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gant people in the world. The sky has been so

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that we have thought it superfluous to prepare for

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chance investments. As that day approaches we

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pressed, that they have turned to it and found relief.

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Damon, AUGUST #28, 19.620

CURRENT COMMENT





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The the general pr

, mary election, for the

Primury nomination of candi-

Election dates for state, dis-





trict and county offices

will be held. On this day it is the duty

of every citizen of voting age to attend

the primaries and express his choice

of candidates for public office. This is

a duty which none should shirk, to the

end that “Government of, by and for

the people" may be maintained. We

would particularly emphasize this mat-

ter of civic duty at this time, in view

of the fact that the women of our state

have been given the right of franchise,

and should realize that the right car-

ries with it the same responsibility

and obligation which devolves upon

the male voters. It is a responsibility

and obligation which every citizen

should recognize and discharge in the

interest of good government. The duty

of voting at the primary election‘is

just as incumbent on every good citi-

zen as is the duty of voting at the gen-

eral election. Indeed, the kind of pub.

lic servants for whom we have the op-

portunity to vote at the election is

determined, so far as the major offices

are concerned, at the primary election

and from this standpoint the primary

election is the more important.

The Michigan Farmer is in no sense

a political organ. We have nofavorites

or affiliations among political parties

'or candidates for political offices. We

always have confined, and shall con‘

tinue to confine, our efforts toward

civic betterment to principles of good

government and issues relating to

them, rather than to advice regarding

the selection of men to fill public of-

fices. But we are interested in good

government in nation, state and all of

our lesser civic wants, and deem it our

plain duty to urge our readers to at-

tend the primaries and express their

own choice of available candidates for

all offices for which candidates will be

selected on Tuesday, August 31.

The state offices for which candi-

dates will be selected at the coming

primary election are governor and lieu-

tenant-governor. Candidates for the

other state offices will be nominated

at party conventions to be held within

‘ thirty days thereafter. For these nom-

inations the principal contest is on the

republican party ballot, due to the

large normal republican majority

among the voters of this state. For

governor them are nine candidates on

'. this ticket, and for lieutenant-governor

.5 two. For the information of our road-

oez! we are giving herewith a list of.

; these candidates and such brief state-

ments of the Mt public activities of

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bellevingthat our readers cranium

terested‘in the public ,records‘than in

the political platforms of the men who

are appealing to them for political pre-

ferment. The list of these candidates

follows in alphabetical order:





Milo D. Campbell, Goldwater. Born





in Branch county in 1861. Resident of ~





county- ever since. Graduate State





: Normal. Studied law and was admitted





to bar in 1877. Elected county super-

intendent of schools at 21. Represen-

tative in legislature in 1885. Executive

secretary to Governor LuCe 1887—1891.

Appointed as state commissioner of in-

surance by Governor Pingree in 1897.

Made chairman state tax commission

when body was created in 1900. Later

served eightyears as United States

Marshall for eastern district‘of Michi-

gan. For a time served on state prison

board and on railway crossings board.

In addition to professional and politi-

cal activities has long been interested

in agriculture. Owns a fine dairy farm.

Is now President of National Milk Pro-

ducers’ Association and Chairman Gen-

eral Board of National Board of Farm

organizations. While a tentative can—

didate was petitioned last January to

run for governor by joint committee of

nine members made up from legisla-

tive committees of the State Grange,

State Association of Farmers’ Clubs

and Gleaners, and as representatives

of these organizations tendered their

support.



Luren D. Dickinson, Charlotte. Born

in western New York in 1859. Has

lived on a farm in Eaton county sixty

years. Was educated in Charlotte

High School. Taught school for nine‘

teen winters and was at one time prin-

cipal of the Pottervllle High School.

Always been a. farmer and is interest-

ed in local banking and manufacturing

enterprises. Has been member of

county committee for twenty-five years

and \chairman representative commit-

tee four years. Has held many local of-

fices including superintendent of

schools and supervisor for several

terms. Was representative in legisla-

ture for three terms, 1897-8, 1905-6 and

1907-8, and state senator one term,

1909-10. He was nominated for lien-

tenant-governor at the primaries in

1914 and elected, and has .since been

twice reelected to the same omce, be-

ing the present incumbent. Was prom—

inent leader of dry forces in the legis-

lature during the fight to make Michi-





n dry.



Horatio S. Earle, Detroit. Born in

Vermont in 1855. Came to Michigan

in 1889. Interested in bicycle riding,

he became an advocate of better high-

ways. and was one of the first men in

Michigan to urge state organization for

building better roads. He was elected

to the state senate in 1901, where he

was pioneer good roads advocate.

When state highway department was

created in 1905 he was appointed first

state highway commissioner and serv-

ed till 1909. Was an unsuccessful can-

didate for governor in 1908. Business

is manufacturing and distribution of

manufactures.



Cassius L. Glasgow, Nashville. Born

in Hillsdaie county in 1859. Educat-

ed at Hillsdale College. Spent his

early life On father’s farm, later clerk—

ed in hardware store and went west.

Where he was connected with whole-

sale hardware house. Came to Nash—

ville. Barry county. in 1881, and en-

gaged in hardware and implement bus-

ircss. Held several village offices and

served as county treasurer. Was elect-

ed to state senate of 1903-4, serving in

that capacity till 1907. He was made

a member of the state railroad commis-

sion in 1907. serving on that body for

ten years. In 1910 he entered as a

candidate for governor, but withdrew

before primary day.



Alex. Groesbeck, Detroit. Born in

M’annmb countv in 1873. Educated at

Wallaceburg. Ont. Worked in sawmill

as bov. Studied law at Port Huron and

University of Michigan. graduating in

‘992. Since practiced law in Detroit.

“72S chairman republican state central

committee in 1912.‘ In 1914 he was

one of the five candidates in the re-

publican primary. In 1916 he was elect-

ed attorney-general and was reelected

in 1918. being the present incumbent.

In business he has been successfully

interested in interurban railway bulld-

mg. ~



James Hamilton, Detroit. Chairman

Wayne County Civic Association, that

is directing the fight for the proposed

school amendment.



\Frank B. Leland, Detroit. Born on

an Oakland county farm about sixty

years ago. Completed four-year course

at University of Michigan in, 1882 and

graduated from University, law school.

in 1884. Practiced law in Flint till

1889, when he moved to Detroit. Lat-

ecbecameumnager of a loan 339.1%

vestment company. and some twenty



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., agents of the unisex-titty ‘ 3;

Michigan in41907 and was reelected‘ln _

1915 for a second term. ., He served»

for a time on the board of control of

the State Sanitarium, at Howell. He

was a candidate for governor in the

republican primary four years ago, nu-

lshlng second. ‘ '



Frederick C. Martlndale, Detroit.

Born in Canada fifty-five years ago.

Came with parents to Wayne county

when two years old. Graduated from

Detroit High School and taught school

six years. Then took course in Detroit

College of Law and was admitted to

practice in 1897. He was elected to

the legislature in 1900, and to the state

senate for the terms of 1905-6 and

1907-8. Was elected secretary of state

in 1908 and twice reelected. In 1912

he was an unsuccessful candidate-for

the nomination for governor. In 1914

he was again a candidate, finishing

second at the primaries- He now lives

on his farm in Oakland county.



Charles S. Mott, Flint. Born in New

Jersey forty-five years ago. Graduate

Stevens Institute of Engineering. Be-

gan manufacturing business in .small

way in New York City. One of organ-

izers of Weston-Mott Co., Utica, N. Y.,

in 1900. Business later moved to Flint

and became unit of General Motors

Company, of which Mr. Mott is a vice-

president. Has been three times elect-

ed mayor of Flint, when he relinquish-

ed a remunerative salary to devote his

entire time to the city's interests. Re-

signed as mayor when United States

entered the war. Was commi stoned

major and placed in charge 0 army

motor truck production in Detroit dis-

trict. Served in Spanish-American

war as naval gunner’s mate.



The cities of lieutenant-governor is

an important one for the reason that

he is presiding officer of the state sen-

ate and as such appoints the commit-

tees of that body, which committees

first consider all proposed legislation.

A brief statement regarding the two

candidates on the republican ticket fol-

low ln alphabetical order. ‘ r .



Thomas Read, Shelby. Born at Roch-

ester, N. Y., in 1881. Educated at Ferr-

ris Institute and University of Michi-

gan, graduating from law department

in 1913. Practiced law in Shelby since

that date. Elected to legislature of

1915-16 and reelected two terms, be

coming speaker of the house.



Charles B. Scully, Almont. Born on

farm in Lapeer county in 1878. Edu-

cated in Almont High School and the

Michigan Agricultural College. Farmer

and live stock breeder, and interested

in farmers' business and social organi-

zations. Two years president Michi-

gan State Association of Farmers’

Clubs. Elected to state senate in 1916.

Reelectcd in 1918 and made president

protem’.



There is no contest for the nomina-

tion for these offices on the democratic

ticket. The candidate for governor is

Ex-Governor Woodbridge N. Ferris, of

Big Rapids, and for lieutenant-gover-

nor, Col. Guy M. Wilson, of Flint.



The selection of candidates for leg-

islative offices is quite as important as

are the selections for executive posi-

tions. But the civic units which they

represent are‘smaller and thevaverage

voter is better acquainted with their

public records. It is important that

the best available men be chosen as

candidates for these offices on every

ticket, and this can be accomplished

only by intelligent selection at the

primaries.



The efficiency with which the busi-

ness of the counties is conducted dur-

ing the next two- years will also be

largely determined at the coming pri-

maries, at which the electors of the

state have a complex, as well as an im-





portant duty to perform.





News of the Week





Wednesday, August 18. . ' -





THE German government decides to

. Lake immediate steps for the pro-

tection of the east Prussian frontier.—

The military is called out at Kinsman.

Jamaica, to, restore order following the

general strike of policemen—Polish

military successes, threaten four Bob

shevik divisions, in the counter-offen-

sive against the) 5 Bug river-.- ~ - '

- Thursday, August 19.



THE American Farm Bureau .ll'oder~



ation decides to proceed with. more"





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, sndmééti'flms‘vma m1 ‘

of the federal coast-1 utlon and 31v, ,_

to women the id ht: of franchise,

throughout the Un‘ ted, States.- zf?

Friday, August'20. '





ITALIAN steamship lines report that

there are at least two million Italian

applicants for passage to America.-

Polish reserves mass between Posen

and Thorn to complete their victory

over the retreating Russian army, while

General Wrangel begins an offensive,

against Bolshevik trdops iu'southem"

Russia. '

Saturday, August 21.





THE Polish army is rapidly follow-

ing up the retreating enemy to the

northeast and east of Warsaw—James

Wilson, who served twelve years as

secretary of agriculture, is critically ill

at his home in Iowa-«Detroit as an

exporting point stood fifth among all

the cities of the country during the

past fiscal year and easily first among

the ten important lake ports.

Sunday, August 22.





OLISH troops have reached the



valley of the middle Bug river, title

on an aggregate of 19,000 prisoners

and captured great quantities. of war

material, while the reds are attempt-

ing a counter-offensive on the Galiclan

front—The steamship Willis L. King

rammed and sunk the steamer Superior

City off Whitefish Point, Lake Supe-

rior, Friday night, and it its feared

that twenty-eight members of the crew

are drowned—Mine leaders call off

the miners’ strike in Indiana.



Monday, August 23.

CCORDING to information coming

through England, Great Britain has



agreed to recognize the independence

of Egypt.-—The number of Russian

prisoners captured by the Poles is now

placed at 30,000.



Tuesday, August 24.

TTORNEY-GENERAL PALMER

calls for an inquiry into the rea-



sons for the present high prices of



coal—The Russian Bolshevik forces



are reacting along the whole front line .

in an effort to save the remnants ,of



their army, but so far all efforts have



been frustrated by the Poles—Rumou-



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THE Michigan Potato Growers’ Ex-

change has made plans to market

its potatoes through its own sales

force, thus dispensing with the ser—.

vices of the North American Fruit

Exchange which has had control of the

sales for the past two years.



At the annual meeting of the repre-

sontatives ofthe various local associa-

tions held at Cadillac August 18, the

following board of directors was elect-

ed for the coming year: Henry Our-

tis, Jennings; H. F. Baker; W'eadlock;

A. B. Large, Cadillac; Oscar Welrich,

Hart”; Charles A. Wood, Kingsley; E.

Harvey Wilce, Empire; Fred Smith,

Elk Rapids. The board is the same as

last year with the substitution of Fred

Smith for Dorr D. Buell, who recently

resigned to accept the position of Mar-

ket Director of the Michigan. State

Farm Bureau.





MU‘CK FARM ERS MEET.





 





“HE interest taken in muck land

agriculture has already added mil-

lions of dollars to the value of the agri-

cultural industry of this state and the

Work along this line is as yet scarcely

begun. Ezra Levin, pioneer muck land

specialist informs us that the next

meeting of the Michigan Muck Farm-

ers’ Association will be held on the

farm of William Clarkson, six and one-

half miles southwest of Brown City, on:

September 6. Experiments have been

carried out on this fa by the Mich-

igan Agricultural College and the re-

sults of the work will be studied ‘by

the, members and friends who attend

this meeting. ‘



The meeting will continue through

out, the day, the morning being given

over to a study of the plots and‘ the

afternoon devoted to addresses on. top-

'lcs related to _ this line of 1‘ farming.





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..rangements have beenmado topmeet





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, of the United States, recently

said,

seeks:

ficial utilization of our present forest

resources; 2. The renewal after cut-

ting of forests on lands not needed for

agriculture and settlement. '3. The

stability of forest industries, and of

satisfactory: conditiOns for forest

workers, and the restoration of forest

growth on lands now unproductive and

idle."



When he made this statement he

had in mind no particular state but

rather the whole great forest area of

the entire union. But if Michigan had

been the subject for which a policy of

forestry was being evolved his defini-

tion could .not have been more com-

plete.



Let us consider this as a policy of

forestry for Michigan under the same

headings and see how it fits us.



1. It seeks the protection and bene-

ficial utilization of our forest re-

sources. Such an item in a policy for

Michigan today comes too late to save

state. forest wealth in the form of

standing, mature or semi-mature and

growing timber. It would not be too

late to protect the yet unburned re-

production and soil humus of the vast

cut-over areas, and in so far as the

prevention of ground burning and

vegetable cover destroying yearly fires

is concerned, it would help to conserve

a. natural resource.





The State owned lands are very

cut-over and few or many

times burned over lands. They have

some timber and this will doubtless be

beneficially utilized under the present

policy. The biggest job is the bringing

of privately owned cut-over lands and

the remaining timber on them, under

“beneficial utilization," because of the

hope of the owners for profitable sale.



Development along right lines does

utilize the resources beneficially. Bona

fide agricultural development of cut-

over Michigan land is the very best

Michigan

needs every acre of her food produc-

ing land handled in the most intensive

manner and with profit to the farmer

:Who does that work or is to do it.



The State has a duty to fulfil to that

man and his family before it can ex-

pect him to go upon new land and

spend his life and his savings in the

struggle to subdue and develop afarm

home. ,,



That duty may be stated clearly and

briefly in this way. The State should





 





 

 

 





“A national policy of forestry.

1. The protection and bene-r





V the ante are Annualiy- Turnmg on: Foresters, Trained

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ENRY S. GRAVES, late Forester furnish that man and his family with:





1. Evidence as to the value of the

land for agriculture.



2. Service in assisting that farmer

to adapt his Operations to the new

conditions.



The evidence regarding the value of

the land for agriculture can only be

obtained by,expert study and investi-

gation. Michigan soils vary so greatly

that it is a common thing to find ad-

joining farms or lots on a single farm

lying at the two extremes of soil

value. It is not safe to pass judgment

on one quarter section of land and

report the whole section as the same.

Soils with a single acre may vary from

clay to sand, from rich loam to shal-

low swamp.





The need for a careful and com-





able in new land holdings where per-

sonal service alone can give the aid

needed.



The second item calls for the re-

newal after cutting of forests on lands

not needed for agriculture and settle-

ment.



Michigan lands may be “needed" for

both agriculture and settlement but

there are very apparent and real oh

stacles to the fulfillment of that need.

Agriculture must be capable of estab-

lishing and maintaining itself on new

land as well as insuring the settler a.

good living, otherwise that sattler

soon goes to the industrial center

where wages give him the things he

demands for his family. To illustrate

this, it is only necessary to mention

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plete soil survey on these cut-over and

undeveloped lands is most urgent.



No man, or company should be al-

lowed to offer such land for sale as

farm land until they could vouch for

its agricultural value and cropping

endurance.



Only by such action may the nat-

ural resources of Michigan be devel-

oped beneficially, for along with the

determination of agricultural soil, the

forest soils will become known and

recognized as such as well.



The State aid to the new seller is

now available in .a limited way

through the County Agent and special-

ist service, but should be much more

developed, and further. The rule for

specialist demonstrations is not work-





 





Lands of Roscommon County.





ing place from farm to city in some

sections of Michigan during the past

two years.



An era of Mechanical Life bids fair



to overshadow and cripple the agri-

cultural activity of Michigan.

. To combat this tendency the State

must develop and handle its soil

Wealth as intensively as‘possible. A

balance must be maintained between

these two great industrial forces—the

producers and the consumers.



This can only be done by:



1. Increasing production on one

hand.



2. Decreasing cost of life on the

other. '



Increasing production must start

farther back than the demand that the





farmer of today produce more crops.



It must begin with the demand on

the part of the whole people that every

activity of mechanic and farmer, of

labor and capital, be honest and fair.



It must begin with the demand that

every hour or labor bc a just h'bur

and worth its pay: that a fair profit

is Just and "that an unfair profit be

punishable as is any larceny;



That every acre of producing land

in Michigan must produce its crop

and that that crop must pay its way.

Good soils produce good crops and

with such there is little need for

worry. The good soil farms are not

losing their workers today. There is

little need for the State to send its

exports to analyze and classify such

farms, for they have been well classi-

fied by their owners for years.



The need for classification and as.

sistancc lies with doubtful farms, the

abandoned and non-pi'mlucing farms

and with the idle cut-over and private-

ly owned waste lands of the State.



The question of agricultural value

of such land must be definitely settled

once and for all before forestry crop-

ping can be undertaken as the remain-

ing alternative.



And now to the third part of our

text—“Tho stability of forest indusr

tries and of satisfactory conditions for

forest workers.”



N0 land should be allowed to lie

idle. If it fails to produce a living

return to the farmer, it should at once

receive the necessary aid from the

State to place it in the producing .

class.



Forests are long time crops. No

man can plant and live to harvest his

Michigan forest crop. This fact ren—

ders the growing of timber asamoney

crop an impossibility of the indi—

vidual.



In such a case the State or the Pub—

lic Service, or long time Private Cor-

poration becomes the logical promoter

of forest cropping.



Michigan used her forest Wealth in

order to develop and establish her

prosperity. She now becomes the

logical one to call upon her prosperity

to recover and make her waste land

productive.



Michigan has a long life ahead of

her. One hundred years Will be but

as a day’ in her life. The crop of tim-

ber that she will produce in the next

one hundred years will save her ”day.”



Luckier than many states of the

union, she has millions of acres that



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Many. of Michigan’ 3 wood—workin





9 Plants have Left the State.





 

   





Her Pa en'fl

Mills wiIL be the Last “to go Because of the Small .Size of Trees Neededptoo

Supply Them. , .. _. _
* IGNALS of vast importance to the

S farmers of Michigan and other

states are coming from~ money

markets. Only the farmers who care-

fully weigh the significance of these

signals will be able to plan their buy-

ing and selling operations with full

.light on the outlook in their markets,

for the money situation is playing a

highly important role in price move-

ments.



“I planned to buy five loads of feed-

ing cattle. but my bankers told me

their supply of loanable money was

short and held me down to two loads,"

an Iowa feeder recently reported to his

commission man at Kansas City, the

country's leading stacker and feeder

cattle market. This is becoming a

common remark on cattle markets.



“The money market,” said an exclu-

sive sheep commisison house in a con-

fidential letter to its customers a few

days ago, “will be a factor in the feed-

ing business this season. Unless the

banks make more loans to the big pro-

fesional feeder than they have thus

far promised, feeding will be curtailed

and the market for feeding lambs will

be unfavorably affected. ”



Why are commision houses making

such comments on the feeding lamb

market outlook? Why are farmers be-

ing urged by their bankers to borrow

less money for the purchase of feeding

cattle? As this is the season for the

largest movement of stocker and feed-

er cattle and feeding lambs, it is im-

portant that producers have a full un-

derstanding of the reasons for these

abnormal conditions. It is equally im-

portant that farmers study them be-

cause they are powerful influences in

the fluctuations in prices of hogs and

.hbrses and mules as well as in cattle

and sheep. They also affect the prices

of wheat, corn, hay, produce and the

manufactured commodities which the

farmer buys.





ANKERS are telling farmers, pro-



fesional feeders, merchants and

manufacturers who seek loans that

money is tight. In other words, the

banks of the United States as a whole

have been increasing their loans with-

out adding proportionately to their





Prescn





T the Bureau of Markets I find

A' little encouragement in the wool

market situation. Reports to the



bureau indicate that few sales are be-

ing made. So many woolen mills are

closed down, owing to cancellation of

orders for goods, that there is practi-

cally no demand from the mills for

wool. A market specialist who has just

returned from South Dakota says buy-

ers in that state are offering sixteen

cents a pound for wool, and are pick-

ing up small lots here and there from

growers who are obliged to sell. In

Montana the big wool growers are

holding their wool for higher prices

and many small growers are pooling

their clips. Wool pooling associations

in Iowa, South Dakota and Minnesota

are consigning their wool to the na-



, tional wool warehouse in Chicago,

where it is being held for a more fav-

orable market. Michigan wool grow—

ers, with a combined clip of 4,000,000

pounds. are assembling their wool in

pools and storing it in Lansing ware-

houses, where it is graded and prepar-



‘ ed for market. In Ohio. coimtrybuy-

are are offering twenty to twenty-five

cents. About 1,500,000 pounds of wool

is being held in storage at the grow

'ers’ warQouse in Columbus. Idaho

woo! growers hare assembled 1 .750, 000

- bf Wl‘jnmols to be sold on





 





 

 

 





 





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as to





cash reserves. As prices of many arti— cluding the three in the middle west—

cles moved upward in the past year, Chicago, Minneapolis and Kansas City,

bank- loans were expanded to enable tell the story "more briefly and more

merchants to finance their business. convincingly than any other group of

Higher wages also forced increased statistics. The last combined state

demands for money with which to con- ment of the twelve Federal Reserve

duct business. The Federal Reserve Banks showed that they had outstand—

Banks, of whichthere are twelve in ing about $2,835,000,000 in loans. This

the twelve federal reserve districts of is an increase of about $700,000,000

the United States, assisted the nation- over a year ago and a gain of $1,200,-

al and state banks ‘which are members 000,000 over the total of two years ago.

of the federal reserve system to expand In gold reserves the last combined

their loans. statement showed about $1,980,000,000

The loah expansion was started by against 32 075- 000 000 a year ago and

the wave of buying which developed $2 003 000 900 two years 350- Thus

with the return of American soldiers while 103115 and the federal reserve

from the European war. As this wave 110(98 issued against them have been

gained force, it received impetus from expanding, the 80m reserves 0f the

the speculation and the fever of bull— twelve banks have been decreasing. In

ishness which spread over‘ the coun- consequence, the combined reserves of

try. The profits, including huge sums these banks against their notes in cir-

never realized but computed as gains, culation and their net (19903115 have

or “paper” piofits, increased public been around forty-four per cent recent-

spending. As this upward movement 1y, compared With fifty one a year ago

was supported by constant expansion and 111111451X two years ago The legal

in the circulation of money through -minimum reserves are slightly 1955

the issuance of federal reserve notes than thirty-nine per cent.

by the Federal Reserve Banks in mak- Having reduced their 801d reserves

ing loans, labor took a hand and de and increased their loans, the Federal

manded and received higher wages Reserve Banks are now seeking to

Even farm land prices soared The bring about what is technically termedm

market for farm products was not so deflation. They want to reduce their.

strong because it was affected by the loans and their note issues in order to





contraction in European demand fol- maintain higher reserves. AS the Ian

lowing the close of the world war. But season is at hand. it is necessary 101

farm products held at a higher aver~ the Federal Reserve Banks to improve

age level than would have been wit~’ their position in order to meet the in-

nessed without the expansion in bank creased demands for financing fall and

loans, or what is technically termed winter trade in the new crops and in

inflation , the products of non- agricultural indus-

tries. The loan rates of the Federal

. Reserve banks have been advanced to

ANOTHER factor Whmh brought discourage borrowing and to encour-

about great expansion in loans was age the liquidation or paying-off of

the heavy buying 01 many products on loans. They are charging Seven per

019d“; in the United States by Europe. cent on agricultural and commercial

These 1011113 have 1101? yet been paid 011 loans to their member banks, while at

by the 101131311919: Kansas City, Dallas, St. Louis, and At-

What has been the extent of the lanta a progressive system of loans

inflation and what is the present posi- rates is in effect. A year ago the rates

tion of banks" A mass of statistics were around five and a half per cent.

bearing on these vital points can be The higher loans rates of the Federal

cited, but only a few are necessary for Reserve Banks explain the increased

a general understanding of the influ~ cost of loans to farmers, to packers

ence of the money markets of today on and to other borrowers.

prices. The statements on the twelve As the national and state banks

Federal Reserve Banks combined, in- which borrow of the federal reserve





t Wool Market Situation





a cooperative basis. The latest market deVeloped, and the Dominion ware

report says a little better feeling ex— house erected at Toronto.



ists throughout the interior r'egaiding There are two kinds of «cooperative

the wool market situation, a little high- movements according to Mr Willing

er prices are being offeied by local myre The chief aim of one is to

dealers in certain localities than weie standardize the product to put onto

111101911 a 511011 11111" ago 11111 the ““101 the market the best possible quality of

5119013113195 are unwilling to make any wool in the best possible condition as

predictions as to the future of the to grades and types, and by such co-

1113111191 operation enable the growe1 to secure



William H WOOd 91931119111: Of the larger returns and profits flom his

1111191101111 Woolen 001111131113“ 15 1111011111 flock. The piincipal aim of the other

as saying that men’ 5 0101111115 W111 5911 kind of o1ganizations is to hold up the

at lower wholesale prices this fall; but price by cooperation

woolen cloth will not diop in price.

He also stated that the company's

mills, according to present indications

would be reopened soon after Labor

Day. '



In regard to the cooperative wool

pooling movement, George ’1‘. Willing-

myre. who has charge of the wool mar.

ket investigations in the bureau of

markets, said wool pooling is contagi- _

ous, especially during such situations commodity.

as now confront the growers. The first The bureau began making inveStiga-

movement for cooperative wool mar. tions of wogls for the purpose of de-

keting was started by the Canadian veloping a system of standard wool

government in 1913, under the super- grades back in 1917 by sending men

vision of Mr Wfllmgmym After five out into the field to study all the (lib

years of study, investigations, and ac- ferent phases of woolclassihcatiou and

five cooperation with the wool gmw- marketing As a result. many worth—-

ers, the Dominion Wool Growers 1113- less reports were received which were»

sociation, a non-profit organisation, was of no value. because.” as Mr. Willing-





The bureau of markets is striving to

assist the first mentioned movement.

Mr. Willingmyre and his assistants are

now engaged in an effort to standard

ize wool grades. This, however, they

have found to be a difficult matter.

There are more factors entering into

the standardization of wool and more

variations in wool than in any other





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system must indorse the" agricultural

or commercial paper of their customers

which they present as security, they

want a profit on the loans over the cost

to them. Of course, it should be un-

derstood that the banks usually borrow

from the federal reserve system only

after they have loaned up to the limit

out of their own resources. The Fed-

eral Reserve Bank loan rates, however,»

are a barometer of the value or cost

of loans in the middle west and other

sections of the United States.

BROKERS and banks handling pack-

ers loans havebeen glad to obtain

money recently on that collateral at a.

return of eight per cent to the investor. _

The packers’ loans rank high in safety. 113’

Country bankers can get them freely <.

in Iowa, Kansas and other states of 1

the middle west. I mention this to '

throw light on the high cost of money 1

to the biggest business organizations. a

With packers paying so much, it is 1

well for farmers to ask, what is money - , ‘ ' '

going to cost the average feeder who 1

wants to borrow to buy cattle or sheep? _.,_

Country bankers owe it to their com- ‘1

munities to favor their local borrowers . ,

with loans, but millions of dollars of "

cattle and sheep money for feeding

are obtained each year on the open

market. Not only will rates be very

high this season in view of the fact

that banks are heavily loaned up, but

money will be very difficult to obtain.





Feeding cattle are in disappointing

demand in view of the outlook for great

crops of feed) Not only are buyers

being restricted in their purchases, but

banks, seeking to reduce their loans to

a more comfortable position, are urg-

ing larger sales by ranchmen and oth-

er holders. The same may be said of

feeding lambs and other live stock. , .

Merchants in cities are also restricted. Ij '-

They are feeling more pressure to sell,

so manufactures and other commodi-

ties which farmers buy are on the

down grade. Labor will be affected ad-

versely. It is therefore well for farm-

ers to pursue an extremely conserva-

tive policy in their feeding and other

prices. This is the prospect carried

by the signals of financial markets. ..





   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





myre says, “you cannot describe wool ' '

on paper."



Samples of wool were then collected ,

from many sources, and from these a ' ’1 "n :l‘

comparative idea was had of the nu- 1

merous variations in regard to wool,

and the lack of uniformity among both

growers and dealers as to the common- , _,

ly accepted wool classes. The bureau 1 '2’.“ ;'

is aiming to establish its standard “

grades based on diameter of fiber;

class, meaning length of fiber; shrink-

age, meaning all foreign substances,

including grease and dirt; and spin-1

hing qualities, meaning adaptability of

fibers for various \spinning counts. A

count in worsted equals five hundred

and sixty yards; thirty's counts means

thirty banks of five hundred and sixty .

yards each to a pound of yarn. The _ ‘ i



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finer the wool the greater number of

hanks to the pound.



After extensive investigations the

bureau has decided upon a few stand:

ard grades, under which it has assem-

bled samples of the various wools col-

lected during its investigations. These

sets of sample grades have been made





   

   

   

   

   

   

 





wool growers’ associations and dealers



in every sheep raising section, not. for



the purpose. of having the m



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Sheep Husbandry is, Becoming a Strong Feature of Cloverland Farming.





AboveStraits Are Progressive





Téey are Getting Mucé from 7262’)” Agrz'm/mm/ Service Invitations





HERE is the finest kind of team—



work between the various agen.



cies looking after the agricultur-

al interests of the upper peninsula. The

men and women behind the program

seem to have a single goal before them

and that is to put the farming prac-

tices and farm life of that district on

the very highest level. Toward that

end'those associated together to carry

out the program seem always ready to

subordinate their personal ambitions

and prominence to the efficiency of the

whole-and this constitutes the very

essence of cooperation.



Here is the great cooperative scheme

which comprehends practically the

whole range of agricultural interests

above the straits. The county agents

and their local farm bureau organiza-

tion with the home demonstration

agents and boys’ and girls’ club mem-

bers and workers know practically evt





above the straits are not allowing op-

portunities from this source to get by

them and in their teamwork they are

getting the ultimate good from neigh-

borhood experiences. This is not only

qualifying them to do better farming

but it is standardizing their work

against the day when organized effort

will be the rule and not the exception.



But through this sifting of farm





erything agriculturally that is going ~





on in their respective communities.

They have the keenest sense of the

problems there and understand well

what conditions have to be met in

their solution. They know equally

well the temperament of the people

and how anxious these farm folks are

to educate their children and to put

their business on the best possible pay-

ing basis.



Naturally the great bulk of the ques-

tioris coming up can be answered from

the experiences of neighbors... This is

just as true in the upper peninsula as'

it is elsewhere, and it is a most re~

markabl-e thing that we have waited so

many, many years to learn from the

greatest experiment grounds available

-——the grounds on which the final tests

of all agricultural policies and prac-

tices are ‘tried out—the farms owned

and managed by the farmers them-

selves. Well, these agriculturists from





The Boys were Camped Under the





problems and the gathering of related

information there will finally be

brought to light certain things that

cannot be answered by the experience

of the farmers on their farms. These

questions need more thorough and-

careful experimenting than can be

done under farm conditions. Special

trained men supplied with exceptional

equipment must work to determine the

wise answer. For example, it is with-

out the realm of the average farmer to





 





test out prospective crops or varieties

for his farm. The trained plant breed-

er watching carefully his test plots

can arrive at a better conclusion on

the the value of varieties under cer-

tain conditions than can the man with

all his regular farm demands pressing

him for attention. The Upper Penin-

sula Experiment Station at Chatham

provides the men and the equipment





 





Spreading Elms onySIapneck River.





for this class of experimenting and the

pictures on this page, taken during the

recent Farmers’ Round—up shows clear-

ly that the institution is being fully ap-

preciated by Cloverland farmers.



And how do the farm folks get hold

of the information learned from these

tests? Well, those who get it best use

their eyes. They go to the experiment

farms to see what the results of any

work they are interested in, has prov—

ed to be. This is by all odds the best





method and to encourage a first-hand

study of the work done at Chatham the

recent round-up was held. Despite

rain, it was a great success. Whole

families came and many of them, and.

none were there who did not find some-

thing that was worthy of attention.

The men, the women and the boys and

girls were busy from the time they

came till they got away. The rural

people of Cloverland are to be congrat-

ulated upon the success of this occa-

sion and those who had arrangements

in charge are to be highly compliment-

ed upon their efforts.



But in addition to this roundup the

good things learned by the staff of the

experiment station and their associ-

ates is taken back to the various agri~

cultural communities by the same dem-

onstration agents, and club leaders,

and county agents who go out to dis-

cover the trouble or need in the first

instance. In the gatherings held in the

comunities, in the junior club meet-

ings, at the many county round-ups the

gospel of better farming and better

farm living is being constantly preach-

ed, and now with the movement al-

ready on for universalizing the Farm

Bureau in the several counties of Clov-

erland, the service that is now being

so well given will be expanded in a.

hundred ways. Besides caring for pro«

duction alone the new order will look

after marketing crops and buying need-

ed supplies.



Thus we .see the comprehensive ma-

chinery now in existence for the devel-

opment of the agricultural resources of

Cloverland. It starts with and ends

with the farmer. His problems are

diagnosed and then a remedy is sought

and if found the receipt is brought back

to him. This service and her wide-

awake boys and girls, makes the future

of Cloverland farming bright indeed.





 





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_r_§uliding Drainsxwith Dynamite Proved a Big Attraction.
. . OVERNOR W. L. HARDING, of

G Iowa, accompanied by President

, J. R. Howard, Gray Silver, of

West Virginia, E. H. Cunningham, of

Iowa, and other representatives of the

American Farm Bureau Federation,

have been in washington, following up

the request made of 'the Interstate

Commerce Commision, some weeks

ago, that boats on the Great Lakes be

utilized for relieving the grain moving

congestion on the railroad lines lead—

ing from the western wheat and corn

fields to the eastern seaboard. They

are asking that the rail and water rate

be so adjusted that all the boats on

the lakes can be used in the grain

carrying trade at a profit to the lake

transportation companies. During the

hearings it was pointed out that a

group of capitalists in New!»r York have

in course of construction and are now

delivering transport barges for use on

the New York barge canal which will

handle the traffic from Buffalo east-

ward.



In asking the commission to make

this revision of freight rates, and thus

relieve the rail transportation strain

at the most critical point, Governor

Harding said: ”Previous to 1910 the

lakes formed a most important link in

the east and west freight traffic. At

that time the railroads owned many

boat lines and used them extensively.

Following the enactment of the so-call-

ed LaFollette bill prohibiting railroads

from owning boat lines, this traflic de-

clined rapidly. The reason for this

decline becomes readily apparent by

the examination of the freight rate

schedules. On wheat, for instance, the

rate from Chicago to New York is 13.8

cents per bushel, but the rate from

Buffalo, the transfer point from water

to rail, on to New York is ten cents

per bushel. The longer part of the

haul is rated at only 3.8 cents while

the shorter distance must pay ten

cents. Since boats must receive at

least five cents a bushel for hauling

wheat from Chicago to Buffalo the

combined water—rail rate makes a great-

er total than the all-rail route.”



“This arrangement,” it was said, “has

largely driven the grain carrying boats

out of business. It is inconceivable

that this condition is allowed to con-

tinue at a time when farmers are los—

ing millions of dollars through inabil-

ity to secure freight cars to market

the wheat crop. In some of the west-

ern states elevators are filled to capa—

city and grain is piled up on the

ground awaiting shipment. There are

enough boats available for immediate

use on the lakes to handle the equival-

ent of 75,000 carloads of grain at a

single trip. The available box cars

can be shuttled back and forth be-

tween the upper lake ports and the

wheat fields in the west and the same

system used between Buffalo and the

seaboard. The long tedius haul which

now removes the box cars from the

grain territory could be entirely elim-

inated.”



J. R. Howard joined Governor Hard-

ing in requesting the commision to

take immediate action in this connec-

tion and added that organized agricul-

ture looks to the commission to mobil-

ize every available transportation re-

source, whether rail or water, to move

the crop to market and thereby relieve



V a condition that is not only causing ser-

ious losses but is rapidly becoming a

menace to next year's food production.

0. P. B. Jacobson. representing the

Minnesota Railway and Warehouse

Commission, urged the use of govern-

ment owned vessels for grain carrying

and for storage purposes. To this

Chairman Clark. of the Interstate Com-



merce Commisison, replied that the

Mission had considered the ques-

" bound sometime





 





ago and that the consensus of opinion

had been that shipping interests could

not and would not use government ves-

sels for carrying grain. Replying to

Governor Harding, however, Chairman

Clark said that plans are now being

worked out by the Interstate Com-

merce Commision and the railroads to

insure the largest possible grain move-

ment on the Great Lakes.



In asking for preferential assign-

ment of cars for carrying the wheat

crop of the northwest to market, Mr."

Jacobson told the commisison that 500,-

000 box cars are needed immediately

to move the grain crop in the north-

west, estimated at 700,000,000 bushels.

Agricultural interests in the northwest

face bankruptcy because of the present

car shortage, witnesses informed the

commisison. Railroad commisisoners

and shippers from the northwest said

indications were that the 1920 crop

would equal that of 1918 and that fail-

ure to move it to market not only

would ruin the growers, but would ser-

iously affect the country, resulting in

a food shortage. As a remedy for the

situation, J. J. Murphy, state railway

commisisoner of South Dakota, sug-

gested that the commission order box

cars to be moved from territories

which have more than one hundred

per cent of their ownership and dis-

tribute the cars to northwestern grain

shippers.





OLLOWING the railroad wage in-



crease, eighty thousand navy yard

workers in forty-three navy yards op-

erated by the government are ‘asking

for an increase in wages. Their repre—

sentatives have .appeared before the

navy wage board with the demand for

an immediate boost in wages of ap-

proximately forty per cent. It is re-

ported by the officials ofrthe Emer-

gency Fleet Corporation that the ship-

yard employes are able to earn more

money at the present wage scale than

they did during the war, even when

large bonuses were paid, owing to ac-

quired skill, greater efficiency and

steady employment. The present rate

of $6.40 a day prevails in government

shipyards; but men on piece work are

able to make big wages. Riveters and

steelplate workers were making as

high as $750 to $800 a month under

the Spur of war necessity, and it is said





making more than this. The assistant

secretary of the navy told the men that

as the navy wage appropriation is fix-

ed by law, it would be necessary to

drop employes in direct proportion to

the amount of increase granted. The

men were agreed to this plan, and it

is probable'that this will result in a

curtailment of naval activities.

Chairman Benson of the Unit ed

States Shipping Board is quoted as

saying that “persistent :rumots have

been abroad recently that the United

States intended to cut rates on the

Pacific, but it is not the intention of

the board to cut rates arbitrarily as

long as competition rests on a fair and

equitable basis.” Chairman Benson

intimated, however, that should the

board find itself contending with any

unfair methods it held the power to

protect American shipping interests.





Representatives from the American

Farm Bureau Federation Washington

office recently called at the shipping

board office to interview Chairman

Benson in regard to statements made

by a shipping board official concerning

a proposition to run lines of refriger-

ator ships to bring meat into the Unit-

ed States from South America and

Australia. They were referredvto Mr.

Murphy, secretary of the shipping





board. After a. spirited discussion in,





which Mr. Murphy was given to under-

stand that such a. move would mean

serious loss to the American live stock

industry, the secretary gave out the

statement that the shipping board does

not now have such a service and does

not at present contemplate such a.

plan. He qualified this statement by

saying that the board equipped a cer-

tain percentage of the ships with re-

frigeration as the trade requires. Un-

der present conditions he said it was

more profitable to transport meat from

South America and Australia to Eng-

land than to the United States. The

shipping board secretary was also in-

formed that such a scheme would be

very unpOpular with American farmers.



The Dairy Division of the United

States Department of Agriculture has

issued a chart showing the balance of

trade in dairy products in terms of

milk from 1914 up to June 30, 1920.

This chart shows that in butter an im-

port balance b.1914 was wiped out





 





 





Increased Rates F orbiddcn





ECRETARY of Agriculture Mere-



dith has ordered licensed commis-

E1811 men at the principal stock yards

of the country to discontinue the sched-

ule of increased commission rates on

the sale of live stock put into effect

August 2, 1920. In his order, the sec-

retary declared that the increases were

unjust, and forbade the commision men

to charge commissions in excess of

those in effect July 1. The commission

men are given until August 21 to com-

ply with the secretary's order, which

was made under authority of the food

control act. ,



The orders went to commission men

in Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, and

National Stock Yards at East St. Louis.

Also, the secretary is calling upon the

secretaries of live stock exchanges at

stock yards, where the department of

agriculture has no agent, for schedules

of commission charges in. effect at their

respective places. Any increases found

in rates at these stockyards will be

ordered discontinued also.



The increases objected to by Secre-





tar‘y Meredith ranged as high as tweu-“





ty-five per cent, and included commis-

sion oncabtle, canes, hogs, sheep and





goats shipped in carlots by single own-

ers. This action by the secretary is

along the line of that taken recently

when he fixed the commission rates

to be charged at Chicago on carlot

shipments of live stock having more

than one owner. 7



“In 1918 and 1919 the Bureau of Mar-

kets of the Department of Agriculture

investigated the live stock commission

business with a view to ascertaining

whether or not the income from rates

being charged at that time would jus-

tify a conclusion that rates were in vio-

lation of the department’s regulations,"

declared an official of the department

recently, in discussing the order. “This

information is the principal data on

which we based an opinihn at this

time that the recent increase in rates

is unjustified. Furthermore, at least

one 'other increase has taken place

since our information was secured, and

with which the department did not at-

tempt to interfere.”





Under the food control act commie.





sion men are required to take out fed-

eral licenses for doing business. The

department is empowered to prescribe

regulatimfor 63.011:th ' "





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an o rt balance equivalent to over

.000 pounds of milk. There was

cheese import balance in 1914.

whi h was wiped out during the war

and the export balance grew to equal

500 00,000 pounds of milk in 1919.

Co densed milk shows no exports up

to 1916. Then a tremendous boost in

exports took place, almost double that

of butter and cheese. There has been

a recession in exports since 1919,

amounting to 400,000,000 pounds in con—

densed milk alone. The total shows

an import balance in butter, cheese

and condensed milk the equivalent of

700,000,000 pounds of milk in 1914. The

exports grew constantly until 1919

when they reached a balance of over

2,600,000,000 pounds of milk, a large

part of which was in condensed milk.

Since 1919 there has been a falling off

in exports of cheese, butter and com

densed milk equal to 800,000,000 pounds

of milk.





 

 





S a result of a meeting at Brattle—

boro, Vt., at which the proposed

personal credits systems legislation





was discussed. the National Society 013‘





Record Associations has appointed a.

committee to urge the immediate coh-

sideration of rural credits legislation.

The Rubey resolution in congress pro-

vides for the appointment of a special

committee to consist of the chairman

and two other members of the house

and senate committees on agriculture

and the house and senate committees

on banking and currency, and that the

committee should hold judicial hear-

ings at an early date. This committee





has not been appointed. A committee





was also appointed at this meeting to

make a careful study of the McFadden-

Milligan rural credits bill, and attend

the hearings before the congressional

committees and present their argu‘

ments. Other farm organizations have

been asked to cooperate in this move-

ment for rural credits legislation.





Since the armistice was signed in'





November, 1918, the number of govern-

ment employes in Washington has de





creased from 117,760 to 90,360" on July'





31, 1920, or approximately 27,000. The

number of government employes here

now, however, is 52,000 above' that of

April 1, 1917. The civil serv1ce com-

misison predicts a g1adual decrease in

the force for some time. Examinations





outside of thOse offices requiring spe~ '





cial training, are open only to ex- ser-

vice men.





Profiteers are taking advantage of

the freight rate increase to boost the

prices of the products they have for

sale. This is leading railway officials

to warn the public against these uh?

necessary extortions. Traffic Vice

President Dixon, of the Pennsylvania

lines, has presented figures 'showing

that in the case of nearly every coma

modity of ,daily consumption the in-

creases in transportation charges are

relatively so Small as to be negligible.

On packing house products shipped

from Chicago to Washington in cars

load lots the increase will amount to

only 1.7 mills on each pound, while in

less than carload lots it will be not

more than 2.4 mills. The freight rates

on dressed meats will be naturally

higher, but the additional charge will

be but 2.7 mills per pound in earload

lots. It will cost only four-tenths of a

cent a pound more to send butter from

Chicago to Washington in car-load lots.

The increase on a twenty-four—pound





sack of flour from Minneapolis' is a‘ g





trifle 1m than four cents. 1

E E. eruonns.
_. HE: amount of meat” produced dur-

, ing next winter and spring will be





ji- determined. by the actidn of farmers





during the next few months. At the

present time the movement of feeder

cattle and lambs to the country is com-

paratively small. With the range liqui-

dating in_ order to decrease its loans

rather" than because of feed shortage it

is not to be expected that another sec-

tion of the country would be in a posi-

tion to buy in spite of tight credits.

However, some feeders are able to pur-

chase now and more will be able to

do so as the crop moving season pass-

es, making funds more abundant.



The prospect now is that the price

ratio between feeds and live stock will

be very favorable to the feeder by next

spring. Last year’s bad experience is

certain to. keep many out of the cattle

feeding game; tight money will re-

strain others and the shortage in the

range will reduce the supply of raw

material. Production is already on the

decline, the inspected slaughter of beef

during the last eleven months totaling

200,000,000 pounds less than in the

same period a year ago, while consump-

tion, including .domestic and export,

during the same time increased about

600,000,000 pounds. There is no big

supply~ from abroad to be sent here, as

is the case with lambs, Argentina

complaining now of drouth and consid-

erable winter losses of cattle.





Solving a Real Problem





HE two pictures show white pine



stumps near Gladwin, Michigan,

that have been pulled with a steelyard

puller without the use of explosives.

An attempt was made to burn them by

rolling tWo or three together as shown

in the first picture. The small chunks

which were piled over these stumps

burned off but left the stumps as good

as ever.



I. suggested that Mr. Capling (the

man shown in the pictures) bore a

hole in the bottom of the stump lying

on its side, at the crown, or center,

of the root system. The auger shows

the direction of the hole. In this hole

we loaded three-quarters of a pound of

twenty per cent dynamite.



The second picture shows the result.

Mr. Capling is standing on the same





eed or Not to Feed?





. The corn crop prospect is excellent

except that it is somewhat late. The

bulk of it must be fed whether it ma-

tures safely or is caught by September

frosts. The less of it that is fed and

the more that is sold to central mar-

kets the lower the price. There are

signs that transportation conditions

which; were partially responsible for

the high price of corn last winter and

spring and the very unfavorable feed-

ing ratio, will gradually improve so

that the movement to terminals will

be more prompt and the corn price will

average lower than last year.



The cattle feeder’s prospect seems

to be especially good as beef shortage

isundoubtedly on the way. The fall

run of hogs will begin to arrive in a

couple of months and even though the

crop may be short that fact will not





exert its influence for some time. And .





furthermore, stocks of hog products are

large. Foreign buying could easily take

care of these, but real shortage of pork

is farther away than is a shortage of

beef. Lamb feeders had a prosperous

experience last winter, which fact will

attract more feeders into that line of

endeavor, tending to restore the nor-

mal balance between the different

forms of live stock production. The

wool situation and imports of Austral-

ian and New Zealand frozen lambs are

also unfavorable to this branch of the

trade. ’





spot in both pictures. Any part of-

the stump after shooting was small

enough to be easily and effectively pil-

ed, and will burn. '



That the low-grade, cheap powder is

the best for this work is shown by the

fact that the owner of the land had

tried forty per cent on a number of

similar stumps and failed to get any-

thing like as goodresults. ,In fact, the

small stump to the right of the picture

was later loaded with forty and neith-

er as good or as economical. results

were obtained. The average stump of

this class will not require over half a

pound to break it up in good shape

for handling and burning. Another





use for this wood is after breaking it

up, it is excellent material and in good

shape to out into firewood—G. C. M.





 





The cut above shows an upturned ‘pine stump that under ordinary cir-





cumstances is difficult to dispose of.

where the stump had been, while it is





ready for the torch. A charge of dynamite did the work.





 





 





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Sept. 3rd ‘-’ Sept. 12th

EDUGNIIUNAI.





 





 





   

   





ENTERTAINING





   

 





Federal Government and

Michigan Agricultural

, College will conduct a





GREAT TEN DAY EXHIBIT





of Farm Products and

Educational Course in

Agriculture.





   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





Big Program of

F ree Exhibitions





will offer relaxation and amusement.





 





 





Fur Farming

Exhibit of all Michigan fur





animals and practical instruc- v!

tion 1n fur farmlng.





 





 





$100,000 in Premiums '

Stock show will be greatest V T i

ever held in Middle West





 

 

 





 





 





Seventy-first Annual Exposition





 





   

 

 





TEN DAYS





Sept. 3rd _-





TEN NIGHTS





"Sept. 12th.
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DAIRY QUESTIONS.





 





 





I have Grade Durhams. I fed them

the best I ever did the past season,

grained them all summer while on pas-

ture, also while in barn on silage. The

herd averaged 259 pounds fat each.

Can you tell me how that compares

with other grades, say Jerseys, for in-

stance? When we get good crops of

clover, is that evidence enough that

we do not need lime? In your writings

you seem to favor silage without grain

in it. Don’t you think the grain is

good after being in the silo? You spoke

last spring of trying sunflowers. Did

you do this? Don’t you think that en-

silage corn, or green pea vines, make

a silage that is too acid?



Sanilac Co. F. L. H.





Where you find one dairy cow that

will produce 259 pounds of butter-fat

in a year, you will find a large number

that will not produce as much. Of

course, many cows produce more, but

if your herd of dairy Shorthorns aver-

age 259 pounds of fat, you can feel

proud of them. They are good cows

and they were well fed and you know

how to take care of them.





Clover vs. Lime.



Wthen we grow good crops of clover,

it certainly is good evidence that you

have a sufficient amount of lime to pro-

tect the soil from getting acid because

clover will not grow luxuriantly in an

acid soil but the question is, what is a

good crop of clover? Do you raise two

tons or two and a half tons to the

acre? If so, you probably do not need



- lime. If you do not, lime might in-

crease your crop. Why not find out?

Go to your lumber dealer and buy a

sack of hydrated lime, scatter it on an

area of a field two rods square and

note the effect that this produces on

different craps as you grow them on

this field. That will tell the story.





Well-Eared Ensilage Corn.





 





If you plant corn thick‘enough (not

too thick so that you grow practically

no ears, or only very small ears, you

will get more tons of ensilage to the

acre than you will by planting corn

thin enough to get a good crop of ears.

Now the corn plant, when it is prop-

erly matured, containing no ear is as

rich in protein as the whole corn plant

that produces an ear, consequently it

you can produce more tons to the acre

by planting it thicker it makes a more

profitable crop. Besides, I am confi—

dent that a larger per cent of this corn

is more digestible and that it possesses

greater palatability. '



Sunflower and Corn Silage.



Some little time ago I stated in the



Michigan Farmer, my experience with

this sunflower silage. Undoubtedly, the

inquirer missed this. The sunflowers

~made a wonderful growth. Some of

them were more than ten .feet high,

with stalks as large as your forearm,

and it would bother to get some of the

heads into a bushel basket. They stood

away above the sweet corn and, of

course, were very noticeable to pass-

ers—by. There were many inquiries as

to the reasons for planting them, what

we were to ‘do with them, etc.





This combination of plants does not

work very well in harvesting. The

heads of the sunflowers were so heavy

and the stalks were so long in com-

parison with the cornthat they did not

handle nicely when being bound into

bundles. The men insisted that the

corn harvester would not cut them.

but it did without any difficulty. The

great trouble was in loading them onto

the wagon and unloading to the ensil-

. axe cutter. I anticipated that there

would be some trouble in getting these

large heads through the ensilage cuts

tor. but fortunately we had a large size



and the feed rollere‘would crush





 

 





the heads and flatten them out so that

no difficulty was experienced at all.



I am frank to say that I am in doubt

about planting more sunflowers with

the corn just because of the difficulty

in handling them. However, they in-

crease the bulk of the silage very ma-

terially and the cows eat the silage

with an apparent relish. Everything

is eaten up.



Acid Ensilage.



If you cut the corn too green it will

produce ensilage containing too much

acid. If the so-called ensilage corn

properly develops, that is, beyond the

roasting stage it will make fine quality

ensilage. Pea vines do not make an

ensilage containing too much acidity

if they are cut when peas are ready

for canning. C. C. L.





BEST FORM OF LIME.





 





I have eighty acres of rolling sand

and black loam mixed, and most al—

ways fail with clover on those sand

spots, so I thought if I would lime this

soil I could get clover. My farm is

about all tiled and have quite a lot of

barnyard manure.« Now, what I would

like to know is, which is the best kind

of lime to use? How much shall I

sow on this sandy land? How it is

shipped, whether in sacks or in bulk?

When is the proper time to sow, in

spring or fall? I have twelve acres of

this ground I would like to sow to fall

crops, and intend to seed in spring to

clover



Monroe Co. R. P.





For the effect on the Soil it doesn’t

matter very much which form of lime

is used. The question comes down to

the cost. Hydrated lime or burnt line

can be used in small quantities to get

the desired effect, but it costs more.

Ground limestone. will produce the

same effect. only you must use it in

larger quantities. If you use caustic

lime you want to use at least one-half

ton per acre, and if you use' ground

limestone one ten per acre will be none

too much. Some use as high as two

tons per acre. This ground limestone

is not all used at once, but it will grad—

ually become effective and keep the

land sweet for a considerable length of

time. A splendid time to apply the

lime is after the ground is plowed and

partially fitted, then sow the lime and

finish fitting the land. This will work

the lime in the soil where it must be

in order to correct the soil acidity.



It would be advisable to put the most

of your stable manure on the sandy

place in your field, as undoubtedly

these sandy knolls or ridges are defi~

cient in organic matter which allows

them to dry out more than the black

soil during hot weather. If you can

plow downstable manure and seed to

clover and get a stand of clover, the

clover roots will add much of the \de-

sired vegetable matter which will

greatly improve this particular kind of

land. The lime will be of great benefit

in getting a stand of clover.



C. C. L.





NO RETURNS FROM FERTILIZER.





 





In the spring of 1912 I plowed a small

piece for late potatoes, kept it har-

rowed till June, then applied fertilizer

at the rate of 800 pounds per acre, or

one—half the piece. After harrowing in

I planted potatoes. I had a good pota-

to crop but could see no difference

where the fertilizer was applied. That

fall I sowed to rye and the following

spring seeded to clover but have never

seen any results fmm‘the fertilizer. At

that time it would cost about $12 an

acre to purchase and apply at that rate-

If I lose $12 an acre 8 part of the time,

how long will it take, to get the scales

turned the other way?



Livingston Co. - _ . , D. H D.



I have had considerable penenal ex-





perience in the use or fertilisers on my





. an“... *. '1‘3.1





own~ farm and I have had an unusual ciety is not incorporated each member

opportunity to notice the effects of fer- is liable for the whole damage result-

til-izer over a wide area, and I never ing from the negligence of the society

yet saw results like those indicated in or its employee unless the party injur-

your letter. I cannot explain why you, ed was guilty of contributory negli-

did not get results. I would have to gence.



know more of the conditions, the kind The proper method of protection is

of fertilizer used, etc. Once in a while to comply with the requirements of

there is no appreciable results from the workmen’s compensation law and

fertilizer on certain crops for a can the rules and regulations that will be

tain year, owing to-the detrimental furnished on application to the Indus-

conditions, such as drought, etc. But trial Accident Board at Lansing. Mich.,

my experience is that the fertilizer has and procuring proper policy, or policies

not been wasted, that you will get re- of insurance. J. R. R.

sults in other crops in the rotation. For .

instance, when you fertilize wheat. and

leave a strip to check results you not

only get better wheat but you get bet— Dogs got after my sheep, killed one

te'r clover following. I have known and wounded ten, seven of which had

this the last two or three years in the to be killed Dont know whose d083-





. . The justice came and looked after

meadow where you could distinctly tell them didn’t say what they would pay





Where fertilizer was applied. me. Please tell me what compensa-

On some soils fertilizer does not til?“ I Shmfld get gor thiese Sh?epMTh€



. s eep were on a arm own In on -



seem to make very much difference in calm county, while I live in Kent coun-

the growth of straw, but by the thresh~ ty a half mile from the famL Also,

ing test it makes a good showing in can I claim anything for my time? I

the yield and plumpness ,of the berry. spent a1 day from early In the mom-

Crops on properly drained soils also ing, and a neighbor helped me half a





, , day. —M. B.

make better use of commerc1al fertll- The law provides (Comp. Laws (1915)





izers than when on 50115 that are i°° Sec. 7278-7279), that the justice of the

wet. 0‘ C' 1“ peace called, not being of kin to the

complainant; nor a member of the town

board, shall view the sheep and give

_ a certificate to the owner of the sheep,



In 1907 my husband and I legally stating the amount of the damages,

adopted a girl, brought her up and ed- which certificate the owner shall de-





gfigtgtlidhgge Sgleflgrgeg fidolsge‘fie? liver to the town clerk, who shall file

We have acquired a good farm and it in his office, and the town board, after

:11??? islolnile 1(linoney %n the banki Gag examination shall direct an order for

whatgsharé’? i’l‘é’of’wi‘ii $322? 32.- Payment 0‘“ 0f the (kg WS- N°

sonal property would I hold in case of allowance is made for time IOSt'

my husband’s death?—Subscriber. J- R- R-

The statutes (Comp. Laws (1915),

Sec. 14142), provide that upon formal

adoption according to the provisions

of the statute the persons adopting .

shall stand in the relation of parents My neighbor's bull has been running

to the child adopted, and have all the over our fields for the past month

rights and duties of parents, and that gagirilzqu‘gfiifi 211:1 ogner) ‘3 k3?" him

the Chad shall be an heir at law 0f threatened damages. Ogroline fling:

such persons the same as if their child





are in good condition, but this fellow

in fact. The result is that the child breaks the wire to get through If this

takes whatever property of the parent continues what action can I take?

is left at death not required to pay





C. G. C.

debts, taxes, and expenses of adminis- Anyone findlng cattle trespassing on

tration, 'and not legally diSposed of by





their property may take them into

will. There is nothing in the law to :vutséoiyilnstgtgfy Z Justflce 31f thel peac:

prevent the adopting parent disposing advertise the at‘amef or 1 e sa e, dan

of property by will the same as any S l y or sa e, accor mg

other person. If the husband die’s with-





to Comp. Laws (1915) See. 7288. The

out any will his widow would take his





owner may redeem the animals by pay-

personal property, household property :ugethingagafssztoingaluge 3:31;:th

not exceeding two hundred dollars in the proceeds of the saleeotrser the (cost:

value, such further sum as the probate of sale and damages

judge deems necessary for her main-

tenance during administration, and one-

third of the remainder, and the other

two-thirds would go to the adapted

child. J. R. R.





SHEEP KILLED BY DOGS.





 





RIGHTS OF ADOPTED CHILDREN.





 





TAKING UP TRESPASSING

ATTLE.





 





J.R.R.‘





 





LIABILITY OF HUSBAND FOR SUP-

PORT.





 





Has a man a right to post his wife.





LIABILITY OF COOPERATIVE SOCI- so she cannot get credit at stores, as

ETIES FOR PERSONAL INJURY. long as they are still “fingéogfiuifr?





 





Thirty farmers purchased a thresh— So (long as the hquud supplies the

ing outfit cooperativeIY. Are we liable Wife With What She needs to the extent

for agy injurybto opetliftors, whether of his ability he is not liable on corn

one 0 our num er or o erwise so

how should we proceed to protect our- traits Ifiade by her without his express

selves through workmen's compensa— or mp 16d authority of approvaL But



if he does not furnish such support





tion law? Would such operators be

considered domestic servants ?——A. P. contracts made by her for necessaries

The society not beingincorporated, are binding on him, if made on his

the members would each be liable to credit, though without his consent, and

the full amount of the injury notwith- may be enforced against him by the

standing any negligence or the person persons furnishing-her the necessaries.

injured of any fellow servant it the or she may by suit against him get a

person injured was an employs unless decree for support which will be on

the cooperatore have complied with forced by execution against him.

the employers’ liability act. The our ‘ J. B. R.

ployes in the crew would not be d!

mastic servants within the exehiptlen . Meet hens will lay it they are at;

or the act,





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' ”i J Crop Estimates: ,

State. , BuShels.





....... 6,397,000

Minnesota . . . . . . . . . ...... 28,211,000

Pennsylvania . . . . . . . ..... 23,281,000

New Jersey .. . .. . . . . .13,824,000

Maine ...... ,................23,895,000

Colorado ..... . . . . . ...... 12,913,000

Washington . . . . . . . - . - . . . . . . 7,663,000

New York . . . . . . . . . . ....... 34,168,000





United States (including the .

states not listed above). .402,134,000





GAS IN SILO.





 





Gas may form in a silo at the time

of‘fllling and for a week or so after-

wards. This gas isheavier than air

and sowill settle in the-silo and make

conditions uninhabitnllle, tor‘wthe work-

men. As soon iffflfling the silo is





started the fa J " " J" and the air

“Ft J 'er will stir





currents cause ...-



,up enough air c _-J Jths to drive out the

gas. A good-way to‘determine if there

is gas in a silo is to lower a lighted

lantern. If it goes out, it will not be

safe to‘go into the silo. Keep the doors





open as long as possible when filling.





 

 

 





TREES NEAR THE LINE.





 





If a. fruit tree is nearly on the line

between property owners, and the

branches of the tree extend over the

line, can the owner of the land on

which the tree is growing claim the

fruit over the line on the adjoining

property? Has the person across the

line a right to trim branches which in-

terfere with crops on his side?——G. C.





The fruit belongs to the person on

whose land the trunk of the tree

stands; but he has no right to go onto

the land of his neighbor to get it. The

neighbor over whose land the branches

hang hasa right to trim off all branch-

.es'overhanging his land. J. R. R.





DO WE NEED A FORESTRY.

POLICY?





 





. (Continued from page 231).



are fit only for the,growing of timber,

acres upon which farmers would

starve if compelled to live and oper-

ate. Luckier than Michigan many

other states have vast holdings of

high-grade farm land but little that is

fit only for the growing of timber.



If Michigan begins now to plant

forests as she should (from 5,000 to





   





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east as released by the Bureau of





ichigan oooo'°" ooooooowoo32,851,ooo

‘ consin'oI...coo'ooolqouu.31.436,000

4ooOIDCOOO..'OOOOOOIIJ012,944,000J

I; mia oonoooloo'a"'t ooooo 13,268,000

‘ .lifornia . . . . - - - . . ........ .12,560,000

" Gregor] ....:..-.00.. ....... ’ 6,020,000

' Wyoming . . . . . - .l ........... 4,276,000 ‘ .



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bought largely because Of

its style and performance,

its comfort and lasting

newness, there are thou-





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Just compare price before you

buy. Get the latest quotations. _ See

if you can find a car to equal the.

New Mitchell at its price.





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“You likeMoira’s eyes, eh?”



“I’ve never seen anything like them.

Zounds, I’m afire.‘ I have little prickly

sensations, like ants running over me.

How can you be insensate enough to

descend to labor with an houri like

that around? Oh, man! To think of

an angel like that working—to think

of a brute like you making her work!”



“Love at first sight, eh, Buck?"



“I don’t know what it is, but it’s

nice. Who is she?”



“She's Moira McTavish, and you’re

not to make love to her. Understand?

I can’t have you snooping around this

office after today.”



Mr. ()gilvy’s eyes popped with inter

est. “()h," he breathed. “You have an

eye to the main chance yourself have

you ‘? Have you proposed to the lady

as yet?"



“No, you idiot.”



“Then I’ll match you for her—'—or

rather for the chance to propose

first.” Buck produced a dollar and

spun it in the air.



“Nothing doing, Buck. Spare your-

self these agonizing suspicions. The

fact of the matfer is that you give me

a wonderful inspiration. I’ve always

been afraid Moira would fall in love

with some ordinary fellow around Se~

quoia—propin'quity, you knOW—”



“You bet. Propinquity’s the stuff.

I’ll stick around.”



“—and I’ve been on the lookout for

a fine man to marry her off to. She’s

too wonderful for you, Buck, but in

time you might learn to live up to

her.”



“Duck! I’m liable to kiss you.”



“Don’t be too precipitate. Her father

used to be our woods-boss. I fired him

for boozing.”



“I wouldn’t care two hoots if her

dad was old Nick himself. I’m going

to marry her—if she’ll have me. Ah,

the glorious creature!” He waved his

long arms despairingly. “O Lord, send

me a cure for freckles. Bryce, you’ll

speak a kind word for me, won’t you——

' sort of boom my stock, eh? Be a good

fellow.”



“Certainly. ”Now come down to

earth and render a report on your stew-

ardship.”



“I’ll try. To begin, I’ve secured

rights of way, at a total cost of twelve

thousand, one hundred and three dol-

lars and nine cents, from the city lim-

its, of Sequoia to. the southern bound-

ary of your timber in Township Nine.

I’ve got my line surveyed, and so far

as the building of the road is concern-

ed, I know exactly what I’m going to

do, and how and when I’m going to do

it, once I get my material on the

ground.”



“What steps have you taken toward

securing your material?”





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“Well, I can close a favorable con-

tract for steel rails with the Colorado

Steel Products Company. ‘Their sched~

ule of deliveries is O. K. as far as San

Francisco, but it's up to you to provide

water transportation from there to Sc—

'quola.”





“.We can handle the rails on our

steam schooners. Next?”



“I have an option of a rattling good

second-hand locomotive down at the

Santa Fe shops, and the Hawkins &

Barnes Construction Company have of-

fered me a steam shovel, half a dozen

flat-cars, and a lot of fresnos and scrap-

ers at ruinous prices. This equipment

is pretty well worn, and they want to

get rid of it before buying new stuff

for their contract to build the Arizona

and Sonora Central. However, it is

first-rate equipment for us, because it

will last until we’re through with it;

then we can scrap it for junk. We can

buy or rent teams from local citizens

and get half of our labor locally. San

Francisco employment bureaus will

readily supply the remainder, and I

have half a dozen fine boys on tap to

boss the steam shovel, pile-driver,

bridge-building gang, track-layer and

construction gang. And as soon as you

tell me“, how I’m to get my material

ashore and out on the job, I’ll order it

and get busy.”



“That’s exactly where the shoe be-

gins to pinch, Pennington’s main-line

tracks enter the city along Water

Street, with one spur into his log-dump

and another out on his mill-dock. From

the main-line tracks we also have built

a spur through our drying-yard out to

our log-dump and a switch-line out on

to our milldock. We can unload our

locomotive, steam shovel. and flat-cars

on our own wharf, but unless Penning-

ton gives us permission to use his

main-line tracks out to a point beyond

the city limits—where a Y will lead

off to the point where our construction

begins—we’re up a stump.”



“Suppose he refuses, Bryce.

then?”



“Why, we’ll simply have to enter the

city down Front Street, paralleling

Pennington’s tracks on Water Street,

turning down B Street, make a jump-

crossing of Pennington’s line on Water

Street, and connecting with the spur

into our yard.”



“Can’t have an elbow turn at Front

and B streets ?”



“Dan’t have to. We own a square

block on that corner, and we’ll build

across it, making a gradual turn.”



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emnly, “is this your first adventure in

railroad building?”



Bryce nodded. ,



“I thought so ; otherwise you would

not talk so confidently of running

your line over city streets and making

jump-crossings on your competitor’s

road. If your competitor regards you

as a menace to his pocketbook. he can

give you a nice little run for your mon-

ey and delay you indefinitely.”



“Irealize that, Buck. That’s why I’m

not appearing in this railroad deal at

all. If Pennington suspected I was

back of it, he’d fight me before the

city council, and move heaven and

earth to keep me out ofa franchise to

use the city streets and cross his line.

Of course, since his main line runs on

city property, under a franchise grant-

ed by the city, the city has a perfect

right to grant me the privilege of mak-

ing a jump-crossing of his line—”



“Will they do it? That’s the prob-

lem. If they will not, you’re licked

my son, and I’m out of a job.”



“We can sue and condemn a. right of

way.”



“Yes, but if the city council puts up

a plea that it is against the best inter-

ests of the city to grant the franchise,

you’ll find that except in most extra-

ordinary cases, the courts regard it as

against public policy to give judgment

against a municipality, the state or

the government of the United States.

At any rate, they’ll hang you up in the

courts till you die of old age; and as

I understand the matter, you have to

have this line running in less than a.

year, or go out of business.”





Bryce hung his head thoughtfully.

“I’ve been too cocksure,” he muttered

presently. “I shouldn’t have spent that

twelve thousand for rights of way un-

til I had settled the matter of the

franchise.”



“Oh, I didn’t buy any rights of way

-—yet,” Ogilvy hastened to assure him.

“I’ve only signed the landowners up

on an agreement to giVe or sell me a

right of way at the stipulated figures

any time within one year from date.

The cost of the surveying gang and

my salary and expenses are all that

you are out to date.” '



“Buck, you’re a wonder.”



“Not at all. I’ve merely been through

all this before and have profited by my

experience. Now, then, to get back to

our muttons. Will the city council

grant you a franchise to enter the city

and jump Pennington’s tracks?”



“I’m sure I don’t know, Buck. You’ll

have to ask them—sound them out.





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The city council meets on Saturday.





morning.”



"They’ll meet this evening—in the

private dining-room of the Hotel Se

quoia, if I can arrange it,” Buck Ogil—

vy declared emphatically. “I’m going

to have them all up for dinner: and

talk the matter over. I’m not exactly

aged, Bryce, but I’ve handled about fit:

teen city councils and county boards

of supervisors, not to mention Mexican

and Central American governors and

presidents, in my day,_and I know the

breed from cover to cOver. Following

a preliminary conference, I’ll let you

know whether you’re going to get that

franchise without difllCulty or whether

somebody’s itchy palm will have to be

crossed with silver first. Honest men

never temporize. You know where they

stand, but a grafter temporizes and

plays a waiting game, hoping to wear

your patience down to the point where

you’ll ask him bluntly to name his fig-

ure. By the way, what do you know

about your blighted old city council,

anyway?" '



“Two of the five councilmen are for

sale; two are henest menuand one is

an uncertain quantity. The mayor is

a. politician. I’ve known them all since

boyhood, and if I dared come out in

the open, I think that even the crooks

have sentiment enough for what the

Cardigans stand for in this county to

decline to hold me up.”





“Then why not come out in the 0p- -





en and save trouble and expense ?"



“I am not ready to have a lot of

notes called on me,” Bryce replied.

“Neither am I desirous of having the

Laguna Grande Lumber Company

start a riot in the redwood lumber

market by cutting prices to a point

where I would have to sell my lumbe:

at a loss in order to get hold of a little

ready money. Neither do I desire to

have trees felled across the right of

way of Pennington’s road after his

trainloads of logs‘have gone through

and before mine have started from the

woods. I don’t want my log-landings

jammed until I can’t move, and I don’t

want Pennington’s engineer to take a

curve in such a hurry that he’ll whip

my loaded logging-trucks off into a.

canon and leave me hung up for lack

of rolling-stock. I tell you, the man

has me under his thumb, and .the only

way I can escape is to slip out when

he isn’t looking. He can do too many

things to block the delivery of my logs

and then dub them acts of God, in or

der to avoid a judgment against him

On suit for non-performance of his

hauling contract with this company." .



“Hum-IE! Slimy old beggar, isn’t

he? I dare say he wouldn’t hesitate

to buy the city council to block you,

would he?” ~



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with the exception of ourselves.





HE other day a woman who had

7 been for years a member of one

of two churches in°a village died.

The church building Where she was

wont to worship was'undergoing re-

pair, and has not been used this sum-

mer. In the other church there were

many converts to a peculiar line of re-

ligious teaching. Whenthe use of this

church was "asked for the funeral, it

was declined, on the ground that the

deceased had been a member of a

church that believes in dining-room

and game parlor in the church, which

are “wicked” institutions. So the good

woman was buried frOm the toWn hall.

- “What narrowness,” says one. “Well,

if that isn’t bigotry with a big B,” says

another. And a‘third adds, “Deliver me

from the church forevermore.” And

we-cannot criticise these critics over-

much.'

that wins the allegiance of strong men

very fast. But at the same time let

us not pass judgment too quickly. Be

fore offering to remove the speck from

our brother’s eye, let us pry the plank

out of our own. It is betterto have

convictions on matters of religion than

to have no convictions at all. It is very

easy to say-we are liberal, that all the

churches are good, and one religion is

as good as another, and all that. Down

at the bottom of things we know that

is not so. When a man has become so

liberal he believes anything, he does

not believe anything. Such people

have never done much to advance. the

world to higher standards. Better to

be bigoted and stand by it, than to be





' a milk sop and stand for nothing. Bet-





ter to have a narrow creed and be will-

ing to sacrifice for it, than to haVe no

creed worth sacrificing for.





folk. The world is celebrating the

three hundredth anniversary of their

ceming to America, this year. Eng-

land, Holland, America are joining in

tributes to these hardy yeomen who

came in the Mayflower. All America

has felt the influence of the descend;

ants of these colonists. They have

touched every state. A widely traveled

man says he asked the president of

Argentina why South America was not

as advanced in commercial lines as

North America, and the President of

Argentina replied he thought it was

because the Spaniards who settled

South America came for gold, while

the Pilgrim Fathers came for God.

Nevertheless, these same Pilgrim Fath-

ers were what we should call narrow

men. They believed they were right

and everyone else was wrong. ,When

people came to the colonies who did

not believe as the Pilgrims, they were

told ‘to move on. But while these stern

and solemn-faced men were what the





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.(Continued from page 240).



“I know he’ll lie and steal. I dare

say he’ (1 corrupt a public official.”



Buck Ogilvy rose and stretched him-

self. “I’ve got my work cut out for me

haven’t I?" he declared with a_yawn.

“However, it’ll be a fight worth while,

and that at least will make it interest-

ing. Well?”





and a moment later Moira - entered.

“Permit me, Moira, to present Mr. Ogil-

vy, Miss McTavish.” The introduction

having been acknowledged by both

parties, Bryce continued: “Mr. Ogilvy

will have frequent need to interview

me at this office, Moira. but it‘is our

joint desire that his .visits here‘ shall

remain a profound secret to everybody





 





 





It is not the brand of. religion ‘





HE Pilgrim Fathers were great-





Bryce pressed the buzzer on his desk‘





Our Week? Sermon—By N. A. Mr Can!





moderns' Would ”style narrow, they be-‘





lieved what they did believe with all.





their souls, and they were ready to do





anything. go anywhere, meet any toe,

in defense of what they believed. They

believed in God. They believed in Prov-

idence, and that Providence guided

them to the bleak shores of New Eng-

land. Their numbers were reduced by

almost half, within a year after they

came, but they did not give up. They

were m.en of faith in God. They were

not saints, only saints in the making.

They were not perfect, but they were

taking lessons in how to become per-

feet. And their religious convictions

were what made them mighty, though

those convictions were sometimes

narrow.





N other words, it is possible to be

so fearfully and Wonderfully “lib.

eral, ” that your belief is frittered away

into nothingness. It does matter what

a man or a woman believes. When the

war came on, it mattered mightily What

we believed: Some people did not be-

lieve in the United States government.

They were told to keep still or go to

jail. If you were not really loyal to

America in your heart, you at least

had to pretend to be, because the na-

tion could not tolerate enemies and

traitors in its midst. The issues at

stake were too great. If it matters in

patriotism whether or not a man is

loyal, does it not matter in religion?”

“He that is not with me is against

me,” said the Master of men. Every

age has its peculiar weaknesses to com-

bat, and slackness in religious belief

is one of the enemies to be fought

now, by all earnest men. In the elev-

enth chapter of Hebrews, there is a.

list of those who stood for God. It is

a line of battlescarred heroes of the

faith. There is not a slacker among

them. There is not one who thought

that “any religion is good if a man only

believes in it,” or that one is as good

as another.

dous conviction, and for that convic-

tion they are prepared to suffer any-

thing. “And what more shall I say'?

For time would fail me to tell of Gid—

eon, of Barak, of Jephtha, of David

also, and the prophets.” Ah, that is a.

great list.

the ages to belong to a roll offhonor

like that. And yet we may all belong

to it, if we will. The call today is to

lay aside sloth and indifference -and

pride in our “advanced” views, and to

get in step with the soldiers who have

marched with God. A man who be-

lieves with all his soul is worth an

army of men who do not believe much

of anything, and all history proves it.

One’s own inner experience proves it.

Observation of men and women about

us proves it.





The Valley of the Giants





when this portion of the town is abso-

lutely deserted.

key to the office, Moira. I wish you

would give it to Mr. Ogilvy.”



The girl nodded. “Mr. Ogilvy, will

have to take pains to avoid our watch-

man,” she suggested.



“That is a point Well taken, Moira.

Buck, when you call, make it. a point.

to arrive here promptly on the hour.

The watchman will be‘down in the mill

then, punching the time-clock.”



Again Moira inclined her dark head





and. withdrew. Mr. Buck’Ogllvy groan—.





ed. “God speed the day when you can





come out from under and I’ll be per-imp

mitted to call during omce hours,” he' 7

murmured. He picked up his hat and S',





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HHAmn—i‘--l
age ‘ conversation with

. M raw McTavish. Before. Ogilvy left,

' he- had managed to impress Moira with

a sense of the disadvantage under

which he labored through being forced,

because of circumstances Mr. Cardigan

would doubtless relate to her in due

course, to abandon all hope of seeing

her at the office—at least for some

time to come. Then he spoke feelingly

of the unmitigated horror of being a

stranger in a. strange town, forced to

sit around hotel lobbies with drummers

and other lost. souls, and drew from

Moira the assurance that it wasn’t

more distressing than having to sit

around a boarding—house night after

night watching old women tat and

tattle.



This was the lopening‘ Buck Ogilvy

had ,sparred for. Fixing Moira with

'1 his bright blue eyes, he grinned boldly



and said: “Suppose, Miss McTavish,

we start a league for the dispersion of

gloom. You be the president, and I’ll



be the financial secretary.”

“How would the league operate?”



. Moira demanded cautiously.

- “Well, it might begin by giving 3. din-

ner to all the members, followed by a

little motor-trip into the country next

Saturday afternoon,” Buck suggested.



Moira’s Madonna glance appraised

him steadily. ”I haven’t known you

very long, Mr. Ogilvy,” she reminded

him.



“Oh, I’m easy to get acquainted

with,” he retorted lightly. “Besides,

don’t I come well recommended?” He

pondered for a moment. The-n: “I’ll

tell you what, Miss McTavish. Sup-

pose we put it up to Bryce Cardigan.

If he says it’s all right we’ll pull off

the party. If he says it’s all wrong,

I’ll go out and drown myself—and fair—

er words than them has no man ever

spoke.”



“I’ll think it over,” said Moira.



“By all means. Never decide such

an important matter in a hurry. Just

tell me your home telephone number,

and I’ll ring up at seven this evening

for your decision."



Reluctantly Moira gave him the

number. She was not at all prejudiced

against this carroty stranger—in fact,

she had a vague suspicion that he was





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a sure cure for the blues, an ailment

which she suffered from all too fre-

quently; and, moreover, his voice, his

respectful manner, his alert eyes, and

his wonderful clothing were all rather

alluring. Womanlike, she was flatter-

ed at being .noticedmparticularly by a

man like Ogilvy, whom it was plain to

be seen was vastlysuperior to any

male even in Sequoia, with the sole

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Aunt Florabel Middleton has a son

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Felix is a first-class man and good to

., Florabel but it is so tiresome to hear

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MERICANS are said to be a na-



tion of pie-eaters. However this



may be, the fact remains that a

pie well made and well baked fwould

be selected by the average American

man in preference to the salad which

we are told, if made by a certain rule

would “tempt a dying anchor-lie to

eat.”



A housewife famed for the delicious

quality of her pies, was once inter-

viewed by a bride», zealous to emulate

her friend’s skill and provide her hus-

band with his favorite dessert in all its

perfection. So here is .the formula, if

it may be dignified by the expression,

and why not? It is taken from an old

cook-book dated 1879: —



“qu each double-crust pie take one-

and—one-half cups of pastry flour, sift

in a. bowl with one~fourth teaspoon of

salt. With a silver fork or tips of the

fingers work into the flour one-half cup

of lard until the two are thoroughly

blended. Add a very little cold water,

only sufficient to bind the mass so that

it may be rolled out without adding

any more flour. About four tablespoon-

fuls should suffice. Turn the dough

out on a floured board, give it a few

quick turns and divide in two nearly

equal portions, reserving the smaller

of the two for the top crust. Roll and

fit the lower crust to the pie—pan.

Avoid stretching, but allow it to come

well over the edges. There should be

just enough for the purpose.-



Any fruit pie requires a cup of sugar,

speaking approximately, and juicy

fruits, such as berries or cherries, will

require a well-rounded tablespoonful of

flour for thickening. Apples require

neither flour nor water. The flour and

sugar should be measured, not guessed

at. Some cooks, but not all, are good

guessers, and it is better to be safe

than sorry. A standard half-pint meas-

uring cup graduated into quarters,

thirds, and halves should be in every

kitchen cabinet.



The flour, sugar and fruit may be all

stirred together, or placed in separ-

ately.

and lots of butter, not forgetting a

sprinkle of salt. Add the latter also to

fruit pies.



Roll t0p crust, not too thin, and place

loosely over the pie. If drawn tightly

it will pull away from the edge some-

where in baking, since pastry shrinks

under the action of heat. Press firmly

at the edges but do not pull. Moisten-

ing the edges may assist in preventing

boiling out of juices, but it also makes

the crust hard. If carefully pressed to-

gether and not broken anywhere the

juices will not trouble. Or a strip of

clean white cloth may be bound around

the edge. Another device is to place a

small paper funnel in the top crust to





4, allow the steam to escape, since the





gashes made with a knife for this pur-

pose often close in baking. Bake care-

fully in a moderate oven. It is exterme

heat which causes the juices to burst

through the crust. When the bottom

of the tin hisses under “the moistened

finger the pie is done. Brushing the

top crust with milk is sometimes con—

“sidered an improvement. It gives it a

delicate brown, .fiaky appearance when

baked. . ‘





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Baking a Pie





By Ella E. Rocéwocd





learn to make puff paste. "This re-

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woman who likes to bake finds it fas-

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wash the hands, mixing bowl .and a-





woOden spatula, first in hot water then

in cold. Fill the bowl with cold water,

put a half pound of butter into the wa-

ter and work with the spatula until the

butter is soft and eaSy to mold, then

remove, and pat it gently until it is per-

fectly free of water.

butter and flour as cool as possible.

Sift two cups of flour and a fourth of

a teaspoonful of salt together and mix

with cold water to a soft dough. _Re-

move to moulding board and knead

until the dough is elastic. Cover it and

let stand five minutes, then roll out

into a rectangle a little longer than it

is wide. Pat the butter into a similar

shaped rectangle and place it exactly

in the middle of the lower half of the

paste. Fold the top of the paste down

over the butter, creasing in the center,

and press the edges closely together

all around. Take care to exclude all

air. You then have a long, narrow rec—

tangle. Now fold one end of the paste





'up over the butter and the other/end





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the paste should be rolled about one-





fourth of an inch thick and baked to





twenty-five minutes.

The little rolls filled with whipped

cream and covered with chocolate

frosting which you see in bakers’ win-

dows are also made from puff paste.

They are made by‘ rolling the paste

into strips four inches wide and baking

around cylinders of tin or hardwood.

Butter the cylinders and brush the side

of the paste which is to go on the cyl-

inder with water or egg white. Cut

the paste in lengths to fit the cylinder,

press carefully around the form, and

bake on a cookie tin. When done re-

move carefully from the cylinders, cool,

and frost. Do not fill the center until

ready to serve. They may be filled

with whipped cream or a cream pie

filling. , ‘ .

For the woman who makes many

pics the pie rack for cooling them,

shown in the illustration, will be a wel-

come kitchen help. The tin with the

thick rolled edge, leaning against the

rack, is claimed to give you a pie with-

out a scorced or too-brown edge. The

domestic science workers at the Mich-

igan Agricultural College, who have





 





 





 





A Convenient Pie Rack.





under the butter and press the edges

together. Cover it and let stand five

minutes. ,



Turn the paste half way round, pat

carefully with the rolling pin, making

ridges on the paste, and then roll into

a long strip, keeping the-paste as near

a rectangle as possible.’ This will need

an even stroke, with equal pressure all

over the paste. Then fold one end of

the paste back, to the middle, and the

other end over the first end, so as to

have three layers of paste with even

edges. Turn half way round again, so

as to roll in the opposite direction. Re-

peat this process six times, then cut

paste in desired shapes and chill on ice

a half hour before baking in a very

hot oven. If the butter begins to soften

while you are rolling, wrap the paste

in cheesecloth and chill on ice..



This process gives a pastry with dis-

tinct layers which may be used in

many ways. One of the most common

is in tarts, which may be cut in any

desired shape, rounds,_ squares or dia~

monds, and filled with any desired fill-

ing. Perhaps nothing is nicer than

strawberry or raspberry tarts.





made of this paste.





   





   





. ‘ g, a wire mesh frame built outside all

' If you have long ago-mastered ~the.- ,Patty shells to be filled with cream? » i "

led chicken another-meat. or . fish may?





ethe ground "so”that e.’ e'w

._Forthese.3helisf ’1‘





tested it, say that it does all it claims.

The glass plate is nice if you wish to

bring the pie to the table, as it is alo

ways clean and keeps its color. A four-

tined fork is almost a necessity in pie-

making, and if you buy a steel one for

this purpose you are sure your silver

forks are not taken for kitchen use. ‘





HOUSEKEEPER'S CALENDAR. 3





 





Can corn, succotashand beans, Lima.”

and string.

. Corn—Corn must be canned as soon'l »

as pulled from the stalk. It loses half'

its sugar by allowing it to stand over

night. Husk, remove silk, blanch five

minutes, plunge at once into cold W8:

ter, remove instantly and cut from cob.

Pack into jars to within an inch from'

top. Add one teaspoon of sugar and

one of Salt,.adju8t rubber and top, and

set at once in the boiler. When the

boiler is full, cover and boil four hours.

Water must 09ver the cans, and be v





 





kept constantly boiling. l

Many prefer corn dried. Thisiis " p





a good time to d'r'y’in the sun. Have '

set up! on four poets 'far. on , . .‘.





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téiléfiiifiss .
' ' tuttion be avoided. -Any woman who





 

 





 

 

 





that at nightan oilcloth may be thrown

power the top and nbt touch the food.

Spread a cheesecloth over the wire,

'-'a._nd on this spread the corn in a thin

layer. Unless a heavy storm is coming

up it will not be necessary to bring in

the vegetable, as an oilcloth cover will

protect it from ordinary dampness.

Corn may be canned on the cob, but

wide-mouthed jars are needed _for this.

Follow the same directions as for can-

ning the kernel.





Beans—Experiments have shown

that beans are not improved by blanch-

ing. Wash, string, cut in pieces for

serving and pack jars to within an inch

of top. Cover with boiling water, add

one teaspoon of salt, adjust rubbers

and caps, and boil, process, three hours.





Lima Beans—Pick before 'pods be--





COme dry, Shell, pack lightly in jars

to within an inch of top, add a tea-

spoon of salt; and hot water to cover,

adjust rubbers and tops and process

three hours.



Succotash.e—This is a mixture of

equal parts of corn cut from the cob,

and Lima beans. The corn must be

blanched and plunged. Mix the corn

and beans, fill jars to within an inch of

top, add a teaspoon of salt to each

quart jar, hot water to cover, and proc-

ess three hours.





Look through closets carefully for

signs of moths or other pests. Wool-

ens should have been carefully stored

in tight containers in the spring. If

any weie missed, bring them out into

the sunshine and look for traces of

moths. Then seal up in old newspapers

with paste, and store.



Secure list of school supplies needed

and buy them on next trip to town.





 





WOMEN AND THE NEW

DEMOCRACY.





 





BY MARY M. ALLEN.





HE greatest enemy of democracy



is the ignorant voter. Educational

leaders recognizing this are putting

into the hands of every teacher a little

publication entitled “School ServiCe.”

School Service informs us what de~

mocracy is doing for its people and

what people may do for democracy;

for the new vision of citizenship in

democracy belittles rights and empha-

sizes duties. Michigan educational

leaders have placed books on govern—

ment in the teachers’ reading circle for

the past three years. Among these

are, “Government as a Business," by

Frank Sparks, and “Americanism—

What Is it?” by David Jayne Hill. No

better work has been brought out re-

cently than “Democracy and the Great

“far,” by George N. Fuller, le., Sec-

retary of the Michigan Historical Com-

misison. To one who has already at-

tained a familiarity with European his-

tory, it comes to refresh one’s mem-

ory. To those who have not studied

the background of American history,

it states clearly and simply the growths

and concepts of demOCracy.



The public information committee

organized during the war issued some

valuable pamphlets in the Red, White

and Blue series. These may be had at

any library. The World Peace Foun-

dation of Bostomhave compiled a fine

collection of speeches, magazine arti-

cles and historical essays which may

be obtained at a nominal price. Among

them are articles by Lord Grey, Law-

rence Lowell, Douglas Adams, William

Howard ,Taft and other national au-

‘ thorities on international affairs.





'Women’s clubs throughout the coun-

try are Arranging for lectures and stud-

ies in local civics, which, should inter-

est every woman voter. Business meth-

ods and efficiency must enter into the

. administration of government if over-





 





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addrcu your letter to ,“ Uncle Ed ” in care of tlze M icfiigan Farmer,

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Young Folks’





Round Table





By Uncle Ed.





, T is fine of the editor of The Mich-

I igan Farm-er to set'apart for the



boys and girls a good big corner

where we may meet, talk over the

things which interest us, and have a

good time generally. Not that I do

not expect that more than one of the

older boys and girls of this big farm

family will peek over here, when they

have feasted on the good things they

find in other columns of the paper; for

I haVe many times thought that when

the young folks are interested, the

older ones are, too. So if we can make

this department so bright and so hom-

ey that boys and girls will turn to it

the first thing, we may be quite sure

that our fathers and mothers will be

interested, too. One thing we 'sure do

want to do: and that is to have our

corner so good and clean and helpful

that it will be the finest of all the

many fine departments of our paper.



She Wants .to Know.

This morning a. letter came to our





house from a girl who has lately be- A

“A friend-





come a wife, and she asks:

of ours has given us some tomatoes

and _I don’t know how to can them.

Won’t you tell me how to do it ?" Of

course, right straight back will go the

letter telling just how mother does

that work, and it will be a help to this

wife Who has never learned how to do

such things. And the thing I would

like to say ‘just now is that there is no

better time to master the art of can-

ning garden vegetables and putting up

fruits of all kinds than right now, while

you are still at home. It is so_much

easier to learn in the dear old home

kitchen, with mother as the teacher,

than it is to pick it out from a letter

written ever so plainly by one a long

way off. There are many good things

just now to be put up, so why not begin

this very day? The time will .come

when you will be glad you did this.

Can You Do It?

At a. barn raising I attended one





.time, the boss carpenter had a lot oi'~





trouble getting some of the tenons on

the ends of [beams to go to place in

the mortises where they~belonged. He

often had to take a big chisel, a. “slic ,



he called it, and cut the end of the

terion down so it would slip into the

mortise. Do you know what was the

trouble? The mortise was “standing.”

That is, it was not chiseled out so the;

sides would be perpendicular. The

trouble in the first place was that the

holes were not bored right in the tim-

bers. They were not straight up and

down, so when the wood was cut, it left

a “standing” mortise. If you were to

bore holes of that kind, could you bore

a hole that would be perfectly straight

up and down? Try it and see. It is

worth practicing on. At the same time

try sawing a. board off true. You will

need to hold your saw pretty carefully

or it will “run” and the end of your

board will not be squarely cut across.





What Made Her Do It?

We had a fine mare on our farm, but

What a thundering noise, she would

make at night, kicking the sides of her

stall and often‘ getting with her front

feet right up into the manger! We

were not very well pleased with this

habit on the part of Old Kit; but when

we talked with a man that knows more

about such things than we do, he said,

“Maybe there are rats in the Stable."

We knew Kit was a nervous sort of an

animal, so we said, “Bet that’s just it.”

And we set some traps, and before we ,

were through With it we caught more

than twenty big rats. No wonder Old

Kit thrashed round in the stall at night,

with all those rats scamp’ering about,

perhaps under her very feet, and 'mak-

ing things lively for her when she

wanted to rest. Anyway, after that

Old Kit was much more quiet at night

than she ever had been during the rat

crusade. Most always when horses get

such tricks, it is possible to trace them

back to some very commonplace thing.





 





 





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Kenneth B. Cook, of Howell, made very happy on his last birthday wh

his father presented to him this fine registered Helstein heifer calf as agar:

day present. We cannot think of a finer gift for a boy to receiVe than

and we feel certain that some day when Kenneth 11

live stock he will look back to this first calf v
ne9d to make his mistakes.

13:11 thatthis group of prize winners—





 





 





N the presence of two hundred farm



boy and girl prize winners, Secre-

. tary of Agriculture Edwin T. Mere-

dith last week made the following ad-

dress:



“You, of course, know of the work

that you have done, so that it is not

necessary for me to recite your record

here. You are to be congratulated,

however, in having an agricultural col—

legs and other agencies which are in-

tensely interested in the work that you

are doing as mem~





-may set a proper example.





ThinkS’NYOU BOYS and Girl;

' Are Doing a Big Work





ord—should set the example for others.

You are going to be the leaders in ag-

riculture in your several communities. '

It is highly important, therefore, that

you should profit by the experience of

others and should appreciate the value

of learning and the value of knowing

the right thing to do in order that you

You have

made a record. You have won this

year and certainly you must work, and

study, and profit by experience, in or—



der that you may





 





bers of the Boys’ and





maintain that record





 





Girls' Clubs. I say

this sincerely and

honestly, not because

‘you are here, but be-

cause I believe that

there is no work

along agricultural

lines, that is more

far-reaching or will

bring greater results

in the long run than .

‘that which you are

doing in the study of

agriculture. There

are two thoughts I





ing tobacco.





earth.





heaps.





 





HELP PREVENT WOODS FIRES.





 





Be sure your match is out

before throwing it away.

Don’t throw away burn-





Choose a safe place and

make your camp fire small.

Put out your fire with

water and then cover it with





Don’t make large brush

Chooseastill day for

burning and plow furrows

to protect nearby woods.





BE CAREFUL WITH FIBE.





’and go on and on in

this work which is so

well worth whilel

Experience of Others

Helpful.

“Those, then, are

the two thoughts

that I want to leave

with you. Get a thou-

sand years’ experi-

ence, if you can, by

taking advantage of

the experience of

others because it will

certainly help you.





 





 





 





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with you.

“One Thousand Years’ Experience.”

“On other occasions I have talked





‘ about “one thousand years’ experience.’





There is no one of us, of course, who

can hope by his own efiorts to secure

one thousand years of actual, personal

experience in a lifetime, but if we will

profit by the experience of others, of

some farmer, some member of the ag-

ricultural college, some expert in the

department of agriculture, or if we will

read a bulletin prepared by someone

who has devoted his life to a certain

subject, it may take you only one hour

or an hour and a half, in this way, to

secure information which it has taken

another ten years to learn. By taking

in the same way the experience of an-

other man or woman, you may secure

twenty years’ experience on that par-

ticular subject. In other words, you

are taking advantage of the life work

of many men and women and you can

thus have, in efiect, so far as your

own work and your own knowledge is

concerned, a ‘thousand years’ experi-

ence’; and it is the man with the larg-

est experience who is the most success—

ful. That man is best educated, as

someone has said, who knows the most

of the experiences of others. One

thought I wish to leave with you,

therefore, is that you get all the ex-

perience you can in this work of agr 1-

culture by profiting by the experience

of others.



“I wish also to imbue you, if I can,

with the value of knowledge. A young

man with whom I came in contact re-

cently was anxious to get into business

to get ‘started,’ as he said, in his life

work, but he did not have the equip-

ment, education, or experience of other

men. He decided later to take a year’s

course in a school where men experi-

enced in the line he expected to take

up told their experiences. At the end

of the year he said, ‘The one big thing

that I value, the one thing that is worth

more to me than all the other things

I have learned, is the value of learning.’



“In other words, he found out .how

little he knew, how little of other men’s

experience he actually had, and all

through his life now he will appreciate

the value of knowing what other men?





.have learned. That is what I would





like to have yen girls and boys under-

stand, that if you will take advantage

of another man’s experience you do not

It is essen-





nare entitled to be proud, and]!





 





     





build a house, you

would engage an architect. If you were

ill, you would call a doctor. If you

were going into the mining business,

you would employ an engineer. The

same principle applies to agriculture.

You men, you boys and girls, must be

the engineers, the architects, the direc-

tors of agriculture in your communi-

ties, because you have demonstrated

by your prize winning your ability to

do this thing. By having wide knowl-

edge, you will be better able to accom-

plish success for yourselves and to be





helpful to others by example and di— .





rection.”





HOME-TANNING 0F WOODCHUCKS.





 





BY 3. THOMAS. 7





N order to tan Woodchucks for

leather, the first thing to do is to





‘—- ’g. .. Every Farm Needs



/ ._ _ fig;



.--. flags? The Saw Most

Carpenters Use





 





. \\ 1&3 //: t»





 





\ if /\;._‘£‘\/m F—And that’s a Disston Saw!

,\ ‘1’.- 6" , Expert carpenters know that a

"" ‘f. e/ngiwm /."/ Disston Saw cuts the work in

\‘ / ' // ’ half and puts the burden where

it belongs—on the keen-toothed

blade of tempered, Disston-



Sondfor free booklet, Made Steel.





"Disston Saws and





Tools for the Farm." Get a Disston Saw. From





the first moment it bites into

the wood you will recognize the

clean—cutting qualities of the

properly set, well—balanced

blade—the satisfactory “feel”

of the grip-fitting handle.





All good dealers sell

Disston Saws





 





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HENRY DISSTON & ,SONS, Inc.

General Offices: Philadelphia, U. S. A.





 





 





carefully flesh the skin—~21 dull knife

may belused for this purpose. The

fleshing should be done soon after the

animal is killed while the skin is green

or wet. Then the hair is removed.

This is done by soaking the skin in a

bucket of ashes and water and letting

it remain in this fluid until the hair

becomes loosened, when the hair is all

taken off. Next prepare the‘tanning

solution by shaving a bar of common

laundry soap into a pail of hot water

and stirring until the soap is complete—

ly dissolved. Put the skin in this solu—

tion and let it remain about four days,

or until no dense spots are to be seen

on the skin.



Then take it out, ering it as dry as

possible and hang it in the sun to dry.

Stretch, rub and twist the skin re-

peatedly while drying so that it will

dry soft. If parts of i: are still hard

and stiff, it must be put in the soap





 

   

 

 

   

 

   





Gehl Cutter. Our

new catalogue

will give you





 

 

 

 





‘ .é

Alla/l2 antler;





The Light Running Gehl Ensilage Cutter famous for its quality cutting. is

' solidly built on a triple steel frame. oversize shafts. equipped with exclusive

~ break pin safety device, malleable knife heads and perfect and convenient knife

adjustment





Any 8-16 Tractor Runs the Gehl No. 17





Our special belting arrangement permits of

adjustment of speeds to fit any tractor. eli.

urinates all lost motion and waste of power.



producing the best possible results with

both cutter and tractor. You 'll be sur-



prised to see how much your engine will

do with a Cell] Cutter.





Gob] Bros. Mfg. Co.

111 south £3];th St.





 





Self Feeder Saves One Man's Time





When writing mention size of engine

or tractor, size and speed of drive pulley

and height of silo.





 

 





   

 

   

   

   





A postal brings our new 1920 catalogue and

complete information. Write for it.





 





solution again and the succeeding op-

erations gone through once more.





 





POULTRY GROWERS' TO DO NA-

TIONAL ADVERTlSlNG.





 





T the national poultry convention



at St. Louis the question of ways

and means to undertake a national ad-

vert'nin'g campaign to give publicity to

the food value of eggs and poultry

meat, similar to. what has been done

by the orange growers, raisin growers,

National Apple Association, the Na-

tional Dairy Association and for many

other agricultural products, which are

being advertised, is one of the iniport-

ant, matters being considered.





 





- ave your'cornl





HE only sure way to save your late com

that has a big chance of being frosted, is





to put it: in a Silo.

- You can get an Indiana Silo NOW, it can be

I erected by three or four men in one day and

filled the next day. Our stock is complete in all size

silos—we can fill orders promptly.

" ‘ Order now—SA VE YOUR CROP while you can!





- 7INDIANA SILO & TRACTOR COMPANY

Auden-11.111111“.

47 Indian Building Des Moinex, Iowa

4'5 Silo " '” No. Klaus Cily,Mo.

47,. Live Stock Etching. 3143...... .lndim 511. Co. ,o1 Texas ,ru. wanna.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





will. You will“ to Advertisers Pleas button This ,Pa
‘o





' .. Innrsnrns' , 111111010111





Change of Cop or Cancellations must reach us

Ten Davis] before date of publication





Wildwood Farms

AnguJ‘ '





Effies Lass 238203 sold on May 6th for

$7100. She was sired by Black Mon-

arch 3rd. We are offering for sale Ed-

itor of Wildwood 295059 a full brother

in blood lines to Effies Lass also four

more choice bulls which are old enough

for service and sired also by the cham-

pion show and breeding bull Black

Monarch 3rd.





Our herd is under State and Federal

Supervision.





WILDWOCD FARMS

ORION, MICHIGAN

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





 





 





 





woonconz ANGUS





Imported Herd Bulls

ELCHO OF‘ HARVIESTOUNnggSU)





by Jason of Ballindalloch (





EDGA RDO 0F DALMENY (45501)

' by Escort of Harviestoun (36006)





Woodcote Stock Farm. Ionia, Mich.





 





 





Guernsey





Bulls





a two year old and a three year

old purebred May Rose bull.

Dams, advanced registry,splen- ....

did individuals, none better for_B

herd sires. Prices $175 and

$200 respectively to sell them

at once.





Chetwood Farm,

Northville, Michigan





Address John Stucey, Manager

SPRING DELL FARM GUERNSEYS





ors le. Choice of two bulls two and three years old;

also (full calves three to twelve months. Registered.

lendid individuals and breeding. Prices right.

WmT E BROTHERS. a. Box 20. La P

Indiana.





orte.





Reg. May Rose Guernseys

One 10 mos. old bull left. He is a dandy. His dam

has an A. R. record of 553 lbs. fat as 2 yr. old Price



riht breeding considered. Herd Federal Accredit.

GILMORE BROTHERS, CAMDEN, MICH.





P red Guernsey bulls from one tofour weeks old.

II" Registered :30. not dregzuitered :25. Orders ship-

d in rotation received 0 excuse for scrub bulls.

ALTE PH IPP PS FARM. 80 Alfred Bt. Detroit,

Geo. E. Currie, Mgr.





' o G e b lls from 3 rhlonths

For sale. tougrxidoiith: old. Thei’i- sire is

DOTTIE'S PRINCE No. 44696; his dam has an oflicial





£647 lb b tte'r n

”my ’°°°’d ° L 313 u was“ Goldwater,'Mich.





UERNBEYS—Federal Inspected. Headed by only

G son of Carrie of Hillhurst exchamfiion ofA A.

class. 5 bulls under 10’mos., 1 a dandy w 050 dam in

class D has given over 50 lbs. milk No females to spare.

G. W. a H. G. RAY. 4 mi. east of Albion. Mich.





Re istered

For sale bregedin Ch

write. John Ebe s R. 2

a very fine show





Registered Guernseys c,” this bun





calf 18 out of a) can:I milécifiig 40 (libsa a day. the price will

our rise on, e erL eI is e 1 r

p yJ. M.W Msp 510m. Adams. Mich.





v

GUE R N s E Y 20.1.1; Cessna”:

19, “460% liltillld 210911115 7%St80fat Their mother' s sire' is dam

“as ..v HICKS. Battle Creek Mich.

—REG ERED

G U 0E R N 5 EV S BULLI%TALVES





Oont aining blood of world champions.

HICKS' GUERNSEY FARM, Saginaw. W. S. Mich





Guernsey bulls. May Rose

eap if taken soon. Come or

Holland, Michigan.





 





Auction Sale





Herd headed b

the Johanna La.





Almer Dunbar Se





Of





Sept. 8 1920, Sale at l P. M Sharp





gin and Pontiac Breeding

s No. 240848. gGreat

13 head of Reg. an grade females, 5 fres in Aug. and Sept.





George H. Landenberger, / Mile North of Williamston, Mich.





 

 





rand son of Colan-





 





511111“ that“ will but nweigh





h° “330m :1 s 't 1”’h e"

an co 0 -

Md. A roan. senior yogi3 a 1!

ing, a herd bull prospect, Fe den! Toot





oBIDWELL STOCK FARM,





 





ment. Choice individuals of B1





J. CARL JEWETT,





0.1. C. 501795 FOR SALE





One of the Beat Herde' 1n Michigan

Young sows due to farrow in Se tember.

TYPE breeding.

express and register in buyer’s name.





Spring b ars read for shi -

lshipC Hyo D. paiy





R. 5, Mason, Michigan.





 





 





 





 





 





Purebred Holstein

Cows Lead





After a 6-year study of dairy opera-

tions on over 20 farms in three differ-

ent arts of Minnesota, Prof Coo er of

the tate Experiment Station fin s that

dairying is most rofitable in the “H01-

stein Section” 0 the state.



.In 1905 the average profit ‘per cow

was only"$lO.10. In 1909, {it had in-

creased to $38. 45 (per cow, or 43 per ct.

on capital investe Increase was due

to improved herds, purebred Holsteins

having been substituted for grade beef

breeds. As soon as dairyin is put on

a systematic basis, the o stein cow

comes to the front. If facts and figures

mean anything to you, send for our ill-

ustrated literature. '





THE HOLSTElN-FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION

164 Hudson Street

Brattleboro Vermont.





OUR HERD SIRE

Model King Segis Glista





ya 30 lb. son of Lakeside King Segis Alban De Kol.

His dam Glista Fenelle 32. 37 lb bs. Her dam Glista Er-

nestine 35. lbs. three nearest dams average over

33 lbs and his forty-six nearest tested relatives aver-

age over 30 lbs. of butter in seven days Write for pri~

ces on his sons.





Grand River Stock Farms

Cory J. Spencer, Owner Eaton Rapids. Mich.





-WinnWood Herd-





Flint Maplecrest Boy No. 166974

Has Made Good



one of his SONS will raise your herd to a higher



standard and better production we have them



for sale at moderate prices.





A Few Females For Sale





——0UR JUNIOR HERD SIRE—

Sir Ormsby Skylark Burke No. 264966

A bgother to the world champion cow over all

bree s.



DUCHESS SKYLARK ORMSBY



Michigan’s best bred Ormsby bull.

Better get on the list for one of his sons out of a

daughter of Flint Maplecrest Boy.





JOHN H. WINN, (Inc.)





 





 





 





Roscommon, Michigan

“TOP NOTCH”

HOLSTEINS





McPHERSON FARMS COMPANY

has raised man great milk cows:—

1 Officially Pro need 842 lbs. milk in 7 days

1 n n 3394 lbs. milk in 30





” " 18675 lbs. milk in 1 year

Others under test are making large milk records

A fine lot of young bullsf from 3 [months to 2 years

old for sale. Get a milk" bull, and increase milk

productioonr in your herd.

hre rds are under (7.8. supervision.





McPHERSON FARMS 00., Howell, Mich.





accepted in payment of finely bred reg-



‘ Good "Ole istered Holstein bull calves utaliy



onE the best and at Eprices within reach of all. rite.

0. D. C'LARK - Vassar, Mich.





cg} istered Holstein cows and heifers due to freshen

his fall. Some bred tea . Price 8200 to

S4006ach REAVEY. Akron. Mich.





 





 





FOR SALE 3:?1125222231232?Wm

E. A. BLACK, cute 3 Howard City. Mich.





Ma Echo Sylvia Bull calf. 2 crosses to May Echo

Sylvia, and 3 crosses to King of the Pontiaos. Dam

a 2 yr. old daughter of a 29 lb. cow 6 of his nearest

tested dams average 34. 49 lb. of butter and '159 milk.



0.11. GIDDINGS, Gobleville. Mich.





LONG DISTANCE HOLSTEINS mm





(Prince Ona) 236555 Five damls av 1186 lbs. butter and



lbs mi in 1 yr. Onl ood8 bull calf left. born

01.18th' .dam untested; ta to and Fed e



snpv. --a clean herd. EMING, Lake, Mich.





-. lb- butter, 571.46 lb. milk in '1 days. is

$93me bull. mfig oofil enon. aresttested





 





 





 





D

SIRE PRINCE ONA'





HOLSTEIN

BULL CALVES FOR SALE





From dams with good records.



BULL CALVES sump 13v 4511:. BULL.

1333th CALVES sun-:0 Y 34 {5.3



PRIC cESv VERY“ REASONABLE.





Privelege of return if not satisfied.





A. W. COPLANhP,~





 





Emu. um.»





Birm 1mham





 





GLUNY STOCK

' FARM





A Semi- Ofiiical Bred Bull to Head

Your Head

Maplecrest Application Pontiac No.132652, heads

Our Herd -

fiis dairlpis Eescsoad is 1341453531383 butter 23.4212

5 m1 n a

515 6 lbs. milk in 'l’sdaaylsi. lbs butter and

One of his sons from our good record dams will

carry these great blood lines into Your Herd.

For Pedigrees and Prlceo wrlie to

R. Bruce McPherson, Howell, Mich.





Holsteins of Quality





for sale. Heifers from 8 to 24 monts old All ryegis-

tered and sold sub act to tuberculin test.

HA DY, Rochester, Mich'





The Traverse Herd





We have what you want' in BULL CALVES. the large,

fine growthy type, guaranteed right in every way

They are from high producing A. R. O. ancestors.

Dam' s records up to 30 lbs. Write for pedigrees and

quotations. stating about age desired.





TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL





Traverse City, Mich.





 





 





 





1 Reg. Holstein bull calf. born Dec.21919.





For Sale





v AARON HAG





We Now Have





a number of choioely bred t h

vifilitii‘tr'ite‘i‘éirbwl“ 15°°.°*°'1°83$i"?5 3'"

My 113.0

ARR 81103.. a 00.. Baidcnifsnriihiam





Richland Stock = Farms





Home of the Michigan Ch .

Shorthorn Siree' 1n Santiago";





gMP Lorna/111MBt b

upseme no uy a oun bull to h

gow- herd thaty carries the blogd thgat is maklgg

horthorn History.

left Write your wants.





New lfist 39b 11 .49 to l C -

Shorthornst h. Slicithornmfssed. wfixtle





OSCAR SKIINNER, 880.,





Shorthorns bulls and heifers riced r ght.

Sultan Champion heads herd, one scotc two yr. old

herd ball by Red Cumberland priced right



H. J. FLOWER & SON, Milo, Mich.





Shorthorn Ass'n has





St. Joseph Valley for sale males and fe-





l f 11 d best breeding.

me as 0 a a es RIDGE. Sec-trees. “Three Rivers, Mich





SHORTHORNS. b I]

MilkmgH Herds under FederdFSupgergi sii)’u calves

Davidson & Hall.Be1and a Bel and, Tecumseh. Mich.





Good Scotch b db ll ,

Shorthornsh e11... “mar; Eh: s cows and





W. B. McQUILLAN, R..7 Howell. Mich.



EADOW Hills Shorthorns. H rd h d b i-

ver Kin. full brother of Lavdhder egglbtanyf’suf-



due Univers ty' 5 great sire. For sale females of all

ages, a few young bulls. Geo. D. Doctor. Doctor, Mich.





Milking Shorthorns of best Baltees breeding,





bulls 6 to 8 mo. old for

E. H. KURT Z. Mason. Mich.

Shorthorns of Merit

for sale. ARTHUR DODDS.





Shorthorn Bull's





Both males

and females

Lancer; Michigan





 





 





 





price 1.0000 Satisfaction guaranteed of S t h d t

Write to LOUIS LIETAERT, Tower. Mich. Topped breeding. Lawrence P. Ottco? (ghar‘lgtteFM‘lc‘hh

. F i h i 19 Shorthorn registered good breedi

Holslem man's... alsrngi-.b...“". “mamas? For Sale wm .... .1... .. a... .. My “‘

Splendid individuals and breeding. Write us your re- The JENNINGS ARMS Baileys? ich.

quirements. Browncroft Farms, MoGraw, N. Y. Shh rth

For Salef o h.cx-n gfigghflbred bull, papers





 





Increase Iho Efficiency





of your





DAIRY HERD





by using a





Registered Holstein Sire





We have bulls of all ages listed at rea-

sonable rices.



so grade and pure-bred



cows and heifers.





Michigan Holste‘in-Friesian Assn.

Old State Block,

lansing, Mich.





BARGAIN PR'cEs onpure bred





H o l s t e i n

heifers and youn b‘lflns ready for service

JOSEPH 11. BR Grand Rapids, Michigan





HEREFORDS





20 Cows and Heifers of popular breed-

ing for sale also bulls not related.





ALLEN BROS.

PAW PAW, MICHIGAN





HEREFORDS





D. S. Polled Herefords





Herd headed by Runner ullion. 815933. (18242) son of

and champ on Bullion 41:11.



For Sale—A few good polled and horned cows bred to



this great bull. Also three fine bull calves not



related to him. Correspondence solicited.





Cole & Gardner, Hudson,Mich.





Just purchased 3 new herds. now have

Herefords‘lbo head ; we offer you aniathi desired

either sex, hornedn or E,lplolled any age :5 reason-

able. cCARTYS. Bad Axe. Mich.





 





 





 





4 Reg. b Is 5 to 8 mo. old. Prices

Herefords: reasonab e for quick sale visitors

welcome. Reed Schultz, II Homer, Mich.





— The Wildwood Farm





Jerse Cattle Majesty strain, Herd on State accred-

Bof M. testing constant] done. Bulls for

sale. ALVIN BALDEN. Phone1-5 Capac. Mich.





BUTTER BRED ”31%” “BULLS





CRYB TA AL SPRING STOCK FARM a

Silver Creek. Allegan County. Michigan.





Jersey bull calves of Majesty breedingfrom

TOT :Ingoo roducin stock. He on vern-

mcnt “Accreditgd List" rite for Erica and pedi ree

to O.A LTAGGETT, 11.2, air-grove, Mic.





ILLIE Farms ad Jerseys-A few heifers brodto

freshen soon eifers bred to freshe en next fall. 3

co‘ws.R. of 11.511) calves. C.O.Liliie,Coopersfllle,1ifloh





Jerseys ForSa’fo,.1‘2:t":f§§u¥°“.uf

11111211 and Parker. Howdl. Michigan. .



1'31”. gm ”1111.39 . yforecrvi . My ’11,.

states-siacagmrrshk: .-





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ANTHONY TROLLMAN, R.3 ,Box 99. Fenton. Mich.





sflbORTHORNB—Imp. Mysie Prince in service bred

by J Durno, sire bred b Wm. Duthie Stock for

J.A ARN M, Union City. Mich.





Polled cattle for sale bulls from 4 to 1811108 also

cows with calves boyA side and heif f"ser

L,HO0N Bronson, Mich.





neg "Gil Polledm cattle oldlfomeale young bulls from6 to 18

FRANK KEBLER,0 R. 1. 6Grand Ledge, Mich.

Several bunches of





Steers For salee ers and feeders wei

650to 1050 lbs. Each bunch even in size an

at once stating your wants



W. W. DYER.





 





sale.





Red





 





 





cod stock-

ing from

color write





Ottumwa, Iowa

HOGS





Berkshires “$2231”; :“glitggzgzggpwm'

M. G. MOS ER d: 80 8. Osseo, Mich.

Registered Berkshi res, Gilts, and flows bred for April





Mya and J 11110 farrow. A yearling Bear and a

younger. Spring pigs. Chase Stock Farm. Marlette,lich.





'Brookwalar nuroc Jorsays





FOR SALE





Bred Ellis of Choice Breeding

A few good ones left. This is your opportunity»





ROCK ecli'iom PRICES

—alao—-





READY FOR SERVICE BOAR‘.

Brookwater Durocs arcthc real pork producers and

the best bred bogs in Michigan.





COME TO FARM OR WRITE—MAIL ORDERS

A SPECIALTY





BROOKVIATEII FAIIM

ANN ARBOR, HIGH.

II. VI. Mumlord, Owner, I. 8. Andrews, Mgr.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





oSprin n}; piga‘by Walt’e

1





Orion, rat Sr. Yearling

Detroit, Jackson,Gd. Rapids and Saginaw 1919





Phillips Bros,Riga,Mich.~

'DUROC JERSEY SWINE





for sale 2 yr. old herd boars, e l' b

pigs,a also bred sows andt ilts. llvgirteufgr 335333935

ces. Come and seat

08. UNDERHILL & SON. Salem, Mich,





sows and gllts bre Vi

Duroc who has slired 1110de2? and ts dxin‘ mmfg;





 





b . E e one will be

boarr. v at. and rice ammoney maker for the

N WTON BARNH BT.





OAKWOOD FARM DUROCS





W can furnish w th an n

e to ma hour of herd headinlzfiallber at reassemble

p





solicited. BUBWEOS Romeo. 0h. '





 





or the"m bull. Newoi 1.le

year] j

cot Tillage:





I...





Tecumseh, Michigarbw





Newton Champion. Sterling.





Only a few real headers '





C. H. PRESCOTT & SONS. Tewae City. Mich. "





Growen, Mich. _

Scotch and Scotch To ped-





Eight to ten months old ’





at the State Fair 1111 est 2 years than any otger Duroc ’





St. Johns. AMio‘h. f





     

   

   

   

   

   

 





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- of Fowler’s solution at a dose three





is possible that your pigs may suffer





2a; advanced stages the disease usu-





mijm oneANI'on.





 





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Freeland, Breckenridge, Chesaning and





Merrill, with the Michigan Live Stock





Exchange. These associations are live





ones and I think in a .mighty short





time will be doing a good business.



Mr. Bovay’s work in Saginaw county

has been mighty thorough and I think

it safe to say that Saginaw county in

a few months’ time will be one of the

most thoroughly organized counties in

the state from a standpoint of cooper-

ative marketing, and several other

towns in which we have started a sent-

iment in favor of cooperative live stock

shipping associations—E. E. COMPSON,

Manager Michigan Live Stock Ex-

change. ‘





PRESENT WOOL MARKET SITUA-

TION.





(Continued from page 232).

they are practicable. The requests for

the sets have been more than the wool

division has been able to handle. They

are sent free to those who are inter-

ested in wool grading and marketing.

They remain the property of the gov-

ernment, and any person making a re-

quest for a set of sample grades is re

quired to say what use he is planning

to make of it. The object in sending

out the sample grades to wool grow-

ers, dealers and manufacturers is to

get their suggestions and criticisms.

The bureau wants the cooperation of

all these interests to the end that it

may bring about a better understand-

ing between them so that they will be

able to speak in the same terms when

referring to wool classifications. It is

the ultimate aim of the bureau of mar-

kets to develop a system of standard

wool grades, under which all the wool

produced in this country can be sold,

to the advantage of all engaged in the

production, handling and manufacture

of wool. It is a very important matter

to wool growers, and the wool division

officials promise to report some very

interesting developments intheir wool

standardization work at an early date.



E. E. R.





 





‘ VETERINARY.





Roarer—Heaves.—We have a mare

that has commenced to roar and show

symptoms of heaves. For some time

she seemingly suffered from a cold or

distemper. Can she be cured? S. B.,

Williamston, Mich.——App1y equal parts

of tincture of iodine and camphorated

oil to throat daily, give dessertspoonful





times a day. Grain and grass is the

best feed for .her. Feed no clover or

musty, dusty dry fodder, wet her feed



and avoid feeding her much bulky fod-

er.



Shy Broaden—I purchased a Jersey

heifer supposing her to be with calf,

but she was not. She came in heat

regularly for three months then ceased

to come in heat. She ran with the

bull and I decided she must be with

calf. She is not pregnant and does

not come in heat. Her bowels are too

loose, she is thin and has a bad cough.

She is fed oats twice a day and has

good pastureto run on. A. B., Milli—

gan, Mich—If she has not already

been tested with tuberculin and failed

to show a reaction of two or more de-

grees F., better have it done. It is

pOSSIble that she was with calf and

aborted.



Black Teeth—I have a bunch of

twelve pigs twelve weeks ‘old and most

of them are troubled with black teeth.

Some of them are troubled with swol-

len throat, gradually quit eating, grow

thm and die. A. E, Saginaw, ‘W. S.,

Mich—Many healthy young pigs have

one or more black teeth; however, it





from Necrotic Stomatitis, a disease of

frequent occurrence, in suckling pigs.

In. the cam stages the treatment of

the cases may be successful, but in





 





   





 

 





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I think the'visit I made to Saginaw

county last week might be 3 worth-

while story for the Michigan Farmer. '

While I was there I' worked with the

county agent, Mr. A. E. Bovay, and was

successful‘in lining up associations at





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keep the public informed concom-

ing all matters relating to the tele-





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We consider this an essential

part of our stewardship in the

operation of this public utility. It

is due not only the l30,000 share-

holders, but it is due the whole

citizenship of the country.





We have told you of new in-

ventions to improve service, of the

growth of service, ol problems in-

volved in securing materials, em-

ploying and training workers, of

financing new developments, and of

rates necessary to maintain service.





You have been taken into our

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to meet unusual conditions; of how

we have bent every energy to pro.





vide service in the face of storms,





lloods, fires.





lt is an enormous task today to

provide adequate service in the

lace of shortage of workers, raw

materials, manufacturing produc-

tion and transportation.





Nevertheless the service of the

Bell System has been improved

and extended this year. Over

350,000 new stations have been

put into operation. And the loyal

Workers of the Bell System are

establishing new records for effi-

ciency and Will establish new

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Duroo Boars and Gilts





for sale at $25 to 850 each. crated a d ‘ '



buyor’s name. Satisfaction guarantenedfeg‘lfxtbesloegmlg



some of the beauty? in the state. Visitors welcome.

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soy boars readillor servlce. ‘- bored Duroc Jer-

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DUROCS spring boars. A few gins bred

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Big Type boars, also tried new? fidmwhlc? 1:3

for Sept... litters. Theseho ushlgand ll fatten

at my 6. Grand chain 11 blood lines of the

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big type O.I.C's. Stock of all ages for sale. ‘ Herd

headed by Galloway Edd, the World’s Champion

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Champion boar of Michigan. New York and Ten.

nessee state fairs. Also. C. 0. Giant Buster, unde-

feated Senior boar pig wherever shown and Grand

Champion of Oklahoma state fair. Get our cat-

alog-ue of Crandell’s prize hogs. Cass City, Mich.





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Hogs of all ages of popular blood lines. Every

sale guaranteed by association.





DR. H. W. NOBLES,

Sales Mgr. Coral, Mich.

0. I. C. (Aiilts bred for July and Aug. furrow.



lso r'ln .

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o . ' . C one. bred for Sept. far-row

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best sown, priced right. for immediate shipment.

Big-boned, strong-backed. smooth follows from

popular blood lines. Write for information or visit





9 farm. .,

BOONE—HILL 00., Blanchard, Mich.





 





MILLER Mendow's L. T. P. C. boars all mid. Gilts

sired by General Jones and bred to ouryoun boar

Alaska. address CLYDE WEAVER. Ceresco. lch





FOR SALE Registered Big typo Poland



. ‘ _ China gilts bred for Sept. far--

row.weighlng 22.) lbs. for 860. spring figs all sold. guar-

antee satisfaction. DORUS HOV )lt, Akron, Mich.





L. S. P. C.





One 409 lb. sow and 7 pigs by side. price $100.00-

One 270 lb. gilt and 6 pigs by side. price $85.00.





Two choice boars.

Schoolcraft, Mich.





11.0. SWARTZ.

Big Type Poland Chinas

Our herd is representative of the best





in Big Types. Choice boars for sale

now. Wesley Hile, R. 6, Ionia, Mich.





 





 





 





 





Bred Sow Sale at Fairgrounds





August 5th. Carey U. Edmonds. Hastings, Mich.





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Big Type P. O. Bred gilts, Fall yearlings. prize win-

ners, out. 1100 lb. arm and mammoth flown from

Iowa’s greatest herds. E.J.i\lathewaon. Burr Oak.Mich.





 





Big Bob Mastodon pigs takes the cake. book your



order now. Fall boars and slits sired by a grandson

of Disher Giant. open or bred to Big Bob for Be t. 23

yearling sons. 0. EGARNANT, Eaton Rapids, lich





‘ ‘ with quality. at re.

Big Type POMd Chlnas son able prices. Pigs

of both sex and bred sown and gilts.



G. A. BAUMGARDNE . R32. Middleville, Mich.





8' Type Polmds all sold out. Watch this ad for

'8 further announcements. Breeding stock for sale

in season. L. L. CHAMBERLAIN, Mnr(‘ellus.Mich.





 





 





 





am offering Large Type Poland China Saws. bred

to F's Orange. at reasonable rices; also (all pigs.

Write or Call Ulyde Fisher, St. uia, Mich. ILRJB.





Lindhurst Poland Chinas





Stock for sale at. all times. Public Sale (lot. 23

WM. H. LIND. Alto. Mich





 





 





POLAND CHINAS

W. J. HAGELSHAW, Augusta. Mich.

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LARGE TYPE Eng fsnlllvyearlingxliaozsiiflh'lrlgplgxrm

few more bred sows. R. W. Mills. Saline, Mich.





 





 





eonards B. T. P. O. Soe_exhibit at Mich. State Fair,

n‘got your name on mulling list for public sale 0M.

‘le Double immune. E. R Leonard. St.Louia,Mich,ll.li,





 





B T Poland China pigs ready for shipment sired



' ' by Orange Buster. White Points Chub.



Joseph L. Hickey,sales mgr., RB. Vermontville,Mich.



l a e Typo Poland Chlnas nothing for sale at

l'g resent. Spring pigs doing fine.



A. A. ‘ELDKAMP, ll. 2,





HAMPSHIRES





19l4-------1920

Choice Spring boars. popular breeding. Booking

orders for fall pigs. All stock Cholera lmmimed

and guaranteed Breceders. Satisfaction guaran-

teed,





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Edgewood Hampshrres

All bred Rilts sold. Now booking orders for gilts bred

for fall furrow, and pigs for pig clnb work only.

])epew Head, Edgewood Farm. Marlon, Ohio.





 





left new blood llnesol’ quality.

N W. SYNDEB. it. 4, St. Johns. blich.





YORKSHIRES BRED GILTS }

WATERMAN &. W'A’l'ERMAN

Packard Rd. - - - - Ann Arbor. Mich.





llamllSlllros get your boar pigs. now a few bred gilts

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HORSES

For Sale or Trade





We are closing out our registered l'ercherona, and

offer for sale or trade for anything I can use one reg-

istered stud colt three your old also of yearling from

ton sire and 19001b. dams.



J. C. BUTLER, Portland, Mich.





 





Stallions and mares at reasonable

Percheron prices; inspection invited.

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SHEEP.





Put Your Faith





in better breeding stock. For the best in Shrop-

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KON FARMS, S. L. Wing, Propr. Coldwatex‘.Mich.

See our exhibit at the Ohio and Mich.State Fairs.





Hillcrest Shropshrres

A nice lot of Ewes and Rams of all as our flock is

headed by McKorrow 3164 a. son of enator Bibby





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W" 615.30% 33‘s. WILLIAMS, Middleville, Mich.





SHROPSHIRES gagging-3.2





sired by Imp. Berry No. 363 for sale. Also a few ewes.

ARTHUR DODDS. Lapeer. Michigan.





 





 





 





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ShrOPShlres ram and a 56W good yeulin ”

0. J. THOMPSON. Rockford, ich.





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runs. DAN BOOHER. R. 4, Evert, Mich.

want a 7 Let American Hampshire 32231;





° Association send on

booklet with list of breeders. Write COMFORT

A. TYLER, 2?. Woodland Ave._. Detroit, Mich.





Wool-Mullen Shropshire Ram. muih’fiin‘l;

bred. priced right. A. n. POSTER. Allegan, Mich.

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GRAIN QUOTATIONS

August 25, 1920.





Wheat. .



Detrolt.~—Cash No. 1 red $2.58; De~

cember $2.35; March $2.34; No. 1 white

and No. 1 mixed $2.56.



Chicago—No. 2 red $2.46@2.471,é;

N0. 2 hand $2.44@2.49% December

$2.32%; March $2.31.



Corn.



Detroit—Cash No. 2 mixed $1.65;

No. 2 yellow $1.70.



Chicago—No. 2 mixed $1.591/2@1.67;

No. 2 yellow $1.6‘g/2é



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Detroit—Cash No. 2 white old 900;

N0. 3 white old 89c; No. 4 white old

880; N6. 2 white new 750. '



Chicago.——No. 2 white 691é@701,éc;

No. 3 White 67@700.



Beans.



Detroit—Immediate and prompt at

$6.10 per cwt.



Chicago.-—Hand-picked

fancy $0.50@7.



New York—Choice pea $7.75.



Rye.



Detroit—Cash No. 2 $2.02.



Chicago—Cash No. 2 $1.99.



Seeds.



Detroit.~Prime red clover, spot, Oc-

tober $18; December $18.25; alsike at

$17.50; timothy $4.25.



Toledo—Prime cash $18.50; October

$19; December $18.80; alsike $18.25;





timothy $4.

WHEAT





Foreign demand for cash wheat has

not been active, but exporters are tak-

ing liberal quantities to apply on old

sales and the market has become more

steady. The big rush of winter wheat

is over apparently. In parts of Texas

and Oklahoma the competition between

mills and exporters has resulted in the

former being able to secure very lim—

ited stocks, hence the past week

brought reports that mills had sudden-

ly advanced their prices three to five

cents over those bid by exporters.

There is plenty of Wheat this season,

but there is a scarcity of actual grain

to fill export sales, the car situation

being a factor. The visible supply is

only about 20,000,000 bushels yet ex-

ports are about 30,000,000 bushels of

wheat and flour per month. There is

no reason why a producer cannot sell

his wheat at $2 or better at any load-

ing point in the west or southwest.

Spring wheat from the new crop is

commencing to move in fair volume,

and the new has gone to a big discount

under the old. Flour prices have drop-

ped in sympathy with Spring wheat.





CORN





Highly beneficial rains have fallen

in parts of Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa,

Illinois and Missouri and Ohio and talk

of drought from these states is less

noticeable. Some sections now have

sufficient moisture to carry the crop

to maturity. A little damage has been

done in all sections as the result of

the recent dry weather, but it is hard

to see how the final yield will be reduc-

ed below 3,000,000,000 bushels. Losses

suffered in Illinois will be more than

made up by big crops in Iowa and Ne

braska to say nothing of South Dakota

and Minnesota. Owing to the lateness

of the crop safety first dictates that

sufficient seed be saved from the 1919

crop to provide strong seed for 1921

planting. Official reports indicate that





 





choice to





' there will be much soft grain this sea-





son regardless of future weather con—

ditions. The average date of killing

frost is about October 15 to 25 through

the center of the corn belt, but about





once in five years it comes much

earlier.

Harvesting is. progressing rapidly





northwest and is now general in Can-

ada. Threshing is practically finished

in many sections in the central west,

and much new wheat and oats have

already been moved. Receipts of wheat

so far this season have been decidedly

below expectations. How much this is

due to the transportation situation and

how much to the holding tendency on

.the part of producers cannot be deter-

mined, but undoubtedly the general be-

lief among farmers that prices will ul-





timately be higher has induced those.





who can hold their grain to do so. The

'crest of the demand for money to move





- the crops has been reached apparently,-





and‘while’ money may not draw a lower





interest rate it will be slightly easier.

j ,to secure,

, not loan freely to country,elevators,vf





In some sections banks will





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,a'g‘iil, lawns-s; 41E": .5;st mists _. '





but this does not seem to be general.

Iln those cases where home banks will

not loan pressure should be exerted by

farmers’ organizations. Cars promise

to be somewhat more plentiful for a.





line. OATS





A belief that producers would hold

for higher prices resulted. in a stronger

undertone in oats. A little export bus-

iness has bee-n done with the continent

and with Cuba, although Argentine

oats have been selling at around 85c

c. i. f. Liverpool or about 20 to 250

under those from the United States.

Our oats exports have averaged 85,000,-

000 bushels during the last six years,

but during the 1920-1921 season these

may drop to 20,000,000 or 25,000,000





bushels.

RYE -





If a liberal amount of cash rye could

be secured there would be considerable

export business in rye flour. Rye ex-

ports the past year at 37,000,000 bush-

els are a record. Germany and Swe-

den have taken considerable wheat and

rye of late. Financial conditions in

Europe as well as the political reports

must be closely watched. It can be

stated authoritatively that there is no

surplus of wheat or rye in Germany

this season, and liberal imports will be

necessary. When it is considered that

a German mark is worth only two cents

against a normal value of 23.5 cents

the amounts of grain taken recently

are surprisingly large.





FEEDS





Prices of mill feeds have rebounded

from the low levels reached two weeks

ago. Purchases by consumers are not

brisk but a heavier demand is expected

right along. Mills are increasing their

output and it is possible that supplies

will increase more rapidly than the de-

mand. Still lower levels are consider-

ed probable by well informed men in

the trade, but most of the price reduc-

tion has taken place already. Quota-

tions per ton in carlots in 100-1b. bags

for August 20 were as follows:



, Milwaukee—Bran $44.50@45.50 per

ton; standard middlings $54.50@55.50;

flour middlings $61@62; red dog $73;





linseed oil meal $64@65; cottonseed

meal $63@66.



Detroit prices per ton in 100-lb. bags

are:~——Bran $53; standard middlings

$60; white midéllings $62.7





EEDS





The bureau of markets estimates

timothy seed production as only 80 per

cent of that of last year and reports

that retail sales an exports were larg-

er than usual. Fa mers seem disposed

to hold for higher prices a’nd,the fall

demand should help the market. Dry

weather is needed in some sections to

mature red clover seed. It is believed

that a larger acreage than usual will

be cut for seed because of the tempt-

ing price last year. The market was

lower the past week. Toledo quoting

cash prime red clover at $17.70 and

timothy at $4.201pler bushel.





The coming freight rate increase has

been especially stimulating to ‘buyers

of hay and prices have advanced. Re-

duction of buying as this influence

passes may cause a setback although

the shortage of cars will check any

decided slump from the present level.

The government’s report indicates a

crop, both wild and tame, well above

the five-year average. With a decrease

in numbers of live stock on farms the

supply for the year looks ample. De-

troit prices per ton in carlots are: No.

1 timothy $35@36; standard $346D35;

light mixed $34@35; mixed $31@32;

No. 1 clover $306231; rye straw $13.50

@14; wheat and cat straw $13.50@14.





BUTTER -’





Butter markets have been steady the

past week with a slight upward trend

due to shortage and continued good

demand, especially for fine butter. The

close was firm. Only grades above 90

are actually short and lower grades

have gone to storage. The total re-

ceipts for the season are under last

year but at present the arrivals and

movement into storage are at a higher

rate than last year. Market observers

noted an improvement in quality late

in the week which was thought to be

the beginning of a general improve--

ment in the entire make, due to the





 





 





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DETROIT

Cattle.



_Receipts 737. Canners and bulls are

steady; all others a dollar higher on

acount of light receipts. ,, -



Best heavy steers ....... $12.00@13.50

Best handy wt bu steers 10.50@11.75





Mixed steers and heifers 8.75@ 9.75

Handy light butchers . . . . 7.75@ 8.50

Light butchers . . . . . . . . . . 6.0061) 7.25

Best cows 8.50@ 9.50

Butcher cows............ 7.25@ 8.25

Cutters ........ 5.00@ 5.25

Canners ...... . 4.00@ 4.50

Choice bulls . . 7.50@ 8.00

Bologna bulls . . . . . . . . . . . 6.0061), 7.00

Stock bulls ...... . . . . . . 5.50@ 5.75

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

Stockers ................ 8.00@ 9.00

Milkers and springers . . $ 75@ 140





Veal Calves.



Receipts 563. Market strong.

Best ................... $18.00@19.00

Others . . . . . ........... 8.00@15.00





Hogs.





Receipts 2289. Pigs steady; mixed

hogs 10@15c lower.

Mixed 0.000 ..... 'oueoeoo.$15.00@15.35

Heavy W... 13.0

Pigs IOOIOOIOOIIIOUOIOI 15:50

Rough 12.50@12.75

Stags 8.00@10.00





Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 2631. .Good lambs $1 high-

er; sheep and common lambs steady.





Best lambs .............. $ , 14.00

Fair lambs ...... . . . . . . . 8.50@11.50

Light to common . . - . . . . . 5.00@ 7.00

Fair to good sheep . . . . . . 6.00@ 6.50

Culs and common . . . . . . . . 2.00@ 4.00





CHICAGO

. Hogs. -



Estimated receipts today are 18,000;

holdover 12,097. Market 10@250 loWer;

.light off least; packin%s'ows and heav-

ies mixed off most. ulk of sales at

$13.50@15.25;. tops $15.35; heavy 250.

lbs ~up medium, good and choice $13.90 .

@15:”"medium' 209'1‘39 .259“le mediums-é





 





good and choice $14.25@15.30; light

150 to 200 lbs common, medium, good

and choice $14.50@15.35; light lights

130 ,to 150 lbs common, medium, good

and choice $14@15.25; ‘heavy packing

sows 250 lbs up smooth $13.50@13.80;'

packing sows 200 lbs up rough $13@

13.50; pigs 130 lbs down medium, good

and choice $12.75@14.50.

Cattle. '



Estimated receipts today are 9,000.

Good beef and butcher cattle 10@250

higher; others and veal calves steady

to strong. Beef steers medium and

heavy weight 1100 lbs up choice and

prime $16.50@17.60; do medium and

good $12.50@16.50; do common $10@'

12; light weight 1100 lbs down good

and choice $14.75@17.25; do common

and medium $9@14.50; butcher cattle

heifers, common, medium, good and

choice $6@15; cows, common, medium,

good and choice $5.75@12.75; bulls, bo-

logna and beef $5@11.50; canners and

cutters, cows and heifers $4@6; do

canner steers $4.50@7.50; veal calves

light and handyweight, medium, good

and choice $14.50@16,; feeder steers

common, medium, good and choice at





0 $7.50@12.25; stocker steers common,





medium, good and choice $5.50@10.75;

stocker cows and heifers, common, me-

dium, good and choice $5@9. '

Sheep and Lambs.



Estimated receipts today' are 24,000.

Market firm to higher. .Lambs 84 lbs

down, medium, good, choice and prime

$11.70@14; do culls and common $7.50

@1125; spring lambs, medium, good,

choice and prime $8.7‘S@10.25;' ewes,





ewes, cull and common $3@5.50; breed-

ing ewes full mouths to-yearlings $6_@

11; yearling wethers medium; good and

choice .$11.75@13. . ‘

BUFFALO . . .

'Mediumr and heayy-h’ogs sold beret

today‘at- $15@16: gotkers. mixed and;

9188M $16425 165 ‘ ' 081?. " 135*5‘0‘





     

   

 

 





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DaSsing of hot weather and the rush

of harvest, allowing more time for.

dairy work.‘ Two cargoes of Danish





arrived and another left Copenhagen;

the total of the three cargoes being





1,050,888 pounds. Prices on August ’21

as quoted by the U. S. Bureau of.Mar-

kets on 92 score butter were: Chicago





55c; New York 560; Boston 570; Phil- -





adelphia 57 1A), c. 4 .





EGGS





Slight advances were made in “egg

prices the past week with live poultry

prices showing little change. Receipts

of both .at principal markets are run-

ning well below those of last year, but

cold storage holdings of eggs are as

large as at this time a year ago. Cold

storage holdings of frozen poultry are

only about half as large as a year ago.

Quotations upon eggs were as follows:

Chicago——Extras 55@56c; firsts 4663

47c; miscellaneous firsts 44@46c. De-

troit—No. 1 fresh rehandled 47%c;

storage packed extras 481/2@49c.





CHEESE





Wisconsin cheese created more in-

terest than usual last Week as com—

pared with New York state goods and

considerable quantities moved in a job-

bmg way. Undergrades and skin

cheese found some outlet at Chicago

and Boston, especially good No.

cheese. No special criticism on qual-

ity was reported from any of the mar-

kets. Receipts at the four markets

were a trifle heavier than last week,

but with the storing of the lots show-

ing exceptional quality, dealers at all

points have no large surplus and there-

fore are not pushing sales. Quotations

are as follows: Philadelphia—Flats

27@28c; twins 26%@271/2c; single

daisies 261/2@27%c; Longhorns 27@.

271/zc per pound. . .





POTATOES





The big slump in potato prices has

checked the movement to some extent

and resulted in firmer prices toward

the close of last week, especially at

eastern points, but the new movement

is still nearly up to normal. Recent

rains are expected to increase yield.

Operators complain’bitterly of the un-

satisfactory car service. Prices were

as follows: Chicago—Virginia . barrel-

ed cobblers $4@4.50 per bbl; Minne-

sota Early Ohios $2.35@2.50 per cwt.





Detroit—Virginia No. 1 $5@5.50 per

barrel.

PEACHES.

The market is holding generally





steady on Midwestern Elbertas.

are coming from Michigan but the El-





berta season is not expected to start





for about two weeks. .





WOOL





The awakening of the wool market

is still postponed, the only news of

consequence being that more mills

have closed. The reopening of some

of them during September is still fore

casted. The financing of western grow-

ers is a sore p'oint, the~federal aid plan





being less generous in the amount of





the ‘advance and time to run than pri-

vate banks, according to some grow-

ers. However, the government’s wil-

lingness to give aid probably reassured

bankers. Consignees to the National

Vi'ool Warehouse, Chicago, will receive

warehouse receipts good for collateral

for loans at banks. Not enough busi-





ness is being done anywhere *to estab-g ;

It is reported from the'





lish quotations.

offices of the Michigan State Farm Bu-‘

reau that bids for wool aggregating

500.000 pounds at prices ranging from.

35@671/zc have been made. Loans

made by farmers on wool warehouse





receipts aggregate only $17,000 and.

the number of ,farmers availing them-





selves of this privilege is 273.





DETROIT CITY MARKET '





Supplies ample in most lines and

prices easy. Apples $1.75@2 for fancy:

others from $1.50 down; cabbage 40@

50c per bushel; corn around 20c per





dozen; peaches $3.50@4.50 per bushel: ‘





medium, good and choice at $6637.50; plums 335069450; potatoes $1.75@2; 1.: I l





tomatoes $2@4.





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,vote er areal Erma tor the nomination

r Governor. Liam Governor Luren

‘5. Dickinson. 11‘s is well known. is the only

farmer candid” living on aiarm among

all the candidates on all the tickets. As

R'opresentefivo. Senator or Lieutenant Gov.

arbor. no inrmer has criticised his loyalty





to our in

I y milk“ LEGION—





Remember Lieutenant Governor Dickin-

son wuthe ofllcial who started the move

fictive-the veterans decent pay for their

services.



-' TEMPERANCE VOTERS

Remember Mr. Dickinson has for year-sheen

- Mic a ’sdry leader and four years no he

Own the governorship to make I!

"on 3d? The wets have started the fight is;

egalize thell uor traffic and Mr Dickin-

lsht e mun nee ed now to guard the tem-

perence interests.

- MEN AND WOMEN

who want clean politics remember that Mr.

ckinson. at the risk of his political future.

alone and single handed in the interest of ur-

er politics, condemned the sole of 110me

. tor once and demanded a fair deal for the poor

but capable candidate

VOTERS



When you go to the pri mury. remember you

have not seen a criticism by the former. the

laborer. the business man or any good citizen of



r. Dickinson’ s loyalty. sincerity, honesty. abil-

% or coura ein conducting the sflairs of the



ooshehas eld. You take no risk in voting

torhim at the primary for Governor





CHARLES HOFFNEB.

Master of Eaton County Pomona Grange.

Chairman Dickinson Farmer Committee





 





 





 





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HE hog market continues to billow

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ter is losing them money but are ready

to purchase on all breaks. They are

equally averse to bullish tactics. This

was a week of short supplies although

eastern points had more than usual,

some of them registering sharp do

clines. Absence of orders at Chicago

for eastern shipment prevented the

-market from going higher and also was

responsible for bringing the bacon and

packing grades closer together. Aver-

age weight is running higher than last

year and old sows are coming fat, de-

noting that the country is willing to

feed corn. The demand for feeder hogs

is liberal, .many buying along with

feeder cattle. The downward trend

which is certain to show itself in the

hog market inside of six or eight weeks

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to show up will work against such pur-

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rates is opening the way. Some of it

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