MICHIGAN MEWS n Newt Interesting to THE NEWS Farmer* Through the A Pregr«Mlv« N«w«p»p«r Farm N«w» For Michigan Farm Horn** A Newspaper For Michigan Farmers FIFTY OK NTS FIVE CENTS PER TEAR SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1932 PER COP* Issued Semi-Monthly; MICH. WOOL POOL Kaleva's Co-op Creamery MILK PRODUCERS State Farm Mutual, Farm LIVE STOCK EXCH. MAY ASSEMBLE Success From The Start TO ENTER POOLING Life Policyholders Do Well SAVES MEMBERS AT LANSING IN'32 Pounds of ButterMade Nearly Quarter Million farmers in 1929, now has over 400 patrons and members. It started with one truck to collect cream. To- ARRANGEMENT They Own Nation's Largest Auto Risk Firm; OVER $400,000 In 1931 day four trucks are employed full Financial Position Is Very Strong; Farm Directors Are Negotiating time and two trucks part time. The To Build Or Lease Plants To For Warehouse Hi/ W. I. CRAMPTON quality of the butter has always been Life Surplus $430,000; Michigan Paid Local Ass'ns $275,000 Facilities Kah-va The Golden Co-operative excellent. At the State Fair last fall Manufacture Surplus Agents Win Honors In Commission Savings Creamery at Kaleva, Manistee coun- it was given a score of 93. ty, shows a fine record for 1931 The Co-operative ( ransing, Recent experiments by Dr. P. M. milk is handled, the <1 ap- roster. Mr. Carnes took sixth place in tendent of claims, said, that 92,401 Isuch as savings in time, truck ex- proved the pooling arrangement. these awards and Mr. Bishop, tenth. claims out of a total of 96.0S6 re- I and freight and savings In Harrr.er, muck soil specialist of the The resolutions empower the Cash awards for the high producers ported were settled at a cost totaling |hand'ling the- wool in the warehouse. college, on the use of flours of sul- Ass'n to build or lease milk manu- ranged from $5 to $100 each, the $3,567,101.83. Sixty-six thousand Instructions for the 1932 pool will phur for ameliorating the "Alkali" facturing plants to process surplus Michigan leaders won a total of $165. of these claims, he explained, were reach all 1931 poolers soon by letter condition of certain muck areas are milk. The Producers Dairy Com- ll'rom the Ass'n office at 221 North discussed. Results of Dr. Mariner's Throughout the entire convention collision losses, on which the com- work on the use of copper sulphate pany manufacturing plant at Adrian, program, including the sideline con- pany paid policyholders $1,318,824 |Cedar street, Lansing. in which the Milk Producers Ass'n is ferences, an air of pardonable pride while liability losses required pay- ital, President E. A. Beamer said In Wool poolers may obtain wool as an aid to onion growing on some interested is likely to enlarge its in the accomplishments and standing ment of $1,102,981. Property dam- his address to the annual meeting of i of the 19IU pool is Makers of women's wear—atft_now test, etc. Following is t h r text of ticular, Adlai H. Rust, general counsel Mr. Carmody stated, are more than expenses within its control, but at the hold, say advices from the National featuring in New York and other Genesee Says Share the pooling resolutions: present price of live stock transpor- style centers of the country, dresses of the companies, showed the State ample for all contingent lia/bilities tation rates, feed and yardage charges hvool Marketing Corporation at Boston. Michigan may expect an and coats which include our nation- Gas Tax With Counties Milk Producers Association of the De- Farm Automobile Insurance Company and serve as a definite assurance of are too high, he said. From 1923 to Whereas, the members of the .Michigan early final settlement for that pool, al tri-colors. In addition, scarfs, troit area have a large <:uantit.\ of milk as having stepped to the head of all fulfillment of the contracts of all L920 such charges were 6% of the neckties and other articles for per- which cannot be absorbed by the mark- companies writing only automobile policyholders. ft. was reported. eta available for direct consumption; and, Value of the stock; today they are Discussing the time it takes to sonal wear embodying the red, Grand Blanc—Genesee County Farm Whereas it is necessary that milk of insurance and gave a simple analysis President G. J. Mecherle said that 16%. jlose out a wool pool—sell all the wfaite and blue are prominently ap- Bureau, at its recent annual meeting, consumption some members be diverted from direct of the financial statement of the com- if the State Farm Mutual Auto In- Ivool—the Wool Ass'n directors said pearing. Blanket manufacturers adopted the following resolutions: and, to manufacturing pur;icses; panies. He was a speaker on the gen- (surauce Company had to "pay up a "If we are not satisfied to pay $1.15 bushel for corn and the labor in Because the legislature has failed to are turning out patriotic numbers relieve the tax burden of the property Whereas each of the memberd are en- eral program at the business session, and close its doors tomorrow", it [hat a pool and wool accumulated |>y private interests has the same with the national colors. owner, whose taxes have increased far titled to the best market in equal pro- Wednesday morning. ,would have about $1,500,00 of sur- feeding it when it is worth only 30 route to travel after it leaves the beyond all reason in proportion to his portions and to provide an equ:'l mai-kel income, and whereas, the state gasoline some plan to adjust the same is neces- Mr. Rust stated that the company plus to start business with as a new cents in the country, if we are not satisfied to pay $30 per ton for hay farm. It must be graded, financed, Would Boost Truck tax accumulates an enormous s u n of sary, and in connection money for road construction and main- justment it will be necessary for the with said ad- went through 1931 duplicating its concern and could carry on uninter- when it can hardly 'be given away in ! and sold to mills and other tenance, be it resolved, that the St:it<- Association to take on other functions record of the year previous by writing rupted. Tax To Aid Railroads Farm Bureau formulate, and circulate ;> A very unusual feature of the con- the country, the only way to combat petition for an amendment to the state resolved that the Board of Directors be more collision insurance than any vention program was introduced such conditions is through an organi- final buyers of raw wool as they re- Now therefore, be it and it is hereby mire it. There is usually a carry- gasoline tax law, by which, a percent and they are hereby authorized to di- other company of any kind. He show- Grand Rapids—The Kent County of said tax shall be returru'i to the vert such of the milk of the rnembci * Wednesday afternoon at the general zation having sufficient volume of over of some old wool into tlie new county in which it was collected for the in the Detroit area as is necessary into ed that the auto insurance company meeting when J. S. Maryman of stock to command respect," Mr. Beam- frop season. Farm Bureau at its annual meeting retirement of its road bonds and for the manufacturing or other purposes; that had assets of $6,600,000 with a surplus Jan. 20 went on record as favoring removal of all property taxes for high- the price, of milk of the said members Little Rock, Ark., a high producing er said. Under the pool system the farmer way purposes. an increase in the weight tax on And be it further resolved, that said plan ^ in the sai.l area be pooled undei1 such of $1,026,000. | agent of the Aetna Life Insurance Shipping by truck has made great las been getting a cash advance that as in the judgment of the Board of No Investment in Default Co., was presented as a leading changes in the Live Stock Exchange, unpares very favorably with the trucks to assist railroads in meeting petition he circulated for the necessary Directors is feasible; and that such ad- (otal amount being paid by local buy- signers that the amendment may be vot- ditional commissions competition. The bureau also adopt- ed on at the general election in Novem- each of the members in the area as is be collected from Referring to the company's invest- number on the program with an as- Mr. Beamer said, pointing out that in frs who buy the wool for the purpose ed a resolution calling for a limit on ber within the year of 1932. The g;.s necessary to carry out the pooling plans ment of more than five million dollars signed topic, telling ihow sales are 1922 truck shipments were 4% of the property taxation. It fixed no specific taxWhereaiis $22,000,000. and the cost of same; n proportion as in senior securities of the country's made. Detroit market receipts; in 1931 they >i further profits from the mill buy- taxation in the State of Mich- the whole of each memb«r*a milk so leading industries, he said: "We take It is not a general practice to ask were 62%. He said that truck re- ?rs. With his cash advance in hand, percentage. igan on real estate has become ionfis- shipped is to the whole shipped, taking catory and whereas property income has into consideration the two .lasses of milk what we think is pardonable pride in the agents of one insurance concern ceipts were largely responsible for the I he associated wool poolers grade, fi- depreciated alarmingly,—Be it resolved produced by each such TtTeniber. lie- being able to include in the annual to tell those of another company how liance and store their wool, selling it BACK TO THE FARM that the Genes.'.- County Farm Bureau solved further that such additional com- Detroit agency of the Live Stock Ex- jo mills and others through the here assembled January 20, 1932, wish to missions so collected be usod exclusively statement t h e words, for the operation of sai.l pool and the ex- 'none o f to get business, but Mr. Maryman change being first in volume of calves National Wool Marketing Corpora- In 1930, for the first time in ten tax give our approval and support to the limitation amendment as sponsored penses incident thereto. which are in default in either prin- was picked, for the place because of handled among the 21 Producers ter- tion which represents 26 State wool years, the movement of population by the .Michigan Farmer, and ;>e k fur- Whereas it may be de?rnefl ivdviPinle ciple or interest'," emphasising the his record of having produced at minal market agencies, and Ibeing ex- between city and country resulted in ther resolved that a copy of tins reso- least one new policy of life insurance I'ools. The pooler stands to make lution be sent to the Michigan St:ite that the Michigan Milk Producers Asso- soundness of the concern's financial each week for the past sixteen years ceeded in sheep and lamb volume only an increase for the farm. Over Farm Bureau. ciation become interested in plants simi- standing. [lie same or better additional re- 200 000 more people moved to the Farm Resolved that the Genesee Coumy lar to the -Adrian plant of the Michigan with a record of more than a million by the Producers houses at Chicago and Denver. [urns that wool brings after it leaves Bureau reaffirm our position by Producers Hairy Company, so is ti Attention was called, further, to dollars la business each year during |he local buyer's hands. As a rule farm than to the city, a recent re- heartily endorsing the extension program create a (Continued market for milk which may be on page 3) a contingent reserve of $950,000 (Continued p n page 4) (Continued on page 3) (Continued on page 2.) port indicates. _ in the county. ilson Believes This Panic Will Force Currency Reform There were just as many houses, and New York Times and a hundred less- tion into the second stage of the Era ployment, as a result of the preach- sell additional advertising space and automobiles, and miles of good road >r metropolitan daily papers bursting of Silliness among the Great Busi- ments of the Big Business Leaders, unload some overstocks of goods at lays Attention Has Been after the October crash, as before. into exhuberant prognostications about ness Leaders. Arthur Reynolds, the the Advertising Fraternity took the higher prices than market conditions Dr. Julius Klein, the Assistant Sec- the New Year. Andrew Mellon and Chicago banker was saying, "It would whole matter in hand. Advertising justified. Be it recorded that the "Buy Kept Off Money Situation retary of Commerce, who has been Paul Warburg were drawn into pub- surprise many to know how good :lubs throughout the country rushed Now and Bring Back Prosperity" business is right now". to the rescue of business. There was movement never contained the slight- the Administration Prophet of Pros- perity via the psychological route, About this time the wave of mort- nothing the matter with business, est suggestion of a retail price cut (olds Big Banks Fight to Save Gold Standard could not restrain his enthusiasm; — gage foreclosures on enormously val- they shouted. All that was needed to the consumer. All that it could do, "We have come to see," said Dr. uable down-town property in Chicago was a little "pepping up". under the most perfect circumstance!), And Privileges of Present Credit System; Klein, "that the stock market is not started. For several months the hold- "Advertising," said these minor would be to wring dry the pocket- the principal barometer of business, ers of first liens on new office build- prophets of the Sunshine Philosophy, books of the masses, in payment for Every Remedy Has Failed In Face and that our American prosperity is ings were taking over property in the 'is the heart of distribution; and by goods that were overpriced, and thus heart of Chicago, at a fraction of its increasing the advertising expendi- pass the cost of the business panic Of Inadequate Currency deeply and firmly rooted." There was no word about "world conditions" real value. "Business" among the tures of manufacturers, the sale of along to the people who patriotically having America in bondage in that men who thus annexed hundreds of goods will be increased. Selling the responded to the call. Ky LVCirs E. WILSON John millions of sound real estate, was goods will call for the manufacture November. Our "American prosper- Retreat of the Prophets In October 1929 the stock market 1920. "really good". The people who had of more goods. And that means more ity" that was so "deeply and firmly 'ashed. Prices of stocks tumbled The Era of Soothsayers erected the buildings—who had sup- employment, and that will bring more While the Advertising Clubs held 30 to 40 per cent in a few days, Arthur Brisbane c ontributed his rooted" was surely going to bring a plied the junior money, the courage, pay rolls and that will increase buy- the stage, the news columns of the fewspapers carried stories to the share to the rhapsody of optimistic return of prosperity to all. if we the skill and the confidence in the fu- ing power and that " So Lib- daily papers were flung open to would only keep our "confidence ect that "great banking interests" blather in that same month by telling in ture of Chicago—they were told that erty magazine and the movie mag- speakers who extolled the merits of [ere going to buy large quantities of his readers that "Those that foolishly fundamental conditions." they had "overbuilt" and must "take nates and the newspapers and the Ad- the Sunshine Cure for business de- William Randolph Hearst, one of ( »cks and thus stop the price fall. talk about a national panic, Will the strongest proponents of the "mind the consequences of their bad judg- vertising Clubs all joined in a gigan- pressions. It is amusing to note, A few days later the newspaper please remember that the income ot ment". tic scream to the public to "Buy Now however, that the really big names cure" for business passed the buck in business did not appear in the foiies were all denied. New York this nation is one hundred billion dol- to Herbert Hoover. "Some reassur- The mockery of optimistic bunk in and Bring Back Prosperity." lars a year". And President Hoover The Headache Era headlines quite so often as had been inkers, who were said to be active ing- utterance by the President of the the mouths of big business had not the case in the preceding six months. checking the debacle, disavowed added his voice to sanguine prophe- United States," said Mr. Hearst in his yet penetrated the public conscious- A study of the indexes of business A few of the manufacturing leaders solemnly dii advising us us that that l responsibility for market condi- c i e s by pontifical manner, in that November, ness. shows that the cry did have some ef- and bankers were growing cautious— s and asserted there was "no The fundamental business of "would do much to restore the con- The Buy TKom Era fect on retail sales for about six or ashamed. "ikers pool" in support of prices. country, that is is production produ and fidence Of the public". July and August of 1930 brought in- weeks. Then the public discovered Yet as late as December 1930 W. S. Rut optimism was voiced on every tribution of commodities, is on a During December of 1929 the chat- to the public arena that final climax that it had been bilked again, be- Parish of the Humble Oil Co. could | le and the American people, who sound and prosperous basis." ( ter of business and political leaders of economic silliness known as the cause there was no increase in em- not resist telling the public that "The l »y the work-a-day world on their By the middle of November 1929, continued in the same strain of child- "Buy Now and Bring Back Prosper- ployment and no increase in "buying present depression, which is common- l e n d e r s and pay very little atten- , h . country In .he like optimism. Arthur Brisbane ex- ity" movement, It was a natural out- power". The best critical observa- ly called a business depression, will n to market speculation, were as- era of determined se horted, "If every man would learn to growth of the unmitigated futilities tion that can be made of the whole in my belief end within six months". | l red by business and political lead- wherein leaders and near-leaders talk about the country's progress an i i.rcn N !•;. n //. that had been poured on the public scheme is to say that it may have As a phophet be turned out to be 8ftd- chorus telling us future as a young mother talks about lie assertions that things were really by the newspapers, during the pre-been conceived in honest immaturity 's that all would be well in a 1 joined in 8 was purely new baby, there would be no dan- very promising. ceding months. by persons who did not know any ly lacking. Within six months the |hile. "Believing that fundamental that the depression We were assured by her The Early Foreclosure Era Since nothing had happened to raise better; the worst criticism would ad- oil business was so flat that Alfalfa Murraj, the ubiquituouB gover- Editions . . . are sound, my son psychological that the nation had ger of hard times." Midyear of 1930 marked the transi- commodity prices, and increase em- judge it as a far flung conspiracy to Bill (Continue a ou page 2.) I have for some days been pur- manufacturers January 1930 came along with tho much real wealth as ever . lasing sound common stock," said "just as TWO Wilson Believes Panic ' writt en, m the light of 1950, the structures in American magazines or[ server is going to express endless newspapers, or on the political plat- r» Force Currency Reform amazement that a great nation with forms, that the body politic is not in- formed regarding the common prac- Hiram and Marthy Are Tempted (Continued from page 1) millions of well-educated people, By R. S. Clark tices of banking. The farmer who nor of Oklahoma was calling out the could be kept believing that some knows anything about banking cred- The power company man waa Tl,c fin National Guard to establish martial super-natural magic was going to in- its, on the complex machinery, in- out Right on the dotted line. law in oil producing territory for th<: tervene and cure the panic. The ter- Last week and talked to us Successor to San Farm Bureau News, founded stalled under sanction of Federal law, Bui when he'd Btayed ;-. while January 1L\ W23 purpose of cutting down production rible effects of the panic are less And all the neighbor* here- He said. "Just talk it Out", and raising prices. astonishing than the childlike sim- called the Federal Reserve System, is abouts, And since he went 1 tell you January 1931 rung down the cur- plicity with which a 120 millions of a rare man. And say, he raised a fU8*. That's all We've talked about. Entered as second class matter January 12, 1923, at the postoffice tain on the Buy Now comedy. Hut people allowed themselves to be di- 1> to Pnblie Opinion lie put the proposition up at Charlotte, Michigan, under the Act of March 3, 1879. To Marthy and to IU« 1 went over to lli.k's place, the disappearance of that futility verted from any study of the mone- Yet there can be no relief for the And Vinthy she i That he would like to fell u« And In our minds is oniy s Published the second and fourth J Saturday of each month by the from the stage of public affairs did tary and debt systems which are the present distress without an intelli- Some electricity. For just that one Idea, Michigan publication office at 114 Lovett gent public opinion. "Farm Relief" not turn either newspapers or busi-j tap-root of the trouble, Tlie power service from the St., Charlotte, M The reason why is this, cf Bdltorlal and general offices at 221 North Cedar Kt., Lansing, Mich- ness leaders to the serious task of i Big Banking has carried through a is not going to arrive through im- town course, igan, box 708. Telephone, Loaning, 21-271. endeavoring to diagnose the economic campaign for the preservation of mense appropriations of public money Will be within our rencil, We've wanted lights BO long If all <•!' Hicks Street will put That now the chance has come disease that had wracked the nation privilege which is a marvel of skill. to be used in speculations in the down it takes us mighty strong. for so many months. Americans are No criticism of the gold standard has wheat pit. It must come through a So much apiece, per each. E. E. UNGREN Editor and Business Manager determined optimists. They like to been permitted; no examination of scientific reform of the money sys- The company will build the line Why, Marthy knows forty ways Xow while their work is slack, That she can use the juice," believe in destiny and courage. It the Federal Reserve System lias been tem of the country, which will pro- And 1 don't (toss what rhe says Subscription N c u t s per year in advance is easy to delude the public so long given space in newspapers. For two vide a safe means of buying and sell- And when it's all a-woiklitR Because it Is no tine as preachments of courageous enter- years there has continued the mo^t ing; free from the collapse of "credit We get our money DUCK, So iii about a month now Vol. X SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1932 No. 4 prise are the central feature of any brutal raid on the living standards of structures" that are nothing more l guead the feller'd been around You needn't be surprised And knew where he VV1 To hear that all of Hicks Street propaganda. the masses ever perpetrated; and yet than thin air, and that disappear when Has been electric! For each objection that We Deflation Continues in 1931 the public has not even grown res- needed most. found , . . Whenever the organized farmers if. Whh wires, volts and kilowatts, The' sinister forces that had profit- tive until very lately. He grabbed right off the cat. And switches here and We Know How, Neighbor Free Press ed enormously by depressing com- Purpose of Deflation 1 the middle west will study this ques- lie didn't use big fancy words I'll sort of keep you posted up Nor try to make us sign, About the whole affair. The following editorial in the Detroit Free Press of February 22 is modity and security prices, were not If Big Banking can preserve the tion of money reform, so that they can of special interest to Michigan farmers who are producing eggs for their ready to loosen their strangle hold. gold standard, and at the same time support an intelligent system, they And the well-intentioned men who carry through its policy of hammer- will find themselves out of the de- own families ">'(1 for Bale. Said the Free Press': continued to tell us that "business ing commodity prices and wages to pression in six months. Until this is It is recommended that potatoes IODINE IN E«flS Living near Budapest, a woman poultry farmer has has turned the corner" were doing unbelievable lows it will be the ab- done, they will flounder around in a this year be planted as far as pos- Noxious Fish the only thing they could think of solute dictator of all business, for maze of political clap-trap that will sible on new land or on land that b.aten the I with a successful experiment in pro- just then, to relieve the strain of years to come. Factories will open result only in increased taxes. Lansing—More than 100,000 nox- has not grown potatoes for the past ducing eggs each containing 0.169 milligrams of iodine, weary months. James A. Farrell, or close, as the profits of a very few four years. A long rotation may aid ious fish, dog fish, gar fish and carp, which does not affect the taste of the egg. It is said that head of the United States Steel Cc, | big bankers are served. Farmers will In the articles to follow, there will materially in reducing injury from were removed from Michigan waters the human system can assimilate iodine contained in an egg refused to see the facts. "We are toil on the land, but they will receive be given an outline of modern bank- the wilt organism. during the year 1 9 31 by the Depart- more easily than in any other form. racing in this country a bright fu- such returns in clothes, comforts, ed- ing laws and practices, in such man- The grower should select his seed ment of Conservation or by persons Poulterers in Michigan should find a ready market for ture," he asserted in January of 1931.! ucational facilities, and recreations ner as to be easily understood. With carefully, discarding tubers that operating under th> direction of the "iodized eggs," if 'they could learn how to make their hens It seems unthinkable that a man so j a s may be allowed them by the same it will be explained the fundamentals show any outward sign of stem end department. The catch of carp lay them. For Michigan is located in the "goiter belt" of placed could see no further. The big banking group. of the kind of a money system that discoloration or rot. When cutting alone exceeded 500,000 lbs. the Croat Lak.-s Basin and many natives suffer from im- "bright future" eight months later So long as the world—or the Ameri- must be adopted, if there is to be the seed for planting, at least one perfect functioning of the thyroid gland common1 to this had the steel mills down to less than can nation—is tied to a basic money general prosperity and a steadily im- inch of the stem end of the potato ROVING DOGS region, due to iodine deficiency. Iodine in solution is pre- forty per cent of normal capacity. which is so small in quantity that it proving standard of living for the should be cut off and discarded, and During 1930, roving dogs in Wis- scribed for inactive thyroid. Dried kelp or seaweed high in Arthur Brisbane returned to the can be cornered by a banking group, people. potatoes showing discoloration deep consin killed 8,371 sheep, 651 hogs, "Mind Cure" in the same month by the mass of people must accept in the flesh should not be planted. 635 domestic rabbits, 291 cattle, iodine content is sold to the local markets. Iodized salt has telling reading millions "This coun- whatever price is put on money by and 14 horses, claims that were pre- been manufactured. Rut it would bo a.simple and palatable matter if one could consume a daily ration of iodine with the breakfast try possesses everything that it had those who control. a year ago last October, except some The Jiejil Problem SELECT 1932 SPUD Buy Farm Bureau seed. sented show. egg. Many Michigan fanners know how to make hens lay iodized eggs, of its courage." There is about eleven billion dol- Ten months later Mr. Brisbane be- lars of gold in the world. Forty per gan to perceive that a world even cent is held in the United States. SEED CAREFULLY - Neighbor Fn > P Many arc getting a premium for such eggs, thank.s to Farm Bureau Berviees, Inc. co-operative organization which for three years has been supplying farmers wMh Mermash, a poultry mash con- with courage could not do business Thirty per cent (of course these fig- on an inadequate money system, and ures are subject to rapid change as he gave the first faint indication of events dictate) is in France. Yet the TO AVOID WILT Herbert Hoover taining kelp and ocean fish meal, rich in iodine which is assimilated by real thought upon economics, by de- total gold in the United States would hens and becomes part of the egg. claring that the gold supply of the not actually do the buying and selling College Says Conditions In Said, "Insurance offers men and women an op- Farm bureau Services has observed that chicks hatched from iodized world was cornered; that it was en- of the nation for more than one day. 1931 Favorable To portunity to pool the financial effects of chance mis- eggs are stronger, better chicks. Few die. The Services has observed tirely too small to be used as a means It has to be "pieced out" by an enor- fortunes, and is also a good medium for saving and that all baby chicks, growing chicks and pullets gain marvelously on of exchange and that some other plan mous structure of credit which is Wilt investment." of a basic currency must be adopted. perilously balanced upon it and Mermash containing the iodine bearing kelp and fish meal. Had he made this perfectly obvious which may be used to destroy the East Lansing—Severe droughts in Michigan fanners are learning in increasing numbers how to produce discovery two years earlier, and used prosperity of the millions of people most sections of Michigan in July The absolute safety of life insurance makes it the Iodized eggs. Their own organization has provided Mermash with a the immense power of his "Today col- who create things to eat and wear and August, followed by heavy rain- jsufficient kelp-fish meal iodine content ait or below the price of other umn" to direct critical public atten- and use. The real wealth of the na- fall in September, made ideal con- ideal investment. It takes a long time for the average poultry rations. tion toward the reform of our money tion is in useful things. But the real ditions last season for the develop- man to save $1,000 or $10,000. i The Free Press ideal of a daily ration of iodine with the breakfast system, it would have shortened the wealth is measured in dollars, by a ment of various fungous growths panic by many months. yardstick of gold that is so micro- that are generally present in most egg ia being made a reality by Farm Bureau Mermash. By means of life insurance he can create such an July 1931 found Dr. Julius Klein scopically inadequate as to plunge soils according to Michigan State Good Binder Twine and Patriotism again to the forefront with "obvious- prices to lower and lower levels. College. estate by making reasonable annual cash payments. He ly coming out of the depression now", Others Neeking Keform Two of these organisms, the Fus- A number of binder twine manufacturers in this country have become has good chances to live to complete his contract and A few weeks later the stock market England is pointing the way to a arium and the Verticillium wilts very indignant over the fact that large fannens' co-operative organi- tumbled in to the worst price slump new economic freedom for her Do- caused a high percent, of wilting and enjoy the money or a guaranteed income when he needs zations have abandoned them tor a better twine at a better price, a of the entire two years of wretched- minions—Canada, Australia, India, yellowing of plants in many fields it most. If he should not live, it is the only investment •twine manufactured by someone else. ness. South Africa and her islands—the ex- during August and September and re flooding the country with leaflets, insisting that it is "un- "Earmarked" for V. S. Taxpayers produced a brown discoloration in that he can make that will pay his family 100 cents on ample will drive our American polit- patri' :i mers or farmers' organizations to buy binder twine made Meanwhile the President had come ical leaders to an intelligent reform the stem end of the potatoes. This in Canada or anywhere else but in their particular factories. No argu- forward with the War Debts mora- of the legalized banking system in stem-end browning has in many in- the dollar,—and the whole amount contracted for.. If ment is presented regarding quality, service or price of their twine- torium. The Eastern press, closely this country. It may be embarrassing stances developed approciaDly in he should be buying real estate or bonds, the estate That doesn't come under the heading of patriotism. tied with the great banking interests, for America to have to turn to Great storage during the past three undertook a carefully managed pub- Britain for leadership in the organi- months and may cause some break- might owe unpaid balances, but not so with life insur- The principal materials in binder twine are imported,—from Yucatan, licity stampede in favor of a cancel- zation of human society before it can down in many lots of potatoes be^ ance. Africa and other places. Congress has made binder twine materials and lation , of war debts. Premier Laval enjoy genuine prosperity; but unless fore planting time. binder twine itself duty free, seeing no sense in taxing farmers on a came to America to talk . . . Premier our own leaders display far more en- The advisability of planting lots product thait the country doesn't produce. Grandi of Italy came to America to terprise than has been exhibited in of seed potatoes showing stem end Life insurance enables us to complete our plans it discoloration has caused many grow- It certain American binder twine manufacturers, having the advant- talk Albert Wiggin of the Chase the two year? unhappily gone, there ers some anxiety. It is believed, we live; it comes to the rescue if disability or death age of living next door to their farmer customers, let their distant com- National Bank went to Geneva to act is no other light. petitors lick them on both quality and price, it's too bad. Yelling "un- as chairman of a committee of in- however, that with a normal grow- It has been, and still is, the custom ing season in 1932 and with care on intervenes. State Farm Life policies are especially patriotic" is a long ways from being* as effective as an inviting improve- ternational bankers who were badly of bankers to contemptuously wave the part of the grower in selecting adapted to farmers. ment in price and quality would be. hooked with German loans. Some aside any plan that calls for currency and preparing the seed for planting means had to be found to save the reform. There has been so little open that a relatively clean crop of po- Alfalfa Pays A Good Hour Rate banks and the bankers from loss. discussion of money systems, or debt tatoes can be produced this year. Alfalfa pays the farmer producing it up to $1.00 per hour for actual The obvious way was to shift the load STATE FARM LIFE INSURANCE CO. of reparations from the backs of Ger- labor he puts into it; high yields of clover and timothy pay about half man taxpayers on to the necks of BLOOMINGTON, ILL. as nttich as high yields of alfalfa, said J. F. Harriott of New York's Agri- A LEGAL RESERVE COMPANY cultural College after a study of the wages paid by various farm crops. American taxpayers. England Cries Enongh Classified Ads Classified advertisements are cash with order at the following To earn wages on grain required in New York a yield of 30 bushels The. Saturday Evening Post, almost of wheat to the acre, 40 bushels of barley or 60 bushels of oats. alone among the publications of large rates: 4 cents per word for one edition. Ads to appear in two or mor* editions take the rate of 3 cents per word per edition. Michigan State Farm Bureau Hens have paid better than cows in New York in the long run. Apples circulation, opposed the scheme to State Agent Lansing, Mich. have been one of the best paying crops for New York farmers for the make America pay the cost of the period 1914 to 1030. World War. The moratorium, how- ever, : served as a diversion which BABY CHICKS LIVE STOCK rather effectually prevented Ameri- BABY CHICKS—ROCKS, REDS, Leg- Do You Believe This Petition? cans from examining the faults of the horns. Hatches every week. Splendid Herefords layers. Great for broilers. Thirty day "Don't be hasty" in signing petitions to repeal the Agricultural Mar- gold Standard and the Federal Re- livability guaranteed. Get 1932 prices. WE HAVE TOO MANY REGISTERED keting Act, is the advice of the Prairie Farmer to farmers. In a recent serve system built on it. It was only High egg strains. Brummer & Fredrick- Hereford yearling bulls. Wonderful when England suddenly abandoned son Poultry Farms, Box 20, Holland, chance to start in purebreds. Repeaters is«ue (this farm paper says editorially: the Gold Standard that American Michigan. (12-26-tf-32b) and Woodford breeding. last, 8c pound. Todd Company, Mentha While they Farm Bureau "Petitions asking for the repeal of the agricultural marketing act are HUSKY, HEALTHY CHICKS—MICH- Michigan. (l-23-3t-27b) newspapers were willing to give even being circulated among Illinois farmers. An accompanying statement igan accredited Large Type S. C. White Garden a little space to inquiring minds who Leghorns, Barred & White Rocks, R. I. Holsteins says: 'We believe that the repeal of this act would mean higher prices had long known that the supply of Eteds, assorted chicks for broilers; full for farm commodities at once, and a start on the road to recovery from count; live delivery gold was so pitifully small as to pre- paid; 1932 catalog free. AMERICAN guaranteed; post- FOR SALE-rFOUK YEARLING RKG- this depression.' lstered llolstein bulls. Also bull calves, clude its use as a universal medium CHICK FARM, Box B, Zeelaml, Mich. registered. Van Buren County Farm "No proof to support this statement is given. Certainly the Farm for buying and selling. (l-23-6t-37p) C. I. Peopples, Manager. Hartford, Mich' Phone 15. (2-18-3t-23tf) Board did not cause hard times, nor would its abolishment bring good The action of England, in abandon- WHITE WVANDOTTES AND RHODE times. With the aid of the Farm Board, rapid progress is being made in ing the gold standard, will be record- Island Reds from high record hens. Write for literature. Arrowhead Poul- Guernseys building up co-operatives that eventually will give farmers control over ed by future historians, as the be- try Farm, Lapeer and Howell. Michigan. REGISTERED GUERNSEY BULLS the marketing of their own products. Until farmers do get this control, ginning of business recovery in the (l-23-3t-20p) from cows with splendid records. Glenn they will !><• at a disadvantage, both in good times and bad. world. Clark, Eau Claire, Michigan! (2-13-3t-p) WHITE LEGHORNS, Rl'CKER 300 All's Well in the Headlines g strain; Barred and White Rocks. Like Farm Bureau alfalfa, Write today fur prices. Arrowhead Poul- TURKEYS Today the papers in America are t F andd Howell, H l Michigan. clovers and other Hold seeds are As Reflected by the Press turning to another—and let it be try Farm, (l-23-3t-23p) TWO XAUAGAXSETT TURKEY GOB- Recently it was observed that in 41 copies of 33 different farm papers hoped the last—means of distracting piers. Pure blood. $s. Mrs. Frank Van- DR. TIKASI.KY PURE BRED STRAIN Tassell, Hart, Route 2, Michigan. there were 56 fair or friendly mentions of work being done under the attention from the real causes of the LegnornS. If you have ever used this l2-27-2t-13p) Agricultural Marketing Act and ten unfavorable. In nine copies of six great panic. A careful study of the fatuous strain, it needs no further com- ment. Our circular is free. Let us tell RELIABLE different "'trade papers" for cotton, grain and produce business interests stuff that is given preferred space in you our story. Heasley iJro?, Orchard FARMS FOR SALE (there were T.I unfavorable mentions and two favorable. the news columns of the New York Hill Farm, Dorr; Mich. (l-l3-3t-3"»p) FOR SALE—15 ACRES OF LAND IN VIGOROUS This index to the situation shows how important is the aggressive Times and other conservative dailies BARRED ROCK CHICKS HATCHED city of Big Rapids. A beautiful site effort to acquaint readers with all the facts concerning co-operative shows "heads" with such glaring ab- from eggs from W. K. Kellogg Kami at overlooking city. 3 acres in orchard. PRODUCTIVE Gull Lake. Bloodtestod. Tr.ipnested. Also some New Zeeland red rabbits. K marketing being given by farm publications such as the Michigan Farm surdities as "Wheat Farmers Gain Here is your chance to get started with R. Swanson, Big Rapids, R-4, Box 111' $500,0/)0,000 by Advance in Prices." real high class stock at ridiculously low Michigan. (l-23-3t-s) News. i prices. Our <>wn strain of White Leg- Nature Rives us but one best So few readers known anything horns, Barred Rocks and Rhode Island about the number of bushels of wheat Reds as low as $7.00 per loo if ordered SEEDS and PLANTS chance. Make the most of it Mich. Wool Pool May 102 Bushels of Corn raised in the United States that no this month. our own place. l 1,400 While Leg W We can sell g h orr 88 ll for f 88 on on lless DUNLOP STRAWBERRY PLANTS S3 with Farm Bureau garden seeds. because we iu d nearly y all ouro r own wn Per Assemble At Lansing In the Feb. 13 FARM NEWS re- one challenges this mis-statement. eggft. We do custom hh hatching. VISI- 1,000; 5,000 @ $2.75; 10,000 @ $2 50 itinued from pnKe 1) If wheat were to jump a dollar a TORS ARE WELCOME. M iddleville 30 varieties. Best plants in Michigan! Write for our Garden Seed port of the Michigan Corn Growing Poultry Farm & Hat'heiv, A. W. Getty All kinds of Nursery Stock. Seeds bushel, it would not bring the farm- the pool has shown a worthwhile in- contest for 1931* S. G. Dickerson of Prop., Middleville, Michigan. (2-27-2t-97b) V\rit<: us before you buy. Froe list. Circular. Best varieties for ers half that much money. A Boston Prices down where they belong. James crease over local ouyer prices after Bloomingdale was credited with 92 G. Prestage & Sons, THE ALLEGAN Michigan. paper" flung across the first page a FARM MACHINERY NURSERY, Allegan, Box X, Michigan. all expenses havo been paid, the di- bushels per a're, for second place in headline shouting that the people of (2-13-6t-42b) rectors said, emphasizing that mar- Region 1. It should have been 102 Von SALE -ONE 8 (J. V. VAC GAS PRICES ARK ROCK BOTTOM Tulsa, Oklahoma, were celebrating engine 150.00. One Hercules Stump STRAWpERRY PLANTS, PREMIER ket conditions determine the length bushels, which was second highest with street parades and bonfires, the 1'uHer $50.00. Both nearly new. Real 14.50 per thousand t <>. 1». Ludipgton of time required to sell wool into yield for the State. First place was good buy for some one. Albert E. Tetz- N. J. Martin, Ludington, Mich., i: i return of prosperity to the oil indus- manufacturers' hands, regardless of 112 bushels. laff, Big Rapids, R-4, Mi. higan. (2-27-3t-lCp) try. Fortunately for the Boston pa- (l-23-3t-s) •whether the pool or private inter- per, Oklahoma is so far away that WANTED—FARM WORK FARM BUREAU SUPPLY ests hold it. They must hold for Harder On Non-Residents INCUBATOR FOR SALE— TWO 400 STORES reader.8 did not learn the "celebra- grg Sure Hatch anil one Buckeye Mam- sale as required. Lansing—Non-resident fishing li- tion" was the usual holiday joviality moth No. ! • apacity. F. B. WANTED—FARM WORK P,Y MONTH Bay Citv The Ass'n believes that 193 2 will R. I, Mason, Mich. Lansing or or year by married man, 2 children 20 censes for the year 1932 are now on of Hallowe'en. (2-L>7-lt--'71>) years experience. Dairy or general Hart t>e a good year to pool wool, and Mason phone. City s;le by the Department of Conserva- But such spasms of prosperity pro- farm. D. C. Whitemore, Box 113 R-3 y that I nuse at Lansing will be WATERPROOF CANVAS COVERS, Lansing, Mich. ' by the poolers. tion. In accordance with an act paganda must find an end sometime. belting, everything in canvas. Guaran- i 8 of the Mich- adopted by the 1931 Legislature they Sooner or later—perhaps a good deal teed Waterproof Covers Z%c, 4c and 5c square foot, any size. Write for free or l-ARM WORK WANTKD— KY MAX man and wife. Experienced help'1 igan uve Wool Marketing will cost $4. later—fthe people will grow so weary catalog with new 1932 low prices. Hoosier References. The last session of the legislature of unmitigated hard times as to de- Tarpaulin & canvas Goods Co., Dept. 23. K. WUliamg. By month or year. Dale Age 20. 520 Bast Semi- Indianapolis, Indiana. (2-13-2t-37b) nary Sn-,,1, Charlotte, Mid,. ('-•'? 1 > W. W. Billings, Davlson, presi- also provided that a license is neces- mand that intelligent and critical dent: King. Charlotte, vice- sary for any non-resident to fish in judgment be applied to the causes of FOR SALE—MISCELLANEOUS president, directors are: W. WASTED TO REST—FARMS the Great Lakes as well as in the in- the great panic. There will be found IX Albert Van land waters. Formerly a license was some newspaper willing to lead. QUILT PIECES— 2 POUNDS (15 yds.) WANTED—TO RENT KIKXiSH Kr> mly i;;t«'. Faal large pieces; farm on shares. Hm to I«0 acres Will Vranken .1 E. Cj-osby, St. unnecessary to fish with hook and A Question of PrivileifpJ print! and percfeles. Send , . ,,. ,i |;,._ exchange references. Married, Forty Johns; BI. K &lc Pliers on. Lowell line in Great Lakes waters, When the history of this panic is liable Sales Co., Desk 29, Princeton, Ky. Experienced. Clark A. Hairier R-i (8-27-lt-24p) Lansing, Mich. {i-27-ltj Farmers 9 Buying MICHIGAH FARM NEWS SAT! KDAY, FEBRUARY H Guide Rates oi» Application CAPTURED LETTER POOR PA Live Stock Exchange Saves Over $400,000 AUNT HET Tree Seedlings Provide 1,300 Villages in State Profitable Farm Returns Have Electric Power Grafting Wax— AIDED WASHINGTON By CLAUDE CALLAN • 'ontinuert from page 11 Reiterating his warning against ir- By ROBERT QUILLEN East Lansing—Trees J grown by Ann Arbor-—Extension of power Michigan State College at its East system lines in Michigan during 1931 responsible truckers using old trucks II s-Ytul f o r prii e l i s t . * gON, LAN8ING, MICH. IN ENDING WAR and usually operating without insur- ance, Mr. Beamer said the Exchange Lansing and Dunbar stations can botook electricity to 2 7 communities secured by residents of this state which had not previously had for Forest, shelterbelt, windbreak, vice from central stations. Hotel Kernt—^Jf»-S«. Jjgg had urged numerous local Live Stock or Christmas tree plantings. These additions bring the total /•ition headquarters. Comfort a t easv British Put Too Much Faith Shipping Ass'ns to meet the trend Christmas tree plantations fur- number of Michigan cities, villages, ;,rHfS. N. Orw»d at Mich. Center of citv In The Plan They by installing their own farm-to-market Cafeteria, garage, Kates H.fiO to |2.50. transportation, using their own trucks nish their owner with an income and hamlets with electric power ser- Intercepted or those of responsible contract car- from idle land within a few years vice close to 1,300. after they are planted. Other for- Beekeepers Supplies—^!;^;',: s U riers. Some 30 associations now give est trees are slower in producing YOUNG TURKEYS B r i t i s h * e n - such service. money returns but the cost of plant- Young turkeys require a warm J|H?QAN. HUWT crazy if I h.-ive to listen feeders' paper, Mr. Beamer said. to another political argument," Ma says, "i bad to Kit there an' listen Mr. Beamer declared that the vi- ment about the right way to spell a word. The more tlie^- argued, ( the cious attack on the Federal Farm madder they got; a n ' they wound up M K H I O A N BELL •>:> for f. o. b. fob Detroit L a n s i n g Wheeling % 3.r>o W. Va.' Michigan to you an' Henry last night, l thought you destroyed the Republican party Board by grain, cotton, wool, live On June 5, 1781, at ten o'clock in then, but now you're Btartin' in on it stock and produce private interests r •. .,- the evening Clinton's scouts captured by makin' fun o' one another's kin folks, an" Joe got his hat an' left. "1 don't see no sense in argument, TELEPHONE CO* •' ' i'T,- again." and their exchangee has as its real anyway, i t don't get you nowhere. for 12.75 i •.'•"-. an American messenger with dis- "I can't remain silent," I says, goal the poisoning of the public mind : •• '",ii PAtches from Washington to Lafay- If you're wrong1, it just exposes your 500 for ror 25.00 61.25 5« 5«# "when 1 see the injustice—" against all co-operatives. He deplored Ignorance; an' if you're right, the i:,.st quality cans, l ette, who was then annoying Corn- "You don't cry out against the in- the fact that many fanners, local busi- other person is too bull-headed v ra_ •' S P .. BON, LANSING, MICH. . wallis in Virginia. A conference had justice when your rich Uncle Dan was ness men and others interested in mit it an' that's so aggravatin* it been held at Weathersfield, Con- here," .Ma says. ' H< Garden S e e d — BU? W the Farm - necticut, the letter Store, Lanslnff, *'*ch., for price 'list' on Americans and their French Allies everything he said.' their high quality, adapted true-to- had decided to make an effort to said, and the iblicaij farming have allowed their minds to spoils your whole day. an' you sat there an' agreed With be led by the stream of anti-Farm I " I t s hard to keep from arg-uin' with Board and co-operative propaganda some folks. They're always inter- "I avoided an argument with Undi through the press and over the radio ruptin' you to correct what you're Protecting Your name, guaranti . ,; s capture New York where Clinton was Dan," I explained, 'because I didn't for that purpose. He rapped for "con- savin' an' you feel like you've got to located. There followed almost three want to get him angry while 1 was fusing and misleading statements" a defend yourself. Pa used to be 1H<<> months of feverish letter writing tryin' to borrow money from him, but "Michigan bean jobber Congressman." that. Acted like he had a'divil back and forth between Clinton and I'm always on the skle of the people." to set everybody right, an' especially Home and Family STRAWBERRY PLANTS Cornwallis "I think that's the trouble with The Live Stock "Exchange's annual me. Seeds — Berries — Evergreens Everything to plant in garden, orchard and preparing for the descent on berry patch and on the farm. Pri< while Washington appar- ently was building up his army you," Ma says. "I don't know muc.i dinner Thursday evening was attend- about politics, but it looks to me like ed by several hundred delegates, indi you Democrats that are on the sidd New York with a force outnumber- of the people never have any money. victual shippers, friends of the Ex- Bwerin1 back. I just say: 'Have your "I put up with it for a while, but finally I got tired of it an' quit an- 24 Hours a Day nil down where they belong. 1,000 Sena- ing the defenders. tor Jimilop strawberry plants for %'i Uncle Dan has' lots of money an' u ' s change and their wives. They had a own way about it, dear'. Answerin' :.i $2.75 per M. 10,000 at (2 50 per Then word came to Washington because he don't bother about the splendid program. that way is better than argument be- Al. loo Mastodon Everbearing postpaid that a large French fleet under Ad- people, but looks after himself an' b'S Friday, Feb. 26, at the business lt makes him madder. There for $1.25. Prerniers at $4. 8 Evergreens f.»r J l p o s t p a i d , 4 K i n , I s , 12 t o 15 i n c h e s miral de Grasse had come from the family." meeting reports were made by Presi- ain't nothtn' hurts a man's dlgSaity A TELEPHONE in the farm home? is " Spiraea y . l i . for $1 postpaid. See West Indies and had bottled up "Here, mama, is the $10 you asked dent Beamer, Sec'y OTtfealey, Treasur- like sweetly humorin* him ins! ••: i Jst before you b u y . Write Cornwallis at his encampment at for," I Bays, "an' now let me explain er Oberst, and by the several salesmen admittin' he's right. The Allegan Seed and Nursery Co., Yorktown, Virginia. Washington the difference between the two great at Detroit. J. R. Fulkerson of the St. 'I'd argue with him if he'd •^*- more than a convenience—it is an Box C, Allegan, Mich. saw his opportunity. Abandoning parties." Louis, Missouri, Producers, assured the an' admit it when he's wrong, but he his New York campaign he hurried "<'.<> ahead," Ma says, "but make future of co-operative marketing; R. never would. There ain't ii'> sens*; in ever-ready safeguard in times of emerg- south. Clinton still remembered it short. It's worth more than |14 C Pollock of the Nat'l Live Stock and beln' stubborn like, that. I'd admit the intercepted dispatch and regard- to listen to a lone,' political argument." Meat Board spoke on increasing the bein' wrong-if I ever was." ' ency. . . . WHY is State Mutual Rodded Fire Insur- ed Washington's move as only a roundabout attack on himself. Too late he saw the change of intent. (Copyright 1932, Publishers Synd.) consumption of meats. P. 0. Wilson, manager of the Nat'l Live Stock Mar- (Copyright 1932, Publishers Synfcl.) Company of Flint, Michigan, the farm fire insurance company The hapless Cornwallis was caught ceivably Lave ended differently. But. keting Ass'n, greeted the Michigan gathering. Iceless Winter Worries In case of fire, for instance, a tele- in the state <>f Michigan? on his peninsula between Washing- now the colonists seemed to have I. Because we believe in fire pre- ton and Lafayette on land and de the upper hand. One large British Commercial Fishermen phone will summon aid quickly. Property i a n d give t h e f a r m e r protec- Grasse on the sea-. After a few days army was lost, another was almost r actual i • liar for dollar our of furious bombardment he bowed isolated in the Carolinas. Clinton Co-ops Reduce Storage L a n s i n g—Michigan commercial and lives have been saved, frequently, be- Ive more protection to the inevitable and surrendered. had too few soldiers in the north and And Insurance Charges fishermen and the Department of- i our broad, liberal blanket pollcj. If Clinton had not been so sure poor prospects of reinforcements. Conservation are worrying about a cause there was a telephone at hand. that he iknew exactly what Washing- The independence of the colonies Dallas, Texas—The average ware- possible ice famine next spring. Beaailse w« pay our losses ptly. i ton intended to do, if Cornwallis was practically assured. house rate for storing cotton and the With little or no ice on the intend If you believe in fire prevention had marched straight to New York average insurance rate lias been re- or Great Lakes ami with a normal raat tl»»* safety and protection d by Michigan's largest farm instead of settling down at York- Milk Producers Enter duced tremendously by cotton co-op- ice forming season of but six weeks When sudden sickness or accidents oc- insurance company write today town, or if Washington had not been eratives organized since 19 20, says remaining for the winter, it is fear- to H.' K. FISK, Secretary, 702 Church St., Flint, Michigan. far-sighted enough, to abandon his Pooling Arrangement the Federal Farm Board. ed that a real shortage will be felt cur, it is important that medical aid be New York campaign at a moment's available(Continued from page 1) The co-operatives have built or next summer. for Detroit consumption, or to State law compels commercial •ft notice, the Revolution might eon- provide facilities for the taking rare of leased warehouses, or havn threaten- milk within the Detroit area and' areas ed to do so. They have reduced fishermen to carry ice on their fish- summoned at once. .With a telephone in State mutual Rodded Fire Laugh Off the Depression . adjacent thereto: ing boats during the period of May Insurance Co., pj itli'ch. Now therefore, be it and it is twreby storage rates from 2 cents to one- 16 to September 16 that fish may the house, a doctor can be called imme- Bead Bchultz's political speech on his resolved that we indorse such expansion third of a cent per bale per day to V MOMC OFF-ICE—FLIN.1 MICM / farmer labor party. A big- liit for your plans and recommend the use of sue ii save about $2.34 per bile annually. be chilled. As a rule commercial next entertainment. 25c copy. F . Doyle, of the funds of the Association as In the Winfield, Pa. judgment of the Board of Directors it The Cotton Ass'n paid $1.51 per fishermen put up their own ice and diately. is safe to so use, without impairing the $100 of valuation for insurance pro- are not located in places where arti- functions of said Association, for the ficial ico is obtainable. purpose of aiding- in the creating of such tection in its first y> ar. la the plants. warehouses now used the rate is 28 Most of the fish hatcheries are not LIVE STOCK MEN cents per $100. The savings in stor- equipped with automatic refrigera- The telephone is worth far more than IXPEELED APPLES age and insurance is as good as a tors. None of the hatcheries have SELL YOUR OWN Using unpeeled apples in salads higher price to the members. not only add attractive color but been able to store any ice so far this winter and difficulty in keeping adds food value as well, since the When hanging pictures a good fresh fish food is expected next'sum- it costs. Buy your feeders . . . Finance your purchases . . . Sell peel of apples is six times as rich in rule to follow is that the center of mer. them finished . . . Co-operatively all the way. vitamin C as in the part near the the picture should be on the level core. with the eyes. ST. LOUS MILK STRIKE You can send your stock to Detroit or East Buffalo yards and Dairymen in the St. Louis area have sell it direct to the packers through the Michigan Live Stock Ex- taken their milk strike directly to change, which is as near to you as your nearest shipping ass'n or the consumers by canvassing house- member who is affiliated with us. Get the FULL RETURNS from your stock. Farm News Patterns (Price 15c each) wives from door to door throughout the city. One distributor, who handles about forty per cent of the city's milk, Some 20,000 farmers, belonging to 150 Michigan shipping ass'ns, have at Buffalo and Detroit their own sales offices, top notch sales- refuses to recognize the farmers' co- men, and the largest volume on both markets. operative association. Returns to patrons guaranteed by $50,000 bond meeting U. S. Government requirements MICHIGAN LITE STOCK EXCH. PRODUCERS CO-OP ASS'N Detroit East Buffalo, N. Y. e'U Sue You! A threat frequently heard not long after strangers or even neighbors get tangled with each other in an automobile accident, with more or less damage for someone to pay for. It sounds bad and is bad if you are sued and have to hire a lawyer, fight the case, and maybe pay damages. Win or lose, it's hard on your pocket book. Hard, too, is the situation where you SHOULD sue This Year the other fellow for damages but can't afford to risk what it costs to do so. You pay your repair bill, etc., and try to forget it. We Expect Proposals Isn't it a good idea to carry an automobile insurance Leap Year is Ihe year for propos- located stores the very best foods that will stand all legal expense and fight the case for als, and February 29 the very day —in fact, the pick of the food crops you and assume the loss in case YOU should be sued for them. So please don't be shy of the world. And you'll get these for car damage or injury to others? A policy that will about proposing to us that we foods, formerly the luxuries of the repair your car and take care of the property damage purse-proud, at prices that suit the should be your devoted grocer all if there is any? That section eliminates the necessity through 1932 and for years to come. penny-wise. of your bringing suit for damages to your car. The semi- We're dying for the chance. We've We think we can win your ap- annual expense of such a policy in the State Farm Mu- just been waiting for you to pro- proval. All we ask is the chance. tual Automobile Insurance Company is very reasonable. pose it. And we'll keep our part So we're sitting back this Leap We have more than 500,000 policy holders and of the bargain. As your grocer you Year, all dressed up, ready and 7 000 agents in 29 states in this national can depend on us to bring to you waiting for proposals. Legal Reserve Company • at any one of our conveniently Please don't keep us waiting. MICHIGAN FARM NEWS Pattern Service, 11 STERLING PLACE, BROOKLYN, N. Y. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTO INS. CO. Boomington, 111. Enclosed find Pattern Size _ cents for pattern Spring 1932 Fashion Book „ size _ The Greaf ATLANTIC & PACIFIC Tea Co. R Name - - F« D - (°r street) MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU City State Lansin& Mlch (Patterns are 15c each, fashion book 15c. Send silver or stamps.) State Agent ' ' NOTICE! Be sure that you address your pattern order envelope to the Michigan Farm News, 11 Sterling Place, BROOKLYN, N. Y. FOFR SATTRDAT, FEBRrVRY 26, lftfr> Milk Producers Move; lature as now composed would not ac-at t h i s pace m u c h longer o u r s t a t e will |n the winter the bed is the warmest in Co-op's Success Brings GIVE OFFICERS Are Selling Separators Letters From complish anything, pirns ibly not. When (JOV. 1'in^ree faced such a situa- %O t o ruin sooner or later." "Thousand* of taxpayers were ruined tion some thirty years ago, and when he and lost their property on a c c o u n t of toom was advised not to call a special session m a n y Covert roads which in tnan> ^ " i h e ^ s u m m e r if heavy dew falls at D i g h t f a r m e r s . a n t g o M> w o r k i n t h e a i n a n d corn until about 9 o'clock W e Organized Opposition SPECIAL SCHOOL Detroit—The Michigan Milk Produc- ers Ass'n has moved its Detroit office Our Readers for the purpose of taxing the railroads were urged by over anxious road officers do not like t o work in t h e held a l t e r t. and when told that he could not accom- for some reason or other and still we find " V t " is not t h e e v e r y d a y w o r k i n g m a n plish his purpose, he answered, "1 will public officers advocating still call a special session anil put the rascals funds for still more roads. Is it not high nor more is it the farmer who likes this time many ly S h i i) p e nsburg, Pa.—Ty;>i<.ai Qf in local co-operatives, particular- regions of diversified farming" IN CO-OP WORK from the Owen Blrtg., Lafayette Blvd., to 406 Stephenson Bldg.', Cass and Grand Birds., near the General Mot- Theodore Bengel Calls mi record". 11>- called two oi- three special sessions ment in one winter, the railroads were taxed tures same a s other property, millions were Of time that our state Highway Depart- 1 don't should start to curtail the expendi- there are a lot more who will for new Slate roads and use more the present gas tax to pay off those with me. like fast time and Yours truly, never will and the Cum'berland Valley Co-operative Ass'n here has a membership Of 3,-l() fifty million dollar highway bonds a little farmers, a pain of i)."» during 193^ ors Bldg. Managers And Directors Of Pointing out that milk sent to De- For Tax Protest? added to our i>rimar\ monument in Qrand Cfrcus Park ti fund, and on his faster, which surely can be done if de- February •!. 1932 MRS. FARM BUREAU MEMBER But its "Exchange," through which troit you c a n lead: " H e w a s t h e i i r s t sired even though some of these bonds Zeeland R-6, [Michigan. Editor: public official in Michigan to notice the should not be quite due yet?" the business of the co-operative j« Several Co-ops Study troit in excess of actual requirements What Is tln> matter with us taxi inequality of taxes in our State." One thing is quite certain, our h a l l - handled, has a customer list of about hardly justifies paying transportation anyway? Are we all mesmerized to such Today's DetPoit News, in one of its way officials will cut down on the Their Business and selling costs, the Producers Ass'n an extent tlutt we are unable t;> protest, editorials concerning the proposal to in-struct ion work In very near future as it Wisconsin and Ohio 2,">00, town and country. thousands of farmers are losing crease the gas tax says, "A goo I deal of will surely be impossible to keep up the Through the Ass'n members g e t is urging its members to keep the ex- while h e i r f a r m s a n d thousands (if h o m e o w n - skillful persuading will be needed to get Insane rate at which they had be< Free of Bovine T-B Two schools in co-operation were cess at home. It says that cream or ters in our cities and villages are d< the people of Michigan to consent to an iny. l!ut by the time our officials i ome their fertilizers and other suppiies scheduled to begin during the past butter nets more at home than sur- ti> the same fate? Increase of the t.-i\ on gasoline. There to see the H.uht thousands of taxpayers Washington—Wisconsin and Ohio The mills supplying flour to that Nearly -•'>', uf all property in theused to be an old saying, ' W h a t goes will be bankrupt. week. The first in the Orand Rapids plus on a distant market; that the slate is delinquent and prospects a t e , up must ;;o down," but taxes in Mich- In many localities at the present time have tested all their cattle—beef and region, buy wheat from the "West area, followed a series of three such skimmilk has real feeding value and that probable another -•"•', Ol all taxes igan are not that way. They ^o up and the road taxes amount to more than the dairy—for tuberculosis, (and arc through the Ass'n, which did a total schools which have been meeting for i!'::i will not be paid. And yet only up and a new form of taxation, at first state, county, township, school and allnow listed as modified tuberculosis- of $570,74 6 worth of incoming buS{. a very few protests in our newspapers thought as temporary to meet some other taxes combined, is there any monthly in northern Michigan since that hauling and selling costs will be from the hard pressed taxpayer. emergency, always becomes a fixture and judgment used in creating such condi- free areas, along with North Caro- ness last year, its second since or- last December. saved. The Ass"n has bought a lot Senator Borah said recently, ••You peo- remains permanently. Now an extra tions. of separators, which it is offering ple must impress your wishes a n d d e -cent of mis tax is proposed but no one Respectfully, lina, Maine, Michigan and Indiana. ganizing. Such success does not g 0 These schools are conducted for members sires on your office holders: If you don't, proposes that this extra cent per gallon T I I i:< >i>< » K K B E N < : K I . . In these State-wide areas bovine tu- unnoticed and the manager of the at "astonishingly low you caqnot expect them t.> a should be used directly or solely to keep Fowler, Michigan the benefit of co-op managers and berculosis has been reduced to less co-op has written the Federal Farm their boards of directors and areprices" for 350 and ~>IM> lbs. capacity crystaliee What is being done in this S t a t e to the victims of Covert road mismanage- February 15, 1932 separators. Members should see public opinion on some im- that ment from losing their homes. No, than one-half of one percent in each Board they are experiencing organ!?, held in co-operation with the Mich- portant relief mesreure and what effort can't be clone." ed opposition. county. igan Potato Grower's Exchange, their local sec'y, write the State Sec y, do the we make to brills such a measure to attention of the proper officer? The editorial states further: time some one tells why it should be im- "It is This Lady Has Little county agents, the department of or call at the United Engine Co., at Nothing, and for that reason we ar< possible to put some limit to the con- Prices of farm machinery declined economics of State College and theLansing. ting nothing:. Don't forget thai stantly Increasing expenditures for high- State and each Nation have just such a ways. If relief from hi^li taxes is de- Use For Fast Time about six per cent from September Uncle Ab says reading doesn't do State Farm Bureau, with one repre- - o V e r m i l e l l t a s i t s P e o p l e d e s e r v e t>> i i a V e . manded, this is a stood place to start. 1929 to December 1931. The aver- some folks much good. If they agree Our state legislature should have been '1 ne office "f the Secy of Stat.- shows Editor: with a book, it's because they al- sentative of each present at each Uncle Ab says wrinkles on the brow in special session lotitf ago to gtVO. that the auto ownei - have paid the state chance I am going to ask if there is anyage investment in farm machinery ready know what it says, and if they meeting. do not necessarily mean wrinkles on called relief, |f possible, from the cursed Covert In taxes, more than J20O.0O0.OO0 in 5 to x<> back to standard time, for to the farm was $1,086 in 1930 and years l >o we realize what this means I do not see any use in it. In summer don't, they don't like it. The Grand Rapids area schools the heart. Road law and also for other important and work, lint we are afraid that the legls- do we realize that if we continue the bed is the coolest in the morning, $388 in 1910. were scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 23, at Grand Rapids and Wednesday, Feib. 24, at Allegan. These schools carry out the same ideas stressed in the northern Michigan schools. The 1 irsst school deals with the general MERMASH 16% topic, "Analyzing the Co-operative's Business Territory;" the second meeting treats of the subject, "Pres- ent Economic Trends in Relation to the Co-operative's Business;" the third school topic is, "Sales Methods" and the fourth in the !, to be taken up in March in the potato growing area is, "Duties and Responsibilities of Co-op .Man- agers and Boards of Directors." Raises More Chicks! The three schools in northern Michigan were held in December, SEED January and February at Cadillac, GUARANTEE Traverse City and Boyne City and Only Farm Bureau have been very well attended, with considerable interest manifested by All chick starters are good. BUT, guarantees t o the farmer to the full the local representatives. The series will probably conclude some are better than others. Michigan Alfalfa Acreage Increased 9 Times- purchase price of the seed, its vitality, with a fourth School for each group. Only Mermash \6r/'r contains Mana- Since Farm Bureau Alfalfa Seed Came In description, and purity as des- origin mar—a kelp andfehmeal sea product, Sow Farm Bureau Alfalfa and know that you have a hardy, genuine cribed on the analy- variety that will produce heavy yields for years. Lots of alfalfa will go in sis tag. ALL CHAMPIONS rich in iodine and other essential organic with oats or barley this spring:. 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Michigan Variegated— Michigan's alfalfa was then only 74,000 acres, the result This coupon will bring you a sam- ing booklet—"The Story of Mermash.'' at years of effort. Farm Bureau Certain-Seeds have ple of Farm Bureau MICHIGAN VARIEGATED alfalfa seed and our The application of common sense to led in raising the acreage to 652,000 acres in 1932! descriptive circular. Harry Crandell, Jr., Smith-Hughes chick raising. Read others' experience Name agricultural student in the Cass City public schools, lias raised three with Mermash. The coupon brings you For Farm Bureau ALFALFA SEED Address lamous Southdown lambs. a special introductory price offer on —see your local distributor Lamb at the left was champion at the recent Kansas City Live Stock Mermash. of Farm Bureau'Seeds . •> 9 7 M A I L T O Farm Bureau Servicti, Inc., Lansing, Mich. 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Its quick acting the convention by the delegates. nitrogen picks up the tiny plant and gives it a "flying They resolved to each send a person- start" to early maturity. al message of cheer to Mrs. Mecherle, who is a patient in a Cleveland hos- pital. 7 Michigan Agents In Farm Mutual 200 Club Five of the First 11 Herds were Fed Milkmaker It is well worth noting in these times—anytime—that in 1200 to 1500-ile Oil-and still Good Bloomington, 111.—Seven Michigan 2,400 dairy herds of all breeds in Michigan Dairy Herd Improve- ment Ass'ns, that five of the first 11 farmer-owned herds pro- BUREAU local representatives of State Farm ducing the most butterfat in the year ending June ifO, 1931, did 100 r ; Mutual Insurance companies, out of »S?« a field of some 7,500 local agents, it on Farm Bureau open formula Milkmaker dairy ration. They qualified for membership in the com- panies' "Two Hundred Club," com- prising salesmen who placed 200 or are: HERD OWNER and Address No. Av. But'fat of cows per cow star.-s more insurance policies during 1931. There are about "•"» who qualified in 1 Doan Straub, Galien 1?, 552 lbs. the states in which the companies 2 Raymond Wurzel, No. Street 9 523 lbs. are operating. 4 503 lbs. 8 George Olmstead, Galien The "Two Hundred Club" became 491 lbs. LS?!£££engine ask a new institution a year ago and 0 Paul Schiffer, Remus 7 among Michigan's 1932 memherm, 11 L. 0. Hunt, Eaton Rapids 10 480 lbs. five were members during 1931, the All other feeds divided the remaining fi places. membership being a one year mem- MIOCO, 100% Paraffin Base bership. These men are in the dairy business