KEEP UP ICHICAN NEWS On Newt Interesting to THE NEWS Farmer* Throuoh the A Progressive Newspaper Farm News For Michigan Farm Homes A Newspaper For Michigan Farjners FIFTY CENTS FIVE CENTS PER YEAR SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1932. PER COPY Issued Semi-Monthly RFD SERVICE COSTS First Transcontinental FARM NEWS LISTS Michigan Potato Men MICHIGAN CITIZENS' $107,000,000 A YR. WireA Neglected Saga BILLS OF INTEREST Produce Idaho Bakers PUBLIC DEBT IS PAYS $14,500,000 Preceded Rails Through Buf-' culty indifferent service. TO AGRICULTURE: johnson & Son Selling 10,000 market price of Michigan tubers. NEARLY BILLION falo, Indian Country 70 In 1856 S a badly needed amalgamation .The Johnsons sell Michigan Ida- 42,000.Rural Carriers Travel of the scattered, competing lines was Four Bills Seek Farm Board's Bu. Michigan Idahos hos direct to the retailer, making Treasurer Compiles State, 1,400,000 Mi. Daily, Nat'l Years Ago effected by Hiram Sibley under the End: Would Extend To Retail Trade trips once a week to the three cities. City, County, Twp., School name of the Western Union. They credit the success of their ven- Director Says It seems strange that with all that The plan was ridiculed at the time, Farm Loans Edmore—Ten thousand bushels of ture to two things: specialized pro- District Figures has been written of the great treks of someone stating that "the Western Idaho bakers, spuds that find a ready duction and specialized marketing of PARCEL POST SURPRISE covered wagon trains, of the gold rush, Union seems very like collecting all FOR FEWER IMMIGRANTS market in Michigan cities, are find- their crop. the Pony Express, the first railroad to the paupers in the West and arrang- ing their way to the retail trade in Mr. Johnson said, "We do not have BULK IS LOCAL BONDS ing them into a union so as to make several Michigan cities without hav- Farmer Gets 16 Times More push its way across the Great Plains rich men of them all." But these Would Stabilize Buying Power ing been brought in from the western our seed certified but we select and Local Gov'ts Have $787,680, to the Pacific and things that contri- care for our seed just as carefully Parcel Post Than buted to the winning of the West, so paupers did become rich once they Of Money; Stop Short potato producing area where this fam- as we did when we raised certified Selling 000 Outstanding; State f He Sends little attention has been paid to con-were banded together under an effi- ous strain originated. seed potatoes. We aim to keep our \ struction of the original transconti- cient management. Michigan Idahos, raised on the fields disease free and to produce Has $83,250,000 nental telegraph line, the thread of The nation at the time was stretch- Washington—The 72ml Congress farms of F. W. Johnson & Son, near a quality tuber that will continue to By J. C. HARRAMAN wire that linked the East to the West, ing itself across to the Pacific. The' received in the first four days of its Edmore, Montcalm county, are go- find a ready market year after year." Lansing—-The State of Michigan, V. 8. Director of Parcel Post giving instant communication between commercial importance of California existance some 23 5 bills of interest ing to Muskegon, Kalamazoo and its cities, towns, villages, counties, (An address before the American the two sections and bringing an end was growing rapidly. By 1857 stage to farmers. Following is a brief Lansing markets in 15 pound sacks stance, when merchants in Lansing townships and school districts on The week of January 5, for in- Farm Bureau at Chicago, Dec, 7, 1931) to the picturesque pony express ser- coaches were crossing the plains and summary of some of t&e bills of in-and cartons, specially packed an»d were offering two bushels of good June 30, 1931, had public debts of Chicago—The Post Office Depart- vice which had been inaugurated only in 1860 the Pony Express was organ- terest to Michigan farm specially selected for quality and quality Michigan potatoes for as low every nature amounting to $850,- ment made its first experiment in a brief sixteen months before. ized to speed communications between Drought, Seed, Feed Loans grade. as 77 cents, the Johnsons were find- (548,694.24, according to a detailed rural free delivery in 1896. At the The Pony Express, colorful and ap-the half million persons on the Pacific Ten hills offered to extend time for The Johnsons, for 10 years big pro- ing ready sale for their stock at 15 report compiled January 1 by How- end of 9 months' operation in 1897. pealing to the imagination as it may Coast and the folks back home. repayment, to authorize further loans. Aliens and Apportionment ducers of Michigan certified seed po- to 25 cents a peck to the grocer and ard C. Lawrence, State treasurer. there were but 83 rural carriers have been, was at best only a tem- The Pony Express was a great im- Sen. Capper, Rep. pparks, l>ill to tatoes, have pioneered the producing their potatoes were being used as For the purpose of retiring, these amend Constitution to exclude aliens in traveling 1,843 miles per day at an porary expedient, while the telegraph provement over sending the mails counting' persons in several States for of Idaho baking and cooking potatoes 'leaders" in some stores even at a debts, the above Michigan govern- annual cost of $14,840. line, completed seventy years ago last either by boat to Panama or Nicara- apportionment of Representatives. in this state. The 1931 season was price of 20 to 35 cents a peck because mental units had sinking funds total- Compare that with the present sit- fall, was a definite and lasting con- gua and thence across land to the Four Farm Board and Marketing Act bills to abolish Act and Board; their third year in the business. of the neatness of the pack, com- ling $83,028,003.57, including $9,- uation. Today, we ihave over 42,000 tribution to the westward march of Pacific and on to California by steam- live bills to investigate ite operations in They are marketing a crop of about bined with a recognized high quality 433,153.54 credited to these sinking rural carriers operating on 42,118 civilization. er, or by the Overland Mail Stage. various fields; 3 bills to amend Act. 160 bushels to the acre from a sixty stock. funds during the year. routes. Rural routes emanate from Yet columns have been written of In 1850 when the Overland Mail Federal Farm Loans acre harvest. The Johnsons went through an ex- The above Michigan governmental Bills to extend time qf payment of i'0,000 post offices; rural carriers the Pony Express for each word that Stage service opened it required sixty loans, including one to stop foreclosures Having learned the secrets of suc- tremely dry season last summer along units are now required by recently travel approximately 1,400,000 miles has come down to us of the construe-1! days to carry mail from East to West. until Dec 1, 1 ;<:;:.', and make it possible cessful potato growing through ex- with all the farmers of Montcalm enacted laws to make report annual- to redeem foreclosures since April 1, county. The drought struck this one ly to the State Treasurer of their in- per day, and in a year they travel tion of the transcontinental telegraph. In 1857 Congress provided for a semi- 1930; other bills to h fectiveness perience as producers of certitied the amazing distance of 412,000,000 Considering that the telegraph then weekly service from St. Louies to Los and of the Federal Land Banks. seed stock, the Johnsons are apply- county exceptionally hard. To get debtedness, as we'll as the condition miles. was only emerging from its swad- Angeles and San Francisco by way of Bills to reclassify Postal Rates ing similar methods to the produc- a potato yield of 160 bushels in such of their sinking funds. tion of Michigan Idaho bakers table aexperience season gives evidence of production El Paso. The time required on this postal salaries and The service has been improved in dling clothes, the feat of spanning the increase rates accordingly. which they say is paying The above governmental units levy route was about twenty-one days. The the last year. 107,895 more families continent was all the more remarkable, establishment of the Pony Express Bills by Sen. Vandenberg, Michigan, to Federal Reserve System stock. about $260,000,000 in taxes annual- dividends. have been accorded new or better writes W. P. R. in the weekly Kansas from St. Joseph to the West cut that broaden powers of Federal Reserve Instead of offering their potatoes The Michigan grown Idaho potatoes ly, the FARM NEWS learns, which service by additional routes, exten- City Star. banks regai'diiiK acceptance of notes to the grocers on U. S. grades, the are said to be more palatable than provides for current operating ex- time in half, but communications still from, member banks, and broadening spuds are first graded for U. S. No. 1. sion of existing routes and by chan- The Far-Seeing Hiram Sibley remained slow and uncertain. type of collateral acceptable for Federal the western grown stock and do not penses and the amounts to be credit- ges which permitted boxes to be Prior to 1856, the telegraph even in Reserve notes. Then the more select are assorted boil to mash like the tubers from the ed to the various sinking funds for Sibley Had Faith Immigration for packing in 15 pound cartons to dry Idaho fields. They are said to be debt retirement, also interest on the placed nearer residences. On Novem- the more populus sections of the 13 bills, some to suspend all immi- be sold at a slight premium while the ber 1, this year, we were serving country east of the Mississippi River Hiram Sibley, the same far-seeing gration to the U. S. for as much as Jo good bakers and good for cooking as bonds that are part of Michigan's G,S62,318 families, or over 25% mil- was slow, costly and unreliable. There pioneer, who had brought about the >ears; otners to deny Filipinos entrance, others are packed in 15 pound cloth well. They are quite free from di- debt. The annual interest is no in- to put Mexico on a quota basis, others to lion people, and serving over 5y2 were hundreds of small, independent amalgamation ficient, pauper of so many small, inef- set lower general immigration quotas. lines into the Western sacks and sold at a price above the sease, according to Mr. Johnson. considerable amount since the total million boxes! lines, most of them in financial diffi- Interstate Commerce Regulation of all outstanding bonds is $787,680,- The Farmers' Mail In 1930 we carried for the farmer HOLSTEIN BREEDERS THIS OX BOT POISON (Continued on Daee 4) Eleven bills, including one by Sen. Capper to repeal Sec. 15a of the Trans- portation Act of 1920, which is the sec- BIG FARM GROUPS COVERT ROAD AID 540.59 of which the State has $83,- 250,000 outstanding, and the local governments approximately $704,- over five billion pieces of mail of all U We carried him almost two AT COLLEGE, FEB. 1 HARMLESS TO COW tion which says the I. Ci <". shall value the railroads, and that 5%% is a fair return on such valuation, end the I. C. C. shall establish rates accordingly. The TO ACT TOGETHER IS SNAGGED BY 430,540.59, according to the State Treasurer's report. The total an- billion pieces of second-class matter, that is, newspapers and magazines; over a billion pieces of third-class 28th Annual Meeting To Be railroads want to value themselves, and there are sections of ffie public that don't care Section 15a. Irrigation and Reclamation BEFORECONGRESS LEGALHAZARDS nual bond interest is probably not less than $32,000,000. Since bonding continues Iby the matter, that is, packages weighing Several bills to aid such projects under Farm Board, Money Problem, Committee Asks More Time; local governments, though at a much t ounces or less and advertising Addressed By Brownell, College Urges Campaign Thru way. Winter Months to Keep Land Policy And Taxes in Their Can't Spread Burden lower volume than formerly, and announcements, also 118 million Dairy Leader Bill to divert land: jsince the outstanding bonds range ages of panel post, at a cost of Pest in Control culture into suitable forestry practice. Program On Counties from short term obligations to those over $107,000,000. Compare this East Lansing—The 28th annual Maternity and Infancy providing for gradual retirement in .H07,000,000 in 1931 with that in- meeting of the Michigan Holstein- Dairymen are urged to begin a fare of mothers and infants. Four bills to promote health and wel- Chicago—America's three great farm organizations—the Farm Bur- Lansing—Gov. Brucker's Covert 10 to 20 or even 30 years, it appears significant $14,840 in 1897. Friesian Ass'n, a matter of interest campaign of eradication of the ox bot, Oleomargine Roads Assessments Relief Committee, o the FARM NEWS that taxes, So you will see the post office de- to some 4,000 Holstein breeders in a pest which causes millions of dol- forBill to prohibit the use of public funds eau, Grange and Farmers' Union— eeking to aid Covert road taxpayers partment has given the farmer ex- Michigan, will be held Monday, Feb- lars loss in the cattle industry an- the purchase of oleomargine. sent their national leaders to Wash- n Wayne, Oakland and Macomb especially local taxes, are bound to Philippine Independence ington January 6 to prepare a united counties, in particular, and other less continue heavy for a number of cellent service. ruary 1, 1932, at 1 p. m. at Room nually through the work of its larvae U.Eight bills proposing withdrawal of S. sovereignty over the Islands, i front for agriculture on questions to distressed counties, has run into so years. Sections of the State not What Didn't Happen 402, Agriculture Building at Mich- which may be found during the win- nizing their independence and authoriz- come before the 72nd Congress. heavily bonded will come out first. Now comes the sad commentary of igan State College. ter months as grubs on the back of a ing the Filipino people to adopt a Con- nany knotty problems in searching Every sound economy will help re- it all. When parcel post was being Principal address will be made by cow. Smothering the grubs with a independence stitution. One bill sets the date for their Pres. E. A. O'Neal of the American or legal and practical relief that Jan. advocated in 1912 it was pointed . J. Brownell of Cornell University, poison application is the simplest as July 4, 1933. Farm Bureau Federation, Nat'l Mas- [ it asked the Governor for another duce current operating costs, but the out as an advantageous point that also secretary of the New York Hol- remedy for the pest, Dr. R. H. Pettit, Bills to stabilize buying power of ter Price and Money Stabilization L. A. Taber of the Grange, and month's time before reporting. A xisting debt appears to promise an money, one to "raise the commodity price Pres. John Simpson of the Farmers' sub-committee has been instructed to annual principal and interest obliga- town residents could secure by par- stein Ass'n. Mr. Brownell was head of the department of entomology level to the debt-incurrence stage and Union are agreed that the following tudy the proper legislative steps in- ion of no mean amount. cel post, butter, eggs, poultry and formerly connected with the State of Michigan State College, explains. maintain it there"; one by Sen. Brook- The ox bot lays its eggs on the hair hart to abolish gold standard and estab- major items should constitute a com- volved in relief. If all Michigan governmental unit« other farm products at very reason- College Dairy Dep't. At Penn State lish value of the dollar. mon program of the farm organi- Dec. 21 Wayne, Oakland and Ma- ould do the impossible and apply the on the heels able cost. However, it has been 18 Jollege he developed a better sires mer and the larvae from these eggs of the cow in early sum- Short Selling zations, with others to be added lat- omb counties told a state wide road mtire annual levy of about $260,- years since the establishment of par- ampaign for Pennsylvania dairy find their way up to the back of the Bill by Rep. LaGuardia, New York to er by mutual agreement: :onference at Lansing that they have 000,000 against the $850,000,On<) eel post and last year, 1930, we car- farmers that, was acclaimed by animal where they puncture the skin protect banking and commerce against short selling of agricultural products; 1. The Agricultural Marketing Act. outstanding $54,755,189 out of the ndebtedness, and have nothing for ried to the farmer an average of 102 Hoard's Dairymen as the outstanding and settle down for the winter. A another for such protection against short 2. Rural Credits Improvement. !44,600,000 in Covert road bonds now current operations, it would take pounds of mail per route per day on piece of dairy extension work in the considerable number of these grubs sales of securties of corporations; bills to regulate short selling, to stop short 3. The Money Problem. 4. Taxation. outstanding in the State; that the more than four years to clean up that over 43,000 -routes. The farmer nation. or larvae are sometimes found under mails, selling, to deny short sellers use of the 5. Speculation. !overt assessments have become con- debt. etc. 6. Philippine Independence. gave us in return less than 6 pounds, At 6:30 p. m., that evening that the skin of a single dairy cow and fiscatory in the special assessments If the various governments could or, in other words, the farmer re- annual dinner of the Ass'n will be are a costly item in milk or beef pro- Bill to Tariffs and Embargoes Jan. 8 the farm leaders met with districts, that tax delinquency on the pay half their present total annual limit importation v free of duty Congressman Ramseyer, Strong, Covert bonds runs from 45% to turned but an ounce of mail for at the People's church, East Lansing. duction. The punctures in * the hide, Philippine s u g a r a n d cocoanut oil; bill 75% evy, or $130,000,000 on their debts, to repeal flexible tariff provision; bill to Burtness and Goldsborough who are every pound received. Sec'y J. G. Hays of the Michigan which the larvae keep open as their limit imports from Russia. sponsoring a money stabilization n those counties. Default in Covert and created no more, it would take Some Unusual Services Ass'n says that the theme of the breathing place, lessen the value of a Transportation Bond payments and interest threatens. around 7 years to pay the $850,- The tales the rural carriers tell of evening will be "Ho, Hum", what- hide since these holes are found in railroad Bill by Sen. Couzens to investigate bills to stabilize the value of the dol- Building boom speculators built the 000,000 debt. the choicest section of the hide. problems. lar. The farmers' viewpoint was Coverts over the protests of many At it is, the State and its munici- the unusual services they perform ever that means. Waterways presented. are both amusing and pathetic. One January 23 the MICHIGAN FARM Destruction of the larvae by smear- Bills by Rep. Mapea of Michigan and armers who refused to sign, but have palities June 30, 1931, had about others to speed, completion of the Great been taxed with the rest and are 583,000,000 in retirement fundB, or 'airier from Topsfield, Mass., tells NEWS will present in a special edi- ing a derris compound over the lumps Lakes Waterway to the B the story of an old gentleman in his tion the annual Honor Roll of the seventies who came out to the box Holstein Breed in Michigan. on the animal's back is fective way to eradicate the grub. the mo:- This is a poison compound which does Coyotes Within 60 Mi. FARMERS STATE about to lose their land. about one-tenth of the total debt, of The plight of the taxpayers in those which $9,433,153.54 was added to ounties, land particularly the tax- his savings account in tho past one day and handed him a pair of Pliers with the request that he pull ;i tooth for hin. After some argu- Mecosta Co. Soil Map not make a cow sick, but is the grub. Injections of clear carbolic hard on Of Chicago Loop U. S. TAX POLICY payers who objected in vain to over year. milding Covert roads, has the sym- According to State Treasurer Law- acid, on the other hand, have not af- Chicago—There have been a lot of i pathy of the State and out-state coun- rence's report the bonds of Michigan ment it was dene reluctantly. Is Ready For Farmers fected the grub in the least, accord- "wolf storiesat the tolddoor", aboutbut thea goose proverbial hunt- Farm Bureau Says Net Income ies who are agreeable to assisting Another earner writes that he has ing to Dr. Pettit. One of the most ef- er recently furnished the best in- Measures The Ability the troubled counties to help them- municipalities and of the State out- been called or to take stock out of Lansing—All the soils of all the fective remedies on the market is selves by joining in enabling legis- standing June 30, 1931, and the fences and hoies, loan gas out of his farms in Mecosta county, Michigan, said to be Gusanol, a product of the formation about a real wolf at Chi- To Pay ation. They are agreeable to allocat- sinking funds created to retire them Ford automobile, help out with stall- are mapped and described in the Soil laboratories of William Cooper and cago's front door, says the Izaak ng a greater share of the weight or when they come due were: ed and wrecked vehicles, call the Survey Report of the county, just is- Nephews, 1909 Clifton avenue, Chi- Walton League of America in a bul- Washington—The American Farm jas tax to these counties, providing "The bonds of Michigan munici- doctor, send telegrams, help cover sued by the Bureau of Chemistry and cago. Ordinarily three applications letin on the variety of wild life that Bureau will present to the new reve- all other counties get the same treat- palities: Sinking Fund Bonds OP houses, sign a subscription paper to Soils, U. S. Dep't of Agriculture. Copy are necessary because the animals can be found within ;i few miles of nues seeking Congress now in session ment. Long Term Securities for which re- help pay off mortgage for a deserted of the report is free, from your Con- lick or rub off part of the compound. Chicago's famous loop. its policy since 1921: "The measure The Connolly plan, offered Dec. 26, tirement is provided through Sinking wife, cany feed from his own home gressman or Senator, or by writing The flies are easy to eradicate by use This goose hunter who is able to of ability to pay taxes for the support which provided for "retracing" by re- Funds, $233*,121,766.57; S e r i a l to feed destitute people, G FERTILIZER VALUE EGGS AM) FKKI> (OS I I and participate in their local govern water travel carrying water for home Bonds, and $18,365,016.73 in Drain. In such instances, the government or telephone or pipeline rights of At October farm prices, a dozen! mental affairs. They must use their use. During a period of 25 years one Bonds. established Star mail routes. When fifty pounds of superphos- eggs would buy eight-three per cent interest in reshaping local government woman with a well 100 feet from her "To retire Its obligations wbeu These Star route carriers usually way; for damages to property by phate is added to a ton of manure the more poultry feed than in pre-war , that it will fit the actual needs of the kitchen door walks approximately they become due, the State has creat- power dams, gravel pits, etc.; for 22,000 miles and lifts 2,500 tons of -port mails between post offices, fertilizing value of the manure is times, and about forty-four per cent people with no overlapping of public that is, from a post office served by stock killed on railroad tracks, -fires doubled. more than in 1930. agencies V' water, ed a Sinking Fund. For retirement (Continued on page 2.) set by locomotives, etc •inned on SATURDAY, JANUARY 0, 1032 JI ic HT a A x F v it >r two agriculture will light as hard for the principles in the Agricultural Marketing Act and for tho Farm Board as do bankers for the Federal Reserve Act. Letters From Spearin9 Through The Ice Opposition, says Fortune, has been bitter, and misunderstanding has been dense; hut new understanding will lead farmers to militant Our Readers By R. S. CLARK defense of their rights as established under the Act. Oh, the winter months are busy ones, so i have wi trays found; In this connection, the National Ass'n of Farm Equipment Manu- The chores in ceaseless cycles clmsc each other round and round; Successor to the Michigan Farm facturers, always friendly to the Farm Board, placed itself on record Sold the Delco The WOOdpile suffers sin kin' spells that Wortc alone can CK January 12, 1923 recently by saying to Congress: Bditor. And when the weather's .sunny you can always haul manure. econd class matter January i (office "The press of the country has been flooded with propaganda hos- ilichigan Farm News, Then. .Worthy keeps a nayyin' me with them odd jobs of her'n at Charlotte, Michigan, under the Ad of March tile to the Federal Farm Board, including vicious and groundless at- lanstng, Michigan. Like in a kin' shelees ur cupboards, or tinkerin' the churn: Pub! nfl and fourth Saturday of each month by the tacks upon the Board and the government. The source and purpose of I)e;ir Sir: Hut once in every week or so I give them all the shake - Michigan Farm News Company, at is publication office at i l l Lovett this propaganda are obvious and unmistakable. The attacks come from I believe I owe a word of thanks to 1 do the chores up early, (hen I hustle for the lake. St., ChM-lfttto, Mich. a limited group of speculators and middlemen. . . . ; their manifest he Farm Xews for selling my DelCO editorial and genera] offices at 221 North Cedar St., Lansing, M|ch- It makes no Slightest difference if the Heather's fair /,,- fa,il. 708. Telephone, Lansing, 21-271. purpose is to destroy the Agricultural Marketing Act or so to cripple •lant. I sold it through the first ad, it that the American Farmer will be denied government aid in regulat- ml had many more prospects from Tlie sun may shine, benignly or the wind may roar and hotel, For J have © spearin' shanty just a tidy tiro Ity twice E. E. UNGREN Editor and Business Manager ing and distributing his products. ifferent parts of the State. It was a And there I take my holiday, a spearin! through the ice. "We call upon . . . Congress . . . and farmers' organizations to make ig surprise to me the amount of calls i cents p e r year in a<>d and plenty witli my devastatin' spear! N o v e m b e r by G o v e r n o r B r u c k e r ' s C o m m i s s i o n of I n q u i r y i n t o t h e Cost fale, R. 3. Michigan. Then I haul him up a-flo/tpin' and it's over in a triee branch banks throughout their respective territories. of Milk. an. 2, 1982. And lie adds to mi/ collection in cold storage on (lie ice. England and Canada have branch banking. It came to our attention It's hard to believe that the Detroit Board of Health or any group recently that England has not had a single bank failure during the past Xow Marthy's prone to jaw me. fur site claims it cramps the soul surrounded by city politics would act to limit the Detroit milk shed in ten years of terrific depression there; Canada has not had more than a dozen local bank failures since 1893. 1'ranch banking has its opponents, these times. It might when times are good, but not now. Sold the Radio To sit humped over in the dark a peekin' through the liole; It is our opinion that the resources and genius of any marketing or- Editor, Hut, lirother. you'll siipp<,rt me after feelin' once or twice but its low percentage of failures in those countries is worth noting. The (aim, expectant, lonesome fun of spearin' through the ice. ganization, private or co-operatively owned, dealing in milk, grain or rlichigan Farm News, Michigan is getting into branch banking in a rather large way. other farm produuets, are put to it to hold their markets in these times. .ansing, Michigan. One large group has limited itself to l>etroit for the present. Another, Some time there will be a change for the better. Till then, hang on. the Guardian Detroit Union group, has one of the largest financial or- Dear Sir: ganizations in Detroit, with ten banks and trust companies in the De- My classified advertisement in your of the parcel post was delivered on troit area, and has affiliated with it the principal banks in Battle Creek, RFD Costs 107 Millions, rural routes. Saturday, Dec. 26 edition, offering a Lapeer Promises Farmer obligations had cash and securities on hand totalling $.16,114,74ti.tls." Flint, (Irand Rapids (2), Ionia, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Lansing, Niles, >attery radio set, brought a caller Port Huron and Saginaw. Pays U. S. 14£ Millions While approximately $107,000,000 Monday, Dec. 29, and three letters Brown a Big Meeting the State Treasurer's report said. (Continued from page one) were spent by the post office depart- Lapeer—Lapeer Farm Bureau Sup- The Guardian Group presents Michigan with a powerful institution, ment in its rural service, rural resi- ater. The first man took the set with rooted in diversified industrial and agricultural sections. Each affili- a railroad to post offices not served by a railroad. dents in turn have purchased but lim. ply store, together with the Grange, County Farm Bureau, Lapeer Cham- \PROTECTION\ ated institution has behind it the strength of all the others. Recent $14,500,000 of postage for the entire Yours very truly, WITH purchase of the City National at Lansing by the Capital National gives Fanner and Panel I'oM ber of Commerce and other Lapeer iservice performed in connection with MAX B. LOOMIS. Lansing the Guardian Group a bank with $21,000,000 in resources. • % The farmer likewise has profited all matter picked up on rural routes enormously by the parcel post ser- and carried to its destination regard- vice. He may receive by parcel post less of distance. Bear in mind that -ansing, Mich. Jan. 2, 1932. organizations are planning a big day when "Farmer" Brown of the Fed- eral Farm Board comes to address H^SAFETYi Mr. Hart Would Wring Competition's Neck • them Thursday, January 28. Austin I Every farmer who is inter- ted in ,buying good (sound packages of merchandise. The farm- parcel poat mailed on rural routes Congressman Michael Hart of Saginaw, tanner, elevator operator and large handler of beans says he knows a good way to lower govern- er may market dairy and poultry is carried at a charge less than if products, as well as vegetables and mailed elsewhere. QUOTECOOLIDGEON Gwinn of the Supply Store is plan- ning an all-day program. Sec'y insurance should find out ;hovv reliable and sound the company is with whom be deals ment expenses. Mr. Hart would eliminate appropriations in the agricultural budget for extension service. That means he would get rid of county agricul- fruit in small quantities to nearby town residents. There is not nearly enough of this traffic being carried. Parcel Tost Needs' Volume Now the parcel post service LIFEJNSURANCE Brody of the State Farm Bureau will address the meeting in the morning. A potluck dinner is planned for noon. -—a complicated financial state- ment does not answer the average man's Questions about the soundness of a mutual in- which I am personally most interest- surance company. Jiut tlie tural agents, State College marketing men, and representatives of the There are wonderful possibilities for January 21 To Be Observed Mr. Brown will speak after dinner. strength and surety of MiHii- ed, this last fiscal year operated at a «an*8 Largest Mutual Farm Federal Farm Board who advise farmers in their building of co-operative the farmer or his wife and family to By All Companies A large crowd is expected. v ire Insurance company, State deficit of more than $20,000,000 Mutual Rodded, is obvious in enterprises to market their own products. Apparently, the co-operative secure extraordinary good nricea for During this entire depression or de- the facts shown below. ass'ns have Mr. Hart worried. good graded goods in this manner; flation period, the post office depart- In U. S. Mich. Citizens Public Assets and Resources "I don't believe the farmer needs advice," said Congressman Hart Several years ago the post office ment has not reduced or dismissed Cash ? »?,949.11 In announcing his intent ion to get rid of extension work when he ad- department set aside 50 rural routes one of its 377,000 classified em "Life Insurance Is the most efrec- Debt Nearly a Billion keal instate Tleal Instate Mortgages 45,300.00 dressed the Saginaw Democrat Club at Shtgtaaw, December 30. over which to experiment on this tlve Instrumentality for the promo- (Continued from ]>;ige 1) and Contract 10.&03.01 ployeee on account of that depres- tion of industry, saving and charac- of State Highway Bonds, the State Mr. Hart has seen popping l'!> a11 around him the locals of the farm-to-table project. This experi- ter I'VIT devised. Life Insurance is I Bonds 5,000.00 Michigan Bean Growers, Inc., a cooperative which has had advice from sion or deflation. The postal re- Treasurer is houilng securities, the I [Jnpaid Notes 5,079.81 ment failed, largely due to the ad- as sai'»- as any linnnckil institution 1 Unpaid Assessments the State College co-operative [marketing division, an extension service ceipts this year were $656,463,38 par value of which is $11,115,700.00, and Earned Assess- vi nt of the automobile and hard-sur- can IT."—Calvin Coolidge. lo farmers The Federal Ftorm Board has helned. Mr. Hart is filled against $703,000,000 the previous Thursday, January 21, will be ob- and the cash available on June 30, ments not levied "S7.599.57 faced roads. The farmer is now with wrath and never misses an opportunity to speak a bad word for the fiscal vear. Krum tlie condition re served throughout the United States 1931, for this purpose was $1,092,- prone to market his products in Ms $ , Farm Board or the State College extension division. In this connection Ferred to, obviously the postal service as Uife Insurance Day, when all com- 207.92. Securities with a par value own automobile. You might analv/e Liabilities he reminds us of a Btatemeni made by Mr. Alexander Legge when he could absorb 2'i to 4 0 per cent ad panies will bring before the American of $12,159,200.00- have been pur- DS not, adju&ted this method and see if you are not people the value and the varied uses chased as investments for the Soldier Mill not matured and retired as chairman of the I'Yderal Farm Board. Said Mr. Legge: ditional busiii'-->s without proportion toollttg yourself. Gasoline and time of life insurance. Miscellaneous Acc'ts 99 ate expense. "Those opposing the wurl; of the Board are making a lot of M uf valuable and quickly eat up The post office department appre The State Farm Life Insurance Bonus Sinking Fund, and the cash > 11 net assets and b u t really represent! a v«ir\ small | the American public, prolit. plates your patronage* We t r y t< Company and the Michigan State available for the purchase of other Resources $447,202.90 thetir opposition being based on two 'her con- w<' are not disedtrrsged in our ne- give you the best possible service Farm Bureau are co-operating by securities was $1,148,333.52. Invest- Buy yoor tire insiinmce pro- jection in a good sound com- flicting,— gotiation Witt t ho farmer in asking We know that you have suffered urging their members to give more ments in the War Loan Bond Sinking pany. If you are interested in Itiin to assist us in removing the thought to the life insurance they Fund amount to $822,000.00 and the "protection with SAFETY write "First, that the live principle is all wrong and must fail from low prices of Hie commoditie for our sample policy and com- because ii. &B Ktmtiaraentally unsound and unworkable, and,— postal deficit by using the service you grow, the same an we have suf now own and to consider the long cHsh available for this purpose was plete linan« ial sta' mote, but one instance will .serve to tared deei time personal and family benefits of $2S:',.143.17. The State has invested! ''Second, thai it is seriously btterfeving with their privileges ag In postal revenues % I oo.oou.00 in securities for the H. K. FISK, Sec'y, illustrate many of the discourage- carrying as much good life insurance 702 .Church St., Hint, MicliKjdu handlers of agricultural commodities. BUt won't YOU assist us by figuring State Fair Bond Sinking Fund, and ments met by us in undertaking to as one can. State Farm Life agents out a way to increase the volume o "If the first contention were correct, there should be no need of increase the volume of parcel post parcel post by starting this farm-to will call on as many of their insured the cash available for purchase of their being greatly concerned over their position." from farm to table. table traffic I have referred to? as possible to give any service they securities at the close of the year j $t*te KlutektRoddeci Tirt (iov't S rural routes serving life, explains Dr. 11. C. Stephenson o the Ww York state college of vet ings structure. A hundred pounds of live h SELL YOUR OWN $15,000,00 hut when blrtc 'IT- ' r Buy your .feeders . . . Finance your purchases . . . Sell Hardly had the ink dried on the President's moratorium than wily the n u a l carriers place one of these ity of worms being transmitted tha it is worth ahout $8.50. them finished . . . Co-operatively all the way. European financiers noted that we were pledged not to collect but pamphlets in each box. The pam- way, he says. The Christmas pu You can send your stock to Detroit or East Buffalo yards and they were not tied in any way. They began a raid on Uncle Sam's phlet inquired what the farmer had hould have its milk. sell it direct to the packers through the Michigan Live Stock Ex- gold reserve, demanding all their credits here in gold. We were to sell, what he would be willing to change, which is as near to you as your nearest shipping ass'n or powerless to apply any offsetting debts. In a few months time these prepare for sale, and if he would be niemher who is affiliated with us. (Jet the FULL RETURNS from befriended debtor nations took $1 ,o00,000.0U0 in gold from our interested in receiving a list of po- your stock. $5,000,000,000 gold reserve. The raids have ceased for the time being, :«'ntial customers. Out of the 4!).oOo inquiries, we re- Some 20,000 farmers, belonging to nearly 300 Michigan shipping but we are vulnerable to such demands for gold until next July to ass'ns, have at Buffalo and Detroit their own sales offices, top notch any moratorium-aided nation that may sell or borrow here or establish ceived but 282 replies. The inquiry was courteous, required very little salesmen, and the largest volume on both markets. Our business is credit in any other way. to get you the most your stock will bring. work on the part of the farmer, but France lias been the greatest raider. She raided England as well. he just didn't seem willing to co-op- , Returns to patrons guaranteed by $.".0,000 bond The United States loaned hundreds of millions to the Bank of Eng- erate. Some replies indicated that land in an effort to keep the pound on the gold standard. As fast as meeting U. S. Government requirements the farmer thought the information England took our gold in one door, France demand' a in Eng- was to be given to speculators. PRODUCERS CO-OP ASS'N MICHIGAN LIVE STOCK EXCH. land in. gold out another door. France undoubtedly forced England Otjiers, who were courteous enough Detroit East Buffalo, Bf. Y. off the gold standard. When Premier Laval of France cam;- to see to reyly, simply stated on the inquiry ident Hoover, quite probably about revising European ck >ts, the blanl^: "Not interested." Bank of France notified the United States that she had another Recently I traveled over a number $600,000,000 credit here that she might want in gold. As a noted of rural routes in the southeast writer put it, France has been using t h e moratorium to sicken every where I found practically no farmer financial system rival to her own. who Raised any more vegetables than AUNT HET Beyond question these raids on the American treasury by those, nations whom it sought to help have; greatly aggravated our own financial distress. for his individual home consumption. In some instances he raised no vege- tables, but as one of them told me, POOR PA By UOUEUT QUILLKN' "I was sb provoked at bailie this njornin.' I wanted to give her a picre Slippery Days Are Congress ratified the moratorium, agreed that without such aid froth the doited States kfcere might have been a European collapse with bad results here, hut seeing what happened anyway, Congress ate out of tin cans and paper bags. The farmer is prone to think in terms "I'm in' $" of crops and to entirely ignore the Ma says. "What makes me si'k is 13y CJLA.UDB 'ALLAN not coWplalniTi1 about .> to lnli> somebody in div- you piv- »' my mind. "That .Jones woman everybody >wn sick aj»' helpless, Near Again probably feels that hereafter, "The Lord helps those most who help possibilities of retailing his products that your sympathy makes you jive without a bite to eat br a cent to buy medicine, an" sent her little boy up themselves." at proportionately larger profits. Up your last dollar when there's a Costa an«l Revenues pretty young girl to be helped, but town to beg for help. Sallie she'd heard ahout the s'andal like ever1- Maybe you have paid a repair bill caused by a Now the postal service Is your ser- if it's an old person that needs char- ; .-••.- an' she wouldn't do nothin' pcry piece of road. A Certain Mortgage Lifter vice. If it does not pay its way, ob- elsr do It." • ti step back an' let Bomebody She told me it was just encouragin' Senator Arthur Capper outlines a plan of paying off within a gen- viously you and other tax payers sin an' Iniquity to h<>lp anybody thai eration the hulk of the, farm mortgage debt estimated at $4,1)68,000.- "Why, manor," 1 says, "I'd IK Ip brought trouble on theirselve.s by ear- You don't have to carry that risk. We have station- must make up the deficiency. In the anyix«dy under the Mtfue circum- 0 00. fiscal year l!)30, the total postal de- s t a l i ' . nel wickedness. ary object collision that covers damage to your car "Lati.l OtGoShttfl! If We didn't help "Ordinary life insurance policies costing less than $S0 a year licit *-as $98,000,000; in 1931 that "if an old woman needed help," Ma ect folks, we couldn't caused by collision with fences, posts, culverts, etc., and would pay off the debt," he said. "The average farm mortgage debt deficit reached the enormous ligures gays, •'you'd ask why her own people help nobody. with the road bed through an upset. If you should be is approximate 00. I am informed that an ordinary life policy. of $l'46,000,000. didn't help her or Why th' sin except "The w farmers in my offtnioB who would,not put forth an "Charily , ' I be^an. nasty gossip an' paddin' his bills, he rate is very reasonable. extra effort to meet the payments on the policy that would leave their for the shorter-work week* without "Charity is helpln' others regtaxcl- providing for increased revenue. always acted feetr-rightoo** an1 super- farms dear for their families. An extra litter of pigs, or a hundred ' how they look or how old ior when patients (Seeded belp be- heus properly managed probably would provide the necessary funds." Here I might state for your informa- re," -Ma Bays, "an' the objeti o' doin' wrong. Acted like they Remember, your chances of colliding with a station- Mr. Capper could have added that every year such a life Insurance tion that there are 48,73o post of- is to give comfort to them, but y'ottr to make your charity a source was dirt under his feet an' he W&M ary object arc greater than collision with another car, policy adds to a fund which can be borrowed from in an fices in continental United States of too holy to touch 'em. Who made and especially so in slippery weather. Ask our local y for an interest or principal payment on the mortgage. Ttte which 83,23£ are fourth-class post of pleasure tor yourself. You'd |M him a judjjTe o' people? He'd starve insurance protect ion continues. If the insured should die, the iusur- happy if you could be at the I office** serving almost exclusively a charitable Institution thai didn't th if "nobody ever done any- agent about our Stationary Object Collision policy. rural communities. So you see, we take in anybody put destitute beau- thing wrong or ftiolfsh. conipanv would pay the balance of the policy to satisfy the are extending considerable service ties." "I i.m't abide these holier-than- mortgage. The insui • ta to live and probably will. Some day thou folks- that won't nive you no he will arrive with his mortgage paid, a valuable insurance contract. to you. "Well, I notice thai you subscribe STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTO INS. CO. sympathy for a broken letj unless yon and ugs tucked away in the insurance company. What Farmer (icts for magazines When poor handsome broke it on the way to prayer meet- Adequate insurance is a worry remover in many ways, one has to These figures are interesting—of young men come to the door," | in'. My notion is they condemn «in- Bloomington, 111. •but you never lake one from a girl." own it to appreciate it fully. the total pieces of mail handled in neis so loud so nobody will suspect "I never take one from a pretty MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU the entire country. 9 per cent of the sirl." Ma s thej \. ina o1 their own. don't want first class mail, 3fi per cent of SPC- (wo copi.s eon •els just like a State Agent Lansing, Mich. saint, an' whatever w\ Fortune Makes A Prediction ond-class mail, that is. newspapers if a pretty g|fj is seiiin* 'em : done ain't no worse than l.-ttin' him landing magazine of business, predicts that the time and magazines. 26 per cent of the that you've already Btibworibi stan it." - and business cpneer depend on third-class mail, and over 14 per cent (Copyrighi 1932, Publishers Synd.) c;\TinT>AY, JANTARY ft, 1032 MICHIGAN FARM NEWS TTIRF* HOME AND FAMILY Edited by MBS. EDITH M. WAGAR. PAGE Address all communications to her at Carleton, Michigan. Canner's 1 ••-<>• from almost er- paradise,— ery state in the Unton and some from Canada. 1 found that there had been CONGRESS TO ACT Cooking Suggestions For Cabbage, Onions and Celery ToSave Your ."izes o| several thousand dollars ON FARM LOANS Poinsettia With Prizes "11(>'-('f their vitamins, ('fiery boiled Then in the •spring; cut the top ha :k duties that befell her lot? farm women had not heard of the their Federal Farm Loans now hold weiity to thirty minutes in a small to t w o or t h r e e e y e a a b o v e t h e g r o u n l 3. A growing business or family cash reserve, backed And what, should I find among the project or they would be getting their one-eighth of the farm mortgages in luantity of water is ^<>od creamed and take it from the pot and shake »ff all of the old dirt from t h e roots. by full insurance protection. number of booths in the Expo- Share of the glory, for they have the the United states or about $ i , i : : . - >r scalloped. 090,000. The loans were made R"t ii in a rich sandy loam and sition at the recent annual meeting experience and the products to can. teed applications of liquid fertilizer 4. A personal and family future made safer by life There are many classes and grades through 4.t»r»u local National Farm of the American Farm Bureau Feder- ation in Chicago but an exhibit of in which one could make an entry, Loan Ass'n, of which there is one or, Have You H-casionally through the gr< itason and the reward in size of bloo n insurance. some 20(1 jars of canned goods demon- for the list calls for fruits, vegetables', more in every county in the Union. strating the results of the canning meats, jellies, pickles, unusual varie- Congress voted down a proposal to Ever Tried will more than repay the trouble. They need plenty of water a n d full Life insurance is not affected by depressions. It contest for the pasl year! [ learned that I itfegta are ties, balanced meals, etc. permit borrowers from the Federal The exhibits are judged from ap- Land banks to default, a year's In- These Ideas? sunlight dm i• MinniHT and should be brought indoors as Noftn a s always pays 100 cents on the dollar on demand. No conducted and controlled by the Bco- pearances, color, clearness, arrange- terest on their loans. legal reserve life insurance company has failed in the noniics department of th« Mason ment in jar, amount of food and liquid There is a provision in the bill Unusual bits of entertainment for is becomes cool in the fall. fruit jar company that we have i:i jar and neatness of outside and authorizing each bank to extend over winter gatherings please any crowd, Poinsettias m a y be kept i n f this past 30 years. al! known all of our lives, and whose Label attached. Besides every prize a live year period or less any delin- be it a public affair or a social eve- way for several years and add much jars we have all used and are still us- jar is opened and tasted and the quent or unpaid installments on any ning at home. to the home Christmas decoratio] Sfrup is scored. Cuttings about four inches long may- ist as our mothers did before us. I found that there were over 7. unpaid mortgage. .Many do not care for cards, and it s well to plan something else when be taken from the old plant during the STATE FARM LIFE INSURANCE CO. A tanner's Paradise I never saw a more handsome ex- entertaining a mixed group. resting period and can be soon rooted BLOOMINGTON, ILL. hibit in cans. There were jars of ber- Detroit Milk Drops GUARANTEED Something that calls into action by inserting the dry cutting in a pot of dam]) sand and covered with an A LEGAL RESERVE COMPANY ;very person present makes a good WATCH ries, in which every one looked just like its neighbor; white grapes and To 65 Pet. of Base 'ice breaker" for a party. Simple inverted tumbler which should never Get this handsome Amer or Film Paek Camera; be removed until growth has started. i -in-made man's or boy's or 30-piece all-whit* not one bursted; peas with liquid as Detroit—Effective January 1 tin- Inexpensive yet catchy prizes will add ^natch with latest "Bound I the World" airplane *• -^embossed Bet. clear as water; carrots sliced, with a Michigan Milk Producers Ass'n ad- to the fun. Michigan State Farm Bureau «!.si(rn on back of cavity in each center containing a fat vised its producers that Detroit dis- (Jetting- a Menu Despite the machine age efforts; it? durable case. Merely sell 30 pkta. pea; pears in rings with the core re- tributors can handle only 65% of Try a "balanced menu" for a to push him out of the picture, Old State Agent Lansing, Mich. of Vegetable and moved; butter beans the full length the base milk figure for each Ass'n change by previously selecting plans Dobin hangs tenaciously to the de- Flower Seeds a t 10c 'large pack to s e - of the jar; green string beans each member as base milk. The Ass'n for several menus of f> articles each. livery job wilieh was once his and cure this watch; or I o-shot Air liifle; cut exactly the same length and ar- urged its farmers to keep as much Write one article each on slips of his alone. ranged in fancy piles; green and red of the balance off the market as pos- paper and pin one on each guest as peppers in a can together; a fruit sible as the surplus will be paid for he arrives. When things begin to sakul of rings of pineapple with a lag, ask them to arrange a balanced cherry in center of each ring; white on a butterfat basis. Taking into meal from the 'tickets among them. button onions with red pimento consideration the return on surplus After a given time collet t the groups rings; parsnips and carrots cut fancy milk after paying the hauling cost of tickets and score the meals. Give shaped and mixed; carrot and cab- to Detroit as against the returns each of the winning group of 5 an bage; a vegetable plate dinner with from separating at home, the Ass'n after dinner mint. WORLD'S FAIR SIGHTS peas at the bottom of the can, then sees no good in sending surplus milk Administration Building and Fair Grounds sliced carrots and string beans at the to Detroit. Milk consumption ap- Or—Before the arrival of guests, write names of food on slips of pap- . . . the new Adler Planetarium . . . top; whole tomatoes without a seed pears to be declining steadily in De- Shedd' Aquarium . . . Field Museum , , s We also in sight; and jars of chicken, mush- troit as elsewhere. er and hide them about the rooms. and the Art Institute. have beauti- rooms, rabbit, and meats of all kinds. Each word must have a mate. For ful jeweled Wrist instance bacon and eggs, coraed beef Watches. Sets of All jars not saved for exhibition Farm Bureau, Grange And and cabbage, salt and pepper, mush dtehe*,! S-color Flash- purposes are given to charitable in- «nd other fine stitutions. and milk, bread and butter, pie and shown in our Farmers Union Join Hands cake, crackers and cheese, tea and t with seeds, Anyone registering as a contestant « hirh explains plan by which is sent an empty jar in a container coffee, peaches and cream. (live the vou get grift yon waDt. suitable for remailiug and anyone can Ionia—"Organized agriculture is one who finds the most complete enter as many cans as they desire. now working with a united front. mates a prize of a box of matches. 60 Grand Any woman who has confidence in T ie master of the National Grange 'I'lipy may trade about until they se- Prizes, or S100Q her own ability as a canner of fruit, and the president of the Farmers ie a mate to What they have. in Cash — win auto, or pony, vegetables, meat, or any of their com- Union met with the American Farm lW;\i\ Etacc etc. Good binations would be wise to apply to Bureau throughout its recent loth Divide your crowd into two groups. c h a n e i to win if you act Grace Viall Gray, Log Cabin, Aurora, annual meeting at Chicago, and they Have them form in two lines. Give quick - send 111., for full particulars governing are in agreement for the best in- each person a soda straw and the for seeds T O D AY. these contests, and we hope that terests of agriculture," P.res. M. L. captain of each line a glass contain- many of the awards may come to our Noon of the Michigan State Farm ing a dozen navy beans. And to each rural women in the future. Bureau told the annual meeting of .No. _ give an empty ulass. No. 1 is the Ionia County Farm Bureau at to put each bean from his glass into When buying a new stair carpet, LeValley church Dec. 1">. the empty glass held by No. 2 by Write today for s always buy a half yard more than is The Ionia Bureau plans general placing his straw into his mouth and KND NO MONEY—p needed .and fold in at top and bot- meetings for the members each drawing thru it with his breath. As as when seeds are sold. Karn Money - Liberal CASH commts- tom of steps. As the carpet wears on quarter in 1932; The tirst will be soon as No. 1 has his glass empty he ion, instead of GIFT, if dexired. the edges of stnir^. move it and.it will held at Portland, probably during the sa it on to No. 3 to hold for No. AMERICAN SEED CO. last much longer. latter part of January. 2 to put his beans into. This process Dept. 1)-11 Lancaster, Pa. la continued until the end of the line is reached and the tdass is brought back to the captain by the tail man. a prize of a Jelly bean to each of the winning side. Birthday Charades into three groups with those WHEN whose birthdays come in January. February, March and April in one group, .May. June. July and AugUSl in another and Septnuber, October. 1.NEW BISMARCK HOTEL 4 La Salle-Wacker Building 10. One La Salle Street Bldg. 15. Chicago Civic Opera Bldg. Hard Times November and December into last group. Have each group act a char- ade groups. to be guessed by the other Palace Theatre Metropolitan Office Bldg. 2. Merchandise Mart (Marshall Field Wholesale) 3. Marshall Field Retail 5. Builders Building 6. Chicago Temple 7. City Hall—County Building • 8. Steuben Building ?. Foreman State Bank Bldg, 11. Continental Illinois Bank Building 12. Central Trust Co. of Illinois 13. Board of Trade 14. Illinois Bell Telephone 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Butler Bros. Adler Planetarium Shedd Aquarium Field Museum Soldier's Field Washington Contest COME A-KNOCKING YOUR AT THE DOOR Have a Washington parly. Give each guest a sheet of paper and a pencil and allow them 10 minutes in which to find as many words as pos- TRIP TO c \ \ \ CAGO sible out of the name Washington. Give a prize of a pasteboard hatchet or a candy cherry to the one who has wilt be made easy and comfortable at the New Bismarck Hotel. Whether or not, as some people think, times are the longest list. Within three minutes' walk are the following attractions: harder today than they ever have been, we are Nutting Party sure of one thing: Oh have a "nutting party". Give FINANCIAL each guest a sheet of paper on which Over 50 banks and bond houses. The Bismarck There have been ten business depressions is written the following questions Rooms with Bath: Hotel is on La Salle Street . . . the financial since A & P was founded in 1859; and, with the and ask to have the answers written. $350,-$4.00, $4.50 and grain center of the West. Question—What nut is: Ans.: rest of the country, A & P has come through all (1) A. beverage? anut $5.00, and $6.00. THEATRES '-> A girl's name? Hazel nut fen of them stronger and better. We believe ($) Goes with good bread?Butter nut Rooms' without Eight theatres, ten movie palaces, and the (1) The most popular? Dough nut Chicago Civic Opera. The Bismarck Hotel is an we can do it again. < •>» A vegetable? i .;i nut Bath, $250 Randolph Street, Chicago's Rialto. F u r bad boy?? Hickory nut Our part, as we see it, is to keep on selling <:> A fence? Walnut more food for less money-thus making it pos- is) A sandy shore? i!'p A strong box? 1 1 i nut Chest nut. WHOLESALE (i"i A miapion field . Brazil nut The Merchandise Mart is only two blocks from ill) Soldi.'is liked it? Itougtinut sible for more people to buy morefood-in turn, (live t h e w i n n e r a prize of a s m a l l The Bismarck. The wholesale centers of eight keeping more food producers busy, and making sack of Dutmeats. different lines of trade are within five blocks of The Bismarck. more jobs all around. < .» Hang U P the frequently-used kit- And it workr. For today, besides furnishing a chen utensil whenever possible. it POINTS OF INTEREST is much easier to find a small uten- The largest State Street Stores... the City Hall stecdy market for many growers and producer., we sil like an eggbeater whe*n it hangs . . . the Chicago Post Office . . . depot a n d ore employing 5,763 more workers in our own com- ou the wall than when it lies on a shelf or in a drawer among other docks for nine railroads . . . five Chicago news- pany than we did in 1929, the most prosperous year papers . . . the Chicago Temple . . . the Chicago utensils. this country hos known. Public Library... all through street car and bus Farmers9 Buying lines . . . and the Chicago Elevated. The Great Guide ATLANTIC & PACIFIC Tea Co. H l l u l u Rates on Application n f c l K«»rn< A t £*»•**>». Many ivcrus years farm organi- 1BI/MARCK HOTEL zation headquarters. Comfort at ortees. N". Grand at Mich. Center of Hty. Cafeteria, uvar.i^c. [lutes 11.50 to $2."'". BRArTIFULLY RANDOLPH Monuments— DESIGNED iiionnments of the most beautiful granite AT LA SALLE and marble. Call or write. We employe You Mtva the cliff e Largest monument worka in Westerr Michigan. SIMPSON GRANITE WORKS, 1358 ^Y. Leonard, Grand Rapids. CHICAGO SATURDAY, JANUARY !>, 1032 FOHR FARM NKWS ences. Though the two forts were Obesity Not a Disease; we become civilized we habit- The best to be had URGE REVIVAL OF First Continental 500 miles apart, the chiefs started out on iiorseback and on meeting each Just Too Much Food and ually disregard primitive instincts one of the first of these to be Wire a Neglected Saga otheor found that the line had carried lost si.^lit of is the signal from the is the Cheapest WAR FINANCE PLAN (Continued from page 1) Union, felt that a telegraph line theis should span the nation. When he among words truly. The story spread stomach Chat sufficient food has been the tribes and the telegraph be- Ann Arbor—Obesity is not a sign taKen in, with the result that some You can pay 5c, 10c and TO AIDJUSINESS cam proposed that the Western Union They might raid 3 almost should undertake the construction of the operators, butthe sacred to the Indians. f Internal disease*or maladjustment, of us regularly overeat considerably stations and kill s has been thought by many doctors and find ourselves carrying about ex- even 15c a bag more for such a line, however, he was met with ed tChe wires. Perhaps,seldom they molest- ml laymen, but is always due simply cess weight. This is the opinion of War Finance Corporation': the strongest opposition. The explora- immmnity was partly because the however, this o the fact that fat persons take in Dr. LJ H. Newburgh, of the depart- PILOT BRAND OYSTER ment of internal medicine i n the Work Recalled By tions of Fremont were not far in the wlMB did not kill the buffalo and more energy in the form of food, University of Michigan, based on the SHELL and it will be Hoover Plan past, and the vast extent of the coun- waste the Indian's food supply and requently of a concentrated sort, closely controlled observations Of cheaper than any other try west of the Mississippi was re-threaten his livelihood. nan they expend in daily activity obese patients in the University Washington — President Hoover garded as a wilderness people with with the result that the excess i hospital. shell you can buy. proposes to establish as a financial savages and almost impossible of de- Edward Creighton of Omaha, later a tored as fat. relief measure a Reconstruction Fi- velopment. millionaire philanthropist, surveyed This because there is from nance Corporation similar to the War But Sibley had faith. Undaunted the route west from Omaha and ar- 10% to 30% less waste in Finance Corporation of 1918-22. by the company's refusal to follow ranged with the California State Tele- WE CLEAN PILOT BRAND. Every bit In the 1931 depression the War him, he embarked upon the project by graph ( Company to build a line east to Finance Corporation advanced $538,- himself. At first he had little success, Sal ; Lake City to meet a line to be Quick Service—Modern Equipment of it can be eaten by your 000,000 to 4,317 banks in 37 states but with the outbreak of the Civil conBtructed west to that city from Y,m may pay for the .leaning by having us deduct clean seed at pre- War the government, realizing the Omaha by the Pacific Telegraph Com- to 114 live stock loan companies, 33 v a i l i n g quotations for the duality. This service offered now. I t may b e fowl. pany, organized for that purpose. withdrawn without notice. Ship freight prepaid or collect to us. All co-operative marketing ass'ns in 20 military and administrative value of charges toaed on receiving weight hire. Kami Bureau duos may be paid Then too, there's no rat- states. At one time the Finance Quick and dependable communications Pole Supply A Problem With clean seed. Corporation had $700,000,000 out with the West, agreed to subsidize the A,' handsome reward was offered to Sflc ner bushel for 1 run over dipper mill. 50c per by. for two rims. gathering odor or poison- standing. It repaid the treasury al work. Forty thousand dollars a year the first to reach the Mormon capital $1 p ^ f f s h e l f o r cleaning for buckhorn, which iiu-m-U-s a cftpper mill 0 ous matter in a bag of the money advanced and enough for the first ten years of operation and. a fine spirit of rivalry developed more to cover operating expenses was voted by congress. Additional in the race between the eastern and FARM BUREAU SERVICES, INC. 0 PILOT BRAND. The Reconstruction Finance Corpor funds were raised and a route select- western forces. The dramatic story of 221 .No. Cedar St. Lansing, Mid,. this, race has never been Avritten, de 0 ation would be clothed with broac Oyster shell is a necessity powers to relieve critical banking ed through Omaha and Salt Lake City to San Francisco. When the Union •spike the great flood of western histor 0 for good health, meaty conditions in various localities by making loans on commercial pape Pacific, the first railway to the West, ical works which has come in recent was constructed later it followed prac- years. There are only some reminis fowl and maximum egg held by such banks. 0 (11 iRLBB 8. BROWN tically the same route as Sibley's tele- ceivces of men who engaged in the 0 production. The formation of a Reconstruction Finance Corporation with broac "Farmer" Brown, as Charles S. graph line. Brown of Arizona is known through- Omaha West—5 Months work to be found in the files of ole newspapers. In some cases, poles hac Strong Livable 0 On sale at feed dealers everywhere. powers to discount paper is likely to out the country, is coming back to It had been expected the construc- have a dampening effect upon the Michigan this month to speak on thetion of the line would require two wagon, for there were no trees on the numerous proposals to change th work of the Federal Farm Board. He years, and many feared that the In-plain and the railroad was yet to fol to be hauled as far as 240 miles by WITH ] \ O P C O NOPCO standard of bank paper acceptable to spoke before the 14th annual meeting dians would tear down the lines and low. 00 o the Federal Reserve Banks for dis of the Michigan State Fatm Bureau roaming herds of buffalo would break count. Senator Vandenberg of Mich in November. Mr. Brown is of the down the poles. It proved, however, pony express filled the gap and the igan has been urging a proposal tha Federal Farm Board staff. He is well that these were pessimistic fears. The time far communications from coas would broaden the powers of the worth hearing. The time and place of construction of the line actually re- to As the two lines progressed, the coastt lessened day by day. The lays, the even developing w: T \ during ITH enough Vitamin D in her ration the hen stores a supply of this vitamin in every egg she heavy production. Then as the egg is incubated chick uses this Vitamin D to assimilate calcium Federal Reserve with respect to rea the meetings will be announced local- quired less than five months, and line from Omaha, started July 4, 1861 estate mortgages and other classe ly. Following is Mr. Brown's sched- while buffalo found the poles conven- reached Salt Lake City October IS and phosphorus (from both the egg and the shell) and becomes fOB POULTRY of paper not now acceptable ant ule: ient to rub off their winter coats and Four days later the western crew fin a stronger chick. Experiments have proved this. which are normally an importan Ludington ished Its part of the job. There re Strong, livable chicks and good hatchability go hand in hand. part of most banks' business. Jan. 2.". in the evening, under the aus- occasionally broke them, and the In-mained only to join the two and the Vitamin D has a direct effect on both. It is essential also for strong OYSTER SHELL THODrtrrS CORPORATION the Ludington Fruit Exch., dians occasionally interferred with Nrw York St. Louis London .Mason County Farm Bureau and busi- the operations of the linemen, the con- great task of constructing the 1,150 egg shells, heavy egg production, and for eggs of superior food ness men. struction and maintenance of the line milo transcontinental line was com EXPLAINS MOISTURE Jan. Stanwood 26, afternoon, auspices of the was far easier than even the most pleted. Stanwood Co-op Ass'n and the Meeosta optimistic had hoped. October 24, 1861, less than five value. Nopco Cod Liver Oils offer a dependable, measured, and eco- Where ON STABLE WALLS County Farm Bureau. Saginaw Why Indians Ilohavcd months after the work was begun Stephen J. Field, chief justice of Cali nomical source of Vitamin D. These oils are biologically tested for both Vitamins A and D. When fed as recommended with an Money Goes If Heat Is Retained, Moisture County Farm Bureau. Jan. 27, afternoon, auspices of the Farm Bureau Supply Store, Sayimiu Sibley's *tact did much to avoid op- fornia, opened the service with this position by the red men. He made significant message to President Lin otherwise properly balanced ration, Nopco provides adequate Vitamin D with a margin of safety. *•> Farther In Air Will Not Jan. Lapeer the Indians his friends and sought to coin: L'S. Auspices Farm Bureau Sup- impress them with the wonder of the ply Store. See article page -'. "The Pacific to the Atlantic send, he See cannot your dealer supply for you. either of these Nopco brands—write us if Co-operative buying is to . Condense Holland telegraph. When the line was in op- Jan. L'!t, afternoon. This date is ten- eration between Ft. Kearney and Ft.greeting, and may both oceans be dry NOPCO COD LIVER OIL FORTIFIED IN VITAMIN D POTENCY farmers what extensive pur- Ithaca, N. Y.—A cow breathes ou made tative: positive announcement will be before a foot of all the land betweei chasing departments are to locally at a later date. Meeting Laramie he invited the chief of the NOPCO DD COD LIVER OIL large corporations. approximately 5y2 quarts of water will be under auspices of the Holland, Arapahoes at Ft. Kearney to commun- them shall belong to any other thai each 24 hours, and a herd of twenty HudsonVlUe, Byron Center Co-ops and icate by telegraph with his friend the one united country." Ask for them by name and be sure you get what you ask for. Farm Bureau Products give cows would breathe out 110 quarts the Ottawa County Farm Bureau. *• If you feed commercial mashes He sure they con- you dollar values not obtained Battle Creek chief of the Sioux at Ft. Laramie. The tain Nopco X or Nopco XX. For economy and de- or 27i£ gallons of water in 2 4 hours Jan. 29, evening, a u s p i c e s of B a l t i c two chiefs exchanged telegrams ami 100 YEARS AGO pendability (cost only a few cents per sack of mash) elsewhere. BUY and SELL Co- according to Professor A. M. Good Creek Farm B u r e a u Ass'ti, K a l a m a z o o were deeply impressed. They were In 1832, a bushel of wheat was r insist upon Nopco in your mashes. Look for the operatively. Produce Co., and the Barry, Caihoun and guarantee certificate or tag in or on each bag. man of the agricultural engineering Kalamazoo County Farm Bureaus. told that the wire was the voice of worth less than a dollar but the BATAVIA Farm Bureau Bulk department at Cornell University. Berrien County Manitou, the Great Spirit. To con-bushel would pay for three days' NATIONAL OIL PRODUCTS CO., INC. In that section of the stable where be Jan.announced Jo, afternoon, place of meeting to vince themselves they decided to meet work. Now it takes three bushels later. Auspices of Berrien BOSTON CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO Plant most of the stock is kept, and where County Farm Bureau and co-operative halfway and compare their experi- of wheat to pay for one day's work. EXECUTIVE OFFICES:52ESSEX ST., HARRISON, N. J. Gasoline, Kerosene, Motor and the walls are well insulated so that ass'ns In county- Tractor Oils, Greases, Alcohol, heat does not escape easily, the heat Lansing Tires. Jan. 31, Sunday evening. Central from the animals keeps the stable Methodist church, Lansing, auspices of walls and ceiling warm with the re-farmers of Ingham and surrounding BAY CITY Farm Bureau sult that the moisture does not con- counties. Supply Store East Lansing dense. However, in that part of the Feb. -, Tuesday, 3 p. m. at the gym- Cor. Henry &. Main Streets stable w.here only small amounts of nasium, .State College, Farmers Week Farm Bureau Seeds, Feeds, Fer- animal heat are given off, as in box program. tilizer, Oils, Twine, Greases, etc., stalls and calf pens, or where heat etc. We buy beans. HART Farm Bureau Supply mow m^y escape readily, as through bare floors or single boarded or con- SOY BEAN MEAL NEW Store Farm Bureau Seeds, Feeds, Fer- tilizer, Oils, Greases, Twine, etc. crete walls, the air is chilled and deposits its moistures. It may seem strange that around GOOD HOG FEED Farm Bureau Mermash the calf pens where only a small an- IMLAY CITY Farm Bureau imal breathes out moisture, the walls Process Cuts Oil Content; Supply Store are so much wetter than around the Farm Bureau Seeds, Feeds, Fer- dairy herd w.here so much moisture Value Equals Linseed Now Available The Dairy Cow . . . tilizer, Oils, Greases, Twine, etc. is breathed out, but the above ex- Oil Meal plains it. is the ideal medium thru which more farm crops LAPEER FARM BUREAU Another cause for unnecessary East Lansing—Use of soy bean oil A new feeders' mash, containing all the essentials Supply Store moisture is hay chutes which are left meal in hog feed is becoming more of a balanced ration. It builds and maintains good can be marketed at greater profits. She is a natural Farm Bureau Seeds, Feeds, Fer- open. The warm, moist, light air i generally accepted in Michigan than health for your flock. Your costs are lowered— roughage consumer. tilizer, Oils, Greases, Twine, etc. forced to rise up these chutes and in previous years, du£, apparently, in if the loft siding is tight, this air wil no small measure, to experiments in and your flock will be large, heavy-bodied birds But—you must balance her ration. The leading LANSING Farm Bureau usually leave its moisture on the sid- hog feeding at Michigan State College. that produce eggs cheaply. Supply Store ing and on the under side of the roof V. A. Freeman, of the department of dairymen of Michigan choose Milkmaker 24-32 or 221 N. Cedar Street What is the effect of all this mois- animal husbandry, says soy bean ml Study This New Mermash 18% Formula 34% protein. It has proven to be the outstanding Farm Bureau Seeds, Feeds, Fer- ture? It causes soggy, mouldy, de- meal found as a protein supplement has been the equal of linseed oil meal. tilizer, Oils, Greases, Twine, etc. caying timbers,—warped ceiling and Manamar 10 % dairy ration. It helps to convert your home-grown siding,—swollen and sticking door Feeding soy beans, Mr. Freeman PINCONNING Farm Bureau and window sash, and a miserable said, has a tendency to produce a soft, Dried Milk 5% crops into profitable dollars. Ask your local co-op Supply Store place in which to work and keep live oily pork because of the high oil con- Alfalfa leaf , '.. 5% about Milkmaker! tent, of the bean. Its 14 per cent oil Farm Bureau Seeds, Feeds, Fer- stock. content is cut to about 5 per cent in Meat scraps 5% tilizer, Oils, Greases, Twine, etc. The condition of these damp, un- We buy beans. healthy stables can be entirely cor- the process of producing soy bean Start now and capitalize on this unusual new Mer- rected by proper ventilation, says meal. iThis meal, when combined mash. Sold in the regular 100 lb. bags. See your SAGINAW Farm Bureau Professor Goodman. with tankage or some other animal Supply Store protein supplement and fed with al- local Co-op at once. 220 Bristol Street The distance by water from Du- falfa or alfalfa meal, makes an ex- ceptionally good hog feed. Some com- Farm Bureau Seeds, Feeds, Fer- luth-Superior to Montreal is 1,337mercial feeds are now carrying Boy tilizer, Oils, Greases, Twine, etc. miles; from Port Arthur 1,215; bean oil meal instead of linseed oil We buy beans. from Milwaukee, 1,179 miles; from Chicago 1,244 miles; from Gary meal, because of the high food value WOODLAND Farm Bureau 1,256 miles; from Detroit 612 miles of soy bean meal. from Toledo 605 miles; from Cleve Use of the soy bean oil meal in com- Supply Store mercial feed mixes was given the O. Farm Bureau Seeds, Feeds, Fer- land 528 miles; from Erie 433 miles, K. of feeding experts of Michigan, tilizer, Oils, Greases, Twine, etc. from Buffalo 390 miles; from Toron- Ohio ^nd Indiana a short time ago, We buy beans and grain. to 338 miles and from Ogdenburg 120 miles to Montreal. according to Mr. Freeman. Unless alfalfa meal can be had at a cost but slightly above the cost of good How to settle the Lubrication Problem for 1932 ilfalfa hay, the college does not re- Classified Ads :omme»d the expense of grinding the hay. Feeding experiments using good Classified advertisements are cash with order at the following rate*: 4 cents per word for one edition. Ads to appear in two or more alfalfa » hay in racks have proven Make this afirmand steadfast resolution: editions take the rate of 3 cents per word per edition. successful, which indicates but slight advantage of use of ground feed over rack feeding of the alfalfa. BABY CHICKS Soy bean oil meal used in making a "For my car, truck and tractor I will use exclusive- LIVE STOCK mix equal to the commonly accepted BABY OHICKS—ROCKS, REDS, Leg- REGISTERED JERSEY BULLS, StR- Trinity Mix (two parts tankage, one ly Farm Bureau Oils,and Greases." Remember, two horns. Hatches every week. Splendid layers. Great for broilers. Thirty day ed, son of World's Champion cow. Dams part linseed oil meal) has the O. K. hundred and sixteen co-operative dealers in Michigan livability guaranteed, c.et 1932 prices. 400 lbs. to 600 lbs. records. Write for of State College. Two parts of tank- High egg strains. Bnimmer & Fredrick- list. Hatlield Jerseys, Remus, Mich. son Poultry Farms, Box SO, Holland, (12-26-2t-p) age, one of soy bean meal and one of are in position to care for your requirements. Efe cer- Michigan. (12-26-tf-32b) alfalfa or alfalfa meal make a "mix" RABBITS ft IHTCHKS equal to the Trinity Mix, Mr. Freeman tain—Be sure—Be safe—Quality Pays. WANTED—FARM WORK FOR BADE OR EXCHANGE—TWO 8 said. WANTED FARM WORK BY YKAU compartment rabbit hutches with thirty or to rent farm on .shares, everything registered pedigree rabbits for what have THI: GREAT LAKES—ST. LAW- furnished, by experienced man, able to you? Gus Phllippsen, Paris, Michigan. furnish good reference*. Married, fam- (l-9-31-3t-s) RBNCE SYSTEM ily. H. T. Bherburn, «.'>:'. South Clemens, The Great Lakes have a water bansinff. Telephone 4191. (1-9-lt) W ANTCL) -BY SINGLE MAN, i:>. FARMS surface area of about 95,000 square miles dt which 33,940 square miles See Your Local Farm Bureau Distributor farm work by month or year. Dairy or tl farm. Neat, i lean. Long time FARMS FOR SALE ie on the Canadian side and 60,770 ..Seed, Feed, Oil, farmer In Montealm county. 'Knows the work. Leonard P. Bolllnger, ltiOT Kast Grand Ki\ i phone 52-281. M b li. Tele- FOR S A L E - T W O GOOD 4" ACRE square • miles on the United States' farms with fair buildings, n e w house <>n side of the International Boundary. one. Good land, with or without stock, tools. Mile from town. M. K. Kershner, Their shoreline is approximately 8,- Twine, Fertilizer Farm Bureau Services, Inc or WANTED FARM WORK BY YKAR rent with everything furnished. Paris, Michigan, R. 1. (l-9-31-3t-s) S00 miles of which about 3,800 bounds the United States. Life and Automo- Lansing, Michigan Young man. Raised on farm in WASTED TO RENT—FARMS farming section. Experienced help. reh Street, Lan- WANTED—TO RENT FARM FUR- Wisconsin produces enough Amer- bile Insurance. \\ \ N nished on shares, or work by the month. FAR- W. M. Langthorn. Experienced. Have i rent small farm on good references. Write, % Michigan own son. Write Farm News, LL ' M No itreet, Lan- can cheese yearly to supply two pounds to every person in the United 221 North Cedar Street . 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