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[3E here, you farmer, you! I’ve a



good mind to arrest you right now!



Whadda you mean by parking

your car by this hydrant? You git right

out 0‘ here this minute or to the po—

lice station you’ll go in a hurry!”



The farmer eyed the big city police-

man a full minute without a tremor

or blink of his optics, then replied:



"How do you suppose I know it’s

against the law to stop my car here?

There’s no sign here stating it’s un~

lawful-and I’ve never read or heard

that it was.” '



“Well, I‘ll let you go this time but.

don’t let me catch you parking by a

hydrant again. Now git out 0’ here!”



And that same day two more farm-

ers driving into Battle Creek were ar-

rested and taken to the police station

and fined two dollars each. They had

stopped their automobiles a few min-

utes near a hydrant, not knowing

there was a recently enacted munici-

pal regulation that warned owners of





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vehicles to keep a certain number of

feet away from hydrants, intersecting

corners and other spaces along the

street curbs.



And here’s another trouble for the

farmer who tries to find "a. place to

hitch his team or park his car when

he drives into the city: ‘



“Say, John, you stay right here with

the team while I go around to do

some trading. It’s half a mile of walk~

ing for me to get to the stores and I‘ll

have to lug a lot of packages around.

The blacksmith shop is full so I can’t

even leave the team there to be shod

today. And if we do go away and

leave our rig standing here tied to

some private residence hitching post,

it’s liable to be gone when we come

back, or run into by some pesky auto~

mobile driver, or something stolen out

of the buggy.”



And now farmer Tom Henshaw:

“Well, I’ll be dod—gasted if I haven’t

come to town and found all the banks





closed tight as a drum! What’n sam

hill are they closed today for? tThis

ain’t a legal holiday, not as I know of.”

And Tom folded up his check for a

good-sized wad of filthy lucre and

drove his car back home, muttering a

few mild imprecations on the banks

closing every few days to allow the

hired hands to rest up a bit after

counting so much money all at once

and getting dizzy on the job.



“And to think all the other fellows

want a day off every day or two, with

bigger pay, while we farmers are urg-

ed to keep going night and day to pro-

duce, produce, more and more, all the

time. And some of those tired-out city

folks are inclined to think we are

profiteers, or worse. It beats me,”

concluded Tom.



“What! you home again already,

Tom ?' What’s the matter that you got

back so quick? Somebody dead?”



“Here’s what’s the matter, Helen!

See that old check I’ve brought back ?”





“For the land’s sake! the bank ain’t

busted?”



“No,” replied Tom. "It’s locked up

tighter’n a drum. All the banks are.

It's a holiday .for some reason, and

here I have spoiled a whole day from

my busy farm work to go to the city

to do a lot of trading. The city is

driving the farmers away and don’t

seem to care a whoop whether they

come to town to trade or not.”



“That’s so,” said Helen. “ I drove

down one day last week in the cold

and couldn’t find a place to leave the

car. Finally a merchant told me that:

some farmers were driving into the

big new garage where they could leave

their car nearly all day for twenty-five

cents. It’s a fine place for farmers to

park their cars and there ought to be

more of them in Battle Creek.



“And then,” continued Helen, "I

went around shOpping for a spell. On

the street I met several other farmers



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VOLUME CLIV. NUMBER NINE

DETROIT, FEBRUARY 28, 1920





1





CURRENT COMMENT





NE of the most

. - - puzzling features

Utilizing of present day farm-

Pasture ing is the lack of ap-

Grasses preciation of good pas-

tures. All practical

farmers admit that pastures produce

cheap milk, growth and fat. The milk

and gains in growth and fat produced

on pasture are cheaper than thosepro-

duced in the feed lot, and yet few

farmers are making maximum use of

their pastures. A few men who appre-

ciate the value of good pastures in de-

veloping profitable systems of stock

farming, will feed and entourage pas-

ture grasses until they supply luxur-

iant feed with astonishing generosity,

but the rule on most farms is to util-

ize for pasture only land that is wet,

sour, hilly, thin or in some other way

unfit for cultivated crops.



When a field is unfit for anything

else it is commonly referred to as good

for pasture. This is a mistake. Some

of the most popular of our native

grasses are Vigorous growers and in

time will gain a foothold in inhospita-

ble soils, but they count perform the

miracle of yielding profitable grazing

where excessive moisture, deficiency

of plant food and other unfavorable

conditions prevail. Grass plants re

spend as profitably as any other crops

to a congenial soil environment. They

can stand more adverse conditions

than cultivated crops, but this is not





 





an excuse for their neglect and abuse





on so many farms.



The use of farm manures will pay

handsomely, but they are seldom avail-

able inadequate (mantities. Many soils,

however. are in need of dillerent

treatment in order to adapt them to

native gasses. Lime may be needed

to sweeten the soil so that the clowns

may be seeded with the grasses. If

the land has been pastu‘rcd for many

years phosphorus insure to beheaded

and should be applied in some readily

available form. Mai-shy or mucky soils

usually respond to lime and potassium

Thorough drainage is one of the im-

portant essentials in getting good re-

turns from pasture lands. Thousands

of acres of waterlogged land that is

raggedly covered with inferior grasses

could. if properly drained and limed,

be made the most productive grass

land in the country. If maximum crops

of grasses and eleven; are produced

heavy posturing in the spring and fall

must never be permitted.



Too close grazing will in time ruin

the best pastures, especially on thin

lands or those mm to soil erosion.

About half the dry matter in the plant

consists of carbon, which comes from

the air. chiefly through the grass



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grassedovethxegroundthorecanbe

Io fixation of m, which many

results in the death at the plant. If

grass is kept grazed too closely the

result is a growth of many undesira-

ble weeds that displace the grasses

and clovers in occupying the land. No

one thing can be done that will build

up pastures more rapidly than pastur-

ing them moderately and leaving them

covered with a rank growth of grass

late in the season to protect the plants

during the winter. It is almost equal

to a. coat of manure.



As a safe means of building up the

fertility .of the soil and reducing the

cost of operating the farm, the growth

of pasture grasses has no superior.

We all know the value of a mulch to

soils and how, by keeping the soil cov-

ered, productiveness is restored. Agood

stand of pasture grass, moderately

grazed, makes a splendid mulch, keeps

the soil dark, cool and moist in the

summer, and protects it from the ele-

ments in the winter. TheI soil being

at all times filled with roots of living

plants, no available plant food is al-

lowed to go to waste. All things con-





’sidered the maintenance of good pas.





tures is the ideal means of reducing

operating expenses and maintaining

fertility on our farms.



In connection with the profitable

use of pastures we should not forget

the value of silage as a supplement to

the grass crops. It has always been a

perplexing problem to plan the man-

agement of pastures so they would be

grazed sufficiently to keep the grass

and clovers fresh and tender and still

not be grazed down too closely later

in the season. Here the silo comes to

the farmer’s aid and enables him to

feed succulent corn at times when the

pastures begin to decline in carrying

capacity, or before the grass is grazed

too closely to afford protection for the

roots during periods of severe drouth.

The common mistake of allowing grass

to get too short before relief is given

gets both stock and grasses on the

down grade and entails losses that

may be avoided by "promptly feeding





site; once or twice a day. It is a!-

ways better to feed a little silage be

forethereisneed toritthantowait

until the masses show sins of de-

clining and the stock falling at in pro-

duction of condition. In this way the

change is more gradual while at the

same time more pasture grass will be

available for grazing later on. The

time when stock and pastures can be

allowed to run themselves unheeded

during the summer months has pass-

ed, not because the pasture grasses

have less; sutaining power than for-

merly, but because experience has

proved that more profit can be obtain-

ed by watching closely the condition

of both stock and pasture before on.

favorable weather conditions cut down

the profits.





HE beet growers

The, ' of the state are

effecting a compre-

Sugar :Beet hensive organization

Situatmn with adequate provis-

ion for financing the

same, which will be able to serve

their needs much more adequately

than the loose organization in which

some of them have been previously

affiliated. The Michigan. State Farm

Bureau in aiding in the campaign of

organization, having appropriated two

thousand dollars to aid in the organ-

ization work and detailed Mr. A. M.

Ber-ridge a member of the executive

committee of the Bureau, to personally

aid in the membership campaign. Mr.

Berridge reports that nearly eight

thousand beet growers have already

joined the organization and two hun-

dred to three hundred new members

are joining daily.



A national organization of best grow-

ers has also been launched, with John

C. Ketcham, Master of the Michigan

State Grange, as its president. This

organization will seek to secure an in-

vestigation of the entire sugar beet

industry by the Federal Trade Com-

mission or the Department of Justice,

as a. means of substantiating the grow-

ers’ contention regarding a fair divis-





Latc News From Washington





REQUENTLY assertions made by



senators and representatives in



congressional debates get into

print that give the reader a wrong im-

pression of actual conditions and when

all the facts are known are found to

be misleading and unfair.



In the discussion on the agricultmal

appropriation bill, a. few days ago,

Congressman Thomas L Blanton, of

Texas, severely criticised that part of

the measure which provides for the

payment of 754 messengers in the De-

partment of Agriculture. "If this is

economy,” he said, “we are never go-

ing to convince the folks back home

of the fact. Half the number would

be enough, and three hundred would

be two hundred too many.” Then he

went on to say that the passage ways

of the Department of Agriculture build-

ing were so blocked up with-useless

messengers that there was hardly

room for a congressmen to pass

through.





Of course, this bright little wittieism

was the only part of the debate that

attracted the city reporters, and the im-

pression went out that the department

was a haven of refuge for men and

boys seeking soft john.





Following Representative Blanton’s

charges a statement from Secretary of

Agriculture Meredith was read, which

presented an entirely different view of

the matter. According to Secretary

Meredith, 255 of the smiled messen-

gers are employed in the'leld, and

499 in Washington. at these many

are employed as laborers, only 300 be-

ing med as messengers in Washing

ton, and some of them are utilized in

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and similar duties. It was also shown

that there are forty-two buildings or

parts of buildings, in Washington or.»

cupied by the Department of Agricuk

ture, and these buildings are widely

scattered, necessitating the employ-

ment of a considerable number of em-

ployee listed as messengers.



Car thieves appear to he doing a

flourishing business under the prment

railroad administration. In fact, the

idea that looting the government is

something different than ordinary

stealing, put into actual practice on

a gigantic scale during the govern-

ment’s brief experience in operating

the railroads and paying the bills, has

proved to be one of the most effective

arguments against government owner-

ship of railroads and other public util-

ities. True United States Railroad Ad—

ministration has given out figures

showing that the wholesale stealing of

merchandise in transit upon the rail-

roads of the United States caused a

loss of approximately $45,000,000 in

1919.



Losses through theft of silk from

railroad cars have forced, the Railroad

Administration to amend the consoli-

dated rate classification prohibiting

transportation of silk by freight in less

than cariots after February 29. While

the reduction to freight revenues as a

result will be great, it is said, losses

sustained by railroads through pay-

ment or clam: have exceeded freight

charges several times. This will force

the small communities to obtain ship-

ments of silk by express. which tarm-

ers, who have donemshippin‘g know

isabontesrisky “mimwnnight.



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\ion of the profits from the industry.



In another calm at this issue.

Manager seiner—en, of the Michigan

organization, presents the situation

from the organization viewpoint, clari—

fying the issue with regard to con.

tracts for next year’s acreage. Where

deception has been practiced in secur-

ing farmers' signatures the moral ob-

ligation is eliminated.



This“ organization, When cornpleted,

to include the great majority of the

sugar beet growers of the state, and

it ought to include all of them, will be

able to do much constructive work for

the beet growers of the state, in addi-

tion to negotiating contracts with the

sugar manufacturers. And, backed by

the Farm Bureau and other agencies

working in the interests of agricul‘

ture, immediate benefits along this

line can scarcely fail to be resilied by

its members. To this end the propos~

ed move to secure an official investiga-

tion of this industry is well taken, as

a means of increasing public knowl-

edge of the situation and fixing the

moral responsibility on the sugar man-

ufacturers in case a fair agreement is

not reached and production is thereby

reduced.





The Michigan Farmer yields place

to no agricultural agency in the mat-

ter of loyalty to Michigan farmers and

their best interests. It advanced the

suggestion which led to the settlement

of the first serious price difference be-

tween Michigan beet growers and man—

ufacturers by the adoption of the slid-

ing scale contract, and it will go the

full length of the road to aid them in

securing a just contract and a remun’

erative price for next year, so long as

the efforts to this end are conducted

along right lines.





HE low rate of





Condensed ‘ exchange govern-

_ mg the money of Eu‘

.M’I?‘ ropean countries

Situation threatens a rapid re





duction in prices of

American dairy products. While our

domestic consumption could be mate-

rially increased as soon as prices be-

gin to decline, the manufacturers of

condensed milk, who have developed

their business to meet the foreign de-

mand, are going to find itgvery difficult

to market their goods. Since 1916 our

experts of condensed milk have been

increasing rapidly. As a result new

condensary plants have sprung up in

many dairy sections of the country.

With practically no demand for con-

densed milk. for export, the owners of

these plants are facing a critical situ-

ation. It is going to require consider-

able time iorsome of these plants to

turn over to the manufacture of other

dairy products in sumclent volume to

reduce the prices of other dairy prod-

ucts. In the meantime the demand

for whole milk is sure to decrease,

which adds to the uncertainty of the

present dairy situation.





This decreased demand for condens-

ed milk gives the whole dairy business

a very uncertain outlook, for it is prob-

lematioal if the factors that sprang up

during the war will be able to contin—

ue in force. There is no indication of

any expansion in the foreign demand

for condensed milk unless some of the

large foreign-relief societies, which are

aiding in rebuilding the war-stricken

areas, enter the market. Without

doubt American condensed milk is

needed in Europe, but the retail pric-

es, due to theexchange system, makes

its general use prohibitive to the peo-

ple who need it most. Only people in

the best financial circumstances can

purchase it for everyday use. There

are rumors that Germany will take

large quantities of condensed milk in

the near future, but on the other hand

it is reported that Holland is looking





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is very much different than be-



fore the war' and during the war.

Before the War Europe produced one-

half of the sugar used in the world, or

ten millions of tons, and all this was

produced by very cheap labor of Eu-

rope from sugar beets and the amount

exported was at a price so low that it

was impossible to produce beet sugar

in the United States without the pro-

tection of a tariff.



The United States consumes one

fourth of the world’s supply and pro-

duces a very small amount of sugar

from beets—only four per cent of the

world’s sugar. Therefore it will be

readily seen by all fair-minded men

that nothing that the ‘United States

beet growers could do would affect the

price of sugar materially one way or

the other.



We having produced last year less

than seven hundred thousand acres of

sugar beets, although we have two

hundred and seventy-five millions of

acres of sugar beet land in the United

States, are not in a position to supply

- the people of the United States with

sugar.



Take Michigan alone, where one

hundred and ten thousand acres of

beets were planted this last season,

the amount of sugar produced there-

from will not supply the people of

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so that Central Europe will not export

sugar for perhaps years to come be-

cause of their financial condition mak-

ing it necessary to plant their land to

grain to produce bread to keep soul

and body together for perhaps ten

years, hence and on account of the

labor of Europe being able to com-

mand higher wages since the war, con-

ditions will be such that an over-pro-

duction of cheap sugar will not be pos-

sible for some time to come.



The domestic sugar industry of the

United States has a very promising

Outlook from the standpoint of being

able to produce sugar at a profit and

supply the world’s shortage.~ The con-

suming public will now turn to domes-

tic sugar~because the price is and will

be cheaper than foreign sugar.



Now, the point! How can we pro-

mote the production of domestic sug-

ar? Not by a protective tariff alone

because that is of no account, as for-

eign sugar is higher than domestic sug~

ar. (It, however, will be a wise thing

to have a tariff for revenue and to pro-

tect the industry in case of an over-

supply of cheap foreign sugar). Not

,v by the present 1917-18 contract offered



by the beet manufacturers as that con-



tract does not warrant the farmers to

chance a beet _crop as the average

crop will not give returns that other

average crops will at the present pric-

es. Not by expecting to get contract

labor at the old prices offered by the

manufacturers two years ago when la:

bor can make twice the wages daily in

'the cities at less hard work and short-

er hours than they would receive from

the old contract, they will limit produc-

tion and abaiidon the fields entirely,

thereby causing great loss to the farm-

er and shortage of sugar, and cause

the loss of the acreage entirely, as

was the case in many sections last

year. Which, when taken together

with the bad weather conditions, caus-

ed a loss to the beet farmers of the



United States of over fourteen million



dollars, according to the Ladies’ Home

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way to promote production and sup- ,.





ply the shortage of sugar to furnish

sugar to the consumer in sufficient

quantities at the lowest possible price,

is to first give the farmer a price for

the beets or the raw material, so that

he can produce at a profit, basing his

figures on an average crop high enough

so that it will be possible to receive

and pay the wages necessary to care

for this expensive crop.



We contend that taking the present





prices of sugar, the excessive profits _





the beet sugar manufacturers are

making, the cost of foreign raw sugar,

the high prices of city and farm labor,

the high prices of farm machinery, the

uncertainty of the crop and the aver—

age per cent of sugar content of the

beets, which is 16.28per cent last

year, into consideration, we are entit-

led to a price of $12 per ton for beets

based on nine-cent sugar and a fifty-

fifty division of the advance of the

sugar price over and above nine cents

per pound. We have fifty per cent

more capital invested in the land and

farm equipment for producing the

beets than the manufacturers have in—

vested in their plants and equipment

for manufacturing the sugar, which

would really entitle us to more than a

fifty-fifty division of the excess, but

we want to be fair. We are standing

out for a fifty-fifty division, which will

be $1.40 extra per ton added to the-

price of $12 for each cent sugar ad-

vances over nine cents.



Some of the best farmers in Michi:

gan have submitted itemized cost

sheets which prove conclusively that

it will cost on the average $160 to pro-

duce an acre of sugar beets this next

year, 1920. It will be seen that if only

an average crop is secured, or_ eight

tons per acre, the returns at the old

$10 rate, if the priCe of sugar be re-

duced to nine cents per pound would

be $80 for what will cost the farmer

$160. The government would be jus-

tified in reducing sugar to nine cents

as the Lever law enforced will not

allow the manufacturers to make the

excessive profits they made this last

year on twelvevcent sugar. It must,

therefore, be seen by all fair-minded

men that in order to promote the pro-

duction of domestic sugar it will be

necessary to more evenly divide the

profits between the producer of the

raw material and the manufacturer of

sugar and let the price of sugar go to

such a price that will encourage the

production of beet sugar in sufficient

quantities to supply the consumer.



The manufacturers cannot expect to

get the people, the government and

the consuming public to back them up

in trying to get the raw material on

the— sugar beets at the old price when

cane sugar refineries are paying many

times the old price for their raw sugar

to foreigners.



We are taken to task because we

are late in our fight. Our answer is

that it is never too late to present the

truth, and also we are a full month

earlier in the fight than we were two

years ago, when we asked for and won

our price of $10 for beets, and also

there is not one legal contract for the

beets signed and delivered by the man-

ufacturers and accepted by the grow-

er, that ‘we know of. Also, we answer

that our general meeting was called

early in December, even before many

farmers 'were through drawing their

beets this season, before which they

had no time to think over and attend

meetings and consider the proposition

of the 1920 contract. The ‘manufac-

turers, however, were alert to the oc-

casion and got busy much earlier than





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- The Human Side of Service





in every place efforts at res-

toration are unremitting. The

loyalty of employees who have

staid at their tasks and the fine

spirit of new employees deserve

public appreciation.





They have worked at a dis-

advantage but they have never

faltered, for they know their

importance to both the com-

mercial and social life of the

country.





These two hundred thousand

werkers are just as human as

the rest of us. They respond to

kindly, considerate treatment

and are worthy of adequate

remuneration. And the reward

should always be in keeping

with the service desired.





More than a year has passed

since the signing of the Armis-

tice, yet all the world still feels

the effects of the War. The

Telephone Company is no ex-

ception.





More than 20,000 Bell tele-

phone employees went to war;

some of them never returned.

For eighteen months we were

shut ohc from practically all

supplies.





' Wat’s demands took our em-

ployees andour materials, at

the same time requiring in-

creased service. ‘





Some districts suffered. In

many places the old, high

, standard of service has been

restored.





 





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are now carrying them in their pock-

ets. These papers have not been sign-

ed and delivered by the manufacturersv

at the time these contracts were solic-

ited, having made the farmers believe

that if they expected to grow beets at

any price this next year, they would

have to apply early and at that time

for a contract as they would not be so-

licited again, thereby not giving the

farmer prop-er opportunity to take into

consideration that all farm expense

would be at least twenty-five per cent

higher than two years ago. Many were

also told that the contract was to be

the same as last year’s contract, re-





» gardless of the fact that they intended





to, and must charge from six to twelve

dollars extra for their contract labor.



We are taken to task on account of

the moral obligations which we owe

the manufacturers. We claim to owe

none. But supposing that we did at

one time, this obligation on our part

was entirely wiped off the' slate when

they, the manufacturers, refused our

growers' committee a conference for

which we asked early in January. We,

as farmers, do not believe in strikes





lately necessuy, but we do believe in

organization to universally present our

cause and endeavor t6 get a condition

ironed out so that production will be

promoted and the people be supplied

with sugar. When we are accused as

being agitators we hurl the statements

back in the teeth of those making such

statements, saying that they them‘

selves are the agitators as they ab80<

lutely refuse to meet and confer and

adjust these differences that cause the

shortage of production and therefore

the shortage of sugar. They are the

agitators thatcontinue this agitation

of both producers and consumers.





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has recently come forward and will

work with and for us, and voted two

thousand dollars for our cause. We

believe that when all organizations

that have the interests of agriculture

at heart, and fully understand that all

we want is what is right and fair, and

what will promote production, they,

(which will also include all weekly

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dates back to the beginning of



the world. The earliest that his-

tory goes back is to the different tribes

and communities that worked together

helping each other. When there was

a surplus a natural desire arose to ex-

change what they had for something

that they did not produce.



In its development they ,had first to

overcome the feeling of antagonism

which existed among different commu'

nities. On account of their suspicions

it was necessary to have the goods or

the wares at the border line or market

place where they could be seen and

exchanged. Finally more distant com-

munities began to participate in the

exchange and out of it rose a separate

class of dealers who took upon them-

selves the work of bringing the wares

from one locality to another. After

this, the overcoming of distance be-

came the main consideration of travel.

On account of danger of robbery, cara-

vans were formed on land and convoys

on the. sea. The Phoenicians were the

first to make use of convoys when

their trading relations took them into

the Mediterranean, Black and Red

Seas. Caravans and convoys had many

disadvantages, however, because only

a limited amount could be carried and

only certain ware. Only those having

great keeping qualities could be trans-

ported. Bridges were lacking and the

roads were poor, so in order to keep

them up and to make better time, an-

other class of men took upon them-

selves the toll road. You can readily

see from this the gradual steps to our

present mode of travel and transporta-

tion.



On account of the slow time the

transportation of goods was very ex-

pensive. Tea, for example, that was

worth about two cents a pound in Chi-

na would be worth About three dollars

in London. Production. therefore, was

held in check. On account of the great

demand for transportation, canals were

built, also roads~by Captain MicAdam.

of London. Then came the steamboat

on the Hudson in 1807 and car drawn

by horses on rails in London. In

1826 the first tram car was used in

this country. The next step in the de-

velopment of transportation was the

tram in 1829 when George Stephenson,

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plying the steam power as a means of

locomotion. This creation was called

the Rocket, and on its trial trip be

tween Liverpool and London attained a.

speed of 29 miles per hour. In this

country, the B. & O. was the first rail-

road. In 1830 it had thirteen miles of

road open for traffic. New York and

Buffalo were joined together in 1847.

The Rocky Mountains were crossed in





1854, and the entire country was joined.





in 1859. It is amusing to note the dif-

ferent concessions that were given the

railroads by the various states, and I

am going to give you a. few examples.

An Indian charter gave the roads the

power to raise and lower rates at their

pleasure. Connecticut allowed rates to

be made as agreed upon from time to

time by the board of directors. The

capital stock was to be free from taxa‘

tion until the profits reported a divi‘

dend of five per cent per year. Grants

of land were given. The Union Pacific

received 12,000,000 acres, Kansas Pa-

cific 6,000,000 acres, Illinois Central

4,000.00 acres. A. P. & S. F. 3,000,000

acres, Atlantic & Pacific 42,000,000

which later became part of the Santa.

Fe, Northern Pacific 40,000,000 acres.

Texas & Pacific 23,000,000 acres, this

making a total land grant of 155,000:

000 acres given outright between 1850

and 1871. Part of this, however, came

back to the federal government, so

that now the actual land holdings giv-

en the carriers mentioned above

amount to about 110,000,000 acres.



At that time the rates were based

first upon what the traflic would bear.

Competition began to creep in among

the roads, each bidding or cutting

rates until they carried any number of

commodities far below the actual cost.

The communities that had no competi-

tion had to suffer. Some of the roads

as a result began to go down hill. Re-

bates were given to certain shippers in

order thatthe roads would be favored

with tonnage. Different communities

demanded the railroads and gave them

almost anything they asked for. Mas-

sachusetts. for example, gave the roads

$6,000,000 in cash which was never

repaid. >



The first attempt at regulation was

in Illinois in 1871, followed by Iowa

and Minnesota, called the Potter. Law.

which was no





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‘ Relations of the Farm Bureau g





How #12 County Farm Bureau May Bert Serve

tfie State and Natzomz/ Orgam'zatzom





By Colon





ARMERS are now engaged in

building a great national business

organization for the purpose of

showing to the world the true relation

that exists between agriculture and

other great business. Many people,

perhaps a majority, do not seem to

realize that agriculture is the very

basis of all business and all prosperity.





They do not seem to comprehend that





we must perfect a plan whereby we

are assured a permanent, profitable“ ag-

riculture, else all business finally fails

and with this failure begins the grad-

ual decay of our wonderful civilization

of this age.





People must be well fed and proper-

ly clothed if they are happy, contented

and progressive. It is the farmer’s

business to produce the raw material

for this food and clothing. It is the

business of commercialism to prepare

this material to suit the various needs

of mankind and properly distribute it

to meet the demand. Our civilization

is now highly organized. The economic

principle of division of labor is carried

to the extreme in almost all our civic

life. It used to be that farming was

somewhat independent of other busi-

ness. The farmer used to live fairly

well within his own realm, but that

day is gone by. The farmer no longer

makes his own tools, or clothing or

anything else that he needs. He now

produces raw material, sells it for cash

and purchases almost all he uses from

business devoted to those special pur-

poses. The farmer is dependent en-

tirely upon the price he receives for

his products, for his prosperity, just as

much as the laborer is depending upon

the price he receives for a day’s labor,

for his welfare. The manufacturer

must receive for his products the cost

of raw material, the cost of labor, etc.,

and a profit besides, or he must fail.

The farmer has always conceded this

principle as perfectly just as applied

to the laborer and to business, but he

has been unable to apply the same

principle to his own business. The only

way he could meet the demands of

civilization at all was by working long

hours himself and by using the labor

of his family—his wife and children-—

without charging this labor and his

own. overtime to the cost of produc-

tion.





Speculators and manufacturers have

managed in the past, by combining in-

terests and the unjust use of great

financial resources, to force the farmer

to sell his products at too low a price

and they, having this combined power

and organization, have held these prod-

ucts and forced the consumer, in many

instances, to pay an exorbitant price,

compared with the price the farmer

has received for his raw products. It

will be the function of the State and

National Farm Bureau to put a stop to

this business. To meet combination

with combination. To control market-

ing so as to prevent speculation. To

correct some of the wastes of distri-

bution and to educate public opinion

so the farmer may have a square deal.

The State and National Farm Bureau,

to accomplish this purpose, must know

the facts about the cost of producing

the various farm crops. They can do

nothing without cost figures. In the

past, how could manufacturers have

controlled tariff legislation had they

not been able to show our lawmakers

'that a tariff was necessary in order to

maintain a. certain scale of wages and

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port of the people in maintaining pric-

es that will make farming profitable.

It will not do for cost prices to be

determined by a committee of experts.

No matter how competent these ex-

perts may be they cannot command

the confidence of the consuming pub

lic. These cost facts must come from

the various county farm bureaus.





County Farm Bureaus.





From the county farm bureaus com-

posed of the best practical farmers of

the land must come these cost facts.

That will be one of the principal func-

tions of every county farm bureau, not

only in Michigan, but in every state in

the 'Union. Besides, the work of de-

termining cost facts must be under

the supervision of the county agricul-

tural agent—a semi-government oili-

cial. It is important that the county

agent retain his federal and state gov-

ernmental relations because this will

help make these cost facts official and

place them above suspicion. This great

work that is before the farm bureaus

must be founded absolutely on justice

and right. There must be no class-

selfishness in this matter. The farmer

has a right, and it is his duty to de

mand justice for his business; but he

must be careful and demand nothing

more.



The county agent can select farmers

all over the county who will, under his

direction and supervision, keep cost

accounts of growing various crOps. The

average of these costs will be the cost

of growing that particular crop in that

county for that year. These cost ac-

counts for each county can be forward-

ed to the State Farm Bureau and the

averages obtained for any particular

state. Likewise State Farm Bureaus

forward state results to the National

Farm Bureau and in this way obtain

average costs for the whole country.

Then the national organization will

have the facts necessary with which

to fight the farmer’s battles.





In determining these facts in each

county, it is only just that they be de—

termined on the same business basis

as similar cost facts are determined in

any other buiness.

bors twelve or fourteen hours a day he

should receive compensation on the

basis of a nine-hour day or an eight-

hour day, the same as organized labor.

If his family labors in producing, then

their labor should be added to the cost.

Maintaining permanent fertility, cost

of up-keep of buildings and deprecia-

tion of equipment must be duly con-

sidered the same as it is in other busi-

ness.





It can easily be seen that the County

Farm Bureau is the very basis of the

whole business organization. It is the

legs upon which the state and national

bureaus stand. It is the first and the

last word in this wonderful undertak-

ing. The national bureau must not be

composed of individual memberships—-—'

nothing but State Farm Bureau mem-

berships. Also the State Bureau must

have no individual memberships. Coun-

ty Farm Bureau memberships only,

nothing else will do. The County Farm

Bureau is composed of individual farm-

er members. The State Farm Bureau

is composed of County Farm Bureaus

represented by authorized delegates

and the National Farm Bureau is com.

posed of State Farm Bureaus, repre-

sented by authorized state delegates.

In this way only can their great busi-

ness organization be formed and held

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By T flax. f. Robertson





AM quite a. lover of flowers, and

I next to the rose, in my opinion, is



the bloom of the clover blossom. I

believe that if a dairy cow was asked

her choice she would place the clover

blossom first.



I want to say most about the clov-

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falfa, although we are confident that

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this section in the future as clover.

We have had two failures with alfalfa

seeding, due to the extreme dry weath-

er during June and July of the past

two years, but we are going to try

again this year with the use of lime

and a well fertilized soil. A little ex-

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that did survive, is What is ’making

us more determined to stick for suc-

cess in growing alfalfa.



One afternoon as I was getting the

cows up for milking. I noticed some

plants standing seemingly alone in the

meadow. I found that these were al-

falfa plants; they stood about six inch-

es higher than the other grasses. I

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system of alfalfa that I went and got a

spade and started to find if they really

did have a heavy root system. I dug

through the top soil and down through

the hard gravelly sub-soil and into the

heavy clay bottom, until I was almost

standing on my head. By this time

my cows were all scattered again and

it was nearly sundown, so I took what

root I could get and left the rest. The

root measured over three feet in

length and about the“ size of my thumb

in diameter. I don’t know how much

further the root went downhbut I know

I left a foot or more in the clay.



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ed. that affects the interests of the

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hogs on the farm range have dropped

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consumers have nothing to look for-

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prevailing. “Young men by the thou-

sands," he says, “out on the western

farms and ranges are refusing to raise

feed while packers take the profits.”

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erwise knOWn as the Grange bill, and

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the powers and duties of the Bureau

of Markets of the Department of Agri~

culture so far as they relate to pack-

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companies. is also provided, and ap-

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ment of from six months to two years

are fixed for violation of such orders.

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which refrigerator cars would have

been placed under more rigid g'ovein-

menl: registration, was eliminated from

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tion of Farmers' 'Union Presidents,

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which they say that “it naturally fol-

lows that those who believe that labor

has an inherent right to organize a

strike, believe that such organizations

have a right to starve the people of

the cities to death, on the one hand,

and to destroy the property of the

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try to the other and the fact would be

pointed out that they, as the owners

and tillers of the land, had no right,

either moral or legal, to bring about

such a calamity.”



In a. speech supporting his resolu-

tion to direct an investigation of the

Department of Justice by the House

Judiciary Committee.

G. H. 'l‘inkham, of Massachusetts, de-

clared that “gross mismanagement of

the sugar problem by government offi-

cials has increased living costs for the

next year between $700,000,000 and

$900,000,000. These increased costs

have been accompanied by the most

atrocious and shameless profiteering‘

known in this era. of extortion-ate op-

pression. Agreement by government

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last. fall for seventeen and eighteen-

cent sugar at the plantation, stimulat-

ed the price, because sugar wasthen

selling of eleven to twelve cents per

pound at retail. Prices on the Cuban

crop were raised from six and a half

cents to eleven and a half cents and

twelve and a half cents by this

action.”



Government meddling- with the old

law of supply and demand by its var-

ious attempts at price fixing, appears

to have been a failure so far as it

concerns the public, being equally un-

satisfactory to both producers and con-

sumers. Not long ago, the findings of

a federal grand jury at Spokane,

Washington, led to the belief that a

vice-president of the United States

Grain Corporation for the northwest,

by reason of his connection with the

grain corporation, has been able to

manipulate and operate grain compa

nies which he formerly owned “to an

immense profit t6 himself and his aS‘

sociates.” The grand jury charges that

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cessful would result. in the purchase

of wheat “now owned largely by spec-

ulators and in some cases by interests

directly and indirectly connected with

some of the officers of the,United

States Grain Corporation.”



Closely following these grand ‘jury

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North Dakota. chairman of the Senate

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Corporation when the government first

undertook to stabilize wheat prices,

but who are now vigorously protesting

against any interference by the senate

with the activities of Mr. Barnes.



Several representative grain grow-

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having been led to believe that the

Grouna bill would repeal the govern-

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measure. Only a few have spoken be-

fore the committee, but a. canvass of

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the farmers may be reimbursed for

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ley. has always been graded as first-

class. As soon as the grain corpora-

tion came into operation, his wheat

was graded down to No. 5, and while

the price was cut to $2.05 per sixty-

pound bushel, the measured bushel

'was cut to fifty-two pounds.





Mr. Mish said the government sent

a Baltimore grain dealer to his sta-

tion to grade the wheat, and he had

with him a little brass instrument

which the farmers called a "shinning

machine." He favored any bill that

would put the present grain corpora-

tion out of commisison, but said that

market prospects were such that if the

government did not come to the res-

cue with a guarantee, the wheat grow—

er would suffer serious losses on the

next two or three years’ crops.





One reason why the government

should continue its wheat price guar-

antee another year, according to Frank

Carpenter, an Oklahoma wheat grow-

.er, is the fact that in Oklahoma and

1other western states there are many

ltenant and small farmers, who, hav-

ing no means of storing their grain

and needing the money, are obliged to

market the wheat. within from sixty

to ninety days after threshing. With-

out the guarantee, speculators will

force down the price during this pe—

riod, and these farmers who Can least

afford it, will lose heavily.



Mr. Carpenter said that Oklahoma.

farmers cannot see why their products

are being hammered down, while ev-

erything they buy is going up. “The

present grain corporation," he said,

“is not popular in Oklahoma, and the

farmers would like to have it kicked

out, providing the price guarantee is

maintained.”



John A. Simpson, president of the

Oklahoma State Farmers’ Union, said

will», “Oklahoma farmers had no love





 





 





 





for the grain corporation, and the cor-

porations ofllclals have shown no love

for the farmers. Mr. Barnes came to

his town, some time ago, and spent

the day with the grain buyers and

millers.

to get fifteen minutes of his time to

discuss their many problems. Mr.

Simpson estimated that from nineteen

to twenty per cent of the Oklahoma

wheat is still in the farmers' barns,

and there are many farmers' coopera-

tive elevators that are full of wheat.

He thought that while the guarantee

price so far has not been a benefit to

the farmers, it would help them the

coming season by maintaining the pres-

ent government price. “A conserva-

tive estimate shows that Oklahoma

farmers lost one dollar- a bushel on

wheat in 1917 on account of govern-

ment price fixing. Last year’s wheat

crop has been sold at from $1.98 to

$2.60 on a No. 1 basis.



A representative of the American

Corn Millers' Association, of Chicago,

speaking in opposition to the Gronna.

bill, said that when the corn miners

were under government control they

made more profits than now.





The National Federated Flour Clubs

were represented by H. A. Horan, of

Philadelphia, who in his talk against

the proposed bill to abolish the grain

corporation, disclosed the interesting

information that through Mr. Barnes

benevolent generosity toward the deal-

ers, they have been given a guarantee





against losses by falling markets ex»





tending a month and a half after the

time, limit to the farmers' guarantee

expires.



Senator Gronna informed Mr. Heron

that congress in creating the grain cor-

poration. did not contemplate any such

partiality, protecting the dealers .9ch

eral weeks after the government guar-

antee expires and throwing the farm-

ere on the mercy of the market; but

the government would stand back of

agreements made by its agents. Sen-

ator Gronna reminded the dealers that

the farmers had lost far more than

the dealers by government interfer-

ence, but “they are game.”



An association of forty thousand

bakers was represented by its counsel,

who stated that a system of contracts

had been worked out between the bait-





ers and the grain corporation whereby





the latter agrees to reimburse the bak-

ers for any loss due to a fall in prices

below the $2.26 basis and he protested

against any action that would have

the effect of annulling these contracts.



Representatives of several other or-

ganizations of elevator men, dealers

and miners and a number of large

farm organizations are being heard as

the hearings continue. The general

sentiment of the middlemen is against

any interference with the present Unit-

ed States Gram Corporation because it

might impair their contracts, and the

farmers want to get rid of the present

grain corporation personnel providing

other means are supplied for main-

taining the government price guar-

antee.



The Senate Committee on Agricul-

ture is composed of men thoroughly in

sympathy with the farmers, and who

are evidently actuated in this grain

corporation hearing by a desire to help

the farmers in the marketing of their

products. It is probable that Mr.

Barnes and his assistants may have to

go, and that the grain corporation will

be restored with more rigid safeguards

for the producers interests, to remain

in control until the expiration of the

government’s guarantee:



If the farmers generally demand the

continuance of the guarantee, it is also

likely that the time limit may be ex-

tended another year. This is an im-

portant matter that has come to light

during the hearings. It is compara-

tively much more important than the

Gronna bill itself, and it deserves the

thoughtful attention of farmers every-

where. ”? E. 13-33ng





The farmers were only able.





   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

   





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Were your potato vines standing up, apparently

healthy, and a few hours later lying on the ground

—black and (lead?



This is the work of potato blight which attacks

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or August. It kills them before the potatoes are

able to size up. It causes the potatoes to rot—-

either in the ground before they are dug or after

they are put in the cellar.





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Remember, Pyrox is a powerful fungicide. Twenty years of actual farm

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It contains the essential copper,—— in proper quantity and in most active

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HE attendance at the meetings and





fered somewhat from the affects of the

influenza epidemic, but on the whole

it was one of the most successful

meetings and shows the association

has ever held. Every member of the

experimental force gave a report of

his special work with the exception of

Plant Breeder F. A. Spragg, who was

confined to his home with illness.

(Those present received valuable infor-

mation in regard to alfalfa seed pro-





ious parts of the state.





Thursday was given over to the an-

nual business meeting of the associa-

tion and to the addresses of County

Agent W. G. Eckhardt, of DeKalb

county, Illinois. who gave an outline of

the seed work in DeKalb county. This

county has gone into the business of





' supplying the members of its County





Farm Bureau with quality seeds. The

demand for this kind of work can be

readily observed when we realise that

the county did $225,000 worth of seed

business in thirty days last spring.

Mr. Eckhardt’s remarks were especial-

ly interesting for the Michigan Crop

Improvement Association had just tak-

en action on recommendations to be

presented to the Michigan State Farm

Bureau suggesting cooperation of these





of inspected and certified seeds.





In the report of the secretary, the

warmest interest of Michigan farmers

in pure, adapted seeds was indicated

by the orders for genuine Grimm al-

falfa seed. The association obtained

seven thousand pounds of certified

seed this year and did not attempt to

advertise it, but the news was spread

through the county agents and the ag-

ricultural press so that the association

has already had to return orders for

more than twice as much seed as was

obtained. It is clearly evidenced that

the experience of Michigan farmers

with the pure and inspected varieties

which the Michigan Crop Improvement

Association has been instrumental in

distributing in the past, has impressed

them with the value of well~bred,high-

yielding adapted varieties.





In the absence of the president of

the association, Mr. L. Whitney Wat-

kins, of Manchester, who was confined

to his home on account of illness, Mr.

A. B. Cook, of Owosso, presided. The

following officers were elected for the

ensuing year: President, L. Whitney

Watkins, Manchester; vice-president,

A. B. Cook, Owosso; secretary-treasur_

er, J. W. Nicolson, East Lansing; as-

sistant secretary-treasurer, Wm. Mur-

phy, East Lansing; directors, Garfield

Farley, Albion; F. F. Cornair, Chesap-

ing; Ralph Arbogast, Union City; J.

F. Cox, East Lansing; F. A. Spmg‘g,

East Lansing.





INADEQUATE REFRIGERATION.





 





HE fruit growers of the state are



alarmed at the prospect of insom-

cient refrigeration service this year.

If the operating railroads attempt to

serve their respective shippers without

the assistance of the private refriger-

ator car lines, which is the situation

now confronting the fruit growers, due

to the expiration of contracts between

the private lines and the railroads,

there will be a serious shortage of re-

frigeration cars. A. R. 'Urion, chair-

man of the Refrigeration Committee

of the Michigan State Horticultural

Society will give his report at the mid-

winter meeting, which Will be held at

Benton Harbor, March 4-5. The soci-

ety feels very fortunate in securing

Walter J. Sears, President of the Na-

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-We have a field of seven acres of

new ground that we would like to

plant to potatoes in the spring, but

the soil is literally alive with Wire-

worms, we had a small corner of this

field in potatoes this season but the

wireworms worked havoc with them,

spoiling many of them entirely. W111

say that we have this field fall-plowed.

Have heard that fall plowmg would

kill them 'out, but as this is our first

experience with the pest are at a loss

to know whether to risk it to potatoes

or tousel the field for corn. From

which will we get the best returns on

potatoes for the amount invested, com-

mercial fertilizer or dried pulverized

manure from the stock yards?



Hillsdale Co. H. E. V.



It probably would not be advisable

to plant this field to potatoes. Wire-

worms are often worse ‘ the second

year than the first. The fall plowing

will, however, kill many of the pupae

and adults by breaking up the earthen

cells. It is probable that better results

will be obtained by planting this field

to corn. Give the field another year’s

cultivation before planting to pota-

toes;

have obtained a good clover seeding

on it, then plow your clover sod for

this crop.



You will probably get better results

for the money invested from a. good

high-grade commercial fertilizer on

your potatoes than you will with dried

pulverized manure from the stock

yards. Especially would this be true

if your land is well supplied with or-

ganic matter and lime. If used With-

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I am feeding corn meal, wheat bran

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parts, for grain; and cornstalks, oat

straw, mixed hay for coarse feed to

my cows. Let me know if it is near a

balanced ration; also the best way to

feed. B. W.



Wheat bran and buckwheat bran and

middlings mixed equal parts, makes a

very good ration for dairy cows. Buck-

wheat middlings contains over twenty

per cent protein and always gives good

results. Cornstalks, oat straw and

mixed hay are all good roughage feeds

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you feed a pound of grain per day for

every three or four pounds of milk

which your cows produce, they ought

to give you good returns in this ration.



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DIVISION OF CROPS 0N SHARES.



Can a share renter owning jointly

stock and feed on a farm on a lease

force division by sale? Is legal action

in court necessary? L. C.



It is better to settle by agreement

if possible. It is quicker, cheaper, and

leaves better feelings. But if agree-

ment is impossible, division according

to the terms of the contract can be

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What share would the Widow get of

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ONFLICTING elements are affect-



ing the hog industry, the great

strengthening factors being the large

falling oil in the country supply and

the large shipping demand in the Chi-

cago market for hogs to forward to

packing points throughout the east;

while the great element of weakness

is the cutting 01! of most of the ex-

port business through the fall in for‘

eign exchange and the lack of needed

credit. As an instance of the present

changed condition of our former huge

export outlet it may be stated that the

exports from this country during the

second week of February were limit~

ed to 8,589,000 pounds of lard and 23,-

741,000 pounds of cured hog meats.

these comparing with 22,654,000

pounds of lard and 99,743,000 pounds

oii cured hog meats exported during

the corresponding week last year. This

is by no means an exceptional show

ing, for we are losing most of the for-

eign demand, leaving far more lard

and hog meats for home consumption

than heretofore. Fortunately for the

interests of American hog growers,

there is an excellent home demand for

hams and other sugar-cured products,

while recent exports of provisions were

largely made up, it is stated, of lots

purchased some time ago. Some re-

cent severe reductions have taken

place in Chicago market quotations,

and the spread in prices has widened

out surprisingly, with the bulk of the

offerings selling within a range of

eighty cents per hundred pounds. This

is due to the marked increase in the

proportion of heavy hogs marketed,

the demand running principally on the

light butcher hogs and choice light

bacon grade hogs. The two latter de-

scriptions are going at top prices, with

the best heavy butcher hogs selling

about eighty-five cents below top fig-

ures. Several days ago choice three

hundred-pound hogs sold on the Chi-

cago market $1.25 below the best light

hogs, whereas a year ago the two class~

es were selling very closely together.





 





LOWER PRICES FOR FEEDERS.





 





EEDER cattle have suffered simi-



lar reductions from former prices

in sympathy with the great decline in

prices for beef cattle, and this has

stimulated buying to some extent, al-

though many intending buyers are de-

terred from doing so by the recent

course of the market for finished beef

cattle. Recent sales have been made

of common stockers to prime feeders

at a. range of $6.25 to $11 per hundred

pounds, with many stook steers selling

for $9 to $10.25, while fleshy feeders

went at $10.50 and upward. The best

demand comes from northern Illinois

and Iowa, but there have been many

shipments to eastern suites. Feeding

conditions have been unusually good.





 





 





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1 Brockct that tutens to the square top rail. tmle-



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Eu, working "One-Hond” Stenchion lock—rigid

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the neck of the lnrgest bull or the smallest heifer in

herd. Also shows Drew Spring cushion Bottom.

Bring! maxim closer to curb.





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to brelk or get out of order.



5 Showing Drew Anchor Plates for curbs, and the

method of {atoning our“ to them. Do away with

the incmvcuiencooml moi embed the pooh

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Note how each part is designed and con-

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Every improvement that increases the value of

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and cattle have made good gains in;

weight as a rule. Tight money has;

been a disturbing factor in restorinc

farms in some instances, but as a rule

farmers are better fixed financially

than in former years and need less as-

sistance from the banks and other

loaners; The best demand all along

has been for well-bred feeders, and

many such have been sold since the

first of the year. It seems probable

that much higher prices will prevail

as the season for pasturage draws

near, and various states will want

large supplies. Wisconsin Will need

large supplies, and it is expected that

Montana stockmen will want at least

250,000 cattle.





ULES are having a larger sale in



the Chicago and other markets

than usual, and fancy prices have

been paid recently for choice spans.

Several sales of spans have been made

at $900 and upward, and some sales

. are reported at $1,000 a span.‘ Sales





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mcHIGAN's TRAP-”Pic PROBLEMS.





 





(Continued from page 316).

of rate cutting and the necessity for

[regulation may be seen in the follow-

ing statement. In 1859 the New York

Central and the Pennsylvania Line

were fighting for a first-class rate from

New York to Chicago. The rate then

was $1.88 first-class. and was cut one

way and then another by the two roads

until the rate was reduced to twenty

five cents, firstclass. Rate wars set

in among all the trunk lines. Railroad

finances became in such a. state that it

was necessary that something be done

to stop this and assure regulation of the

roads. As a result the Interstate Com

merce Act was pased in 1877. the Anti-

Trust Act in 1890, the Elklns Act in

1903 and the Hepburn Act in 1906, to-

gether with various laws and commis-

sions



Interstate Commerce Commission.



The Interstate Commerce Commis-

sion first consisted of five members ap-

pointed for a term of six years. It

could declare rates illegal, but could

not impose a penalty without the ac-

tion of the court. Neither. could it

state what a rate should be. '



The Anti-Trust Act.



The Anti-Trust Act did not prevent

combinations of the railroads. There-

fore, it they could not act together,

they had to find a new method, so they

absorbed the smaller roads, and as a

result we have a few great systems

now instead of hundreds of minor

roads.



The Elkine Act.



The Elkins Act made a corporation,

as well as a railroad, liable to fine and

imprisonment for deviating tram the

lawful rates, etc.



The Hepburn Act.



The Hepburn Act gave the commis-

sion power to prescribe rates. It also

provided for the filing of rates, tariffs,

percentage sheets, etc.



State commissions now began to ex-

ist, and at present almost all of the

states have their state commisisons

Some are elected by the people at

large, while others are appointed by

the governor.



It is remarkable to note the growth

of the railroads in the United States.

In 1830 we had twenty-three miles; in

1850 we had 30,000 miles; in 1870 we

had 52,000 miles; in 1880 we had 93,000

miles; in 1890 we had 163,000 miles; in

1900 we had 193,000 miles; in 1910 we

had 249,000 miles.



Michigan Roads.



Michigan was very quick to see the

importance of the railroad and while

yet a. territory, the Legislative Coun-

cil of the Territory authorized the in-

corporation of the "President, Direct-

ors and Company of the' Pontiac and

Detroit Railway Company,” and grant-

ed it a franchise along the “United

States’ road, commonly called the Sag-

inaw Road,” from Pontiac to Detroit.

This was in 1830, and it was the first

railroad charter granted in the state

inof Michigan. No use, however, was

ever made of this franchise. In June,

1832, the Detroit & St. Joseph Railroad

Company was authorized and became

the starting of the Michigan Central

Railroad.



On April 22, 1833, “The Erie & Kal-

amazoo Railroad Company was incor-

porated. This company was the first

to place its road in operation in the

state, and is generally stated to be the

first railroad company beginning opei~~

ations west of Schenectady, New York.



On March 7, 1834, the Detroit & Pon-

tiac Railroad Company was incorpor-

ated and finally built. It is today a

part of the Grand lTrunk Railway Sys-

tem. On March 4, 1834, the Shelby &

Detroit Railroad Company was author—

ized and was first constructed to car-

ry on traffic to Milwaukee Junction.

Detroit, for a time with horse power.

but was very unsuccessful. After a

few years this road was finally utilized

as part of the Bay City RaiIWay, now

the Bay City division of the Michigan





 





Central Railroad. In'1838 two acts

Were passed authorising the state to





, guarantee certain issues of stock and





also authorized the state loan of $100,—

000 each to the Allegan & Marshall

Railroad Company and the Ypsilanti

& Tecumseh Railroad Company.

These acts were the first instances of

public support to the many railroad

projects then sought to be promoted.



While these measures were not di-

rect aids, they materially advanced

the prospects of those companies, as

they involved the state in their finan-

cial affairs and ultimately led to the

state assuming contml of the property

of all of them except the Detroit &

Pontiac Railroad. All of the roads ex-

cept the Ypsilanti & l’I‘ecumseh Rail-

road became, and are today, a part of

our railroad systems.



On March 20, 1837,.Act 67 was ap-

proved, authorizing the Board of Com-

misioners of Internal Improvements to

undertake the construction of railroads

on the Northern, Central and Southern

routes described in the act. The north-

ern route was never built. The cen«

tral and southern routes, however,

were built, but were not good invest-

ments on the part of the' state. Final-

ly, in 1846, the state passed acts incor-

porating the Michigan Central Rall-

road Company and the Michigan

Southern Railroad Company, and au-

thorized the sale to the respective en-

tities of the Central and Southern rail-

roads. The sales were made, the state

receiving for the Central railroad two

million dollars, and for the Southern

railroad five hundred thousand dollars

in accordance with the terms of the

acts authorizing the transactions. It

is understood that the state received

about one-half of the actual expense it

had incurred in building these roads.



During the years following 1846,

railroad development went slowly for-

ward, but on surer ground than the

state had found in its efforts from 1836

to 1846. The main lines of the Cen-

tral and Southern were extended west-

erly under corporate management, and

by 1852 had both reached Chicago.

During the period of state ownership

and building of railroads, the state

funds became difficult or withheld. and

the public domain was turned to as a.

means of going on with the develop-

ment. On September 4, 1841, congress

made a general grant of 500,000 acres

of public land to each of several states

including Michigan, for purposes of

internal improvement. The act pro-

vided that $1.25 per acre should be the

minimum" price at which the lands

might be sold. The Central Railroad

received 150,000 acres in 1843, 64,000

acres in 1844, 20,000 acres in 1845, and

20,000 acres in 1846. The Palmyra &

Jacksonbui'g Railroad, in other words,

the Southern, received 10,000 acres in

1845.



In the Act of June 3, 1856, congress

granted to the state of Michigan to aid

in the construction of railroads from

Lillie Bay de Noquet, to Marquette,

and thence to Ontonagon, and from

the two last named places to the VVis-

cousin state line; and also from Am-

boy, by Hillsdale and Lansing and

from Grand Rapids to some points on

01' near Traverse Bay; also from

Grand Haven and Pere Marquette to

Flint and thence to Port Huron, every

alternate section of land designated.

by odd numbers; for six sections in





width and each side of each of said





roads.



Under the terms of the land grant

act, government lands were actually

granted to the railroad companies of

the state for such of their roads as

follows: Amboy, Lansing & Traverse

Bay, and Grand Rapids & Indiana, 60,-

918 acres; Amboy, Lansing & Trav-

erse Bay, and Milwaukee» & Port Hur-

on, 80 acres; Amboy, Lansing & Trav-

erse Bay, and Flint & Pere Marquette,

52,582 acres; Amboy, Lansing & Trav-

erse Bay, and Detroit & Milwaukee,

1,160 acres; Amboy, Lansing & Trav-

erse Bay, 661,955 acres; Bay (19' 1510-1





   





 





 





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Noquet & Marquette and Marquette;

and Ontonugon, 1,960; Bay de Noquet

(\‘v Marquette and Chicago, St. Paul &,

Fond du Lac, 5,387; Bay de Noquet &

Marquette & Chciago, St. Paul & Fond

Du Lac, and Marquette & Ontonagon,

24.6%;Chicago & Northwestern, 517,-

954; Chicago, St. Paul & Fond Du Lac,

254.575; Chicago, St. Paul & Fond Du

Lac and Marquette & Ontonagon, 110,-

579; Detroit & Milwaukee, 30,303; De-

troit & Milwaukee and Grand Rapids

& Indiana, 231; Flint & Pe-re Mar-

quette. 446,777; Flint & Pcre Mar-

quette and Grand Rapids & Indiana,

79.184; Flint S; Pere Marquette and

Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw, 228;

Grand Rapids & Indiana, 763,037;

Houghton & Ontonagon, 77,984; Jack-

son, Lansing & Saginaw, 2,083; Mar-

quette & Ontonagon, 222,497; Port n

Huron & Milwaukee, 6,428; Marquette,

Houghton 8.: Ontonagon, 207,814; ()n-

tonagon and Ernie River Railroad,

34,227



It finally developed that in the Oc-

tober term, 1871,. the subject of loan-

ing money by the state to private cor-

porations was taken up, and before

the court in Bay City vs. the State 1

Treasurer, when the General Act of

1869 was at issue, the court distinctly

held that Sections 7, 8 and 9 of Article

XIV of the Constitution precluded the

state from loaning the public credit

to private corporations.

5 The decisions mentioned mark the

end of active campaigns for local mut

nicipal aids and donations to railroads,

although for many years, thereafter,

it is found that occasional public aids

were given, sometimes under circum~

stances contrived to evade the limita-

tions of the law. This period was fol-

lowed by aids given by individuals,

popular subscriptions; individual gifts

of land, money, material, and labor





 





STANDARD PRACTICE





The use of Timken Tapered Roller

Bearings at pointsofhard service in the

great majority of leading tractors ~-

and in power-driven farm machinery-

is panel‘ of leadership established on

the tapered principle of design, qual-

ity of manufacture, performance, and

service to the automotive industry.





 





 





 





 





 





 





tion of some parts of practically all of

the railroads dating before 1890.

During and shortly after the period

of municipal aid, the state commenc-

ed to pledge state swamp lands to

help railroad development so that the

grants were actually made for per-

formance of the conditions in the acts

as follows: Chicago & Northwestern

Railway Company, 141,674.26 acres;

Detroit, Mackinac & Marquette Rail—

road Company, 1,327,041.65; Mar—

quette, Houghton & Ontonagon Rail

road Company, 82,422.12; Menominee

River Railroad Company, 144,371.96.





We now come down to the traffic

regulations and problems of today.

Rates for a number of years were made

as follows: First, the cost of the ser-

vice, then the value to the shipper. and

last, what the traffic will bear. Today

the first two have been laid aside or

discarded, and it is now how much

will the traffic bear and then add a

few cents more.





The 20 Timken bearing! in

the Cletrac are indicated by

the black rectangles.





 

 

 

 

 





that for every four acres you farm one acre is

required for raising the feed for the animals

used in producing the crop ?





that the tractor takes nothing from the farm’s

acreage or food supply?





that when buying a tractor you should carefully

inquire into the kind of bearings at points

of hard servicewfront axle, pinion gear,

transmission, jack shafts, rear axles and

lower track wheels?





that the Timken Tapered Roller Bearing is the

only type of bearing that will function

properly under radial load, or thrust load,

and all possible combinations of the two.





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Canton, Ohio





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(Part II will appear next week).





 





A GOOD JERSEY RECORD.





 





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CHAPTER XVIII.

Cutting Trail.





turned.

at the Circle C became greater.





“Lost nothing.

within forty miles of the ranch.





range.





for home.

pony too."

gan Sweeney, and stopped.

devils sparkled.





bet.

inch by icnh while he’s still living.”





stubbly chin.





he was heading into the hills.

met her—-”





face.

ful."





“My God!





ing rider.





—Blackwell ?”

“No. Cass.”





turned in at the lane.





ing through the inferno.





untempered by mercy. His eyes bored

like steel gimlets into those of his

enemy. '



The sheepman spoke quietly, looking

straight at his foe. “I’ve just heard

the news. I was down at Yesler’s





- ranch when you ’phoned asking if they





had seen anything of Miss Cullison. I

came up to ask you one question.

When was she seen last?”



"About ten o’clock this morning.

Why '3"



“I saw her about noon. She was on

Mesa Verde, headed for Blue Canon

looked like.”



“Close enough to speak to her,” Sam

asked. ,



“Yes. We passed the time of day.”

“And then?” Luck cut backdnto the

conversation with a voice like a file.

“She went on toward the gulch and

I kept on to the ranch. The last I saw

of her she was going straight on.”

“And you haven’t seen her since?”

The manner of the questioner start-

led Fendrick. Lord, man, you don’t

think I’m in this, do you?”



“If you are you’d better blow your

brains out before I learn it.‘ And if

you’re trying to lead me On adalse

scent—” Luck stopped. 'Words failed

him, but his iron jaw clamped like a

Vice.



Fendrick spoke quietly.

ing.





“I’m will—

In the meantime we’d better trav-





el over toward Mesa Verde, so as to





be ready to start at daybreak.”

Cullison's gaze had never left‘him.

It observed, weighed, appraised. “Go

enough. We’ll start.”

He left Sweeney to answer the tele-





~ phone while he was away. -‘All of his





other riders were already out combing

the hills under the supervision of





 





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By Wm. MarLeoa’ Raine





ATE CULLI’SON had disappear-

ed, had gone out riding one morn-

ing and at nightfall had not re-

As the hours passed, anxiety





“Mebbe she got lost,” Bob suggested.

Her father scouted this as absurd.

You couldn’t lose her

She

knows this country like a cow does the

And say she was lost—all she

would have to do would be to give that

pinto his head and he’d hit a. bee line

No, nor she ain't had an

accident either, unless it included (the





“You don’t reckon a cougar—" be-

Luck looked at his handy-legged old

rider with eyes in which little cold

“A human cougar, I’ll

This time I’ll take his hide off





“You thinking of Fendrick?" asked





Sam.

“You’ve said it.”

Sweeney considered, rasping his





“I don’t reckon Cass

would do Miss Kate a meanness. He’s

a white man, say the worst of him. But

it; might be Blackwell. When last seen

If he





A spasm of pain shot across Luck’s

That would be aw~





“By Gum, there he is now, Luck.”

Sweeney’s finger pointed to an advanc-





Cullison swung as on a. pivot in time

to see someone drop into the dip in

the road, just beyond the corral. “Who





Fendrick appeared presently and

Cullison, stand-

ing on the porch at the head of the

steps looked like a man who was pass—

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only to get some definite information

before starting. Now he had his lead.

Fendrick was either telling the truth

or he was lying with some sinister

purpose in view. The cat-tieman meant

to know which.





Morning breaks early in Arizona. By

the time they had come to the spot

where the sheepman said he had met

Kate gray streaks were already light-

ening the sky. The party moved for- i ;

ward slowly toward the canon, spread- 7 -

ing out so as; to cover as much ground

as possible. Before they reached its

mouth the darkness had lifted enough

to show the track of a horse in the

sand. .

They pushed up the gulch as rapidly

as they could. The ashes of a camp

fire halted them a. few minutes later.

Scattered about lay the feathers and

dismembered bones of some birds.





Cass stooped and picked up some of

the feathers. “Quails, I reckon. Miss

Cullison had three tied to her saddle

horn when I met her.”



“Why did she come up here to cook

them?” Sam asked.



Luck was already off his horse, quar-

tering over the ground to read what

it might tell him.





“She wasn’t alone. There was amen

with her. See these tracks.”

It was Fendrick who made the next

discovery. He had followed a draw

for a short distance and climbed to a

little mesa above. Presently he called

to Cullison.

Father and son hurried toward him.

The sheepowner was standing at the

edge of a prospect hole pointing down ‘

with his finger. y

“Someone has been in that pit re-





cently, and he’s been there several

days.” ,



“Then how did he get out?” Sam

asked.





Fendrick knelt on the edge of the

pit and showed him where a rope had

been dragged so heavily that it had

cut deeply into the clay. .



“Someone pulled him out.”



“What’s it mean anyhow? Kate

wasn’t in that hole, was she?”



Cass shook his head. “This is my

guess. Someone was coming along

here in the dark and fell in. Suppose

Miss Cullison heard him calling as she

came up the gulch. What would she

do?”



“Come up and help the fellow out.”



“Sure she would. And if he was

hungry—as he likely was-she would

cook her quail for him.”



“And then? Why didn’t she come

heme?”



Luck turned a. gray agonized face on

him. “Boy, don’t you see? The ‘man

was Blackwell.”



“And if you’ll put yourself in Black-

well’s place you’ll see that he couldn’t

let her go home to tell where she had

seen him,” Fendrick explained.



“Then where is she? What did he

do with her ?”



There came a. moment’s silence. The

pale face of the boy turned frOm the

sheepman to his- father. “You don’t

think that—that—” . .



“No, I don’t,” Cass answered. “But.

let’s look this thing squarely in' the'

face. There Were three things he could

do with her. First, he might leave her , ,_ *

in the pit. He didn’t do that because

he hadn’t the nerve. She might be

found soon and set the hunters on his

track. .Orvshe might die in that hole

and he be captured with her pinto. I

know him. He always plays a waiting

game when he can. Takes no chances

if he can help it.” - '



“You think he took her with him ~

then,” Luck said. . ~ .



“Yes. There’s a. third. possibility. ‘

He may have shot her when he goth

good chance, but I ‘don‘tthinlfi as "
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would keep her for a hostage as long

as he could.”



“That’s the way I figure it,” agreed

Cullison. “He daren’t hurt her, for he

would know Arizona would hunt him

down like a wolf if he did.”



“Then where’s be taking her?" Sam

asked.



“Somewhere into the hills. He knows

every pocket of. them. His idea will

be to slip down and cut across the line

into Sonora. He’s a rotten bad lot, but

he won’t do her any harm unless he's

pushed to the wall. The fear of Luck

Cullison is in his heart."



“That’s about it," nodded Luck.

“He‘s somewhere in these hills unless

he’s broken through. Bolt ’phoned me

that one of his posse came an the ash-

es of a camp fire still warm. They’re





or starve, unless he can break through

them.” ’



“There’s a chance he'll make for one

of my sheep camps to lay in a supply.

VVouldn’t it be a good idea to keep a

man stationed at each one.of them?”



“You’re talking sense." (‘ullison ap-

proved. “Sam, ride back and get in

touch with Curly. Tell him to do that.

And rouse the whole country over the

wire. W'e’ll run him down and feed

him to the coyotes.”





CHAPTER XIX.

A Good Samaritan.





ENDRICK had told the exact truth.

F After leaving him Kate had ridden

to the canon and entered it. She



did not mean to go much farther, but

she took her time. More than once

she slipped from under a fold of her

Waist a letter and reread sentences of

it. \i'henever she did this her eyes

smiled. For it was a love letter from

Curl}: the first she had ever had. It

had been lying on the. inner edge of

tht- threshold of her bedroom door

that morning when she got up, and she!

knew that her lover had risen rarly to;

put It there unnoticed. I

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ly had wishedto wait till after his.

trial, but she had overruled him. Both

her father and Sam had sided with

her. for she had made them both see

what an advantage it would be with a

jury for Flandrau to have his bridci

sitting beside him in the courtroom.



’lv‘aintly there came to her a wind-

swrpt sound. She pulled up and wait-

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ears. But before her pony had moved

a dozen steps she stopped him again.

This time she was almost sure of a far

cry, and after it the bark of a revolver.



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His hand shot forward and caught

Her startled eyes flashed

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“Got anything to eat with you.

I shot some quail.





He laughed evilly,

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of the canon he called a halt and bade

her light a. fire and cook him the quail.

ironwood and catclaw

while he watched her vigilantly. To-

gether they roasted the birds by hold-

ing them over the fire with sharpened

sticks thrust through the wings.

devoured them with the voracity of a





She gathered





Hitherto his mind had been busy

with the immediate present, but now

his furtive shifting gaze rested on her

more thoughtfully.

of his safety that he considered her.

Gratitude was a feeling not within his

The man’s mind worked just

as Fendrick had surmised. He would

not let her go back to the ranch with

the news that he was hidden in the

hills so close at hand. He dared not

leave her in the prospect hole.

was not yet ready to do murder for

fear of punishment.

sibility to be considered only if he

should be hard pressed. The only al-

ternative left him was to take her to

the border as a 00mpanion of his fugi-

tive doublings.

“We’ll be going now,” he announced,

after he had eaten.





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Don’t you see I'll

be a drag to you? Take my horse and

You’ll get along faster.”



“Do you think so?” '





She opened her lips to answer, but desir

something in his face—- dee

semething at once so cruel and deadly

and wolfish—that made the words die-

For the first time it came

to her that if he did not take her with

him he would kill her to insure his

own safety. None of the arguments

man were of any weight here.

sex, her youth, the service she had

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rode, and the girl walked in front with ._

the elastic lightness, the unconscious

rfiexuo‘us grace of poise given her: body

by an outdoor life. After a. time they

left the gulch. Steadily they traveled,





Moreover, it pleased his small





soul to see the daughter of Luck Cul-

lison fagged and exhausted but still

answering the spur of his urge.



The moon was up before they came

upon a tent shining in the cold silvery





Beside it was a. sheetiron stove.





a box, the ashes of a camp fire, and a

side of bacon hanging from the limb of





a stunted pine. Cautiously they stole

forward.





The camp was for the time deserted.

No doubt its owner, a Mexican sheep-

herder in the employ of Fendrick and

Dominguez, was out somewhere with

his flock.





Kate cooked a meal and the convict

The girl was too tired and anx-

ious to care for food, but she made

herself take a little. They packed the

saddlebags with bacon, beans, coffee

and flour. Blackwell tightened again

the cinemas and once more the two

took the trali.





They made camp in a pocket open-

ing from a gulch far up in the hills.

With her own reata be fastened her

hands behind her and tied the girl se-

curely to the twisted trunk of a Joshua

To make sure other he lay on

the rope, both hands clinched to the

In five minutes he was asleep,

but it was long before Kate could _es-

cape from wakefulness. She was anx-

ious, her nerves were jumpy, and the

muscles of arms and shoulders were

cramped. At last she well into trou-

bled catnaps.





From one of these she awoke to see

that the morning light was sifting

through the darkness. Her bones and

muscles ached from the constraint of

the position in which the rope held

them. She was shivering with the chill

of an Arizona mountain night. Turn-

ing her body, the girl’s eyes fellupon

her captor. He was looking at her in

the way that no decent man looks at

a woman. Her impulse was to scream.

to struggle to her feet and run. What

did he mean? What was he going





But something warned her this

would precipitate the danger. Bhe call.

ed upon her courage and triedtoéstill

the fearful tumult in her heart. Some-

how she succeeded. A scornful, confl-

dent pride flashed from her eyes into

him. It told him that for his life he

dared not lay a finger upon her in the

way of‘ harm. And he knew it was

knew that if he gave Way to his

e no hole under heaven would be

p enough to hide him from the ven-

geance of her friends. 7



He got sullenly to his feet. "Come.

We’ll be going.” _



Within the hour they saw some or

his hunters. The two were sweeping

that would have availed with another “0“,“ the lip 0f 9' mmmta‘i“ park

nestling among the summits A wisp

of smoke rose from the basin below.

Grouped about it were three men eat-

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News of. the Week

‘ Tuesday, February 17.



MISSIONARIES in Armeniareport



that the political situation in

northern Syria is very grave—The su.

preme council makes reply to Presi-

dent WilsOn’s letter on the Adriatic

situation—A new note by the allies to

Holland indicates that the allies wrll

be content with the internment of the

former German ruler.-—In a note to

Germany the allies state that the pro-

posal for the trial of German war

criminals at Leipsic is compatible With

the peace treaty—The Persian govern-

ment grants Great Britain a conces-

sion to establish a railway from Ku-

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ed to control Vladivostok, Nikolsk,

Yenishiesk and Blagovestchensk.——-A

reign ,of terror exists, according to re-

ports, at -Marash in northern Syria,

where l'l‘urkish police are said to be

continuing the massacre of Armenians.

——Storm conditions force eastern roads

to place an embargo on freight enter-

ing New York—«Communications from

Russia state that the Bolshevik troops

have taken several positions near

Stavrapol near the sea of Azov.——The





ward the Adriatic question.





Thursday, February 19.

EPRESENTATIVES of grain ex-

changes object to bill abolishing



the Grain Corporation. on the grounds

that no other agency can be organized

to take its place—The conference re-

port on the railroad bill creates a

$300,000,000 revolving fund for loans

to carriers with which to secure new

equipment—All bids for former Ger-

man passenger ships have been .re

jected by the shipping board as being

too lowr—Mexican cotton exports have

increased 200 per cent over 1918.-

While the Turks will be allowed to re-

main in Constantinople, they are warn-

ed by the allies that unless they cease

persecuting the Armenians, the treaty

terms will be made more severe.

Friday, February 20.

ORGANIZED labor is making its

final preparation to fight the com-

promise railroad bill which will come

up for immediate consideration by the

house.——President Wilson sends a re-

joinder to the allied leaders on the

proposed new settlement of the Adm»

atic question—A temporary injunction?

has been granted against the sale of

seized German passenger liners which

the American Shipping Board has been

offering—Reports through Constanti-

nople declare Americans in Marash to

be safe following new disturbances.—

Martial law is proclaimed in the Saar

region now occupied by French troops.





Saturday, February 21.

RESIDENT WILSON declares that

there is no agreement with Eng-



land on the sale of ex—German vessels

in this country—Congress adopts the

railroad conference report and enacts

the railroad bill regardless of efforts

made by labor and other interests to

bring about its defeat—German mer-

chants and salesmen are said to be

swarming into Russia to build up trade

connections—A bill providing for a

large industrial congress will be con-

sidered in the senate next week—Ty-

phus epidemic is raging in eastern

Galicia.——The national board of farm

organization anno es a nomination

of a candidate for residency—Can-

ada will import two thousand Alaskan

reindeer for breeding purposes.——Rear

Admiral Robert E. Peary, Arctic ex~

plorer and discoverer of the North

Pole, dies at his home in Washington.





Sunday, February 22.





HE United StatesSenate readopts



unchanged and by an increased

majority, the first of the reservations

attached to the peace treaty last No~

vemberL—Federal and state inspectors

in eight states are seeking to locate

shipments of ripe olives said to con-

tain the deadly bacillus botulinus.——-

Preliminary census figures show that

Washington now exceeds Cincinnati in

population—The Spanish ministry re-

signs, due to insuflicient support from

parliament.



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N the first clash between Bolshevist



and Polish troops in a new offensive

Polish soldiers are said to have been

successful.——Teachers in attendance at

the national educational association

at Cleveland petition for a post on

the President’s cabinet—Sam Gomp-

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labor party must prove detrimental to

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ment. Without sound teeth no one

can be at his best physically, for per-

fect health depends upon perfect di-

gestion, and the first step in digestion

is thorough mastication—chewing—of

the food.



Wonderful advances have been made

in dentistry in the last

century. We are told

that the Empress Jose-

phine lost all her teeth

which may perhaps ac-

count for Napoleon’s

cooling affection. But

with all our advances

in knowledge the exam-

inations of drafted men

showed that many hun-

dreds had overlooked

the attention which

good teeth demand. Not

only that, but a glance

at the teeth of a large

percentage of the peo-

ple we meet, adults and

children as well, shows

that the doctrine of

proper nutrition for the

growing children, and daily use of the

tooth brush, needs more emphasis.



If the child is to have good strong

teeth to start with, he must be fed

properly. The teeth are' composed of

substances similar to bone and need

plenty of bone-making material. For

the infant the lime and phosphorus

necessary for proper bone-making is

found in the milk he drinks. As he

approaches and enters the second year

this may be supplemented by egg yolk,

which is rich in phosphorus. In‘ the

latter part of the second year cooked





Teach the





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paragus tips, young beets and carrots,

thoroughly cooked and strained, help

in the supply of minerals. Of course,

the two- -year- -old will leceive well-cook-

ed cereals and fruit juice daily. As

‘the teeth begin to come the child

should be given hard toast, crackers

or zweiback to chew. This will help

‘develop strong jaws and teeth and

teach him to masticate his food well.



Proper food for teeth making should

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ever. Growing children are cutting

teeth at pretty much every stage of

their development. At five or six the

baby teeth drop out and the permanent

set appears. During all these months

the diet should be carefully watched.

Milk should still form a large part of

the diet, a, quart a day is none too

much, and eggs are valuable, too. If

milk and eggs are not playing a large

part in the daily dietary, feed brown

bread instead of white for its mineral

content. If the child is getting plenty

of meat and eggs, white bread will be

sufficient.



Cutting teeth does not stop at six

or seven. There is that period from

ten to twelve, and even later, when the

child loses the first “double” teeth and

gets his permanent ones. He should

be fed generously on bone-making ma-

terials, brown bread, beef or mutton

once a day, still plenty of milk and

eggs, potatoes, sweet‘ or Irish, fruits,

including oranges and prunes which

are rich in bone-making properties.





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oatmeal, beans, dried peas, turnips,

parsnips, carrots, peanuts, walnuts and

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Having fed the growing child the

proper food to make good teeth, the

next important step is to see that he

keeps them clean. Teach him at the

earliest possible age to clean them

thoroughly at least night and morning

with a brush and water. A good tooth

paste helps, but clear water is better

than nothing. Do not buy every denti-

frice you see advertis-

ed, as many which are

the most highly adver-

tised are injurious to

the teeth. Ask your

dentist what to use, or,

better still, write to the

dental department of

your state university

and ask their advice.

These universities as a

rule, analyze every den-

tifrice that appears in

the market and can tell

you what you can safe-

ly use.



iTeach the child to

brush the teeth down-

ward with straight, firm

strokes. This is the

best way to remove the

particles of food from between the

teeth. Brush inside and out, and don’t

be afraid to brush the tongue. Finish

with gargling the throat well and rins-

ing the mouth thoroughly.



After each meal clean the particles

of food out from between the. teeth.

For this use a bit of dental floss, or if

you absolutely can not get this, use a

good quill or wooden toothpick. Never

use a pin or any hard substance which

will injure the enamel. And above all

do not let the child bite threads, or try,

to crack nuts with the teeth. Teeth

are intended for but one purpose, mas'

ticating food. .



Take the child to a reliable dentist

every year and have the teeth thor.

,oughly examined. This will cost you

a dollar a visit, probably, but it will

save you hundreds of dollars in later

life. Don’t say you can’t afford it. Let

him go without something else, a toy,

a. few movies, the cheap candy you

buy when you gogto town. You spend

many times the two dollars two trips

to the dentist would cost, for things

he is better off without. Cut out those

things and look after his teeth.





Use of the

Tooth Brush Early.





 





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By using the proper treatment burns

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kept them away from the Housewives

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ary. The smallest attendance of wom-

en in five years was registered, but

the women who were able to attend

enjoyed a well-planned program. Be.

ginning Tuesday morning with a dem-

onstration and lecture on infant’s

clothing by Mrs. Grace S. Frear, of

the Home Economics Department, it

continued on through the week with

lectures on every sort of subject that

touches the home from food to

morals.



The greatest interest centered in

the lectures of Dr. E. V. McCallum,

from the School of Hygiene and Public

Health of Johns Hopkins University.

Those who had not read his book,

“The Newer Knowledge of Nutrition,”

were anxious ’to hear his message,

while those who .had read it had a de-

sire to see the man who had made

these new discoveries, and get further

information from his lectures. Speak-

ing before the women he sketched the

theories which have made his name

famous-the presence of three uniden-

tified substances in food which are not

protein, fat, sugar nor Starch—which

are as yet entirely unknown but whose

presence in food is absolutely neces-

sary for proper growth and develop

ment. The first of these substances

is found in animal fats. If it is with-

held its absence from the diet produces

blindness. The second is found in leafy

vegetables. If it is withheld, beri-beri,

partial paralysis, results. The third is

found in fresh raw food and its ab

sence from the diet produces scurvy.

The spectacular way in which all of

these diseases are produced in animals

——or human beings—by withholding

the specified foods and as spectacular-

ly cured by giving the food, proves the

existence of the substances as yet un-

identified by scientists.



Dr. McCallum outlined three suc-

cessful diets: used by man in different

parts of the world. The carnivorous

diet of the Esquimaux, which, while it

maintains life, yet produces a man

only one-tenth as efficient as the white

man. The second is the diet of the

far east, cereals, legumes, tubers, meat,

eggs, and leafy vegetables. This diet

produces a fair specimen of manhood,

but not first-class, according to Dr.

McCallum. The infant mortality rate

in theSe countries is also high. The

third diet is that of America and most

of Europe, the base the same as that

of the Orient, but with the addition of

milk. Our liberal use of milk gives

the best rate of growth, a long period

of middle life, and a very short period

of decline or old age. Everyone, old

and young, should take a quart of milk

a day in some form, either as a drink

or cooked in the food, according to his

theory.



Miss Lucile Brewer, of Cornell Uni-

versity, helped to make the applica-

tion of Dr. McCallum’s lecture easier



‘ by showing the women all sorts of

ways to use milk. There were no end

to the ways to get the family to take

it. If they don’t like to drink it, give

it to them in custards or sherbets, in

white sauce or in cottage cheese. And

when all else fails, convert it into

whey and pass it on in lemon pie or

salad dressing. ‘Miss Brewer's lectures

were as instructive as her cooking was

appetizing. Her recipes will be given

elsewhere in these columns.



In the two lectures on proper house-

hold equipment Miss Ruth Kellogg, of

the College Home Economics Depart.

ment. gave the 'women a glimpse of

how housekeeping can be made easy.





   





one morning, and kitchen equipment

the other. The merits and demerits

of various sorts of vacuum cleaners

and laundry equipments were gone in-

to, and their proper use illustrated.

For her lecture on kitchen equipment

Miss Kellogg gathered up such a be-

wildering array of pans, pots and grid-

dles, knives, forks, spoons, egg whips,

food choppers, can openers—every-

thing you could imagine a use for, that

the woman who has been satisfied to

struggle along with a poor assortment

of kitchen tools, or none at all, went

away with the idea of including kitch-

en implements in the necessary farm

machinery budget.



The home dressmaker and milliner

had her day Friday, when Miss Cecil

Van Steenburg, of the Home Econom-

ics Department, told how to renovate

clothing and hats. The exhibit on the

second floor of the women's building

had been silently illustrating the talk

all the week. Here hung numberless

garments brought down to 1920, many

of them accompanied by a picture of

the old-fashioned dress or suit from

which the new one was made. Miss

Barbara Van Huelen, state leader of

the Girls' Clubs, rounded out the pro

gram in home economics with a dem-

onstration of canning in tin.



Henrietta W. Calvin, of the Bureau

of Education in Washington, gave the

women who heard her talk on “Educa-

tion of the Rural Home,” some perti—

nent thoughts.



“If the woman of the rural home is

to get time for mental and spiritual

growth, she will have to make it,” she

declared. “And the way to make time

is to begin to simplify. Begin on food.

Cereal and cream and toast is easier

to prepare and serve than griddle

cakes. Eliminate the griddle cakes,

and get time for recreation. Be a

mother who is remembered for the

walks she took, the stories she read,

the times she went coasting, rather

than for the pies she made. Let the

family cooperate. If they insist on the

hot cakes, let them do the frying.

Teach your girls to be helpful.”





AN IDEA FOR MOTHERS’ CLUBS.





 





HERE has recently been publish-



ed a set of books on child train.

ing, which I have yearned to possess,

but the cost of which places it far be-

yond my reach. Last week while call-

ing on a friend I found that she had

several of these coveted books. ‘She‘

explained that she, too, had longed to

possess them, but that the slimness of

the family pocketbook forbad. She

talked about them wherever she went,

and her reward was that she found a

woman who had bought a set and was

renting it to mothers at the moderate

rate of two dollars. Was not that a

fine idea?





Immediately, this idea came to me.

Why could not Mothers’ Clubs, Wom-

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many anxious mothers. And there are

scores of others which would help hun-

dreds of mothers whose family budget

will not allow anything but absolute

necessities.





I am passing this idea along for

what it may be worth, for as long as

such books, by their prohibitive cost,

are placed beyond the reach of com-

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tions are usually high and holy and I

am profoundly grateful that at least

the peeple are becoming aroused to





' these facts.





Unfortunately in the past, farm life

has been more or less in the nature of

drudgery. Urban life, on the surface

at least, has been more exciting and,

therefore, apparently more attractive.

The smart clothes which frequently

bedeck aimless young ui'banites are

very appealing to many boys and girls

from the country. I am profoundly

thankful that more attention has been

given to the needs of farming. The

telephone, rural delivery, automobiles,

and good roads have attached the farm

to the city, and whatever real; bene-

fits there are in the latter are brought

to the former.





A Message to Our Farm Boys

, and Girls ’





By United State: Senqtor C/ltlr/C’J‘ E. l T owmend





Farming is now recognized as a.

scientific business and .the old notion

that anyone who is fit for nothing else

would make a, good farmer, is past. It.

is ‘now known that the opportunities

for financial benefit has been added to

the natural advantages of farm life

and the tide from country to city has

been somewhat checked. I firmly be-

lieve that it will set in the other direc—

tion before long, as it ought to do.





Whatever success I may have

achieved in the past, insignificant

though it may have been, is attributed

by me to the fact that I was born on

the farm and reared there by Christian

parents who taught me the fundamen-

tals of right living. instead of being

dissatisfied with the fate or circum-

stances which forced their birth upon

the farm the country boy and girl

should thank God for this privilege

and blessing.





If time would permit it would be a

great pleasure for me to recount the

names of the men and women who

have rendered our country illustrious

and who were born and reared upon

the farm. I am hopeful that in the

near future the young people will not

be salisfied simply with the fact that

they were born to agriculture, but that

they will feel it an honor as well as a,

duty to remain on the farm and assist

in elevating farm life to the high pov

sition which it is entitled to occupy.



The United States today is the hope

of the world, and the hope of the Unit-

ed States is the farm boy and girl.





The Ceresco Pig Club





By I. H. Brown





NE of the most interesting pig





- clubs we personally know any-





. in this club.





thing about is the Ceresco Pig Club

of Calhoun county. County Agricul-

tural Agent Paul C. Jamieson organ-

ized the club over a year ago and the

members got right down to business in

short order.



As soon as spring comes, and pigs

also, We propose to take a day with

Paul Jamieson to visit this pig club

and get acquainted With the boys and

girls. Yes, of course, there are girls

It wouldn’t be quite so

much of asuccess if they were left out.



Last season late one afternoon we

took a number of Ceresco Pig Club

boys in our car and drove to the home





 





 





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Learning Something of the Ari: of Breeding, the“ '

Get Valuable y.’ Lessons M.,,§§ieenehip ' ‘ , . -





of one of the members. In the farm-

yard beside the straw stack we found

two fine pigs that belonged to one of

the boys on that farm. For some time

the boys and Mr. Janiieson tried to in—

duce these handsome pigs to pose in

front of the group of boys, with the

big straw stack for a background.



It was late in the' afternoon and

finally we decided to take the picture

while the boys were watching the pigs

take a rest after a. more or less forci—

ble round-up and wading through a

puddle in the yard.



The picture shows the pigs are fine-

lookiiig DUl‘OCS. The boys have held

many meetings and State Club Leader

R. A. Turner has visited their homes





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 

 





“1%
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~ and'talked to them on how to succeed _





in their club. work, and, Agent Jamie-

son has instructed them in the fine

points of breeding and caring for the

pigs, so that these boys are becoming

quite expert in business.



There are over two dozen boys and

girls in this club. It will be noted that

they are wide-awake and a fine 100k:

ing lot of youthful swine breeders. lThe

., fathers and mothers of the boys have

taken great interest in the club and

helped the boys" buy a number of pure

bred pigs of several breeds.



At the first opportunity in the spring

we shall invite R. O. Turner over to

go with us on a trip to Ceresco, on a

day that County Agent Jamieson, se-

lects, when We will take time to secure

several pictures of all the boys and

girls in the Ceresco Pig Club at their

various farm homes, with close-up

views of the members and some of

their pigs in action. Then we will

write a feature story of this club for

the Michigan Farmer, with plenty of

illustrations.





 





FOR THE FARMERS AND FARM

WOMEN OF TOMORROW.





 





ORfil-ihsazretary of Agriculture



Houston has warm words of praise

for the Boys’ and Girls’ Club work. He

says:



“Who could have anything but praise

for work that teaches the farm boys

and girls of today how they can be

progressive farmers and good house

keepers of tomorrow? The Boys' and

Girls’ Clubs, organized and directed by

county agents and county club leaders

under the supervision of the United

States Department of Agriculture and

Michigan Agricultural College, not on-

ly do that, but they impress upon their

members invaluable lessons of patriot-

ism. industry, and thrift. They are

even helping to improve working and

living conditions in the cities, and, in

this way, they are strengthening the

bonds that should always exist be-

tween rural and urban communities.



“The junior extension organization

must 'come into contact at many pdints

with the teachers in country and city

schools and with the school authori-

ties. It would be helpful if those un-

familiar with the work would inform

themselves regarding the phases of

club activities which are applicable in

their communities. Teachers and

school authorities have given unstint-

ed aid in this work for America of the

present as well as of the future. This

results justify what they have done

and justify a continuation of their co-

Operation.”





 





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ELECT the breed best suited to





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farmer will usually wish a general-pur-

pose fowl that is vigorous and a good

layer. At the same time it will pro—

duce enough meat to help out with

the family rations.



An egg farm that is shipping eggs to

a market where white eggs are sold

at a premium, will wish to keep Leg-

horns. The Mediterranean breeds pro-

duce white eggs and here the chance

of selecting the best-liked breed is all

right. Some like white birds and oth-

ers the buff. Some breeders will en-

joy an unusually marked fowl like the

Ancona, and take more care of a flock

of birds of that kind.



In some sections brown eggs are

most in demand and a good laying

strain of any of the American breeds

will be satisfactory. If broilers are

to be produced there is nothing better

than the White Wyandottes or Barred

Rocks. A black feathered breed is

'not as desirable for raising broilers

because or the black pin feathers

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Thirteen Heavy Breeds.





’ Three Especial Egg Breeds.





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DIRECTORY





BREEDI‘IRS’





Change of Copy or Cancellations much reach us

Ten Days before date of publication





Wildwood Farms

Ang‘um





Home of Edgar of Dalmeny one of the world’s

greatest sires.



He produced Erodcmas. the grand champion

bull at show in Perth. Scotland in Jan. 1919. and



He produced Blue Bell a cross-bred heifer

which was awarded the championship at the

Smithficld. (Eng) fat stock show in Dec. 1019.

(The latter is En land‘s cquivilent of our Chica-

go international. .



Edgar is now an American Citizen, and is

here for the purpose of bettering the breed in this

country.



Edgar‘s calves are as yet too young to ofl'er for

sale but they are a promising lot and are being

spoken for last.



We have a few 'choice young bulls by Black

Monarch III who won the Mich. State Fair

(ii-land Championship in 1914—1915-1916. still for

5a e.



Our herd is under State and Federal supervision.





A visit. will interest you. write for particulars.





WILDWOOD FARMS

ORION, MICHIGAN

W. E. SCRIPPS. Prop..





 





 





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WOODCOTE AUGUS





1919 Winning- to Date





Mich. State Fair 12 lsts 2 cham. l gd. ch.

N. Y. Au ‘0 9 ll. 2 to l A. II

West Mich. ” ‘11 l“ 3 “ 2 ': ”

Saginaw " 10 1" 4 " 2 ‘ “





International—2 firsts inoludin the undefeated

calf he rd for 1915.

Every Animal Brod At

WOODCOTE STOCK FARM. Ionia. Mich.





 





 





' Aberdeen-Angus. Seven bulls from

Reglstered four to twelve months old. Plenty of

size. best of breeding. Prices reasonable. Come and

see them. Inquire F. J. WILBER. Ollo, Mich.





BERDEEN Angus bulls for sale. one vearlin . one

two year oldalso a few bull calves. LONG 00D

FARM, Marshall Kelly. R. 10, Charlotte. Mich.





GUERNSEY BULLS





FOR SALE





Atta Boy of Maple Crest born April 1919. Sire

Imp. Spotswood sequel A. R. 19 A. R. daughters

Dam imp. Albinla price $175.00. Pride‘s May

King of Avondalo born June 1919 Sire Nora‘s

May King of Bailey Falls dam Queens Pride of

Harriton A. R. price 0150.00.



Wayne, Mich.





Avondale Farms, .





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546 was the average

$ price pgid to:



ernseysso at pu -

$2230.01. in 1919. This





figure indicates the buy-

ers’ high estimation of

the value of the breed.

Let us tell you why

Guernseys lead in popu-

lar favor.





The American pE'CONOMY





Guernsey Ca tlo Club. 0') A





Box I 38. Peterboro.N.H- 4 N 1“





 





 





GUERNSEYS





Two fine bull calves for sale. by our A.R. May Rose

Herd Sire. Priced to sell. Send for cdigree and

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909.05 m. Their mother's Bll‘e'l dam made 15,109.1b



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T.V.HIOKB, - - - - Battle Creek. Mich.





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A nicel marked four months old bull calf. F. E.

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The best of breedin at. prices you will pay-for good

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J. W. WILLIAMS. No. Adams. Mich.





Federal inspected herd. Bull Zyre.

Guernseys old 5 ‘non of Imp. Spotswood Se-

quel. dam’s A. R. recor 419.34 b. f. class G. llull calf

8 mo's. old. 6 bull calves 2 to 5 mos. old. Satisfactlon

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R Guernsey Bull calf 4 mo.old for $75. deliver-

Cg. ed. Sire Deanie's May Rose of Allenwood

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Anumber of Be ister Guernsey hull

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F R . G rnse females all but

For sale oggidueetfi fragile); argon. also bull calf.

P. J. ANDERSON Fremont. Michigan.





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GARLIC FLAVOR m ‘MILK-fi—HOW

TO PREVENT rr. ‘





AIRYMEN and creamerymen in

many states are troubled every

spring by garlic or onion flavor in the

milk. This is due to the cows feeding

on garlic or wild onion, one of the first

plants to start in the pasture in the

spring. The trouble from garlic is not

likely to last very long, as this weed

is soon cropped off and the grass be-

comes plentiful enough for the cattle

to feed on it in preference to onion.

Garlic flavor in milk can be remov-

ed by heating the milk to one hundred

and forty-five degrees Fahrenheit and

towing air through it at this tempera-

ture for thirty [to sixty minutes, ac—

cording to Farmers’ Bulletin 608 of the





 





ture. As this method requires a cer-

tain amount of equipment, it is much

more satisfactory for the average

dairyman to keep the odor out of milk

by a. few simple precautions in herd

management. _



There are two ways of protecting

the milk from garlic flavor. First, pre-

vent. the cows from obtaining garlic;

and second, manage the herd on garlic

pasture, so that there will be the least

possible chance of getting the flavor in

the milk. Often the garlic is found

only in one patch in the pasture, and

this can be temporarily fenced off and

pastured with other animals not pro-

ducing milk. Where garlic is scattered

all over thelfield it will be impossible

to keep the cows away from it, but by

removing them to some other field

three or four hours before each milk—

ing the flavor will be reduced to a min-

imum. The odor in milk is strongest

from cows which have just eaten gar-

lic, and the odor is reduced as the

time between the eating of garlic and

milking is increased.



In case no garlic-free pasture is

available, it would be advisable to





 





or four hours before milking and feed

As the sea-

son for garlic trouble is short, this

should not cause much inconvenience.





PENCILING HORNS WITH

CAUSTIC.





HEN the calf is three or four



days old is'the best. time to pen-

cil its horns as they are soft. and held

just by the skin. We have tried cut-

ting the hair around the buttons and

rubbing the caustic on until the button

shows red. but all this time the calf

may be jumping and floundering around

in such a manner. and to take consid-

erable time and then not make a. very

good job.



What We use is sandpaper (medium

cut), tie the calf in a corner, and get

on its neck, (you take hold of it solid

this way), take a. strip of sandpaper

and rub it across the buttons a few

times until the spot almost bleeds.

Take the caustic and dip it into warm

water and rub on in good shape. This

method is much quicker, does not re-

quire cutting the hair, and does a fine

job. We lfave successfully penciled

calves four weeks old by this method

and have had no failures.



T. J. ROBINSON.





 





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If my neighbor’s cow jumps my law-

ful fence and gets hurt, or with calf

by my bull, what remedy has he? Or

if my bull jumps out and gets hurt or

gets my neighbor’s cow with calf,

what rights and liability have I? J. S.

By the statutes of this state the

owner of any bull, boar, stallion, Or

ram, running at large is liable for the

damage to anyone whose stock is in-

jured by such bull, etc. But such would





injury done by a trespassing animal.





in col] co and too real

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The wonderful vitality which is charac-

tertistic of the purebred Holstein-Frie-

sian breed is strikingly shown in the

career of Jetske Roe’s Aa gie’s Artis.

When twen years old 5 e dropped

her sixteent calf. For fifteen gestation

periods she totaled 232,5(0 pounds of

milk which at 4 cents a quart. would be

84,620 at a cost for feed for fifteen years

amountin to $1,980. She thus showed a



rofit of .640 in addition to which must



e reckoned $6 000 worth of fine.

healthy calves. S e won many ribbons

and prizes at fairs and has seven daugh-

ters with A.R.O. records.





Send for our free booklets-today.





THE HOLSTElN-FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION i





164 Hudoon Street

Brattloboro, Vermont





Holstein-Friesian Cattle

Herd Headed by





Segis Pontiac De Niilander





 





A 32-lb. grandson of Michigan'sgroatSS-Ib. champion.





Bis dam. Oak Valley Kornoyke cats 86 Fan. 32.06.





Rial” a Michigan prize winner. Write. or calf list.





-bo-rno-mo Farms, White Pigeon, Mich.





 





GRADE UP YOUR HERD





with a oun son of Spring Farm Pontiac

Cornucopla IBt . whose five nearest dams have an

an average record of 86.22 pounds of butter in seven

Have several riced to sell.



BRE ER. Grand Rapids. Michigan





Traverse Herd





days.

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We have what you want in BULL CALVES, the

large fine growthy type. guaranteed right in

every way. They are from high producing A.R.

0. ancestors. Dam's records up to 80 lbs.

for pedigrees and quotations. stating about age

desired. - _



TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL





Write





Trovoroo City. Mich.





“lflp- N0 till”





HOLSTEIN S





The. young bulls we have for sale are

backed up by many generations of

large producers.

bulls, and give your herda “p ”.

Full descriptions, prices,'etc. on request.





be the law without the statute for any M F ' .

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THE MICHIGAN FARM‘ER





THE BATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY

CLUB.





 





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and their wives who belong to our

Farmers' Club. They complained of

the cold and that there were no con—I

venient and comfortable places to get '

warm and rest up a bit. Battle Creek

ought to have some big place where

the country people could meet and

rest. eat their luncheons, leave their

packages and wraps, and not have to

crowd into a store corner somewhere

in everybody’s way.”



And for some time since the war

closed Battle Creek merchants have

been hearing about an occasional corn-1

plaint of the farmers in the surround—

ing country. They also read in the

daily papers about the serious prob-

lems of farm life and practice during

these days of reconstruction, and they

began to heartily sympathize with

them. Some of the merchants owned

farms and more readily understood the

situation regarding farm labor and

production.



And so it came to pass early in Jan-

uary that the Battle Creek Merchants’

Dinner Club resolved to do something

to get better acquainted with the farm-

ers who came to the city to trade.

and to cooperate with them in trying





were of vital interest to both city and

country. Their first move was to call

upon the writer to attend their next

Friday noon luncheon at the Post Tav—

ern as their invited guest, to give them

a talk on the subject. This club is one

of the main sections of the Chamber

of Commerce of the city. The cham-

ber has been completely reorganized

and has considerably over a thousand

active members and includes every vo-

cation inside the city limits.





Our first native was to arrange with

one of the Farmers’ Clubs to attend

their next regular meeting and take

with us as our guests several mem-

bers of the Merchants’ Dinner Club.

At the first one President Farley and

Chairman VVheelock, of the club, and

Secretary Burnside, of the Chamber

of Commerce, accompanied us in our

car. The merchants contributed about

a dozen pounds of roast beef for the

Farmers Club dinner, and Mrs. Brown

cooked it. Each member of the Farm~

ers’ Club brought food and dishes and

and a fine dinner was served at noon.

’fl‘he afternoon was devoted to a dis-

cussion of the Community idea, partic-

ularly as it obtained in the city of

Battle Creek and the four surrounding

townships. The writer introduced the

subject and was followed by a score

or more of the farmers, their wives

and the city merchants. It was unani-

mously voted by this Farmers’ Club

to join with the merchants in the plan.



Then President Farley invited this

Farmers’ Club to come down and be

the guests of the Battle Creek Mer~

chants’ Dinner Club at the Post Tav-

ern the following Friday noon. And it

came to pass that the entire member-

ship was on hand at the appointed

time.





farm organizations were visited by the

committee of the Battle Creek mer-

chants’ Dinner Club and how return

engagements were played by the

Farmers’ Clubs around the tables in

the big dining-room of the Post Tav-

ern. The first dinner was given to the

Pennfield Farmers‘ Club. It was a his-

torical event and the first one of the

kind in Michigan. The second was

given to the Ceresco Farmers’ Club.

The large picture on the front page

shows the Post Tavern big dining-

room full of farmers and city mer-

chants. A stranger could not tell one

from the other from the clothes and





 





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Grand Rapids, - -'

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A big, new, rcd-bloodcdstock

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same basis that city property is in-

surcdnratcd according to fire pre-

ventive construction and location

of buildings.





It is the opinion of conservative

business men that most farm pro-

pcrty is not adequately protected

against fire. Much farm property

does not carry 50% of its present

value.





If the farmers buildings should

be destroyed now, it would be

catastrophe for him -- meaning

years of saving and scrimping to

replace them.





Very few farmers have increased

their insurance since the World’s

War, (city property owners have)

yet it would cost one-half to two-

thirds more now to replace their

buildings.





No farmer-mo business man--

can afford to be underz'murezl.





Why not mcreme your present

insurance by placing an addition-

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Insurance Company of 1477767764?





Ask our agents or write 771 for

our rate schedule on farm property.

You will be surprised at our low

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policies.





Michigan





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President.





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GET A BETTER -. BULL





WINNWOOD HERD





anasnsns or

Registered Holstein - Friesian Cattle





e have bull calves ready for service and a new

rop of baby bulls coming all of Maplecrest breed.

ing. We have one of the largest pure bred herds

in Michigan and this will be the last chance to

buy sons of Flint Maplecrest Boy. cheap. For his

daughters start to freshen this winter and they

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

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

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

right. Tell us your wants.





JOHN H. WlNN, (1....)

Lock Box 248, Roecommon, Mich





HOLSTEINS OF ~ QUALITY





A few richly bred bull calves for sale from dams with

records from 20 tto) lbs. in 7 (la. and from 331bs.sire.

Shipped to any reliable party on approval. Write me

price you wish to pay, and I will describe the best

bull that I have for thelmoney.



E. A. HARDY, Rochester. Mich.





LONG DISTANCE





Holstein calves of either sex. Oan spare anicely

marked heifer backed by seven damn that. average

above 12(‘ )0 lbs, butter and 24000 lbs. milk in onefiear.

Ohoice Duroo Sows. A. FLEMING. Lake, ich.





A Grand Opportunity





We have for sale one more son (ready

for heavy service) of the famous sire

“Alcartra Pontiac Butter Boy" (136933)

whose daughters sold so well at the

Lansing sale, one sellin for $2000 and

one a ten months old ca f for $500.



The dam is nearly ready to freshen

and we expect her to materially in-

crease her present record of 18.6.





Write for pedigree.





SlNDLINGER BROS.

Lake Odessa,





 





 





Michigan





 





King. of the Pontiacs

and King Segis





Bull calf born Dec. 10th. 1919. Sire:



from son of King of the Pontiac whose



dam is 33 lb. daughter of King Segis.



Sire's dam Bucca Lassie Jean Butter



33.05 Milk 721.



Dam, Fine large cow now on test making 23 lbs.

Price 0150.00 if sold at once.





A. W. COPLAND, Birmingham, Mich.

Herd under state and federal supervision.





1 Hum soon BULL cm.





Born July 1919. His six nearest dams have good yearly

records. Amen st them are three worl ’9: records

Good individn , nicely marked. and worth in any

good herd all he will cost. You can’t pay too muchlfor

this kind. I have a fine four months bull, not quite

so well bred but. a nice one.



L. E. CONNELL Fayette. Ohio.





 





$50 gets 991 white 7gdson Flint H. S. 27 lb butter

561R). milk in days. Maple C. K. H. his dam

gave l232 lb. butter 25106 lb. milk l yr. Terms



M. L. McLAULIN, Redford. Michigan.





 





EGISTERED Holstein hulls sired bv King Zerma

Alcartra Pontiac,son of the $50,000 bu 1; some from

good A. R. O. cows. 0. H. Giddings. Gobleviile, Mich.





GLUNY STOCK FARM

A Semi~0flicai Bred Bull to Head

Your Herd

Maplecrest Application Pontiac No.132652. heads

JOur Herd

His dam's record is 1344.3 lbs. butter. 23421.2

lbs. milk in 365 da 3. and 35.103 lbs. butter and

615.6 lbs. milk in 7 eye.

One of his sons from our good record dams will

carry these great blood lines into Your Hord-

For edigrees and Prices write to

R. BRUCE McPI-IERSON. Howell. Mloh.





GENRID‘A‘ ‘FARMS

BULL CALF, 883%“ DEC. 13,1919





Sire: King Flint. who combines the blood lines

of 2 families 013 generations of 30 lbs. cows and

2 generations of 1200 lb. yearlyv record cows.

Dam of sire has 33.1 lb. butter. 123.4 milk in 7

days: 1007.70 11). butter and 21119 lbs. milk in

305 days. Dam: Is a 21.19 lb. 3 yr. daughter of

Johan Iiengerveld Lad out of a 21.7 lbjr. 3 yr.

grand daughter 01 King Segis.





High Class

Holstein Bulls





King Segis and King of the Pontiacs Blood.



Priced to suit every Breeder, Young calves

up to bulls of serviceable age.



These are good healthy animals. well grown

and fine individuals out of herd under Federal

Supervision.



Good Bankable note will be accepted in part

payment and Bulls will be sold under strict

guarantee of money refunded if not satisfactory.





JOHN P. HEHL,

181 Girl-wold Street, Detroit, Mich.

Re Holstein cows and heifers priced reasonable.

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High class breeding; All bred to a 33 lb. and 11.42

lb. Bull. Some fresh soon. . B. heavey. Akron. Mich.





 





 





 





Reg. Holstein Bull Calf horn Fol). l, 1920. Sires 13

ans ave. 31 lbs. Price 3100 Re . and Del. would

take Liberty bond. J. R. Hicks. R. gSt Johns. Mich.





accepted in aym ent of finely bred -

‘ do“ I." tutored Holrtein bull calves. Quilt“,

of thobeot and atpricee within reach of all. Write.

one. D. (luau. . - . - . Vassar. Mich.





$125 Days a registered Holstein Friesian bull roads

for service lendid individual and best or bi



rs ~ ashlar toms“ asses

(write qubk. Henry E'gohfis, R. 1. Akron. Mich.





 

 





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RIGHT now, with spring plowing still several

weeks away, make up your mind that this

year you are going to make more money out of

farming. Give this silage proposition the consider.

ation it deserves. Get all the facts before you and





you will surely see that every year you “get along” without a

silo, you rob yourself of profits that are within your easy grasp!





A Postcard Request Brings You The

Valuable CHAMPION SILO Catalog





Champion staves, impregnated with creosote oil by the heat-and-

pressure method, are planted in from two to four feet of solid con-

crete. The cables of the interlocking anchoring system are con-

nected to steel rods which are embedded in the concrete founda-

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to the top of the silo where they encircle to channel steel hoops,

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Box 214

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INSURANCE COMPANY

INDEMNIFIES Owners of Live Stock—Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Hogs

Against Death by Accident or Disease





308 Davidson Building,





   





Bay City, Michigan





 





Bull calf born Apr. 27. '19, Sire's six nearest dams

are age 33.34 lbs. butter for 7 days. Dam is a 16.82





lb. 3 year old. Oscar Wallin. Unionvllle. Mich.





 





Reg. Holstein Bulls Born Jan. 18, 20. Feb. I of good M I ‘ H I G A N

Breedin . 850 or Liberty Bond each





J. E. LAN IAUX. as. D. 3Fremorit, Michigan.





HARWUOD HEREFORDS





Young stock both sexes for sale.

"Keep On 508019" heads the herd. Write us,

your wants. Visitors welcome.





JAY HAR WOOD, Ionic, Mich.





Farm air miles south of Ionia.





 





JERSEYS





Michigan is an ideal place for

the raising of Jersey Cattle

and there are no better cat~

tie for dairying than Jerseys.





 





 





q H l l Jerseys mature early, live

Engggggielfillééiug§;T?\:§l;(§r§:gig:¢l$-: 31%;? long. produce persistently.

W °'

comm GARDNER. Hudson. Mich. 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-





3 Prince Donald,3 Farmer and one Poll-

ed bulls from 7 to 13 months old, for sale. tered a barn.





QLLEN BROS- Michigan should have more.

PAW PA 9 MlCHlGANl Jerseys and the Jersey breed-

Herefords. is‘ésizé’i'ifggsi‘irei 33.21%? nogmgggg ers of the state are anxious

either 8% to cooperate with anyone





horned or fiolled. anv age. ’rlce r ason-

able. THE cCAR'I‘YS. Bad Axe. ich.

Who is interested in success-

ful dairy farming.





MICHIGAN JERSEY

CATTLE CLUB.





 





 





 





sexed. not the lar est herd. but few as ood. Come and

see. Farm adjoins‘town. E. J .Taylor. rcmont. Mich.





The Wildwood Farm

Jere? (Jaititlei fining strain.tfietrid 3n gtatfisfigrgg;

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Obstructed Tent—My ‘rorir-‘yéami’d

cow has bunch in teat which has been





there for the past the months. H, B.-





S., Angola, Ind—Apply one part iodine





and fifteen parts fresh lard three times .





a. week.



Imperfect udder.—I have a Jersey

heifer that freshened fur the first-time

in December, 1919. The» two shack

quarters of udder have plenty of milk.

but there is very little to be milked

from forequarters. Neighbors who

have examined her tell me she will

come all right. R. H., Mariette, Mich.

—-Fe'ed her plenty of milk-producing

food and gently hand-rub forequarters

twice a. day and she will Islovvlyai'n-

crease in milk yield. ' '



Chronic Scratches.—-Please giVe me

a. good remedy for scratches. My home

has had sore heels for more than one

year and we have been unable to cure

him. H. J. K., Sunfleld, Mich—Chron-

ic cracked heels are incurable, the skin

can never be restored to itsnormal

condition. Apply one part lysol and

twenty parts petrolatum to sore parts

daily. Give him three drains of Fow-

ler’s solution at a dose twice a day.

His legs should be kept dry and clean.





Horse Passes Blood in Urine—The

urine drips from my horse almost all

the time; besides, it is mixed with

blood. The horse is fleshy and seem-

111le in good health. ‘He has been

treated by two different Vets. S. T. J..

NeW‘aygo, Mich.—-—Give him one-dram

doses of urotropin in feed' or in drink-

ing water three times a day. Also give

him a. tablespoonful of bicarbonate of

soda. at a. dose twice daily.





Barrenness.—I have a cow that

comes in heat regular, but fails to get

with calf. J. F., Ravenna, Mich—As

you give no particular history of this

cow, 1 might say there are many caus-

es of sterility. If fleshy, reduce her;

if thin, build her up, exerciseher, also

wash out vagina with solution or bi-

carbonate of soda, made by dissolving

one ounce in each pint of tepid water

and treating her three or four hours

before she is served, she might get

with calf.





Mange—My horse has an itchy con-

dition of the legs which makes him

very uncomfortable and our local Vets.

fail to cure him. Coal-tar disinfectant

gives him slight relief, but does not

cure him. J. H., Suttons Bay, Mich..—

Apply one part liquor cresolis composi-

tus (U. S P.) and twenty-five parts of

water once or twice a day, also give

horse one-half ounce,of Fowler’s solu-

tion at a dose in feed or in drinking

water two or three times a day. Doubt-

less the hair should be clipped off.





Shy Breeder.—’One of my cows had

a. calf last August. Since then she

comes in heat every nineteen or twen-

ty days, has been bred several times,

but fails to get with calf. Have fed

her commercial remedies for her ail—

meat, but they fail to help her. H. L.,

Salem; Mich—Three hours before‘she

is served wash out vagina with the

following solution, which is made by

dissolving a quarter of a. pound of

strictly pure bicarbonate of soda-in

half a gallon of clean tepid water.

Use a fountain syringe. '



Partial Loss of Power.—We have a

pig four months old that has seeming-

ly lost the right use of hind quarters.

The animal has had plenty of corn to

eat, some squash and skim-milk, also

fed some middlings. She is unable to

get up, having been down for three

weeks. M. L. W., Eagle, Mich—Feed

less corn, more oats, oil meal, alfalfa

and roots, also feed some tankage. In

this kind of a case giving drugs will

not help as much as the right kind of

feed. Apply equal parts of turpentine-

aqua ammonia and raw linseed oil to

back daily. The bowels should be kept.

open.



Catarrh.——I would like to have a

remedy for turkeys that are coughing

and sneezing. L. S. M., Conklin, Mich.

——-Doubtless your turkeys have been

roosting in a drafty place; further-

more, it might be too damp, or your





thirds may have been exposed to too





much wet and cold stormy weather. It

soyou must give them better care and

protect them, then they Will cemmence

to get well. Dissolve a teaspoonful of

salt in one pint of tepid water and dip

their head intothis solutibn’ twice a

day. Mix equal parts of ginger, gen-

tian, cooking soda and wood ”charcoal

together and mix some with Wheel.

together and ' i; ' ‘



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we

a“ the Oscola Co. She

3123111311». Joli“ scimm. Sec need cm





BIDWELL SWIM“





For Beef and Milk

Meow: end heifers Good Scotch and





Scotch-hood M Idle 1- grime condition. 1! “0% .





sanitary equi ment. Ker under stage an





visio Arm lnutu tmmN

lugghr frn-l geld}: dine. Automobile meets





trains. Write





BIDWELLW STOCK FARM

Richland Stock Farms





‘Home of the Michigan Champions.

Shel-thorn Sires 111 Service: ’





IMP. Lorne. IMP. Newton Chnmpion. Sterling ‘





S _ ,me. Why not buy a voung bull to head

.vblt‘ii'eherd that ycarries the blood that is making

Bhorthorn History Only a few real headers

left Write your wants.



C. H. PRESCOTT & SONS. Town: City. Mich.





Silfl'Ii‘lflflll I Royal Bruce lie-dance

SCCICh lgi‘h erd Shim-lee (hmd “(an

Bose wood. Lox ely Omna 0880111 11

gadgemdw several other] goodl temdesfm Two bulls rendy

80 8

{use Bmstoi 5%.. e a Bad Axe, Ml(-..h Address

Nounan Cor. Secretory.





d of America: Polled

web ”Ill! Fm ghelg-tohbsrns. Herd headed by

mud Champ Ion bull, Sui ten .sfidfigmif‘grsn





G

ice 0 1 .

lysSllifegddfiéssgflngurd‘i’ck. gin. Goldwater, Such.





 





EADOW Hills Shoshone. Herd headed by 8i]

1er Kin full brother at Lavender Sultan Pur-

due Unlve y's one. For sale females of all

ages. a few yod'ng bulls. Geo. D Foster. Boston. Mich.





Wk bredlmlls cows and

Shorthornsw .

W..B Mgaggfmprwd&1%owe‘1' Mich.





best Bntee breeding.





Mi‘king Mfihgxuélzofiphdem. Mich





h. Shorth Breeders Aeso. eler

Central maliulls 38 toggles. write for new list.

AR SKIN NEE. Sec. Grow-en.“ .





 





“It Klfll 00. Shmm “:“I ?:g]:]es‘ngf3ungity





for sale. L. H. LEONARD. 890., Caledonia.





FOR SALE l tered Hhorthomsot cod milflu

llstnin. Bung-n three years old. 1115i calves Zto

6 months. Olms Warner J 1' 3.4. Imley City. Allah.





B ll G v Percheron Stud.

ShOI’IIlOl’II “bl: e Bygééfim u s ackraDnruc Hogs either





86x. E. J. ALD aeelmrnsha Michigan.





BrownY Swiss couw‘luyre.0f old with heifer calf by





R csd reasonable.

eg. “as Ylingenr OXIEII. Oeseo.ldich.





21 Registered Holstein:





AT AUCTION





' will eellnll of my Holsteun



nt my WK: N. 10f Ken doll. Mich. and [Smiles



..W of In Roxanne: en mi: comm g.ntnoon



13 females and 3 bulls. I nearly ready for ser-



vioeT hoot oowhnsnreoo'rdof‘dl‘bmand

rs





nden Alec attheumofime.nMphceLN.

WABER hwlll sell 5 nice cows. soon to freshen. to I

ate 11311.me For outdo. write 0. H. Gl lddings.



Mgr. Gobleville. Mich

Kendall, Mich.





D. K. &L. H. WABEE. Owners.





HOGS





Registered BerkshireBoars; rendytor service. A few

gilte and semi bred for Ma agnnd Minnow. Also

spring pigs. CHASE STOCK ABM. Mariette. Mich.





 





 





 





BERKSHIRES both so: andAberdeen-Angus bulls

8 to 12 mos. old ev‘g fine“. lot priced reasonable.

RD Men-.ill Ml l.ch





Rnfid lllé‘td l3‘31““?"...-um" “if ’31.)... ”$116.31....

or re 1' or no one neces-

11125415. Robt. “Bonny dram 8.1011111. Midi.





 





Jule fez-rowed bom randy“:

"I'M "I“ 33:03:) some from all-a Jackfsolrf and

I kwnte I an com o g m

@13qu add Apr. furrow, priced light and momma





in him“ “‘mfogxo. DEAN. 11.1. Meson. 11191.





”(lilac-JERSEYS





6 “w “h" mfidv? EDIJCVN'DE?‘ gusting: m





DUROC JERSEYS





Bred Grateful-March and April arr-o . W

for doecrl or come mind-8e ‘ tug-1.336183%;





with ovexyvord

8!! USE BIOS. OAK 00D FARM, Romeo. Mich





 





Michigana Farm $332.0 sigma?“





The- norm

tin and they will slug on by. r”;

en. breed an sell good Dumas





11nd A9111 furrow. A Gum.

{DI-eds. Monroe. Inch. 8 l.





hfllfle denssvs





and

Refill. Sillithdl’mr. Howell.Mioh. ;





saknofilmredJermeow-armeu:





.Y 0.1111913.





The undersigned will sell fifty-five head of Register-

ed Hereford Cattle consisting of 20 cows with calves

at foot and mostly rebred to our herd bull Gen-

eral Beaumont No. 498968 a great breeding bull

and a son of Anxiety Beaumont, 5 cows will have

calves soon, 5 open heifers and 5 young bulls. These

cattle are of Perfection Breeding and are in nice

breeding condition and are just right to do their new

owners some good,thc cows are the good broad back

kind, so come and help yourselves, as your price





will be ours.





WM. B. WOOD & SON,





AUCTIONEERS

H. I. HULL. C. 0. BURCH.

CLAIR PUGLESY, CLERK





EARL GARqu





of Registered Duroc—Jersey bogs.





unis. “Orion Cheny King” and “Superba” breeding from grand champ-

ions of International Live Stock Show.

Stables 2 miles west of Ypsilanti, on Detroit and Jackson Electric





SALE STARTS 10 A. M.

YPSILAND FARMS





Line.





THE MICHIGAN





MICHIGAN

HEREFORDS





AT





AUCTION





at Dcwagiac, Cass Co. Friday, Mar. 5, 1920

Sale Starts At 1. P. M. Under Cover





 





Dispersal Sale





siland (farms





(Leased and Owner Moving Away)





HOLD. DISPERSION SALE

on Wednesday, March 3rd.





FARMER





 





29-841

312' so '5' mange. any might“:

2.113... "mm witnessed... mot?

Demo. bred Iowa and 8“:le sired ht, Orion Che





...nid Songsmo 2;?

first class lot. reasonable. W.0. Telylor. “11:11.3!





DUROC GlL’I‘S. 353.31%. ‘32:; 3°“





BOAEDKAN FARMS. Jackson. ichiga.





 





WRocylor Sole Brod eons and fall pi s of both

sex end 11 car of grade draft co ts.

CHAS BRAY. Okemos. Michigan.





and full stock for sole



Mums e thviar so:t At Saginutvlvt tail-we

b not ton compe ion



won highest engorgvagAnL DISK Vassu'. Mich





 





 





 





 





Fifty two head. Choicest individ—





 





23 Head Dispersal Sale of Shorthorns 23





March 13th 1920





19 females, 4 bulls at my farm 1 mi. N. /2 m. E. of Vickeryville, Mont-

calm Co., Mich, 011 Muskegon Div. of G. T. R. R., Sale at 2 pm.





Andy Adams, Auctioneer,





 





Like This





fie original big producers





121A mndlofbreedenontheroulte

uccess. 3I can help you. I want to hemiflmnot-l one h)

mg greet herd in every comma





tro-

mdfimfine early ”defialopemendym for; g

o. mnmum. 3.1. D. mimic-11.111.11.-





0.I.C.andChesterWhiteSwine





Striotl T o with unllty. Spring pigs of March

and 1.1.11 ”3w Ac olce lotof bo wm only

spareefewtmm “teat Will ohipC.0.D.





1! record

aNibwmu' a Stock Far-111. Mariette. Mich. B. No. l-





 





 





I C' 3. Last spring boars all sold. Have an extrn

' good lot of last springgiltsgood tall pig snot akin.

Good stock. registered free. 5-6 mile west of epot

01‘ TO B. SCHULZE, Nashville, Mich.

0.1. C’s





 





Am gti'ering 3 £er September pigs that

CO. [.0 size an ual It y.

0...! THOMPSON. q Rockford. Mich.





I. 035 a. Big pe gilts. fall yrs. tried sows M111,

. Apr. furrow mmersndfall pigs. I pay exp. 1-(- g.

tm.satlstactlon gunr 'td. G.P.Andrewa. Denlville,l11-h,





 





0 i C Gilts bred for March and April furrow

0 Ipsy express and register in buyers

11:303.. W. MA N. Dansville. Mich





o 1 C's Have somefChoice Spring Gilts. bred

I' rmg arrow

rd" fin 131103.. a. 1, Mason, Mich.





0 LC Gilt: bred tor March end April furrow gnu-ntaed

' at. with pigs. Fell pig! and A few manic-1 bnus.

Iierd immuned by D. T. F. C. Burgesn. R. 3, Mason bilill.





 





 





I. 0. choice ts bred for March. April and May

- farrow and all hours. Am booking ordus for

spring pigs. A.J Barker& 8011. Belmont. Mi1h.





o I c "Choice bred Sgilts. 2 extra line serxico

choices gs either sex n1 1» 111w.

GLOVEBLEAF "Mom: 11 {1113‘s ,Monroe. 111.11.





1 spring boat. (by Long Jonesl the

L' T. P' C’ best pig you ever saw.- pl'i(';83100.00

undcheck with first letter or the other fellow will

booty 01.1f if you don't like description will return

eo.k A ew good spring boars left at. farmer' s pric es.

Gilbl will be bred to a grandson of Giant Buster and

aGrmd Bonof Dishers Giant, no better pair of young

been in the state. and Wiley’ s King o.b



H ().SW A R 1‘ Z. Schoolcraft. Mich.





 





 





 





FOB Sale—Large Type Poland China Gilts bred for

April furrow. Inspection invited. Free livery from

Manchester A. A heldknmp, ll.2.Mancheste1 Allah





sows bred for March and Apr.

Pdand Chin”! Barrow Large type with best of

breeding. .MILLS, Saline. Mich.





 





 





MILLER Mendow‘s L. ’1‘. P. 0. hours all sold Gilt.

sired b General Jones and bred to our young boar





 





Alaska, adress CLYDE WEAVER. Ceresco. Mich.

Boers also sows and pigs. Real e Poland

Chinas Bred big for 25 years. Sire bJ'KI ich. Bus





tor-by Giant Buster, litter 14 out of Mouw's Miss

Queen 2nd. some breeding, aim b Butlers Bi Joe

bylliust' a Big Joe. out of 11 Won er Queen, 1111 said

Write us your wants we “ill treat you right. our



es are low J. C. BUTLER. Portland 1\ ich.





 





LARGE Type! (I. thelargestinMich.Sp1-ingboare

now ready to ship Bears for the breeders and

bears for the farmers. Come and see the real large

type with quality. Freellivery from Parma furnished

viciton. Loo it up my exhibit at the Great Jackson 00.

Fair Sept 8th. to 12th. expenses aid if not as adver-

tlled. W. E. 'vingeton. Perms. ich.





 





MR P.C Breeder if ’0.“ want to get in the King row,



1311'? a Gilt bred toB ig Bob Mastodon. more Grand



Champion B od in his veins than any other Boat in

Michigan. E. Gamunt Eaton Rapids. Mich.





BIG Tipe Poland Chums. Siredb Smooth Masto

don litter mete to the Ill. Grand hampion.1‘ho

big boned, deep long bodied kind at farmer‘ 51 prices.

Wah- be-me-me Farms. White Pigeon. Michiga-





 





 





BigT [)8 P. 0.501? bred to Ls Big Bob & THIRTY

Ls Giant. Efall R,E§§:% none better. call or write.

NA RD, St. Louis. Mich





 





. O

813 Type Poland Clams "t“ “““l‘” “...:

of both oer. and bred sows and 35?..b“ pnc ”

e A. BAUMGARDNER. 32. Middlsville. Mich





 





 





Fred Carter, Prop.





Addition-[Steels Ads. on Page 3‘2





 





 





 





Breakwater Duroc Jersey Bred Sows





Attractive Prices





During February





Our Show herd has met successfully the strongest competition east and west.

The grand champion boar and the grand champion sew at the Michigan

State Fair for five consecutive years was shown by us.



We breed a type that proves profitable in the feed lot and wins favor at the





big shows.





The bred sows we on altering ere sired'by. out of. and bred to high class individuals ofthese prize





winning strains.

once. By buying in Mbhigsnt





can see what y

We invite you to come to





01:! price: are more ressenable than those of





efarm and make your on





other hard of equal promin-

on buy and save toss.

111111. is impossible. write





“selections

and tell us what yonyunt. We will not have enough to supply the demand. Act promptly 11nd





save disappointment.





BROOKWATER FAPM, ‘





Herbert W. Mumford, Owner.

P. S. Some ready for service “Jam bulls ‘by a do

Iris. We:





R.7,





 





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J. B. Andrews, Mo





MICH.





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son at y-el 11.1.11 out of Molesty'e

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the followin state fairs---Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky,

Tennessee, klahoma,New York,Alabama,Tri-state fair Mem his',and the Nation-

al O.I.C.twice. Stock of all ages for sale. Re istered free int e O.I.C.association.

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O. I. C. *SOWS FOR SALE





One of the Best He-ds in Michigan .

Spring gilts and fall ye arlings bred for March, April and May litters. I Shl

C. O. D., pay express and register in buyer’s name. If you want a BI

TYPE sow, guaranteed right in every way, write me.





. CARL JEWETT, R. 5, Mason, Michigan.





 





 





 





 





i Ty e P. C. Bred gilts, Fall yearlin 5. prize win-

Briers,p out 1100 lb. sire and mammot sows from U S. FIGURES SHOW

Iowa's greatest herds. E.J.Mathewson,Burr 0ak,Mich. a shortage of 2,578,000 hogs. over Jan. I. 1919. Just fix-

ure a moment what this will mean to the farmer.

Constructive breeder of Poland China Hogs.

C. A. BOONE, Blanchard, Mich,





 





' P. O.Gilts bred to Big Orange Model and

Big Type C. H.‘s Defender. None better in State

Priced to sell. W. J. Hagelshaw, Augusta, Mich.





 





B. T. Poland China. Choice lot of elite bred for





16 ’1‘ e Poland Ohinas. Up-to-date in breeding, sonable. Also a. choice lot of (all pigs either sex.

B withiize and quality. We like grad ones and bev W. BREWBAKER QBONS, Elsie, Mich.

lievg yen dAo 9.119%. QI-Iliave threet chlo ce'Igiiltis fie; eizltlaé

bre for ri ,, ,resecive . ersr a

months weighed 640 lbs.. new: fitte , and stood 40 in. I am'ofi'ering Large Type Poland China Bows. bred

tall, 73 in. lon and onalO in. bone. They are bred to to F s Oran e. at reasonable ricer also fall pi.fi.

a great son 0 Mountain Giant. Write or come and Write or call lyde Fisher. 8t. ours, Mich. 11.3.3.

see. You're always welcome. WESLEY HILE. R. 6

Ionia, Michigan.





ROYAL BRED GILTS





Dans sired b Michigan Cherry Col. Bred to Jacks - rov Ham shires “Quality First" Michigan

Cherry Orion liing.No.169259.Bon of the 810.000.champ- Pill. goy, Eli-and ham ion boar of \‘iohigan. Bred

ion, Jacks Orion King-2nd. all high class stock, write and owned by us. any other prize winner at

for prices. The Jenmns- Forms. RJ. Bailey. Mich. Miohl an State Fair 1919. 1102's for sale all ages, both

sex, “iookout Joe

GEO. course .1: sons,





 





The rest bacon breed. Some ood

Tamwofllls re stgered gilts bred forMarob tori-ow.

also loll pigs. . H. WARNER, Concord, Mich.





 





 





" a $1000 boar heads our herd.



' R. l, Mariette, Mich



B T P C :ggllfngob‘gsrflhgidifi (lg: (filings: ‘

' ° ' ‘ . . .. a



per-fee} as lanprl ti: Miclaizan. {Igficfwsga cuts Bred Gilts Sal: slog! mpfzsfgfid more later.



"M an' ' m "m ”on ° ‘ “mm” JOHN W. ssvn a, it. Johns. Michigan.





b. E or i reoordedhee.

Bk 0 Joni: fipvfimiv, “Md“m' Mich“ W





L. T P c s ringdizllts ready to ship also ml SHEEP-



- 0 - a) be sexes. P. ILALEXANDEB. . .

B. l'. D. C. Alb n. Mich" Bell phone 84311]. ShI'OPShlre. gflufifig‘mlamclfoggod

owes. w. n. ucourf'uu, n.1, Howell, Mich.





mason-I Stock as. on "r... 343 '





     





 





 





 





 





T P. 0. Gilt- lired by It Giant and 0's 0r 9.

B ' d 50]. Jack Jr. No r

breadth. Bfiotgeo'hzgmotnmboflain.uarcellumkgloh.





 





«new 4;,





Mar. Apr. and May farmw. Price very rea- _





FIRST EDITION.





The markets .in this edition were re.-

vised and corrected on Monday after-

noon, February 23.





WHEAT.





Wheat is quiet and .mlllers report

no particular activity in the flour

trade. Present values at Detroit are

as follows:



No. lred OCOIIIOOIODOOI$ZI50

NOolmixed OIIOOCOOAIO. 2.48

’NO. lwhite IOIDOOICI'I. 2048

NOozred OIUOOOIIOJOOOI 2.47

No. 3 red 2.44





OATS.





Oats followed the trend of corn.

Liquidation was in evidence and buy-

ing power limited, but enough oats

were wanted to maintain prices. The

new crop season approaching and the

heavy carry-over of oats tend to keep

prices down. At Detroit prices are:





 





 





No. 2 white ............. 92%;



No. 3 white ......... 91%



No. 4 . . . . ............... 90%

RYE.





There has been no particular activ-

ity in the rye deal, Cash No. 2 rye be-

ing quoted at $1.58 at Detroit on Sat-





urday.

BEANS.





Beans are reported to be in fair de-

mand and the market steady. Present

quotations at Detroit are: Choice

hand-picked pea beans are quoted at

$6.75; at New York choice pea beans

are quoted at $7.75@8; red kidney

beans $14.75 per cwt.





SEEDS





. Red clover seed is easy and 50 cents

lower. Alsike and timothy remain un-

changed. Present values at Detroit





$34.75 ; timothy $6.80.





FEEDS.





Present quotations for feeds at De-

troit are as follows: Bran $51; stand-

ard middlings $54; fine middlings $59

@60; coarse corn meal $64; chop $55

@56 per ton in loo-pound sacks.





HAY.





The demand still exceeds the supply

on the Detroit market where present

values are as follows: No. 1 timothy





mixed $32.50@34; No. 2 timothy at

$31.50@32; No. 3 timothy at $27@29;

No. 1 mixed $31.50@32; No. 1 clover

$31.50@32; rye straw $13.50@14;

wheat and oat straw $13.50@14 per ton

in carlots.





POTATOES.





Supplies at Detroit are liberal and

the demand and movement good, mar-

ket strong and prices slightly higher.

The quality and condition of stock ar-

riving is generally good. Sales to job-

bers of Michigan. U. S. Grade No. 1

well-graded, round white stock, report-

ed at $6.50@6.75 per ISO-pound sack.

At Cleveland Michigan round white

stock, U. S. Grade No. 1, is quoted at

$6.75@6.85 per 150-pound sack. Sales





to jobbers.

EGGS.





Eggs are coming in freely and a.

steady market is quoted. Present quo-

tations at Detroit are 53@54c for

fresh eggs.





POULTRY.





Saturday’s poultry market was firm

and everything that arrived in time

was taken. Some receipts came too

late and were carried over, but this

did not affect the strength of the mar-

ket and dealers look for prices to be





 





For Best Net Results

- Ship to

CULOTTA & JULL

Detroit, Mich.

“Enough snar-





Mr. POULTRY FARMER :





We make a specialty of White Hennery Eggs and

have created a profitable market for your a“. m9

éwmmvi'dii’tififit’?‘ pregame

— 6 me a pmon

“'33” SM» wan—sup by zip...

GEO. R. ELDRIDGE CO.





lid-lulu Street. Detroit. Mich.

Remember! '- [car-nut you satisfaction with our, ship-oat.





 





 





 

 

 





 





are: Prime red clover $35; alsike' at B





$33.50@35; standard $32.50@33; light 13





 





, Ship to The Old Reliable Hence

HA DanielM Cat! 03’. Sons,





H “M” “I” BM!" W'n In





Market Reports . t,





maintained. At Detroit dressed chick-

ens are quoted at 3761138“ ducks at

40@42c; geese 28@300. Live Poultry

-——Spring chickens large 37 @380; Leg-

horns 35@360; hens 38@40c; small

hens 36@37c; roosters 23@24c; geese

30@35c; ducks 40@45c; turkeys 44@

450 per pound. '- '





BUTTER.





The demand is active and all re~

eeipts are taken promptly on arrival.

The foreign butter. arriving in New

York is having no effect on the De-

troit market, where quotations are as

follows: Fresh creamery 61@611/20;

fresh creamery in one—pound prints at

61%@641/2c.





LIVE STOCK MARKETS

BUFFALO





Today’s hog market is not so strong

as Saturday’s, with pigs, lights, york-

ers and mixed selling at $15@l5.25 and

medium and heavy at 814631425. Cat-

tle ruled 50c@$1 lower, lambs brought

$20.25@20.50 and calves $22.50.





DETROIT





Cattle.





Receipts 997. Market opened steady

but closed 50c lower.

Best heavy steers ..... .811.00@12.00

Best handy wt bu steers. . 10.00@10.50

Mixed steers and heifers 9.00@ 9.50





 

 





 





Handy light butchers . . . . 8.50@ 8.75

Light butchers ........ . . 7.75@ 8.25

Best cows 8.75@ 9.00





Butcher cows . . . . . . . . . . . 7.5061) 8.50





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

Canners ....... . . . ..... . 5.50@ 5.75

Best heavy bulls . . . . . . . . 8.60

Bologna bulls . . . . . . . . . . . 7.75@ 8.00

Stock bulls ...... . ...... 7.00@ 7.50





Milkers and springers... .8 65@ 120

Veal Calves.



Receipts 546. Market steady.



est .................... 821.006.222.00



Others .............. . . . . 8.00@18.00





Sheep and Lambs.





Receipts 1,866. Sheep steady and

lambs very dull and 7 50 lower.

Best lambs . . . . . . . . . . . . .319.50@20.00

Fair lambs . . . . . . . . . . . . 18.00@19.00

Light to common . . . . . . . 15.00@16.00

Fair to good sheep . . . . . . 12.00@13.50

culls usvoooooooooooolooo 6.00@ 8.00





Hogs.

Receipts 1,946.

Mixed h0g8 - o o o a I cos I s o 0‘14560@14.75





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Heavy COOC‘OOOICOOOOOIOOO 14l00@14025





CHICAGO.





Hogs.



Estimated receipts today are 43,000;

holdover 3,821. Market fairly active,

10@15c lower. Bulk of sales $13.90@

14.50; tops $14.75; heavy 250 lbs up,

medium, good and choice at $13.60@

14.15; medium 200 to 250 lbs, medium

good and choice $14@14.50; light 150

to 200 lbs, common, medium, good and

choice $14.35@14.75; light lights 130

to 150 lbs, common, medium, good and

choiCe $14.25@14.75; heavy packing

sows. 250 lbs up, smooth $12.50@13.25;

packing sows 200 lbs up rough, $12@





12.50; pigs 130 lbs down medium, good





and choice $13.25@14.50.





Cattle.



Estimated receipts today are 20,000.

Market slow and weak to 25c lower;

calves mostly 50c lower. Beef steers

medium and heavy weight 1100 lbs

up. choice and prime $14@16.25; do

medium and good $11.50@14; do com‘

mon 896311.50; light weight 1100 lbs

down, good and choice $11.85@15.25;

do common and medium $8.50@11.85;

butcher cattle, heifers, common, me-

dium, good and choice $6.50@12.75;

cows, common, medium, good and

choxce.$6.50@11.50; bulls, bologna and

beef $7.25@10.75; canners and cutters,

cows and heifers $5@6.50; do canner

steers $6.25@7.75; veal calves, light

and. handyweight, medium, good and

chorce $15.25@16.75; feeder steers,

common, medium, good and choice at

$7.50@11.50; stocker steers, common,

medium, good and choice at $6.75@

10.25; stocker cows and heifers, comi

mon, medium, good and choke $6.75

@9; stocker calves, common, “medium,

good and choice $7.75@11.



Sheep and Lambs.



Estimated receipts today are 20.000.

Fat lambs extremely slow,_ 50@75c

lower; sheep steady to 25c lower.

Lambs 84 lbs down, medium,





d; ~

choice and prime at $17.50‘@20.75g;0(:io





culls and common $14@17.25; spring

lambs, medium, good choice and rime

$15.50@19; ewes, medium, goodp

choice $11.25@14.50; ewes? all

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GRAND RAPIDS ' I





The egg market is sailorthis week

as to supply by the arrival of south-

ern laid, but the price is unchanged at

5250 bid. Southern are quoted at 50c

at shipping points. lThe_ hide market

continues very weak, With a further

decline of 5c per pound Friday. W1n~

ter hides show grubs. meg to zero

weather nearly all the week, and tram

service interrupted, no potatoes were

shipped from up state and very few

farmers marketed any. Jobbers still

ask $3 per bushel. The bean market

is inactive and jobbers quote Michigan

pea beans at $6 per cwt. .Dealers m

Greenville have cut theprice to $5.50.

A meeting of the Michigan bean Job-

bers was held Friday at Lansxng. The

United States government wants 350

cars for shipment to'the American Re-

lief Association stations in Hamburg,





Danzig, Vienna and Budapest. These -





eans will be distributed on £0.0d

grafts, bought at any Federal Reserve

Bank by friends, sent to headquarters

in New York. The Lenten season has

caused increased demand for fish, lake

and, seacaugh‘t. Snow blockade has

delayed shipments inland of sea fish

and the catch of lake varieties 13 light

by severity of the weather. Lake trout

retails at 28@3OC per pound; white-

‘fish 25@26c, and perch 250. Apples

are in strong demand and fancy Spys





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are Jobbed a $ pe Some little





ade





and Greenings $4@4.50.





change in the price of grain was 111

this week. Rye is quoted at $1.35 per

bushel; oats 88c; corn $1.50; barley

$1.60; buckwheat $3.50 per cwt. Loose

hay at Whitehall is $35 per ton and

Grand Rapids

market price is $30; receipts are very





at Grand Haven $32.

light.





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NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET.





 





Butter.——There was a considerable

accumulated stock at the wharves but

the demand for butter was so strong





to be shown.





nor does he cling forever to





, This farm belongs to a man whom his neigh-

bors call the man with an open mind. He al~

ways has to be shown; but he is always ready





He does not clutch blindly at each new thing,





rusty practice. New methods submitted to him

are examined sanely and thoroughly tested.





It was told to this farmer that the Milwaukee

Air Power Pump Co. representative in his

county was an expert, trained to install, on a

separate, Special plan for each farm, a water

and light system that would increase the farm's





that it was cleaned up almost immedi-

ately. Added to that accumulation, a

Danish steamer bearing 6,435 casks of

butter from Denmark arrived the first

part of the week and that butter has

all been absorbed. There is a marked

scarcity of butter here as the rail—

roads have had extreme difficulty in

getting the butter to New York. Local

consumption is high. Large shipments

of Danish butter are expected soon.





On lThursday the price advanced a half .





cent, the first advance that had taken

place for some time. Quotations are:

Extras 67%c; higher scoring than ex-

tras 68@681,éc; firsts (90~91 score)

63(63661/30; firsts (88@89 score) 59@





value and profits and bring the water up di-

rect from the well and cistern every time the





 

 





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620; seconds 54@58c:.





Eggs—The egg supply is short. The

storms have prevented delivery. The

demand was exceedingly acute,

prices went skyward. Undoubtedly

eggs will be scarce so long as the

. Quotations:

Firsts 67@680; extra firsts 69@7OC;





strenuous winter lasts.





extras 71@720.





Poultry-«Deliveries of poultry have

been slow during the week and prices eggs

have advanced. The demgnd has been fleckmmnatchou.261*J-Lron, Gm



pring chick-





good. . Quotations are:





and





DAY OLD CHICKS





' g, l. ’5. Guaranteed to 1,890 miles. Eggs (or

‘ $9. Hatching. Bar. Rocks, 8. C. W.

91/ Leg“ 3. c. a a. c. Reds. w. Wm.





   

   

 





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m POULTRY FARMS, R. 19 (lotto. him





If chi: and eggs are '

DANGER “mum, mm. Chlx 15c Up

MOOO Chix this-season. Best Blooded stock over

roduced at low prices noted. Selected Utility,

Exhibition trapnoned stoc . 16 varieties. Hatching

. Benn. Ducks, Turkeys. Gee-e. Book your orders

1y. Avoid disappointment. Stamina appreciated.

Rapids. Mich.





 





ens 32@35c; fowls 40c; old masters E883 gfiogfili‘lefrlze winning Barred Books. 1.2.3.





5 and 1 ullct and l pen at Ypsilan-





240; turkeys ‘35@4°C; CUCkS 3068356; ti and 2 cooker-cl and 2 pp) et at Albion inuclaas of63





geese 20@220.





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Bilo Fills-Cato .. For ooeodi -

log. you want u cannibal. England!"

Memento! hood with {our knives. Three

doadolfl'oodwlthootomatic opeod control





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GRASS SEED





Cookerels and pullets for sale from 83 to 35. Eggs $2 per

cottlng. George H. Campbell. 3.5. Ypsilanti. Mich.





I We are now booki or-

Fowler 3 Buff Rocks. am," m... “an 0.0,

cookerels left. R. B. FOWLER. Hartford, Mich.





. tow B. P. R. cockerels at

Mrs.IE. BELLEN, Whittenlore. Michigan





 





ohn's Big beautiful Barred Rocks are hen hatched

J w quick, good layers, sold on approval,malrs 34

go Circulars photos. John Northon. Clare, Mich.





.BABV CHICKS AND DUCKS



O .10 breeds of chicks. 4 breeds of



ducks. Utility and Exhibition



grades. Postage aid and live delivery guaranteedfla.

R: Catalog free,Stamps appreciate





acit 100.000 wee 1y

Alice HATCHERlES, Gambler, one;





HODE ISLAND RE'DSL-Rose



Comb Cockerels hen-hatched,fann



raised, big and thrifty, from prize

winning strains. $4 to 87.50, four top

birds 310 each. For immediate or lat-

er shipment—orders filled in turn as

received. Write now to secure best

selection.





 





 





Deal direct with our big oleani mills cage Let

us show you how our location igfihe blgilln‘laglhérder cen.

ter enables us to save on money on your needs. We

call you the finest are. e at a saving worth while. For

the best quality on the market today, get our





wummonr cm s up





the grade that meet: all state law ems, Iovor.

a. mfine “my. In-

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BIDWELL STOCK FARM, Tecumseh. Mich.

Rhode Island Reds,';,g;,,gg:§:.:gzgg

BURT GIBSON, Imlay City, Michigan.





 





 





Rhode Island Whites





rpose Birds being year round lay-

and a few good males.

.8. JUHP, Jack-on.





Dr. Leghorn of” 81.50 for 15. Pekln ducks





Sigh BETTE. IHlllndolo. Mich.





Leghorn: Excellent .luen. Fug:

ones Eggs posépalldlgfi. $1.50..3£. $3. 45: . .

8.'-6.~l. 1. nods. ..





assesses-resets





lchigon.





to Chinese geese eggs ll cents





cockorel and

from pure





 





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profits.





   

     





8 c a m r I Cocksrels. 8 to 9 lbs. Price 85 to

I I I no G 310. E gs in season. Satisfaction

guarantood. CHAS. CHOOK, Allonton, Mich.





 





Silv. Golden and White Wysndottes. Choice

1', quallté cookerels and pnllets 33.00 to $5.00

Ouch. .W. Browning, R31, l’ortland,Mlch.





8. 0. R. I. RED





Cockoroll. 83.00 to I$5.00 each. Fine stock. Also

Collie Dogs. 0. .HAWLEY. Ludington,l\llch.





Choice cooker-

Wh'te wyandottes els and pullets

from pure bred quick ma urlng hoav laying strain.

Cockerels $4.00 to $8 00. ullets $3. to $5.00. Pens

315.00 to $5.00.

H. J. PATON. Route 3. Box 115, Ypsilanti, Mich.

O Choice Cockorel and

Wh'te Rooks. Pallets from pure bred

quick maturing heavy laying) strain. Cockerel $4.00





to $8.00 Pullets 83.00 to $5.00. one 315.00 to $25.00.

11. J. PATON, Route 3. Box 115. Ypsilanti, Mich.





 





 





S C Rhode Island “'hlte and White “'yandotte

0 0 eggs for hatching. Prices reasonable. write

W. . ECKARD. ’aw Paw, Michigan.





 





Wh‘te Wyandotte; out of choice stock for sale;

cocks. cockerels each. send for m





circular. DAVID R'AY. Ypsilanti. Mlchy.





' Leghorns. Brown Leghorns, Anc . h'

White 517 per 100. Live arrival gnarl-Intendin‘lflzécokf

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all varieties. Catalog free. Triangle, Clinton, 09





 





' Wyandottos: Eggs for hatching from select )1

White layers-i. 52.00 per 15. repaid. 1 male 10 femnl‘ote

8.010. Frank De Long R. 3 hree Rivers. Michigan.‘ .





' Choice breedin , E . 1:, 1w

Wk“. ”math flock: 1(1). $10.00. pl‘t‘glflll .quays‘old

chicks,l100. $20.00. Richard M. Grciton, Mason, Mich.





 





 





Several large Standard Cypher-s ln-

wanted. cubators. State condition and price

wanted. Interlakes Farm, Lawrence. Michigan.





"Increase 56m 67mm





faucet was turned. This farmer went to the





 





 

 





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trained representative. With many questions,

the farmer searched for exact facts. He was

convinced. The system was installed.





His farm, shown in the above illustration, now

has wafer piped directly from well and cistern

to farmhouse, barn,1awn, watering trough and

dairy; and there’ 5 electriclight in all buildings .





Our representative has been trained. Do as

this farmer did—talk to our representative ;

there’s no charge for consulting him. Let him

convince you that he knows how to make your

farm worth more, besides making you bigger





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We have a representative in your

county. If you don’t know him, write 115.





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BELGIAN DRAFT HORSES





We have the best andlargest herd in the world

to select from. with Grand Champions heading

our herd.

We won more premiums at the International

Belgian Horse Show. Waterloo. Iowa. 1919 than

any other breeder or exhibitor. competing against

25 exhibitors from lows, 3 from Indiana. 1 from

Illinois and 1 from Canada.

We have sold 4 Winners at the International Bel.

gian Horse Show to an Iowa breeder. Those

horses Winning again at the International Live

Stock Show at Chicago the same year.

We are listing mares of Iowa breeders and breed.

ers from other states. to be bred to our Rubia

8004, whose ofi’spring won at both Internationals

this our. taking some of the highest honors to

stall on and mare classes.

Wg can sell you a cal-load of stallions and mares

or Just one of either sex.

We invite your inspection and will meet you at.

any of the railroad stations if you will write us

in time.

Come to Burt. Michigan. via Grand Trunk Rail-

way or to St. Charles. Michigan. via the Michigan

Central Railroad.



We are in the market for Registered Belgian



Draft Colts





Owosso Sugar Company

Prairie Farm

ALICIA, Saginaw County, MICHIGAN





 





SHEEP





KIDS of Mich. You are the future farmers of the

state. 1am one of the best sheep breeders in

the state. Lets get together that you may start your on n

flock of re stored hropshirel now. A lot of kids

have alrea y done so. but I Want more. I will buy

vour ram lambs and cooperate with you in every Wu



Write me for myproposltion and rices. KOPE~KOh

FARMS, S. L. Wing. Prop. Box . Goldwater. Mich.





BUY A SHEEP





Wait a mlnute.buyfiampahlm. The :merlcan Hm -



of Assoc t:.on wants to sen on a dandy lig-

tlo bookl with lot of Breeders. Shine near you.

Write COMFORT ll. TYLER. Secretary. 2 Wood;

land Ave., Detroit. Mich.





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assassin h’séinli‘iinmim

Clayton. Mich. n. a. " Olmmpzmor,





 





 





 





 





Shropshire bled em. 1 to 3 .

"'8'“.er La: 9. health . well fleeced $353932.

tho-d thi- vo ‘





action in lists

lea-ca rams all _ d. . Lemon, Dexter. ion.





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For Sale full blood Percheron Stallion Indicateur

(33098. “'t. 1900 lllack. this horse has no superior in

Mich. from any angle. Mr. Horse man got on tho

wb as the finest. real horse man etc him. Also the

likes Stallion Clarelawn 1.2.1554: bold fearless

driver and a good live. horse. these horses will be sold

at once the first (‘Olllft‘fil‘fit served.

CHARLES L. S'l‘OClehlLE. “'uland, Mich





 





Percherons. Holslems, lugs, Shropshlros. Bums

DORR D. BUELL. lm ltl. Mlchlflin.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





A black to stored three earold For-

For sale oheron Sta lion weight 17 lbs. broke

to work. Julian A. Palmer. Camden. .~ ichigan.





 





Stallion it sold noon. e isa good on.)





$30000 takes my 5 yr. old Registered Percheron

R. H. CONSTOCI, Petoskey, Michigan.





 





Stallions a d max-ea at reasonable

PerChCron prices; inspgctlon invited. '

F. L. KING- t SON, Chartlotte. Mich.





 





For Sale airway“ Serrated“;

Good worker. E. WIN L. Cooks. Mich.





 





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Immortal lie: on momma alligatmégefiflvgr mail: and

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Read What Factories

Say of the M. S. A. S.





 





   

 





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The. Michigan State Auto School in our opinion,

is the finest. institution of its Kind in the country.

In fact, we endorse its method of instruction.



We have recommended a great many students to

them and the results Were satisfactory.



The Michigan State Auto School ranks highest

in the standard of schools. Its equipment and

personnel is second to none. This school is thought

very highly of by the automobile men of Detroit

and is considered one of the most efficient schools in

the country.



If you intend to visit tiny school then by all

means choose the best one. The Michigan State

Auto School. so far as We know is the best. You

will make no mistake by entering for a course.



Yours faithfully,

HUDSON MOTOR OAR COMPANY.

Service Department,





 





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Wish to say that this is one of the best schools

in the country, and would not hesitate to recom-

mend it to any one who is desirous of learning the

automobile business. It is a recognized institution

among the automobile factories 01 this city.



Their methods of instruction. t eir lectures and

theories are 100 per cent perfect. \ 'ith all of their

equipment and with the practical work that the

students are able to get in their own organization,

I madly believe that mechanics throughout the

country are missing one great_opportiiiiity if they

do not. take advantage of their course. I do not

know of another place in the country that has the

number or different type motors. chassis. and the

thoroughness of going into various electrical appli-

ances and equipments as used on modern motor

cars, that I found in their school.



MAXWELL MOTOR CO. INC.

A. E. Richmond. ' '

Superintendent of SCIVICC.





 





   

 





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The Michigan State Auto School enjoys a very

enviable reputation and isprobably one of the best

of its kind in the United States. Hare no hesita-

tion in recommending it. in every particular.



Yours very truly,

PACKARD hlUTUlt CAR L‘UMPANY.





 





 





 





 





f—DETRII-om-I-I'I‘Hl Money Back

mrmuormumiiimv Guarantee

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We guarantee to

qualify you for a po.

sition as chauffeur, re.

puir mun, demon-

strator, auto electri-

cian,garage nian,auto.

mobile dealer or trac-

tor mechanic and

operator, paying $100

to $400 monthly or

refund your money,

no provided you do your



5! part and attend our

classes.





 





 

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 





This is your chancel

you don't care to enga

pair your machines yourse .

costly delays at busy seasons. Thuikfl too, Of the money 3'0“ 09-“ make In your Spare Everywhere there is an insistent demand f0

time adjusting and repairing your neig

farm or at some conveniently located place nearby.





 

 

 

 





 

 





 

 





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Complete Training in Auto





' ‘ Our course in Auto Electrics is

EleCtrlcs thorough and complete. Standard

electric equipment for autos, trucks and tractors

is in 'actual operation for students to work on.

Students are taught to quickly and easily locate

electrical troubles. Hundreds of graduates are fill—

ing high salaried positions in electrical service sta-

tions. Every quarter of the globe recognizes our

school as the world’s training place for Auto,

Truck and Tractor Mechanics.





Complete Tractor Course



You are given complete instruc-

IHCIud ed tion on care and operation of Farm

Tractors in our regular Auto Course. Constantly

increasing use of tractors calls for trained tractor

men. Manufacturers have placed machines with

us to give our students the benefit of practical

instruction. Hundreds of students are completing

our course and returning to the farm, competent





to care for their tractors and the tractors of their

neighbors.





Brazing, Welding and Tire





‘ ' These two subjects are tau rht

Repalrlng in separate courses. Hundred:3 of

students take them with the Complete Auto

Course. Others take them separately. Competent

men are in big demand in both fields. Brazers and

Welders are needed in every field—Tire Repair

men are always in big demand.





FREE—176 Page Open All





Catalog , Year—Start

Also latest copy of “Auto School News” both Any Time





absolutely free. They tell about courses—show





hundreds of pictures of equipment—give letters ' Our school is open the

from big auto factories and graduates. Our courses year ’round. Enter the

are reasonable in price. In fact, they are so rcason- classes any day. You can

ably priced that many students write us when to get started the same day

expect. them, jump on a train and come to Detroit you arrive. Our welfare

without writing for Catalog. Come start training department will assist you

at once. ACT NOW! (ii-t the coupon in the in findingagood room and

mail TODAY. splendid meals.





MICHIGAN STATE AUTO SCHOOL e , “1.22 (1





r. 3qu! Progressive Auto School/'0 Morica"-— “In the ”ear





45 airy-gs :Amuigooo 432331335 Detroit.





,Tarln "WEIritnde





ufactured today. 71% are made in ctroit. Think of motif—and

. these same manufacturers heartily endorse our school and furnish us

With their latest chassis.





The Factory Endorsed School





The thoroughness of our methods and the com letenes of o r e i ment are well known in



the Auto Industry. The biggest factories in the cogntry heirtilyuendlfip



many of the leading Auto Manufacturers assisted in outlining our Course and the give our Students



the fullest co-operation possible. These factories are constantly calling on us for gra uates because they



know the type of men we turn out. Everywhere in the Automobile Industry, M. S. A. S. graduates are

given the preference because ours is the Factory Endorsed School.





Earn $100 to $400 Monthly





Really, there is no limit to your earning capacity after you have mastered this business. This can be made the stepping stone to a





 





 

 





 

 

 





" 5 Detroitwitli

more than 130 .Auto

and Accessory factories. in in-

] d delsd tale Heart “of the 9km”



. n ustry. 00 or city 0 ers sue on

to the student who would know the Auto, Truck and

Tractor business thoroughl . Of all the automobile. mun-





 

 

 

   

 

 

 

   

 





se our Course. In fact,





most successfulhusiness career. The training you get here will fit you to hold positions which before were out of your reach. Factories, if

Garages. andfiervme Stations all over the Country are continually asking for our men. They know the value of the training we give and do ‘éx’i

_ not hesitate t'0 gIVe our graduates the preference. Your success in the Auto Business depends upon your training—what you are taught and it A

trained to do correctly. Here at the M. S. A. S. you are thoroughly instructed in every phase of the Auto Industry. You learn every part of the z" .

work by actually doing it. {

C O O O I O 1

Many Train at Detroit and Return to the Farm. Unlimited Opportunities for Men Who Know.

Come to Detroit the Heart of this great industry. If The comin .- i - - - .., f:

_ ,n . g year “ill be the greatest in the histor of the auto indust . ‘

23:1 the tarage Zusufss'l repare to operlaltc, adjust. and Fed- Producers and distributors of every kind of Auto, Trusdk and Tractor will rge t ‘

save 0‘15““ S 0 0 8’3 “1 repair b1 8 33.W9n as avot tremendously busy. Garages and Service Stations will be rushed to the limit. at -





r men——trained men who lmow how





b0“. maCthC-q» either in ‘1 small 51109 on your own to adjust, repair and care for these thousands of machines.





Read What Graduates

Say of the M. S. A. S. \





 





Thanks to the M. S. A. S. I have been getting along

fine since I left Detroit. 1 have spent most of my time

at. auto regair and haven't been stalled on a car yet. . '



I am rea y to go in company with one of your r

raduates, Ed. Pnrsey. who 5 buying a garage. .



on have surely made a good repairman out of me.



I would like one of your new catalogs and The

Auto News. ’ “.



Hoping this will find you all well, and thanking ‘

you again, I am,



Yours truly.





HERBERT F’UHRWERK,

Harbor Beach, Mich.





 





I am makingc‘fiood (thanks to the "Old Reliable"

M. B. A. S. fa ty, par excellence), with every job

that happens along, which is to say that I am kept

more than busy, a though I haven't opened a gar

yet. I am out on the road nearly every day. starting

autos and gas engines. locating electrical troubles,

etc.. etc. So ’you can see that I am busy.



I can tnith ully say that I have never regretted one

minute of the time that I spent in the M. S. A. 8.

and would advise anvone who wanted a thorough

trainin in the Auto Industry by all means to go to

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next sprin as I now own a nice is e buildln 36'x60’

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garage, am making 8300 per month at the least



ve made 8375 but as an average betw 8350 an

$37 That is pretty good. but will do hater. Yes. .,

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Alva.. Okla.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





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