What Would Our F . B. — 1 MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU NEWS The Bureau Affords Be, If Every Member Your Best Means of Were Just Like Me? Bettering Rural Life PUBLISHED BY THE MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU FOR ITS MEMBERSHIP FOURTH YEAR, VOL. IV, No. 23 NOVEMBER 26, 1926 ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY HURON COUNTY MEMBERS INFORMED BIG DELEGATION MICHIGAN PROVIDES OF STATE FARM BUREAU'S PROGRAM CO-OP SHIPPERS NAT'L EXHIBIT FOR New Farm Policy Is To Be FOR T0WNSH1PHIGHWAY ECONOMIES VISIT EXCHANGE BORER ERADICATION • Stressed At A. F.B.F. Meet Eighty-Three Webberville and Prof. J. F. Cox, of M. S. C, Is Research Engineer From Mich. State College Addresses Annual Meeting At Bad Axe On Williamston Men Spend Asked For Display At MASTER OF GRANGE KEYNOTE OF EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING j Day In Detroit Grain Show Nov. 23 And Cites Possibilities Of WILL BE PRINCIPLES OF FARM RELIEF Getting More Improved Roads Michigan Live Stock Exchange OTHER STATES ASSIST played host to a group of 83 of the biggest co-operative shippers of live- Agricultural Departments and ALWAYS ADVOCATED BY FARM BUREAU The question of township road improvement was brought stock in the state, on November 17, when delegates from the William- State Colleges Add up at the annual meeting of the Huron county Farm Bureau, ston and Webberville district spent Home And Community Training Work Gets Place this week and discussed in some of its most important phases the day in Detroit as its guests. To Exhibit by Lee J. Rothgery, research assistant in civil engineering, of These shippers were shown On Special Program; Co-operative Market, Michigan State College. through the plants of the Detroit Packing company and the Ford Motor An exhibit is being set up at Relief Problem And Other Subjects Michigan State College showing to Mr. Rothgery, who has talked this subject of better and company after taking luncheon at what extent the several states where Slated For December 6, 7 and 8 | more improved township roads in some 50 counties of south- noon in the Exchange building. the European corn borer has es- The delegates were directed by tablished itself as a serious menace ern Michigan during the past few months, bases his lectures their respective managers, Mr. A. E. Definite, concrete action, looking toward the establishment to agriculture, have developed a co- and discussions on conditions as the college has found them Poll, of Williamston and Mr. L. Hart- operative eradication program and of an American agricultural policy embodying the principles and on economic principles of highway construction and wig, of Webberville, on a trip campaign of extermination. Prof. of farm relief advocated by the Farm Bureau for the past three through the Detroit Stock yards as J. F. Cox, head of the crops depart- financing which have come to be accepted as most efficient the first part of the day's program years, will be the keynote of the Eighth Annual Meeting of ment of that institution, has been and most economical. after their arrival there early in the picked to conduct the display at the the American Farm Bureau Federation to be held at Hotel With about 85 per cent of the roads of the country still in day. International Hay and Grain Show Sherman, Chicago, Dec. 6, 7 and 8. This was indicated in a Three large motor buses were char- at Chicago, November 27 to Decem- a state of nature and with one third of all automobiles owned tered for the day to accommodate statement made today by Sam H. Thompson, president of the ber 4. by farmers, the loss in dollars for road haul over unimproved the guests This is to be an educational ex- A. F. B. F. or practically impassable township roads during a major por- These shippers have been sending hibit, representing the interests of "The foremost subject in the minds of agriculture and in about eight or 10 cars of stock to the Michigan, Ohio and parts of Canada, tion of the year is enough to stir the farmers of Michigan into Detroit markets each week, the Ex- the minds of business people of today," said President Thomp- where the pest has done the greatest action this winter so that during the next season of road change reports. amount of actual damage in the past son, "is that of proper adjustment of the agricultural industry building many dollars will be saved and many more judicious- two seasons. in our economic life. Farm relief is not any longer considered ly expended than have ever been heretofore for this work, The point to be stressed chiefly GEORGE ROXBURGH as an emergency matter. It is viewed now from the stand- Mr. Rothgery points out. COURT STANDS BY will be that showing effort to control spread of this insect pest this season George Roxburgh, of Reed City, point of permanent stabilization of American agriculture. As state representative in the legisla- a result of the well-organized, persistent effort on the part of If a township does no more than to make the best use of the materials found in its roadbeds, the savings in dollars CO-OP'S CONTRACT and necessity of continued, concert- ed effort to prevent further spread. ture, was elected Master of the State Grange to succeed^ A'. B. Cook, of the Farm Bureau, all other interests have come to recognize All resources of the United States the merits of this movement. in one season will be amazing, to say the least, he explains. The circuit court for Leelanau bureau of entomology, the state de- Owosso, for the current year. It doesn't show poor management in every township, he ad- County recently held that the Cedar partments of agriculture, and the "It is noticeable that at all farm meetings, business meet> mits, but the whole thing, simmered down, shows a general Product Exchange, a local of the agricultural colleges in these states CANADA INTRODUCING ings, this subject usually has first place. It is fair to assume, Michigan Potato Growers' Exchange, will be utilized for the display, which laxness on the part of the farmers themselves. was entitled to recover $217.20 as will be one of the features of the NEW INSECT TO PREY therefore, that it will play a dominant part in the proceedings Farmer Pays the Price liquidated damages from one of its members who failed to deliver his show this year. , ON EUROPEAN BORERof the annual meeting of the A. F. B. F . " They pay the shot for building and maintaining these dirt roads, CENSUS INDICATES potatoes in accordance with his con- State college material will be a part of the collection. There will Two insects whose predatory hab- '? Consider Many Subject* In addition to action on farm re- then they leave everything to a neighborhood political boss and find DAIRYINGINCREASE tract. The member defended the suit on the theory that the farm was own- ed jointly or by entireties by him probably be samples of stalks in which the borer is working, in- its are as formidable as their names, have been introduced by Dominion MANISTEE COUNTY lief matters, the program of the farmers' national annual meeting, as at the end of the summer, that their formation on quarantine and other indicated, will include discussion of township has been served in only a few spots, here and there, where the and his wife and thence that he could not be compelled to fulfill his measures of the state department of agriculture, and reports on reseai\ ;i entomologists to prey upon the Euro- pean corn borer. Resembling armored cockroaches F. BUREAU CLOSES various pressing agricultural prob- lems, including means and methods Market Records Show Change contract; but the court held "that road commissioner has had a per- sonal interest in his own stretch of road or a road along some friend's In Producers' Method the joint ownership of the premises by the defendant and his wife is no experiments on breeding of parasites being conducted at the new sub- and bearing deadly stingers, the for- eign parasites are natural foes of the PROSPEROUS YEAR of combating the European corn bor- er, which is threatening destruction of the entire corn crop of the Mid- defense to the present action nor a station at Monroe. corn borer pest. They feed upon the or other influential person's prop- Of Handling west, farm fire prevention methods, bar to compliance with the terms of larvae and adults of the borer, but, Annual Meeting Shows Ass'n home and community development, erty. the contract in question on the part so far as has been determined, are It's a general state of affairs, this Growth of the state dairy industry of the defendant." Finances Good. Adopt boys' and girls' club work, etc. building short runs of poor gravel as a whole is indicated in the govern- ELIMINATE POLLUTION harmless to crops. A Home and Community Training Hordes of the insect warriors have Resolutions roads here and there throughout the ment census for the volume of milk AT CANNING FACTORY been' cultured and liberated at reg- School is to be held at Hotel Sher- man on the Friday and Saturday townships, practically none of which produced, showing 352,858,180 gal- WILL NOT WEAR SILK ular intervals. lead to any place in particular and lons in 1910; 382,822,631 in 1920 A model plant for cleansing wastes The insects were imported from Resolutions, covering matters of preceding the opening of the annual most of which are allowed to go un- and 424,235,944 in 1925. Women in groups throughout the emptied into the streams by canning the corn-growing regions of Hun- direct concern to the agriculture s>f meeting. At this school, which will cared for after being built up to a Cream sales fell off in proportion South are organizing "no-silk" clubs industries, operated this season by garia with the aid of the United the county were adopted at the an- be conducted under the auspices of state that would permit of year- with the rise in whole milk deliver- as their contribution to help relieve the W. R. Roach Canning company States corn borer experiment station nual meeting of the Manistee Coun- the Home and Community Depart- round travel if properly maintained. ies. Production which in 1910 reach- the economic situation created by a at Kent City, removed 90 per cent at Arlington, Mass. ty Farm Bureau, at Bear Lake, Nov. ment of the A. F. B. F., education* In Mr. Rothgery's plan of road ed 2,485,011 gallons dropped to 1,- decrease in cotton prices. of the matter which pollutes the wa- 13. Support of the State Farm Bu- citizenship, property rights of wo« construction work, the point of major 717,211 in 1925 over the 15-year It is the aim of the new movement ter, according to tests made by state reau program was urged and appre- nun, music, marketing, better mov- importance, as he stressed it, is that of mapping out a definite program period. to encourage southern people to wear The most significant departure in more cotton and use more cotton, chemists. This cleansing plant was modeled OVER 1,000 YOUTHS ciation expressed toward the County ies, rural health, costume designing Bankers' association for assistance it and the relation of women to the for township road building abd main- has given agriculture during the past Farm Bureau movement will be tenance for each year, then to for- get where the highway commissioner the state dairy statistical record is wherever possible. As some of the seen in the decrease in whole milk statements put it, the silkworm is do- in the laboratories of the state health department and the cost of its con- struction and operation this canning GO TO EXPOSITION year in Manistee county. Discontinuance of a practice of among the topics discussed. Co-operative miairketingn, always sales. In 1910, 74,0-25,769 gallons ing more harm to the cotton belt lives, so far as road work goes, ^ n d were sold. The volume was almost than the boll weevil. season was about $3,500. promiscuous distribution of govern- vital and uppermost with the Ameri- build and maintain roads according Boys', Girls' Club Champions ment crop reports mailed out to oth- can Farm Bureau Federation, will doubled by 1920 when 130,864,366 to an impartial program. gallons were marketed, and in 1925 Get Trip To National ers than those directly interested in play its part in the annual meeting crop production, was advocated by program. Definite Plan Necessary This is the plan the state, the the total reached 144,910,955 gal- lons. Meanwhile there was a drop Reserving Rooms and Livestock Show the county organization in one of its Co-operative Luncheon An outstanding feature of the counties and the federal government resolutions. This distribution, it was have found the most advantageous, the most satisfactory and the only in home-produced butter from 50,- 405,426 pounds in 1910 to 25,755,432 Securing Certificates Over a thousand members of farm pointed out, tends to have a detri- meeting will be a co-operative lunch- boys' and girls' clubs from all sec- mental influence on the price of ag- eon to be given on Monday, the open- pounds in 1920 and 20^350,351 in ing day. Food for this luncheon is economical one to follow out in their road construction programs. Without j 1925. Will Aid Big Convention tions of the United States have won ricultural products. an opportunity to attend the Inter- Use of marl as a means of increas- being furnished by representative national Livestock Exposition in Chi- ing alfalfa production in the coun- groups of the more outstanding co- an orderly program, arranged before- Delegates who' go from Michigan this yeftr to attend the an- operative marketing associations in cago, November 26 to December 4, ty was stressed as of- major impor- the country. hand, none of the improved highway systems could have been completed, they- all concede. BUREAU PROTESTS nual convention of the American F a r m Bureau Federation at Chicago, Dec. 6, 7 and 8 will find the Michigan Farm Bureau through winning state or other tance for the development of agri- championships in some ' phases of culture to the fullest,extent possible In addition to the delegates iand The financial report showed the general visitors to the, convention, With' the township, as Mr. Roth- gery iWMr cites, the loss mounts up TELEPHONE RATES News office in position to aid them in c u t t i n g costs of the trip materially. A y e a r ago many delegates went to the big conven- their agricultural or homemaking club work during the past season. organization's marl machinery about who will attend the luncheon, speoi'l These champions represent their lo- paid for and a showing was made arrangements have been mad# to to ah enormous sum each year where the total budget for township roads tion without h a v i n g first made reservation for rooms and, con- cal clubs in contests and educational that this equipment has more than have present fifty of the most dis- One Clinton county farmer com- features scheduled for the fifth an- paid for itself in added profits from tinguished co-operative leaders of the runs close to $14,000,000, as it did plained because his telephone bill sequently, when they paid their hotel bill they paid the regular nual boys' and girls' club congress the land—where marl was used. United States Fifty messages of one last* year in Michigan. was about $27 last month. Maybe transient r a t e . held in connection with the livestock Manistee county farmers are urg- hundred words each have been Where he shows the weakness of he was right;-that is generally con- the present haphazard method of Through special a r r a n g e m e n t s with Hotel Sherman, where the show, which has been planned es- ed, by resolution adopted at this brought together from as many out- sidered quite a price for rural tele- pecially for club members by the Na- meeting, to support the county cow standing co-operative leaders. These piling ungraded gravel on a turn- phone service for 30 days but, if he convention is to have h e a d q u a r t e r s , rooms will be available for pike—the average improved town- tional Committee on Boys' and Girls' testing association and the move to are to be printed in pamphlet form hadn't done as a lot of others did, all Michigan delegates and r e s e r v a t i o n s for rooms made t h r o u g h Club Work in co-operation with the encourage raising of more pure-bred for distribution at the co-operative ship road—is in the lack of system entered a protest against it, he un- t h e office of the N E W S will c a r r y an unusually low r a t e for United States Department of Agri- cattle there. luncheon. As many of these messages and lack of individual interest in the doubtedly wvmld halve had to go culture and the state agricultural as ^time will permit will be given by road problem of the township. To Chicago hotel service. colleges. Government Harbor Urged along continuing to pay sifch a their authors at the luncheon. have one more mile of good road That Portage Lake should be main- charge if he continued to be a sub- This is a special F a r m B u r e a u service, j u s t as the special rail- Championship teams from each tained as a permanent harbor as a The idea of a co-operative lunch- each year, if no more can be built, and to eliminate the little leaks of a scriber. r o a d fare service is .special for this big convention. Both are state are competing for national hon- shelter for Lake Michigan ships was eon was first conceived and carried dollar here and a hundred dollars This was just because' the Michi- ors in the judging of beef cattle, a point cited in one of the resolu- out by the American Farm Bureau gan Bell telephone J company took aimed to increase the a t t e n d a n c e and by t a k i n g a d v a n t a g e of sheep and swine. Home economics tions and it was urged that every Federation last year when Calvin somewhere else where the road com- missioner "overlooks" instead of advantage of a new order of approval them each F a r m B u r e a u member who goes to Chicago at this teams participate in a similar contest effort be brought to bear to get the Coolidge, President of the United oversees the job; these are the points of a proposed schedule of rates in- time will he the one to benefit. by judging foods and clothing in the government to consider this propo- States, was the guest of the occa- stressed by the college in its en- tended for telephone service to sub- 4-H club building on the exposition sition favorably and add this lake sion. All of the food served to Presi- scribers benefitted by city exchange Last year many delegates failed to get the required cer- grounds. dent Coolidge was furnished by co- deavor to educate the farmers so that port to its list of regularly support- operative marketing service. Many farmers" of Michigan tificate Avhen they p u r c h a s e d their tickets for Chicago a n d had to Demonstration teams from some ed harbors. associations. their own roads, in front of their were assessed much more for tele- ten states show the recent develop- The luncheon last year was limited own farms, will soon be much bet- pay the full fare each way. The railroad company has a spe- The meeting was addressed by ter dirt roads, and in a comparative- phone service last month than they ments in agricultural and homemak- Clark L, Brody, secretary-manager to a select group of Farm Bureau of- cial certificate which delegates are given. I F Til FY ASK FOR ing club work as organized by the of the State Farm Bureau, who gave ficials. This year the co-operative ly few years, even be improved, hard had been accustomed to paying and, surface roads. had the Michigan State Farm Bureau IT, when they buy their railroad tickets. When this certificate is State Agricultural colleges and the an intimate discussion of the work- luncheon will be open to the entire not interceded in their behalf and presented to the clerk at the convention h e a d q u a r t e r s it is stamp- United States Department of Agri- ings of the state headquarters of the convention. Farm Bureau Urges Action culture. The most healthy club boy Bureau, showing that a staff of 45 Every Delegate Needed In this the Michigan State Farm followed up their complaints, these ed and then t h e delegate gets tickets for his home at half fare Plans for organizing an especially high rates probably would continue and girl will be determined by a na- to 50 workers handles some $11,- Bureau acted to have Mr. Rothgery unless he lives in the Upper Peninsula, when he gets his ticket tional health contest. A style show- 000,000 worth of business a year for large attendance are being developed present the question to the Huron in force and effect. provides an opportunity to display the organization. in the offices of the A. F. B. F. and county Farm Bureau members to The State Farm Bureau, the only for home at one-third the regular r a t e . President Thompson is advised that the types of garments made by club give them some real points to con- farmer organization to take up the F o r those who might happen to make up their minds at the girls. The following members of the nearby State Farm Bureau Federa- sider this winter. Along this line the matter in protest to the Public Util- last minute to a t t e n d the convention, a reception committee, Competitive exhibits in foods, Manistee County Farm Bureau were tions are organizing special parties State Farm Bureau will work to ities commission, 'has been given as- clothing, corn, potatoes, cotton, and elected to office for the ensuing in each county to attend in bodies. have someone present at any county surance by the commission that a wearing badges to identify them, will meet them as they enter home improvement have been placed year: It is the confident expectation of the Fafm Bureau meeting where the new adjustment is to be made so the hotel. By identifying himself, each delegate will be in- in the club building. The best live- M. E. Jones, presment; John leaders of the Farm Bureau that this county desires, so that a definite pro- that equitable service charges will troduced, by one of t h e committee, to the room clerk and will stock grown by these champions is Gould, Jr., re-elected vice-president; annual meeting will be the most out- gram can be worked out withou* be assessed to supercede the rates shown in the pavilion. E. J. Baker and Isaac Jouppi re-elect- standing demonstration that Ameri- delay which will mean a tremendous t h u s benefit b y g e t t i n g the special reduced room r a t e . recently put into effect by the tele- Leadership among young farm ed directors for two years; M. E. can farmers have ever participated saving of farm-earned dollars in the phone company. In the m a t t e r of the railroad fare c e r t i f i c a t e s ; to go to the con- folks will be recognized by awarding Jones and John Gould, Jr., elected in. In a letter addressed to the state next few years. In times like this, when Farm Bu- the Moses Leadership Trophy to the delegates to State Farm Bureau federations, President Thompson As the college points out, forget vention without them means you are OUT O F LUCK for reduced reau members feel they are being op- winner of national honors in this meeting at Lansing in February; Jos. states: the old traditions and "profit-losing" pressed, it aids materially if they rates on your r e t u r n t r i p . It t a k e s 350 such certificates, after phase of club work. F. Brunais and Paul Alpers elected "The voice and counsel of every customs of road fixin', and adopt the register their complaints with the they have liecn approved by the clerk at the convention, to war- Educational trips to the Field Mu- members of County Agricultural State Farm Bureau official, of every modern, up-to-date methods of do- State Farm Bureau headquarters so seum, Art Institute, Lincoln Park, Congress. The new officers met im- County Farm Bureau official and of ing th<3 job worthwhile when it is be- rant m a k i n g the special r e t u r n fare rate the railroad companies that relief can be sought in a sys- manufacturing plants and depart- mediately following adjournment of every Community Farm Bureau feed- ing done so that some day, when the offer. v ment stores in Chicago are features the general meeting and re-elected er, every county agent, every voca- tematic manner. check-up is made, your township can Every delegate should make sure of g e t t i n g his certificate of the congress. The Sherman Hotel Mr. Read secretary. tion;! I agricultural teacher, every point with pride to its completed and Drinking cups for the dairy cows will be the scene of the "Club The next annual meeting will be home demonstration agent, every traversable system of really good when he buys his railroad ticket and then (JET T I I F CER- add greatly to milk flow, dairymen Members' Own Banquet" on Tuesday, held at Kaleva the second Saturday home and community worker is need* roads. T I F I C A T E S T A M P E D at the convention. November 30. i in November, 1927. (Continued on page three) say. (Continued on page two) ^"^ ***y^P NOVEMBER 26, i fl > a *wo _ _ _ _ _ MICHIGAU FARM BuREAtT NEWS i — mmmmmmm n J.I.I.II.. n —i— I true of both livestock and liv es t 0 ., MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU NEWS of all M i c h i g a n ' s a g r i c u l t u r e in^thi* one big, a n u u a l exposition at Chicago. I MICH. DELEGATES TO A. F. B. F. MEET MICHIGAN FARMER products. South America and Au tralia do a very substantial bu S j n S" in these things with southern a ^ Published twice a month by the Michigan State Farm Bureau at Char- lotte, Michigan. Editorial and general offices at State Farm Bureau head- quarters, Lansing, Michigan. Not alone does t h e element of p r o d u c t i o n e n t e r into t h e ease, but Michigan h a s a n o t h e r interest in this big", world re-nownetl m HANDICAPPED WITH western Europe, and, of course ^ all know about the part New z * VOL. IV. NOVEMBER 26, 1J>26 Xo. 2 3 exposition. This is t h e element of e d u c a t i o n and. development and t r a i n i n g of h e r y o u t h . HEAVY RAIL COSTS land plays in supplying the dairy ^\ wool markets of the world. So corl ine back to ourselves for a mom *" A staK- champion collegiate stock j u d g i n g team of i'our y o u n g r-fT • c r- • D 1 and noting that we are shinning Ut Entered at the post office at Charlotte, Mich., as second class E f f e c t i v e o f E x p e n s i v e R o a d E u r o p e s o r a e t n i n ^ l i k e 200,00000'" matter. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided Michigan a g r i c u l t u r i s t s is M i c h i g a n ' s c o n t r i b u t i o n to the big for in Sec. 1103, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, authorized January 12, 1923. T o Market Disastrous T o bushels of wheat a year, ana iiVp" show in a d d i t i o n to a liberal e n t r y oi' prize livestock. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^m stock products that run into nin Subscription Price 50c Per Year, included in dues of Farm Midwest States B a n k i n g t h e t r a i n i n g and j u d g e m e n t of these four farm millions of dollars, it begins to l o ^ Bureau Members. as if our idea of t h e neighborhon y o u t h s against that of similar champions of ;i score of other of t h e most progressive a g r i c u l t u r a l s t a t e s , of the n a t i o n — t h i s WATER ROUTE IS URGED the will have to expand, for we are same market as the other nr°U is the m a k i n g of a n improved a g r i c u l t u r e for t o m o r r o w . In this, ducing nations of the world. °* Great Lakes—St. Lawrence How Wheat Moves to Market as in t h e s h o w i n g of t h e a c t u a l farm p r o d u c t s of Miehigan, t h e /^ICH|GAN yfflggARM BUREAU W a t e r w a y Would Boost The movement of North America Intei-national Livestock E x p o s i t i o n needs t h e e<»-ope.rati\ e sup- wheat to Europe takes place large]11 port of every F a r m B u r e a u member a n d every progressive farm- Farm Income in the fall and early winter, shad in OFFICERS er a n d farm .student of the state. off toward spring. It precedes th ? M. B. McPHERSON. Lowell President (This is the first of a sc- from Canada, but the two combing 14. L. NOON, Jackson Vice-President Every f a r m e r a n d every farm woman of Michigan w h o c a n ries of educational articles on make up a steady stream across th see t h e i r w a y clear to visit this big exposition will have every- what the proposed Great I.ake* Atlantic until the bulk of the e * Directors-at-Large portable crop is disposed of. M. B. McPHERSON- Lowejl t h i n g to gain a n d but little to sacrifice in a t t e n d i n g at lea&l p a r t —St. Lawrence Waterway de- velopment will mean to Michi- Burope, buying from hand t MRS. EDITH M. WAGAR Carleton of it this y e a r . fcARL. C. McCAKTV Bad Axe gan tanners in removing the mouth, does not attempt to store u° VEROLD F. GORMELY Newberry The effort to make this a more w o r t h w h i l e affair and t o s p r e a d barriers of high railroad freight any large quantity of grain. She p J. G. BOYLE Buchanan rates which now separate us looking for the best buying chanCesS its t e a c h i n g s to the most r e m o t e corners deserves a n d needs y o u r She takes the wheat when it is h- W. W. BILLINGS Davison from our foreign markets. heartiest s u p p o r t . Michigan needs all t h a t its f a r m e r s a n d More articles in this series will vested, and it is being harvested" Commodity Directors appear in coming issues of the at one point or another i n ^ p r o d u c e r s can get out of it. FRED J. HARGER, Stanwood Michigan Potato Growers Exchange NTEWS.) world every minute of the year, s 6 M. L. NOON, Jackson Michigan Milk Producers Association Plan to rneet y o u r neighbor 3 a t Chicago a n d have in mind J. H. O'MEALEY, Hudson Michigan Live Stock Exchange Why should I be interested in all about the time that t h e North An_eri° GEO. W. McCALLA, Ypsilanti Michigan Elevator Exchange the t w o subjects of major importance, t h e livestock show a n d this talk about deepening the shal- can shipments slack off, the shipment M. D. BUSKIRK, Paw Paw Michigan Fruit Growers, Inc. the eighth a n n u a l convention of t h e A m e r i c a n F a r m B u r e a u Fed- lows in the St. Lawrence so that the from India, South America and Aus tralia begins. When Russia is n i " eration, which i s scheduled for t h e three d a y s , Dec. ti, 7 a n d 8. ocean boats could sail into ports on ping, her grain moves about thestime STATE FARM BUREAU ORGANIZATION the Great Lakes? Clark L. Brody Sec'y-Treas-Manager A r r a n g e y o u r affairs so t h a t both events e a n be given y o u r heart- that the Kansas crop is in transit S. M. Powell Ass't Secretary Would such a development cut the The point to keep clearly in mj n(i iest s u p p o r t , they both need you and y o u will profit immensely marketing costs on my farm prod- is that we are essentially a world DEPARTMENT HEADS ucts, and if so why, and how much, neighborhood and that the farmers Traffic A. P. Mills by them. Be t h e r e . Fabrics F. L. Kelner and who would benefit? of the different nations of the world Publicity E. E. Pngren W H A T TO DO? ' It is to answer these and kindred are neighbors selling on the world Accounting E. E. T'ngren questions that this series of articles market situated in western and Organization A. Bentall he full in the price of cotton, coupled with that in fruits SUBSIDIARY CORPORATIONS OF T H E M I C H I G A N S T A T E has been prepared for the informa- southern Europe. The price we get on FARM B U R E A U a n l V r h e a t , brought t h e general index of p u r c h a s i n g p o w e r of tion of the members of the Michigan that market in part depends, as it Michigan Farm Bureau Seed Service C. F. Barnum fa***, p r o d u c t s down from 5K> in August last y e a r to 82 this State Farm Bureau. does on our local market at home Michigan Farm Bureau Supply .Service L. A. Thomas Farm Bureau Poultry Exchange Steiger \V. o, Barnum A u g u s t . "While t h e whole price level has been foiling, farm . Distance from market is one of the on the quality of the food stuffs we Michigan Farm Bureau Wool Pool C. F. handicaps of the farmer. Take two have to offer and also on the total p r o d u c t s have fallen f a s t e r . " . U-J — men engaged in the grain growing amount offered on the m a r k e d If the Michigan Commodity Marketing Associations The above is quoted from a s t a t e m e n t coming from t h e U. S. business—one living a mile from world has a big crop the. European Affiliated With Michigan State Farm Bureau M. L. XOOX price is correspondingly Jow. if the D e p a r t m e n t of A g r i c u l t u r e , u n d e r d a t e of October 1. 1926. town and the other ten miles. The world has a short crop the price is MlcWlfeah4 'Potato Growers Exchange Cadillac first can deliver his grain direct to Cotton a n d fruits belong t o - ^ a r e t h e p r o d u c t s of t h e coastal Michigan Milk Producers Association Mlcjilgap, Live Stock Exchange TU7 Owen Bldg., Detroit Hudson SCHEDULE IS CHANGED the elevator, in about the same time high. region of the 1'nited S t a t e s . Wheat is a p r o d u c t of t h e ; i n t e r i o r — Michigan Elevator Exchange Michigan Fruit Growers, Inc Farm Bureau Bldg., Lansing Benton Harbor of t h e t r a n s p o r t a t i o n h a n d i c a p p e d interior. FOR LEADER TRAINING and cost required for the second to thatAndthistheEuropean important fact Is price sets get his grain stored away in his own the price back home in all the Of wheat we speak. T h e world m a r k e t place—western E u r o p e Local Leaders in the Home Fur- bins. Later on when he could be producing and exporting coun- Directors and Officers of t h e Commodity Exchanges nishing Project :n Cass county are plowing or engaged in some other — h a r v e s t s its own wheat crop at the time ours is moving. O u r tries for the grain that is MICH. ELEVATOR EXCH. MICH. MILK PRODUCERS ASS"N informed that a new schedule of useful farm work, the second man grown there, both the grain crop must p a y t h e f r e i g h t t o m a r k e t a n d sell on t h e m a r k e t dates for leader training has been has to remove his grain from his bins Carl Martin, Pres Coldwater N. P. Hull, Pres Lansing that is exported a n d the grain L. C. Kamlowske, V. P. Washington R. G. Potts, Vice-Pres. Washington against the home crop of E u r o p e a n d a g a i n s t the hang-over of Bet. and haul it to town. that remains a t home. H. D. Horton, Sec.-Treas ...Kinde John C. Near, Sec Flat Rock the crop from t h e s o u t h e r n hemisphere. The December school is set a week Will you agree to that? If not, B. F. Beach, Ass't Sec Detroit This nine mile handicap eats into L. E. Osmer, Mgr Lansing earlier and a January meeting is the profits which his business should let's stop and reason the thing out C. S. Benton, Bean Dep't, Lansing H. W. Norton, Treas Howell S h a r p c o m p e t i t i o n ! — a n d s h a r p competition t e n d s t o l o w provided for in the new schedule ar in our own minds. Isn't it true? Do W. E. Phillips Decatur M. L. Noon Jackson prices. ranged by Mrs. Hoffman, the special- show at the end of the year. It shows you see any hitch in the argument? George McCalla Ypsilanti R. L. Taylor Lapeer ist in charge. This will bring the fi up either directly or indirectly. Di- L. W. Harwood Adrian Meanwhile a heavy s o u t h w e s t e r n crop g l u t t e d c o u n t r y eleva- Well, then, what does that mean? Milton Burkholder Marlette W. J. Thomas Grand Rapids nal achievement day in May instead rectly where he goes to the expense It means that the fellow who is the M. R. Shisler Caledonia t o r s — a n d t h e price d r o p p e d — d r o p p e d because from both e n d s of June, a feature that will be ap- of hiring help to have it done, in- F. M. Oelimka Sebewaing \\~. .Meyer Fair Haven farthest away from the market is la- W. J. Hazelwood Mt. Pleasant Dr. W. C. McKinney.. .Davisburg of t h e m a r k e t road p r e s s u r e of sales offerings beat it d o w n . preciated by all those participating in directly when he takes time that boring under a handicap—gets the James J. Brakenberry... .Bad Axe the work. should be devoted to doing other The E u r o p e a n end is n o t u n d e r o u r c o n t r o l . N o r has a n y p r a c - lowest price for his crop. Who is that Ml IRS Elmer Powers ....Clio At the time of the first lesson, necessary and seasonal work such as tical scheme y e t been w o r k e d o u t t o r e g u l a t e o u r p r o d u c t i o n . Mrs. Hoffman discussed and illus fall plowing. Henry Curtis, Pres Cadillac MICH. LIVE STOCK EXCH. trated the arrangement and placing Remove Handicap or Pay It! -n 9 W e a t h e r conditions nullify a c r e a g e control. . BuKsey^.V^co-vVioH. Pioveinont O. K. Hawley, Seo'y Shelby E. A. Beamer, Pres Blissfield The one farm p r i c e - m a k i n g factor o v e r which we do h a v e a of furnishings in respect to the room Until'thathandicap as removed the- Australia is 13,600. . miles . v distant W. J. Perry, Vice-Pres F. J. Harger. Ti> rtwqod • Grand BJanc cap in itself. The second lesson will be con map somefarthest living other way. from Ifmarket he cannot has from ; 4 ™Liverpool e r i < a n P a r by , i i n e rway of the Pana- Handicapped positive control is t h a t of d e t e r m i n a t i o n of t r a n s p o r t a t i o n costs. cerned largely with the principles of do t n so he remains at a real "financial ma Canal and the world is only 25,- • •ditlac Natfe -)'Me.u.y, Patl Sec Hudson Caro . " k ^ e uj> the transportation handi- " " C. A. liicimer, Sales Mgr.. .Cadillac Edward I kipp* v Perry Open competition cares for a n d compels a low ocean r a t e t o color and design as applied to wall disadvantage. Usually this disadvan- 000 miles around. So it would seem Leon G. VanLeuw Pellaire Chas. Woodruff Hastings and floor coverings. tage shows up locally in the price of that the Australian must be the chap Ray D. Harper . . . .St. Johns Europe. Kail economy a n d speed of c a r m o v e m e n t a r e a t a high Right here it might be suggested land. The farm closest to town, all farthest away from the world's mar- Geqrge Herman Hdmo;e Charles Brown . E. A. Rasmus.sen .Sheridan Frank Obrest . . . .. Sunfield point of efficiency, b u t t h e cost of rail m o v e m e n t r e m a i n s high, that much mental suffering and eye other things being equal, is worth kets. At any rate we will agree that MUM [[(JAN FRUIT GROWERS. INC. .BrecJten ridge a n d the d a n g e r to prices from gluts a t t e r m i n a l s a n d a t local strain would perhaps have been more than the farm Several miles out he has to pay freight from his farm M. D. BU»kirk, p - p s . . . . . . Paw Paw John Miller .Colofaa avoided if those responsible for some because transportation costs from to some point in western Europe elevators is ever present. of the atrocious designs in rugs and the farm to town are a real cash and that freight is a big item taken Amos Tucker, 1 V. P u s Allan B. Graham Elberta South Haven P. D. Leavenworth. .Grand Rapids The farm price for wheat is based, t o d a y , upon t h e fact t h a t wall paper could have taken such money handicap. out of the price he gets in Europe. Herbert Nafziger, _ V. 1 "res. W. J. Schultz Hart a course. Now we can follow up this same Or we might think Wi of L11C the1Bfarmer of Millburg L. A. Hawley Ludington grain ean not avail itself of open freight competition a n d c h e a p •«c K.au luuuw up ims same T .. "" ***" fMlcl UL G. I. Chrestensen Onekama Those leaders who attend the Dow 1 8 ] n F. L. Bradford, Sec.-Treas r a t e s until it h a s reached t h e coast—a d i s t a n c e of from one agiac school will meet on Tuesday, price thought a littleat two of wheat farther.pointsTake or atthe a Jthe H fmarket ! ! , , ^So ^ he? pis.« It , djstance from is something Benton Harbor H. W. Gowdy Union Pier F. L. Granger, Sales Mgr O. ft. Gale Shelby thousand to fifteen h u n d r e d miles from t h e h a r v e s t fields. Nov. 30, at the new High School hundred points in the United States like 7,000 miles by way of the Red Benton Harbor John Lang Sodus This costly movement to t h e coast is slow, it ties u p e l e v a t o r building. The Cassopolis meeting will equalize the quality and rule out mi Sea, Suez Canal and the Mediterran- D. H. Brake Fremont John Bottema Spring Lake be the next day, Dec. 1, in the su- nor local conditions such as where ean. Henry Namitz Bridgman Bert Gleason Lawrence space, it calls f o r excessively l a r g e e a r e q u i p m e n t on t h e p a r t of pervisors' room. a local mill bids up the price for its The export wheat producing region C. L. Brody Lansing J. F. Higbee Benton Harbor Harry Hogue Sodus t h e r a i l r o a d s , it s t r i p s t h e g r a i n belt of i t s c a r s when t h e y a r e own needs, and you will find that the of the United States, and of: Canada, Miller Overton Bangor American F a r m Bureau Federation Eliminate That Backache grain raised the farthest distance too, lies back between 1,000 and 1 - most needed for fast m o v i n g of grain from c o u n t r y elevator t o from the big terminal markets brings 700 miles from the Atlantic coast. SAM H. THOMPSON President GENERAL OFFICES A. F. B. P...' 58 East Washington St., Chicago terminal. The heights of all working areas ^ u . t UC u. 6 tciajutt, maiKeis orings „ : ' — " " " * "»e Atlantic coast. CHESTER H. GRAY Washington Representative in the kitchen are of extreme hnpor the least money. Everybody knows W h e n w e get down to the seacoast it All this m e a n s e x t r a a n d needless t r a n s p o r t a t i o n cost—a cost does not LEGISLATIVE HEADQUARTERS Munsey Bldg., Washington, D. C. tance and should be given one of the that such is the case, but I wonder if o f o u r matter so much which one t a k e n directly out of t h e p o c k e t b o o k of t h e farmer, a cost t h a t first considerations. No general we have ever thought out just what a w a T competitors lives farthest m i n c e s his b u y i n g power, a n d one t h a t d i r e c t l y a n d u n f a v o r a b l y height can be given which will suit the facts mean to us, not only in 1 , a n^ -s h e 13,000 miles the Austra- 0 all persons because of the variations wheat, but in all other lines of prod- f r o m ' compelled to ship his grain affects all grain belt area business. in the heights of workers and nature ucts. At any rate let's follow the e s Sydney to Liverpool is made of the work. Each housewife should story and see where it leads. * important by the fact that ocean STATE FARM BUREAU'S PUBLIC The obvious need is to s h o r t e n t h e land haul, speed u p t h e e a r adjust her equipment to suit her own tr Of course, it costs the Montana ansportation, compared to the cost t u r n - a r o u n d , k e e p t h e local a n d t e r m i n a l elevators moving g r a i n comfort. One very simple test for farmer more to get his wheat to lfo w H e transportation, is extremely land SERVICE PROGRAM r a t h e r than s t o r i n g it, a n d so decrease t h e cost of m o v e m e n t be- the height of the work surface, be it Minneapolis or Duluth than it does a y -s a b o ^u s a rait hau! Tdr which he LEGISLATION tween t h e farm a n d t h e foreign m a r k e t . a cabinet, table or broad shelf, is to the Missouri farmer to get his wheat dPo a n d a t the same per'mile as we PAssage of the" Capper-French Truth-ln- stand erect and place the hands so into Chicago. The distance is greater a y' s a b long sea haul for which he Fabric bill: completion and operation pf This c a n be d o n e . Move t h e A t l a n t i c i n l a n d . B r e a k d o w n t h e the palms will be parallel with the and the railroad freight is more. But d? o ° u t the same per mile as we the TJ. S. Muscle Shoals Nitrates plant m,H a s W and manufacture of fertilizer; opposition ."M-mile b a r r i e r in t h e St. L a w r e n c e . Let ocean ships, ocean you say, the farmer does not pay the ' surface. If the palms lay flat on the[freight. ; to any form of sales tax or of consump- He gets his cash from the I . S. Farmers', Sorry Plight freight competition, ocean l o w r a t e s come t h r o u g h a n d a p p l y table with the arms and back elevator man. Not quite so fast! tion tax; retention of federal income tax; But here is where the shoe pinch- Passage of Gooding-Ketcham Seed Stain- straight, it is all right, if not, then The Farmer Pays the Freight! ENACTED APR. 26, 1926 ing bill. from the Great L a k e s p o r t s t o E u r o p e . S h o r t e n t h e l a n d h a u l a it should be adjusted. es, we have an extremely long land Even if you should order a car naui—the longest by far of any pro- thousand miles. L o w e r the cost of grain m o v e m e n t . A table or cabinet may be raised TAXATION have it sidetracked at your station ducing group of farmers in the for sorely burdened farm property And y o u lift t h e farm p r i c e ! by using ball bearing casters. If this by enactment of: is not sufficient, blocks of wood may load your grain and ship it yourself world—and have t0 the shortest sea haul. ENACTED JAN. 29, 1925 (a) Two cent gasoline tax for highway W h y — w i t h a clear-cut i*emedy for anid-western . farm de- be used or wooden door bumpers ™;«„i you must pay the freight1 lto the ter , u U1 w Pay the high rate for the " T ". * "^w* ' « ier- , " - f*j mo IIIKII r a t e 101 wic funds. pression before it—why does A m e r i c a hesitate Now—before screwed into the legs are very good. ^ n f ^ m Z ^ L a , n l t h e . p r i c e I™ ^ t | t l 0 ^ ^ n d haul and the same P ro P or- (b State Income Tax in place of State's on the Should the surface be too high, saw nrif>p ~iint« v£T rterminal is not* W L your"home JUUI Iloj n te ne " ° . ; i - *—« ™ t e »oas o t h e T uroaucers umer producers'do general property levy. a n o t h e r low-priced harvest is g a t h e r e d — i s t h e time for action. h Ve dedUCted t h e (e) Law forbidding any more tax exempt off the legs to the desired length freight W h l l In7h! Sh rt 8ea hauI ° - ™ e combined securities. Demand !—and g e t ! — t h e S t . L a w r e n c e ship c h a n n e l . Any kind of a 6tove can be raised price vou ?»„ r ™ h a y e d ° D e S 0 ' t h e n - ° f t h e 8 e t W o r a t e s - o f the ex- TAXES REDUCED (d) Equalization of assessment of farm and to the right height by using blocks te v o n r i n n i , g U r e a t y 0 U r s t a t i o n e land haul a n d of the com- city property in accordance with sales a ' ° r P r i c e ' 1 ) l u s t h e P a ' a t i v e I y inexpensive sea h a u l - $67,350 A N N U A L L Y SINCE 1924 values of same. WINTER SHORT COURSE teacher at the Jericho school, Gene- under the legs. oca, PIPV., Pr0fit Whethe k G S UP f 0 r Us i n (Farm Bureau Investigations brought va township; Mrs. Ernest Muske, Sinks are harder to adjust as it heIJlT^'TT ' r middle-western equalization in Calhoun, Ingham, Wash- OPENS AT MENOMINEE who is also a leader in the Extension means not only changing the sink not ml^l - r e i ? h t o r y°» Pay it does A m f n c a the highest cost of trans- tenaw, Monroe and Kalamazoo counties, Clothing Work; Miss Edna Howe, itself, but all pipes must be length ?rans^tinn '" t h e indiv d * ual portation from the farm to the final saving farmer taxpayers $67,350 excess taxes annually.) The Winter Short Course at the teacher at Riverbend school, Geneva ened or shortened. It may mean the Price h i s h a i % : r e r n e d - T h e l o c a l ?g "r or uk e t o Cf h a i * e d a * a i n s t any large Menominee Agricultural School will township; R. Nymau, ' principal of service of a plumber, but if one is price has had taken out of it the lo- w o r l dP farmers anvwhere in the TRANSPORTATION begin Monday, November 29. The Maple Grove school, South Haven to live in the house many years, the cal elevator charges plus the frefght - anywhere in the E F F E C T I V E SEPT. 10. Immediate application of Michigan 1925 /one Rate decision to save farmer ship- course is built around the dairy in- township, and Mrs. Howe of West cost would be money well expended. P e n s e ' u n ^ t o ^ t h f r * ? C r e & t e s ^ ^ " T COmputed b y the depart- pers in 6U counties |500,000 annually. dustry of the Upper Peniusula and is Lake School of South Haven. A good way to test the sink is by St t h e " ; ' 0 , ' , J t 1S d e l i V e r e d *v ° f ^ c u l t u r e show that the MARKETING designed to give farm boys an oppor- 2_ doubling up the fist and if one can We h a v ? n o i l i t >» . nf IT ?°St t o t h e K a n ^ farmer Extension of sound co-operative mar- tunity to secure some instruction in touch the bottom of it without stoop- of field Huron County Hears vve have now left borhood and crossed the country. W^ the local neigh- d i p p i n g his wheat to Liyerpool keting program now well under way in courses in dairying, feeding, ing, it is a good working height. ll\n i e ° r e a t L a k e s a n d New York Michigan. crops and other farm activities cen- If two people of different heights all agree that the farmer pays the is 4U.1 cents per bushel. The cost to AI TOMOBILE INSURANCE tering about the dairy industry. Of F . B . Road Plans work in the same kitchen, it is bet- freight, but—HOW FAR DOES HK tiJWJ f r o m W i c h i t a , Kansas, via (Continued from page one) EFFECTIVE OCT. 20, Adequate protection for farmers against There will also be some courses in ter to make it right for the taller PAX IT? That is a new question the Gulf ports is 37.5 cents. Of this It isn't going to cost anything this person and to let the shorter person and one we ought to answer pretty tA 1926 loss by fire, theft, collision, property dam- cent3 poultry and woodwork of a more the rail charge makes UP age and public liability furnished at iea- winter to decide on some sort of de f - ible rates. general nature. Practically the only inite program but It is going to cost use a stool or step which may he clearly in our own minds before we l , \ cents or more than two-thirds expense for anyone taking this an unnecessary amount if your town- placed in front of the work table or rest satisfied. of it. =£> course is that of board and room. sink. Turning to the reports of the De- Considered not in distances, The Short Course lasts fourteen ship goes along another year as it Look your kitchen over and make partment of Commerce, we find that PHt.in cost charges taken out weeks and board and room for that always has, except in a few town- sure that your working heights are a good share of our grain, and of our or the prir<. received in Europe THE BIO SHOW period will amount to from $80.00 to ships where a program has been ac- right. livestock products, which represent JJ>r the things we have to sell, Y o u r show a n d mine is on a t Chicago. The I n t e r n a t i o n a l $100.00. cepted. In these few townships their in another form corn, barley, oats better roads show tJ^e result of or- Mje mid-western farmer is far- Livestock Exposition, t h e one really big display of t h e year in W.VTKH TANK KKPAIR and hay, move out of this country ter removed from the markets ganized effort to "get somewhere" and their ultimate expense l o r road To repair a cracked cement water- across the ocean to Europe. ««»at set the world prices, than which Michigan c a n align herself with t h e rest of t h e American c o n t i n e n t in showing off some of h e r most i m p o r t a n t p r o d u c t s of LEADERS IN CLUB WORK maintenance and construction ha3„ ing tank, get a can of heavy roofing The reports of the Department of W the fanner of Russia, or In* been relatively low as compared to cement and, by thinning it with gaso- Agriculture show that Europe does «Wi or the Argentine, or Aus- a g r i c u l t u r e , is in full swing t h e week of N o v e m b e r 27 to De- SIGNED UP IN VAN BUREN •what some of the other, less pro- line, inject it into the cracks after an enormous buying business,., espe- iai,a. This is « transjiorta. gressive townships' road costs have first having dried them out by burn- cially in wheat and livestock prod- »«on handicap that must and c e m b e r 4. The following leaders in Boys' and been and what those townships have ing just a little gasoline on the sur- ucts. This food material is afloat, on can he overcome! It is y o u r show a n d mine, w h y ? Girls' club work have volunteered in to show for their expenses year after face of the tank. The pitch or cement the ocean every day in the year, mov- Succeeding articles in the series Michigan's a g r i c u l t u r e is diversified a n d . in face of VanBuren county: L. B. Karr, agri- year. can be forced into the cracks with ing from every direction of the com- wui explain how this can be done. cultural director, South Haven high an automobile pump or grease gun. pass toward the markets of western the a d v a n t a g e t h e mid-west s t a t e s have over Michigan in t h e mar- school; M. L. Baily, Agricultural di- Allow the first coat to dry and ap- Europe. New Of fit e Boy—"I've* added Husband: Hum' Funny pudding. k e t i n g of t h e i r grain p r o d u c t s by reason of t h e e x i s t i n g freight rector, Hartford high school: Mrs. ply another, and then "wash" the A good share of it comes from the this. M Alma Culver and Miss Agnes those figures up 10 times, s i r . " sides of the tank, using a Portland Argentine, Australia and India. Rus-' enV^ifuL \l*' d e a r ' that's as far as I 5, h e r d a i r y a n d stock r a i s i n g i n d u s t r i e s must be given t h e Ryan of Stoughton's Corners and Employer—"Good boy!" Boy—'And here's the 10 answer*. cement and water paste, giving the sia in normal times supplies a very W L i 1 t h e r e c eipt when the radio proa n t h e world t h e y r i g h t l y deserve a n d t h e support Rush Lake schools; J. R. Cook, tank a coat inside and out. important part. The same thing is oroke down. sir!"—Passing Show. — J i m Jam Jems- OVEMBER 26, 1f>2« M I C H I G A N F A R M BtJBEAtJ NEW 9 2SS5 SH rn^mm • i =555 inter Season Is Proper H o m e a n d Community Leaders Meet Farm Policy Outlined (Continued from page one> F. B. F. meeting, a return ticket i* purchased at one-half far«- cago. Time to Outline Program ed at this convention. Kvery one is needed so that, with .wisdom and with balanced judgment, a policy This reduction applies when 2>0 or more members of the organiza- will be adopted which will assure an tion, holding regularly issued cer- ounty Group Can Accom- LaBeau brand of alfalfa seed right tificates, are present at the conven* equality of opportunity that agricul- plish Much By Planning under our very nose and that we ture so sorely needs." tion. were envied by all of Michigan for The Exposition—the First Nation- The annual banquet will be held Winter Months our close proximity to it? Let's show in the grand ball room ot Hotel al Farm Bureau Agricultural Exposi- our friends and ourselves the biggest tion—is a new feature of the Farm Sherman, Tuesday evening, Decem- By MILS. EDITH M. WAGAR cranberry marsh in the state and the ber 7. On Monday evening, Decem- Bureau annual meeting. This Ex- "The tension on the season's work biggest apricot orchard of the state; ber 6, an old-fashioned country dance position will afford the delegates to beginning to loosen and the offi- then let's point out our wonderful will follow the speaking program. nurseries and the large paper mills the convention an opportunity of see- ials of our Farm Bureau counties nd townships can begin to think in our county. ing exhibits put in by outstanding co-operative marketing associations. Delegates from every uatiou are jice more about the work that has "Are we satisfied with the county expected to convene at Washington een put off from time to time. Much Exhibits reflecting work of the Farm just as it is? Is our school system next June, and then set out on a soil* f the planning and really a good just what we want? Have we access Bureau, county, state and national, as well as intensely interesting and sttidy over an itinerary covering hare of the actual operation of an to electricity for power and light? practically every state. rganization must come between the Do we have telephone service just as educational exhibits by representative arvest season and planting time, we want it? commercial firms which present new nd any job well planned is half ideas applicable to agriculture, will "Was it necessary or wise to ask Poultry Shippers one at the beginning. the state tax commission to settle be shown. 'I have no doubt that many of our our differences last summer? The Farm Bureau Exposition is Per results and service send your future shipments of Live oiks have been thinking about what "Are we doing our part as leaders not to be a duplicate of the great Poultry to hey would like to see done through in a great farm organization to pro- commodity shows like the Interna- FARM BUREAU POULTRY E X C H tional Livq Stock Expositiofn, (but 2610 Riopelle St., Detroit, Mich. heir own local Farm Bureau, even tect our fellOw fawners from the real f their home work compelled them estate shark? rather an Exposition showing the o go no further. Xow is just the time "These are just a few of the many progress in marketing, the progress o put some of those plans into ac- problems of our county. Every coun in living conditions and the like. ioii. ty of the state has its own needs and Model Farm Home "I wish every county board would it also has possibilities. There's a That the farm women of Michigan are taking an active and a leadership part in the general scheme of Particular attention has been paid et the right group to work on mak- ng a thorough survey of their own great work ahead of us, if we would only search it out and then do it. agricultural development in the state can well be reasoned from the big attendance of such workers shown in the accompanying picture. The group pictured here represents only part of the Home Demonstration and Community work leaders to arranging a group of exhibits of special interest to farm women. These will center around the model farm Co-operation ounty. I'm sure you'd surprise your- "I've said, a few times the past elf at the result and all would have greater appreciation of their im- year, and thought of it many more times, that in this day of grading ev erything it is regretable that we can of the state who are carrying a definite course of; training to the homes of some 20,000 women as part of the extension work of Michigan State College. These 350 or 400 women, shown above, met for the first Rally Day conference of their organization at home to be put in by the Home and Community department of the A. F. B. F . Means ediate surroundings. Too many of East Lansing recently and outlined their program for the ensuing year. There are fiye separate and dis- s have our eyes and minds on some hanges or improvements we would not grade people. "If we had some sort of machine which all committee members and of This phase of rural educational activity is under the leadership of Mrs. Louise Campbell, state home dem- onstration leader, of Michigan State College. tinct educational exhibits being put in by the U. S. Department of Agri- Satisfaction iave someone higher up make. We ficials would have to pass through culture. Among these will be an ex- ake frequent suggestions as to to be placed where they belong, I'm hibit showing the work of the newly hat congress can or cannot do— e even have the audacity to say sure it would be a blessing—we'd have some people serving on boards Alfalfa Raising, Combined With Dairy created marketing department. On Friday and Saturday preceding WHEN vhat the President should do and we and committees whom we never had the opening of the convention proper, Shipments are made re more or less excited over the mnagement of our own state gov- expected were eligible and we'd also discard some who accept but do not serve. And Sheep Industry Is Profitable there will be held a home and com- munity training school at Hotel Sher- man under the auspices of the Home through one of the "A home that must draw its sup- rnment. "Now while we need to give heed "We do so need real live wires to keep the Farm Bureau or any other POULTRYMEN SET Farmers Can't About Agriculture If They Complain port and taxes from without, is a misnomer. At best, it is but a tem- and Community department. Educa- tion, citizenship, property rights of COX)PS i o these "things, we are too prone to •gleet the local calls within our worthy cause living up to its possi- bilities. HIGH STANDARDS Raise Alfalfa porary place of residence. "Notwithstanding the general women, music, marketing, better movies, rural health, costume design- -raBp and power and duty. "We all need to shake ourselves up By I. Krautl agricultural depression prevailing ing farm home improvements—all of Patronize the co-op- "I cannot iga into detail of any to the fact that there is a special the last five years, no alfalfa en- these are subjects which will be dis- urvey in any county except Monroe, work for each to do and the sooner Improvement Ass'n Aims To MiUershnrg, Michigan thusiast adhering to a combination cussed in the two-day session of the erative commission "The additional source of revenue ind by no means have I there reach- we set ourselves at our own job the Better Condition For gradually developing on Northern of breeding ewes and dairy cows in school. d the limit, tor I find something quicker we're all going to see re- Hatchery Michigan low-priced lands, is not only his crop diversities in northern Mich- As is the usual custom, arrange- houses at Detroit lew and quite often surprising al- sults. gratifying to whole farm communi- igan, has any cause to complain, un- ments have been completed to pro- nost every day. I am going to give "I know, personally, the tempta- ties but makes' our vacant agricul- less all the labor was performed by vide delegates and visitors to the , and East Buffalo. It ou a brief outline of some of our tion is great to let the mind dwell on Seeking to elevate the standards hired help. Their returns were never tural areas all the more inviting— meeting with special reduced railroad findings in this county that you may some of the bigger problems such as of business within the ranks of the better. will pay you well. poultrymen and hatcherymen of the when Agriculture stages a comeback. rates. The certificate plan, which has jetter understand the thought I wish legislation and transportation and "To popularize rural life, there is "In the days of ox carts, spring- been used by the Farm Bureau for o pass on to the other counties with taxation and, while they're all most state, the board of directors of the Michigan State Poultry Improvement however one untried remedy to in- less wagons and impassable roads, several years, will be in force again he hope that it might be helpful. vital to our organization, still we the occupants of covered wagons sure occupancyi of all idling arable this year. Tickets will be purchased "Monroe county is directly mid- must not neglect the close-at-hand association in session at its regular land, from the Atlantic to the Pa- courted privations and isolation, to by those attending the convention Mich. Livestock Exchange ,vay between two large cities, Detroit matters which, in the long run, spell meeting, this month, determined to id Toledo, and therefore is situat- the difference between a wide-awake refuse accreditation to several con- cific, without in any way resulting in become the proud owner of an in- at their local station at the regular Co-Op. Commission Mchts. up-and-doing membership, or one dy- cerns whose business ethics of the over production, or lowering wages, dependent fireside. one-way traffic fare. At the time the Dix Ave., Detroit d in an ideal way so far as market facilities are concerned; this is an ing of dry rot." past year would not warrant their which is herein outlined for the bene- "In this age, the hardships of pion- ticket is purchased a certificate will dvantage, not as thoroughly appre- being listed as accredited hatcheries fit of a wiser generation. eering in Michigan is no more. Good be secured from the local station Producers Co-Operative and instructed the secretary of the "To popularize any legitimate call, roads, rural delivery, phones, radios agent. iated as it should be, in fact we and the little old Ford has banished Commission Ass'n , i to get a jolt once in a while rom from some of our less favored G.R., HOLLAND R.R. organization to write certain other" hatcheries, informing them of the necessity of living up to the stand- ing—dignify it." "Northern Michigan, in a modest way is now growing alfalfa seed at isolation, nevertheless, the cities con- tinue to drain the rural centers of When this certificate has been properly checked by the Transporta- tion Department secretary at the A. 965 Williams, E. Buffalo armers of more isolated sections, to ealize it. We have in general a good ype of soil,—level as a floor. Prop- IS SOLDIOR JUNK ards of the association if they are to continue as association members this year and benefit by accreditation. a yield per acre, comparing favor- able with Millard County, Utah, the its best material in increasing num- bers. But, once let the factory lights r drainage was a slow process, al- highest yielding area in the United dim for a prolonged period, how the YOUR COWS DESERVE SAGINAW BLOCKS hough the greatest requirement for Advertising was discussed by the States. empty stomachs crowding the bread Court Order Wouldn't Permit board and a policy agreed upon for line will cry out: O Merciful God, If cows could talk they would say, "Pass me a s - .success. A few of our farmers still "As an instance, John Inglis, a pro- other SAGINAW BLOCK." have the old prejudice against "bury- Farm Bureau to Act checking closely on the advertising gressive pioneer settler, near Millers- lead us to the turnip fields.'" Only SAGINAW BLOCKS contain Calcium Chlor- ing good money" when a tile drain of the organization's members so biirg, secured 3S bushels of Grimm's ide in appreciable amounts. Thin helps to balance the is mentioned. In Matter that only truth-in-advertising will be alfalfa seed on1 a three year old field animal's mineral ration by supplying the usual de- employed by association members. 'We are the eastern gateway of the state through which , thousands of tourists pass during the summer Forty-three miles of electric rail- way line has been sold for junk, the One case, where a hatcheryman last year made shipment of stock in- of five acres. "Last year's seed crop, on the HILLSDALE BUREAU ficiency in calcium salts. SAGINAW BLOCKS keef stock of all kinds in healthier condition. Remember that SAGINAW BLOCKS are the, only same field, yielded but three bushels season. In all things the first im- pression is the most lasting; to have Una being the Grand Rapids, Holland and Chicago interurban road afford- ing service between Grand Rapids ferior to that advertised, was given consideration by the board and the member advised of a reasonable way per acre, owing to a dry and hot spell at seed forming time. POSTPONES ANNUAL blocks made from Medium Salt. The flat grained crystals in SAGINAW BLOCKS dissolve easier; the cattle get more salt. This means more milk amj Michigan rightly appreciated as a na- "An antiquated "clover huller" in greater profits. tional summer playground, it be- and Holland for quarter of a cen- of making an adjustment sought by the purchaser. Should this method of no way suited for the purpose was Hillsdale County Farm Bureau SAGINAW SALT PRODUCTS COMPANY hooves Monroe County to look its tury. held a very enthusiastic meeting in settlement not be carried out, the used in securing the seed in both in- Saginavet Michigan best. No intervention was made possi- stances. Northern grown seed of the the Boys' and Girls' Club Building on "When we remember that the ble for the Michigan State Farm Bu- secretary of the Michigan State T. ...II.H.IIH Poultry Improvement association is Grimm strain, at present quoted the Hillsdale County Fair grounds, tourist trade last year exceeded the reau traffic department because the Thursday evening, November 18. F . U. S. district court ordered the line to commence suit against this mem- around $36.00 per bushel, commands value of all of the soil crops of the State, it is good business for us to sold as either a going concern or ber for reimbursement to the asso- the highest price of any alfalfa seed E. Haynes, vice-president, acted as MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU POULTRY FEEDS ciation after paying the claim for in the market. chairman of the meeting. DEPENDABLE and ECONOMICAL slick up and keep them coming. junk, and the receiver of the defunct concern accepted the highest bid, damages from the association funds, "So adaptable is this strain for Hillsdale County is one of the 30 Michigan Chick Starter with Buttermilk "We have all of the Michigan the board decreed. in the 1926 volunteer membership that of a Chicago junk company and northern areas, it has received the Michigan Growing Math with Buttermilk frontage of Lake Erie within our campaign and has signed 240 mem- county and it is with great regret a Grand Rapids junk concern, acting Thus the organization is establish- highest endorsement of the U. S. De- Michigan Laying Mash with Buttermilk jointly. ing itself on a real business-like partment of Agriculture and the de- bers to date with about half the coun- Make Chicks grow and kens lay that we realize the short sightedness ty covered. This meeting was called of our state and county, that as yet This leaves a farmers' co-operative foundation and aims to weed out the partments of agriculture in every For tale by the local Co-op. or Farm Bureau agent. Iruitt on elevator at Jamestown without di- irresponsible producer and, by co- state, where a hardy strain of alfalfa as the annual meeting. While the Michigan brand. Write for free Poultry feeding booklet. " D e p t - F " no portion of this frontage has been attendance was good it was shown by MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU SUPPLY SERVICE reserved for public park purposes. rect rail facilities. This elevator wa8 operation of dependable concerns, is necessary for results, which in- make it more difficult for the un- cludes a vast territory. the roll call that not a sufficient Lansing. Michigan Is it now too late? Are the prices established but a comparatively short time ago and now must de- desirable ones to carry on in Michi- "Faith Justified" number of the townships were repre- iTiTiTr.Tri'fji'^''''-''ii','|ivi,nYiTmTri,r>,a,»viz muauum now beyond our reach? gan. 'We "have been told time and time pend for transportation facilities, on "It was the year 1899, while resid- sented to form a quorum. The busi- •wn again that, | we need a new jail and motor truck if it is to continue to It was decided to prepare similar ing in Minneapolis, the writer in a ness part of the meeting therefore that we need more room in the coun- operate, unless other arrangements chick-box stickers and chick-box very receptive mood visited Grimm was adjourned to the evening of Fri- ty building, How many of our folks really know? Have we made a per- can be devised. Being some three miles distant from a steam line, the labels, three inches in diameter, and allow the hatcheryman to express Alfalfa Seed Farm of Lyman Bros, near Lake Minnetonka ,and there be- day, December 3, when the real an- nual meeting will be held, and board The Truth in Feed sonal investigation that we might problem of getting rail facilities ap- his personal preference as to which came inoculated with an incurable of directors and officers elected. Pass sound judgment on either of pears somewhat remote at present. he shall use this season. This was alfalfa microbic disease that is only O. L. Brody, secretary-manager, of these propositions? A. P. Mills, Michigan State Farm decided upon . as a distinguishing soothed by the sight of an alfalfa the State Farm Bureau, addressed the Bureau traffic manager, took up the mark for the marketed product of field. meeting which was full of interest all "We have many miles of hard sur- matter of protection of farmer and accredited hatcheries of the state and way through. Anyone seeing the en- faced roads within our county, yet to give the purchaser greater assur- ."At the time of my visit to Lyman many of us feel that we must have elevator interests in an effort to pro- Bros.' farm, I had become interested thusiasm of those people over the hibit withdrawal of the railroad ance of a square deal and of quality membership work would certainly easier access to them; can we af- as advertised. in Presque Isle county land for -a ford to have better side roads or from the territory, but the court or- sheep ranch in the near future. have confidence in the future of the again, can we afford not to have der prevented any action of this na- Action was taken designating the "It struck me very forcibly while Hillsdale County Farm Bureau. them? Are our roads costing too ture by the traffic department. first Thursday of December, January, The building in which the meeting charging my system with alfalfa mi- much, are they the right kind and Sale of this railroad was transact- February and March as a meeting was held is worthy of special men- crobes that, if this cheaply grown, are they where we think they should ed as a mortgage foreclosure pro- date, the next meeting to be Decem- tion. Hillsdale County has been first ber 2. high selling seed can thrive near be? ceeding and, because of its nature, Minneapolis sd profitably to the in many good things and their latest "For some time we have had over did not permit of any intervention achievement has been the erecting of growers, it certainly would do equal- $118,000 in the rural school library fund of the county, made possible by the numerous penal fines. Are we by disinterested parties. In the ma- jority of instances the Farm Bu- reau traffic department has oppor- tunity to defend the farmer inter- " I AM PLAY" "Whenever I am crowded from a palace or a humble ly as well in Presque Isle county, which is in the same latitude and my interest in alfalfa intensified. a Boys' and Girls' building on the Hillsdale County Fair Grounds. The money for the building was raised Dairymen of Michigan! making the best use of that money by the Boys' and Girls' clubs in the by keeping it on deposit and using ests or elevator interests wherever home, the phsyician enters. It "I immediately shipped a trial county under the able leadership of To assure increased milk production; abandonment of a line or part of the is a law of Nature that they bushel of Grimm's Alfalfa seed to the the interest only, or should we study Lewis H. Matthias, county club thoroughly the county library system line, or even a station is proposed. who despise me, must pay the Rainy Lake farm, with explicit in- agent, each d u b having a certain To have stronger calves at birth This case, however, presented an un- doctor. If you would digest structions for planting. The share and adopt it if practicable? quota to raise. "A few weeks ago a meeting was fortunate circumstance, from the your food, laugh and be jolly. Dyspepsia reaps his harvest renter on the place was from the The building is practically all paid AND I failed in the county to consider the viewpoint of those interested in a fi- Province of Quebec, and could only c orn borer menace and how to com- nancial way in the elevator company. from play-less bodies. dioipber the French alphabet. As a for and consists of a dining room To maintain a well conditioned herd at all time* "As the master loosens the result, my instructions could not and assembly room on the basement bat it; eighteen counties were repre- sented and even residents within our tension of the violin strings, so reacb his understanding and my seed floor. The main floor is a splendid Feed a Ration that has been formulated to pro- county were shocked at the serious IOWA FARMER AWARDED I relax the tautness of human was mixed with red clover seed and exhibit room and the upper floor has large dormitories for boys and girls. vide a proper balance. situation. Are we doing all we can nerves and give them rest planted. to control this enemy? Are we as in ; CORN HUSKING HONORS through change. "Upon my visit to the farm the The building is well finished and well dividuals, cleaning up. plowing, "If I could persuade men and following year, I was bitterly'up- equipped throughout. You Can Depend on j |g shredding, etc., as we should? Are Fred Stanek, Iowa's champion women to come out of doors braided for sending weedy clover Hillsdale County Farm Bureau and w with me, they could close half Boys' and Girls' Club folk are to be e talking convincingly to the neigh- bor who says "there ain't no such cornhusker, won the national cham- pionship corn husking title for 1926, of their hospitals and prisons in a generation. I am the bal- seed. The poof'iellow was kept busy, all summer 'pulling the weeds' out congratulated on having such a splen did headquarters for their boys and MICHIGAN animal, or who pooh hoos the need by shucking 28.2 bushels in 80 min- of the clover field and, human like, of any alarm over the matter? utes. Stanek beat his nearest op- ance wheel, the governor of the I too exploded. girls club work in the county. "Again, why can we not sometime have eighteen counties visit us and le t us show them the many good qualities of our county? We have them, lots of them. We'd even sur- prise ourselves when we made the ponent by 2.9 bushels. Joe Sudik, Nebraska champion, was second, with 25.3 bushels, while Carl Seilers. Illinois runnerup was next with 2.").2 bushels. Elmer Williams, Illinois cham- human soul. Religious people are not made better through lack of diversions. Rather they are made to grow unnat- ural. I could again paint up- on their cheeks the roses of "A home builded on northern Michigan's alfalfa areas, by build- ers possessing an intelligent contin- uity of purpose, is destined to be a permanent home where, on the hum- blest table, chicken dinners are not ' Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdi ties no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. This day for all MilRmaRer The Original Open-Formula Dairy Feed. attempt to look them up. pion, defending the national title, health and give red life to their regarded as events. that is good and fair. —Emerson. You/ local distributor can supply you. If you "How many of us know we have won last year with a record of 35.8 souls. Prayer is not more one of Michigan's Master Farmers bushels, failed to do better than 21.3 necessary to life than I. Really, "A real home is a permanent Autumn is the time of year we have no local dealer, write us. abode that, from within, yields to the Within our county and how many of Wednesday. he prays best who plays best." welcome so joyously the winter we'll whole family, food, shelter and be so glad to bid goodbye next us have visited his farm and his seed corn drying house—the best in the state? Williams still holds the world'« record of 35.8 which he established —Dr. Hilland, in The Farmers Wife. necessary comforts, providing in- dustry and efficiency is applied. ' spring. —Southern Lumberman. Michigan Farm Bureau Supply Service ,last year. Lansing, Michigan "How many of us were surprise:! when we learned that we had the NOVKMBKR 26, lft. I«)t 14 MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU NEW9 ? who spent months investigating olll WASHTENAW COUNTY NORTHERN POTATO ORCHARDIST GIVES NOTHING OMITTED NEW SEED INDUSTRY ILLINOIS BUREAU mutual and private companies J * tend that not only can a saving?" made on the cost of insurance K DEVELOPS IN STATE ESTABLISHES OWN SEED FOR SOUTH "A postmaster appointed under GROUP REPRESENTS ) DEMONSTRATION IN President Buchanan found in his in- structions that he was expected to re- all policy holders will have an i'nt m est in the surplus and other fu f' H MICH. AT CHICAGO W. A. Branaugh, of Harrisonville, Mo., has grown potatoes on the same APPLE TREE CARE port quarterly. He addressed the fol- lowing official communication, which Antrim County Now Leads In INSURANCE DEFT as they accumulate. Cod Liver Oil Adulterated field for 20 years and has produced was printed in Harpers Monthly of his own seed during that time. He July, 1881, to the president: World's Production of Mutual, Farmer-Owned Ins. Even the lowly cod liver t State Contest Champions T o has had satisfactory yields and good Cass County Fruit Men Show "Mr. James Buchanan, President Radish Seed imitated in cheap-sale preparati quality potatoes, but last spring he of the United States: Co. Ready to Operate itio^ Take Leading Part In bought 200 pounds of certified north- Active Interest In where vegetable oil and fish oil Dear Sir: Been required by the In Another State sometimes mixed and sold for Exposition ern seed potatoes and reports that Orchard Study instructions of the Poet Office to re- Sweet clover and Hardigan alfalfa liver oil, the secretary of the i j ct'od h, he raised two times as many potatoes port quarterly. I know heerwith fool- seed production is a new industry gan State Poultry Improvement a'* from a row of certified potatoes as In regard to pruning mature apple fil that pleasing duty by reportin as which promises to put thousands of FOLLOWS RIGHT IN LINE sociation pointed out in a recent bin* ENTRIES SET RECORD he did from a row of home grown. trees, Prof. Cardinell, research spe- follows. The harvesting has been go- acres of idle, but fertile cutover land letin to hatcherymen of the stat No doubt Mr. Branaugh has been cialist in orchard culture, stationed ing on peerty, and most of the na- m northern Michigan to w'ork. calling attention to the need 0f „'' using better seed potatoes than are in Cass county, conducting several bors have got their cutting dun. J L. L. Drake and W. C. Cribbs, Principal Agricultural States ing discretion in picking the souJ* State Well Represented in generally used, but he says, "I am demonstrations in Cass county Wheat is hardly a average c-rop; on Michigan State College extension spe- Are Rapidly Adopting of the cod liver oil to be fed chick* wrong. Northern seed potatoes will orchards recently, stated that results rolan Ian corn is yallerish and wont cialists, are among the leaders in Number Of Animals turn out more than ten or fifteen Mutual Plan ens during the coming w i ' pay and pay well." of recent experiments tend to upset this new movement at Mancelona. months. A list of reliable manufac Being Shown A number of other persons who some of* the theories long regarded bushels to the aker The health of : They are practicing a unique sys- turers is kept by the secretary 0J planted Certified seed potatoes along as settled. the community is only tolerable and tem of seed culture. Operating costs A state-wide mutual automobile In- this association or can be had b eholery has broke out about 2 and are being kept at a minimum by their surance company for farmers lias writing the office of the Michigan Michigan is represented in the side their home grown seed have re- For instance, pruning has been one-half miles from here There is a non-collegiate live stock judging con- ported double yields for the certified held to be a good substitute for methods. been launched by the Illinois Agri- Farm Bureau News. ' powerful awakening on the subject cultural Association. test at the International Live Stock seed and much better quality. thinning the fruit, but carefully of religion in the falls naborhood Sweet clover is grown in the fields Exposition, this year, by its state first. It prepares the soil for. alfalfa The decision to go into this field checked experiments have shown and many soals. are being made to champion team from Washtenaw to follow. followed a joint meeting of Farm > • • • • that the thinning can be done more know their sins forgiven. county, composed of Raymond Gir- bach, Saline; Mac Olds, Ypsilanti; 71 MICH. COUNTIES cheaply. Pruning has also been em- ployed to stimulate growth of devi- "This is about awl I have to re- port the present quarter. Give my Grow Hardigan Alfa Ira Bureau presidents and the executive After the first crop of sWeet clov- committee of the I. A. A. in Chicago BUSINESS NEWS Clifford Boyer, Salem and Rodney er seed is harvested, they disk the recently, when the proposition receiv- Lincoln, Saline. This team from the Washtenaw County Live Stock club FINANCINGTB WORK talized trees, buj for this purpose nitrogen carrying fertilizers can be respects to Mrs. Buchanan, and sub- scribe myself. fields. Enough seed usually shells ed the unanimous endorsement of Off the first crop to self-seed the the assembly. Five cents a word for one Inser- tion; 4'/ 2 cents per word for each of two insertions; 4 cents a word per insertion for each of three inser- employed at a considerable saving of Yours truly, won first in the junior judging con- money and with greater effectiveness. field. If not, the field is seeded to The trend toward compulsory li- tions, and at the 4 cent rate f 0 r test at the recent Michigan State Eleven Counties Were Added ISAIAH JOHNSON, succeeding insertions. Count each All this does not mean that prun- "Postmaster at Shannon, Hardigan alfalfa, a hardy variety de- ability auto insurance which is be- word, abbreviation and figure, in- fair. It will compete at Chicago To Those That Allow veloped at Michigan State College by coming more apparent each day was eluding words In signature as against similar state champion ing is a thing of the past, but it does Fulton Co., Illinois." words. Cash must accompany the late Prof. Frank A. Spragg, plant a factor in influencing the state as- order. Michigan Farm Bureau teams from all parts of the country Fund to Help indicate that growers can easily breeder. sociation to enter this field. Massa- News. waste a lot of time and money by to decide the national title. The three highest ranking will receive agricultural individuals Board of Supervisors in 11 coun- over-pruning and at the same time college ties appropriated funds for bovine do their orchard a real damage. PAYMENT IS MADE Fields which self-seed produce the chusetts already has passed a law cheapest seed crops. Yields of five compelling all auto owners to carry —« to seven bushels of sweet clover are liability and accident insurance, and MISCELLANEOUS scholarships of $500, $300 and $200 tuberculosis eradication in co-opera- On the positive side of the ques- offered by the Chicago Association of 'tion with the State Department of tion, of course, all dead wood should TO MICH. GROWERS obtained per acre. This seed sold a similar bill will probably be intro- around $7 a bushel last year and the duced in the Illinois-state legislature tion of P y r a m i d p o u l t r y shipping coops W R I T E F O R P R I C E A N D DESCRIP- Commerce. Michigan has entered a Agriculture and the Federal Bureau be cut out. Interlacing branches team in the National contest every of Animal Industry during Octpber. should be all or partially removed to year since it was established, in The law provides that appropriations prevent limb rubs on the fruit. FOR WOOL POOLED crop from many fields owners two and three times the orig- repaid their next winter. Find F w t s F a r m B u r e a u P o u l t r y E x c h a n g e , 2610 RiopeJle s t r e e t , D e t r o i t . 3-12-tf 1919. inal cost of the land. Information uncovered by the in- THOROUGHBRED S H R O P S H I R j ! shall be made during the month of Pruning may be employed to dis- to recognition of its educational October and the sessions just closed courage excessive height, but cau- Association Manager Says It Only two pounds of'kardigan al- vestigating committee reveals that ged Vearlinp and »wm lambss t h e sturdy rug-1 kind with lots of size a n d type. p o r • Talue to the stockmen and farmers added 11 counties to the waiting list tion must be exercised here or, for falfa seed is sown per acre where the there is one motor vehicle for every p a r t i c u l a r s a n d p h o t o s w r i t e Joe Mor- alonglheir lines, all railroads in the and brought the total number of each limb cut off, several sprouts will W a s Largest Pool Ever crop is being grown ror seed. Many 5.7 persons in the United States. The iarty, H u d s o n , Mich. ll-2fi-2| Upper Peninsula granted an open counties which have approved the take its place, Mr. Cardinell show- fields in northern Michigan will yield number• d' f automobile fatalities has Handled two and three bushels per acre this increased from 11,074 in 1920 to d u c k s a n d d r a k e s %2M e a c h , also pure. FULL B L O O D E D VtUii&' PEKIN *dtnd-rrip rate of a fare and one- plan and appropriated funds for ed. b r e d T o u l o u s e g e c n e Part 'McAvoy, fhiri' tti the International Live Stock carrying on the work up to 71, leav* season. 19,828 in 1925. The Association (Laingsburs, Mich, Too many growers, he stated, -30-26; ExpdteiWon. Tickets are being sold ing only 12 counties in Michigan prune the'center of their trees too Exactly 3,996,894 pounds of wool The seed now is being quoted feels that farmers are preferred risks — S frbrrr No*. 25 to Dee. 1, inclusive, and which have not.yet passed favorably heavily, causing the bearing area to were received by the Ohio Wool around, $30 a bushel. The land on since they drive almost altogether in Growers' Co-operative Association up Will haVe a return limit of Dec. 10. on this program. be only a shell on the outside of the to October 30, J. F. Walker, secre- which it was grown cost, around $20 the couptry and rural sections. All railroads m Lower Michigan have tree. Also, frequently, in an effort an acre. Therefore fch^y should hafe th« ad- put in effect a rate of a fare and one- The eleven, t new counties include tary of the association and wool Radish seed production also is vantage of a much lower rate than AMERICA'S LEADING to "open up" the tree, so many limbs half with a similar period of sale, Saginaw, Lapeer, Oakland and Jack- are removed that serious sun scald marketing specialist of the Ohio playing a prominent part in increas- the city dweller. ; FUR HOUSE and a return limit of December 6. son in the southern part of the state, results. All cuts greater than two Farm Bureau Federation has just an- ing the prosperity of northern Michi- Policies in the new company will This offers an excellent opportunity Oscoda, Lake, Osceola, Clare, Arenac inches in diameter should be paint nounced. * gan's agriculture. Antrim county be issued only to Farm Bureau mem- •EitiWishei 1 to enjoy a visit to the world's great- and Mecosta in the upper half of the ed with coal tar thinned with creo While the wool co-operative was now produces about 50 per cent Of bers or members of their immediate 1853 est agricultural show and a trip to lower peninsula and Keweenaw, the sote oil to prevent decay. organized to Berve Ohio growers, the entire radish seed crop in the families. An immediate drive will the metropolis with all its attractions northernmost county in the upper 358,360 pounds of wool were con- be made for 5,000 charter members RAUGOTT peninsula. These counties add 27,- As regards control of fire blight, signed to it this year by Indiana United States. Much of this seed at special reduced rates. Michigan Entries 000 herds including 216,000 cattle, this disease cannot be fought with growers and 115,926 pounds by crop is grown on recently cleared, company. to the waiting list. In Jackson sprays as it is a bacterial disease that growers of Michigan. Scattering eheap cutover lands. Early entries in the live stock county, where the work was discon- works inside the bark. When its clips were received from wool pro- necessary to the, operation Broad Powers of the 5CHMID classes by Michigan exhibitors in- tinued by popular vote in November, presence is discovered the cankers ducers of other states. The new organization is organized ^ T AND SONS clude: Gotfredson Land Co., Ypsi- 1924, the Board of Supervisors ap- from which it is spread should be lanti, 7 Shorthorns; F. E. Shepherd propriated the money subject to the located and scraped off. This can slightly more than 2;500;000 pounds Of the 4,000,000 pounds received, DENIES EXEMPTION under the uniform mutual law of the state and is a legal reserve company. (PAY7 (THE MARKET* / & Son, Charlotte, 1 steer; Rosewood best be done in the winter' when the had been sold and 1,318,740 pounds The powers of the company are broad Farm, Howell, 8 Shorthornp; Wood- approval of the people in the, regular outside limits of the canker uan be remained to be sold, on Oct, 30.* cote Stock Farm, Ionia, 15 Angus; election on November 2nd. The vote easily determined. After the sap be- was favorable and Jackson County- Wool contained in the. 8.294 lots ON CO-OP INCOMES enough so .it pan write of insurance ljeeid$| «uton\olei> o^her. forms , HIGHEST MARK Btirsley Bros., Charlotte. S Oxfords; C. H. Prescott & Sons. Tawas City, 8 has been placed on the waiting list gins to flow, very little can be ac- came from more growers than con-: Bhdrthorns; W. S. Wood & Sons, once more. complished. tribute to any similar wool market Was denied exemption from payment ing organization in the T'nit,ed States, of income taxes by the Bureau of will ndt,.-however," enter p i e ' fire, Recently, a co-operative association lightning or windstorm field. for Raw Furs Control will rest in a board of di- Ship t o u s for B I G M O N E T . Our it Rives Junction. 10 Milking Short- Sometimes criticism is offered for • rectors by the policy holders each of -over y e a r s of fair d e a l i n g a n d our capital of not making a greater effort to line he says. internal Revenue because its records $1,000,000.00 is y o u r g u a r a n t e e of horns; L. C. Kelly & Son. Marshall. whom will have one vote. The Ex- It Polled Shorthorns and 24 Sheep; up new counties for the work. The H. D. Crandell. Cass City, 54 sheep; long waiting list of counties, ever MIDLAND COUNTY Most of the wools handled by the did not disclose the amount of busi Ohio co-operative ' ajje those known ness which it had done with mem- ecutive Committee of the Illinois mission.posrSend in the market as fine WOQIS. About bers and the amount which it had Agricultural Association will be the a n d g r e a t special offer to all shippers and satisfaction. parpel W e p a y all exprc c h a r g e s — a n d c h a r g e no com- for R a w F u r Price List Owosso Sugar Co., Alicia, 18 Belgi- since the campaign got nicely under fur b u y e r s . ** a million and three quarters pounds done with non'members. first board of directors ans and 4 drafters; Michigan State way, is the best answer to this criti- T r a u g o t t S c h m i d t & S o n s , ( P h o n e Mam College, East Lansing, 11 steers, 19 cism. State and federal funds avail- pf wools falling into the classes Under the revenue act of 1926, an The officials' of the Association 4881) 1048 B e a u b i e n St., D e t r o i t . Mich. known as delajne,. baby delaine, half, association that is otherwise exempt hogs. 45 sheep and 8 Percherons and able for carrying on the tuberculosis 5 Belgians; Win. Soripps, Orion. 1 eradication campaign have never ear Shropshire lambs. 3 sheep and been sufficient to meet the, demands AT ANNUAL MEET three-eighths, and quarter blood sta- will not lose, its exemption if it does ple have been sold at prices .ranging business with or for non-members, from 42 to 46" cents, delivered east. if the proceeds of sales in the case ID Angus; C. A. Gross, Hartford, 23 from the counties and to solicit new hogs; Edwin A. Knapp, Manchester. counties when they were coming in 1 Shorthorn; Howard Hereford voluntarily much taster than they Farms, Ionia, 2 Herefords; Herbert could be taken care of, has not been Organization Out Membership Record To Make A Clothing 38 to 41 wools have brought from of marketing organizations are turn- cents, delivered east,' with ed bkiU tt | M luembeTrf * n $ f # & seedy and burry wools and other low- memfteW "\eaJ ti^ineciassary'mairk^t- er stocks bringing prices below this. ing. expenses on the basiB of either One Auto in 2 0 M. Vincent. New Holland, 10 Spotted necessary. During Year Kills or injures someone in a year, Poland-Chinas and 1 Poland-China; Practically all growers of Michi- t h e quality or the value of the prod- The 12 counties which so far have and Corey Farms, New Haven, 18 withheld approval of the plan include Midland County Farm Bureau held gan, Indiana and western Ohio using ucts furnished by them," or in the Think what this means— Berkshires. the annual meeting i n the dining the co-operative, have received *pay- case of purchasing associations, if Lenawee, Ionia, Montcalm, Gratiot, ment in full for their 1926 consign- the supplies and equipment are turn- T H E RISK YOU T A K E — Show Sets Records Midland, Bay, Huron, ,Sanilac, Al- room of the Community Center ments. ed over to the members or other per- every time your car runs on a public nigh way. With the closing of the entry cona, Alpena, Mackinac and Chip- building at Midland, on Tuesday, sons "at actual cost plus necessary books for the individual live stock pewa. Several important livestock November 23. In the absence of the expenses." The foregoing with re- GET FULL PROTECTION INSURANCE classes, Secretary-Manager B. H. and dairy counties are among this president and secretary, Oscar Wall- Heide announced that the greatest number and some of them may be array of cattle, horses, sheep and heard from during the coming year. Schoup as secretary. en was chosen chairman and C. S., MICHIGAN SPUDS spect to non-members is subject to the following: A policy in the hogs ever brought together will take The second test of Monroe County A potluck part in the contest of the exposition. has been completed with very satis- eight townships were represented. dinner was served and HIGH IN QUALITY "Such an association may market the products of non- members in an amount the val- State Farm Mutual Auto Ins. Co. Entries in the horse show and in the factory results. 3,510 herds includ- Mr. and Mrs. Earl Pelton provided ue of which does not exceed the tarload''classes were expected to well ing 22,853 cattle were tested and 336 music exc*ed"l'l,500 animals. reactors found on 239 premises. The a,* The November 1, estimate of the Midland -County is in the thirty- potato crop of the United States was value of the products marketed for members, a_nd may purchase, A FARM MUTUAL COMPANY xfaWe'lead in the individual classv number of infected farms has been county volunteer membership- cam- 360,727,000 bushels, an increase Of supplies and equipment for non-, with insurance written on farmer-owned cars only, W,'furnishing 1959 head out of a ta- reduced by nearly 60 per cent and the paign where the follow-up work Ms about 10 million bushels over the members in an amount the val- *M : W'4845 entries, with sheep rank- percent of infection is less than one- now being conducted and is going to previous month's figure. There were ue of which d0e;s not exceed the. . gives you protection against loss by collision,"prop- ing Miext With 1275, swine 1163 and .third as much as found on t h e first write a good membership. A large small increases in all leading states value of the supplies and equip- erty damage and PUBLIC LIABILITY as well as Horses 448. This is an increase of test. Another complete test of the part of the'county is not yet cover except Ohio, "Vfrisconsjn and Colorado, ment purchased fpr members, fire and theft at about what fire and theft insurance Ground 500 over last year's total. county will be made during the sum- ed. each of these reporting islight de- provided the value qf the pur- In the cattle division Herefords mer of 1927. usually costs. Mi L. Noon, vice-president of the creases. Some frost- injury occurred chases made for persons who are list 557, Shorthorns 406, Aberdeen- in the northwest states, and there is neither members rtoP producers Angus 376, Milking Shorthorns 150, The first test has been completed Michigan State Farm Bureau, gave rot from blight in Wisconsin and does not exceed 15 per centum No Annual Renewals j a very inspiring address and Mr Red Polls 125, Polled Shorthorns in Benzie and Dickinson counties and Bentall, head of the organization de- portions of • some eastern states. of the value of all its purchas- 115, Galloways 40 and grade and both showed very light infection. While the quality in Michigan is; gen- es." Fay Only What The Insurance Costs croes-bred steers 190. Retesting the infected herds in partment, explained some -things erally good} for the country as a about the Farm Bureau program. The language just quoted was the Offered by the Among the sheep, Shropshires these counties will place them in whole it averages slightly lower than basis for denying exemption to the line for accreditation. Work has Great interest centered around the stand at the head with 192 entries. in any previous season in 25 years. association. The list includes 162 Southdowns, been started in Kalamazoo and Tus- election of the Board of Directors. This has tended to improve the de- MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU 159 Hampshires, 159 Rambouillets, cola counties. Kalamazoo has about The following were elected: Frank mand for Michigan stock as rather Income tax reports for 1923 indi- State Agent 144 Dorsets, 78 Oxfords, 71 Cots- 26,000 cattle while Tuscola, one of Lundy, Coleman; Mrs. Clifford S heavy losses in storage from stocks cated 8,600 millionaires in the UniS 221-227 X. Cedar St., Ljwsing, Mfch. wolds, 66 Lincolns. 56 Cheviots, 37 the leading d a i r y counties of the Schoup, Midland; Albert Jacobs, grown in the blight-infected regions ed States and not one a real farmer. Leicesters, and 151 grades and cross- state, has upward of 40,000 head. Merrill; H. A. Sias, Midland, R. 6j is expected. breds. The drive in Tuscola will be put on Chas. Mudd, Midland; Jerome Cor- Chester Whites top the swine during November and December and bat, Merrill, R. 2; Mrs. Gus Olson, The average yield per acre for the breeds with 248 entries, followed by Kalamazoo county will be taken care Freeland, R. 2. entire country is estimated at 112.7 The newly elected directors con- bushels which, except for the years Berkshires with 192. The entry of following the completion of Tus- books show 177 Duroc-Jerseys, 150 cola, probably in January or Febru- vened after the meeting and elected 1912 and 1924, is ,the largest on Hampshires, 149 Poland-Chinas, 148 ary. the following officers: President, Al- record. However, the crop is from GOT SOMETHING TO SELL? USE THIS FORM 20 to 25 millions below the usual Yorkshires, 81 Spotted Poland-Chi- During October 4,645 herds, in- bert Jacobs; Vice-President, H. A. requirements as t h e ^ c r e a g e planted Tell Farm Bureau News readers by using eluding' 35,286 cattle, were tested Sias and Secretary-Treasurer„Jerome was considerably bejiow normal and nas, and 18 Tarn worths. T o u r C o u n t of t h i s A d Words Corbat. a Business News Ad. Mail this handy coupon to the Special Features and 723 reactors or 2.04 per cent MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU NEWS, 221 N. Cedar The draft horse entries include infection found. On November first Active arrangements are under the smallest in 20 years except that No. t i m e s t o r u n . 125 Percherons, 107 Belgians, 105 there were 109,793 herds including way to complete the canvass in the of 1925, according to a statement is- Street, Lansing, Mich., Clydesdales, 35 Shires, 14 Suffolks 845,719 cattle under supervision In county and there is every reason sued by Verne H. Church, U. S. Agri- A m o u n t enclosed %*. • cultural Statistican for Michigan. C L A S S I F I E D A D V E R T I S I N G R A T E . 5 c e n t s p e r w o r d for 1 i n s e r - and 62 draft horses in harness. Michigan, and 103,275 of these herds, to believe that the Midland County tion. KVi c e n t s p e r w o r d for e a c h of 2 i n s e r t i o n s , 4 c e n t s per w o r d n e r in Among the many interesting en- including 770,555 cattle, had shown Farm Bureau has taken a splendid Local prices to Michigan growers . e r t l o n for e a c h of 3 i n s e r t i o n s , and a t t h e 4 c e n t r a t e for succeeding n - FILL THIS, P L E A S E sertions. Initial, n a m e , address, abbreviations eount as separate words tries is the world's champion litter clean tests without reactors. At the new start and is well on the way to thus far have been above the aver- R E M I T T A N C E M U S T ACCOMPANY ORDER. C o u n t Your of 17 hogs which weighed 5117 same date there were 50,424 herds a large membership. age for a crop of this size in other pounds at six months of age. Another and 432,437 cattle on the waiting years, and further prices should show Tour Name .Route Name and Address Is a mutton improvement demonstra- list. As with life, so with livestock, ypu a sufficient advance to cover carry- Town state tion flock from the University of For a long time it has been known get out of it about what you put in ing charges. Howevpr, any spectac- Wisconsin which will show the that poultry and swine are subject to to it. ular advance in price cannot be ex- astonishing results obtained from tuberculosis just as cattle and hu- pected unless the losses from freez- mating purebred rams with common mans are and there has been consid- because of the great interest which ing, rot and other causes should con- grade range ewes. An exhibit of pedi- erable conjecture but very little real the Hillsdale County Board of Super- siderably .exceed present indications. greed cattle and grade steers from a knowledge as* to the extent of infec- visors showed in the bovine tubercu- famous Missouri breeding establish- tion and the ways in which the dis- losis eradication campaign and the ment will, in like manner, visualize wonderful spirit of co-operation Sad Kffect of Spring , the improvement which can be made ease is spread. In order that more which the herd owners have shown The farmer leads no EZ life, by the use of registered bulls on or- definite information might be ob- during the time in which the work The CD rows will rot, dinary farm grade cows. The Expo- tained in regard to infection in these has been in progress. This work And when at EV rests from strife sition will be packed throughout other kinds of farm animals a "Tu- was started April 21, 1926, and was His bones all AK lot. with many similar educational at- berculosis Free Farm Plan" similar entirely voluntary on the part of the —Boston Transcript. tractions. to the accredited herd plan but in- farmers. Twenty-five farms were A Collegiate Meat* Judging Cou- cluding hogs and poultry as well as selected, though many more were of- had t Small boy who was asked if he licenses on his two dogs replied i by the National Live cattle was prepared and tried out in fered, as it seemed best to try the that one of the animals was full of KIVI iiik... • « A n * iM»f». •at board wjll be held Hillsdale County duriqg the past experiment out with a few at the summer. This county was selected start. them. for the first time. —Ottawa Citizen. Print Name and Address. m .- , • • - • • i m_ * *" —"* . Me . •'.