KEEP UP On News Interesting to Farmers Through the Farm News Vol. IX, No. 24 FARES FIFTY CENTS PER YEAR MICHIGAN A Newspaper For Michigan Farmers SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1931 mws FIVE CENTS PER COPY THE NEWS A Progressive Newspaper For Michigan Farm Homes Issued Semi-Monthly U.S. DAILY EDITOR Things Observed On A WORLD CONQUERORS What Per Cent Mich. COVERT DISTRESS SAYS FARM BOARD About Chicago CARRIED ALFALFA Farmers Have Alfalfa? RELIEF PROPOSALS AVERTED CHAOS M «l• r* \v/ o in its limits and many forest re- Its parks are TO OTHER LANDS Guess Before You Read This in alfalfa. Others have a few acres. The remaining 69% of the farm- EXPECTED JAN. 18 Kept U. S. Prices Above World ichigan Farm Women Sees serveg scatteredo n tover the city and are con-Persians, Old Greeks, Romans, h e outsid Article; Answer May ers have still to get into alfalfa pro- Wayne, Oakland and Macomb Occasion for Comment nected with each other by a boule- Surprise You duction. The fact that 114,000 Mich- Levels Six Months; Saved vard system of over 100 miles. Along In Turn Learned Its igan farms have yet to grow alfalfa Troubled; Rest of State In Great City the lake front are hundreds of acres indicates the surprising expansion Many Banks Editor's Note—Last year when she a t - Value East Lansing—How many Mich- that still is possible in Michigan for Can Pay tended the American Farm Bureaf con- of reclaimed land that are connected vention at Boston, Mrs. Wagar took ad- with the park system. There are no igan farmers are engaged in produc- this king of all forage crops. vantage of her Bight seeing opportunity WAS AN EMERGENCY ACT awl gave ua Boston, including what the signs of "keep off the grass" in any TAKEN TO SO- AMERICA ing the State's 524,000 acres of al- As our alfalfa acreage has been CONNOLLY OFFERS PLAN falfa? school books left out. This year we of the Chicago parks as they have growing from 79,000 acres in 1919 knew she would so places in Chicago, so Says Loss Charges Overdrawn note we asked her to tell us about it. We always been maintained for the plea- Spanish Gold Seekers Left The question has been answered to 524,000 in 1930, as reported by Which Is Favorably Received; that she knows her Jackson Park sure and comfort of the people of by the 1930 census. the census, the acreage of other liay Board's Work Shines and World's Fair landmarks and history of 1898. So would you if a memorable that vicinity. Each has a free golf It In Chile; To U. S. In It may surprise you to know that crops has fallen off. Alfalfa is a quite Governor's Committee Beside Industry visit to the Fair had been your wedding course and many have free swim- trip. ming pools. Bridle paths follow at *49 Gold Rush Michigan, largest grower of alfalfa permanent replacement. At Work east of the Mississippi river, having Prof. H. C. Rather of State Col- the side of the boulevard in places lege, comparing the total value of By DAVID LAWRENCE By MRS. EDITH M. WAGAR for those who enjoy horse-back Alfalfa, the one forage crop which greater alfalfa acreage than Indiana, Lansing—Monday, January 18, a Editor, The United States Daily. Chicago—Leaving the Hotel Sher- riding. perhaps stood the past, two years' Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania to- Michigan's alfalfa crop for each year, committee of citizens selected by (An address delivered over the Nat'l man we first saw the section that drought better than any other, did so gether, has 51,000 out of 165,000 1921 to 1930 inclusive, with other Broadcasting System Dec. 6.) embraces the financial interests of Jackson Park by nature it is a dry soils farms growing alfalfa or 31%. hay crops, figures that alfalfa has Governor Brucker will place before In Jackson Park, the scene of the because Their average is 10.3 acres. There been worth $65,000,000 more than his second ("overt Road Assessments Washington—On every side people that great city—a billion dollar bank World's Fair in 1893 can still be crop, having grown in the hot, dry the others. Relief Conference a plan for emerg- are asking: "When will the depres- and then the Board of Trade where found the old Fine Arts building sections of the old world for cen- are farms with considerable acreage ency relief and a plan for permanent x sion end; when will business take a fortunes 'have been made in a mo- erected temporarily for that time turies. relief Of the $24,755,189 in out- turn for the better?" ment and again life's savings have but since modernized by an outlay Although alfalfa is thought of as I feel sure we will know the answer been lost just as quick in speculation of several millions of dollars. There being a new crop, it is actually one to such questions only when we be-with the farmers' crop. If you ever stands the Japanese Village built by of the oldest plants grown solely for Old Steamboat Days standing Covert Road bonds rest- ing on a minority of the taxpayers in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb coun- gin to measure from time to time the want to hear Bedlam, go there on a Japan as their part of the Exposi- forage known in the world, according actual progress being made by every rising market, I'll guarantee you'll tion. to L. F. Graber, of the Wisconsin col- lege of agriculture. Continue On Big River ties. The committee: F. F. Rogers, State Highway Dep't, • one of our major industries toward a appreciate the calmness of farm life In 1933 Chicago will have another chairman; Clark Brody, Michigan Alfalfa really has a long and very Old River Captain Cooley takes the balanced position. And if we are to as you never did before. World's Fair which will mark what interesting history, Graber explained, 75 Year Old Skipper Doesn't Ouachita into the dun waters of the State Farm Bureau; Rep. Earl M<- take up each one of these actvities, We saw blocks of sky-scrapers they term a "century of progrss" for and when one sees the common Think Much of Mark Red River, running up it some thirty Nitt, Cadillac; Sen. George Leland, let us examine the progress of agri- housing the business offices of such a in 1833 the population was only 340 variety of alfalfa growing, it may be miles to where the Black River, with Fennville; Sen. Win. Connolly, Spring culture, in which fifty-eight billion city, we saw the busiest traffic cor- people. It is now a city of over thought of as originating several Twain As Pilot its darker sediment, flows in. Then Lake; Bruce Legget, Pontiac; Bert dollars of capital is invested and in ner of the world with its double 3,000,000, having more than doubled thousand years ago over in the Holy up the Black to the Ouachita 'River, V. Nunnelay, Mt. Clemens City at- which 27,000,000 persons are en-tracked, elevated, electric roads, its in size in the past 20 years. Land—having been carried to Rome, Negro shows on Broadway and in and thence by the latter to Caniden, torney; Leroy C. Smith, Wayne i gaged. surface cars, its bus lines and its While we read much about the then to Spain, then to South America, Boston; talk in the newspapers about Ark. From New Orleans to Camden County road engineer, and 11. F. An important industry, you will taxi service all on duty at the same crime of Chicago, yet in reality it is and then to the United States. the price of cotton and need for ro- is about 700 miles, according to theLarson, Michigan Real Estate As- say. Yes, and that's why the Gov-time, a place where conversation is a religious city with more than the It probably had its beginnings in tating crops in the South; talk of na- old pilots. It takes the Ouachita live sociation, of Crystal Falls. ernment of the United States today impossible on account of tEe terrific usual number of churches found in a those ancient hot and dry countries tional politics and the influence of the to six clays to make the upstream It is likely that the committee will . spends a good deal of money in an noise. large city. The wide publicity and occupied by the Medes and Persians South on 1932. And somehow no one trip, but she returns in shorter time. make suggestions to enable the three ••* effort to help agriculture. For the Arts and Parks the atrociousness of some of the where it grew wild. From there it ever thinks much about the South Full Stojim Ahead burdened counties to 'help them- w'qjfare of 27,000,000 persons en- Then we swung down Michigan crimes committed there 'have given it was probably carried into Greece and without thinking of the Mississippi But let us go back to the start of selves out of their trouble, and that gaged in agriculture is not alone in- Avenue, a one-sided street facing the unsavory reputation it carries. Rome during the conquest and wars River. the river trip from the Crescent City. such diversions of highways funds, volved. These people represent a Lake Michigan having the city's ex- The only negro member of Con-of the early days for the early Romans Ol' man river, tion feels the effects of adversity. Art Institute, the Field Museum and people have gained a foothold in a cause it could bear to be cut six The captain pauses a moment at off her ropes from the Bienville street road and other tax burdens. Where Farming Differs the Western Hemisphere's only section along one of the main boule- times a year and because it fertilized breakfast, puts down his cup of coffee wharf in New Orleans to begin her Gov. Brucker called his Covert Now it is a notorious fact that agri- Planetarium, a great building in vards of the city, occupying great the land. These writings show that and beckons to the Negro waiter fortnightly trip up the Mississippi, Road Assessments conference Dec. 21 the value of alfalfa was appreciated standing by. which the planets and other heavenly Old, Red, Black and Ouachita rivers •l culture is unlike any industry like blocks of beautiful homes. as long as 2,000 years ago. "Charley, tell the second, clerk to to Camden, Ark. Captain Cooley to enable Wayne, Oakland and Ma- railroading, or steel, or automobile bodies are shown in motion. A day's We drove thru a section in which tell the pilot to stop at that woodyard comb counties, to explain confisea- manufacture, or the utilities in that change in position passes in review the 'homes were all large co-opera- During the Roman occupation of stands on the upper deck in a gray tory Covert taxes existing in those agriculture has not been organized in a few minutes time. Spain and other European countries, above the Baptist church." business suit. (The only uniforms counties, to offer plans for re- tive apartments where one could buy alfalfa was introduced into those Turning Back Fifty Years abroad are those of the waiters.) lief, to present the matter to the rest into companies with immense capital Chicago has over 200 parks with- (Continued on page 2.) regions, and from Spain it was It sounds like old-time steamboat- From his ruddy face protrudes a of the State. behind them and with corresponding brought to South America by the ing. And so it is, writes Arthur War- whitened mustache; his keen blue \ opportunities to raise billions of dol- lars by floating bonds or selling stocks to the public, as industrial FARM ACCT. BOOKS Danger Season at Spainards in their search for gold. ner in the Boston Transcript. The eyes take in everything. Here alfalfa grew along the western Ouachita (you pronounce it Washi- Dawn the next morning found the Lavish building of Covert roads in coast of Chile. A few hundred years taw after you've been corrected) is Ouachita churning her way up theWayne, Oakland and Macomb COUR- Ilia me Land Speculation t corporations have done In the secur- ity markets of the world. SHOW PROFITABLE, Hand for Children later it was carried to California in stopping for fuel for her fires, fed Mississippi, at the moment a placid, times during boom times brought the gold rush days of the fifties by with wood as steamboats' furnaces self-controlled lady gliding quietly disaster to the speculating property Agriculture is essentially an indi- gold seekers who travelled by boat were before the Civil war. Shoved seaward between towering mud le-owners and powerless objecto s to vidualistic business. Only since 1913 has there been a gradual extension LOSINGJENTURES Because of the carelessness of little children, tragedy stalks in many homes when a 'happy around Cape Horn and found it grow- along by one great paddle wheel vees, along whose top or beyond the roads as well when deflation ing on the 'Chilean coast. astern, the vessel is three days out which rose willows and cottonwood came. That was the story Gov. by the Government of credit facilities Christmas spirit should prevail, From California it spread through- from New Orleans, threading a nar-trees in shining green. Even from the Brucker, road commissioners from to the farmer.' Today there is a farm 1,129 Soon to Close Books; according tc^ the National out the west, known as Chilean row, winding tributary of the Miss- pilot house one could barely see over manyvcounties, members of the legis- loan system as well as a Federal Farm Catch Unsuspected Safety Council. Here are the clover. Later its true name—alfalfa issippi River in the "flood district" of the levees, behind which passed a lator and the State Farm Bureau and i Board—two separate institution in- Losses more frequent causes of acci- —was applied to it, and it has been Louisiana. scenic reel of treetops, house roofs State Grange representatives heard volving a system of agricultural dents at this season of the known as alfalfa ever since. And presiding over this steamboat and occasional church spires. here Dec. 21 as the Governor sought corporations, land banks, intermedi- year: Another source of alfalfa came of the model of fifty years ago, as it "We did only about sixty miles last practical means of relief w.hic'h ate credit banks and other instru- East Lansing—The account books Careless use of knives, scis- about in 1857, when a German emi- traverses this backwoods country still night," said the pilot. "You see, wewould be fair to the State as a whole. ^ mentalities of credit, mostly ranging of 1,129 Michigan farmers will be sors and other sharp instru- grant by ' the name of WTendelin in the pioneer stage of development, stopped at Reserve to take on 400 It developed that Wayne, Oakland " from sixty days to three years. All checked and closed by members of ments which may have been Grimm, brought with him 20 pounds is literally the last of the old Miss- sacks of sugar for Camden." He gave and Macomb counties have outstand- .this has been the result of constant the farm management department of brought by Santa Claus. of alfalfa from Germany, which he issippi River steamboat men. Firm the great wheel a turn, stepping on the ing $24,755,189 out of $44,600,000 agitation by the farmer to secure Michigan State College during the Careless handling of air rifles, called Everlasting clover. Because of of step and alert of mind, Capt. L. V.lower spokes with one foot the better oustanding Covert road bonds for the what he described as a position of next few weeks, and it will then its hardiness, it grew well and today Cooley is more than 75 years old and to bring it over. "It's first one bank darts and similar toys. there are around eight million pounds has been on the river since, as a boy and then the other," he continued, as Wayne entire State, as follows: equality with industry. be possible for the farm op- Hitching sleds to automo- of that variety grown in the United of 14, he began to learn piloting on he cut from the right to the left side (Oakland $10,08H,I We .have heard it called "farm erator to compare his income this biles. 9,780,896.00 relief" and we have heard it called year against earnings made by farm- States. his father's steamboat on the upper of the river, "always where there's Macomb 4,889,051,00 Skating on thin ice. In recent years alfalfa has had aMississippi. He had his pilot's li- least current." J credit expansion and we have listen- ers who kept accounts during the Coasting on hills that arc $24,765,189.00 ed, especially in recent months, to past two years. remarkable acreage increase through- cense at the age of 17 and his mas- It was Sunday morning, and the Also, that these; counties havo open to traffic. out the central west and eastern ter's ticket at 19, succeeding at thecook served the usual bountiful large sums oustanding In drain ibondjs, criticisms of the agricultural policy Last year, the 736 books showed Tripping over playthings care- of the Government as unsound eco- that the average operator conducted states. In Wisconsin where only latter age to the command of his southern breakfast, sending in—after also spread in special assessment lessly left on the floor. 18,000 acres grew in 1910', there are father's steamboat, his father having enough else to last any normal man districts. Wayne has $18,000,000 nomics. I think it is essential that his business at a loss of $162, but now easily a half million acres; Mich- had to retire because of illness. we should not be given to hasty judg- that, during the same year, one twenty-four hours—the inevitable oustanding in drain bonds, Oakland igan had 79,000 acres in 1919, and Memories of Mark Twain "hot cakes," fresh off the griddle. probably $($,000,000 and Macomb a ment, that we should examine the farmer earned $4,288 while another 524,000 acres in 1930. The success Captain Cooley's memory and ex- "It will break the cook's heart if 11 facts, for it is no small thing to brush lost $6,031. aside any policy that is laid down by The number of farmers keeping DEEPER DEPRESSION with it during the past dry years is perience reach back to the great days you don't eat them," said the captain lesser amount. expected to still further increase the of the Father of Waters. He remem- appealingly, as you wonder if you Values Down; Taxes I p an overwhelming majority of the account books increases each year, chosen representatives of our people. and, of the 1,305 who opened books this year, 1,129 have carried their THE SHORTER IT IS acreage in the middle west. Both Covert roads and the drains, bers all the famous steamboats of the could cram down another mouthful. which include sewers, etc., wer« post-Civil war era, the Natchez, the "We used to make a lot more fuss built in the era just past when the Farm Board Misrepresented Berrien Co. Plans Farm Robert E. Lee, and the rest. He knew about cooking than we do nowadays," growth of Detroit was overwhelming First of all, let me call to your at- accounts throughout the s.eason and Prof. Wyngarten Tells Annual Mark Twain and the comment he he continued. "I remember once when tention an important document just will be able ,to make a business-like Meeting of Mason County Bureau Oil-Gas Service made on him a couple of years ago a rival boat started out against me I the immediate countryside and the issued which presents a careful his- analysis of their farm operations for has become classic. sent a man aboard to tell me what waves of excitement rolled outward » tory of the first two years of the op- the 12 months. The books do not Farm Bureau > St. Joseph—J. G. Boyle, president "Yeah, I knew Mark Twain," said they had to eat. He reported for miles. Farm lands valued specu- add anything to the farm income, but erations of the Federal Farm Board. of the Berrien County Farm Bureau, Captain Cooley. "Not when he wasthat they had nine desserts for latively from $400 to as high as I would call it, perhaps, the most they permit the operator to diagnose Scottville—"The deeper the depres- has announced that the County Farm on the river, but that time he came dinner. $2,000 per acre were sold or held for important document on Government financial troubles before they be- sion, the shorter it is apt to be. Bureau 'has developed financial in- back down here. In the '80s I think "There wasn't much you could do subdivisions. Covert roads and drains issued in a decade. It is important come incurable. There are depressions that have last- terest to establish a co-operative, it was. River men don't think so about that, was there?" were built and spread on such valu- because it gives the facts about the The account books provide a means ed longer than the present one, but farmer-owned oil and gasoline bulk much of Mark; the way he wrote, you "Wasn't there, though? The next ations. Those who didn't want the most significant evolution American of checking the net income from each they have not been so far reaching," station in Berrien county shortly, co- know, you wouldn't think there was trip we had thirteen desserts for din- roads were powerless to stop it and agriculture has ever experienced. crop and for each class of livestock. Prof. Wyngarten of Michigan State operating with Farm Bureau Serv- ever anybody on a steamboat except ner. It's the cheapest way," he went were assessed accordingly. Today , "But wasn't the Farm Board an If any of these enterprises are con-College told the annual meeting of ices of Lansing and the Farm Bur- the pilot." on when the laugh had subsided. such farm lands are worth from $100 utter failure," you will ask? sistently conducted at a loss, the the'Mason County Farm Bureau here eau Oil Company of Indianapolis, "Was he a good pilot?" "Give 'em lots of desserts* and they'll per acre up, but the annual assess- Well, if you listen to those inter- farmer knows which ones to avoid Dec. 11. Ind. The station probably will be "Oh, not so good, not so good. spoil their appetites early in the trip ment remains the same, up to $100 per ests which have been damaged in one and can plan ways to shift his crop, "History has shown that most de- open for business within the next There never was a good pilot could and won't eat so much later on; it'sacre for Covert roads alone for years path of its operations or to those who rotations to eliminate the unprofit- pressions have been international", few weeks. First Farm Bureau oil do anything but pilot a steamboat. the quickest way to kill 'em off. to come, in some instances, it was misrepresent the actual facts, you able ventures. Mr. Wyngarten said. "When one ofstation was at Batavia, Branch Co. Mark Twain could write, couldn't he? Meanwhile the vessel was steaming testified. will hear many fantastic things. For the larger countries has suffered, Well?" slowly upstream through one of the None of these counties has de- one you will be told that it lost most of the others have felt the re- Contests Over-Emphasized Captain Cooley takes the steamer oldest parts of Louisiana, once also faulted on Covert bond* yet, but all $500,000,000. Now that isn't true Lespedeza Offered But sult. England has been in one de- There is a tendency for harm to Ouachita over the longest route of the richest and most magnificent, but testified that the position of their and could not be true unless every pression now for 10 years, having any river vessel now sailing out of now sunk to tragic decay. Its epi-individual taxpayers in the special single loan outstanding is not repaid. Not Good For Michigan never recovered from that just fol- our boys and girls. Those who do not New Orleans. First he goes up thetaph might be: The glory that was assessments districts is desperate, as result from too many contests among lowing the war." Mississippi River to where the Redsugar. Both river banks were once To predict such an eventuality is to win are often discouraged and lose River flows into it on the west about luxuriant with waving, succulent evidenced by these 19 30 delinquenc- admit sheer ignorance of the credit East Lansing—"Lespedeza seed is Resolutions adopted by the Mason self confidence that may follow through the ies: Wayne 35%; Oakland 62%; middle of the state of Louisiana capacity of American agriculture and being offered to Michigan farmers at Bureau included a vote of thanks to life; and on the other hand the suc-on a north and south line. Only the cane; they dripped with riches as Macomb 75%. It was repres* they dripped with sirup. Plantation the remarkable record offinancialin-low prices, but it isn't a good buy at Michigan State College and its ex-cessful one must develop much self- Red River- does not flow into the owners built themselves ' spacious that unless some refinancing or other tegrity it has made with commercial any price because we have legumes tension work through the county control or old man Ego will get him. Mississippi—not directly at least. It houses, filling them with costly furni- plan of relief could be had, enormous that will give far better returns," agricultural agent, a vote of thanks We have narrowed school athletics did once, and is still shown as so ture from abroad and living in an op- areas in these counties would come banks. said Prof. Howard C. Rather of to the State Farm Bureau for close because we have aimed for individual doing on the average map. The Miss- ulence then unmatched in America. back to the State and contribir The Complete Story taxes hereafter. Well, you will inquire, wasn't all State College Farm Crops dep't last relationships and a pledge of sup-honors rather than a universal sport issippi formerly made a U bend to the But the evil days came. At home the this money lost in so-called stabiliza- week. port for the coming year. so that all may be benefited. west where the Red River comes in, borer attacked the cane while abroad Tax title buyers are not inter' tion operations? Not at all. The Fed- "Lespedeza is a good, annual sour Sec'y Brody of the State Farm but Henry M. Shreve cut off the loop the competition of new sugar lands, Today banks holding mortgages find eral Farm Board obtained $500,000,- soil legume for southern Indiana and Bureau discussed the work of the County Farm Bureau directors. with the Sugar Mill Chute. Eventual- with cheaper labor, proved a still t'hat a few years taxes exceed the 000 of Government money, loaned out tpoints south," said Mr. Rather. "In State and county organizations. Officers elected were Floyd Wood, ly the Mississippi chose this cut asgreater disaster. Cultivation on themortgages. Farm owners see the more than half of it and is being re-. h a t country it is planted in spring Wesley Hawley reported the State president; Sam Hjortholm, vice its main channel, the northerly part plantations began to languish and the annual road tax as much as the value paid regularly on the loans it has produces lots of pasture and lots of Farm Bureau's annual meeting in president; Jesse Houk, William of the old bend filling with sediment. brilliant entertainment ceased. The ,of the land. made. The other half was invested seed and re-seeds itself. It will grow November, emphasizing the fine Thurow and William Summerfeldt, So today, in order to get from the great houses fell into disrepair and Governor's Opinion in large quantities of two com-in Michigan, but not big enough to spirit of the meeting and the satis- directors for two years. Louis An- Mississippi to the Red River, on© has gardens went to weeds where once "The problem", said Gov. Br< modities—wheat and cotton. If count. The plants don't get over 8 factory financial work of the State dersen and Harry Peterson, dele- to traverse the southerly part of the there had been flowers. Many of the after observing that some gectlo. all the wheat and cotton now held to 10 inches high and don't pro- organizations. gates to the State Farm Bureau's former U bend for a distance of about residents moved away; others hung the State have used the Covert Ad on, most of them obliged to reduce ein«: In the la.-^t decade U. S. Daily Editors Says these co-operatives was about $100, the co-operative idea—the important State mutual Rodded Fire The Manufacturers and Industrial News Bureau follow* the lead of when, according to Mr. Shanahan, "Bel- Farm Bd. Averted Chaos 000,000. fact is that notwithstanding the em- Insurance Co., of Itlich. the magazine "Fortune", probably the outstanding magazine of business dab politics have had the upper hand in (Continued from page 1) Co-operatives CJrow phasis on stabilization. American \ HOME OFFICE-FLINT. MICH. y honest government mid have been grow- The growth in actual numbers anc agriculture is making substantial in the United States, in an endorsement of co-operative mark, ing pro- ing from bad to worse along this partic- tomorrow, it would command a motion as is being carried on under the Agricultural Marketing Act. ular line". forced sale price and it would de- volume, says the Board, does not en My, my, .\ir. Shanahan, what language!JpreS8 prices. So it is being held for tirely measure the progress in co-op- This is an encouraging sign of understanding and tolerance. If you were to read the editorial in the. , , .. ,. t . . erative marketing. The unusual eco- adjoining column, "Knemies of Co-ops eventual dispositon over a period of nomic situation has caused some has over 100 figures, some of them Hide These Pacts" how would you term a t least two y e a r s more. Things Observed On A disinterested Mr. Lewrence'8 description Drive About Chicago (Continued from page • • the replica of noted persons. It of the decades when the government When Hie holdings in these two groups, sincerely interested in the co- represents the changes of a life from "went into business" for tlie benefit of commodities are ultimately sold, a operative idea, to postpone organiza- birth to eternity, with Father Time banks, publishers, railroad*, etc.'.' anything heeded for home lito w i t h - j i n t n e foreground. Apparently, Mr. Shanahan Is not in- final financial statement can be tion for a while, but on the whole formed on loans made to co-opa by the jmade. If you can tell what prices the co-operative associations for vir- Sound • . . out Kofog out of the building. versity of Chicago, the wealth' the world. Its president is only 80 yV(9 saw the $3,000,000 castle like Fans Board or he would know that tho a r c KoinK to be on wheat and cotton tually every commodity show an in- Then thru the campus of the Uni- home tit the late Mrs. Potter Palmer Karat Board requires the same security •„ of World's Fair time. Guarded Wealth any bank. ,, in poods or property as is expected by « " " « £ f ) l ^ " e x t two years, you can busiiK 4 . mate the exact amount t h e F a r m Mr. Shanahan should know eo-ojw eon- Board will receive. If we took prices creased membership and volume ol The revolving fund has helped the Well Managed years old. There arc over fiO build- To me the saddest part of the n. year basis, so we would have to di- hope of the Board that eventually all holders are given fair and honest treatment under continues, the International Harves- one is very poor, and there are some vide that sum into about $62,500,000 co-operatives will become strong all the provisions of their contract, and are re- ter i •when one is extremely rich. Out of "We realize that many attacks are be« a year. enough, financially and in other Ing made on the Federal Farm B ceiving insurance at a low cost. This city is a great railroad termi- this should come a lesson of con- what we believe are scitish Interr When you consider that the $500,- ways, to operate entirely witlipjit "It is our opinion that the schedule of rates now nal, for 8 !id therefore we endorse the ac- tit railroads run in- tentment to those who have enough tions of the Federal Farm Board in help- 000,000 revolving fund is not going outside help, except possibly for suih to it but none run thru it. to supply the daily needs of a com- Ing to solve the marketing problems of to be increased, at least no request informal research and advisory as- in effect are sufficient to provide for payment of fortable life.' the m a n y varied interests of o u r S t a t e . " ' , , - incrPasP b , - all losses and to maintain adequate reserves and stopped at tlie botanical gar- I has been made for any increase, be- sistance as the Board can give. It surplus." dens of Gartield Park where v .Marvelous, But Broke _ j cause the present fund is deemed suf- is the intent of the Board that all tands of chrysanthemums in the We saw double decked boulevards, sory tax paying ceased and but a ! ficient by the Farm Board to take its relationships with co-operative height of their beauty, besides all one for slow and safe traffic and one small fraction of the city's tax has care of future loans and commit- marketing associations and all flfnan- sorts of tropical plants, cacti, ferns for the fast and risky; we saw the been paid since. This is the result ments, then it all comes down to an cial and other aid now given/shall Assets $6,010,549.40 and lilies. We could hardly believe drainage canal and a river flowing of the wide publicity against pub-[expenditure of sixty-two and a half work toward this end." Surplus $ 945,217.25 it when told that in the backward that a city might be sani- Ik officials which created a distrust 1 million dollars a year during each of U. S. Aided Other (iioiips summer time they had 126 different tary; we saw the lake shore drive in the minds of the populace and the!the two worst years of the present van water If 11 (There the public may enjoy the result is the universal breaking'depression. Here we have an important pro- nouncement of policy. A Government STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTO INS. CO. ry Tier extending s front; in fact, we saw a great dowij of personal morale. And now ' What did we get for that sixty-two board with Government funds an- Bloomington, 111. a mile out in the lake; we saw the city where there seemed to have been the city is reported bankrupt, un- and a half millions per year? Th<> noutices that its purpose is to put spared no expense for the comfort, able to pay its teachers or the offi- Farm Board report presents an an industry on its feet so it will be MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU apt or of modern tion and advancement of its f law, not knowing how to plan amazing story of agricultural experi- self-siistaining and profitable. That State Agent Lansing, Mich. the Potmtain of Time people, y.'t we wondered how long it or the future nor even how to meet ence. In the- first place, you will find is precisely what the Federal Covers- >• took 10 i complete and could continue, for in 1027 eompul- he present. that rho Hoard itself does not. ap- iiu'iit announced with reaped to ship- &ATTRPAY, DECEMBER 26, 1931 3TFCHIOA* FARM JTEWS THRFU HOME AND FAMILY Ediied by MBS. EDITH M. WAGAR. PAGE Address all communications to her at Carleton, Michigan. "tea" was ser\eil by the ladies of the Cod Liver Indian It's A Big Farm Bureau. Daring the early eve Aids Indian River In Oil Not a Shadowgraph Game Sweeps America New Years Week ning the national contest among male quartettes was conducted with five Improving Mail Service states competing, besides there were Medicine By DR. /<;. A. BATES, CORNELL The soft white snow has covered By MRS. EDITH M. WAti.u: two mixed quartettes from as many There are many Interesting details and one ladies' quartette. The Monday I n d i a n River H u n d r e d s ot >n county f a r m e r s d e p e n d i n g on the hills and in the valleys the song to the annual meetings of the Ameri- evening's program was one of extend- this post off ice have felt t h a t they Ithaca, N. Y.—Cod liver oil is no should have t h e privih riding of the robin and the cricket is no can Farm Bureau Federation that the ing awards and trophies to winn. longer considered a medicine, but is member at home hears but little about, mail s o u t h on t h e night t r a i n , a l - longer heard. Even the purr of the various contests followed by a pageant a food and an important part of the little brook in tlie bark housed vil- since tho main event overshadows depiciting the dress of the American t h o u g h tile postoffi.e d o s e d at t» p, diet, particularly during the winter in. Lisle B e n ! I t he Ch< lage is silenced by the fingers of the them. i farm woman from Colonial days to the gan County F a r m B u r e a u , took t h e months, according to the New York overhanging ice and the quiet hour The Home and ('(immunity state present time. state college of home economics. m a t t e r u p with A. V. Mills of t h e has come to the soul of the red num. chairmen spent a day together, the or- After the Tuesday afternoon s< Two of the most needed vitamins .iu Traffic Dep't. At such a time in midwinter, when organization loaders held a separate another style show was staged show- abound in cod liver oil. The iirst of who enlisted t h e the mon is full at midnight, the New Session, and those in chare of services ing the further use of wool and as lie- these, vitamin A, is also in 'butter, YorR Indian and his kinfolks pre- and supplies, the transportation divis- fore the ladies served tea, coffee ami g r e s s m a n Holm a n d S t a t e S e n a t o r cream, and eggs and In green, leafy, jpare for their ceremonial of the .New ions and the national committee on cakes to on-look A l v i ii Campbell. Representations and yellow vegetables. The concent ra- taxation did likewi made to the U. s . Posl-. tion in cod liver oil is much greater The Hi.nu' and Committee cu'.ifer- WI.S staged the customary Farm Washington. than in any of these other foods, and 'l.iis ceremony centers around his and Home hour program one noon :ll -a mail box h a s been iu- faithful companion, the dog; no nce was held <>n Thursday preceding since vitamin A is stored in the body from t-lie platform of the auditorium I at t h e Indian River s t a t i o n . it i.s a highly desirable food, even other animal has an ei|ual hold on the convention when the state chair- with the Farm Hiireati visitor .Mail clerks on s o u t h b o u n d night when green vegetables and dairy I the heart strings of the Indian. The man of is states participated. This guests. t r a i n s e m p t y that box a n d dog daily teaches him the ever-sought meeting was held in the House on the products are present in the diet. Vit- virture of loyalty. Then, too, the roof of the Sherman hotel. This is a On Tuesday evening the annual dents of that t e r r i t o r y t h e a d v a n t a g e s amin A is an anti-infection vitamin dog alone knows the trail to the land real family sized house above the, roof banquet was a delightful affair with of fast night mail service a n d p o s - and protects both adults and children )f that bit; 23 Btory hotel. Many noted the usual program of speakers, music, sibly a dav's saving in t i m e over t h e (beyond the sky when the life trails of against common colds. visitors have been entertained in the singing and entertainment. It was old servi. the red men are ended. The second vitamin found in cod followed by dancing till midnight. Thus it was in the tflden days that House during their stay in the city. liver oil is vitamin D, which prevents the Six Nations selected a pure white While there, one is actually in the The Exposition held in conned ion SAN #0815 IN Ni:\Y YOKK rickets, and has no other source ex- dog and by solemn gestures cast their busiest section of the' city, yet lie is with the convention occupied the ex- Because of two successive hot d r y 1 cept direct sunlight and ultra-violet sins into the sacrilicial animal. The as isolated as he would be on the,ha< k position hall as well as the entire mez- Summers, the Ban .lose scale has r e - lamps. Since this vitamin is thought fire of white oak chips was kindled forty. At noon a luncheon was served zanine floor, having in all SI booths. turned to .New York s t a t e and w a s of as preventing and curing rickets, under the strangled dou and as the on the glassed-in porch to the women each related in some way to agricul- serious enough to cause spotting of parents may feel that children who smoke ascended, the Indian knew and was a very happy affair with the ture. I lie fruit in many o r c h a r d s this show no signs of this disease need that his confession of sin and plea A. F. B. F. officers and the resolutions not take cod liver oil. Yet vitamin D for forgiveness carried in the soul of ommittee as gu- is necessary to the storing of calcium That evening many of the women the dog had reached the all-seeing, and phosphorus, necessary for straight, etrong bones and sound teeth, and all-knowing, Great Spirit far up in went over to the LaSalle hotel tij wit- even abundant calcium and phos- phorus in the diet may not entirely prevent tooth decay. A N E thing this country seems to of shadowgraphs manyfold. need is a good, inexpensive has been done in parlor game. As a result, a pas- veals the secrets of shadowgraphs a book that This re- the land of the departed. Even today the age-old ritual is ness the giving of the trophies, scholar- ships', prizes and awards given to the carried out by the Iroquois; but in- winners of the International Stock Safe Beyond Question time of our fathers and mothers and how to make them. Young stead of a white dog, leathers and show among the 1,200 state champions Where warm strong sunlight is when they were youngsters has re- folks had already gotten on hand- ribbons from head dresses are burn- of 4-H clubs from every section of the A perfect investment for the man of family with vived as a popular evening sport shaking terms with Lava Soap in available throughout the year, the that Is taking the homes of the the bathroom for washing off the ed with all the ancient ceremony of United States. The sight of eager, ordinary to fairly good income, facing good years and child's body may be exposed to it in grime of play, so it was only a step their forefathers. Enemies become earnest, junior farm workers would play, and the vitamin D in cod liver country by storm. to bring the soap carton into the poor years, and the emergencies and uncertainties in The game is "shadowgraphs". As parlor where it would meet the fin- friends, harsh words are forgiven, create an admiration in the heart of oil is less necessary; but in the north- anyone over a certain age will re- gers again in making shadow- family dissensions are healed, debts the stoniest objector if he could have life is a substantial life insurance contract. Why? ern latitudes sunlight, during the member, shadowgraphs are ani- graphs. are paid, and parental objections been only induced to get there. winter months, does not take the mals, birds, funny faces and other vanish as lovers plight anew their On Friday and Saturday the relation- place of cod liver oil. kinds of entertaining figures, made that The number of different pictures 1. It insures protection for the family, builds up can be made with finger troth at this Indian ceremony of the ship of the Farm Bureau to the local In rare instances, children may be by the shadow of the hands. The shadows is practically limitless. New Year. Inter-tribal discord is church, school, health and recreational a cash reserve fund or savings, and provides an old age unable to take c6d liver oil because of fun of doing them is engrossing the Many of them are described and il- agencies were topics of discussion with fund for the insured, available at an age selected by attention and hands of young peo- lustrated in the new book, which banished, old loyalties are renewed, its oiliness and its peculiar flavor, but ple and not-6O-young people every- can be obtained free from Lava and a fresh trail is blazed for a national known authorities there to himself, in whole or in regular installments. much of the opposition to the oil where. New Year on the daily earth trail of introduce each subject. comes from children who have heard Shadowgraphs, Box 1801, Cincin- 2. Life insurance shows a sure profit, and is safe Meeting the demand for eco- nati, Ohio. It gives a first lesson each red man. On Sunday morning a tour of the adults express a distaste for it. The nomical entertainment, shadow- on how to keep young hands hap- city had been arranged and bus.loads beyond question. child who has always had his daily graphs require only a light-colored pily busy. Shadowgraph contests took a bird's eye view of Chicago. teaspoon of cod liver oil will not find wall, a light, and agile fingers. among young people are a possi- Home Economics Talks It was a beautiful day and we found 3. In event of premature death of the insured, it it hard to take as long as it is not Adding a soap carton to the bility, with the older folk as judges can be made to provide regular income for the family suggested to him that it is disagree- usual equipment of hands and fin- —unless they insist on taking part From WKAR Jan. 4 that the sun's rays did downtown districts as times. There penetrate the which they cannot lose, lend or invest unwisely. able. gers Increased the possible number themselves. East Lansing—Home economics have been times when we have doubt- 4. The annual cost per $1,000 of insurance is low; a ed it, for the street lights were on all the time they take to complain about radio talks which were an important share in company earnings provides substantial annual Clinton Annual Meeting Urges Less Complaining chain stores and organized manufac- feature of the afternoon's program day long on account of fog and smoke. On Sunday evening was the Pres- dividends which reduce the annual payment. And More Action turers making a profit, to building of Michigan State College's broad- their own business along similar effi- casting station, WKAR, last winter ident's dinner, a custom that has Maple Rapids—Thirteenth annual Dowagiac, Mich., R-7 cient principles, especially in the sell- and spring, are to be resumed on been in vogue for several years when meeting of the Clinton County Farm December 14, 1931ing ef farm products, it would be more Monday, January 4, every afternoon the American Farm Bureau president A State Farm Life Insurance policy can do more Bureau was held here Dec. 15. Sec'y Editor, valuable. except Saturday and Sunday, accord- and his wife entertain the state presi- for you in a financial way than you can do for your- C. S. Langdon described the Ameri- Michigan State Farm News What would happen to automobile ing to Dr. Marie Dye, dean of home dents, the state secretaries and their self. You should know more about what we have to can Farm Bureau annual meeting at Lansing, Michigan. and machinery manufacturers if they economics. wives and, the state Home and offer. We are glad to explain, and without obligation. Chicago. Alfred Bcntall presented Dear Sir: shipped ot a place similar to the South Foods and nutrition will be the munity chairmen in the Bal Taberin the work of the Hi ate Farm Mutual I have been a Farm Bureau member Water Street Market, Chicago, said general subject of the first several on the sixth floor. This is a private Automobile Insurance Co. and the from the start and intend to be a goods having to be sold within 60 or talks, to be followed by other divi- reception room BO arranged with a State Farm Life Insurance Company, member unless something better is of- 72 hours for what they would bring? sions in the home economics field. false ceiling that lights play on the represented in Michigan by the State fered to the farmer. How can some farmers be so ignor- Members of the teachhig faculty and e walls constantly changing from one STATE FARM LIFE INSURANCE CO. Farm Bureau. I think if the farmers would spend ant as to not help organize when offi- women connected with the extension hue to another amid scenes of every BLOOMING TON, ILL. cials of the U. S. Government just the department will be speakers on the latitude. During this dinner greetings same as ask the farmer to so as to be program. were exchanged and the new Farm Bureau flag" Was dedicated. able to help them? The same farmers Michigan State Farm Bureau Farm News Patterns (Price 15c each) to make farming conditions better. wave The College station operates on a having no ideas of their own or how frequency of 1040 kilocycles and a length of L\ss.:: meters. After the close of the Monday after- noon session, the people adjourned to he adjoining Exposition Auditorium State Agent Lansing, Mich, Yours truly, Martin F. Pierce. and witnessed a style show depiclting Upwards of 100,000,0«W) acres of he greater use of cotton while a social former virgin forest and farm land Uncle Ab says that most of the in the United States has fallen back moralists he knows are persons who to public ownership in the past few have a strong weakness for minding years as the result of tax-delinquency. other people's business. This is presenting new tax problems to towns, counties, and Start the New Year Right AUNT HET By ROBKRT QUILLEN POOR PA By CLAUDE CALLAN study your food budget "KUi i\l;ty come over yesterday to sei a spell an' we ^"t to talkin' about THE GREATEST EVENT AFTER CHRISTMAS IS THE MAKING AND "Very well, mama.' I rfays. "If hard times an' she told me she was you want to give .some of your clothes BREAKING OF GOOD NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS. WITH ALL THE right provoked at Ctle way that Jones to tlie poor, I'm perfectly willin", an' SOLEMNITY OF A SERIOUS CONSCIENCE YOU LIST THEM, KNOW. woman don't appreciate nothln' a I think it's mighty good of you." for her. ING FULL WELL FROM PAST EXPERIENCE THAT THEY WILL BE SHORT "Borne poor woman can got a lot "Kllu May MMU her a winter of good out of my coat,"' ii;i LIVED. BUT—THERE IS ONE THAT YOU'LL PROBABLY BE MAKING two \ • f l y good "an" it's only right that we should /HIS YEAR WITH EVERY INTENTION OF STICKING TO IT THROUGH •t the help the urrfortunai THICK A N D THIN. A N D THAT IS THE RESOLUTION TO "SAVE." scorns was kind o' -shiny from press- in' an' the buttons had been took off "of course it's right,'! I says, "an" and she said the woman hadn't that's the kind of charity that counts. BUT IN ORDER TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS FINE When we give up somethln' v. Bpoke nary a word o' K'atltude or RESOLUTION YOU'LL HAVE TO G O ABOUT IT SYSTEMATICALLY. tnakin' a real Bacrifl* Blgn of appreciation. would be a far better world if more "Ella May said she tried i AND THE FIRST AND BEST PLACE TO START IS WITH YOUR FOOD people felt like you do an' was willin' the hungry an' doth.- the naked as to go without coats thorns* ' BUDGET. iid, but it was right dis- help others." % In' sometimes when they prov- "Well, I didn't exactly plan to do BUY WHERE AND WHEN YOU C A N BE ASSURED OF THE BEST ed t i n irsc I v e s u n w o r t h y b y n o t at t i n ' eful. without a coat," -Ma says. "My idea QUALITY AT THE LOWEST PRICE. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF TRUE was that if I'm goin' to get a new VALUES A N D DO NOT BE MISLED BY THE GLAMOUR OF FALSE "I didn't tell h e r s o , b u t BH« ain't coat, now would be the beat time. uity* in her than a They're real cheap now, an' since I'm BARGAINS. bull yearling has modesty. goin' t o h a v e t o in. o n e r <>r "What's <-Manly for, anvw.r. later, I thought if I g\>t it now I - TO ACCOMPLISH THIS YOU WILL FIND THAT THE SAFEST to bei i iy or humiliate could give my old coat to some du- AND SUREST W A Y IS TO TRADfc WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES THE 'fin'.' to be glvin' v.oman who 'tin something or just swoppin' old I think 1 understand FARTHEST EVERY DAY IN THE WEEK. A&P OFFERS YOU THAT SURE- MICHIGAN FARM NEWS They've got mama," I I've always Pattern Service, TY, THAT GUARANTEE OF PERFECT SATISFACTION. AT A&P Y O U ' 11 STERLING PLACE, BROOKLYN, N. 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ATLANTIC* P&cmc TEA CO. ; AX FARM NFW8 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1931 rom PUBLISHERS TRADE CovT Ex*. ?ief Plan Is ed January 18 application tution prohibits the use of public money to aid private individuals. The Motor Vehicle Act also prohibits the TRAINLOAD VISITS guests of the Michigan Live Stock Exchange from the time the train arrived in Detroit until they return- Inland Spearing Season Begins January 1st Where THEIR WARES FOR Q from page 1) of its funds to the Covert grossly abused in others, "'is one of Act," said Mr. Connolly in introduc- LIVE STOCK EXCH. ed in the evening. The group made the trip including supper on the Lansing—The winter season for Money Goes FARMPRODUCE emergency relief within the next few ing his Covert relief plan. months and a long time plan, with Mr. Connolly proposed to "re- AT DETROIT YDS. diner en route home at $4.25 each. O. B. Price, agricultural agent of the New York Ceatral lines, was in spearing through the ice on Mich- igan's inland lakes and . non-trout streams opens at midnight, Thurs- Farther emphasis on the long time plan. The trace." To have the distressed coun- Co-operative buying is to Salesmen Report Exchange of State paying off such bonds is not a to reapportion the burden by loading ties reassess the Covert road lands, 327 Kent, Barry and Eaton charge of the party. day, December 31. The season will farmers what extensive pur- Dec. 9 some 70 shippers from remain open through January and solution. It would be paying off one Shippers See Marketing Stanton, Vickerville, Carson City, February. chasing departments are to Goods Extends Into problem at the expense of another practically all onto the counties, to Operations large corporations. Transfer of funds from one field to enable the counties to refinance the Butternut in Monbcalm county took Last year spearing was permitted Other Fields busses to the Live. Stock Exchange only on the inland lakes during the Farm Bureau Products give another merely raises a new emerg Covert1 bonds by issuing 30 year you dollar values not obtained ency." bonds to get the money to pay them. Detroit—For the past two years at Detroit and made the same trip. period "when the lakes were frozen Lansing—Michigan farmers are Mr. Connolly also proposed that the co-operative Michigan Live Stock Co-operative shippers see the actu- over." Through a change made by elsewhere. BUY and SELL Co- going to have good literature to read "The legislature has given some operatively. relief in the Powell amendments to the Motor Vehicle law be amended Exchange 'has been encouraging its al operations of sorting, weighing, the 1931 legislature only two months through their long winter evenings, to permit use of its funds for Covert local memberships to come to the feeding and trading, see how their of winter spearing is permitted. anyway, according to reports of men the Covert Act and the Espie Act re- matters, and to amend the Covert Act Detroit yards and get a practical own employes handle their business It is unlawful to use an artificial BATAVIA Farm Bureau Bulk who make it their business to place garding drains. The McNitt-Smith- Plant itself to accept this proposal. Mr. knowledge of how stock is handled, and have a better understanding light in spearing on either lakes or magazines and periodicals in the Holbeck law will take over all town- Connolly also suggested that the graded and sold on the Detroit mar- than ever before of their work of streams. Gasoline, Kerosene, Motor and bands of rural readers. ship roads in time and reduce the Tractor Oils, Greases, Alcohol, road system to county and state. The State Tax Commission be directed to ket. their organization. The following species may be taken One crew of subscription workers Dykstra bill gives similar relief to The response has been splendid. with a spear during January and Tires. W all future Covert ideals. for a nationally known publishing the cities." "That sounds like the Indiana plan," Many shipping ass'ns have made February: Carp, suckers, mullet, red- house, has been found with a person- these market tours, coming in their horse, sheepshead, lake trout, smelt, BAY CITY Farm Bureau Stat<* Acceptance Barred nel consisting of former industrial Wayne, Oakland and Macomb we can't have too much protection of he said; "call it what you will, but own cars or in busses, to become Live Stock Exch. Ann'l pike (great northern, grass pike or Supply Store Cor. Henry & Main Streets and business executives, men who at counties would have been glad-to that nature." one time, in recent years, drew have had the State accept their guests of the Live Stock Exchange At Lansing Feb. 25-26 pickerel) muskellunge, whitefish, ciscoes, pilotfish or menominee, Farm Bureau Seeds, Feeds, Fer- Mr. Connolly also proposed that for the day. salaries of anywhere from $3,000 to Covert roads as State roads and as- the drain tax difficulties be refinanc- Largest tour on record was Decem- whitefish, dogfish and garpike. tilizer, Oils, Twine, Greases, etc., $10,000. These men are out in the sume the obligations as well, but the ed and relief attained in about the Lansing—D^-aw^ for the annual etc. We buy beans. ber 10 when a party of 32 7 shippers country now, running down roosters, testimony of a score of upstate coun- same way. and their wives chartered a special meeting of the Michigan Live Stock HART Farm Bureau Supply sneaking suckling pigs away from ties to the effect that their taxpayers Plan Wins Bopport Michigan Central train of 6 coaches Exchange and its annual banquet A Backbreaker their mothers or waiting for the are paying their Covert bonds, but has been set for Feb. 25 and 26 at On an 80 acre farm in Wood county, Store Mr. Connolly's proposal was the and dining cars and came to Detroit. Farm Bureau Seeds, Feeds, Fer- farm flock to lay the last egg to make have little if any margin to spare one concrete plan proposed and drew The train started at Caledonia and the Hotel Olds, Lansing. The ban- Ohio, in 1893 the taxes were $28.06; in tilizer, Oils, Greases, Twine, etc. up the two or three or four dozen dampened* that thought. interest and support from the burden- picked up co-op shipper groups at quet will be on Thursday evening, the 1919 they were just $92 and in 1931 necessary to equal the regular pur- Berrien county with $4,750,950 ed counties and outstate. To a Middleville, Hastings, Nashville, Ver- 25th, according to President E. A. they were $162.88. It now takes six IMLAY CITY Farm Bureau chase price of a yearly subscription. oustanding in Covert bonds appeared Wayne supervisor doubting that the montville, Charlotte and Eaton Rap- Beamer, who says that a speaker of times as many units of wheat, hay, It is back in the days of barter and to be the only oustate county in dif- counties could take over the bonds, national fame .has been engaged and hogs or milk to pay the taxes on the Supply Store ids, representing shipping ass'ns in Farm Bureau Seeds, Feeds, Fer- trade that the book agent finds him- ficulty with its Covert bonds. With Mr. Connolly said correct legislation Kent, Eaton and Barry counties. that the usual high class entertain- same farm as it did 38 years ago. tilizer, Oils, Greases, Twine, etc. self now. When he talks payment for a Covert tax delinquency of 35% and would do it. To an Oakland delegate The train arrived at the yards at ment will be given. The Live Stock a book he looks the farm over and a growing general tax delinquency, who asked "who would buy 30 year 9 a. m. The visitors were served Exchange annual is one of the larg- HUMAN NATURK CONTROLS LAPEER FARM BUREAU says, according to the dictates of his Berrien, by taxing the legal limit of bonds from us?" Mr. Connolly re- breakfast, visited the cattle, s.heep, est farm group meetings of the year. You cannot maintain the morale of Supply Store best judgment: "one egg a month 5 mills, has had to draw 50, 60 and plied that banker interest was as- hog and calf alleys,, visited the 4-H Further announcements regarding an organization when the outsider re- Farm Bureau Seeds, Feeds, Fer- will bring this magazine to you for 80 thousand dollars from its weight sured. Fat Stock show, had luncheon at the the Live Stock annual will appear in ceives more benefit than those within. tilizer, Oils, Greases, Twine, etc. the next three years." Or he espies tax fund the past three years to meet Rep. Ate Dykstra of Kent endorsed stockyards, then boarded sight see- the FARM NEWS. Human nature doesn't run that way. a few swarms of bees in the orchard its Covert obligations. St. Clair with the Connolly idea, observing that ing busses to visit the Ford plant, LANSING Farm Bureau and reminds the farmer that honey $2,040,000 Covert bonds outstand- "the problem is a county problem. the airport, Ford's Greenfield village Supply Store is not selling well this fall and that ing, reported itself in not bad shape Kent and Oakland counties have the at Dearborn, drove through the busi- 221 N. Cedar Street now is the time to let a half dozen and certain to be "out of the woods same population, the same valuation; ness section of Detroit through the LIVE STOCK MEN Farm Bureau Seeds, Feeds, Fer- cards of honey go for reading mat- after this year." Kent is sound, Oakland is broke." new tunnel to Canada, returned by tilizer, Oils, Greases, Twine, etc. ter that will provide him with infor- The up-state counties appeared sat- mation and entertainment. State Tax Commissioner M. B. Mc- isfied that their pay-as-you-go policy Pherson said "unless something is the Ambassador bridge to entrain for ihome at 5 p. m. and supper on SELL YOUR OWN PINCONNING Farm Bureau Seeing an executive, formerly in for road building was responsible for done about these counties, the State the diners. The group was unani- Buy your feeders . . . Finance your purchases . . . Sell Supply Store charge of a big department of one of their sense of comparative comfort at is going to get 150 to 200 millions mous in declaring it to be a most Farm Bureau Seeds, Feeds, Fer- the leading manufacturing plants in this time. profitable day. The visitors were them finished . . . Co-operatively all the way. worth of property, whole townships tilizer, Oils, Greases, Twine, etc. Michigan, returning home at the State Highway Fund Diversion that will go off the tax rolls. I see You can send your stock to Detroit or East Buffalo yards and We buy beans. close of a long day's drive through Next best ideas from the Wayne, the need for diversion of gas and 9 rural sections, dragging home a few Oakland and Macomb counties were weight tax to aid the counties in the Farmers Buying sell it direct to the packers through the Michigan Live Stock Ex- change, which is as near to you as your nearest shipping ass'n or SAGINAW Farm Bureau spring roosters, a half grown mon- diversion of sufficient gas or weight whole and to lower real estate taxes grel pup or a few potatoes, leads one tax money to enable them to pay off elsewhere." Guide member who is affiliated with us. Get the FULL RETURNS from your stock. Supply Store 220 Bristol Street Rate* on Application to a full realization of the condition these pressing obligations and save C. L. Brody'a Comment Farm Bureau Seeds, Feeds, Fer- of affairs some of our city brothers their impaled taxpayers in the Covert Some 20,000 farmers, belonging to nearly 300 Michigan shipping Sec'y C L. Brody of the State Farm A t Lansin Man ass'ns, have at Buffalo and Detroit their own sales offices, top notch tilizer, Oils, Greases, Twine, etc. are meeting with. districts. This met with some ap- Bureau said, "The people in distress Hotel Kerns s- y We buy beans. salesmen, and the largest volume on both markets. Our business is One solicitor reports having a proval since it appeared to be a re- in these counties don't differ from n o i e i rwerns year3 farm orgaBi _ to get you the most your stock will bring. small bottle of peppermint oil as his lief that could be extended to all the rest of us. We just happen to be zation headquarters. Comfort at easy WOODLAND Farm Bureau Drices. N. Grand at Mich. Center of city. day's pay, having struck some hard counties. The three counties recog- lucky that we were not caught in that Cafeteria, grarage, Rates $1.50 to $2.50. Returns to patrons guaranteed by $50,000 bond Supply Store going where a single subscription nized their debts as county obliga- net. I know persons in Monroe Mnnnmonfc BEAUTIFULLY meeting U. S. Government requirements Farm Bureau Seeds, Feeds, Fer- was his day's business. It was paid tions and asked enabling legislation county taxed for four Covert roads. monuments— DESIGNED PRODUCERS CO.OP ASS'5 tilizer, Oils, Greases, Twine, etc. for in what the producer apparently that would enable the counties to Mr. Rinke, Macomb county farmer monuments of the most beautiful granite MICHIGAN LIVE STOCK EXCH. and marble. Call or write. We employe Detroit East Buffalo, IS. Y. We buy beans and grain. found t© be a slow selling commodity take over the burden. here, has paid $4,000 in Covert tax. no salesmen. You save the difference. on his local market, oil of pepper- Connolly Presents Plan Largest monument works in Western The Farm Bureau will support any Michigan. SIMPSON GRANITE WORKS, mint. An obliging druggist in the Senator Connolly fcf Ottawa county, reasonable relief measure, possibly 1358 W. Leonard, Grand Rapffls. solicitor's neighborhood, being in im- and speaking for the Michigan Good the . Connolly plan. Emergency fea- mediate need of the oil, took part of Roads Ass'n, presented a plan to tures should not go too far. The per- the bottleful and allowed the mar- enable the counties to take over the manent plan should be made avail- BUY CO-OPERATIVELY... ...SELL CO-OPERA TIVELY ket price quoted by the jobbers, so Covert roads "since they are of able to the whole State. There are the book agent came clear on this greater public benefit than local." real relief needs elsewhere, particu- deal. "You can't dump the Covert road larly for schools and local highways." On one occasion, another worker re- bonds onto the State as the Consti- Mr. Roxburgh's Opinion ported, the farmer had one more State Master Roxburgh of the suckling pig than he cared for in a time paid man in the field, equipped Grange in addressing the conference litter so an exchange was made for with a truck. He specialized in corn emphasized that the difficulty in the several winters of reading matter. as a medium of exchange for his com- three counties is due to speculation The city man had no use for the pig pany's publication on a yearly or half in land values, that in his opinion the except, possibly, as a pet for his yearly basis of subscription, allowing case of the land owners is hopeless, youngsters. After he closed the deal about 30 bushels of corn to pay for and that having gotten into such a it dawned upon him that he had no a year's subscription. mess, they should take their medicine. pig pen or even suitable quarters in But the barter and trade is only Governor Brucker then named the his city home where the pig and the /half the story, so far as the solicitor ommittee mentioned above to formu- family might live comfortably to- is concerned. He puts in a late a Covert Special Assessment relief gether so that meant he had to find a full day in the country, getting plan for presentation at another con- , "'The farm is me anchor that will hold through buyer before he left the country. the produce he can and then has ference Monday, Jan. 18, at Lansing. the storms that sweep all else away." Good luck happened to be waiting for to find a buyer for whatever .he has him, .however, for the pig served to in excess of his family's needs. He open a deal with another farmer and has to put across two sales to com- Old Steamboat Days resulted in a double "swap", the plete one deal and often finds his farmer getting the pig and what working day stretched away along Continue on Big River (Continued from page one) books he wanted and the book sales- into the night, peddling eggs, spuds, their habits of life to a shadow of man getting a good exchange of apples or a live chicken or two to his their one-time magnificence. other farm commodities, something outlets in town. that his family could use. With the entrance to the Red River FOR 1932 The magazine men have found in- both scenery and civilization change lu one section of central Michigan, stances of merchants in small towns abruptly. Gone are the levees and one of the solicitors reported, recent- exchanging overcoats, suits, and the half-deserted old plantations in ly, a publishing concern kept a full other goods for farm produce. tlieii' ruined magnificence. The lower Red River, one surmises, looks much as it must have appeared to its earl- iest explorers. The sides are precip- Resolve ...to let Classified Ads take the rate of 3 ceritt per word per edition. itous bluffs of red clay with a dense jungle behind them. Here and there are primitive houses, the homes of fishermen, almost the only inhabi- tants of the river's banks. They seem Co-operative Marketing A FURNITURE RUAI, OPPORTUNITY—Circum- PIANO BARGAINS as remote from the United States as a whole as if they were islanders of the Pacific, but in fact, they send their catch by motor skiff, motor car be the convoy IT HAPPENS ONCE IN TEN YEARS and railroad to the great markets of stances have forced us to repossess and store a complete four room outfit of fur- —An opportunity to buy a $795.00 Storey the middle west and east. niture which sola eigrht months ago for and Clark quarter sawed oak player $987.00., This entire outfit will be sold piano in A-l condition complete with $287.00. This outfit is in the very best tract of $105.00. Also a mahogony Stor- The first landing in this region was for the balance due on the contract of rolls and bench for balance due on con- typical of many that were to come. that will help your business ship of condition with the exception of the ey and Clark which sold originally for will rennish in any colors chosen by the with rolls and bench. The gangplank, known as the land- finish on the breakfast suite and this we $845.00 for balance due on the contract ng stage, in spite of its forty-two feet of $117.00 complete purchaser. Contract will be rewritten to Terms if desired. Pianos are guaranteed of length reached only about two- suit the purchaser and the outfit will be in every way. Free delivery anywhere thirds of the way up the steep 20-foot delivered free of charge anywhere in in Michigan. Phone 9-3436 Grand Rap- bank. reach harbor safely Michigan. If not needed now we will ids collect or write CHAFFEE BROTH- store free of charge for future delivery for a small deposit down. Outfit in- cludes a three piece Orand Rapids made living room suite with reversible cush- ions, walnut console phonograph, walnut ERS FURNITURE COMPANY, 106-118 South Division Avenue, Grand Rapids, Michigan. (12-12-lH-91b.) Extend Rabbit Season; Rule on Ferret Use thru the storms WANTED—FARM WORK davenport table, walnut end table, 9x12 heavy Alexander Smith axminster rug, an eight piece walnut dining room suite, 9x12 dining room rug, 26 piece set of sil- verware, full size walnut bed, walnut vanity dresser, walnut chest of drawers, WANTED—WORK ON FARM BY month or year or would like to rent a furnished farm and manage it. Have one team of horses. Young married Lansing—-Lower peninsula rabbit lunters will have, an additional month n which to hunt rabbits this year. that beset you double deck coil springs, 27 inch bedroom man, 2 children. Have worked on farm rug, 9x12 congoleum rug, drop leaf break- all my life, good with machinery and The season in the lower peninsula fast table with four chairs and serving have operated milking machines. Can loses January 31 instead of Janu- table to match, etc. This outfit is in A-l give references. James II. Leiby, Grand condition and is easily worth three times Ledge, R-4, Michigan. (ll-28-2t) ary 1. the balance now due on the contract. In both peninsulas the bag limit Don't forget that if you do not need it WANTED TO REXT—FARMS or the season is 50 rabbits. Five we will store it free of charge for spring delivery for a small deposit down. WANTED—TO RENT FARM l-VR- abbits may be taken in one day and Write us at once or call 9-3436 Grand nished on shares, or work by the month. on may be had in possession at one Kapids, collect. CHAFFEE BROTH KUS W. M. Langthorn. Experienced. Have FVRNFTURE COMPANY, 106-118 South good references. Write, % Michigan ime. Division Avenue, CJrand Rapids, Michi- Farm News, 221 No. Cedar street, Lan- Nurserymen and fruit growers may gan. (12-12-2t-254b) sing, Mich. own dr use ferrits in protecting their property against rabbits. However, 0RTH0PH0M1 PH0X00SAPH BABY CHICKS they must first secure a permit to do See Your Local Farm Bureau Distributor 90 WALNUT ORTHOPHONIO BABY CHICKS—ROCKS, REDS, so from the local conservation of- > phonograph with records for horns. Hatches every week. Splendid ••Seed, Feed, Oil, <> on contract of $11.85. This is :9 FURNITURE COMPANY, CHA-FPEE •nth Division Avenue, Grand Michigan. (12-12-2t-32b) layers. Great for broilers. Thirty d.iy livability guaranteed. Get 19:::' prices. High esK strains. Brummer & Fredrick- son Michigan. Poultry Farms, Box 30, Holland, (12-26-tf ficer. The muskrat trapping season in the "middle" zone, which is that part Twine, Fertilizer Farm Bureau Services, Inc. LIVE STOCK RADIO of the lower peninsula north of the north line of T. 16 and west of Life and Automo- Lansing, Michigan Saginaw Bay, closes December 15 JBRM t s TO TRADE—RADIO, BATTERY BET a^nd the muskrat trapping season bile Insurance. with five tubes, new A-battery, head- - JERSEY HULLS. KIR- phones etc. Selective, long range, stand- hampion cow. Dams, ard model. Yours for bushel beans, 8 lbs. records. Write for bu. potatoes, or some poultry and eggs. south of that line ends December 31. Only 900.000 farm homes have elec- 221 North Cedar Street vs. Remits, Mich. Act qulckl: ill Ave., higan. (12-26-lt-IStO tricity.