KEEP UP MICHIGAN NEWS n News Interesting to THE NEWS Farmers Through the A Progressive Newspaper Farm News For Michigan Farm Homes A Newspaper For Michigan} Farmers FIFTY CENTS FIVE CENTS PER YEAR SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1932 PER COPY Issued Semi-Monthly POOLS TO OPEN HORNS, PAH TANGLE Farm Board Speaker Is LIVESTOCK CO-OP Repel Grasshoppers OUTLOOK IS GOOD With Zinc Barricades FOR NEW BEAN' BULL IS DROWNED Guest of Many Thousands HELP TO FEEDERS More than 90,000,000 feet of zinc FOR STATE CROPS Grover, Utah—A bull owned CROP IN SEPT. by Joseph Winck of this village drowned in a bucket of water. "Farmer" Brown Points Out "The most successful enemy propa- Unfair Criticism of Enemies "Shoot" Propaganda ganda against the Farm Board, charg- THROUGHOUT MICH. sheets costing the Argentina Kepub- 'ic 24,000,000 paper pesos was u.-ul IN COMING WEEKS Here's how it happened: las-t year to fight giv.dshoppers, ac- Five Pools of Past Showing ing the board with carrying out the ccrding to a report from Bu«jno* Aires Said bull—used to a daily feed Board's Work provisions of the Marketing Act. is Ly Commercial Attache A. v . Dye. Satisfactory Returns to of grain—pushed its head into a grain bucket, the handle of the charge that the Farm Board blind- Beamer Sees Big Demand Fpr The grasshopper plague is already 'rop Reporters Find Season "The sole purpose of the federal co- ly fixed the price of wheat at 80 cents Western Stock Here Favorable for Nearly The Growers the pail catching on the ani- operative marketing act and the Fed- and won for its trouble a gigantic beginning to threaten the northern mal's horns. This Season part of the country this year. All Farm Crops eral Farm Board is to assist farmers failure. Enemies demand: "How does By digging trenches and placing the 18 LOCAL_UNITS JOIN The bull, blinded by the buck- in helping themselves to improve the Farm Board justify the enormous et, ran across a field and plung- their markets, to improve their in- salaries paid the general managers Prospects of a good grain crop and zinc sheets as high curbs on the far Five New Associations Are ed into the river, the bucket fill- come and to place thetr industry on of the wheat and cotton marketing as- plenty of roughage, together with an side an effective trap is formed. I00D BEAN PROSPECT ing with water. The bull-un- an equality of opportunity with other sociations?" opportunity to obtain financial MSlst- Jrasshoppers before developing win^s Being Set Up in East are called "hoppers". They reach the able to shake off the bucket, industries," said "Farmer" Brown of "The Farm Board wajfe subjected to ance through the livestock co-opera- trench and find it too difficult to ruits Bearing Well in All Part of State drowned, standing in water up the Federal Farm Board to thousands enormous pressure from; Congress, by tives, make it evident that Michigan to its knees. of Michigan farmers during the per- that section of business depending on probably will turn to feeding western are ross.' They fall into the trench and Sections; Grains And iod August 15-27 at a series of farm- lambs, and cattle this fall, according collected and burned. It is not Field Crops Good Bea^i pools for the new bean crop agriculture, including the banks, to which will be available at the eighteen ers' picnics and co-operative associa- peg the price of wheat when it was to Elmer A. Beamer, of Blissfield, expected that Argentina will oc trou- tion meetings in lower Michigan. president of the National Livestock bled ;nnch this year with tbe frass- local bean growers associations of the Michigan Bean Growers, Inc were announced today as opening Septem- NEW WHEAT GOES "The Farm Board is cussed and sliding from $1.10 to $1.00 to 90c andProducers association. down. Banks in the agricultural re- Mr. Beamer says that his organiza- used.—United States Daily. discussed and tragically misunder- gions were toppling at an ever-in- tion is receiving the greatest number ppns, with the zinc sheets being The Michigan crop prospects this lontli are considerably better than the H-respondin^ month in either 1930 or ber 1st, by the Michigan Elevator Ex- change, sales agent. -Members of the association will be offered their choice IN HEAVY CLASS stood by reason of the propaganda its creasing rate. The Fafm Board knew enemies have loosed against it," said that pegging the price of wheat could Mr. Brown. "Only two classes of peo- only be an* emergency measure. It of inquiries feeders ever for financial experienced. aid and for COUNTRY SHOWS ».'!1 is reported by V. n. Church, U. S. gricuttliral Statistician of the Mioh- gan Co-operative Crop Reporting Ser- of the average sales lees merchandis- ing costs from September 1 to January FOR PRODUCTION The Farm Board. , They are the speculator remained at that figure in this coun- direct from the western ranges or in farm products, whose opposition is try for 6 months, while outside the through the big western stock yards livestock ple oppose the Marketing Act and the was pegged at 80 cents per bushel and feeder lambs, calves and cattle either co-operatives obtain ACTIVITIES IN kse in his monthly statement. While the western half of the lower 1 or March 1 or August 15 or the eninsula, some southeastern counties, usual current market price for cash Acre Yields of 50 Bushels natural and with whom we can "Mo nation wheat fell and fell, to 30 cents and have beea keeping the Michigan on delivery. Reported for Bald Rock nothing. The second class is the mis- in Liverpool, the lowest since 1516. producers and other feeders of the east informed persons who have accepted While U. S. wheat was pegged at 80 and midwest in direct contact with TEXTILE TRADE nd local areas elsewhere were much )<) dry during the greater portion of uly. uood rains during the latter Farmers desiring to pool beans nwst the hostile propaganda at its face' cents, hundreds of thousands of our the big herds of the west for several make their decision on cards which Variety art of the month brought the July Wool Movements Said Greater recipitation up to normal and restor- are furnished the members on or be- value." farmers sold their wheat and paid seasons. s fore October 30th, although they may Bald Rock, Michigan's new variety "The Marketing Act aims to help debts and notes, benefiting the entire Livestock provides the best market Than Any Time Since d crops in most sections to a good deliver to the pool they choose u'p to of winter wheat, came out with seve- farmers do three things, and I leave public and themselves by holding for Michigan grains under present Days of War rowing condition. Wheat and rye fifteen days before the final settlement ral very good production records this it to you as to whether or not they open thousands of banks which would price conditions, according to mem- the southern half of the state has date. season, according to information filed are bad things or good things: have closed. Today hundreds of the bers of the animal husbandry division About the firsf real signs of renew- een threshed. The yield of wheat is Pooling as a new method of sale in with the Michigan Crop Improvement 1. To minimize speculation in farm bankers who were saved and others of 'Michigan State College. d activity in the manufacturing wo. hi round T.',.?> bushels per acre, 2.5 bush- the Michigan bean business has had Association. products. who were saved with them are bitter Groups of calves bought by State appears in the field of textile manu- Is less than last, year which broke all eighteen months experience infivesep- This new variety of wheat is a soft, 2. To eliminate waste in distribu- critics of this emergency policy of the College for experimental feeding cost acture. Cotton and woolen goods revious records, hut 5 bushels above ten-year average. The state's rye arate pools during which time it has red wheat that was developed for its tion of farm products. Farm Board. Such a step was not in ?7.50 per hundred weight and were nakers have begun to bestir tliem- ield is estimated at 13.5 bushels, the demonstrated the ability to even the resistance to lodging and is coming 3. To assist farmers in a program the original purpose of the Farm sold for the same price, but they made elves in the paat few weeks to the ame as last year and slightly above ups and downs of the market to the into the world of commercial produc- of orderly marketing through their Board. It was an emergency meas- gains rapidly enough to pay the fol- point where it looks as if prosperity verage. farmer's advantage as shown by the tion this s'eason for the first time. o-operatives which will enable them ure. It may have cost this country lowing prices per hundred weight for seekers will actually have some new -record on C. H. P. basis, elevator bid Leonard Grueber, of Frankenmuth, to better control their surpluses. (Continued on paue 2) grains: ground barley, $1.48; shelled raiments to wear when Miss Prosper- Oats and barley are considerably be- corn, $1.39, and ground oats, $1.30. w average; the former is expected to farmer: Jan. 1 to June 30, 1931—has reported a yield of 50 bushels to ty again presents herself. o fall 2.5 bushels per acre and the high, $4.10; low, $3.10; range, $1.00; the acre with this new wheat this Scientists Develop Roughage and grain can be market- College Is Working On ed through lambs at a good profit. In The Michigan wool pool is reported atter, 6 bushels below last- year as pool paid, $3.86. May 1 to June 30, summer and C. D. Finkbeiner, of Clin- o have felt the first indications of a if I- suit nl heat and drought in June. 1931—high, $3.65; low, $3.10; range ton, reports a yield of 45 bushels on "Shatterproof" Grape Borer Resistant Corn forced feeding, approximately equal spurt in the wool trade.. Car ship- 55c; .pool paid, $3.51. Sept. 1 to Dec. his farm. • quantities of roughage and grain are ments of 1932 wool have been ordered he condition of corn varies greatly etween fields and localities but the 31, 1931—high, $3.00; low, $1.70; Michigan State College, which de- "Shatterproofing" grapes is one of Plant breeders of Michigan State fed, but, if light lambs are carried ivhile eastern wool dealers say that >lor is generally good and there are range, $1.30; pool paid, $2.15. Jan. 1 veloped the new wheat variety, holds he latest accomplishments of scient- College are still devoting considerable through a longer feeding period, the more wool has been moving in the lany tine fields throughout the state. to Aug. 15, 1932—high $1.70; low, high hopes for the success of this sts of the United States Department effort to production of a strain of corn proportion of roughage can be increas- past week or 10 days than at any time ecent rains and moderate tempera- $1.30; range, 40c; pool paid, $1.45. new strain. About 2,000 bushels of of Agriculture and one which may that will not attract European corn ed to about twice the amount of« grain. since war days. Sept. 1-31, Aug. 15, 1932—high, $3.00; the Bald Rock wheat will be available ave grape growers of the United borers. A cross-bred strain which Better than current market prices Many reports have come to the ures are favorable and the crop pro- for feed can be realized from feeding ront in the past week, telling of cot- ae to be about two bushels above low, $1.30; range, $1.70; pool paid, for this fall's plantings. This repre- States thousands of dollars annually. proved borer resistant several seasons verage. Should the remainder of the $1.75. lambs which sell for the same price sents the fruits of nearly a decade of Shippers lose large sums yearly ago is being developed and watched per pound that was paid for them. on textile shops resuming operations eason be favorable, another two or Eighteen ~ local Associations located endeavor to provide the Michigan rom grapes which "shatters" or with a hope of having a strain suffic- Any increase in market price for tbe at capacity rates after months of idle- nee. bushels per acre nii^ht, easily in seven comities with a membership growers with a variety designed to break from the stem, in transit. Dr. iently hardy and productive to me«t finished lambs will materially increase ness. i added to present estimates. of. approximately two thousand, and meet certain requirements. hai les Brooks of the department has the seeding requirements for Michi- the returns from the feed. The wool growers, comprising the Kfan (rop Favorable live new associations in the process of discovered in laboratory experiments gan planting. Good, thrifty pigs are excellent National Wool Marketing Corporation, Field beans are looking exception- organizing, represent a remarkable hat subjecting the grapes to carbon Like aft new strains of plants, the grain matkels unless an attempt is have combined sufficient strength of growth in thp two years of operation Sofia To Curb Sale of lly well in most of the principal pro- dioxide gas before they are placed in new, borer-resistant type of corn re- made to make the gain's on grain holdings to be able to tell they are ucing counties, and the ample mois- of the co-operative plan of handling Lands Held for Taxes he refrigerator car prevents much of quires many seasons of culture to without any protein supplement when holding for a price. Recent offers ure and moderate temperature condi- beans through grower control to the his shattering. He has applied for a prove its merits. So far, the pros- the hogs are being fed in a dry lot. \a.re been turned down on the strength ons at the present blooming stage consumer as developed by the Mich- Sofia, Bulgaria—The Bulgarian Fi- public-service patent which will make pects for this type of grain are good, The College, livestock feeders say that of brighter prospects for coming re more favorable than they have igan Bean Growers, Inc. nance Minister is not going to have the method free for anyone to use. it is claimed. the cost of gains under such conditions nonths. Wool is bound to have a een in any recent year. Present in- Associations are located at Munger, any more real estate sold under the Carlot shipments of grapes in the While the state and federal govern- is prohibitive and they recommend the price if producers will but hold their ications point to a yield of 11.5 Bay City, Auburn, Pinconning, Mer- hammer for taxes and debts unless it United States have averaged more ments have rather relinquished their addition of skim milk or tankage to crop until demand and not speculation ushels per acre which, if realized, is rill, Hemlock, Saginaw, Gera, Mt. brings a reasonable price. than 69,000 for the last 10 years and efforts to stamp out the borer, grow- the grain ration. makes the price offer for their market, ot only above average but more than Pleasant, Ithaca, Breckenridge, Mid- Because of the crisis and the lack department officials believe that gen- ers of the infested areas of Michigan hese producers contend. btained in any other season since dleton, Cass City, Snover, Decker, of money it often happens that lands eral use of the new method may save have come to take the pest as a mat- 926. Thi* would amount to a crop of Marlette, Watertown. and houses sold at auction by the the grape growers large sums of ter of course and have continued to New associations are forming at sheriff bring practically nothing, since money every year. Shepherd, Reese, Yale, Midland and there are few in position to buy them. raise corn crops although the area of GOVERNOR SHOWS See Constant Increase ,210,000 bushels or 3,726,000 bags, on he 540,000 acres planted this year. In Acreage of Alfalfa Vith a drastic cut in the acreage of Harbor Beach. » At such sales, sometimes, there is practically no bidding at all. Thus Corn Wilt Is Prevalent heaviest infestation .has spread this year. Several weeks of dry weather in June served to reduc« the number TAXES DIVERTED reat Northern beans in the west, a Michigan's alfalfa acreage this year loderate reduction in the acreage of LATEST CANNING debtors are not only deprived of their property, but left with their debts. Stewart's disease, or bacterial wilt ports. of borers hatched, State College re- TO LOCAL UNITS s found to be about 100,000 acres ea beans in Michigan and other east- greater than it was a year ago, State rn states, and a prospective produc- To prevent this, the Union of Re- of corn appeared in many sweet corn College crops specialists inform us. on of only 9,645,000 bagB, which is serve Officers and under officers have fields this year as well as in certain A year ago, Michigan boasted an al- 4 per cent less than harvested last METHODS SHOWN drawn up a resolution urging the Min- dent corn varieties. Silk Business Important ister of Finance and Justice not to After the disease becomes . evident More than $52,000,000 are invested Fifty-fifty Split Units Shown in Report With Local alfa acreage of 652,000 acres but the ear, the 1932 situation would appear :urrent season finds the acreage close D be greatly improved for the Mich- consider a forced sale of real estate nothing can be done to stop its devel- in the^ilk industry in Canada and the Of Commission o 750,000 acres, Prof. Howard Rather, ran bean industry. opment. Growing resistant strains is value of the products in 1931 was head of the College Crops Department, Variable Spud (rop Demonstrations by State Col- legal unless it brings a fair price, as the only feasible control method. $18,187,492. * fixed by experts according to prices sard Friday. This is a very satisfac- Potato prospects range from poor to lege Specialists Prove prevailing during the normal years Approximately $42^000,000 of state tory development from the standpoint ery good. There are many tine stands Popular of 1928 and 1929. Michigan Potato Crop Is tax money jwjas "returned directly to of the local government units last year, ac- ries, Prof. state's hay and dairy indus- hroughout the state which, under the Rather pointed out. resent favorable moisture and tem- cording to a report sent out on August erature conditions, should produce a East Lansing—A total attendance of To Return Mail With 3,298 women were present at the 60 Threatened By New Plague 24 from the office of the State Com- mission of Inquiry into County, Town- Although his summer the than acreage ever, is before, greater it is ood setting of tubers and, if lator weather conditions .should likewise be fanning demonstrations given during Insufficient Postage ship and School District Government, •ather doubtful that there will be a tiio past two months by nutrition ex- Disease Stunts Plant Development, Cuts Yield Lansing. This represents 50.25 per very heavy alfalfa seed crop in Mich- avorable, an excellent yield. Sugar beets are in generally good tension specialists of Michigan State Letters mailed with insufficient gan. Many growers have reported college. postage will be returned hereafter to And Destroys Seed Value; Launch cent of all present state outlays, the commission claims. their seed fields to be maturing but ondition, being 85 -per cent of normal The various organizations in the senders, instead of being delivered to Drive To Eradicate It ight seed crops this summer and vhich is three points hfeher than on Last year's figures show $5,744,000 some have made late cuttings of the he same date last year and 3.6 points community, such as the welfare fund addressee with postage due stamps was spent to maintain state roads that bove the 10-year average. Stands are and women's clubs, co-operated with to make up the deficiency, the post Potato growers in certain sections of Michigan are confront 1 with a would otherwise have been charges second hay crop when it appeared nostly good, the beets are growing the specialists in urging local women office department has notified all post- serious crop situation this season in the spread of a virus infection of plants on local tax rolls while $14,203,000 hat the seed "stand" would not be hriftily and an excellent yield is in to attend the demonstrations and local masters in notices just sent out. known as Yellow Dwarf. Tire disease, as the nam implies, stunts the de- was spent for care of patients and in- profitable enough for a seed harvest. rosped. merchants aided in supplying the velopment of the plants and shortens the yield, although it leaves no notice- mates in state institutions, part of Much of the great acreage increase Because so many letters are boiug of the past year is attributed to the The Michigan hay crop is of good necessary equipment. mailed with insufficient postage by able effects as to eating qualities on tubers of marketable size, according to which expense was financed qut of In Lapeer coanty, a movement has persons evidently not familiar with Michigan State College authorities who have been putting fortli considerable fees and other charges, according to fact that Michigan had a good supply luality han and at least 17 per cent larger that of 1931. been started by the county agent and recent, rate increases, it was explain- effort this summer to check and eventually eliminate the trouble. of native grown alfalfa seed, last year, the commission's statement. which is especially suited to climate Fruit Is Plentiful women's clubs to have farmers donate ed, postmasters also were urged to de- The accompanying photographs give an idea of what a grower has to their produce, and the women's organi- vote As to other items of the state's out- and soil conditions of this state. Fruit prospects, except for apples, zations can it to be distributed to the postalspecial attention to notifying think about when seed from infected plants is used. The barren field shows lays, it is shown that about six per Farmers bought this seed in consid- are decidedly above the ten-year aver- patrons of the change. what resulted from use of seed from a field that showed a small per cent of cent is for debt service, about 11 per rable quantities as soon as it was age. Winter apples, especially Bald- local welfare groups in the fall. infection in 1931 while the other picture, taken in a field adjoining the barren cent for trust, deposit anfl revolving put A goal of 3,000 cans of greens, toma- on the market, the price affording wins and Spies, are generally light, one, shows healthy seed will produce a good stand of potatoes even after a funds and about six and one-half per a« considerable saving. while summer and fall varieties are toes and apples has been set by the Cotton Cloth Trade rop failure the previous year in the same field. The pictures were obtained cent for expense of commissions, more plentiful. Only 42 per cent of a women interested' in the movement. Showing Improvement through courtesy of the College crops department. ull crop of all varieties is expected as Although the general demonstra- boards and departments. tions have been concluded, the special- So acute is the situation in some counties that county agricultural agents, Stamp On Meats ompafed with 76 per cent of a full The world's leading exporters of State College Extension specialists and local leaders are co-ordinating efforts :rop last year. Peaches and pears ists have arranged with several wel- '32 Lamb Crop Is Is Harmless >romise 80 per cent of a full produc- fare funds to hold additional meetings cotton cloth increased exports during with the Michigan Potato Growers' Exchange and local growers' associations ion in comparison with 90 per cent in certain communities in the early the first half of the year, and textile in a move to get every field and every section of the infected area free from Cut Considerably The purple ink used by Federal in- and 53 per cent respectively a year fall. interests contend that any improve- the plague. spectors in stamping meats is as ago. The Michigan cherry crop proved ment in the economic outlook is likely The greatest difficulty, it is 'feared, will probably be encountered in the harmless as fruit juice, people have to be reflected rather quickly in the so-called border sections, where infection is rather scattered or light and The 1932 lamb crop of the United feared the purple stamp thinking it o ibe of greater volume than expected Accident Creates Idea demand for cotton cloth. States was 8 per cent smaller than arlier in the season being 67 per cent where the growers have not actually seen entire crops wiped out as the grow- poison and many inquiries have been Exports from the "United Kingdom ers in some localities have this season. Where infection has shown up heavy the 1931 crpp and less than 1 per received by the department of agricul- of a full yield. The present condi- Just another accident—but this ac- during the first half of the year were cent smaller than the 1930 crop, ac- tion of grapes indicates 85 per cent ture concerning the practice of butch- fiflent was the birth of the icebox. A 35 per cent ahead of the correspond- this year, the growers are taking a definite stand to make a clean harvest of cording to the 1932 report issued by ers in trimming the familiar purple of a full crop, a better prospect at this hunter left a slain deer in the open. ing months of 1931, while Japan their crop this year, assorting their stocks carefully, and sell everything tKat is the Department of Agriculture. Thia Federal inspection stamp from the date than in any years since 1922. The deer was frozen stiff and later showed a 7 per cent gain and the marketable as United States Grade 1 tubers for table consumption, relying on was the smallest percentage lamb meat. But this is entirely unneces eaten. To his amazement the veni- United States 13 per cent. some outside source for their seed for another year. crop shown for the 9 years for which son was more tender than usual and Getting sufficient seed of good quality to supplant the present stock, in similar reports have been issued sary—it is merely a saving of time instead of having labels attached to Fire Losses Decline had its full flavor. From this discov- both certified seed and table stock, is a task that State College has under- while the 1931 percentage was the Walks 12 Miles In Sleep taken. Growers in areas wherp the Yellow Dwarf disease is prevalent are largest. the meat as used to be the custom. Forest fires this year have been de- ery the icebox resulted., Higginsville, Mo.—Buddy Weigers, urged to get in touch with the college-to ascertain where they may obtain All of the decrease in the lamb crop cidedly below normal, only 54,324 13 years old, awakened on the Alton dependable seed for 1933, according to information given out by the Farm this year was due to the decrease in Freight Traffic Drops acres in the national forests having Postal Expansion railroad tracks near Odessa, after Crops department of that institution. The College estimate shows that pos- the western sheep states sinqe the been burncl over in the first seven walking in his sleep twelve miles from sibly 400 to a thousand cars of new seed stock will be needed next spring if crop in the native sheep states was 1 The volume of freight traffic han months of 1932 compared to 251,498 in Today it takes about 350,000 persons the home of his uncle and aunt. a complete clean-up is effected as planned this fall. per cent larger than in 1931 and the died by the Class I railroads in th the corresponding period of last year t() operate the -postal system of the Michigan growers have been experiencing difficulty with Yellow DwaTf largest in 8 years. first six months of 1932 was 26.6 pe and an average of ' r the five United States—in 163ft this task was Taxes per acre on farm real estate since about 1925, if is claimed, while New York potato men have been The lamb crop of 1932 in the. west cent under the corresponding perio years ended with 1929, the Forest Ser- entrusted to one man, according to in the twelve North Central States in troubled with the disease in their fields since 10 years earlier. Three dry ern sheep states was about 12 per in 1931, or W.I per cent under th vice, Department of Agriculture, re- records of the IT. S. Post Office De- 1930 were about two and one-half times what they were in 1913. (Continued on page 2) cent smaller than in ^ same period in 1930. ports. partment. SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1932 TWO MICHIGAN FAE3UEWS CAN ELIMINATE TB IN POULTRY WHEAT and RYE Successor to the Michigan Farm Bureau News, founded BY MANAGEMENT Fertilizer Recommendation* for 1932 January 12, 1923 Conclusions Shown After Big From Circular Bulletin 53—Michigan State College Soils Section Entered as second class matter January 12, 1923, at the postofflce at Charlotte, Michigan, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Study of Infections In BY DR. C. E. MILLAR, G. M. GRANTHAM, P. M. HARMER Farm Flocks Published the second ind fourth Saturday of each month by the TABLE I—SANDS AND LIGHT SANDY LOAMS MlchJg-an Farm News Company, at its publication office at 114 Lovett St., Charlotte, Mich. Exhaustive field studies have re- Fertilizers are usual.y more effective on soils containing sufficient amounts of lime than on soils deficient In lime Editorial and general offices, 221 North Cedar St., Lansing, Michigan. cently been made by Federal and Postoffice Box 708. Telephone, Lansing, 21-271. State agencies on tuberculosis in Group 3 poultry. These are the conclusions: Group 1 Grou P 2 Manured within the last two E. E. UNGREN Editor and Business Manager Tuberculosis in poultry is most pre- Crop No manure or leguminous green ' Clover manure used within the last { the last two years, or alfalfa grown within years. valent in the middle-west states from two years. , Subscription 50 cents per year; 3 years for $1. in Advance Michigan and Ohio on the east to the 2-16-2 2-12-6 or 4-16-8 2-16-2 or 2-12-6 Dakotas and Nebraska on the west. With no seeding of clover or It originated from foreign impor- alfalfa >Grain alone, 200 pounds or more. With alfalfa or 300 pounds or more of nltrog-en, supplied in to to 150 Vol. X SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1932 No. 16 tations of breeding poultry. - grain. A spring Pounds^TtytroflodkTeO^tri^po-unds-suipnate top dressing of 12 of to ammonia or equivalent Twenty-five years ago, relatively WHEAT OR RYE carrier is recommended. few flocks in the United States were SPEAK A GOOD WORD infected with tuberculosis and there With seeding of clover or alfalfa Legume seeding usually not 2-12-6 or 2-8-10 2-12-6 We are in the two billion dollar class now. That puts us in was as much or more in the east as in recommended in this group. the class of "Big Business". the middle-west. Flock management has practically Let's not state this as a boast. But we should stop to eliminated the disease from the east- recognize the fact that our agricultural co-operative business has ern states and from certain areas in TABLE I I - H E A V Y SANDY LOAMS, SILT LOAMS AND CLAY LOAMS reached immense proportions and has become a very major the middle-west. Fertilizer, are usually more effective on soils containing sufficient amounts of lime than on soils deficient In lime. factor in the farm life of America. The application of the tuberculin To permit this great development to become undermined or test has disclosed a low percentage of Group 6 Group 4 Group 5 destroyed through the workings of an anti-element, aided by pullets Infected, but a high percent- Manured within the last two No manure or leguminous green Clover or alfalfa grown within well-intentioned agricultural producers who have been pur- age of birds over eighteen months old Crop manure used within the last the last two years. years. posely misinformed would be just too bad for agriculture. But reacting. two years. such is the move under way at present. Post-mortem examination of react- 2-16-2 or 4-16-4 2-16-2 0-20-0 or 2-16-2 ing birds invariably reveals spots on With no seeding of clover or Playing on the general state of mind which is ready to the liver or spleen and often nodules alfalfa Grain alone, 200 pounds or more. With alfalfa or clover seedings, 300 pounds or more at time of accept any sharply aimed f-riticism in this period of tense on the intestines filled with a yellow, WHEAT OR RYE seeding the small grain. financial situations, certain factions or groups are literally har- cheesy substance. 0-20-0 With seeding of clover or alfalfa 2-12-6 or 4-16-8 2-12-6 or 2-16-2 pooning the life out of our agricultural co-operatives with one These 'older infected birds expel type of propaganda or another. vast numbers of germs which give the The thing for our Michigan' producers to do is to think disease to other poultry and to swine. squarely and sanely; weigh every word of objection or criticism anOnly those birds that have reached advanced stage of the disease show «nd continue to work with our neighbor-producer in any move physical symptoms Farm Mortgage Loans designed to benefit our industry. Secretary M. S. Winder, of the American Farm Bureau, lameness. such as thin MICHIGAN POTATO CROP IS breast, pale comb and occasionally THREATENED BY NEW PLAGUE TELLS INTERESTING Have Shown Decrease Farm mortgage loans of life insur- shot well to the point in an address to farmers at the Ionia Trap-nest records from ten states County fair, last week. He said that where our farmers have show that on the average, hens lay seasons in Michigan have tended to encourage a spread of the disease. Leaf (Continued from page 1) STORY OF CIRCUS ance companies, the largest single source of long term credit for farm- been unable to obtain a cost-plus price for their grains, traders one-third more eggs the first twelve hoppers, grasshoppers and other insects have been found to carry the dis ers, have been decreasing since 1928 on the commodity exchanges have reaped big gains. It is months than the second or any suc- ease from one plant to another and from field to field, some areas of infection Ringling Moves 1,600 People until they now approximate the loans elimination of these unequitable profits or gains that co-opera- ceeding laying year. showing up as much as half a mile from others. Experienced growers who outstanding in the spring of 1925, It is the general practice in the east keep a close check on their crop have been able to rogue out diseased plants To 1 50 Places In a based on reports from the companies. tive bartering seeks to accomplish. Thus the opposition stands, Season Heavy demands for policy loans and ready to combat with any weapon that promises most destruction. to dispose of the entire flock at the but where tubers from diseased plants have been used as seed, the infection end of the first laying year replacing is sometimes so great in certain fields that there is no crop to harvest and too irregular receipt of income have re- The easiest weapon to wield is found among the vast hordes with pullets. This plan adopted in few plants left through the season to warrant roguing. F. Beaverly Kelly, officially con- duced the funds the companies have of unorganized farmers and it is there our enemies pitch their the middle-west, where hens are fre- While no quarantine is planned to prohibit shipping of spuds from these nected with the Ringling Brothers- had available for investment but in camps. For this reason we need, more than ever before, to quently kept for more than one year "marked" areas, every farmer who contemplates purchasing potatoes for Barnum-Bailey Circus, the largest recent years the proportions invested spread the good word of successful co-operation in order to of egg production, will give larger planting next spring is advised to determine definitely that his seed pur- circus of the works, has given us a in farm mortgages have continued to save our "Big Business", now that we have developed it with a profits and will eventually eliminate chases are from healthy fields, college authorities stated this week. Spray- peep beyond the tent in their busi- average about 10 per cent. certain i access. tuberculosis. ing the plants or treating seed has no effect on the Yellow Dwarf disease, it ness. is claimed. Burying or burning the plant and tubers is the only cure. Mr. Kelly says, "1,600 people from the seven seas make up our Farm Board Speaker Wednesday, August 17 Oakland County Farm Bureau picni at Davisburg. ALIENS DEPARTING is No host plant for the disease has been found, crops specialists say, so it crowd, a veritable League of Na- believed that a careful clean-up of all potato fiqlds will eventually eradi- tions. It takes lO'O cars in a special Guest of Thousands (Continued from page 1) Thursday, August 18 Regional picnic for Mason county farm ers and busipessmen and farmers an quite a lot of money, but it was thefriends from adjoining counties, at Am only group in America legally pre- east ber Grove, just south of US-10 6 mile AT RATE OF THREE cate the trouble. Because late infection in the field is difficult to deteot, train to move us from place to place. College autho'rities doubt that the disease can be stamped out in a single We show in some 150 places during season but they state, confidently, that prescribed care in handling the harv- a season, averaging a stay of about est this fall will put a damper on the spread of the infection and *eave a 20 hours at a place." Feeders pared to act at that time. Other re- vine. lief measures in behalf of business of Ludington, 3 miles west of Scott Friday, August 19 TO ONE ADMITTED wholesome prospect tor a profitable crop next summer. "The show people sleep in their There are said to be enough potatoes of good quality in northern Mich- berths on the train, for most of the Cattle will cost the government some money Meeting of Traverse City Co-op Ass' ,ion Hall. igan to fulfill Michigan's seed needs this year if the growers will just co- moving is done by night. We have but the only criticism seems to be re- Saturday, August 20 . Immigration Tide Reversed operate with the College crops department and the Potato Growers Exchange a dining tent that accommodates Calves served for agriculture. Annual picnic of the Grand Rapids Mill in selection of seed stock, the College points out. 1,000 at a time and we serve some Producers Ass'n at Townsend Park. First Time In History 3,600 meals each day. These dining Gives Exact Salary Figures Saturday Evening, August 20 "Mr. Creekmore of the American Annual meeting of the White Cloud Co Of This Country tents are immaculate and the food Weak Legged Chair Is is well cooked and well selected. Lambs Cotton Marketing Association is paid operative Ass'n. $75,000 per year. Mr. Milnor of the Barry Sunday Afternoon, August 21 Reversing the flow of immigration County Farm Bureau and friend for the first time in the nation's, his- COTTON GROWERS An Accident Maker made Our commissionary department is We are in position to furnish up of but a very few people, through our western connections, National Farmers Grain Marketing at Nashville. Association is paid $50,000 per year. Monday Evening, August 22 tory, only 35,576* Now, contrary to propaganda, neither Meeting of co-op units at Reed City. to the United States in the last fiscal aliens were brought SELLING PRODUCT so highly efficient that even the II, either direct from the range or off Cincinnati discovered that the S. War Department has had efficien- the larger western livestock mar- the greatest cause of home accidents cy men travel with us sevefal days kets, all grades, including choice of these men is paid by or employed Ogemaw Tuesday, by the Federal Farm Board. They are yon's Landing, employed by their organized grain and August 23 Sage Lake. year and nearly three times as many County dairy picnic at Ken were sent away, according to the^ U. S. Department of Labor. DIRECT TO MILLS in that town is the weak-legged chair at a time to ascertain the methods ifeeder cattle, calves and lambs at Falling down stairs is another home employed." mishap that is common. Slippery Reasonable prices. Wednesday, August 24 Immigration to the United States "We do not continue our work cotton producers through their boards Annual picnic of the Dairyland Co-op floors, the misplaced cake of soap, the was the lowest point in more than a Co-operative Marketing Plan careless use of knives, the overturned during the winter months, some of of directors, just as you Michigan co- eratlve Creamery operatives employe your managers. "I believe these salaries are tooery Co. Co. of Carson City. Thursday, August 25 century, while deportations of aliens Picnic of Hemlock Co-operative Cream illegally in the country climbed to the Shows Growth; Pro- our people go to their homes, some bucket of hot water, the treacherous go into vaudeville, while others go bathtub, diregard of simple rules o abroad to Europe and accept ap- 6% Money high in these times. I also believe Clinton Thursday Evening, August 25 highest figure ever recorded, it was ducer Gains safety in handling mechanical appli- pointments with the winter circuses For Livestock Purchases County Farm Bureau meeting pointed out. Not since 22,633 aliens ances, all take their annual toll far they will come down. But, suppose Friday Evening, August 26 were admitted in 1831 has a smaller The objective of cotton co-operative beyond the thought of many. so common there. But when spring WE CAN FINANCE YOUR you were charged with getting a man Van Buren County Farm Bureau meet immigration been reported. marketing associations, to carry cot- comes and the call goes out to them FEEDER PURCHASES WITH FERERAX. MONEY THROUGH to sell half the American cotton crop ing at Lawrence. Commenting on the fiscal year's im- ton from the producer to the consum- It seems strange that while all na that we are ready for work we find OUR CREDIT CORPORATION for your fellow farmers, or a great Saturday, August 27 tions have devoted a wealth of brain- them all back anxious to resume our AT SIX PER CENT INTER- share of the wheat crop. Where ass'ns Cass County Farm Bureau and co-op migration and emigration movements, ing mill, eliminating dealers between, power to the matter of traffic acci- busy but ever changing life." - EST. meeting at Colonial Theatre, Cas Secretary of Labor Doak pointed out has been advanced rapidly in the last "would you go tor him? Down among sopolia at 1:30 p. m. that alien departures last year out- two years^ so that for the 1931-1932 dents and their prevention, so little "Webeauty have our own barber shops We sell all grades of livestock at the unemployed? No, you'd seek a numbered alien admissions by 67,719, season about 90 per cent of all do-has been done to make the home safe and parlors, our baseball teams, clubs and even a Red Cross strong market values through our man who had the training, the knowl- whereas in the preceding- fiscal year mestic soles by co-operatives were di- Accidents occurring "within the chapter. Much sewing must be done selling agencies at the Detroit and edge of the trade, the acquaintance- ship necessary to sell that cotton or $25 TUITION COST there was an excess of 35,257 aliens. rectly to mills, according to W. W.home as yet are not in general, in- with a retinue as large as we have Buffalo markets. Deportations rose to 19,426. Fetrow, of the Division of Co-operative cluded in the list of accidents covered for our performers each have a dif- wheat. You'd find such ability already This is the first year in the history Marketing of the Federal FaVm Board. by insurance companies. employed and you'd have to hire him away. That's what the co-operatives SET WHEN WHEAT of the country when the number of Such direct marketing to the mill aliens permanently departing from was virtually unheard of before the the mid-west states have kicludec The Farm Bureau women of some of ferent garb for every day of the week." "We pick up our midgets, giants Write For' Information. Mich. Livestock had to do. Let's take Creekmore for example. The Cotton Association pays him WAS $2.26 A BU. the United States exceeded the arriv- farmers set up their own marketing home accidents in their program o and freaks wherever we can find als. During this period 19,426 were machinery, Mr. Fetrow said. The co- study for the coming winter and the formally deported, 2,637 aliens who operatives are steadily expanding their University of Chicago will include a their lot for they would be misfits in them; they are usually happy with Exchange $75,000 in this way: he is paid a had become destitute within three services to farmers and last season study along this line. any other surroundings." Hudson -:- Mich. $25,000 salary and then 5 cents per Districts Pay Wartime High years after" arrival were returned to 300 offices were maintained by the "Among the animals that are al- bale on each bale of cotton he sells School Rate From their native countries by the depart- associations to grade cotton brought ways a part of a circus, the zebra is until the amount from that source ment, and 10,750 aliens who were ap- in by producers. Payment is made Cattle Men Increase the most difficult to train; it »l rather that title is given to the and sent to the local school officers tation." The recent permanent registration increases are shown in the western You have your automobile Tells How Board Helps before the fourth Monday in July if in Michigan, as it is called, has elim- part of the Corn Belt where the short tiger who is also deemed the most Farmer Brown told how the farm the student desires this assistance to- inated as voters about 500 residents corn crop of 1931 greatly reduced cat- om- tor handsome. The lion fights with g t s wit but insured for your own pro- tore paw, i ng the other as , using tection. Board is assisting co-operatives in ward his education costs for the com- Skyscraper Erected of Saginaw whose lack of citizenship tle feeding, an increased movement a their organization and marketing ac- ing school year. has been discovered although many of into nearly every state is indicated. ba ance nce whil while ththe tiger strikes as witha tivities. Associations throughout the In Early Eighties them have been voting for years. No both. You insure your crops and country, large and small, have sub- Tuition from non-resident pupils is doubt similar irregularities will be The man who saves money these jf about the same ago as "The elephant is of long life H* all other property against mitted marketing programs to the an important part of high school rev- Skelton steel frame construction of found throughout the state. days isn't a mieer—he's a wizard. .things that may or may not Farm Board. heir soundness enue. It is generally considered to he type which has made possible the to 80 and 90 yo.rs. be virtually a net income, for the rea- soaring pinnacles which mark Amer- There are 2.7 filling stations for A good husband is one who If I elephant weighs about 200 pounds happen. has been established, th* co-opera- son that fixed expenses and teaching in his pockets every time he passes when born." tives are assisted in qualifying them- costs are usually not increased by the can city skylines, owes its origin to a every mile of highway traveled by a mail box. "The horses are in realitv THAT'S GOOD BUSINESS selves for a loan from the revolving one-time professor of architecture at the motorist in the United States. 'lance of pupils from outside. he U. of M. William Lebaron Jenney » I M u f t i a c an4 usetal of \ul fund. Million;; of dollars have been «« ' The top of the Leaning Tower of e of a circs. Everybody but— loaned to co-» i at 1 to .'. The law makes no provision for tax aught at Michigan 1875 to 1877, when "The novelty of today is the ash Pisa is 16 feet out of the perpendicu- delinquency and consequently the dis- courses in architecture were dropped heap the part that terest. Most of it has been repaid trict will owe the money as it would of tomorrow morning."—Al- lar. What about your before it became due, "Farmer" any other debt even if it is not col-until 1906. On leaving his teaching, fred B. Smith in 1928. Brown said. Jenney went to Chicago, designing the If you can't remember the thm> Family Protection? lected during the annual tax time. "Fanner" Brown gave credit to the That farm commodity prices have Home Insurance Building, built there Uncleis Ab a says that a poverty of lot worse than a poverty when you acted the fool, you're still Farm Bureau fov its part in d«i n 1884-1885, and which experts have ing and, later, in supporting the Mnr very not kept pace with school demands is ust declared to be the first of real of dollars. Are You Insured? evident for when wheat was skyscraper design. Jenney was fa- keting act and the Board. Mr. fixed by our government at $2.26 a miliar with" the half-timber construc- In 1914 there were no cheese Short stockings can cause almost Ask for leaflet on our full Brown spoke in Michigan under aus- bushel, tuition, in Michigan was also factories operating In southern as much trouble as short shoes. Buy coverage insurance plan. o£ the Michigan State Farm Igted by state law at $25, while now iim of Europe, where brick panels states. Today the production of them half an inch longer than the Bureau and co-operating local groups. not. only whMkl but all other products .re supported by the wood frame, and cheese in tho South exceeds t), >"l (.11 I W I i IN I ARMS Recipes For Home and Family Section evident in his own, when once the light was turned that way. Now we "Fair Weather Pilot Leahy Private Donahue and Private From, a national standpoint there were the best of friends, but is no need to add any more land to can see that his big noise was made when Private Donahue became Ser- our present acreage of land iu Edited by MRS. EDITH M. WAGAR, so as to shield himself. And I verily Pilots employed by air lines engaged geant Donahue, Private Leahy saw farms, in order to support the ad.- fishes Addre.. a., communication, to her at Car.eton. Michigan. believe that is a practice that has be- in the transportation of passengers the failings of his fornrer com- ditional 20 million of people who come a contagion these days. will be required to demonstrate their panion with amazing clearness. are expected to be added to our FRUIT CHILI SAUCE It may be well for us to locate the proficiency in "blind flying" by use of "Sergeant," he said one day after population in the next 30 years, sta- „ tomatoes. 8 pears, 8 peaches, 6 on- S a y s Ec motive for the howl we hear so often instruments alone, effective Jan. (i, long fixed gazing at his superior in tion's indicate. tl - ' CUP" sugar, 2 tablespoons allspice ""! Muslin hag. 2 OUPB vinegar. Simmer False <>nomy Exists; just now among our would-be office 1933, Clarence M. Young, Assistant rank, "if a private stepped up to a seekers, perhaps we could save our- Secretary of Commerce for Aero- sergeant and called him a consated S |[ Hiieli or about 2 hours. cnUR CREAM SALAD DRESSING " spoon salt, 1 teaspoon dry m u s . Many Changes Suggested selves humiliation when the awaken- nautics, told the 11th annual conven- little monkey, phat wud happen?" ing does take place. tion of the National Aeronautic Asso- "He'd be put in the guardhouse," ciation at its opening session in said the Sergeant. A 2 teaspoons flour, % cup BUgaT, 2 Farm Bureau Board Member 1 i'g '- fi cups sour cream, 1/:', cup melted '11 f'r Vi " ' I ' vinegar. Mix In order adding the vinegar very slowly. Is Opposed to Ruthless be he in his compelled considered home to this affairs relinquish high and he them office would all with a it Milt teaspoons 2 CORN ON TOAST tablespoons Bnelj; chopped butti onion and nld cook 2 Washington. Colonel Young declared that thes.e "Ho wud?" "He wud." PROVEN iV u"'in double boiler, stirring constantly 1 the mixture coats the spoon. Salary Slashing salary too meager to cover the neces- cooked for a few minutes. Then ;«d«l 1 cup oC regulations became effective May 1 of "But it" the private only knew the corn, - cupa cream ""'I a little PROTECTION sary expense attached to the office, salt. Heat well and pour over hot l>ut- tliis year but that they will not be- Sergeant was a consated little STATR MTTTUAti BODDKT) FTRB rNSURAiOCK COMPANY h»s glren th« I tered toast, sprinkled with grated chees« come mandatory until the beginning monkey and said niver a wurrd, wud r n0T T AGE CHEESE PINEAPPLE By MRS. EDITH M. WAGAR • much less support a family. fanners of Michigan a proven Insurance C ' SALAD and paprika. of 1933. At that time, he said, pas- put in the guardhouse for tervico for nearly 34 rears. nackage lemon gelatin, 1 cup boiling 'I found a little crust of bread that We do much grumbling because we We bare paid our member* orer I , and 1 «"P boiling pineapple Juice, must not go to waste, do not get the service we expect, yet TOMATOES STUFFED WITH CORN sengers need no longer fear that they that?" iiuiuireds Private Leahy. 14.000.00(1 Jn losses durinK thin t!me and «st»bT1shPd % reputation for "pror- we are so selfish that we will take scooped out. Sprinkle hoi loin witn crack- are behind a "fair weather pilot," and 8 nil ilium si/.ert tomatoes with - i "Av course, he would not," said en protection" aeainst fire losses. I ,p crushed pineapple, I Cup cottage So by some famous recipe, I sea- ,1 ' i 8 teaspoop salt. Pour pineapple soned it to taste. several years out of a man's life and er ermnbs. Then till tomato*;- with - expressed the belief that instrument the Sergeant, loftily^ State Mutual Itortded has asset* and resources of almost half » million dnllan and wafter over the gelatin. Stir cups I with a little flying proficiency will result In stim- "Well, thin, for the prisent we'll I used six eggs, a pint of cream, I from his family and give nothing but chopped green pepper, pa • Jc •nd is Michigan's largest firm mutual i . .f dis»olvey. If you are Interested In "proren |"^'ents and pour in a mold rinsed out a moderate oven abotit 40 minutes or un- by air. protection" write for sample policy and i Two lemons, dates and raisins, and If we are going to slash, and I be- til tomatoes ar« t full detaUs. ^ ' cold water. ievetwe should, why not look at the H. K. FISK. Secretary CANADIAN COCKTAIL a brimming cup of rice. roiso\ors i HI ITS IF FROSTED 702 Chinch {St.. Flint. Michigan | r ., n tomaito soup, 1 bottle of Ringer i took a lot of things I know (that's vhole pictures and cut out the dupli- Owls And Hawks Are | Combine and serve Ice cold in small an appetizer. how the cookbook read); ations, and bring to daylight the un- alked about big salaries and cut them Facts About Useful To The Farmer growth Certain kinds of plants when their is Checked by drouth, frost, Q State mutual Rodded Fire SUCCOTASH L e u p of lima beans, -' cups corn, cook, And no one cared for if—but oh! I o the level with positions of like cal- saved the crust of bread." ber? Canned Milk or wilting, develop prussic acid, ^ • Insurance Co., of TUich. The food of hawks and owls con- commonly known to most people as tablespoon butter, :? tablespoons cream, The other day I came across this Dignity Should Be Preserved I' teaspOOnB salt, dash paprika. Serve ittle jingle and it left such an im- In 1931 there were 3,501,000,nno lbs. sists chiefly of mice, rabbits and other a deadly poison. The wild choke pression on me that I cannot shake mount We must remember that a certain of raw milk transformed toto 1,400,- mammals destructive to crops, and cherry, black cherry, sorghum, llax, Jff its influence, for every once in a f our public of'dignity is attached to some 400,000 lbs. of evaporated milk in the contrary to most opinions a lar^e CORN CAKES positions and we must United States. This was three per amount of their food consists of nox- well beaten, V% cup sour milk, while 14 I find myself applying it to the also preserve quality government. The cent of all the milk produced in this ious insects, states M. L. Fisher, Ptfr- („„,., soda, 1 c u p COOkejd corn, 1 cup entire atmosphere of these times. Our Michigan Settlements Average .,1 flour, '-2 teaspoon salt, '1 teaspoons men who fill these places are intendedj country during the year. Twenty- due University. Only two hawks, the ng powder, 1 tablespoon melted but- We know we must economize' and o be our most able and the biggest of three per cent of the canned food con- sharp-shinned and the Cooper's hawk, Kry in small cakes on a hot griddle. hen economize some more, if we pull , 4» CORN AU GRATIN ive all find ourselves in; we must give ur state and we cannot afford to save >urselves through this predicament a little money at the expense of qual- sumed is evaporated milk and it is condemned. used in approximately half of the are destructive to poultry and may be The "red-tailed, red- A Claim Every Hour tablespoons butter melted in top of up every thing but the barest necessi- ty. We can abolish jobs and offices homes in the United States. shouldered, marsh and sparrow hawks rl,,i!,. boiler, add :; tablespoons Hour, stir nd departments, but let's pay those It is packed by some 35 companies are useful and should be protected. Two-thirds of Them Are Collision Losses iOth. -Add gradually 1 cup of ies. Bflt are we all using the best whom we do keep and feel that we Of the owls, only one is destructive to life stirring until thick and then add ense the Lord gave us in classifying operating over 170 plants. Evapor- NINETY TWO THOUSAND CLALMS PAID IN 1932 ,lt and pepper. To this white sauce lave a right to expect service and in ated milk was first prepared in this poultry—the Great Horned Owl—and 11 , 2 cups of cooked corn, 1 cup of ssentials from non-essentials? ase that we do not get it, we have country in 1885 just as an experiment even this one is noted for its ability State Farm Mutual has a half million policyholders in 31 states. niiibs and % cup of grated We have long lived with the thought he same right to criticise. uese. Turn into a buttered baking dish for invalids and infant feeding. It is to kill1 rats. id cover with 4 clip of buttered bread 'f wanting what we want when we 3 I feel worried just now to see the now a staple commodity upon the Owls are far more useful than cats bmbs. Bake in a. moderate oven for vant it. Many times that did not to kill rats, mice and rabbits, and the^y We paid more in collision losses last year than any other in- minutes or' until brown on top. Serve nean wanting what we had but rath- amount of inferior material offered market everywhere. surance company in the United States. deserve the protection of farmers, r allowing ourselves to crave what or public service. If changes are to It is made of good rich whole milk, Fisher states. CORN FRITTERS ve knew we should not have. We had >e made why in the name of justice nothing has be,en added to it and jl cup flour, 1 V_- teaspoons baking'pow- nvious eyes on all likeable things of don't we demand servants of better nothing taken away except water, 60 . .ispoon, salt, 1 tablespoon sugar, qualifications rather than be willing per cent of which has been removed 14,826 U. of M. Students; Fire Theft [} cup milk, 1 egg, 4 cup corn. Mix )ur neighbor or of the Jones's every- o "accept anyone who will offer him- id drop from tablespoon into deep hot where. by evaporation. Condensed milk diff- Many From Outside State Collision J elf." Why haven't we been out pick- t. And now when we find ourselves ng of our bestVather than wake up ers in no way except that there has been added a given amount of sugar. EPKHS8ION HISTORY REPEATS trapped, we proclaim to the world o the fact that the radical and nar- Dried or powdered milk is as its name Ann Arbor.—Enrollment at Univer- Property Damage iur opinion on economy in public af- sity of Michigan for the academic year At present, as in former depres- ow have brought forth the kings of implies, milk dried until it is in a 1931-32 was 14,826 compared with Public Liability bns, there is a tendency for people airs and in all things where we had heir lot Are we .going to have a powdered condition without a trace 15,500 for the year previous. go badk to the land to secure divided efforts* We demand economy government any better than we now of water. Nothing has been added to and lose elemental things of lite—food, n schools and we go out on a price- lave? Are we going to drop to a the whole milk. Malted milk contains The percentage of students who^e othing and shelter, with the work lashing campaign; we say our ystem of a generation or two ago and milk in the dry form together with homes are in Michigan decreased} ' Statonary Object Collision their own hands, to be independ- chools cost too much, so we do the from 67.6 to 66.1. Non-Michigan stu- ay we like it? Are we going to the malted barley or wheat flour. dents numbered 5,020, a decrease of i Protection at Low Hates it of the "boss" and employer and asiest thing in the line of economy— depth of the whole affair and get all get economic security. ve insist on a cheaper teacher—that's he information we should have about only seven from the year before. See our local agent s far as many of us go. We do not he fellow who is being pushed? Household Helps Non-resident students were classi- Farmers' Buying ake anything else into consideration; Mayonnaise mixed with finely diced fied as follows: from other state^, we do not insist on cheaper books and I'm reminded of the local fellow celery makes a delicious dressing for 4,678; United States possessions, 11: Assets More Than Six .Millions / $ who for years has been a fault-finder. Canada, 90; Central America, Cuba Guide quipment and less fol-de-rol. Sees Peor Economy Here Nothing and no one pleased him, he plain lettuce. and Mexico, 13; Europe and Great Surplus J\Iore Than A Million / Rates on Application was suspicious of his organization After eating blueberry pic rub the Britain, 32; Asia and Japan, 150; I am quite familiar with one case teeth with a little vinegar and the Africa, 4. At Lansing. Many if last year where a less expensive jfficials, of his public officials, he was J n *p| Kprnft 101CI IVCrilO years farm organ!- eacher was demanded and a cheaper eternally starting something that was stain will be removed. ition headquarters. Comfort at easy sensational against someone, if it Try waxing shoes after they are ice?-. N. Grand at Mich. Center of city, ne was secured. They turned down wasn't the county agent it was the polished and keep them in pood con- Violators Are Hit Hard State Farm Mutual Auto ifeterla, garage, Rates J1.60 to $2.50. nnumont* BEAUTIFULLY he teacher who knew her job, knewsupervisors, he demanded less pay dition much longer. er pupils and knew her work. They nd more work from all of them until Never gather fruit while it is wet come almost standard punishment for Thirty day jail sentences have, be- Insurance Co. y onuments— DESIGNED aved five dollars a month by taking n desperation some one began to dig if intended for jelly. Ther pectin is violating the deer laws, according to Bloomington, 111. / nutrients of the most beautiful granite a teacher who never before had seen lost by so doing. Do not use over the Department of Conservation's .rep-,, 1 marble. Call or write. We employe nto his affairs and it was a comfort- Michigan State .Farm Bureau, State Agent—Lansing palestnCn.' You save the difference. he inside of a rural school, one who ng shock to learn that he was serv- ripe fruit for jelly. ords. The most recent to be rgi-st "monument works tn Western was fitted only to teach a single grade, were: George Miller, Lake' County, higan. SIMPSON GRANITE WORKS, ng on a job at a greater per diem ' W. Leonard, Grand Rapids. ne who never had lived a month in han any of them, that he made- no LOWEST IX 30 YEARS sentenced to 30 days in jail for illegal he country, one who had splendid offer to reduce his own pay, neither The available supply of farm possession of venison and Murrell P^t- deas for a room of one-age one-grade did he hesitate to take a full day's hands is approximately twice as ersen, Mason County, sentenced to 30 oungsters, but who was helpless with pay for two hours work and he had large as the effective demand, and clays for the same offense. two-dozen flock of all ages. SMARTEST a liking for creating special sub-com- farm wages are rea>orte|L at the Now where did the economy enter mittees if he saw any likelihood that lowest figures in thirty years, says WHY ^ABLE SrtiAR IS WHITE nto the proposition? To be sure they le might be included. The very graft the Bureau of Agricultural Econom- eally had to have a teacher who re- hat he was so anxious to drop on the ics, U. S, Department of Agriculture. Washington—Burnt bones make MICHIGAN BELL COFFEE SHOP quired less cash, but why did they table sugar white. ' ih lot demand one who was also fitted or the job? There seemed to be The Department of Labor rev«£fls that in 21 sugar refineries 775 people TELEPHONE CO. DETROIT plenty to choose from, but they only hought of the five dollars! Farm News Patterns (Price 15c each) are employed in handling the skele- tons of animals, hogs, cattle and And now everyday we hear groups sheep, that they may be charred and of people, and quite often groups of used in filtering sugar, thereby whit- armers, who say the only way to ening it. bring back prosperity is to reduce he salaries of our public officials. They run down the list of president, The animal bones come from large American slaughter houses and oc- casionally from the Argentine pampas. She sells her produce ienators, congressmen, governor, leg- They are stripped, scraped, shredded, slators, and even down to the town- boiled and charred for their use in ship supervisor. There seems just now to be a grow- ing feeling that most anyone could the whitening process. SALT AM) ASlWKAdlS * BY TELEPHONE fill these positions and that the sal- Although it was- believed at oTie ary should be cut no matter how mod- time that salt was beneficial to as- st it might be now. paragus beds it has since been found that the only benefit it Has Michigan is now a state of many is that of, helping keep down v» One farmer's wife has built up a consid- diversifications " and is constantly hanging; her people are those of all Hotel Fort ountries and sections. Yet it is so erable list of customers, whom she sup- Shelby's Cof- noticeable that many think it is a nap to be governor or congressman; Classified Ads plies with butter, eggs, poultry and other fee Shop is Classified Advertisements are cash and they insist on one at a cheaper with order at the following rates: 4 a unique res- wagV cents per word for on edition. Ads to appear in two or more editions farm produce. Now, why, when the question of sal- take the rate of 3 cents per word per taurant where the servke-ond aries looms up, do not these reform- edition. equipment enable you to dine irs make a sane study of the situation? leisurely, or, if you wish to Why do they not attempt to learn BABY CHICKS Besides calling them for orders regu- just how many positions of far less hurry, you may be served as importance and filled at a much high- BABY CHICKS—KOCKS, 6EDS, Lee- horns. Hatches every week. Splendid larly, she telephones them whenever she quickly as you please . . . jr scale Just look at the election list layers. Great for broilers.' Thirty day livability guaranteed. Get 1932 prices. popular prices . . • open for of Wayne county for instance. Their High egg strains. Brummer & Fredrick- has anything special to sell, learns their Probate Judges each get $13,500 8on Poultry Farms, Box 30, Holland, Michigan. (l2-26-tf-32b) breakfast, hm^heon or dinner. year; the Circuit Judges each receive $14,500 a year (over three times what wants and makes the deliveries accord- <>t Uniform NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY HIGH Then notice the lack of uniformity produ : [ave a proven ajre, vate bath- Rooms as low as in the salaries of like offices lfl differ- '.'!T FAHMS and who has also a home furnishec' WANTED TO UKNT PARM OF r'126 QUICKLY, by telephone. him and provided for and the gover : general nor, if he is a poor man, must ren • "an furnia on farm. Write Willi. what he can afford. Li. F. I >. •Iti A few years ago I was astonishe< MICHIGAN FARM NEWS and shocked and then ashamed for th Pattern Service, >VAMKI> TO EXCHANGE small part I had played in the systen 111 STERLING PLACE, BROOKLYN, N. Y. that made it necessary for a man 4- cents for pattern size. WANTED—STOCKJ TEAM, C0W8, Enclosed find ad tools in exchang< whom we all so desired to serve us Size Summer 1932 Fashion Book ..., two loti Pattern Michigan. as V S. senator to tell us to drop our efforts in his behalf for he was a Name R. F. D. (or street) .._ WANTED—FARM WORK poor man and could not afford to City State. E- i. BftADWEU, Manager make the sacrifice the office would (Patterns are 15c each, fashion book 15c. Send diver or stamps.) YOUNG MARRIED MAX WANTS necessitate. He had a family who NOTICE! Be sure that you address your pattern order envelops to the farm. DETROIT needed education and a start in life, Michigan Farm News, 11 Sterling Place, BROOKLYN, N. Y. II I. W. Quark's, Laing he Ixad ambitions for further develop- f I U-l, Michigan. SATFRDAT, AFOFST 27. rora MICHIGAN FARM 900,0011 CLUB VOl \(.STi:HS It was a (iictp vaudeville houSe Co-op Market Plan Grows FIVE Bl RIALS ViHl COU.MIHS Columbus was first buried in Yitl- Fewer Hogs Raised NOT TO BE IGNORED The total business transacted by An Oriental act had just been con Nearry 900,000 farm boys and (hided and hn-ense filled thy hou^ Dispite Vicious Attacks ladolid, Hpain, where he died in On European Farms "Usherr complained the po p co-operative marketing ^ <>< iations girls are enrolled this year in 4-H man in the aisle seat, "i m 0lls 1506; three years later his remains Hog numbers are decreasing in all dux-ing 1930-31 was approximately clubs in the United States, Hawaii gmel( were Removed" to a little church in $2,400,000,000 according to a recent and Alaska, according to the United punk." "Whispering Campaigns" Fail operatives. important European producing coun- States Department of Agriculture. "That's all right," whispered the "Farmers must remember that the Triana; 30 years later, in accord- ties according to the report on world estimate. usher confidentially, "just sit where To Stem Progress of real 'purpose of the attacks on the ance with his hist wish, buried in hog prospects issued today by the Adam was toiling home at tne ena v-ou are and I won't put anyone near Group Marketing Farm Board is the ultimate destruc- San Domingo, the first land he Bureau of Agricultural Economics of First Maid: So you don't like to of a hot summer day, carrying his vou." tion of the farm co-operative associa- sighted; in 1796 transferred to the the United States Department of Agri- work for high-brows? you. cathedral in Havana, and in 1898 culture. shovel and hoe, while little Cain Ionia—'Although handicapped by tions. June estimates for Germany, Second Maid: You bet I don't. I trotted along beside him. The darkness of closets that hav0 unscrupulous " w h i s p e r i n g cam- "If any change is made," he said, removed to Seville, Spain. Denmark and Netherlands indicate worked lor one pair of nuts—anfl On reaching the Garden of Eden, no windows is greatly reli&ved by paigns," the co-operative marketing "let it be strengthened and improved that the total number of hogs in these never again! Him ' and her was little Cain peeped through the pal- painting walls and woodwork white movement is making rapid progres# so that it can more effectively do the INDIANS HKKK 10,000 YEARS? countries was 10 per cent less than fighting continually, and it kept me ings and said, "Gee, pop, I wish we The same method used with bureau throughout the nation, a farm audi- work it is designed to do. To do that for June last year. In view of the running back and forth between the drawers also save« white paper ana ence gathered here for the annual we farmers must, regardless of our That portions of the North Ameri- decreasing numbers, market supplies keyhole and the dictionary all the lived here." makes cleaning easy. And pop replied, "We did once, Ionia fair, was told by M. S. Winder, political affiliations, immediately set can continent have been inhabited chains the coming year probably will time. until your mother ate us out of executive secretary of the American about it to counteract the destructive by man for at least the last 10,000 be smaller than in the current mar- house and home." Oak trees arc said to be attacked Farm Bureau Federation. Michigan propaganda of the special interests. years is suggested by those who have keting year in all three countries. Plant lice secrete a sticky sub- by over 500 kinds of iftg»ctj>. .\j O s t farmers have been quick to see the ad- We must convey to every candidate for made a study of Indian relics found stance called honey-dew, which is Uncle Ab says that nobody can of the defoliated oaks, poplars, Cot- vantage to them of the new methods congress and to both presidential thrdughout the country. WORLD jttAS IITTLK P K \ ( i : relished by ants. Ants, therefore, make him believe that prosperity tonwoods, walnuts and other trees of marketing and are keeping close candidates our demand that the Mark- • Dating back 3,421 years, there are frequently found wherever plant depends on either spending or sav- were stripped of their foliage this step with the advance of this farmer- eting Act be retained. Otherwise, if B< fore the blister rust got into have been only 2 08 years of peace lice occur. ing. ^^^ year by the June beetles. owned and farmer-controlled system congress, aroused by the selfish in- Michigan white pine trees could against 3,853 years of war, while of getting farm products to market at sincere clamor against the Act, should safely grow side by side with cur- 8,01)0 peace treaties have been con- Although 50 percent of France's At least one glass of milk at Four ibushels of potatoes a year less cost to the producer, he declared. repeal it, the co-operative marketing rants and gooseberries. Today, cluded in that time, according to population is engaged in agricul- every meal for every member of the is the per capita consumption in the Attacks on the co-operative organi- movement would be set back ten however, where these are associated the Society of International Law in ture, production is not sufficient for family cuts doctor bills and reduces United States. zations were compared by the speaker years." the white pines are always in London. demand. the xrilk surplus. X- to the "whispering campaigns" con- ducted by "reds" against Michigan banks and other commercial institu- tions. "The co-operatives have "been in the 'big business' class of American in- dustries for a number of years," Mr. Winder said. "In 1930-31 the total Yield Heavier Fall Grains business transacted by approximately 12,000 co-operatives was $2,400,000,000. A considerable share of this business was created toy Michigan farmers through the Michigan Live Stock Ex- change, the Michigan Wool Growers' Association, the Michigan Elevator Exchange, the Great Lakes Fruit In- When Fields are Fertilized dustries, Inc., and others. Attacks Are VIcloos "In a period which iwill go down in history as the world's worst experi- ence with hard times, certainly these figures are something of which farm LIBERAL SOIL FEEDING IS CROP INSURANCE business leaders can be proud. And yet, such organizations as the Boards of Trade and produce exchanges in Chicago and other large cities, some of the live stock exchanges, private Grains Need Nitrogen Provide Potash,, Phosphate p commission houses and others have thought it wise to conduct against To assure an early maturity of grain crops, dress your soil with a properly bal- Nurse Crops, such as wheat and rye, protect alfalfa and other seedlings but they these gigantic farmers' business enter- anced fertilizer. Michigan State College recommends 250 to 500 pounds of do not enrich the soil these young plants feed on. Maintain your soil fertility prises a campaign of 'poison pen' pro- fertilizer on wheat for most profitable yields. with dependable plant foods. paganda the like of which no commer- cial institution has ever encountered. The banks, Mr. Winder said, have some protection in law against the '^whisperers" who have been under- mining confidence in the nation's Farm Bureau Fertilizers are Extra Dry financial institutions. Thus far, how- FREE RUNNING GRANULES MAKE THEM EASY TO REGULATE IN THE DRILL ever, the farmers have had to take the attacks of their enemies squarely on the chin while they carry on in the hope that not too many of their num- Mermash Oils ber will become discouraged. "It is easy to understand why some old-line dealers in agricultural com- modities are so desperately opposed to A New Wheat the co-operative marketing move- ment," said Mr. Winder. In Limited Quanity "Not for years have our farmers been able to secure a price that would pay for cost of production of their wheat and cotton and yet these trad- ers on th,e commodity exchanges have been making rich profits from and BEARDLESS - Resistant to Lodging. A Red BIG YIELDER their deals in our farm products." In the middle west, Mr. Winder charged, the head and front of the at- tack on the co-operative movement }s an organization calling itself the Fed- eration of American Business. Greases TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND CUSTOMERS IN THREE STATES USE THESE MERMASH BALD ROCK Soft Winter Wheat I'nres United Effort This is a new strain, offered com- "The Federation has concentrated DEPENDABLE LUBRICANTS 16% mercially this season for' the first time from certified fields and has been it||, efforts almost entirely on a cam- paign of misrepresentation to discredit developed by Michigan State College the Agricultural Marketing Act and from old reliable bearded RED ROCK. deal a fatal blow to co-operative mar- keting. That is easy to understand since the board of directors of the or- Mioco We also Offer Michigan Crop Improvement Association Certified: RED ROCK— ganization is composed almost entire- ly of representatives of the selfish A Mid-Oontinent 1007r> Paraffin Base Oil Made To Old, reliable, bearded, soft red winter wheat. Hold3 npeculative groups who operate on the grain, live stock and produce ex- Protect Valuable Equipment for Pullets BERKELEY ROCK— records for yield. Stiff straw; doesn't lodge. changes." "The most unfortunate feature of MIOCO oil is the best that can be made from completely and Bearded, hard, red winter wheat. Stiff straw. the whole attack," he continued, "is dewaxed western paraffin base crudes. After twelve to Very winter hardy. Immune,to smut. the fact that these enemy groups do not attack us 'by themselves alone. Instead they make use of the great fifteen hundred miles of hard driving in your car you will finds this oil still shows a :good body that gives good lubri- Layers AMERICAN BANNER— White, soft winter wheat. Beardless. Stiff army of unorganized farmers to carry Mermash 16% protein is a start- straw. Winter hardy. Heavy yieWer. Best for lighter on the attack for them. Farmers who cation. ing, growing and laying mash for wheat soils. are under obligations to the old line chickens, ducks and turkeys. It market operators are lined up at the A' provides, in ocean kelp and fish ROSEN RYE— Shannon investigation hearings to meal food, iodine and other es- testify as farmers against the Market- ing Act and the activities of the co- Bureau Penn sential minerals lacking in Mich- igan crops and soils. Poultry re- sponds to,Mermash with splendid Outstanding heavy yielding rye. Large plump ber- ries. Well filled heads. There is no better rye. growth and production. IlKMUIOUS SABBATHS Made From The Finest Crude Oil In The World Besides the Christian Sunday, 100% Pure Pennsylvania Crude Give your pullets on range free access to eMrmash 16% and hard Apply Lime Now there is the Jewish Saturday, the - grains, both in hoppers if possible. Before Fitting Your Soil For Planting Mohammedan Friday, Egyptian If they seem to be maturing too Thursday, Assyrian Wednesday, Per- BUREAU PENN oil is made from admittedly the finest crude oil in the world and rapidly close the mash hoppers for Lime requires time to sweeten soil. Apply it several months sian Tuesday, and Greek Monday. refined by the most modern refinery in the BRADFORD crude oil district in a portion of the day. Pullets should to a«year in advance of the crop for which it is intended. Use It is Baid that every day of the week be well developed as to size and on sod to be turned under for next s^tson's cultivated crops or is observed as a sabbath by some re- Pennsylvania. Built up to specifications and not down to price. Modern equip- weight before they* come into pro- on soil that is being fitted for wheat where alfalfa is to be seeded ligion. next spring. ment demands modern lubricants. A five gallon can will convince you of the duction. We recommend: Teacher: Johnny, to what class of extra value in BUREAU PENN or MIOCO oil. Ask for animal kingdom do I belong? Bdoklet- Giving Complete Feeding 1. A <; STONE 3IKAL ground limestone (hulk only). Johnny: I don't know, teacher. Directions for all Poultry 2. FAR.H BUBEAC PULVERIZED LIME (bulk orSOlb. bags). Pa says you're an old hen and Ma We can supply you with equally high grade lubricants for transmission, says you're and old cat. :i. FARM BUREAU HYDBATED LINK, r,0 lb. sacks. wheel bearings, universal joints, steering gear, shackle bolts, clutch bearings First waitress: How gracefully water pump and a penetrating oil that gets in where body and spring squeaks Sterling Alexander seems to eat corn on the cob. Second Ditto: He ought to. He's are hard to reach. THIS IS THE TWINE FOR CORN a piccolo player. 'ASK FOB BUREAU PENN OK MIOCO OILS BY NAME Doctor: Have you told that young Farm Bureau Guarantees Go With Them Extra strong, smooth and trouble free. Machined 9 times i pup what I think of him? Daughter: Yes, daddy, and he for even size and strength. No knots or lumps. Made in 500 »ays you're wrong in your diagnosis, Farm Bureau Fly Spray With Pyrethrum Base Will Solve as usual. The Fly Problem and 600 foot sizes. Priced low. No, I wouldn't think of chargin' ye for the cider. That would be bootleggin'- an' praise the Lord, I LARGE BALL ain't come to that yet. The peck o' potatoes will be five dollarsv In 1914 the United States Army had 8,794 officers and 119,251 en- listed men. In 1931. there were 12,177 officers and 125,443 enlisted KILLS FLIES! FARM BUREAU FLY SPRAY ha» no superior for cattle and other out door uses. The price is right. Our For Farm Bureau Products k KILLS WEEDS! ATLACIDE, the chemical weed "ler, j s an efficient, cheap, labor men. KILL-FLY for household use kilFs flies, mosquitoes, moths, ants, other SEE YOUR CO-OP OR FARM BUREAU DEALER saving, positive weed killer. Not poisonous or inflammable. Kills i ds in testing associations for insect pests. Will not stain cur- tains or furniture. See your co-op. Write Us If You Have No Dealer quack, poison ivy, thistles, all "eeds. 1 Ib. per 100 sq. feet. six years show three times as much FARM BUREAU SERVICES, Inc., Lansing, Mich. *>Pray or dust. increase in buttprfat <*nntp>nt of the milk as those that tested for only