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and we ought to use more of it for 
chicken feed and other animal nutri¬ 
tion. I judge we could use a big part 
of our exportable surplus in this way 
and our hen population be the happier 
and better for it. So, too, wheat re¬ 
places corn very satisfactorily -as hog 
feed and a bushel of 60-pound wheat 
is worth as much or a little more than 
a bushel of 56-pound corn. Such uses 
for animal feeding will really accom¬ 
plish much more than any “eat another 
slice of bread a day” slogan. 
Now I come to what I have been 
wanting to say. Some pretty promi¬ 
nent men to the contrary, I am abso¬ 
lutely without faith in any such wild 
scheme as having the Government buy 
and store, say 200,000,000 bushels of 
wheat, to “stabilize” the market or any 
effort to fix a minimum price. Price¬ 
fixing, if it is ever justified, can be 
adopted only as a sort of desperate 
war-time measure. To me all such 
schemes seem the summit of folly- 
chimeras to lead men astray. In the 
long run, all efforts to artificially fix 
prices are doomed to failure—surely so 
if the commodity like wheat is success¬ 
fully grown over a large part of five 
continents. Of course, the Govern¬ 
ment can do wonderful things—for just 
a little while. If our Government 
should enter the market as a purchaser 
of wheat in great quantities it would 
surely boost prices, but we should 
merely be holding the bag for the other 
producers of the world for our sur¬ 
plus would still be on our hands, held 
by the Nation instead of individuals. 
Of course, it might help the situation 
if it could be taken out and sunk in 
the deep blue sea, but I do not know 
that the most ardent advocate of gov¬ 
ernmental assistance has urged any 
measure as heroic as this. Then, too, 
under this ai’tificial stimulation, our 
own product would be bound to increase 
so that the last end of the experiment 
would be more disastrous than the 
first. 
As I said at the beginning, these 
are the days which bring to the sur¬ 
face the radicals, the economic quack- 
doctors, and the men who have axes to 
grind. There is a type of politician 
who prospers in times of public dis¬ 
tress and turmoil. 
By a great popular majority, Magnus 
Johnson is elected United States Sen¬ 
ator from Minnesota. I do not ques¬ 
tion his sincerity or personal honesty, 
but some of his outgivings have the 
marks of economic lunacy. Yesterday 
I read the speech of a western Con¬ 
gressman. Either the man is a fool 
or much worse—a demagogue. I say 
much worse because in a democracy, 
the demagogue is infinitely more dan¬ 
gerous than the honest radical. I am 
absolutely unable to follow some of the 
loose talk we are hearing these days. 
The course of history is strewn with 
the wrecks of economic fallicies and he 
who runs may read. - The call of the 
times is for agricultural reconstruction 
—yes—for world reconstruction along 
the. plain, familiar trodden paths, up 
which through the ages the world has 
slowly climbed to better things. City 
and farm—Europe and America—we 
must all strive together by work, and 
economy, and righteousness to over¬ 
come, so far as possible, the catastro¬ 
phe of the World War. 
Jor Economical Transportation 
OF 
Farm Products 
Transportation is the big problem of today in 
manufacturing, merchandising and farming* 
No matter what you make, grow or stock, it 
brings no profit until moved to the place of sale* 
t * 
Modern, progressive farmers, being also busi¬ 
ness men, now depend on fast economical 
motor transportation to save time, save prod¬ 
ucts and get the money* 
Chevrolet Superior Light Delivery, with four 
post body was built especially for farm needs* 
Although not a heavy-duty truck, it has the 
space and power for a big load, which it moves 
fast at a very low cost per mile* Its engineering 
features are modern and complete: powerful 
motor, electric starter, standard transmission— 
3 speeds forward and one reverse, demount¬ 
able rims and extra rim, etc* 
For heavy work, Chevrolet Utility Express 
Truck at only $ 575, chassis only, offers re¬ 
markable value* Fits any standard truck body* 
Prices /. o. b. Flint , Michigan 
Superior 2-Pass. Roadster . $510 Superior 5-Pass. Sedan . . $860 
Superior 5-Pass. Touring . 525 Superior Light Delivery . . 510 
Superior 2-Pass. Utility Coupe 680 Superior Commercial Chassis . 425 
Utility Express Truck Chassis $575 
Chevrolet Motor Company, Detroit, Michigan 
Division of Qeneral Motors Corporation 
Dealers and Service Stations Everywhere 
NEW JERSEY HORTICULTURISTS 
ANNOUNCE MEETING 
According to H. H. Albertson, sec¬ 
retary of the New Jersey State Horti¬ 
cultural Society, the annual meeting 
and exhibit of the society will be held 
in the Haddon Hall Hotel, at Atlantic 
City, on December 4, 5, 6. 
The society is taking an active part 
this year in cooperating with the New 
Jersey. State Bureau of Markets in the 
campaign to promote greater consump¬ 
tion of peaches in New Jersey and 
Other nearby States. 
EASTERN STATES MILK PRO¬ 
DUCERS TO MEET IN 
SYRACUSE 
A conference of the Eastern States 
Milk Producers, Inc., will be held in 
Syracuse on Setember 12 in the plant 
of the Onondaga Milk Producers’ Co¬ 
operative Association. This meeting is 
a conference of the various independent 
farm-owned local plants in the eastern 
territory. 
SUPERIOR Light Delivery 
$ 510 
f. o. b. Flint, Mich. 
