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DETROIT, JANUARY 24, 1920





9





CURRENT COMMENT





DEFINITE agri-

cultural program





 





A” Agfl’ is deemed to be the

cultural need of the hour by

Program all who have given





serious thought to the

conditions which now obtain. There

is, and perhaps fortunately, not the

same unanimity of opinion as to what

the program should be. The great ma-

jority of leaders; of, agricultural

thought who have given years of ef«

fort to the study of agricultural condi-

tions and needs are of the opinion that

a sound business program is the great-

est need of American agriculture at

this time. The ideas of two men. who

are well known for their devotion to

the cause of agriculture, on this sub-

ject will be found expressed elsewhere

in this issue. We refer to the address

prepared by Dean Davenport, of the

Illinois College of Agriculture, for the

annual meeting of the Illinois Agricul-

tural Association, held last week, and

the address of Colon C. Lillie, president

of the Michigan Improved Live Stock

Breeders’ and Feeders’ Association, be-

fore the annual meeting of that body.

These addresses represent not only

the personal views ,of the two men who

gave utterance to them, but give fairly

accurate reflection to the ideas 'of a

large element of thinking farmers in

their respective states. There are, of

course, a great variety of opinions as

to the details of the needed program

for agriculture, but there is, fortunate-

ly a medium through which these can

be reconciled or compromised into a

definite program which will be accept-

able to the thinking farmers of the

country and which will be a construc-

tive force in the development of such

a program. Even in its present incom‘

plete status of organization the Amer-

ican Federation of Farm Bureaus is a

better vehicle for the development and

advancement of a constructive agricul-

tural program than any or all other

. farm organizations, which in many

ways are working at cross purposes in

the present emergency.

Unfortunately, perhaps, the nature

of a. desirable agricultural program is

not more a point of issue between dif-

ferent factions and their leaders, than

is the method of operation to secure

.its adoption. While one school of

thought advocates a business program

Motel; in a business-like way, with

, A Mable promotion of needed educa-





00 whole.





,, M, 11d desirable legislation on a bug .

V ’ ‘ We buts another and opposite sch ‘





M compromises and widest-able

cemplications.

Probably a measure of both ideas





'would best meet the present memen-





 





Cy. Certainly equitable Warden

of honest and c yacht flame-r rem

mutation is desirable in both state and

steam govemmmts. Such a repre-

sentation could aid materially in effeoe

lively carrying out 0. sound and sane





 





_ agricultural program which would be





beneficial to the country at large as

Well as to the industry directly inter-

ested, and this is the only kind of pro-

gram which can succeed on its merits

and give agriculture the permanent sta-

bility which is essential to the contin-

nod prosperity of the country as a

But such a program must be

formulated on a business rather than

a. political basis and without considera-

tion'i’or political combinations or ambi-

tions which are certain to seek advan-

tage through this medium.



Right at the beginning‘the tumors

of the state and country must deter-

mine this point of policy In launching

an agricultural program. Much of the

success or failure of such a program

will depend upon whether it is based

on sound business principles or upon

parternalistic ideas looking toward

class favoritism. The safe and logical

course would seem to be to develop a

sound business program, then further

it by all fair means at our command.

Such a program with the united back-

ing of the farmers of the state and

country will succeed in spite of politi-

cal ,opposition .or .' combinations, while

even an serially good program based

on political or other class alliances at

the beginning would be more than

likely to be “deuteron? 37 its accom-

piishment if it escaped made the

football 01’ the politically gnabdtlous.



This is a proposition worthy of the

serious and sober thought of every

farmer, to the end that there may be

a crystallisation of Waive agricul-

tural thought emanating directly from

the farms of the country rather than

from those who seek to express as well

as to mold rural thought in the pres

out emergency.





HE heartthrob of





. . . a progressive live

firchgm 8 stock husbandry was

ve Stock vividly exposed at the

Industry twenty‘nlnth annual





meeting of the Michi-

gan Improved Live Stock Breeders and

Feeders’ Association at East Lansing

last week. The pulsings of a better

system of breeding and feeding, and in

more highly organized production were

sensed in every turn. The future of

agriculture in Michigan is in its live

stock, and human skill is being sys-

tematically directed toward the better-

m-ent of man’s farm companions and

their surroundings.



Despite the necessitous encroach-

ment of the war-time system of farm-

ing upon the cultivable area . of the

state, there remains a large and stable

number of milk, meat, wool and pow-

er-producing animals within its bor-

ders. The dairy industry has steadily

increased the value of its herds and

products, due to the demand of numer-

ous populous cities for milk, and the

efficient organization for the sale of its

products. In recent years there has

been a marked revival of popular in-

terest in sheep, and flock husbandry

is decidedly on the upgrade at present.

There has also been a return on the

part of hundreds of farmers, favorably

located, to the production of beef on

grass, plus grain and purchased by-

product feeds. ,Alfalh. clever and oth-

er legumes, in addition to forage crops

are extensively grown, carefully saved

and frugally used. 4» Althou'hT wicks



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is to this fact, now.



many Michigan farmers , '

spreading popularity and Winn

01?mede draft horses in the state

may be attributed. The improvement

in the quality of homes kept an the

slim or the state Wes mindsets)

that better hat-sea are «mild to the

Mummoffiarmlandinalimm

of Elohim.





In organization and comm-unity Work~ once. -—The

.the state is beginning to excel.





Thein

live stool: shipping assOciations, the

county breeders’ associations and the

boys' and girls’ pig and calf clubs are

having a quantity as well as a quality

Influence on production, and the on-

thusiasm exhibited at the Various

breed association meetings last,Wed-

nesday testified to use widespread na—

mm or these undertakings, and mai-

cated in a convincing manner the pro-

gress made along live stock lines. -





IGH'I‘ now we are

' at the height}: of





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my doc the great indoor sport

Farmers of representing the

farmer. And t hi 3





competition in representing him by

real and near and would-be leaders of

agricultural thought is representing

the great mass of American farmers to

be both for and against various import-





ant legislative Moms now pending.—





Dependmg um which of these “oili-

cial” interpreters of rural thought may

have last or most successfully held his

am my conscientious member of

congress, not in close personal touch

with a rural constituency, might possie

My rate the farmers of the ministry as

a constructive some which will Mr 11

automates for the nation between the

conservatism of capital and the radi-

calism: of labor, which is undoubtedly

the role which the tumors of the coun-

try will play when their real sentiment

is crystallized into forceful expression.

And again he might as easily deem the

farmers as radical to the type of labor

leaders who advocate the nationaliza-

tion of industry, or other types of state

socialism. '



To the end that our readers may be.

come familiar with this special repre-

sentation in their behalf at Washing-

ton and elsewhere, we are publishing

a series of articles by our Washington

correspondent, which 'will discuss in

an impartial w'ay the various man

agricultural spokesmen who are locat-

ed in the national capitol and the man-

ner in which they are representing the

winners of the county. The first of

these articles will appear in the next

issue. .



But this work of “representing the

farmer" is not all done at Washington.

Some of this given ”local color,” seem-

ingly for greater eflect. The We

of Michigan have recently been repre-

sented in this manner by a bunch of

some fifty labor leaders and a half-

dozen others who “represented” the

farmers of Michigan, but not one of

whom makes his livelihood fmm the

team, who “instructed" the .Iltichiun

delegation in congress “to introduce

immediately and to work unremitting-

ly for the prompt enactment of legisla-

tion making mandatoxy a two-your et-

tension of government operation of the

railroads from March 1, 1920.” .



Possibly this may be in line with ag-

ncdltural «sentiment in Michigan, but

we fancy there are a 161 of farmers ini

the state who ‘were not acccptably

“represented” by this aggregation of

labor leader! and their allies at the Do-





does, toward the Plum plan of; opera-

tion. which has already been fa





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velopmnnt but before me United States

Senate to exempt the St. Lawrence and

a rivers, is defeated. ~Rioting in





Berlin is met by government troops us- '





ing machine gens-413161 ceal strike

settlemt commission starts actual

work at Washington.





Thursday. January 15. i

113er may: like itself

out. at a threeday



rail service being

linked mm toes. “It is estimated

by the secretary of state that time

will be over 400,000 automobiles licens-

ed in name this year. —-The United

States committee

urges loom mad the

prevention of - and race rm-

ing. —The work of returning the bodies





of United States soldiers who fell on ‘





foreign battlefields, to this country. is

started by service men who are al~

ready working in Belgium. Federal

prohibition inspectors are charged

with inspecting fruit juices and older

contain-mg more than one-half of one

per cent of alcohol. —~Girl scouts of Am

eriea new number 60,9





Friday, January 16.





THE first meeting of the League of

Nations is called at the French

Foreign omce in Paris, with delegates

12mm France, Great Britain, Italy, Bel~

glam, Greece, Spain, Japan and Brazil

present. '—-Prem.ter Clemenceau with-

draws his name as a candidate for the

presidency of France. —-A13lies complete

their note to Holland asking for the

extradition of the former German kais-

er. -.-Great «statement accompanies the

elections in 138 boroughs and urban

council areas of Ireland ~«Great Britain

is becoming W over recent ad—

vance: of the mm was toward the

boundaries or millimflersia and Meso-

petunia. —-Hayt1a‘n W! are levelled

by U. 1.8 Marinas—Omar; of the Irish





republic protest $33” the authorit

of the [league of tins. y





Saturday, January 17. .



THE French assembly elects Paul



Deschanel president of France.—

Tlm United States steamer Buford ar-

rives at Henge, Mined, with 249 on

Walden aboard In be deported to

Russia. --A threatened alliance be

tween the holsheviots of Russia and

the Mohammedan hordes of Asiatic

Turkey is claimed to be iorcing the ml-





 





lales to move tor peace wow the Leanne,





government ——-Allies need note to Hol-

land demanding rm Empemr Wil-

liam.——-Silk mill workers in Patterson

N. J., refuse six per cent raise in wag-

e. and walk out, their demands being

for a fifteen per cent advance. -—Pres—

ent retail sugar prime the too high, ac-

cording?» best one: growers of St.

Clair cmty.





Sunday, Jumps-y 18.



w $1130 goon gathered in Berlin.

a. ge re all proposals

modification of his reservations to

the peace treaty y. ~ is asking

bids on the construction of 18, 800 rail-

way cars. ——Japan reports to China that

she is ready to begin negotiations for

the return of Shantung to the Pekin

government. ——Bolivia makes the Unit-



ed States gold dollar legal tender.





Monday, January 19.



A SEVERE blizzard prevails over



Michigan and New York state, dis-

rupting traffic generally. —A bill plac-

ing workingmen’ s’ councils under gov—

ernment control is passed by the Ger-

man national W1. ~Six American

vessels are in eril off the New Eng

land coast as t oeultof heavy seas

and in one of these forty-nine persons





are reported lost—4mm L. Dressel. act-

ngcommissioner and charge d’aflnlres





of the United States, arrives in Berlin’





to take charged “American interests.

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Elmer E. Reynolds Our Special Representatzoe at #212, National Capztol Tells of #212 Progress Being





HE farm organization headquar-

ters in Washington are just now

centers of unusual activity. At

one or. the other allies of the farmers’





' representatives any week day one may





meet farm leaders, men whose names

are familiar to farm paper readers,

from all parts of the country. They

are here holding conferences, attend-

ing hearings before congressional and

senate committees, and dOing their

part to promote the interests they rep-

resent. , _ « , -

Collective Bargaining.



The Capper-Hershman bill giving

farmers the right of collective bargain-

ing in the sale of their products, is one

of the really big measures before con-

gress. This bill originated with the

National Board of Farm Organizations

of which Charles 'A.’ Lyman is secre-

tary, and is being vigorously pushed to

the front by this organization.

bill is not class legislation, as has been

claimed by certain papers whose edi-





tors are evidently unfamiliar with anti»





trust legislation. It guarantees to the

farmers the same rights in trading

new enjoyed by other classes. The

farmers arenot asking for special priv-

ileges. They want equality before the

law, and the National Board of Farm

Organizations is doing its best to see

that they get it., There are strong

probabilities that the bill will become

a law this session, but it needs the ac—

tive support of all the organized farm

forces.

Bills to Control Packers.



Packer legislation continues to hold

an important position in the activities

of congress. Hearings are being held





‘ before the senate committee on agri‘





culture at which the interests for and

against rigid government control of

the packing industry are having their

innings.



At a hearing, the other day, a repre-

sentative of the Federal Trade Com-

mission gave some strong evidence

showing that. several of the so-called

stockmen witnesses in Opposition to

packer legislation were either in the

employ of the big packers or their ex-

penses were paid by the packers, and

their testimony was prepared before

hand by representatives of the packing





“interests in Washington.





. The _Anderson-Kenyon bill, now in





.the discard, was an advanced step in

- packing-house legislation.





In many re-

_..spects it was” drastic, nevertheless

those who took the pains to dissect

each paragraph and study its provis-





ions claim that it contained icopholes





enough to defeat the purposes of those

of [its supporters who actually desire

effective control over the packing bus-

iness in the interest of both the. pro-

ducers and consumers.



At the suggestion of Senator Gronna,





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Agriculture, Thomas C. Atkeson, Wash-





ington representative of the NatiOnal

Grange, has prepared a bill which is a

revision of the Andeison-Kehyon bill

with changes that in sOme respects, it

is believed, will be less objectionable

to the packers, but make the act more

effective and more nearly meet the in-

tentions and “demands of the farmers

and stockmen, and all others who are

interested in securing legislation that

will be fair and just to all interests.



A new bill known as the Kenyon bill

which embodies the essential provis—

ions in the Grange bill, has been in-

troduced in the senate.



The old Anderson-Kenyon bill pro-

vided that 'no person engaged in the

business of slaughtering live stock or

preparing live stock products for sale,





or of marketing live stock products as

a subsidiary of, or an adjunct to any

such business, could engage in or car-

ry on any business in commerce of

buying, selling or shipping live stock

for slaughter, or live stock products,

unless he secured and held a license

issued. by the secretary of agriculture;

that the provisions of.this act should

be enforced by a commissioner of food-

stuffs, appointed by the President, by

and with the advice and consent of

the senate.



This act would have placed the pack-

as under the absolute control of the

secretary of agriculture. It made him

the autocrat of the industry with pow-

ers not consistent with our American

democratic ideals. He could make such

rules and regulations as were neces-

sary to carry out the purposes of. the





act, could cooperate with any depart-‘





ment or agency of the government or

of any state or political subdivision

thereof, or with any person, and take

any action or commence and prosecute

any proceeding not inconsistent with

the provisions of > the act, which the

Federal Trade Commission is author-

ized to make. . ‘



Under the Anderson-Kenyon act

whenever the commissioner of food-

stuffs believed that any licensee was

violating any provision of the act, the

secretary‘of agriculture could summon

the licensee to a hearing and if he

found that the provisions of the act

had been violated, he could suspend the

license for such period as he might





---prescribe, or could revoke it within not,





lessthan thirty days’ notice. ,

The licensee, however, could appeal





M ade 2'72 Legislation flfictzflg Agnew/tum! Interests.





to the circuit court of appeals, and the

court might‘affimn or set aside the or-

der of the secretary of agriculture, if

it was shown that the order was un-

supported by evidence. If the licensee

lost‘his license the court could appoint

a receiver to conduct the business.



Theie were possibilities in this bill

for unfair advantages to be taken by

both the sec1etary of— agricultme and

the packers. The packer might have

his business taken entirely out of his

hands under a receivership, or be al-

lowed'to conduct his business and fol-

low the same wrong practices that

brought him into disfavor with the

commissioner of foodstuffs during a

long period of litigation.



The new Kenyon bill has eliminated

these possibilities. It admits of no





 





Instead of com-





such uncertainties._

pelling the packer to take out a li-

cense, it establishes a registry system.





It provides that.there shall be appoint-

ed by the President, by and with the

consent of the senate, a Federal Live

Stock Commission, to be made up of

three members. Not more than two of

the members may be affiliated rwith

one political party. The commission

shall enforce the provisions of the act

and the rules and regulations which

they establish in pursuance thereof.



No commissioner shall engage in any

other business, vocation, or employ-

111ent,or be di1ectly o1 indirectly in-

ieiested in the business of any packer

or operator. Any commissione1 may

be removed by the President for ineffi-

ciency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance

in office.



The commission will have the same

obligations, duties and rights as are

conferred on the Federal Trade Com-

mission, and will have the powers and

duties heretofore exercised by the Bu-





reau of Markets in the Department of'





Agriculture relating to the acquisition

and dissemination of information re-

garding the production, distribution,

and consumption of live stock or live

stock products.





Under the Kenyon—Grange bill the .





packers are brought under strict regu.

lations as to their practices and com-

mercial transactions and connections.

They cannot engage directly or indi-

rectly in the business of buying, man-

ufacturing or selling foodstuffs other

than live stock products, where the ef-

fect may be to lessen competition or

tend to create a monopoly. They can‘





not combine or agiee with any other

packer to apportion te1r1tory for carry-

ing on business 01 to apportion pur-

chases or sales of any live stock, or

live stock products, 01 to control the

p1ices thereof, or do anything to pre-

vent any other person from carrying

on a similar business



After two years from the date when

the act becomes effective no packer

shall own or control or have any inter-

est in any stocky a1d. The records of

the packers are to be open for inspec-

tion by the commission at any time

and must be verified under oath, if re

quested by the commisison to do so.



An order requiring a packer or oper-

ator to cease and desist from violating

any provision of the act shall be final

unless within thirty days after service

upon it the packer appeals to the cir-

cuit court of appeals asking that the

commission’s cider be set aside, to-

gether with a bond in such sum as the

court may determine, conditioned that

the packer will pay the costs of the

proceedings. But no such order of the ’

commission shall be set aside by the

court unless shown that the order is

unsupported by evidence.



Any packer or operator who neglects

or refuses to obey any order of the

commission shall be guilty of a misde-

meanor, and on- conviction, shall be

punished by imprisonment for not less

than six months or more than five

years, or by a fine of not less than

$500 or more than $10,000, or by both

fine and imprisonment.



There is no licensing of packing

plants required in the new bill, but

the commission may, upon application,

issue to the applicant a certificate, of

registration to engage in the business.



The Anderson-Kenyon bill provided



that no ca1rier subject to the provis.

ions of the act should after the expira-

tion of six months fiom the date the

act took effect, employ in commelce

any refrigerator "car or special equip-

ment cars for the transportation of

fresh meat or perishable foodstuff,

which are not owned or controlled by

such carrier except upon the condi-

tions that they may be furnished by

the carrier to any person making rea-

sonable request for such cars; under

such arrangements as to just compeno

sation as may be made between the

carrier and owner of such cars, with

the approval of the Interstate Com-

merce Commission.

The new bill leaves with the Inter-

state Commerce Commission the duty

of prescribing rules for the transporta-

tion in commerce of common carriers

by railroad or refrigerator cars.



The promoters of the Grange ornew

Kenyon bill do not claim that it is per-

fect in every detail. But it is the lat-

est development in packer legislation,



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HE Farm Bureaus and their fed-



erations, state and national, con-



stitute at once the most progres-

sive, the most rational, the most rep-

resentative, and the most powerful or‘

ganization ever devised by farmers.



It is naturally progressive because

founded upon a federal act looking to

the improvement of agriculture and of

country life by means of definite ma-

chinery for insuring that the results

both of science and of experience shall

find their way onto the farms of the

nation and into the homes of the coun-





try with the least delay and to the.





greatest extent possible. ‘



This organization is rational or ought

to be. because it is founded and officer-

ed by the best and sanest individuals

of the profession, not by the most rad-

ical. as is too often the case, especially

with organized _labor.



It is representative because it is 118.-

tion wide, reaching down to the actual

man on his actual farm. And it is pow-

erful because it will soon represent the

combined strength as well as wisdom

of at least a fourth of the farmers of

America. And this group besides its

agricultural significance comes nearer

being typically American than does

any other organized and numerous

body of citizens. Its opportunities,

therefore, are beyond computation and

its responsibilities are correspondingly

heavy. No such body of citizens be—

longing to a necessary industry dare

go wrong if it can help it, and yet some

of its dangers lie in its very strength,

in its representative character, and in

the consciousness of its power.



It is a hard time now for any of us

to live and keep our heads well enough

to be sensible most of the time. it

helps'some’to be reminded that the

conditions under which we just now

find ourselves are but the usual after-

math of War, and that every people

who fought has been through them.

But it is cold comfort at best. It may

account for our troubles, but it does

not settle them. It is like putting the





patient off with a diagnosis when what

he wants is treatment and to get well.





It is therefore a hard time for a new

organization to be born, get upon its

feet and find its job without having its

energies diverted in the wrong direc-

tion and wasted upon things of seem-

ing importance because temporarily

irritating but after all no part of per-

manent progress. Speaking bluntly,

we are so irritated now by the tempor—

ary but unaccustomed difficulties that

beset us, that it is almost impossible

to avoid the temptation to use this

vast and powerful machinery for small

business, even for unwmthy purposes]

forgetting that its great business is the

development of agriculture in the very

best sense of the term, and that so far

as this great job can be accomplished

our troubles will disappear automat-

ically, at least so far as they can be

resolved. for nothing on earth is one

hundredper cent perfect.





I say that the temptation to misuse





an organization such as this, especially





at a time like the present, is almost

irresistible Su-flering under limita-

tions and hardships of one kind or. up-





By Eugene





chinery for assault and battery we

shall find it spoiled for the later and

more permanent, as well as more im-

portant, work of constructive develop-

ment. As the farmer well knows,

many a good monkey wrench has been

spoiled in using it for a hammer.



It may as well be wrtiten down as

axiomatic that if this great organiza-

tion is to do the work that needs to

be done in and for agriculture now, it

must never lose its temper and it must

never lose the respect of its associated

industries and interests. Not opposi-

tion and fighting, but conference and

constructive planning must character-





’   : “





Davenport





Prices are high for four very good

reasons. They are: ,1. The greatly

increased currency, nearly doubled in

four years, enough of itself to account

for all that has happened. 2. Reduced

production, which was inevitable when

something like one hundred million

men and women stopped producing not

only luxuries, but also necessities, and

began the business of wholesale de-

struction. 3. A wild saturnalia of ex-

travagant buying in which nothing is

too gorgeous or too costly to suit us.

4. Speculation. The last is also the

least by far, and yet it is the only one

we talk about, and we are going out in





 





 





Farmers ’ Wear





1765. 2nd to, 62%





Here are some of the Farm Organizations which will hold meet-

ings at the Agricultural College during Farmers' Week:





The Michigan State Farm





Bureau.

The Michigan Milk Producers” Association.





The Nichigan Crop lrnprovcmont Aooociation.

The Michigan Potato Grower! Aooociahion.

The Michigan Veterinary Association.





The flichigan Maple Syrup fink-off Association.





The Michigan Muck Farmer-8' Amoiat-ion.

The Michigan Milk 1 Dairy inspectors” Association

The Michigan Branch of the American Poultry Ass’n.





Conference of Rural Y. M. C. A. Sccrctaws.





And that no progressive tanner can afford to stay away from the

sessions of “Farmers‘ Week" is shown by this partial list of spenk- ,

are who will give of their best to aid in the promotion of a better





agriculture for the state:





Governor Frank O. Lowdcn, of Illinois. ,



President G. C. ' Crceiman, of Ontario Agricultural College.



Dean Alfred Vivian, of Ohio State University,‘ with his tam

farmers’ lecture tour around the world.



Cecil Roberts, well known English poet and war correspondent who

is now speaking in America for the first time.



H. J. Howard, President of the National Farm Bureau, and leader of

first nationwide movement toward the economic organization of





farmers.





H. c. Taylor, the new Chiefof the Farm Management Bureau at





Washington.





Kenyon L. Butter-field, President of Massachusetts Agricultural Gol-

lege, author and noted authority on agricultural problems...



Dr. C. V. McCollum, Nutrition Expert from Johns Hopkins, whose

experiments should be understood by every progressive dairymn





of the state.





Henrietta w. Calvin, Bureau of Education. Washington.



A. F. Lever, Member of the Farm Loan Board, an ex-congressman

who has been responsible for much of the recent legislation ’to-

ward country life improvemmt.



A. J. Kicman, Chief Tuberculosis Eradication, Bureau of Animal





Industry, Washington.





Dr. G. W Gunsaulus, President of Armour Institute of Technology.





scholar and lecturer.





 





 





1213 the methods of this assoifiation

which is altogether unique among

masses of men. For our object is de-

velopment of a great national industry

and mode oflife, not simply protecting

the rights of a certain group of citi-

zens, which are already guaranteed un-

der the law, and certainly not to gain

an advantage over our associates.



So important is all this, especially

under present conditions, that a few

examples may not be out of place by

way or concrete illustration: _



The High cost of Living.



We are all fussed up over the high



cost of livmg.





our fur coats and diamond rings m

new wrist watches to punish the pro!t-

car. We are» going to run him down

with that new: automobile we have

waited a year to get,!orgett‘1ng that in

nine cases out of ten or more this





same profiteer is doing just what we





are doing—namely, the best he can in

a difficult sltuatidn.



Punish the pronteer? Certainly. But

the ordinary machinery of the govern-

ment is competent to do that. Most of

what has been accomllshod will in





 





themdomommtethanm

‘ we .





not far ahead. and all the throes of





society will be. unable to stop it if ex-

erted too late.





The first step in return to normal—E





not to pre-war conditions which we'

shall never See, but to normal—is to

produce more of the necessities and to

direct more labor away from luxuries.





which will be done only as we refuse





to buy inimries while necessities are:

scarce. The next step is to reduce the





volume of the currency cruise to make

it 500d by production. and this will.

come about only as we pay our debts

and get really solvent again. Let this





association ‘be not deceived in the tun-j





damentals of plain economics.





Coot Plus.





In the stress of war when results,





not expenses, were the overpowering

’consideration,‘“tgovernment contracts

were let at the cost of production plus

a guaranteed profit. There seemed no

other way to do and no doubt the‘situ—





. atin justified the expediency, although





it led to the worst profite-ering in labor

that the world has overseen, for, while

our best Americans were taken from

their families and their business and

put into the mud to fight for thirty dol‘

hrs a month, those who were left he-

hind~aliens many of them—Alemant}





ed and got five, ten andeven twenty ‘

’_dollars a day, slept under a roof every





night, and were getting ready to strike

for a six-hour working day and a thirty

hour week.



What was infinitely worse in the

long run, this cost-plus-idea got into

the very fibre of our national con-

Sciousness until we are coming to re-

gard it as a kind of'axiOm that does

not admit of argument. The laborer

insists that his wage shall be increas-





ed in full proportion to the rising cost

of living. and without analyzing what





that living shall be or taking any re-

sponsibility for itsra‘tional manage-

ment he proposes to throw the whole

burden upon society and enforce his

demands by the full power of his or-

ganization, to hold up the world until

it will accept the obligation of caring

for him without his assuming responsi-

bility in the premises. This attitude,

it "continued far will wreck the world

and turn civilization back until it

reaches the cave again.





Even farmers are succumbing to the





I, same fallacy and are beginning to as-





sume that the market price should

guarantee the cost of p1oduction with

a profit. Have we thought this thing

out? The cost of production is one

thing on A’s form; it is another on





B’s. It is one thing in Peoria county. .





Illinois; it is another in South Dakota.

or in Massachusetts.





Not only that: the cost of produo

tion is one mg at .a given scale of

intensity. nod it is quite another at a

diffe1ent scale either more or less in.

tense. For example. when the Chicago

Milk Commission refused the dairy-





men’s request the farmers did the only 7





thing possible“, that is. out out the less

distant steamers. m m on teed

on all it





   





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V _ these roots extended deep-





».drained soil go deep. When

" deep roots are able to se-





. is thoroughv~ drainage dur; , '





‘ £11ar is in Wisconsin at least

one man who has been thorough-

ly convinced of the benefits of





" tile drainage and of the possibilities in





marsh land development. This man

had several acres of marsh which he

considered at one time worthless, be-

cause he was frequently told that it

had no value, and the actual returns

from that low land were to him clinch-

ing arguments of its worthlessness.

However, our friend was open minded.





- He came to look upon his‘non-produc-





ing land, not as a piece of ground use-

ful merely in‘ holding the earth togeth-

er,,but as land having, perhaps, some

possibilities. Knowing that the marsh





, was too wet for cultivation, he became





curious as to what the ~soil would do

if it had at least half a chance. This

thought prompted a unique experiment.

He dug a hole about three feet by eight

feet in a nearby field and filled it with

peat taken from the lowland. In this

transplanted peat he planted two hills

of corn. The results were most sur-

prising—"such wonderful corn!” Said

he; “When I looked at that corn and

then at that worthless land below, I

said to myself ‘Here, you, peat, I’ll

drain you’. ” He did, and he’s proud of

his accomplishment. Why shouldn’the

be? He exercised the power any farm-

er has to make wet land productive.

Wanted—More Faith in Tile.



, Those who oppose drainage, especial-

ly tile drainage, argue very much along

the same lines.

furthermore, are based on observed

facts. For example: When a ditch is

dug to give an outlet to a marsh tract

or a swamp area, the wild grasses of-

ten disappear, and the tamarack, if

any, gradually dies. The argument:

A certain amount of drainage proves

harmful, because the . tamarack and

wild grasses die. If an open ditch,

which affords insufficient drainage,

causes the natural-1 marsh vegetation to

die, what willtile, which is supposed

to give good drainage, do to the land?

If tamarack and marsh grass can’t

grow because of drainage, how can

corn and other cultivated crops be

made to grow? The observed facts are

correct, but" the interpretations given

are wrong.



Marsh vegetation develops shallow

root systems. When the marsh is

drained, the surface son dries out sum-

ciently during the summer to leave

the surface roots high and dry. The

tamarack and marsh grass

die for want of Water-—





TheSe arguments,





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works both ways. When 10w wet lands





 





 





 





T/zat are Greatly





ten the conditions are such as to en-

courage cropping, but not to ensure

the crop. In all cases tile is needed to

provide under-drainage. Without un-

der-drainage corn turns yellow and re-

fuses to grow. Grain either turns yel-

low or becomes choked with smart-

weed or some other kind of weed. Sug-

ar beets grow stubby and rooty and

without the characteristic taper.



In a private enterprise we are~devel~

oping a one-thousand-acre tract. It has

a splendid open ditch With laterals and

plenty of fall. The temptation is strong

to crop much of it without tiling. This

one thing is sure, however, no crop-

ping without tile, absolutely none, on

areas where the subsoil shows any

signs of being overly wet. It doesn’t





ing wire grass or of sedges.





1:“;u .





"Mr. Weir Has Dircovered Many Twat of Lana’, Usually Considered Ar Not Reqnmng Drainage,





Benefitea’ T/zereéy.





are growing wire grass, do not think

that tame grass Will thrive under simi-

lar conditions. A dry season-may give

you the, encouragement to Start trans-

forming a wild pasture into'one of al-

sike clover, timothy and red- -top. But

without tile, the tame giasses cannot

compete with the marsh g1 asses Soon

again you will have a pasture of wav-

If you

want the better grasses you must tile.

Tile in Wet “Draws.”



Frequently a single line of tile is all

that is required to drain a narrow strip

of land A wet “draw” between two

areas of high land should be given

more careful consideration. In most

cases of this kind the damaging wa-

ter is that which seeps from the up-





 





Determlning Drainage Possibilities.





pay. I have seen too many crop fail-

ures because of such a. condition.



A wet, soggy and mottled subsoil is

a good indication that tile is needed.

A good way to eliminate guesswork

and to be sure of the need of tile is to

dig a few post holes about four or five

feet deep in the questionable areas,

and note the height of the water in

them after twelve hours or so. A good

time to dig these holes is about seed-

ing time.‘ If the water comes within

three feetror less of the surface, the

land needs tile.



Tame Grass vs. Wild Grass.



Did you ever see wild marsh grass

growing .on well-drained cultivated

Why not? It’s a question of

adaptation. This matter of adaptation





land. Proper drainage consists in lay-

ing two lines of tile, one at the foot

of each slope. These should be laid

deep enough to catch the seepage. This

brings out the secret of how to drain

properly. It "is this-before any plans

are laid for drainage, determine first

why the land is wet. One line of tile’

in the center of a “draw” made wet

by seepage from the upland on either

side can never give adequate drainage.

The “Cut-off."



All marsh and swamp lands are bor-

dered by upland; Out of the upland

usually comes seepage water. This ex-

plains why the marsh zone bordering

the highland is generally the wettest

part of the marsh. I have been called

upon frequently to examine such areas

even after tile were laid—not to ob-





 





 





 





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serve the benefits of tiling, but to de~

termine why the tile did not do its

duty. In every case I found the lines,

of tile (laterals) extending straight up

to the high land—no provision having

been made to catch the seepage. 'Til-

ers are realizing more the importance

of laying a line of tile at the foot of

the upland to catch the seepage before

it has a chance to do any. damage. "Such

a line of tile is usually called a

“cut-off.”

Tile Needed on Some Slopes.



It is a common opinion that tile is

only for low lands. On such lands it

is easy enough to suspect the need of

tile; but when it comes to sloping

fields, too often the need of tile is en-

tirely overlooked. I shall cite a typi-

cal example. . ’



The owner of a southern Wisconsin

farm desired a farm examination. His '

problem centered on a sloping field.

the corn on the lower one-third of

which was very poor. The owner told

the history of that field in this manner:



“My father always had trouble with

that field. It always grew good grain

but the corn never would

grow on the lower portion. Father

tried heavy manuring but no results.

He turned it into a hog pasture, think-

ing that would remedy the defect; but

when corn was again planted, the same

poor crop was the result. For years I

have tried to discover some remedy,

but I have failed.”



I visited the field early in July. In

going over the field, one would never

suspect the need of tile—~but an exami-

nation of the subsoil told the ‘whole

story. It was seepage water that came.

ed the trouble. Just enough seepage

water came down from the land high-

er up to keep the subsoil to within

eight inches of the surface wet and

cold. Corn is very sensitive to such a

condition, and corn could not be made

to grow even though the land was

heavily manured.



.There is only one remedy for such a

condition, and that is tile. One line of

tile laid to catch this seepage water is

all that is necessary. Yes, tile a hill-

side When tile is needed.



These Peculiar Poor Spots.



Very often in corn fields, small areas

are found on which corn fails. These

spots usually consist of the same soil

as the whole field and have the same

uniform slope; but the subsoil is soggy

and cold. Here again seepage water

has a. chance to collect in

sufficient amount not to





 





that is true, but the shal-





 





 





"wet the surface but to





 





 





low roots were developed-

,When the land was wet. If





 





ly. no such drying outd

Would take place. Roots

which develop in a well—

dry weather comes on; the

cure'suflicient moisture. It





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keep the subsoil in local

areas too wet and cold to

favor the development of

the corn roots. Such spots

should be tapped with tile.

Standing Tile On End.

Very often water stand-

ing in upland depressions

and oncertain flat upland»

fields may be given a

chance to run away by

making openings through

the tight subsoil to permit

the water to flow down-

ward into an open and dry

stratum below, if such a ,

sub-stratum‘is to be found. -

This is called "vertical , I

' drainage,” " the uses.
- end.





‘ ordered.





 





 





     

   





 





drains consist of ordiniry drain tile

placed in the ground vertically, end on

All wet depressions cannot be





drained in this manner. The only con-





ditions under which vertical drainscan '





po; sioly work are: (a) a porous or

g1avelly stratum should underlie the

111921 to be drained, and (b) that Strat-

um should be dry to enable the drain-

age water to escape



Tile Do Not “Draw” Water.



11, is a mistake to think that good un-

der-drainage by tiling is harmful in any

way, particularly in dry seasons. Tile

drains cannot “draw" moi: 1‘t111e out of

a soil, nor. can they diain land too

thoroughly. All water that can drain

out of a soil is harmful to crops. The





,moistum that crops use is that which





   





is retained oythe soil afiorall mm son, muse ofthcdoeporanddram,





w ater is allowed to drain out; The tile

simply provides a means for the dam-

aging or excess water to drain away.

Btnoflts of Tile Drainage.





cifi’c benefits to be derived by tiling

wet lands



Soils “aim up better, because the

air can enter, and the want: spring

rains are given a chance to percolate

through the soil. On wet lands prac-

tically all of the heat of the sun goes

to evaporate moisture. This explains

why a wet. soil is a cold soil.



Thorough tile drainage causes roots





{to grow deeper and stronger. It is true,





too, that crops are hble to secure more

moisture'in a welldrained soil than a





 





It is well to keep in mind the spe-'





stronger mes. , ‘-

Tiling favors the development and.





“may of the 1121111111 sdl bacteria,

. such as the nodule bacteria armed

Tile drainage makes available 11'

were poor pasture, a thirty-acre fiold{





 





greater supply of the elements of plant

food.





Good drainage favo1s better farm”





management. The fat in, as a Whole

can he managed more profitably, culti-

vatiOn is made much’eas’ier, square

fields are made possible, crops can be

planted earlier and better, fall frosts

a1e delayed, and eveiything in general

is not hampered in any way by too

wet fields.



011 many fields the increase in crop

following tiling paid the cost; of the





 





‘age was $2,290.





, The





M411] acres which sréwvvv





was tiled at a cost at sim’ new $13.1,"





land grows met acoustic can. .

On a ninety-acre farm, sixty ofwuoh,





was cultivated, but most of. the ‘cr0pg

were failures. The oest of tile drain-





per cent and the thirty acre field now

grows excellent grain. 7



A two-hundred-forty—‘acre 11 act. was

of little value for pastme, and it pro-

duced no hay. Tiling cost $2,369. ‘Now

splendid crops of hay and. grain, have

been grown since drainage. The value

of one crop ofiset the cost of the tiling.





i I he F uturc of Agricu turc

14155117"er of Colon C. Lzl/ze, President 0] file MiC/flg‘dfl Improved Lzoe Stacé Breederr and Feedm Ar:-

0512117072 at t/ze flmzual Meeting at M. A. C. "





78 meet today, more than a year

W since the c1059 of the world war,

with an uncertain future for the



lin- stock industry and, in fact, for all

agrkulturc, before us. More uncer-

tai11.perhaps, than ever before in his-

tory. To be sure, the future of all bus

laws is uncertain. The whole business

world is trying To solve the problam

as 10 its status when the afier—the—war

nornml conditions have been found.

Some are talking about getting back

to pro—war conditions as though that is

the. condition desired, or believing that

prewar conditions must of necessity

evcmually come bitch, sooner or later.

But, my friends, pro-war business

conditions never will come back. The

whole American business world, in-

cluding agriculture. at least has gone

a Sit-D or it may be several steps, for-

ward and America never turns back.

Thc idea of never retreating is what

brought Germany to her knees much

sooner than most of us expected. The

boys in khaki refused to obey the

French comn'mnder in the second bat—

lle oi" the Marne when “fall back” was

“V179 never retreat,” was a

new slogan in'the world war and it in-

spired not only our own army but the

armies of the allies as well and, more,

it inspired the people back home, the

people of France and Great Britain

and of Italy, with the result of the for-

ward drive all along the front, which

never stopped, never faltered, until

proud, arrogant, conceited Germany

begged for peace. -

important advancement; has come to





{agriculture by means of the world war.





A great, just, business principle has

been applied to agriculture, and now it

is up to the farmer to see that there

is no “falling back” ——no “retreating”

”no return to plt‘Wle conditions, so

f‘di. at least, as agiicultuie is concern-

ed Agricultuic will inircnch and forti-

fy on this advantage giound. Trench

es are already being dug and fortified

and some are now dug, that wilLresist

all cncroachments to force agriculture

back to pre—war conditions. The farm-

er does not want low prices for food

products, even if prices of everything

should go down with food products.

The farmer sells more of human nec-

essities than he buys and if he pros-

pers, he must get more for the things

he rolls than he has to pay for the



things he buys.



The'Forward Step in Agriculture.



.VVhoever heard, before the war. of

the commercial world, or the consum-

ing public or the government itself ado

vancing the idea 01 even admitting it,

that the farmer is entitled to “cost of

production" plus a profit. When the

time came that the world “needed the

' much or more than it did





price of wheat was fixed at $2.20 per

bushel. figuring on a cost and profit

basis, not to guarantee the farmer

what justice entitled him to, nor to pro-

tect him from loss, as in other busi-

ness, but to prevent him from making

too much profit. The same can be said

of the attempt to fix the price of other

food products.



However, the farmer rejoices rather

than complains of this treatment, be-

cause it establishes an, economic prin~

ciple applying to agriculture as well as

to other business. I have said before

that when the President of the United

States appointed that committee rep~

resenting all classes of citizens to fix a

price for wheat based on the principle

of cost and profit that the world war

would prove the salvation of American

agriculture. The great court of public

opinion, the consuming public, does

not and will not object to paying the

farmer a. decent profit above cost for

the food products which they must nec-





essarily consume. The consumer will

not stand for profiteering but he will

willingly pay a just profit. ,

Determining Cost of Agricultural

Products.

You-are well aware that the success





of any business eventually depends up-'





on being able to determine to a very





.close approximation, at least, the net





cost of production. ' This is no simple

matter in agriculture. The business

is very complicated and very uncer-

tain. One man may make a splendid

profit in fattening'a bunch of steers,

or lambs, or hogs one year and lose all

he makes the next year. One man

may grow three hundred bushels of

potatoes one year at a magnificent

profit and with the same effort lose

money the next year. _ One community

may ~make a good profit and another

community a few miles away, farm at

a loss. One state has favorable condi-

tions one year while another has bad.





It can be stated in general as a broad





 





 





Live Stocé Men Elect Officer’s For 1920





EW officers of the Michigan Improved Live Stock Broeders’ and





Feeders' Association are:





ant secretary;





Herbert Powell, of Ionia, president;

J. Fred Smith, of Byron, vies-president;

East Lansing, secretary; W. E. J.

H. H. Halladay, of Clinton, treasurer.





George Arthur Brown, of

Edwards, of East Lansing, assist-





The executive committee [consists of Jacob De Gues, of Alicia,

J. Lessiter, of Orion, Earl C. McCarty, of Bad Axe, Alexander Min-

ty, of Ionia, and W. E. Livingston, of Parma.



Officers of the other live stock organizations are as follows:





Michigan Sheep Breeders’ and

of Richland, president;





Amos VVelch, _of Ionia, vice-president;





Feeders' Associations—4E G. Read,

Don-





ald Williams of Lansing, secretary and treasurer

Michigan Swine B1eeders' Asociation. —W. C Tavlor, of Milan,





president;





P. P. Pope, of Mt. Pleasant, seCIetaiy and t1easu1e1.





.Michigan Horse Breeders’ Association—Jacob DeGues, of Alicia,

president; R. S. Hudson, of East Lansing, secretary-treasurer.





Michigan Holstein-Friesian Association. H. W.





Norton, of East





Lansing, president? Albert Jenkins, of Lansing, secretary-treasurer.

Michigan Guernsey Cattle Club—E. J. Smallidge, of Eau Claire,





president;





dent;





Earl Henningway. of Solus, secretary-treasurer.

Michigan Jersey Cattle Club.—Alvin Baldwin, of Capac,

Alfred Ilendrickson, of Shelby, secretary-treasurer





presi-





Michigan Hereford Breedem’ Association—day Harwood. of ion.





ia, president;

of Dowagiac,





Michigan ‘Shorthorn Breeders’





E. E. Cole, of. Hudson, vice-president; W.

vice-president; Tony Fox, of Pewamo, vice-president;

E C.Mc€a1ty, of Bad Axe, secretary-treasurer.





B. Wood,





Association—George Prescott, of





Tawas CitY. president; L. P. Otto, of Charlotte, vicevoresident; W.





E. J. EdWards, of East Lansing,





secretary-treasurer.





Michigan Aberdeen Angus Breeders’ Association. ~11. W. Som-

«mer, of Paw Paw. president; “gird Hathaway, of Ovid, secretary-





treasurer.-





Michigan Red-Polled BreederS’ Amman—N C. Herbison, of





Birmingham, president; E. J. Peabody of Grand Ledge, secretary-





treasurer.





M‘Ch‘gm ““336 China fimederS’ ”Nation—J B Hawkins, or",

Hudson, president; 1. K Maystoad, of Hfllsdalo. W~fleasum





Michigan Bursa Jersey Breedeis’ Associationw





the market.

. as just to the consumer as he asks the





fact that to haVe a prosperous agricul-





ture, conditiOns which will enable the ‘





farmer to live fittingly and maintain

at the same time the productive power

of his land, in other words, to do his

best in supplying a full rationto the

peeple of the world, now and in time

to come, the average farmer,unde1 av-

erage conditions, £01 a pm 10d of yeais,

must make 11 p1 ofit It will not do to

take exceptional individual yields, like

those we mad about in the city papers

Where a man pays for his farm from

one mop ofpotat'oes, or one crap of

clover seed, or one crop of sugar beets.

etc. Neither would it be fair or just

to fix the cost of producing milk from

the records of an exceptional cow- or

herd, even. On the other

would not be fair to the consumer to

determine cost on p001: crops or on

crop failures. Consequently, the cost

of production for all agricultural prod-

ucts must be~~an average cost under

average conditions for a series of years.



What agriculture needs and must

have is a busineSS organization of the

farmers of every county in every state

in the Union whose duty is, under ex-

pert supervision, to determine the cost

for each county. But the county cost

is not sufficient. The county cost of

each county in the, state {must be aver-

aged to get the average cost for the

state. And this is not enough. The

cost of'each and every state must be

averaged as a whole to determine to a.

close approximation the cost of produc—

ing a given agricultural product for a

given year for the nation. Then after

we have the data for a series of years,

a'national cost can be determined that

will be beyond dispute.



What can be done with a surplus?

The skeptic will say that one year of

overproduction will smash the whole

business. Not so. Products must be

held on farms and in local and ternn~

nal elevators and storage and placed

on the market only as the consumers

1will pay ajust price._ An excess can

be held or transferred into other chan-

nels and, future production limited, on

this product to meet the needs only of

But the farmer must be





consumer tube to him; No food prod.

not in time of scarcity should be held

for excessive profits. It must be sold

for a fair and just price. A policy of

this sort Would do away largely. if nut





{ entirely, with speculation in food prod-

ucts after they leave the farmer’s- '_ _

hands. beCause prides would vary but} ‘~





little from year to year. ' '

_ My friends, the count

for





Ass 11 result, :the park; f ,

ture has been impromd three-hundred 1 : U





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_ anyhow—I’ll keep hogs.”





est share-holder: i *

industry. ,

good many individual ”i .

not have as large a share as they





,1 should have—while others who do keep





good— sized nooks fail. to get their pro-

portions/to share of the profits. The

latter is the saddest part of all, for it

is usually the owner's own fault.



Poultry on the farm may be profit-

able or it may not be profitable. This

depends en the farmer or the farmer’ s

wtgte mere than upon the poultry in-

dustry. Sonic people have proven to

their own satisfaction that a farm

flock is not a paying preposition. But

meet people know that poultry raising

offers the farmer the best and most

profitable side-line he can engage in

-without interfering with his other farm

work.



The difference in profit is almost al-

ways the difference between good and

'bad Care. \Vhen we find scrub.chick-

ens being kept in scrub houses and

given scrub care and management,

not much in the way of profit can rea-

sonably be expected.





Every farm flock should have a good

house all of its own. It is not suffi-

cient to let the hens roost on’ fences

or in trees in the summer time and

then give them access to the barns

and stables in the winter time. While

hens do not have to have an elaborate

house, yet it should not be full of

cracks, broken window lights, etc.



The house must also be kept clean.

If the. ground inside is covered to a

depth of several inches with poultry

manure, roosts and nests are lousy.

you can be pretty sure of ultimate loss.

One such farmer we knew declared

that “chickens are too much bother

He did bet-

ter with hogs simply because he gave





”them better care and attention.





Most farm wives are awake to the





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By Briant Sande





value of a well-cared for flock of farm

poultry, and appreciate its helpfulness

when it comes to providing “pin-mon-

ey” and paying for groceries. But few

women have the strength and courage

to arrange things as they should _, be

around the farm, and help from the

other side of the house is quite essen-

tial in such cases.



If poultry raising cannot be made

profitable as a farm side- -line, then cer-

tainly it cannot be made profitable any-

where. Handled in this way there is

little expense for food, whereas with

large fiocks all the feed the chickens

eat is _a dead outlay. Also, poultry

raising enables the farmer to bring

into profitable use the unworkable hill-

sides and the rough rock-lands, which

make almost ideal ranging places for

chickens.



It is a little late for New Year’s res-

olutions, but it is just right for New

Poultry resolutions, for a new breed-





ing season is just dawning. Plan now

for “better poultry and more of it” in

1920.



First of. all, keep good fowls. They

should not only be of some standard

variety but should also be fairly good





'fowls of the variety. chosen. Then they





will be better layers, make a nicer

appearance, either alive or dressed,

and if a meat breed is chosen the chick-

ens are larger and better in every way.



The best breed to keep depends

largly on personal choice. All breeds

are good, but some are better for cer-

tain purposes than others. For in-

stance, the vfarmer should stick to the

time-tried and proven varieties and let

the new-tangled varieties for the fan-

cier and showman.



For eggs alone, the Leghorns, A11-

conas and Minorcas cannot be beat.

For an “all-around fowls”—that makes

a good table fowl as well as eggpro»

ducer—you can’t beat the well-known





Making Hogs Come to





By W F. Taylor





ONTRASTING the present prices

of hogs in the leading markets

with those received last July, we





, have another practical illustration of





the importance of making the hogs

come to time. I have usedthe word

another, because the rule that pork

brings a lower price after October 1.

than at any time during the two or

three months preceding is seldom brok-

en. I hasten to admit‘that the sudden

fall in the‘prrice of hogs lastAugust





. was brought about in large part, “by





causes that were abnormal, yet the

rule holds good,‘ nevertheless, for had





there been no loud talk about reduc-

ing the “high cost of living” the supply,





of hogs on the market would have

brought down the price this fall, as it

has usually done._





When we stop to think about it,

present conditions. in so far as the





fourteencents, according to our best

judgment. The Iowa Station is always

doing something for men who are

growing hogs. Last fall they complet-

ed an extensive experiment designed

to illustrate the value of mixed feeds.

A number of different brands of ready

mixed feeds were tested out in this ex-

periment, corn and tankage being used

as a check.



In e1 ery case the larger profits re-

sulted from the-feeding of corn and

tankage, or corn, oil meal, and tank-

age; but the cost of corn and tankage,

per hundred weight of hogs at the

close of the experiment was $11.85. In

addition to this, the hogs ran on rape





prices of hogs are concerned, are very





serious. The bulk of all the pork mar-





keted this season has been sold since





the price went down, and for the last





six weeks prices have been below the‘ "





cost of the feed consumed by the hhgs.





We have no adequate estimates at- ~





hand, showing the relation of feed





ultimate to other items of expense in pork .

llprodnction, but if we consider the la-

“ per involved, together with interest on





ayes}, estment, charges for depreciation, , -





anal losses which are bound





pasture throughout the experiment.

These hogs were not fed under average





conditions. They were cared for by

men who-knew how, in a state where

pork production is one of the chief in-

dustries. Considering the value of the

pasture,’ together with the comparison

of conditions at the station, as against

those on the average farm, it would

seem likely that even in Iowa, fourteen

cents would be below, rather than

above, the feed cost.



It might be to the profit of the read-

er if we were to go into this experi-

ment more deeply, for it suggests

many things. But in this connection

we are merely trying to illustrate the





are in t ~ c ~ oultry Industry





farm favorites, Plymouth Rocks, Wyv





andottes, Rhode Island Reds, and Orp-

ingtons. Good» care will bring success

with almost any variety.



After getting a good start with pure-

breds, either by buying stock or eggs,

the fowls should get good quarters so

they will have a fair chance to show

what they can do. A good poultry

house is not necessarily a. costly af-

fair. In fact, the best houses are usu-

ally the simplest, but there are four

prime requisites that must be observ-

ed—comfortably warm in winter, dry

and free frOm dampness, well lighted,

and properly ventilated.



Artificial heat is never necessary if

the house is free from cracks and cold

drafts. The floor should be a foot or

more higher than the suirounding land

on the outside and then there will be

no trouble with damp llooxs or litter.

Light and sunshine should be secured

by means of windows in the south

(front) wall of the building. Half of

these window openings should be cov-

ered with glass and half with muslin,

which also provides necessary venti—

lation. If you have an old house, and

it is not well ventilated, make new op-

enings in the south wall or else cover

half of the present glass windows with

muslin curtains. On fair, sunshiny

days these should be removed, and the

house and fowls given a thorough sun-

ning and airing. This aids sanitation

and makes the fowls more hardy.



The roosts and nests can be made

quite simply and cheaply in any house.

Drinking fountains and food heppers

can be supplied as needed. Incubators

and brooders should also form a part

of every farmer's equipment. Early~

hatched chicks sell to best advantage

as broilers or triers. Also, early-hatch-

ed pullets are the best producers of

eggs in winter when prices are high,

and the only way one can be sure of

getting pullets hatched early is by us-

ing machines.





I .

importance of so planning the market-

ing of our hogs as to put them'on the

market when it is probable that the

fewer number of feeders have hogs to

sell. It is usually possible for the

dairyman to market his hogs twice a

year—once in March, or early April,

and again in August, or early Septem-

ber. True, there are exceptions to this

rule, but on the whole, it is safe to cal:

culate to this end, being in position to

hold the hogs a little longer, or to sell

them a little sooner if conditions make

it advisable.



If our pigs are to be ready for the

spring market we have before us the

problem of producing winter pork. To

do this requires special care, and some

knowledge of the hog and his care.

Not’much extra expense is necessary,

but a few things must 'be understood

and attended to. The pins Should not

be farrowed later than September;

August 15 is better. They should have

plenty' of skim— milk, or tankage, or

some of both, and should have oppor-





‘tunity for exercise. The sleeping quar-





ters Should be divided and reasonably

Warm, and the feed should be given

according to the requirements of the





.pigs.





One thing should never be overlook-





"ed by the feeder—the pigs are ma-

chines for pork making,





and the feed





this the raw material from' which the





'2‘ product is made.





The more feed we

can put into these machines thof more





“*'",_of tits emailed product we





- providing

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:‘Vv’bl‘kédi

" is not how cheaply We Can winter the

pas, but rather how much can we in-

duce them to eat and properly digest.





enough.

unsatisfactory gains are resulting and





_CI'0p report issued by





. 013'.





ital acreage of the crops,





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Feeders of cattle for spring market





. ‘Wlll be able to run: hogs with the cat-

V'tle,‘ and get them ready before the





price of pork is apt to fall.

In considering this matter of making





'wlnter perk, general statements» seem

to the writer very tame. .

‘1 what he has been saying, he makes





Considering





this observation. The fact is, this bus-





iness of winter pork making is up to





the man. Everyone who succeeds must





follow these general rules, but many





fail who will tell you that they also





'feedshd care for their pigs according





to up-todate methods. No man can





succeed in the business of feeding hogs





unless he can tell by looking at a

bunch of pigs which way they are go—

ing. If they are not growing properly

something is wrong. He will at once

look for the trouble. It ‘may be the

lack of proper elements in the ration,

it may be the lack of exercise, perhaps

it is a foul sleeping place, and again

perhaps the temperature it not warm

Something is the matter if





here, as elsewhere in any business, if

things are not going right, something

must be done. Often the difference be-

tween the successful man and the one





In oth~er:'§'words, [misdirection]; : . A ~ cm - l

the watch. seeing troubles While they

are yet small and easily remedied, and





   





the latter has his, mind elsewhere un-

til the difficulty is too big to be righted..



March pigs are best for the man who

wishes to get them on the September

market If one has a proper place for

the sows, and if they and the young

litters ale given the requisite care and

feed, the pigs will get a good start and

the rest will be somewhat easier than

the task of making economical pork

during the cold of wintei.



I lemember telling an audience in a

farmers’ institute in the southern part

of the state, that one could produce





pork as cheaply during the winter as





in the summer. They looked at me

with a sort of pity, which out of per-

sonal consideration for me, I think





they did not express to the State Board





of Agriculture. . Personally ‘at that

time/I had none of the unfortunate ex~

pe1-lence of many in growing winter

pork. The people of our community

are dairymen, they keep small bunches

of pig 5 each wintei, and I think they

produce po1l; about as cheap as in sum-

mer months. But this is not the rule.

Anybody can feed a hog if he may run

in a good pasture if the weather is

favor Hole. and it' he is fed enough to-

be kept growing.



in growing pork in the summer, rape





   

   





and more popular it labor remains as}.

scarce and. as high in price in 00W»

But let us not target 1111; the meltem'





overshadowing all others, is the price

we get for the hogs after we have:





grown them. There are very few,





bunches of hogs in Michigan that have

been sold since September 1 that have





brought more than tluetr feed cost.‘ To





day they are going considerable short



ofthat. 'It is a very serious condition

when the- greater part of, the product

of an industry as important as this must

be soldata loss. And yet I hearlittle





complaint about it because we have not





been in the habit of figuring the cost

of production. -From spring through

the busysummer, on through the eu-

tumn, and into the winter, We have

toiled, the good wife and the children

helping what they could, and if we





have been able to: sell what we have





produced for enough to. buy what the

family will need during the winter,

buy a. tow extras, pay the interest on

the mortgage, and pay our taxes, we

have been content to let others fret

about the relation of agriculture to

other lines of business:



But “a new day is damingi'win it

the farmer is asking for “cost of‘pro-





 

   





inevitable. is slim .

Sale of a bunch or tags “in: two

thouélmd- pounds‘ last July. at mm-

three cents, with a like lot; Merci"

this week at thirteen cents. The cost

of the hogs to the farmer would be

practically the same, but the (inference

in the final returns is 5200. '



Of course. it we'uki not be practical

to ma1ket spring pigs in July, but near-

ly as good a price might have been

gotten up to AuguSt 20 and a much .

better price was possible all through

September thankcan be had at present. '

glf every one-who grows hogs market-ed '





 





”them in March and in early SeptemMr





these seasons would be most unfavor-

able times. in which to sell, but they

will not all do so." The desirable thing

is to have enough people do so, to pro!

vent congestion of the market at other

times, and thus not only increase the

1eturn of those who market as we have

suggested, but at the same time pro;

vent in part the losses of those who

must sell at other times in the year.

Mme attention to this phase of pork

giowing would insuie gleater piofits

to our feeders.





Michigan Crop Report





7726 tha/ Value of #56 State’ 5 Staple Crops" fiar 1919 15 E5IJMdted at $342, 602, 000





4THE money value of crops grown





in the state of Michigan during



the past year probably the

greatest on record. not because of un-

precedented acreages or yields but be-

cause of the higher price levels reach-

ed. The value of the leading crops,

including all mentioned in the joint

Mr. Coleman C.

Vaughan, Secretary of State, and Mr.





18





’ Verne H. Church, Field Agent, United-





States Bureau of Crop Estimates, is

$342,602,000. This includes the grain

crops, hay, potatoes, sugar beets, clo-

yer seed, apples, pears and peaches,

but, does not include some crops, such

as the small fruits, {luck crops, chic-

mint, etc., for which quantitative

vaiiable. The to-

included, ex-

clusive of the fruits, is 8,856,000. This

is an excellent showim‘g in the face of

the extraordinary .11101'1-ment.of farm

ers and farmers’ sons from farms to





estimates are not a





‘ industrial centers, and the impossibil-





ity of securing an adequate supply of

well-qualified farm labor. A/severe





' drought in 111‘11-13un11111-1' extended over





much of the state and reduced the

yields in certain sections, while grass-

hoppers did an enormous amount of

damage in many counties of the north-

ern half of the lower peninsula. How-

ever, the season wa: generally good

and more favorable on the whole than





for several years past.





Winter Wheat.~—'l‘he





The acreage was the largest

since 1915. and the avemge yield per

acre, 20.3 bushels, was the largest ex-

cept that of 1915 in the same period of

time, being 19, 295. 000 bushels. This





:IE‘COId ploduction uas the iesult of





unusually favorable conditions through-

out the growing season. The winter

was mild and the abandoned acreage

from winter- killing was exceptionally





. small.





The amount of wheat purchased by





imills and elevators doling the month





of December is estimated at 1,190,000





bushels: the amount pulchaSed since





August 1. 7,,810 00 bushels.

Spring Wheat. —Du‘1 mg the past four





crop of 1919-

' was one of the best every grown in the

' state.





s the acreage of spring wheel; has . ‘

' W‘ ‘ 16W thousand acres

_ the .





bushels in 1918, it was only 11.2 bush-

els in 1919. The estimated production

for the past season is 952,000 bushels,

having a value of nearly $2,000,000.



Corn—40119 million six hundred and

fifty thousand acres were grows in the

state this year. The average yield per

acre was 39.0 bushels. and if all of the

acreage had been devoted to grain this

yield would have produced a crop of

64,350,000 bushels. As a matter of fact

approximately thirtyflve per cent of

the acreage went into silos. Treating

this as being of equivalent value per

acre as the grain crop, the crop is

worth $33,803,000. 01‘ more than that of

any other year in the history of the

state.



Oats—The crop was relatively the

poorest of those grown in the state

this year, and was the smalest produc-

tion since 1907, being only 36,875,000

bushels as compared with 66,320,000

last year. The season was unfavor-

able for the spring grains, and many

thousands of acres 01‘ oats were not

harvested at all and many more thou-

sands were cut for hay. The yield per

acre for the total acreage of 1,475,000

was only twenty- -five bushels The val-

ue of the mop, ba ed on December 1

p1ices, is $26,181,000.



Barley—Barley suffered similarly to

cats. the yield being only nineteen

bushels per acre. The acreage was also

20,000 less than last year, so that the

production of 6,320,000 bushels was

nearly four milions less than 'that of

last year. If sold on December 1,11t

would have brought a total or $8,278,-

000.



Beans.—-The bean crop is estimated

111 4,030,000 bushels, or approximately

850,000 bushels less than last year.

While the acreage was only sixty per

cent of last year’s, the yield was thir-

teen bushels as compared with nine

produced last year. At an average val





ue of $4.20 pe1-bushel on December 1,,





the crop ms worth $153363”.

Rye—«The most marked change 111

acreageofa'ny croplsthnt of m





. year.





which has increased from 325,000 in

1916 to 900,000 in 1919. At fifteen bush

els per acre, 8. production of 13.5000,000

bushels is obtained the largest of any

state except that of Nmth Dakota. The

valuation of the crop \is $17, 280,000,

which is in marked contra t to the vol-





uation in 1905 when the crop was only-





2,146,000 bushels and Was worth only

$1,266,000.



Buckwheat.——Thls crop is grown in

many sections only as a catch crop,

that is, a substitute for crops that for

some reason»~could not be planted in

season. As planting conditions in 1919

were more favorable than in other re-

cent years, there was less need for

substitution and the acreage of buck-

wheat was consequently smaller than

usual, and less than in any year since

1005. The yield was 13.8 bushels and

produced a crop 01" 662.000 bushels,

worth $907,000.



Potatoes.-—The potato crop, based on

December 1 prices, was worth $38,729,-

000. The production amounted to 28,-

088, bushels or about the same as last

Fourteen thousand less acres

were grown but the yield Was slightly

larger, and the quality was excellent.

It is estimated that 10.460 cars will be

shipped from the commercial area as

compared with an available supply for

shipping of 12,000 cars last year; The

commercial crop graded as follows:

No. 1. seventy-eight pe1 cent, No. 2,

fifteen pe1 cent; culls, seVen per cent.





Tame Hey “The estimated producav





tion is 3,180,000 tons, or about 500,000

tons grater than last year. The yield

was lighter than usuaL beint 1. 2 tons

per acre; 2, 650, 000 acres were devoted

to the crop, which is 11‘ slightly larger

area than last year'fiwing to} the high

average price of $23210 per ton, the

value or the crop is the highest on rec-

ord, being 374, 412.000.





Sugar Bean's-The final revision of.





the, estimated act-insi- yield and pro

auction is not available. yet. but the

preliminary as, ‘ no 110.1148 oozes





 





 





 





 

 





 

 





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harvested, 21 yield 019.1 tons per acre,

and a total pmduction of 1,001,000 tons.

As the average price paid to farmers

was $11.28 per ton, the average per

acre value of the crop amounts to

810285, and the total crop value, 311,-

291, 000.



Clover Seed. “The clover seed m

age is much lees than usual, beinges—

timated at 72,000 acres, One hundred

and one thousand bushels is the esti-

mated production as compared with

90,000 bushels last year. The average

p1ice per bushel was $27.50, and the

total value $2, 778, 000.



Apples. ——The apple production is

placed at 6,484,000 bushels as compar-

ed with 9,792,000 bushels last year.

The cron was generally good from Oce-

ans county northward along Lake

Michigan to Traverse City, but was,‘

generally light ‘in the southwestern

counties. Over the remainder of the

state, the apple crop was proba-

bly the lightest in many years. The

commercial portion of the crop is plac-

ed at $1,109,000 barrels, that of last

year being 1,495,000 barrels.



Peacheswwmle the state produced

over two million bushels in 1915 and

again in 1918, the crop this year was _

only -,480 000, although this was much

larger than that of last yea1 when only

85,000 bushels were ploduced. The av-

erage price was $3.10 per bushel and

the total value was $1,498,000. Y I



Pears. .



at 436 .000 bushels, or about sixty per

cent of that of last you, and about

forty per cent of the production 1111916

and in 1917 The crop was Worth $1.80

per bushel and brought a; total of about

$767 000 ,

_ The amount for grain and «seed

throshed as reported by thmshermcn

up to and including December 27,1910

is as follows:





         





Aver.

_ Yield.





Crop. Bushels.





Winter wheat ......17.153.‘1.3 »



89““ What u...s.11.860.”5-



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W H0 in the world is more interest-

ed .in good roads than the farm,-

er. . He is the one who uses the roads

in his business year in and. year out.

Roads are to the farmer what street

cars are to the worker in the city—it.

makes his busineSS possible. Good

roads improve his chances of success,

Whilepoor roads hold him backaaved

streets are no more valuable to the city

than paved roads to the country, but

the city, has recognized their value

while the farmers have just begun to

comprehend it. I know that there is

not a single community that cannot

'quickly discover some considerable ex-



pense that bad roads have caused.



I know many roads that compel all

the farmers who travel over them with

loads to use fully double the motive

power that would be needed if they

should be .hard surfaced and brought

to a correct grade. 1 know when one

farmer hired.men to haul Wheat from

a thresher to town over such a road

and he paid enough more for that haul-

ing alone to pay heavy taxes on his

share of the road building necessary to ,



, give the best kind of a roadbed. The

good roads when rightly built will not



‘ need rebuilding for years, while every

year of poor roads costs the farmers,

that haul over them a big expense. If

the farmers would Just keep an ac-



' curate account of all the actual cost

to them from bad roads, counting the

extra horse and man power, extra

time consumed, and loss from reduced

prices/ delayed work, depreciation of

products because of delays, and every

other cost that the roads cause directly

they would soon realize that bad roads

are most awfull expensive. Surely

they are not pleasant!



The time. was when farmers declar-

ed the road campaigns were all in fa-

vor of the automobilists, but since the

most Of the farmers own automobiles



, they are not talking so much, and they

are talking roads more. The corn belt

states and all the‘midwestern states

show a remarkable condition. Most of

them can haul nearly their whole pop-

ulation in their’automobiles at one trip.

Iowa has a record of seven passengers

to the car, and the automobiles in the

country are in practically the same

ratio to the country population as those

in the city to the city population. We

can readily see that country roads will

he traveled mostly by country automo-

biles, and since. the farm truck has be-

come such a power as a labor-saver

good roads have become all the more

important. With the advent of the

heavy truck that will haul two to five

tons to town at one load farmers must

not skimp the material in their roads,

for only the best will stand this kind

of traffic, and these trucks have come

to stay and increase in numbers. They





are much too profitable on the farm to ,





be checked now, so the roads must be

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wants. To base the market price ab-

solutely upon the cost of production

and to readjust wages to keep up with~

increased cost of commodities means

to fix prices, and that is What many a

man advocated now, “so that every-

body will know what he is doing."

Have we thought this thing out? We

can of course, say that. a certain com-

modity shall sell at a certain price, and

that the buyer must pay that price or

leave it. So far so good. But no law

of man can compel the buyer to pay





the price and take the stuff, particular-fl





1y if he has not the money and cannot

get it. Right there is where price fix—

ing breaks down, and that is the rea-

son that no one of the price‘fixing

schemes tried in Rome, Englandand

elsewhere could work. Such a scheme

can work only when the demand is'

clearly above the supply, and only so

long as it remains above it. '



It is for an organization such as this

to be informed in matters of this sort

and to stand as a stone wall against

mistakes, no matter how insistent the

popular clamor. lt isthe only way to

forestall a dangerous mob psychology

in affairs agricultural.



We need more data upon the cost of

production, certainly, but as a guide to

practice, not as a basis of fixing prices

in time of peace. The to must be left

to bargain, to contract and to the proc-

esses of trade, and here is a great field

for this and similar organizations.



Marketing.



A great deal is being said these days

about cooperative marketing. Much

that has been done thus been purely

protective in the sense that individual

farmers have combined to resist the

inertia, if not. the oppression, of spec-

ulating markets. But the problem is

rapidly broadening and deepening. It

is perfectly clear now that the real

question before the farmer is precisely

the same as the question before the

consumer, that. is to say, one of distri-

bution. In all this the farmers must

be wiser than the general public. The

general public just now is out hunting

for criminals. It is hunting with a

hammer and with explosives. In the

language of the street, the public is on

a general trustbusting ekpedition and

counts its victories by the number and

character of the things which it for-

bids Big Business to do.



Now all of this is not simply pro-

hibitive; much is injurious and will

work only to the injury of the service.

The farmers must be wise enough to

work with and not against the agen-

cies that undertake the collection and

redistribution of the products with

which they deal. I am glad to know

that the bulk of the wool clip of 'Illi-

no's was marketed this year through

the Agricultural Association and the

Farm Bureaus working in cooperation.



I am satisfied that much more is to

be gained by entering into conference

with the packers, for example, than by

fighting with them, giving them clear-

ly to understand that all hands must

lay their cards upon the table and find

the best ways of handling as well as

of producing meat, and that they must

work at'that problem until it is really

solved. 1 count it fortunate that as ex-

pensive and as complicated and as haz-

ardous a business as the meat busi-

ness is well organized as it is in as

few units, and that it is so well pre-

‘ pared to meet the farmers in open dis-

cussion. If the business of distribu-

that of meats had been no better or-

stained in the time of war than were





" ghost of our industries, we should nev~





l-pl‘rr have fed the Allies.

: Now this valuable machinery must

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calendar, but if the five great packing

concerns in the country should be dis-

solved and we should go back to the

primitive conditions of a half century

ago, it woull be the worse not only for

the producer but for the consumer as

well. It would have been fatal in war.

We need the service. Our machinery

is good so far as it goes; what it_needs





is imprOVement. not wmeflng and re»

casting. and what we need is class and“ ,

continual conference betv‘veon the all:





chinery which produces our meats undue

that other machinery which sends

them to. the. consumer, even tho

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Illinois Association Meeting





HAT the farmers of Michigan



may expect in benefits from the

Michigan State Farm Bureau was

graphically illustrated at the annual

meeting of the Illinois Agricultural As-

sociation, sister to the Michigan organ-

ization, in Peoria, Illinois, January 13-

14. More than one thousand Illinois

farmers were at the meeting and laid

plans for the reaping of even greater

benefits in 1920 than in 1910.



More than fifty thousand Illinois

farmers of sixty-four counties are now

members of the Farm Bureau Federa-

tion of that state and briefly, here’s

what their 1919 record shows:



Legislativelymkilling of a bill which

would have made it illegal for a farmer

to give- medicine to stock without in-

struction of a veterinarian; of another

which would have prevented farmers

from disposing of their own dead ani-

mals without licenses from the state;

another which would have forced a

tractor owner to procure a license to

more that tractor over a' road to an

adjacent farm. Passage of a pure seed

bill checking distribution of weed

seeds, regulation of commission mar»

chants, revision of log law, compensa-

tion for slaughter of tubercular cattle,

appropriation of $1,200 per county for

county agricultural agents, collection

of farm statistics by assessors, ap-

propriation of $125,000 for limestone

plant, establishment oi veterinary col-

lege at. state university, appropriation

for biological laboratory, regulating

the spread of plant diseases, and an

amendment to conspiracy bill, exempt-

ing farmers, which was of great help

in securing acquittal of Illinois Milk

Producers- charged with combining in

restraint of trade.



Commercially—establishment of a

wool pool that handled more than half

a million pounds’of wool in the year

and produced for the farmers from ten

to twenty cents a pound more than

they could have obtained individually

on the open market. This pool will be

continued in 1920 with expectation that

close to one milion pounds of wool will

be handled in the year.



The lllinois Association ratified the

constitution of the new National Amer-





ican Farm Bureau Federation with a"





volley of cheers following an address

by PresLdent J. R~ Howard of the Na

tional organization in which he pointed

out the manifold problems facing agri-

culture tiaat can only be handled by

the farmers of the country solidly

backing up one powerful organization.

And such backing is developing. The

fann bureaus of more than twenty

states will have ratified the national

constitution by March 3, Mr. Howard

stated, and these include not only iii

nois, Michigan and other states of the

com belt. but 8mm as faraway as

California. New Hampshire and Gear-

gia, making it really a national organi-

zation.



Mr. C. A. Bingham, secretary of the

Michigan State Farm Bureau, and Mr.

J. P. Powers of that «ionization, vow





to work in Michigan. for promotion of

agriculture here. »



Mr. Bingham says: “I have never

received such inspiration as I received

at Peoria. The farmers ofvlllino’is are

set and determined that the decline of

agriculture as an industry shall stop

and are united in the perfecting of not

‘0“.y a mighty state organization to

handle their local problems but also

the perfecting are tremendous nation-

al machine that will promote and bol-

ster the interests of agriculture in a

national way from coast to coast and

gulf to Great Lakes and even enter

the international field. A new era in

agriculture is being born and I am

proud to say Michigan is‘in the‘van

with the progressive farmersof the

rest of the country.





 





or he will not be What! “mar

_ motives. but the moment he begins to





get in conference with him mad the 3

table, even the members of our .0an

association will





~ begin

whether or not the officers and direcé





tom. may» not be hobnobbingwith the '





octopus. This is small business, but

it will appear in the ”order of pro}

.cedure.





Another. thing that will appear is





'this. if the farmers through their as-





sociations, and the - dealers_ through





their organizations, really do succeed .





in finding ways of cooperation where—

by some of the hazard may be taken

out of production and some of the diffi-

culties eliminated, that animal of sev-

en heads and ten horns, known as the

public, will begin to prick up its ears

and say, “Go to, now.” There is a com‘

bination between the farmers and the

distributors that must be broken up.’»’

And by as much as this same public

has now decreed that the packer may

not own’cars, operate yards, or even

makeuphis waste products into soap

and glueQ the same public might some

timejdecree that‘the feeder may not

own his ovvn truck or grow his own

corn, or that, tho corn grower may not

feed it, but must sell it in the open

market, lest somebody have an advan—

tage over somebody. aAll those things

will be met along the road that is





ahead.





The corn growers committee facili- -’





tated the marketing of thousands of

cars of corn and recommended that

$100,000. be appropriated for 1920 for

creation of a farmers‘ grain associa-

t‘On that will serve as a medlum for

the handling of the bulk of the grain

business of the farmers of the state

and the tip-building of the various com-

munity cooperative associations about

the state.



The live‘ stock committee made a

survey upon which is based the follow-

ing 1930 program: One hundred thou-

sand dollars for development of a me-

dium through which feeder cattle,

sheep and hogs may be brought more

directly from grower to live stock feed-

er,‘ establishment of trouble man at the

Union Stock Yards, establishment of

a bureau for analyzing, compiling and

distributing correct and definite live

stock statistics to the farmers to be

part of a system for directing live

stock production and marketing, de-

velopment of a traffic bureau to ob-

tain better service for live stock ship-

pers, stimulation of domestic and for-

eign markets for purebred stock and

establishment of business connections

for marketing of such stock. coopera-

tive purchase of concentrates, as cot-

tonseed meal, tmkage,.oilmoai, molas-

ses. etc, for benefit of live stock pm-

ducers.



And there are many other ways in

which the Illinois Farm Bureaus are

operating constructively to save direct-

ly and indirectly cold. hard dollars and

cents for the farmers, covering a wide

variety of fields such as cooperative

handling of fertilizers. operation of a

claims department, a legal advisory de-

partmont, etc.



But these benefits to the miners of

minois who inure subscribed ten-dollar

memberships to the organization did

not materialize. figuratively, over





night. “It has been a long, tedious 015-





e‘iation,” Resident Harvey J. Sconce

said. “Even now our , definite opera-

tions have not. reached every farmer

whommoaMr.butwue

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Political Power.





This association must avoid politics

and political entanglements as it would

avoid the devil if he were actually

abroad in the land seeking whom he

might devour, the example of the non-

partisan league to the contrary not-

withstanding. We haVe difficulties, ev-

en grievances, to be sure, but they

must be adjusted by the ordinary proc-

esses of business or by the orderly

procedures of government. We do not

need and we must not aspire to get

possession of the machinery of govern-

ment in order to obtain our rights and

privileges. In that way, too, lies ob-

livion, for society will combine against

any class that undertakes either to

force its demands irrespective of oth-

ers’ rights, or to get possession of the

government. The recent experience

of labor both in England and in the

United States has demonstrated this

fact in free government. it has even

given rise to a paraphrase on Lincoln's

famous words to the eifect that no sin-

gle class is good enough .or wise

enough to govern society without so-

ciety’s consent. Public opinion is set

upon this point, and public opinion is

the one thing in the world that is

stronger even than goyemment. It is

public opinion that has just taught its

lesson to the labor paity in England

and to striking labor in this country.



Ehtangling Alliances.



During the last few months organiz-



ed labor has repeatedly invited farm-





ors' associations to meet in conference

and label papers are trying hard to





make it appear that our agricultural





organizations are backing the demands

of organized labor.





Now the-facts are that there is noth-





ing in common between farmers and





organized labor except the obligations

of a. common citizenship and their duty

to serve society, nototo throttle or ex-

ploit it. Leone 6: the labor people we

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get that it is organized labor that has

defeated a state constabulary law

wherever it has been defeated?





vyet such a constabulary affords, the





and his family.

such as these could any invitation to

”cooperate be more graceless or more

offensive?





"(go their separate ways.

;. _ legitimate work to do alone, in and for

”itself, and each belongs in'conference;





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Under circumstances





 





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of the conference must be public ser— ‘





,_ vice and welfare, not class advantage.





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. ers and their associations.





and representatives of all interests

must be present.



Organized labor is not the only ex-

traneous interest that will attempt in

one way or another to “use" the farm-

We main

one of the most peculiar and unsatis-

factory tangles that ever beset any

country and it is not to the credit of

either political party that we should

find ourselves so situated, when we of

all the world ought to be sane and in

po.1ition to exert positive, not negative

influence. Both parties are looking for

a way out. Both are extremely con-

cerned about the “labor vote," and now

as never before the "farmer vote" will

be bidden for.



We are nearing a presidential cam-

paign and we may all as well under-

stand that three thousand eight hun‘

dred county farm bureaus, thirty state

federations, and a national organiza-

tion cannot exist without attracting po-

litical attention. It has practically all

come into existence since the beginning

of war—even simce the last presiden-





tial campaign, and before we are many-





months older we shall all realize that

a new power has come

affairs.



Under these conditions does anybody

supose that the farm bureaus and their

federation will fail to be noticed and

their possibilities considered. Nay,

verily. When for years the “labor

vote” has been the greatest single con-

sideration in our campaigns, when no-

body dared discuss the craze of the

moment, whether it happened to be

civil service reform, initiative and ref-

erendum, or what not, it is fOIIy to as-

sume that this association will have

as political significance in the eyes of

politicians.



Probably there never was a time in

our political history when practical

politicians were so reluctant to do

more than to announce platitudes pon.

derously, waiting 'to commit them-

selves upon any real issue until they

should see which way the cat was go-

ing to jump. We have greatly needed

a few real statesmen to help us think

out new issues, but so fal' we have had

little that was helpful, much that was

confusing, and not a little that was

positively erroneous and misleading.





' Into this whirlpool of political uncer-





tainty the farm bureau and its federa-

tion must not be drawn at this, its

christening. If it ever expects to grow

up into alife of real usefulness this as-

sociation and its like must keep free

from all entangling alliances, especial-

ly political, and whether party or indi~

vidual. From this course it should not

be enticed even by the most engaging

prospect of immediate advantage

Agriculture Counted In.

Agricultu1e desires and intends to





. be invited into the counsels of the na-





tion. Capital and labor have held the

stage as if there were no other classes

than employer and employe, and as if

there were no other issues beyond in-

terest and wages.





They and the public have alike for





fr gotten that we all eat and that every-

body has taken good for granted long.





 





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cerns the public as much as it does the

farmer.



To call a great conference between

employers and employes, between cap-

ital and labor if you please, and not

call into conference at the same time

the farmers, is to overlook if not to

ignore, the fact that the greatest and

most fundamental question at issue be-

tween the two is food and that the two

parties at issue know about as much

about its production as a horse knowsml

about heaven. Employers, may“,

congressmen and presidents, statesmen

and near-statesmen, politicianI and

publictsts—they have all to go to

school to the farmer, for he has some-

thing to say to them that is of pressing

consequence.



Where Agriculture Conccrm the

Public. ‘ 9



And these are some of the things he

would say; We have all been exploit-

ing the land and mining out its fertil-

ity—spending our substance in riotous

living. as a people and as a nation. And

the end is not far hence unless the

questions of agriculture shall be giv-

en some of the time heretofore spent

in trying to adjust the eternal wrangle

between capital and labor ‘in their man-

oeuve'rs for advantage‘ ape over the

other. §

A generation ago there was no ques-

tion as to who owned the land. It was

the farmer. Now it is a question who

will own the lands of this country in

another generation. If present tenden~

1 3e; continue its nationalization is only

a question of time, and it is within the

possibilities that we might reach 3.

Condition from which this would be the

only way out.



The treatment of the land that it

may not decline in producing power,

the relation between landlord and ten-

ant, the kind of housing that shall shel-





ter the family that works the soil, the.





modern conveniences that shall be pro-





; vided for the woman who does her own





work, the circumstances under which

families shall be born in the open coun-

try, and the class of parents from

whom this great breeding ground of

the nation shall reproduce Americans

—all these must engage the attention,

not only of the farmers but of law-

makers and of publicists. ‘



The general public must become bet-

ter informed about matters agricultur-

al and about the affairs of the farm.

It must reform from that haughty in.

difference that characterizes most of

our non-farming brethren one moment,

and from that patronizing pity that too

often is voiced in the next. .



In this connection I will reproduce

the following open letter which illus-

trates something of what I have in

mind, for agriculture figures not in the

literature of our people, except as it is

maligned and bungled by those who

know just enough about the matter to

make a mess of it.





An Open Letter to the Literary Digest.





Editor Literary Digest,

New Y01k City, N. Y-.:

My Dear Sir:



I am writing to sugest that you be-

gin to report editorial opinion and sig-

nificant contents of the agricultural

press as you so ably report significant

comment and current literature in oth-

er lines. 1



Your columns are full of matter

bearing upon the high cest of living

and upon [the summon! to odi





' so not money is devoted “'3‘ .





of a point now and then from Mr.

Hoover when in charge of the Food

Administration. That is to say, the

great agricultural press, reaching a full

third of our population, might as well

be non existent so fai as you and your

readers are concerned.



I do not ask you to serve agricul-

ture, but I do ask you to serve the

public atom agricultural lines as ef-

tectivelyu You serve it along other

lines. Asingle example will illustrate





the way in which you have helped the'





bacto go wrong, when a decent re-

grd to what was all the time current

tural press would have

preve wrong assumptions and sav-

ed much time in reconstruction. The

example is this:

The public assumed and without ar-

meat, that the farmers were enjoy-





ing a bonamjn an artificial price for

wheat, that this was the principal





cause of high prices, and that when:





this war premium was removed that,

wheat would come tumbling down, and

with it all other p.rices Your columns

were full at this for a year or more.





The agricultural press knew better

and their pages all clearly told why

the farmer Was raising wheat and why

wheat was held down (all properly and

as a. war measure), rather than up, and

they also freely predicted as much as

a year and a half ago that .wheat pric-

es would rise and not fall when the

Food Administration 1etired. It was

common to call attention to the fact

immediately afte1 the armistice, that

now the supplies of Australia and Ar-



ntine were available, as if they were

ine‘xhaustibie, the“ public apparently not

knowing that these two countries so

much talked about produce less wheat

than do Spain and Italy; and were but

a drop in the bucket in the solution of

the problem. .



Number One Northern is now quot-



ed at $3. 50 in Minneapolis, the highest

it has ever been, except for a few days

at the opening of the war; and the

cheapest grade quoted in the maiket

is $2.65, or thirty-nine cents above the

standard. In other words, wheat is

now from forty cents to a dollar a

bushel higher than under government

management.

_ In ignoring the a ricultural press

and what farmers ere saying, you

have followed the example of the cos-

mopolitan press, but you have over-

looked some exceedingly important in-

formation to which your readers were

entitled, particularly when you devote

so much space to all other phases of

our economic life, not excepting the

issues raised by organized labor.



I therefore repeat my. suggestion

that is the interest of getting at all





the facts you open a section like the





one in Science and Invention, for ex-

ample, and devote it to the best infor-.

mation obtainable touching the produc-

tion of foodstuffs.





Agriculture does not need this ser-

vice, but the public does, and when it

is informed it will cease trying to set-

tle great questions like agriculture

without taking stock of the agricul-

tural situation.





Recapltulutlon.



It is clearly tmpouibie within ‘the

limits of a paper of reasonable length

to treat with any degree of complete-

ness more than a few of the many

questions that press upon a great sub-

ject like agriculture and upon an asso-

ciation. such. as this.



It is easy to say that it must not

waste its energies in trivial matters,

and that it must not be diverted from





A "h we! purpose; flinch is the devel-





opment of agriculture in the very

broadest and belt sense of the term.





It is easy to point out seine of the larg-'





er issues that must be raised and some

of the broader questions that must be

Settled. It is socially easy to saytha't

the whole pulley of” the association





   





 





 





ture; second, without «1011111111

ployment the machinery of the asso-





. ciation will become unity and useless,-

~ and third, unless the membership nan





feel day by day and month by month

that Soniething useful is being main;





p‘lishedVand something 1s being done ‘

for them which they could not do for





themselves, then the membership’will‘

decline and the support will fail. '



The problem, therefore, 1esolves it-

self into the making of a program in-

volving the larger issues and accom-

plishments Of agriculture without ig-

noring those smaller affairs that touch

the membership day by day.





While engaged in developing better

market facilities, therefore, with the

greater agencies of distribution it is

none the less important to develop ship-

ping assodiations at home. It is just

as important, too, to use the whole





power of the association if necessary ’





in securing cars and adjusting claims

as it is to obtain favorable shipping





ratesto the marketing centers. Notht





ing is more important to the farmer'on

histam than reasonable rates on the

more bulky. fertilizers unless it may be

the. providing of ideal storage at the

station so that he may not be obliged

to take his team off the planter to un—

load a. car or pay deniurrage at a rate

that would make his fertilizer invest-

ment unprofitable.



The open country is uhprovided with

many of the facilities of good living

that modern conditions call for. The

temptation iv strong for these new as-

sociations to provide these things

themselves, but whether they should be

the direct or only the indirect agent

in securing them is a matter thatzturns

upon a question whether and. to what

extent these matters are strictly agri-

cultural. Two examples must suflice.

The farming communities in general

are not provided with adequate retail

service. Hence the mail order houses.

Clearly, the farm bureau cannot take



over the business of providing this. ser-

vice themselves el1e they will be di-

verted from their original principal

purpose, the great work of developing

agriculture. It may be necessary for

these associations 10 be active in set-

ting at work influences which will pro-

vide .this service- These influences

may be local or they may be‘more gen-

eral. There are. many localities half

asleep in the whole business'ot‘ mer~

chandising which could be vastly ben-

efited by finding out Who is the real





. live merchant, if there is such a party,





assisting him'in plans for adequate ser-

vice, and then insuring him the sup-

port of the community.



In many sections this service will

have to be imported, and I am not at

all sure but that the chain store will

yet develop as about the only adequate

means of really serving the farmer’s

needs. It is almost pathetic that no-

body seems ever to have made a study

of the peculiar needs of a farming com-





munity inithe same way that the needs .





of the city customer have been studied

by almost every prosperous merchant.

This does not mean that the farmer’s

needs are substantially different from

those of otlter‘people, because they are

not, but it does mean that there is an

element of peculiarity in the farmer’s

needs, and this element must be stud-

ied and met.



The other illustration is this. There

is no credit system whereby farmers,

like merchants, may be known in the

business world. Neither is kthere any





adequate system fer financing agricul-





ture, save only the Farm Loan Act;





which at best meets the needs of, only '3





a certain class; of borrowers. *Th ‘

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sons. First, in ‘no other. Way can it .

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of improved live stock from all over

the state.- The sharpchill of the morn-

ing air was gradually mellowed when

the sun came smilingly out and added

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At the first general session, which





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there was a joint meeting of the allied

This meeting was ad-

dressed by Mr. H. H. Halliday, presi-

dent of the State Live Stock Sanitary

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cussion of the health of Michigan live

stock. The meeting was followed by

a banquet tendered by the State Board

of Agriculture to members of the Mich-

igan Improved Live Stock Breeders’

and feeders Association.



At the Thursday morning meeting

the address of President Colon C. Lil-

lie. of Coopersville, president of the

association, proved the outstanding fea-

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published in full in another column.



G. E. Wentworth, superintendent of

the Chicago Horse Market Company,

read an interesting paper on the possi-

bilities of the return of the horse for

more general use on the farm and in

city trunking. Mr. Wentworth quoted

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stated that five thousand firms in the

United States were willing to contrih

ute fifty dollars each toward a fund for

advertising and reinstating the horse

on the market, and claimed that a fund





:of this sort was needed to counteract





the advertising and publicity of the in-





‘terests that are endeavoring to drive

, the home 01! the markets.’ He further





stated that the present high cost of liv-

ing was due largely to the high cost of





expensive power-driven vehicles used

in our cities. _



Dean Robert S. Shaw, of the Michi-

gan Agricultural College, gave an in-

teresting discussion of the diversified





- farming problem. He pointed out the





hazardous conditions confronting the

farmer and advised him to avoid Spe-

cialties and stick to the production of

standard crops and live stock. He

pointed out the need of a more definite

accounting system in order that the

firmer might arrive at crop production

cost figures. These accounts should be

kept by the farmer himself, rather

than by the county agént 01 United





States Department of Agricultme sta-





tistlcians.



Everett C. Brown, president of the

National Live Stock Enchange and of

the-Chicago Live Stock Exchange, dis-

cuSsed the operation of the great pack-

ing industry and stock. yards manage-

ment under federal control. Mr. Brown’s

address will be published later.

Considerable disappointment prevail-

ed among those present when it was

announced that 0. E. Bradfute, of Ohio,

and L. Whitney Watkins. of Manches-





_ter, Michigan, could not be present to





address the afternoon meeting.



Hale Tennant, Bureau of Market ex-

port. gave a short and right to the

point address on some of the work of

cooperative organizations in Michigan.

Mr Tennant took the stand that agri-





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The Michigan Sheep Grovtrera’ Asso-

clation put the machinery in motion to

organize a cooperative wool marketing

association. A committee consisting





of H. H. Halliday, Amos Welch, James; : A

N. McBrideand Comfort Tyler, was

appointed to perfect the organization.





The idea of such an association is to





sell the wool produced by the farmers"





of the state'on-a cooperative plan and.





avoid many of the injustices that wool -

producers are now subjected to in sells





ing their product.





Live Stock Men Adopt Resolutions- ':

We, the Improved Live Stock Breed-'f ..

ers, inpour annual session, endorse and ,

approve the organilzation of the Michr .





gan Farm Bureau and demand that it

function for all of agriculture, and es-

pecially along economical organization.

We ask that the address given by Pres~

ident Colon C. Lillie of this body ve

published as a program for agriculture.



We ask that the1e be erected at the

college a suitable pavilion that will en—

able the exhibition of live stock and its

judging be made a fact01 commensul-

ate with the standing of Michigan's

purebred stock.



We ask that the- Michigan delegation

in congress aid and suppoxt a statute

defining pure wool and the prevention

of shoddy being sold in such a man-

ner as to deceive the consumer.

advanced cost of clothing makes this

subject more imperative than ever.



That we look with high favo1 on the

organization of the Michigan W 001

Growers' Association and commend it

to cm members for the purpose of co-

operative ma1keting of the wool clip of

our state, believing as we do that a

toll of more than one million dollars





was exacted trom Michigan wool grow-V

81s in 1919 that may. be saved to the .





producer.



We endorse the work of the Live

Stock Commisisoner, Hon. H. H. Hal-

laday, and his efficient administration

of live stock laws.



We commend the wo1k of the live

stock department of the Michigan Ag-

r1cu1tu1 al College and the bleeding and

development of dairy animals to theii

present standing at the college. The

cost of milk production work of Prof.

Andezson is of the highest merit.



Whereas, we are informed that the

fund for opelating expenses in the

eradication of tuberculosis is now ex-

hausbed and that feder al testing for

the eradication of tuberculosis will

cease unless congress shall pass a res-

olution authorizing the bureau to draw,

on the indemnity fund for payments of

operating expenses. Therefore it is

resolved that Hon. J. C. McLaughlin,

a member of the Agricultural Commit-

tee in congress, be most respectfully

requested to use his influence for the

passage of such a resolution.





We hereby extend our sincere sym-



pathy to our esteemed colleague, the

Hon. H Hinds, or Stanton. in his afflic~

tion No man' perhaps in the state has

done more than he to preserve and

maintain this organization None have

been more loyal, none more faithful in

attendance, none better beloved, and

that he may yet be with us for many

years to come, is our sincere hope.

— In the death of Dr. J. L. Snyder, we

all recognize the loss of a man who

has been identified for many years

with the agricultural and live stock .n-

terests of Michigan, and for the un-

building and development of these in-

dustries. Therefore. be it resolved.

that we, the members of the Michigan

Improved Live Stock Breeders’ Asso-

ciation, express by resolution our ap—

preCiation of his efforts in our behalf

and iegxet his departure from our

midst.



It is with great regret that we an-

nounce the death of our member of

many years, the Hon. L. D. Watkins,

and extend our sympathy to the be-

reaved family and wish that we might

share with them the great loss which

they must feel is theirs and theirs

alone.



Another distinguished member, Mr.

B. A. Kelly, of Ypsilanti, has passed

into the great beyond since our last an-

nual meeting. A good man has gone

but his influence will be felt for many





years to come To this bereaved tam '





ily we extend sympathy.

We .wish to extend the thanks of

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Selected seed, good soil properly

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proper rotations and a iudicious

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, When planting by hand, the fertilizer

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Fertilizer should .not be applied to grass,

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. yet suspected. One of the reasons why the dealer or make him other than

on 80mm! Com Cribs andGrain Bins. so many of our best young men and what he was berm—that is to aw. a

Audit contains a wofldofvalunble m- _ women are driven from the land is that middleman.

formation on how to store your corn and 7 ~ there is as yet no plan of which the Now the most serious element of

grain and make more profit out Of Ito ’ , young man can avail himself, and this experiment in such states as Mich-

It Tm 4 whereby he may hope toearn his home igan, Ohio, and to a large extent Indi- 1 g

—How.witbaMartlu“CornSwei-*Crlb,youcan except he first become for the most of all... was not the fact that the Grange 1 1

. ‘ , set 10 powwow out of rout-comm every his life a renter, raising his family un- store failed or that the Grange bank .:

C' 131 d Bi'iéitléll‘ \ ' 353,, the” modem at”, m mam m . der renter’s living conditions. Last of “went broke." but it was that the tail

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earofyourcomiaaclean. hard. sound condition ‘ all, in this connection, there is no ade- we of. the Grange store carried with it

andbnngthetopmarketprioetorit. ‘





. ' p "d . quate financial advice for farmers’ is the practical destruction of the Grange

P - -H th '11 protect cry fromthe - . _

And OSt 61’. meg} meg, 3.» birds. fiddfifim I“ ‘~ vestments beyond the ancient and hab- itself as a powerful means of agricul-

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#How they completely banish thednngeroffice _ ; ‘ ituel-one-s of buying more land or lend- tural progress. I do not mean that

destroying your crop.





—How youcan store yourcomintbemufe m ._ . ing to a neighbor on a mortgage. from that time on the Grange had no





wastcy safe from lasso: any kindandmakelaote The ultimate success of the Illinms influence in those states, because it did

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- Agricultural Association will, in my have powerful influence in many plac- l

smalfi‘m _ opinion, depend upon its wisdom in es and until now,‘bnt it never became “

of “us W V .111 able. I No matter keeping out of unprofitable activities, generally'powerful and for the. very . g .



whether momammmm avoiding entangling alliances, and its good reason that unwise promoters in.

°f m the“ '5 ‘ m and style “f , industry in planning activities which the early days in answer to the ques- l

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built to fit your needs. They are Will insure the development oi agr1cul~ non, Why Should I 30111 the Grange? ,: &





 





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$238.“ mwmg‘m * ture along the broader lines and at the almost invariably replied. "In order to,





needrepairs~and lastafifetnne. , same time meet and satisfy the daily buy cheap." Cheap buying, therefore.



needs of its individual membership became the popular label of the Grange



‘ concerning matters in which he him- purpose in that region, and it stuck to



address and we will 111111! it to you self as an individual, is powerless. the institution permanently so that



free and postpaid .1011 with our 1 am so intent upon making these when that operation failed it all failed



SPECIAL LOW RI,C£S Don’t . . . . _ . . .



delay. Write today. , distinctions plain that I am gomg to together. There is no more clear ms

venture a final illustration drawn from stance of the fundamental mistake of.



mnflgeflfi PRODUCTS“. actual life. accepting one of the many side issues 3



MANSFIELD, m Grange Experience. of a great movement and mistaking it ‘ '



. Some forty years ago I joined the for the movement itself than was this ‘



Patrons of Husbanthy, commonly early and fatal experience of the



known as the Grange. Being a mem- Grange in dealing inadequately and one



her I may perhaps without offense and wisely with the problem of distribu-



for profit call attention to two or three tion.



chapters in the history of that honor- When the Grange came further west



able organization which may well serve it struck Illinois at about the time



as guiding posts and to some extent the farmers were fighting the rail-



warnings, in fixing the policies of theSe roads. The farmers had good cause to



new associations, which provide the discipline the railroads in those days



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In New England where conditions The farmers were as mad as a nest of

were somewhat settled, the Grange be- homets bef01e the Grange came and

gen and remained a social and educa- quite naturally they seized on this new

tional agency. But it struck the belt machine as a weapon for chasti'smg

of states just west of the Alleghenies ‘he common enemY——the railmad. They

immediately after the Civil War. I re used it to an effective purpose, and the

member it well. Conditions then were railroads never got over the conse- ' ’1

much the same as now. Prices were quences. Neither did the Grange. Both

high and the money w as ex eatly inflat- of them are in trouble yet as the after-

ed. P1 oduct1on was demmalized and math 01’ that old fight neaily fifty yeais

as now. everybody was looking for 3. ago. For the lemon-(ls are not today

short and easy way out of the under what they should be, laigely because

brush Then, as now, high piices weie of popular p1ejudice,and the Grange

laid to the profiteei 01 the middleman, has not be an, as it should, a 111aj01 fac-

as we called him in those days. We to: in the agricultural development of

did not talk so much about hoarding the 'Missisaippi Valley. These two

and profiteering then, but we did as- great $011305 came 10 grip; on the side

sort and prove to our own satisfiectlon lines, and while they are both still liv-

at least that this middleman was a ing they hale hindeied each other

wh 11y unnecessary cog in the wheel iio‘m domg what both ought to have . ‘

and an idle pulley on the shaft. He done long ago that is, developed into

produced nothing but was himself a peaceful established, and indispensa- ,

consumer. The problem of distribution ble factom of society

was not so complicated then as now, After the passage of ‘ half century

and we “SH? 0011de ourselves that we now have another opportimily to

the middleman Should be dismnsed develop agriculture with new improved

With. Hence, the Grange store and lb?) machinery along enlarged and signifi.

clerk in overalls. Hence, in a few cas- cant lineg‘ The times are trying, but

es the Grange bank, and it 100k9d at it is surely not—impossible by combin— I

one time as if the Grangers were going ing our knowledge of history with com- '

__ to takeover in the name or the farmer mon sense to avoid at least the princi-

~ the whole business of living, much as pet mistakes that, beset the path of

11m \en The first thingtothlnkabout the Non- Partisan League is attempting associations such as ours, and

Lgcigt‘iivfi‘iifcltfgggnfi‘c 33131 or? 3&1.“- “333.95.3‘"3173523" to do now except that so far as I know achieve for our constituency sometlm:





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the various clovers and grasses to sow

per acre. and whether different soils

F: need different amountsl- Also, if there

‘: is alfalfa that will not heave out- We

’ . got a goodcatch, but the next spring

- l - it heaved out until it didn't amount to '



, i much. Our 8011/ is a gravelly. clay.

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acre does and should vary with the

conditions and circumstances under

which the seeding is made. With seed

of perfect germination and an ideal

k , , seed-bed, together' with favorable

weather conditions, the-rate of seed-



» ing might be very much less than is



:V . usually prescribed. However, as ideal

' " conditions of germination, soil and

a weather are so seldom met, it is neces-

sary, as a matter of safety, .to use what



._ might seem to be unnecessarily large

) \ amounts of seed. In advising the prop-

i ' er amounts of grass seed to use, one

‘ ‘3 1 , has to assume average: conditions and

, leave much to the judgment of the

“f p farm operator. The following figures





& ' ‘Will you tell me how' much seed of

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x l . are given, therefore, with this under—

” f standing: _ ‘ _

i * Alfalfa, fifteen pounds, with a range





of from ten to twenty pounds per acre;

,3 hulled sweet clover, fifteen pounds,

with a range of from twelve to twenty

' ., pounds; red clover, ten to fifteen

1‘ ’pounds; alsike clover, five to eight

pounds; timothy, alone, ten to fifteen

pounds. A common mixture is timothy,

two to 'four pounds, and red clover,

eight to ten pounds. Bluegrass is seed-

ed at the rate of about thirty pounds,

. and orchard grass about" twenty-five

pounds per acre, depending largely on

the quality of the seed. In grass seed

mixtures the amounts of each are con-

siderably reduced in proportion to the

number of varieties in the mixture. .

It is claimed, and the experiences of

Michigan farmers seem to bear out

the contention, that alfalfas of the var-

iegated blossom strains, like Grimm

I and Baltic, possess such a habit of root

growth and such inherent hardiness

that they will not winter-kill or heave

, out under ordinary Michigan condi-

(; tions. As the seed of the common blue

.. i blossom varieties and the variegated

blossom varieties looks exactly alike,

¢ one can be sure of getting the genuine

' article by 'buying only from the few

absolutely" reliable seed houses and

seed growers’ associations. We under-

stand that the secretary of the Michi-

gan Crop Improvement Association,

E East Lansing, Michigan, has an option

on several thousand pounds of genuine

Grimm. He would be glad to give you

the price and particulars about this

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about one and one-half tons of ground

,- limestone per acre. Keep well worked

i ’ until about June 1, sow soy beans or

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using one-half bushel of seed per acre.

Cultivate the crop two or three times.

Harvest for hay in the usual way the '

forepart of September‘or before if the

plants begin to turn yellow around the’

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Pile up two days’ rations

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beside it put all the pails of

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in two days and two night“.





The WEIGHT of that feed and

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If the stable were air tight and __...,.—. ,





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no fresh air brought in, the cow





with ashes would soon die, though

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but in the colder states, most stables

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Some Fresh; Air Not Enough





They will get some fresh air,

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The same investigation showed a saving

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Mrs. Fletcher Dobbins, of Chicago, 111.; Mary

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He laughed slowly. well pleased. A

lazy smoldering admiration shone in

his half shattered eyes.



“So you’ re going to take it out of

me. are you?"



A creature of moods. there meson

or her now a swift change. Every fear

ture of her, the tense pose, the manner

of defiant courage, sortened indescrib-

ably. She was no longer an enemy

bent on his destruction but just a girl

pleadingfor the father she loved.



“Why do you do it? .You are a man.

You want to light fair. Tell me he is

well. Tell me you will set him free.”



He forgot for the moment that he

was a man with the toils of the law

closing upon him, forgot that his suc-

cess and even his liberty were at stake.

He saw only a girl with the hunger of

love in her wistful eyes, and knew that

it lay in his power to bring back the

laughter and the light into them.



- “Suppose I can’t fight fair any long-

er. Suppose I've let myself get trap—

ped and it isn’t up to me but to some-

body else."



“How do you mean?”



“Up to your father, say."



“My father ?"



“Yes. How could I turn him loose

when the first thing he did would be

to swear out a warrant for my arrest ?"

‘ “But he wouldn’t—not if you freed

him.”



He laughed harshly. “l thought you

knew him. He’s hard as nails.”



She recognized the justice of this ap-

praisal. "But he is generous too. He

stands by his friends."



> “I’m not his friend, notso you could

notice it.” He laughed again, bitterly.

“Not that it matters. Of course I was

just putting a case. Nothing to it

really.” '



lie was hedging because he thought

he had gone too far, but she appeared

not'to notice it. Her eyes had the far-

away look of one who communes with

herself.



“If I could only see him and have a

talk with him.”



"What good would that do?" he pre-

tended to scoff.



But he watched her

theless.



“I think I could get him to do as I

ask. He nearly always does." Her

gaze went swiftly back to him. “Let

me talk with him. There’s a reason

why he ought to be free now, one that

would appeal to him."



This was what he had come for, but

now that she had met him half way

he hesitated. If she should not succeed

he would be worse off thanbefore. He

could neither hold her a prisoner nor

, free her to lead the pack of the law to

his hiding place. On the other hand if

Culllson thought they intended to keep

her prisoner he would have to com—

promise. He dared not leave her in

the hands of Lute Blackwell. Fendrick

decided to take a chance. At the worst

he could turn them both free and leave

for Sonora.



,“All right. l’ll take you to him. But

you’ll have to do as I say.”



“Yes," she agreed.



"‘I’m taking you to back my play. I

tell you straight that Blackwell would

like nothing better than to put a bullet

through your father. But I’ve got a

hold on the fellow that ties him. He’s

got to do as I say. But if I’m not there

and it comes to a showdown—if Bucky

. (MGonnor for instance happens to stum-

a3. inmthen it’s all off with Luck om.





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to come through with an agreement to

let go of that Del Oro homestead and

to Wise not ‘to prosecute us. He

won‘t do it to say-e his own life. He's

got to think momma there as any arts

oner. She? He: got to wrestle with

the notion that you‘re in the power of

the greatest villain that ever went on-

hung. I mean Blackwell. Let him chew

on that proposition 1 while and see

what he makes of it”



She nodded, white'to the lips. “Let

us go at once, please. I don’t want to

leave father alone with that man.” She

called across to the corral. “Manuel,

smile the pinto for me. Hurry!” '



They rodertogether through the-wind





swept sunlit land. From time to time





his lazy glance embraced her, a supple

graceful creature at perfect ease in the

saddle. What was it about her that

drew the eye so irresitibly? Prettier

girls he had often seen. Her features

were irregular, mouth and nose too

large, face a little thin. Her contour

lacked the softness, the allure that in

some women was an unconscious invi-

tation to cuddle. Tough as whipcord

she might be. but in her there flowed

a life vital and strong; dwelt a spirit

brave and unconquerable. She seemed

to him as little subtle as any woman

he had ever met. This directness came

no doubt from living so far from fem-

inine influences. But he had a feeling

that if a man once wakened her to love

the instinct of sex would spring full-

grown into being.



They talked of the interests common

to the country, of how the spring rains

had helped the range, of Shorty Mc-

Cabe's broken leg, of the new school

district that was being formed. Before

she knew it Kate was listening tohis

defense of himself in the campaign be-

tween him and her father. He found

her a partisan beyond chance of con-

version Yet she hea1d patiently his

justification.



“I didn’t make the conditions that

are here. I have to accept them. The

government establishes forest reserves

on the range. No use ramming my

head against a stone wall. Uncle Sam

is bigger than we are. Your father and

his friends got subborn. I didn’t."



“No, you were very Wise,” she ad-

mitted dryly.



“You mean because I adapted myself

to the conditions and made the best of

them. Why shouldn’t I?” he flushed.



“Father’s cattle had run over that

range thirty years almost. What right

had you to take it from him ?”



“Conditions change. He wouldn't

see it. I did. As for the right of it—

well, Luck ain’t king of the valley just

because he thinks he is.”





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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object. You’ve got to persuade Luck





‘ for sentiment.





She began to grow m J dull koepinsidethelawandwinoutm

msh burned through the m of her you took out that graxlng permit and

cheeks. . * out no of! the reserve that was anoth-



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«with their sharp hoofs. and sunny til at you by dealing the Circle C to my ‘

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off the water that ought to sink into





stead. You contest and lose. Good





the iron am. It's up to you to try mother

“Sheep ain't so bad it they are mi: mover » _ . »

right.” “Si. sou“ and we move immediate.





“It depends where they run This is

no place for them. ".



“That‘ 3 what you hear your (athei-

say He's prejudiced." '.



“And you’re not. I suppose."



“Pm more reasonable than he is. "



“Yes. you are,” she flung back at

him irritably , ple and stand by while you eat it. The



Open countly lay befme them They trouble is that both parties to this

had come out how a stretch of heavy quarrel a1e grabbers.”

underbrush. Catclaw had been snatch- “Tr,ue but Senor Cullison must re-

ing at their legs. Cholla had made the member his hands are tied behind him.

traveling bad for the horses. ‘ Now she He will perhaps not find the grabbing

put her pony t0 a canter that for the good,” his opponent suggested politely.

time ended conversation ,“Come to that. your hands .are tied



CHAPTER XI. too, my friend. You can't hold me here

A Compromise. forever. Put me out of business and



LECR lay stretched full length on the kid will surely settle your hash by

a bunk. his face to the roof, a wreath proving up on the claim. What are

of smoke from his cigar traveling slow- you going to do about it?"

ly toward .the ceiling into a filming “Since you ask me, I can only say

blue cloud which hung above him. He that it depends on you. Sign the re-

looked the personification of vigorous linguishment, give us your word not

l‘ulLblooded manhood at ease. Exper- to prosecute, and you may leave in

ience had taught him to take the exi— three hours,”

gencies of his turbulent life as they Cullison shook. his‘ head. “That’s

came, nonchalantly, to the eye of an where you get in wrong. Buck up

observer indifferently, getting all the against the law and you are sure to

comfort the situation had to offer. lose." I



By the table, facing him squarely. “if we lose you lose too," Dominguez

sat Jose Dominguez, a neatly built answered significantly.

Mexican with snapping black eyes a The tinkle’ of hoofs from the river

manner of pleasant sua‘vity, and an bed in the gulch below rose through

ever-ready smile that displayed a the clear air. The Mexican moved

double row'ot' shining white teeth. swiftly to the door and presently wav-

That smile did not for an instant de- ed a handkerchief.

ceive Luck. He knew that Jose had no- “What gent are you wig-wagging to

grudge against him, that he was avery now?” Luck asked from the bed. “I

respectable citizen, and that he would thought I knew all you- bold bandits





We persuade you to visit‘us at our

summer mountain home where we can

talk at leisure. We suggest a com—

promise.”



Luck grinned. “Your notion of a

cempromise and mine don’t tally. Jose.





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regretfully shoot him full of holes if by this time. Or is it Cass back

occasion called for so drastic a termi- again?”

nation to their acquaintanceship. For “Yes. it’s Cass. Theres someone





Domingueze had-a third interest in-the

C. F. ranch, and he was the last man

in the world to sac1ifice his business

Having put the savings

of a lifetime into the sheep business,

he did not piopose to let anybody de~

p1ive him of his profits either legally

01 illegally.

Luck was talking easily, in the most

casual and amiable of Voices. I

“No, Dominguez, the way I look at

it you and Cass got in bad this'time

Here’s the point. In this little vendet-

ta of ours both sides were__trying to

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with him too. It is a woman ” the

Mexican discovered in appaient surf

piise.



“A woman!” Luck took the cigar

from his mouth in vague unease.

“What is he doing here with a woman,

I wonder.”



The Mexican smiled behind his open

hand. “Ybur question anticipates my

own, Senor. I too ask the same.”



The sight of his daughter in the

deorway went through the cattleman

with a chilling shock. She ran fo1-

ward and with a pathetic cry of joy

threw herself upon him whom he

stood His hands weze tied behind

him. Only by the turn of his head and

by brushing his uns laven face against

'hers could he answer her caresses.

There was a look of ineifable tender-

noes on his face, fo1 he loved her

mere than any thing.el:se on earth.

~ “M1. Fondrlck biought me,” she ex-

plained when articulate expression was

possible.



“He _ brought you, did he?” Luck

looked across her shoulder at his en-

emy, and his eyes grew hard as jade.



"()1 my own free will, " she added.



.,, you a better argument

than those I’d given you. Miss Culli-

‘son is that argument,” Fend1ick said.

. The cattleman’s set face had a. look

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"rm going to hold you Wslble

for bringing her here I:



Hendrick new not face steadily the

eyes of his fine. They bored into him

like gimlets. ._



“And responsible tor getting her

back home just as soon as I say the

word}! wok added, the tent muscles

standing out in his clenched jaw.



“I expect your say-so won’t be final

in this matter, Luck. But I’ll take the

inaponsibility. Miss Culllson will get

home at the proper time.”



“I’m not going home till you do,” the

girl broke in. “Oh, Dad, we’ve been so

worried. You can’t think.”



“You’ve played a rotten trick on me,

Fendrick. I wouldn’t have thought it





even of a sheepman." ,





“No use you getting crazy with the

heat, Cullison. . Your daughter asked

me to bring her here, and I brought

her. Of course, I’m not going to break

my neck getting her back home where

she can ‘phone Bolt or Bucky O’Connor

and have us rounded Up. That ain’t

reasonable to expect. But I aim to

do what's right. We’ll all have supper

together like sensihle folks. Then Jose

and I will give you the cabin for the

night if you’ll promise not to attempt

to escape. In the morning maybe you

will see things different."



Fendrick calculated not without rea-

son that the best thing to do would be

to give Kate a chance for a long pri-

vate talk with her father. Her influ-

ence would be more potent than any

he could bring to bear.



After supper the door of the cabin

'was locked and a sentry posted. The

prisoners were on parole, but Cass did

not on that account relax his vigilance.

For long he and his partner could hear

a low murmur of voices from within

the-cabin. At length the lights went

out and presently the voices died. But

all through the night one or the other

of the sheepmen patroled a beat that

circled around and around the house.



Fendrick did not broach the subject

at issue next morning till after break-

fast. ,



“Well, what have you decided?” he

asked at last.



“Let’s hear a lit that comp1omi_.se

What is it you offer. ‘7” Luck demanded

gr uffly.



"You sign the relinquishment and

agree not to make us tiny trouble be-

cause we brought you here, and you

may go by two o’clock."



“You want to reach Saguache with

the relinquishment in time to file it

before I c0uld~ get to a ’phone. You

don’t trust me.” '



Fendrick'smiled. “When we let you

go we’re “trusting you a heap more

than we would most men. But of

course you’ re going to be sore about

this and we don’t want to put tempta-

tion in your way. ”



“I see. Well I accept your terms

I’ll make you no legal trouble. But I

tell you straight this thing ain’t ended.

It’s only just begun. I’m going to run

you out of this country before I am

through with you.”



. “Go to it. Well see Whether you

make good‘” '



“Where is that paper you want me





to sign ?”





Luck dashed off his signature and

pushed'the' document from him. He

hated the necessity'ihat forced him to





0 ' surrender. For himself he would have





died rather than give‘way, but he had

tothmkofhisdaushwrandofhisboy

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Kate, standing straight and tell he-

hind her father’s chair, looked at their

common foe with uncompromising

scorn. “He is not to blame, Dad. He

can’t help it because he doesn’t see"

how despicable a thing he has done."



Again the blood rushed to the face

of the sheepman. “I reckon that will

hold me hitched for the present, Miss

Cullison. In the meantime I’ll go file

that homestead entry of mine. Noth-

ing like living up to the opinion your

friends have of you."





He wheeled away abruptly. but as he,





went out of the door one word came

to him.



“Friends!” Kate had repeated, and

her voice told fully the contempt she

felt.



(Continued next week).





LITTLE . FARM FABLES.





 





BY AUNT QUILLIA.





FINE fruitful hickory tree stand-



ing on a popular country road once

became very envious of a wild rose

growing near. So exquisite were its

pink blossoms, so clean and shining its

thick foliage, that few passing failed

to step and admire its beauty.



One day more autos than usual halt-

ed to allow their fair occupants a

chance to examine its loveliness more

closely, whereupon the tree began this

complaint: No one ever stops to com-

pliment me; no admiring glances are

ever direCted my way; no caressing





hand is ever laid upon my leaves. In ‘





fact, I am not always treated with on

dinary respect. Those rude boys yon-

der seem to have a fine regard for the

rose, handling her gently, almost ten-

derly, while they pass me unnoticed

save in the fall of the year when they

club and stone and shake me—not very

severely it is true—but in a most famil~

iar and humiliating manner.



Indeed, I have often wished the old

man who passes here with his milk

and eggs on his way to the summer re-

sort would cut me down and carry me

home for stove wood on his odd little

cart. It would not be long before the

ilamcs would wipe me off the face of

the earth and no one would know I

had ever exalted.





A robin who had listened to the hick- .





ory’s complaint here gave the spray

on which she was sitting an airy tilt

and remarked: “Perhaps I can com-

fort you a hit, my friend. I know

those boys and itis neither love, ad-

11111'ation,nor even common respect

that makes them handle the rose so def-

erentially. They fear her; they dread

her thorns; they shrink lest she tear

their hands. I chanced to hear them

talking the other day and they agreed

that of all growing things they despis-

ed the rose the most. They confessed

that they dared not do otherwise than

handle her softly on account of the





declared they would ”never go near her

were it not for the resorters ‘who pay

them for her blossoms.



“Moreover, they unanimously agreed

that of all nature’s gifts they liked you

best. for with a little bantering and,

teasing in the tell you never failed to

heap their hats full of luscious nuts.



“And‘now I will finish by telling you ’

what! heard an experienced educator

say I!!! 2038"“. l. was sitting in a

ties up there on 910 campus when a -

teachers convection m in progress.

The mention discussion was

school an ' ' and this old red-

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Used Inside Factory 3 Days

Better than new. Cost us $789.00





Price $625.00





Also--—2 6-H. P. F airbanks-Morse

Cost us $204.25 each.





Price $1 50

2 3- H. P. Fairbanks Morse Z

Cost us $127.25 each.

Price $95





15 H. P. NKE Gray.

"$175.00.





Z style.





Style.





Price $140





Above were New Engines, used less than

One Week





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We also have following Refitted Engines;





Cost us $230.00.

Price $150.00





1 6-H. P. Fairbanks-Morse.

Price $100.00





1 3- H. P. Fairbanks-Morse.

Price $50. 00





l 6—H. P. Ideal.





We purchased these Enoines during the Fuel Short-

age a few weeks ago and now have no use for them





At the prices given above they are REAL bargains.

Terms—~Cash with order——F. O. B. Detroit.





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[TH the rapid depletion of our



‘ supplies of wild furs the ques-



tion frequently is asked, “When



is the end, and where are prices going

to?” This is asked with genuine trep-





idation, since we have learned to be»,





lieve that furs are indispensable. The

pioneers, the trappers, have pushed

further into the wilderness, each‘ year,

returning with smaller supplies. In

the early days of this country the prof-

its made by the fur buyer who went

boldly to the frontiers were very much

greater than those of the conservative

agriculturist who followed later. Now,

however, the tables are to be tuined;

the farmer, that is the fur farmer, is

about to reap the greater profit and to

continue in business long after the

farthest outpOst trapper or fur buyer

has gone down in history along with

the other romantic pictures of pioneer

days.



The fur farmer is here. Perhaps you

,have not heard of him, but that is only

because you do not happen to live in

one of several rather large districts in

the northern .part of this county. He

may be engaged in growing muskrats,

minks, skunks, or foxes and in the

future, since about half the fur bearers

of North America seem to be suitable

for domestication, he may be farming

such animals as martens, otters, fish-

ers, blue foxes, raccoons, or beavers.



Recently I dropped off the train at

one of these fur-farming centers just

to look about, andif you don’t believe

people in this part of the country are

fur fans just listen to this. In the

year 1916, only four seasons ago, Mus-

kegon, Michigan, and the surrounding

country had not so much as heard of

silver black foxes. Now it has nine

fox ranches, and during that period

-more than $320,000 worth of silver

black foxes have been sold from them.

'This is not a story of frenzied finance

in foxes, although it may so appear

until you are initiated into the secrets

of the business. Back in 1912 a story

of that kind very well could have been

written about the operations in fox-

farming syndicates on Prince Edward



island in Canada, but the business both

in Canada and here since then has rap-

idly approached a pelt basis; that is,

the prices of breeding stock are more

011 a par with what the skins of the

animals are worth as furs.



The silver fox was one of, if not the

first, fur—bearing animal to be domesti-

cated for the purpose of raising fur.

Possibly this was because of the high

prices paid for the skins, due to their

scarcity and beauty. The silver fox is

said to be a phase of the red fox, or at

least he is of the same species. Occa-

sionally the ,common red vixen will





”throw a silver or part silver. fox, but

. the phase of silver or black silver has

' been so long established and the ani-

mals breed so true to type that they

are recognized as a distinct type of

3101:.





In the typical silver fox the black

places the red of the ordinary fox,

e silver remaining on the guard hairs

Thus the silver is

. tiful black Overland by a sprink- .





tipped with white. Even mare me is

the black fox which has no silver or





‘white hairs with the exception of the





tip of his tail. Between the silver and





.the common red lie all the variations





and degrees of mixtures of colors, and

the value of their pelts is determined

largely by the degree of mixture.



The first ranch to start business in

the vicinity. of Muskegon was the Sil-

ver Black Fox Company, from which

most of the other ranches have secured

all or part of their foxes. These are

the Wolverine, Muskegon, Sparta, and

Peninsula Silver Black FOX Companies,

and ranches owned by Messrs. Tuplin,

Workman, Joslin and Ranchford. The

first ranch to introduce the foxes in

1916 purchased one pair at $10,000, two

pairs of pups at $5,000, and one pair at

$5,000. Of these four pairs, three pairs

proved to be breeders and at the end

of the first year there were nine pairs;





by the end of the second year forty.





pairs; third year eighty- -five pairs, and

fourth, one hundred and nine pairs.

This ranch now has only twenty-seven

pairs, but in lieu of the other foxes it

has about $160, 000 for four years’ work

with the silvers.





But how are people induced to buy

foxes at such prices? It’s simple, yet

alluring. Silver black foxes are to the

fur trade what diamonds are to the

jewelry trade. They are fur de luxe,

and in the past the very best of the

foxes produced in this country have

gone to Europe where they have sold

at fabulous prices. .For 1nstance, at the

mid-winter sale of furs at St. Louis

last year one thousand two hundred

fox skins brought $360,000. They were

foxes of: kinds other than cross, blue,

or white; that is, they were all grades

of black fox—from the rusty, staggy





kind to the wonderful pelt of the true'





silver fo the silver black fox. The av-

erage run of the skins brought $500 to

800 and the best $1,350. With these

prices for pelts, the standard price

about Muskegon for a pair of young

silver of the silver black fox. Theav~





   

 

   

   

 

   

   

 

   

 

   

   

   

 

   

   

 

   

 

   

   

 

   

   

 

   

   

   

 

   

 

 

   

 

 





 

 

 

   





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and the buyer is guaranteed that his ;





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which he may take with him early in"?

the autumn. Thus be virtually gets at '-





least four foxes for his money, or: at

the rate of not to exceed $625 apiece.

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led and will eat from the feeders 113nm:- ? 1

the Wild ones slink into their dens as '*

silently as a. shadow. At {seeing this;

”howeVer‘, the foxes pace back and forth.

in their yards and the landscape soéinsfvi'; 4‘

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guaianteeing what the foxes will do in which they run are surrounded by a

the way of producing young or the guard fence about ten feet high which

quality of the offspring. In such cases has an inward overhang of about eight-

it is possible to pick up a. pair of good een inches to prevent the foxes from

eight-months’-old pups at about $1,200. climbing ‘over the‘top of the fence.



On the biggest ranch, where it has The yards dr runs, varying in size

been the practice to keep the foxes for from ten by Sixty_five feet to tWenty-





.their patrons, there are now about two fiVe by thirty feet, which contain the





hundred silver black foxes, probably dens, are similarly constructed, on]?

the largest collection in this country. the bottom wire is of finer mesh, about

These animals are as “foxy” as when one and three-quarter inches, and there

wild, and their furs are as black as is an extension of the wire to form a.

ink and as. glossy as good food and mat about three feet wide all around

V the inside of the run. This is pinned



to the, grbund and prevents the foxes

from digging out. Near the center of

the run is placed the box which forms

‘the den and upon which the-foxes‘like.

to lie, curled up into a ball, with sharp

eyes apparently looking in both direc-v

tions at once. This box is placed upon.

posts about six inches high; the 'top

is removable, and on the inside is a.

small box with a hole- in the end

which is the nest proper. It contains

n0'straw or leaves, as one might ex-

pect, but is a strictly dry, sanitary af-

fair. The exit for the foxes is through.

' an elbow spout or corridor which ena-





nest which is dark anthecluded.‘ On

the majority of the fox ranches a dou-

ble wall is used in the construction of'

the dens, but on the’Michigan Silver

Black Fox Company’s ranch there has

been developed an underground den

which will be used espeCially in win-

ter. This underground den is fairly

similar to the one on top of the ground

with the exception of a. ventilation

tube. A manhole abbot six feet deep

is built at the back of .the den so it is

possible easily to have access to the

foxes at all times. These dens should

be warm in winter. since they are set

in the ground about six feet and the

_ Soil is dry sand; "





Not ~ all ranches, of which the animals are, sheltered and-

course, accommodate the purchaser by, the. young. are PO?“ and the yards m'





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bits, fish, milk, bread, ; rid ...

mush, boiled carrots, turnips or pota-

toes, eggs and fresh fruits. On the-

largest ranch in Michigan during the

autumn an old horse carcass lasted

about three and a, half days. On this

ranch many an old dobbin after doing

his best as a slave to man, has finally.

been served up in tempting mersels to

silver foxes so that they in turn may

serve milady and protect herfrom the

chilly blasts of winter and the; wither-

ing heat of Summer. During the warm

months a mixture of boiled, cracked

rice and eggs is fed, along with a small

piece~ of horse meat about two inches

Wide, five inches long, and half an inch

thick. This is given to the foxes twice

a. day, at seven in the morning and five

o’clock in the afternoon. At .times





ed wheat is substituted for /rice. A

little lime water is‘ introduced to help

strengthen the bonesof the growing

foxes, and fish which is not marketable

as human food and which can be pur-

chased at about two cents per pound

is fed twice a week. Occasionally

fruits, such as grapes and apples, are

given to the animals to vary their diet.

Young foxes are not allowed meet un-





' til they are about four months old.





With the great surplus of inferior

horses in the country, horse meat is

the cheapest fox food obtainable. Hors-

es are usually purchased at $2.00 to

$3.00 above the price of horse hides.

Just now the hides bring about $12,

making the cost of the horse $14 to

$15. On the average these animals

dress about three hundred and fifty

pounds, which makes the meat ready

to feed cost less than a cent per pound.

On this Michigan ranch where so

much meat is required, it has been

found that it required too much work

to cut up the meat during the winter

and pack it in barrels in ice and saw-

dust. for Summer consumption, and so

a. $7,500 refrigeration plant is now

about completed. This will make it

possible to kill a number of horses at

once and to freeze their ‘carcasses un-

til they are needed for cutting up into

small pieces for the foxes. After

practically all of the meat has been re-

moved from the bones they are boiled

with the offal and tripe and the meat

separated and fed to hogs, and the

bones are sold at about.$20 per ton.



The feeding of foxes is not a routine

matter; the successful feeder studies

his animals and their wants and needs.

Not all fox ranchers are agreed as to

what are the best feeds; Some feed

meat only once a day; others feed

more milk and bread ormush. During

the. time when the cubs are expected

the vixen or female is fed very care

fully; laxative foods, such as liver and

tripe, are sometimes given in place of

milk and eggs. All diseased or tainted

meat or food of any kind is scrupulous-

ly avoided. When feeding a fox prepar-





 





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es in diameter and one and a, half inch-

es high. These are placed in a rack

on the ground and fastened in such a}-

manner that the foxes cannot éplll the

food. Each rack will hold all: to eight

pans, since there are frequently six

foxes in a yard when the cubs or pups

are present.





' To anyone who‘ cares for wild ani-

mals or live stack, the grown silver

foxes are intenser interesting; but the

young cubs or pups,1as they} are called,

are the’ greatest attraction of the

ranch. Along in_January or February

the female 10x or vixen mates with a.

male, called a dog fox, and after a ges-

tation period 'of fifty-one to fifty-two

days, the pups are born. The number,

of course, varies, from one to six or

more. On some of the ranches in Mich-





igan the number of foxes born to, a pair ,_





has been exceedingly high, averaging

for one ranch a. little better than four

pups, whereas the average for Prince





Edward Island in Canada, the home of .





the silver fox breeding industry, has





been as low as two pups or only one.





pair. In size these baby foxes are not

much larger than kittens when born,

and, like kittens, their eyes are closed.

At the end of fifteen days they open

their sharp little eyes and see where

they get their dinner andbegin to

make the acquaintance of old mother

silver. The silver foxes, like the ordi-

nary reds you see in the parks or as

furs, have extremely pointed noses, but

the little ones for several weeks have

little pug noses and their ears hang

down like those of a hound dog, in-

stead of standing at attention as they

do when grown. Those who have

watched the development of many

pups say that as the nose becomes

elongated the ears prick up and that

the process is a very short one—pos-

sibly it is at the time they get their

first whiff of a hound dog.





On some ranches it is the practice

to separate the male and female foxes

after breeding; on others the two are

kept together at all times, the state-

ment being made that the male is of

considerable help to the female while

she is feeding her young. However, .on

all ranches they are separated if they

show signs of quarreling or injuring

their young. When the young are born

the mother stays with them constant-

ly for the first three days. By the time

a month has elapsed they are able to

appear outside the den and in six

weeks’ time they ale eating some solid

food. They may then be weaned. The

early weaning is a distinct advantage,

_as it enables the owner to eradicate

the intestinal worms which are fre-

quently found in them. '





In the Muskegou’ vicinity last year
en have‘entire charge of the pups. until-

she brought them out-10f the den at. six

to eight weeks of age, the. theory being

that since the vixen is a. highly n'er-

vous animal. she would kill the pups if

interfered with in any way. Thus the





‘ pups died of worms before the owners





had seuthan. .It was found that the

pups could be wormed when three

weeks old or even younger, so next





year authors are planning to worm Massachusetts, New York. Michigan.





the pups at a much earlier age. It is

not a. dillcult that: to rid old or young

foxes ct worms, thefidanger lies in let:





. ting worms multiply without prompt





treatment. All of the foxes on the

ranch“ are now 'wormod periodically

and systematically. Various vermi-

fuges any given, mostly in capsule form

with the food. The Michigan much.

however, plans to give it to the foxes

next your in liquid form by the syringe





, route, so as to make sure that the foxes

- all get the medicine. This method also





has an advantage in that the foxes are

not fed for twenty-four hours prior to

the giving of the vermifuge and with

their bodies without food the medicine

gives results mom quickly.



Aside from' voting or several kinds,

the diseases ot'i’oxes are not many and

are of mail consequence. Lice and

flees are about the only other trouble

to whichranch owners giVe attention.

In the wild state foxes are known to

be'botbered with fleas, but it is said

that they have a very effective wayof

ridding themselves of the pests. The

fox finds a, shallow place in a river or

lake and then slowly books into the

water until he is covered with the u-

ception othis nose. The fleas jump

ahead of the watersnd finally all con-

gregato on his nose, which he quickly

dips and kills the fleas.



With the domesticated silver fox it

is not quite so simple 2'. mutter. The

fox is caught in his den and a box with

trap doors in each end is inserted in

the tube or corridor, leerling from his

den to the ground. The fox is then

forced to enter the long box, which is

just large enough to accommodate his

body, and the doors are closed. An

Opening in one side of the box allows

the fox to push his nose through. The

whole outfit, fox and box, is then dip-

ped in a barrel containing a. tar com‘

pound disinfectant and about thirty

gallons of water. The only part of the

fins anatomy which is not dipped is

the tip of his nose, and that is disin—

fected and cleaned by means of a.

brush. This tar compound not onhr

rids the fox of fleas but is said to be.

beneficial to the fur and skin. While

the fox is being dipped, of course, it is

necessary to sprny the dens and runs

so that he will return to clean quar-

ters. Not all ranchers practice spray-

ing and dipping their foxes, but where

this is done the animals are more heal-

thy, the fur is better, and there is no

objectionable smell abOutthe ranch.



The location of the reach, as well as

the core of the animals and their food,

has something to do with the. quality

of the for. The ranch should be locat-





ed on ground that is easily drained and-





will not retain moisture long after

rains. Coarse sand is ideal for this

purpose and it; easy to keep, clean.





Ample shade is furnished on "most.





ranches. This answers the dual pur-





pose 0f keeping the hot sun of summer‘\Clubs,, , “A-short conference of club





from "burning” the foxes’ fur, and in

making thepens a little more secmded.

Hot, short summers are not objection-

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prime. 'As a. general rule the guide to

the location of silver black for ranches—

shouldbe thoquality of for oduced





by wild animals in the dist ct under.





consideration. All 'of the ranches in

this country are located in northern

states and in those areas where fur is;

known to'becomeprime in the winter

and for which Most prices are paid.

Fox ranches. he now established in

Heine, Vermont, New Hampshire,





Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri,

Oregon, We thington and Alaska, and

in all of the provinces of Cannon. In

fact this industry has been transplant-

ed from Canada. Prince Edward Is-

land, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, is

the home of the industry, which start-

ed in 1854. It grow slowly at first, but

by me the shipment of silver furs was

the finest ever received on the London

market, the sales averaging 81,386

apiece. By this time also the industry

had’ started in New Foundland, Maine,

Ontario, Michigan and AlaSka. Then

followed a period of high finance in

foxes. - Syndicates were formed in Can-

ada. with the blue sky as the limit and

the silver fox industry as the goat. Fox".

ranches were capitalized at eroessive'

figuresand breeding foxes sold as high

as $33,000 per pair. Of course, this

could not continue forever, as even

the high prices at which silver fox?





pelts sold would not Justify any such.





reckless prices, Something was due

to squeeze the water out of the busi-

ness and it was the war that did it.

The prices. of breeding foxes hit the.

toboggan in 1914 and took a good, long

slide. Those persons who had bought

at the fabulous prices, of course, took

a heavy loss. However, the industry

on the {shin-“l has gottén back onto its,

feet, and those who now own foxes are

optimistic and predict big thing: for

the future breeders of silvers. The in-

flation of values has been punctured-

and foxes are selling ‘at prices which

are more commensurate with the cur

rent value of their skins for furs.



The industry is expanding rapidly in

this country, and the demand for





breeding stock is so keen that compar—~ _





atiyely few of the foxes raised tliisl

year will be marketed, for their fur.

Certainly none of the better breeding.

animals will be sold, although a fe'wv

unmated dogs may be marketed as fur.

This is true despite the fact that many.

breeders expect the price of silver fox





pelts to be higher this year than for .





years past.





BOYS' AND GIRLS’ CLUB MEETING

POSTPONED.





 





ROVVDED conditions at last year’s



meeting have caused the postpone.

ment of Club Week, the annual gather;

mg of Michigan boys' and girls’ club-

leuders- and county champions, from

Farmer‘s’ Week in February, the time;

at which these meetings are usually

held. While no definite date for the

gathering has been set, club authori‘.

ties announce that it will probably be,

held some time in June. ‘



“A great many people over the state

are under the impression that Club.

Week is to be held during Farmers’

Week,” says Wm. A. Anderson, Assist-

ant State Leader of Boys’ and Girls'





leadersgvill be held at this time, but

the big meeting, including the schools;





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A Message to the Farm, Boys

and Girls of Michigan





By Governor A/éert E. Sleeper





 





 





HIS message to the farm boys and girls of Michigan from the



Governor of our state is the first ofva series of messages writ-



ten expressly for our boys and girls by men of state and national



reputation, men who are leaders in Industry, Education and States-



manship, and whose keen minds and broad experiences enable them

to speak to us in a prophetic vein.



These men realize the momentous part that the farmer folk of





tomorrow are to play in shaping





our country’s welfare, and they





are bringing to you their message of encouragement expressing their

hope and their confidence in you and forecasting to you the oppor-

tunities that will be available to the farmers of our land a few





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PEAR BOYS AND GIRLS:



The Editor has asked me to write

you a brief message, which I gladly do.

You .who were born on the farms of

Michigan have in these days many op-

portunities and privileges which were

denied your fathers and mothers. You

have telephones, automobiles and rural

mail delivery, bringing to your doors

daily the best of periodicals and news-

papers, and altogether the advantage

in the way of living which formerly be-

longed to the dwellers in the cities has

really been transferred to you. With

the coming of good roads your condi-

tion will be still further improved.



In times past many of the boys and

girls who grew up on the farms yielded

to the lure of the city, and it would

probably astonish you to learn how

many of the present-day leaders in

commerce and in the professions have

been recruited from the ranks of those

who were born on the farms; but,

while this is true, it is also true that

farming now offers a real career to any

ambitious young man or young woman.

Educational authorities are waking up

to the fact that the training in our pri-

mary and secondary schools ought to

follow such lines as will tend to keep





N May 19 the Farm Bureau re-



ceived fifty calves from Kansas



City and put them out among

the boys and girls of the county. The

boys and girls selected their calves by

lot. My calf, No. 27, was a very thin

Hereford steer weighing 440 pounds,

and cost $16.60 per hundred pounds,

or $73.04, for which amount I gave my

note to the County Farm Bureau. This

price included an insurance, so if my

calf died, I would get one- -half the cost

of him back.



I dmve my calf home from Adrian

and for the first two weeks let him

pasture by the roadside, and handled

The

[next two weeks 1 fed him two pounds

of Wild oats and one pound of

"grcnnd com a day. After this I in



V " i ”ed the corn to two pounds and

i" the oats to one pound a .d





' October 21





the boys and girls 0n the farm rather

than drive them to the towns and

cities.



Farming is the oldest business in the

world. It dates back to the time of

our first parents. ‘



“When Adam delved and Eve span



Who was then the gentleman?"



And farming is today more of a bus-



iness than ever before.





It is the great- ‘





est of all our manufacturing industries. i





Indeed, its value in dollars and cents

is greater than that of all other indus-

tries combined. A farm is a big out-

door factory. The farmer takes the

raw material of soil and sun and rain,

of seed and tree and beast, and con-

verts it into the more or less finished

product that feeds and clothes the peo-

ples of the world. In the words of the

old Song,



“The farmer is the man that feeds



us all. "



One of the great problems that face

civilization today is the problem of

feeding earth’s toiling, hungry millions.

The farmer alone can solve that prob-

lem. If farm production decreases, or

even remains stationary, men, women

and children all over the world must

go hungry.





How





By Miles E. BeaMer—-(Age II)





a mixture of eight pounds of ground

corn, two pounds of ground pats and

one-half pound of oil meal a day. I fed

the above ration until the first of Sep-

tember, then I fed a ration of eight

pounds of ground corn, two pounds of

ground oats, one pound of oil meal, one

pound of bran and four or five ears of

sweet corn until September 15, when I

took him to the county fair.





The farmer, then, is engaged in a

business whose pedigree reaches back

into the mists of antiquity, and yet its

importance in this modern day is in-

finitely greater than that of any other

business. In fadt, farming may be said

to be the foundation-of all human occu-

pations. I hope that a large propor-

tion of you will make up your minds to

stay on the farm, and, if you do so

decide, you will have the assurance

that you are devoting your energies

and abilities to a. career than which





none‘. is more honorable, noneis, more .





useful, none is ’more likely to bring

you lasting satisfaction and happiness.





My last word to you is to urge you

to care for your health, to cultivate

your powers. of observation, to form

habits of industry and thrift, to build

up your characters by ways of truth-

fulness and integrity and to make the

most of your splendid opportunities at

home and in school. If you” will do

this you will come into manhood and

womanhood with a capacity for work

and service that will make you hon-

ored and useful members of society.





»You_r sincere friend, _

ALBERT E. SLEEPER-

Gavernor.





I Fed My Calf





After the fair I brought him home

and began feeding him a daily ration

made up of a mixture of nine pounds

of ground corn, three pounds of ground

oats, one pound of oil meal, one and a





half pints of feeding molasses and one,





and one- -half pints of water thoroughly

mixed. The above iation was divided

into three equal parts and fed morn-

ing, noon and night. ’ .





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July 1

July 1

July 1





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September 15 ......128

October 4 .'........120

October 28 .......133

November 10 ...._..120

September 15 80 '

October 1 .100

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her 1. Since then 1 have fed a ration

of three .pounds of ground corn, one

pound of ground oats, one pound of oil

meal, one pound of cottonseed .meal'

and a teaspoon of salt thoroughly mix-

ed with a pint offeeding molasses and

a pint of water, which I fed twice a

day, .morning and night. At noon I

fed him six pounds of whale barley and





1 six ears of sweet corn. .





During the whole feeding period the

calf has had as roughage pasture for





" the first four weeks, then I put him in





the Stable and fed five pounds of alfalfa

hay and suckers pulled off from sweet ,

Since then

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TRAPPING RACCOONS.





BY EARLE W. GAGE.





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streams. Here we find my caves

hidden among the banks. In these the

raccoons find sate refuge from storms

and trappers. It is not where the rac- '

coon beds, but where it hunts that the

maps should be not When fishing for

01 ayfish 000112. etc... the animal wades

along the shallow edge of a. Stream.

Often it finds itself under a high bank,

where only a narrow fringe of shore

permits it to. pass around a pool too

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Oftenthe raccoon may be compelled

to leave the edge of the water and page





over a. bit or high land that lots out to ,





the shore; It is not didlcuit for the ex“

pericacedtr‘aoper to locate the point

where it would be most apt to leave

the water for this purpose, and there

the set should be nude. Often a bait

set is made like the one used when

the set in for a m'inhbut when this is

done. great care should be, taken not to

leave any foreign odors about. The

cleanly habits of the raccoon are indi-

cated by the fact that it washes every-

thing it com.



The raccoon’ s curiosity leads it into

the‘ trap. Along clear stream a trap

placed Just under the water with a

bright obmot faetened to the pan often ‘

leads to a catch. A bit of bright tin

will serve this'purpoee. Catching the

flash of it, the raccoon will pause to

investigate it and Will in the end try

to claw it. 1mm the trap.



in a «aide-rent way trail setters. men

who not their traps along the animal





trails through the timber, «often take ~





advantage of 111012000003 curiosity to

ensnare him. The traps are placed

along the iedg'es near caves where it

is known raccoons are bedding, and

near it .11 tree is blazed or a. limb is

broken dovvn. It is claimed a raccoon

will spend much time examining such

marks no trace, walking about and

viewing them from every angle. If a

trap is rightly placed he will be caught.

When making 11 set of this sort it is

well to take advantage of a narrow,

ledge, or some spot where the raccoon

would be moot apt to pass.



The raccoon, like the opp‘osoum, hale

no regular den, but bode where chance

leads him. If 11, is determined that one

is in a. cave or burrow that has a nar-

row entrance, a good way to make a

set is to drive stakes in front 0! the;

hole, leaving an opening 000 narrowi

tor him to pass through. but farenoughl

apart to allow his foot to be thrust be.

tween then. The trap should be placed

just outside and lightly screened. Claw-'

ing at the stakes to eflect an exit, the’

raccoon is sure to get a toot in thel

trap. This method is popular with trap-

per-s who use dogs in connection with

their work. ‘



In districts Where caves are not nu-

merous. the raccoon beds in hollow

trees, preferably weil out in a hollow

limb. While they hunt along streams

theydo not always bed close to water.

A coon does his fishing in the early

part of the night. After that time he

is apt to be found most‘anywhere.





 





 





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At the Thanksgiving dinner, Willie





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MONG the many things with

which the late sixty-sixth con-

gress concerned itself was one

which has «been quite overlooked by

the general public, though it had to do

with a matter more vital to the future

of the United States than any of the

reservations. This was a bill for the

public protection of maternity and in-

fancy, introduced by Senator Sheppard

of Texas, in October.





That this matter of domestic welfare

afiects the United States more deeply

than any question of foreign policy is

proven by figures which show that

thirteen important' countries have a

more favorable maternal death rate

than America, and six a more favor-

able rate of infant mortality. Every

year 16,000 of our mothers die in child-

birth, and nearly a quarter of a million

babies die before their first birthday.

, One-half of the infant deaths occur be-

3 fore the sixth week, and these deaths

” are chiefly due to the condition of the

mother, her lack of preper care during

pregnancy and confinement. The rate

of infant mortality is decreasig in Am-

erica, but the deaths of mothers and

of infants from causes relating to the

mothers’ condition are not decreasing,

because mothers do not yet have the

care and advice they need.





The bill, as introduced by Senator

Sheppard, provides for a federal ap-

propriation of $2,000,000 for the first

year, increasing until it reaches $4,000,-

000 annually, to be appropriated among

the states in the proportion which their

population bears to the total popula-

tion of the United States, provided the

state legislature appropriates an equal

sum.





The money is to be spent for in

struction in the hygiene of maternity

and infan‘y through public-health

nurses, consultation centers, and other

suitable methods, and the provision of

medical and nursing care for mothers

and infants at home or at a hospital

Where necessary, especially in remote

districts.” It will also supply lecturers

on subjects relating to maternity and

infancy, but none of the money is to

be spent to buy, build. repair, rent or

equip buildings.





 





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What this will mean to the farm

women living in remote districts will

be understood fully only by themselves

though reports submitted by the chil-

dren’s bureau from studies made in

various sections of the United States

reveal conditions unguessed by the

more protected women of villages and

cities. These studies, which began in

1913, were made with a view to finding

out the conditions affecting the health

of the prospective mother, the work

she had to do, the general living con-

ditions of the family and the care she

received during pregnancy and confine-

ment, and also to learn. the care, es-

pecially the feeding of the infants, and

the rate of infant mortality.



Of special interest to Michigan were

two studies made in Wisconsin, one in



' the southwestern part of the state, and

one in the northern, cut-over section.

These two counties are almost identi-



fied! with similar sections of Michigan.

the conditions surrounding the mother



. are practically the same, and the con-

"Illusions reached -by the government’s





 

 





 

 





finement.





hundred and thirty-five confinements When mothers '

during the two-year period covered by and know that ‘

the study.





 





 





 





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A Bill for Conscrvmg Mothers





prosperous agricultural sections of the saw the doctor after the baby was

United States; houses, barns and silos born.

are ample, the soil good, crops, large As may .be expected in a country

and the farms well stocked. Farming where means of travel are slight, the

has been so long established that the women got to t0wn but seldom. Few

well-to-do farmers are beginning to re- went more than twice -a yearin this

tire. There need be no special financial northern county; and even in the south

difficulty in giving adequate care to where roads are good and automobiles

mothers and infants. many, one woman was found who said

The county is well supplied with tel- she never got to town more than once

ephones and rural mail routes, only a year. Under these conditions there

one family had to go as far as a mile is practically no prenatal care of the

to reach a phone. During the period mother.

studied there were one hundred and Physicians generally recognize four

thirty-five confinements, and only two requirements for’ adequate Dre-natal

families had to go so far as ten miles care. These include a general physical-

for a doctor, while at least one-half of examination. including an examination

the families lived within five miles of Of the heart, lungs and abdomen.

a doctor. Measurement of the pelvis in a first

The northern county faces a differ- pregnancy to determine if any deform-

ent problem. Large areas are still it-Y may interfere With birth.

waiting to be brushed and stumped, the continued supervision by the physi-

farm house consists of a .two_room Clan, at least through the last' five

shack, where the family of from five months of pregnancy.

to twelve must live. The father in Monthly examination of the urine, at

these homes usually works out to earn 1935‘; during the last five months.

the money to keep up payments, while Patients who fall short of these re-

the cale of the farm is left to the. quirements, but have a‘ least one per-

mother. Roads are rough and in bad sonal interview with the physician, in-

weather almost impassable. Only twen- eluding measurement of the pelvis aid

ty of the two hundred and eighty coun- one urinanalysis, are regarded as trav-

try families visited had telephones; ing fair care. If there is no personal

twenty were two miles or more from visit, the mother simply sending to





 

 

 

 





 





 





Forest fires sweep ov-



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a dry season and

wipe out settlers’

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sweep may be pic-

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a phone and forty were five miles oritown for medicine or an urinanalysis,

more. Rural mail routes, too, did not she is regarded as having no care. In

reach the families. Forty families had this northern county only two of the





no delivery service, and some of these mothers attended by physicians had

had to send as far as twelve miles for adequate care and nine had fair care.

their mail.





— In the south, while a larger per cent

Physicians were none too numerous. of the one-hundred and thirty-five

For‘the county there was an average had some care, none had adequate care





of one thousand three hundred per- and only thirteen had fair care.





sons for every doctor. Five of the vil- Yet nothing is of more importance





lages had no resident physician, and to the life and health of both mother

in large areas of the county families and child than the care which the

had to send ten to fifteen miles for a mother receives during pregnancy

doctor.

tions where roads were poorest.

to these facts the financial condition ble”———is of especial

Of these pioneers, and it is not hard to usually neglected.



see that many mothers went without dlead accompaniment of so many child



the services of a physician during con- births, is often the result of toxemia.



finement, and that in few cases did the Its presence could be detected and con-'

doctor see the mother again after con- vulsions avoided if the mother were

properly cared for in the months he: "





Of course, these were the sec- The examination of the urine for the

Add beginnings of toxemia—“kidney trou-

importance, but

Convuisions, the





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deaths

will be done away with.



As may be expected, household help

was negligible.

ed help during confinement, about two-

fifths of '_ the total. _

mothers in the northern (county took

up their lighter—housework before the

baby was two weeks old and only about

two-fifths waited a month before doing

the washing and ironing. Forty-five

women were up and at work in less

than four days, and one mother was

found by a neighbor propped up in bed

the day after confinement with the

moulding board in front of her trying

to make biscuit. Such conditions may

be necessary, but it is, saying little for

a commonwealth which can not pro-

vide at least two weeks rest for the

mothers.



In the southern counties conditions

were slightly better. Mothers recog-

nized the importance 'of doing. no heavy

work, but the difficulty of getting do-

mestic help kept many families from

securing the aid they would have glad-

ly paid for.





A picture of the conditions under





which these mothers struggle is illum-‘





inating. A family with two small chil-

dren came to a stony forty-acre tract,

of which only five acres were cleared.

and struggled to pay for the land with

the father’s wages as a day laborer. A

baby was‘ born in October of the first

year; the mother was in good health

and worked up to the last day,‘milk-

ing, caring for chickens, pigs, cow,

and calf, picking stones, sawing and

piling stove wood In the summer she

had made hay and earlier in the au-

tumn had hoed and dug potatoes. Af-

ter the baby came the father did the

housework three days and the mid-

wife did one washing; by the end of

one week everything—including chores

and sawing wood—fell upon the moth‘

er’s shoulders again. Another baby

was born in April of the second year.

The mother had a fall a month before

confinement which kept her-in bed the-

whole month; but up to that time‘she

had done 'everything as usual. Her

husband did the housework for a week

after the confinement on this cecasion,

and she stayed in bed a whole week,

with daily visits from the midwife; af-

terwards She was m01e careful about

her chores also—did nothing out of

But after the

fortnight she milked two cows. churn-

ed, made the garden, tended chickens,

pigs and cattle, hauled manure; chop-

ped, sawed, and piled wood, and after

three weeks she began to plant the po-

tato crop.

months old" the father went away to





Milwaukee to work, leaving all the





farm work to the mother. At that time





the oldest of the four, small children

was not yet five.





As a. result of these conditions the





death rate or mothers fronl causes con»

nected With child birth was high in

the northern county..

hand, the infam mortality rate—the





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the subject Only too few mothers

know that; their own physical and men-

tal state during this period means a

healthy, normal- bub»; With a fair

chance of becoming abnormal adult, 01

a delicate child born under a handicap

which perhaps can never be overcome:

The first stop in scouring well-born

children is in emailed of the parents.

When both mother and father realize

that health is the greatest asset hu-

manity can have, and that a start to-

wards health for the infant can only

come through proper care of the moth—

er during pregnancy and confinement,

they will demand this care. _



Many parents, of course, are as yet

financially unable to pmvide the care

considered adequate. It is for these

that. the bill now pending is intended.

What the citizen cannot do for him-

seif, the federal government plans to

do through public health nurses, lec-

turers and free dispensarles. If the

bill passes both houses of congress,

Michigan votors~men and women—-

should see to it that the legislature

gets the state' 3 share of the money.



Many counties in the United States

now have hospitals where maternity

cases are cared for free of charge.

Those which have not should establish

them as soon as possible, and through

a public health nurse, educate their

people to the necessity of conserving

women and children. As another big

step in the work the good roads‘ move-

ment should be pushed. Bad roads have

as much to do with the failure of fam-

ilies to secure adequate medical treat-

ment in these isolated districts as lack

of money. Clay roads which are a wal-

low of mud in wet weather or stretch-

as of sand which are equally. impassa-

ble in dry, have caused many a mother

to be left to the care of a neighbor

during the time when she most needs

a physician .



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OW many of the women of Mich«



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Agricultural College is their col~

lege? Of course, you know it is a state

[institution where you may send your

sons and your daughters, and where

you might' even go yourself for short

courses. But do you know that it is

your college in an even wider sense?

That it is ready to aid you every one

of the working days of the year, no

matter how tar away from East Lan-

sing you may live?



Did you ever stop tothink that the

home economics extension work is

planned just for you? It is for you

especially that specialists are maintain-

ed to give advice on any subject that

may come up in home-making? if the

jelly won't jell or the butter won't

come, or the chickens go on strike,a

letter addressed to the extension de-

partment, Agricultural College. East

Lansing, stating your trouble and ask-

ingvi‘or aid, will bring you the needed

advice. Betterstill, if you want to

know whether that old coat of yours

Can be dyed'so it will look like new

when you make it over for Mary, the

clothing specialist can tell you if you

write and ask her. She’ll even do more

and give you a few hints as to a good

way to make the coat, and how best

to lay the pattern on the goods.



if the family isn’t up to par physi-

cally and the doctor says they aren’t

being led right, there’s a specialist who

will help you plan a balanced ration.

And if you just simply can’t seem to

plan your work so as. to get through





the Jan there’s another specialist to

help you systematic your housework.





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'Miss Helen Arms Specializes in cloth-





will come to you and give you what





water, our county agent, can giVe you





     





who will tell you all about food, hear-

ing down hard on the use of plenty of

milk to make sturdy boys and giils.





ing, gives suggestions as to cheesing

becoming colors, selecting material,

using patterns and the sewing machine

and its attachments. The home man-

agement specialist is Miss Edna V.

Smith. who not only has the advantage

of college training but practical expe«

rience in her own farm home in run-,

ning the kitchen. These trained wom-

en will gladly answer any questions

puzzled home—makers may want to ask.



Then the college helps farm women

in other ways. Your club may want to

do some studying in home economics.

If you want help in arranging the pro-

gram you can get it by writing the col-

lege. You may want lectures and dem-

onstrations. If you do the specialists





you want. If it is food there are lec-

tures arranged for two days on “How

Food Affects Our Health,” “The Stuif

that Sturdy Children Are Made of,”

“Liquid Meat,” including a demonstra-

tion on the use of milk and cheese as

meat substitutes, and “Can we Live

Better and Spend Less," with a demon-

stratioa on planning balanced meals

from Michigan farm products.



The clothing lectures include in ad-

dition to the subjects already mention-

ed, “Care and Renovation of Clothing."

“Children's Clothing,” “Remodeling—-

Cleaning and Dyeing,” and “The Cloth-

ing Budget.” ,



In home management, “System in

Housework,” "The Model Kitchen, “La-

bor-saving Devices,” and “Keeping and

Making a Study of the Household Ac-

counts,” are considered.



The college no longer has a nurse to

take charge of health questions.





 





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THE recent Farm Bureau member-

ship campaign movement has en-

listed the hearty cooperation of the

farm women folks. Here is a letter

addressed to a solicitor who in his reg:

ular work had called upon the author

of the letter during her absence from

home:





 





 





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“I am sorry that I d1d not know the

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“In no other line of business do.

women play so important part as in

farming. Banks, stores, mills, mines,

manufacturing establishments. or any-

thing you might name can be run with-

out tlle help of women. But our farms

absolutely could not be maintained

without our help. Inasmuch as this is

the most obvious of facts it is a. shame

and an insult to farm women not to

ask them to join. For the present

many will not be able to. as 810. 00 for

the husband will be all the family can

spare. But some will be able without

sacrificing and others with real sacri-

fice to join.

case, but my heart is in this move-

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to come in time-how soon none of

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"Please make it possible in some

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where we live. I am addressing this to

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National Master Lowell spoke of the

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a majority of the membership, have

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strike clause in the Cummins bill. “The

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tects every individual right to choose

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That is an American citizen’s right.

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provides, that all manufacturers or

these goodsbe registered, so that in

case there is a dispute over the wool

content the matter can be traced to the

original maker.





This bill is in line with the move- ’





ment now strongly supported by the

New York State Federation of County

Sheep Growers’ Associations in favor

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wool, it would be justified from the

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better appearance of the clothing they

buy. The present high price of cloth-

ing is'not caused by the price of virgin

wool. At present market value, if

cloth were made from virgin wool and

the raw material were donated to the

manufacturer, it would only reduce the

cost of a man’s suit five dollars. If the

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HE potato has been the main mon-

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region since the lumbering days, and

will probably continue to be for some





time. The yield this year 'was not up

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of disease which is exacting a greater

toll each succeeding year. Fusarium

wilt, black-leg and black scurt are on

the increase, but strenuous measures





are being used to combat these. At the





county agents' conference held at Cad-

illac a few Weeks ago, a plan was pre-

sented and has been accepted by the

Michigan Potato Growers’. Exchange

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ment, a-better ‘quality table stock and

lower cost of production. The plan pro-

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charge are confident that properly car-

ried out they will do much to decrease

the cost of production.



Comparatively few disease-free fields

are found in Michigan. A few men,

however, are taking pains in the selec-

tion and treatment of seed and are

rGaping great rewards. The accom-

panying illustration of the farm of C.

A. Wood, Paradise township farmer,

Grand Traverse county, is typical of

the results obtained from careful seed

selection and good cultural methods.

Just 2,850 bushels of late Petoskeys

were raised from this field of twelve

acres. These will-all be saved for seed

purposes. ‘Other farmers in that vicin-

ity on the same sips of soil and follow-

ing the same 0 tural methods but

planting diseased seed, harvested a.





cases not exceeding titty;





his next year’s planting The seed plot "A. in; "per osre. .





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much smaller crop; the yield in meg-”g
Winter ,Rations for

the, Dairy Cows





HE most important item of win





ter dalrying is to furnish the-





cowswith an ample and econom-

ic ration. In order to obtain best re

‘sults. it is necessary to supply cows

giving milk with their full require-

ments, especially those that are fresh

and’are giving a good flow‘of milk. To

give best results a succulent feed

should be supplied. Without doubt the

cheapest and easiest obtained is silage

made either from'corn, k‘ai‘t’i‘r’wor cane.

Beets a1e a substitute for silage, and

can always be fed with gooduresults.

They are a little more expensive, how-

even, than com silage, but whe1e large

records are desired they make an ex-

cellent fed.



In cold weather there is naturally al

demand for body heat which can be

supplied best through the use of corn'

or barley. In the corn belt, corn, as a;

rule, is the cheapest and best to use.‘

For this. reason most successful dairy-I

men have aimed to feed eachanimal

from one to 10m pounds of ground

com a day. I say ground corn, be-

cause it is best fed in this way. It

may be ground with cob or without;

but by grinding, the animal can then

assimilate and digest. the feed, which

is the first essential. l'am inclined to‘

believe for best results it is wise to bah

‘ance both roughage and grain. By bal-

ancing roughage I mean to give the

roughage so that it can be consumed

in any quantities and still be a balanc-

ed ration. This can be done by feed-

ing such forage as alfalfa hay and corn

silage or clover hay and corn fodderJs



An animal, as a rule, will balance its’

own ration if it has the Opportunity to

do so. —By feeding silage in the barn

in rations from'twenty-iive to fifty

pounds a day, and having access to al-

falfa hay in the rack, animals will bal-

ance their own ration in roughage. The

grain ration may be balanced by mix-

ing; e. g., if'corn and oats are af hand,

equal parts by weight, or' if cats are

not obtainable, bran can be used in its

place. For heavy milkers it is often,

advisable to feed oil meal or' cotton-

seed meal. This should be mixed with

the grain and can be given one to five,i

orone to six; that is, one pound to five

pounds of grain, or six pounds of.grain.

There is an old and "pretty safe rule of

giving one pound of grain for every

four pounds of milk; but the annual

must be considered. A cow which is

becaming fat and shrinking in milk

will not pay for her feed in this ratio.



There has never been"a season when

dairying has been so profitable as it is

this your, and there has never been a

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one hundred and fifty every year on a.

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Then his moth-

time and clever management. The sur-

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to keep them active and busy. Home

must be made especially attractive. .

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is the purebred bird that is strohg

enough to resist disease and that

weighs the greatest number of pounds

at market time. It has taken no more

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'of twenty-five pounds than to raise one

of fifteen or shdeen pounds.

Considering the profit and the ser-

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struction of insects that menace the

farm crops, it would seem that every

farm should have its flock of purebred

turkeys. I read an article in a news-

paper' recently, stating that the peo-

ple in one of our northern counties are

preparing now to fight the grasshop-

pers again next year. Certain sections

of northern Michigan have been so be-

sieged with grasshoppers that entire

grain crops and other vegetation have

been completely destroyed. They have

fought them with poisons scattered up-

on the ground, thus endangering wild

bird life and taking a. considerable

risk of poisoning live stock. Why not

adopt the more safe and profitable

method of fighting them with turkeys.

Large flocks of turkeys raised on these





grass and weed seeds and the wasted





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the real damage that they do is often

overestimated. If they have had a feed

of grain at home, it is bugs and grass

that they want and are searching for

on range. It is commonly admitted

by many observing farmersI that, by

ridding the fields of weed seeds and

insects that are harmful to growing

crops, they do more good than harm.



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like his forefathers and we do find this

type of turkey on the farms where

they have not been properly managed.

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breed of turkeys, select the individuals

that seem of mild and even tempera-

ment, breed your flock from them, deal

with them gently and quietly and you

will find them more tame than chick-

ens. I have in mind one suce'ssrful

breeder who makes an especial effort

to keep the turkey mothers tame, con-

sidering it a great advantage in rear-

ing the young.



The turkey is a creature of habit.

When the young flock is first started





and rid the land of the pests, but would

convert them into another crop of ~high

priced turkey flesh.



There are in the state thousands of

acres of uncultivated land that would

make ideal range for turkeys and there

is no reason why Michigan should not.

become one of the greatest turkey pro-

ducing states. No one need be afraid

of over-production as the demand will

exceed the supply for many years to

come. Our markets are filled each

year with turkeys from the west and

from Texas. Why not have them filled

with Michigan turkeys and Michigan

farmers reap the returns from this

profitable industry. The poultry de-

partment of the college is ‘willing to

cooperate with the farmers of the state

in securing the very best blood lines

from the best breeders of turkeys in

the state. '





can be trained to range in certain

places'and to come home to roost at

night. We are finding that it is well

worth while to give more attention to

their management and that letting

them care for themselves is not a pay-

ing proposition.



Careless methods are, in a great

measure, responsible for the decline in_

turkey raising. Contrary to the gem

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fowl to be found than the turkey, when

we have learned how to avoid» disease





 





Every farmer-poultryman should be

anyardent supporter of the great Farm

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grasp the full idea of the organization

we commend to him the article by

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by proper methods of breeding. feedv:





I know of one Michigan breederJho-w :

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era are required to follow this one

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should be used liberally by the cow-

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Om city cousins have been. doing a

good deal of complaining about high

prices for milk and butter,‘ but they

have been invited to come out and

milk the COWS it the prices did not suit.

This, in a way, has answered their

complaint; but there is another side to

this controversy. Our city cousins

have a right to complain if we are us-

ing poor unprofitable cows in the dairy,

and ii’ we~do not avail ourselves of the

economic advantages of the silo and

other well established and well known

economic methods. A man who is try-

ing to. milk beef cattle and buying

tau-ingrown feeds from week to week

at the prevailing high retail price, is

mere to be criticised than the manu-

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fat lol‘ty prices‘; in other simple words,

piesent times demand that We use up-

to date progressive, economic methods

in om production.



As to the feeding of dairy cows, the;

bnly profitable kind is liberal feeding.

:The man who Would save on the feed

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‘every cow requires every day a main-

tenance ration which on the average

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third we supply her with only a living

food, which means, nething fer milk.

A good cow thus treated will continue

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Get a 32:39:0me dogs: «My





£1,an feeding it as directed





 

 

 

   





lotlhoolutely

he will refund your money.





Write for booklet "MILK-

LESS CALVES.” and name of

our nearest dealer.



an: a. murmur , ' ,

use In. 12th “.Chicau “L





 

 





 





 





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Evil QuittorJI‘iotuhnl

in footed ooru quickly

as it is n positive anaemic





and «suicide. Plenum to
IVE stock are much the





and horses warm under





my barns with MULEleDE.

of weather.





HIDE the roofing with——





HIDE.





th to 45111 Street on





“MULE-HIDE Roofing





require warmth. You can’t keep cattle, hogs





stock will consume more feed when not properly

housed, and I’d rather invest in a good roof than

spend unnecessary dollars on feed. That’s why I roof





I’ve tried it and I know and so do some of

my neighbors. There’s a good reason for calling MULE-





“Not a Kick 1n a Million Feet”





Here’s another tip and you can bet your life it’ll pay to

act upon it——if you don’ t want to have rusty, worthless

implements when it’s time to use them, you’d better \

get busy now and roof your implement shed with MULE-

It certainly pays to have the best.”





E IEHON mMPANYW





OoltleyAvcnuCLChICdgo





same as humans.





They





   

 





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BREWERS“ DIRECTORY





Change of Copy or Cancellations much reach \I

Ten Days. before date of publicstxon





Wildwood Farms

AnguJ‘





Bulls in service a1',e Black Monarch 3rd,

Grand Champion Bull, Michigan State

Fair 1914,1915,1916





Im Ed rof Dalmeny, Grand Champ-

ionp BallgaMichigan State Fair 1918.





President Wilson 4th, Grand Champion

Bull, Michigan State Fair, 1919.





We offer for sale 6 choice young bulls

by Black Monarch 3rd.





Edgars Calves, are as yet too young

to offer for sale but areapromising

lot of calves, and are going fast.





A visit will interest you, write for part-

iculars to





WILDWOOD FARMS

ORION, MICHIGAN

W. E. SCRIPPS, Prop.. Sidney Smith.Supt.





 





 





 





WOODCOTE AUGUS

1919 Winnings to Date





Midi. State Fair 192 lStS EChEm' lgd. ch.

wait 1m :: 11,; ,1: g :: g :: ::

3.8 n \

Intemiibnal—Z firsts inoludirfi the undefeated

calf herd i'or19

Every Animal Bred At

WOODCOTE STOCK FARM, Ionia, Mich.





 





 





lo erlylAngus. 50cows with calv,es rebred; 2hred cows;

0 1 ‘two yearold,2yearli1§ heifers. Price ”$0.0

1111. bulls, 3225 each athnwny & 8011. 01 id Mich.





For sale at reasonable prices. several Aberdeen An-

anI calves and arling bulls sired by Lord Ida

bylaw {e Davlson. Mich.





Pure Breed Aberdeen Mngus' Cattle,

For sale Males and Females of different ages.

“drew EiteI, Vermontville, Mich





GUERNSEY BULLS





FOR SALE

m .3... 12* summarily“ .12:

no w us an;

“Dun impMAlblnis price 0175..00 Pride's H. .y





ens Bros”





 





 





$25,? June 1919 81281110“





Ilsdsm Queen's I‘ride of .‘ .





QUALITY

Distinguishes Guernsey Products

The highest, natural Golden Yel-





delicious individual

i1°xvo$°ffia high content. of but-

fat—combine to

3'11“ Guernsey milk

. 1n greatest demand by

discriminating consFm-

In.~ let:ite for our res! ECONOMY





The American Gusting \% A





Cattle Club Box 1

pore. II.





n.._..-.3 4111111“





 





 





GUERNSEY ”‘33. 3&33'19w41io'l'23“ .1111:-

909.05 tat. Their mother s Iire' I am made 15,109.10

11k.nvk'1inrti 11.ab 1mm Creek Mich.



Registered Guernsey:

A 011600





marked four months onqld hull on]!

317:. R. Depot Building,

Deotroit ¥qllriichimus.





REG. GUERNSEY’S





Thfi best tat hrrfisdin at prices v31: 1:311: ‘i'iiy'ig'rd‘

Gfl—WO CB]! 8 6 I

b“ P“ n J. wv WILLIAMS No. Adams. Mich.





GUERNSEYS m'bullfl calves. 66:13; “(Fig 11.1% 875





0“

Walter Phipps Farms. so Alfred etg ,Detroit. Mich.





G U ERNSEYSSE‘EE‘E‘IMB





Cont of world champions.

mcxs'cusnli'isv Mam. Sula-w. 525.111“.





Yet rli G e nee Bull for 3100. No

For salebe 11 terggimgilin ichignn atthisprice.

LOREN DYGERTEO R. FD N.0 3. Alto,



36 t 11811.!” Sale. 9 Mo. old

enemy Bu“, tmg'AeR . daniir Write for par-

tionlsn. o. l. HENNESEYR Watervliet. Mich.



G b11c1ves1m1o'

3 Reguteredn mg°gggsgm “Pi-139.110 sell.

Hm N.o 7, Grand Rapids, Mich.





B ll calf 4 mo. old {01:55 deliver

Re ‘ ginorsnisey “sales May Roseo A wood





mlnfi’lss 111?“):th dams averniegghgdgitw. fin“ of

For Sale Guernsey Bali "

......... smwemersdimsnt”;

“(State Ind rs! OMIY Yum

ch .1 Hickman. iii-gem“





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_ Wayne. Mich. 1





   





, have fodder designed for

the farm buildings, thus ‘ "





 





1., , By A L.



HE silo fits in stroll t3 CIR over-



11;. farm management; TI“! is

assuming thst’ the} owner at a.



silo keeps sufficle stock on the mm

to warrant such an eqiiipment, let us

say ten head or more. The 3110 is in





' keeping with economic farm practice.





as it stands ever ready to insure a crap

01' forage or fodder. In times (if

drought, early frost or hell, what has

been grown can be saved. The best

use of farm-grown forage and the sup-

ply of a good and cheap ration are the

principal values of the silo.



To best ' arrange the work of the

term so that each department can be

made to turn a profit is one of the im-

portant questions of the average farm.

Where silos are added to the farm

buildings a change of farm manage-

ment must follow. Less hay is need

ed, less land is required for pasture,

more land must be used for corn or

at least sufficient corn must be plant-

ed to fill the silo. This corn can be

planted thicker than where ears alone

are desired. An early maturing vari-

ety is generally, to be preferred.



The filling season requires planning

and this should be done ahead of "time

in order to secure sufficient labor. If

exchange of work is desired plan to

exchange with farmers who also fill

silos. If this cannot be arranged for,

plan to exchange work with farmers

who have other rush seasons coming

at earlier or later periods. In grain

growing sections. the threshing is a

similar kind of work and is generally





‘ done after silo filling. Special work





like bean threshing, clover hulling, al-





, falfa. threshing, graSs seed threshing,





fruit picking, etc., as a rule requires

extra help and the man with the silo

can arrange to exchange so that he can

have his silo filled.



“The silo is the cheapest known

source of digestible carbohydrates.”

This is a truth well proven by many

of the experiment stations and prac-

tical feeders, the1efo1e to keep live





‘stock and to keep it economically





means the use of a silo, if such is pos-

sible, and it means that the work of

the farm must be planned to accom-

modate this arrangement.

stock should be kept on the farm to

consume the rough forages and to give

a steadiness to the income and furnish

work throughout the year. Where silos

are filled a rotation of crops can easily

be arranged as the corn designed for

the silo is entirely removed and the

land can be plowed in the fall and put

into winter wheat, rye, or alfalfa.

Where alfalfa is desired an early vari~

ety of corn should be planted and

should be out before the first of Sep-

tember so that the land can be quickly

put in condition and planted by the

first. This will give sufl‘icient growth

of the plant to warrant {its living

through the winter.



Where land is ‘high it is

desirable to use both a.

winter and summer silo.

It is difficult indeed to ob-

tain a. revenue er profit 1 ~

from high-priced land in ' ‘

pasture. It does not grow f " '

sufficient forage to War- - 1

rant a profit and the silo

can be much more ‘eConom-'

ica‘lly used. providing at

least six times more feed

than pasture. Arrange to





 





the silo prams close to.





preventing a long haul at

lilhng time._ It its :always ’





 





Sufficient





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





,janageme‘nt ' "





Hawker





wise to grow the bullty some mm _

on the term. It extra food must be?





purchased it is cheaper to buy conceit»

trates than rough forage.





The silo is a labor-saving equipment





When it is properly arranged it 1..





quires little work to feed twenty or

fortyfhead and no team or wagon is

necessary. Silage saves hay, also grain





in the‘ration. This will mean that less ,





hay need be grown for the same

amount or stock, or item be sold.

Where work horses and, young colts

are used for farm Work they can be

wintered cheaply on corn silage with a

little straw and oil meal. Some splen-

did results have been obtained on win-

tering mares, mules, and work horses

on such a. ration and it is in keeping

with a. cheap and easily obtained 1'8.-

tion.





Where considerable grain is raised

on the farm it would be an easy mat-

ter to use the excess labor in feeding

steers or sheep. The dairy farm will.

as a rule, take care of this problem,

but where dairying is not practiced

feeding can be resorted to. The silo,

on the whole, fits in well to the aver-

age farm management and works for

economy and good farming. Where a.

silo stands on the farm it can be pret-

ty sure to mean that this farm is build-

ing up their soil.

faim, they will grow la1ger and better

crops, there will be work throughout

the year, and them will be a. steady,

income.





 





SHORT COURSES FOR COOPERA-

TIVE LIVE. STOCK SHIPPERS.





 





AS a means of assisting live stock





associations toward a better un- .





de1standing of ma1kct classes and

grades of live stock, and the methods

of handling cooperative shipments at

the markets, and in order toimprove

and bring about greater uniformity in

accounting methods, short courses of

instruction for association managers,

county agents and ‘others have been

scheduled for the following markets

on the dates indicated: .



Detroit, February 10-11; Chicago,

February 17-18; Omaha, February 23-

24; Sioux City, Feb1uary 25-26



These courses are being arranged

under the direction of S. W. Doty, Chi-

cago representative of the U. .S. Bu-

leau of Markets, Administration Build-

ing, Union Stock Yards, cooperating

with the National Federation of Coop-

erative Live Stock Shippers. Also one

has been arranged for St. Paul on Jan-

uary 28-29, under the direction of the

Minnesota State Live Stock Shippers'

Association. Similar courses, held at

St. Louis, Kansas City and Denver dur-

ing! the fall under the joint direction

ofthe' U. S. Bureau of Markets and

marketing specialists of

Missouri, Arkansas,

Kentucky and Colorado,

attracted considerable

interest.



It is planned 'to de-

vote the mornings to a

study of grading and

the sorting and hand

ling of cooperative ship-





 





 





 





tampons will be given

"over to extensive dis-

missions hy experts on

is; tyre-rating iof ' shipments,





It will be a richer}





1. ménts in the yards. Af- ,
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“ ‘ on SALE mourn-s To

seem seam





 





. the first annual sale of Holsteins

by.

Breeders' Association, which was held

at the Michigan Agricultural College.

last Tuesday. ‘





Over twenty-seven breeders in the





state consigned stock to the associa-

tion to be sold. It was handled on a

ten per cent commission basis. The

balance above expenses is to be turn-

ed over to the treasury of the associa-

tion and will be used to promote the

interests of the breed within the state.

Colonel D. L. Perry, of Columbus,

Ohio, and Colonel J. E. Mack, of Fort

Atkinson, Wisconsin, were the auc-

tioneers. They were assisted by S. T.

Wood, a pedigree-expert, from Liver-

pool. New York.

Best Female Sells for $3,250.





The female bringing the highest.





price was “College Belle Butter Lass."

She was produced by the Michigan Ag-

ricultural College and has one of the

best records of any female in the state.

Her record for one year was one thou-

sand one hundred pounds of butter.

She was purchased by" Waters & Buth,

of Grand Rapids, Michigan.



Buyers From Other States Present.



One‘of the interesting features of

the sale was the fact that many ani~

mals were bid off by men from other

states. In this respect Texas led, twen-

ty females being purchased by men

from Fort Worth and Dallas. Six went

to Minnesota, and five to Pennsylvania-



Silo Nets a Good Average.



Of the seventy females and four

bulls that were sold, prices ranged

from $200 to $3,250. This made an av-

erage of $875 for each animal. Al-

though this was the first sale of its

kind in the state it was a success and

plans will be made for a larger sale

next year.



Following the sale a banquet was

given to the breeders at the Congre-

gational Church at Lansing. A good

time was enjOyed by all and many in-

teresting questions were discussed.



A. W. J.





MARINETTE IS FIRST TO ORGAN-

IZE LAND CLEARING.





OOPERATION between the banks

_ of the county and the farmers

with land to clear is expected to ac-

complish much for Marinette county,

Wisconsin, in the next few years. A

county land clearing association, the

first such organization in Wisconsin,

has just been formed to assist in the

campaign for more cleared land. L.

F. Livingston, who has been in the

office of land clearing operations in the

College of Agriculture, is secretary of

the association.

Wausaukee. ‘

The association is at present hand-

. ling the TNT shipments for farmers of

the county. Further orders for explol

'sive and .land clearing equipment will

be made possible through the coopera-

tion of the bankers, who have agreed

to. makeliberal loans to settlers who

want to. clear the largest possible

amount of land. ,

, The directors’of the associationhave

' been elected from fifteen dinerent com-





“.W to cite!





 





VER a thousand people witnessed





the Michigan Holstein-Friesian





Headquarters are in.





 

 





Melamine county. The member 3°” my' ‘33?“





imam cents-:5“. ”W , , "





 





 





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never be changed.





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This is the some guarantee of more mill:

which has Itood back of Leno for seven

To the man who is not yet a

Larro user it in an ebeolute promise of

better results from his cowl—to the vet-

eran Leno one: it in double assurance

that Leno today is the some as it we:

In the beginning—that ite quality will





   

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 





lg ' ...g-/’/





. " “The .Larro Guarantee

Has Stood for Seven Years”





That’s what the Larro dealer is waiting to tell you—complete details of

the guarantee which means you must get more milk or get your Money Back.





Bay Larro From Your Dealer

On This "More Milk” Guarantee





Remember that no matter how much

milk your cows ere producing on their

present ration Larro is guaranteed to

make them produce more. If your local

dealer does not have Larro in stock write

us at once.





The Lerrowc Milling Company,505 Larrowe Bldg., Detroit, U. S. A.





 





 





 





 





 





 

 





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WHITE





Regular Breeding is a

Mighty Factor





Unless a breed of dairy cattle has the

power to reproduce itsel with certainty

and regularity it is worthless. Regis-

tered purebred Holsteins are free from

inbreeding. They are Prolific breeders,

as attested by the 0

registration of dairy cattle since 1905.

The calves are stron and vigorous at

birth. In that year t ere were regis-

tered 9,773 Ho steins, 2,116 Guernsey's.

and 9,670 Jerseys. Note the relative

increase as shown in the fi ures of 1918-

19. Holsteins are far in be lead with

90,887 registrations, Guernseys 16,281,

and Jerseys, 35,574. .These figures

speak volumes on the fecundity of regis-

tered purebred Holstein cattle.



Get the whole Holstein Story in our

free booklets.



THE HOLSTEIN-rmnsxm ASSOCIATION

’ . ‘ , in Hudson Street

yhukbuo. Vermont





‘ i





The Traverse ‘ Herd

We have what you wont mm CALVBS.



lmennc mwtby the. mica! mull:



from high producing A3.



“D be. "Write

about





   





 





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ficial records of’





 





' §d1fi$flod for

min .Ii’n’h "





“Top-Notch”

HOLSTEINS





The young bulls we have for sale are

backed up by many generations of

large producers. Buy one of these

bulls, and give your herd a “push”.

Full descriptions, prices,etc. on request.





McPherson Fame Ca, Howell, Mich.





GET A BETTER BULL





wmnwoon HERD





BREEDERS or

Registered Holste'm - Friesien Cattle





We have bull calves ready for service and a new

crop of baby bulls coming all of Maplccrest breed-

ing. We have one of the largest pure bred horde

in Michigan and this will be the last chance to

buy sons of Flint Maplecrest Boy. cheap. For his

daughters start to kosher: this winter and they

will all go on yearly tests. We own them all and

will develop them. Don't Wait. a. bankuble note

is the some as cash to us and our price will be

right. Tell us your wants.





JOHN H. WINK, (inc)

Lock Box 248. Roccomneon, Mich.





28 lb. Bull Calf





Dam. Canary Tet Household. 7 do , 4

"0016.28.24 banter. She is a daughter, glee; 01d





 





 





 

 





De Kai. a.

40 lb. cow.





”in: 1.21“?” ‘21: J

I e _ a son 0 A 1

Born cm 16. ms. “2 pp 9

on»





 





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A. W. COPLAND,





For Sale

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Three Fine Young





BULLS





Ready For Service





No. 1. Nearly all white, from an

18.9-lb. jr. three yr. old. Price 8175.

No. 2. About evenly marked, from

a 20.75-lb. cow. Price 3150.



No. 3. Nearly all white, from an

18.6-ib. cow. Price 8125.





They are splendid individuals, guaranteed

right in every way.





, SINDLINGER BROS.

Lake Odessa, Michigan





Bull. Gall Will! 45 ill. Blood





Handsome, well marked. Born Oct. 30. 1919,

Sire: from Niva Kalmuck 45.18. Site's sire Re:

Apple Ko‘rndyke Boon who has remarkable list

of 20 1b.. Junior 2 yr. daughters.



Dam: 15,78 B. 356,1 milk at 24 months.

reported. Excellent individual. Will bewdtevyx

oped. Her sire‘s dam is 33 lb daughter of Hen-

gerveld DeKol. Her site’s site has daughter

with record of 48.19 butter. The possibilities

are good {(33 than) cell to develop into a famous





are. Price 00.





 





 





 





 





_ Birmingha w ich.

field under state and federal superfizion.





 





 





High class Holstein 1; ll :1 '



by Flint Maple Crest llr’nsesamt'l‘m

A. B. O. dame at. half price to make room. be quick

it you want 01.1%??? won’t last long.





RVLEW FARM, Vassar, Mich.





Winpeymentoffl i bred -



2.§£3§.§°?.W°i “first: We“ ““33

n cos n '



or. omens." - - - mi" (gunman-nztig:





0. D.

UY your next herd sire fro I. k Sid D ' .

3mm: this ”g..." “d a ”new r333

. a on vs your e . 1

SIDE DAIRY. Lake dean. Itch. n e A





 





 





 





 





00d.

crest Hangerveld De Kol. a son of Hencervcld,





86““ Dam vii freshen ‘.

“thaw“, ‘





rwgmmm new %

m: ' ' aw:‘&‘l%uu,_.





.. Seven Yearling Heifers





POI mun—nu. heifers m a! King sauna





ll





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" JAY HARWOOD,





mLONG DISTANCE





or

3“" mmtfdthe‘r? sex no... I pare anicely





GLUNYCTOOKFARM





 





. A Scml- Olticel Bred Bull to Read





You

Maplecrest Applies on Pontiac No. “2658. heads





His dam' I record in" l344. 3 lbs butter. 23. 621. 3



lbs. milk in 365 da I. and 35.108 lbs. butter and



816.61bs. milk in 7 ays.



One of his soul from our road record dams will

arr these area‘t blldood ling into Your Herd- '





II. allude eel-Ileana. Howell. Iioh.





HOLSTEIN BULL figment: ‘13:

313.000 bull. lie sea-ems 8 year p.0ld randdaugh-

tarot Colanthe Johann Leda nd Wr d‘s Record

00w. ontiao Gladi, a aughter of one erveld De

llol. e was Ill-edge; Rag pie Korndyhe 8th. Will

glob |y’efirs old neat arch. AX chance to not the best





lneeG at vav b be

ALBERT 19. min WHITE PIGEON. MICE.





33 LB. GRANDSONS





of Kin. of the Pontiacs1 out of good Itr ht d ms.

which will be tested its year: sired by N0 the

Pen lacs. Seals one of the boat lift?“ on sons of N33; of

the ontiaos. m.331b daughter of King



0 was to 8 weeks old. three fourths to seven- club be

white. Priced! 00 era and deliicrod at Romeo

Mich withl stored on Herd under federal

supervision. ..8 J0 ES FARMS. Romeo. Mich.





 





 





Bull. nicel marked. born

R080 HOl‘th De so. i 1919. yohoice brdedin.

M Re. Ind Del. J. Robert flicks. St Johns. Mic





RACISTERED Holstein bulls sired by King Zerlna

Icartra OPontiac,aon oft e .000 bu some from

..cows 0. B Glddings. Goblevillo. Mich.





Four Reg Holstein heifers due to

For sale! Mmehen within ll month. Good stock.

A‘lt’llN MOON. Brunswick Milh.





MICHIGAN

JERSEYS





Michigan is an ideal place for

the raising of Jersey Cattle

and there are no better cat-

tle for dairying than Jerseys.





 





 





 





 





early, live

persistently.





Jerseys mature

long, produce

give the greatest amount of

butter-fat obtainable from ev-

ery pound of feed. They are

hardy and vigorous, always

on the job and the greatest

mortgage-lifters that ever en-

tered a. barn.





Michigan should have more

Jerseys and the Jersey breed-

ers of the state are anxious

to cooperate with anyone

who is interested in success-

ful dairy farming.





MICHIGAN JERSEY

CATTLE CLUB





 





 





 





 





The Wildwood Farm

.‘lerceztn Cattle. laieetyst State accred-

itodl st of I. testing oonstantl done. Bells for





sal.o Ibv'm BALDEN. Phone s. on... Illeh.





BUTTER BRED "Whig?"





CIMAL SPRING STOCK FARM.

Silver Creek. Allecan County. Michigan.





 





Leno R. ctll. Jerse nerd. For-sale Blue

Mlelle' 'e Premier son of Sop ie' 0 Premier that sold

torflfiOthh . Bulls and bull calves. R. 0 ed



cocks-ole I. “IV IN FOX. R. 3.





FOR SALE] Son of Sultan' s Oxford' 9 Hoopla

yr. old solid 0010

C. J. IARDLIY, R. 6. Grand Rapids. Mich





Allegan. Mich





read 1 service from our herd buIl Marguerites

Elgmlergdghnpfl’ ‘s Nth of Hood Farm, and cows

now on test for R. of“? mith A Parker. ,Howell, Mich.





F Five tcred Jersey Cows. Fresho

or soon to reshen. Also yen? bulls ready

for service. 1!. 0. A A. H. Donaldson, enton. Mich.





T oJersc heifers agesithirtyan eighteer

it: s". Mm‘dntho. byoth on anuno. f

u"-





ulnwooii :Hlllrdlni





Yam stock both sexes (or sale.

”Keep On 508010" heads the herd. Write us

roar wants. Visitors welcome.





lonia, Mich.

Farm six mile: south of Ionic.





HEREFORDS





 





 





3' 2 Prince Donald!) Farmer and one Poll-

* odbulis





 

 

 





you weatoow‘rthat wlliha'a'

It you went prise cows cl

breed and championship calibre‘ ---.

you want cows that reed {do





lldder. the cilt claw“

notion-beers“ m— fl“. :,





 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 

 





" ._ wwwww~ ,

‘ ‘3 naheebg’lnoney orlermers .. :3

Write W10? “Wk Fm About M” '





Tho American Jersey Cattle Elohim-M W. 23rd St. New York. N. Y

AnMNWMth thmlmweeaer





 





 

 





 





THE FAMOUS





O. I. C. SWINE





_We have the undefeated Herd of the World.

Winning premier breeder and exhibitor at

every fair shown in 1919-1918-1917, includ-

the iollowin llgkstate fairs-«Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky,



lab oma,New York Alab amafi'l‘





'Tennessee,

al 0. I. C. twice. Stock of all ages for sale.R





Order now. We will ship any of our stoc

three days before you have to pay for it.





own farm.





CRANDELL’S PRIZE HOGS,





 

 

 





 





 





Sign!





olnavu annulus, Hm;m .. .

unannnmms. wanna. salon.





“I’d" ”th at leadinl “lemurs inch in:

..liixsiso miss? .23 iii;





MICEIRAEA? FARM has xterm,”-





er’I

mflflgl l’tsad sows. “TE” “‘m'flunn‘303‘g’m"





”a m“ .l’bd'hlt?" Mn. ”gallium. Mich





 





farmers Boar's





parachleruy. Two 1“,“:le boars that

was“ mb'l"‘i-s.osraa-l:§.-r





 





 





 





   

   

 





 





 





ri-State fairM Mule Inish ,and the Nation-

eiistered free i e 0. I. C. association.



on a groval allow you to keep .

You wil e your own jddge on your





C888 City, MlChe





 





 





J. CARL J EWETT





o. I. c. sows FOR SALE





0n ne of the Beat Horde in Michigan

Sprin%gilts and fall yearlings bred for March, April and May litters. I shi

pay express and register in buyer’s name.

TYPE sow guaranteed right in every way, write me.





 





If you want a BI





. RSI...





Roars. Ffirlg'f‘bce' fashignsble

BOARDMAN Thu“? aohson, a.‘

bred Iowa and ”Orion Cher?





:5?





.. ..’-inn is 5.5%....er





I 6“ Like This .





critical biz prodtlcou'





roaoto





IEA success V wily a. "vent sanctum“:

tarsal! “all it ELM“ {mfg

Inns. 3-,! ragga. WW





 





 





.Mason, Michigan.





 





 





 





HEREFORDS





oi Qualit. Renner Bullion. sired by the 89500. 00

Bullion t a 4th. now heads our herd. Inspection

invited. COLE & GARDNER. Hudson. Mich





 





Just urchased 3 new herds. now hale

HmlMdS-m 150 h::ad we olI'er you an bin desired





ithersex. horned or oiled an age. rice mason-

:ble. “till sirrrys. Bad Axe Mich.





F0 Immediate Sale at Reasonable prices. Ruhr

I‘ tered and Grade Hereford Cattle of both sex.

Write at once. Gates Boyer. Athena, Mich.





only the I: per crust ro-



llmlorl Held unlike}:i 52...}... whom... .“i

d. notth largest e ut ewes . cm can

333%"... adioclns town. E. J. Taylor. remont.Mlch.





Shorlhorll Callie oi boIlI Sex lor Sale





W. W. "APP. Howell. Ilium





Shorthorns of Quality Scotch and

For sale Scotch '1‘:er deecendentsotAroheli

Ho 0. Avondae. Maxw ton Salton and White lall

Bill n. Model Type, bth‘I Oecola Co. h ornrtho

Breeders Ass. John So midt. Sec. Rood ONLMIeh.





lonia Co. Breeders Aae’ n





l R Shortho Heroin rds. Anni

Elli-loll}. .JcHT-soyofiled Polls “mmwn Swiss Cattle.

hro Ohi' mJIsohiI re answfigglbouillot s h.ecp

I d can

Pith?) w filllolujlsli't.o Soc . a. 3.





BIDWELL summons





For Beef and Milk

Registered bolls. cows and heifers.





Good Scotch and

Bcotoh- Topped for sale. In rlme condition. Modern

sanitary model‘s: ment. Ho





Ionia. Mich.





l0 ‘ ‘nnger state and died'oral

n no as re- . . . oPo

T‘l‘u ho- T:lre-do. Ohio. Automobile meets all

trains.





BIDWELL STOCK FARM





lo; I. Tecumseh. Mich.





Richland Stock Farms





Home of the Michigan Champions.

Shorthorn Sires in SchIce:



MP. Lorne. IMP. Newton Champion. Star

Sunsemc Why not buy a young bull to hex:

our herd that ycarries the blood that is making

horthorn History. Only a low real headers

left. Write your wants.



C. H. PRESCOTT & SONS. Tawaa City. Mich.





I R l I! he do a so

SCOICh Shorthome 1:31. or: l); fulfil}; (regulating '





t th Rose ood. Lovely Ornnseblossem and Roan



r:Indyeand several other“ good ferrules.t Two“ bulls ready

0 also a ew cm



o'xasd'h'libs. °l co. .. Bad Axe. nlol... Address



Norman Car. Secretary.





MILKING Sl-lORTHORNS “0‘3 A





bill Oil!“- DAVMIOII all loll. Teen-sch.”





breeders of A erlcaii Poll ed



"'m ‘I'l" Elm Bhoytfi om an! ”fled by



Grand Champion 112:2. gleam s ihlllml‘iaiigfisfin Bill-

on



ten Creed. Foraal e o u" Co‘ldwaterjd 1m





to sell. Address G. EB ck.

DO i Sh rth ms. Herd heeded b Si]

ME"?! Elvin K Ill lbrot refher‘ht Lavender Bu sn’l‘ura

ty'sl greet sire. For sale fame “in“ all

en’s. a few young bulls. G.ec D. Doctor.





Shorthorns Scotch bred bulls. cows and

, ultimo}? l3. .a'idllowoll. Inca.





 





 





Milking mm





 





horn'ltolsmonthsold, iorsale. w





 





Wanted Bengali Scotch ll‘ndt Scotch topped‘hell’era

I cows hta not I: on!

Scotch bulls. ,Lawrence P. Otto. Charlotte. Nighm





Si R l d

FOR SALE will. .83 light ..Dl‘.':::s..£:.3:

year oId all finlchlandl’ 435546

YNOH. - Mayville. Mich.





 





f 1

Chester Wlu'tes, 33:: .3“ ’2“.:.‘.i’:l. $5.3:





won highest honors wexafilfinxfiqrfin coegfilofiich





0. l. C. and Chester White Swine





Strictly pm?!" Type with A11“ ualltyl. Spring .p'ifs of M arch

anAd olce lot ofbo

spare a I’few more I lts at present. Will IhipO





lld record

ewman' I Stoecll Farm. Mal-lotto, Mich. R. No. l.





 





 





Reg Dar an: bred helt r. rice 6000.



For “'0 all, 9mo.3old°.' rlce 3103,00



w. w saacnm‘ a ".sou linden. Mich.

HOGS





 





Rfil't'ndm 3mm” n “'5" ”rm“ All"

0 l . I. I‘m“. .0

eel-la. Inn. was small hall “union... Mich.





3 fl

Berkshires ”litiwa‘m‘” ”:8 na£‘€::%’.vl‘ii32'°

errill. Mich.





 





 





I A ’ lerhshine boars.one yearlin twcs rin

Regulated boars priced reasonable an guarellitee l

to be or. B. B. BEAVEY. Akron, Mich.





 





DUROB AUBTIUN





60 pure bred registered Durac-

Jersey bred sows, oarKig gs and

guts will be sold under t e direc-



lon of the Michigan Daroc-Jersey

Swine Breeders Association at

M.A. C., East Lansing.





'l’l’iday, February 6th, 1920





Every thing’sold is backed' by

a guarantee y the State Assn.

This offering will be a useful lot





 





of sows and jugs that will 0 on

any farm an make a profit 0 the

purchaser.





Catalogue or further informa-

tion ad ress Newton Barnh'art,

St. Johns, Michigan.





SALE COMMIT-TEE;





Eugene lnwo‘od: ‘-.. Romeo

Henry Philipe,‘ - Milan

Newton Barnh'art, St.Johne





. Col. Andy Adams of Litchileld,

Michiganmn dassistants will con-

duct





 





 





y

Khmer" “them

For scour





 





 





 





Illllllcdfilllllllinlly “a... @315... ‘° .3.





. B‘Bfinls‘” Burgl- “:dfo'l'ig‘yola‘ngm Sirgéyw' 191:2“:





_ “is owner lt.“‘£§i.’°l...





O I. 0' I Lost Iprln lsolld Have an extra

0 “acetodolkcltofl‘sgtLdeFgalhgood ” oodtall pl uplgtahin.

0 e l 8 0 e W

00 r OTTO re a ULlZnE. Nashville. Mich.

O. I. .sC’





Am odering a few bor piflthat

ocombine size and on y.

THO MPSON. Rockford. Mich.





Bl t e servui cable boa mar fol-row-

o. W s. Moll. were... m...

open or bred. G.P ANbR Dan-ville. Mich.





o l c Gilts bred for March and April furrow. '

a e e





tor in bu on





I a a rose Aand re

p ’fi. TEN ansvllle. M ch.





0 l c’ ‘ Ergo“ some choice spring boars‘ and

[it also this year' s “"8T'

\VEBB” .306"! .2. Phone loo, Royal . Mich.





O '. CO‘ Service boars, tall push no akin also





Belinda s.._oat$300





onom hm STOCK FARM. Monroe. Mich





O I CI, one 18 mo. herd '.boar whrod

9 ' ' (lite and a Choice lot of fall apifs.

JOHN C. W ILK. Alma, l.ioh





 





0/1. C ‘T Have some Choice Spring Gilts, bred

' for making“

3308., VR. 1, Mason, Mich.





 





Gilt! bred for March and April (arrow, arentoed

o I c. safe with pl s. Fall pics and a few sages boars.

Bord “manned by D. . F C. Burgess. ll. 8. Mason. lich.





l spri b0 1', (b Lo

Lo TO P C. host ”1:: youaever’saw?: Jon.30ttl‘0.

soadeheeh with first letter or the other I)lellow will

c“ you don t like description will





 





ohech.A wgood sprlnl boars left at. farmer’s prlc

23“ "3‘5: ”race: “are“ toil“ ..j‘a'" '3‘

no rs an no r

mleuln the state. and Wiley “shin .p r ,0“.

B. O. SWABTZ? Schooloraft, Mich.





 





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FOR Sale—Large Type Poland iChina rGuts. bred for





A riltarrow.1ns loninvl m f

Mangheeter. A. A “Eel ldhalnp. a. 2, “an“..ulfiifnifii'f





Poland China: ”'9 “”d ’°' ”m“ “d A"-

Mean“ “flow "Eur; tyres‘mbostm or





 





 





MILLER mndoa' 31L. 1‘. PaOJboars all sold. ilte

nel- ones an

III-n. Milan.- CLYDE wmn . 33mmfhl¢if





tor by Giant Buster. Iltte l





gelilt‘lsgfid 1;?er out“? Me 00%". 133’“ Joe





t. no.”

Jelli-





 





Lanes“ TypoP. o. “melons-Gilli“. been»...

new clioers fer thob





boars the tormenfc grand

3a.: are: figs...“ ..nfir-i m:





 





as adver.





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82.1%”.18253 '





ant. Ea





 





dtheearnins‘ canal: l B -

What mwoulm in your hard? A Illitll‘oest . rook

(role to a” no" (fitgou‘lllghlm

* ev

It "payed thgman' tofioneolourhoassitwlii





"buyer We





 





 

 





AWOOD t SON,





 





:nunoc «Enesro





e'noogh'





Will 0only,
(massed 1mm page '11s). 35

tom by every painstaking labor.

and investigation the cost of proddctag





market milk. The milk commission,





' came into being representing producer,

l distributor and consumer, and fixed a



price iior milk based on the cost of

l 'produotion and distribution and the

1‘ consumer. realising the justice of the





proposition, gmurmurs little What the‘





Michigan Milk Producers’ Asso‘biation

has done for market milk in the De-

troit market, the State and National





Farm Bureau can do for agriculture inL





the whole nation

Applying This to Live Stock industry.





The breeder of purebred live stock is

i interested in the price of wheat or po-

‘ tatoes, etc., as much as he is in live

stock.. One branch of agriculture can-

not prosper for long unless the other

branches prosper. All must go up or

down together. With little or no profit

in bed or pork there would be much

less demand for purebred sires be-

cause there wouldbe no money to pur;

chase them with. If there is little

profit in wool or mutton, or in milk

and butter and cheese, the market for

purebred animals is seriously affected.

So it is a question of united effort for

the benefit of all. As Benjamin Frank-

lin said to the signers of the Declara-

tion of Independence: “Gentlemen,

.we must all hang together or we will

each hang'separately.”



Unless the farmers are united in a

strong business organization, prices of

food products will be forced down,

down, perhaps to prevwar conditions,

while the price of other products will

remain high. Every time the attorney-

general makes a drive at the “High

Cost of Living,” just one class of prod-

ucts are attacked—food products. The

products the farmer produces and sells.

Nothing is done to reduca the price of

shoes, of clothing, steel or implements

or labor. The farmer‘s products are

assailed because he has no organiza-

tion like the National Chamber of Com-

merce o: the Manufacturers or the Na-

tional Council of Organized Labor.

They know the farmer cannot stand

for his rights because he has not the

necessary facts and the necessary or-

ganization behind. him. Why did the





market on live hogs drop eleven or;





twelve cents per pound? Did labor

come down or hardware drop in price?

Was the cost of production less or the

demand even less? Was it not because

farm products presented a weak front

in the battle line and they knew it? A

national organization like the proposed

farm bureau, fortified by the facts of

cost of ”production‘would have held the

line against anyor all assaults.





Michigan breeders of improved live

stock! The future of your business

and the mture of all agriculture is just

what you choose to make it. The



. world wants beef, good beef, and they





are Willing and able to pay a profitable '





price for it if you will conduct your



_'business in a business-like way. The

world wants pork, good pork and lots

of it, and they must be educated to pay

a price that will warrant the farmer in

producing it. The world needs mutton



' and wool. Thousands of acres of now

idle land in Michigan alone might be-

devoted to the rearing of 'sheep it the

farmer was confident that he would

get his pay for his time and labor in.

breeding them. '





The world needs dairy products. We





never know until recently how neces-l "





sary dairy products are for the proper

development of mankind Dr. McCul-





he has more vitality. Milk contains





 





 





“Old Bess is sure





days, Jim—and a





“Belle, too, Joe. I was





 





OF





Full to the Brim





a long way from it."





day and he just grinned and said, “Well, I

guess neighbor Johnson knew what he was say-

ing when he told me that I would gel: more

milk when I started feeding——





‘ Stevens “44” -





Stevens “44" Dairy Ration strikes the perfect bal-

ance between body nutrition and milk production.





@Park @Pollard G





Webster Building, Chicago





fill the pail these

whllbgbaclt she came





telling the boss the other





ILJBLNOI





 





 





 





‘ . lum’ s researches in nutrition teach us.

. _ ' that with a diet containing dairy prod-

ucts. man is more resistant to disease, ,





E f.

i I":

l

i ,





i.





I.





' usual losses.Bes1dco,

',get back itscost bythrcshing for





' Madcintwodzehmflmdm.





‘ Twenty- five years of success in

. building individual and neighbor-

‘ hood threshers.





- hummrarmmmmcawu





rim—‘1





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Will Soon Earn Its Cost

mm mm“ are“:

ing pigtaygm: andprevcnt the

youcan coon





Youfarmtrnctot





\iVillthn-eshanykindofgrainor

coed,peascrbeom.





More than Ten Thousand in use.’



BELLE CITY. MFG. CO.

sou muss



\ ”CINE. Wisconsin. 0.8.11.





 





{that are almost lite-giving in .





931: Mt department





“NERAQE





 





 

 





 

 





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HOGS

on his type Poland Chinas, both sex, all





“If in: Shorthorn cal 11, either sex, and 8.

xi oocgoroh. v c. Pierson, Mich.





with lit . at ro-



Big Typo Poland China: m..{".“‘,’,,..’.. p...

Moth nudbred sows and elite



6.1. BAUhaAammn n.2, Middlevmo. Mich.



T. P. O. tried sows and sprin zsllts. from 1st





flu aim and dams, bred for Mar and Apr. far-

row. :lso fall pins. H. MJeflx-lee. St. Louis. Mich.





HAMPSH IRES“





Steuben“ Hampshire Farm





Aiew No. l bred Gilts left. a few choice {all

boar pigs. can furnish pairs not akin. Booking

orders I’ior spring pigs. large type. no better blood

lines. Satisfaction guaran





STEUBm HAMPSHIRE FARM

. ANGOLA, I .

Pln.GBodeM%1§%dgmalztnu ion boar of .1 lchlau, Brod

iany other prize winner at





man: efldtotc ,oel’oir 1919. 1109' s for sale cl ll me

mm aééfllfl'boarl heads our hard

fig. 001mm .1 do Mariette, Mich





shi ros‘. Bprl by our



gfiznépgm n ingdar’l‘gw gird-1:141“ “Bf-111M pine:

nkfihefiftbuym cyan seasqod o .



r 8 breeding or for a cross on your

glflberrsogld. figplbwm H.936 Edgcwood Fa1m. Marion. 0.





B ed Its now ready to chi. a few In

H‘grgdm lafrt on? Bill pigs from new I) nod lined

St Johns, Mlcb_





 





 





"Quality First” Michigan





Tried sow and its bred to our Grand

PC 3‘ King Junior Champion

prim Benio ufihA



W. Brewbaker .1 Sons, Elsie. ioh.





t. lb. sire and mam flows from

we lmrwstlgyrds. EJ. Msthewson.Burr Oak Mich.





P. 0. Giltl bred to Big Orange Model and

BRIDefender None better in State

Hmlshaw, Augusta. M ioh.





E13”. T;po P. O. Brod slits, Fall yearling: prize win.-





e Poland China-1. to-date in breeding.

ii We “Ilia od ones a

“a “alga”: owlo 91%”? .51" all

. re 0 VO 0 1‘ re 11

11.3.1053} fit . and stood 40 1-.





. 1!



”Lou! ao:;t:"imn



on to always vol 00M-

tableau





I... .T. P C Eligmmuzg' r“? 11 ALlllefionh’n“





hone ”3'11.





   





 





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corneam





For sale (1);; gmfimbgogm (”Imam-Mg

KEITH snxrz ii. a. Vermontvlllo.





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SHEEP.

KIDS of Mich You are the 1.1mm ”mum





state. I amouofthe beet sheep breeders' 1n



t-Iloctato Lets get together that you may start your m- n



flock of registered Shropshire-4 paw A lot of kids



have sires done so, but [want more Itillbu'!



{gut ram lamb. and cooperat:n with you In every was

rite me for ll) proposition dxritpl K0 PIS-K0

FARM 8.3 L. Wing. Prop Box Goldwater. Mich.



ones includ





8h bl 50

Whithnn Fm... "’ 5 7.2;," .,,. w, m,





lambs None better to start a new flock or improve

the old one.

rams.





TEE WHITTUM FARM.





BUY A SHEEP





t minute, bu Hampshire. The American Hamp-

m“.- ghoo pluoollauon’f to and you a dandy“ m -





Wait I“ So



ll...“ “thflro' T“ 1‘12 sans-r. min

rott,Mlch.



idle Wild Stock Farms gar-hpdgygggigggm'





rsdeoflonoul 01113“de . rioto .

0|ayton.Mlch n. 3. ' “m" '





 





 





I!) imported one and two year old

Eaton Rapids, Mich.





 





 





 





Shropehuc bred ew l to 3 years old.

"Igltllflil Large. healthy. we! fleece-d representa-

tives of this flock ave satlséa action in 1.) states. last

cocoon rams all . Lemon. Dexter. Hlsh





' Resist red l bl al ed

ShI'OPShu'“ 1111 mg gutt ramAisbmcholc: b b

0-0.. W. B. UcQUI LAN, .7. Howell. Mi





Shl'0pthil'gA 2113:: briegrto lnby Imported Ilium:

NBOOHEB. R. 4, Evart,'Mich.





 





 





 





20 choice Reg. (911119.01? due tolambin March

also about 15 “Rafi ewe ambs unbred. Priced for

quick sale, (OUSER, B. s. Ithaca. Mich.





 





HORSES





helium, “girli'r‘in‘gleaqlsm Strontium. Emu





 





 

 





 





For Sale m....-.‘;::°.:1°:;:. “fifth? “W

011”... diam 011., an:





rfi'hemn Stallion in Mic (a:

grams“: to! poor heal 0. .

Wayland. Mich.





 





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BLACK m “Percheron Witsllltm“! (1‘5“? ‘
Latest





FIRST EDITION.





 





The markets In this edition were re-

vlood and coreetod on Tuesday after-

noon. January 20.





WHEAT.





Hoover’s statement that Russia can-

not export wheat as long as the people

of that country are starving, took a

great deal of bearishness out of the

situation. At Detroit present values

are as folows:



No. 1 red .......... .. . .$2.65

No. 1 white ........ . . . .. 2.63

No. 2 red 2.60

No- 3m OOIOOODIOOOIDO 2-57





CORN.





The corn market his a firmer tone

and Chicago prices made a fair ad-

vance. In the Detroit market there

was no change in prices and not many

sales have been reported. Receipts and

stocks continue small and there is no

chance to fill an actiVe demand should

one spring up. At Detroit values are





 





as folows:

No. 3 ........ . ......... $1.51

No.3 yellow............ 1.53

No. 4 yellow............ 1.49

No.5 yellow............ 1.46





OATS.





Oats are in good supply, but there

is no demand. There were no buyers

on hand when cats were offered Mon-

day at a drop of half a cent. Quota-

tions on the Detroit market are:





No. 2 white ............. 881,43



No. 3 ................... 871,



No. 4 white ............. 861,5

RYE.





All of the strength has gone out of

the rye market and prices have declin—

ed four cents per bushel. There are

no buyers and nothing is being said

about export demand. At Detroit cash

No. 2 rye is quoted at $1.74.





BlARLEY.





The barley market is holding its own

with other grains. At present Cash

No. 3 barley is quoted at Detl‘Olt at

$3@3.20 per cwt.





BEANS.





The demand for beans is improving

and the market is steady. Choice hand-

picked pea beans are quoted at Detroxt

at $7.35 per cwt. At Chicago prices

are unchanged, although the feeling ls

a. film one, due to light offerings.

Choice hand-picked pea beans are quot-

ed at $7.50@8 per cwt. At New York

the demand is disappointing and there

has been little activity in the market

since the first of the year. The. re-

ceipts of white beans have been light

and dealers do not look for any mate-

rial slump in prices. Choice hand-

picked pea beans are quoted. at $7.75

@8 per cwt. and choice red kidneys at

$14.75.





SEEDS





Cash and March red clover took a

jump of 50c on Monday. Timothy is

firm. Present values at Detroit are

as follows: Prime red clover, spot and

March $34.50; alsike $34; timothy at





$6.40.

HAY.





The hay receipts are not sufficient to

make the market any easier. Demand

is active and all offerings are promptly

accepted at the following quotations:

No. 1 timothy $30.50@31; standard at

$29.50@30; light mixed at $29.50@30;

No. 2 timothy $28.50@29; No. 1 clover

$28.50@30; rye straw at $13.50@14;

wheat and oat straw $13.50@14 per ton





in carlots.

FEEDS.





There is very little change in the

feed market and prices are holding at

about their last week's levels. At De-

troit bran is quoted at $47@.48; stan-

dard middlings $49@50; fine middlings

$60@61; coarse cornmeal at $62@64;

cracked corn $65@6; chop $53@55 per

ton in loo-pound sacks.





POTATOES.





At Detroit the supplies of potatoes

are light. Demand is moderate and

market firm with little change in price.

Sales to jobbers of Michigan U. 8.

Grade No. 1 stock in ISO-pound sacks

are reported at $7.25 per sack. At

Cleveland the supplies are light, early

demand light and movement slow. The

market is firm and prices slightly high-

er. New York and Michigan U. S.

- Grade No. 1 round white stock 111,150-

' , norm; seeks, a quoted at solace.”





 





. ar ct.





's B i - .



The butterlnarket remains firm and

active. Receipts are moderatea‘nd all.

offerings ard promptly taken, keeping

the market well cleaned,up. The pres-_

ent quotatoins at Detroit are: Fresh

creamery firsts 600; fresh creameryat

61 @611,“ in one-pound bricks.





EGGS. ~





Fresh eggs are beginning to c me

in freely, but dealers look for a fal ing

off in receipts owing to the cold weath-

er of the past few days. Present quo-

tations at Detroit are 63%@65c per

dozen; storage eggs acording to qual-

ity 50@55c per dozen.





HEESE.





The market is active and go'bd of:

ferings find a ready sale. Present val-

ues at Detroit are as follows: Michi-

gan flats, June make 3317“; Michigan

flats, new make 33c; New York flats,

June make 340; Michigan single dais-

"ies 32%@330; brick 3135c.





POULTRY.





Little change is noted in the poultry

market. There is a moderate demand

for hens and very little demand for

other lines. Present prices for live poul-

try are as follows: Spring chickens

28@30c for large, 26@28c for small;

hens 32@34c; small hens at 27@~28c;

roosters 19@200; geese 28@320; ducks

38@40c; turkeys 44@45c per pound.





WOOL





At Boston quarter-blood wool has

been the feature of the active move-

ment, large quantities going to pur-

chasers last week. Next in interest to

the sale of quarter-blood’has been the

transfer of a fair volume of three-

eighths blood territory wool. Such ac-





llVil y is encouraging to the trade, 68- -





pecially the buying of medium wool.

Dealers feel that a continued demand

will make them independent in regard

to the remaining holdings of the 1919

clip. The heavy buying of the past

month in medium clips has caused a.

transformation in the market. This is

laid partly to the scarcity of fine wool,





‘atj Meat-that or!





oil 0 part} ‘Igto

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the, - Conspicuously “active” ‘ tferritol-y

grade ,wool. The , .

of wool, as wellas the





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fleece, has been strengthen





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PRICES P'Aln FARMERS A‘l‘ THE

ADRIAN cOMMUNlrvMAaKsT. .





 





The following prices were paid to

farmers for products delivered at the

Adrian Community Market on Satur-





day, January 17: . ,

Apples, green per cwt $4; red $4.50;





beans, choice hand-picked per cwt $7;





butteriat 63c; butter (packing stock

only) ,30c; cabbage, domestic $60 per

ton; Holland cabbage $100 per ton;

cream, butteriat .630 per pound; eggs

henenry white 70c per dozen; do gath-

ered white 65c; do fresh brown 65c;

hickory nuts 8c per pound; honey

comb 32c per. pound; do extracted 24c;

dressed hogs 14@-17c; lambs 15@20c;





maple syrup $2.25 per gallon; maple 1





sugar 30c per pound; mutton 10@12c

per pound; onions (dry) $5 per cwt;

do No. 2132.50 per cwt; potatoes No. 1

$5 per cwt; do,No. 2 $2.50 per cwt;

dressed veal 100 to 140 pounds 220;

do 80 to 100 pounds 18c.



Live Poultry—Cocks 12c per pound;

ducks 30c; hens, extra large and fat

260: do ordinary 22c; springers 22c;

turkeys 38c.





GRAND RAPIDS





Milling companies advanced the pay-

ing price of wheat Saturday another

five cents to $2.45 for No. 1 red and

$2.43 for No.‘ 1 white per bushel. The

potato market is higher, warehouse-

men paying. $2.50 for No. ,1 sacked.

What few farmers brought in they got





 





 





 





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Reports for Tuesday, J anuauy 20th





BUFFALO.





Lambs were steady on today's mar-

ket at $21; hogs were also steady at

315756316; calves $24. .





DETROIT -





Cattle.

Market opened steady and will close

lower.

Best heavy steers . ..-. . . .$12.00@13.00

Best handy wt bu steers. . 10.50@11.50





Mixed steers and heifers 9.50@10.00

Handy light butchers . . . . 8.25@ 9.25

Light butchers ....... . . . 7.50@ 8.00

Best cows 9.50@10.00

Butcher cows . . . . . . . . . . . 8.00 8.50

Cutters . ....... . 6.50 7.00

Canners ..... ' ........ . . 5 50@ 5.75

Best heavy bulls . . . . . . . . 10.00

Bologna bulls ........... 8.00@ 8.50

Stock bulls ............. 7 .‘50@ 8.00

Milkers and springers. . . .$ 65@ 150

Veal Calves.

Market steady. .

Best . . .................. $21.00@22.00

Others . ............. . . . 9.00@19.00.





Sheep and Lambs.



Market steady.

Best lambs . . . . . . . . . . . . .$19.75@20.00

Fair lambs . . . . . . . . . . . 17.50@18.00

Light to common. . . . . . . . 14.00@16.00





Fair to good sheep ...... 10.5o@11.oo @l





..... eloIO-olano





Culls . . . . 5.00@ 7.50

Hogs.

Market 15@20c higher.





All grades aoc-on...oooooootoooo‘l§o75'





CHICAGO.





Hogs.



Estimated receipts today are 46,000;

holdover $15,403. Market strong to 150

higher. Bulk of sales at $15.15@‘15.40;

tops $15.50; heaVy 250 lbs up, medium,

good and choice $14.90@15.40; medium

200 to 250 lbs, medium, good and

choice $15.15@15.40; light 150 to 200

lbs, common, medium, good and choice

$15.20@15.50; light lights 130 to 150

lbs, common, medium, good and choice

$14,50@15_25;. heavy packing sows 250

lbs up, smooth $14.25@14.75; packing





pigs 130 lbs down, medium,. good and

choice $13.75@14.65. ‘ A ‘_ .

' , Cattle.



Estimated receipts toda

Market slow and steady ‘ .

‘ odi 31131.net





   

 





choice and prime $17.50@19; do medi-

um. and good $11.50@17.50; do common

$9.50@11.50; light weight 1100 lbs

down, good and choice $13.75@18; do





common and medium $9@13.75; butch- '





er cattle, heifers, common, medium,

good and choice $6.75@14.25; v cows,

common, medium, good and choice at

$6.75@13; bulls, bologna and beef $7.50

@1225; caners and. cutters, cows and

heifers $5.50 15.75; do / canner steers

$6@7.75; ve calves, light and handy-

weight medium, good and choice $17@

18.50; feeder steers, common, medium,

good and choice at $8@12.50; stocker

steers, common, medium, good and

choke $7.50@11; do cows and heifers,

common, medium, good and choice at

$6.75@8.50; do calves, common, medi-

um, good and.choice $8@10.75.

Sheep and Lambs.



Estimated receipts today are 12,000.

Market strong to 15c higher. Lambs

84 lbs down, medium, good, choice and

prime $17.50@19.90; do 85 lbs up, me-

dium, good, choice and prime $14@17;

spring la 3, medium, good, choice and





price $14 18.50; ewes, medium, good ~





and choice $9.25@12; ewes, cull and

common $15.50@18.75; yearling weth-

ers, agedium, goodand ohoi¢e at $16





BUFFALO. ,

January 19, 1920.

Cattle.

Receipts 2,500; heavy steady to 25c

lower; otherssteadyi prime steers at

$16@17;. shipping steers $15@15.50;





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the farm. . .

Writ. today for free literature.





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Deliciousness In

Vegetables





You who have marveled at the rare

sweetness of new peas and com, or the

cool2 alluring taste of melons, must ap—

precxate that someone know how. The

secret is yours if you have our new cat-

slog.





Stokes Seeds-J 920





It is an unusual agricultural catalog,

frankly telling of both the good and in-

ferior qualities of vegetables and flowers--

also many other things of interest tdthe

country dweller. « , ' n ..

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is limited. ‘ ‘





 





 





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WINDERMOOR FARM.

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All goods new-nomlalmed or renovated-

guann perfect.



Wool Blankets, 66:84 - $7.00



Wool Underwear, per garment 2,50



Heavy Wool Sox. per pair .70



Extra Heavy Shaker Knit So: 1.00





BchHOllN suoss





Army style-a very good

shoe for heavy work on

road or farm. Even sizes

6 to 11. Special this

week to close 3 9

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butchers 9@15; «yearlings $14@15.50;

heifers adsomtso‘; cars at $4.50@





10.50; bulls $6.50@10.50; stockers and '





feeders “@1025; fresh cows and

springers “365612.175.

. 4 Cal es. . _

Receipts 1,500; Go higher at $6@‘

24 per cwt. , ' « r.





Hogs. \ 1 ‘.

Receipts 12,000; are 25@50c lower; ~ "

aa?‘$15.50@15.56; mixed and york-f

_ . _ ..3 15275; light do and pigs $15.75@

slows 200 lbs on. rough 813606121535:‘v~§gr:scbr9ush8‘$13.50@13-75; ‘“ 2‘0





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come belie the Allr ooper-

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g0 dad: a. lie am this “I

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«in new to m mar my

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. (Continued from page 149).

madllyvhere the patient had received

better In his ration. The world we:





metered that chlldrendeprlvedet.





milk moot develop normally. Knot-

lei; these thinss, why mm we not

use some of our money—lobe ot it—lt





’ necessary. to educate the people of the





Cities“ no: the great importance of dairy





products at their diet. The non WhoI

produces beef, or pork. or ohm-.1; or...

fruit, for a living can allow! to contrlb-I .4





ute to such a fund beeauoo he is sure

to be benefited indirectly. Teach the





wage-earning men and women 0! our? 1.

cities the real importance of dairy fight!





products. Cause them to see and steel

that their children, if





deve10p into more vigorous men and

women, having more vitality and great-

e'r resistance to disease. will be better





men and wOme’n, physically, mentally.

morally, and that they will have great”





or respect for the flag and you do

more than help the dairymen, you help

yourselves and you help mankind, as

well. .



The homeless one has not yet come





and it, never will come. Mankind can1





never get along without the horse. Ad-

mit that the automobile outelasses the

road horse, but nothing can ever take

the place of the race horse «the draft

horse. As long as man exists as man,

he will pay money to see a good horse

race. And as long as there In any work

to do, there fill be plenty of work for

the work horse. The truck and the

t1 actor have only when the new busi-





nose that has developed in the indus-I





trial world. There are as many horses

today as ever and the truck and the

tractor can never drive the horse out“





The’ horse is necessary to do business'





that the truck and the tractor cannot

do. The work and the life of the horse

is made easier by the truck and, the





tractor. Man is enabled to do more by '

their aid and do it better, but now heI





must have both sources of power. The

new cannot entirely displace the old.





To me, the future of the live stock,

industry and, in fact. the future of theI

whole business of agriculture,

bright indeed. The importance of ag-

riculture has been brought to the at-

tention of the world so prominently by‘

the world war. The necessity of giv-





wmm’ A m‘ I mill!“





THE FUTURE OF AGR100LTURE. “ '





well supplied.

with milk and butter and cheese, will,





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thuflulfim hill on Mutual—lb Soil,

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mourns am Wk m 1.- Cl

other”?mindednugget-Q0115.f It has been that. '

on: e m ears 0 constant use

them of the but mere.

mm el‘ Agriculture. Agricultural Colleges. Er.- ,

new! Farms and hundreds oi the landless

madman. seed com growers. etc.

”pa r In the oan mlll that has the “Vet-

“1:111me which we“; 1: evotylood and kernel.

sepalutlncthel lghtmhrunken. immatur rose

the!!! Mini-m heavy nature need. ’89 of which II

0 under tent. This point alone make.

of the cranes below 11 crop boom-I on ad hum.





NC Hill Will Do CoodWol‘k Without

the IPooper Assortment 1‘ Screens





'5 sh an onblt of 12 screen hr (Viacom-and



kind. at send, need In. need corn.

elm alfalfa, millet. tI mot . podium



cow polo. any hem. etc And a the most awful

stud: cult ”5.1.1 work. we guarantee this

eon-Q outfit“ to“ tho’beet that he! ever been ofimd



with an mill. nor-eons for r- lover contain-

buo born or plantain. timothy need contalnm



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Commie-Ion Merchants. Dreamed 3902.3





Holmes,8luwe (10., 445 RiopeIIe SI.





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8-1! I r Hlfiuetrm 1-161. and price lint. A

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“one. order- for an oblate

III. WILL SMITH. I’m Mich.





 





 





 

 





 





 

   

   

   

 

 





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In!“ to 50 each per year-

Raised as can y as chickens—Only

out half as much—V or, .table

—Bring $2.00 per poun al1ve.



Cenume Wild Mallard Ducks





an to I) eggs per Warm-

{ZII to be only from Wild Trapped

“allude.





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8. C. 8.1. Red cm on:

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birds.





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WMIymM-n.

Mythmovofimneuttoeut. Make

:3 profits cutting wood. Cheap

‘ easytooye‘rate.





mosses





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ing the turmer- a square deal has beeIII , ‘





made so obvious to the public and the





so filled him with hope and lined him

above sordid drudgery that he will.

like our army on herein gun, Devon"





retreat use these things that I have}





predicted will surely come to pass.





LIVE srocx excuauoe tantrum.





 





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The First Annual meeting d the!»

Michigan Live StookExehemwfllhe.‘





held at East Lansing, on Thursdam





February 12.. 1920. tor the purpose oil.





chatting a board of directors and tran-

sacting my other I!” that may





m, fir. POULTRY FARMER:





' Moonrnever hereunto

. Hillel-coding!!!” cow.

, It 56 war! necessary to use care in buying.

cum I.“ hot We‘iow bin:

Goodwwfiw.‘ hwr eh .-

aswell seam-o tree. ”Metered! utter-elem

seeds that m ‘lly ““- C. .. ”T! «E

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3:1.qu Union nflioh.

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lot terms I. Jon-o. m





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“Enough Sold!"

51.1. «.11.. on ma...

Daniel McCofi a" 3 Scan.





LA 62141; Wabadllu. .m Pa.

Fitment Farm Land: For Sale





l30-Acre Midwest ’

Money-maker, $8800





0: Improved] road, 81‘ miles to RR town huh-rho.





80mm: ll-tlroinodmnlg

tl lubedi: 50

was" acre. fire-i idem Emrutufi





cords wood; much fruit.





 





 





room house. Stock to. hone Iuyfo thou" cow



manner: can ho hon-01.1: . homel-



productive farm at! Wee-1m-



.. tam. “H? “at: . an a

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3“ BC 1".“ 31d... Detroit. ‘ "CY





 





' Owner will sacrum! his !» dsy

i 3‘0, ”0 term attbove prime; located 0.1.: non-'23





will!!! within eh am

school,“ church store and “2:15;! market. «IR-a. “Iota;





miles woven wire fence 1.5-3 bearing e to rob

J dandy thrown hoe MnLvhlc-hm meat. 5 0on 13.5

e we

. “Mann“... Wmnommh “11:" “1......”35

born an” urn-1t well Bar-m with full buo-

gikken mop

shed m3}: “gm ice

foam. long





ouse 21%}Mllmafhg‘lé this





‘5;an 19.13““, Saginaw. Rich‘s“





BUY A VIRGRIM FARM NOW





New to the time tom Wan-porous and hope on

A farm in Virginia. You 3:. y _

1%“ Egg“ and; MW fineoropeotoen“





Mow

truck- ed '1

“0r“ 8 profitable. P112:





fare reasonable. but

more advent-oo- to ”(one than any other

can rat-e only two or





gate. thlly (at. uh.” you



De 8 up 0 mo- uel be tu- no.



btl. when you an Ian- I "my «En-.93 7w.

Ind near to W ell-ate lo

Ans-ice. W 900k. m.“



G. W. K011“. manual-dour. WY.-





Two Farms For Sale 1





at Auction Feb. 4 19201? M lFarmolm

acres. Zululrom em Lyon on gravel road





 





direct line» Ann Arbor, Pontiac cit. run.

nlncvnterJoooted-othufllfiolds venous.

to some

I‘Famoimea‘emonameeectiomvn 11h.

berlotmd do





lunbesoldto close”.-

Em. Bo. Lyon.“-





Here’e The Form For You.

In Gledwin Co. Mich.





Three Quorum fie ‘ootio- fine level all: non. tel

Improved.(14003.“i mo 13‘ Grok mtaamphplo 315

loan Hindi

2.0:: Wheat. Only .000 mu“ dam. bd-nce

acme. Many 'mgx'edesimble terms

find one. (or





. G. E) NOLDS. Midwin. Mich.





the Thule dMichlgan. L ““190

2 psi: ”other crops tum e no ’fid‘mmdinge 9.1080031”

rlfict nos. Box 417. are 5% m-





or. , Mich.





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rice. and order only

Killedalo. Mich.





HILLSIDYI POULTRY FAB

mll. Bind!“ strain,

ullot- $2.00.





BarrodRock

A. A. W009i» SelinaMlnh.

CHICKS CHICKS





chicks-Vat “Knit”. Grand laying strains

(Winnie Willa. and Mottled Anconau.

Otto... «and, chick! verywhero part elm

we“! note “at: on 2:3; [no] 100 or more

m. o no Law 03110.



:7. vi 3%mx. s. 2. 11.11.1114 Mich

000nm.- “m “d ”If“ Cm" “

1. Beds Brod for color





.50 and “ ”ch Satisfaction guaranteed.

0.1%};qu “Comb R. LKed Kod- Barred

P3 by pun 01 post and safe del-





W. Web for free lllnntrutod cotal

m 3 ram. ‘80: 39 [no pence. Mi.





cn'cKSM '0 ”View “I Arolmnkiugnrllem





nectar ri¥dolive booklet. and testimoniah.

HATO EB}. ”0:12.1"1'oeport .‘lll'll





W‘W and yearling hens Urpingtons Rocks Redl.





 





 





 





 





ed thousands each





 





 





”IflIOI'DII. apex-lab, linur-



“Compton-.1790“! Pou tr) Fun, Fawn, Mich.



.Mcbeml cock bird: and



W‘ M uIlets “rin- for prices.

LB '0 1 ER Hartford, Mich





 





F3: “LE.“ am fine pen of pure bredR C.

M.- Wyondotte cooker-lo. from prize winning

mlufimn, Shank. 000m A Hcrute.Ho1mn.Mlch.





DANGER H 31.1.3.3; (21.1.15. Up





Wm Chi: this nous. Blooded stock over

{induced :1; low prime Selected Utility.



xhlblt‘lol 1:an bloc . 16 varieties. Hatching

egg 2.8 Ducks. Turkeys. Geese Book your onion

curly Avoid lie-P’mntment St. “an up} reriated.

Beck an EMILYJSE Lyon. Gm Bands. Mich.





noted.





ale “hygiene





a” Incorhotahl tron-200

agar-h .W





PI smouth Rock. I2. 110 001' 15 If (I)

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