VOL.,_CLII. No.5 Whole Number 4030 It requires only three box wranchea‘ to fake ‘ ~>. , down and put together ,MW.._ . . .. . ’z .1 the Samoan(Mode1Ml ' ' ' Tractor. The tool kit " /' " ‘ curtains these three ranches-v and not.- 1nt an. .‘ u“~,»vu-.”.k.c- . ”WW; . Samson Policy § _ Never to sell a Samson just for the sake of making a sale. To sellithe farmer the Samson model that fits his farm—and no other model. To ‘stay With a sale’ long after it has been closed, to make sure of , satisfaction. - s :N.‘ - ~m-- ' To build volume by giving value to the individual buyer, and give the farmer the benefit of that volume, in the price. To meet every need, and supply every want that may arise on the farm, for labor-saving, man—saving, money-saving machinery. . SAMSON TRACTOR COMPANY, JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN, i I ‘SAMSON ' MODELM‘ $6 5 O . - V . . , F. O. B. Innesvillo, Wis. Capable of pulling two 14-well plows at all times, - Oomph". with automatic pow" three 14-well plows under favorable conditions mkfiog and automatic comm: l t l I l i i :l ”.9» w A . .«-—-.. ‘ v. w... MICHIGAN VOLUME CLII. IAilbraCtical Journal for the Rural F amily QUALITY RELIABILITY SERVICE NUMBER FIVE " , O HE land-owner who leases his farm to the tenant who will pay the highest cash rental .(as is universally the case) practically sells the land, or, at least, the use of it for the time of the lease and the man who thus temporarily b'uys it usually has but one object in the care and cultiva- tion cfit, and that is to take from the ' soil such products as will sell for the most money while he has possession of the farm, regardless of the future fertility, condition of the land, build- ings and fences. In too. many instances he is compelled to keep this up from year to year in order to payhis rent and live. If this system is in vogue the renter, outside of feeding his work teams, two or three coWs and perhaps a few hogs, depends on selling his crops in the fall before his rent comes due, many times to the detriment 0f the land-owner in the sense of contin- ually removing from the farm the fer- tility of the soil without making a. re- turn of manure or fertilizer. In case of grain. or crop rent, at_ least one-half of the crops raised on the farm are either sold in the market or fed out on some other “farm. In many instances the division of the crops and the time of selling ’is a fre- quent source of trouble to both par- ties. the land-owner and the tenant suffer or are benefited by the crop yields at harvest time. They are, therefore, mutually interested in the cultivation and harvesting of the crops and the added fertility of the soil, but they have no means for the manufacture of fertilizer that Obtains in the part- nership plan of farming with live stock and a long-term lease‘. 'A just and equitable division of the income from stock raising and'other lines of farming is not a difilcult prob lem to ,work out. In Michigan if the owner of the land furnishes 'most of the stock and equipment or the capital to finance the business he should re- tain full control of the money end of the business. Division of the operat- ing and incidental costs must be de- termined by agreement. No rules can be laid down which will apply with equal fairness to all farms, men and conditions, and the farm that is in a run- down condition cannot yield satisfactory returns to the tenant unless ‘he gets a larger share of the income. At the beginning of the tenancy it is often necessary for the land? owner to buy most of the stock, but if the tenant can be encouraged to gradual- ly work into livestock un- til he owns one-half of the cattle, sheep and swine it is easy to get on a just and equitable werking basis. It is my judgment that it is better to furnish the tenant with capital to." purchase one- -half of {the breeding stock, even . though the land-owner gf“ takes security on his stock. , In this way he feels that b has an interest in the Crop or grain rent is in most ’ cases more just and equitable, as both - crativc Farm Tenancy (flrtic/e Tuba) Equitaé/e Division of Profits. ,By C. 8. Ford W””//’l;; {Eff/.11. a «m ' rm p” . v» WWII” ‘ “I am Willing to Pay for the Ground Rock Phosphate if you will Mix it WIih the Manure and Spread it on the Land." In order to make his investment safe and protect the firm’s business the owner of the property should re- tain control of the financial end of the farming. but it is only fair that he should give a statement of the busi- ness every month, or whenever de- manded by the tenant. I know that many will question'this assertion, and no doubt claim that I am, writing this for the benefit of land-owners. This is wrong. Why, let me ask you, should the owner of a valuable property sign his name to a lease which binds him to do thus and so, when the tenant cannot be held equally fast to carry out his part of the lease. Do banks and business concerns do business that way? Can you go to a bank and borrow money without giving secur- ity? Can you start in business and buy goods from a large concern be. fore you have established your credit? Of course not. Then, why is it just and equitable for you to go to a land- owner and insist that he give you a lease which gives you absolute con- trol over his farm and personal prop- erty for a term of years without you putting up a bond which will hold you equally responsible. He is good for all that he agrees to do, and you will no doubt hold him to the letter; but if you should decide to be dishonest what can he get out of you? If you have property and put up ample security that you will faith- fully perform your part of the agree- ment, you should have a lease which gives you equal rights in handling the cash and buying and selling the sup- plies and,products of the farm. If you cannot do this you should not ask a man to give you a lease which takes his farm and personal property out of his hands and places him entirely at the mercy of a tenant for a term of years. You may say that one cannot get tenants that will enter into such an agreement, but any good tenant who seeks to make a good profit from his farming would prefer to do business with a land-owner who is willing to furnish him with a good farm, suitable stock and conveniences than to rent some run-down farm which has been skinned for years by shiftless tenant- ry. Business is business, and a high- class tenant knows the advantages of a long-time lease and conducting his business on a systematic basis and is willing to listen to the advice of a lib- eral land—owner who takes interest in doing what he can to increase the effi~ ciency of the farm as a financial prop- osition. With the present tendency toward the breeding of high class live stock in Michigan, there are many breeders who would gladly furnish a good tenant with a good farm and the right kind of stock if they bad faith in his honesty and ability to make good. On the other hand, there are any number of land—owners, who have no idea of what constitutes good farm- ing, who are interested only in using the tenant as a means of skinning their impoverished soils of cash crops. These men are constantly shifting from one type of farm to another, and are unwilling to give a good tenant an opportunity to develop a profitable system of live stock farm- ing. There is no tenant on earth who can make good if.he is restricted and cramped by some penuri- ous land-owner, who de- mands everything in sight and refuses to put any money into stock, fertiliz- ers and improvements. I like to hear the land- owner say: “I want to keep this farm in good pro- ductive condition. I am willing to furnish all the clover and grass seed you want; I want to get al- falfa started. I will pay two—thirds of the cost of all the acid phosphate and potash you think it best to use with the grain crops. I want'the crops fed out you,select and buy some good Stock and get things finouei’g . This (Continued on page 'A $7); 7 in shape to " bring in some, _ is not for on the farm and I will help ~V w . -‘. Q. :— - rt .4 , 95' 't- «*3 ;' i" ...‘tsthmeaam' *- The Lawrence Publishing Co. Editors and Proprietors '30 to 15 Congress St. West. Detroit, TELEPHONE MAIN i525. ” NEW 1YORK OFFICEl—BSi 11m Ave. cameos assay use. N... 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NUMBER FIVE DETROIT, FEBRUARY 1, 1919 CURRENT COMMENT N its effort to aid The Pat in the winning of the war, the United of States Food Adminis- the Land tration took stock of the food resources and the food needs of the world, par- ticularly of the very considerable por- tion of the world engaged in fighting the Huns. This survey indicated that one of the most critical food shortages was that of fats. This shortage was even more serious than that of bread grains or sugar, in which food lines the shortage was perhaps more gener- ally impressed on the mind of the av- erage consumer. In this emergency the farmers of America were appealed to by the Food Administration and the United States Department of Agriculture to increase pork production and help win the war. As a means of stimulating greater pro‘ duction, the government, through the agency of the Food Administration, is- V , sued a declaration to the effect that so far as possible through its purchases for military purposes and for the A1- lies, the price for the 1918 pig crop would be maintained at a point which would make- the price of one hundred pounds of pork lepresent'the value of thirteen bushels of corn. The result was a patriotic response by our farm- ers which enabled an increase in the exportation of fats from fifty million pounds of fats per month in the sum- ' mer of 1917, to four hundred million pounds during January of the present year. While there has been some criticism regarding the manner in which this promise has been kept, the results to date as measured by a stabilized mar- ,. ket have been fairly satisfactory to producers. The method of stabiliza- tion followed by the Food Administrw tion was to bring the allied buying V‘ agents, representative farmers and the packers together for a settlement of the price by monthly periods. Under the general arrangement 'the packers . were allowed a quarter of a cent per :-':.ljpound over and above the price to the Kramer and the cost of material and j laser 19: packing. The allies took all mend lasted the result. was W not? isfmtory to all concemed. Our form- ers got a. fair price and a stable mar- ; ket for then hogs, the packers mode a good pront, though less than before control measures were established, and the allies got the fats which they needed so badly. , But since the beginning of the arm- reas. istice this arrangement has been dis- turbed. The allies can better avail themselves of the advantages of more distant markets and under the deplet- ed condition of their finances are nat- urally more inclined to use their 8111': plus stocks of fats accumulated against the submarine menace than to add to them beyond their present needs. The extended foreign market and increased demand for fats which will obtain ~when the peace, treaty is finally signed will undoubtedly afford a profitable outlet for our surplus, but in the meantime the government must keep faith with American pork produe ers or “the fat of the land,” in the form of pork and pork products. will .not long remain plentiful, even for home consumption. Figuratively, if not lit- erally, “the fat will be in the fire.” The importance of thisquestion as a reconstruction problem was empha- sized by Food Administrator Hoover in a lengthy statement issued from Paris this week, apparently provoked by the attack made on the pending European food relief plans, through the charge that these plans were calculated to add to the packers’ profits. In this statement he said: “The dominating food problem. in the United States at this moment is a very much bigger problem than the Chicago packers. It is a problem of the Ameri— can farmer. ' "If the packers’ profit of two or three per cent on his turn-over is too high, it is the duty of congress to tax it out of him. If the farmer’s prices threaten to fall below the level of a fair return. it behooves the country to do some quick, clear thinking.” Mr. Hoover's warning is well Worthy of the attention of congress, should “present time wean be: 1111th!!— which our farmers would not patiently submit. Our farmers have made a large investment in their 1318 pigcrop in good faith on the Woe of the government that they would receive a fair return, fund the continued stabili~ zation of the market at a compensa- tory price until the last of the crop has been marketed is a duty and re- sponsibility \which cannot be success- fully evaded. Congress should give early attention to the solution of this reconstruction problem if the Food Administration :finds itself unable to cope with it un- der present conditions. Then it may well take up the question of the per- manent control or regulation of the meat packing and distributing industry in the interests of both producers and consumers. 0TH Houses of The Road ' the ‘ legislature " - have voted unani- iBonding mously to submit an Proposal ' amendment to the state constitution to be voted on at the April election to authorize ..the legislature to issue state bonds in an amount not to exceed $50,- 000,000 dollars to complete trunk line highway systems laid out pursuant to an .act passed by the legislature in 1913. This amendment has been urg- ed by the state good roads association and its submission has received the approval of the executive committees of the leading state farmers’ organiza- tions, without definite commitment of their organizations to the plan. Briefly. the surveyed plan of trunk line systems laid out for Michigan con- templates the improvement of more than 5,000 miles of roads. These trunk lines embrace two main roads from the southern state line to Lake Superior, one on each side of the state, several east and west main lines, and numer- ous connecting roads. The system as laid out extends into all of the eighty~ three counties of the state. About two thousand miles of this proposed sys- Memorz‘a/ Sunday Free/4772421072 1V ANY of the brave boys who so freely offered their lives in our cause will not come back to us. Some of them sleep in sunny France. Some lie “in Flanders’ Fields,” among the pop- pies. fate. Some went down to sea in ships and there met a cruel Some were cut off by accident and disease in our own land. They all died that Freedom might live; and, while our heads are bowed with sorrow, our hearts are filled with pride and thank- fulness when we think of their willing spirit of service. We shall not forget their splendid achievement. It is fitting, however, that we should in some special way man- ifest our appreciation of their noble devotion and sacrifice. Therefore, in order that we may pay a tribute of respect and affection to the memory of the gallant lads who died for us, I. Albert E. Sleeper, Governor of the State of Michigan, do issue this. my proclamation and hereby designate and set aside Sun- day, the second day of February, nineteen hundred and nineteen, as Memorial Sunday for Michigan’s martyred sons in the Great War. And I earnestly request the people of the state to gather on that day in their accustomed places of worship and there hold appropriate and solemn services in memory of our honored dead. Let every church in Michigan devote one service, preferably the morning service, to this purpose. _ I suggest too that, in communities where this plan is prob trouble, the laymen arrange for a general service, with a. suitable program of music and addresses, to be held in the afternoon. I further request that during half-stud, and that everyone wear a smell bow ‘of white ribbon the day flags be displayed at in loving remembrance of those who will not return to us. I action by“ that body be essential to the redemption" of the governmental pledge to American farmers. No well informed man has yet accused the Food Administration of undue zeal in the farmer‘s interest, either in the es- mblishment of control measures or in their demobilization. The removal of restrictions on mill feed prices has been an unwanted hardship. The aban- donment of the hog market to the con- . tem have already been permanently improved by counties, towdships and districts under the state reward act. About three" thouisand miles remain to be 111.111.1114 much of the mad already built needs still further improvement to withstand the heavy mm; particu- larly of motor trucks which was not anticipated under the original plan of improvement ' The promoters of, this proposed, .efiislaflon if the proposed amendment is adopted, under Which the counties in which these roads would be limit would con tribute to the oust in proportion to their asseSsed valuation. Unde1 this plan the eighty-three counties would be arranged in nine groups. The group having the lowest assessed valuation or less than $50,000 per trunk line mile of road to be built Within their limits, would pay ten per cent of the cost of building, the state paying nine- ty per cent. The group having the largest assessed valuation, or over $500,000 per trunk line mile of road to be built within their limits would pay fifty per cent of the cost, and the state fifty per cent. The various intermedi- ate groups would, under this plan, cou~ tribute in proportion to their assessed valuation as related to the miles of road to be constructed within their limits. The plan contemplatesthat any county may pay the total cost of their apportionment in a single year or in yearly installments covering a. period of years 'by direct taxation at a rate not to exceedone mill on the to- tal assessed valuationor by the issu- ing of shortvterm bonds. This proposition is well worthy of careful consideration of‘eVery farmer in the state, and should be made the subject of thorough discussion at ev- ery farmers’ meeting during period intervening before the April election. News of the Week Wednesday. January 22. HE supreme council of the peace conference is formulating a con- crete proposal on the Russian situa~ tion. ——Following the success of the moderates in the German elections, a federation of eight states is to be es- tablished. —Sinn- -Feiners lau ch the re— public of Ireland—The Bols eviki pro- program is being adopted by the Uk- ‘raine people, according to recent re- ports on conditions there—The Amer— ican navy will leave European waters not later than February 15.—-Michigan legislative committee continues its in vestigation of the state school for girls at Adrian.——Portugal is under martial lam—American banks made new records in 1919 despite the tre- mendous burdens of war. Thursday, January 23. HE proposals of President Wilson advising the recognition of the right of the Russian people to direct their own affairs are approved by the peace conference, and all factions in Russia will be asked to meet the Allies by February 15.~—Boisheviki troops are shelling positions held by the United States troops on the Wage. river 1'11 northern Russia. —Leaves of absence for members of the American army are to be granted on a. more liberal basis hereafter.———President Wilson plans to be in Brussels January 27.——The may- or of Pittsburgh is placed on trial, charged with violating state laws dur- ing riots in 1917.—Secretary of Agri~ culture Houston adcovates federal reg~ ulation of the live stock and mean packing industry. Friday, January 24. HE German cities of Hamburg and Bremen protest against the sur- render of German trade ships to the Allies—The representatives of four governments at the peace conference declare they will not sit at the peace table with Soviet representatives.— Bolshevlki armies are pvacuating Pe- trograd as the opposition to their scheme of government develops.~A. French torpedo boat is sunk off the coast of Tunis and eighteen men are lost -——United States exports in 1918 a total of $6,150,000H000 or 383, 000,000 less than the total for 1917 .—--'The three months' strike of 55 ,000 garment mak- ers in New York city is ended by the granting of forty- four hour week. . Saturday January, 25. NEW program for Ireland which prov1des for federal rule for each of four provinces is launched—The at. titude of Russian factions toward the invitation of the peace conference re— mains uncertain. --All embargoes on cotton ekports to nonmemy countries are lifted by the federal goVernmenat. that. no man be discharged from the army against his desire obtain emp mutant in loss while vi! 1119. ——_Tl|o in the administration at 8 silo-1m ‘ until he can , s, —The War Department has ordered , / ,. 1“» 1’" ""‘A' w... AWWWM ...as.‘ .. w ,1. ‘. v1 ‘ . .Qp .r 1‘ . . ,4»! ,. .mfcw" 3.2%} rm M. ,1, 5")“ rec «ash. 1 the inhabitants in dire poverty. differ as to the cause and the cure. ' came to nopular attention , HE movement for the adoption 1 of the single tax as part of the constitutional law of Michigan makes it necessary for people gener- ally and farmers in particular to in- quire what it is. Single tax is a gen- eral scheme, not a definite program. Like free trade, socialism, etc., every individual advocate of it has his pe- culiar views as to its proper details of application. - Single tax is a remedy proposed for an evil. That evil is the uneven and unequal distribution of wealth. All men" agree that it is bad'for. a commu- nity to have most of the wealth gath' ered into a few hands, and most of Men Looking back as far as history records and in every country in the world, that evil is present always and everywhere, in some times and places worse than in others; but “ye have the poor a1- Ways with you.” What is the cause and the remedy? It has been said that the cause is the hardness of men’s hearts; and the remedy is sell all you have, give it to. the poor, take up your cross and fol- low Christ. This was the slogan of the Franciscan Friars several hundred years ago, and a book published a few years ago, called “In His Steps,” by Rev. Charles M. Sheldon recounts the efforts of a man trying to correct the evils of our social order by christian living. ' Thomas Jefferson, third pres- ident of the United States, argued that one of the most provoking causes of congestion of wealth into a few bands was inheritance by the first-born son of the whole estate to the exclu- sion of the sisters and younger broth- ers; and through his influence the law in that respect was changed in. the American colonies before the Revolu- tion so that all the children inherited equally; and so it has remained here ever since, yet great fortunes continue to accumulate. When the standard of values was falling, several years ago, many persons charged a large part of the evil to our monetary system, some demanding paper money, some the free coinage of silver“ but with the rising prices resulting from the discovery and mining of the great Rand gold reef in South Africa since 1896, and especially since the rapid rise of prices resulting from the inflation of the cur- rency here and in Europe since the beginning of the great war, we hear no more about ‘that; and yet, great ' fortunes grow. Numerous other solutions of the difficulty-have been suggested. The foregoing are given merely by way of illustration. The single taxer says these solutions are all wrong, that the evil is due to the private ownership of land, that the remedy is to abolish private own- ership, that the best way . to abolish it is to tax it out of existence, that the Way to make taxes high enough. to accomplish that result is to abolish all oth- er forms of taxation. Therefore the: name “sin- gle tax.” This notion seems to have taken form , about the middle of the . last century; but it first Butt 1886, through the 6r andOWncrs Pay 311 Taxes? How we Single; or Site T ax Watt/d A1796! Michigan 7Farmers. By John R. ROQd HIS is the first of the series of articles on “Sin- gle Tax” which was announc- ed last week. We asked Mr. Rood to contribute an article on this subject because of his national reputation as a. legal authority on all branches of real property law. His books are in common use by law- yers all over the United States, and he has been teach- ing various branches of the subject at the Law School of the University of Michigan for the past twenty years. Al- though he is now engaged in general practice of law in De- troit, he is still as he has for many yeais past, been la1gely interestwed actively and finan- cially, in fa1ming in this state. prophet of the order; and his book, “Progress and Poverty,” is the single taxer’s bible. ' The argument runs something like this: When a country is new‘and wild, all live in hardship, but poverty is almost unknown—the richest are poor, but the, poorest live in abund- ance. As the resources of the country are developed, and hardship should disappear, large fortunes begin to ac- cumulate, and along with them come more paupers and more distressing poverty. The cause is the right of some, called the owners of the land, to collect rent from the rest and to appropriate to themselves the profits that accrue from the rise of land val- ues. The 'remedy is to abolish the cause. Do it by apprOpriating all the value of ownership to the .public by taxation. The believersin “single tax” admit that the name is unfortunate. They say it is not a tax at all, because the value of land arises from the fact of the increase of the number of inhab- itants of the community, and there- fore belongs to the public. Further, they admit what is plain to everyone that it cannot stand alone, that no “single” tax will do to supply all gov- ernment needs at all times and places. The single tax scheme is especially objectionable as a single source of public revenue, because it is absolute- ly inelastic, the revenue depending on the rise in land values, not on the public necessities. Therefore its ad- vocates say, make this the first source of taxation and raise the rest by other methods. The scheme has never been tried anywhere. Something of the idea has been tried in the western Canadian provinces, but those who have made most careful study of the laws there say they were not designed to embody the single tax theory, and are based on local conditions. We have in the United States at the present time a statute that does appropriate a part of the rise in land values by taxation. It is the federal income tax statute; un- der which the difference between the purchase price of land bought perhaps years ago, and the price at which it is sold today, is treated as income ac- cruing at the day of the sale, and is appropriated in greater or less degree by taxing the income, the per cent of the tax depending on the amount. This would seem the most exact method of appropriating the increment; for to say what the rise in value has been before a sale is made must be largely guesswork. Perhaps the best presentation of the subject would be by giving briefly the arguments for and against the single tax, and permitting the reader to judge for himself. Some of the prime argu- ments for the single tax are the fol- lowing: ' 1. Taxes on commodities and busi- ness can be and are passed on to the general public, and have to be paid by the poor. If a tax be made on mort- gages the lender insists that the bor- rower pay it in addition to the inter- est; if taxes be put on telegraph mes- sages, the telegraph company ad‘ds it to the price of the service; if a tax be put on tea, the dealer adds the tax to the cost, collects a profit on both, and passes the enlarged tax on to the‘ poor public, who has to pay it in the end With increase. But taxes on land cannot be passed on. There is only' so much land; no tax can increase or diminish the supply or demand; the‘ landlord has to pay the tax and can’t escape it. It is a fair and just tax, therefore, levied on the rich, the best able to pay, and they cannot shift it over to anyone else. 2. The earth is the common prop- erty of all men. Those who make pri- vate property of land the gift of God, pretend in vain to be innocent. In thus retaining the substance of the poor they are the murderers of those who die every day for want of it. On what just basis can I claim private ownership of it? The only basis of private property is force, and the vain boast, God made this for me, keep off. The answer is, show us a deed from God and we will admit the claim. 3. The value of the land is created by the community not by the supposed owner. It comes from the growth of the community, from the increase in the inhabitants, therefore it belongs to the community, and should be appro- priated by taxation. The island on which New York ,City stands was once sold by the Indians for $28. It is now estimated to be worth $3,500,000,000. Take away the inhabitants of Ameri- ca, and it would be worth no more than it was when bought from the In- dians. Why, then, should private per- sons who did not populate America, therefore did not create the value, be admitted to own the value? 4. Private ownership is the cause of land speculation, giving us 4”“ ImproVementa to Benefit Unprogress'ive’ Land Speculators. the idle rich waiting for the values of their lands to increase, the idle poor kept from developing the value, and idle land—the intolerable trinity, idle, rich, idle poor, idle land. The genius and charities of the Morgans, Carne- gies and Rockefellers, do not compensate us for turning over to them the bounties of nature stored during the ages. 5. It is self-evident that if taxes are increased on unoccupied land they would be decreased on oc- cupied land. Let the spec- ulators pay the taxes. To these arguments of ‘ the single taxer, the fol- . lowing answers are here. by made: f 7 1. True it is that the land“ » tax cannot be passed on 7 by the landlord mine—J (Continued onipage 164).” , N the report of the Extension Ser- I vice of the Farm Management De. partment at the Michigan Agricul- tural College, based upon the accounts for 1917 by the several hundred farm- ers reporting, the cash labor 1eturns, or what is termed “labo1 income, ” are , considerably less than one thousand dollars per year. As it is evident from a perusal of this report which is an average for all those so reporting‘and as many of these farmers are realizing considerably more than average re- turns for their labors it necessarily fol-T low's that some of those farmers are barely receiving as much as hired man’s wages with the worry and (re- sponsibility thrown‘in. , This should not be and manifestly something is wrong. If the farmer cannot realize something more than wages and interest on the investment, either his methods of farming are in need of improving, or the land is in a poor state of fertility. The writer of this article had the good fortune to be able to report for '1917 the highest labor income of any received, and while not wishing to be considered as an authority on farm management, yet it would seem, in view of the low average of farm labor incomes, that there is need for im- provement in the methods of some farmers in this state. - Since these reports are all given confidentially to the department, and as the‘writer has no knowledge of their individual shortcomings, perhaps an outline of the methods employed on this farm can give those farmers who know that their ship leaks, but can’t find the hole, some idea at least where to do the plugging. The inference is drawn from the re- port of the department that those who reported likely had a better income than those who did not, because to quote it, “as a rule only the most en— terprising and business-like of farmers keep accounts.” The impression is also conveyed that those whose re- ports show high labor incomes were probably that class of farmers who kept an improved strain of live stock. Be that as it may, however, as this farm has been conducted with no es- pecial strain of live stock, with no market except the open market for returns, and the following of general live stock farming, it is the purpose of this article to prove that anyone else, with a productive farm as a base, may do fully as well. "This farm of one hundred and forty acres is part owned and part rented by the writer. The main sources of income have been from hogs, sheep, cattle and wheat in the order named. Practically all ”of the crops raised ex- cept wheat, are consumed on the farm by live stock, the few items of crop _ sales representing small amounts of . seed grain and in the few sales of hay as an accommodation to some less for- tunate neighbor. To the writer’s best recollection hay has been sold for mar- ket only twice in the seventeen years of farm operation and then only to make room for the oncoming crop. None of the stock except sires are blooded stock, only such kinds as might be found upon any productive farm. While the net returns have been highest from hog sales it is my I 7-ilrm belief that for the labor required and the benefit a farm receives, foi - the general farmer, no branch of farm- ”, _, ing will give better returns f1 om the ‘ capital invested than will a good flock of ewes. They need not be a large Mr. W I. Raiws‘o72, W flare Farm S/zowea’ 2/27 Larger: Labor 172007727 ofA72-y Farm 272 Mzcéggan,Exp/az72: I12} Sys217777 of Crop (7720111227732 227221 Sm} Feeding 20 Readers 0f T/ze Mzcfizgan Farmer. Farmstead of W. J. Rawson, Manchester, Michigan. flock. Indeed, one should not attempt to keep more than the farm can com- fortably support as they require con- siderable range during the pasture sea- son, but aside from some three or four weeks’ close attention in the spring, during the increase, they are but little bother. The wool at present prices surely pays for their winter board. They are nearly as much benefit to the farm in the checking of weeds in summer as the pasture is worth and the lambs at weaning are about so much "velvet." As a matter of fact, on two permanent pasture lots since ewes have been kept, but very few Canada thistles have had to be cut to prevent their going to seed, while for— merly it took a day or two to accom- plish the same result. The net returns from hogs are the largest of any one branch of live stock receipts and with the nominal initial investment of capital one might wish to question my judgment in placing sheep before hogs, in determining net profits. ‘They are a close second to be sure, but one must bear in mind that lambs get a large portion of their growth on. grass and when put in the feed lot part of the additional weight is derived from coarse feeds such as hay, oat straw, shock corn, etc. in the year 1917 the lambs were fat- tened wholly upon hay, shock corn and oats, and weighed one hundred pounds at ten months of age-din aver- age gain of ten pounds per month in- cluding weight at birth. The past year the same kind of lambs made practi- cally the same gains but were fed on shelled instead of shock corn, owing to the light crop. I might add that the lambs are taught to eat oats in the spring as soon as old enough, then in the fall as soon as weaned, they are started on a. light ration of oats, increasing the same as fast as they become accus~ tomed to it. and later gradually chang- ing to heavier feeds and at the finish they usually consume from three to three and a half bushels of grain a day-per hundred. Hogs on the other band, do not con- sume any roughage but make almost all their gains on concentrated feeds. These feeds, of course, are expensive whether raised on the farm or bought in the market. _ Some farmers in this community think they make more profit on hogs by letting them shift for themselves all summer, waiting until the corn crop matures before fattening them, then if the corn crop is poor or late, or both, they must begin feeding puro chased feed, when they might better have done so as soon as weaned, or they are compelled to throw their im- mature pigs on the market for the oth- er fellow to finish. In 1917 the spring crOp of pigs were marketed at eight months of age, at an average weight of 283 pounds, the past year they averaged 245 pounds at seven months. These figures are cited, not in a spirit of boastfulness, but merely to present what the possibili- ties are in feeding stock for profit. In getting these results every efiort is made to have the young stock begin to grow and keep growing from birth. I go on the hypothesis that if you take good care of your stock, they will take good care of you. While considerable cattle are usual- ly kept on the farm both for feeding and the dairy. and while some dairy- men may take issue with this state- ment, I fully believe that the cattle ”end of the farm, particularly dairying, 'if accurate accounts of their costs were kept, would show mostly a case of swapping dollars, unless—and I wish to emphasize the unless—you have a special market for your product at more than open market prices. Some cattle areeither fattened or win- tered through practically every year. I do not believe the net profits ap- pmach that of sheep or ho'gs, they fat: " 1C 1gan ; shell Corn, Vmuch hay as they will consume. needing f stanchions but are allowed to run at! " krill in the basement of one barn, and ' ten too slow, and it takes two years to turn your stock. Yet there are What might be termed “invisible profits” A8 a means of maintaining Soil fertility, Which is important they have no equal. Also cattle with shoats running behind . them make an excellent method of» wintering the fall litter—shut have the pigs come early enough in the_;fall so they will be fair-sized at the beginning of the feeding season. As near as pos- . Sible I’ try to have the fall litters not later than, September 1. The cattle are fed, as long as the supply lasts,‘ mostly on shock corn, after that on‘ cottonseed meal and as- The cattle are never housed in' if dehOrned, which they should be, will be as quiet among themselves as so ‘ many sheep. 1 . The above part of this article refers mainly to the feeding end of farm pro- ducts; how about the producing end? One man can feed considerable live stock in the winter alone; producing the crops is another matter. It is un- necessary to emphasize the extreme shortage of labor. It was true before war conditions were met. It has been aggravated by it since. Owing to this shortage, some different methods of field management were of necessity adopted if normal production was to be maintained. The character of the soil on this farm is of a clay loam nature, with a. considerable acreage of bottom land- Some years it is quite possible to fall plow the fall stubble far the spring crops; also on the bottom land good results as obtained by fall plowing for corn. When that cannot be done, I do not, as a rule, plow for small grain in the spring: but either drag or disk the'stubble. The exceptions to the rule have been in years, following a wet season, in which it was impossif lee to give the corn clean cultivation. ‘Very satisfactory results are the rule by this method, and the saving of time, which at this season is precious, is considerable. On various occaswns the writer remembers of being able to sow fields between wet spells before many farmers on similar soils Were through plowing and the earliest stands generally gave the best yield. There is one drawback to this meth- od. Occasionally in plowing these fields after harvest for wheat, espe cially if the ground is dry, it is more difficult than if it had been spring~ plowed. Generally, however, there is but slight difference in this respect) No work is done by hand that can be accomplished by horse power. This brings into use some tools which one on a smaller farm probably would not be warranted, in purchasing. Most of the tools are of the riding variety as it is easierto ride. than to walk, and if you cannot do any more in the fieldby riding you surely can at the end of the day when the team is in the barn. It is also essential that one use good tools. The inference should not be drawn by this that as soon as the paint is off the wheels you should throw it away and buy new. Most tools will give good service for many years if properly. housed and kept in good repair. . , The writer, with another, (was a grain and corn binder, that have serv- ed on two instead of one farm, for about fifteen years, and. still give good service. This materially reduces over (Continued Tonnage 168). . O planning for _the future. price of labor and feed and farm products generally approach normal, what may we expect to be the ten- dency of prices for dairy products of the farm? This is a_ that all who are planning ahead are now putting to themselves. The answer to the question requires information as to the present condi- tion of the dairy herds in this and other countries and the future demand for dairy products. For it is the na- tional and international as well as the local supply of and demand for milk that will determine its price. Of the milk produced in the United States, 43.1 per cent goes into whole milk consumption; forty-one per cent into butter; five per cent into cheese; 2.9 per cent into condensed milk; 3.7 per cent into ice' cream and 4.3 per cent into calves and other young an— imals. The Market for Milk. What will be the future demand for milk for each of these purposes? This is the first qhestion around which prices for the future will be determin- ed. Inasmuch as investments may be influenced by what I say, I shall try to understate rather than overstate what I believe to be the future of the dairy industry in the United States. The demand for whole milk in both city and country is:no doubt to in- crease.‘ Of the total amount spent on food, :the average working family of five now spends, about ten per cent for milk as compared with forty per cent for meats. If the advice of the health specialists were followed, the amount spent for milk should ap proach twenty five per cent of the to- tal family expenditures for food. This means that it is theoretically possible to double the demand for whole milk. A long line of chewing ancestors will, however, make all adults prefer food they can chew to food they can drink. To double the demand for whole milk is therefore probably out of the ques- tion. But it is not impossible to in- crease its consumption far beyond what it now is. I And this for two reasons’. In the first place, the recently discovered fact that certain elements essential to sound nutrition are found most surely in milk is getting widely known. Phy- sicians and dietitians everywhere are teaching the value of whole milk in the diet. The still more important reason is that milk is the cheapest of all animal products. The American and the English lead the world as ‘ meat eaters. Meat is the most expen- sive part of the diet. If American la- bor and capital are to compete suc- ceszully with the products of other countries, our national'diet must turn , toward the less expensive foods; that is, toward less meat and more of the leafy vegetables and milk , JuSt because the cow cenverts feeds into human food with less less than does the meat animal, the dairy cow will increase in numbers more rapidly than meat animals and the price for 1' meat must tend to be higher relatively than the price for milk Thus the price of 111th will probably remain high while wages will probably not re- main proportionately so-.hlgh.'1‘he greater the difference between the ‘ , price ‘91 mil: and the price of meat, sémand WNERS of dairy herds are now- As the question . . .1- ““10 -3:' ::\‘-‘~ g :xr. By Clyde Klng Federal M 11% Commissioner, U. S. Food Admz'rmtmz‘ian, Student of Rural Prod/em: and Prof. of Economz'er, Um‘verrzty of Penmy/vama. To Double the Demand for Milk is tial difference in the price for the same food value any well human will prefer something to chew. As our diet changes to less meats and more vegetables, milk will be used more freely, not only as a drink, but as a seasoner in solid foods. This increas- ed demand for milk will take place in both city and country. We can confi- dently expect: therefore a very sub- stantial increase in the per capita con- sumptiOn of whole milk. In the days of eight-cent milk to the consumer, about four cents went to the farmer and four cents to the dis- tributor. With increasing volume on retail milk wagons and through milk plants, the cost of handling and dis- tributing milk per quart has not gone up so rapidly as have labor costs and material costs; for the higher the vol- ume the lower the cost per quart. This Not Always Out of the Question. means that the distributors’ costs should in the future take a smaller relative portion of what the consumer pays, and a larger part can therefore go to the farmer. The tendency to- ward a smaller amount of duplication in milkroutes and milk plants by low- ering the distributing costs per quart should expand the market for whole‘ milk. This makes a more favorable market for the farmer because of a more favorable price to the consumer. Then, too, we can count on a sub- stantial increase in the number of city dwelling people. In 1910, forty-six per cent of our population livedin cities as compared with forty per cent in 1900. .The increase in the number of city dwellers has gone on during the years since 1910. In no state in the Union did the urban population in- crease less than ten per cent from “HE‘- 7“».R‘;‘\ _ c Dairylndustr 1900 to 1910, and in nineteen states it “1’“— ”Hm increased over fifty per cent. Every such increase adds to the demand for whole milk. For all these reasons we can be sure that there will be a wid- ening market for whole milk for many years to come. Condensed Milk. As to the condensed milk market in this and certain foreign countries it. promises to be fairly strong. It is only a question of time, I believe, and a. . shorter time than most people think, before Europe will be producing all the condensed milk and whole milk needed for European purposes. Our domestic markets for condensed milk, America and in frigid and tropical countries will develop even more rap- idly than before the war. While we probably will not export as much con- densed milk as during the past few months, we can confidently expect that, on a year—round basis, the for- eign and domestic demand for Ameri- can condensed milk will remain strong. Chart on page 185 shdws the rapid increase in the amount of condensed milk exported from the United States from 1913 to 1918. The last column, it must be remembered, is for the first nine months only of 1918. About twenty-seven pounds were exported in 1917 to every one pound in 1913. The exports in 1918 will no doubt exceed those of 1917, despite the export lim- itations of the first half of the year. Commercial ice cream is now made largely of condensed milk and butter- fat. There is a steady year-round in» crease in the demand for ice cream. This demand will undoubtedly grow. in the future. Large manufacturers of ice cream are now distributing ice cream on a volume basis that makes it possible to sell this product to the consumer at prices below the trouble and expense of home-made ice cream. This price factor alone will stimulate consumption both in the city and in the country. The use of storage milk products in ice cream has a stabilizing influence on the price to the farmers. Thus cream itself can be held in cold storage for over six months with but a slight rise in the bacteria count. The use of condensed milk and milk powders, particularly the latter, will have a stabilizing influence on the whole milk market far beyond the ex- pectations of most producers. Skim- milk powder with sweet butter and water run through an emulsifying ma- chine makes a reconstituted milk that, according to the best advice of specialists, is as wholesome as natural milk. If made with filtered water, this re-made milk can not be surely told from natural milk. It may not taste as good as natural milk, but it is a. fair substitute. I find considerable quantities of it used in towns, large and small. When used at all it is us- ually mixed with whole milk. The economic significance of this re-made milk has not been fully ap. preciated. Its wide use will: mean that condensed milk from the Seattle reg— . ion can be mixed with butter from Wisconsin and filtered water from the Hudson and sold in New York City as Whole milk poWd'e‘jr, This present?" year the' demand for milk’ powders by ” the American Red crew and allied" Organizations has been so heavy Wat‘ their use for domestic purposes has “Re-made Milk.” can be used likewise. not been as large as would have (Continued on page 184)? Be “ U. 3. Protect When the. Going’s Rough Rubber footwear that is sturdy, comfortable, . long—wearing and built to stand the roughest weather and places! That’s U. S. “Protected” rubber; footwear. It {stands supreme for service.“ It keeps feet warm and dry under the most trying conditions. Dur- ing the war, the Government probably used more— U. S. “Protected” rubber footwear than of all other makes combined. U. S. “Protected” rubber footwear is t/ze foot- wear for outdoor workers. Every pair of the many styles is built staunch and true by patented proc- ess, reinforced where greater strength is needed, yet altogether roomy and easy on the feet. Longer wear insures the saving of money. U. S. “Protected” rubber footwear comes in all kinds and styles suited to the special needs of all who work in the open. Your dealer has the kind you want or can get it quickly. To make sure of “U. S. ” quality, look for the “U. S. Seal” -—-trade mark of the largest rubber man-A ufacturer in the world—on each pair. ' Insist on “U. S. Protection.” _ United States Rubber Gummy New York ARMERS and housewives of Mich- igan and members of many of the state’s most active agricultural and rural life associations, will meet at the) Michigan Agricultural College for five days during February, com mencing February 3 and continuing through February 7. 'Usually this week in East Lansing is called simply “Farmers’ Week and the Housewives’ Congress,” but this winter, say the an- nouncements from the college, the sessions will be sumething more. Michigan Live Stock Breeders and Feeders. For one thing, as the completed pro- gram discloses, the week will be made the occasion for conventions and con- ferences by many of Michigan’s best known associations. Live stock men of the statewill meet in force for the annual sessions of the Michigan Im- proved Live Stock Breeders’ and Feeders’ Association. This body will convene on February 6. Along with the gathering will be the annual con- Farmers’ Weeakt M.A.. C. muck crops for . the, college. This meeting of the muck farmers will run for two days, February 4-5. Many Other Meetings. Still other meetings during the week will be those of the Poultry Breeders' of Michigan, the Michigan Maple Sy- rup Makers’ Association, the School Commissioners of Michigan, the Drain Commissioners’ of Michigan, the leads ers of Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs, together with the youngsters who. during the paSt summer were winners in their counties and communities in garden ing, raising of live stock, canning and other enterprises in which these .clubs interested themselves. The first three of these sessions will be conducted on February 5. That of the leaders of 'Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs will be held on February'5-6. The school commission- ers will meet February 4. Exposition Planned. Eight buildings at the college which during the strenuous preparations for war were built to be used as barracks - Dates for Various Association Meetings Michigan Impioved Live Stock Breeders’ and Feeders’ As. .Feb. 5- 6 County Farm Bureau Conference ......................... Feb. 4-5 Michigan Crop Improvement Association ........ . ........ Feb. 4-5 Michigan School Commissioners .................. . ........ Feb. 4 Michigan Muck Farmers’ Conference ............ .. ....... Feb. 4-5 .Michigan Poultry Breeders .................. ....... Feb 56 Michigan Maple Syrup Makers’ Association ....... .. “Feb 5 Michigan Drain Commissioners’ Association ..... . ........ Feb. 5 Boys’ and Girls’ Club Conference ............... ....... Feb 5-6 Michigan Potato Growers Association ................. Date late1 vention of the many associations affil- lated with the parent body. See full program on page 162 of this issue. Farm Bureaus to Unite. Another conference that promises to be of epochal interest will be the meet- ing of officers and members of the county farm bureaus of the state on February 4-5-6. It is the intention of the farmers in these organizations— farmers who perhaps represent the most active and progressive agricultur- ists in Michigan—to launch a central organization that will concern itself with matters that touch the civil, so- ciological and other affairs of country lifeas well as the strictly. agricultural. Crop Improvement Association. A third meeting of moment will be that of the Michigan Crop Improve- ment Association. The members of this body, who are. pledged to the con- version of Michigan farmers to the raising of improved varieties of grains and who are seeking to procure ,‘for the farmers some of. the direct bene- fitsvthat heretofore have accrued to the seedmen, will meet February 4-5. A principal feature of the session of the grain growers is to be'an exhibit of pedigreed grains,,and in fact of all grains of merit «have been .offered, particu13rly for corn acclimated to Michigan {$100 will be one othhe awards made for the best strain of {white corn that can be grown with success in *this state. Entries for the grain show, in- cidentally, can be made by filing a; re- quest with J. W. Nicolson, of East Lansing, secretary of the association. Muck Farmers. 3‘ “13.; i“ The 811111 or Not a litfile interest, also, is center-1 g. ing in the Wsed meeting of. muck; léttnmers 5:.of‘ Michigan A: specialm , gram. has been arranged for agriéul " tunings Whose interests lie inithfs di. rection by E‘zra Levin, specialist in for the student army training corps, will also be made use of. All eight of the army structures are to. be filled with exhibits. One of these “exposi- tions” will be of improved grains; an- other will be used for a poultry show —with special places for winners in recent state contests; a third will be a health show; a fourth will be taken up with exhibits of interest to house- wives and housekeepers. In all, the exposition will fill the eight barracks buildings. Many Prominent Speakers. The special conventions and confer- ences of .the many associations that will unite for'sessions at the East Lansing institution, will be conducted during the mornings of the week. Dur~ ing the afternoons and evenings all of them will join in the general farm- ers’ week .meetings. will be addressed by many men and women of prominence, not alone in the agricultural world, but in industrial and governmental circles also. Miss Jane Addams, of Hull House, Chica- go; Dr. I. W. Chamberlain, formerly president of Iowa Agricultural: College; 0. H. Benson, leader of Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs throughout the United A number of prizes~ States ;- Dr. E. ,G. Montgomery, profes: sor of Farm Crops at Cernell Univer: sity;' Lieut.‘ C. R; Crozier, who was _WQunded' at Chateau-Thierry; Dr. Ar- thur Evans, of the Chicago Tribune, noted health authority; F. M. White, well known as a specialist in tractors; Miss Louise H. Campbell, of Iowa State College, and many others, will be among these speakers. During the week the college—with dons—~01? age sex 0 ‘ These meetings its lecture rooms. and laboratories, 111-- stfiic'tors and professom—will be tum. ed. overrto the viditiats ‘ Thehseaelonsv _ LARGE multi-cylinder car recently, came to a Goodyear Service Station in Chicago with the treads on two Goodyear Cord Tires showing evidence of recent rapid wear. The tires had run 8,500 miles, but in the last few days the treads had'been wear- ing down alarmingly. It was found that a recent- accident had twisted the front wheels serious- ly, so that. they were out of line. The grinding action due to this misalignment was cutting down the treads so rapidly that in a few days more the tires would have been. out, of commission. The wheels were re-aligned. The tires ran a. total of~ ‘more than 13,500 miles. 5,000 miles of tire iiNoticethemiealign- ,.;:.tn-im 9f. the Right I'Frqnt Wheel _ by “T Saving 5, 000 Miles ruing Up” Wh wear were saved in this case by “truingxup” the wheels in time. Have your Goodyear Service Sta- tion Dealer test your car today i for wheel alignment. NE car in three has wheels out of line that rob their tires of thousands of miles. Not even the Goodyear All-Weather Tread can long resist the grinding ‘ wear that such wheels inflict on tires. They grind down a tread precisely as if it were held squarely against a revolving grindstone. Misalignment is most common on the right front wheel, because it is most frequently run into ruts and gutters and against curbings. On others a rim improperly applied, As! your Goodyear Semice Station, or w, fir Lemn I" qfthe Goodyear Tire Coauwatim Cour-1e, explain- , mg the eject: and detection of miealigned whee/5. {LESSON} , ' 7 ohm-inch Ontof Line~ Series oLSix eels a bent steering knuckle, a worn bear- ing, or a warped axle may cause a like condition. A misalignment of only three-quar- , ters of an inch is enough to reduce by 5,000 miles or more the life of the best tires. Only the most careful measurements can detect the condition. Ask your Goodyear Service Station to inspect your car today. Ask also for Lesson 1 of the Good- year Conservation Course, dealing with the detection and correction of wheels out of line, so that you or your chauffeur can in future make in— spections when you delay too long your calls at your Service Station. The Goodyear Tire 652. 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State Seed Analyst. —of uniform quality. —-backed by the largest exclusive field seed house in Michigan}: with a reputation of over 25 years square dealing. ——and because they have proved to be the seeds that grow best In Michigan soil. If your dealer can’t supply you—mail the coupon below today. For bigger crops and profits insist on Apex Brand Field Seeds. DETROIT, MICHIGAN Mlchlgan'o Field Seed Speciallets 'llIULm _ COU PON , CAUGHEY-JOSSMAN CO. , Detroit, Michigan . FIELD SEEDS- Also “end me Samples of the following field SCQdS .................. Field Seeds Cadghey- Jossman Company Give me the namevof the- dealer nearest me who sells APEX BRAND Program of Michigan Improved Live Stock Breeders’ and Feeders’ Associa- tion for their Twentyoighth Annual Meeting, to be held at East Lansing, February 56. Program. Thursday, February 6,1919. Room 402, Agricultural Building. Secretary's report, appointment of committees, president’s address. “Cooperative Live Stock Marketing,” Hale Tennant. Accordance with the Income Tax Law," Hon. J. J. Jerome, Chariman of Ways and Means Committee, State Legislature. Afternoon, 1:30 P. M. “The Legislative Program for 1919. " Hon. Fred Woodworth, State Dairy and Food Commissioner. “Farm Loans from the . Govern- ment,” W. L. Fess, Federal Farm Loan Bank, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, 4:30 P. M. tions, Dean R. S. Shaw, Chairman. “The American Federation of Meat Producers and what it has Done,” H. H. Haliaday, President State Live Stock Sanitary Commission. Reports of association secretaries. Banquet tendered Wednesday even- ing by the State Board of Agriculture to the members of the Michigan Im- proved Live Stock Breeders’ and Feed- ers’ Association. Michigan Angus Breeders. President, Alexander Minty, Ionia; secretary, Ward Hathaway, Ovid. Wednesday, February 5, Room 405. Meeting called to order at 2:00 p. m. “The Future for Aberdeen Angus Breeders,” Chas. Grey. “How the Angus Assists me in Farm- ing,” W. E. Scripps, Detroit. “How and Why Should we 'Maintain the Breed in Michigan,” President A. Minty. All Angus breeders should be pres- ent to head these addresses as it will be profitable for them. Red Polled Breeders. President, N. C. Herbison, Birming- ham; Secretary E. J. Peabody, Mulli- ken. Wednesday, February 5, Room 113. Meeting called to order at 1: 30 p. In. “Starting a Breeding Herd,” J. M. Chase. “The Future of the Cattle Indus~ , try,” J. M. East. “How Can we do Our Best to At- tract Attention to the Red Polled Cat- tle ?” E. Foster. “How Much Can a Small Breeder Afford to Pay for a Herd Bull?” An- drew Seeley. Business meeting and election of okcers. Jersey Cattle Club. President, Alvin aiden, Capac; Sec- retary, Mrs. P. H. Walker, Kalamazoo. Tuesday. February 4, Room 403. Meeting called to order at 1: 30 p. m. Address, “Economical Feeding of Dairy Cattle,” Prof. A. C. Anderson, M. A. C. Tuesday Evening, February 4. Banquet. Speakers, C. D. Richardson, Chesan- ing; H. F. Probert, Jackson; James Helme, Adrian; John Breck, Jackson; son, Shelby; C. C. Lillie, Coopersville. Wednesday, February 5, Room 403. Assemble at College at 10:30. Address, President A. Balden. Moving picture at theatre, “Hearts and Jerseys,” featuring May Irwin. Afternoon Session, 1: 30 P.M Address, W. F. Taylor, New Ea, “A Small Machine and a Large Task.” Business. Adrresses, Hon. Samuel Odell, Lan- sing, and C. C. Lillie, Coopersville. Question box. Sreep Breeders and Feeders. President, E. C. Read, Richiand; Secretary, W. H. Schantz, Hastings. Wednesday, 10:00 A. M., Room 109. Short address by Presdient E. C. Read. Reports and election of officers. "Some Requirements of a Good Dog Law ” John C. Ketcham, Lecturer Na- tionai Grange. “Progress Made in Sheep Husbandry in the State During the Past Year," H. H. Hallada'y,‘P‘resident State Live Stock Sanitar Commission. “What we xpect to Accomplish by Sheep usbandry Extension Work ” V. A. r,eeman M. A. C. Sheep Breeders' Association in Ohio and Can be Done in Michigan,” J. B. walker, Secretary and Treasurer Ohio State Sheep Breeders’ Association. “ Swine Breeders “Calculating a Farmer's Income in Mic Joint meeting of all allied organiza-A Hon. S. Odell, Lansing; A. Henrick» “What Has Been Done by a State ' President, J. B. Hibbard \Benniny" . ton; Secretary, 0. r. Foster, Pavilion or Pure-bred Draft Horse; Wednesday, Izso P. M., Room 109. “Economical Methods of Pork Pro- duction.” E. Z. Russell, Swine Special- ist, Bureau of industry, Washington, "The Swine Gmwers’ Organisation and What it Means to the Michigan Breeders," W. J. Carmichael, Secre- tary National Swine Growers' Asso- elation. General discussion led by Newton Barnhart, St. Johns, Mich. Paper by C. U. Edmonds, Hastings, Horse Breeders”. President, Jacob DeGeus, Alicia; Secretary, R. S. Hudson, East Lansing. Wednesday, 1:30 P. M., Room 316. President’s address, Jacob DeGeus. “The Future of the Purebred Sraft Horse,” Eli S prunger. “Stallion Registration Problems, " Judson Black, Richmond. “The Commercial Horse Market,” John Sharkel, Bellevue. Friday, February 7, Horse Sale at 10:00 A. M. Poland China Swine Breeders. President, P. P. Pope, Mt. Pleasant ; Secretary, Wm. J. Clark, Mason. Wednesday, 10:00 A. M., Room 207. President’s address, P. P. Pope. “Dees Size Count as Much as Qual ity?" E. R. Leonard, St. Louis. “Does Filthy Surroundings Injure Sales?” W. J. Hagelshaw, Augusta. “The Value of Pasture,” L. L. Cham~ berlain, Marcellus. “In What Way Can the Association Help Most 1’" W. E. Livingston. General discussion and election of officers. Holstein-Friesian. President, M. W. Wentworth, Battle Creek; Secretary, Charles Daniels, of Okemos. Banquet on Tuesday evening at Ply- niiouth Congregational Chur,ch Lan s ng. Wednesday, 10: 00i nA. M., Dairy Build- Address by President M. W. VVent- worth, Battle Creek. Report of Secretary-Treasurer C. A. Daniels, Okemos. Awarding of prizes for 1918. Business session. Afternoon Session 1:30 P. M. “How Can the Extension Department, and the Local Associations Cooperate to the Best Advantage?” Wm. M. Rid- er, Director of Extension Service, Hol- stein- Friesian Association of America. “Problems of the Milk Commission," Prof. A. C. Anderson, M. A. C. “Future Possibilities for the Michi‘ gan Holstein-Breeder,” Hon. D. D. Alt- ken, President Holstein-Friesian Asso- ciation of America. Guernsey Cattle Club. President, Harry Ballard, Niles, Secretary, C. G. Parnall, Jackson Wednesday, 1.30 P. M. Room 111. The president is preparing an at- tractive program and urges every breeder of the Guernsey Cattle Club. to be present. Hereford Breeders. President, Lewis Norton, Quimby: Seeietaiy, Earl C. McCarty, Bad Axe. Wednesday, 1: 30 P. M., Room 110. “Why I Breed Herefords,” Samuel Bigelow, Cass City. “The Hereford as a Feeder," Repre- sentative Wallace. “Advancing Hereford Interests in Michigan” Jay Harwood, Ionia. Duroc- Jersey reeders. President, Fred J. Drodt, Monioe; Seeietary, O. F. Foster, Ann Arbor. Wednesday, 10:00 A. M. Room 110. “Breeding Better Dqucs,” discus- sion by members. Chester White Swine Breeders. President, Harry T. Crandall, Cass City; Secretary, J. Carl Jewett, Mason. Wednesday. 10: 00 A. M, Room 316. Annual meeting and election of 0111 cers. An interesting program is being prepared. Shorthorn Breeders. President, Jay Smith, Ann Arbor; Secretary, W. W. Knapp, Howell. Thursday, 4: 00 P. M., Room 109. “How to Improve Our Shorthom Herds, " J. L. Tormey, American Snort- horn Breeders’ Association. , Oxford Sheep Breeders Piesident, 0. M. YOIk. Miliington; Seeretary, I. R. Waterbury, Detroit. Wednesday, 10:00 A. M., Room 113 ‘ Berkshire Breeders. President, J. L. Miller, Caledonia; Secretary, 3.. 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And if irrigation is practice . furrows or ridges are quickly made by attach. ing this equipment. For vineyard work. Moline-Universal At- tachor enables a better quality of work to be done, and quicker and cheaper than ever before possible. The vineyard plow consists of a pair of right and left hand bottoms. These bottoms can be spaced wide apart or close together to suit any vineyard rows from 6 to l0 ft. apart. In two operations, with e bottoms spaced wide and close to ether. all the land can be completely pIowe between the rows. Then by using Spring Tooth Harrow and Furrow Irrigators the entire vineyard work can be finished completely. The Moline-Universal Tractor is especially Well adapted to orchard and vineyard work. being light in weight. extremely powerful. All moving parts are fully protected from dust and many other features which other tractors do not have. Aside from this work it can be used for any farm work. including cultivation of row crops and for belt work. 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Salesmen \Wanted ,We pay salary to good subscription get- ters, who can devote their entire time toour work. The offer our salaried men handle is especially attractive to - . farmers. The Michigan Farmer, Detroit Address ' 7/" I '/ ' \ . cl u\ I. .‘II no I‘fnt‘," 4—1.. 4“! 'deg.‘fifil 5 "O‘Mfl" -,'.” o'.'”-./I In no crop is there such a close relation between seed and harvest as in cats. Sow » Salzer seed oats and you are sure to get the largest possibl' e yields. W; de . The wide range of adaptabil- ity has ty them to the front. We have an oat tor practically every condition of son. When—Furriers cannot afford to buy any but the v best seed wheat obtainable. Salzer Seed. eat has a value distinctly rts own—seed that combines an phnnpness, attractiveness and purity. Com—Saber Corn is hvorably known the coun over for its remarkably robust seed life. ‘ oted for bififields and earl; maturity. All strictly high al de seed. Wi e range of varieties. - Clover—Chen clover seed should never be considered a any price. Quality has a value. It is folly to invest [11 clover seed ex. cept absolutel the best. Plant pure, high grade Salzer C over. Billion 8 Grass—A wonderful producer. Grows two and three bigguxunant crops per season. Matures in In six to ten weeks anywhere. Preeminently the grass to sow for short hay crops. SaadPostcardforourlav-gelmm Catalog (40 Page: In Actual Colors). W in Maximum. WWI-r5001! ,- minnow-mus. W 1...... m Michigan rm W... Wang m: n... i.- '\. Salzer Seed strains— ' reputations for extreme hardiness and. Jams 5.5m seen co. The» Best Farmer... . . ,m.M1c_higan-g ' (Continued from page 168).“ head eXpenses. 'It certainly is poor business to buy expensive tools and when through using leave it to'a shade tree to pretect them from‘ the ele- ments. Yet some farmers seem to think «this a'gOod method. _, 5 1 “ ' Another method employedtdre‘duce expenses is in the handling 'of the corn crop. It used to be the practice» of cutting the corn by hand and husk- ing by the‘same method. This is rath- er‘ of an antiquated method. While there is some waste fodder from cut- ‘tin‘g-cOrn with a' binder, yet on the -_ whole this waste is not commensurate g'with the saving of labor. As " enough .corn is raised to fatten the -' istock and considerable shelled corn is {bought for that purpose, only enough fjis husked for a seed supply, the rest ‘being fed in the bundle. 3 it should be fed in tight bottom racks. not With lAmbs but with cattle the racks are turned over daily and what they do not get the hogs do, so there is very little waste. With the feeding of practically all of ' the crops grown on the farm and with the consequent accumulation of a good ~ supply of manure, one can maintain ' and even increase soil fertility, and at the same time be practically independ- ent of the commercial fertilizer agent. ' In a four-year rotation of crops the soil has at least one and frequently two, applications of manure. This I think covers in general the system employed with the object of . getting maximum returns, with the la- ' bor distributed fairly even throughout the year, and with the maintenance of the soil in a fertile condition. Some may contend that this system requires more labor than by cropping. This is quite true in the winter. But in the summer if yon are a crop farm- er you must do too much plowing for good results, while if you keep avrea- sonable amount of stock, less plowing is required by reason of a need of more pasture and you are doubly in- sured against a. poor season, because you are quite sure of some gains on your stock even if you raise crops at a loss. * , ' . No mercantile or manufacturing con~ cern, however small, not even the pro- prietor of a corner grocery, would at- tempt to operate without some system of keeping accounts. He may not de- termine those departments which lose and which gain, depending upon the elaborateness of his system. Yet he would know almost daily how the bus iness stands as a whole. The business side of the farm is fully as complicat- ed, and there is certainly as much need of an accounting system as there is of any other business; yet too many farmers are prone to depend on their memory, and possibly their vest pocket to serve them in managing their af— fairs. An inventory should be taken at least once a year and with some method cf recording cash items one can readily determine whether the farm as a whOle is yielding the returns it should Without reference to the bank account. Almost any form of book- keeping will do but a very practical and convenient style is furnished by the Agricultural College Extension Bureau. . ’ If this article has proved the conten- tion that general farming with live stock can and should be profitable, that it is safer than specializing, and more remunreative than crop farming, if it enables some farmers to better their plans and better their incomes, then the writer will feel that, it has: served its purpose. .“ V I. Ki“ 1 {Ll-{e1 33450" '1‘ ‘ 1. ‘ ' Fewea CATTLE TO 31-: FED THIS 'more than sixty to ninety days, the reports a fair Iowa and Illinois demand WINTER. ANY farmers are not feeding a'ny cattle this winter, because they thought they could see more profits from marketing corn. The prices of corn advanced recently to the highest level of the season, and many farmers counted on selling for $1.50 a bushel. Values have since suf- fered a decline. In Texas the big cat- tle interests are doing plenty of cattle feeding, and it is stated that many shipments will be made from the south- ern part of that state by March. Pres- ent marketings ‘of cattle run mostly to short-fed steers, cows and canning. stuff, with a great scarcity in the Chi- cago market of choice fattened beeves. Owing to dear corn, few farmers are not'disposed to carry their cattle for greater number no longer than two months. Ohio, Indiana and~lllinois farmers have been buying feeding steers weighing from eight hundred to _ one thousand pounds in the Chicago market, with the bulk of the sales to country buyers at $10.50 to $12.50, and a few sales are made of prime selected feeders at $13 to $14. KanSas City for fleshy steers for a two to three months’ feed on corn, but Nebraska farmers are not putting many cattle on feed, as corn is scarce in its feed- ing belt. HOG PRICES FLUCTUATING LESS THAN USUAL. TABILIZATION of hog prices has prevented the former wide fluctua- tions in prices, and sales from week to week have been usually within a nar- row range of quotations, values being extremely high. The Chicago receipts show up extremely well in quality, with recent arrivals averaging in weight 226 pounds, comparing with 216 pounds one year ago and 191 pounds two years ago, the lightest weight ever recorded in a week in January. The export movement greatly exceeds all past high records, yet stocks in the leading western markets on New Year’s amounted to 311,076,000 pounds, com- paring with 256,316,000 pounds a month earlier' and 267,258,000'pbunds a year ago. RABBITS SELL WELL. 1 NE thing that attracts attention-is the way and the rapidity with which the southern rabbit has “Come into its own” and become a popular product. Rabbit pot-pie is about as popular as chicken pot-pie. A few‘years ago rabbit meat was an incidental matter but now in the markets of the Country it is an every~ day item. The high price of rabbits it .is believed here, is going to stimu- late .the development of the Belgian hare industry. The hare heretofore has been generally considered as. a'sort of novelty, but of late it is noticed that the Belgian hare is bulging into the market at a great rate. One day recently a lady Was seen ' bringing a heavy basket, to market, and the supposition was that the has- ket contained eggs and dressed poul- ' try. However, inquiry developed the .' fact that one item in the basket was" _ ten young Belgian hares, neatly dreissr‘ ertgoing to a customer for the entire". 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High gade fertilizer furnishes plant- foods at the lowest cost and returns the biggest profit on the investment. Write for our interesting bulletin on- fertilizer wage Soil Improvement Commit-toe of the National Fertilizer Association; ' 913 Postal Telegraph Building 1‘13 The Munsey 811‘!” Chicago ' ‘ _ ' Baltimore ——— Chevet stood silent, his slow mind struggling with the possibilities of my plan. I could realize the amazement With which he comprehended this cool proposition. He, who had considered me a thoughtless girl, incapable of ser- ious planning, was suddenly forced to realize that a woman confronted him, with a will and mind of her own. It was almost a miracle, and he failed to entirely grasp the change which had occurred in my chracter. He stared at me With dull eyes, like those of an ox, his lips parted as he sought expression. “You—you will .try, as his wife, to win confession ?” he asked finally, grasping vaguely the one thought oc- curring to him. ’ “No; there is a better ‘way. I des- pise the man; I cannot bear that he touch me. More‘ than that, if I‘ read him aright, once I yield and confess WORLD EVENTS IN PI TH FRONTIER» By RANDALL PARRISH myself his property, he will lose all in- terest in my possession. He is a lady killer; ’tis his boast. The man has neverubeen in love with me; it was not love, but a desire to possess my for- tune, which led to his proposal of mar- riage. Now I shall make him love me." “You! Mon Dieu; how?" “By refusing him, tantalizing him, arousing a desire which I will not grat- ify. Already his thought of me has changed, Last night in Quebec he was surprised, and aroused to new inter- est in me as a woman. He considered me before as a helpless girl, with no will, no character—the sort with which he had had his way all his life. He thought I would fall in his arms, and confess him master. The words I spoke to La Barre shocked and start- led him out of his self complacency. Nor was that all—-even before then he had begun to suspicion my relations with Sieur de Artigny. “It was at his-suggestion, you say, that you sent that young man your message of warning to keep away from me. Good! the poison is already work- ing, and I mean it shall. Two hours ago, when we landed here, the two men were on the verge of quarrel, and blows would have been struck but that I intervened. He is finding me not so easy to control, and later still the mighty Commissaire met with a rebuff which rankles.” I laughed at the remembrance, satis- fied now as I placed the situation in words, that my plans were working well. Chevet stood silent, his mouth agape, struggling to follow my swift speech. “Do you see now what I mean to do?” I asked gravely. “We shall be alone in the wilderness for months to come; I will be the one woman; per- chance the only white woman into whose face he will look until we re- turn to Quebec. I am not vain, yet I am not altogether ill to look upon, nor shall I permit the hardships of this journey to affect my attractivenessa; I shall fight him with his own Weapons and win. He will beg, and threaten me, and I shall laugh. He will love me, and I shall mock. There will be jealousy between him and De Artigny, and to win my favor he will confess all that he knows. Tonight he sulks some- where yonder, already beginning to doubt his power to control me." “You have quarreled?” “No—only that I asserted independ- ence. He would have entered this tent as my husband, and I forbade his do- (Continued on page 174). CTURES Upper—Soldiers Arriving on the St. Louis. 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ANY and varied, indeed, the ox- M periences 'which will linger all his long life- time with Soldier Sam—come back. howsoever long from the big world war—and destined to become family traditions in his line for endless generations to come; none, however, which Sam himself will re- late of any oftener, nor tell of with greater pleasure, than the insight he received into the farm [life of Sunny France. Soldier Sam, one of ten and hun- dreds of thousands of American, Can- adian soldiens who saw service in the Republic, came to know French coun- try life from within as very few tour- ists visiting Europe in the peace times over and over, ever had opportunity to know. , Sam, that’s to say, was hilleted in the very homes of the peasant farmers. Madame Demenceau. He became one of them, to share their joys and their sorrows; to learn of crops planted and fields tilled and tended; and of harvests brought in— sent to market—as the stranger to yeomanry can hope to learn of these things in really no other way. Just as example, herewith excerpts from letter written in the enthusiasm of such moment by Sam to the folk at home: Ste. Gervaise, Sarthe, France. * * * Fall has been arriving and has been making its coming known by the smells arising from the hemp. All the stagnant little pools we had noted all about on the farms—reminding one of the quiet ponds within the rock-wall closures of the farms of our own Ken- tucky, are now filled with the sheaves of hemp. This is put here to soak and decay, and then, smelling as unto Heaven, it is laid out in the fields to dry. Being away out in the country, so to say—with the nearest city, Le Mans, quite so far away that one can visit only when on a pass of some period —the only new event of real interest, aside from actual soldiering, is our contriving with the farmers hereabouts for the acquisition of a pig—a really beautiful French pig. With Thanks- giving beginning to loom on the hori- zon, the company—that is to say—has induced a farmer to part with a pig, for consideration, said porker to be ‘ flattened for that festive day. French pigs, somehow, are cleaner—or at least look cleaner, than ours do; and, again, have abnormally long ears. The little stranger is- now housed infour corral and is already being very tenderly re- garded as a friend with whom one ' , shares all he can. By thevsame‘ post I am sending sbme Of the charming embroidery the peas- ant women do, off hours, in their own homes—a sort of dolly,( or it could be used for pillow cover), which is typical ' and yet so very different from the comings and other forms of home- ‘ needlework we find on our own farm at home. ” It is just a vignette—a peep into Sam’s own especial form or country ‘ 3; 1.4.3.3. Koch life, far overseas there, but it inter— ‘ e‘sts, none the less. Even more so is the picture . of French farm life—farmer life, from within—Which Sam sends from the same town in a shortly subsequent note: “* * * It has turned colder with Oc- tober,” he writes, “and it is almost like winter here. Last night with the cold wind blowing in, we were, in fact, decidedly glad that the Demenceau family—~our billetors—had moved out the house proper, removing to their be- loved Compiegne, from which the Al- lies have expelled the Roche, and that we might move into the real farm dwelling-rooms in a day or two our- selves. “Today I rode out to the Bousard farm and got the key to the residence, and this afternoon several of our ‘fus- iliers,’ as they are called, were busy cleaning it out; so that I hope that by tomorrow, at least, we will be able to ensconce ourselves in a real, higlr grade farm home. I don’t know for how long this luxury will be mine; however, from the present look of things I may move up here, at town heart, to Battalion where I shall be a little nearer to my work. “It seems a little odd without the Demencaus in the billet!» The chil- dren were usually playing around—typ- ical little French country tads~and ' Madame was ubiquitous. By this time I presume, they are safely back in their ‘dear Compiegne,’ and Madame is walking her thirteen meters a day, delivering the letters to French sol- diers located in the country, and who, according to her statement, oft repeat- ed, are “pas bonne” (not nice) to‘a lady under the circumstances. Mean- while, the meek Gustave, her husband, is doubtless riding his bicycle and also executing rural delivery in such wise. “We shall also miss Madam Julli‘et, or ‘Bangs,’ as the men called her, for the way she wore her hair, who was a regular visitor to the billet. The good. French country-folk, you know, have not been slow in making first calls on their American guests. She was one of the few good-looking coun- try women of the locality, and did not look at all like the mother of the two impish children that were generally tagging at her skirts. “Madam has a husband tuCked away The Embroidery. somewhere, in Paris, which doesn't bother her much. He appears about once a month or so——-a rat-like little man, who looks like an Apache. . “In fact, as a rule, the chlcness of the French women, if to be judged by the country talk, is not all that itis' cracked up to be. Perhaps it exists in the big cities; but back here in the country the peasant lasses do not at all come up to the standard that to- mantis fiction has also not: them. iDaihty, certainly, they are not Headquarters, ’ >1 71”- (- ..wr- . w 'part, and who, really look the part. mm on . ‘ . who“ work stairs of cow stables,‘ for a Very large They appear to be much older than they actually are and seem to mature much earlier than do the women at home. A girl of fifteen here seems far older, indeed, than would an American young womarl‘ of twenty. “They walk to.fleld with a stiff, swinging, masculine stride, and would ‘ at times, seem almost ludicrous, were they not so uniquely astonishing. Their sense of proprieties, as well as their moral code, is French, in all that the‘ word implies. g 1y unmoral, (if one wished to go so far), rather than immoral. They will talk to you in the most matter—ot-fact way, and in fullest details, of things that would never be mentioned at home. will consider little things that we deem perfectly proper, as not so at all. “Almost all are most careful of ap- pearances, especially when in the town proper. . “I remember one moonlightrnight of the past summer when one of these sturdy young ladies, with whom I was promenading, told me that the town was very straight-laced and that it once gossip got started it might ‘ruin . her chance of securing a. husband for ever.’ She discussed securing a hus- band in much the same manner~as Am- erican girls would ‘buzz’ over the pur- chase of a new winterhat. . “They certainly differ a lot from the ‘goose—girls’ and the peasant maids of France of the novels and the motion pictures. ' “They certainly aren’t romantic—at least, in the scenario-writer’s way! “In a story, on the stage, or in the movie screen, if a French. country lass . saw you coming and wished to attract your notice, she would perhaps acci- dentally drop a rose; One of these Amazons, wanting a word with you, will pick up a rock or a clod of mud, the size of your head, and playfully whale it at you! It takes not alone a sense of humor, but good ability to dodge, often, to escape their friendli- ness unscathed. “"‘ * * Have been riding about, on my work, on the bicycle I have here. “It is quite cozy tonight in the old billet, for we have a cracking wood fire in the old French grate, with its head of Napoleon at center of the arch' and its irons. The orderlies have left with their various reports, for the night, and Sergeant-Major O and I have the place to ourselves. “News of ‘things doing’ out here in the country, and so matters to talk of, are slight and really rare. “Today, though, there was another peasant’s funeral in the little country town and through my window I could see the simple little cortege enter the church, with the priest chanting pray- ers at front, the women, dressed in black and wearing the small, white Puritan caps, behind; bearing a taper), and then the casket and immediate mourners themselves.” ‘ , . , 7 , if!” 5 ,vthe fields all day and live“ in the nail I would call them large- ‘ Yet, on the other hand, they ' (each woman _ “7." ~ \ ‘mu'm Good Plowing, Yes—— Operate on Cheap Fuel *“WAW . . . 7- ‘ v “i :- .3 w“ «54.. \\ Vemw‘t‘l ; f _ "A“ ?W\y~ . 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I make them talk with these hands." “But my weapons are those 'of a woman,” I explained, “and I will learn more than you would with your brute strength. All I ask of you now, Uncle Chevet, is that you keep on friendly terms with Monsieur Cassion, yet re- peat nothing to him of what I have said, and gain me opportunity for speech alone with Sieur de Artigny.” “Ah! perhaps I perceive—you lov the young man!” , I grasped his sleeve in my fingers, determined to make this point at least clear to his understanding. His blunt words had set my pulses throbbing, yet it was resentment, indignation, I felt in strongest measure. , “Mother of God, no! I have spoken with him but three times since we were children. He is merely a friend ‘to be trusted, and he must be made to know my purpose. It will be joy to him to thus affront Cassion, for there is no love lost between them. You un- derstand now?” He growled something indistinctly in his beard, which I interpreted as as- sent, but I watched his great form dis- appear in the" direction of the fire, my own mind far from satisfied; the man was so lacking in brains as to be' a Ipoor ally, and so obstinate of nature as to make it doubtful if he would long conform to my leadership. Still it was surely better to confide in him to the extent I had than permit him to rage about blindly, and in open hostil- ity to Cassion. I seated myself just within the tent, my eyes on the scene as revealed in the fire-glow, and reflected again over the details of my hastily born plan. The possibility of the Commissaire’s return did not greatly trouble me, my confidence fortified by the pistol con- cealed in my waist. No doubt he was already asleep yonder in the shadows, but this night was only the beginning. The opposition he had met would prove a spur to endeavor, and the de- sire to win me a stronger incentive than ever. He may have been indif- ferent, careless before—deeming me an easy prey—but ,from now on I meant to lead him a merry chase. I cannot recall any feeling of regret, any conception of evil, as my mind settled upon this course of action. There was no reason why I should spare him. He had deliberately lied, and deceived me. His marriage to me was an act of treachery, the onlyvin- tent to rob me of my just inheritance. There seemed to me no other way left, in which I could hope to overcome‘his. poWer. .I was a woman, and must - fight with the weapons of 'my sex; mine was} the strength ofvthe weak. How dark and ‘still it was, for the fires'had died down into beds of red ash, and only the ’stars ‘glimmered; along, the, surface of the river. Thej only 'movement I‘Could perceive was the dim outline of a manfs figure mové, ing about near the canoes—a. watch-‘ m> his careleeeness man. on 2‘ guard, but,‘whether~r,ed" or 'White' I‘ could“ not determine. -It was already late, well‘into-the night,__ and the forest about us-wasblack and, still. Slowly my head sank to the blanket, and I slept. ,' , - - ~ , , (CHAPTERX. We Attain the Ottawa. T was not yet dawn when the stir in the camp~ aroused me, and the sun had not risen above the bluffs, or begun to tinge the river, when our laden canoes left the bank and com- menced their day’s journey up stream. De Artigny was off in advance, depart- ing indeed before I had left the tent, the chief seated beside him. I caught but a glimpse of them as the canoe rounded the bend. in the bank, and slipped silently away through the lin- gering shadows, yet it gladdened me to know his eyeswere turned toward , my tent until they vanished. . Cassion approached me with exces- sive politeness, waiting until the last moment, and escorting me to the shore. It made me smile to observe his pretense at gallantry, yet I accept- ed his assistance down the bank with all possible graciousness, speaking to him so pleasantly as to bring a'look of surprise to his face. ’Twas plain to, be seen that my conduct puzzled him, for although he sought to appear at ease, his words .faltered sadly. He, who had so long considered himself as past master of the art of love-making had most unexpectedly encountered a, character which he could not compre- hend. However, that his purpose was in no way changed was made evident as we took our places in the canoes. A new distribution had been arranged, Che- vet accompanying the sergeant, leav- ing the Commissaire and me alone, ex- cept for the pere, who had. position in the b0w. I observed this new arrange- ment from underneath lowered lashes, but without comment, quietly taking the place assigned‘me,‘and shading my face from the first rays of the sun. The day which followed was but one of many we were destined to pass in the canoes. I have small recollection of it, except, the , Weariness of my cramped position, and Cassion’s efforts to entertain. Our course kept us close .to the north shore, the high banks cut- ting off all view in that direction, while in the other there was nothing to see but an expanse of water. Except for a single canoe, laden with furs, and propelled by Indian paddlers, bound for Quebec and a mar- ket, we encountered no travelers. These swept past us swiftly in grip of the current, gesticulating and exchang- ing salutations, and were soon out of sight. Our own boats scattered, as no danger held us together, and there were hours when we failed to have ev- en a glimpse of their presence. At noon we landed in a sheltered cove, brilliant with wild flowers, and partook of food, the rearward canoes joining us, but De Artigny was still ahead, perhaps under orders to keep away. To escape Cassion, I clambered up the front of the cliff, and had view from the summit, marking the sweep of the river for many a league, a scene of wild beauty never to be forgotten. I lingered there at the‘ edge until the voice of the Commissaire recalled me to my place in the canoe.’ , It is of no consequence what we cenversed about during that long af- ternoon, as we pushed steadily on against the current. Cassion endeav- ored to be entertaining and I. made ev- ery effort to encourage him, althbugh my secret thoughts were not pleasant ones. Where Was all this to '~lead? Where was tobe the'fendi There was flown, his eye‘s; which‘*trouh18d"'me. Already some instinct’itfila m V A an exnressic‘m in'-‘th.e Entertainer a‘ v. ,._,s :<—,- .gy, , e. ~—~—-—-——- M‘ A , en's-4. Aultman-Taylor 15-30 TRACTOR . 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I had no glimpse of De Artigny, al- though my eyes sought him among the others. The chief, Altudah, glided out from among the trees as it grew dusk, made some report, and as quickly dis- appeared again, leaving me to believe the advance party had made camp be- yond the curve of the shore. The priest lingered, and‘we had our meal together, although it was not altogeth- er to my liking. Once he endeavored to talk with me on the sacredness of marriage, the duty, of a Wife’s obedi- ence to her husband, the stack~phrases rolling glibly from his tongue, but my answers gave him small comfort. That he had been so instructed by CasSion was in my mind, and he was sufficient—.7 1y adroit to avoid antagonizing me by pressing the matter. As we were eat- ing, a party of fur traders, bound east, came ashore in a small fleet of canoes, and joined the men below, building their fires slightly up stream. At last Pere Allouez left me alone, and de- scended to them, eager to learn the news from Montreal. Yet, although seemingly I was now left alone, I had no thought of adventuring in the dark- ness, as I felt convinced the watchful priest would never have deserted my \side had he not known that other eyes were keeping vigil. From that moment I never felt my- self alone or unobserved. Cassion in person did not make himself obnox- ious, except that I was always seated beside him in the boat, subjectio his conversation, and attentions. Ever I had the feeling the man was testing me, and venturing how far he dared to go. Not for a moment did I dare to lower my guard in his presence, and this constant strain of watchfulness left me nervous, and bitter of speech. In every respect I was a prisoner, and made to realize my helplessness. I know not what Cassion suspected, what scraps of information he may have gained from Chevet but he watch- ed me like a hawk. Never, I am sure, was I free of surveillance—in the boat under his own eye; ashore accompa- nied everywhere by Pere Allouez, ex- , cept as I sleptyand then even some unknown sentry kept watch of the tent in which I rested. However it was managed I know not, but my uncle never approached me alone, and only 'twice did I gain glimpse of Sieur de ArtignyL—once when his canoe return- ed to warn us of dangerous water ahead, and once when he awaited us beside the landing at Montreal. Yet even these occasions yielded me new : courage, for, as our eyes met I knew . he was still my'friend, waiting, as I was, the opportunity for a better un- derstanding. This knowledge brought tears of gratitude to my eyes, and a. thrill ‘of hope to my heart. 'I Was no longe utterly aIOne. ‘ W were three days at Montreal, the me sily engaged in adding to their store 0 provisions. I had scarcely a glimps lodging in the convent’close to the vriver’bankyand'the pere was my con- stant companion during hours of day- light: I doubt if he enjoyed the task any more than .I,“ but he prOved faith- :_ ru‘i tohis master Land’I 'could never _ venture» to move without his‘ black I'robe‘vatamy-side.‘ ‘* -- 4 him did .-I "seek taravoid him; let my mind grasped the, fact already that my ~.- I onlyvhope‘of final liberty ray incaus- ing - Caseion to; believe 3; _I had— quietly iyieldeda-tq fate. 7 Surely'as we: plunged -‘~ deeper '- into the“ wilderneSs “his ~ 2883th .. ~ 4rsigma would vanishgandms grim 7.. Vigl ~17 of, the town,_as I was given. jlance relax. I'must' patiently abide my time. so I'sat with .the’ sisters within :the dull, gray walls, seemingly uncon- scious of the pere’s eyes stealthil'y watching'my every meticn, as he pre- tended Other employment. ‘ Casision came tWice, more to assure himself that I was safely held than for: any other. purpose; yet it pleased me to see his eyes follow my movements, and to realize the man had deeper in- trest in me than formerly. Chevet, no doubt, spent his time in the wine shops; at least I never either saw, or heard of him. Indeed I asked nothing as to his whereabouts, as I had decid- ed already his assistance would be of no value to me. , We departed at daWn, and the sun was scarce an hour'high when the prows of our canoes turned into the Ottawa. Now we were indeed in the wilderness, fronting the'vast unknown country of the west, with every league of travel leaving behind all trace of civilization. There was nothing before us save a few scattered missions, pre- sided over by ragged priests, and'an occasional fur trader’s station, the‘ headquarters of wandering couriers du bois. On every side were the vast prairies, and stormy lakes, roamed ov- er by savage men and beasts through whom we must make our way in hard- ship, danger, and toil. Cassion spread out his rude map in the bottom of the canoe, and I had him point out the route we were to follow. It was a long, weary way he indicated, and, for the moment, my heart almost failed me, as we traced together ‘the distance Outlined, and pic- tured in imagination the many obsta- cles between us and our goal. Had I known the truth, all those leagues were destined to disclose of hardship and peril, I doubt my courage to have fronted them. But I did not know, nor could I perceive a way of escape. So I crushed back the tears dimming my eyes, smiled into his face, as he rolled up the map, and pretended to care not at all. When night came we were in the black woods, the silence about us al- most unearthly, broken only by the dash of water over the rocks below where we were camped, promising a. difficult portage on the morrow. Alone, oppressed by the silence, feeling my helplessness as perhaps I never had before, and the dread loneliness of the vast wilderness in which I lay, I toss- ed on my bed for hours, ere sheer ex- haustion conquered, and_I slept. CHAPTER XI. l Gain Speech with De Artigny. UR progress up the Ottawa was so slow, so toilsome, the days such a 'routine of labor and hard- ship, the scenes along the shore so similar, that I lost all conception of time. Except} for the Jesuit I had scarcely a. companion, and there were days, I am sure, when we did not so' much as exchange a word. The man had no rest from labor, Cassion changing from boat to, boat as necessity arose, urging them to re- newed efforts. The water was low,‘tho rapids more than usually dangerous, so that we were compelled to portage more often" than usual. Once‘ the lead- ing canoe, ventured to shoot a rapid not considered perilous, and had a great hole torn in its prow by a sharp rock. The men got ashore, saving the wreck, but lost their store of provis- ions,.and we, were a day there making ' the damaged-«canoe again serviceable. ~ - .‘Thisdelay gave me onlyglimpse of )e-Artigny, still dripping from his'in- .‘ voluntary bath, and so bulsly. engaged - ,at‘repalrs, as to be. scarcely; conscious ‘of' my presence on the ant chevehim. acres hardly any ‘ " smucsdsm§bur 6ij , he: mum shim MinnaL I’strairghton upg'h " ' that Cassion wearismaand . tied up through a—0 dared to speak 1' 5pm so harshly, Mix-erg? ' hi the earth finally emerged 5 3 "I had no nah than to, Brecilmfite @“V‘at - ‘ " ‘ open quarrel between the tyre men, able distance above the camp. I had j ' and so departed quickly Later, Fath- left. Thick woods cOvered the crest. ' er Allouez told me that in the over- although there were Open plains be-V . i turning of the hence the young Sieur y~ond, and I was obliged to advance to : had saved the life: of the Algonquin the very edge in order to gain glimpse . - Chief bringing iii-111 ashOre uncon- of the river. . V scious,e entirely. helpless from a broken. Once beyond thele however with“ u... Shoulder. -, . footings secure on a flat rock, the“ M This accident to Altudah led to the scene outspread was one of wild and tranSferring of the injured Indian to fascinating beauty. Directly below me Q otu canoe, and caused Cassion to join were the lapids, rock strewn, the white j _ . De A’rtigny in advance. This change spray leaping high in the air, the swift; relieved me of the constant presence green water swirling past in tre'mend-' , of the Commissaire, who Wearied me ous volume. It scarcely seemed as V with his ceaseless efforts to entertain though boats could live in that smoth- ' : greater opportunities over before. Now thatthe m is over the factories are again build: in: autos. trucks and tractors ' it is re- . ports that the Ford MOtor Company alone: . has orders aheadforzooflooowWOOOCt-u, notln. 9' eluding trucks. It )3 said that Dodge. Buick. Cadillaeo . .. Packard antimony others have enOugh unfilled prom ‘ on hand to keep going at full speed day and night for months.» .. L » ., .f are also behind on orders. Thousands at «41111., . ' edau auto aud‘tr’aotor men are needed. Get ready to enter a uncons- Inland: profitable life work. _ ~‘EXRN51001'03400AM0NTH , Hold down a‘ good job or go into business for y ourself. We can teach you in a“ . ":hv short emu) 10:me Intact tractor proposition. Our garm 399.1, m twenty to thin}?- five cars for yop to work on. Differentcars go and come ’ '3 "erydi -—in outlook Want a one. we have twontwfive different ty pes of haters. e have absolu ly the beat equipment obtainable. 610 S. ‘ ‘A " . 'A'. to ' industries offer A .41.. but rendered more difficult than ever er,’ or find passage between those jut- . my desire to speak privately with the ting rocks, yet as I gazed more closely, ' ACTORIESELNDOLRSEF OUR TRACTOligggléflngLUDED IN younger man The pere evjdenfly had I could trace the channel Close in ' ' The leading automobile factories in Detroit and With the co- -operatlon of the International Bars" commands to keep me never in view, against the opposite shine, and note . other cities endorse our school, our equipment and water Co. and our complete tractor commons, _ ~ for he chmg -to me like a shadow, and where- the swift current bore _ back ‘V gn'mmfii“ 0’ ””3”" They gm "8 “my c°' 3:33:13 ng‘““°’,3h;,;‘;’:;”§$§,5‘¥2,;:,mp,: '1' scarcely for a moment did I feel my- acroSs the river. ' Klee. Tractormlnmucmofonore included with the ursea esame self alone, or uhwatch’éd. - - » Leanlng far out grasping a branch AEROPLANE COURSE INCLUDED “ “0 It was five days later, and in the to kegp nom mum-g1 mungmshed’ M m Viidtghgcsngggfiome m COURSES ALSO 1N BRAZlNc, heart of all that was desolate and the canoe at the upper landing, and chums Mme mm the “gamma course an, no deEVl-D'tNG- TIRF; REPAJIR‘NGV . drear, When this long sought opportu- the Indians bus11y.ple.pa11ng camp. At ' 1111131333311?” we ”“8 Wes ”mum“ “’r g“: 13mg: 11311023151333 czfirggsmln 1133' 3:3 nity came in most unexpected fashion. first VIVV's’aw nothing of any white man, ~ 2; gdltggusingnghrigregthgg 1138’}: 19:2: 1133:1201: We had made camp early, because of but was gazing still when De\ Artigny ’ EARN WHILE YOU LEARN 10, of money in repairing tires Brazers and weld» ' . If _ k i t h l era are getting 38 00 to 810.00 per day. Factories rO‘IOh water ahead' the passage 0f emerged fI‘OID. some Shadow’ and step Day groggywhfiecgutgrgazrg 01(1): gifdxrseg. co and galages are alwayslooking for thesemen. too. which it was not deemed best to at- ped down bes1de the boat. I know not ‘ ' , . ' ’ ‘ . ' lot I On In School tempt without caiefullexploratlon. .So, what instmct prompted him to turn mg school wounded on DETROIT IS THE PLACE To LEARN while the three heav1ly~ laden canoes and look up intently at the bluff tow- :1“ but. most practical ' START ANY TIME . . 3nd mwut principles in YOU CAN drew up against the bank, and prepar— ermg above. I scarcely comprehended :9 Adullimobiie. 1:31;- Demlt trained men get preference and get jobs quickly. No other clty can ‘ ' ' ' ' . r. "1 ."W m. s" l wll t Detroit does with its more than 184 large Auto and Accessories ed to Spehd .the night, the leafllllg either What S‘Ylft {Inplflse led me. to :ggs,,gg,;1";_;;:::§:§ gaZSorlesa Think what it means to learn in the Michigan State Auto School. canoe was stripped. and sent fOIWal d, undo the neCkerChlef at my thloat: with manufacturers. ser- 71% otautosmade in Detroit. W'ehaleaSpl-ague Electric Dynamoneler. Echoor ' manned only with the most expert of and hold it forth in signal. An instant 3329:3110? $3313 32 ffifnafiflmifl,“ “53;? Classes am ume’ any a“ Three “was dam mom' ' the Indian paddlers to make sure the he stared upward, shading his eyes mg'ggegltgggigg ' perils of the current. “ From the low with one hand. gm: 11-530mm mm in NEW 176 PAGE CATALOG FR E E 53' bank to which I had climbed I watched ’ ‘ - - _ Aw°~ 10""- l’ru. r111 11: the coupon; get the Auto School News and " I . 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All E those madly Chuming m... aove-b the mo bu... u... m, and, 211.311.3111: passages 08.2"".253' :22.."::‘1.1“f1:;:€‘2. ~ ' Cassion was issuing orders loudly, but with a wave of the arm, he sprang up 3332:6513 “12:23:33? the Automobile Industry" and learn rlgm. exhibited no inclination to accompany the low bank and - - - sentendamonutrotor. au- . 1 , JOlIled the Indians. to momma. gm“ , the party, and suddenly. the-frall craft I could not hear what he said, but with :fnérgffgfifgofgfl; MlCHlGAN STATE AUTO SCHOOL ' shot out from the shore, With De Ar- 21 single word he left them,” and disap- ohmic or 15mm m- Thou 11.11.51. school—A.G.zonor,Proo. tigny at the Steering paddle, and every peared among the trees at the foot of ;&;?l::fr:d‘l$3$€;?fdo AUTOMOBILES-TRUCKS'TRACTORS‘AEROPLAW . Indian braced for his t'lSk and headed ff, _ monthly or refund ,0“! 1002 Auto Building, 1387-89-91 Woodward Ave. ‘ . ‘ ' . ' the b1“ 1 ' "m" DETROIT, MICH., U. S.A 1' . boldly into the smother. 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The annoy grown folks. sun was still an hour high, although it _ ;;F was twilight already beside the river, ' TAKING IT EASY LI“ V . — ' ~37 when Cassion and his men came strag— E— _ gling back, to report that the canoe “Your Honor,” said the arrested had made safe passage, and taking and chauff .. .- ’ eur, I tiled to warn the man, vantage of his good humor, I proposed but the horn would not work}, A human interest life history of one of America’s most ‘a climb up an opening of the bluff. .. . - - famous men. Theodore Roosevelt made 0 ular the stren- d . . . , , Then why did you not slacken your dgszgm‘ivblig’h led a deel “all “3le speed rather than run him down?” uous life and typified the American spirit of intense thought: 1 . . .. ,, ' . . A “gm seemed to dawn upon the and action. He made good through dogged determination. Not I. he sand. casting a glance uD- prisoner. “That’s one on me. I never ' ' ' ‘ward. “The run over the rocks will thought of that.” - do me for exercise tohight.” ~ .“Then will I assay it alone,” I re- .1, plied, not displeased at his refusal. “I 1} am crampedfrom sitting in the canoe Our 400 page book gives intimate in- sights into his character, his aspirations . and his triumphs. It is written by J. Mowbray, the well—known historian and traveler, who had occasion to know Col. Roosevelt well. An inspiring story of an inspiring man. Profusely illustrated—— handsomely bound ln cloth. ‘ WANTED THE CREDIT DUE HER. Little Mary was caught pulling little ,. so long. , . . , m _ . 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Bo x12 Frbeporc.1nch.m.?n.m v.1. gait-511121312 niacin an mangoes. , _ the case with, thereosts. prices and furnishes the consumer with an article of diet that is worth every cent he pays for it. In many communities there are co- operative creameries now existing and these organizations might as well be used to handle the eggs produced by its members. When poultrymen are organized they will be able to do busi- ness on a better basis and instantly the hen will receive more attention and poultry production will take the place onthe farm that it deserves. Now it is possible for the large com- mercial egg producer to sell his eggs at better prices than are given to the farmer with the small flock. The farm- er with no more than one hundred birds is handicapped as his egg produc- tion is not large enough to ship many crates to the best city market. How- ever, the large egg farms are the ones that suffer the most from high feed prices and the general farmer with his small flock finds that he can still do business. Then if this small producer can combine with several of his neigh- bors so thattheir aggregate flocks will amount to three or four thousand birds they are able to do business in the same manner as it is conducted by the larger commercial egg farm. The ideal poultry flock in the future is not going to be a. nuisance on the Cold Weather EGULAR feeding is important, but necessary when the days are cold and birds find less to busy them on the range. Then, of all times, they must go to bed with a full crop and get up in the morning with scratch grain in the litter so that they can warm up through the exercise of scratching for their breakfast. Pumpkin is of value in the cold weather poultry ration. It can be boil- ed and mixed with bran or the dry mash ration until the mixture is crum— bly. This is appreciated by the fowls and it stimulates their appetites and induces egg production. Save all of those cull vegetables which are graded out when selling or storing potatoes and truck. They will be of great value in keeping the birds in healthy vigorous condition during the winter and it is the healthy well- fed bird that fills the egg basket. Do not force hens for eggs if they are to be used for breeding stock next spring, as such hens need a little rest and if they lay heavily in the winter because of the feeding of concentrated mash the eggs will not hatch well next spring. It pays to divide the laying house if there is only one house on the and the hens on the other. The pul- lets‘can be forced for winter eggs and the strength of the mature hens saved to produce eggs for hatching in the ear 1y spring. Sometimes a few cf the pullets will This isoon gives the house an unclean appearance and the nests are not fit to be used by the layers. Such roosting places Cannot easily be protected frOm mites as is At nightre- move such birds and place them on the robsts. Usually they will learn to roost in the proper place after two or three lessons. FoWls gradually become accustomed .to cold weather and if the house is dry G's...“ 811 Wis-s. and free from droughts they will stand \ The Future WithPoult‘ry (Continued from page 1'65). farm and keep the pullets on one side} form the habit of roosting on the nests .or thefeed hoppers. farm by ranging in the garden and on the front porch. It is going to have plenty of range but the range will be supplied infields that are fenced and the hens will have their place the same as the cattle and the hogs. In the hen’s pasture certain crops will be produced and colony houses for the young stock will be used to give the birds the bene- fit of the range. potatoes will be raised on the same‘ land that is used for the-poultry and fruit trees will be a more common sight On the poultry range. Of course, the birds will have to use‘ another range until the corn has started but then it will furnish shade for the birds throughout the season. The winter feeding of the farm flock is going to improve in the future. The chicken silo to supply green feed for the birds will be a common sight on the farm maintaining several hundred hens. This abundant use of green food is going to help in producing winter eggs and people in the cities-are going to use more eggs in the winter than at present. The farm flock of the future is going to produce an income as relia- ble as the milk checks from the dairy Raspberries, corn and . cattle because the poultry business is_ going to live and it cannot live' without business—like management and the eliminatibn of haphazard methods. Poultry Notes considerable cold without suffering. It is only necessary to lower the curtains , during severe storms or during zero weather. It is not a bad idea to keep a thermometer in the house and com- pare the daily temperature with the ap- parent condition of the birds. If more pullets are raised than can be housed properly it pays to advertise them for breeders if they are good enough, or for utility layers if they are only medium inquality. Many city poultrymen make it a practice to buy ten or a dozen pullets each fall simply to furnish the family with eggs until the next year and such buyers do not demand extra fine breeding quality but just birds that are well developed and good enough to produce winter eggS. it the farmer has a surplus of pullets they can be sold to such buyers for a price quite a little higher than the price quoted for broiler stock. It pays to cull the pullets and only keep the best and even then, only keep the birds that will have plenty of room as over- crowding means a. loss. Old hens that are not needed for breeders should be fattened and mar- keted. Sometimes the old hens of the heavy breeds will not need fattening as they have a tendency to take on fat with age. The pullets and the year-old hens are the best egg producers and often there will be many older hens in the farm flock which‘do not pay their board. There is a White Leghorn hen at Purdue that is reported to have paid ' her beard plus a profit for the last sev- en yeais and so fa1 she is credited with having laid one thousand eggs. However, the average old hen on the ‘ farm is not in that class and unless the records and breeding value of old' hens are. known it does not pay to feed a large number f them. More such re- sults are obtained when the bulk of the layers are pullets of a bred- -to—lay strain and this is a poor time to experiment with hens that are not fairly sure of ~ filling the egg- basket. ‘ “ nit-inc nmenoun We time as w Se Third: You havo been cents . > 1.. ,s . all as on gasoline. cool: You will be interested in a tracterthat'wlll doas good ‘ work plowing on your term as can be done in any other way. You will be interested in a tractor that is lree lrom trouble- some chains and other weak points, and has a guarantee covering the gearing. Lotus tell you about the tractor we have to oller. The Bates All Steel Oil Tractor our own design, made in our own Bates Oil Carburetor is the result of 25 years actual exper- in the manufacture of engines and will operate on Clear Kerosene No extra carburetor is ‘ operating under Engine‘ Perfectly Under All Requiring no adjusting—No regu- tractor. ience (Without Mixing With Gasoline). using Bates Speeds And 'All Loads On Kerosene. lating—Or switching . over in operating ensilage cutters, change Oil for Fuel The gasolme when the engine is Oil‘ Carburetor Will Operate ‘The corn huskers, from empty to Bother With Carbon or Tar. THINK OF THE IMMENSE SAVING BURNING KEROSENE AS FUEL UNDER ALL CONDITIONS AND RECEIVING THE SAME AMOUNT OF POWER AS WITH THE HIGH-PRICED GASOLINE. The Bates All Steel Oil Tractor is the Oldest Tractor on the Market. we have a machine that will stand. the wear and tear of hard service for developed every detail until Our experience has taught us that a tractor to be practical must Resist Extreme Heavy a long time. Duty Continually and at the same time must be Be Driven. mplating the purchase of and have been wondering which tractor to buy. Fir st: You willie interested In a tractor that will operate en kerosene etc., amusements“ is provided with an oil carburetor of factory and can be light to gasoline when the load changes. where the full load almost immediately, no trouble is exper- ienced with the Bates All Steel Oil Tractor using Kerosene As Fuel. THINK OF SLOWING THE ENGINE RIGHT DOWN TO A LOW SPEED TO SUIT YOUR CONDITIONS, ON KEROSENE OIL. With the Bates Oil Carburetor the mixture is completely prepared and the heat and energy all used, therefore our engine Will Yield As Much Power on 3 Given Quantity of Kerosene as Gasoline. mixture, the fuel is all burned and We Will Guarantee Our Tractor Not to a’ tractor ler some found With e- . t on no other required for load as the Therefore, work will this perfect M. F. BATES Designer and Manufacturer A Durable, Long-Lite Tractor Years of hard service have . . , _ Light Enough in Weight to be driven over soft ground in the spring of the year Without minng and on sandy soil and, in fact, Go Where Horses Can To accomplish this we have constructed our tractor of Steel Throughout, tests having proven that steel is four times as strong as cast iron and will wear tour times as long. With this material the strength of the machine cannot be questioned and the weight is reduced materially and with our Wide Drivers the Pressure Per Square is Much Less ‘Than That of a 1400 Pound Horse - and We Will Guarantee to Drive Our Tractor Where Horses Can Be . Driven Practically. ,x/ All Steel Gearing Our Long Experience in the manu- facture of Inch . Steel Method by which the Power of the Engine Can drive Gearing for a long time and so com- plete means of furnish a Guarantee to Replace All Gears That Break for 2. Period of Five Years Free of Charge. W'ith a trans. mission of this on the Surface tractors has proven that Gearing is the Only Successful Be Transmitted to the wheels. We have used Steel has been our success with this transmission that we will kind you are not m: Asa-m imm- .... manages-...... .0! QurfAl-L STEE ..‘. ~ bothered with troublesome chains that have proven a failure for the past 20 gear: on oneself-t propelled machines. to be Replaced every little while. THINK OF OUR GUARANTEE TO REPLACE ALL A PERIOD OF FIVE YEARS, FREE OF CHARGE. . front end being supported by the tractor and the rear real: and Hm: GEARS THAT mustn‘t Chains Will Stretch and Climb on the Sprockets and Two Speeds The Bates All Steel-Oil Tractor has two speeds forward and will plow Up Stee ,Hills That Can be Plowed With Horses. when you come to a steep hill or bad place with The Bates All Steel Oil throw in the slow gear and the engine will do the rest. You Don't have to Lift Part ot‘ the PloWs out o the ground, Tractor. Just Bates Plows---Guaranteed to do as good work As can be done in any other way. the Tractor, the end by a caster wheel and the plows entirely supported by the plow carriage. By this arrangement the Plows can be Lifted From the Ground and the Entire Outfit Backed Into the Corners of the Fence and the Field Plowed Corn;— plete Without the Aid of Horses. Think of Plowing the Entire Field, Even the Last Furrow of the Land With a Tractor and Doing as Good Work as Can be Done in Any Other The Bates Plow Carriage is Directly Connected'to Wa . » Vllith the Bates Plowing System you are Able to Plow Your Fields as You Have Been in the Habit of Plowing Them and as You Want Them‘ Plowed. You can Plow in Lands or Around the Field as you desire. The Bates Plows Operate Independently by this arrangement. Any One oft“ Plows I an Be Raised hntirely Outof the around without interfering with others. The Rate; Flows are connected to the carriage by means of a steel forging at the and at the beam which allows the front end of the beam to rail-«e and lower according to the irregular surface of the gimund. This provides a plowing ontilt especially Ad. ted to Stony Fields and 30111) Land. In fact, We Will Guarantee to do as Good Wm Your Farm as Can be one in any other Way Even in Rough and Stony Fields. We have sold a good many of our onttl'ts under this guarantee and will make no exception in your case regardless of the conditions of yonr'farm. Belt Work There will be lots of belt work for a tractor to do and you should have a Dates All Steel 011 Tractor todo This Work. 1 want to tell you more about my All Steel Oil Tractor and will ask you to send for our catalog. 2 sizes: 10-16 H, P. draws 2 plows. 20-30 H. P. draws 4plows. ll. F. BATES, Bales Tractor Co. l05 Bates 8L, Lansing, Mich. :__'The Michigan Farmer Clubbing Service If you wish other papers in combination with the Michigan Farmer, we offer an economical and efficient means of getting your family reading. The combinations listed are of standard publications which have proven most popular with our readers. Prices are subject to change without notice. early—it Will help us give good service. The Michigan Farmer, 1 yr...$1.00 People’s. Home Journal, 1 yr. . 1.00 Total'value . ........ . . .. . . .s2.oo Today’s Housewife, one year. . 1.00 All For People’s Home Journal, 1 yr. . 1.00 $2 00 Total value ......... f. . . . . 33.00 . The Michigan Farmer, 1 yr...$1.00 . McCall's Magazine, one year.. 1.00 £11 For Today's Housewife, one year. . 1.00 2 00 1 —‘ 0 Total value ................ $3.00 The Michigan Farmer, 1 yr...$1.00 McCall’s Magazine, one year 1.00 IA“ F°" Woman’s World, one year.-. . . ., .50 $1 75 ‘ ———- e Total value ................ $2.50 The Michigan Farmer, 1 yr.. £1.00 , Pictorial Review, one yea-r. . ...2.oo SA“ 170' McCall's Magazine, one year 1.00 2 85 '——_ O Total value .......... , ...... $4.00 . The Michigan Farmer 1 yr...$1.00 People's Popular Mo., '1 yr. . . . .25 A" F" Little Folka’ Magazine, 1 yr.. 1.50 $1 90 —- a Total value ....... ‘ ........ . 2.75 The Michigan Farmer 1 yr...$1.00 BOTH McCalls’ Magazine, on’e year. .. 1.00 $1 50 Totalvalue................$2.00 ' The Michigan Farmer, 1 yr. . $1.00 BOTH s1.50 Ill Send your orders a The Michigan Farmer, 1 yr...$1.00 50 Tribune, South Haven... . . .. . . . . The Michigan Farmer, 1 yr...$1.00 BOTH ‘ Amencan Boy, one year...... 2.00 $2 50 American Fruit Grower, 1 yr.. . 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Heard-Examiner, Chicago ............... 5.25 Little Folks Magazine, 1 yr... 1.50 $3 00 Journal Flint ............... . . . . ........ 4.50 —— e l’ News, Jackson ...................... 4.60 Total value ---------------- $4.50 " Gazette, Kalamazoo . . . . . . . .. ........... 4.50 News-Statesman, Marshall ............... 3.25 The Mlchigan Farmer, 1 yr--.$1-00 BOTH News, Monroe ...... .. ...... . ........... 3.50 Hoard's Dalryman, one year.. 1.00 News-Courier, 8aginaw.. . .' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :33 Total value $27) $1.65 ' - a SEND ALL ORDERS TO THE MICHIGAN FARMER, DETROIT, MICHIGAN 11 m You M1; Smoke All-Steel FARM SMOKE HOUSE ., All-Sue] eonstructionlCosts . ' lessthan thanwood, brickorstone al sanitary._ ort- moke is non vely Ila --1i!an’t 111?sz out very 1n ees. aces sweeter milder smoked hacon, sausage for yonr e—or foraaleatbig fits. After smoking. an a mall-t, um star-hen. Tell- why thgreFare My New Book “FREE up... nnnhomo edmeatl Eu l ~ the needless Waste of “selling al your xp sins and then gami- val affix mintgm s' u e "I” Curing "Cup” 53:. Am}. 1515:1121?" "" "u I. J. m COMPANY 204 Wen-81. Escanaba. Inch. N ow All Together AVE you registered? ter whether we were suffragists or government. antis, or merely in the ranks of thl se vote or not, will feel that she owes 3. Now that Michigan women duty to her country and Will go to the have been given the vote it is polls and vote fox the men whom she up to us to exercise the right, no mat- honestly believes will give us the best And I hope before she to Register what she is voting for. Her vote will be of little real constructive value if she simply votes the way her husband or brother or father tell her to vote, without giVing the subject any serious thought herself. who didn’t care a straw either way. Frankly, I have always been inclin- ed towards the antis. Not that I do not think women are as eminently qualified to vote as men, but as for myself I am by nature averse to re- sponsibility. I liked to have some- thing I could blame the men for and feel that my own skirts were perfectly clear. If a candidate turned out bad, HE spring primaries will be held March 5, at which time the following state candidates will be nominated: ET us send our new book that will show you how to get un- beatable quality in Kal- amazoo Ranges. Stoves. Furnaces. Gas Ranges. Oil Ranges and Kitchen Kab- . lnets at wholesale factory told you—we are m anufacturers and sell direct to users. orE -Caah Unlimited Gnu-an ICC Kalamaaoo Stove Co. Manufacturers Wu”. A Kalamazoo, " Direct to You .. 111. «1. ~11~d prices“- As Del Dane has oxten “It”!!! 8m lane!” Get The New any Paymenb— Aak about Kalamazoo Pho- non-aha, Cream Separa- Paint and other hon; eaaltloa. Ask for Catalog No. 113 Mickie-a or unjust laws were passed, I could a1- Two regents, of the state uni- ways say: versity; one superintendent of public instruction; one member state board of education; two state board of agriculture mem- bers; one state highWay com- missioner. In addition to these there are numerous county, township and city officials in their respective localities. These I nominees will compose the candidates for re- publican, democratic and social- ist tickets. If a woman voter desires to name a candidate at the primar- ies, she must be registered be- _ fore February 11. It is just as important to vote at the primar- ies as at the general election, for if desirable candidates are not selected at the primaries, it is too late to do much in the way of effecting a change. After the primaries, there will still be time to register in or- der to vote at the general elec- “Now, if we women Were doing it, etc., etc. It was such a, relief to know there was some one thing which women ab- solutely couldn’t be scolded about and told their duty regarding. Women have always been blamed for every- thing else and told of their grave re- sponsibilities, in short, held account- able for everything under the sun that went wrong, except elections. It did seem good to have one thing that you didn’t need to feel you were to blame for, at least. But now all that is changed.” From now on we are going to be held re- sponsible for everything that happens. If the prohibition amendment is held unconstitutional, you’ll see it will be because woman was given suffrage. If . a senatorial aspirant buys his seat, women voters will be charged with ac- cepting sodas and sundaes. If some- one stuffs the ballot boxes, it will be 1 the woman member of the board who did the stuffing. Frankly, I believe C Bl P“ td PETROLEUM JELLY An antiseptic Justin :for insect hates. poison iv and corns. avom smumrrs WORM Mint 19/] or millage information fire on request. catamaran use. co. CDONSOLIDATE "27 mm- NowYork Ciev' FRESH— FROZEN— SMOKED —SALTED ISH OYSTERS Different Kinds at the Right Prices. Write for our Special price List. VMaide Fish 8: Oyster Co. tion April 7, but every man and woman should feel it a duty to vote at the primaries on March 5, and help name the best men possible for offices to be filled. In cities go to the city hall to register; in townships go to the clerk. You cannot vote unless you are registered, and you must have registered since December ' 5, 1918. Old registrations such as were formerly made by women are void under the new constitution- al amendment granting the full suffrage to women. that was the compelling motive which prompted our men to vote us the vote. They wanted to shift all their respon- sibilities onto our shoulders. However, be that as it may, we have the vote and it is up to us to use it. I have always held that the man who could vote and didn’t, was a worse slacker than the man who tried to get out of shouldering a gun for his coun-. try. And I always noticed that the men who did the most fault finding about the government and the ofi‘lcers were the men who stayed home from the primaries and the general elec- tions. They never got out and tried to remedy matters. It was easier to sit at home and howl about “dirty politics.” goes she will do her humble and ear- I hope for the honor of their sex nest bit to fit herself to vote intelli- women will not be that way. I hope gently. I don’t care what ticket she every woman, whether she wanted the votes, only that she really understands By Emma Gary VValflace taking with enthusiasm and continues it with, intelligence, only to fall down, as it were, onthe last quarter. This is- true of the housewife. She started out to prevent wastage and to store her products properly for winter use. Having done this she is apt to feel that nothing else should be expected AST summer and fall very large quantities of fruit and vegetables were put up for winter use at the cost of Considerable time and money. With the coming of. cold weather we are able to enjoy the provision we have made for winter needs and we must be careful that we. use our sup- plies with diseretion. and care for the Flak Market Chicago plants 23 varieties. seed beans. oats and bar ax-l.ey Instinctive E13313“? Men-111, Mich. except the enjoyment of the gO‘od things she has put up. . ' Have you any distinct plan of pro- cedure when you open your cans in containers so systematically that they will be ready for use another season. Many an individual begins an under- WomenVoters Reg- . ister Before Feb. 11 , Opening Canned Supplies In all the cities and in many of the ,3 small towns, schools are being held to ‘ 7 ‘3 give instruction to women, If there 18 such a school near you, by all means go. If there. is none, ask questions of everyone you meet who is at all posted on questions of the day. Read every- thing you can on the legislation that. is needed and‘about the men whose. names you see as leaders. Get ac-_ quainted with politicians through the papers, no matter what you have pre- viously thought of politics. Politics simply means the science‘of govern- ment, and if American politics are not clean it is because American people of 7 clean thought have neglected their ’ duty. Some of the leading magazines are devoting considerable space to things the new voters should know. Get in touch with these articles. If your 10- cal library does not have the 'maga-_ zines on file ask the librarian where you can write to get them. Write the equal suffrage headquarters of your nearest town for literature. , Read, study and above _all,'think. Think for yourself. Don’t ask friend husband his opinion and vote’ as he does, unless ‘ you really agree with him. And above all, register before Feb- ruary 11. Otherwise you can not go to the primaries and help nominate the candidates. You can register lat- er, but then you can only vote for the men put up by others. You have been knitting and canning and” conserving for your country faithfully for months. That was easy for it fell in the line of your regular day’s work. Now you are asked to vote for it. Don’t be a slacker on registration day. That many women will be, either ‘ through accident or design, is already apparent. In a city of eleven thousand inhabitants in Michigan only fifty-six women had registered January 16. By the same token, only two women in the same city were sufficiently inter- ested in things outside their four walls to attend a canning demonstration ar- ranged by their county agent and paid for by the state and federal govern- ment. Don’t be in that class of women who consider their whole duty done when they take care‘ of their own im- mediate familyr The world is your family, if you are the right sort. Register, and vote. "3. DEBORAH. 2 the winter? If you haven’t your work of canning next fall is going to 'be much more difficult and perhaps be at- tended by mysterious failures. To begin with, fruits, vegetables and conserves should not be opened hit or ” 4.- miss, but selected with care so that the choicest may be reserved for spe- cial occasions and a variety given to the family in the daily menu.r To this» end the housewife needs a system re-s garding‘ her ' ell \\\_\\\\'.\\ Motherls Job is Full of Danger: OVER the, stove, handling hot pans and sharp knives-day in and day out-everymother is liable to get a burn or out most any minute. Slight atflrst perhapsmut notelling what the injury. my load to. if not attended to right away and in the t w . in“ :y little Hanford’s Balsam of Myrrh on an open wound to cleanse and check infection. And to hasten healing—it forms”: film that keeps out dirt and dust ll the new skin is iormed. Cools a burn almost instantly. ’ For overworkeddame muscles and . Kaniord's Balsam is unusual- ly eflective. Apply ireely. rub vigor- all soreness is pretty sure to in short order. You can’t be tod'careiul of Mother. Certainly won't let her endanger health with any risks or pains which ' Haniord’s Balsam-may save her. Used for over seventy years and by thou- sands of families. Just as Good for Children as for Grown-Ups That on may know its merit: for yoursel ,.present, this advertisement at your dealer‘s and buy a bottle (in any of three 'sizes). , And Testllt at Our Risk! If not completely satiSfied. take empty bottle to dealer and get flour money back. No questions as ed! II , ‘3‘ "‘““ I \\\\\ \\\_\\\ .\ Ill/I/[I/t/‘i'lllllllII/fll/ Made only by G. C.- Hanford Mfg. Co. SYRACUSE, N. v. HAN FORD’S i]? ‘ R.\\\\ \3\\§.\\\‘\ Balsam of Myrrh 160 liens-.1500 Eggs Mrs. H. M. Patton, Waverly, Mo. ,writes “1 fed 2 boxes of ‘More E gs’ to m hens and broke the egg, recor . I go 1500 eggs from 160 hens in exactly 21 days." ‘ on can do as well. Any poultry raiser can easily double his roflts by doubling ~ ,room nodrwhieh: she checks off each {can'as she uses it. Thus, in the vege- ‘ table» section the ‘page‘ marked “Corn” this purpose narrow shelves which thing. t’ , shows that six quart cans were put up August 10, twelve ‘quart' cans August 16, eight quart cans August 24, ten pint cans September 1. It is the work of a moment to write in the book, “March 1, one quart can used,” and so on, totaling the quarts and pints removed from. the sto‘re room so that a glance shows how many are left. Or, if this is too much trouble, she can employ a method of arrangement on the shelves which enables her to see at a glance what she has. For only permit of rows one can deep are desirable. The old-fashioned swing shelf in the cellar was commodious but deceiving. Things packed away in the center often became forgtoten or could not be found just when need- ed. If such a broad shelf is still in use, divide it in sections, putting fruit or vegetables of a kind in a section by itself and mark that section on the! edge so that a glance will locate any- Vegetables should be opened longE enough in advance of their use to be; come aerated. This restores some of the natural flavor and avoids a at taste. Canned fruit is always better~ served very cold. Turn no more from' the can of fruit than will be neededt until wanted again. When cans are emptied they be scrubbed until they are thoroughly clean, using plenty of hot soapsudsll and out, for even a very little dried; juice on the outside which has fer-. mented is undesirable. Never put can . tops on until the jar is perfectly dry'; inside and be sure that cans and cov- , ers are properly mated and put to-‘ gether one by one as used. Many a quart of food has been lost because the cover has been put on a can on which it did not belong. It appeared all right, but the seal was imperfect. Store cans where~they will be dry and cool. If a can is put away moist it will soon become musty, especially if covered, and then another canning time the product stored in that con- tainer is sure to spoil unless a second thorough cleansing and thorough ster- the egg production 0 his hens. Ascien- tific tonic has been discovered that re- vitaliz‘es the flock and makes hens work all time.The tonic is called“Mpre Eg 5.” Give your hens a few cents' wort of “More Eggs,” and you will be amazed and delig ted with results. “More Eggs’.’ will double this , car's production of eggs, so if you wish to try th 5 great profit maker.wr1te E.J. Reefer.poultry ex ert.Dept.208§ Reefer Bldg.,Ka_n- sas City.Mo..for a 1 package of More Eggs‘Tomc. Or send 32.25 today and get three regular 31 pack- ages on special discount for a season‘s supply. A million dollar bank guarantees if you are not ab- solutely satisfied. . our money will be raturned on request and the‘ i ore Eggs"eosts you nothing. You take no risk. Write tod_ay. Pin a dollar bill to your letter or send $2.20 special discount for 3 packages. Or ask M. Reefer to send you his poultry book that tells the experience of a man who has madea fortune out of poultry.--Adv. - P OULT RY CHICKS . CHICKS CHICKS 350000 for 1919 By Parcel Pest Prepaid. Delivered To Your Door. Guarantee Live Delivery. Strong chicks from pure bred farmlstock. that are hatched right. Have chicks of Utility and lxhlblllon quality. 8.0. White and Brown Le horns.$12.00 and $14.00 a 100; Barred Rocks._ 315(1) and 17.00 a 100: Rose and Single Comb Beds. $13.00 and 18m 3 100: “'hite W andottes, $15.00 and 818.00 a 100:8. .Anconas,$14.00 and 7.00 a 100; S. 0. Bull! Orpinagons, $18.00 and $Zk00 a 100‘ S. C. Black Minorcas. .00» 100; Odds and min. $12.60 a100. as for hat-chin!l $7.00 to $8.00 a 100. Combination o ere on chicks. overs and broader stoves. Give us your order (I we will make you a satisfied customer the same as undreds of others. Order direct from this ad. But before ordering elsewhere get our free illustrated catalog. Get your order in early. Ready to ship in March. . . HUBERS RELIABLE HISTCHERY, _ EAST HIGH ST., _ . FOBTORIA, OHIO 100,092) BABY CHICKS for 1919 sent satelyevor are by mail or express. . rown ms and S. 0. Ansonae; Gran strains. trons, vigo d a n3 mus. hm ht kind. enthae n. satisfaction - smog: fl8rder now for sprlnaegelivery. Prices right. I‘m catalogue. W.Van App] rn.R.7.Holland.M h. Liveflsgalwillfléiédfifi _ 9., . nowr , POULTRY ’ Grand}! ds M h» ' , and" White ilization is resorted to. Of course, cans should always be sterilized be- and then return to the can for storage l ing. 01‘ fussin should! and addr fore being used—the very last thing. If by any chance the contents of a. can has fermented, that can must re- ceive particular attention by being washed and bolled‘ina solution of sal soda, after which it should be scalded in clear water and then dried. .Para- flin which comes from the tops of jelly tumblers or conserve jars can all be washed in soap and water, rinsed in clear water, and the pieces melted to- gether for future use. The advantage of melting it is that thorough heating renders it sterile and kills the germs which may have lurked in the pores. Besides it is easier to store it in one cake. Of course, where tin is used for can- ning, food must never be left at all in the open can for fear of ptomaine poi- soning. This is equally true of con- densed milk or any other product kept by perfect sealing of _tin. The great war-has taught us econ- omy in many ways. One of these, and 'by no means the least, is to do our work so thoroughly today that the re- sults of future tasks will not be under- mined. The work of gardening, pres- ervation, and conservation may all be spoiled by careless handling at the ' time of using the supplies. One woman who found that it taxed her strength to move a heavy dresser in order to hweep under it, removed the lower drawer and then with a accumulated under it quite as-well as though she had moved the dresser. ' tr ' . Cockerels for Orpincton East. Lansing. 'Mich. f! whisk broom swept out the 'dust that . If plain, cents. Saier. from other sections. thods. lists l stores and groceries at ardcn gives definite reasons why the seeds you plant In the garden or sow on your farm ought to be Michigan-grown. Michigan Seeds for Michigan Planters . means that the seed you buy from Harry E. Saier is acclimated. Is hardier. and pro- duces mature plants quicker than seeds Saier's Garden Book explains our me- Michigan-grown farm. vegetable and flower seeds. and other sup lies‘that the Michl an gardener needs. rite today for a free copy. , Harry E. Saler, Seedsman ". . Bo 20 I Lansing, Mich. At the Price of Two Eggs At the cost of the price of two eggs a big J ell-O dessert can be served—and it will serve from five to twelve persons, according to, the manner in which it is prepared. ' it Will serve five or six persons; if‘whipped, Bavarian cream style, ten or twelve may be served. There are so many possibilities—so great a variety of delight- ful dishes that seem to appear almost g—-—that every farmer’s wife is urged to send her name see in order that she may receive (free) a copy of the Jell-O Book, which has everything on the subject that any woman They should then be scalded inside l could Wish. Among other things the place of eggs and cream in desserts. . Jell-O is put up in six pure fruit flavors: Strawberry, Rasp- I" berry, Lemon, Orange, Cherry, Chocolate, and sold in all general ~ 13 cents a package or two packages for 25 V THE GENESEE PURE FOOD COMPANY, Le Roy, N. 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A. of More for O or 108 Yomond 3“ "firm“... in th: World A without getting onto amt propo- sitions and Factory-Dinah"- Illdor rices and term Boys. 3 “moor AM" and 4 make big mone taking orders * for bicycles an supplies. Get our on o .ng lo I“ unedrlo . "cradling-um mil“ bicycle line :t huU ' llEAll talisman: WDOWN ONE YEAR «TO PAY ' easy. '3' 0‘ anew-Lem“. gas: FREE Liam- Your" Home Like my; - / 9 white li ht from (kerosene Mood ' o . Beat- the: can or elect city. , COSTS ONLYICEN‘I‘I‘OICIOURS ' , We want one person in each locality to or new customeu. for boys and girls with a small capital is the poultry business, for on the majority of farms the poul- try is neglected, and many parents will gladly give over the care and profits to them. Now, one of the bigfactors in any business is to get started right. To start right one must have some good hens, so let us make a close study of the various breeds and see which one should prove best adapted to the line of business we desire to use them for. In the first place, there are some At Work {ma plug mouth Rocks, and that is against them competing with the Rocks; they lay smaller eggs, which is also against them. Others .will say, eggs sell by the dozen, so what’s the difference? But let me tell you, when your custom- ers prefer good, big, fresh eggs it is up to you to produce that kind for them if you expect to get top prices We must have a chicken that will grow fast and mature early and for 'this purpose I know of no breed supe- rior to the Plymouth Rocks. ‘They have a plump body and are attractive in the market and when full grown ET _ 1 ——-———- Remove the sides of the Piano Boxes, Fasten them Together Securely, Build a Shed on the Sunny Side, Put in Some Windows. Nests, Roosts and a Door. then Cover the Outside Surface with Roofing Paper. breeds that are adapted to but one purpose, and that is laying eggs, and among these breeds we find what the poultrymen call the Mediterranean breeds, such as the Leghorns, Ham- burgs, Minorcas and others of that class. Now these are very good breeds, but what we want is a hen that will sit and hatch us some nice chicks and take care of them in good shape. We also want to select a breed" that will be ideal for market, one that will ma- ture early, have a nice clean color, lay a large number of good-sized eggs, be active enough to be good rustlers af- ter grasshoppers and worms, be good sitters and mothers, easily tamed and handled and a breed that will bear confinement well. There are many excellent breeds of this class found among what the poul- trymen call the American breeds. These breeds are what we call the general-purpose fowl, that is, they are adapted to the farm or to the poultry- man who does not make a specialty of any one branch of the work. The Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, the Wyandottes, and other breeds be- long to this class. The Brahmas, Cochins, Langshans and others of the large breeds of the Asiatic class, are not as good layers as the smaller breeds; they are more inclined to be broody and as a rule are not as good rustlers as the American breeds, and for that reason you should not select your breeding stock from these breeds. M When we look the field over there is no breed that stands higher in the utility list than the Plymouth Becks and I do not believe that you could go wrong if you selected your stock from some good flock of this fine. breed. Some will say, why not wyan-‘f "rooster will be just as proud of his “smali‘house and his six wives as he I“‘dottes? They are good fowls, but they are somewhat lighter than the :Ply- have weight that makes them bring home the money that it'cost to grow them. Cockerels that are to be sold in the fall make quite an important item for one to consider, and Rocks cannot be excelled in this point. When the hens are too old to keep for egg production, it is quite an im- portant item to have them weigh six to eight pounds and sell them for twenty-five cents a pound. There is also an increasing demand for dressed fowls, and if you have egg customers, you should be able to make plans to furnish them with dressed poultry whenever ordered, and get them to pay a top price for the choice dressed fowls. The Rocks are good sitters, kind mothers and will raise more chickens than any other breed that we ever kept. We should select our hens from some good flock that is well~bred and where the hens have a uniform and vigorous appearance, and then buy a first~class rooster from some breeder who has a different family of the same breed, so as to, avoid inbreeding. The best rooster that can be found, for what you can afford to pay, should be selected. It is easy to grade up a flock of good hens by using the best roosters every year and selling all of the pullets that arenot up to the breed standard. The best way of starting in the bus- iness would be to purchase about six good hens, all of the one breed, and a‘ fine rooster of the same breed, and then build them a house and yard. For a house a piano box will do very well the first year and can be made to. ac- commodate six hens and a rooster very comfortably after the cold winter weather is over. Now don’t- chats at this small. beginning, for your”, old Making Money with Poultry ' A BOUT, the best business of all would if he had the finest house in the- whole world. If you will be as con- tented as the wise old rooster and make the best of your small beginning, there is no question but what you will succeed in'your new business. _ He will crow just as loud and fight just as hard to protect his small home and flock as he would if he had the finest. , house in the world. If you go into the business with the same spirit you are sure to make good. After you get your poultry plant es- tablished keep close watch of your hens, find which hens lay the most eggs and from those hens save eggs for hatching purposes. Then if none- _ of the hens are broody, buy one and move her in the night to some nest in a box or barrel and after she has be— come quieted down place the eggs un- der her and get her started to sitting. From thirteen to fifteen eggs is suffi- cient for the average-sized Plymouth Rock hen. In selecting the eggs to place under her, discard all those that are not of good shape and all that are more than a week old or that may have become chilled. When you set a hen it is best to fix the box or barrel so that she can leave the nest only when you let her out to eat. She‘ should be let oilt once a day and be allowed to dust herself, pick up some grit and gravel and have a good feed- ing of heat-producing food. Feed the‘ sitters a little corn when they come off the'nests and they will be more quiet. on the nests and hatch more chicks. When they begin hatching you will need some little coops and it will be pleasant work to make them. You should have tight coops for the hens and chickens to prevent rats, weasels and skunks from getting in nights and killing little chickens. hole at the bottom for the air to come in and one: at the top for the impure air to pass out. A hole two inches square covered With fine-wire mesh will serve the purpose. Don't feed the little chickens wet feed for it is apt to sour and make them sick and unhealthy. Oatmeal, cracked corn, wheat, kaffir corn, mil- let seed and small grains are good food. Give them some sharp sand and fine gravel and never allow them to be without pure water to drink. Keep your house and coops clean at all times and spray the roosts and floors with kerosene oil and dust the nests with tobacco dust to prevent lice and mites infesting the house and coops and sapping all the profits of the business by pestering the hens and chickens. Cleanliness and the destruc- tion of lice and mites are the big faCo tors in building up a nice paying lite tle business. In the fall when the chickens are- nicely grown and need more room, buy another piano box from the money you. , may get from selling some of your sur- plus stock and remove the side of the- one you are using and also of the one you buy, and fasten the boxes together securely with strong boards, and use- the material in the two sides that are re'mOved to make a scratching room. After the wdo‘dwork is ‘ for the birds. completed cover the whole house with some good tar paper and you will have a very cheap. house that Will accommo- date the stock you want to carryover. ' ' the winter, say twelve hens and a» .Pooster. v - Leave a little». .r‘.‘ . "r’n , st 'or uildi. , be about as follows: . . _ TWO piano b01568 1‘- e O I o o" 0 o”. o o o o$4l00 Nails and roofing . . '. .‘.‘. .. . . . . . . . 4.00 Windows, hinges and locks...... 3.00 , ethouse win- Total u’oonooeogl0;0’otoOQIIOoo-sllooo For winter feeding a warm mash made from cornmeal and wheat bran may be fed once alday. Table scraps are also excellent egg-food and are much better than grain feeds. Unless you have table scraps that contain some meat feeds. it will pay to buy some dried beef scraps to feed in the mash. Feed small grain in the shed by throwing it on hay, straw or leaves new «new = in "the scratching shed st;v that hens. . * ‘ must Work to get it. This keeps them‘ 5 Give them plenty of warm ' healthy. water every day. Provide grit, gravel oyster shells and old plaster at all times. As your business grows it may pay to get some feed hoppers and use them for feeding a dry mash. This is a big labor-saver and will simplify the feeding problem. After you get started subscribe for some good farm paper and a good poul— try paper and keep up to the times. There is much pleasure and profit in studying the business and in excelling in some special line, when the others have failed. W. M. K. Shall Land Owners Pay all Taxes? (Continued from page 164). land values pay common interest on the investment and the taxes usually levied on the land under the prevail- ing system. Even in rapidly growing cities those' who speculate on idle land seldom get out with a profit above interest and taxes unless they are able to make a quick subdivision sale. Those who wait willingly for the rise, or are caught and have to wait, gen- erally lose out. In country districts this is especially true. Few are the men holding unimproved lands for any long period who would not gladly sell for the amount they have paid on the land for taxes, to say nothing of interest on the original investment or even the principal. There-is no need of any new scheme to strip these speculators of their unearned incre- ment. The adoption of such a scheme would be their salvation; it would at once extinguish the hope of ultimate return, which lures them on from one year’s tax to the next, always hoping that they will be able to get out from under before the next assessment. Un- der the single tax, they would at once throw up their hands, and the revenue would entirely stop. In most of the sparsely settled districts of this state the few settlers could scarcely afford to pay for the needed improvements without the aid of the assessments an- nually wrung from non-resident spec- ulators. , , 4. The statement that speculation would not exist Without private own- ership is also manifestly true; but the assumption that the idle rich are a product of land speculation is baseless and false. The man who makes money in land speculation is no idler. He has to be a live one. The very names mentioned prove the falseness of the tune in banking; Carnegie made his in manufacturing and trade; and so did Rockefeller his. Those who think Rockefeller pumped his fortune out of oil wells, don’t know the game. He let the speculator put down the well and pay for it, and if dry take the loss; if oil were found he let the finder pump it and get it to the station. When he got to the station with it Rockefeller and his crowd told him how much to sell it for, and you know the rest. The fortune was seldom made by the land owner or the lessee. The refiner and distributor looked to that. , Another business that has made some small fortunes recently may be mentioned—the moving picture. But the fortune has not been made by the owner or tenant of the little moving picture theater who would have to pay the land tax. made by the film men, from whom very little could be taken by any land tax. They let the theater operator make just enough to keep' him going. ‘ Another business that has made some fortunes is the meat business. But the fortune has not‘been made by the fellows who would be caught by and have to pay the land tax—neither by.the'man in the city who hands-the ' meat over the-'acounterf to the consum- ' er, no: by the'msn- out in the Country The fortunes have been. who raises the animals. The fortunes have been made by the packer, for whom one place is about as good as another, and who can evade most of the ,land' tax by threatening to leave if not given Special favors. If conditions are adverse in Chicago, he can move his business to Omaha, Kansas City, or Podunk. If the taxes are not lev- ied to his liking he can give the com- munity a slap that it will not forget in one while. Therefore, he can mor- ally regulate his own taxes to a large degree, in so far as he is hit by a land tax. The same is true of all the other processers, from the flour-millers to- the pickle makers; they make the large fortunes, but you cannot get at them to any extent by a land tax. Why should the sugar makers, tanners, etc., the processers and distributors, who really make the big fortunes be taxed according to the space they occupy, on a par with the truck gardener? Would it not be much wiser and more equitable to make them pay taxes ac cording to the benefits they have re- ceived and their ability to pay, by levy- ing graduated income and inheritance taxes ?, All of the arguments for the single tax go on the assumption that the big fortunes are made by land operations, that the land owners are the rich, and that therefore they are the ones on whom to put the taxes. The most cas- ual observation discloses that all of these assumptions are false. The very rich have generally the smallest per cent of their assets in land. Naturally there are some large holders, and if the land is valuable they would be rich on this basis alone; but viewed as a whole, it will be found that most of the valuable land is held in small tracts by people who have very little other property. For every large hold- er there are hundreds‘~that own only a houseand lot or a small farm. The single tax, therefore, would for the most part be a levy on the lower mid- dle class, out of all proportion to their just share or ability to pay. 5. The proposal to relieve the occu- piers of land by shifting the burden onto the non-resident speculator is not new; it is being constantly worked now; but it would not work under the single tax; for who would be fool enough to pay taxes on vacant land if denied all hope of profit? Naturally most of the advocates of the single tax are those who own no land. The only argument they need is the manifest statement that it is a scheme to make the other fellow pay all the taxes, and make land free. 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Dif- , fer-eat from picture. wh hich shows gel-capacitymoch in'es. See our plan 0! MONTHLY PAYMENTS Bowl nsom'taru marvel easily cleaned. other dairy is large or smai. Write for an catalog and monthl pnymont plan. Wurst-n “Marlins filled dfnms 1 western points menu IDAM'I'OI co. Inn 4051 Bush-1080. EV persons and to other cattle. Do- born quickly and easily with a? neuron: Denounce; Michigsnls‘srmcr , a J (Continued from page 159). _ possible otherwise. We can expect 'a considerable use of these dried milks in the years to come. During the war there was a wide use of dried milk powder in England. There are three varieties of dried milk powders: Full cream, half cream " and skim. The conclusion reached by British health authorities after con- sidering its wide use for infants when breast feeding is impossible was that "it probably was no better than, and perhaps slightly inferior to fresh cow’s milk.” Scurvy and rickets are rare in infants fed on this preparation, al- though the occasional use of fruit juice is desirable. In at least seventy- five districts, milk powder was being used in maternity and child welfare stations. The growth curves of chil- dren fed exclusively upon dried milk from birth closely resemble the aver- age growth curve of breast fed chil- dren, although atsomewhat lower lev- els by reason of the more delicate con- dition of these children. The health authorities in Great Britain have now reached the conclusion “that cow’s milk, during the process of desiccation loses none of the characters which are growth in infants.” The use of powdered milk Will be a governor that may prevent abnormal- ly high prices in the scarce months to farmers in whole-milk regions, but it gives to farmers in other‘ territories where milk may be cheaper, or to summer producers, a. relatively wider maket for their milk. The first effect of an extended use of dried milk may winter milk producers in or near large cities. This competition has its lim- its, however, depending upon the price of milk in the summer and the price of fresh butter. Moreover, to the author, there is no comparison be- tween the taste of this re-made milk and the taste of good natural milk, and the better tasting natural milk will no doubt have a wider sale under fair chances. Butter and Cheese. Despite a world’s shortage in fats, the future of the butter market in this country is beset with many price diffi- culties. This winter the various but- ter substitutes retailed at one- -half the price for butter. tics are not as yet available, all those in close ‘touch with the situation know full well that the recent per capita consumption of substitutes for butter has gone up by leaps and bounds, while the consumption of butter has correspondingly gone down. In Octo- ber bf 1918, 44,829,242 pounds of oleo- margarine were produced in this coun- try, as compared with 18,332,925 pounds in October of 1916—an in- crease in two years of nearly one hun- dred and fifty per cent. The produc- tion in the one month of October, 1918, was over twice the production in the entire year of 1899. Part of this in- crease in production has been export- ed. Thus we expcrted 60,690,783 pounds in the nine months ending with September, 1918 as compared ,with 8,509,497 pounds in the similar period for 1916an increase of six pounds to one. ' Because there were no substitutes at competing prices, a fifty per cent increase in the price of whole milk crease in consumption. But because butter-fat had a’severe price competi- ‘tor, a fifty per cent inorease in the. The Future of the Dairy Industry necessary for the support of normal, therefore be disadvantageous to the. While recent statiswincrease of twenty per cent. did not bring any appreciable de—u price of butter meant a large decrease: in the consumption. In England I am told there is no longer a firm demand for butter. Even the middle classes have gone to using vegetable fats, sea- soned as they are with butter or oth- er animal fats. Inasmuch as forty-one per cent of our milk goes into butter, any decrease in the market that is permanent is to be deplored. For the present season, however, the world’s demand for all fats is so great that a fairly firm market can be expected for butter, although we will expect sea- sonal declines. It is to be hoped that, with prices readjusted, butter may re- turn to its old place on the world’s food table. Chart on next page shows that the amount of cheese exp01 ted during the war increased substantially over the pre- -war period We should continue to be a cheese- exporting nation. Cheese, like whole milk, for its food value has no important price competi- tor. For supplying protein, one pound of cottage cheese is equal to one‘ and a quarter pounds of Sirloin steak. If the dairy herds are to increase, the number of calves must increase. It must be‘ said, however, that the fu- ture increase in milk output will prob- ‘ably be in the output per cow rather than relatively in the number of cows. The widening knowledge of the nutri- ent elements in milk will make farm~ ers use skim-milk particularly and whole milk occasionally for all young animals. We can expect therefore, a Slight increase in 'the amount of milk that is being fed profitably to young animals. So far, then, as one can forsee', we can expect an increased consumption of whole milk and an increased de- mand for condensed milk, ice cream, cheese and other manufactured pro ducts. In view of the fact that the vegetable fats are practically unlim- ited at much lower prices than now. prevail for butter-fats, we will have to expect a continued decrease in the de- mand for butter until the price of these two competing foods more near- ly approach each other. I The Supply of Milk. So much for the future demand fer milk. Now as to the supply. The to- tal number of dairy coWs in the Unit- ed States was 18,108,666 in 1900, as compared with 21, 795, 770 in 1910, an This same decade showed an increase in the population of the United States of about twenty-one per cent. But the output per cow went up notably in this period so that the total milk pro- duced went up as rapidly as the popu- lation. In 1899 there were 5,210,125,- 567 gallons of milk produced in the United States and in 1909 there were 5,813,699,474 gallons. The estimates put out by the Department of Agricul- ture indicate that there were 8,429,- 000,000 gallons produced in 1918, as compared with 8,288,000,000 in 1917. Recently I tabulated the amount of milk received at receiving stations of large‘ whole-milk dealers ‘in the Ohio, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia districts. As a whole there has been an increase in the fall months of this year as com- pared with the autumn months of the year previous. The number or dairy cows also is apparently larger . over the United States as avwhole.“ No other country at war has. produced such a record as the'United' States in. ‘ maintaining the production of milk" during the war pe1:iod.E6r our pro-. ‘duction has not only been mathtsin'ed- but slightly increased !.131! ‘ w». as,“ 5:" .s"\i‘- . . ...~.-. 1. , _, ...- m. u. ....~.~. , -~uar..n- «~1- praawsvw . w 9 ~ -.a~.-....- , whole. There has been a very dis- tinct shift in a number of dairy reg- ions. For instance, cows have been taken out of the districts surrounding munition centers, where labor was searce, into other sections where la- bor was not so scarce. .Up until January 1 of this year, cer- tainly, the demand for milk was great er than its supply. The price for milk however, in the autumn months prac- tically prohibited its use commercially general. in many sections save for condensing and whole-milkpurposes. urally came to he therefore a surplus of. milk on the market, with aAresult of decline of price on January 1.’ It is to be noted from the figures above, however, that in the last year the pro-- duction of 'milk in the United States increased 1.5 per cent. It must also be noted that this was for the year ending June 30. That proportion of increase was not kept up probably af- ter June 30, although another year of statistics can only make certain of that. Certainly the demand has ex- ceeded this ratio of increase of supply. The number of dairy cows in Great Britain decreased but 1.7 per cent from 1914 to June 30, 1918, the num- ber on the latter date being 4,548,000. The number of dairy cows in France decreased from 7,794,270 on Decem- ber 31‘, 1914, to 6,238,690 on June 30, ' 1917, a decrease of around twenty per cent. The dairy herds in Italy de- creased during the war about fourteen per cent. Because the dairy cows not killed were poorly fed, the total out- put of the dairy herds in these war- ring countries decreased more rapidly than the numbers. Moreover, it will Coliseum; MILK ' L ,. Ermrro Fun USJCIJ-BI. 191:- 11,"; means) , I’M- 21,936,,“ ,, Isiy- 15.661505 -..-r ‘ '916- 313,537,934 ,3 , ’911' ‘39. 7». on o ‘ Ian—13.911. 236.97; 1.1 ‘ CM)» 1 “'7" f 1.9g Isl; ‘ 5 I! u n N1 1151‘ (1:539? - I. ~ A take considerable time, at good feed- ing, to' get'these herds back to nor—1 mal. Until they are back to normal, we can expect to supply Europe with decreasing amounts of dairy products. To the extent, however, that these herds rely on feeds imported frOrn the United States, it ought to be cheaper to transport dairy products than the feeds. F1 om this analysis of supply and de- mand it Would appear certain that the demand for milk in the future would be in excess of supply; at least fer '- some time to come. Demand and sup- ply, however, are relative terms, de- pendingupon prices. The question as to the future of the dairy industry in the United States rests in the final analysis therefore, on the price 'of dairy products. No government agen- cy and no amount of propaganda can . change the two facts that finally fix the price of milk. The first is that one-else: the second" is that what misuse? Will choose to eat rests There nat~ of the farmers’ * g'--_ ‘ the alternatives as to- what a tamer .1. ‘ Shall grew rests with the farmer, and. with the consumer, and no one else. ‘ The practical problem is to so relate prices to farmers and to consumers that the dairy herds can profitably be maintained and increased because there is an increasing consumption of dairy products. This requires an as- tute knowledge of market conditions on the part of farmers’ organizations and aggressive cooperation with deal- ers, public agents and consumers in Wise action of this kind on the part Custer Exnnrro From THE US 0313-1310 p— .9/1 - {5513151115 1914- 17,744.70 9' 1915—621 955. 029 ' l 1 916-51, 905, 399 ': ' 1311-53 547, 0117' ' 1313-49 42.7 ,916 (Once) H r1, law 1314 1915' I916 131-: '1 13 (143'. sun, l~:.os-w’ most assuredly give to the dairy in- dustry of the United States a future far surpassing its record of increasing importance in. the past. The type of action that, will bring this condition has been worked out by certain farm- ers’ organizations, particularly those selling milk in the Philadelphia, Pitts- burgh and Detroit whole—milk mar— kets. InaSmuch as ’ whole-milk con- sumption is such [a large part of the total demand for milk, the notable work of these three organizations has reacted to help 'farmers’ prices every- where. In these three markets the demand for whole milk has not been destroyed by unfounded criticism on the part; of farmers’ organizations of a kind that reflects upon consumption. Agitations that diminish consumption or produc- tion in these districts have happily been conspicuous for their absence. Confidence is an essential part of the prices, and.that confidence these or- ganizations have created. Under such leadership there is every reason to be- lieve that the dairy industry in the United States has a future that prom- ises well. No one factor gives greater assurance of this than the fact that it is cheaper to move milk products than to move feeds, and we are essentially a feed-producing nation, as compared to the European'countries to which we have thus far looked for a consider- able portion of the world’s milk supply. MOVABLEOVROOSTS FOR THE HENS. HE sketch shows an \easily con- structed roost for hens. The roost can be taken apart and saturated with hot water which will kill all lice. It can be built Of most any kind of wood. yellow pine , being good. The flock will be free from vermin at all times if the rooSt is used and saturated in water often. .—-P. A. G. ._ When other helpers are busy Some- where else, try the milking machine; organizations can ‘ ~ Cream authorities and cow owners who De Laval. all other makes combined. ity than any other separator. tain you are to buy a De Laval THE DE LAVAL 165 Broadway, New York as 11m. All over the world creamerymen, big milk concerns, dairy judging the worth of cream separators have for years recog- nized the superior skimming and all- around efficiency of the That’s why 98% of the plants throu bout the world separa- ting large quantities of milk use the De Laval. closer that they can t afford to use any other machine. , That’s why 2,325,000 De Lavals are in daily use, more than Not only is the De Laval the greatest cream saver but it turns easier, is easier to wash, has larger capacity and greater durabil- The more you know about cream separators the more cer- Ordcr your De Laval now and let it begin saving cream for you right away. Remember that a De Laval bought for cash or on such liberal terms as to save its own cost. See the local De Laval agent, or if you don’ t know him, write to the nearest De Laval office as below. OVER 2,325,000 DE LAVALS IN DAILY‘ USE THE WORLD OVER J Saver have special opportunity for It skims so much may be SEPARATOR CO. 29 E. 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A FARM FENCE FAMINE! If you will need fence next spring and know where you can buy, DO IT NOW. even if you have to borrow the money. Don’t wait for the price to come down nor buy more than you will really need, for many will have to go without. Reason for this prediction explained in our ”Fence Famine Bulletin. ” Free for the asking. Not at all; you ’re welcome. BOND STEEL POST 00., 16 Maumee St, . ADRIAN, MIC". TIIE SELF-OILIHG Wlllllll‘lLL has become so pul at in its first four yearsth thousands have goon cslledf or to replace. on their old towers. other 111311: es of mill? and to replace. at small cost. the silafinem of {the earlier \ Aermotors.m self-oil- 1n.g ltsenclos motor keeps in theo an keeps out dust on rain. The Splash Oil- ing tem constan y floods every bearing with oil. pre- venting wear and enab 1 the $31 tolpumri in the lights“ reue. e01 on p yis renewe once ayes: Double Cigars are used, each _carryin half the lead. We make Gasoline Engines. umpo. Tank 3, Water Supply Goods on Steel Frame Saws. Writs AEIIMOTOB 00.. 2500 Tmlllll 31.. Chicago ~ FF:- "'3‘: , LIIL 3411 2.5: Direct to Farmer at Wire Mill Prices CATALOG FREE KITSELMAN BROS. 097.278 MUNOIE, INDIANA loo-lo. woody-nee A. A. IIRIV DEED 00.. “I331 CLARIIDA. IOWA Wholesale TIMOTH "Prlces Que! Manama“. Sold sub ect to yBoura reprovnl. Low- ", on Sweet Clover, Alaike Cloves, ndall field)“ seeds. “figmmfiat-sm" “PM a' ’1] SEED - CORN .cIIIGAOO. lI-IJ ‘ ,. own, shl ;‘- .5 . 1:321:11: subways]. Our 1 12-13 closer world’ M’s-econ ylel'dpea for . ety. Freecir. 03¢ J.Groves.Autwerp.0 . Keeps wstar wax-m cohorts lceWater Kills StockProfits Ice water is _,_ w ' warm y y 4‘ . heat of smmsls. Body heat' is pro-' duced by grain. It's obs-p.25.» - Wm WI“ I' stock drink 11. " Busby tut IIEAI’EI Keeps water st animal but tor half- urns itrsln cent perm hour Seven bushels of Mall on loos. uln looser. Flh°0 chug, kerosene—awoke, no sparks. BUSBY I101 WITEIlEIl drmkmore Futon Ilen- marks?" on less f to s.1-ossns No chonplns' 0,111.; Special Discount offer! his discount clot b ‘ Julio's ll. Imus moor WI“ 1111111: minim: ByJI-l F at the present session of our state legislature a bill should bob up ‘in which was incorporated ways and means of preVenting cruelty to farm implements, with a penalty attached thereto, either or both fine and impris- onment, what would happen? Undoubtedly there would be the greatest gathering of farmers at the Capitol, and a whole lot of buttonholes belonging to senators and representa- tives would be pulled, stretched, twist- ed and torn, and the end of that bill would be in the pigeon-hole graveyard of the committee that was trying to give it birth. We doubt the advisability of poking such a bill into the legislative trans- mission gear at this time. But some- ' thing ought to be done to cut down the almost general practice of farm too] cruelty in this land of the free and the home of the brave. And now that the war is over and our side is victorious ' it is a good and high time to commence looking after the'grain binder, mower, side delivery rake, sulky plow, riding cultivator, and so forth, that are right now standing out in No—Man’s-Land ex- posed to the fires, liquids and gasses of the sun, rain and snow of the enemy forces of deterioration for more. than eleven months of the year, when these valuable soldier-aid implements ought to be resting up in tool house billets and other places fully as good as some French .Y. M. C. A. dugouts, and espe- cially during this wintry weather. There is no doubt that many farmers of Michigan lose enough each year in farm implement deterioration by ex- posuie to the elements to pay the cost of erecting a fairly good shelter of am- ple proportions to house all the tools on the farm. This will also include 7 such large implements as the hay load- er and manure spreader. ’fWe took the accompanying picture ‘around the farm buildings of a farm near the southwest corner of Camp Custer. It shows not one- quarter of ' the farm tools that have been collected from the farms in that section as old .junk and. junk prices paid therefor. ‘Some of these binders. grain drills, . hay rakes and corn cultivator; had ac- 'tually been in use in the fields less than fifty days’ real service, and Were ‘ worn out largely beCause oi the cru- ~ city shown them by their ouners in the ‘ fbrm of neglect and exposure. This immense collection of farm im- ' 1" plements is a sight to the thousands of people from near and tar, and has been commented upon by visitors to Camp Custer its worth going hundreds of. miles to soc...'1‘he,avserage city bus- iness man of Detroit, Chicago, Seattle, Cshkosh, Galveston and Boston, who Brown has trained as a soldier at Camp Cusp’ ter has looked at this collection of farm machinery and commented on the terrible extravagance and neglect of the farmers who formerly owned these expensive implements. And if some of the former owners could only hear some of the comments they would be astonished. One officer said some of the owners must have been enemy aliens and ought to have been interned, as it was evident they misused these tools so they eculd not grow more crops to feed the allies. There are hundreds and thousands of Michigan farms On which stand commodious and substantial tool hous-' es in which are sheltered these wintry days and- nights many hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of farm im- plements of the same variety and make as shown in this picture. And some of these tools were purchased'even be- fore those in the picture. Yet they are still in good working condition because they have been cared for the whole This Picture was Taken, Not in France, But in Michigan. year round. We personally know of tools on farms near Battle Creek that have been in use each recurring season for over twenty years and still did good work last summer. One horse rake has been used for thirty-two years. A few repairs have been made, new tires put on or set, but that rake is good for several years yet. A neigh- bor bought one just like it at the same time, and six rakes have been purchas- ed since for use on that same farm, which has produced less hay than the one that has entertained the rake for thirty-two years. . At this moment there stands in the field of one farmer we” know a grain binder that was purchased last June. It is covered with snow today and will deteriorate more during the winter’s exposure than it would in actual field 'service for several consecutive sea- sons. That binder’ cost about $200 and the owner had hard workto raise. the money to pay for it. It Would really pay the owner to buy lumber, even these times, to build a tight shed for this expensive machine and keep it therein when not in actual use. We have pictures showing cruelty to tools by the score on as many farms. In fact, we have been asked to go out and take a number for typical. illustra- . tions, and "later on will send a few more to the Michigan Farmer. Why would it not be a good time, during the first at the new year 1919. for a few farmers to resolve with all their might and main to build a good substantial tool house and chuck there- in from S200 to $1.00 worth of the A . d r ‘Short of money this "year; but I am - - A Cooperative _' (Continued from page .155). one year but for asmh‘y as you want to stay and .do the. square thing. . I know that. it is some to -make you fibre to: see "you through. If the fences , fleed pagan-mg I. willbuy the material if you wilr‘lhthe work; ~lf you will: keep the manurecleaned up about the r stables'l‘ will buy-a spreader‘ and I want you to back it into the Shed; When you are through with it for the? day. I want you to feel that we, are equal partners in this business and we‘ will get together and talk over our plans and'nprospects: i “want yOu to feel free to cansult me and pay no at- t’entionto what meddlesome neighbors and people may say ' to you. 'I am will- ing to ,rbspect your wishes,» welmre and opinion andllay aside former. cus- toms and pet hobbies when new ideas and better ways appear- reasonable and: promise better returns with less labor and expense. When I (hive out to' the», farm to see how things: are go- ing I don’t want you and'your family to‘ think ‘there come Grimes and the old Woman snooping around to see if there is anything they can see to find fault With.’ With this aim~ in view-I thinkthat we can get along nicely and make some money during. the term of the lease and by that time you will have gotten together enough stock to enable you to . buy a little farm of your own." ‘ One of the most puzzling problems on rented farms is that of keeping up the meadow and: pasture lands. The average. tenant, who has not the live stock to derive the most profit from the production“ of grass .and forage crops, has a constant desire to get the plow into thick, heavy sod, and to re- place the grass and clover crops with cash crops. It is natural for him to give cultivated crops the right of way. A few at the more thrifty farm ten- ants, who have a. deep appreciation of the value of the clovers and grasses, are held back by limited finances and the prevailing, system of one-year leas- es. Every land-owner should take a personal interest in encouraging the better class of. tenants. and cooperat- ing With. them in: building up a system of farm tenantry that has as its basis the growing of grasses and clavers and the breeding of. improved live stock. The whole matter rests largely with the owners of the farms, as the tenant is mostly concerned with getting the largest possible returns from his labor, and not with building soil fertility on another man’s tam. Give him a long lease, and show him how it is possible to make more money as a constructive farmer than as a soil robber, and the problem will be in. a fair way to be solved. Such a change of policy will be welcomed by the better class of tenants; the others will be run out of business, or driven to districts where soil conservation has not yet begun. Landowners who fail to adopt sys- tems of leasing which provide for the maintenance of productive meadow and posture lands, will find their farms gradually declining in fertility until the yield of market crops will not pay enough to cover insurance and taxes. Many meadows have been practical- ly ruined through the tenant allowing stock to run over them during the fall and winter months. - During some wet seasons the growth of grass is a great temptation to the tenant, but the sod is'not yet farmed, and the groom! is likely to he puddled or maderough by the trampling of the stock. while many (it tho-"50%: plants will lie/pulled up hytbmts‘_ Every lease should pro- “ : niblt the-practice. for the success at Good Tenant.” ‘er food and store themjn'the roots for Farsi Tenacity ’ +5 the crop‘the following year depends in no smallmea'sure upon- the growth of leaves it” is‘allow'ed to make the first season. Leavesrmake starch and 0th? the early plant! growth the following spring. ~ With clover lithe growth of] ,1 :5 leaves serves. a .vflaluable purpose in», 4 . protecting the roots during'the winter. ’ Many land-mere who appreciate; :.V _ the value of the grasses. and. clovers . in handbag up the fertility of their; farms. insist that all of the manure . made on the farm be applied to these . crops. Such. a system is no hardship . ' totheftenant after it becomes estabw 113st the corn crop is greatly. bone . ‘efltedhy the plowing under of a thick, ‘ heavy sod, and an abundance of or-h ganicmtte'r is leftin the soil to in- sureupfmmble- yields. of small . grain... Landowners. who have adopted. a sys- tem of farming, whereby the bulk of ' the manure is applied to the meadow and pasture lands and no hay and roughage- sold from the farms, have about solved- the fertility problem. ~A . ‘ little phosphorus and potassium may be needed to balance up the manure, ‘ and lime may be needed to sweeten the soil before clover will succeed, but these elements are cheaper than com- mercial fertilizers and green manure crops, which are essential if equally satisfactory results are obtained. Under the divide-the-dollar, or part: nership system of leasing, many ten- ants object to paying a portion of the . fe‘rtilizer bills where the materials are ; when ' grass and clover seed is sown at the. used for seeding grain crops same time. It is, indeed, surprising that so many agricultural leaders will ' view the matter in the same light. I» am willing to concede the fact that the land-owner has a. more vital interest in maintaining good meadows and pas- tures than the tenant, but how any man with a fair degree of agricultural knowledge (horse sense) can advise such a practice is far beyond- my pow- ers of reasoning. My idea is that the tenant who has a five or ten year lease of a farm that is well seeded at- the start of the lease should leave the property in as» good shape as he found it, outside of the natural depreciation. A fair division of the cost of fertilizers , would be for the landowner to pay two-thirds and the tenant one~third if he only remains on therfarm the year the crops are seeded. I-f lime is need- ed on a field that is to be seeded with clover or alfalfa the land owner should be willing to pay for it if the tenant will apply it. If it has to be hauled more than two miles he should share the expense of hauling. Poultry, . garden, fruit and truck crops are a frequent source of much trouble and misunderstanding on. rent- ed farms. As a general proposition it is important to have these matters thoroughly understood and mentioned ‘ Probably, the most sat- ' isfactory solution of the poultry end“ in the lease. of the business is .to allow the tenant to keep a certain mnnber of hens, have all of the eggs. and divide the ' increase equally at the end of the sea- son. The best solution of the garden and truck question is to set aside a: good-sized plot of ground for this par-- ’Bose. The division of the fruit de- pends so much upon the kinds, quality and quantity that no fixed rules can he laid down that will apply to all cases. In most instances where there is a~ farm woodlot the tenant is allowed to cut for firewood all fallen trees, book on limbs or waste pieces of woodsbout ofthe farm. (Next week; “Choosing a i comings of the I dairy herds ed fact that He tion afterward. Wellman’s lg ‘ - is the solution of the Dairy Ration question. . 1 new thought and new feeding knowledge; it eliminates the short- many old-time. feed formulas and feeding ideas. Wellman’s Qualiteed »Dairy - . Fee on the bag here in’ustrated. It is a well balanced. high ” grade feed, guaranteed it produce, and it costs Order Your Supply Now - See your dealer and tell him how many * ' tons you will need. Give him time to order acar. You can now ’. get the pro-war QO-ton minimum carloads. same car QUALITEED Hog, your dealer cannot supply you, write to us direct l; E. L. WELLMAN GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ' ranteed analysis of Feed will be scarce. correct ' Rationing ' _- ’ .For Big Production ' T has taken'extensive, Scientific experimental, work with big to determine correct rationing. It is an establish- alth and Condition must come first, Big Produc- ’ to keep the less than other high grade dairy feed. ‘4‘. t" "a ' l . \vv my. " w ' f . Dairy Feed It is the result of See dairy herd healthy and make we can ship in the Poultry and Horse Feeds. If m with salt the ear around k fiockheolthymdfrgefromsbomoch oops . M ' m _‘ mug-okfi'm‘mfirby parody : post will new a barrel. of salt. - Mali Jar-boll... "Wt! 03- My ms elem WORKS. Grand M.» “v ' I . we!” ,4 “aka. AfiOh-finmflmfi‘ 2 alt—saves ' , .. ._——___——-— coma-cum . cost. Betrér witous'now. Mou- Dilution cunt. screen. trees automatic mixing 8. 58. , . ’ .33mflrflufla‘hbmm. necbyoke. double CD- ond cultivating “lament. ”mama, Co. Wm. Mary and. Gunnino 1.11:3 Fertiliser :qulppod “$.12“ “mag oultlvsdns 3mm [m n W the lull and at on some t with Antonymm Veterinarians . . o veterinarians-available were on” 'for Arm» servmo. They clipped- horses manuals: regular y. Just worm horses did-theirbeot work [when properly chm .so will yours. Getaclip— ‘pmg machine NOW. You can't beata Stewart Egdlm: muzzlyhflfla Send $2.00 today ' , w on on ' _ Or write for our 1919 catalog. get the machine. CHICAGO sum MT W ' Out. ”7. Ill! Shoot and Control Avenue. Chicago ._ Chops: can: when ywfiufnm J33: cost .icu M “masts“ ' new. Sun Heron-in. “unann- “HIE m3. OoJuMIQulmJu SEED CORN FOR SALE Golden Dent long crown and acclimated in Mich“. Deep tennis lam earmulstalk. m ‘ In our 70 lbs. £6.00 Shallow: bu. “ficheovy coop ' 0. B. K, R. l, Owosso. Mich. ‘ G / KELLY-31MB finding Mill ',~ _7 , Gena-aura \ e- ‘ 37%“ 00M BHA‘I’ION GUTTER and but mm. Cull Beans For Sale “CM“. to an or manager on M 305% 21, Michigan Farmer, Detroit. lick. , f '- F EEQING CORN or lots or loss. YOUNG—RANDOLPH SEED CO. Owosso, Mich. WE WANT VETCH. alight“. YOUNG-RANDOLPH seen 00.. Owouo. Mich. res.“ 0‘. Owoooo, High. 39 years of ago,,mrrlod wants arm. YOUNG-RANDOLPH SEED 00. n as canoes. ‘ Of M" 'fWhen'writingto adm- _ ' floors please mention the ' ”liaison Farmer, ‘ w . I Government Wants No horse with a Spavin, Splint, Ringbone, Curb, Bony Growth, Capped Hock, Wind Puff, Strained Tendon or Sweeny can now pass the keen-eyed Inspectors of the Government Remount Stations. Splendid-looking. horses - otherwise sound—are being turned down because of some blemish that could be quickly cured with . Gongbault’s V ‘ Caustic Balsam at the same time help in the Government’s great Thrift and Production movement. . Put your horse into condition with Gombault’s A safe and reliable remedy. . GOMWLTS . x .- u . ' '\ ‘ vol-um oi 833 J E GOMBAULT. (snowman/rm» mm m gaze-“.meezaggwmxm . testimonials, etc. Kind of; Horse the ‘ Caustic Balsam. Gombault’s Caustic Balsam if applied immediately after burns, bruises or cuts. is a perfect ant'septic—soothing and healing. An absolutely safe external remedy for man or beast. Every bottle of Ca surely give satisfaction. by druggists, or sent by tions for its use. Sen The Lawrence-Williams Co., Cleveland, Ohio ustic Balsam sold will Price $1.75 per bottle. Sold arcel post with full direc- for descriptive circulars. by dead. ‘ We indemnify owners 0 The Michigan Live Sleek Insurance Company A Michigan organization to'afford protection to Michigan live stock owners. ‘ Stat/e have paid over $17,000 in death losses since _we began business July Is there any stronger argument of losses on $1,500,000 of busineSS? Your animals are well and sound today but tomorrow ”some of themfare Insure them before it is too late. i live stock—horses, cattle, sheep and hogs, for loss 1917. accident and disease. . See our agent in your vicinity. Colon C. Lillie, Pres. 319 Widdicomb Blgd., Grand Rapids. Mich. for this class of insurance than? $17,000 Harmon J. Wells, Sec.-Treas. Graebner Bldg., Saginaw, W. 5., Mich FEEDING HOGS'I? THEN HERE 15 WHAT YOU WANT! Ask your dealer for DIAMOND HOG MEAL [Jade from the nutritious hearts of corn kernels Write to C. FRANCIS. 909 Ford Building, Detroit. for sample, literature and particulars Change of Copy or Cancellations must reach us EGISTERED Aberdeen Angus two heifers. ten BREEBERS' anECTokv. Rbulls. from eight to ten d-imnthlgrice two hundred size with quality, best of bree ng. dollars each. old. Our motto: F. J. WILBER, Clio, Mich. Ten Days before date of publication. ' CATTLE. a ’ ABERDEEN ANGUS. ‘ cows with calves at foot,and rebred to See Our Duroc Jersey Advertisement. Wl LDWOOD FARMS, Mk... w. E. SCRIPPS. Prop. SIDNEY SMITH,Supt. WE HAVE A FEW' IMPORTED “EDGAR 0F DALMENY” Apne Mich. Grand Champion Angus Bull. Great are all . It. breedin . Price 8250 F. 0. Hope born Mar. 26, 17. Gertrude of He] con. Farm price 5150 Duke of Avonda e born Jan. 1, 1918 Sire Lord Sunrise Dam Luella's Maid. Price 3100 F. 0. born Jan. 10, . Serena of Pittafleld. Price 3200 F. 0. . Avondalee Joy 1“ 8 1918. Sire Halogen Sequel Dam Wrinkle , Price 3126 F. . B . .1918. Sire Lord Sunrise, Dnm Popular Polly. Hero born eb. , of Pittiefleld Price For Sale Registered Guernsey Bell ~ Gov. Ohene Golden 'l‘ubercular tested by state. Halcyon Bequalborn 191 rand son 0 . 0. B. AYONDALE STOCK FARM, Wayne, Mich. Noble & May Rose breeding. Gov. Chene sires and grand'sire‘s B. Avondales Sire Halcyon eguel Dam KO. .Luella’s B. Avondales 1918, Sire Halcyon Sequel Dam . Avondalee Mark born Come and look our herdover. Also have four extra fine Angus bulls of serviceable age. “Best of Breeding” and at a price to sell. Orion, , ‘7 e" “f " Bred cows. heifers sndbull afiefit’dfiihsd’n 0 ‘mn. 'WOOD COTE ANGUS AN-ERIOASt it BLACKBIRDS (BLACKCAPB V ” y. The mutt ignable strains of mice breed. care run one an pod recs. 0 - r 3111:“ pump“: B' is "i’é‘g. fihfi‘ , . ' I l. ,, , liE'I' GUERNSEYS. 830 more per headior 16 trade Guernsey cows. sired by a.purebr'ed Guernsey bull. than for each of 8 cows-of unknown breeding w cent sale in‘Maryiand. Apurebre Guernseybuli can likewise increase the value as well as the pro- duction of your herd. -"The GrachuernSey’” . 1 ,. . 1’"! AMERICAN GUERNSEY 6111110]. j“ Write . for free booklet. -- , , :Poto’rbo‘r‘o.‘ _ -. . GUERNSEYS {Pgt‘é‘i’fid‘lfd' 32:3? cream» ’ 'aleobull' all stock or A. .‘b .4 “wt .53. _. . nonesmhmék . NA 10min N .. V x mm lupin. Mich. ‘fi' égERNs assesses. ' stock. and be on the alert at all times . to get all the business possible for his paid at a re-' 9 theyzbrjr'y. There are sperma'ny» people to be served that there must be a va- . COOPERATIVE MANAGER TELLS ' HOW. ' ' N discussing the management 'of 'a successful live stock shipping asso- ciation, Mr. J. D. Sturgis, manager of the Sturgis‘ Cooperative Association of Sturgis, St. Joseph county, Michigan, says: “He must be a good judge of association. He must understand‘the value of stock, how to load it in the cars and how to handle it from the time it is delivered until the cars are shipped out. “Unless he understands these things and practices sound methods of hand- ling the stock his insurance fund will slip out through the slats of the stock car. It is just as important that the secretary and treasurer know good stock and its value as he has to pass on all of the bills before they are paid. If- the commisison man has made some mistakes in getting the markings straight it is very important for him to know who shipped the cull calf, the canner cow or the seventeen-cent steer. As we are shipping to a. good firm that is very careful, and I give good markings, it is really surprising how quick we can pick each patron’s stock from the bills. We always re- tain a copy of the markings of each cow. steer and calf. Cattle are mark- ed by the use of a common pair of. shears, Roman letters being. used and the mark clipped along the loin. The animal is weighed at Buffalo the sales- man inserting his mark on the weight ticket. This makes it easy to handle and keep straight all of the accounts of our rapidly growing business. “Sheep are marked with paint. Hogs receive no markings at all and are sold according to weight and grade. So you see the man who ships the Jersey steer does not hurt the sales of the fellow who has nice, fat steers of the beef breeds in the same car. We have our own scales, office and stock yards. The manager and secre- tary receive seven cents per cwt. for their services, insurance is five cents per cwt. and incidentals one per cent per cwt., making a total expense of thirteen cents per cwt. for handling and marketing the stock.” BUY THE RIGHT_'KIND OF INCU- BATOR. ONE man says there is practically no difference in incubators—but there is. There is just the same dif- ference in incubators as there is. in pianos, in automobiles, in tractors, or in any number of things that could be, mentioned. True, incubators are all made for the'same purpose—to hatch chicks—and they. do it when the at- tendant does his or her part of the work, but people have notions about the things they buy. Even if the inside parts of all incubators were alike, and only the outside of the machines'dif- ferent, one ’person‘would buy one be“- person would buy, another“. because it me want toppa‘ya high’lprice‘whilejoth- ers Want to pay a low price .fo‘rf what new of thin’gs,‘incubators included,’in order for everyone to bestowed. In .buying an~incubator,» the,,,thing to do is ;.to, Select" th’exdpe that suits 'y'ai‘ir’notien cause it was painted red and another was painted yellow. ;Theh,__sdme~pe6‘3' werrrsscouns .BLAcKLEG ‘ g _ YourVeter-inarian moisten fig ’ them out with C'utter’s Anti-C ' Scour Serum and Cutter’s Germ Free BlacklegFil-trate andAggressin, or Cutter’s Blackleg Pills. Ask him about them. If he ‘ hasn’t our literature,'write to us for information on these products. The Cutter Laboratory Berkeley, Cal., or Chicagoflll. k "IThc’Laboratory The! Knows Rain" 1 v CATTLE One 4 Year Old ghoice Bios: Guernsey eiter, will freshen inside!) 8 rich . . “y Jivfiiyvi'ffii. M8, North Adams, Mich. UERNSEYS Registered hulls two yeareold and un- der rode heifers all afismrite 1m regtuiremente. WAL PEIPPB FAR . so lired‘ V . Detroit Registered G ernee Bull 15 mo. old. For sale also a few Bul‘l calve’ia. ' .' E. J. EIMELBERGER, R. 3, Lansing. Mich. “Top-Nnieh” HOLSTEINS The young bulls we have for sale are backed up by many generations of large producers. Buy one of these bulls, and give your herd a “push”. Full descriptions, prices,etc. on request. McPherson Farms Co., Howell, , Mich. “Winwood' Her ” REGISTEIEED Holstein - Friesia'n Cattle Sire in Service - FLINT MAPLECREST BOY His sire: s as ecrest orn y e engerve . HT. three nearest urns each over 301be. of butter in 1 days. His dam and granddam both made over-1232"». of butter in one year. It is the yearly cow we are lookin for to do iver thejoods Flint Ma lecreet Boy's am is Gluck Vassar Bell 80.5? lba'o butter n days and 121 lbs. in 30 days. Ber butter fat test is 6.21. This looks about right tothe man whoaoes to the creamerr. We have bull calves iron 2 weeks to 12 months 0 d. From A. R. . dams and sired by Flint Maplecrest Bo . which we will sell atadai farmers price breeding considered. Just think more cows to freshen which means more bull calves. Let us know your wants. We will make terms on approved notes. JOHN H. WlNN, lnc. Lock Box 249. Roecornmon Mich. Reference Roecommon State Bank. THE HOLSTEINS At M31210 Avenue Stock Farm are under Goverment superv ion. The entire herdhnve just been tuberculin tested and not one reactor. place to buy that bull you are looking for. an Ihave two very fine, richly bred. and splendid individuals ready for any amount of service. I want to answer any question you may ask about them.‘ ‘ » L. E. CORNELL, Fayette. Ohio. “Where the Champions come from” OflerBull Calves sired by sons of Pontiac Korndyke Henneneld DeKol.Pontlac Dutchlandmr Admiral Walker Platonic. . Do you want a Pontiac in your herd? Pontiac State Hospital, Pontiac. Mich. The Traverse ’ Herd We ' have what you want in BULL CALVES. the large fine growthy tyne. guaranteed right in every way. They are from high producing A.R. O. ancestors. Dam’s records up to 30 lbs. Write for pedigrees and quotations. stating about age desired. TRAVERSE CITY STATBHOSPITAL Traverse City. Mich. (TC FARM .100--REGISTERBD HOLSTEINS-doc When you need a herd sire remember that we have one of the best herds in Michigan. kept un- der strict sanitary conditions. Every individual over 6 mos. old regularly tuberculin tested. We have size. quality. and production records back.- edrby the but strains of breeding. ' a. sauce limitiliilgbru'f‘m'nomu, Mich. w, forsrfiiissr *9 f {todyegn old. records up 10 A 3.30. Holstein 00w wweeseremw" gm; Ir “and your pocketbook, and than getit. . 1‘ ,L 1",17‘5.’ . H,“ ‘9. . i‘. ii" . 11: .. , The Pontiac Herd . eo'ailho. in 7 d 3 H 'Zto- . 'l’lfigmfieflers saga hell! 0. _m.°l% Haw an... treeh’ be 0...»: ' yo .1 an. Wars-ram .33: desert... in n3 333 n- ' . ‘ 008 in»? Three re. Michigan. ‘ s. “a t. ‘Pai’oeland Stock Farris ’3 ngich. r, P. e n. e.“ vegan reassess - ,3’“ Live Stock Pavilion, FOURTH ANNUAL SALE MIIIIIIIIIIN IIIIIISE BREEIIEIIS ASS’N. ._~PERCHERONS and BELGIANS ‘ .. 10A.M., February 7, l919 CATALOGUE READY; R. s. HUDSON, seq-Tm... East Lansing, 111. East Lansing, Mich. The farmers of Antwerp will have only to do with such cattle as produce the largest amount of milk upon” the smallest amount . offood,a'11d 'ior this they prefer the pure HolStein-Friesian cow. 111111 nterested in l-lOLSTElN CATTLE Send for our booklets—they contain much valuable information. HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMIICA, Box 164, Buttleboro, Vt b ll read for service from a 21.27 lb (record Youn‘ fillet Inade’)V 3 yr. old daughterd of Sire Kelndyke Veemnn Hen lel'veld o.1lX)085.Siredb\ a 321b.1~;onof the 550.0(1) Otherd bulls for sale by the some sire. W to for-b " SIND N 1911 “anoinss‘s. Lake Odessa. Mich. F" Sale at a bargain. A few young bull calves from high producing stock. Buy one of these fine cal- ves and raise ab bull for next fa l. A. F. WOMIS, - l t . Reg. Holstein Bungmmmgés‘g' ”if; 33338 006.1 11.0 breeding. vsaNoNowU an,“ Parma, ich. ‘ 600‘ I...” acceptedK 'in paymeghofc 1:111er bred n-rfig vcs 11a y of the best, and “red prices within reach of all. rite. BO CLARKE. - V’s-aw. Owosso. Mich. . D. Pedigree Stock Farm 08ers B .Hol- P” ham, 8 stair: cattle 0h ions; White wine, extra bar-gins in calves aPndR fa] ll AM”. ails half rice. Bronson. loll. h. milk a adv. “no 530000 0 NEBEL‘S. R Holland Mich. 380‘ to 1 1110. old gdson of Ma Laglecrest. Korn. Heng. as re. da11.of lJohan. Hen Dam 18 gddau. ofPon- tiac Maid 311' Libert ends or to ms for w hat I have! or sale. bM. L. McLAULIN, Redford. Mich. buysl tavc nice high grade Holstein heifers one 2 :2“ yr. ol tides in Feb. and one 3\ '1‘. oldd no in Mar. and oneKi .bull o 2 months 01 sired by 11 gran - son of of the Pontiac' 9 and the dam 1s a Segis cow. mnfilfi ENRY S. ROHLFS. R. L Akron. M‘ich Reg .Hdstem Bull Calves“, “mile; at «191. .01 J . ROBERT HICKS. St. Johns, 00 Bnysa Belg. Holstein Bull Calf. Born 1 moan: i? e 90 a 9 8 mm“ "8 nérunols “51. Johns. Mich. 311‘” Buys six registered Holstein heifers all 2 yr. old and due to freshen soon from a bull. B. B. .AV'EY, Ak ron, M'ich For tale Registeredb Holstein dheifer breddam J Ready for Service out cbelg‘hnteslhtitifg‘ll:;¥s and Thagl’roducin Kind with ThaJemy tygo and capacity. Prices reasons is. Also a few bred Butt lulDurocs) and boars. Farm. Herbert WMumford, W. 1 Bruce Henderson. Mgr. An- Asbor, Mich. aple Lane R. ofM. Jersey herd. Bulls. bull cal- new onrld‘s tcmhfimplen :7?)me ii a nepAtlgowR. I ME? nee Cockerelb.bothoon1bs. Irwin Fox. Allegan. Mich. For Sale ll lslered Jersgm of both sex. Slam .1 Pnrht R 4. owell. Mich. inside Farm Jerseys. cler- 3yonrltn bulls. backed { tested dams. and cited by n donb e grandson of Boys Mniesty. first prize It $1111 or champion at is h. - State Fall-good lndlvid'nals.0. t 0. Deokersll-ntl Iich BUTTER BRED JmmnYSAEng TAX. SPRING BT00]! FARM. \ Elven k. fli can County. Michigan. JERSEY BULILS warrants?” 1951mm AnnArbor. Moi. W . chfimtmmiafimm out taillight: Era-mated gJot-£11?! A Mi]; 118:2: for he”. “a“? delilelred at any express ‘ The Wildwood Jersey Farm. Bulls for salehg' Majesty' 5 Oxford Fox 134214 and Em- inentLadys 1.va andont 110111.11. jesty dams. ALVIN BALDEN. Oapec, Mich. Hereiords 5 Bulls 9 to 14 months old Prince Don- ald, Farmer and Perfection Fairfax breeding. ALLEN BROS, Paw Paw, Mich. Michigan Herefords REPEATORS AND PERFECTIONS Young stock for sale at all times. 80 head in herd all ages. Farm 5 miles south of Ionia. Visitors welcome. JAY l-IARWOOD Ionia, Mich. CITIZENS TELEPHONE l22-4 Buy a Hereford Sire Improve your Stock I. Hereford Bows For Sale . 4 headregistered, 4 years old, and bred. Will contract calves at one half price of cows, if taken at once. Also two bull calves 8 months old for sale. COLE & GARDNER, Hudson, Midi. Strong in the blood of hkeWOOd Hereford: Anxiety 4thl the strain . that breeds true to tv pe and predominates the leading show and sale rings of the countn. few high class young bulls for sale. Come see, and compare. Farm adjoins town. Citz. Phone 29. E. J.T TAYLOR Ferment.|l\lich. He J d8 Bob Fairfax 494027 at head of herd. f 0" Stock for sale. either sex polled or horned any age. Priced right. EA RLO cCA RTY. 1.0-. B Assn. Bad Axe. Mich Mas arm of most 11 . write lei-1'15.“ 1 tin 1 tot- 11mm Scotch Ekfif‘mm; 31.0.3.3 «(LINWM change. John Lucite: &Sons.. B. l, moral-tat”. mm. Scotch rd bull sired b1 Vall- For Sale;- By“, snagged. dozal‘armprodwt LAUKEEUE ROI 0, Charlotte. Mich. ”$131135 I“. HOREHORN .Rffir milk lug bfieft are raised in the 3 01'3“ BUT 1rlibs HEMAhYII‘r’W Wflliamston. Mich. Stockers & Feeders Forb sSale 130 Shorthorn Steers ave. 170 Hereford Steers 11111.98) 11 2 cars of yearling Herefords ave. 750 lbs. ? cars of Shorthorn yearlings reds and roan .1hesedehornendingeodflesh.W3pOl-10 1‘ o. la. 3031268.de isJoan WOAEROde . Ottuinwa. In. 2 d Shorthorn bulls. 7 and 10 months. For Sale :81 mum... m1... CHAS. WARNER, J 1'.. Imlay CRY. mob. W gurhambyogifig bulls nearly one year 011d:8 003: 11" re 0 arrow, one so a FRANK r iniaai‘LETr,’ Dryden. Mich QRSa re ered dGuernsev bull 18 months old, sine Yeoman s Sibley Kingdom Plttstown 2nd. Would exchange for ood re tered Guernsey heifer. Charles F. Olippert 1 W. .Boulevard. Detroit. Mich HOGS For Sale RW' Berksmr" 9°"! 1* Boats all ages. P 1 ed to sell. RUSSELL mod.c 11. 1. Merrill. moh. Dulce-Jersey Hogs“ WILDWOOD FARMS Offers one of theIGreatest Bargains yet. 0 large type Duroc-Jcraey Gilt: 2 bred for APRIL FARROWING $75 to $100.00 each Bred to “J. E. L. PERFECTION COL.” Great Breakwater Bred Boar. Weight from 250 to 275 lbs. [SEE OUR ANGUS ADVERTISMENT Wildwood Farms, wag. W.E. SCRIPPS, Prop. SIDNEY SMITH, Supt. DUROC Bred sows and last fall boars. State Fair Champions and “inners Dow 11 to date breeding and correct type. Orion' 8 Fancv King headsh er.d NEW TON BARNHAR'l. St. Johns. Mich. WE HAVE A FEW choice young sons bred to 21 Defender Boal. We think this is some of the best Duroc arm is in the country. VI rite for information "HE JENNINGS FARMS. Bailev, Mich. OAKWOOD FARM A few choice D11 me fall p left Also a fine yearling so“ bred for Mar. litter. rite fox pric.es RUSH IqultOS Romeo. Mich. “I“. 0. hour assisted by ’0. THE WORLD’S CHAMP! , ‘ 0:11.331. Stock at wine-do. ' Galloway thew 0 Schoolmaster. rand boa-1: of Michiganflflsw York and mgTennesuo-m MpéMmrsho-m sugar c3“ ha ot§k- laholns statec fair. Get our emu l's prize WC City. Mich! Shadowland Farms 0. I. C.’s 200 to 300 lbs. from prize win- Bred Giltsning stock. A iew‘ fall year. lings and 2 yr. old sows. mbig type, growthy boars of all ages, guaDrantexed as breeders. Everything 5 hippedC D. NEW“ aid and registmdn buyers name. J.CAR ETT, Mason,M 0. LC. and Chester White Swine "‘ Strictlly Big Type with QUALITY. I am sold out of event ling but fail pigs. These pigs are as good—and I think better than any I 121 er hred.1 am one of the oldest breeders of Bi ’1 1pc in the U. S. NEW MAN' 8 STOC FARM. B. l. Mariette. High. 0. I. C. BRED GILTS all sold. Have some good fall boars. , OTTO B. rSCHl’LZII. Nashville, Dhch 0 I C " big type serviceable boars. Yearling sows and gilts bred for spring furrow. G. P. ANDREWS, Dansville, Mich. O I C IBoar,14 months old. Large fall pigs 0 - of either sex. 0. J. THOMPSON. - - Rockford. Mich o I C Serviceable boars sold. Gilts bred for ’ ' ‘ Marchfilnd. A ril furrow Large type. ANN Dansville, Mich. 0 I C Some choice boars and so“ gilts eligible to registn. VI’ E BROS” Roy 1 0' 1k. Ten Mlle Road one halfmile west Woodwa el. 408. 010. Gilts bred for Mar. and A ril fan-on afew .good fall boar pigs about 100 lbs. ship 0.0.D..'pa.1 expressguarantee to please. F. C Burgess f1. 3. Mosoquich o I C Ghts to flute“ in Mulch and April. Also - 0 falfiigs either sex. CLOVER 1.19 'i'oc Kuhn. Monroe. Mich. FOR 25 YEARS This establishment has been head quarters for Big Type Poland Chi nas. We have a nice lot of boars and sows of strictly big type breedln ealt Very low price. Let me know what you want. h.one JNO. C. BUTLER. - - Portland. Mich. Big Type Poland Chinas 1140011). Aug. 29 \earling and a few 250lb. Apr {lite Quality. stull'. registered. and cholera immune. for Mar. and Apl. far rm“ WESLL‘Y HILE R. 6. Ionia. Mich. Large type P. C. Largest in Mich. Boats all sold. 3) . gllts sired h and bred to the best bears the breed can produce. wit IL dams of equal merit. extreme size with quality. come and see them. free liv.ery ex- penses paid if notas replesented. W. E. Livingston. Perms Mich. Big type Poland Chinas. Spring Jillllltslb of the best of breeding. Withb quality from b. sire's and HIOlb. dam' s. Willb e bred to a. great son of the noted $6600 Gertsdale Jones. Also fall pigs. W. BREWBAKER & SONS. R.5 Elsie. Mich_ ' lllllfl with quality. Spring. sum- Blg POhl’ld C 3 mar. and gang‘s-1A,") both sex. and bred sows. for sale. G A.B NEE ll. 2. Middleville. Barry 00., DMich. Big gT 1 pe Poland gilts bred to Gerstdale Superior and Gerstdllle Lad sons (1 Go ‘rstdale Jones the $680 boar. 0. L.W R.GH'1‘ Jonesville. Mich. Gilts. Big. Long. Tall, 200 lb. Duroc Boats, AprilA l boars and ilts of the ciho cest breeding.0N Also allA 0.1 yr. Ho stein bull. F. E. EAGER a - Howell. Mich. BUROGuJERSEVS E. D. HEYDENBERK, Wayland, Mich. Large Tvpe P. O. boars all sold. Spring gilte and young tried sows, bred for March and April furrow. Free livery from Augusta. W. J. Hugelshaw. Augusta, Mick. ion herd of Big Type P C. bred 01110 and see them R. 3, Box 53. Bmt. Louis. Mich. M ichigan' s Chain sows fall pigs. LEONARD DUROC JERSEYS for sale. CAREY U. EDMONDS. Hastings. Micki quality and size. .szolll 111i s both sexes not. akin LOB, Milan, Mich. Polled and horned. \olun stock Herefords of eithe1 sex. for g ALPH 8. SMITH. Kewadin. Mich. Lar geheavy-boned gills bred to m Jerseys Junior Champion boar 8for March and April furrow; prices reasonable- Come and see W. W. KNAPP. Howell. Llohlgan Francisco F arm Shorthorns We maintain one of Michigan' 8 good herds of Scotch and Scotch Top tgkyh handled and price reasonab 0. Come and see; we a to shawl; PEOP Mt. Pleasant. Mich. Seven Scotch and Scotch Topped bulls fol-sale. Price reasonable. W. B. MCQUILLAN. 11111511 Registered bull's cows and. heifers—gonad Scotch and For Beef and Milk. Scotch Topped for sale. In prime co ion. Modern sanitary equipment. Farm 10 minutes from N. Y. 0. depot. 1 hour from To] sdo. Ohio. Automobile meets all trains. Write BIDWELL STOCK FARM BOLB. Tecumseh. “to Richland Farms Shorthorns Home of the Mich. Champions. We have just purchased the entire herd of Scotch cattle be- longing to the Estate of the lateA. D Flintom. Kansas City. Mo. About Feb. lst. we will offer a choice lot of younilgbllb for sale. C. HJ’R ! F & SONS, Ollce at Tawae City. Mich. Farms at Prescott. Mich 11:01" 5.1. sm§§°5rg.s'g§:slz..2sasl Tallow ....: ton and Whi all Ass ' ShortliornB s”Co. Shorthom Breeders Reed City. Mich. A. A. PATTULwn ‘ , B. ubmwyw for service of the choic- WM. m We h. Th Kent 00 Shorthomfireeders have both males 6 and femal cferrule. about them. L. H. LEONARD - A“Caledonia. Mich. STOCK ALL CLARE R1668. Meson. Mich. OIkWOOd ghoutho‘Emm Three bulls' siredby 9m ‘2 months old. COLLAR BROS» 0011111111. Mich Shorlllorn Callie at both Sex lorSole ‘F- J- ped cattle. The are well bred. prop- _ them, free livery expenses aid if not. as leplesented. DRODT l). nroe,l\ Mich. t1 pel.bheu1 boar JOS. SCHCELLER, Weidman. Mich. Raise Chester Whites i . Like This ». . a the original big producers HAVEstart odthousnnm of breeders on the road!» , succezsrdl eanhelpyou. lwanlttoplnyce - collnm W e min-rest. e in very“ unity re at“ “pm rite for 111’: plan—‘ More Money from Ho.’ . I. I. “I’M, 3", n, [0 Portland, Kinny-x ‘I’ Gilts bred for March. April and May CheStcrsf furrow from maturestock of the large prolific kind. Satisfaction uaran teed E W ALE ANDER Vassar. Ml( h. originators of the Famous _0. LC. Ho‘s Breed The Best TEE 110111.11 suns mos FAT 8068 ',,~ Why lose money meedi and feeding scrub hogs Two of our 0.1.6. Bogs ‘ Weighed 2806 Ponds. We are the most. extensive breeders and shippers of pure bred hogs 1n the world. Write mobstmestoryof fthemsl 0. l. C. Hogs. All foreign sh1pulentn U. 5. Government Inspected Wgh-gzebredtllleg). 130.? giggle 1868 new" ' .....:=° 1' um»: -TODAY- FOR FREE BOOK "The lot Ire-31:11 NSsls 13111: L. I. SILVER co. 1.96 11.1.1.1. run. an; , caveman. cam Nothing but I L' T P CA. of either sex: inspedion imited. spring pics I Dnroc bred gilts for Mulch and April furrow with I Duroc Jersey Sowe,’Lu bog. 1000 .31.! Gilts bred for _April furrow. Fell pigs AFELDKAMP Manlhester, Mich. IB T P C Bled Gilts, the best lot met on thefarul -atS1‘{1(esany géwd7 flu mer can afford to pay. Schoolcraft Mich ' bear and bred gilts. Cho' B‘g Type P. C' Aug. pigs at a bargain,“ A.A A.WO0D dz SON. Sal line. Mich. 1 BIG '1‘ Vpe Poland China. Get a Gilt. sired by Giant King.bred m Mouw s BigJ 1nes3rd; treeh bred to Smooth Mastodon. JohnD. VI iley-, Schoolcraft, Mich I 3’ Type? .0. Choice bred sows from Iowas greatest g herds. the bi bone synsililic kind with size and I quality. E. J. ATHE SON. Burr Oak, Mich. I Poland Chinas. S ringboars all sold. Bred Big Tpre llts ream for chiJ ment. Inspection 1mi~ .CHAMBEI {LA N Manellus. Mil-.11 Large stxle best “e ever 011 ned P 'C'Bred sows Satisfaction or no sale. W. M ILLS, Saline.Mic.h . P. 0. Strechy big boned individuals MammOth 175-200 lbs. 5k) months double Im- mune. erte wants. Clyde Weaver. Oeresco. Mich The International Grand Cham- Mahala mg; pion Hog of 1918, both cones tor sale. Sn}? ng‘deliveriss booked no ELI SPBU GE &SON Saginaw. W. 8.. Mich. Hampshires 1110114531: a bargain bredlgilts JOHNW. SNYDER, R. 4. St. Johns. Mich. ‘___4.~ ._ -_...- HORSES -7 Saginaw Valley STOCK FARM Belgian and Percheron Stallions and Muss and registered Holstein Cattle. of the best breed- ing. for sale. Eli Sprunger 8: Son, Saginaw. W. 3.. Iich. Horses Will Be‘ Horses ‘ 8m We have on hand at all times a choice selection of young Percheron Stallions. PALMER BROS., ' Balding. Mich. R R‘. Orleans. Porchlroons, Nolslsm, I'lug“Sllm‘e‘flllm.. Bursts flees: inspection in I“. L. KING A-SO - Chem“ K£ For Ss' .mmqnl m M. 011‘ a.” #1”, P":h:::n Stallions uni-arose! scene-able ~ e .n' fla‘fkhgegcfhemnm 3 finaold " n1 1' m“ 2. coins. EASY 011.] ' } ‘ « , for the week. i , 'gs‘acks to Jobbers at Detroit are: nies. $65; cracked corn $55; chop $49 0 in V .. R‘s.” :. -1' T SECOND EDITION. The markets in this edition were re- vised and corrected on Thursday af- ternoon, January 30. , WHEAT. Notwithstanding the selling of wheat by the government and the slow de- mand for flour and mill feed, wheat values have been maintained at recent figures which are’ above the minimum established by the government. The firm position of this grain is also em- phasized by the decline noted in other departments of the cereal market. Farmers are marketing in fairly liberal quantities and the increase in the United States visible supply for the week amounted to 2,313,000 bushels. Reports on the growing crop all prom- ise a bumper 1919 crop if conditions from now on remain normal. One year ago No. 2 red wheat sold on the local market at $2.17 per bushel. Present Detroit prices are: , NO-zred IDIOIIOIIOOCI$2030 No. 2 mixed ..... 2.28 No. 2 khite 2.28 CORN. Corn has reacted from the recent heavy decline. This was due almost entirely to the fixing of hog price for February at $17.50 per cwt. This has had a larger influence on marketing of corn in sections where hog feeding is a big interest. However, a firmer tone prevails throughout the country and at a majority of the markets prices have advanced from two to five cents. United States visible supply increased 1,597,000 bushels the past week. One year ago the local market was paying $1.80 for No. 3 corn. Present prices are as follows: No.3 corn .............$1.25 No. 3 yelloWIOOIOCOOIOI. 1.30 No. 4 yellow 0 I I I C O I O O C I I 1.25 No. 5 yellow ............ 1.20 No. 6 yellow ....... 1.15 No. 3 white ............ 1.28 Chicago dealers have felt safe in ad- vancing corn values not only because of the fixing of hog prices, but also on account of political difficulties which prevent shipment of- corn from Argentine. Cash prices for No. 4 corn $1.23@1.25; No. 5 $1.20@1.22. OATS. Oat trading followed the course of corn with the additional handicap of having no independent strength. Neith- er exporters nor domestic shippers of oats are bidding for the grain at the recent prices. The American visi- ble supply decreased 2,849,000 bushels A year ago standard oats were quoted on the local market at 890 per bushel. Present Detroit prices are: Standard ...... ...........59 No.3 white ...............581,é No. 4 white ....... .......57 RYE. Although the government has pur- fchased this grain at $1.62 during the past week, the general rye market has declined fully 100 in the past seven days. On the local market the quota- tion now stands at $1.40 for cash No. 2. , BEANS. . Bean values have declined. Not only this but farmers in the state have not been able to sell their beans to dealers at current quotations. Dealers claim they have no outlet for the stock on hand at the present time. Some are purchasing beans at greatly reduced figures but the majority are doing no buying because farmers are by no means inclined to sell at any wide dis- ‘count on current quotations. It is im- possible to predict the future course of this trade. On the Detroit market ‘ [immediate and prompt shipment are now quoted at $7.75 cwt. At Chicago gconditions are unchanged with prices 7 there weakly held as follows: Pea beans, choice to fancy, hand-picked at $@7.1520@7.55; best red kidneys at $11.50 ‘ FEEDS. ' ..Another decline is made in the feed prices. ‘Present quotations in 100—lb. Bran '53; standard middlings $50@51; nejmiddlings $52-@53; coarse Corn \ . 7 “i ’1L. 5‘ mmwru were firmer. w! 9.. ox‘ a.“ .L. f «4-1 3 ~. no 'I” SEEDS. As compared with a. week ago prices are lower as follows: Prime red clover $24.75;' March $24; alsike $17.75; tim- othy $4.90. HAY. This market is easy with supplies ample and prices down $1 from last week as follows: No. 1 timothy $26.50 @27; standard timothy $25.50@26; light mixed $25.50@26; No. 1 mixed $24.50@25; No; 1 clover $23.50@24. Pittsburgh—Receipts of hay have been heavy and the market is eas1er. No. 1 timothy $29.50@30; No. 1 light clover $27@28; No. 1 clover $26.50@ 27 per ton. EGGS. Egg values decline with heavier re- ceipts. Fresh firsts are quoted at De- troit at 52c; extra firsts candied in new cases 52%c. The Chicago market lower with firsts 49@491,éc; ordinary firsts 48@481,éc. Nearby western stock is sellingin New York city at 60@69c and in Philadelphia western firsts and extra firsts at $18.30@18.90 per case. BUTTER. A record decline was made in prices last week. . In Chicago it amounted to Sc and in New York 7c. Since the government removed restrictions the general market has declined from 15@ 180. The public has not been buying at the high prices. The belief is that values have now reached bottom and reactions are already noted. At De- troit fresh creamery firsts bring 46 @47c; at Chicago 40@450; at New York 44@48c; at Philadelphia western creamery extra 530. Live Stock Market Service _Reports for Thursday, January 30th BUFFALO. Tog prices here today are higher, hogs going at $18@18.25; pigs $16@ 17.50. Lambs are steady at $17.25@ 17.50, while the best calves bring $17. The cattle market is dull. CHICAGO. Cattle. Receipts 9,500. Opening quiet and generally steady on all classes. Good to prime choice steers $15.85@20; common to medium butchers at $9.50 @1585; heifers $7.35@14; cows $6.65 @1350; bologna bulls $8@12; canners and cutters $5.60.@6.65; stockers and feeders, good $10.50@14.25; do medi- um $7.75@10.50. H ops. Receipts 49,000. Held over 41,924; market generally steady; the better grades with weight favored. Tops at $17.75; bulk of sales $17.35@17.65; heavy $17.65@17.75; mixed and light $17.50@17.65; packers hogs $16.50@17; medium and heavy $16.85'@17.40; light bacon hogs $16.50@17.50; pigs good to choice $12.50@1_5.50; roughs.$15.75 @1650. Sheep and Lambs. Receipts 18,000. Market steady to 25c lower; fat lambs weakening most. Choice to prime lambs $16.50@16.75; medium and good lambs $15.25@16.50; culls $12@14.25; medium good and choice feeders $14.25@15.25; choice yearlings $14.50@14;75; medium and good yearlings $12@14.50; wethers, medium and good $10.75@12. DETROIT Cattle. . Good grades 50c lower; canners. ’bulls and butcher cattle steady. Best heavy steers ...... $14.00@14.50 Best handy wt bu strs. . . . 10,25@10.75 9.25@10.00 Mixed steers and heifers Handy light butchers . . . . 8.25@ 9.00 Light butchers . . . . . . . . . . 7.2561) 8.00 BeStCOWS..oeeeoeeeoeeoe 9.00@10-00 Butcher cows 7.75@ 8.50 Cutters ...IOOOOO-IOOIIDO 6.75 Canners ...... 6.50 Best heavy bulls . . . . . . . . 10.00@12.00 Bologna bulls ........... 8.50@ 9.00 Stock bulls 7.25@ 7.75 Milkers and springers. . . .$ 60@ 115 Veal Calves. ‘ Market 250 lower. est ........ ............$15.50@16.50 Common and heavy . . . . 7 .00@14.00 Sheep and Lambs. Market 500 higher. : Best lambs ..... e e o o o‘ o o I$16e50@17000 Fair lambs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.00@15.25 Light to common lambs . . 11.00@14.00 Fair to good sheep . . . . . . 8.50@ 9.50 Culls and common . . . . . . 7.00@ 7.50 Hogs. Market 25@50c higher. Pigs ............. . . . . . . .$15.00@15.25 Mixed hogs steady at . . . 17.50 Reports for Wédnesday, January 29th CHICAGO. Cattle. Only 40,620 cattle have reached here during the‘first half of the week, com- paring with 54,825 for the same time last week, but the mild weather has so materially lessened the consumption of beef that prices have ruled as much as 15@25c lower in numerous instanc- es. The receipts today are estimated at only 5,000 head, the smallest for Wednesday in a long period, yet prices in most instances are no more than steady. An exception was seen. in bulls, whichwere strong to 250 higher, while prime veal calves were advanc- ed 25c, the better lots selling at $14.25 @1475. Stockers and feeders were slow, with few received, and prices were mostly nominal at previous quo- tations. The better class of heavy beef steers are selling on a basis of $19@19.75, with fair to " fancy year- lings at $13.50@19. The bulk of the steers go at $14@17, with sales down to $7@11.50 for inferior little steers, largely on the canning order. Medium grade steers sell at $15.50 and upward and any good steers carrying much weight sell at $17 and over. The fat butchering cows and heifers sell at $6.90@14.50, cannings cows and cut- ters at $5.50@6.75 and bulls at $6.75@ 12. Stockers and feeders were quota- ble at $8@14.50, but few sales take place above 13. ' Hogs. Receipts for three days amount to 15 50 131,250, hogs, comparing with 136,928 for the first half of last week. The .Wednesday run is estimated‘at 25.000 hogs, and, close to 49,400 were left over unsold last night. Theifixing or the February price at $17.50 had a‘ strengthening influence. and. a $1 earl prices to advance of five cents. Common hogs were bad sellers, rough heavy packers selling at $16.50@16.75, but pigs said much higher, buyers paying $13.50@ 14.50, according to weight. Any good hogs sold above $17. Sheep-and Lambs. Prices are booming under the small supplies, only about 40,950 head having been received “during the first half of the _week, comparing with 61,165 for the same time last week. With re- ceipts today of only about 7,000 head, much of the trading was at advances of as much as 25c. BUFFALO. Cattle. Receipts five cars; the market is slow; prime heavy steers $17 @18; best shipping steers $14@15; medium shipping steers $13@14; best yearlings 950 to 1000 lbs $16@17; light- native yearlings, good quality $10@11; handy steers and heifers, mixed $11@11.75; best handy steers $12@13; western heifers $13@14; best fat cows $8.50@ 9.75; butcher cows $7@7.75; cutters .$6@7; canners $5.25@5.75; fancy bulls $10@10.50; butcherubulls $8@9; com- .mon bulls $6@7; best feeding steers $10.50@11; medium feeders 9@10; -stockers>$7@8; light common 6@7; milkers and sprirli'gers $65@150.. * \ . . age. ‘ . Receipts five cars; strong; heavy and yorkers $17.90@‘18; pigs at $15@ Sheep and Lambs. . Receipts five cars; market is strong; top' lambs $1,7@17.50;_ yearlingsf$13© 14.50;- .wethers $1L@_;l2; ewes $10.25 @10 50 . , M ket St Calves. ar ,_ eady . Top @15,‘ _ ‘ , six and two-thirds ' tion will hold The: yolume of tradevis small, with apples s’elling'at $1.75@2.25; cabbage . white 75c@$1.25; do red $1.25@1.50; potatoes of good quality $1.10@1.15 per, bushel. POTATOES. The tone of this- market has been fairly steady. Michigan U. S.‘ No. 1 whites are selling in Detroit at $2.85 @3 in 150-1b. sacks. This grade brings $2 in Cleveland; $1.65@1.’70 in Cities.- go; $2.05@2.15 in Cincinnati; $1.93@ . 2 in Pittsburgh; $1.95 in Indianapolis; $3.25 per 150—pound sack in Columbus. Michigan growers are generally hold- ing for higher prices. The demand shows improvement atvr'upstate points. GRAND RAPIDS Shipment in carlots of potatoes out of western Michigan of 1918 crop is a little less than that a year ago. The best informatiOn from dealers is that the amount in pits is very light. Some growers marketed. last week at $1.10 per cwt. Onions higher. Last fall the dealers bought for 60c per cwt. and now pay $1 One firm bought a few cars last week. Western Michigan cel- ery crop is nearly exhausted. Crop was less than a year ago on account of damage in the spring. Dealers in beans report the demand light and movement slow and, they now quote Michigan pea variety at $7 per cwt. and Red Kidneys $9. Milling compa- nies pay 65c for cats; $1.35 for rye and $1.55 for corn. HOG PRICE FIXED. A minimum base price of $17.50 per hundred pounds for hogs for the month of February was unanimously agreed upon today by the hog committee meeting at the Food Administration. ' NEws OF THE WEEK. _ (Continued from page 156). $881,000,000.—The United States gov- ernment will maintain sufficient mili- tary equipment to arm forty-eight div- isions. ' ' Sunday, January 26. THE peace conference unanimously adopts the League of Nations pro- ject—The royalist movement in Port- ugal is meeting with reverses—A con- gress having its principles-based on the principles espoused by the German Spartacans and Russian Communist and Bolshevist parties‘vhas been called to meet at an early date for the over- throw of the world’s capitalistic, sys- tem—Chicago meat packers urge gov- ernment supervision of the entire meat industry of the countr . ’ Monday, January 27. THE expressions thus in given by the Russian factions toward the invitation of the peace conference to send delegates is that the Bolshevist government is hostile to a meeting un- der the conditions proposed. Lithu~ ania, however, is willing to place her case in the hands of the League of Na- tions—Czech troops capture Olderberg from the Poles. Tuesday, January 28. BOLSI—IEV‘IKI troops in ‘northern Russ1a. are now on the offensive and have forced the Allies and Rus- ' sians- to retreat thirty miles.-——All na- tions sitting at the peace confe‘renCe, including nineteen small powers and five great 'powers, have agreed unani- mously on-the main subjects thus far considered..—-.-Additional tonnage of food from the British army is being sent to Austria—The Trans-Atlantic freight rates have been reduced sixty- _ per cent—Eight states join ‘ in the ’phone rate war, to assist Indiana in fighting the in- creased toll rates. MICHIGAN L‘DAIRYMEN’S AssecrA- , TlON. , The Michigan. Dagr'ymenfs ABSOCia; a spec a .meetin = at the Kerns Hotel at Lansing, Febru'gry 4, at 1:00 o’clock p. m. - 1 .. :- ' Mr. M. D. ~Munn, president of the gimme Dairy Council,}will,_be pres,- atJthe me sung. ._ The ob - -- g. HONORS“? , woesseoes Auk your dealer for “overstate“. Look for the trade-marl: on sole. :2- nmunmasuco. i RaK. TIRES 7 . Are Retreaded Tires Contain'twiim as much tame and as much Metros ordinary new tires—— ‘ are «Muted and double chain stitch— 4 ed together“.tto make them practically 1 . puncture-proof. So durable they take to rough, ‘ frozen roads with ease-— yet their price is about one-half that I of a new tile—and they are guaranteed. “:2an He the little prices of our manned tires. x4 .81: (0 an; 1-2 850 34:01 1-2 13.50 8.218 1.2 1300 35:4 l~2 “.00 88:! 1145. 36x4 1-2 14.50 Add ‘1.” to the hb ov- for Non-Skid Tito . 2mm midterm: with or to mm mm mutt-ea vggrh'nll (3.0.1). orders R. K. Tire Company 837 hired-St. Why Send WWW booklet and price List. l l” AreYouProtecting ’ “ -Your Child? ,. it If you teach‘ the little one ,1 ; ‘ regular bowel movements, you ' p can almost guarantee normal 3 health, and help the child to - ’ " develop strong resistance to disease. , Valuable information ; about your child is given on a booklet called ‘ “As The Twig Is Bent” - , which will be mailed you free ‘4 " on request. Write today to . I . ' ‘ Nujol Laboratories . srnnonno on. 00. (NEW JERSEY) 3 $0 Broadway. New York p. . fore sending it to this office. 'cially is this true of clause seven; , some feeling that this clause did not. ry - Letter to ’Daitym'ejn. * HERE Seems to have been, in ) ' area,ysome_ misunderstanding in regard, to diterend clauses of. the milk ’ producers application and agreement. , 'for membership. Most of these clauses have been, by different individuals, out, out and the agreement mutilated be? Espe- protect the producer against loss. Inasmuch as you are not making the; agreement with the buyer, but with your association, it can be seen that the buyer has little or no advantage as a result of your violating the agree-2 meat. Should a dealer attempt to ' take advantage of you it would arouse, all the producers in the Detroit area .‘ under the leadership of the associa-’ tion, which would make it unpleasant for that dealer. Our contracts with the dealer are. strong and binding. They claimed we: ‘ were tieing them up too closely, leavo V ing them without opportunity to make ~ needed changes. . Your association has been working to stabilize the business that every‘ man would be protected from undue :change. We have gone as fast as: would warrant in bringing about an' 3understanding between the producer. ‘and distributor. We must establish confidence upon which to make a per- manent business foundation. Detroit the association because they are will- . ing to abide by our test any time we I are able to do the testing. This would increase the work of the secretary‘s oflioe, yet it may be necessary. The estimated loss to the New York producers in the last strike was more * than $2,000,000. It is safe to assume an equal loss to the distributors. Here ‘ is a loss of $4,000,000 which is enough Ito bring a severe shock to even so. great a business .as the dairy supply , of New York city. Besides a. lack of ‘ confidence has resultedwhich will con- : tinne to be a menace to the New York 'milk industry. Success. Ultimate success must depend upon The Detroit area cannot safely be sep-y arated from the tap-state production, and we are mixing an endeavor to ‘bring condensing interests into line, ‘ which is being accomplished. The sup- werintendent of a big condensery re- ;cen'tly’told your secretary that they ‘ were Willing to cooperate with us. The .Pleasant are now swinging into line, having gone farther than others by an- thorizing the use of a cent and a half for advertising and organizing; this is Tanning littornution made to o r, you 1‘: . Robes. din , Gloves, Wteu La 'es‘ Coats. Sets 0’ Furs.- Rugs. 1*. W. WEAVER Oust-om Tabular ‘ ' ‘ . a :3 M1 . . )1 on wow nascent ‘ nos ‘ ‘ endows To mama-r. 0mm, «Hi. 110193681 _- ”g. . . ee mt forecasts from ' Alonso or; cattle hides Taxidermists . work on Deer Heads. ‘ = firm? trial. Money back- . r- antee. ' colotut attendee!) weaken» yr " BMW is here. nave yeti); to be sent to the State Association the local. 'This factory is now using "seventy-five thousand pounds of milk ,a day. .We should take over the testing, en- large‘ our force, fortify ourselevs of food stufis before the cost of pro- duction is reduced. This can only be : done by a united effort. R. C. REED, Sec’y. 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Whatever is worth growing either in vege- tables or flowers are listed in Baumgarten’s Catalog. Baum- garten’s early Marketeer Toma- toes—best and earliest on earth ——fifteen cents a packet. Send for our 1919 catalog. IT IS FREE Chas. M. megaflel Seed Co. 310 Third Street ’BAY CITY, - MICHIGAN m . Mt. POULTRY F ARMER :‘ ; Could you give me a formula for: We make a. specialty 'of White Hennery Eggs and We created I. profitable market for your eggs the ' “tigers “.223” ”WW“ W ery - 9 some 3 parents arrive. Ship Often—filth by Expat.- CEO. 1!. 513310615 CO. cos-10mm“. intuit, Mich. Remember! We gun-me: yon ”Motion with every shipment. “some. mummies; We. are-u .B’oof. Hgfi.,calv°a.l . use. vr . nge'and root crops. curlers or less. ski ent- > will be up reciated and have our best care imminen- ' mm 'CULOTTA 8: JULL Eastern Market, Detroit, Mich. We need your shipments of PoultryJVea Dre Hogs. Live Roasting Pies. Eggs. Live Bilbbitssafl Game. Highest prices ros- e obtainodonurivnd. We can handle your Patnto us, Onions, W. Cabb- our on you don't have to wait for your money. tion, Reference Peninsular State Bank. H AY Ship To The on: Reliable Hem. - Daniel McCaffrey’l Sons. 6234325 Web-1h Bldg“ Piuburch PI. VVrlte forour I'llustrz ted Cl c 1 ‘tlsfin; most wrrpmi'r BlEl‘llAzglNG“ o s mvto 0 more u‘ r .octod . DIAMOND BOX grins. col, youMfineawligsstm on dairy farm. practical married man who could Inter take charge, in satisfactory. Address Box P-2l, Michigan Farmer, Detroit. Mich. SOY BEANS FOR SEED 500 Bu. at $3.50 per bu. Wm. Goetz. Foley, Alabama l Seed ‘ ‘ New Marquis spring wheat. Early ' 'l ‘. , barley heavy yiol‘delri: fifl’hk 3:551:29, 1%?9dé’fif‘fiflffifi W SHEEP TOTIIC Kids ed Harlin-shire and Shropshire ewe. that will have lambs this spring. I wish to sell :11 to‘ you and buy. back the ram lambs next fall at a. mighty good Vilqe‘ Start now in coma” way. Liberty Bonds taken. rite at once for particulars. ' KOPE KON 'FARM. S. L. W'lng. Owner. Kinderhook, Mich. 200 Brod Ewes “We “the“. “wins two in lotsto flu years, bred toShrop Rams. it. ALMOND B. CHAPMAN, South Rookwood. Midi. Yon-lingo and Ro- Shropshire Rams mm... of Q...“ B.D.KELLY&BON. - - ,- Ypsilanti. 'ieh. FOR SALE anticipatory LAMBS. on” ARMSTRONG BROS. z-i XFORD Down Ro- Mbs. also f . 0B9 rkshire both Sexes. Booking ordaergvlcg-wfeailam CHASE STOCK FARM. R. l, Mariette. If STOCK. FABM, WANTED: REG. Fred. Wolfe. allover. M g‘flh’v, Ll” .‘ w I- | gunk-“mm. M. \ “Dorm t. ‘Mloflfil mm '69 , “' t x Bradstreet. J. M. HICKS t SONS. B. 2. of Mich. I have '75 beautiful register- Fowlorvllle. Mich. . , Q Registered Oxford Do - For ‘ ale ewes; can be seen atwnFArIaénvng. Williamton. mos. o. 9 111‘ pM .s. ~— f‘s ‘m' J. “I: ,. I, . a Quick action on your part '4 If! A‘ "' LI Thisis 's Home [11410. 3.3111. 1001 hint age (a! be! ore an a un re oreto beautfiul designs in the ”Harris new free edition of the wt Hams Book ofPlans. Ex— their MB cellentarrangementfive MINOtdeII’? Building rooms and a he attic. 'sdelsyl Gunman-m new.“ will cause a stu endous rush of ope rat:ons The dol sy willcs NOW is the Time to Buy Watts No.4 wn'r'rs conu $7710 {SHELLERS . 1 All Sizes New Yours _ “ capacity'lStolzs At Big Cut Bushels Per Hour Prices! ,, ' Mall _ the Coupon .. ' for Our SPECIAL BOOK of THIS Watts No. I Corn She her for the man who shells corn only for his own use. Capacity 50 to '15 bushels per hour with n 8 B. P. engine. now $38. 30. Order No. IIR. SOO- Watts No. 4 Corn Shellelr. built for the manbu «thls shells for him- self and a few neighbors. eanClly shells 75 to 125110 tr hour with 0 8H. P. to H. P. engine. Cleans sand ‘Mwmemmels thecobs. now $17.10. No. I. R. GOI- Watts No. 7 Corn Sheller with stander €19?“ch includinl wagon box, grain elevator. cob stacker, ""type" on steel trucks. Capacity 200 bu. per hour. now S Order No. .I.R.908. Watts No. 8 Double Cylinder Corn Shellc for custom wag with standard equipment, wagon box elevator. swivel b stacker fiedgrgnggesel trucks. Capacity600 bu. per hodr. now 6.80. Order a . . Mail the coupon for our special book of this great sale. IN DOOR) TOILET One - Piece Sinks :cgrroved chem- Mindoor closet, oogerlfl-hedln rc . In . t metal ’rsnie In;l base. “I" In ename e complete withexh. t I che‘u‘.”° 'oou'“ kdstralner: , p1 Learners-a: name... 3.1.3." ISIS. eat-JISIZ. 75. Stickney Gas Engines ‘43“ II. We are now prepared to make quick delivery of this celebrated [high guaranteed perfect gasoline engIne ieri sizes ranging from 1% to 16 horse power. Take advantage of this opportunity to buy these famous Gas Engines at money saving prices. erts today for speclal catalog Inns-Lulu: IIIII Ilne. 1 inch Iron Pipe 3;“. 7c COBBLER Outfit Good Iron Pipe In random lengths. complete with coup- lines In all sizes are now oflered at prices that save money. 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Dinners-Rue Hausa Ill annCenSsllsr yam M Izmnmlvomsnm em. information to us at a time when we are bettersltuated than ever Impress upon you the t mean and moneysa savl sdvsnta tags 31 Way.” The great war ending almost as sudden t s .w ”3 int the:o uilding d. “dun one Inc ui k erected and ready! 9 ham-mm “on so ‘NO I L" 53, C) o r experience through a (J/Pis' I The EH W” has excluisiveho meritsand ’"vrm ‘ humourm vantages forth e carefulyho " possessed by no other methodtoda ‘ ..'.. \ Farm Su ’ It Is the ’0“? Meant to} waytobullldymridealhomerigh In: 8 single Openny. The mate will come to youprepa nmore mm... You pay for nothé’nfio you do whatis thcwork MW twiceheforeyoupassthls IS THE TIME TO our xoun ROOFING WecanShI VourRooIln Promptly 3 Or or NO I This Is your big chance to buy Pre- pared Roofin n.lg Steel Roofing and Siding at an unusua saving. But you must act quickly to get your share of these savings. ORDER THESE SNAPS Direct From This “Ad”! Aisxh 0gb grade rubber surfaced roofing put up 1 sq. f.t to the roll. Complete with uni cemcn cn.t No.1. ms 2. 8-ply. perroll 0:131. 2-ply. per roll 81.1.7. l-ply. per roll .3 Rs hide I faced Gold Metal Roofing to IS {03%; Rollégonznotggi 108 so. It" nails and cement included. No. Jon. s W I‘D“ a Our Famous Rawhide Rubber Roofing. 3-pog.q guaranteed! " 12 years h grade coverin Rolls contain t., nails .. cement inc. mied JR. .3 ,s-ply. per roll shoe; only.” [3 $1.40 H) y. pérroll $1.20 hi h d tin ed figfil‘tfifififi: 's ' rs... ° :°° rigmfigé .In 305' wmllpcii’niiaq. 1t... 'nalls Corrugated Metal RoofingSheetsl 33in. ted . ' l Erasm‘“ Santana? ,2... are. #29:“ ted 29?“. comdateiover- :1in an. 301 100 It. sun. '9" a“ Square unmmgumteazgcmm ‘ . No.1.n.soe.paloooq.rt.u.so. : e . . . . .. . . s s ' ' I r;- III‘III H‘ g. "5 '$ ‘9 «a . celaln enameled 5 ft. bath tu circle ‘Eovstory Maine “1% inches. and low down closet outfit kthw Idenoak ncavy copper lined tank and s hon wash dow nvitreous na closet bowl: seat and cover at closet nhhedto tomatch the tank. he h furnished complete etewith al nickel-plated fit ttingsebov e the line. bat h cock. faucets. so pipes. one. ready to install. - "II—Beth “‘s'fis‘a’m" ”tumm° “ik‘lffiamtdtfiémfim m.“ 1:3: fle- I... IT‘S—Closet Outfit. comp lets,‘ 27.00. , . O . a _ ~-\ NOWistIIeI'imetoBIIy '= / 5:3?» The Harris improved cut-to-fit system gives you the utmost possible' In quality. economy 9 and serViceJ You rout directly—immediately ‘ " p uarter century. rgl" prepared complete for our use in a way that is instantly and easily un erstood. \ Famous Tubular“A" Iii builder. flamsgeady-to-cutzglguses “’— At Blg Bargaln l’Prlcesl and most sensible I'm. 1.. Harris Home No. anions. especially designed with canned attention to and both: Manyothers in thence.” edition mag: Kath: of the Harris Book of Plans. New Ready! The most and not “€me hfifii‘fimi‘; gmmmm shundre‘d “a. minus was: amen OnlerIOIII Mus-sued. sun the coupon so:- your mesons noel - - - z - I’ . - I, , I - NOW' Is the Time to Buy the Original, Genuine SHARPLES » ‘ emu SEPARATIIII Just a limited few of these splendid Cream Sepa- raters. the World’ s Best. now re- main for quick buyers at the big need prices below. Our first an- nouncement of this ght us thousands of or ere from lead)“ farmers and dairymen everywhere. Your Old Separator Taken In Payment! We take your old Separator 08 your hands dssnd make a liberal allow- pace for it towards the purchase of your new Sharp es. You can herpay for myg mostli tryt it" 01-80 days at our expenseam figubleor guars nteecocs [13,":st for new erderdlrecttrom “NIH?“ Look at the 816 SA VINGS! Eomgwshmment assured if you so! quick. 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SI}: Barbed Hog Fencing. 33c Pulled “PRESTD'U "BOP” BOfl'To 053M §anized {misgflhdadeglfnllg‘lll 3‘5‘3 Ems", "° 3“ air: :23? herewith? res o- ]: scome you 9'“ - 2100:: ogvenient interchangeagggwggg IR" 210. 822i? ”$156de 336- Patfdfiexclusive {fiatufiegfrom ouggztiionto G¥'@?w Wirellgolhsfi3a ‘ 336w. willconlioggrcoggletedescripltidn 23..” 3‘3:- "IFMW filfifi ct Presto-Up Sectional Gangessndflousm. . - . 9 . s ' . 0 ,7 I 3 Vs ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANT F" PM W * W tury.‘we wehaye been well and favors ' knowh tocount'le‘ssthousangs so customers who ha than T W nuiarofit in d Wreck 75 htRume- ' I milieu-me auxin-t , Ih'lk electric j ,. ' ‘ {gymm’tmmm mtg?“ oom- : ~ 1 ‘yourdgflntenew‘ “ ' Owingutunfirk‘et . V I . mural-E ‘ on? » was; ”a I "“33” “wwwgnma' $33“ amnuwemsmmth' uggxfi’ “firm. We: Monument. Got LR. 317:1? x 29. ‘0'._> on“ O. .9 '2: do .5. every renuirement for the farm. Seven moms -