of experimental evidence would Show

that for the best results with young

pigs, one pound of milk to 2.5 or three

pounds of meal should be fed. A great-

er proportion of milk shows a decreas-

ed value as a meal substitute. For

older hogs less milk may be used,

tests indicating that for the one-hun-

dred-pound hog and over not more than

five pounds should be fed daily.



Practice has indicated the advisabil-

ity of feeding milk sweet to very young

pigs. As the digestive system becomes

stronger, however, comparison shows

little difference in the results of feed-

ing sweet or sour milk, provided what-

ever condition favored is uniformly





kept up, that is, milk always sweet or .





alw‘ays sour. Sour milk is easy to ob-

tain, and would also have a beneficial

action upon the digestive apparatus

not seen with sweet milk.





Labor-saving in Hog Feeding.



Practice indicates that two feedings

daily is sufficient for the fattening hog.

Indeed, that with the exceptionof—the

young pig, feeding twice daily is pre-

ferable to three. This fact was indi-

cated in a Canadian test, where no ap-

preciable difference in gain was shown

to balance the extra labor of feeding.

Realizing that the indication of. one ex-

periment is not conclusive, it may be





said that close observation and find-





ings point to the same result Many

hOg men feed breeding stOck, and even

growing hogs, on good pasture but

once daily. Experiments point to the

feasibihty of the self-feedmg met ‘

and to the fact that it gives

equal to hand- feeding with a rednclf

of from. 15th to eigfity per cent of”:

labor 0f feeding.





   





Best results have,

been obtained where pigs wereweaned‘

without milk by supplying the meal-





This may be consumed as re—',‘





for the growing hog may ‘





 





 





 





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1'. ‘ ““B'ifiw,
‘ under present conditions.

.5.‘who grows fruit must be a brighter

.f Juan than he was forty years ago. He





 





 





‘ HE forty-eighth annual meeting

of the Michigan State Horticuls

tural Society, held at the Board



of Commerce Building at Detroit on





' December 19-13, brought out a large at- .





tondance of fruit growers from various

parts of the state. This is the first an-





, nual meeting of the society to be held





in Detroit, or, in fact, the eastern por-

tion of the state, and considering the





T unusual conditions confronting the in-





dustry the meeting proved very suc-





fitcessful, both from the standpoint of





the fruit growers and the ultimate con-

sumers in the city of Detroit.



In connection with the meeting of

the horticulturists was held the first

apple show, which opened with four

hundred bushels of Michigan’s choicest

fruit displayed. The Michigan Agricul-

tural College had an exhibit of more





' than eighty varieties of apples grown





in Michigan. “This apple show,” said

President Charles A. Bingham, of Bir-

mingham, Michigan, “will demonstrate

that Mchigan apples are second to

none. A bushel of Michigan apples

costs the Detroit purchaser about what

he would have to pay as freight on a

box of Oregon fruit. Our exchanges

would also like to sell direct to Detroit

retailers and consumers. Thirty thou-

sand bushels of apples were shipped

from Bangor, Van Buren county, this

fall. Of these thirteen thousand bush-

els were shipped south and the rest

went to the Chicago market. This win-

ter the Chicago market will be ship-

ping this fruit to many of our smaller

cities and our people will be paying

freight both ways and several unnec-

essary commissions to handlers.”





In his address of welcome, Mr. John





‘ A. Russell, vice-president of the De-





troit Board of Commerce said:



“It is of tremendous importance for

the city of Detroit to have state con-

ventions of this kind because they tend

to create a greater solidarity by hav-

ing the whole state working together.

It is quite. necessary for us to under-

stand the farmers’ problems and for

the farmers to understand our city

problems in order that we may have a

more unanimous public opinion. So

far as the Detroit Board of Commerce

is concerned, we are at your service

and want you to feel at home. We are

awfully glad to have you here and

hope you will come again."





In addressmg the meeting Mr. R01-

and Morrill, the dean of Michigan hor't-

iculture, took for his subject the “Past,

Present and Future of Michigan Horti-

Oulture.” Morrill said: “I know quite

a lot about the past of Michigan horti-

culture, and I suppose my judgment

about the future is about the same "is

that of the most of you. My father

was one of the first nurserymen in

Michigan and he sent to Vermont for

trees, and to Rochester, New York, for

scions. I remember the old varieties

and it seemed to me that our old or-

chard was a dandy. From that time

until today Michigan, has been a fruit-





» producing state and in the past apples





were easy to grow. In the course of

time our troubles began to multiply,

and then came the term science, and

people ridiculed, but somehow or other

farmers are beginning to realize that»

science is coming to the rescue in solv-

ing for us some of our most perplexing

problems.



The present is as good as it can be

The man





must get a clear knowledge of what he

s doing and the man who does not pos-

was this knowledge is going to lose

money. Today we are passing through

time that I do not understand. I do

.W, about the labor situation.





ships of. the past few years _





growers must do by assocmtions. The





 





 





A miua/ Session ‘41 Detmzt 1.1 Rep/ere wit/i





Good Advice and





edge, and these men are the best hort-





icultural prospects we have today.





While we cannot produce so much food

per acre as the farmers of some of the

European countries we can produce

more food per man, and that is the

great problem of today. There is al-

ways a lot of hand- work on the fruit

farm and we haven’t got the ability

and efficiency that we had five or six

years ago. Millions of men have left

our farms and many of them may

drift back. Foreigners who have been

working on the fruit farms in the east

and south have returned to their

homes or gone to the factories. We

don’t know whether these laborers will

return to the farms or not. We have

tried to keep up, but the business has

narrowed down to what a man and his

family can do. The man who is pro-

ducing fruit and grain is not making

any big profits but I have got in four

hundred acres of grain because I could

uSe my tractor to good advantage and





because the government has guaranx





teed me a good price for it.

When we reorganize and reconstruct

our business I do not know where our





Timely Suggeytiom





for Pioneer and max.





111.1111: vicinity ot‘Deti-oit and pointed

out the problems confronting growers

of strawberries, raspberries, currants

and the like, for the Detroit market.

It is Mr. Gregg's opinion that there

will be a profitable market in Detroit

for all of the small fruits that the

growers in that vicinity can produce

during the next few years.



Mrs. Malcom Smith, Chairman of

Home Economics of the Allegan Coun-

ty Bureau of Agriculture, gave a most

interesting discussion of rural recrea-

tion. "This subject, ” said Mrs. Smith

“is a broad one and might be handled

from many angles. A man who is fitted

to his work finds as great pleasure in

it as he did in play when a boy. The

little girls playing with their dolls are

just as interested as the mothers'are

in caring for their babies. No boy is

naturally a criminal and should not be

treated as such, but should be provid-

ed with means for healthful recreation.



“This war will go down in history as

not -only the most criminal one, but the

most humane, because the soldiers

have been provided with means for

recreation. The government has been





 





 





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Wintering Bees Out of Doors. ,





The packing cases illustrated above are the type used by the B}:-

reau of Entomology in the government apiary. There is advantage in .

packing several hives together, they warm each other, labor is reduc‘

ed and cases are less expensive. Details for construction are given in

Farmers' Bulletin No. 1012 of the United States Department of Agri





culture, Washington, D. C.





young men are going. So far as for-

eign laborers are concerned I do not

believe that we can count on them too

much. But I believe that the future is

going to demand standardization and

quality as never before. It has taken

some of the big markets years to wake

up to the value of some of the good

qualities of our best market varieties

of apples. The man who cannot grow

good products and put them up on the





square has no future in the fruit busi-'





ness. The Pacific Coast apple growers

can never equal the flavor and quality

of Michigan apples, but they could put

this fruit in honest packages and come

here to Michigan and take our mar-

kets’right from under us. We have

young men who are going to take up

the business and who are going to

make good. What the large orchard-

ists can do by themselves the small





big apple market of the country .be-

longs to anyone who can put into it a





     





broad enough to realize that a clean

body and mind are the great factors in

maintaining an efficient soldier. Health

and recreation are also closely allied

and modern science has shdhvn that we

can remove many of the things that

cause ill health. For instance, if you

have dyspepsia try skipping a meal

and walk five miles and practice deep

breathing.



”The foreign nations do not have as

great rural social problems as‘ We do

in America. The foreign farmers live

in the villages and go out to thef'farm

and work, so that they really have all

of the social advantages of the "city.

We need more social gatherings, such

as we are having today. In the Olden

times we had more community gather»

ings than we do today. -’ ‘



“In performing our war work we

have developed a community spirit in

the greatest sense-- and now we are go'-

ing“ to derelop a still greater cue: into

‘a spirit that is going to' feed our ene-





the best varieties put”mles. The past 19w: years have been

the grantee





oi.- our





single interest in the country with the





smallest per cent organized The farm- ‘





rs of this country muSt learn the





e

same kind of cooperation as those of





Denmark, not only to obtain better

prices, but for social and industrial im-

provement.

have one social center where” the ’peo-





ple may come together for social ex-'





pression. In establishing such a center

the real problem is leadership.‘ A man

and womam working in harmony can

perform wonders in any community.

There is no rural organization that is





in a position to do So much for the real ,





benefit of the farmer as the farm bu--

reau. The farm agent is doing 'a vast

amount of good in solving rural prob-

lems. Lodges interest a few, but the

farm bureau interests everyone, boys,

boys’ and girls’ clubs and various oth-

er branches. The departments are also



abig factor in keeping the boys and

girls on the farms and are sure to be-

come a more prominent one in the

years to come. Young people must

have recreation along with their work.

The child who learns to play on the

square will develop into a man who

will do business on the square. Young

people should play good games that

teach them'some of the real problems

of life. The time has passed when we

can afford to allow our boys and girls

to go out to face the world" without a

knowledge of its problems.



“When you are planning community

affairs do not leave out anyone, be

cause there is nobody who cannot put.

some good things into a community

event.~

prove a big educational factor and rec-

reational factor in the future of rural

districts. It is now the plain duty of

women to prepare themselves for the

ballot. Would it not be good for men

and women to come together to brush

up on civic and political questions? I





believe every community should have '





a debating society or civic club where

they could meet and discuss some of

the big problems of the day.”



The question box at Wednesday’s

meeting opened up an interesting dis-

cussion on. tractors for use on fruit

farms. Many growers reported favor-

able 1'esults from the use of light trac-

tors and report a big saving of labor

in plowing and cultivating. Others

claimed that some of the tractors had

proven a disappointment. Mr. C. B.

Cook, of Owosso, said that his tractor

does the work of three strong teams,

and at a lower cost.



Miss May PersOns, of the M. A. 0.,

gave a practical demonstration on the

use of apples from the standpoint of

the average housewife. Miss Persons

said: “There never was a more psy-

cological time to push apples than

right now; to urge Michigan people to

eat more apples.- We must not only

practice conservation of certain pro-

ducts but we must practice the use of

things of a perishable nature. Apples

do not compare very well with other

food products when we talk in calories,

but as a factor in maintaining health

and bodily functions the apple stands

very high. Women are going to hear

moreabout apples in the future and

they are going to use more apples. As

a rule the average housewife knows

but ‘little about apples, and if we are

going to push ‘Michigan apples for

Michigan people we must let the aver-

age housewife know more about an





pies. There are many ways of using





apples So that they may have a regu-

lar place in our diet instead of being

used merely for pics and apple sauce.





We must educate the average house-'..-,.,

wife in respect to the various varieties . ‘

of apples and how to use the different~ '





varieties for diflere‘nt purposes, the





same as the apple growers of the re. a

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‘ 081‘ of the vegetables at Garden

Place are grown as inter:crops

in the orchards. Those grown



in a large way for market are cabbage,

cauliflower, and in ,years past celery.

About all the vegetables are grown in

smaller quantities and used in the fam-

ily, or for green feed for poultry.





Cabbage is grown as a cash crop be-

cause the culls and trimmings provide

green food for the poultry. -.The vari-

eties mostly grown are Winnigstadt,

and. Danish Round Head. I have 1earn~

ed that with heavy application of nitro-

genous fertilizer, one does not always

get hard heavy heads. There is a large

growth of loose leaves, but the phos-

phorous and potash is needed to get

the weight of heads desired. I will

hereafter amend animal manures with

acid phosphate, and apply wood ashes

to the soil when I can get them, as a

source of potash.



Cauliflower is a more profitable crop

than cabbage, if one is assured of a

manket. One can usually depend on a

limited demand in large villages, but

the city market must be utilized when

they are grown in large quantities.

Growing at some seasons of the year

can be made fairly profitable. I have

found cauliflower’ culture to be the

same as for cabbage, except for the

largest, finest heads, extra fertilizer

and cultivation are needed. When the

curds start to grow in the heads, is

the time to tie the leaves around it to

blanch. Growth should be completed

inside the head before marketing, and

a good marketable head should be from

twelve to sixteen inches in diameter.

After trimming nicely, the heads can

be packed in berry crates for the local

market and in barrels or large crates

for the city markets.



Those who grow strawberries by the

wide-row system, if they make the soil

very rich, can set cauliflowers between





' the rows of strawberries set early in





the spring. This. necessitates more

hand-hoeing, although I have used the

horse cultivator a few times when the

plants are small, bymaking it very nar-

row. This is not ideal strawberry cul-

ture, but it enables one to get pay for

the use of the ground the first year

while growing the strawberry plants

for fruiting the next year. ,





Celery.



After having grown celery for mar-

ket on a large scale for many years,

and experimented with it in almost ev—

ery way, I finally settled on a method

of intensive culture that gave me the

largest returns for the labor. The prin-

ciple of growing celery, in brief, is to

grow the roots in a moist cool place,

and the stalks in a darkened place.

This was accomplished by the old meth-

od of banking with soil over the roots,

and up around the stalk! as they grow.

This -'is very laborious, and the rows

must be so far apart, that the yield per





" acre is not large. I make the same fav-





orable conditions for growth, by plant-

ing on the surface in alternate rows

of one and two feet apart, placing a





‘heavy mulch“ of manure or garden re-





fuse in the wide space, and when the

plants are abouta foot high, set up

blanching boards, so the two rows in

the narrow space are boarded together,

i. e., in double rows. When the celery

grows a few inches above the boards,





' r the boards are crowded close together,

. which completes the blanching.





. Irri-

gation over the mulch always insures a





large crop of the finest celery, and the





method is fairly successful without irri-

gation. In the family garden emptying

t1,he waste Water from the house over

they mulch is sufficient.





The celery for .





but is planted in moist soil on the cel-

larbottom, before hard freezing, where

it blanches out nicely. I grow mostly

the Golden-Self-Blanching celery for

both fall and winter use, and sow the

seed in open ground as soon as the

frost is out in the spring.

Sweet Corn and Lima Beans.

1, now drill in the small growin‘g var-





 





 





larger corns for succession, in the or-



der named, are Quincy Market, Squan-



tum and Country Gentleman.

Tomatoes.



‘ Tomatoes, like the most of the gar-

den crops, I like to mulch the spaces

between'the plants in mid-summer. A

well balanced fertilizer, and plenty of

it, is needed to grow large crops. Nitro-





 





Most of the Vegetables Are Grown as Inter-Crops in the Orchard.





ieties of sweet corn, and bush or lima

beans‘in the same row, and thin them

after they come up so each has a

chance to develop. I am sure the com-

bination crop is worth more than eith-

er crop alone. Farmers can drill in the

seed with the corn planter, and by sav-

ing their own seed, as they should,

they can have a large abundance of

sweet corn and beans at almost no

cost. The Golden Bantam planted two

or three times for succession is one of





the best early corns, although the Peep;





of Day is a few days earlier, but the

quality is poorer. The best of the





gen will make a large growth of vines,

but to get the highly colored, solid to-

matoes we like so well, there must be

potash available in the soil, and then

phosphorus stiffens up the plants, and

increases the yield. -A good place for

the wood ashes from the kitchen stove

is around the tomato plants soon after

setting, also some acid phosphate if

the manure used has been reinforced

with it, which is the better way. The

only support I give the tomatoes is to

lay- some brush, saved when I prune

fruit trees, between the rows of plants

before they cover the ground.





 





 





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Peas, like corn and beans, should be

grown in large quantities and the seed

saved, from the best of them each year,

which saves all the cash cost.

farmer can plant them with the corn

planter and with no cost for seed, and





plenty of land, I think it will hardly '





pay him to put up supports for them.

One of the early dwarf varieties fol-

lowed by the Telephone, and Dwarf!

Champion, are all that we use. The

main thing is plan for enough, and sow

at different times, so as to have them

as long as possible.





wire netting up for support, but this

is too much work when I plant them

out in the field, and cultivate them

with a horse cultivator.



Early Potatoes and Winter Squash.



Perhaps some of us have not learn-

ed that we can grow fine winter squash

in the potato field, if the potatoes

are planted and dug early. After the

potatoes are planted, when the ground

is warm, and danger of hard freezing

over, plant squash seed, in about every

third row of potatoes, and about ten

feet apart, and if the soil is not suffi-

ciently rich for squash, apply some

fertilizer when planting. A still better

way is to plant the squash seed in in-

verted sods early in May, and place

these sods under the glass in a cold-

frame, then transplant them to the gar»

den at a seasonable time.





THE MONEY-MAKING RABBIT.





UNSHINE is of great value in keep-

S ing the hutches in sanitary condi—



tion and they should be placed

where the light can strike the inside

at least during a portion of the day.

In the hottest summer weather cur-

tains can be provided to keep the

hares from becoming overheated.



The rabbit is a clean animal, and it

is not necessary to take. much time in

cleaning the hutchcs. Keep the hutches

dry and supplied with plenty of clean

straw litter.



In selecting a breed of rabbits there

are at least three which will prove sat-

isfactory. They are the Belgian hare,

the New Zealand Red and the Flemish

Giant. The Belgian and the New Zea-

land are about the same size. The





New Zealand is lighter in color and a-





little more blocky in shape. The Flem-

ish Giant is a large rabbit and takes

longer to get its growth than the Bel-

gian or the New Zealand.



The doe that raises five litters each

year is doing enough work and the

breeder should be satisfied with that

record. Young rabbits can be weaned

at about six weeks of age and then" it

is advisable to give the doc about two

weeks rest before breeding her again.



Rabbits do not require much atten-

tion but they do need regular feeding

and watering and it takes time. Dur-

ing the summer they should _be wa-

tered twice each day but in the Winter

once will be sufficient. Time. may be

saved by having a rack in each hutch

and this can be filled with a week’s

supply of clever or alfalfa hay.



Rabbits are healthful animals and

there is little trouble with disease

when the hutches are clean and dry

and the proper feeding methods are

observed. The most common trouble

is the “snuffles” and it starts with a

cold in the head and sneezing. It is

contagious and afflicted hares should

be removed and isolated. A teaspoons





' ful of kerosene oil and oil of tar mixed





can be poured down the back of the

throat with good results. Eucalyptus





.oil scattered in the hutch once each





day is beneficial in cases of snufl'les.





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One of the outstanding features of

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Duroc-Jerseys by Prof. Herbert W.

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any age.



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j-Will you suggest a dairy rationgfor

my Holstein co_Ws,- from the following:

Cottonseed meal at $65 per ton; bran

at $45; middlings at $47, and oats at

70 cents" per bushel? I have plenty of

corn silage and goodiclover hay. Are

oats at 70 centsa cheaper feed than

cottonseed meal at $65. G. .

For the bulk of the ration there is

nothing better than corn silage and

clover hay and the, cows should be giv-

en a liberal amount, all they will eat

up clean without wasting. As a grain

ration I would' suggest that you feed

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weight and fee‘d'a sufficient amount of ‘





this so that each 'cow‘ is getting one

pound of grain per day for every four

pounds of milk produced.



It is not proper to compare ground

oats with cottonseed meal because the

nature of the fOOdS are different. Cot-

tonseed meal is a highly concentrated

grain food, rich in protein. Oats con-

tain only a fair per cent of protein, con-

sequently we cannot compare them.

We need them both in a. ration. For a

certain amount of the ration there is

nothing better than cottonseed meal,

even at the price named, and the same

can be said of ground oats. C. C. L.





FEEDiFO‘RVROAID HORSES.





I have two horses which I drive al-

ternately on a thirty-mile mail route.

They are getting good timothy hay and

oats at present. Would you advise me

of a better ration‘for same?



Monroe Co. ' R. T. M.





I don’t believe you could possibly get

a better ration for road horses that

work every other day, than timothy

hay and oats, providing, of course, the

quality of the hay and oats is No. 1.

Timothy hay that was allowed to get

too ripe before it was cut is not as

nourishing and is liable to be some-

what more constipating than hay cut

at the proper time. If this ration seems

to be a little too constipating for the

best health of the horses it would be a

fine thing to feed a little oil meal oc-

casionally, or even regularly, if you

did not oyerfeed.. Half a pound of oil

meal fed with the oats would improve

the ration if the hay was a little bit

too ripe. C. C. L.





MIXING FEED FOR THE COWS.





Can you give me a good balanced

ration for dairy cows. My rough feeds

consist of silage, cornstalks and bean

pods. We have oats and some corn.



Kent Co. C. J. S.





The roughage ingredients in this ra-

tion are both highly ’carbonaceous,

hence you must have a larger per cent

ofprotein in the grain foods to balance

the ration than you would have if you

had clover 0r alfalfa hay to feed with

the corn silage. If you have oats to

feed they will‘make a splendid feed but

are not rich enough in protein to bal-

ance the roughage so it will be neces-

sary to purchase oil meal and cotton-

seed meal and Wheat bran to make a

good ration. I would suggest that you

feed one and one-half pounds of oil

meal each day to each cow and also

one and one-half pounds of cottonseed

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holiday that our childhood days knew

and loved so well.



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cial sanction by adopting it is, cur-

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Christmas and other kinds. Not a few

of the millions of evergreens which

are being cut in all parts of the coun-

try for Christmas use will. come from

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their children of that bureau. This'

unique custom was instituted by Uncle

Harry Towers, who during his life was

an ardent lover of nature, and a kind

protector of our tree life. The Christ-

mas tree was made the official emblem

of the bureau through his influence,

for it is the evergreen, done in black

silk, that our forest rangers wear on

the collars of their olive-gray tunics

and stamped upon their bronze buttons

and badges.



If you live near any 'one of our one

hundred and sixty national forests, you

need not celebrate the Christmas holi-

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he will designate a tree for you to cut,

which may be removed without dam-

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lions of evergreen trees for the forests

and these may be had free.





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the last census, and it has been esti-

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transportation statistics that one fam-

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each year. This means that about five

million trees are commercially market;

ed.

are cut by farmers and townspeople

themselves. The laige cities of the

east consume about one- -third of this

number, the largest part of the total,

being furnished by the woods of New

England and Northern New York.

Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and

the Adirondacks and Catskills supply

the trees for Boston, New York, Phila-

delphia, as well as a limited number

for. Baltimore and Washington. The

swamps of Michigan, Wisconsin and

Minnesota- furnish the supply for Chi-

cago, Detroit, Minneapolis, St. Paul

and St. Louis, although, of course,

there are minor contributions from the

farms of these sections. Pennsylvania

and the Appalachian states to the

south are supplied mainly by their own



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‘ , E have. met but twice; here at

. V» the convent, when we were boy

and girl, and he went west-

ward with La Salle. You know the

.time, and that we talked together on

the bench in the garden. Then it was

three days since that he came to our

house on the river, seeking Cassion

4 that he might volunteer as guide. He

had no thought of me, nor did he know

me when we first met. There was no

word spoken other than that of mere

friendship, nor did I'know then that

Chevet had arranged my marriage to

the Commissaire. We did no more than

laugh and make merry over the past

until the others came and demanded

the purpose of his visit. It was not his

words, Sister, but the expression of his

face, the glance of his eye, which gave

me courage. I think he likes me, and

his nature is without fear. He will

have some planmand there is no one

' else.”



I caught her hands in mine, but she

did not look at me, or answer. She

was silent and motionless so long that

I lost hope, yet ventured to say no

more in urging.



“You think me

creet?”



“I fear you know little of the world,

my child, yet, I confess this young

Sieur made a good impression upon me.

I know not what to advise, for it may

have been but idle curiosity which

brought him here with his questioning.

”I‘is not safe to trust men, but I can

see no harm in his knowing all you

have told me. There might be oppor-

tunity for him to be of service. He

travels with Cassion, you say?”



“Yes, Sister.”



_, “And their departure is soon ?”



"Before daylight tomorrow. When the

Commissaire returns we are to be mar-

ried. So Chevet explained to me; Mon-

sieur Cassion has not spoken. You

will give me audience with the Sieur

de Artigny ?”



“.I have no power, child, but I will

speak with the Mother Superior, and

repeat to her all I have learned. It

shall be as she wills. Wait here, and

you may trust me to plead for you.”



She seemed to fade from the room,

and I glanced about, seeing no change

since I was there before—the same

bare walls and floor, the rude settee,

the crucifix above the door, and the

one partially open window, set deep in

the stone wall. Outside I could hear

voices, and the shuffling of feet on the

stone slabs, but within all was silence.

I had been away from this emotionless

cloister life so long, out in the Open





immodest, indis-





air,that I felt oppressed; the profound.





stillness was a weight on my nerves.

Would the sister be successful in her

mission? ‘ Would the Mother Superior,

whose stern rule I knew so well, feel

the slightest sympathy with my need?

And if she did, would De Artigny’care

enough to come? Perchance it would

~have been better to have made the

plea myself rather than trust all to the

gentle lips of Celeste. Perhaps I might

even yet be given that privelege,‘ for

surely the Mother would feel it best to

question me befo1e she rendered her

4 decision.



I crossed to the window and leaned

out: seeking to divert my mind by view

,4 ,.o‘f~§£he scene be10w, yet the stone walls

‘ ‘ wees so thick that Only a tantalizing

Bmpse was afforded of the pavement





gestures that troops were marching by.

Odes I had view of a horseman, gaily





 





ing just at the edge of the crowd,-





which scattered like a flock of sheep

before the danger of. pawing hOOfs. The

man must have gained a glimpse of me

also, for he waved one hand and smil-

ed even as he brought the beast under

control. Then a band played, and I

perceived the shiny top of a carriage

moving slowly up the hill, the people

cheering as it passed. No doubt it was

Governor la Barre, on his way to the

citadel for some ceremony of the day.



Cassion would be somewhere in the

procession, for he was one to keep in

the glare, and be seen, but there would

be no place for a lieutenant of ‘La

Salle’s. I leaned out farther, risking a

fall, but saw nothing to reward the ef-

fort, except a line of marching men, a

mere bobbing mass of heads. I drew

back flushed with exertion, dimly

aware that someone had entered the

apartment. It was the Mother Superior,

looking smaller than ever in the gloom,

and behind her framed in the narrow

doorway, his eyes smiling as though in

enjoyment of. my confusion, stood De

Artigny. I climbed down from the

bench, feeling my cheeks burn hotly,

and made obesiance. The Mother’s





confusion, and I realized how little call

I had to ask assistance. My eyes fell,

and the words trembled unspoken on

my lips. When I dared glance up again

the Mother had slipped silently from

the room, leaving us alone. No doubt

he felt the difference also, for‘he step-

ped forward and caught my- hand in

his, his whole manner changing, as he

thus assumed leadership. ’Twas so

natural, so confidently done, that I felt

a sudden wave of hope overcome my

timidity.



“Come, Mademoiselle,” he said al-

most eagerly. “There is no reason for

you to fear confiding in me. Surely I

was never sent for without just reason.





Let us sit here while you retell the»





story. Perchance we will play boy and

girl again."



“You remember that?”



“Do I not!” he laughed pleasantly.

There were few pleasant memories I

took with me into the wilderness, yet

that was one. Ay, but we‘ talked freely

enough then, and there is naught since

in my life to bring loss of faith. ’Tis





my wish' to serve you, be it with wit

or blade.”

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soft hand rested on my hair, and there

was silence, so deep I heard the pound-

ing of my heart.



“Child,” said the Mother, her voice

low but clear, “Rise, that I may see

your face. Ah! it has not so greatly

changed in the years, save that the

eyes hold knowledge of sorrow.", Sister

Celeste hath told me your ‘story, and

if it be sin for me to grant your re-





,quest then must I abide the penance,





for it is inmy heart to do so.’_ Until I

send the sister you may speak alone

with Monsieur de Artigny. ” ~



-She drew slightly aside and: the

young man bowed 10w, hat in hand,





then stood erect, facing me, the light

from the window on his face .

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he said quietly “The Mother tells me

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It seemed simple enough when I was

alone, but now all my thoughts fled





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Chevet—he is a brute. I know—is his

abuse beyond endurance?”



"No, no,” I hastened to explain. “In

his way he is not unkind. The truth is

he has lived so long in the woods alone

he scarcely speaks. He—he would

marry me to Monsieur CassiOn.”



Never Will I forget‘the look of sheer

delight On his face as these werds

His hand struck the

bench, and be tossed back the long

hair from his forehead, his eyes merry

with enjoyment. Q -

“Ah, good! By all the saints, ’tis

even: as I hoped Then have no fear of





 





my sympathy, Mademoiselle Nothing '





reenag+- the W: I has _ 1 ‘

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with me hastened the plan.

not, yet the two talked together, long





and privately, and when the Commis-L





saire finally went away, Chevet called





me in,- and told me what had been (10‘.





cided. ”





“That you were to marry that :cox-A





comb ?” . >

“Yes; he did not ask me if I would;





it was a command. When I protested





my lack of wire, saying even that I.

despised. the man, he answered me

with a laugh, insisting it was his

choice, not“ mine, and that love had





naught to do with such matters. Think'





you this Cassion has some hold on

Hugo Chevet to make him so harsh?"



“No doubt, they are hand in glove in

the fur trade, and the Commissaire has

La Barre’s ear just now. He rode by

yonder in the carriage a moment since,

and you might think from his bows he‘

was the governor. And this marriage,

when does it take place?”



“On Monsieur’ s safe return from the

great west.”



The smile came back to his face.



“Not so bad that, for ’tis a long jour-

ney, and might be delayed. I travel

with him, you know, and we depart at

daybreak. What else did this Chevet

have to say?”



“Only a; threat that if ever you came

near me again his fingers would feel

your throat, Monsieur. He spoke of

hate between himself and your father.”



The eyes upon mine lost their toler—

ant smile, and grew darker, and I

marked the fingers of his hand clinch.



“That was like enough, for my fath-

er was little averse to a quarrel though





he seldom made boast of it afterwards. .





And so this Hugo Chevet threatened

me? I am not of the blood, Mademoi-

selle, to take such things lightly. Yet

wait—why came you to me with such

a tale? Have you no friends. ?”

“None, Monsieur,” I answered grave-

ly, and regretfully,

nuns to whom I went. to School, and

they are useless in such a case.,’I am

an' orphan under guardianship, and my





- whole life has been passed in this con-





vent, and Chevet’s cabin on the river.

My mother died at my birth, my father

was a soldier on the frontier, and I

grew up alone among strangers. Scarce—

ly have I met any save the rough boat-

men, and those couriers du bois in my

uncle' s employ. There was no (me elise

but you, Monsieur—no one. , ’Twas not

immodesty which caused 'me to make

this appeal, but a dire need. I am a

helpless, friendless girl.” '



“You trust me then. 7"



“Yes, Monsieur, I believe you a man

of honor. ”



He walked across the room, once,

twice, his head bent in thought, and I

watched him, half frightened lest I had

angered him.



“Have I done wrong, Monsieur?” ,



He stOpped, his eyes on my face. He





must have perceived my perplexity, f0? .





he smiled again, and pressed my hafid

gently.





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forests, while in Indiana, Illinois and

Ohio and the prairie states are sup-

plied largely by nurserymen, though

the rural sections have a few common

scrub juniper and cedar. The Ozark

sections send many trees to points

within shipping distance, and the west

secures its Christmas evergreens from

the slopes of the Rocky Mountains and

Pacific CoaSt ranges.



Every known species of evergreen is

utilized for Christmas purposes, the

most popular being the balsam fir;





 





Christmas Tree y the Million





(Continued from page 603-.

other species, and its foliage, richly

green and very fragrant, persists long-

er than that of any other evergreen. .



Maine leads all our states in the

Christmas tree industry. Here the ev-

ergreen tree has become an article of

commerce of large proportions.’

industry was not known before 1892,

when a party of hunters traveling on a

steam yacht called in at Penobscot bay

and noticed the fir trees growing

around the shore. One of the members

of the party employed men. and teams





 





 





Messengers from Nature’s Wonderland—the F’orest.‘





Of all

the evergreens balsam fir is the Christ-





next to that comes the Spruce.

mas tree par excellence. Its slender

tapering bore and long horizontal

branches growing in regular whorls

give it a symmetry less common in





in the neighborhood and cut about six

hundred young balsam firs, carrying

them on the deck of the yacht to Bos-

ton, where they were eagerly purchas-

ed at high prices. ‘The next year the

state of Maine exported fully fifty





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thousand Christmas trees to eastern

markets, and today fully two million

Christmas trees will be sent to the

larger cities from her forest fastness,





to make millions of children’s Christ-





mas complete.





received early in December. Think of

the-concentrated happiness, the child

laughter, the surprise and the merri—

ment that such quantities ‘of trees im~

ply. Think of the children who know

little happiness throughout the year,

huddled possibly in close quarters,

poorly nourished, half-clad, without

father or mother, Whose hearts are

made glad by this messenger from na-

ture’s wonderland—the forest.



' A few years ago there 'was sentiment

expressed against using our forest re-

serve for Christmas decorations. The

six million trees which are being cut

this year for Christmas could grow on

an area of six thousand acres, as a.

thousand evergreens may be produced

on each acre. When we remember that

our lumbermen are depleting our tim-

ber resources at the rate of more than

one hundred thousand acres for every

working day, and that the removal of

these evergreen in a, judicious manner

aids the surrounding trees to attain a.

healthier growth, we will agree with

Gifford Pinchot, that there can be no

higher use for trees than making little

children happy, nor in making older

hearts younger and gladder.





The Junior Home Defense





UESS I’ve got the last potato

from my field now; and I’m hun-

gry as hungry. Is supper ready



yet, Madge ‘2”



“Almost. There’s corn bread in the

oven, and it’ll be done by the time you

get in the eggs Father did all the

other chores before they left. Won’t

we have fun keeping house by pur-

selves tonight, Merle? My wristlets

are finished now, so we can play

games.”



“That suits me,” declared Merle as

he started briskly for the barn.



. But the cornbread was done and ev-





erything else had been waiting for sev- ,





eral minutes when Madge heard her

brother’s signal rap at the front door.

“There, I, thought he must be stop-

ping for some nonsense. Probably he

has something ready to tease me with.

I’ve a mind not to go.” 4

But there was something unusual in





the vehemence with which Merle had‘





knocked. When Madge peeped in

through the half-open sitting~room door

she cOuld see his face anxiously peer-

ing in through the window.



“Lock the door quick, then be sure





,that. all the other doors and windows

are fastened. But‘ don’t show a light





anywhere!” he directed breathlessly as

he raced inside and up to the tale.

phone.



“Is that Mr. Peterson—Captain Pet-

ersbn of the Home Defense?” Merle





was asking when Madge slipped back.





into the sitting-room. “This is- Merle

Flint,

Nelson Flint, out on the Jerry Allen





road, you know.





Captain Peterson. Father 113'





Father and , mother ,





'By _MARY S. STOVER





are in town tonight, and there’s a

crowd of hobOes out in our barn. Late"

in the evening they plan to set fire to

half a dozen barns out this way—have

’em ready to blaze up all at once, you

know. Then while people’s attention

is directed this way, two of them mean

to sneak in and set the grain elevators

afire. They think we’re all off the place

and I guess they plan to break in and

have a big feed pretty soon. You should

be able to catch them all here if your

men start right away. Have some-

body come to the front door first. We’ll

be on the watch and ready to report.”



“How many are there, Merle ?” whis-

pered Madge excitedly. ,



“At the barn? Nine.”



“That’s a good many if they’re real

hungry, but we have a big pan of beans

and two pies, besides plenty of bread.

I Was thinking we might let them right

in, if they come. I could make coffee

and cook some potatoes, if they’d wait.

Then they’ll be right here when the

Home Defense get out. ”



“You haven’ t seen those men or

heard them talk!

fellows, and notone gets inside'this

house if I can prevent it. But they

mean to come, and that old woodshed

door won’t hold‘ them out long. We

could put furniture against these two





doors to the kitchen and I'd be able to ’





put up a pretty good fight with chairs,

since‘it’ll be dark in the shed. If only

you’d "go upstairs 'and keep safe; i but of

course you won't. ” . -.



“Of course not. Merle, let’s throw





cold water on themé—ithat is. have ”the





back door do it. As We caught Cousin





They’ re desperate .





Don, last April’s Fool Day, you know."



“Say, that’s an idea. Only I thought

out how to make that bath a sort of

continuous performance. Maybe it will

not work, but I don’t see why not. Take





that same pan we had before and the





hose mother uses on wash day. Slip

one end of the hose in the pan and

then at the last minute put the other

into the big tank. I believe it’ll keep

the water flowing like a. little Niagara

Falls for as long as those fellows try

to get through the door. Everything

being pitch dark it ought to dampen





their entuhsiasm some—and their

matches.” .

“Oh, oh, oh! That’s the very thing.





We’ll fix the pan now- Then one of us

must keep watch through the kitchen

window and the other from the front

porch for the Home Defense.”

“Hush, here they come now!” groan-

ed Merle when the preparations were

only started. But housewifely Madge

knew where to find everything in the





darkness, so that they. had the partly





filled pan hoisted to its place on a nar—'

row ledge and the ends of hose prop-

erly adjusted, the one in the reservoir

clamped into place by its own- wire ad-





justment, when they felt it wiSe to~





retire to the front of the house With all

intervening doors tightly shut.





the noise wouldn’t give warning.”

“Stay here, Madge, unless they come





through, ” ordered Merle sharply as he I i:

bolted out the front door to meet the ‘ '





approaching men. M

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At many of the principal distribut»

ing points consignments of as many as,

twenty carloads of Christmas trees are,’





“There come the Home Defense, too.

They’ve left their cars back a little so





 





 





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‘ others-.‘rcached [ sittin

Were"‘met‘fby‘ subdued" giggles.



. “Theyflf‘e in, or have been. All nine

, 7 - .. to'ek‘fturn, Pthinkfi Merle, the ~_cas-

' c‘ade’s an; overwhelming success.“





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j l . see' when Merle" had, by instruction, . . G. ft .



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l .Good work you-did, young Home The best gifts are not, necessarily, the most expenswe.

Def nders-"celled the captain heartily. . , - . .



.élurmh for the Junior Home De. A word of 3 kmdness and - encouragement has often proved of price-

tense-”shouted eyery man of the com— less value. ' . . 3

pany with lusty good will as Madge . . g . . a ,5;

, and Merle trailed excitedly back to A Gift from the depth of the heart, actuated by noble Impulses, en- 9.?

' ' their 0001941 cornbréad- , riches both the glver and receiver. ’ , g

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“B th W 119‘ pure des1re to make some one happier or more comfortable,that really counts.

a . . . is

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i. ‘ has ad‘ “bad luck” or met WIth mlsfortune, and you deSIre to give , -

,, something substantial. ‘ ‘ '7

We suggest -

l " “The Flour the Best Cooks Use" '

with} your best wishes. ‘_





Surely this would be thoroughly appreciated, and a Merry Christmas Greeting sets

better on a full stomach than an empty one.



Besides good, wholesome, nutrious bread and biscuits are better for the undernourished

than medicine.



They go direct to the spot, and if they are made from LILY WHITE FLOUR,

“the flour the best cooks use,” they are bound to be good. Give Lily White,

and make someone’s Christmas more merry.





 





   





 





.. ' Our Domestic Science Department furnishes reci es and canning charts

v l CH‘RlSTMAs' 1918' ‘ upon request and will aid you to solve any other kiichen problems you may



have from time to time. Public demonstrations also arranged. Address your

letters to our Domestic Sclence Department.





 





And fewer guests our homely joys

enhance,





tit ,. “westerners“ we 8' VALLEY CITY MILLING COMPANY





This year we hold our Christmas





7 x 1! ' If slighter fare our tables here afford,’





J” g . ‘ feast in France. N . .

, 4 . Grand Rapids, Mich.

" ‘ ’ We shall be host to NationSI—all who '

strive .

For deathless right, the greatest and . .-.

the least 1;.

Who give their best that Freedom _ ,





shall survive,

This year we hold a nobler Christ»





mas feast. ‘ ' ”

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with hair or fur on, and make them

into coats ( for men and women), robes,

rugs or gloves when so ()1 dual Your

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Our illustrated catalog gives a lot of

information. it tells how to take oil.”

and (‘fll‘e for hides; how and when we

pay t 18 freight both wam; about our

sate dyeing process on cow and 1101 se . .

hide. calf and oihtr skins; about the '~

tur goods and game trophies we sell,

taxidermy. etc. ’



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devoted to fashion plates (1 muffs,

neckweai and other fine for gaiments,

with prices ; also iur garments remod-

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ENTURIES ago a. very wise man

wrote, “There is no new thing un-

der the sun.” And while in the

light of the past one hundred years we

might not agree with him in every de-

tail, it does seem as if as regards hu-

man experiences he had {Katmai right.

Certain things about human nature ex-

isted in the garden of Eden‘ and will

exist so long as nature is human. And

certain things have been said once so

well and so finally that nothing re-

mains to be said by anyone.





The facts of religion have been ex-

pressed once and for all in a manner

which can not be improved upon.

Science and philosophy may change

our ideas of many things, but when it

gets down to the basic facts of religion

there is nothing to say after that final,

“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God

with all thy heart, and thy neighbor as

thyself.” That covers it, doesn’t it?

And any attempt to add to or subtract

from that very plain, concise, simple,

readable and practical statement gives

us an inadequate gospel. _



So, too, with Christmas. It always

seems to me when I rashly consider

writing anything Christmasy that I am

attempting something as impossible as

devising a new and satisfactory relig-

ion for the human race. For it seems

mine that the Christmas story was

written once by Dickens and all later

attempts to immortalize, the Christmas

spirit have been either pale copies of

the “Christmas Carol” or something

which fell so far short of it that it was

a great waste of white paper, especia1~

ly at present prices, to print the story.

The. only thing which in anyway ap-

proaches Dickens’ story is Kate Doug-

las \Viggin’s story, “The Bird’s Christ-

mas Carol.” Christmas, the Christ

spirit. is completely covered in these

two, and it seems as hopeless for any-

one to attempt to add anything to

Christmas thought as to add to re-

ligion.



lui there is something about Christ-

mas which tempts everyone who writes.

Christmas is so different from'every

other scason——and this Christmas is to

be so different from any of the past

four years———that we somehow feel as if





_ we just had to express the hope that





is in us. Especially if we have chil-

dren about with their unquestioning

faith and eager expectancy, we some-

how catch the spirit of the season and

glow anew with the' age-old, yet ever-

new, hopc of a world where peace on

caiih good will towards men will in-

deed leign.





This yeai some of us think we can

almost see it. Others with thoughts

of Bolsheviki and i. W. W. looming

large, find the blood-red banner of the

Christ quite obscured by the ed flag

of socialism, and see nothing/‘

ahead. Granted the era of universal

peace and good will has not yet ar-

rived, we of the larger faith are firmly

convinced that it is not so very far

away, and the Christmas season with

its expressions of love and good will

confirm us in our faith.



Many a mother whose boy will not

come back is thinking that Christmas

will not be Christans this year. Not





choose to make it so. If we put self





 





can be the beat we ever knew.





but chaos'





 





the same perhaps, but better, if we '





aside and adopt the Christmas spirit— .

living for others—Christmas this year

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Christmas Should be (13111213





for each one Of us to decide what the

day shall mean to us, how the one we

are mourning would want us to spend

it. Will he be happier, knowing that

we are spending the day in grief for

him, or that we are trying to see his

sacrifice was net in vain, by ourselves





doing our bit towards making the





'world brighter for someone els'e?

How better can we honor our dead '

than by dedicating our lives to the ser-





vice of the living? In this way will we

bring, in the golden agevfor which we

all hope. DEBORAH. ‘





Cold-Wealth er Plays for Little Ones





es are ’situated 'in very rigorous



climates that a good many moth-

ers will not think the out-of-doors a

possible playground in winter time.

This is less true than they are apt to

think. On almost any sunny day in

winter, little children, if warmly dress-

ed, will benefit far more by a brisk,

romping, active half-hour's running

and jumping than city babies do in

their swathed, motionless outing in a

baby carriage. And when really bad

weather drives them in, as it should do

very seldom, the country mother has

a great advantage in space over the

city one. For there is about a farm

nearly always some corner, a wood-





SO many of our American farm hous-





 





 





 





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BY L. W. SNELL.





When Christmas joys are at their

height

And lined with precious pleasures,

Around the board we snugly sit





And View its tempting treasures.





Our father asks God’s giace‘s down

And thanks he gives for blessings,



Then cautiously he carves the goose

And spoons the spicy dressings.





And while he serves, he tells the tale

That every year he’s told us.



While we such eagerness possess

Good manners scarce caIi hold us.





At last all served mid quip and jest,

The appetites go waning



Then mother brings the pudding in

All help from us disdaining.





A Christmas pudding lighted up

With tongues of flame surrounded

Throughout the room a stillness reigns

Where noise and din abounded.





For in the flames of green and blue

Faint mem'ries always hover,

And conjure up the past to each



Until our, hearts run over.





To each is served a gen’rous share,

Oh, joy of Christmas dinner,



It gluttonyvbe called a sin .

Then this day I’m a sinner;



Ye sing the joys of laden tree “'

Where flick’ring lights are flooding,



I’d give it all for just one taste ..

0: Mother’s Christmas pudding.





shed, a corner of’the barn, an attic, or

an unused room where the little folks

may romp and play actively. If neces-

sary the sacred spare room is better

used for this purpose than kept in idle

emptiness. And all the varieties of

handwork are resources for rainy days.





For, as the children‘advance beyond

real babyhood and the mere need for

constant romping and climbing and

running like little animals, their in-





stinctive desire to use their hands in- ‘





creases, and this is an instinct which

should be encouraged in every possible

way. Just as the wise mother sees to

it that they are provided when babies

with ample chance to roll and kick and

tumble, so when they are older she is

never more pleased than when they

are doing something with their hands;

and she has all around her ample ma-

terial for beginning this handiwork. A

pan of beans or shelled corn, with a

wide-mouthed bottle and a spoon, will

keep a two or three—year-old happy and

absorbed for a long time. A pack of

cards to be shuffled or used to build

houses is another “plaything” which

does not need to be specially bought.

A pan of bran and a handful of clothes-

pins occupy even a baby of fourteen

months as he pushes them into the

closely packed bran and pulls them

out. A big‘ rag doll, the size of a small

child, is easy to make and stuff with‘

cotton. All children love a big doll of

this sort, and delight to dress it and

undress it in their own clothes. They

learn in this way to handle buttons

and button—holes, and to master the

difficulties of shoes, and belts and

sleeves. A new corn-cob pipe and a.

small bowl of soapsuds means harm-





- less fun for the five-year- old, which is





always watched with rapture by the

littler ones.





And then there are blocks, which

need not at all be bought from a store.

A father with a plane and a saw can

plane a couple of two-by-four sticks

and in about half an hour ,make as

many square or oblong blocks (2114116

inches is a good size) as any child

needs to play with. These large blocks

not only cost practically nothing, but





are much better for the little children"





to use than the smaller expensive kind

that are sold; and the set will outlast

a family of most strenuous children.





A collection of empty spools of dif- '





ferent sizes is a treasure for the child





of three who will rejoice in stringing __





them on a cord passed through a bod-.

kin. When he isa little older andhas .

learned skill in this exercise he may





graduate to stringing buttons with a ~

real needle and thread. 011 baking day~

a small lump of dough (made less,



sticky by working more flour into it)’ ' "

which can be rolled and played with? 7

. 011 a bit of smooth board is great tufil





for little folks; and let the mother 0

stantly remember that any fun whic





is secured by using the hands does 'nbt ’





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100 percent service is the R. K. Tire.

It does its best work in winter because

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‘ educational value

terfli sowebits oproth to'be' wash

ed out. will fillmany happy minutes:-

;The oilcloth- apmn is: as indispensable

émr this «play: as, for the outdoor “water

play. and? forcing: modeling. This last

is perhaps the most eternally interest-

ing of the indoor occupations for little





of oilcloth on a low table, it is not an

untidy element in a kitchen.





a. free corner of the floor‘into a farm





' hand to keep an eye on the process and





, suggest matching those colors and





 





On mashing day a'basin‘ of soapy wag





children. If the clay is kept on a bit





A box of dried corn cobs can convert





with log cabin house, rail fences and

barns. Trees can be simulated by

twigs stuck into bits of clay to hold

them upright, and farm animals can be

rudely fashioned out of clay, dusted

over with domestic coloring material

to make them realistic—flour for the'

sheep, cocoa for brown horses and

cows, charcoal for black animals and

then baked in the kitchen oven to

make them hard.



A rag bag into which the children

may dive and delve is a resource for

rainy days, and if the mother is at





tell what colors and materials are, to





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Scarf and hat for motoring or skat-

ing. The material is smoke gray du-

vetyn with a cross-bar design of navy

chenile. The close—fitting hat has a

slightly rolled brim, and a tassel of

chenile adds the finishing touch.





 





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rag bag hour is as educational as any

exercise in a carefully run modern

school. The country mother has here

again a great advantage over many

city mothers in that her work is always

at home, and of a nature which allows

her to supervise the children’s play

without giving up all her time to them.

Provision should be made in the case

of little children for their desire to

handle all sorts of objects; the desire

which makes them enjoy so greatly a

tumbling over of mother's workbasket.

There is no need to let them upset that

when there are in every country house

such a vast number of other articles

which are not hurt by baby hands—-

spoons, tin pans, boxes, tongs, clothes

baskets and darning eggs. Furthermore

instead of being told, “don’t touch!"

they should be encouraged to learn

how neatly an‘d competently to per-

form such ordinary operations as open-

ing and shutting drawers and doors

and boxes and gates, screwing the tops

on cans, hanging up clothes and tak-

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It goes to show—and show posrtively

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packages. .



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1 . , , . ,Sire in Service

FLINT MAPLECREST BOY

His sire is Masher-estMil Korndyke Hengerveld. His

three nearest over :11 lbs. of butter in 7

111.11.111- dam and granddam both made ova-1232 lbs.

f butter in one year. It is the yearly cow we are

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farmers price breed ng considered. Justt hink

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Let us know your wants. We will make terms on

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JOHN H. WINN, Inc.





Lock Box 249, Roecommon Mich.

Reference Roscomrnon State Bank.





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dam 3 timer-111330 b. cow. with reco

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Boy. four of whose daughters have records over 1

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Aaggle Korndyke. with six daug ters above 1000

pounds of b'ixtter in one year.





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priced to sell. Bulls and bull calves. at market

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33 lbs., also 11 lounger brother. and high record

cow 11 soon fresh.



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cul Bmos. old trac-

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Butter 80.1. Price $75.



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Pieter Artie L one No 250788. born

Bu“ (:3va 41918. Sires Dam 301b butter,

Dam 5’14 mi 1k, 22. ‘7 2butter. Price 875.00.

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alonet tuberculin tested. and free from abortion.



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{fly Igor? We“ ”mange”. Come :13" see.





_ . . . 111. Pleasant Mich.





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BIDWEII.





Registered bulls. cows and heifers-Good





SHUBTHURNS





For Beef and Milk.





GoodScotch and





Bcotch- Topped for sale. In prime condition. Modern





sanitary equipm e.nt





all trains. Write





Farm 10 minutes from N. Y C.

depot. 1 hour from Toledo. Ohio.





Automobile meets





BIDWELL STOCK F ARM,





Box 3. Tecumseh. Mich.





 





Richland Farm





Shorthorns





Sires in Service:

Lorne Michigans





Fair Acres Goods and IMP.

Grand Champion Bull.

largest Hard of Scotch cattle in the State-





The

Everv





animal Tuberculm Tested by the Sanitary Com-





mission.





Special offer on two extra good white





bulls. Tche kind that produce roan 01111 es.

C. H. PRESCOTT & SON,





Herd at Prescott. Mich.





Oflioe at ’l‘awas City. Mich.





 





For Sale





Hope. Avondale. Maxw

Sulton bv the Oscola Co.

JOHN SCHMIDT Sec





Shorthorns of Qualit1

Scotch To pod descendents of Archers

ton Bolton and White Hall



Shorthorn Breeders Ass.





81 etch and





Reed City. Mich.





 





Shorthom for sale.





W. B. MCQUILLAN.





Seven Scotch and Scotch Topped bulls

Price reasonable

R. 7. H011 ell. Mich.





 





Shorthorn

A. A. PATTULLO. R. 4.





Bulls ready for service of the choic-

est breeding. Write me you wants.





Deokerville. Mich.





 





Dual





CHAS.B AY.





For Sale





LCD HASTINGS.





Shorthorn





Bulls

breeding and ready for service.





Purpose Shorthoms all ages. a ton Bean 3 yr.

(131131 herd bull. also Duroc H081;





a II ages.

kemcs. Mich.





of the choicest





Napoleon. Mich





 





Shorthorns





Wm. J. BELL. -





100 head to select from. Write

me your wants. p‘rioe(J reasonable.





City. Mich.





 





The and females for sale.

L. H. LEONARD 890.. -





Kent Co Shorthorn Breeders have both males





Ask about them.

Caledonia". Mich.





 





For Sale





CLARE BIGGS,





Best Bates Shorthorns; cows. heifers

and young Emil. at reasonable





[1005,





ascn, ich.





 





Oakwood





COLLAR BROS"





Shorthorns. Three bulls sired b

Uloster BBny4469661. .9 to 12 months 01





Conklin. Mich.





 





Milking





sex. all ages, write





Shorthorns of most noted familes either





OSCAR SKINNER





Pres. Central Mich. Shorthorn Ass' 11. ., Gowen. Mich





 





Scotch m 9

JOHN LESSITERS SONS





Shorthorn. A fine lot of ayoung bulls for

Phone Oriel? lltxcha





Clarkston. Mich.





 





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ofImp. Villagr.





ShorthornlB lls incl din

-. Scotch; ectlilre herdiie mfera





a roan lear-

grandson





ENCEP. OTTO. Charlotte. Mich.





 





For Sale





CHAS. WARNER. Jr. .





Roan Shorthorn Bull 1 1r old also

calves good mi lking





st ruin





mlay City. Mich.





 





-tockers & Feeders For Sale





If!) Shorthorn Steers ave.

Steexs ave.

2 cars of yearling Herefords‘ 1116





170 Hereford





NBS lbs.

lbs.

750 lbs.





2 cars of Sh orthorn yearlings reds and roan

These steers are dehorned and in good flesh. W apello





 





 





 





Co. In. is noted for its cattle Wn

JOHN CARRO R. 3. Ottumua. Ia.

HOGS

For Sale lrlfgbgegshirle Saws do Bears all ages.





RUSSELL 3808..





Merrill. Mich.





TOP Cherry KingJ 102629 a Senior Yearling by Orion





arrange





HE JEN GS FA





by Orion Ch



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you have not taherd





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boar





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boar.w1-ite

- Bailey. Mich.





DU ROC BOA IRS~





Big lo





size an growth to your herd.





.tsll. growthy boars. The kind the will add

Biggest Marc





WI .

mannerisms ”“h-





far-row-

not fat.

81:. Johns. Mich.





SPECIAL OFFER





For 850. we are ofierlng unrelated tries of Duroc fall





of Se Land Oct.farrow.





Single pig $18. This oifer





 





 





 





 





 





 





not after Jan. 1.

even sacs. Romeo M1011.

Duroc Jersey. Blgheavybonsdsprln boars

winner! t to

“adamant-early. ‘8“ and not?

1. .1. pacer. 11.1. Monroe. Mich.

Lo r1111. zoo

Egggmgfarm“: 1pm “Wasn‘Ag 1.. .. €1.35

1-. E. means 11. - ' '. "hogglti‘iii‘éh.r

DUROC’S ”a" “d

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11.n- 1m. NEWTON-8314”“ “' “his" Buck T”

Bill Crest Farm. - “Pendants, Mich.

e111. «1 1.11 511.111. 1:.- 1 .

Duroc 4.. “my“... “3:13.11...

11.11.1111!» ayland. Mich.

WHO” JERSEY 1

forsale. on memories. nailing" 2E

Duroc-Jereeya, mmnngg :nga'bm ‘1“

be as 1 11 .

FIRMS one); up quic «aleBl LOOMFfimBiIg





Dar-cc bred gilts tribunal: and April farm-





fiw’b’a . _





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‘ 2km.





.. AST , art

Lplfi £10m 8&1? grow? stock. Farm avails

one a. 58%





 





Nashville. Mich.





Like This





original big produced





.211.





 





I HAVE startedthousandsof breeder-son theroaose-

success. [can help you. I want to place” one be from

my gnreat herd in every community where am no





ted ”Raw ese 6 twgdfivelopen—refi efiiy for 63mm





11. s. ”Bananas, B 111 p 10 rel-11:111. menu





 





 





 





I have some a lendid March gilts of

Chesters the broad heav‘y” hamed kind bred for

March farrow: priced right



Vassar. Mich.





F. W. ALEXANDER . . .

‘ Bargain in Jul boars and glits.

Chester Whites “.31.,de ’9. he,





G. A. WILSON. Ii 4. Deckerville. Mich.





THE WORLD ’5 CHAMPION





big type 0.1..0'8 Stock of all ages for sale. Herd

headed by Galloway Edd, the World ds Champion 0. I.

.bcar assisted by . C. hoolmaster. rand am-

ion boar of Michigan. New York and Tennessee state

airs. 1110. Giant Buster. undefeated Senior

boar pig where1 er shown and Grand Champion of Ok—

lahoma state fair. Get our catalogue of Crandell' 3

prize hogs, Cass City. Michigan.





 





 





 





 





SERVICEABLE BOARS

hipped

C. O. D. and Express Paid

' J. CARL JEWETT, Mason, Mich.





0. I. C. & Chester White Swine





Strictly Big Type with QUALITY. Have a few spring



pigs either sex for sale. T hev are of the right stamp.



good one ough to be shiped C.

EWMAN' S STOCK FARM





 





 





 





 





R. l. Marlette. Mich.





 





0. I. C. spring boars also 2 prize J .

8 Large Type 1‘. boar Mich. State Fm- 1918. r

CLOVER LEAF TOOK FARM. Monroe. Mich.





O. I. C. Serviceable Bears





H..W MANN. - Dansville. Mich.





O..’I.Cs





 





 





big type serviceable boars. Yearling

sows and gilts bred for spring furrow.





 





G. P. ANDREWS - - Dansville. Mich.



9 Large Ty e B t

0- I. C S Farmer’s ricss. oars a

WEBER BROS. Royal Oak Mich. Phone408.





 





I. Us a few 250 lb. bred gilts other lighter ones;

' service boars sold. I ship 0.0. D. and pay or was. '

F. C. BURGESS. R. 3, ason. ich





 





O l C Big type April bears and bred gilts.

0 with quality from large litters.

W. B McQUILLAN - Howell Mich.





BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS





Spring boar and gilts. Also fall pigs.

Hillcrest Farm, Kalamazoo, Mich.





FOR 25 YEARS





This establishment has been head quarters for Big Type

Poland Chlnas. We have a nice lot or boars and sows

of strictly b1g type brccdln age“ at very low price. Let

me know what Iyou want. phone.



JNO.C .IBU'I‘ - Portland. Mich.





Large type P O. Largest in Mich. Bears all sold. Z)

Bred gilts sired by and bred to the best bears the

breed can produce 111111 dams of equal merit. extreme

size with quality. come and see them. free livery. ex-

penses paid If notes rcprcsewnlcd W. It. Li1inglton. Perms. Mich.





Big Poland Chinss. Spring Tltstof the best of



breei ng. Withb quality from b. sire' s and

$1011). dam' s. Willb e bred to a great son of the noted



$6600 Gertsdale Jones. Also fall Splgs.



W. BREWBAKER a SONS R Elsie. Mich.





Big TYPe Polands,.m "“9 Buster boar weighs Over





$.30. 00 one De M l

boar2301bs.,s:8.wL Sm '0 13 ehom 9 one“

.W RIGHT, onesville. MICh.





 





Big Poland Chinas WW" ““1“!- Spring. 811m-





mer.G and Bfall both

and bred soul-1 for sale UMCHAB DNIL’R.

.2. Middleville. Barr) Oo..1c.h





111' T1pe P C. boars all sold. S rln It: and

Inn-15:1 Hows. bred for March andpAprIlglarrow. “Nib:

livery £10111 Augusta. W .J Hagelshaw, Augusta,Mich



ichigan' s Cham





M ion herd of Big Type P. C. bred

sows fall NApifi). ome and see them

E.B St. Louis. Mich.





Ii. 3. Box 53.

type Poland Chlnas and fall pigs either

bull calves Price





rin

sex. Shorthorn Bulr an

no Pierson. Mich.





BERT NEVE.

Type Poland Chinas. S ring boars for sale.

Booking orders for bre guts. Ins ction in-

us Mich





L. L. CHAMBLIRLAIN. Marco 1

ammoth Poland Chinas. March. April. boars and





guts. Cholera immune. double treatment. Clyde

Weaver. Mgr. .. ‘ Marshall. Address. Ceresco. Mich.





Bl“; 33° 30hr“ Ciimmi A gitfhfli” h1‘31”. t"

y a 3 a .

meanness 8N0 "5 n'. ‘. " Mich.





Registered bargains mama's?”

JOHN W. SNYDER St. Johns; Mich.

A FEW choice. large type P. 0. Spring boars





and ilts l

01.111111 manna. ‘ 11:51." 31.11113:er Mich





1 s r c. smashes“? ”3.2“?“ that“

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Defender. 11. O. Swarm.“ Beggars“. MicII‘.





boar and bred gilt... Choice

EA igwogpeso P NC. _ pigs at a bargain.





Bigl





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Sali Inc. Mich.

Yorkshire Gilts

or fall or Winit'er 1523:111ng dress~

OAKCR OFT R. 7. Pontiac. Mich.

HORSES V





 





PUBLICAUCTION .





F.E.Soura fem. 51111.N.ofWiIllamahurg,Mlch.

Wed. Jan. 8,1919, at 12M, ~_. .

Imported Black Percheron Stallilm‘

Kornet. Elk Rapids Horse Cc. '

F. E. SOURS, Sec y. 1M





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FIRST EDITION.





The markets in this edition were re-

vised and corrected on Tuesday after-

noon, December 17.





WHEAT.





Prices rule a cent higher than they

did one week ago in the face of a most

optimistic government report. This

report places the acreage of wheat in

this country at fully 2,000,000 acres

more than the government asked for

before the armistice was signed and

gives the condition as the best it has

been in twenty years. The effect of

this showing will be felt in the other

grain marts quicker than it will in

wheat circles. During the week the

visible supply of wheat for the United

States decreased 816,000 bushels. One

year ago the price for No. 2 red wheat

on the local market was $2.17 per bu.

Present prices are:





 





N0. 2 red ............... $2.28

No. 2 mixed ............ 2.26

No. 2 white .......... .. 2.26





CORN.





This trade is suffering from the

showing made in the growing wheat

crop and the improved condition of

the wheat flour situation. Mills that

were grinding corn for human con-

sumption are now idle or making ready

for other work. Export buying of corn

and corn meal has practically stopped.

The American visible supply shows a

decrease of 281,000 bushels. The local

market paid $2.05 for No. 2 corn one





year ago. Present Detroit quotations

are:

No. 3 corn ..............$1.50

No.3 yellow............ 1.55

No. 4 yellow ............ 1.50

No. 5 yellow . . ..... . . . . 1.44

No. 6 yellow . .......... 1.38

No. 3 white ............. 1.5:)





‘ The market is easy at Chicago with

No. 3 yellow at $1.40@1.46; No. 4 yel—

low $1.39@1.42; January $1.34'V8; May





$1.347/8.

OATS.





An easier feeling prevails among the

users of oats and the grain is selling

at lower figures this week. Millers ap-

pear to be supplied fort he present and

there is very little demand from east-

ern buyers. Prices have naturally de-

clined, being aided by the weakness in

corn. A year ago the local price for

standard oats was 81c. The Ameri-

can visible supply shows a decrease of

69,000 bushels. Present quotations at

Detroit are:





Standard ............ ......75]/g



No.3white ..... ..........75



No. 4 white ..... ........74

YE.





The government takes rye when the

prices remain steady but stops buying

whenever advances show. The mar-

ket this week is unchanged from last

week at $1.64 per bushel.





BARLEY.





No change of importance in this

trade and the volume of business is

not large. Cash No. 3 is quoted at $2;

No. 1 $1.95; sample and feeding bar-





ley $1.85@1.90.

' EANS.





Prices have not changed much dur-

ing the past week. Dealers do not ex-

pect any change in the volume of

beans absorbed at home until after the

holiday season. The government is

taking liberal quantitiesfor export and

this has given the market good sup

port. At New York choice pea beans

are selling at $10.25@10.50 per cwt.

The Detroit market is steady with last

week at $9 per cwt. No improvement

is noted at Chicago and trading is easy

with Michigan hand-picked pea beans

choice to fancy stock quoted at $9@

9.25 per cwt.





SEEDS.





Higher prices again prevail with

prime red clover quoted at $25.50;

March $25.85;. alsike $19.25; timo-





thy $5.25.



, ,_ FEEDS. '



~ Prices are steady, with jobbers at

Detroit paying the following in 1004b.

, Brand $36.50; ' standard mid-

dling's, $38.50; coarse corn meal $62;

cracked corn $63; chopped feed $50





per ton.

‘ ' There is a fairly good‘inquiry'for

‘ and thee-market; is steadyto





 





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Wageners are selling to jobbers at

$4.75@5. The Chicago market is un-

changed with the demand and move-

ment moderate. Baldwins and Green-

ings of good quality bring $5.25@5.75





POTATOES.





The potato situation is steady with

a week ago. The movement is mod-

erate and prices are generally un-

changed. At Detroit the supplies are

light, with Michigan stock U. S. Grade

No. 2 selling to jobbers at $2.65@2.75

per 150-lb. sack. The same grade is

moving in Cleveland at $1.90@2.10 per

cwt; in Buffalo at $2@2.10; in Phila-

delphia at $2@2.25; in Pittsburgh 'at

$1.90; in Cincinnati at $1.90@2; at





Columbus $2: .at Chicago $1.50@1;60;

New York City $3.20@3‘.25 per 1504b.

sack. The Grand Rapids market is

small, with prices unchanged and the

feeling easy. ' Growers in Michigan are

receiving in wagon lots at warehouses

from $1@1.30 per cwt. .

BUTTER.



Butter markets are holding firm.

Supplies are light and demand is fairly

easy. At Detroit fresh creamery firsts

are jobbing at 6,41A3@651,4c. The Chi-

cago market is firm with creamery

prices ranging from 54@67%c. In New

York the spread in prices is from 64

@70%c, and in Philadelphia western

creamery extras bring 70c.





 





 





Live Stock Market Service





 





 





Reports for Tuesday, December 17th





DETROIT





Cattle.





Prime steers and canners steady;

others dull. ~

Best heavy steers ...... $12.50@16.50

Best handy wt bu strs. . . 11.00@11.75

Mixed steers and heifers 9.00@ 9.50





Handy light butchers . . . . 7.50@ 8.00

Light butchers .......... 6.5069 7.25

Best cows ............... 9.00@ 9.25

Butcher cows ........... 7.00@ 7.75

Cutters ................. 6.00@ 6.25

Canners ................. 5.75@ 6.00

Best heavy bulls ..... 8.50@ 9.25

Bologna bulls ........... 6.75@ 8.00

Stock bulls 7.00@ 7.25

Feeders ......... . ....... 9.00@10.00

Stockers ................ 6.75@ 8.00

Milkers and springers. . . .$ 50@ 125

Veal Calves.





Market strong. ' "

Best ..................... $17.50@18.50

Others .................. 7.00@15.00



Sheep and‘Lambs.



Market strong.





Best lambs .............. $ 14.75

Fair lambs .............. 13.00@14.00

Light to common lambs. . 10.00@12.00

Fair to good sheep ....... 8.00@ 8.50

Culls and common ...... 5.00@ 7.00

Hogs.



Market steady. ‘

Pigs ................... .$15.75@16.00

Mixed hogs ........... .. 17.5





BUFFALO.





Pigs brought $16.50@16.75 on this

market today; other hogs at $17.80;

lambs were up 25c to $16; calves to

$19.50, while cattle trading proved





slow.

CHICAGO.





Cattle.



Receipts 25,000. Good weighty steers

and canners strong; others slow.



Good to prime choice steers $15.40@

19.75; common and medium butchers

$9.50@15.40; heifers $7.25@14.25;

cows $7@13.50; bologna bulls $7@

12.75; canners and cutters $6.50@7;

stockers and feeders, good $10.25@

13.50; do medium $7.25@9.75.





Hogs.



Receipts 50,000. Market slow and

steady; bulk of sale today $17.35@

17.60; tops $17.70; heavy $17.60@17.70;

mixed and light $17.45@17.65; packers’

hogs $16.60@17.45; medium and heavy

$17.15@17.40; light bacon hogs $16.65

@1745; pigs, good to choice $13.75@

45; roughs $15.50@16.60.



, Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 17,000. Market steady.



Choice to prime lambs $14.75@15;

medium and good lambs $13.25@14.75;

culls $9.50@12; medium good and

choice feeders $12.75@13.75; choice

yearlings $12.35@12.75; medium and

good yearlings $10.50@12.35; wethers,





0 medium and good $9.50@10.75.





Reports for Monday, December 16th.





BUFFALO.





Cattle.



Receipts 200 cars; market 500 low-

er; prime steers $17@17.50; fair to

good $15.25@15.50; plain and medium

$11@11.50; coarse and common $10@

11.50; choice heavy butcher steers $15

@1550; fair to good $13.50@14. best

handy butchers’ steers $11.50@12; fair

to good $10.75@11; light and common

$9@9.50; yearlings, choice to prime at

$16@17.50; medium to good $12@

15.25; best heavy heifers $11@11.75;

fair to good $10.25@10.75; good butch-

er heifers $10@10.25; fair butchering

heifers $8@9; light common $5@7;

best fat cows $10@11; butchering cows

$7.50@8.50; canners $5@5.50; cutters

$5.50@6.50; fancy bulls $10.50@11;

butchering bulls $8.50@9.50; common

$6.50@8; feeding steers $8.50@11.50;

stockers $5@7; milkers and springers

$75@150.





Hogs. ' ‘

Receipts 125 cars; market is slow.

Heavy and yorkers $17.80; pigs $16.50





@1675.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 30 cars; market is steady.

Top lambs,$15.75; yearlings $10.50@





11.50; wethers $9.50@10; ewes $8@

8.50; calves $7@19.50.

CHICAGO.

Cattle.





Last week’s receipts were close to

the largest on record, aggregating 108,-

703 head, camparing with . 99,136 a

week earlier and 97,285 a year ago.

There was an unusually variable mar-

ket, early prices being '15ch lower,

but later there were sharp advances

which left the close about 25c lower

for most steers and 25 @50c lower for

most cows and heifers, banners and





cutters shewin gums--01.“ e, “we:





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aim “WWW good at





of 30,000 cattle, including 3,000 west-

ern rangers. As thearrivals are about

16,000 head less than last Monday, sell-

ers are in a position to maintain pric-

es, and the market is strong to higher,-

with butcher stock selling 15c or more

higher. Sales are on a basis of $6g7

for canner and cutter cows, with e

butcher lots at $7.10@15.50 and beef

steers at *$l7.25@20.25 for the better

class, down to $6.50@9 for inferior lit.

tle canning steers. Stockers are hav-

ing a moderate sale at $6.90@9 for the

commoner lots, with feeders in-good

demand at $10.50 and upward and the

demand running largely on steers that

weigh 900 pounds or more. Choice se-

lected feeders sold at $12 or more.





ogs.



Liberal Saturday receipts ran the

hog supply last week up to 239,076

head, and 33,864 wereleft unsold at

the close. Receipts of hogs were 300,-

476 a week earlier and 238,713 a ‘year

ago. The receipts today are estimated

at 64,000 hogs, and the market is

largely a little lower, although the

range is the same as on Saturday, with

rough heavy packers at $16.‘50@17 and

the better class of heavy butchers at

$17.50@17.70. Good packers brought

$17.10@17-.45, and pigs sold largely at

$13@15.25. '



Sheep and Lambs.



Supplies have increased; last week’s

receipts aggregating 132,258 head, com-

paring with 126.257 3 week earlier and

92,729 a year ago. The packet-shave





taken advantage of this, and pricessne





away 03, the clOsing 8919 last was

having been at $15 for prime lambs,





comparing with $15.85 at the Week’s





high time. One sale was made today of

choice lambs to. a city butcher at $15..





but the general market was 25c ‘o‘r





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This market has‘s fiered’a decline -





during the past week. In Chicago 3

where the heaviest loss was recorded, »

a reaction has already set in and a por-~

tion of the decline recovered. Firsts ,

are quoted there at-61c; ordinary firsts

55@57c. At Detroit fresh firsts are





quoted at 62c; extra firsts, candied, in .. ,





new cases 63c; storage 49@52c. Near-

by western hennery stock is quoted at

66@92c in New York. At Philadelphia.

western extra firsts are reported at'

$20.40@21 per fiase. _ ‘





This market is moderately active,

with prices lower than a week ago. _

They are as follows:



No. 1 timothy .$27.00@28.00

Standard timothy 26.50@27.00

No. 1 mixed 24.50 25.00

_No. 1 clover 23.50 24.00



Pittsburgh—Improvement is noted

in our hay market and prices rule

higher than last week. Receipts have

decreased and the demand is stronger.

Quotations are:



No; 1 timothy. . . .$29.50@30.00

No. 1 light mixed 27.00@28.00

No. 1 clover mxd 27.00@28.00

No. 1 clover ..... 26.00@27.00





DETROIT CITY MARKET





The approach of the holiday seasOn.

has increased the offerings at the city

markets. Potatoes are selling at $1.05

@1.10 per bushel; cabbage 60c; onions

$1.25; apples $1.50@2.25; turnips $1;

carrots 650; beets 75c; parsnips 90c;

popcorn $3 per bushel; eggs 80c.





GRAND RAPIDS





The produce market the past week

was very dull by reason of weather.

Onions are the only farm product for

which there is any demand. So far

three wholesale houses have shipped

over 300 cars, some to army canton-

ments and others to New. England

points. Potatoes are firmer at $1 per

bushel but practically none moving to

this market. Apples continue in good

demand and, some are moving from-

storage to fill orders. Hay is lower at‘

$31 per ten.





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Scour Serum and Cutter’e Germ

Free Blackleg Filtrate and Aggressin,

or Cutter’e Blackleg Pills.





Ask him about them. If he

hasn’t our literature, write to us for

information on. these products.





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Holmes,Sluwe Co., 445 Riopelle St.





Commission Merchants. Dressed Beet. Hogs. calves.

Poult . Live a Dressed, Provisions, etc. Cor-res on.

dence liclted. Ref. Wayne County i Home Saw nus

Bank. Bradstreet, Detroit. Mich. Cad.28'78.





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Daniel McCaffrey’s Sons.

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Hampshire





Shropshire and Oxfords, either sex. send for cir-





cular and prices.

KOPE KON FARMS, Kinder-hook, Mich.

am oflering for sale 10 yearling





Hampshires Rams alsob ram lambs.

F. A. SIMMONS. - - - Rockford, Mich.





FOR SALE Bhorpshlre Ram lambs ,10 bred

ewes and 10 Ewe lambs.



ARMSTRONG BROS. R. 3. Fowlervllle, Mich.



Shropshll’t Am ofleringByeu-ling rams now. Also





12_young ewes for December delivery.

O.J. THOMPSON. - - - Rockford. Mich.





 





 





 





 





Shro shire Rams {235333,} 633m?”

B.D.K LY a SON, - - - Ypsilanti. Mich.

0%FORD Down Ram lambs. also afew ewe lambs.





erkshlre bothSexes. Becki orde tell i .

cnasn srocx FARM. and £31295“. i3.





bers of Anterican and Allied boat crews





.ern bank of the Rhine river as secur-





‘ declares that technically the law will





 





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’, “Wednesday, ’Decernberlll.





, ’ tee to the peace conference near-

the » tench coastu—rli‘ive hundred morn.





captured by the Huns,‘ have arrived in

Denmark from >Germany.——German

people are warned that the continua-

tion of riots will end in ”starvation.



,. Thursday, December 12. "





OLES who fought under the Amer-

ican flag in France ask President

Wilson that they be allowed to go to

Poland to become a part of the new

Polish army.——Grand Duke Nicholas,

former commander-in-chief of the Rus-

sian forces, now leads an army of Cos-

sacks in Southern Russia—France is

reported as wanting to hold the west3





ity for the payment of damages by.

Germany.——Sugar prospects in Porto

Rico are good—A blast on the United

States warship Brooklyn kills six and

wounds thirty-one persona

Friday, December 13.

PRESIDENT WILSON: and peace

party arrive in France, amid great

ovations by soldiers and citizens.-——Dr.

W. S. Soif, one of the members of the

old imperial government of Germany,

resigns under pressure from the radi-

cals—Lord Robert Cecil of England,





prevent the extradition of the former

emperor of Germany, but holds that

the Allies can demand his surrender.

——Victor L. Berger, congressman-elect

from Wisconsin, with four socialist

co-defendants, is now being tried be-

fore the United States court in Chicago

for conspiracy—Many soldiers in hos-

pitals are not receiving their pay, due

to a change in methods of payment,

explains the war department—Ex-

President Taft urges the formation of

a world league of nations in an address

before a Detroit audience.

Saturday, December 14.



PARIS becomes the Mecca. of the



heads of nations as President Wil-

son and American peace delegates ar-

riveL—Seven frontier towns of Baden

hav asked to be joined to Switzer-

lan .——British elections are being held

in which eight million women will vote

for the first time.——-The proposal to ar-

bitrate the differences between .Peru

and Chile made by the United States

has been received kindly by both coun-

tries—Governor Sleeper advises that

the Jackson prison be gradually mov-

ed from the city to farms—D. U. R.

company is enjoined from hiring addi-

tional women as conductors in the rul-

ing handed down by William Howard





Taft.

Sunday, December 15.





PRESIDENT WILSON has accepted

an invitation from King George to

visit England, which will be fulfilled

no doubt, on the return trip from the

continent. The President addresses a

delegation of socialists in Paris—The

Allies have extended the truce limits

giving Germany-until January 17 to ful-

fill the terms of the armistice—Col.

Westnedge, of Kalamazoo, a veteran of

the Spanish-American war and com—

mander of the 126th infantry at Chat-

eau-Thierry, died recently in a. French

hospital. —— Provost-Marshal Crowder

advocates the selective system of rais-

ing American armies in the future.—

Carter Glass, of Virginia, becomes sec-

retary ofthe treasury of the United

States, succeeding W. G. McAdoo re-

signed.——Overtures are being made to

France to take portions of the Rhine-

- land into France on the same basis as

Alsace-Loraine.

Monday, December 16.



IN the British elections the Lloyd



George government is supported,

four of six women delegates are elect-

ed to parliament, and the Sinn Feiners

sweep Ireland outside of the Belfast

sphere—President Wilson and Premi-





 





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STOCK FARM. Fred Wolfe. ~Snover, Mich.





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lines Will Be Horses Soon





We have on hand at all times a choice selection

of young Percheron Stallions. Also have a few

horses that we are offering to ex-





good w rk

change r young stallions.





PALMER BROS. Balding. Mich. R.R. Orleans.





FOR SALE





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er Clemenceau confer on peace issues.

Neutrals and foes join in paying hom-

age to the American chief executive.—

President Sidorio, of Portugal, is shot

and killed by an assassin.-——Postmast-

er-General Burleson announces a re-

duction in long distance telephone ser-

vice during hours from 8:30 to 12:00 p.

m.—-Egg prices go down in Chicago as

government investigates storage hous-

es and housewives boycott the use of

the product. .

Tuesday, December 17.



P RESIDENT WILSON begins trip to



the battle front in France, which

will include a visit to Chatteau-Thier-

ry and Rheims.—Canadian govern-

ment announces that Ontario Will re

main drye—Four, aviators are killed by

a crash in mid-air near West Point.

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government to purchase both, tele-

graph and telephone lines of the coun-

try is imperative—aMlchigan pays 60





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GRIND the corn and gram you feed to your ,

stock. Ground feed 18 dlgested—lt puts

on that solid flesh that comes only from proper

feeding—and none of it is wasted.

Use an International Feed Grinder, which grinds corn on

the cob, small grain. or corn in the husk, to any degree of

‘ fineness, and costs but little for power.

‘ There are three types of International feed rinders, each

type in different sizes to meet ailrequirements. 5Type B grinds

corn on the cob and small grain, and is made with 6, 8, and

10-inch plates. Type C, for small grain only, is a high speed,

rapid-grinding mil , with 6 and 8-inch plates. Type D, the

heavy grinder, is made for corn in the husk. It has a spiral

cutter and 8 or 10-inch grinding plates.



All International grinders are strongly built of steel, rein-

forced wherever necessary; are provided with all necessar

safety appliances to prevent injury and bneakage,.and wit

all necessary attachments. When power is supplied by a

steady running, economical International Kerosene Engine,

you could not have a. better grinding outfit, or one that would

do the work at less expense. Write us for catalogues.





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A Michigan organization to afford protection to Michigan live stock owners.

5uWei9hpve paid over $17,000 in death losses since we began business July .'

Is there any stronger argument for this class of insurance than $17,000

of losses on $1,500,000 of business?



Your animals are well and sound today but tomorrow some of them are

dead. Insure them before it is too late.



We indemnify owners of live stock—horses, cattle, sheep and hogs, for loss

by accrdent and disease. _

See our agent in your vicinity. ’





Colon C. Lillie, Pres.

319 Widdlcomh Blgd.. Grand Rapids. Mich."





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would appreciate a paper which put: everything clearly. fairly, briefly—here it is. Send 15¢ to Show that you mightlike such a





paper, and we will send the'Pathlinder on probation 13 weeks. The Pathfinder Box 78 waShin‘ton, ”.6.

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Mr. POULTRY F ARMER: '

$3





We make a specialty of White Hennery Eggs and

have created a profitable market'for your eggs the

year around. We pay the highest premium for your





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[’FF Orpingtons, get your breeding stock now for v

088“ season A few chmce pullets at $1.50.cockerels





Mm.’ G. D. ELLIS. n.3, Clinton, Mich.





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Hennery Whites-We remit same da shipments ’aen mo 8 Red u. na other breederl Mi m an.

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CULOTTA & JUL]. Minorcas a few choice cockerele and





S. C. 8' cock birds for sale. Bntisfaction un-

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We need. your shipments of Poultr Veal. Dressed or a an

Hogs. Live Roasting Pigs, gs. like Rabbits_and White Wynn-





‘NV hite Wyandotte eggs for hatohlnballo baby-chick

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Game. Highest pri posslb obtained on arrival. Guilt Bronze Turkey3 dotte Cookerels.

We cand handle your atoes. Onions, Apples. Cabb- Mrs. W. A. STEDMAN, Ashley, Mich.





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POULTRY White Holland Toma, 38 Each.

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