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VOLU_.\1isw CLVI. NUMBER SEVEN





I_)_ETR01T, FEBRUARY 12, 1621





CURRENT COMMENT

OME weeks ago an





 





 





 





editorial comment

Farm in these columns

Bureau pointed out the two

Pohcres schools of thought in





process 0 f develop.

ment regarding the policies to be fol-

lowed by the Michigan State Farm

Bureau. The central or main idea of

each of these schools was impartially

summarized for the information of

Michigan Farmer readers, to the end

that farm bureau members among

them might have a proper opportunity

to pass judgment on this important

question of the policy of the organiza-

tion, through the delegates chosen to

represent them at the annual meeting.

It was also suggested that quite possi-

bly, as is generally the case, the best

line of action might lie somewhere

midway between the two extremes of

thought on the question.



Apparently the rank and file of farm

bureau members are of this opinion,

since their representatives at the an-

‘nual meeting repudiated the policy

championed by Secretary Bingham by

defeating him for president, but refus-

ed to lay down an inflexible policy for

the future conduct of the organization,

voting without dissent to leave this to

,be worked out by the executive com-

mittee, In effect this first expression

of a delegate meeting of the organiza-

tion relating to the question of policy

was general, rather than specific, leav-

ing the details to be worked out by an

executive committee in which this ac-

tion was an expression of full con-

fidence.



This course promises well for the

future work of the organization. The

members of the committee are all rep-

resentative farmers of high standing

and attainment in their respective com-

munities who will undoubtedly reflect

the sentiment of the membership which

they represent in their conduct of the

work of the organization, and in whom

that membership may have full con-

fidence. ‘



It is. of course, to be regretted that





there should have been any conflict in





questions of policy in putting over this

great farmers’ organization in Michi-

g'gan. . But this seems to have been un~

avoidable, since those who were chos-

en to carry the burden of the initial

work were of necessity guided by

ideals of their own creation rather than

by the crystallized opinion of the mem-

bership on the points of issue, which

found expression for the first time at

tho recent meeting. But notwithstand-

N the conflict of opinion and ideals

which was apparently unavoidable un-





der the circumstances, the committee





 





 





as constituted during the past did a

great work, for which great and last-

ing credit is due them. And this credit

should not be diminished or withheld

because they were loyal to those ideals

to the end. . ,



But the good of the cause is of far

greater consequence than the personal

interests of any or all of those who

may have contributed to its initial de-

velopment or success. The farm bu-

reau is essentially a democratic insti-

tution, in which the will of the major-

ity, as expressed through the channels

provided in its organization, should

rule. And, as is the case in every

democracy, the “greatest good to the

greatest number” among its member-

ship can result only from a united loy-

alty to the cause. For this reason the

future success and development of the

farm bureau depends not a little on

the loyalty of the minority in the re-

cent conflict of opinion under what

they may deem the handicap of pre-

vailing opinion.



The entire membership of the farm

bureau is practically of one mind as to

the results they desire to accomplish

through the organization. They are

divided only in the matter of opinion

as to, how those results can best be

attained, just as they are divided into

different groups in their opinions with

regard to the conduct of governmental

affairs and their personal or party

choice of public officials. But this lat-

ter division does not make them a whit

less Americans when the country faces

a crisis. Politics and political policies

are then forgotten and we are a unit

in the greater cause.





Let it be so with the farm bureau. It

has a great work before it, the most

successful accomplishment of which

must be a matter of gradual growth

and development. Its present destinies

are in the hands of as competent and

representative a group of Michigan

farmeis as could be selected for the

difficult task which confronts them.

They are entitled to the loyal support

of the entire membership in their ef-

forts to work out a policy which will

be for the “greatest good to the great-

est number” of the membership, and

consequently the greatest benefit to

Michigan agriculture.





F course time will

go on and the race





Farming will survive the pres-

and the out disturbance, and

Farmer surviving, it will need





and get food neces-

sary for existence. The farmer will

produce the great bulk of this food and

in distributing it he will get something

in return for his pains. The returns

may not be sufficient to satisfy his

mind, nor it may not pay him in full

for the expenses he may have been to

in producing the food. But unless the

situation this coming year is absolutely

different from that of all other years a

few, at least, of our farmers are going

to get paid in full and a little profit,

while on‘the other hand, however fav-

orable next season’s marketing situa—

tion may be there will be some farm~

ers who will take a loss. Babson, the

noted statistician, tells us that he has

yet to learn of an instance in any line

of business where there was not to be

found some person or concern operat-

ing at a loss. Certainly that is true of

farming and it emphasizes the human

equation in this business of producing

agriculture products.





Undoubtedly this coming year the

human element will mean more in suc-

cessful agriculture than it has in re-

cent years. Profits will come to the

industrious and the intelligent who

have initiative and intensity of pur-

pose rather than to the thoughtless

and slothful. The wise farmer will

look well to the policies he is to follow

the com-ing season. Costs will be more

carefully considered by him and more





 





than likely he will adopt some residue.





system of financial recordo. He will

engage his labor and purchase his sup.-

plies with an eye single to the purpose

of securing the most efficient produc-

tion consistent with permanent agri-

culture. Every sensible marketing help

will be invoked to aid him in disposing

of his goods. He perhaps will find it

expedient to modify his plan of crop-

ping to the end that a larger portion of

his acres will‘be in pasture or meadow

in order that he may have a chance to

put his land in a better state of fer-

tility against the day when he may

again wish to produce maximum crops

to take advantage of high prices. In a

hundred ways the thrfity farmer will

fix his course so that he will have

every legitimate advantage that can be

brought to his aid. He will use every

effort to keep his business in the prof-

itable class.





HE labor situation





Whya in the country

F .1 during recent years



am, y is largely responsible

Garden? for the disappearance





of the once familiar

home garden, with its delicious fruits

and appetizing vegetables. There have

been presented no convincing argu-

ments showing the wisdom of allowing

this rural institution to pass out of the

farmer’s life, even from an economic

standpoint, while we know that its de-

cay has been a contributing influence

in driving the younger people away.

The old garden certainly added to

the attractiveness of the farm home,

and judging from the interest of ‘juve-

nile members of the various garden

clubs in their work the little yard near

the house went far toward satisfying

the desire for doing things. In fact,

when one revisits one of the old homes

where once it seemed that everything

invited him to come in, he is astonish~

ed at the change wrought in eliminat-

ing the garden place and devoting it

to the regular field crops.





The reason for claiming that the gar-

den has a real place upon our farms is

not merely sentiment. It goes farther,

farther even than the dollars and cents

value of the products grown. That dig-

nified gentleman known as the country

physician, has repeatedly told us that

we can keep our bodies in much better

health if we make a more extensive

use of vegetables and fruit juices in

our diet, and he is no vegetarian. Any

casual observer has noted the compar-

atively small amounts of fruits and

vegetables used on farms where no

garden is provided. The better health

now enjoyed by city folks as compared

with that of a decade or more ago is

moreor less traceable to the increased

amount of green food consumed. Do-

ing without these foods and substitut-

ing salt pork is not the economy it

may seem. In the end the practice is





quite certain to prove exceedingly ex-





pensive in shortening life and in mount-

ing up doctors’ bills.



Furthermore, the labor end of the

question is generally not so bad as

many have led themselves to believe.





Once the garden soil has been made-





rich it does not take a large area to

supply the farm home with an abund-

ance of health-giving products. If labor

demands must be cut there are other

places where the reduction can be





more safely made, especially if there;





are boys and girls in the family. Duty

toward them in giving the most perfect

bodies with which to start their cours-

es in life, is sufficient reason to lead

parents to continue-or reestablish the

good old family garden.





News of the Week





Wednesday, February 2.

ANY independent steel anufac-

turing concerns in the P ttsburgh

distridt resume'operations. —-—President





tions in which he urges th 1; Russia be





Wilson addresses the Leigue :ot‘ Na}f





guns linseed against attacksifrom was

out. ——The settlement of diplomat:





Drabl'ems between the United States

and Japan will be postponed until the:





Harding admmistration assumes office.





-——‘It is reported that Germany will re-





fuse to negotiate on the basis of the

entente decisions on reparations, but

will submit counter propositions.—

The house of representatives reduces





the deficiency bill by $275, 000 .000.»





Thursday, February ~3.

HE senate foreign. relations com-





mittee reports out resolution pro~





hibiting secretary of the treasury from

taking further action in regard to al-





.lied loans—A drive is started looking





toward the modification of navigation

laws on the great lakes—A group of

American banks have approved a 310.-

000,000 loan to finance the sale of con-

densed milk and other similar prod-

ucts to Great Britain and Europe

through the War Finance Corporation.

———The Christian population of Galicia,

Asia Minor, is said to be threatened

by the Turks. —The Poles charge that

Germans are making arms in violation

of the peace treaty.





Friday, F ebruar'y 4.





ATA gathered by the United States



Senate indicate that some of the

coal mining companies made profits

estimated at two hundred per cent

during 1920.—The Michigan State Sen-

ate passes the so-called auditing bill.—

United States engineers decide that

there are only -four practicable canal

routes to connect the great lakes with

the Gulf of Mexico—The house of rep-

resentatives votes funds for an army

of 150,000 men—The French govern-

ment sends an ultimatum to Turkey

demanding the immediate release of

French soldiers captured in a recent

engagement—President Wilson acting

on a communication from President-

elect Harding, issues a. proclamation

calling a special session of the United

States Senate to convene March 4.





Saturday, February 5.





HE British government formally



proposes that the United States

cancel all inter-allied debts; the Unit-

ed States turns down the suggestion.—

The house committee of the Michigan

legislature makes an investigation of

riots in the state reformatory at Ionia.

—The Wayne county circuit court de-

cides that the municipally owned car

lines cannot be legally built acr0ss the

Detroit United lines—The head of the

Greek cabinet resigns—By decree,

President Obregon, of Mexico, returns

twenty banks to their owners—A

clash between soldiers and workmen

in a nitrate plant in northern Chile re-

sults in twenty- three deaths.





Sunday, February 6.





LOYD-GEORGE, of Great Britain,

states that Germany must disarm

and make full payment ofvthe damage

inflicted by the war.——The house of

representatives passes a resolution

prohibiting enlistments into the regu-

lar army until the number of men is

reduced to 175,000.——It is stated that

trade negotiations between England

and Russia have been discontinued——

An investigation of retail prices shows

a general decline of about twenty-five

per cent in the cost of food at Detroit

since December 1.

Monday, February 7.

HE premiers of the federated

states of Germany agree to stand

firm against the demand fox tepera-

tions by the allies. ——Japanese soldiers

ale accused of widespiead destiuction

of life and property in the province of

Chientoa, by a Korean commission—-

Twenty— —five persons were killed and

f01ty hurt when a height and passen-

ger train collide near Felixford, Aus-

tria. -—~The Canadian goveinment will

aid in the suppression of liquor smug-

gling into the United States. “A new

Gleek cabinet is formed ’

- Tuesday, Feerary 8.

REPORT is presented to :the

French Academy of Science on a

new and successful treatment fortu-

berculosis discovered by the Swiss bac-

teriologist, Henry Spahlinger. —Presl-

dent Obregon urges members of the

Mexican congress to take early action

in the oil dispute which he declares

has become international in scope——

Twentyl of the McKeespOIt tin plate

mills resume work with the men ac-

cepting a twenty per cent wage reduc-

tion. —Premier Lenine of bolshevist

Russia, fears that the fight between





labor unions and the soviet for supre-'





macy will break up the whole commun-

ist state. —-Switzer1and refuses to per-

mit the armed force authorized by the

League of Namns to Vilna during the

coming plebiscite, to Cross her '-do

mains. '—-Chlcago packers propose to

the federal courts a new plan for the

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of the Bureau of Markets, and

now vice-president of the Amer-

ican Fruit Growers, Inc., of Pittsburgh,

was the leading speaker Tuesday, dis-

cussing “Sta'ndardization and Trans-

portation of Perishable Products” be-

fore the Michigan Horticultural Soci-

ety in the morning, and “Market Prob-

lems: Financing and Facilities,” at the

general afternOon meeting.

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conditions, with ocean shippingpropor-





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itionately cheaper than land transpor-





tation in the United States, it has be-

come necessary to place sufficient tar-

iff to prevent destruction of valuable

industries, in the opinion of Mr. Brand.

He declared himself opposed to high

tariffs on general principles, but lad-

ded:



“I firmly believe that those indus-

tries called forth by economic need

should have that degree of protection

that will permit a well-ordered agricul-

ture, economically and efficiently car-

ried on, to exist at a reasonable profit

to the producer. I do not favor a high

rate of tariff on potatoes that will en-

able Maine, New York, Pennsylvania,

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Charles J. Brand.





undue toll from the consumer, but I do

favor reasonable tariff rates that will

permit our own potato industry to

flourish on a fair competitive basis,

considering prevalent economic condi-

tions in the United States compared

with those existing in other parts of

the world.”



“Taking up the taxation question,

Mr. Brand attacked the proposed sales

tax which would be levied upon gener-

al or limited turnovers. A sales tax,

he said, would be objectionable for the

following reasons: First, it would be

on gross and not on net income: sec—

ond, it Would be based upon volume

of business rather than ability to pay;

third, it would not fall equally upon

the citizenship; fourth, it would give

large and well-organized industries an

advantage over small ones;

eign goods would pay only one tax,

domestic goods many; and sixth, trad-

ing corporations would be taxed un-

duly compared with manufacturing

ones.



“Organizations such as these repre-

sented here should make, their voice

heard with respect to these matters in

congress,” said Mr. Brand.



Standardization in production meth-

ods, products, containers, and trade

practices and terms was urged by Mr.

Brand in hispaddress before the horti-

culturists. As for production methods,

he urged a reduction in varieties and





a focusing upon‘those kinds that com-





bine in the highest degree the good

qualities that the consumer desires

with the characteristics necessary to

make poSsible successful transporta-

tion to market.”



“Standards are essential to the large

scale handling of any product. Con-

tracts cannot be made sufliciently_defi-

nite nor can they be enforced properly

without them. The producer and dis-

tributor will not be able to describe

with sufficient acéuracy what he is sell-

ing or the purchaser and consumer to

know certainly the character of what

he is buying without them.



Too many varieties of containers are

now on the market, 'said Mr. Brand,

to permit efliciency in the distribution

of products. The Vestal‘billnow be-

fore congress provides for a radical

reduction in the number of these on

the market.



Standardization of trade practices

and terms he urged to p1event misun-

derstandings between the shipper and

the receiver.





SUGAR BEET GROWERS RETAIN

ORGANIZATION.





EJECTION of the contract prices

submitted to Michigan sugar beet

growers by sugar companies, and de-

termination to retain the organization

of the Michigan Sugar Beet Growers’

Association, marked the meeting of the

association held in the Agricultural

Building, Wednesday afternoon.

Endorsement of the work of the as-

sociation during the past year was

given when the entire list of officers

and directors was re-elected for the

coming year. Credit for a gradual





 





' raise in the price of beets du1ing 1e-





cent years was given to the associa-

tion by President Ketcham, who con-

tended that while the growe1s did not

get the price they asked for last year,

the association was responsible for get-

ting as high prices as were given.



While the association turned down

the proffered contract prices offered by

the manufacturers, it indicated willing-

ness to accept the standard of prices

worked out by the National Sugar

Beet Growers’ Association in Chicago

last month.



Previous meetings of the Sugar Beet

Growers’ Association have been held

at Saginaw, but the gathering was set

for East Lansing during Farmers’

Week this year in the belief that it

would be a better time and place for

the growers to meet, according to

President Ketcham.



The four major motions passed by

the association might be summarized

as follows:



1. That Michigan Sugar Beet Grow-

ers’ Association retain its entity.



2. That contract submitted to grow

ers by Michigan sugar companies be

rejected.



3. That standard contract as worked

out in Chicago last month at National





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Sugar Beet Growers’ meetings be adop-

ted; that it be presented to sugar fac-

tories asking their cooperation; and

that information of the action be given

to local associations.





4. That National Farm Bureau Fed-

eration program with reference to or-

ganizing beet growers of all states

growing beets be backed, the amount

of pecuniary aid to be given being left

to the executive committee’s discre-

tion. -





Commenting on this last action,

President Ketcham of the Michigan As-

sociation, said that it involved carry-

ing out the National Farm Bureau’s

recommendation that Michigan take

the initiative by putting a field agent

out to effect organization of the grow-

ers in this and other states. The ar-

rangement would call for the Michigan

organization to pay the salary of the

agent, while the National Farm Bureau

would take care of administrative ex-

penses, stenographer, postage etc.





The association then adopted a reso—

lution providing funds .amounting to

$1,000 to be immediately released to

the American Farm Bureau Federation

to use in the employment of an or-

ganizer. It will be the duty of the

man employed to assist in developing

representative organizations in each

of the important sugar beet states. and

to work out so far as it is possible,

uniform contracts and prices to be

offered the manufacturers.





A fifty-fifty split of beet profits be-

tween the grower and manufacturer,

and determination of price on the basis

of the price of sugar and the average

sugar content of the beets, were points

urged by C. A. Ackerman, of Durand,

in addressing the meeting. Ackerman

reviewed the beet situation, and rec-

ommended legislation as the method

of solving some of the problems in the

present situation. The bona fide mem-

bership of the asSociation was given

by Ackerman as between nine and ten

thousand.





Establishment of a court of business

relations, to settle disputes such as

arise between growers and manufactur-

ers, was suggested by J. N. McBride.

Consideration of the cost of production

of beets and determination of the cost

of manufacturnig would be the means

by which the court could aid in getting

at a settlement of differences. Support

of the farm bureau in this matter was

the definite suggestion made, the Pub





lic Utilities Commission being mention<





ed as a possible body to act as the

court.



The consumer is not to be forgotten

in the plan outlined by Mr. McBride,

for following the price clear through

to the consumer to see that he also

gets a fair deal is part of the program.

Discussion of judicial and senatorial

sanction of the plan was also given.



Details of the standard contract price

basis worked out recently at Chicago

were given the association by T. C.





 





 





14/! Attendance





the various meetings.





for the farmers of the state.





 





 





T HE record attendance at'the Michigan Agricultural College

during Farmers’ Week marks a new milestone in the his-

tory of Michigan’s agricultural progress.

the week totaled more than five thousand, and never in the his-

tory of the state and college has there been such a degree of en-

thusiasm exhibited as was prevalent during the entire period of

Good speakers, enthusiastic farmers and

the new spirit of cooperation all tended to solidify the agricul-

tural interests of the state and bring about a feeling that in spite

of the present adverse conditions there are better times ahead





Record: Broéerz





The attendance during





 





 





 





 





P11ce of Saginaw, who was a delegate .





to the national meeting.

The standard cont1act is based on





mice for the entiie year and the aver-:

content during the slicing .7





age sugar





season. It runs as follows: For five-





cent sugar, $6.45 a ton; six-cent’Sugarfl





$7.74 a ton; eight-cent sugar, $101.32.};

ton; ninecent sugar, $11.61 a ton; ten-

cent sugar, $12.90 a ton; eleven-cent

sugar, $14.19 a ton; twelve-cent sugar,

$15.48 a ton; thirteen-cent sugar, $16.77

a ton; fourteen-cent sugar, $18.05 a ton

fifteen-cent sugar, $19.55 a ton.



Officers re—elected for next year in-

clude: President, John C. Ketcham,

of Hastings; secretary-treasurer, R. P.

Reavey, of Caro; general manager, C.

A. Ackerman, of Durand; directors,

Fred Holland, of Linden; Tom C. Price,

of Saginaw; John Purtell, of KawKaw-

lin; Bert Mellinger, of Ithaca; D. S.

Harriott, of St. Johns; Godfred Gettle,

of Sebewaing, and John L. Shepherd,

of Allenton.





PROBLEMS OF RECONSTRUCTION.

OST of the foolish talk- about re-

talliation, about coercion and



about starving the world has subsid-



ed,” said Dean Eugene Davenport of





 





Eugene Davenport.





the University of Illinois, speaking up-

on the subject, “Agriculture in Recon-

struction,” at the evening session on

Wednesday.





“Thanks to our marvelous system of.





farm bureaus and their federations, we

are rapidly settling down into a state

of mind which is both sane and safe,

and we are approaching the next plant'

ing season with a remarkable under-

standing of the situation. All things





. considered, it looks as though the coun-





try as a whole, together with the farm-





ers, had passed through within a pe-





riod of six months what required sev-

eral years of readjustment period fol-

lowing the Civil War.





Questions or marketing, transporta-—





tion and credit will be the principal





problems of reconstruction in the near _,





future, according to Dean Davenport.

The farmer must have credit for more

than three months, since his turnover

comes only once a year, maintained

Mr. Davenport, and he favored a sys-

tem whereby the tanner should be giv-

en loans extending over longer periods

of time. I



After three immediate questions are

cared for, agriculture again must face

the problem of production in competii-





tion with the world, said Mr. Daven-

port. He pointed out that whereas the}?

United States has appropriated great v

' sums of money for agricultural exten- 1’





 

   

 





 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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ince the passage of the Smith-

er act in 1914, agricultural re-

farch' has been at a standstill. The

tilt is, he said, that young men‘ of

hecountry are going into other lines





'of work, thus imperiling the future of

‘ the experiment stations. .





Dean Davenport urged liberal appro-





V' Spriations for M. A. C., of which he is





a graduate. He declared the college

cannot live upon its past, and must





. have money if it is to develop properly.





 





.MAKE FARMING PROFITABLE.





 





ARM credit is the crux of the whole

agricultural problem today, is the





‘opinion of A. F. Lever, member of the





farm loan board and former congress-





‘ 'man who has played a leading part in





shaping important. agricultural .legisiw

tion for'the last ten years. Mr. Lover

addressed. the 'general afternoon 'ses-

sion on Wednesday. ,



A federal warehouse plan by which

the country would be' divided into

twelve sections, with a commodity

bank and warehouse in each, was fav-

ored by the speaker. “The products of

the farm should be warehoused," he

said, “and against them should be is-

sued warehouse receipts by commodi-

ties. These warehouse receipts should

be pooled in the hands of a govern-

ment trustee, regionally, and against

these there should be certificates of

indebtedness with varied maturing pe-

riods issued and offered for sale upon

the money markets of the country, just

as are the bonds of the government





   





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“It may be necessary in order to

give these certificates prestige to have

back of them as an initial capital a re-.

volving fund of sufficient size appropri-

ated out of the treasury. But any

scheme of this kind'should look ulti-

mately to providing its own capital

and retiring the government capital so

that the system would be purely a

farmers’ system, operated under gov-

ernment supervision and regulation, as

in the farm loan system.”



Mr. Lever declared it is necessary

to make farming profitable because

only-twenty per cent of all AmeriCan

farms have running water in the home

and most- farm housewives are obliged

to labor from eleven to thirteen hours

a day. The causes, he said, are a sys-





 





the entire year.

The solution of- this state of af~

fairs, ,he- asherted, lies in, first, the





elimination. of all unnecessary factors





in the present system of distribution;

second, the organization of commodity

sales agencies; third, the standardiza-

tion of farm products into grades and

classes; fourth. the warehousingof

sufficient quantities of products to set

up an even flow of such product into

the market of the world as the imme—

diate demands of the world call for

them; fifth, the devising of such credit

machinery as will enable the faimel

to market his products in a sane and

01 derly way. .





Annual Meeting State Farm Bureau





first Opportunity of Delegates to \Exprei": new: on Burma Policies.





R the first time in the history of

Film Michigan State Farm Bureau,



the policies to be followed by the

organization were considered by a del-

egate body at its annual meeting at

M. A. C. last week.



For a considerable period, two

schools of thought regarding the pol-

icy to be followed by the association

were developing in the executive com-

mittee and among the membership.

One of these headed by C. A. Bingham,

secretary of the organization, believed

that a strong central organization

should be maintained in control of all

a policy which

has been adhered to more or less close-

ly in the organization work of the past

yeah



The other school, with the apparent

support of a majority of the executive

committee, which was led on the floor

of the meeting by Prof. Hale Tennant,

director of marketing of the federal

agricultural extension service for Mich-

igan, took the position that coopera-

tive organization work should follow

commodity lines. For example, the

sugar beet producers should have full

control of the business of making con-

tracts with the manufacturers, the po-

tato growers should handle their own

marketing problems, and so on with

the live stock men, fruit growers, hay

growers, elevator exchange, etc. These

separate _ commodity organizations

should then correlate their efforts and

COOperate through an interlocking di-

rectorate in handling matters of com-

mon interest.



The positions maintained by these

two_ schools were explained to the del-

egates in connection with the reading

of the recommendations of both the

executive committee and the secretary,

which are published elsewhere in this

issue. The contest came with the elec-

tion of president for the coming year.

Mr. James Nicol, of the executive com-

mittee, and Mr. Bingham, were the

nominees. When the ballots were

counted, Mr. Nicol had 113 and Mr.

Bingham 55. For the office of vice-

president, M. L. Noon, of Jackson, was





   





‘ elected over Ray C. Potts, of Washing—





ton, by practically the same margin,



New members to the executive com-

mittee were elected as follows: Mrs.

Edith M. Wagar, of Monroe county;

A. T. Depue, of Menominee county; W.

E. Phillips, of Van Buren county, and

Fred Smith, of Antrim county. Dele-

gates elected to the American Farm

Bureau convention were as‘ follows:

President James Nicol, M. L. Noon, A.

J. Rogers, A. E. Illenden and C. A.





'_ Bingham. The following gives a brief

sketch of the qualifications of the new

.oflicials elected at this meeting:





. , James Nicol, President.

' Mr. Nicol has long been a fruit grow-





 

 





 





ties throughout the state. He was in-

strumental in organizing and develop-

ing the South Haven Fruit Exchange,

one of the pioneer cooperative fruit

marketing exchanges of the state. He

has been president of the Michigan

Horticultural Society for the past two

years, and has been increasingly ag-

gressive in the promotion of ideas for

agricultural development. Mr. Nicol

has served tw0 years on the executive

committee of the Michigan State Farm

Bureau and recently was reelected to

the presidency of the Allegan County

Farm Bureau.

M. L. Noon, Vice-president.



Mr. Noon is one of the leading dairy

farmers of Jackson county, and a force

in farmer organization in his county

and throughout the state, particularly

in the dairy branch. He is a director

of the Michigan Milk Producers' Asso-

ciation, producers' representative on

the committee of fifteen of the State

Farm Bureau Dairy Department, presi-

dent of the Jackson County Farm Bu-

reau, and a director in local coopera-

tive associations. He was one of the

early premoters of the farm bureau

idea.





New Members of Executive

Committee.





Mrs. Edith M. Wagar, of Carleton,

Monroe county, was one of the first

members of the Monroe County Farm

Bureau. She served on the county

board during the state drive. She is a

member of the women’s work commit-

tee of the Michigan State Grange, was

lecturer in Wayne county for fourteen

years, and is a member of the legisla-

tive committee of Michigan women

voters. She has always lived on a.

farm, and her creed is to make her

farm home her-home for all time.





W. E. Phillips, of Decatur, Van Bur-

en county, has been identified with the

farm bureau movements for several

years and helped organize Van Buren

county. He was a member of the De-

troit conference of September, 1919,

which decided to put on a state organ-

ization drive. He has been active in

all three state conventions—was chair-

man of the resolutions committee in

1920, and of the rules mittee in

1921. He is president of t an Buren

County Farm Burea member of the

board of control of ltaelfii‘arm Bureau

Elevator Exchange, and manager of a

cooperative exchange. He is engaged

in farming near Decatur.



A. T. Depue, of Faithorne, Menomi-

nee county, a former Illinois lawyer,

who turned his attention to agricul-

ture some time ago, has long been a

student of economics and cooperative

problems. He assisted in the organi-

zation of a number of farmers’ cooper-

ative grain companies. He has had

several years’ farm' bureau experience

and assisted in the Menominee county





work. He is engaged in dairying and

is interested in potatoes, hay, beets

and sheep.





Fred Smith, of Elk Rapids, is well

known as a leader in state farm bu-

reau work. He has been prominent in‘

cooperative activities, is president of

his local marketing association, former

official of the Potato Growers’ Ex-

change, and a pioneer in the live stock

exchange movement. He is a live stock

man and farms eight hundred acres

near Elk Rapids.





Resolutions.



The following resolutions were adop-

ted at the annual meeting of the board

of delegates February 3-4, 1921:



1. It is resolved by the delegates of

the Michigan State Farm Bureau that

American farm products should have

equal consideration in national protec.

tive tariffs with other products and

further that the emergency aglicultu1-

a1 ta1iff bill now before congless is

hereby endorsed, and further, that a

copy of this resolution be sent to all

of Michigan’s senators and congress-

men as an expression of Michigan ag-

riculture.



2. Resolved that the board of dele~

gates in its third annual meeting urge

the early enactment of house bills Nos.

51 and 52 1e1ating to re01 ganization of

state agricultuial. and conservational

departments. Also do we urge the same

action on the bill regarding state aid

in grasshopper control.



3. Whereas, there is a 1920-1921 ap-

propriation of $3, 000, made by the last

state legislatule to the Michigan State

Fa1m Bureau, as yet unexpended, and



Whereas, a survey of the state’s

finances disclosed by the governor

shows that a most rigid economy in





expenditures of state moneys is vital-





if the tax levy is not to become a ser-

ious burden to the people of the state,

and further that the state this year is

facing a deficit of several millions of

dollars, and



Whereas, the Michigan State Farm

Bureau has developed in the last two

years to a point where it may be main-

tained absolutely by the farmers of the

state independently of any other as-

sistance, it is hereby



Resolved, that the Michigan State

Farm Bureau relinquish its claim to

this unexpended $3,000 appropriation

so that it may become part of the gen-

eral contingency fund of the state, and

further



That this relinquishment of claim be

accompanied by an expression of ap-

preciation to the state government for

the assistance lent in 1919-1920 by an

appropriation of $3,000 that was used

in the up-building of the organization.



4. Resolved by the Michigan State

Farm Bureau that action should be

taken by the legislature to limit the

powers of county road commissioners

in laying out the so- -called Covert roads

and spreading assessments upon the

different political subdivisions and

property‘ owners.



5. The Michigan State Farm Bureau

endorses the campaign for near east

relief being made in. Michigan, as a

meritorious enterprise deserving of the

hearty personal support of the mem-

bership.



6. Whereas, congress is considering

a proposed tariff on Canadian timber,

therefore, be it resolved, that it is the





belief of the Michigan State Farm Bus '





reau that imposing a tariff on Canadi—

an timber or lumber imported from Can.

ada is contrary to the best interests of

American farmers and home-makers.





7. Whereas, thousands of autos are

now driven from factory to user out-

side the state, resolved, that these

cars, knows as drive-away cars, should

pay a‘ tax of three dollars on each

drive-aWay car in Michigan and such

tax money so collected shall be placed

in the general highway maintenance

fund.



8. Whereas, the Michigan State Farm

Bureau represents all the organized

counties in Michigan, impartially,

therefore be it resolved that we, the

delegates of the Michigan State Farm

Bureau in meeting hereby instruct the

state executive committee to keep

close supervision over all the business

operations in organized counties, seek

in every possible manner to help the

c0unty obtain better business manag—

ers and methods and Where county

memberships are'so small that the rev

ceipts from the farm bureau dues will

not support a capable manager, the

state executive committee shall assist

two or mo1e counties to organize to-

gether into a unit.



9. Resolved that the Michigan State

Farm Bureau, through its legislative

committee support the plan of merging

.the many agricultural boards now in

existence into centralized departments,

urge the passage of a state income tax

in the place of the present personal in

tangible tax on bonds and mortgages;

strive for greater economy in state gov-

ernment; request adequate appropria-

tion for the Michigan Agricultural Col-

lege; urge the state aid for counties

combating the grasshopper plague and

urge the passage of the seed law that

will give real protection; that investi-

gation will be made of all'bills present-

ed and where necessary actively op~

pose or support such legislation.



10. Whereas, the Michigan Agricul-

tural College has proved itself to be a

great benefit to the farmers of Michi-

gan, and whereas its liberal support

by the state of Michigan is necessary

for the continuance of its great work,



Therefore be it resolved, that the

Michigan State Farm Bureau request

the. legislature of the state of Michi-

gau for ample appropriations for its

support and maintenance.





Recommendations of Executive Cam-

mittee.





Here are the recommendations made

to the board of delegates, Michigan

State Farm Bureau, by the executive

committee. The following is taken

from the report of the joint committee

on organization policy of the Michigan

State Farm Bureau and the Extension

Department of Michigan Agricultural

College, as adopted October 18, 1920:



That the Michigan State Farm Bu-

reau is both a promotion and business

institution and necessarily inseparable.



That the fa1m bureau‘ members or-

ganize by departments with reference

to agricultural commodities, and that

each organized department be entitled

to an advisory board to work with the

executive committee,,and that at such

future time as developments will war:

rant, that these departments be entit-

led to representations on the executive

committee. ,



Whereas, there is a fundamental dif-





ference of opinion as to the most 9"





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Accumulating Surp/m Ha: Dita/6726:)! to Hold Price: at Low Level:

By Sanders Sorlcma’





OMETHING is wrong with the

feedstuffs market. That something

is merely a case of tee much—too

much feed. For every bid for a quan-





' tity of feed there are ten offers and





ten dealers competing keenly to obtain

the order. A year ago, or in the past

few years, it was a case of more bid-

ders and mere buyers than oifers, and

buyers were entirely dependent ‘upon

the attitude of’ the sellers. Not in many

years has there been such a radical

change from 3. sellers' to a buyers’

market. This has been made possible,

of course, by the immense supply of

various feeds. Where there is a scar-

city of some individual feed, others

which provide an excellent substitute

are available .in abundance and at

much cheaper prices. As to the price

changes in the 'past month, no mate-





‘ rial interruption to the declining ten-





dency has developed, norrare there any

signs in the market which indicate

that an upturn is” in sight.



The immense supply of corn in the

United States is the bearishvforde be-

hind the feedstuffs market. Corn is

selling at ridiculously low prices, far

below the cost of production, and at a

sharp discount under competitive feeds.

So corn is being used on a very exten-

sive scale as a substitute for most

feedstuffs. Cattle fatteners are feed-

ing corn very liberally and cutting

down on their purchases of cottonseed

cake and meal, linseed feed, alfalfa

mixed feeds and other commercial

products. The hog producer is follow-

ing a similar course, and even the

dairyman is using larger quantities of

corn than in previous years. Feed au-

thorities are urging the use of corn in

feeding dairy_stock as a partial substi-

tute for oil meal, and they ,claim that

excellent resultsare being obtained.

Certainly there is a sufficiently wide

differential in price to justify the use

of com. The substitution of corn for

other feeds has been stimulated also

by the fact that .the crop is more even-

ly distributed than in many years.





Even with the generous 'use of the

grain, the market for Corn is extremely





Weak and the demand at terminals is .





far insufficient to absorb the offerings.

Corn is selling between fifty and sixty

cents a bushel, around fifty-five to six-

ty cents a bushel in Chicago at this

writing, for cash offerings, the lowest

prices which have prevailed since

January of 1913. Based on the net

price received by the producer, the

current corn market is even lower than

at the opening of 1913, owing to the

sharp advance in freight rates since

that time. In few sections of the im-

portant producing areas of the middle

west are the net prices received by.

farmers more than thirty-five cents a

bushel, with many districts down to

twenty—five and thirty cents. The only

important buyers of corn are the ele-

vator operators, particularly those lo-

cated at terminals, who are absorbing

the offerings on a large scale and im-

mediately selling or hedging the grain

in the future market. A very sharp

discount prevails on the cash under

the future, and the elevator men are

profiting by such operations. With the

heavy selling pressure in the future

market, however, and the lack of de-

mand, corn cannot gather enough

strength to turn up in price, so contin-

ues to tend downward.



Thq ability of hogs to hold up in

price- around nine cents a pound on

middle west markets would ordinarily





; ,be a bullish influence on corn, yet

there is such a remarkable disparity in

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tions would mean ninety cents a bush-

el for corn. There is a relative scar-

city of hogs in the country and not

enough to consume the surplus grain.

The heavy corn receipts on markets

are not finding their way into hands of

hog producers, nor are cattle fattenérs

buying on a liberal scale, as usual at

this time of the year. Excellent win-

ter weather has been a restricting in-

fluence.



Oats can be bought around forty

cents a bushel in Chicago, with other

markets in the central states within a

range of two or three cents of this fig-

ure. The market is weak, probably ex-

tremely weak, due to position of corn

and actual lack of demand. Cotton

planters in the south are buying spar-

ingly and the outlets to other sections

have centracted sharply. Both corn

and oats usually enjoy a bull market

during the spring and early summer

period, and it is possible that a higher

level of prices will then prevail, though

supplies are so burdensome and the

demand prospects so discouraging that

material upturns the remainder of the

crop year are now a serious question.

Both grains, however, have declined

to such abnormally low levels that pur-

chases on a moderate scale are advis‘





seed cake and meal and the price out-

look. Many argue that the market

must reach a new low level, down to

$20 a ton in Texas, the basic price





'state, with a freight parity at other





other points in the south. Still oth~

ers say that the low point already has

been witnessed, that is, the $22-market

of a month ago. Within the past month

cottonseed cake and meal have sold as

high as $25.50 a ton in Texas, $26.50 in

Oklahoma, $28 to $30 in Little Rock

and Arkansas territory, and $31 to $33

in Memphis territory, these quotations

being on the forty-three per cent pro-

tein grade. Slight recessions have

since occurred, particularly in Texas,

where offerings are down to $23.

Feeding demand for cottonseed feed

has increased on a small scale, Michi-

gan and the surrounding states being

moderate buyers. Corn belt producers

of live stock, while not using as much

cottonseed cake and meal as a year

ago owing to the immense stocks of

corn and cheap price. of the grain, are

consuming more of the concentrate

than commonly supposed. They find

the use of cake and meal in the ration

profitable. But the corn belt. demand

is not enough to sustain values. The

range country, normally a very heavy





 





 





 





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able, though not with any idea or ex-

pectation of effecting a‘ sharp saving

in price. Neither of these grains is

so low that they cannot go still lower.

No material change is apparent in

the linseed cake and meal situation.

The price has remained about station-

ary, around $39 a ton at Minneapolis,

while cake and meal market at the

seaboard, which for a time displayed

strength as a. result of an increase in

the foreign demand, fell off about $4.00

a ton to around $46 a ton. Linseed

feed is too high-compared with corn

and the feeding demand is thus rather

sharply restricted to domestic chan-

nels. Feeders are using more corn

and less of the concentrate. The flax-

seed market is extremely weak, with

continued pressure of ofierings from

the Argentine. This tends to exert a

weakening influence on values. Opera-

tions of crushing plants have been

quite restricted, due 'in a large meas-

ure.to the lack of demand for linseed

oil. In this connection, there is hope

of a revival of buying of linseed oil by

the paint trade with the opening of the

spring season, in which event crushers

would begin grinding more rapidly.

This, Of course, is a bearish prospect

on the linseed cake and meal.

Market observers are more or less





 





consumer of cake and meal, has

bought only insignificant quantities.

There is too much hay in the west

and the exceptionally favorable weath-

er over the range territory has per-

mitted a sharp contraction in the buy-

ing. Also, fertilizer interests have

bought little cottonseed meal, and the

manufacturers of commercial feeds,

whose outlets have shrunk relatively

more than that for other feeds, have

been practically out of the market

There is no important export business

passing. There is little probability 6f

any sharp upward swings in prices,

the question just now concerning the

prospects for- a further downturn.

There is no immediate need of buying

cake and meal for deferred require-

ments. Favorable consideration should

be given cottonseed feed by feeders in

their purchases of protein feeds. It. is

doubtful Whether protein alone is avail-

able anywhere at a cheaper price than

in cottonseed cake and meal.

Millfeeds present a rather bearish

outlook. The consuming trade is very

reluctant to take hold, buying only on

a hand-to-mouth scale and restricting

consumption as much as possible. Corn

is being used as a partial subtsitute,

particularly for shorts. It is not sur-

prising that bran and shorts are being





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' corn, with a higher feeding value, is?"

selling at a considerable discount uh:

with cottonseed;





der the mill offals,

cake and meal also below a parity. But





there is a powerful influence againsta '





declining trend of prices in the fact

that operations of flour milling plants

over the entire United States, in both

the spring and winter wheat sections,

are far below normal, less than half

normal capacity for this time of the

year. And this has been the case

throughout the crop year, the excep-

tionally light demand for flour in both

domestic and foreign channels having

forced many mills to shut down.

is the prospect for enlargmeent in the

demand for flour encouraging. The

trade in the breadstuffs is increasing

slightly and slowly, but normal operaf

tions for any lengthy period are not

expected the remainder of the crop

“year. The supply situation on mill-'

feeds is therefore rather bullish, but

this is almost entirely offset by the

super~abundance of other feeds avail-'

able at a discount in price. So far as

demand is concerned, still lower prices

are to be expected. The weather has

been too mild to create a demand, and,

with spring approaching, the trade:

sees less buying ahead. .



Minneapolis quotes spring wheat

bran around $26 a ton for spot or

prompt shipment and down to $25 a

ion for deferred delivery, with brown

shorts 01 standard middlings there at



23 and may slim ts or flour middlings

alound $27. Kansas City, the leading

hard winter wheat market, is offering

bran at $24 a ton for spot shipment and





$23 to $23.50 for thirty—day shipment,





with brown shorts at about the same

price, and gray at a premium of a dol-

lar a ton. Bran in St. Louis is around

$28 to $29 a ton and gray shorts at $29

to $30. Chicago is practically on a

parity with St. Louis. Detroit quotes

bran around $36 a ton. Values as a





whole average about a dollar to two’





dollars a ton lower than a month ago.



Alfalfa and tame hay have not reach-

ed bottom. The supplies of hay in the

country, particularly the surplus being

held by alfalfa growers in the west,

are of .enormous proportions. Prices

are being temporarily sustained, how-

ever, by the reluctance of producers to

dispose of their surplus at the prevail-

ing level, which they claim is too low.

The prices being paid for hay on man

kets is relatively high, too high,, in

fact, for the consumer, but, after ex-





’ orbitant freight rates and other charg-





es are deducted, there is little left for

the producer. Incidentally, there is

vital need for a reduction in freight

rates, carriers, recognizing this, al-

ready having made a partial readjust—

ment from the northwest. Growers are

hoping for a rallyin prices on alfalfa

before spring, around which time they





' are planning to unload freely of their





surplus. Possibly they have analyzed

the market outlook correctly, but this

is not the conclusion generally reach~

ed. Market observers feel that the pro-

ducer is merely stretching‘out his loss-

esand holding up the agony. Alfalfa

is selling in Kansas City, the principal

market, around $15 to $25 a. ton, with





good shipping grades available around





$18 to $20 a ton.





 





“When the farmers‘ pocketbooks are

empty they are poor customers,” says

the Missouri Farm Bureau Federation

in a letter to its members in which it





reports that the largest of mail order.

houses has just given out a statement!

that sales during October declined; 1





forty per cent as compared with 0c;

tober, 1919. Through lack of business

the Missouri Federation points on





any maria hart.





Nor .
cadjustmcnts in

W042 H221 Happened D22r222g 1920





and mutton coming from Australia,





HE erratic cha1acter of the sheep vancing the price of mutton and lamb





industry was again demonstrat-





ed by the history of the market.

during 1920. Not only were there nu-

merous sudden changes in the market

prices within short intervals, but the

industry as awhole was plunged from

the heights of prosperity early in the

year well towards the depths of ad-

versity at the close.



Early in 1920 prices upon sheep and

lambs were far out of line with cattle

and hogs. Apparently the consuming

market for mutton and lamb had been

broadened during the war period and

‘ by a definite propaganda campaign to



induce the American pOpulation to “eat



more lamb.” The prospect for a prof‘

itable winter and the fact that most of

the range lambs marketed in the fall

of 1919 were in only feeder condition

resulted in filling an unusually large

number of lamb feed lots. This faith

was well rewarded until in the middle

of the winter announcement was sud-

denly made of the coming of a con-

signment of frozen lambs and mutton

from New‘ Zealand. At first this was

supposed to be merely a chance con-

signment attracted to this country by

the high prices prevailing in our mar-

kets. However, Australia and New



Zealand actually had on hand an enor-



mous number of these carcasses rep-



resenting the slaughter during 1919



and also the surplus from several pre-



ceding years during which the short-

age of ships in general and of refrig-



erator ships in particular made it im-



possible to ship to European markets.



There were said to be six million of





these carcasses, the property virtually





of the British government. American

packers undertook their distribution in

this country. The prevailing rates of

exchange were also favorable for this

trade as they made it possible to sell

in this country from twenty-five‘to

"thirty-five per cent lower than other-

wise. These shipments have been com-

ing at irregular intervals throughout

the year and the end is not yet in

sight.



In May the slump in the wool mar-

ket occurred and reduced by about

eighty per cent the value of the by-

products from sheep slaughter. This

may have been offset in part by ad-





at wholesale but most of it was offset

by lowering the price of lambs on the

hoof. A similar decline took place ear-

lier in the year in the value of the

other by-products, hides and tallow.



In addition to these burdens, money

shortage, principally in the range ter-

ritory, resulted in liquidating a large

number of flocks, thus sending to mar-

ket a larger supply than the sheep

population would have furnished under

normal conditions. Low prices for

lambs and wool disbouraged many

farm flock owners who had become

enthused during the preceding two or





 





eep





New Zealand and the Argentine.



The stocker and feeder shipments of

sheep and lambs during the first elev-

en months of 1920 totaled 4,,911941

head, compared. with 6,,214 614 head

during the corresponding period of

1919; a decrease of 1,302,673 head, or

twenty-one per cent The decrease was

particularly marked during the last

four months, of the year so that the

shortage in the number.” of. lambs on

feed for the Coming winter market is





relatively greater than these figures.





indicate.

however,





As an offset to this shortage,

there is a stock of around





RECEIPTS AND PRICES OF LAMBS IN 1990





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three years of prosperity, and they

also disposed of their holdings on a

liberal scale. The general depression

which by this time has affected prac-

tically every branch of production as-

sisted in accelerating the decline in

value for lambs and sheep.



The slaughter of sheep and lambs at

sixtyasix markets during the first elev-

en months of 1920 totaled 10,088,677

head, compared with 11,429,696 head

during the corresponding period of

1919. The decrease amounts to 1,341,-

018 head, or 11.7 per cent. As an off-

set to this decrease there have arrived

about 2,700,000 head of frozen lambs





 





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Receipc

Mar





150 000 .1





1501000 A





330.com





60,000,000 pounds, orat least one and

one-half million carcasses of‘frozen

mutton and lamb awaiting consump‘

tion. This f1ozen product competes

more sharply with the mutton market

in this country than it does with lamb

since lamb consumers habitually are

fastidious and the frozen product is

not an entirely satisfactory substitute.

Presumably, these foreign importa-

tions will continue, although at a slow-

er rate as the southern hemisphere

constantly produces a surplus which

must find a market in some country or

other. European nations have greater

need than our own, but as a. result of





depleted credit are less able to pay.



The wool market at the beginning of

the new year is showing signs of slight

revival but the large stock in the

hands of growers, together with the

fact that taking off the 'new clip will

begin within .ninety days and that

large purchases have been made by

American buyers in Australia‘and New

Zealand, does not indicate a pronounce

"ed rise above the present level of quo-

tations. -



Combined receipts of sheep and

lambs annually at the seven leading

markets during 1920 and preceding

‘years are as follows:





Year.

1920 ....... .11,117.499

1919 ....................... 14,308,000

1918 ....................... 12,064,000

1917 ............ , ........... 10,017,000

1916 ....................... 11,637,000

1915 ......... , ............. 11,147,000 .

1914 ......... g ............... 13,272,000

1913 ....................... 14,037,000

1912 ........ , ............... 13,734,000

1911 .‘ ................... ‘. . .13,500.000

1910 ....... '. .. .............. 12,328,000

1909 ....................... 10,197,000

1908 ....................... 9,787,000

1907 ....................... 9,837,000

1906 ............ . ........... 10,771,000

1905 ........... 10,526,000





The run during 1920 was not large

in itself, but when the imported lambs

and mutton are added to the supply it.

is not difficult to understand the hard

road over which the sheep market has

traveled during 1920. ' When allowance

is made for the liquidation of flocks

represented in the 1920 supply, it is

apparent that our sheep-producing pop-

ulation is now down to a comparative-

ly low basis. .



Cycles of alternate prosperity and

depression have always been an espe-

cially prenounced characteristic of the

sheep industry. How far toward the

bottom of the present depression the

end of 1920 has brought the industry,

it is impossible to'say, although one

may be sure that it is far on its way.





A pronounced revival does not appear -





likely to occur during the coming year

but sheep producers are quite likely

to be prosperous before 1922 has ex-

pired.



Tariff legislation covering both wool

and meat is impending. If passed, it

should speed the time of recovery to

an earlier date than it would occur if

the reduction in our sheep population

were the sole influence.





Forms of County Government





Miriam Civil Functiom of (70222223! Government—By L- A C/I'aw





ECAUSE of the evident interest



B in the proposed 1eform of our

method of gove1n1ng counties, the

Michigan Farmer has asked me to give

a biief account of county government



- in general for the information of its

readers. We Michigan people have be-

come so accustomed to one form of

county government that it is difficult

to realize that there‘may be any other

form in use in the other American

states. In reality the Michigan type is

not the kind most commonly found in

the United States. It was derived or-



. iginally from New York, whence many

,of the early inhabitants of Michigan

’ [territory and state came in the days

when Michigan institutions of govern-





' " ment were in the formative stage. Set-





.- tiers are pretty apt to use in their new

" home the same institutions of govern.

ment to which they were accustomed

in the state from which they came, at

least when they occupy a vast unset-

M region with the opportunity of

; their own afl’airs in their own





ter the War of 1812, when the Ameri-

can emigration to Michigan set in. At

that time there had existed in New

York a kind of county government not

found in the New England and south-

ern states, in which the governing

board consisted of township supervis-

ors meeting together at the county

seat for the purpose of administering

county afiairs. There was no very

good. reason why Michigan people

should have adopted the New York

way, except that that was the way

they were used to.’ In New England

they had long got along very well With-

out county government, save for judi-

cial purposes; while in the south and

near-southern states counties were

managed by'a small board 0r commis.





‘sion of three to five persons, at first





of appointed officials, later elected by

the voters. There were no townships

in the south, although parishes existed





 

 





for local church administration. The

Michigan system of large boards of

supervisors is now found in New York,

Wisconsin and Illinois. In Kentucky,

Tennessee and Arkansas matters of

finance and administration are dealt

with by the local justices of the peace,

sitting as a county court. Usually the

county boards, whatever their form,

deal with questions of administration

and finance. In this respect Michigan

is an exception, since by the home rule

act of 1909, Michigan sought to make

its county board of supervisors into a

local legislature, with power to-make

laws which should be referred to. the

governor of the state for approval or

disapproval and should be- filed .with‘.

the secretary of state at Lansing, and

which should be subject to the initiaj

tive and referendum of the voters. So'

far as my information goes, not much

use has beenmade of this right of





county legislation, although it has not

been wholly neglected.



In Indiana and some other

there has been created a sort of coun-

ty council to handle matters of taxa-

tion and appropriation, in addition to

the board of county commissioners.

According to Fairlie, this separation

of functions is exceptional. In all the

states outside of New England, coun-

ties have important fiscal duties, in-

cluding in most states the collection

of state taxes. County officers assess

property for taxation in some of the

western and southern states. In most

states outside of New England the

county administers poor relief and su-

pervises school affairs, while in many

states health and sanitation fall with-

in the domain of the county adminis-

tration. In Michigan thecounties have

in a few instances established normal

and agricultural schools and are 96!“.





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Y soy bean trials cover a period period of growth. From. past experi-

M 0f more than a quarter ofacen- once I believe that two or three sea-

tury, during which I have grown sons here in Michigan will very mate-

more than one hundred and. thir- rially shorten their growing 'time. It

ty varieties. Many of these proved of seems [probable that both Mandarin

no value in Ogemaw county (latitude and No. 30600 will be among the ear-

44), and some would not mature in the liest of the species, while the others

southern tier of the state. Of the va~ will probably ripen along with Manchu,

rieties included in the 1920 trials I Ito San and Medium Green. I

have had Early Black since 1897; Oge- Bearing in mind that one season's

maw and Ito San, 1898; Merko, 1909; trial is not conclusive proof in any in-

Manchu and. Black' Eyebrow, 1912; stance, nevertheless some of the fig?

Wilson has been grown four times ures obtainedarequite startling. . No.

within ten years. All the numbered 30600, though attaining a height of

varieties, Peking and .Wisconsin Black only twenty-eight to thirty. inches, was

were grown for the first'time in 1920. so widely branched as’ to create j'a

The land on which the trials were square flat head, overlaid by clusters

made consists of asurface soil of eight of pods. This variety is one of the

to fifteen inches of clear sand. Under erect, rigid type, as distinguished from

this did lay a stratum of hard brown the slender, willowy Ito San and the

hardpan, varying in thickness from ten decumbent Merko. It seems probable

to twenty-four inches. This hardpan that several of the numbered varieties

was broken up shortly before planting, may in' future displace a number of

by the use of a stick of dynamite ev- our standard sorts. Ten to twelve tons

ery fifteen feet. Under this lies a heavy of soy ensilage per acre, from rows

clay subsoil.»The previous crop on this three feet. apart, certainly looks good.

land was corn. It: had grown three The seed is not available as yet and

previous crops of soys since 1911. It should not be distributed until more

is thoroughly impregnated with the thoroughly tried out.

bacteria of many species of legumes. The trials very forcibly illustrate the

The fertilizer used was four hundred necessity of knowing where one’s soy

and eighty pounds of bone black per seed was grown. Home-grown Merko

acre. Planting was made on May 28, matured its crop fully. Maryland-

or about ten days later than usual. grown Merko seed, while it produced

Had I been able to plant on May 14 large healthy plants, still lacked two

or 15 the period of grow‘th would have weeks of maturity when killed by the

beenshortened fifteen to twenty days frost, the last: week in October. Wilson

on all these varieties which did not also matures here, occasionally, when

reach maturity before September 15, Michigan seed is planted.’ This vari-

because of the cloudy weather and ety was just forming pods when killed

great humidity later. by frost. While the bulk or weight of



In the following table, “Maturity” these late or undeveloped soys is often

refers to the time when the plants great, it should be remembered that

have attained their maximum growth they simply make bulk in the silo and

and development, at which time. they do not balance the ration, as the pro-

contain the maximum amount Of pro- tein content is low at that stage: I

tein and are at the correct stage for very'much doubt if the 21050 pounds

the silo. The weight-at maturity was of green Pekings contained anywhere

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Weight



Weight at Air Dry of Seed



Variety. -Maturity. Maturity. Weight. per acre.

Wilson No. 5 .......... Not mature 14520 5770 None

Peking ................. Not mature 21050 7115 None

Merko (Michigan) . . .Oct. 5 14520 5770 1208

Ogemaw ............... Aug. 25 907-5 1960 906

36652 . . .7 ............... Oct. 15 23960 6500 2150

36902 .................. Oct. 15 22140 6280 1924

36846 .................. Oct. 10 20330 6130 1512

28050 ................... Oct. 10 17420 5410 1410

30600 .................. Oct. 5 13070 4800 2410

Wisconsin Black ....... Sept. 15 10160 3610 1188

Ito San ................ Oct. 1 14520 4230 1368

Manchu ' ................ Oct 1 ,. 15970 4330 1842

Black Eyebrow ........ Oct. 5 16700 4350 1586

30594 .: ................ Oct. 5 .14520 4080 1390

36576 .................. Oct. 10 24660 6480 1680

37062 .................. Oct. 1 13430 4880 1106

37063 .................. Oct. 5 20330 5420 1208

36915 .................. Oct. 10 17420 5800 1275

Mandarin .............. Sept. 5 14520 4300 1240

Early Black ............ Sept. 9800 2960 928





 





 





was taken when the preceding had

attained a consistency approximating

tinder. The weight of seed is from the

crop after becoming thoroughly ripe

and dry. The wide variation in the

per cent of moisture at maturity is in

some measure due. to the variety; also

to the amount of humidity in the at-

mosphere on different days; and to the

presence or absence of large numbers

of capillaries on the stalks, pods. aind

leaves. ‘ ‘



Of the seeds planted Merko, Man-

chu, Black Eyebrow, Ito San, Ogemaw

and Early Black were grown in Oge-

maw county and are thoroughly accli-

mated. Wilson No. 5 and Peking were

.Virginia‘ grown. Mandarin and the

numbered varieties, though originally

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the 8900 pounds of fully developed and

practically ripe Early Blacks. The va-

rieties that are densely covered with

capillaries (fine hairs) have the great-

est resistance to'both extremes of ten»

perature, but' the ripening up process

requires longer.‘ '



Of the standard varieties included

in the trials Ito San (my introduction

of 1901'):has been longer in. cultivation.

It is probably the most widely dissem~

inated variety, having been grown in

nearly all agricultural countries of the.

world. It seems to be a general favor.

ite, though inferior to Manchu and

Black Eyebrow. These are home lit-

tle earlier and during eight years’ trials

have continuously produced heavier

crops of both forage} and seed than no

"San. «Manchu produces the": heavier.

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sweet clover, soy beans, and sources

of safe seed of these crops, presented

by Professor C. R. Megee.



Mr. G. W. Putnam, crops specialist

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proximately four hundred and fifty

pounds per acre.



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of the cultural methods of annual

sweet clover and was kept busy

throughout the morning answering

questions in regard to the handling of

this crop in the field.



Mr. E. E. Down followed with the

results of planting experiments, where

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more.



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York Central Railroad; President F.

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President of the Horticultural Society;

and Dean R. 8. Shaw, of M. A. C., were

other prominent men who appeared on

the program



An interesting feature of the Wed-

nesday morning meeting was the pre-

sentation of practical experiences with

commercial fertilizers. Robert Ander-

son, of Covert; M. D. Buskirk, of Paw

Paw; W. L. Hamilton, of Bangor, and

H. E. Flory, or South Haven, taking up

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. tion on Tuesday morning.





The much talked of over-supply of

potatoes in the United States does not

exist, according to Mr. Dean, who

brought out figures to prove his point.

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tatoes on hand in the country on Janu-

ary 1, 1921, according to Bureau of

Markets reports recently released and

used by Dean in making up his compar-

ative table. This total compares with

127,000,000 bushels on hand January 1,

1920, or only about one~seventh more.



Two years ago there were 174,000,-

000 bushels in the country, and three

years ago 204,000,000. bushels. From

these figures Mr. Dean concluded that

there was no real over-supply, and pre-

dicted an early rise in price, especially

to the producer, who at present is get-

ting only a fraction of a dollar a bushel

for his crop. Last year the price went

as high as $4.00 to $6.00 a bushel.



Another factor said to favor Michi-

gan growers is the fact that Michigan

potatoes are reported to be keeping

well, whereas much of the eastern crop

is suffering from blight rot. This will

enable local men to hold. .



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all the numbered varieties, retained

their foliage until fully ripe. Mandarin

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Several old standard sorts were not

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killing frosts. Ebony (Black Beauty)

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counties. The map scale was three

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and more detail was introduced into

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all section and quarter-section lines.

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taken wherever it seemed desirable.

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north central portions of the state.

The men who did this work Were grad-

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the Unive1sity of Wisconsin and, hav-

ing been reaied on teams, had had a

piactical falm expelience. The cost

of the work ran from $2.00 to $4.00 per

square mile, it is stated. Half of this

expense was borne by the Bureau of

Soils of the United States Department

of Agriculture. The map work result-

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cents per map for lithographing and

printing. Each map covered from four

to six counties. All this refers to the

general, or reconnaissance survey. in

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Iron County Gets New County Agent.





W. E. Hoyard, of Scandinavia, Wis,

has accepted the position of county ag-

ricultural agent for Iron county, says

the Farm Bureau News Letter, brought

out by the agricultural commission re-

cently. It is stated that the first work

to be undertaken by the Iron County

Farm Bureau will be the ordering of

seed for its members. Testing for tu-

berculosis ' among the herds of the

county has been started, and farmers

are already sending in requests for

this service, which it is expected, will

be pushed by the new county agent.

The News Letter calls attention to the

large amount of garden truck that is

shipped into Iron county from outside

its borders, which could quite as well

be produced within its limits. “It seems

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farmers of this county have never

awakened to the value of a celery crop.

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black muck lands, it is wonderful what

a. choice crop of celery can be grown

in Iron county. But there is practi-

cally none of this grown. The county

needs a few truck-growers—men who

are satisfied ,to grow small vegetables

to show what money there is in this

kind of work.” The success of celery

culture in Luce county would seem to

justify this Iron county program.



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Agricultural School to be Discontinued.



The Chippewa county supervisors at

their January meeting reduced the

amount allowed to sheep-owners for

sheep killed by dogs, from $10 to $7.00.

The reason given is that at the higher

rate, it might become profitable to dis-

pose of sheep in this way in View of

the present market price. The Chippe-

wa board also decided to discontinue

its support of the Dunbar Agricultural

School, at the close of the present

school year. The location of the school

and other considerations had worked

against. attendance, and after an ad-

verse report had been received from

the State Department of Public In-

struction, which pointed out the advan-

tages attaching to township agriculture

a1 schools and high school courses in

agriculture, promoted by the Smith

Hughes law, the action was readily

agreed to. On the other hand, Super-

intendent of Public Instruction, T. E.

Johnson, in a letter published in the

Evening News, of Sault Ste. Marie.

strongly advises a thorough-going

course in agriculture in the high school



at Sault Ste. Marie, which'has now

been rebuilt since the fire of last

year. The discontinuance of the Dun-

bar school leaves the upper peninsula

with still one county agricultural

school—that maintained by Menomi-

nee county close to the city of Menomi—

nee, which seems to have a permanent

existence assured.



_ Land-clearing Campaign.



The Caspian Register, of January 20,

announces that the campaign to stump

2,500 acres of land in Iron county will

begin February 7. The plan of, cam-

paign, says the paper, is to enroll ev-

ery farmer in the county in an asso~

ciation to be known as “The Iron Coun-

ty Land-clearing Association.” For ad

mission to this association it is requin

ed that each member pledge liimselt’

to stump four acres of land on his

farm, or as near that amount as pos-

sible, during the year 1921. In return

the county agricultural department

pledges itself to furnish explosives at

cost, and expert assistance. Members

will be furnished membership buttons.

Lectures on stumping methods will be

given the farmers. It is planned to

produce as much enthusiasm as possi-

ble for this stumping program. The

membership campaign, it is stated, will

begin witlia public meeting to be held

at Iron River, where a general round-

up of the farmers will be held. Other

meetings throughout the county will

follow. Much publicity has been given

this stumping campaign.



Menominee county is, also warming

up to the idea of a land-clearing cam-

paign. A large gathering of farmers

and business men was recently brought

together in Menominee under the ans.

pices of the chamber of commerce of

that city, according to the Herald-Lead-

er, for the purpose of discussing the

subject and listening toa talk from

Harry Livingston, of the adjoining

county of Marinette, Wisconsin, with

regard to the very successful land-

clearing operations conducted on a

large scale in that county last year.

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between bankers, who provide capital

where required, business men, who

provide stump-pulling machinery and

explosives, and the farmers was

brought about in Marinette county. and

how a saving of $15,000 for the farm-

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ing program were: . A. M. Smith, ofi'

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department, considered diseases affect-~

ing potatoes in transit and storage;

Hon. Jason Woodman, of Paw Paw,

took up the matter of good potato seed

production, and Ernst Kotilla, of the

college upper peninsula experiment

station, discussed leaf hoppers as in-

vestigated in the 'upper peninsula.

Officers elected for the coming year

A. M. Smith, of Lake City, pres-

ident; A. B. Large, of Cadillac, vice-





Lansing, secretary. The officers, with

C. W. Waid, of East Lansing, and the

Hon. Jason Woodman, of'Paw Paw,

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meeting of the week Monday night.



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to work on the farm where they must

milk the cows, then they howl because

they can’t get milk for their babies—

that’s socialism.”



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settlers, who thrived upon adversity

and made the American nation what it

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the American people. ~



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best fed, clothed and housed now. The

Irish question does not vex England

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Mr. McClure commented facetiously

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farming, and declared the secret of

successful farming is: “The less you

farm, the less you lose.” ‘





WOULD EXTEND FARM LOANS.





N spite of the opposition toward



credit for speculative purposes, mem-

bers of the agricultural section of the

Michigan Bankers’ Association, who

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Michigan Farm Bureau, who discussed

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The increase in the numbers of

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the most careful men in the state

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850,000. The loss on fire. alone

will reach about $200,000, theft

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collision $500,000.



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(Continued from page 188).

noon in place of Willis H. Booth, of

New York, suddenly called to Europe.



“One of the purposes fOr which loans

by federal reserve banks arevforbidden

is speculation,” declared Mr. Locke,

and if the holding of food products for

a rise in the market is not speculation

then I don’tknow what is. Should a

farmer borrow? Certainly, if it will

assist him in producing more and bet-

ter crops. But the banks have gone

about as far in the past as they are in

a position to go. They are ’willing to

extend credit until the farmer harvests





they cannot continue indefinitely.”



Mr. Locke showed that the banks

have allowed double the time on loans

to farmers as on loans to merchants.

At present it is the failure of farmers

to meet their obligations which is caus-

ing federal reserve banks the most

trouble, he said. Many smaller banks

to which the federal reserve has given

credit are now in difficulties because

of this fact, according to Mia'Locke.



Several of Mr. Locke’s statements

were challenged \by Mr. McBride, of

Shiawassee county, who among other

things stated that our farmers would

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GOVERNOR HARDING, OF IOWA.





OU cannot take your Michigan

farm to the ocean but you can

bring the ocean to the Michigan farm,”

ex-Governor W. L. Harding, of Iowa,

told his hearers at the Thursday night

session of Farmers’ Week. His subject

was “The Deepwater Highway.” Land

along the great lakes will be worth

twice as much as now when the St.

Lawrence waterway project goes

through, according to Gov. Harding.

The speaker urged that all discords

and jealousies be submerged in the

struggle for this common aim, declar-

ing that the city is dependent upon

the farm and the farm upon the city

for the accomplishment 'of such proj-

ects.



Governor Harding showed some of‘

the benefits that would be derived

from the proposed waterway. Sixty

million people live in the Mississippi

Valley, which he called an “empire

waging a world war for trade.” He

quoted figures showing the percent-





fected. ’



Turning to the subject of coopera-

tive marketing, Governor Harding urg-

ed the farmers to learn the lesson al.

ready learned by the lawyers, “to

shove along on the bench.” The farm-

er has a tendency to be too individual-

istic, he said, and held it necessary to

be a little less “set" if the great new

cooperative organization were to suc-

ceed. ‘



He also touched upon the question

of rural entertainment and maintained

that in the future it will be advisable

to provide entertainment in the coun-

try such that the city people will be

attracted there for recreation rather

than the farmer folk drawn to the

town.



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months, but care must be exercised to

avoid feeding too much green feed.

Mangel Wurzels yield larger crops

than table beets and furnish equally

as desirable feed for the flock as table,

beets 0r cabbage. A small plot will

furnish sufiicient green feed for a good-





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‘ planter, your disc and all the

rest of your machinery that you are

not now using? Have you got them in

out of the weather and under a tight

roof?



The machinery shed should be one

of the most important buildings on

the farm. It is about the best money-

saver a man can have among his build-

ings. Every farmer realizes that cold

animals, as they shiver and freeze out

in the wind and the snow," require

enough more feed to more than make

up for the cost of a building to house

them, but many do not realize that

machinery also needs protection. Be-

cause it cannot feel the cold and does

not huddle up and shiver when expos-

ed to the weather, it is left out in the

open. .



It is easier, perhaps, to unhitch from

an implement, and leave it in the field

than it is to take it home and place

it under cover. At least one would

come to that conclusion from the

amount of machinery- that is left out

in the field all winter., It is true that

some of it even reaches the barn lot

where it remains throughout the win-

ter. It could all be placed in the shed

within half a day. Of course, if the

shed is filled with something else,

there is not room, but on most farms

some sort of shelter can be provided,

even though an implement shed is not

available. ‘



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. CHAPTER X.

VEN in the darkest night, there is

E one light that never brings hope

or cannot lead. It is not a twink-

ling, joyous light like that mysterious

. will-o’-the-wisp that now and again has

lured travelers into the marshes to

their death. Nor can any one ever mis-

take it, or be soothed and cheered by

it. It always appears the same way—

two green circles, close together, in

the darkness.



When Snowbird first heard the step

in the thickets beside her, she halted

bravely and held her lantern high. She

understood at last. The very extremity

of the beams found a reflection in two

very cuiious circles of greenish fire: a

fire that was old upon the world before

man ever rubbed two sticks together

to strike a flame. Of course the dim

rays had simply been reflected in the

eyes of some great beast of prey.



She identified it at once. Only the

eyes of the felines with vertical pupils,

have this identical greenish glare. The

eyes of the wolves glow in the dark-

ness, but the circles are usually just

bright points. Of course it was a

cougar.



She didn’t cry out again. Realizing

at last the reality of her peril, her long

training in the mountains came to her

aid. That did not mean she was not

truly and terribly afraid. The sight of

the eyes of a hunting animal in the

darkness calls up memories from the

germ-plasm—deep-buried horrors of

thousands of generations past, when

such lights glowed all about the mouth

of the cave. Besides, the beast was

hunting her. She couldn't doubt this

fact. Curiosity might make a lion fol-

low her, but it would never beget such

a wild light of madness in his eyes as

this she had just seen. Only the fren-

zied pulse of wild blood through the

fine vessels of the corneas could occa-

sion such a glow as this. She simply

clamped down all her moral strength

on her rising hysteria and looked her

situation in the face. Her hand flew

instinctively to her side, and the pistol

leaped in the lantern light. '



But the eyes had already blinked out

before she could raise the weapon. She

shot twice. The echoes roared back,

unbelievably loud in the silence, and

then abruptly died; and the only sound

was a rustling of leaves as the cougar

crouched. She sobbed once, then hur-

ried on.



5 She was afraid to listen at first. She

wanted to believe that her pistol fire

would frighten the animal from her

trail. She knew, under ordinary condi-

tions, that it would. If he still follow-

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some unheard-of incident had occurred

to destroy his fear of men. It would

mean that he had knowingly set upon

her trail and was hunting her with all

the age-old remorselessness that is the

code of the mountains.





For a little while all was silence.

Then out of the hush the thickets sud~

denly crashed and shook on the oppo-

site side of the trail. She fired blindly

into the thicket. Then she caught her-

self with a sob. But two shells remain-

ed in her pistol, and they must be sav-

ed for the test.



Whisperfoot the cougar, remember.

ing the lessons of his youth, turned

from the trail when he had first heard

Snowbird’s step. He had crouched and

let her pass. She was walking into

the wind; and as she was at the clos.

est point a message had blown back

to him.



The hair went straight on his shoul-

ders and along his spine. His blood,

running cold an instant before from

fear, made a great leap in his veins.

A picture came in his dark mind: the

chase for a deer when the moon had

set, the stir of a living thing that broke

twigs in the thickets, and the leap he

had made. There had been blood, that

night—the wildness and the madness

and the exultation of the kill. or

course there had been terror first, but

the terror had soon departed and left

something lying warm and still in the

thickets. It was the same game that

walked his trail in front—game that

died easily and yet, in a vague way he

did not understand, the noblest game

of all. It was living flesh, to tear with

talon and fang.



All his training, all the instincts im-

bued in him by a thousand genera-

tions of cougars who knew this great-

est fear, were simply obliterated by

the sudden violence of his hunting-

madness. He had tasted this blood

once, and it could never be forgotten.

The flame leaped in his eyes. And then

he began to stalk.



A cougar trying to creep silently on

its game, does not move quickly. It

steals, as a serpent steals

through the grass. Whisperfoot stalk-

ed for a period of five minutes, to learn

that the prey was farther away from

him at every step.



He trotted forwaid until he came

close, and again he stalked. Again he

found, after a few minutes of silent

creeping through the thickets, that he

had lost distance. Evidently this game

did not feed slowly, like the deer. It

was to be a chase then. Again he trot-

ted within one hundred feet of the girl.



Three times more he tried to stalk

before he finally gave it up altogether.





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This game was like the porcupine—-

simply to be chased down and taken.

As in the case of all animals that hunt

their game by overtaking it, there was

no longer any occasion for going

silently. The thing to do was to come

close and spring from the trail behind.





Though the fear was mostly gone,

the cougar retained enough of that

caution that most wild animals exhibit

when hunting a new game so that he

didn’t attempt to strike Snowbird

down at once. But as the chase went

on, his passion grew upon him. Ever

he crept nearer. And at last he sprang

full into the thickets beside her.



At that instant she had shot for the

first time. Because the light had left

his eyes before she could find aim, both

shots had been clean misses. And ter-

rible as the reports were, he was too

engrossed ,in the chase to be frighten-

ed away by mere sound. This was the

cry the man-pack always made-these

sudden, startling sounds in the silence.

But he felt no pain. He crouched a

moment, shivering. Then he bounded

on again.



The third shot was a miss too: in

fact, there had been no chance for a

hit. A sound in the darkness is as un-

reliable ‘a target as can possibly be

imagined. And it didn’t frighten him

as much as the others.





Three times he crouched, preparing

for a spring. and three times his tawny

tail began that little up-and-down mo-

tion that is always the warning before

his leap. But each time, as he waited

to find his courage, the game had hur-

ried on.



Now she had her back to a tree and

was holding the lantern high. It glint-

ed on'his eyes. And the fourth time

she shot, and something hot and

strange singed by close to his head.

But it wasn't the pain of one quill from

a porcupine, and it only increased his

anger. He waited, crouching, and the

girl started on.





She was making other sounds now—

queer, whimpering sounds not greatly

different from the bleat that the fawn

utters when it dies. It was a fear-

sound, and if there is one emotion with

which the wild beasts are acquainted,

in all its phases, it is fear. She was

afraid of him then, and that meant he

need no longer be in the least afraid of

her. His skin began to twitch all over

with that terrible madness and passion

of the flesh- hunters .



This game was like the deer, and

the thing to do was lie in wait. There

was only one trail. He was simply

following his instincts, no conscious in’-

telligence, when he made a long circle





about her and turned back to the trail

two hundred yards in front. He wasn’t

afraid of losing her in the darkness.

She was neither fleet like the deer nor

courageous like Woof, the bear. He

had only to wait and leap from the

darkness when she passed.



And because this was his own way

of hunting, because the experiences of

a thousand generations of cougars had

taught him that it was the safest way,

that even an elk may be downed by a

surprise leap from ambush, the last of

his fear went out of him. The step

drew nearer, and he knew he would

not again be afraid to give his stroke.



When Dan Failing, riding like mad-

over the mountain trail, heard the

third shot from Snowbird’s pistol, he

felt that one of the debts he owed had

come due at last. He seemed to know,

as the darkness pressed around him,

that he was to be tried in the fire, And

the horse staggered beneath him as

he tried to hasten.



He showed no mercy to his mount.

Horseflesh isn’t made for carrying a

heavy man over su'ch a trail as this,

and she was red-nostriled and lathered

before half a mile had been covered.

He made her leap up the rocks, and

on the fairly level stretches he loosed

the reins and lashed her into a gallop.

Only a mountain horse could have

stood that test. To Dan’s eyes, the

darkness was absolute; yet she kept

straight to the trail. _He made no at-

tempt to guide her. She bounded over

logs that he couldn’t see, and followed

turn after turn in the trail without

ever a misstep.



He gave no thought to his own saf-

ety. His courage was at the test, and

no risk of his own life must interfere

with his attempt to save Snowbird

from the danger that threatened her.

He didn’t know when thehorse would

fall with Kim and precipitate him down

a precipice, and he was perfectly aware

that to crash into a low—hanging limb

of one of the great trees beside the

trail would probably crush his skull.

But he took the chance. And before

the ride was done he feund himself

pleading with_the horse, even as he

lashed her sides with his whip.



The lesser forest creatures sprang

from his trail; and once the mare leap-

ed high to miss a dark shadow that

crossed in front. As she caught her

stride, Dan heard a squeal and a‘ rattle

of quills that identified the creature as

a porcupine.



By now he had passed the first of

the worst grades, coming out upon a

long, easy slope of open forest. Again

he urged his horse, leaving to her keen

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almost in silence. - Thedeep carpetof

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wet from the recent

rains, dulled the sound of the horse’s





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Then he heard Snowbird fire for the

fourth time; and he knew that he had

almost overtaken her. The report

seemed to smash the air. And he lash-

ed his horse into the fastest run she

knew—a wild, sobbing figure in the

darkness.



“She’s only got one shot more,” he

cried. He knew how many bullets her

pistol carried; and the danger—what-

ever it was—must be just at hand. Un-

derbrush cracked beneath him. And

then the horse drew up with a. jerk

that almost hurled him from the

saddle.



He lashed at her in vain. She was

not afraid of the darkness and the

rocks of the trail, but some Terror in

the woods in front had in an instant

broken his control over her. She rear~

ed, snorting; then danced in an impot-

ent circle. Meanwhile, precious sec-

onds were fleeing} .





He understood now. The horse stood

still, shivering beneath him, but would

not advance a. step. The silence deep-

ened. Somewhere in the darkness be-

fore him a great cougar was waiting

by the trail, and Snowbird, hoping for

the moment that it had given up the

chase, washastening through the shad-

ows squarely into its ambush.





Whisperfoot crouched lower: and

again his long serpent of a tail began

the little vertical motion that always

precedes his leap. He had not forgot-

ten the wild rapture of that moment

he had inadvertently sprung on Landy

Hildreth—0r how, after his terror had

died; he had come creeping back. He

hunted his own way, waiting on the

trail; and his madness was at its

height. He was not just \Vhisperfoot

the coward, that runs at the shadow

of a. tall form in the thickets. The con-

summation was complete, and that sin-

gle experience of a month before had

made of him a hunter of men. His

muscles set for the leap.





So intent was he that his keen

senses didn’t detect the fact that there

was a. curious echo to the girl’s foot-

steps. Dan Failing had slipped down

from his terrified horse and was run-

ning up the trail behind her, praying

that he could be in time.



Snowbird heard‘ the pat, pat of his

feet; but at first she did not dare to

hope that aid had come to her. She

had thought of Dan as on the far-away

marshes; and her father, the only oth-

er living occupant of this part of the

Divide, might even now be lying dead

in his house. In her terror, she had

lost all power of interpretation of

events. The sound might be the cou-

gar’s mate, or even the wolf pack, jeal-

ous of his game. Sobbing, she hurried

on into Whisperfoot’s ambush.





Then she heard a voice, and it seem-

ed to be calling to her. “Snowbird——

I’m coming, Snowbird,” a man’s strong

voice was shouting. She whirled with

a sob of thankfulness.



At that instant‘the cougar sprang.



Terrified though she was, Snowbird’s

reflexes had kept sure and true. Even

as the great cat leaped, a long, lithe

shadow out of the shadow, her finger

pressed back against the trigger of the

pistol. She had been carrying her gun

in front of her, and she fired it, this

last time, with no conscious effort. It

was just a last instinctive effort to de-

fend herself.



One other element affected the issue.

She had whirled to answer Dan’s cry

just as the cougar left the ground.

But she had still been in range. The

only effect was to lessen, in ’some de-

gree, the accuracy of the spring. The

bullet caught the beast in mid-air; but

even if it had reached its heart, the

momentum of the attack was too great

to be completely overcome. . Snowbird

only: knew that some. vast. rosis-tless





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darkness ' seemed to ‘ roar: and explode *





about her. , . _

Hurled to her facein the trail,-she





‘did not see the cougar, sprawl on the





earth‘beside her. The flame in the

lantern almost flicked out as it fell

from her hand, then flashed 'up and

down, from. the deepest gloom to a

vivid glare with something of the ef-

fect of lightning flickering in the sky.

Nor did she hear the first frenzied

thrashing of the wounded animal.

Kindly unconsciousness had fallen, ob-

scuring this and also the sight of the

great cat, in the agony of its wound,“

creeping with broken shoulder and

bared claws across the pine needles

toward her defenseless body.





But the terrible fangs were never to

know her white flesh. Someone had

come between. There was no chance‘

to shoot: Whisperfoot and the girl

were too near together for that. But

one course remained: and there was

not even time .to count the cost. In

this most terrible moment of Dan Fail-

ing’s life, there was not even an in-

stant’s hesitation. He did not know

that Whisperfoot was wounded. He

saw the beast creeping forward in the

weird dancing light of the fallen lan-

tern, and he only knew that his flesh,

not hers, must resist its rending tal-

ons. Nothing else mattered. No other

considerations could come between.





It was the test; and Dan’s instincts

prompted cooly and well. He leaped

with all his strength. The cougar

bounded into his arms, not upon the

prone body of the girl. And she open-

ed her eyes to hear a curious thrash-

ing in the pine needles,, a strange grim

battle that, as the lantern flashed ou‘t,

was hidden in the darkness.





And that battle, in the far reaches of

the Divide, passed into a legend. It

was the tale of how Dan Failing, his

gun knocked from his hands as he met

the cougar’s leap, with his own unaid-

ed arms kept the life-giving breath

from the animal’s lungs and killed him

in the pine needles. Claw and fang and

the frenzy of death could not matter

at all.





Thus Failing established before all

men his right to the name he bore.

And thus he paid one of his debts—

life for a life, as the code of the forest

has always decreed—and in the fire of

danger and pain his metal was tried

and proven.





CHAPTER XI.





HE Lennpx home, in the far wil-



derness of the Umpqua Divide,



looked rather like an emergency

hospital for the first few days after

Dan’s fight with Whisperfoot. Its old

sounds of laughter and talk were al-

most entirely lacking. Two injured

men and a girl recovering from a ner-

vous collapse do not tend toward

cheer. '



But the natural sturdiness of all

three quickly came to their aid. Of

course Lennox had been severely in-

jured by the falling log, and many

weeks would pass before he would be

able to walk again. He could sit up

for short periods, however; had the

partial use of one arm; and could pro-

pel himself—after the first few weeks

—at a snail’s pace through the rooms

in a rude wheel chair that Bill’s in-

genuity had contrived. The great livid

scratches that Dan bore on his body

quickly began to heal; and .before a.

week was done, he began to venture

forth on the hills again. "Snowbird

had remained in bed for three days:

then she had hopped outflone bright

afternoon, swearing never-t9 go back

into it again. Evidently the crisp, fall

air ‘of the mountains had been a nerve

tonic for them all.



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attention. \A doctor and a nurse had

motored up the day after the accident;

the physician had set the bones, and

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iness to speed her away in case the

snows‘should start. At lastsshe had

left him in Snowbird’s hands, and Bill

had driven her back to the settlements

in his father’s car. The die was now

cast" as to whether or not Dan and the

remainder'of the family should winter

,inthe, mountains. The snow clouds

deepened every day, the frost was

heavier in the dawns, and the road

would surely remain open only a few

days more.





Once more the three seemingly had

the Divide all to themselves. ’Bert

Cranston had evidently deserted his

cabin and was working a trap-line on

the Umpqua side. The rangers left

the little station, an danger of fire

past, and went down to their offices in

the federal building in one of the little

cities below. Because he was worse

than useless in the deep snows that

were sure to come, one of the ranch

hands that had driven up with bill

rode away to the valleys the last of

the live stock—the horse that Dan had

ridden to Snowbird’s defense.



Nothing had been heard of Landy

Hildreth, who used to live on the trail

to,.the marsh, and both Lennox and

his daughter wondered why. There

were also certain officials who had be-

gun to be curious. As yet, Dan had

told no one of the grim find he had

made on his return from hunting. And

he would have found it an extremely

difficult fact to explain.



It all went back to those inner

springs of motive that few men can

see clearly enough within themselves

to recognize. Even the first day, when

he lay burning from his wounds, he

worked out his own explanation in re-

gard to the murder mystery. He hadn’t

the slightest doubt but that. Cranston

had killed Hildreth to prevent his tes-





timony from reaching the courts be- ,





low. Of course any other member of

the arson ring of hillmen might have

been the murderer; yet Dan was in-

clined to believe that Cranston, the

leader of the gang, usually preferred

to do such dangerous work as this him-

self. If it were true, somewhere on

that tree-clad ridge clues would be left.

By a law that went down to the roots

of life, he knew, no action is so small

but that it leaves its mark. Moreover,

it was wholly possible .that the written

testimony Hildreth must have gather-

ed had never been found or destroyed.

Dan didn’t want the aid of the courts

to find these clues. He wanted to work

out the case himself. It resolved itself

into a simple matter of vengeancez‘

Dan had his debt ,to pay and he want-

ed to bring Cranston to ruin by his

own hand alone.





While it was true that he took rath-

er more than the casual interest that

most citizens feel inlthe destruction of

the‘forest by wanton fire, and had an

actual sense of duty to do all that he

could to stop the activities of the arsou

ring, his motives, stripped and bare,

were really not utilitarian. He had no

particular interest in Hildreth’s case.

He remembered him simply as one of

Cranston’s disreputable gang, a poach-

er and a fire bug‘himself. When all

is said and done, it remained really a

personal issue between Dan and Grains-

ton. And personal issues are frowned

upon by law and society. Civilization

has toiled up from the darkness in a.

great measure to get away from them.

But human nature remains distressing-

ly the same, and Dan’s desire to pay

his debt was a distinctly human emo-

tion. Sometime a breed will live upon

the earth that can get clear away from

personal vengeance—from that age-old

code of the hills. that demands a blow

for a blow and a life for a life—but the

time is not yet.

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ever, particularly the coat, were prac-

tically intact. Gripping himself, Dan

thrust his fingers into its pockets, then

into the pockets of the shirt and trous-

ers. All papers that would in any way

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explanation presented itself. Cranston

had come before him, and searched

the body himself.





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blurred, indistinct imprint of a shoe

other than his own. He hadn’t the

least hope that the tracks themselves

would offer a clue to a detective. They

were too dim for that. The surprising

fact was that since the murder had

been committed immediately before

the fall rains. the water had not com-

pletely washed them out. The only

possibility remaining was that Crans—

ton had returned to the body after the

week’s rainfall. The track had been

dimmed by the lighter rains that had

fallen since.





But yet it was entirely to be expect-

ed that the examination of the body

would be an afterthought on Crans-

ton's part. Possibly at first his only

thought was to kill and, following the





prompting that has sent so many mur-i





derers to the gallows,-he had after-

wards returned to the scene of the

crime to destroy any clues he might

have left‘and to search the body for

any evidence against the arson ring.



‘Dan’s next thought was to follow

along the trail and find Cranston’s am-

bush. Of couise, it would be in the

diiection of the settlement from the

body, as the bullet had enteied from

the f1ont. He found it haid to believe

that Hildreth had fallen in the exact

spot where the body lay. Men journey-

ing at night keep to the trail, and the

white heap itself was fully forty feet

back from'the trail in the thickets.

Perhaps Cranston had dragged it there

to hide it from the sight of any one

who might pass 'along the lonely trail

again; and it was a remote possibility

that Whisperfoot, coming in the night,

had tugged it' into the thickets for

drgadful purposes of his own. Likely

the shot was fired when Hildreth was

in an open place on the trail; and Dan

searched for the ambush with this con-

clusion in mind. He walked back, look-

ingfo‘r a thicket from which such a.

spot would be visible. Something over

fifty yards down he found it; and he





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will on fire. Underneath this goodwill

is the strong foundation of respect. If

there is to continue the happy bond

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OES childhood have a, square deal



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remaining out of school the entire year,

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may be in desperate need of farm la-

bor, but that is not the way to build up

a strong American agriculture. Taking

it out of the child and putting it into

the check book is like a man picking

up money that he has lost through a.

hole in his pocket, and imagining he is

getting rich. In one state last year

there were 1,691 accidents to children

under sixteen. That is not democracy.

To send two million soldiers to fight





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ridge that lay half buried in the wet

leaves.



The shell was of the same caliber as

Cranston’s hunting rifle. Dan’s hand

shook as he put it in his pocket.



Encouraged by this amazing find, he

turned up the trail toward Hildreth's

cabin. It might be possible, he thought,

that Hildreth had left some of his tes-

timony—perhaps such rudely scrawled

letters as Cranston had written him—

in some forgotten drawer in his hut.

It was but a short walk for Dan’s hard-

ened legs, and he made it before mid-

afternoon. '



The search itself was wholly without

result. But because he had time to

think as he climbed the ridge, because

as he strode along beneath that wintry

sky he had a chance to Consider every

detail of the case, he was able to start

out on anew tack when, just before

sunset, he returned to the body. This

new train of thought had as its basis





deadly at once; that wounded, Hil-

dreth had himself crawled into the

thickets where Whisperfoot had found

him. And that meant that he had to

enlarge his search for such decuments

as Hildreth had carried to include all

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for democracy in Europe, and lose it

on our own doorstep, would be laugh-

able, if it were. not tragic. A large

body of intelligent people is endeavor~

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of the working child in the United

States, and the number of such per-

sons should become a mighty army.

Ill-treated Childhood means a weaken-

ed adulthood and the weakened adult

means a decadent state, a nation look-

ing backward.





ILITARY preparation: There ap-



pears to be some goodwill slowly

coming to life, on this most pressing of

all problems of the present time. . If

Christianity can; be introduced into the

breasts of the war lords, the war will

not have been fought in vain. The

United Stateshas been proposing a

ship building budget of seven hundred

millions for the present'year, With a

national deficit staring us in the face,

of two billions. Has the war taught us

nothing? Is this insane business of

taking the very cream of the nation’s

income and spending it f01 guns and

ships to go on forever? If so, it is no

exaggeration to say that the great war

was practically fought to no purpose.

We are guilty of the wicked folly we

sought to suppless in others It is said

that the cost of one battleship is great—

91 than the cost of the state university

in all its history. The amount of men-

ey spent in one year on militarism

would enable the world to make a fight

with~ disease the like of which hasnev-

er been known.‘ But there are signs

of an awakening good will here. With

the dailies of great cities showing forth

the folly of militarism, and with mili-

tary men themselves crying it down,

with a bankrupted world showing .us

what We would otherwise never learn,

it looks as though the day of vast

fleets and armies was drawing to a

close. The time must come when na-

tions will maintain the same attitude





in the shrubbery that would indicate

the path that the wounded Hildreth

had ‘taken. And it was ten minutes

well rewarded, as far as clearing up

certain details of the crime. His senses

had been trained and sharpened by his

months in the wilderness, and he was

able to backtrack the wounded man





-from the skeleton clear to the clearing





on the trail where he had first fallen.

But as no clues presented themselves,

he started to turn home.



He walked twelve feet, then turned

back. Out of the corner of his eye

it seemed to him that he had caught

a flash of white, near the end'of a

great, dead log beside the path that

the wounded Hildreth had taken. It

was to the credit of his mountain train-

ing alone that his eye had been keen

enough to detect it; that it had been

so faithfully recorded on his conscious-

ness; and that, knowing at last the

importance of details, he had-turned

back. For a moment he searched in

vain. Evidently a. yellow leaf had de-

ceived him. Once more he retraced

his steps, trying to find the position

from which his eye had caught the

glimpse of white. Then he dived

straight for the rotten end of the log.



Into .a little hollow in the bark, on

the underside of the log, some hand





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toward each other that Christian men

maintain toward one another. That

will 'be good will on a world scale.





OLERANCE: “John said unto



Him, Teacher, we saw one-casting

out demons in thy name. And we for-

bad him, because he, followed not us.

And Jesus said unto him, forbid him

not, for there is no one that can'do a

mighty work in my behalf andbe’able

to speak lightly of me.” Much history

is the history of intolerance. But that

is not of Christ. He said we are to

love God with our four-fold powers——

mind, body, spirit, soul, and our neigh-

bor as ourself. That attitude is not

past, but we hope it is slowly dying,

that it will, like the monsters of the

ice age, become an extinCt species.

There is much talk of the organized

forces of Christianity getting together;

In fact, they are already together in

ways not commonly supposed. But

they must in time come closer, and

there will be one Lord and one faith,

according to the Bible ideal. -But tol-

erance ought never to mean the want

of strong belief in what is right and

wrong. It is possible to believe every-

thing, and‘ so believe nothing. A man

said to me once, “I don’t care what a.

man’s 1eligion is, so long as he lives

1t ” He might as well have said, “I

don’t care what a man’s politics are,

so long as he lives them.“ Bolshevism

is one kind of politics. Would he like

to have his neighbors become‘ Bolshe-

vists, and appropriate his farm and

his home? Anarchy is one form of pol-

itics. Would he like to see his house

in flames, some night? It does matter

Jmightily what a man believes, whether

it be in religion or politics. To toler—

ate others’ opinions is good, but there

are somethings we must'not'tolerate.

Intolerance becomes a virtue, beyond

a certain point, and I am not certain

but we need an inoculation of intoler—

ance today. And goodwill'is‘always in-

tolerant, yet always tolerant. 'Christ

Was the most tolerant of leaders, yet

against wrong, injustice, spiritual

blindness, class hate, he was a flame of

intolerance. It is all a matter of being

tolerant at the right place. *





The Voice of the Pack





plete evidence that Hildreth had ac-

cumulated against the arson ring—let-

ters that had passed back and forth be-

tween himself and Cranston, a. threat

of murder from the former if Hildreth

turned state’s evidence, and a. signed

statement of the arson activities of

the ring by Hildreth, himself. They

were not only enoughto break up the

ring and send its members to prison;

with the aid of the empty shell and

othei ci1cumStantial evidence, they

could in all probability convict Bert

Cranston of murder.



F01 a long time he stood with the

shadows of the pines lengthening

about him, his gray eyes in curious

shadow. For the moment a. glimpse

was given him into the deep wells of

the human soul; and understanding

came to him. Was there no balm for

hatred even in the moment of death?

Were men unable to forget the themes

and motives of their lives, even when

the shadows closed dewn upon them?-

Hildreth had known what hand had.

struck him down. And even on the

frontier of death' his first thought was

to hide his evidence where Craneton

could not find it when he searched the

body, but where later it might be found

by the detectives that were sure to-

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est creature was still lingering on the

ridges at the eve of the snows.





CHAPTER XII.



HE snow began to fall in ear-



nest at midnight—great, white



flakes that almost in an instant

covered the leaves. It was the real

beginning of winter, and all living creal

tures knew it. The wolt‘ pack sang to

it, from the ridge~a wild and 'plaintive‘

song that made Bert Cranston, sleep-

ing in a lean-to on the Umpqua side of!

the Divide, swear and mutter in his[

sleep. But he didn’t really waken until

Jim-Gibbs, one of his gang, returned

from his secret, mission.



They wasted no words. Bert flung

aside the blankets, lighted a candle,

and placed ‘it out. of the reach of the

night wind. It cast queer shadows in

the lean—to and found a curious reflec-

tio l in the steel points of his eyes. His

face looked swarthy and deep-lined in

its light.



“Well?” he demanded. “What did

you find ?”



“Nothin‘,” Jim Gibbs answered gut-

tuz'ally. “If you ask me what I found

out i might have somethin‘ to answer.”



"Then—w” and Bert, after the man-i

her of his-kind, breathed an oath—4

“what did you find out?"



His tone, except for an added note

of savagery. remained the same. Yet

his heart was thumping a great deal

louder than he ~liked to have it. He

wasn’t amused by his associate’s play

on words. Nor did he like the man’s

knowing tone and his air oi.” import-

ance. Realizing that the snows were

at hand, he had sent Gibbs for a last

search of the body, to find and recover

the evidence that Hildreth had against

him and which had not: been revealed

either on Hildreth’s person or in his

cabin. He had become. increasingly ap-

prehonsive about those letters he had

Written Hildrelh, and certain other

documents that had been in his pos-

session. He didn’t understand why

they hadn‘t; turned up. And now the

snows had started, and Jim Gibbs had

returned empty—handed, but evidently

not empty-minded. _



"i‘ve found out that the body’s been

uncovered—and men are already

searchin’ for clues. And moreover—4

think they’ve found them.” He paused,

Weighing the effect of his words. His

eyes glittered with cunning. Rat that

he was, he was wondering whether the

time had arrived to leave the shi'p. He

had no intention of continuing to give

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“Go on. Blat it out,” Cranston or. "





tiered. “Or else go away and let me

sleep.”





It was a bluff; but it worked. It





Gibbs had gone without speaking,

Cranston would have known no sleep

that night. But the man became more

fawning.



“I’m tellin’ you, fast as I can,” he

went on, almost whining. “I'went to

the cabin, just as you said. But I

didn’t get a chance to searéh it—”



“Why not ?” Cranston thundered. His

voice reechocd among ,the snow-wet

pines.



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one-else—evidcntly a cop—was already

searchin’ it. Both of us know there’s

nothin’ there anyway. We’ve gone ov-

er it toa many times. After a while

he Went away—but I didn’t turn back

yet, That wouldn’t be Jim Gibbs. I

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T’S rather humbling to the Great



Soul who wants to think of life as



something vbig and wonderful to be

constantly reminded that life, after all,

is made up of a multitude of little

things. It’s only occasionally that the

really big and dramatic event happens

along, and the thing which makes it

big and dramatic is its rarity. Every

day living is justasuccession of trifles.

And yet those trifles may have a very

important bearing on the sum total of

life.



Mary Brown always had a backache.

As a result she always felt irritable.

She snapped at Father Brown and

scolded and slapped the little Browns,

and altogether the Brown family life

wasn't exactly what you would call

happy. One day Mary‘s cousin came

to make a visit and, as all desirable

visitors do, she rolled up her sleeves

and started to wash dishes. But after

she’d washed a couple, she stopped,

hunted up a basin just three inches

deep, and slipped it under the dishpan.



“What’s the idea?" asked Mary.



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it three times a. day,” said the cousin.



Mary suddenly saw light. The very

little matter of a sink three inches too

low, had kept her cross and half ill for

years.



Dora Jones had headache most all

the time. Dora loved to do needle-

work, but she never got time for it in

daylight, there was so much to do

about the house and in the garden and

with the poultry. So she left the em-

broidering until evening. Then she lit

the biggest lamp, and sat down direct-

ly facing it. Now Dora should have

known better. They teach school chil-

dren all about how harmful it. is to face

a direct light. But it was such a little

thing, Dora thought it foolish to bother

about such a trifle, when she could see

so much better with her face to the

light. Finally she went to a doctor

about those headaches. He asked no

end of questions, and finally found out

about that light. Dora had to give up

fancy work for six months, and when

she took it up again, she had the light

behind her. She hasn't had headache

in ages, so she says.



Mrs. Swiftly was always having to





A Few One





FTEN on the bill of fare in the

0 past two years the words “Farm-

er Style” has appeared. Invar-

iably the term has meant one of two

things, one-dish cookery, or everything

served at once, the ceremony of re-

moval of dishes between courses being

omitted.

If you will use that combination bak-

er and serving dish, the casserole, you

eliminate two or three cooking dishes,





and the same number of serving dishes





canned peas. If there is a stray stalk

of celery about it is cut fine and added.

The whole is then poured into the eas-

serole, and the dish covered and set

in the oven, where a moderate tire is

kept for one hour. This is the. entire

meal, with the exception of bread and

butter and a light dessert.



Hot Tamale is another one-dish meal.

For this you need corn meal mush, not

too thick, a pound of hamburg, or a

pint of cold cooked beef run through





 





Cover the Basin or Pan with Folded

Before Placing





for the table, as you take the casserole

directly from the range to the table.

They may be bought of glass or crock—

ery in two shades of brown and if the

contents are daintily prepared and

cooked to just the right shade of brown

the dish adds a touch of beauty to any

table. .



A favorite dish in one household is

called "Steak a la Mother,” in honor

of the proud discoverer. It consists of

round steak cut in pieces convenient

for serving—first pounding flour into

the steak. This is then browned in the





frying pan, in drippings in which a





izsmll onion chopped has been brown-

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the chopper with the coarse knife, and

a quart of tomatoes. Line your cas-

serole with mush. Turn the hamburg

into a frying pan with a tablespoon of

drippings and stir until it turns color.

Then add the tomatoes, salt-and pep-

per to taste, pour into the casserole,

and cover with mush. This takes ‘about

forty-five minutes in the oven.



The old-fashioned shepherd’s pie—

meat diced and poured into gravy, the

whole covered with a crust of mashed

potatoes—may be converted into a

whole dinner by adding diced vegeta-

bles to the meat. Anything you have

may be used, carrots, turnips, onion,





celery. This gives the needed vegeta-‘





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Q] Are They Really “Trifles”?





throw out canned fruit and bits of

ketchup, half glasses of relishes, and

pickles and things. She .never took

time to empty the fruit back in the

can, if any was left from the table, or

to wipe off the top of the jar and

screw the top on tightly. She was all

ways going to use the leftovers up, but

there was always such a little bit, she

Would leave them standing around un-

til they spoiled and had to be thrown

out. 7



One winter Grandma Swiftly, who

lived with her son, kept track of the

“little things” her daughter—in-law

threw out. By spring nine quarts of

fruit, five bottles of ketchup, three

dozen pickles, and four quarts of var-

ious relishes had been wasted. If Mrs.

Swiftly had had to buy that stuff at

store prices it would have taken

enough money to have paid for a pair

of shoes for both children, or a good

all~wool blanket, or to buy at least half

the dishes Mrs. Swiftly really needed

and thought she couldn’t afford.



Jimmie Wilson didn’t get ahead in

school. He was listless, and inatten-

tive, and looked pinched and half-fed.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





Jimmie ate a. cold lunch every day at

school. Mest of the children did the

same thing, there wasno regular hot

lunch planned at that school. A few

children brought hot soup, or cocoa or

milk in a thermos bottle, but most fof

them just ate cold food. A home-dem‘

onstration agent told Jimmie’s mother

that she believed it Was the cold lunch

that kept Jimmie back in his work.

But Jimmie’s mother could not see it.

The rest of the children ate cold lunch—

es and kept up. Jimmie must be just

plain lazy.



Finally the H. D. A. talked so much,

Mrs. Wilson agreed to see that Jimmie

had something hot every day at noon.

In six months’ time, Jimmie had pick-

ed up amazingly in looks, health and

scholarship. It was just a matter of a

hot drink to warm up those cold sand~

wiches, but that mere trifle changed

Jimmie’s whole life. For instead of

leaving school with half an education.

he is developing into a real student. .



Life’s a queer thing, isn’t it? Such

little bits of senseless things. make a

great big difference in the general

scheme. DEBORAH.





Dish Meals





Goulash, though a “top of the stove

dish,” may be transferred to the oven.

To make this, out three pounds of veal

in inch cubes, and brown in one cup

of drippings in which three large on-

ions sliced have been fried. Add the

veal, and cook on top of the stove until

the veal browns. Then transfer to cas-

serole, add one-half cup of boiling wa-

ter, one teaspoonful of salt, one-half

teaspoon of black pepper, one-half tea-

spoon of paprika, and cook till meat

begins to get tender. -Add three large

potatoes diced, and when thesethings

are done, one cup of thin cream. Cook

five minutes after the cream is added.



“Hepping John” is a substitute dish

both for meat and potatoes, peas tak-

ing the place of meat as a protein, and

rice furnishing the starch. Soak one

quart of peas over night. and in the

morning, cook till tender in salted wa-

ter. When tender, put in casserole

with one quart of cold boiled rice

three tablespoons of butter and two

teaspoons of salt, and pour over all a

pint of tomato sauce. Cook a half

hour in a moderate oven. ’A bit of salt





 





pork boiled with the peas improves

the flavor. _' ,



Braised beef requires a large casser—

ole, as it is best when five or six

pounds of beef are cooked. Brown the

beef all over in a hot frying pan with

a moderate amount of drippings. Put

a half cup each of small cubes of salt

pork, carrot, onion and celery in the

casserole and place the beef on these.

Then add a pint of stock or hot water,

a bay leaf and bit of red pepper. Cov-

er the meat with cubed vegetables, add

a half: teaspoon of salt, put the cover

on the casserole and bind the joining

of dish and cover with a strip of clbth

covered with flour paste. Cook in a

very slow oven six hours. When done,

remove to platter, thicken the sauce in

the casserole, first straining out the

vegetables. The vegetables may be" V

served from the platter with the meat.

This dish can not be served from the

casserole, as the meat must be carved.



The brown earthenware casserole

may take the place of a bean pot for

Boston baked beans. Soak one pint of

beans over night. In the morning wash

and‘ rinse thoroughly, and par‘boil in





 





 

 

 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





 





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" swim-w» manner and

- rinse thoroughly ‘inr‘hot water. Put

‘ one-half the beans in the casserole.

Pour' scalding hot water over one-

fOurth pound of saltpork and cut the

rind through in half-inch strips. Put

in the bean pot, and add rest of the

beans. Mix one tablespoon of mustard,

one teaspoon of salt, and one table-

spoon of molasses, or sugar, with a

cup of hot water and pour on beans.

Add hot water to cover. Cover the eas-

serole and place in moderate oven for

eight hours. Remove the cover the

last hour to allow beans to brown.

The absence of a casserole need not

keep you from one-dish cookery. A

deep basin, or a small-sized milk pan,

if clean and well preserved, may be

It is claimed by some

that the crockery gives a better flavor,

but the sauce of a good appetite will

make up for whatever the basin lacks.

Cover the basin with clean napkin,

folded as a triangle, and then refolded

to the depth of the basin, before plac-

ing on the table. ' A. L. L.





 





MIDWINTER VEGETABLES.

BY L. M. THORNTON.



In midlwinter the housewife goes

through the vegetable cellar only to

find that more of certain kinds of veg-

etables have been used than she ex-

pected and less of others. Some are

bound to go to waste unless ways can

be found of conserving them. Those

are the days when the following reci-

pes are welcome ones:



Spiced Celery.~—Cut off and discard

the roots and leaves from six bunches

of celery. Separate the branches,

wash, dry and chop. In an agate pan

put two scant cupl‘uls of sugar, one tea.

spoonful of salt, one half teaspoonful

of mustard, one cupful of vinegar, one

half teaspoont’ul of cloves, one-half tea-

spoonful of cinnamon, onehalf tea-

spoonful celery seed. one small pepper

chopped, one pint stewed tomato and

one-half teaspoonful nutmeg. Add the’

chopped celery, cook until it is tender

and seal in fruit jars.



Sweet Pickled Carrots—Wash and

scrape skin from twenty-four medium-

sized carrots. Boil in salted water un-

til they can be pierced with a fork.

Make a syrup of one quart of cider

vinegar, four cupl‘uls of brown sugar,

one teaspoonl'ul each of cloves, cinna-

mon and cassia buds. Let boil until it

thickens, slice in the drained carrots,

cover and cook one-half hour and put

in jars and seal. 2



Beet Relish—Chop one quart of

cooked heels, and the same of uncook-

ed cabbage. Add one cupful of horse-

radish, one cupful of sugar, one-fourth

teaspoont‘ul cayenne pepper, one table-

spoonl‘ul of mustard, two cupfuls of

cinder vinegar, and one teaspoonful of

salt. Mix and cook for twenty min-

utes. Put in fruit jars and seal.



Apple Relish.-Core, pare, and chop

twelve good-sized apples, (those that

have begun to decay can be used by

trimming carefully), add two chopped

onions, three green peppers chopped,

two cupfuls of cider vinegar, one and

one-half cupfuls of brown sugar, one

lemon, one-half tablespoonful powder-

ed ginger, one-half tablespoonful of

salt, and one cupful of seeded raisins.

Mix thoroughly, cook for two hours,

bottle and seal.





 





HELPING THE HOM E-MAKERS.





ISS AURELIA POTTS, assistant

state leader of home demonstra-

tion agents in the upper peninsula, of

whom there are five, recently address-

ed the assembly of the Northern State

.Normal School. In view of the fact

that numbers of the students of the

school will eventually teach in rural

(immunities in northern Michigan, it

as deemed important that they should

familiarize themselves with the work

whieliMiss Potts has in charge.

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of [milk in the diet was emphasized. ~





She told how in many instancesschool





children had had their health and the ;





quality of their school work improved

through the drinking regularly of, a

pii’lt or more of milk daily. This phase





of the work of the “H. D. A.” is being ,





at present emphasized by Miss Pratt,

home demonstration agent for Chippe-

Wa county.



The need and way to economize in

this period of high prices was illus-

trated by a display of garments taste-

fully made from cast-off clothes and

cloth flour-sacks which attracted muCh

interest. Women had been taught how

to make paper dress-forms at a cost of

fifty cents, the spéaker related, where

such goods,of metal, when store band

led, would cost $14 or more. Miss

Potts told how,

women of foreign birth, she frequently

.was surprised to discover that they

knew arts and handicrafts superior to

those with which she was acquainted,

and she suggested that an exhibit of

such things in a sort of “gift of the

nations” exposition might well be held

in every community. Assurances were

given that the Marquette County His-

torical Society and department of so-

ciology of the Northern State Normal

School would cooperate in such an ex-

hibition later on. It was believed that

this would prove extremely interesting

and instructive—L. A. C.





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a number of books and pamphlets

which may be secured free, and which

contain valuable information for moth-

ers regarding the care and feeding of

the entire family.



Write the Children’s Bureau, Wash-

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“Prenatal Care,” by Mrs. Max West;

“Infant Care,” by Mrs. Max West;

“Child Care,” by Mrs. Max West; “Ma-

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The following may be secured free

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“What to Feed the Children.”



“Prevention of Disease and Care of

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In addition to "these free pamphlets,

the following low-priced books are

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For help in organizing your work, or

for a speaker, write the Extension De-

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College, East Lansing, Michigan.





If a button comes off when you are

far from needle and thread. take a

small piece of string of a suitable c014

or, and working from the under side

thrust it through the garment, using a

hairpin ’as you would a bobinet in

fancy work; slip the button on the

string. work the string again through

the goods and tie the two ends firmly

together.

trusting to the holding qualities of a

pin.—-Mrs. L. T.





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2
HE ambitions of a boy or girl are

a pretty good indication of what

the boy or girl will accomplish

in later life. When we see a lad or

lass who wants to have the best gar-

den, the best pig or calf or lamb or

colt, the best loaf of bread or the best

ear of corn in the community, we feel

certain that young man or young wom-

an will grow into a citizen of whom

the neighbors will be proud, one that

will be a credit to his or her home

community and to the state- and

country.





During the past few years the older

folks have been giving the boys and

girls a better chance to show what

they can do than formerly. There are

pig clubs and calf clubs and corn clubs

and canning clubs and a lot of other

sort of clubs where the young folks

can enter into contests with each oth-

er to see who really is the best live





- stock feeder or the best judge of live





stock or the best corn grower or the

best cook. This has given the young

folks just the opportunity they needed

to prove what they really can do when

they have a fair Chance to work out

their own ideas.



It is to these ambitious, wide-awake,

prize—winning young men and women

that this story of the Polled Hereford

cattle is written. If it helps even a

single boy or girl to make up his or

her mind that there shall be better

beef cattle in the community, it will

have served its purpose.





Let us start with the admission that

all the modern improved breeds of

pure-bred stock are good, each in its

place. In a broad sense there is no

"best breed,” but for each boy or girl

there is a “best breet The best breed

for you is the one you like the best

and can make do the best. You know

that a big part in success is played by

enthusiasm. Unless you can be enthu-

siastic over your cattle, and ready at

every chance to explain their good

points and tell how you are working to

overcome what faults they have; un-

less you like them so well that you

want every other boy and girl in the

neighborhood to raise the same kind,

then it will be better for you to change

to some other breed that you will like

better. But if you like the kind of

stock you are raising then you will

make a success with them, unless they

have some fault that makes it impos

sible for them to do well under your

conditions.





OR the benefit of the boys and girls



who have not made up their minds

about what breed of beef cattle they

would raise if they were starting to

form a little herd of their very own,

and for the boys and girls who have

not been doing very well with the cat-

tle they already are working with, I

want to tell about the points that the

breeders of Polled Herefords claim in

favor of that breed.





In the first place what are Polled

Herefords? Most of you have seen the

horned Herct‘ords, either in your neigh-

borhood or at the county or state fair.

You remember the big red cattle that

have the white faces, white feet and

underline, and white“ bush on the tail.

Some folks call them the ”Whiteface”

cattle on account of this arrangement

of the colors. You will remember that

they have the biggest horns of any of





the beef breeds. Perhaps when you





' One of Me Seriey of Breed dirtie/e: Pre-

pared éy lee Leading zidvoeates of

Me Respective Breeds ‘





By B. 0.





were just little folks you were sort of

afraid of those long sharp horns and

remember the Hereford cattle on that

account. Well, the Polled Herefords

are just like those horned Herefords,

except that they never have horns.

The word ”polled” you know, means

hornless. About twenty

there was a Hereford calf born that did

not have any horns and although there

was nothing done to stop the horns

from growing yet they failed to grow.

This calf was raised to maturity and

it was found that the calves raised

from horned cows, when they were sir-

ed by this hornless bull, failed to de-

velop horns. When this was discov-

ered men began to look for other Here-

t'ord cattle without horns and found

quite a number, about twenty head in

all, and bought them for a foundation

herd. From that beginning the horn-

less or Polled Hereford has been de»

veloped.



If you had some money and your par-

ents told you that you might buy one

or two or more pure-bred cattle, about

the first question that would come to





years ago.





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you would be, “What breed of cattle





shall 1 buy?” You would perhaps go to

your father and mother for advice, or

go to the county agent or write to the

Michigan Farmer to learn what bre'ed

of cattle you should buy. And if you

did this these good people would say

to you that you must try to make up

your own mind about that matter.

They would tell you that the men who

make the greatest success in life are

those who have developed the best bus-

iness judgment and that to develop

judgment one must make up one’s own

mind and then have confidence in his

own decisions. So they would prob-

ably all advise you to learn everything

you could from books and papers and

teachers about beef cattle in general

and each of the various breeds in par-

ticular; also to look around and see

what the conditions are under which

you will be trying to raise these cattle.

Then you would choose the breed

which you believed would best fit into

the conditions that prevail in your

neighborhood. '



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POLLED HEREFORD CATTLE .





tions which-you would want the an-





swers to, and after you had the list",

made up I suspect the following ques-





tions would be on the list:

What breed is being most largely





.raised in this community?





Are they proving profitable for their

owners? .



Is there a good demand for them?



Why do the neighbors prefer this.

particular breed?



Have other breeds been tried here

and failed, or has this breed grown

numerous because no one has ever

tried any other?



What are the cheapest and most

common cattle feeds in this commu-

nity? -



What; breed will make the best use

of these feeds?



Is this locality suited to growing

beef cattle from the time they are

born until they are ready for market?



Or do the farmers here just raise

the calves until they are ready to fat-

ten for market and then ship them

elsewhere-to be finished?



If, I am going to ship my cattle to a

certain market. either to sell as feed-

ers or to sell for slaughter what breed

of cattle is in best demand at that

market?



What are the conditions of climate

in this country, are there severe win-

ters, very hot summers, long drouths,

lots of flies or other insects to worry

the cattle? ' ,



What about the health conditions as.

regards cattle?



All these and a whole lot more ques-

tions would come up for an answer.

After you had found the best answers

You could to these questions you would

look for the breed that would be most





apt to be profitable under the condi-





tions.





UPPOSE we see about Polled Here-





fords for the conditions that one-





finds on the average Michigan farm.

Suppose we see how this breed will fit

into the plan of the average farmer in

Michigan.

lot of grass, coarse fodder of various

sorts, etc., on most farms. We will

want a breed that will make good use

of the pastures and eat the fo’dders

and other rough feeds and do well on

them. We find that the horned Here-

fords that Were the fore-runners of the

Polled Herefords, were the first devel-

oped on the pastures of Herefordshire,

England, and that for nearly fifty years

they have been very popular and prof-

itable on the ranges of the western

states where grass is about all they

get to eat. So we can set it down that

they will make good use of grass and

coarse fodders.



Then we will remember that the win-

ters are long and pretty cold in Michi-

gan, so we will want cattle with heavy,

warm coats of hair and we will find

that the deep, mossy curly coat of the

Polled Hereford will be just the thing

to keep out the storms of the Michigan

winter. We will also find that this

same thick coat will prevent ‘much of

the annoyance from flies and other in-

sects in the summer, which is a big'

advantage, for we know that cattle do-

better when they are not. busy all the

time trying to keep away from the-

bites and stings of insects.



Because the winters get pretty cold

and the summers get pretty .hot, we

will want a kind of cattle that are vig-

orous and really don’t pay much atten-





 





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tioh to theextremes ’of the" weather

' and we will find again that this is one

of the things that has made the Here—

ford so popular out in the west where

the winters are long and cold and the

summers are dry and hot. So we will

mark up another score for the Polled

Herefords.



If we go to the stockyards where the

fat cattle are slaughtered we will find

that the ones with Whitefaces are

sleek and fat and that the butchers tell

us they have a very high-grade of meat

when butchered. We will find that

the men who fed these fat Herefords

say that they made good gains all the

time they were on feed and made good

use of all the grain and other expen-

sive feed they ate. So we will mark

another credit mark for the Polled

Herefords” -



We will want to know about the dis-

position of the cattle we are going to

buy. because we do not want our par-

ents, our brothers and sisters, our fav-

orite colt, or sheep or pig to be injured

by our cattle. We will find that be-

cause these Pol’led Herefords do not

have any horns they are not nearly so

dangerous as the horned cattle of oth—

er breeds. And we will find that they

have nice. quiet dispositions, usually,

also, and this will be another point in

their favor.



We will be attracted to the Polled

Herefords because they look so much

alike. 'All are red with the clear white

faces. breasts, bellies, feet and legs

and brush of tail. All are hornless, so

their headsdook alike and the whole

herd wijl look almost as much alike as

a band of sheep. When We go to mar-

ket wewill find that the buyers there

pay more for a carload of uniform cat-

tle than for a car of mixed ones, so we

will feel that. this uniformity of color.

type and markings is a real advantage

in favor of the Polled Herefords.





F there. are people in the neighbor-



hood now raising Polled Herefords

and we visit them we will doubtless

find that they are all enthusiastic

about their cattle. We will find that

they get good prices and sell the

calves before they are very old and

that when they go out to the big sales

and fairs they find a lot of other folks

there who are breeding the Polled

Heret'ords and that these other folks

are a nice, honest, neighb0r1y lot of

people who are always willing to help

answer the questions that are always

coming up in the business. This broth-

erly spirit among the breeders will

appeal to us because we will want

friends when we get started and will

want to feel that there is somebody

ready to help us solve our hard prob-

lems./



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breeds we will find that lots’of the

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fowls is a debatable question, but one

thing is certain, some sensible system

of crop growing must be practiced to

furnish considerable of the feed sup-

ply for the year.



On any reasonably fertile soil grain

feeds can be produced cheaper than

they can be purchased, and a. second

saving can be made by converting

these crops into efficient rations. The

fact that feed crops are being grown

for the fowls enables the owner to

practice a more sensible system of

flock handling than is possible when

this phase of the business is neglected.



With plenty of land available there

can be no excuse for the man who

claims that he can buy grain, forage

and vegetable feeds cheaper than he

can grow them. It is quite true that

some of the crop yields will be low,

but there is absolutely no excuse for

not harvesting good crops from fertile

soils if one applies modern methods.





 





   





 

   





 





Poultry Feed





it is often profitable to purchase limit--

ed quantities of prepared feeds, such.

as chick feed and fattening. feed which

are carefully mixed and produce excel-v

lent results, but their extensive use

makes such inroads upon the income-

that they must be Used only as a com-9

plement to other cheaper feeds. The

logical solution isto grow more grain

and use more judgment in preparing

it for feeding.



On most farms skim-milk and insect

life make up the bulk of animal pro-

tein available for poultry rations. It

is, however, one of the most essential

elements of the ration, and if satisfac-

tory results from other feeds are ob-

tained it must be supplied in reason--

able amounts. As a rule beef scraps

and ground bone furnish the cheapest

animal protein. Grit, shell and some

of the ground grains must be purchas-

ed, unless one has the facilities for

grinding the home-grown grains. But

even when it is necessary to buy some

of these special protein feeds the bulk

of the ration may well consist of home-

grown feeds. The saving in the cost

of feeding will more than offset any

lack of efficiency in the ration, and the

birds will be more healthy and vigor-

ous than is the case when fed only

mixed and prepared feeds. If birds

have free range surprising results are

often obtained from very ordinary ra-

tions. During the season When insect

life is unusually plentiful, there is

scarcely a method of feeding, unless it

is extremely abnormal, that will pro-

duce as good egg production or main~

tain as good growth of the young stock.



After experimenting for several

years with different crops the writer





 





A Substantial Farm Poultry House.





Corn, oats, wheat, buckwheat, clover,

alfalfa, beets and cabbage are easy to

raise and all have a place in making

up economical rations for the farm

flock. ‘

At present pIiCes of g1 am and mixed

feeds there should be no need to uige

the owner of the farm flock to produce

as much home-grown feed as possible,

and then to convert it into properly

proportioned rations right on the farm.

The farmer who has grain feed avail-

able will find it possible to produce

eggs which have a higher cash value

than the market price of grain. ~M0re-

over, where sufficient land is used for

growing a large portion of the feed for

the flock the birds are assured of clean

range which is one of the essentials of

success in the poultry business.





ON the farm where other animals

are kept and where a. general rota.-

tion of crops is practiced there will be

no need of making special provision

for providing range, for the fowls, for

it will be easy to find clean ground at

all times for the growing chicks; and

the mature birds, if given free range

of the fields, will not foul the soil

about the houses. Free range on open

fields where a rotation of farm crops is

being practiced as many days as pos-

sible is the best method of developing

strong, robust birds.



'Even though one raises a. wide varie-

ty of grain, forage and vegetable crops





 





found corn and alfalfa the two most

valuable home-grown poultry feeds.

With these two feeds as a foundation

the ration may easily be varied to

meet the requirements of the flock and

the market prices of other feeds. Good

alfalfa serves as an [excellent substi-

tute for expensive grain feeds, and it

can be cut and cured for less than one-

half what the cost of the grain needed

to take its place'in. the ration would

amount to. Where alfalfa. does not

make a good stand, red or alsike clo-

‘ver may be used to-good advantage.





Alfalfa out before it is in the woody

stage and properly cured will come out

of the mow as green as any grass you

ever saw. It contains very little indi-

gestible fiber and is greatly relished by

the hens. It is the second and third

cuttings that furnish the fine-stemmed,

fine leaves that give such delicious

mashes for the hens. It is no wonder





"that many poultry-keepers have report-_





ed unsatisfactory results from feeding

alfalfa when they have used the com—

mon article called alfalfa bay. The

writer has always had the best results

feeding alfalfa in the dry mash. The

hens like it, pick it out when they can

because they prefer it to some of the

other materials. They will not do this



when the‘alfalfa. ‘you use is brown, '

dry, woody and indigestible. Cut at



the right time, properly cured and, "

stored, the second and third cut-W'



will make an ideal '1’
’V , chicks.





The modern poultry‘man Can-

not afford to onerléok this valuable

crop when planning his year's feeding

operations.





VERY poultryman appreciates the

value of corn in feeding for winter

eggs. and there is little danger of feed-





‘ing too much of it so long as good





alfalfa and other protein supplements

are fed along with it. Wheat, when

pIices are low, is an excellent feed.

Oats and barley may be fed along with

corn and. alfalfa to good advantage.

Buckwheat is an ideal grain feed for

laying hens, and may be grown on

many fields where soil conditions are

unfavorable for other grain crops. On

account of its adaptability for late

seeding many farmers use it as a catch

010p to sow when othe1 crops fail or

when weathe1 conditions 1ende1 early

grain crops too hazardous. It responds

wonderfully well to light applications

of fertilizers, and for that reason will

make a good yield on fields where oth-

er crops would fail. If straw is not

available millet may be grown to ad-

vantage and used for litter in the

scratching run. The hens enjoy pick-

ing at the fine seeds, and the straw

affords good scratching material.



In planning the year’s food supply

the farmer—poultryman cannot afford to

lose sight of the dairy cow as a valu-

able complement to the farm flock.

Skim—milk is a valuable source 01' ani-

mal protein, and two or three good

cows fit in nicely with the work of car-

ing for the fowls. For growing chicks

and laying hens many feeders have

found it possible to derive a feeding

value of from fifty cents to one dollar

per hundred. pounds from skim—milk.

Besides the first cuttings of alfalfa,

cornstalks and odds and ends of other

feeds which are not suited for the poul-

try reduce the cost of feeding ‘the

cows to a minimum. Then, too, the

cows go a long ways toward putting

the farm on a paying basis. Likewise

many dairy farmers have found a flock

of from two hundred to four hundred

laying hens a valuable addition to the

live stock equipment of their farms.





SMALL plot of winter wheat or



rye sowed near the laying-house

will afford some choice picking for the

fowls during the late autumn and early

spring, besides plowing the ground

will prove of great benefit in keeping

the range free from disease. Likewise

plans should be made to provide a

green range for the young chicks dur-

ing the spring and early summer.

Plots of red clover or alfalfa will fur-





nish tender green feed at all times

during the growing season. On most

farms, however, abundant range is





available without making special pro-

vision for the flock during the spring

and summer months.



In laying out poultry runs it is al-

ways well to keep this point in mind

and plan the layout so that by remov-

ing the end posts and netting the crops

in the yards can be planted the long

ways of the yard and cultivated with

a horse. Long rows will enable“ one to

plant and cultivate the crop with a

minimum of disagreeable hand-work.

If corn is grown after corn for two or

three years it will pay to cultivate be-

tween the rows about the time the

corn is fit to harvest and sow rye in

the runs. This not only furnishes ex-

cellent grazing for the flock, but serves

as a cover crop and adds considerable

vegetable matter to be turned under

for the next year’s crops. Small grain

crops may also be grown in the runs,

but as these crops occupy the ground

all the time when the hens need the

range they are not so suitable as the

corn crop. In localities where plums





and cherries thrive it will pay well to





start small fruit plantations in the

runs, rather than to attempt to glow





‘field crops.





 





 





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Winners 0 hie ago





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HICKS. Bred-today S. C. W. Leghorn and Barred

Rock (uality chicks that lease. guaranteed full

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CHICKS English Strain White Leghorns

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9 Cockerel .. h . -

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ROM up in Huron county, the very

tip 0f the “Thumb.” comes the

_ news that a meeting was recently

held at Kinde of the Kinde Cooperative

Grain Company, and in spite of bad

weather and- soft roads a large crowd

turned out. The meeting was held for

the purpose of discussing the financial

condition of the association; and, after

the resources and liabilities had been

gone over very carefully, it Was deCid-

ed toput on a vigorous campaign for

the increase of the capital stock, so

that the business may be carried on

in the future in a more economic man-

ner. This meeting was adjourned from

time to time during the month, a re-

port of progress being made at each

meeting. Very satisfactory results

were obtained,and.prospects are good

for the association to be in active op-

eration at an early date.





A directors’ meeting of the Atwater

Elevator was attended by the county

agent, James R. Campbell, at which it

Was decided to call a’ joint meeting of

the farm bureau members of the com-

munity and the stockholders of the ele-

vator association. This joint meeting

was well attended and the method of

joining the two organizations was dis-

cussed in detail. This organization had

already joined the elevator department

of the State Farm Bureau, thus making

a place of business for the members of

the farm bureau in that locality. “Farm

bureau members everywhere,” said

Mr. Campbell, “are commencing to ap-

preciate the value of cooperative ele-

vators and are assisting to finance

them on asubstantial business basis.

The. result of these meetings has been

an increase of the capital of this as-

sociation.





STRICTLY farm bureau meeting



was recently held in Ubly to con-

sider the problem of fertilizer supplies

for spring use. The majority of farm-

ers believed the present prices too

high to be profitably used; but tenta~

tive orders were given to be confirmed

later if the prices should be reduced to

what was considered a reasonable fig-

ure. The members are beginning to

feel strongly the need of having a

place of business of their own in Ubly,

and much sentiment was expressed in

favor of forming an association, either

of their own or as a branch of the Bad

Axe association. A later meeting will

take up this matter for definite action.





An excellent meeting and a good

time was held at an oyster supper giv-

en by the Live Stock Shipping Asso-

ciation of Grindstone City, the leading

feature of: which was the large attend-

ance of the ladies with a, bountiful

supply of oysters. After a discussion

of the shipping association work the

question of holding an agricultural in-

stitute or school was taken up. It was

decided to hold one provided a lady

demonstrator could be secured to en-

tertain the women folks. This is a

very good feature and should be given

more thorough consideration in the fu-

ture. The county agent was requested

to make the necessary arrangements

for speakers, and the prospects are

bright for some more good times in

this community. , ~



Over in Elkton the farm bureau

members and the stockholders of the

Elkton Cooperative Elevator met to-

gether in the Opera House. The con-

dition of the association and its rela-

tion to the farm bureau was taken up

in much the same manner as was done

at the Kinde meeting. Progress of

the farm bureau was discussed and the

necessity of' its members getting ear-

nestly behind their elevator and cream-

ery was brought out. At a later meet-

ing in January it was expected that





 





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The Sebewaing Cooperative Associa-,

tion atBach was incorporated under

Act 398 of the Public Acts of Michigan

for 1913, one of the best acts under





which an association can organize and-





de a general elevator and supply busi-

ness, It insures the member 'of re-

ceving his just share of the net profits

earned each year, On the amount of

business he does with the association.

The value of the Sebewaing associa—

tion property is stated to be in excess

of $28,000, and, in addition to a well

built and equipped elevator of 20,000

bushels capacity, there is a. bean store-





house 28x30 feet, a warehouse 36x40





feet, and construction has recently

been started on another to be 30x50

feet in size. This will give the associa-

tion room to take care of the rapidly

increasing business, consisting of

Wholesale and retail grain, beans, corn.

hay, straw, seeds and all kinds of

feeds. In addition stocks of several

good brands of spring wheat, winter

wheat, rye and buckwheat flour are

kept on hand. They also sell hay Wire,

wire fence, fence posts, binder twine.

cement, plaster, wall board, lumber,

sash, doors, interior finish, shingles,

lath roofing and building paper, gates,

tile, sewer pipe, flue linings, coal and

Coke. The membership in the associa-

tion numbers three hundred and forty-

two and is growing steadily.



Over in Midland, with their member-

ship touching six hundred, cooperative

marketing associations liave been or-

ganized by farmers at Midland, San-

ford and Coleman; and it is expected

that the membership soon will reach

one thousand. A number of communi-

ties are yet to be solicited, preliminary

action not having been taken. The or-

ganizations so far perfected are all

owned and controlled by the local farm-

ers, and will be members of the State

Elevator Exchange. Arrangements are

being made through the county agent

for building or buying of necessary

elevators and warehouses to take care

of a considerable business. In connec-

tion with these organizations a. stock

shipping association will be formed to

work with the elevators in marketing

the farmers.’ produce.



About one hundred and fifty farm bu—

reau members of Hemlock and vicinity

attended the mass meeting there late

in January. The work of the State

Farm Bureau’s new seed department

was the principal subject of discussion.

Under the present plan the farmer

raises seed, turns it over to the State

Farm Bureau that supervised the grow-

ing of the seed, and is in turn privileg-





ed to. buy pedigreed seed that has been '





raised by other farm bureau members.

State farm bureaus will exchange seed

to give the farmers an opportunity .to

buy seed grown in any part of the

country.



The St. Charles Farm Bureau Coop-

erative Shipping Association shipped

its third carioad of live stock on Wed-

nesday, February 9.

the association announce that from

now on shipments will be made every

two weeks. Farmers intending to send

cattle in the consignments have been

advised to take the live stock to‘St.

Charles early in the morning, as the

car is scheduled to leave there at about

eleven o’clock.



Twenty-five rural schools in Saginaw

county have raised $885.37 for schbol

equipment by entertainments and so-

cials during the year 1920. according

to reports sent to the county school

commissioner’s ofl‘iceg It is believed

that a much greater amount has been

earned by the various schools, but only





twenty-five have reported. Buena. Vis- I





ta school, district No. 2, of which eeen

Pequignot is teacher, leads theilat





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The officers of ~
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.(Continued from page 178):

‘ . e laws for organizing farmers in

ifigtigmgie, and whereas this conflict of

‘opinions is working to the disadvan-

‘tage of the cooperative movement,



Be it resolved, that it is the sense

of the committee that the executive

committee of the Michigan State Farm

'Bureau be requested to recommend

that the efforts of the county agent

along commercial lines be confined to

promoting and perfecting local .pur-

chasing and marketing assomations,

and to assisting those organizations in

any manner desirable.



That counties be organized into local

units for the purpose of marketing and

.purchasing to best advantage, local

~_units to secure commodity contracts

from their members; and local units

‘to give commodity contracts to State

A Farm Bureau through different depart-

‘ments of'said State. Farm Bureau; 10-

cal units to be organized, advised and

assisted when necessary by their

‘ County Farm Bureau. .



The following is taken from the re-

‘port.'ol' the committee of six; three

'from the executive committee and

' three from the county agents’ associa-

' tion, as adopted January 24, 1921:





First, that. all local business units of

- the farm bureau be placed on a sound

- financial basis, with crop and purchas-

,ing contracts with the members and

incorporated under the laws (of Mich-

igan. . ,

Second, that the committee recogniz-

xes the necessity of maintaining the

-County Farm Bureau on an efficient

basis, and rec0mmends that the county

' be continued as a basis of representa-

‘tion to the state delegate body; that

at the end of two years, or at such

: time as may be necessary, membership

,dues for the support of county and

state organizations be collected through

'local business units; that it may be

= the duty of the county executive com-

- mittee to prepare a budget for the sup

. port of the County Farm Bureau, which

‘shall be pro-rated over the locals in

‘the county on the basis of business

- transacted or secured from such other

_ sources as may be available.





Third, that no fee be required after



a unit has signed a commodity con:

‘ tract for any department of the Michi-

' gan State Farm Bureau.



Fourth, that the County Farm Bu-



reaus recognize . the family type of



’ membership as official. Each family

membership should carry with it the

,right of only one vote, but any duly

authorized member of the family may

vote; either man or woman.



Fifth, that reciprocal arrangements

concerning sales purchasing and other

services, between the State Farm Bu-

reau and the commodity organizations



‘be Worked out, in order to eliminate

- duplication of effort, strengthen the or-

ganizations concerned, in the service

to which each is best adapted, and de-

‘ velop a permanent policy to unite the

. commodity organizations in the state

with the farm bureau movement.





Sixth, that the executive committee

employ district business managers

. when needed, to assist in the general

business interests and activities of the

‘ Michigan State Farm Bureau.



Seventh, that a permanent policy, in

order to effectually unite the Michigan

State Farm Bureau with the various

commodity organizations of Michigan

must provide representation and par-

ticipation in the management of mat-

ters affecting their interest.



Eighth, therefore, the committee rec-

ommends that the power of the organ-

ization movement in Michigan be h'ar-

monized and concentrated‘in the Mich-





igan State Farm Bureau by amending,





‘ its constitution and by—laws so as to

make possible direct representation on

the executive committee by the addi-

tion of one committeeman chosen by

such commodity organizations in the

state as may be approved as depart,-

ments by the executive committee of

the Michigan State Farm Bureau.



Ninth, the committee further recom-

mends that a commodity organization

in order to qualify, as a department,

with representation on the executive

committee, must be incorporated under

the laws of Michigan and be composed

of‘incorporated local cooperative uhits,

whose entire membership is composed

,of farm bureau members, said units to

[be adequately financed, and on a sound

business basis; such organizations to

be -fairly representative of the said

commodity interest of the state.

g;,Teuth_, that reciprocal relations be-

tweencommodity departments and the

'M‘i‘Chigan".State Fa. Bureau must be





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committee of the Michigan State Farm .





Bureau.



Eleventh, that on the advice of the

attorney of the Michigan State Farm

Bureau, Charles Nichols, no changes

in the constitution of the Michigan

State Farm Bureau be made until after

the disposal of the proposed corpora-

tion laws now pending.





Secretary's Recommendations. I!

The secretary’s recommendations.

which follow Were all adopted by the

executive committee excepting the pre-

ambleand paragraphs (a) and (b) of

section (2). It was over these excep-

tions that the contest previously men~





tioned developed.



I submit to you these recommenda-

tions which appear to me to be for the

best interests of the organization and

what the membership demands. With

out any question whatsoever, if this

organization is to live true to the prin-

ciples upon which it was, sold at a

great cost of both effort and money to

close to one hundred thousand farmers

of the state, it must proceed another

year along the same general lines,

which, with difficulty, have been ,fol-





lowed successfully during the past,





year. From the time the membership

campaign in the state was started un-

til it was terminated temporarily a few

weeks ago, the memberships were‘sold

on the basis that the Michigan State

Farm Bureau was not to be another

organization, but the farmers’ organi~

zation of the state. It was made plain

that it would not be just a promoter

but a doer. It was made plain that it

wouldrnot form any alliances which

would divide its strength, that it wel‘

corned cooperation from any group of

people striving for improvement of

things agricultural, but. that; it would

not in justice to the thousands who put

their membership dues into it expend

those moneys for the primary benefit

of any other than its own members.

In the light of the deVelopment of the

organization, in the last two years——

preliminary the first year and ac-

tive the second-An membership, in

finances, in scope of business opera-

tions and benefits to members, it is

right that its policy and program of

work for the next year be absolutely

on the same general lines as that of

the last two years. We have gained

close to one hundred thousand mem-

bers, and while more are desirable, it

is more essential that these members

be welded into a solid unit. To accom-

plish this purpose the following steps

are necessary:



1. Begin a definite effort to see that

memberships in local farm bureau co-

operative associations are farm bureau

memberships and that every farm bu-

reau member in Michigan becomes a

member of a local farm bureau asso-

ciation. This, besides accomplishing

the mentioned object will, at the same

time, operate as a membership follow

up machine and a membership fee col-

lection agency.



2. Local farm bureau associations

should be organized, properly financed

and incorporated, so as to do whatever

business the majority of its members

may instruct the manager to include

in the activities of the association.



(a) A' contract should run from the

individual member to the local farm

bureau association such as is known as

a crop agreement or purchasing con-

tract.



(b) A contract should run from the.

local farm bureau association to the

Michigan State Farm Bureau requiring

no membership fee other than that all

its members are paid-up farm bureau

members or will become so within six

months’ time after the signing of the

contract, which would be accompanied





by a $500 note as a guarantee of good





faith and business integrity.



(0) One contract should give the use

of all of the several departments of the

Michigan State Farm Bureau to the

local farm bureau association, and this

contract shall only become effective

after approval by the County Farm

Bureau affected or involved.



3. The County Farm Bureau should

be so organized that it will have regu-

lation and supervision for the Michigan

State Farm Bureau over all farm bu-

reau locals within the county. It should

be in position to see that cooperation

is effected and maintained between lo-

cals, at the same time educating the

member in cooperative business meth-

ods, standardization and quality pro-

duction. ,



4. No commercial business should be

done with a local farm bureau associa-

tion' by the Michigan State Farm Bu"

reau after January 1, 1922, unless con,

tmtualv routines are existing-and the



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producing a. marvelous gas.





This gas produces the hottest cooking-flame known: and a light

that is seemingly a miniature of that great orb that rises in the east





and sinks in the west.





Cook and Illuminate with a Colt‘





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And what a wonderful combination!

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gas from the impregnated stone, and there you are! ~_.





There is no waste.





The Colt machine shuts off automatically as you draw





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Picture a cool, sweet kitchen, even in sweltering summer. made possible by





in the pitch black of the country night. And the little old Colt machine making

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BABY CHICKS





Pure Bred in all the leading

breeds. The most moderate meth—

od of hatching. Delivered l’ar-

('el post prepaid to you. Best

lprices. Circular free. do not de-

ay.

Wolf Hatching and

Breeding 00.



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Crystal Poultry Farms l





Strain) \Vhite and Barn-d l’l) mouth Rock, H. C. R.J.

Red.Anconas,White Wyandottes and Bruno Leghorna

25 for 16.35. 50 for $11.00 and 100 for $20.60. Ross “'adio,

hieadow Brook Chicken llatchcrzv'. hit. hlorris, hlich.





° Ancnnas 17v. Rocks 20c, P).



Baby oh'Cks lmghurns lfir, \V. Leg. '50.



All. S. C. 5% Dis. in lots of 100001“ more, Parcel Post

Paid and safe delivery guaranteed. Catalog free.



KlVOLLS HATUHERY, It. 3, Holland, hitch.





Barred Plymlh Rock 35mm Ella-.2“ “W“ "‘

Mrs. JESSE 1". BALL, R. 9, Charlotte, hlich<





 





 





 





P. H. Cockerels for sale

Barred mg strain. Sired by 1st pen (‘O('k9l‘0l\&fl he.





troit Show 1920. Rosemary Farms. Williamst<m,:\1ich. -





 





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chix. eggs from





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Prize winners at 192.0





New York and Ohio State





CHICKS We ship thousands oat-h slum-urn

’ Send for prices audit-stinuvnials





 





Fairs. 35 Leading breeds -

Prices reasonableSat‘e ar- Hatching

rival guaranteed. Circular

free. Shepard Strong,

Crystal Poultry Farms ‘—

790i Franklin Ave., Cleveland, 0.





 





 





 





 





am cmcxs satiattzfaasrasm

Selected healthy chicks. Order early, have Winter





layers. First. hatch Feb. 28th. Write for price list and

circular. DERB ¢I: ADAMS. thchfield, MiCh.





Baby Chicks





FREE delivery. Superlatlve ualit

from select high-producing smells. All C

popular varieties. Reasonable prices.

Vl rite for catalog at once.

AERDALE POULTRY FARM. .

Springfield. Ohm-





Big 5“). Barron White Leghorns





Bea! winter layers. 703 eggs from 50 pallets in Dec

1' recreatalog describes them, gives feeding methods'

a new way to cull hens and much valuable information'

Send for-it. A. WAUCHEK. Gobleville. Mich'



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$9 nnln . n8

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FREEPORT HA l'CHERY. Box 1‘1. Fret-port. Mich

3.0. \Vlllffi‘ L89-





DAY OLD CHICK horns. From





trap-nested stock whcrceucry hen must produce 6)

eggs in four Winter months. One hundred hit: thrifty

chicks for £5.00. MACALWHITE PUl'LTliY

YARDS. Alex. MacVittie, Proprietor, Faro. ph’lich.



Eight im-





B A B Y c H I c K S, pmu~d var-





ieties at lowes‘t [Kissihle prices. A trial order “ill

convmce youo t cirsu eriorquallty. Oatalu ie free.

Obie Poultry Yards and atch ery. Mariugri. Uhio.





BABY CHICKS 3...... mm



Rocks, Norman strain.

trap-nested. bred-to-lay.expertly tested for many gen-

eratlons. la e illustrated catalogue 25c,stamlps for

circular. orman Poultry Plant. Chatsworth. ll-l.





Hatchin eggs from Parks fill-egg



Barred POCkS strain. finch in the blood of Parks



best pedigreed ens. $2 per 15. $6 per 50, 812 per 10!).

Prepaid hr purl-e roost in nonbreakable containers.



R. (v, KIRBY. Route 1, East Lansing,1\’lich_





 





 





 





Wh' Wyanrlntten Official records. five hens 1074 eggs.

Eggs 15. $300 and 310.0“ 100. $15.“). Catalo

free M 111:.





G. W_.lsono'rrMANN. ammo.

early hatched. Large mu.

m "8d Toms marked birds. Write foriprlces.





 





 





 

 





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bl. All. heavy lay-.





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TIIE HOME OF





Imp. Edgar of Dalmeny





Probably





.The World’s Greatest

_ Breeding Bull





Blue Bell. Supreme Champion at the Smith-

fleld Show 1919. and the Birmingham Show

1920, is a daughter of Edgar of Dalmeny.



The Junior Champion Bull, Junior Cham-

pion Female. Champion Calf Herd and First

Prize Junior Heifer Calf. Michigan State Fair.

1920. were also the get of Edgar of Dalmeny.



A very choice lot of young bulls—sired by

Edgar of Dalmeny are. at this time. offered

for sale.



Send for Illustrated Catalogue.





WILDWOOD FARMS

ORION, MICHIGAN

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





 





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For Sale





Woodcote Trojan-Edens





We are oflering ten cows bred to either

IMP. ELCHO OF HA RVIESTOUN. or

IMP. EDGARDO OF DALMENY





Write for our 1921 BULL SALE LIST

Woodcote Stock Farm. Ionia, Mich.





 





 





 





 





CLOVERLY ANGUS





Cows and Heifers Bred to





Blackcap Brandonsolf W cote 2nd

. 01‘ a 6

GEO. HATHAWAY a SON, Ovid, Mich.





 





H ing decided to sell part of my herd



For sale ofavpurg 1bredl Aberrgegn Angus cattle,

' I m les an ema es 0 i erent ages.



consistinfiqonfléiw P. EITEL, Vermontville, Mich.





I) ll dh ifersfromtito

Reg. Aberdeen Angus Idlm‘bguold (hi the very best





of breeding. also Berkshire Swine. boars ready for





service and pigs both sex singles. pairs or trios,





- t Libe t. B s.

will accep RUSSEVLLOBROTHERS, Merrill, Mich.





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EOISTERED Aberdeen-Angus. 'I‘en‘ heifers, six

Rbulls from eight Ll: févigteen months East of

' ,th rowth in at ma egoo . . eason~

:ngelnguii-aeg y I“. J. WILBER. Clio, Mich





he Villa e Farm Guernsey's—offer for sale: The

TPride of Sweet Orchard Farms No. 63057. Dropped

Dec. 3 1919 ready to head your herd, his full sister now

on A. R. test has milked over‘XmO lbs. 90 lbs. fat in 50

days. Sire Langwater Wilchester (m8). darn Gover-

nor's Minnewaska 2d milking 45 lbs. dailé (38’108). . Sire

Dangwater Advocate (N514) dam Imp. ' ov s. Minne-

waska(29224). First check of 3250 takes him. Rex (inf.

fin, Herdsman. O.J.Winter.Owner. Sebewaing,Mich.





Guernsey Foundation





cows and bull not related.‘ All out of Adv.

Egggydghlrg. Other cows with A. R. records up to 600

lbs. (at. Inspection invited. - .

PAUL LOVE, St. Austell Farms, Jackson. hiich.





FOR SALE CHEAP





Three Guernsey Bulls fourteen months old register-

ed. Five Guernsey Heifers coming two year 0) and

and bred grade stock. JOSEPH A. SCHROEGER,

Box 77, Merriman Road, Wayne. Mich.





. .

Registered Guernseys



A bull Calf, gearly readly for liggtser‘i'iice. at a price.

, 't W' it ong on s .e ow. .



you will pay .finM. WILLIAM, No. Adams. Mich.





GUERNSEYS





Bull calves for sale. Sired by Anton's May K rig that,

sold for $7,000. Farmers (prices and guaranteed to

please. GILMORE Blt ’l‘liEliS. Camden,Mich_





 





ms 8. Federal Inspected. Only 1 serviceable

G326 bflsl left. Born Nov. 1919.7l)an1‘fi and su‘e'g dams

A. R. records over 400 lbs. h. f. Class G. Traces 3 times

to Imp. Masher Sequel. Will ship on approval, Three

bull calves under 7 mos. G.W.& li.G.liay,Albion,Mich.





u E R N 5 EV s MGISTERED

G BULL OALVES

Containing blood of world champions.

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





of May Rose Breedin

Guernsey BUIIS ’l‘heir dams have recor s

420 to 650 lbs. fat also a few cows and heifersnre

ofiered. II. W. Wigman, Lansing, Mich.





Six registered Guernsey bulls May

For sale Rose breeding ready for service. Cheap

If taken soon. John Ebels, It. 2, Holland. Mich.





G U E R N S E Y BULL CALVES whose

» .sire's dam made

19,460.20 milk, 909.05 fat. Their mother’s sire's dam

made15.109.10 milk. 778.80 fat.



T. V. HICKS. Battle Creek. Mlch_





 





 





V' G emse earlingbulls DollyDimple’s

RegIStered M: Enid! Langwater Backing.Priced

to sell. Geo. W. fieeves, R, 7, Grand Rapids, Mich





SON OF A

State Champion





We have for sale a yearling son

of “Lucy Canary DeKol” who is

State Champion jr. two yr. old for





lb. daughter of King Segis.

for price‘a'nd pedigree.





* smpLiNcsR BROS.





write Born June 2nd. by MaplecrestDe Kol Hanger-void,





 





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DUROC SALE





CIRCUIT





The following well known breeders Will‘sell

good registered Duroc Bred Sows on the





Monday, February 21, 1921





Michigana Farm Ltd., at Pavilion, Mich.





Tuesday, February, 22, 1921





Chaslen Farm, at Northville, Mich.





Wednesday, Febr’y 23, 1921





.Thos.§Underhill 8: Son, at Salem, Mich.





Thursday, February 24-, 1921





Newton Barnhart, at St. Johns, Mich.





These sales will be held regardless of weather

Write to the several breeders IfOr catalogues





Following men will handle mail bids. Send bids to

them at respective sales in owner’s care:





Col. R. M. Clark, Brimfield, Ill.,' Auctioneer





Joe Havga, Peoria, Illinois

Ass’t Sec’y National Duroc Jersey Br. Ass'n





For The Michigan Farmer) ‘

Sales will Start at 1 o’clock in the Afternoon .





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Combination Dispersion Sale





40 --- Registered Holsteins—40

At Perry, Michigan, Wednesday, March 2, .1921





C._M. Sp'alding will disperse his entire herd, which has passed a clean

test under state and federal supervision. .





B. E. Smith and H. o. Loomis will each consign: five head.

Tuberculin tested and sold with 60-90 day retest privilege.

Sale Managed by

Michigan Holstein-Friesian Association

Old State Block, Lansing, Michigan





 





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Kalamazoo County





Wayne County





Washtenaw County





Clinton County





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The Traverse Herd





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

fine growthy type. guaranteed right in every way,

They are from high producing A. R. 0. ancestors.

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

quotations, stating about age desired.





TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL

Traverse City, Mich.





accepted in payment of finely bred reg-

‘ 600d "ole istered Holstein bull calves. Quality

best, nd at prices within reach of all. Write,

D. CLARKE. - - , - - Vassar. Mich.





 





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Two Grandsons of

King Of The Pontiacs





Ready for Service





From 31.18 and 28.39 lb. dams





Sirez—King cf the Pontiacs Se is No. 169124 whole

by King of the Pontiacs and“ min Hillsdale Begls

(a 33 lb. daughter of King Segis) “Nut Cod.”

Damsz—Topsy Clothilde Fubes No. 17% made 31.18

lbs. butter and 623.8 lb. milk in 7 days.



Sunny Brook Nina chis No. 43727 at 4years reduced

28.. lbs. butter and 587.6lbs. milk in 7 ays and

105.94 lbs. butter and 3319.6 lbs. milk in 30 days.





Thesebulls are nicely marked and Good Individuals,

Herd under federal supervision. Come and see them.

For pedigree and information write M r. Fred Alt. Mgr.





James B.'Jones Farms,

Romeo, Mich.





Here Is A Good One.





 





A sire having three sisters each with re rd ~ f



1200 pounds of butter in a year, two of 06181:! ion-(3'3:

Emil“ ‘éhamrl’im' b u. n l



‘a 's am y an own ro or to h and Hutch!»

Kol with a yearlyrecord of 1247.5. i ' .

of breeding has produced many 1000 ‘to WT???“





 





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permanence? m“ *t’ -

Hillel-est Farm. gr. 1“.- B. Lsy. Kalamnaeo. Mich.





 





 

 





 





 

   





 





   

 

 





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NO‘TICE





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 et busy if on

want a son of Flint aplecrest 0y

at your own price.





JOHN H. WINN, (In_c.)

Michigan





2 H if calves sire a 27 lb. son of Maple Crest Kora.

. CI dyke Hang. Their dams have 19 lb. 2 yr

old sister and a 27 lb. sire. Terms 75 down 560 a ear:

M. L. McLAULIN. Redford, ich





FOR SALE Registered Holstein-Friesian



.bull calf ready for service ex-

tra choice breeding and individuality King of the,

Pontiacs breeding. Henry B. Rohlfs. Kl; Alli-onyMlch.





For Sale $450.00





Cash or Terms. .

A shoswrlailllb from éth R. gmlDam born December 15,

1918. w. . -

sid’diu. lglNO {regs 015351“ ,



Whose grand dam, GETS A N TINE. has six

times made better than thin; nude of butter.

Buy now in order to have , - winter calves.

RAND only}? 57(3)ch PJ'ARMS



5N. A .. ; enoer. wnei- acks ,Mi 1;.

3' Mm” mum’s“ 5cm, 1 supm- a...” . °





Euler-1‘ ‘ ‘ ' Old enough

col-edited Herd T Bu“ F0, sale for no.

this rds. 'I .da. mIIE “7.8). butter 20.5. da.

milk 1&1 _ butter”. 8 e 8:? g A. It. 0. daughters.

His else I lb; grandson of antha Johanna Lad

t . er calves? mos. old not regs



‘ ' Vernon mouth. _ _ aunt.





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, new herds were founded.





 





Angus Show a





Breeders’ Association, one of the:

most successful and wideawake





of the’country helda two-days’ annual

meeting at the Michigan State Agricul-

tural College at East Lansing, Michi-

gan, on January 13-14, during the State.

Live Stock Breeders’ Weekvat that in-

stitution. The two-days’ , session open-

ed with the annual meeting of the An-

gus Breeders’ Association on the after-

noon of the thirteenth, which was at-

tended by a large and enthusiastic

body of breeders from all over the

state. This was followed by a banquet

at the Hotel Kernsx The following day

a show of Aberdeen-Angus cattle was

held in the judging pavilion of the col-

lege, which was followed by a sale of





the leading breeders in the state. At





Minty gave a talk on the growth and

deVelopment of the association. ‘Dr. K.

J. Seulke, of the American Aberdeen-

Angus Breeders’ Association discuss‘éd

marketing of pure-bred live stock. Oth-

er subjects discussed were date and.

location of the annual spring sale, fu-

turity classes at the state fair, commu-

nity showing and advertising. :1 I



The following officers were re-elect-





ed for the coming year: President,

Alexander Minty, Ionia, Mich.; vice»

president, James Curry, Mariette,





Mich.; secretary-treasurer, Ward Hath-

away, Ovid, Mich. -



At the show the following day James

Curry, of Mariette, Michigan, wonthe

aged cow class with the cow Bose '3

of' Burnbi‘ae, that later sold to'the

Michigan Agricultural College’- for their

breeding herd. The class for females

one year and under was won by Wild-

wood Farms on *Heatherlass of Wild-

wood. She also was laterpurchased

by the college. In the classic]; bulls

any age Woodcote Stock 'Farmwwon

first with Enthusiast of FIWOOdcote,

.which later was sold to head the herd

of M. C. Baker, of Flint, Michigan.



The sale which followed was one of

the cleanest and snappiest strictly

cash sales seen for many months,.and

While the average of $228 _on thirty-ene-

head was not extremely high,'the ina-

jority of the cattle sold well, andinany

Michigan

and Ohio buyers took the entire ‘oi’fer-

ing, although New York and Connecti-

cut bidders were the ‘runnersvup on

quite a'few of the tops, going home

emptylhanded. Colonel J. P. Hutton

cried the sale in a masterly fashion

and deserves much creit for its suc-

cess. ' ' " »

The,following is a detailedreport of

the animals selling for $200 and up-

ward:





 





Cows.





Blackcap of Wildwood, to G. R. Mar-

tin & Son, Croswell, Mich., $700.

Blackcapper Lady 3rd, to Mrs. Cath-

erine Van Cleave, Thompsonville,

Mich., $625. "



Heatherlass of Wildwood, to Michi-

gan Agricultural College, $470.



Erica offi‘Woodcote 28th, to F. S.

Smith, Hart, Mich., $240. ,

Erica of Woodcote 3rd, to J. _A.,

Broym, Detroit, Mien, $280. ‘

Mildred 3rd of Marlette, to F. S.

Smith, Hart, Mich., $375. .

Rose 3rd of Burnbrae, to Michigan

Agricultural College, $350.



Rosamond of Ravensdowne, to A. H.

Simcox, Ithaca, Mich., $200. . . .

Cloverly’s Kate, to J. A. Brown, $215.

Princeés of Sprucemcmd, to J. A.

Brown, $225.



Black Edgar of ,Wildwood. to Mur’

ray McCollum, Unionville,.Mlch.. $360.

Enthusiast of WQOdcote.'. to 11.0.

Baker, Flint, Mich., $575.





comma sediments-A sass,





 





R. E. .1. MATHEWst, grann-





,Qiiiiia .hred,.s¢w‘saie at metal-m

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THE Michigan Aberdeen-Angus





state live stOck breeders’ associations -





pure-bred Angus cattle contributed by.





the association meeting Mr. Alexander;





' Oak. Michigan. hang. a We





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“ [fieé gm; find fivegherd sire, prospects.

Mr. Mathewson ”has recently added‘

two excellent herd boars to his herd.

One of these young boars, Great Mon-’

ster, is a son of Champion Shively’s

Monster. He weighed three hundred

pounds at eight months of age; is a

long and tall pig'and possesses won-

derful bone and finish. He is one swell

pig and excellent judges of the breed

predict that he will develop into one

of the 'best sires of the breed. Mr.

Mathewson. is also using Big Bone De-

fender, one of the largest Poland China

boars in the state. ‘



In order to make his sale of interest

to breeders from other parts of the

state, Mr. Mathewson decided to put

some of his best tried sows in the sale.

These sows are a choice lot of individ-

uals and will make the offering very

attractive to breeders as well as farm-

ers. Last year Mr. Mathewson sold a

carload of bred sows to be used for

breed promotion work in North Caro-

lina. W. M. McFadden, secretary of

the Poland-China Record Association,

purchased these sows and made the

selections.





 





MOLDY SILAGE.





 





What makes our silage mold? Es-

pecially when we leave it over a day.

All through our silage so far we find

little chunks of silage and when we

break it open it is all red inside and

we find blue mold in it. Some folks

said there was not enough juice in it.

But our com was riper a year ago than

it was this year and it did not mold.

Is a small handful of salt morning and

night fed in the chop too much for

a cow?



Sanilac Co. E. D.





I think your friends have informed

you correctly about the cause of mold

.in your silo. There was not a suffi-

cient amount of moisture and it was

not evenly distributed through the silo

or there would have been no mold. Of

course, if you take ensilage out of the

silo and leave it exposed it will begin

to mold in a short time. Ensilage

should always be fed as soon as pos-

sible after taken from the silo. You

can hardly tell from the looks of your

corn this year’and the next year about

the per cent of moisture which it con-

tains. The corn could be green this

year and yet if we had a dry spell the

corn would not contain as much mois-

ture and when there is any doubt about

thisa little moisture should be added

at time of filling the silo.



An animal should have about two

ounces of salt per day per thousand

pounds of live weight. If you have

large animals they require more salt

per day than those weighing one thou-

sand pounds. ' C. C. L.





SOILING VS. SIL'EAGE. ’





 





Kindly tell me how to feed cowpeas





and oats to my cows in the late sum-,





mer. Would you advise putting it in

the silo_or cutting it as needed? This

latter way would take much of my

time, which is valuable at that season.

Montcalm Co. L. C. W.





I think you have solved the problem' .7

Soiling of cattle is all very .

nice, only it takes time every day and i





yourself.





interferes with other work, Besides





there is only just a few days when a. :

It soon gets .

~~too matured and you must commence 2

it gets matured ’

enough, then continue to feed after it "

[matures memuch. .But if you will cut

the crop and put it in the silo just ,





.soiling crop is at its best.





feeding it {before





when it is in the best condition. you

have saved it ,all at the least expense

and preserved it at the time when it is

in'the best condition to feed. In my

judgment a summer silo beats soiling

in many ways. C. C. L.





.« sit enema Ibe "managed to build the

. ‘ flank none llitfle every year. This can

i-‘be .done be saying airtime choicest.





, -. sex. 14:" '

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This fine JERSEY, at 9 .yrs. 8

mos., gave 16,238 lbs. milk in

one year. Records like that are

worth trying for.





reihf





ARMER‘ _





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There’s more to milk-production

than just good feeding





[LK-PRODUCTION records do

not happenby chance. Neither

are they the result of good



feeding alone. Fact is, the very proc-

ess of “forcing” a cow to maximum

milk-giving is full of grave dangers

to her health unless the milk-making

organs are assisted in the rebuilding

process.



The recognition of this fact by

scientific dairymen is in large meas-

ure the reason for the extensive use

of Kow-Kare. While primarily a

medicine for treating sick cows, the

recognized tonic and [strengthening

eifect of Kow-Kare on the organs of:

production have caused it to be

widely used as a preventive of dis-

orders such as are common to cows.

Every cent thus spent in assisting

Nature will return dollars in in-

creased milk yield alone—to say





DAIRY ASS





nothing of avoiding expensive losse

through sickness. »



When disorders do arise—such as

Abortion, Barrenness, Retained Af-

terbirth, Securing, Lost Appetite,

Bunches, you’ll find Kow-Kare a re-

liable, prompt remedy. Its action

on the digestive and genital organs

is restorative and strengthening.

Such diseases disappear when these

organs are strong.



Whether you have sick cows or

not you can increase your milk in-

come by the proper use of Kow-Kare

—if only as a preventive of trouble.





The expense is slight. Kow-Kare

is sold by feed dealers, general stores

and druggists; 70c and $1.40 pack-

ages.



Write us for our valuable free

book, “The Home Cow Doctor.”





 

 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





NOTE: Tlu trad:-

marb name has bun

changed from K 0W -

K U R E to K 0 W -

K A R E — a name

more expressive of

both the P R E -

VE N TI VB and

CURA TIVE quali-

ties of the remedy.

There is not (ha

slightest change in

formula or manu-

facture.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   





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Messrs. Robinson 8: Schultz.

Independence, Kansas, write:





 





“Three years ago in Sep-

tember we bou hta Holstein

-cow .for $240. - his cow has

produced $2,520 worth of milk

1n three years, and it cost ‘us

8890 to feed her. Her four

heifers are worth $2,200. This

cow has brought a net profit

mto our herd of 83,400.”.





Send/22" Free Booklet:





The Holstein-Frieslan Association of. America

1s4-mnm Bldg" Iramehomynnmt





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





rvnnvmwr R . n.2, Vassar. Mich"





HOLSIEIN BULLS éi§8°'°i$i’$&ii





dams Price 8100. Dewey C. Pierson. Metamora. Mich.





- ‘«Wlih‘to h" :f. n manor-e nun:

-' can mh'iofinm‘“ a w e y





thud .

AIABEBII‘ EAIY, zLevorlna, :Miohigan.





FOR ISM-Exfiialnof-‘bmd holtomof Hood; m





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:y a “milk" Bull of Quality from the Breeders





B

of he world's only cow to produce 800 lbs. milk i117





/ ' dfis. having an 800 lb. (laughter.





ur herd is rich in the blood of (‘olantha 4ths Jo-

hanna. the only cow that ever held all world's records

in every division from one day to one year at the same.

time. She produced 651.71) lbs. milk in 7 days. “'9 are

ofl'ermg for sale a bull. whose dam exceeds this record

gov“ 7% lbs. in 7 days.

18 dam'a records are:—

Milk





1 Da‘y 100.1 lbs.

Milk '1 Days 659.3 lbs.

Butter 7 ‘ Days 26.31 lbs.





His name is

KING VALEBCORNUCOPIA_WA%NE. No. 312599





orn February b, 19‘.





madam and sire's two nearest dams average

' B





Days 3302 lbs.

Mi 7 Days 607.3 lbs.

Mdsomely marked about one third white.

5250M: f. o. b. Howell.

Howell. Mich.

All herds under U. S. Supervision.





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BIuny-Slock Farm;





'4

~ Offers the best selection of young bulls from Ste '

‘ 12 months We ever raised: out of dams up to 29.76 '





Y ‘XL'PI‘MolMloOI-esj

on"? Bu“ 32361:; egg.) individiulaiia month;





old m=lbsklrreedlug hothcldes also'bull calves 2 and ‘

monthsfiolltd. Priced for (Eden? sale.





for aged cows and over 26 lbs. for2 yr. olds.:

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

butter. Sued 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 me your. or by Dutchland Kon-~ .

men Sir Bag Apple. our Junior Herd sire, whose, ‘

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

barln 7 days and 1315;

lbs.:but.ter'and Ml lbs. milk in 1 year. Several carry:





Golantha -Denver who rma

the.blood ofboth these Sims.





13111” as extra. well crown. straight and right. OneE





of one tho~head of your-herd lsfbound wrinmeese

production.





Sand for pedigrees and prices.





magnum-m, .llodelleh.





907 Osborne St.,





Hereford Bul

*forSlOO takes him. Registered. crated, l, o. b.this sta-

tion. E. J. TAYLOR





heifers of popular breeding for sale. Also

bulls not related.





Allen Bros. Paw Paw,Mich.





Address Until June lst. 1921.

Kalamazoo, Mich.





 





15 months old. choice breed<

mg. a good one. First check





Fremont. hiioh.





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j bu“ transmits it to his daughters.

1 Map. our dairy herdbyusinga





8mm listen! Think! Act!

Mr. llairy Farms 1





Are you keeping cows for money or for “

"fun? To make you money or just get ;

rid of your feed? To make money of 1'

course. To get the largest profit :for_

feedvconsumed. The Jersey will .do ~

this. She has proven it in public tests

and in private herds. She should; she

hasbecn bred for over too hundred

years for economical production. This.

characteristic is fixed. The Jersey ;





.punezhred ‘ sey site. It .will pay:





 





» buys a‘beaumul registered Holstein holfer’ em

kmmldvflinodilkwgcmndso t KW





Ask the man who has :triedit. .He





 





 





 





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o. .- ‘i'i’rgwgon. troupe. Mich.





   





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mediator-breeding. Beaver. 9Akron. Mich.





 





 





 





 





’ _~gows. ‘Remom’ber—Aficonmrfical

we: - .. . , ' . ris Whatwijexmuu‘tlhm’tn
Jflfll





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L/lze Profit B 1 eed

"The Key to Dairy Profits ' ' and ' ‘Jeruy

Fucts' '._ two important books, telling

how farmers aremaking real profit today

with Jerseys—how anyone can do it any-

where. Whether you are interested in

one cow or a hundred,these books will

show you how to make money.

' , Write today

American Jersey Cattle

Club. 3244! .W.23 St.



NeWYork





   





 

 

 

 

   

 





 

 





 





.The Wildwood Farm





Jerse Cattle Majesty strain. Herd on State accred-

ht ' . of M. testin constantly done. Bulls f r

sale. AL N BALDE . Phone 143-5. Oapac. Mic .





BUTTER BRED ”Strait”

CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FABBI.

Silver Creek. Allegan County. Michigan.





JERSEY BULLS fii‘idiii‘iI—SS‘Q‘E‘fi





and-4M 'esty breeding. Meadowland Farm. Water-

man & aterman, Packard ltd., Ann Arbor. Mich.





Lillie Farmstead Jerseys {13“.}. 335°“ “m“

COLON O. EILLI E,





 





cows.

Coopersville. Mich.





 





Jersey Bulls $011,ng M- dams no to

NOTTEN FARM. Grass Lake, Mich.





J bulls for sale: From Marguerite's Premier

else” a grandson of Pogis 99th and K. of M. dams.

. SMITH & PARKER, R. 4. Howell. Mich_





 





oridaie Interested ()w] No, 111311 heads my herd

M bull calves from this great sire and out 0 [Lot M





dams for sale. Leon E. nws. it. 6. Allegan. Mich.





Bloomdale Shorthorns





See our cattle get our prices and breeding before buy-

Ing. Both bulls and females for saie.

CARR BROS. & 00., Bad Axe. Mich.





BIDWELL SHORTHORNS





BUY A BULL

that will put weight on your dair calves —the dia-

-rence will soon ay for the bull. ow selling good

looteh and Scott: —topp_ed yearhngsmeasonablyiipriced.

We guarantee every animal to a breeder. ederal

Best. One hour from Toledo. Ohio. N. Y. C. R. R.





BIDWELL STOCK FARM,

Box 0} Tecumseh, Michigan





Milking Shorthorns, bulls and heifers 5 me. to]

year old for sale at reduced prices to make room

for younger stock. E. H. Kill TZ. Mason, Mich.





The Maple’s Shorthorns





Kirklevington Lad, by Imp. Hartford

Welfare. In service, bulls for sale.





. J. V. WISE, Gobleville, Mich.





Richland Shorthorns





Imp. Lorne, Imp. Newton‘oham ion and

Sterling Supreme in Service. e offer

for quick sale: Five Scotch Bulls, best

of breedin . Three whites at $1000each‘ One





 





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roan at . one red at 8400. No females for

sale. Public solo Onions) Oct. 28th

C. . PRBSC TT «N: SONS,





Taurus. City. Mich.





Branch County Farm





Breeders of





Polled Shorthorn Cattle





Young Bulls For Sale

, Several well bred herd bull prospects.

GEO. E. BURDICK, Mgr., Coldwater, Mich.





VALLEY VIEW FARMS





Choice young Shorthorn cows and heifers for sale at

' all times. bred or open. or a (-arlond. also a few young

hulls strong in Sultan Blood. Write



S. E. PANGBOHN dz SON. Bad Axe. Mich.





EADOW Hills Shorthorus. Herd headed by Sil

M \ver King. full brother of Lavender Sultan Pur-

due Universxty’s great sire. For sale females of all

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





‘ ' Shorthom Breeders Associa-

Central Michigan tion offer for sale .75 head;Both

milk and beef breeding. all ages. New list read Jan.

15. M. E. MILLER, Sec. Greenville, ich.





M‘lk' Shorthorns. Bull calves $100.00 each.

‘ "1g Federal accredited Herds. Davidson

and Hall. Beland and Beland. Tecumseh. ch.





Bcz- Ilcd Pulled 3.593.332.0252?“ W‘s mm“ a 18

FRANK KEBLER, 11,1, Grand Ledge. Mich.





. Red Polled bull calves. from 3 mos. to 1 year

38.0.5.1. sired by Famous Charmer 75% same blood as





' =harrner1919Inter-national Granddhampion. Our herd

State and Federal tested. Westbrook Bros..lonia.Mich





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HOGS





Registered Berkshires. Gilts, and Sows bred for April

May and June farrow. yearling Boar and a few

youngerSpring pigs. Chase Stock Farm.Marlette.lich.





 





' Berkshires for sale. Two young boars.

“CPSI'Wd ready for service, two’ young gilts. a sow.

an you or ones of either sex Let me know our





wants. OHN YOUNG, 11.2. Breckenridge. ich.





. DUROC JERSEY SWINE

‘ 2 yr. old hard boars. curling boars and boar

"drove-ml . Its. Exits tor-pedigrees and





Ben





ShorthOrn

' SHOW SALE





Michigan Shorthorn

Breeders’ " Association





EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN

Friday, February 25th,

SHOW 10 A. M. SALE 1 P. M.

37 FEMALES 46 HEAD 9 BULLS





About one-half Scotch About one-half Scotch Topped





   

   

   

   

   

   





Many of the Best Families Represented





Every Animal Guaranteed, Tested and Sold Subject

to 60 Days Retest





IF YOU WANT





Shorthorns of Real Merit Come to Sale.

PERCHERON and BELGIAN HORSE SALE ‘





25 MARES 3 STALLIONS





Same Place, February 24th

Write for Catalogues





 

   

   





 





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Sprln b Walt's

$21. iii-ESSereur ,

Detroit. Jo n,Gd. Rapids andK ‘ gin-w leis





Phillips Bros,Riga,Mich. -





 





Bmokwaier‘illumr-laseys

BOARS-eReady for (Service

Bred Sows and 'G'ilts





Write us for: Price; and Pedigrees





Mail orders a Spectalty. Satisfaction WW-

BROOKWATER FARM. Anani-bor, Mich.

H. W. Mumford. Owner - J. B. Andrews, Mgr.





' at once I- have just what on want

write Me heavy bone registered Dayna Jer-

sey boars readfifor service. . - ~ " "



W. . MAYER. L. 13.1505. Durand. mob.





DUROC JERSEYS





Carey U. Edmonds. Hastings. Mich.

Duroc Jersey l Bred Sow Sal

40 Head- March 5th. Auto's in w'aitin a





Park Hotel. Monroe. also at National Hotel, Dun ee.

be our guest sale day. F. J. Drodt. Monroe. Mich.





DUROC JERSEYS Ef‘mgfif‘pi‘éfif





finder. n. p. HEYDENBERK. Wayland. Mich.





 





 





 





 





Down With Prices 8” 1“?“ ia'rmd “I“ ”An"

. . .u 031‘s.

WEBER BROS» Royal Oak. Mich.





 





o ‘ cls choice spring pigs either sex. Booking orders

- - for fall gigs. Vi e register free and ship 0. 0

D. A. J. RKER & SON. Belmont. Mich:





 





I. C's. One last fall boar' wgt. 425. two last fall



. -gilts. bred lots of spring pigs and this tall pigs

.either sex. good growthv stoc '5’ mile west ofDe t.

Cita's. Phone 124. om B. Schulze.» NaShville. M ch.





 





9 Fall pigs by '0 C. Big Gallows havesi

0’ I. C 8 and quality and are priced right. so

C. J. THOMPSON. Rockford, Mich.





 





O I C Bred Gilts for Mar. and Apr furrow

0 0 0 also a few choice service boars.

CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM. Monroe. Mich





' bred to A ril d M

OI '0 C. G 1 1t 8 farrow. r8h ppecilll. 0. y

H. W. MAN N. Dansviile, Mich.





 





We Are Offering 33;??? J3." ’32;





0. I. 0. tallnplgs sired by State Fair winners.

WEB R BROS. Phone 408. Royal Oak. Mlch'





 





W. E. J. EDWARDS, Manager

East Lansing, Mich.





Auctioneers





ADAMS & HUTTON ‘





Big Type I Piand Chinas





Thursday, February 24, 1921





at Farm





‘ (Under cover)





40 HEAD BRED GILT-S, TRIED SOWS

5 HERD BOAR PROSPECTS

5 TOP FALL GILTS





Some Great Attractions





   

 





 





All Double Immune





Trains will be met at Sturgis on N. Y. C. and Nottawa on G. R. 8; 1., A. M. of sale.

‘ WRITE FOR CATALOG





E. J. MATHEWSON,

' Burr Oak, Mich.

IRA COTTINGHAM, W.’ M. KELLY,





Auctioneer For the Michigan Farmer





Raise Chester Whites





3 Like This

" the original big producers





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I HAVE started thousands of breeders on the road to

success. 1 can help you. 1 want to Place one h from

my great hard in every community where a





’ in not al

wnmaswmrmraecmfi

I. I. will”. B. F. D. 10. lutland. m





' Strictly Bi Type with

F0? sale 0. lo Cc SWIIIC, quality. in” a few

god boars and gilts left of samet pe and blood lines,

t at won for us at Ohio and Mic igan State Fairs.

Write us before you buy.

NEWMAN'S STOCK FARM.

MARLE'I‘TE. MICH.





Priced very cheap.





central Mich. o. L c.





Swine Breeders Ass’ n.





Hogs of all ages of popular blood lines. Every

sale guaranteed by association. .





DR. H. w. NOBLES,





 





Sales Mgr. Coral, Mich.

closing out sale of big type Poland China hogs. which

represents the Work of 25 cars of constructive





breeding. Everything goes, inc udlng our thin-9e great

herd boars. “Mich. Buster ' by “Giant Bu or". “A

Giant" “Butler's Big Bob." Two of the beat yearling

respects in Michigan great len h. bi bone.

me get your pick. .1110. 0. Butler, ortlan . Mich.





 





0.1. C. ‘30 ARS





Choice individuals; ship ed to you c. o. d. express paid and guaranteed

right or your money re unded. All stock registered in buyer’s name.





J. CARL JEWETT, Mason, Mich.

O . I . C . H 0 G S





all ages sired by Callaway Edd 1918 world’s grand cham . bear and C. C.

Schoolmaster 1919 world’s grand chamgion also Wonder Big Type and Giant

Buster. Write your wants, all stock 5 ipped on approval. '





CRANDELL’S PRIZE IlOGS, Cass City, Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





sows and gilts bred to “alts Kin J29499



DU ROG JERSEYS Duroc who has sired more m and 2nd mi my.



Bred gilt service boars and fall boar pigs at Bargain at the State Fair in last 2 years than any 0 er Dulce



rices. our correspondence or personal inspection b_0&r- »Everyone will be a- money maker for the

900mm“, invited. buyer. , Oat. ndxrioe list. ‘ ,.



RUSH BROS. Oakwood Farm, Romeo, Mich. NEWTON BAR RT. St. Johns. Mich.

J rosy ‘ from ‘8 no to} r. old. '



”III”. ounemwafi‘ ted mm» sin 8“





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I B Type Gilts bred for Mar. and A il

“Jon .0 (grow. Boar-s ll ages. Write me for prigzs.

G. P. ANDREWS, Mason, Mich.





 





atew choice bo

L o S o P o C a at farmers prlcac:

II. this fa I. Also a grandson of The Clan-man

Harrison is Bob. E.U.SWAliTZ, Schoolcraani‘tgi





 





. Spring Its bred for I

311305 "I‘ladon April an -some sows blrgdmtg rill:

Bo his sire was champion of the world. his dam's sire

was Grand Champion of Iowa State Fair. ‘

0. L. GARNANT, Eaton Rapids. Mich.





Lo ° I o P. C.‘

70 head of Poland Ohinas at rivate sale. ~Am offering

s ring boars from 840 to and fins the same price.

ummer and fall pigs 825 each. 0 first check will

bringuyou the first choice. HART. FULOELER l

CLI . Address I". T. Hart. St. Louis. Mich.





Francisco. Farm Poland Chinas, -.

art-6:31;": fig“; (acme Its and a few tried sow-





 





 





 

 





 





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gilts bred to Black Giant one of the best pigs out of '»





Mich uMutodon and Mist-q ,

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Node of lemons Brezll Vitrified _

lire Cloy—ONE ton cost-I I: much

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cilege in perfectcondition. You

never have to rebuild a ' ’B-V-T"





Send Today for Cetelox D

Brazil Hollow Brick and

The Company





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Best of materials . six differentdinmeters.

overlastin hollow tile roof. easiest to

buxldf-suc features as these have made

the Dickey pro-eminent among silos.

The Fruit In of the Field

Send for catalog No. 9



'W. s. Dickey Clay Mfg. Co.





Meoomh. Ill.

MueClty.Mo.chon-nom.1’m.





 





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CATTLE





 





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Scolch-lop rd Shorihorn: h;§’.,‘f°“g,,fing°1§efi%‘§





and bullcal Write for pedi e d, - .

snonsmnn .2 BRICKER,m elixir gazing. Mich.





HOGS





LARGE Type Poland Chinas. A few choice fall

hours for sale. Write or come and see them.

A. A. FELDKAMP, ii. 2, Manchester. Mich.





 





 





Big Type P. 0. some very choice boars double im-

mune, out 1100 lb. sire and mammoth sows from

Iowa's greatest herds.E.J.Mzithewson. Burr 0ak.Mich.





 





Oi I 8 Poland Chinas bargain $75 buys a bred gilt

g "l and a 2501b. 5 ring boar also choice gilts

bred for 840. Guarantee atisfaction.



DORUS HOVI‘IR, Akron, Mich.





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215.1%? ll'toslnnd slum Sex, °iu° .g‘ézfcilid tied

G. A. BA MGARDNER, R. 2. — Middleville, Mich





P 0. Bred sows. Fall pifs singly or in pairs. Also S.

' C. Minorca cockere s all bi Tvpe of the best of

breeding. Satisfaction guar. R.W. ills. Saline. Mich.





if you are loookl f

L T. P! c- in bred lts at a. rin t gazgfneltllllifig 800d,

W. J. AGELSH W. Augusta, Mich_





OLAND China. Bred Sows and Gllts at bargain

prices. also spring bolus and fall pigs. either sex.

CLYDE FISHER.~ R. 3. St. Louis, Michigan





V - 1 Big Type F. 0. Bow bred

Leonard 8 Orange Clansman. Fallboer lg:

'eigh175 lbs. Real herd boar respects. Cali, or

rite. E. R. Leonard. R. 3. St. uis, Mioh.





 





 





 





 





 





 





hours And ‘ l in ate bargain.

OHN W. SNYDEg. R. 4 St. Johns, Mich.





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. (Continued from page 207).





. members one all farm bureau members; '

5. Dietric’t'ing of the state for .commeré .





cia‘l purposes with supervisors in;

charge responsible to the commercial

departments of the Michigan State

Farm Bureau should be given earnest

consideration during the coming year.

6.‘ The farm is the smallest business-

unit in .the organization. .Man and wife

should be considered as a business firm

and entitled to one vote for one mem«

bership.



7. The matter of adequate office fa-

cilities and warehousing accommoda-

tions should be given immediate atten«

tion by the executive committee. It

will only be a comparatively short time

before our present quarters are out-

grown.



8. Early completion of the member-

ship campaign in the seven Counties ’of

the state which have not been can-

vassed yet should occur.





lems today confronting the farmers of

the state and nation. A study and an-

alysis of the present banking system

and their relation to our cooperative

marketing association should be be-

gun. Longer term credits for these as-

sociations and for individual farmers

are absolutely essestial, if the farmers

and their organizations are to go far

in doing their own marketing. This is

a matter which has been talked of for

years. Nothing definite has been done

along this line. Action. not talk, has

been the slogan of the State Farm Bu-





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CONDUCTED BY DR. w. C. FAIR.





Advice through this column is given free to our subscrib-

ers. Letters should stare fully the history and symptoms of

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

only are published. “film a reply by mail is requested the

service becomes private practice and 51 must be enclosed.





 





 





Indigestion—Four months ago I pur-

chased a bull calf that was five months





bull be for service? A. P., Crystal

Falls, Mich—You fail to mention any

symptoms of sickness or injury, there-

fore the writer is inclined to believe

he has not been fed enough nutritious

food to cause him to grow; you have





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 

 

 

 





at “19°

Swell theProfitS' '





The stock-grower who keeps his cost of production low enough

to on any market. Selling on a high market he gets big profits



-—on a low market he gets some profits instead of facing a loss.

And whether you produce dairy products, beef, pork-mutton or

Wool you can surely reduce costs by regularly adding to the

ration the tested, dependable stock tonic—





Pratts Animal Regulator





It helps build and preserve stock health 2~tliat means work

animals in the harness every day, steady milk production from

every cow, rapid growth of young stock. It aids digestion:—

that means a saving of food, all used, none wasted. It strengthens

and tones up the whole system :—that means strength, vigor and

vitality without which any animal is oflittlc value.



Cut costs, too, by checking contagious diseases which may kill

some of your stock and seriously injure the rest. Use, regularly





Pratts Dip and Disinfectant





to kill disease germs and parasites. As a dip to exterminate lice

and ticks and overcome skin troubles. As a disinfectant to

maintain stables and pens in sanitary condition. Low in cost——

safe—powerful—cflicient.

Make this your motto—“Every animal on the job every day.”

Then make good by using Prutts Stock Preparations. You must





9. Finance is one of the biggest prob- ‘





 





“Your Money Back If YOU Are Not Satisfied”





Get the Gmuz'ne PrattrEPrcparationr

There’s a Pratt Dealer near you.





9 PRATT FOOD c pro





Maker; of Pratt: Poultry RtgularornButttr-

' [a Food, Cow Tonic, Hog





old; since then he has not thrived as ' _ V

Tonic. Stock and Poultry Remakes. , “’49





well as I wished. How old should a »





 





seemingly allowed him to become

stunted. Mix equal parts of ginger,

gentian, cinchona, bicarbonate of soda

and salt together and give him a table-

spoonful in ground feed three times 1;

day. Keep him warm, feed him some

clover, alfalfa and roots. A well-kept

bull calf should be ready to do some

service at twelve months.



Feline Distemper.—~Can you tell me

what is the trouble with my cats?

lost all of: them last winter. They

cough, sneeze and seemingly choke.

Some of them are only sick 3. week 0r

ten days then die. Others linger long-





H





—~Distemper is a contagious and in-

fective disease of cats, and I regret to

say, no remedy has as yet been discoy<

ered for it. It is possible that they

suffer frdm feline diphtheria, the most

fatal of all cat diseases. However. this

disease usually runs its course in twen-

ty-four hours or less. The best advice

I can give you is to take good care of

your cats. clean and disinfect their

kennel, feed them plenty of raw meat.

Wash out mouth and throat with one

part chinosol and one thousand parts

water and give each cat two or three

tablespoonfuls once or twice daily.

Mammitis—Mastltis— Garget. —— We

have a. herd of thirty cows and for

some time past have had more or less





milk from one or more quarters of

their udder. Whatever the ailment is,

it seems to last from two to five

weeks. The cows are fed twenty-five

pounds of corn ensilage per cow daily.

eight quarts of chopped feed per cow

daily, alfalfa hay twice a day, all they

care to eat, besides plenty of shredded

cornstalks once a day. J. N., Flat

Rock; Mich.-—Doubtless you have had

your herd tuberculin tested; if not, do

so at once. Clean and disinfect stable

and see that plenty of fresh air is ad-

mitted, also ventilate your barn. You

cannot be too painstaking regarding

the cleaning and airing of the milking

utensils, besides the hands of milker

should be very clean. Perhaps the least

expensive and most satisfactory course

to pursue is to employ a competent

veterinarian, who should examine each





er, but die. S. F. N., Woodland, Mich.‘r





 

 

   

   

   





 

 

 

 

 





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AUCTION





Thurs, February 24, l92l





At 1:00 P. M.





Stock Judging Pavilion, Michigan Agricultural Golle_g_e

subsistence; 2 7





3 STALLIONS 3

A Few Good Grade Work Horses





 





Under the Aupices of

Michigan Horse Breeders’ Associallon





For Sale List, Write R. 5. Hudson, Secretary-Treasurer

Shorthorn Sale February 25, 1921 Same Place





 





 





Tum Your OWN Hum Fonnunmn

STOP LOSING CALVES





trouble with them giving thick garget .





 





 





 





.Dr. DAVlD ROBEHS' ANTI-ABORTION TREATMENT has been successfully used for

nearly thirty years—it IS Dpst the experimental stage. Its effectiveness in preventing and over-

3 Abortion In WW3 is being satisfactorily demonstrated in hundreds of herds every year.





ether you own five head or five hundred, you can





Stamp Abortion Out

and Keep It Out





Ask for the "CATTLE SPECIALIST." sent free on request. Answers every

question pertaining to ABORTION IN COWS. Tells how to treat your own

herd at small expense. Write





DrJlAVlD ROBERTS VETERINARY 00., Inc. 640 Grand Ave” Waukesha, Wis. A





 





Let American Ham shire Sheep

want a Sheep? Association sendpyou dandy





 





booklet with list of breeders. Write COMFORT





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yogi-My“ Shropshire Rams. “Sid“.fisf‘ififv‘afi’; A. TYLER. 22 Woodland Ave.. Detroit. Mich.

re , p cod right. A. H. FOSTER. Allegan. Mich.

~ HORSES





 





Choice ewes; all ages. bred to





Shropshires





 





 





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fiffitfil rear. “Also a few rams PerCheron prices; inspection invifi .





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 





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stallions and mares at reasonable

Howell. Mich. FL-LEINGAION. I
"The Key to Dairy Pro to ' ’ and' Jersey

Facts' ’ — two important books, telling

how farmers are making real profit today

with Jerseys—how anyone can do it any-

where. Whether you are interested in

one cow or a hundred, these books will

show you how to make money.

A... Maw?“ ”dim.

ersey



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The Wildwood Farm





."lert-Jeivfloattlef Majesty strain, Herd on State accred-

tiNg constantly done. Bulls t r

sale. ALVIN BALD!)





Phone 143-5. Oapac. Mic.

Bu‘rcTER BRED JERFBOEYS ABULLS

BYSTAL SPRING STOCK FFARRMAP

Silvecr Creek. Allegan County. Michigan.

Ready for Service.





JERSEY BULLS Raleigh— —0xford





and-9M esty breeding. Meadowland Farm. “ster-

man A: aterman, Packard ltd., Ann Arbor. Mich.





Lillie Farmstead Jerseys $2,115:ng

COLON O. EILLIE. Ooopersville. Mich.





 





 





 





 





Jersey Bulls $150n1ac Rh of M. dams $75 to

NOTTEN FARM, Grass Lake, Mich.





 





bulls for sale: From MargueriteI s Premier

3 sgrandson of Pogis 99th and B. of Mdams





Jersey

S‘MI'IH & PARKER R. 4. Howell, Mich





 





 





eridaie Interested Owl No 111311 heads my herd

M bull calves from this g1 Lat sire and out of R. of M

11. 6, Allegan. Mich





dams for sale. Leon E 1 uws





Bloomdale Shorthorns





See our cattle get our mix as and breeding before buy-

ing. Both bulls and female 5 for 1121.] e.

CARR BROS, & 00., Bad Axe, Mich.





BID iv ELL BUY A BULL

that will put weight on your d|air calves -the did“-

erence will soon Ea ayfor theb bul ow selling good

Scotch and Scotc ~topp_ed yearlin|gs. reasonably riced.

We eatguarantee every animal to be a b-reeder Bledera



One hour from Toledo. Ohio, N. Y. C. R.R.





eat'BIDVVELL STOCK FARM,

Box D} Tecumseh, Michigan





 





 





 





Milking Shorthorns. bulls and heifers 5 mo.t01

year old for sale at reduced Typrices to make room





 

 

   

   

 

   

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 





 

   

 

 





 





Friday, February

snow 10 A. M.

37 FEMALES 46 HEAD





 

 

 

 





to 60 Days Retest

IF YOU WANT





Shorthorns of Real Merit





S horthOrn

SHOW SALE



Michigan Shorthorn



Breeders’ * Association





EAST LANsmc, MICHIGAN





SALE 1 P. M.





About one-half Scotch About one-half Scotch Topped





Many of the Best Families Represented

Every Animal Guaranteed, Tested and Sold Subject





Come to Sale-





25th,





9 BULLS





 





25 MARES





Write for Catalogues

Auctioneers





ADAMS & HUTTON





PERCHERON and BELGIAN HORSE SALE '

3 STALLIONS

Same Place, February 24th‘





W. E. J. EDWARDS, Manager

East Lansing, Mich.





 

 

   

 





 

 

 





 





for younger stock. E H. KU l TZ Mason, Mich.





The Maple’s Shorthorns





Kirklevington Lad, by Imp. Hartford

Welfare. In service, bulls for sale.





. J. V. WISE, Gobleville, Mich.





Richland Shorthorns





Imp. Lorne, Imp. Newton oham ion and

Sterling Supreme in Service. e offer

for quick sale: Five Scotch Bulls, best





 





 





oi breediu Three whites at $1000 each One

roan at . one red at $400.2 No females for

sale. Public sale Chitéa





2th8

0T & SONS,

Mich.





O O PRES

Tawas. City.





 





Branch County Farm





Breeders of





Polled Shorthorn Cattle





Young Bulls For Sale

Several well bred herd bull prospects.

GEO. E. BURDICK, Mgr., Coldwater, Mich.





VALLEY VIEW FARMS





Ohoice young Shorthorn 0011s and heifers for sale at



. all times. bred or open. or a ( arlonido also a fewyoung

bulls strong in Sultan Blood. W

S E. ANGBORN 1t SON





 





oBad Axe, Mich.





 





EADOW Hills Shorthorns. Herd headed by 81)





IRA 'COTTINGHAM,





Will sell





Big Type Poland Chinas‘





Thursday, February 24, 91921





at Farm





, (Under cover)





40 HEAD BRED GILTS, TRIED sows

5 HERD BOAR PROSPECTS

5 TOP FALL GILTS





All Double Immune





WRITE FOR CATALOG





Some Great Attractions

Trains will be met at Sturgis on N. Y. C. and Nottawa on G. R. 8s 1., A. M ofsale.





E. J. MATHEWSON.





‘ Burr Oak, Mich.





Auctioneer





W. M. KELLY,





For the Michigan Farmer





 





 





 

 

 

 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

   





 





   





 





   

 

 





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Sprinfiplgss'. by Wali’s





rstSr Year

Detroit, 1: 11.611. Rapids 1.1.1 Saginaw 1919





Phillips Bros,Riga,M1ch. ,

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BOARS——Ready for Service . ii

Bred Sows and Gilts





Write us for Price: and Pedigrees

Mail orders a Specialty. Satisfaction guaranmd

BROOKWATER FARM, Ann has... Mich. ’

H. W. Mumford. Owner J. B. Andrews, M9.



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Write Me iiem bone 13° 3133.131 3.2%: Jar?

soy boars readfiforA service.



L. B. 505. Durand. Mich.





AYES.

DUROC JERSEYS





Carey U. Edmonds, Hastinga‘Mich.

Dumc Jersey Bred Sow Sal

40 Head. March 5th. Auto's ln w‘aitln 2:





Park Hotel, Monroe. alsFo at National Hotel, Dun ea,

be our guest sale day. FJ. Drodt. euros, Mich.

Boars and Its





DUROC JERSEYS b, m... .11..





finder. E. D. HEYDENBERK Wayland Mch





Down With PI'ICCSO on Ilast fall and this sprint.

a.rs

WEBER BRIOS. .. ORoyal Oak, Mich.





   

 





 





 

 





 

   

 

 





 

 

 





 





 

 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





 





 





 





choice spring pigs either sex. Booking orders

(or fall Jfigs. Vi e register free and ship 0.0

“KER & SON Belmont, Mlch'





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I. 0's. One last fall boar wgt. 425, two last fall

gilts. bred lots of springK igs and this fall pigs

either sex, good growthv etc {i mile west of

Cita's. Phone 124. Ott to B. Schulze. Naehville, M ch.





0. I. C’s





 





Fall pigs by C C. Big Callaway havesize

and quality and. are priced right.

THOMPSON Rockford, Mich.





 





o I C Bred Gilts for Mar. and Apr tori-ow

I 0 ' also a few choice service boars.

CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM. Monroe. Mich





0.1. C. Gilts





 





bred for Aprild and May

Mfarrow. Sh pdpe 0. 0.1)

N , Dansville, Migh.





 





We Are Offeringm .1 "59°33“ '°" fi°°°





our c oi

0.1 ow 1.1115113: sired by State F11. winners °°‘

R BROS” Phone 4418, Royal Oak. Mich'





 





Raise Chester Whites

Like This





the original big producers





I HAVE started thousands of breeders on the rose to



success. I can help you. 1 want to Place one h from



my (flotsam in every 1101:1151“:ng wher: am (not $.23“.

.erte fl! I’D Wm. Money ’lmfiromo‘,





s. s. mum. 3.11.1) 1o. ”madman...

Strictly





For Saleo. I. C. SWInE, quality. (0"





bears and guts left or samet and blooda lines.

tivnn for us at Ohio and Mic igan StateF

Priced very cheap Write us before .1011 buy.

R 1 NE W'MAN S eSTOCK FARM.





Central Mich. O. l. C.





Swine Breeders AsS’n.





Hogs of all ages of popular blood lines Every

sale guaranteed by association.





DR. H. W. NOBLES,

Sales Mgr. Coral, Mich.





closing out sale of big type Poland China hogs. which

represents the wo1k of 25 cars of constructive





 





 





Blilgwe Type with





 





 





 





breeding. Everythint goes, inc uding our t roe great

herd boars, ‘ ich. Buster" ’ by " Giant Bus “A

Glant"”’B11tler 11 Big Bob,‘ Two of the best. yearling





bone.

Mich.





 





respects in Michigan great len

Some get your pick. Jno. .ButlerFIt’ortlanfi.





 





 





1691' King, full brother of La1end1r Sultan Pur-

due Univers1ty' 11 great sire For sale females of all

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



’ ' Shorthorn Breeders Assoeiap

central MIChlgan tion other for 81110.75 head;Both

milk and bgflf breeding. all ages. New 11st read Jan.

15.



Shorthorns.





EMILLER, Sec. lch.

Bull calves $100.00 each.

MilkingF eder 1l accredited Horde.

and Hall. Beland and Beland. Tecumseh, Mic .





Greenville,





O.I.C. BOARS‘





Choice individuals; shipped to you c. o. d. express

right or your money reu





J. CARL J EWETT,





nded. All stock registered in buyer’s name.





Mason, Mich.





paid and guaranteed





 





 





Davidson

h

R's. "Id Polledm cattle ( hoice young bulls [101118 to 18





 





111.0 old for sale. _

FRANK KEBLER, it. 1, Grand Ledge. Mich.

.Red Polled bull calves. from 3 mos. to 1 year

yeah .sired by Famous (‘h armer‘ 75% same blood as

' harmer 1919 International Grandchamplon. Our herd

State and Federal tested. Westbrook Bros. Ionia. Mich





=—

HOGS

Registered Berkshires, Gllts, and Sows bred for April





May and Junefarrow.A.yearli11g Boar and a few

younger. Spring pigs. Chase Stork Farm, Marlette. Iich.





 





 





0. LC. HO





all ages sired by Callaway Edd 1918 world’s grand champ. bear and C. C.

Schoolmaster 1919 world’s grand cham ion also Wonder Big Type and Giant

Write your wants, all stock s ipped on approval.





Buster.





CRANDELL’S PRIZE I—lOGS,





GS





Cass City, Mich.





 





 





 





Berkshires for sale.





Two young boars

ready for service, two young gilts. a sow





149111.11





 





DUROG_JERSEYS_





 





or ones of either sex Let me know our Bred gilt service boars and fall boar lgs at Barsain

wants. JOHN YOUNG, R. 2, Breckenridge, ich. rlcefdi “ourvi correspondence or persdiial inspection 83:; Eveswém-ind will

9 co :1 vin ’ 3-

RU 8.1108. Oakwood Farm, Romeo. Mich. NEWTON BAR





 





 





dxrice list.





Durocw sowos hand “guts bred1 s1:0 Vi 6:121:13 King 29499

more and

at the Statew Fair in last... " years than any at





{1:129 pigs

a. money maker for the

St Johns. Mich.





 





, DUROC JERSEY SWINE

S 11° area .3... .1112:11r...m..e1m





 





Mrchigana I‘Durocs‘m 3'“ an.





dwnosr-





to" ”at”, .Tsrser, @013! at}





bred for Mar. and April

l.ages Write me for prices.

ANDREWS. Meson, Mich.





B Ty Gilts

11.“... 9%....1





0.1.0'1.





 





LWES.P..C.





70 head of Poland Ohinas at rinvatell $.19 Am oflering

ring boars from £400 Lethe same price.

8umiper andh fall pigs h. ”01‘ first check will



brin vou rstchoigez TIAR FULOEER t





(ELISE. AddresflsF. T Hart. St. Louis. Mich





afew choice boars i

at farmers prices. 1

red to Black Giant one of the best pigs out of '-

[it 3this is I. Also a grandson of eOlan man and

Harrison ig Bob. E. O. SWARTZ, Schoolcrameich





 





 





Spring giilts bred for March and





815:.” 'ISIDdOfl Ap rll an «some sows bredtoB Big

his sir-so was champion of the world; I“his dam' s sire

was Gran Champion of Iowa State



0. E. GAR NANT, Eaton Rapids, Mich.





LT 'T. P; C.





 





 

 

 

 





 





Olle ring a dosen choice

lgen Cinnamon.





 





8 mo. tonr. old. Sdeet.





 





Francisco Farm Poland Chinas





lts and f t .

bred to such boars as Mich gall 1111.11.33.5‘31'133.’ , 5





r‘. r POI’E, 11.. Plenant‘meh.
Human and Veterinary



'As a veterinary remedy its

curative «qualities have been I

acknowledged f o r m any

y e ars in cases of Curb,

Splint, Sweeny, Capped :~‘

Hock, Strained Tendons, ..

‘Spavin, Ringbone and‘other 2.;

bony tumors. ‘

' APorfoct Antiseptic

Soothing and Healing , ..



For treatment of Rheu- :jf

matism, Sprains, ‘Neuralgia,

Lumbago, Sore Throat, Stiff

Joints, Cuts and Bruises it

is invaluable. $1.75 per bottle

at druggists, or sent by par- ; ;

cel post on receipt of price.

The Lawrence-Williamsa.





 





 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 





 





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Albion Mills no sale! And pow-rtul. 1" .

uy 4-”! steel tower. We furnish m '

mull-cop and (uldc wilhwl cxlr- chu'c. '

Gin-Mid Ibo aortic-pro". elm-y a



nil. Only: main Pliml‘l hen-in. subiecl to





 





was Thu isoillnu R-quires no aucn- ‘

Son Will Int for urn. ll than replac-

ol- mmmm. vetoed by depend-bl.

micbt wilhoul springs. You and a good

We.» Io Iborlen your chun- Ind cm

[In bub-elm 11th in your chnco- c.

Aloha air-cl hom tho anal-claret. lolly

‘uoruleod. We Ilse make hi3!) 3nd.

olecl mill; Writs today lot .elulof.





Union Stoolfioducu Co. Ltd,





528 N. Berrien Street

Albion. Michigan. U. S.A.





 





 





 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 





is the Bestlnvestment





Manse lthu been on thoau- *

kct TEN YEARS. without I

SINGLE FAILURE. '





lode of famous Bmll Vitrified :

lire Cloy—ONE ton costs as much

.- FIVE mm of shale.





THE "B-V-T” WILL

LAST F O R EV E R





Will not {reuse or crock. Keeps

allege in perfectconditlon. You

never have to rebuild I ‘ ‘B-V-T"





Send Today for Catalog 1)

Brazil llollow Brick and

1110 Company





BRAZIL ‘3‘ INDIANA





 





   

 

 





 

 

 





   

   

   

   

   

 





 

 





 

 

 





 





 





 





 

 

 





Bestotuiateriels,sixdlflerentdiameters,

everlasting hollow tile roof . easiest to

build_—suc features as these have made

the Dickey pro-eminent among silos.





The Frult Jar of the Flold

Send for catalog No. 9

'W. 5. Dickey Clliflf‘. Co.





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CATTLE

Swish-Topped Shorlhorns fig9erf°§v§uii“i.“i’eif‘élfi





and bullcnl Write for pedigrees and rice.

SHOEBMITH & BRICKER, East anslng. Mich.





HOGS





ARGE Type Poland Chinas. A few choice fall

boa-rs for sale. rite or come and see them.

A. A. FELDKAMP, H. 2, Manchester, Mich.





 





 





 





Big Type P. 0. some very choice boars double im-

mune. out 1100 lb. sire and mammoth sows from

Iowa's greatest herds.E,J._Mathewson.Burr Oak. Mich.





 





' Poland Chlnas bargain $75 buys a bred gilt

5': I!” and a 250lb. 3 ring boar also choice gllts

bred for 340. Guarantee tisfaction.





DORUS HOVER. Akron, Mich.





 





 





- - t l t ‘- ~. B th

Big I"? rtgllllll chm“ Sex. 031?” aggfzfczrhd hired.

sows n



amass MGARDNER, 11.2. .Middievine, Mich





P 0. Brad sows. Fall pigs singly or in pairs. Also S.

-' C. Minorca cockere s all bl Tvpe of the best of

breeding. Satisfaction guar. B.W.iiills, Saline, Mich.





 





If you are loookin fo thl

L I. P. c. in bred lts at a. it piiscglnerxlsge 800d,

W. J. AGELSH W. Augusta, Mich.





OLAND China Bred Sows and Gilts at bargain

prices. also spring hours and fall pigs. either sex.

CLYDE FISHER.-R. 3. St._Louls, Michigan





' . I Big Type P. 0.80!» b

Haggard RS loianfietfllansman, Ftall bo§§§l$

- 5- ea 81‘ Oar TOSDGC fig



rite. E. R. Leonard, R. 3. St. uis, Mioh. 8‘ °r



' Hampshire townow read toshi .S rln

“Slim“ hours and II luatabdkgalmp p g

‘ JOHN w. m; . n.4, St.J0hn8. Mich.

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L.‘ departments of the Michigan State





 

 





imammmearm .3

* . ~,,-(GDHUnued from page 2037):





members Jase all farm bureau members; '

' x 5. Dis‘trioting of the state for—commer-f . fl

3 cia‘l purposes with supervisors in;





charge responsible to the commercial





Farm Bureau should be given earnest

consideration during the coming your.



6.‘ The farm is the smallest business

unit in .the organization. ,Man and wife

should be considered as a business firm

and entitled to one vote for one mem-

bership.



7. The matter of adequate office fa-

cilities and warehousing accommoda-

tions should be given immediate atten-

tion by the executive committee. It

will only be a comparatively short time

before our present quarters are out-

grown.



8. Early completion of the member-

ship campaign in the seven Counties ’of

the state which have not been can-

vassed yet should occur.





lems today confronting the farmers of

the state and nation. A study and an-

alysis of the present banking system

and their relation to our cooperative

marketing association should be be-

gun. Longer term credits for these as-

sociations and for individual farmers

are absdlutely essestial, if the farmers

and their organizations are to go far

in doing their own marketing. ' This is

a matter which has been talked of for

years. Nothing definite has been done

along this line. Action. not talk, has

been the slogan of the State Farm Bu-

reau. It should be put to work here.

The delegates voted to leave the

matter of policy in the hands of the





executive committee.

. gummmmuuuuImmuuiumuumumumummuunuummmmg





Veterinary. é:





IluumnumuumuuummumummuiuuuIlmmmummmlmmmmumi

CONDUCTED BY DR. w. C. FAIR.





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

only are published. Vthn a reply by mail is requested the

service becomes private practice and $1 must be enclosed.





 





Indigestion—Four months ago I pur-

chased a bull calf that was five months

old; since then he has not thrived as

well as I wished. How old should a

bull be for service?

Falls, Mich.——You fail to mention any

symptoms of sickness or injury, there-

fore the writer is inclined to believe

he has not been fed enough nutritious

food to cause him to grow; you have

seemingly allowed him to become

stunted. Mix equal parts of ginger,

gentian, cinchona, bicarbonate of soda





clover, alfalfa. and roots. A well-kept

bull calf should be ready to do some

service at twelve months.



Feline Distemper.——Can you tell me

what is the trouble with my cats? I

lost all of them last winter. They

cough, sneeze and seemingly choke.

Some of them are only sick 3. week or

ten days then die. Others linger long-





——Distemper is a contagious and in-

fective disease of cats, and I regret to

say, no remedy has as yet been discov-

ered for it. It is possible that they

suffer frdm feline diphtheria, the most

fatal of all cat diseases. However, this

diseaSe usually runs its course in twen-

ty-four hours .01‘ less. The best advice

I can give you is to take good care of

your cats. clean and disinfect their

kennel, feed them plenty of raw meat.

Wash out mouth and throat with one

part chinosol and one thousand parts

water and give each cat two or three

tablespoonfuls once or twice daily.



Mammitis—Mastitis— Garget. —— We

have a herd of thirty cows and for

some time past have had more or less





milk from one or more quarters of

their udder. Whatever the ailment is,

it seems to last from two to five

weeks. The cows are fed twenty-five

pounds of corn ensilage per cow daily.

eight quarts of chopped feed per cow

daily, alfalfa hay twice a day, all they

care to eat. besides plenty of shredded

cornstalks once a day. J. N.. Flat

Rock, Mich.——Doubt1ess you have had

your herd tuberculin tested; if not, do

so at once. Clean and disinfect stable

and see that plenty of fresh air is ad-

mitted, also ventilate your barn. You

cannot be too painstaking regarding

the cleaning and airing of the milking

utensils, besides the hands of milker





expensive and most satisfactory course

to pursue is to employ a competent





9. Finance is one of the biggest probj :





A. P., Crystal »





er, but die. S. F. N., Woodland, Mich.‘K





trouble with them giving thick garget '





, ' W

should be very clean. Perhaps the least Wool-Mullah 3'"ther Rams. dlvlduals, royally A. TYLER, 22 Woodland Ave.. Detroit. Mich.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





Smell theP’ro'fits ; ;





The stock-grower who keeps his cost of production low enough

is safe on any market. Selling on a high market he gets big profits

-—on a low market he gets some profits instead of facmg a loss.

And whether you produce dairy products, beef, pork,.mutton or

Wool you can surely reduce costs by regularly adding to the

ration the tested, dependable stock tonic—





Pratts Animal Regulator





It helps build and preserve stock health :—-that means work

animals in the harness every day, steady milk production from

every cow, rapid growth of young stock. It aids digestion:—

t‘hat means a saving offood, all used, none wasted. It Strengthens



and tones up the whole system :—that means strength, vigor and

vitality without which any animal is oflittle value.



Cut costs, too, by checking contagious diseases which may kill



some of your stock and seriously injure the rest. Use, regularly



and freely,





Pratts Dip and Disinfectant





to kill disease germs and parasites. As a dip to exterminate lice

and ticks and overcome skin troubles. As a disinfectant to

maintain stables and pens in sanitary condition. Low in cost—

safe—powerful—eflicient.

Make this your motto—“ Every animal on the job every day."

Then make good by using Pratts Stock Preparations. You must

be pleased—





“Your Money Back If YOU Are Not Satisfied”





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Get the Genuine PrattJEPrcparation:

'V’ Thm’: a Pratt Dealer near you.





Philadelphia

PRATT FOO Chime

. Toronto

Maktn' of Pralt: Poultry RegulalornButttr- .

mil/e Baby Chick Food, Cow Tome, Ho;

Tonic. Stock and Poultry Remedies _ “’19





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AUCTION





and salt together and give him a table-

spoonful in ground feed three times a.

day. Keep him warm, feed him some I, ' ,





At 1:00 P. M.





 





Stock Judging Pavilion, Michigan Agricultural college

2 menarche; 2 7

A , 3 STALLIONS 3

A Few Good Grade Work Horses

Under the Aupices of





Michigan Horse Breeders’ Association





For Sale List, Write R. 5. Hudson, Secretary-Treasurer

Shorthorn Sale February 25, 1921 Same Place





 





 





 





Tum Your OWN Hum PonAnun—nor

STOP LOSING CALVES





.Dl'. DAVID ROBERT? ANTI-ABORTION TREATMENT has been. successfully used for



nearly thirty years-it is past the experimental stage. Its effectiveness in preventing and over-



coming Abortion in Cows is being satisfactorily demonstrated in hundreds of herds every year.

ether you own five head or five hundred, you can ‘





Stamp Abortion Out

and Keep It Out





Ask for the “CATTLE SPECIALIST " sent free on request. Answers every

question pertaining to ABORTION IN COWS. Tells how to treat your own

erd at small expense. Write





Dr. DAVID ROBERTS VETERINARY 60., Inc. 640 Grand Ave” Waukeslla. Wis. ‘





 





 





 





 





H LetA u H 311' Sb

8 EEP. want a Sheep? Asmcfigiognsgzfipééu: @333

9





Good strong by booklot with list of breeders. FORT





 





bred. priced right. A. H. FOSTER. Allegau. Mich. HORSES





 





 





 





 





- vaccination. who should examine each Shropgvlsires eggmvgflg.mgmgg Percheron §3&?fiwflfiffivffifi”W°





0W. -





8. men LAN, “B."J. Hoflll.flioh. ammonium. l '
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GRAIN QUOTATIONS

February 8, 1921.





Wheat.



Detroit—Cash No. 2 red $1.82; May

$1.75; No. 2 white and No. 2 mixed

$1.80. ‘



' Chicago—No. 3 hard $1.64; No. 1

northern $1.671/§@1.70; March $1.613/4.

I Corn.

Detroit.—-Cash No. 3 yellow 640; No.

4 yellow 61c.

Chicago—No. mixed 62@63c; No.

2 yellow 640.





I)





u





Oats.

Detroit.—Cash No. 2 white 45c; No.

3 white 43%c; No. 4 white 401/20.

ChicagowNo. 2 white 411,é@)421,éc;

No. 3 white 39%@40140.

Beans.





Detroit—Immediate and prompt are

steady at $4 per cwt.



Chicago.~AWhite beans steady. Hand-

picked beans choice to fancy $4.25@

4.50; red kidney beans $8.75@9 per

cwt..



New York.———Market is dull. Choice

pea. new $4.50@4.75; do medium at

$5.50; red kidney $9.25€)')9.50 per cwt.





Rye.



Detroit—Cash No. 2 rye $1.54.



Seeds.



Dell'Olt—vpl‘lnlt‘ red clover $11.75;

alsike $16; timothy $3.10 per bushel.



’l‘oledo.mPrime red clover, cash and

February $11.20; alsike $15.50; timo-

thy $3 per bushel.



Hay.



No. 1 timothy $31@22; standard and

light mixed $201121; N0. 2 timothy

$19K» :20: No. 1 clover mixed and No. 1

clover $l9m;20; rye straw $12((i‘}13;

wheat and oat straw $11@12 per ton

in cariots at, Detroit.





WHEAT





Wheat prices declined during the

past. week to the lowest price on the

crop. Export sales have been smaller

titan a few weeks ago and the news

from foreign countries has not been

assuring. British resale priceson im-

ported wheat have been reduced twice

during the week. On the other hand,

reports that ltaly. Holland and some

other European countries would not

make additional purchases for several

weeks have been contradicted by ac-

tual purchases in this country made

only a few days after the statements

were issued. The milling demand

seems to be gradually increasing and

mills are reported to be outbidding ex-

porters in the southwest. Flour de~

mand has shown improvement in sev-

eral sections of the country. Practi-

cally all of the statistical summaries

upon the wheat. situation in the United





past week in spite of reduced sales by

producers. The supply of corn is 3.4

per cent larger than in the 1912-1913





amount as high as trade interests ex—

pect because of the large farm con-

sumption. Nonnally lowest prices on

corn are established from December

to February inclusive and since pres-





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Mixed hogs .............





I‘tlll'l'll





Sinatra—Eta 9.





 





 

 





 





 





 





000 bushels compared with an average

of about 22,000,000 bushels for the past





ten years.

SEEDS





Demand for clover and timothy seed

remains comparatively light. Seedmen

are not buying heavily for future needs

and demand from farmers for spring

seeding is not brisk. Growers are es-

timated to have over half of the red

clover and alfalfa, over one-third of

the alsike, and possibly two-thirds of

the sweet clover seed crops in their

hands. Supplies are liberal because of

the.larger crop and the liberal carry-

over. Imports are much smaller than

a year ago. The future of prices de-

pends upon whether the expected large

spring demand develops or not.





FEEDS





Wheat and corn by-product feeds de-





long while.





ing 1,900 boxes and 5,300 casks.





February 4.





have all been of high quality an

eastern trade came to prefer the





concessions.





cl'n a ' , -' 1 ~ _ to cut their prices further. Fresh but- . , -

sears“fascinates: has”. new so .. 11.0 internists ”“8

oats. ‘ Continued open weather is an- demand for storage butter. There is - - -





other bearish influence. Stocks in the little change in the domestic produc





northwest are above normal. Gluten

feed declined about $13 in two weeks.

Oil meals show little change, although

both linseed meal and cottonseed meal

has shown weakness. Tankage is also





lower.

BEANS





Michigan beans show no change in

prices compared with a week ago. The

choice hand—picked stock is quoted at

$4.20 f. 0. b. Michigan points and $3.50

is the prevailing price to growers for

beans in the dirt. Chicago reports a

feeling of greater firmness in the trade

but some other points are decidedly





IIGI‘VOIIS.

HAY





Hay markets remain dull, with a

comparatively light movement in and

out. Lower freight rates may come

later on but they would probably be

offset by the big holdings in growers’

hands and the relative cheapness of

grains and other feeds. Cincinnati is

overburdened with poor quality timo-

thy. Prices show few changes, mostly

on the downward side.





BUTTER





The butter markets have been going

from bad to worse during the past





Live Stock Market Service





Markets for February 9, 1921.





DETROIT





Cattle.

Market is very dull.





quality has been produced yet. Quota

tions on 92 score fresh butter as re





February 5 were as follows:

451/40; New York 46c;

460; Boston 470.





EGGS AND POULTRY ,





and waiting for lower prices.

latest quotations are:’

dinary firsts 42@43c.





280; roosters 21c; ducks 28@350;

geese 22c; turkeys 43c.

Detroit.——Eggs, fresh 51@52c.





horns 21@25c; heavy hens 32@35c;





@28c; ducks 38c; turkeys 40@42c.





' CHEESE





Cheese distributing markets lost

their firmness during the past week,

due to offerings at lower prices on the

country markets. The only exceptions





mand. Young Americas were particu-





 





 





 





 





-9.85; heavy packing sows 250 lbs up

smooth $7.75@8.60; packing sows 200

lbs uprough $7.50@7.75; pigs 130 lbs

down medium, good and choice $8.75





States n0“7 being issued by various qut heavy Steel‘s . . .'. . o .$ 7.00@ 8-00 @9.80,



members of the grain trade indicate Mixed steers and heifers 6'50@ 7'50 Cattle.

that lhiS COUHUXV is on a domestic BeSt handy Wt bu ‘steeis 6'00@ 7‘00 Estimated receipts today are 7000.

basis and not dependent upon foreign Handy llght butchets 5-0062 6-00' Market slow but steady. Beef steers

buyers for the disposition of the re- L‘ght bumhers """"" 450W 5'50 medium and heavy weights 1100. lbs

mainder 0f the CI'OI). The government’s Best COWS .............. 5.00@ 6.00 up choice and prime $9.25@10.40‘ (10

report supports the belief that there BUtCher COWS ----------- 4'00@ 4'50 medium and good $8@9.25' do com’mon

will only be a small carryover. By the Common cows .......... 3.25@ 3.75 37-25639; light weight 1100 lbs down,

end of the present month the market (33110913 ----------------- 2-50@ 3-25 good and choice $8.50@9.75' do com-

Should be on a stronger baSiS- Chfnce bglllsl """""" 238(0) 228 mom and medium $6.75@8.50; butcher

CORN Egoglgngullg‘ s ‘ """"" 4508 5'00 cattle heifers common, medium, good

. . F d , """"" 600(3) 7'00 and choice $5.25@8.50; cows common,

A week ago the vxsxble SUppiy of 99 e"? -------------- ' 6'00 medium, good and choice $4.40@7.25;

corn showed an increase of around Stockeis """ _: """"" 5'00@ ' bulls bologna and beef at $4.50(a56.50;

4.500.000 bUShels 01‘ nearly 50 per cent Milkers and spungers....$ 50@ 90 canners and cutters cows and heifers

as a result of the big run during the Veal Calves. $3@4.40; do canner steers $3.50@5;

preceding week and prices declined to Market steady. veal calves light and handyweight me-

new low figures for the crop. A furth- Best .................... $15.00@15.50 dium, good and choice at $9_50@12_25;

er increase is expected during the Others .................. 5.00@11.50 feeder steers common, medium, good





098





_ H and choice $6.25@8.50; stocker steers

Market 1S 250 low





common, medium, good and choice at

$4.75@7.65; stocker cows and heifers





er'.

s 9.25@ 9.35

10.00





crop year which represented the pre- Pigs .................... common, medium, good and choice at

vious record, while the number of hogs Heavy .................. 8.50 $3,75@5,75_ 4



is 7.6 per cent larger than at that tinte, e n .



and the number of cattle other than , Market «I311? a d Lambs Sheep and. Lambs.



milch cows is 14.3 per cent larger than Best lambs ........... 3 ‘ 3.50 Estimated receipts today are 12,000.

on January 1. 1913- While crop re- Fair lambs .............. 7.00@ 8.00 Market 25°10WGF- Lambs 841“ down

serves on March 1 are certain to be Light to common ........ 4.00@ 6.50 medium, 800d, choice and prime “'50

larger than usual and may establish a Fair to good sheep ...... 3,006) 3,75 @9~_90; d0 .35 lbs 111) medium, 300d!

new record, the figures may not Culls and common ...... 1.00@’ 2.50 0110109 and Prime ”@950; do “Us





and common $6.25@7.50; spring lambs

medium, good, choice and prime $5.75

@750; ewes medium, good and choice

$3.50@5; ewes cull and common $2@

3.25; yearling wethers medium, good





CHICAGO





Hogs.

Estimated receipts today are 23,000;





week reaching the lowest point in a

The principal factor has

been the weakness of the New York

market due to heavy offerings of for-

eign butter. Chicago was short of fresh

butter but continued weakness in the

east carried it along. About 4,000 box-

es of Argentine butter arrived at Bos-

ton and 6,000 boxes at New York City.

Cargoes of Danish also arrived caIXy-



n-

other shipment of 22,000 cases was re-

ported to have left Copenhagen on

Additional shipments of-

fered as low as 42c f. o. b. duty unpaid

were also reported. ~ Recent shipmefits’



e

an-

ish product so that domestic butter

could only be mOVed by making price

The market continued to

slip ~until the Danish shippers refused





tion and but little centralized of fine





ported by the Bureau of Markets on

Chicago

Philadelphia





Weather is favorable for winter egg

production and receipts are increasing

while buyers are purchasing sparingly

Drastic

declines cecurred during the week. The





Chicago—Eggs, fresh firsts 45c; or.





Poultry, spring

chickens 291/20; hens» general run at





Live

poultry, spring chickens 2963300; leg-





light hens 30c; roosters 20c; geese 27





were Daisies which are in strong de~





   





larly weak. Eastern markets; as well

as western were on the easy side. The

volume of trading. is only moderate.

Export demand is very quiet. The

quality of offerings is average and

shows the usual winter defects. Re-

ceipts at Chicago and New York made

a bid increase over the preceding week

and a 60 per cent increase over last





year. POTATOES





Open weather in producing sections

has accelerated the movement of pota-

toes notwithstanding low prices. Even ‘

heavier shipments are expected next

month: Prices declined about 10c per

100 pounds at northern shipping points

to 75@900 per 100 pounds sacked. New

York f. o. b. markets are quoted at $1

@108. The Detroit market is lower

at $1.75@1.90 per 150-lb sack. The

Chicago market for sacked stock rang-





   

   

   

   

   

   

 

 

 





 

 

 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 

   

   

 

 





ONIONS





Yellow onions declined about 10 per

cent per 100 pounds at f. o. b. markets

closing at '750.’ Eastern consuming

markets reached 7OC@$1.25. Storage

holdings in the consuming centers as

well as in producing sections are 're-

ported to be comparatively heavy.





CABBAGE





The market recovered somewhat at

the close but trading was very slow

most of the week, Chicago breaking .

from $15 per to $11 per ton for North-

ern Danish stock, and closing around

$13. Heavy supplies of California and

Florida stock and limited demand are

assigned as reasons for decline. New

York f. o. b. markets are slightly lower





at $9@10.

APPLES





The apple markets were steady dur-

ing the past week with supplies mov-

ing more readily into the consumptive

channels“ Receipts of both barrelled

and boxed stock are liberal. The Brit-

ish apple market is reported to be the

lowest in a number of years due to

heavy offerings and to general price

declines on other commodities.





DETROIT CITY MARKET





Light supplies resulted in a slight

improvement in values for a few lines

on the city markets at the opening

this week. Apple prices range from

60c@$2.25 per bu; cabbage 65@90c;

carrots 50@900; onions 75@85c; pars-

nips 60@90c; potatoes 70@80c; tur-

nips $1@1.75; eggs 65@75c; poultry

30@38c; dressed hogs 13@15c; dreSs-

ed veal 18@20c; loose hay $18@26 per

ton. These prices represent goods sold

in wholesale lots.





STATE FARM BUREAU MARKET

REPORTL





 





 

 

 

 

 





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Grain opened strong at advance but

later declined. Undertone of market

was strong at opening but closed weak.

Hay continued dull with demand light

and terminal markets are again de-

clining under heavy receipts of con-

signment which in most cases repre—

sented heavy losses to shippers. Seed

market continues to weaken. Repeat-

ing last week’s suggestion, growers

should decide to get seed moving to

warehouse of responsible terminals

soon else hold for next year. This

year’s seed must be prepared for the

market soon. If it is to be ready for

spring demand some good stock of

Michigan-grown soy beans, corn, seed

oats and barley that should be ordered

by Michigan farmers before it is ab-

sorbed outside the state.





 





COMING LIVE STOCK SALES.





 





Duroc Jersey Swine—Tuesday, Febru-

ary 22, Chaslen Farms, Northville,





Michigan.

Percherons.——-February 24, The Horse

ciation, M. A. 0., East





 





Breeders' Asso

Lansing, Michigan.



Poland Chinas.—February 24, _E.

Matthewson, Burr Oak, Michigan.

Holsteins.——March 2, Michigan Hol-



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holdover 11462. Market slow and 10@

25c lower. Bulk of sales $8.75@9.25;

tops $9.90; heavy 250 lbs up medium,

good and choice $8.70@9; medium 200

to 250 lbs medium, good and choice at

$8.90@9.35; light 150m 200 lbs com-





and choice $7@8.25.





BUFFALO





Pigs and yorkers are quoted at $11,

mixed hogs $10@10.25, and medium





ent prices to the farmer are less than



the pre-war cost of production iii-many



cases it is hard to see why this sea-



sonal behavior will not run true to

_ form this year.





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Sheep have ,many good points to rec-

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profit. They are prolific, the manure

is very rich and evenly distributed ov-

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. mon. medium, good and choice at $9.15 and heavy at $8.50@9.50. Lambs are flesh will always comm

Quotations continue downward. The ((299.90; light lights 130 to 150 lbs, .com- steady at $10.25; best calves are bring-fin“ '11! mm“: : ~

visible supply stands at about 33,000,- ing 316. ~ . - , 4 4, ._ , , _





 





     





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and this increase will pay for the phos-

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" nitrogen is increased from the growing of

clover and legumes



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Leaf Phosphate for you.





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Farms and Farm Lands For Sale

McClure-Stevens Land Co.





We have for 89193500) acres of fine unimproved lands,

well'lucated, Joining well settled. locality. on easy

terms. A tract of acres, 5 miles from Gladwln.

on daily mail route,ull fenced with woven wire,20 acres

under fine state of cultivation. 6 acres in fruit. A

Sheep Ranch'of’dlo acres,all fenced, well grassed over,

living water, 70 acres cleared, 30 acres under flne

state of cultivation with fruit. good buildings, 2:30 head

of shoe . 4 stock ranches wel grassed, fenced and

waterefwith livin water.

McGLURE-STEVLNS LAND 00.





High Class Dairy Farm For Rent





160 acres fertile land within one mile of town. Good

. . buildings. burns to house, 100 head of stock and feed



for same. Will‘ rent'on share for term of years to

‘good dairymnn or stool: man who can finance one-half



of herd. of 20 to 30 cows an furnish teams and tools



Address Box .1115. care of ichlgan Farmer, stating

- experience and financial ability in first letter.





$800 Secures 75 Acres With



Cow. machinery, hay, etc.; near village; good tillage,



wood. fruit, sugar maples; corni’ortable house, barn,

' etc.; $1100 takes all.-. Details page 10 FREE Ills Outa-



log1w0,liargains._S ‘ROUT A ENCY. 814 B0 Eord



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. 80 acre‘. farm, Montcalm County Michl an

For sale near markets, 00d buildings, a pie grid



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small fruit Orchard; soil number ‘one o ay loam.

. Farmed.by owner for over fifty years. Particulars

upon rgquest, , M R. Newcll, East Lansing. Mich.





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Farms and Homes in Delaware where the





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ll‘ Sale 40 acres all under plow, 2 horses. 1 : '. 1

_ hogs. flock ol‘chickens, all-farm tools. Good (b23111?

lugs. Orchard. A bar ain at 82300. Il





. ‘ Easy terms. Write

JOHN OONA 1, Grand Haven, Michigan





' A good: 135 'acre farm ' l .

For-Salome acres including Shilgixigilevgfngutgi

. description. ' ‘ 'A. G. WE LS. Jonesville. Mich.





‘ , Small'farm to retire .b

For Sale kinds outbuildinfs. fall; 12553351313

1% miles county seat. Winemil or, 00] water, Mich

, ' New York 0; Vermont farms,ohoi soil

. 1‘0 [Wino failures. and bid . 840 A. will; out:

mt e. horses. machinery. 8 ABAN, ort Henry. N. Y.





»W ANTED To hear from owner of farm or

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nnlm rowed land for sale.

. Kuhn. Baldwin. Wisconsin.





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WOOL



At the last London open wool auc-

a half per cent over previous quota-

tions with American buyers participat-

ing in the bidding. At the sale on Feb-

ruary 1 at Sidney, Australia, an ad-

vance of ten per cent was made on

medium fine grades 'of wool with\the

cross-breds neglected. Melbourne and

Perth also show advances. Sales in

this country are still of small volume





with greater confidence.





The woolen goods trade has lost

some of the bloom shown early in Jan-

uary. The bureau of commerce report-

ed a higher percentage of idle looms

and spindles on January 1 than on De-

cember 1 or November 1. Reports of

increased mill operation during Janu-





point at the present time. .





The sale of government-owned woo

scheduled for the week was cancelled

by the secretary of war on twenty-four

hours’ notice on the score that the

time was inopportune for selling.



The fate of the tariff bill still hangs

in the balance, and the prospects of its

passage are none too flattering. Im-

ports during the last few months have

not been at an extraordinary rate, but

were the smallest since 1914. How-

ever, many of the purchases made by

American buyers in Australia. and New

Zealand since markets were opened in

those countries have not yet had time

to reach the United States. Boston

quotes prices unchanged from those





but all holders of wool view the future”





ary show a different situation on this ‘





 





 





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DECREASE IN NUMBER AND

VALUE OF LIVE STOCK.





HE Department of Agriculture’s

estimate of the value of live



stock shows a decrease in every class,

the total amounting to 4.7 per cent, or

10,076,000 head compared with a year

ago. Hogs decreased 7.1 per cent,

sheep 4.3 per cent, milch cows 1.5 per

cent, other cattle 4.2 per cent, horses

4.2 per cent, and mules 0.8 per cent.



The number of sheep is the smallest

since 1900 and the number of hogs is

smallest since 1915. The number of

cattle, other than milch coWs, is the

smallest since 1917 but is about 7,000,-

000 head above the years just before

the war. Both hogs and all cattle are

considerably above the January 1, 1913,

level when corn supplies were also un-

usually large. The price of horses is

the lowest since 1906.



Number and value per head are as

follows:





Cattle (Other than Milch Cows).





1921 ...... ' ......... 42,870,000 $ 31.41

1920 ............... 44,750,000 43.22

1919 ............... 45,085,000 44.22





1911-1915 average ..37,178,000 26.41





Milch Cows.

1921 ............... 23,321,000 $ 63.97

1920 ............... 23,679,000 85.11

1919 ............... 23,475,000 78.20

1911—1915 average “20,804,000 46.77

. Swine.

192] ............... 66,649,000 $ 12.99

1920 ............... 71,787,000 19.01

1919 ............... 74,584,000 22.02

1911-1915 average ..63,152,000 9.04

Sheep.

1921 ............... 45,067,000 $ 6.41

1920 ............... 47,114,000 10.52

1919 , ............... 48,866,000 11.63

1911-1915 average ..51,430,000 3.96

Horses.

1921 ............... 20,183,000 $ 82.45

1920 ............... 20,785,000 94.42

1919 ............... 21,482,000 98.45

1911-1915 average ..20,702,000 108.13

Mules.

1921 ............... 4,999,000 $115.72

1920 ............... 5,041,000 _ 147.07

1919 ............... 4,954,000 135.83

1911-1915 average 4,400,000 121.34





The total value of all animals was

$6,235,569,000 as compared with $8,507,-

145,000, a decrease of $2,271,576.000, or

26.7 per cent.





Administrator’ssolo=





Will sell at public auction at the'farm of

the late A. L. Cridler, 1;- miles west of

Middleville, Barry Co., Mich. at 10 a. m.

Tuesday, Feb. 15, 1921, 10 head of excep-

tionally good registered Percherons, 8

head'of registered Holstein cows, a num-

ber of calves eligible to registry, and a

splendid equipment of farm machinery

and tools. A 00d chance to get extra

fancy stock at orced sale.





THOMAS HEANY, Spl. Admr.





 





 





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about it. Write our Farm Department today.





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GRAND RAPIDS,

COLON c. LlLLiE,





President





Are on Profiting by the

Mistakes of Others





That is why so many men who will not observe

and learn from the mistakes and bitter experiences of others lose all they have tOIIed for.

Often—in case of FIRE—their savings for years are Wiped out in a few hours.





Just think of the men you know who through lack of insurance are no better off than they

were when they started to work~years and years ago.





Years ago Insurance was too costly. The average farmer could not afford it.

No farmer can afl'ord to be without it.

aurance Company has brought you full protection.





You Need Peninsular Protection





The fact that you carry other insurance should not interfere.

what you have and make sure that you are fuIly protected. Not on the basis of what your

property was worth when you got it vr-BUT 0N ITS ACTUAL WORTH TODAY!





are appraised accordingtoo location, condition and protective improvements.





Peninsular Protection is the last word in economy and you owe it to yourself to learn all





We furthermore protect your growingrcrops against WIND and HAIL.





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MICHIGAN

J. FLOYD IRISH,





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A‘ recognized fact which is especially

truel at' the present time.

Triple Wall and Stave Silos are econ-

They are good silos.

us for silo information.





Bourbon Silo Company

Fort Wayne, Ind. .





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Mr. ”POULTRY FARMER:





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 Whiter—We remit same day shipments

arrive. Shlp Often—Ship by Express

GEO. R. ELDRIDGE CO.

isi-lath Strut, Detroit. Mich.





Remember! We guarantee you satisfaction with every “'





Holmes, Stuwe Co., 445 Riopelle St.





Commission Merchants. Dressed Beef. B s, calves.

Poultry, Live & Dressed. ProviSions, etc. OI‘I‘CSPOLI~

deuce Solicited. Ref. Wayne County & Home Savings

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Apples, Potatoes Wanted Highest

rices aid, The

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How to Read the Chart





B means Gargoyle Mobiloil "B"





Send {or bouLlcr,‘

which lists the (2 nrrect Grades {1 r a// lricmrs





BB means Gargoyle Mobilod "B

Arc means Gargmle Mohiloil Arctic

These recommendations cover all models oftraCYOl‘l

{unless otherwise specified.

“'hcrc different grades of Gargoyle Mobiloils are

l‘ecommended for summer and winter use, the Wintcr

[recommendations should he followed during the entire

period when lreezing temperatures may be experienced.

This Chart is compiled by the Vacuum ()il Com-

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a seientific guide to Correct 'l'iacior Lubrication.

If your tractor is not listed in this partial chart, con~

sult the Chart of Ru ommend itions zit _\our dealer’ 5 or





B"





Chart of Rebommendations'

for morons





THE correct grades of Gargoyle Mobiloils lor

tractor engine lubrication are specified in the

,Chart below.

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Farming Costs and Farm Profits





Some enlightening figures on both subjects





ESULTS of an investigation made

by the Department of Agriculture





 





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mobiles, trucks and tractors are due to

incorrect lubrication.



In hundreds of tests Gargoyle Mobil-

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fuel economles of 17% to 25%.



Lubrication, which seems a small Item,

is the most important factor in farm

machinery operating costs—particularly

tractors, trucks and automobiles- Scien—

tific lubrication means longer life, fewer

repairs, and slower depreciation.



The Vacuum Oil Company is known

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oils when used as specified in our

Chart of Recommen-

dations (shown in part

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