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Whole Number 4090





DETROIT, MICH., .SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1920





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f 1 Shall We Inventory Our Waste Land?





Everyaody is Interested One Way or Anotfler in Me Pan/i6 Policy to ée

Fol/owed Regarding Micnz'gan ’5 Mil/ions of 14 ere: of Id/e Land.





leSSly broke the news to you that



a gold mine was hidden somewhere

about your farm and was waiting only

to be tapped, what would you do first?

Or rather, what would you do third?

For the chances are that in the first

place you would tell him he was a con-

founded liar, and in the second, once

he had convincéd you, you would split

the air with a few old-time Indian war

whoops. . ‘



In case you were sort 0’ enthusias-

tic, probably you would rush out into

that stone patch and seize upon the

first pebble that glittered for a gold

nugget. You might at once grab a

pick and shovel and start out for pay

dirt. Maybe you would crank the “tin

Elizabeth” and hurry to your family





IF your next-door neighbor breath-





lawyer to get the papers drawn up for

the new million-dollar company that

was to rake in the fortune. Or would

you scratch your head and say to your-

self, “Well, I guess I can get along.

Got enough to keep me going till along

next August. Reckon I’d better not

get excited about that gold mine yet.”



Well, nobody has discovered any

great quantity of the yellow dust on

Michigan soil. There isn’t any rush of

“forty-niners” to set up claims here-

abouts, nor is there likely to be. But

all the landowners in the Wolverine

State collectively possess something

which bears the earmarks of a mine—-

whether of gold or of quartz.



This seeming mine is in the form of

millions upon millions of acres of un-

developed land. Out of the 36,000,000





acres total area, 18,000,000 is not put

to any sort of agricultural use, and of

the 18,000,000 only 12,000,000 are with—

in fenced farms. The situation in

which Mr. Michigan Citizen has found

himself with respect to this land has

been very much like that of the farm-

er with the gold mine.



In the first place, after the forests

had been cut off, he refused to believe

there was further hope of making use

of these vast tracts. If he did enter-

tain such thoughts, they were soon

thrust out of his mind by the peculiar

conditions existing. Before any tim-

ber land at all could be. used it had to

be cleared. At the best, tillingr Michi—

gan soil profitably was exceedingly dif-

ficult, because when the resources of

the west were opened, the Michigan





farmer found himself left hopelessly

behind in the competitive race to sell

food products cheaply. The great tide

of immigration from northern Europe

swept in the direction of the west. In

addition many Michigan youths were

lured by the opportunities in these rich

new regions and left their native state,

thereby decreasing the man power and

delaying still further the day when.

this state should take its place in the

ranks of the agricultural leaders.

Even when the tide reached the Pa-

cific, and good land had become suffi-

ciently scarce to permit development

here, this development extended only

to that land which could be cleared

rather easily and was unquestionably

tillable. Mr. Citizen still did not con-

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CURRENT COMMENT





EE DING out a





dairy herd and

Imp'mfe getting rid of the in-

Unprofrt- 'ferior cows is a com-

able Acres paratively easy task





pompared with weed<

ing out the unprofitable acres of land

and getting them in shape to return a

profit. If the cow fails to produce prof-

itably, her owner can sell her for

something and put a better one in her

place. but not so with the acre of land.

The best he can possibly do is to set

about the problem of building it up to

a level where it will become an asset

rather than a liability. In many in~

stances the loafing acre not only con-

sumes the profits from the more pro-





ductive acre, but is a constant source.





of loss in preventing the practicing of

suitable crap rotations on the adjoin-

ing acres. An acre of low, wet land in

the middle of a large field may so de-

lay cultural work or prevent the use

of harvesting machinery to such an

extent that one would be justified in

expending double the value of the acre

of land in getting it properly drained

so as to facilitate the working of the

entire field. Likewise'low, wet places

in the 'pastures produce weeds and

grasses of little feeding value, besides

affording mud holes and stagnant ponds

for the stock, more particularly dairy

cows, to walk through and get their

flanks, udders and bellies plastered

with foul mud and slime. Such places

should be drained and put to produc-

ing grasses even though the original

cost may exceed the value of the land

itself. Spots occupied by trees, stumps

and heaps of stone frequently reduce

the average yields per acre, delay cul-

tural work in the spring and cause de-

lays and breakage in farm implements.



Crooked fences and too wide head

lands afford ideal places for weeds to

grow and go to seed, besides the few

bushels of grain and few hundred

pounds of hay they should produce

helps to keep down the average crop

of the entire field. Such little losses

in acreage on a large farm count a

whole lot in the aggregate in figuring

the profits at the end of the year. The

, idle acre not only represents a definite

source of loss in the shape of taxes,

interest and other charges, but it adds

to the overhead charges which must

be borne by the adjoining acres. The

investment required to get these plac~

es to producing something of value

not only returns interest on the lend

itself but on the larger production of





In planning the We for ‘eilicienc “





producing area of Illinois, when he

was asked some five years ago if corn-

belt lands had not about reached their

limit in price.‘ While his statement

was not'wholly true, as those who are

acquainted with the agricultural possi.

bilities of unimproved areas in Michi-

gan well know, his answer was expres-

sive of his optimism as to the future

of corn-belt‘lands and indirectly of ag—

riculture as a business.





And his Optimism, which was but

typical of the views of a large class of

loafing ac1 es under a remunerative sys- farmers similarly situated has been

tern of cultivation. The supply of fa1m~ju5fifled Indeed the price boom in

manure seldom gets to the far ends of 001'“ be“ land Which Started in Iowa

the farm, hence with corrective reme- 13513 sprmg and Spread across Illinois

dies and fertilizers in connection with and through Indiana, overlapping into

clovers and grasses, rather than grow- Ohio, and to some eXtent into our own

ing grain and cultivated crops on these state, probably went far beyond the

fields, they can be brought back to a wildest expectations of these opti-

fair degree of fertility at a very mod- mists. During this b00111 period good

crate cost. The advantage once gained farms in some of the sections named

may be maintained easily by a proper doubled in value almost over night as

course of treatment. On many farms, measured by repeat sales. In’localr

especially dairy farms, the area of pro ties where the farm land boom reach-

ductive land has gradually contracted 9d its height, the prOfits made in the

to such an extent that not more than turnover 0f farm lands, eclipsed the

one-third of the farm is capable of pro mOSt fevered gold Stampede or oil de-

ducing profitable cr.ops Such 3. mm V9109ments» and overshadowed even

row system of farming is not adapted the abnormal advances in real estate

to conditions of today and must be ex- values in the most rapidly developing

panded by the purchase of more plant cities. True, this boom was speculat-

food and better methods of soil man- ive to a very considerable extent. but

agement Much of this land can be with the passing of the speculative

restored to full pioductivity, but it will fever ”111195 remained high denoting

take time labor, lime fertilizers, leg— an abiding faith in the futule value of

umes and rotation to turn the'trick, these gOOd farm lands on the part Of

but it will pay just as suie as day 1301- their owners

lows night. Idle acres are a source of This Iemarkable boom in farm land

loss that our agriculture cannot stand values has been a source 0f wonder

if it is to pay a fair profit. and comment on the part of econo-



-mists. The rapid advance from an av-

erage of $200 to $250 per acre for the

circum- lands in a farming community to don-





the same as the building of better

roads has encouraged the use of auto-

mobiles. The use of farm tractors,

heavier plows and cultivators to do. our

farm work means that we must drain

the low, wet places, remove stumps

and stones, clean up the brush heaps,

square up our fields and get them in

shape to be worked with greater effi-

ciency.

Lime, d1ainage and the use of com



mercial fertilizers are the agents that

must be employed in bringing these





ECENT





. stances have com- 1

Meadows b e that average figure and to as high

and bmed to make the as $700 per acre at the peak, has caus-

outlook for meadows ed not a little speculation as to the

Pastures and pastures less fav- eflect of this boom on the agriculture





orable than might be of the section aflected and of the coun~

desired under present conditions. The try at large As always, there are

patriotic spur for increased food pro- many peasimists who deplore this

duction during the war caused the sharp upward trend of good farm lands

abandonment of established crop rota- on the ground that they cannot be

tions in many cases, and the breaking made to pay good interest on the in-

up of old pastures and meadows as a vestment

means 0‘7 increasing 0‘09 production. But farmers generally will hardly be

MUCh Of this land was 1n gram and re‘ pessimistic regarding a tendency to.

seeded to clover and grass last year, ward a more rapid increase in the val

but the seeding failed in many locali— he of good farm land A large part of

t1es 1n 0111‘ own state due to an ex- the wealth of agricultural communities

tremely and long-continued mid- sum— is the direct result of a normal in-

mer drought leaving many farms ab— crease in the value of good farm land,

normally short 0f needed meadows and. an increase which one class of theo-

pastures this year. rists are pleased to call an unearned

A further consequence of these increment, but which is really the le-

same conditions is the scarcity and‘gitimate result of the work of the

high price of clover seed of good qual- pioneers in building up a prosperous

ity, making the re-establishment of. the community. The speeding up of this





proper balance of these crops 11 more upward tendency is in line with gen--





than ordinarily difficult and expensive eral conditions at the present-1 time.

proposition. As a result crop rota- and is, we believe; prophetic of the

tions will be further disarranged this future so far as the prosperity of ag-

year, as old meadows which would non riCulture is concerned. Good farmland

many be broken up will of necessity is a safe investment and. a valuable

be saved. asset A well improved form should



The old theory that there is no great bring a. price which will be a commem

loss without some small gain will, surate reward for its development. and

however, be borne out in the result. it should return to its industrious mt“

Alfalfa will be more generally sown er a fair income on his investment.

and under more favorable emulsions There 3 every evidence that the bul-

than ever before. Where the W h m M of Ansel-lea have faith





needed this 11121 were. a menswear M M _

murmur am mt atom m:m,w the,





'will also be more gesturally sown





prevent the growth or foul weeds to: cause of 111111 sxpetienee, and in the! ' ‘





. ministration is reported





WWI? unwed, Mlmmmmmmenmml-i





 

   

 

   





N agreement between the German



rebels and President Ebert‘s ad-

from. Berlin.—

The Turkish adornment at to dole

egates to a peace conféréne can the

allies .rTroo s are sent to hold on -

lands' loc'st near the boundary eo- '

tween Texas and Oklahoma, while the



question of state jurisdiction is being.

settled. ——Prince Faisal is expected to



be, crowned king of Syria on March



20. —The United States Senate adopts

the new reservation substituted for the



one adopted last November modifying

article ten of the peace treaty.‘





Wednesday, March. 17.





HANCELLOR KAPP, head of the



government at Berlin resigns in

favor of President Ebert. ——Fully 150,-

000 Detroiters will pay taxes on their

incomes this year .——-Premie1 Drury of!

Ontario will ask for a referendum on

the wet and dry question—Interstate

Commerce Commission is informed

that the rail men will give the new

transportation act a fair trial ——Be-





 

 

 

   





, tween 25, 000 and 30,000 men who auto-





matically became citizens by virtue of

their military service may be denied.

the oppmtunity of voting in the pres-

idential primaries Aplil 5 through neg—

lect in having theii papers confirmed -

by Michigan courts. -—Approximatelv

$10,000,000 in gold is shipped from this .

country to South American countries.





Thursday, March 18.





OVIET forces appear to be making



a supreme effort to gain a foothold

in Poland and Germany—The exodus

of Mexican laborers to the United

States is almost depleting the popula-

tion of many towns.-—Five persons are

dead and much property is destroyed

in a two-day blizzard which swept ov-

er North Dakota.—-The Holland gov.

ernment fixes the residence of former

emperor William in the province of

Utrecht—«The Pacific and Atlantic

fleets will meet at Panama next Janu-

ary for joint manoeuvres.—-—Trouble be-

tween the Esthonian and Lettish gov— »

ernments is assuming a very grave .

character. -





Friday, March 19. .



W0 hundred and thirty persons



are killed during fighting in Ber-

lin.——A bill protecting American manu-

facturers from trade-mark piracy pass-

es both houses and is awaiting the

President’s signature—The senate

adopts reservation to the peace treaty

declaring for self-determination for

Ireland—The Department of Agricifl- ,

ture quarantines Massachusetts, New

Hampshire, New York and Pennsyl-

vania to prevent further distribution of

the corn borer.—-—-W1nd storms do great

damage to crops in Colorado and Kan-

sas.——Jury gets case in the Newberry

senatorial trial at Grand Rapids.





Saturday, March 20.





HE United States Senate rejects



the treaty of peace with Germany

bya vote of 49-35 and orders the re—

turn of the documents to the Presi-

dent—An appeal comes to this coun—

try from Vienna for food supplies, ship.

ments from Germany having been held

up by the German revolt. —American

exports and imports take a big drop

during February.——,The political situa-

tion in Berlin where the general strike

continues, is still critical—An inter-

national conference on the exchange

question will be held in Brussels in

May.——Truman H. Newb’erry and six-





.teen others are found guilty of violats





ing the federal and state corrupt prac-

tices acts. by a jury in the United

States District Court at Grand Rapids.





solidly, March 21.





RADICALS are reported to bein

control of Essen and several oth

or cities and towns of Westphalia.

Germany. -—Coal operators scharged

with conspirac to limit production are

arrested at In ianai101‘ls.-.—0anada’s of-

nests enlisted men will hereafter

receive 01,10 11 day, or an increase of

sixty com—,— Detroit letter carriers

and postal employee are asking for

higher. wages.-—-Brltish manufacturers

looms notime in renewing ”trade

gauche tiona’with German houses. 4m

hereimbursing owners of cutie some





 





berculsr hiy lth‘e State. mam:

Emission“ m lbs W , , is; new

i I I I a the «‘1 1;.
TH farms of Michiganand else-



where in the United States‘hold-

_ ing-much more wheat than nor-

mal for this period of the year, and

the time approaching for the expira-

tion of the government guarantee on

the bread grain, producers are eagerly

weighing the various factors contrib-

uting to price fluctuations in an effort

to gauge the future trend of values for

the bread grain. The probable trend

of prices is vital to the producer who

has yet to market a considerable por»





tion of his crop and to farmers pre-





. paring to seed spring wheat and other





 





spring crops.



As farmers will not enjoy a govern-

ment price on their wheat after May

31, many in the spring wheat belt are

showing a tendency to reduce their

acreage devoted to the grain. This at-





titude corresponds to that of the prd-





ducers in the winter wheat belt last

fall, who made a. sharp reduction in

their wheat. seeding operations. How-

ever, the fact that the winter wheat

belt already has made a big reduction

in its area in wheat ought to encour-

age the spring wheat groWers of the

northwest to seed more extensively.

Still another influence is the fact that

the condition of the winter wheat crop

is rather low and may result in a rel-

atively lighter harvest than the per-

centage of decrease in the acreage

might indicate. Besides, the position

of world wheat markets warrants a

more optimistic feeling among produc-

ers than a majority are now manifest-

ing. Unless the spring wheat terri-

tory seeds a comparatively large area

to wheat, prices for the bread cereal

may follow a course directly opposite

to that anticipated by the bear ele-

ment in markets. Pre-war prices for

wheat on the nextcrop are a possibil-

ity, but hardly a probability.

Considerable light as to the most

desirable course to pursue in spring

planting operations and as to the gen-

eral wheat market outlook may be

gained from a. survey of the winter

wheat situation. The report of the

Department of Agriculture on fall





seeding of wheat in the United States»





indicated an area of 38,770,000 acres,

compared with a total of 50,499,000

acres in the preceding year. The pres-

ent area devoted to winter wheat, only

76.8 per cent of the record acreage of

a year ago, is the smallest since the

opening of the world war in 1914. The

farmers of the winter wheat belt of

the United States in the fall of 1913





 





 





 





seeded 37,128,000 acres to the bread

grain; in 1914, 42,881,000 acres; in

1915, 39,203,000 acres; in 1916, 40,534,-

000 acres, and in 1917, 42,301,000 acres.

Michigan has seeded‘922,000 acres to

winter wheat, compared with 960,000

acres in the fall of 1918, and 941,000

acres in 1917.



The plant entered the winter season

in a generally p001 condition, the gov-

ernment having estimated the condi-

tion on December 1, 1919, at 85.2 per

cent, compared with an average condi-

tion of 98.6 per cent on December 1 of

the preceding year, and a ten-year av-

erage of 89.5 per cent. In the past few

months the crop has doubtless deteri-

orated further, owing to serious lack

of moisture in many important pro-

ducing states, particularly in the south-

west, high winds, and intermittent

thawing and freezing weather. There

is some volunteer wheat in the south-

west, too, particularly in Kansas, and

it is doubtful if this grain will hold up

the remainder of the growing season.

Some market interests are inclined to

consider lightly the reduced area of

winter wheat," calling attention to the

fact that the largest production of win-

ter wheat in history was harvested

from an area of 37,128,000 acres less

1,120,000 acres abandoned. But in that

year the condition of the plant at the

opening of winterrand in the spring

was excellent and far above the aver-

age, while this year the condition is

far below the average.



With a reduced area devoted to win-

ter wheat, that territory will doubt-

less plant the smaller grains, corn,

oats, barley and other cereals, on a

far more extensive scale than in re-

cent years. Land values have advanc-

ed, and to realize a profit in farming

operations, the soil must be utilized





to the fullest extent, therefore the be-'





lief that the small grains will enjoy a

sharp increase in acreage. The pro-

ducers of Michigan and other north-

western states, in preparing their

plans for Spring _Seeding activity,

should keep in mind the fact that com.-

petition of the winter wheat territory

will be more keen so far as the small-

er grains are concerned, while the

present outlook indicates far less than

the usual competition on the bread

cereal.





Despite the fact that the govern-

ment guaranteed minimum on wheat,

$2.26 a. bushel for No. 1 hard winter

or northern spring, basis Chicago, ex-

pires on'May 31, which tends to in-

crease nervousness in marketing chan-

nels, sentiment in the Wheat trade in-

clines to the bullish side. While a

top of $3.50 a bushel for dark northern

spring wheat already has been reached

on the Minneapolis market and $3.10

for dark hard winter in Kansas City,

with Chicago, St. Louis and other

terminals on a similar basis, the be-





lief is held by many that values will»-





soar even above these levels before

another crop of the bread grain is

available for markets. Prices for

wheat at this writing are about fifty

cents a bushel under the high point

reached in the early part of January,

though not many weeks ago the mar~

ket showed an extreme setback from

the record figures for 191920 crop

wheat of as much as $1.00 a bushel.

Those who. claim that higher prices

will yet be witnessed place much em-

phasis upon the fact that the closing

months of a crop year, particularly Ap-

ril and May, usually witness a higher

range of wheat prices than the earlier

months of the year. Why not again

this year?



t In connection with the probable

trend of wheat values, it is significant

to note that stocks of wheat on farms

of the United States on March 1, ac-

cording to the Department of Agricul-

ture, amounted to 165,539,000 bushels,

the largest total since March 1, 1910,

or after the record production of wheat.

The farm reserves 3. year ago amount~

ed to 128,703,000 bushels; two years

ago, 107,745,000 bushels; in 1917, 100,-

650,000 bushels; and in 1916, 244,448,-

000 bushels. Michigan holds 3,643,000

bushels, compared with only 1.411,000

bushels a year ago and 2,622,000 bush-

els two years ago. While the reserves

of wheat on farms are comparatively

large this year, much of the grain is

of poor milling quality, more than a

normal quantity being actually unfit

for milling. The bulk of the surplus

wheat is held in the winter wheat belt,

and, as earlier in the crop year, mill-

ers of the northwest and the east will

continue dependent to a large extent

upon theSe holdings.





The stocks of wheat in all elevators

and mills of the United States, accord-

ing to grain corporation figures, aggre-

gate 182,625,000 bushels, which, to-

gethe1"with the total farm reserves,

makes a total available breadstuffs

supply in» this country of only 348,164,-

000 bushels for domestic consumption

and for export during the four months

of the crop year from March 1. These

figuresindicate a disappearance of

592,823,000 bushels since July 1, 919.

The oflicial figures on exports of wheat

and wheat flour on the crop to March

1, show an equivalent of 138,142,000

bushels, leaving a, total apparent do-

mestic consumption thus, far of 454,-

681,000 bushels. On the basis of do-

mestic consumption the past eight

months, our breadstuffs requirements

the remainder of the crop year would

be around 227,000,000 bushels, this re-

ducing the available supply to approx-

imately 120,000,000 bushels. It is safe

to anticipate comparatively larger ex-

ports of wheat and flour from the Unit-

ed States the remainder of the crop

year than in the past eight months.

Europe is seriously in need of the

American surplus, but she has not the

facilities to pay for the breadstuffs.

However, there has been slight im-

provement recently in European eco-

nomic conditions, and this, together

with the plans of the United States

Grain Corporation to sell large quan-

tities of flour to destitute European na-

tions on a credit basis, indicates that

the ewmt movement 01 wheat and

flow will inmease Ther‘efoxe, it is

probable that the present available

supply of breadstui‘fs in domestic chan-

nels will be reduced to an extremely

low point by the time the new crop

wheat becomes available, considerably

below a normal carry-over.



But figures often lie. Possibly what

might now appear to be a small supply

for carry-over as a protection against

crop failures may materialize into a

heavy surplus. Yet this appears im-

probable. So far as production in the

Old World is concerned, conditions are

not favorable for normal crops for

some years. In this connection it is

interesting to note that the British

government has fixed a minimum of

$2.19 a bushel for home wheat of the





1920 harvest, and this will have a ten-





dency to maintain the world wheat

price basis at or possibly above the

level. The future, therefore, appears

promising for continued high wheat

values.





 





 





 





 





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M INN ESOTA POTATO GROWERS

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FINAL organization of a central mar-

keting exchange through which

Minnesota potatoes may be-sold coop-

eratively was perfected at Little Falls

recently, when the Minnesota Potato

Exchange became a reality.



Delegates representing seventy-two

local cooperative potato associations,

already organized or now organized,

participated in the meeting. These del-

egates came from twenty-four counties.

All of the principal potato producing

sections of the state were represented,

says The Farmer. The Minnesota Po-

tato Exchange will be, to all purposes,

a federation of local associations that

are cooperative in principle.



- It was organized under the new co-





Ioperative law with $15,000 capital





stock. It will begin to function as soon

as twenty per cent ($3,000) of the can

ital stock is paid in, or, in other words,

as soon as thirty locals affiliate with

the exchange by the purchase of one

share of stock each at $100 per share.

This will be accomplished, it is hoped,

within a few weeks, so that the ex-

change may begin its marketing oper-

ations some time this spring.



Thirty of the locals which sent dele-

gates to the organization meeting

shipped about one thousand cars of

potatoes last fall, and have left about

three hundred cars to ship this spring.

Most of these locals are eligible to

membership in the exchange and'plan

to afliliate’. Early action by theSe lo-

cals will previde sufficient capital and

sufficient potatoes for the exchange to

begin business within a few weeks.



Interest in the meeting exceeded all

expectations. When the growers [in

conference at Moorhead last November

expressed a wish for such an organi-

zation as the exchange it was thought

that thirty or forty communities could

be expected to participate in an organ-

ization meeting. Instead seventy-four

communities elected delegates, and

seventy-two of these delegates attend-

ed the Little Falls meeting. All came

instructed to approve the exchange, so

the meeting was devoted almost ens

tirely to consideration of the many de-

tails of organization.



The exchange is organized along

plans very similar to those used by

the Michigan Potato Growers’ Ex-

change, the success of which served

as the incentive for organization in

Minnesota. The exchange membership

will be made up of local organiza‘





tions, and each local will elect a di-»





rector to the exchange. These direct-

ors will compose the governing board

of the exchange.



The exchange will serve as the sell-

ing agency for the locals. It will find

the market and make the sales, and

the locals will supply the potatoes.

This plan of organization is also simi-

lar to that of the Twin Cities Milk Pro-

ducers’ Association, the marketing

agency for the local .milk producers’

associations which furnish milk to the

St Paul and Minneapolis markets.



Tentative plans for organization had

all been worked out before the meet-

ing at Little Falls by the organization

committee named at the Moorhead

conference. ’ _



This committee had been instructed

to draft the necessary .articles of in-

Their draft





News Of "hé Agricultural





standing has been that the bill has

been buried because of the opposition

of the American agricultural interests,

which fear that they would be com-

pelled to pay unduly high prices for

potash needed as fertilizer.



If importation continues to be limit~

ed by natural causes, as at present,

Representative Kincaid believes that

within the period of two years the

domestic potash industry may get on

its feet so that it will be able to hold

its own without any protective legis-

lation.



“The status has been, and at present

is, that potash being sold at a some-

what higher price, nnd that cotton

raisers in the south and potato raisers

in localities where potash is required

are having to pay higher prices for

the’ potash they consume than would

have been the case-had .- legislation

been passed by the Sixty-fifth Congress

securing to domestic producers the

preference over foreign producers in

the American market to the extent

of the domestic production, as provid-

ed by the bill introduced by the gentle-

man fromi Michigan (Mr. Fordney), as

chairman of the Ways-andMeans Com-

mitttee, the bill embodying the license





the larger potash plants in Nebraska

courageously and commendably resum-

ed operations late laSt summer, andm

have since continued in operation at

their full capacities. One of the larg-

est plants, which during the suspen-

sion of work had burned down, has

since been rebuilt, and is likely now in

operation.



“These Nebraska plants are very

fortunately for consumers, supplying

a greater part of the potash that is to

be used. as fertilizers for the coming

season. If these plants were not pro

ducing; and supplying the market as

they are, the consumers, left at the

mercy of German and other foreign

producers, would be obliged to pay a

yet higher price than. now prevails,

possibly one hundred per cent higher.

This fact demonstrates the wisdom, if

'not the expediency, of giving govern-

mental encouragement to the young

American industry, at least until it

shall have been developed to a degree

.of efficiency to enable it to compete

with the notorious foreign potash

monOpoly. Just how long the Ameri-

can producers may be able, without

the fostering policy of the government,

to compete with foreign importations





 





 





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plan,” said Representative Kincaid.

“If this license scheme had been grant-

ed, or American producers had been

otherwise safeguarded, contracts could

have been secured by fertilizer com-

panies with our own producers for all

potash produced in America at not ex-

ceeding $2.60 per unit, and this would

naturally have fixed the price of im-

ported potash at as low a figure, and

thus a great saving to our American





consumers would have been secured





“Nebraska and California potash pro

ducers,. who earnestly appealed _ for

government assistance in some form

for theshort period of two years, were





(given no encouragement whatever by





congress, with the result that there

was a total suspension of the produc-





Was approved, with few exceptions, by tion of potash in the United States,





the delegates.





 





LIGHT meonvs save 9011311

mousmv.





HE bill for control of importation:





, _failure of importationq to be made

from Germany to the extent that had





following the armistice for several

months, and this condition would have

continued to this time except for the





been estimated—perhaps actually con-





depends upon the conditions which

may exist and operate in Germany,

including labor conditions there, rail-

way transportation to the seas, thence

ocean rates to America. If the impor—

tations of potash fromGermany should

continue to be limited, as up to the

present time since the signing of the

armistice, for two more years some ,of

our leading producers feel confident

that by a'furtherdevelopment and im-

provement of the economies of their

production in the interim. . American

manufacturers would. then be able to

compete successfully with the imports

ers of German potash, and. they are

probably right about this, so long :as

the nefarious and ruinous practice of

dumping should not be employed by

the foreign monOpoly.





 





WISCONSIN GROWERS’ WOOL

V POOL.





ct potash has been pending for tracted for in America. But, parcels-b Wow association mm m

, the ‘ ' Wis: W"W at that '





Every organization and institution





in the state interested in "the better





marketing of wool jomed in the call





for the centerence, which rosulted in

the formation of the new: association.





Loading wool growers from all secr





tionscf the state are agrecd‘that :lack

of efficient marketing machinery has

checked the growth of the state’s

sheep industry. They predict that by

marketing their clips collectively, as

was done last year in Dane and Buf-

falo counties,“ well as in Iowa, Illi-

nois and several other states. they will

build up a reputation and a better mar-

ket for Wisconsin wools. ‘



"Sheepmen of Wisconsin are deter-

mined to get morenearly the. value of





the wool,” said the head of the state .

division of markets, at the conference.





“If the farmer is careless with his

product he will get a lower_price. of

course, but sheepmen of the‘ state in-

tend to present a better grade of wool

on the market than they have hereto-

fore. Through the proposed cooperate

ti've marketing of their product they

expect to realize a price that will rep<

resent the actual worth of their wool.



“Collective marketing methods elim~

mate the purely speculative element,

and the various go-be'tweens who take

their tolls from the actual price of

the product. Many speculators

undoubtedly urge that they will pay

immediate spot cash for the full

amount that shall be paid, but I be-

lieve that Wisconsin W001 growers will

realize the greater merits .of the new-

ly proposed plan."



W. F.’ Rock, of Sun Prairie, secre-

tary of the State Sheep Breeders' As-

sociation, said:





“Early in the spring of 1919 too,

many of our local buyers planned to





buy and did buy warm wools at from

forty to forty-five cents a pound, but

on account of the efforts of our ,asso-

ciations were encouraged later to find

the clips worth ten to fifteen cents a

pound above first quotations."





 





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HERE are five definite things that

may be expected in time. to have

an effect uponthe world’s production

of food. In a recent statement Sher-

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1. A more direct and less expensive

system ‘of distribution. '



2. Removal of all artificial restric-

tions upon the sale of farm products.



3. A lengthened industrial day. with

honest service for wages paid.



4. Increased dividends on farm in-

vestment which will enable their own-

ers to meet the wage scale of compet-

ing occupations.



5. Increasing social and educational

privileges inrural communities. "





 





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ley will be much lighter this year com-

pared with former years. >The bean

growers were disheartened by the pric-

es received for the 1919 crop, and the

weather conditions this winter and

spring/have been anything but taver-

able. ' In the S'utter Basin, practically





'every acre of ground formerly used for





beans: has been planted to barley.





 





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males. The hens two or three genera-

tions from mongrels often look like

purebreds and have considerable vig-

or. The purebreds are the best and

the next best thing is to grade up the





mongrel flock and make an improve-





ment "every year in its utility value. .



Keep up the fight against mites and

lice‘in the spring and the summer trou-

bles will be reduced. The commercial

disinfectants diluted with water are

cheaper than kerosene to protect the





roosts from mites. Blue ointment is ‘





a quicker way to kill lice than dusting

with insect powder. Keep down the

pest population before warm weather

helps to multiply them. This will mean

more eggs and better chicks.



Strong shells are needed on both

market eggs and eggs sold for batch-

ing. -The hens do not obtain enough

shell-making material from their food

to manufacture a large number of

eggs. Thin shells mean a serious loss

from. breakage during transit and also





when the eggs are placed under‘the.

"setting hens. The hopper of oyster





shells is the remedy and they are too





cheap to be away from the flock at any ‘





season of the year.



The April, May and June eggs have

been found by experiment to keep bet-

ter in waterglass than the eggs produc-

ed during the hottest summer months.

The spring eggs are also the cheapest

and that is the time that the cold store

age buyers lay in their supply. Some

producers can make more money on

their spring eggs by looking for pri-

vate customers who will purchase eggs

in fifteen and twenty dozen lots. They

should be worth more than the grocers

can pay. The eggs sold for preserving

should be clean, fresh laid stock. They

will be better if infertile. If city cus-

tomers expect to reduce the cost of

living they must be willing to buy

their food products in larger quantities





. and do their own storing. Waterglass





gives the consumer a chance to com-r

pete with the storage houses and have

good quality winter eggs at spring

prices.



Test the eggs that are placed under

hens and remove the infertile eggs and

those showing a dead germ. The in-

fertiles can, be fed to the flock and

the good eggs combined under fewer

hens. Often spoiled eggs are allowed

to remain under setting hens until the

end of a. hatch. If any of those eggs

are broken during the last week it

means an. unpleasant job of cleaning

for the poultryman. .'



Observation would lead a poultry-





man to believe that the best place to ‘





establish a poultry farm is near a





growing farm on an interurban line. ‘





While the hens are laying eggs the

city grows out to the farm. When the

poultryman gets. ready to retire he may

find that the poultry farm is ready to

be divided into lots and sold. Modesty





has always prevented uslfrom askingL





if the egg business is as profitable as

selling lots. But it is only good busi-





ness .to locatta a poultry farm in such _





a section when itis possible.‘ Many





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HERE are evidentlv two well de{

fined sides to the Muscle Shoals

air nitrate fixation proposition,

which is now engaging the attention

of congress and in which farmers all

over the country are displaying much

interest. Everyone who discusses the





 





. subject is of the opinion that more and





cheaper nitrogeneous fertilizers would

be beneficial, not only to the farmers,

but to the consumers, as it would have

a tendency to increase the production

of foodstuffs. But will the government





-development and operation of the Mus.





cle Shoals plant give farmers cheaper

nitrate? Will' it free them from the





, Chilean nitrate monopoly? Will it sup-





ply the country’s need for nitrates?





' These are some of the questions the



committee on war expenditures, of

which Representative W. J. Graham,

of Illinois, is chairman, is asking.



Recently there was read into the

Congressional Record a letter written

by Frank I. Mann, of Illinois, in which

he referred at length to the demands

of the farmers for nitrogeneous fertil-

izers and the urgent need for the gov-

ernment developing the Muscle Shoals

plant to supply this demand. Repre-

sentative Graham addressed a number

of questions to Mr. Mann as to what

he knew of the respective merits of

the cyanamid process of fixing nitro-

gen as compared with other methods,

the probability of the demand for ni-

trates being supplied from coke ov-

ens, the cost of fixing nitrogen by the

cyanamid process, and how long it will

take to complete the hydro-electric

pov‘ver at Muscle Shoals.



Mr. Mann has come. back again with

a letter in which he strongly empha)

sizes the need of cheaper nitrogen, and

more of it. to bring back to greater

productivity the depleted soils of south-

ern Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, and the

states south of the Ohio river, but

passes over lepresentative Graham’s

questions. with the following reference:



“I do not feel competent at present

to even offer to pass on the different

methods by which the Muscle Shoals

power may be Used for fixing nitrogen

for fertilizer use. My thought in writ-

ing was to call attention to the great

importance of having cheap nitrogen

for uSe in the production of food. If

satisfactory arrangements can be made

to use the Muscle Shoals plant for

fixing nitrogen for use on the land in

the production of crops, it seems to

me it would be almost a crime to neg-

lect doing it far the sake of humanity

and civilization.”



Representative Graham’s committee

has had considerable difficulty in get‘

ting testimony from witnesses giving

concrete facts in regard to the Muscle

Shoals project so far as they relate to

agricultural fertilizer, nevertheless he

authorites me to say that the commit-

tee is now preparing its report on the

Muscle Shoals matter and in connec-

tion with the report it will expect to

state the facts as shown by the records

bearing upon the future use of the

plant. “The committee has taken a





.great deal of evidence on the probable





expense and desirability of operation

by the government of this plant and





‘ when we report we will give the facts





that we have found in that respect.





- Whether we make definite recommen-

-dations we have not determined, but





many event we shall report sufficient





facts so that congress may legislate

)on the matter if it desires to do so."





, ‘It has been shown at the hearings,

that last year we produced in this

country in coke ovens 500,000 tons of





 





, sulphate ammonium, of which 3.70, 0001

‘ ‘ tons were used in this country and





 





 





of Chilean nitrates Were brOught into

this "country, making, a total of 720,000

tons‘bf nitrates used here during the

year. The total Capacity of the Muscle

Shoals plant is estimated at 85,000 tons

a year. These figures indicate that an

embargo on the exportation of sul-

phate ammonium from the coke ovens

would have more effect in meeting the

demand for nitrogeneous fertilizers

than the operation of the Muscle

Shoals plant.



This is an important matter from an

agricultural standpoint, one which de-

serves to be well understood by those

who use commercial fertilizers, and

for this reason I have attempted to

dig into the facts and investigate the

situation from both angles of the prop-

osition.





They Protect Producers who Bargain

Collectively.





It has been reported by parties who

are no friends of the Capper~Hersman

bill, that it gives labor a special priv~

ilege that it does not nOw enjoy. This

is not true. The only clause in the bill

having reference to labor is in Section

6, which is identical with the Clayton

Amendment enacted several years ago,

which reads as follows:





“That the labor of a human being is

not a commodity or article of com-

merce. Nothing eontained in the anti-

trust laws shall be construed to forbid

the existence and operation of labor,

agricultural, vineyardists, dairy or

horticultural organizations established

for the purpose of mutual help, and

that pay annually no greater dividends





terest of the state where organized, or

to forbid or restrain individual mem-

bers of such organizations from law-

fully carrying out the legislative ob~

jects thereof, nor shall such organiza-

tion or the members thereof be held or

construed to be illegal combinations or

conspiracies in restraint of trade or

commerce under the anti-trust laws.”



In recent years there has been some

question as to the actual intent of this

law as regards such cooperative mar.

keting associations as the Dairymen’s

League and similar organizations, and

in numerous instances their officials

have been arrested and made to stand

trial on the charge of committing an

offense against the anti-trust law. The

Capper—HeIsman bill seeks only to

make the law so explicit that the farm-

ers’ rights in the matter of collective

bargaining will be fully understood,

and that the cooperating farmers be

given the same privileges as men in

other industries.





Packers Fight Control Bill.





Indications are favorable that a

packer control bill will be reported to

the house soon by the agriculture com-

mittee. The packers have " put up a

strong fight against any“ form of con-

trol legislation. At the hearings they

have had experts, attorneys and many

men who claim to be stock raisers tes-

tifying in their favor. In most instances

however, it has been found that these

stockmen friends of the packers have

had some other interest beside stock

raising that impelled them to travel

several thousand miles to Washington

to testify in behalf of the Chicago “Big

Five" packers. .



The men who are actual farmers and

stock raisers, whose sole interest is in

their farm or ranch, and who paid their

own fare to Washington to testify at

the hearings, have nearly all favored

government regulation of the packing

industry ,





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bank law in such a way as to render





 





it ineffective. It is alleged that the

committees on banking are not as fav-





orably disposed to the land banks as





they might be, and the friends of the

latter say they have to keep on guard





ing gets through congress that will in

any way impair the usefulness of the

land banks and farm loan association's.





Secretary of Agriculture Edwin T.

Meredith is strongly in favor of federal

and state cooperation in highway im-

provement. - He believes that the gov-

ernment should join with the states in

connecting up the state road systems,

in order that the development of a na-

tional highway program may proceed

in a systematic manner. Mr. Meredith

believes that congress should provide

for the continuation of the work under

the present system by appropriating at

least $100,000,000 fer each of the four

fiscal years beginning with 1922.





Flour for Starving Europe.





The house has passed a resolution

authorizing Julius H. Barnes, president

of the United States Grain Corporation

to send five million barrels of flour to

the starving people of Central Europe.

During the debate on the resolution

strong humanitarian appeals ,were

made in its favor; but there were

some doubts expressed as to whether

this flour will ever reach the poor pe’o«

ple who most need it. One congress-

man asserted that it would merely pro-

long the idleness of peeple who will

not work so long as they can get flour





1 and other food from the United States.





on stock or membership capital investé. . .

.. A athetic a eal

ed than the minimum legal rate of 1!}7’. p pp





in behalf of the

“starving people” of Pdland brought

out a. rejoinder that the Poilsh gOVern-

ment has recently purchased a $200,-

000 building in Washington to house its

embassy, and that the Polish ambassa-

dor has just leased a heuse at New-

port, R. I., for his summer residence.





That the great sympathetic heart of

America cannot resist the appeals of

starving people of other nations.

was shown by the vote of 283 to

twelve in favor of the resolution, but

there are some things going on in Eu-

rope and the attitude of the peoples

of those Countries which tend to damp

en the sympathy of many practical

Americans. '





What is Congress Going to do for the

Ex--Scrvice Men.





This question is no doubt of consid-

erable interest just now to thousands

of young men who, after serving Un-

cle Sam in the army and navy, have

returned to the farms.





Many bonus bills have been propos-

ed; perhaps too many for the good of

the movement to reward the country's

fighters. Hearings are now closed on

these bills and it is thought that a bill





will be reported soon providing for a“





bonus of some sort. The Morgan Sol-





diers' Loan bill has been approved’by'





the grange and several other organiza-

tions. It provides for a loan fund.

through the use of which honorably

discharged men may buy farms or

homes in cities and villages. It is pro.

posed to organize a hundred million

dollar corporation, with the govern-

ment to own all the stock, which will

loan up to one hundred per cent of the

appraised value 0f any home or farm





to a reasonable limit. The mortgages





taken in security will be‘us’ed for the‘





basis ofbond issues to provide further

capital. The ~ grange representative





 





 





 





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1 - A Temple of Agriculture.





The movement to erect a Temple of

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all the time to" see that there is noth- with ”Widen“ “MW“‘emti-Slll"





enteen states had participatedin the

campaign to‘raise funds for the project





.on the. completion of the recent‘audit,





which showed total receipts of $41,915.

Washington state, Pennsylvania and

California are. the largest contributors.

Secretary C. W. Holman, of the finance

committee in charge of the drive, re—

ports that a campaign will begin s‘oon

in New York. Maryland and Georgia to

boost the fund. In New York state the

Dairymen’s League will lead the drive.

—-E. E. REYNOLDS.





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HE attention of the agricultural

‘ committees of the senate and

house has been directed to the impure

seed evil by Secretary Charles A. Ly-

man, of the National Board of Farm

Organizations. The mail order houses

are charged by Mr. Lyman with sell~

ing farmers at “bargain prices," seed

filled with weedseed and other foul

mixtures.





In speaking of. this impure seed prob- '





lem, Senator Arthur Capper,‘ of Kan:

sas, says that if the seed distributors

are to continue to enjoy the privileges

ofinterstate commerce they should be

compelled to conform to a. general

standard to be established by the fed.

eral government. “Many of the states

employ olficials whose duty it is to see

that the seeds sold are pure. But these

have no control over inteistate ship-

ments. The seeds are sent in original

packages by mail, express and freight,

and the state officials cannot interfere.



“The states cannot regulate or sup.

press the evil. They are wholly help-

less. They cannot rifle the mails Of a.

farmer and insist that he turn over his

packages of seeds. If the problem is

to be effectively dealt with it must be

through federal legislation.”



Senator Capper thinks that with its

present machinery the Federal De

partment of Agriculture, if given legis-

lative authority, could force the busi-

ness concerns complained of to desist

from the plactice of selling impure

seeds. It is probable that a bill will

soon be introduced in congress. aiming

to remedy this impure seed trade evil.

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VEGETABLE GROWERS AID IN

FIGHTING CORN BORER.





 





AT the February meeting of the

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cently, the members voted to use their





influence in a nation-wide fight against

the corn borer. Dr. George A. Atwood.

director of the bureau of plant history

of the department of farms and mar-

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noon, speaking on 'corn haters and

their destruction in this country, as

well as on measures being taken to

eradicate them. “The corn borer,"

said Dr. Atwood, "made its appear.

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of $50,000 . was approximated for ..the

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1TH spring’s work at our front

door and the time for planting

sugar beets only sixty days off, l-the

farmers must decide soon what they

will raise if the sugar companies do

not agree with' their demands which

seem not- in the least unreasonable to

the farmers:

Can the farmers substitute any oth-





er crop for the beet crop and show the





same profit at the end of the year

from their farms? Will it incur any

particular hardship to the farmers if

they do not produce beets this year?



Studies made in the vicinities of

Care, Alma and Grand Rapids, Mich-

igan, reported in Bulletin 748, United

States Department of Agriculture,

show that only 7.17 per cent of the

tillable land was planted to beets in

the Grand Rapids area, while 18.33 per

cent was given over to sugar beet pro-

duction in the Com. district. In the

areas of heaviest production there is

less than one—fifth the tillable area

planted to sugar beets. This means

if they are not included in the list of

crops the rotation will be shortened by

one year unless some other Cl‘Op is in-

troduced to replace them.



The typical rotation in the sugar

beet; area is as follows: Clover and

timothy, one to three years; corn or

corn and beans, one year; sugar beets,

one year; grain, one year. Some var-

iation from this practice may be found

but they do not materially affect the

general plan of farm organization.





It would be a very simple matter to

introduce a second grain crop to re-

place the sugar beets which would in

no wise sacrifice anything by the

change in the distribution of labor ov-t

er the growing Season. Since the rd-

tation is largely determined by the

labor factor this is well worth consid-

eration for the farmer who is unable

to find adequate help for the busy sea-

sons.





sugar beet crop is greater than any

other crop grown in the region and

very little of this man labor can be

replaced by horse and machine work

when it is impossible to get the prop-

er help.



Except on farms where a very small

proportion of the tillable land is in

sugar beets a large part of this labor

must be hired. The culture of the

crap does not allow a distribution of

this labor over a period of time that

will permit one man to handle large

acreages. If a grain crop were substi-

tuted for the beets the labor problem

would be much simpler and a greater

proportion of the product could be pro-

duced by horse and machine work. No

hand or hoe work is required on the





| cereal crops which makes their culture





much simpler.



The only condition that could entail

hardship to the humor might occur in

instances where the family is large

enough to have a surplus of labor un-

less an intensive crop is included in

the rotation, and even that would not

be a problem under present conditions

as there is ample opportunity to rent

extra land due to the scarcity of farm

help.



The investigation previously men-

tioned shows that one hundred and

five to one hundred and fourteen man

hours, and eighty to ninety-five horse

hours are required to produce an acre

of beets. These figures represent the

conclusions drawn from an aggregate

of 2,754 acres of the cum, this being

the number of acres included in the

survey.



The following shows the compara-





and the grain crdps W: 4 ‘

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Crops for Sugar Beet





The man labor requirement of the-





tive labor requirement of Sugar beets





H. Grave:





een to twedtynt’wo man hours; wheat ,

(spring), twenty to twenty-four man j

In addition to this, the mm ;





hours.

er’s own labor, the sugar beets require





from fifty to sixty hours of contract

labor usually supplied by foreign help .

The only balance against this- to be ‘





found with thegrain crops is the





threshing and this means only the in- 5

crease of an operation which is already ,





established on every farm.





The above figures lead one to con- -





clude that the farmers would be in a

better condition 'to meet the labor sit-

uation during the coming season if the

sugar beet crop were -mo’-re or less

eliminated from the rotation—tempor-

arily at least.



The comparative receipts from the

two classes of crops may throw anoth-

er light on the situation. The bulletin

previously referred to shows an aver-

age yield of approximately ten tons

per acre which at the ten-dollar rate

would yield one hundred dollars per

acre.

duce an acre of beets would produce

two and a half acres of cats or barley.

With normal yields this would equal

as large receipts as from the sugar

beets per unit of man labor, but wduld

not show as large receipts per acre of

land. However, the _margin between

expenses and receipts per farm would

under present labor costs be as great

and the farm income as a whole would

not suffer. To many this solution of

the sugar beet, controversy may in a

degree help solve the labor problem as

well.





 





MICHIGAN COOPERATIVE CROP

REPORTING SERVICE.





 





HERE is about two. and one- -half

times as much wheat, and nearly





double the amount of corn, on farms ‘





as on March 1, 1919, but there is less

than one-half the amount of cats and

barley as on that date, according to

the reports received by Coleman C.

Vaughan, Secretary of State, and

Verne H. Church, Field Agent, United

States Bureau of Crop. Estimates from

the crop correspondents of the Michi-

gan Cooperative Crop Reporting Ser-

vice. The report issued by that office

also gives the estimated land values

in the state, and shows that there has

been a'slight increase during the past

year in all classes of lands, .and quite

a marked advance in the value of well—

improved farms.



Corn—The amount of corn in the

form of grain still on the farms of

Michigan amounts to 11,712,000 bush~

els, if we will take into consideration

that thirty-five per' cent of the crop

area went into silos. This is twenty-

eight per cent of the crop and the

highest percentage since 1916, as 1917

and 1918 were poor corn years. Only

a few small local areas produce enough

for their needs while the counties

where stock feeding is geenral have

to ship in a large number of cars each

year. The average amount shipped out

of the county where grown was five

per cent as compared with an average

of four per cent for past years. The

merchantable quality was unusually

high, being eighty-four per cent. In

1918 it was sixty-four per cent, and in

1917,~on1y ten per cent. ,



Wheat—Eighteen per cent of the

wheat crop still remains on the farms,

as compared with thirteen per cent





last year, seventeen per cent in 1917, .





and a. ten-year average of twenty-three

per cent. This is equivalentto 3,643.-

000 bushels. ,If'to‘ 'tlifs'we add 3,600.-

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to do what they know is best. If hay

is scarce the temptation is great to

turn the COWS out before the grass is

fit. In some crises this must be done.

Possibly no roughage, can be bought in

the neighborhood at any price. The

cows are turned out and graze the pas-





.ture so close that .it can not furnish

*good grazing during June and July.

‘ The Spring is here and we can not do





much to improve conditions for this





year. However, we must avoid similar





losses next year. We can harvest more

corn and feed the cut and shredded

fodder during the early part of the

winter and hold over the hay and sil-

We can seed

more land to hay and forage crops, and

thus have more feed for the cows’next

spring. A large portion of these spring

losses are due to a flaw in our system

of feeding our cattle. Buying high-

priced grain feeds often seems like a

hardship, but buying roughage for the

dairy cattle is like pouring water in a

rathole.



If winter rations are continued until

the grass becomes fit for grazing the

dairyman has the right to expect that

his grain bills will materially decrease,

or disappear altogether, for there is no

balanced ration yet discovered equal

to good pasture, and still every dairy-

man knows full well that his pastures

will furnish a full ration but two or

three months out of the year, when he

will again be met by the same problem

of how to furnish a full ration which

will leave a profit. Necessity compels

many dairymen to utilize considerable

of their land for pasture, consequently

it is not my purpose to advocate an

extensiie or exclusive system of green

soiling crops. However, few dairymen

appreciate the value of soiling crops

in tiding the cows over periods of dry

weather and short pastures. Soiling

crops will help wonderfully in main-

taining the milk flow without extra

cost except the item of additional la-

bor; while short pastures will result

in a falling off in milk yields and flesh

condition. How, then, is the cheapest

and most efficient method of supplying

additional food for the cows during the

pasture season?



Fortunately over the most of the

eastern states it is unnecessary to

make elaborate preparations for the

late summer shortage of pasture and

early shortage seldom occurs if judg-

ment is exercised in turning the cattle

into the pastures. Where oats and peas,

corn, clover and alfalfa thrive, no oth-

er crop exceeds them in the amount

of forage yielded per acre, and no oth-

er crop exceeds them in the amount

of profits. they give when harvested in

the ordinary way for winter feeding.

The best winter rOughage crops and

the best soiling crops are thus the

same. This fact has proved the stumb-

ling block to many dairymen, who have

allowed many dollars to slip out of

their hands in losses on suffering cat-

tle, in‘ keeping back their feed crop for

the winter, rather than out and: feed





could be grown on same land, and actu-

ally a greater yield than any pasture

grass has produced on the samearea

in an entire season.



For early feeding, cat and pea. for-

age is exceedingly valuable. This crop

should be sown early and at various

intervals during the spring. I prefer

to sow about equal parts of each kind

of seed, using about three bushels of

the mixed seed to the acre. It is ready

for feeding as soon as the cats are in

the milk stage of their development.

For a. herd of from twenty-eight to

thirty-two cows we sow two acres each

week, and make four sowings, one as

soon as the soil can be worked, the

next. two weeks later and the last

about three weeks later than the oth-

ers. ~ These two-acre patches leave

considerable each time to be cut and

cured for hay. Those dairy feeders

who are already using these feeds will

be sure to have plenty of this valuable

mixed crop to cure for winter use. In

cutting it for hay it should be allowed

to get a little beyond the milk, stage of

its growth, but not too ripe. If the

peas are hard, the cows do not relish

them so "well. If the crop is ripened

and threshed, the grain may be ground

and will give an excellent balanced

grain ration for the dairy cow.



Many dairymen who have succeeded

in getting small fields of alfalfa starts

ed on-their farms can realize the-most

from it by using it as a summer soiling

croD to supplement pastures. Alfalfa

is the best soiling crop that we can

grow on our farms.

falfa. for soiling purposes it is well to

keeplin mind that it is dangerous to

feed hungry cattle all they will eat of

green alfalfa, not wilted, as it may

cause bloat. I like to cut‘sufiicient at

one time to last three or four days and

allow it to become wilted, and then

pile it in cocks and cover them with

hay caps so that it will escape drying

to brittleness. There is no danger in

feeding moderate quantities if it is

wilted and handled in this manner be-

fore feeding. ,



Green corn makes a. very acceptable

feed for dairy cattle. Better results

may be secured by running it through

a cutting machine and feeding a little

dry grain along with it. The feed may





be still further improved if; green al- .





falfa is cut with the corn. So efficient

is this combination in feeding dairy

cattle that many dairymen prefer it to

ordinary pasture grass and the returns

from a few acres of corn and alfalfa

out together and fed green are fully

four times as much per acre as a crop

of pasture grass on similar land. It is

true that When corn and alfalfa are

cut green they contain less nourish-

ment than when they are allowed to

reach a proper degree of maturity, but

when fed green there is almost no

waste; even the stalks being eaten.

These crops cut green and used for

soiling purposes give greater net prof-

its than if allowed to mature and are

fed from the mow and silo.



At this time of the year dairymen

should not forget that their profits de-

pend fully as much upon their skill as

farmers as upon their ability to coax

their cows to produce large yields of

milk from purchased foods. We need

more producing dairymen and fewer of

the manufacturing kind. The produc-

ing dairyman will plan to grow the

best food crops for his cows and re-

duce the cost of purchased feeds to the

lowest possible notch. If one will note





the character of the feeds most in eviz





deuce through the dairy sectiohs he

can not fail to observe that. by far the

largest part of them are the “mixed

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garden crops that require an early



start, .. tomatoes,’ "peppers, celery,

early} cabbage, and'many others, it is

of: first «importance to have strong,

thrifty plants ready for transplanting

when the time comes. Not that this

alone insures the crop. Eternal 'vigi-

lance is the price of many things, in-

cluding a good garden; and the best

of plants may only lead to failure

through after neglect, but good plants

with an \equal chance, will far out-dis-

tance poor ones. Many gardeners

have learned this, and buy their early

plants frOm a greenhouse or depend-





through their oWn efforts. Others

frankly “can’t bother,” and unless one

is willing to undertake a great deal of

“bother," it is best not to attempt the

home-grown plants.



A hot bed, even a crude afiair, is a

great convenience in raising early

plants; but even this requires much

"bother.’ Enough plants for a gener-

ous home garden, may be raised very

successfully in pots and boxes if given

the necessary care—bother. Medium-

sized flower pots, or even tin cans

with holes made in the bottom for

drainage, are fine for starting the seed

as these may be set on an ordinary

window sill, and are oeasily moved

about. Put a few dry leaves or a wisp

of straw or grass. in the bottom of

each and fill two-thirds or more with

very rich soil, from a barnyard is best,

worked fine; then fill up with garden

soil, rather light sandy loam is best,

as heavy soil bakes. Set where the

soil will become thoroughly warm,

then sow from one to two dozen seeds

' in each pot or can and cover lightly

with the fine top soil, wet down with





Iwarm water and set in a warm place.





As often as the top soil seems too dry

when pressed down with the tip of

the finger, give more warm water—

barely tepid, not hot; after a. few days

set in the sunlight as much as possible

and do not allow the soil to chill 01

become too cold.



If kept warm and moist, the. little

plants will begin to appear in from

one to two weeks; but unless condi-

tions'are perfect, it will take much

longer. When the second or third pair

of leaves are started the tops of the

cans or pots will begin to look crowd<

ed and the little plants should be care-

fully reset intc larger containers;

wopden soap boxes or deep old pans

serve very well for this purpose. Fill

with the rich soil, topped with lighter

soil, and set the plants an inch apart.

wetting well after setting. Give plenty

of warm water and sunlight, now, and

in a few days the little plants will be—

gin making wonderful growth. If the

plants become too large and again look

crowded, perhaps becoming stunted in

growth, before the weather admits

garden setting, reset again, giving

more space to develop; large bOXBS

out of doors, covered well on chilly

nights, are best now. Cabbage’s may

be set in the garden much earlier than

tomatoes or other tender plants, which

should not be put out until settled

warm weather. .I have transplanted

tomato plants loaded with blossoms

and buds without seeming to injure

the development of the fruit in the

least.



Really, there is no" “trade secrets"

about raising heme-grown early

plants; there are, however, a, few

points that must be kept in ’mind in

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giving quick, strong growth after be-

ing garden set; harden from the house





growth, by setting in the open air and .

sunlight ‘for at least a. week before.





garden- setting.



In Setting in the garden, the final

transplanting, I prefer a, damp, cloudy

day before rain rather than after, With

the soil rather dry and fine; set in

rows

horse cultivation; unless rain is cer-

tain'and imminent, I turn water into

each hole before covering the mats of

the plant, setting rather. deep and

pressing the soil well doWn, leaving a.

slight!» hollow to collect themdisture.



If cutworms are a menace, I wrap

each stem loosely with a bit of paper,

before setting; and at eveningscatter

a. few bits of green onion top, wet and

rolled in Paris green, about each plant.

I have found as many as three dead

cutworms near one plant thus protect-

ed. Usually enough onion tops may

be found in the cellar onion bin. Pos~

sibly potato sprouts from the cellar

might answer as well, but I have nev-

er tried them.



As to the time for sowing seed and

setting plants, this must be determin-

ed by the location and climate. If six

weeks are allowed, before the‘ proba-

ble time when garden setting" is safe,

one can estimate the time for sowing;

and the plants will usually-be about

light for setting.



The plants should be heed, the soil

well loosened and moist soil drawn

about the stalk, as often as once each

week until large enough for horse cul-

tlvation, and when the soil is drying

after each rain until too'large to dis«

turb by the hoe. If this is done, a fine

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HE yearly record of the Litch-

field Creamery Association at‘

. ferns an admirable illustration

of successful cooperation. Not long

since the writer heard a so- bailed mid

dleman—a dealer in coal, wool, seeds,

and various other products—argue

plausibly and at length, to prove the





fallacy and ultimate failure of the co-





operative idea. Admitting that this

middleman had his own axe to grind,

it‘must be conceded that the history

of certain cooperative undertakings af-





ford grounds for the kind of arguments





advanced. But in spite of failures, the

cooperative idea has come to stay. The

Quincy Cooperative Shipping Associa-

tion mentioned not long since, by the

writer, in these columns, and the Litch-

field Creamery Association, the suc~

cess of which has occasioned this arti-

cle, are the best proofs of the sound-

ness and practicability of the coopera«

tive movement. Moreover, the Ameri-

can farmer is yet far behind in carry-

ing out this cooperative scheme, and

has much to learn from that greatest

of all teachers—experience. Little

Denmark, with her cooperative dairies

and packing houses, affords an illustri~

ous example of a successful nation-





'wide cooperative movement among





hog raisers and dairymen. ..



The Litchfleld Cooperative Cream-

ery is now in the tenth year of its ex-

istence. Although successful from the

outset, the year 1919 was the most sat-

isfactory in the history of the institu-

tion. Directors and stockholders alike,

will admit that much of this added

success is due to the manager, C. S.

Bater. And right here let it be said

that the key to success in all cooper-

ative undertakings is found in the wise

selection of men to manage the busi~

ness. Laxity and indifference in this

regard, have proved more than once,

the cause of failure. Directors need

to possess the courage of'their convie

tions.



In seeking reasons for the remark-

able record made by the Litchfield

creamery, one is found, undoubtedly,

«in the firm grip held by the directors

on the business of the institution.

These directors, seven in number, are

elected annually. Theirs is the final

court of appeal in all matters. Accu-

rate reports of the business must be

submitted each month. They have the

power of dismissing any employe .of

the association, from the manager

down. Not only this, but the manager

must give bonds binding him to the

faithful performance of his duties. In

addition to these directors, there are





‘a president, a secretary, and a treasur-

er, elected by the board, with the us-

ual duties of these offices. .



In comparing "the ninth annual re-

port of the Litchiield Creamery Asso-

ciation with the report for the preced-

ing year, the following facts relative

to the g1 owth of the business may. be

deduced: During 1919, 191,410 pounds

more of. cream‘was taken in than dur:

ing the previous year; 88,483 more

pounds of butter was made, for which

the company received $100,683.57 more

than in the year preceding. lThe pa—

trons received an average during the

year, of eleven cents per pound more

than the year before, and the average

cost of producing the butter was de-

creased from 3.5 to 3.3 cents.



It is probable that all will admit that

in this actual decrease in the cost of

production rests Manager Baters best

claim to efficiency. Increased patron- .

age is, of course, nearly always an in-

dex of successful management. It is

particularly so in the present case, for

the facts have to do with a territory

in which the production of cream has

been cut because of the protracted

droughts and 'an exceptionally scant

hay crop. Foreseeing the dearth of

hay and its substitutes, many farmers

cut down the number of cows kept,

during late summer and early autumn.

Poor pasturage in preceding summer

months, interfered appreciably with

cream production. The significance of

the increase in business is therefore

apparent.



But satisfactory as this phase of the

comparison is, it dwindles beside the

fact of decreased cost of production.

Everywhere, on every hand, we hear

the cry” of high prices. These high

prices apply alike to all commodities,

labor included. When a man can so

engineer a business 'of any kind that

he can render the servicedesired and

yet cut the cost of productiOn, under

present conditions, he is displaying

ability of a rare sort. The Litchfield

Cooperative Creamery draws its pa-

trons from a wide territory, and its

record for 1919 will increase still

farther, its flourishing business.



The following is the annual report

of the total amount of business for

the year 1919:



Cream 1,,259 223 pounds: butterfat,

504, 879 pounds; butter 623.637 pounds;

amount received $369,691.62; expense

$20,677.55. Average price paid for but-

terfat 69c; cost of making butter, per

pound 3.30; average overrun for year

23.5 per cent; average test of cream

for year 40.1 per cent. J. A. KAISER.





 





 





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den. was weeks behind and some of the

things never did ripen. Western seed

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had, and you may be sure that Michi-

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'I want to tell you about my success

with tomatoes. I planted the seed on

March 15 .in a home-made hot bed

made of a few old boards and a couple

of discarded window sash. The hot

bed measured three by five feet and in

that small space I raised nearly a thou-

sand plants. I gave away a few hun-

dred to relatives and neighbors and

set out six hundred plants as soon as

danger of frost was past. The plants

were set two feet apart in the row. and

the rows four feet apart. Shortly after

setting, I put a small handful of fer-

tilizer around each plant and head the

ground up around the plant. Cutworms

took a few and a few just naturally

gave upgthe ghost, but over five hun-

dred lived and throve mightily. Some

of the vines attained a length of over

six feet and sent out roots wherever

they touched the ground. I did not

trim them and did not stake them, but

let them grow naturally. I sprayed

the plants twice With Bordeaux mix-

ture and hand-picked the worms.





All of the neighbors told me that the

first tomatoes invariably rotted but I

never had one rotten tomato. When

the vines had set a number of toma-

toes I gave them a thorough dusting

with hydrated lime—threw it on by

hand until the wholeplant was white

and even the ground was thoroughly

whitened. I never had seen that done

before but it did not injure the plants

in the least and it did prevent the least

sign of rot.



From this small patch I shipped

about fifty bushels to the Chicago mar-

ket, sold a number of bushels to neigh-

bors, supplied my own and my wife’s

relatives, sold one load to a canning

factory. my wifecanned about fifty

quarts and we had them on the table

from the first ripening to the first

black frost, and towards the last I

gave them away by the bushel as the

market was too low to warrant ship-

ping. After the vines had frozen, I

pulled them and stacked them until

the ground was frozen and then used

them in mulching the strawberry bed.

I shook, off and plowed under at least

thirty bushels of green tomatoes. I

forgot to mention that I fed bushels

and bushels to the hogs after the price I

Went down. I used no special method

of culture and the ground was quite

poor. The only unusual thing I did

was to give them the lime dusting but

that certainly paid.

as well but be sure to use Michigan-

grown seed. The variety was Isbells

Pride, but another variety would prob-

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, In a recent issue of the Michigan

Farmer, the liability of a {armor for

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or contract would a person have to

make to avoid liability? Insurance

may look easy but it is not. Suppose

a wind blows a man’s chimney off and

he hires. a mason to build or repair

the same. After the mason has gone

the farmer has no further use for the

insunance. C. G.

The law provides as stated in the

article quoted .that employers are lia-

ble for injuries to workmen other than

household servants and farm laborers,

regardless of the negligence of the

employe, unless the employer has

elected to be liable according to' the

terms of the workmen’s compensation

law. The only method we know of by

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let out the contract to an independent

contractor.

tractor we mean one who completes

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the results according to the contract.

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There is no mention of manure in

our lease and we have fed our animals

on etxra hay and grain purchased.

Have we a light to iemove the ma-

nure? C. S.





Good farming is generally recogniz-

ed as requiring the tenant to put back

upon the land manure made from the

products of the soil Therefore the

tenant has no right to remove the ma

nure. On the other hand the manure

made from products puxchased by the

tenant and fed upon the land belong

to him «And may be removed with his

other property, provided it is done be-

fore. he surrenders possession. The

difficulty in the present case is that

the tenant has mixed his property

with that belonging to the owner of

the land; and in such cases we fear

that he is without remedy as he has no

right to take anything but his own

property. J. R. R.





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I let some land on shares last year.

The tenant planted the crop and when

it was matured did not harvest it

What 1emedy have I? Subscriber.





The terms of the lease are not giv-

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~ . alone Or with a light grain crop. It

the field in question has, never had a

seeding oi alfalfa before, and I assume

that it has. ’not, it would be safer to

seed alone. It would be too late to

seed this field after the barley crop is

removed unless unusual weather con-





ditions prevailed. Wouldi suggest you .





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‘ tons of finely ground limestone per





acre. Keep well worked until abOut‘





June 1525, then seed. using a regular

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drill with seeder attachment; 0r seed

may be sown with a broadcast seeder

and dragged in lightly. If you desire

to seed with barley, prepare your seed~

bed early, lime Well and sow from two

to three peeks of barley per acre. It

would also pay'to use two hundred and

fifty to three hundred pounds per acre

of acid phOSphate. If the weather is

very dry about the time the barley is

heading out, you could clip the grain

and let it fall back on the ground, thus

forming a mulch for the young alfalfa.

If there should be plenty of moisture,

the barley could be left and cut for

grain. As a rule, you would not want

to attempt to seed this field to alfalfa

'for the first time in a grain crop un-

less the land is in good condition.

Use the best alfalfa seed obtainable,

which would be Grimm, Baltic or Cos-





sack. You will likely find Grimm .eas- 1»





ier to obtain as the supply is greater.

Get your seed right away as the de-

mand this year is very heavy and the

supply is rather light. Sow from ten

to twelve pounds of seed per acre.



Use the pure culture from the Mich-

igan Agricultural College to inoculate

your seed. Use one culture for sixty

pounds of seed or any portion there'ot.

Complete directions come with each

culture. The cost is twenty-five cents

per culture. D. W.





 





HUMUS CROP FOR SANDY LAND.





 





We have some dry sandy land that

has been cropped until the humus is

nearly used up and it is difficult to get

clover started and. we are thinking of

growing some crop to plow under to

produce humus. What would you ad-

vise trying, Kentucky bluegrass, or

what we usually call June grass?

Would you think it a serious matter

to kill it when preparing land for oth-

er crops? What would be best to sow?



Allegan Co. J. L. F.





I would not recommend the sowing

of June grass as a crop to plow under

to add humus to this land. In the

first place, June grass will not furnish

a large growth and is slow to start on

such land as this. Secondly, it is like-

ly that this land is badly in need of

lime, and June grass does not do well

on such soil.



I would suggest you sow Qw peas

or soy beans about May 25 to June 1.

Sow in rows about thirty inches apart,

using one-half bushel of seed per acre. ‘

Cultivate the crop two or three times.

If you sow soy beans, be sure. to inoc-

ulate the seed. The culture can be

obtained from the Michigan Agricul-

tural College at EaSt Lansing. or you

can take dirt from a field where soy

‘beans were grown last year that were

known to be'well inoculated. Use the

glue method with the dirt. Many pre-

fer the dirt to the pure culture. About

September 1, go on this field With a

di 0 harrow and disc the beans or



, peas in. Once over will be sufiiclent

,for this. Broadcast rye and go over

again with the disc to cover the rye.

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second time over and go the opposite

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sider the other 18,000,000 acres. What,

grow crops on jack-pine skims, where

there was nothing but sand, or in

swamp land where you would need a

rowboat to get around? The idea Was

ridiculous. In other words, Mr. Citi-

zen politely told anyone who suggested

such a thing that he was a liar.



Then came a second period a few

years ago, when the pendulum swung

the other way. A number of men with

an investigative turn of mind began

making experiments with some of this

unused sand land. In some cases the

results were highly successful. At once

Mr. Citizen threw his hat into the air

and began talking about how these

Michigan deserts were to bIOOm with

roses, or something of the sort. Of

course, the fact that many of these

experiments failed was‘ lost-sight of

fon the time. Mr. Citizen was too busy

with his whoops of joy to notice any

little things like that.





Occasionally various individuals urg-

ed the state immediately to launch

some scheme for ‘opening up the gold

mine.” They were willing to set’forth

with pick and shovel to seek pay dirt,

or else organize that stock company.

But somehow these men did not get

far with their efforts. Mr. Citizen,

after the first wave of enthusiasm, had

settled into a sort of lethargy. We had

12.000000 acres of perfectly good farm

land. Why get more? Besides, how

were we to go about the task of re-

claiming these tracts? Since no one

was ready with a workable plan, noth-

ing was undertaken.



Now the point is that Michigan has

lost its timber and must have more;

when 1ab01 conditions once more be-

come normal the state is very likely to

want thOSe additional arable sections,

whether cut-over, sand or swamp.

Therefore, it is up to Mr. Citizen to do

something about it. Yet what does

Mr. Citizen—any citizen—know about

the problem? Who can say What cut-

over land should be reforested and

what should be devoted to agriculture?

Who can name the sections where

sand soil may be made to “bloom with

roses” and the Sections where it is

hopelessly barren? Who can declare

with authority that the swamp areas

could be drained thus and so and made

to yield return in muck farming? It

is safe to say that not a soul within

the state could answer these ques-

tions.



Therein is the reason why the Mich-

igan waste land question always has

been a poser for the legislature. The

information simply was not, to be had.

W'lienerer the issue was brought up,

various interests at. once took a hand.

These interests could not. agree on the

course which ought to be followed.

The advice handed out to the legisla-

ture was hopelessly conflicting. What

was the poor representative or senator

to do? Just because he happened to

hold a seat in the, state’s law-making

body, he did not have access to any

more complete or more accurate infor-

mation than anyone else. What agri-

cultural and forestry experts, trained

economists and experienced business

men could not tell him, he could not

be expected to know. The legislator

did not know. Nobody knew.



Agitation upon thesubject finally

resulted in an act appropriating sixty

thousand dollars for the purpose of a

soil survey, but our entry into the war

interfered and since then the project

seems to have willingly been forgotten

by the authorities. Hence the inaction

which exists at present is just as dead-

ly as that which prevailed before this

particular body of law-makers was per-

suaded to pass such an act. Mr. Citi-

zen still is scratching his head about



that gold mine.



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ScienCe have concerned themselves

with the problem. These men have

realized its enormity. They are aware

that no one is in a position tobpeak

with authority abopt a plan of action.

Therefore, a committee composed of

professors from the faculties of the

Michigan Agricultural College and the

University of Michigan was appointed

last year to investigate. University of

Michigan members of this committee

are Dr. Filibert Roth, professor of for-

estry, and Dr. P. S. Lovejoy, assistant

professor of forestry. M. A. C. is rep-

resented by Dr. M. M. McCool, soils;





Dr. E. A. Bessey, botany; Dr. W. 0.



Hedrick, economics,



Cox, farm crops.

After several meetings the members





and Prof. J. S.





act as chairman, speakers will be Dr.

McCool, also of M. A. 0., and Dr. Roth

and Dr. Lovejoy, of Michigan Univer-

sity Professor Levejoy has recently

finished a personal survey of the north.

ern part of the state and will present

the general subject of the utilization of

this land. Professor McCool will con-

sider the soils phase. - Dr. Roth will

discuss forest fire prevention, while





Professdr Cox will take up the phase





of the agricultural value of Michigan’s

cut-over lands.



The problem is probably the most

important ever 'attacked by the Acad-

emy. How the movement will result

cannot be foreseen, but its possibilities

are almost limitless. .



The most pressing question is that





 





Cutover Land in Alger County which





of the committee haVe become con-

vinced in their

first logical step in the whole matter

is the institution of a comprehensive

econdmic, agricultural, sails and fdr-

est survey. Such a survey would clear

up the question for all time. We should

know just where we stood upon the

matter. Whenever any plan was pro-

posed which concerned these waste

areas we should be able to place our

finger directly upon the data. which

applied. We should not be working in





own minds that they





 





has been Utilized for Sheep Grazing.





of reforestation and fire protection. By

special provision state-owned timber

land has been cared for, but the total

area'is scarcely a drop in the bucket

to the great tracts left untouched. In

order to insure a supply of lumber for

the future, we must undertake some

sort of program with as little delay as

possible; What timber is left is being

swept year after year by devastating

fires. Unless something is done, we

shall lose even that.



Of course, the question of the large





 





 





Some of the Fertile Land of Ontonagon County Covered with Second-





Growth





the dark. A good business man takes

inventory. Why not the state of Mich-

igan?



But the matter will not stop with





’the conferences of the committee. The

state branch of the Academy of Science,

comprising several hundred men vers-

ed in every field of scientific research,

will take up the question as a whole at

its annual meeting at Ann Arbor on

March 31-April 3. On Thursday night,

April 1, an entire evening will be de-

voted to its consideration and, accord-

ing to present plans, the following at-

ternoon will be thrown open to a gen-

eral discussion which will be led by

political,

leaders in the state—men interested in

the practical application.

igan division of the Academy of to Professor Cox of M. A. 0., who will





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Timber.





land holdings in the upper peninsula

must be considered.

own forty-seven per cent of the land,

or more than 5,000,000 acres.

may or may not be interested in forest

conservation.

cause most of the land has been strip-

ped and is worth very little in its pres-

ent condition, whereas if it were re-

forested its value would at once begin

to rise.





Thirty-two men

They





Probably they are, be«





Again, with respect to the soil situa-





tion, it is definitely known that parts

of the waste land can be utilized and

parts can not.

common county's soil probably never

Will become productive to any great

extent, while there is fine clay loam in

Ontonagon county But this knowl-

edge is limited As a result a few





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grasping promoters have induced many,





a workingman tram the cities to part

with his hard-earned savings for a

patch of sand which never could make

him anything butya poor man. The

state could not undertake an effective





campaign against such swindlers be-,





‘cause the evidence was not available.

Of course, any sort of a survey will

meet the opposition of land dealers of

shady motives, but it should receive

the hearty support of the honest.





There is also the question of labor.

Right now, when men to work the

farms can be had at scarcely any price

it is quite unlikely that the state

should desire to push any great recla-

mation projects in the near futu1e.

But the economic situation cannot re‘

main forever as it is now. The survey,

if it be at all complete, will take

many months. Perhaps by the time it

is finished Michigan will be in dire

need of the information it will supply.





In his discussion Professor McCool

will take up, the possible scope of the

survey as it affects soils. Aspects

which may be included are soil class-

ification, drainage courses, topography,

land eroding, present State of produc-

tivity with- explanation for such condi-

tions, ecomposition, amount of land

utilized, possibilities of unused land

and reccimmendations for soil improve-

ment. The survey would be especially

valuable as a basis for farm manage-

ment and systems of farming. Meth-

ods which proved successful on soil of

a certain type in one section would

then apply to soil of that type in any

section. Besides its purely agricul.

tural phase, it would be helpful in road

construction, control of the water sup.

ply and industrial development.





Should the survey finally be deter-

mined upon, it is almost certain that

the agricultural experiment station un-

der the leadership of Dean R. S. Shaw

of M. A. 0., would be placed in charge.

In fact, only recently has our college

succeeded in efforts to secure the co‘

operation of the United States Depart-

ment of Agriculture in beginning such

a survey on a small scale in Michigan.

This coming summer two men from

the soils division of M. A. C. and at

least one from the government bureau

of soils will commence the work. The

decision of the United States agricul-

tural officials is especially significant

because it seems to show that the fed-

eral government is ready to lend a

helping hand..A small amount of class‘

ification of soils in the southeastern

part of the state has already been done

and this naturally will be given a de-

cided impetus. The preliminary sur-

vey, it is believed, will go far in insur-

ing a complete one later, by indicating

the method and the results to be er

pected, as far as soils are concerned.





Of course, any attention paid to the

question of drainage of swamp land

will coincide With a movement already

launched .by the muck farmers of the

state.





However, predictions about the ex-

aét direction the movement will .take





are to a great extent speculative. From

consideration of the facts here set

down, the situation seems to call for

action of some sort.

the whole problem is so vast and be-

cause the ideas held by most persons

as to its aspects are so vague, that ag«

ricultural leaders and scientists have

approached it so cautiously.—-H.





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fruit trees which besides looking un-

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‘ HE RAISED MEN AND WOMEN.»

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NEIGHBOR of mine never has

accumulated much money. His

farm is a small one and not overly pro-





ductive. He never has dressed very





well, and his wife never had a silk

dress to my knowledge. This man

never held any very prominent office.

One term he served as justice of the

peace, but aside from that I never





.knew of his being elected to any place





of public trust.



But this father and mother did raise



men and women. They had seven

children, five girls.and two boys, and

they are all-citizens of the highest

type. Some of them are on the farm;

others are teachers in the great metro-

politan schools of New York, and one

is a civil engineer in the employ of

one of the largest railway lines df the

country. The old man is now well

past eighty and proud of his success.

He never has been what the world

would call a successful man, but as a

matter of fact. the world never will

know just how much it owes to him.

He has left his impress on his. time

most effectively.

‘ And the fine part of it is, those boys

and girls, now men and women grown,

all recognize what their parents have

done for them. If you'were to speak

to any one of them about this, you

would hear something like this:



“Father taught school himself in his

younger days. In fact he taught in

our own district in‘ the winter a num-

ber of terms. This was an advantage

to us. He always attended to it that

we had our lessons, and we had the

best of books and papers all the time

on the table. Father often had liter-

ary exercises at the schoolhouse and

when he thought we were getting tired

of that, he would urge us to go around

to the homes of the neighbors and hold

little meetings with the boys and girls

there. IWe had music, some readings

and pieces to speak. He urged us to

think for ourselves and learn all we

could about the farm and the out-of-

door life that we could. When old

enough we were sent away to high

school or normal school and both fath-

er and mother did all they could to

help us along. Mother kept us well

clothed. We did not always have the

finest cloth in our clothes but it was

good and clean. We kept some sheep

and their wool made our clothes and

some besides. We owe everything to

father and mother.”



And every year there is a home-com-

ing. No matter where the boys and

girls are, when the call comes they

rally at the old farm home. It is a

great day, a day of telling over the

stories of olden times and enjoying to-

gether the meeting together once

more.



Sometimes in counting up the wealth

of the nation we bring in many things

that do‘not amount to half 'as much

as this old man’s crop of boys and

girls. Why is it we always think in

terms of‘dollars and cents when reck-

oning up our resources? It is so, and

yet, money and land and stock and

bank accounts are all so shortlived!

We have them now; a day or two

more and they are gone. But integrity

on the part of the boys and girls we

raise, good citizenship, kind, true and





loving hearts are of a thousand times





more value than any material comforts

we may possess.



This is no fancy story. I can lead

you right to the door of this good

farmer. man; and I tell you one thing,





‘ you. will have to be 'quick at thinking





and up—to- -date in your knoWledge of





» current events to keep up with him.





 





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in Michigan of course com-



mences with the advent of the

first pioneers long before its admission

into the Union in 1837. During the

years frOm 1825 to 'gl836 the Detroit

and Chicago turnpike was laid out, a

portion of the “01d Territorial Road"

from Ypsilanti through Jacksonopolis,

Marshall, Battle Creek,‘ Kalamazoo,

Paw Paw to Lake Michigan blazed

through and fixed up so that it was

passable in spots during the dry sea.-

sons of the year. Battle Creek and

Kalamazoo were then known as Milton

and Bronson, and there are today rel-

ics and corduroy bottoms still, left as

reminders of whatthe oxen chauffeurs

had to contend with that generally





kept them on low gear and only once

in a. great while on high for a very





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Record Garden





But about ten years ago things be-

gan to happen here and there in lower

Michigan along the main roads and in

few of the by-ways. Horatio Earle in

those days was engaged to take a whirl

over the state as a. farmers’ institute

lecturer and to impress upon the farm-

ers the necessity of beginning to think

about ways and means of commencing

to get ready to fix up the mud roads of

Michigan where they needed it badly.



And the farmers by pairs and doz-

ens here‘ and there looked upon Hor-

atio and favored him over all others;

for he was fair to lock at. And each

farmer thought Horatio was looking at





 





inspecting the First State Reward Road Constructed in Kalamazoo County.





that afternoon, after Horatio had still~

ed his voice and quieted down his most

effective gestures, that he was most‘

emphatically for'good roads, though he

would never be fool enough to go and

buy one 0’ them go] dinged chug wag--

one, evenif they would go right along

on a nice smooth road.



And so it came to pass hereabouts

and elsewhere in Michigan where Horo

atio Earle attended farmers’ institutes

that he preached the gospel of good

roads very eiiectively. The moral of





[his-sermons got under the skin in





many neighborhoods and Horatio, like

John the Baptist, helped" prepare the

way for making the road paths

straighter and wider and deeper and





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harder and smoother than the most

progressive pioneer farmer ever dream.

cd of seeing them in all his born days.



And so We come to a period of about

ten years ago when Frank F. Rodgers,

3. civil engineer of Port Huron,,-Came

over into Macedonia (Lansing) to help

Horatio on a big job that was bound

to grow by leaps and bounds until it

reached the uttermost parts of Michi-

gan and through each section of every

township from New Buffalo to “The

S00" and from Maumee Bay to Onto~

nagon.



It was about that time that Frank

F. Rodgers, as deputy highway com-

missioner of Michigan, engaged the

writer to take several trips with- him

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The first picture shows an in-





roads in Michigan “could see two ways spection of one of ' the first gravel

to once)? as one farmer remarked to roads buiit'in Kalamazoo county, south

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T“ ' Endorsement of Theodore Roosevelt,

‘ I ' ' g -the Greatest American of His Time.





A vote for Leonard Wood is a vote for Roosevelt’s principles, j:

for the very same things that Roosevelt would be advocating i

if he were alive today.



A vote for Wood is a vote for a candidate whose backers have

pledged themselves to see that the voice of the peoples of Mich- ' "

igan is heard in the state and national conventions. Wood is



' fighting for the nomination, not merely to gather up delegates

; to be transferred to some other candidate when the party

i’ leaders decide that the psychological moment has arrived.

\; General Wood,in his public utterances,has shown a thorough

‘ understanding of the farmers’ problems and a warm sympathy

for the farmer. He says: “Our stability rests in the agricultural

: , populatiOn. The red flag never flies over the house of a farmer

; who owns his farm. If the American farmers had not played

; the game as they did, we would have lost the war, because we

., would not have been able to feed our Allies in the field as well as ,

f ourselves. If the American farmers had struck, the Germans

' ~ ~ would have won the war. The farmers sent their sons to war,

and in spite of the shortage of labor they, by tremendously in-

. creasing their efforts, gave the world the biggest crop in histor . gs

; ~ Agriculture is not only the principle source of our wealth, it ’

A is the groundwork of our most stable citizenship.

i s1 , » We must have a department of agriculture conducted for

.the farmer by men who really know farming from the furrow

to the crop. It should be the intention of the national govern- \ vii;

ment at Washington to make farming conditions such that 3:;

there would be fewer tenant farms and more owned farms”. : z?

TheodOre Roosevelt said of Leonard Wood: “He has made

all good Americans his debtors by what he has done”.





. ' Vote For Wood—Primaries April 5th





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Kalamazoo county’s newly organiZed

Mr. Bryant became

a. noted road builder. and JVas later on

made field secretary at Michigan State

Good Roads AssociatiOn.



In the picture Mr. Bryant stands on

the left side with a spade in his right

hand. Mr. Rodgers is measuring the

depth of compacted gravelin the cen-

ter of the "road, bed. ' Road Inspector

W. W. Cox (wearing a cap) is holding





the end-of the Steel tape and measur-~





ing the .width "of the gravel bed. This





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State Highway Commiss"

men’s Office.





was was then the (first chairman of? ' -

troit it seemed-1 as though we Gould





never get out; Soon after the new





strip of concrete, shown in the second;

picture, and built by Ed. Hines and his _‘ “

was completed and We '

found the. hollow east :of EloiSe filled

in and a fine road. bed that- stands to- '





associates,





day as good as the day it was. com-

pleted.



What a change has taken place-in

the roads everywhere in Michigan

since those days of less than a decade

ago. And this change has been in

charge of two men who have done

.more to pull Michigan out (if the mud





ner Rodgers and Chief Engineer Cox in‘wthe For-l

Insert 8 ows what was once one of the Worst of Southern





Michigan's Roads, but which has since been made Good through Commu-





nity Effort. .





ten years ago. From that time to this

nothing has been done to it except to

spread over it an extra. coat of gravel.

It has been given terrific traffic during

the last three years and since Camp

Custer took it in, yet it is wonderful

how that piece of road has stood the

punishment. It needs repairing now,

but nothing more than a good thick

coat of screened gravel, well rolled

down and compacted. The road bed:

now looks almost as it did ten years

ago, and this picture will bring up

memories of some of the first pioneer

road engineering in the, days when

some farmers along the road were

more or less inclined to scoff at road

building and berate the fellows who

were driving pesky automobiles and

soaring horses to death.



And it was during that same sum-





than any other tWo men in our com-

monwealth. It was but a short time

ago that we took this picture of State

Highway Commissioner Frank W. Rod-

gers and Chief Engineer W. W. Cox in

Mr. Rodger's private office. When we

went in to set up our camera, there

were about thirty men in the recep-

tion roOm waiting to see one of these

two men regarding some phase of road

work in various sections of both

peninsulas.





And in less than ten years farmers .

have one by one bought one 0’ them.





pesky automobiles until now there are

thousands and thousands of four, six

and eight-cylinder motor cars on'Mich-

igan farms. And now, also, the gas

tractors and motor trucks are being

utilized in almost every neighborhood.

“And still there's more to follow."





Sunshine Hollow Items





By Rube





ILL BARNS says that there ought



to be more stringent laws govern-

ing dogs. Mike Carter’s airedaletook

the ‘ seat out of Bill’s all-wool pants

when he tried to lift a. pullet from

Mike’s hen roost last Tuesday night.





Sunshine Hollow has been visited by

little Arctic birds which came down

here because it’s so homelike for them.

Folks have been arguing about what

they eat during the winter in the Arc-

tic. Some say its seeds out of pine

cones. Others favor fleas off from the

polar bears.





Uncle Sidney Soaper is a hunter and

trapper. .Yesterday‘ he came down to

the village smelling like a war profit-

eer. He had seven skunks and is sav-





 





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Four prominent ladies in ‘ ' ‘





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They 1were much embarrassed when

we found out it meant Fat. Four.“ The

ladies, howeve1, are built just right.-.

Altie Jones says he can’t drink pink

lemonade because it makes him lock

like a thermometer. His kid brother

says he could wear a. double-barrelled

shotgun for a pair of pants. Mrs.

Jones has been doing some repair

work on him. He is being relinedfwith

buckwheat cakes. Home-made sausage

is also used for interior decorating.

Some mischievous boys pushed Aunt

Myra Kinsting’s little hen house over

on the front side. It wouldn’t have

caused any trouble but she was inside

hunting for eggs. She‘peeked through

a knot hole in the floor and got the

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1TH the approach of April 1, the



closing date for entries in'the

Annual Body Building Contest of athe

Michigan State Fair, G. W. Dickinson,

secretary-manager of the fair, announc-

es the 1920 contest will be the largest

ever staged.k



Interest in athletics stimulated by

the physical training the boysreceiv—

ed in. the concentration camps, enthu-

siasm aroused through the interest in

the 1920 Olympic games and the gen-

eral tendency of the public. to give

more attention to the welfare of the

body, is responsible for the extraordi-

nary number of entries of both men

and women being received, according

to the fair executive.



The period of traveling will extend

over five months this year, the contest

opening April 1 and closing September

1. Rules of the contest provide that

each entrant shall file an entry blank

not later than April 1, showing their

physical condition at that time. Dur-

ing the following five months each

contestant follows a scientific course

of physical training, and endeavors to

make as much headway in physical de-

velopment as possible.



On September 11 all entrants appear

at the State Fair before an examining

board of three of the greatest physical

culture experts in America, headed by

Bernarr McFadden. of New York.

Each contestant is given a thorough

physical examination and prizes are

awarded to the ones who make» the

most pronounced advancement.





“One does not need to be physically

sound to enter this contest,” Mr. Dick-

inson points out. “The prizes do not

go to the contestant in the best physi-

cal condition, but to the one making

the greatest improvement in the five

months.” *





GARDENS CUT LIVINIG COSTS.





00 many people take it for grant-



ed that they can do nothing about

the co;t of living. They think the job

of rrducing it belongs to somebody

else.” says E. ’i‘. Meredith, Secretary

of Agriculture.



It may be true that they cannot do

very much toward reducing the price

of commodities generally, but there

are many of them who can reduce their

own living costs very materially by,a

very simple method. ,



“The home garden is the answer.

The garden cannot do it all, but it will

help more than one is likely to realize

'on first thought. The garden—and it

need not occupy a large piece of

ground—~will produce all the fresh veg-

etables the family needs during the

summer and fall. It can be made to

produce all the potatoes and beans

they need for the winter. It will pro-

duce a considerable surplus of all kinds

of vegetables that can be saved for

winter use by canning and drying;

and all ‘of it can be produced at very

moderate cost, compared with what

would have to be paid for them in the

market or at the grocery store.



“This way of reducing the cost of

living is open to every man, every

woman, every child who can‘get the

use of a. plot of ground.



“The same patriotic urge may not

exist this year, but the personal neces-

sity is even greater than it was in the

war years.



“Reports received by the United

States Department of Agriculture in-

dicate that commercial vegetable gard

eners will materially reduce their plant-

ings this year. They see no way of,

getting enough labor to carry on their

No adequate rem-





 





The use of Timkcn Tapered Roller

Bearing: at points of hard service

in the great majority of motor-

vehicles is proof of leadership estab-

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that the motor truck has been one of the greatest factors _

in promoting the building of good roads? . .





that by proving the actual increase in farm profits due ‘

to better haulage over poor roads, the truck has

demonstrated the great commercial advantages

that good highways offer?





that in the development of a truck that could meet and

conquer all the obstacles to motor haulage on country

highways, the “power delivery mechanism” has

carried a greater responsibility than any other part

of the truck?

the remarkable performance of the working parts

of the modern motor truck depends largely upon

the bearings installed at points of hard service?





the tapered roller bearing—the Timken type—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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43 High Grade Holstein Cows . ’ ”......Z...~°.I.......I‘.E " .

FLINT, MICH' suto muses :c'ofific’amfi '

. Apr. 8, 1920.--Sale Starts 1 P. M. '





Having sold our farm. and being forced to vacate the premises, we will

39’“ 43 very high-grade Holstein cows to the highest bidder. This is the old-

est and most prominent herd in this section of the state, having been built

Up using purebred sires. for a great many years. These cows are in vari‘

ous stages of lactation, nearly one-half having freshened recently.



They haVe been selected with great care. and dairymen wishing to buy

heavy producing, fine individuals, with very large, well-balanced udders,

will make a mistake if they do not attend this sale.



The sale includes the present herd sire, Johan Pauline Lad, No. 127548.

who has a 30-“). own‘sister. This bull is sired by Johan Hengerveld Lad,





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26.90 lbs. butter. in seven days at eight years. .



‘ Some 01’. these cows are sired by the above bull, and nearly all are bred

to him. Also several young sons of the above. sire, and out of registered

cows, will be sold. Our farm is situated three miles -west.of Flint on River

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HAT do the political parties



stand for today? No one has



been able' to tell so far, even

political editors~of big dailies profess

dense ignorance.





But the political parties are here,

and we new voters must perforce ac-

cept conditions as they are until we

can change them. Thank goodness the

days (of dyed-in-the-wool democrats

and republicans are over, and intelli-

gent men and women are voting for

the man, not for the party. That makes

it easier for us..for if men who have

been in politics all their lives can not

tell what their party stands for, what

can be expected of us? We can tell,

though, what the man stands fer, for

his deeds speak for him.





Begin right in your own township,

or village or precinct, whatever your

political unit happens to beg Perhaps

the justice of the peace, the supervis-

or, or the town clerk is your nearest

neighbor. Has he given you faithful

service? Is he honest, clean, fearless?

Does he stand for American ideals? If

he does, vote for him regardless of what

political tag he attaches to himself.

Carry it on into the county. You have

read your county papers, even if you

haven’t time for the dailies. You know

the county gossip, and you can judge

pretty well of the sort of men who

have filled the county offices. Have

they-been actuated by the highest mo-

tives? Have the decisions of the

judges been on the side of right, or

on the side of vote getting? Is there

anything shady about the official con-

duct of any of the crowd in the county

building? Those are the things for you

to consider when election time comes

around.





What the country wants just now is

men who are more concerned over do-





Recipes





' ASTER would not be Easter with-

E out its dainty and delicious East-

er cake and any of the following

recipes will make one fit to charm the

palate of the most exacting.

Easter Cake.



Put onehalf cup of cocoa and one

cup of sugar into a. bowl and add one-

half cup of water. Beat the yolks of

m; eggs, add these to the cake, with

one teaspoon of baking-powder sifted

with one-half cup of flour. Season

with vanilla, fold in the stitfly beaten

whites of the eggs. Line two jelly tins

with paper; pour in the mixture and

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utes before removing cake. Dust top

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Frost top, sprinkle liberally with co-

coanut and decorate with small color-

ed candies put on in the shape of nor

cissus blossoms or an Easter bell.



- Snow Cake.



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(Sure, You Are Going to Vote! '





ing what is right than over the spoils

of office. If you know any such get

them into office. Get out do the pri-

maries and nominate them. If the old

parties don’t put them up for office,

do it yourself. That is what primaries

are for. Get the politicians out and

put plain men and women in. Then we

may hope for a, government for the

people and not for the group.



Herbert Hoover must be satisfied on

thirty points before he can fine up

with either party. What hope is there,

then, for women who have never giv-

en the subject any study to know

whether they are for or against the

administration? Most of us would

have to be satisfied on about three

hundred points before we could say.





   





We’d like to know- why we could get '





sugar for nine cents during the war,





and now that the armistice is a. year‘





and a half in the past we have to pay

twenty cents. We’d like to know why

we.pay six times the old price for.

pure wool, and get shoddy. We’d like

to know why it costs as much for a.

pair of shoes today as it used to for

a suit of clothes.

real reason. We don’t want to be told

it is because women spend the money

and that if they would refuse to buy

prices would go down. Of all the asi-

nine reasons to advance, that is the

limit. Fabric will wear out, and in the





name of sheetless beds, what are you





going to do? .

We want to know if politics is’reo

sponsible for the present chaos. Or is

it labor? 0r capital? And if it is mis~

management or exploitation of either

labor or capital, how can it be reme-

died? These are only a. few of the

things the new voter wants answered.

Neither existing party seems able to

say. But we intend to find out.

- DEBORAH.





for Easter Cakes

By L. M.





T Izamtonl





very thin shreds of citron and thin

slices of candied cherry. Over these

pour the remainder of the mixture,

dust top with pulverized sugar and

bake. '



Lily Layer Cake.





Cream together three-fourths cup of

shortening and one cup sugar. Beat

the yolks and whites of two eggs sep-

arately and add to the sugar, stir in

one-fourth cup milk and one and one-

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beaten eggs and four teaspoons of

milk. Put two tablespoons of preserv-

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peel and two ofwchopped figs through

meat grinder. Stir these into .the cake

with sufficient flour to make .a. suit

batter,fsifted with two teaspoons bak-

ing-powder. Spread S‘on floured board

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the cake mixture. Bake about fifteen

minutes, remove from tins, ice.each

cake and in the middle of each put a

small piece of citron cut in the shape

of a flower petal.





Date Lanr Cake;





Cream together one-half cup short-

ening and one cup sugar, add one beat-

en egg, one-half cup .milk and two cups

flour sifted with two teaspoons bak-

ing-powder. Bake in two layers and

put together with the following filling:

To one cup of dates put through meat

chopper, add one cup boiling water and

cookrfive minutes.

spoon corn starch dissolved in a little

cold water and one tablespoon sugar.

Cook. until it thickens, add one table-

spoon of lemon juice, remove from the

fire and beat until cool. Spread be

tween layers and do not ice top of

cake.





Snowdrift Cake.





To two cups of sugar add one-half

cup of butter and cream. Pour in one

cup of milk, add the beaten whites of

four eggs, and three teaspoons of bak-

ing-powder sifted with three cups of

flour. Flavor with lemon and bake in

a moderate oven. May be frosted or

dusted with powdered sugar just be-

fore plac'ing in oven.





IStar Cake.





Beat the whites of three eggs, add

one cup pulverized sugar, one-half cup

sweet milk, one-half cup cornstarch,

one-half teaspoon soda, one teaspoon

cream of tartar, and two cups of flour

sifted together. 'Melt one-half cup of

shortening, add one tablespoon blanch-

ed almonds, stir into ‘cakeand bake.

Frost with a maple sugar frosting.





Holiday Cake.





Cream together one-half cup butter

and one cup of sugar. Add one-half

cup sweet milk, whites of four eggs

and two cups of flour sifted with two

Bake in a

new tin. in a moderate oven. Make a

thick frosting as fellows: .Put one-half

cup stoned figs and one cup of seeded

raisins in a. steamer and when thor~

oughly softened, chap fine. Add one

teaspoon vanilla, the beaten whites of

three eggs, the juice of half an orange,

and confectioners' sugar to thicken.





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The following recipes were demon-

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during Farmers' Week.





Whey Salad Dressing.



One cup whey, quarter cup vinegar,

one teaspoon mustard, half teaspoon

salt, one-eighth teaspoon of turneric.

three tablespoons flour, one-third cup

of sugar, paprika, two tablespoons of

butter. Heat the whey and vinegar

together. Mix dry ingredients and acid.

with the sweeteningto the whey. Add

the fat, and cook the mixture until it

is smooth and] thick.





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which has been baked. Cover the pie

with a meringue made by adding two

tablespoons of sugar and a quarter tea-

spoon. of vanilla to the beaten egg

whites, and ,brown in a slow oven for

twenty minutes.





Whey Sherbet.





One tableSpoon gelatin, four cupfuls

whey, one and a half cupfuls sugar,

one lemon, one cupful crushed fruit,

fresh or canned. Strawberries and

pineapple are the best.

in two tablespoonfuls of cold water

and dissolve by setting the cup in a

dish of hot water. Strain the whey

through a cheesecloth. Add sugar and

lemon juice’and stir until the sugar is

dissolved. Add the gelatin to the whey

mixture, turn it into a freezer, pack

and freeze in the usual manner. When

the mixture begins to freeze, add the.

fruit and continue freezing. When it

begins to freeze,acupful of sour cream

whipped stiff, added, will greatly in!-

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SALT-RISING; BREAD WITHOUT

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IEWED from the standpoint of

ecoonmy there is no bread made

today that equals the old-fashioned

salt~rising bread of our grandmother's

day. With the starter, or “risin's,” as‘

grandma used to say, made of corn

meal or graham, as it always used to

be, the bread is very dark, but I find

that by using wheat flour for the start-

er the bread is as white as yeast bread.

Simply fiour, water, salt and a pinch

each of soda and ginger are the in-

gredients used, thereby eliminating the

sugar, yeast and shortening required

for yeast bread. Quite a saving, I find.

To make, scald a quart bowl and

spoon, empty out water, fill half full~of

water that is very warm, but not hot,

and add one .teaSpoon of salt, a pinch

each of soda and ginger, stirring to the

thickness of pancake batter with wheat

flour. Sift: flour over the top, cover

tight, and put in dish containing quite

warm water, setting in fireless cooker

over night. Or, lacking this, set on a

warm soapstone over night, covering

with a warm blanket. When made

with wheat flour it takes .the starter

from twelve to twenty hours to get

light, but the warmer it is kept with-





.out scalding, the quicker it will get





light. When the batter is all foamy

and of an odor that declares to the nos-

triis that it is surely fermented, it is

ready to use. '



To one quart of very warm. not

scalding, water add one tablespoon of

salt and stir to a thick batter with

wheat flour, stirring in the starter last.

Sprinkle flour over the top, keep warm

and it will soon rise. When light mix

at once into loaves and when they have

risen till they are double in size, bake

the same length of time as yeast bread.





The secret of success with salt-ris-

ing bread, lies in the thorough sterili-

zation of all utensils used, clean sweet

materials and a uniform amount of

heat at all times. This amount makes

five large loaves.





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Pearl barley is usually used in

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Pepsodent is based on pep-

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For long this method

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. HEN I arrived in Adrian in com-



pany with forty-nine other calves

May 18, I was sold to a nine-year-old

boy named Charles Ruesink. He lived

seven miles from the stock yards. He

thought me too wild to draw home in

a. stock rack, so .drove me home.



He was kind. to me and wished to

tame me, so he put me in a box stall

for two weeks. He came in often to

pet me and talk to me. I did not like

to have him lead me by a. rope, and

pulled away from, him. so he got one

of the men to lead me around till I

grew more gentle. While being léd, I

nibbled at the grass. I found after-

ward he was getting me accustomed to

pasture feed.



During the first. two weeks he fed

me on alfalfa hay and ensilage, ground

corn and barley, the whole oats, also

half a. teaspoon of salt each day. After

this I was out on pasture, but was also

given the ensilage and grain. I liked

the green grassso well that I didn't

eat much ensilage. The first of Aug-





]unior Livestock





OR the purpose of encouraging a. twelve months.





practical interest among young peo-

ple on farms in the feeding of cattle,

sheep and swine, the Union Stock

Yard & Transit Company of Chicago,

offers the following prizes on animals

fed by boys and girls from ten to nine-

teen years old:



A. Steer, Spayed or Martin Heifer

(purebred, grade or crossbred) drop-

ped between January 1 and September

1, 1919. Feeding period for this class

begins April 1. ’



First prize $5000





Second prize 40.00

Third prize 30.00

Fourth prize 9‘ 20.00

Fifth prize 10.00





B. Steer, Spayed or Martin Heifer

(purebred, grade or crossbred) drop-

ped since September 1, 1919. Feeding

period begins April 1. ,

First prize $5000

Second prize 40.00

Third prize 30.00

Fourth prize 20.00

Fifth prize 10.00



C. Pen of Three Lambs of any of

the mutton breeds. Feeding period he-

gins August 1.





First prize $5000

Second prize 40.00

Third prize 3000

Fourth prize 20.00

Fifth prize 1000





D. Pen of Three Barrows under





use~he took me from pasture. and put:





me back into the box stall again; At-

ter this I had only dry feed. The re.-





tion was the same as before, only as,





71 grew bigger he gave me more feed.





Since May 18 I have eaten a. great

deal of feed, 1,150 pounds of hay, 1,260

pounds of. ensilage, 1,188 pounds of

grain, and two pounds of salt.





Charles sent me to Buffalo the first

week in December. At that time I

weighed 880 pounds and was sold at

auction for twenty cents a, pound, or

‘3176. My transportation charges, yard-





.age and commission amounted to.





$5.30. The bunch of calves I was ship,





ed with won a prizepof $50, making a_





premium of $2.00 for eachclub mem-

ber.





net proceeds from my sale amounted

to $170.70. By adding the $2.00 premi-

um and two prizes of $7.50 "each that I

won at the fair and Buffalo show, my

entire proceeds amounted to $187.50.





Feeding Contest





Feeding period begins

August 1.

First prize ...................$50.00

Second prize ...... 40.00

Third prize 30.00

Fourth prize 20.00

Fifth prize 10.00

Conditions.

1. All entries to be made in the

- name' and by the feeder and filed with

International as soon as possible after

date when feeding period begins. Con-

testants are limited to two entries in

any one division. Exhibitors will be

required to personally select and care

for their animals without the aid of an

assistant. 0





2. Within thirty days after feeding

period begins the animals must be

weighed and an accurate record of

feeding kept thereafter. '



3. In judging these classes, quality





and finish will count fifty per cent:

gain twenty per cent; cost of gain;





twenty per cent; and records kept and

written reports, ten per cent.



4. Notice of intention to enter one

or more of these feeding contests to

be mailed to B. H. Heide, Secretary,





International Live Stock Exposition:





Union Stock Yards, Chicago, at the be»

ginning of the feeding period, who will

upon receipt of notification, mail you

formal entry blanks. No entrance fees

will be charged in above classes. All





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 

 

   

   

 

 

 

 

   

   

   

   

   





 

 

 





   

 

 

 

 

 

 





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a short feeding basis, some assurance

must be had that the animals were not





. on feed previous to the date of opening





the contest and contestants must be

ready to produce the necessary evi-

dence if requested to do so.



Prizes in addition to“ the above will

be announced from time to time.





 





HERE Is PLUCK BOYS.





 





0 have a catastrophe overtake your

enterprise twice and then, undis-

mayed by failure, to try a third time,

requires pluck of a rather unusual

quality. It is the kind that Theodore





~ Tholke, a club boy of Nevada possessf





es. Last spring this boy joined a poul.

try club andpurcha‘sed three hundred

baby chicks. Soon afterward an elec-

tric storm passed over his home and

all but nineteen of the chicks were

killed. Theodore viewed the devasta-

tion the storm had wrought, straight-

ened his shoulders and~went.out and

bought one hundred and fifty setting

eggs. But luck was against him_again.

Scarcely had he got the eggs under

hens before a waterspout caused the

irrigation ditch to overflow. The re-

sulting flood washed his eggs and

nests away.



Many would have given up in de-

spair at this point, but not Theodore.

Still determined to raise chickens, he

obtained more eggs and. finally suc-

ceeded in raising one hundred and

fifty chicks. On these he made a net

return of $142 and was awarded the

state championship of Nevada.





 





How TO KEEP FIT.





 





UR boys and young men are stor-



ing physical, mental and moral

energy, not only for the daily duties

that are coming to them now, but also

for the responsibilities “of the future.‘

Those who lay by the largest reserves

will be the better fitted to stand the

test when it comes. The majority fail

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because they lack the needed informa-

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N June 1 I began to feed my pig.



I gave it slop morning and even-

ing and milk at, 110011. On June 1 it

weighed sixty-two pounds and was

nearly three months old. It was as

rowed March 9.1919. and on Septm

her 1 it weighed 18d pounds From





June 1 to September'l, it gained 124 '





pounds, which I think is not bad for

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expect to keep it.



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showed a pig before and had only seen

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feeling. And before you know it, you’ll

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to equal it. That 15 the way it is affect—

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So it is wise to place your order early

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early delivery. Orders are pouring in

for this new car. You ll want yours

quickly, too.





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lSick Baby Chicks?





There is only one way yin deal with bsby chicks

and that is to kee them well. Doctorlng a bun-

dred or more ohic s is mighty discouraging werk.



It's pure carelessness to lose more than 10 per

cent of chicks, from hatching to full growth. Many

losiiooipetrhcent to 60 per cent. and even more. No



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:1 Our book, "Core of Baby Chicks" (free) and o

sckage of Germozone is the best chick insurance.

1TH BABY CHICKS YOU MUST PREVENT

SICKNESS—NOT ATTEMPT TO CURE. “I never

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Moline. Ill. “Not a case of white diorrhoesin three

years"—Rolph Wurst, Eric. Pn.‘ Hove 800 chicks

now 5 weeks old and not 3' single case of bowel

trouble"—Mrs.Wm.Chr1stisns, Olive Bldge.New

York. “Two weeks after we started loot spring we

were o mighty discouraged pair. livery day from

three to six chicks de ed. A neigh hbor put us next

to Germozone and we are now sure it we had hod'... l

at the start we would not have lost. single chick

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chicks, chickens. pigeons.

cots, dogs, rabbits or other pet or domestic stock.

It is preventive as well on curative. which is ten

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bowel trouble. snuflles, ,gleet, canker. swelled hood.

sore heed. sores, woun loss of fur or feathers.

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that a. goose Was chosen in the



table to. lay “a golden egg.”

There is good money in geese for a.

lot of farmers that are now overlook-

ing this-opportunity. This is especial-

ly true on farms" where pasturage is

abundant. Geese are great , foragers

and eat more grass. weeds and pastur-

age than any other kind of fowl. This





.makes them especially attractive '- in





these days of high-priced grain feeds.

The Toulouse, Embden, Chinese, and

African are the most popular Ameri-





- can breeds of geese. the first two





greatly leading the others. Occasion-

ally the eggs are used for cooking, but

generally geese are kept only for meat

and feather production. Goose meat

is nutritious and palatable and not

greasy when properly cooked.



It is most important that geese have

a. good grass range available during

the summer while a pool of Water for

bathing and recreational purposes is

also a. desirable feature.



The market for geese is not so gen-

eral as for chickens. This point

should be considered in undertaking

the raising of geese, as most of the

sales in cities are made around the

holidays and Jewish feasts, although

a few will sell the whole yeai '1ound.

One of the best things about geese

is their extleme hardihood. Geese are

rugged bilds. and need shelter only in

Winter or stormy weather. An open

shed or an old barn usually is satisfac-

tory for this purpose. From four to

twenty-five geese may be kept on an

acre of land, although under most con-

ditions ten is a fair average.



Geese are fed a ration to produce

eggs duling the latter part of the win-





. ter so that the goslings will be hatch-





ed by the time' there is good grass

pasture. \The eggs may be hatched by

either chickens, ' geese or incubator.

Some breeders prefer to raise the gos-

lings under hens, as geese sometimes

become difficult to manage when allow-

ed to hatch and rear their young. The

period of incubation of goose eggs var.

ies from twenty-eight to thirty days.



Goslings do not need feed until they

are twenty-four or thirty-six hours old,

when they can be started on one of

the brands of chick feed, along with

one feed a day of a. mash or dough

composed of equal parts of shorts

(middlings) and corn meal. with-five

per cent of beef scrap added after the





goslings are six weeks old. Bread and





milk- are a good occasional feed for

young goslings. ,Fine grit or sharp

sand should also be available. It the

goslings are to be fattened the ration

should " be gradually changed to- one»

third shorts and tWo~thirds corn meal

by weight, with five per cent of beef

scrap added, while a. feed . of corn.

should be given at night as soon as

the. birds are large enough to handle

the whole grains.



Adult geese may be fed for egg pro

duction in early spring on a. mash or

one pound of corn meal, one pound of





bran, one pound of middlings or low-,

grade flour. and eighteen per cent of





beef scrap, which is fed in the morn~

ing; equal parts of corn and wheat, or

corn alone, is fed at night. Grit and

oyster shell should be kept before the

geese, especially when they are lay-

ing. A constant supply of drinking

water should always be available un-

der protection in bad weather so that

the geese can not get their feet into

the water. Cut i‘clover hay, alfalfa.

silage, cabbages, mangel-wurzel beets,

or any waste vegetables may be fed

dul mg the winter months



Many breeders pluck the feathers

from their live geese at some time

prior to molting. Some pick every six

weeks during the summer and early

fall, while others pick only once or

twice a year. Feathers are ripe for

picking when the quills appear dry and

do not contain blood. About one

pound of feathers can be picked from

each goose per year. The demand for

goose feathers and the practice of

plucking geese appear to be decmasing,

attention being concentrated on a. pro-

duction of young geese for market.

Lots of market poultrymen make a

specialty of fattening and selling the

young geese when they are fully

feathered—R. G. K.





 





THE FARM FLOCK IN SPRING.





(Continued from page 493).

twice each week, preferably on sunny

days near the windows. Once a. Week

is enough if the hens are properly pro.

tected from lice and mites.



Buy a toe punch and mark the

chicks that are hatched first. This

will help to save the oldest pullets

when the flocks are culled in, the fall.

It takes a helper to hold the chick and

spread the web of the‘ foot so that,a





 





 





 





 

 





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’01! the cirCulation.





or ever gets sick of taking care of a





can be distinguished from the home

flock.



Note the bands placed on cockerels

last fall and see that they are not too

tight. A ~cockerel often develops a

large leg and if the band slips below

the spur it may bind and possibly shut

This might cause

At' least it is very

band





the foot to freeze.

uncomfortable and a larger

should be substituted. .

In planning the hatching business -

for the year remember it is quality

that counts more than quantity. Noth-

ing is gained by hatching mere chicks

than can be given proper care.

better to sell the eggs or sell day- old

chicks than to keep too many chicks

and have them die because of over-

crowding and lack of care. When the

chicks are worth at least twenty or

twenty-five cents each it pays to keep

down the mortality rate.

The advice to stick to one breed of

poultry is always good. But if a farm





certain breed of poultry until he omits

the care, it often pays to take up a

new breed. This is apt to develop a

new stock of enthusiasm for poultry

and may lead to study and‘good man-

agement that will make the poultry

more profitable. Constantly changing

breeds has kept many from success.

And at the same time some poultry-l





 





men have tried several breeds before!

they found the one that they liked the L ‘





best. Then they made no more chang-

es and found their profits to increase

every year.



The cost of lumber and hardware

may reduce building operations on

poultry farms this year. It means that

buildings already constructed should

have a. greater earning power. The

increased cost of incubators should

lead many farmers to appreciate the

value of the machines they now own.

Brooders and other equipment not

needed, should have as great a sec-

end-hand value this year as it ever

will have. While this may be an ex.

pensive year for expansion it is also a

good year to profitably use equipment

purchased before prices advanced.



Do not neglect the green food in the

poultry ration before the birds have

free range. It is quite necessary to

insure an abundance of fertile eggs

early in the spring. If all the mangels

and cabbages are used. try out clover

and sprouted oats. Oats are rather

high and it is much cheaper to use

mangelsand clo’ver ‘chaft or cull veg-

etables as a source of green feed. But

the hens need green food regardless of

price. And it has the health giving

qualities which help to produce fertile

eggs.





A HOME-MADE RAT TRAP.





 





VERY effective rat trap can be

made from two boards hinged as

in the illustration and weighted with

a brick. The top board should be shap-

ed at the gpen end, so that it will work

easily and evenly up and down in the





upright frame which is fastenedto the '





 





 





lower or baseboard. The trigger is

made; of two round sticks One-quarter-

inch in diameter. The bait should be

to the trigger so that the



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GOMBAULT’S





THE STANDARD REMEDY

HUMAN and VETERINARY,





It 18 generally true that an external

remedy that is good for the animal is





Gombault’s Caustic Balsam is no ex-

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testimonials received from physicians





proof of

Backache, Neuralgia, Sprains, Strains,

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in fact any ailment requiring an

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results produced are all that could be

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Soothing and Healing--A Perfect Antiseptic I





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Give your

p 0 111 t r y a n (1

animals the best liv-





ing conditions by using Dr.

Hess Dip and Disinfectant.

It is a powerful germ de-

stroyer—helps to keep off

contagious diseases. Make

the rounds of the poultry

house, pig pens and stables

regularly with the sprin-

kling can. Kills hog lice.

Don’t neglect the garbage

cans, drains, foul-smelling





a n d disease- breeding



places. An excellent disinfect-

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makes 100 gallons solution.





, Dr. HESS & CLARK

, Ashland Ohio





 





 





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F C W and Brown Le horns. 1111.18.13.

nab ChIGkSS Ancon as. Healthy, vigofi‘ous. and from a

laying strain. W e guarantee safe delivery. Order

now. Seventh season Send for rice list. City

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B-A-B-Y C-H-I-C-K- S





Crescent “bite Leghorns; also. Bro11n Ieghorns.

Black Minorcus. dReds. Ro1ks, and Wyandottes. 81nd



for circular Pirce List.

Allegun, Mich





CRESCENT Ede COMPANY.



Hubers Reliable Chicks

500, 000 FOR 1920

3’311533' “will. .P""1’1'l‘1‘.‘

nntoe Live Delivery. Eggs





for Hatching by the Set-

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We have installed the

most. modern features of

the Hatching Industry

which will insure 1 hicks as



sgtron as He en Hatched

Chicks and Full of Pop.



This is our 11th season.

With the great incxensod

demand 1501 11111 1 hicks and

the fine reports and praise

we receive from our customers Dmvee ”1M 0111' ( hi‘ kfi

are from Stock of Good Quality. Bred for Heavy Egg

Production Ind that they are Properly '1!“th-

Stop your loss by buying our Re liable Chicks.



We hatch all our chicks from pure bred free muse

farm stock ..S White and Brown Le horns. S 1‘

Anconas.Ba1-red Rocks. S C. and R. Reds B. C.

Black Mlnorcas. and S. C. 3115 Orplngtons. Special

combination offer on chicks hoovnrs and broader

stoves. store buying elsewhere send for tree illus

trated catalog and prices. Place your order at. once

and avoid disappointment' in. the rush of the season.





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not High St. FOSTORIA, OHIO





andl Whit L h

BUff Leghorn erel s. fro o Megeggrgtglgg-

Booking orders for 013101111.

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' The fluffy lively kind. the kind



Baby Chic!“ 111111 live and row. Hatched



in the most modern incubators built. a l e gs are from



pure blood farm stock. Catalogue and price list

mailedu unpp with“.



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Guaranteed to 1,500 miles. Eggs for

Hatching. Bar. Rocks. 8. C. W.

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Reuse Pheasants





All of our eggs sent out are from our

'own pens and are from strong healthy

birds and are not over three days old

when they leave the farm. Except the

last three varieties some might be ten

days old. Packed in dead grass and

shipped by insured parcel post prepaid.

Price per dozen eggs. Ring Neck

[Chinese] Pheasant 85.00. Golden

Pheasant $6.00. Pure Mongolian Pheas«





 





12 Mammoth Bronze turkey 35..”

E883 ”SIM“ farm range. 15 Bradley Strain Barred

Rock 8]. 50. .E. BLACK, Quincy. Ohio.





   





cockerels left R. B FOWLER. Hart





CH ICK season since] Arebookin orders





now for Sprin dellverxkb booklet and testimon nls.

FREEPOR HATCH RY, Box 12, Freeport. Mich





 





I! 1'th and eggs are '



DANGER not shipped right CI“): 15‘: Up

100, 000 Chix this season. Best Blooded stock ever

produced at low prices quoted Sslected Utility,



"xhibition trapnosted stock. 16 11-11iet1es H311 bin

eggs. Hens. ucks Book your orders early. A1oi

disappointment. Stamps appretwiatod Be an

Hatchery. 26E Lyon St. . Grand Rapids. ich.





 





Silt! Chi“; eggs from avigo'rons heavy laying stock.

Leghorno. Barred Rock n. W. W andottes.



Buff Orpln tons. 50. $4.50; 100. $8.( .Shipped

prepaid. lller 15Poultry Farm.





 





John' a Big beautiful Barred R01 ks are hen hatched

ofirow quick. good layers, sold on 1ppro111| males 84





Circulars photos. John Northon. (‘ lure, Mich.





 





.BABY CHICKS AND DUCKS



:10 hmeds of chicks. 4 breeds of



due ks Uli lity and Exhibition



grades. Postage paldc and live delivery guaranteed. Ca-





eeCkly atalog free. Stamps appreciated





mach“ HATCHERIES, 0111111111., 0111..

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large. great. layers pure 11.11110 Strong. Doyoom

Chicks. Hauh every 1vmk."maranteed deli1ory,f11ll

count, alive and lively $18.01: per 100. Parcel postpaid.





V. A. MORSE IONIAJMICIIIOAN





 





Comb Cockerels hen-hatched, farm





 





 





Day Old chicks and egg-i7 for hatching. Breeder and -

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Wyandottee:p0

. White 1",...”





raised, big and thrift, from prize

winning strains. 34 to $ .50 four top

birds 810 each. For immediate or lat-





selection.

Bidwell Stock Farm,Tocumseh,Mich.





Rhode Island Whites





 





ers EfigH and chic ks and a few good males.

(\IP. Ja1kson. Michigan.





 





C, Cockerels for sale.

Hho‘. “land “$18.“: lliatc(hing at $5 per fifty lg”

b USBT ‘l(,)N Imlayl‘ity. yMich.

(mud laying strain eggs 15.821!) 30.

R- L Redssa 3350 post 1111111. MRs. PEARL 5.

SNOW.LEY 12.8. Kalamazoo. Mich.





Single Comb Rhode Islan “9"





Hatching Fine‘

matings. well bred 11inte1 layers. $300 per setting; 88





ierl mlnvostiguu

Battle Creek. Mich.





3.1li1- 151'}; and 8011. R I). 6,



S C Brown Leghorns Excellent layers. Farm

' range. Eggs poetpaid. 15. 31.50 30, 3.; , ;



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3 c' B. Minorcan Co1'.lmrels 8 to 9 lbs. Pric 85 to

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.EES, in common with‘other in-



sects, develop from the egg to the



full-grown form by means of met-

amorphosis, or a series-of. steps by

which the creature Changes-with start-

ling suddenness into first one and then

another entirely different ferm.'

It begins life as an egg, which under

the microscope is seen to be about the

same shape as a cucumber with beau-

tifully regular markings. This egg is

attached to the bottom of the cell in

which it is laid by the queen-bee by

means of a sticky substance that she

exudes at that time, and three days

later the egg hatches into a tiny grub,

or larva. This is fed by the nurse

bees with a. food so concentrated as to

cause thgpmost surprising growth, and

the white' worm that is to form the fu-

ture beedoublesin size and then dou-

bles again within a few days. By-and—

by it gets too big to remain coiled up

at the bottom of the cell. and we find

that it has stretched itSelf out and just

about fills the cell up. When this stage

is reached the larva ceases to eat, and

suddenly becomes a “pupa." This is

the form popularly known as the

“Chrysllis” among other insects, and

is the prelude to the final transforma-

tion into the adult, or perfect insect.

During the week or so that the bee

remains in the pupal stage, the organs

of the larva seem to dissolve, and

those of the bee proper, wings, legs,

antennae, the compound eyes, the nec-.

tar-sucking tongue, the jaws, and-all





of the bee appear.





of an adult bee. .

If we were to compare the life of an





as among the higher animals.





sooner or‘later through disease.





attack”? the adult bee. . Owing to the °

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with a brood disease may have per-‘

fectly normal and. healthy adults, and

that a colony withan adult disease'may

have healthy brood.





In this country adult bees are trou-.





bled with but few diseases, though

some of them are notyet propeigly un-~

derstood. For example: “Spring

f‘Dwindling,” in which the colony be-

comes Smaller and smaller in spring,

has always been considered as a result

of poor wintering, whereas scientists

now think that it is likely caused by

a. germ called “Nosema apis.” “Dyer

entery" after the bees are set out, or‘

even before, in the cellar, is almost;





“certainly the result of improper food,





or other adverse conditions in winter,-

and both this and dwindling may be-

avoided as the beekeeper is able to

solve the problem of successful winter-

ing- An abundance of. good food, a.

strong colony with a vigorous queen in

the fall, and protection from,,_t,he cold





‘by packing or placing ln‘a'cellar or

roothouse, are the three essentials for





this object. ; y ' - _



There is also a disease called f‘Dis-

appearing Diseases”, “May Disease,” or

“Paralysis? that‘comes and goes in a

curious way in nearly all partsrofihe

world, although only in'thefi'hotter

parts have very serious losses been

recorded. In this trouble bees "areno-

ticed crawling about in' frontgofrthe

hive with ,a peculiar black,- almost

greasy appearance. Theabdomen is





 





Strong Colonies Are the Best Insurance Against Disease.





the specialized organs and equipment distended and the bees appear to be in

Finally a. young pain, crawling up grass stems or wan-

bee emerges from the cell, and all this dering about unable to fly. The cause

wonderful process has in about tw'en- of death seems

ty-one days resulted in the production There may be one or more hives af-

fected in a yard, and after a little time

the disease ‘

insect with our own, we would not be hence the name “Disappearing Dis-

far out in saying that the insect does ease.” The infection seems to be con-

all its feeding first, all its sleeping fined to bees affected for cases from

hext, and all its breeding in the final warm countries where there were'con-

stage of its growth, for these separate siderable losses were cured where'the

'functions are seldom mixed together diseased bees couldbe separatedfrom

' the healthy ones;

The above facts may seem to be states, however, the trouble seems to

some more of that “pure theory,” cure itself. In England there has been

which it, is hard to connect with prac- a most disastrous disease called ‘the

tics, but actually the bee—keeper who “Isle of Wight Diseasefi’. from the

falls to understand the life history of place .of its first appearance, that has

his bees is- going to lose all of them killed off more than half the bees in

the country. The ,Symptoms are sim—

. Bee-diseases are sharply divided into ilar to those of the disappearing dis-

two classes, those which attack the case, but it seemrto be far more se-.

brood, or bees in the proceé'roflgrowth vere. Fortunately this trouble hasnot

as outlined above, and diseases which yet ”occurred in North America.





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~ brood,” or ‘ “European Foul-brood,”

C (sometimes called black-brood).. and

‘ 'most states now have an apiary in-

spector who has power to treat all in-

fected areas where the disease may

appear. The disease is carried by hon-





ey, which has been stored in an intect- -. .





, , -. j ‘ ed hive. To human beings the germs

1 C ' or foul-brood are quite harmless, and

" ~there is therefore no restriction on its



, ’ ' Sale, but when a can that had contain-

_‘ ed such honey is thrown on the gar-



"1 bage pile without being washed, any



1 bees in the neighborhood may find 11





' , ‘. and cleanit out, thereby contracting.

foul-brood. When they die out, or be. _





come too weak to resist, other bees

will rob out their stores and so the

trouble spreads. Containers that have

held honey should always be washed

out and the. beekeeper who uses any

“strange" honey should take care that

his bees get none of it.



Foul brood is often spread through

‘beekeepers not examining their colon-

ies. Some old~fashioned beekeepers

still use “box-hives” or “gums,” in

which the combs are built fast into the

box and if one of these gets the dis-

ease he has no means of finding it out

till the entire neighborhood has been

affected. Even where the movable

cemb hive is used, there are some who

do not regularly inspect their combs.

These are the folks who are the hard-

est hit when there is an outbreak, for

they frequently lose their entire stock

before becoming aware of the danger.





Of course, experts in honey-produc-

tion know that to get the best results

they must. open the hives and perform





swarming, for the natural instinct of

the bee is to swarm rather than to

make honey, and it is bypchanging this

1 7 line of action so as to keep them stor-

‘ ing that the best crops are secured.

» The symptoms of fouLbrood, wheth~

1 er “American” or “European,"are to

' be found in the appearance of: the





brood." -Healthyi brood is pearly-white

and thecappings are level with the





top of the cell in the pupa Stage. When

diseased, hoivever, they turn brown or

black, the cappings are sunken and of-

ten perforated with holes, and them

is a foul smell.





l A toothpick is inserted into the dead



larva as it lies in the cell, and then

_ withdrawn. If the substance draws

‘ out into a string of thread for several



inches, then the trouble is “American”

—‘—‘we say the brood is “ropy”—-—but if.

there is no such ropiness, then it is'





 





“European.” 1 '





There is also a difference in the

smell, that from “American” resemb-

ling the smell of glue, and that from

Europeanbeing sour, like yeast.



Treatment.



Treatment of “European” foul-brood,

which is the less severe of the two,

consists of making the colony queen-

less, and keeping it so for about three

weeks, to allow all the brood to hatch.

A young Italian queen is now introduc- ‘

ed, and the bees having been given

‘time to clean. out all the infected bod-

ies of the larvae that have perished,

it is found that the trouble is ended.





In “American" foul-brood, however,





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i—Wildwood Farms





Ang‘uw





Home of Edgar oi Dalmeny one of the world’s

[reatest sires,



He produced Erodemas. the grand champion

bull at show in Perth Scotland in “Ian 1919, and

“He produced Blue Bell a cross-bred heifer



which was awarded the championship at the

Emithiield _(Eng) fat stock show in Dec 1919.

(The latter 19 En land 11 equixilent of our Chica-

go Internationalg



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 offer for

sale but they are a promising lot and are being

spoken for fast.



We have a few choice young buhlls by Black

Monarch III who won the Mich. State Fair

Grand Championship in 1914—1915—1916. still for





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our herd is under State and Federal supervision

A visit will interest. you. write for particulars.





WILDWOOD FARMS

ORION, MICHIGAN

W. I. ICRIPPS. Prom. _ Sidney Smith.Supt.





 





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INCLUDING THE

UNDEFEATBD CALF HERD OF 1919

Write for 1920 Bull sale list.

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' Aberdeen Angus. Seven bulls from

RegIStered four to twelve months old Plenty of

also. best of breeding. Prices reasonable Come and

lee them. Inquire F.J. WILBER. Clio, Mich.





GUERNSEY

BULL CALVES





FOR SALE





.5000 and in. Sir-ed by Noro' s Mayking May.

rose Breeding. This is accredited herd against

tuberculosis from State and Federal government.

Avondalo Farms, Wayne, Mich.





FOR SALE





Guernsey Bull. 8 061111 A. R.

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Federal inspected herd 1311111!

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Chiernsey Bull Calf. Linded of Walter “Phipfis Farm.

Born MHZ-1919 $100.00 .0 b. inning-

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rec of our Hlerd Bnl to any one except the Postal

on! Man. Jlfbfrou want. better Guernseys-we have

them. WILLIAMS, North Adams. Mich.





 





I Guernsey Bulls for sale 1 lap from 1 1.012 months

03- old and from good producing and tuberculin

tested cows. 0. E. Lambert «it Sons, Linwood. Mich.





Three Reg. 83?’fi§° .





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heifers 9 months

BLACK. R. No.l3.

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Re lstered‘ Guernsey bulls. lay Bose

For saleb regedin cheap it taken 110011.111. or

John reEbel‘aR Holland, Michigan.





write.





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High Colored Crearn Not

Richest in Butterfat





Exhausted experiments by the Uni-

versity of Missouri,’ show that the natu-

ral ye low colOring of cream and butter

is derived from Carotin, a yellow pig-

ment found in fresh green feeds. For

some unex lained reason, some breeds

of cows ma e more use oi Carotin than

do others when making their milk, but

the butter-[maker who adds a vegetable

coloring matter to butter is Only doing

what the cow would do, if she ad the

feeds rich in Carotin. High color in

cream does not denote richness in

butterfat. Holstein cows’ milk' 15 natu-

rally lib ht colored, but rich' in body and

tissue uilding solids and in vitality,





 





 





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while t on yield 15 more constant than

that of any other dairy breed.



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si'BUliiL CALF, BORN DEC. 26, 1919

SIrO' Ill

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When any ”at portion of the pla- I





centa, or a: ,



uterus for any?) length of time can

the Cow has given birth to the calf, _

there usually develop a. varied chain?

or symptoms, Which are very notiiiefi





 

 





able and likeWise often Serious and 3,

f many times fatal. There may occur a :3

Simple; 011th of the uterus in which?





the discharge is of 3. 1111100115 consist-i





L“ . ency or it may be a; thick, heavy pu6 -





sometimes containing streaks or blood.





' There may be a each-ems. or unthrifti-i





ness, or a wasting away, or there mayi





1 be an absorption of the Septic or- pols-'1





onous matter, which is knoWn as seD-|

tic metritis, which oftentimes results

in death and there also many times ire-l

sults a sterility or bairenness of'the

cow following a retention or any of

these symptoms that we have enumer-ir

ated here. I





A portion of the afteibirth may re-

main after the cow has apparently-

cleaned normally and we sometimes-

find shreds or portions 1emaining af-

ter it has been removed by inexpeii»

enced men, or sometimes when ,the

veterinarian has romoved it. 1



When the simple catarrhal condition\

of the uterus follows this retention,

the tail and escutcheon are soiled with

a mass of filth which is composed of‘

pus and diit and when the cow is in

the recumbent position a quantity of

pus is usually noticed to flow from the

vagina. Such cows in a herd .can usu-

ally be detected from the odor of this

discharge alone. i

this condition should not hp used fer

human consumption. Now, as a mat-

ter of fact, a veterinarian can do little

in the way of treating this condition,

unless he is called early, as the mouth

of the uterus will contract so that it is

impossible to use mild antiseptic irri-

gations, as it 'is unsafe to use such





syphon off all the solution, because if

any is allowed to remain it may pro-

duce such irritation and straining that

an eversion of the vagina may take

place and this would be a very serious

condition .under the circumstances.

With the resulting cachexia that we

spoke of the cow gradually loses flesh,

her hair is rough, she gives very little

or no milk, there is a_loss of appetite

and she will not respond to any extent





weaker and becomes a living skeleton.

Sometimes after a year or so she re-

gains some of her former health but

this is unusual and generally wastes

away and dies in a few weeks.



In other cases the cow absorbs these

septic or poisonous pioducts and this

condition is known as septic metritis

or pyo-metra and is, commonly speak-

ing, an inflammation of the uterus due

to the absorption of the poisonous ma-

terial within it.' After several days,

the cow loses her appetite, respiration

becomes labored. the temperature may

reach 105 or 106 degrees Fahrenheit.

With early and persistent treatment

some of these cases recover but when

they do recover they usually leave the

cow sterile and this isa great loss to

the cow owner.



With any of the above conditions, it

is not unusual to have a sterile cow

after recovery. Sometimes, after the

catarrhal symptoms of which we just

spoke, the cow may be gotten with calf





with persistent service, or at other »

times after the lapse of several months--





up to a couple of years.





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I can keep more live am include

money per animal?





Do you know thht ,

during eummerand and‘m

pasturage? '





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Buy A

Holstein~ Sire





How would you like to own a full

brother to a 24.78 Iba’JuniorZyr. old

out of a 26.39 lb. dam, sired by a 32.43

lb. bull with good breeding all around

him? He' is 5 months old, well grown

and a dandy. -





First {check for 8350 buys him; also 3

other A. R. O. bulls as nice as you ever

see.





LAKE sms DAIRY

Lake Odessa, Mich.





Bazle Stock Farm





YPSI ANTI, MICH.





A splendid bredIBnII born Dec. 12th;1919.



Sire a 25 lb. 3 year old son of



Pontiscs. Dam4 20.4 7daurhter 0 Wood-



crest De Kol Lad 25A N 0. Banshee”. Bire'l



Dam a daughter of Bar] Wayne’ I rm DeKol

2nd Nicely marked-2 and moron rill» in



every way. Price012 1 ‘





JOHN BAZLBY

319 ATKINSON AVB. a 1;

DETROIT, Mien. '_





 





 





 





 





 





 





Holstein-Friesian Cattle

’ Herdifleaded by

Segis Pontiac De Niji‘ander

53.2411. nfiwn” o! Mich £35" of?“ 36-111, gong;

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so tint a. part of it remains.

WW can often do more vim

$11angoodlntheseoases. anditis poor

policy to allow them to attempt this

unless i. veterinarian cannot be had.

In my experience it is usually ow





to wait for about fortyaeight hours in: ;





inost breeds of nettle aerate mmving

the aftorhirtln and in many cases it is

good policy to W311: many times for

about seventy- -two- hours. It is practi-.

cally‘safe to Wait in any new for at2

least twenty-four hours.



Many people are of the opinion that

there is some way of preventing this

retention, and that there is also some

remediel agents that can be given that

will onuse the cow to pass them, but

there is none as far as I have ever

been able to learn.





.—.———





HOW TO DRESS CALVE‘S.





 





ALVES from three to six weeks

C old, and weighing about one how

'dred pounds, or say from, eighty to

one hundred and twenty pounds, are

the most desirable weights for ship‘

ment. (The head should be out out, so

as to leave the hide of the head on the

skin.

the knee joint. The entrails should

all be removed, excepting the kidneys;

the liver, lights and heart should be

taken out. Cut the carcass open from

"the neck through the entire length—

from head to bumgut. If this is done

,they are not so apt to sour and spoil

during hot weather. Many a line oar-

cass has Spoiled in hot 'weather be-

'-cause of not being out Open. Don’t





.Nvush the carcass out with water, but 7

wipe out with a dry cloth. Don’t ship: '





until the animal heat, is entirely out

of the body, and never tie the carcass

up in a bag. as this keeps the air from;

circulating, and makes the meat more

liable to become tainted





It is very essential that the direc-. -‘

tions for dressing calves be followed; ,





especially in regard to letting calves





cool on! properly before shipping in





hot weather, as hundreds of calves are

received in bad order and sold 601 not

much more than charges, and some do.

not bring freight. Numerous carcasses,

rue. also condemned by the health offi-

cers.





plane to properly cool at before ship-

pins ‘

Calves under fifty pounds should not

be shippedand are liable to be can:

demoed by the health oflioers as being





unfit-for food. Merchants. too, are lia- .

if found selling these .

811111113, for violation of the law. Very? ‘

heavy calves, such as have been fed,





bio to be lined,





on buttermilk, never sell well in our

market. they are neither veal nor beef.





' lMPQRTANT BEE AILMENTS.





 





(Continued from page 521).

ed up into beeswax, honey is boiled;

and hives m scorched out within. blow

lamp, or straw fire, to sterilize the tu-

terior.. All gloves, knives, clothing.

extractor. or anything used in these

operations must be carefully Wed-

ed or destroyed by fire.



Prevention is better than cure, and

methods are heartily recon-

pended to all beekeepers:



1. Never permit a weak colony to be





robbed. Eur if diseased the trouble will '2





be solo-d.



% Neva" feed honey purchased from

on nah/own source, or allow contain-

gets, the: have Mhueyto lieuouud

3' W lameness been,





 





The legs should be out off nt '





They should hang up six to; ‘ .

eight hours, or over night, in an airy - ,





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Bull Born November 11. 1919 i

color-noniymnudhd‘f

milieu. flutter-7m. 32.32; Hilk'lb

552.“;Awwooutlam “8





sue. urchin run-7055's 0.3!. Milk“

Days 8-10.20; flutter 30 Days 165. 22; Milk 30

Days 265.8.





Dun:- Bllzhr7 buys? 88.61; Milk 7 Days 532 9...





Don‘s Benz-m “1.30901 Milk m 1

565.00; mam Buys 124 19 "waist uneasy;





bho hoods summons. of three direct gener-

files: of m "undo. .





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Young bull nearly My for service





from I IS lib. jr. 3 yr. old daughter of

Month's Pontiac, Butter Boy (1mg

The heifer has n 31 lb. dam she also hes





131mm





who has n 33 lb. daughter





that gave. over 100 lbs. of milk a day.

Write for pedigree.

SINDLINGER BROS.





I

1 Luke Odessa.





Lao-i 0M 81.! Bull





 





’ REGISTEgED Holstein bulls sired

Mxoll.





1 Bill.“ 6000 BULL EMF.





: 80mm 319.11.11.11; nearest dons have your]!

"cords. iAmonf‘st- them are three wofl areoords

Goodi-d «on iooly marked. and worth in my





d herd all he will cost. You can t pay too much for

is m. .I have a fine four mono!“ bull not. quite

sow well bred but a nioeeno.





L. E. CONNELL Fayette. (‘10.





 





PERM we hove the bull you won't. Our lord

under Federal superu'slnn hooded [171185.30- of

Klingnf tithe Pontiacs. Bull calves at your own plaice

and terms. Three dandy fellows of Mange Ind

several good you calves. Will also sell a few

.heitben 31'de on DeKerKiolnu the P011





. an of Kin of the Pontiacs 11nd Wonder-est Dora ‘35. 89.





lllorest Farm.0rt.ouv1d1e.uioh.or write

John P. Hehl. 181 Griswold Street Dem-oinmichinn





 





1km. Zouno

nun of the some from

C. H 911111111311. Gdblevilie. Mich.





Holstein: of Quality





Dive large heifers on row cm bred to

Inand non of Manyo'ho ylvia. aha calves'n‘nd yar—

IE1; heifers. All Federal tested for Tuberoolosis. _





I. A. HARDY, War. Nflch.





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t—SENIOR HERD SIRE— '» ~

Flint Maplecrest Boy (166974)





4 years old andweighs ‘8000 lbs. We have a few.

of his sens ready for service and some littlefel; -





lows straight as aline and priced right the'daugh-

tors of Flint Maple‘crest Boy are making good.

—JUNlOR HERD





SlRE~

Sir Ormsby Skylark Burke (24966) ‘





A} brother to the world champion cow over all

breeds (Duchess Syklark Ormsby) 1506 lbs. of





..butter in one year. He is the best bred Ormsby





bull in Michigan. his Adam a daughter of King

aegis Pontiac she is a sister to King

Count and the $50,000 bull King Segis Pontiac

Alcartra. we said get a better bull (we got ours)

one of his sons out of a daughter of Flint Maple-

crest Boy will make some herdsire.





JOHN H. WINN. (lnc.)

Roscommon, Mic





 





 





e . Holstein Bull Calf born Feb. 1. 1920. Sires 13

ems ave. 31 lbs. Price 8100 Re . and Del. would

take Liberty bond. J. B. Hicks. R. St. Johns, Mich.





 





accepted in paym ent of finely bredreg

‘ Good "Ole iatered Holstein bull calves. Quality

of the best and at prices within reach of all. Write.

one. D. ohannn. . . . . Vassar. Mich.





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

average 33.34 lbs. butter for 7 days. Dam is a 16.8?

lb. 3 year old.





LONG DISTANCE





Holstein calves of either sex. Can spare anicely

marked heifer back ed by seven dams that average

nbovelmolbs. butter and M000 lbs. milk in one year.

Choice Duroc Sows. A. FLEMING. Lake. Mich.





 





Oscar Wallin. Unionville, Mich,





 





10 m0 old bull 4-5 white. 9nearest dams average



' 23.85 lb. butter. 533 lb. milk in 7 days. 8125.

Terms. Also few rand dill] hters of Maple Crest

Kern. Heng. M. . McLA U IN, Redford. Mich.





 





egis Pontiac .





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The entire herds of John P. Olcott and Frank A Hartgtwelve head from





V. C. Wilkinson and three from S. T. and A. B. Serv1ce.

RECORDS:- Nearly every cow has a record or is from a record dam.





INDIVIDUALS:- An extra good lot of individuals much better average

than is usually found in dispersals. . . .

HEAILTHs Tuberculin tested and sold with 60 day guarantee and retest!

rm ege. - - » . . ’

ale eas of access and under cover. Seven months timejon"approved

notes. ring your,bank reference. Send for catalog. ‘





JOHN P. OLCOT‘I: *





PERRY, MICHIGAN





 





 





FOR SALE





Four Reg, Holstein Cows and a31 lbsbull.

J. Taylor Gage, Manchester, Mich.





 





oletein bull calf. born Dec. 2, 1919. Dam has near‘

ly 22 lbs. of butter in 7 days. sire's dam at 2 r. 19.2]

[bent butter in 7 days.712.60 lbsrm one yr.with 8,370.40

lbs. of milk. Price 8150. Vnte for particulars on

0:11.2500 herd sire. Ridenour it Beck, St.Johns.Mich.





HARWUOD HEREFORDS





Young stock both sexes for sale.

"Keep On 508019” heads the herd. Write us

four wants. Visitors welcome.





JAY HAR WOOD, Ionia, Mich.





Farm six miles south of Ionia.





HEREFORDS





8 Prince Donald,3 Farmer and one Poll-

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





ALLEN BROS.

PAW PAW, MICHIGAN





Special low price on the fol-



Herefords lowing for a'short time. One



{our year old cow.due in spring. Two 2 year olde With



calves by side. One yearling] heifer. Three bull cal-



ves. about 9 months old one polled. two horned. all

Well marked and nod [dark color. .



COL & GARDNER. Hudson. Mich.





 





 





 





Just purchased 3 new herds, now have

"crafords' 150 head; we ofier you an thing desired

riced reason-





either sex. horned or oiled. any age.

THE Bad Axe. Mich.





able. COAR'BYS.





onl the u er-crust re-

llmiord liml linden mg... m. 5...“... u...

aexed not thelargest herd. but few as ood. Comeand

see. arm adjoins town. E.J.Taylor. remont.Mich.





MICHIGAN

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Complete Dispersion

MAPLECREST FARM HOLSTElN HERD





Dwight G. Rapp, Owner, Lansing, Mich.





THURSDAY, APRIL 1 st, 1920





Twenty-eight females, including a 24.8 lb.cow and two daughters by a 31 lb. bull

a 22 lb. an a 19 lb. cow, a 21 lb. Jr. 3 yr. old and two daughters. Most of the

heifers are by a 31 lb. son of Maplecrest Korndyke Hengerveld. Most of the

cows are bred to a 29.8 lb. grandson of King of the Pontiacs.





A good working herd in fine condition under federal supervision having passed

the first test with no reactors. A safe herd to buy from. Sold under 60 day

guarantee with retest privilege. Guaranteed breeders.





Investi ate the herd sire by 30 lb. son of King of the Pontiacs from a 29.8 lb.

cow. ree conveyance leaves Kerns. Hotel, Lansing, Mich. for farm hourly

from 9.00 A.M. to“l.00 P. M. v‘Send for catalog.





Michigan Holstein Friesian Association SalezManagera

Albert E. Jenkins, Sec’y, Eagle, Mich.





COMPLETE HOLSTEIN DISPERSION

and CONSIGNMENT SALE

Friday April 2nd, at 1 P. M.





66 Head under the auspices of Southwestern Mich. Holstein Breeder‘s Association. This is a com late dis

persion or Pardee Bros. herd of 46 head. which is under Federal Supervision, and also a complete Iver-ion

of F. A. Norris' herd. ' ' . .



This sale com rises a 20 lb. reducing dau liter 0! King Begin and her da liter an also a’ anddam o!

Hengerveld De 0]. 20 head apre bred to a ll‘ne bred randson of King of the ontiaoe.‘l King gntiao Dora

DeKol whose 3 dams and also 7 dams aver e 30 lbs. 0 butter in 7 days. Others are with cal! to a dson

of Dutches Skylark Ormsby. Others to a 3 .43 lb. son of King Valdeese Pontiac. All animals are to rculin

tested. free from abortion and guaranteed as represented. _ .

Galien is on the main line of the M. o. R. a. between Ohicuo and Detroit. P. M. a. I. Trains will be not

at Sawyer. Free Transportation.‘ Write for catalog.





PARDEE 31205., GALIEN, MlCH.





con. D. l... PERRY, Auctioneer. R. A. nacxu‘s. In box.





 





 





Michigan is an ideal place for

the raising of Jersey Cattle

and there are no better cat-

tle for dairying than Jerseys.

Jerseys mature early, live

long, produce persistently.

give the greatest amount of

butter-fat obtainable from ev~

ery pound of feed. They are

hardy and vigorous, always

an the jobiand the greatest

mortgage-lifters that ever en-

tered a barn.



Michigan should have more

Jerseys and the Jersey breedo‘

ers of the state are anxious

to cooperate with anyone

who is interested in success-

ful dairy farming.





MICHIGAN JERSEY

' CATTLE CLUB ,





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REGISTERED HOLSTEINS.

At Auction, April 3, 1.920, 1 O A. M.





At the John B. Dudley Farm. one mile west of Oberlin. 0. Stop 3 on the Cleveland and South.

westex n Electric. Norwalk Division April 8, 1920. 65 Registered Holsteins. consisting of the good

bull Spring Farm King Pontiac 4th No. 103897 His dam is a 34.56 lb. granddaughter of

Cornucopia Johanna Lad No 32554. the Sire is Spring Farm Kl Pontiac No. 664 by ng

of the Pontiacs No.39037 and out of Tweede White Lady No. 831 .Butter 7 days. 37.45. Butter

one year. 1127.85. Five daughters of the above mentioned bull. Dau hters 6f Rose Hill Pontiac

Pietertje No. 59959. granddaughters oi Colantha Johanna Lad No. 2481. Ki of the Pontiac.

No. 39037, Pontiac Korndyke No. 25982, Rag Apple Korndyke 8th No. 73416. y has

been hand-picked by us and all'are noted for their fashionable breeding and good individually;

their size is also remarkable. several weighing tram 1400 1800 lbs. Every animal 0V0!

months of age tuberculin tested prior to sale. Every nature 01 breedingage‘ .



a breeder. Every animal sold will carry insurance policy tree of charge or the purchase price.





 





 





DUDLEY & ROICE, Owners





. Col. n‘. Lire ‘

oar-:auN, omo Auctioneers.





Col.Clayton B. oice





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





' THE FAMOUS".





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We have the undefeated Herd oi the World.

Winning premier breeder and exhibitor at, _

eve faireli‘own in 1919-1918-1911 rpclud- - ., A ..

the ollowin state fairs-nOhio, Michlfln, Indiana, min

Tennéaseedgltlaho mNew York ., hams, . Wish-M

al aromas. . dallAageaor

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For Sale mm 03d .





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LILLI Farmstead Jerseys—A few heifers Erato

7- , 7 hash soon heifers bred to freshen nem 3’, 3 .

can. «it .bun' calves. 0.0.Lmie,Coopem e, oh





' Bulls ready toroervice from our he bull Marguerite:

Premier n,o! Po am of cod Farm.and cows

1th & Parker. Howelldlioh.





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For Sale 9“? W of can» sum as

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Hope. AVON! an «if... gotten indulv ”in?“





steam? assurances c. f’flfli‘:





SHOHTHOHN DISPERSlfll- "





As we are forced. to leave the term we will sell





rustic Afiuéi‘iiifiWinh so, ’20





10 choice cows and heifers. One young bull.

Tohhe gospecuve buyer. this is the place to get

big bee stock with the right kind of breeding

at your own price.



Write for catalog.

N. C. THOMAS, Auctioneer. '

L.H.Leonard,0wner Caledonia, Mich.



We also have a few choice pure bred Belgian



mares and Stallions at private sale. . .





BIDWELL seem





RegisteiAed bulls. cows and heifers. ' Good Scotch and

Beotch- opped for sale. In rime condition. Modern

sanitary equi ment. Her under state and federal

auger-vision. arm 10 minutes from N. Y. 0. depot

1 our from Toledo. Ohio. Automobile meets all

trains. Write





BlDWELL STOCK FARM





lo: 3. Tecumseh. Mich.





Richland Stock Farms





Home of the Michigan Champions.

Shorthorn Sires in Service: -





IMP.. Lorne. IMP. Newton Champion. Sterling

Supseme. Why not buy a young bull when

our herd that carries the blood that is making

ghorthom History. Only a few real headers

left. Write your wants.





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

195521 h ad h s. Th’



33:353.! 3’33" agitate?- iii ' Ema“



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Duthies ot’oollyne's he at 821%.&1.0ne b'ull andna

number 0 em on for sale. '



CARR BROS. d: 00. Bad Axe, Mich.

Norman Carr. Secretary. , 1





MEADOW Hills Shorthorns. Herd headed by Sil-

ver Kilns. full brother of Lavender Sultan Pur-

due Unive ty’l great sire. For sale females of I

ages, a tow young bulls. Geo. D. Dostcr, Doctor, Mi .





 





 





 





 





men. Bhorthorn Breeders Aseo. ofl'er

central 40 balls 38 female 't 1 list

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In Scotch Shiite": bulls also Iniim in «It-

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“the feeds their cows require; alfalfa,

Clover. oats and poles “doom, both as





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Cured and well-made silage will re-





who dolly a. pound of grain in the

cow’s ration. ' .



The fences should be impaired be-

m the cows up turned in the me

tare. It is much easier work to drive

posts‘hnd repair fences early in the

season. More the ground becomes set-

tiedbytherains. lithehwdistum

ed out before the fences are in good

condition the cows are sure to find the





"weak places and acquire bad habits





that will prove a nuisance during the.

whole season. It the cows are satis-

fied that the fence was put there to

mark their limits or range they will

settle down and cause very little trou-

ble so long as their supply of food

holds out. W. M. K.





Veterinary





 





CONDUCTED BY DR. W. C. FAIR.





 





Dog Has Worms. —-My hound dog,

nearly tvm years old. passes small

worms, vomits occasionally, eats good,

but is rather thin. ls red leavings

from table, johnnycake, potatoes, cook-

ed meet. such .as racoon. muskrat and

rabbit. No raw meat except sometimes



ambb'i't’s head. This dog gets the best

of care and has good bad by the fire.





 





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'tcd/igest them E 's s Mammal lVERNONfiCLOUCI-I.





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Chem out my entire herd of We cows





Bruised WPlnwormu—M lest

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‘ it“ his“ m m.- m m ffiww mum bruised leg 1”" 2 yrs. old. Lord Elbert. No. 261720. Will also include 12 hold





Chasm; quite o. swelling,

which with rest and treatment she got TEE W5

pretty well over, but when allowed to No.1.-—Netherland Helen Sherlock No. 401392, 2 yrs. 016, due to Ire’shen

stand in stable leg stocks. Also have in Mar c.h

o lost springs colt that backs up NO'A. 2.—-Violet Lilith De Kol, No. 403394, fresh. Has just nastiest seven-day

against fonce and is inclined to ml; AR. 0. of 325.0 lbs. milk 13.098 lbs. butter at the age or 2 yrs... 3 11103.,

tail. Would like a vice regarding both 25 ms.

animals. R. V., upac, mou—- *Apolyi Ne. 3.—-—Daisy Barteenah, 9101.4698112 yrs. old. due to freshen in April. {She

equal parts tincture iodine and cum— has an own sister as nlor 2- -yr.~old with A. R. ’0. reocrd of 407. 5 lbs.

phorated elite bruised parts of leg milk, 12.63 lbs. butter seven do. s.

once a day and give her a teaspomhl No. 4.—Lady Barteenah Dinola No. 4110, 4 yrs old, due to freshen October

of acetate of potash in Iced or in her 1. Own sister to heifer above.

drinking water once a any. Wash out Five Heifers and Three Bulls Cited by Cola-ntha Corcnis Papline King

rectum of Colt with one part coal tar No. 181361.11 24-lb. grandson of Colantha Johanna Lad.

disinfectant and any parts water cc. No. 1.—-—Herd-bood., No. 4896158, his first heifer to freshen has just made an

oaslopelly. Also apply some to scalp A. R. 0. record at the age of 13 mos (no days) of 240 8 lbs milk, 91043

M a“ may I “m b3?“ n 19, 1919.100 out b1 0d the

No. 2. -— 111 Apr per 0 same 0 as one above.

”NW2“ Mr“! him a W No. Chem Aug 28. daughter or an A. It 0. cow.

0? mm mm 0M» m m: m m No. 44m Sept. 1. Two hammers with A u 0. records.

me? We the! a lame me» Web. No. 5I.——hem Sept. 2%. Own sister to heifer No.1

obstructs the m. flow of milk through BU S

tout. A. V. 8., Booker-ville. -—Palnt over mm LL

bunch with iodine ointment every day; No 1.439111 Sept 8 His «lam has an own sister with an A— B 0 SWIM

or have. this Can be obtain-ed at my 2~yr.~old record of 4917.5 lbs. milk, 17.631135 butter.

drug store. No 2.-——Bom Nov. 2. His dam has an A. R. 0. record of 4499 lbs milk, 20. '59

_ lbs. butter in seven days. She has one daughter and one granddaughter

Split Tooth—Have mare that spits with A. R 0. records. and she is now on Semio‘m'cial test

out food and cm local vetemary tells No. 3.——Born Jan 8,1926. Close related to bull No.1

me that she has a split tooth. He Herd Tuberculimtested under State and Federal. Wiil also include 22 hogs





Milled one of her grinders told us to Livery from Rives let em! Perm at 9. 00 to 12: 00 A.

11.2, MParmn, Mich





 





 





Mich—Feed her cut and ground food

and she will soon pick up 4;





O. l. C. SOWS FOR SALE





One of the Bat Horde in Miehriza

Sprin gills and fall yearlings bred {or March Apr-ll man May litters. I sh'

.qu pay empress and register in buyer’ 5 name. If you want a BI

'l‘Y E suw guumnteed t in every way, write me.

,Mason, Michigan.





Young Cow Fails to Come in Heat.





had calf last spring. Since then she

has tailed 110 Come in heat. W O’C"

Fulton, Mich ~Giye her half dram of

mum! aux vomica and one drum of

ground capsicum at a. dose in feed '

three times hday. I





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believe the ball at feult? R. “-8.. Albion. - - .

Mich. -—~Your calves died the result of . “891““ Death by Accident or Disease _ .

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OFFICERS

Colon C. Lillie, Pres.

’00me A. Tyler,



. Vice Pres.

J. Floyd Irish, Sec’ y 3:

' Managing Underw ritcr





Francis F. MCGiunis,

find Vice Pres. & Gen’l

Council





EXECUTIVE

. COMMITTEE

Col-oh ’C. Lillie

Comfort A. Tyler



.Floyd Irish





, mums F. MCGinnis

Harmon J. Wells





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BOARD OF DIRECTORS



.Bale, Lakeview ‘Ganson ’Taggart, Grand Rapids

C. E. Affeld, Chicago, Ill. . H. ‘Schaiberger, Au Gres

J. W. MCCOII, Yale . “C. Read, Richland

I. R. Waterbury, Detroit N. P. Hull, Lansing

Fred M. Warner, Famiington Colon C. Lillie, Cocpersville

{£01111 Tet Avest, Coopersvflle W. I. Bearce, Ovid



W. Powell, Ionia E. E. Owen, Lapeer

H. A. Danville, Manistee Francis F. M-CGmnis, Bay City

Comfort A Tger, Detroit E. A. Buck, Portland

Arthur Otto, ay City .1 J. Jakeway, Benton Harbor

H. J. P Graebner, Saginaw,W. S. H J Wells, Bay City

T. W. Sprague, Battle Creek L. Whitney Watkins, Manchester

Thomas Buell, Union City J. Floyd Insh,G1-an(I Rapids

B. C. Porter, Grand Rapids





Also Over 1300 Stockholders Scattered All Over Michigan

E BIG MICHIGAN COMPANY





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e191.
SECOND EDlTlON.





 





The markets ’in this edition were re-

vised and corrected on Wednesday af-

ternoon, March 24.





WHEAT





Market strength is due to twenty-

five per cent less acreage of winter

wheat, large area of abandoned wheat

in the west, and a. reduction in the

area to be devoted to spring wheat.

Prices are advancing. The flour mar-

ket is unsettled. Detroit prices are:



No. 1 red $2.52; No. 1 mixed $2.50;

No. 1 white $2.50; No. 2 red $2.49.





CORN





Unfavorable conditions for wheat in

Kansas and Nebraska is strengthening

corn. Receipts also have been light

and export demand is developing With

the improvement in foreign exchange.

Farmers will soon be at their Spring

work which will reduce offerings at

country elevators. Following are the

latest Detroit prices:



No. 3 corn $1.61; No. 3 yellow at

$1.66; No. 4 yellow $1.61; No. 5 yellow

$1.56; No. 6 yellow $1.53.





OATS





Supplies are short and reCeipts are

Small. Detroit cash prices are:



No. 2 white 990; No. 3 white 98c;

No. 4 white 970. YE





While domestic conditions have im-

proved the situation in this market,

export demand and buying have forc-

ed values to a higher level. At De-

troit cash No. 2 is now selling at $1.78.





BARLEY





The volume of business has been

comparatively small but this deal has

absorbed strength from other grains

and the market holds firm at Detroit

with cash No. 3 at $3@3.25 per cwt.





BEANS





The bean situation shows but little

change from previous weeks. Trading

is dull, which is attributed largely to





 





“built!

can Jigs-r in:





Trade is quiet in the primary mar-





kets of the country. The basis recent-‘





ly established in Arizona is considered

by sonie a3. toghigh‘, others are look-

ing for an advance. Considerable'dis-

cussion pro and con has .been heard

regarding this point, but the solution

will not come until the movement in

the primary markets has become more

general. Shearing will be started soon

in southern Utah and New Mexico. A





considerable part of the Nevada clip.





is reported to have been put under

contract. What the basis will be for

fine wools in the fleece states 'is a

matter claiming much attention. The

opening figures; in the opinion of some

factors, will be ninety cents a pound.

Whatever the price may be there is no

questiOn in the minds of the trade

about the disposition of all the fine

wool without difficulty. The hitch in

handling the 1920 domestic c’lip comes

in .the case of medium sorts, these still

being a doubtful quantity because the

manufacturers have shown no dispo-

sition to get away from their present

attitude toward them. ‘ A little has

been done in territory three-eighths-

blood wool within the week on the

basis of $1.25 per scoured pound. Quar-

ter-blood fleeces have been sold in

scattered lots on the basis of 65 cents

for wools outside of Ohio.





GRAND RAPIDS '





The first of this year’s make of ma-

ple syrup was marketed this week,

makers being paid $3 per gallon. The

Michigan Maple Syrup Association an-

nounces it has contracts with many





 





makers bettefi“ than '1'i§2.75.. pg, gamin.





' The association has a." standing mar-





ket for all the sy‘rgp it can secure and

can guarantee a ,

barrels, eqhivalent to about 2.60 in

cans, when extra. cost for; canning is

considered. It offers $1.10 in‘barrels

for “buddy” or scorched. The egg mar-

ket is lower this week at 420 bid. .,Ow~

ing to weather conditions receipts are

light. Indications are that Aprils will

start around 38c for storage. Potato

market is strong at $3@3.25 per bush-

el, jobbing. ‘Michigan Potato Growers’

Association states there is a. scarcity

of western potatoes and Michigan is

now supplying practically all the coun-

try. Prices- will stay firm, it says,

around $5 per cwt. To stabilize the

potato market in the Grand Rapids

market area, an arrangement has "been

made by farmers with the Grand Rap-

ids Growers’ Association this week for

conducting a cooperative warehouse

and marketing service. Timothy seed

is a little lower this week at $7.25 per

bushel retail. Clovers are unchang—

ed. Mammoth $40 and -medium at

$38.50. Farmers resumed marketing

hay this week. City market price is

$28 for timothy.





NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET.





 





Butter.——The market has been keen-

ly sensitive all the week and the price

tendency has been upward. Increased

receipts are due to the arrival of de—

layed shipments. It islgenerally ad-

mitted that the production is less than

one year ago. Undoubtedly there will

be quantities of foreign butter import-





 





 





 





DETROIT





Cattle.

Receipts 2,558. Canners and bulls





 

 

 





steady; others are $1 lower than last

week.



Best steers ............. $11.25@11.75

Best handy wt bu steers“ 10.25@10.75





lack of consumptive demand at home

and scarcely' no export outlet. At De-

troit the board quotes cash beans at»





$6.50 per cwt.. the same as a week Mixed steers and heifers 8.75@ 9.25

ago. The New York market quotes Handy light butchers.... 7.50@ 7.75

choice pea beans at $7.25@7-50 and Light butchers . ......... 7.00@ 7.25

common to fair (10 at $515071 The Best cows .......... " 8.25

Chicago market is quiet and steady, Butcher cows . .......... 6.75@ 7.00

with choice to fancy hand—p1cked pea Cutters ....... 5.50@ 6.00

beans at $6.75@7.25 and red kidneys Canners ....... . ....... . 4.50@ 5.00

at $13.50@14. Best heavy bulls . 8.50@ 9.00

SEEDS Bologna bulls 7.506;) 8.00



Prices rule slightly higher than a 187‘“)? bulls gg3@ 32%

week ago, although the demandt 88.1131: ngclfg; -------- ----- ' 7.00% 8.25

thls week was somewhat quie ' Milkers and springers....$ 65@ 150





Detroit prime red clover is quoted at





$34.50; alsike $36; timothy $6.40. 'VealCa'VCS-





Receipts 1,508. Market $1 lower.

FEEDS Best nouoeooa-oo-oe-ooloo , 21-0

The production of feed continues Others . . . . . . . ....... . . . . 10.00@18.00





Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 1,616. Good lambs are 500

higher; sheep and common lambs are





light and with an improvement in the

demand, prices are firmly maintained.

.At Detroit quotations are: Bran $53;





standard middlings $55@56; fine mid- steady. .

dlings $58@59; coarse corn meal $69; Best lambs ............$ 19.50

cracked corn $70.50; chopped $59@60. Fair lambs ...... 17’.50@18.50

Light to common . 12.50@15.50

HAY Fair to good sheep . .. 12.00@13.5o

The shortage of cars is holding back Culls . .................. 5.006) 7.00

shipments. Prices are firm. On the Hogs.

Detroit market quotations are: No. 1 Receipts 5,582. Market about 15@

timothy $33.50@34; standard $325067“ 250 lower. '

33; light mixed $32.50@33; No. 2 firm Mixed hogs ........... ..$16.00@16.15

othy $31.50@32; No. 1 mixed and No. Pigs ............ “...... ‘ 16.25

Hedvies ..... ....... 15.75





1 clover $31.50@32; rye straw $13.50

@14.





POTATOES





The general movement of potatoes

is moderate. Markets are strong and

higher with U. S. Grade No. 1 selling

in Detroit at $8.506?!) per 150-lb. sack;

in-Cleveland $8.75; in Pittsburgh at

$8.65@8.75; in Chicago $5.85@6-cwt.





BUTTER





Butter markets rule firm with the

close of last week. At Detroit fresh

creameries are quoted at 66@67c; in

' Chicago 52@68c; in Philadelphia west-

ern creamery extra 70c, and in New

YOrk creameries range from 64@691/éc.





, EGGS »

The local market is firm atr44@45c.-,a

- In Chicago firsts are 44@45c; ordinary



. firsts‘41i@42c. ‘The New York market

‘ . is. firm and trading at Philadelphia, is.

Steam 1 may .6. ma; bringing

all. pa m





CHICAGO





Hogs.



Estimated receipts today are 23,000;

holdover 13,091. Market slow and un-

evenly 10@25c lower. Bulk of sales

$14.50@16; tops, early $16.25; heavy

250 lbs up, medium, good and choice

$13.90@15.50; medium 200 to 250 lbs,

,medium, good and choice $15@16.10;

light '150 to 200 lbs, common, medium,

good and choice $15.50@16.20; light

lights 130 to 150 lbs, common, medium,

good and choice $14.90@15.80; heavy

packing sows 250 lbs up, smooth $13.25

@1365; paekin , sows 200 lbs up,

rough $12265@1 215; pigs 130. lbs: own.-

meditim, good; and choice at





15.50 -. , .

: ' .. cattle.

- Estimated. receipts; ted

Market stead ‘ ' .50

steers. med-.. '

up 0,1101





   





   

 

 

 





 

 





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0 mon $14@17.25:





 





suspends; mixed and ‘yogkers. j

$13.50@ ~ ‘





Live Stock Market Service I





common at $10.25@11.50; light weight

1100 lbs down, good and choice at $12

@14.75; do common and medium $10

@12_; butcher cattle, heifers, common,

medium, good and choice $7.40@13;

cows, common, medium, good and

choice $7.40@11.75; bulls, bologna and

beef $7.50@10.85; cancers and cutters,

cows and' heifers $5@7.35; do canner

steers $6@7.75; veal calves, light and

handyweight, medium, good and choice

$17@18.50; feeder steers,'common, mes

drum, good and choice $9@12; sto’cker

steers, common, medium, good _ and

choxce $7.65@11.25; do cows and heif-

ers, common, medium, good and choice

$7.50@9.40; do calves, commbn, medi-

um, good and choice $8@11.50. f

Sheep and Lambs.

Estimated receipts today are 8,500.

Market steady to strong. Lambs 84

lbs down, medium, good, choice and

prime $17.50@20.25; do culls and com-

spring lambs, medi-

um, good, choice and prime $15@18;

ewes, medium good and choice $11@

15; ewes culls and common $6@10.75;

yearling wethers, medium, good and

choice $15.50@17. .





BUFFALO

. Cattle.



Yesterday’s prices are: Prime ship-

ping steers $14@14.50; best shipping

steers $12.50@13; medium shipping

steers $12@12.50; Canadian heavy

steers $12.50@13.50; Canadian steers

and heifers $10.50@11.50;- best native

yearlings 950 to 1000 lbs $12@18; light

native yearlings, good quality $12@7

12.50; best handy steers $11@12; fair

to good kind $10.50@1;1; handy steers

and heifers; mixed_.l_$11_@12; western

heifers ,$11@11.50; ,state‘. heifers $10@

11; best fat cows $10@11T; butchering

cows $8@9; ,cutters-$6@7; ,canners at

$4.50@‘5.25;_.fanCy bulls $9@10; butch-

ering bulls $7.50‘@8.50; common bulls

$6.50@7.50.;_*best feeders 900 to 1000

lbs $9.50@10: medium feeders» $8@9;‘

stockers _$.6;_5_0@7; “light: common $6@

6.50; best, milkers and springers $10,

@15; "medium '$6.50@9. " '

' > a". ”698. ‘ , 0'; 1,.

‘V'Today‘mediums: and heavy bro, ht"





 

 





 





 





6:517:50; pigs and lights $i6,50.@





Sheep and j-liam’hr

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ed this year which Will-.more than olk—

setany shortage thatmayhave threat: _ ,

ened because of decreased production

in‘this country. But little,Danish-_but-

ter arrived in the market this week,

only 400 casks having been reported

'sovfar. Government reports, however,

state that aI vessel is now on the ocean

bearing better than two and one-fourth

million pounds of Danish butter to this

port. Some of that butter will be re-

consigned to Cuba and other tropical

ocuntries. Storage stocks are selling

rapidly, the tetal butter in‘ storageat

present being now considerably less

than one year ago. The price of but-

ter has advanced about 11/2c durin ‘ the

week. Quotations .are: Extras 6 1,éc;

higher scoring than extras 69@69%c;

firsts 64@680; seconds 59@63c.





Cheese—There 'has been but little

change in the cheese situation since

last week. Values .have not changed.

Local consumption continues to be

good and there is some export demand,

especially for under-grade stock. Some

current make cheese is being received

but as yet in no considerable quanti- _

ties. Quotations on held cheese are:

Fair to good 2297276; average run 28

@290; specials 91/2@31c.



Eggs—The egg market has strength-

ened considerably during the week,

due to falling receipts which has been

brought about by shippers sending

by freight rather than by express as

formerly. Demand has‘ been especially

keen and there has been insufficient

supply to meet it. The total gain in

price is about 4@5c. Quotations to-

day: Extras 481/26749c; extra firsts at

491/2 @500; extras 51@52c.



Poultry—The poultry market has

been very strong and active during the

week and prices have advanced. Re-

ceiptS‘have been light and consump- .

tion has been high. All clasSes of poul-

try are selling several cents higher

than one week ago. Established quota-

tions are: Chickens 35@38c;~fowls .

,46@480; old roosters 26c; turkeys at

45c; ducks 40c; geese 20@22c. .





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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. CONDENSED MILK SITUATION.





 





The exchange situation continues to

prove a barrier to export business in

condensed milk. The fact is, export-

ers have practically ceased placing or-

ders for condensed milk. Manufactur-

ers of that product are facing a. very

serious situation as all ports contain

excessive accumulations of stock and

interior points are clamoring to be

relieved of the quantities which they

have which are filling up all of their

available storage space. It is a ques-

tion, which ~condensed milk manufac-

turers must soon solve, whether “there

are not too many manufacturing plants

engaged in the condensing of milk for

the demand for that product. During

the war, 'with vast armies in the field

and with strong demand from non~

combatants plants were taxed to the

limit of their capacities, but now the

situation is very materially changed,





'The domestic demand for condensed

milk continues normal, that being a.

factor which varies but little from

year to year. The only demand from

an exporting source is from the Amer-

ican, Relief Society which is supplying

some of the war devastated cities With

milk. However, the orders placed by

that society are coniparatlvely very

small and do very’little to relieve the

Situation. The demand which prevails

at present is for “case goods, bulk milk .

being a drug on the market. Without— ‘

doubt, withthe coming of summer and

with‘the‘ coming of— the dime] summer

demand for ice ' cream the situation

will be relieved considerably, but at

present there isa very decidedly un- .

settled feeling in regard to the market. '





 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 





'0 "394' skimmed, teammate:

it”. sexesggaye’ .. .,

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.9132
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' kinds.





' feeds.





' per acre, or $4.00 more than one year





" Hols ein, April 1, Dwight G. Rapp,





_ ., . , . ~ “Demand 11116-6-

“ price £6r' 396d horses “and inules are.

increasingin cities; and tfi6 farm do; ‘





 





mend is unprovihg There is a short-





age of good horses and mules of all.

City trade is improving be--





cause transportation users of all kinds





have discovered after years of experi- .





once that horses furnish the cheapest

source of power on short hauls. There

is work that the horse cannot do—'-long

distance hauling with rapid transporta-

tlon—rbut the motor can never take thel

place of the horse because the horsei

can do the work on Short hauls just as‘

rapidly and at a lessened cost of twen-l

ty- -five to forty cents on the dollar. The!

best thing a farmer can do this spring

is to breed his good mares to a first-

class stallion Farmers are determined

bidders in country sales, and good

horses have gone up $35 a head in the

last thirty days, while mules are now

bringing from $800 to $1, 00 a pair.«—F.

_____________

MICHIGAN COOPERATIVE CROP

REPORTING SERVICE.





 





 





(Continued from page 496).

March 1; 990,000 marketed during

July, 1919, a part of which was wheat

carried over from the 1918 crop; we

have a total of 20,505,000 bushels. This

represents the total available crap of

19,285,000 bushels of winter wheat,

952, 000 bushels of spring wheat, and

268,000 bushels of old wheat on the

farms July 1, 1919.



Oats—The amount on farms is 12,-

538,000 bushels as compared with 26,-

528,000 one year ago. This unusually

low supply is due to the light crop of

last year. In many northern counties

there is practically none on hand now

and many other sections that usually

produced enough for local needs will

have to buy before the new crop is

available.



Barley—Barley stocks, like those of

oats, are light. The amount on farms

is 1,170,000 bushels as compared with

2,430,000 bushels one year ago. The

crop was not only light but it has been

used more generally for feed than ever

before, being substituted in many cas-

es for high-priced commercial stock





Notwithstanding the unprecedented

movement of people from the farms to

the cities, 11in the consequent throw-

ing onto the market of a large number

of farms throughout the state, prices

have gained over last year. The in-

crease is in keeping with that of re-

cent years, while well-improved farms

have made a greater gain than hereto-

fore. The relatively low prices in

Michigan, are proving attractive to buy-

ers from other states where the ad-

vance in values came earlier. The

average value of imprOved farms in

Michigan is $87 as compared with $80

one year ago. This is considerably be-

low the average for the United States

which is $99.24. Farms without im-

provements have an average value of

$56 per acre as compared with $54 last

year and a United States average of

$74.41. Good plow lands are worth $80





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COMING SALES.





Shel-thorn, March 30, L. H. Leonard,

Caledonia, Mich.



Shorthorns, March 31, W. F Brinkley



& on, Ionia, Mich.





 





 





Lansing, Mich.

Holsteihs, April 2, Pardee Bros, Gal-





Mci h

Humans, April 8, Dudle & Roice,

chasm 0 10. y

6111231 7?. Vernon E. Olough,





 





 





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Mr. POULTRY FARMER:





We make a specialty of White Hennery Eggs and



have created a profitable market for your on: “1'



year around. We p a?) the hithest premium for your



Hennery Whites- a“ remit some day shipments

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For Best Net Results

Ship to





CULOTTA & J ULL





Detroit, Mich.

“Enough Said!"





.Ship to The Old Reliable House

H A DnnieIM cCeff ey’ e Sons,

'613412} Wabash mu Pineburz. Pa.

w A N T E D Wanamarssz:





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CATTLE





T we Holstein bull calves. one sired by Lo Beach

De K01 Komdyke 85196. isdams record. utter 7

days. 30. &; Butter 30,121.85; Butter 365 days 1226 lbs.

IAverebpel 1; cehng ffiti. .39. A133 osxlie o?” from angular

good u 01; 11 amazon ze tom goo



cows. Reasonable Prices. Box 47,1"ree Soil, Millie





 





HOGS

. DUROC JERSEYS





one bred foe March and April (arrow. A Guarantee

back of every SowJ Sol d.

F.J ”Drodt Monroe, Mich. R 1.





DUROG JERSEV8





E. D. HEYDENBERK. Wayland, Mich.





D Bred sows and nuts April and Mley

um t:rrow. Six-ed b or bred to my 1000]

hard boar J08. SGHUEL EB, Weidman, Mich.





 





 





bred a... and cilts fired ”(8 Orion Cherr

1)me 001. 2nd” bred to All Sumo 2n





,Flllt ole-e lot. reasonable. W. 0 Taylor. Milan, Mich.





nunoc cums. 233,33 3361;- R...





1'

11011112111111 FARMS. Jackson, Jami.“





DUROCS for Sale Bred sows and fall pl of both

osex and a car of grade draft co ts.

BBAY, Okemos, Michigan.





CW WIDI sfrln and fall stock for sale

08, her msox. At Saginaw fair we

won hicks-t honors WWW am competition

. our.





 





Raise Chester'Whitee





. Like This

die oricind oi: Infioduce'riI





“WWII

em Icnnhelpyou.lwnn;.to aceoneho from





in every community ere-31,11 “cm

gum





“*1

flame: e ve ‘ Mazemneoyfl





0 1A6): Eng? gype zilts, aagllylmiétqed sows. Mar.

e ummeran a 8 a 9 1'8

tree.satistaotion guar' td. G. P. Andf-ewe, n‘ifiufifiuafi,





 





Gllts bred for March and April furrow.

0‘ I. C. I pay exwessIAl‘ and re ster in buyers

name. NN. ansville. Mich.





Have some Ch

0. l. C08 for mefiring farrgiwce Spring Gilt-1, bred

ROS. 8.1. Mason. Mich.





o [C Gilt! bred for March and April furrow, guaranteed

‘ safe with pigs. Fall pigs and a few service hours.

Herdimmuned by D. ’I‘. F. C. Burgess R. 3, Meson, Mich.





 





O If‘gflgaholo?i 3311;? lgred i'orAMarglsoA‘pril end May

w an ours in k d !

spring pigs. A. J Barker 0 Son, Belmoxi‘i‘é. (ll/6166' or





o I c '3 01131168011153: Sgilzs 2 eat}? fine service

8 I

OLOVERLEAF S’IOOK FIRM p as e .6ro‘6rxogf63166"





001. C. ughofiirgllts bred for April and

w B.lMcQUILLAN. n.7, Howell,M1ch,





0K 8. '1'.P P..O ‘ We are selli t

L or the next 1.10 days extra managil‘l garggtfggsvsif:

Apr. choice tallgifis to make room for our herd sow w.s

BAKER d: SONS, Elsie. Mich.





L. S.P. C.





2 choice spring boars and ‘2 nice fall boars

left, e few extra nice gins left bred for April





tarrow.

H. O. S“ ARTZ. Schoolcraft. Mich.





Fgggflfg:gt¥gei 'l'ypetPoland' iChii'niarGiltls, bred for

us me ion inv tet tee 1 or f 0

Manchester. A. A Bleldkamp, It.-. lllanchcs‘teryMEI-IF





MILLER Melissa 35.. 8’5. Pdii‘. bgetrs all sold. (gain

11 an no

Alaska, address CLYDE wrm’rna 03655366? 1.36





r Sa

oland C ina Gilt:





‘tnrrowedAprJ.1919.0hoioe nd‘ vidnnle

pebreedinz. Weighed 'Malroh 110.

lbs“ not fat. Bred for Apr. 7 and Apr.





E, Ii. 6. Ionia,‘Mich.





Two Bred





Litter Ina

andt6 choicen





mtivel.

WES EY





 





oars also sows and pi a. Real Hi ‘y Poland



B Chinas. Bred big 101‘ years. Sired b “lob. Bus



terse by Giant Buster. litter 14 ohm; of Mouw‘ ‘8 Miss



n2n,d some breedin also Butler' 3 Bi Joe



(Wu Bust a Big Joe, onto a Wonder Queen. nu said

riteneyour wants we will treat you ri ht, our



eeare low. «I O. BUTLER, Port and. ich.





IG Type Poland Chinns. Sined b 8

B don litter mate to the IIIG Grand (5181:1336: “[663

big boned deep. long bodied kind at farmer' 8 prices.

Wah- be- -me me 1' arms. White Pigeon. Michigan





LARGE T1 pe P. C the InrgeetlnMioh Springbonre

now ready to ship. Boers for the breeders and

hours for the farm ers Come and see the reel large

6638th with quality. Free livery from Psi-ma furnished



k 8“up my exhibit at the Great Jackson 00.

Fall- Sent.8th to 12th. expenses aid if not as ndver.

tiled. W. E Livingston. Penna. ich.





' ‘ with qualit . at -

81: Type Poland China: mm, ”38. 1.1.3,

of both sex. and bred sows and gilts

G. A. BAUMGABDNER, R2. E‘Middleville, Mich





 





 





igTy ype P C. Bred gjlts, Fall yearlin 3. prize win-

ners, out11001l1.sire and mammot sows from

Iowa' sgreatest herds. E. J. M nthewson Burr Oak. Mich.





L T P C Spring gilts ready to shi also fall

‘ pigs both sexes. P. R. AL XANDER,

B. F. D. 6 Albion, Mich” Boll phone 8431M].





B T.P O. Gilte sired by Bi Giant and 0's Orange.

e Bred to 0'8 Orange and 0]. Jack Jr. No better

breeding to be had. L L (hamberlain. Marcellus,Mioh.





EONARD'S B. T. P. C. bred sows all sold. Order

}I booked for boar £1 at weaning time from Mi i.oh

h nnrd,IR. 3 St Louie, Mich





 





 





 





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e.e.mum,n_,__1r,p,1o,__rorthnd.mouna





0. l. C. and Chester White Swine

Strictly Typewith lit 8 ring {M h

and April arrow. A c t6lioe’lot 62 has? (Will (63y

spares. few more test present. , Will ship 0.0 ..D





and record them too.

Mariette. Mgoh. R. No. 1.





 





 





Newman' e Stock





0 l c ggldsOhgs‘tegkytlliite grin: botlgrlin olxiders



mm 005! .

p.11 pigs with sine and an ultnl ‘lm mi. 0. n. and“:-

aieter in buyer’s name. JohnO, WI Alma. Mich.





. . 0.3112 extra choice i

Oils-111mm wt. 115 wwnrglcgiffie 61.3%





 





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U. S. FIGURES SHOW





a shortage otz, 57800011019 over Jen 1,1919. Just fig-

ure a moment whet tie will mean to the farmer.

Constructive breegerB of oPolfiid China Hogs.





 

 

 

 





 





Blanchard. Mich





 





R. P. BO. yBrtaeder if you want to fit“! in the King

row. Gilt bredt Big Bo] astod on. more

Grand Ohnm‘nono Blood in ohis VBIEB than am other

BonrAnMich gan.0 HE Garment. aton Rapidn,Mich





Ito am offering (‘an Type Poland Chine Bows bred

F‘s Ora e. at reason 19 efirioeszn 1.1131...

Write or call Clyde Fisher. fit. onto Micki!





Isthr ANNUAL P. 0. Band Sow Sale March 13,





colors write 1-

W. J, HAG AW. _, Actuate. Mich.





 





 





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. mTfi‘ P C all golfihout (”00% 6666611116666

So color-aft. Mich.





 





 





 





 





BredSo a 1 in

Largo t?!” P.“ Co Lrau b66331 6.5616633





guaranteed. ILW W. Saline, Mich.





orths The rest bacon breed Some good .

T‘IDW awaited slits bred to Match furrow,

,nleo fall pigs.





ARNER Concord. Mich,





Fall boar pigs left. Pairs not skin. A few med





sows bred. Booking orders for spring pigs. Largo

type. winning blood linen. Satisfaction kuaran





STEUBENS HAMPSHIRE FARM





Re R 3. All-oh. Inde





' Grove Hem hires “Quality First" Michi 1111

PI". Boy, Grand 61...... ion boar of Michigan, Rated

and owned by any other prize winner at

Mixohi an State yIl‘nir 1919.1108'5 for sale all ages. both



ooko ut Joe" 8 $1000 boar heads our herd.

GEO. OOUI’AR & SONS. 11.1, Marlette. Mich





HS ampshire pigs of nail ,Send me your order (or

ring pifiaE Sat stact on guaranteed or money

IO.E Bentley, Michl





 





 





retun ed.





Bred GIItSs allfl sold-t presents and more later.

as

JOHN w. surplus 63.13.33, Mi—chigan





sneer. J

KIDS





I cannot sell yOu any more ewes until next toll.‘1‘o

some grown up, I can offer 10 very ood oun(fiT Shrop-

shire ewes that will lamb in A ri r6441) Their

lambs contracted to me shoul not. omore than pur-

chase rice next fall. Also l0 mighty nice ewe lambs

for ..00 Com sand see them



8.1.. WING, ROPE-RON FARMI. Goldwater Mich.





BUYASHEEP





Wait a minute buy Hampshiros The American]! ung-

shire Sheep Association wants to send you a dandy Ii

tle booklet with list of Breeders. Some near you.

Write COMFORT A. TYL ER, Set rotary. 22 Wood-

lend Ave . Detroit. Mich





' Shro shire yearling rams

Idle Wild Stock Farm: mm‘tmé mummmk

Make your selection early. Cllfl Middleton, proprietor.

Clayton, Mich. R..,'3





250 R Shropshires offered past season all sold



eg' After Aug 1st can suppli any thing

needed. Registered bro shire ones and 1 ilnli of same

In xter. Mich.





 





 





 





 





hichquality. 0. LE N,

cohwo'ds ewes bred to one of Canadasbcst rams.





start right buy cod ones while they can

,M BORTE . Britten, Mich.





HORSES

—





BELGIAN DRAFT HORSES





We have the best and largest 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 Iowa, 3 from Indiaun,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 Rubin

8004. whose offspring won at both Internationals

this year. taking some of the highest honors In

stallion and mare classes.



We; can sell you a cerload of stallions and mares

or Just one of either sex





We invite your inspection and will meet you at

nny of the railroad stations it you will write us





 





' in time





Come to Burt. Michigan, yia 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, MICHIGAN





_

For Sale





A few more of those big honed Percheron colts includ-

In Soviet the lar est three year old in Michigan.

OgAS. OSGOOD SONS, Mendon.lMich.





Saginaw County,





 





 





Stnllions and mares at reasonable

Pemheron prices; impaction invited.

F.L.KING..0N Chartlotie, Mich.



Stud. Good drafter, steel gra thr ~e

PerCheron years old. Ancestors werey prize

winners. PriceS500. E. J. Aldrich, Tekonsha. Mich.





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wind cannot bow out.

Lessens fire risks. Just

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If you will send us two

yearly subscriptions

your own may count as

one, accompanin order

with 82.00 remx nce.

we will send you this Handy Flash

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CHICOPEE FALLS. MASS.





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PLeAse ADDRESS anew “ATTENTION or





TO THE CAR OWNER:





I wish it were possible for me to meet you personally, to say

directly to you some of the things I would like you to know.



If youd could conduct an investigation as to which tire commands

the greatest good will of its users I honestly believe you would find it

to be the FISK.





In the first place, the tire is a good one. I not only think

that but I know it. It is built to a high standard. The quality and

construction are right and the types of FISK TIRES are generously over-

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While FISK TIRES are sold through dealers only, we have a big

chain of our own branches, one hundred and forty of these being so dis-

tributed that all dealers in the United States are within quick reach

of Fisk fresh stock.





Each one of these branches is in charge of a Fisk man who is on

his tip-toes to see that all dealers and users in his territory are

pleased with FISK TIRES.





In direct distribution facilities and in our attitude to our 1

dealers and to you who use tires, we have a place distinctly our Own.





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In volume of  production and in years of experience we are

among the small group that leads the whole tire industry. '





I personally have seen, in my twenty years' association with

The Fisk Rubber Company, its business grow from two-thirds of an acre of

floor space to thirty-one acres of floor space and from an annual busi-

ness, in 1900, of less than $90, 000 to very close to $50, 000, 000 in 1919.





Our Ideal - To Be The Best Concern In The World To Work For

and The Squarest Concern In Existence To Do Business With, - 18 a true

indication of our aims and policies. . 7





Ask your dealer about Fisk Tires.





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