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CURRENT COMMENT

N SPITE of the nu-





 





 





 





merous influences



The Wheat which have sought

Market to bear the wheat

Outlook m a r k e 1: since the



n e W e r o—p com-





menced to move, growers have very

generally been strong holders of the

grain and the market has held com-

paratively steady against the com-

bined onslaught of speculators who

have sold short; millers who had

hoped to lay in supplies at lower prices

and the general program to reduce

living costs. The strong statistical

position which has developed in this





grain, as given in our market notes in.





this issue, seems to indicate that this

general tendency toward conscrvative

marketing on the part of growers is

warranted by the situation. Certainly

a continuation of conservative market-

ing by producers is necessary to a.

stabilization of prices at a point which

will be compensatory to the grower

under present high production costs,

and wheat growers are using good

judgment in their policy of moderate

marketing, governed by the trend of

quotations.



The stabilization of prices at apoint

which will cover the high cost of pro-

duction and return the grower at least

a living profit is also just as advantage-

ous to consumers in the long run as it

is to growers, as next year’s crop is

now in the making and the acreage

sown will be much more liberal than

would have been the case if the spec-

ulators, the millers and the advocates

of cheaper prices for foodstuffs had

succeeded in forcing the market down

to a point which they would have

deemed satisfactory. In the end the

law of supply and demand would have

largely fixed the price of this bread-

_ stuff to the consumer, but it would

most likely have been a case in which

the law would have operated as de-

fined by Gray Silver, Washington rep-

resentative of the American Federa-

tion of Farm Bureaus, who recently

defined supply as something which op-

erates in the fall when the farmer has

crops to sell, and demand as a factor

which is in evidence only after others

are in possession of his products. But

it is better for all concerned for the

law to operate for the stabilization of

prices at a fair level, which can only

be accomplished through conservative

marketing by original holders under

present methods of distribution.



Due to favorable soil and “climatic

conditions, and the check in the de-

dine of wheat values, together with a

:ltntistical Situation which seems to in-

‘ M only a normal carry-over. pres-

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more vital interest to consumers than

is a further present cheapening of

prices, since production conditions

were never so difficult and future pro-

duction is more than normally depend-

ent on the prospect of a compensatory

price for the product when groWn.





HE Michigan State



a Fair is bringing

The‘ out 1a r g e r crowds

Sta!” than any year in its

F air history. T his year





nearly two hundred

and fifty thousand people entered the

gates on Labor Day. One of the out-

standing features of the exhibits was

the magnificent display in the Horticul-

tural building. Among the county dis-

plays Oceana won first honors, with

Oakland a close second. Kent, Char-

levoix and Isabella followed in the or-

der named. ‘Among the out of state

exhibits that of J. E. Hansbly of Cedar

Springs, Ontario, won first honors. U.

P'. Hedrick of Geneva, N. Y., judged

the exhibits. Those who have attend-

ed the fair for years pronounced the

exhibits the finest' ever seen in the

building.



The cattle, sheep and swine exhibits

were equal, if not superior, to those of

1919. Michigan breeders were strong-y

in evidence with credible entries in

nearly every breed and class. A num-

ber of herds of cattle and swine from

outside states promise to give the

Michigan herds a lively battle for first

place in many classes. Altogether it

is one of the best balanced live stock

exhibits ever presented in the state.

The only real unpleasant feature of

the livestock show is the fact that

many of the exhibitors were compelled

to shelter their stock in tents, but this

will likely be overcome before another

year.



The Michigan Agricultural College,

cooperating with the Michigan Crop

Improvement Association, had a par-

ticularly credible exhibit of oats, rye,

wheat, barley and other farm seeds.

Michigan stands second to no state in

the Union when it comes to crop im-

provement work. Another exhibit

which attracted the attention of many

visitors was that of the United States

Department of Agriculture, which de‘

voted special emphasis to the prob-

lems of forest conservation, the plant-

ing of timber to withstand weathering

and protecting forest trees against de-

structive pests.



An unusually fine display of poultry,

under the management 015 Prof. C. H.

Burgess and his assistants from the

college, attracted crowds of visiting

farmers as well as city folks who have

fond dreams of small poultry farms

and independence. Special interest is

being taken in the egg-laying contest,

which continues during the duration of

the fair. This is one of the best edu-

cational features ever staged at a fair,

for it is demonstrating to the people

what valuable results may be obtained

from the careful selection of hens for

the laying flock. If available, awards

will be published next week.





LL sections of

1920 the United States

A I . .report an unusually

- pp 9 small volume of sales

Pnces of apples for this sea-





son of the year. The

prevailing uncertainty over the price

outlook, together with financial strin-

gency and high cost of operation, has

made buyers extremely cautious. The

crop is unusually large, the August

first estimate for the total farm crop

being 213,187,000 bushelsagainst yields

of 147,467,000 in 1919 and 109,911,000

in 1918. The estimate ofthe yield of

the commercial crap on August 1 was

32,588,000 barrels, coinpared with 26,-

174,000 barrels in 1919. The compara-

tivelywet season over mostotthe



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than usual and prices went through a

decided slump, some cistern growers

hauling back apples from shipping

points to use for hog feed because of

inability to sell them at any price

whatever.



The commercial 'crop is not uniform-





eral survey of cooperation in Callroo- »

nia. Every Farm Bureau man should ‘





read and preserve the articles fer fur- , »





that study and he should interest his

neighbor in them to the end that the

building of the proposed grain ex—

change, if it is undertaken, be started





1y good. The Northwestern states have Kupon the rock of intelligence and faith





about two-thirds of a normal yield and

are especially short of Jonathans. The

crop of the middle west and eastern

states is unusually good. The com-

mercial crop for the seven states——

Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania,

Virginia, Ohio, Indiana’and Illinois—-

is about twice as large as it was last

year and makes up practically half of

the total crop of the country.





Owing to the high‘ price of contain-

ers and of the labor involved in pack;

ing there is a decided tendency to sell

in bulk in the eastern sections. This

is expected 'to produce considerable

pressure upon the market in the early

fall months, as such apples cannot be

held to advantage. Storage rates have

been increased 65 cents per barrel in

some of the eastern storages and all

of the available space has been sold

out for weeks.



Growers assume that the increased

freight rates will be passed on to the

consumer, resulting in a higher level

of prices on that account. Barrels are

costing $1.50 and baskets $4.00 a dozen.

PiCkers in New York state are expect-

ing as high as 30 cents per barrel, male

ing the total cost of picking, grading,

packing and delivery from 80 cents to

$1.00 per barrel. As a partial offset to

these high costs ocean apple refriger-

ator rates have been lowered from

$4.00 to $3.00 per barrel, thus giving

slight help to the export outlook.





Early sales in various sections of

the country differ widely. Reported

sales include the following ranges:

Michigan, $4.50 to $5.50 per barrel for

orchard run of merchantable fruit;

Illinois, Jonathans, ‘ $3.00 per bushel;

Wine Saps, $8.00 per barrel f. o. 13.;

Missouri, Jonathans and Grimes Gold-

en, $7.50 and $8.00 per barrel; Iowa,

Jonathans, $6.50, and Ben Davis, $4.50

per barrel, on the table for No. 1 and

No. 2; New York, Baldwins and Green-

ings, $5.00 per barrel delivered at car

or warehouse; Baldwins, tree run,

culls out, $2.00 per hundredweight.

These were mostly early transactions.

Dealers are now said to be indifferent

to New York Baldwins and Greenings

at $4.00 per barrel.



Not enough transactions have been

closed as yet to make reliable quota-

tions possible. It is evident that apple

dealers will endeavor to break .the

market to a very low point before they

will purchase large quantities. The

prices now being offered in many dis-

tricts leave little for the grower after

paying for labor and containers.





EVER were men





b e t t e r advised



The ROCk than in the parable of

of .Ex' the ‘house built upon



perlence the rock. The slowly





and carefully erected

structure endured because of the sub-

stantial foundation. Organized farm-

ers can use this same sensible advice

in building up their marketing associa-

tions. Right in line with such counsel

is the recent action of the American

Federation of Farm Bureaus. Before

making a step in the direction of or-

ganizing a national exchange for the

marketing of grains a committee. of

seventeen was appointed to inspect the

workings of the cooperatives of Cali-

fornia and other states to learn what

rocks the farmers of the west coast

have discovered and built upon that

may also be used in the proposed'grain

exchange. That committee is now in

California. This journal is fortun'ate

in having a representative with the





communal-1e will send vsarticlea





 





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HON. JAMES wuson '

N. JAMES WILSON, for fifteen

years secretary of the United

States Department of Agriculture,

serving in that capacity in the cabinets

of Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt and

Taft, died August 26. He had been in

failing health several months._ Mr.

Wilson was an Iowa farmer for years

before he was appointed secretary of

agriculture. He was born August 16,

1835. His father was a Scotchman,

who left Ayrshire in 1852, and he and

his family settled near the present

town of Traer, Iowa: Mr. Wilson be—

gan farming in 1861, and at the same

time began his political career, being

elected a member of the Iowa legisla—

ture. In 1872 he was elected a mem-

ber of congress, where he served three

terms. For six years previously to

becoming secretary of agriculture he

was director of the Iowa Experiment

Station and professor of agriculture at

the Iowa Agricultural College. In 1897

President McKinley appointed him

secretary of agriculture.





DORR D. BUELL



iCHIGAN agriculture lost one of



its capable leaders when Dorr D.

Buell died at Lansing, Tuesday, August

31, after an illness of six weeks. Mr.

Buell was born on a farm near Union

City, Branch County, in 1882. After

completing his education, he located

in Elmira, Michigan, where he estab-

lished successfully a private bank. His

farm near Elmira was well known.

His specialties were seed potatoes and.

pure bred livestock. It was in 1918‘

that the organization of the Michigan

Potato Growers’ Exchange required

his services. His work there was suc-





 





cessful in making that organization

one of the most efficient co—operative

marketing exchanges in the country.

During the few months that he was in

charge of the Michigan State Farm

Bureau marketing department he laid

a foundation for marketing farm crops

and the purchase‘of farm supplies that

has demonstrated its eflectiveness

through the period of his illness so

well that it is obvious that it will on:

(into. ‘ For more than two years his

big purpose in life was helping. his

fellow farmers. His death is a. dis-

tinct loss to Michigan agriculture.





CLUB LEADER m . ~.. _.

ann" LYONS. who has so ow

directed the work of the w

and Girls' Club department a“,

Washtenaw County F 7‘
ICHIGAN is among the ‘few

states having a non—capital

stock non-profit co-operative

law. While other states not having

such a law are asking for the Volstead

Act to allow collective selling, this

state is conducting two of its largest

co-operative associations without fear

of legal attacks. The Michigan Milk

Producers handle product appmximat-

ing ten million dollars per year with

prices made by a Milk Commission.

Federal officials have looked in on the

workings of the Milk Prosucers anr

Commission and gone their way with-

out legal criticism. The Michigan Po-

tato~ Growers’ Exchange is organized

under this same act, and rivals some

of the California exchanges in volume

of business done. -





The incorporators under this act

give notice to the world that they

have no corporation assets or liabili-

ties because there are no stockholders,

just members who associate in an

agency for selling and buying, and the

essential difference between co-oper-

ators organized in this way is that

profit or loss is upon the individual

product handled and not in any way

related to ownership of shares in this

selling agency.



Like a bank, this form of co—Opera-

tion is always a debtor and not a cred-

itor, having no assets except what is



' loaned to it. Ready funds are derived

from collateral notes, a plan the writer

initiated in Michigan when state mar-

ket director, but the idea was bor-

rowed from Denmark. This method

of financing allows producers to loan

their credit without taking any capital

away from its primary producers. In

-a sense it is like a city using funds

for municipal water works and cre-

ating a sinking fund for their retiral.

The co-operative law of 1915, for ex-

ample, takes capital frdm the producer

and a portion of it away from the

community and requires the cost of

selling stock together with other costs

to come out of the farmer.





One reason of the superiority of city

business financing is that the money

is retained in the community and

builds up the industry. Among farm-

ers, money taken off the farm to out-

side places does not have this home

effect. Agriculture largely needs its

capital to reproduce and should use

flexible credits to market as do most

Other industries.





HE Sherman law with its rigid

anti-trust paragraphs was modi-





fied by the Clayton act exempting ag»





ricultural and horticultural organiza-

tions not for profit and not having a

capital stock. These exemptions have

withstood legal attacks because the

ordinary corporation is organized to

benefit proportionately its stockhold-

ers when having shares of stock. The

Clayton amendment made a distinction

that the aid of a selling agency with-

out shareholders intended to benefit

the producers of the goods marketed,

based on product and not on shares

owned, was fundamental.





First the Capper—Hersman and later

the Volstead bills have attempted to

make a class distinction of corpora-

tiOns without,-the difference demanded

”by the» Clayton amendment. Some of

gthe best constitutional lawyers have





feared that the exemptiOns demanded *





'rby‘ agriculture would not be upheld by

mmourts and that agricultural bodies

”#6111. be restrained for a long time





 





 





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oopcrat’ivcs‘ Protected in Michigan





Tée State’s Laws Give Protection to [Va-Ilene [Von-profit Armeiatiom.





‘ By James N. McBride





there must not be class distinctions in

this country. Where discriminations

must be made they must be based on

forms of organization and not of the

persons or industries that compose the





corporation

Aaron Sapiro, the counsel for four-

teen co operative organizations in





California, in his recent Chicago ad-

dress said: “I take the liberty here

of saying once and for all a marketing

association with capital stock is an ab-

solute blunder from an economic stand-

point. If you are organizing a bank

with money to lend you need money

capital. If you are organizing a mar~

keting association you need something

to sell. The base of a marketing asso-

ciation is a contract with the grower

under which the grower agrees to pro-

vide with the things to sell. Where

buildings and appliances are necessary,

a separate corporation which leases to

the marketing association but. does no

marketing itself, is formed and leases

at a fixed rental or income on the in-

vestment. Then you go into the mar-

keting proposition clean when you have

that without capital but with the most





effective kind of an association in





America." _



ICHIGAN bean growers have for



many years felt the depression

caused by two conditions, first future

sellings and the neglect of not only

actual foreign imports but of a possi-

bility of imports to be used to depress

the market and allow the beans to get

out of the hands of the grower and

later to advance; second, dumping

beans on the market by growers be-

yond the ability of the trade to absorb.

Prices have to be lowered in self pro-

tection by the local elevator and then

this is the oportunity of the specula-

tor, who has used foreign beans to bid

down the market to a point that af-

fords a probable good speculation. For-

eign beans are the shifting weight on

the scale beam of prices to be shoved

forward when buying and backward to

zero when selling.



The Sapiro plan of handling the

bean crop, for example, would be for

the grower to sign up for five years

with a co—operative elevator to sell his

crop. A valorization board made up,





 





 





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HE producers of farm products are gradually learning that there are



fundamental principles underlying every good marketing system.

Two of these principles are, firstito have the quality suited to the consum-

er’s needs, and second to keep the grade of the product uniform. Mem—

bers of egg circles have been quite faithful to both these‘principles. They

have maintained good quality in their product by better feeding and reg-

ular gathering of the eggs and the grading has been so superior to the

common methods of offering eggs to the trade that the output of the





circles has been eagerly sought.





And the good thing about the plan is





that thermembers’ find the increased price to be sufficiently compensa-





tory to pay well for the additional trouble in making the eggs right.





The





experiences of these circles and those of similar organizations in other





 





agricultural lines are bound to be fruitful.





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say, of one member each for five

states, together with a representative

selected by the Secretary of Agricul-

ture and one from any three of the

Federal Reserve District banks would

give the exact facts of supply and de-

mand and establish prices. The grower

would receive a minimum price on de-

livery and all growers in the pool for

the same grade receive the same price

at the end of the selling period.



If marketings were too free or in

excess of trade demands, stocks would

be withheld. A large surplus might

compel an acreage adjustment the

year following. In this way futures

selling would be prevented and the

real damage done by foreign beans

largely avoided. As has been stated,

the actual import of beans is less men-

acing than the promise of still more.

The reflex of the valorization price

plus the twenty-five cents per bushel

duty would be quite as effective as an

additional duty.



One of the deterrents of bean mar-

keting is the financing necessary to

buy stock and add to this the labor

cost of picking when the market, is un-

stable. The method of financing the

wool pool through warehouse receipts

at local banks can well be followed by

bean growers. From a banking stand-

point, ten cars of beans owned by one

hundred growers with their warehouse

receipts plus their individual credit is

a better bank risk than if all hypothe-

cated by the elevator owner.





HE financing of a crop on the way



to market must be borne by that

crop and indirectly the grower is do-

ing that now. The elevator owner

has had to take these risks and has

simply charged them back in price,

and to him as long as this was or

could be done, there was no incentive

to co—Opcrate or institute market re-

forms.



The spread between the producer’s

price and that paid by the consumer

involves costs and risks that are great-

er liabilities to the dealer than to the

grower becauSe the latter can do what

big industries do which they describe

as “administration of supply to a com-

pensatory demand.” The grower

Whose profit would be finally deter

mined by the pool price over the sell-

ing period would be conservative in not

crowding the market. California bean

growers have criticised Michigan men

for selling while the former state was

withholding from the market. The

criticism is faulty from the fact that

there has been as yet no workng plan

devised for sellers’ minds meeting.



To use this rather new term, “admin-

istration of supply,” which can only be

done by the producer is not yet an

established fact. This “administra—

tion” can be done only by coordina-

tion of co-operatives. The convincing

of the individual farmer as to co—opera—

tion has been largely done. The task

now is to convince the local units to

work together. This will be the power

and also the glory of the Farm Bureau.

No state is more able than Michigan.

from a legal standpoint, and from a

forward looking Farm Bureau to ac-

complish marketing reforms.



The CalifOrnia plan is and has been

the Michigan plan, but if the real

truth must be told, Denmark initiated

and tested out co- operation and price

making. A most readable little pam-

phlet has been printed by the Amer-

ican Farm Bureau Federation, 5 South

Wabash Ave, Chicago, entitled "Co~

operative Marketing, " by Aaron Sapiro

of California. This address is presum

be
Lundy Bros. Herd of Milking Shorthorns.





NDER the benign influence of al-

U falfa, corn, small grains and nat~



ural pasture grasses, Genesee

has acquired a position in the front row

of Michigan’s agricultural counties. Its

agrarian interest is strenuously pm—

gressive. Riding from Flint to Grand

Blanc through Burton to Davison and

Richfield, and then over to Clinton,

Flushing, Montrose, Vienna and Mt.

Morris with County Agent Smith, and

meeting many of the leading farmers

along the route should give one a fair-

ly good idea of the progress of the

county in dairying, live stock feeding

and general farming. The building of

silos to preserve the corn crop for feed-

ing and the growing of alfalfa has re‘

generated the cattle business. The la-

bor situation has influenced many farm<

ers to sell some of their cattle, while

many others have solved the labor

problem on their farms by utilizing

more of their land for pasture and

meadows and feeding more good cattle.

As a general proposition live stock im-

provement is making substantial pro-

gress, both in cattle and hogs. Popu-

lar opinion and high-priced feeding ma-

terials are giving purebred sires full

sway in many communities of the

county. '





The countryside as a,whole affords a

striking example of agricultural devel-

opment attempting to keep pace with

that of the cities. The growth of the

industrial plants in Flint, and the con-

sequent increase in population has en.

couraged many farmers to grow vege-

tables, fruit and to keep poultry on

farms where field crops predominated

many years ago. Dairy cattle have

steadily increased in numbers, due to

the enlarging demand of the city for

milk, cream and butter. Beef cattle

are being improved and more farmers

are looking about for purebred stock.

Years ago the county’s population of

sheep was greater than it is now, but

in recent years there has been a mark-

ed revival of popular interest in the

sheep industry, especially along the

lines of feeding lambs for market.

There has also been an increased in-

terest in the production of pork on the

grass, forage and grain basis. Although

gas and oil-power is being widely in.

troduced the topography of a large per-

centage of the land will always require

more or less horsepower for the most

economical net results in crop produc-

tion. In agricultural and business or-

ganization Genesee county is one of

the leaders in the state. The County

Farm Bureau, with its eighteen hun-

dred and fifty members, stands for bet-





 

   

   

   

   

   

 

 

   

 

 





 





 

 





fumes.





ter farming, a more highly organized

production and more Systematic mar-

keting of farm products. The Grange,

Farmers’ Club, local cooperative buy-

ing and selling organizations are all co-

operating to put across an agricultural

program directed toward the better-

ment of the farmer’s physical surround-

lugs and livelihood. In all kinds of ag-

ricultural organization the county is

beginning to excel. County breeders'

associations, boys’ and girls’ clubs, and

other associations are having a quality

as well as a quantity influence on pro-

duction, and visits at the homes of the

agricultural leaders in the county tes-

tified to the widespread interest in

these undertakings.





NE of the results .of the present

economic conditions the Circuit

Rider has observed in Genesee and oth-

er leading Michigan counties is the

fact that there is too much absentee





 





Eva L. Stephens and Her Prize Duroc

Jersey.





landlordism. Strange as it may sound,

the high cost of living is correcting

this evil by compelling the absentees

to return and till their own acres or

else sell them. When these farms were

selling at lower prices and taxes were

lower they could rent them advantage-

ously and live in the towns and cities

on the proceeds. But as the cost of

living scaled up in the towns and cit-

ies, and taxes increased both on the

farms and city property, the renting

process failed to work out as formerly.

Owners have begun to go back to the

farms and tune them up for larger pro-

duction. They are confronted with the

problem of either living on the farm or

selling it. These conditions have re-

sulted in a real back-to-the-land move-

ment—on the part of owners. As one

Wise old farmer put it when his son

and his wife returned to his farm after

he had been working in an automobile

factory in Flint, “They found the lures

of Flint to consist of what Adam and

Eve were led to believe concerning the

outskirts of‘ Eden, and now they are

returning to the garden."

S lDNEY s. SMITH, County Agricul-

tural Agent of Genesee county',was

born and raised in Oakland county. Af-

ter graduating from the Michigan Ag-

ricdltural College in 1912 Mr. Smith

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the road tWo farmers buttonholed him.

One had a field of potatoes affected by

the blight, and the other, a manager

of a local cooperative association, had

called a meeting and wanted him to

come out and straighten out several

matters that had fussed up some of the

members. As we turned the next cor-

ner a young farmer pounced on him

and besought his assistance in culling

his flock of hens. “It takes a lot of

steady plugging and hammering," said

this young county agent; “but once

you get them interested in your work

and show them the way, it makes you

feel that your efforts are appreciated."

After one has spent two days in a

county with fifteen or twenty of these

young men in the different counties of

the state and gone over their problems

in a thoroughly practical way, he be-

gins to have visions of a few years

hence, when the returns are in from

their combined endeavors. Then the

people of the country will sit up and

take notice. In the writer's humble

opinion it would pay some of the big

men in Michigan’s agricultural affairs

to leave some of their scientific dig-

nity at East Lansing and get out and

browse a bit along the beats of these

young county agents, and see and hear

what they are doing. Albeit, they

might also hear a few thirngs about

their own work that would enable

them to broaden the scope of their ex-

periments at the college.



Smith has made a fine record in

He is a good judge

of live stock, and one of his pet proj-

ects is the improvement of the herds

and flocks of the county. Organization

work has demanded considerable of his

time during the past few months, but

once this is completed and production

problems can be given proper atten-

tion he has an aggressive campaign

ready for action. Better crops, better

live stock and better farm homes are

his idea of a better agricultural county.





GENESEE county is well organized

for cooperative buying and selling.

Nearly all of the organizations are do-

ing a profitable business and the num-

ber of new members who have joined

during the past few months is sulfi-

cient to make the undertakings profit-

able. In one or two instances the man-

agement has held back from joining

the State Farm Bureau plan of or-

ganization, but similar cases may be

found in practically every county. Some

of these old stand-patters want to reap





the benefits of .the larger cooperation

without assuming any of the responsi—

bilities and risks. And when these old

obstructionlsts decide to stand-pat, Gib-

ralter is the Leaning Tower of Pisa by

comparison. The same with farme..=;

who hold stock in a’certain foreign eer-

porathh which controls the elevators

in a nhmber of Michigan communities.

But since stock dividend checks have

become as rare with them as plug hats

and wrist watches there is some argu-

ment to move them.



One of the leading cooperative ele-

vators in Michigan is at Grand Blanc.

It did a business of nearly $700,000 the

past year and came through with a

surplus of $8,500 to carry over. The

officers and directors are: L. R. Perry,

president; Burt Harris, manager; 1“. J.

Sawyer, E. C. Storrs, Harry H. Baker,

Edwin Somers, George Leach, I. E. Parq

sons, directors.



At Flushing the Farmers’ Cooperr

tive Elevator did a business of nearly

$375,000 during the year. The officers

and directors are: Wm. Mullen, pres-

ident; Elmer H. Penoyer, Wm. R. Tow-

er, Calven D. Beecher, Frank Holser,

James McGraw, C. Allen, directors.



At Brent Creek the Farmers' Coop-

erative Elevator did a business of more

than $175,000 during the past year. The

officers and directors are: A. J. Bailey.

president; George Zintel, manager:

James A. Hess, Peter Gross, Joseph

Birkmier, Wm. Streng, Homer Jacobs,

E. A. Bailey, directors.



The farmers of the county are well

organizedfor live stock shipping, as

the following list of associations indi-

cate. Grand Blanc handled more than

$152,000 worth of live stock. W. M.

Hofman is president and W. J. Perry

manager.



At Davison W. W. Billings is presi-

dent and Harry Potter the manager.

The volume of business the past year

amounted to $100,000. ‘



At Flushing the volume of business

amounted to more than $150,000 for the

year. N. A. Morris is manager and A.

J. Cronk, secretary.



Fenton, Linden, Monti-ose and Mt.





Morris did a business of approximately -





$250,000 for the year. All, of these as-

sociations have light expenses and the

business is handled one. close margin.





ONE of the first steps among the



farmers of the county was at the

home of I. E. Parsons, of Grand Blanc.

Here we found a splendid two hundred

and sixty-acre farm devoted primarily





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-to dairying and breeding purebred Jer-

sey cattle. At the head of the Parsons

herd is Hood Farm Torono, a hull of

superb individuality and productive

blood lines. The herd numbers about

thirty-six cows and heifers through

which Hood Farm Torono and Pogis

blood predominates. Mr. Parsons is a

graduate of M. A. C. and has been

breeding Jersey cattle nearly fourteen

years. He is secretary-treasurer of the

' Genesee County Farm Bureau and one

of the men who have a real vision of

the possibilities of organized agricul-

ture. He is willing to do his part to-

ward bringing about the many changes

needed to give the farmer independ-

ence from other business interests. A1-

ways active in cooperative work it is

only natural that he should have been

selected by the farmers of the county

as one of the ‘men to guide the destiny

of their organization.



Fay Meyers, of Grand Blanc, has one

of the best one hundred and thirty-

acre farms in the county. Mr. Meyers

is building up a herd of registered

Guernsey cattle. At present the herd

numbers about twenty head of pure-

bred animals. For a herd sire he has

Pencoyd Patriot, a bull purchased from

the famous Roberts Farm in Pennsyl-

vania. Among the females some of

the most popular blood lines of the

breed predominate. All of the young

stock is well grown and kept under

excellent sanitary conditions. Mr. Mey-

ers has a good foundation herd and is

an enthusiastic Guernsey booster.





ENESEE county boasts of two of



the leading Aberdeen-Angus herds

in Michigan. Our first visit was at the

Angus Home Stock Farm of F. Perry

& Sons near Davison. The number of

visits at the Perry home must neces-

sarily be regulated by one’s capacity

for storing away food. Hats off to

some of our county agents. They know

how to plan their trips to harmonize

with the food-serving history of their

counties.



The Angus Home herd of Doddies

was founded more than twenty-five

years ago by Mr. Perry, and he has

taught his' sons cattle lore which has

held an influence in keeping them on

the farm. Some men know how to

raise cattle. Some men are successful

in bringing up sons who know how to

raise good cattle. Too few men have

the secret of doing both. Mr. Perry

found the secret in making partners

and students of his boys. Together

they are working into an enviable posi-

tion among the Angus breeders of the





 





Best Farmr.





At present the herd numbers more

than sixty. For a herd sire they are

using Bunker Bean, a perfect type of

the compact, short-legged Doddie, who

has impressed his individual trademark

upon all of his calves in the herd.

Bunker Bean is a son of Elgon and out

of Blackcap of Iverness. For a junior

herd sire the Perry’s are using En-

chantress Erica, a two-year-old son of

Black‘Rosegay. This young bull, like

Bunker Bean, is a compact and short-

legged animal that would be hard to

defeat in the show ring. Another young

bull that the Perry’s are expecting to

use in their herd is a son of Enlate,

the famous Iowa bull. This young bull

is an exceptionally good individual and

shows every indication of developing

into an outstanding sire.



Among the females in the herd is

Blackbird 37th, the dam of Black Mon-

arch 3, three times grand champion bull

of Michigan. She is teeming with the

blood of the most famous animals of

the breed. Her sire was one of the

famous show yard winners and the sire

of many champions. Among the other

females in the herd Trojan Erica,





 





   

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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ish and refinement of the smaller,

more compact individuals of the breed,

yet one who believes that the Ericas

and a few other popular families of the

breed posSess about all that is attrac-

tive in Aberdeen-Angus pedigree could

profit largely by the study of the his-

tory of the different breeds of cattle

and noting the results that have follow-

ed the practice of breeding for extreme

refinement of type and compactness

of carcass. Mr. Wilbur is a stickler for

size, when combined with quality and

popular blood lines.



The present herd sire, Black Bailin-

dalloch Lad, is a 2,300-pound five—year-

old hull of Ballindalloch type; the kind

of a sire that is sure to be in demand





 





 





Four Generations of Holsteins in D. D. Aitken’s Herd.





Blackbird and Blackcap breeding is

prominent. One twenty-threeyear-old

cow, Penzance Daisy, is still breeding

and at present nursing a fine calf. An-

gus Home Stock Farm consists of

three hundred and twenty acres of pro-

ductive land, the pastures being given

good care and the animals are com-

fortably housed.



Another . Genesee county Aberdeen-

Angus breeder who has developed one

of the best herds in Michigan is F. J.

Wilbur, of Clio. On the Wilbur farm

we looked om animals of extreme size

and superb quality, bred along lines of

the famous Balli'ndalloch herd of Scot-

land. No herd in the state can show

animals with better heads and larger

bodies and above all with better calves.





when breeders realize that fashion and

pedigree are being carried too far. For

a junior herd sire, Blacklad of Fair-

view, the champion bull at the Michi-

gan Aberdeen-Angus sale held at Sagi-





naw last spring, is being developed.

This young bull is an outstanding indi—

vidual and gives promise of developing





into one of the best bulls in the state.



Among the females in the herd are

several mature cows of extreme size

that show smoothness and refinement

of type. Erica, Pride, Blackbird, Ito





and Princess blood is predominant. At

present Mr. Wilbur has about thirty

females from these lines of breeding.

Some of the best females are held over

each year to add to the breeding herd





r’s Guernsey Cattle.





tary breeding plants in the country At

present seventeen of his cows ale be-

ing tested f01 semi-official yearly 1ec-

ords. The herd consists of about fifty

animals. All of the young stock is

maintained in good growing condition

and kept in clean and well—ventilated

pens. No effort has been spared to

bring out the best that is in the parent

stock and to keep the animals vigorous

and healthy. The picture of four gen-

erations of animals from this herd in-

dicates lines of constructive breeding

so essential to establish type and heavy

production at the pail. No such results

can come from promiscuous matings of

sires and dams from different families

of the breed.





()ne of the most interesting visits

among the live stock breeders of the

county was at the farm of G. LISpil-

lane & Son, near Clio. Here we looked

over some of the best producing Hol-

stein cows in the country. Any breed—

ing establishment that can show five

young cows with production records

which total more than one hundred

thousand pounds of milk per year is a

credit to the dairy industry. The five

cows in this hundred thousand pound

a year herd are Flint Pauline, Flint

Vassar Bell, Flint Maplecrest Rosina

Girl, Butter Boy Flint Bell and Crest

Farm Johan Pauline. These five ani-

mals afford proof sufficient that dairy

type and heavy milk production go

hand 1'11 hand when proper attention is

given to the selection and mating of

breeding stock.



Flint Pauline, during the past two

hundred and ninety-one days, has pro-

duced‘ 26,145 pounds of milk and 1,060

pounds of butter. She is seven years

old and a wonderfully good individual

from the standpoint of type as well as

production. Another good individual,

possessing real dairy type and having

a good production record is Butter Boy

Rosina 2nd, with a seven-day record of

29.27 pounds of butter. Size, quality

and production considered, she is un—

questionably one of the" remarkable

cows of the breed. Another excellent

cow is Vale Cornucopia Fayne, with a





state. Some of the animals may lack the fin-





Angus supremacy in economy of pro-





Although president of

Friesian Association of America, and

an enthusiastic breeder of black-and-

White cattle, Mr. Aitken has never fail-

ed to give other breeds of dairy cattle

due credit and to do everything within

his power to encourage better business

methods on the farm and in the man-

agement of the breeding herd.





Healthy dairy cattle and yearly pro-

duction are two of Mr. Aitken’s pet

hobbies. With disease—free herds and

credible yearly production ,records

there is no limit to the profits of breed-

ing purebred dairy cattle in Michigan.

To prove that he believesflin practicing

what he preaches, Mr. Aitken has one



. ,of the best equipped, light and sani-





 





and every effort is being made to main-

tain the qualities that have built up





duction and superlative quality of beef.





NO man in America is'doing more



to promote the dairy industry in

general than D. D. Aitken, of Flint.

the Holstein-





seven—day record of 32.70 pounds. of but-

ter. That grand old foundation dam,

Butter Boy Rosina, a daughter of De

K01 2nds Butter Boy third, is the dam

and gianddam of a majority of the

best cows in the herd.



For a herd sire the Spillanes are de—

veloping King Bortjnsea, a son of King

Ona whose dam Ona Britton DeKol,

produced 1,345 pounds of butter in one

year. King Bortjnsea’s dam, Flint





Bortjnsea Pauline, has a seven- -day rec-





ord of 33 11 pounds of butter and sev-

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ALFALFA FOLLOWING SWEET

CLOVER.





 





One of the. fields that I cut for hay

this year had quite a lot of sweet

clover in it What would be the best

way to prepare this field for alfalfa?

I want to put it to rye this fall Would

you advise me to seed it to alfalfa or

sow sweet clover again and then the

alfalfa. I have been told that sweet

clover was hard to get rid of when once

started. What is your advice?



Barry Co. C. F. W.





The best and most enduling stands,





of alfalfa are secured, as a rule, when

seeded the season after a cultivated

crop, such as corn, beans, potatoes, or

beets. The land is usually free of

grass and weeds after it has been de-

voted for a season to crops requiring

cultivation. - ,



Light soils which are deficient in

o1gan1c matter and fertility can be put

in shape to 1eceive alfalfa more suc-

cessfully by planting to sweet clover.

A sweet clover crop is one which will

do better than alfalfa under adverse

conditions, such as may be found on

light soils or following a pasture crop.



Sweet clover can be gotten rid of

without difficulty by cutting before

seed is formed. If cut close to the

ground very little second growth will

develop. In handling this crop for hay

it should be cut with the mower-bar

Set 10 or 12 inches high, before the

bloom appears. Shoots, from which

the second crop will form, start from

the stems, and it is necessary to leave

a considerable length of stem.



Both alfalfa and sweet clover do best

when planted on a firm seed bed. We

would advise rolling several times be‘

fore planting with ordinary roller or

using the cultipacker both before and

after seeding.



I think you will have best success

ultimately with alfalfa by following

with another year of sweet clover be-

fore seeding to alfalfa. If ground is

not comparatively free of grass and

weeds, I think you will find it advis-

able to plant potatoes, corn, or beans,

after the sweet clover, and seed to al-

falfa the year following.



The use of lime is advisable for al-

falfa and sweet clover alike. The usual

application is two tons of ground lime-

stone or several cubic yards ‘of marl,

applied when fitting the seed bed.



Culture for the inoculation of alfalfa,

etc., may be secured from the Depart-

ment of Bacteriology, of the Michigan

Agricultural College, East Lansing,

Mich. The price is 25c per bottle and

one bottle contains sufficient material

to inoculate a bushel of seed. Direc-

tions for application accompany the

material. J. F. COX.





SELLING HENS FROM A DISEASED

FLOCK.





Aftel reading articles in your paper

concerning tuberculosis in chickens,

we have come to the conclusion this

is what ails our chickens, as they have

these symptoms and are gradually dy-

ing off. We have decided that we

ought to get rid of the whole flock,

thoroughly disinfect the coop and park

and start with new stock next spring.

Can youadvise me if the hens which

are apparently free from disease would

be fit for human consumption, also

whether this spring’s chicks are liable

to contract it, even if kept separate.



Bay Co. E. L. J.



Hens that are" apparently free from

tuberculosis would be fit for human

food even if a few birds in the flock

had' the disease or had died .of it.

We see no reason why a hen showing

all the signs of health and vigor would

not be fit for food even if occasionally

other hens in the flock had been sick.

However, if many of the birds have





 





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the entire flock of healthy birds is to tile in proportion to the number. of

be marketed for food we believe that acres to be drained. To make sure’of

it would be best to call in a veterin- sufficient capacity in the drain to carry

arian and have him pass on the fit- the water of ten aeres, we advise the

ness of the carcasses for human con- use of 4 inch tile instead of .3 inch tile.

sumption. « There are chances that Second; the inclination or fall is an

there will not be much appetite for important factor in determining the

chicken in a family if they know that size of tile to be used. The greater the

the bird to be eaten is at all question- fall the greater will be the rapidity of

able. And of course a breeder would the water flow, increasing correspond-

never wish to sell poultry for meat ingly the amount of water discharged

unless thelr were of sufficient quality through the drain. A 4 inch drain may

to use at home. The veterinarian have fall enough to carry as much

could easily judge the quality of the water as would flow through a 5 inch

flock by personal inspection and he drain laid With much less fall. A main

might be able to save you the market drain may be laid at almost a level

value of many birds when they are grade and do good work, but the size

killed. You have the right idea about of the tile should be larger.

starting over with new stock after a were able to go overthe farm to be

thorough disinfection of the premises. drained it would be possible to give



Young chicks hatched this spring the sizes needed, but with the use of

from such stock may be entirely free the table we believe that you should

from tuberculosis if they are vigorous have no trouble with your drainage

stock and have been raised on clean work. H. W.

ground. If they are lacking in vitality





it would pay to get rid Of them. K. VETCH FOR SEED.





 





How much winter vetch seed should

I sow, and when, to get a crop of seed

next year?

C. H. S.





TILE DRAINAGE.





I would like to know what size tile





_ Alpena Co.

I need to drain forty acres of clay Tl , l b t'

land. The upper forty rods of this 1e ve‘CI can e sown any "“9 up





land has three and one- -half feet of to the middle of Septembel; in fact it

fall, While the remaining forty rods has is usually gown with rye, because it

two feet 0f fall. H is almost impossible to cut the vetch





giggled-90$ tile to b used de ends when sown alone. The stem is very

e ‘ p weak and it will ,lay flat on the





first upon the extent of the area to be ground The rye helps hold it up so

drained;second upon the fall, and third that it. can be harvested then they

upon the depth 0f the drain a“? the have a special machine for separating

character of the 5011 and subsofl.



F'r t t th ar a to b d , d' the vetch seed from rye. I do not



,1 S ‘as 0 - e e e raine ’ think it would be practical to sow the

to illustrate more fully, a farmer pro- vetch alone. It would cost too much to

poses to drain twenty acres or land harvest. A mixture of one bushel of

thigqgh 3:18 9“”; a3? :wh: to de rye and twenty pounds of vetch seed

9 me e Size 1e or e mam would be a good combination where





drain. He finds that there IS an area you wish to especially grow vetch for

of as much as twenty acres of land seed C C L





adjoining, that sheds its surface water

from rainfall and water percolating

through the soil upon and into the

land of the twenty acres he wishes to

drain. That is the natural outlet is A rents out some fields Of his farm

, to B, and B is to furnish part of help

over or through this area. Therefore, and pay part of threshing bill. B’s

the tile for the main drain and sub- credit isn’t good. If B doesn't pay his

drains should be large enough to re— part of threshing bill is there any way

ceive and carry the water shed onto that A could be made to pay it? A S

the land If from the contract it is possible





For a simple rule for those who wish to tell whether It is a partnership,a

to construct drains through the low contract 0f hiring, or a. lease, we could

places of the farm, a practical drainage tell then the answer to the question.





contractor gives the following as a re- It looks on.the face 0f the Question

sult of his experience: “On an aver- very much like a partnershlp, 1n which





age the fall usually is about six inches case how 0f the partners are liable to





in 100 feet. With ordinarily accurate the creditors for the full amount.





work in securing a regular fall, athree If it is not a partnership and A

inch tile drain will carry the water of hired the thlesher and the work was





done on his credit, A would undoubt-

edly be liable for the full bill.

J. R. R.





 





FARMING 'ON





SHARES.





six acres, a four inch tile will drain

eight acres, a six inch tile twenty acres

and an eight inch tile eighty acres.”

The above rule is for ordinary not





thorough drainage. ””5 FENCES.





. . 1. Can my neighbor compel me to

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In thorough work, the followmg bile. build fence now in the busy time of

estimate of the number of acres harvest? I have corn in my side and

drained by different sizes of drain tile he has hay, but he has his hay out now

to be used in the construction of drain 313% twang: me If: .butild fetnce '31. C39

-, _ w1 urn ssoc 1n opasurel. 11

lb taken from a table prepared by he make me stop my harvest and make

me- 3- C- Carpenter: a fence so he can pasture it?





3m. 4111. Gin. 8111. 2. .When I build my part of line

Rate of tile tile tile tile fence I intend to put woven wire in-

inclination acres acres acres acres £131? ogfbgagged 0:361 3131?th $22

1 ft- 1n 50-” 8 4 17 47- 7 up woven wire on his half of line? It

1 ft. in 100. . . 5.7 11.9 33.1 69.2 is all barbed wire now. G. M.

1 ft. in 150... 4.5 9.5 26.8 56 1. After a line fence is built each

1 ft. in 200... 3.9 8.5 23.8 48 party is bound to maintain his share

1 ft. in 250. .. 3.5 ' 7.5 20.4 42.4 of the fence at his peril, and the other

1 ft. in 300... .. 6.9 18.4 38.2 can turn his stock against the fence

1 ft. 1n 400... .. 5.9 16.5 34.6 Without liability to the neighbor as

1 ft. m 500... .. 5.2 14.8 30.1 long as he keeps his own half in re-

1 ft. in 600... .. 4.8 13.3 28 pair No exception is made because

1 ft. in 800.. . . 4,1 114 24 of harvest time or the like.

1 ft. in 1000.... 10.2 21.2 2. The fence being once divided





The above table is intended for ac- either party may build his half of the,

'scriber’s term may be engpounded

t





curate, thorough drainage. but it is fence or any material that will make a

better practi





ordinary war to use larger Sizes of neighbors half is built cor—stone, Wood,





If we





in our judgment, in lawful fence. regardless of what his,





 





woven wire, or. barbed wire, ditch.

stumps, .or anything that will turn

stock, and that is not excessively dan-

gerous.



Therefore the subscriber may re-

build his half of woven wire but he

cannot compel his neighbor to do the

same with his. ' J. R. R.





COLORING THE GOVERNMENT

WHITEWASH FORMULA.





 





Could I use government whitewash

as a filler and cover it with prepared ,

paint? Or would it be best to mix

Venetian red with the government

formula?



Eaton Co. M. D. R.





I cannot imagine how much Vene-

tian red it would take to cover this

barn to make it look like red paint.

therefore would not wish to advise

you, but you can experiment and see,

how much the cost will be.



You cannot expect that this govern-

ment whitewash will last as long on a

building as regular paint, as it is not

absorbed by the wood as much as paint

and consequently it will not remain as

long, and whether it would pay to go

to the expense of coloring it I would

not be able to say. One would have to

experiment with it and see how much

extra it would cost and then find out

how long it will last. If this can be

done it would certainly cheapen the

painting material very much.



2 C. C. L.





'FIXTURES PASSING WITH LAND.





 





I would like information through

your valuable paper relative to the

ownership of an electric light plant in-

stalled on a farm. The farm is sold

and no mention made of the lighting

plant Admittedly the wiring goes with

the house, but do the batteries also?



I. G.





The wiring would be of little value

without the batteries. Is the purchas-

er of a house entitled to the keys to

the doors as well as the doors them-

selves? The answer is that what. the.

owner annexed as a permanent im-

provement to the land passes with it,

though not in fact annexed to it. Also.

that without which the land could not

be used in the manner intended in the

erection of the construction passes

with the land. The batteries clearly

pass with the land. J. R. R.





EFFECT OF DEATH ON CONTRACT.





 





A rents a farm, the owner agreeing

to furnish part of the stock, repair

fences, and so forth. The owner dies,

and his administrator refuses to make

the repairs. What can A do? J. "P.





If the contract is a partnership it is

terminated by the death of either part-

ner, and all the survivor could do

would be to wind up the partnership.



If it is a lease the administrator is

liable on the contracts of ‘the deceased

and judgment may be recovered for

breach, to be satisfied dut of the funds

coming to the hands of the adminis-

trator. J. R. R.





TRESPABSING STOCK.





 





My neighbor has such pour fences

between his farm and the one beyond

that stock comes across his land onto

mine. There is no fence between me

and my neighbor J. M.





The owner of stock is bound by the

common law-to keep his stock at home

at his peril, and the exception made

in favor of adjoining owners who have

had a division of their line fence has

no application between either of them ‘

and a third party, therefore the stock

of the distant neighbor coming across

the intermediate land onto the sub





   





the can do ’ "
I :into the grain carrying trade

a-liDI’W L Harding of Iowa, J. R. How-





 





tion delegates returning from

their Western trip to the Wash-

ington headquarters, report a very en-





A. MERICAN Farm Bureau Federa-





_, thusiastic meeting of the Federation





a Denver. The Salt Lake City meet-

ing, which was held to discuss .meth-

ads of solving the wool situation, was

attended by many prominent wool

growers from all the leading wool pro-

ducing states.



At this meeting, Gray Silver, Wash-

ington representative of the American

Farm Bureau Federation, made a re—

port in which he stated that there was

an abundance of wool, but not an ex-

cess of the better kinds most used in

this country. There is a large quan-

tity of low grade American wool that

in former years has been consumed

by Germany and Austria. There is a

bill now in Congress providing for

granting Germany a credit against the

account of the alien property held in

this country. There is nearly a billion

dollars’ worth of such property, in ad-

dition to the merchant ships held by

the United States, whose valuation

"about equals the claims filed by citi-

zens against aliens, or about $600,000,-

000, leaving a net credit on Germany’s

account of nearly a billion dollars.





“We as farmers,” says Mr. Silver,

“desire that Germany be given credit

against that billion dollars instead of

turning over the money, that she may

buy our agricultural products in the

way of raw materials for her factories.

If Germany and Austria could buy the

lower grades of wool which they are

willing to do, that would clean up the

surplus or low grade wool and leave

the wool market in good condition.

Congress alone has‘the power to act

in this matter, consequently farmers

should pool their wool and carry it

along until Congress has time to act.

In pooling their wool and holding it in

warehouses, farmers can use their

warehouse receipts as collateral for

loans. This privilege was given them

by the Federal Reserve Board, last

spring, when, through the efforts of

the American Farm Bureau Federa-

tion’s Washington office, the board re-

quired the banks to accept warehouse

receipts in the farmers’ hands to en-

able them to carry wool until the mar-

ket situation improved.”





It is the belief of Mr. Silver that the

United States, in order to protect itself,

must promote the international rela-

tions of the farmers in a business way,

because the country is safe only when

we grow enough for our own needs

and a surplus for other nations. In

justification of this assertion it may

be said that six of the biggest crops

produced in this country are priced in

markets beyond our shores.





HE ACTION taken by the Inter-



state Commerce Commission in

ordering a readjustment of lake-rail

rates on grain so as to make possible

the carrying of grain by lake boats at

a profit, came “as a great relief to the

farmers of the Middle West who have

lost heavily because of the inability to

move their crops to market,” say Farm

Bureau Federation officials. Delega-

tion after delegation has come to

Washington to ‘appeal to the Commis—

sion for cars and the Federation has

worked incessantly for some measure

of relief. Finally the Federation pro-





"p'OSed the plan for rate readjustments





which would put the lake boats back

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Federation made a strong appeal be-

fore" the Interstate Commerce "Commis-

sion, and since the Commission had

already looked into the matter and was

favorably impressed, quick results fol-

lowed. The benefit to be derived from

this arrangement agreed to by the

roads will come not alone from the re-

lease of grain cars loaded for the East,

but the elimination of the long empty

return trip to the West. .By utilizing

lake boats for the long haul the avail-

able supply of grain cars can be sut-

tled back and forth between the grain

region and the upper lake ports at the

western end and between Buffalo and

the seaboard at the eastern end, and

thereby greatly increase the effective

car supply. The Farm Bureau men are

also working on a plan for greater

utilization of the Barge canal. between

Buffalo and the Hudson river.





TATE and Federal appropriations



reaching a total of $250,000,000

may be expended for highway con-

struction during the current fiscal year,

according to a statement given out by

Thomas H. MacDonald, chief of the

Bureau of Public Roads, the need of

Federal action this year is emphasized





'FARMER





mal Industry. “Iowa has been espe-

cially slow in taking up this work,”

says Dr. Kiernan. “Some thirty-five

states were started in tuberculosis

eradication work before Iowa got into

the game. The first appropriation for

this work was made by the last legis-

lature.

a late start, however, the Iowa farm-





ers are now right up in the front rank





in this movement. In all parts of the

state they are taking favorably to it.

This campaign includes three projects:

The accredited herd plan, eradication

of tuberculosis in circumscribed areas,

such as a county, and the eradication

of tuberculosis of swine. A man is

put into a county with the expectation

of keeping him there for a few weeks,

then transferring his services to an-

other county. These men have been

kept so busy that the State and Fed-

eral inspectors told~the people in each

county that if they were interested in

cleaning up all the tuberculosis in their

county, the way to do so was to co-op-

erate by employing an inspector by

means of an appropriation from their

county funds. The people were will-

ing to do this. They went before their

county boards, who were also willing





 





 





 





 





 





Visitors at the Michigan State Fair Are Studying Carefully this Government

Model of .3 Dairy Barn.





 





 





by Mr. MacDonald. The last install<

ments of Federal aid funds, amounting

to $100,000,000, became available July

1. A deduction of $3,000,000 will be

made to provide for the expense of ad-

ministering the Federal Aid act by the

Department of Agriculture. The bal-

ance of $97,000,000 will be divided

among the states in proportion to their

population, area and mileage of post

roads.



“State highway departments should

know at least a year in advance what

funds are to be available in order that

plans may be made for future con-

struction,” says Mr. MacDonald. “Un-

less further Federal action is taken in

the coming year, the states will be left

in doubt as to the future policy of the

government and the amount of money

they must be prepared to spend. Such

a contingency would involve a serious

setback to the progress of road con-

struction and should be avoided by

early congressional action.”





UBERCULOSIS eradication work

under the accredited herd plan is—

proceeding very satisfactorily in most

states, according to Dr. J. A. Kiernan,

chief of the Tuberculosis Eradicatibn





 





,tion establishments.





to go ahead, but waited for legal advice

from the attorney general. This offi-

cial told them that they had no author-

ity to appropriate money raised by

taxes for this purpose.”



Dr. Kiernan says this situation pre-

vails in several states, and the law

enacted by the Alabama state legisla-

ture last year to meet this objection

is suggested as a pattern for other

state legislatures to follow. This new

Alabama law provides that “county

boards of revenue or county commis-

sioners may appropriate as much

money as shall be deemed necessary

for the control or eradication of any

infectious, contagious or comunicable

diseases of live stock or the control

of the cause of such diseases of live

stock. This fund shall be used in co-

operation with the State Live Stock

Sanitary Board or the Federal Bureau

of Animal Husbandry.”



“We figure,” continues Dr. Kiernan,





' “that two things are stimulating inter-





est in this work in Iowa: First, the

percentage of tuberculous cattle and

swine shipped from Iowa is very large,

compared with other states, as shown

by. records of the official meat inspec-

Somebody' must

stand these losses of condemned ani-





 





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raln Rates Roads, Declining

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mals, and the producer is the ultimate

loser. The other factor is that tuber—

culosis among the people is particularly

severe in those. counties where the

farmers have shown the greatest ac-

tivity in eradication work.”



“There is no longer a question as to

whether you can eradicate tubercu-

losis. It has been fully demonstrated

in the District of Columbia, where ten

years ago 16 per cent of all the cattle

were affected with tuberculosis. The

last fiscal year, ending June 30, there

was not one case of tuberculosis

among the cattle that were in the dis-

trict one year. Three head of cattle

brought into the district from other

sections during the year reacted to the

tuberculin test. Some of the herds in

the district when the work started had

as high as 75 per cent of tuhercular

animals.





“Another reason Why they are erad—

icating tuberculosis is that at the pres—

ent time there is no market for cattle

for dairy purposes or for breeding un-

less it can be demonstrated that not

only the individual animals offered for

sale, but the herds out of which they

are taken, are free from tuberculosis.

The requirement under which most

cattle are bought now being to pass a

tuberculin retest within sixty days,

makes it unprofitable for the seller of

cattle to offer any that he doesn’t know

is in a healthy condition.





“At the present time the various

states and the Federal government

have at their command more than 300

veterinarians who are inspectors, but

this is only a nucleus of the expected

organization that will be available

within a few years. There are 7,000

veterinarians who are approved by the

Federal government to tuberculin test

cattle for interstate shipments, and

the plan is to build up this organiza-

tion so that it will be available in the

tuberculosis eradication campaign.





“One of the outstanding features in

this tuberculosis eradication work is

that there is no Federal law compel-

ling anyone to have his cows tested.

The campaign is built on the proper

understanding of the necessity of

eradicating tuberculosis by the live

stock owners themselves and their co—

operation in exterminating it. In all

the campaigns the live stock owners

have assumed the responsibility of

freeing their herds from disease and

have supported every move made by

the Federal organization in carrying

on the work.”





Minnesota stands first in tubercu-

losis eradication work, according to

the latest report, with 500 accredited

herds and 1,056 once tested free herds.

Pennsylvania has 284, Ohio 114, Mich-

igan 149, and Iowa 47 accredited

herds. New York state, like Iowa, has

been backward in the work, having 49

accredited herds, an insignificant num-

ber compared with the large number

of dairy herds in the state.





HE committee on Statistics and



Standards of the United States

Chamber of Commerce sees no need

for being “panicky” over the present

industrial and financial situation. It

reports a widespread feeling that busi-

ness will probably continue good for

the remainder of the year. “The prob-

lems which now confront the farmer,”

the committee says, “are what the fu-

ture holds for him in the way’ of prices

for his products and whether adequate

transportation will be forthcoming to

move harvest yields to market. Upon



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en' hundred and twenty-three pounds of

milk. Their senior herd sire has re-

cently been sold and some of the cows

in the herd are being bred to King

Flint the sire at Walter T. Hill’s farm.





At Genrida. Farm near Davison, we

visited Walter '1‘. Hill and looked over

his herd of forty-five Holstein cattle.

Among the females in the herd are fif-

teen daughters of Johan Hengerveld

Lad that show wonderful uniformity of

type and heavy milking qualities. Mr.

Hill has one thirty-pound cow and sew





 





One of Lundy’e Shorthorn Calves.





eral with records above twenty-five

pounds of butter in seven days.





For a herd sire he has King Flint,

a son of Maplecrest Korndyke Hen-

gerveld and out of a. thirty-threepound

dam. King Flint is one of the leading

bulls of the state and has been used

extensively by the leading breeders of

Genesee county. Mr. Hill has a. splen-

did two hundred and forty-acre farm

and a good set of buildings and equip-

ment for handling his herd. He is fol-

lowing the same general lines of breed-

ing that have proved so successful in

the herds of Mr. Aitken and Spillane

& Son, and is sure to make breed his-

tory within the next few years unless

something unforeseen occurs to neces-





PACKERS TO SEL’L STOCK YARDS.





 





HE five big meat packers have



filed with the Supreme Court in

Washington plans and specifications

for the disposal of their stockyard in-

terests, as required by the Federal De-

partment of Justice. The value of the

stock represented by the statement

submitted to the District Supreme

Court was placed at between $30,000,-

000 and $40,000,000, and it is planned

by the packers to sell their stockyards

to 'F. H. Prince & Company of Boston.

The Boston firm pr0poees to organize

a. holding company to take control of

the interests to be acquired with the

sanction of the courts, according to an

affidavit submitted by Frederick H.

Prince, head of the company, to the

court. It would not be practicable, he

said, to try to dispose of the yards sep-

arately, owing to the uncertain finan—

cial conditions, and the holding com-

pany planned the gradual selling of the

interests which it would control under

the proposed arrangement.



One of the features of the plan is

the provision that securities of the

holding company, given in part pay-

ment, shall not represent as much as

50 per cent of the capitalization of the

company. It also provides that the

yards shall be preServed in their pres-

ent location and condition for ten

years, in order that the co-operation

now maintained between the packers

and the yards might not be interrupt-

ed. This is desired, it isclaimed, as a

necessary part of the plan to prevent

the public from suffering because of'a.

peremptory ' diserrangement of the

yards and houses. '



Associate Justice 'Slddons directed

that the packers file with the court any





 





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UNDY BROTHERS, of Davison,



have an excellent herd of milking

Shorthorn cattle headed by Imported

Kelmscott Viscount, bred by Hobbs &

Son, of England. This bull is a roan

of good type and from lines of milking

blood that are unexcelled in his native

land. Among the females in the herd

are Daisies, Mysies, Oxford and Dia-

mond lines of blood. Lundy Brothers

own and Operate four hundred acres of

excellent farm land and find the milk-

ing type of Shorthoms exceedingly

well suited to their system of farming.

At present they have about thirty fe-

males and plan to increase the size of

their herd as rapidly as they can breed

and develop suitable females. They

are breeders of Duroc Jersey and O. I.

C. swine, and have good herds of both

breeds.





Over near Flushing we visited the

one hundred and thirty-five-acre farm

of Samuel Jones and looked over his

herd of Shorthorn cattle. Mr. Jones

has recently sold a number of cattle,

but has some of the good ones left.

The present herd sire is a son of But-

terfly Sultan, and most of the females

are of Scotch and Scotch-topped breed-

ing. He now has sixteen females on

his farm. Like many other breeders

of purebred cattle Mr. Jones has re-

duced the size of his herd to meet

with labor conditions.





F. D. Stephens, of Davlson, has a

herd of eighty head of Duroc Jersey

swine headed by Stephen’s Orion Cher-

ry King, a young boar of good size

and large, strong bone. Among the

brood sows in the herd Cherry King,

Rasin’s Pride and Pathfinder blood pre~

dominates. Mr. Stephens has the right

ideas about breeding and selling pure-

bred swine, and does not develop a

boar pig that fails to measure up to his





September 21. After that date the De-

partment of Justice will be given op-

portunity to file any objections the of-

ficials may have to the plans or the

amendments of the packers. After any

amendments ,have been filed and the

Department of Justice has objected to

their admission, the court will hear

arguments on the whole matter on Oc-

tober 7. E. E. R.





WILL FIGHT MEREDITH RULE.





 





United States Circuit Court Judge

Page recently entered a, temporary re~

straining order in the district court of

Chicago, prohibiting the Secretary of

Agriculture and United States District

Attorney Charles F. Clyne from pro-

ceeding in any way to enforce the sec-

retary’s order. of August 12th, directing

a reduction in commission rates

charged by live stock commission mer-

chants. The bill was filed by W. W.

Wilson & Co.





Hearing on the permanent injunction

is set for September 8. 1920. In. the

interim the aforesaid officials of the

government are prohibited from any

acts of interference with the business

of the complainants. A11 commission

merchants similarly situated are pro‘

tected under the order.





The Chicago Live Stock Exchange

announces that: The Secretary of

Agriculture issued an order under au-

thority of war time measures dated

August 12, 1920, forbidding live stock

commission men to conduct their busi-

ness in accord with existing peace

conditions, ordering them J to desiSt

from charging rates of commission

that have become necessary and are

required to enable commission men to

maintain the quality ~ot service de—





 





 

 





possess in type and, quality.





AVISIT to the farm oi! Clair Wyn-



koop, near Flushing, a-iforded a

good illustration of profitable poultry

keeping in connection with general

farming. Mrs. Wynkoop has a flock of

about one hundred and thirty White

Wyandotte birds that Mr. Foreman the

poultry expert from M. A. C. has pro-

nounced the best in the state. During

the past year the income from this

flock has amounted to more than one

thousand dollars. Mrs. Wynkoop has

figured all of the feed grown on the

farm at current market prices and pur-

chased necessary supplemental feeds.





 





 





Fay Meyer’s Guernsey Dolly Peoirs





The feed bills and other expenses have

amounted to five hundred. dollars, or

one-half of the total income, leaving a.

labor income of something like five

hundred dollars from the flock. These

figures include the sales from the flock,

the cost of feeds and hatching and

other incidentals, but have given no

credit for the eggs and chickens used

for the family table. This is quite a

tidy sum to add to the net income

from an eighty-acre farm where no

specialty other than poultry is being

handled. Mrs. Wynkoop has practiced

Foreman’s system of culling the flock.



Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs are being con-

ducted under the leadership of Kelsey

B. Smith. Mr. Smith has several pig

and calf clubs in different parts of the



(Continued on page 307.)





News of the Agricultural WOrld





manded by producers and patrons of

the Chicago market.





Would Disorganize Service.



Cempliance with the secretary’s or-

der would so disorganize the service

rendered by commission men that

patrons of the market would immedi-

ately be adversely affected.



During the great war much federal

legislation was enacted to perfect an





immense fighting machine, subordinat-





ing many lines of production and in.

dustry to its support and maintenance.



Those enabling laws were not con-

tested during the war and were strict-

ly observed, and although the neces-

sity for their enforcement has' long

since passed, have not been repealed.

Many industries are released and re—

stored to private ownership and con-

trol; wheat and transportation can be

cited as conSpicuous examples.



The Department of Agriculture,

however, persists in strict enforce-





ment of some war time measures, not-.‘ »





withstanding that its action in nowise

contributes to the aid or maintenance

of the government, and likewise does

not in the least affect production or

distribution.

Will Test Meredith's Order.



Requests have been telegraphed and

presented in person to Secretary Mer-

edith by representatives of commis-

sion men to rescind the order, which

he has refused to do. In preservation

of their constitutional rights and the

high standard of service required of

them by their patrons, the livé stock

commission men have decided that

they will test the validity of the Sec-

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Pastures





portion of the year.



On farms where herds of purebred

breeding cattle are maintained, good

pastures are indispensable.

that is to live long and breed every

year must have robust health, and this

can be attained and maintained only

under outdoor conditions with good

pastures and adequate shelter. There

are two considerations which one

should weigh carefully before deciding

-to abandon permanent pastures and

depend upon growing crops throughout

the year. First, what is the actual cost

of the year’s keep? It may come as a

surprise that it is in the summer that

greater economies can be introduced;

that more acres in pasture would ac:

complish this by putting on more

pounds of growth and fat and at the

same time prepare the cattle for better

gains during the winter feeding period.



This is not an argument against feed-





 





Good Pastures Furnish the Cheapest Feeds.





ing silage and alfalfa during the graz-

ing season. Even with the best of pas—

ture grasses supplemental feeds are

needed as an insurance'against sum-

mer drouths. Animals fed liberal ra-

tions of silage and alfalfa hay will

make cheaper gains and more rapid

growth if they have access to good

pasture grasses. In reality on good

farming land there is little cheap graz-

ing and many close students find that

one of our-greatest farm problems is

that of building up our grazing land' so

that the yields of grasses may keep

pace with the yields of other ,farm

crops.



Pasture varies in its quality and

yield, perhaps, more than any other

phase of soil production and a standard

is yet to be formulated. In England

and France pastures have been improv-

ed until they yield what seem almost

fabulous crops of grasses to be con-

verted into animal products. Farmers

in America need to make a more care-

ful study of the pasture problem, even

though we are finding it profitable to

depend more and more upon silage and

alfalfa as an insurance against drouth

as well as a means of enabling us to

increase the stock carrying capacity



- of our farms. ’ ‘





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How 'Tfiey May ée Maintained





HE. farm labor problem and the velopment‘ of any farm the most fertile



high prices of feeding materials



ought to convince more men of

the importance of good pastures. Even

though it has been found profitable to

maintain cattle on silage and alfalfa as

the main ration throughout the year, a

good pasture is necessary in order to

bring the young stock to proper matur-

ity and provide cheap growth during a





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and easily cultivated acres are the first

to grow general farm crops and con-

tribute their part to the farm income.

The rough and poorly drained portion

of the farm is utilized for pasture; the

owner seldom devoting any attention

to fertilizing or draining and seeding

new grasses so that the weeds are held

in check and new grasses have a fair

opportunity to gain a foothold and pro-

duce maximum crops of desirable

herbage.



“One of the most frequent causes of

the decline of pasture grasses is early

grazing and overstocking before the

young grass has made a proper start

in thevspring. The first green grass

does the animals but little good and.

the one thing a forage plant needs to

stimulate root growth after the rest

period is the development of leaf sur-

face. .If allowed to grow until the

herbage furnishes good picking for the

cattle, and the roots are developed suf-

ficiently to go through periods of dry

’weather in good shape, the pasture will

furnish more uniform grazing through-

out the entire season. Obviously, too

early and too close grazing must be

avoided if one is to get maximum prof-

its from pastures.



In the central states it. will usually





pay well to feed silage and hay until

the grasses have made a vigorous

early growth. Preferably the herbage

should be, at least, six inches high, and

some of the flower stalks much higher.

This will be from. the first to the third

week in May. It requires the eye of

an experienced stockman to estimate

how many animals a given area may

profitably carry and how much supple-

mental feeds may be needed and when

they should be supplied to produce the

best results. Unless one knows ap-

proximately how many animals the pas~

ture has supported in the past it is

difficult to plan on- realizing full bene-

fits the first two or three seasons. It

is always safer, both as to stock and

pasture, to figure a little below what

one would expect the area to support in

favorable seasons. When it is not pos—

sible to dispose of some of the animals

after the grazing season begins and

give the pasture an opportunity to rest,

one can improve conditions if silage

and alfalfa or mixed hay are available.

As soon as it is observed that some of

the more desirable grasses are not

making proper growth supplemental

feeds should be promptly supplied.

Such a system of summer feeding will

insure uniform gains of growth and fat

without decreasing the stock-carrying

capacity of the pasture later in the sea-

son or injuring the stand of grasses for

succeeding years.



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In its issue of June, 1920, Petroleum

Age says:





“The announcement made May 25th,

advancing the tank wagon prices of

gasoline and kerosene in all Standard .

Oil Company (Indiana) territory was a

disappointment to the oil men. They

say the advance in the price of gaso-

line was less than was expected, or at

least hoped for. The refiner is asking

23c for the cheapest straight-run, and

this makes the cost to the jobber 25c

in Chicago. To this must be added

3C for the cost of doing business. As a

result the new price is still too low for

a profit on gasoline.”





The Standard Oil Com any (Indiana)

distributes through tan wagons and

service stations, completing the cycle of

service from refiner to consumer.





The present low price for gasoline in

the Middle West is due in large measure

to the efficiency of the Standard Oil

Company (Indiana) in refining and dis-

tributing its products.





The Standard Oil Company (Indiana)

maintains an elaborate research departs

ment, which has enabled it to increase

the amount of high grade gasoline ob—

tainable from crude oil.





The efliciency of the manufacturing

department, plus the all but perfect

system of distribution, enables the com=

pany to render an unique but necessary

service to everyone in the Middle West

Who, either directly or indirectly, relies

upon automotive machinery for power.





The Standard Oil Company (Indiana)

has maintained, and will continue to

maintain, the lowest possible price for

petroleum products consistent with

proper security to its stockholders.





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in the stock carrying capacity 6! pas-

tures has been attained in two seasons

from proper spring and late summer

management. ‘Where Kentucky blue:

grass and white clover predominate

and the stand is sufficient without 9.1-

lowing the seed crop to matuie the

pasture may be. grazed uniformly dur-

ing the season. In some sections

where bluegrass and white clover ma—

ture late in July the plants, if not graz-

ed, dry up and furnish but little graz.

lug during the late summer and autumn

months. On the other hand, if the

plants are grazed moderately a ' week

or two before seed maturity growth

continues until late in the season, and

thus they produce grazing of high qual-

ity at a time when other grasses are

deteriorating. Grasses and clovers can-

not produce profitable grazing unless

one provides suitable conditions for

their growth It is just as important,

therefore, to maintain the fertility of

pasture soils and to use judgment in

allowing the stock to harvest the crops

as it is to fertilize planted crops and

harvest them at the right time.





oral ways. Feeding supplemental

feeds such as silage and hay. and judi-

cious grazing will constantly add to the

fertility of pasture lands. If fertilizer

is applied directly the kinds and

amount to use will depend upon the

conditions of the land and the season

when they are applied. Sometimes

lime is needed before the desirable

grasses will make a good stand. On

low, wet land underdrainage should be

provided before any attempt is made to

fertilize and reseed. There is no way

of estimating the value of underdrain—

age in increasing the yield of natural

grasses, because the more desirable

varieties gradually come in and replace

the coarse, rank growing varieties as

soon as the soil conditions are favor-

able. In some cases a system of tile

drainage has changed a lowrwet marsh

into a productive pasture and increas-

ed its value for grazing purposes to a

level where it may yield two hundred

and fifty pounds per acre of growth

and fat, and many larger yields are on

record As a general rule acid phos-

phate supplies the element of plant

food most needed to encourage the

growth of pasture grasses and clovers.

An application of lime to correct soil

acidity, followed with an application

of acid phosphate and a liberal seeding

of desirable varieties of glasses and

clovers is about the best treatment one

can give an old pasture. If the land

can be plowed and seeded, all the bet-

ter, but if not, good results may be at-

tained by discing and liming and then,





‘ after the first rain, sowing the acid





phosphate, discing again and seeding





AFEW shade trees left growing on

the high knolls in a pasture will

aid materially in the concentration of

soil fertility gathered by the stock from

the entire area over which they graze.

One has only to ride through the coun-

try in the summer to note the benefit

to grasses from trees left on hilltops.

Cattle do not spend more than one-

third of their time grazing where the

grasses and clover are good. The rest

of the time they spend lying down or

standing in the shade fighting flies.

‘ They choose the shade in which to

" rest, particularly if it is on high ground





. where a breeze is always stirring. Be-





sides flies me less troublesome on high

ground where a good breeze is blow-





ing. It is these high places that need

f the fertilizer, and if a few trees are left

‘ on the crest, for many rods down the

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shade will encourage the growth of-

rank grasses, and if the trees are aid;

the banks of a stream the fertilizer left

bythe cattle finds its way into the

water. This explains in part the diffi—

culty of maintaining the productivity

of rolling pastures after years of gran:

ms. The grasses that gather fertility

from the hilltops are eaten by the cat-

tle and carried down to the low lands

Where the fertilizing elements are de-

posited and in many instances, washed

away into the stream and lost. With-

out expense the fertility might have

been evenly distributed; that gathered

from the low lands carried to the hill-

tops if shade trees had been left there

to attract the cattle. One thing we





must understand in scientific manager

ment of pasture lands, and that is that ‘





there is a constant removal of plant

food from place to place as sure as





though the crops are harvested and





hauled away in a, wagon or transferred

from place to place. If we can so plan

the management that the plant food is

distributed evenly ovor the places

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F you will allow me, I would like to

say a few words to C. E. 8., of Oge-

maw county, through the columns of





your paper, and also throw in my own-





testlmony on the side of vetch, which

I think is one of the most valuable

plants raised on the farms of the Unit-

ed States today.



C. E. S. says he got, last year, live

and a half bushels of vetch and six-

teen and a quarter bushels of rye per

acre. At our prices here that would

be as follows: Five and a half bushels

of vetch at $15 per bushel, $82.50; six-

teen and a quarter bushels of rye at

$1.40 per bushel, $22.76, making a to—

tal of $105.25.



Now, $105.25 per acre was certainly

a good cash crop, as last year's crops

were poor on account of (lack of mois-

ture, and it requires far less labor to

put it in and harvest than any other

farm crop. Why not put in your whole

form? You can raise it on the same

land year after year, and take it off,

and your land will steadily grow more

fertile, because the vetch plant is able

to store large quantities of nitrogen in

the soil by the action of the bacteria

in the root tubercles.



I have a piece of sand land which,

when it came into our possession

would not raise a crop that would pay

for plowing the land. I commenced

sowing vetch and rye on it, taking 011

three crops. Each crop was better

than the one before. Last year I put

twenty fifty~bushel loads of rotten ma-

nure per acre on it and planted it to

potatoes. The tops covered the ground,

and if we had had a normal amount

of rain I think I would have harvested

two hundred, and perhaps two hundred

and fifty or three hundred bushels of

potatoes per acre.



When I commenced sowing the

vetch I didn’t inoculate the seed, which

should be done if you want a full crop

the first year. Vetch will do no good

the first year, even on good land, un-

less the seed or land is inoculated it

Will take three or four years to work

up to a full crop. It can be done

though, by sowing it on the same land

year after year.



I found it a good cash crop. I put

a little advertisement in this journal

and got more orders than I could fill.



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Diluted Milk





HIS purebred Jersey heifer calf is

an unusually vigorous youngster

and has made a remarkable growth,





' free from the boWel disorders calves





are heir to. The milk fed, whether

whole or skimmed, has contained about

a quart of water for each gallon of

milk, resulting in a mixture of water

twenty per cent, and milk eighty per

cent. This is in accord with the prac-

tice of Dr. J. F. Devine, of New York

state, who has had remarkable success

with channel island calves The milk

of these breeds has a high content of

both fat and casein and skimming re-

moves the leavening fat and results in

a caseous liquid difficult to digest and

often developing into a cottage cheese





Best for Feed





in the stomach, so resistant as to pro-

duce an inflammation and death in fits.

The addition of water, which may be

warm enough to bring the noon feed-

ing up to the warmth of the morning

and night rations, results in food of a

natural composition and perfectly

adapted to the calf’s digestion, as the

concentrated, untreated milk of these

breeds is not. I hope those having

herds of the island cattle and experi-

encing bowel troubles with the calves

will try this method, maintaining, also,

the usual cleanliness and regularity of

feeding. Overfeeding is a danger, but

we have found that much more of the

compound can be fed than was possible

with straight milk—John H. Winter,

Veterinarian, Hillsdale County.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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agricultural lime. No two agree,

however. One requires a guarantee of

lime content in terms of carbonate,

another in magnesium as well as cal-

cium. Some refer only to burnt lime

and others differ in various ways, caus-

ing the dealers much trouble and con—

fusing the far.mer



To remedy this situation, Professor

Elmer O. Fippin, manager of the agri-

cultural department of the National

Lime Association, with headquarters in

thhington, has drafted a uniform ag-

ricultural lime inspection law for

enactment by state legislatures. This

proposed measure is limited to liming

materials suitable for sweetening the

soil and does not include land plaster,

which has no capacity to sweeten the

soil, its primary function being to sup-

ply certain nutrients, thereby putting

it in a class with fertilizers.



Under the provisions of this bill ev-

ery dealer in agricultural lime in the

state would be required to secure an

annual license covering each brand or

kind of liming material he handles, and

each applicant for a license would be

compelled to present a certified guar-

antee as to the chemical and physical

composition of the. material handled.

Each package, or car or vehicle in

which bulk lime is transported shall

have delivered with‘it a tag or label

setting forth the guarantee as to the

chemical Composition and mechanical

fineness, with the brand and name of

the manufacturer. The chemical analy-

sis is to be given in terms of the ac-

tual lime elements.



In reporting, the physical character

of a liming material the use of the. new





it ' , _ system of. standard screens devised by

Q the United States Bureau of Standards

is provided -





one are made for taking sam-





anteed by the act are to be reported

in a bulletin for distribution to farm—

ers. Penalties for violations of the act

are left to the individual wishes of

each state.



Professor Fippin says this proposed

uniform agricultural lime inspection

bill will be submitted to the lime pro-

ducers and the agricultural colleges

and experiment stations for sugges-

tions and revisions, which will lead to

the development of a uniform law ef—

fective in providing uniform lime in-

spection and labeling legislation ac-

ceptable to the legislatures of every

state in the Union. This will not only

be of benefit to the lime manufactur-

ers and dealers, but will enable the

farmeis to secure an intelligent under—

standing of the kind and comparative

value of the lime he purchases for use

on his land.



Acting upon the suggestion of Pres-

ident Charles Warner, of the National

Lime Association, in regard to the

need for local storage houses for agri-

cultural lime, Professor Fippin is work-

ing on a plan for a lime storage plant

for local distribution, that will be in-

expensive and serviceable. The Ohio

Experiment Station has been working

along the same line, but Professor Fip-

pin d0es not consider their plan as

presented in the blueprint as practi-

cable for the purpose intended.



There are two associations of lime

producers organized for the promotion

of the use of lime for agricultural pur-

poses, the National Lime Association

and the National Agricultural Lime-

stone Association.

do not conflict in any way, it would

seem to be best that these .two lime

producers’ associations combine their

activities, and by so doing make their





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larger use Of lime for agricultural ’

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HE chart presented, this week

shows the monthly average

prices of hogs at Chicago for

the eighteen years 1901 to 1918, inclu-

sive, and the average number of hogs

packed in the west by months fr'om

1906 to 1918, inclusive. For the sake

of comparison the price of 1919 is also

given. The curve for supply is invert-

ed to show more clearly the degree'of

inverse correlation between supply and

price. While the two sets of figures

do not cover strictly identical periods,

a sufficiently large number of years

are included in each to give assurance

as to the dependability of the com-

parison. Western packing includes

about three-fourths of the total for the

entire country.



The curve for prices reflects on the

average quite accurately the periods of

greatest scarcity or greatest abundance

of hogs is quite easily preserved, the

price during the winter packing sea-

son, where the run is the heaviest, is

usually maintained at a level some-

what higher than would prevail if the

possibility of carrying the surplus

from the period of. abundance into the

period of scarcity did not exist. Like-

wise, the price in the periods of scar-

city does not rise so high as it would





5 Jan Feb. Mch. A . H





in





Hog Prices





were it not for these accumulations

which are then placed upon the mar-

ket.



The average difference between

January, the low month of the year,

and September, the high month, is the

difference between $7.20 and $8.65, or

$1.45 per hundred weight, an increase

of 20 per cent. However, December is

the logical low month of the year be-

cause of the large receipts. The fact

that it has averaged 5 above January

during the corresponding year is due

to the gradual upward tendency of

prices during the period covered. The

supply varies much more than the

price. The average December winter

packing in the west has been 3.352.000

hogs, while the September average at

1,567,000 is less than half as great.



The fact that normal prices show

the two high spots, one in April and

one in September, is due tothe con-

trol which the seasons exercise over





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81111: is the big run starting early in

November and tapering off by March

1. They are too light to go in August

and September and are kept cheaply

on forage crops and grass. Old corn

is too scarce or too high priced to

stimulate its use for early fattening.

As soon as the new crop is ready it is

used heavily, and in a short time the

hogs begin to crowd the markets. As

they were born within a short time

they naturally go to shambles within

a comparatively short time. The pack-

ers use every contrivance to beat

down prices to a low level, in order

to reduce to a minimum the risk of

carrying the surplus, to lower their in-

vestment and carrying charges and to

obtain the advantage of the greatest

possible advance in price over initial

cost on the stuff put away in their

cellars. Prices decline rapidly as a.

rule when the run starts and the pack—

ers begin their bear campaign. As the

run subsides, prices rise, particularly

during March, and usually beach a peak

some time in April when farmers are





Oct. Nov. Jan.





Seasonal Fluctuations





busy with spring work, and the fall-

born pigs are too young. Such pigs

come on the market during May and

June with a down turn in prices as a.

result, but since this crop is smaller

than that born in the spring, it does

not provide so large a. surplus over

fresh meat requirements. It does not

carry prices down as far as in winter.

When this run slackens, prices rise to

their high point for the year. This





peak usually is reached some time dur- »





ing late August or early, September.

Packers are often accused of support-

ing the market for live hogs at such

times in order to establish a higher

level upon which to sell the product

stored during the winter period of ac-

cumulation. gar



The price curve, for 1919, shows

that the break which started in late

July was one or two months earlier

than the normal time for that 1 event

when prices are not “skewed out of





shape by abnormal foreign financial '





conditions, labor disturbances and we:

ernment drives upon prices.“





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Grow More N1trogen

XPERIMENTS show that commer-

cial nitrogen cannot be used profit!



53ny to furnish any very considerable



amount of the nitrogen required by

field crops; this means that the nitro-

gen problem must be solved largely



, through the establishment of a nitro-



l. _ gen-gathering and nitrogen—saving sys-



' tem of farming, according to the New



York State College of Agriculture. At-

mospheric nitrogen should be utilized



; 1t through the growing of legume crops,



‘ as beans, and conserved by the proper



preservation and return to the soil of



farm manure and other forms of farm-



; . , produced-organic matter.



Manufacturers of fertilizers say that



1 even though this is true, farmers

should still “use a little nitrogen in

fertilizers to start the crop.” The ben-



, efit’ to be expected from this. practice



, g will depend on how efficiently the



' home supply has been utilized. Where



i , the organic matter in the soil has been



if depleted, and particularly Where a



supply of fresh organic matter has not



been recently added, the farmer may

expect not only an increased early



i growth, but a somewhat larger yield



from the use of nitrogen. Under such.

conditions, commercial nitrogen may

return a small profit on the investment

if purchased as nitrate of soda, sul-

phate of ammonia, or any of the other

standard nitrogenous materials.



The fertilizer manufacturers’ idea in

making their recommendations, is, ac-

cording to the college, not to sell more

nitrogenous fertilizing materials, but a

larger proportion of mixed fertilizers.

The fact that a little nitrogenous fer-

tilizer may be used profitably for giv-



‘ en crops does not justify the use of a



_ mixed fertilizer in preference to acid



_! phosphate.



’ The cost of this small amount of



nitrogen in a mixed fertilizer makes



it prohibitive even from the standpoint

of a “crop starter,” At present fer-



tilizer prices, the nitrogen in a 2-1-2



mixture costs sixty-two cents a pound.





 

 

 

 

 

 





i This means that one pays for the ni-

; trogen content at the rate of $192 a

it. ton for nitrate of soda. Since nitrate

K ,is selling for about $65 the college

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points out that the farmer pays the

difference—$127—for the mixing of

each ton of nitrate of soda purchased

in this mixed fertilizer. When purchas-

ed as the low grade 1-8 mixture~which

fortunately, the fertilizer organization





[ is attempting to have abandoned—the Egggdag‘ggggtzgf‘mp °1°th'

two per cent of nitrogen costs at the CoolKitchen

h rate of $347 a ton of nitrate of soda. ggtgggggggertg: gyms;

‘ . gain. Saves almost half the

Thinks Farmer 21 Poor

Accountant

{ HE average farmer is a poor

. i economist in many ways. Too

9 1 many times he tries to force the

market price for the products that he ~

sells to a higher level, when he is al~ E

{ ready getting a good market. price for E

5 his products. Each farmer wants the

Q market price of farm produCe to cor-





, respond to his particular cost of pro-

, ‘ duction, never stopping to ask himself

3 the question, “Am I producing these

, ' articles as cheaply as is possible?” The





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and lower the cost of production in

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worth the trip—times over.





See the Government Display—the Foreign Ideas.

and Cheese from Holland, Denmark and Argentine.





YOU CAN NOT AFFORD TO MISS IT.





One thought from one exhibition or Brother Breeder may

mean a'fortune as it did with a certain visitor last year.





Come and compare notes with the other winners.

among those present means giving yourself and your business a

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Look Ahead!!





For your future’s sake——for the the Good of your business

A you should see the Show of shows the National Dairy Show.





The Whole World is at your elbow and you will be face to

leaders—get the breeders best and latest

the result of years all in 10 short days.





See the Grove City Plan and how it worked out—see the

State Herd Contests——the Thousands of PURE BRED CATTLE—-

the JUDGING and the Bull and Calf Clubs.





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they have tried keeping accounts but

became discouraged at the showing





. they were making and quit it. It seems

to me that the farmer would be anx-





ious to continue keeping records after

he had learned this ‘much, as. this is

the only method by which he can find

out just where the [leakage is taking

place. If you had a barrel filled with

some liquid and you determined by

measuring that it was slowly leaking,

you wouldn't say, “Well, I would not

look for the leak, because I do not

want to find it.” No, you would imme-

diately look for the leak and find some

way to stop it. Why not do the same

thing with your farming if it is not

paying as much as it should?





There are' too many farmers that do

not combine business ability with farm-

ing. They depend too much on simply

selling their labor after it has been

converted into crops. The most pro-

gressive farmers that we have are

good business men and financiers.

They see into the future and are able

to meet the conditions when they





. - arise. ‘They are not easily influenced





by temporary depressions in market

condtitons, as they are usually shrewd

enough to sit tight and wait for the

positive reaction that usually follows.





One thing that many farmers are dO-

ing and have been doing for some time

is robbing the soil of its fertility. They

will be compelled tO'stop this before a

great time, as they are taking too

much from the soil and failing to put

anything back.





The farmers of today do not have

the large families that they did one

or'two generations ago. At that time





large grown-up boys to assist with the

work on the farm. But at the present

time the farmer usually sees his, boys

and girls go to town as soon as they

get old enough to be of a great deal of

help. They confine their children much

the same as they were in their youth.

Times have changed wonderfully and

the youth of today expects those pleas-

ures and enjoyments that belong to

this age. The parents that say, “What

was good enough for me is good

enough for my children,” are treading

on dangerous ground. What was good

enough for you is not good enough for

them, neither will the things that we

enjoy now be good enough, nor will

they satisfy our children when they

grow up.





Have things convenient for the wom~

en folks. Have water in the house and

a gasoline engine for washing and

churning and running the separator.

Have things handy around the barn,

good harness, good horses, good farm-

ing implements, good fences. Furnish

the boy with a good horse and buggy,

and with work within reason. Do not

expect too much of your boys, but trust

them and make them partners of yours

by taking them into your confidence

and allowing them to have some things

for their own. If you have things about

the home and farm that are convenient

and handy, and have pleasant and

friendly relations existing among the

members of the family, the young peo-

ple will take an added interest in the

farm.





One of the, most disastrous things

with which the tamer has to contend

is the prevention of the loss of his ani-

mals from the various animal plagues,

such as hog cholera. swine plague. tu-

berculosis, contagious abortion, etc.

He reads of sanitation and hygiene in

all the farmers’ papers and is acquaint-

ed with all of these procedures. yet he

fails to use the ordinary preventive

measures with which he is acquainted.

He does not cleanup his promises and

keep them clean, A few farmers om-

ploy professional help in. the proven-





 





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7 STOOKMEN OWN’ExcHANGE.





 





been started by. the live stock.

marketing department Of the Illinois

Agricultural Association which will be

a medium through which feeders and

breeders can purchase and sell their

stock. Two lines of buying and selling

in the exchange are now ready for op-

eration. Lee Divine will handle the

hog feeder buying, and E. M. Clark will

assist in the buying and selling of

grade and purebred dairy cattle. The

exchange hopes to be in a position soon

to purchase feeder cattle. After these

lines are well under way, it is probable

that the exchange will act as. a medium

through which to buy and sell purebred

live stock.



This exchange will operate through;

the eighty-seven county farm bureau





ably similar to their present county

exchanges. A monthly bulletin, will be

issued to all farm bureau oflices con-

taining the “for sale wants" of all the





state, and it is likely that this list will .





be advertised. The “for sales and

wants” will come to the I. A. A. office

and the exchange will act as a clear—

ing house. It is the plan to charge

enough for this service to make it self

supporting. A committee of four men

who are chairmen Of the live stock and

dairy committees, of the state, farm ad-

visers and the Illinois Agricultural As-

sociation will work out the details of

the exchange. These men are John '1‘.

Montgomery, farm adviser of Henry

County; Sidney B. Smith, farm adviser

of Macon County; G. C. Johnstone of

Bloomington, and Henry McGough of

'Maple Park.





NATIONAL WOOL POOL UR‘GED BY

SHEEPMEN.





 





LL Rocky Mountain and Pacific



coast states will be represented at

the meeting for the purpose of organ-

iding a national wool pool which will

be held at Manhattan, Kans., Sept. 21f

22, in connection with the meeting of

the presidents and secretaries of the

Mid—West section of the American

Farm Bureau Federation. The wool

plan involves the organization of state

wool pools and the fusion of these into

a national selling organization. It is

believed that a national wool selling

organization will do away with the

competition of the different state pools

against each other and would permit

the farmers to get a. better price for

their wool.





SULPHUR AS A FERTILIZER.





 





Sulphur may be added to the trium-

virate of fertilizers now generally no

plied to Michigan soils, if investiga«

tions directed by Dr. M. M. McCool,

of the soils department at M. A. 0.

show that this element should be given

a. place along with the phosphorus, pot—

ash and nitrogen already used.



Results from field tests are variable

and soils experts have not yet reached

a conclusion.

ried out by Dr. Mch1 and G. M.

Grantham’in Cass and Van Buren coun~

ties have shown questionable improve-

ment, but in order to determine wheth-

er sulphur is of value in the humid

sections further experiments are being

made in other parts Of the state this

summer. '



In order to obtain wider data on the

results of such experiments in Michi-

gan, Dr. McCool advises farmers to ap-

ply acid phosphate in liberal amounts

to all but a very small part of the

field. Then to a strip of the remainder

they should add sulphur at the rate of

forty. pounds to the acre, as a top-'





dressing for alfalfa or clover, and ob-

serve the results—Hmv‘sluw. . .- -* ,





 





STATE live stock exchange has ;





organizations of the state, and prob~‘





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7-,‘(Cion7tinued from page 298.) ‘

county and some of his club members

have been among the prize winners of

‘the state. Vern mom, of Davison, a

four'teen—year-old boy, exhibited the





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.large farm near Swartz Creek. For a





champion sow of Michigan in 1919. His

champion club sow, Wonder Girl 45,

was bred by George H. Thompson, and

is a remarkably good individual of the

Duroc, Jersey breed. In 1918 Eva L.

Stephens, of Davison, a fourteen—year-

old girl, exhibited the state champion

club sow. Mr. Smith was away on his

vacation when the Circuit Rider visited

Genesee county, but a review of his

work will appear in a later issue of the

Michigan Farmer.





HE members of the Genesee Coun-



ty Farm Bureau made a wise

choice of men to guide the work during

the next two years. The members of

the new executive committee are all

‘ men who have made a success of farm-

ing and been active in cooperative and

organization work for the betterment

of agriculture.

Watson Billings, president of the ex-

ecutive committee, owns and operates

a two hundred and twenty—acre farm

near Davison, where he breeds pedi-

greed grains and feeds upward of sev-

en hundred sheep annually. He has

been active in Grange work and served





 





 





 





Vern Diehl, Age 14, and His State

Championship Sow. ‘





 





 





three years as president of the old

County Farm Bureau.



M. T. Cooney, of Gaines, director, has

a large farm and practices general

farming and stock feeding. He is an

influential farmer and has been active

in various cooperative undertakings.



Allen McCandlish, of Flint, director,

owns and operates a Splendid farm

near the city and practices general

farming. He has always been one of

the boosters for the farm bureau and

active in community betterments.



Wilbur Short; of Swartz Creek, direc-

tor, practices general farming on a





number ofgyears he has been active

in cooperative work and has a host of

friends among the farmers of that sec-

tion of the county.



W. C. Pliter, of Clio, director, owns

and operates one of the best small

farms in the county. He is thoroughly

qualified to represent the farmers of

his district in all matters relating to





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adulterations.\Vhatlooks

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Use it over pulleys; let it pull your heav-

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A rope may Outwardly look strong, and

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Insure yourself against rope breakage,

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For purposes where the great strength

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“ White Heart” identifies II. 8 A.

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(Continued from page 299.)

the solution of this latter problem

hangs the volume [of business in all

agricultural sections, which means by

far the greater part of the country.

From every state and every section

comes the complaint of the lack of

cars as the greatest of all handicaps

to the transaction o'i business, and one

of the moving causes of the commu-

ance of high prices. '





“Whileranges and pastures, save

here and there, are generally in good

shape, the live stock industry is not

in a prosperous condition on the whole.

The general statement is that the feed

is much too high in proportion to the

price of live stock. Especially that

feeders, who buy feed and do not raise

it for their live stock, are operating

at a loss. There is a general belief

that there are fewer cattle and hogs in.

the country than at this time last year,

but probably as many sheep. Experi-

ence has shown, however, that these

estimates are necessarily not very de-

pendable at times. In some census

years they have been very far from

the mark on the basis of taking census

returns as the correct estimates. The.

poultry and dairy industries are stead-

ily increasing in all sections, despite

the high prices for feed.”





HE decline in prices of farm prod-



ucts is causing the farmers tre«

mendous losses. This is the assertion

of Sherman J. Lowell, master of the

National Grange, who recently spent

some time at the Washington Grange

headquarters, after speaking in New

England and several other states. “1

have never seen the farmers hit worse

by the drop in prices and the stagna-

tion of their markets than I have ex-

perienced on this trip,” Mr. Lowell

said. “Potatoes have slumped so that

New Jersey growers are facing losses

of a serious character. The tomato

market has gone all to pieces, and

thousands of bushels are rotting on the

vines, while other thousands are rot—

ting on the loading platforms, because

the growers are asked to prepay

freight, when their last shipment did

not bring enough to pay freight

charges.”

' Mr. Lowell said that when he was in

New Jersey the growers were receiv«

ing $2.40 a bushel for their potatoes,

which left them a small profit. Since

then there has been a slump of $1 a.

bushel, bringing the price down to

$1.40. It costs not less than $2 a

bushel to grow these potatoes. The.

seed and fertilizer cost $175 an acre

before the ground was plowed. Potato

pickers have a union, which has estab«

lished a charge of 65 cents a barrel

for picking up the potatoes after they

are dug.

Coming down into Maryland, Mr.

Lowell found the tomato growers in

the midst of just as bad a situation as

was confronting the New Jersey po-

tato growers. They were being offered

25 cents a five-eighths bushel basket,

which did not pay the cost of the bas-

ket. Growers refuse to pick at this

price, and will plow under their crops.

“Problems of this kind,” he said, “will

be taken up at the meeting of the Na.-

tional Grange in Boston, November 10,

at which 10,000 farmers are expected

to be present.” —





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more done and treat ourselves better than he does. We all get in a rut if we stick too close to our job.

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How to Read the Chart

The Correct Grade. of Car yle Mobiloila for

engine lubrication are specified“; the Chart below. . I

A means Gargoyle " 2 fl

means argoyle “B" I

E means Gargoyle "E

Arc means Gargoyle Arctic '

There recommendation! cover all models of

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UCH REGRET has. been _ex-‘

messed over the albged failure

of the lnterchurch World



Movement. ‘But there need be no la-

mutations over it. The Interchurch

Movement did not kit It did not go

masfiraswewish itmight. but

flush was accomplished; nevertheless.

The method of the Interchnxeh was,

firstoflfl, to findoutthefactn. .TMt

is the socmate and the common sense

way of going at anything. And the

facts are sometimes very disconcerting

thing to bee. For hundreds of years

water from Lennon. Mecca, has been

'sent to all the Mohammeden‘prlnees

of the world. so: the water of the

Holy Well is holy. so ellgood Moham-

medans believe. Butane day it on-

cnrned to an English surgeon to nuke

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centre «A Arable. for centuries. Would

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of its people. And surely there is a

call tn sacrificing labor-now. The

masons churches in the vihges

must be clued. The empty churches

in the open country must be opened.

Young men inset enter the rural pes-

tonto who had not heretofore consid-

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Did You Ever Wish to Live

On an ORANGE GROVE

In Sunny California?





NOW Is Your Opportunity——

38 Groves to be Sold at Auction

Beginning October 14, 1920





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l an opportunity like this seldom presents ltselt during e man's lite-1

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To close an estate we have been commissioned to sell at Public Ase-4

tlen, 337 acres of Orange Groves, divided into 88 separate parcels. or in:

dividual groves of assorted sizes.



These groves are located in the famous Riverside W name

in sandy loam soil. with an abundance of water and nficti y trestle:-

belt where Smudge Pots HAVE NEVER BEEN US They have red.

oently received $26,000 worth of fertilizer. plowed in furrows. and have

been consistently watered. ,



Average age or trees from 9 to ‘16 years. and they are lree from

black scale. red scale. red spider and other Eats. These facts 6) t

tclrie handling at A MUCH LESS COST PER A B'- then ordinary renal



roves.



FRUIT is or high quality—about 60 per cent rennin: to famous

"SUNKIST" brand, commanding top market prices. Grove. > e in

size from 3% to 21% acres with average of 6 to 10 cues each. use

have houses and buildings on them. Fruit tro- one at these we

captured Sweepetnkee Prise at on Dem. 011“

for HOST PERFECT ORANGE.



SALE 0: these Grroves will be by PUBLIO .AWTION eommenel

Oct. 14. 1920. Liberal and convenient terms :11 be arranged. P

YOUR CALIFORNIA TRIP to be here in due . examine the grove:

before the Auction. -



Three railroads nearby and one electric road on ropefty. B. I. D.

and deliveries from Riverside stores. on! 3 mils away. 53 mil» from

L0: Angeles. reachcd by trolley. railroa or auto boulevtvl‘ Him g:

wire for full and comp etc information to /.





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Hellman Commercial {but Savl Ban or Union

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- I: but no resident minister.

.other hand there is village after vil-

;la.ge, with one hundred people or so,





‘ religions service for years.





 





 





 





world, and one-hall: of them receive

no religious instruction whatever.

Isn‘t that fine breeding ground for bol-

shevists and other. reds? We have





‘ heard much about overchurching. But

‘ the rural survey of a state as thickly





populated as Ohio shows . that there

are large areas where there is not a

In some in-

stances no church has ever been built.

In other localities there are churches

but they are hopelessly inefilcient. In

. one township there are 2.100 fieople.





gOne church is in the midlde of the

' township. but it ministers to exactly





‘ 134 people. Another community, natal

for its productive soil and excellent

; farms, has 1,100 young people. In this

community there is a church building,

And on the





containing six churches. It has been

shown that there is a direct relation-

ship between the financial prosperity

of a community, and the state of its

church or churches. The present sec-

retary of agriculture says so, and the

facts bear him” out. As tenantry in-

creases, the rural church declines, land

values tend to decline. production is

diminished. while illiteracy. illegitim-

acy, crime and physical degeneration

mount up. There are sections in rural

New York where there has been no

Some of

the men did not know what the church

census man. meant when he asked

them what denomination they pre-





' ‘ ferred.





EVEN out of ten children in the

United States do not receive any





religious instruction, outside of their





homes. And it is to be feared that

the home does not count much, in a

very large percentage of cases. The

average teaching period in the Protest-





, ant Sunday School is twenty-five min-





utes, and the average number or hours

devoted in the church to actual relig-

ious instructions is thirteen hours per

year. No wonder so many young peo-

ple drift away from the church. It

simply means nothing to them.

over against this 13 hours yearly in-





struction that the Protestant child re-





ceives there are 216 hours per year for

the Catholic child. and '326 hours for





 





 





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the Jewish boy and girl. More money

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ing here he finds us , giving small

thought to democracy

We are all very busy in business. The

magic word “sacrifice” is seldom

heard. 'A young Russian immigrant

girl committed suicide a few years ago

in Chicago. She said she could and no

one who had high ideals, and the

women whose hate she trimined would

not speak to her on the street. A new

list of facts is a renewed call to ser-

vice. The toil and suffering of the pi-

oneer fathers may have to be repeated,

in a new way. The great causes are

not dead. President Poincare said,

“Only the dead have a right to rest.”

Richard Castle:- was one or the early

factory reformers in England. He did

not believe that little children should

work ten to fourteen hours a day in

a factory. Castler died penniless and

alone. Among his last words were,

“The noblestmutyrdom is an old age,

impoverished by the generous sacri-

fices of youth.” The interchurch sur-

veys have shown us ourselves. They

have held up the mirror. We can see

ourselves as we are. in the church, and

outside the church. It is a steam

gauge, and shows where the pressure

is low, and where the fire in the boiler

has gone out entirely. It is for us now





to fire up, and if need be to relight ..





the fires. And this any church or any

community, by the grace ofGod, can (10'.





Sunshine Hollow Items

By Me Rubicon





Hank Hopkins says that few city

men cannot drive by a farm and with

one sweep of the hand manage the

place better than the . farmer who is

living upon it. He says it is true that

farmers seldom ofier advice while in

town on how to run the hash house,

peanut stand, bank or village govern-

ment. Hank says that reciprocity

would be appreciated by Sunshine Hol-

low folks. _



Lawrence Morgan and Alexander

'Tooley have been fighting again. Law-

rence told Alexander that he could fix

away it he flapped his ears. Alexan

der told Lawrence that if he had foul

times as many brains as he had hl

would still be half witted. Then they

started soaking each other just as th(

dinner bell rang. So they. quit, as botl

said they were hungrler than the:





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The Republican Party '

and the Farmer





To the Farmers of the Nation:





Next November you will join with all other

good citizens in choosing a presidenfof the United

States for the four years beginning March 4, 1921.





You must choose either Warren G. Harding,

the Republican nominee, or Gov. Cox, the Demo-

cratic nominee: There is no third choice. One

or the other of these two men will be elected. The

affairs of the nation during the next foiir years

will be directed either by a Republican or by a.

Democratic administration.





Which will best serve your interests, both as a

citizen and as a farmer?





Let us look at it for a moment from the purely

farm standpoint.





Your experience of the past seven years, and

especially during the past three years, tells you

what you may fairly expect from a Democratic

administration.





Your industry, the greatest in the nation, was

singled out as the target for a price fixing policy

which has limited the prices of the things you had

to sell while leaving you exposed to the exactions

of profiteers in practically every other line of

production, distribution and speculation. ’





You have been told what you could receive for

your staple‘ products, either directly or indirectly;

you have been subjected to restraints as to ship—

ping, and all sorts of exactions and annoyances.





But there has been no limit placed upon what

others might charge you for the things you have

had to buy.





The result of this unwise, unsympathetic policy,

while discouraging and harmful to the farm pro-

ducer, has not helped the consumer. On the con-

trary, it has made conditions worse for him, be—

cause it has tended to curtail production and at

the same time has stimulated speculation and

profiteering.



The Republican party is not a class or sectional

party; its policies are intended to upbuild the en-

tire nation. But it believes that it is essential to

the welfare of all our people that the farmer,

whose industry is the very foundation of our na-

tional prosperity, should have his fair share of the

wealth which his labor and enterprise create. It

believes that if our agriculture is to be maintained

the farmer must have an absolutely square deal.



The Republican party therefore, by its platform

and by the utterances of its candidates, is pledged

to a thoroughly sympathetic, practical, helpful at-





titude toward American agriculture. It promises

a well thought out, constructive program which

will help make farming more profitable and there-

fore make our farms more productive.





In contrast with this helpful attitude of the Re-

publicans the Democratic party offers no protec—

tion to the American farmer against the cheap

farm products of foreign lands: on the contrary,

it re-affirms its tariff—for-revenue-only policy which

throws the American market wide open to the

dairy products, grains and meats produced on the

cheap land and by cheap labor of foreign coun-

tries. It promises no relief from the price—fixing

and price drive policies which have cost the farm-

ers hundreds of millions of dollars during the

past two years and have helped no one but the

speculatOr and the profitcer. Nor does it even

recognize the existence of the violent fluctuations

in the prices of farm products—more violent and

unreasonable during the past three years than

ever before in our history—which have caused you

such heavy and unnecessary losses.





Pledges ofthe Republican Party





Here are the formal pledges of the Republican

party as set forth in the agricultural plank of the

national platform. Read them carefully, for they

are of vital interest to you.



Practical and adequate farm representation in

the appointment of governmental officials and

commissions.



The right to form co-operativc associations for

marketing their products, and protection against

discrimination.



The scientific study of agricultural prices and

farm production costs at home and abroad, with

a VleW.tO reducing the frequency of abnormal

fluctuations, and the uncensored publication of

such reports. ,



. The authorization of associations for the exten—

ston of personal credit.



A national inquiry on the co-ordination of rail,

water and motor transportation, with adequate

facilities for receiving, handling and marketing

food. 0



The encouragement of our export trade.



An end to unnecessary price fixing and ill-con-

sidered efforts arbitrarily to reduce prices of farm





products, which invariably result to the disadvan- .





tage both of producer and consumer.



Theencouragement of the production and im-

portation of fertilizing material and for its ex-

tended use.





Send for a free copy of Senator Harding’s address in which he discusses at length present day





problems of the farmer.





REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE, Auditorium Hotel, Chicago





The extension of the federal farm loan act so

as to help farmers to become farm owners and s:

thus reduce the evils of farm tenantry, and also

to furnish such long—time credit as farmers need

to finance adequately their larger and long-time

production operations.





Revision of the tariff as necessary for the pres-

ervation of a home market for American labor,

agriculture and industries. (Note that the pledge

to the farmer is just as specific as to labor and

capital.)





Harding’s Endorsement





SenatonVVarren G. Harding, the Republican

nominee, in his speech of acceptance took ad.

vanced ground on behalf of agriculture. He said:





f‘I hold that farmers should not only be per-

mitted but encouraged to join in co-operative

associations to reap the just measure of reward

merited by their arduous toil.





“Our platform is an earnest pledge of renewed

concern for agriculture, and we pledge effective

expression in law and practice. We will hail that

co-operation which will make profitable and de-

sirable the ownership and operation of small farms

and which will facilitate the marketing of farm

products without the lamentable waste which

exxsts under present conditions.





“A Republican administration will be committed

to arenewed regard for agriculture and seek the

partic1pation of farmers in curing the ills justly

complained of and aim to place the American

farm _where it ought to be———highly ranked in

American activities and fully sharing the highest

good fortune of American life.





“Becoming associated with this subject are the

policies of irrigation and reclamation s'o essential

to agricultural expansion, and the continued devel-

opment of the great and wonderful west.”





Mr. Harding pledges federal co—operation with

state governments in building and improving

farms—to-market roads rather than national high-

ways, to cheapen and facilitate the quick ship-

ment of crops.





Republican National Committee,

Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, Ill.





Please send me, free and postpaid, copy of

Senator Harding’s Address on the present

day problems of the farmer.





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Bryce took his father’s hand. “I’m

in trouble, John Cardigan,” he said

simply, “and I’m not big enough to

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The leonine old man smiled, and his

smile had all the sweetness of a bene-

diction. His boy was in trouble and

had come to him: Good! Then he

would not fail him. “Sit down, 8011,

and tell the old man all about it. Be-

gin at the beginning and let me have

all the angles of the angle.”





Bryce obeyed, and for the first time

John Cardigan learned of his son’s ac-

quaintance with Shirley Sumner and

the fact that she had been present in

Pennington’s woods the day Bryce had

gone there to settle the score with

Jules Rondeau. In the wonderful first

flush of his love a sense of embarrass-

ment, following his discovery of the

fact that his father and Colonel Pen-

nington were implacable enemies, had

decided Bryce not to mention the mat-

ter of the girl to John Cardigan until

the entente cordiale between Penning-

ton and his father could be reestablish—

ed, for Bryce had, with the optimism

of his years, entertained for a few days

a thought that he could bring about

this desirable condition of affairs. The

discovery that he could not, together

with his renunciation of his love until

he should succeed in protecting his her-

itage and eliminating the despair that

had come upon his father in the lat-

ter’s old age, had further operated to

render unnecessary any discussion of

the girl with the old man.





With the patience and gentleness of

a confessor John Cardigan heard the

story now, and though Bryce gave no

hint in words that his affections were

involved in the fight for the Cardigan

acres, yet did his father know it, for

he was a parent. And his great heart

went out in sympathy for his boy.



“I understand, sonny, I understand.

This young lady is only one additional

reason why you must win, for of course

you understand she is not indifferent

to you.”



“I do not know that she feels for me

anything stronger than a vagrant sym-

pathy, Dad, for While she is eternally

feminine, nevertheless she has a mas-

culine way of looking at many things.

She is a good comrade with a bully

sense of sportsmanship, and unlike her

skunk of an uncle, she fights in the

open. Under the circumstances, how-

ever, her first loyalty is to him; in

fact, she owes none to me. And I dare

say he has given her some extremely



'plausible reason why we should be

eliminated; while I think she is sorry

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a mistaken impulse of self-protection

she is likely to let him do it.”



“Perhaps, perhaps. One never knows

why a woman does things, although‘it

is a safe bet that if they’re with you

at all, they’re with you all the way.

Eliminate the girl, my boy. She’s try-

ing to play fair to you and her rela-

tive. Let us concentrate on Penning-

ton.” .



“The entire situation hinges on that

jump-crossing of his tracks on Water

street.”



“He doesn’t know you plan to cross

them, does be?”



“No.”



“Then, lad, your job is to get your

crossing in before he finds out isn’t it ?”



“Yes, but it is an impossible task,

partner. I’m not Aladdin, you know.

I have to have a franchise from the

city council, and I have to have rails.”



“Both are practicable, my son. In—

duce the city council to grant you a

temporary franchise tomorrow, and

buy your rails from Pennington. He

has a mile of track running up Laurel

Creek, and Laurel Creek was logged

out three years ago. I believe that

spur is useless to Pennington, and the

ninety-pound rails are rusting there.”



“But will he sell them to me?"



“Not if you tell him why you want

them.”



“But he hates me, old pal.”



“The Colonel never permits senti—

ment to interfere with business, my

son. He doesn’t need the rails, and he

does desire your money. Consider the

rail-problem settled.”



“How do you stand with the mayor

and the council?”



“1 do not stand at all. I opposed

Poundstone for the office; Dobbs, who

was appointed to fill a vacancy caused

by the death of a regularly elected

councilman, was once a bookkeeper In

our oflice, you will remember. I dis-





charged him for looting the petty-cash '





drawer. Andrews and Mullin are pro-

fessional politicians and not to be

trusted. In fact, Poundstone, Dobbs,

Andrews and Mullin are known as the

Solid Four. Yates and Thatcher, the

remaining members of the city council,

are the result of the reform ticket last

fall, but since they are in the minority,

they are helpless.”



“That makes it bad.”



“Not at all. The Cardigans are not

known to be connected with the N C





and tell him to deliver the goods by

any means short of bribery. I 11nagine

he’s had experience with city councils

and will know exactly how to proceed.

I know you can procure the rails and

have them at the intersection of B and

Water streets Thursday night. If Ogil-

vy can procure the temporary fran-

chise and have it in his pocket by six

o’clock Thursday night, you should

have that crossing in by sunup Friday

morning. Then let Pennington rave.

He cannot procure an injunction to re-

strain us from cutting his tracks, thus

throwing the matter into the courts

and holding us up indefinitely, because

by the time he wakes up, the tracks

will have been cut. The best he- can

do then will be to fight us before the

city council when we apply for our per-

manent franchise. Thank God, how-

ever, the name of Cardigan carries

weight in this county, and with the

pressure of public sympathy and opin-

ion back of us, we may venture, my

boy, to break a lance with the. Solid





Four, should they stand with Penning-

ton.” ‘ '



“Partner, it looks like a forlorn

hope,” said Bryce.





“Well, you’re the boy to lead it. And

it will cost but little to put in the

crossing and take a chance. Remem-

ber, Bryce, once we have that crossing

in, it stands like a spite—fence between





Pennington and the law which he





knows so well how to pervert to suit

his ignoble purposes.” He turned ear-

nestly to Bryce and waved a trembling

admonitory finger. “Your job is to keep

out of court. Once Pennington gets

the law on us, the issue will not be

settled in our favor for years; and in

the meantime—you perish. Run along

now and hunt up Ogilvy. George, play

that ‘Suwanee River’ quartet again. It

sort 0’ soothes me.”





CHAPTER XXV.





T was with a considerably lighter



heart that Bryce returned to the



mill-office, from which he lost no

time in summoning Buck Ogilvy by

telephone.



“Thanks so much for the invitation,”

Ogilvy murmured gratefully. “I’ll be

down in a pig’s whisper.” And he was.

“Bryce you look like the devil,” he de-

clared the moment he entered the lat-

ter’s private office.





“I ought to, Buck. I’ve just rasied





“To Pennington’s niece, over the tel-

ephone about two hours ago.”



Buck Ogilvy smote his left palm with

his right fist. “And you’ve waited two

hours'to confess your crime? Zounds,

man, this is bad. ”





“I know. Curse me, Buck. I’ve prob-

ably talked you out of a good job ”





“Oh, say not so, old settler. We may

— still have an out. How did you let the

cat out of the bag?”





“That remarkable girl called me up,

and accused you of being a mere screen

for me and amazed me so I admit-

ted it.” ,



Ogilvy dropped his red head in sim-

ulated agony and moaned. Presently

he raised it, and said: “Well, it might

have been worse. Think of what might

have happened had she called in per—

son. She would have picked your pock-

et for the corporate seal, the combina-

tion of the same, and the list of stock-

holders, and probably ended up by gag-

ging you and binding you in your own

swivel-chair.”



“Don’t Buck. Comfort and not abuse

is what I need now.”





“All right. I’ll conclude my remarks

by stating that I regard you as a lov-

able fat-head devoid of sufficient men-

tal energy to pound the proverbial sand

into the proverbial rat-hole. Now, then,

what do you want me to do to save

the day?”



“Deliver to me by six o’clock Thurs-

day night a temporary ’franchise from

the city council, granting the N. C. O.

the right to run a railroad from our

drying-yard across Water street at its

intersection with B street and out

Front street.”





“Certainly. By all means! Easiest

thing I do! Sure you don’t want me

to arrange to borrow a Star or two to

make a ta~ra—ra for the lady that’s made

a monkey out of you? No? All right,

old dear! I’m on my way to do my

damnedest, which angels can’t do no

more. Nevertheless, for your sins, you

shall do me a favor before my heart

breaks. after falling down on this con-

tract you’ve just given me.”



“Granted, Buck. Name it.”



“I’m giving a nice little private, spe-

cially cooked dinner to Miss McTavish

tonight. We’re going to pull it off in

one of those private screened corrals in

that highly decorated Chink restauraw

on Third street. Moira—that is, Miss

McTavish—is bringing a chaperon, one

Miss Shirley Sumner. Your job is to

be my chaperon and entertain Miss

Sumner, who from all accounts is most





0. Send your bright friend Ogilvy af- the devil and spilled the beans on the brilliant and fascinating”





ter that franchise.

who can land it.





He’s the only man

Give him a free hand





A! Play; it Botfl Ways.





N. C. 0.”

“To whom, when, and where?”





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"Then you’ll come. You promised in

advance, and no excuses go now. The

news will be all over town by Friday

meming; so why bother to keep up ap-

pearances any longer. Meet me at the

Canton at seven and check dull care at

the entrance."



And before Bryce could protest, Ogil<

vy had thrown open the door and call-

ed the glad tidings to Moira, who was

working in the next room; whereupon

Moira's wonderful eyes shone with that

strange lambent flame. She clasped

her hands joyously. “Oh, how won-

derful!” she exclaimed.

wanted Miss Shirley to meet Mr.

Bryce.”



Again Bryce was moved to protest,

«but Buck Ogilvy reached around the

halfopeneh door and kicked him in the

shins. "Don’t crab my game, you mis-

erable snarley-yow. . Detract one speck

from that girl's pleasure, and you’ll

never see that temporary franchise,”

he threateend. “I will not work fora

quitter—so there." And with his bright

smile he set out immediately upon the

trail of the city council, leaving Bryce

Cardigan a prey to many conflicting

emotions. the chief 01' which, for all

that he strove to suppress it, was riot-

ous joy in the knowledge that while

he had fought against it, fate ha/d de-

creed that he should bask once more in

the radiance of Shirley Summer’s ador-

able presence. Presently, for the first

time in many Weeks, Moira heard him

whistling “Turkey in the Straw."





CHAPTER XXVI.





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gained in other railroad-building enter-

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was not stunned by the suddenness

and immensity of the order so casually

given him by his youthful employer,

for he had already devoted to the mat-





ter of that crossing the better part of . E





the preceding night. Also he had in-

vestigated,

the city council with a view to ascer-





taining how great or how little would





be the effort he must devote to obtain- _ ‘





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favored with an gillcial, handshake, of

great heartiness.. “I’ve been hOping to





- have this pleasure for quite some time,





Mr. Poundstone,” Buck announcedeas-

ily as he disposed of his hat and over

coat on an adjacent chair. “But un-

fortunately I have had so much prelim-

inary detail to attend to before mak-

ing an Ofi‘lcial call that at last I grew

discouraged and concluded I’d just

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ed.” »Buck’s alert blue eyes opened

wide in sympathy With his genial

mouth, to deluge Mayor Poundstone

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guilelesss confidential, and singularly

delightful. M-r. Ogilvy was a man pos-

sessed of tremendous personal mag-

netism when he chose to exert it, and

that smile was ever the opening gun

Of his magnetic bombardment, for it

was a smile that always had the ef-

fect of making the observer desire to

behold it again—of disarming suspicion

and establishing confidence.



"Glad ’you did—mighty glad,” the

mayor cried heartily. “We have all,

of course, heard of your great plans

and are naturally anxious to hear more

of them, in the hope that we can do all

that anybody reasonably and legally

can to promote your enterprise and in-

cidentally our own, since we are not

insensible to the advantages which will

accrue to this county when it is con‘

nected by rail with the outside world."



“That extremely broad view is most

encouraging, Buck chirped, and he

showered the mayor with another

smile. “Reciprocity is the watchword

of progress. I might state, however,

that while you Humboldters are fully

alive to the benefits to be derived from;

a feeder to a transcontinental road, my

associates and myself are not insensi-

ble of the fact that the success of our

enterprise depends to a great extent

upon the enthusiasm with which the

city of Sequoia shall cooperate with us;

and since you are the chief executive

Of the city, naturally I have come to

you to explain our plans fully.”





“I have read your articles of incor-

poration, Mr. Ogilvy,” Mayor Pound-

stone boomed paternally. “You will

recall that they were published in the

Sequoia Sentinel. It strikes me~”



“Then you know exactly what we





’ purpose doing, and any further explan-





ation would be superfluous,” Buck in-

terrupted amiably, glad to dispose of

the matter so promptly. Again he fav-





and the latter, now fully convinced

that here was a young man of vast em-

prise whom it behooved him to receive

in a whole-hearted and public-spirited

manner, nodded vigorous approval.

“Well, that being the case, Mr. Ogil-

vy,” he continued, “what can we Se-

quoians do to make you happy?"

“Why, to begin with, Mr. Pound-

stone, you might accept my solemn as-

surances that deSpite the skepticism

which, for some unknown reason, ap-

pears to shroud our enterprise in the

minds of some people, we have incor-

porated a raiiroad company for the pur-

pose Of building a railroad. We pur-

pose commencing grading operations in

the very near future, and the only

thing that can possibly interfere with

the project will be the declination of

the city council to grant us a franchise

to run our line through the'city to tide-

Water.”_ He handed his cigar-case to

Mayor Poundstone and continued light-

ly: “And I am glad to have your as-

surance that the city council will not

drop a cold chisel in the cogs of the

wheels of progress." ,

Mr. Poundstone had given no such

assurance, but for some reason he did

not feel equal to the task of contra-

dicting this pleasant fellow. Ogilvy

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giving turkey. “The honor' will be

mine," he corrected his visitor.



“Thank you so much, sir.' Well, that’s

another worry off my mind.” With the

tact of a prime minister Buck then





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versation to the weather and asked a.





number of questions anent the annual.





rainfall. Then 'he' turned to crops,

finance, and national politics and grad-

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redwood-lumber industry when the red-

wood-belt should be Connected by rail

with the markets of the entire cOuntry.

He spoke of the magic effect'the build-

ing of such. a line would have upon the

growth of Sequoia. Sequoia, he felt

convinced, was destined to become a.

city of at least a hundred thousand in-

habitants; he rhapsodized over the

progressive spirit of the community

and with a wave of his hand studded

the waters of Humboldt Bay with the

masts of the world’s shipping. Sud-

denly he checked himself, glanced at

his watch, apologized for consuming so

much of his h-onor’s valuable time, ex-

pressed himself fe-licitated at knowing

the mayor, gracefully, expressed his ap-

preciation for the encouragement giv-

en his enterprise, and departed. When





he had gone, Mayor Poundstone declar- ~‘





ed to his secretary that without doubt

Oyilvy was. the livest, keenest fellow

that had struck Sequoia since the ad-

vent of old John Cardigan.





Half an hour later the mayor’s tele-

phone bell rang. Buck Ogilvy was on

the line. “I beg your pardon for both-

ering you with my affairs twice in the

same day, Mr. Mayor," he announced

deprecatingly, “but the fact is, a con-

dition has just arisen which necessi-

tates the immediate employment of an

attorney. The job is not a very im-

portant one and almost any lawyer

would do, but in View of the fact that

we must, sooner or later, employ an

attorney to look after our interests lo-

cally, it occurred to me that I might as

well make the selection of a permanent

attorney now. I am a stranger in this

city Mr. Poundstone. Would it be im-

posing On your consideration if I ask-

ed you to recommend such a person 17"





- “Why, notat all, not at all! Delight-

ed tO help you, Mr. Ogilvy. Let me

see, now. There are several attorneys

in Sequoia, all men of excellent ability

and unimpeachable integrity, whom I

can recommend with the utmost pleas~

ure. Cadman & Barnes, with offices

in the Knights of Pythias Temple,

would be just the people, although

there is Rodney McKendrick, in the

Chamber of Commerce Building~a

splendid fellow, Mr. Ogilvy, and most

desirable. Also there is Mitchell Orms-

by~—I forget where his office is, but

you can find it in the telephone-book;

and if I may be pardoned a dash of

paternal ego, there is my son Henry

Poundstone, Junior. While Henry is

a young man, his career in the law

thus far has been most gratifying, al—

though he hasnjt had as broad an ex-

perience as the others I mentioned, and

perhaps your choice had better lie be-

tween Cadman & Barnes and Rodney

McKendrick. You can’t go wrong on

either of those two.”





“Thank you a thousand times,” Mr.

Ogilvy murmured, and hung up. “We

thought so, Buck, we thought so,” he

soliloquized. “Yes, Cadman & Barnes

or Rodney McKendrick may do, but

Lord have mercy on the corporate soul

of the N. c. 0. if I fail to retain Henry

Poundstone, Junior. What a wise plan

it is to look. up the relatives 'of a~~~public

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tamer of a thousand dollars, or even

more, it he asked for it, but after one

look at- Henry he cut the appropriation

to two hundred and fifty dollars. Young

Mr. Poundstone was blonde and frail,

with large round spectacles, rabbit

teeth, and the swiftly receding chin of

the terrapin. Moreover, he was in such

a flutter of anticipation over the arri—

val of his client that Buck deduced two

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client, and. that as a result of this mir-

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tainers. Ergo, Mr. Ogilvy’decided to

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two hundred and fifty dollars, which he

wrote on the spot, and with his bright

winning smile remarked: "Now, Mr.

Poundstone, We will proceed to busi-

ness. That retainer isn’t a large one,

I admit, but neither is the job I have

for you today. Later, if need of your

services on a larger scale should de-

velop, we shall of course expect to.

make a new arrangement whereby you

will receive the customary retainer of

all of our corporation attorneys. I

trust that is quite satisfactory.”



“Eminently so,” gasped the young

disciple of Blackstone. .



“Very well, then; let us proceed to

business.” Buck removed from a small

leather bag a bale of legal-looking doc—

uments. “I have here,” he announced,

“agreements from landowners along

the proposed right of way of the N. C.

O. to give to that company, on demand,

within one year, from date, satisfactory

deeds covering rights of way which are

minutely described in the said agree-

ments. I Wish these deeds prepared for

signing and recording at the earliest

possible moment.”



“You shall have them at this time

tomorrow,” Henry promised.



The head of Henry Poundstone, Jun—

ior, was held high for the first time

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shingle to the breezes of Sequoia six.





months before, and there was an unac-

customed gleam of importance in his

pale eyes as he rushed into his fath-

er’s office in the city' hall.



“By jinks, Dad!” he exulted. “I’ve

hooked a fish at last—and he’s a whop-

per.”



“Omit the cheers, my boy. Remem-

ber I sent that fish to you,” his father

answered with a bland and indulgent

smile. “What are you doing for Ogilvy,

and how large a retainer did he give

you?” ’



“I’m making out deeds to his right

of way. Ordinarily it’s about a fifty-

dollar job, but without waiting to dis‘

cuss finances he handed _me out two

hundred and fifty dollars. Why, Dad,

it’s more than you make in a month

from your job as mayor.”



“Well, that isn’t a bad retainer. It’s

an opening wedge. However, it would

be mere chicken-feed in San Fran-

cisco.”



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F A BOY should try to follow all

I the rules for raising rabbits laid



down by the experts, he would soon

get discouraged. The fact is that rab-

bit raising is an easy enough matter

if a few simple points are remembered.



To begin with, the animals need all

the fresh air which they can have. I

learned this fact by costly experience.

At one time I had a large number of

Belgian hares in an old mill. Pens

had been constructed at considerable

expense, and it seemed as though I

had an ideal plant for turning out rab-

bits at a rapid rate. In fact, I had

visions of making the old mill into a

rabbit factory. Unfortunately, all my

plans Went askew because the air was

too damp and unwholesome, even with

the windows open. A large number





*of rabbits contracted snuffles, and wet





noses were visible everywhere. As

all rabbit breeders know, snuffles,

which is really the name for hard

colds, is one of the most common ail-

ments of rabbits, and one which gives

a of trouble if unchecked. Finally

I bui yards out of doors, even though

it was Winter, and turned the rabbits

loose inside the wire fences. Within

a few weeks the trouble was practi-

cally over. The rabbits raced and

leaped in the snow in perfect content-

ment, and at night burrowed deep in

the boxes of hay which I had provided

for them.





Hayward Johnson, who is hardly

more than a boy, has the largest rah

bit establishment in New England, and

one of the largest in the world. His

animals, even those which are valued

at several hundred dollars, spend the

winter in hutches in the open air. The

hutches are protected by an overhead

covering which keeps the snow and





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Convenient and





rain from beating in, and which also

excludes the hot sun in summer time,

which is quite as important. It may

not be wise, as a rule, to take rabbits

from indoor quarters to the outdoors

in midwinter, but every boy who

breeds rabbits will find it very much

to his advantage to raise the animals

in the open air, and to keep them in

such a situation, although sheltered

from winds, It is a good plan to have

a muslin covered frame which can be

fitted over the openings

weather; and of course there must be

an inside box with plenty of hay where

the animals can find refuge and

warmth.





The next point is the necessity for

cleanliness. No boy should try to

raise rabbits unless he is willing to

clean them out every day and keep

their hutches in a sanitary condition.

It is not a good plan to stack one

hutch on top of another unless there

are several inches of open space be-

tween the bottom of one hutch and top

of the other, with an inclined board

covered with tin or roofing paper to

shed any liquid which may drain

through the floor. Some hutches are

made with solid floors, with a box un-

derneath which can be removed and

emptied readily.



With tight floors, it is well to use

sawdust or some kind of absorbent. I

think that the absorbent material sold

for use in poultry houses is even bet-

ter than sawdust. In any event, less

harm is done if the hutch'is not

cleaned out so often.



A good design for a hutch, and one

which any boy can make at home, can

be obtained by writing to the Depart-

ment of Agriculture at Washington,

asking for the Department’s bulletin

011 rabbit raising.



The third point is the matter of

feeding. It is a great temptation for

any boy to keep putting food into the

hutches, with the result that the rab-

bits get too much. Over-feeding does

more harm, if anything, than under-

feeding, although, of course, the rab-

bits should not be starved. While it is

possible to get along with vegetables,

greens and grass, it is desirable to

feed a little grain, even in summer

time. A small handful of oats to a.

rabbit is about the .right amount, and

it should be given at night' rather than





 





Economical.





in severe





in the morning, for it is at’night that

the rabbits naturally eat’the most. A

doe With young should have grain

twice a day, and all rabbits should be

given hay every morning.



The rabbits relish a great variety of

vegetables and vegetable tops. They

like dandelions, chicory and such

green things, too. Of course they like

cabbages and kale, but it is best not

to feed much of these vegetables if

the rabbits are kept close to the house,

because a bad odor is created. _



One great mistake is in putting in

a large amount of green stuff at one

time. This is very likely to cause bad

results. In fact, a boy should go slow

in feeding any wet greens to rabbits

which are kept in .close confinement,

at least until they become used to it,

although I think the trouble so com-





 





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monly reported is due more often to

the fact that'the greens, get musty

than because they are wet.



If these few points are kept in mind,





very little difficulty will be found in ‘





raising all the most common rabbits,

like Belgian hares, New Zealand Reds

and Flemish Giants.





Why Beginners Fail





Mr. [(272531 Giver Our Boys and Cir/r Se‘veml

Reasons W/zy Some People Fail wit/2 Poultry





F' THERE was ever a time when

Ithe inexperienced beginner could



expect to succeed with poultry as

a commercial proposition that time has

passed. The backyard flock is on a

different basis. The birds are few in

number and have the table scraps

from the house. But do not believe

the myth about the farm flock living

on waste products entirely. And do

not believe that the commercial poul-

tryman can keep hundreds of birds on

feed of no value for other purposes.





Nothing but practical experience fits

a man or woman to succeed with poul-

try as an income proposition. The col-

lege course is all right as far as it

goes. It must be backed up by experi-





ence gained while working on a poul-'





try farm where modern methods are

observed and the account book tells a

story of fair success.





The beginner with poultry likes to

see a lot, of birds right at the start.

He is boiling over with enthusiasm

and thoroughly infected with chicken

fever. Then he seeks a chance to buy

a large flock of culls from some other

poultryman’s flock and forgets that

fine foundation stock are sold in pairs,

pens or trios and not by the hundreds.



The ownership of a large flock of

poor grade poultry furnishes the poul-

tryman with a chance to pay feed

bills. It does not guarantee success





or aid in the development of high class.





breeding flocks. Observation of the

methods of the best breeders and a

study of their life history will prove

that they began on a moderate sale

and developed their business slowly

from year to year. Often they re-

tained their previous business until

they had acquired much experience in

the management of poultry.



One cause of failure among begin-

ners is a neglect to read carefully the

best information that is printed con-

cerning poultry culture. A man may





find in fifteen minutes as much valu-V





able knowledge by reading as he can

find through his own experiments in

several years. Then by putting the





knowledge into praétice it is clinched

and remembered. Elects learned by





 





reading are of much less value if they

cannot be used. There Is a chance of

cluttering up the brain with informa-

tion and have none of it so organized

that it can be used. The poultryman

who reads- that blue ointment or so—

dium fluoride are good for lice may

forget the fact if he Just reads about

it. But after once treating the flock

for lice with one of those materials,

neither the method nor the material

will ever be forgotten. It becomes part

of the poultryman’s knowledge which

is useful.



The beginner often fails from at-

tempting to manage too many breeds.

One breed requires a great deal of





 





Young Turkeys Need Very Close At-

tention





time and study. The work of manag-

ing the birds is much less complicated





if there is only one breed. The scarce





and little known breeds offer the be-

ginner less opportunity for success

than the more common breeds.



The country contains much good

blood of our leading breeds and it is

easier to obtain foundation stock of

quality. The beginner with such stock

soon finds that there is a demand for

his surplus among neighbors and

friends. 'A small amount of advertis-

ing locates buyers who need new blood

for their flocks and the owner of a

popular breed has the best chance to

sell eggs ' for hatching and surplus

cockerel‘s as well as the yearling hens

which are worth more for breeding

than for meat.





_Th§ beginner 4 who adopts a: little .,





 





 





 





w
known breed usually finds it a handi-

cap because. of the lack of demand for

surplus stock and the difficulty of ob-

taining high class foundation birds at



moderate price. As the skill in

greed-mg increases it is possible to

take on more breeds of fowls if there

is enough equipment to make it desir—

able.



A proper balancing of the capital is

.necessary. Too much money placed

in buildings leaves too little for stock.

Too much money in stock and build-

ings may leave scarcely any for feed

and general operating expenses until

the. poultry return a profit.





At this time there are many small

poultry enterprises that are unbal-

anced. Their incubator capacity may

be so large that it has taken much of

the available capital. Possibly the

buildings have cost so much money





 





 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





that the stock, feed bins and brooding 1 ‘





equipment are of poor quality.





The total cost of the necessities of

a large poultry bosiness is so large

that it means the beginner must begin

on a small scale. A little money for

each feature of the business is all that

can be safely spent. At the present

tiine it is very risky to manage a poul-

try business on borrowed capital. Even

on the farm a large flock of poultry

are a. risk unless the best of methods

are used and nothing is wasted.





The beginnerwho starts with poul-

try on a small scale does not lose much

money if he decides to stop operations.

The poultryman who plunges exten-

sively into poultry production may

lose several thousand dollars before

he finds that his enthusiasm has

burned like a straw stack, making a

big blaze for a moment but soon dying

down. The right kind of enthusiasm

does not burn out quickly or blaze

high. It just glows and keeps on

glowing in spite of adversity. And

finally it begins to prove a winner.





All men and women are not fitted

to succeed with poultry as a commer-

cial proposition. Some that think they

will like the work find it is very irk-

some. Beginners who soon find that

they dislike their business with the

hens had better begin to hedge and

slip out as gracefully as possible. They

simply cannot force themselves to do

the mass of detail cOnnected with the

management of hens and chicks unless

they like to work with them.





The beginner should realize that he





is to engage in a business where there'





is plenty of competition. Products of

an ordinary grade carelessly marketed





come into competition with eggs and .





poultry meat from many farms where

the cost of productionds not known.

Often they represent a surplus from

family needs and the owner does not

care whether the ,surplus is profitable

or not. The beginner is apt to fail if

he is satisfied with the lowest market

price for products of average quality.





The feed problem has been the great

cause of failures since much of the

world started wasting energy in 1914.

The beginner must plan to raise as

much feed as possible and be a good

buyer of the balance. Selling eggs at

the lowest price the grocers offer and

buying feed at the price charged by

the local feed dealer will never make

a poultry business profitable. It will

be difficult to break even when man-

aging on such a basis.





The beginner with poultry has a

chance to succeed. But nothing is

gained by putting up‘the business in

such a rosy light that he starts out

prepared to blunder along until a dis-

couraging case of blues due to failure

starts him on the road out of the busi-

ness. Then he has hard feeling to—

ward the great American hen and the



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at the mothers’ club, whether

a mother has a right to be con-

tinually “dinging” at her daughter not

to get married, and what a dog’s life

a married woman has, and how tire-

some housework is, and how greatly

to be preferred to. motherhood—and

its attendant responsibilities—is a

career. We met to discuss “Woman’s

Part in the World Re-making," and

ended in almost coming to blows over

woman’s age-old job, having’ babies

and bringing them up to become the

best sort of citizens.

it was all started by the discon-

tented woman with a fifteen-year-old

daughter. There are some women who

ought never to marry, or else ought

to marry different men. When an ag-

gressive, fcrward-looking woman who

dislikes being tied to one spot, marries

a mild, meek-mannered man, who is

rooted to one job, one town and one

house, and who in spite of his mild

manners is extremely “sot,” you are

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Marriage vs. a Career





she’ll be chained hand and foot, shut

up in a kitchen nine-tenths of the

time, and at least two-thirds of the

time her wishes in everything will be

ignored. I’m going to see she is edu-

cated and fitted to earn a good living,

and use all my influence to keep her

from tying herself down to a home

and a life of drudgery.”



Now Mary is distinCtly the marrying

sort, more like dad than mother, a

home—loving sort of girl, but immense-

ly popular. She never has to worry

for fear no boy will invite her to the

class parties, her chief worry is to

decide which one of them she’ll honor.

If she were left alone she’d grow up

into a happy, contented woman, and

take as keen a delight in cooking a

family dinner and polishing the silver

as her mother does in writing a bril-

liant club paper. Everyone in the club

knew her mother’s nagging was begin-

ning to make a little impression on

Mary, and this day her speech struck

fire.



“0, I don’t know,” said the mother

of six. “All women aren’t unhappily

married, and all professional women

aren’t happy. I’m sure I look as young

as any business woman of my age, and





my life is a good deal easier than any

working girl’s. Think of having to

get up and drag off to work in all sorts

of weather, no matter how you feel

and of keeping up to the mark for eight

or nine hours. I can'work hard a cou-

ple of hours, and then drop down for

a rest. And I'm sure my wishes are

always respected. I don’t know as

your boss ever asks you whether you

like things done his way or not.”



So the battle was on, and while ar-

guments for and against were being

advanced, I kept wondering if any

mother has a right to give her daugh-

ter such a biased view of marriage.

True, lots of marriages are failures,

but that isn’t the fault of the institu—

tion. It’s the fault of the two parties

entering into that particular contract.

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marriage it sounds to outsiders like a

confession of failure on‘her part. It’s

true, too, that a mother has to sacri-

fice no end of her own wishes to do

her full duty by her children. But who

is to say that if she carried out her

own desires she would be any better

off, or the world would be a whit im-

proved thereby? Many a mother neg-

lects her family because she thinks





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





she has a higher duty to humanity in

carrying on some pet scheme of her

own. But humanity at large never





: knows that particular woman exists,





and often the humanity she is trying

to reach would be better satisfied if

she’d let them alone and spend her

energy in keeping her children mended

up.



It may be that occasionally women

are “called” for certain positions, but

the average girl is almost bound, to

marry, so why bring her up with the

idea that it’s

world for her?' Why fill her mind

with the thought that it means sur-

render of her own wishes, unless you

want her to be thoroughly selfish?

After all it resolves itself onto the

question of whether we are here solely





to deve10p the individual—the ego—to 5





the highest point intellectually,





the best thing in the,





 





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or,





whether we are put here to advance :





the human race. If it is the former,

let’s stay single and tend strictly to

personal culture. But if we believe

our highest privilege is to add some-

thing to the sum of civilization, let’s

sink self, and give our attention to de-

veloping the coming gene-ration.

DEBORAH.





The Community Nurse





QUESTION which the residents



of many small towns and farms



ing districts of Michigan are

being called upon to consider is that

of the employment of a community

nurse. This is one of the issues which

the late war was instrumental in

bringing to the front. With the cessa-

tion of hostilities, Red Cross workers

turned their attention to peace condi-

tions and peace problems. In the

treasury of every Red Cross chapter

and in the treasury of every auxiliary,

funds were deposited, and some de-

cision as to how these funds could be

best used was necessary. Home aid

to soldiers and sailors and their fam-

ilies would not necessitate the use of

all this money—indeed, but a small

part will be needed for this work. Out

of this situation, then, has grown the

community nurse proposition.



In the cities, with better equipment,

with more stringent health regulations,

with medical examination of pupils in

the schools, and with expert specialists

more readily available than in rural

neighborhoods, the likelihood of per-

manent physical disability of any

kind, through ignorance or neglect, is

diminished many times. And it is for

this very reason that the community

nurse proposition has been brought up

1n the small towns and rural commu-

nities.



This article is not, primarily, a de-

fence of the community nurse propo-

sition. Its purpose is to call the at-

tention of the readers of this jour-

nal to a question which, sooner or lat-

er, they must take a part in deciding.

Like the consolidated school question,

which is at present beingvbrought for-

ward in many localities, the commu-

nity: nurse movement is an innovation

. of great and far-reaching import. In-

', cidentally, the influenza epidemics

ich for two- winters have swept the





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along the line of the community nurse

idea.



Hillsdale county has had a com-

munity nurse for a year. One nurse

in a county can do little more, than

examine the children of the schools





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





occasionally. A nurse for every two

or three townships could do much

more. The Hillsdale county medical

association has declared unanimously

in favor of the community nurse idea.



It is possible that the community





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 





The community nurse can suggest to the farm ino'ther convenient ar-

rangements for the care 0! the {9th ,:_Int cant care f is





but one phase of a community





nurse movement is destined to resulti





in a fight of more than usual bitter-

ness. In its very nature the question

is such that it arouses in opposition

the forces of prejudice, ignorance, and

superstition. There is a fear that the

privacy of the home will be violated

and that personal liberty will be in—

terfered with.





Like all movements, too, there is an

economic phase. The Red Cross fund

is only a nucleus—a financial starting

point. Funds must be raised in other

ways to keep the movement going

after it has once been launched. In

these days of high taxes, tax- payers

steer clear, as far as possible, of any-





‘thing that may incur a new and an





additional pull on the purse strings.





So far as the present phase of the '





movement in Michigan is concerned,

however, all financial contributions are

voluntary. Our Ohio neighbors have

passed a state law which makes com-

pulsory the employment of a commu-





nity nurse in every county of the

state.





Speaking broadly, whatever stands

for the upbuilding of humanity is

worthy of our‘support. The commu-

nity nurse movement’ is a humanitarian

movement. It stands for the one-hun-

dred-pe‘rcent-fit idea; it stands for

more enlightened homes; for more of

happiness and less of misery. We can

only judge of a movement by its fruits.

When thoroughly tried out, the com-

munity nurse idea has not been found

wanting. It is in localities where the

system is firmly established, that the

most enthusiastic advocates are to be

found. When'you are called upon to

decide this. question, study it well, that





. you may decide wisely.





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her lips. She gained three and one-

‘ half pounds the first week she tried

the only reliable cure.





You've‘guessed it. Drink milk. She

drank a quart a day, and gained three

and a half pounds the first"week. And

her friends with her can add their tes-

timonials, too, though they didn’t gain

at quite such an astonishing rate.



They are from the North Marquette

school, Marquette, Mich, and volun-

teered to drink a quart of milk a day

for eight weeks, in addition to their

regular meals. The work was carried

on, under the direction of Miss Aurelia

Potts, assistant home demonstration





 





 





Boosters for Increased Dairies.

V

leader, with the co-operation of Miss

Edith Wright, principal of the school,





and Mrs. Ickes, school nurse. The

Cherry Creek dairy, of Marquette, fur-

nished the milk.



A steady gain each week was shown

when the weekly weighing time rolled

round, gains running from a quarter

of a pound to three and 'a half pounds

a week. The greatest gain for the

eight weeks was ten pounds. Gain in

weight was not the greatest improve-

ment, however. The children showed

a decided improvement in school work

and in general appearance.



Similar diet squads have been or-

ganized in other parts of the upper

peninsula under the supervision of

Miss Potts, with equally marked re-

sults.





HOUSEWIVES’ SEPTEMBER

CALENDER.





 





OMATOES are coming to the

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in salads, in soups, sauces, and even

in desserts, that it is the part of wis-

dom to have a. good supply on hand.

Tomato juice, either cooked or raw,

may be given to babies, too, as a sub

stitute for the orange juice which we

so long thought indispensable.

Tomatoes are really the easiest veg-

etable to can, but in spite of this,

many women have cans spoil. There

is no reason for this if they are prop-

erly done, and if cans, tops and rub—

bers are of good quality and sterilized.

The first thing in canning is to grade

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that are smooth, sound. ripe and of

uniform size, small, uneven tomatoes

and those that are bruised may be

used for soup.





It you are going to can by the cold

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boiling water. put the tomatoes, which

have been washed, in a square of

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the ends of the cloth and plunge at

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and pack into jars. Press them down





to bruise, add a teaspoon of salt, ad-

just tops and rubbers, and process 25

minutes.



The rejected tomatoes. for, soup

stock may be washed and cooked until

soft, put through a seive to remove

skin and seeds, packed into jars and

processed 25 minutes.



Tomato preserves.—For_/every twelve

pounds of tomatoes, either ripe or

green, allow eight pounds of sugar,

three lemons and one ounce of ginger

root. Slice the tomatoes and let lie

over night. Drain, put sugar and one

pint of ‘water in the preserving kettle :

when sugar is dissolved add tomatoes

and let simmer until the mixture thick-





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chopped ginger root and cook another

half hour.





Tomato ketchup—This recipe is by'

Fannie Merrit Farmer, for years at the

head of the Boston Cooking School:

“Cut up one peek of ripe tomatoes and

simmer until soft; force through seive;

add three cups of sugar, one-fourth

cup salt, one tablespoon black pepper,

one teaspoon ginger, one teaspoon

cloves, one-eighth teaspoon cayenne

pepper and one quart vinegar. Bring

to boiling point and let simmer till of

the right consistency. Fill bottles to

overflowing, cork and seal.”





IF your school is not one of the pro-



gressive sort which provides a hot

lunch, plan a month’s lunches now.

Bear in mind that the child needs cer-

tain foods to keep it growing, as well

as to repair daily waste and furnish

energy, and see that your child has a

substantial

some fats, seine sweets, a good pro-

portion of starch and some protein,

and in addition fruit or a vegetable,

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filling of homemade 'jam or jelly“, Or,

if you are sure it will only be eaten

with the noon lunch, a piece of pure

candy. Starches will be provided in

the bread and cake, and the protein

will come in the sandwich filling—

meat, eggs, cottage cheese or store

cheese, or perhaps in baked beans or

peanut butter. It you use the latter

use it sparingly, bearing in mind that

the oil is very difficult of digestion.





   

 





Use bananas very selodm if at all. .





Bananas properly ripened may do no

harm, but as this condition seldom ex-

ists- it is better to avoid them.

spend two hours now planning lunches

for the school days, you will save your-

self time later when you are hurried,

and add to your child’s probabilities of

good health. .Don’t let your child’s

future be spoiled by a snatched up





 





 





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lunch, made up of what is left on the

breakfast table.





C LEAN one bedroom. Sweep and



dust thoroughly, wipe ofi’ wood—

work and furniture with a cloth wrung

out of warm suds, polish with an oiled

cloth, clean windows and wash cur-

tains. If the house is old and the bed

is wood, a little gasoline injected into

all cracks with an oilcan may save you

weeks of work and worry.





 





It is one thing to clean house and

another to keep it clean. Allowing

grease to spatter on the cook stove

and dishwater on the floor makes an

untidy kitchen and takes time to

clean up. Laying things down where,

they are used instead of putting them





in place, neglecting to close cupboard





doors and drawers and tucking away

bits of string and Wrapping paper lic-

ters up the rooms and makes confu-

All this

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' Items on September 1, 1920.





Money on hand or in bank... $......

W. S. S. owned ....... .......

Liberty Bonds owned . . . .

Value of animals owned . . . . .

Value of pet stock Owned....

Value of equipments owned..

Value of land owned.

Value of personal clothing. .



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Value of unsold products. ....





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Total value $...

Get the habit of keeping careful

track of everything you own; it. will

help you to increase your property and





teach you business methods.

How Much do I Cost my Parents a

Year?





Did you ever stop to think how much‘





I it costs your parents to keep you well





and comfortable and to educate you to

Fill in





be a useful man or woman?

these items. The totals will

you.





Board for year $......

Clothing for year ............

Laundry for year ............

Doctors' and dentists’ bills...

Education . ..... .





Total cost 3......



In addition to this money cost them

are also the benefits secured by the

unpaid labor of mother, father and

children. Can you help pay your share?

By money? By hearty cooperation in

the home?





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BOY WINS BIG HONOR.





 





A calf exhibited by Glen Campbell,

nine years old, of Chater, Man., won

first prize and grand championship at

the recent live stock show at Winni.

peg. The animal weighed 1,050 pounds

and was sold at auction for fifty cents

per pound. Boys’ and girls' clubs in-

terested in the breeding of better live

stock have recently been organized all

over the western provinces of Canada.





LIABILITY TO SUPPORT CHIL.

DREN.





 





My boy left home a year ago at the

age of 19 years with the promise that

he would never return to help me an-

other day on the farm. I was paying

him a good wage but he was dissatis-

fied. He had the flu last winter which

left him with a cough all winter and

now he has consumption. He is back

in the neighborhood and his expenses

are about $10 00 a day. According to

the law of Michigan, will I have to pay

this bill? P. H. L.





The Compiled Laws of 1915, Sec.

5199, provides that whenever the

father shall abandon, neglect, or re-

fuse to maintain his children, the su-

perintendent of the poor may imme-

diately take possession of the goods

and land of the father, make an inven-

tory of the property so taken, leave a

copy with the father. with a notice to

appear before a justice of the peace,

etc., and ultimately to sell the property

for the child’s support; and our su-

preme court has held by analogy, to

the statute, by the common law, one

who furnishes support for an infant

child, neglected or abandoned by the

parent and unable to support itself may

supply the child and recover therefor

against' the parent. J. R. R.





 





, Lamb feeders have been urgent With



their orders for lambs Notwithstand-

,ing the shortage of money in the west,

some western growers are' offering to

Wr lambs on time to corn belt





BOY or girl will'understand better

how to value and manage property;

if onoe‘a year a lust is made of every-

thing he ‘or she owns; it the actual

value of such things as clothing. fur-

niture in 'one’s room is not known, itj

Investments like



Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps



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Market Growers’ Journal, one yr. 1.50

Poultry Keeper, one year ....... .50





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ISCARD knife and saw and paint

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Scalecide kills the hold-over cankers that ‘





cause twig and fire blight. It cleanses and

disinfects the canker; it causes the old,

blackened bark to peel off and new cam-

bium to form. No other spray does this.





What Scalecide Does





Scalecide kills scale, insect eggs and fun-

gous spores that winter over on the bark.

It cleans up the trees so thoroughly that

their increased vigor is strikingly notice-

able the following season. The Fall ap-

plication kills the adult Pear Psylla before

it lays its eggs. A Spring spraying, just

as the buds show green, kills aphis. Either

of these applications controls blight.





Penetrates and Invigorates





Scalecide is a soluble and miscible oil—

not only an insecticide for scale, but it

has both fungicidal and germicidal prop-

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broken up into such microscopic particles

they are able to penetrate the diseased bark

and tissues, and thus reach the bacteria.

that cause fire blight. Scalecide actually

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Saves Labor





One barrel of Scalecide does the work of

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gallons of Scalecide (diluted 1 to 15) goes

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gallons of Scalecide in much less time

than 1,600 gallons of lime-sulfur.





Protects Your Spray Pump

Lime-sulfur eats out the valves and other

parts of the spray rig with which it comes

It causes the spray hose to

crack and go to pieces.. Scalecide, be—

cause it is an oil, helps to protect the

spray pump from wear and tear and pro-

longs its life; it makes the pump run

easier and develop higher pressure.





Pleasant To:Use





Lime-sulfur burns the hands and face,

often injures the eyes, takes the hair off

the horses and eats the harness—4t is ex-

tremely disagreeable to use. Scalecide

soothes the skin, does not injure the eyes,

improves the hair on the horses, softens

and cleanses harness—it is pleamnt tame.





We Own 26,000 Trees





For ten years we have been conducting

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which now total 26,000 trees. The most

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with Scalecide in our own orchards has

been to discover and confirm many valu-

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its effectiveness against fire blight; and

its unequalled effectiveness against insects





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and diseases of all kinds that winter on‘

the tree. We recommend Scalecide to

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and Guarantee; also give us his name.

Use coupon below. Don’t delay. Last year

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An Interesting Parasite

By Leo M. Geismar





HIS beneficial insect which seems

to appear in varying numbers

“and at irregular intervals, was

first found by the writer during the

summer of 1900, while superintendent

of the Upper Peninsula Experiment

Station. Its description and enlarged

illustration by Prof. R. H. Pettit, En-

tomologist of the Michigan Experiment

Station, will be found in Bulletin No.

186 (first report of the Upper Penin— ‘

sula Station for the year1900), and also

in the annual report of the Michigan

Board of Agriculture for the year 1901,

page 189— 191.





This insect, as stated in the bulle-

tin, was found as early as 1869 by Dr.

Riley, who described it as a parasite

on potato-beetles in his first report,

under the name of “Lydella dorypho—

roe.” (Riley first report insects of

Missouri, page 111, 1869).





The insect is a. fly which somewhat

resembles a housefly, except that the

back of the abdomen has siIVery spots

on it and that the face is silvery white.

In size it is very little larger than the

housefly and .the sound of its hum

while flying about is sharper and loud-

er, especially while busy searching for

potato—beetles. This fly lays its eggs

on the bodies of nearly full developed

potato-beetle larvae as well as on the

adults. The eggs laid on the larvae

hatch out and the resulting small grubs

bore into the hoses, feeding on the liv-

ing flesh and the juices of the bodies,

but avoiding the vital parts. After the

maggot has become full-grown in its

living hosts, and after the larvae of

the beetle has descended into the

ground to pupate, the maggot changes

to a puparium, corresponding to the

cocoon stage of some insects. From

this puparium issues another fly sim~

ilar to the one which originally laid the

egg. This goes on a number of times

in a season, each generation of the

flies destroying a number of potato-

bug-larvae.





During the summer of 1900, there

were localities in Alger county in

which the Upper Peninsula Experi—

ment Station is located, where scarcely

any potato-beetles were seen, while in

the vicinity of the experiment station,

the beetles were quite numerous and

practically every one, as well as as

some of the larger larvae, was covered

with from one to as many as eight or

even more eggs Of what appeared to

be a parasite. This drew the attention

of the writer who soon thereafter was

attracted by the peculiar hum and

queer antics of several flies while in

the act of depositing their eggs on the

potato-beetles. The parasite first flies,

then walks around the potato-beetle

several times, tapping the beetle on

the head from time to time until this

and the strident tones of the parasite’s

hum induce the beetle to remain in an

apparently dormant condition while the

egg is being laid on its back. If the

same parasite lays more than one egg

upon the beetle, the tapping and hum-

ming performance is repeated before

each egg is laid. The fly lays its eggs

while standing alongside or in front of'

the beetle. Being lower in stature, it

succeeds in dropping its eggs on top

the beetles, by rearing itself partly

on its hind legs and after extending its

oviposidor in front of its body to above

its head, it curves it downward and for-

ward above the beetle and drops one

egg at a time. '





Potato~beetles were rather scarce in

the vicinity of the experiment station

during the following season of 1901,

although no flies nor their eggs could

be found. Nor have any been seen or

heard of since then, although the writ-

er has carefully watched out for them _‘

each year and from time to tini‘ ‘ “
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During the present season there were

localities in Houghton county where





_ potato-beetles were very scarce, and

. others in which they were quite abund-





ant. As above related, this same con-

dition prevailed in Alger county dur-

ing the season of 1900, and this led to

the belief that the parasite might be

at work again in parts of Houghton

county. After a search of about two

weeks, evidence of the parasite was

found in the vicinity of Dodgeville,

where potato-beetles were very numer-

ous and practically every beetle as well

as the nearly full-grown larvae were

found to be covered with from one to

than more eggs of the parasite. In

either direction from this locality, evi-

dence of‘the parasite disappeared grad-

ually until in potato fields five miles





away the eggs of the parasite were





found upon less than one beetle or lar-

vae out of every hundred.



The foregoing observations indicate

that this beneficient fly is at work in

large numbers in restricted areas

only, but within an extensive territory

and in several states. They also indi-

cate that the fly either migrates from

year to year to other localities or else

has. other hosts upon which it prefers

to rear its young from time to time.

That the flies cannot increase to any

great extent is due to the poisoning of

the potato-beetles, a practice which has

become quite general; for the poisoned

beetles dry up rapidly and this leaves

the young maggots which may hatch

out of the fly’s eggs without a living

host and consequently without food.



Prof. R. H. Pettit thinks that the fly

is the same which works on two rap-

idly disappearing species of cutworms

and that it therefore may have more

than one host, for in Bulletin No.186

he states. “An attempt was made to

introduce the flies here, in o1der to

get them to work on our potato-beetles,

but as no fresh flies emerged, it was

impossible. A little later in the season

four flies, which the writer is unable

to distinguish from the potato-beetle

parasite, were bred from cutworms.

The cutworms were the last two of a

large number of rapidly disappearing

depredators in a field of oats and peas.

They cut the oat stems into sections

several inches long and also cut the

pea vines. The larvae were brought in

on August 1 and the flies emerged on

August 8. This would suggest that

the parasite has more than one host.”





BRITISH WOOL STOCKS.





 





STATEMENT by the director of



raw wool stocks Of Great Britain

shows a total of 2,905,554 bales of gov-

ernment~owned wool on hand. The

quantity of combing merino wool which

is still available for sale is 796,579

bales. This stands out in strong con-

trast to what has been generally sup-

posed as being the stock of combing

wool, clothing and carbonizing stocks

being sensibly less than half the quan-

tity of combing wools still unsold. The

statement shows some very significant

totals, and the merino combing wool

available far outweighs both the cloth.

ing and carbonizing’ stocks.



Some very significant figures come

under New Zealand wool. The

stocks in the United Kingdom ports

are 217,688 and the stocks in New Zea-

land amount to 341,937 bales, all these

being New Zealagld wools. These to-

tals represent 559,625 bales, virtually

awhole New Zealand year’s clip. These

are all cressbredb, there being no mer-

ino New Zealand wool returned at all

in the stocks held by the government.





,The stocks of unshlpped Australian





crossbred wool are very considerable,

amounting to 657,852 bales, and if the

New Zealand unshipped stocks are al-

so added, we have 999, 289 bales of Col-

onial crossbred wool which remained





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proved land, Emilee from Boul

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£839 tanning orJ fruit: 84. am. any terms. Address

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FOR SALE 0,3 ”Tm” “m





town lnoludln stock- and near

WHERE BRADLEY. R.
creasing milk





for as long





BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY





Change of Copy or Cancellations must reach us

Ten Days before date of publication





Wildwood Farms

Ang’um





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.





WILDWOOD FARMS

ORION, MICHIGAN

Sidney Smith.Supt.





 





 





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Imported Herd Bulls

ELCHO OF‘ HARVIESTOUN (458547)

by Jason of Ballindalloch3804 (3804

EDGA RDO OF‘ DAL‘lENY (455801)

by Escort of Harviestoun (36006)

Woodcote Stock Farm.





Ionia, Mich.





 





 





Re stored Guernsey bulls. May Rose

For salebreed Ki cheap it taken soon (‘ome or

write. John Ebe s B, 2 Holland, Michigan.





 





SPRING DE‘ L FARM GUERNSEYS





For sale Choice of two bulls two and three years old;





 





. solbII ll calves three to twelve months Registered.

Slendid individuals and breedingix Prices r i.ght



Wm'r ETBRO aims. ox a). La Po rte.

Indiana.



611 bulls from onetofour weeks old.



P." B‘sdgistergmt . not re lstered Orders shi -



£10 excuse for scrub bul s.



80 Al! rod 8t. Detroit.





OWS fed a correctly balanced ration gave

47% more milk and 39% more butter fat than

cows fed the same concentrate and roughage

but unbalanced—Illinois Experiment Station.





Sucrene Dairy Feed has a record of substantially in-





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Locust Grove Dairy F arm, Carlisle, Pa.





We also manufacture Empire 20% Dairy Feed and

Amco Dairy Feed (25% protein) for extra heavy

milkers, or to be fed with silage or other low protein

feeds growu on the farm.





Give these feeds a trial for more milk at less feed cost.

Place an order with your dealer. if he can-

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American Milling Company

Dept. 44





Peoria. Ill.

[—American Milling Co., Dept. 44 Peoria. III.

I Please send illustrated literature checked:

El Sucrene Dairy Feed

I C] Sucrene Calf Meal

I U Sucrene Hog Meal

Cl Sucrene Poultry Feeds

I D Amco Fat Maker for Steers

D Sucrene Alfalfa Hog Feed

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. Guernsey bulls from 3 months



For sale' to 6 months old. Their sire is



DOTTIE'S PRINCE No 44696; his dam has an official

yearly record of 647 lbs. butterflat



L WBYERS Goldwater. Mich.





GUERNSEYS— —Federal Inspected. Headed byA only



son of Carrie of Hillhurst exchamfiion ofA A.

class 5 balls under 10 mos. ., 1 a dandy w ose dam in

classD has given over 50 lbs. milk No females to spare.

G. W. dz H. G. RAY, 4 mi east of Albion Mich.





 





 





a very fine show





Registered Guernseys cm W, bu“





calf Is out of a cow milking 40 lbs. a day. the price will

surprise you. better of Ahisgiediié'ee

J. M orth Adams. Mich.





WIL

G U E R N s E Y BULL mm whose

si re's dam made

19. 460.20 milk, 909. 05 fat. Their mother's sire' s dam

made 15,109.10 milk. 778. 8) fat

'1. TRICKS. Battle Creek, Mich.





 





 





~REGISTERED





GUERNSEYS BULL ornvss





ContaininSgEbloodA of world champions.



HICKS' OUERN Y FARM, Saginaw, W..S Mich



FOR SALE Registered Guernsey heifers,

eurlings and calves.





E. A. BLACK lionteil Howard City, Mich.





 





 





May EchoS glvia Bull calf. 2 crosses to May Echo

Sylvia, and 3 crosses to King of the Pontiacs Dam

a 2 yr old daughter of a 29 lb, cow, of his nearest

tested dams average 34. 491s of butter and 759 milk.



0. H GIDDINGS, Gobleville. Mich.





 





Mlxter Saracen. lat prize Guernsey

Bull at Michigan State Fair of 1919.

Also two young purebred Guernsey cows

of excellent breeding. Priced to sell. Write or come





to see them.

B.W. SOMMER,

571.46 lb. milk in 7 days. is





31‘06 113' butter average of 9 nearest tested





dams of 2 mo. old bull. Price $150. erms.

Redford, Mich.





L.,McLAULIN

-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





-—OUR JUNIOR HERD SIRE—

Sir Ormsby Skylark Burke No. 264966

A brother to the world champion cow over all





breeds.



DUCHESS SKYLARK ORMSBY'

Michigan' 8 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, (lnc.~)





Roscommon, Michigan





For Sale





Age 20 mos.





Dryden. Mich.





 





 





 





 





Additional Stock Ads on Page 327





   





(Continued from last week).

Washtenaw County.



Leaving Manchester, in the southern

part of‘the county, at 8:30, we called

on Schur‘nacher Brothers, Taylor Gage,

Reed & Berseeder, and W. L. Rundel,

all of whom have small herds of good

quality. At Rundel’s the sire was ex-

ceptionally good and the cows were

well grown and straight but without

records. '



Bazley Stock Farm, near Ypsilanti,

was the next stop, and here the entire

crowd of Washtenaw County Holstein

breeders and visitors from other coun-

ties, and there were more than two

hundred all told, were the guests of

Mr. Bazley for dinner. It was a regu-

lar dinner, too—roast beef and all the

trimmings. Mr. Bazley is the presi-

dent of the Washtenaw County Hol-

stein-Friesian Association and a very

enthusiastic breeder of the black-and-

whites. Tables were spread on the

lawn under the trees and there was an

abundance for all.



After the program a novel feature

was introduced in the form of a judg-

ing contest. Arrangements had been

made for four teams of three men

each from agricultural schools and

each team judged three classes, cows,

heifers and calves. Mr. Pollock and

Mr. Norton made the final placings on

the three rings judged and the final

scores showed that the judging was

close. Two of the boys tied for first

place with a score of two hundred and

sixty-seven points each and the third

boy had two hundred and sixty-six

points.



After inspecting Mr. Bazley’s fine

herd, which numbers abdut sixty head,

we went on to R. J. Bird’s and to Carl

& Simon Braun’s. Here We saw some

very fine animals and Mr. Munsell se-

lected three from Mr. Bird’s herd for

the state sale at Jackson. Arrange-

ments for the Washtenaw county tour

were nicely taken care of by County

Agricultural Agent H. S. Osler, and

John Bazley and L. A. Seamans, presi-

dent and secretary, respectively, of the

Washtenaw County Holstein Friesian

Association.



Livingston County.



In Livingston county the leading

Holstein county of the state, and one

of the most famous centers of the

breed in all the county, some very fine

cattle were seen. This county, accord-

ing to census which is now nearing

00mp1etion, can boast upwards of three

thousand purebred Holsteins, and the

great majority of the other cattle are

high grades, as the industry has flour-

ished here for nearly a third of a cen—

tury.



The Livingston tour started-with the

Kumboss herd, owned by Secretary

Hays. “Jim” claims this is the most

widely advertised herd in the world,

for, as he says, “every time you call





your cows you advertise my farm and

Mr. Hays has his entire herd





herd.”





 





Holsteln Tour a Success





   





tested with very creditable records and

with . his customary originality, had

painted each cow’s record on her side

so that it could be seen plainly. Four

generations of ‘females, headed by a

twenty-eight-pound cow, were on ex-

hibition and made a very fine showing.



Next came the Village Farm, where

the McPherson Farms Company has

been breeding “Top-Notch Holsteins"

for the past twenty- five years. An in-

telesting feature in connection with the

herds owned by this company is the

fact that herd records are kept, show-

ing the milk produced by each cow"

during every period of lactation. Here»

we saw an eighteen-year-old- cow that

produced in her first fourteen lactation

periods more than 174,000 pounds of.

milk and her fourteen-year—old daugh-

ter with 137,000 pounds to her credit

in eleven milking periods, these being

herd records on twice-a-day milking.

Surely these black~and-white milking

machines are built of good material to

stand the strain so long and. produce

so continuously. ‘



At Charles Heeg’s we stopped for

dinner and the program. Th’e‘Heeg

herd is exceptiOnally good and all the

cows have records ranging from twen-

ty-three tothirty-two pounds in seven

days.



A visit to the herd of S. H. Munsell

is sufficient to convince anyone that

he is well qualified to select the ani-‘

mals for the state sale, for he has one

of the finest herds in the state. Here

we saw seven two-year—old heifers, all

by one sire and averaging above twen-

ty-one pounds in seven days.



Cluny Stock Farm, owned by R.

Bruce McPherson, has more thanpne

hundred head, including a large num-

ber of heifers sired by a son of Maple

crest Pontiac Application. The calves

here were especially attractive and

well grown. The herd includes a large

number of good record coWs that are

now on long-time test.



The last scheduled stop was at Robin

Carr’s, west of Fowlerville. This herd

which includes a number of grand—

daughters of Hengerveld DeKol, repre-

sents exceptionally good type and most

of the COWS have records above twenty-

four pounds. An interesting feature

here was a pair of twin cows, each with

a. record above twenty-five pounds. ‘



After showing his cattle, Mr. Carr

took us across the road to see some

cattle of his breeding which belonged

to a neighbor. There were three grand-

daughters of Hengerveld DeKol, and

they suited Mr. Aitken so well that he

returned the following week and puf-

chased them.



Ingham County.



The members of the Central Michiu

gan Association, which includes Ing-

ham county and adjoining territory, as-

sembled at Sycamore Farm on Friday,

morning for the Ingham county tour.

Sycamore herd, which is owned by

Fred E. Shubel, has some very heavy
'm W Main 11er days.





two weeke' series.





pounds to her credit.





11. great pair.





seen.

by C. L. Hulett, whose herd was nex





on the list, is also a hull of show ring





quality.





Next we visited the herds by C. W.

Wilson, A. R. Black & Sons, and C. A.

Daniels, and arrived at the Michigan

Agricultural College at noon, where the

caravan stopped for lunch on the cam-

After the program, the College



Holstein herd of about sixty head was



inspected and Professor J. E. Burnett

- gave a demonstration of Holstein type.



The college has a herd of exceptional



merit, including a very good young son



of College Belle Butter Lass, the cow

that topped the state sale last January





pus.





at $3,250.





Several very good herds northwest





of Lansing were visited during the at





ternoon, including the herds of F. .W.

Schuesberger, Stortz & Birkholz, F. R.

McDonel, Chris Hansen, Creyts Broth-

ers, A. E. Crosby, Edward Stoll and

Rain interfered

with the afternoon program somewhat,

but altogether it was one of the most

satisfactory tours or the series, the

herd sires seen during the day being

almost without exception remarkably





Howell & Drumheller.





good individuals.

Jackson County.





The Jackson County tour started

with the Boardman Farms at nine

o’clock on Saturday morning, August

pioneer

breeders in Jackson county, and in fact

this is one of the old established herds

Under the active man-

agement of H. D. Boar-dman, Secretary

of the Jackson County Holstein-Frie—





7. Boardman Farms were





in the state.





sian Association, this herd will be de—

veloped rapidly and testing for records

will be carried on to a greater extent

than in the past.



The second herd visited is owned by

Vernon Clough and, though a small

herd, is worthy of special mention be-

cause of the results secured. Starting

with almost nothing seven years ago,

Mr. Clough has made rapid strides in

a business way and attributes his suc-

cess entirely to the herd. Herds owned

by J. A. Campbell & Son, G. A. Wheel-

er & Son, and Dennis Cobb & Sons.

were inspected before noon and many

good animals were seen, and at Camp-

bell's Mr. Munsell selected a heifer for

the state sale. '





Returning to Jackson, we stopped at

Sharp “Park for lunch and the program,

then proceeding to W. W. Wyckoff’s

place at Napoleon. Mr. Wyckoff has

one of the most interesting and re-

markable herds in'the state, and to say

that he is a. most enthusiastic booste1

for Holsteins is mild indeed. Mr. Wyck—

off started in the Holstein business

thirteen years ago by purchasing one





registered cow, Inez Pietertje, a two-‘





year-old. then.‘ He now has six gener-

ations of females in the herd, includ-

ing about forty head, and all are de—’

scended from Inez, for he has never

purchased another female. The old cow

is still hale and hearty and is due toH

freshen in the fall. She has a record

of twenty- eight DOunds of butter from

six hundred pounds of milk and has six

daughters in the herd, four with rec-I

and; ranging from an 18. 25-pound jun-

imyear-old to a twenty- two-pound“





 

 





-. ED.Bex&Sonehaveoneofthe

" amost interesting herds seen during the

Never having test-

gd before, this herd emerged from ob-

scurity last winter by developing the

only pair of cows in the world that are

mother and. daughter and each with

better than eight hundred pounds of

milk in seven days. Lady Clio Pauline

DeKol produced 842.1 pounds and her

daughter, Model’Lady DeK‘ol, has 8,204 ’

They surely are

Several other cows in

this‘herd deserve mention, and King

Lansing, one of the sires owned by the

Capital Bull Association and kept on

this farm, was one of the best sires

A brother of this sire, owned





t





 





Purebred Holstein Cattle

in the North West





The North Dakota Farmer recom-





mends Holsteins and reports: “The

United States Government and the ex-

serriment station when selecting cattle



the breedin circuit at New Salem

chose this bree as being best adapted

to conditions. Holsteins are strong and

healthy and do well in any climate.

On account of their great yield they

are the most economical producers of

butterfat.





Send for Free Illustrated Booklets.

They contain valuable information for

any Dairyman.





THE .110Lsrnm-rn1ssmn ASSOCIATION

164 Hudson Street

Brattleboro Vermont.





_

OUR HERD SIRE

Model King Segis Glista





By a d30 lb. son of Lakeside ling Begin Album Do Eel.



smalls“ l‘onolle 32.31111- Her dam Glisto Er-

lsthree nearest damn average over

33 lbs and his {org-I11 nearee set t rel sveetl 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.





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Facton'oa: Detroit





LONG DISTANCE HOLSTEINS m...



SIRE PRINCE UNA

(Prince 01111) 236555 Five dams av 1186 lbs butter and

24771 lbs milk in 1 yr. Only 1 good bull calf left. born

Nov. lBth',19 dam untested, $100 State and Federal





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as ordinary overalls.

overalls, that the guaranteed double service of Head-

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If Headlights don't last you twice as long as ordinary

overalls, and afford greater comfort in the wearing, you got





 





supv.—a clean herd. A. FLEM ' lNG, Lake, Mich.

accepted in payment of finely bred ren-

‘ 600d "Ole istered Holstein bull calves. Quality





at £116 best and in. prioee within reach of all. er to.

OLAR — Vassar. Mich.





 





"UlSlalflm Friesian heifer and bull cal1es,pu19b1‘ed



toned and higb- grade. Price $20 up.

Splendid individuals and brooding Write us your re-

quirements. Brownorott 14‘ arms, McGraw. N. Y.





“TOP NOTCH”





HOLSTEINS





MCPHERSON FARMS COMPANY

has raised many great milk cows:—~

1 Oliioially Produced 842 lbs. milk in '7 days

3394 lbs. milk 111 30 days

" 120 lbs. milk 111 1 day

811 lbs. milk 111 7 days

we: 1000011111. milk 111 100 days

105 lbs. milk in 1 day

696 lbs. milk in? days

2669 lbs. milk 111 30 days

100 lbs. milk in 111111]

20854 lbs. milk in 1 year

100 lbs. milk in 1 day

6 9 lbs. milk‘ 1n 7 days

18675 lbs. milk in 1 gear

Others under test are making large milk recor

A fine lot of young bulls £10111 3 lmnnths to 2 years

old for sale. Get a “milk” bull, and increase milk

production in your hard.

Our herds are under U. S. sup( n 1111011





McPHERSON FARMS 00., Howell, Mich.





HOLSTEIN





BULL CALVES FOR SALE





From dams w1th good records.

BULL CALVES SIRE BY 4515. BULL.

BULL CALVES SIRED ex 34 lb. BULL.

BULL CALVES sump BY 33 lb. BULL.





PRICES VERY REASONABLE.

Privelege of return if not satisfied.





A. w.1cornAND,





Bil-min chem; Michigan.

Herd under State and Federal Superviuon.





 





 





 





 





   

 

 





Remember, when you price





LARNED, CARTER & CO., DETROIT

World’s Greatest Overall Makers





St. Louis

Perth Amboy. N. J.





Canadian Factory: Toronto. Ontario





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Port Huron, Mich.





San Francisco





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CaLUNY STOCK

FARM





A Semi-Oflicial Bred Bull to Head



Your Head

Maplecrest Application Pontiac No.132652, heads



Our Herd

His dam's record is 1344.3 lbs. butter 23,4213

lbs. milk in 305 (la 5. and 35.103 lbs. butter and

515 6 lbs milk in days.

One of his sons from our good record dams will

carry these meat blood lines into Your Herd.

For Pedigrees and Prices write to



R. Bruce McPherson, Howell, Mich.





The TraverseHerd





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.

Dani's records up to 30 lbs. Writer for pedigrees and

quotations, stating about age desired.





TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL





Traverse City, Mich.





 





 





Increase the Efficiency





of your





DAIRY HERD





by using a





Registered Holstein Sire





We have bulls of all ages listed at rea-

sonable rices.

80 grade and pure-bred



cows and heifers.





Michigan Holstein-Friesian A330.





011 State Block,

Lansing, Mich.
‘ at onoegtating your wan$.





328-46 '





”a... i an. ’





£33319} Hf‘iifers'trgtmtOS‘tobfl mfiililtzegtld. All regis-

ii orcn .

on so 5“. . A. HARDY. Rochester, Mich





BARGAIN PRICES ...... M





f ll d f rvi H o l s t e i n

hel ers and o n bu s rea y or no es. .

JOSEPH H.,BuR WEB, Grand Rapids. Michigan





HEREFORDS





20 Cows and Heifers of popular breed-





‘iiig for sale also bulls not related.





ALLEN BROS.

PAW PAW, MICHIGAN





t ch sad 3 newherds, now have



Hereiordso I508 11:33: iiigdofl'er you an )tlliiing desired

, h .d or o e . any age. ce reason-



:h‘lld?r sex ”minis l‘pIcCAHTYS, Bad Axe. Mich.





. R . b He 5’ toSmo. old. Prices

Herefords ' ioarggnab‘le fdr quick sale visitors

welcome. Reed Schultz. ll. 3. Homer. Mich.





HEREFORDS





D. S. Polled Herefords

d d b lt ner Bullion. 815933. (18242) son of

Herd hea egra3hd ghampion Bullion 4th.

— f d olled and horned cows bred to

flfizsgdgatAbifl‘l’. 30351.50 three fine bull calves not,

related to him. Correspondence solicited.





Cole & Gardner, Hudson,Mich.

The Wildwoocl Farm





tl , Ma est strain. Herd on State accred-

i’igdsliysgalti. Sf M. testln constantly done. Bulls'for

sale. ALVIN BALDE . Phone 143-5, Capac, Mich.





ED JERSEY BULLS

BUTTER BR FOR SALE

CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM,

Silver Creek. Allegan County. Michigan.

rse bull calves of Majestybreedingfrom

For sale ggod yproducing stock. Herd on Govern-

ment “Accredited List." Write for Erica and pcdi ree

o C. A. TAGGETT. R. 2, airgrove, Mic .





Jerseys For Sale, 33%??? 85.13435?





Smith and Parker. Howell. Michigan.





. bull ready for service sired by Fly-

ihgszl‘lgxegieliggi' Lad. Dam record 472.5 lbs. butter

8675 lbs. milk. Notten Farm. Grass Lake, Mich.





' ' 2 R. f M. bull calves,

llllre Farmstead Jerseys 0..., ,2... 01.1.1... fall.-

..» C. C. LILLIE. CoopersVille. Mich.





BlDWELL SHORTHORNS





You Can Buy

a bull that will put weights on your dairy calves—

the difference will soon pay for the bull. Now selling

good Scotch and Scotch-topped yearlings, reasonably

priced. A roan. senior yearling. a Missie of Villager

breeding. a herd bull prospect, Federal Test.





BlDWELL STOCK FARM,

Box D, Tecumseh, Michigan





Sh rthorn Ass‘n has

St' Joseph valley forosale males and fe-

males of all a es and best breeding.

AARON HAG 1N BUCH.Sec-t reas. Three liivers.Mich





We Now Have





a number of choicely bred scotch females of any



a. e for sale also three bulls from 6 to 18 months old.



Vgisit our herd before buying. Sold 5 calves for $5400.

CARR BROS. A 00.. Bad Axe. Mich.





Richland Shorthorns





Imp. Lorne, Imp. Newton chain ion and

Sterling Supreme in Service. e offer

for quick sale: Five Scotch Bulls, best

of breeding. Three whites at $1000 each‘ One

roan at $500. one red at $400. No females for





1 . Publ'c 5 1e Cliica 0 Oct. 28th.

as. e C. I . aRESCEJTT & SONS,





Tawas, Ci ty, Mich.





' ' Shorthorns. For Sale: cows and heifersbred

Falllleld to Imp. Scottish Emblem 680312. Open heif-

ers all ages, Also a few choice Scotch bulls of serVige-

able age. Come and see them. H. l}. PETERS &

SON. Garland, Mich., P. O. R. R. Elmo. Mich.





Ne list 39 bulls,49 females. Cen-

Shorthorns tralvMich. Shorthorn Asso. write

OSCAR SKINNER, Sec., Gowen. Mich.





Sc itch and Scotch Topped

Shorthorns bulls and heifers priced right.

Sultan Champion heads herd. one scotch two yr. old





R b land priced right.

herd bl!“ by 191d anll’nLngER dz SON. Milo, Mich.





' ' SHORTHORNS. Clay bred bull calves

Mllkmg Hords under Federal Supervision.

Davidson & Hall, Beiand ¢t Iieland, Tecumseh. Mich.





Shorthorns gagggcgtrcg elériridggrti'lls, cows and

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





 





 





MEADOW Hills Shorthorns. Herd headed by Sil—

venKing. full brother of Lavender Sultan Pur-

due University's great sire. For sale females of all

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





 





' ' Shorthorns of best Bates breedin ,

Mllklng bulls 6 to 8 mo. old for sale. 3

E. H. KURTZ. Mason, Mich.





Shorthorns of Merit £333.33:

for sale. ARTHUR DODDS, Lapeer. Michigan



Eight to ten months old

Shorthorn BUIls of Scotch and Scotch

Topped breeding. Lawrence P. Otto. Charlotte, Mich.





 





 





HORTHORNS~Imp Mysie Prince in service bred

by J. Durno, sire bred bv Win. Duthie. Stock for

sale. J. A. BARNUM, Union City. Mich.





 





19 Shorthorn registered ood breed‘

For sale will sell chea to close ogut. A1) 1 ing

The JENNINGS F RMS, Bailey, Mich.





Red Polled cattle for sale hulls from 4 to 18 mosalso





cows with calves by side and heifer's.

G. A. CALHOON, Bronson, Mich.





Beg. m Polle’rl 33f‘313i3¥2.i2‘.'“"“““ "m ‘° 1”

FRANK KEBLER. R. 1. Grand Ledge. Mich.





Several bunches of stock-

Stee's For sale are and feeders we? ing from

”to 1&0 lbs. Each bunch even incize an color write

Ottumwa. Iowa





 





   





W. . DYEB.





   





 





 





 





 





 





. v i. c so.

"“ no of the Boot

Young sows due to farrow in So to

ment. Choice individuals of BI

express and register in bu er’s name

J. CARL JBYVE 1.11,





   





Herd: in"

' TYPE breeding.





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oars ready (for ship-

I ship" C.’ O. D. pay





mber. " Spring





R. 5, Mason, Michigan.





 





HQGS j





' size with qualit is our special-

BerkShlreS (a. Write our zvants to



M. G. hiOS ER &30 S. 08960, Mich.



Registered Berkshires. Gilts, and Sows bred for April





May and June farrow. A yearling Boar and a few

younger.Spring pigs. Chase Stock Farm.Marlette.Ilicii.





Breakwater, lluroc Jerseys





FOR SALE





Brod Gills of Choice Breeding

A? few good ones left. This is your opportunity to





buy at

ROCK BOTTOM PRICES

—-aloo—





READY FOR SERVICE BOARS

Visit the exhibit of Breakwater Jerseys and Duroc Jer-

seys at the Michigan State Fair. Detroit, Sept. 3-l2.





COME TO FARM on WRITE—MAIL ORDERS

, A SPECIALTY





BBOOKVIATEB FARM





ANN ARBOR. MICH.

H. W. Mumford, Owner, l. B. Andrews, Mgr.





 





 





 





 





The World’s Champion





big type O.I.C’s. stock of all ages for sale. Herd

headed by Galloway Edd. the World's Champion

0. I. C. boar assisted by C. C. Schoolmaster. Grand

Champion boar of Michigan. New York and Ten-

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

feated Senior boar pig wherever shown and Grand

Champion of Oklahoma state fair. Get our cat-

alogue of Crandell’s prize hogs. Cass City, Mich.





Central Mich. 0. l. C.





Swine Breeders Ass’n.





Hogs of all ages of popular blood lines. Every

sale guaranteed by association.





DR. H. W. NOBLES,

Sales Mgr. Coral, Mich.





9 Eight young boars and s rin i s

0' l' C s for June shi merit. p g pg

CLOVERLEAF STUCK ARM, Monroe. Mich.





’ Booking orders for spring p we

0' 1' C' 8 re ' ter free and ship 0. (his?

A. J. BA KER dz SON, Belmont. Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





Spring pigs by Walt’s





Orion, First Sr. Yearling

Detroit, Jackson,Gd. Rapids and Saginaw 1919





Phillips Bros,Riga,Mich.

DUROC JERSEY SWINE





for sale 2 yr. old herd boars. warding bears and boar

pigs, also bred sows and ilts. rite for pedigrees and

prices. Come and see t em.



THUS. UNDERHILL A: SON. Salem, Mich.





 





 





Duroc sows and gilts bred to “alts King 29499,



who has sired more 1st and 2nd prize pigs

at the State Fair in last 2 years than any other Duroo

boar. Everyone will be a money maker for the





buyer. Cat. and rice list.

NEWTON BARNH liLl‘, St. Johns. Mich.





OAKWOOD FARM DUROCS





We can furnish you with anything from a weanling

pig to a boar of erd heading caliber at reasonable

prices. Your inifiiection and correspondence is

solicited. BUS BROS. Romeo, Mich.





 





' Duroc gilts bred to farrow Jul and Au -



12 lilllllcll ust. Dau hters of Michigan Clierry Cog.



bred to Jacks Cherry riob King Number 169259. Son



of the $10,000.00 champion Jacks Orion King 2nd. All

large type. heavy bone gilts. 250 to lbs.



THE JENNINGS FARMS, R. 1. Bailey. Mich





Duroc Boars and Gilts





for sale at $25 to 850 each. crated and registered in

buyer's name. Satisfaction guaranteed. ‘hese are

some of the best )igs in the state. Visitors welcome.



. MICHI ANA FARM LTD., PaVilion, Mich.





' at once I have just what you want

write Me heavy bone registered Duroc Jer-

sey boars ready for service. .



W. H. MAYES, L. B. 505, Durand, Mich.





oi' the right type, good blood

Duroc Jerseys lines and in gwd condition

at a price on can afford to pay. Guaranteed to suit

you. W. E. Bartley. Alma. ich.





D Jersey's. Herd headers in boars. Why! Be-

["06 cause they are bred right, fed right. grown

right and from Grand Champion stock. Write or bet.

ter come and see. F. J. Drodt. RJ. Monroe. Mich.





DURUC JERSEYS





E. D. HEYDENBERK. Wayland. Mich.





DUROCS spring boars. A few gilts bred

for Se t. tarrow at bargain prices.

W. 0. ll‘AYLOB. Milan. Mich,





DU ROG JERSEYS. .9553“ ”l5?

delivery. $10.00 each. LAKE SIDE STOCK RUIT

FARM, Pinckney. Michigan.





' Chester Whites. Choice. stretchy spring

Big Type boars, also tried sows and fall gilts bred

for Sept. litters. These hogs are big and will fatten

at any age. Grand champion blood lines of the

breed, Wildwood Prince Jr.. Rajah. and Champion X.

Cholera immune. Satisfaction guaranteed.



N. L. HILL JR. M ackinaw. Tazewell 00. Ill





df ll it b d



C H E S T E R S taloagggar 8f ildwdgd

Prince Jr. breeding for Sept. furrow; spring l s.

F. w. ALEXANDER, Vassar.llrfi<§1.





1 two year old. weight 500, Apr.



0- L C- BOARS, boars. Write for breeding and



prices. We ship 0. 0. D. and re . free.



GEO. M. WELTON ’ 0N, Alto. Mich.



o I C’s A few choice late fall and winter



0 0 boars. also a fine two ear old boar.

WEBER BROS. R. No. 2. Royal ak, Mich.





 





 





liaise,“ Chester 'Wliites'

i .ILike’Tliis‘,





9 “112?th big prod u’c'é'fi‘ 1'





HAVE started thousands of breeders on the road to.

th I gen help you. Egan: to lose otnflho from

my great 0 CVOI'Y common W era In no [a

' “infill Write gfl' In: $11313" Kannada?!“ a



O. I. mum, B, F, D. 10' Portland. Him





 





 





O. I. C. Elite bfid ffor Julylai‘id Aug. (arrow.

arrowe gs. -

. 6.33.3Xsn‘imws. 53mins, Mich





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Gilt: bred for Sept. (arrow-





 





r. o. noncreditiifi akFMason. Mich]





O I. 0’s. 5 last fall boars and 15 last fall gilts ed for

- fall (arrow. Weight 230 to 325 lbs. extra goo stock.

Also this sgring'sfigs not akin, id mile west of depot.

Citizens p one 12 . Otto B. Schulze. Nash-ville, Mich.





Look for Miller Meadows L. T. P.C.'s at Marshall

Calhoun 00. Fair. Se t. 21-25.

CLYDE WEAVER. Ceresco, Mich.





FOR SALE Registered Bi type Poland



China gilts bre for Se t. far-

row.weighing 225 lbs. for 360. spring gigs all sol . guar-

antee satisfaction. DORUS HOV R, Akron. Mich.





Poland China Special





Boar pigs sired by Monster Big Bob and from our

best sows. priced right for immediate shipment.

Big-boned. strong-backed, smooth fellows from

popular blood lines. Write for information or visit





he arm.

BOONE-HILL 00.. Blanchard, Mich.





~ L. S. P. C.





Everything sold previously ad. 25 sprln pigs

placed on the bargain counter for mo.o Sept.





pairs or trios not akin. ,

H. O. SWARTZ, Shoolcraft. Mich.





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.





L T P C We have a large number of spring



' ' ' ' and summer pig’s ready to ship sir-

ed by such'boars as “Hart's Blac rice.” “Leonard's

Big Bob." the “Model Clansman" and “Prospect

Yank" a great son of the $40,000 Yankee. Write for

prices or come and look them over if vou are in the

market. HART. FULCHER a OLiNE, address

F. '1‘. Hart, St. Louis, Mich.





Bred Sow Sale at Fairgrounds

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





 





 





Big Type P. O. Bred gilts, Fall yearlin 3. prize win-

ners, out 1100 lb. sire and mammot sows from

Iowa's greatest herds. E.J.M athewson.Burr Oak.Mich.





 





Big Bob Mastodon pigs takes the cake. book your



order now. Fall boars and gilts sired by a grandson

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

yearling sons. 0. E.GARNANT. Eaton Rapids, ich





Large Type Poland China





pigs. both sexes now re‘ady. write for description and

p cos. RALPH SHEER, Caledonia. Mich.





’ ' with ualit , at re.

Blg Type P0181111 Chlnas son ablccla prides. Pigs

of both so and bred sows and gilts





G. A. BAU GARDNER, n.2, 'Middleville, Mich.





boars. Au .pi both sex. Recorded free in buy-

L “i. 5?.





BIG T. P. Chinas for sale. A few tried sows,_ spring

amberlain. Marcellus, Mich.





er's name.





I am offering Large Type Poland China Sows, bred

to F's Oran . at reasonable rices; also fall pigs.

Write or Call Clyde Fisher. St. ouis. Mich. R.R.3.





Lindhurst Poland Chinas





Stock for sale at all times. Public Sale Oct. 23.

’ WM. H. LIND. Alto. Mich.





POLAND CHINAS





W. J. HAGELSHAW. Augusta. Mich.

LARGE TYPE P.C. SWINE. One yearling boar.

one fall earling boar. fall pigs, a.

few more bred sows. R. W. ills. Saline. Mich.

Leonards B. T. P. 0. See exhibit at Mich. State Fair,





et your name on mailing list for ublio sale Oct.





ouble immune. ER Leonard, St. uis.Mich.R.3,





Type Poland China's. Everything immuned by





Lar 9 double treatment. Meet me at Detroit.orJack_-

son airs. A. A. Feldkamp. R. 2, Manchester, Mich,





BARGAINS on Big ty 6 spring and summer Poland

China Pigs also year ing Shorthorn bulls. bull and

heifer calves. Robert Neva. Pierson, Mich.





HAMPSHIRES





1914-4-----I920

Choice Spring boars, popular breeding. Booking





and guaranteed Breeeders. Satisfaction guaran-





n granary-s HAMPSHIRE Finn





Angola, Ind.

Edgewood Hampshires





All [firleld ts sold. defiw lfiookiing (Inger: gr glut- bred

‘ rrow, an or c u wo on y.

gage; Haem. Edgeasood Egan, Marion. Ohio.





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_ day.





and that is a record 111* itself."





Leaving here we visited 'Sharondale _

Farms and Smith & Hammond, and tin:- .~ .;





,ished the day with Jud Blakevdt Son,

where Mr. Pollock gave a demonstra4

tion of Holstein type. The cow used

was a very fine specimen for the pur-

pose. In fact, she took the grand cham-

pionship at the Jackson County Fair

last year. Interest in" the demonstra-

tion was keen, and it was after seven

o’clock in the evening when the breed-

ers finally left for home. This closed

the two weeks’ series and everyone

agreed the meetings had been a. great

success.





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THE ACRE WE ADDED.





 





take an e11, and do it so quick

it will make your head swim.

That is what happened in our cow

pasture. We did not get around to cut

the brush for a few years, and when





G IVE nature an inch and she will





we did, we found that it had grown up '





so that the pasture was producing

much less than it had when we stopped

trimming it up regularly.



“Cut off that brush, Father, and we

can keep half a dozen more cows.” So

said the young man of the farm, and

the idea got a good grip on us. So

strong a hold, in fact, that we ground

up the tools and spent all our spare

time that fall cutting the stuff offs

The poles that were large enough for

wood, We trimmed and laid in piles to

dry, and later we drew them down to

the house and “buzzed” them up. They

made pretty good wood, too, although

the sticks did not have the lasting

qualities that weed out from mature

trees does.





- The small branches were cut off and.

for this we found that a sharp bush-

hook is the best tool, a good deal bet-

ter in fact than an axe. A single blow

severs a limb an inch in diameter. We

piled the brush carefully, taking pains

to press them down tight together, and

left them to cure out for the burning-

that came that fall.





All round among the brush we found

a good many briers which had borne

berries earlier in the season. These

we cut with a. stout scythe, pulling

them together with a pitchfork, adding

them to the heaps of branches cut.

from the saplings. The field looked

fine after we had been over it this

way.



It looked finer, howeVer, after the

brush had been burned and the pole

wood hauled away. The most surpris-

ing thing about it was the fine quality

of the grass which grew in where that

brush had been. Without any seed at

all a good lot of white clover came in

and the cattle ate it with the greatest

possible good appetite. So we added

our acre to the pasture. More are

coming. E. L.





 





ERADICATI NG CANADA TH ISTLES.





I would like to get some advice

regarding thistle blades. I would like

to get some kind of a. tool that would

out about two or three inches under

the ground and about six feet wide.

The objection I have to the thistle

blade attachments I have seen for a.

two-horse cultivator is that they don’t

cut wide enough to make their use





practical in large fields infested with





quack grass. Canada thistles, etc.

Osceola Co. H. A.





Plowing the ground infested by Can-

ada thistles several times a. year is

about one of the best ways of overcom-

ing them. We believe it would pay,





you to write the Minnesota University, " .

St. Paul, Minn.. who would be able to ‘

give you more information on killing





quack grass and Canada thistles. They

are overcoming these muses
sm 11 1110. 1,





 





FLUCTUATION IN Hess.





(Continued from page 304.)



tion of live stock prices. Temporary

conditions alter relationship for a

time and occasionally work immense

hardship upon those who are caught

by the failure of conditions to work

the normal way. On the other hand,

there is no benefit in bewailing a per—

fectly normal event and some of the

price changes which take place in the

hog market, as well as in other mar-

kets, may be so classified. They are

as normal though not quite so regular

and unvarying as the passing of the

seasons. The close relationship be-

tween the supply and the price of hogs

indicates it to be more important than

demand in shaping the course of the

market. Producers control the supply,

hence it is not out of the way to say

that producers have within their hands

the chief influence for the stabilization

of markets.





 





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Indigestion—We have an eight~year-

old horse that has a splendid appetite,

works well, but hangs head as if he

was weak, and is very low in flesh.

For the past thirty days he has rested.

J. L., Decatur, Mich—Give him 1 (11‘.

of powdered sulphate of iron, 1/2 oz. of

ground or powdered gentian, 1 dr. of

ground nux vomica at a dose in ground

feed three times a day. Increase his

feed.



Chronic Leukdrrhea.—Do you know

of a remedy that will cure leukorrhea

(Whites), as I have a mare that is in-

fected. Have used several remedies,

none seems to do much permanent

good. This mare is a hearty eater,

even eats bedding. A. H. C., Galien,

Mich—«Give her one dram of powdered

sulphate of iron and half-ounce dose of

powdered gentian in feed 2 or 3 times

a day. Inject her with one part liquor

cresolus compositus (’U. S. P.) and 99

parts water once a day. Use a foun-

tain syringe. She should be well fed.





Cow Does Not Come in Heat—Cow

five years old, came fresh last May,

since then she has not been in heat.

T. F. L., Northport, Mich—Give her a

teaspoonful ground capsicum at dose

in each ‘feed. Feed her some grain 3

times a day.



Enlarged Gland Rheumatism—We

have brood sow two years old, she lost

her second litter of pigs last Decem-



7 her. A bunch formed in throat, be-



sides she suflered from rheumatism for



a short time, is now entirely rid of it,



but the bunch in neck remains. She



has raised a third litter of pigs and



seems to be doing fine. Will she do



to fatten for pork? H. C. A., Missau-



kee Co., Mich—Her flesh will be fit



~ for food. Painting such a bunch with



tincture of iodin 3 times a week is

considered good practice.





Rickets.—I weaned pigs at 7 weeks,

leaving one with sow. The sow soon

took sick, lost flesh rapidly, would not

eat, grew weak in hind legs and died.

Before she died her skin was of a pur-

ple color. The little pigs began by

getting weak in hind legs. I thought

they had grown too rapidly. Several

of my neighbors have lost young pigs

from this same ailment. We thought

their bones were weak, but the color

of skin did not change. No person in

this section has seen such a sickness

in pigs. E. W. 0., Pontiac,

Rickets is relatively common in swine,

and is confined principally to young

pigs. The disease is more prevalent in

some localities than in other sections

of the country, and the conditions ap-

pear to prevail more extensively during



_ some years than others. The specific



1 cause 18 unknown, but the condition is



1 due to an insufficient deposit of lime



. g in the bone. Feed more lime in the

. food, especially during the early

stages of the disease, keep the pigs in

a dry, well—lighted place. An ailment

of this kind is preventable, by proper

care and feeding. The sow should have

been opened and examined after death,

. then you could have made a diagnosis.





 





 

 

 

 

 





 





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pounds of the decline in val-





 





 

 

 





 





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A nice lot of Ewes and Rams of all ages our dock is

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SHROPSHIRES E2:5}‘“‘=;§:;fi§





sired by Imp. Berry No. 163 for sale. Also a few ewes.

ARTHUR DODDS, Lapeer, Michigan





 





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ShrOPShlres ram and a few good yearling».

C. J. THOMPSON. Rockford, Mich.





 





' sire imported Mlnton Ram

Shropshires Lambs 520, some owes. 2 yearling

rams. DAN BOOHER, R. 4, Evart, Mich.





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Registered Rams all ages. Bredlfor size, type. quality.

Sire at head of flock, I. S. 0. N0. M3. 3 l! brother

to the Grand Champion ewe at International 1918

Bred by Iowa State College. Also a few good ewes.



W. W. CASLER. Ovid. Mich.





 





 





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F0, Sal. Oxford rams and ewes sired by McKerrows

3800. Assn. No. 88347. Write your wants.

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’GRAIN QUOTATIONS





September 8, 1920.





Wheat.

Detroit—Cash No. 1 red, $2.58; De-

cember, $2.39; March, $2.37; No. 1





white and No. 1 mixed, $2.56.

Chicago—No. 2 red, $2.511[2@2.53;

December, $2.40@2.41; March, $2.35@





2.36.

Corn.





Detroit—Cash No. 2 mixed, $1.55;

No. 2 yellow, $1.61.

Chicago—December corn, $1.19@

1.19%; market generally firm.

Oats.

, Detroit—Cash No. 2 white, 70c; No.

3 White, 68%c; No. 4 white, 66c.

‘ Chicago.~—Values show a tendency

'upward today.

» Beans.





VDetroit.—Immediate and prompt at



[$6 per cwt.

Chicago—Handpicked



Lfancy, $6.75.



New York—Choice pea, $7.50.





choice to





Rye.

Detroit—Cash No. 2, $1.93.

Seeds.

Detroit.—Prime red clover spot, Oc-

tober, $17.75; December, $18.25; alsike,

L318; timothy, $4.25.





WHEAT





'A very strong statistical position has

developed in wheat and prices have

averaged higher the past week. North

America is estimated to have an ex-

portable surplus of around 400,000,000

bu. this season at the outside, and

most estimates run considerably less

than that, while Europe took 650,000,-

000 bu. from all countries last year.

If the demand is maintained at the

same rate it would leave the southern

hemisphere to furnish 250,000,000 bu.,

Which would necessitate bumper crops

in Argentine and Australia. However,

the Argentine crop is reported as suf-

fering from drought, and any accident

there would probably result in a ma-

terially higher level of prices in this

country. Farmers show no disposition

to sell wheat already binned, despite

the advance in prices, either in the

winter or spring wheat ‘sections. Pri-

fvate estimates now indicate a total for

the country of around 775,000,000 bu,

compared with 795000000 bu. a month

ago, and 941,000,000 bu. harvested last

year, as spring wheat yields are turn-

ing out smaller than expected.



The world’s visible supply is much

the smallest of any August Since 1915.

Clearances from our ports a week ago

Were equal to practically half of the

United States visible supply. About 70

per cent of our visible is at seaboard

and gulf ports awaiting export, and a

big portion of the supply at interior

terminals has already been sold for

that purpose. Flour buyers have been

waiting for a break in prices before

accumulating supplies and mills are

not stocked up with wheat. Foreign

buyers may withdraw presently but

the domestic demand will revive upon

any decided break from the present

level unless commodity price declines

and industrial depression should be-

come dominant factors.



A big winter wheat acreage seems

probable as the ground has enough

moisture to work readily and bullish

wheat talk is common.





CORN





Higher temperatures are needed to

force the corn crop along to maturity.

For a week the weather has been en-

tirely tOo cool for the best results, es-

pecially as the crop is late. Private

statisticians figure a yield of corn for

the country of 3,030,000,000 to 3,130,-

000,000 bu., the latter being the largest

on record, and compare with 3,003,-

000,000 bu. a month ago, and 2,917,-

000,000 bu. harvested last year. Cash

,corn prices declined very sharply, due

to large receipts and a slow demand.

' Industries have in many instances re-



.ceived large cancellations of orders for

their product and are not inclined to

buy freely in consequence. Argentine

new crop corn is offered them at New

Yerk at $1.45@1.47, which is consider-

ably below domestic. A little new corn

has been contracted for in Illinois and

. Iowa on the basis of $1.00 for Decem-



. her shipment, but it is too early, for





 





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to hold, although they generally seem

anxious to sell old grain. The car sit-

uation has shown decided improvement

in some parts of Illinois due to the de-

creased loading of merchandise which

has released numerous cars for grain,

and the corn movement has been

swelled in consequence at a time when

the demand was slow and crop outlook





good.

OATS





The cats market is in a. rut, and

prices have held within a compara-

tively narrow range, gradually declin-

ing under the weight of the arrivals

of cash grain. Eastern, demand has

been fair, but very little export busi-

ness has been done, although prices in

this country have declined to a point

where it would not be surprising if a

foreign demand developed, especially as

the Argentine crop is reported in poor

shape, an Chili, normally an exporter

of cats and barley, may have to import

this year. The British crop has been

damaged by rain recently.





A,FEEDS





The course of grain values in the

next few weeks will be a big factor in

feed prices. The cottonseed demand

has been very light for some time and

the new crop of seed is starting to

the crushers although the price is

about one-third that of last year. The

flour mills are operating at far below

normal capacity and the recent low

prices of millfeeds were made in the

face of light supplies. Whether the

demand will expand to take care of the

supply when the mills increase their

output is a question. Lower prices are

generally expected in the trade. Latest

quotations per ton in carlots in 100-lb.

bags are as follows:



Milwaukee~Bran, $42.50; standard

middlings, $53; flour middlings, $61.50;

red dog flour, $73; 0. p. linseed oil

meal, $65; cottonseed meal, $60@65;

dried brewers grains, $63.50.



Minneapolis—Bran, $40.50@42; stan—

dard middlings, $51; flour middlings,

$60.50; red dog flour, $70; 0. p. linseed

oil meal, $62.50.





, HAY





The scarcity of cars and bale ties is

restricting the movement of‘ hay and

the new freight rates are checking the

movement, from the west but the lat-

ter factor has increased the price to

the east and south, thus reducing sales.

The slump in cotton also narrows the

southern outlet. Rains in the south

and west have damaged much hay re-

cently. Prices now are at about the

same level as a year ago. Latest quo-

tations upon hay and straw per ton in

carlotsare as follows:



Milwaukee—Choice timothy, §33@

$33.50; No. 1, $32@32.50; No. 2, 29@

$29.50; light clover mixed, $27@30‘;

red top and timothy mixed, $28@29;

marsh feeding, $17@18; rye straw,

$13.50@14; oat straw, $13.50@14.





BUTTER





Consumptive channels were filled up

before the freight rate advance so that

a lull in buying activity was not un—

expected. The supply especially of

under grades expanded and lower





,prices were necessary to interest buy—





ers. The break ocCurred early in the

week, and was followed by firmness,

although decided improvement is not

expected till after Labor Day. New ar-

rivals of Danish at New York were not

reported during the week, and current

prices have not permitted stocks al-

ready in storage. Total storage hold—

ings are still gaining. Favorable wea-

ther has kept pastures in good condi-

tion and the output is holding up well.

Closing prices September 3d on 92

score butter, according to the U. S.

Bureau of Markets were as follows:

Chicago, 55%c; New York, 57%c; Bos-

ton, 58; Philadelphia, 590.





CHEESE '





Country cheese markets were firm

but trading was not stimulated to any

extent at the distributing markets.

Buyers seemed reluctant to make pur-

chases until the trend became appa-

rent and interest of a wholesale nature

'was lacking until Thursday or Friday.

Dealers generally did not seem in-





 





 





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DETROIT

Cattle.





Market strong.

Best heavy steers ..$12.00@13.00





Best handy wt bu steers. 9.50(a210.50

Mixed steers and heifers. 850(6) 9.50

Handy light butchers 7.50@8.00

Light butchers ........ . . . 6.00@7.00

Best cows .............. 8.50

Butcher cows ............ 6.00@7.00

Canners ...... . ........ ' 5.0

Choice bulls .......... .. 7.50@; 8.00

Bologna bulls ........... 6.00@ 7.00

Stock bulls ............. 5.00@ 6.00

Feeders ...... . ...... . 8.00@ 9.00

Stockers .......... . . 7.00@ 8.00





Milkers and springers. I '75.00@140.00

Veal Calves.

Market steady.





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

Others ................. 7.00@15.00

Hogs



Market 15@25c lower.

Mixed grades .......... $16.00@16.25

Pigs ........... 15.50

Bulk ............. . . . . . 16.25

Rough . 13.00

Stags .......... . . ..... . 8.00@10.00





Sheep and Lambs.

Market dull.





Best lambs . ............ $ 12.00

Fair lambs .............. 9.00@11.00

Light to common. . . . . . . . . 5.0061) 8.00





Fair to good sheep...... ,5.50@ 6.00

culls .0...’..‘........" 2.00@ 4'00





CHICAGO

Hogs.



Estimated receipts today, 19,000;

holdover, 8,656. Market 10@150 low-

er; light off least. Bulk of sales,

$14.15@16.15; tops, $16.25; heavy 250

lbs up, medium, good and choice, $14.50





good and choice, $15.15@16.20; light

150 to 200 lbs; common; medium, good





and choice, $15.40@16'.25'; light lights,-





1,30to 15,0 lbs,;common,'medium, good_

and. choice, ”3143061216 5 heavy packing

BOWE"?W"IBB"Tun, smooth , 4.3.5.;





0 and good, $12.25@16.75;





@15; medium 200 to 250 lbs, medium,_





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packing sows 200 lbs up, rough, $13.65

@14; pigs 130 lbs down, medium, good

and choice, $13.75@15.50.





Cattle.





Estimated receipts today, 13,000.

Choice steers strong to higher; others

slow; she stock steady to easier; bulls

and feeding cattle strong. Beef steers,

medium and heavy weight 1100 lbs up,

choice and prime, $17 @18; do medium

do common,

$10@12; light weight 1100 lbs down,

good and choice, $14.50@17.75; do

common and medium, $8.50@14.25;

butcher cattle, heifers, common, me-

dium, good and choice, $6.50@15; cows,

common, medium good and choice, $6

@1275; bulls, bologna and beef, $5.50

@1150; canners and cutters, cows and

heifers, $4@6; do canner steers, $4.50

@750; veal calves, light and handy.

weight, medium, good and choice, $15

@17.75; feeder steers, common, me-

dium, good and choice, $8@12.25;

stocker steers, common, medium and

good and choice, $5.50@10.50; stocker

cows and heifers, common medium,

good and choice, $5@.9; western range

cattle, beef steers, medium, goo and

choice, $9.75@15; do cows and heifers,

medium good and choice, $8@10.50.





Sheep and Lambs.





Estimated receipts today, 27,000. Fat

lambs, 25@500 higher; feeders and

sheep strong to higher. Lambs 84 lbs

down, medium, good, choice and prime,

$12.25@14.50; do culls and common,

$8.50@12; spring lambs, medium, good

and choice and prime, $8.75@15; ewes,

medium, good and choice, $6@7.50;

ewes“ cull and common, $3@5.50:

breeding ewes, full mouths to year-

lings, $6@10.50; yearling‘weth‘ers, me-

dium, good, choice, $12.25@-13.55.





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The hog market Is active, with York-





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clined to push sales or make any con-

cessions. Prices did not show any.

material change 'in eastern markets

except on Longhorns at Philadelphia,

until Wednesday but during the week

prices were raised from one-half to

one cent on all styles. , '



At eastern markets buyers seemed

to show eastern made cheese consid-

erably preference. Some New York

states cheese was offered on the Chi-

cago market but did not attract much

buying interest. Some Pennsylvania

and Michigan cheese also .is being of-

fered at Chicago and finds an outlet

through out-of-town trade. All markets

report under grades as moving quite

freely throughout the week at prices

showing considerable range. Quality

has been running very good in the cur-

rent receipts, with the exception of a.

few lots. Receipts as compared with

last week decreased about 300,000 bar-

rels, and dealers' floors are fairly well

cleared of stocks. Storage holdings

show but little increase.





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The prices at close of the week were '





as follows:

Twins, 251/2@261,§c;

27@280; Double



Young Americans, 27 1Ac;

27@28c; Square Prints, 27%@281/zc.





' EGGS AND POULTRY





Under light receipts and active de-

mand live poultry made a good ad-

vance. Preference is being shown for

heavy stock, especially for heavy

spring chickens.‘ Arrivals of fresh eggs

have fallen off at most large cities and

attracted by a 2—cent advance dealers

have been drawing on storages for,

some supplies. _



Quotations at the week’s close were

as follows: Chicago: Eggs—Fresh

firsts, 51@52c;

and new fillers, 51@530; live poultryz.

Spring chickens, 35c; hens, 28@3lc;l

roosters, 24c; ducks, old and young,

300; fat geese, 24c; fancy turkeys, 450.





POTATOES





This week’s market was featured by

gradual weakening on all varieties, due

more to anticipated heavier receipts

than to actual supplies. Daily carlot

track supply has been only normal.

The unusual heavy shipments from





Daisies, 26 @270;

Longhorns,





New Jersey caused some uneasiness,-





as a lot of it is undoubtedly headed for





Chicago.

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A big improvement in the wool mar‘ ;





ket is noticeable during the last two

weeks.





Chicago—Flats, 26@27c; .

Single Daisies, *





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40 cents for cornbelt

wools and 60 to 65 cents for merino

kinds in this country. Low quarter-

blood and braid are not wanted at all.

The managers of the Iowa wool pool

report an offer of 48c for three—eighths

blood combing. The American woolen

company will reopen its mills about

the middle of the month. an event for

which the trade has been waiting. The

approach to fall weather is helping





retail sales of woolens, and prices for‘





next spring’s goods are to be Opened

next week. The British government

has held to its supplies instead of

dumping them, and a big syndicate to

finance sales in Central Europe has

just been formed. Little actual busi-

ness has been transacted in this coun-

try as yet and detailed quotations are





impossible.

ONIONS





A little better movement but market ‘





continues dull With Iowa. yellow bring—

ing $2.00@2.35 per cwt. at Chicago,

and California around $2.00. Home-

grown onions are a factor on the mar-

ket and increased receipts may be ex-

pected next week from Indiana and

Minnesota.





PEACHES.





_The peach season has been one of

high prices, due to the short crop. But.

few states have had anything like nor-

mal yield. Illinois and Indiana, with a.

fair‘ crop of Elbertas, will wind up.





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averaged around $3.75 per bushel'ai: ‘;

Chicago, and. the ,week closed aha. 5

range of $4@4.50. The Port Clinton,.





Ohio, section, also Western New York





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Dean Eugene Davenport, of the Uni-

versity of Illinois, has been secured as

the speaker on Farm Bureau Day at-

the West Michigan Fair at Grand Rap-

ids. Dean Davenport has played an

important part in the developmentfif

the farm bureau movement throughout

the country, and few men are better

prepared to discuss the various Phases





, of its activity.





STEERS SELL FOR $18.00.





 





NE LOAD of yearling steers out



from a drove being fitted for car-

lot shows brought $18.00 at Chicago,

giving encouragement to the common

belief that $19.00 and perhaps $20.00

will be paid for prime stuff before the

turn-of the year, as the supply is be-

low trade requirements. Such cattle

continue strong but the medium and

merely good grades fed mostly on

grass are gradually climbing down the

price ladder again after a brief turn

upward. Dry fed steers and heavy

grassers which had corn last winter

are steady.



Although there was some expansion

last week the run at ten markets is

about 10 per cent under that of a year

ago. The Southwest is cashing in

steadily, keeping markets in that quar-

ter well supplied, but contrary to early

expectations, the Northwestern range

run is slow to get under way. The

range run at Chicago to the end of

August is the smallest on record. Fur-

thermore, those arriving are a common

lot for the most part, the big mature.

steers in choice condition which in

former years sold well up toward the

top of the market not yet being in evi-l

deuce. Cars are scare in the western

country, and bankers seem disposed to

help the grower, and incidentaly them-

selves, by not forcing the stuff to mar-

ket before the grass has been turned

into beef, and the steers have acquired

sufficient finish to sell to advantage.

This should distribute the run and help

in maintaining the price. Range grow-

ers who can’t get accommodations are

shipping now and are sending the stuff

thin, all sexes included.





Intermediate grades of cows and

heifers feel the competition of beef

from cheap grass steers and are about

50 cents lower but the common and

choice kinds are steady. Liquidation

due to drouth last year brought big

supplies of female cattle into the mar-

ket hopper but this year there is a ten-

dency to hold back the females so far

as possible and clear out the steers.

Butcher bulls are selling well but the

bologna supply is above requirements

and the price is nearly at the bottom

for the year. Calves scored another

advance of 50 to 75 cents.





CHICAGO FEEDER BUYERS STILL‘

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EEDER buyers are still watching

their steps carefully. Some feed<



ers are buying heavy fleshy cattle for

a quick turn but the majority are tak-

ing on the lighter cheaper sorts. For

marketing before the end of December,

the heavier cattle seem to offer the

greater chance of making a. satisfactory

margin, as the lighter kinds are not

likely to come into their own before

next winter is about over. The fear

of frost damage is in the air every-

where and a certain amount of soft

corn seems inevitable. The corn crop

is near a r d in size and fine fall

pastures offer a chance to make cheap

before bad weather sets in.





Week.





AN UP AND DOWN HOG MARKET.





 





HE course of the hog market has



become almost stereotyped. in-

creases in supply being followed by a

break in price which chokes off the

run for a few days until the price as-

cends again. The past week the mar-

kets went through a price bulge but

are closing on middle ground with the

prospect of a further decline the pres.

ant week because of the Labor day

accumulations. .



The price of corn makes the feeding

ratio not especially favorable, but sows

are being made unusually fat so that

average weight rune extremely high.

hrthenncre. feeder hogs are being

purchased freely, some of them at

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being uncertain and irregular, the

pan

the support they are alleged to have

been, giving for several weeks.





territory—Officers of the United Mine

Workers appeal to the president to re-

open the anthracite coal miners’

award—Greek troops are meeting with

success in their Tunkish campaign and

the Turk rebel chief now despairs of





PROVISION TRADE MIXED.





 





ROVISION exportswere small again

last week, although " packers re-

port export sales of lard and are mak-

ing purchases in the provision pit.‘

Chicago lard stocks declined a trifle

during August but stored meats show

a good-sized decrease. The totals in

storage at all points will remain large,

as the hogs are coming heavy and the

lard yield will be tremendous. Lard

has been ~the stumbling block in the

hog market for many months. The raise a $15,000,000 campaign fund.—

price for the January delivery is 011 During the past year the federal and

the basis of $12.00 hogs, but such a state governments expended $250,000,-

110: price level is unlikely to arrive 000 for public roads.——The Missouri

because of the higher prices for other Farm Bureau Federation lays plans for

pork products, especially hams, unless an aggressive marketing campaign

general business depression and com- throughout the state—The value of

modity price decline should carry the the seal caught in Alaskan waters this

hog market along. season is estimated at $2,000,000.

Monday, Sept. 6.





EXICAN elections result in a vic-



tory for General Obregon as

president—Ten persons are killed and

seventy injured in a collision of inter-

urban cars in Denver.~—Russian Reds

are driven across the Dnieper river by

General Wrangel’s counter-attacks.—

Poland asks allied governments to de-

mand that Germany disarm and intern

Bolshevik forces who entered German

territory when the drive on Warsaw

collapsed—All attendance records

are broken at the Michigan State Fair

with 250,000 people on the grounds.



Tuesday, Sept. 7.





HE French government makes an



rangements for repaying its half

of the Anglo-French loan due the 'Unit-

ed States Oct. 15.—~—A joint revolt

against Siberia by the Croats, Magyars,

Hungarians and Montenegrins is re-

ported—Three persons die in the Cave





Labor unrest in Italy is taking on a

revolutionary trend.-—Food imports in-

to the United States increase, while

exports are growing less.

Sunday, Sept. 5.



HE United States senate commit-



tee starts its investigation of Gov-

erwr Cox’s charge that the Republican

National Committee was planning to





VIOLENT FLUCTUATIONS IN

LAMB PRICES.





 





HE sensational advance in lamb



prices last week was an effective

lodestone in attracting a big run

around the market circle, but especially

of corn belt lambs, which sent the price

level sharply lower again. Reports

that frozen lamb could not be vended

were evidently false, packers merely

withholding them from the market un-

til it could recover. Only a small frac-

tion of the last shipload has been sold

thus far and two more cargoes are re-

ported on the way. The Eastern

dressed lamb market was lower again

last week.



Feeder buyers are willing to take

chances as they are paying prices not

far below those for finished stuff. The

range run carries a big feeder end but

the total supply is not large and C010-

rado buyers are going direct to the





range country. the result of falling rock.





QUIET HORSE AND MULE MAR- Bitch Ate Her Pups. We have an

KET' pups. She had moderate exercise dif-

ferent kind of food and good care.

HE horse market remains dull 9° What was the trouble? N. S., Algonac,

far as cheaper grades are con— Mich—Had you fed her more meat

cemed, bl“ all good drafters are $11.31* she might perhaps have left her pups

ped Ilp. Southern buyers are taking alone. I have known bitches to de-

the lighter weight, including some of vour their pups while they were suf.

”.19 range horses 1’9ng offered at va— fering from a high temperature and

“0‘15 Pomts’ but the“ bids for ”111193 under delirium. Don't breed her again,

have not been so brisk of late, espe- but if you do, feed plenty meat.

cially those of feeder grade—as financ- ________.__._

ing their purchase is difficult. Chicago

quotes: Good and choice heavy draft-

ers, $240@350; common and medium

drafters, $140@225; farm mares, $100

@180; expressers, $140@200. '





News of the Week





Wednesday, Sept. 1.

ACTIONS in the ranks of the





 





COMING LIVE STOCK SALES.





 





Poland-Chinas, Oct. 26, Wesley Hile,

Ionia, Mich. \



Big Type Poland-China Sale Circuit in

Central Michigan, October 26-30.





 





 





_. pealed to France to stop the Polish ‘

hers showing signs of withdrawing army from advancing into Lithunian‘





of the Winds under Niagara Falls as





English bull bitch that ate her own ’





receiving aid from, the Bolsheviks.——





 





 





 





9000 homes in Detroit and suburbs

are using the High Grade Teas and

Coffees of the PIONEER TEA CO.

The popularity of our products in

Detroit is due to three important

things: The high quality of the

goods we offer—the established rc-

liability of - the PIONEER TEA

CO.-——and the exceptional low price

at which we sell high quality goods.

This low price is possible only be-

cause therc is no wholesaler’s pro-

fit to come out.



Our Detroit trade is supplied by a

fleet of wagons, and in order to sup-

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have established a Parcels Post de-

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lowing quotations;





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Our regular 80c tea, a superior pro-

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63¢ per 1b., 10 lb. lots or more

Finest Jumbos, freshfoasb

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Peanlllts. nut we retail for 210’”

.33}? $1.333; 135.2?“2‘” “'-

Reference: Wayne County and

Home Savings Bank.,'Dctroit, as

to our responsibility. Check what





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10 lbs. Tea for $5.90

5 lbs. Peanuts for $1.10

10 lbs. Peanuts for $2.10

for which I enclose check or postal money

order.



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United Mine Workers of America

have started a bitter fight over the re

cent award of the federal wage com-

mission—Italian workers seize indus-

trial plants and eject owners at several

points in Italy.-Michigan primaries

result in the nomination of A. J. Groes-

beck on the Republican ticket for gov-

ernor and Woodbridge N. Ferris on the

Democratic ticket—Prices rule firm at

the London wool auctions with con-

tinental buyers bidding freely.



Thursday, Sept. 2.





N ORDER is issued for a general

strike of coal miners in the bitu-

minous fields of Albama.—The Inter-

state Commerce Commission sustains

the advance rate on freight shipments

on freight from east of the Mississippi

to points in Iowa—Representatives of

the National Board of Farm Organiza-

tions meet in Columbus to consider the

formation of a gigantic wheat pool.—

A drive by the Poles against Bolshevik

forces in Galicia is greatly embarras-

sing the position of the Soviet army.

Friday, Sept. 3.

HE United States submarine 8-5,

with thirty men aboard, is rescued

from the floor of the Atlantic ocean,

forty-five miles southeast of Cape Hen-

lopen.——Anthracite operators and min-

ers sign a two-year contract embodying

the terms of the award made by the

anthracite coal commission.—-—Poland

declines to jeopardize her military op-

erations against the Rnssians‘by bind-

ing herself to regard boundary lines

laid down at the. peace conference.—

The Michigan State Fair opens—Brit-

hhcodmenvotetoshikeonSeptfi.

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material machine cut is the only way to build your

ideal home right without wasting a single penny.

Simplified bundling system instantly understood by





A large quantity bought by us at less than

the actual cost of manufacture. Fine barbed

wire. made under rigid government super-

. vision. 12 gauge open hearth steel Wire With





four point barbs % in. long. spaced 3 in. i





apart. Order quickly from special lots below-





4 point Painted Stock

No. Leo—This lot is coated with a. special weather

resisting paint. 58 lb. reels containing 750 (It.





reels or more per roe . . .66

100 reels or more per reel . . 1.70

50 reels or more per reel . . 1.75

25 reels or more per reel . . 1.80

Less than 25 reels per reel . . 1.85





4 Polnt Galvanized Stock

No. LOT—This s cial lot contains quadru le al-

vanized coated srbed Wire; galvanize a ter

being made which means much to the life of the

wire. 60 lb. reel contains 750 ft.





625 reels or more per reel . . $3.55

100 reels or improper reel . . 8.60

50 reels or more per reel . . 8.65

25 reels or more per reel . . 8.70

Less than 25 reels per reel . . 8.75





 





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mediate shipment from our latest purchase—Camp Merritt at Tenafly, New Jersey. Also plumbing

material and general building supplies suitable for construction of buildings of every kind. If you can

use material of this kind. mail coupon for complete catalogue of government and general material. .





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Not LOB—Special barbed bottom, galvanized hog

fencing made of No. ll top Wire and No. 14 inter-

mediatellne and stay wires. Staysspaceddin.’ apart.

Space between line wires from bottom upwards are:

3. 8. 4. 4%, 6% and 6 in. 100 rods weigh 425 lbs.

26 in. high per rod. 32c. 82 in.higli per rod. 33c . - ‘

By using two strands of barbed wire above this " f

fence you can make a general purpose term fence . i

at very low cost.





F amousWatts Corn Shellers -





The world’s best corn





Numerous-styles and sizes illustrated and

described in our complete free Presto-Up

Book. Mail coupon now. This



small car size garage. complete . . $164





Harris “Cream Getter” Separators

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No. LCIZ—These splendid machines sheller now offered at big reduced 5*

have made a wonderful record in all prices. Most liberal terms and a 30- i

Sizes—all seasonsofthe yearin all parts day. free trial with s uarantee of g

of the country. Newest model cream positive satisfaction. 0r.er now from .

separators. easy to clean. easy to turn. glgtagedagr get full particulars with-



easy to oil and now—easy to own. -



Patented exclu sive improvements Watts No. 1 — $34.50 ‘

everywhere—found only in these He. LCIfl—For the man who shells '

excellent separators. corn for his own use. Capacity 50 to 75 1



Fully guaranteed to get all the cgeam— [wilds per hour With 8 3 11-9. engine. ‘ I

the best cream separator you can uy re- __ i5

gag-dices ofldname. make fior pricle. dWe'lll No alfg?5§\?lfth4clean:g7 33:1? '



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of your new cream getter. EL . . . .

size no, cu." u... M, I", 5.]. Prices No. Lela—Splendid value is offered in this com- Watts No._ 7~$257.QO

* l * 175 * $14.95 plete bathroom outfit. Consists of white porcelain enameled agat'i-ctfifi—‘Wflh stgndud {Killin-

* 2 * 250 * 38.90 bath tub5ft. long.30in wide. fitted With nickel plated connected "c "3 "33°“ 935115.58?“ e e' ‘-





 





 

 





. . tor. cob stacker ty eeder ‘

3 375 .50 waste and overflow and nickel plated double bath cock. White va t it k :200'b h l . _

5 500 59.95 porcelain enameled lavatory, size 17x19 in. with nickel plated as :23":ch 8 “$835396 .1316 N0. Lela W9“. ”0' 4

is luau“, table ,3". All 7 750 .00 trap and faucetts. Closet outfit includes white vitreous N aLc‘7_g‘ bl— l' d ' Corn Shane" With Clean- -

° 9 950 75.00 earthenware wash down bowl with highly finished golden °' 0“ e eym e' com ing system. cob stacker, . i)





machines ready for shipments , sheller for custom work with standard . . .

from Minn.. Pa. and Chicago. He. Lela—improved Cream Getter Junior oak tank, CODD'Er lined. seat and cover matches tank. equipment.wa§on box elevator. swivel gram elevator and automahc ‘ '





 





 





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Guaranteed Paint l-lo Troughs $1.00 0h ' I I d 'l' 'l t Iron Pi e Per l-‘t, 8c New filxea Walls =



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Brings to you every. convenience $ 95 ‘ ' 7 ‘ i

of the modern todct. sanitary _ No. LCZl—Ourbigcornplete

and easily cleaned . . . stock of pipe offers wonderful

- values. Pi e in random lengths 8t040d. Putup in .



N0. Lel'l—NO plum blng needed complete with couplin ; all sizes 100 lb. kegs. A

with this improved chemical indoor toilet: now Offered at unusua money anv-

fittedl Evith regfilar closect seat andl cover. éi'vilicguiliibliiiih'uii‘: afgeiygm

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Radiator? for Ford Cars





3 r a s s C o r e

$2 1 00 War

Tex

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Latest pattern

honeycomb radiator

for Ford automobiles.

Large-water capacity

.‘ e and cooling surface.

a, , , flexrble core allows .

for expansion_- prevents bursting. All ‘

parts coma in contact with water made

of brass. . rough; steel casing. black

Japaned finish. Weight 40 lbs.





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No. LC 19—3 e s t wire nails includ-





formula. White, black

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fi‘r ' Pergsl- 52-“ Capacity 3 gal. Size in. long and

”w? ii Guaranteed barn paint 7in. wide. Built of heavy indes-

I. .. -, - " . red, yellow or m-r- tructible steel. Won t rust or cave in.

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