KEEP UP On News Interesting to Farmers Through tha Farm News Vol. XII, No. 10 A Newspaper For Michigan Farmers ICHICAN SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1934 mus Published Monthly KALAMAZOO MAN STATE GEOLOGIST Farm Bureau Pioneers Got FARMERS' SALES SHOWS WHAT CAN OUR SUMMARY OF THE OFFERS TO CHECK Good Returns on Investment TAX FIGHT MOVED BE KICKED OVER Proposed Amendments FARMOL LEASES SoMrs.Do Present Day Members, eau supplies gets pay for doing it." Those are some of the replies given UP TOOCTOBER To the Constitution of Michigan Edith Wagar Says when some of us ask our neighbors Farmers Have No Road Tax, Which Will Appear on the Ballot November 6 In This Article to ioin with us in looking after farm- Farm Bureau and Co-ops Take Farmers May Have Competent era' interests ourselves. Time to Strengthen Modern Highways alid The amendents will be numbered on the ballot and will be referred Impartial Advice for By MRS. EDITH M. WAGAR. What can we tell them in return? Little Welfare "I paid $30 in to that Farm Bureau Plenty! Their Lines to largely this fall as No. 1 and No. 2, etc. The Michigan Farm The Asking News summarizes the amendments, and comments as follows: years ago and I never received a cent What They Got Kalamazoo—Importance of leaving Lansing—During the World War Since Michigan has become one of back." In the first place that $30 that farm- How Will many an attack was postponed tem- the gasoline and weight tax alone for the most important producing States "I see no reason for me to belong er spent (if he paid it) was the best porarily when the attacking force dis- the present, and how well the present You Vote? for oil and gas, the Michigan Farm to the Farm Bureau. I don't buy fer- protection he ever bought for his busi- covered that certain phases of the style of county government uses the tilizer." ness. During that first three years or No. PURPOSE YES NO News has had many inquiries from $30 period many things were done. operation needed strengthening before people in an urban county like Kala- No. 1. A D O P T I O N provides that primary elections readers concerning oil and gas leases launching the assault. mazoo was brought out in remarks That was the beginning of something made by Mr. W. E. White before the southern Michigan County Farm Bur- and elections for judges of supreme, circuit and probate courts shall be non-partisan. now party candidates. We see nothing to be gain- ed by this amendment. They are D being offered to farmers. We do not pretend to be an author- ity on oil or gas leases, but long ago that is permanent. Leaders of the Michigan State Farm Bureau's suit to compel the State Those first attempts were rather Board of Tax Administration to ex- eau's meeting here Oct. 2. we became convinced that many leases crude sometimes, just as any other empt from the 3% sales tax farm No. 2. To fix gas tax at 2 cents. Such tax to new thing may be. Improvements supplies bought for production pur- Mr. White, a Farm Bureau member be in lieu of A L L O T H E R taxes. ADOPTION presented to farmers are, in their and chairman of the Kalamazoo coun- means a $7,000,000 cut in gas tax revenues. In have been made. poses postponed a law suit due to 1934 the gas tax may bring $20,000,000. State High- original form, documents that he ty road commission, said the county would never sign if he understood When we look back on farm ma- start September 12. way Dep't fixed charges are about $6,000,000. has been receiving from the weight and gasoline taxes, through the Hor- ton Act and the McNitt-Smith-Holbeck township toad law, about $231,000 per State and county road debt payments from gas tax funds are $13,000,000 annually for some years to come. Take a $7,000,000 cut from a $1,000,000 balance and you have $6,000,000 in taxes to spread on real property owners. The gasoline companies can be expected to soon raise the price of gasoline • how much he is signing away. He wouldn't sign until the lease was re- written to protect his interests. >o Standard i£&se Here chinery, on automobile equipment, on transportation methods, on crop de- velopment and on other things worth The Farm Bureau found it advis- able to enter at the beginning of the while, we marvel at the rapid improve- trial the appearances of the 180 co- ment during the past quarter of a cen- operative associations and others sup- year. 1 cent to absorb the $7,000,000 difference between Recently, in behalf of a reader, We a 3 and 2 cent gas tax. No property tax payer tury. But where would we be if their porting the case, rather than bring Kalamazoo county, in debt for roads presented some lease questions to Mr. wants this one. crude beginnings had never been them in later. So the Farm Bureau $1,240,000 eleven years ago, declared R. A. Smith, the State geologist, at secured a postponement of the trial brought out? for no Covert roads. The county came No. 3. To limit the weight tax on passenger cars the Conservation Department at Lan- until a convenient date in October. to the present 35c per cwt. in lieu of A L L O T H E R This Started T i l i n g ! into 1932 with a surplus of road funds tax on cans, accessories, income from such busi- sing. The lease in question had been Since Sept. 12 the Farm Bureau has and no debt. Beginning in that year, ness, etc. A D O P T I O N will shrink sales tax described to the farmer as a "stand- Just so with the Farm Bureau. We been out among the 180 associated revenues $5,000,000, which means goodbye to sales did get hard fertilizer the first time, plaintiffs for their sworn statements the county took over 126 miles of tax aid for local schools, and real property gets ard lease." We came away from Mr. township roads to grade, gravel and Smith's office convinced that there is MRS. EDITH M. WAGAR I'll admit. We found iron and stones and formal complaints to be laid be- • • the burden. maintain. In the next two years it NOTE—The above amendments nullify the 15 mill no such thing as a "standard lease" in it ^that caused farmers a lot of trou- fore the court on the opening day of tax limit inasmuch as road debts being retired by "I don't believe I should get my fer- ble. But did you ever stop to think took over 132 and 168 miles; this year gas. and weight tax funds were contracted BE- n Michigan. ilizer and twine and such things as that was the beginning of a battle the trial. 156 miles to complete the county sys- FORE the 15 mill law and will return to the tax Mr. Smith had a pile of so-called ence and oil from a farm organiza- against a highly organized force that Tax Board Remains Silent on property for debt service in accordance with the tandard leases. No two of them tem. The road funds have hired hun- shrink in gas and weight tax payments. The ion." In the meantime, the Attorney Gen- were exactly alike, and many of them had a clear field in handling a product dreds of men who otherwise would amendments put "the automotive interests, outside the sales tax and any income tax that may be "They tell me that the man you that no one but farmers use? They eral and his assistants, acting in be- have been forced onto county or town- enacted, the Attorney General's office says. No ontained apparently innocent but have down there handling Farm Bur- half of the State sales tax board, have property and school tax payer wants this one. wholly vicious clauses, designed to (Continued on page 2) not filed a reply to the Farm Bureau ship welfare lists. This summer the lace the property owners at the and Co-ops' declaration to the court. Kalamazoo road commission had some 856 such men employed in building township roads into a complete, grad- No. 4. County Government Proposal. A D O P T I O N permits Legislature, supervisors or 10% of voters in any county to offer new plans of county govern- ease-holders' mercy if oil or gas hould be fo.und in the territory. Lease ANNUAL MEETING CITIES ARE COMING The minority member of the Sales Tax Board, Mr. Frank Fitzgerald, made a ed, graveled road system. The Kalamazoo board of supervisors ment which may or may not abolish all present constitutional officers and do work by other means. Offered in name of economy. This amendment offers no "look before you leap." Written by city writers appear to start with some orm of lease, which they re-draft, OF FARM BUREAU UNDERJ5 MILLS and the road commission and other in- interests. Rural Michigan not consulted. Rural utting in provisions here and taking hem out there, to suit the designs of Sales Tax Paid terested officials have co-operated in Michigan has nothing to gain by adopting a Be Held at Lansing Nov. Seem to be Preparing for this work. They have told the public virtual death warrant for boards of supervisors. he promoter. 7-8-9; Big Program On Farm Supplies State to Finance regularly through the press where and No. 5. Michigan Farmer Amendment. ADOPTION Mr. Some Leases Are Fair Smith says that there are num- Planned All Schools For Food Production • how their automobile license and gas- provides Legislature MAY classify property for Price to 3% oline tax money is being used in Kala- taxation. Repeals "uniform taxation clause" now bers of responsible finms in Michigan Lansing—The Michigan State Farm Farmer Salei in Constitution. Aims to put securities, other per- offering fair and commendable leases Bureau announces preparations for a Aug. 15, 1934 T ax mazoo county and how much comes sonals on tax rolls. Legislature MAY enact Pontiac, so-called home rule city graduated income tax and proceeds S H A L L go o farmers. Others have leases that ousing 16th annual meeting of the which went to court and determined Com. Alfalfa, bu * 14.00 $ .42 back. They have no county or town- to local schools. A "permissive amendment." Clover, bu 13.00 .39 ship road tax on property in Kala- are very poor contracts for the land board of delegates from the County its exemption from the 15 mill tax Egg Mash, cwt 2.45 .07 owner. We are certain that before Farm Bureaus, affiliated co-operative limitation clause by reason of its Bran, % ton 16.00 .48 mazoo county, according to Mr. White. It appears that in Kalamazoo coun- ty they have sufficient funds on hand for hospitalization purposes to carry No. 6. A D O P T I O N aims to relieve circuit courts by increasing exclusive jurisdiction of justices of peace in civil cases to $100, concurrent jurisdiction to $300; and to $1,500 in cities over 250,000. • • igning the farmer should submit his associations and commodity marketing charters, has elected to come under ease or other contract regarding the exchanges at Farm Bureau headquart- the 15 mill law. So has Flint. Lan- disposal of his oil or gas rights to a ers at Lansing, Wednesday, Thursday, sing is considering the step at an thoroughly competent and impartial and Friday, Nov. 7-8-9. early special election, as are other Midds, Fl. % T Oil Meal, Vt T Cottonseed Fertilizer, Ml. % 2-12-2, T. T. Fertilizer, 0-20-0, T. 24.40 Fertilizer, 4-16-4, T. 37.00 Binder Twine, 150 lbs. 11.75 17.50 22.50 23.00 30.90 .43 .68 .69 .93 .73 .81 .34 on the average of such requirements authority for analysis and advice as Disc Harrow, 8 ft... 77.65 2.33 for a year. No appropriation is need- The meeting will be preceded by the cities in the home rule charter class. Grain Drill 170.00 6.10 to what it should contain and what it annual meeting of 350 State Farm We hear that astute leaders in these Culti-Packer 88.20 2.65 ed. The county farm requires no ap- propriation. These are among mat- FOOD FROM SEA WOMEN'S SPEAKING should not contain. The problem then Mutual Automobile and State Farm cities believe that the time is drawing arises, "Who is such an authority?" by that time. I Bureau. TWO M I ( II Hi \ \ K \ K >! N E W S SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6,1934 the number of legislative representatives. The remaining 69 counties The negro population of the world Farmers Sales Tax Twenty-one per cent of Michigan have the other half. is approximately -tti million, of this has been mapped from the air. It the proposed amendment is adopted, the 19 counties in Ohio "will number 19,400,000 are in .North A Fight Moved Ahead have two-thirds of the representatives in the Legislature. Half the popu- ca. 'itlnued from paffe 1.) lation of Ohio residing in the rural areas will be represented by one- third instead of half the number of representativ Since that time tl moving up to trial. been Solvay Successor to the Michigan Farm Bureau News, founded Jmiuary 12, 1923 Farm Bureau Pioneers why should any farmer expect his Classified Ads It is estimated that Michigan limn- AGR'L LIMESTONE neighbor or farm organization to ofcH with Classified Advertisements are cash ers arc paying from 1500,006 to $1,080,- order at the following rates: 4 Michigan Producers of Entered as second class matter January 12, 1923, at the post- Received Good Returns him a similar service tor nothing? cents per word for one edition. Ads 500 annually in sales tax on farm office at Charlotte, Michigan, under the Act of March 3, 1879. (Continued from pa*r* luiisihlr Hands That Take to appear in two or more take the rate of 3 cents per word per editions supplies tor production purposes, ail PULVERIZED LIMESTONE Published first Saturday of each month by the Michigan Farm News had always had their own way in set- I have wondered many times how a edition. .)f which is being collected contrary LIMESTONE MEAL Company, at its publication office at 114 Lovett St., Charlotte, Michigan. ting a price on it. man can really like his work and how to the intent of the Legislature which Available At Your Nearest Dealer Why censure our Farm Bureau for he can be satisfied with himself if he LIVE STOCK enacted the law, and contrary to the Editorial and general offices, 221 North Cedar St., Lansing, Michigan. making the attempt to have something neglects to do his part in protecting Solvay Sales Corporation Postofti particular needs and requirements to challenge their prices and quality Bureau is out fighting taxation, freight company in 1901. Its members and pol- and designed a policy to favor a farmer'8 LADIES FULL FASHIONED HOSI- icyholders are its owners. These farmers Interest Written in plain English, this This Trap is Baited with a Few Dollars of products? rates sales tax, and other battles for 1 pairs, postpaid $1. on or knew what they wanted in fire protection, broad and liberal policy often pays double Farm Bureau Keeps Price Down weight. Guaranteed. Catalogue and they have been getting genuine farm (She amount - of that of a so culled "class- If a vote were to be taken today on the proposed amendments to the them, so that the results of his brawn ready. L. S. Sales Company, Asheborox, fire protection for a minimum cosi ever ified" i>oli^> . Constitution to fix the State gasoline tax at 2 cents per gallon, and to What has been the result of this may be converted into comforts and N. ('. (10-6-22p) fix the weight tax at 35 cents per hundred, in lieu of any other taxes on fertilizer experience. It has brought advantages. What good is it to work Full Company Responsibility is Backed by Ample Resources MICHIGAN SEPTIC TANK SIPHON those industries, we believe the amendments would be adopted. that commodity down many dollars in hard if the invisible hands of higher find bell as recommended by State Col- On.- tsQuarter and resources total more than surplus lor use in case of emergency only. Million Dollars. The Fede.r- Approved fire extinguishers, lightning price and our organization has been lege Agr'l Engineering rates, sales tax, and other battles for own septic tank and sewage system. In- dep't. Build your al Land Bank accepts our policy as well rods and lire resisting roofs on dwellings, If the voters understood the real intent and the results to come if as other loaning agencies. Premium and allow extra credits. For the benefit of. these ftsaendmentfl <'>e -adopted, the proposals would be snowed under. able to keep it there. It has cleaned away our earnings? stall when tank is built. Installation and operation simple. Discharges automati- suit your rsment payments will be arranged to members, an efficient system of inspection up the business somewhat. A farmer convenience^ Assessments are is maintained to reduce lire hazards, over The bait offered the public is a promised savings of anywhere from How far would this country have cally. Have been sold 16 years. All in levied on the anniversary of the a n d unwarranted knows what is in a bag of Farm daily use and giving satisfaction. In- $5 to $15 per car by reducing the gasoline tax from 3 to 2 cents. How advanced if our pioneers had taken structions with each siphon. $7.00 de- policy, making a constant daily risks. Prompt adjustments and Bureau fertilizer. Ha out, if he is livered. Farm Bureau Supply Store, 728 income from which losses a r e quick settlements of legitimate long would it be before the gasoline industry restored the cent reduction interested enough, find out just how the same stand of many of our present E. Shiawassee St., Lansing. (3-4-tf-60b) paid, thereby saving our cash FIRE losses. in tax by increasing the price? Of course, the benefits would then accrue much he has been fooled on some of day citizens, "Get all you can and PREVENTION to that industry. How can that he prevented? It can't. the ingredients used in* making up keep all you get. Let the other fel- HORSE TRAINING ON f Mt r/kllM If the tax paying public adopts Amendments No. 2 and No. 3, it some brands of fertilizer. There's low support organized effort if he "HOW TO BREAK AND TRAIN Guard ngrnlnftt all causes of fire means with the strongest and largest practically guarantees to turn $7,000,000 now going into roads and pay- where some of that $30 has come wants to. I'll accept the advantages. A. book every farmer and b.y removing ALL lia/.urds . . . farm mutual tire insurance ments of road debts of the State and counties and townships over to back to every farmer who has used Things would be better if we all help- horsemen should have. I t is free; no and . . . protect farm properly company iu Michigan obligation. Simply address Beery School the stockholders of the oil and gasoline industries. At least $6,000,000 any fertilizer since those early years ed a little, but my time is valuable." r>t Horsemanship. i> pt. 4)li> Pi»a*n >• of that money will be needed annually for a number of years to apply on of Farm Bureau work in this country. Of course, these few words on theHill. Ohio. (9-2-2t-29p) local road debts contracted before the 15 mill tax limitation amendment. Farm Bureau's activities on fertilizer Just so with the wool pool—we HAY FOR SALE Slat? Hittuai 3\xt Jttaitrattr* (Hflmpamj, of Therefore the public agrees to raise its property tax bill the amount know all about the disappointments of and wool are but a small part of the FOR SALE—ALFALFA HAY AND needed to meet this debt service, in order to give $7,000,000 to the oil that first pool—but why blame the or-report that could be made. Similar straw. Reynolds Hay & drain1 Co., Cen- 702 CHURCH ST. FLINT, MICHIGAN companies. ganization that dared to break in on reports could be made on the bene- tenrill Mich. (10-6-tf-lSb) W. V. Burras. President H. K. Fisk, Secretary By adopting these amendments "in lieu of any other taxes" the public the raw wool buying industry that had fits arising out of Farm Bureau guar- CHOICE FIRST AND SECOND CUT further agrees to exempt the entire automobile, auto accessory and everything their own way ever since anteed winter hardy alfalfa, clover alf:ili"a. Good quality timothy and mixed, petroleum industries in Michigan from sales tax and from the pro- America has had sheep! Why did notand other seeds, Farm Bureau im- also brighi oat straw. "Writ^ Ellsworth Fatmers Kxchange, Ellsworth, .Mi. visions of a State income tax, if Michigan should enact one. Sales tax our farmers stick to it until they had provements in dairy and poultry relief for these industries will cost the State $5,000,000, and the tax- conquered that great combination? feeds, special rates for farm automo- payers any hope of local school tax relief from that source. We have the satisfaction of knowing biles and trucks through the Farm that the farmer who had courage Bureau in 1926, advantages in Farm POWDERED MILK Horse Sense Trails Another amendment, No. 5, proposes that the proceeds of any State FARMERS, ASK YOUR CO-OP TO enough to stick through thick and Bureau oil and gasoline service and mix our Green Valley Brand Dry Skim income tax shall be distributed for the maintenance of local schools. If proposed Amendments No. 2 and No. 3 are adopted, it will be be- thin has seen the wool growers grow farm machinery. The assistance the Milk with your poultry or live stock feeds. It is completely digestible. Reduces Increase in Horse Power cause the voters and taxpayers don't realize the kind of a trade they are from a handful in the various states Farm Bureau has given in building amount of feed required to produce a pound of into a great national organization. state-wide farmers co-operative mar- our Green Valley Brand of Dry Butter-eggs nearly one-half. Ask for making. But they won't be very long in finding out. That knowledge keting enterprises has steadied and Increase in the horse power of automobiles has not will come too late. They are now masters of their own milk. Write for our free booklets and improved farmers' markets by pro- feeding formulas. Lansing Dairy Com- "been balanced by an increase in horse sense for many The lime to defeat these amendments is before November 6. The way production and have an influence viding much needed competition in the Lansing, Michigan, an outstanding drivers. to do it is to muster every possible vote against them by telling people equal to any other group in determin- farmers' ro-operative company. what they really mean. ing the price for wool. That is be-farmers' interest. cause of the volume of wool the pools Sober thought compels the con- The most careful driver may find himself involved in now handle. WANTED—TO BUY an accident and have to prove he is not to blame. An clusion that the indirect cash returns Inevitable Farm Debt Adjustment Well Along Why should not the man who does on crops sold, the cash savings on Will WE BUY LINCOLN HEAD PENNIES unfavorable verdict in court may ruin him . . . . unless Through the Federal Farm Loans we understand that the Farm pay up to $2.(10 each if over ten the work get pay for it? How can supplies purchased and the savings years old. Indian Mead Peritfes wort!) he carries good insurance. Credit Administration now holds nearly one-quarter of all farm mort- gage than a billion dollars worth. farmers expect anyone to spend his on transportation rates and property up to $.">!.00 each. Send 10c for BUYING CATALOG. CONTINENTAL COIN CO time and effort free of charge? No taxes through the Farm Bureau's leg- INCORPORATED, W H - m W. Jackson" Why not let the State Farm Mutual Automobile In- I Farm Credit Administration has been making these loans only business man can handle goods of any islative efforts have been very good Chicago. (10-6-it-::Th) on the carefully calculated ability of earning capacity of the farm. sort for anybody free of charge and returns on the investment. UP TO $50.00 PAID FOR INDIAN surance Company, a strong legal reserve company, as- That earning ability must be sufficient to pay the annual interest and head cents, .half cents $250.00; large cents sume your driving risk at its very reasonable rates? Let 1% on the amortization of the principal and present good possibilities W), etc. Send Dime for list. for a fair return to the farmer for the work. ROMANOCOINSHOP, D E P T . 168, Spring- field, Mass. (10r6-lt-24b) us show you how strong this legal reserve company is, and how very reasonable are the rates for protection The loans have been limited in their amount by that analysis. It must be enough for the farmer to start off with a clean slate as far as FARM BUREAU, WANTED— TO RENT against loss by fire, theft, collision, property damage or debts are concerned. Many scale-downs of debts have been made to E X P E R I E N C E D G E N E R A L A N D public liability. There is no obligation, of course. qualify Farms for a loan. Most farms didn't need the scale down. Where it was needed and couldn't be had, the loan was not made. There have 18O Co-operative Ass'ns stock farmer wants to rent farm on share basis or otherwise. farm and hank references. TIas plenty H a s good of help in family. Curt Mason, T.mper- We have more than 500,000 policyholders and 7,000 agents been regretable failures, both for farmers and creditors. ance, U-2, Box 11BA, Mich. (10-tW in 35 States in this national, legal reserve company. Let It strikes us that perhaps no other business can show the reorganiza- ARE SUING THE our local agent explain our policy to you. tion of its capital and its debt burden on the basis of being able to pay STATE BOARD OF TAX ADMINISTRATION WANTED—FARM WORK and make earnings under the lower range of prices as farming can now YOUNG MAN, 21, SINGLE, WANTS STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTO INSURANCE CO. show under the Federal Farm Loan operations. The inevitable national farm work'. Have always lived on farm. Blooming-ton, 111. scale-down needed in farm mortgages and farm debts is so far along that To compel it to exempt from the 3 % sales tax farm Knows the work. Karl Deer, Bath, ft-3, Mich., c/c Clarence Kancs. (\()-K> important results may be expected. Thousands upon thousands of farm- supplies when bought by farmers to produce farm MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU, State Agent, Lansing ers close to the edge of ruin have new starts. Their debt burdens have WANTED—FARM WORK BY YOUNG products to be sold. Plaintiffs in the suit are: man, 2<>. liaised on farm. 'Jood refer- been tamed and "will be extinguished in the course of time by wh^at ences, [.eland Smith, 17:!5 Lyons Aye., amounts to ordinary semi-annual 6% interest payments. Lansing, Mich. (10-6) FARM BUREAU SERVICES, Inc., Lansing, Michigan The Problem of Stopping FARMERS CO-OPERATIVES Muskegon Farm Bur. Mktg. Ass'n Few people riding in an automobile doing 50 to 60 miles per hour Albion Elevator Co. Nashville Co-op Elevator Allegan Farmers Co-op New Haven Farmers Elev. Co. realize the odds that are against them should an emergency stop be in Alto—Bergy Bros. Northport-Leelanau Farm Bureau order. Ann Arbor—Chas. McCalla Niles Farmers, Inc. Auburn—Farmers Co-op Union Northville—Dean 6. Saxton The Bendix Brake Corporation tells us that a car weighing 3,000 lbs. Avoca—Kerr & Collins Onekama—C. & A. Services and traveling 60 miles per hour can be brought to a stop in not less than Bad Axe—Farmers Elevator Oxford Co-op Elev. Co. Bangor Fruit Exchange 262 feet of the brakes are in perfect working order. In making such a Barryton Co-op Potato Ass'n Parma Co-op Elev. Co. stop the driver brakes down a force sufficient to lift the car 125 feet in Batavia Co-op Company °aw Paw Co-op Ass'n Perry—C. H. Arnold ichigaif three seconds time. The momentum involved explains why steel car Battle Creek Farm Bureau Bellaire Marketing Ass'n Petoskey Produce Co. frames rend and crumple like cardboard when the object of collision Benton Harbor—Gr. Lakes Fruit Pigeon Co-op Elev. Plainwell Co-op Co. is reached in much less than the stopping point. Blissfield Co-op Company Prattville Co-op Ass'n Boyne City Co-op Co. Add to the above circumstances this personal handicap: It takes a Pullman Farmers Co-op Bridgewater—Farmers' Produce Co considerable part of a second for the eye to flash the alarm to the brain, Bronson Co-op Company Quincy Co-op Company Brooklyn—G. Raynor Boyce Ravenna Inc. Butter Co. and the brain to call for brakes and emergency steering operations. In Brunswick—Tri-County Mktg. Reading Co-op Co. that interval the car has traveled an appalling distance at a time when Buchanan—St. Joe Valley Rockford Co-op Co. Byron Center Co-op Co. every foot counts. Cadillac—Mich. Potato Growers Royal Oak—Pringnitz Feed Store Cadillac Co-op Co. Saline Mercantile Company The Neighbors Are Having Trouble Caledonia Farmers Elev. Caro Farmers Elevator Cass City—Farmers Produce Co. Saugatuck Fruit Exchange Sawyer Farmers Exchange, Inc. Scottville—Mason County Co-op t h e days of the "3 R V have returned tor At the coming general election November 6, Michigan is to be spared another struggle over reappolntment of the Legislature. Such reappoint- Cassopolis—Central Farmers Cedar Produce Exchange Snover Co-op Elevator Sodus Fruit Exchange South Haven Fruit Exch. 1382,630 o£Michigan's school children . - - ment amendments, originating in Detroit and seeking control of the Cedar Springs—Harry Shaw St. Johns Co-op Charlotte—Farmers Elevator Legislature, have been defeated by rural efforts in 1924, 1930 and 1932. Charlevoix Co-op Ass'n Stanton Elevator Company Stanwood Mktg. Ass'n This fall Ohio farmers are faced with the same problem. It is Chesaning Farmers Elevator Co. Stephenson Mktg. Ass'n Railroad taxes-$7,829,l98 in 1933-34—go directly toward Chippewa Co. Co-op raised by groups in large centers of population. Groups in the 20 most Clare—Independent Produce Co. Stevensville—St. Joe Mich. Fruit the education of those youngsters. Sturgis Grain Co. populous Ohio counties circulated petitions to put the proposed amend- Coldwater Co-op Traverse City-Farmers Co-op Coloma Fruit Exchange ment on the Ohio ballot. Enough "semi-urban" counties were cir- Coleman—Farm Bureau Elevator Three Oaks Shipping Ass'n Railroad taxes are the bulwark of our primary school f u n d culated to comply with a State law requiring initiatory petitions to be Constantine Co-op Ass'n Trufant Farm Bureau Coopersville Co-operative Union City—Coldwater Co-op Br. But now those tax payments are in danger. circulated in at least half the counties. The remainder of the State Decatur Elevator Co., Inc. Utica Farm Bureau wasn't consulted. Decker Co-op Co. /i/arren Co-operative Co. Unfair, inequitable competition, particularly from unregiw Delton Farm Bureau Elev. Watertown Co-operative Company Control of the legislature on the basis of the larger city population Dexter Co-operative Co. West Branch Farmers Elevator and interest appears to be a frankly stated objective. Yet the federal Dorr—Salem Co-op Co. White Cloud Co-op Ass'n lated trucks, has so cut into the railroads' income that census shows half of Ohio's population to be urban and the other half Dowagiac Farmers Co-op White Pigeon Co-op Co. East Jordan Co-op Ass'n Willis—Gorton &. Wright their tax payments have become a problem. If this situar rural. Elk Rapids Marketing Ass'n Yale Elevator Company Elkton Co-op Farm Produce Ypsilanti Farm Bureau tion continues those tax payments inevitably must stop. Today U> counties in Ohio having the principal cities have' 65 or half Ellsworth Farmers Exchange Zeeland Farmers Co-op Ass'n Evart Co-operative Company J o the extent that the railroads are destroyed as a source Falmouth Co-op Mktg. Ass'n CO-OPERATIVE CREAMERIES Fennville Fruit Exchange Alto Co-op Creamery Fowlerville Farmers Co-op Caledonia Creamery Co. of tax revenue the payments they now make will have Marthy Complains Frankfort—Custer Carland Fremont Co-op Produce Co. Grand Rapids Growers, Inc. Coldwater Dairy Co. Conklin—Co-op Creamery Constantine Co-op Creamery to fall upon the citizen. * By R. S. Clark Grass Lake Farmers Elevator Carson City—Dairyland Co-op Can he afford, then, to permit the job of transportation to be Harbor Beach Farm Bureau Delton Co-op Creamery Co. Sometimes I think us country wiv»'R (and city ones too, no doubt) Hartford Gleaner Co-op Drenthe Creamery Co. shifted largely from a tax-yielding agency-the railroads Had ought to have used mor« ludgment In pickin' our husband* out. Hartland Area Mills East Saugatuck Co-op Creamery e'a lots of things we should have learned about our prospective mates Hamilton Farm Bureau Freeport Co-op Creamery to a tax-consuming form of transport? Is he ready to take B entrusted our hands and hearts to the handsomest candidate! Haslett Elevator Ass'n And one of the things a Kill should know is how Kood a help he is - - - Grant Co-op Creamery Co. Just what can lie do In a useful way with them two bis hands of his? Highland Producers Ass'n Harbor Beach—Farmers Creamery o n this a d d e d t a x burden? Hillsdale County Co-op Ass'n Some nun is able to help their wives, and work don't seem to tire 'em Holland Co-op Company Hemlock Co-op Creamery Co. But, Land! I nev. r om e thought of that when I selected Hiram. Howell—Livingston Co-op Lawrence Co-op Creamery The railroad problem is deplorable, but not beyond remedy. Hudson—Michigan Livestock Exch Linden Co-operative Creamery So here I am, (and it's thirty years I've traveled the double track) Hudsonville—Farmers Co-op Marcellus Co-op Creamery It can be solved within our legislatures. With an awkward, dumb, thumb-handed man—a fellow without a knack! Jackson—Farmers Supply Store Middleville Co-op Creamery Now with the farm-work, understand, my Hiram is hard to beat. Jeddo—Farmers Elevator Co. Nashville—Farmers Creamery His farm is as neat and: well kept Up as any along Hicks Street; Jonesvllle—C. S. Bater St. Joseph County Farm Bureau Our next Michigan legislature should see that motor trucks But in the house, I'm talkin' about, it seems like he could lie Kalamazoo—Farmers Produce Co. St. Louis Co-op Creamery Co. Ten times the help In twice the ways that ever- he is to m i Kent City Farm Bureau Shultz Co-op Creamery. and buses are taxed to meet fully the costs to the public Hut Hiram's hands are just too big. He's awkward ritflit clear through; Lake Leelanau—Provemont Coop A regular bull in a china shop whatever he tries to do. Westphalia Co-op Creamery Lansing—Michigan Elevator Exch. which their operation entails; that they submit to regula- Lansing—Farm Bureau Supply Sto. COUNTY FARM BUREAUS For oi ver lias time to help with the housework much Ludington Fruit Exchange Branch County Farm Bureau tions comparable with those governing the railroads, and, a hundred-and-one odd jobs and a thousand chores and such. Lawrence Co-op Company *If Government ownership i time on a rainy day to whittle an axe-helve out, Clinton County Farm Bureau should come, the railroads At: harness, and whack that anvil many a lusty clout. Calhoun County Farm Bureau M a function of government, in addition, that they contribute equitably to the general I-box lid, and tinker the hoK-honse doors, Mancelona Co-operative Co. Huron County Farm Bureau would be as tax-free as the ut the wagon in good ship-shape, besides the regular chores, Marcellus—Four County Co-op Navy or I'ostoffice Depart- expense of government. Jackson County Farm Bureau ments now a r e and the tax- maybe work at ti t>it, and polish his old shotgun, Marlette Farmers Elevator Co. Lapeer County Farm Bureau payer would not only have But wer a Minute he can spare for anything I want done. Marshall—Farmers Co-op Elev. Monroe County Farm Bureau to make up the 400 millions Michigan and the"3R's"need the railroads. And the railroads Marshall—Calhoun Onion Growers ta taxes annually paid by nod all summer, and been my own hired hand, Marine City—Tosch Elevator Co. Muskegon County Farm Bureau the lines bat w o u l d be And he won't listen enough to learn how many quarts I've canned. Middleville Co-op Ass'n Ottawa County Farm Bureau further taxed for their oper- need constructive legislation. It is only fair that they b% He did h< of days, back in that rainy week. Middleton Farmers Elevator Saginaw County Farm Bureau ation. By tKin tops up so that they wouldn't leak. Milan—Henry Hartmann St. Clair County Farm Bureau given at least an equal chance. new back steps—and papered the kitchen too, Millburg Growers' Exchange Sanilac County Farm Bureau household chores that a handy man could do! Montgomery—Tri-State Co-op Shiawassee County Farm Bureau ' We'll manage somehow, no doubt, Montague—White Lake Mktg. Mt. Pleasant Co-op Elevator Tuscola County Farm Bureau se in pickin' their husbands out. y Memphis Co-op Company Washtenaw County Farm Bureau MICHIGAN RAILROADS' ASSOCIATION SATURDAY, OCTOBFR IF T C H T 0 A > F A R M NEWS THRK1I The art of gratitude is taught in the Uncle Ab says that if a man can BAD AMENDMENTS CONTRO n college of humility. No one is thank- be proud of his past, he need not wor- ful who is conscious only of his great ry a lot about the present and the fu- TRUE desei ture. WOULD CARRY IF \ FARM BUREAU COPPER-BEARING VOTED ON NOW and STEEL FRANCE AOR'L PRODUCTS Opinion Sustained by First Of Straw Ballot DISEASE .... willi FENCE AGSTONE MEAL HI-CALCIUM HYDRATED LIME At Hartford has double protection PULVERIZED LIMESTONE SPRAYING LIME Editorially, the Farm News says in Sold by this edition that we believe that the most important of the proposed Con- Farm Bureau Dealers against the weather See your Dealer, Co-op, or Farm Bureau stitutional amendments are so little understood and so misrepresented as Dealer for FRANCE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS to the benefits their adoption will TJARM BUREAU FENCE is made bring that they would be adopted if •*- with lasting qualities that en- voted on today. FERTILIZE YOUR FRUIT able it to stall off the attacks of the THE FRANCE S T O N E CO. To test that theory, the Farm News elements for years and years. T H I C K TIGHT had distributed at the Hartford Fair THIS FALL The wire of which Farm Bureau MONROE, MICHIGAN in Van Buren county, Oct. 2-3-4 these straw ballots. The text of the ballot The fact is that some of these reac- Fence is made has a heavy, tight ZINC COATING or — THE FRANCE STONE CO., Toledo. Ohio was: tionaries are afraid that the New Deal coating of extremely pure zinc STRAW BALLOT ON AMENDMENTS might after all be of benefit to the USE (impurities in zinc are believed to "In light of your present information common man, but might not be so shorten its life) and will resist the containing from .20 to .30 per on the several proposed amendment to favorable to them. For that reason Granular weather for a remarkably long c e o t copper, is remarkably resist- the State Constitution Nov. 6, are you they are trying to ridicule the New High Sales—Good Weights—Proceeds Guaranteed FOR or AGAINST these amendements: Deal. They try to make the farmer work against himself so that the old 'AERO5 time. But even without the zinc a n t t o f u s t * coating Farm Bureau Fence would Farm Bureau Fence offers depend- YES NO Farmers and Stockmen are assured of these important and essential Services when live stock Is No. 3 (Weight Tax) j ^ plunder system may be continued. THEO. BENGEL CYANAMID A Superior Fruit Fertilizer have very long life, because the able, low-cost protection to your wire itself, of copper-bearing steel livestock and crops for many years. sold on the Open, Competitive Terminal Live Stock Market; where both No. 2 (Gas Tax) £ Fowler, Michigan, large and small Packers, knowing there will be ample supplies of all grades Clinton County, Carefully-conducted tests show of live stock available every day come and pay the Price by bidding against No. 4 (Co. Gov't Reform) Q each other for their killing needs; where Weights are good because all live The straw ballots were distributed September 15, 1934 that 'Aero' Cyanamid applied to FARM BUREAU SERVICES, Inc., Lansing, Mich. stock is properly fed and watered and not sold empty; and where all Checks apples, peaches, and small fruits issued for payment of live stock sold are Guaranteed by a Bond meeting from a booth to farmers and others. in the fall gives results equally as Government requirements. Why take a chance on any other system? Secure all these services by Consigning your live stock to Citizens were asked to mark and de-Top O'Michigan Potato good as when applied in the spring, posit their straw ballot in the box as MICHIGAN LIVESTOCK EXCH. PRODUCERS CO-OP ASS'N an indication of their present views Show Dates Changed • Stockyards, Detroit East Buffalo, N. Y. EASE OF APPLICATION AND and without information from or dis- WORLD 'S FAIR CLOSES FOREVER cussion with the booth attendant. The dates of the 11th Annual Top ECONOMY OF TIME FAVOR Available for purchasing Feeder OCTOBER 31 5% Money Cattle and Lambs, No so-called red-tape; No investment of five per cent of the amount of the loan Here's the count of the first 28 O'Michigan Potato and Apple Show Farm News straw ballots cast and re-have been changed to November 6, 7, FALL APPLICATION It is easier to get about over the In capital stock in a Production Credit Association; No guaranteeing the ported to the Farm News in time for and 8 due to the dates of October 31, payments of any other borrowers' loans. Five years of established and this edition: November 1 and 2 conflicting with the orchard in the fall than during Three Days satisfactory feeder loan service. For complete information write us. YES NO Annual Extension Workers Confer- early spring when the ground is Tune in CKLW, 1030 Kilocycles, at 12:35 P. M. Mon., Tues., Wed. and Thurs. ence at Michigan State College. This No. 2 (Gas Tax) 16 12 for live stock quotations at Detroit market. No. 3 (Weight Tax) ...*17 10 action was taken by the Board of Di- soft. Spring is also a very busy All Expense Michigan Live Stock Exchange Hudson, Mich. No. 4 (Co. Gov't Reform)....**13 12 rectors of the Top O'Michigan Potato season, and it is a great con- *—flot voting—1. Show Association. venience to have the task of ap- MIR A MAR **—Not voting—3. plying the fertilizer out of the With regard to the automobile tax measures, at Hartford everyone knows Loan on Corn Again way of other spring work. DeLuxe Tour them as the 2 cent gas tax and the 35 to the We Will Guarantee cent weight tax amendments, but few Washington—In the corn belt States know the real purpose of the amend- the Agr'l Adjustment Administra- ments as disclosed in the remainder tion will loan 55c per bushel at 49i> WORLD'S FAIR Your Family of each amendment. The automobile |o n 1933 a n j 1934 corn stored on clubs and oil companies never men- farms. Last year the loan was 45c. $1,000 S2.5OO tion those features in their campaign This year the holders of the notes for votes. may call the loans if they wish when $7.75 corn is 85c or more on the Chicago in event of your death, if each six months you will pay us $5 or $12.50 or $17.50 in premiums for our PAYMASTER Life Insurance policies in the above amounts. LOW PRICES WERE market. Michigan is not considered in the corn belt. Ohio and Indiana are. Includes These Ten Special Features This sound, legal reserve insurance plan to meet the needs of small or moderate incomes will fit any insurance pro- NOT THE ANSWER FOR SALE BY 1. Yellow cab from depot to Mira-Mar Hotel. 2. Two nights accommodation at Mira-Mar Hotel in room with private bath. 3. Two club breakfasts in hotel dining room. gram. It is not available elsewhere. These small premiums Critics of Farm Program Have 4. Three trips from hotel to Fair grounds. assure considerable sums to pay off a mortgage, to educate children, or to care for the family for a long time. Axes to Grind, Opinion