KEEP UP MICHIGAN THE NEWS NEWS on News Interesting to A Progressive Newspaper Farmert Through the For Michigan Farm Farm News Homes A Newspaper For Michigan Farmers FIFTY CENTS PER TEAR SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1932 FIVE CENTS PER COPY Issued Semi-Monthly CO. FARM BUREAUS Events Forcing Us Toward BUREAU SERVICES Farmer Brown of Federal PRESENT FINANCIAL AND CO-OPS JOIN Droppmg of Gold Standard HOLDS ANNUAL To Farm Board to Speak Here RELIEF PLAN BEST, Address Farm Groups In* (the Newi and their friends are invited So Says C. V . G r e g o r y Editor 8 t a n c ' a r r i unless it has to, and we shall THEIR STRENGTH r\r .1 D • • r ' the f r a m e h a r m e r , probably be no exception to the rule. B u t events aH moving rapidly, if MEET AT LANSING Southern August 15-27 Michigan to attend the nearest of these meet- ings: BUT IS STALLED In Article other remedies fail, and when distress Monday, August 15 . State Farm Bureau Plan Is becomes too acute, we will abandon Nfacomb—St. Clair county picnic at Charles S. "Farmer" Brown of the Armada, sponsored bv County Farm Money Lies Idle in Banks, Adopted In County By C. V. GREGQRY the g'olfl standard, cheapen the dollar, Stockholding Co-ops Present Federal Farm Board is coming to Bureaus, Oranges ami Farmers Clubs. Michigan Economist Two roacs iie ahead of us as a na-and start dn tnte road to recovery. Tuesday, August 16 Conferences Elect Officers; Revise speak before gatherings of Michigan Tuscofa county farmers picnic at Bage ion. The next few weeks will deter- A point thi't needs to be emphasized By-Laws fanners in about 15 communities dur- Lake late afternoon and early evening, Observes mine which one we are to follow. is that a depression as bad as this one ing the period August 15 to 27. The sponsored by Farm Bureau, Basket sup- Lansing—County Farm Bureau di- The credit which is being pumped cannot cure itself. With public confi- per. Ann Arbor —Economic r e l i e f rectors, managers, officers and direc- nto business by the federal reserve dence in the future almost destroyed, Farm Board is sending Mr. Brown Wednesday, August 17 Lansing—Annual meeting o f Farm here on .invitation o f the Michigan Oakland County Kami Bureau picnic measure* as al invsont pursued by tors of co-operative organizations in ystem and the reconstruction finance and with values largely squeezed Ottl Farm Bureau. Sec'y Brody of at Davisburg. County agr'l agent K. D, several counties have been holding a orporation may begin to take effect, of property, the patient is too sick to Bureau Services, Inc., stockholders, State Bailey making arrangements. Basket the Federal government, but car including the Michigan State Farm the Farm Bureau will attend a num- luncheon. ried out so that more of the money series of conferences with Sec'y C. L.manifesting itself in rising commodity get well unaided. Thursday, August 18 goes to those who Keed it and wilj Brody of the Michigan State Farm prices and renewed confidence. It is Bureau and a number of co-operative ber of the meeting with Mr. Brown. Regional picnic for Mason county farm- If Deflation Cures Itself ass'ns in Michigan, was held at State era and businessmen and farmers and spend it, instead of lying idle in tho Bureau to join the influence of thodoubtful if these institutions by them- Deflation can only cure itself by de- •"riciiiis from adjoining counties, at Am-banks, as has been largely the case several organizations within each elves can bring about this desired re- flating everything to a common level. Farm Bureau headquarters, here, Fri- ber Grove, just south of U8-1.0 6 miles so fa-, is probably the host national county for more effective work on ult, however. If they a,re aided by That means cutting wages and taxes day, Aug. 12. e...st oi Ludington, it miles west of Scott- ville. Basket luncheon, free coffee, depression medicine available, says public questions and .business mat- he Rainey emergency bill to raise in two, reducing salaries and profes- for the ensuing year; five were named The stockholders elected directors cream, sugar furnished, picnic begins at Professor Leonard L, VVutkins, of !ti a. in. With names and sports. Basket ters. arm prices, by an enlarged program sional fees of all kinds, lowering prices by the Michigan State Farm Bureau, luncheon. Afternoon Bpeaklng program, the economics department of the The proposal was made in Van Bur- >f public works, by the Steagall bank of manufactured goods by about 50 per and the balance elected from the co- LudinKton Hi^h school band. Farm University of Michigan. Out and Bureau musical talent, comedy sketch, en county and endorsed in St. Joseph, guarantee bill, and by the home loan cent, on the average, to bring them in operative associations. The stock- etc. Sponsored by -Mason County Farm out inflation would ve*y likely lead Branch and Berrien counties that the nortgage bank bill, the combined line with farm products, and finally. holders also revised the tiy-laws to as- Bureau. to future trouble by getting ex- County Farm Bureau and co-opera- \>rce may prove strong enough to push cutting the debt birden in two. Unless Friday, August 19 treme, with bad effects on the sist'eo-ops in qualifying as stockhold- Meeting of Traverse City Co-op Ass'n national credit, he declares. tives withm the county organize as aback the forces of deflation. creditors become willing to do that ers in Services, Inc. at Legion Hall near Park Place Hotel at County Farm Bureau Council to carry by agreement, it will have to be done |:30 o'clock. Three routes may be followed in a If Deflation Continues Directors elected were: M. L. Noon Saturday, August 20 depression, Professor Watkins says, out projects agreed upon. If congress fails to pass these meas- by defaults and bankruptcies. A n n u a l p i c - n i c at t h e G r a n d R a p i d s M i l k of Jackson, M. B. McPherson o f the "bankruptcy route," where noth- Sec'y Brody and the county groups ures, or if it waits too long, a con- While that process is going on, Lowell, E. W. Irwin of Saginaw,' J. Producers Ass'n a t Townsend Park, which is 7 or 8 miles east of Plalnfleld ing; is done and every business un- discussed the following matters on inuation of deflation may force us to many more people will be thrown out J. Jakway of Benton Harbor, Chas.j Bridge on (JS-1S1 or 11-15 miles north- able to stand the strain goes under, which farmers will want organized ollow the other road. That is to of work, and the 'burden of public re- Woodruff of Hastings, Tom Berg- •! LoWell. Saturday Evening, August 20 the "inflation route," where 'by 'action: the Wayne county politicians' bandon the gold standard. That lief will grow rapidly while the abil- iiouse of Falmouth, A. J. George of Annual meeting of the White Cloud Co- printing more money we attempt t<> referendum on reapportionment on would be the most direct attack on the ity to meet that burden declines. Buchanan, William Zonnabelt of Hol- operative Assn. iliivt' up prices and encourage re- the November ballot, calculated to se- problem, and the most certain in its A little thought will convince any-land, and Ray Allen of Oxford. Sunday Afternoon, August 21 Barry County Farm Bureau and friends newed business activity, and the one that long before industrial cure practical control of both houses results. While we still have many and debts and taxes can be cut in The Board elected Mr. Allen presi- prices at M. K. Church al Hastings at 2:39 p. in. "relief route", whk:h we are now of the Legislature for Wayne county people who worship the golden calf two, so many people will be thrown dent, Mr. Zonnabelt vice president, Monday Evening, August 22 Annual meeting- of the Kvart Co-op Co. business on, and which attempts to buoy up and Detroit; proper administration of and who would be alarmed if the gold out of work that government credit C. L. Brody executive secretary and at Bvart. without going to tho the Horton Highway Act, which is in- tandard were abandoned, the experi- will prove unequal to the task of feed- treasurer. Messers Allen, Zonnabelt Tuesday, August 23 lengths of true inflation of the cur- tended to relieve real estate of the ence of England and other nations ing them. Before that time, too, even and George, executive committee. Ogemaw County dairy picnic at Ken-rency by fiat money. yon'a Laftding. S a p - Lake. Program Highway tax by proper application of >vhich have followed that course show the strongest financial institutions will Secretary Brody's report gave the starts with basket picnic at noon. Free This last route we are now fol- all the weight tax, and McNitt-Smith- hlftt it is not the road to ruin. reach the end of their resources. When history and purpose of Farm Bureau Ice cream by West Branch dairy. Canoe lowing, and for the berti says Pro- tilt, baseball game, speakers Elmer Holbeck funds to be remitted county Abandonment of the gold standard Mr. Brown has spoken in Michigan Powers <>f Flint, Michigan .Milk Producers fessor Watkins, since its bad fea- governments for that purpose; the re-prices would cheapen the dollar and start that point \s reached we shall face the Services, together with current poli- before. His presentation of the work l, and Farmer lirmvn. tures ar.e fewer than either of the upward, with all the beneficial alternative of a revolution of thecies and recommendations for the fu- Wednesday, August 24 Others. Nevertheless, so far not lation of public officers and candidates ;ffects in the way of renewed business hungry, for it is certain that people ture. Mr. Brody said in part: and reasons for the Farm Board and A n n u a l picnic of t h e Dairyland Co-op- enough of the available funds otter for office to farm organizations, and activity that are alwajrs caused by ris-will not starve peaceably in a land its relation to farmers' co-operative erativ. ry Co. Of Carson City. ed by the jReconstruction Finance Farm Bureau organization policies in ng prices. It would improve our posi- of plenty, or drastic government meas- A Promise Fulfilled enterprises is well liked. A native of Thursday, August 25 Picnic of Hemlock Co-operative Cream- Corporation and the Federal Re- relation to local farm co-operatives. The purchase of farm supplies for Utah, former cow puncher and Ari-ery Co. ion in the export markets, and Tbroad- ures to meet the situation. After gov- serve have reached the hands of In each county committees repre- n the export outlet for our products. ernment credit is exhausted, only one the farmers of the State was one ofzona farmer, Mr. Drown is said to Clinton Thursday Evening, August 25 County Farm Bureau meeting, those who would actually spend senting the co-ops and County Farm ^he same forces that may drive us off way remains to do that. That is the important considerations promised have the humor of Will Rogers and plac, to lie; announced by County Agr'l them. The Federal Reserve has Bureau were appointed to proceed he gold standard would doub'tless abandonment of the gold standard, in the first Farm Bureau membership to be almost without a peer in pre- Agent Clare Bfurton. purchased a billion dollars worth of with plans to organize the County ompel us to increase the volume of and supplying the people with an ade-drive in 1919 and 1920. From the be- senting the cause of agriculture. For Van Bureti Friday Evening, August 26 County Farm Bureau meet- bonds from banks this year, and ginning it has been the policy of the Farm Bureau Council. urrency to take the place of restrict- quate medium of exchange by print- Michigan State Fa'rm Bureau in itsyears he represented the Southwest Farm ing at Lawrence, Bupper at 6:30 p. m.banks may also issue another billion Bureau members and friends in- Conferences are to be held with d bank credit. That will further in- ing paper money. on the American Farm Bureau Board vited from neighboring counties. Com- in bank notes on government bonds the County Farm Bureau and co-ops ensify the effects just mentioned. If we are wise we will not blunder business and other activities to work of Directors. mittee is arranging for supper to txtli'y hold, and if the banking sys- served at a very reasonable price, prob- in Oakland county, Clarkston town A nation seldom" goes off the gold along until that extremity is reached. with existing co-operative organiza- Michigan County Farm Bureaus are ably at the o d d Fellow hall. Charles tem does not get this money in the hall, the evening of Aug. 15; Saginaw (Continued on page two) tions rather than competing with co-operative with Grange and Farm- Robinson of Lawrence is chairman of the hands of private firms and individ- county at the court house, Saginaw, them, and for the past eleven years ers Club groups in getting big turn- cqmmittee. uals it will fail in its public duty, Saturday, August 27 farm supplies have been distributed outs at picnics and other gatherings Professor Watkins declares. evening of Aug. 24. Those attending the first meetings were: V A N B U R E N COUNTY SPEAKS AT IONIA MICHIGAN BECOMES primarily through the local co-opera- to hear Mr. Brown. All readers of as.s'ns tive organizations. It has put forth - County Farm Bureau and meeting at Colonial Theatre, Cas- sopolis a t 1:30 p, m. If the possibilities of the recently 1 relief bill are fully realized, its best efforts to serve the farmer M. R. Russell Miller Overton J. G. Boyle Lawrence Townhall, July 28 i Bangor Bangor Buchanan QUITE IMPORTANT through his existing co-operative or- Cass, Van Buren and ganizations and at this time the busi- Berrien Picnic Aug. 13 i Mason Farmers Ask \ Neighbors To Picnic it may well serve to start the wheel • of business again, but some direct Federal relief to persons in dire J. J. Jakway F. J. Thar.....:.*. W. E. Phillips 1. A. Richards Benton Harbor Coloma Decatur Kau Claire IN OIL PRODUCTION ness is being handled through nearly 400 locals serving more than 50,000 Benton Harbor—Mr. Lucius E. farmers. Wilson and Mrs. Dora Stockman lersLudington—Mason need may well be called for in the meantime, if only on humanitarian county farm- grounds, Professor Watkina stated. C A. Beckwith Lawrence During the early years the supply were speakers at the Tri-County farmers and business mer arc inviting H. G. Simmons Lawrence from surrounding counties Charles Robinson T, B. Woodman M. S. Fuller Peter Schnoor..* Lawrence Lawrence Lawrence Paw Paw Flow Nearly 3,000,000 bbls. business was handled as a department Farmers' picnic tor Cass, Berrien to join them in a regional picnic at In 6 Months; Midland of the Michigan State Farm Bureau.! and VanBuren counties at Crystal Amber Grove, just south of US-10, By 1925, however, the volume and re-1 Springs camp ground Aug. 13. The(j miles east of Ludington or 3 miles FARM EQUIPMENT Deyo Thayer M. D. Buskirk C. K. Buskirk C. D. Leisenring Paw Paw Paw Pa.w Paw Paw South Haven Field Good sponsibilities of the business had picnic was sponsored 'by the Farm west of Scottville, Thursday, Aug. grown to a magnitude that made it Bureaus and Granges. The picnic opened with a sports ?8, according to Wesley Hawley, PRICES NEAR'29 ST. JOSEPH COUNTY Lansing—Oil production during the desirable to incorporate it separately program. After the picnic . dinner secretary of the Mason County Farm Buying Power Nose- Constantine Creamery, August 3 first six months of 1932 reached the and on July 1, 1925, two subsidiaries Mrs. Stockman spoke on "Looking Farm Bureau, Mason county mer- Jesse E. Steinborger Stanley Brooks .....i Burr Oak Burr Oak highest volume since 1927 when Mich- were incorporated: the Michigan Farm Forward in Agriculture." Mr. Wil- chants will close to attend the pic- Dives ; Machinery Sales Bureau Seed Servfce and the Michigan Drop But Not in Price John F. Hageri Burr Oak gan entered the ranks of oil produc- son's topic was "A Managed Curren- nic.The program includes an address L. Ci Schrader E. C. Engle Burr Oak Centerville ng states, and new developments in Farm Bureau Supply Service. The cy." Lester R. Schrader Centerville Michigan since January 1 outranked business was carried on under these Mr. Roy Ward of the Dowagiac by Charles (Farmer) Brown of the Washington—Prices of farm equip- John W. Fletcher H. C. Bueknell Centerville Centerville those for any other oil state in thetwo corporations until 1!>29 when they Co-op Ass'n was chairman of theFederal Farm Board,* who is at-ment have come down very little in Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Garber.».Constantine ;ast and the middle west, according were consolidated into Farm Bureau event. James Richards, W. K. Phil- tending a series of meetings in Mich- comparison with tho falling off in Will Garber Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Christley Constantine Contantine o figures quoted by The Oil and GasServices, Incorporated. lips and Mrs. Dean Clark were the igan on invitation of Sec'y Brody of arm prices, says Dr. Stine of the U. E. D. Fairchild <'onstantine Journal, of Tulso, Oklahoma. In The Farmers' Interest committee the for speakers; M.er]o Mr. Brody and Michigan State Farm Bureau. S. Dep't of Agriculture, pointing out Mr. and Mrs. Chan. Seeley Constantine During the first six months of this fStern, Ward Hood and Charles Bo- Sec'y Lind of thethat manufacturers have combated Peter J . Miller Constantine Since 1919 the Michigan State Farm Ludington Chamber of Commerce flepression by reducing production but Mrs. Musa McGregor Constantine year, Michigan's wells produced Bureau had fostered the supply ser- nine were tho sports committee, and will speak. Fred W. Gentlzer... Constantine 2,950,000 barrels, most of which came vice* through its early adversities and county agr'l agents W. P. Johnson, IX H. Dermott Constantine Sec'y Hawley lists other features have not reduced prices materially. ^'ina M. Bfody Constantine from the recently developed field in inexperience and pioneered an entire- Harry Lurkins MIKI Clcorge Mclntyro of the program as the Ludington Dr. Stine compared the 1929 average '*. E. Seeley Constantine SEC'Y M. S. WINDER were the publicity committee. George S. Melntyre Cassopolis Mr. Winder, Midland county. Durin'g a similar secretary of the Amer- period in 1931, 1,511,000 barrels were ly new brand of merchandising in high school band, a solo by Robert of farm equipment prices with March 0( orge Frank ^ illard Ginter Jones Jones ican Farm Bureau Federation, is to which service to the farmer was the Williams of Ludington, concerting 1932 prices as follows: D. E. & T. B. Harvey Jones speak in behalf of that organziation produced. first consideration. The introduction Firemen May Rush to and other music by farm talent, ! horse \\ikn-. plow 1828 | 2U % 21 H. S. Poe Jones Optimism in Michigan's oilfieldsisby the Farm Bureau of known origin, drums selection by Radke and son,! bot. Trac. Plow 112 B- K. Simmons Jones to the Farmers Day crowd at the not only reflected by the high pro- Blaze, Then Dig Well a comedy sketch by Wayne Adams 79 i80 oa Earl D. Bmlf Marcellus adapted seed processed by modern J-row com l'l Marcellus Ionia County Free Fair, Friday, Aug. duction records for the first half of seed equipment, the devolopment of J> IIS 142 H. Savage and C. Lawrence Lind and a pro- Ir.iin d r i l l 116 Walter Hirshey Marcellus 19, at 10:00 A. M. he year, according to the report, but open formula feeds and high analysis Imagine' dashing out to a forest gram of sports. Coffee, sugar and Wagon George W. Brown Marcellus L. J. Tabor, Master of Nat'l Grange, 'r. Separator i] 86 M Mr. 11 and Mrs. V. C. Schaeffer Sturgis is being gained through a slow but fertilizer has raised the whole stand- fire on one of Michigan's Sahara-like cream will be furnished the picnick- ias engine ' ' 'I Hagadom Sturgia will speak for the Grange. ertain rise in the prices paid for sand plains and digging a well on the ers by the picnic committee. As production of machinery drops, Mr. & Mrs. \V. L. Fawcett Sturgia ard of farm supply merchandising and •'• I!. Rockwell T!ux;e Rivers The program, sponsored by Ionia crude oil. The price is now the high- created an ideal and demand in thespot for water to fight theflamesand cost per unit may rise, which may be Harry G. Gleason Three Rivers _ounty Farm Bureau and Pomona est in more than a year. January 1, farmer's mind for quality and service. getting it in quantity! considered a reason for maintaining Henry C. Gleason "aymond Krull Three Rivers Three Rivers Grange, starts at 9:00 A. M. Picnic oil producers in Midland county were With a view to increasing Jh« busi- It's being tried "but in Michigan. At Why Sweet Corn Loses or advancing prices, said Dr. Stine. "rank E Krull !'• I'. Culbertson Three Rivers dinner at noon. Three Rivera receiving 55c a barrel. By the rnid- ness and serving the farmers in lo- the Roscommon Forest Fire Experi- Its Sweetness Swiftly Samples of how machinery sales have E<1 Smith Three Rivers dle of May it had jumped to 65c. July calities where no co-operative service mental Station a tank truck has been dropped: Mowers, 128,000 in 1929 to ^ H. York (; Three Rivers Crop Conditions Good; 1, it was 75c and by the end of thewas available, nine branch stores have developed to "wash in" such tempor- Many persons can truthfully say 19,000 in 1931; two bottom tractor lmn Fetterolf Three Rivers ( Vde Dimmick Three Rivers Oats and Barley Low month it had risen to 85c. been established at Hart, Bay City, ary well with a high pressure stream hat the best sweet corn they ever plows 54,000 in 1929 to 23,000 in 1931. " ade Moliney Mrs. Flora Barnes Three Rivers Three Rivers "The Midland Field in Michigan Saginaw, Pinconning, Woodland, Lan- from the truck tank. A well 13 feet ate was fresh from their own gar- While farmers saw butterfat prices deep has been washed in in twc\ min- Mr. & Mrs. Henry Schmidt..White Pigeon Lansing—Crop report for Mich- was one of the most interesting and sing, Lapeer, Imlay City and Batavia, utes. An improved screen enables one dens. drop 48%, cream separators stuck at M's. Fred Melntyre White Pigeon prolific of the new fields recently de- the last named being a bulk oil sta- A biological chemist, working in HI', of the price of three years ago; Harry C. Morris White Pigeon igan for the week ending. Aug. 0 by 'iltiin Fage. . White Pigeon D. A. Seeley of the Weather Bureau veloped," the Journal report says. tion. Some of these branches are re-such well to produce all the water Maryland a few years ago, found while corn dropped to very low prices, *'• E. Lutz White Pigeon "Out of 66 wells completed in Mich- that may be handled by one pump that that when sweet corn was kept in a corn planters remained at the price of BRANCH COUNTY station here, is satisfactory, as fol- igan in the first half of the year, H ceiving and shipping pooled beans for will throw 40 gallons per minute 75 warm place, such as most grocery three years ago. the locals of the Michigan Bean Grow- ,, Batavia, August 4 lows: \ the were in Midland county and of these, ers Association. These are all mar-feet from a hose 1,000 feet or more store counters are in summer, it lost Farm products that require manu- Jr. & Mis. Charles Bertel Batav a JIr- and Mrs. Hebert Smith Batavia week Localin showersall parts nearly fell during of the state 33 were oil wells averaging 1,250 bar-keted through the Michigan Elevator long. half of its sugar contend in 24 t;n turing processes before consump- Uoyd Luce - Batavia Water within 25 feet of the surface hours. This sugar turned to starch. tion have fallen farther than those ™r. & Mrs. C. (J. Somerlott Bronson These were heavy in the Kalanfazoo rels per well in initial production. Exchange and the arrangement has 'M3-s. I). E. Williams Bronson Battle Creek, Albion district, but inSome of the wells in the field yielded proved to be an important source of may be used in fire righting from such According to a law discovered by athat do not, said Dr. Stine, noting the barren Williatns ';;>> half the sugar is lost in 24 hours at deal in perishables and can reduce '•• C Kempster ., Coldwater 85 degrees Fahrenheit, only one- production and ' maintain prices. * '•• and Mrs. Bd. Cornell Coldwater weather prevailed and harvesting Early in 1931 k was decided to in- New Rule on Oil Tax ,'''• v :md Mrs. otis Barnes Coldwater and threshing was but little inter- terest local co-operative distributors fourth would be lost at 67 degrees Farmers deal iji perishables which } - I). Kuik Coldwater • A. Thomas Coldwater rupted by rains.^ Yields of oats and Gov. Brucker to Attend in becoming common stockholders Washington—The Internal Revenue Fahrenheit, or only one eighth at must be sold if only low prices will ' A. Donnel Coldwater barley were .generally disappointing, with a view to bringing them into Bureau has ruled that the 4 cents per 40 degrees Fahrenheit. move them into consumption. '-• L)ean Steftev \\-11 H. Russell.." Coldwater Coldwater but yields of wheat were mostly Kalamazoo-St.Joe Picnic ownership of the business corporation gallon tax applies only to lubricating Peas make a similar change, and -; '- and Mrs. Clyde Barnes Coldwater satisfactory. The secWd crop of al and enabling them to participate more oil. Oils used for insecticides, in this fact emphasizes that these two ;Y N. Brown ,,"';|11 H. Wilson Jonesvilk- Montgomery falfa hay is nearly all harvested Kalamazoo—Governor Brucker is to directly in its policies. This step was making binder twine and other non- vegetables should either be ha"vest- 52 Piece Band, Sports , ienn CMark Buchanan Arthur Lange Sodu ily and come with well filled baskets power within the state, but also the pay notes at banks. Now if all theState Tax Commission and Elmer of the Four County Co-op Asg'n here. ,' im Haslett.'.. ' Buchanan E. F. Blastock Sodu ',, >v''•• Boyle Buchanan HaVry Lurklns St. Joseph The spoAs program includes contests organization has joined its services j rest of us who owe pressing notes Beamer, president of the Michigan '." Ward DowagteC Thomas Three Riven between the two counties. Committee with the service corporations of the at banks can just manage to dress Live Stock Exchange will speak at a Chinese and Japanese use the ',• H. Prillwitz .'. Bau Claire . V. Wahl Three Oak t olook like big Labor Day picnic here sponsored same written languages, though th^ '< A. Richards Bau Clain Geo. Mangold l d T h r e i e" Oak in charge is Will Munson. Calvin Gar- Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia Farm! "P railroads, we can • A Harrington • ^ • Mammlx N gjle 'l<" Barney Kaiser Three o'aks her, Howard Bueknell, Clinton Buell Bureaus, so Michigan farmers are en-| w h i P t n i s depression in pretty sthort by the Branch County Farm Bureau Ispokeh languages arf qttlte dif- W wH . Doane Nile E. 0. Goldsmith, R. L. Olds. (Continued on page 2) 'nriioi- W D B H V lCati«a« City order.—Weekly C\t\- Star and the Farm Bureau Oil Service here. ferent. a u - Knott Nile K. H. Sherwood - W. Keith Sawye SASTODAT, AUGUST 13, 1932 TWO M I C H I G A N FARM N E W S BUREAU SAYS GOVT IN BUSINESS PROBE WHEAT and RYE Fertilizer Recommendations for 1932 Successor to the Michigan Farm Bureau News, founded January 12, 1923 UNFAIR TO CO-OPS From Circular Bulletin 53—Michigan State College Soils Section Entered as second class matter January 12, 1923, at the postoftice at Charlotte, Michigan, under the Act of March 3, 18W. 1° c of Gov't in Business Is in BY DR. C. E. MILLAR, G. M. GRANTHAM, P. M. HARMER Published the second and fourth Saturday of each rponth by the Agr., Which Gets 9 8 'r. Michigan Farm News Company, at Its publication office at. 114 Lovett of Attack TABLE I—SANDS AND LIGHT SANDY LOAMS St., Charlotte, Mich. Editorial and general offices, 221 N#rth Cedar St., Lansing, Michigan. Fertilizers are usually more effective on'soils containing sufficient amounts of lime than on soils deficient In lime. Postoffice Box 708. Telephone, Lansing, 21-271. Chicago-T-Aroused by the vicious nation-wide propaganda campaign Group 3 Group 1 Group 2 E. E. UNGREN Editor and Business Manager aimed at destruction of the co-opera- Clover or alfalfa grown within .Manured within the last two No manure'or leguminous green tive marketing movement, farm lead- Crop manure used within tb< the last two years. years. ers from eleven mid-western states, 1 two rears. Subscription 50 cents per year; 3 years for $1. in Advance gathered here under the auspices of 2-16-2 2-12-6 or 4-16-8 2-16-2 or 2-12-6 ' I the American Farm Bureau Federa- With no seeding of clover or Vol. X SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1932 No. 15 tion, today (Wed. Aug. 3) launched a alfalfa drive to rally the farmers of the na- tion in defense of their right to con- WHEAT OR RYE carrier is recommended. trol the distribution of their own Who Guarantees New Relief Loans? products. With see'ding of clover or alfalfa Legume seeding usually not 2-12-6 or 2-8-10 2-12-6 Chester Gray of the Washington office of the American Farm Bureau Following a three-day conference, recommended in this group. Federation gives us some important information with regard to at which the attacks at Kansas City $300,000,000 the Wagner-Rainey bill authorizes the Reconstruction on the Agricultural Markrf ing Act Finance Corporation to use "in furnishing relief and work relief to the were a principal topic of discussion, a needy and distressed people, and in relieving the hardship resulting from statement embodying the attitude of TABLE II—HEAVY SANDY LOAMS, SILT LOAMS AND CLAY LOAMS unemployment." the farm leaders was adopted, as fol- Fertilizers are usually more effective on soijs containing sufficient amounts of lime than on soils deficient In lime. This, said Mr. Gray, is the legal way in stating that the money is lows? to be used to feed, clothe and shelter hungry and destitute citizens. "In view of the generally accepted Group 6 Group 4 Group 5 belief that national prosperity cannot Clover or alfalfa grown within Manured within the last two Another section of the same bill provides $120,000,000 for emergency No manure or leguminous green construction on the federal aid highway system. return to the United States until the Crop manure used within the last . the last two years. years. ( general farm price level is restored two years. The States drawing on these funds are expected to pay them back to a basis above cost of production, 2-16-2 or 4-16-4 2-16-2 0-20-0 or 2-16-2 EB soon as possible with 2% interest. If they do not, the Act provides the officials of the state Farm Bureau With no seeding of clover or that the Government may draw on the regular federal aid highway ap- Federations of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, alfalfa Grain alone, 200 pounds or more. With alfalfa or clover seeding*, 300 pounds or more at time of propriations to the interested State. Beginning June 30, 1935, it may Wisconsin, i Missouri, Kansas, South seeding the small grain. WHEAT OR RYE deduct one -fifth of such federal aid each year until the State pays Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, whatever it borrowed from the $300,000,000 fund. To borrowers from Nebraska, representing the organized With seeding of clover or alfalfa 2-12-6 or 4-16-8 2-12-6 or 2-16-2 0-20-0 tire $120,000,000 fund the Act says that the sum must be repaid with agricultural interests of the midwest, • interest within 10 years after June 30, 1938, by annual deductions from in a three-day formal session at the the annual Federal Aid road money to the State. Hotel Sherman, Chicago, Illinois, gave Governors of States are charged with asking for, receiving' and ad- careful consideration to the propa- ministering such funds. Since the destitute are largely in the cities, it is provided that with approval of the Reconstruction Corporation, such ganda being disseminated by selfish interests, including grain and live Bald Rock, New Beardless Catch First Salmon In Lake Charlevoix QUACKS PREY ON loans may be made direct to the cities, subject to rules laid down by the 3toc« exchanges, certain commission Governor, and in that case repayment of the funds is not deductable flrmsl illegitimate speculators in food Red Winter Wheat is Ready Lansing—Report of the capture of ANEMIA PATIENTS from federal highway funds, Mr. Gray points out for the benefit of the products and others who oppose the these tests being carried on at the nation's rural public which lives along federal aid roads. development of co-operative market- Developed From Red Rock; College and in state Variety tests. a ten pound Chinook Salmon from. ing of agricultural products. Lake Charlevoix by Nicholas Green, It appears then, that if a State goyernment assumes full responsi- First Seed fof Farmers From these tests it has been learned 12 year old Boyne City youth, has Cleverly Advertised Medicines bility for distribution of such funds to country and city alike, the rural "Particular consideration was given that Bald Rock is quite resistant to been reported to the Department of population does most of the guaranteeing of payment by pledging federal to the Congressional investigation now This Fall Delay or Make Relief lodging as compared with our other Conservation. The boy was fishing aid road money which is intended largely for cross country road con- in progress, familiarly known as the varieties. It matures in mid-season for Mackinaw Trout when he caught Impossible s 'Shannon Investigation'. It was noted By R. E. DECKER struction. If the cities, wherein is the acute distress, assume their par- and this enables it to avoid the dry the fish. Farm Crop" Dcp't, State College ticular loans themselves, according to the regulations the State lays that The Shannon Committee was or- East Lansing—There w411 be about weather which usually occurs in early Ann Arbor—Persons who have, dered to investigate 'government-in- Chinook Salmon were planted in tl or think they have, anemia, annual- down for expenditures, the federal aid road money is not attached for 2,000 Tnishels of peed of the new wheat summer. This also gives clover and huriness' and, although 90 per cent of Boyne River millpound by the De- ly waste thousands of dollars on such amounts and the rural public, or State as a whole, might be said variety, Bald Rock, available this fall alfalfa seeded with the wheat a bet- to be relieved of guaranteeing payment of the welfare expenses of cer- so-called government-in-business ac- for Michigan growers, according to the ter chance. When it comes to yield, partment of Conservation in June, ,