1919-08-07; Saline Observer

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I.UME XXXIX.
SALINE, WASHTENAW CO., MICH., T HURSDAY, AUGUST 7,1919
NUMBER 47
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A Bank For Farmers
The Saline Savings Bank has
the capital and surplus necessary to properly car for the
business of the Farmer large
or small.
If buying cattle or hogs and
he needs money, we can assist
him.
If hei has notes he wishes to
discount, we can accomodate
-him.
If he. wishes to deposit money, he can do so and get it any
time he needs it.
If he wants a safe place to keep his valuable papers, where they will be seen by
no one but himself, we have steel boxes for
this purpose.
SALINE SAVINGS BANK
Tlie One Story Bank on tlie Corner.
MEMBER OP FEDERAL RESERVE BANK
Farmers Selecting
Show Exhihits Now
MEMBERSHIP CANVASS
Crop Experts Give Holes for Preparation of Prize Samples.
Our Tools and Hardware
are the best you never saw.
CARPENTERS:
OUR TOOLS ARE MADE FROM FINELY TEMPERED STEEL
AND WILL HOLD THEIR EDGE-THEY ARE KNOWN, RELIABLE BRANDS.
WE HAVE THE 'EDGE" ON THE TOOL AND OTHER HARDWARE BUSINESS IN THIS CITY. WE DIDN'T GET IT BY
SHARP PRACTICE" BUT BY GIVING THE PEOPLE THE BEST
HARDWARE FOR LESS MONEY. COME IN AND SELECT THE
TOOLS YOU NEED AT HOME.
USE OUR HARDWARE; IT STANDS HARD WEAR.
vh011*73 LIMBRIGHT & SON
Many Michigan farmers are selecting and preparing samples of grains
and forage crops for exhibition later
in the year at the various fairs and
expositions which offer prizes in these
classes. The Michigan State Fair at
Detroit the last of August offers three
prizes to farmers in each county of
the state for each kind of grain and
forage crop common to Michigan, in
addition to the state championships.
As a result of this general competition farmers all over the state are
preparing exhibits.
The following rules for selection
and preparation of exhibition samples
are given out by the crops department
of the Michigan Agricultural college:
1. Sheaf grains: Select well filled
heads growing on tall disease-free
straws; spread out thinly and allow
to cure under cover where there is a
good circulation of air. If the room
is dark the color will be better. When
straw has cured, strip off leaves and
tie in bundles two inches in diameter
below the heads.
2. Forage crops: Collect vigorous,
healthy stalks and allow to cure slowly in a dark or shady place where,
however, there is enough circulation
of air so that the material will not
mold.
3. "When cured, strip leaves from
grasses. Retain them on clovers and
alfalfa. Covering samples with a
damp cloth for short time will help
save the leaves.
i. Cut timothy and grasses when
heads are nearly mature; clover when
in blossom and alfalfa when just beginning to bloom.
5. Threshed grain: Harvest and
store under shelter before any rain,
enough bundles to make a bushel or
two of threshed grain. This can be
flailed out and cleaned up at leisure.
Of course, all weed seeds, light grain,
dirt, etc., should be cleaned out of the
sample. Tf necessary pick out diseased or injured kernels.
All Soon "Will Be Called Upon to Join
County Fair Society.
THE ONE PRICE QUALITY STORE
SALINE,  MICH.
THINK THREE YEARS, THEN
ASK TIEE WOMAN ABOUT IT
Advice of Archbold Editor to Owners
OK Grade Cows Who Are Tempted
to Sell Tlieir Best Stock.
Tea and Coffee of
Quality
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Belle Isle 55c
Bismark 50c
Koran     45c
Black Cross 70 and SOc
Ice Tea 40c
These will give the best results and are sure to
SATISFY YOU
TELFER'S
COFFEE
WIDLAR'S
TEA
Phone 49
S. Y. COTTON
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A warning is being sounded by
newspapers in this dairy region to
owners of cows who may be tempted
to sell their best stock on account of
the foreign demand. The Hudson
Post Gazette recently published a
strong editorial on this suject and the
Archbold Buckeye of recent date carries the following appeal:
"Dairymen who sell their best cows
are making a s&rious mistake. Considering the great demand for milk
products the price of cows is bound
to advance rapidly. The buyers of the
cows that are being shipped now" seem
to have the limit of $150 as a paying
price for the cows they buy for export. If a cow is worth that amount
for export it surely is worth that mucih
to a farmer who has the barn, the
feed, the pasture, the market for his
milk and everything organized on a
money-making basis.
"There are too many horses in the
country. Horses are always consume
ing food and producing little and have
very poor prospects while the cow has
several valuable products that are
split several ways with the farmer.
This fall the demand for cows is liable to increase greatly. Of course
some young stuff is coming up but it
will be three years until a good cow is
proven and all the young stuff coming
will not turn out well, so if a dairyman has a cow that has proven itself
up, it is worth about three prospects.
Considering this the dairyman ought
to get about three prices for a good
cow.
"The farmer must learn to appreciate his own stuff. Past prices are
no guide. He must look into the future if he would get full value for his
stock. Think three years before selling a good cow and then ask the
woman about it.—Morenci Observer.
The first meeting of the directors
of the Washtenaw County Fair society resulted in the , report that plans
for the fair are- progressing favorably. The question of membership
was taken up and-it was decided to
follow the Jackson plan, as follows:
One year membership, four admissions, $1.00.
Three year membership, 2 admissions daily, $5.00.
Ten year membership, 2 admissions
daily, $10.00.
Life membership, $25.00.
The membership campaign will be
put on at an early date. The success
of the fair will depend a great deal on
how badly the people of Washtenaw
want it. The sale of memberships
will be an exact criterion of each person's feeling in the matter. A membership entitles the holder to a vote
at the annual meeting, also to the
number of admissions indicated.
The board of directors desire the
confidence and cooperation of the entire public. The following resolution
was adopted to be used in connection
with the membership campaign:
We, the undersigned Officers and
Directors of the Washtenaw County
Fair society, do adopt and order
printed for the benefit of the people
of Washtenaw county, the following
resolution:
Resolved, That it be tbe desire and
intention of the officers and directors
of this society, to build for Washtenaw county a. permanent fair, of
which the main object and intention
shall be to develop and encourage agriculture and industry withih our
county. To accomplish this end, we
request the financial support and cooperation of the citizens of our county
and we hereby pledge ourselves to
spare no effort to make the Washtenaw County Fair one of the cleanest
and best in the state of Michigan.
B. W. Martin was elected manager
of the fair and instructed to visit the
Jackson'management and secure details of the Jackson plan.
A nominating committee was appointed to nominate the business committee, to be chosen from the board
of directors, and also make nominations to fill vacancies. Secretary
Martin states that early reports show
that the exhibits of stock, poultry,
fruits, grains and vegetables will be
equal to any of the surrounding fairs.
Correspondence is being carried on
with amusement and entertainment
companies, and we will have first
choice along that line. Everyone
must be a booster and Washtenaw's
new fair will surprise the state of
Michigan.
COUNTRY TOWN GOSSIP.
Some people express dislike of life
in .country towns, on the ground that
there is too much small and petty gossip. They think people show too much
curiosity in regard to the affairs of
their neighbors.
Such people usually go to the other
extreme of moving to some large city
where they may live for years without any neighbor speaking to them.
They may fall sick and no one call to
inquire or^to lend a hand. About that
time they begin to wish they were
back in the gossiping country, where
those curious neighbors would tumble
over each other to offer services.
The trouble with the'se people is
that they are too sensitive or too secretive. They ought to realize that
the people of a country town are or
should be close neighbors to each
other, practically members of one big
family^ It is a perfectly normal thinj.*
for people to be interested in the
things the community faultily is doing.
\Ti they go off on a little trip an.d
carefully conceal their destination,
neighbors with sporting blood and a
normal desire for information, naturally speculate on where they are going. If -before they go, they take pains
to hand a simple and modest little
item to the newspaper," the thing is
■rinted, everyone knows it, and there
's no reason for gossip about it.
Nothing is so intresting in, the
world as human life. You can find the
atisfaction of character study just
as well in a prairie village as in a
metropolitan theatre. The people who
h* ve generous and kindly natures do
not come in for criticism-.   Those who
re cold" and selfish and aloof, or who
are egotistical and unscrupulous, are
the ones that suffer. The gossip is no
doubt helpful to them in correcting
these faults.
Nation-Wide Drive to
Improve All Live Stock
United States Department o£ Agricul-
tore Announces Campaign to Eliminate Scrub Sires from Breeding*.
OBSERVER LINERS
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
Washington, D. C.—"Better Sires—
Better Stock."
This is the slogan of a. national better live stock crusade, to get actively
in motion October 1, that is announced by the United States Department
of Agriculture, working in cooperation ■with the state agricultural col-
'eges and other agencies interested in
live stock improvement. The campaign looks forward to the future
needs of this country's increasing
population and results from long and
careful observation of the live stock
industry in this country, and was
planned after extensive consultation
with specialists and breeders. The
plan is to hasten the replacement of
the multitude of scrub domestic animals in the United States with purebred or high-grade stock, and also to
improve the quality of the pure breds
themselves. The goal in view is
greater efficiency in production.
The campaign will be the first organized crusade in a large country to
improve all live stock simultaneously.
It will interfere in no way with any
work in live stock improvement now-
being conducted, but makes all the
work more definite and effective by
p-ovidrng official recognition for progressive breeders.
The campaign will be supervised by
Lhe Department of Agriculture in
Washington, and in each state by the
state agricultural college. County
agents and other field workers of tlie
Department of Agriculture and of the
state colleges will handle the cam-
taign locally. Every live stock owner
actively cooperating and keeping and
using none but pure bred sires of good
quality will be given an emblem as
an official recognition of meritorious
effort.
Council Proceedings
Regular meeting of the Common
Council of Saline Monday evening,
August 4.
President Cook in tlie chair.
Trustees present: Whesler, Seeger,
Fosdick, Burkhart and Hutzel.
Trustee absent:   Kanouse.
Minutes of the last meeting rea?d
and approved.
The following bills audited by the
nance committee were read:
■"'. A. Alber, salary and express §102,77
Sola Fitzgerald, teaming...;.     t 6.00
Philo Luckhardt, labor :.      21.70
Herman Hutzel, road work...       7.00
C. H. Carven, marshall salary
one-third month         3.00
Earl Fosdick, teaming       27.00
Wiedman Auto Co., tractor service       15.06
Saline Telephone Co., rental..        6.50
A. J. Warren, insurance on
Council rooms ..:....      94.C0
3. Y. Cotton, assessor       65.00
Detroit Edison Co., council room
"   lights    -  1.35
Detroit Edison Co., lights and
power       S2.91
Oetroit Edison Co., street
lights   126.(0
Sim: R. Wilson, printing        S.60
H. Mueller Mfg. Co., water supplies  ?       20.64.
Motion by Wheeler that bills be
paid. Supported by Fosdick. Carried.
Motion by Burkhart that meeting be
adjourned until Monday evening, Aug,
11. Supported by Seeger. Carried.
GEO. V. COOK, President.
EDITH C. ROUSE. Clerk.
tic per Line First iii!>ei-Uon_.   Then 3c
per Line;  Minimi* in charge 25c.
Poultry     wanted—H'ghest     prices
t-aid.   Harry Golasky, phone 35.     4ffx
Found—Rain coat. Owner may have
same by proving property and paying
for this notice.
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Why Make Your Wife Bake?
Let us do it for her. We hake good hread ior
health of all, old and young. Our hread heats
most home-made hecause experts excel amateurs.
Then, too, its more economical for you to have
usdoyourhaking.
We're now serving delicious Ice Cream—any
way you want it.
Schnebelt's Bakery
CUT SUCKERS FROM
SEED CORN PLOTS
"Farmers should cut all suckers
and undersirable plants from their
seed corn plots", says Prof. J. F. Cox
of the crops department at the Michigan Agricultural college. "This
gives the remaining stalks a chance
to develop better and_ improves the
seed production."
Many farmers of the state make it
a practice to set aside a small plot of
corn for seed purposes. This can "be
given special attention which would
not be worth while ou the general
field. Application of fertilizers to improve the yield and liasten maturity
is one quite common practice on seed
plots, and Prof. Cox now advises the
pulling of all suckers and weak stalks
in order to give the desirable plants
the best chance possible.
FEEDING STOK WITH
TWO DOLLAR CORN
In shipping stock and hogs a short
time ago the Co-Operative Association
found they had more than could be
taken care of that day so an interesting trial was conducted in the yards.
Manager Matteson thus relates his
experience to the Enterpise:
"After loading we had 21 hogs in
the yards which weighed 4,220 pounds.
I wanted to feed as an experiment to
find whether hogs- of this size could
be fed on corn at $2 per bushel and
come out whole. I gave them all they
would eat; the ration varied from 35
to 8.0 pounds to a feeding, beginning
with 56 pounds. Most of the feeds
were 70 or 140 pounds per day for the
ten days. On July 8, in the evening I
gave them only 35 pounds so they
would clean up aud they did it to perfection, so the next morning I gave
them 60 pounds quite early and did
not weigh until about 11 o'clock.
They weighed 4,440 pounds, a gain of
220 pounds. During this test 1,235
pounds of corn were fed, which at $2
per bushel amounts to a little over
$44. I feel that hogs of this weight
and much lighter can be fed on this
high-priced corn and made to pay better than Selling at the lighter weight,
especially when the feeding is done in
the home surroundings rather than in
undesirable quarters such as these.
In this experiment I feel under obligations to Lonier & Hoffer for their
cooperation."—Manchester Enterphise.
The Ypsi-Pure Ice Co., 18-20 S. Huron
3t., Ypsilanti, can furnish artificial ice,
vholesale or retail. 48
Cash paid for Liberty Bonds. David A. Killins & Son. 107 First National Bank Building, Ann Arbor,  Mich.
Wanted—Carpenters, laborers, cement workers and electricians; steady
work. Buildings and Grounds Dept,
University of Michigan. 48x
Sewing machine operators wanted.
Steady work, good pay. For particu--
lars apply, Oak Knitting Co.,
49x Ypsilanti, Mich.
For Sale—The coal business, scales,
yard and sheds as conducted by B. &
F. E. Jones; also the office building
on McKay street, to be removed. Inquire of Frank E. or Minnie R.
Jones. 31tf
For Sale—Combination heater; will
burn hard or soft coal, coke or wood.
In fine shape and would cost in the
neighborhood of $50 new; yours if you
wiant it for about one-quar,ter of that,
fnquire at Observer office.
FERTILIZER PRICES NOW
SHOW A BIG DROP
Fertilizer price lists for fall delivery which have recently been issued
show a drop in prices which range
as high as 25 to 30 per cent for mixed
goods. Acid phosphate is only one
dollar a ton lower than last spring's
price, but there is a decided drop in
all mixed fertilizers. Prof. A. C. Patten, experiment station chemist at M.
A. C, says that prices are set now
and predicts that there will .be no
further drop this season. This means
that farmers are safe in buying now
for fall delivery.
An idle horse is a poor investment.
Ditto man.
WANTED—People in this vicinity
who have any legal printing required
in the settlement of estates, etc., to
have it sent to this newspaper. The
rates are universal in such matters
and to have your notices appear in
this paper it is only necessary to ask
the probate judge to send them here.
NATIONAL GARDENERS
TO MEET IN MICHIGAN
The Vegetable Growers' Association
of America, an organization composed
of most of the leading vegetable growers of the United States and Canada,
will hold its annual meeting at Detroit from September 9 to 12. Points
of interest to vegetable men in and
around Detroit will be visited by the
delegates.
Two Michigan men are officers in
the association. Eugene Davis of
Grand Rapids is treasurer, while C.
\V. Wade, garden specialist at the
Michigan Agricultural college, holds
the office of vice president and is also
chairman of the committee on
weights and measures and of the committee on- organizations. Mr. Wade
is serving as chairman of this year's
convention committee, and is preparing special "Michigan'"' features of
entertainment for the national delegates.
Christian Science Notes
This society is an authorized branch
*f the Mother Church, The First
Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston,
.Mass.
Services held in the Citizens bank
building.
Sunday morning at 10 o'clock.
Subject August 10:    Spirit.
Golden Text: II Cor. 3:17. The
f-ord is that Spiiit: and where the
Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Wednesday evening testimonial
meeting at 8:00 o'clock.
All are cordially invited to thtSQ
services.
Sunday school at 11:00 o'clock
to which pupils to the age of 30
years are admitted,
ALL BREEDERS, FARMERS
AND DAIRYMEN INVITED
The annual basket picnic of the
Washtenaw County Holsiein-Friesian
Cattle Breeders club will be held in
Recreation Park at Ypsilanti on Monday, August 11. This is to be a basket picinic and everyone is invited.
D. D. Aitken, president of the National Hoistein Association, is to speak.
Several aeroplanes are to be there
for the day, making exhibition flights
and landing on the aviation field adjoining the park, use of which was
recently donated to the government
for the balance of this season by Joseph Warner. You are invited to bring
your family.
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STATE FAIR TICKETS
For several years the Michigan
State Fair has issued advance sale
tickets, at a greatly reduced rate,
through the press of the state. These
tickets are now ready for distribution
and may be had at The Observer office.
The price of these tickets will be
35c each or three for $1. The regular
admission to the fair is 50c. So it is
to your advantage to buy your tickets
at the reduced rate.
The 1919 premium lists are also
ready for distribution and may be
had for the asking at this office. The-
1918 fair was a big success and the
one of 1919 promises to be even bigger.
A. JE. A. MUMMERY, M .D.
Physician and Surgeon
Ann Arbor, Mich
Office: Hutzel Bldg. Hours: 1.00-^-uO,
7:00-8:00 p. m. Sundays by appointment.
Res. 502 E. Jefferson,   Phone 1935.
Will
be  at The Tavern Wednesday
evenings Irom 6 to 8.
Where You Win
When you buy you depend upon the integrity
of the dealer to sell you an article that will
make good. That is where you win when you
come to us. We do not handle any oi the
"cheap" stuff that is made only to sell at a big
profit. When we sell it to you it is guaranteed
to be exactly as we represent it, and you are
protected in your every purchase, whether it be
one dollar or a hundred.
BURKHART BROS
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