KEEP UP Newt Interesting to farmers Through th* MICHIGAN THE NEWS A Progressive Newspaper Farm N«w« For Michigan Farm Homes A Newspaper For Michigan Farmers FIVE CENTS Issued Semi-Monthly; SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1932 PER COPY fOOLMKTG. STILL WORKING ON Several Matters For The SAUCE FOR GOOSE Farmers' Products Exempt BATTLE LINES ARE SAUCE FOR GANDER From Proposed Sales Tax FORMING FOR THE LANSING WHSL Special Session vides for increased income taxes and ;ries of Wool Growers' It is impossible to say what subjects will receive attention at the coming special session of the Legislature, but it appears ISSTONE'S REPLY But They Will Pay On Their Purchases If Bill decreases in income tax exemp- tions. Exemptions for single men are reduced from $l,r>()o to $1,000 SPECIAL SESSION to us that the times make it advisable that the following mat- Is Enacted Meetings To Come If Congress Fixes Salaries For and for married men $3,500 to Tax Reform To Relieve Real ters should be considered: $2,500. The individual income 1tax Washington—Farmers and their Soon Co-ops, It Should For products are exempt front tne pro- rate is increased from 1%% to 'I ,', Estate To Have Strong 1. New revenue to relieve the burden on real posed Manufacturer's sales tax of for the first $4,ODD. Private Firms Support iAGS ANDJTAGS READY estate, which should mean consideration of a - ' i ' , r . which is designed to bring Tho bill provides for a \ < ', in- State income tax. more than $595,000,000 Into the crease in corporation income tax, 2. School tax relief. ENEMIES ON NEW TACK Federal treasury during the fiscal would double estate taxes, ^ill MANUFACTURERS OBJECT insrng Warehouse Service year beginning June 30, 1!K!2. The tax all amusement tickets sold for Would Go Well With 3. Elimination of the property tax for highway Stone Says Proposed Bill bill is now before Congress. 25 cents and up at a flat 10%, will Income Tax Interest Gains: 1/ Poolers building purposes. The bill will proLably affect 140,- tax radio, telephone and telegraph 4. Aims To Handicap 000 manufacturing plants, which ages 5 to ID cents each, will tax Taxpayers Will Demand Extension or postponement of the period for Co-ops will pay the tax on the finished imported lubricating oils I cent mortgage redemption. per gallon, and imported gasoline, Results Lansing—Negotiations continue product ready for sale to whole- ,r an excellent wool pool warehouse 5. Extension of the time for paying delinquent Washington-—"Those vim object saler, jobber or retailer. This fuel and crude oils 1 cent per gallon. re and with good prospects for taxes. provision is to prevent pyramiding Much opposition is developing Lansing — Will tlie forthcoming to farmers marketing their own of the tax as it is passed along to special session of the Michigan Legis- iecess, the Michigan Co-operative products in a co-operative way be- toward the bill from various manu- ool Marketing Ass'n advised March the consumer who will pay the bill facturing sources, all of Which will lature take definite action to begin t. The first three items are matters that have been hanging cause it will interfere with huge as usual. be out in the open soon. Both the the much needed modernization of nre for years. In spite of misrepresentation they have made private profits they have made in Michigan's taxation system? Tlie Ass'n is planning a series of the past would like nothing better The new revenue bill In its entire- Republican administration and the ool growers* meetings throughout steady gains. The emergency situation may bring them about. ty is expected to bring over a bil- Democratic controlled House appear This question is rapidly assuming than for Congress to pla<•<- large first importance in spite of the deci- ip State under direction of \V. W. The last two are purely emergency matters. Postive action scale co-operatives in a position lion dollars into the Treasury dur- to be behind the bill, parts of which illings and Walter Rohrabaoher, is likely to enable thousands to hold their homes and make ing the coining fiscal year. It pro- are satisfactory to neither of them. sion of Governor Wilber M. Brucker where they cannot compete for the not to make known in advanee the ho will be in charge of the 1932 their way back eventually. No action will add to the weight caliber of men needed to run their DOI'S field work. Dates and places nature of the proposals which ho t these meetings will appear in the arch 26 Farm News. of discouragement and to the holdings of those who can buy in depressed affected property at a fraction of its value. business," Chairman James Stono of tho Federal Farm Board wrote Congressman Louis Ludlow Feb. 29, VIRGINIA RATIFIES WARNS NEW YORK plans to lay before the law makers in his special message when they convene on March 29 in answer to his LAME DUCK BILL FARMERS ON SEED If warehouse facilities are secur- commenting on a bill to limit to 1 at Lansing, it is expected that $15,0t)0 the annual salary that may call, ost of the wool will be drawn in M. Edmunds, Mrs. H. Plummer and R. be paid to a manag-er or executive Attention naturally turned toward id that the poolers will take their ish advance checks back with them. "ool bags and shipping tags are CALHOUN BUREAU B. Garratt. ' The annual meeting was an all-day by any co-operative connected with the Federal Farm Board. New Amendment Starts On Reduce Seeding Rate or The the possibility of a general tax revl- sion as soon as plans for a session were announced, many persons point- Acreage Rather Than sady and may be had on request to te Ass'n offi<<> at I'lil North Cedar IN ANN'L MEETING event at the Brookes Memorial church where the annual dinner was served. State Sec'y C. L. Brody addressed the "For co-operative marketing to succeed," Mr. Stone wioU\ 'tho thing most needed is co'tripeteut and Long Round of The States Seed Quality ing to the Governor's campaign prom- ises of tax revision at a special ses- reet, Lansing. honest management, equal to or sion if it was not accomplished at the gathering. Ithaca, N. Y.—Avoid false econo- session of 1931. The 1931 Michigan pool is all sold Endorse Co. Agt., Income Tax, Members of the South Albion Farm- better than that of the Association's [Washington—Virginia's my's lure in uncertain grade alfalfa itli the exception of a portion of Farm Groups' Six ers Club produced a play, "Marrying competitors in private trade." ture is the first to ratify the pro- and clover seed, Professor E. L. Apparently this belief was strong e Delaine -wool, the National Wool "Co-operative managers are not posed amendment of the Constitu- Worthen of the State college of Ag- in at least one quarter, for the Mich- Point Policy Off Father." The cast: Mrs. Edwin igan Manufacturers' Association has- arketing Corporation advises. The Brunner, Elmer E. Ball, Mr. and Mrs. public servants. Their business is to tion of the United States which riculture warns New York Car mere. itional has also forwarded final sell the products of their members would abolish "lame duck" sessions tened to issue a circular letter to { counting of the 1930 pool to the Marshall—Resolutions adopted by Barrell. inning office for distribution /as the Calhoun County Farm Bureau at pidly as it can be entered there its annual meeting March 3 here: id passed on to the poolers. Eugene Behling, Mr. and Mrs. Clark Floyd Manby was re-elected presi- 1. Endorsed and pledged support dent and E. L. McClintock vice presi- and not to perform a public service. Honor and glory are geii'ially re- garded as part of the compensation in public service. When co-opera- of Congress. Presented by Senator Norris of Nebraska for eigbt con- secutive sessions and always ac- cepted by the Senate, the Democrat- If necessary, he says, reduce the rate of seeding or tho acreage, or both. By a little better seed-bed prep- members with scare headlines read- ing "The Lid is Off", and threatening their members with income, sales, and other taxes unless they take immedi- aration, tihe standard rate of seeding to County Agr'l Agent Helm for his dent. Four retiring directors were tives hire a man competent to ic controlled House approved the for both alfalfa and clover may be ate action to place their objections to work, his effort to organize dairy re-elected: Elmer E. Ball, Will Frost, handle their business they find it is measure Feb. 15. reduced as much as ten, fifteen, or any and all new taxes before the Sen- \fool Prices Steady; farmers so that they may receive a Earl Johnson and Mrs. E. E. Boyer. hard cash, not sentiment th it talks," The amendment would abolish even twenty per cent. Where clover ators and Representatives. Nat'l Continues Sales better price for their surplus milk. Mr. Stone said in reply to the pro- the short term of three months is seeded on winter wheat, less seed Keal Estate Ass'n Speaks 2. Endorsed the Michigan Farm- A.&P. Says 1932 Sales posal to regard co-op employes as which is held every other year after and a light harrowing immediately Apparently, also, the Michigan Real ers effort to bring about a limitation "public .servants." the November elections, and in which after seeding may bring as thick • Estate Association felt that action •:— Wool prices are steady, but of tax levies. Are Below 1931 Totals Replying to Farm Boar! critics Wiho have made much of the fact the defeated Congressmen or "lame stand as from a normal amount of along similar lines was possible, for e market is not very active, says the 3. Reaffirmed its endorsement of a ducks" serve out their term of of- seed. If a mixed .seeding is to be the realtors addressed a letter to itional Wool Marketing Corporation, State income tax and asked that fav- New York—Sales of The Great At- that such Farm Board cooperatives fice. made, get the different seeds and Governor Brucker on March 4, in e national wool pool, with which orable action be taken by the coming lantic & Pacific Tea Company for the as the nation-wide Farmers' Nation- The amendment provides for one mix them at home, he advises. which they said: Htate pools are affiliated, including session of the Legislature. al Grain Corporation, ntton session of Congress each year, begin- Make certain that seed is adapted four week period ending February Co-operative and others -pay their ning January 4. the terms to be un- "In any program designed to • iehigan's Co-op Wool Marketing 4. Favored a Farm Bureau buFk 27th were $69,860,876. This compares to local conditions for the hardiest i - i l f i i o f t a x a t i o n n o w b o r n e !•• gas and oil station for Calhoun coun- with $82,441,242 for the same period in responsible *»xocntives sala- limited in length. The second term Is none too good for New York's estate, we must recognize tliri is'n. ries, which have been made public, mental principles as cssenUal steps III Increase in available raw wool for ty members and asked the newly 1931, and is a decrease of $12,580,366, is now limited to 4 months. The climate. All alfalfa and red clover the success of tho campaign, natn* Mr. Stone said it would be unfair president and vice president would seed should be of guaranteed north- a. Economics effected In governmental e present and picking up of the elected directors to see that a station or 15.26%. for Congress to handicap the co-op- be inaugurated January 24 following ern grown or of guaranteed origin. expenditures. omen's wear industries holds parently there is enough wool on ductions in salaries as in accordance of merchandise sold of 26,778 tons, competition. dent elected in November will take tems of revenue. "In tlie first principle creditable pro- ind until the new clip arrives, the with the times we are passing !or 6.09%. Mr. Stone quoted Mr. Charles B. office in January instead of the fol- Jefferson City, Mo.—Stratton Shar- press lias been made by public officials ational says in reporting regular through. Average weekly sales in February Steward, secretary of the Farmers lowing December and March 4 as tel, attorney general of Missouri, In reducing costs. in the second principle, Wi have full les to the mills. When dumping 6. Opposed reclamation scheme and iwere $17,465,219, compared with $20,- Nat'l Grain Corporation who said at present. reveals that his department is work- confidence yon and the special session ool starts, the National wool pool dam being proposed for the Columbia 610,311 in 1931, a decrease of $3,145,- that personal friends, one managing ing on a constitutional amendment to of the Legislature will bring about a privately owned grain corporation through the adoption of a plan to redis- is withdrawn from the market, hold- river at expense of nearly a billion 092. Average weekly tonnage sales at $25,000 a year and the other an- Only 5c Sugar Is Back be submitted to the voters in Novem- tribute highway finances. King that to force unwanted wool dollars to add to the crop surplus were 103,192, compared with 109,886 other concern at $32,000 a year had Washington—Fifty years ago ?>lark ber for the purpose of abolishing In the matter of the third principle, we recommend that you submit to tlie ito the, market is not the purpose of already existing. in February 1931, a decrease of 6,694. said that the salaries paid expert Twain wrote of "ten cent whiskey Missouri's 114 counties and replacing special session of the legislature some e pool or the instruction of its mem- 7. Endorsed the Nat'l Farm Bur- Total sales for the fiscal year end- grain men by the co-operatives were and five cent sugar." them with a 40 county system. He measure that will In the Immediate fu- ture guarantee a shift of a liberal por- iship. eau-Grange-Farmers Union six point ing February 27, 1932, are estimated The former has gone glimmering told taxpayers' leagues that with 40 tion of the burden to some other forms policy for support of the Agr'l Market- at $1,008,000,000 as compared with not unreasonable considering the of wealth; if such a measure Is intro- volume of grain and the type of down among the things that were, counties there would be about one- duced and carries definite provisions for ing Act with farmer amendments, for $1,065,806,885 for the year ending service rendered. but sugar is still five cents a pound fourth of the salaries and overhead the elimination of all or a greater part of GARDEN TRUCK reduction of government expenditures, February 28, 1931, a decrease of "So long as business is conducted —and less. Grocery advertisements to pay. Political plums would be cor- slevies, chool a n d other general property this association will lend Its tax New York state grows about twen- tariff for stabilization of the dollar, for 5.41%. as it is, we would be very seriously today tell the housewife she can buy respondingly scarce. whole-hearted .support." percent of the snap-beans, about reform for curbing speculation handicapped by any legislation defi- sugar at prices lower than at any While the position taken in this let* fteen per cent of the peas, and and for independence for the Philli- Do not fasten linoleum to the nitely limiting salaries of our em- time in a generation. New low Fruit stains respond readily to ter senrs to mark the first definite >out nine per cent of the sweet pine Islands. floor until two weeks after it has ployes unless such legislation would records for sugar prices have been boiling water. If a water stain is pronouncement of the Michigan Real V canned in the United States. The Resolutions Committee was A. been laid. This allows it to stretch. C o r f t l n u e d >>n i):)>;•<• i ' > u r established within the past month. left it may be removed by steaming. (Continued on page 4) • ilson Explains Money Shortage, Decline In Prices the prices of all commodities. The curacy of these statements. The ac- Makeshifts For Money reason which leads us to an under- system that had carried it through the Inadequate Currency System answers that have filled so many col- umns of space in daily papers and tion of Congress in its hasty decision to appropriate two billion dollars of The lack of money has driven the standing of the causes of the low stress and horror of war, to take up people to some curious makeshifts. commodity prices than to attempt to with a gold scheme which had proven Exposed By 1929-32 Panic magazines come from the organized sources of propaganda directed by the taxpayers' money to furnish credits for the use of banks and railroads is In Kansas the retail merchants in the understand the motives of the New utterly inadequate, impractical and smaller cities of the wheat belt trad- York Banking groups. With this un- impossible in the face of stress is an super-banking groups in New York. a direct acknowledgement of the ed goods for wheat and stored the derstanding, Michigan farmers can unpleasant commentary on the gulli- Nation Does Business On 10% Real Money And ing the backwash Farmers are told that we "are suffer- shortage of money. Although the wheat in barns, garages and other un- unite for relief. bility of people when they have; to of the war" or that huge banking groups behind, the rail usual places, wherever a roof could be Scaring the Public exercise judgement upon an intricate 90% Bank Credits; Panic Demand For Cash we have to undergo certain "cycles of business adjustment" or that the found. In Tenio, Washington, the The greatest single factor in fixing matter concerning which they are people resorted to wooden dollars the index price of all commodities and wholly uninformed. Brings Ruin; Wilson Says Super-Banks' whole situation "is psychological". sawed out of veneer and signed by of labor, is the quantity of money in So long as the law of the land ties Within the past week or two a new the village officials. The same month the country. Even the most rabid ad- the entire issue of paper money and Policies Need Public Action campaign of buncombe has been this idea was invented as a last resort herents of the gold standard admit bank credits to gold it will be possi- launched in which the public is sol- There is nothing left for the fanner! emnly to keep the business of the village this fact, by implication at least, ble for the very large bank groups to By LUCIUS E. WILSON and his family. told that the trouble all comes alive, the Honorable Secretary of the when they portentously warn us corner the supply of both money and Michigan farmers will have many Coming at a time when farmers had from the fact that people, frightened Treasury of the United States refused against the evils of "inflation". credit. The men and women who 'Portunities, during the coming nine adjusted their scale of living to a at thousands of bank failures, are his sanction to a proposal to permit "Prices will go up" they shout, if create things to eat and wear and use onths, to register their convictions, new age, this ruthless deflation is hoarding their money. National banks to issue additional there is any increase in the currency. are held on a short tether. It is this the polls and in the arena of pub- bound to result in wholesale disrup- Straight thinking on the causes of currency against a new issue of gov- They draw terrifying word pictures of power of restriction—this viciously 1 discussion, in regard to currency tion of farm life. If they are driven low commodity prices is long overdue. ernment bonds, giving as his reason, the results of inflating the currency, limited control—over the medium of !f orm, changes ifi\ the banking laws, to it, farmers can return to the cus- There is nothing mysterious about the the statement that "there was no always picking out instances where exchange; that makes possible HIM need for more currency". the printing of paper money was a ruthless deflation that is wrecking ag- xes and interest. toms of three-quarters of a century reasons for the present violent de- All these things are so closely re- ago when they raised nearly every- flation of market prices for all goods Liberal minded thinkers, ever since riotous burlesque on common sense, j riculture and industry. This power, ted to each other that a change In thing they consumed; but if that hap- and services. Hundreds of thousands the panic began, have known and ar- But they skillfully avoid giving any i in the hands of the super banks, haH Ul will cause changes in the others. pens it will take away from the chan- of people know the reason, and many gued the need of more money. The of the historic results of the green- j enabled them to enhance the value of e t each one is a complex subject in nels of industry and trade the largest of them have struggled to bring the delay in making the slightest effort to back in our own Civil War, when the the money in which they deal, at the se lf and it is not surprising that group of buyers in the nation. I" explanation before the average read- correct the situation is inexcusable. gold supply of the nation went Into expense of every man or woman who '% of intelligent farmers know so other words, if farmers are compelled er; but the newspapers are not yet Recent hectic legislation aiming at in- hiding and left the country and the raises food or makes goods in fac- ttle about the technicalities of mon- to lower their whole plane of living ready to give space to a critical dis- creasing bank credits in lieu of mon- harassed Lincoln facing collapse. Hot tories or digs coal out of the earth. ' and banking that they are in a to the level of a generation that drove cussion of the shortcomings of our ey—to give society something with do they tell you that no great nation The creators of wealth are robbed aze. oxen, it is folly for the banks and monentary and banking system. which to buy and sell—would have ever was able to fight through a war at the behest of the group that can The Michigan Farm News is open- factories to assume they can continue Money Supply Shrinks 60% been far more effective a year ago be- to the death upon gold as a money. juggle the price of money. 8 up this discussion as a service to on the plane of an automobile era. The primary reason for the low fore commodity prices had slipped in- Always, when real stress had come 60% of Money (ione s readers and the public In general. The price of milk to Michigan farm- prices of commodities is that we are to the sub-cellar. But, for reasons to any nation, gold has been utterly Sixty per cent or more of our med- h en the time comes to vote, wheth- ers is not far from 35% of what it desperately short of money with which are clearly discernable to any inadequate. Nations have saved their ium of exchange—money plus bank "1 for candidates or for party policies, was in good times. Wheat has tum- which to buy and sell. The supply of intelligent investigator, the powerful lives with other and better monetary credits—has been taken from us informed farm vote might easily bled as badly. The market for live- money in the United States is so super banks of New York, and their systems than gold has ever been. But since 1929. "But how has the supply the cause of bringing about chan- stock has gone to pieces. There is no small that it is insufficient to handle "yes" affiliates throughout the nation, under the cunning leadership of the been reduced so violently in less than in the currency laws that would direction in which a farmer can look normal business. Since 1929 our LUCIUS ft. WILXOH would not relax their hold on t beneficiaries of a viciously restricted three years?" asks the average man ve agriculture its place in the sun for a cash return on his property or stock of money and credit (and this roads fought every suggesttdn of in- commodity and security markets un- monetary scheme—and gold is the on- who has never been initiated into the ?ain. his work that will permit him to pay element of credit will be explained creasing the stock of money during til the price of money had been shov- ly commodity that can be used in mysteries of modern banking. The Oxen.or Auto Standard? taxes and buy the things his house- later) with which the buying and sell- 1931, while agriculture was being ed to dizzy heights. Millions of peo- such a scheme—nations have been "credit system" which is the heart, of T he prices of the products of Mich- hold is accustomed to get from the ing of the people was transacted, has strangled, they were instantly ready ple had to be ruined in the deflation misled with returning to a gold stand- the Federal Reserve System is Greek a " farms are at the lowest levels local village. decreased at least 60%. As a result to dragoon Congress into granting an before anything was permitted to be ard just as soon as peace could be re- to him. and he thinks we still "have done to check it. stored. as much money as ever". iown in generations. The gross in- prices have fallen and the actual con- unprecedented loan when the squeeze )n What 18 the Keason.' sumption of goods has decreased. For the moment it is more import- This curious policy of one nation In fact, the daily newspaper- ie of good farms is scarcely Intelligent farmers are asking the threatened to get out of bounds and lQ ugh to pay the taxes and main- cause of this tremendous decline in No informed person doubts the ac- reach them. ant for us to follow the thread of after another abandoning a monetary (Continued on page 2.) i' the property in shape to operate. - SATTKDVr, JtAKfHJS, 1332 TWO Mir me; AX FARM >F.WS $1 dish Kuihls $10 < rnlii tomers who want to borrow. The behind this determined adherence to it is this check book habit the gold standard is the most tre- makes it possible for banks to manu- ' fncture ten dollars of credit with only t bank draws interest on the loans that are made out of the "credit". far more profitable for a bank to loan It is mendous selfishness that has come into American life. The actual Marthy Takes Counsel | one dollar of real money in the vault. ten times its cash reserve, than to amount of gold is so small, in dollars, By It, S. CLAKK • The naive innocence of the Average merely loan the cash. If the current that super-banking groups have Is where to put that meter Well, now the meeting s over thing, Citizen leads him to look upon a bank rate of interest is 6%, and the money enough assets to corner the supply- And everything is set. Successor to the Michigan Farm Bureau News, founded 1 want to ask yon. Hiram, And where the outlets t;o. January 12, 1923 as a, place where people leave their is loaned ten times, the bank receive.; and thus to manipulate the total money for safe-keeping. He assumes amount of "bank manufactured cred- What fixtures shall we gel I •M 1 — • ' f fin', on its actual cash deposits. We want some outlets, don't Entered ta second class matter January 12, 1923, at the postofflce that the owner of a thousand dollars This is a sufficient explanation of the it" to their own ends. Von know I've often mentioned w .! ? in cash, washing to avoid the peril of How nice it would al'l'ear We want a I'lent.v, too, at Charlotte, AlieliiKan, under the Act of March 3, 1879. reason that bunks tight to preserve a This vast ambition to corner the To have right in the parlor keeping the currency about him, takes "credit system". The Federal Reserve, monetary structure of a great nation So when 1 move the furniture A nice big ciiai..-.. iicr. The cords of course. \s t . ,],, Published the seednd and fourth Saturday of eaeh month by the it to the bank where it is placed in as will be explained later, has built —and there are bankers in New York Michigan Farm News Company, at is publication office at 114 Lovett Of course her.' in the dining Now don't set there and chuckle St., Charlotte, Mich. the vault until someone conies along up a complicated structure which has who dream of centralizing the world's room There ain't no cause to g r j n Editorial and general offices at 221 North Cedar St., Lansing, Mich- and wants to borrow it. This child- greatly increased the extent to which stock of gold in one place and thereby \ smaller one will do You better be a - ti^gerini; Right on that hook Hie hanging Where that meter thing K O c s igan. Ppatoffice box 708. Telephone, Lansing, ^l--7l. I like innocence stands in the way ef a member bank may ••manufacture dominating the economic life of the lamp in. an immediate demand for monetary credit", and still leave the monetary globe—is so real that it enters into Has always fastened to. reform. If banks actually functioned No, we don't want it on the E. E. UNGREN Editor and Business Manager system tied to the slender stock of the everyday life of every Michigan While in the kitchen yonder porch ! that way there would be no problem Sold in the country. farmer and housewife, taking from Between the range and sink A-shou iiiK from the road Will be the place to locate i, I think they're dan- of "reserves" or "frozen assets" of ttnstttng For Corer in l*8»-M them a heavy slice of their hard won A good big lUFht, 1 think - gerous. Subscription 50 cents per year in advance "liquidity" or any of the other techni- But the effect of this credit system earnings. Supi>"sc it should explode! calities that blind the ordinary reader Oh yes. ami CIntby tells me on the people has been far from hap- There is only one practical way to We have to concentrate, No. nor in tiie chamber; Vol. X SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1932 No. 5 of the financial pages of daily papers. py. In lf»29 there was twelve or thir- Bgbi for your rights and that is with A n d l o c a t e all the s w i t c h e s Nor the upper hall Won't do Banks could never pay enormous B e f o r e II .-•''* l l l l ) 1:lU> - l-\,r I .lout want that nieter- teen times as much "bank credit" in an intelligent ballot. Banking exists man dividends on their stock and build actual use as there was real money as a creature of law. All of its ex- So when here comes the feller A-traipsing up and through. palaces in which to conduct their To IK the wires we need, in the channels of business. The traordinary privileges are granted by There won't be any argument, just put it in the cellar-way The Need For An Honest Dollar business if they loaned nothing but sudden crash in the stock market the deliberate action of the law mak- iiiit ire will stand agreed. [light in that corner there. The shocking decline in price that Michigan farmers receive for the cash deposited with them. Banks ing bodies of state and nation. The Then (lure's another thing, 1 There, now we're both | make their profits by loaning "credit" frightened many banks into calling upon staple agricultural products brings them face to face With the most loans; that is, many banks suddenly changes that must be made to protect find, Exactly what j^.es whore. which they are able to create out of your ordinary right to "the pursuit That we have got to know, violent reduction in living standards that has been forced on any class public confidence and the check-book decided that it was not safe for them of people in a half century. • to grant thirteen people the right to of happiness" call for more study and habit. This statement may sound more informed hard sense than any Southern Michigan is essentially a dairy region. Milk and hogs are startling but it is the simple truth. demand the same dollar of cash. So It could have gone into the open mar- Vteptame Corporation supported the money crops. Not since the great panic of 1893 has the price of hogs the banks called on their borrowers other issue ever before the American ket, bought government bonds and put Wiggin policy. The tremendous pow- Ho» It Works to repay the loans just as rapidly as people. out enough currency to balance the er of the Chase National Bank and its been so low. Milk brings so little that no one should produce it at the Let us suppose that Mr. A deposits farm price. Where are dairy farmers to turn? they fell due. Many of the borrowers Federal Kesene Hankers' Bank stock of exchange medium in spite of affiliated institutions stretching across a thousand dollars of cash in the could not meet the sudden call except the tremendous shrinkage of "bank the continent, was brought to bear There are certain expenses which must be met in money. Taxes, bank. That same day you want to The relation of the Federal Reserve interest, insurance, these require money if they are to he paid. To get by sacrificing whatever goods or ser- System to the happiness and prosper- made credits". But it did nothing of upon the plan in pound down the borrow a thousand dollars and go to vices they possessed. Throwing com- ity of Michigan farmers must be the sort. It did even worse; it ab- prices oi all commodities and force a dollar in money the tanner must produce and sell approximately three the bank to get it. What process do modities on the market always breaks studied. The Federal Reserve bank solved itself from all concern about a wholesale cut in wages. There was times as much milk as in 192G, when he felt he was at the bottom of you go through? the price. Thus is started a vicious was organized by an act of Congress the commodity price index, and de- no secret about it. Whatever we may lather tight times. Hut if he turns to the job with determination, and You sign a note, and the cashier spiral of deflation; because as com- clared that it would have nothing to think about Mr. Wiggin and his poli- actually produces three times as much milk as heretofore, what is to be sends you to the window of the re- which clothed the bank with extraor- modity prices decline the banks be- dinary powers. The first capital was do with any plan to stop the deflation. cies we must admit that he boldly done with it? ceiving teller, where you deposit the come still more frightened that their This was called "a hands off policy" I told America what he proposed to do, note in exactly the same manner as supplied out of the public purse. The unwarranted and ruthless deflation of commodity prices has borrowers may not have enough Gradually, with the passing of time, although it looked very much like a The greater part of his program has brought us to a condition that can be described only as an economic ab- you would deposit a thousand dollars goods, at the lowered prices, to meet strong man, standing by the side of a ! been accomplished in less than a year. in cash. Does it not strike you as the stock of the bank has been bought surdity. loans. by the banks that joined the System. small boy who was being beaten up Commodity prices have been hammer- strange that you go to the receiving The process of reducing loans and We shall not better our condition until we realize that we are suffer- Today the Federal Reserve Bank is a by a bully. The "hands off" policy ed to record breaking lows, wages teller, instead of the paying teller, throwing goods on the market went on (Continued on page 3) ing from an enormous increase in the price of money- Milk and pork when you want to borrow money bankers' bank which is operated for could help only one group. It is not are worth ju'st as much today as they ever were. A quart of milk or a in reasonably orderly fashion during the benefit of the banks, as the bank- difficult to determine who constituted from the bank? If you were borrow- 9 pork chop will go as far toward sustaining life as when either brought ing money from an individual you 1930 and into the early part of 1931. But in the late spring of '31 the move- ers see it. that group and where its headquart- Farmers Buying three times as much money as now. The inherent value of good products Whatever interest in the public ers were located. does not change. But the price of the money with which food is bought would expect to apply to the "paying" side of the person, But the bank does ment became a veritable panic. The frightened banks communicated their welfare, as distinct from banking Says Hit? Hanks nictated Guide does change, and viciously. profit, may have existed in the insti- In January 1!>31 Albert AViggin, Rates on Application things differently. When the receiv- scare to the general public and de- president of the Chase National bank High priced money has crucified agriculture during the past two ing teller has your note, he gives you tution at the outset, has disappeared PrafHncr W a x HAND WAX and positors began demanding cash in- (the largest bank in the world) com- years. The price of money, like commodities, is determined by the sup- a nice new check book. At the same in the years since the World War. stead of "bank credits". Of course pletely repudiated President Hoover's Lxratung w a x — BRUSH WAX. ply and the demand. When the supply of money is cut down to a point time lie enters your note on the books The actual operation of the Federal there was not enough money in Amer- original effort to maintain prices and well. We use the best of materials, and mix that is not sufficient to do the buying and selling of human society, its of the bank as a credit to you, just Reserve System does not square with Send for price list. M, 11. HUNT ica to meet the demand—not one price rises. as though you had deposited cash. the representations that were made wages in spite of the depression. Mr. & SOX, LANSING, .MICH. quarter enough. If one depositor in At I al sin Doubtless you begin writing checks to the public when Congressional Wiggin declared that three primary Hotel Kerns ' J &- Since 1929 the stock of money—which includes banking credits we twenty had insisted upon cash, it n u i c i r v c n i a years farm organi- to pay taxes, or the bills at the stores, authority was being asked for it. things would have to be done during are compelled to utilize because the supply of real money is so email would have overwhelmed every bank or for the repairs on the automobile. in the United States. Then it was pictured as a great pub- the year; first, to reduce commodity zation headquarters. Comfort at easy prices. N. Grand at Mich. Center of city, that business could not operate forty-eight hours on it—has been re- lic servant. Its record since the War prices and slash Avages; second, to re- Cafeteria, garage, Hates $1.50 to J2.oO. • duced at least sixty per cent. This is not only possible under the prac- These checks find their way back to 60% Buying Power Closed Out the bank very quickly. If the mer- strips it of all pretentions of service duce the European War debts; the Beekeepers tical operations of the Federal Reserve System, but it has actually taken In trying to protect themselves, the to the public except as private profit third, to break down tariff barriers, and A. I. Root Co. goods. Send for cata- place. chant and the garage owner happen banks compelled the payment of loans to have accounts in the same bank, was first obtained. Mr. Paul Warburg of the farthing log. M. II. HUNT & SON, LANSING, Fanners cannot juggle the supply of milk that is produced. They to an extent beyond all imagination. MICHIGAN. the whole matter is settled by giving Every time a loan was paid, there When the Federal Reserve System Manhattan Trust and International cannot cut down the total by sixty per cent. If they could control the each one a credit, on the books of was under the discussion in Congress, MnnnmmK BEAUTIFULLY was one less check book available production in that fashion and to that extent, there would be no question about their ability to increase the price. the bank, for the amount of your checks, and your account is debited for use. The exchange medium was reduced. That is the manner in and for years afterwards, the public • 4. • was told that it would give the nation good reasons why you should have FIVE ivionumems— DESIGNED inonuments of the most beautiful granite Money and bank credits are subject to control by the superbanking accordingly. On the other hand, if and marble. Call or write. We employe which we lost nearly two-thirds of an elastic currency—that the amount State .Mutual Rodded protection: no salesmen. You save the difference. groups that h^ad up in New York City. The stock of money can be in- there are two or three or more banks 1. We believe in tire prevention. Largest monument works in Western the stuff with which goods and ser- of money in circulation would in- -. W31 was not 40% of what it was in Federal Reserve banks to member banks thousand dollar deposit of cash from of the system when commercial paper 500 for 6S.50 had declared for "an honest dollar". Resolutions passed at the last an- Mr. A, and has loaned you a thousand December 1&29 two months after the discounted by the member bank for its Best quality cans. l- : ; i" screw enps. M. depositors, is rediscounts^ by that bunk H. HUNT & SON, LANSING. MICH. nual meeting are clear. dollars-—without having to turn over stock market collapsed. at the Federal Reserve bank. Jones, a State ttluluai Rodded Fire any cash whatever—what happens This shrinkage of bank credits was rancher in .Montana, borrows $500 from Insurance Cpy of Itlich. Write the Farm The Michigan State Farm Bureau invites the vigorous and intelligent the First National Bank of lUttte for Bureau Su»»ly support of every Michigan farmer in its belief that our money system next? the tremendous factor that sent com- sixty days to enable him to market bis MOMF OFFICE —FLJNT. MICH - Store, Lansing, -Mich., for price list on The bank still has the thousand dol- modity prices to the depths. The wool crop. The First National Bank of their hiKh quality, adapted truc-to- should be reformed. It is a tremenduous task that cannot,be accomplished Butte rediscounts the promissory note of Diime, guaranteed garden seeds. without help. lars of cash. It knows, from experi- stock of real money remained the Jones at the Federal Reserve bank of ence, that the probability of any one same—or nearly so—but it is never .Minneapolis, which issues as proceeds The FARM NEWS is presenting a series of articles on the question Federal Reserve notes to the Montana of the check-holders, including your- more than enough to furnish a bank, which puts them into circulation. of monetary reform, written by Mr. Lucius E. Wilson. They explain a self, asking for cash is very remote. basis for the tremendous inflation of Sixty days later. Jones pays his loan at LIVE STOCK MEN great deal. You will find them decidedly worth -while reading. the Montana bank with Federal Keserve In fact this probability has been bank credits. When the bank credits notes, and the bank returns the notes to The Michigan State Farm Bureau is inviting the attention of Mich- igan farmers to a critical need- It will appreciate comments and offers to help from our readers. worked out to a mathematical formu- la which operates in normal times; and fails miserably in subnormal were swept away we were left, as a nation, without the means of doing Minneapolis to liquidate the rediscount. It should lie noticed that the notes were issued as the result of a legiti- SELL YOUR OWN business in a modern way. 1 hat is mate business demand and the notes times. But the bank feels perfectly why Kansas merchants reSorte 1 to were Withdrawn from circulation when Buy your feeders . . . Finance your purchases . . . Sell the demand no longer existed. Jt should them finished . . . Co-operatively all the way. Wilson Explains Our Money safe in taking the next step. In comes Mr. C who wants to bor- barter and Washington people tock up wooden money. also be appreciated that the Montana bank was charged interest on the notes as long as they remained outstanding. You can send your stock to Detroit or East Buffalo yards and Shortage and Price Decline (Continued from page 1) • —— row a thousand dollars. He signs his note, gives it to the r w h injr teller, If the stock of money in America had been four times as large as it is: This interest charge .uives the essential '"homing quality'.1 which is lacking in other forms of currency. National bank sell it direct to the packers through the Michigan Live Stock Ex- change, which is as near to you as your nearest shipping asa'n or is credited on the books of the bank and the bank-manufactured credits notes, once issued, rarely if ever find member who is affiliated with us. Get the FULL RETURNS from their unremitting effort to bolster up the flattering reference to the credit with the thousand, less the Interest, had been one-half what they were in their way back to the bank of original issue because there is no inducement to your stock. the cause of Big Banking, never tired system as "time tried"; as a matter takes his new check book and begins 102!); the people would not have suf- cause their return. in telling readers that the banks were of fact it is time-convicted of vital the process of writing checks. After fered as they did. Real money can- The security behind tne Federal Re- Some 20,000 farmers, belonging to 150 Michigan shipping ass'ns, overflowing with money throughout weaknesses. It has gone to pieces him comes other borrowers—probab- not disappear from the earth. Bank serve note is the promissory noto of the have at Buffalo and Detroit their own sales offices, top notch sales- the weary months of 1930 and most commercial borrower plus a reserve of at men, and the largest volume on both markets. upon the slightest strain. Then the ly twelve more which, together with manufactured credits disappear exact- least lur;, in gold in the vaults of the of 1I»31. The assertion was sheer de- favored Big Banking groups, who hold yourself, makes thirteen. Each one ly when they are most needed. Per- Federal Reserve banks. ceit. What the banks had—or thought Federal Reserve notes have been in ex- Returns to patrons Kuarantoed by jr.o.ooo bond the exceedingly limited gold reserves borrows a thousand dollars, and each haps it would be more accurate to meeting U. S. Government reuuireinenta they had -was the mystic; power to istence only since 1914 but it is believed in their hands, can raise the price of one goes through the same process of say that bank credits, when they are that eventually they will replace all other create B great quantity of credit, such money—and depress the prices of all forms of currency in circulation." MICHIGAN LITE STOCK EXCII. ritom < I:KS (o-or signing a note, receiving a credit en- permitted to inflate to the ratio oi Detroit as had been Imlaix rd in unstable goods—until wholesale bankruptcy try on the books of the bank, taking $13 of credit to $1 of cash, give the These were fair promises indeed. East Buffalo, >• !• equilibrium upon the goW supply dur- faces the people. a check book and beginning to -write Big Banking group a perfect oppor- Had the Federal Reserve System ing the normal years of 1928, l!r_'7 and The best way to give the Average checks. Not one of them asks for a tunity to deflate everybody and every- functioned in keeping with the spirit 1929, The banks were eager to charge Citizen an understanding of the way thousand dollars in cash to jam into thing by cornering a considerable of these illustrations, there would interest upon this mythical stuff but the bank-credit scheme has come into a pants pocket and take out on the portion of the underlying gold stock, have been no panic in 1929-30-31 and they were fearful of expansion in the being is by illustration. If only ten street. on which the "credits" are built. And, afterward. But the Federal Reserve luce of public unrest. It was a bad per cent of the business of the coun- as is explained later, that is exactly System is operated for the primary time for bubbles. So the newspapers boosted the bank game with many words, while an uncomprehending try is transacted with hand money, how is the rest managed? The an- swer is "With bank checks". But $1,000 Can Become $14,000 The bank has now loaned thirteen thousand dollars and it is extremely what has been done to the American farmer and industrialist since Octo- ber 1»29. purpose of making the greatest pos- sible profit for a certain class of large banks. As a practical fact, the kind $1O913O,325 unlikely that a hundred dollars in public stood on the side lines and wondered why business succumbed to how do bank checks increase the sup- ply of money? manipulation by great by the Montana ranchman would not Where Did It Go? When you sign your name to a dollars each. The first one, Mr. A, interests at the expense of the public The State Farm Mutual Life Insurance Company is "What became of the money—or check for ten dollars, and give it to meet the requirements set up by the deposited a thousand dollars of cash; welfare, must challenge critical and Reserve System. making rapid growth for a company in its third year. the stuff we used as money? Where the local merchant, you have created and the thirteen borrowers deposited patriotic men to action. Is there no has it gone? AVho has the power to a ten dollar bill of your own. If the a no^e for a thousand dollars in each better way than to suffer a near panic Not lor Small Borrower take it from us or give it back to merchant would endorse it and pass case. The deposits of the bank are about once in seven years; and go Small borrowers are practically ex- What its life insurance program is doing for the us?" These are natural Inquiries by it along to the wholesaler, and he, now fourteen thousand dollars, ac- through a complete wrecking of eco- cluded from any use of the Federal policyholders is still more important. the Average Citizen and they ought to in turn, send it to the manufacturer, cording to its books. nomic society once in a generation? Reserve rediscount privilege. What- be answered. When the mystery is and he use it in his pay roll so that ever advantage accrues to them bus Every one of the borrowers, and the Are we to remain the uncritical vic- Dec. 31, 1931, in reporting to State Insurance cleared up, the tap root of the panic it fell into the hands of an employee original depositor has a legal right to tims of the and fancies of bank- to come indirectly through such in- will be in plain sight. who paid his rent with it: you would go toythe bank and demand actual cash. ers: not to mention the peril from crease in the circulation of currency Dep'ts the State Farm Life reported that after providing If we are to comprehend what has readily see how you had increased If they did so the bank would have to selfishness that, is willing to de- as may arise from the rediscounting happened to us during the past two the supply of "exchange medium", close its doors. It is a simple mutter stroy the livelihood and the lives of of I he obligations of very large bor- for all liabilities the company has as surplus for addi- years we must know a great deal .lust as long as the check remained to lone a bank into receivership. In millions for the purpose of making a rowers. From the standpoint of tional protection to its policyholders the sum of about the stuff we use in the daily in existence it would do the work of the case described here we might as- profit out of wholesale disaster? banking, there is more profit in process of buying and selling. It ia a ten dollar bill; and if people had sume that you asked for live hundred Is is* possible to have a stable mon- bundling a loan of a million dollars not real money. Less than ten per unlimited confidence in you and the cent of the ordinary business deal- bank on which it was drawn, the dollars in cash at the time you de- ey system that will not evaporate at for the steel trust than in lending live hundred dollars to a small town mer- $431,392.00 posited your note; and the next the first breath of trouble? The an- The above sum includes $300,000 paid in capita! ings of the day result in any real check might continue to circulate un- morning Mr. A, the original owner of swer has been ready for twenty-five chant, and that is the principal reas- money changing hands. ', til the paper on which it was written the thousand of real cash dropped in- years. It was ready at the time the on for the policy of the Federal Re- L)r. Warren M. Persons, a well wore out. to the bank to withdraw his deposit Federal Refterfa System was invented serve System's attitude toward redis- State Farm Life was founded in 1929 by the same known economist, recently put the Of course, individual checks never in cjish. What could the bank do? and crystallized into law. Rut there counts. If we admit that the one \nu- facts this way: travel so far. but the same result is The candid answer is. "It could fail". is powerful banking Opposition' to any pose of the monetary system of the men who established the very successful State Farm • ney is but a small item in normal obtained by the merchant issuing his Of course the management of the monetary system that is simply and country is to make money for the Mutual Automobile Insurance Company. Policies 9t Less than 16 per cent of ordinary check and the wholesaler issuing his. bank would make tremendous efforts solely a medium of exchange; and banks, and that the use of money as butttiMV trahsa settled by hand At no place in the chain of events to g^t the cash some way. It might that cannot be exploited for profit by a medium of exchange is merely inci- both Companies are especially advantageous to farmers. money. W "ft > billion there can be no alibi on that score. But the Federal Reserve System can- not free itself from the dominant in- outlined in a little booklet, "This Way to Prosperity", which can be had from the Michigan State Farm Bureau Control postpaid tor 2.") cents. Another is a Witii Randall you can open the drafts and go out to chores. under th.- law. it was .stated. The 'hard boiled enough to insist that we fluence of. the super-hanking group; Randall will positively close the furnace when you want it spri»g BPearlOi season in non-trout — " " • • ' / . l / l L^ endswed way beyond our limit - - - . - . w . » wr-mrj i*v , ' W U U • J i l l AIL'111. and Avhcn America needed sane and cloth bound volume by (Uui Strover. closed. stream* is from March I to April . ' U t ' r s co«e t o u s during these | a n d t h u l t h o s e w h ( ) h a v o m u s t d o intelligent stabilization of the price at $1. Still another is a book by You can never forget to close the furnace. Randall A L W A Y S 30 in the lower peninsula and from tjttvea of trouble from mothers w h o | t h e i r t u l 1 8 n a r H u l u l t h o s e w h o h a v e of money, the Federal Reserve com- Lionel Kdie, entitled "The JJanks and closes it in as many minutes as you set it for. M;nTh 1 to May tbal they cannot bear ear thp t h e l " o t m u s t L>e content With what we pletely failed to recognize the public- Prosperity", at $2.">o. I Randall eliminates overheated furnaces and fire hazard. It soon saves in the upper )u ninsula. or discontinue £?,** can afford. interest. Michigan Farm liureau has declar- enough fuel to pay for it and further savings are dividends. <» dau K h,er-s college term; from While we admit that the preseaJ The super-banks could not wield ed for a stable currency-- for an hon- Randall enables yon to maintain even house temperature by easy, finger- »rm People discouraged and troubl- is the most, discouraging period est dollar that cannot be jockeyed for tip setting of the drafts from the central control instrument (above) in such dictatorial power if it were not your living room or kitchen. ed beyond hope with nothing nothing to to sell sell within our memory, yet we feel that Tor the limitations of Ik'1 gold stand- the benefit of any class. * STRAWBERRY PLANTS dud taxe unpaid; taxes have debt id from those w h J m u c h g o o d w i U c o m e o u t ot" i l a11 debts tto pay and m ,th to "There will be readjustments and ard. The Federal Reserve banks can issue currency only up to one dollar In subsequent arLU-les the Michigan Farm News plans to give its retiders Randall Furnace Control is priced low; is easy to install: is a comfort maker, fuel saver and fire protection. Special discount to Farm Bureau members. For further information, write Seeds — Berries — Evergreens Pay with; from those who have sick- new values placed on people as well for each forty cents of gold in the still further discussions of this »enor- Everything to'plant in garden, orchard berry patch and pn the farm, ivi,,, ; ness and no funds for medical at- as property and classes, and all in- vaults. Therefore an absolute limit mously important subject. al l down where they belong. i,iJ(m g tention and are too proud to ask terests will find themselves on a is placed tin the currency issuing abil- FARM BUREAU SERVICES, INC. Lansing, Mich. . .. l>unlo|)0 strawberry plants for S3 aelP; from those who but so short a bora equitable basis. I IMIll.ll> ytl-lii- KA...... . 1 »VIJV OCJItl- ity of the Reserve System. --> per .\l 10,000 at 12.50 oe MBtte ago had built plans for the tuture and now find themselves mentally suffering from our Inabili- And while we. as farm folks, are Bitr Hanks Control (.old You can see how the control of the Household our Economy List before you buy. ''Writ postpaid <-au&ht in a tangled maze, unable to ty to carry on, we must be mindful see their way out in any d i r e c t i o n ' 0 1 t l l e g r e a t BOrrowa that come to stock of gold—or the control of any considerable part of it, would tmable Helps "ffijissiii^i^i^^^i^iiia^ The Allegan Seed and Nursery Co All seek sympathy and advice, all some of those whom we have all a super-banking group to strangle the When woole.n stockings shrink in Box C, Allegan, Mich. need a cheering word and a ray of reason to believo have plenty of the smaller banks throughout the coun- hope. washing. put them through the world's riches yet have troubles we try if the small banks should attempt water again, and while still wet put To all we say, stick tight, keep „ cannot comprehend. cool as you can. Do not attempt to We feel that we have been unjust- square up' now, for there is no ly dealt with and I feel certain that to show any independence of spirit. Thlree banks in New York—the ( them on a stocking stretcher. ' $1,026,852.78 Careful value to anything you may own. Try any just judge or jury would de- and realize you are only one of cide in our favor after hearing the National, the Guarantee Trust and t.he National City—had nearly a billiou To set the color in black wash material, dissolve a cup of salt' in a Surplus Protects Policyholders and a half dollars in their reserves' gallon of cold water and soak for many, for practically everyone is in evidence from all sides, but how on January 1st of this year. You will lhalf an hour. Hang on the line and Buyers * T the same boat. No one has escaped much greater is the anxiety and except those who made no attempt heartaches of that young New Jersey get the full force of this statement when you recall that the total stock let drip dry. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company to 'push on' during the better days. couple, who, while this is being of gold in the Federal Reserve Sys- To remove dust from upholstered While public leaders are giving written, are suffering a thousand furniture, cover the surface with a policyholders now own the largest purely automobile llrecders of fine poultry tem is only about two billion dollars. their best thought to state and times more. That same judge or These three great banks had the heavy Turkish towel wrung out of insurance company in the United States, and probably stock throughout this national business, it stands us in jury would decide just as quickly means of calling on the Federal Re- \vat»T to w.hich a tablespoon of am- hand to look after local public af- that anyone who has done so much serve for three quarters of its gold monia has been added. Beat with a in the world. It is also one of the strongest financially. country and abroad buy fairs. We can well ask ourselves if for progression and universal peace stock, if they cared to exercise that carpet beater and the dust will ad- we are seeing to it that the cost of in no way deserve the agony that right. In the face of such a threat—• here to the towel. Dec. 31, 1931, its statement to State Insurance the best of feeds and em- administration has been cut accord- they have been subjected to. ,£ In our great distressing dilemma, even though only implied what free- Dep'ts showed that after all liabilities against its ing to the economic stress of the dom of action does the Federal Re- A piece* of chase the size of 4 wal- ploy the best methods to day. let us be ever sympathetic with nut added to potato or onion 3 soup others and in our pleas for adjust- serve bank in New York possess? gives it a nice creamy taste. $6,603,746.83 assets had been cared for, the company keep their flock up to Cutting Out the Extras First Step For Cure ments let us hope for only our just 4. had as surplus for additional protection to its members their standard of quality. Have we decided that our election share of public consideration. If we The iirst step toward a cure for Mica in stove doors may be clean- costs must come down? Have we once get that, we will be the hap- the present panic is to increase the ed with a solution of vinegar and the sum of decided that we can do without a piest class in the universe. stock of real money to a point where water in equal parts. Most of them buy PILOT local property tax for highways this year? Have we decided that we can it can not be cornered by any bank- $1,026,852.78 BRASS OHKB8B SHELL be- cut out some of the frills oE our chools, our parks and of our ser- Favorite ing group, no matter how powerful. This cannot be done, so long as we Small pieces' of dried bread may rved as croutons with so'up if Included in the liabilities wa« the sum of $ft&O,OQQ, a cause it is thoroughly de- vice demands? Have we decided that our law breakers are having too Recipes are tied to the gold standard. The they are browned in a corn popper. supply of gold in the world is so special reserve fund to provide for any unforeseen conting- encies, including possible fluctuation In security valua- pendable as to purity and small that it could be cornered by When making- gravies uge the tions. asy a time of it and too many com- HON£Y COOKIES any group of half-a-dozen big bank- water in which vegetables were because it is certain to forts after becoming a state or By Mrs. J. Berry, Jackson Co. Heat one clip honey, one cup sugar ers. There is no scientific way of in- cooked. You may vary the flavor The Company made the remarkable report that -ounty charge? and one cup shortening-. Cool. creasing the output of gold. Finding by using water from jMiUUoes. one jrt the result they must Have we decided that we can still Then add: '- tf-aspuon soda in three tublc- it is pure accident and no one can tell time and in.is, carrots, turnips or every item in its $5,174,022.05 investment in U. S. walk if need be; that we can still spoons hot water when the "pay streak" may pinch out. cabbage at other tinges. This 1water liave in hatchable eggs. use our hands aud our strength if it 1 teaspoon ginger Gov't, State, County and municipal bonds, public util- s more economical to do so; that :; egga The supply of money must keep will keep for some time if put in a we need not be pampered and cod- Flour enough to nmke a thin dough to roil out. pace with the production of commodi- cold place. ' ities, railroads or miscellaneous bonds is making interest PILOT BR \ \[> is the stand- ties, if there is to be a stable price dled and waited upon; that when Will keep indefinitely. level. Unless there, is a stable price For earache warn; a little vaseline, and principal payments. A splendid administration oi: ard here and abroad. ve cannot do for ourselves we will BROWN SUGAR TARTS ask for a full' measure of service - cups brown sugar level, we must undergo all the dis- drop two or three drops' in the ear the policyholders' money. vith a decent wage from others; - eggs 1 tablespoon butter tress and wretchedness of recurring and cover with a piece of cotton. 'hi tale at feed drains everywhere. hat we will study the essentials and Flavoring or chopped fruit or nut meats panics. There is no practical obsta- Sweet oii will remove finger marks The State Farm Mutual is glad to present so etain them but will insist on non- Heat well together and put about a cle to inaugurating a stable money fjom varnished furniture and kero- strong a financial report to its policyholders. It sssentials being eliminated from tablespoon in muffin tins lined with system at once, if the opposition of sene will remove them from , oiled justifies the confidence which they have in their unbaked pastry. This amount will the super-banks could l)e overcome. )ublic and private life at once? make one dozen tarts. Splendid for furniture. company. It is surprising how many things a lunch or party. The essentials of a stable money ve can do without when once we ESCALLOPED EGGS LA system have been under discussion NEW YOKK TAKES ire faced with the necessity of so Butter a shallow baking- dish such as a IIVIVN: pie plate, line with 11 for years. We are nearer to it today CLOYEB STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTO INS. CO. doitig; it is surprising when once we i rackers rolled fine. than ever before, and we will have it Red cover seed for New York state uilt and check up on the unconscious Moisten with enough milk to soften the crackers. just as soon as public opinion can be should have been grown for many Boomington, 111. xtravagant channel everything was educated. There are many details 1 that cannot be mentioned here, but generations in New York, Michigan, Break 7 eggs into this, one in the drifting into! center and the rest around it Sea- the skeleton of the plan is compara- Northern Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, or in MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU FOR POULTRY son with salt and pepper and a lit t! * - butter. Pour one teaspoon of cream tively simple. Canada. Laugh Off the Depression over each egg and bake In a moderate oven until eggs are set. State Agent Lansing", Mich. Kead Schultz'fl political speech on his Increase Money Volume Gladiolus bloom about 85 days OYSTEB SHELL PRODUCTS CORPORATION iiniior labor party. A big hit for your CORN OMELET New "\ ork Si. Lootj London next entertainment. 25c copy. F. Doyle, Beat 3 egg yolks until light The stock of money must increase after planting the conns. Winlield, Pa. Add ';> cup milk in proportion to the increase in the i' teaspoons salt productivity of the people. As the Dash of pepper 2 cups of canned corn output of shoes and shirts and auto- 't < tip of Hour mobiles and houses and food and coal Classified Ads Then fold in the egg whites which have been beaten until stiff and dry. Cover bottotn of frying pan with lard or butter and turn in the mixture. grows, so must the available stock of money grow. We are making tre- Classified advertisements are cash with order at the following ratts: 4 cents per word for one edition. Ads to appear in two or mor« Cook slowly until brown underneath, mendous strides in the use of auto- editions take the rate of 3 cents per word per edition. then put in a moderate oven for at matic machinery driven by power and least 25 minutes, Serve on a hot platter at once. multiplying the output of workers by many fold. David Friday estimat- B A K E D EGGS BABY CHICKS LIVE STOCK Into bottom of greased muffin plans ed the increased productivity per place layer of bread crumbs moistened man, between liU'l and 192!> as at with a teaspoon of melted butter. BABY ('lirciCS—ROCKS, REDS, Les- Hcrci'ords Break an egg into each section. least 60%. That is to say one man liorns. Hatches every week. Splendid Season with salt and pepper s. Great for broilers. Thirty day in 102!) produced lGtr; as much com- livability guaranteed. Get 1!>32 prices. FOR SALE—FOUR YEARLING REG- Cover with layer of bread crumbs modities as a man did in the same • 1 llolstcin bulls. Also bull calves, and sprinkle with grated cheese, High egg strains. Brummer & Fredrick- I'm dash of paprika on top. line in 1921. If the stock of money son Poultry Farms, Box 30, Holland, registered. Van Buren County Farm. I'.ake in a 'moderatelyy slow oVen Michigan. (U'-2O-tf-:51'b) Phone PaoWJles, L5. Manager. Ilariford, Mich. (2-lg-3t-23l)) about IS m i n u t e s had increased in the same proportion. or until eggs are the prices of commodities, in dollars, set HUSKY, HKALTliy C&ICK would have remained relatively stable. igan accredited l-argre Type S. C. White diuernsers Leghorns, Barred & White Rocks, R. I. Sugar Beet Profit $111 As a mutter of fact, there was an in- REGISTERED GUERNSEY BULLS Keels, assorted chicks for broilers; full crease in bank manufactured "cred- '•(Hint; live delivery guaranteed: post- from cows with splendid records. Glenn paid; 1932 catalog free. A.MKRIOAN Clark, Kan Claire, Muhigan. (2-13-3t-p) A crop of sugar beets running 28 its" during those years, but as you <1I1CK FARM, Bux B, Zeeland, Mich. tons to the acre was produced in already know, the credits were de- (l-23-6t-37p) TURKEYS stroyed in the last two years, so we L931 in Michigan by 0. W. Dhyse, of I'lt. HEASlvEY PURE BRED STRAIN T W O NAUA<;AXSKTT TL"UKKV GOB- Turner. His crop netted him a profit are trying to buy and sell au enor- i.i'glionis. If you have ever used this blers. Pure blood $s. Mrs. Frank Van- Pretend of $111 an acre after deducting an mously increased stock of commodi- fumou* strain, it needs no further com- Tassell, Hart, lloute 2, Michigan. uient. Our circular is free. Let us te!l acreage charge of $68 for produc- ties with a money supply about H>'; t2272t13p) you our story. Jleasley JbSro-., Orehuiri tion costs, according to .Michigan as great as in 1921. Hill Farm, Dorr, MK'li. t2-lV,3t-Sr>ft) SEEDS and PLANTS State C o l l e g e Any plan for a stable currency BARRED ROCK ('HICKS HATCHED from eggs from W. K. KellogK Farm at • lull Lake. Bloodtested. TrapneBted. DUNLOP STRAWBERRY PLANTS »3 Here is your chance to pet started with per 1,060; S.OOD @ $2.75; 10,000 eggs. We do custom hatching. \ ISI- TOR8 ARE WEliCOME. Middleville STRAWBERRY PLANTS, PREMIER pie. Now/ if you want to play, cut cents that's left? It goes for taxes, '""ultry Farm K: Hatchery, A. W. Getty, S4.50 per thousand f. o. b. Ludington. I'rop., Middleville, Michigan. (2-27-2t-9. , (3-12-2t^33b) i termination, M'., . Shelled, Graced, C.1020-508, bushel 12.25. Two or more at IN VITAMIN D POTENCY BY THIS lar. That is, you get back 76 cents of it would go for taxes. Obviously, WASTED TO REXT—FARMS 12.15 bushel. Phone 2O-F-4, Padpfi '•• PROCESS. For poultry feeding it has Collin, Ml. Pleasant, Miclugan. these unquestioned advantages: in merchandise. the only way to get a larger slice W.\XTKI>. TO RENT FURNISHED • 1.—Nopco costs less for adequate Vita- for taxes, would be to take a 1 •'I'm. so ai-reH and H;iin county '2>'< years. Will exchange ii|>. Farmed in Ing- WANTED—FARM WORK min D protection. 2.—It has carefully The next is a good-sized slice. It's references >>onald l Hazel H58 Have two sons. 22 and 19. Comfort Street, measured Vitamin A and D potency the 14! cents that goes directly in- smaller slice for food. You can't tax WANTED- FAKM WORK BY .MONTH and is constant in feeding value—each Lansing. (3-12-lt) or year by married man, 31. F. E. KhcK- NOPCO Cod Liver Oil—fortified in your pie and eat it too. ner :• 1 > Wisconsin street, Lansing. Tele- Vitamin D potency carries more Vita- lot will give the same results. 3.—It to the business life of your com- :'A7". i::-U'-U> contains excess Vitamin D to take care WANTED- F I K M S I I K I * "oik on entires or will work by monMi or FAltM To min D and has a uniform standard of birds with extra high Vitamin D re- munity for renf, light, heat, salaries, Cutting up a food dollar pie has potency not found in unfortified cod Married 52, one boy, - :; - Edwin MIMIH-E \Ci:i> SINOLE .MAX. 54, quirements thus producing more uni- " I till St., Lansing, Michigan. dcsiro- farm job. Kxperieiti-ed iniKier, liver or fish oils. This uniform, standard form results and providing a margin of and the like. a simple moral and it is that Hean, sober. L |v Waldo, '- Miehl*an Vitamin D content is procured through Farm News, Lansing, Mkhiifan. the use of the patented Columbia safety. 4.—Carries full Nopco guaran- The third slice is very tiny any extra tax on food stores (S-12-1 t-W . i'-1 University process (U. S. Patent No. tee based on several years' intensive WANTED T<> KENT FARM s ii.(!>•-. U by the y e a r . Experi- FARM WOKK KV .\U>NT!l Oil *KAU 1,678,454) by which the Vitamin D ele- research and experience in serving the —just 22 cents of the whole must be paid by you inhigher (> 'H-ed w i t h p u r e b r e d S t o c k a n d '^n g i v e ment is extracted from cod liver oil poultry industry. : '">d i e l . ' . i n - , . - Married man with fam- or to rent on shares, everything furnwn- dollar and it is A & P's only food prices. i'v. L. .1. W i l h e y , Kennyille, II-1, Mi--h- ...1. Married, ".''>. n i ; 1 "';\' ; t 11 ' : ""''*• ' ' * and is then added to other lots of cod Nopco is an otherwise good ration iKan. (8-12-lt) L. !<• l>i!iin. Uoielnjf, K--\ liver oil to secure the desired strength means lower mortality, stronger chicks, profit for bringing the food WANTED FARM WOllK r.V M<>Mil or potency. NOPCO IS THE ONLY no rickets. Write if your dealer cannot 1 WANTED—TO WORK FURNISHED ,,;• year by marrted man. 28, with family. COD LIVER OIL STANDARDIZED supply you. 'in* on sluircs. or u " i k bj tnontli or Alfred Jonea, 3805 So. Cedar St.. £ n j l n K . Vt'ar. lf> :: i witii 22 years farm experience. Michigan. <..-i--m Nopco XX Cod Liver Oil.is used in FARM BUREAU MASHES % ss Hopkins Mirhhj 810 Bainrhart St., Lansing, (S-12-lt) WORK \W WEEP—FEMALE The Great ATLANTIC & PACIFIC Tea Co. WAX'l'Ki' K\i;.\l TU Ki:.\"l\ FUI1- V1SI I K S W O U K AS H< NATIONAL OIL PRODUCTS CO., INC. work ..11 iTartii farm l'l».v >" m month. onth. BOSTON CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO <}'•(<•>. / ! • in.-tiii.-.i, uo . n.-.-d in f a r m w o r k , children. I'lajvme Bar- -12-ltJ EXECUTIVE OFFICE: 52 ESSEX ST., HARRISON, N. J. '"it.-, ;>u>.. Wisconsin Ave. «-lt)|Mli SATI'ltHAY. MAKC1I 12, 1932 rorit r ( IT i a A \ r \ KM > K w s per ton. The ton is carried 1,000 to officers and employees In excess lar annual subsidy to second-class ,sing, serving some 80 farmers eleva- Michigan Visions Ocean STATE'S LIVE STOCK Sauce For Goose Is Sauce For The Gander of $l."'.,oou (a thing which Congress already has refused to do); it would mail users could not pay salaries to tors, is a laryc seller of beans to the officers and employees in excess of A. & P. Boats At Her Ports miles for one dollar. The ocoan rate on cereals and flour in bags from New York to Hamburg, VALUE DROPS 44 (Continued from page l> cover both private and co-operative agencies. The legislation you sug- mean that ship builders borrowing Government funds for construction purposes could not pay salari $l.">,000. HOW MANY CANS? More than half of the three bil- a distance of 4,200 miles is $3.60 per New York—The St. Lawrence Sea- ton. It means that the ton is hauled way means through movement by 1,100 miles for one dollar. A.&P. Buys 26 Million I PCT, IN 2 YEARS gest is just what the enemies of co- operative marketing want to see done," Mr. Stone wrote Mr. Lud- their officers and employees in ex- cess of $i:>,000; it would mean that airplane and shipping companies re- Lbs. of Michigan Beans lion pounds of tin plate used an- nually in the United States is used by the canning industry. ocean-going ships from ports on the Great Lakes to the ports of the world. It means ocean carriage, the lowest APPLES AND NITROGEN The new growth in a mature appi<, low. ceiving millions in direct Govern- cost transportation in the world. Number of Milk Cows Again Detroit—Announcement is made by HOME GARDENS tree requires about one and one- Certainly such action against ag- ment subsidies through mail con- The ocean rate on flour from the half pounds of actual nitrogen. a At High Point Reached riculture would be thoroughly in- tracts could not pay salaries to offi- the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. Home gardens on farms, in vil- Pacific coast to Manila, Philippine Is- year. About one-third 61 this is defensible unless Congress were cers and employees in excess of that during the past year it purchased lages or any place where it is pos- lands, is $4.50 per short ton. The used in the fruit and the reet j s In 1925 prepared to impose similar restric- $1.~>.000; it would mean that great more than 26 million pounds of Mich- sible to garden, will likely come to distance from Seattle is 6,900 miles, needed for leaves and shoot growth. tions on all other beneficiaries of industrial concerns receiving tariff igan beans for distribution throughout their own this year. Lansing- Michigan's rank among which means that the ton is carried Federal aid. This would mean put- protection could not pay salaries to the United States and Canada as To keep lettuce fresh and crisp, all States In numbers of live stock ting the same provision in the Re- 1,530 miles for one dollar. officers and employees in excess of choice Michigan beans. This is 650 Potatoes will be made mealy if Jan. 1, 1932, was: horses, 15th; all construction Finance Corporation $15,000; and it would mean that carloads or about two cars Michigan The ocean rate on condensed or wash it in cold water and put in % allowed to stand 20 minutes iu hot cattle, 18th; milk cows, 11th; sheep, Act so that banks, railroads and newspapers and magazines partici- beans per day. The co-operative evaporated milk from San Francisco covered crock and put in a cool water before they are put in the 13th; swine, 22nd. other borrowers from the $2,000,- pating I nit he ninety odd million dol- Michigan Elevator Exchange at Lan- oven to bake. to Nagasaki, Japan, 6,000 miles is $6 place. Jan. 1, 1930. the value of live 000,000 fund could not pay salaries Htodk on Michigan farms was $169,- 184.000. Ft had dropped to $115,- 184,000 by Jan. 1, 1931 and down to $94, 640,000 on Jan. 1, 1932, a decline of 44% in two years, accord- ing to V. H. Church, Federal crop statistician in his 1932 live stock summary just published. Numbers of horses have declined steadily since the war. All cattle hare remained about the same. \\> Improved have 850,000 milk cows and beifers two years old and over, kept for milk production, or the same num- ber as iu li»25 when the last high point was reached. Fertilizers "I have used many brands of fertilizer, and I find yours the best," Battle Lines Forming a Tuscola county farmer writes us. Farm Bureau fertilizers pay For Special Session better, handle better because: (Continued from page 1) Estate Association in favor of new 1. We provide nitrogen in highest quality, quick acting, water taxes as a substitute for property taxes, a drift in this direction among soluble ingredients to give tiny plants a flying start to early maturity. the owners of city property has been gaining rapid headway, and has be- 2. Farm Bureau fertilizers are extra dry, granular, free run- come so pronounced that many ob- servers declare that if the income tax ning, easy regulating,—a pleasure to handle. Your Farm Bureau question were put to a vote today it would carry in Detroit and other cities dealer can supply you. provided it was guaranteed to reduce property levies dollar for dollar. Rural Michigan, it is now generally conceded, would cast an overwhelm- ing vote in favor of an income tax. Grow Better Chicks Farm Bureau But, wlhile there has been a rapid growth of sentiment favoring in- At Lowest Cost w i t h Mermash Fertilizer come taxation, other new tax propo- sitions have been advanced, such as Cost is Low sales taxes, tobacco taxes, taxes on Nothing mysterious about it. Michigan soils and crops are electric power, and taxes on chain very deficient in iodine. stores. All of these have their friends, and the opinion is growing MERMASH benefits chicks by adding Manamar to an out- that a general opening of the tax standing poultry ration. Manamar is composed of kelp, an ocean plant, and fish meal, both rich in digestible iodine and other subject might result in a deadlock among the contending forces. Need One Measure minerals essential for health and growth. MICHIGAN VARIEGATED Chicks raised on Mermash simply walk away from those It Is generally admitted that the interests of property owners will be raised on other rations. They're healthier, grow faster, feather A Great, Low Cost, Long-lived Alfalfa better served if all efforts are cen- better. Chick losses are lower. Cost per chick is lower. tered upon one measure. What that Yes, all costs are lower because Mermash is undoubtedly measure will be, and whether any the lowest priced good chick starter-growing mash on the market. new tax proposed for the relief of property will be offered, depends j Mermash 16'/' protein, a superior dry largely upon the Governor, and he mash, starts chicks—grows pullets—main- has had nothing to say on this point tains peak egg production at lowest cost by as yet. PEN AGAINST PEN supplying all the essential food elements. The Governor has, however, heldj It's a life time ration. conferences with more than 60 mem- Mr. Allen G. Cummins of Cal- bers of the Legislature in the last houn county compared the aver- Mermash 16',;. is an excellent ration for 10 days, beginning with Lieut. Gov. age weight in ounces of chicks the rapid growth and development of young Dickinson, and with Senator Lennon, raised on Mermash 16 '/c and on ducks and turkeys. and Representative "Win. Thomas, " " ration, as follows: the chairman of the taxation com- Age Mermash 16% "——" Ration mittees of the two houses. In weeks Chicks Chicks The opinion continues to exist 2 3.40 or. 3.15 oz. that the House of Representatives 3 6.05 oz. 5.17 oz. IF you HAVE NOT FED MERMASH— 4 10.15 oz. 7.02 oz. will pass with an overwhelming vote This Coupon will bring you THE any tax measure that the Governor STORY OF MERMASH and our Special Introductory proposes, but that the Senate, and 52 tons from this 14 acres of Farm Bureau Alfalfa in its fourth year (Fred Curtis Farm, Lake Odessa) Price Offer for your first bag more particularly Senator Lennon's of Mermash. committee, is doubtful. A consider- able number of observers have ex- Name pressed the opinion that the limit of possibilities in this quarter would Address A certain catch, vigorous and even growth, and a be to secure a favorable vote upon permanent stand of heavy yielding alfalfa is a simple the question of submitting an income tax amendment to the constitution FX-3-12 M A I L TO Farm Bureau Services, Inc., Lansing, Michigan matter with Farm Bureau's Michigan grown seed. to a popular vote at the fall election, and as this would require a two- Winter killing of alfalfa v/as common before Fafrm Bureau introduced guar- thirds majority in both houses, it is anteed, northern grown seed in 1920. Since then Michigan's acreage has in- apparent that even this would be creased 9 times, from 74,000 to 652,000 acres in 1931. We distribute over 500,000 lbs. of hardy alfalfa annually to farmers who want permanent stands. We recom- difficult. mend Farm Bureau's: At the same time the growing de- mand for property tax relief has made it increasingly evident that a ANNOUNCING MICHIGAN VARIEGATED very large percentage of voters are looking to the administration and to the individual members of the Guaranteed to meet Michigan State College's requirements as to origin, Legislature to bring about some very ancestry and variegated bloom, characteristic of this hardy, Michigan grown definite reductions in property tax burdens, and that failure to ac- a Letter Writing Contest alfalfa. Michigan Variegated is of Grimm, Hardigan, Leabau, Cossack! Ontario Variegated ancestry. It is an excellent hay yielder. Priced low complish results in this direction Michigan Variegated is in strong demand. will be charged heavily against any who may obstruct action. RULES Processed in our modern seed cleaning plant, Michigan Variegated is the choices! Governor Brucker for one has 1. Contest closes midnight March 31st. All letters must be in the fceed. High germination test, thoroughly cleaned, weed free. Uncleaned untested made it clear that he plans to ac- mail by this date. seed is a risky investment. cept this challenge, and while he has 2. All letters not to exceed 200 words in length. refrained from publishing his pro- 3. Contest open to all members of a family using Farm Bureau Oil. THIS COMBINATION CAN'T BE BEATEN gram, he has repeatedly asserted 4. No entrants from Farm Bureau employees or their families. that he would propose a definite 5. All ltetters to be written in pen and ink. ^ ^ y ^ 1 6 ? ^ W i t h F a r m b e a u ' s Spartan barley o r our course of action in due time. Many or Worthy oats Smooth bearded, stiff-strawed, early maturing members have assured their friends G. The management will be the sole judge as to the merits of the ? £ f a S / r e r a l l v out yields other barley varieties 3 to 10 bushels pen that they stand ready to go along letters and the awarding of the prizes. acre Wolverine oats for lighter soils; stiff strawed Worthy where o a S4 with the Governor on any plan that Y The interesting points to be considered in this Letter Writing Con- may lodge. They are Michigan's heaviest yielding oats TT^ h XtT d Mi will grant genuine tax relief. test are the distance driven with your car or truck without work or me- Board Foes Glad To Do Subject: chanical adjustments on the motor while using Farm Bureau Oil. 1. Distance driven, car or truck, between crankcase draining periods on # Thinking For Farimers •'Our Success and amount bf oil added during this driving period. 2. Condition of oil drained from crankcase after long distance driving. "The Board is blamed for low with :!. Service given by tractor using Farm Bureau Oil over long period Other Farm Bureau CERTAIN-SEEDS are Red price*/' says the Farm Journal of of hard labor. Philadelphia, discussing attacks on Farm Bureau Clover, Alsike, Mammoth, Sweet Clover, Timothy, Let us show you . . • Corn, Beans. the Federal Farm Board. "When it was formed in 1929 wheat was Oil" PRIZES Michigan Variegated $1.02. now it is f»fi cents. Beef on 1st. Prize—1—$10.00 72x84 Double, Satin bound, plait}, all Wool (both warp and This coupon will brine you a sam- tho hoof was $11, now it is $5.50. filling) blanket. ple of Farm Bureau MICHIGAN 2nd. Prize—1—$6.00 70x80 Single, Solid Color, All Wool (both warp and filling) Egg's were 60 cents, now they are 18 cents. Cotton was 18 cents, now blanket. For Farm Bureau ALFALFA SEED VARIEGATED alfalfa seed and our descriptive circular. 3rd Prize—1—Heavy all wool shaker knit coat sweater, choice of the following it is 6% cents. Is the Farm Board colors: Maroon, Navy blue. Buff, Jockey Red. —see your local distributor Name to blame? 4-5-6-7-8-9-10th Prizes. Eversharp Pencil. If it is, how do you account for of Farm Bureau Seeds the fall of coffee prices in Brazil, All advertising- rights reserved from these entries. Address of butter in Denmark, of wheat at Liverpool and Amsterdam, of cotton OIL DEPARTMENT OF THE FARM BUREAU SERVICES, INC. iu Egypt and mutton and wool at Melbourne? Is the Farm Board at MAIL TO F.rm Bur,.« S«rvic«, Inc., L.n.ln,, * the bottom of all of these? "To those who do sincerely believe that the Board is responsible, we ltl( this. Are you certain that it is your own idea, based on full knowl- and sound reasoning, or did "BUY ERA CO-OP- TIVELY" ...SEED... FEED... Farm Bureau Services, Inc *• / F E * A ND AUTOMOBILE some one else slip the suggestion into your mind?" TWINE... TIRES... Lansing, Michigan INSURA NC E AT A "FARM LIME... SUPPLIES To freshen rolls, doughnuts or RISK RATE" stale bread, put in a paper bag and the top firmly, then place in a 221 North Cedar Street il oven for about ten minutes.