MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU NEWS The Business of the Farmer W i t h A Strong Farm fturoau Can Be Protected Only Are Mads Possible through Proper Organization Great Rural Advantagso PUBLISHED BY THE MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU FOR ITS MEMBERSHIP SIXTH YEAR, VOL. VI, No. 4 MARCH 2, 1928 ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY WHAT KIND OF ALFALFA SEED SHALL I PLANT THIS YEAR? —r GENESEE BUREAU Editorial SIX HUNDRED AT MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE FARM HAS BIG TINE AT DR. W I L L I A M E . D O D D ' S A D D R E S S LIVE STOCK EXCH. CROPS MAN GIVES US IMPORTANT 7TH ANN1 PARTY W e commend to you Dr. William E. Doild',^ r e m a r k a b l e ad- dress, " S h a l l A m e r i c a n F a r m e r s Become P e a s a n t s ? " winch is ANNUAL MEETING INFORMATION ON SEED AVAILABLE 458 Hear Dr. Mumford Urge published in full in the edition of the F a r m B u r e a u News. We Started Sales Agencies On have heard scores of addresses on the situation in which the Organization For Better f a r m i n g population has lived since the war, and is still living in. Personal Notes; Strong Ontario and Montana Alfalfa Scarce; Not Enough v Living W e have read magazine articles and books d e a l i n g with the sub- Today Grimm To Go Around; Michigan, Utah Or CITES OTHER CALLINGS ject, but this history of w h a t has happened to American farmers Idaho Common Dependable; Michigan is the best we have ever seen. * LEADS TWO MARKETS Will Go Heavy On Utah Everybody Took Part In The F o u r times in our history have American farmers, under the First Banquet And Party goad of post w a r deflation or tariffs concocted by the industrial Old Time Dancing Taxes Accommodations By HOWARD RATHER east, m a d e a supreme effort at W a s h i n g t o n for a d v a n t a g e s which Party Of Hotel Michigan State College Farm Crops Dep't in an addresi delivered would put t h e m on an equal plane witli other industries. F o u r from the College Radio Station By LOUIS 8ELESKY times have they been t h r u s t back, by efforts of politicians repre- The Michigan Live Stock Exchange Farmers in Michigan will probably harvest well over Sec'j, Genesee County Farm Bureau s e n t i n g industrialists and business. Sometimes the south was set held its tenth annual meeting and Flint, Feb. 17—The members or celebrated the successful efforts of 600,000 acres of alfalfa for hay during the summer of 1928. against the -west a n d the f a r m e r s t r e n g t h d i v i d e d ; at other times, Compared with the 74,000 acres which they grew nine years the Genesee County Farm Bureau ten years, Feb. 23 and 24 ,at Lan- held one of the most successful ban- other devices have been employed, a c c o r d i n g to Dr. Dodd. sing. ago, this acreage marks an increase of over 800 per cent. quets and old-time dancing parties F r o m the beginning, Dr. Dodd sets forth, f a r m e r s have paid The celebration was in the nature since the beginning of the organiza- of a banquet and progr;7 O w e n Bldg., I>etroit more secured to mill owTners a prac- were drills, corn planters and reap- ing in wealth. They would not 1900. Then there wore holding' was this ail. The income of the Michigan Live Stock Exchange Hudson tical monopoly of the growing ers, one man able to do the work of only pay the national debt in paper; companies Avhich controlled the af- people-of the United States Avas es- Michigan Elevator Exchange F a r m B u r e a u Bldg., L a n s i n g American market. Lincoln demurred five. The next thirty years they they would continue the war taxes Michigan Fruit Growers, Inc Benton Harbor to the high rates of 1864 but agreed opened new lands for returning on the output of mills and the in- fairs and fixed Avithin limits the timated in 1914 at $30,000,000,000; selling prices of finished goods all in 1918, it was estimated at $68,300- Directors and Officers of the Commodity Excliangcs to the scheme on condition that soldiers, migrated from the middle comes of eastern city folk. And for over the nation. The clothes of 000,000. American business had heavy taxes should be levied on the west to the Missouri states and even final items of their programme, they farmers sold everywhere for the suddenly risen to the first place in output of the mills to carry a part the Rocky S t a t e income T a x in p l a c e of S t a t e ' s g e n - Deflation insufferable smoke: the great, pala- laces toward the national capital. General Grant; and all the Avorld tial banks arranged loans to Europe not worth the cost of the fertilizer eral p r o p e r t y levy. If the tariff remained as it was, that had been put into it the preced- nw forbidding a n y m o r e t a x e x e m p t the income from the customs would Industry Fares Better knows the standards of right and at fine rates; the railroads wore out securities. Lot ns see what happened in the wrong of that garish day. ing summer, every bank all over he E N A C T E D J A N . 29, 1925 (d) Equalization of a s s e s s m e n t of f a r m a n d decline as the country readjusted their tracks and their wheels carry- south safe or half safe only because $67,350 A N N U A L L Y ity p r o p e r t y in a c c o r d a n c e w i t h s a l e s herself and bent her back to the years which followed the war to ing burdens of munitions at huge there was the Federal Reserve Sys- SINCE 1924 values of s a m e . payment of the debt. Great blocks business, an industry and finance I tail road Betrayal profit to the scenes of war. A third tem to sustain them. From 1919 to (Farm Bureau Investigations brought of the national bonds were hold in came to be palled. The shopkeeper, A longer and a bitterer attack was time in American national history equalization in Calhoun, Ingham, Wash- the clerk and the mill worker re- 1921 the price of cotton declined tenaw, Monroe and Kalamazoo counties, Europe where they had been sold at made upon the railroads whose the farmers, the industrialists, the from 35 cents a pound to 15 cents. saving farmer taxpayer's $67,350 excess heavy discounts. Other portions of turned home in 1865. The world records, as known to that genera- bankers and the masters of transpor- Was that not like 18 70? A great taxes annually.) the debt, sold for greenbacks to looked good. He was a hero. A great tion, were far from immaculate. The tation were prosperous together, crop of Avheat lay in the bins or in TRANSPORTATION domestic buyers at eighty, seventy country had been saved by his effort. railroads fought back. They would farmers in Fords, business men in E F F E C T I V E SEPT. 10, I m m e d i a t e a p p l i c a t i o n of M i c h i g a n Z o n e the elevators of the middle west, 1928 and even sixty dollars in the hun- For a while there was work, prices fix rates to suit themselves; they Packards, hastening hither and hardly worth the cost of seeding: Hate d e c i s i o n t o s a v e f a r m e r s h i p p e r s in C9 c o u n t i e s $500,000 a n n u a l l y . dred, when estimated in gold, the continuing high. lint when the would grant rebates to individuals thither on their busy. prosperous herds of sheep grazing on the pla- MARKETING rate of interest for all six or Seven farmers' incomes shrank, the sales and privileges to cities, making in- errands. teaus of Arizona and Wyoming were per cent. If the foreign creditors of finished goods declined. The price dividuals who sat upon their boards left to die of the winter Aveather, E x t e n s i o n of s o u n d c o - o p e r a t i v e m a r k e t - ing p r o g r a m n o w well u n d e r w a y in M i c h - were paid in gold as they must be, was lOAvered a little to stimulate the rich and building vast cities like Would it last? The roar of war not worth the cost of feed and care. igan. the domestic creditors would demand market, the population increasing Chicago out of the proceeds of the became more and more audible. The The price of wheat fell from $2.60 a AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE gold, regardless of the terms of each year, calling for more goods common life. From 1870 to 1886 President of the Republic came SIOAV- bushel in 1919 to $1.16 in 192'J. E P r E C T I V E OCT. 20, A d e q u a t e p r o t e c t i o n for f a r m e r s a g a i n s t issue. But the Government, the and competing in the labor market the long contest continued, now ly to see that a German victory The banks of the great farming states 1ft» loss by fire, theft, collision, p r o p e r t y d a m - people, had received six hundred with returning soldiers. It was an on*- house of congress favoring the would work a change in the social a g e a n d public liability f u r n i s h e d a t r e a - were on the point of failure, only sonable rates. millions less than the face of the unstable situation, business men farmers, now the other; but at no and political status of the modern the Federal Reserve system sustain- debt. Meanwhile, the national banks, nervous and afraid as business men time did both houses and the Presi- world, not omitting the United ed the strongest of them while their associated together, regulated the always are when waves of prosperity dent favor the farmers. When the States. With public opinion divided millions of farm paper lay frozen rates of interest according to their e. In the 30 years which follow- farmer's bill, known as the inter- and distraught, some Americans in Chicago bank vaults—great busi- Shall American Farmers own views of business relations, ed 1866 the basic commodities of busi state commerce measure, passed, it praying that William Hohenzollern their own guesses at international uess declined In value. Pig iron was Avas a railroad measure, the Honor- might become a modern William the ness men still denouncing the presi- dent whose bold vision had save'! Becom e Peasants? ittnued from p • trends, and issued their notes as a worth in US66 $46 a ton. in 1 x7> able Shelby M. Cullom, chairman of Conquerer, others more distressed part of the money of the country, $17 a ton, iu 1896 $13 a ton. That the committee in charge. having as they learned of the killing of five them. It was the third deflation of the farmers, with no fresh and free public was still too democratic to permit the rising privilege of the state bank taxed ten per cent if they was more than half as bad as cotton quietly gone over to the camp of the hundred thousand men at Verdun, lands to beckon them from their cast to stand unchallenged. From 1820 to 1846 there was violent entered the field—a privilege that or wheat. Soft coal, an ingredient, railroads. N o r ' w e r e the less desir- the patient President, now pressing miseries. Was it the same with men conflict, the aouthprn plantation masters tending to unite with the was fast Concentrating in the larger Ode may Say, of pig iron fell in the able features of the law, from the his peaceful messages upon the Ger- of industry and finance? farmers of the growing middle west and reduce import duties, in cities, a privilege like that guaran- thirty years from $!<> a ton to railway point of view, enforced till mans, now arguing with the fright- The country had gone a long w.v. 1846 an equilibrium between the three sections of the country was by high tariffs. But times W0rc.f2.7I5 a ton. So. the decline in the the last year of Roosevelt's reign ? ened British and the panicky French, established in the Walker tariff which laid a heavy tax on luxnries since 1S2(» and 1870. Industrial and admitted farmer's goods free or at low rates. There followed a gofd; wages high and farm com- j price of pig iron did not mean so Were the farmers wrong in this too slowly led his nation of farmers and modities selling quickly upon every} much to the industrialist as fifty Tho Credit Straggle mill workers into war, into a war men had no thought now as former period of prosperity not wholly due to mere tariff laws. The plant- ly of alloAving a low tariff to serve ers, growing too powerful, set up a control of the whole nation and market. Never had a war been such j cent wheat meant to the farmeT. In the effort to bring the nation- which Avas to carry the American as a relief to distraught farmers: made themselves and their privilege targets for attack from liberal a blessing. The prices of finished manufactured al banks under stricter national con- doctrine of 1776 back to ancient made their last Europe, a war for democracy every- farmers now as formerly would not leaders everywhere. The soldiers returned to their goods on the retail market we can trol, the farmers study their own history. If Ameri Another Great Conflict farms, their shops and their country not exactly determine, the census drive. They would decentralize the where. Never did a great nation cans would sell their \'ast surplus i in 1860 there came another war, a long and dreadful war. counters. A big crop was planted. returns never showing these; and reserves of the country, take awfiy enter hazardous struggle with high- they must take the goods of Europe The tarnjers of the middle west rallied to the calls of liberal think- The mills turned out great j these are the most important of all from the east her near-monopoly of er purposes than those which Wood (Continued on p«g« 4) "51 MARCH 2, i'.*'2fi M I CH I GA N F A R M R UR E I T NEWS TH'RfPH c o n t i n u e to champion Nary. I tab S hair the last tim • "No, s i r . ' ' replied the othel INSURANCE MEET Missouri, South D a k o t a , Texas, Ten- nessee, U t a h . on a clean, firm and well prepared •seed bed is plenty. Tin- acre- cost of t e m p e r a t u r e r a n g e s in the seed prrt- ducing districts in Montana, Idaho a m o u n t a l l o w a b l e u n d e r !Section 816 c e r n i n g t h e cost of p r o d u c i n g milk, of the Tariff Act. I pres ?nted a d e - which I received this morning ously. e y e i n g t h e flowing hair, here o n e Michigan s t a t e F a r m Bureau delr seed will t h e n be a r o u n d $3 to $3.30, or the Dakotas. tailed cost a n a l y s i s to s h o w t h a t tin- p r e d a t i n g your c o - o p e r a t i o n , ! g a t e s at the m e e t i n g : no m o r e t h a n the cost of a n o r m a l Tests of h a r d i n e s s of Utah proposed i n c r e a s e would, not equal- "Very sincerely, Twenty Farm Bureau States ise the difference in cost of p r o d u c - " A m e r i c a n F a r m B u r e a u F e d e r a t i o n C. L. Brody, secretary-manager: forage s e e d i n g — w i t h a n o t h e r variety in Michigan bear out the s t a t e m e n t Have Auto Insurance Alfred B e n t a l l , i n s u r a n c e d i r e c t o r ; — a n d observation seems to indicate t h a t Utah, Idaho y i d Montana com- tion in t h i s c o u n t r y as c o m p a r e d W. R. OGG, GarlocK Williams Co. C. H. F o w l e r , A. N. Brown, Robert t h a t the s t a n d s r e s u l t i n g from a mon alfalfa may all ba classed in nn>' with Spain a n d Egypt, o u r t w o com- " A s s i s t a n t to t h e D i r e c t o r . " Programs 2 6 1 4 O n l e a n s St. (iihhens. Hiram Andrew, Roland l i g h t e r r a t e of seeding a r e more apt g r o u p . In tests at East Landing, four petitors; This case a r o u s e d a g r e a t deal of i n t e r e s t and brought to Detroit Sleight, J e s s e Blow, B. P. P a t t i s o n to produce a good yield of seed. or five years ago, t h e difference be- Your shipments of poultry, A large d e l e g a t i o n from t h e Mich- a n d I. B. McMurtry, district a g e n t s ; Growers who p l a n t H a r d i g a n alfalfa tween the total yield from Utah. Washington representatives from Michigan p r b d ti c e s 1,750,000 ure solicit igan S t a t e F a r m B u r e a u m e m b e r s h i p Miss F . Bailey a n d Miss G. P a t t e r s o n . Montana and I d a h o common seed is ten or twelve of t h e p r i n c i p a l onion- b u s h e l s of c n i o n s a n n u a l l y , s h o w i n g et information stmt on request. s h o u l d notify t h e Secretary of t h e •was at B l o o m i n g t o n , 111., F e b . 21-22 offi<<> staff. O t h e r m e m b e r s of t h e Michigan Crop I m p r o v e m e n t Associa- negligible. None of t h e m ire qui p r o d u c i n g s t a t e s . A l a r g e n u m b e r of t h e i m p o r t a n c e of t h e tariff to u s . w h e n s o m e Coo F a r m B u r e a u folks delegation were: A. N. I.ohman. tion at E a s t L a n s i n g as soon as t h e good as Grimm, but wl upply members of Congress likewise from 14 s t a t e s met at t h e offices of H a m i l t o n ; C h a r l e s Scott. H a s t i n g s ; seed is p l a n t e d , if they wish to get of Grimm is e x h a u s t e d , farmers in peared in o u r behalf. the S t a t e F a r m M u t u a l A u t o m o b i l e Roy B. H o w a r d , Jonesville, A r t h u r this s t a t e may ed from any " ! believe; we will e v e n t u a l l y get r£= t h e r e s u l t i n g crop certified. Alfalfa I n s u r a n c e officers for w h a t was p r o b - L a n d o n and G. W. Ray, Albion; J. of these three s t a t e s a* his next t h e increase a s k e d for but t h e seed grown from H a r d i g a n certified ably t h e l a r g e s t c o o p e r a t i v e a u t o m o - bile i n s u r a n c e convention ever held. Several t h o u s a n d Michigan F a r m Bu- reau members are interested mem- T a y l o r Gage, H a y e s , Chelsea; A n n A r b o r ; C, C. Clsen, Manchester; ville; Louis Selesky, G r a n d B l a n c ; H. w . C h a r l e s McCalli, Fowler- by the Michigan Crop I m p r o v e m e n t Association or Utah H a r d i g a n of recognized certified g r a d e s is eligible for t h i s inspection a n d certification choice and the prices should be p r a c - tically t h e same. Since there is plen- ty of Ctah grown seed to be had. by far the greater a c r e a g e of Michigan may be delayed if thej Commission decides to send its cost i n v e s t i g a t o r s to Spain and E g y p t as t h e y w e r e in- viteel to do a t t h e h e a r i n g , by r e p r e - FARMERS! C State TUutual Rodded Fire Insurance Co., of lUich. HOME OrflCC-FUNT. MlCM. / bers of t h i s a f r m e r s ' m u t u a l c o m p a n y F r a n k H a a s , R a v e n n a ; F . F . Wal- servi< alfalfa not planted to Grimm or Har- s e n t a t i v e s of t h o s e government* Insure in the Largest Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company w h i c h i n c l u d e s only f a r m e r m e m - w o r t h , C o r u n n a ; T. J. B u t c h e r and digan will be p l a n t e d to I'tah com- p r o t e s t e d v i g o r o u s l y a g a i n s t such ac- bers. Incidentally, the grower who tion, as being u n f a i r a t t h i s late h o u r In Michigan L. B . F i s h b e c k . mon, with a s s u r a n c e s of good suc- T h e main subject e n t e r i n g into t h e p l a n t s H a r d i g a n alfalfa with a view except under ret con- to t h e domestic p r o d u c e r s , a n d u r g e d 18,oo<> M e m b e r s , over 70,500,000 at risk. N«1 cts and v a r i o u s discussions of the two-day to seed p r o d u c t i o n will sacrifice ditions. H t h a t we had s u b m i t t e d sufficient da- sources $35G,C1!' Established 1 9 0 8 - - h a v e paid | 3 , 2 6 2 , ? 5 3 session was t h e principles of r u r a l n o t h i n g should he choose to cut his ta in a d d i t i o n to t h a t which the Com- in lo a u t o m o b i l e i n s u r a n c e . This has be alfalfa for hay, for in t r i a l s at the on a l r e a d y h a s , to w a r r a n t a n .A b r o a d liberal policy covering all farm p r o p e r t y at as low a tost come a p a r t of t h e F a r m B u r e a u pro- g r a m in 14 s t a t e s a n d six o t h e r s a r e SEED EXPERT Michigan S t a t e College E x p e r i m e n t Station H a r d i g a n alfalfa is leading BERRIEN HOLDS increase w i t h o u t f u r t h e r investiga- tion. Heretofore, t h e Commission good, business m e t h o d s will p e r m i t . A $ 1 ; 0 0 0 B l a n k e t Policy is often w o r t h a $2,000 Classified Policy, as g e t t i n g i n t o t h e work. It was b r o u g h t out a t t h e m e e t i n g t h a t t h e S t a t e F a r m M u t u a l b e g a n in a small way all o t h e r v a r i e t i e s in forage produc- tion. ANOTHER COOD has been d e t e r r e d f r o m s e n d i n g ' its i n v e s t i g a t o r s to S p a i n - i n t h i s p a r t i c u - lar ease, by t h e A m e r i c a n Stai it. covers what you lose*. If stock and tools a p p l y o n hay and g r a i n or vice versa. : all will Grtntin's H a r d i n e s s Pays T h e r e Is a vast difference in policies A cheap n a r r o w policy is a among Farmers people Mutual connected Fire C o m p a n y in Illinois e a r l y in F e b r u with a Insurance The a m o u n t of H a r d i g a n Alfalfa is so limited t h a t only a few will be COUNTY MEET p a r t m e n t , p e n d i n g n e g o t i a t i o n s for a t r e a t y between Spain a n d the' United States. dear buy. W r i t e F o r I n f o r m a t i o n W . T. MOW IS able to get seed. T h e rest of the S e c r e t a r y S t a t e M u t u a l R e d d e d F i r e I n s u r a n c e To., of Mich. ary, 1922. T h e s e people for a long f a r m e r s p l a n t i n g alfalfa, p a r t i c u l a r l y Relation Of Farm Bureau And 710-71:$ F. P. S m i t h Uldjr., F l i n t , Mich. t i m e h a d h a d t h e idea t h a t r u r a l au- with a long t i m e s t a n d in mind, Co-operative Associations tomobile insurance s h o u l d be t h e should try to get good p u r e seed of subject of special c o n s i d e r a t i o n , in Discussed t h e G r i m m v a r i e t y . Certified Grimm view of r u r a l o p e r a t i n g conditions. T h e y developed a p l a n a n d p u t it in- to o p e r a t i o n , e x p e c t i n g to serve only Alfalfa, g r o w n in U t a h , I d a h o a n d to a limited e x t e n t in Michigan, is avail- able at prices r a n g i n g from $2 Benton Harbor, FeL. 2 1 — T h a t the F e d e r a l A g r i c u l t u r a l Trades As- Do Your Illinois f a r m e r s . The Indiana Farm Bureau late: m a d e a u t o m o b i l e i n s u r a n c e a p a r t of to $26.50 per b u s h e l . r a t e of seeding for good forage pro- duction is eight to t e n p o u n d s per T h e proper sociation, an organisation t h a t has been formulated to tight the co-op- erative movement will a as a stim- Own Selling its p r o g r a m , in t h e s a m e way t h a t it ulant r a t h e r t h a n as a ch terent, was W h e n you bill y o u r stock t o acre. T h u s , t h e cost of sowing an w o u l d u r g e complete fire p r o t e c t i o n the opinion of Mr. F . L. Grang< ' the Michigan Stock E x c h a n g e acre to G r i m m alfalfa is a r o u n d a n d a d o p t e d t h e Illinois plan. Since the Michigan F r u i t Growers, Inc., in Co-op C o m m i s s i o n M e r c h a n t s or $4.00 to $4.50. A seeding to fairly t h a t t i m e 19 o t h e r S t a t e F a r m Bu- a t a l k before t h e Berrien Count} the Producers a t East Buffalo, h a r d y common alfalfa m i g h t be m a d e reaus have taken the auto insurance F a r m Bureau's q u a r t e r l y meeting you do y o u r o w n selling in. t h e at an acre cost of $2.60 to $2.So or p r o g r a m up a n d 14 h a v e a d o p t e d the Feb. 18. Mr. G r a n g e r was at t h e terminal market. a b o u t $1.75 c h e a p e r t h a n G r i m m State F a r m Mutual plan and serve F e d e r a l A g r i c u l t u r a l Trades meet- You g e t all t h e s t o c k will sown at t h e s a m e r a t e . as its S t a t e A g e n t s . ing in Chicago a n d gav. some very b r i n g . You g e t t h e a d v a n t a g e T h e policy of t h i s F a r m B u r e a u If t h e alfalfa is on heavy land interesting first h a n d information of h a v i n g y o u r o w n c o - o p e r a - p r o g r a m is t h e p r o t e c t i o n of f a r m - w h e r e freezing injury is most prev- r e g a r d i n g the movement tively e m p l o y e d s a l e s m e n a t t h e ers' c a r s a n d p r o p e r t i e s a t r a t e s b a s - a l e n t , or if it is expected t h a t t h e Besides Mr. G r a n g e r ' s talk, Mr. D. Terminal m a r k e t s sell your Experienced farmers, dairymen am ed on r u r a l r i s k s only. T h e .State pouttrymen, have found In Michigan J. W. Nicolson, for four y e a r s m a n - s t a n d shall last m o r e t h a n two years, E. Sharpe gave a discussion on i h " stock to t h e best a d v a n t a g e . Kami BUreau Pure, Adapted, ,-'• F a r m M u t u a l plan provides for a co- t h e g r o w e r should, by all means, topic of "How t h e F a r m Bureau car T h e y a r e h e r e in y o u r i n t e r e s t and Fertilizer, the essential a g e r of t h e Michigan F a r m B u r e a u ter production profits. o p e r a t i n g m e m b e r s h i p in t h e m u t u a l . p l a n t G r i m m Alfalfa. It will r e t u r n h e l p the Co-operative." Mr. S h a r p e a n d t a k e p r i d e in g e t t i n g t h e Seed Service, is s p e n d i n g a few days FARM BBUREAU SEEDS, In com- A m e m b e r s h i p fee is paid but once. t h a t extra seed cost m a n y times over. went into the h i s t o r y of t h e F a r m top or a s n e a r to it for y o u a s at Farm Bureau headquarters. bination with Farm Bureau Fertilizer, A p r e m i u m deposit is m a d e by t h e F o r i n s t a n c e , in a W a s h t e n a w Coun- B u r e a u and co-op. move inent a n d of t h e y can. T h r o u g h t h e m , you both adapted to conditions of Michi- m e m b e r s . The a c t u a l cost of c a r r y - Mr. Nicolson h a s spent a g r e a t ty test h a r v e s t e d last s u m m e r by R. farm prices, to s h o w -ome of the go into t h e t e r m i n a l m a r k e t a n d gan Soil and Climate, produce abund- ing t h e i n s u r a n c e is m e t by semi- deal of time in t h e chief seed p r o - antly, II. Morrish of t h e Michigan State problems that co-ops ar- up against. deal w i t h p a c k e r s t h r o u g h o u r a n n u a l p r e m i u m calls. That the d u c i n g sections of t h e c o u n t r y in t h e MICHIGAN MILKMAKER, the fa- College F a r m Crops D e p a r t m e n t , He said that t h e F a r m Bureau can salesmen who are experienced mous open formula, 24% balanced F a r m B u r e a u p r o g r a m h a s found fa- p a s t four y e a r s . He h a s had a wide G r i m m alfalfa in j u s t one single cut- act as an organization to protect the in t h o s e m a r k e t s . feed fior dairy cows has again and vor is i n d i c a t e d by t h e fact t h a t t h e v a r i e t y of experience, first as a f a r m - again proyen its superior merit for ting yielded one-half ton to t h e acre co-op movement in m a t t e r s of legis- Why s h o u l d you let g o of led milk and butter (at produc- b u s i n e s s of t h e S t a t e F a r m Mutual er, t h e n in F a r m Crops work at Mich- m o r e t h a n t h e best common in t h e lation and in o t h e r geimarl ways. your stock at any p o i n t b e t w e e n ts minimum expat) h a s doubled each y e a r since it w a s igan S t a t e College; in co-operative Mr. D. Clark, in discussing " H o w Similarly, MICHIGAN EGG MASH—- plat. T h e s t a n d h a d gone t h r o u g h you a n d t h e p a c k e r w h e n it i s n ' t s t a r t e d , it was b r o u g h t o u t at the- seed d i s t r i b u t i o n w i t h t h e F a r m Bu- Chick Starter, and Growing Mash r e a u ; a n d now is s p e n d i n g much of three winters. T h e e x t r a half ton t h e Co-op Can H e l p t F a r m BH n e c e s s a r y for you to d o s o ? have established their claims to m e e t i n g . Its assets a r e now well over of alfalfa w a s w o r t h five times as r e a u , ' ' pointed out t h a t by actio You and your co-operative supremacy for countless flock owners. $1,000,000 in U. S. T r e a s u r y secur- his t i m e in t h e g r e a t U t a h alfalfa son of their correct formulae seed p r o d u c t i o n fields. m u c h as t h e e x t r a seed cost, while d i s t r i b u t o r s of F a r m Bineau services n e i g h b o r s can get t o g e t h e r on and iiigh quality Ingredients, ities, a n d the s u r p l u s is declared to a d d i t i o n a l e x t r a yields had been t h e co-op is in close te ich with the a carload. Make y o u r next For detailed Information on Mich- be a m p l e for all c o n t i n g e n c i e s , m a k - Mr. Nicolson t a l k e d on alfalfa ov- secured from p r e v i o u s c u t t i n g s and m e m b e r s and can do tiuch t o w a r d igan Farm Bureau Fertilizer,,. Seeds, s h i p m e n t to u s . i n g t h e m u t u a l in e v e r y way a legal er W K A R T h u r s d a y evening, a n d at Dairy and Poultry Feeds, wiit.- as di- no d o u b t will be t a k e n from c u t t i n g s e d u c a t i n g them to see the vah; • consult your local Co-Opera- reserve company. t h e T r i - C o u n t y F a r m B u r e a u Con- which follow. In one six-year-old t h e services r e n d e r e d by both o r g a n - live Dealer. Michigan h a d two s p e a k e r s on t h e ference of co-op m a n a g e r s a n d di- test at t h e Michigan S t a t e College, izations. Michigan Livestock Exchange p r o g r a m : Sec'y C. L. B r o d y a n d Al- r e c t o r s at Cass City F r i d a y . An explanation of the Patroi G r i m m , d u r i n g t h e six y e a r s , h a s fred B e n t a l l . Mr. B r o d y was also on t h e R e s o l u t i o n s C o m m i t t e e . Two of Mr. Nicholson has annually as- sisted in locating t h e l a r g e supplies yielded a t o t a l of s e v e n , tons m o r e Dividend Coupon Plan was given by Mr. C. L. Nash of t n e Michigan State D e t r o i t , Mich, or IIGHIGAN FARM BUREAU t h a n one of t h e c o m m o n alfalfas t h e r e s o l u t i o n s were s e n t to all m e m - of alfalfa seed d i s t r i b u t e d by t h e typical of t h e h a r d i e r c o m m o n g r o u p . F a r m Bureau. Several took part in Producers Commission Ass'n lEEDSERVICE -SUPPLYSERVICE b e r s of C o n g r e s s . Michigan F a r m B u r e a u Seed Service. the general discussion which fol- East Buffalo, N. Y. One d e c l a r e d d r u n k e n drivers of H e is p l a n n i n g on being in Michigan T h a t is a r e t u r n of $84.00 on an in- v e s t m e n t of $1.7 5. Kretty good lowed. Lansing - MicKi^arv automobiles a criminal hazard and c o n s i d e r a b l y t h i s s p r i n g a n d alfalfa At noon d i n n e r w a s : s e r v e d and b u s i n e s s — e v e n with alfalfa figured pledged t h e Automobile Insurance e n t h u s i a s t s hope to use his experi- the assembly was led in community only at $12.00 a ton. C o m p a n y a n d its w o r k e r s to assist ence w h e n e v e r possible in c a r r y i n g singing, using song sheets put out by in a c c i d e n t w o r k a n d law enforce- on Michigan's g r e a t alfalfa p r o g r a m O t h e r H a r d y S t r a i n s Scarce t h e American F a r m Bureau F e d e r a - ment. Mr. Nicholson says this is a year Grimm Alfalfa is fine and every tion, t h e County F a r m B u r e a u hav- T h e second d e c l a r e d t h a t t h e 110,- w h e n t h e Short supply of h a r d y seed available p o u n d of it in this s t a t e ing purchased these for use in their 000 policy h o l d e r s in 12 s t a t e s rec- ognize t h a t p a s s a g e o f . a n y farm r e - lief legislation w i t h o u t a n e q u a l ' z a - tion fee is a political gesture and i n d i c a t e s some s t a t e s will sow less alfalfa t h a n u s u a l . In his opinion, t h i s looks like a y e a r when early alfalfa seed p u r c h a s e s will be t h e should be p l a n t e d . Even t h a t , how m e e t i n g s . ever, will fall far s h o r t of p a n t i n g t h e 300,000' acres which p l a n t e d in t h i s s t a t e next spring a n d to the meeting, which Even though t h e w e a t h e r was very will be disagreeable, a b o u t l.">0 t u r n e d out one held by t h e Berrien is the> first County That One Thing pledged t h e i r s u p p o r t to t h o s e who rule. summer. For • the farmer not planting F a r m Bureau since G r i m m or H a r d i g a n , t h e r e are few m e e t i n g last J a n u a r y . They plan on their annual PROTECTION o t h e r choices. At one time Ontario holding several such q u a r t e r l y meet- v a i i c g a t e d was available in - ings d u r i n g the year. Is provided in a State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance policy. It gives full cover- q u a n t i t y a n d a i very r e a s o n a b l e pric- Attention! age insurance at a price you can afford to pay. es. During 1927 t h e alfalfa S E E D crop in O n t a r i o was almost univer- sally a failure. This winter, very lit- BOOST PROTECTION State Farm Bureaus of fourteen states have accepted this form of automobile in- surance because of its low cost tc the insured, the equitable terms of settlement of tle O n t a r i o V a r i e g a t e d seed is bein?: offered a n d t h e price is nearly as ON ONIONS, URGES claims and because of the soundness of the principle and the responsibleness of the insuring company. Wool Growers high ..is t h a t being asked for Grimm That h a r d l y m a k e s it a bargain and G r i m m is to be p r e f e r r e d . AM. FARM BUREAU ———. This Service Very few of t h e r e p u t a b l e seed T h e Michigan F a r m B u r e a u Wool Pool will m a r k e t h o u s e s a r e offering Montana common Spain and Egypt Play For wool co-operatively in 1928 with t h e Ohio Wool G r o w e r s t h i s spring. M o n t a n a g r o w n alfalfa To farmers of Michigan is available through the Ass'n, u n d e r t h e plan so successful since 192 1. seed is d e s i r a b l e , b u t t h e r e again we Delay On 50c Per Cwt h a v e a n a r e a which experienced a • Tariff Tilt Wool will be accepted for t h e pool on contract only. seed crop failure last season. Onl.» a b o u t one-sixth as much alfalfa seed Writing to Sec'y ('. L. Brody. \V. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance W r i t e for a c o n t r a c t n o w a n d m a k e pooling ar- was grown in Montana in 1!<27 as in R. Ogg of the W a s h i n g t o n office of rangements. of Bloomington, 111. 19241, a n d t h e seed houses a r e not the Armerican F a r m linreau reported T h e wool pool sales c h a r g e , which includes g r a d i n g , offering M o n t a n a Seed to a n y gre'tt Feb. 13 on the F a r m Bureau's of fort MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU m a r k e t i n g , i n s u r a n c e a n d w a r e h o u s i n g , is g u a r a n - teed a t 2% c e n t s p e r p o u n d . F r e i g h t is e x t r a . e x t e n t because they can't g e t it. to increase tariff protection for our Lansing STATE AGENT Michigan One s a l e s m a n lias been m a k i n g t h e onion growers, as fellows: An a d d i t i o n a l h a n d i n g c h a r g e of 54 pent per pound, r o u n d s of I n g h a m County farmers " W e have just completed the There is a local agent in your community. If he is not known to you, write the will be m a d e F a r m B u r e a u m e m b e r s a n d 1 cent State Farm Bureau. offering w h a t he described as Mon- h e a r i n g s in the onion • tariff per p o u n d to n o n - F a r m B u r e a u m e m b e r s to r e i m - b u r s e t h e Michigan F a r m B u r e a u for e x p e n s e s in- t a n a seed, at $24.00 a bushel, or which continued for three full days c u r r e d in organizing t h e pool a n d a s s e m b l i n g the t h e r e a b o u t s . T h i s price is $S or $9 On behalf of the American F a r m Btt- a bushel too high for common and i« _ wool. Liberal cash a d v a n c e s , if r e q u e s t e d , will be m a d e as a b o u t as much out of line as the before, on t h e a r r i v a l of wools at t h e C o l u m b u s m e t h o d s employed by t h e salesman w a r e h o u s e . The pool will c h a r g e ' t h e s a m e r a t e Of in p u s h i n g it. i n t e r e s t it has to pay for money. A p p a r e n t l y , t h i s m a n will tell a Wool will be loaded at points w h e r e if can be a s s e m - f a r m e r a n y t h i n g to sell him seed. bled most conveniently. I n s t r u c t i o n s will be fur- Stories coming to the F a r m Crops of- nished from t h e S t a t e office. Sacks will be fur- fice at Michigan State College claim nished m a r k e t i n g m e m b e r s . Don't ship any wool t h a t he has told f a r m e r s his "Mon- "without i n s t r u c t i o n s . C o n t r a c t b l a n k and full i n f o r m a t i o n m a y he ob- t a n a " seed would plant two or t h r e e m o r e acres p e r bushel t h a n Uta' i p up with the styles in apart- Is there a remedy? If the tariff We guarantee absolute satisfac- hard times of farmers, few bank- coming to a bad end. the reserves of the cities checking the deficits o* ments, beautiful old residences with two generations of history behind them, great business structures, re- be lowered, the cities must suffer; if the railroads be required to low- er their rates, railway labor will G R A S S E L L I Spray Products are made w i t h o n e , a n d only one, consideration in mind:—To eliminate tion. Care for future needs now. The "Paki U p " F a r m Bureau member is entitled t o the 5 per the country towns. Industrial men strike; if the banks be regulated for cent discount from t h e above named prices on underwear as well minding one of the days of Cleve- experiment and give t h e best r e t u r n were safe by Government aid; fi- social purposes, business men will as on t h e MA»E TO MEASURE SUITS and OVERCOATS, BED land and McKinley. torn down to to the user. BLANKETS, etc., which we offer. nancial men were even more safe. make loud protests; if commission make room for new styles in archi- Insist on GRASSELLI. which insures fresh The railroads, so long defiant o* merchants and other city organiza- F u l l particulars regarding this Department gladly given upon tecture, new kinds of furniture in- stocks shipped in the original packages from control, now asked of congress or the tions be put under control, the vio- nearby manufacturing points. There's a request. Interstate Commerce Commission side. If the farmer but looks on at lent cry of bolshevism arises. If Crasselli distributor near you. the very control they had decried. Transportation Act They received assistance in the this changing scene, he can hardly fail to think bitter thoughts. shall he do? Revolt and war have never yet remedied the causes they What farmers seek to help themselves, it is socialism, A politician who seeks to find a remedy is a demagogue. T H E GRASSELLI CHEMICAL Founded in I8J9 ••« COMPANY Cleveland, Ohio State Farm Bureau transportation act of 1920; the Con: were designed to remedy. If a hill of relief passes congress, the CLOTHING DEPARTMENT mission a little later ruling that they might fix what they thought fair Why Some Co-ops Failed Then the farmers tried to organ- President vetoes it, without offering a better one, and becomes forthwith $rg\ GRASSELLI GRADE 221-227 N. CEDAR STREET LANSING, MICH. rates, enough to pay 5.75 per cent a great statesman. All this in the £*h**%jr C / Standard "Held 'High forgQ^ars on their capital; and the great roads ize. They set up dairymens' asso- richest country in the world. were stabilized, safe against storms ciations, wheat growers' unions, cot- tonmen's exchanges. The Govern- If this is a fair picture, a just re- If industry and finance and trans- view of our history, we are in the portation were made safe or allowed' ment rewrote its anti-trust laws in order that they might not be prose- midst of difficult times, an epocn 9 L 1 M X W \ V » ma to make themselves safe, why might that calls for statesmen, not big city not labor organize and fix its charge, cuted. The grain growers formed stabilize on the existing war level? Immmigration Act The reply came quick and a great storage association. cient elevator company wormed its way into its affairs and brought ruin An an politics, nor race antagonisms, nor loud cries of "down with George," nor international friction King T h e Culti-Packer Is M a d e O n l y B y D u n h a m and increasing armaments. If an- There were hasty and wild strike* by jumpy labor organizations in 1919 upon all concerned. secretary of agriculture thought to A sympathetic cient sectional antagonisms be forgotten and leaders and people cannot Exclusive Dunham Features and 192t>. For a time things seem- assist the farmers, who might need get down to facts, there is but one er to get out of hand. But the Im- dynamite to break the rocks on their answer to the query with which we migration act held foreign labor at lands or lift the stumps out. of their began; the farmers must become a distance, Negroes and Mexican* fields, offered dynamite at whole- peasants. hardly able to upset the equilibrium sale rates to farmers, dynamite left of the next five years. And the over from the war. A farmer wrote leaders of labor quickly way to help themselves. found They dis- a asking for a shipment of the dyna- mite. The secretary's agent replied: "Only in car-load lots". A friendlv JACKSON COUNTY ciplined foolish locals, the threaten- ing hard times serving all to good purpose. Labor banks were set up; government? Into one of the great cities where the milk distributors, HAS M O O D IDEA radical labor chiefs came the best as everywhere, form a close corpora- of profit sharers, content with' the* tion, an association of milk produc- Directors And Members Have best of worlds. Wages were stab ers, endeavored to break 2 years ago ilized at near war levels, a farm with cheaper milk for consumers. As Regular Luncheon they set up their organization de- worker receiving $2.50 a day when signed to distribute their product, Meetings the farmer himself rarely received a dollar a day net; carpenters v the Government quietly filled the positions in the governing board of Do you believe in intuition, telep- ceiving $10 a day for eight hours athy or any of hte other ism's? The work, all the varied elements of the the city with enemies of the farmers. Of course co-operative marketing other day Secretary Brody and Or- great organized workingmen's world ganization Director Nash were dis- safe, in fair houses, with good failed. This is but one of many cussing the possibility of utilizing clothes, meat and flour, fruit and cases. the idea and spirit of the luncheon sweets in their larders. Fords and What Is The Future? club scheme in Farm Bureau meet- Buicks and Chevrolets standing at To be sure not all farmers aro ings. Just a few days later Jackson their doors. It was a great epooh helpless. Men who show great abil- County Farm Bureau kicks in with only the tillers of the soil, now sunk ities sometimes succeed. Large the plan in operation. Its Executive in numbers to 4 5 per cent of the tracts of the best lands, heavy in- Board meets for luncheon on a given population, their milk taken in the vestments in machinery and expert Saturday each month at the Y. W. cities at the prices the distributor:- fixed, their pigs taken at what the packers hought they could pay, their wheat and cotton slowly stabilizing watching of the world: But such men are not far- mers. markets If agriculture falls into the hands of such what was the justi- of the C. A., in Jackson. All members who are in town are invited to meet with them. Last. Saturday 21 were pres- ent. This sounds like a good idea. Culti-Pack t o Prevent at price levels little higher than those of 11113. Was this the safe democra- cy the world must have? Nothing; For F a n n e r fication of the Civil war? It would simply mean a new landed feudal- Why not regular meetings with a program? Why not farm organiza- Winter Killing Everybody but the producers o f A Culti-Packer used in early spring when soil conditions per- the bread of the country was fairly safe. If that were to be the final Classified Ads mit, prevents winter killing of winter wheat, alfalfa, meadows, adjustment, there was but one late for the farmers. Peasantry. for etc. if any great class must buy all its ^ « " * • * ™ 0 r V n d i0J a d s r u n n i n 9 t h r e e * » " « <"• mor;, 4ecent8 a word! J * h , i t n ,f er ! , Hw- . F a r m ? u r e a u m e m b e " . vvho actually own this publication Roots, which have been heaved, are reset. Cracks, opened goods at prices fixed by others and have the advantage of a rate of 50 cents for any ad of not more than sell its goods at prices fixed by 25 words Where the ad carries more than 25 words, the rate to them is three cents a word. Cash must accompany all orders for advertisements by frosts, are closed up. T h e top soil is made mellow. T h e others, there is no other chance for IT CULTIVATES them but to become hewers of wood whole field is restored to a good growing' condition. and drawers of water—the men who 500,000 HIGH GRADE HOLLYWOOD Sired White Leghorn Accredited Chicks. worthy K E <; 1 S T E II E D AX!) CERTIFIED Breaks crusts, hinders weeds, FREE had made the country in Washing- Males and females passed and bunded by Barley. oats. Certified Wisconsin Six Row Registered and Certified Picketl roots, makes growth more The Improved Culti-Packer is sold to you O N A MONEY Write f o r "Soil ton's day reduced in a century and a state poultry association. Sturdv and Yellow Dent Corn. Certified Grimm Al- rapid, saves one or more shovel quarter to the position of the men vigorous heavy producing breeders as- BACK G U A R A N T E E by the Sense" many help- sure chicks of quality and ability. Spe- falfa, Best of quality, satisfaction guar- cultivations. ful farming hints. from whom most Americans are de- cial discount now. Catalog free. Wyn- anteed. Write for seed circular. Fair- scended. Statesmanship? garden Hatchery & Farms, Zeeland, Mich. grove Associated Seed Growers, W. R. Kirk, Secy, Fairgrove, Michigan. 3-23-28 one looked upon the country- sides of the middle west and south, Box 25. MICHIGAN CERTIFIED WHITE LEG- horn chicks also record nf performance 3-25-b FOR RENT 102 ACRES—80 ACRES IX Michigan Farm Bureau Supply Service the old farm areas of Pennsylvania hatching eggs, chicks and cockerels. First cuKivation, remainder in pasture, with Lansing, Michigan and .Maryland, there appeared now pen Michigan International Egg Laving spring water; good basement barn, contest 1926-27 record 2753 eggs hi 52 and then pretty estates, the pur- weeks which is the highest record stanchions for ten cows, four box stalls, silo; room for t! horses, well in barn. NOTE THESE LOW PRICES chases of business men turned farm- made in the Michigan contest. Grade A Corn crib, tool shed, granary, chicken Tor their health; or perchance chicks $16.00 per hundred, $7". House, eight rooms and bat Write for circular and prices on special tern in kitchen. Furnace heat, apples, Actual one saw a vast estate of a Gould in pens. Hairy Burns, MillingtOD, Mich. pears, peaches, cherries, grapes. l', Length Number Number F a r m Bureau Former The Farm 1-13-28-P miles from Parma, Creamery, co-op ele- No. Rolling Weight, of of Price Price Bureau Saves North Carolina or a Ryan in Vir- vator there. .Main line Mich. Central and IT PACKS Over-all, Pound3 ginia—their masters controlling the Capacity, Wheels Horses Complete Complete YOU REGISTERED SPOTTED POLAND Interurban. Ten miles concrete to Jack- Inches politics of their communities, china Sows and gilts, also certified worthy son. Will rent on half shares. Possession Wheels penetrate deeply, close Inches their states. But of the common oats, heavy winners at the fall lairs. Write March 1. For further information, write 50 86 74 950 37 2 »$59.95 $ 85.00 #23.05 »:. P. Phillips, Auctioneer, Bellevue, Mich. Mrs. Lucy Hartung, 1502 First Street, up air spaces, make compact firm 86 1050 43 2 or 3 *$69.00 $ 95.00 r,2 98 $26.00 farmers, there was little to be said i-28-P Jackson, Mich. . seed bed. Helps control Corn 98 1175 49 3 | *$77.00 $110.00 56 110 988.00 The best of those who held grimly Borer. Front Wheels IS inch diameter. Rear Wheels 12 inch diameter. to the sites of their ancestors were hardly able to keep their fences in 'Deduct $4.00 for Culti-Packer if wanted without forecarriage and seat. Trices arc f. o. I>. Bercu, O. repair or put on new paints when the old weathered away. There was and still is an air of dilapidation all over FREIGHT RATES Manufactured by THE DUNHAM COMPANY the farm areas of the country, the young folk hurrying off to the lights and lures of the cities, their elders On Farm Commodities Sometimes have overcharge errors. Do you have your bills audited? Berea, (Suburb of Cleveland), Ohio Since 1846 or their interiors who remain hailed ) where as the yokels, the peas- ants and the snoodles of the laud, any name that spells contempt. Profits Taken Aw») kgo there were efforts to eat or relieve this anticipated of things. Land grant colleges THE TRAFFIC SERVICE DEPARTMENT Of the Michigan State Farm Bureau will check up the charges on your freight bills: file overcharge claims: file loss and damage claims; watch all freight rates on your farm products and supplies and be your personal representative to the railroads. lected free for paid-up Farm Bureau members. Bfo Charge For Auditing Claims col- IT MULCHES Rear wheels split ridges made by front wheels, plowing and re- plowing the field to form a loose U NHAN mulch, saves moisture. and small denominational school-- by Covernment or endowed ndividuals were designed to Farm Bureau Traffic Department \ 221-227 \ . CedM St. Lansing. Mich. son the beauty