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VOLUME CLV.





DETROIT, NOVEMBER 13, 1920

CURRENT COMMENT





HE development

and approval of

an equitable sugar

beet contract for next

year’s production is

one of the most im-

portant problems'now confronting a

large class of Michigan farmers who

are located in the sugar beet sections

of the state. That substantial progress

toward this desirable end is now being

made is indicated by a recent an-

nouncement by the Michigan Sugar

Beet Committee that the county dele-

gates would be called together on De-

cember 15. This committee of five

growers was appointed at a conference

of representatives of twenty-six coun—

ties held at the office of the Michigan

State Farm Bureau on October 19, as

reported in our issue of October 30.

This committee met last week and de-

cided on the call of the county dele-

gates for December 15 as above noted.

In the meantime, while the Michigan

Beet Growers’ Association and the

State Farm Bureau are cooperating in

the making of plans for the sale of

Michigan’s 1921 beet crop, the Ameri—

can Farm Bureau Federation is con-

sidering action of this nature on a na-

tional scale. The Utah and Idaho Farm

Bureaus have asked that the American

Farm Bureau Federation call a na-

tional meeting of representatives of

sugar beet growers to consider a uni-

form contract for 1921. President Bur~

ton, of the Utah Farm Bureau, has call-

ed attention to a wide variation, both

in the form of contract and prices paid

for beets in the various states, and

President Howard, of the American

Farm Bureau Federation, has indicat-

ed that a national conference in De-

cember is a likely plan.



In this connection a knowledge of

the provisions of contracts in use in

other states will be of interest to the

Michigan beet growers. To this end

the Michigan Farmer has secured data

on the contracts in force this year in

other states as follows:



The most favorable contract to grow-

ers is that made by the People’s Sugar

Company, of Utah, which offered two

forms of contract, a flat/ rate contract

providing for the payment of $13.50

per ton for all beets delivered at fac-

tory or receiving stations, testing not

less than twelve per cent sugar con-

tent, and a sliding scale contract pro-

viding for a base price of $12.50. per

ton for beets testing not less than

twelve per cent sugar content, based

on eleven-cent sugar in the New York

market for the months of October, No-

vember, December and January, and

as .tdditiOnal payment at. the rate of

' £0339an for each cent increase



tfie‘avprage priceof sugar above





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Sugar

Beet

Contracts





contracted about one-half on eachplan, I





but in order to meet the desires of

growers after the contracts were sign-

ed the company permitted these who

had contracted on the flat ’ rate to

change to the sliding scale, which

practically all of them did.



The Amalgmated Sugar Company, of

Utah, offered a. flat rate contract pro-

viding for the payment of $12 per ton

for beets of .not less than twelve per

cent sugar content and eighty per cent

purity. At a conference held last April

with the Weber County Farm Bureau,

a modification of this contract was

agreed upon, which provided that in

case the beets averaged fourteen and

a half per cent or better in sugar con-

tent a sliding scale based on eleven-

cent sugar became operative, and if

the average sugar content was below

fourteen and a half per cent the slid-

ing scale should be based on twelve-

cent sugar for $12 beets, with $1100

per ton added for each cent per pound

increase in the price of sugar.



The Utah-Idaho Sugar Company

made a contract providing for the pay-

ment of $12 per ton for twelve per

cent beets, with an optional contract

in Idaho providing for an additional

payment of seventy-five cents per ton

for each one per cent increase in sug-

ar content above 15.5 per cent, and

with a sliding scale provision based

on elevemcent sugar for $12 beets,

with the usual increase in the price of

beets for a higher average price of

sugar.



The Great Western Sugar Company,

of Colorado, wrote a flat rate contract

providing for the payment of ' $12 per

ton for twelve per cent beets. Later

the company issued a statement to

beet growers declaring their intention

to make an additional settlement ‘on a

sliding scale basis, providing the total

production reached a certain fixed

amount. In this statement the com-

pany also proposed a conference par-

ticipated in by delegates representing

as nearly as possible the growers in all

districts in which the company oper-

ates and by representatives of the

company for the purpose of cooperate

ing in devising a basis of payment for

beets which would be satisfactory to a

majority of the growers, and express-

ed the belief that such a conference

entered into in good faith might result

in a harmonious working agreement

and the avoidance of the unfortunate

controversies which have occurred the

past few years.



In southern California contracts for

beets Were made on a new basis, which





is a sliding scale depending both on





the percentage of sugar in the beets

and on the market price received for

the refined sugar. This price basis

has been developed in a chart starting

with twelve per cent beets, which with

sugar at four and a half cents per

pound would be worth $4.20 per ton

and ranging up to twenty-two per cent

beets, which with sugar at twelve

cents per pound would be worth $23.47

per ton. As an intermediate example,

fifteen per cent beets with sugar at

nine cents per pound would be worth

$12 per ton under this contract. This

plan is claimed to be best adapted to

California conditions owing to the

great variation in sugar content of

beets grown in diderent sections of

the state. .

This contract data, together with

other data bearing on the general sug-

ar beet situation, has been placed at

the disposal of. the Michigan Sugar

Beet committee. These contracts are.

as a general proposition, considerably

better from the grower’s standpoint

than are the Michigan contracts. Un.





der them the grower isobligated to.





furnish all the labor. The factories

furnish the seed at twenty cents per

pound. In one case the factory plants

the seed at seventy-five cents peracre.





In n9.-9t11._er,ca§e doe‘sa factory con!

tract to furnish labor to the gibwersgfe





”comparisim ‘of the '





_‘these'"contracts with-the Michigan con:

tract in effect this year should Corr-





vince any farmer that there is decided

focus for improvement in the latter.

Hence no contracts should, be signed

by either presenter prospective grew-

ere until a. satisfactory centract has

been approved. ,

Last'year the beet growers’ organi-





zation was hampered by the fact that





many contracts had been signed before

their fight for better conditions were

under way. Due to this fact, and»to

conditions which promised a good

price for beets under the contract of-

fered, their efforts to secure a. better

contract were not successful. But the

growers should not feel that the move

ment was a failure on this account, as

important concessions along other

lines were secured as a result of the

movement. With the cooperation of

the farm. bureau which is in close

touch with prospective as well as pres-

ent beet growers, a constructive cam-

paign for an equitable contract should

be more successful. One result, and

an important one, should be to con-

vince the manufacturers of the wisdom

of conferring with the committee,

which the western manufacturers have

not only been willing, but in some cas-

es anxious to do, as above noted. There

is no doubt that an equitable arrange-

ment could be arrived at in Michigan

as well as in other producing fields if

Michigan. growers and manufacturers

are willing to cooperate to that end,

as Michigan growers undoubtedly are.





HE result of the



. November elec-

tions leaves no uncer-

tainty regarding pub-

lic opinion in the

United States on the





The Voice

of the

People





vital international question growing





out of the war. The overwhelming

vote for the successful candidates for

executive positions and the general

success of republican candidates for

congress was not wholly an expression

of party preference. It was more truly

an expression of Americanism and

American ideals as held by the rank

and file of American citizens. It voiced

a demand on the part of the American





people for the safeguarding of Ameri-





can interests in our relations with for-

eign powers, either singly or collec-

tively.



It is fortunate that this expression

was so unanimous as to leave the bur-

dens of readjustment wholly up to the

dominant party, which condition under

our form of party government makes

for constructive statesmanship when

divided power results in politidal bick-

ering. The responsibilities of the new

administration will be great, and in

the present emergency there is a gen-

eral expression of regret that they can-

not be assumed at once instead of

many months hence. But while the

desirability of early action seems ap-

parent, great problems need the most

careful consideration on the part or

those who carry the burden of their

solution, and months spent in their

careful consideration are preferable to

premature and ill-considered action,

which may cause still greater delay

in their ultimate solution.





HIS appears to be



a most opportune

time to get rid of

s c r u b breeding ani-

mals and replace

them with, pure-bred

stock. It has been a long time since

the margin. between the quotations on

live stock vended on our markets and

prices received at. public'auctions of

pure-bred. stock was so narrow. Sales

of pure-bred cattle and hogs, particu-

larly are. on a. much lower price level

than a year ago. At some recent- sales





Replace

Scrub Stock





Now





strum iiistuuaosw " ‘--.«t_rs¢price

aim tandem _ " ‘ ,





_ m > ,

several months ago. . “ .



The ecohomy'resulting'from the use

of a better type ofstock has not‘chnngA _

ed. “The more efficient use of feeds is‘ ‘

argument enough“ to Warrant good"

farmers in replacing nondescript ani- I

male with the pure-bred kind. N o mat-

ter how unprOfitable market conditions

may _be temporarily, the man who

keeps a commercial herd will find it

easier to hold the cost of production

down near the market._price when he

uses good live stock than when he

uses scrubs. .



Not only this, but just now there is

a goodly amount of feed on our farms

to carry this stock along to a time '

when the advantages of pure-bred ani-

mals will be more generally appreciate

ed and as a. result of a wider demand.

prices for the well-bred stock in all

probability will be sufficient to pay a

handsome profit over what the mar-

kets pay for meat animals.





News of the Week





Wednesday, November 3.



ELECTION returns show a general



landslide for the republican can-

didates; Harding’s electoral votes will

probably establish a new record of 404

of the 531 votes in the electoral college.

The republicans will have a margin of

150 votes in the house and a majority '

of twenty—two in the senate. The en-

tire republican ticket was elected in

Michigan—The alien land law is

adopted by the electorate of California.

—The public utilities commission of

Michigan grants increased rates to the





telephone companies outside the De

trait area. '





Thursday, November 4.





HE prohibition vote in Scotland re



sults in a defeat for the drys, al-

though a substantial gain is noted in

the number of dry adherents—Election

riots in Florida resulted in the death

of two white men and one negro.——.The

executive officers of th British min-

ers’ federation declare t e coal strike

ended and advise the .men to resume

work.—-Dr. Zayas, coalition candidate

is elected president of Cuba.-





Friday, November 5.



THE first German ship to enter the



New York harbor since 1914 ar-

rives—Russian bolshevik forces are

unsuccessfully attacking the line held

by General Wrangel to the south of

Perekop.—~President-elect Harding de-

clares that the new administration in-

tends that the nation shall playit's

part in a new international association

founded on peace an justice—Ac-

cording to an official statement the

Prussian government has paid ex-Em- .

peror William over $25,000,000 since

he fled to Holland.—



Saturday, November 6. .9



AN agreement has been reached by



Great Britain, France and Italy, in

which they will undertake to support

one another in maintaining their

spheres of influence in Turkey—The

Dutch government proposes the reduc-

tion of Holland’s army by nearly one-V

halt—General Wrangel sends an ur-

gent appeal to France and other allied

powers for aid in the critical military

situation confronting him in southern

Russia.—The discovery of oil at Fort

Norman in the Mackenzie river basin

of northwestern Canada has started a

spectacular rush of oil prospectors to

that region.





Sunday, November 7. ' a





CLASH between troops under the



command of D'Annunzio at Flume

and the Serbs is reported from Rome.

—-The interstate commerce commis-

sion is seeking devices for the preven—'

tion of railway wrecks, extensive ex-

periments now being conducted—Gen-

eral Wrangel’s military operations are

now confined to the Crimean peninsu-

la. where he hopes to hold out against

the Russians—French mine owners

consent to meet the miners in an ef-

fort to'settle their dilferences.





Monday, November 8.





In: Turkish government addresses

a note to the powers, in which~ it





declares that the present is inoppor- " '7





tune for the ratification of the peace; ‘





treaty by Turkey.-——An arbitration. "





treaty is signed between Swede: and :

Chile.—Portugal receives Ge an?!

first envoy since the wan—Japan“

460““me





beacon it
‘3 HE first game in the series to

I revise the federal tax laws has

' . been won by the American Farm

V Bureau Federation. As a result, the

Ralston-Nolan Bill, with its billion dol-

= lar tax on farm land, has been so far

out-played that in all probability it will

fail to hold a position in the minor

league‘s.~ The same thing is true of the

- proposed taxof one per cent on sales

of all commodities, both: wholesale and

retail—a tax which would raise billions

' of dollars revenue, a large proportion

' .011? which would have to be borne by

, farmers. The taxation committee 0f

the National Industrial Conference

Board—representing the business and

manufacturing interests of the United

States—in its tentative report con-

demns both these forms of taxation as

unsound. At the second national in~

dustrial tax conference at New York

~ City October 22-23, while final action

on the committee’s report was not tak-

en—-the friends of the Nolan and sales

taxes made *so poor a showing that

they did not get to first base.





American Farm Bureau Federation in

the Game.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





Not only has it opened the, way to

defeat these forms of taxation and

save farmers billions of dollars, but it

has also put itself in a position where

the big business interests of the coun-

try know it and respect its powers.

Credit for this splendid piece of work

belongs largely to President J. R. How-

ard and to ‘H. C. McKenzie, of New

York. At President Howard’s insist-

.1 .‘ ence, the business interests recognized

' ° for the first time the importance of



agriculture as one of the nation’s



greatest industries, and added McKen-

zie to the taxation committee to rep-

_ resent agriculture.



At first McKen’zie was almost alone

in the fight against the sales tax. But

his arguments and those of taxation

experts who came to his aid, were so

convincing that thecommittee chang-

‘ed front entirely, and in its report





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Leaviflg tfie Land T ax Bil/am! Me One 072 Sale: Prortrate 072 we er/eI— —By C Gregory





sweepingly condemned the sales tax.

At the conference last week the ad-

vocates of a sales tax made a strong

fight to save it. McKenzie and How-

ard convinced most of the delegates,





sales taxers and advised that this plan

be abandoned. .



The committee was

Sweeping in its condemnation of the

Ralston-Nolan bill.





even more





however, that a one per cent tax on

sales of farm products cannot be pass-

ed on to the buyer, and that the farm-

er’s profits are already so small that

he cannot stand this additional tax.

Furthermore, this tax is not economi-

cally sound, in that ninety-five per cent

of the burden of the tax is passed to





“A wide-spread propaganda has been

organized in support of this bill,” says

the report. “Not only does this bill

embody the principle of the single tax

in its most exaggerated form, but it

would also operate to very substan-

tially aggravate the very conditions





which the committee in its recommen—





 





 





 





FEDERAL TAX SUGGESTIONS



1. Increase in corporation tax to 16 per cent ...... $550,000,000

2. Quadruple stamp tax rates ................... 134,000,000

3‘, Increase first-class postage rate to three cents. . 72,000,000

4. Increase cigarette tax from $3 to $5 per M. . . . 70,000,000

5. Increase tobacco rates from 18 to 24 cents 1b.. 8,000,000

6. Increase to 10 per cent rates on musical instru—



ments, candy, chewing gum, and other so-called



luxuries, except automobiles, trucks and acces-



sories . . . . . .. ............................ . .. 70,000,000

7. Increase tax on perfumes, cosmetics, etc ....... 6,500,000

8. Special license tax of 50 cents per H. P. on all



motor vehicles . . . . . ......... . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 100000000

9. Gasoline, one cent per gallon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.000,000

10. Sugar, two cents pe1 pound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200000000

11. Coffee, two cents per pound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28000000

12. Tea, 10 cents per pound 10,000,000





 





 





 





 





 





theconsumer, who in the majority of

cases is the man of small means, while

the wealthy classes would hear a pro-

portion far below their just ability to

pay. Their arguments were endorsed

by Charles A. Andrews of the Gorton

Pew Fisheries Company, Prof. Thos.

R. Adams, of Yale, and Prof. Seligman,

of Columbia, who also maintained that

such a tax‘would be a bad thing for

other industries than agriculture.





“The arguments against the sales

tax are unanswerable,” said Prof. Sel-

igman. “It violates the fundamental

principle of taxation in proportion to

ability to pay.” Otto Kahn, New York

banker, also deserted the ranks of the





dations is striving to remedy. It would

in many cases mean a tax so large 11p-

on property which is not in a form

available for use in' its payment that

such_property would have to be sacri-

ficed at forced sale in order to realize

cash with which to pay the tax. In

this respect it would tend to bear es-

pecially heavily upon agriculture. The

bill is also generally recognized as of

the most dubious constitutionality."





The committee recommends the re-

peal of the excess profits tax, which

will reduce estimated revenues for

1921 by $900,000,000. It also recom-

mends that surtax on reinvested in-

comes be limited to twenty per cent,





Should ,We Buy Feeds Now?





HE word is being passed around



to “buy feeds, they’re cheap

enough.” Those who are friend-



ly to the idea of accumulating feed-

stufts now base their views upon the

enlargement in demand usually wit

nessed late in the fall after pastures

' ' in many sections have been abandoned

. , .and cold weather has arrived. Few

f observers of feed trade conditions dis-

" agree with the “bulls” so far as de-

mand is concerned, yet they can pro-



. duce arguments which make the feed-

or question seriously the probability of

. the usual rise in prices with the advent

of cold weather over the country. It

is true that there are many influences

strongly against rising prices this win-

.ter and the following spring which

were not felt at this time a year ago

”or in «p'revious years. On the other

hand, feed prices are already compar-

atively low. .



. Downward revision of prices «for cats



. ,tle, hogs andsheep and the depression

,, 7 “through which the dairy industry is

passing are powerful influences in the

"market for foodstuffs. , Within the past





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





. nth hogsfihavegdeclined more 11.1311" ’





tle has been heard in feed markets re-

garding the shutdown of many dairy

plants in the east and at some points

in the central states, yet the resulting

shrinkage in the outlet for the prod-

ucts of the dairy cow is being felt by

a sharp reduction in the demand for

bran, alfalfa and clover hay, alfalfa

mixed feeds and other commercially





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prepared articles. The full extent of

the reduced earning power of the

dairymen of the east and other sec-

tions of the country is yet to be wit

nessed on markets. The claim is made

by some observers of the i'eedstuffs

situation, and there is, no doubt, basis

for the belief, that the decline in pric—

es for the meat animals and dairy pro-





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





 





 





 





indicate a belief that both





 





and that losses in business income in . ‘





one year, be deducted from the tax for

the succeeding year. The loss from

these sources will be $280,000,000, or”

a total loss of $1,180,000,000. This will

be partially offset by an increase in

freight and passenger taxes of $148,-

000,000, leaving a net loss of $1,032,—

000,000. , ‘

Government expenses for 1921 are

estimated at $4, 859, 890, 327. While the

committee feels that material decreas-

es can be made in the cost of running

the government it does not believe

that there should be any decrease in

the total amount of taxes collected.

The government has a ‘floating debt,

consisting of short-time loan and tax

certificates, of $2,347,791.000. This

should be paid as soon as possible.

There are outstanding $600,000,000

worth of war savings stamps which

mature January 1, 1923, and $4,241,-





'128,295 worth of Victory notes which





mature May20, 1923. In order to meet

these obligations, at least partially, the

committee feels that the annual sur-

plus of revenue over expenses should.

be at least a billion dollars.



To offset the loss of revenue from

the repeal of the excess property tax

and the reductions referred to in the

income tax it recommends the sched-

ule of tax increases published on this

page and new taxes, which should add

$1,293,500,000 to the federal income.



While this report is only tentative,

and will not be formally acted upon by

the national industrial conference for

several weeks, it shows the way the

lines are being laid for tax revision.

Farmers have won a great victory in

securing the condemnation of the sales

tax and the Nolan bill by the confer-

ence. They can no doubt endorse most

of the pioposed new taxes, although

the wisdom of a fedeial tax on auto-

mobiles and gasoline is ve1y doubtful.

The farmer uses his automobile and

burns gasoline mainly for business pur—

poses, and the proposed tax will be a.

tax on two necessary factors in food

production.





Get Mr. Soy/mm”;

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ducts will cause the consuming trade

to economize in pu1chases of feeds to

the extent that the usual bioadening

in demand may not develop this (year.

CORN has provided the axis on

which the price reflector-of the

feed market cycle has moved down-

ward. Corn, and oats as well, have de-

clined more radically than other feed-

stuffs and have approached more close

ly their pre—war levels than any com—

modity used in the rations of meat an-

imal producers or dairymen. Carlot

offerings of com on markets of the

middle west a1e selling around eighty

to eighty- five cents per bushel, which

compares with a 1ange of seventy- five

to eighty.- five cents plevailing in Aug-

ust of 1914, when the wo1ld was plung-

ed into war, Oats are b1inging between

fifty- and fifty- five cents on current,

markets, while in the month preceding

the opening of the world war values

were around. thirty five to fifty cents

a bushel. Corn at eighty cents and

oats .around fifty five cents appear ri-

diculously low compared with $2. 00 and

$1. 25, respectively, as the prices we

yelling at the opening of the summer

season. And there are a great many

students of the trade whose opera
trinslc value, at least in a comparison

- with commodities generally.



However, there is nothing of a bull-

ish character in the outlook for corn

and oats. Farmers now are gathering

the greatest corn crop in history,

3,216,192,000 bushels, which fact alone





. , is a powerful argument against advanc-





ing prices for the coarse grain. The

lessened returns from fattening hogs

for market also will tend to reduce

' consumption on farms and thus permit

of a freer flow of the grain to termi-

nals, but this may be offset in a meas-

ure by comparatively lower prices for

corn than for hogs. In such an event,

farm feeding would be stimulated.

Corn already is selling at a level

amounting to hardly more than a cent

a bushel net to farmers, and even less

in many sections, and only where forc-

ed by maturing loans, lack of storage

for holding or pressure of a similarna-

ture. can free selling of the grain be

expected. The statement has been

made and given some consideration on

markets, that farmers will substitute

corn for fuel, owing to the high cost

of fuel and disappointing prices offer-

ed for the grain.



Extreme bullishness on the corn

market is not advisable, but I am in-

clined to the belief that corn will not

remain below a dollar a bushel the en-

tire crop year. This statement is made

despite knowledge of the fact that the

corn crop is the largest. in history,

that the aggregate of other feed crops

also is a near record this year, that

meat animals are on the decline and

that deflation continues in progress.

And along the same lines, close observ-

ers of the grain trade agree that oats

will sell closer to seventy-five than to

fifty cents a bushel in the middle west

markets. Prospective buyers of corn

,and cats will do well to begin now the

accumulation of their requirements of

(the grains.



In the radical depression in prices of

the past month bran and shorts have

played a conspicuous and probably sig-

nificant part. At the present writing

the mill offals reflect a stronger tone

"than has prevailed at any time since

the readjustment got under way in

July, and majority sentiment of the

trade inclines to the Opinion that the

low point of prices for the remainder

of the winter at least has been reach-

ed. From a low point of around $25

to $26 a ton in Minneapolis and Kan-

sas City, and $28 to $29 a ton in St.





Louis and Chicago, less than half the

peak reached in the early part of the

summer, the market has rallied about

$4.00 a ton. Kansas City and Minne-

apolis, the leading milling centers,

quote the mill offal around $20 to $30

a ton for prompt or December ship-

ment, and sales as high as $34 a ten

are being made on other middle west

markets.

Millfeeds Are Firmer.



The upturn in millfeed was brought

about by the colder temperatures over

the country, which forced an incréas—

ed demand from the consuming trade.

Another important factor in the im-

proved tone of the bran market is the

extremele‘y light production of flour

and feed by mills. In.both the spring

and winter wheat sections of the Unit-

ed States, flour millers are operating

at an average of less than fifty per

cent of normal capacity; in fact, thus

far on the crop operations as a whole

have hardly exceeded that total. And

the prospects are not particularly en-

couraging for any sharp increase in

the activity of milling plants, owing

to an extremely light domestic demand

for flour and inability to work large

quantities to foreigners in competition

with domestic wheat and the flour of

other exporting nations. 9 In this con‘

nection, however, much importance is

attached to the recent decision of the

United States Shipping Board in re-

ducing the differential in ocean freight

rates on flour over wheat from twen-

ty«five cents to five cents per hundred-

weight. Millers have contended that

the discriminatory ocean freight rates

resulted in an enormous movement of

raw wheat and an insignificant amount

of flour, thus checking operations of

domestic plants and reducing the sup-

ply of bran and shorts for h'erds in this

country. The export outlook is now

therefore more encouraging, but it will

probably be some months before im«

portant sales can be made, owing to

the loss of established trade.



In addition to the small production

of feed by mills, the stocks of bran

and shorts in consumptive channels

are extremely light. Instead of accum-

ulating large supplies in warehouses to

be merchandised during the winter and

spring months, when demand is usu-

ally in excess of mill production. job-

bers this year hold little if any feed.

They have been short of money, and,

because of the very erratic course of

prices, have been reluctant to build up





their stocks, which they usually do in

the early failmonths.‘ This, no doubt,

will be felt in prices later in the year,

and strengthens the view that a sharp

setback in prices will not occur from

the present basis.



Shorts also have strengthened, but

not to the extent of bran, the enormous

crop of corn wielding greater pressure

on the heavier offal than on the dairy

wheat feed. Gray shorts or flour mid-

dlings are bringing up to $38 a ton in





Minneapolis and $35 in Kansas City.





with St. Louis also quoting at $38 and

in extreme instances up to $40 a ton.

Brown shorts or standard middlings

are almost stagnant, selling at a bran

price. Shorts are feeling the effect of

the depression in hogs. A spread of

more than $5.00 a ton between bran

and shorts will probably not prevail

for any lengthy period, the outlook be-

ing favorable for a narrower difference

between the two mill offals than in

many seasons.

Cottonseed Feeds.



Cattle feeders and other buyers of

cottonseed cake and meal are wonder-

ing whether the time has approached

to turn from the bear side. Only with-

in the past two weeks demand for the

high. protein feed from! feeders has

shown marked improvement, which, in

view of the almost stagnant trade with

range and feedlot cattle owners and

dairymen the last two or three months,

is looked upon as a bullish movement.

And. with the improved demand, pric-

es have rallied slightly, but the mar-

ket is still sharply lower, or at the

lowest level since the entrance of the

United States into the war. Prime

cake and meal of forty-three per cent

protein content .is quoted around $37

to $38 a ton, basis Texas plants, and

around $45 a ton in the feeding terri-

tory. possibly as high as $50 a ton in

the more northern sections. At one

time during the month the market was

down to $35 a ton, a full decline of

about $10 a ton compared with the

early part of October. Southeastern

markets are on the same basis approx-

imately as in Texas and Oklahoma.



Slow selling of seed by planters.

which is restricting operations of the

crushing plants, is checking bearish-

ness in the cake and meal market.

Prices paid for seed recently have av-

eraged around $22 to $28 a ton in the

southwestern states, and below $30 in

practically the entire cotton belt, while

producers as a rule are demanding





Potato Meeting and S





By C. IV. Waz'a’, Vegetaé/e Specialist, M. A. C.





’l‘ is planned to hold the annual

meeting and show of the Michigan

Potato Producers’ Association, an





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organization of potato growers of the





’state at the time of Farmers’ Week,

January 31 to February 4. 1921, at the

Michigan Agricultural College. It is

not proposed to follow the beaten path

of some other potato organizations and

have the show simply one of exhibit-

ing high quality samples of potatoes.

“'hile shows of this nature have their

place there is an opportunity to accom~

plish results by putting on what may

be called an educational show. One

feature of this potato show will be the

showing of samples of potatoes in

bushel lots taken from the fields which

' have been certified the past season.

This will solve as a means of bringing

the men who have seed potatoes for

sale in close touch with those who

wish to buy. It should be stated in

this connection that in the very near

future a list will be published of all of

the growers whose fields of potatoes

have been certified this season. Any-

gone, interested can secure this list by

I writing H. C. Mooi‘e, secretary of the

,Miehigan‘ Potato Producers’ Associa~

tion. Eat Lansing, Michigan.



import nt feature of the





show will be graphic illustrations of

various demonstrations which have

been conducted the last year or two in

Michigan. Most of these demonstra-

tions have been carried on under the

auspices of the college. Some have

been the results of the activity of the

soil improvement committee at Chica-

go, and a few of other commercial in-

terests. We will aim in this connec-

tion to make it easy for everyone to

see at a glance the benefit of superior

seed, proper use of commercial fertil-

izer, seed treatment, etc. We believe

that it will be a show well worth

while. We would be pleased to have

anyone who has secured good results

from any practices which is not gen-

erally followed in Michigan, to join

with us in making up this show.



If you can send to the college sam:

ples of these potatoes, we would be

glad to have you do so. If this is not

possible, we would be glad to have

you send us the, results of demonstra-

tions and perhaps we can work out

some plan of putting them on. in Con-m

nection with the show. Any potatoes

sent to the college should be address-

ed to the horticultural Department, M.





A. C., EastLansing, and marked “for

potato show.”



One of the important matters of bus-

ness which will be considered in con-

nection with the annual meeting will

be the best method of carrying for-

ward the work of certified seed pota-

toes which was started in Michigan

this last season. There is a growing

demand outside the state as well as

within for the Late Petoskey or Rus-

set Rural potato for seed purposes.

Last season a carload was sent to

Pennsylvania and the results were so

satisfactory that a larger quantity will

be sent to that state this season. It

is quite apparent that the Petoskey

variety is one which does well through-

out a wide territory and under varying

conditions. It is a variety which will

stand up better than most varieties

under adverse conditions. ' Such dis-

eases as mosiac, and leaf- roll will re-





duce "the value of certain varieties in





seine of the other states. and the fact

that the Petoskey is quite resistant- to

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to leaf roll as some varieties has cans:

ed the planting of it over a much wider.





[territory than heretofore. It is now.





around $40 a ton. Many claim that if

they do‘ not obtain this figure they will ’ 3





use the seed for fertilizer. But this is

not to be given serious consideration. .

for demand for cake and meal even on

the basis of present sales is not suffi-

cient to absorb the offerings of mills.

Both exporters and fertilizer manufac-

turers are buying on a small scale. The' _

trade is not anticipating further mate-

rial upturns in cake and meal, owing

largely to the low price of corn and

other feeds, yet bearish sentiment is

not so much in evidence.



Stocks of Linseed Accumulating.



During the time that cottonseed feed

was declining sharply, linseed cake

and meal was displaying firmness.

Now, with the strengthening in co!-

tonseed cake and meal, linseed feed

begins to undergo greater pressure.

Compared with prices above $60 a ton,

basis Minneapolis, 8. month ago, and

above $70 early in the summer, the

market has receded to around $54 a

ton, basis the northwestern crushing

point. Crushers are accumulating a

stock of linseed feed, owing to a lack

of demand, and the outlook for prices.

is still favorable to a lower market.

Feeders should buy linseed feed spar<

ingly. It is far above a parity with

corn, even considering the relative

feeding value of the two commodities.



Depression in the market for alfalfa

and other varieties of hay was carried

to the extent that prices fell consider-

ably under a cost of production basis.

Because of the exorbitant freight

charges, many shippers have been forc-

ed to dig into their pockets to meet

some of the costs of loading their hay

for markets which the selling price

failed to cover. This has naturally

reduced sharply the movement from

the west and, with the extremely light

arrivals, the trade reflects a firmer

tone. But alfalfa and tame hay are

yet too high, compared with other

feeds, at least the better grades, and

declines, though not sharp, may be ex-

pected. Still, colder weather is stim-

ulating demand from feeders and there

is some concern among prospective

buyers as to the available supply on

markets, which is increasing orders.

The stocks of hay in the country are

of enormous proportions, so fear as to

future supplies is not well founded.

Hay prices range up to $25 a ton in





-Kansas City, with the cheaper grades





down to $10 a ton. Chicago quotes

timothy around a top of $32 a ton.





OW





ble for the Michigan growers to get in

line to furnish seed to those outside

states at a fair increase in prices over

prices received for table stock. To

certify seed potatoes on a large scale -

and place them on the market to best

advantage is no small undertaking. It

requires a great deal of careful plan-

ning and a considerable amount of mon-

ey to handle the work properly. If this

work is to develop rapidly as the need

increases for certified seed of this va-

riety, particularly, we must have a

comprehensive, practical plan of not

only carrying on the inspection work

but of 'Selling the seed as well.



We invite every potato grower who

is interested inthis phase of the work

to arrange to be present if possible at

the annual meeting which will be held

at East Lansing during Farmers’

Week. This is no small undertaking

and we need the cooperation and as— ,

sistance of many of the best potato,





'grOwers of the state to work out this

plan; We Will be pleased to hear from





individuals who anticipate attending





this meeting.





of the Miefiifia _, ,.

sociatibn, H. Co M00399 E

Micbizon'. '
§ur Farm Bureaus and Their





172 a Reconnozter of Grand Waverse County our Raw Recruit Fina/r a Drrztory





Work





of Madelfit/ly Dz cerrzfiea’ flgrzcu/tum/ Resources





HILE the Circuit Rider was



“flivvering” through the staid



and substantial counties of

southern Michigan, a raw recruit was

drafted to make a reconnoitering ex-

pedition into the Grand Traverse reg-

ion, one of Michigan’s choicest garden

spots, and one of America’s finest scen-

ic sections. The Circuit Rider is prob-

ably‘congratulating himself on being

permitted to continue his labors, of

looking over some of southern Michi-

gan’s choicest farms, teeming with

herds of Holsteins and Jerseys, fields

of alfalfa, wheat, and beans, big red

barns with silos attached, farm homes

electrically lighted and electrically

swept; farms where the plow, harrow,

seeder, mower, and binder is pulled by

a tractor; where the threshing, silage

cutting, water pumping, feed grinding,

milk separating, wood sawing, and ev.

en the family washing is done, in many

cases, by mechanical power; where

the farm cr0ps and live stock are

transported to market by truck; and

where the farmer and his family make

their weekly shopping and church-go-

ing trips and occasional pleasure ex-

cursions in an automobile.



But the Raw Recruit was "motored”

in a six-cylinder over roads the equal

of any in southern Michigan; over

hills covered with forests of fruit

trees; through valleys dotted with

modern farm homes, where live stock

is housed in up—to—date barns; past in-

numerable silvery lakes that would de-

light the heart of any fishing fan; ov-

er bridges spanning trout streams,

where it was necessary for the driver

to hold the Raw Recruit in the car

until the stream was lost from view;

and along the shores of beautiful bays

dotted with the summer homes of thou-

sands that are able to escape, for..a

part of each year, from the dust and

smoke of the great centers of industry

and trade.





RAVERSE CITY, the commercial

center of the Grand Traverse reg-

ion, _is located on Grand Traverse Bay,

at the mouth of Boardman River. It





is healthful, beautiful and admiiably sula a narrow Ship of land ranging thousand dolla1s per





located. It is one of the objective

points of western Michigan tourists.

It is on the west Michigan Pike, Pere

Marquette, Grand Rapids & Indiana,

and Manistee & Northeastern.Rail-

roads. It has good hotels, a hospitable

population, and is surrounded by de-

lightful resorts and camping places,

fine farms, magnificent orchards of

choice fruits of all kinds, and some of

the finest scenery to be found in the

United States.



Grand Traverse county probably pro





duces more cherries than any other

county in the United States; it is one

of the leading potato counties of Mich-

igan; and successfully and profitably

produces any crop grown in Michigan.



The shipments of cherries in 1920

from Traverse City alone were one

hundred and fifty— eight full carloads.

The local expiess shipments would

probably bring the total up to one hun-

dred and sev-enty -five cars. In addi-

tion to this, many thousands of crates

were sold to the canning plants at

Traverse City and Northport. The

fruit was unusually large in size, which

compensated in large measure for ‘the

lighter setting of fruit. The prevailing

price paid by local shippeis was seven

and eight cents per pound, or $1. 75 to

$2. 00 per crate, with a slightly higher

price fo1 some of the choice sweet va-





ing orchard of cherries is the least of





any of tree fruits, it can readily be

deduced that this branch of the fruit

growing industry is the most profit—

able. To its further credit may; be ad-

ded the fact that its regularity of hear-

ing, freedom from diseases and insect

pests, and hardiness are relatively

greatest. All of these conditions have

been conducive to the extraordinary

development of cherry growing in this

region as compared with other fruits.





MONG he pioneer growers on the

peninsula are E. O. Ladd, the

Tompkins’, and the Lardies. in the





beginning the peninsula orchards were

mainly apples and peaches. Occasional

severe winters demonstrated that

peach growing was a precarious ven-

ture, and the most of those orchards





 





 





Potatoes Are a Leading Cash Crop.





rieties. While this is conside1ed a

good c10p, it is not the largest on rec-

ord, as over two hundred cars have

been shipped in a single season from

Traverse City.



The development of the cherry in-

dustry in. this region has been rela-

tively 1apid. It began on the penin-





from one to four miles in width and

extending twenty miles no1th from the

main part 01" Grand Traverse county,

dividing Grand Traverse Bay into two

arms, known as East Bay and West

Bay. Being practically surrounded by

water, the peninsula has the necessary

and peculiar climatic conditions for

producing the high—grade of cherries

for which this region is noted. When

account is taken ofrthe fact that the

income per acre is greatest, and the

cost of producing and caring for a bear—





 





have been displaced by chenies Theie

are a number of large, fine apple or-

chards which are well cared for and

which are profitable to their owners,

but the cherry industry overshadows

all others around Grand Traverse Bay.

In 1919, when the prevailing piice was

around $3. 00 per c1ate,1e1u1ns 01 two

a01e weie real»

ized from some of the best blocks of

trees; and fifteen crates is not an ex-

cessive yield for a mature tree in heal-

thy condition. Like all crops grown on

an extensive commercial scale, the

problem of successful marketing the

cherry crop has proved to be no easy

task in recent years. But necessity

being the mother of invention, a sell-

ing plan has been evolved that is prov-

ing to be practical and highly satisfacv

tory to the growers.



The Michigan State Cherry Growers’





 





Association had its inception in the

early summer of 1919. it had been

customary for buyers to flock to the

Grand Traverse region early each year

to buy the crops of individual growers.

(Jomingas they did before the volume

of the crop could be determined, the

prices offered were necessarily fixed

by the buyers at a figure low enough

to insuie them against loss regardless

of the size and maiket value of the

crop. in years of normal or under-

production the growers were thus pre—

vented i'rom realizing the prices justi-

fied by the demand.



Mr. G. L. Burnham, an enterprising

young fruit grower, a former student

of Wisconsin University, had a vision

that this difficulty could be overcome

and personally canvassed a portion. of

the cherry district, and secured the

signatures of about one hundred grow-

ers. Each signer agreed to only ac-

cept bids for their joint crop of cher-

ries and not to make individual con-

tracts as had been done in the past.

Buyers were invited to meet with this

organization and to submit sealed bids.

As a result, their 1919 crop of red

sours 'as sold for $3.11 per crate, to a

Chicago concern, which, after paying

fifty cents per crate for picking and

twenty-five cents for the crate itself,

netted the grower $2.36 per crate. All

other varieties were sold to a local

shipper for $3.00 per crate. Compared

with this result, a local canning plant

paid nine cents per pound and furnish-

ed the crates. As the cherries for its

use could be pulled from the trees, in-

stead of being clipped as is necessary

when they are shipped, the cost of

picking was reduced to forty cents. A

sixteen—quart crate of cherries weighs

twenty—five pounds, so that those con-

tracted to the canning plant netted

only $1.85, a difference of fifty-one

cents per crate and a gain of twenty-

seven and a half per cent in favor of

the organization plan.





OBERT A. WILEY, county agricul-



tural agent, aided the organization

from the beginning. Being a man of

exceptional organizing ability and, .be—

ing imbued with the soundness of the

principle of collective bargaining and

other cooperative activities, has suc-

ceeded in building up a strong organi:

zation of over five hundred members.

The selling of the 1920 crop was affect—





ed through the Michigan Potato Grow?“





ers’ Exchange and the Ameiican Fruit

Exchange.



The piesident oi‘ the Association is

A. J. Rogers, of Beulah, and the secre-

tary-treasurer is Robert A. Wiley, of

Traverse City. The executive commit-





 





 





 

   





 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





pang
"A. L. Hopkins, of Bear Lake, and Dr.

‘ J. P. Houston, of TraVe1se City.



. At the annual meeting,

Frankfort in May of this year,





 

 





sentatives from the Wisconsin and

New York cherry districts were pres-

Several of the visitors addressed

the meeting, after which it was decid-

ed that a national organization should

be formed. Accordingly the National

Association was

launchedwith M. B. Goff, of Wiscon~

sin, as president, and A. J. Rogers, of

The

perfecting of the national organization





ent.





Cherry Growers’





Beulah, as secretary-treasurer.





Will take place at its next meeting,





which will probably be held in De-





cember.

. Upon arriving at Traverse City, it

was ‘Igund that County Agent Wiley

had been called to Lansing to assist

in handling the grain department of

the State Farm Bureau. During his

absence, the county agent Work is be-

ing cared for by Dr. J. P. Houston,

secretary-treasurer of the local farm

bureau organization. The “handle” at-

tached to his name was acquired

through his medical training and thir-

ty years’ experience in the practice of

medicine in Chicago. Five years ago

the doctor concluded he needed a

change, and being attracted by the pos-

sibilities of the Grand Traverse reg-

ion, located on a small fruit farm on

the peninsula, three and one-half miles

from Traverse City. Notwithstanding

his many years of professional service

the genial doctor is still in the prime

of life and extremely active. He has

about fifteen hundred trees, a few of

which are in full bearing, and a con-

siderable portion just beginning to pro-

duce fruit. His orchard is largely made

up of cherries, but he also has apples,

peaches and pears. The doctor is also

interested and active in all progres-

sive, agricultural and community

movements. He has given his time and

influence to building up and developing

the County Farm Bureau organization.

Therefore, when we “dropped in” for

the purpose of learning of the farm

bureau work in this region, we found

in the doctor a man conversant with

what has been accomplished up to the

It would seem that the unusual or-

ganizing ability of County Agent Wiley

is well demonstrated by the develop-

ment of the Cherry Growers’ Associa—

tion, and the County Farm Bureau or~

ganization. The officers and members

of the executive committee apparently

have been selected with due care and

are carrying on the work in a most

efficient manner.





HF president is ErnestS .Ii'autne1,





of Acme. He is a young mian of

e u eptional ability and comes from one





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itee consists of E. H. Wilce, of Empire;





held at

repre-





 





in. the Grand TraVerse region.

a graduate of the Michigan Agriculturo





owner.





leader.





and sixty acres and'a fine house.





been supervisor

many years.





been unusually successful.





The six members of the executiVe

and

Eugene Knight, of Kingsley; William





committee are: Peter Snyder





 





of the older and most thrifty families

He is.





:1 College, and is developing a; his

farm near Acme which he has owned





for only a. comparatively short-time.

Everything about the farm is indicat-

ive of the energy and prosperity of its

Several made “mention of the

fortunate choice of so efficient a





Vice-president E. A. Nickerson, of

Kingsley, is one of the leading agricul—

turists of Mayfleld township. He'has

a wellsimproved farm of one hundred

He

is a highly respected citizen and has

of his township for

He follows the practice

of general farming in which he has





 





work, and his energy iE so boundless





that he has been described as the hu—





man dynamo.





aParadise. township, of which he has

been supervisor. He has a good farm

"(if one‘ hundred and sixty aores, and

leans. heavily toward the stock raising

industry. He specializes in the produc-

tion of beef cattle, and does general

farming.



William - Selkirk, of Williamsburg,

'has a good farm in one of the most

prosperous Sections of the county. He

isfarming along the line of general

crop and breeding Poland China swine.

He is an excellent farmer, and is high-

ly regarded for his splendid work‘on

the committee.



Joseph Durga lives , southwest of

Traverse 'City and is one of the old-

time threshers, having operated a

threshing outfit for many years. While





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Farm Buildings of A. Bunch, Grand Traversa County.





Selkirk, of Williamsburg; Joseph

Durga, Traverse City; Charles Blan-

chard, ol’ Grawn; James Lardie, of Old

Mission. The delegates to the State

Farm Bureau, who are ex-ofilcio mem-

bers of the executive committee are:

Robert Barney, of Traverse City, and

E. G. Rawlings, Summit City.





ETER SNYDER is one of the larg-



est i'armers in the county. He op—

erates about three hundred acres of

well-improved land in Mayfield town-

ship. He is growing ninety-six acres

of potatoes this year, and his crop

promises to be a large one. Aside from

being a large potato grower he raises

general crops and live stock. His

buildings are large and in fine condi-

tion, and he is equipping them with an

electric lighting system. His farm

equipment includes tractors, truck and

all kinds of modern farm machinery.





he has a small farm, his ene1 gies have

been chiefly devoted to the threshing

business.





James Lardie lives on the peninsula

near 01d Mission. He is a prosperous

fruit grower and has a well-located

farm and fine home. His large apple

orchard is one of the best on the penin

sula. He is a man of good judgment,

sterling qualities, and capable of 1ep-

resenting the fiuit interests of the

county on the committee.





Charles Blanchard represents one of

the best general farming sections of

the county. It is regretted that we



were prevented from reaching that

neighborhood and therefore are un~

able to deselibe M1. Blanchard’s sur-

roundings, activities and qualifications

further than to say that sweet clover

is one of his main crops. However, it

is safe to be assumed that he meas-





He is a. leader in all local community areas up to thee-tandem of the cornmit-





Eugene T. Knight is a resident of





tee as a whole. and fully competent to

aid in the directing of county Farm

Bureau affairs.





Robert Barney, one of the state del-

egates, has a. fine farm and beautiful

home in Garfield township. He is a

man of excellent chaiacter, and one

who is intensely interested in all com-

munity work of~whatever nature. He '

lives in a very progressive community,

pandis a leader in a local, interesting.

and unique community organization

known as the Lone Tree Farmers?

Club. He is also plominent in relig‘

ions work, p1e81dent of the NOrthwest«

ern Fair Association and of the Mutual

File Insurance Company, and one of.

the directors of the Traverse City

State Bank.





The other state delegate, E. G. Rant

lings, is the present supervisor of Par-

adise township. He has two farms,

one of one hundred and sixty acres

and'one of eighty acres, where he prac-

tices general farming, in addition to

which he specializes in potato grow‘

ing. He also buys potatoes during the

shipping season. On his fine farm he

probably has the largest set of build-

ings in the township. His home has

all of the modern conveniences, includ-

ing a gas lighting system. His farm

ing equipment is of the best, and in-

cludes a. tractor. He is a director in

the bank at Kingsley, and is rated as

one of the most. prosperous farmers in

the county.



One is deeply implessed with the

high calibre of the officers and com-

mittee members of the Grand Trav-

erse County Farm Bureau. County

\Agent Wiley’s central idea, 'of thor-

ough organization, with divided re-

sponsibilities, placed in the hands of

competent men, seems to have been

kept well in mind by the farm bureau

when choosing its officers and commit-

tees. Grand TraVerse county’s inter»

ests me greatly diversified, and while

Mr. Wiley has been in the county less

than two years, he has apparently not

lost sight of any of its several lines of

agriculture. His time has been devot—

ed alike to the fruit, potato, live stock

and general farming interests; and

while there is much yet to be accom-

plished, a good beginning has been

made.





Grand Traverse county is'rich. It

has wonderful possibilities; it has a

wealth of good farming lands, exten

sive cut- -over tracts suitable for graz-

ing purposes, ideal topog1 aphy, expos-

ure and soil for fruit growing, wonder

ful scenery, lakes, trout streams, and

resort sites, and above all, a highly in-

telligent, industrious, thrifty, prosper

ous, and home«loving people. Yes!

Grand Traveise county is indeed rich.





~ Checking Up the Railroads





How $300 ”’4; Saved 072 a Single Sézpmmt of Peachy





INCE the creation of a traffic de-

partment by the State Farm Bureau

the call for service in solving the farm-

ers’ . and cooperative organizations’

traffic problems has so steadily in-

creased that the time has come to add

a special man to the stall‘ of that de-

partment to handle the adjustment of

claims against railroads and the audit-

ing of freight bills.

The State Farm Bureau has sent out

a notice to cooperative shippers that a

specialist in handling freight claims

and auditing bills will be hired in the

near future. The letter stated that no

charge is made in the case of auditing

bills. When ' the traflic department

finds it necessary to prosecute a case

against a railroad and the cooperative

Vassociation for which this service is

'frendeied will have nothing to pay un-

" ,s it gets a refund, in which case it





 





will pay for the actual cost of present-

ing the case.



How the State Farm Bureau traffic

department can help a County Farm

Bureau is revealed in an interesting

story from Chippewa county. The

story, by the way, is an unusual exam-

ple of coopeiative marketing among

farmers, as well as a t1ibute to the

efficiency of the traffic department.

The Chippewa County Farm Bureau

became the medium for buying peach-

es when the farmers 'of that county

wanted a supply of this fruit at a rea-

sonable price. The farm bureau pool-

ed _their orders and made up two car-

loads and sent the order to the Ber-

rien County Farm Bureau. The fruit

growers of Berrien county made a rea-

sonable profit on their product, no

doubt, and the Chippewa county farm-

ers got their peaches‘pthree dollars a





are two rates} ‘toDafter. Michigan, the





bushel under the price of peaches in

the northern peninsula.



That is half of the story. There was

an overcharge on a carload of these

peaches that amounted to $300. When

the car arrived at destination the

weight was designated by the railroad

as 39,600 pounds. The shippers had

weighed these peaches and found they

we‘ighed fifty pounds per basket. There

were four hundred and fifty baskets in

the car, which made a total of 22,500

pounds to the car. Ice necessary for

preservation amounted to 9,500 pounds

thus making a total weight of 32,000

pounds. So there was an overcharge

of 7,600 pounds. The matter of this

overcharge was turned over to the

traffic department of the State Farm

Bu1 eau which not only righted this~

mistake but discovered another. There





 





   





deatination of the peaches, one via

Mackinaw City of 31.28% and one via

Chicago of $1.581/2. The Berrien county

fruit association did ‘ not route this

shipment but turned it over to the rail~

road which, according to the law,

should ship on the route of the lowest

rate. The railroad did this, but through

some mistake the $1.581/_» rate of the

Chicago route was charged. In a bus-

iness as complex as that of railroads

such mistakes frequently occur. The

traffic department secured for the

Chippewa county farmers the differ

ence inthe rate. The total savings

were about $300. '





 





The effort to develop cows after they

are in the dairy, always falls short of.

what might have been accomplished .‘

had the development been started '
.butter selling societies.





HEN a California farmer joins

W a cooperative marketing asso-

. ciation, he signs a. contract

which requires him to deliver all of

his crop to the association. This con-

tract extends over a period of years,

and provides that the grower shall pay

damages to the association if he sells

his crop to any outside dealer.





~ This binding crop is one of: the es-

sential features'of every cooperative

marketing association of consequence

in California.) This applies not only

to the giant institutions which market

the oranges, raisins, and prunes, but

also to the little fellows which handle

a few carloads of alfalfa or the honey

produced by a small district.



The leaders in California coopera-

tion borrowed this-idea from Denmark,

where it was used by the bacon and

The Danish

cooperators regarded it as a funda-

mental feature, because it 'kept their

rivals from breaking up the societies

by temporarily paying higher prices

for the products of the members. The

California cooperators have found the

contract as essential to their success

as did the Danes, and have worked out

many improvements over the Danish

model. \





Solves Financial Difficulties.





Originally, the crop agreement was

used only as a means of keeping the





“members of an association in line. It





was regarded mostly in the light of

safe-guarding an association’s supply

of products. This, of course, is still

the primary purposeof the crop agree-

ment, but it has also been found to be

the key which unlocks the financial

difficulties of cooperative associations.

Briefly stated, the crop agreements

giVe the association title to the prod-

uct when it is delivered, and this al-

lows the association to borrow money

to pay advances to the growers. The

association can then market the crop

at the most favorable time, which it

could not do if the growers were con-

tinually demanding money from the

sale of their'crops, as was the case be-

fore this plan of contract and finance

was perfected.





Even a casual study of the history

of cooperation in Californiareveals

the fact that the crop contract is an

absolute essential to success in coop-

erative marketing. Today there is not

a single cooperative association in ex-

istence in California which does not

employ the crop contract. There may

be some small, local organizations

which do not require such contracts,

but I was unable to find any trace 'of

such, and farm leaders on the Pacific

Coast were unable to name any. Of

all the many cooperative associations

which have failed, only two or three

employed the crop contract.

particular organizations failed, I am

told, because their crop contracts were

imperfect and could .be evaded.





An Essential to Success.



Everyleader of cooperative thought

and action with whom I have talked

recently when studying cooperative

enterprises in the far west sought to

impress upon me that the crop con-

tract is the second great essential to

success in cooperative marketing, the

first being Organization by commodity.

Even the leaders of the two opposing

schools of cooperative thought are in

harmony on this question. I refer to





1‘: Les Angolan who?





 





Those ‘





Aaron" Sapiro, of San Francisco, and,





 





sProduccrs Together





' Crop C animals cm Essential Feature of Califorma C oopemtzmz





B y H emmz Stem





(Copyright 1920. Standard Farm Papers. Inc.)





regard to the fundamental principles

of ecoperation.



There are different kinds of con-

tracts in use by the cooperative organ-

izations. The California Almond Grow-

ers’ Exchange, for example, had no

contractas such, but every member is

required to sign the by-laws of the as-

sociation, which provide that members

must sell all their almonds through

the organization. This, of course, has

the same effect as a separate contract

specifically requiring the same thing.



Different Kinds of Contracts.



The egg association likewise have

simple contracts requiring the deliv-

ery of all 'eggs produced and stating

the damages that may be collected by

the association in case of violation of

contract by the producer. The Cali-

fornia Fruit Growers’ Exchange (the

citrus association) has three contracts,

one between the central. exchange and

the district exchanges, one between

the district exchanges and the local

associations, and one between the local

associations and the producers of cit-

rus fruit. Each of these contracts spe-

cifically sets forth the things that each

party is required to do.



The contract of the raisin growers,

on the other hand, guarantees a mini-

mum price to the growers of raisins.

It provides also that in case the land

is sold the new owner must fulfill the

provisions of the contract. This latter

provision has been the source of con-

siderable trouble, and many good law—

yers say that it would not be sustain-

ed in court, though it has never been

tested.



What is probably the most complete

contract between association and grow-

er is the new prune and apricot crop

agreement, which will soon go into ef-

fect between the California Prune and

Apricot Growers’ Inc., and its eight

thousand members. It was drawn by

Aaron Sapiro, attorney for the prune

and apricot growers, and covers more

contingencies than any other contract

used in California. Nothing is left to

verbal understanding and agreement—

everything is put down in black and

white, so that there is no possibility of

misunderstanding. *It is regarded as

the most perfect contract of the sort

ever devised.





The prune and apricot contract con-.





tains close to three thousand words

and the membership agreement close

to five thousand more, so space forbids

printing it in full. The salient feature,

110wever, may be reviewed as follows:



1. The grower agrees to help carry

out the express aims of the associa-

tion, which are cooperative marketing,

elimination of speculation and waste,

and the stabilization of prune and ap-

ricot markets in the interest of grow-

ers and public alike.



2. The association agrees to buy and

the grower agrees to sell all of the

prunes and apricots produced by the

grower during 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925,

and at the option of the association,

during 1926, 1927 and 1928. (The pres—

ent contract includes the crop of 1921).



3. The grower agrees that the crop

has not been contracted to anybody

else.



4. The grower agrees to deliver all

fruit as early as possible, but in no

case later than September 15 for apri-

cots and November 10 for prunes, and

to abide by all rules of the association

in regard to grading, packing, deliv-

ery, etc.



5. The association agrees to sell all

fruit delivered to it, and to pay the

grower the average price received for

the grade he produced, minus the cost

of operating the association. The grow-

er agrees to accept this amount as

payment in full.



6. The association agrees to pay a

substantial advance to the grower at

the time the crop is delivered, and to

distribute proceeds as rapidly as pos-

sible through the year, but final pay-

ment shall be made not later than July

1 for apricots and October 1 for

prunes. (These dates refer to the

year following delivery).



7. The association is allowed to sell

the Prunes and apricots when and

where it deems fit, under such condi-

tions as will serve the grower and the

public.



8. The association’s subsidiary (the

warehousing corporation), capital

stock, is to be retired by profits made

in mechanical handling of the prunes.



9. The grower is allowed to sell any

or all of his fruit to dealers or shippers

of fruit, provided he does not sell to





 





 





 





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any specula‘tor who might interfere

with the sale of the dried fruit handled

by the association.





10. If a grower transfers his orchard .





of fruit to a relative, he shall be liable

for damages in case the fruit is sold

to an outside dealer.



11. The association recognizes crop

mortgages if it is notified in advance

concerning them.



12. It is agreed that all contracts

between the association and growers

shall be substantially alike. '



13. If a grower violates his contract

by selling dried fruit to outsiders, he-

agrees to pay to the association two

cents per pound damages on prunes

or four cents per pound damages on

apricots, plus expense of collection.

This is what puts teeth into' the con-

tract, and makes a man think twice

before he tries to break it.



Under the provisions of the damage

clause, practically every cooperative

association in California has brought

suit against growers for violation of

contract. In every single case, so far

as I was able to learn, the association

has won and the growers were order-

ed by the courts to fulfill their con-

tracts. The association does not usu-

ally sue for damages as much as it

does for fulfillment of contract. One

such case has recently been appealed

to the supreme court of California,

which has not yet announced a de-

cision. -



Importance of the Contract.



Some of the important reasons why

the binding contract is the cornerstone

of cooperation are thus summarized

by Attorney Sapirob



1. It insuresfiassomatmn a defi-

nite ac1eage I a period of years,

and f10m thisfihe actual volume of

business can he. esftgited quite close—





 





ly. This stabilifi’eme association and -





peimits it to operate to better advan-

tage than would be possible otherwise.-





2. It puts the association 11f aYEtrate~

gic position on the market. It gives

the farmer a representative on the

market, which he never had had here—

tofore. A commission. man is often

worse than no reprogg'entative at all,

and as often as not is secretly repre—

senting the man who buys from the

farmer.





3. It eliminates competition in buy—

ing, and the association’s business can-





’ not be broken by speculators who are





willing to pay high prices and lose

money temporarily in order to accom—

plish that purpose. '



4. It allows‘ the association to put

all of its efforts on efficient salesman~

ship, while the producer puts his ef—

forts on efficient production. The man

who is tempted by a cent a pound can-

not seriously injure an association.



5. It provides a means of securing

credit, so that crops may be moved

and first payments made before they

are actually delivered. The fact that

the association secures title to the

crops when delivered allows it to bor—

row money and make first payments

at that time. The contract has thus

solved the financial question in cooper—





ation to a large extent, for bankers_

lend money readily on the basis of the





contracts.



Practically all of the cooperative as-

sociations'in California are increasing

the percentage of crop controlled. The

success, of the associations in securing

renewal of these ironclad contracts is

assurance that the growers recogniZe.





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"f The Contract ProvldHo's that the Grower Shall Pay Damages if he Sells e ju 1° o e crop 00-11 m.“ 933d the:

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necessity for its use.
”Committee lo





A Great Variety of ”can 072 a National Maréez'img Seéeme fir/Ere Given

’ at Me Chm/g0 Meeting ' '





fold plan of a. non~stock distributing

company with a stock corporation for

warehousing. The committee did not

believe that much could be accom-

plished by aggressive salesmanship

and advertising as a means of obtain-

ing a higher price for the grains.





Defends Boards of Trade.



L. F. Gates stated that the benefits

of boards of trade, which he defined

simply as organized markets, included

the establishment of standard grades,

honest weights, a means of financing

the moving of the crops, of reducing

the cost of distribution through com-

petition and through the development

of exchange trading or dealing in fu-

tures. Discussing the benefits of deal-

ing in futures, Mr. Gates granted that

this feature has not worked satisfac-

torily in the wheat market since the

resumption of trading in that cereal

on July 15. The trade has been com—

paratively narrow and a large volume

of hedging orders, either for purchase

or for sale, met no heaVy cushion of

speculative operations to act~as a bal-

ance wheel, and the result was a de-

cidedly fluctuating market. It was un-

fortunate that the exchanges were re-

opened shortly before the change in

the public attitude, which has resulted

in price declines in many commodities,

was noticeable. His contention was

that prices do not fluctuate because of

speculation, but that speculation is at-

tracted by a fluctuating market and

their influence is to stabilize values

relatively. Also the exchange trading

in futures provides an insurance fea-

ture for handlers of grain by means of

which they are able to shift the risk

of ownership and protect a merchan-





HE “Committee of Seventeen"

appointed from various farm or-

ganizations to develop a plan for

the cooperative marketing of the na-

tion’s grain held a three-day session at

Chicago last week. The purpose of the

meeting was to get before the commit—

tee the opinions of various men having

knowledge of present methods of mar-

keting grain and of men experienced

in the cooperative marketing of farm

products. .

Evidently the committee was imbu-

ed, as a result of the hearing, with a

feeling of profound respect for the size

of ‘the task which has been imposed

upon it, as it voted not to formulate

any plan until it was absolutely sure

that it had examined all the evidence

and that a fund of $50,000 would be

raised to employ economists and sta-

tisticians to make a thorough study of

, the question. The next meeting of the

committee will be held on December

13, at which time it will hear the re-

ports of its investigators, and also of

the various sub—committees appointed

some time ago. Two representatives

of the Cotton Growers’ Association will

be asked to present results of their

experience at that meeting. The com-

mittee hopes then to be able to formu-

late the basic principles along the lines

of which its final plan will be draWn.

A legislative committee was also ap-

pointed to examine into the coopera-

tive laws of the various states in the

Union and to take the necessary steps

to obtain favorable laws in all the

states of the Union. The law under

which cooperative organizations oper-

ate in New York state was considered

exemplary. ’

Thinks Farmers will Stick Only when

it Becomes Necessary.

’ Professor Nourse, of Iowa State Col-

lege, presented the report of a sub-

committee which made a study of: the

California marketing associations at

first hand. The conclusions of this

committee were that no very strong,

permanent or extensive cooperative

marketing organization is likely to be

built up unless economic necessity

forces a great number of the farmers

into it; that no considerable result

would be achieved unless producers of

a given commodity over some. area

large enough to make a suitable eco-

nomic unit consolidate their common

interests to obtain the most eflicient

distribution of their product; that to

provide the proper basis for financing

and organizing the distributive work

of the association its members must

enter into a contract to deliver their

product to it over a reasonable period

of time, even though these may not be

fully ent'orcible at law; that settlement

on a pooling basis is necessary as a

means of averaging the results of the

joint action and of distributing the

benefits of the organization equally to

all its members. The committee also

found that the California cooperative

associations do not “fix prices.” They

are simply efficient agencies to obtain

the best prices that the consuming.

market affords. Several of the cooper~

ative associations on the Pacific Coast





before long, but that its conclusions the influences which affect world pric-

and recommendations would be with- es, the present obstructions to the nor-

held until the commission had report- mal operation of the laws of supilly

ed its findings to congress; by which it and demand, and the importance of the '

had been called upon to make its in- service to the farmer .which the ex-

vestigation. In its recent examination changes have been rendering in the

of the California Associated Raisin past. "

Grow rs it had stressed in its findings

the m intenance of a democratic spir- Mr. Barnes pointed out that in sur-

it in a cooperative company, WhiCh ‘plus producing countries the price up-

means limitation of membership to on the crop was determined primarily

growers only and each member to have by the price obtained for the surplus

one V0“? regardless 0f acreage owned, less the cost of reaching the export

and that to avoid the limitations and market, and that this year all five 0f

penalties of the Sherman and "Clayton our leading grain crops are on a sur-

acts the organization must be purely plus basis. This surplus goes mostly

c operatiVe, based on mutual help, to Europe where prices are influenced

without capital stock and hot formed by the extremely unsettled political

for profit. Mr. Thompson stated that and economic conditions. Fluctuations

the monopolistic tendency in the hu‘ in prices as they take place on boards

man soul must be recognized in deter- of trade are due to variations in sup-

mining the amount of power which ply or demand, neither of.which is

would be Placed in the hands 0f the definitely known, andindividual opin-

cooperative organization. He also stat- ions of merchants upon these factors

ed that his study Of cooperative orga'n- are constantly influenced by a. great

izations lead him to believe that grow- variety of sources; but that through

ers invariably failed to recognize the the opinions of many merchants as

danger of over-production as a result thus expressed'a truer supply and de«

of a stimulating price until the over- mand price is obtained than through

production actually arrived. any other means thus far devised. The

Canadian Plan Described.' recent decline of the wheat market

Mr. E. E. Bayne, in discussing the may be ascribed to the decline in ster-

work of the Canadian grain growers, ling exchange from $3.90 to $3.40 which

stated that they had treated the prob- increased sharply the cost of 0111'

19111 at, first as purely one of business wheat delivered abroad and t0 the un-

and economics, but at present they are justifiable policy 01' the leading foreign

giving attention to its political aspect buyer WhiCh made heavy purchases in

as well. In marketing their 1919 crop April and May at a time when wheat

of wheat Canadian growers virtually was comparatively scarce Upon our

had a pooling system under which markets, thus causing the price to ad-

$2,15 per bushel was paid to the grow. vance above its true level and having

er at the time of delivery of: his grain. acquired considerable StOCkS by this

He was also given a participation cer- means it has remained entirely out of

dising profit so that the trade tolls be- tiflcate which would have value in the American market since July 29.

tween producer and consumer are, case the market price justified a larger M11 Barnes recommended the develop-

smaller than they otherwise would be. payment, and upon these thirty cents ment 01’ the railroads through increas«

Mr. Gates stated that he had upon per bushel was paid some time ago 9d 031‘ SUDDlY and the development 01"

many occasions calculated the differ- and another eighteen cents has recent-~ the waterways, particularly the Great

ence between the price of cornat the ly been made available. The Canadian Lakes-St. Lawrence project as a means

loading point in Iowa and the price to wheat market was reopened for ex— 01' l’éduCing the transportation cost

the retailers in New England and ex- change trading in July, since which WhiCh he believed would increase the

eluding freight, at least ninety per time the price has declined sharply price to the gI‘OWGI‘ by at least five

cent went to the producer and never and the farmers are dissatisfied with cents per bushel. He recommended

more than ten per cent to the handler; the open market, preferring instead that the growers through organization

that in 1914 investigators found a dif— the pooling system. .The' United Grain ShOUId endeavor to Obtain exact infor-

ference of only ten per cent between Growers maintain its own central mar- mation upon factors likely t0 determ-

Kansas and Liverpool, again disregard- ket organization and has recently en me the price Oli' their crops. WhiCh

ing freight. This margin was only tered into the export business. The WOHld be distributed t0 the grower

made possible through the opportunity usual handling charge in exporting through an agency in WhiCh he had

to shift ownerships by means of the grain, aside from freight, has been confidence, and WhiCh he might then

hedging feature which exchange trad— about six or seven cents per bushel, use as a basis 1'01‘ his individual indig-

ing provides. He believes that the but the actual cost to the United Grain ment in determining the time of mar-

chief critics of the exchanges are the Growers has been one and a quarter keting his grain. A150 that growers

individuals, including grain handlers, cents, the remainder accruing as profit ShOUId seek a better understanding 0f

who have failed to use its facilities, to the producer members. According the operations 0f the grain exchanges

but have speculated by retaining own to Mr. Bayne the Canadian growers en- and seek to develop them and to elim-

ership and have suffered losses through tertain no idea of holding to obtain the inate their defects and abuses. As a

declines in market values. Mr. Gates cost of production, but to obtain the means 0f stabilizing prices his sugges-

expressed uncertainty as to the Will- supply and demand the price to heavy tion was the development of the fea-

ingness of the members of the Chicago supply and demand the price without ture 0f future trading and the making

Board of Trade to admit a farmers’ diminution by heavy handling charges. 0f contracts for delivery SO liberal as

cooperative concern to its membership His organization finds it necessary to to. time, place and grade that varia

because their plan of pro-rating divi— use the hedging facilities of grain ex- tions in the volume 0f hedging transac-

dends according to patronage would be changes. tions W011” not tend to cause sharp ‘

construed as a violation of the ex- Mr. Barnes talked briefly of the work fluctuations and that 110 individual 01‘

change rules governing rebates. of the United States Grain Corpora— 13001 01' individuals WOUId dare seek to

Mr. Thompson, of the federal trade tion, but at considerable length in jus- manipulate. In response to questions

commission, stated that the report of tiflcation of the present system of mar- he expressed the belief that coopera-

the commission, based upon its inves— keting grain. Because of his unique tion was highly deSil‘able at the local

tigation of the grain trade, would be position Mr. Barnes was able to dis- elevators Wthh constituted a natural





How Prices Are Determined.





   





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





are now compelled to accept prices be-

low cost of production, which indicates

that they have not secured through

their organization any immunity from

fundamental economic law; but still

were able to secure for their members»

more favorable prices than they could

otherwise obtain. The committee com-

mended the California cooperatives up-

” on their plan of operating their selling





 





service on a cost basis, and the two-





available for the use of the committee





   





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HE farmers’ conference on cred-

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Whether this holding 'movement‘ is

the solution of the farmer’s problem of

price decline can best be told next

year after the plan has been given a

tryout. Many regard it as being more

practicable than begging the govern—

ment to do something that the officials

in power have said over and over again

they will not, put into operation.





The fifteen members of the “Next

Step” committee who drafted the res—

olutions were not all of one mind. Rep-

resentatives of the radical t‘armers’ or-

ganizations were not satisfied because

the committee turned down their move

in favor of the Plum plan of govern-

ment operation of railroads and the

alliance of the farmers with union 1a

bor organizations. The Washington

representative of thepNational Grange,

Dr. T. C. Atkeson, did not sign the

committee's report, and has given his

reasons in the following statement:





“I told the committee that if this re-

port represented their state of mind

to go ahead and present it. I know

how hard hit thousands, perhaps mils

lions of farmers have been by the de-

cline in corn and cotton and cattle and

other products in lesser measure. But

this statement of the committee is bas-

ed, I am sure, on an incorrect diag-

nosis of the causes of the illness which

at present afflicts us. Incorrect diag-

ndsis and uneconomic remedies always

do more harm than good. I am not

willing to subscribe to a remedy based

on what I believe to be incorrect diag-

nosis. The curtailment of credits is,

in my opinion, only a part of a result,

and not the cause, and does not lie

near the cause, of what is taking place.

The. price readjustment is an inevita-

ble result of conditions due to the war.

I went through a similar situation fol—

lowing the Civil War. What we should

do is to get at fundamentals, with a

more thorough knowledge of condi—

tions and of past experience, and then

seek to prevent, if humanly possible,

the long period of depression, which

post-Civil War experience and history

indicates is to be feared.





“This cannot be accomplished, in my

judgment, by mere creation of credits,

especially if the chief use of these

credits is to hold back products from

consumption while other products are

being raised. It can be accomplished,

if at all, by enlarging consumption.

Nothing which has been officially sug—

gested in either the earlier conference

or in this conference will hate any

aflect even if carried out in good faith,

on increasing consumption, except .the

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sought out by all such government

agencies as are available.” '



The recommendations of the com-

mittee called for revision of the bank-

ing laws, the revival of the war finance

corporation, and for government aid in

reopening foreign markets, and financ-

ing the same.





The executive committee of the

American. Farm Bureau Federation is

making a study of the McFadden rural

personal credits bill. Professor Ivan

Wright and Dean Eugene Davenport,

of the Iiilnois University, are also

working on the same bill, in coopera-

tion with the rural credits committee

of the National Society of Record As-

sociations. It ,is assured that some

sort of personal rural credits legisla-

tion will come before congress early

this winter.





E department of agriculture and



interior department evidently

have not heard of the slump in prices

or lack of confidence in the belief that

lower prices for farm products will be

effective in reducing the cost of living

in the cities. They are asking for

large increases in salaries for wofiters

in the departments. Secretary ,of Ag-

riculture Meredith is asking for up

wards of $10,000,000 more than last

year’s appropriation ror the depart-

ment of agriculture. Secretary of the

Interior John Barton Payne is making

an insistent demand for pay increases

in his department aggregating mil-

lions of dollars. Officials in the depart-

ment now receiving $5,000 would re-

ceive $7,500, those receiving $3,500

would receive. $5,000, and so on

through the long list of employes. The

entire estimates for the interior de-

partment, as sent by Secretary Payne

to the treasury department, total $226,-

000,000, an increase of $21,000,000 over

last year’s estimates.



The war department is planning for

an army of two million men. Accord-

ing to the plans of Secretary Baker

and the general staff, the personnel of

the ranks of this huge army is to be

provided for by the regular army of

300,000 officers and men; the national

guard approximating 425,000 men,

and organized reserves of indefinite

strength. The first 2,000,000 men are

to be organized into six field armies

with the proper number of corps, di-

visions and auxiliary troops. Reserve

equipment and supplies will be provid<

ed and an organization for mobilizing

the industries of the country. This

scheme would give employment to a

vast mumber of training officers and

necessitate the maintenance of an im-

mense military establishment.





All signs indicate that there is al-

ready in action all along the line a sys-

tematic, well organized movement to

demand of congress larger appropria<

tions, regardless of the fact that if the

increases are granted it will mean in-

creased taxation.





A question has come up in Michigan

as to whether the provisions of the

Capper-Volstead farmers’ collective

bargaining bill will apply equally to

the local associations of farmers and

the central agency, or overhead organ-

ization. The matter has been referred

to several authorities by the Washing-

ton oflice of the American Farm [Bu-

reau Federation. An assistant in the

attorney-general’s office said the pro-

posed measure would give any benefits

to the central association that were

conferred upon the local association.

Solicitor Williams of the department





of agriculture. gave a negative answer.





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tion’s attorney, he advised that the bill

be so amended as to remove any doubt

as to the intentions and the extent of

its application.





THE national committee for govern-

ment economy has prepared h

draft for a reorganization of the execu-

tive departments of the federal gov—

ernment. Among the proposed changes

is a new department of education and

health, which will include the present-

bureaus of education, Indian affairs,

pensions, public health service, and

several other similar activities.





That part .of this “government econ-V

omy” reconstruction program which is

of special interest to farmers is the

proposed removal of the weather bu-

reau and chemistry bureau from the

department of agriculture to the '- ,de

partment of commerce, and the bureau

of public roads to the office of public

works.



There are some good reasons why

these changes might be desirable. The

weather bureau, especially, is probably

of greater service to commerce than

to agriculture, and the work of road

building might properly be transferred

to public works. The vast appropria-

tions made for these bureaus are now

included in the agricultural appropria-

tions, giving the impression that the

government is spending more money

for the special benefit of the farmers

than it really is by many millions of

dollars. ' ’



Sir Auckland Geddes, the British am-

bassador, has agreed to deliver an ad

dress at the annual‘convention of the

American Farm Bureau Federation in

Indianapolis, during the week of De

cember 6. His subject will cover some

phase of international agriculture.





 





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A sells B a piano. for which the lat‘

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note before due, taking a' receipt, and

A sent the notes later except the last.

but gave B a receipt in full for piano.

A sold C the three notes unbeknown

to B until this last note was six months

past due, A actingtas C’s collector.

Can. C collect again for the last note?

A didn’t turn over the money for this

note to C. A has now disappeared.

What can B do?~J. B.



The maker of a negotiable note as-

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possetsion for that purpose, payment

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Can you inform me as to the advis—

ability of letting navy beans stand in

the pods without threshing until next

fall? It seems to me that this is the

best way? to keep“ them, then if the

price is still lower next fall, let them

stand another year. Or would it be

best to thresh them and treat for

weavil? _



Beans which have been properly cur—

ed might be allowed to stand in pods

indefinitely without risk of much dam~

age, were it not for the prevalence of

the bean weavil. The great likelihood

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‘S,was noted in this paper a few

V weeks ago a movement was start-

ed at Columbus, Ohio, in August to try

and organise a national vegetable can-

‘ning crop association. A second meet-

ing was held at Columbus at which ten

states where canning crops are grown

extensively were represented. At that

conference a resolution was passed

asking President Howard, of the Amer-

ican Farm Bureau Federation, to ap-

point a committee consisting of one

- man from each state interested to

work out some more equitable plan of

marketing the crops grown by the veg-

etable canning crop growers.



In Michigan the pea growers are the

ones\who will in all probability be the

most likely to be interested in this

movement. It is a well known fact

that one of the arguments which the

canners always make against higher

prices for peas in Michigan is-the fact

that the canners in Wisconsin do not

pay as much as the canners in Michi-

gan. This same argument is used by

the tomato growers of some of the

eastern states and they make their



‘ comparison with the prices paid in'In

diana and Ohio. The movement to

organize the canning crop growers has

as one of its objects the working out

of some plan which will more nearly

equalize the prices paid for canning

crops in different states. If it is true

as some claim, that tomatoes, for ex-

ample, can be grown much more cheap-



‘ ly in Indiana than in Delaware and

New Jersey, it would seem that there

should be a difference in the prices

paid to the growers in the different

states. '



In order that we may have more ac-

curate information to base our calcu-

lations upon, quite extensive cost ac-

counting records have been kept in the

different states interested. In Michi-

gan during the past year a number of

records have been kept of the cost of

producing peas for canning purposes.



, If the Wisconsin records show that the

growers in that state can produce peas

more cheaply than the Michigan grow-

ers, we cannot expect to compete with

them on( an equal price basis unless

other factors such as transportation of

canned goods should enter in to ofiset

other differences in cost.



" The writer has been made a" repre-

sentative of the American Farm Bu-

reau Federation for canning crops and

vegetable interests until such a time

as a man can be employed at full time

on this work. We have endeavored to

get in touch with the pea growers in

, ‘ different sections of the state through

the County Farm Bureau and to ascer-

tain the desires of the pea growers as

to a state organization which should

come before the Michigan growers can

take part in the national organization.





In New York state the growers are ‘





organized in such a manner that each

, grower signs a crop contract with a

penalty affixed. This form of contract

assures united effort. The Michigan





State Farm Bureau has expressed an—





.interest in this movement and if the

'1 growers show sufficient interest, the

.farm'bureau will- probably assist in





nation. .We would be pleased to hear

"from individuals or groups of men as

to their desires along this line.

. C. W. WAID,

Representative American Farm Bu-

reau Federation.





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INTER dropped down on Clover-

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The week before we had been

sweltering ,in summer temperatures.

Nature seemed a bit be-fuddled by this

unwonted delay in the termination of

the growing season. From the copper

country came reports of second crops

of raspberries and fruit trees in blos-

som for the second time this season.

Violets were blooming in Chippewa,

while robins have been singing with

all the fervor of the Springtime per-

formances. In Marquette it has been

officially determined that there was no

killing frost from May 3 to October 29

ma period of one hundred and seven-

nine daysma longer growing season

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ly enjoy. Without waiting

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the northern peninsula, but it indi-

cates what can be accomplished in this

regard in upper Michigan. Our normal

precipitation is not more than yours,

but we keep all we get.





Horticultural Work.



What this season has meant to fruit-

growers in this end of the state, will

be seen at the Michigan Agricultural

College by those who attend the meet-

ings of “Farmers’ Week,” next Febru-

ary. Robert Blemhuber, upper penin-

sula member of the board of directors

of the Michigan State Farm Bureau.

has collected specimens of apples,

peaches, pears, plums and grapes that

were grown in and adjacent to Mar-

quette, this season, and has shipped

the collection to C. P. Halligan, of the

horticultural department of the col-

lege. It will be put in storage for the

farmers’ meeting. It will be an eye-

opener, and I venture to predict that

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ed at the exhibit. The “Blemhuber”

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huber’s father, producer of the variety,

is a magnificent specimen of the fruit,

weighing up to sixteen ounces in some

instances. Other varieties of apples

include the Seek-no:further, the Shia-

wassee Beauty, the Cloverland Beauty,

the Greasy Pippin, the Ben Davis and

other standard varieties. It is hoped

that the college will see its way to in-

clude fruit culture in the work of the

upper peninsula branch of the experi-

ment station at Chatham, although

Chatham may not itself be the best

location for this department of its

work. A location nearer to Lake Su—

perior, such as that now held by the

northern orchards, has been suggested

as preferable. These northern ‘ or-

chards, containing 2,700 apple trees,

1,000 cherry trees, some two hundred

and twenty-five plums and fifty pears,

have a remarkably fine sit‘uation‘in the

hill country a few miles‘outffrom ‘Mar‘.

quette, Where air, drainage and expo-

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and the season’s results in terms of

fruit seem to justify the position of

the orchard.

Fence Posts.



‘ When a representative of the State

Farm Bureau recently passed through

the peninsula, he observed large quan-

tities of fence pOsts by the railroad

tracks awaiting shipment. It was sug-

gested to him that here was another

line that could be well handled by the

farm bureau’s marketing department.

The upper peninsula has a large out-

put of this most necessary adjunct to

farming. One of the largest dealers

in posts and poles in the district esti~

mates its product to amount to some

three million fence posts per year,

most of which are shipped

outside the state. If our

idiotic practice of burning

up our second-growth~—yes.

and virgin stuff, too, were

discontinued lower state

farmers would be able to se-

cure home—grown fence posts

at more favorable prices

than now prevail.





G. W. Putnam, of the Chatham Ex-

periment Station, is seeking to inter-

est Cloverland farmers in the coming

International Live Stock Show at Chi-

cage in December. He wants them

particularly to enter exhibits of bar-

ley, oats, grass seed and hay. It is re-

ported that an upper peninsula boy,

Carl Johnson, of Gogebic county, who

was one of the winning team in the

stock judging contest at the State Fair

at Detroit, will enter for honors at this

exhibition.





Will Make a Fish Survey.



Sault Ste. Marie is expecting the es

tablishment of a fish hatchery through

the joint action of the Ontario and

Michigan governments in cooperation

with the United States Bureau of Fish-

cries. It is presumed that the plant

will be in mid—stream of the St. Mary’s

river where fresh, running water can

be secured. The present state hatch-

ery there is said to be unsuitable

through its use of chlorinated water

from the city pumping station. The

Upper Peninsula Development Bureau

also plans a fish survey of the upper

peninsula in copperation with Dr. John

Lowe, of the Department of Biology

of the Northern State Normal School,

who is a fish expert formerly associat-

ed with the Wisconsin Conservation

Commission. In this connection it is

purposed to make analyses of the river

waters of the district to ascertain their

adaptation for various species of fish.

This work should yield very important

and interesting results.





in U. P.





The fall season of commercial fish-

ing on the upper Great Lakes is now

under way. Menominee claims the

largest fish salting establishment in

the world, to which fish are shipped

from various points on Lake Superior

and Lake Michigan for salting and re-

frigeration, and reshipment to distant

points throughout the country.





Announcement is made that a pack-

ing company will open a remodeled

and greatly enlarged plant in Iron

county next month. It represents an

investment of $75,000, it is stated. and

will be equipped to handle cattle, hogs.‘

sheep and chickens, and produce ham -"

and sausage. Local capital is invested

in the establishment.





The Gogebic County Cow-testing ‘As~

sociation new numbers thirty-three

members, says the Ironwbod Daily

Globe. Its operations haveresulted in

the recent acquisition of additional

pure—bred stock, and the,elimination.;of.. .

poor ~tstoc‘k by members. ~Two newfidi
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sheep obtainable. They usually buy

a lot or feeders in the fall, feed them

for a period of four or five months, and

sell early, without pastu'ring at all in

the spring. - '



James Huntley has followed this

plan with success for. six seasons. He

usually buys from five hundred and

fifty to seven hundred and fifty lambs

in the fall, and feeds them for about

four months. The beet tops are used

first. An acre of tops, he advises, is

equal to One and a. half tons of hay.

After the beet tops are gone, he feeds

alfalfa hay and a little straw, but nev~

er any grain. A considerable amount





ing farmers.

The special equipment required for

feeding as Mr. Huntley does it con-

sists of twenty-one feed racks, each

sixteen feet long, and an inclosure for-

ty—eight feet square made of tight ship-

lap panels sixteen feet long and four

and a half feet high. These panels are

wired to posts which are set in the

ground. The sheep are confined in this

fold at night and when not feeding.

The feed racks are set so that a

wagon may be driven between them.

They are filled each day, in the morn~

ing, before the sheep are released from

the fold. About twice a week a load

of straw is placed in the fold. This

serves mainly as bedding and goes

into manure. Water is pumped from

a well with a small gas engine. After

the feeding season is over the feed

racks are knocked down by removing

the ends; the panels of the fold are

unwired from the posts and all mate‘

rial is piled out of the way until need-

ed the following fall. The ground

occupied by sheep is planted to beets.

Last season five hundred and fifty-

eight Rambouillet lambs averaging





gether weighing 28,640 pounds, were

bought on the ninth of November at

fifteen cents per pound, or a total of

$4,296. Ten lambs died. After feeding

one hundred and twenty-seven days,

five hundred and forty eight lambs,

averaging about seventy pounds, and

altogether weighing 38,150 pounds,

were sold on March 16 for seventeen

cents, or $6,485, which was $2,189 in-

crease over the purchase price.



After deduction of cost of‘ hay and

averaging value of the tops of beets,

this farmer had $756 clear gain in re-

turn for his labor in handling the

lambs for the four—month period when

otherwise he would have had practi-

cally nothing to do. The manure, cost

in present commercial fertilizer values,

Would have more than offset this, and

would have been of doubtful value, at

that. So sheep and beets work well

together in instances like this. It is

certain that the millions of tons of

beet tops that have been permitted to

decay in heaps in beet-growing dis-

tricts, like Michigan, Colorado, Mon-

tana, Utah, Idaho and California, can

well be converted into mutton and

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IT may be somewhat of a surprise to

some of the readers oi the Michigan

Power to know that work has“ been

carried on in this state during the past

year with. a View of certifying, pota»;

toés- from forty-three fields comprising‘

a total of over two hundred and fifty ;

acres. There has been some intention:

made of this in the state papers but;

the tact has not been advertised? very :

generally. 2



Each of these fields. has been in—Z

specte‘d during the growing period

twice and the potatoes inspected after ,

digging. In each of the fields inspeet-

ed all hills of potatoes showing Mix-j

ture or disease which would be trans.

miss-ible into the seed stock were re-

moved. This will insure a fairly dey

pendable source of pure seed and seed

practically free from transmissible;

diseases.



The growers who have had this work

done have paid for the services. They

expect to charge a price somewhat

higher than that secured for ordinary.

stock. A list will be made up of all of f

the potato growers whose fields passed

inspection. This list will include the

addresses of the growers together with _

the varieties and number of bushels-

certified. Anyone desiring to secure

the list should write H. (3. Moore, sec-

retary of the Michigan Potato Produc-

ers' Association, East Lansing. The

certification work has been done under

the auspices of the Michigan Potato

Prdducers’ Association. Some of the

seed will no doubt be sold through the

Michigan Potato Growers’ Exchange

and possibly some through the Seed-

Department 01' the Michigan State

Farm Bureau. Individuals will in some

cases sell their own seed and the of-

fice ot‘ the Secretary of the Michigan

Potato Producers’ Association will help

put those who have seed to sell in

touch with those who wish to buy.



Michigan certified seed has given a.

good account 01’ itself where planted

and there is no reason why this work

may not be deveIOped as the demand

for the seed increases.



C. W. W..up,

Extension Specialist.





 





ACTIVITIES 0F CLOVERLAND.





(Continued from page 600).

Brown is official tester for the asso-

ciation.



Three hundred and ninety-nine Dick-

inson county farmers out of four hun-

dred and sixteen had joined the State

Farm Bureau at last accounts and

there are others yet to be seen. Locals

have been established at Ralph, Vul—

can, Felch and Hardwood, and dele-

gates elected to the meeting of the

county organization. Other locals are

in the process of formation.



The Munising News of October 22,

announces thelbeginning of organiza-

tion work in Alger county on the part.

of the State Farm Bureau. This is one

of the last upper peninsula counties to

be organized.



A feature of the plan of organization

of the Delta County Farm Bureau 10-

cals that is regarded as a model for

the state, is the incorporation of each

local under the incorporation laws of

Michigan. Each local has its own offi-

cers and board of directors, placed un«

der bond. The Delta Farm Bureau will

sell its members’ potatoes through the

Cadillac exchange with which it holds

membership on behalf of its locals.





 





Gooseberries require. an open, airy

situation, and clean culture. The tops

must be kept well thinned out, to in-

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N almost every (up! section there are afew fruit-growers who terminal growth; larger, darker foliage on hearing trees; and the

produce better fruit and get a. better price for it than their holding of the foliage later inthaFall, thus accumulating, starch

neighbors, and who also take the prizes at the fairs and fruit and sugar which results in a plumper and stronger fruit spur.

Many Of these SkIIIfUI OTChardlStS long ago selected Scalccidc kills insects, eggs and larvae of insects, and diseases

that winter on the trunk or branches ofthe‘ tree. It kills the hold—

over cankers which? Cause fire: ht, makes the olddiseased bark

peel all, and allows a new cambium toform. It kills the adults

and controls Pear Psylla whenapplied in the Fall of on warm

days in the Winter. (his too late met- their eggs are Iaidinthc

Spring). It kills aphis, too, when used asadelayed dormant spray.





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Every claim we make for Scalecide has

.been proved in our own large orchards,

Which now total 26,000 trees, and verified

by growors throughout the U. S. We speak

_ to you from 10‘ years’ experience as fruit-

nozzles, an‘dhci‘ng‘ an oil’, it makes the pump growors, and our recommendations are

.run easier and last lenger.‘ , . based upon. profitable orchard practice.

Avoid DisappointMent—Order Scalocide Now

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Scalecide‘ for their dormant spray—because Scalecide notonly

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many things that no other spray or combination of sprays can do.

S'calecidc is becoming. known even more for its invigorating efieet

on trees and its eficctivcness in controllin . other orchard troubles





cct is noted in human!

Scaledde I: Pleasant To User

Scalecide is soothing, healing and antiseptic '

to skin: of man or beast, whereas lime-sul-

fur is caustic and disagreeable. » Scalecide .,

does not injure even. the eyes. It does ‘

not corrode the spray pump nor clog the





than for killing scale. Its invigorating

Scalecx'de Requires Len Labor





One barrel of Scalecide, which makes 800

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as many trees as three and a half barrels of‘

lime-sulfur, which make 1.600 gallons of

spray. And of course you can apply 800

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Colt. Carbide Light and the Sun

Are Alike to Hens!





NEW YORK State farmer who enjoys the benefits of Colt

Carbide Lighting and cooking in his home installed two Colt

burners in his hen house last November.





In three‘ weeks his egg production

jumped from 10 to 100 eggs per day!



Colt Carbide Gas light is so near zonal sunlight that‘il'. fooled



the hens into working summer hours in winter weather.

. You can have this bright, mellow light—the nearest approach

to sunlight—in every room of your home and in the barns, too,

at a twist of your fingers. You can keep your kitchen cool and

clean by cooking with it. It will enable your Wife to use a self-

heating flat iron. ’ ' *



The Colt Carbide Lighting and Cooking Plant is easy to install,

it is so simple that the hired man or a boy 12 years old can keep

it in operation with but a few minutes attention each month. C0813

Willing to maintain when not in use and is most economical. Colt

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Seventy-eight years old

and still riding his faithful

bicycle on which he has

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By Peter B. Kym





THE VALLEY OF THE GIANTS





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“Well,” Shirley made answer, glad

that he could not see the flush of con

fusion and embarrassment that crime

soned her cheek, “when I came to Se-

quoia last May, your son and I met.

quite accidentally. The stage to Se-

quoia had already gone, and he was

gracious enough to invite me to make

the journey in his car. Then we re-

called having met as children, and

presently I gathered from his conver-

sation that he and his J ohn-partner, as

he called you, were very dear to each

other. I was witness to your meeting

that night—I saw him take you in his

big arms and hold you tight because

you’dagone blind while he was away

having a good time. And you hadn’t

told him! I thought that was brave of

you; and later, when Bryce and Moira

McTavish told me about you—how

kind you were, how you felt your re-

sponsibility toward your employes and

the community—well, I just couldn’t

help a leaning toward John—partner

and John-partner‘s boy, because the

boy was so fine and true to his father’s

ideals.”



“Ah, he’s a man. He is indeed,” old

John. Cardigan murmured proudly. “I

dare say you’ll never get to know him

intimately, but if you should—”



“I know him intimately,” she correct-

ed him. “He saved my life the day.the

log-train ran away. And that was an-

other reason. I owed him a debt, and

so did my uncle; but uncle wouldn’t

pay his share. and I had to pay for

him.”



“Wonderful,” murmured John Cardi-

gan. “wonderful! But still you haven’t

told me why you paid a hundred thou-

sand dollars for the Giants when you

could have bought. them for fifty thou-

sand. You had a woman’s reason, I

dare say, and women always reason

from the heart, never the head. How-

ever, if you do not care to tell me, I

shall not insist. Perhaps I have ap-

peared unduly inquisitive.”



“I would rather not tell you,” she

answered.



A gentle, prescient smile fringed his

old mouth; he wagged his leonine head

as if to say: “Why should I ask, when

I know?" Fell again a restful silence.

‘Then:



“Am I allowed one guess, Miss Shir-

ley Sumner?”



“Yes, but you would never guess the

reason.”



“I am a very wise old man. When

one sits in the dark, one sees much

that was hidden from him in the full

glare of the light. My son is proud,





manly, independent, and the soul of

honor. He needed a hundred thousand‘

dollars; you knew it. Probably your





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loan him some money, but—~you could

not; You feared to offend him by prof-

fering it; had you proffered it, he

would have declined it. So you bought

my Valley of the Giants at a prepos-

terous price and kept your action a

secret.” And he patted her hand gent-

ly, as if to silence and denial, while

far down the skid-road a voice—~a half-

trained baritone-floated faintly to

them through the forest. Somebody was

singing~or rather chanting—~21 singu-

larly tuneless refrain, wild and bar-

baric. ,



“What is that?” Shirley cried.



"That is my son, coming to fetch his

old daddy home,” replied John Cardi-

gan. “That thing he’s howling is an

Indian war-song or ,paen of triumph——

something his nurse taught him when

he wore pinafores. If you’ll excuse me,

Miss Shirley Sumner, I'll leave you

now. I generally contrive to meet him

on the trail.”



He bade her goodbye and_ started

down the trail; his stick tapping

against the old logging-cable stretched

from tree to tree beside the trail and

marking it.



Shirley was tremendously relieved.

She did not wish to meet Bryce Cardi-

gan today and she was distinctly grate-

ful to John Cardigan today for his nice

consideration in sparing her an inter-

view. She seated herself in the lum-

berjack‘s easy-chair so lately yacated,

and chin in hand, gave herself up to

meditation on this extraordinary old

man and his extraordinary son.



A couple of hundred yards down the





trail Bryce met his father. “Hello,

John Cardigan!” he called. “What do

you mean by skallyhooting through

these woods without a pilot? Eh? Ex-





plain your reckless conduct.”



“You great overgrown duffer.” his

father retorted affectionately, Ithought

you’d never come.” He reached into

his pocket for a hagdkerchief, but fail-

ed to find it and 5 :wf'f-‘hed through an-

other pocket and, another. “By

gravy, son,” he remarked presently,

“I do believe I left my silk handker-

chiefm-the one Moira gave me for my

last birthday-~~~up yonder. I wouldn’t

lose that handkerchief for a farm.

Skip along and find it for me, son. I’ll

wait. for you here. Don’t; hurry.”



“I’ll be back in a pig‘s whisper,” his

son replied, and started briskly up the

trail, while his father leaned against

a madronc tree and smiled his presci.

ent little smile. .



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withered brown twigs aroused Shirley

from her reverie.

up, he was standing in the center, of

the little amphitheater gazing at her.



”You—you!” she stammered, and

rose as if to flee from him.



“The governor sent me back to look

for his handkerchief, Shirley," be ex-

plained. "He didn’t tell me you were

here. Guess he didn’t hear you.” He

advanced smilingly toward her. “I’m

tremendously glad to see you today,

Shirley,” he said, and paused beside

her. “Fate has been singularly kind

to me. Indeed, I’ve been pondering all

day as to just how I was to arrange a

private and confidential little chat with

you, without calling upon you at your

uncle’s house.”



“I don’t feel like chatting today,” she

answered a little drearily—and then he

noted her wet lashes. Instantly he

was on one knee beside her; with the

amazing confidence that had always

distinguished him in her eyes, his big

left arm went around her, and when

her hands went to her face, he drew

them gently away.



“I’ve waited too long, Asweatheart,”

he murmured. “Thank. God, I can tell

you at last all the things that have

been accumulating in my heart. I love

you, Shirley. I’ve.loved you from that

first day we met at the station, and all

these months of strife and repression

have merely served to make me 10ve

you the more. Perhaps you have been

all the dearer to me because you seem-

ed so hopelessly unattainable.”



He drew her head down on his

breast; his great hand patted her hot

cheek; his honest brown eyes gazed

earnestly, wistfully into hers. “I love

you,” he whispered. “All that I have

———all.that I am—all that I hope to be

—«I offer to you, Shirley Sumner; and

in the shrine of my heart i shall hold

you sacred while life. shall last. You

are not indifferent to me, dear. I know

you’re not; but tell rue—answer me—~”



Her violet eyes were uplifted to his,

and in them he read the answer to his

cry. “Ah, may I?” he murmured, and

kissed her.



“Oh, my dear, impulsive, gentle big

sweetheart,” she whispered—and then

her arms went around his‘ neck, and

the fullness of her happiness found

vent in tears he did not seek to have

her repress. In the safe haven of his

arms she rested; and there, quite with-

out effort or distress, she managed to

convey to him something more than an

inkling of the thoughts that were wont





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to come to her whenever they met.



“Oh, my love!” he cried- happily, “I

hadn’t dared dream of such happiness

untiltoday. You were so unattainable

——the obstacles between us were so

many, and so great—”



“Why today, Bryce ?” she interrupted

him. . ’ , '



He took her adorable little nose in

his great thumb and forefinger and

tweaked it gently. “The light began

to dawn yesterday, my dear little en-

emy, following an interesting half-hour

which I put. in with his honor the may-

or. Acting upon suspicion only, I told

Pounds-tone I was prepared to send

him to the rock-pile if he didn’t behave

himself in the matter of my permanent

franchise for the N. C. 0.—and the

0in old invertebrate wept and promis-

ed me anything if I wouldn’t disgrace

him. So I promised I wouldn’t do any-

thing until the franchise matter should.

be definitely settled—«after which I re

turned to my office, to find awaiting

me there no less a person than the

right-of—way man for the Northwestern

Pacific. He was a perfectly delightful

young fellow, and had a proposition to

unfold. It seems the Northwestern

Pacific has decided to build up from

Willits, and all that powwow and pub-

licity of Buck Ogilvy’s about the N. C.

O. wasin all probability the very thing

that spurred them to action. They fig~

ured the C. M. & St. P. was back of ‘

the N. C. O.——that it was to be the



first link of a chain of coast roads to

be connected ultimately with the term-

inus of the,C. M. & St. P. on Gray’s

Harbor, Vl’ashington. And if the N.

C. 0. should be built, it meant_that a

rival road would get the edge on them

in the matter of every stick of Hum-

boldt and Del Norte redwood—and

they’d be left holding the sack.” ,



“Why did they think that, dear?”



“That amazing rascal, Buck Ogilvy,

used to be a C. M. & St. P. man; they

thought they traced an analogy, I dare

say. Perhaps Buck fibbed to them. At

any rate, this right-of—way man was

mighty anxious to know whether or

not the N. C. 0. had purchased from

the Cardigan Redwood Lumber Com-

pany a site for 8. terminus on tidewater

(we control all the deep—water front-

age on the Bay), and when I told him

the deal had not yet. been closed, he

started to close one with me.”



“Did you close?”



“My dear girl, will a duck swim? Of

course I closed. I sold three-quarters

of all we had, for three-quarters of a

million dollars, and an hour ago I re—

ceived a.wire from my attorney in San

Francisco informing me that the mon-

ey had been deposited in escrow there

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' for us now, my dear one. And I’m go-

ing right ahead with the building of

the N. C. 0. ——-While our holdings down

on the San Hedrin double in value, for

the reason that within three years

they will be accessible and can be log-

ged over the rails of the Northwestern

Pacific!”



“Bryce,” Shirley declared, “haven’t

I always told you I’d never permit you

to build the N. C. 0.?”



“Of course,” he replied, “but surely

you’re going to withdraw your objec-

tions now.” ,



“I am not. You must choose between

the N. C. 0. and me.” And she met

his surprised gaze unflinchingly.



“Shirley! You don't mean it?”



“I do mean it. I have always meant





it. I love you, dear, but for all that.





you must not build that road.”



He stood up and towered above her

sternly. “I must build it, Shirley. I’ve

contracted to do it, and I must keep

faith with Gregory of the Triniday

Timber Company. He’s putting up the

money, and I’m to do the work and op-

erate the line. I can’t go back on him



7. now."



“Not for my sake?" she pleaded. He

shook his head. “I must go on,” he

reiterated.



“Do you realize what, that resolu-

tion means to us ?” The girl’s tones

were grave, her glance graver.



“I realize what it means to me!”



She came closer to him. Suddenly

the blaze in her violet eyes gave way

to one of mirth. “Oh, you dear big

booby!” she cried. “I was just testing

you.” And she clung to him, laughing.

“You always beat me down-you al‘

ways win. Bryce, dear, I’m the La-

guna Grande Lumber Company—at

least, I will be tomorrow, and I repeat

for the last time that you shall not

build the N. C. ().—because I’m going

to—oh, dear, I shall die laughing at

you—because I’m geing to merge with

the Cardigan Redwood Lumber Com-

pany, and then my railroad shall .be

your railroad, and we’ll extend it and

haul Gregory’s logs to tidewater for

him also. And—silly, didn’t I tell you

you’d never build the N. C. 0.)?”



“Lord bless my mildewed soul!” he

murmured, and drew her to him.



In the gathering dusk they walked

down the trail. Beside the madrone

tree John Cardigan waited patiently.



“Well,” he queried when they joined

him, “did you find my handkerchief

for me, son?”



“I didn’t find your handkerchief,

John Cardigan,” Bryce answered, “but

I did find what I suspect you sent me

back for—and that is a perfectly won

derful daughterdn-law for you.”



John Cardigan smiled and held out

his arms for her. “This,” he said,

the happiest day that I have known

since my boy was born.”





CHAPTER XXXIX.





OLONEL SETH PENNINGTON



was thoroughly crushed. Look



which way he would, the bedev-

illed old rascal could find no loophole

for escape.



“You win, Cardigan,” he muttered

desperately as he sat in his office after

Shirley had left him. “You’ve had more

than a shade in every round thus far,

and at the finish you’ve landed a. clean

knockout. If I had to fight any man

but you—4’



He sighed resignedly and pressed

the push—button on his desk. Sexton

entered. “Sexton,” he said bluntly and

with a slight quiver in his voice, “my

niece and I have had a disagreement.

We have quarreled over young Cardi-

gan. She’s going to marry him.‘ Now, .

our affairs are somewhat involved, and

in order to straighten them out, we

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Redwood Lumber Company—when, I

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tice to seek a new job elsewhere. Call

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on the telephone and ask him to come

to the office at nine o’clock tomorrow,

when the papers can be drawn up and

signed. That is all.”





The Colonel did not return to his

home in Redwood Boulevard that

night. He had no appetite for dinner

and sat broOding in his office until very

late; then he went to the Hotel Se-

quoia and engaged a room. He did not

possess sufl‘icient courage to face his

niece again





At foul o’clock the next day, the

Colonel, his baggage, his automobile,

his chauffeur, and the solemn butler

James, boarded the passenger steamer

for San Francisco, and at founthirty

sailed out of Humboldt Bay over the

thundering bar and on into the south.

The Colonei was still a rich man, but

his dream of a redwood empire had

faded, and once more he was taking

up the search for cheap timber.

Whether he ever found it or not is a.

matter that does not concern us.





At a moment when young 'Henry

Poundstone’s dream of a legal opu-

lence was fading, when Mayor Pound-

stone’s hopes for domestic peace had

been shattered beyond repair, the

while his cheap political aspirations

had been equally devastated because

of a certain damnable document in the

possession of Bryce Cardigan, many

events of importance were transpiring.

0n the veranda of his old-fashioned

home, John Cardigan sat tapping the

floor with his stick and dreaming

dreams which, for the first time in

many years, were rose-tinted. Beside

him Shirley sat, her glance bent mus-

ingly out ac10ss the 1oofs of Sequoia.

and on to the bay sh01e, where the

smoke and exhaust— steam floated up

from two sawmills—her own and Bryce

Cardigan’s. To her came at regularly

spaced intervals the faint whining of

the saws and the rumble of log—trains-

crawling out on the log-dumps; high

over the piles of bright, freshly sawed

lumber she caught from time to time

the flash of white spray as the great

logs tossed from the trucks, hurtled

down the skids, and crashed into the

Bay. At the docks of both mills ves-

sels were loading, their tall spars cuf-

ting the sky—line above and beyond the

smokestacks; far down the Bay a

steam schooner, loaded until her main-

deck was almost flush with the water,

was putting out to sea, and Shirley

heard the faint echo of her siren as

she whistled her intention to paS§ to

starboard of a wind-jammer inward

bound in tow of a Cardigan tug.





“It’s wonde1ful, ” she said presently,

apropos of nothing.





“Aye, ” he 1eplied in his deep, melod-

ious voice, ‘I’ ve been sitting he1e, my

dear, listening toyour thoughts. You

know something, now, of the tie that

binds my boy to Sequoia. This”—he

waved his arm abroad in the darkness

—“this is the true essence of life——to

create, to develop the gifts that God

has given us—to‘work and know the

blessing of weariness—-to have dreams

and see them come true. That is life,

and I have lived. And now I am ready

to rest.” He smiled wistfully. “The

king is dead. Long live the‘king.” I

wonder if you, raised as you have been,

can face life in Sequoia resolutely with

my son. It is a dull, drab sawmill

’ whe1e life unfolds gradually





ahead of one with only trees, among

simple folk. The life may be hard on

you, Shirley; one has to acquire a. taste.

for it, you know. ”



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She laughed softly





plalned.





CHAPTER XL.





EXT day Bryce Cardigan, riding

the top log on the end truck of

a. long train just in from Cardi-

gan's woods in Township Nine, drop~

ped from the end of the log train as

the train crawled through the mill-yard

on its way to the log dump. He hailed

Buck Ogilvy, where the latter stood in

the door of the office.

“Big doings up on Little Laurel

Creek this morning, Buck ”

. “Do tell!” Mr. Ogilvy murmured

morosely.





, “It was great,” Bryce continued. “Old '





Duncan McTavish returned. I knew

he would. His year on the mourner s-

bench expired yesterday, and he came

back to claim his old job of woods-

boss.”



“He’s one year too late,” Ogilvy de-

clared. “I wouldn’t let that big Cana--

dian Jules Rondeau quit for a farm.

Some woods~boss, that—and his first

job with this company was the dirtiest-

you could hand him—~smearing grease

on the skid-road at a dollar and a. haltr

a day and found. He’s made too good.

to lose out now. I don’t care what his

private morals may be. He can get;

out the logs, hang his rascally hider

and I'm for him."



“I’m afraid you haven’t anything to

say about it, Buck,” Bryce

dryly. -



“I haven’t, eh? Well, any time you.

deny me the privilege of hiring and

firing, you’re going to be out the Caer-

vice of a rattling good general mana-

ger, my son. Yes, sir! ‘ If you hold me

responsible for results, I must select

the tools I want towork with.”



“Oh, very well, ” Bryce laughed.

“Have it your own way. Only if you

can drive Duncan McTavish out of Car-

digan’ s woods, I’d like to see you do it.

Possession is nine points of the law,

Buck—and old Duncan is in posses-

sion.”



“What do you mean—in possession ?"



“I mean that at ten o’clock this

morning Duncan McTavish appeared





at our log—landing. The whisky-fat was ,





all gone from him, and he appeared

forty years old instead of the sixty he

is. .With a whoop he came jumping

over the logs, straight for‘Jules Ron—

deau. The big Canuck saw him com-

ing and knew what his visit portended

——so he wasn’t taken unawares. It was

a case of fight for his job and—Ron-

deau fought.” e



“The devil you say!"



“I do—and there was the devil to

pay

no grips barred—just the kind of fight

Rondeau likes Neve1 theless old Dun-

can floored him. While he’s been away

somebody taught him the hammer-lock

and the crotch-hold and a. few more

fancy ones, and he got to work on Ron-

deau in a hurry. In fact, he had to,

for if the tussle had gone over five





minutes Rondeau’s youth would have‘





decided the issue.”



“And Rondeau was whipped?”



“To a whisper. Mac floreod him,

climbed him, and choked him until he

beat the ground with his free hand in

token of surrender; whereupon 'old

Duncan let him up, and Rondeau Went

to his shanty and packed his turkey.

The last I saw of him he was headed

over the hill to Camp Two on Laguna.

Grande. He’ll probably chase that -

sistant woods- boss I hired after the





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John Cardigan was seated in his “Good- -bye,

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preached. His hat lay on the litte1 of light at last We’ll 8,0 home together _.

brown twigs beside him; his chin was now but we’ll come back again” ‘

sunk on his breast, and his head was And with his fathers hfidy in his

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leonine old head and gazed into his ages

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8011," he whispered “800d 3011'" He great branches two hundred feet above,

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the mere effort of holding them open ly the sunlight fell hhé a broad gol-

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boy—waiting—” descendant, perhaps of the gray squirel

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del; his hand Went groping fo1Bryce’s. pockets of pine- -nuts twenty years he-

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hear it——the Silence? I’ll wait for you “He was a giant among men " said

here, my son. Mother and I will wait Bryce p1 esently “What a. fitting piece

together now—in this spot she fancied. for him to lie!” He passed his arm

I’m tired—I want rest. Look afte1 old alound his wife’s shoulders and drew

Mack and Mona—and Bill Dandy, who her to him. “You made it possible,

lost his leg at Camp Seven last fall— sweetheart” ‘

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all the others, son. You know, B1yce. And plesently they left the Valley of

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RIMITICE DAY, 1920, is very

A different from the first armistice

day, 1918.





optimism can deny that Europe at this

time is very sick. ‘Europe is a seeth-

ing cauldron of suspicions, jealouSEs,

and. hati eds ” An American army oili-

cer in Buda Pesth says that all the

governments of that pait of Europe

are expecting hostilities to break out

and are quietly getting ready for them.

England has scarcely had a. peaceful





Then the world’s joy

knew no bounds. People were delir—

iouswith happiness. The Great War

was over. But today we have come

down off‘the mountain of delight. We

arelplodding over the old earthy earth

in a very commonplace way. To quote





a certain writer and say we have been day since the‘armistice began. It has

disillusioned, is to put it abOut right. been one long strike, or threat of

The transformation of earth into heav- strike, after another, with immense





dissatisfaction expressed with the

present government. Field Marshal



Sir H. Wilson says that England did

notenter the war on account‘of the

moral aims which were-so freely ad-

vertised, but “to save ou1 skins. ” The

Australian traveler 1eports that an or-



gy of gambling and extravagance have

passed over that land. Mr. Filene, the ._

head of a. laige' retail store in Boston,

has just returned from Europe, where

he spent several months; He talked

with all classes and conditions of men

—-professional men, labor leaders, big

business men, and government offi-

cials. He says: “Nothing but a birth ‘

of goodwill can save Europe. Our new

political machinery, our leaguesof na-

tions, our international court can help,

but it is only by getting good-will Into ‘7'

the hearts of the people that Europe ' '

can be saved, from revolutions Worse

than war and utter collapse ”- The fact





en, we are finding, cannot be done by.

lightning methods.



Now, people don’t like a gloomy

preacher. At the same time a frothy,

preacher is about as bad. While the

“Reverend Sorrowful Glo‘om” may not

be in demand, his half‘brother, the

Reverend I. B. Shallow, is not over-

burdened with engagements. 'In other

words, While it may seem a dark pic-

ture at the present time, we muSt face

issues as they are. Facts are stubborn

things, and we must not blink them.

If we do, they will arise and smite us.

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HIS summer there have been three

American clergymen traveling in

different parts 'of the. world, one in

England, one 'on the continent and one

in Australia. These men are experi-

enced travelers and acute observers.

They have been in journalistic Werk that looms blackest on the horizon

for years. They all tell the same story. hate Everybody over there is i '

Wherever they '80, it is a. tale of dis- somebOdy. Germans h'te itif' '

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‘ peace expendture is not to be less than

six thousand million dollars annually.

That is 'six' times what it was before

the‘ war. It is equal to paying out a

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years. And we are in the best condi-





tion financially of any of the warring

nations.





UT there is another side to it.



There is good in the world, as well

as evil. During the past summer a

great conference was held in Switzer-

land of all the Protestant bodies of

America and Britain, all the Protest-

ant bodies of the European countries,

and in addition representatives of the

Greek and Russian Orthodox church

werethere, said to have a constitu-

ency of one hundred and thirty ‘mil-

Iions of people. No such meeting has

ever been held, and it was the purpose

of getting a common viewpoint, and

sharing a common cause. Then, there

is the work of the German League of:

Nations Society, which aims to teach

children to believe in peace as in the

past they were taught to believe in

war. The very fact that the League

of Nations idea‘is an old one, is en—

couraging. The .“Save the Children”

movement shows that many people are

forgetting the past, or are trying to,

and are holding out the helping hand

to those whom they were recently

fighting.



Now, what are the religious aspects

of this state of things? Answer: The

whole matter is religious. If religion,

it good-will cannot be imported into

the questions that vex the nations,

there is naught ahead Tint trouble.

Nothing but religion will afford help.

The, beivildered times teach us, too,

that patience is a virtue that must be

learned and practiced. You cannot in-

troduce the kingdom of God by the

methods of the efficiency expert. It

consumes time and faith and sacrifice

and, it may be, tears and death.





In an hour as serious as the present

’it is evident that we require a big

God. And such a God we have. There

are some vital things to be said con—

‘cerning the method of bringing in a

better day, which can be taken up at

another time.





Sunshine Hollow Items

By Rube Rubicon





When some Sunshine Hollow folks

get their picture taken they always

look sort of sad and say they don’t

think‘ it is very good. This is done so

they will seem modest. But it seems

kind of conceited not to like what the

photographer has done when he has

done his best with the material. When

folks get their picture taken and it

don’t look like them they sometimes

think it is a fine picture. When it

looks like them they are sore. But

Porter Greenwood says what’s the use

of getting a picture taken by a photo-

grapher that can’t make a feller look



better than he really does.





Timothy McCann came home very

discouraged and hung himself to the

bed post. The jury decided that Tim-

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way and probably did it just to make

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Real estate folks say the Mcbann

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HAVE always felt the deepest sym-



pathy for over-worked women, but



of late I am coming of the opinion

that much of my sympathy has been

wasted. Not that the over-worked wom-'

an doesn’t exist, but that in all too

many cases she need not be overwork-

ed if she didn’t enjoy it.



In fact, I am forced to the reluctant

conclusion! that a large number of

women enjoy the martyr role. They’d

rather be miserable than to have a.

good time, and they go out of their

way to hunt up something to do, so

they can groan about it to friend hus-

band, and outdo the stories of woe re-

lated by friends»and neighbors.





Now, mark me, I am not denying

that some women are actually called

upon to do work beyond their strength.

There are all too many of these. But

side by side with them are women

who need not do half the things they

are doing. And it is usually the class

which makes all the fuss. The really

over-worked woman keeps on grinding

and says nothing. She hasn’t time to

complain.





Just the other day a case came up

which shows ‘how some women over-

do. It was in a farm home Where the

children are married and gone, and

father and mother live on alone. Fath-

er has sensibly let the land, all but a

garden patch, and takes things easy,

to suit his years. Mother still thinks

she must dig and delve from five in the

morning until eight at night. This is

what happened a. short time ago. A

married daughter, thinking to make

mother’s lot easier, came home on

Monday and cleaned the house from

top to bottom, swept, dusted, scrubbed

kitchen and cellar stairs, and left ev-

erything in apple pie order. On Wed-

nesday, after a lapse of exactly twen-

ty—four hours, mother repeated the op-

eration. Not the slightest use of it,

the house was clean.





Of course this is an exceptional case,

and might be laid to the score of child-

ishness in an old woman. But old

women are the natural result of their

habits as younger women. Our old age

is merely the outcome of all our pre-

vious years. If this woman had not

always been doing unnecessary things,

she would not in her old age.





Then there is a young woman, who

is even more foolish. She has not been

well for weeks. Two months ago she

went to a physician who found a weak

heart, and not only advised, but com-

manded .rest. She came home and

started house cleaning, carried’ mat-





, tresses down stairs, beat rugs, washed





woodwork and windows, all work too

heavy for any woman but the strong-

est. Her plea was that if she should

drop dead some day she wanted to be

found in a clean house.





These things may seem rare and





day, because “everybody does it." Why





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exceptional, but they are not so excep~ .

tional as one would think. Scores of.

women do unnecessary things every





dry dishes, when scalding ,water is '

easy 'to get, and more sanitary than





Turkish towels, face cloths, stockings”? 3





after irons. Why pick up after chil-

dren, when they can be trained to ‘pick

up as soon as they can toddle?



How many women with good-sized

girls and boys do every bit of their

work, because they’d rather do it than

be bothered teaching children? Or be-

cause they think the children ought to

play all the time? Why should a girl





‘of twelve, or even of eight, do nothing





but go to school and play? She should

not be made a. drudge, she needs fun,

and plenty of it. But it wouldn’t hurt

her to dust the living-room, or clear

the table, or dry the silver. And she’d

like nothing better than to be allowed

to make a cake. If the mother gains

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rest isbetter than no rest. _ .

In the matter of cooking, how many





women make slaves of themselves?"





What family needs two kinds of cook-

ies, or cookies and doughnuts at one

meal? And why cookies and cake and

pie? The family health would be bet-

ter for plenty of fresh vegetables and

fruit and only one baked sweet. And

the mother would have less to do.





There is plenty for women with fam-

ilies to do, if they do only the neces-

sary. Fortunately the modern. woman

is coming to distinguish between ‘nec—

essities and frills in work, but all too

many still cling to the frills. If you

are one of that sort, don’t complain of

working too hard. - DEBORAH.





Fall Fabrics and Modes





. ‘EXT to the problem of what

N shall We eat, what shall we wear

occupies the waking thoughts of



the normal woman. A careful look

about the stores does not show any

of that promised drop in prices, so far

as women’s garments are concerned.

To be sure, you can buy cheap suits

and coats, but they are cheap in qual-

ity as well as in price. The fact re-





mains that if you want good material

and workmanship, the prices are no

lower this year than last. _





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 

 

 

 

 





 





 

 

 

 





 

 





As to color, brown is strong, a. choc:-

olate brown having high favor. Then

there is a. new deep rich green, called

by some pine needle green, blues——

midnight and Pekin——gray and all our

old standard celors, some in their own

name, some masquerading under new.



Soft velvety fabrics, peachbloom,

duvetyn, bolivia and velours, are chos-

en for coats, suits and even some dress-

es. Coats are not so much different

from last season’s. They are loose,

shawl collared, and belted. The chief

difference is in the position of the-

belt.-- This season the waist line is low,

so the belt must be placed down. Of-

ten they are buckled with metal buck:

les the color of the coat. String belts

an inch in width go twice around the

waist and tie. ‘





Suits are distinguished by long,

straightlined coats, with the low waist-

line. High choker collars are good, of

self material or of fur. Buttons match

the color of the suits, and are often in

groups of three or four. The same

soft materials which make the coats,

are used in suits.





Of blouses, the style is legion. There

are ~over-blouses, and ’blouses which

end at the waistline and are confined

by girdles, Russian blouses and sur-

pliCe blouses. For the most “part the

sleeves ' are short or three-quarter,

though occasionally there 'is one with

long sleeves. There are round? necks,





square necks and V—necks, necks with . '





collars and necks without. Of course,

there is embroidery. And there are

blouses of‘plain georgette, and figured

georgette, blouses with velvet bodies





and georgette sleeves. You are pretty ‘





safe in choosing anything becoming.



The new hats are a. little larger than

last season. The small turban Which

has had a long lease of life is on the





,wane. >There are velvet hats with





wide brims or turned up brims, hats

swathed in feathers or with agsiinploi

band of ribbon. according to the us

you are to make of it. Embroidery,

gold~ thread or‘of riotous colors is

good in mfllineryras on garments.



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HE school nurse in one Missouri

town weighed and measured all

the children in the first four grades,

finding only fifteen pe1 cent of them

normal. Of the eighteen hundred chil-

dren, f01ty- eight pe1 cent, or eight hun-

dred and sixty foul Weie ten per cent

or more below normal. Following this

work the nutrition specialist from the

university talked to the mothers about

food for children. ’

fIn order to reach other mothers and

convince them of the value of milk in

the diet for children, the home demon-

.stration agent acting under the direc-

tion of the specialist secured the co-

operation of the teachers to carry out

an experiment, using fifteen children

who were decidedly underweight, for

the purpose. The teachers agreed to

see. that each of the fifteen children

should have a half-pint of milk at each

recess, and to weigh and measure each

child once a week.



The agent also found a dairyman

who would deliver the milk at school

each school day, the children going to

the home of the school nurse on Satur-

day and Sunday. A local newspaper

explained the object of the demonstra-

tion and sol'iCited funds to carry it out.

This brought a contribution of $50

from the Rotary Club and $17 by pri-

vate subscription.



The mothers of the children to be

used must be seen and their sanction

and cooperation secured for the proj-

ect. This was donb by the school

nurse and 'home demonstration agent.

The visits to the home gave insight

into the home life and enabled them

to understand conditions. ‘



At the completion of the experiment

Which was carried on for six weeks, it

was found that each child had gained

from one-half to five pounds. A father

who had said before the experiment

was started that he was in favor of it,

if it would make his little son fat,

made a trip to school to report how

pleased he was because his boy had

gained four and a half pounds in spite

of being sick a part of the time, during

which period the milk was carried to

him. A new class that purchase the

milk used has been formed, and this

boy’s father gladly pays for milk used

by the child.



The principal reports that the attend-

ance was more regular and the work

better; and that milk drinking has be-

come quite popular, not only among

the children but the teachers, too. The

dairyman does a thriving business at

the school.





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American Red Cross will be held

from November 11, Armistice Day, to

Thanksgiving Day, November 25. No

specific sum is fixed to be raised with-

in this period. The roll call is not a

drive. Just as its name implies, it is

the mustering of all who joined forces

last year with the Greatest Mother in

the World, in the common cause of

humanity. Your name and your dollar,

pledged again in her service, means

that you will be among those recruited

in the great health crusade of the Red

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ITH the organization of the

‘Junior Guernsey Breeders’ As-

sociation of Gogebic county in

the spring of 1920, an interest was

kindled in a. goodly number of the

young fellows on the farms for the pos-

session of something they could call

their own. Ten boys from various sec-

tions of the county came together in

the office of County Agent Gunderson

upon receiving letters asking them if

they would be interested in the organ-

ization of a pure-bred live stock asso-

ciation. The subject was discussed

pro and con and the‘boys decided to

get together. Shortly thereafter, sev-

eral of these boys became owners of

pure-bred heifers from some of the

highest milk producers in the state of

Wisconsin.



At the time of the organization of

the cow-testing association in this

county by Mr. J. A. Waldron, live stock

judging demonstrations were held in

various communities. These boys have

evinced their keen interest by attend-

ing all such meetings. About thhe mid-

dle of July, Mr. A. G. Kettunen, Assist-

ant State Club Leader, urged that the

boys form a live stock judging team to





compete with the boys’ live stock judge

ing teams at the Upper Peninsula

Farmers’ Round-up, held at Chatham,

Michigan, August 12. The original in

tention was that a judging team would

be trained for the’ contest out of which

three would be chosen to represent

them at the round-up. Clarence Fred-

erickson, the president of the organi-

zation, Luther Olson, vice—president,

Leonard Nylund, secretary, and Onnie

Kangas, treasurer, started training un-

der the direction of the county agent.

About this time, unfortunately, an in-

jury to one of the ambitious boys, On-

nie Kangas, prevented his continuing

in training, so two other boys, Carl

Johnson and Walter Johnson attend-

ed the training school which was held

on various farms throughout the coun-

ty. Most of their time was spent in

judging Guernsey and Holstein cattle.

The boys met on the farms of Henry

Nylund, Charles J. Olson, of Ironwood

township, and L. J. Anderson, of Bes-

semer township. Some attention was

given to the judging of sheep and hogs.

Keen interest was manifested by the





' boys for the contest at the round-up at





Chatham, The boys felt sure from

time to time of their ability as judges

and were becOming more eager daily

to pit their combined Judgment against





 





 





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peninsula. Considerable difficulty was

foundat the. close in arranginggfor the

automobile trip to the experiment sta-

tion for the boys, but their earnestness

and their eager desire t?) attend and





take part-in the big contest so appeal-

ed. to the county agent that he desired

to take the boys in his car in prefer.

ence to several of the farmers, who for

a long time had plannedto attend with

him. Just before starting, it was found

that the club president. Clarence Fr'ed-

erickson, would be unable to attend

because of an important position which

he. had recently accepted, so the three

boys to go were Leonard Nylund, Carl

Johnson and Luther Olson. The trip

in itself was a. great treat to the boys

and of no little educational value as

they were keenly observing of farm

conditions along the entire route. Upon

arriving at. Chatham, they were taken

in, charge by\ the assistant state club,

leader, Mr. A. G. Kettunen. The en-’

campment of one hundred boys on the





banks of the beautiful river coursing "





through the experiment farm was thor-

oughly enjoyed by all the boys and

was in itself well worth the work and





trip. The huge bonfires at night and





 





Left to Right the Boys Are: Leonard Nylund, Luther Olsen,v¢arl Johnson.





the stories told around them by the





club leaders will not soon be forgotten. '





The climax of it all came on the last

day of their stay at the experiment

farm, when the boys took part in the

big contest for which they had pre.

pared. Three groups of boys judged





alternately the cattle, sheep and hogs. ' -

and when, in the afternoon it was on V





nounced by Superintendent‘D. L. Mc-

Millan at the public speaking stand in

the grove, that the boys of Gogebic

county had won out over the club beys

of nine other counties competing in

the contest, they were dialled en the

platform in order that the assembled





farmers might see the winners, their





joy was unbounded. _ g .



In addition to having thus highly

honored themselves and their county,

one of the boys, Carl Johnson, for scor-

ing the highest number of points in

the entire live stock judging contest,

received as his prize a pure-bred Hol-

stein heifer, the great-granddaughter

of Duchess Skylark Ormsby. one of the

highest producing cows of her'breed.

The boys are, jubilant over their vice





tO‘rY’ and their interest in producing-





better stock upon the home terms is;

doubly increased. \ '





. Upon leaving for Detroit, the boy;





were joined by Fred Olson,efBess

met. another club to whom saloon





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a trip to the-state fair because of

his Scholarship in agricultural matters.

There boys from five districts in the

state of Michigan assembled to engage

in the contest. Numbers were given,

no names being known. The live stock

to be judged were Holsteins, Short-

horns, Duroc hogs and Shropshire

sheep. Carl Johnson, of the Gogebic

County Live Stock Judging Team, was

high man with six hundred and three

points to his credit. For this splendid

achievement, Mr. Johnson receives a

free-trip to the International Live

Stock Show to be held in Chicago No-

vember 27 to December 4.





 





 





Starting with Pure—bred Stock

[iv Walter E. Ball, One of tlm Michigan Boy!

Who [Von a Trip to the National Dairy

Show at Chicago.



ANY young people are starting

1" with pure-bred live stock today.



The greater number of the young

people get their start through the aid

of live stock clubs, backed by banks

of the vicinity.



Some young people are starting with

pure-breds without the aid of clubs,

but where there are no clubs the ma-

jority of young people start with

grade animals.



A club in these neighborhoods would

start the young breeders with profit-

able pure-breds instead of unprofitable

grades.



The grade animals more often prove

money-losers instead of profitable indi-

viduals. The cost of pure-breds often

makes the beginner wait longer than

he Would if grades were bought. But

which is better: to start with, a grade

dairy cow costing $75, and who barely

pays her way, or a pure-bred costing





3400 and making a net profit each year





of from $75 to $200; or to start with

a grade sow whose litter must be sold

on the market at grade prices and

whose feed costs more than their val-

ue, or a pure-bred whose pigs can be

sold as breeding stock at weaning time

at a large profit, or fed for the market

with a profitable gain.



The young breeder who started with

the $400 pure-bred can have a very

profitable herd built up in a few years,





while the boy starting with the $75.





grade has a herd whose loss equals

the gain.



With pure-breds improvement in the

herd can be made by keeping only the

most profitable animals of most desir-

able form or conformation. ‘With pure-

breds the young breeder can Work to—

ward the ideals shown by the animals,

of his respective breed, that are the

leading animals in the show ring and

who have the best records of produc-

tion.



The young breeder who has the

grades can also build up his herd but





he can never reach the standards pos





sessed by the pure—breds who have

been improved since the starting of

the breed.



The young breeder who owns the

pure-breds will join the association of

his respective breed. He will there

come in contact with his fellow breed-

ers. There will be discussions of live

stock questions, and many hints and

suggestions will be given. He will

likely look over the herds of his fellow-

breeders and find out how the other

fellow does things.



And in cooperation with his fellow

breeders he will become more widely

known and will have a better sale for

his surplus stock. If he shows his best

stock in the local or state fair he will

come to be known as one of the enter-





prising men of the country, who de-





votes his time to the profitable side of

agriculture and who has advanced





evie’lvs. on farming.





Pure-breds Cost more on the start,





but if one is a good caretaker, and does

this best ”for the bettering of his breed.

:he will ,be ahead. or , the , renew who





 





   

 

 





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Increased Milk and Bee Production

Lowest Possible Feeding Cost





Bigger Farm Profits





Being convinced, they are urging farmers to get silos.

Our banker friends—the real IIVe wires-30 one better.

They not only advise, but actually help farmers





get silos,





They said to us. "Your Champion Silo is

without doubt the biggest silo value in

Now, pick 200

farmers, form them into a club and we





the world for the money.





will help them get Champion Silos."





"Make them the lowost pocslblo price—git

themwfrour existent terms and we will our them.

e 11 finance the feeding operations 0 these

00 year or moth-so their

pay for themselves with-

ank Accounts or attesting





farmers for a.





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Bankers Help Farmers Gel Silos ’





t’o been a long, hard pull. but the result was worth the ef-

fort because progressive, cleanthlnking, far-seeing bankera

are now thoroughly convinced that silos are a means of





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fairest, squarest, easiest silo prop-

ositlon ever offered.



To get Iii—means act

quickly. Time is short .

and membership

is limited

to 200.





 

 

 

 





, You,

Get the Benefit

oi the Lowest Prices ,





Each and every member of the

200 club gets lowest possible prices.

also a written contract that. if any

further reductions of our primes are

made between now and September

1, 1921. all membcrs get the bene-

fit of such reductions.





AGENTS WANTED





It you haVe any spare time and

your territory is open we have a.

good proposition to make you sell-

ing Champion Silos, the most

practical, most economical, easi-

est and best selling silo on the

market. Write us today. -





THE E. W. ROSS 00.

Box 21

Springfield, Ohio





 

 

 

 

 





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Built the New Way





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inexpensive silo that meets all require-

ments, and sells at a price far below

what you would pay for the so-called

permanent types.





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Flt-st of all, this silo is constructed of the

best, most satisfactory silo material known. It’s

made permanent by the latest. process of .01!

filling—the heat and pressure method. winch

all authorities, also U. S. government experts.

say makes it proof against wind or weather.



Thls material is then planted or rooted into

the concrete foundation about four feet oelo

surface of ground and the foundation we

to the earth. This-type of construction. used

onl on Chum ion Silos.



9 next lg feature is the interlockint

anchoring system—~21 sys m at cables that

cuss-cross clear around the silt) and fasten into

- concrete baseand at. top of 3110 through heavy



‘ channel steel inside hoop and heavy outside hoop.



Those .three features form one solid unit of

construction from bottom of foundation to top

and make a. 810 that can’t blow over, cant

crumble or cure . cant twist or creep. Never

needs painting.





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Mail This Coupon NOW

E. W. Ross 00. 200 Club.

ox 214, Springfield, Ohio



Gentlemen: I'cxpeci’. to be in the market

soon for a silo, size. . , . . . . ...... and wool

like to have full particulars about your 20

Club—how I can save money on a. Champion

' Silo by joining it: also details as to terms and

benefits, particularly. as to Banker Plan oi

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hel ing me got a 5110. _ ,

lso send catalog—dBlue Prints and Feeding

Reports free of charge.





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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.





 





 





W. E. SCRIPPS. Prop”





w A N T E D to purchase one toten High



,1 _ Grade Guernsey heifers



that have freshened since Septemeber first or are to



when her Sfiat. Tuberculln tested and

meahtM‘fIbO '





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tom contagious Bbbl’tloh. Adams





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W000COTE ANGUS





Imported Herd Bulls

ELCHO OF IIAI’..\'IES'I‘0(’N (45547)





by Jason of Balliudnlloch (38048)

EDUARDO OI“ llALMENY 454' l

by Escort of Hzli‘viestoun (Ml) )

“'oodt'ote Stock Farm. Innia. Mich.





 





 





E. A. BLACK. cute 3.





FOR SALE “$3.12“L“l..‘.§"3$.‘i'3§2:"“9””-





Howard City, Mich.





 





Guernsey Bull Fm», 2nd. 1920. Sire





. II. cm.





Kings Emlla of Erin Claire on A _ r,

Eau Claire. \ ic





E. J. SMALLIDG E,





liusto of Smallidae Farm, born

Bennie of





the Ridge, .whn's dam 'I'rixey l’ the Ridge holds

first. place lln class lCIll. in \ iciimln. Grandllam

Abbie of IIlVfil'rlldB Is champion of Mil-h. Dam May





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bred Guernsey hulls from one to I’nuru‘oeks l

PING Registered 83”. not registered 5'35, (mun-5.3;,

8:3“ in rotation received





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AL’l‘Elt PHII’PS FARM. ”alxil‘il‘igti-x §E."iii.;£:tiicl





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UEltNSEYS—Federal Inspected. Headed by on

Class, 5 bull's under 10 mos.. I a (I; ndy whose dam





class!) has given over a301bs.mllk

G. VI. & H. G. AY. 4 ml. east of Albion. Mich.





non of Carrie of Hillhurst. exchamninn of A. A-





0 females to spare,





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T v. nicks. Battle Creek. Mich.





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8 Registered Guernsey's

glee gagingl‘i‘scx'lg‘rull (100%) satisfaction for $100.





50. .

J; M. WILLIAl‘Wfi. North Adams. Mich.





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What a Purebred Holstein

Sire will Do when Bred

to Scrubs





Resume of eight years’ experiment

at Iowa Agricultural College:



“The average of all the records made

by first generation heifers, sired b\' a

Purebred Holstein Sire, shows au'in—

crease of 2314.5 lbs. milk or 71 per cent

in milk, and 67.15 lbs. fat, or 42 per cent

in fat, at an average age of 35 years

over the record of their scrub dams at

an average of 6 years.”





Send for free illustrated booklets.





THE HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION

164 Hudson Street

Brattleboro Vermont.





 





 





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G U E R N 8 BY 5 BULL Will‘s: Long Distance HERD-swig



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"chse U3!" v FARM} SI‘HI‘W‘ (“‘8' MRI. Fl\_0 da‘ms 1". 1186 “)6. butter and 24771 “)3 milk In

_ 4 .. u... m... , - lyr. Du is all sold. Stageiaxfirfigg eaal SI pr.



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Chenefioquo Genwobd kl “ to ll ' .I' 0 ‘ ems or no. "if. i‘ v I"



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our feed, makin it

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humming; 33 giaallofi





teurized and sterilized, ‘ ,1 //

modified Buttermilk. I is guaranteed not tocom.

tain any sulphuric acid or anything of an immune





market in less time. _

can save fully one third

possible to feed every





Milkoline has a base of





nature to hogs or poultry.

. .

Aids Digestion : 33:31::





cessful hog raisers from New York to Cali-

fornia during the past seven years have proved .

that Milkoline helps and assists. digestion. ,

tending to insure perfect assiimlation of feed.

It helps tone up the system so that hogs are

less subject to disease. and call! insures

gains of 2% pounds per h perday.





University Tested fifi‘fil’;





while Ass't. Prof. of Dairy Husbandry at

Missouri University conducteda scientific test

on Milkoline and found that Milkohne fed hogs

put on more Weight and showed _82.577¢ more

profit hogs not fed Milkolme. W. .

Graham a successful feeder of Middletown.

Mo.. said $30 worth of Milkoline made him an

extra profitof $420. LeeJackson of Wappingers

Falls. N. Y.. says Milkcline fixed up a bunch of

shoots in fine style and is great for brood sows.





9 ’ . Milkolinelsguaran-

can t spa". teednottorot. soul:

or mould. It will keep indefinitely in any

climate. Flies do not came near it. It is

always un’form, and is guarant to



you money or it doesn’t cost you 1111me





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SCHWARTZ BROS.,





 





 





 





 

 





 

 

 

 





   





““ ‘ ‘ M ilk oli ne



2 o a Gallon m. ,, we



danced to and you do thedilu ' on your



mini; fern? maim- kol“aine to 60 arts wag

m one 2c a gallon. Egill f





kc and barrels which we supply free.

ri‘gcses are as follows: 6 gal. $7.50: 10gal.

12.50: 15 gal. $16.50: ”Who: 55gal.

$19.50. Itnmtobuyln be_ _

yousavefiOcagaLoverthefiganuannties.





30 - Day Guaranteed

on are safe in ordering any

Tr'a'o qYuantity of Milkoline' today.

Fwd one half the shipment to your and

poultry in a thirty d test. then you

aren't entirely satisfi return the unused

part tons at our expense and we'll immedi-

ately refund every cent you. said up. We

are soconfident that you Will nd Milkoline

the best money maker on the farm that the

S. W. Boulevard Bank of Kansas City snb-_

gmiétiates this ogiffer. Yogharek'thgosole Judge.

en mone er. or ec us orour

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Our booklet. “How to Hustle eavy Hogs to





 





Market" will be sent free on reducer-yum.-

name on a card will do.





Saginaw, Mich.





 





 





NOTICE





The Winwood Herd





on Nov. lst will move their Herd of

Pure Blood Holsteins to their new

home, 1} miles south of Rochester,Mich.

and for the next 30 days we will sell

what bull calves we have cheap as we

will be unable to get our buildings com-

plete before winter. So get busy if you

want a son of Flint Maplecrest Boy

at your own price.





JOHN H. WINN, (lnc.)





Roscommon, Michigan





OUR HERD SIRE

Model King Segis Glista





By a 30 lb. son of Lakeside King Segis Alban De Kol.

His dam Glista Feiielle 32.37 lbs. Her dam Glista Er.

nestine 33.96 lbs. His three nearest dams average over

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

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

ces on his sons.





Grand River Stock Farms

Cory J. Spencer, Owner Eaton Rapids. Mich.





The Traverse Herd





“’0 have what you want in BULL CALVES, the large.

fine growthy type, guaranteed right. in every way.

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

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

quotations. stating about age desired.





TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL





Traverse City, Mich. '





Superior Holsteins





Bulls all sold but are now booking orders for our

expected fall crop of





Bull Calves

sired by my new herd bull. a grandson 0f

May Echo Sylvia





My sire’s two nearest dams average over 35 lbs-

buttcr and 800 pounds milk in seven dayS.





A. W. COPLAND

Birmingham, Mich.

Herd under state and federal supervision





Holsteins of Quality





forsale. Heifers from S to}?! milints old. All regis.

and sold subject to in )ercu in test.

“red E. A. HARDY. Rochester, Mich





 





 





 





 





- Friesian heifer and bull calves. purebred

"OISleln registered and high-grade. _Price 83) up.

Splendid individuals and breeding. Write us your re.

quirements. Browncroft Farms. McGraw, N. Y





 





“Top Notch”

HOLSTEINS





Buy a “milk" Bull of Quality from the Breeders

of the world’s only cow to produce 800 lbs. milk

in 7 days. having an 800 lb. daughter.



Bull advertised last week was bought quickly

by an Allegan Cognty Dalrvman.



Here‘s another Top Notoher" z-j .



King Colantha Genieve Pietertie.

No. 272177, Born Feb. 3, 1919.

~ Site’s dam a 30 lb. cow with a 31 lb. daughter,

who has a 31 lb. 4 yr. old daughter.

”Dani's iecord :—Butter 7 days 23.26 lbs.at 4 rs.

Dain's site's three nearest dams-average .87





lbs. butter in 7 days. Color: about b If and, half.

L _.i .2 9 Fri .150





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An Inlroduclion





Mr. Dairy Farmer, Mr, Holslein Brecdor Merl

Kills Fillll





ALL THREE are working to a common purpose—to in-

crease the production of Michigan Dairy herds.



\Vc believe all three should work together.



We feel sure that no Michigan bull has ever been better

equipped for the work.



We have it on high authority that there are none better

individually.



His (hrce nearest dams each iii/crazed to produce 1001bs.

bum-r and 2100 lbs. milk per month for a full lactation pct-

iod with an average of 3.8% fat.



His dam is one of Michigan’s greatest family-three full

sisters that have produced over 30 lbs. butter in scvcn'days.

two of them producing over 700 lbs. milk. and two of them

producing more than 1000 lbs..buttcr and 21000 ‘lbs. milk in

ten months.



His sire is the direct descendant of three were-

tions of 30 lb. cows and two generations of ‘ lb.

yearly record cows.



His first three sisters to enter year] test will each

produce more than 800 lbs. butter an 17000 lbs. milk

as heifers.





Lei King Fllnl Help You Improve Your Herd Through

One Of His Sons ' .





A son of this.great young sire suited to head any

herd in biichigan. grade or purebred, can be secured

in Genesee County and we want them all to stay in

Mirhignn.



Write us about your herd. tell us what you need and

what you feel you can allord to pay and let us help

you find just what you want in Genesee County, the

center of Michigan's long distance dairy cattle.





Genrida Farm Elmcrosi Stock Farm





Waller T. llill G. l. Spillane in. Son 09.

Davison, Mich. tllo, lllch. '





 





accepted in payment of finely bred reg-

‘ Good “Ole istered Holstein bull calves. Quality

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

6100. D. o’LAiiKE. . - . . Vassar. Mich.





Hatch Herd





 





Ypsilanti, Mich.





(In Government Accredited list) offers young reg-

istered sons from 34 lb. King Korndyke Sadie

Vale bull for $150 to $250.





cluflny Stock Farm





Offers the best selection of young bulls from 8 to

12 months we ever raised; out of dams up to 29.76

for aged cows and over 26 lbs. for 2 yr. olds.

Yearly records up to 24000 lbs. milk and 1000 lbs,

butter. Sired by our Senior Herd Sire, Maple-

crest Application Pontiac. whose dam made 35

lbs. butter in 7 days and 1344 lbs. butter and

23421 lbs. milk in a year. or by Dutchla'iid Kon-

igen Sir Rag Apple. our Junior Herd sire, whose

dam is a. 30 lb. 10 yr. old maternal sister of Dutchland

Colantha Denver who made 36 lbs. in 7 days and 1315

lbs. butter and 25431 lbs. milk in 1 year. Several carry

the blood of both these sires.



They are extra well grown. straight and right. One

of these at the head of your herd is bound to increase

production. ,



Send for pedigrees and prices. .





H. Bruce McPherson, Howell. Mich





:75 gets 6 weeks old gdson of Maple Great KoruJ‘Iengg



and Flint Hang. Sullna 27.09 butter 561.2 mil



in 7 days. Calf’s dam is [IE best untested cow. Terms.

M. L. Mo AULIN, Redford. Mich.





Holstelnell'rieslan Bulls read for service-

d i ed to sell. Li ht color and richly

8" p” a. B.REAVfEY:' A "





”u ERE F0 obs





We mg 25 heifer calves from ‘our hard bill!

RENNE BULL N





 





 





 





 

 





 

 

   





Reg.

red.





 

 





 





b‘IWO . ch willbuyalsrt qllmsm‘

from on. if on 7. cows. tom us. , e on give

you stoma-ea to buy back heifer calves from

the cows you buy item no. steal $.00 each. 1





 

 

 





 





sieiis’ 1o: THE TIMES.





LL the price indexes, those pecu-



liar thermometers used to meas-

ure the cost of living and general price

trends 7. have declined sharply during

the last few months. Unfortunately a

good many of them are based largely

on wholesale prices or on raw mate-

rials so that they may give a distorted

notion of what has actually. taken place

as in a declining market the consumer

may not notice the efiect for several

months after prices to theproducer

have been cut. The British and Can-

adian indexes are'declining as well as

those in the United States so that the

tendency is world-wide. ‘





If misery loves company, then farm-

ers who have been hard pressed to

meet creditors as a result of price de-





 

 

 

 

   

   





 





 

 

   

 

 

 

   





 





is the commission house through

which the dairyman markets

produce. His profits depend

upon how cheaply his produce

is handled. ' _

The Jersey is noted forlier .

economical production. She:

has demonstrated it in every‘

competitive test. . .‘ ,

Write Sec’y Henrickson, Shelby;-

Mich. for free Jersey literature.





 





clines can find consolation in the fact

that the number of business failures

is gradually increasing. The Septem-

ber number was only slightly greater

than for August but the liabilities in-

volved increased over one hundred and

fifty per cent over August and were

only $20,000,000 less than for the en-

tire year of 1919.





Since wage reductions usually trail

behind price declines, it is suggestivel

of our present business position that

wages have been reduced in a. few in—

stances, mostly in cotton and woolen

mills where it was a choice between

mill shutdowns and accepting lower

wages.



In the middle west reports show even

greater declines in employment. This

means a reversal of the trend of labor

to the industrial centers which pres-

ently should relieve the farm labor

problem.





HOW TO FEED STRAWS.





LL the straws contain large quan-



tities of nutrients, but on account

of their unpalatableness' and low diges-

tibility, only: a comparatively small

proportion of the nutrients is of use to

the animal. Many suggestions have

been made for increasing the palata-

bleness of straws and making them

more digestible. The former object is

sometimes achieved” by chafi‘ing the

straw and mixing it with pulped or cut

roots in the proportion of one part by

weight of chaff to nine parts by weight

of roots. The mixture should be al-

lowed to stand for at least twelve

hours before it is fed to stock. The

straw absorbs water from the roots

and the fermentation which results

warms the mixture and softens the

straw. No doubt that treatment makes

the straw more palatable, but, so far

as it has .been possible to ascertain,

there is no evidence that its digestibil-

ity is increased. As the season ad—

vances the straw and the roots get

dried, the chaff may be moistened with

treacle (molasses) mixed with warm

water and sprayed on with a water-

ing can.



For horses getting all their bulky

food in the form of straw it is a good

practice to add seven pounds of lin-

seed cake per horse per week. -This

is mashed in a tub of water. When

the cake is thoroughly softened it is

stirred up, and the liquid used to

moisten the chaff. The mixture is

readily eaten, and gives'goo‘d results.





Another method is to sprinkle the

chaff with salt at the rate of one bush-

el per ton, and to sandwich thin lay-

ers "of cut green stuff amongst the

chaff when itis put inthe chaff house.

Late cuttings of seeds, or almost any

green stuff, or pulped roots, at the"

rate of'one hundred pounds per ton

of chaff will. answer the purpose. ..‘The

mixture should be well troddendown,

and a slow fermentation will, result;

After standing some weeks or months





ps a (pleasant :‘sme‘ll, .





 





 





 





 





Double Dlsturber bull at h ad ‘ ‘

Hemlords Ofi'er 5 2-yr. olds. bred yogi-lira: grilled

heifer calves. Fairfax breeding. n] s an we, \



EARL O.McCART , Bad Axe-mm,





The Wildwood Farm ' “





JerseISOattle Majesty strain. Herd on State accred-

ited] t 8.0 M. testi constantl done. Bulls for

sale. ALVIN BALDE , Phone iii-5. Capac. moi.





BUTTER BRED “Enrbmdsi'figL” :

CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM. ‘ .

Silver Creek.





 





Allegan County. M iohigan.





 





 

 

 





JERSEY BULLS use «331,5:

Lad. Majesty breeding. Meadowland arm, Water-

man & Waterman. Packard Bd.. Ann Arbor. Mich.





‘ R i to f M ‘c

Jerseys For Sale, .tg'e: of goth 33.

mith and Parker. liowell. Michigan.





 





F s I Jersey bull calves of Majesty breedingfroni ..

or a 3 good producin%vst0ck. ,Herd on Govern-

ment “Accredited List." rite for grim and pedigree

to C. A. TAGGETT. R. 2, airtrove, Mic .





 





lillic Farmslnd Jersey fin‘é',§§,’.‘,‘ia 331,533?“

0. 0.1:.1 LIE, 000persviile, Mich.





 





Jersey Bulls £l§0fia§hor M. dams $75 to

NOTTEN FARM, Grass Lake, Mich.





Bloomdale Shorthorns





Why use scrubs when you can buy a registered bull ‘1'

for 3100 We have two at that price. Also some ,





good females. . , .

GARE BROS. & 00. Bad Axe, Mich‘ .





The Maple’s Shortliorns  





Kirklevington Lad, by Imp. Hartford

Welfare. In service bulls, for sale.





J. v. wuss, Gobleville, Mich. '





Milli' snonrnonys. 01% bred bull calves ‘

mg Horde under Federal upervi sion. 4

Davidson 4: Hall, Beiand it Beland, Tecumseh, lilo]: ,





Scotch and Scotch To ed



Shorthoms bulls andheifers riced right.



Sultan Champion heads hard. one soot two yr. 01¢» ‘

herd bull by Red Cumberland priced right.



. J. FLOWER a SON, Milo. Mich.





BlDllELL summons





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-toplped yearll reasonahl! 7 .

priced. A roan. senior year ing. a mid? of Village:

breeding. a herd bull prospect, Federal Test. '





BIDWELL STOCK FARM,

Box D. Tecumseh, Michigan





Richland Shortliorns ‘





Imp. Lorne, Imp. Newton chain ion and

Sterling Supreme .111 Serv1ce. 8 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 ' ._

sale. Public sale %hicaso Oct. 28th. - .‘

c. .PR sc 'r'r & SONS." .

Tawas. City, Mich. . '





 





 





 





 





 

 

 





 





Good Scotch bred b lls. cows and

Shorthorns heifers pric ed righll,

W. B. McQUILLAN, R. 7, Bowel], Mich.





 





MEADOW mils Shorthorns. Herd headed by su-‘ .-

ver Kin . full brother of avender Sultan Pnr- .

due University's great sire. or sale females of all ’ “‘





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





 





‘or Sale Several young bulls, sired by Sultan's 81 an-



dard. A few he fare and cows. Prices reasonable.

Branch Count Farm breeders of American Pol



Bhorthorn catt e. O.E.Burdiok, Mgr, Coldwater.M..o .





 





 





° ' Shorthorns‘of best Bates bmdin‘. ,

M‘lklng bulls 6 to 8 mo. old for sale. ,

- . E. H. KURT Mason, Mich. ,





 





 





 





M ilking Shorthorn 3 mos. heifer calf 8125 bred heifers

and serviceable balls at farmers' prices. Comm

Mich. Shorthorn Asso. Oscar Skinner Seaaowanli .





 





 





R d Pulled cattle for sale bulls from 4 to 1811103.qu

e cows with calves Ry side and heifer’s. . ' .

G. A. ALHOON. -Bronson, Mich. f





 





flog. llod Foiled $3?‘§x§’i2¥§d‘é‘.‘“‘ ”m" “m“? “_ - ~ '

mm KEELEB. 8.1. emu Leda. niche. “ , .;





 





Bull calves for sale. from 8 men”.





n .imo'nu. ,. ...... 1.

é.....o..rsuctmaaufi§§

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wmsrpaoox BROS: .





Remnant-hag”





manure stint. . ates
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?" 111's 1 fl: of them. Others I have had





, Weight it is a. sign of tuberculosis.

. .3;‘Make a post-mortem examination and

11 see if the liver is covered with small

. greyish-white nodules.





this disease enters a flock it pays to

- kill the birds and disinfect the house

' and» yards.





. ohtaineed from a healthy flock. If

_ there are many birds or the flock is





f the 111111 as protection to the remaind-

' er of the flock. Roup is usually the





‘ neglected. It is possible to cure a cold

' by the use of carbolated vaseline or





. tar disinfectants and roup





“I developed ulcers; some were all yel-





_ca‘rbolate, fifteen grains.





 





sane-1111111111111 AND ‘ROUP.





'1 ' 11: all. They drst seem to get lame

and gradually. fall away. Although‘





Ellyn“; e“ end there seems to be noth-





to RI because their eyes seem to

swell shut, nesulting in blindness.

What. is the cause, and what. remedy





B. F. G.

When. hens become lame and lose





This is one of





i the sure signs of tuberculosis. When





Then new stock can be





very valuable it will pay to have a

veterinarian inspect. it and determine

which of‘ the carcasses are fit for food.

Any bird suspected of having tubercu-

losis should be removed from the flock

at once as the dISease can spread rap-

idly and cannot be cured. 1



When hens’ eyes swell shut it is

usually map and this disease is also

contagious and so difficult to core that

the general advice is to kill and burn





result of a simple cold which has been





The commercial coal

remedies

are also useful in stopping a cold be

fore the eyes swell shut and the bird'

becomes a hopeless case. It does not.

pay to try and cure birds ill with map

as ,it takes a long time. Birds that

seem cured may carry the disease to

healthy members of the flock—K. f





‘





menthol salve.





BLACKHEAD IN TURKEY‘S.





Can you tell me what to do for my

turkeys? They get mopy and hang

back do not eat or drink like the well

ones. Their droppings seem somewhat

thin, white and yellow, the yellow be-

ing unite bright. I have lost two. I'

opened one and found the liver cov-

ered with what I suppose would have





low, some looked just like yellow

threads running through and the liver

was covered with them, some clear yclo

low and on the side next the gal], 11

green color. The head gets quite dark.

I lost some the same way last year and

we thought it might have been caused

by eating new corn. Last year they

were sick some time before they died,

but this year two that died were sick131

but a few days.



Jackson Co. A. C.





Blackbeard is a disease of turkeys

which has nearly ruined turkey raising

in some sections. It is spread by the

droppings of sick birds contaminating

the food and Water used by other birds

and then the germs enter the ceca and

the liver of the healthy birds and the

degeneration begins. Infected birds





lose their appetite, the wings droop H.w_Mun,fwd'o‘lmar





have had trouble with my old hens 1





or to eat, they lose weight,1





 





 

 





 

   

 





 





   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





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w

entirely

um





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crllour





No mattei‘how much milk your cows are

present ration-Larro-Feed must make





get





money back.





or your money back.





The one way to put your dairy on a business basis 13 to find

out exactly how much you are feeding each cow and exactly

how much milk shc' 1s giving.





Weigh Your Feed— .

Weigh Your Milk





This ha been our advice to daigrymen for eleven years—4t is the secret of

the success .51 the men who feed Larro.

doing and they have learned that it not how much a feed costs but how

much milk it produces that is important.

the moat profits is the cheapest feed they can buy.

Write for names of Lorre users in your neighborhood and the name of

the dealer nearest you.





LThe Larrowe Milling Company

502Larrowe 31113.. Detroit. Mich.





tch-fled return your





mlwunuedlanu

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an;





Luna-tool In





cathode“ to com III II.

man.) “I m





 





£23“





That“ 1s exactly what. the Larro guarantee means to you-





They know just what they are

That the feed which make.





on their

' more





 





Breakwater Bums Jerseys





BOARS—Ready for Service





tyg'ty e .large bone and rugged with plenty ofqual-

his 1: your chance to buy high clans individ-



no]: at reasonable prica.



11 Open Gilt;



of c oice breeding and right type. Panama Special,



The Principal #th. Orion Ginny King. and Great



Orion families Now is the time to buy before the



demand takes all of the good ones.





Write us for Prices and Pedigr-

Mail orders a Specialty Satisfaction guaranteed.





BROOKWATER FARM





ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN

J. B. Andrews, Mgr.





 





and there is a greenish-yellow diarr-

hea.





in from three to ten days after the first





It usually occurs in turkeys from BLUE HOCS Large. boggmhfk and 111011110.





amonthtoa earoldand ‘ ‘1Wtefrb 111

y the bll‘d dleb (11:; B111?) Hg: Bereedlngo





life 8 them

Mont on this papa

W1lmington. Mass.





 





appearance of sickness: It is called





ouRoc JERSEY SWINE





blaCkhead because the head often for sale 2 yr. old herd boars. warlingbours and boat





of the disease when this dark color of

the head is not noted.



Sanitary measureson the range and

in the roosting places help to keep

down the disease. The feeding of plen-

ty of sour milk helps to keep the intes-

tines in healthful condition and thus

more resistant

lows are





turns purple, but there may be cases ggz‘eglsobmdsowsand m.





rite for pedigrees and

(lame

Tm UNDERHILL & SON. Salem Micll.





 





Spring pigs by Walt' 3





Orion,





First Sr. Yearling





Detroit, Jackson, Gd. Rapids and Saginaw 19l9





. Tablets mad. a f 1-

sometmies recomfnerfdegz Phillips BrogRiglich.





 





Sodium sulphocalbolate, seven and a

half grains; calcium sulphocarbolate,

seven and a. half grains; zinc sulpha-





For Sale burg-t. Jerseys of the his heavy





0111119111111. Okemos, M1011.





 





bred to “alts King 2949’





One tablet Duroc $771321 fend“ more let andlnd





is dissolved in a quart of water and’ “mat-19111111111111: yumthananyotllorzgumbfi





'Illifxed with the mash or given as drink- hitches 11





, I

1 .





r. Everyone vi





l In a money maker for the

M1111! rice list





or. ' 8t. .1011". Mick.





 





 





w“gm-vice. aired by theTh fol~





'0 Bo

law an 80:11on .0.“

4t: K111329113





 





 





Mamie":

w ”Wis-3n: 'm...“





i

DUROCS 331s-§5§?11?mw‘11?!m“i’ti1l§§3r1.

LOR. Milan. Mich





 





Duroc Boats Plaid: “3:2,? 333?.





» King number 169259 9011 ofy the $10. 000. 00 Champion

Jocks Orion King 2111111111 large type and heavy bone

out of good sows.



THE JENNINGBIFA’RMS Bailey, Mich.

Born Sept.12. B stored in bowl-'11 name. Write for

prices. RED J. BRO N Quincy, Mich.





 





 





Roars oi‘ the large heavy



D9701? Jerseys Boar: boned type at reasonable

pr1ces. Write or better come ands

F.J ()SDTe Monroe. Mich.





DU ROG JERSEYS



Carey U. Edmonds, Hastings Mlth.

,DUROC JERSEYS 218.151.211.131

' finder. E. D.HEYDENBERK. Wayla11d.l\lich.

PLEASANT View Durocs Choice spring boars and





giltv: 'Come and see ()1 at our mice before buying.

.BURLINGAM & SON, Marshall. l\Ii(-h.





 





 





 





 





$12 00 for a Duroc-Jersey fall piglti weeks old.



either sex Express charges paid

and registration papers free. M. A rookwater

breeding. D.W .SUTHERLAND. Gd. Ledge. Mich.





 





 





 





HAVE started thousands of breeders on the road to

luccecs. I can help yo11.l want to? lace one hofifi





in our! com nttv when?

I. o to lot my plan—‘ ore (may f“from 1:1.





0. I. 111131111111. 3, F, D;— 10 fortune. malice:





 





 





 





Big Type Chester Whites 33:11:51 1130811 aired





d. 3111': Bone Ool.°tWykou.y8mitl1's' nil £11!

hampion memo! Nana‘s! holen

lmmunean magnum t‘l pics.





either sex not rising:

HEEL L,.Jr.- Mack1naw.lll Talewell.00.





MispECIAL' 30:11: 0‘11““ Fall Winter and Spring





 





o 1 0'8 choice spring pigs either sex. Booking.r orders

forA it’ll pigs.- We register free and ship 0.10

RKER «It SON Belmont. Mich





 





Look for Miller Meadows L. P. C.’ s at Marshall

Calhoun CSLFLIr 8%“. 21 "'1





YDhW AVE It Ceresco, Mich





 





O I C’s Flight young boars and spring: pigs

0 " for June shipment.

CLOVER LEAF STUCK FA RM. Monroe, ’\‘ 11-h.





 





Central Mich. O. l. C.





Swine Breeders Ass’n.





Hogs of all ages of popular blood lines. I; \‘91';

sale guaranteed by association.





DR. H. W. NOBLES,





Sales Mgr. Coral, Mich.





‘ Strictly Big 'I'Hm 1111111



For Sale 0. I. C. Swme, qua”... H”... .1 ,2...



«god boars andxgilts left of same ty pe and blood line.



at won for risk at Ohio and Michigan State Fairs.



Priced very cheap. Write us before \(111 buy

NEW MAN S STUCK I“ ARM



R. 1. MARLEI 11'





 





BIKER





 





I. C's. One last fall lmar wgt 4‘25 twnln‘t [all

gills. bred lots of spring pigs and this full pins

either sex. good grmvthv stmk )6 mile 11 est of Down

Cltzs 111111119114 01111 is schulze 1111511111111 Mich.





 





I C s Jum and July boars and open gilts Record-

ued and express paid for next '10 days each one 1

guaranteed feeder. F. C. Burgess. It. 3. Mason Mich





O I C Servicesble boar's A few (xtra

O 0 good boars at farmers' prire.~<

M N . Dans1ille M'Ich





 





 





is Type P. C. Bredgilts Fall yearlin s 111120 win-

ners. out 1100") sire and mammot snws from

Iowa's greatest herds. E. J. Mathewson Burr()21k.Mich.





’ 2 March boars $40 each. Fall

0. I. Cubs OBigC.1lloway pm

0...} bTEONIPSON. Rockford Mich





 





 





Poland China Boars. Read for

Large Type- service I‘Falllgigs both sex. y

. S'MI Mason, Mich.





 





Cloaing out sale of big ktype 2Poland China hogs. which

represents the work ears of constructive

breeding. Everything goesfi inc nding our three great

hex-db erg, Mich. Buster' by “Giant “1

Giant" “ utler' 8 Big Bob " Two of the bestt yearling



respects in Michigan great length. big bone.

501119 get year pick. 3110.0. Butler. Portland. Mich.





POLAND oumns

W J. EAGELSHAW. Augusta. Mick.





We afls ye Polandth?;1inia' a sprint: boars lready h

y a 11111111119 tom hoo

1.1. 11111511511215.“





 





 





wanna 3303., s‘.’ 2.°izoy°111‘ 011. M11111 )1





u"!





3,110.2. Manchu“ Rm.





1" "1.21 .1. 1..“ .1" . r. 1‘}; ..‘ _-: ‘ .. 11 ,. , >
DOUBLE





DISPERSION SALE





at the





nuns. HANSEN FARM





2} Miles Northwest of





LANSING, MICH.





at noon





THURSDAY, NOV. 24,1920





4] Registered Holstein Cows and Heifers 41





Complete dispersion of the H. Chris Han-

sen Herd, including several daughters of

Model Glista King Segis, a 35-1b. grandson.

of King Segis and 9 cows and heifers in calf





to him.





This herd 1s under State and Federal

Supervision and is clean.





Complete dispersion of the A. E. Chase

Herd. Having lost his buildings by fire, Mr.

A. E. Chase, St. Johns, Mich., Will—offer his

entire herd at the Hansen Farm at the same





time.





This herd of 24 females is headed by





a brother of the $100,000 sire King Ona, un-





til recently at





the head of the D. D. Aitken





herd, an excellent individual with the best





of yearly backing. Six daughters of this sire

and 14 in calf to him will be sold. This herd

is fully accredited.





Sale Managed By





Michigan Holstein-Friesian Association,





H. W.

Old State Block,





Norton Jr., Field Sec’y.

Lansing, Mich.





 

 





' boars and Arr..Cham on

hem the State till: imam) ilarye orifice

. . and West Mich} Fair at Grand





 

 

 

 

 





 





Chimpion

ids weighing 102511... l

on want something. that“ wii igive you sat-





' imafilleblg, aw aw, Mich.

r L. S. P. C.





, Everything sold previously ad. 215 spring pigs

placed 01: I'ithe batrg‘agnn counter for no Sept.

8 rs 01' 08 no



I’11.o. swan-1'2, Slade-m. Mich.





. Big Type Poland Chinas





‘Our herd is srepresentative of the best

in Big '1‘ Choice boars for sale

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





We have a is number of s rln

1“ T‘ P‘ c’ and snmine [1%me toshig sire

ed by such bosrsas“Ha1-t's Bloc: .' “Leonard' s

0 Model 0 ansman” slid poet

a great son of the .000 Yankee. Write for

look them over if Lonu are in the

ULOHER cc NLZIE, address





 





 





 





market. HA3

'1'. '1‘. HART, 8t. LoTuieM





‘ Poland China fimfl$gflifid ”gusts:





best sows are thebe best we ever oiiered. Write for

particulars. DORUS ROVER, Akron. Mich:





 





 





6boar best I have raised in my 15 years of breed-

ing sip by Bi Bob Mastodon a son olthe world’s

champion. Price Aand 501.11 p send orders now.





BRANT. ton Rapids. Mich





 





am offering Large Type Pol and China Sowsb

tosF' nablo rices; alipi‘d

Write or call lyde Fisher. St. uis, Mich. 11.“.11 3.





My! Oh My! What An Opportunity

We are now ofl’erin a few choice big y Poland

China Boa'rs from Big mooth J ones one.1 o t e breeds

sires from dams by such noted sires as Grand

mfimcmt Wonder. Mastodon Wonder and





Bo.b

Youm can 't get better breeding. Individually they

will please i

ILLOREST FARM, Kalamazoo, Mich.





Big Type Poland China" .0“...





1 both sex dbred sowsan

3.1. BAUMGARDNER. B. .1211





BARGAIIISS on Big tyfic spring and summer Poland

OhinaP igs also year ng Shorthorn bulls, bull and

heifer calves. Pierson, Mich.





 





 





unlity. at re-

0 prices. Pigs





Middleville. Mich.





 





brte Neva.





aand

reading nnexcell Guaranteed.

R. 1. Three Rivers. Mic





Ed§ewood Hampshires





All bred its sold Now booking orders for gilte bred

for p£31:le fan-ow. and pigs for lg club work only.

gewood N‘arm. Marion. Ohio.





springqboars.DMJ tall pigs and tried sows qualit,





uareDe Farm.





 





amounts... exaggerated?asses

R. B 4. St Johns, ioh.





 





SHEEP.





 





 





Delame “3.3.1313 O. simmering“ size. quality.best





 





 





 





 





 





H. C. POTTER





Bree





JAY HARWOOD





ders’ Sale





 





 





REGISTERED

HEREFORDS





 





 





Thursday, Nov. 18,1920

CHAR LOTTE, MICH.





at Eaton County Fair Grounds, l P. M.





35 head of high class cattle. .

A few yearling and two year old bred heifers





at foot.





and 6 yearling bulls.

bred cattle, just in pasture condition.





This is an offering of good well

The kind that





will make good. We ask the breeders of Michigan to





. be with us and lcn





d their support and cooperation.





Bulls in service:~

Captain Stamway ’733192





Don





Fairfax 704378





Keep On 508019





Calves are by and

bulls.





cows and heifers bred to these good





 

 





H C. Potter and Jay HarWood





Ask for Catalog





20 cows with calves





 

 





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FOR- SALE





it WRIGGLESWORTH,

10 Black Top“e Delaine Merino





FOR SALE Rm,

J. MEACHAM. 11'3““ unnimon. mob.

WHlmM FARM SHROPSI‘HRES





A fine lot of imported and house bred yearling ewes

and rams for sale. A fine chance to start a new dock

or improve the old one call at the farm or write





for just what on want.

, 0H WHITTUM. Eaton Rapids, Mich.





Hiilcrest Shro shr





nice lot of Ewes and Rains of a] es our refisook is

ed by M K





head 0 err-ow 3164 a son of enator Bibby





write“ or call on

R..J a C. A. WILLIAMS, Middleville. Mich.





Registered Delaine Rams.

also 35 ewes. GEERINGER

Oohbctah. Mich.





 





 





 





 





35 Registered Shro ire





FOR SALE yearling rams Ind ram ambs.





Al e .h ice Duroe Jerse boarsa d.giits

mun-6L iri'onp MIDDLE ON. Clayton.Mioh.





' A i! i one choice two year

ShrOPShlres ra‘ilngn‘H“: ew 800d yes if.

0. J. THOMPSON. Rockford h.





SH ROPSHIRES “3"“...“3‘3





sired by Imp. Ber No.1” for sale. Also a few ewes.

REEy EUR DODDS. Lapeer. Michigan





Shropshiresn “"° 11.221231. distaste";





rams. DAN BOOHEB, 1L4, Evart. Mich.





lambs, yearlingsfl and





Shropshire Rams one“ fillet.





 





right. CARL TOPLIFF, Eaton}.s Rapids,

0

Shropshires giggling 311% game with quality,





W. B. McQUILLA .7, Howell. Mich





Shropshires gogglinlgfligzms. dfiEwes of all

LEIAI, Yps lanti Mich.





 





Shropshire Rams £33113?“ “1”“

ARMSTRONG BROS, R. 3, Fowlervilie. Mich.





Good stron in-

NIH”. dividuais. mgally

FOSTER, Allegan. Mich.





Wool-Mullen Shropshire





bred, priced right





Bhro hire Rams and ewes all ages for

NGEISlGIfll sale. pfiWeii-wooled with size and qualit

Priced to sell. 11. I". Mouser, 11.6 Ithaca. Mic.





 





 





Shro shires. rams and ram lambs

"Uni. l..." Farm E0! chgice breeding. Wooled from

nose to toes. A. E.Bacon & Son. heridan, Mich.





 





 

 





Registered Shropshire Ewes





and rams. ‘ Jno. Grieve. R. 3, Fowlerville. Mich





Want 8 Sheep 1 LetAnierioan Hampshireshsep





wsend 0 dead 1

. booklet with list a! broaden . 5 o'li'roa

mums. n woodlandAve vs.. Detroit. me





 





 





 





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tion on the originoi

(3er Improvement Assoc

state the methods being

improve the crops or the state?

Gratiot .Co.





Realizing the need of

against the indiscriminate sale; of

seeds, 8. number of farmers got ,

er. a few years ago, and formed

is known as the Michigan Crop

provement Aesociation. This ass

tion grew from a few farmers

membership of twelve hundred w”

are now actively engaged 111 gram

improved and pedigreed grain for so ‘i

purposes.



Through the support of the Hill

States Department of Agriculture,

state experiment station and the » ~

er members of the association, the fu-

ture seed industry among Michig

farmers is guaranteed.



How the Association apes-5m. V



Any farmer in the state can becom

a member of the association "on the

r“payment: of a, dollar, the amount of that?

annual dues. Members are kept. in-

formed regarding the best varieties of

grain in thestate and any new one

that might develop. ~ ,





In order to correctly understand the“?

workings of the association it is neces _

sary that a. few definitions be clearly:

understood. First, “pedigreed seed'

is hereby defined as seed stock defifj

scended from an individual plant

whose value has been demonstrated

and approved by the Michigan Agricul

tural College. Second, “improved seed" , .

for distribution through the associa-f

tion must be stock showing breedingiflgi‘

and type due to a number of years 01"“

selection. Third, "registered seed" is '

pedigreed seed that has been inspect-

ed twice by authorized agents of the

association. The first inspection—bow

fore harvest, while the grain is stand- "

ing in the field; the second inspection

is made on a. pecksample, or on a sam-

ple of a size designated later submit-

ted to the association as characteristic

of all the grower sells. Fourth, “ap-

proved seed" is improved seed as de-

fined above that has been twice in-

spected in the same manner as is nec-

essary for registration of pedigreed

seed.



For example, new lotus take a farm-

er who has purchased registered or

approved seed through. the association.

This ‘is planted. About three weeks

previous to harvest he makes applies? .

tion to the secretary for field inspec- . .

tion. An inspector who has been thor-

oughly trained along this line issent 2-

to the farmer. The inspection .fee fer.

each grain for any acreage up to'twen- '

ty acres is eight dollars. Over twenty j

acres the fee is fifteen cents addition-

al per acre.





The inspection is practical and ats;

the same time scientific, in that it re:.

quires men who are thoroughly trained ‘

in plant diseases, insects and sell con:

ditions.





In making a field inspection the field

is carefully traveled over, the inspects

or being constantly on the alert for

mixtures, diseases, weeds and insects. ,g,

and if such are found the field is _re- ~

jected for seed. In case all is satisfac-

tory a certificate is issued which be-

comes the basis for final inspection

and registration.





After threshing the farmer forwal'dé

a well-cleaned representative one peck

sample to the secretary of the associa-

tion for final inspection, which is tee:

nical and made in detail. The labo





 





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With the latest approved grai

seed standardization apparatns.»

sis is made showing the per .

moisture, germination, foreign 2

rial, light and small. seeds, : ”

bushel texture, and ’i '





 

 

 





 





For Sale. mmgmnmn': “I 115

scrim? may





lbs. price 301%61
EE E EE EE is E‘E “E A EME it





 





 





Empire Oil-Bu rnlng fi'

Tank Heater





, Greatest improvement ever made in best-



-ers. Fits zany tank. Burns from 14 to 16 our:



onenegallon of kerosene. Any child can opero



it with safety; no sparks, ashes or smoke.



* fie heating chamber is entirely under water;



no heat Guaranteed. Saves teed-—

pays fiorjpelf repeatedly.





Emplrg llcn-qublellog'lsieror





m .gflmiaed hon— a capacity (70

,3- gnhéfi’m onoutlidlwhsre h

gall burner dir under .

to i‘reele. agro-



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worm

rah. clean water ctr-i ht temperature.

hcdthy—tatten faster or.) the some feed.





FAR MEI! AGENTS





8 “mean“; unner- eai’lling to show

gen... rite at once totwg'ce odd

Empire Tull

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.25 Be teed to V. satisfaction or u back.

’fEBox En lent for o cues. (incl ea or Tex.)





mm HEIVE IEIEBY 60.. £63 fourth Ave. Pittsburgh Pa





Farms and Farm Lands For Sale





Attention Farmers!





.if you want to sell or exchange, your

: farm for Detroit city property, write

' to us for quick results.





J. F. llilllz Real Estate 00.,





' i 786 Milwaukee Ave.. E. Detroit. Michigan.

> - - Phone Melrose 281.





Members of the “Detroit Board of Commerce"

and .‘fDetrol't Real Estate Broker: Association."





, For Sale

A First Class Cattle or Dairy Ranch





In Michig'sn's Clover Seed Belt. 1200 acres heavy clay

. soil. Hardwood removed 12 yea rs ago. Heavxly

tossed to clover blue grass and timothy. There is no

otter land in the state. Smiles from Millersburg

and Onuway. Surrounded by cattle ranch and farms.

6.50 an acre. cash 5% year 10 years, balance

12th your or 101 each]

returns from (Alfalfa Seed Oro s) from 30 acres. hsrv

vested yearly until land is pal for, interest 6%. also

some ranch pro sition ice from Millers-

hnrg. $7.50 an acre. 0 cash necessary. if responsible

purchaser Will grow annually 40 acres of clover for

seed, and apply proceeds of crop on purchase



price until paid for interest 65.

JOHN G. liliAU'rn. Mlllersburg, Mich.





.275 Acres 34500, With





Horses, Cattle, Tools, Produce,





Splendid iroductiva farm near big Oith: 200 acres ma.

chine-worlrmiwiieldsi immense cm s 33'. grain;' re-

mainder wire-fenced sprinngater pasture, valuable

wood: 200 sugar maples. home-use fruit: 7-ro0m house,

3 barns. 4 poultry houses, ice house. _other buildings;



rsonal reasons force sale. owner includes 4 horses,

gentle. teed. pig. machinery. tools, all for 84.500,

‘ rt cash. balance easy terms. Details pa 0 21 Strout's



fig New Illustrated Catalog Farm Bar in us 33 States.

00 3’ free. TROUT FARM AGENC . 814 8.0. Ford

‘Bldgn Detroit, Mich.





640 ACRES two miles from Saginaw [seven-

’ tv-five thousand Ii{>opulation).All



clay subsoilnvith mixed cla and blue loam surface:

goodbulidings and good to :exoellent shipping facil-

ities and best markets for stock and produce,one-third

first payment and balance as agreed on at 7 per cent

annually. Other realty.city property or farming land

in part or whole; exchange payments; two hundred

dollars per core; on cash basis $18) per acre; possess-

. ion on March 1. 1921 or sooner it re uired. also on

so 120-180 acres on nlry so] cited. D. H.

Bennie. Real Estate and usiness Exchange. 323%

Saginaw. Mich. Bell Phone 3531.





 





 





lonia County Farm





140 bores of almost level clay loam land,nlcoly located



on state rows . c cc. to town. church and



. school.$:ores of wheat. good orchard, farm is all

. well to d and there is an excellent set of buil-di



‘ sting of a 10 room house and one of the best 70 t.



‘full basement burns in the county, silo, large



hog house, sheep house. hen house, tool house and an





 





cxcelcnt supply of water. rice 8 smog" core. on

liberal terms. SEND FOR OUR NEW ALL OAT-

ALOGUE 0 RMS



FRED A. consular. Lowell, Michigan





Cornfort .





 





and Pleasure This





Winter





_ LEARWATER ON CLEARWA‘I‘ER HARBOR AND

‘ ULF OF MEXICO. Wonderful surroundlas. surf

m , mild! climste. able cocoa stions.

Messed cottages. true roves. _truoking, chick-

ens and dairy :5. Good lan . comment rain. luxur-

lgnt growth. ‘ rite Board of Trade, Clearwsterjla.





(loner Obliged To (logo gorilla Stile



exp” tull uippfd 200 acre ry convenient

, , a l I‘ll



M ~° Echn.s..r.i°..siilmflm.rzi



. ‘ YpfllnnthMlollW,



' buildings, 1 sale.

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. balance of payments made with ~





. with the inspection he can make an

appeal to the board of review, the per-‘

”School of which consists of two mem-





bers of the Michigan Agricultural Col-

lege Farm Crops Department and the

secretary of the association whose





on all disputes and whose decisions

are fiinal. ,

Seed that passes both inspections is





’ entered in the registry book and the





grower is issued a certificate of regis-

tration and assigned a registry num-

ber. This can be done because the

original source of the seed and its gen-

uineness ,is known. The original stock

can be traced to that first put out by

the association. Because of the two

rigid inspections the purity and qual-

ity is guaranteed. No seed company

will do this. This protects the buyer

who may confidently plant such seed

and expect to harvest a crop of simi-

lar type and quality, which is again

eligible for inspection and registration.



The growth of the association is

shown by the following figures: In

1918 there were four hundred thou-

sand acres of rosen rye harvested. In

1919 this increased to five hundred

thousand. and. this year it is estimated

that over six hundred thousand has

been harvested.



The following is a list of the regis-

tered seed which the members are

growing: Wolverine, Worthy, College

Wonder and College Success oats;

Wisconsin Pedigree and Michigan two-

.row 'barley, Michigan Black Bal‘bless

barley. and Robust bean. The approv-

ed seed consists of corn and Early

Wonder beans. During the last few

years some of the above mentioned va-

rieties have been shipped into thirty

of the states. In nearly every state

they have proven superior to the ones

formerly grown. A. W. J.





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Veterinary.





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CONDUCTED BY DR. W. C. FAIR.





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Advice through this column is given free to our subscrib-

ers. Letters should state fully the history and symptoms of

each case and give. name and address of the writer. Initials

only arr published. \thn a reply by mail is requested the

service becomes private practice and $1 must be enclosed.





Irritation of Bladder.—I have a sev-

en-year-old mare that is thin; when

working she is inclined to urinate too

often. but so far as I can tell she is

healthy. A. W.. Pinconning, Mich.—

Give her a tablespoonful of baking

soda at a close in feed three times a.

day. Change her feed.



Acute Indigestion—For the past

three months my horse has had sick

spells. Our local veterinary treated

him for heart trouble, but his medicine

failed to do him much good. He will

gradually gain in flesh for a week or

two, then run down. J. H., St. Clair,

Mich—Give half a dram of ground nux

vomiCa. a teaspoonful of salt and a

tablespoonful of ground gentian in

feed twice daily. His bowels should

be kept open. besides he should have

daily exercise.



Irregular Distemper—Has Abscess.—

Last April my six-year-old mare bruis-

ed her breast against manger, causing

an abscess which our local veterinary

opened. Since then some five abscess-

es have formed and been opened, but

none of them are 'yet healed. Liquid

injected into the upper one will run

through to lower. Our veterinary call-

ed the ailment distemper. E. S., May-

ville, Mich—Enough cutting should be'

done to afford proper drainage, then

occasionally inject one part iodine and

twenty parts water. Also inject one

part lysol and thirty parts water twice

daily. Give two drams of Fowler’s so-

lution at dose in drinking water three

times a day. .



Recurrent Ophthalmia.—Have a bay

mare eleven, years old that seemingly

goes blind every four or five weeks.

After the eyes have been sore a few

days they clear and vision seems to

return. Is there any help for her?

F. E. F., Burlington, Mich—The best

results from treatment you can hope

for is a short postponement ofvloss of





Effie cvepithem'éeud‘ lit-,will h 1p





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duties are to arbitrate and decide up- -





4o DUROC JERSEYS





Will be sold at Farm





Thursday, November 18th, 1920‘

Newton Barnhart, St. Johns, Mich.





This list includes males and females by Walt’s King,

one of the good sons of Walt’s Col.





A few sowsbred to Walt’s King and VValt’s Col. 7th

the 1st Senior pig at Michigan State Fair.





Pigs and sows by Orion’s





Fancy King the biggest





pig of his age ever shown at Chicago Filt Stock Show.

Walt’s Co]. 7th, the undefeated under-a-ycar boar





is also listed in sale.





Also some of the get of Oakland’s Jack Orion, a

National Swine Show Winner. Col.’s Orion King 4th,

Col. Joe Orion, Orion’s Fancy King, Principal Orion

and other famous sires will be sold.





A few of the gilts sold will be given breeding privi-





leges to Walt’s King.





Everything sold is guaranteed and any animal pur-

chased through fieldmen will be guaranteed to please

the purchaser just the same as if bought by the per-

son for whom the purchase is made.





.The yearling and under

will be sold.





 





 





vision. A bright light irritates a sore .

Eeye, constipation is another exciting

, 9 "





a. year Show sows of 1920





Newton Barnhart, StJollns, Mich.





W. M. Kelly for The Michigan Farmer





 





Big Type Poland Bhinas





vouuc BRos., NILES, Mlcl-I.





Will sell 60 head of gilts, fall yearlings and tried sows.





MONDAY, NOV. l5lh





Auctioneers Cols. F lesher and Foster





 





Choice individuals; shipped to you





 





O.I.C. BOARS





right or your money refunded. All stock





J. CARL J EWETT,





c. o. d. express paid and guaranteed





registered ill buyer‘s name.





Mason, Mich.





 





 





 





F O R S A L E "Pam‘ifm



ou r m c

from FarmvilleJ Virginia.l [All fenced with barf:

wire. about one hundre acres open' balsncein first

class timber. Two good dwelling houses just rebuilt

and newly painted“ Two large tobacco barns and

many other small bulldin s and plenty of good water.

Two main highways ion in to the farm. Fruits of

various kinds. Land in love or just a little will is

now being worked on shares. The past year itnfims

raised u large crop of first class tobacco, corn, sor .

hum and vegetables of every kind. This farm wil

pay for ltf-‘Plf in two yours and the climate is the best

in the world. Two miles from high school public

school and church and ndy'h~ State Normal School.

Address J. B. BLACKBURN, 722 Main. Bull'slo. N. Y.





Great Bargaln! improvementsmn Dixie

Highway and electric line between Kalamazoo and

Battle (meek; splendid surroundings. 1 mi. to market

and high schoo . A money maker and splendid chance

for speculation. Easv terms. Don't wait. Owner.

Oscar E.Burnham, .507 Bunk Bldg.. Kalamazoo, Mich.





BARGAIN ,0,“





timber.spring brook. 4% in. Hastings. 60 r. St. tr. lino,

fine new modern 8r. bungalow bath. running water,

shady lawn. good barn, other farm bldgs.. also fine

80 A. with 19 A. timber near by, equipment desired.



W rite WILL TREGO. ll. 3, Hastings. Mich.





160 Acres owner sick has cut price to$100 acre

terms. act ulck; other bargains ADVANCE





REALTY, tl’aterson Bldg.i Flint. Mich.





' Grain. Dair and Fruit ‘fsrms at lar-



For sale gain prices. nrket at your door fine

hour from Detroit the heart of the country. White



. J. w. BALIARD, Romeo. Michf





- HOGS





Farm Demos. Service bo d

open for sale at no can? 330.





meme“





ion. Mich‘





160 A. good soil, good





 





for quick

180 A.





 





near Flintvery best soil good buildings,





 





Duroc Jerseys





2'52. yearling boars sire Long Wonder. Jr. Chum-





plon at the Minn. State Fair in 1917. l jr. year.

ling sir Giant by Giant Invincible one Sr. yonr~

L135 :y gunamgogpgcml‘nnll perfect individuals

. elg over s. 'c onlvl m2. '



boars left. 3 Hue spring





CHASLEN FARMS, N orthville,Mich.





write Me at once I have just what you want

envy bone

soy boars nde will service. registered Duroc Jer-





ll. AYES. L. stos. Durand. Mich.

Duroc Jerseys'ilf the right type. good blood





. inns and in 00 ~ ' '

at a price you can aiford to pa . 8 d condition

."Uu. W. l" ich.





.. Hartley, Alma,

SHEEP





Reg. Hampshire Down

bhorthorn bull calf. ll

Berkshire pig.





Guaranteed to suit





ram lambs, one registered

mo..sprlng and fall farmued

M. G. Masher ii: Sons, ()ssoo. Mich.





oxrono RAM

Oxford ra‘nal5 lambs registered and





O. E. BARKER,

F or sale delivered .00 Guaranteed.

GEO. T. ABBOTT. Palm, Mich.





OXFORD§ 3““, 3“ axes 820.00 to aim

E. §T°§8fi°i€“’°"ii’?fiilnto‘h° hen;

HORSES '





Percheron lulu?" ”.1 ,9. ~ . ‘ . I-

”I? Luke; ”Mimosa: .3”,





choice yearling A Reg.

and delivered for 850.

R. 1, Belmont, Mich
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GRAIN QUOTATIONS

November 10, 1920.

- Wheat.



Detroit.——Cash No. 2 red $1.97; De-

cember $1.91; March $1.87; No. 2

white and No. 2 mixed $1.95.



. Chicago—No. 2 hard $18814; De-

cember $1.77; March $1.75.

Corn.



Detroit.—Cash No. 2 mixed 930; N0.

2 yellow 98c.



Chicago—No. 2 mixed 88@891/zc;

N0. 2 yellow 90@91%c.



Oats.



Detroit.—~Cash No. 2 white 560; N0.

3 white 541/20; No. 4 white 521/20.



Chicago—No. 2 white 52@54%c;

No. 3 white 501/2@52%c.



Beans.



Detroit—Immediate and prompt are

steady at $4.65 per cwt.



Chicago——Market easy. Hand-pick-

ed beans choice to fancy $4.75@5; red

kidney beans $9.25@10 per cwt.



New York—Market continues dull.





Choice pea. $6; do medium $6.

Rye.

Detroit.——Cash No. 2 rye $1.60.

Seeds.





Detroit.—Prime red clover $12.75;

December $13.10; alsike $17; timothy

$3.40.



Toledo.~——Prime cash $12.85; De-

cember $13; alsike $17; timothy $3.40.





WHEAT





While cash corn prices have aver—

aged higher the past week wheat has

worked to a lower level, the keen com-

petition of Canadian grain and a sen-

sational break in continental foreign

exchange being the main influences.

Canadian wheat which inspects dark

No. 1 northern spring sold at Chicago

the past week at 130 over the Chicago

December against 23c over several

weeks ago, showing a decline of 100

relative to the futures. This has forced

a lower level for domestic springs, and

has also affected the hard winter. Red

winter, however, is very scarce, as it

was sold largely for export, and has

gained on the December selling as high

as 210 over, with very limited arrivals

at all markets. The foreign financial

situation has far more bearing on the





wheat situation at the present time

than the statistical. The latter is un-

doubtedly sensationally strong, but





with lire quoted at around three cents

and francs at six cents, against a nor-

mal for both of 19.3c and marks going

begging at 11/1c against a. normal of

23.50 the purchasing p wer of Europe

has been so greatly re need that it is

rather surprising that the demand has

held up well as it has. The Australian

crop is now estimated at 131,000,000

bushels, suggesting a surplus of 90,-

000,000 bushels. The Canadian crop has

been increased 4,000,000 bushels by

the last provisional estimate. The Cen-

tral European and Balkan countries

harvested 8,000,000 bushels less than

last year. Demand from the domestic

mills is still slack.





CORN





A corn crop of around 3,200,000,000

bushels seems to have been secured

this year and reports indicate that the

quality is the best known. The carry-

over of old grain is around 100,000,000

bushels so that it seems safe to figure

on a total supply of around 3,300,000,-

000 bushels, the largest known. From

a comparison with previous year this

makes a most depressing showing, al-

though when it is considered that

there is by far more cattle and hogs

on farms this year than in 1912, when

around 3,200,000,000 bushels were con-

sumed, it is not as be rish as generally

believed, especially as the total live

stock is estimated at 15,000,000 head

greater. The industrial demand for

cash corn is still very slow but the

eastern distributing trade has picked

up considerably, and yellow corn was

recently around 5@6c over the Decem-

ber has advanced to around 11c over.

- Receipts have become extremely light.

The country is showing no disposition

' to sell old or new corn to arrive, the

‘ . price being regarded as too low. Feed-

ing operations are increasing rapidly

as it‘js figured that on the present

pricepf hogs ,cornfor feeding is worth

$1.25 perbushel. "Prices have ”been





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SEEDS





Red clover seed and alsike prices

were easier again last week, influenced

by larger receipts and the decline in

grains. The belief is rather prevalent

that they have been deflated enough.

Canada is reported to have a large crop

of timothy seed, but her crop of the

clover seeds is below normal. Prices

at the week’s close were: Toledo—-

1919 prime red clover $13.20 per bush-

el; 1920 prime $13.85; 1919 prime tim-

othy $3.30; 1920 prime $3.40; 1919

prime alsike $17.15; 1920 prime alsike





$17.30.

FEEDS





The usual fall demand for feedstuffs

is showing up and prices are firmer.

.Millfeed stocks are light, .but the pros-

pective supply is probably ample for

all requirements; Production is in-

creasing slightly. Linseed and cotton-

seed meal have been rather high com-

pared with prices of farm grains and

the former declined $3 at Minneapolis.

No marked change either way from the

present price level of millfeeds is in-

Latest quotations per ton

(100-lb bags) in car lots are: Detroit

—Bran $40; standard middlings $43;

flour middlings $53; coarse corn meal

$46; cracked corn $47; chop $41.





BEANS





From a high price of $8 reached last

February and March bean prices re-

ceded to the low level of $4.50

reached a few weeks ago, since which

time values have advanced about 10

or 15 cents each week. Price on No-

vember 6 was $4.85 f. o. b. Michigan

common shipping points. The usual

September-October demand is not evi-

dent, buyers holding off. Colder weath~

er has stimulated it to a slight extent.





HAY





The hay trade continues dull with

little change in prices, light receipts

offsetting the influence of the small

demand. Unless the feed grains and

other feedstuffs decline hay prices are

unlikely to decline much further. Pric-

es per ton in carlots were as follows:

Chicago—No. 1 timothy $29@32;

standard and No. 1 light clover mixed

$28fiy29; No. 2 timothy and No. 1 clo-

ver mixed $25@27; No. 3 timothy $20





5.53.!" n...‘

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@23; sample hay $18@24; clover $20@

28; No. 1 choice alfalfa $28@32.

Detroit—No. L timothy at $20@30;

standard $28@29; light mixed $28@

29; No. 2 timothy $27@28; No. 1 mix-

ed $27@28; No. 1 clover $276228; rye

straw $14.50@15; wheat and oat straw

$13.50@14. Buffalo—Timothy. No. 1 at

$36@37;~No. 2 $33@35.'» "





POTATOES





Potato demand has been active and

prices trended upward until near the

close of the week when operators be-

gan to hold off. Chicago closed very

weak at $2@2.25 on Northern Whites,

losing most of‘the advance. Other

middlewestern consuming markets

gained 10@25c till Friday’s close,

while eastern markets gained smaller

amounts. Minnesota, Wisconsin and

Michigan shipping points reached $1.90

@210 per 100 lbs. f. o. b. sacked. Chi-

cago prices are: Northern whites $2

@225 per 100 lbs; Idaho Rurals $2.40."



Cleveland—Michigan round whites

$3.25@3.50 per 150~lb. sacks; New Jer-

sey Giants $2.50. Detroit—Michigan

$3@3.25 per ISO-lb. sack.





BUTTER





The previous week’s advance and

firm market continued uninterruptedly

throughout the past week. The output

has fallen off rapidly since the recent

bit of cold weather and hard frosts.

The quality also improved slightly and

resulted in less pressure on the mar-

ket from undergrade stock. The short-

age was apparent in receipts, size of

shipments and reports from producing

sections. The top scores were most

scarce, but medium grades cleared and

finally much of the poorest stock was

moved. One shipment of New Zealand

November 6 were: New York 64c;

Chicago 640; Boston 600; Philadelphia

640 per pound.





WOOL





Wool market conditions have grown

worse the past week. Prices quoted,

though -largely nominal, are slightly

lower. The depression which has ov-

erwhelmed all branches of the textile

trade has grown worse, the American

Woolen Company, which resumed oper-

ations six or seven weeks ago with a

50 per cent personnel, announcing that





 

 





 





 





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DETROIT



Cattle. ‘ ,



Canners steady; all others 25@40c

lower. . _



Best heavy steers ....... $10.50@10.75



8.50@ 9 5





Best handy wt bu steers .2



Mixed steers and heifers 7.50@ 8.25

Handy light, butchers . . . . 7.00@ 7.25

Light butchers ......... . 5.0061) 6.25

Best cows .......... . . . . . 7 0063, 7 50

Butcher cows 600@ 6.25

Common cows . . . . . ..... 4.00

Canners ............ . . . . 3.00@ 3.50

Choice bulls ....... . . . . . 7.00@ 7.25

Bologna bulls . . . . . . . . . 6.00@ 6.50

Stock bulls 5.00@ 6.00

Feeders 7.00@ 9.00

Stockers 5.00 7.50

Milkers and springers . . .$ 65 110



Veal Calves.

Market steady.

Best ................. . . .316.00@16.50

Others ....... . . . . . . . . 6.00@13.00

Market steady.

Hogs.



Mixed ....... ..................$13.50

Pigs and yorkers 13.75

Roughs .......... . ...... ¢. . . . . . 12.00

Stags . . . . . . . 10.00





Sheep and Lambs.

Market steady.





Best lambs . . . . . . . . . . . . .$11.00@11.50

Fair lambs ...... . . . . . . . . 9.00@10.25

Light to common . . ...... 5.006.) 7.75

Fair to good sheep ..... . 5.00@ 6.00

Culls and common ....... 2.00@ 3.00





GO





Hogs. -

Estimated. receipts today are 16,000;

holdover 9,290. Market steady with





$12.85@13.50; tops $13.75; heavy '250

lbs up medium, good and choice at $13

@1360; medium 200‘to 250 lbs medi-





um, good and choice at’$1$.25@13.70; ,





 





light~ 150-to 200 lbs cemmon, medium,





good and 'chOice at $13@13.60; light

medium





. good and choice





 





packing sows 250 lbs up smooth $12.50

@1285; packing sows 200 lbs up rough

$12@12.50; pigs 130 lbs down medium,

good and choice $12.50@13.50.

Cattle. .



Estimated receipts today are 15,000.

Good corn-fed steers strong to higher;

other classes 'slow; calves and bulls

lower. Beef steers, medium and heavy

weight 1100 lbs up choice and prime

$15.75@17.50; do medium and good at

$10.50@15.85; do common at $8.75_@

10.50; light weight 1100 lbs down good

and choice $13.25@17.25; do common

and medium $8@13.25; butcher cattle,

heifers, common, medium, good and

choice $5@13; cows, common, medium,

good and choice $4.60@11.25; bulls, bo-

logna and beef $5.25@10; canners and

cutters cows and heifers $3.50@4.50;

do canner steers $4@6; veal calves

light and handyweight medium, good

and choice $13@14.75; feeder steers,

common, medium, good and choice at

$7.25@11.50; stocker steers, c mmon,

medium, good and choice $5@ .25; do

cows and heifers common, medium,

good and choice»$4.75@7.50; western

range cattle beef steers medium, good

and choice $9@13.50; do cows and heif-

31:755 medium, good and choice $5.75@





Sheep and Lambs.

Estimated receipts todayxare 24,000.

Market slow and bidding lower. Lambs

84 lbs down medium, good, choice and

prime $10.75@12.50; do culls and com-

mon $9@10.50: spring lambs, medium,»

good, choice and prime $9@11;rewes,





medium, good and choice 356236.50; do‘





cull .and common

ewes full mouths t

@825; yearling we

and choice $12@13’.





~ ., . 3111:7511.ng I





“This l’msrk‘et sold hogs today *‘iWedé

1.4 , mb 3.6





336334.75; breeding

.0 yearlings at.$5.75





 





Lnesdsy) at $14.6





 





 





there, medium, good ’





 





 





its mills would operate on a f fundey.

a-Week working schedule. Remixes:

are unwilling to mark .downth g

stocks to correspond with the new-let»:

e1 of values, so that consumption. is re-

stricted. Australian sales have held

firm, but Liverpool auctions on“ East.

Indian wools were languid. The re»

publican landslide \has encouraged

hope of tariff protection, although as



eral months must elapse before i



could become effective. '





EGGS AND POULTRY





Egg prices continue firm at 3. ve

high level.





 





they have ever been at this seasonof

the year. Poultry markets were week





Prices to retailers at Chi->1",

cage the past week were the highest;.-. .





as supplies are in seasonable abund- ,—





ance.





.BUCKWHEAT-





Buckwheat prices continue at a low ’





level, Chicago and Milwaukee both be-





ing quoted'at $2.25@2.50 per 100 lbs. ..





The prices are unusually low compar-

ed with wheat.





isfactory for some time.





APPLES





T re has been a somewhat better

mov ment of fancy stock this week.

but the supply of inferior stock is still





heavy and is retarding the market. .





Only large Delicious and Jonathans

appear to be holding their own in the

box apple market.

practically steady.





DETROIT CITY MARKET





Wholesale prices on city markets

show apples selling at $1.25@2.50 for





firsts to fancy grades; cabbage 40@ '





50c; dry onions $1@1.10; potatoes at

$1.35@1.50; turnips $1@2; celery at





25@75c per dozen. Eggs are scarce at. '





90c@$1 per dozen.





STATE FARM BUREAU MARKET

, REPORT.





 





Seed prices are not showing any in-

creased strength but on the whole

have lost during the past week. In;





quiries from farmers’ organizations in U ‘





other states denote a keen interest in

Michigan seeds, and their belief that

now is timerto buy medium clover is

beginning to move some with hulling

far from completed. Statistics show





'44,200 pounds of alsike imported dur— :,

ing October as compared with 1,337,- ‘ ‘





400 for October, 1919. Red cloverim:

portations are given at 12,900

and 510,400 for same periods.





 





FEDERAL caop REPORT.,





 





A RECORD crop of corn, exceeding

the previous largest crop by 75,-

000,000 bushels, was announced Mon-





day by the department of agriculture.





in its preliminary estimate, placing





production this year at 3,199,126,000 '





bushels and quality at 7.7 per cent

above the average. A month ago the

corn crop was forecast at 3,216,192,000

,bushels, while last year’s production

was 2,917,450,000 bushels, of which

142,211,000 bushels, or 4.9 per cent of

the crop, remained on the farms Nov-

ember 1‘ this year, Monday’s/report,

announced, compared with 69,835,000





bushels a year ago and 82,618,000 bush- , ,

five "





els, the average of the preceding

years.





This year’s potato crop is put at; V





421,252,000 bushels, compared With

414,986,000 last month and 357,901,000

last year. '





Apples promise a yield of 236,187,000 ,





bushels, compared with 227,978,0001386

month, and 147,457,000 last year}...





Sugar beets will probably'totai, 8,-

812,000 tons, compared with 8,970,000 _





last month and 6,421,000 last year.





 





COMING LIVE STOCK sALEs,





 





 





Poland Ohmic—November 15, «Young

_ Bros, Niles,~ Michigan. — V,- '*

Holsteins.‘—Novemb‘er “16, F. 'A. Bear-

' sore, Grand Ledge, Michigan. ' ‘

Herefordsp-4November 18; L._-Po





' , ,Harwood, Charlotte, Michigan





Duroc. Jerseypemcvembe‘n‘

' Barnhartgm; St. Johns ‘ ‘

uroc one, No





(3.,





The market is under "

the bane of the present scanty buying; ‘

era and'will probably continue unsat- ‘





The market closed





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TFOOMMITTE‘EVOF ssVENTEEN. '





. , (Centinued from page 696). "

ed that, a year ago he stated in ad-





' ‘7 dressesgiven in all ofvithe large cities





in which',_his ' grain corporation main-

';tained.ofiice"s, that unless the United

States “entered into some kind of an





i 'a’ssOCiatiOn of nations which ‘would





seek to restore peace and stability to

European conditions and assist the

new nations there to establish their

, boundaries, that there would be unem—

-ployment in‘ every large city in the

United States and distress in the agri-

culture} communities; a prophecy





Vtwhich has been abundantly fulfilled.





He held out no hope that growers by

collective action could obtain more

than the supply and demand price.



Mr. Powell made a remarkable ad-

dress covering the fundamental princi-

ples’ of cooperative organiZations along

with practical suggestions as to de-

tails. He emphasized the fact that

there must be an, economic need be-

fore a cooperative organization could

succeed. Cooperatio‘n must be a relig-

ion with the member. “The children

of the members of the California Fruit

Growers’ Exchange in saying their

prayers, ask God to bless mamma,,

papa and the exchange.” He empha-

sized the importance of the character

of the board of directors that the grow-

ers and the public must have absolute

confidence in them; that the methods

of big business, such as the United

States Steel Corporation or Standard

Oil, should not be considered as a prop-

er model for the grain growers. They

must recognize the social and econonP

ic rights of the community. Recogni-

tion of these rights goes along with the

legal privilege to market their prod-

ucts in a cooperative way.



The exchange of which he is a mem-

ber merely attempts to obtain the sup-

ply ‘and demand price, and Mr. Powell

does not believe it possible to obtain

a cost of production price. Lemons,

for example, have been selling for five

months under cost of production. In-

creases in cost of marketing such as

those represented by freight, cannot

be passed on to the consumer, since

these make no difference whatever in

the demand. On the other hand, it is

a mistake for growers to sell collec-

tively at too low a price, as someone

else then absorbs the difference be-

tween this price and that which the

consumer is willing to pay. In the or-

ganization of the exchange members

sign up for a period of years, but many

of these contracts provide for with-

drawal upon one year’s notice, as it is

undesirable to try to retain a dissatis-

fied member. As a result of the work

of the exchange the handling charge

has been reduced to one and a half to

two per cent, compared with a former

charge of ten to fifteen per cent and a

present charge of about seven per cent

which private handlers demand.

Resolutions Adopted by the Committee



of Seventeen.





The Farmers’ Marketing Committee

of Seventeen in executive session, dis.

cussed the fact drawn out in the public

hearing that the grain exchanges of

the country deny membership to co-

operative companies. Although they

do not recognize the grain exchanges

as the best possible method of mar-

keting grain, the members of the com-

mittee were unanimous in adopting

the following resolution:



Whereas, ’the principal





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grain ex-





changes of the United States bar co-'





operative companies that distribute

their profits in proportion to the vol—

umeof business handled, from partici-

pating in the buying and selling of

farm products; and whereas, the same

prevents the producers from collective-

ly selling their own products'thereby

creating a. monopoly in the hands of

the traders: a situation which is not

just and not in harmony with the spir-

it of American institutions.



Therefore, be it resolved, that we





. call upon the federal trade commie--

sion, the attorney-general or other pub-'

lic authority to take such steps as may.





. i» be necessary to. open the said markets





) to the membership of cooperative -

' less the. grain. excha ges





tardy do the same at once.





 





 





 

   

 





 

 

 

   

 

 





 





 

   

 

 





   

 





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are helping their husbands to prosper—are glad “RI“!

- they encouraged them to go where they could make a home of thelrk

own—wave paying rent and reduce cost of living-where they



could reach prosperity and independence by buying on easy terms.





Fertile, Land ati$15 to' $30 an Acre-





-land similar to that which through man cars has ioldod from 0

o 48 bushels .of wheat to the core. l-l’ulndreds of gunners in Westezm

cgsnagfatggivteigglgedvgm‘p: mha single season worth moss (21133 the whole



, . . uc crops come pros ' , ' in

homes, and all the comforts and conveniences whichtlhalflelgf hagpgeliging.





Farm Gardens-Poultry—Dairying





are sources of income second only to grain growing and stock raisin .

Good climate, good neighbors, churches, \ _ viz-f . . , lg

schools, rural telephone etc.. give you the — 14;" 4’

opportunities of a.new land with lite con- ‘

vemences of old settled districts.

For illustrated] tel-store. ma , deecri 'on

form oggonunihu in Manitobgg Saakatcllgu 0:

and A m. reduced railway rates. etc.. to

Department of lmnlgntxon. Ottawa. Can“ or





‘ r M. V. Machines,





176 Jefferson Au., Detroit. Mich.

g Olnldllll Government Aunt.





   

   

 

 





 





 





 





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«FINISH HOIS FOB MARKET





-by cooking potatoes, pumpkins and other feed. If

the market on potatoes is off, cook and feed to sell

at a profit.

Also use Hudson Cookers for boiling spray

mixture. canning. scalding hogs

and poultry, or for wash~day

and cleaning dairy utensils.

Heat.quickly—burn

cobs, wood or coal.





 





 





 

 

 

   





meet your needs.





HUDSON Round Steve and Kettle Sty





le.

Heavy Jacket, carefully made and framed. Lug

handles on sides. Best gray iron removable kettle with extra heavy

bottom. Should last. forever. Made in four sizes—40 to 80 gallons.





OZARK Furnace Style with portable galvanized

- steel boiler. Made with four heavy handles





so feed can be carried to stock. Specially designed furnace

gives greatest cooking heat. Three sizes—60 to 120 gallons.





Got the Cooker you need from dealer

or write today for cat 3.





Hudson Mfg. Co., Dept. 56 , Minneapolis, Minn. ozmx





"ES. Eggsfi

$ imonfi$”“



0% 2 ONE YEAR



"“ Foranynemzozmet from Factory



N2! BUTTERFLY Separator



so one FREE Will" m ‘°





You can 12%?“ get one of these cglendld money-making. labor»

No. 2% Junior—a li ht-ru-nin EASY

. 31“ 10

shown up to our big 800 lb. capacity machine

GUARANTEED

Against Defects In Material and Workman:

you can return it at our expense and we will refund your 32 deposit and

autumn mun". 2165 lush." Blvd. chime, Ill.





   

   

   





 





 





 





 





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guaranteed separator. 3 ans 120 quarts C

. here-all sold at similar low prices and on our

hberpl terms of only 32 d

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Wolverine Indoor Tellets

Will

Give You Summer Comfort in Winter

Why put off getting this comfort and conveni-

ence when you know you need it and the price is

within reach a; all. Wolverine outfits are made





in all sizes to 't the needs of every one. Write

today for catalog and full information.





DAIL STEEL PRODUCTS CO.





 





 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 





   

 





 





SIO‘VMAIN ST» LANSING. MICH.





 





 





 





 

 

 

   

   

 





FENDERS

for FORDS





‘l o 1 7 -19 2 0

Direct from Factory to You





Fullcrown type. Enameled—not: painted.

Guaranteed to fit old irons and side shields

perfectly. All holes properly drilled—





o





making them simple and easy to attach.

Your Money Back If Not

Entirely Satisfied





Complete set of {our fenders for either

Ford Touring Car or Roadster body—-

Only $16.70 packed and cratcd, f.o.b.

Factory. Write us.





Saginaw Sheet Metal Works





Saginaw, Mich.





 





 





 





 





   





ABSORB'NE





Reduces Bursa! Enlargements.

Thickened. Swollen Tissues.

Curbs, Filled Tendone. Sore-

nees from Bruises or Strains;

stops Spavin Lameneu, allays pain.

a Does not blister, remove the hair or

" lay up the horse. $2.50 a bottle

at druggists or delivered. Book 1 R free.



ABSORBINE. JP... for mankind—an

Intiscptic linimcnt for bruises, cuts, wounds, l}

strains, painful, swollen vein or glands. It '

heals and soothes. $1.25 a bottle at .drug-

gists or postpaid. Will tell you more if you

write. M ' the U. S. A. by

w. mouse. ms. .268 lmnloSt..$orinulleld.flnuo





Mr. POULTRY F ARMER:





We make a specialty of White Hennery Eggs and

have created a. profitable market for your eggs the

year around. We pay the highest. premium for your

Hennery Whites—We remit same day shipments

arrive. Ship 0ften--Shlp by Expnu





cs0. R. ELDRIDGE co.

494-18th Street. Detroit. Mich. ‘

Remember! We guarantee you loci-faction with every shipmenl





Holmes,Stuwe Co., 445 Riopelle St.





Commissto'n Merchants. Dressed Beef. Hogs. calves.

POND”. Iglve d: Dressed, Provisions, etc. Correspon-

dence Solicited. Ref. Wayne County a Home Savings

Bank. BradStreet. Detroit. Mich. Cad. 288?





HAY Ship to The Old Reliable House i

Daniel Mc Caff ey's Sons, }





621-625 Wabash Bldz.. Pinaburz. Pa.





   





 





 





 





 





 





F 83' Write Dr. W. Austin Ewalt. Mt. Clemens.

or e Mich. for those beautifully marked Sable

and White Scotch Collie Puppies; natural hoelors

from trained stockmedigrees furnished. Will alsoIbuy

thoroughbred Collie and Airedale puppies for training.





POULTRY?





500 PULLETS





We are now offering 500 more fine S. C. White Leg-

horn Pullets five months old and shout read to lay.

The first week in December the pulleta wil be six

months old and can be laying well by that time. Eggs

from these birds this winter will nearly pay for the

birds. A few 4 mo. pullete also of the same stock.



If interested write us at once for description as the

pallets are to be sold immediatly. We guarantee 3

everything. Have you our 1920 catalog? 1‘



We still have 300 yearling White Leghorns for

breeding at 81.75 each. . ‘

Cockorels We still have '75 fine Barred Rook Cooker- V”

015 from our well bred Barred Bock Colony. Send

for description. ,





STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION, "





 





 





Desk l. Kalamazoo. Michigan



and Hons: Leghorns. Minor-can, Reds

COCkereIs Rooks, ()rpingtons, Wynndottes, Hou1 'f'

dens. Tyrone Poultry Farm, Fenton, Mich. > ,





 





Pine Hill Poultry Farm i





For Sale. 8. C. Mottled Ancona cockerels. S. C. “«-

White Leghorn cockerels. S. C. Black Minorca.

cockerels. White Faced Black Spanish cockerels. “

Save moneyiby buying now. '

LAWR NCE LAHAIE. Cheboygan. Mich.





 





Rhode Island Whites 55,302hgtgegvgg





money in raising poultry try the R. I. White. stock





for sale. order ahead. -

H. H. JUMP. R. 5. Jackson, Mich. ,1





Single Comb While Leghorns





Cookerels from our exhibition migiagsA ril hatch-





ed 5360 each. Four tine cock birds eac .

SUNNYBROOK POULTRY FARM, Hilladalo,Mlch.





: c Black Minot-ca Cookerels. from pen headed by

_ - - our 850. lllglb cock bird. These cockerels will be

very large with quality. B. W. Mills, Saline. Mich.





Silver Golden and White W ondottes.A tow 00d

7 cockeroln for sale at £5.00 to $15.00 ear .

C. W. BROWNING. R. 2. Portland. Mich.





White Chinese Geese, :, ‘ '





White Pekin Ducks R. C. lir. Leghorns. Order earl .

Mrs. CLAUDIA. BETTS, Hillsdale.'Mlo .





TURKEYS . Thoroughbred Bronze Tomi



' for sale. Write



Mrs. WM. TANTON. R. l. Deokervllle. Mich.

' White African Guineas w



Vflulo Holland Turku: me. .1 the... some... 0.



H. Burgess. Pro!.. Poultry Mich. Agri. College. Farm



torulo. Alden Whitmmb, Byron Center. ,





 





 





Gray African Geese 2.13,:‘°"

. nn.MrLLs. Lax-viewdmoh.





Please Mention The Michigan Farmer

when Writing to advertisers
ate





If water were labeled H2 0. *- and. Sold

by the barrel at a fancy price-





more might appreciate its value in





the dairy cow’s ration and 1ts1mpor—t-

ance in the making of milk.





' A cow makes milk from two things:





Feed and water.





Feed costs money, and yet very few

of our dairy cows are being starved





for want of it.





It is common knowledge that the

cow that does not get enough to eat

does not produce as much milk as

she could produce, nor produce as





cheaply.





It should be common knowledge,

too, that the cow that does not get

enough water to drink produces too





little milk.





Water

yet many, very,

dairy cows thirst for want of it.





'Milk is seven-eighths water.





In order for a cow to make milk most

that she





cheaply it stands to reason

must be given plenty of water.





Thousands of dairymen have learned

that they have been getting too little

in the past because they gave





milk

their cows too little water.





 





 





 





follow.





Ilerdod out twice a day to

shiver through a drink of lay

tank water





costs practically nothing, and

very many of our“





T h e y h a v e

1e a r n e d t h a t

when a cow has

all the water she

wants when she

wants it at any‘

hour of day or

night, remark-

able increases in

m i l k yield 3





Yet there is no

magic about it.





It is simply the natural consequence:of

following out natural laws. Just as

too little feed meant too little milk-—

lack of enough water means less milk





and a higher production cost.





Proven By Milk

Records





'An investigation was made in 28 herds

(759 cows) where milk records were kept.





One herd showed an increase of from 5 up

to as high as 10 lbs. per cow, per day, just

as a result of giving the cows all the water

they wanted when they wanted it.





Four herds reported an average increase of

4 lbs. per cow, per day; three stated 3 lbs.;

five showed 2 lbs., three 11/; lbs.; one 3/;

lbs.; one reported an increase in milk yield

valued at $8.56 per cow, per year; one av-

eraged $5; one $10; one received 3, 0

increase; one 872 ; two 10/2 , one 121/2/2;

one 20% , one 331/3f m ; and only one herd

out of the 28 found that the increase was

“not much.” An average increase per cow

per day of 2.45 lbs.





And now you ask yourself the question,

“Can I afford James Cups in my barn?”

“Would it not be better to wait until next

'88! ? :1





Neither of the questions has anything to do

with the matter.





The real question is “ Can you afl'ord to be

without James Cups?”



You Lose By Waiting

The plain fact is that if next year some one





were to make you a gift of the James cups,

you would lose money by waiting.





Two pounds milk per cow per day, for the





200 days the cows are in the barn, means 400

lbs. of milk, which at $3 per cwt. is a total

of $12 for the season.





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





In these days when feed and other costs

are high, can you afford to neglect this

extra profit? L





James cups will pay for themselves twice

over during the season. Can you afford to

be without them ?





James cups will save much time and work

— investigation shows thatthe labor saving

is $2.50 at least each year.





Can you afford to continue the frost biting





' work of chopping open the ice bound tank





out of doors?





t





James Zfaniifaeiuring Gompangl. WJt/cinson. Wseonsin





came 8





 





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Can- you afford to continue feeding the _,





 

 





 





bothersome tank heater through the chilly‘ 5





winter days?





Don’t put off this drinking cup proposition

Write us at once for a defin-I





a single day.

ite price estimate covering a drinking cup

installation in your barn.





We will quote you a definite price if you 1

will tell us the numberof stalls, of calf I





pens, of cow pens, of ‘bull pens for 'which

you want cups and whether the stalls or

pens are wood or steel.





Barn Book Free





If you are interested in other labor saving"; L

equipment for the dairy barn such as. cow-f"

stalls, carriers, steel pens, ventilators, etc..f





or if you are interested in up to the minutt';





ideas 1n the planning of the new barn, ask





also for our big barn building an bum





[equipment book “The JamesWay 0.24