MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU NEWS Our Purpose Is .1 and Your l o Build a Prosper- Neighbors—That Is ous Agriculture The Farm Bureau PUBLISHED 1JV THE MICHIGAN STAT!K FARM BUREAU FOR ITS MEMBERSHIP FOURTH YEAR, VOL. IV, No. 5 MARCH 12, 1926 ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY ATWOOD BILL DIES Farm Bills Struggle AS LEGISLATURE Compare These Two Plots of Clover ENDS HOT SESSION At the Michigan State College. One was Grown from Michigan Seed, the Other rfrom Imported Seed. This is the Second Summer. The Growing Test is the Best Answer to the Question of Adaptation In Congressional Sea Half of Administration Road Program Falls by the Resolution FRIENDS THROW Wayside Below is the resolution on completion and operation of LIFE LINES; FOES KIRBY BILL IS ENACTED the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Waterway, adopted by the Board of Delegates of the WEIGHT'EM DOWN Grant Appropriations for Mt. Michigan State Farm Bureau at the eighth annual meeting Pleasant Normal and at State College, Feb. 4-5, Farm Bureau Helps Good Bills 1926: And Attacks Fake Jackson Prison "Since the transportation of the products of agriculture and Measures Strong resolutions protesting industry is a problem of ever- against repudiating any of the high- increasing importance, and way financing obligations of the since it is an undisputed fact LITTLE HOPE FOR SOME state to the counties and demanding that water transportation la that the amount raised each y'ear for considerably cheaper than that State highway purposes should not by land, we respectfully urge Farm Relief, Seed Staining:, be increased were adopted at the las', upon Congress the immediate necessity of taking the proper May be Among Those annual meeting of the Board of Del- definite action to insure the egates of the State Farm Bureau, ITALIAN SEED, IMPORTED. Planted April, 1021. Photo August, 1022 construction and operation of Enacted MICHIGAN (LOVER SLED planted April, 1021. Photo made in Aug. 1»22 held just shortly preceding the con- This plot shows what winter killing and disease did to a stand of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence vening of the recent special session This plot shows the hardiness of native Michigan grown clover seed. waterway." Washington, March 9.—Congress- of the Legislature, at which the mat-, It is fully adapted to this climate. Note the luxuriant stand in August Italian clover. Both plots looked splendid the first summer. Note the ional calendars are already jammed, ter of highway finance was the out- of the second season. Little if any winter killing or loss from disease. bare patches and the feeble stand. First hay cutting 1.32 tons per with farm legislation, and Btill the standing issue. The first hay cutting was 2.85 tons per acre. Second cutting the same. acre; no second cutting! Importers say bad publicity has stopped im- flood increases. The number is al- Members can take no little satisfac- This plot had the same soil and was near the plot shown on the right. ports of Italian seed, but say French seed is all right. Recall that ready far beyond the capacity of Con- tion in the fact that the spirit of these Farm Bureau resolutions tri- Both were planted at the same time, had the same growing conditions and were photographed on the same day. Compare this plot with the Italy and France adjoin, and that shipments from France are enormous. "College tests in 1925 showed Italian seed mixed with the Gooding gress to consider even in a general way. umphed in the final outcome of the session. Not only were none of the State's obligations to the counties re- Italian for turning under. Refer to the article below for important details concerning these and other test plots of domestic and im- French. Who knows that Italian seed is not coming through French ports?' For instance, is all the clover seed shipped out of Toledo produced in Ohio : Ketcham The death record of bills In all committees is appalling, and at the same time commendable, for many ported clovers planted at State College. pudiated, but the State's debts to the townships, totalling about $225,000. Bill a worthless measure from the stand, point of public good, meets an early were recognized as well. DROP DICKINSON end there. But the thing works both The Legislature adjourned three week's special session late Fri- day evening, March 5. At the outset of the session it had looked as its FARM RELIEF FOR Tells State College Results With Testimony Washington, March 9.—This is a ways. Foes of good measures, whoa strongly organized and well armed, can do good measures to death in committee. The whole business take* though the farmers had nothing to gain and much to lose. However, the final results were much more satis- factory than were anticipated. A BROADER PLAN Imported Clover Since 1921 brief summary of the first testimony for and against the Gooding-Ketch- am seed staining bill before the Sen- ate Committee on Agriculture re- a great deal of time, and sometime* the tactics are to keep a bill in com- mittee until it gives up the ghost. The Truth-in-fabrics bill has been cently. The following Se'nators were While the net results of the ses- All Organizations Agree on kept in committee in Congress for sion may not be entirely pleasing to On request of the Michigan Farm Bureau News, Mr. C. R. Megee, associate present: GOODING, Idaho. about 23 years. In another form, all of us, or even to any of us, still 1 2 Closely Allied professor of Farm Crops at the Michigan State College, has kindly given us their as the Capper bill, it is trying to gat we can console ourselves with the McNARY, Oregon. Proposals experience in growing tests of various imported clover seeds, and their compar- SMITH, South Carolina. out this session. thought that had it not been that we Farm relief has brought out many were on the job making our desires ison with domestic clovers growing alongside and planted at the same time the CAPPER, Kansas. bills. Some good, some not so good effectively felt, the situation would Washington, March 11—The Dick- imported seeds were put in. Prof. Megee said that: RANSDELL, Louisiana. and others designed to take up time probably be considerably worse than inson bill for farm relief legislation In 1921 the Michigan State College Farm Crops Dep't began a series of plant- FERRIS, Michigan. and keep others from ever reaching that in which we now find ourselves. has been abandoned for a general DENEEN, Illinois. ing tests to determine what various imported clover seeds would do in Michi- shore. Atwood Bill Dies agreement plan, as with all the farm Dr. Kellerman of the If. S. Dep't Below are listed some of the bills, Chief interest during the last day relief measures before Congress it gan's climatic conditions, and in comparison with Michigan and other northern of Agriculture, Chester Gray of the resolutions and appropriations and a of the session centered around the has become apparent that no one of grown, domestic clover seeds. American Farm Bureau, J. W. Nicol- short description of the same which fate of the Atwood bill which would them meets the needs of all sections. son of Safeseed, Inc., and A. M. have readjusted the appropriation Loomis of the National Grange testi- are now in Congress and to which, So we are advised Uy the American the Washington, office of the Ameri- from the weight tax revenues. As Farm Bureau's legislative depart- Seed from Italy, France, Bohemia ami several domestic strains, including- fied in favor of the Goodiug-Ketch- passed.by the Senate this measure Michigan, were planted in the spring- of 1921. In all cases the first crop of am bill. can Farm Bureau is devoting it's at- ment that all agricultural organiza- tention at this time: would have increased the appropria- tions represented at Washington at the Italian, French and Bohemian lots harvested in 1922 was below the yield Curtis Nye Smith, attorney rep- The Dickinson Bill (If. It. 6568) tion for maintenance of State trunk the present session of Congress in of the domestic seed. The Italian yield was almost worthless, as the stand resenting the American Seed Trade line highways from $2,000,000 to the interests of farm relief legisla- Association, and Charles D. Provides for a Farmers' Advisory 'had suffered greatly from anthracnose. The second crop from the domestic Council and a Farmers' Board to de- $4,000,000 per year, but would have tion have gotten together and have Boyles, president of Alfred Dickinson discontinued all State aid for the seed was good; the Italian plot was a failure, and the French yield was & Company opposed the Gooding- termine upon the existence of sur- agreed on farm relief legislation in maintenance of non-trunk line high- the form of twelve proposals which poor. Ketcham bill and spoke in favor of pluses and to devise methods to re- ways. This latter provision of the take the place of the Dickinson bill, In 1922 a larger series of tests was started.. Once again the results com- the Butler-Luce seed staining mea- duce or eliminate the effects of such bill met the determined opposition of and to a large extent parallel the ing in the year 1923 showed the domestic seed,—Michigan and Ohio clover sure. In brief, the testimony was as surpluses on the profits derived from the House and was stricken out. The Dickinson, bill for handling farm this time—to be superior to the imported seed. The Italian was practically follows, with a few paranthetical ob- the entire crop. This bill is in proc- Senate refused to accept the House surpluses and assuring the American worthless, and the French inferior to the domestic results. Chilean clover servations by the Editor: ess of formation, will likely ba amendments so the bill was thrown farmer an American price on the do- seed gave a fair first yield, but there was much less growth left to plow changed somewhat before and dur- into the hands of a conference com- mestic consumption. Opposed ing the hearings, has enthusiastic mittee. Strenuous efforts were made under for maintaining soil fertility than in the case of the domestic seed. ( n i l i s Nye Smith: Said Dep't of support from some groups and is not The twelve proposals differ from The outstanding importance of the domestic seed for this maintaining soil by administration leaders to force the last printed form of the Dickin- Agriculture presented a seed impor- actually opposed by any farm organi- the House to recede from its position. son bill in these respects: fertility is clearly shown by the description of the various plots for the spring tation bill to Toledo Seed Trade zation. Hearings were supposed to However, the Representatives stood 1. The policy of handling the sur- of 1924: meeting in 1922 and asked support. begin on this measure on Monday, fast and the bill was not enacted. Said Seed Trade favored bill with March 1st, before the Agriculture plus is made a PERMANENT opera- This was probably the greatest re- amendments, also Haugen seed bill Committee of the House. This mea- tion rather than an intermittent af- STRAIN OF CLOVER STAND AND GROWTH FOR SPRING OF 1024 buff received by the administration introduced last year, if properly sure has the Farm Bureau's support. fair. Michigan .80 to 90% of stand—Plants vigorous at the hands of the Legislature dur- amended. L\ The Federal Farm Board is Ohio 30 to 90% of stand—Plants vigorous Mr. Smith said Gooding bill has The Haugon Co-operatlvo Bill ing a special session characterized composed of one member from each by bitter criticism of the powers that Chilean 40 to 60% of stand—Plants dwarfed support of only pari of the Dep't of (H. R. 6240) of the Federal reserve districts, nom- Australian 35 to 10% of stand—Plants dwarfed Agriculture. Senator Gooding inter- Establishes a division of co-opera- be ahd their methods. inated by the President and confirm- E stand—Plants not thrifty French rupted to advise" Mr. Smith that tive marketing in the Bureau of Agri- Defeat of the Atwood bill means ed by the Senate, from a list of three 60% of stand—Plants not thrifty Gooding bill was discussed with the cultural Economics of the U. S. D. A. to be submitted to the President by Hungarian that the State is legally bound to Less than 1% of a stand Secretary of Agriculture and approv- This bill has passed the House and contribute toward the maintenance the bona fide farm organizations in Italian •.:. ed by him and referred to Dr. Kel- now is before the Agriculture Com- of non-trunk line highways. How- each district. The results secured in 1924 and 1925 are essentially the same as those lerman for drafting. Mr. Smith said mittee of the Senate. Dates for hear- ever, this has been the law in the 3. The equalization fee is no long- he was glad to be corrected. ings on this measure before the Sea-* past and for the last two or three er to be assessed against and col- secured in 1922 and 1923 and show the superiority of domestic seed in yielding Mr. Smith said the Seed Trade is ate committee have not yet been an- years the local authorities have re- lected from the producer of a sur- ability, winter hardiness and disease resistance in so far as anthracnose is con- now in favor of the Butler-Luce Seed nounced, but will be set at any early ceived none of this State aid for plus, but is operative against the in- cerned. Staining bill, which he said was real- date. which the laws provide. The admin- dustry or commodity as a whole and ly a corrected Haugen bill. (Study of istration scored a partial victory in The Gooding-Kctchum Seed Bill would be collected somewhere be- The results secured in another test in 1925 show that an appreciable amount the two shows no apparent relation, the enactment of the Kirby bill (S. 2465, H. It. 8118) tween PRODUCTION AND COX- but Mr. Smith was evidently trying which reduces the amounts which the SUMPTION. of red clover seed shipped to this country as French seed is badly mixed or Provides for the standing or mark- to show that the Dep't of Agricul- ing of all imported red clover and counties will receive from the State 4. Finances in the shape of a blended with Italian seed. In the above mentioned tests the seed used was of ture is not unanimously in favor of alfalfa seed to show country of origia (Continued on page three) revolving fund of not less than French origin and not mixed with Italian seed so that the commercial run of the Gooding bill). and to designate by a distinctira $250,000,000 are provided for. Objections to Gooding Bill r 5. Domestic seasonal carryovers aA French seed could not be expected to give as good results as secured in the color of red those foreign seeds above tests. Asked his objections to the Good- which a r e unadapted. Hearings h a r e Equality For well as export surpluses are conlem- plated in these proposals. ('.. An emergency situation in corn ing bill, Mr. Smith replied about as been concluded on this measure be- follows: fore the Senate Committee on Agri- "The Gooding bill does not take culture and a sub-committee of t h e The State College experience with imported seed shows its doubtful value Agriculture is recognized but its eventual solu- tion is suggested through stabiliza- tion of pork prices. and the need for a national seed staining law to color French, Italian and other seeds at our ports of entry so that farmers may recognize them, and so that they into consideration desirable types of House Interstate and Foreign Com- imported seeds. It puts the skull and merce Committee. Favorable reports cross bones of disapproval on all im- are expected from both committees [Addressing the Board o f The Michigan Farm Bjnreau board ported seed, much of which is good. as no opposition has developed except Delegates one year ago at the Of directors will undoubtedly take ac- may not be sold to farmers as domestic seed, as is done now. T h e Gooding- Seed trade is willing to have pre- from certain portions of t h e seed 7th annual State Farm Bureau tion on the twelve proposals at Ketcham bill now in Congress, backed by the U. S. Dep't of Agriculture, the vented the entry of bad seeds. In trade which seem not to desire to meeting, Feb. .">, 1025, Sec'y their meeting March 12, al State Farm Bureau, the Grange and progressive seed houses, will provide farmers ef- fact, we would like to go farther have such seeds stained so that th* C. L. Brody said: Farm Bureau headquan than the Gooding bill in this respect. farmers might know what is being "Legislation that,'will per- fective seed staining protection. Importers of up to 24,500,000 lbs. of foreign The Seed Trade has passed resolu- purchased. mit us to work out our prob- seeds annually are doing their best to block this bill or substitute one to their own tions that its associate members The < ap[H i IJruth-in-Fabric Bill lems and give the farmer an liking. Write your Senator and your Congressman to work for the Gooding- should not handle Italian red clover equal chance with other inter- ests is what is needed. GOODING KETCHAM Ketcham bill. Your letter will be received gladly and will help. seed. As a result of this resolution, (S. 1618) Requires woolen and knitted goods importation of Italian seed dropped to be marked in such ways as te "What we need is not more in three years from 1,000,000 to show what they are made of. A sub- governmental direct aid in co- BILL NEARING VOTE tion charges, the statement set forth 151,000 pounds. This year only two committee from the Senate Commit- operative marketing, but rath- er tariff protection equal to Farm Bureau, Grange Turn that: lots of 150 bags each have come in. tee on Interstate Commerce has this "Under the present law, the Rail- Two members of the association did bill in charge. The indications are that of other industries, so that we as farmers not only pay an American price for what we Washington. March 11 Here i£ the status of the Cooding-Ketcham measure for staining imported Light On New Rail Rate Plan road Labor Board cannot make a import Italian seed subsequent to that a favorable report will soon be wage award without the approval of resolution. Both were disciplined and forthcoming without any hearings. one of the representatives of the one expelled. This proves the desire This sub-committee is composed of buy, but secure an American at, r . vS. ports of entry to enable public on the Board. If the railroad of the Association to protect Ameri- Senator Fess, of Ohio, chairman; Sen- price for what we have to sell. farmers to know their origin and Oppose Measure That Would position until the American Farm Bu- manager and their employes make an can farmers. Observe Section 1, page Then, if our methods are effi- lore their adaptation to our Keep Public Out of reau and the National Grange jump- agreement about wages, the Board 2. that the Gooding bill provides ator Cousens, of Michigan; and Sen- cient, co-operative marketing climate. ed into the fray with a demand that can suspend this agreement until it compulsory staining of A LI. red clo- ator Mayfield, of Texas. will have an opportunity to be The Senate Agr'l Committee has Rate Making the interests of the public be safe- finds out what effect it will have up- ver and alfalfa seed. This is for the The Agricultural Appropriation fully effective." reported favorably and Senator guarded. on railroad rates. That is a clear- purpose of preventing ALL. IM- Bill (H. It. 8261) Both at the 1925 and 1926 Gooding expects a vote in the Senate Washington, March S. Ooe of the The American Farm Bureau and cut, definite protection which Con- PORTS by putting the skull and sed the House substantially annual meetings the Michigan the last of this week or the first of most spectacular legislative ba the National Grange have a series of gress gave six years ago to prevent cross bones on them. in the form asked for by the Ameri- State Farm Bureau has pa next. Congressman .\lapes expects a that has been waged for many years three joint statements which have new and excessive burdens being put can Farm Bureau. It has just been resolutions demanding such is that centering around the Watson- been mailed to every member of the upon railroad service. Now, in the * ** under consideration by the proper favorable report from the sub-com- (The purpose of the Gooding bill equal opportunity for agricul- mittee of the House interstate and Parker bill which seeks to abolish House of Representatives. In the bill you are about to consider, it is committee of the Senate and has been ture, and has joined its the Railroad Labor Board and set up statement, it was stated that proposed to abolish the Railroad La- is to stain imported seeds distinctive foreign commerce committee. Con- repor strength with Other State Farm iiian Ketchain says. "1 new machinery for adjustment of they were in sympathy with the pri- bor Board, and permit the parties colors so that the good may be The KpecieJ T-B Approprui' Bureaus and other organiza- disputes between railroad operators mary purpose of the Watson-Parker signatory thereto to make wage known from the bad. Mr. Smith did ery faith and belief that a favorable not defend the present practi< Asks for $6,000,000 additional in- tions in bringing the matter to report will be made from the sub- and their employes. Quietly the bill bill—securing better train service— agreements without any public body demnity funds which would more its present importance in Con- committee to the full committee and was unshed through committees in but that this end could be achieved having control over such agreements. bringing in seed without any regard adequately enable the U. S. Dep't 0% gress. Mouse and ap- without depriving the public of pro- to its adaption.) from the full committee to the "If Congress Wants to abolish the Agr. to keep pace with state funds* House." parently was encountering little op- tection against increased transpjorta- * * * (Continued ?u page 4/ ^ (Continued on page i) (Continued on page 2) TWO MICHIGAN' FARM BUREAU NEWS MARKET 12, 1D2Q transit when the law was passed and using alfalfa or clover seed exten- work, and we have this situation this comes to the farmer, is not on the Jr., director of the state bureau of had to be stained, and the importers sively, from 80 per cent to 90 per year,—that apparently there is a basis of $7 a hundred pounds domes- animal husbandry. MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU NEWS could not sell a pound of it. cent of them would be in favor of surplus of domeatic alfalfa,seed. It tic over imported seed. It is all be- Railroads in the Tuited States an- Mr. Smith said also that while this identiticatioa. And when you is just a little early to know just ing sold as clover seed. nually pay $2,000,000 \n claims on i at Char- have not been carried on to any have the Department of Agriculture, what the developments are going to SENATOR GOODING. Now. unless livestock losses, it was stated at the read head- great conclusions, three tests of the Secretary of Agriculture himself be, but with the exception of last you have some rather strikingly im- meeting, but the claims allowed were French seed and one of Idaho, when and his assistants, 'the agronomists year, in which Argentina had a prac- portant points there, you have made said to represent but a small part VOL. IV MARCH 12, l<»12(> NO. 5 treated with eosin dye, recently of this country which Professor tical crop failure on alfalfa, the a wonderful statement which I am of the losses sustained by producers showed a loss of germination of It Darst has mentioned, the Crop Im- years previous to that there were sure will be helpful, and Mr. Loom is and shippers. The railroad represen- Entered I Charlotte, Mich per cent. provement Association of this coun- 7.000,000 to 10,000,000 pounds of wants to say a few words. If you tatives contended the carriers are to r mailing at special rate of postage provided * * * ( try, the unanimous support of farm- Argentine alfalfa seed coming into have anything further to put in the blame for only half of the claims for ju 1917, authorized January 12, 1923. i Even if we grant that such a loss ers' organizations as far as they have this country. As Doctor Piters has record, just give it to the reporter. they pay. be true, the Gooding bill requires been able,to get their reports in, and shown, and Mr. Westover, THAT al- MR. NICOLSON. I would just The greater portion of the hog Subscription Pri I'er Year, included in dues of Farm that 10 per cent of the seed be not a single one opposing the bill, it falfa is not as well adapted to this make this one additional statement: losses were attributed to congestion Bureau Mem! stained, and a 9 per cent loss on seems to me it is about as construc- country as such seeds as Kansas, I mentioned that the International of lungs, resulting from over exer- that would mean less one-tenth of tive and complete representation as Utah, and Minnesota that are avail- Crop Improvement Association as a tion and over excitement on the way Editor one per cent on the whole. On the could be secured. able in this country in sufficient whole has endorsed the Gooding bill. to the loading point. Weak bones in .•liter quantities to be able, apparently, to If it is desired to have individual in- the legs, resulting from a diet defi- other hand, the U. S. De'p't of Agri- Skull and Crossbooes culture has run several tests which Just a brief statement in regard to take care of the needs. dorsements of the members of thp cient in minerals, cause other loss- upset Mr. Smith's statement, for the actual mechanics of handling The contention has been made more important associations, they es. Faulty partitions in the cars were MICHIGAN gTAmTARM gUREAU some of the U. S. tosts showed a that there was not enough red clover can be secured. another factor. this seed. Statements have been stimulation in germination, a few made that the skull and crossbones in this country, so that it would have SENATOR GOODING. I am quite showed a slight loss; none showed is going to be put on this seed if yon to come in, and it would be a disad- sure that there is no opposition. K M. l: OFFICERS Vl any serious loss.) * * * follow the proposal of the Gooding bill. In other words, what might be vantage to the Anierican farmer to has not come to my attention, at mark this seed, because he would not least, if there is. In fact, I might BUSINESSMEN OF M. J. use it, and so on, and that there say that the farmers as a whole more M. B. Direct ors-al-"La rj»o Lowell Mr. Smith further stated that the Butler bill goes further than the Gooding bill in protecting the farm- called the skull and crossbones is put on all seed that is colored to the ex- tent of 1 0 % . You can put 10 per would not be enough red clover to go generally, I think, on this particular around. I do not think that is a val- measure than anything that has ever GD. HAVEN LEARN i i: Carleton Bud A x e Newberry ers as it leads to the Sec'y of Agri- culture what seed shall be stained, cent of stain on this unadapted seed and do absolutely no real injury to the seed business of the United id objection, because if a man finds come before this committe, are unan- a certain type of seed is not useful to imously for it. him, it is not going to be much sat- MR. XICOLSON. Then there is OF FARM BUREAU and provides that all seed must be la- Buchanan beled as to region of origin. Senator States. It is provided that only im isfaction to Kim just to go through one other thing. That is, the East W . W. BII. Davison Alt Xary asked if labeling of import- ported seed is to have the so-called the motion of going out in the field ern States Farmers Exchange, locat Local Farm Bureau Directors Commodhy Directors ed seed would follow through to the skull and crossbones mark put on it, and sowing it, if he does not get a ed at Springfield, Mass., have written Are Community Club's Michigan P o t a t o Growers E x c h a n g e consuming farmer. Mr. Smith admit- or any coloring to the extent of 10 crop. On alfalfa we have another a letter to Congressman Luce. *** M. L. NOON, J a c k s o n Mi 'ilk Producers Association ted that there was a weakness. It per cent. Therefore, it is a minor proposition. We have enough alfalfa Would it not be a good idea to state Special Guests j . n. • • i Micl. Stock E x c h a n g e would not follow through. thing. The coloring is simply for seed in this country, apparently, to what those people say? GEO. W. M M i c h i g a n Elevator E x c h a n g e (has. D. iJoyles: President of the identification purposes and not defac supply all needs at reasonable prices. SENATOR GOODING. Yes. Grand Haven, Mar. 1.—Showing a M i c h i g a n F r u i t G r o w e r s , Inc. Alfred Dickinson Company, said that ing. I think that point should be Preliminary reports from the Argen- Iiuce Lacks Home Support genuine interest in the conditions firm started in 18.*>4 and is now the clearly brought out, that it is not the tine indicate that it is possible this MR NICOLSON read a letter from and problems of agriculture, the STATE FARM BUREAU ORGANIZATION largest seed house in the world. In intent of the Gooding bill to deface year for them to have a surplus of al- the Eastern States Exchange, repre- Grand Haven Community Club ob- Sec'y-Treas.-Manager the old days, as a rule, seed was an- those imported seeds. It is to identify falfa seed. What would the effects senting 16,000 farmers in the New served farmers' day at its regular S. M. Ass't Secretary nually exported from this country. them by proper mark. be in this country if we should this England States and Delaware, to Mr. weekly luncheon session held here DEPARTMENT HEADS However, occasionally large quanti- year get, as we have quite commonly Luce, one of the authors of the But- this noon. Rural guests of the club Why Labelling Would Fail in recent years, from 7,000,000 to ler-Luce bill, in which they stated included practically every member of A. P. Mills ties were imported and there was nc Now, as to the actual mechanics H P. L. Kelner question of adaption of this seed. He 10,000,000 pounds of Argentine al- that they believe that the Butler- the board of directors of the Grand E side, I believe we are all familiar falfa seed which winterkills the first Luce bill offers them no protection Haven Farm Bureau. - E. t ^ e n offered no proof of this statement. with the fact that most imported uiting p- *•• "''J iid that when it was discovered winter in Michigan, as you know, against imported seeds and pointed The program was arranged by C. seed comes into this country in large Senator Ferris, winterkills through- out that the Gooding-Ketcham bill C. Whitsler, manager of the Grand i A - Bentall recently that Italian seed was un- jute bags, ordinarily containing SUBSIDIARY CORPORATIONS OF THE MICHIGAN STATE adapted, the Seed Trade quit out the Corn Belt, practically, very, would protect and asked Congress- Haven Farm Bureau, who is an ac- FARM BUREAU about 220 pounds. Those jute bags very seriously the first year. On that man Luce to agree with their inter- handling it. He said that only C. F. Barnum 10 per cent of the farmers of are practically invariably opened and account the American farmers do not pretation of the effect which the two tive member of the Community club. E. A. T h o m a s the seed re-sacked into the American want it, and if they did take it, it bills would have on farmers' inter- "The Farm Bureau program is not W- O. Bteiger the country are represented at this type of cotton bag. So the Butler one of narrow class selfishness, but ool C. F. B a r n u m hearing by the Farm Bureau. would demoralize the alfalfa seed ests. bill, as originally drafted, which is producing districts of this country. rather is so fundamentally righteous Michigan Commodity Marketing Associations According to Mr. Uoylcs, only 13 Mr. Nicolson also said that all that it benefits all legitimate busi- not radically changed by the* amend- Staining is Not Exclusion Affiliated With Michigan State Farm Bureau per rent of the farmers are seed pro- ments offered, is u labeling bill, re= farmers' organizations are unani- ness," declared Stanley M. Powell, Cadillac 707 Owen Bldg., I i ducers; 85 per cent are consumers quiring (lie marking on the outside Evidence was offered to the effect mous for the Gooding-Ketcham bill, assistant secretary of the State Farm Hudson and really in favor of imported seed, of imported bags, which absolutely of the Australian ruling on the as is the Department of Agriculture Bureau, who was the speaker of the Farm Bureau . BBlto., e n t o n Lansing Harhor but so much propaganda has been does not follow through to the con- marking of African seed coming in- and a large and representative group day. Mr. Powell then outlined the put out that great harm has been sumer at all. to that country, and that was used of commercial seedsmen; that the activities of the Farm Bureau re- • done before Dr. Pieters' report was as an illustration of the statement proposition presented by Mr. Curtis garding co-operative marketing, cen- D i r e c t o r s a n d Officers of the Commodity Exchanges Another thing, we cannot control available to refute this propaganda. the internal policies of European that if this seed coming into this Nye Smith and Mr. Boyles is not rep- tral purchase of supplies; its prin- KCH. :r. MILK P R O D U C E R S A S S ' N Mr. Boyles then presented tele- countries. As compared to the wide country was marked it would act as resentative of the whole of the Seed ciple of pure, adapted seeds, freight N. P. Hull, P r e s Lansing H. I', licit .ii. ]• • I- grams from Geo. H. Clark, commis- expanse of this country and the dis- an exclusion clause. I do not think Trade Association of this country as rates, and state and national legisla- L. C. Kamlowske, \ R. Q. Tor Washington that follows. I am positive that in he (Mr. Nicolson) had observed a tion. .loin F l a t Rock sioner of Agriculture, for Canada, tances the seed travels, it is a very Washington stating that Canada has a seed stain- Michigan where I have spent most of number of telegrams to Senator Nor- "The Farm Bureau is through the Ass't Sec Detroit short distance from, Italy over to • ft. W. N o r t o n , Treas Howell ing law which she would be willing France, and it is a very short dis- my life, where Canadian alfalfa seed ris, from representative seed com- experimental stage," said Mr. Powell, L. E. 11. Noon Jackson to put into effect in concurring with tance from Italy over to Germany. is adapted, if this law was passed panies of the country favoring the "today it has a conservative, depend- C. S. i C. R. W a t s o n Imlay City regulations established by the United Since the evidence has been so con- that all seed should be colored, I feel Oooding-Ketcham bill. These were able leadership, a settled program W. B. Phillip;-; lanii 14, W. I l a r w o o d Adrian States. Another telegram from Pres. clusively against the Italian seed, as positive the Agricultural College of also entered into the record of the and seasoned management of all its Milton BurkboWer W. .J. T h o m a s Grand Rapids Hull of the Canadian Seed Trade Mr. Smith said yesterday, compara- Michigan would say that colored Can- Senate hearing. activities." M. R. Shlaler Caiedon. j I Brody Lansing tion was pretty well described in the this country as Italian clover seed have seen some tests myself in the say that it was introduced for that Henry Narnltz H a r r y H o g u e Sodua Feb. 26 Farm Bureau News when we shall be stained, that French seed last couple of weeks, and it indicates purpose, but it is singular—and I goes to our dairy herd in .1. !•'. I irbor Anierican Farm liiu-eau Federation Miller O told of seed importers' efforts to shall only be stained a moderate that there is nothing very sure about want to call the committee's atten-. order to try to make our SAM It. T H O M P S O N President there being a loss to the seed. .In tion to this—that when agriculture F I W a s h i n g t o n St., L a n s i n g sidetrack or pull the teeth from the amount, just an identifying mark so feed last until grass be- Washington Representative Gooding-Ketcham bill by substitute that it can be identified in its use in fact in some cases it seems to have a comes to Congress with definite and VRTEKS M u n s e y Bldg., Washington, D . C. ing their original or their amended trade. That puts the burden of proof stimulating effect. specific propositions that we have comes available. Butler-Luce bill for it. We pointed on the French and Germans to see Asks Mr. Smith One worked out in our own interests and This means that in out the loop-holes in the Butler-Luce that no seed of an inferior type to Another thing: Just as an econom- in which we are all able to form our bill and contrasted that with the air- that indigenous to their own country ic proposition I would like to put own opinions, it seems remarkable many instances we limit tight provisions of the Gooding-Ket- comes through their ports to this this in: Using Mr. Smith's figures,— to us that the other people, who the feed to such a n extent THE STATE FARM BUREAU'S PUBLIC cham measure for staining imported country, because French seed coming he says domestic red clover seed is should be the savants of agriculture, that production is cut and red clover and alfalfa seed. All of into this country will be identified by selling at present at wholesale for are always able to lay on the table SERVICE PROGRAM this came out in the Senate Agr'l color. If it induces failure due to $34 a hundred, and French red clo- before the committee some other the cows lose weight, but, TAXATION— Relief for sorely burdened farm prop- Committee testimony, now being pre- the fact that it is Italian seed com- ver at $27 per hundred, or a differ- kind of a measure which we fear will It is much more expen- erty by enaction of: sented in this article. We have giv- ing through a French port, then the ence of $7 a hundred. I have said defeat the thing we want. Now, we (a) Two cent gasoline tax for highway en a summary of Curtis Nye Smith's burden of proof rest's on the French, before that a hundred pounds on 10 want the Gooding bill. That is ev- sive for the cows to re- funds. and Mr. Boyles' testimony against and they are getting their own seed acres is heavy seeding of red clover. idenced by the statement which I put gain this weight, once it (ENACTED, Jan. 29, 1924) the Gooding-Ketcham bill. We shall into disrepute, so it will tend to con- That is as much as the average farm- into the record yesterday. is lost, than it is to main- (b) State Income Tax in place of State's gen- now present the reply to that testi- trol in so far as it is possible to con- er sows, but put it that heavy, that SENATOR GOODING. Thank you. eral property levy. mony, made by Mr. J. W. Nicholson, trol in this country, the inter-coun- only means a difference in cost of do- I guess that concludes the hearings. tain it. Limiting the (c) Law forbidding any more tax exempt former seed expert for the Michigan try movement of seed in foreign mestic over imported seed, taking The Farm Bureau News in early feed at this time of the securities. State Farm Bureau, now with Safe- countries before it reaches our these extreme figures, of 70 cents issues will report the hearings in the (d) Equalization of assessment of farm and seed, Inc., of Chicago. shores. per acre. There are thousands of House Committees on the Gooding- year is quite frequently city property in accordance with tales farmers in this country who would Ketcham and Butler-Luce seed stain- an expensive proposition. values of same. MR. NICHOLSON: I am manager oi This seed is coming in in consider- Safeseed, Inc.. Chicago. I was for able quantities. Doctor Piters, in be glad to pay the insurance of 70 ing bills. Professor Darst's testi- (Farm Bureau Investigations brought cents per acre if they felt that by so mony, referred to several times in Many dairymen who equalization in Calhoun, Ingham, Wash* five years affiliated with the Interna- his bulletin which has be'en quoted tcnaw,' Monroe and Kalamazoo counties, tional Crop Improvement Associa- here before, on the first page, says doing they were sure of a successful this report, will probably be printed have had this experience saving farmer taxpayers $67,350 excess tion, first as secretary and then as that during the six years, 1919 to crop of legumes, such as alfalfa and in an early issue of the News. will say " a y e " to the taxes -annually.) president. The International Crop 1924, inclusive, more than 72,000,- red clover. TRANSPORTATION—Immediate application of Michigan Zone above statement made by Improvement Association is compos- 000 pounds of red clover seed were F a n n e r Doesn't Get It Rate decision to save farmer shippers in 69 counties $500,000 annually. ed of 15 State organizations, com- posed of the extension services, and permitted entry into the United States. SENATOR GOODING: think the farmer gets the advantage I do not ACT TO CUT DOWN County Agr'l Agent Karl K. Knaus to Menominee (EFFECTIVE Sept. 10, 1925) MARKETING— Extension of sound co-operative mar- keting program now well under way in as a rule acting as the leaders in those organizations, and the organi- zations themselves are composed of SENATOR GOODING: What were those years? MR. N1COLSON: The six years. very often of the cheaper seed, do you? MR. NICOLSOX. No. LIVE STOCK LOSSES county farmers. true. It is Michigan. the leading farmers of their respect- SENATOR GOODING. I don't IiEGISLATION— Passage of the Capper-French Truth-In- 1919 lo 1924, inclusive. Seventy-two The economical dairy feed ive states. million pounds, or an average of think that is general at all. Organize Loss Prevention for this time of the year and Fabric bill, completion and operation of the U. S. Muscle Shoals Nitrates plant I just received a wire from Mr. 9.000,000 pounds per year. At 10 MR. NICOLSOX. To a large ex- Ass'n of Shippers all other seasons is Michigan and manufacture of fertilizer; opposition Rather of Michigan, the presenr pounds per acre, which is more than tent, I do not think that the farmer Milkmafc,,., 24% protein, pub- to any form of sales tax or of consump- retary of the International Crop Im- the average seeding, that would be derives a direct benefit from it. A n d Carriers lic formula dairy feed. tion tax, retention of federal income tax. provement Association, in which he enough to sow 1,000,000 American SENATOR GOODING. Evidently, Milkmaker is composed of 13 zj says the International Crop Improve- acres of land per year, and it has from the statement made by Mr. Lansing, Feb. 27 — Livestock highest quality milk making ment Association, representing crop been definitely pro\en here that I he Darst here this morning about the breeders, shippers and railway ingredients, stated pound for individual farmer does not know that tests made in Iowa, the Iowa farm- agents, meeting at the Michigan pound on the feed tag. Milk- as domestic." Then he quoted from growers' organizations of 15, states, Gooding-Ketcham Bill some publicity results by Purdue strongly favors legislation to require In- used any of Hiat I»,(M>0,()(M» ers had no benefit. In fact, the farm- State Farm Bureau headquarters maker guarantees at least 1,500 lbs. of digestible nutri- marking by color of imported alfalfa pounds. ers never knew that they were usin^ Friday, organized an association to Seed Staining Hearing to the and red clover seed. For three years I would like to call attention to straight foreign seeds or mixed seeds. undertake a -^campaign to reduce ents. We believe it contains (Contii from Italy and Southern Europe is He did not know what he was pur- Michigan livestock losses in transit more digestible nutrients than I to Indiana condition the International Crop Improvement this, too. YesterdaylSenator McNary • any other 24% protein feed Whirl' chasing at all, and he could not get from farm to market. A l f r e d l> that Canadian seed, while an import- Association has each year passed res- asked Mr. Smith a direct question, the benefit of it. before the public today. Digest- is 0 . K. olutions requesting the coloring of "Is French seed as adapted as domet?- The organization will be known a c ible nutrients make milk. It imported seed. I could only; write in long " O f f e r e d \ > < |<.v«-t S < ( « r ' the Michigan Livestock Loss Pre- is possible for some feeds run- (Friend uihg-Ketcliam Ileplies to .Mr. Boyles hand, and 1 may not have just the MR. NICOLSOX. I should say for vention association. Its purposes ning around 8% less protein exact words, but I believe I have. Mr. the first time this year, Senator largely will be educational and will than Milkmaker and selling for bill are very favorable to Canadian Mr. Boyles in his statement \< a few dollars less per ton to Smith's reply was. '•Absolutely as Gooding, the wholesale grass-seed attempt in a broad way to show hui If seed from one country day staled that not over 10 per cent well adapted." The evidence submit- farmers and shippers how to reduce be worth but little more than dealers are trying, as a rule, to in- From all countries of the farmers of the country ted here clearly does not bear out half the value of Milkmaker lied by those in favor of this voice and sell imported seed as im- the mortality in livestock on its way from the standpoint of digest- I to avoid that statement. ilion. Xovv it is manifestly im- ported seed to their customers, but to stockyards. ible nutrients. the position of discrimination. Seeds The Alfalfa Situation in spite of that fact if you will check The program for the association possible for all of the farmer's to be Milkmaker is distributed by stained certain colors would Another thing: We have spent our up in country points at the present will be drafted by a committee con- or to be informed on this thing 260 co-op ass'ns. Try a ton Canadian, time talking largely about red clover. time, as I have done to a limited ex- sisting of J. H. O'Mealey of Hudson, is no argument. I right away, but I make this state- and watch the cows respond. -ment without any fear of contradic- Alfalfa is just as important. There i can not find where this clover secretary of the Michigan Livestock * * * is not quite as much alfalfa sown seed is being offered by the local exchange; E. J. Lecnhouts, agricul- tion that if this question with regard Disastrous Effects HI illustration of strous to staining of imported seed, as it is per year in this country as there is dealer to the farmers as French clo- tural agent of the Michigan Central Mich. Farm Bureau red clover, but it is a rapidly gaining ver seed. It is offered as clover seed, railroad; L. L. Shepard, freight 'd. Mr. Smith outlined in the Gooding bill were to and finally, as near as I can judge claim agent of the Ann Arbor rail- Supply Service industry, much to the advantage of mentioned the Australian law re- be submitted to a referendum farmer from my investigations, as you have road; Prof J. T. Homer, Michigan our dairy industry and all of our live rench quiring staining of African seed. vote of any five agricultural counties in any agricuilural states that are stock industry and soil improvement suggested, the - differential, when it State College, and H. W. Norton, Lansing, Mich. African V .VnCTT *2, 1020 MICHIGAN FARM BIT R E A t SEWS «n_i •_— - NCH GLOVER Walking Water Is the Bane was paid tc the counties and the bal- ance was placed in the State high- way fund. The cost of collecting the SONGS FEATURE TUSCOLA STARTS Branch County Paper Urges County Agent SEED IMPORTS 16 of Many a Farm Wife's Life weight tax was $521,534.00. Receipts from chauffeurs' and operators' li- CASS CO. FARM GREAT SERIES OF "We should ' in the . censes, duplicate licenses,, and trans- MILLION POUNDS Only Those W h o Carry Water of our wives and daughters and fers totalled $552,677.25. mothers, but just think of the quan- from used car dealers' licenses, titles Receipts BUREAU'S PARTY BUREAU MEETINGS ing township elections on t of the bo riating funds for the continual^ prop- Know How Much tities of water required to do the duplicate titles, and title transfers the coupty agricultural agent and ough at Toledo and Chicago Homes Use family washing, and the dishwashing and assignments amounted to $616,- 250 Farmers and Business Seventeen Rallies in 10 Days and boys and giiis club work," To Plant 601,637 and scrubbing and housecleauiug 858. Thus the total State receipts said the Union City Register-Weekly, and the washing of milk cans let from the above sources amo'unted to Men Have Splendid Businessmen Showing liV Mils EDITH M. WAGAR one oi' the leading newspapers of Acres alone the necessary baths and the $22,084,219.51. While the law mak- Session Active Interest Branch county, to In its Chairman, Farm Bureau Home ana cooking and washing of vegetables ers were glad to know how much Community AVork March 7» edition. "The record of the mports of French red clover seed together with the water for poultry money the State received jfrom these Cam, Marfh 9.---In order thai agricultural agent work warrant! I overheard a farm woman talking Dowagiac. Munh 5.—Two hun- the port of New York for sale to to her neighbor one day and was as well as the family. We are then sources, many of them felt that they v members and other tanners may continual! * > ekly should have similar information as to dred and fifty farmers and business erican farmers on March 6 reach- struck by one remark she made per- ready to admit that the estimate of men of this community attended a an opportunity to learn more said, observing that. "We have one where the money went. the total of more than 16 million haps in a joking way, perhaps half backbone needed ia conservative. of the richest agricultural sections If nothing better can be provided a It was fitting that the session banquet held here tonight at the abcoit the Farm Bureau movement in ihe state, which was for years be- nds Tor the season. That is to in earnest. pitcher pump and some pipe arrang- whicn had been characterized by con- Federated church under the aib, and study together their community seed which was shipped out of She said with a little laugh, "Our ed from the well or cistern to a cheap siderable controversy should have ^—^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^jLnd crafr problems, the Tuscola hind many sections of less value, but French ports of Havre and Bor- well has gone dry this winter, and sink in the kitchen will do wojiders devoted its closing hours to bitter of who were availing themselves of the thethDowagiacouaty Farmers Farm Co-operative Bureau and: Cseries,o u , U v ofF u17 r m local a u h a s arranged B u r emeetings a services of a county agent. to be held ux as French seed. really I'm glad of it in a way, for we towards helping out. I would recom- debates and none too pleasant feel- Association. This during the next lo days. matter is of vital interest to every he Farm Bureau News has been have to haul all of our water and it mend such an outfit to renters or ings among the members. During the banquet splendid en Preceding these special Farm Bu- ping track of the imports of seed is brought right into the kitchen." tenants if the w a t t r supply can be Operating under a call of the tertainment was furnished by the reau local meetings the Caro Board voter, whether they be farmers or I have thought of it from different not. The stability of business de- m France and Italy since last Oc reached and no provision had been House (which prevented any member Dowagiac High School orchestra, and angles. First—the need of an ade- made of water in the house, for it from leaving the legislative cham Mr. William Carey, noted local song of Commerce has invited the farm- pends on the success of the farmers, er. Almost no seed is being ship- quate water supply; second, about ers of the surrounding territory to and their success rests upon their from Italian ports. For quite a having it in the house. could be so planned that it would be ber) the administration made a last leader, kept enthusiasm at a high meet with them tonight. A program ability to profit by the most scien- ile shipments from French porta a part of the movable furnishings stand to secure pasage of Senator pitch. Old familiar songs were sung has been outlined which emphasizes tific methods available." How thankful many of us should from place to place. Brower's bill, appropriating $200,- and good success was experienced in e averaged about one million be that there is a chance for having gricultural interests of the com- Some Ways to Do It 000 for a women's prison to be con- trying out some new Farm Bureau munity. Stanley M. Powell, ass't.- inds per week. The last two weeks all the water we need, and we should] If something more permanent structed at Okemos. At one time in words to familiar tunes. sec'y of the Michigan State Farm Bu- California Bureau Has ever, the period from February be doubly thankful when it is good Following the banquet. President could be had I would ask Prof. Ro- the evening this bill mustered 48 af- through March 6, total imports pure water and suitable for cooking bey of M. S. C. to advise one of the firmative votes, lacking but three of J. C. Burgner of the Cass County reau, will be one of the speakers on Hog Marketing Ass'n this occasion. red clover from France were 1,- as well as for drinking purposes and best equipments for the least expen- the necessary 51. However, after an- Farm Bureau introduced Glenn True, general farm use. In buying a farm Mrs. Wagar, }fp. Powell Kp.'ak ,130 lbs. diture of money. I know of several other hour's jockeying and after sev- principal of the Dowagiac high During the five day beginning Mon- llakerstield, Cal., March 7. - H o g ith 16,000,000 lbs. of French red thaNshould be one of the big factor farms where the well is near the eral more members had been brought school, Who acted as toastmaster. day, March 15, 13 more of these local in deciding its worth. The old adage producers of six counties are inter- er seed in this country for sale house and a windmill or gas engine in by the sergeant-at-arms, so much Besides several numbers of special Farm Bureau rallies will be held in farmers for the 1926 season, we "We never miss the water till the pumps the water into a tank in the bitterness had been engendered be- vocal and instrumental music, the Tuscola county. Each of the'1'1 me' >t- ested in the sales activities of the e enough here to plant 1,600,000 well runs dry" is certainly a fair house and from this tank it is piped cause of the delay and some of the following program was given: Talks ings will be addressed both by Mr. California Farm Bureau Marketing Association. Sales are scheduled for s solid to French seed. See the warning too often unheeded. into the - barn or barnyard for the tactics employed, that on the final by Albert Nesman, Agricultural higan State College results with Nothing seems so discouraging as outside supply. This insures fresh vote the appropriation measure re- teacher of the Dowagiac high school; Powell and Mrs. Edith M. Wagar, a year in advance and a large calen- nch Clover seed on page 1 of this to know the supply is short, that one water always in the house tank. ceived but 41 affirmative votes. Dr. Loupee, President of the Dowagi- member of the Board of Directors of dar is issued showing the dates for c. The Middlewest continues to must go earsy on it for fear that there Another home has a small cistern Pass Grand Trunk Bill ac Chamber of Commerce, and H. 11. the State Farm Bureau and Chair- the different auctions, which, for a big share of French seed im- will be none at all. And with what in the garret which is fed from a larg^' , The first bill,to. becojne a law a s | Barnum, Cass county agricultural man of the Farm Bureau Home and each selling point, are usually held Community work for Michigan. Mrs. s, with reported shipments of the discontentment we go along day af- er cistern outside by use of a pres- the result of the recent session was agent. Dr. Loupee stressed the value Wagar is also a member of the Na- on the same day of the week. At imports t o t l t e following points: ter day when we know there are ani- sure pump and this water is piped in- the measure authorizing the Govern- of harmony and co-operation in in- tional Farm Bureau Home and Com- some points but one sale a month is: held, while at others two sales a do 209,580 lbs. mals under our care begging for a to the kitchen sink and even the or to enter into a contract with the creasing real estate values in any munity Work Committee. She is a month are arranged. ago IT.7,600 lbs. drink and we must drive them to the stove reservoir is filled by attaching Grand Trunk railroad, whereby the community and making life more very interesting and forceful speaker nearest source, sometimes in hot nier, Ind 94,500 lbs. weather when their thirst will be a small rubber hose to the sink fau- State will secure and construct a new worth living. He said, "We will all and has a real message for farm peo- oledo has received 3,358,820 lbs. again with them after they have re- cet. right-of-way for about eight and profit thereby and make possible bet- Greatness is the secular name for one-half miles between Birmingham ter homes, better schools and better ple, both men and women. Divinity; both mean simply what lies rench clover seed; Chicago 2.- turned over the hot, dusty path, or in If one is building a new house or To allow for i.3 meetings in five beyond us. ,550 lbs., or between them winter when we attempt the icy path remodeling an old one he may be and Royal Oak and turn it over to churches." days, the Tuseola County Farm Bu- h enough to sow 601,637 acres at a risk of injury to both man and able to afford to have (and I certain- the Grand Trunk with the. under- The principal address of the reau has arranged three evening to French clover. Even Den- beast, and again when one is requir- ly would do close figuring so that it standing that the railroad will repay ning was given by Stanley M. Pow meetings and two meetings each af- Col., took 42,000 lbs. of tnis last ed to haul the supply under adverse would be possible) a real pressure the State for the funds so expended ell, Ass't Sec'y of the Michigan State ternoon. Early each afternoon Mrs. March 26 the Farm Bureau News conditions. water system with the comforts of at the rate of $200,000 per year on Farm Bureau. Praising the splend- Wagar will address one meeting show the total volume of French clover seed received by various western points to date. The total have an abundant supply if we had ter. only made'the effort in time. It isn't room supplied with hot and cold wa- the principal with no interest charge. id banquet which had been arranger', I fear far too many of us could sink, laundry tubs and equipped bath The State will finance this proposi Mr. Powell declared, "Upon a better while Mr. Powell is speakig to the tion by taking money from the State understanding between the farmers other group. Then while each meet- Highway Sinking Fund. When the and business men depends the pres- ing is holding a short business ses- LIME rprising. Some land this Spring There are different ways of carry- railroad completes its payments to ent and the future of our civic life sion, the speakers will change places SILANTI FARM the most pleasant job I know to dig or drill for a well and sometimes it ing out the waste water; it all de- the State it will surrender its old and the very permanency of our and each will speak to the other is quite an expense, but don't you pends on how much can be expended. charter which has been in1 effect for great Republic. There can be no group. Use feel that this is offset when we con- I know of one place where a tile the past 92 years, and und^er which it question but what one of the great- The schedule of these meetings is UREAUASS'NIN sider the inconvenience, the time and drain came up to one corner of an has been paying.taxe^ Of 'brtly' rfbont est benefits which we can hope to labor saved and the comfort and add improvised washroom and a large $25,000 a year. Wrhen tnis charter get out of this inspiring banquet to- as follows: Mon., March 15, afternoon, Vassar FRANCE AGSTONE MEAL ANNUALMEETING ed returns from our stock? Why, '. tile was set up on end, connected is abrogated the Grand Trunk will night will be in bringing us farmers and Richville; evening, Fairgrove. heard of a farm that was so destitute with it and the dish water and waste come under the general railroad law and business men closer together and laundry water besides the slop pail in ton, Tue., March 16, afternbon. Milling- Fostoria; evening. Ellington. Lowest Cost for water that the man had to milk and will pay annually about $350,- Highest Efficient op's Business Ran Well the cow in order to prime the pump! all connection with the wash bench were 000 as taxes into the primary school helping us to get a better under- Wed., March 17. alteruoon. Cass emptied in this and carried away fund. The State will utilize the old standing of each others' problems Over Quarter of a And I've known of women who al- and in assisting us to become ac- City and Gagetown; evening, Caro. Liming Material Ever most had to strain the water they to a ditch running down by the gar- railroad in developing Jts wider quainted with each other under the Thurs., March 18, afternoon, May- washed their vegetables in so as to den. Another place had a simple Woodward project. ron and Unionville. Produced Million most favorable circumstances." have something to cook them in af- wooden trough extending into the Appropriation bills that finally Mr. Powell emphasized the Fri.. March 1'K afternoon, May- woodshed from which the refuse wa- ville and Kingston. psilanti, March 3—The members terward, when a few days' time and ter was carried some distance from passed during the special session in- thought that doing big things for Following these local rallies the Prices on Request a small sum of money would have 19 Ypsilanti Farm Bureau Asso- brought to earth any quantity of wa- the house. These are only make shift cluded Rep. Dexter's bill, providing one's community is possible through annual meeting of the Tuscola Coun- on celebrated the completion of ter. methods but they serve a purpose of $750,000 for a new main building organization. He outlined the pres- ty Farm Bureau will be held. THE FRANCE STONE CO. ry successful year in the history saving Mother. Again if one has and library at the Mt. Pleasant Nor- ent program of the Farm Bureau I do sympathize with those who any possible means whereby they mal to replace structures recently movement and showed it to be one 1,800 2nd Nat. Bank Bldg. eir organization with a big din- have done all possible and then the Hypocrisy is the homage that false- and afternoon program held here result has been water of a quality could do so, I'd advise a septic tank destroyed by fire,*and Senator Bohn's which the business men should not hood pays to truth. Toledo, Ohio bill appropriating an additional oppose,- but rather should actively y at the Methodist eliurch and that could not be enjoyed. I would being built after the directions put $500,000 for a continuation of the support. Virtue consists in not desiring vice, ded by about 200 people. out by Prof. Robey. not in abstaining from it. almost encourage one to sell out and. esident George McCalla acted as try to acquire a home in some other When one considers the real com- construction of the new State prison Farm Bureau members all over fort and the elimination of walking at Jackson. The regular. session of the state may be interested in the master and presided over the locality in hopes of something better. water and ties them up with the ac- the Legislature provided $1,000,000 new versions of some of the old wing program: Purify Our Streams for this project, but the Governor songs which were introduced at this This "brings • to us the duty we tual expense of installing, one at informed the Legislature that con- banquet. "Pack Up Your Troubles" vocation—Rev. Dunning Idle, ington. adjng—Miss Helen McCalla. once feels that these things are tation that our state is bringing far cheaper than funeral bills or long soon be exhausted and additional drawn out suffering with the only et—John Graves and Mrs. Garth might put upon ourselves in assisting cheap necessities. Anyway, they are struction had progressed so rapidly was sung as follows: this present agitation for stream sani- inevi- that the funds appropriated would up your troubles in your old tin Ford. ORDER YOUR BINDER TWINE lo—Mrs. Garth Beckington. about. We can demand that no more money should be made available for We've And smile, smile, smile: NOW* Minute Talks— objectionable factory refuse be put table operation so frequent these continuing the work. Smile, got a chance to be of one accord, folks, that's the style: into our streams, neither do we want days. And none of us want to feel What's the use of worrying;? H. Osgood, agricultural teach- that we have contributed to the hur- The Senate disapproved of the pro- It never was worth whil. er, Ypsilanti high school. the sewage of cities, villages or even rural sections to be disposed of in ried aging' of Mother nor the dis- posal of the House to set up three Now that the Farm Bureau is on <; We'll smilf, smile, smile. Milton Hoover, agricultural commissions to investigate and re- teacher, Ypsilanti Normal, that way. We can all give more at- couragement of wife of daughter* port regarding various phases of the The following words were sung to in Eckley, secretary of the Yp- tention to our own waste matter and criminal situation in Michigan. Fi- the tune of "There's a Long, Long silanti Chamber of Commerce, encourage septic tank making and a bill was passed establishing Trail A-Winding:" The demand for Michigan State Industries binder niel Quirk, president of the proper barnyard drainage so that our Atwood Bill Dies As nally one commission to do the work which We've been a long, long time arriving twine, made at Jackson, is always heavy. Some- First National Bank of Ypsilan- own household supply i« as pure as can be had at our place. The Legislature Closes the House proposed should be divid- When At the d;t.\vu of this now day. the fanners would eo-operat". ti. (Continued from page D ed among three commissions. And united,have their say. times the supply becomes limited. Therefore, w e 'ss Jennie Buell, for many years Then there is the great advantage on past-due awards during 1926 When the Legislature had made There's been a long, long night of wailiny secretary of the Michigan State we farm folks have that we do not from $2,000,000 to $1,000,000. Com- substantial progress on the four 'Till the day .when we Would stand alone Until our hopes would conn- true, suggest that you see your co-operative ass'n manager Grange. often find in any city—a chance to mendable features of this measure propositions included in the Gover- And figlit our battle thru. dress—Stanley M. Powell, ass't have real soft water. And here is are those which recognise the claims nor's original message, he submit- Then the banqueters showed their at once and order your 1925 needs. of the Michigan State Farm Bu- another blessing we take as a matter of the townships as well as of the ted a supplementary message, allow- attitude toward the Farm Bureau by The Michigan Farm Bureau Supply Service handles of course, but something we immedi- counties and set specific dates for ing a score or more of additional singing to the tune of "Keep the siness session, reports and elec- ately bemoan if suddenly deprived of the payments to the counties and measures to be considered. Most of Home Fires Burning" the following Jackson twin because it is the best. It is one of the of directors. it. But how many times we iind a townships. The K:'rby bill passed these propositions were technical in lines: believe in co-operative market- lack of it entirely. Eavetroughs do the House, 67 to 30, and the Senate, their nature, and either were amend- Keep the Farm Bureau growing. few standard Yucatan Sisal twines containing long and purchasing," declared Mr. cost some money and it takes some 23 to 5. Its opposition was caused, ments to rectify errors in existing As the truth we're learning: ell, "because I believe in a square money and time to construct a cis- not so much by any of its provisions, statutes or were of interest chiefly to Praise the Bureau day by day, fibre. We march along. and equality of economic oppor- tern just as it takes both to build as by the fact that many of the mem- the big cities. Keep the Farm Bureau working, And new members winning, W e are offering Jackson twine in y for the farmer so that he and houses or make anything else of like- bers felt that they had not been giv- From the darkness to the light family may take their proper nature, but it means real comfort to en satisfactory information as to how two sizes—the old five pound ball and funds About 12,000 Co-ops. Of a brighter day. in the world, unshackled by ig- have soft water to use. the $22,000,000 of highway Ten thousand, eight hundred and nce and unhampered by poverty. Now after the water isN procured raised by the weight tax and gas tax the new 8 pound ball, illustrated here. during 1925 was expended. three farmers' business organiza- Van Buren Locates 280 perative marketing shortens the then the next step is to make it as tions of all kinds,, type* - a«d iizes. The 8 pound ball fits and works nicely handy as possible with the means Rep. McLain Speaks Plainly "Farm Radio Receivers nee between the producer and available. Leading the faction which object- were listed with the United States in any can that holds a 5 pound ball. consumer, lessens the costs of Walking Water ed to passing any important highway Department of Agriculture at th? County Agent Wm. F. Johnson of New 8 lb. ball handising, eliminates waste, al- I know every farm woman dreams finance legislation until full informa- close of 192f). This lacks but forty- the farmer to receive a larger of the water supply of her city tion was available, was Rep. R. W. five of being double the number list- Van Buren county has located 280 W e recommend it. e of the consumer's dollar and friends,—where there seems to be no McLain of Quincy, who made several ed in 1915 when the first nation- radio receiving sets among farmers potent educational institution limit to it and it is in any part of very forceful speeches on the floor wide survey of co-operative associa- in that county and has so advised Michigan Farm Bureau Supply Service raining producers to understand the house desired and all one has to of the House. In one address he tions was made. Many active ass'ns State College station WKAR. Such do is to turn a faucet and watch it spoke in such plain terms that the failed to report. The total for the information is good material for any Lansing, Michigan et desires and requirements. run and then pull a plug and watch House by a vote of 67 to 2 8 ordered country is believed to be not less County Farm Bureau to have on owever, it must be remembered than 12,000 farmers' business a hand. there is no magic about co-oper- it disappear, many times knowing that his remarks be stricken from «W»!^» marketing; it is just a way of nothing of where or how it comes or the records. Rep. McLain declared g^ business, and established busi- where or how it goes" "that if "the State Highway Depart- priiicipl.es must be applied _to The majority of farm folks can- ment could not furnish the desired management of a co-operative not as yet have these home conveni- information in a reasonable period it ure if it is to succeed. Proper ences of their city cousins, but many was an acknowledgment of inefficien- cing, dependable volume of could have something better than cy. Rep. McLain asked. "If it is a ess and the loyalty of the mem- they now have. We hear much about physical impossibility to furnish us running water these days but we such a statement, then It is fair to are essential." r. Powell traced the development should spend some time thinking there is a shortage or an emergency o-operative organizations and about walking water. ask how does the Governor know Our orders for Farm Bureau Brand Clover and Uncle Sam reports that out of ev- calling for money; how does he ed the services which the Farm au is rendering to the co-opera- ery the 100 farm homes 90 of them have know there is not a surplus hidden latter kind. That is, the house- beneath this jumble of ignorance Alfalfa seeds are m u c h heavier for this time of the movement. carries her water from some that would wipe out our deficit and ie report of the Ypsilanti Farm au Ass'n for the past year's wife place times outside into the house. Some- assure a program of .super-highways the well is near the door but such as we have not dreamed of?" year than ever before. See your co-op now. less showed sales totaling $2S2,- handled at a gross gain of often the water is lugged up a hill or Secretary of State. Charles J. De- from the barn or across the road or Laud, shed some light on the situa- 737.09. Important commodities from a neighbor. tion in a communication to the Leg- led include wheat, coal, feed. Some Comparisons islature in which he reported on the Hzer and fence. The present One State has figured that their receipts and expenditures of highway lus of the Association is $2,620.- funds passing through his office. His MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU SEED SERVICE ! w directors elected were: Jay average farm woman walks across figures snowed that the receipts from Lansing, Michigan >P. Jennings Campbell. Clyde the state and back again every year with her water pail; another state re- the gas tax during the 11 months ling and Ennis Twist. Directors which it was in force during 1025 Bct^d to succeed themselves- ports that their average farm woman amounted to $7,558,217.80 attt-i Ed. Simmonds and E. D. Fos- uses up in a year about the same paying the refunds. The cost of col- strength in water carrying that a lecting the gas tax was $41,317.02. chtgan County Farm Bureau?. team of horses would exert in plow- The total weight tax receipts were Setting interested in social pro- ing eight acres of ground. Now these $13,356,466.46 of which $6,000,000 is. are hard comparisons when we think m romi MIOfitGAN PARM nVMRAV NBW0 ***** *JJ ing there be no lessening of support sing and H. R. Smith of Chicago other Michigan counties. & re m EASTERN FARMERS and appropriation to continue the present system of federal and state WAYNE MEMBERS GRANGE SUPPERS AHillsdale Milk Producers' Ass'n Dairymen Start s p o k e on" the various benefits of interested. bovine tuberculosis eradication. Mr. meeting the dairymen were t At t he organizau, WATCH CONGRESS highway work. Seventy-five millions of dollars were asked, and granted, SEE STATE OFFICE AT STATE COLLEGE Hillsdale, March Smith also explained'the milk market luncheon guests of the HillS(|a 10.—Hillsdale situation in Chicago, in which the County Purebred Uve Stock Bree for this work with an additional county dairy farmers have organized Hillsdale folks, with dairymen in ers' Ass'n. AND STAINING BILL seven-and-one-half millions of dol- lars for forest roads and trails. It Groups From Other Counties National Master Taber at a Hillsdale County Milk Producers' Ass'n, with James Post of North is gratifying to discover that all Plan Similar Trips First O n e ; to be Held Adams as president; Manley Brown CERTIFIED SEED P O T A T O E S New York Believes Gooding- groups have come to approve the sys- of Hillsdale as sec'y-treasurer. The not only in .\|j,- tem of farm-to-market highways To Lansing Monthly organization voted that Pres. Post Ketcham Measure O n e which the American Farm Bureau should name a sales committee of of First Importance was first to support in opposition to Wayne County Farm Bureau mem- The Michigan State Grange suc- three to act with the officers in find- the Townsend bill, in 1921, which bers believe in learning the first- cessfully inaugurated a new and very ing ways and means to distribute the Ithaca, X. V., March L0.— Farmers sought to set up the plan of spending hand facts regarding their State or- worth-while policy when Grangers county's milk, This committee is J. in this state are watching with keen all the federal funds on transcon- ganization. Saturday, March 6, a from many central Michigan counties- M. Williams of North Adams, F. H. interest the devious passage through tinental routes for military and delegation of 2 2 Wayne county farm were brought together at the Michi- Carter, Hillsdale and F. E. Haynes, committees of both houses of Con- pcenic purposes. people inspected the headquarters of gan State College, Saturday evening, Osseo. The committee is investigat- gress of the Gooding-Ketcham bill, the State Farm Bureau at Lansing, March 6, and had supper together TREES from Kalamazoo The Inland ttiver Development ing the possibility of obtaining a bet- spending several hours going through and spent an evening devoted to vari- providing for the staining of all for- Seeks to complete the system of the various departments and observ- ous phases of Grange work. ter price for milk. DIRECT to you—at reduced prices eign clover and alfalfa seed. Accord- connected inland water transporta- The organization meeting was held \lso Bhrubs, berries, and roses. Beautiful 1926 catalogue sent free upon ing to E. V. I'nderwood, secretary tion within a definite number of ing the services which are being ren- After the Grangers had eaten to- February 22. Dr. Ernest of Washing- request Full of big bargains and tells about stork to be given away. E v . of the New York State Farm Bureau years instead of allowing that work dered. gether in the cafeteria of the Union ton, D. C , and Dr. T. S. Rich of Lan- erybody should plant this Bprfng. It Is a patriotic as well as a profitable Federation, this bill is probably the to continue indefinitely with patch- Monday, March S, six more Wayne Building, State Lecturer Mrs. Dora fluty Therefor.-, vou cannot afford to be without this catalogue. It will most important now before Con- work done in disconnected stretches County Farm Bureau members spent Stockman called the roll Of counties cut'your tree bill In two. Ask for it today—NOW—right away. gress as far as New York State farm- of the rivers. the entire day at their State head- to see who was there. Then she in- CELERY CITY NURSERIES, quarters. They studied each depart- troduced Dr. Kenyon L. Butterfield, LEADING VARIETIES era are concerned, for its passage The Capper Hoard of Trade Bill Michigan State accredited purebred G r o w e r s of Good T r e e s f o r M a n y Y e a r s , means protection from bad crop loss ment and saw just how the various President of the Michigan State Col- chicks, pullets. Circular free. Liberal Box 211, K A L A M A Z O O , M I C H I G A N (S. 25)03) kinds of Farm Bureau business are lege, who welcomed the Grangers to discount on early orders. Member of the es through unadapted seed. Extends the authority of the fed- handled. The men comprising this the College. Short talks were also 1. B. C. A. FAIRVIEW HATCHERY & The Gooding-Ketcham bill has the eral government for purposes of reg- FARMS, R. 2, Dept. W., Zeeland, Mich. second delegation were: J. L. Roun- given by Mr. A. B. Cook, Master of support of the two strongest farmer ulation over markets other than the sifer, Waltz; E. T. McGlothlin, Belle- the Michigan State Grange and by L. U P E R I O R BRED CHICKS organizations*, the American Farm "contract markets" heretofore sub- Superior Chicks pave $5.00 worth of e g g s p e r ben per ville; L. Clemens. Plymouth; Fred C. J. Taber, Master of the National Bureau Federation and the National ject to such regulation. Hearings on Grange. Arrayed against it is the this measure have not been an- American Seed Trade This association Association. nounced but will be held soon. is supporting a The Watson-Parker Baihvay Miller, Willis; and Henry Wallace, Grange. Belleville. They were accompanied The meeting was closed by another by Raph Carr, Wayne County Agr'l address by National Master Taber. You pay once only for any Concrete Farm Improvement v e a r to Prof. Holden of Whitehall, Michigan. are ready to do the s a m e for you, b e c a u s e they are bred f o r ' h i g h e g g production. breeding plants and hatcheries In Michigan. breeder passed by Michigan State College inspectors. One of m o s t I "" , l , ' , '» They Every *i* *m agent. who gave a stirring appeal, challeng- AVE ARE MICHIGAN STATE ACCREDITED counter measure, the Butler-Luce Arbitration Bill (S. 2300) One of the strictest plans of accreditation in the Bill The Michigan State Farm Bureau ing the members to devote them- i States Our big free catalog describes our breeding methods where woi Permits railway operators and em- According to the provisions of the ployees to settle their wage and rate extends a cordial invitation to al! selves with greater earnestness to Gooding-Ketcham bill, all alfalfa and disputes without a representative of members to visit their State head- the work of their organization to the If Your Farm famous blood'lines are blended. Also service equal to a n y and better than order. It costs nothing. It Nvill help about the Organization many. Write and g e t you make money. perfected to give V( it before plaeing y 0l red clover seed imported into this the public sitting in on the agree- quarters. Arrangements are already end that the conditions of farm life country or any mixtures containing ments. It is feared the results of completed for delegations from sev- might be made more satisfactory. It Could Talk- SUPERIOR FARMS. INC. Box 361 Z E E L A N D , MICI t«n per cent or more of such seed this procedure will be to compel the eral other County Farm Bureaus to has been decided to make these shall be stained a color to indicate public to foot the bill of paying the make the trip to Lansing and spend Grange suppers at the College a reg- one or preferably two days in obtain- ular practice. Th'ey will be held on It Would Say: the country of its origin. Seed known to be unadapted would be stained increased wage scales which will be ing direct personal knowledge re- the first Saturday of each month at set up, and reflected in advanced garding their State organization. about 7:00 p. m. in the Union Build- Take concrete into part- crum/Xitve ! % » & £ red. Other colors will be used to in- dicate other degrees of adaptability. freight and passenger rates. The ing, and Grangers within driving dis- nership. U s e i t t o mod- MICHIGAN STATE ACCREDITED CHICKS 10c AM) l This bill has the backing of the De- Farm Bureau and Grange oppose Berrien Board Visits tance are invited and urged to attend. ernize old buildings. U s e Tancred, Barron and Hollywood Strains of S. C. W h i t e Leghori from 260-290 e g g foundation stock. Anc oiias. Sheppard's .stnv partment of Agriculture. elimination of the public's representa- it to construct new build- direct. Extra selected Dark Brown Leghorn and Barred Rocks. A tive and an effort is being made to The Chicago Department of Health ings. U s e it to increase flocks milk fed. Every breeder passed by inspectors under supei The Butler-Luce bill suggested by have this measure so amended as to Members of the Berrien County vision of Michigan State College. a section of the seed trade provides protect the public. Farm Bureau Board of Directors vis- has ruled that all dressed hogs, t h e value of your farm, GET OUR NEW CATALOGUE—IT'S FREE for the appointment of a board to ited State Farm Bureau headquar- sheep, lambs, calves and cattle ship- increase production, cut All chicks Newton hatched. W h e n you order T o w n Line chicks you get t ters Wednesday and Thursday of this ped to that city for sale must be ac- The McKinley-Adkins Debenture a d v a n t a g e of a "Personal Service" few hatcheries can duplicate. 6o Acre Far recommend that imported seed be r e p a i r bills, save labor devoted to breeding a n d producing quality stock. Our Free Catalog describes oi dyed "Whenever said board shall de- Bill (S. 12289; H. K. 7392) week, inspecting all departments and companied by the viscera (intestines, and to make the business e g g contest records and show winnings. Write for it today. termine that it is for the best inter- Provides for issuance of deben- services and thoroughly familiariz- stomach, heart, lungs, etc.) This reg- of farming yield greater J. H. GEERMNGS, OWNER, R. P . D. 3, BOX N, ZEELAND, MICH.' ests of American agriculture." The tures against the Treasury Depart- ing themselves with the work of the ulation became effective March 1. satisfaction. Member, Michigan State Farm Bureau Butler-Luce bill, Mr. Underwood ment to exporters of certain farm State organization. Crib or granary walls, floors, points out, would get the matter so crops. This bill is attracting consid- and foundations of concrete, ef- entangled in red tape that the farm- erable attention; no doubt it will er would have no protection. have its day in court when hearings are opened by the House Agriculture CASS CO. MILK ON t i BUSINESS NEWS ( N e w B a t e s , E f f e c t i v e M a r c h 12) fectively keep out rats. You can't sell rats. W h y feed them ? Baby Chicks Need Special Farm Bills Struggle Committee on the farm relief meas- ures. CHICAGO MARKET F i v e cents a w o r d f o r one inser- t i o n ; 4'/2 cents p e r w o r d f o r e a c h of t w o i n s e r t i o n s ; 4 c e n t s a w o r d per i n s e r t i o n for each of t h r e e inser- More milk and more beef per acre result from concrete silos. Concrete w a l k s mean less Food a n d C a r e Fluffy chicks are only babies. Their stomachs and digestive In Congressional Sea The CurtiH-Aswcll Bill (S. 2 9 0 ; ! t i o n s , a n d at t h e 4 c e n t r a t e f o r succeeding insertions. C o u n t each work for your wife. They keep mud and dirt out of the house. tracts are just as delicate as those of human babies. They need (Continued from patre 1) H. R. 6974) | word, abbreviation and figure, i n - specially prepared feeds that will fill them with vigor, make them The Robinson-Oldfield bill for fi- Speedy Clean-up Planned to i eluding words in s i g n a t u r e as C l e a n dairy barns mean The Spwiul Market News Service I words. Cash must accompany healthy, contented cows, a great- big and thrifty and keep them in good health. These feeds will Bill ( H . It. 5 0 7 7 ) nancing exports; the Strong bill Seize Chance Made by i order. Michigan Farm Bureau er quantity and a better quality raise chicks successfully: For grain, hay, feed and seeds, (H. R. 7908); and many others will Ordinance N e w s . of milk—hence increased dairy Michigan Chick Starter with Buttermilk amounting to $38,500. find their supporters and opponents profits. Concrete in the barn is Michigan Growing Mash With Buttermilk The Perkins* Standard Container* lined up offering testimony within POULTRY easy to clean and keep clean. Mielugan Chick Scratch Feed Bill (H. R. 5077) the next ten days. Cassopolis, Mar. 11.—The recent Concrete gives fire protection. Michigan Intermediate Scratch Feed passage of an ordinance by the city BARRED ROCK COCKKRELS OP It protects people in houses, cat- Fixes cubic content standards for The Merritt Misbranding Bill quality, size and best breeding, $3, $4, YOU CAN BREED FOR EGGS, BUT YOU MUST FEED THEM OUT hampers, round stave baskets, and (H. It. 3904) of Chicago prohibiting the sale of and ?5 each. Farm raised and vigorous. tle in barns, and feed in silos. It Michigan Farm Bureau Public Formula Poultry feeds boost egg is firesafe. splint baskets. This is practically This may prove to be a fake truth- milk in that city other than that H. E . Powell & Son, l o n l a , Mich. l-8-25tf production and keep it up because they give the hen what'B in the the old VeBtal bill. Every indication in-fabric bill and have to be dis- which comes from state and federal WHITTAKKIVS R O S E A N D S I N G L E Send today for OUT fret booklet'. egg. You cau depend ou these feeds for a good crop of eggs in all accredited areas, may result in the Comb Rhod • Island Reds. Michigan's "Permanent RepairsontheYarm" and seasons: points to early hearings before the placed by the Capper measure above G r e a t e s t Co:»r and E g g Strain. State "Plans for Concrete Farm Buildings" tuberculin testing of Cass county cat- Accredited, Blood T e s t e d . Trapnested. Michigan Egg Mash with Buttermilk House Committee on Coinage, referred to on the same subject. This Weights and Measures. tle much sooner than has been an- Chicks and E g g s . Catalog free. Inter- bill has been referred to the House ticipated, says the Cass County lakes Farm, Box B. Lawrence, Mich. PORTLAND CEMENT Michigan Egg Mash Without Buttermilk The Muscle Shoals Resolution Committee on Interstate and Foreign Farm Bureau. Obviously, the tapping .'-12-30-tfb ASSOCIATION Service Scratch Feed (H. Con. Res. 4 ) Commerce and reported out favor- of this county for a part of Chicago's CHOICE MAMMOTH BRONZE TOMS D i m e Bank Building "Michigan Poultry Feeds Make Chicks Grow and Hens Lay" Sets Up a joint congressional com- ably. DETROIT, MICH. milk supply would be a tremendous tor sale. .Mrs. H. I >. Horton, Fllion, Mich. A National Organization MICH. FARM BUR. SUPPLY SERVICE mittee to which tenders may be pre- The X orris, R«nsdell, Smith, jStC. boost for the county's dairy industry Mich. to Improve and Extend the aented for the private operation of Hills providing for governmental as well as other lines of agriculture. CHOICE. I ' V R E B B E D B A R R E D ROCK cockerels, large type birds, nicely barred. Uses of Concrete Lansing, Michigan the project, the committee to select operation of Muscle Shoals. Hearings W r i t e f o r o u r f r e e b o o k l e t , " T h e P r o p e r F e e d i n g of P o u l t r y . " the best proposal and report it to the are dragging along on these mea- The New York Central railroad $4 Mich. each. IX L. M c A v o y , Laingsburg. O-ie-.'C OFFICES IN 30 CITIES Congress for approval or rejection. sures to the detriment of other more has sensed the importance of the The committee is instructed to select important bills in the Senate Com- situation, and is already considering SALESMEN WANTED a proposal as good or better than mittee on Agricuture of which Sena- the putting on of milk trains that I P YOU A R E A FARM B U R E A U M E M - will go as far north as Grand Rap- ber a n d k n o w h o w t o m e e t a n d talk to H, R. 518 of the Sixty-eighth Con- tor Norris is chairman. No time is ^ • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • J » i » « > » i ? i i ' w i i i i i i i « i i i i i i i i t i i i i w i i i » » i i i B i i t i t > w i i i » i » t » i i i i i » i i i > i t i i i i » » » i t i » w " i M t i M t i i » » g t i i i i M i i t > i w w i y r » "avtfiw ids, and as far east as Adrian. In farmers, you can m a k e $5.00 or more gress, which was the Ford tender. wasted, in attendance at these hear- modern milk-cars, raw milk is now per d a y . Write t o d a y for m y proposi- This resolution has passed the House, ings as with the present personnel of safely transported up to 400 miles tion and state previous selling experi- Play Safe The Patented ence. E. S. Cumings, Lock B o x 128, O t - has been reported out of the Senate the committee, and judging by its de- in the New York district. ter L a k e , Mich. 3-12-26 Committee on Agriculture, and will cisive vote recently on the Muscle be voted on in the Senate this week. Shoals legislation, there is no likeli- Desiring to give the southwestern PLANTS AND NURSERY STOCK Double-Trussed Michigan counties a chance to im- The Appropriation for Highway hood of any government operation prove this opportunity, those in Giant, ASPARAGUS, NEW WASHINGTON Cover Construction bill being reported favorably. Raspberry, N e w Victory Red and charge of tuberculosis eradication others, also standard v a r i e t i e s of s t r a w - o n " B i g B a l l " T w i n e is Nine great national organizations offered testimony before t h e House Committee on Roads recently insist- The Capper-Dickinson Bill (S. 1908; H. R. 0377) for the State are planning to put on berries. T h e high q u a l i t y 0 f our p l a n t s the tests in this section at the first has Raises the amount of loans pos- possible moment. sible under the Farm Loan Act. This Testing started in Cass county, 9C-0I-F greatly increased t h e demand. for c a t a l o g of profitable garden luxuries. C. D . Thayer Co., Three Rivers, Michigan. Write on Twine! an exclusive Interna- tional Harvester T w i n e feature! Poultry Shippers For r e m i t * and service send your futura Poultry to ahlpmanta of Llva FARM B U R E A U P O U L T R Y E X C H bill has not been scheduled for hear- March 1, under direction of Dr. Don S T R A W B E R R Y , ing in either the House or Senate Coburn. The T. B. test is also under Blackberry, and Grape Plants, Garden committees. And Others of Minor Character At this time the main activities of ties. Roots, Fruit Trees, Ornamental Shrubs, way in Berrien and Van Buren coun Roses, and Bulbs. Complete line a n d R A S P B E R R Y , large stock a t v e r y reasonable prices. All stock guaranteed. 37 years* experience. Send for free color illustrated catalog. If T H I S Y E A R as A L W A Y S , the careful m a n will put his faith i n M c C o r m i c k , Deering or twine. In the past h e h a s benefited to the full by this wise policy. H e has the most practical reasons for playing International W10 RlojJslla » t . , Detroit, Mich. our Washington office are devoted to vou wish, enclose $1 a n d w e will send you safe with t h e old reliable twine. T h e m a n w h o relies on the surplus question and the various bills seeking to solve that problem, MICH. ELEV. EXCH. 50 L A R G E Gladioli Bulbs in Mixed Colors. Rokely & Son Nursery, Box 25, B r i d g - man, Mich. 4-9-26 McCormick, Deering, or International is absolutely sure of Q U A L I T Y . A n y saving he might possibly make in buy- to the Gooding-Ketcham Seed hill, to agricultural appropriations of vari- ous kinds, and to the Watson-Park- MARKETS REPORT CUMBERLAND BLACK RASPBERRY Plants. Large, well rooted, from a field free from disease, direct to y o u from ing cheaper twines could easily be lost m a n y times over in uncertain deliveries, faulty binding, grain wastage, and It is impossible for the Original Repeat er Railway Arbitration bill, in about the order named. Lansing, March 11.—The Michi- the grower. Place your order now, drive over for the plants w h e n y o u are ready t o gan Elevator Exchange makes the set. Vern Moore, R - l , Hartford, 4-9-26 Mich. loss of time in the critical harvest days. H e avoids risk and anxiety by buying twine that is guaranteed for "Biff Ball" to flutter! or bulge. The PATENTED COVER holds the ball in perfect ftliape. All Har- vester Twine reaches the binder following report on the markets: in just as good shape as when it Business Farm Bureau, Grange WHEAT—After 2 i/2 months of blooms W A Y S I D E S E L L I N G O F GLADIOLUS h a s proven very profitable. dull markets, we think a turn for the us g i v e vou a start. W e offer 100 A s s o r t - Let length, strength, and weight. leaves the mills. International H a r v e s t e r twines have got to be good. Satisfied customers mean re- Guard Public's Right better is due, and we are looking for edvarieties Gladiolus Bulbs c o n t a i n i n g m a n y b e s t grown, including Kunderd's, T h e Harvester Company is the only company making peat business, and that makes (Continued from page 1) a ten to fifteen cents per bushel ad- from our overstocked private gardens for businesses grow. Railroad Labor Board, all right, but vance in wheat during the next two $2.00, prepaid. Super Gladiolus Gardens, both binders and twine. Poor twine would reflect on The Michigan Live Stock why abolish also the only effective months. Buchanan, Mich. 4-9-26 binder performance. All the reputation of McCormick- Exchange a t annual meeting at protection the public has against CORN—No hope for materially SEEDS Lansing, F e b . 19, reported that agreements that can lift the cost of higher prices for corn this year. Deering machines is linked with the sterling reputation of during t h e past year its sales transportation indefinitely? Why not OATS—Government figures show- GROWERS. Growers F A I R G R O V E ASSOCIATED SEED of Certified a n d the twine. Fifty-four lines of farm machines are tied u p agencies a t Detroit and Buf- put the power to supervise these ed 570,000,000 bushels of oats on Registered Seeds. W o r t h y Oats. W i s c o n - with the quality of the old, reliable twines. T h a t is the falo had sold $16,000,000 agreements in Borne other public farms March 1. Plenty to take care W sin Pedigree Barley. American Banner heat, worth of cattle, sheep and hogs body? Dissatisfaction with the Rail- of any demand until the new crop. proved Robust Beans. Inspected and c e r - Piokett Yellow Dent Corn. I m - best twine insurance. for Michigan farmers. road Labor Board is no reason for We cannot hope for more than a Association. tified b y the Michigan Crop Improvement Grown in T u s c o l a County T h e n there is the S E R V I C E which is always avail- The Detroit and Buffalo co- telling the carriers and their em- couple of cents advance over pres- •'The Heart of the T h u m b . " F o r infor- ops have been doing big busi- ployes to write any contract they ent prices. mation write W. R. Kirk, Secretary, able through 12,000 dealers. Prompt shipment and liberal ness like that for Michigan please. BEANS—Nothing yet to make any Fairgrove, Mich. « 4-9-26 supply of McCormick, Deering, and International protect shippers since 1922, and every "Speaking specifically, farmers advance in the bean market for the FOR S A L E - M A N C H U S O Y B E A N S . R. the grain grower w h e r e v e r he is. Harvester quality and year the business gets bigger. and the public must have a reduction next 30 days. Many beans are going Muttersbaugh, Coldwater, Mich. More shippers take advantage of present freight rates. If they musty in farmers' bins. Watch your R E G I S T E R E D A N D C E R T I F I E D S E E D economy a r e effected by quantity production and the back- of it. should be increased for any cause it beans at home because musty beans Cap yellow dent and Duncan's yellow corn and oats. Clement's Improved White ing of the McCormick-Deering organization. Don't gamble We are here to get for vr.u would be inexcusable. But there is bring little better than feed prices. dent seed corn. Fire dried, on racks, ear with the comparatively small expenditure needed for twine. tested and Ktutranteed germination. M y Two "Big Balls" of Harvester the most your stock will bring. no hope of any reduction if Congress white w a s selected from a field It does not pay. Play safe with McCormick, Deering, or Twine fit any twine can. They When you ship to us, you know abandons all control of wage awards your own men are carrying and agreements and permits t h e rail- your stock direct to the pack- roads and their employes to write Detroit Poultry that made 100.2 bu. Of shelled corn t o the Worthy oats. adv. Registered and Certified A stiff s t r a w and a high International. are made that w a y and the PATENTED COVER hold:, them in shape. No timelost in the fields due to misshapen balls, collaps- er, and you get what the pack- their own terms. er pays, less the regular com- "The public has protection now in Market Fielding variety. ment Association. ton. Mich. All seeds grown u n d e r inspection of the Michigan Crop Improve- 1'aul C. Clement, B u t - 3-2«-2* INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY <:/»«: c- *#• i • A of America Chicago, 111. ing, snarling, or tangling. The PATENTED COVER is a real pro- tection and a valuable feature. .\s given by Mieh. F a n u Bureau 606 S o . Mielugan A v e . j Incorporakti) mission. a remedy that prevents a new burden Poultry Excjh., 2010 lliopellc street, C E R T I F I E D W I S C O N S I N P E D I G R E E Once a year our savings on being put upon it. Why take the B a i l e y , Improved R o b u s t Beans. Fritz the regular commissions paid protection away? We insist you re- March 11. 1986: Broilers, 1%»2 lbs. Barred Etdclt— 57-58 Mantey, Fairgrove, Mich. in are distributed to member tain the safeguard we now have. If Broilers, l%-2 lbs. mixed c o l o r s . . us and shippers as patron- you take it away from the Railroad T?roil«rs, Leghorn C E R T I F I E D W O R T H Y OATS. W I N - No demand ners a t Aurora. 111.. Detroit, Grand R a p - 4-8-26 McCormick Deering age dividends. Make your next Pullets, spring, small, 2%-8 lbs Labor Board through abolishment of Roasters, large shipment that Board, give it to the Interstate Roasters, small 84-35 ids. Marshall. Charlotte. Free list. 29-S0 Michigan Farms. G. P. Phillips, Realtor 32-33 & Auctioneer, Bellevue, Mich. Fine 3-26-26 International to— Commerce Commission. If the pres- Hens, large 30 ent protection is not retained, we Hens, medium 31-32 FARMS FOR SALE TWINE Mich. Live Stock Exch. will constantly face raising rates in Springs, Leg-horns Hens. Leghorns and small 2i>-2~ 87-28 price. FOR SALE—A-l FARM AT L O W ; a t Detroit the future. l . e v . l , timber, lake, orchard. R. Stags, colored J::-L'J W. Anderson, Clarkston. 3-12-26xx No snarling, no tangling, no col The present Watson-Parker bill Leghorn Stags Producers' Comm. Ass'n must be amended to give the inter- Cocks 29 18 MIJJCELLANEOVS lapsing—the PATENTEDCOVhR holds its shape to the last. Every at East Buffalo state Commerce Commission the W R I T E FOR PRICE A N D DESCRIP- foot ties a bundle. iH>wer to control wagft agreements Ducks, white. .'> lbs. up 38-38 tion of Pytami.t poultry shipping F a r m Bureau Poultry Exchange, 2W0 T T 1 ••••>••••••• ""^""7"**"""" ^ ^ - ^ ^ r J infecting rates. • P u c k s , small, colored Riopelle street..Detroit. 3-12-tf IIIIIIIHMt Rabbits. f> lbs. up. , 19-20 Oulpea fowls . do*. $6 30