"INSIDE" MICHIGAN THE NEWS Legislative News In A Progressive Newspaper The Michigan Farm for Michigan Farm News Homes A Newspaper For Michigan Farmers ONE DOLLAR FIVE CENTS Issued Semi-Monthly Ninth Year, Vol. IX, No. 7 PER YEAR S A T U R D A Y , APRIL I I , 1931 PER COPY FOUR DESTRUCTIVE Outdoor Play Yard PROSPECTS GROW FIVE SUGAR BEET TAJ MAHAL GOES UP AT PARIS EXPOSITION ASSAULTS ON OLEO Now that spring is here and 3iir children will have more of FOR BIG WOOL PUNTS TO RUN; N IN LEGISLATURE their play time outdoors, it is time to consider their outdoor play materials. POOL THIS YEAR ACREAGE 51,000 A swing of just the right Johnson Wants Heavy Tax; height and a sandbox full of Wool Marketing Ass'n Ships Industry, Apparently Buried Lennon Would Outlaw Band and well equipped with 1,000 Sacks To For 1931, Now Shows spoons, crinkly pans and cast Poolers. Promise. Colored Oleo. off kitchen utensils fill many hours with busy play. A garden THEIR BILLS CONFLICT spot of his very own where, with WHSE. AT_FT. WAYNE DONE IN A FEW WEEKS a little help, a child can set Rep. Town Would Have But- out his plants and care for them, Places And Dates For Car New Firms Lease Plants; ter In Penal Institutions; is good if preceded and en- New Crop Contracts souraged by happy contact with Lot Shipments To Resolution Aids. growing things. Come Soon. Adopted. Every child needs some mo- Michigan is likely to come close Lansing—From the bows of legis- tor toys. A wagon large enough Lansing—More than 1,000 wool lators this week, sped four arrows sacks have been shipped 1931 wool to having a fair acreage of sugar and strong enough to last a beets in 1931 despite the fact that each aimed at. the vital mid-riff of number of years will carry poolers by the Michigan Co-operative oleomargarine, worst enemy of Mich- Wool Marketing Ass'n here, according six weeks ago the Michigan sugar snow, rocks, grass, sand, chil- beet industry appeared as dead as a igan's dairy industry. First and second dren, or pets equally well. A to C. L. Brody, secretary. Sacks and arrows: shipping tags are going forward doornail for 1881, tricycle and a substantial toy daily. Today, it appears that 51,000 The house passed, 58 to 34, Repre- truck supplement the wagon and acres will be back in beets. It sentative Milo A. Johnson's measure make possible other activities. This year wool is being pooled at the Michigan Wool Marketing Ass'n migOt go to 81,000 acres or better •which would impose a tax of 6 cents, of the Alma and Bay City plants of per pound on all oleo sold in Mich- warehouse at 1927 West Main Street, the Michigan Sugar Co. should op- igan, and sent it to the senate for further action. The senate has approved Senator ANCIENT ELEPHANT Fort Wayne, Ind., also Indiana Wool Pool's warehouse. Wool shipped there freight collect, or may be erate, which is doubtful. The acre- age Last year was 85,000, which Peter B. Lermon's bill absolutely pro- hibiting the sale or handling of FOUND BY CASS trucked in. U. S. 27 goes Michigan into Ft. Wayne. Cash ad- south vances being made on receipt of wool from produced 659,000 tons of beets, or 12,000 cars. But things will be different in colored oleomargarine and has sent It to the house. The bills are conflicting. Senator COUNTY FARMER and without grading are 14c per lb. flat for native Michigan wools, 12c on Paris—Above is tin- Taj Mahal, a and other Indian princes the Tajother architectural exhibits. 1 miracle in whitest marble, built be- will be reproduced at the Paris Ex- The Taj is 130 feet square and less than regular acreages. This many ways this year. For example, 14 plants' operated last year, with western lamb or feeder wools. Lennon's measure is not a tax raising Believed to Have Roamed Carlot pooling dates for various tween 1629 and lBfiu A. D., and de-position this summer, to take its the great dome rises 170 feet above year 5 to 7 plants will operate with one, nor is it drawn for that purpose, points in Michigan will be announced clared to be the finest example of place beside America's Mount Ver- tin; ground. It was built at the acreages for 90 days operation or Here 10,000 or More more. The total acreage may reach despite the fact that it would impose presently. Frequently the co-opera- ancient Hindu architecture. Through non, Cam'bodia's Angkor-Vat. Mad- order of the Shah Jehan in the 1930, but some sections will have idle annual license fees for handling un- tive elevator is the local loading the generosity of Aga Khan (inset) agascar s Hovan palace and many memory of his wife. colored oleomargarine. The operations Years Ago. plants and no beet acreage. point. Sometimes the wool pool car Bridges, (irade ( rossing Bill Early this year, due to the price of either the Johnson or Lennon mea- sure would head the sale of the eleo is placed on a side track. This year Ann Arbor—Some time ago George there is more trucking. In some in- toward tne rocks. However, there is D. Wagner, Cass county farmer, dig- stances poolers are going together to Bills Seek $40,000,000 Hep. Ate Dykstra's House Bill No. of sugar, nearly all beet sugar com- 1, providing for State participation in panies operating in Michigan, an- the possibility of a fatal deadlock un- ging marl on his place, came upon load one big truck for several trips. less these bills are brought into some large bones at a depth of ten Places where carlots of wool were agreement. feet. University of Michigan scien- assembled last year and undoubtedly For Real Estate Relief the construction and maintenance of nounced that they would not oper- state highways, bridges and grade ate. The industry appeared doomed separations within the limits of in- for the year. Growers and capital tists came to look and instead of find- will be dated this year are: anual tax. The bill is framed so corporated cities and villages, estab- in the interested regions got busy Michigan Products Urged ing the expected anastadon found al- Brooklyn Hillsdale Income Tax, Retail Store Tax, that groups of stores under one lishing a uniform policy on the part and are responsible for assuring Third arrow: Both houses have ap- most the complete skeleton of the proved the Joint Resolution which quite rare southern elephant. The Casaopolis Jackson Twp. . Road Aid, Other ownership are considered as one of the State, was passed by the House operation of five plants and some directs the state administrative board specimen is the finest of its kind Charlotte < 'ivs.sey Marcellus .Manchester unit. This aims it at the chain April 9 and goes to the Senate, carry- 51,000 acres in beets to date. Few Climax .Mason Bills' Progress. stores in particular. Large retailers ing the benediction of the adminis- of the sugar companies are operat- to "purchase all necessary supplies found in Michigan. Today it rests in Cold water .Milan are fighting the bill vigorously. ing their plants. Apparently, they tor state institutions of Michigan from the University museum with the bones Chelsea Oxford tration. In cities of less than 20,000 have been glad to get taxes and Dexter Quincy Township Road Aid Michigan farmers, miners, manufac- arranged exactly as they were found. Dowaglac South Lyons Lansing—Approximately $40,000,- The House passed the McNitt bill poulation, the State will stand 100% other carrying costs by leasing to turers" and other Michigan sources. Mr. Wagner donated the find to the Fowler Kowlerville St. Johns Union City 000 annual relief for real estate April 9, by whidh the counties of the above costs if the bill is en- the new firms taking over the Since oleo is not manufactured in University. Hastings Waterford taxation is proposed in two bills re- would within five years take over acted. In cities between 20,000 and plants, and believe the plants are Michigan, the resolution is a pointed Howell ported to the House April 9 by its and maintain 50,000 miles of town- 25,000 population, the State will stand better off operating than idle. Standing 10 feet arid 6 inches high boost for Michigan's dairy industry. at the shoulder, this old Michigan in- fect1930 wool pool contracts are in ef- general committee on taxation. for 1931; new poolers should Rep. W. J. Thomas State Income ship highways. The measure pro- of such costs; in cities of 50,000 Mucih credit for the 1931 opera- The fourth arrow loosed on oleo is habitant roamed 'here pome ten or write for a contract, says Sec'y Brody. vides $2,000,000 from the State population and up, the State will tions is due Daniel Euler of the related to the above Resolution in this fifteen thousand years ago, was larger All correspondence is with the Sec-Tax would raise an estimated $30,- highway funds tor qualifying coun- stand 50% of such costs. The State and Holland-St. Louis Sugar Company 000,000 to do a\va> with the State's ties in 193 2 and an increase of pays all such expense on trunk lines growers around St. Louis who way: Act. No. 45 of the Public Acts than P. T. Barnum's famous Jumbo. retary at 221 No. Cedar Street, Lan- property tax by taxing per- $500,000 per year until $4,000,000 in the country, aside from what the developed an operations plan ac- of 18!)1 prohibits the use of butter Its four cheek teeth, weighing several sing. Wool is pooled and graded at general sonal and corporation incomes. ceptable to themselves. It has been substitutes in all state institutions, pounds each, had tops 16 by 6 inches, Ft. Wayne and sold by the National Personal incomes would be taxed is distributed in 1936 and each year railroads may stand. adopted by tho Blissfield plant. Suc- except penal institutions. Because of corrugated like a washboard for Wool Marketing Corporation, national at 1% on net incomes of $1,000, up thereafter. The counties will ad- Attack Imitation Ice (ream this, the state administrative board grinding grains and grass. The last wool co-op recognized by the Federal to 6c/o on all net Incomes over minister the township roads taken The House passed Rep. John Espie's cess in developing 1931 operations could not at present cause the three glacial ice left Michigan some 25,000 Farm Board. Poolers are cautioned $5,000. Federal income tax exemp- portion toreceive over, will state cash in pro-ice cream bill this week over the op-on this plan has been credited with the percentage of town- position of the owners of nearly every opening the other plants, on more large prisons and the Detroit House years ago, so the specimen cannot be to use paper twine only in tieing tions would apply, $1,500 for un- ship roads in each county. There of Correction, to start \ising Michigan older than that, states Professor Case. fleeces. summer resort, barbecue stand, and or less related plans. married persons, $3,500 for mar- is no "money matching" by local lunch room making its own ice cream. Michigan Sugar Companies butter in place of oleomargarine. But It is believed that the elephant be- rie<>d condi- This gives a good chance to work Lime am" .Method of Curing certified, but there was some quack very little seed went into the straw after we got going. Our young stock ties were having the r< tion. the fields. The first year we tried "Tho fields arc I ; t >d for acidity "We used to cut our alfalfa in the and a lot of clover seed in the al- like the alfalfa straw and do well on Twenty-eight Michigan counties "Our old plan of rotation was a this plan we used the spring tooth the year before planting. While our morning, rake into windrows in the falfa seed. In our opinion rogueing it. \ must be tested annually to v cultivated crop, grain, hay, and hay.about every ten days from the time soil is naturally s.v..i. occasionally afternoon with side delivery rake, should be done around July 4, around once In three years. Naturally, the alfalfa would follow the grain was removed from the we come across s acid. and draw in the next afternoon. The because it is easier to go through Pas*lire and tirten Manure the grain crop. However, this plan field until the ground froze. We these spots we treal win r< hay was usually pretty green and the fields, tue weed blossoms are "We have pastured the1 second Average weekly gains for chicks does not facilitate the killing of found that there was still too much lime from a chemical plant. ('amp. It cured in the mow to ;i easier to see. hater the weed crop of alfalfa and find it good. of fifty per cent for lite first six weeks weeds and weeds must be out lief ore quack for alfalfa. "We use about 4 to be financed by bond issues placed One day tchetl I was playin' round my Aunty allied me in To see her brand neir settin' hen that's made all out of tin. Entered as second class matter January 12, 1923, a t the postofflce at Charlotte, Michigan, under the Act of March 3, 1879. FERTILIZER COST persons admittedly in the foreign in- in New York and London. This is the dustry, it seems reasonable to assume attitude of private initiative that is that, since we imported half of Chile's engaging in a cartel to control nitrat- 1 think It's 'bout the queerest hen that I have heard of yet: It never eludes at all. an' still it always wants to sefl Published the second and fourth Saturday of each month by the Michigan Farm News Company, at its publication office a t 114 Lovett St., Charlotte, Mich. Editorial and general offices at 221 North Cedar St., Lansing, Mich- 43.3 P C I LESS production for the year 1925, andes and, incidentally, fertilizers in this have continued to import more than country, and likewise to fix their l.tMHi.000 tons yearly thereafter, our prices. So far, no proposal has been 'TWOS awful hot there in that room, and vhat do you suppose? The eggs iras all insidr the hen in roirs. an' roirs, an' rows! My Aunty let me look at 'em an' see her roll 'em round igan. Postoffice box 708. Telephone, Lansing, 21-271. To keep the chicks from get tin' sick with stayin' upside down. Than Farmers Paid in 1925,termers must be the direct support of forthcoming from the industry, which it least 100,000 persons in another would in any way recommend or sug- I guest the chicks inside the eggs is awful fond of her— 3B. E. UNGREN Editor and Business Manager According to Coolidge :ountry. Whereas, if we would put gest in any form whatsoever, the An' little Arthur Mumeter, he told how warm they were. Inquiry. >ur own United States plants to work establishment of a definite and ade- An' when we'd rolled 'em every one she shut the hen up tight Subscription rate $1.00 per year, in advance. ind employ our own people, who arequate means of obtaining a source An' said she guessed 'tirould be all right to lean' it for the night. in such dire need of employment, all of supply within our borders, which No. 7 CHILE SELLS US HALF af this payroll now given foreigners, would be readily available in a The hen is never pecky an' I'm not a bit afr< VOL. IX SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1931 would remain with Uncle Sam as buy- national emergency. A,i' 1 guess it's just a dandy, 'cause see the eggs it's laid. Her Nitrates, On Which U. S. ing power. And a proportion of it Naturally, the question arises, why An' when I'm big an' have a hen to hatch m.,/ chickens in Farmers Pay $12.48 would return to the farmers them- should the government continue to It's goin' to be a shiny one that's made all out of tin. This Is No Time For A Split selves in exchange for their products. seek or even consider bids from such Per Ton Duty. Coolidgre Inquiry sources for the operation of our As the Legislature enters upon the hectic period that The Muscle Shoals inquiry directed United States plants? Why should it invariably marks its closing days numerous questions of PART 3 by President Coolidge on March 26, virtually give away to them its great- examination. PERENNIAL FLOWKKS (Copyrighted by Preston Taylor) 1925, was conducted for various pur- est natural assets, which would be Friends of farmer agents cut the vital interest to agriculture remain upon the list which AUTHOR'fl NOTE—In attempting to poses, chief of which was to make used in conjuction with foreign capi- •leal with this Important question, I am $15 fee to $1 which would put the ex- The winter protection with which that th^ experience I have had recommendations for the disposition tal to monopolize an otherwise free must be acted upon. Not the least of these is the ques- hoping in farming and in various commercial )f the Government fertilizer plants, trade? amining commission in the red, which perennial flowers have been covered and industrial pursuits, together witl- should be loosened quite early in tion of how to control the sale of oleomargarine. tin1 privilege <>f having lived in the South and to make a thorough investigation Such action would be contrary to forced the bill back into the Ways and and tiic Muscle Shoals area in dost jf the fertilizer situation as a retail section 124 of the National Defense Means Committee where it probably spring, so that aid will be admitted The oleo problem is vexing because of opposition contact with the economic and physical and the excess moisture will escape. conditions involved therewith, may re- industry within our borders. Briefly, Act. It would imperil our national will repose. This protection should be removed flect in the treatment of this subject. as regards the latter, the committee security in regard to our nitrogen from users of the product, including, we are ashamed to My suggestions are offered in the spirit when growth starts and before the selected 23 states in the east, south supply. It would annul our pledge to Fish that live in open water tend leaves become white and sickly from confess some dairy farmers. But we believe the major ofual constructive criticism, with deductions from tile prolonged anil ineffect- controversy over America's greatest and middle west and proceeded to col- the farmers to give them efficient to be of bluish or metallic shades, lack of sunlight. difficulty comes from a division of opinion among the n aTt ih"i s is the third of a s e r i e s of four ar- lect all of the necessary data and in-fertilizers at cost. Moreover, it would while those that lie on the bottom of formation from county agents and virtually defeat the very principals legislators from the dairy sections. ticles on (I other sources. This was to furnish a involved in our farm relief measures, a stream are almost always mottled CHRISTMAS Tl'RKKYS basis from which to establish prevail- for which we have pledged the sum or striped to resemble the stones or The Senate has passed the Lennon Bill which would Tennessee River ing prices charged the farmers for of $500,000,000. sand. In about three years out of four, exclude colored oleo and impose very little restriction fertilizers, and to compare such the farm price of turkeys has been Inasmuch us it has been recognized (To Be Continued) higher for Christmas than for upon the sale of the white product. The House has from earliest time that the Tennessee termined prices with those of costs already de- Move evergreen shrubs when the Thanksgiving. This suggests that or- River is an important navigable by United States engineers Forsythia comes into leaf. This is dinary producers should market only ' passed the Johnson Bill which would tax all oleo at §c stream, navigation then should al- Covering manufacturing of fertilizers an indication that the soil is warm their best matured turkeys for per pound. Friends of this measure contend that a ways have careful consideration in in the Muscle Shoals plants. enough for renewed root growth. The Thanksgiving leaving the others to virtually drive colored oleo out of competition with any plan oi" future improvement, con- Their report states that if ferti- State Tax of 6c plus the new Federal tax of 1 0c would sistent with the full and complete lizers, manufactured in our Govern- • i the flow of the river. And ment plants, were available to our PASTURED EARLY planting period may continue for improve in weight and quality for the about a month. Christmas trade. provision should be made for farmers, a saving of $10.o:', per ton butter. Storage of water as well as for Its would result, or in other terms, there Cheap Feed Must Have Time We appreciate the sincerity with which the introducers maxinium judicious regulation and use for would be a saving of 43.3 per cent. To Get Top'Jand Root GUN-ROD AFurgood high or low pressure SPRAY RIGS. rod for Cherry Tree Spraying. power development pur- Since some 7,000,000 tons of ferti- Equipped with LONG RANGE WHIRL DISCS if desired. and sponsors of these two bills have acted, but we de- poses. lizers are purchased annually by ap- Growth. Nozzjes This river, already an important proximately 6,5(111,000 American farm- 11 Inches plore the possibility that the matter may be allowed to go carrier from Knoxville to the Miss- ers a saving of $16.00 per ton would East Lansing—Turning stock on Over by default through a disagreement as to HOW to do issippi, (some 600 miles) is becoming amount to $112,000,000 a year. Sup- pasture before the grass has a well Your choice, 4 or 6 ft. long:—brass, iron or ahiminum tubing. All * of the most important feeders of posing the saving is but $8.00 per ton,established top and root growth will something when the great question is whether ANY- one the Mississippi to the gnlf ports, up- the s-aving still equals the cost of result in damage to the pasture and ORCHARD AND PAINT ACCESSORIES. SPRAYER SUPPLY MFG. COMPANY THING will be done. on which such huge sums continue to Wilson Dam. And we are dealing will reduce the season's total of feed 220 Front Ave., N. W. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN be spent for improvement and navi- with the quest ion on only a yearly from the pasture lot which is the Fortunately, the spirit of compromise seems to be gation. The Tennessee, then, with its basis. cheapest source of nutrients for milk present on both sides. What we now need is ACTION varied huge valley and basin of activity and During 1929, the farmers of Georgia and meat production, says State Col- industrial pursuits, rich in spent 10 per cent of their income for lege. on both sides. If dairy farmers will spend a few cents of postage urging their Senator and Representative to get able minerals of every description, offer- commercial fertilizers, or $26,200,000 Cows on good pasture can produce ing as it already does a very respect- and many other cotton states spent milk at a cost of 10 cents per day, f>or more amount of tonnage, is deserving in excess of $25,000,000 annually for but the grass must be thick and have together on a bill that will pass and pass it, we believe of special consideration in any future fertilizers. fancij fruit . . . a good growth to enable the cow to this Legislature will have performed at least one great program improvement- pfbgr&m. And such a Ford Saves Plant gather enough grass in a few hours to should include provision for When Heirfy Ford filed a bid, July supply feed to maintain her body service to agriculture. The Michigan Farm News urges navigation of erf Ft up to 9 foot draft. 8, 1921, offering to operate the nitrate weight and to manufacture a profit- GRASSELLI you to act at once by writing your Senator and Repre- consideration. Power, howevc r, must be the prime plants and to pay $209,040,000 for able amount of milk. If the cow has SPRAY A Other means of trans- them, it was frequently stated that he sentative that you expect them to protect the farmers portation are available in several saved Muscle Shoals from the scrap to range over a large area to get the against the competition of oleo, and to protect the public forms, while power, as it is provided heap. The fact is, he did not save it required amount of grass, part of the and DUST now, will continue to grow in com-from the scrap heap, but he did save nutrients obtained are wasted in pro- against oleo that looks like butter. mercial importance to at least such it from the \#felfish and monopolistic viding energy for the cow. time as energy in some other, form interests or trusts, who, like vultures, A 1,000 pound cow which is pro- PRODUCTS is released by means not yet apparent were awaiting to swoop down and de-ducing 25 pounds of milk daily will They are certified as to quality and A Thousand Babies Saved Every Year to science. vour, the remains • if > the government need 100 pounds of grass each day. Chilean Nitrates Monopoly failed to find a solution satisfactory An area of pasture 40 by 40 feet will are preferred by many leading growers More than 1,000 babies are healthy and well in De- A previous article of this series to all concerned. produce this amount if the grass is GRASSELLI GRADE —Arsenate of Lead Powder Y troit today who would not have lived to their first birth- touched upon our source of supply of Prior to Mr. Ford's honorable at- eight inches tall. Calcium Arsenate Powder nitrates. It may be mentioned here tempt to help solve the condition no Sweet clover has become a very day if born only 1 5 years ago. There is another thous- that during the period 1914 to 1920,amount of co-operation, concession poular pasture crop for dairy cattle Bordeaux Mixture Powder Lime Sulphur Solution and every year. when war contracts were in force, or persuasion was of any avail with in Michigan. It grows rapidly and Dry Lime Sulphur the United States imported Chilean private initiative or capital, to induce contains a better supply of protein Oil Emulsion How are they saved? Chiefly by better diet—better nitrate to a value of $300,563,000 at them to make a satisfactory bid forand minerals than the pasture grass- Monohydrated Copper Sulphate milk. the Chilean port. To this figure an the operation of the plants. They es. Cattle very seldom bloat on sweet Casein Spreader export duty of $97,101,000 must be ad-were personally approached by prop- clover pasture and they eat this plant Sulphate of Nicotine That is the message that the Michigan Milk Produc- ded, plus ocean freights, insurance er government representation, but readily after they become accustomed DUTOX — Our Non-Arsenical Insecticide commissions, etc., for a total cost in they offered no encouragement what- to it. ers Ass'n told in a full page advertisement in the roto- round figures of approximately $550,- soever. However, Mr. Ford's offer THE GRASSELLI CHEMICAL COMPANY Records in the dairy department at gravure section of the Sunday Free Press recently, point- 000,000 for the 7,725,767 tons of Chil- was no sooner recorded in congress, Michigan State College show ili.it 10 Incorporated 629 EUCLID AVE., CLEVELAND, OHIO Founded 18*9 ean nitrate imported during that then bids from those who had been cows produced 192 pounds more but- 1530 E. HANCOCK AVF., DETROIT. MTCH ing out that for 1 5 years the Milk Producers have been period. Staggering as these figures looking on began to appear. 2101 CANALPORT AVE., CHICAGO, ILL. improving the quality of their milk, aiming even above are, such a procedure was rendered If the government had seen fit to terfat the same on sweet clover pasture than animals produced th? pre- necessary, since at that time, the only the legal tests and inspections, which have done so much. commercial method of fixing atmos- give Henry Ford the keys to Muscle ceding year on ordinary pa ,ture Full credit was given all other agencies in this great work. pheric Shoals on a silver platter, on his grasses. nitrogen, in operation on this promise to operate the plants at full GRASSELLI GRADE sideM^f the Atlantic, was the cyana- capacity for a 100 years, he al- U Standard Weld "High /or 9 2 Tears Other Milk Producers advertising to milk consumers mid^^rocess of the American Cyana- ready would have turned back into Bills Seek $40,000,000 is planned. City distributors handling Michigan Milk mide Company, at Niagara Falls, On- the pockets of the farmers them- tario, located there, no doubt, to take selves, seven times the complete cost For Real Estate Relief Producers milk will be listed. We believe that this ad- advantage of cheap hydro-electric of Wilson Dam. He would have car- (Continued from page 1) power. Insofar as our nitrate needs ried out the terms of that contract in vertising to make more consumers call for Milk Pro- were concerned, this, too, was a spite of low or high water. The fury would head a moy.e, to secure 42,454 ducers milk is sound co-operative business and will be foreign source of supply. successful. During the year 1925, we imported Ford bid on, seems like a page voters' names to a petition for a of the controversy from the date of referendum on the Harding bill. De- the spite published statements to the con- If You half of Chile's total production of from ancient history. Organized, large scale co-operative marketing makes nitrates, contributing the sum of it possible to give a distinctive name to and advertise ean Private Capital's Case trary, Senator Bonine appears to be going ahead on his referendum. If $15,000,000 to the support of the Chil- In order to grasp a resume of the the question goes to a referendum the Should Collide- government. nitrogen industry, and Muscle Shoals matter would be on the ballot in No- farm products with good results. Individual producers For the year 1929, we imported relation therewith, we, of necessity, vember thus delaying the election of or small groups of producers can't do it for lack of more than 1,000,000 tons of the Chil- must return to pre-war conditions of Michigan's four additional Congress- With another car, regardless of who is actually to ean products, paying a duty of $12.58 the industry. men for two years. blame, you may find yourself in court, sued for dam- volume and distributing facilities. per ton for the further support of Prior to the war practically nothing Auto Insurance War ages. It happens every day to someone. that country. We also imported 3,- had been accomplished by private The co-operative Michigan Elevator Exchange's 041,524 cwt. of cyanamide fertilizer capital in fixing atmospheric nitro- Senator Rushton's a u t o m o b i l e "Michelex" beans for the wholesale and canner trade, from Canada during 1929. During the gen in the United States. The Amer- weeks ago, is still in the .senate corn- If you drive without insurance, and have such an same year we also imported 394,839 ican Cyanamide Company, however, insurance rate bill to fix auto accident, you'll hire a lawyer and fight hard to avoid a and the Michigan Potato Exchange's "Chief Petoskey" tons of potash from various European had seen fit to build a plant in Canada insurance rates ny state decree, sub- verdict that may sweep away your life's efforts and potatoes are trade names of great value to the co-opera- countries, paying a premium to sup-at Niagara Kails, employing the Cyan- ject week of a heated public hearing several ago, is still in the senate com- mortgage your future. port foreign governments. All of amlde process. Therefore, it was tive producers who own them. "Farm Bureau Brand these "taxes", of course, are added to 'necessary for us to import all of our mittee. It now bears an amendment Seeds" and "Milkmaker" and "Farm Bureau Poultry the price of the product, and must be requirements in nitrate from Chile. suggested at the hearing by former Senator Seth Q. Pulver. The plan If you carry State Farm Mutual Automobile Insur- Feeds ' are priceless possessions of organized farme: paid for by the fanners using such Then came the war in 1914. Then, would be altered so that the state ance Liability and property damage coverage, and fertilizers. the War Department realized that it ceinmissioner of insurance, instead of should have such an accident, the Company protects who own the Michigan State Farm Bureau. I'ractically all of the production of was folly to be dependent on a for- having sole power to regulate the your interest in every manner. the Canadian-American Cyanamide eign product, and imperative to create rates levied by automobile insurance enough. If you do not have tin- Company's plant at Niagara Falls a source of supply within our domain, companies, would be assisted by a rat- How Bergman Gets soil property prepared and do notfinds its way into use in this country. it prompted the building of the Muscle ing board divided equally between Should the case go to court, we provide legal repre- Most Out of Alfalfa pounds use good seed then seven or eight, We Support 350,000 Shoals plants. niutuals and stock companies. The sentation, and fight the case. We assume the loss, if is too much." According to'figures released to the From" this sketch it will be appar- commissioner would have the balance any, as provided in the policy. The worry is off your t leave the second crop of alfal- may make us cut down on the dum-mendous amount, we are now im- be admitted that we are still obliged Auto Insurance Company also opposes fa to plow under when we intend to ber of acres. Then buy good seed Of porting from that- souce, together to import even more foreign products. the fixing of automobile rates by a wide service in a legal reserve company at low rates that plant potatoes on that ground." commission on tlie basis that the pub- save money for you. known variety, quality and origin with other fertilizers from Germany, Cartels Aimed at I'. S. lic is entitled to rates established by Tviere is not much that can be and sow less per acre. France and Canada, it might be as- Wilhin the past year, and particu- good service and competition. added to this letter. Mr. Bergman's Another point in the above letter sumed that our farmers are the di-larly since December 1930, many an- \ Poison to all the mutual automobile experienco with the rate of seeding is the last'paragraph. Mr. Bergman rect support of a good sized section nouncements of proposed nitrate insurance companies is a bill, credited We have 500,000 policyholders and is right in line with what other farm- believes in giving something back of the various countries from which trusts, cartels, combines and mergers to old line companies, that would dis- 7,000 agents in 29 states. ers have learned which is, that on to the soil. we import our fertilizer ingredients. have appeared in our daily press. qualify as an applicant for an insur- 1 prepared seed bed and using The next article will tell of some The money thus spent would go far These articles always gave the im-ance agent's license any person who good adapted seed, eight pounds per experiences of another farmer in theif applied to the relief of our ownpression that such moves would not had not served two years in an estab- acre is sufficient. Upper Peninsula and one in Ohe-agriculturists. a farmer in Jackson county boygan county. affect the American farmers. lished insurance agency office. In ef- fect, it would almost prohibit new- STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTO INS. CO. Let us assume, conservatively, that The plans for these tentative mer- said, "I have heen working with al- our yearly contribution to the Chilean gers always referred to the Chilean comers and make a closed corporation Bloomington, III. falfa since 18!)S. During that time government and their special repre- of the insurance business. For the I 'have used all kind I and The output of manufactured Hairy government is approximately $12,- sentative, with prominent mention of benefit of all present agents it pro- have under all products was| slightly lower in 1930000,000 and to the European and Ca- MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU conditions and hfl luded that than in 1929, mainly because of the nadian governments another $5,000,- German* British and Canadian pro- vides a commission to examine them State Agent, Lansing, Mich. if you h;t il well-fitted and severe drought and poor pasture over 000—a total of $17,000,000; which, for ducers. annually at $15 per head with power l e d s use good seed, 7 or S lbs per acre is k'lge ureas. the most part, is saddled on our t'unn- The vproposed ] an calls for creation " ?. *ff* ^ as agents If they should fail to pass the commissions SATURDAY, APRIL II, I»31 FARM BI'RK.H' NEWS 1HKI I tricts having any number of paro- TURNER SCHOOL chial schools. It would mean that the expense of maintaining the pub- Sugar Beet Plants Expected to Operate Writes On Oleo And Township Road Relief one should avoid exposing the roots to MKl» ROOTS COVEftKB To plant seedling trees HU< AID AMENDMENT lic schools of those sections, of which mine is one, would be doubl- Feed The Garden (Continued from page 1) pany are not expected to operate. sun or air for a single moment l> Ccntervillp, Mich. than necessary because more planted ed In some cases. The public schools West Bay City Sugar Company, April 4, I'.t.-.l. trees die from drying Of the mm STRIKES A SNAG are maintained equally by all tax- payers including those, who, from private contribution support their Your garden speaks, her words "Make dark my flesh with humus, please Let food be fitted to my wants are these, an independent concern, will oper- Michigan Farm News, ate. PLANS OF OPERATION Lansing, Michigan. Dear Editor: tore planting than from any other cause. own parochial schools, and pay as That my breast may nourish plants." Holland-St. Louis plant and grow- Petitions by the thousand should New Distribution Basis Said much public school tax as the next A garden rich enough to grow weeds will, with a different ers split 50-50 on the net profits be sent in by farmers and all farm 2 The skin of a full grown whale man," he pointed out. Senator treatment, grow vegetables. But weeds take their time and have from the sale of sugar, molasses l>et thick in pl;i> To Hurt Districts With Rushton is not a catholic. a long root reach for the food quest. Vegetables must grow quickly organizations and beet pulp. Growers will buy very high tax be placed on oleo, so demanding that a Parochials. Senator Rushton moved that the if they are to please man. They have been educated to depend their seed, tend the crop, deliver high that it would be almost im- BABY CHICKS bill be referred to the judiciary upon him and to repay his care. the beets. The plant will advance BABY (MUCKS. S. C. Whito and committee of which he is chairman. possible to sell tue smear in this Brown l-eu'lionis, Ainonas. S. i \ Rhod* $4 per ton December 15 for beets state. That the property tax be Island Kt'ils, Haired Kocks, of liigli Lansing—The proposed amend- His object apparently was to kill Food in the soil must be abundant and ready for use. Put on delivered in November and Decem- changed, and by all means a just bred blOOd tint's. Orders now l ments to the Turner school law the .bill. The ensuing debate lasted booked for spring delivery. We guarantee well rotted stable manure this spring. Fresh manure is not very ber. January 15 it will advance $4 share of the gas and license lax be live delivery. Send for 11«-. fund distribution plan, whiuii have for more than an hour, during good, especially when applied in the spring; the more straw it has per ton for beets delivered alter returned to the townships to Ira cular, gives full details. Boven'a Hatch- been hailed on all sides as desired which time the remarks became ery. C, Boven. Prop.. Holland. Midi., the less desirable it is. December 1. Growers are to re- added Of replace the taxes raised US, Box M. and needed changes, struck an un-personal and pointed, that Senator ceive final settlement April ir>. If for repair and improvement of high- expected obstacle in the senate James Gordon Bonine, a Quaker, oi If manure is used, put on also superphosphate (acid phos- the entire production of BUg&r, mo-ways not under county or stale April 7 when, after a bitter attack Cassopolis, rose to ask that the bil phate) about fifty pounds to each two horse loads of manure. It MICHIGAN ACCREDITED lasses and pulp is not sold by April supervision. It does not mean that by Senator Herbert J. Rushton of be sent "to some neutral com manure is not to be had, use a commercial fertilizer. A 4-10-6 1, final settlement price will be township highway commissioners or 10 chicks freeCHICKS with every 100. Ask for Escanaba, the measure was referred- mittee." He suggested the tax fertilizer at the rate of a pound to every thirty square feet is based on sales to April 1. Holland- overseers must be dispensed with. free catalog, telling about our large t\p» i by vote of 16 to 13. committee, of which Senator Peter recommended. The numbers refer to percentages of ammonia, St. Louis growers (have pledged be- Barron and Australian blood White The present Turner school fund B. Lennon of Genesee county i: Charles Storms. horns from Pedigreed males of WO to phosphoric acid, and potash, in that order. If 4-10-6 is not avail- tween 8,000 and 9,000 acres. M0 egg breeding. Also our ess: bred law distributes $2,000,000 annually chairman and of which Senator able use some other whose phosphoric acid figure (the middle one) Blissfield plant of the Columbia Park's Strain H. Rocks and Wnlttakers to the school districts of the state, Claude H. Stevens of Highland Park Is nearly double the other two, which should be nearly equal. Charity begins at home; but it de- II. I. Red*. 100% live delivery guaranteed. Sugar Co. will operate on the St.generates into selfishness, if it does MEADOW BROOK POULTRY FARMS, on the basis of the number of chil- is sub-chairman. The motion car Louis contract; 12,000 acres have Holland, Michigan dren between the ages of 5 and 20,ried. Spread the fertilizer broadcast after plowing, but before har- not include all homes. rowing or raking. Even with stable manure a light application of been pledged. living in each district. The object Senator Turner defended his Mt. Pleasant plant of Columbia is to extend aid to poorer school measure by pointing out that for commercial fertilizer should be made. This is best placed in the Sugar is guaranteeing growers $6 districts where the load of support- two years a legislative commission ing the school system is heaviest. assisted by ttbree tax experts, stud row perhaps, but carefully mixed with the soil before seed is sown or plants set. per ton, it is understood, together with a sliding scale ,which provides World's Record Blood Lines BETTER BRED CHICKS AT LOWER COST The present bill is not working out ied the question. Senators Edward that if sugar goes up to 10c, the BIGGER PROFITS are awaiting you with Foreman Strain White Leghorns and as was hoped when enacted. On L. Branson, Battle Creek, James T Barred Rocks, growers will get 15c more per ton records to 319 cxtzs, contest e?;v;consistent contest winners for twelve years. Official individual the contrary, it turns large amounts Upjohn, Kalamazoo, Representa- scores 280 points per lien, pen averages i!tii;.t» OKH-S for beets; 12,000 acres are sought. per bird, commercial flock averages 236 egffs, Michigan's highest official laying into districts not needing aid, be-tives Charles Reed, Clio; Oscar Sebewaing plant of the Michigan of stock and national laying champion blood lines available in our commercial grade chix at low juices. couse of low valuations and high Hull, Detroit and James N. McBride tax rates, etc. of Burton, were the committee The proposed changes embody a members. Paul R. Mort, of Colum LEGGE STOPPED Spring Grains Need Sugar Company has made its guar- We breed our winners. Solve your poultry problems With my large vigorous type anteee $6 per ton, is allowing 75c birds, officially recognized as the large-egg heavy-producing strain. Profitable for Correct Fertilizers per ton for delivery as against $1 ners two or three years. Endorsed by leading production authorities. Sweepstake win- feature whiefli, according to Senator bia University, New York city, and Rushton, "practically no one on this Dr. F. N. Thrun, of Michigan State floor suspects." The basis of dis- college, were active in their aid in WHEAT EXPANSION in 1930. Its beet acreage is 15,000. New York, production class Michigan State Pair, Detroit, 1928-J9-S0. Contest winners Illinois, Texas, Alabama, Missouri. .Maryland, etc, Write for free Educa- East Lansing—If heavy soils for West Bay City Sugar Company at tional Catalog—it's a practical poultry course. LIBERAL DISCOUNTS ON ORDERS oats or barley have not had manure Bay City, handling 6,000 to 7,000 BOOKED NOW. tribution would ibe according to thethe formulation of the policies to be recently, State College recommends FOREMAN POULTRY FARM, Box 833-H, LOWELL, MICHIGAN enrollment of children in the public followed in the distribution plan But Plea For Reduction 2-16-2 fertilizer. If manure has acres of beets, will operate in 1931 on a contract somewhat similar to PROF. E. C. FOREMAN, Owner and Manager i schools, rather than on the total under the amended Turner Act, as Brought Only 3 Pet. been applied recently, 20% super- the Sebewaing plant. number of children, of school age. proposed by Senator Turner, and phosphate will furnish the needed It is reported that efforts are be- "This", protested Senator Rush- reported in full in the March 28 Shrink. plant food. ing made to interest capital in leas- ton, "is a direct slap at parochial Farm News. On lighter soils where manure has ing the Bay City and Alma plants of I AW P fl I) P r i r e Order your chicks from this ad a t schools. It would seriously reduce It is reported that reference of Washington—Cut wheat acreage been applied within two years, use the Michigan Sugar Company. Each iiUn Vi. v. u. I I I L C ti,,.se new low prices. Every Chick is aid under the Turner law to all dis- the Amended Turner bill to Mr 20% to bring U. S. production back 4-16-4 or 2-16-6. Where manure has a capacity of 15,000 acres of Michigan Accredited, liefer you to s t a t e Com. Bavlngs Bank, Here are the new prices 25 50 100 500 1000 Lennon's committee is in no sense to 650,000,000 bushels was Alexan- has been applied, use 2-16-2. beets. Their operation would bring S. C. White Leghorns (English Type) $3.25 $6.00 $10.00 $47.50 $90.00 S. C. Brown Leghorns (Commercial a burial. It is stated that the com der Legge's plea during most of his Apply 200 lbs of these fertilizers to total 1931 acreage pledged to Mating) 3.25 6.00 10.00 47.50 90.00 KALAMAZOO questions, mittee will study the bill, invite the chairmanship of the Federal Farm per acre where legume seedings will beets to 81,000 acres. Barred Rocks, R. I. Reds 3.50 6.25 12.00 57.50 110.00 and so on. Undoubtedly Board. U. S. Dep't of Agriculture not be made in the grain, and 300 Quick action by growers and in- l< p e r chick down books your Light Mixed $7.00 per 100; Heavy Mixed $9.00 SILOS the bill will be back in the Senate estimates of the 1931 crop about lbs. per acre wihere legume seedings terested capital has saved an im- e r y p r e p a i d . <;. 100% live d e l i v - m a t e d ggrades r a d e s iii all L e g h o r n m a l e s eligible for It. o . P. a r e used. W p R U I L T of V I T R I F I E D soon. " G L A Z E D TILE. Used April 1 showed a winter wheat re- will be made. portant cash crop to many com- wo rhdiecrh your pullets n o w . G e t o u r l a t e s t pp r i c e s . p Write for it. It is time to everyhere! Also glazed tile duction of 1%, an estimated 14% Growth of oats or barley planted munities, has kept an industry go- HUNDERMAN BROS. ZEELAND, MICH. for all kinds of buildings. Rt. 3, Box 60 Special offer now! Pay later. Fourth Michigan Baby cut in spring wheat, or a total crop late canfoehastened by applications ing and has kept many thousands Writefor FREE Catalog KALAMAZOO TANK &. SILO CO. Kalamazoo, Mich. reduction of 3%. The coming crop of 75 to 150 lbs. of nitrate of soda of acres in beets rather than in Chick Show May 12-15 is estimated at 832,000,000 bushels, or an equivalent amount of sulphate beans. Where beets cannot be which would provide a surplus of of amonia per acre. grown this year, State College ad- Keystone Quality East Lansing—The fourth annua 182,000,000 bushels. vises that beet ground is ideal for S. C. White Leghorns and Rocks SaveMoney"Build wi Michigan Baby Chick Show will bi The Farm Board's Stabilization Bean Growers Organize alfalfa. from rigidly culled a n d masterfully mated stock which develop into producers t li:i t will a s s u r e you of an income above cost a n o t h e r .season. Order early to a s s u r e held May 12, 13, 14 and 15, 1931, a Corporation will continue to buy positive Bhlpplng date. the Michigan State College, East Lan wiheat as needed to ikeep U. S. prices 3 Locals In Gratiot PRICES 25% LOWER CAPITAL KEYSTONE HATCHERY, 1110 Ontario St., Lansing, Mich. sing, Michigan. Competition is open above world levels until July 1, to all bona fide producers of babj when Stabilization activities will Saginaw—Michigan Bean Growers, ton county seat, stores by the Repub- St. Johns—Survey of St. Johns, Clin- LOWEST IN YEARS! Guaranteed Pure Bred Do Your Own cease. At the time the Farm Board's Inc., announces organizations of three R. O. P. Pedig>eed—200-291 Egg Breeding. chicks. An entry shall consist of 2 Concrete Work chicks of any recognized variety o Corporation will probably have be- locals at Middleton, Ithaca and Breck- lican-News recently indicates that tween 200 and 300 million bushels clothing, furniture, building materials Large Type Barron Leghorns and Rocks 11 1 ? ***** h a n d y Lansing Fa chickens, ducks, turkeys or geese of wheat on hand, for sale at some enridge in Gratiot county. Farmers and food prices average about 25% CHICKS SPECIAL PRICED FOR MAY AND JUNE—PULLETS 50c. W Mixer yon can do most all Chicks will be judged by the scor future time. in these organizations will join with Blood-tested, health certified by licensed veterinarian. Can make shipments the concrete work around roar other Bean Growers, Inc., locals in lower than a year ago. at once. \iw; i i v . - delivery. Catalog fre e. chicks shipped C. o. ]>. Pullets farm—barn floors, drives, water tanks, steps, etc., and repairs as card method. The chicks will be fed marketing their beans on a cash, short shipped C O , i>. on approval. Cash after judging, which will insure, t FAIRVIEW HATCHERY & POULTRY FARM, Zeeland, Michigan, R-2, Box 31. term pool, or long term pool basis, In 1930 season was characterized well. Runs by band, eas engine or st One Michigan national Farm Loan he's been murdered. The Commandant, coming clear. "What are they goin quality trap-nested blood lin<- chicks. had petitioned the Interstate Com- Rawdon and T»r. Loland believe he killed given his word of honour. It is r o o m , followed b y t i e t h r e e < o m - Hatch ever) Tuesday iind Friday. \\V merce Commission to increase parcel Ass'n has in outstanding loans be- hlmgelf. The death is a great shock to to tell the I'rinre?" he asked; lean fortunate that he is not a King; if spdrators v>ho h a d b r o u g h t h i m h a c k s h i p < ' . < >. | » . a n d g u a r a n t e e s.itis!.-i>-t;<>n. post rates. The. Department says par- tween S750.000 and $1,000,000; Ordef chirks now, CI.AkK HATUHlOitY, eight have loans between $500,000 Her* Kenser', the Hotpl Manager. l«>- ing forward over his drawn-u tie v..'i-i\ he would not be allowed to to t h e hotel, a n d w h o h a d g o n e u p Clare, Mich. I I ll-"t-i>) cel post is showing a loss; May 25 op-and 1750,000; thirty-one rant''1 be- »t i f111 daughter of Tesserton, give a promise of any kind. That t h e r e t o receive, l'roin h i m in w r i t i n g identified Otto Relss, a German an- (liarlo.s smiled. "By now the would be miu'i too unconstitution- ponents of the increase will be heard. tween $250,000 and $500,000 and the promise which they had extract- "WOIlTHMOU" CHICKS- A.BE GOO] Sixty-five to 75 per cent of all par- the balance under $250,000. Near'.'/ archikt, as the man she saw with An- have already told him: they -hav al." ed from him. an ass'ns. and falling in love with Dolores, intro- well brad (hicks. Write for catalog and from 7 to 8c for the first pound is A farm owner or one who is about himself to her on the beach. She Count Balametz clenched his fists ed by Nico tailed and Loland was to the three Englishmen. "What's get full description. State Farms As- "I will not ho a party to this fraud, thrown back to a last moment ar- t h a t ? " he cried. "What in God's sociation, Rose Street, Kalamazoo, Mich. asked, and from 1 to 1.1c for addi- to buy a farm may apply to his im again on the morrow, w a r n s tlit- Colonel t<> keep an lie cried. "When I see His Roya rest. He lii.i Dolores who told him name, is that song? It's the SOUL- (2-1 i - t f - 4 t i tional pounds, Which means in most local Farm Loan ass'n for a first pye on Leatrftngs ;is :i suspicious i>«r- Highness, 1 will tell him the truth.' that she and Charles h were to be b . j o h n Anderson was Binging that night Leghorn FOR SAlvK BARRED ROCK AN] instances a full cent, since there is no mortgage loan. His farm is subject chicks and hatching e^gs. Out- son. T h e y o u n g m a n is questioned bj "As your King I order you to tel married by special license in London When he came oat into the garden!" standing production In Michigan egg lay- way to pay the post office a fraction to appraisal by the Ass'n committee rton .-iiiii gives satisfactory answers my brother that I am dead." after which they planned t o go Before they COUld stop him ho had request. ing contests for 5 years.. Circular <>n of a cent. In the third zone the and by the St. Paul Federal Land ling his movements on the night "My duty to my Sovereign does no r o u n d t h e world. !•'. E. Fogle, Mason, Mich. for the first pound would he increased Bank appraiser. Recommendations Anderson w;is killed. lie asks Dolores require me to be a party to hii rushed to the door of (lie room, and C' .-t i-:u-s to marry him, explaining he is well off death," the Count She w a s with Loland w h e n t h e was off along the passage and from 8 to 9c; rate per additional of the committee and the appraiser answered Icily t r a i n s t e a m e d in with Prince Stephen down the stairs, the three men at his CHICK'S, S. C. T»>.\! BARRON ENG- pound would stand at 2c. From the go before the St. Paul Land Bank and can support her in cornfort. The lish strain, white leg, targe size, lopover for action. Such loans are paid Colonel, nri healing of his daughter's en- "Your .Majesty is deserting: I wil abroad, heels. He issued from the side combs, all bred from pen Stock Birds, 4th to 8th zones the rate for the first gagement, demands proofs of Lestra'nge's not aid and ul»ot a deserter." The latter felt he should identify door of the hotel into the garden at records 200 to 270 eggs. Alate.l to pedi- pound would bo increased 2c in each Off in installments over a long wealth and cables to England for verifi- Dr. Loland cast an enquiring the body of his brother who he had the moment that Charles and Do- greed males for 7 years with records 240 to 300 eggs. Write for circular and bar- instance. Rate per additional pounds period of years. cation. Meanwhile Kenser discovers that glance towards the King, and having been told bad been the victim of an lores were about to enter; and in gain prices this year. Hillside Hatchery, would be decreased slightly from pathia. is really King Charles of Car- received an answering nod. turnec assassin but the actual viewing of the strong light of the electric lamps Holland, R-3, Michigan. T h e l a t t e r t a k e s h i m i n t o h i s again to the Count. "Do you remem the corpse was* averted by the Bight he halted before them, staring into PULLETS 3-14-tf-50t>) present rates. Opponents of the increase say that Build Your Septic Tank and confidence and explains how he happen? her," he asked, "anything about ; ed to change pian-s with Anderson. The wasp whldb stung you yesterday?" Colonel, who knows nothing of the truth, of the clothes and the letter written Charles" face. by Charles and produced by Kenser. "It i s ! ' ' he cried, slapping hi; PULLETS-BORDER y/OTJR 6 TO 12 since parcel post deficit was reduced, weeks Leghorn pullets now. Also start- $4,000,000 in 1930, making the total j Sewage Disposal System "A wasp?" Count Balametz mut- which letter the hotel keeper turned thigh. waits for a reply to his cable, Dolores will get a shock when she finds fearing tered. "No . . ." He paused. —I remember. I was stung on the "O, yes' over to t h e new King. "I beg your pardon?" said ed chicles: Rocks and Leghorns. Arbor (3-14-3Usp) Spring- Poultry Farm, Spring Arbor, Mich. deficit $15,000,000, efforts to get more parcel post business would take care More Efficient her fiance is an Imposter. "That is very considerate of you, Charles, returning his gaze in sur- The answer to the cable slmv. arm: you squeezed out the poison Kenser," the Prince declared. prise. H^ of the situation. It is said that the strange in a bad light. The ('oloncl de- didn't you?" LIVE STOCK Postmaster General admits that there 'Thank you. I am glad that he had Otto Reiss pointed an accusing nounces him. Count Balametz, of the "It was not a wasp," said the such a hlglh opinion of you. You finger at him. "You are John Ander- Carpathian Embassy, arrives to identify Doctor. "I pinched up the flesh of must come to see me in Stanzow CATTLE is no deficit in parcel post if the cost figures were to accurately reflect real r the supposed dead King find meets LC- son!" he exclaimed. "You are King costs in that division of the mails. stiange, whose identity is thereby reveal- your arm and shoved a hypodermic some day, and talk over that scheme Charles of Carpathia!" Hereford's ed. He insists he is going to marry ]>«>- needle into it. I have the little in- of yours of erecting a modern hotel The bald-headed Dr. Loland bounc- Present cost figures make no allow- HEREFORD BULLS. REPEATER iind and surrender the crown to his strument in my pocket now, and un- there. I propose to modernize the ed through the door. "Now then, Woodford breeding lit sensible prices, A. ance for the preferred treatment given brother, Stephen, and orders Count Bala- less you obey His Majesty's orders whole city." It was evident that the Reiss!—no tricks, please!" he snap- M. Todd Company, Mentha, o:-l-l-St-15b) Mich. first class mail. metz to transfer his allegiance to Prince I propose to give you a second dose. royal mind was already full of plans ped, at the same time drawing a re- Third class and parcel post travel Stephen as the new King. Balametz r e - Then you'll go off to sleep again, or the future. volver from his pocket and covering HOGS slower trains and are handled after fuses to obey. and we shall not have to bother It was arranged that the coffin the German. Dr. Loland drugs Balametz to further about you." hould be kept at the police station WANTED—ONE HUNDRED POUND first class mail is taken care of. By Otto Reiss turned-to him, breath- feeding pigs. Eli Lindsey & Kon, Delton, law the Postmaster General is required ( harles' plans, and preparations are made to receive Stephen and tell him The Count sat bolt upright, and until t h e news ihad been announced, less but smiling. "I 'have discovered Barry County, Michigan. (3-28-tf-14b) to petition an increase if figures show brushing the hair back from his after which it would probably be your secret," he panted, as Captain parcel post is is not paying. the King has been assassinated. eyes, stared straight into the Doc- conveyed in state to Carpathia, a Rawden and Colonel Tesserton also HAY and STRAW Chapter « proposal which caused Dr. Loland to appeared in the doorway. tor's face. "O, then you drugged me "How's the patient today," asked yesterday? Is that it? It was not the whisper to Gerald Rawden that the WHOLESALE 'We have your promise Reiss," tors hay and straw. Always an outlet. The Harry D. Gates CARLOT Company, DISTRIBU- Jackson, Double Deck Cattle Michigan Septic Tank Sipnon Dr. Loland on meeting Dolores. presence of Mr. Griggs in the royal said Dr. Jboland, also breathing Mich. "I don't know," she replied. "He sun?" "No, it was not the sun. You aults of Stanzow would cause quite hard. "You have promised in no (5-9J And Hog Car Coming? This Siphon has been perfected was still sleeping an hour ago when seemed to be causing a lot of sensation at t h e Last Trump. FOR way to imperil the throne of the new oat straw. Adolph Schewe, Port Mope, SALK—8 TON WHEAT AND by agriculture engineers. Its in- I sent a servant in to see if he want- trouble, so I just put you to sleep." The party then proceeded to the King Stephen." A Michigan railroad is working on stallation and operation are sim- Michigan. (1-11-lt ed anything." a car which will provide one deck for ple. It should be installed same "You scoundrel!" the Count gasp- docks, and the Prince was safely Herr Reiss bowed and spread out cattle and another for hogs or sheep. time the septic tank is built. "I expect he'll be waking up ed, flinging the blanket from .him, aboard the liner by 11:00 p. m., an his hands. "Yes. I (have promised. I SEEDS and PLANTS soon," the Doctor told her; "so if and attempting to struggle to his hour before she was due to sail. He was only about to offer my con- One purpose of the new car is to The siphon is automatic, dis- you will permit me, I think it would feet. \ r as tired after his journey, and, gratulations to the singer of a corn FOR BALE—PICiKETT DENT SEED enable load sufficient animals into a f2.2") im. John C. Lovejoy, Vassar, charging at regular intervals the be as well for me to discuss matters resently excusing himself, made his beautiful song. It is a song which R-l, Michigan. (4-ll-2t*-s) car of mixed live stock to meet the accumulated liquid into the aerat- Dr. Loland dived his hand into the ing tile system. A safety overflow with His Majesty." pocket of his jacket, and, a moment ormal adieux, thanking the three o'nly a happy lover can sing." NURSERY STOCK OF ALL KINDS— minimum weights, which can seldom As a result of the ensuing conver- later, the angry eyes of Count Bala- Inglishmen for their sporting help "That is so," replied Charles. Strawberry plants: Dunlops, Premiers, if ever be done now. It is possible pipe, which stands higher than the sation, the Doctor, the King and metz were staring into the muzzle n the terrible affair, and expressing "And it is a song*which no King is Mastadon, Everbearers. Red, and black to load more than 22,000 lbs of cat- siphon discharge line, can also be Nico whom Loland had comman- of a revolver. "Put your hands up," lis admiration for the manner in permitted to sing." raspberry plants. $2 per 100. Shrubs— tle into a car, or more than 17,000 lbs. provided. The Michigan Siphon deered from t h e hotel entered t h e the doctor rapped out, "or I'll shoot which they had lhandled t h e matter Flowers. Allegran Nursery, Allesan, may be located any place in the "I understand," said Otto Reiss. Pacific street, Lansing-, Mich. (4-ll-3t-'s) (minimum weight) or hogs into a car. Count's bedroom. your ears off." vithcut red tape. THE KM) One or more cattle in a car of hogs second chamber of the septic tank. The Count at once started up. Otto Reiss had not yet come (Copyright, 1029, by Arthur Weigall. Dis- FOR SALE—CLKMEXTS WHITE CAP It always discharges a volume of The unfortunate man slowly rais- "What's t h i s ? " he cried. "Whore am d his two arms, and turning board. And His Royal Highness tributed by King features Syndicate, yellow dent seed corn, choice field se- or sheep makes the car take the cat- liquid at one time sufficient to Inc.) lected germination practically 100%, tip- tle minimum weight or 22,000 lbs. I?" He stared about wildly. force liquid to all parts of the tile towards his Sovereign fixed his ignified bis full approval of the ped and graded $*4.00 a bushel. Win. Since such cars frequently can't be Dr. Loland put his hand on his astonished and accusing gaze upon cheme to arrest and detain him as Stiomnan, Pigeon, R-l, Mich. (3-28-2t-s) outlet, insuring complete distribu- shoulder. " I t ' s all right," he said. him. "Is this done with Your oon as he should arrive on the Seed Treatments Up FOR SALE—60 CRATES EARLY gold- cattle minimum, the shipper pays loaded within 2,000 lbs. or more of the tion and proper aeration in the "You've ibeen suffering from a touch Majesty's consent?" he asked. of the sun; but you'll soon be well nay. He was halted on the way to the Oats and Barley Yield en dent seed corn at $1.50 a crate. 100% test. Wm. Schneebergor, Lansing, Mich., for 2,000 lbs. of freight without get- soil. These siphons have been built "Yes," Charles nodded lightly. East Lansing- Number of bushels now. We've come up to see how you "Dr. Loland js a crack shot; but I hip and hailed by Nico with word of oats and barley grown per acre R-l, Phone Lansing 116, ask for L775-F^- '82tl) ing anything for it. At 28c per cwt. and sold for the past 16 years. All are. How about some breakfast?" to Detroit, for example, the shipper are in daily use, giving perfect sat- bare asked him not to kill you, hat he had a wonderful antique to can be materially increased in Mich- would be out $5.60 on 2,000 lbs. "Breakfast? What time is i t ? " though your disobedience to me de- ;11 him. Reiss could not resist, igan by seed trcatiffent to prevent FARM MACHINERY isfaction. Instruc- ^ h _ f\f\ The Count's face was puzzled as he serves death. If you attempt to re- nd accompanied him to a closed ve- oat and barley smut, stripe, blotch At the Michigan Live Stock Ex- tions with each siph- Jb / » O v l y FOR BALE—40 FOOT FLJNT-WAL- blinked at the dazzling shaft of sun- sist you will lose your ears, as he icle in the shadow. ajid barley scab. The seed is treat- LING 1steel windmill. Practically new. change annual meeting at Lansing in on. ORDER NOW DELIVERED light. says. Nico, here, will then tie you Half a dozen figures rushed at ed before planting. Bargain . Have electric power now. See February co-operative shippers took "It's about ten o'clock," Dr. Lo- up, while the doctor injects another im, and a moment later, he stood A. it. Schaberg, Schaberg-Dietrlch Hard- There are two formaldehyde ware Co., M19 North Washington Ave., action to see if something couldn't be Farm Bureau Supply Store land told him. dose. We propose to keep you andcuffed and dazed, staring at the methods for treating seed for smut. Lansing, Michigan. (3-58-81-8) done to reduce minimum weights or "You remember," Charles remind- asleep until my brother Stephen has aces around him. He was bundled For the sprinkling method, add 1 FOR SALE—15-30 McCORMICK DEJER- otherwise correct the mixed live stock Lansing, Mich. ed him", that you were taken ill after ascended the throne, unless you nto the cab with the three Eng- pint of formadehyde to 30 gallons ng tractor. Motor nearly like new, and hipments situation. 221 A. Cedar Street lunch yesterday." agreo to respect my secret." shmen on his heels, a policeman of water. Sprin'kle the oats three bottom P. & < >. plows. .ler.ks, Plymouth, R - l , Mich. Howard (!-ll-3tp) "I remember coining up here to The Count's eyes passed from the umped on to the box beside t h e thoroughly and cover from 2 to 8 sleep," he replied, "but after that . ." King's face to that of the hall por- river, and the horses were whipped hours. FARMS "We Couldn't wake you at tea* ter, and Nico's brigand-like counten- nto a rapid trot. time," said the doctor, "ami later ance was duly noted. Thence his you became delirious." "My dear sir," said the Coinmand- Spray method, a d d ; 1 pint of for- maldehyde to 5 pints of water and glance returned to the revolver, and nt, explaining this unexpected vio- s p r a y " t h e o a t s while ~they are~ibeing FARMS FOR SALE Fire (CState mutual Rodded Fire r^ Insurance Co., of ttlich. ^~>^ HOME orrrcE—FLINT, MICI-T Policy nce, "we are acting solely for your shoveled from one pile to another. FARM LANDS [NMONTCALM COUN- The Count ran his fingers through to the bald-headed little personage iood soils: gravel roads; near mar- Don't take chances. Get your protection now with the STATE VICTUAL. his hair. "I feel all right now," he behind it. He saw that he was in wn good. It is our opinion—and Cover for 5 hours. One pint of kets and schools; easy terms: 5% inter- RODDKO FIRE INSURANCE COMPAN5T. Over $94,500,000.00 at risk. e are strongly supported by Herr chemical will treat 50 bushels of ton, st: clear titles. I >elns A. Towle, Stan- $454,731.89 net assets and resources. J'niil over $4,058,647.1-1 in losses since declared, still perplexed. the hands of three implacable men; Michigan. I !-ll-lt-s> "Yes," said Dr. Loland, "I gave and he bowed his head in despair. Censer—that you did not commit seed with t h e spray method. our organization, June 14th, 1908. A broad and liberal policy. 3,994 new you a sleeping-draught late last "You can put that revolver away," he crime. . ." If planting is delayed, rake the part FARM FOR SALE—90 ACRES OR members last year. Write for a sample copy and for an Agent to call. thereof. Fair buildings, good soil, H. K. FISK, SECY, 702 Church St., Flint, Michigan. and you've had nearly twelve he sighed. "I will not offer any re- "What crime?" Heir Reiss asked. seed, into a layer :; or 4 inches deep outside city limit. Also grain separator hours' undisturbed sleep. After sistance for the present." "The murder of His Carpathian and rake it over three times each Big Rapids. R-1, Michigan ind other farm tools. Wm. Kntehinski, (3-14-3t-s) you've had a bath, you'll feel fine." Dr. Loland replaced the weapon in Iajesty." Captain Rawden replied. day. "But Suez . . . ! " Count Balametz •his pocket, and the Count, lowering We think you are innocent; but Stripe, blotch and barley .seal) can FURNITURE exclaimed, suddenly remembering his hands, sat hunched upon the rince Stephen is convinced of your be controlled by use of organic the course of events. "Why is Your bed. his knees drawn up, and his uilt, and he had made arrange- mercury dusts such as Ceresan. It lents to have you arrested the mo-is applied in a tight container which urnlture complete for balance due on FOR KALI-:—A |1,000 o i ' T F I T OF tine We Help Farmers Majesty not at Suez?" arms encircling his shins. :ontract and storage, of $501. Terms We advise and assist in problems concerning telephone, electric "Well," Charles replied, "as you "Now, look here, Balametz!" said lent you landed at Trieste. By can be rotated. The dust is used at $100 down and balance over twelve were too ill to go, I thought I Charles, his manner becoming very oing on board the Queen Theodora the rate of 3 ounces to a bushel of months if desired. This outfit was sold power line, transportation company, oil pipe lines or other rights of seven months ago, used three months way over farm property. wouldn't go either. Colonel Tesser- commanding and kingly. "I offer ou were as good as stepping to the seed. The dust is poisonous and the and then put in storage for four months. ton and Captain Rawden went you your choice. Either you will :affold . . ." treated barley cannot be used for The furniture looks just like new and We assist farmers in the matter of claims for stock killed or could never be told that it had been used- alone; and this morning we had a give me your word of honor that "Putting your ihead right into the feed. The outfit consists of a three piece Liv- injured on railroads; their rights in the matter of drains, crossings, telegram to say that Stephen has ar- you will not tell my brother that I oose," Colonel Tesserton interject- ing Room Suite in mohair covered all damage by fire set by locomotives, etc., damage to farms by gravel over, beautiful Console Phonograph, rived. I dare say you'll be well'am alive, in which case you may go d. Bridge Lamp, Floor Lamp, an occasional operations, power dams, etc. "Precipitating yourself straight table, eight piece Walnut Dining Room Suite, set of Silverware, Dishes, buffet We audit freight bills free and collect overcharges. Patronage nto eternity," sighed Dr. Loland. mirror, y.\12 Rug, three piece Bedroom "The only thing to do, therefore," Suite with beautiful Hollywood Venetian dividend allowed on claims collected for Farm Bureau members. All Vanity and bench, 9x12 Felt Base Rug, farmers save by using this service. aid t h e Commandant, "was to put Pioneer Spirit Is ou under arrest. We are now tak- ing you back to your hotel, where you will he released on parole." utrau threw "But we also have your cablegram BROS. FURNITURE COMPANY, Mich- igan's Greatest Furniture Store, 106-118 The open the doors for farmers to become life members. Division Ave. South, Grand Rapids, to Vienna, in which you announce the death, suggested a revolution Mich. Telephone 9-3136. (3-28-3t-204b) Sure-Fire There has been no advertising campaign, but many farm- Protection ers have made known their intention to be among the iirst to achieve this distinction. and said: 'Long live the Republic of Carpathia!' That message, of course, was never sent; we thought it wiser, for your sake, to suppress i t . " FOR SALE—A $600 STOUV <£ CLARK", life time guarantee Player Piano with twelve rolls and a bench. Will sell for cash and deliver anywhere in the state of Michigan for $100. Console Phono- RO«TOX Bird and Rodent Repellent against Seed Pests Under the new life membership plan every Farm Bureau graphs regular $89 styles for $10 each. "How did you read i t ? " Herr When you market your stock free delivery. CHAFFEE BROS. FURN- member will eventnally beeome a life member, with no further Reiss asked in great surprise. ITURE through a local shipping ass'n Furniture Store, 106-118 Division Ave.COMPANY, Michigan's Greatest dues to pay. Hut any farmer, member or non-member, who "I read it in a few minutes," the which sells through the Mich- South, Qrand Rapids, Michigan. Tele- Stops Birds Pulling Planted Seeds wishes to become a life member within a year, at a considerable doctor told him, shrugging his igan Live Stock Exchange's co- phone 9-3436. (3-28-3t-61b) ^Treats all Smooth Surface Seeds - savings in his dues, lias that privilege. shoulders. operative commission houses on A few cent* worth of Cro-Tox prevention w ill save you days of work and dollars "You have been very foolish," the the Buffalo and Detroit ter- WANTED—FARM WORK of losses. Cro-Tox at the insignificant cost of ten cents per acre, will absolutely insure you against loss of planted seeds, cost, time and labor of replanting. It takes Do yon wish to be numbered among the pioneers in the Commandant went on, "but we are minal markets, your stock is in MARRIED MAX, 40, WANTS WORK but a few minutes to bird proof your seeds with Cro-Tox before planting. When Farm Bureau Life Membership .Movement .' prepared to give you your chance— the hands of a friend from be- on general or dairy farm by year. For- treated with Cro-Tox corn, peas, beans, peanuts, cucumber, melon or other smooth that is, of course, upon a certain ginning to end. mer farmer. Can dq carpenter work. Is surface seeds arc protected against damage by crows, larks, starlings, black-birds, good mechanic. Has no children. Nur- pheasants, etc., also against squirrels, wood-chucks, moles and other rodent pests. FILL OUT AND RETURN THIS COUPON Condition." ris Mack, 233 South Foster St., Lansing, Cro-Tox prevents seed rot. ' "And what is the condition?" We handle and market your Mich. 4-11-lt) "That you give us your solemn stock that it will bring you the WANTED—FARM WORK BY MONTH CRO-TOX IS NON-POISONOUS Michigan State Farm Bureau, best return. T h e business of It will not injure seeds. It will not kill birds word of honor that you will take no ir by mature married man, no chil- or animals { It repels them most effectively. 221 N. Cedar Stt • steps whatsoever for one year to im- thousands of Michigan, Ohio and dren. Farmed 16 years; Good with noa- hinery. Wm. JO. Burge, 1322 No. Larch Cro-Tox treated seeds will not clog the planter. Lansing, Michigan. peril the throne of the new King, Indiana farmers has made us Btreet, Lansing, Mich. What a Cro-Tox User Says — Gentlemen: Stephen." leaders on our markets. Try us. WANTED- WORK BY YEAR ON Located in South Alabama, on the Florida line, I raise more corn than 'What is the alternative?" I or dairy farm by experiericed possibly any other farmer in this section. For several years we have had I am interested In being one of the first Life Members in Captain Rawden struck u match narried man. Family Includes boys 18 much trouble with birds and worms—principally larks. The past two Returns to patrons guaranteed and 16. Worker. William K. Cassel, 913 tlie Michigan State Farm Bur&u. Please advise me as to how and looked at his watch. "If we tell by bond meeting U. S. Gov't re- Mchigan. (4-ll-3t-s) years we have used Cro-Tox. and our troubles with birds 1 c a n o b t a i n a Life M e m b e r s h i p t h i s y e a r . quirements. art ended. —H. L. Ramsey, Atmore, Ala. the driver to go back to the docks, WANTED—FARM WORK BY MONTH Cro-Tox is sold by Seed, Drug and Hardware stores. we shall just have time to put you •y married man, 32, no children. Dairy r general farm. John W. Stuart. Port- Price—' i pint (treats 1 bushel) $1.00;—1 pint size (treats NAME on board the ship before it sails. If two bushels)—$1.50. you reject our terms we shall do Michigan Livestock Exchange and, Michigan i l-11-lt) Be sure to get the genuine—look for the name Cro-Tox. this: and you will be arrested at Detroit, Mich. WANTED—FARM WORK BY YEAR If your dealer cannot supply you, refuse substitutes, VDDRESS Trieste and assuredly hanged." or nv month by married man. Farmed all write us enclosing check or post office order. ny life. C. 8. Butler, 619 River St., Otto Reiss smiled benignly. "Then Producers Co-op Com. Assn. plane. Since then .Mr. My first ride was a few years ago' tainly not if the judge was a man grown in insular nurseries are be- minutes. find Mrs. Wagar have flown to of your age." ing distributed tree to small farm- (,'leveland, i<> Chicago, to Grand with a neighbor hoy soon alter lie " I caught her eye once an' she "Well, what would you do?" I ers for planting. looked away. She knowed she was llupids, Alis. VVagar has flown <>v<-r came home with his first plane. 1 had asked. <'liii;iK'» a m i " d i d " I ' . o s i o n b y p l a n e . lyin' an' I kr.owed she was lyin' We aski-ii h e r t o tell u s s o m e t h i n g always hoped thai some day 1 might " I ' l l tell you what J'd do," Ma Under tropical conditions sonic of ;il>iM!t h e r p l a n e t r i p s . have a ride in an airplane and when and she knowed I knowed she was says. "I'd make the jury sit with the quick growing trfees, such as the. he began to soar over our place, 1 lyin'. their backs to the woman on trial. African tulip, Casuarina, and mes- knew I'd never be satisfied until I had "The rest cf 'em on both sides Ky MRS. EDITH WAGAR Even you might give a young quite, on better soils will make a sawlogr 8 to 12 inches in diameter was just as bad, an' the lawyers It takes a long time to see from | { ! ( least made one trip. I knew he woman justice if you couldn't see acted like they was both t r y i n ' to her." in 10 years or less. Slowly growing the ground what one can see in one would take no unnecessary risk; I keep the truth covered up an' see " I n other words—" I began. hardwoods are available to those which one could get the most ccn- half hour from ;i distance of a couple knew he was of good habits and if " I n other words," Ma says, " I who can afford to wait for mahog- vincin' lies told. of thousand feet, in the air. We went others would go with strangers why don't think you would punish a any, satinwood and the like; to ma- " I f ever'body had told the truth, up at Boston on the only clear day shouldn't I feel sale with him? young woman for any crime if she £858 ture. the case could o' been finished in we had during our stay there lor the So on.- a f t e r n o o n , I went o v e r to h i s could get to a beauty parlor before Porto Rico has a fruit belt pro- two hours; but they kept us settin' American Farm Bureau meeting early field, put on his helmet and let him comin' to the court room." 7145. Ladies' Dress. with bias binding requires !ihi yarda there all day an' finally we just last December. The wind was quite strap me in and away we went; over Designed In Sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40 l V6 inch wide. ducing grape fruit. Tobacco is (Copyright, 1951, Publishers Synd.) had to decide which side done the noticeable while on earth, but it did our farm that looked like a checker- and 42 inches bust measure. A 38 grown on the higher lands. High 7152. Ladies' Apron. biggest lyin' an' vinJ r. vardict for not handicap us in any way when board witli its fields of ripened grain inch size with long sleeves, requires quality coffees are grown in the the other one. D e s i g n e d in S i z e s : S m a l l , 34-30; shade of forest trees and banana once we rose above the ground. and growing corn, on over the neigh- did not lessen our enjoyment; we 4 yards of .U ' > inch material. With Medium, 38-40; Large, 42-44 and "That's my last time on a jury. short sleeves 3 94 yards. Without tree3. Sugar cane is grown on the I ain't goir.' to risk cjoin' to hell We had been told that parts of the borhood and home town; the passing watched with some amuserhent the Extra Large, 46-48 inches bust lowlands. Most of the island's cof- for not lovin' my fellow man, an' city were wet at times and had notic- train on the railroad that runs right rapid gum chewing of one ol the fel-sleeves 3 % yards. For contrasting measure. It requires 2 7s yards of ed board walks being placed through by the yard seenx d like the Christ- low travelers and felt sorry he could material % yard will bo required 39 fee shade trees were laid low by the nobody but his mother could love m a t e r i a l :!f> i n c h e s w i d e f o r a M e d i - great hurricane in 1928. Trees for him when he's a witness.'' the Commons were many times ele- mas toy the children operate; then not enjoy his trip as we did ours; Inches wide, cut lengthwise. um size. T o linish with bias bind- shade, fuel and timber are needed (Copyright, 1931, Publishers Synd.) vated several inches above the regu- we began to circle round and round then all too soon we noticed we were 71E4. Girls' Dress. ing r e q u i r e s 1 1 y a r d s \ \i> i n c h w i d e . greatly in all other sections. lar walks. But the casual visitor) and I knew we were Hearing earth circling round and down until we Designed In Sizes: i n , 12, 11 a n d would never sense the true condition j again. Afraid? No. indeed, it only landed in a muddy airport, Riles out 1G y e a r s . A 14 y e a r size requires 6383. Girls' Dress. until he was told by a native or until brought a thrill that created added of Cleveland. Cut in 4 Sizes: (i months, l year, 2% y a r d s of .'5!) inch material. T h e '1 and I! years. A 1 year size requires FARMNE^STORY lie Acts of 1891 shall be amended so he had viewed the city as a whole desire. that inmates of all penal institutions from above. shall have butter instead of oleo. Boston Hnlf Water Her First Convert We were helped out and piloted to ruffles of lace requires 3 % y a r d s . 1% yard of '.'2 Inch material. a. waiting taxi where we found our Sash of ribbon requires 2% yards. BRINGS OLEO BILL Mr. Town, also a reader of the NEWS, I wasted others :o zo and I wanted baggage waiting for us and were driv- For collar and sa:h of contrasting While this had been a remarkable to go again. So when daily serv'ce en to our destination, happy that our material % yard 32 inches wide will told us that Jackson county farmer dry season, yet Boston appeared to began between Detroit and Cleveland. initial air journey had been a most bo required cut crosswise. 7156. Girls' Middy Dress. Designed in Sizes: 8, X, 1(1 and 12 years. An 8 year size requires :', yards of 3 5 inch material (for both subscribers asked him to introduce be about half water that day, for one Mr. Wagar and I decided we would pleasant one and beginning to realize Farmers Would Rather Taxes such a bill. could see the River Charles winding make a real trip; we would take in what this type of service means to 7142. Undies' Ensemble. Middy and Skirt). As pictured it Even a limited investigation by the in and out; on the other side was thethe National Convention and make a this age. Designed in Sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, will require 1% yard, for the Middy Go For Butter Than NEWS reveals that public institutions Fenway and Muddy Rivers, and over real vacation of it. So we phoned for 42 and 44 inc'.ies bust measure. A and 1 y8 yard for the Skirt. The un- We can see what a great advantage Oleomargarine. or welfare agencies not bound by lawto the right was the Mystic River and I reservations to make the morning air service is to the great interests 38 inch size requires ."i v, yard! of derbody of muslin or lining requires to use "butter are using oleo. Butter numerous lakes in connection. To trip. We were surprised when we of our country when time is the one material :!!• inches wido for hi yard 36 Inches wide Lansing—Articles published in the producing farmer taxpayers are thus the left was the Neponset River, be- learned that the only sure vay to go greatest factor that enters into dis- Jacket and Dress. The Dress alone NOTICE! Be sure that you address March 14 and 28 FARM NEWS on the contributing funds to help knock their sides the many natural as well as ar- on the day you most desire is to make tant business. The actual cost is requires 3% yards. The Jacket your pattern order envelope to the Mich- use of butter-producing tax payers' own business silly. tificial lakes scattered all through the a reservation in advance. alone requires 2% yards, l',U Indies igan Farm News, 11-13 Sterling Place, not nearly as great as one might ex- wide, also 1 % yard IS inches wide, BROOKLYN, N. Y., as stated on the money to buy oleo for the inmates of New Hampshire and Kansas recent- city proper. The coast along the bay We were requested to register pect. In fact, one can afford to econ- for scarf collar of contrasting ma- order coupon. Orders mailed to our the state penal institutions has re- ly ousted oleo from all their state in- appeared like numerous long fingers when we purchased our tickets. We omize in clothes and food and other other offices must be forwarded. Delay sulted directly in a bill being intro- stitutions, including prisons. of land projecting out into the sea. were each given a map of the route pleasures that a trip of this kind terial. To line Jacket requires 1 % follows.—Editor. We could see the haphazard layout we were to cover and a small enve- might be made at least once in a life yard 39 inches wide. duced in the Legislature March 31 by of streets really plainer than when lope containing a bit of cotton for use time. ORDER BLANK Rep. Floyd Town of Jackson county, Uncle Ab says that it takes a re- 7141. Ladies' Dress. we were trying to find our way back MICHIGAN FARM NEWS providing that Act No. 45 of the Pub- former to see the harm in charm. by those whose ears might :JC atfect- Designed in Sizes: 38, 40, 42, 44, Pattern Service, to the hotel each day on foot, every- ed. Each passenger was allowed to 46, 4 8, 50 and 52 inces bust meas- thing seemed to be a Chinese puzzle. carry 20 lbs. of baggage with him. Michigan Grape Co-ops ure. It requires 5% yards of 3 2 11-13 Sterling Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. We had our only glimpse of Bunker Doors Open From OfltsMe Ask Freight Rate Cut inch material for the 4(> inch size. Enclosed find centa Hill monument over in Charlestown, When the plane "drove' up, a por- For contrasting material 7* yard 39 a tall white shaft standing on the cen- ter loaded in the baggage which went For pattern Size ~ Lansing—Three Michigan co-op- inches wide will be required. Our Reply To ter of a green hill, in fact it was theinto an enclosed compartment di- erative grape growers organizations greenest spot we saw any time while rectly behind the pilot. This com- have filed a complaint asking for a there. 6566. Child's Rompers. Designed in Sizes: (5 months, 1 Pattern apring 1931 fashion book Size .... partment had a glass door in each lowered schedule of freig.it Four Great Losses We saw Harvard University and its partition so that the pilot was visable for their product. On March 30, and 2 years. A 2 year size with long wonderful arboretum, the greatest in at all times to the passengers. The the Wolverine Fruit and Produce sleeves requires 1% yard of'•'>-inch Name the world, were much impressed with cabin was behind the baggage room Exchange, the Southern Michigan rates material. Without sleeves % yard — R. F. D. (or Street) ~ We have developed the State Farm Life complete its beautiful setting over across the and was fittted up with 4 wicker Fruit Exchange and the Paw Paw less is required. river from Boston proper. chairs in front and 2 side seats be- Co-operative association City State ~. coverage plan to guarantee money for quick delivery to appeared, 6858. Misses' Dress. When we went out over the bay wehind. While the chairs were more through counsel, before B. A. Col- Cut in 3 Sizes: 16, 18 a n d 20 (Patterns are 15c each, fashion book farmers and their families when most needed. Our were shown the state prison, way out comfortable than the seats, the vis-vin, examiner for the Interstate y e a r s . A 16 year size r e q u i r e s ?>% 15c. Send silver or stamps.) y policy for $5,000 can be arranged to do these things in there on an island all by itself, a ibility was not so good as the wings commerce commission, in the hear- y a r d s of 35 inch m a t e r i a l . To finis i j group of large dark stone buildings obstructed the view somewhat. Each ing rooms of the Public Utilities the following situations: that had the appearance of homesick- passenger had a window to himself Commission uere. ness and banishment, truly, one com- and could see as well as from a rail- The defendants named were the WANTED, LIVE POULTRY, EGGS 1. PREMATURE DEATH. We will pay $0,000 in cash, or mitted there would be an exile during road coach. There were 9 passengers Ann Arbor railway, et al, or all We specialize in live poultry, eggs and veal. Used egg case* 03 an income. The surest way his term—he would not be troubled that day beside an attendant and theothers of the state. The proceed- man can create an estate. with friends calling on him nor with pilot. After we were in and ready to ings lasted two days. The point for sale in lots of ten or more, by freight or express. Also new coops for sale. Shipping tags and market information are seut free sights nor sounds that might create we ,. ( , flowed to go to the time in the future. T'.ie Utilities extra premium. it was another factory belonging to age room and watch from win- Commission had no connection with there. The cabin was well heat- the hearing other than to place More Value Henry Ford. dows 3. TOTAL DISABILITY. Wo will pay $50 per month, The navy yard with Old Ironsides ed and ventilated, we did not need their hearing rooms at the disposal phis free insurance should standing in its protecting recesses; extra clothing as some might think. of the eomplaintances and defend- you lose your health from ac- cident or illness—be dis- the new airport in the midst of con- The attendant seemed glad to an- ants. ibled. Small extra premium struction; the great fish wharfs; the swer any question and explained our Than Ever Before provides this protection; network of railroads; the numerous trip as we went along. We tfv< Would Curb Health small cities adjacent and actually about 85 miles an hour at an average 4. OLD AGE PROVISION. We will pay $5000 at 65 or part of Boston; the great gilded doni<> height of 600 feet. There was still Dep't Plumbing Power In Farm Bureau Suits, Topcoats $45 per month for life. May of the State House whose glisten taganother compartment behind the cab- be provided by endo\\\neni top w;;s always outstanding; the tow-in used as washroom and toilet. Demands for curbing powers of Blankets and Robes fund and other plans. The er of the Customs House that stood S«>< intr familiar Sights the State Department of Health older man who later will be directly in line with the seaport, serv- over the subject of plumbing, urged dependent on you will not After the novelty of leaving the ing as a beacon to the Incoming stran- ground and getting squared away for by tho Michigan State Farm I?u- Our new Spring lines are here. They are of splendid enjoy life unless you mak" ger,—all were seen in a different, our journey, we began to enjoy famil reau. t i e Michigan Real Estate As- a r r a n g e m e n t s for him now. light. We had a Blight appreciation iar sights. We always knew our sociation, the Michigan Manufac- quality, and prices are lower. You can have a suit or topcoat of how much it takes of God's plan- nearby river was crooked but. little turers Association and others. made to your measure from Farm Bureau quality fabrics at moved a step nearer success when State Farm life Insurance policy plans are especially ning and man's work to make a great (Ji ,| w e r e a i j z e how crooked until we Representative Earl C. very reasonable prices. Tailored clothes fit better and wear city. It was one of the most wonder- McNitt of adapted to farmers' needs. You should know what we looked down upon it; we had no idee Cadillac introduced, an amendment longer. t I 9 JL ful half hours 1 have ever spent. there were so many goose ponds !)«•- to the present Act which would re- - offer before you take a policy anywhere. We are glad fe,000 Vevt Up hind the farm buildings as we saw j (h(. Vf>r n o w y e g t d Write for samples and information—better yet, visit our in the to explain, without obligation. This was not the first tune that I that day; we never realized th • in:; Dopartment to set up a Plumbing display room, and make your selection first hand. have been up in the air, although, It and outs of the shore of Lak*; Eric un- Code having the force and sited of was a bit different. This time two til we crossed that point of i! to cut law without having been passed by Members, patronize your Department—Make your divi- passengers only could be accommo- off going over Toledo; what h-ul al- the Legislature. State Farm Life Insurance Co. dated. We were strapped in together, ways looked like great woods to us 'I ie bill also provides for tho dends pay your membership dues. Blacmington, III. for which I have not as yet really j before proved to be just clumps ol elimination of certain soft ions in seen the need. Perhaps they thought trees that day. the Plumbing Code which place un- we might attempt to jump out if it We watched the heavy U'afffs on due restrictions apon farmers de- Michigan State Farm Bureau did not appeal to us when once weUhe Telegraph road over the wet pave- siring to do their own plumbing MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU State Agent -:- Lansing, Mich. were up. The pilot was just ahead ot\taeat and felt that we were lucky to work. us and was near enough to that he travel a "safe" way that day; we Lansing, Michigan could point out the places of Inter- knew it was raining down on earth The world is good-natured to peopk- It was quite difficult to carry before we reached Cleveland but it'who are good-natured. Thackeray. I FARM SATTTTOAT, APRTL 11, 1951 College and Railroad soil testing for farmers, for acidity The program plans production of a Rockford, Tuesday, April L'lst. losses on live stock, coal and feed, for WORTHLESS SEED Plan Potato Special and phosphate content. Marl will be premier table stock potato under tested. Except at Wayland and certain cultural conditions which Howard City, Wednesday, April i'2nil. Big Rapids, Thursday, April 23rd. Reed city. Friday, April 24th. Kalkaska, Saturday, April 25th. Farm Bureau Collects $643.88 For Farmers fires set by locomotives, damage to property through highway construc- WARNINGS ISSUED Grand Rapids—Pennsylvania rail- road and State College will co-oper- Vicksburg, daily at 9:50 a. m. will justify its certification as of Manton, while soil testing is going on in thesuperior quality. L Monday, April L'Tth. a k e City, Tuesday, April _'sth. Following the Kingsley, Laboratory car, tue Potato and Eco- meetings, county agr'l agents will to :< )>. !)!.>. Wednesday, April 29th, Ql:0 Lansing—The Michigan State Farm tion, etc. Bureau collected loss and damage claims and overcharge claims amount- IN OTHER STATES ate on a two car Soils Management train to make 14 all day stops at nomics dep'ts of the College will form an organization consisting of conduct a potato meeting in the Lec- the "premier" growers. Following ture coach. Soil conference will be is the train schedule, all meetings Mancelona, T h u r s d a y , April 80th. Boyne City, Friday, May 1st. Pellston, Saturday, May 2nd. ing to $643.88 for farmers during THE S M I T H S I L.O March, and filed similar claims with Oil Mixed Concrete Staves points between Vicksburg, Kalama- railroads and other freight carriers Ciovernrm-nt Specifications zoo county, Pellston and Emmet held in the afternoon. The program on central standard time: Keep your fears to yourself, but amounting to $1,427.67, according to Non-Absorbent. Arid Resisting. Ohio, New Hampshire Join county, April 17 to May 2. is designed to restore Michigan's Yi< ksbinx, Friday, April 17th Made at Oxford, Mich. share your courage with others.— Mr. A. P. Mills, traffic manager. Michigan in Exposing Bar- Daily at 9 a. m. there will be free pi-p-stigo as a potato growing state. wayland, .Saturday. April I8th. Ka\vnn;i, Monday, April 20th. Stevenson. Claims collected included shirming: THE SMITH SILO CO., Oxford. Mich. gain Seed Offers. U N F I T FOR PLANTING NEWS Presents Analysis of a Farm Bureau Services,Inc. White Sweet Clover "Bargain" Lansing, Michigan East Lansing—Exposure in the1 / FARM NEWS that "bargains" in alfalfa, clover and other forage crop seeds offered Michigan farmers by' out-of-state mail order seed firms PAY YOURSELF MORE PROFIT-fli^ Co-operatively often contain appalling amounts of noxious weed seeds and are general- ly of low quality seed, brought this letter from a farmer to the State I Protect Your Farm With Cambria Fence Collage Farm Crops Dep't recently: The tension curve is one important factor in long Michigan State College, Richland, Mich. March 23, 1931 life and serviceability of Cambria Fence. These tension curves are true arcs in the line wires, placed at regular intervals to compensate automatically for The Song of Success East Lansing, Mich. Dear Sirs: expansion or contraction caused by temperature Please find enclosed a sample of changes. Because of the Cambria tension curve, white sweet clover. I would like to know if this seed contains any weed the fence returns to its normal position after cer- seed that would be liable to give me tain weather conditions that have been working trouble if I sowed it? They claim on it are removed. 1% weed seed, purity 971/£%, ger- mation 90%. This seed is priced A Hinge-Joini Production as well as all materials used in this Tune "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" $2 per bushel less than Michigan unusual fence are entirely controlled by the Cam- State Farm Bureau Seed. It is sold Cut-slay Fence by the — Seed Company. for Thrifty Farmers bria Company. Here is a fence with a tough coat- M ]\rvr4>r lluisvd #/#/#•/.• .* L i k <> Ttuw Itviorv. Hooray! STATE COLLEGE REPLY ing of galvanizing that will not crack, flake or peel. Kiist Lansing, Mich. March 25, 1931 Fence early—buy NOW. See your local Farm Dear Sir: Bureau distributor. The sample of white sweet clover recently sent us for examination was N round to contain the following weed OVICE or expert—hatcheryman or com- shells ;ind crop mixtures: Charlock muptard I MM k Don't Junk Proved Methods mercial poultryman—poultry folks of Russian thiKtW' i.i i-en foxtail \o\V—more than ever, time tried practices that lower all kinds tell us this same story that p r o d u c t i o n <-<»ts s h o u l d b e f o l l o w e d r a n ' t ' i i l l y . AI i l U m a k e r - i V d PI frweed Ragweed cows have A L W A Y S produced more milk o r butterfat at low- we've set to music. Always it's unani- Bull thistle Tiiunlis quarter er coAts. Don't experiment with aheap mixtures—don't reduce mous—because all of them fed Farm Bureau the amount or quality of nutrients your cows get. Follow Yellow iweet clover The lainiM quarter was present in the Milkmaker Way—H leads to more profit, healthier cows Mermash. They tell us that even the cockerels, considerable quantity. In addition and satisfaction. (knowing they are doomed to become broilers), to the weed and crop seeds, the seed ] contains considerable broken seed, This is not theory—hard fads available to you through 14%PROTEIN dirt and other inert matter, all of records in Dairy Herd Improvement Associations tell ths OPEN FORMULA are so happy getting Mermash that they cheer- which combine to make the sample sfory of Success that Milker-fed cows achieve. Pick the fully, contentedly grow into the finest, full- of very low grade and unlit for planting purposes. This is just an- milUmaker that meets your needs—16, 20, 24, :\'l or otther example of a seed bargain FARM BUREAU MILLING CO. feathered, weighty, red-combed, vigorous birds which in thf end will prove extreme- SEE ANY DISTRIBUTOR OF FARM BUREAU FEEDS CHICAGO ILL . that top the market. ly costly to the grower planting SUCh Seed. Yours very truly. While the pullets—condemned to be mere P. It. Miller Extension Specialist wage slaves—always toiling to help produce the in Farm Crops. Ohio Finds Much Low \ \ \.Ui "daily dozen", do so good-naturedly, with a song on their lips and ambition in their gizzards. Grade Seed Offered If you haven't used Mermash Columbus, Ohio—Ohio's Dep't of Certified sum 11 Chick Starter—go to the Farm Bu- Agriculture in late March warned grain seed nits For Every Stage Ohio farmers that unusually large amounts of low grade agricultural cost of produc- reau distributor and price it! Then of Poultry- seeds are coming into the state this tion by increas- be prepared for a pleasant shock year, largely from mail order firms inpr yield per Life advertising specially low prices on acre —because it's priced so low that seeds which the Dep't finds unfit for seeding. Much of the seed seems to it means real farm relief for YOU The Chant of the Chick, Uoo be "tailings" from seed cleaners and your poultry problems. It's or The Poem of the with a little good looking seed added for appearance, says W. \V. Ellen- wood, chief of Hit! Division of Plant the unchallenged leader as a start- Pullet, or The Lay of er for chicks, turkeys or ducks. the Hen—Mermashes or Seed Industry, who is gathering informa- ton to turn over to the U. S. Dep't of Eggmaker bring har- f Agriculture for prosecution under the fraud act for interstate com- • mony and profit. merce. Such firths, siiid Mr. Ellenwood, are careful to comply with (he i State's labeling law, but many farm- A percussion cap is needed to explode dynamite . . . a ers buy on price alone and never read the label. Expensive lied Clover A lot of red clover mixture sold by live germ starts the tiny seed off—to growth and ma- turity. Dynamite destroys—good seed builds. Every wV mail in Ohio at $8.50 per bushel was found to contain 29*4% of red farmer must use seid to build his crops. Why not use clover seed. 7r»% of which was good; 01.(55% of sweet clover, ">.1% of in- high powered Farm Bureau Brand Seed? It germin- ert or dead matter, and 3.75% of weed seeds, including wild carrot, ates vigorously — grows rapidly — and produces POINTS for Selecting Fertilizer dock curled leaf, black seeded plant- ain and buckhorn. Germination of the sweet clover was 46%. abundantly. Remember, you cannot keep good seed Calculating, the Ohio Dep't found down. that 13.26 lbs. of the red clover AS RECOMMENDED BY MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE would havo germinated, which at the price of |8.50 per bushel for the mixture would have made tthe red It carries the strong spark of life to start 1. Select a mixture containing the plant food elements which clover come at the rate of $38.40 per bushel, with 17.19 lbs. of live growth. your soil will not supply in proper quantities to the crop sweet clover and 2 M lbs. of noxious to be grown, weed seed thrown in. State seed laws do not reach the It has the reserve food supply to develop 2. Be sure the plant food elements are in the right proportion out-of-state firms who ship trash strong and rapid growth. across the line in interstate com- to fit the needs of your soil and crops, merce. It has the breeding to reproduce the stems, 3. Use an adequate quantity of fertilizer, New Hampshire Warning leaves and roots—typical of the variety 4. Apply the fertilizer at the right time and in the right way to Concord, N. II.—The New Hamp- shire Dep't of Agriculture has warn- selected because it will give results. Farm Bureau give best results, A ed farmers to beware of alfalfa, 5. Do not expect fertilizers to take the place of organic matter clover and forage crop mixtures be- ing offered by mail from distant It has that necessary force to produce higher Services, Inc. or of lime in soils deficient in these materials. points and at low prices. Poor Lansing, Michigan quality and loaded with weed seeds, yields of hay or grain. Use Farm Bureau High Analysis, High Quality Fertilizer is the New Hampshire comment. 221 N. Cedar St. Onler from nearest Farm Bureau Distributor, he has a copy of the Mich- * igan State College Fertilizer Kefommendations lor 1931. 66,893 Fewer Autos "BUY CO-OPERATIVELY" Registered in Mich. KNOW WHAT YOU SOW . . . Seed, Feed, Oil, Twine, We have the right lime for your needs— \Y a s h i n gton--- AutomoU'le ami 1. Agstone Meal (hulk only). truck registration in the United Use Farm Bureau Brand Seed Tires, Lime, Supplies . . . Life 2. Farm Bureau Pulverized Lime (bulk only, or SO In. hags). siat:?0 as against 1!)29. Michigan Ask your Farm Bureau Distributor lor prices. registered r»t>,N!K5 less cars and at a "Farm Risk Rate." trucks in 1*30 or a loss of I New York and California each luive more than 2,000,000 motor vehicles registered. Illinois. Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Texas each have more tiian 1,000,000. Michigan's SUPERIOR PRODUCTS Require Superior Equipment figure is l»Ul,051. For the first Superior refining equipment, employes of long experience, the best paraffine base and Pennsylvania quarter in l!'.'?i Michigan's state Highway Dep't reported automobile crudes—are the factors that make repeat customers for MIOCO and BUREAU PENN Oils. To be sure of weight tax or license fees down QUALITY, buy these brands from your local elevator handling Farm Bureau products. %2,500.000 from the first quarter in 1930.