\ KEEP UP On Newt Interesting to Farmers Through the- Farm News Vol. IX, NO. 19 MICHIGAN A Newspaper For Michigan Farmers FIFTY CENTS PER YEAR SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1931 mws FIVE CENTS PER COPY THE NEWS A Progressive Newspaper For Michigan Farm Homes Issued Semi-Monthly FEDERAL FARM BD. FARM BUREAU TANK TRUCKS PROFIT ON SURPLUS Commission Starts MILK COMMISSION IS TOLD MICHIGAN REPORTS ON WORK CARRIES BUSINESS, Report Oct. 9 SHOULD THINK LONG BEFORE JUNKING Lansing—After the Commis- DONE IN MICHIGAN MCDONALD ADMITS sion of Inquiry into the Cost of Milk concluded its final hearing BASE AND SURPLUS FOR LEAGUE P U N September 30 with an executive Detroit Creamery Chief Telta session with its auditor, Robert Co-op Fruit, Live Stock, Wool, Davidson of Detroit, Herbert Grain Groups Are Importance of Milk E. Powell, commissioner of Would Need $10,000,000 Investment in Detroit By-Products Agriculture, and Chairman of Benefited the Commission, announced Area; Commissioners Visit League; Endorse that he had asked each Com- CO OPS REPAYING LOANS ICE CREAM LEADS ALL missioner to write him a letter Payment for Milk According to Uses; as to what he thinks the Com- mission report should say and Detroit Creamery Offers Support Have Paid Off $53,000 Of Ice Cream Cuts Sweet Milk recommend. Ratio From 85-90 to 50 October 9 at 10 a. m. the Com- $180,278 Loaned In mission convened at Lansing Lansing—Gov. Brucker's Commission of Inquiry into Michigan. Pet. of Sales to formulate a Commission re- the cost of producing and distributing milk, concluded its port and recommendations re- (From the Federal Farm Board) Lansing—Harry McDonald, man- garding Michigan's milk indus- hearings here September 30. It heard in the closing hour a mission was to meet at Lansing Washington—Through their co-op- ager of the Detroit and the Arctic try for presentation to Gov. verbal report of much importance from Commissioners erative associations many fruits, live- Creameries, present at the final pub- stock, grain, wool and dairy farmers Two Farm Bureau oil tank trucks serving Branch county lic hearing of the Conimission of In- Brucker. |* Woodworth and Hedrick on the New York Dairymen's of Michigan have had benefits the farmers with oil, gasoline and-* kerosene from the co-operatively quiry into the Cost of Milk entered Auditor Davidson has been League plan and its practical operations, with application to past two years from the Agricultural owned Farm Bureau oil station at Batavia, Mich. It is the first into the proceedings on several oc- checking milk distributors' Marketing Act. of a series of such plants planned for Michigan by Farm Bureau casions and gave opinions and infor- books, analyzing their alloca- Michigan conditions. One of the major duties of the Fed- Services, Inc., of Lansing. mation of much interest, some of it tion of costs, etc. His reports eral Farm Board, which was created squarely contradictory to testimony to the Commission have been re- At the September 16 hearing at Detroit testimony given to administer the Act, is to help pro- offered by other distributors several ceived behind closed doors. focused attention on the remarkable record of the Dairymen's ducers organize a marketing system which they themselves will own and COMPARES PAVING, WORST SINCE'96, weeks ago. Questioned by Dr. tHedrick regard- What he has to say about the spreading of operating costs against fluid milk and other League. The question was raised as to whether the League plan in whole or in part might not do well in Michigan. The operate. Carrying out the instructions of Congress, the Board is giving assist- GRAVE; FOR COST, BUT IMPROVING ing the written report of the Detroit Creamery Co. to the Commission, showing a loss on bottled milk and products is of great interest to the Commission in making its Commission sent two members to investigate. ance in the development of local co- operative projects and in co-ordinat- UPKEEP, SERVICE COFFMAN SAYS showing sweet cream as a most portant item, Mr. McDonald replied: "Sweet cream is what carries the im- report. "The point at issue," declared Commissioner Wood- worth, "is: Shall we junk the base and surplus plan for a pool- ing, in regional or national sales agencies, the • marketing activities of Coldwater Dairy Co-op Mgr. milk wagon. Without it milkmen Another Detroit Bottle ing system? co-operatives handling the same com- Engineer Tells How To Figure couldn't survive. Our figures reflect modities. Testifies Before Milk that and any true figures will reflect War; Commission Acts "After seeing the New York system, we think Michigan Of the several national co-operative Road Cost, Traffic Commission that. The by-products carry the busi- marketing associations thus far set Required. ness. They carry the load." Lansing, Oct. 10—Detroit has a new farmers should think a long time before going into the pooling up by the co-operatives with the aid HEDRICK—Is your formula for al- milk bottle war, small distributors plan. New York is making a go of it; Cleveland tried it and of the Farm Bqard, farmers of Mich- Ann Arbor—Probably many miles Lansing—Mr. G. S. Coffman, mana- location a well standardized formula? claim larger companies are after them. igan are interested particularly in the of costly paved roads have been ger of the Coldwater Dairy Co., co- McDONALD—I don't believe I could They appeared before the milk com- is in bankruptcy. It would cost about $ 10,000,000 to fit the operations of those for fruits and built throughout the United States operative creamery, told the Com- say it is or isn't. It is only a common mission October 9 in Lansing asking Detroit area for it, and the system would be subject to the vegetables, livestock, grain and wool. where a surface treated gravel road mission of Inquiry into the Cost of sense way of accounting or allocating an Hmmedliate investigation. The In addition to financial assistance ex- would have carried the existing traffic Milk here September 30, that his ass'n expense. commission ordered a public hearing hazards of all business. New York is no milk Utopia. Be- tended through the nationals the satisfactorily at a fraction of the is primarily a butter making plant, Mr. Hedrick quoted a press report at the^ Detroit Board of Commerce lieve me, they have their battles. The lesson we got in New Board has made direct loans to Mich- cost, states Roger L. Morrison, pro- but handles about 1,500 lbs. of fluid to the effect that some Commissioners Monday, October 12 at 10:00 a. m. igan co-operatives amounting to fessor of highway engineering and milk daily for retail trade, for which wondered if fluid milk were over- Friday, October 9, the commission York is that there the farmer puts up the money to process $180,278 of which they have repaid highway it pays farmers $1.75 per cwt. for 4% loaded in the matter of distribution adjourned without completing its re- 153,000, transport at the University milk, and 5c per point, up or down. expense allocated to it by distribu- .port. A sub-committee will work on the surplus." of Michigan. The price is at the farmer's gate. The tors. Fruits And Vegetables the report during the next week, after ]\rr. Woo ciation is a member of the National that land prices will come up as farm the prohibition enforcement issue, on Gabel-Risdon Company, another large Negro for purely commercial gain. milk test. Apparently sales for the HEDRICK—In New York the Wool Marketing Corporation and commodity prices improve. which the National Grange has long distributor in Detroit, has submitted entire state of New York are lumped League producers studied distribu- benefits from supplemental - crop been an outstanding and uncomprom- records which show a recent loss of It is estimated that more than in arriving at the Dairymen's League's tors' books regarding the uses of milk, financing loans advanced by the Trouble is often opportunity hidden ising supporter of the Eighteenth about 9/10 of a cent on milk sold in 2 IS.noil citizens of the United returns, since the League sells in and they are paid for ail milk accord- (Continued on page 3.) behind a shadow. Aniendent and the Volstead Act. (Continued on page two) States are residents of Canada. every city in New York. urd- (Continued on page two) TWO MICHIGAN FARM NEWS SATURDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1931 tion yours we have had. MILK PRODUCER'S McOONALD—Jiase and surplus is the reason. The fanner sees it is good Should Think Before Junking Base, Surplus A K1\(.\S SAI.AKY King George of England receives King George nets about $10,000 per year after paying all expenses. FART* BEGINNINGS TOLD business to hold surplus off the mar- ntlnued frofci page i > an annual appropriation of $2,284,- ket. We can't get what powdered ing to its use. They have as many 000 as his income for serving as hibiting the soliciting of rides from milk costs. Consumption generally classes for payment as they have uses monarch, out of which he pays all passing motorists. Eight states now have laws pro- Successor to the Michigan Farm Bureau News, founded January 12, 1923 BY FIRST SECY is off 209© or more in Detroit. for milk. Here we have two classes operating expenses of his consider- —base and surplus. That feature of able household, and for the pomp and There are nettles everywhere; but Entered as second class matter January 12, 1923, at the postoffice at Charlotte, Michigan, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Reed Testifies He Saw It Grow To 19,000 In NEWOATSHOWS the New York plan looked good to pageantry associated with his office smooth green grasses are more com- Commissioners Woodworth and Hed-for centuries past. It is said that mon still. rick, the latter observed. Published the second and fourth Saturday of each month by the Michigan Farm News Company, at its publication office at 114 Lovett Bt., Charlotte, Mich. Seyen Years GOOD YIELD ON Mr. Hedrick said that a difference between the New York and Michigan dairymen is that the New Yorker is Editorial and general offices at 221 North Cedar St., Lansing, Mich- igan Postoffice box 708. Telephone, Lansing, 21-271. FOUNDING WAS HUMBLE LIGHT SAND SOIL likely to be a specialist with 70 cows and dairying is the one string to his bow, whereas in Michigan dairy cows The Rainy Morning Editor and Business Manager 40 Men Gave $5 Each For First are an adjunct to other farming op- K. E. UNGREN College to Have More of New erations, and 15 cows constitutes By R. S. Clark Financed; Started In Markton Oat for Seed quite a herd. Now that the parching summer days are done, StttMCriptioi In advance Mr. McBride observed that New- Livingston Co. Than Anticipated. York dairymen buy feed, whereas the And Autumn comes to comfort us again, Michigan dairyman raises most of I'm glad this morning not to see the sun, Vol. IX SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1931 No. 19 Lansing—How the Michigan Milk East Lansing—Markton oats, a his feed. But just to sit and milk and hear it rain. Producers came to be, and its develop- new variety of grain developed at LeagM is Boycotted ment to an organization of 19,000 State College for seeding purposes, HEDRICK—From the beginning The crops are past the season when, the sky The County Agricultural Agent producers was told to the Commis- showed a yield of G4 bushels to the Dairymen's League has faced milk Can. do them any good. Potatoes may sion of Inquiry into the Cost of Milk acre on about four acres of very distributors who wouldn't buy from Fill out a little, though the vines look dry. It would be an interesting thing if the increased earnings here Sept. 30 by Mr. K. (.'. Reed of light soil on one of the college the co-operatives. Since 1923 Sheffield Still, I am thankful for this rainy day. and savings effected for farmers in various counties during Howell, one of the organizers and the fields this season, according to har- Farms Dairy has refused to buy. the past ten years by'county agricultural agents could be piled first secretary and sales manager of vest records of the college farm up on the court house steps next week. Therefore the Dairymen's League The trailing clouds, that drape the Aveeping oaks the A crops department, it was stated this wholesales, retails and handles milk Lavish the water we have sorely needed. We know counties where acres of alfalfa are numbered by Mr. Reed told the commission that week by Prof. Howard C. Rather. in all its phases. As if, too late, for hard-pressed farmer folks thousands where ten years ago they were numbered by as many the Milk Producers grew out of the The college expects to have possi- Commissioner Campbell pointed out Some kindly angel must have interceded. hundreds. An energetic county agent was largely responsible. old Livingston County Milk Producers bly 230 bushels of this new oat to that there had been much feeling evi- We have seen county-wide programs in improving field crops, Ass'n and as the result of a need felt offer to Michigan Crop Improve- denced in the hearings in the matter The cows were soaked, and waiting, dripping wet, fruit, live stock, poultry and dairy businesses that were engi- or a state-wide organization by him- ment Ass'n farmers for increasing of base and surplus and the Commis- the seed to commercial volume for For me to open up 'the stable door. neered and carried to a successful and profitable conclusion by self and others. Reed started organi- zation work in 1914, was the first' next spring. The 1931 yield is a sion would have to do something It's long since they have been so glad to get county agents, with local support. about that. He asked Commissioners ecretary and sales manager and slig.ht -increase over the quantity ex- Woodworth and Hedrick if they had Into thSir stalls. Just listen to it pour! Thousands of individual farmers find contact with the coun- served as such until 1921 when he pected earlier in the summer. try agricultural agent decidedly worth \vhil<>. He is the local The Markton oat was brought out any recommendations to make after At least it's bound to help fall pasture some, was succeeded by John Near of Flat representative of the State Agricultural College, the State Dep't Keck. through plant breeding work at the the New York trip. Mr. Woodworth And ease up on the plowing team like fun. of Agriculture, and the V. S. Dep't of Agriculture. His services Oregon State College, several years then stated that he would prefer to A dozen more good rainy days can come The first organisation meeting was ago, and a small quantity of the make such report in writing, which are available tc; all farmers. His sole business is to promote ailed at Mate College. Mr. Reed seed was secured by Michigan State the Commission ordered. Before a kick is raised by any one. the best interests of farmers in his county. He is interested in Jftld : -led Nathan 1". Hull to College for seed development as a better paying agriculture. Why Sheffield Pays More Us farmers are not Fortune's favored sons, lead the organization. He still serves soon as the western college could State and Federal appropriations take care of the major n that capacity. LENNON—There seems to be a bug Nor Lady Luck don't hold us on her knees, release it. under a chip somewhere. Why is But when all's said and done, we're, not the ones portion of county agricultural agent work. County Boards of The new ass'n was without money; The oat is resistant to smut, but supervisors can feel that they are making a good investment next 40 men present each put in $5 Mr. lodged somewhat on heavier soil in there such a difference between That sit and grouse at such hard times as these. week by continuing county agricultural agent service to their Reed said. Reed was elected secre- one test plot on the college farms Dairymen's League and Sheffield ary. lie sought finances by canvas- this season. prices to the farmer? If corn was nubby for the want of wet— farmers. MR. McDONALD (Gen. Mgr., De- sing farmers for $25 pledges, payable If spuds were 'bnly half a crop, and small, ffc per quarter and seemed $:{,()(J0 in troit Creamery)—Let me tell you. Because the Summer scorched us, still we get Reapportionment Back Again Between May and November, 1930, Wayne county political his manner. Asked by Mr. McBride regarding MICHIGAN FARMS" Dairymen's League pools and sells in all cities in New York. Prices differ several cents. You have a pool price Some little comfort from the showery fall, leaders worked on a referendum for a constitutional amendment designed to reapportion representation in both Senate and House of the Legislature strictly according to population. lis compensation, Mr. Reed replied that it was nothing at first. The first office was in his home, without rent. AVERAGE 78 COWS to the farmer. Sheffield sells fn New York only. The steady drumming on the cow shed roof' Has such a quality of 'blessing in it, That as I milk I'm thinking this is proof Later a $15 a month office was rented New York 13; Wisconsin 14; WOODWORTH—The thing that That Heaven don't forget us for a minute. At the general election, November 4, the voters acted on tho helps in New York is that cream referendum, interpreted out-state as a move to guarantee Detroit it. Howell. Presently he was paid $1 control of both houses of the Legislature. Kleven up-state coun- i day and furnished his own car, gas Average Production skimmed from milk is figured for the farmer. ties voted it down more than 10 to 1; sixty counties voted it down ind oil. He stated that in his last Given McDonald on Class Payments more than 3 to 1, Altogether, eighty counties voted against the two years in office he was paid $300 a month. At that time, he said, the Lansing—Michigan farms have an MR.. McDONALD—If .the Commis- plan. In Wayne county 41,859 voters said NO as against 162,112 Ass'n had 19,000 members, was sell- average of about seven to eight sion were to make a recommendation YES. mg about 1,000,000 lbs. of milk daily, cows per farm as compared with that would lead to a rule in Michigan We now learn that Wayne's board of supervisors is preparing uid had a reserve fund of $77,000 about 13 in New York and 14 in Wis-that milk should be classified and 14 months in advance of the November, 1932, general election built from deductions of 1 cent per consin. About 8 • rest of the State hasn't been consulted about it. The proposed us out of the handling of surplus Don't ta*e chances. Get Vour protection now with the STATE MUTUAL. flurry when he testified that during of Agriculture. referendum seems to be purely a Wayne county product; more his time as secretary he was sum- Michigan cows held their own pretty milk. But if such a rule were accom- RODDED FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. Over $94,500,000.00 at risk. exactly, perhaps, a Detroit product. panied by a rule providing that cream $454,731.89 net assets and resources. Paid over $4,058,647.14 in losses since moned by a large Detroit distributor well during the summer on average our organization, June 14th, 1908. A broad and liberal policy. 3,994 new for sweet cream and ice cream pur- The proposed reapportionment amendment to the Constitu- and invited to buy $3,000 worth of production of milk as compared with members last year. Write for a sample copy and for an Agent to call. poses is subjected to the same in- tion is more reasonable than that which the State rejected so their stock. Replying that among cows in other dairy states, according H. K. FISK, SECY, 702 Church s £ , Flint, Michigan. spection that fluid milk is, we would decisively. The new proposal provides that present apportion- other things he didn't have $3,000, Mr. to the department. be glad to comply, if others had to ment of the 32 Senators shall remain unchanged, but the House Reed testified that he was told he Michigan ctrws averaged better omply as well. membership of 100 shall be apportioned strictly according to didn't need to have it. Questioned re- than 17 pounds of milk, as herd aver- garding' the matter, Mr. Reed stated ages while thetiverage for cows that McBRIDE—Do you have any ob- mlation. LIVE STOCK FEEDER that no improper suggestions were were actually producing was better jections to putting sweet cream in a Counties with less than l/100th of the total population would made to him at the time; he didn't than 20 pounds of milk a day. New special class? be joined to some other county or counties to form a district without exceeding l/100th of the total population. buy any creamery stock, and the York cows did a little better than matter was not mentioned again. Michigan cows, showing an average McDONALD—It could be done. McBRIDE—Do you know any MONEY A T b% Had the 1930 amendment been successful Wayne county and for herds of about the same figure method for a restriction of the Mich- Buy your feeders . . . Finance your purchases . . . Sell Detroit would have jumped from 21 to 32 of 100 seats in the House; as Michigan but about 21 lbs. daily igan milk area? them finished . . . Co-operatively all the way. , Present officers of the Milk Pro- for all cows actually milked. McDONALD—I think the* Detroit f from 7 to 10 of 32 seats in the Senate. The House appears to be ducers have testified to the Commis- the logical prize. The 1932 plan recognizes that suggestion. In- Wisconsin cows showed a daily Board of Health could establish a We can furnish choice cattle, white face calves and choice lambs sion that they are not stockholders cidentally, all appropriation measures must be introduced in the average production for herds of about definite milk area. There are ample on orders, either from the market or direct from the range. nor are they interested in any finan- in the House. 15 pounds of milk; cows actually manufacturing facilities in the area cial manner in any milk distributing For full information, write the MICHIGAN LIVE STOCK EX- milked averaged about 18 pounds of now to handle all the milk. Several The Wayne county 1932 apportionment proposal repeats the firm. condensary plants are closed. CHANGE, E. A. Beamer, Pres,, Blissfield, Mich., or J. H. O'Mealey milk. Sec'y, Hudson, Mich. 1930 idea of imposing upon the Secretary of State the task of It was brought out during the testi- making the reapportionment. In the 1930 plan it was to be his mony that Detroit has an ordinance * * * * Job should the Legislature fail to act. Wayne county referendum Says Profit on Surplus News Corrects Error requiring inspection for the produc- Live stock trucked or shipped by rail to Detroit, or shipped to makers evidently have reached the conclusion that legislators Carries the Business In Reporting Goodwin tion of both cream and fluid milk, but Buffalo, N. Y., brings the highest prices when sold by the farmers' own co-operative firms, the Michigan Live Stock Exchange Com- aren't going to legislate themselves out of jobs, and why bother (Continued from page one) it is not enforced with regard to with any pleasantry about it. Undoubtedly true. cream for ice cream. mission Co. at Detroit, or the Buffalo Producers Co-op Commission quarts |(about like the Detroit Cream In the August 22 FARM NEWS Mr. Ass'n. A reapportionment is overdue in Michigan, but it should be ery, according to Mr. McDonald). O. T. Goodwin, manager of the Pro- Distributors other than M-. ?.! -Don- Returns to patrons guaranteed by $50,000 bond one that works justice for both Detroit and out-State Michigan. (Jabel-Risdon, according to Mr. Len-ducers Dairy Co. at Adrian, was quot- ald have complained during the hear- meeting U. S. Government requirements Detroit's 1930 proposition was interpreted out-State to mean that non, also shows a profit on the ed as testifying at Detroit,August 11 ings that they could not pay a higher 51% of the population sought 100% control. products manufactured from milk before the Commission of Inquiry price for surplus milk skimmed for MICHIGAN LIVE STOCK EXCH. PRODUCERS CO-OP Detroit's 1932 reapportionment amendment Is a concesssion called surplus. into the Cost, of Milk that for the sweet cream because out-'. Estate Detroit East Buffalo, \ . Y that begins to meet out-State suggestions made in 1930. It stands McDonald On Base and Surplus "past two months the firm has paid cream would come in and break the CAM{*BELL—Can the base and sur-the farmers .$1.85 per cwt. delivered." price. a much better chance for acceptance. plus plan be improved upon? Mr. Goodwin testified, according to .McDONALD—In good times, base the stenographic record: "In the last Michigan Farm Area CROP DATA COSTS PEPPERMINT OIL and surplus is fundamentally sound. two months, tor June and July, we It might have been well to have drop- paid a dollar a hundred for 3.5% ped it this year. I'm giving the Milk milk. That was the lowest price we Drops 1,600,000 Acres A Good FARMERS A CENT YIELfcPRICE LOW Producers Ass'n lots of credit. The have paid since we have been in busi- farmer who produces for Detroit doet ness." Real estate subdivisions, golf cours- es, lands reverted to the State, OR LESS IN MICH. so to get more money. He is likely Michigan Reduces Acreage; to be selfish and try to produce the winTheforNEWS is indebted to Mr. Good- have cut the state's total acreage de- calling attention to its error voted to agriculture from a figure of approximately 9,200,000 acres to about Installment Buy i Insects, Dry Weather most in April, May, June and July in presenting the testimony. The Producers try to get men to 7,600,000 acres during the past dec- The only commodity that one can buy which will Caiise Losses level their production. The man who ade, a study of changing agricultural State, National Governments has 3 lbs. of surplus to 1 of base in St. Clair Muster Dav conditions reveals.^ Through figures steadily increase in value while installment payments Co-operate in Work of Lansing— Michigan':; peppermint May has no one to blame but himself being compiled by federal agricultur- St. Clair County Farm Bureau co- al statisticians, working in conjunc- are being made is Life Insurance. crop appears about SO per ;ent of the IIKDKICK—When base and surplus Providing Data. L§30 crop, federal reports indicate was dropped in 1929, didn't surplus operated with the American Farm Bu- tion with the Michigan State Depart- The man who orders $1,000 or $5,000 worth of life Five states promise not more tluu run away with your market? reau Fc(l00 a year in taxes con- McDONALD—Reason for that was in the southern part of the county at About 4,800 acres of mint has Jjeen a steady decline since the war. guarantees that much to the family in case of his death. tributes about one cent toward the grown for oil in Michigan this season the farmerwas paid a flat price for all China community hall and one tho s t a t e ' s e x p e n d i t u r e f o r thi frdrk o f milk and sent all of it in. Naturally Last year the crop was G.200 acres the average price was driven down next evening at Fargo community hall obtaining and compiling statistics and the year before, 6,000 acres. Speaking of plastic surgery, isn't Each year as partial payments are made, the guar- to accommodate the northern section there some way to transfer bone from antee continues in full amount. Each year the assured's through the state department of Today we have too large a milk area. Afield is said to have run low thi Mrs. Edith M. Wagar represented the agriculture. IIKDRICK—Charts show that 1931 state organization at both meetings a statesman's head to his back?— policy grows in value as a cash reserve fund. Each year summer in Michigan, about 14.3 The statistical department oper- pounds of oil to the acre, and the has been one of the most level produc- and the Farmers Clubs of each sec- Brooklyn Times. his contract advantage or insurance rate becomes more ates as a division of the federal price is low; about 52.75 a pound. tion co-operated in making them a government, co-opera ting with the E'eak price for peppermint was $35 a The population of the earth is said valuable from the standpoint of savings made than if he State department 61 agriculture. pound several seasons ago. Heavy J A Y BEE" success. to double itself every 250 years. Were to buy insurance on a year to year rate. Each year The heavy end of the ope! at ing ex- production lowered the price. Portable Grinder as the responsibilities to his growing family grow less, pense is borne by the federal e r n m e n t . In 191!» tin- co opera! inu Mint flea beetles and cut worms the assured adds more to his insurance fund for his later p l a n w a s agreed upon a n d t h e ex- did considerable damage to the Mich pense was to be borne l>y t h o s l a t e igan crop this year. Dry weather Luxury with ^ 5 ^ years. and federal government)! on a. .".(»- left a short stand of plants in the 50 bnsis Ti a p - field for harvest, cutting down the oil Economy it Life insurance is not only a sound investment but is one that the family doesn't have to finish paying propriating only a b o u t .>:•.«)<)(» a yield. for; it can't be shrunk by depression or any other The Deeatur wet muck fields J \ guest at the Morrison enjoys all the year for t h o work of tliis division while t h e federal government, in yielded well this summer but the Earn $75 to $150 a Week luxuries that only a hotel of premier financial storm. drier areas, in Clinton county, report- In a Business of Your Own recent years, h a s borne tlie i, Grind Weed on the Warm standing can offer. Yet rates are remark- the cost which is fully twice that ed crop losses from winds and dry ably low. Sub-rentals pay all the ground State Farm Life Insurance policy plans are especially weather ruining from 25 to 75 per With a "J a v Bee" Portable grinder you a m o u n t , it is laid on a u t h o r i t y . bring the grist mill right to the farmer's rent. The saving is passed on to guests. adapted to farmers' needs. You should know what we Statistic cured from in- cent. In Van Buren and Branch coun- door—where he wants his grinding done. f o r m a t i o n obtained through a group ties beetles and out worms damaged Grinds any grain or roughage: chicken, offer before you take a policy anywhere. 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For Restful 2000 ROOMS, $2.50 U P mailed regularly to 2,000 of the Stale bread may be ground as it regular reporters in Michigan. accumulates and stored in a screw- Write at once Free Demonstration for literature and free demonstra- Sleep Every room in the Morrison Hotel is an outside room, with bath, circulating ice water, bed-head Michigan State Farm Bureau top glass jar. tion on the "Jay Bee" Portable. Our large, luxurious LEGION OK HONOR reading lamp and Servidor. A housekeeper is Hammer, nails and a few bits of J. B. SEDBERRY, INC. beds induce that rest- stationed on each floor. State Agent .;. Lansing, Mich. Tl" soft wood are cheap toys and a con- 7 Hickory Street LUca, N. T . ful sleep desired by the ing who I to thostant source of delight to the small I World's Tallest Hotel —46 Stories High lou of Honor. boy. A. R. SCHILLER tired traveler. 1531 Jerome St. Lansing, Mich. SATFRDAY, OCTOBFK 10, 3IICHIGAX XEWS HOME AND FAMILY Edited by MRS. EDITH M. WAGAR. PAGE Address all communications to her at Carleton, Michigan. Hillsdale Co. Take Second Thought Method * Women's By irfKBl EDITH II. WAdAR How inconsistent we are at times! We are looking for places For Canning Congress where we can economize in our public affairs, yet there's no end of sehemes afloat that will cost us more in the long run. Fowls Solicitors are making house to house canvasses with all kinds Hillsdale—For 36 years the women Glass or tin cans provide house- of Hillsdale County have held a of pet plans. They approach one in-the easiest manner these days wives with an easy means of cutting Woman's Congress In connection with by asking, "Do you want to reduce taxes?" budgets, according to Muriel Dundas, the county fair. We all do and we listen to the story. extension specialist at Michigan State Every woman of the county is con- "All you have to do is to sign this petition or make a small con- College, who says that the low pro- What this country sidered a member and can serve on a tribution for this group to work with." ducers in the farm poultry flock may committee or as an official. The rules Before one knows it he has signed a petition for something he be converted into delicious future that govern the Congress make it com- has not given much thought or against something that his better meals when preserved by canning. needed was a good pulsory to have both rural and city judgment would tell him he should support, or he has given over Canning chicken requires little ef- women on all committees. money he could ill afford. fort, and, when properly done converts The Fair Association has built a old hens into tender, well flavored We find people circulating petitions for almost wholesale elimi- building dedicated to their use and it meat The fowl is drawn by opening Five Cent nation of all public workers regardless of what they do or what is there that all programs are held. the bird the entire length with a cut they cost. Its a most opportune time for the fellow who is "agin" There is a vjee president from each along the ribs through the thin flesh V everything to get support to his eliminating sche'mes by pleading township of the county and one from between the back and the breast. The the city of Hillsdale. These women tax reduction. cut is continued to the pelvic bone and are on the alert to locate all worthy Before you* fall in with him in his work, ask yourself a few around the vent and the entire side talent within the county for the en- questions. "Is he the type of man I would listen to wlien times are is opened so the entrails ran be re- Nickel tertainments given each day of the normal? What is his motive? Why is he so interested in my behalf moved easily. fair. They have encouraged the co- just now? What are his real objections to this work? Is it because After the legs and wings have been operation of the schools of the county of the cost or would he be opposed under any circumstances?" removed, the skin is opened from the in declamatory and oratorical contests, It takes real thinking to know what to carry on and what to wing opening toward the head and in vocal, instrumental and orchestral drop; to know where to merge and how much to reduce. The right the windpipe, crop, and gullet are music; in one-act plays" and pageants. decision can be made only by knowing the entire story, by looking taken out. The shoulder, blades come They seek the aid of the churches, the into the future and recalling the past. out easily if a cut is made across the organizations and the county work- back underneath them and they are ers. Besides, they aim to secure one outstanding State speaker for each Federal Farm Board Brucker to Address broken off at the joint. Remove the gall bladder'from the And as far as food is concerned, daily program during the week. Tells Michigan Work Bangor Apple Show liver without breaking it. and cut we've succeeded in filling the This practice has been the means (•Continued from page 1) ot bringing together the women of Board to the National. In handling through the thick portion of the giz- need. It used to cost so much to Banger—Bangor High school Agr'l Izard to remove the sack. The giblets the county as well as safe-guarding the 1930 crop, the Michigan Associa- df-p't and Bangor businessmen will are packed in a separate can to avoid get food from where it was raised to where it was eaten that me the type of entertainment at their fair. tion stored ' its wool, amounting to have their second apple show at the darkening the other meat and chang- best part of every nickel went—not to pay for the food—but to It has brought to the public local en- 413,000 pounds, at Detroit, but under school Oct. 29-31. Cash prizes total ing its flavor. tertainers whose talents would be lost a co-operative arrangement with the $250. Gov. Brucker and Grover C. To pack, place one thigh, one drum- pay many profits and many handling charges on the way. otherwise. Indiana Wool Growers Association, Dillman, state highway commissioner, stick, two wings, and the neck and For several years they have bor- its 1931 wool is being warehoused at will speak Saturday evening. Prjf. ribs in the center of th*, can. Cover We don't buy our food from somebody, who bought it from rowed from the State Library copies Ft. Wayne, with the result that oper- Herman Wyngarden of State College with the back and remain ing pieces, somebody, who bought it from somebody else—and so forth—with of the great pictures which they hang ating costs for both state groups have on Friday night on 140 years ' o f add two teaspoonfuls of suit, but no on the walls of the auditorium during been materially reduced. Deliveries panics. Thursday evening Cong. John a profit added each time it changes hands. We go for food direct fair week. to date indicate that fully as much, liquid. Put rubber jar irlng in place to the men who produce it, and we sell it to you at a single profit. Ketcham will speak. Thursday and This Congress has also been the or more, wool will be handled this Friday afternoons County Agent W. and partially seal jar. IT using, tin means of stimulating the interest of year as in 1930. F. Johnston and R. J. Martin, High cans, exhaust the air in cans by plac- And so you get the best food in an A & P store at a low price. the women in other departments of the school agr'l instructor, will conduct ing them in boiling water for seven For nearly all of the money you spend in our stores goes to pay fair. They now pride themselves on minutes and then seal. the school exhibit, the exhibit of Ocean Has Stretches a horticultural extension meeting. Seal the jars and place them in the for food, and a very small part of it goes to profits and expenses. needlework, canned and baked goods, Where Fish Can't Live pressure, cooker, leave ifretcock open Boys and Girls club work, and the Sun- for seven minutes after st'-am begins day school exhibit where each Sunday La Jolia, Calif.—A huge "desert" 'Announce $1,600 in Prizes to escape, then close petcor k and pro- school that makes an exhibit is given in the middle of the Pacific ocean, At Gaylord Potato Show cess for one hour at 15 pounds pres- The Great ATLANTIC & PACIFIC Tea Co. $5 by the Fair Board. This year there one so destitute of elements need- sure. Tin cans may be cooled in cold ed by fish that few can live in it, were eleven such exhibits. Gaylord—Premium book for the 9th water. Stanley Powell represented the has been discovered by Dr. E. G. annual potato and apple show at Gay- State Grange as a speaker at the Moberg, of the Scripps Institution lord October 28-30 lists $1,600 in The price of radium has been re- of Oceanography. The geographic Woman's Congress of the Hillsdale outlines prfzes for exhibitors and contestants. duced to $35,000,000 a potnid since the of the area are vaguely County Fair on October 1st and Mrs.known and charted. Premium/ books may be secured by discovery of ore deposits in the Bel- Edith M. Wagar represented the Farm writing your county agr'l agent, or to gian Congo. v|S J ' O K M tCBMOMT Met Bureau as speaker on their program The main part of the area is lack- ing in phosphates, which is an in- B. C. Mellencamp, sec'y, Boyne City, on October 2nd.* Mich. Northern Michigan alfalfa seed dispensable fertilizer for plants on which sea fish feed. In the absence growers will have an exhibition, with of the plants, the fish cannot live. prizes. Farm Bureau Women Another element lacking is oxygen. To Have A Breakfast The area measures from the equator north to a line drawn between Japan Tells How $4,000,000 and California from shore to shore. Plans are being made for the Home Sea currents are held responsible Shrunk to 3-10 of a Cent and Community breakfast to be held for the "desert." The story of how the entire for- at 7:45 the morning of November 12th tune of one hundred million dollars at the Michigan State Union, State belonging to the late Czar of Russia College, East Lansing, in connection The kitchen shears are especial- wa.s given to charity, and h.cw the with an annual meet ing of the Mich- ly useful in Shredding lettuce 1 for $4,000,000 fortune of his children igan State Farm Bureau. salads. shrunk to three-tenths of one cent in nine years, has just been told by Grand Duke Alexander, brother-in- Farm News Patterns (Price 15c each) law of the Czar, and a cousin of Kin?; George V of England. The September issue of "For- tune", de luxe magazine of business, carries the interview. Concerning the Romanoff fortune of huge pro- portions, which rumor still main- tains reposes in the Bank of Eng- land, the Grand Duke says, not a farthing remained in the fund by the summer of 1911 in any bank in England or in the world, save in Russia. The $100,000,000 which had been kept in England since the days of Emperor Alexander II (1856-81) was all given away quiet- ly to the Red Cross, and to hospitals and other charities ipatronized by the Romanoffs, the former Russian duke is quoted as saying. Concerning "the fortune of the children, the duke explained that a minister of the court, against the wishes of the Czar, transferred the 7,000,000 rubles (about 16,000,000 gold marks or $4,000,000) to Ber- lin in 1914. In 1923, with the crash of German currency, it requir- ROUND-UP and TIE-UP ed more than o,000,000,000 (five Nearly three-fourths of the meat more than forty packing plants in billion) marks to buy one American dollar. The fortune had shrunk to animals of the United States are producing areas, over 400 branch three-tenths of a cent. raised west of the Mississippi; about houses and a multitude of car routes 70 per cent of the meat consumers which reach retailers in thousands of Bootlegging Extends To live east of the great river. Between cities and towns. Radiator Anti-Freeze the grasslands and feedlots and the Purchase, processing, refrigeration, housewife's market basket lie hun- transportation, selling, delivery and Chicago—Six thousand one gallon cans of Lake Michigan water were dreds, sometimes thousands, of miles. collection are inescapable in any, sys- offered to Illinois motorists at $5 a gallon as anti-freeze preparation tem of national meat marketing. for their radiators. There were no To shorten this gap is the function sales, however, for police raided the Somebody has to do all these things of Swift & Company. In miles it plant and arrested six men on and Swift & Company does the job charges of conspiracy. The cans cannot be shortened. The grower were duplicates of those uso.d by a economically. Out of every dollar it is entitled to a national market and reputable anti-freoze manufactur- receives from retailers for beef and ing company; the lake water w&s the consumer to country-wide sup- colored in imitation of the legiti- by-products it returns 85 cents, on mate product. ply. In time, in convenience and in the average, to the cattle raiser. The cost, it can be and is being shortened. remaining 15 cents covers all expenses V His Mistake Fifty-five thousand Swift employes and leaves a modest profit. Chicago— Before Japeth Simeon everywhere are constantly engaged Swift & Company profits from all starts o'lt to rob a house again, he in making the tie-up of the farm and sources, over a long term of years, will probably make sure there are MICHIGAN FARM NEWS no football players inside. Ho made ranch with the dining-room. To speed have averaged less than a half cent 11^13erSTERrUNG PLACE, BROOKLYN, N. Y. a bad mi-take here, this week, their services, Swift 8B Company has a pound. "when" ho invaded the sleeping quar- Enclosed find cents for pattern sire - ters' of 24 men. IS of whom came Pattern Size Fall 1931 Fashion Book - back to the rnivorsity of Chicago early as candidates for the football Name City R- ?• D - 'EWS SATFRPAT, OCTOBER 10, 1931 ' [ f e w Do Thi> Large quantities c*jn be obtained from COLLEGE TELLS Never place, new grain upon old the manufacturers at a somewhat grain or in the close vicinity of oldlower figure. Public Takes Kindly To Reo's 1£ Ton Truck 11.15% over the corresponding month last year while the industry as a whole suffered a loss of 24.56%." HOW TO FIGHT grain if it is possible to avoid doing Always put newly threshed Final Directions Allow the bin to remain closed for Lansing—The progress Reo has "Total new truck registrations just released for August give Reo a gain GRAIN WEEVILS ! grain in perfectly clean bins made as 48 hours, after which it should be j nearly air tight as possible. Then, opened and aired for a number of ! later, if the grain begins to heat or ifdays. Grain that is intended for seed been making in the truck field since of 39.36 y married man, Telephone 9-:m6. We will make free child. Good milker; worked on eration with the rural police, shall y within 500 miles of Grand 26 cow dairy farm. Can handle tractor, WANTED—FARM WORK (9-26-2t-60b) machinery. Can wive references. Pat Miles, 318 East St. Joseph St., Lansing, Mich. Telephone 51 (9-26-lt) constitute a committee to determine what farms are not operated, as season and crop require and accord- "Buy CO-OPERATIVELY" . . . Seed, Feed, Oil, Twine, Farm Bureau Services, Inc. WANTED—WORK ON FARM BY month or year by middle aged married WANTED—WORK ON FARM BY month or year or would like to rent a furnished farm and manage it. Young ing to the standards of a good farm- er". On the advice of State agricul- Supplies . . . Life and Auto- Lansing, Michigan man, 2 children. Understand farm work married man, 2 children. Have worked tural experts, a plan of operation for mobile I n s u r a n c e — a t a iKhly and like to work with stock, on farm all my life, good with machinery backward farms is worked out and igan . h the best of references. Would ite Hayes Ells- St., Lansing, Mich- Mr. Klls- and have operated milking Can give references. machines. James H. Leiby, Miller Road, R-S, Lansing, Michigan, In care of Harry Thompson or phone Lan- presented to the farm operator. The police are empowered to enforce ob- "Farm Risk Rate" 221 N. Cedar St. woith. (9-26-lt) sing 116 and ask for 711-F13. (9-26-lt) servance of the prescribed program.