Membership Maintenance Is MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU NEWS Only Through Leadership A Constructive And Funda- And Organization Can mental Form Of Farm Relief. Farming Have A Future PUBLISHED BY THE MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU FOR ITS MEMBERSHIP SIXTH YEAR, VOL. VI, No. 10 ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY MAY 25, 1928 SEE COOLIDGE VETO FIGHT TAKEN TO NATIONAL CONVENTION FIRST STATEWIDE POOLING TIME IS FARM LEADERS IN CONGRESS FAVOR ALFALFA DAY SET Letter from Sec'y Brody NEW M. S. C. HEAD to Farm Bureau Members SLATEDFOR WOOL CARRYING M'NARY-HAUGEN MATTER TO r FOR JUNE EIGHTH MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU. Lansing, Mich., May 1'5, 1928 Nineteen Points Established KANSAS CITY AS A POLITICAL ISSUE Dear Farm Bureau Members: For Handling Car-lots Alfalfa Seeding, Breeding, We haVe just returned from inspecting the alfalfa seed plots at Michigan State College. L. A. Thomas, manager of our Seed Of Fleeces Growing Conditions, Service, T. C. Maurer, assistant manager, and myself, spent a very profitable hour with Professors Joseph Cox and C. R. Megee. President Coolidge's Second Veto Message Says To Be Stressed We feel so well repaid for taking the time that we want to pass As in 1927, the Mi' higan State some of our impressions on to you. Farm Bureau is going ahead with Bill Is Still Highly Objectionable; American preparations for setting up a bigger STATE COLLEGE SPONSOR The plots cover an area of two or three acres, and include wool pool than during the year pre- Farm Bureau Declares Battle Will Be tests that were seeded as far back as 1921. Nearly all the vari- vious. Pooling dates and arrange- Leaders In Industry Slated eties and origins in the world are represented, including not ments have been fixed so that prac- Renewed With Increased Energy \i only alfalfas grown in the United States but from far-away places such as Turkestan, South Africa, and Argentine. tically every wool growing commun- To Head Discussions, ity can be served conveniently in the One look at these tests certainly emphasizes the importance matter of loading fleeces. Sacking President Coolidge on May 23, vetoed the McNary-Haugen Give Lectures of being absolutely certain that nothing but northern grown, adapted alfalfa seed be sown by Michigan farmers. It makes the wool on the farm right after farm relief bill for the second time, and in a caustic, denuncia-t all the difference between a crop of alfalfa or a crop of June shearing keeps it in'bet tor shape and tory veto message of some 5,000 words gave his reasons there- While various communities grass and dandelions. As we viewed these results, I tried to saves a lot of time and hard work at throughout the state have been ar- visualize the millions of dollars worth of benefit this work the pooling place. fore, stating in brief, that the new bill is just as objectionable ranging plans for their respective Al- means to the farmers of Michigan and the great work your Farm The following Is the pooling to him as the first one, that it is price fixing, that it won't falfa Days, a bigger field day, em- Bureau is doing in insisting on adapted alfalfa seeds as determined schedule: bracing all alfalfa growing areas by these tests, with absolute certainty of origin. Charlotte, Wednesday. June 6— work. Only the sharpness of the veto language was surpris- of Michigan, has been in the making As we went over the ground it was very interesting to hear Square Deal Elevator. ing. and now a definite program is an- Joe Cox relate how some of the features of the recent seed Richland, Thursday, June 7—C. F. nounced by officials of Michigan staining law, which the Farm Bureau was so influential in se- It is yet too early to get any idea of the ultimate effect of Bissell. State College, setting June 8 as a curing, were determined largely or entirely by these tests at Dowagiac, Friday, Jun S—Roy D. the veto. T h e answer lies in the rural voting power in the day for the first state-wide Alfalfa M. S. C. He was also optimistic over the possibilities of alfalfa Ward, Co-op. Mgr. food producing sections of the country. So far Mr. Hoover, Field Day ever held. as a seed crop in Michigan, calling our attention to the excellent results being shown by Common Alfalfa grown in Monroe Coun- Climax, Saturday, June 9 — At the heir apparent to the Coolidge policies on control for agri- Ths all-day program has been ten- Freight Depot. tatively arranged In the following ty, and Hardigan from several sections of the state. ROBERT S. SHAW cultural surpluses, has not done so well among those rural Milan, Monday, Jun< 11—Henry Robert S. Shaw, three times act- divisions: Six years ago Joe and I were together on a trip through the Hartman. voters. In Congress it is unlikely that an attempt will be made Inspection of alfalfa varietal test, alfalfa sections of, Utah, Idaho and Montana, and it was particu- ing president of Michigan State col- larly interesting to me to observe the plots seeded from sam- Jackson, Tuesday, Jun" 12—Dennis lege and Dean of Agriculture at that to pass the bill over the President's veto. It probably wouldn't under charge of Prof. C. R. Megee. Cobb. 9 to 5; inspection of alfalfa breed- ples we drew from farmers' stocks at that time. These recalled institution, has just been named make it. Farm leaders in Congress and elsewhere seem to many of our experiences out on the desert or in the mountains. Dexter, Wednesday, June 13—Mr. president of the school to succeed ing work, leading toward develop- However, Joe and I are not telling any tales on each other. Finkbeiner, Co-op. Mgr. favor allowing the farm relief issue to ride into the national ment of superior seed setting varie- Dr. Kenyon L. Butterfield, resigned. Occasionally, as we stopped to inspect a test more thoroughly, Brooklyn and Hillsdale. June 14 and President Shaw has been associat- political convention in June for best results. That transfers ties, such as the Hardigan, under 16—Phone Mr. Folgf r, Hillsdale Joe or Ted Maurer obtained some interesting snapshots of the ed with the college during the past Prof. E. E. Down and H. M. Brown. group. We hope their cameras still have some value for futui-e Co-op; phone Mr, Randall, the battle ground and eventually should .give the voters a 9 to 5; alfalfa hay making demon- 26 years and is a staunch friend use. Brooklyn Co-op. of agriculture. chance in the fray. The most interesting scraps are yet to stration program in charge of Paul As we left the field, Professor Cox said: "By the way, you Union City, Monday, Juno 18—Mr. come. Miller; noon program, after picnic fellows ought to get busy with your local organizations and mem- Miner, Co-op. Mgr. luncheon at Red Cedar grounds, address by R. S. Shaw. picnic bers and get them in to our Alfalfa Day wrhich the College is Quincy, Thursday, June 21—Mr. Old Mill Clock Has Pres. Sam. H. Thompson of the American Farm Bureau holding June 8th." We Avere so enthusiastic over the results Dobson, Co-op. Mgr federation, who has been a leader for the McNary-Haugen Howard Rather will give an address shown that we readily agreed. Coldwater, Friday, June 22—Mr. A Wonderful Record and lead in discussions and demon- You will note from the program published elsewhere in the Martin, Co-op Mgr. forces, declared that the veto was a blow to the agricultural strations throughout the day on al- News that it starts at 9:00 o'clock (Eastern Standard Time), A representative of the Farm Bu- west, and that the present administration has come to use the Marcellus, Saturday, June 23—Mr. falfa seed growing in Michigan. and there will be something of interest every minute. Not the reau News, while in Watervliet, Ber- Brown, Co-op Mgr. veto as a club to dictate legislation. Mr. Thompson declared Prof. J. F . Cox will talk on alfalfa least of the enjoyable features will be the picnic dinner on the rien County, the other day saw an old Cassopolis, Monday, Jun 2 5—Grand growing in Michigan and discuss College grounds at noon, followed by addresses by President Trunk Freight Depot. clock that holds a record for per- the farmers* fight will be renewed with increased energy, as methods of most successful growers. Shaw and others. sistence and accuracy under trying Alfalfa talks will be given in the Hastings, Thursday, June 28—Mr. was done after the first defeat, with the result that the McNary- So bring the whole family and have them share in one of the Hunt Co-op. Mgr. conditions for both. field by members of the Farm Crops most enjoyable and profitable days you will have an opportunity The owner of the flour mill tells Haugen plan gained substantial strength in Congress this Oxford, Friday, June ' —Mr. Al- department staff throughout the to spend together. his time by a little Seth Thomas clock time. len, Co-op. Mgr. day, alternating each half hour with Very sincerely, which he has had for 44 years. This Thompson's Statement *J C. L. BRODY, Secy-Mgr. Imlay City, Saturday, June 30—John leading Michigan alfalfa growers and clock has sat on the same shelf in a Referring to President Coolidge's message by saying in the second R. Sisson. feeders. Alfalfa growers and poul- dusty corner of that mill for more veto message on the McNary-Haugen paragraph "the present bill contains Davison, Date to be annnounced by try raisers will be pleased with {he than 30 years. Dust accumulates so bill a year ago in which the Presi- not only the so-called equalization W. W. Billings. fixht of the college poultry flocks rapidly in that spot that the glass dent recognized that agriculture fee and other features of the old Sit. Pleasant, Date to be announced ranging on a 30 acre alfalfa field. It is hoped that all who are inter- KENT CITY OPENS EDWIN J. ADLER by W. Hazelwood. Wool for the State Farm Bureau door protecting the face of the clock is always left open so that the dial faced a vital problem artd needed measure predjudiclal, in my opin- help, Mr. Thompson said: ion, to sound public policy and agri- ested will come for the entire day. "The leaders of American agricul- culture, but also new and highly ob- Bring the family and a basket din- ner. For the past seven years, every ALFALFA CONTEST wool pool can be handled through the state headquarters at Lansing at any time. Growers desiring to take may be seen. Nevertheless, the little clock ticks away most industriously, keeps accurate time and has been do- ture took Mr. Coolidge at his word. jectionable provisions. We again prepared a measure from tirety it is little less desirable than In its en- day has been "Alfalfa Day" some- advantage of the pooling facilities ing so right along. It hasn't been in which, with one exception, we re- the earlier measure. The bill is where in Michigan. This day is set Business Men Sponsor Move should get orders in early for wool a clockmaker's shop for repairs for moved all the points to which Mr. still unconstitutional. This position aside as "Alfalfa Day" for the whole To Improve Farms In bags and tags. 40 years, according to the owner. Coolidge objected. That exception is supported by the opinion of the state w ith the alfalfa program in full The 1927 wool pool was a decided The clock is mounted in a black wal- was the equalization fee without attorney general, which is heroto at- review at the college, showing ex- Their Vicinity success, so far as the individual nut case, and apparently is in per- which we could not hope to partici- tached. perimental methods and the practi- pate in the benefits of the Ameri- The President summarized what grower was concerned, and effort is fect mechanical condition. cal use of alfalfa, beginning with Kent City business men are fos- can protective system. he described as "major weaknesses being made to increase the 1928 pool seed adaptation, breeding better seed j tering an alfalfa contest in order to and perils" under six headings as poundage so that a greater benefit A man was carrying home a big "But again, Mr. Coolidge vetoes follows: varieties, preparing seed beds ffor stimulate the growing of that valu- will be realized in the aggregate hall clock on his shoulders when he this bill notwithstanding the pledg* summer seedings and planting meth- able crop. One hundred and twenty throughout the state. 1. Its attempted price-fixing fal- met an intoxicated man. who lurched of his party and the fact that an lacy. ods, making hay. pasturing alfalfa dollars in prizes are being offered Alfred Bentall, who has had up to him and said, "Say, Mister, overwhelming majority of the mem- with all kinds of live stock, and in two classes. One class is open 2. The tax characteristics of the charge of the pool during recent sea- don't you think it would be easier bers of both the senate and the equalization fee. handling alfalfa as a seed crop. to fields under five acres and over sons, is again managing it for the to carry a watch?" house of representatives voted for one acre and the other to fields of Michigan growers. 3. The widespread bureaucracy this measure. more than five acres. which it would set up. "We've got a new baby at our "It is an alarming thing that the MICH. ELEV. EXCH. The seedings are to be made this season and the judging of the fields "Women will never be men's house." equal until you can flap one on the "Zat so? Did you turn in your manner. Clearly the veto power dlemen. 4. Its encouragement to profiteer- veto power can be used in such a ing and wasteful distribution by mid- will be made in 1929. Anyone may back and borrow a five spot." was intended to protect the people MARKET OPINION enter who lives on a Kent City R. F. D. or in Tyronne township or the a very able accountant and had been old one?" from ill considered, hastily adopted tion. legislation. But in the present ad- 5. Its stimulation of overpiodifo- sections of those townships touching in charge of the Michigan Farm 6. Its aid to our foreign agricul- By Michigan Elevator Exchange ministration it has become a club for Bureau Seed Service records since tural competitors. Lansing, Mich., under date of May Tyronne. last August. He had been with the Some Trainload! dictating legislation. These features, the President said, 2o, 1938. State Farm Bureau for nearly two To transport the commodities "Millions of American citizens are by no means exhaust the list of fal- disappointed In this act of Mr. Cool- acious and indeed dangerous aspects WHEAT-^-Prices on Michigan wheat have,gone down 50 cents per ALASKAN BLUE FOX years. No one had a deeper inter- est in the success of the Farm Bu- handled by the Supply and Seed Services of the Michigan Farm Bureau last year would have re- idge. The effort to get economic of the bill, but they afford ample justice for agriculture will be con- ground for its emphatic rejection." bushel in the last three .weeks. This reau movement than this yountr was not surprising because Michigan wheat got altogether too high com- BUSINESS GROWING man, who matched his ability with an equal enthusiasm. Mr. Adler quired a freight train 20 miles in length. Six miles of this tinued with increased energy, with the realization that a great majority Farmer Is Different Notwithstanding the Esch-Cum- pared with the rest of the world. was the only son of Mr. and Airs. total would have been required of American citizens demand that mins act dealing with railroad rates Last season's take of blue and for fertilizer shipments alone the purchasing power of American and returns; the Federal Reserv» Liverpool, England shipped wheat to white fox pelts on the Alaskan Pribi- The Michigan State Farm Bureau August Adler of Lansing, with whom Toledo last month. The prospects the Michigan State Farm Bureau or- and about three quarters of a farmers be restored. That is essen- Act, once opposed by many hankers lost a fine young man when Edwin are for a dull market until new lof Islands numbered 292, accord- J. Adler, 2 2. died suddenly May 16 ganization sympathizes deeply in mile for seed shipments. tial for permanent national prosper- and now lauded as their safeguard crop. From the present outlook ing to the Bureau of Fisheries, De- after a short illness. Mr. Adler was their loss ity." and a safeguard for the whole na- Michigan wheat should again bring partment of Commerce. President Coolidge opened his veto (Continued on page four) -•-"• ' high prices next winter or spring. New wheat is heading out in Okla- homa. Conditions very fine in the southwest. CORN—Corn seems plenty high enough. Not much profit in feeding Walsh Sees Advantages Of Lakes-To-Sea Route of an enlarged Welland Canal that will permit the passage from joint board to study the engineering features. The commission operations and demand for corn is either of the two lower lakes to the other of such ships as those referred to consists of three Americans and three Canadians ap- rather slim. At the same time supplies of old corn back in the corn belt are light. Reports from the Montana Senator Pleads last mentioned, the work to be completed in 1920, at an estimated cost of $115,000,000; pointed pursuant to the treaty of 1909, its primary purpose be- ing to adjust controversies that may arise involving boundary waters or streams rising in the one country and flowing Into the It is proposed so to overcome the obstacles to navigation that west say new corn never went into the ground in any better condition. Corn is five to seven inches, high in For International Plan vessels drawing up to 25 feet may safely and expeditiously make the passage, a depth that will accomodate practically all freighters and at least 88 to 90 per cent of the ships engaged in the foreign other. That commission conducted extensive hearings at meetings throughout the country extending from Boston to Boise, Illinois. trade of the United States. Our neighbors on the north, as a unit Idaho, the expressions being uniformly favorable, except for dis- OATS—Old oats are now selling In Address Before Boston Chamber, Western in the improved waterway, are noAv engaged in the construction sent coining from some citizens of Boston and from representa- (>ntur> Old Problem tives of the State of New Yoik, which officially registered Its op- for famine prices. The country is bare of supplies and high prices will Lawmaker Points Out Benefits That For more than a century statesmen and men of affairs of both position, the only state to do so. countries directly concerned have given thought to the problem Amass Much Data be with us until new oats. Iowa and Will Accrue To Agriculture of utilizing to the fullest extent possible this natural route of Illinois farmers expect to deliver new A vast mass of material was assembled by the commission, pro- commerce to and from the great West. With the marvelous devel- vided by experts who testified to the tonnage that might be expected, oats the last half of July. Throughout Many States opment of that region, a development that has no parallel in the relative rates of transportation by land and water, the length RYE—A very short crop of rye is history, the desire to see opened to general navigation the route of the season during which the waterway would be open to navi- in prospect In the United States this by which the waters draining into the Great Lakes find their gation, and in relation to other facts relevant to the Inquiry, in- year and good prices will be seen Address by SEN. T. J. WALSH way to the ocean has become intensified, and the demand for cluding the market for electrical energy to be developed inci- action more and more insistent. It is not alone the States whose dentally, a feature to be referred to more in detail hereafter. for the next twelve months. Before Boston Chamber of Commerce, April 12 territory lies in part within the basin of the St. Lawrence but BEANS—The bean market holds I refer to what is generally alluded to as the Great Lakes-St. as well all those beyond as far as the Rocky Mountains, whose The board of engineers, headed by Col. W. P. Wooten for tb«i very high because of the extremely Lawrence waterway, likely, in the near future, to engage the se- products find an outlet through the lake ports, that have a direct United States and by W. A. Bowden, chief engineer of th light supplies. Prospects are for a rious consideration of the Congress. concern in this great enterprise. It is estimated that 40,000,000 partment of Railways and Canals for the Canadian Government, large acreage of beans to be put in people in the United States and Canada would be the immediate reported favorably on the proposal to improve the navigability the ground during May. Total The project contemplates the improvement of the St. Law- beneficiaries of this contemplated development. of the river with incidental development of the power resource*", acreage is expected to be about the rence River and the connecting waters between the Great Lakes and the commission, by unanimous action, warmly recommended so as to permit oceau-going ships to pass without breaking cargo The secretary of Commerce has asserted that the benefits ac- the negotiation of a treaty to that end. To indicate the enthu- same as last year. Those Michigan from the sea to the remotest lake ports, to extend the ocean ways cruing to them annually from the work will more than equal the siasm with which the commission looked forward In- farmers who are able to deliver the a thousand miles westward into the very heart of the continent. total cost of the undertaking. Twenty-two States, all more or auguration of the enterprise, the following paragraphs fro- first new beans will find excellent Due to the enterprise of the Canadian Government, through the less vitally concerned, have associated themselves for the pur- "Summary of conclusions" are quoted: demand and good prices because the construction of the Welland Canal and works in the St. Lawrence pose of forwarding it and have formally indorsed the project by country will be bare of supplies and resolutions of their legislative assemblies. "To sum up as briefly as possible it above Montreal, it is now possible for vessels of draft not to ex- ter of the proposed improvement of the St. Lawr* they are now used to paying a better ceed 14 feet to proceed in and out of the gulf and to and from the As an initial step in the enterprise Congress, in the year 1919, tween Lake Ontario and Montreal, the commission fin miles. England is in the whose int. directly subserved the same pries for the like products. The retailer must pool pressed its conclusions in its report same latitude as Labrador and a ship Subscription price $1.00 per year. To Farm Bureau members, by and who are attached to the policy 50 cants per year, included in their annual dues. his costs of delivery. The milk man and the ice man climb submitted December :27, 1927, in the'sailing down the St. Lawrence is of protective duties heartily to in- several flights of stairs to deliver their wares at my a p a r t m e n t following language: id almost directly for the British the project in s u p p o r t of w h i c h LEE CHILSON Editor but they reach my neighbor from the g r o u n d floor. A friend "First. The construction of the Isles. I a d d r e s s you. Nor can it be o v e r - s h i p w a y from t h e G r e a t L a k e s to t h e The tremendous import to the peo- looked that New Kngland h a s a v e r y who is only five feet in height and of slight build, and a n o t h e r sea is Imperative both for the relief ple of the West of a substantial re- direct i n t e r e s t in t h e p r o s p e r i t y of MICHIGAN STAfgTARM fiUPEAU who is well over six feet and of fair proportions, both pay the and for the future development of a duction in freight rates may be dif- the great Northwest, whose purchas- same price for a suit 6i clothes. The tailor pools his costs but vast area in the interior of the con- ficult of appreciation by peopi ing power is l i m i t e d by excessive tinent. siding in more favorite sections a* t r a n s p o r t a t i o n c h a r g e s , a n d would be one man p a y s for more t h a n he gets arid t h e other for leas. "Second. The shipway should be its transportation. My home immeasurably increased by the OFFICERS Illustrations such a.s the above are numerous. A m o m e n t ' s constructed on the ' St. Lawrence city of Helena is 1,100 miles from o p e n i n g up of t h e c h e a p e r St. L a w - V- I-. Noox. faokson President reflection on one's daily activities will bring to mind many such route, provided suitable agreement Minneapolis or Duluth, the terminal River Waterway. W. W. .BILLINGS, Davison . . . : Vice-President can be made for its joint undertaking markets, so-culled, for most of the E a s t Needs W e s t instances. It is probable that we do more pooling now t h a n in with the Dominion of Canada. grain products of Montana, but when it is the settlement and develop- Directors-at-I-arge M. B. M P F H E P . S O N Lowell times past, for we are in an era of •"one p r i c e " ' when the so-called "Third. That the development of they reach either ot those cities they ment of the highly productive MRS. EDITH .M. WAGAit Carleton " . h i g g l i n g " of buyers a n d sellers is largely a thing of t h e past. the power resources of the St. are still 1,000 miles or more from hinterland, as everyone must recog- .lOHN GOODW1NK Marlette Lawrence should be undertaken by tidewater, the transportation charges nize, that made New England mate- VKftOLD F. GORM ELY Newberry Iiiblic utilities, such as street railways, ijas and electric com- appropriate agencies. for that stretch absorbing 18 cents rially great. If Massachusetts ever J. G BOYLE Buchanan panies, ami other similar agencies, have increased greatly in re- "Fourth. That negotiations should to 27 'o cents, depending on whether shared the view of Josiah Quincy, W. W. BILLINGS Davison cent years, and most of these apply pooling principles in their be entered into with Canada in an the carriage is all rail or rail and expressed in his speech in the House ( oininodity D i r e c t o r s endeavor to arrive at agreement up- water. The situation was bad enough of Representatives on the bill for FRED HARGER, Stanwood Michigan Potato Growers Exchange method id' operation. Again, the n u m b e r of activities c a r r i e d on on all these subjects. In such always, but it is acute now in con- the admission of Louisiana into the M. L. NOON, Jackson Michigan MIMc Producers Association by governments in which pooling principles apply has increased. negotiations the United States should sequence of raises accorded the rail- (Continued on page tliree) J. H. O'MEALY, Hudson Michigan Live Stock Exchange recognize the proper relations of .New ways during the war and still in GEQ. W. McCALLA, Ynsilanti Michigan Elevator Exchange Jn our emergence from an individualistic to an i n t e r d e p e n d e n t York to the power development in large part enjoyed by them. The rate M. D. BL'SKIRK,STATE Paw Paw FARM BUREAU ORGANIZATION Michigan Fruit Growers, Inc. state, we have reduced in n u m b e r the t h i n g s done by individuals the international section." Ciark L. Brody Scc'y-Treas-Manager on wheat from Helena to Duluth and increased the n u m b e r preformed by groups, w h e t h e r they The Canadian division is eaid to was, in 1913, 32 cents per hundred, be companies of a p r i v a t e or co-operative n a t u r e , or the l a r g e r have reported in January last but the equivalent of 19.2 cents per bu- DEPARTMENT HEADS its conclusions have not yet been shel. It is now 44% cents or 26.7 organizations known as g o v e r n m e n t s . In this transition we have made public. In view, however, cents per bushel. If one were to Traffic A. P. Mills Clothing Miss N. B. Kirby increased the importance of co-operation and the application of of the concurrence of the Canadian devise some plan by which that bur- Pubiicllv Lee Chllson pooling practices r e g a r d l e s s of our a t t i t u d e toward the princi- members of both commissions and of den could be reduced to the extent Accounting E. B. Uagren both boards of engineers in the re- of lu cents per bushel he would be Organization C. L. Nasn ple,— ( J . F . Booth, in A g r i c u l t u r a l Co-operation). ports submitted by them favorable to hailed as a public benefactor and be Automobile Insurance Alfred Bentall the enterprise, there can be no doubt showered with evidence of the grati- SUBSIDIARY CORPORATIONS O F T H E MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU Michigan Farm Bureau Seed Service! L. A. Thomas Walsh On Advantages Of Lake-to-Sea that the belated report is commenda- tude of a sorely tried people obliged tory of the proposal; particularly is to run the risk ordinarily attendant, (Continued from page one) this to be expected considering the upon agricultural pursuits and to en- Michigan Farm Bureau Supply Service L. A. Thomas as well as the entire waterway from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Michigan Farm Bureau Wool Pool Alfred Bentall the head of the Great Lakes, or that such vessels would hesitate huge expenditure made and being in- counter the ever-constant peril of Michigan Commodity Marketing Associations to do so if cargoes were available. . curred to enlarge the Welland drouth that confronts that industry "It finds that of the various alternative routes mentioned Canal. It is the view of the Canadian in a semiarid country. Even in those Affiliated With Michigan State Farm Bureau from the interior to the seaboard, none offers advantages com- press that this expectation' has been sections more favored to humidity The most positive ! parable with those of the natural route by way of the St. Law- fully met in the report thus far with- Mkhigan Potato Growers Exchange Cadillac rence. held. and in closer proximity to markets control for agriculture has so languished for the Wk-higan Milk Producers Association 7U7 Owen BIdg., Detroit As to the economical practicabil- sity that no effort should be spared See Unlimited Benefits last half-dozen years as to give rise Scab and Rhizoctonia Michigan Live Stock Exchange Hudson ity of the waterway, the commission to secure a .plan which will beyond It is unnecessary to descant upon to a persistent demand for Federal Michigan Michigan Elevator Exchange Fruit Growers, Inc Directors Farm Bureau Bldg., Lansing and Officers of t h e C o m m o d i t y E x c h aBentonn g e s Harbor finds that, without considering the all reasonable doubt obtain from the probability of new traffic created upper St. Lawrence its maximum ef- the illimitable benefits, reasonably relief legislation. to be anticipated from this improved SEMESAN BEL by the opening of a water route to ficiency in navigation and power. T o Out C o m m o d i t y Costs waterway, to the millions now in- ALPH E. SMITH of Twin MICH ELEVATOR EXCH. Carl Martin, Pres Cold water .Mini. MILK PRODUCERS N. P. Hull, Pres ASS'N- Lansing the seaboard, there exists to-day be- To this end the commission believes habiting and hereafter to make their It has been shown by indubitable R Falls, Idaho, at the direc- MUton Burkholder, V. P. .Marlette R. G. Potts, Vice-Pres. Washington tween the region economically trib- that before any particular scheme homes in the vast region to which it figures that, though the prices of tion of his county agent, planted IT. D. Horfon, Sec -Treas Kinds John C. Near, Sec Flat Rock utary to the Great Lake and overseas is finally adopted, all the available will furnish a cheaper transportation farm products have risen since 1913, two test rows of potatoes, one points as well as between the same engineering data, including the re- route. It is asserted by the Secre- the prices of other commodities with, treated with corrosive sublimate L. E. Osmer, Mgr Lansing B. F. Leach, Ass't Sec Detroit and the other with Semesan Bel. II. W. Norton, Treas Howell region and the Atlantic and Pacific port and plans of the engineering tary of Commerce that the savings which the farmer must provide him- C. S. Benton, Bean Dep't Port H u ran M. L. Noon Jackson seaboards, a volume of outbound board and all comments thereon or that will be effected and the inciden- self have advanced so much more "When my potatoes came up," K. L. Taylor Lapeer and inbound trade that might rea- alternative plans should be referred tal advantages accruing to them an- than a quantity of his products that he reported, "—the Semesan Bel Neil Bass, Bean Dep't Lansing row came quicker and with much W. E. Phillips Decatur L. W. Harwood Adrian sonably be expected to seek this to a special technical board for care- nually will more than pay the entire would then buy $100 worth of goods route sufficient to justify the ex- ful consideration and report. better stand. The potatoes from George McCalla Ypsilanti W. J. Thomas , Grand Rapids cost of the project. Business men will now provide him with scarcely this row went 142 lbs. and from L. C. Kamlowske Washington Fred W. .Meyer Fair Haven pense involved in its improvement. In harmony with its conclusions long engaged in the export grain more than 80 per cent of the same the corrosive sublimate row, only M. R. Shi.iler Caledonia Dr. W. C. M(Kinney ...Davisburg "It finds that the existing means as outlined in the foregoing the com- trade assert that it will reduce the quantity; in other words, that he. is 85 lbs. The seed in both cases James J. Brakenberry . . . B a d Axe of transportation between the trib- mission has recommended^, among were from the same bag, the rows F. M. Oehmke Sebewaing cost of transporting grain from Chi- operating under a 20 per cent handi- Elmer Powers Clio utary area in the United States and other things— were side by side, of the same W. J. Hazel wood Mt. Pleasant cago or Duluth to northern European cap. Prominent among the causes length, and had an equal chance.'* MICH. POTATO GROWERS MICH. LIVE STOCK EXCH. the seaboard are altogether inade- "That the Jfeovernments of the EXCH. E. A. Beamer, Pres Blissfield quate; that the railroads have not United Stltes&nd Canada enter into ports by from 8 to 10 cents per bringing about this disparity in Henry Curtis, Fres Cadillac bushel. Inasmuch as approximately prices is the protective tariff, gener- This is only a hint of the won- 11. D. Harper, Vice-Pres., St Johns kept pace with the needs of the an arrangement uy Way of treaty for ders Semesan Bel works. Drop J. T. Buss'ey, Vice-Pres, Provemont J. II. oWlealey, Set'y Hudson country, but that this does not ap- a scheme of finprovement of the St. 250,000,000 bushels of wheat or its ally vigorously upheld in New Eng- in soon and let us tell you the full O. E. Hawley, Secy Shelby Frank Obrest, Treas., Breckenridge ply to the Canadian side of the Lawrence «Riv$r between Montreal equivalent in flour are exported an- land and in principle supported by story. We've got some interest- F. J. Harger, Treas Stanwood Xate 1'aUison area, where railway development is and Lake O nually, the total saving In freight on the dominant sentiment in the grain- i n g PROOF for you and a selec- K. P. HH>st. Gen. Mgr Cadillac J. R. Bettes Sparta still in advance of population and that commodity alcne will be not less growing section. The foremost advo- tion of crop handbooks, free for C. A. ftlchaer, Sales Mgr. .Cadillac In conformity -with the recommen- than $20,000,000,000, the equivalent cates of the so-called McNary-Haugen the asking. Charles Brown Sunfield production. dation made touching a supplemen- Leon G. VanLeuw Bellaire Edward Dippey Perry of 4 per cent interest on $500,000,- plan of farm relief are ardent pro- George Herman Remus Water Travel Important tal inquiry, a commission was created 000, more than the total cost of the tectionists who seek to secure for the Distributed by Charles Woodruff Hastings E. A. Rasmussen MICHIGAN Sheridan FRUIT GROWERS, INC. "Experience has demonstrated not to give further study to the subject. project making no deduction on ac- products in which they are interest- M. D. Fuskirk, Pres . . . . . P a w Paw John Miller Coloma only the tremendous importance of to act in an advisory capacity, each count of power development. ed the same measure of protection ac- MIX II. FARM BUREAU Amos Tucker, 1 V. IVes Allan B. Graham Elbcrta water communication to the foreign country niming nine members, the SEED SERVICE South Haven commerce of any country but also American ^branch being headed by In the light of tbe racts just recit corded to manufactures by the tariff P. D. Leavenworth, Grand Rapids ed there seems no reason for doubt J ineffective in the case of the staple AND CO-OP ASSWS Herbert Nafziger, 3 V. Pres W. J. Bchultz Hart the manifest advantages of link- Hon. Herbert .Hoover, Secretary of Millburg ing up rail and water routes. It Commerce, anef'the Canadian branch about the substantial accuracy of the products of the farm of which there L. A. Hawley Ludington view expressed by Secretary Hoover is normally an exportable surplus, F. L. Bradford, Sec.-Treas ('. I. Cluestensen Onekama is beyond question that the phenom- by Hon. George Perry Graham, Min- Benton Harbor enal industrial development of Great ister of R a i l w a y and Canals. To aid that the project will pay for itself They proclaim that the protective H. W. Gowdy Union Pier F. L. Granger, Sales Mgr O. R. Gale Shelby Britain in modern times has been this commission the Department of Benton Harbor John Lang Sodus due very largely to her ready access Commerce was directed to make an D. H. Brake Fremont . John Bottema Spring Lake to the sea. exhaustive inquiry into the economi- Henry Namitz Brldgman J. K Higbee Benton Harbor Bert Glef.son Lawrence "Great Britain has no resources cal aspects of the* project, which it C. L. Brody Lansing Of iron, yet she has built up gigan- did. Complying even more directly Mfller Overton American Bangor RAM H. THOM PSO.N L E G I S L A T I V E H GENERAL OFFICES A. F. B. F E A D Q C A R Farm Bureau T E R S . . . . HarryFederation Hogue . .Munsey Bldg., Washington, 58 East Washington St., Chicago Sodus President D. C. tic steel industries; she grows no with the suggestion of the earlier cotton, yet she supplies half the commission, a new board of engi- world with cotton goods; she pro- neers was i n s t i t u t e d to undertake Which Will Your Alfalfa Look CHESTER H. GRAY Washington Representative duces very little wool, yet her wool- the work, such commission deemed en mills have developed into an necessary,,, the American corps con- sisting of Gen. Edgar Jadwin, Col "\ enormous industry. Her merchant William Kelly, a n d Col. George B marine sail the seven seas, bringing Like After Three Winters? to her shores the raw materials she Pillsbury, of the Army Engineers] STATE FARM BUREAU'S PUBLIC needs for her industries, and carry- the Canadian members being Mr ing back the finished products. The Duncan W. McLachlan, Minister of SERVICE PROGRAM ; ea, that most efficient, most adapt- Railways and Canals; Mr. Oliver O. able, most far-reaching, most eco- Lefebvre, chief engineer of the Que- IJKUISLATIOA nomical of thoroughfares, possessing bec Streams Commission; and Brig. practically all the advantages of Gen. Charles Hamilton Mitchell. Passage o( the Capper-French Trutb-In- Fabric bill: completion and operation of land transportation with few of its This board likewise unanimously in- the U. S. Muscle Shoals Nitrates plant disadvantages, has made Great Brit- dorsed the project, saying, "The and manufacture of fertilizer; opposition ain prosperous. bee Streams Commission; and Brig to any form of sales t;ix or of consump- St. Lawrence waterway) presented tion tax; retention of federal income tax; "And what water transportation m tire report of 1921 is, in its broad Passage of Gooding-Ketcham Seed Stain- E N A C T E D APR. 26, 1921 ing bill. has done for Great Britain it has lines, practicable," and In explana- done in greater or less-' degree for tion of the scheme the followin was TAXATION Relief for sorely burdened farm property other nations in other times. Ac said: by enactment of: cess to the sea gave the diminutive ta) Two cent gasoline tax for highway funds. Republic of Venice preeminent "196. In summary, th plans rec- <1>) State Income Tax in place of State's gen- the Mediterranean. It transformed ommended by the board for the im- eral property levy. little Holland from a comparatively provement of the river will provide (c) Law forbidding any more tax exempt obscure province into a great mari- to the best advantage for a navi- securities. time nation. It gave to Spain her gation route through the 183 miles 6 N A C T E D JAN. 29, 1M5 (d) Equalization of assessment of farm and M/.3S0 A N N U A L L Y ;it\ property in accordance With sales period of greatness. It brought of river and lake from lake Ontario SINCE 1924 values of same. Germany, before the war, within al- to Montreal harbor, with a total not (Farm Bureau Investigations brought most measurable distance of suprem- exceeding 25 miles of restricted equalization in Calhoun, Ingham, Wash- acy In the foreign trade of the canal navigation and with not more tenaw, Monroe and Kalamazoo counties, saving farmer taxpayers $67,350 excess world. than nine locks. It will be crossed taxes annually.) "The conclusion is obvious that, by but eight bridges. The plans in* Test plots at Michigan State College, showing at the left southern grown alfalfa seed TRANSPORTATION if countries that had for the most elude power houses with an ulti after, the third winter; at the right, hardy, northern grown Michigan adapted seed after the E F F E C T I V E SEPT. 10, Immediate application of Michigan Zone part to import their raw material mate installed capacity of from 2 third winter. Plots were planted in 1922; photographed summer of 1925. The growing 1925 Rate decision to save farmer shippers in test is the best answer to the question of adaptation. ti'J counties $:>00,000 annually. from abroad were able to build up 619,000 to 2,730',000 horsepower MARKETING a great foreign trade because of and permit the eventual develop- Extension of sound co-operative market- ing program now well under way in Mich- their ready access to the sea; th" ment with installed capacity of ap- region economically tributary to the proximately 5.000,000 horsepower Insist on Michigan Adapted Alfalfa igan. Great lakes, with its limitless re- which is the full power potentiality Much southern grown alfalfa seed is blended with good northern seed and AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE sources, its raw materals within of the river." EFFECTIVE OCT. 20, Adequate protection for farmers against easy reach, its facilities for indus- Navigation Item Smallest sold to northern farmers. Southern grown seed is not adapted to the rigors 1926 loss by fire, theft, collision, property dam- of this climate and is usually very susceptible to disease and winter killing. age and public liability furnished at rea- trial expansion, can hardly fail to The cost of the project was esti- sonable rates. % become uecome an an even even greater greater factor in mated factor in " * a i c u 'at, l »«»* $394.ooo.mm if with a K i n fiWrOTU if with a sin- There is the real reason for many a promising alfalfa stand petering out the the world's markets than it is to J g l e " s t a « e development, or $423,600,- second and third seasons. day, if Aw ie given ~: a- practicable . . . . and_ effi 000OftO if if -or with if), a two-stage ~ <• -^ development, , POOLING cient water route to the sea. including all machinery necessary for When you buy your alfalfa seed, insist on domestic seed that is fully Power A Hi« Factor power generation to the amount of adapted to Michigan. Look on the tag for the place where it was grown In recent y e a r s we have heard much about pooling. Some and the guarantee. "As elsewhere noted, it was re- approximately 2,700,000 horespower. would have us believe that pooling is f u n d a m e n t a l to co-opcra- peatedly stated by those who appear- Of the total cost it was believed the Michigan Farm Bureau Brand Grimm, Hardigan, certified Michigan atiou a n d that there can be BO co-operation without it. Others ed before the commission that the returns to be anticipated from the grown Grimm, and Utah common alfalfa seeds are domestic Michigan water power developed on the St. power generated would warrant fix- t a k e the opposite view and go so far as to assert t h a t pooling is adapted seeds and are guaranteed to the grower as such. They are of high Lawrence would be sufficiently ing the net cost assignable to naviga- economically unsound and as such will not e n d u r e . Probably not valuable to carry a considerable pro- tion Improvement at $1 23,OW,000 or purity and germination. You get them in sealed Farm Bureau Brand sacks, all the t r u t h is on either side. Pooling may be economically un- portion, if not the wh.de. ,,f the 000,00©, depending upon which exactly as they leave our warehouse. Place your order with your nearest co- cost of the undertaking both tor of two alternative plans should be ad and when put into practice may wreck an organization, yet navigation and power. adopted. The cost of the undertak- operative ass n now. we practice pooling m many of the t h i n g s we do daily and prob- "Finally. the commission is ing to be prosecuted by both govern- ably would be surprised if it were brought to our a t t e n t i o n . We strongly of the opinion that the sub- ments win naturally be shared by have accepted the custom as a part of our s y s t e m : it has become ject matter of this investigation is both on a basis to be fixed by treaty, one of such extraordinary impor- taking into consideration in all prob- Michigan Farm Bureau Seed Service a habit and we seldom consider its economic s t a t u s . tance to the people of the two coun- ability the expenditures of each here Lansing, Michigan IttppoH of these r e m a r k s consider some ot the common tries and ines and involves involves engineering engineering prob-prob- tofore, for the improvement of the Jems of such magnitude and diver-j waterway, including Canada's large May 3.", 1028 MICniGAN FARM BUREAU NEWS Awakening of Public Mind WalshInland Pleads For Water Way of these states, amounting in the ag- Mortality Rate Heavy gregate approximately to the total energy now utilized in all New- STABILISATION "What's the fuss in the school- In Month Old Babies yard, sonny?" asked a gentleman GarlocK Williams Co. 2614 O r l e a n s St. To Study of Modern Health (Continued from page two) Union, that New England has no in- England. It must have awakened the keen- Approximately 50 per cent of the passing a ward school. terest in the region beyond the Mis- est concern among you to find im- infant mortality in the United States around exaniinin' us, an one of the "Way the doctor's just hew. Detroit Tour shipments of poultry, ©ggs and veal are solio.il - and Practices Becomes Beneficial sissippi, she long ago, as has been at- mense textile factories spring up occurs under one month of age, 40 deficient kids is knockin hell out of tested in numberless ways, and not- throughout the South Atlantic States per cent under one week and 2 0 per a perfect one." market information sent on request. ably in connection with the legisla- not only adjacent to the cotton fields cent under one day. Modern Conveniences Help home, the boy was taken into an- tion of Congress, abandoned it and but where cheap water power is other home where he was fed reg- now has a more liberal, enlightened, available to turn the spindles. Extend The Average ular proper meals, he was sent to and national view. If the capital of No effort has been made! to agree bed on time and sent to school ou New England has assisted in devel- upon a division of the power to be CERTIFIED SEED FOR SALE Span of Life time, his whole life was made reg- oping the resources of the West, as generated by works In the interna- ular and as a consequence he has it undoubtedly has, it is equally tional section of the river; but, as- Do Your Buy STATE CERTIFIED White Kural Seed Potatoes tor Sale. the best and get the results. Address all Inquiries to the MICHIGAN POTATO GROWERS' EXCHANGE, Cadillac, Mich. By Mrs. Edith M. Wtfgter not seen a sick day or missed a day true that the teeming population of suming an equal division to be made, "So many of them died young, in school for several years. What that vast region has been among the there would be allocated Tor use in between forty and fifty years" was was once looked upon as a sickly valued customers for the products the United States approximately 1,- Own Selling the comment made by a friend after handicapped child has developed in- of her mills and factories. The re 350,000 horsepower. The total When you bill your stock to he had spent an hour wandering to a healthy average boy because he striction or reduction of the purchas- amount now being generated at the Michigan Stock Exchange through the old neighborhood ceme- was made to live a natural life. ing power of the territory clamoring Niagara on both sides of the river Co-op Commission Merchant? tery. I had never thought of it in the light of today—they were young, Fresh Air Beneficial for a continuous water outlet to the is 1, 503,000 horsepower—M5.000 And then there comes the con- sea by way of the St. Lawrence on the American side and 938,000 or the Producers at East Buf- falo, you do your own selling This bag of lime costs cents only in the prime of life if judged tagious diseases. Every winter there would seriously affect New England, on the Canadian. If the energy to be today but within our memory, any- seems to be statewide epidemics of and an increase thereof through sav- developed were disposed of at the one reaching forty was deemed old flu and children's diseases. I heard ings in transportation charges would meager price of $15 per horsepower, in the terminal market. You get all the stock will bring. You get the advantage but means DOLLARSioyml and one went in the aged class if a doctor say a while ago that it be reflected in increased business there would be an annual return of of having your own co-opera- A few cents spent for Solvay brings back many they lived to see fifty. To be sure would be a great blessing to human- in this section. there were great grandmothers who ity when folks realized that the bes* approximately $20,000,(my. The part Dismissing sentiment which might of the estimated cost of the works reached ninety or over but they were medicine one can have in time of prompt an individual or a coin to be allocated to power develop- tively employed salesmen at the Terminal markets sell your stock to the best advantage. They are here in your inter- dollars from increased crops. Solvay sweetens sour soil, brings it quickly to rich productiveness. Be sure you order Solvay—it's the best lime dollar for r scarce indeed. flu is to go to bed just as soon as munity to rejoice in a great good to ment is the difference between $123,- dollar you can buy. High test, furnace dried, finely And why do people live longer one feels that it is coming on. It's many, even at some slight loss to 000,000 and $394,©0<.Uioo or be- est and take pride in getting ground, will not burn—in 100 lb. bags or in bulk. the tdp or as near to it for you these days? Medical folks tell us the everlasting keeping up that really himself or to them, it is reasonable tween $148,000,000 and $423,600,- Write for the new illustrated booklet to as they can. Through them, that the present generation average puts us down. Dr. Hedger said all to believe that the loss to the port 000 as the single or the two-stage you go into the terminal mar- ten to twenty years longer life than children's diseases with the excep- of Boston by the divergence of some development shall be prosecuted; ket and deal with packers was the case with our forefathers tion of chicken pox started with the of its export trade, especially in that is to say, $271,4)'»o,000 in the through our salesmen who are a few generations back, and why? symptoms of an acute cold. And, if grains, to the new route stressed in one case and $275 f'60<».o00 in the experienced in those markets. Well, we have a more systematic on the first indication of a heavy the hearings before the commission, other. The initial installation will, way of working for one thing, and cold, a child was kept at home or would be more than offset. For some accordingly, be at a.cost of approxi- Why should you let go of we know how to battle disease. We isent home by the teacher, that many reason that particular trade seems mately $100 per horsepower, to be your stock at any point between aim to keep well rather than to get epidemics would be averted and at> to have been suffering a decline, in- still further reduced when the full you and the packer when it well. We use many precautions to a consequence many deaths might deed, threatens to pass out of sight. possibilities are developed. The isn't necessary for you to do safeguard our people that were un- be avoided. The business men of Boston have Niagara installation Cost approxi- so? You and your co-opera- mately $90 per horsepower, while tive neighbors can get togeth- known years ago. The country is We have compulsory school laws abundant reason for knowing bet- er on a carload. Make your properly drained and so has elimin- in our state and if we are compelled ter than I what the effect of opening that at Conowingo, on the Susque- next shipment to us. ated that early plague, malaria. We to send our children to school we this new route to the sea will have hanna, recently completed, has screen our homes against flies and can expect our state to protect them on its export trade. It may be pardon- mounted up to $140. NOTICE: We again urge mosquitos—germ carriers. We rec- from any unnecessary exposure to able, however, to advert to some It is asserted that the net revenues shippers to be very careful ognize the fact of germs and mi- contageon. We have plenty of health considerations leading to the con- accruing from power alone would about bedding and partition, crobes and we heed the warning sent Jaws on our statutes but we lack clusion that the net result can not take care of the interi ; charge on ing their cars properly. out by our health agencies in com- proper enforcement. Too many of us be to its disadvantage. Opportunity the investment and provide a sinking bating them. practice "passing the buck," we has not been afforded me to make fund of amortization. Michigan Livestock Exchange But even as we now score, we all want someone else to act, we expect a sufficiently careful study to in-' Every dollar needlessly spent for Detroit, Mich, want to extend life still farther and more of others than we are willing form myself of the extent and char- transportation is a dollar lost. It or we grasp at any information on just to do ourselves. We refuse to deny acter of the cargoes originating west represents so much of human toil Producers Commission Ass'n how to proceed. ourselves of any pleasure or con- of the Hudson carried in ships sail- that might have been avoided, so East Buffalo, N. Y. Dr. Caroline Hedger of the Eliza- venience. But if we do extend our ing from New England to overseas much of the comforts or conven- beth Memorial Foundation of Chica- years beyond former generations we ports. It would seem, however, that ience if not the neces ities of life go has attended several extension must be mindful of all of the agen- the tonnage could not be great, that mankind must for ?p. And so achievement days in Michigan coun- cies that tend to protect us and as- seeing that there is by rail a dif- with power resources undeveloped. ties and while her greatest work is sist us in keeping fit to do the work ferential against Boston and Port- Payment must be made in drudgery in behalf of the children, yet she of a complete citizen. land on first class domestic traffic for neglect to utilize the forces of from Chicago of 7 cents per 100 offered many decided points of ad- There's been so much said and pounds in favor of New York, 9 cents nature which a benefi cent Provi- dence has placed at our command. vice to the adults that might well written about brevity of women's deserve much individual thought. WATCH OVERWEIGHT in favor of Philadelphia, and 10 dress of late and while I oppose the cents in favor of Baltimore. But, The project I commend to you would extreme exposure of the body as we however that may be, New Englan' add glory to our Nation and "scat- She pointed a warning finger at too often witness yet I do feel that will enjoy the advantages of this those who are overweight for their we used to wear all together too cheaper route to the great West jus. ter blessings o'er a smiling land." This Protection height; she said those of us who much clothing for our own good. as it will to reach New England were past middle age who carried For freedom of action and breathing ports and those of Europe. The all- excess baggage did so at our peril nothing can equal the present day water route to Duluth or Chicago know how to hold a caddie!" for we were taking years off of our style of one piece loose fitting com- will, of course, be longer than the He: "Do you play golf?" She: "Oh, dear, no; I don't even Is Yours: earthly career; but on the other fortable garments. THEFT LIABILITY PROTECTION rail or rail and lake route, but that hand she gave just as stern a warn- Modern Dress Healthful it will be the cheaper route can not A policy holder, operating a dairy A policy holder, operating \\ dairy ing to those who admitting their I heard a man of more than aver- be doubted when it is realized tha* in Detroit. In a few days it was re- business and owning a 300 acre farm, overweight, resorted to a restricted age judgment say a short time ago as a rule freight carried by water covered partially stripped. We paid reported his car, driven by his daughter, diet. She urged us to reduce our that "while much criticism was moves generally from 6 to 10 miles the expense of our insured's trip to involved in an accident. Three persons diet according to our doctor's in- aimed at the silk hose and low neck, at the cost of the carriage one mile bring the car home and supplied the in the other car were injured ;ind both structions, not on our own initiative, no sleeved slimpsy dress of the flap- by rail. Vast quantities of the prod- parts stolen from the car. Another curs wrecked. Suit was brought against 'tor it is a dangerous proposition to per, yet it was we men with our ucts of New England, bulky and policy holder had his car stolen in Lan- this policy holder on three counts total- sing. The thief drove it to Edniore ling $17,500. Our company furnished lose more than one pound a week. heavy underwear and lined coats heavy freight like granite in the and had a collision. We returned the necessary legal aid and settled ..he It isn't so much how much one eats and mufflers who take cold". And transport of which time is not an car and paid for putting it into its claim. but rather what we eat that registers some of us have lived thru the time important element, will, it is reason former condition. our weight. when we thought we must have our able to expect, go by the route it is PROPERTY DAMAGE PROTECTION It certainly is gratifying to know bed room windows nailed down and hoped will, in the near future be I IRE A northern Michigan policy holder Another policy holder was found li- that there is a genuine revolution corked with rags to keep out the opened to commerce. Not alone^ its able in an accident in which his truck going on all over our state in the drafts, besides having heat taken to ports, but all New England, have had the electric heater going to warm wrecked a new big ear. The property type of meals or women are serv- the room in some form and bed profited by the construction of the Fuller Silos and Cribs up his motor during below zero weath- er, a common practice where he lives. damage claim, as settled by our com- ing publicly these days. It is a com- clothes piled on until one could Panama Canal, through which the The car caught fire. The bill was over pany, amounted to $1,200. mon thing to see a well planned and hardly move. Now we are enjoying products of this section pass to the when you treat seed corn with $300. His check arrived inside of a balanced meal served at church din- wide open windows and, at the same ever-increasing markets ners and club meetings and other time, less covers and we are able to Pacific coast, where mid-continent of the S E M E S A N JR. week after rendering the bill. Our policy covers "Fire from any cause." FAIMtKAcillXG PROTECTION An Indiana policy holder, driving to public functions, rather than the old sleep the sleep that rests and re- competitors are met on a more near- Makes Seeds Healthy NORTHERN .MICHIGAN, got into an ac- type pot luck affairs where one was freshes. We have learned to ap- ly equal basis. There seems no rea- COLLISION cident at -Manistee. His car was at- supposed to eat of everything passed preciate that richest yet cheapest of son to doubt that similar advantages '"11I7E would advise gardeners Another policy holder's car was side- tached, several hundred miles from his way and the varieties were blessings, fresh air. And we've will accrue through access to the * * and farmers to treat all swiped by another car and wrecked bad- home, where he was a stranger. Hut, numerous. learned that frequent bathing was markets of the Northwest on both their garden and field corn seed ly when it was driven into a tree. This he had a State Farm Mutual policy. He far better than doctor's pills. We've with Du Pont Semesan and Sc- company paid $420 for fixing it up. Still telephoned our Lansing office at State It's always difficult to convince sides of the international boundary another policy holder had reason to be Farm Bureau Headquarters. His the city dweller that the farmer is grown to know how much more by the improved St. Lawrence water- mesan Jr., because they give a thankful on account of collision insur- lease was arranged by telephone and "hard u p " when they see the necessary an equipped bathroom is way. Nor would the movement by higher | germination and more ance. His car ran into a moving freight he went on his way rejoicing. We pro- "spread" we make at a community than a shut up parlor. any means be one way. Copper and vigorous, healthy and disease- train. This company paid $211 to fix tect our policy holders anywhere in the dinner and while we can well argue It has tak«n time and study to zinc produced in Montana and Mich- free plants, controlling Diplodia it up. United States or Canada. that we farmers are entitled to the bring about these changes in living igan would reach, by ^his cheaper and Gibberella," writes C. Sum- best of what we grow yet it is fool and no doubt there are many every- route, the brass factories of Con- merfield, of The Summerfield Gardens, Springfield, Missouri. There are hundreds of other cases. The State Farm Mutual has adjusted hardy to serve more than is for our day practices still waiting to be re- necticut and other New England Corn that gets a good, disease- good. placed for better ways when public consumers of those metals. Iron and free start will come to maturity thousands of losses throughout the cou ntry the past year, several hundred of Proper Training Essential sentiment is strong enough to do so. steel from the lake mills would more quickly, ears will be fuller Dr. Hedger also made an earnest Let's he willing to live and learn furnish further cargo. them in Michigan. If you drive without insurance, you are betting everything and silage more plentiful. You'll plea for our babies. She said our that we be able to better live. It lose no corn to early frosts or you have that you won't have an accident. It may cost you the savings of a community program should be one should be the aim of all of us to get Power Item Important wet weather. life time. Why not let us carry at farm rates your risk on fire, theft, public that would tend to give the child the very most and best out of our A major consideration, however, Semesan Jr. is easy to use. complete citizenship when he grew life on earth and a healthy life is is the incidental development of liability, property damage to others and your own possible collision loss? Can't harm the seed in the least, up. It should be so planned and exe- usually a happy one for all con- electrical energy within easy trans- although so deadly to fungous We have farmer agents and adjusters everywhere, affording genuine pro- cuted that he be trained to support cerned. mission distance of all Newr England and bacterial diseases. Costa himself and later support his family in the enormous aggregate of -,- only a few cents per acre. tection at remarkably low rates to those who can qualify. For further informa- and do his part in supporting his 700, 000 horsepower and eventually, Let us tell you, let us show tion, write our Lansing office. country. Only a healthy person can A. F. B. F. Not Supporting as the market expands, of 3,000,000 you. Free crop books whenever do these things. Agricultural Foundation horsepower. you drop in. Make it today! Health is the very first factor to As the crow flies it is less than STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE CO. think of when planning for your The American Farm Bureau ad- 200 miles, as I scale the map, from Distributed by of BI.OOMLNOTON, 11-1.. child—he is entitled to the very best vises us that there is a group in Chi- Ogdenburg, in the neighborhood of start possible and he is entitled to cago, calling itself the National which the power development will M I C H . FARM BUREAU SEED SERVICE Michigan State Farm Bureau a chance to keep pace with a good Foundation of Agriculture, which take place, to Boston. Energy for A N D CO-OP ASS'NS LANSING MICHIGAN AGENT MICHIGAN start for the rest of his growing apparently is interested in selling industrial use is conducted over years. stock to finance a building to house lines in Montana a distance in excess After health, his school advan- all agricultural ass'ns, etc., in Chi- of 25\) miles and much farther in tages should be considered and only cago. California. I am not unaware of the after that should culture enter. Without their approval, the Amer- fact that steam power can be pro- Many a child is compelled to practice ican Farm Bureau and Illinois Agr'l duced at the seaboard much more piano lessons or vocal lessons or Ass'n find themselves mentioned as economically than formerly, regard- elocution who should be allowed to prospective occupants of the propos- less of the fluctuations in the price play at will or rest. ed building. Investigation by the A. of coal, owing to improved methods Our modern child is cheated out F. B. F. reveals that while the of utilizing its heat units. But the of his requirements of rest and sleep. Foundation maintains luxurious of- availability of such an added supply In former years whole families spent fices, the agricultural committee of of power, always in demand for use S O W MORE ALFALFA THIS SUMMER! their evenings together and the chil- the Chicago association of Commerce in this highly industrialized section, dren were usually put to bed on has looked into the matter and de- cannot fail to have consequences of time but now there's most every- cided not to sponsor or support this tremendous import. thing to call any or all member? activity. The Prairie Farmer, prom- I have seen the statement that the Michigan can well afford to increase its alfalfa acreage. The Michigan State College away from home most any night in inent Illinois publication, published total consumption of power in indus- the week and bed time is just any an editorial regarding the Founda- try in Massachusetts does exceed recommends summer seeding in regions short in alfalfa. old time. We find sleepy children tion on March 17, advising its read- 2,000,000 horsepower annually. The dangling about any place we go, ers not to invest. The A. F. B. F. census figures show a constant in- over theater chair arms and on has called on the Foundation and se- crease since 1919 in the power de- uutomoble cushions and all hours of cured no further enlightenment on veloped and used in New England, We can supply you with hardy, dependable seed. A postcard will bring you the night at that. And these prac- its plans or purposes. Michigan reaching in 1925 nearly four and tices all do reflect on the child's Farm Bureau members should keep one-half million horsepower. It is recommendations for summer seeding. health. this information in mind. estimated that the contemplated One little boy that I know of was improvement can not be completed allowed to eat when and what he EVEN AS VOl AM) I in less than from 8 to K> years, by wanted, he was all6wed to go to the A fool there was and he saved his which time, according to a report to MICHIGAN FARM B U R E A U SEED S E R V I C E picture show at night and drop to rocks, even as you and I; but he took the Associated Industries of Mas- sachusetts, the power requirements sleep any place he felt like, he had them out of the old strong box when no regularity in his life in any w;iy a salesman called with some wildcat of New England will be 15 or pos- 224 North Cedar Street and as a consequence he was a sickly stocks, and the fool was stripped sibly 20 per cent greater than now. puny child, out of school about one- down to his socks, even as you and I. It would not be strange if the de- Lansing, Michigan third of the time, with colds and velopment of the power possibilities pneumonia, and billions attacks un- of the St. Lawrence resulted in When one's shoes fit like a glove til he fell far behind in his grnde. they are ten times more uncomfort- changes of the most profound char- Sickness and death came to tbe able. acter in the business and social life May 2 8 , 1028 forn MicHir,A\ FAR M nvnEAtJ NEWS ^ i c o n t r o l of t h e f a r m e r s t h e m s e l v e s . " in bill, m u s t feel very proud of n e x t session, since the next swing Stale Illulual Rodded Fire " I w a n t to see t h e m u n d e r t a k e u n d e r t h e i r own m a n a g e m e n t , " said t h e m s e l v e s now for w h a t t h e y h a v e accomplished ( ? ) for t h e f a r m e r . will a p p a r e n t l y be b a c k t o w a r d t h * C y a n a m i d c o m p a n y ' s offer—if that FARMERS! [€i Insurance Co., of HUch. May Nature Calendar t h e P r e s i d e n t , " t h e m a r k e t i n g of t h e i r p r o d u c t s u n d e r such conditions But t h e y will very likely h a v e an o p p o r t u n i t y to rectify t h e i r errors c o m p a n y does not become disgusted a n d w i t h d r a w as H e n r y F o r d did. DO YOU VALUE WHAT YOU OWN? HOME O F f l C E - F L I N T . MICH arm Bureau Newa by T] "d -Museum of as will enable t h e m to b r i n g about If so, i n s u r e in t h e l a r g e s t F a n n e r s ' M u t u a l F i r e I n s u r a n c e Com- Natural History) g r e a t e r stability in prices a n d less r p a n y in M i c h i g a n . $ 7 0 , 7 0 0 . 0 0 at r i s k . Assets and Resources w a s t e in m a r k e t i n g , but entirely $ 3 5 6 , 6 1 9 . 5 3 . A b l a n k e t policy c o v e r i n g all farm p e r s o n a l . Dis- " T h e r o a r of the city grows faint a n d low ! list to t h e silence deep, within u n a l t e r a b l e economic Such a p r o g r a m , s u p p o r t e d s t r o n g protective tariff on by laws farm a FREIGHT RATES c o u n t given for fire proof roofs a n d fire e x t i n g u i s h e r s . W r i t e for I n f o r m a t i o n W. T. L E W I S , S e c y , 710-71:$ P . 1 \ S m i t h Illdg., F l i n t , Michigan. To t h e call of the wood t h r u s h fairy clear W h e r e the t r e e s t h e i r s h a d o w s keep. products, is t h e best m e t h o d of ef- fecting a p e r m a n e n t c u r e of existing On Farm Commodities SIT T h e heat and the s t r u g g l e a r e J a r a w a y , a g r i c u l t u r a l ills." S o m e t i m e s have o v e r c h a r g e e r r o r s . Do you h a v e y o u r bills a u d i t e d ? s** u And 1 s t a n d for a m o m e n t free, and n%w 1 b r e a t h e the breath of the chiming brook T h e P r e s i d e n t said t h a t in spite THE TRAFFIC SERVICE DEPARTMENT English Type, In the place t h a t waits for m< of the inclusion in t h e McXary- Of t h e Michigan S t a t e F a r m B u r e a u will check up t h e c h a r g e s on Tancred Strains Jessie Wallace H u g h a n . Eiaugen bill of some constructive your f r e i g h t bills; file o v e r c h a r g e c l a i m s ; file loss a n d d a m a g e S. C. White Leghorns F r e a k wild rose blossoms entice one down the country r o a d s steps proposed by the a d m i n i s t r a t i o n c l a i m s ; w a t c h all freight r a t e s on y o u r f a r m p r o d u c t s a n d supplies Also Brown Leghorns, Anconas and Barred Rocks All chirks from large type Production I>rei y o n d t h e control of p r o d u c e r s when d i s t r i b u t i o n , and c a r e s l i t t l e a b o u t t h e opinion t h a t t h e f a r m e r is differ- u n a i d e d by s t r o n g b u s i n e s s o r g a n i - fertilizer, it s e e m s likely t h a t the ent and needs no such r e c o g n i t i o n . zations, to m i n i m i z e price fluctu- s e n a t e conferees will h a v e little diffi- W h i l e P r e s i d e n t Coolidge, in his t i o n s a n d to r e d u c e the m a r g i n b e - culty in w o r k i n g o u t a n agreement m e s s a g e , expressed the hope that t w e e n t h e price paid by t h e c o n s u m - with t h e House c o n f e r e e s . I t is be- farm relief l e g i s l a t i o n m i g h t yet be e r a n d t h e p r i c e received by t h e p r o - lieved, however, t h a t t h e N o r r i s - enacted at this session, said t h e Chi- ducer. Morin bill is so c o m p l e t e l y c o n t r a r y cago T r i b u n e ; " I t is recognized t h a t " T h e r e a l objective of t h e plan in to t h e principles h e l d by P r e s i d e n t no s e r i o u s a t t e m p t will be m a d e to this bill is to raise domestic prices Coolidge t h a t he will veto it if laid p a s s a s u b s t i t u t e bill d u r i n g t h e r e - to artificially high levels by g o v e r n - before him in a n y t h i n g like its pres- m a i n i n g days of t h e session. The m e n t a l price fixing a n d to d u m p t h e e n t form. P r e s i d e n t ' s criticisms of the McXary- surplus a b r o a d . " B u r e a u S t a n d Upheld H a u g e n bill were so extensive in F a r m e r s MuM Help Selves This d e v e l o p m e n t in Congress fully t h e i r c h a r a c t e r t h a t it was obvious The P r e s i d e n t said he h a s believed justifies t h e Muscle S h o a l s position t h a t t h e mere e l i m i n a t i o n e q u a l i z a t i o n fee from t h e bill a s al- r e a d y passed by c o n g r e s s would not of the at all t i m e s " t h a t t h e only sound basis for f u r t h e r federal g o v e r n m e n t action in behalf of a g r i c u l t u r e would held a n d m a i n t a i n e d against s i d e r a b l e criticism by t h e A m e r i c a n con- FREE F a r m B u r e a u F e d e r a t i o n . T h a t or- satisfy h i s objections. be to e n c o u r a g e its a d e q u a t e o r g a n i - g a n i z a t i o n h a s insisted t h a t in t h e " T h e objectives of t h e type of zation to assist in b u i l d i n g up m a r - final shoWdown it would be not only legislation I have s u g g e s t e d a n d of k e t i n g agencies a n d facilities in t h e impossible to s e c u r e r e a l g o v e r n m e n t p r o d u c t i o n a n d d i s t r i b u t i o n of fer- tilizers, b u t t h a t a p r i v a t e concern u n d e r a profits l i m i t a t i o n c o n t r a c t would give b e t t e r r e s u l t s in t h e e n d . C e r t a i n l y if t h e v o t e of t h e House m e a n s a n y t h i n g it m e a n s t h a t when t h e t e s t came t h a t body refused to permit government production and kfash have established their claims to supremacy rotary hoe wheels for converting your fur countless flock owners, by reason P e t t y Differences I n t e r f e r e Culti-Packer into a rotary hoe at 90c Ir correct formulae and high Some of t h o s e v a l i a n t a n d m e t i - per wheel. These wheels are made in Length Actual quality ingredients. one size for either the front or rear Rolling Weight, Number j Number 1 * a r m b u r e a u c u l o u s d e f e n d e r s of t h e f a r m e r s ' in- gang, or the complete implement can No. Over-all, of For detailed information on Michi- Capacity, Pound3 0f Price gan Farm Bureau Fertiliser, Seeds, t e r e s t s , like C o n g r e s s m a n J a m e s of be purchased as the Dunham Culti- Inches Dairy and Poultry Feeds, write Hoe at same price as the Culti-Packer. Inches Wheels | Horses 1 Complete Michigan, who could not back the rect, or consult your local Co-Opera- F a r m B u r e a u p r o g r a m for Muscle No extra parts are needed to make 50 86 74 950 1 f.o.b., Berea, O. the change. Just switch the wheels. 37 J 2 •$59.95 S h o a l s a s e m b o d i e d in t h e offer of (Cuti-Hoe is Dunham's registered 52 98 86 1050 43 [ 2 or 3 | *$69.00 t h e American C y a n a m i d c o m p a n y be- trade mark.) 56 110 9S 1175 49 | 3 j *$77.00 MA»Wf*CHV»«0 ICHIGAN FARM BUREAU cause of s o m e m i n o r detail could not he a d j u s t e d to t h e i r e n t i r e that SEED SERVICE -SUPPLYSERVICE s a t i s f a c t i o n : or l i k e Congressman F r o n t w h e e l s 1 5 inch d i a m e t e r . R e a r w h e e l s 12 i n c h d i a m e t e r . • D e d u c t $ 4 . 0 0 for C u l t i - P a c k e r if w a n t e d w i t h o u t f o r e c a r i i a g e a n d s e a t . P r i c e s a r e f. o. b . B e r e a , O. • Lansing- Michigan A l m o n of A l a b a m a who b e r a t e d t h e F a r m B u r e a u for not d e s e r t i n g it* p r o g r a m a n d falling iu with t h e Mor- C o n v e n i e n t s t o c k s of C u l t i - P a e k e r s a r e c a r r i e d in v a r i o u s localities t h r o u g h o u t M i c h i g a n .