Membership Maintenance la A Constructive And Funda- mental Form Of Farm Relief. MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU NEWS Only Through Leadership And Organization Can Farming Have A Future A Newspaper for Organized Michigan Farmers SIXTH YEAR, VOL. VI., No. 14 JULY 27, 1928 ISSUED SEMIMONTHLY "FARM PROBLEM CHALLENGES U. S.," SAYS SEN. VANDENBERG MICH. REV. EXCH. Bureau Gives Views U.S. SHOULD PAY TELLS ELEVATOR EXCHANGE WE MUST DID NINE MILLION O n Borer Clean-U p FARMER IN CORN AID FARMER AS WELL AS WE HAVE BUSINESS IN YEAR BORER CLEAN-UP BANKS, UTILITIES, LABOR, INDUSTRY Restates Farmer Should Have Reasonable Pay For Sold 5,300 Cars of Grain And Cleaning Fields; Urges Congress to Provide Gov. Green Calls Conference Beans for Its Mem- Appropriation; Improvement In Of Leading Farmers Says Farm Polidy Should Put Farmer in Sellers* bership At Lansing Market, Control Surpluses, Centralize Co-op Control Management Asked The Michigan State Farm Bureau sideration in the House, and it was CALLED NATIONAL ISSUE Marketing, Make Tariff Effectual MEMBERSHIP INCREASES Board of Directors July 17 address- adopted. On American Farm Products ed a resolution to Congress and the In February, 1928, at its annual Resolution Says Repeal State Exchange Pro-rates Cash and national and state departments of meeting, the State Farm Bureau sent Stock Dividend to agriculture declaring that control of the following resolution to Michigan Clean-up Law If U. S. "The federal government today is challenged to find a the European corn borer is necessary Congressmen and Senators and to the Ass'ns if we are to have corn, and that state and national departments of Refuses Aid sound economic formula which will do as m i c h to protect and farmers should have reasonable com- agriculture and to the American stabilize agriculture as federal reserve banking has done for Several hundred delegates and pensation for the extra work in Farm Bureau legislative headquar- The European Corn Borer is a finance, as tariffs have done for industry, as public rate mak- friends of the Michigan Elevator cleaning their fields. Congress was ters at Washington, which was then menace. Preventative steps to con- asked to provide as early as possible fighting for enactment of the Pur- trol it should be continued, especial ing has done for utilities, and as immigration restriction has Exchange, co-operative marketing association of farmer elevators, at- the appropriation ($7,000,000) in- nell bill and the accompanying ap- ly through established clean-ui done for labor," U. S. Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of tended its ninth annual meeting at cluded in the Purnell bill, enacted propriation to provide the compen practices developed for corn fields Michigan told 500 delegates of the Michigan Elevator Ex- Lansing, July 17. with Farm Bureau aid this session. sation to farmers. and with compensation to farmers In the closing hours of Congress, The Farm Bureau resolution: for the extra work entailed" change and Farm Bureau guests from all parts of the State at President Carl Martin in his an- nual report said that in the year just This was the concensus of opinion the annual Exchange luncheon at Hotel Olds, Lansing, July closed the Exchange had marketed of some fifty represeniutive farmers 17. for its members about 5,300 cars of from various sections of Michigan grain and beans, valued at about who assembled in the office of "I think that if American genius could solve the problem Governor Fred Green, Monday, $9,000,000. The tonnage was the i Resolution July 23, to discuss th<' corn borer of the bankers and the utilities, there is enough American largest ever handled, despite a 70% genius to solve our agricultural problem. The chief reason bean crop. Membership in the Ex- change increased during the year. % Adopted by MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU tin 1 situation and control the farmer has come to under- stand them, during j two years of measures, as NO MAN CAN STEP that I did not vote for an adjournment of Congress was be- No association has cancelled mem- cause I thought Congress had not finished its job and had no bership in seven years because of dis- satisfaction on their part. Board of Directors July 17, 1928 ' The future of the corn crop of thi s country is absolutely state and federal clean-up effort to eradicate or at least control this OUT OF HIS TIME right to adjourn until it had enacted legislation that would at L. E. Osmer, general manager, said insect pest. least start a solution of our agricultural problem. dependent on control of the European corn borer, and the That existing laws regarding com- Important That O n e Can In- that this year the Exchange pro-rat- best means to that^end today is the clean-up of the corn fields. "I voted for the only agricultural measure that came to a pulsory clean-up of infested fields ed $50,000 in cash and stock divi- We believe that the success of the clean-up as a corn borer terpret His Time, Says vote this session, and under similar circumstances I would do should be repealed, in event the dends to its member elevators, which preventative measure is dependent on the farmer being allow- federal government fails or refuses Dr. Kingdon so again. I refuse to blind myself to the fact that statute law amounts to mora than 300% of the ed a reasonable compensation for cleaning up his fields; to provide funds for pan of the ex- total original investment of those therefore the Michigan State Farm Bureau urges Congress to pense of the work, was also stressed can create a situation in which economic law has, a better elevators. The Elevator Exchange provide the appropriation to that end, as required by the "Xo man can step out of his own chance to act. The federal reserve banking law was consider- Purnell Act, at the earliest possible moment. We also urge by these farm leaders who practical- is favorably known throughout the time and the times produce the that steps be taken by the State and Federal Departments of ly unanimously adopted a resolution ed absolute suicide by many of our best bankers, who now pin entire United States. This confi- great men of the time. A famous Agriculture to inaugurate more economical and better managed to that effect. dence has been built up on a strict methods for combating the pest. The conference, called at the re- German author tells us that in Na- their faith to it. understanding of "absolutely fair poleon's time several other men play always." We are opposed to a continuance of wasteful-expenditures quest of Governor Green, voiced its There is a Farm Problem of money in machinery for a task that farmers are equipped opinions on many minor points of could have fitted into the place the The Elevator Exchange was found- to take care for and might better* be compepsated for. We issue, such as local potic ing methods, times created for him. In other "Whether one agrees with the more pessimistic agrarian ed as a department of the State demand that such clean-up supervision as is provided be com- conditions peculiar to;certain locali- words, the times make the man, and analysts or not, it is folly to deny the existence of a farm prob- Farm Bureau in 1920 and separately petent. ties and many other things but the every man speaks in terms of his own lem when one-third of the American people, owning one-fifth incorporated as a commodity organi- We believe that everywhere the emphasis placed on attain- conferees generally agreed that the times. If that is true, it is exceed- zation in 1922. ing the clean-up should continue on the basis of friendly co- corn borer is a menace that ought ingly important that a man be able of the American property, enjoy but one-tenth of the Ameri- Besides its main sales office at operation with the farmer rather than on an application of to be given serious : consideration, to interpret his own times," Dr. can income; and when the annual exodus from the farm has Lansing, the Exchange operates a police powers. „„.,- not alone by state tpithorities and Frank Kingdon told the Elevator averaged two million people a year since 1920; and when bean terminal elevator at Port Hur- MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAI individual farmers ibju by federal Exchange luncheon meeting July 17, . on where it picks stock into three Board of Directors authorities also. at Lansing. farm mortgages have increased from three to twelve billion trade-markefd Elevator Exchange M. L. Noon. President., "It is easy to analyze the past, dollars since 1910; and when soil exhaustion, caused primari- Speaking on the question of corn but interpreting 1928 is another brands, has drying and storage facil- C. L. Brody, Secretary. borer control as a national issue, matter. So it is quite necessary that ly by inability to buy fertilizer, involves the impairment of ities which have meant a great deal M. L. Noon, president of the Michigan there be some among us who can 1 18 million acres annually. It is more than a mere farm to Michigan bean growers. The -D Farm Bureau and representing the ( Port Huron plant also acts as a interpret our own time. problem. It is a vital factor affecting our entire economic main distributing point for Michigan the appropriation feature of the bill "As the area infected with the American Farm Bureau, said that "Today we have two great forces corn growing interests in all the Farm BiJreau seeds, feeds and other got lost in the jam. Congress ad- European corn borer is increasing, principal corn growing states favor in the world and their efforts oppose structure. Those urbanites who wonder sometimes what ,is supplies dirt that section of the state. journed, and without the appropria- the Michigan State Farm Bureau re- farmers in the invested area being each oth/r. We have the industrial the matter with other business might well find their answer in The Eletator Exchange had 500 at tion the expected compensation for quests that sufficient funds be ap- compensated for combating the corn revolution—the substituting ma- the doubtful buying power of this great third of our popula- its annual banquet, including many clean-up failed to materialize. propriated by the state and federal chines for men, with the result that borer to control it and to prevent its all of us must be specialists of some tion." Farm Bureau people who attended The directors in their resolution governments to adequately enforcc- further spread. the State Farm Bureau meeting of asked both the state and national the clean-up and reimburse the kind, and as such are confined more the 16th. The principal address was departments of agriculture to make farmer for the extra work required Herbert Powell, state commis- closely to our immediate affairs. Senator Vandenberg said that no farm relief formula can given by Senator Vandenberg, and certain improvements in carrying or. under the control measure." sioner of agriculture, explained his "We have the revolution in com- be guaranteed as to results of every kind and description in position in the matter Of fighting it is given in full in this edition of the annual corn borer clean-up. Every Michigan Congressman the corn borer by declaring that un- munication, motor, v plane, telephone advance. He used a phrase from President Coolidge in de- the News. The Exchange adopted The Michigan Farm Bureau has wrote-the Farm Bureau that he would and radio. By radio and plane claring that the ultimate formula must be found by a proceas der the law it is his duty to enforce the following resolutions: realized the need for corn borer vote for the Purnell bill and did so. the law and continue the clean-up France today is nearer than Califor- of "trial and rejection." Resolutions Adopted clean-up from the first and the im- The American Farm Bureau enlisted work until the law is changed, re- nia was ten years ago. Such close Another successful year has been portance of compensating farmers solid support of Congressmen from gardless of whether or not the state linking of the world's peoples means " T h a t , " the Senator said, "is my formula too, but it doesn't added to the history of the Michigan reasonably for their extra work. In the Corn Belt states for farmer com- gets federal aid. that we must develop people who Elevator Exchange. The volume of 1927 the American Farm Bureau pensation for the clean-up. The can think in broad, tolerant terms. say rejection without trial and I say that it is about time business has materially increased backed the national appropriation Corn Belt is fearful of the results if This work last year, Mr. Powell "The ages of specialization op- that some of the trial commences." f and the profits are those of a sub- and the Michigan State Farm Bureau the pest is not controlled. The Pur- explained, cost in the neighborhood poses interests outside; our new Must T)o Four Things 4.— . i stantial,- well organized business. was very active in the Michigan leg- nell bill passed, but in the turmoil at of $4 an acre for the actual acre^ communication forces consideration The ultimate formula, Mr. Van- philosophies to the larger basic Proof of our standing in the business islature in securing $100,000 for the end of the session the appropria- policed. He said the farmer can do of outside, interests. denberg declared, must do four crops. Co-operation works, but it world is manifested in the voluntary each of the years of 1927 and 192S tion, along with much other impor- the work for less than can the state "We need the man who can com- things: works only when a sufficiently largl offerings of bank credit. to match federal funds and thereby tant legislation, died for the lack or federal governments. bine local loyalty with a broad un- 1. Put the farmer in a sellers' number of producers in any given The trusteeship under which the secure such federal fund*. At that of time. With it went all the depend- derstanding of human affairs else- rather than a buyers' market; then where." Loyalty to our family, our he can plan on a profit over his cost commodity join the movement and Port Huron plant is being operated time the State Farm Bureau offered ing state appropriations. has proven to be the best possible the legislature a resolution providing Now is the time to prepare for solution, of that problem. We must that the State Administrative Board compensation in the next clean-up and REPORTS MUSKEGON, job, our craft, our locality and so on of production. up are essential. The man who can- thus permit control of the market and eventually of a price. The ques- a. Control the crop surplus so that not be loyal locally cannot be loyal 200 million bushels of American ex- tion thus becomes this: Can intensive again congratulate ourselves upon might double such state funds if in for improvements in the clean-up the exceptional ability of the man- its judgment the situation demanded that experience has shown possible, OCEANA PLANS on any larger scale." leadership and education produce ad- port wheat sold in Liverpool cannot equate voluntary co-operation, or agement in ail its branches. it. This resolution was placed on and the State Farm Bureau's reso- deflate the price on the 600 million must some such device ai an equali- We endorse the principles and the dosk of each Representative the lution of July 17 is a step in that di- Earl Gale, State Farm Bureau policies of the Michigan State Farm morning the bill came up for con- rection. Bureau and the American Farm Bu- district representative in the district comprising Manistee. Mason, Me- SHIAWASSEE HAS bushels sold at home. zation fee be levied by the farmers :$. Provide centralized leadership themselves against themselves to pro- in scientific planning and planting duce involuntary cooperation?" reau Federation and pledge our con- costa, Muskegon, Montcalm, Neway- ANOTHER MEETING and in co-operative marketing so "The difficulty in" co-operation, aa tinued support to that movement. Officers Electod The following directors were re- Mrs. Wagar Attends go, Oceana and Osceola County Bureaus,' reports recent County Farm Bureau activities as follows: Farm that organized intelligence can func- stressed in every government publi- tion. Series of Sectional Meets 4. Make tariff protection for ficiently large number of voluntary cation on the subject, is to get a suf- elected, for two years: Carl Martin of Coldwater; H. D. Horton of Sagi- naw; Milton Burkholder of Marlette; Corn Borer Meeting The workers Muskegon in that board met and appointed four membership of county, directors also a Is Doing Organization American agricultural products ac- co-operators to make It go. The tually effective. nonco-operator either interferes with * Much Good Co-operation the Key the program or benefits without par- H. H. Sanford of Batlle Creek, who Makes Some Rather Pointed pointed out to the farmer who wants permanent membership committee. About 75 members and friends of Senator Vandenberg said that be ticipating. We either must have more succeeded L. C. Kamlowske of t o play fair to the farming industry. A standard county Farm Bureau pro- Washington. Frank Gilmore of Par- Observations on the gram was adopted. Plans for having the Shiawassee County Farm Bureau finds the key to the farm relief for- voluntary co-operation or face the One man, even in the face of re- ma was elected for one year to suc- a Farm Bureau booth at the Muske- met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. mula in intelligent agricultural co- question of giving up voluntary co- * ceed F. M. Oehmke of Bach, re- Proceedings gon fair were approved. W. Arnold and sons, near Perry, operation, led and encouraged under operation to the extent of an experi- ment in compulsory co-operation by signed on account of sale of the Oceana bdard has , appointed a where a potluck supper was served on federal auspices. He warned that elevator which he represented. By Mrs. Edith Wagar the lawn. Shiawassee has been hold- many economic crimes have been law. The basis of the McNary-Haug- membership committee and has "Why did you let the corn borer ing a series of such sectional meet- committed in the name of farm co- en bill was an effort to make the non- Other members of the board are get the start of you as it has here?" placed a membership worker in the field. ings. operation, but on the other hand co-operators co-operate. I don't know George McCalla of Ypsilanti; M. R. was the question I asked some rela- Shisler of Caledonia: VV. J. Hazel- tives of mine connected with the Ag- Maeon county is getting ready to An interesting Farm Bureau pro- great success has been attained in how that would have worked out. wood of Mt. Pleasant. put on some Farm Bureau /work. gram followed. Pres. E. L. Sieb in many commodities by effectual co-op- Like President Coolidge, I think w'4 ricultural College of Ontario abou* Of Ciders were re-elected by the three years ago when we viewed the discussing the farm taxation situa- eration. He cited the Michigan El- must solve this whole agricultural board and are: President, Carl Mar- situation there. tion said that farmers face a tax evator Exchange, owned and con- problem by a process of trial and re- tin; vice president, Milton Burkhold- er; sec'y-treasurer, II. D. Horton. "The farmers as a group did not SNAPSHOT PROVES problem ly and they that can't such solve problems individual- require trolled by farmer elevators and jection, but I'd like to see something which has paid back its original in- tried. and in too many cases would not con- collective action. T. C. Maurer of vestment of $16,000 three times and sider the seriousness of delay," they told me. "Now they are begging us THIEF'S IDENTITY the State Farm Bureau Seed Service owns property worth $125,000, co- "If For a Trial agriculture is willing to im- Michigan Is Producing to save them. It was a case of a stitch \ said that the Farm Bureau is doing operative live stock shippers, chief eyerything in its power to see that among whom is the great National pose on itself a plan and wants to Some Alfalfa Seed in time saves nine and in our case it Not to be completely baffled by Michigan farmers have field seeds try it, I refuse to greet it with a ve- is many times nine." an intruder who continued to rifle his adapted to Michigan. Sec'y Walworth Producers Co-operative Ass'n with to. I insist on a hospitable attitude home during his daily absence while reported sales offices in all the great termi- Michigan is attaining some promi- The whole situation left such an that the County Farm nal markets, in 1926 sold nearly 11,- and that we should give agriculture nence as a producer of alfalfa seed. impression on me that perhaps I do .it work, an ingenious Frenchman is Bureau is busy extending its day in court. There is an answer Farm In 1927 it is estimated that about not have the patience that I should reported as having rigged up a photo- Bureau service to all sections of the 000,000 animals. The California coming, for there is a growing reali- nine carloads of uncertified alfalfa with the Michigan situation today. graphing device whereby anyone en- county. Fruit Exchange controls 70% of all MRS. EDITH M. WAGAR zation all over the land that what's the citrus fruits in that state, and is seed was grown in the state, mostly The question to me is how far can ports of what has been the results of tering a certain room in his home, prosperous. Associations of cotton, the matter of business generally is Grimm. About a carload of certified the farmer in this highly infested neglect in Canada and reports of in- after the device had been set, would that one third of American purchas- Grimm and Hardigan was produced, area hold out in a refusal to comply tense control efforts in Europe and be "snapped"'. They Wc;t' Once apple, prune, cranberry and other ing power is impaired. according to the State College Farm with the regulations governing the of most deplorable conditions in ' The contraption is said to have "Is dem aigs fresh?" asked Mandy producers have done very well. The The Senator prophesied that "farm Crops Dep't. Weather controls the corn borer cofttrol and not hurt him- places in Michigan, refused to con- proved successful in that it served of her dusky grocer, pointing to a cranberry producer gets 54 ce'nts of relief" legislation will come within basket of hen fruit. the consumers' dollar, and they op- petting of seed. Wet weather at blos- self or his family to follow. sider the corn borer a menace. I to identify a person who was found another year no matter what party som time is likely to prevent pollina- At the recent conference called by was reminded of another man who to have been making occasional visits "Ah ain't sayin' dey ain't," an- erate on an "equalization fee'* sys- wins in November. " B u t , " he said, tion and finish the possibilities for Gov. Green there were some evi- attended his first circus »nd came to to the man's home and who had swered the grocer. tem. "there'll be no real relief in it unless seed. This explains why the dry, ir- dences of inconsistency by a few ill the cage holding the hippopotamus stolen part of his savings account "Ah isn't askin' yo' is they ain't." The Co-operators' Problem it is builded on a Republican protec- rigated districts always have a seed advised or intentionally misleading and after thorough inspection and which had been kept hidden in a retorted Mandy heatedly, "Ah is "The fundamental problem," Mr. tive tariff because only a protected crop. leaders, which to my mind should be (Continued on page two) drawer. askin' is dey is." Vandenberg said, "is to expand these' (Continued on page thrtej flPWO MICHIGAN FARM BCRSAO NEWS JFT.Y *T, ii^2A •mr tare |ment and while we had many dis MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU NEWS sea is Imperative both for the relief and for the future develop- ment of a vast area in the interior of the continent. southern Michigan we must the situation as it ia and alter our agreeable experiences of milk in- methods to fit the needs. spections, the majority will now say BE CAREFUL YOU Published twice * month by the Michigan State Farm Bureau a t Char- lotte, Michigan. Editorial and general offices a t S t a t e F a r m Bureau head- uuarteri, Lansing, Michigan. '"It has been estimated that the values in a single year t<» the farmers alone would eoual the capital cost ($.12:i."> > of the We have a rather definite idea of it has been a blessing in disguise. the cost of production and we esti- Let's keep our heads working and mate that the latter method cost us let's leave no worthy stone unturned DON'T VOID YOUR VOL. VL JULY 27, 1928 Xo. 14 waterway." F o r instance, a wheat producer in Falls City, Nebraska, pays something around $4 per acre more to gain our just end but let's do than our old way. Now we are not nothing that will reflect on ourselv- FIREINSURANCE Entered at the poet office at Charlotte, Mich., as second clase about 36 cents, to ship a bushel from Fall City to Livenvool by in accord with some of our brother es in years to come. matter. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided farmers when we do not demand Land Bank Gives Three Rules way of rail to Kansas City and rail and river to New Orleans, and for te Sec. 1103, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, authorized January 12, 1923. Subscription price $1.0.0 per year. To Farm Bureau members, about the same by way of rail to Chicago a n d lake and river via Montreal. It costs about 41 cents to ship it by way of New York. f that we should be. re-imbursed the entire amount of extra cost. We are willing to assume some of the ex- LAKES AND GULF * Quite Commonly Violated 56 teat* per year, included in their annual dues. M. B. U N Q H E N !.' ' Editor By way of the coming St. Lawrence Seaway, it will cost about 20 cents per bushel, a difference of 7 cents a bushel in one instance pense of protecting our own farm, for it would be more or less a ca- lamity to our dairy farming if wo WATERWAY NOW Would you like to know how to BISSAU and 12 in the other. [could not grow corn and again we feel we have no business to continue IN FINAL STAGES make your fire and tornado insur- ance void so that if you had a loss, M*£iu&y*s Therefore, it is quite easy to u n d e r s t a n d why the present in the farming game or in any other you could not collect a penny from route seems good enough to the New York interests t h a t oppose fvocation if we do not do our best to Barge Route From Chicago to the insurance company? There are the St. Lawrence S e a w a y . They get the t r a n s f e r business at Buf- advance it so far as we are able. T several ways of doing it, and two or OFFICERS would not feel that t had done my New Orleans Complete three of them are very simple, says falo; they g e t the t r a n s f e r business at New Y o r k ; they get the full duty as a farm advocate it- the Federal Land Bank of St. Paul, L. NOON, Jackson PresWent In Three Years t W. BILLINGS, Davison Vice-President haul between. As a consequence of this, they get the privilege of doing the b a n k i n g business for those who handle the grain. through any period of disappoint- ment I had allowed an enemy to gain which handles the federal farm loans. Ten borrowers who had losses last IMre< tors-at-Large a foot hold that would be a hind- CHICAGO—Direct water transpor- year will receive no settlement what- M. B. MCPHERSON Lowell When there are delays, they finance the money tied up by the.se rance to those who follow me in an tation between the Great Lakes and ever from their insurance companies MH§. EttfTH M. WAOAR Carleton J O H N GOODW1NE Marietta delays, and they profit from each and every delay. agricultural way. the Gulf of Mexico, forecast within because of their failure to comply VEROLD F. GORMELY Newberrv The land gap between Buffalo and the p o r t of New York serves This may be sentimental to some, the next three years, is expected to with certain well established rules of J. &. B O Y L B Buchanan but while I chose to be a teacher cause a great increase in barge traf- all insurance companies. W. W. BILLJNOS Davlaou the same purpose as a toll-gate would serve on a h i g h w a y ; the I trust none of those boy3 and girls fic on the Mississippi River. That all of our borrowers may take Commodity Directors keeper of such a gate can exact toll from every passer-by, a n d he can point to those weeks or months Ultimately it is pointed out, South warning from the misfortunes of F R E D HARGER, Stanwood Michigan Potato Growers E x c h a n g e or years as a period when they might America will be enabled to float these few, it seems well to offer a few M. L . NOON, Jackson Michigan MlHt Producers Association strenuously objects when somebody .suggests t h a t a shorter, more J. M. O'MEALY. Hudson Michigan Lrve Stock E x c h a n g e have made more progress if they had goods up to Canada while lake cities words of caution here: direct route, one m a k i n g the toll-gate unnecessary, might well be not been handicapped by the teach- may ship down the Father of Waters Caution—1—If b u i l d i n g s a r e v a c a t e d , S EO. W. McCALLA, Ypsllantl :. t>. BUSKIRK, P a w P a w Michigan Elevator E x c h a n g e Michigan Fruit Growers, Inc. used. er's indifference or willful lethargy. to Spanish and Portuguese speaking fire i n s u r a n c e b e c o m e s null anil void in a c e r t a i n n u m b e r of d a y s u n l e s s S T A T E FARM BUREAU ORGANIZATION {Therefore, our personal opinion is nations beyond the Caribbean. the i n s u r e d o b t a i n s a " v a c a n c y p e r - Clark L. Brody Sec'y-Treas-Manager that we could well afford to enter Seventy per cent of the state work mit." PROFITABLE INVESTIGATIONS into a compact with this government needed to link Chicago and New Or- Remedy—If your b u i l d i n g s a r e not o c - E v e r y so often someone gets excited about t h e time and money of ours on a 50-50 basis. We as- leans by water is completed or under cupied, even for a s h o r t t i m e , r e p o r t DEPARTMENT HEADS the m a t t e r to the i n s u r a n c e c o m p a n y the senate " w a s t e s " in c o n d u c t i n g investigations. It is worth- sume one half the extra cost as a per- contract. Before the end of this year a>t mice and o b t a i n a " v a c a n c y p e r - Traffic A. P. Mills fsonal obligation to our job and the everything remaining will be con- m i t . " In w r i t i n g , r e q u e s t one from Clothiag ; Miss N. B. Klrby noting in this connection that the investigation of the affairs t h e local a g e n t . Publicity E. E. ITngren government assume the other half tracted for, it is announced at the Caution 2 — T h e i n s u r a n c e c o m p a n y ' s Accounting I,. T. Sinclair of the Continental T r a d i n g Company by S e n a t o r Walsh cost the as a means of public service. State Division of Waterways. ' liability c e a s e s a t once w h e n t h e farm o»ganimation C. L. N a s h We did our utmost to secure fav- is t r a n s f e r r e d . government $14,H>."». As a result of this investigation, the govern- The Mississippi River and the R e m e d y — R e p o r t t r a n s f e r of farm t o the Automobile Insurance Alfred BentaU orable action on the federal appro- Great Lakes will be linked across SUBSIDIARY CORPORATIONS OF T H E M I C H I G A N S T A T E ment has collected two million dollars in income tax and penalties i n s u r a n c e c o m p a n y immediately,, in FARM B U R E A U priation,—we wrote our Michigan Illinois via the Illinois River, a tribu- writing". T h e policies can e i t h e r be evaded by the individuals who took p a r t in this and associated representative on the agricultural [tary of the Mississippi. For 230 miles t r a n s f e r r e d to t h e n e w owner, in Michigan Farm Bureau Seed Service L. A. T h o m a s Which c a s e t h e c o m p a n y should b e deals, and has put in claims for eight millions more. F r o m the committee in Congress; we wrote up from the Mississippi to Utica, the asked to m a k e t h e t r a n s f e r and t h e S ichtgan Farm Bureau Supply Service tchlgan F a r m Bureau Wool Pool L. A. Thomas Alfred BentaU s t a n d p o i n t of dollars and cents, it seems t h a t this $14,000 was our district Congressman; we wrote Illinois River is already navigable, n e w o w n e r Should pay for t h e u n - expired i n s u r a n c e , or t h e polleies f a n our American Farm Bureau legisla- and requires only dredging in its be canceled and t h e u n u s e d p r e m i u m Michigan Commodity Marketing Association* very well invested. tive representative and no one was shallow places. At the other end of , recovered from the. c o m p a n y . The same point might fittingly be made a b o u t the early Teapot | more disappointed than I when it Caution 3 — I n s u r a n c e is i m m e d i a t e l y AffUiated With Michigan State Farm Bureau became known that while such effort the waterway nothing remains to be s u s p e n d e d a n d of no force if a n y p r e m i u m note given in s e t t l e m e n t for Dome investigations, which at a relatively small cost restored had nelped enact the Purneil bill done. From Joliet to Chicago the it is not paid when it c o m e s due. T h i s fJ"Jchi«*n Potato Growers E x c h a n g e c h t g a b Milk Producers Association " l i a n Live S t o c k E x c h a n g e 707 Owen Bldg., Detroit Cadillac Hudson millions of dollars of oil lands to the United States. • When it is authorizing federal compensation to I sanitary canal affords a channel. Final Gap of 85 Miles is a l s o t r u e a s r e g a r d * a s s e s s m e n t polities w h e r e a s s e s s m e n t s are- n o t considered that one of the oil men involved claimed that the deal farmers for corn borer clean-up, the paid in a c e r t a i n n u m b e r of d a y s ( a c - Jgan Elevator E x c h a n g e F a r m Bureau Bldg., Lansing appropriation measure was not acted In between Utica and Joliet there c o r d i n g to t h e t e r m s of t h e policy) af- in F*uit Growers, Inc Benton Harbor was going to m a k e him one hundred million dollars personally, are 65 miles of the Illinois and the ter they a r e levied. on. Remedy—Pay premiums and assess- Directors and Officers of the Commodity Exchanges it seems t h a t it paid to be a little lenient in excusing an expen.se Yet in the face of all that we still Des Plaines Rivers which block com- m e n t s when due. MICH ELEVATOR EXCH. MICH. MILK PRODUCERS A S S ' N amount of few thousand dollars on the p a r t of the investigating felt that we ought not to throw up munication between the two great Observe these rules and you will Carl Martin, Pre*. Cold water N. P. Hull, Pres Lansing committee. our hands- and wash tlipm oi the water systems. When this gap is have eliminated the three main rea- MJKOD Burkholdw, V. P. .Marlette R. G. P o t t s , Vice-Pres. Washington whole proposition. Two wrongs bridged, the waterways which extend sons for voiding policies, a»d if" you H. p . Horton, S e c - T r e a s Kinds John C. Near, Sec Flat Rock A l t h o u g h t h e senate has come in for some" hard words on ac- never yet has made one right and south to the Gulf of Mexico and east have a fire or a windstorm there wUl L. K. Osmer, Mgr Lansing B. F. Beach, Asa't Sec Detroit count of its various sins, the fact seems to be t h a t the senate in- we must be certain in our own minds to the Gulf of St. Lawrence will be be a settlement to ease your disas- C. B. Beaton, Bean. Dep't H. W. Norton, Treas .Howell that we are not doing a wrong to united. ter. ..., Port Huron M. L. Noon Jackson vestigations have been on the whole highly useful to the coun- ourselves and our profession and the The depth of the Illinois waterway N e i l Baas. B e a n Dep't Lansing R. L. Taylor Lapeer W. K, Phillips Decatur L. W. Harwood Adrian try. E v e n the s e n a t e ' s habit of long w i n d e d conversation oe- greatest menace of all, the encour- is to be nine feet, the same as be- 11$0 miles thence to New Orleans, George McCalla Ypsllantl W. J. T h o m a s Grand Rapids casionally w o r k s out to b r i n g out facts on measures which have agement of disrespect of law and au- tween Cairo and Pittsburg, and from as well as for 9>80 miles of connect- Hi H. Sanford Battte Cre**k F r e d W. Meyer Fair H a v e n thority. Cairo to the Gulf. This means that ing Ohio River there fs to be stand- Ml R. Bhlsler Caledonia Dr. W. C. McKInnay . . . D a v l a b u r g not come to the surface in the s h o r t e r house debate. We of the dairy sections went for 327 miles from Lake Michigan to ardized waterway.—From Christian F l a n k Cllmore Parma J a m e s J. Brak en berry . . . B a d A x e A s it s t a n d s now, the house is a well organized steam roller through the same period Aof read just- the mouth of the Illinois and for Science Monitor, Boston. VV J. Haaelwood Mt. Pleasant Elmer Powers Ctia which p u t s t h r o u g h w h a t the majority w a n t s . In the s e n a t e , the MICH. POTATO GROWERS MICH. L I V E STOCK E X C H . EXCH. minority still has a chance to state its case. It has used t h a t Henry Curtis. P r e a Cadillac E. A. Beamer, P r e s Bllssfield R. D. Harper, V i c e - P r e s . , St Johns chance very frequently to s t a t e its case so well that the majority 3. t*. Buflsay, Vlce-Pres, Provemont 0 . E. H»wjey. S e C y Shelby J. H. 0*Mea!ey, Sec'y Hudson has been s w u n g over to its side. We a l w a y s need at least one '. J. Harger, Treaa Stanwood Frank Obrest, T r e a s . , Breekenrluge house of the national legislature where t h i n g s .-an be threshed . P. Hlbat. Gen. Mgr L a o s O. VanLeuw George Herman r Cadillac C. A. Rlchner,- S a l e s M g r . . C a d i l l a c Bellatns .Remus N a t e Patttson J. R. B e t t e s Charles Brown Edward Dippey Caro Sparta Sunfleld Perry our*Hrm*rgfrr>;-- W t t f l r f S e r e will be times when subjects are a r g u e d to death, but this is the defect t h a t incidentally accom- Farm Bureau Grimm B. A. Rasmnssen Sheridan Charles Woodruff Hastings panies t h i s p a r t i c u l a r v i r t u e . — F r o m W a l l a c e ' s Farmer, Des ;. D. Busklrk. Pres ! mo* Tucker, 1 V. P r e s MICHIGAN F R U I T GROWERS, INC. Paw Paw John Miller Allan B. Graham Coloma Elberta Moines, Jowa. Alfalfa Waist High t , South B e r h e r t Nafzlger, 2 V. P i e s H a v e n P. D. Leave-nworth, Grand Haplds W. J. Schultz Hart Mrs. Wagar Attends some of us have been fussing around, delaying the progress- of clean-up , J*, u Bradford, Sec.-Treau Mlllburg L. A. H a w l e y C. I. Chrestensen Ludington Onekama Corn Borer Meeting campaigns, the corn borer has been (Continued' from pag-e o n e ) taking no vacation out of sympathy Benton Harbor H. W. Gowdy Union Pier fr. L. Granger, Sales Mfcr O. R. Gale Shelby due deliberation exclaimed, "There with our feelings. .^. Benton Harbor John Lang , Sodus ain't no such aninial." D. HT B r a k e Fremont John B o t t e m a Spring Lake This corn borer scoffer has held While we, howl against extrava- Henry Namlta Biidgman Bert Gleason Lawrence high public office and has had fre- gant expenditures of public funds J. & Hlgbee Benton Harbor C. L. Brody Lansing quent ambitions along that line dur- and groan over our taxes and hold Mfller Overton Bangor Harry Hogue Sodus ing his recesses. He emphatically our breath over what we expect ift LEGISLATIVE HEADQUARTERS .Munsey Bldg., W a s h i n g t o n , D. C. American Farm Bureau Federation opposed allowing a federal entomol- the future, do we show the best? BAM H. THOMPSON President ogist to speak in the meeting on the: judgment after spending millions of; G E N E R A L OFFICES A. F. B. F 58 E a s t W a s h i n g t o n S t . Chicago habits of the corn borer or to give dollars last year to make what the C H E S T E R H. OKAY W a s h i n g t o n Representative other technical information on the majority of people felt was a most, subject. Yet this same man intro- satisfactory beginning in getting the?] duced a substitute resolution placing pest under subjection, to offset it SBNATOR VANDENBERG'S ADDRESS all supervision of control measures this year and lose what we had 3l-. We commend to you for thoughtful r e a d i n g the a d d r e s s of Sen- in the hands of the federal depart- ready gained because we were dis-.J ment rather than in conjunction appointed in the financial assistance? a t o r A r t h u r V a n d e n b e r g on the business s i t u a t i o n in agriculture, with our own state authorities. There's much to be learned in the whie'h was given before the a n n u a l luncheon of t h e Michigan Ele- Authorative corn borer informa- methods of clean-up labor. Last vator E x c h a n g e J u l y 17. The address is published in this edition tion might have been given if allow- year on our own farm the fields were ed but it was objected to; yet, at the hand picked and we decided it was of the F a r m B u r e a u News. same time attorneys representing our job to find some plan whereby; hQ •Mr. V a n d e n b e r g knows t h e possibilities in complete eo-opera- groups opposing corn borer control *the results would" be satisfactory *ive effort, and t h e kind of a load the non co-operator is. His were not denied privilege of the floor and still eliminate the hand labor to argue the case and fairly cross .ex- We eouldn't think of giving up the analysis of that phase of t h e situation alone will be relished by amine and heckle our state officials. work for the estimated infestation every co-operative f a r m e r on the basis that " H e r e is a man who I wonder if on sober afterthought J was around 94 per cent. This was F o u r t h Year, First Cutting* of F a r m Bureau G r i m m on Fred k n o w s . " Hi,s plan for improvement of t h e f a r m e r s ' business situ- all parties interested can say every- an unusual high infestation, but the body in that eorn borer conference corn was planted quite early and it, Curtis F a r m Near Lake Odessa ation recognizes the weakness in the. non co-operator, a n d t h a t was rair and did as they would be came along just at the right time to all f a r m e r s must p a r t i c i p a t e in w h a t e v e r plan is a d o p t e d . done by? attract the moth when it was flying.. Here is another example of the hardiness and productivity of Farm "Co-operation w o r k s , ' ' said Mr. V a n d e n b e r g , " b u t it w o r k s Now, in the first place, in-apy con- Mr. Wagar feels that by so doling he troversy of this kind it seems only performed one of the most neighborly, Bureau, northern grown, Michigan adapted alfalfa seeds. Observe Mr. only when a sufficiently large n u m b e r of p r o d u c e r s in any given fair to me that all information pos- acts of his life for our cornfield Curtis (right) and C. C. Fruit (left), mgr. of the Lake Odessa Co-op commodity join the movement and t h u s p e r m i t control of the |slide from every angle be presented served as a trap for the entire com m a r k e t and eventually of a p r i c e . " Notable e x a m p l e s of such co- before a decision is made. The or munity and no on3 else around there. Ass'n, showing that the Grimm is waist high. This luxuriant stand was dinary man or "woVan "cannoTpos- |suffered the hardship that we did characteristic of the whole 14 acres. Mr. Curtis has been increasing his al- o p e r a t i o n are the California F r u i t G r o w e r s E x c h a n g e , the Na- sibly S i b l V know k n o w details r l o f n i l * of - • any „ „ . , subject — v , - - > i« - j. The Th corn broke down and was a bad tional Live NhH>k P r o d u c e r s Ass'n and the Michigan Elevator I does the specialist who Iras made mess to cut with the binder and we falfa acreage for several years with dependable Farm Bureau seeds. E x c h a n g e . The fundamental p r o b l e m , " Mr. V a n d e n b e r g de- ' t h a t particular subject his main in- cannot doubt in the least, that the terest in life and we are indeed for- ear crop was materially injurfd by In Livingston County, Too clared, " i s to expand these philosophies to t h e l a r g e r basic tunate to have such help available the pest. As soon as the crop was crops." in this age of hurry and bustle. We | off, part into the silo and part shred- Jay Tooley's splendid 10 acre field of Ontario Variegated, near all know what specialists do for the ded, our men went over the field nator V a n d e n b e r g was in the Senate about t h r e e months. medical profession and we are the with a home made A-shaped corn Howell, selected as an excellent field for a State College Hay Day demon- Tie voted for t h e M c \ r a r y - I I a u g e n bill a n d made a statement in first to appeal to them and abide by cutter, lowered so it just escaped the stration, was grown from Farm Bureau Brand seed. This field in two cut- its s u p p o r t , u r g i n g t h a t the f a r m e r be given an o p p o r t u n i t y to their decision when our botltes are groond. A seat was put on this sick, so why should the farmer hesi- crude implenfent and ft did a fairly tings the second year produced 33 loads of hay and will do better this year. t r y his own idea at his own expense. His analysis of t h e Me- tate to accept specialists' assistance good job of Stubble cutting, taking His seed came from the Livingston Co-operative Ass'n. N a r y - H a n g e n legislation at t h a t time a t t r a c t e d national atten- and advice when his business is sick two rows at a time. We have a tion. W h e n the bill was vetoed he voted to pass the bill over the or out of order? stubble cutter attachment for the' Farm Bureau Alfalfa Grows and Stays P r e s i d e n t ' s veto, and stood by his g u n s by refusing to vote for It was with a feeling of regret and eorn binder but it requires so much disappointment to me to listen to our power to run it besides other dis- Michigan Farm Bureau Grimm, Hardigan, and Utah common alfalfa an a d j o u r n m e n t until Congress had t a k e n some c o n s t r u c t i v e a c - folks relate their grievances against advantages that we prefer this sep- tion on t h e farm problem. This .sort of a record m a r k s the sin- the clean-up squads sent out by those arate operation. After the stubble seeds are domestic, Michigan adapted seeds and are guaranteed to the pur* charged by law with its supervision. was cut they went over the field both cerity of the man a n d m a k e s his ideas well w o r t h r e a d i n g . As a class, the farmer has never ap- ways with a double disk hitched to chaser as such. They are of high purity and germination, and are the stand- proved of the drastic methods em- the tractor. This chopped the stub- ard for thousands of Michigan alfalfa growers. Put up in Farm Bureau ST. L A W R E N C E W A T E R W A Y O P E R A T I N G I N 1935? ployed by some other organized ble into small particles. Then the groups to gain a point. Wc have al- field was plowed with a big bottom Brand sacks, sealed at our warehouse. T h a t we may have a b e t t e r picture of the progress that the ways noticed that such methods have tractor plow such as is used for al- tJreat i ^ a k e s - S t . Lawrence W a t e r w a y project has a t t a i n e d , we worked severe hardships and injus- falfa. Nothing whatever came to the Use Farm Bureau Brand seeds for your summer seeding of alfalfa. a r e advised t h a t the association d i r e c t i n g the seaway p r o g r a m is tice to the innocent participants fol- surface during the winter's freezing/ Order now from your nearest co-operative ass'n. A postcard to us will bring lowing a radical leader and as a class During the early spring while the hopeful of m a k i n g the following slept the farmer* have held their heads ground was still frozen and no snow you recommendations for summer seeding. 1. A treaty drawn between the United States and Canada high as a law abiding, law' r&speet* to prevent, the sides of the fields in 1928 providing for the operation. ing citizenry. and the ditch banks were bnrned off 2. Digging begun in 1929. Wouldn't it be better to live with- to that, all in all, it was pronounced in the law so far as possible and at a complete clean-up. Michigan Farm Bureau Seed Service 3. Opened for commerce in 1935. the same time do our utmost to help Now this method did cost more Lansing, Michigan The St. Lawrence ('oni mission of the Cnited States reports: make the law more effective for our time and labor or really more mon- needs and more in keeping with our ey than in former times, but w<» "Tie construction of tke shipway from the Great Lakes to the opinion of justice? I fear that while realize that if we continue to farm in irL Y 27, 192ft MICHIGAN FARM BURE.U NEWS TMWCTc bers prepare and pack their wool for CHICAGO Y.M.C. A. WASHTENAW IS FARM BUREAU AIDS Oregon Wool Growers See Association Grow shipment to the warehouses. This i» gratifying to the management of the HOTEL HAVEN FOR July Nature Calendar ( P r e p a r e d for Michigan F a r m B u r e a u N e w s by The Cleveland M u s e u m of DEVEOPING NEW IN GETTING LOWER association as educational wark in Twenty per cent more wool had approved methods of sheaving, tying •been received at the warehouses of and packing fleeces has been carried HORDES OF YOUTHS Natural History) BUREAU PROGRAM FERTILIZER RATES the Pacific Co-operative Wool Grow- on for several years. ers, Portland, Oreg., up to the end "I want to feel my moccasins on of .May than on the corresponding An old farmer was driving a roare 2,700 Room Hostelry Built^ velvet beds of moss, Seventy Members Attend First Effective Oct. 5, 20 T. Car Is date last year, according to a recent that interfered very h*.dly. A pass- T o Serve Boys of And tread where nature's trail begins, report of the management. Five ing friend, observing the mare's an- Meeting At Ann $ 18 ^o $32 Lower From hundred twenty-five new members, tics, cried out: and man-trails never cross. Small Means Arbor Lockland, O. owning approximately 100,000 sheep "Say, Si, that mare of yours in- "Where little furred and leathered folk and goats, have come into the as- terferes pretty bad, don't she?" in leafy coverts hide, The Washtenaw County Farm sociation since the first of the year. Si paused, spat voluminously, sad RATES ARE VERY LOW And where the campfire's dusky smoke Bureau is developing a new program Savings of $18 to $32 per carload The association's graders report shrilled: "Yeh, she interferes, all blends with the e'entide." in freight on fertilizer from Lock- that there is a noticeable improve- right; but she don't interfere With of work. July 10 some 7<> members land, Ohio, location of the fertilizer ment each year in the way the mem- nobody but herself!" Enables Many Boys Tackling —Sherman Ripley met for supper at the Ann, Arbor Along the muddy edges of small ponds winged over by the Chamber of Commerce and with of- plant serving the Ohio, Indiana and City T o Get Started biplaned, mosquito-eating, dragon-flies, sit giant bullfrogs wait- Michigan Farm Bureau, is effective ing to snap up passing insects. ficers of the State Farm Bureau. At Fire October 5, 1928 by order of the In- (Z State mutual Rodded Fire J Right Chicago, July 25— One problem of the small town boy who acts, sometime* rashly, on the universal In the night when the frog chorus sounds loud from the low marshland, raccoons slink through the reeds in search of am- phibious prey. Early in the morning before traffic is astir, the wanderings the close of the meeting a committee of ten was appointed to work on sugestions brought up during the evening, and it was announced that further general meetings of that terstate Commerce Commission This is the result of a fertilizer freight rate adjustment requested by the Ohio Farm Bureau in 1924 and Fire )f Insurance Co., of Itlich. *| ^"•v H O M E o r n c e - FLINT, MICH. FAH.V1KKS—You are now making every effort to harvest and store your crops where they will be secure. They will be just like f^ urge to conquer the big city, has of beetles, caterpillars and other insects can be traced in the nature would be held, until all the which has been under way since so much money in a good bank if protected by our blanket policy. been met in Chicago. surfaces of dusty country roads. members entertained and given an that time. The Michigan State Farm Neglect may leave you broke after a hard summer's work as most Bird footprints too will be found in the dust. Those of the opportunity to take part in the pro- Bureau and the American Farm barn Tires occur during the fall months. Write at once for Agent to Religious and social science lead- call. $72,000,000.00 at risk. $180,000.00 Cash in Banks. W, T. brown thrasher are very common. One often sees him switch- gram and social feature, of the meet- Bureau also got into the ease, which ers of Chicago see in the dedication, Lewis, Sec'y, 710 l \ P. Smith Hhlg., Flint, Mich. ing his long reddish tail about as he runs down the road just ings. dealt with fertilizer in carloads in early in June, of the newly enlarged ahead. Mrs. N. \V. Laird, member of the the whole Central Freight Ass'n Y, M. C. A. Hotel here, concrete =^ Oiange-red turkscap lilies nod from the top of their long county executive committee, was territory. The above reduction in proof of achievement in protecting freight rates will be passed on to the eager lad who wanders blindly into the teeming thoroughfares of the metropolis. stalks, growing along the roadside ditches in Company with turtle-head and hosts ofi wayside weeds. Weeds are blooming everywhere. In the meadow, yarrow, chairman of the meeting. Sec'y C. L. Brody and C. L. Nash, state organization director, spoke of State the farmer in the price of fertilizer. In making the reduction, the Com- FREIGHT RATES Students of human nature a dozen years ago gave up the idea of wild carrot, and fleabane compete for first place in numbers. Low in the grasses the little mint, self-heal, often called the state organization and its various services, how various communities mission changed the minimum car- load weight for fertilizer from 15 to O n Farm Commodities have availed themselves of such 20 tons, and the reductions are cal- Sometimes have overcharge errors. Do you have your hills audited? trying to talk the youngster out of Prunella lifts its stocky head of lavendar, lipped flowers. services and discussed Washtenaw culated on the new minimum weight leavinjg his country home for a Pink knotweeds and tear-thumbs along with the yellow county's opportunities. basis. It figures out at 90 cents to THE TRAFFIC SERVICE DEPARTMENT fling at the city and devoted their loosestrifes fill the fence corners and edges of the roads. $1.60 per ton at that rate. The ef- Of the Michigan State Farm Bureau will check up the charges on energies to receiving him and giv- Washtenaw folks who took part your freight bills; file overcharge claims; file loss and damage Jewelweed with its orange and yellow blossoms banks the in the discussion were Pres. George fective date makes the new rates ing him, so nearly as they could, sides of springs and old watering troughs located in shady apply on fertilizer shipped for next claims; watch all freight rates on your farm products and supplies McCalla, Charles McCalla. Mrs. Jay and be your personal representative to the railroads. Claims col- the Advantages of a home where he hollows. spring's business. Smith, Mrs. Jay Knapp, Mrs. Jen- lected free for paid-up Farm Bureau members. could go for shelter, for a whole- Pinch the tip of a fat jewelweed pod and watch it pop and nings Campbell, Mrs. Sanderson, Following i* a statement showing No Charge For Auditing some meal or for sound advice from disperse its seeds. Mrs. A. C.Stein, Mrs. Herman, Hayes, the savings tp be made by the new those who had gained an experience of the world he was rubbing up . Under trees in the woodlands little ghostplant* are pushing up through the soil. These are called Indian pipes. Pure H. S. Osier and Frank B. Devine, local attorney, who said, "You can rates per 20 carload from Lockland, Ohio, to Michigan points: Farm Bureau Traffic Department ugafnst. white, and unable to make food of their own they must take make yourself a force in any com- 221-227 N. Cedar St. Lansing, Midi. Front Lockland, O., Savings Per 2<>T In Chicago the sociologists made their living from food already prepared by other vegetation. munity if you will organize and To Car >i a thorough investigation of the A bit of white foam upon the grass has an interesting occu- organize well." He urged the' impor- Battle Creek $18.00 places that offered entertainment to pant. Inside the foam is the young of a spittlebug. This bu? tance of a sympathetic rural-urban Beulah 28.00 etrhngers of small means. They excretes a liquid from its mouth and whips it to foam with it* relationship. found that vicious "flops" and •iirty, cheap boarding houses were ull that Chicago offered in that line. legs. Blackberry bushes furnish delicious refreshments for sum- mer hikers. Try eating blackberries early some morning when The committee appointed by Mrs. Laird is: John Young, Lyndon twp.; Fred Notten, Sylvan twp.; Ezra Les- Carsonville Cassopolis Dexter 24.00 22.00 20.00 ORDER BINDER TWINE NOW Hudson 22.00 The demand for Michigan State Industries binder twine, made Upon their recommendation the they are still wet with dew. ser, Dexter twp.; Earl Knaggs, at Jackson, is always heavy. Sometimes the supply becomes Y. M. C. A. hotel was built to house Superior twp.; Wm. Austin of York Holland 26.00 limited. Therefore, we suggest that you see your Watch blackberry tangles closely for nests of the indigo 1,800 men each night. It was more bunting. Towhee nests may be there too on the ground in th-.; twp. The wives of these gentlemen Ionia .' 26.Otf co-operative association manager at once and or less of an experiment in social midst of a bush. are also members of the committee. Jackson 22.00 order your*t928 needs. science at that time. But the first Present at Washtenaw County Lansing 24.00 The Michigan Farm Bureau Supply Service Goldfinches and cedar waxwings commenced their domestic handles Jackson twine because it is the best. ten years of its life showed over- duties late in June. Young may still be found in the nests. meeting, July 10: Maybee 20.00 It is one of the few STANDARD YUCATAN whelmingly the benefits it offered. MBr. & Mrs. A r t h u r H a g e n \ n n Arbor Newberry 32.00 There is a marked decrease in the number of bird songs Mr. &- Mrs. B. C. Simomls Vpsilanti SISAL TWINES containing long fibre. The response of that army of heard in the early morning. Many birds, whose nesting care.- Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Connor Ypstlanti Port Huron 24.00 We are offering Jackson twine In two sizes— young men who march continually are over, are feeding quietly, some of them are moulting their Mr. & Mrs. C. A. T h o m a s Ann Arbor Saginaw CLASSIFIED 24.00 the old five pound ball and the new 8 pound un the city, confident of ultimate courting plumage, others are straying farther north or moving Mr. & Mrs. X. w . Laird.«. Chetoea ball, illustrated here. The 8 pound ball fits victory, left doubt in no minds. slightly southward. Mr. & Mrs. O. \Y. ifoCalla Vpsilanti TWO HARDIR APPLE GRADERS and works nicely in any can that holds a 5 good condition, j u s t r i g h t for small p a c k - New 8 lb. ball pound ball. We recommend it. Registration during that period Mr. & M r s . J o h n Y o u n g Munith ing hQiise or l a r g e f a r m . Very r e a s o n a b l e . The first of July brings flock6 of the migrating Monarch Mr. & Mrs. Fred W . N o t t e n . .< Irass L a k e South Have>n Fruit K x c h a n g e . 8-10-28-p including the trying time of butterflies from tropical America. These butterflies migrate in For Sale By Mi. & .Mrs. A. C. Stein Ann Arbor the World War when the rooms were relays, a new generation to each relay. Mr. «fc Mrs. J a y K n a p p Vpsilanti filled with lads clad in navy blue and The time of arrival of the Monarch butterflies is marked by Mr. ft Mrs. H. \Y. H a y e s Cheteete Co-op Associations and Farm Bureau \ u Mr. K. B. P e s t e r Ypsilanti GarlocK* Williams Co. Distributors olive drab, steadily grew until it be- the blooming of the milkweed upon which their larvae feed. came necessary, time and again, to Mr. & Mrs. (.'. M. firnning- Vpsilanti 2 6 1 4 O r l e a n s St. Spiders enjoy dry summer weather. Many an insect falls- Mr. & Mrs. Karl K n a g g s . . . , . Ypsilanti Detroit mtn applicants away because there into their orb or funnel web snares, which with only an occasion- E d a C. P e s t e r Vpsilanti T o u r shipments of poultry, e g g s were no rooms vacant. al patching will last for many days. Mr. & Mrs. A. T. l-VIdkamp ...Manchester and veal are solicited. Tags and So the business men and managers Mr. ft Mrs. Gottlieb J a c o b Manchester market information s e n t on request. Spider threads run from one reed stalk to another all over Mr. ft Mrs. Fred E. l t e i o h e r t Dexter who had undertaken the original the marshlands. Mr. & Mrs. J. A. Smith Ann Arbor project, planned an addition that Mr. & Mrs. Ezra Lesser Dexter v. .'*uid- increase the capacity of the In remqte portions of the swamp, among tall cattails, the Mrs. K a t e Leland Whitmore Lake hotel by 800 rooms and afford bet- ter facilities for comfort, entertain- American bittern may be found poised on one leg and standing motionless as a statue for hours at a time. Mr. Ralph Leland Mr. & Mrs. W m . A u s t i n Whltaiore Lake Saline Fire! Liability! ment and social service. Final work on that addition was Where the rice grass of the swamps is heading out, flocks of red-winged blackbirds are gathered. over, they are contentedly gorging themselves with seeds and Their nesting duties Mr. ft Mrs. W a l t e r C. Gate Mr. & Mrs. I. R. J o h n s o n Mr. & Mrs. W m . B. Kempf .. .Ann Arbor Superior Rushton You Lose completed in April. It will enable The hotel to house 2,700 guests each night, making it one of the storing up fat for the long flight south. Aliss Clarabelle Borck Mr. R. L. Kempf Ann Arbor Ann Arbor Mr. & Mrs. 11. J. O u l m a n n . . . . A n n Arbor Mr. & M r s . Chas. McCalla Ann Arbor When Hogs Collision! world's largest hotels .(the Hotel Stevens across Wabash boasts only 3,000 rooms) and the Avenue W h a t M e m b e r s Say, Mrs. .Mis. Mrs. C h a s . E. H a m m o n d R. J e n n i n g s Campbell A r t h u r C, Coe Ypsilanti Ypsilanti Ypsilanti Die in Transit Always Unexpected and Everything You Own or largest exclusively men's hostelry Mrs. & Mrs. R. C. M e r i t h e w . . Ann A r l x * HINTS TO SHIPPERS The Michigan Farm Bureau News is Glad to Hear From C. L. L r o d y Lansing Hope to O w n is at Risk Unless in the world. C. L. N a s h Lansing 1. Hot spells come suddenly, Hotel accommodations will be in- Members on Matters of Interest H. S. Osier Ann Arbor be prepared. creased from now on by 44 per cent. Just what that means to the young fruit growers want so and so do Mrs. Elmer Sanderson Vandenberg Says Farm Ypsilanti 2. Bed cars with sand—not straw. Y O U ARE INSURED men of the Middle West who come here for a day and to those who plan Glad To See Bureau they?" Problem Challenges 3. Wet car floors before The State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Co. Helping Fruit Growers Aside, ' Lemme see. how many loading. to find their life work here, is re- (Continued from pa^e one) offers you complete protection against vealed in the records of what the votes do the fruit growers represent? market is one which is worth the 4. Spray water on feet and Michigan State Farm Bureau* Not such a heck of a lot at that, trouble of trying to control. "To ex- bellies of hogs. Fire Property Damage hotel has done in the twelve years Gentlemen: — compared with agriculture as a pect farm relief under Democratic 5. Do not pour cold water of its history. whole is it?" Collision Liability The record reveals, too, why the Am glad to see that the Farm Bu- tariffs as we know them is about as on backs of warm hogs. experiment of the social pioneers reau is taking up the cudgels to as- Aloud, "Well, I'm pretty busy just rational as it would have been for 6. Handle animals patiently Windstorm Theft sist the fruit growers. The fruit now but if you'll come around again Mississippi flood sufferers to have who built the original hotel was such —avoid excitement. an unqualified success. growers of Michigan are confronted next week maybe I'll, what's prayed for rain when hunting relief at very low annual rates for farm risks in a strong, that? The fruit growers are being from deluge." 7. HAUL hogs to shipping Clean, orderly, inexpensive and with many problems in the produc- pens. legal reserve company. More than 1 5,000 Michi- tion, marketing, and legislative backed by all the other farmers, eh*> "I want to see a start rnadel by the friendly accommodations were obtain- branches of their business.. Many Farm Bureau did you say? Well, government In this adventure," the 8. Do not feed just before gan farmers are enjoying this protection. ed during those twelve years total- ?ay, by heck, I'll be over to your Senator concluded. "I want to see or after loading. Then, should the unexpected happen, you don't people, however, seem to have a very ling. 7,035,164. That means that an place tonight and. we'll see what we an adequate Federal Farm Board hazy idea of what constitutes "farm 9. Do not crowd animals in have to worry. It's our risk. We assume the army of men who probably would relief". It seems to them to be very can do. We'll lay out something created with broad powers and re- cars. haVe found it necessary to sleep in difficult, very complicated. One that'll make 'em go some and don't sources. It will provide a focus for loss and defend your interests. •flops" for a night, found an ap- 10. Load Upper decks light thing which characterizes many of you forget it. When Senator Roar all the activities related to co-oper- in hot weather. There is a State Farm Bureau Mutual agent proximation of home at the "Y" the fruit growers' problems, how- starts something he does not rest ative marketing. It will lead in study hotel instead. The lunch room and until it's finished!" 11. Ice hung in cars keeps near you. Don't delay in seeing him. If you don't ever, is the clear-cut, brass-tack na- and intensive education. It will lead cafeteria served 8,078,376 meals at ture of the suggestions which have Very Truly Yours, in directing co-operative efforts. It hogs in good condition. know him, or want further information write us. an average price of twenty-seven Herbert Nafziger. will have the ways and means to help B e p r o t e c t e d before y o u start on a v a c u t i o n toiir. been advanced for their solution. Ship Co-operatively to cents, and to a young man experi- When the fruit growers of today Benton Harbor, R. 3. sustain these efforts. It can create menting the first difficulties of con- are confronted with an economic a national consciousness at the point Michigan State Farm Bureau quering Chicago, a meal for twenty- problem they do not sit down on their j Why Not Half Price on where it proves the need for further Michigan Livestock Exchange seven cents means a lot. progressive legislation. Once formal- Detroit, Mich. Lansing, Michigan haunches and make sad noises at the Evening entertainments—clean moon They put their fingers on License Plates In June? ly under way, I am entirely certain STATE AGENT FOR THE comedy, chummy lectures, good the weak spot and say, "There it i s ! " that it will find early and adequate The next thing that comes to them Michigan Farm Bureau News, means to restore the American farm- Producers Co-Op Com. Ass'n movies—kept 812,G7G of the guests off the streets. They were offered is, "Here is what we must do." Then Lansing, Michigan. er to a full partnership in American Fast Buffalo, N. Y. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. Dear Sirs: Piano Man: prosperity. Once "How's the business?" right kind of OF BLOOMINGTON, ILL. without charge. Sunday morning "Here is what you can do to help Scissors us". How about giving Michigan folks a board gets Grinder: to work, other "Fine! I've solutions Bible classes in the main lobby at- never seen things so dull."—Life. tracted 363,912. Naturally, to know what must be an equal chance on auto licenses at of the problem are certain to follow." done is a great step forward, but the half year as other states do? All those who sought hospitality at the "V" hotel found a welcome. No getting it done is a step for "seven Waiting until September and then ieague boots". having to pay for a whole half year is membership card is required — no questions asked about race, ereed The commodity exchanges can, not fair. Many a farmer gets an auto- or belief. and should, take care of their own mobile about the middle of the year problems in the majority of rases. as at that time they begin to have Among those who came some who had found the intense struggle for supremacy In the city were Sometimes, however, especially in a little coming in. Then they have state and national legislative prob- to pay a full year's license or wait lems, the assistance of a general or- until September. Always something IT IS TIME TO SOW ALFALFA a bit too sever — who had become disillusioned; were in trouble. ganization or union such as the to hit the farmer the harde3t. Hope Farm Bureau is very helpful. you can do something on this. They found a friend in William Yours very truly, B. Routson, director of the social Take for instance a matter of spe- M. J. Hunziker.. Michigan can well afford to increase its alfalfa acreage. The Michigan State College service department. Each year Rout- cial interest to fruit growers which Niles, Mich., son talks with 9,000 boys who have entails national legislation. Here July 16, 1928. recommends summer seeding in regions short in alfalfa. problems to solve. He has been do- we must remember that the honor- ing it for twenty years and knows ables in the congressional halls are essentially politicians. A LIBFHAL (JOB what he's talking about. He has advanced from a hotel fund $">5.- "Hm", says Senator Roar, "The The doctor was examining Bos- See your Co-op or Farm Bureau Agent for Farm Bureau Brand, hardy, dependable worth, a hospital corpsman, for ad- •r>83.04 to 25,764 boys who were each year. In twelve years that vancement in rating. "What would seed. A postcard brings you our recommendations for summer seeding. broke. More than 90 per cent of it amounts to 1,500,000, a total half as you do if the captain fainted on the has been returned to be loaned out large as the population of Chicago. bridge?" to others. That many men have been kept out "Bring .him to," warbled the as- Routson's department has found of the Chicago "joints" where the piring corpsman. more than «,000 jobs for young men germs of crime are bred. "Then what?" asked the doctor. MICHIGAN F A R M B U R E A U S E E D S E R V I C E °ut of work, has directed nearly 8,- Most of the 1,500,060 guests camfc "Bring him two more," returned °00 to good rooms when they want- from small towns in the Middle the gob. 224 North Cedar Street ed to settle here, and has returned West. Many of them went back home an average of 150 runaway boys to after their "fling" at the city. Who The candidates for the Presidency Lansing, Michigan their parents each year. can tell how many "prodigal sons" and Vice-Presidency offered by both Official estimates show that 125,- found help when they needed it, Republican and Democratic parties 0 00 different men come to the Hotel instead of disgrace? have all risen from humble origin. ••• J i ^- JULY 27, lf>2* MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU NEWS rotnn handled in 192T-2S was 15.768 tons. THK A(TI> TKST Fired First Yorktown PRESIDENT SHAW Kill Quack Grass With MICH. ELEV. EXCH.. Shot; Grave Obscure A continuous membership contract has been signed by the members. The He may have a greasy hat and the association was formed in 1921 and seat of his pants may be shiny, but ON NECESSITY OF Spray in College Tests MARKET OPINION In a small, heavily overgrown serves 89 alfalfa producers. rural cemetery in Caswell county, if his children have their noses flat- tened against the window pane a half- Tattooed man sues osteopath. hour before he is due home for sup- BEING INFORMED C h e m i c a l S e e m s t o Finish tough roots blacken and rot under this treatment. By Michigan Elevator Exchange Lansing', Mich., under date of July not far from Yanceyville, N. C, is a mound covered with vines—no ef- Claims latter threw all his pictures per, you can trust him with anything fort to mark a tombstone—under out of focus. you have. Pest in A p p l i c a t i o n s 26, 1038. Prof. Megee started this experi- which lies the body of the man who T e l l s F a r m B u r e a u N e w s Fac- WHEAT—Due to the brilliant 3 Weeks Apart ment this spring, and there's quite prospects for the Canadian growing fired the first shot at the battle of t o r s Affecting A g - a lot of things he wants to find out crop of wheat, the market has de- Yorktown. Think of spraying quack grass about it yet. But for the present two clined to practically last year's har- The man's name was Starling w<& riculture with an inexpensive spray and no applications of that spray appears vest levels. We expect a better mar- Gunn. The cemetery is little visited, more quack! We have just seen to kill quack. The spray method is a ket to sell on later in the year. and few people, even in the vichiity, TALKS ABOUT COLLEGE some experiments that look just convenient method to get quack Many Michigan farmers are storing know that the cemetery contains a like that. along fence rows and other tight their new wheat. historic grave. Quack grass is a big problem in places, and to get it quick where it B d . of A g r . P l a n Will W i p e CORN—Prospects are for one of On the headstone, barely legible Miehigan and is getting to be more appears in spots. Mr. Megee applied the largest crops of corn ever raised appear these words: "Here lies the pn O u t Deficit; F u t u r e of a problem right along. The Michi- the test plot spray with an ordinary in the United States. This is going three gallon hand sprayer. In a field bpdy of Starling Gunn, who fired the gan State College Farm Crops Dep;t to make cheaper feed for our Michi- first cannon at the battle of York- Is G o o d has worked out some good control choked with quack he used a potato gan farmers for the coming winter. town and who was an eye witness of This is not an advertisement of a get rich measures for quack and is still sprayer and left a wide path of dead OATS—Government figures indi- One hundred and fifty Farm Bu- quack across the field. the surrender of Lord Cornwallis." quick promoter — it is just to tell you studying the problem. cate an increase of 25% over last reau members had a very enjoyable The existence of the historic grave Professor C. R. Megee of the The practise on the plots has been year for Michigan. A big crop is that thousands of farmers have increased afternoon and evening at Lansing Farm Crops Dep't is experimenting has been recognized only once, other to thoroughly spray the leaves and indicated and prices will be low their crops 50% — ioo#> —and more,— headquarters and at State College on a method for killing quack by steins but not to get any more on than in casual way by individuals. July 16. The afternoon session at particularly at harvest run. A few years ago the Daughters of much more, by spreading Solvay Pulver- spraying, so the editor of the News the ground than can be helped. The State headquarters was devoted to went out this week to have a look at spray stops the growth of vegeta- RYE—Rye will follow wheat mar- ket. No big advances indicated for the American Revolution asked for *sH ised Limestone. discussing ways and means for ex- it. Prof. Megee took us out to the tion that season, but the chemical i^ earth from historic spots to be used tending Farm Bureau services in the some littb? while. in planting a tree, to be taken from Solvay sweetens sour soiUreleases all the quack grass plot along a fence row no very soluble that Mr. Megee is BEANS^—Prospects today are for fertility to hasten crops to full and profit' counties. The evening meeting was and there we saw sections of full of the opinion that quack spray ap- Yorktown and planted at Arlington. a dinner meeting at the Union build- a crop somewhat larger than last At that time, a bit of dirt from able maturity. It is guaranteed high test, grown vigorous quack, here definite plied one spring will be washed away year, but beans will be in good de- ing at the college, with appropriate sections of equally "matured quack by the next spring. This is a matter Gunn's grave was supplied. non-caustic, furnace dried, and so finely entertainment features and an ad- mand and we expect to see a fair but dead brown in color, and there that is being checked. College sheep basis paid for the coming crop of «*' ground and readily absorbed that it brings dress by Pres. R. S. Shaw of the a rectangular section of groiind free have been grazing right along in a College. of quack and bare. field that had a strip of quack treat- Michigan beans. Alfalfa Association results the first year. The answer was spray. The bare ment, and without ill effects. • Does Big Hay Business Write for the Solvay Lime Book! Free! ground once sported a growth of Sodium Chlorate is not an agri- Church Memberships SOLVAY SALES CORPORATION quack as thick as any section of the plot, but this spring when it was cultural chemical, and is not stocked Show Steady Growth A patronage refund of $22,234 Detroit, Mich. by local dealers. Its principal use was made by the Riverside Alfalfa well started Prof. Megee sprayed the is in textile manufacturing. Firms Federal special census statistics, Growers' Association, Riverside, leaves and stems with a solution of manufacturing sodium cholrate recently made public, indicate a con- Calf., for the business year ending sodium chlorate, made up of one put it up in 1 1 - pound drums and sistent membership growth in the March 1, 1928. Total sales for the pound of the chemical to one gallon sell it at about 8 cents a pound. ranks of Methodist Episcopal church- year, including freight and cartage, of water and applied at the rate of Where it can be had from wholesale es and in the Roman Catholic while were $361,069. about 100 gallons to the acre. Two druggists it...usually costs from 20 to other creeds and denominations The larger part of the alfalfa sprays three weeks apart finished 30 cents alnpund in small lots. Any barely held their own or made slight marketed is sold for feeding pur- the quack. The dead brown adult farmer or wjpup of farmers interest- gains or losses during the ten year poses, although the poorer grades quack got its first spray about three ed in trying" this quack spray can period from 1916 to 1926. are sold for fertilizer. The tonnage weeks ago and is due for another. secure the names of companies mak- The total Roman Catholic mem- Two sprays about three weeks apar! ing sodium chlorate from their bership is said to have been about appear to kill the quack, above county agricultural agent or the eighteen and a half million persons ground and below. Farm Crops Dep't at State College. in 1926 While the Methodist Episco- The chemical affects' the quack More work is to be done on spray pal membership totaled approximate grass so that it can't manufacture food, and a process of sets in. Little difference is noted in the appearance of the quack for starvation control of quack and other college methods for quack control on a 15 acre field recently taken over by the college. This field is solid quack, ly four millions, representing close to a 25 per cent gain in membership' in each instance. These institutions lead in church membership, the cen- FOUR BIG REASONS a few days, then a wilt sets in and and has been for a long time. It is sus shows. The Negro Baptist the plants start going down. That soon to be laid out in strips and church follows a close third in total process goes on about three weeks. Then a second application is made become a quack grass control labora- tory. Various experiments will be ^membership, with 3,196,283 mem- bers at fiie close of the census pe W h y T h e F e e d Contract Is Well Worth PltKS. R. S. SHAW to finish the old growth and kill any new shoots. tried in spring and fall plowing of quack, the effect of various tillage riod. Your Consideration The leaves and stems of the quack tools, spraying at different times, T h e i r Size President Shaw said that in his get dry and brittle and the white with different strength sprays, etc. opinion there is nothing more im- Fond Father-fn-law: "How would Within a few days a representative of the Supply Service and portant today for the farmer than you like a cow for a wedding pres- your local co-op or Farm Bureau agent will call on you and ex- keeping himself posted and able to act intelligently in the great read- CROP METHOD FOR A New Song "You've heard the sheep song. "What is i t ? " ent?" Bride, just from the city: "Oh, a cow would-give more milk than two plain how you can contract your September 1 to March 31 (7 justments that agriculture is going though. "1 don't like to feel that there is CONTROLLING QUACK "Wool You Be Mine?" "No, no. All I Want Is Ewe." would need. A calf would be about right. months) requirements of nothing encouraging in the agricul- tural situation. We have been go- Fall a n d S p r i n g P l o w i n g Culti- ing through a great readjustment, v a t e d C r o p a n d Alfalfa M i c h i g a n M i l k m a k e r , 24% some of it pretty rapid. Some 500,- 000 people have gone to the cities, Does the Job For Your Outing— but it must be remembered that the and other Farm Bureau Supply Service Public Formula Dairy war caused the United States to put One of the most successful meth- CAMP BLANKETS! 5 nn.OOO.OOO extra acres into produc- ods of quack grass control, and one $ These Farm Bureau blankets are all wool, sixty by eighty inches and we offer them especially for camp and Poultry Feeds tion, much of it marginal land. A that is very timely now, is that blankets. They are soft and fleecy b u t f i r m l y woven of decrease in such farming is not to worked out by Ralph Hudson, Jark Oxford grey yarns. Postage Prepaid On T h e m . be regretted. manager of the State College Farm. Fitfe per cent discount to F a r m Bureau members. Send signed Patronage Dividend Coupon w i t h $4.75, 1. At a guaranteed maximum price per ton, pay- "We are undergoing a great re- It has four general steps: 1. Plow deep in the fall, which CLOTHING DEPARTMENT able as you take the feed out monthly. adjustment in transportation, which MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU Is tremendously important to agri- turns the quack under and its roots 221-27 N. Cedar St. Lansing, Mich, 2. Price is Protected. Should market go below culture. In the 2o years ending out for drying and to get the full about, the opening of this century benefit of the winter. the Contract price, you get your feed at market we built 260,000 miles of railroad. 2. Plow shallow in the spring, In the past 2.r> years we have built about time for corn. price. 2.">0,000 miles of good roads and are 3. Prepare a thorough seed bed, still at it. The Great Lakes-St. Law- which works the roots out, and 3. These highest quality feeds are delivered fresh, rence waterway will make Michigan plant to a cultivated crop. a great empire. From almost noth- 4. The next spring sow to oats or Your monthly to your local co-op or agent for you. ing in 1§21 radio sales reached 300 barley and seed to alfalfa. The next million dollars in 1926 and we have spring sow to oats or barley and seed 4. Large volume makes for reasonable price. For 600 stations with an average aud- to alfalfa. The quack can thus be of 25,000,000. These things controlled so that crops can be STATE FARM BUREAU six years this plan has averaged members sub- indicate the changing times we live grown. Mr. Hudson has taken solid in and the necessity for keeping our- fields of quack, cleaned them up and stantial savings. selves posted. put them into crop production under Makes possible this THE NATI»XAI. WHEAT BA*K "I have read articles that tried to this system. convince me no one Is making mon- ey on the farm. Our college investi- "check" for more wheat, Questions a n d A n s w e r s o n t h e Contract gators say that some of us are, and that the requirements are: (1) a SPRING PIG CROP rye, or alfalfa. 'tffiwpi When do we start making feed contracts? • 8. Will farmer contracts be booked with the distributor or with the good soil, (2) a big enough business, Supply Service? (.1) a well trained" set of business brains. IS 22 PCT. SHORT July 16th. 2. When does contracting TTHI? All contracts must be in our of- All farmer contracts will be made between the distributor "What about the surplus? In my fice on or before August. 2Uth. and the .farmer. opinion the big bites taken out of C o r n Belt S h r i n k 7 P e r C e n t ; This interesting folder makes pos- O. Will the farmer have a price the farmers' dollar are: (1) increas- 8. When do shipments on 'the con- E x p e c t H e a v y Fall sible a "check" for more money, if tract begin. from month to month or for the ed cost labor, (2) increase in trans- entire period? portatioq,.-and distribution costs, (3) Decrease September 1st. you will read it and follow its sug- The farmer will have a month to increase in taxes. These are more 4. When will shipments on con- gestions when you put in your win- tracts close? , month price, which will be estab- pressing' than the surplus, for the Lansing, July 20.—A decrease of lished by the distributor, but per capita production of agricultural 22% in the spring pig crop of ter wheat crop, rye, or alfalfa this All feeds must be shipped on or which will never exceed the max- products by ALL the people last 1928 from that of 1927 for Michi- before March 31st, 1929. imum guarantee. fall. It is free—with it will be sent year was the lowest in 33 years. gan is shown by the June pig survey 5. Will there be a guaranteed max- the 40 page book "Soil Sense"—sim- imum price? 10. Must the farmer book his feed "Furthermore, the American tar- made through the rural mail car- in equal monthly shipments? iff is not effective on many agricul- riers, according to a statement made ply write to the address below. Yes. All contracts carry max- imum prices beyond which the No. He can book any quantity tural products. Sixty per cent of all today by Herbert E. Powell, com- contract prices cannot go from for any month he wants to. How- agricultural imports compete with missioner of agriculture and Verne September 1, 1928 to March 31, ever, this applies only to those us. Annually we take in 1 xk mil- H. Church, agricultural statistician DUNHAM 1929. points where a large enough ton- lion tons of vegetable oils to dis- for .Michigan. This amounts to a nage is booked so that at least 6. Can a farmer buy at the con- one car per month can be ship- place our own vegetable oils and decrease ip Michigan of about 185,- $CC95 tract price during the contract ped to that station,. 55 pork products and so on. The farm- 000 head of pigs this past spring period if he has not signed a con- er is justified in demanding a change compared to the number saved the tract? 11. If the farmer uses up Ills con- in tariff. previous spring. The number of pigs tract booking early in the sea- Referring to the college presi- saved per litter was about the same dency, Mr. Shaw said that the change both springs. The reports of the Up No. He must buy at the prevail- ing market price if he has not signed a contract. son, can he continue to buy on the contract price? f|om 30 years and 2 months of re- number of sows bred or to be bred Write for low prices No. As soon as the farmer uses 7. If the market price goes below up his contract booking, his fu- search and education to the adminis- in Michigan for fall farrowing point on all sizes the contract price, will the farm- ture purchases must be made at trative duties of the college seemed to a decrease of from 15 to 20 per Convenient stocks of er be obliged to pay the month- the market price. like breaking off his life's work, cent in fall pig crop, assuming a ly contract price as announced? Cultipackers are In case the market price is lower 12. Will there l>e a maximum guar- but on further consideration the new similar relationship between breed- carried in various anteed price on the entire line of task appears to offer the greatest ing intentions and actual farrow- than the monthly contract price localities throughout on the day the distributor orders sixteen Farm liureau seeds? opportunity for service that has ever ings that has prevailed in other A maximum price will be named Michigan. See your out a car, it will be invoiced to come to him. years. him at the market price and he on the dairy feeds, mashes and The State Board of Agriculture co-op ass'n or Farm The spring crop for the United in turn will pass this advantage calf meal, but not on scratch or has adopted a budget that will auto- States as a whole and also for the Bureau agent. on to the farmer. horse feed. matically balance the books of the Corn Belt States was 7 per cent college by June 30, 1929 ana thereby smaller last Bpring than in 1927 make up the existing deficits. Un- according to the results of the Pig Michigan Farm Bureau Supply Service Several thousand farmers find the Supply Service feed con- der this program there will be no Survey for the entire country. tract a money making answer to their winter feeding problem. curtailment of service by the college, nor will any borrowing be required. Lansing, Michigan They join us every year. We invite you to see your co-op man- The fellow who is pulling on the Service will Increase, for in no state oars doesn't have time to rock the ager or Farm Bureau agent about it as soon as possible. is there such a demand for agrcul- tural service as there is in this state. boat. « § ft Dunham Culti-Hoe Speaking of the Farm Bureau. Mr. to perform it, coming straight down The wheel shown here can be purchased in Shaw said: the middle of the road without fear quantity for converting your Culti-Packer in- "I greatly appreciate the fine in- or favor of politics, and I have seen ganisatlon has always none. Recently a well posted friend had in this fine old institution. I told me that the Michigan State to the finest Rotary Hoe—the Dunham Culti- Hoe. Or you Can buy the Culti-Hoe as a separate implement. Use it on corn up to 8 or 9 inches and on mint, beets, beans, etc. Michigan Farm Bureau Supply Service it, or 1 wouldn't be here College, properly financed and di- The folder mentioned above describes its tonight." rected, undoubtedly has the greatest many uses. Lansing, Michigan in closing his address he said: future in prospect of any institution "I have a duty here aud I expectj in the middle west. k r_-i