MICHIGAN NEWS KEEP UP On News Interesting to Farmers Through the Farm News A Newspaper For Michigan Farmers Vol. XIII, No. 3 SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1935 Published Monthly LEGISLATURE WAITS GRANGE MASTER GRAY TAKES ISSUE WHEN SECRETARY WALLACE VISITED LAPEER WALLACE DEFENDS TO SEE WHO WILL WITH WALLACE ON BEET ACREAGE CUT CONTROL HOUSE BEETREDUCT10N AND AAA PROGRAM Legislative Progress Slow Will Reduce to End Surpluses, Declares at Lapeer That Beet Pending Important But Never to Yield Growers Have Best March 4 Vote Home Markets AAA Deal Lansing.—So far, the quietest Legis- Lapeer—Those who came to Farm- Lapeer—Some 2,400 Thumb farmers lature in many years is in session at ers Day here Feb. 15 more or less and guests from all parts of lower Lansing. At this writing only a expecting that Chester Gray, Washing- Michigan came to Lapeer County handful of bills have been, enacted. ton representative of the American Farm Bureau's great Farmers' Day The Governor is hoping to adjourn Farm Bureau, would make a general program Feb. 15 expecting Henry A. the session March 31, which would ac- talk on the subject of farm legislation, Wallace to speak plainly on the AAA complish a 90 day Legislature, but stiffened in their seats when he took program and the sugar beet acreage would leave much of his program un- issue with Secretary Wallace's views restrictions as they apply to Michigan. finished, if, indeed, it can be enacted. on trade treaties and sugar beet acre- They were not disappointed. It's safe to bet that the Legislature age restriction. Said Mr. Gray: Soon departing from his prepared will not adjourn that early. "We of the American Farm Bureau address, the Secretary, speaking from Special Election Important are Tor crop reduction to end crop a raised platform in a doorway be- March 4 four districts are to elect Hiirpluscs, but not lor the kind of re- tween a packed High school gym- four men to replace representatives duction that will give our home mar- nasium on his left and a capacity who lost their lives in the Hotel Kerns ket to some one else. crowd in .the auditorium on his right, fire at Lansing last December. The "in the uiatt.'r of tariffs, to be na- began to say what he had really result may determine party control tionalistic is to tend to high tariffs; come to Lapeer to say. of the House. As it is, the Senate, to bo internationalistic is to tend- to He leaned back against the door with a large republican majority, free tariffs. jam, crossed one leg over the other, passes the Administration bills or 0. II. BRAMBLE "Every farm organization in the and with his hands in his coat poc- holds them pending the March 4 elec- United States is nationalistic on tar- kets, started down the road, first tion. The Democrat controlled House has a very narrow majority, 49 Dem- BRAMBLE ENDORSES iffs today. We want to preserve for ourselves the best market we have Henry A. Wallace, secretary of agriculture, who made the principal address Feb. 15 at the third annual Lapeer County Farm Bureau'Farmers' Day at Lapeer, is shown here, center, talking with Chester H. Gray, left, letting one side of the house have it, then the other. ocrats, to 47 Republicans, but it's enough. After March 4, legislation will probably move faster, regardless 25 MILLIONS FOR ever had. If we give up our home market to some give us one just as good. one else, no one will American Farm Bureau representative at Washington, and Judge Louis C. Cramton, of the 40th judicial circuit. Mr. Gray spoke during the afternoon, and Judge Cramton, former Congressman, welcomed Secretary Nearest Peak Production Regarding Michigan and the AAA and the sugar beet acreage restric- of the political complexion of the two Houses. March 4 the Republi- LOCAL SCHOOLS Gray's View On Beets Mr. Gray agreed with Mr. Wallace's Wallace and the large crowd of folks who attended the meeting. tions, he sought to show that Mich- igan is benefiting under the AAA and address in the main, but criticised any that Michigan's sugar beet growers cans must win all four seats to gain control. If they should win three and Tells Legislators It Should curtailment in sugar beet production 2 4 Cities Once Sought to be CHERRY GROWERS are enjoying the nearest to peak pro- duction under the AAA than any since the volume of sugar produced lose one, the House will be evenly divided. The Democrats can retain Come From State's is far below home consumption. He Capital of United States OBJECT TO BEING other crop under the AAA program. control by winning two seats. General Fund argued that the increased buying Mr. Wallace gave those present an power that added beet sugar produc- 54 Employes and 12 Boxes non, the private home of President One reason that the Legislature may not hasten to enact certain pieces Lansing.—"School finance is the tion would give Michigan farmers of Governor Fitzgerald's legislative leading question in legislation today," would be a greater benefit to them and of Records Moved to Washington. ^ In October 1800, the seat of govern- TREATYSACR1FICE impression of great sincerity as in a friendly, earnest, and fearless man- ner he proceeded with his discussion. program will be found in an under- said C. H. Bramble, Master of the Michigan industry than any Philip- Washington in 1800 ment was transferred from Philadel- Trade Deal with Italy May A good report of Mr. Wallace's speech standable reluctance of the Legisla- State Grange, to the Farmers Club of pine, Cuban, or Porto Rican trade phia to its permanent home. The en- at Lapeer is excerpts from his In- ture to vote itself in half, or to vote the Legislature Feb. 27. could be. Swamp U. S. with Italian growers formal address. To the sugar beet During the Revolutionary War the tire office force was fifty-four people he said: away party political power. "The Grange, Farm Bureau, educa- With reference to the AAA, Mr. Gray seat of our government was shifted and all books and papers of the Na- One of Mr. Fitzgerald's proposals tional groups, manufacturers, rail- said that it has reduced surpluses b e t w e e n Philadelphia, Baltimore, tional Government were packed in 12 Cherries Predicts 1935 Best Year provides for action by the Legislature roads, public utilities, Chambers of piled mountain high, and that surplus- Princeton, Annapolis, Trenton and boxes. "No other crop under the AAA has toward reducing that body to 50 per-Commerce, and business groups have es are no longer acute. New York. After peace was declared The cornerstone of the White Growers Lansing. — The Michigan Cherry been permitted to come so near to sons. Other proposals include abolish- all studied this question separately Bringing AAA Up to I>ate no less than twenty-four cities sought House, the first of the public build- and the Cherry Growers peak production. Under the AAA ment of the Administrative Board, and together. They have come to "Two days ago," Mr. Gray said, "we to become the future home of the na- ings of the new seat of government to Packing Company, of Beulah and program for 1935, your Michigan o _ consolidation of nine great State tax about the same conclusion: that it helped write certain amendments to tion. Like present day Chamber of be erected was laid by President Wash- Traverse City, co-operatives, have ap- j acreage is only 2% below your record gathering offices, now controlled by requires about $70,000,000 annually bring the 1933 AAA act up to 1935, Commerces and local boosters, several ington in October, 1792, followed in pealed to the Michigan State Farm, crop of 1932. We believe the 1935 one party or the other, and so on. to operate our schools to serve more and which will make the Act a more cities raised large sumc of money as September, 1793, with like ceremonies Bureau to aid in indttstpy crop will bring you $8,183,000 which These proposals languish. than a 1,000,000 children in Mich- nearly permanent job. a local contribution for suitable pub- for the main building of the Capitol. from a reduction in the tariff on is more than any year In the past 10, Important Bills igan," said Mr. Bramble. "Certain amendments will cover lic buildings if theirs should be the President Washington never had Italian cherries. and nearly double the 5 year average Soon to come out of committee in "We believe that a State appropria- special crops like fruits, potatoes, milk favored site. use of either of these two distinguish- The cherry industry, according to preceding 1933. the House is Representative Hoi tion of $25,000,000 from the general and beans under marketing agree- Congress finally passed a bill in ed buildings located so near to his A. J. Rogers of Beulah, has been in a "The sugar beet people are getting beck's bill providing for a 3% flat, fund, plus the 15 millions now in the ments. When two-thirds of producers July, 1790, to locate the capitol on the home as an expression of honor and bad way since 1930 because of over the best deal of any group in the personal income tax. It provides an primary school fund, and not to ex- of any of those crops in given areas bank of the Potomac near Mount Ver- appreciation from a devoted nation. production or under consumption, or country. They have no kick coming. exemption of $1,000 for unmarried ceed 5 mills on general property will agree on a plan, then all producers both. They should not be allowed to exceed persons, and $2,000 for married per- provide the 70 millions for the going and processors will come under the During that period it was discov- their limitation. I have heard it stated sons living together. An exemption expenses of the schools. This will marketing agreement for the area. of $300 is permitted for each de- not include debt service, and we be- Bureau For B%% Money pendent. The tax would not apply to lieve it can be raised without laying Mr. Gray spoke on "Current Events THOUSAND ATTEND NOMINATED ered that immature Montmorency that there should be no limitation. cherries serve very well for brining Efforts will be made to Increase the for maraschino purposes. During 1934 sugar beet and cane sugar acreages. I corporations. any new taxes." at Washington". He predicted lower Being a flat income tax, this bill Mr. Bramble pointed out that the interest rates. He said that the Amer- LIVE STOCK ANNUAL three million pounds of cherries were j should say that other farmers should so used. In the meantime other uses i res'st that. could be enacted by the Legislature bill providing for the $25,000,000 ap- ican Farm Bureau had written an for cherries other than putting them "Let me point out that every step and be constitutional. A graduated propriation also provides that from amendment to the Federal Farm Loan Fitzgerald and Brandt Talk in cans have been developed and the we take to diminish our imports, by income tax is declared to run afoul that fund tuition for rural high Act to make the interest rate on Fed- industry begins to show promise of the same token diminishes our ex- To Stockmen's Largest coming out of its slump. of the uniform clause of taxation in school students shall be paid to in- eral Farm Loans not more than 3%%, ports. Imports in the long run mu t the State constitution. The Michigan terested village and city schools. instead of 4 ^ % as at present. The Meeting A very Important aid in this respect, pay for exports. If we reduce our Farmer amendment last fall was anThat's good for the High schools and bill has been adopted by the Senate according to Mr. Rogers, has been the imports of sugar, we automatically effort to repeal the uniform tax for the rural school districts and will and the Farm Bureau is now working Lansing.—More than 1,000 attend- tariff on cherries, which reduced im- reduce our hope of exporting cotton, clause and provide for an income tax. educate through the 12th grade to get it through the House. ed the annual dinner of the Michigan ports from Italy from 22,289,000 lbs. or wheat, or lard, or tobacco,—or to The Holbeck bill appropriates the thousands of children whose parents He predicted a 40 billion national Live Stock Exchange at State College in 1929 to less than a million pounds come closer home in Michigan,— revenues to the primary school fund. or districts can't pay the tuition to- debt before long, and that it will be Feb. 21. It was one of the largest in 1933. automobiles. The appropriation clause would make day, Mr. Bramble said. floated through bonds that banks and sessions in the organization's history- Cause for alarm to the cherry grow- Act As Creditor Nation the act referendum proof. The Grange master objected to get- financial institutions will have to buy Gov. Fitzgerald said he aims to ers of Michigan and elsewhere is the "I rather guess that eventually Resolutions ting the $25,000,000 from anywhere at ever low rates of interest. He pre- confine Michigan public works to per- fact that on March 4 representatives we'll have to act as a creditor nation but the general fund. It will per- dicted that impending financial legis- manent projects and to make the of the United States and Italian gov- must act. We'll have to have an A senate resolution favoring Mr. ernments will meet at Washington to excess of imports over exports. Fitzgerald's proposal to make the Sec- petuate the sales tax or any other lation will regiment all banks under State government live within its in- consider a reciprocal tariff agree- There's no politics in that. We either retary of State, Attorney General, tax to which it might be tied. If it the thumb of Uncle Sam's treasury. come. It is time to start on a pay-as- ment. The cherry growers fear such must wipe out the enormous sums Auditor General and Treasurer ap- comes from the general fund, he said, Price lowering Imports you-go basis, he said, but it cannot be a slashing of the cherry tariff that owed our nation or collect in the pointees of the Governor rather than and there isn't enough, every State "If Americans are going to pay pro- accomplished within a year or two. appropriation will take its cut and cessing taxes, why shouldn't foreign they will have no protection and can manner that creditor nations have al- be elected by tjjje people lies in a Charles Brandt, president of the expect 22,000,0000 lbs. or more of ways collected. In the old days we Senate committee. iSo does a similar the schools will get their just share. oils and fata, black strap molasses, Land O' Lakes Creameries, large co- Italian cherries annually. resolution applying to the State Sup- Mr. Bramble said that the average foreign starches, eggs and egg prod- operative at Minneapolis, doubted the were the debtors to other nations. We cost of education per child p'er school ucts from abroad pay something of a success of the AAA. He suggested his The Michigan growers insist that pa'd interest and principal with our erintendent of Public Instruction. It because of cheaper labor costs Italian agricultural exports. ts now too late for them to come out year in Michigan is $68. processing tax when they come in, crop surplus pool plan for 10 or 12 cherries can be delivered to New York and be adopted by the Legislature, in and to help keep them from lowering national pools for as many major "The war chanpel all that, but for American farm prices?" asked Mr. at less than our cost of production. a long time in the 1920's we main- time for the people to vote on them at Elevator Exchange Has commodities. He claimed that it has Reciprocal tariffs have been de- tained our new position as both a the April election. A proposal to Gray. worked for the Land O' Lakes in dis- amend the Constitution to permit the Good Dividend Record He answered his own question by posing of a great surplus of butter CLARK L. BRODY nounced by Chester Gray of the Amer- creditor nation and an exporting na- appointment of judges rather than saying that while the American Farm and provided national benefits to the Clark L. Brody, secretary of the ican Farm Bureau Federation as gen- tion by loaning millions to Europe elect them was killed in the Senate. Lansing—Michigan Elevator Ex- Bureau and all others have not been butter industry at the time. Michigan State Farm Bureau, and erally unfavorable to American agri- with which to -buy our exports. We Lawyers there divided on the subject. change directors have declared tlWtrir able to get tariffs enacted on these At the business session next day since 1921 a member of the State culture. gave ourselves away. In 1930 we Would Stop Recount Abuses regular 7% quarterly dividend on all items because of opposition and re- President Elmer A. Beamer of Bliss- Board of Agriculture, was re-nomi- The Michigan State Farm Bureau stopped loaning. Our corn went to is on record as condemning reciprocal 10c a bushel, hogs to $2 and wheat Quickly, and by unanimous consent outstanding common stock. The divi- fusal to open legislation on the tariff, field and Secretary John O'Mealey of nated for another six year term by tariffs "as an entering wedge for a to 30c. of both Houses, the Legislature March dend will be paid the member elevat- the Farm Bureau has discovered that Hudson were re-elected, as were the the Republican State Convention at 1 adopted, and Gov. Fitzgerald signed ors during March. excise taxes are welcomed by the Ad- directors whose terms expired. Detroit, March 1. At present, Mr. general surrender of the tariff pro- Not Two Directions at Once Several of the co-operative mem- ministration as sources of revenue, Brody is chairman of the Board of tection Michigan farmers have fought "We as a nation want to be a constitutional amendment to be vot- The Exchange continues to handle ed upon at the April election. It will ber elevators now draw each year and that they're just as good as a about a third of the volume of stock Agriculture, which directs the affairs for for years." nationalists on the matter of imports interest that exceeds their original tariff duty as far as protecting home coming onto the Detroit and East of the Michigan State College. Among The Michigan Cherry Growers and and internationalists on the matter prevent the Legislature from conduct- prices are concerned. Buffalo markets. Savings on the reg-the farmer members of the Board, he their Packing Company, largest can- of exports. It can't be done. You ing an election recount except in $200 investment in the Elevator Ex*- markets and cases where its own membership is change. A score of elevators found- The Egg Question ular commissions are pro-rated back is considered as representing some ners of cherries in the nation, and can't hike tariffs at home and dump involved. The Atwood-Wilson and ed the Exchange in 1920 by investing "Every time eggs get to 20c a dozen to member associations in accordance 50,000 or more Michigan farmers who representing 750,000 trees, have filed a your surpluses abroad. Foreign na- Toy-O'Brien recounts in January by $200 each for working capital. There in the United States, it becomes profit- with the volume of business done, are interested in co-operatively owned brief protesting any reduction in the tions won't permit it, and we have tariff in Italian Importations of cher- laws to prevent them from doing it to a rump legislature brought this ac- are some 80 member elevators today. able for China and other exporters of after a provision is made for reserves. farmers elevators, creameries, fruit, ries. The Michigan Farm Bureau us." tion. The State Board of Canvassers If the Elevator Exchange were to eggs, dried eggs, frozen eggs and The Michigan Exchange carries on a bean, live stock, potato, milk and will be represented by the American Mr. Wallace sought to show that is the official recount body for the be dissolved today, the Farmers Ele- other processed eggs to ship boatloads large business in financing live stock other marketing associations, and as Farm Bureau at Washington. State. March 1 was the last day up- vator at Fowler, Clinton County, of them here. The Farm Bureau has feeders with federal money for long representing the views of the Farm the trade agreements negotiated with on which the Legislature could act would show a total return of more sponsored a bill to excise tax egg im- term production loans at 5% interest. Bureau on rural education in agri- Cuba and Brazil and in process of upon an amendment in time to submit than $14,000 in interest and cash ports beginning at' 5c per dozen on eggs in the shell, and on up. culture. $2,000 for Crash That negotiation with other nations are restoring foreign trade and benefiting dividends on the $200 it invested in the Exchange in 1921, according to "Did you ever have a market for Barry Farm Bureau it at the April election. Ruined Psychic Powers both American industry and agri- Sales Tax Oil Taxes May Build Sales tax legislation, if any, ap-L. E. Osmer, manager of the Ex- potatoes, wheat, corn or other farm change. The Exchange has paid its Entertains Families Farm Electric Lines culture, although some of the benefit In Chicago, Mrs. Annabell Waring must come to American agriculture pears to be awaiting the Supreme products to U. S. starch factories? No, because the United States has always Hastings.—Barry County Farm Bu- sued and won $2,000 with the story through better markets at home Court decision on the manufacturers' interest dividend every year. reau Family Night brought out 200 Porter township, Midland county, that when a truck hit the street car through larger industrial pay rolls. and upon the Farm Bureau suits for been a haven for starches from the exempting supplies used to produce $560 Per Mile Average tropics, duty free. We are preparing members and their young folks Fri- richest oil field in Michigan, has be- she was riding in, it knocked her Warns Price Fixers an excise tax on foreign starch. day evening, Feb. 22 at Fullers Hall, come wealthy through the oil tax col- psychic powers out of her. To those who believe they goods to be sold. Lower courts have here. An oyster supper and a splen- lected. Already " the owners of a In Peoria, 111., Ernest T. Faulkner create milk areas or other farm price declared the goods exempt. The State For Trunk Line Upkeep "The industrial alcohol industry of did program of music by the Rucker splendid township community hall sued the man his automobile had runareas having a fixed high price level, sales tax board appealed. the United States depends on Cuban School Bills State trunk line highways are being blackBtrap molasses from the island's Family Orchestra of Climax were fea- from oil tax funds, the residents are over, for damages for mental shock Mr. Wallace said: Senate Bill 34 has been rapped by maintained at an average cost of $560 beloved cane sugar industry. It comes tures of the evening. March 12 thevoting in a special election March 4 and nervous disorders. "Don't ever fool yourself t-hat you're per mile annually. The total mileage in at 1/6 of a cent per gallon duty, County Farm Bureau members will on the question of using $40,000 now not a part of all agriculture. You Master Bramble of the State Grange. now coming directly under the super- practic'ally free. We are preparing be entertained by the State Farm Bu- on hand to run electric power lines NO MOITH BREATHER can never get very far out of line with It would abolish all school districts vision of the State Highway Depart- an excise tax to relieve our domestic reau at Lansing. Dinner will be served handy to every farm in the township. The whale is the only animal un- the rest of your end of the industry as now constituted in towns of less ment is 8,617. Of this 3,500 miles are sugar industry of that inequality." Farmers would pay for taking the able to breathe through its mou^h, Iandd get ustry at noon. t away with it,—even with than 3,000 and consolidate them. Mr. concrete, 3,800 miles are gravel, 1,100 power onto their places and for the the respiratory system being especial- ernment backingT as in" the" 'm, Bramble quotes Lenawee and Washte- miles are black top and 217 miles of In the State of Maine 95 out of There are 26 million chickens on installation of such equipment as they ly adapted to prolonged periods of milk zones naw counties to show that their vil- secondary gravel. Illinois farms. install, according to the proposal. submergence. j (Continued on page (Contlnued on 9%g% i.) every 100 farmers own their land. TWO MICHIGAN FARM NEWS SATURDAY, 31 ARCH 2, 1935 WARNS THAT LAW Hiram's Spring Tonic CAN'T STOP SALE By R. S. Clark r to the Michigan Farm Bureau News, founded rst of March has rolled around. Old Winter sticks like sin, this is the eventful date when new hired men start in. irmers pause to scratch our beads and sort of feel our muscle, OF POOR SEEDS AERO' CYANAMID _ J a n u a r y 12, lbs,'. nentally -spit on o u r hands a n d gird ourselves to i With all tlie imps of tiood a n d d r o u g h t ; w i t h biiK and worm a n d weevil. Farmers Must Be Carefu alter January 12, 1923, at th« post- s like all-Ket-out t h a t l i g h t m u s t vanquish evil. 22% NITROGEN Ant of March 3, 1879. T h a t in t h e long- r u n h o n e s t toil is b o u n d to be r e w a r d e d . In Face . of Seed 70% HYDRATED LIME We hope for better crops this y e a r t h a n a n y yet recorded! month by the Michigan Farm News at l i t I-ovett St., Charlotte, Michigan. Oh, what a driving power is Hope for b e t t e r thinKS to come! Shortage St., Lansing, Michigan. it urges us tc, t a k e right hold a n d m a k e o u r business hum; it urges us to broaden out, a n d previews, a s it « Warning to farmers of the state tr The Fruit Fertilizer phone, Lansing, 21-271. ta of .-vents that may occur. W h i l e W o r r y ! o n t h e o t h e r h a n d , i s l i k e a ball a n d c h a i n exercise care in their seed purchases has been issued by James F. Thomp It FEEDS the TREE and LIMES the Soil T h a t drags u s e v e r backward from t h e h o p e s w e might a t t a i n . E. E. UNGREN Editor and Business Manager It bold.s t h e f u t u r e u p t o v i e w a n d s e e s w i t h w i l d a l a r m A host. Of h u n g r y Ie«on«8 s u c k t h e H f e b l o o d f r o m t h e F a r m . son. commissioner of agriculture. Owing to the drought conditions o r; 4 years for $1, In advance. M a n of t l i c W . - s t w a s o f t e n w o n t , t o ' l.o, I h a v e s e e n a lot Of life. W h a t hiiir I liav. 1934, tlw harvest on many crops \va: 'AERO* CYANAMID A t h o u s a n d t r o u b l e s h a v e 1 k n o w n , b o t h s i n g l y a n d enms unusually small and so much wa: A non-lcaching form of nitrogen Vol. XIII SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1935 No. 3 " N i n e - t e n t h s of v v h i e h , " h e ' d s h r e w d l y a d d , " h a v e n e v . i COW1P t u p a s s . usod for resvedinu tin. I very lit Mi • !:iy k- ;:pplifd in fall, winter (in Southern States), or early spring, as :.-, or merely food and drink, For w h u l We have a n d do a n d a r e d e p e n d s on what we lliiu'.c; was left lor the \i: sit a n d mope. Thompson explains. Feeds the tree throughout growing season Mr. Wallace at Lapeer o h , Worry is a c-ur.s.: to m a n , b u t w h a t a friend is He Produces dark green leaves and holds them on until fell (On sandy and Tin; First Of March h a s rolled a r o u n d . T h e maple woods a r e black Shaly soils the'supplemental use of potash is niommeiuleil) •••HI to I. h hoping to hear definite sTaite- And t h e s t e a m will smut be r o l l i n g Up a r o u n d t h e Sugar s h a r k . menl fut'tire - in.i disappointed* Be in o r d e r n o w , b u t n o t t h e d o c t o r ' s k h , .tli'U pluinl} The . a tonic for t h e miml. Produces good terminal growth and fruit buds n, imt h m e iv i i i i a m ' s D o p e : ;er yields of better-quality fruit wipe i.ui in whole o r in part the present liniitti- Relinquish Worry if..m your h&urt; a n d Plan ami Work and Hop--. fion in Michigan will lind :t resolute U>v. in Mr. Write for Leaflet X-307, "Fertilizing Fruit with 'Aero' Cyanamid" Wallace. n< that the sugar beet fanner is being permitted t h e production of any group under t h e AAA this incline in a large way. The Walla.-.- logic i ditor nation I I to liav. Proposals Designed to Make '•win. Alfalfa, bu $ 14.00 $ .42 Clover, i)ii 1:5.00 .39 Ml accept pay in Imports sound* reasonable, Imt t h e appll- Processors Co-operate More Egg Mash, L- T Cottonaeed, Ml. ' . T. MllHmaker, 34% T Fertilizer, 2-14-2, T .. t-'iu.u $jkOO 4X.oo 30.90 .68 .u:i i.n .9:! beat JAM US A, THOMPSON to Italian preserved cherries a t very low r a t e s of duty a n d bupt a «lomertti(; indi. u. i, interested. Likewise, lace m a k e r s in handling term or products in < 124.20 a.73 in order to supply the demand the Hay Loader 128.40 3.85 bins will be swept clean. There is no and thousands of farmers were being Grain Binder 246.00 7.38 Chester Gray at Lapeer forced of their farms, said Pres. K. A. Tractor 985.00 20.55 mistaking the fact that this will O'Neal of the American Farm Bu- mean that many poor lots of seed ..y, Washington representative of the American Farm reau to the House Committee on Agri- will enter trade channels that nor- Bureau, struck a responsive chord at Lapeer Feb. 15 in speaking after culture this week. mally would not be used for seeding O QUESTION about Quality with '•tary Wallace when he declared against yielding any part of the home market to others at any time. When Mr. dray argued that the increased buying power from maximum Cane and Beet Sugar History in America purposes,," he said. "This is the usual procedure when I here is a shortage of seed. The shortage seems to be pur- N Farm Bureau spray materials! The labeled formulae establish these as high sugar production is likely to be worth more to Michigan farmers Americans consume almost twice as ticularly acute with the clovers and and manufacturers of other goods than any benefit that could come from much sugar per capita as the people other legumes. grade products — and manufacture by ased trade with Cuba, Porto Rico or the Philippines, he had plenty of Europe. Beet and cane sugar have "On all questionable lots of seed we ready to go with him on that. only been in general use during the suggest that the seedmen submit General Chemical Company is t h e When he suggested that our home market has been the best we've past few hundred years. Previous to samples to the State Department of greatest assurance we could offer you of had, and that if we give any of it up to some one else, we're not sugar, honey was mainly depended Agriculture for test. Every effort likely to get one just as good, he had even more support. Aside from this upon to sweeten foods. Long be- will be made by the Dep't to prevent Uniformity. Every bag tests just like one Important point of difference, Mr. Gray agreed with Mr. Wallace on fore the discovery of America by the fraudulent sale of seed in the every other — and all equal or excel the tin Keneral AAA program. Columbus, the Indians were making State, but it must be borne in mind Mr. Gray represented the Farm Bureau viewpoint on this matter. Out- maple sugar. that the Dep't can not protect the in- labeled strength...You establish control voted lor the present, hut not convinced yet, and to be reckoned with in Cane sugar was first grown in this dividual who takes the chance in with early applications and keep the all improvements in the AAA. country in 17,51 while sugar beets buying poor seed. Our seed law does Mr. Gray reported on the hill before Congress, and which he helped were introduced tq the United States not prohibit the sale of poor seed. upper hand all through the season... Of about 1830 but were practically un- It merely provides that all lots of write, to reduce interest on Federal Farm Loans by another 1% or known up until 1850. seed be tagged to show the quality and course Farm Bureau spray materials are more. He told about the Farm Bureau's part in the developing AAA the purchaser must protect himself marketing agreements for fruit, potatoes, beans and milk, and how the economical. They do the job I Until strawberry growers know the by examining the tag on the bag and Farm Bureau has promoted excise taxes on foreign eggs, starches and proper spacing for their plants, they then making sure the lot is what he molasses to protect domestic prices. These things indicate that the Farm Bureau is doing a good piece of PRE8. E. /L O'NKAh cannot always he sure whether or not cares to use for seeding," Mr. Thomp- a variety is adapted to their location. son said. Farm Bureau work at Washington. That work is aided, said Mr. Gray, by the cordial- ity with which the several farm organizations co-operate to help each Mr. O'Neal was of amendments to the AAA Act. He testifying in behalf Services, Inc. other and to present a united front on many questions. 221-227 North Cedar St., quoted from a study of the net in- comes of 50 great corporations for the years 1932-34, inclusive, as published Classified Ads LANSING, MICHIGAN Mortgage Moratorium Keyworth Says Dole by the "Annalist" February 8, 1933. Classified advertisements are cash with order at the following rates: 4 cents per word for one edition. Ads to appear in two or more Law Extended 2 Years Growth Is Dangerous "The only opposition to the amend- editions take the rate of 3 cents per word per edition. I! / ARS E N A T E O F LEAD CA L C I U M A R S E N A T E ments we have proposed to the Adjust- . — : ^ < >iic hiiiidred and tifty members of ment Act, in the interest ol" both agri- • BORDEAUX MIXTURE Lin \. Fitzgerald has sign- the Clinton and Shiawassee Farm cultural and national welfare, comes LIVE STOCK SEEDS and PLANTS O R r . t l M E SULPHUR ed an Act extending for two years Bureau organizations gathered a t from this industrial group which al- 5.! M E S U L P H UR S O I U T r'OJN REGISTERED HEREFORD BULLS— MUCK F A R M E R S : W E O F F E R SEE.D Maroh I, IW&, the Bischoff-Mun- Ovid Tuesday for a potluek dinner ways has made abnormal profits from Best Blood Lines. T w o young bull calves " P e a t l a n d " Barley, Siberian Mill*-: rai.-.-l c a r r y i n g over 2-<% " A n x i e t y 4 t h " blood. by oms.-ives. Also limit.; l quantify s o - s li; iw Hi" Moratorium enacted and meeting. agriculture, which always has sought Slioulil appeal to r e g i s t e r e d owners. called " B r i g h a m " s t r a i n of Yellow Globe Also ORCHARD BRAND Oil Emulsion"83","Astringent" Arsenate of Lead, Dritomic Sulphur, Bordeaux-Arseniral, Rotenotie and othef At Crawl Kai>i• Extract), Paris Green. (2-2-3t-32b) by neglecting to re-word the Act has briefly on the life off Abraham Lin- itself as the authorized and official A . W . Toats. Henry uane & Son, Filrgxov.e, ige of the l!i:'.:', law. They may al trends and economic conditions in Bureau president declared. Michigan. Phone Caro M?T-l£. write for FOR SALE—DUROC BOARS, ALSO be faced by a teviwd of the mortgage the United States. Some of the amendments in <|iies- !>)M-n ;IIK1 bred slltai Harold Shafley, St. and qanap (3~2-2t-p) foreclosure. Such persons may pro- J)r. Keyworth believes that the drift tion are designed to bring processors J o h n s , Michigan. (3-2-lt r 14p) FARMERS WANTING STRAWBERRV tliemselves by making a new toward dependence upon government of agricultural products into effectual or a n y iruit. p l a n t s will profit b y w r i t i n g application to the court under the for support by an increasing number working relations witli farmers under FARMS FOE SALE oii;iiiy of K e i t h B r o t h e r s , iiox 16, S a w y e r , M i c h i g a n , liert is pre- ion of the Ait, .Iml-e ol" people is a danger signal. He said) the AAA, and to narrow the spread THE pared to FEDERAL C.AND BANK OF I S q u i c k e ; i S l l i l l b e l l i e s . ;;ive f a r m e r s ;i b a r g a i n . Tli.-n I h l V e .YOU h a d Verdier said. this had to he (•hanged and people between farmer and consumer. Saint 1'aul ofl.is you a n o p p o r t u n i t y to poor success? Write him. l i e ' s a b e r r j buy a. farm Lome of 80 a< n-s or more in specialist. The VI .nahles any property own- i aspire to economic independ- Chester Davis, AAA administrator, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, or Nortli N e w Berry Book I er in process or about to suffer fore- ence or this country was lacing a dif- testified that 3,700,000 farmers are Dakota now while prices are still low. <:'.-•! 2 closure1 to apply to the court in whose ferent form of government He cited shining in AAA programs and bene- amount Attractive terms with down, twenty years to pay the a reasonable CERTIFIED FROST PROOF CABBAGE iiction the property is located various European governments as ex- fits; 2,000,000 others, including pro- balance and interest at only 5%. For Mnd Bermuda Onion plants. Op*n field and ask for a continuance. The court amples of what happens when hank- ducers ol" milk, l'ruiis, vegetables, free booklet .nul Information write to grown, fifty, well rooted, strong, cabbage, each Dep.t. '•>'•', Federal Land Bank of St.tuiii'ii mossed, labeled with variety llthorised to grant the continu- ruptcy threatened or beans, raits and other crops need the Paul, Minnesota, name. (l-C-4t-G8lj; ton Wa.ke.fi.eld, Karl) Jersey Wakefield, Cl SiU'cassion, Copenhagen, um e unless th< "i>d reason not amendments relating to marketing Early Dutch, Late Dutch. Postpaid: 200 to. The court then determines fail- agreements to enable them to obtain FOR SALE—FARM GOOD FOR FARM- •I rental to lie paid by the property Child Labor Amendment similar benefits, , S p . i n i s h , I'ost p.-iid: 509, 6 0 c ; 1 ,ooo, $ l . n u ; ft.OK. K \ | . r e s s C o l l e c t : 6,00ft, $::.rive., with each siphon. $7.00 de- Lansing, Mich. Display room in Farm it caught fire and was destroyed. We paid the loss, and the of one of the most widely circulated best o P burden-hearers in desolate livered. Farm Bureau Supply Store, 728 Bureau Bldg., TLM ' Rast Shiawassee St., on earth. One-third of the When Grand Portal Fell places and this is largely because he E. Shiawassee St., Lansing. (3-4-tf-60b) Lansing. (2-2t-4Ob) owner got a new truck. total issue ol Loebuck & is smart enough to protect his rights. An automobile policy can't be issued after a» thief has Spring-Summer number, it was the Tire "Crand l*ortal" a magnificient He does what he does well because MACHINERY FOR SALE WANTED—FARM WORK stripped or taken your car. Nor to take care of a collision you ingle shipment of printed rave in the Pictured Rocks of the he knows liis limitations. His re- FOR SALE—#15 DE LAVAL CREAM MARRIED MAN, 24, EXPERIENCED have just had. separator used two years, and in lirst , I roads had ever handled upper peninsula drew hundreds of fusal to be overtaxed is an excellent (hiss condition. Would cost new today farm help w;mts work by month in sight-seers before it crashed more basis for reliability. 1150.00. Will sell for $75.00. Otto Kivn- H a r r y Barber, Tl 1 Cawood, Lai The car owner without insurance takes it on the nose in a To boost rural buying, Sears had than 30 years ago, according to the Ich, K. F. D. No. 1, New Haven, Midi. (*-3l financial way in an automobile loss due to fire, accident or MARRIED MAN WITH CHILDREN l an average of 15%,department of conservation. Tt wasFood Prices Going Up 11% w a n t s I'nnn work by month, year a r o u n d . theft. A suit for property or personal injury damages may with iuetions in dress 200 feet high. Undermined by the AGENTS WANTED. HAVE SOME line territory open for the sale of Mich. Good .lames II. Huffy, Kvart, CMD wipe out everything he has and pave his future with gar- . blankets, linens, piece notion of waves for many years, the Washington—Food prices are ex-and bean duty tra.-tors, threshing machinery nishees. scale Brand Portal fell in 1901, together pected to increase 11% more during address The liullms. For further particulars Ifuher Manufacturing Com- MARRIED MAN, 33, THREE CHIL- on a level with Montgomery with a mile of the rocky formation of the first half of 1935, according to pany, Lansing, Michigan. (2-2-2t-30b) d i e n , w a n t s steady work by month. Kent Can you afford to drive without insurance—carry these furnished farm. Henry H - h e r t , 211,4 Kast Ward which rut prices an aver.. which it was a part, throwing up a Henry A. Wallace, secretary of agri- Kalama/.oo, Lansing. risks yourself? Not when the State Farm Mutual will assume ... Apparently the billow that rocked steamers on Lake culture. Scarcity of live stock and BEEKEEPER'S SUPPLIES all financial risk, and defend you in court if need be—at very M A R R I E D MAN, 40, T W O C H I L D R E N , two I Qfder houses in the Superior miles away. high price of feed has boqsted. meat BEE H I V E S , S E C T I O N S COMB F O U N - w a n t s farm work by m o n t h or year. H a s reasonable rates. • tail prices daUoh, <'tc Outfits for b e g i n n e r s . Send be».n doing farm work. George Calvin, prices to the consumer 'XL", during for catalog. < MIAKT1N<: W A X for o r - pin AJger St., Lansing, We have more than 500,000 policyholders and 7,000 aqenti March 15 Plate Deadline the last half of l!»:u and tdMate. chardists. BKKRY Both h a n d a n d brush w a x . BASKETS AJtfD CRATKK. in 35 states in this national Legal Reserve Company. MAI'LK SVlil I' C A N S Send for prices. WANTED TO RENT FARM Let our local agent explain our policy to you. Col. Spencer Passes •1 ution of the Legislature, IN Till- MNKTIKS M. H. I H ' N T & SON, ."il No. Cedar St , MARRIED MAN, 49, WITH SON, 22, W Spenror, 71, forSecretary of State Atwood has ex- Hack in the, '90*8, many a cautious Lansing, Michig (1-6- would r.-nt furnished farm on shares. Pre- STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTO INSURANCE CO. tfeft annual tended until March 15 the time for se- person went through the winter with HOUSEHOLD HELP WANTED fers dairy farm. lifetime experience. < >r work by mouth, K. !,unit's. John Bloomington, 111. • iin Bureau annual curing 1988 auto license plates or a buckeye, or liorse-chestnut. In his Kddy, 1016Prospect St., Lapsing. <::--> MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU, State Agent—Lansing ed at his stickers. Citizens are warned not to pocket. This they considered just WANTED—MIDDLE AGED WOMAN WOULD RENT FARM, FURNISHED, or girl by rear for house work. Write He drive in other States without 1935 about the surest way of warding off Delbejrt Joynt, umenu, Michigan. on shares. Can furnish stock and tools. ' r. sticker. rheumatism J-atp) Cecil I-'oss, Lansing, R-8. SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1935 M I C H I G A N FARM N E W S Hear National Forest 1935 Beet Allotment tir«U but that he could go to those follows the identical CO! For Allegan County Exceeds 1933 Record Doctors of the Old School wno were in distress and had called Song Birds Migrate by for him. Night in Long Flights eating parents gin about a mile west of Allegan and That year farmers planted 163,000 bigness of his heart, the personal patients seldom had need for "special- exactly the same routes when they a distance of about four hundred will include lands sufficient to make acres, said (\ R. Oviatt, former State Doctors Did sacrifices he had made and the loyalty ists". He saw them through. return in the spring and each species miles. about 3y2 townships. The land is College specialist on sugar beets, and he had exhibited? Yes, he's of the old school, and very poor. Reforestation seems to be now with the U. S. Dep't of Agricul- By MRS. EDITH M. WAOAR I thought of the trips lie had made what has been his reward? Not the program. Other counties have ture. The question of modern methods before the improved roads and auto- dollars and cents, for his home must large tracts of abandoned farms and Mr. Oviatt said Feb. 11 that the and those of the old school was under mobiles were invented; of the sev-be modest in every detail. There's other lands that might well be put to price paid for the 1984 sugar beet discussion the other day. Those of eral epidemics the community had no money for it to be otherwise. His Huber similar use. crop, including payments from com- us who have lived through the period been subjected to. Then he proved fees kept pace with his type of serv- panies operating factories and the fed- of transition could indulge in compari- to be tireless in his efforts to see ice and never "modernized". But Roto-Rack IT. P. LAKES SHALLOW eral government, is likely to reach $7 sons even if we could not make de- a ton. In the record year of 1933, cisions. he's one of the richest of the com- munity, for when death entered his Separator The lakes of the northern peninsula the average price per ton in Michigan, Transportation, mail service,' educa- home, the whole country side mourned Itiiilt i n :t {Si/os of Michigan are as a rule very shal- .was $5.81, or 68 cents above the na- tion, religion, all came into the picture with him because he belonged to low, the Department of Conservation tional average of $5.15. It is anticipat- in some form or other. Af last the every family. reports. However, an occasional ed-that the 1935 parity price will be subject turned to the family doctor. I lie new lioto-linck is the finest and most modern thresher built. Its depth of 60 to 70 feet is reported, but approximately $7 per ton, although To some of the younger generation Much has been said about the unusual features appeal to experienced tlireslieniien. Stud for complete more often a depth of scarcely 10 feet. this has not yet been definitely figured. the old family doctor "down the street Canadian doctor who officiated at catalog describing this new machine. Just rinht for todsij's needs aways" may be just an old fogy the birth of the Dionne quintuplets whose methods and ministrations were during the past year. The old doctor The Huber Mfg. Co. 116 North East St. Lansing, Mich. "old fashioned" and even "out of was invited to Johns Hopkins Univers- date." But to one who has known ity., Was it for the purpose of show- that fellow ever since he came fresh ing him something new, or was it to give to the students in that great from college to the little station, he is more than a doctor, he's an advisor, a friend and a confident. institution a glimpse of the something that such as he has in his makeup? Something that is so necessary these Buy Fence A Different Practice The country doctor may have had about the same training as the city days, yet so seldom found. Not only in the labors of a of doctor is that almost lost art needed, doctor of his time but his practice has been far different, and preferably from choice. MRS. EDITH M. WAGAR them through. I thought of the times cation. but we can see its lack in every vo- Known Value His has been a practice of patience he had not only ministered to the Have we stressed the ends of mod- and understanding; his mission has patient but had helped to move the ern education to the detriment of the V^TTHEN you buy Farm Bureau Fence been not only to visit his patients bed or set up the stove and to gather individual and the public alike? VV you get known and tested fence but to minister to them no matter the wood for the needed fire, of the Have we held up the money expec- value, just as you do when you buy what their needs might be. I have times when he had hustled round the tation connected with a business to the other Farm Bureau supplies. Farm in mind the old white haired man kitchen and prepared the broth when extent that sympathy and human un- Bureau Fence'is made of true copper- This harness also available in back pad style. who hastened by us the other day in there was no one else to do it. He derstanding have been crowded out? bearing wire containing not less than his Ford coupe, one who has been never left his patients uncared for. Perhaps the distress and anxiety of BEFORE BUYING HARNESS! in the nearby village ever since the If they needed pills he gave them the past few years may re-create in 0.2O to 0.30 per cent pure copper. It Ask your Co-op Ass'n or write us for illustrated descrip- University turned him out, a full pills, if a mustard plaster was the all of us some of the finer qualities of is heavily, tightly galvanized. And it is fledged physician. He chose to make best remedy, he sometimes went out life, as exemplified so often by the of the cut-stay, hinge-joint type of tion of Farm Bureau's Co-op Harnesses,—built to our this little burg and the surrounding and searched the cupboard and made old family doctor. construction, with a springy tension- specifications by one of the largest and best manufac- country his home and the field in it. arc curve in the line wires. Experi- turers in the country. Get the prices on this harness! which to make use of his hard earned Many a time has he wrapped the ence has indicated that this is the most We use only No. 1 selected steerhide in all harness and education. His life long friends can new born babe that he had delivered Onion Freeze in Texas testify to the scope of his activities. to a poverty stricken home in an economical and satisfactory type of and livestock for a long time to come. strap work. Only the best hardware and other materials. Things in His Favor improvised blanket and when he felt Booms Michigan Prices all-purpose farm fence. Many farmers keep a supply of Farm Workmanship is guaranteed by a skilled, veteran force. He hastened past us, bent on his he could leave with safety, he hasten- Farm Bureau Fence is the kind of Bureau Fence constantly on hand, Tugs, breechings, strapwork are extra strong and usual errand. Some one was in ed back to the village to stir up some A killing freeze in Texas which fence that you can buy and erect at erecting it as opportunity permits. trouble and needed him; the road was interest among those whom he knew destroyed the onion crohp there has your convenience. And after you've Why not order your supply now? It long wearing. No splices in tugs. For complete descrip- icy and the weather far from agree- would help. Then he retraced his way doubled and tripled the price of Mich- tion of our three lines of harness in usual styles, ask your set it up, you can be certain that it will keep! And what's more, when able but that made no difference to that he might cany back the neces- igan onions. In Lansing they went co-op, or write for our Harness Circular. the doctor; he still had much in his sary clothing. to $3 a bushel, then to $3.25, and even will be there to protect your crops up, it will last! favor for wasn't it yet daylight and Before the Specialists' Hay higher prices were expected. Or- FARM BUREAU SERVICES, Inc., Lansing hadn't he been free to go when The night was never too dark, the dinarily, Texas onions coming onto the FARM BUREAU SERVICES, Inc., Lansing, Mich. called? roads never to muddy, the weather market in the early spring greatly As I caught the glimpse of his never too cold and he was never too reduce the price for Michigan onions. See Farm Bureau Machinery for 1935 Greater Values, Extra Strong, and Designed for Efficiency and Long Service Co-op Combined Fertilizer & Grain Drill Automatic Tractor Disc Harrow TRACTOR DISC HAKKOW CO-OP DRILL ,• Co-op disc shoe an exclusive feature; a combination disc and hoe which El •• Construction of spool ilange prevails gang bolt from working loose. Each «lisc nrfs as spring washer. Bearings places seed at desired depth; will not lubricated from bottom which Insures clog. Drills grain perfectly, will not JZtR DRILL- • proper lubrication; bearings inter- broadcast part. Proper draft on bars •ill u changeable, two piece oil soaked of furrow openers gives positive pene- Maple. Rear gang cannot trail front tration. Grain box equipped with gang yet turns easily. Angled and double run feed; easily adjusted to - • . •' ' , ' >%I straightened by pull of rope while in sow any amount of grain per acre. mn!-fcHI P. 3l 11; ^| 1 *"• " I A* ?Nd. W« • • I^L* i ^W motion. Rear gang can be set for more Improved Star Fertilizer Feed readily or less angle than front by simple adjusted to sow any amount of ferti- lever adjustment. Very narrow stand- lizer. Equipped with grass seeder ards prevent clogging. Nearly all attachment with positive fluted feed; sled construction, heavy angle frame, will sow to 2 quarts per acre. Zerk angle bracing, extra strong. Hitch lias lubrication. Tractor hitch and power verlicle adjustment for any height lift available. draw bar. Tractor Plow Series 20 Co-op Tractor TRACTOR PLOW Equipped with Waukesha 1 cylinder motor for cconoiiii Extra strong. Extra heavy beams and (ill, durable performance. Bleardo motor head provides braces, - i in. clearance between bot- more power, reduced detonation or "ping", greater fuel toms prevents clogging*. Axles extra eeonomy. 10 in. twin disc clutch operated by hand, large with extra strong wheels with rerj simple to adjust. AH gears high carbon or alloy long bearings and long threaded steel, heat treated for hardness. All bearings roller or grease cups. Several type bottoms, ball anti-friction type. Bearings and gears mounted hard steel frog, one piece landslide, inside gear case and run in hatli of oil. Radiator tabu- I point quick detachable share. Vir- lar type, over sized. Cool motor on hottest day. Bosch tually all steel, of highest grade. magneto vvillf impulse starter. /enith carburetor. Only two grey iron castings on the Itoniono oil hath type air cleaner. Draw bars adjust- plow. This plow carries most im- able horizontally and vertically for correct hitch for portant Improvements in years in any Implement All styles of wheels. Rubber tires power lift and depth regulating extra. Power take off, throw out clutch available. mechanism. MAIL THIS COUPON Sure Drop Corn Planter Jack Rabbit Cultivator For Free Booklets Takes name from valves construct- Weight of operator balances frame Each booklet illustrates the machine ed to prevent clogging. Positive and weight of gangs when raising. or implement. It describes the fea- action always. Easy lever change An exelnstre feature, adding great- tures that makes it extra strong, from check to drill. Six drilling ly to ease of operation. Triangular rigid frame. Gangs extra strong. long wearing, and convenient. distances. Heavy positive clutch { I Fertilizer &, Grain operates planting mechanism, dis- .Machined bearings titted to cold rolled steel shafts hold gangs al- I I Tractor Disc Harrow . engages in transport position. ways in proper place. No side play. Openers runner or single disc Constructed for quick, easy opera- I I Tractor Plow types. Four adjustments. Frame tion. Spacing between gang easily I I Sulky Plow heavy steel, always in alignment. adjusted by handy crank and worm Fertilizer and other attachments I I Turf & Stubble Walking Plow gear. Proper gang draft, provides available. This planter is designed penetration with little or no spring I I Volcano Disc Harrow in every l>»"t f ° r loUff l i l e a i l d pressure. AH levers within easy f convenience. reach. n I—I Sure Drop Corn Planter I—I Jack Rabbit Cultivator Yon must see these implements and others of our complete line to appreciate them— I—I Co-op Manure Spreader I—I Statite Spike Tooth Harrow Displays at Hart, Lapeer, Imlay City, Woodland Farm Bureau Stores— I—I Pull-Cut Mower (New!) NAME At Buchanan, Holland, Hudsonville, White Cloud, and other Co-ops. Ask your Co-op. ADDRESS MAIL TO Farm Bureau Services, Inc., RFD 221 No. Cedar St., Lansing, Mich. FARM BUREAU SERVICES, INC., LANSING, MICHIGAN FARM NEWS SMI RDW, HABCH 2, 1985 Today's Famines •mine in the world today is WOOL MKTG. ASS'N operative marketing are presented by Mr. Nash, with, particular reference to the merchandising of wool. He also LEADER FARMERS HAVEN'T FARM FIRE INSURANCE No. 2 famine is in Russia • y, then the city workers ORGANIZES LOCAL outlines a plan for the setting up of a county wool producers' association REALIZED MUCH INSURE NOW—PAY AT YOUR CONVENIENCE in Michigan's Largest Farm Fire Insurance Company. This Company increased its total risks over ?5,000,000 in 1934, increased its cash surplus over 138,009 and at the same time reduced Its 11 on the available GROWERS' GROUPS to serve as a connecting link between the local consignors and the State As- socation. This group would consist ON PRICE CLIMB losses and assessment rates. Total assets and resources over One Quarter Million Dollars, of which more than one-half is cash and (Government Bonds. We own our own office building with convenient parking sluice for members having business at the office. We thereby avoid high rentals demanded for office space. Losses satis- of the poolers residing within its jur- factorily adjusted and paid promptly, sometimes partial payment being made on They Will Serve Local Wool isdiction and would be advisory and Figures More Encouraging, date of adjustment to relieve stringent conditions often caused by fire. Auto- mobiles furnished full'time Inspectors, saving high mileage costs, A blanket policy Consignors and State promotional in character. on personal property as well as a broad and liberal policy contract particularly But 1934 Crops Had Modernize Association At nearly all of the meetings held thus far the assembled growers have Been Sold adapted to the insurance requirement of the farmer. Our solicitors licensed by the Department of .Insurance. Policies accepted by the Federal Land Bank, Home Owners Loan Corporation and other Loaning Agencies. Write for financial state- < nient and other literature describing policy. felt the need of some such local organ- for keeps with Pronounced interest in co-operative wool marketing is manifest at the ization for mutual information and Prices received by Michigan farmers STATE MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF MICHIGAN contact between the consignors and are on an average 81% better than W. V. Burras, Pres. 702 Church St., Flint Mich. H. K. Fisk, Sec'y CONCRETE many wool growers' meetings which are being held in many counties in the southern part of the state. Speak- the State Office and consequently they have voted to establish such a county association, and have adopted by-law.s they were two years ago. During the same period, according to Michigan State College figures, prices paid by ers at these sheepmen's rallies have and elected directors, who, in turn, or- farmers for production purposes or been Stanley M. Powell of Ionia, field ganize by electing their own officers. for family living are up an average of representative of the Michigan Co-op- Following are the local associations 26%. The Michigan farmer is paying erative Wool Marketing Association, as organized %o date, with their offi- 15% more for wages than he did. and Claude L. Nash of the Economics cers and other directors: Since the largest portion of the Department of the Michigan State Col- 1934 crops were marketed by Michigan CALHOUN CO. WOOL PRODUCERS' lege. farmers at prices lower than the Jan- ASSOCIATION Mr. Powell explains the set-up and Pres., Frank Martin, 130 Cliff, Battle Cr. uary 1935 level, and since the 1934 operation of the (State and National Vice Pres., A. C. Behling Albion, R-1 crop yield as a whole was smaller co-operative wool marketing agencies than average, Michigan farmers have and reviews wool price trends during Sec-Treas., R. L. Helm Directors: Marshall • DUTOX* • LIME SULPHUR not yet been able to realize much, on A non-arsenical insecticide that kills (Dry and Solution) the past two seasons. He tells the E. L. McClintic Homer Francis Fox Battle Creek, R-5 ALFRED SENTALL the more favorable prices. beetles and leaf eating insects. A fluo- A fungicide as well as an insecti- various factors that were responsible Wm. Frost Homer, R-4 Mr. Bentall, Michigan State Farm While the average prices of 20 farm rine compound—no lead or arsenic. Victor Joslyn Batte Creek, R-6 cide, made as a liquid and a powder. for the strengthening wool prices that BRANCH COUNTY WOOL PRODUCERS' Bureau insurance director for the products have risen 81% in the past were manifest during 1933 and for the ASSOCIATION State Farm Mutual and State Farm two years, some of them have under- • LORO OTHER SPRAY PRODUCTS slow and sagging market of 1934. He Pres., Albert Summelroth....Coldwater, R-6 Life Companies, was honored at the gone remarkable changes. Feed crop Blue Vitriol Paradlchlorobenzene Vice-Pres., Amsy Miller Coldwater, R-1 A new contact insecticide. Kills aphida Coposil Sulforon* also gives practical pointers for im- Sec-Treas., Elmer Dobson Quincy Bloomington, 111., annual convention prices are up 234%, poultry products and many other sucking insects. Con- Flake Zinc Sulphate Sulphate of Nicotine proving the quality and salability of Directors: the week of Feb. 18. 95%, cash crops 77%, dairy products tains no nicotine — is non-staining. Kleen-O-Cil Sulphur FREE information on designing and build- Charles Gruner, Coldwater, R-6 ing concrete floors, foundations, drive- the wool clip. Mr. Bentall was one of six State 64% and meat animals 58 % from their Kleenup(DonnantOil) Zinc Chloride Elon Bertram Coldwater, R-3 ways, milk houses, steps, welt curbs, etc. Possibilities and limitations of co- Harry Gowdy Quincy insurance leaders from the list of 35 lows. • BORDEAUX MIXTURE Kleenup-Tar Emulsion OU CLINTON COUNTY WOOL PRODUCERS' to address 1,100 top notch local and The high price of feed crops is an A fungicide used to prevent potato Hopper's Flotation 0 your repairing and mod- ASSOCIATION district agents who came to the home unfavorable factor in the present price blight, grape black rot, bitter rot, etc Sulphur Monohydrated ernizing this year with con- Pres., Vern Hand St. Johns, R-5 office at Bloomington. For years Mr. situation. Copper crete—and know that it's done for all time. Concrete costs so Solvay Vice-Pres., H. Ballinger St. Johns, R-6 Sec-Treas., Floyd Anderson St. Johns, R-1 Bentall has led Michigan agents to high production records, giving the Legislation Drags Until • NuREXFORM* The Improved Lead Arsenate. An effec- Sulphate Orthol K (Summer Oil) j Directors: little and is so easy to use! AGR'L LIMESTONE Henry Tabor Hubbardson California, Minnesota and Indiana tive control for Codling Moth and many Write today for our valuable Arthur J. Gage St. Johns agency forces a merry chase. Mich- House Situation Clears other chewing insects. Michigan Producers of J. E. Crosby St. Johns, R-5 igan has 350 agents in the field. (Continued From rage One) booklet "Permanent Farm Re- LAPEER COUNTY WOOL PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION lage school taxes average 3 times • ARSENATE OF LEAD pairs." It contains a host of sug- PULVERIZED LIMESTONE A dependable control for Codling Moth Pres., James Porter Lapeer, R-2 gestions . . . what to do with con- crete and how to do it. LIMESTONE MEAL Available At Your Nearest Dealer Vice-Pres., Harry Stover Sec-Treas., Reid Sisson Directors: Attica Imlay City CHAMBERLAINFIRST higher than in the rural districts. Villages would have reason to vote for that, according to Mr. Bramble. and many other chewing insects. • CALCIUM ARSENATE PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION 2016 Olds Tower Bldg., Lansing, Mich. Solvay Sales Corporation 7501 W. Jefferson Ave. James Shepherd Albert Martus W. C. Glover Robert Beattie Imlay City, R-2 Brown City Almont Columbiaville TO P 0 0 I / 3 5 WOOL Another bill would turn the certi- fication of all school teachers over to Used to kill leaf-eating insects on pota- toes, tomatoes, etc. DETROIT, MICH. a State board "to regulate the short- ST. JOE COUNTY WOOL PRODUCERS' Advances Lower, but Belief age or surplus" of teachers. If nor- ASSOCIATION mal school production capacity is not Directors: In any Movement Must to be closed down, there are those who Howard Bucknell Centerville W. H. Munson Constantine, R-1 Be Upward hold that teachers who earn the right High Sales—Good Weights—Proceeds Guaranteed Roy Catton Joseph H. Krull White Pigeon Constantine, R-1 to teach should be certified to teach. Lansing.—The initial rate of ad- Members of the Legislature seem in- Farmers and Stockmen Henry Gieason... „ _ Herman Rice EATON COUNTY WOOL PRODUCERS' Three Rivers Sturgis, R-1 vance on wool delivered at the Lan- clined to appropriate in the neighbor- sing warehouse of the Michigan Co- hood of $25,000,000 of State aid to are assured of these important and essential Services when live stock la sold on the Open, Competitive Terminal Live Stock Market; where both ASSOCIATION operative Wool Marketing Association the schools from the general fund • if large and small Packers, knowing there will be ample supplies of all grades Directors: of live stock available every day come ajid pay the Price by bidding against Forest D. King Charlotte for its 1935 pool will be $y2 cents per they can see where the money is to each other for their killing needs; where Weights are good because all live stock is properly fed and watered and not sold empty; and where all Checks Issued for payment of live stock sold are Guaranteed by a Bond meeting E. E. Thornton Chester Smith A. N. Bottomly Harry Skinner Olivet, R-3 Eaton Rapids Charlotte Dimondale pound on medium wools and 8 cents per pound on fine wools, Asso- come from. Agricultural Inspection Of 1,000 10 WILL Government requirements. Why take a chance on any other system? ciation officials announce. This sched- DIE THIS YEAR Secure all these services by Consigning your live stock to MICHIGAN LIVESTOCK EXCH. PRODUCERS CO-OP ASS'N Rhinehart Zemke JACKSON COUNTY WOOL PRODUCERS' ASSOCIATION Vermontville Changes are coming in the inspec- ule was adopted in accordance with tion services of the State Department recommendations made by the Na- of Agriculture. Effort will be made to Men Now 4O Stockyards, Detroit East Buffalo, N. Y. Directors: tional Wool Marketing Corporation, see that firms benefiting by seed, feed, These men are somewhere near the half-way point W. E. Eckerson Jackson, R-4 F. N. Andrews Napoleon Boston, Mass., the national sales fertilizer and other inspections shall Available for purchasing Feeder in bringing up their families, and maybe more than Money Cattle and Lambs, No so-called red-tape; No Investment of five per cent of the amount of the loan David Crouch M. J. Allen W. E. Randall Harry Hammond Grass Lake Parma Brooklyn, R-2 Springport agency for about 30 State and re- pay accordingly for the service. A gional co-operative wool pools. bill before the Legislature provides for 25 cents per ton fee on all manu- that in paying for their homes. In capital stock in a Production Credit Association; No guaranteeing the payments of any other borrowers' loans. Five years of established and IONIA COUNTY MARCH MEETINGS SCHEDULE factured stock feeds. That will be Each man longs for financial security for himself Schedule of wool producers' meetings satisfactory feeder loan service. For complete information write us. In Ionia County the assembled growers decided tliat an informal committee would to be addressed by C. L. Nash, M. S. C. considered too high. Whatever it is, and his family. He plans, works and saves. Tune in CKLW, 1030 Kilocycles, at 11:55 A. M. Mon., Tues., Wed. and Thurs. for live stock quotations at Detroit market. suffice und the following men were Economics Department, and Stanley M. the farmer will foot the bill. named: Powell, field representative of the Michi- Farm Credit Aid He can provide financial security simply by be- Michigan Live Stock Exchange Hudson, Mich. Ionia Wool Committee: A. J. Chamberlain Ionia gan Co-operative Wool Marketing Ass'n: Gov. Fitzgerald on March 1 signed ginning the purchase of a sufficient amount of life J. A. McDowell Saranac, R-3 MARCH COUNTY PLACE All P. M. the Act extending for two years after insurance to cover his needs. The amount may not be Chas. H. Mattison Ionia, * RFD March 4—Genesee Co., Flint, Court March 1 the State Farm Credit Relief H. E. Powell Ionia Roy Kyser Lowell, R-3 House, 1:30 P. M. Commission. This body, assisted by large, but immediately it is issued, his estate is assured March 5—Macomb Co., Armada, Library, county committeemen, is authorized to 1:45 P. M. that amount. Paying for it each year, a little at a time, Up Governor's Salary? March 6—Oakland Co., Ortonville, Town assist farmers to qualify for Federal a man saves money, builds up a financial reserve fund, Hall, 1:00 P. M. Farm Loans where debt adjustment Proposal to raise the salary of the March 7—Hillsdale Co., Hillsdale, Court enters into the picture. protects his family and property, and builds a fund for Governor of Michigan from $5,000 to House, 8:00 P. M. $15,000 annually has been proposed in March 8—Livingston Co., Fowlerville, his old age. Believes Inflation Will THE TELEPHONE he House of the Legislature. For the present the bill has been tabled. Such bills come from time to time. Gov- 1:30 P. M. March 13—Kalamazoo Co., (To be an- nounced). March 14—Cass Co., (To be announced), Start Slowly in 1935 State Farm Life policies are especially adapted to farm- ernors lend them no support because 1:30 P. M. Kiplinger, publisher of the Kiplinger ers' needs. You should March 15—Barry Co., Hastings, Court Washington Letter, and shrewd ap- Helps Find of the political hazards involved. Michigan pays one of the lowest sal- aries accorded a Governor by any State. House, 1:30 P. M. It is deemed probable that wool prices are now at a minimum and praiser of news there, is quoted by the magazine Time as forecasting the real beginnings of inflation in 1935, know what we offer. We are glad to explain, and without obligation. that any further market fluctuations with the prospects of it becoming not- Highest Prices Trend Is To Farms Tenants are being displaced by should be in an upward direction. The selling price of wool at Boston has declined steadily for the past year. iceable in 1936. He believes the years 1936 to 1940 will therefore be years of business activity and prosperity. Of the 1,000 men at age 40, mortality tables say that 10 will die within that year. owners, and young and middle-aged The Association hopes that bed rock He believes the Government is doing men, weary of the uncertainties of has been hit and'that recovery is at everything in its power to inflate. State Farm Life Insurance Oo. :ity employment, are going back to hand for wool growers. He believes now is a good time to ex- Bloomington, 111. the land wherever opportunity offers, Any strengthening of the wool mar- pand or start a business, particularly according to reports from Kansas. In ket above present levels will be re- a small one. The farm telephone more than earns its Michigan seldom if ever is the threat flected either in a further advance to Home Office of State Farm Life—Bloomington Michigan State Farm Bureau State Agent heard about pulling up and moving to 1935 consignors or in larger final set- The cost of crime in this country way by enabling you to find out who is town. There is a strong trend the tlements. The distinction of having brought is estimated at 13 billion dollars an- other way. nually,—more than three times our offering the highest prices when you have in the first consignment of 1935 wool to the Association's Warehouse at total expenditure for education. Farm Bureau Meeting 728-736 E. Shiawassee St., Lansing, produce, livestock or grain to sell. at Fountain, March 14 goes to Mr. A. J. Chamberlain of Ionia, a former president of the Ionia In latin business transactions, you can Fountain.—A Farm Bureau meeting is to be held here Thursday, March 14, County Farm Bureau. In 1933 Mr. Chamberlain saw wool sold for a dime The Little Items Count in Making the Farm Pay — readily reckon the cash value of your tele- at 2 P. M. The Mason County Farm Bureau band will play. Wesley Haw- a pound. Wool pool returns that sea- son netted the growers about 28 cents Co-operatively Purchased, These Items Bring More phone. But it also has a value that cannot ley will discuss Farm Bureau work for 1935. The meeting is in charge of per pound. Last spring Mr. Chamber- lain was one of the early consignors Value for Your Money. ,- /* William Sommerfeldt and E. Rasmus- and this season he heads the list. be measured in dollars . . . that of keeping sen. OERESAN FOR QATS, SEMESAN JR. FOR r « In Georgia and Mississippi 70 out SEED CORN There is a one armed paper hanger of every 100 farmers work someone BARLEY, WHEAT you and .your family in friendly touch in the world. He is George Cobb, 26, else's land as tenants or share crop- Costs only 2c per bushel of seed Costs 2i4c per- acre to treat seed pers. field and sweet corn, and it earns of Omaha. to control smuts of these grains. with others. And there may come a time Lowest cost dust disinfectant on dollars. Semesan Jr., protects seed from decay, blights, rots. the market. Generally improves when its service is priceless . . . when a yield several bushels per acre. Improves yield several bushels per A. Half hour treats seed for Twelve farm tests on comparing 80 A. Average increase in yield member Of the family or a relative or friend is seriously ill . . . or when fire, WOOL GROWERS! yields from Ceresan treated smut free seed oats with the same seed untreated showed gains of 1 to 6 10%. in many tests has been around Semesan Jr. will not control corn smut, wire worms and grubs. When seed is planted The 1935 Wool Pool is now open for receipt of consignments. Interested growers should write for Wool Marketing Agreement and other information. bushels per acre for the treated, smut free fields. Semesan Jr. protects it against disease spores on theft or accident puts you in urgent need Upon return of a signed Agreement, the Michigan Co-operative Wool Mar- keting Ass'n will furnish wool sacks and shipping tags. Ass'n members Ask your Co-op about Ceresan. seed or in soil. Ask your Co-op. may draw their wool to our Lansing warehouse, 728 East. Shiawassee St., of help from your neighbors. Lansing, any week day. They may ship by rail or truck, collect. Wool is weighed on delivery. Wool sacks weigh about 4 lbs. and are deducted. Cash advance is made at once on net weight of wool here. Inbound freight FARM BUREAU PAINTS FARM BUREAU FLY SPRAY if any is paid from cash advance. Also, nominal Wool Marketing Ass'n Deadly to flies. Powerful and membership of $1 per year. Our house paints are made of pure lead, zinc and linseed lasting fly repellant for stock. The wool pool cannot guarantee any certain profit, nor a cer- Made from petroleum prod- tain final settlement date. Market conditions control that. oil to U. S. Bureau of Stand- Generally, the pool has made money for its members. Pool ards formulas for good, last- ucts and pyrethrum to U. S. advance is subject to change, according to market conditions, ing paint. Our red oxide barn government formula. Quick and at this time is at the rate of 9'i-c on medium wools and 8lAc on fine wools. paint is the same quality. and stainless. Odor not un- Farm Bureau paints save pleasant. Will not taint milk money by spreading nearly nor cling to clothes. One MAIL THIS COUPON NOW twice as far and lasting in good condition nearly twice pound of pyrethrum in each gallon of spray. Sprays of similar effectiveness Michigan Co-op Wool Marketing Ass'n, 221 N. Cedar St., Lansing as long as cheap paints. Paints for all roofs. usually sell for at least JL5% more. Kill-Fly is M I C H I G A N BELL Please send me a 1935 Wool Marketing Contract and other information Interior paints. Ask your Co-op. our household spray for flies, ants moths. TELEPHONE CO. about your Association. I expect to have about lbs. FARM BUREAU SERVICES AT LANSING, MICHIGAN NAME '.. Jt v ADDRESS R- F. D SATI'RDAY, MARCH 2, 1935 I C H T0 A\ FARM \ F \l\V Live Stock Markets Change Name Bramble to U. S. New Tuberculin Has Detroit— The Michigan Live Stock Agricultural Credit Bd. IN THIS\ UNION THERE IS STRENGTH No Foreign Protein tamed. Exchange announces that its radio broadcast of the Detroit live stock market on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday has been changed from State Grange has been advised by Lansing—Clem Lansing, master H. Bramble of of the Michigan A new tuberculin, tree from to protein, has been in use - April in the testing of cattle for tu- A BILLION DOLLAR 12:35 p. m. to 11;55 a. m. \Y. I. Meyers, governor of. the federal farm credit administration in Wash- ington, of his appointment as a mem-; berculosis. The new tuberculin is made a pure ciuniical which takes the place INDUSTRY SKKI» POTATOES ber of the regional agricultural credit I Low prices for potatoes usually re- corporation of Minneapolis, Minn. of meat broth. The product is even Are You Giving or liking? sults In growers selecting seed from more reliable in revealing the pres- their own crop. Certified seed also is The regional corporation was es-j ence of tuberculosis than the broth relatively low in price and shou'd tablished two years ago to provide tuberculin) which for more than 40 Poultry and eggs are the most be used. Potatoes rapidly become in- emergency agricultural credit to years lu.s bee:! produced by practically staple and dependable income fested with diseases unless the grow- fanners in Michigan, Wisconsin, the vame method as was devised by producers on the farm. Poul- ing crop is carefully watched, and Minnesota and North Dakota. Since, t (Cocb, discover of the product. try is one of Uncle Sam's diseased plants are destroyed. This oth»r credit agencies have been es- few billion dollar indusi has been saved that contains so much tablished, the corporation now is certified seed. chiefly concerned In liquidating its CH Let the'Spark of Life* In AVanAmar C I KS Many thousands of producers C ° farm paper and collecting outstanding FARM MACHINERY OUTLOOK UOOI) loans with the least possible hardship John Krau.se, Michigan manager for to borrowers. Collections in 1934 were the Huber Manufacturing Company, reported to be very satisfactory. S T contributing to this great in- dustry are not taking a profit. It is not difficult to get into threshing machine builders, bf-Iieves the profit-taker's class. Keep the outlook is very good for ih<* Bate Tim on Quintuplets good stock, feed the best feeds, of grain separators and all farm ma- chinery this year. Tim Benneti ot Baton Rapids, Mich., _ THENIUIUJAY cull properly, house well, keep the fowl clean and healthy. BIG. HUSKY CHICKS c a r t s not t o r t h e AAA in a n y form. He concludes a letter about i t to t h e TO FEED MINERALS Gather the eggs several times daily in order to get top prices. Michigan Approved Large Ehgltsh Type State J o u r n a l at Lansing with t h e Run the poultry department White Leghorns, Hardy stork, li.;il Lay- BbfVZD.QF 2H/SECTOHS -fiHD SEQ'i OF FGRM ,t93S~ The right start is a big step towards ers. All J'..W.L>. Tee ted. St;iin.-<1 Anti- remark: success with your chicks. Livability- - as a business. gen, Own Supervlston. Reactors Removed. Herewith is represented the strong- modity marketing organizations affili- I promoting co-operativo efforts among rapid, but sturdy, growth, health and vigor "Lucky those Canadian quintuplets mean early production—big eggs, practically Write for Circular CC 117r>. were not born over here. We might est combination of Michigan farm ated with the Farm Bureau to promote farmers. They are entirely separate no "pec-wees" and better profits. You can get Oyster shell is a small-cost WINSTROM HATCHERY, have plowed three of them under." organizations the State has ever common interests in legislation, mar- from each other in their linancial and that start with mashes containing . . . essential to health and large Box B-4, Zeelancl, Michigan known. This is the board of directors keting, transportation and agricultural other business affairs. Their common egg production — costs about of the Michigan State Farm Bureau. It includes seven Farm Bureau men affairs in general. The State Farm Bu- meeting ground is the Farm Bine.in. Following are the directors and their reau and its seven affiliates act to-representation on die state Farm Bu- M6RMASH 3 cents a year per laying hen. PILOT BRAND OYSTER SHELL Made with MANAMAR THE HEW FEED MANAMAR who represent seven state-wide com- gether on public questions and inreau board: REAR ROW, left to right: H. H. Sandford, Bal Leipprandt, Pigeon; C. J. Reid, Avoca; all Farm Bureau dlrei tors at lai John Houk, Luaihgton; Paul Begick, | ' • E. T. .J4ATURPS FOOD MINERALS.FROM T H I SEA *W • ^ i II start I;1 " 'ply of •! hens pie sup- nilated min- is always dependable. I t is clean, containing no waste or poisonous matter. Keep it be- NATURE S FOOD MINERALS FROM THE SE erals in thoir bodies. Mermash MIDDLE ROW, h ft to right: C S. Langdon, Hubbadfcton, director ;,. large; O. R. Gale, Shelby representing t h e nixed starting and growing fore laying hens all the time. maintain that iupply 3OO Calvings*.. Great J.ak.-s Fruit Industri. -s; Charles Woodruff, Hastings, Michigan L i v e s t o c k Exchange J. T Bussey Lake deelanau Michigan Potato Growers E x c h a n g e ; G. S. Coffman, Cold^fatcr, AliMi. Dist., Mldwesl Co-op Creameries Inr • W m ' - build red blood and vigor protect health - - and development. M< On tali at feed dealen MANAMAR Only One Retained Afterbirth Bristow, Flat Rock, Michigan Milk Producers As»'n. BOTTOM ROW, left t p right: J. J. Jakway, Ben t o * Flarbor, ,ec'y Clark L Brody " Lantfnir :• hi s • ]'} h i snew " cuts down losses nrives you holier chicks and opens the w a y to better profits. everywhere. INCREASES PROFITS This actual record at Overbrook Farm in New Jersey W. E. Phillips, Decatur, Michigan Elevator Exchange; President W. W. Billings, Davison, Michigan Co-op Wool Mar- rro Bureau Mermaahes keep points the way to increased profits. Keeping cows in Let it Mien; in production improve because it . • • production by eliminating trouble at calving timej—avoid- keting A.ss'n; Mrs. Edith M. Wagar, Carleton, director &\ large; M. B.McPherson, Lowell, director ai I i he way egg shell quality and ing the cost of veterinary care—prolonging the breeding t >• ( ' ! hiuh hatchability, "I'cu- proll i on thou- O ELIMINATES age of good bulls all drive down your costs and widen you. ii —wiitt; toda> farms hiive definitely RETAINED AFTERBIRTH your profit margin. KEEPS COWS IN CONDITION - ManAmar, not only supplies the necessary minerals, but supplies them in the OUTLOOK BETTER Unusually large numbers of beef to pay for exports of a g r i c u l t u r e ! cattle slaughtered la: I year have re- products, and until industrial pr<>- duced the numbers on farms until it duction a n d employment a r e in- d lh< superiority of Farm Unreal! MeTm&she*. p your Farm Bureau Healer or write: 0 KEEPS COWS REPRODUCING most easily assimilated form, thus satisfying the vital nutri- tional needs to keep your cows above the average. Cows in good condition produce steadily—re- FOR FARM PROFIT, appears that prices for beef will be materially higher than in 1934. Nor- 18 I i Hie i n - of Michigan farmers, he said, FARM BUfeKAU BEBVICE8. I M . LattttnCi Michigan f O R POULTRY O ASSURES VIGOR turn to production after calving quick- ly and thus show a better average annually. COLLEGEBELIEVES mal feed crops next summer will probably lead to competition in buy- i what they oan to attain those I ves. Assure Red Blood £ Vigor OYSTFIl New York SHELL PRODTTCTS COnPOTlATION London, Rng. Rich in vitamin E, ManAmar is an especial IN CALVES help In prolonging the breeding life of good ing feeder cattle, and the prices paid bulls. Put your cows on a ManAmar ration for them may be so high as to make O REDUCES now — stop losses — get the extra results Greater Demand and Higher the venture very speculative. Man Got Pulp Paper REPLACEMENT LOSSES better health and condition makes possible. Prices Encouraging Lamb prices probably will be higher, Idea From the Wasp GREEN VALLEY SK1MM1LK Ask your Farm Bureau Dealer about Mermaid Dairy Rations or write for but improvement in the Avoolen mills Uniform High Quality Free booklet "The New Way to Feed Minerals." Features will have to. occur before prices for FARM BUREAU SERVICES, INC. Man learned to make paper from tO0LBS.NET %i REDUCES COST OF RAISING wool increase. The it umbers of sheep East Lansing.—Greater demand for on farms was redJBced by removal of wood pulp by watching wasp?!. Their 221 North Cedar Street Lansing, Michigan method of making paper is simple. GREEN VALLEY f DAIRY CALVES farm products, higher prices for those sheep from drought areas, and there BRAND 3 They bite off a mouthful of wood Increases Poultry Profits sold, and a more promising prospect may be unusual competition for POWDERED J for the present year are some of thefeeder lambs next fall if feed is plen- from a dead limb. This / is chewed SKIM MILK Prevents Chick Mortality until it is a pulpy mass. The little encouraging features discussed in the tiful. 1935 agricultural outlook for Mich- ball of wood pulp is then spread over Owners of brood mares apparently the edge of the nest. When it dries, FOR Best for Coccidiosis Control ANIMAL OR POULTRY igan issued by the economics depart- still have an opportunity to make a FEED ment of Michigan State College. the pulp has become a sort of tough FREE PUBLICATIONS: fair profit for raisin.L -noil colts. There gray paper. The same method in a Raising the Dairy Calf JWMILK RESULTS Improvement in financial condi- has been no increase in the numbers more scientific way is the pr< tions probably contributed most heav- of horses on fartn although more used by man in making paper. ily to the increasing use of farm pro- colts have been Raised in the past Poultry Feeding for Profits duce, even at the higher prices pre- few years. The decline in the num- vailing. Potato growers, dairymen, ber of old horses has more than offset Explanations Save That Sick Chick No up-to-date poultry raiser tries to get along without and producers of canning cherries the greater number of colts. Into the U. S. Senate the other day GUARANTEED had the least share in the betterment ANALYSIS milk in some form. Nothing else equals the results of Michigan farm conditions. In- Export markets for American fruits waLk«'d Senator Bilbo of Mississippi Fruit Problems Protein 32% WRITE Lactose 50% that milk gives. It is a natural food—the foundation creased receipts for produce sold was have remained more constant than with a black eye and Senator Huey Long of Louisiana with a bandaged Minerals n 8% of good poultry feeding—recommended and urged by prices not an undiluted gain, however, as for any other class of agricultural hand. Senator Bilbo blamed an auto- Contains Vitamin G, the LANSING WH IIH.W for goods brought also in-; products. Production of fruits is in-mobile accident and Senator Long growth promoting vitamin experiment stations and nutritional authorities every- creased. creasing, however, and growers of said his hand was afflicted Vith "Ath- Prevents leg paralysis. where. Corn and Hogs cherries for the canning plants are lete's foot." Dry Milk Division Some of the uncertainties of returns growing more fruit than the market crops of corn and wheat crops will consume at a fair price! There Dry skim milk provides this highly import- from in Michigan are removed for theappears to be no reason for increas-j USE AT LEAST ant feed ingredient in the most uniform, farmers who hold crop contracts. T h e , i n g t h e ' a c r e j Jf e °*JP»Pes. Bearing V>X m Chick Suiter acreage which they have planted or! vineyards will produce a sufficient HX in Growing Math economical and convenient form. You can will plant this spring is determined i c j o p , t o , s l i p p l y p r e s e n t market, 5X in Egj M«>» 102 in M u hfarHatching E39 K>% in Poultry FjHenins M u h W% in Coccidioiit Con N X in O i l Mc«l get plenty of the very best grade dry skim and they will receive benefit payments I T w o , l l g h t c r o p s o £ milk right here in Michigan from the fol- their grains. In addition to the sales prices for . ^ have left grains Michigan farmers have b e " e r Production this year. lowing members of the American Dry Milk a favorahle market for soft winter The prospects for a better market the powers l n MIch hoping fur " TIMELY CLOTHES KINDLY PRICES in Pi M ( * l 3 wheat. for vegetables appear blighter. Stores Institute: Malting barleys are apt to bring a of canned vegetables have been r e - You Must Use M I L K to >• GctMiLX RESULTS.- premium as the last crop was short. duced as a consequence of short crops| Maltsters prefer the six row harleys following the drought. Canneries way Arctic Dairy Products Co., Detroit Kalamazoo Creamery Co., Kalama/.oo for their purposes. All feed grains offer contracts at higher prices and Babcock's Dairy Co., Port Huron Lansing Dairy Co., Lansing were a short crop last year and all for larger acreagi • than la Detroit Creamery Co., Detroit Halpin Creameries, Inc., Pinconning McDonald Dairy Co., Flint Michigan Producers Dairy Co., Adrian fore harvest. available stocks will he cleaned up he- Wallace Defends-Beet Tailored Suits Wolverine Dairy Product;- Co.. Midland Bonus Promising The last bean crop was only enough Acreage Cut, AAA Plan for a year's market supply so {there 11 'uiit iiiunl frum Page I!) should he little carry over. The Kxju'cts Continuous \ A A short crop was caused by drought con- "For the next year or two.'' said; ditions, however, and large plantings Mr. Wallace, "we must expect to this year will be followed by lowmaintain and improve the Agricul- prices unless the weather again limits tural Adjustment program,—at least production of beans. Rising prices until we can Increase imports to pay for meats may lead to an increased for the exports we want to make. "We seem to be entering on a dif- $22.50 $35.00 use of beans for human food. ferent, kind of a life* None can say Potatoes a Problem what it will be. Factory owners once Potato growers now face the oldplowed NO', of their workers into the situation of low prices for a large streets in many instances. Maybe crop. Prospects for the 1035 crop are, we cant blame them; perhaps they of course, dependent upon the acreage had to do if or bus1. Rut they didn't TOPCOATS at $25 planted in the whole country. At try to cut prices very hard. Ma- present, the growers have asked the chinery is down about 6 T HIS spring have a suit or topcoat CALF-MANNA THE BETTER WAY TO FEED CALVES government to aid them in placing "We cut down agricultural pro- potato production upon a controlled duction in cotton and wheat. We had basis. Any regulations adopted for tlne,> times too much when foreign this crop probably will be placed upon |nations quit buyin the amount of stock marketed and | i j . ulniro has done What ag- tailored to your measure from Farm Bureau quality fabrics-.—and at very rea- sonable prices. not upon the number of acres of po- tion has i • tougand times more Our new Spring lines are here. The C A L F M A N N A fits all cases. Y o u w i " f i n d C a l f tatoes grown. justified khan industry's part In the wh h e r e bbreeding Growers of sugar beets are guaran- process. patterns and materials are splendid! We d i i is t h e best a n d If you a r e sealing milk you you w i l l find it popular where teed parity prices for this year's "A lot of our trouble lies in our have r|bt advanced tailoring prices. can raise y o u r calves on Calf breeding is really secondary t o icrop. This will aid Michigan farm- difficulty in distinguishing be£\ M a n n a a n d have more milk m i l k p r o d u c t i o n . | ers who have a base acreage for liberty and security in view of the Write for samples and information. Sug- : beets. Farmers who have never grown hard factfl in the situation we to sell. Calf M a n n a costs less t h a n m i l k (beets will not be able to obtain con- gest shades and weaves you like. If we "We wind up by still finding the If you are a breeder and are look- f e e d i n g . I t provides in concen- tracts unless former growers refuse United Si editor nation, with have your measurements on file, you may ing for a feed that will prevent t r a t e d , u n f a i l i n g measure the same I to grow enough beets to make up the a high tariff and small export order from them. Many do. Better yet, scours and digestive troubles Calf exact elements for growth t h a t w e Michigan allotment. Manna should be your choice. look f o r in m i l k . cause We won't h. Imports. visit our display room and make a selec- Dairy Situation Farmer*' Stsiko in ln»liis|ry CMII >l:III 11:1 warn developed nml is toriny used nt Mr. Wallace em] that in a tion from many patterns. Visitors are The future for dairymen appears a r.-iinoiis ( urii;i(i I . \ \ \ A . The Itetter Way to tion than they were in last year. Stor- corn belts where the AAA r« • I'eed Calves." Address: age eggs are fewer than for last program have been rao MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU 'year, and the numbers of laying hens agriculture. FARM BUREAU SERVICES, INC. has been reduced. Demand for baby Agriculture, he s:iid, will need to 22$ No. Cedar St. Lansing, Michigan 221 V Cedar Street. Lansing, Miehiuan chicks will probably be better this maintain its adjustment program un- You can buy CALF MANNA at all Farm Bureau Stores spring than it was last year. til Imports arc Increased naateria'ly SIX MICHIGAN FARM NEWS SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1935 CROPS DEP'T SAYS CERTIFIED SEEDS PAY IN MICHIGAN Better Yields, Better Quality Be Sure About Seed This Spring Are Harvested From Best Varieties HARDIGAN AND GRIMM -t Lansing—Use of certified We have supplied co-ops and other Farm Bureau seed dealers with fair stocks of available of all kinds is one of the prac- certified Hardigan and Grimm, blue tag alfalfa seed. Later it will be scarce as hen's teeth. tires recommended by the farm crops Speak for it now. It has no superior for yield and quality of hay. Eligible for pro- tment at Michigan State College as an aid in increasing farm profits duction of certified seed. We will record Farm Bureau Hardigan or Grimm fields. is cost more than ordi- nary field-run seeds but they are MICHIGAN VARIEGATED worth more All the seeds in any lot were produced by the same variety A Great, Low Cost, Long Lived Hay Producer and the same type of plant. Fields Michigan Variegated Alfalfa seed comes fro m fields sown to genuine Hardigan, Grimm, planted to certified seed grow and ripen more evenly than those in which Ontario Variegated, Lebeau, or Cossack varieties, which are our hardiest, longest lived mixed varieties are used for seed. and heaviest yielding varieties. These fields were not registered for certified seed produc- Kceords kept by the crops depart- tion, but they have produced seed, which is known as Michigan Variegated. Naturally, ment and by the farm management department, at the college prove that Variegated is an excellent hay yielder. The seed is selected, high test and thoroughly certified seeds yield more bushels pei Alfalfa Is the Cheapest Protein Feed cleaned. The price is a money saver. There is great demand for this seed. ftcre :iiirl produce a greater proportion of No. 1 product than do ordinary June Alsike Mammoth Sweet Clovers seeds. Growing second grade prod- ucts does not pay well in a time when C,This is a year when farmers must know positively the seeds they JUNE, the old reliable for hay and cash seed crop. Many are restoring June clover in prices are down and is never as profit- buy. Drought conditions have scattered seed from one part of the their rotation. We believe those who buy early will save. ALSIKE (and Timothy) are able as producing qualify crops. scarce and high. MAMMOTH cheap and abundant humus to plow under—improves Michigan has the highest standards nation to another. Much of it is not adapted to Michigan. Demand heavy soils. SWEET CLOVER at today's price is an especially good buy for low cost lor certified seeds of any region pro- will bring out many poor lots of seed. Departments of Agriculture pasture, roughage, hay crops, green manure, or a cash seed crop. ducing them. The seed must be 99.25 per cent pure to pass inspection. are warning farmers. The warning is out in Michigan. Tests for germination must also be GOOD SEED OATS AND BARLEY passed by the Michigan seed. All of Buy Michigan Crop Improvement Ass'n certified WOLVERINE oats or certified it is adapted for use in the State. CWhen you have fitted and limed land, why take a chance on any- Considerable Michigan seed corn MARKTON oats for lighter soils. Markton is rust and smut resistant. Buy WORTHY has ben saved that contains so much thing but Farm Bureau's clean, tested, high germinating and aats (stiff strawed) for heavy soils. These are Michigan's best yielding varieties. Certi- moisture it is apt to be unsatis- factory when planted. No corn should high yielding seeds? You can sow fewer pounds of them per acre fied SPARTAN barley generally outyields other varieties by 3 to 10 bushels per acre. be used Tor seed nnt.il it has been and get high yields. There's real economy and satisfaction! Emergency Hay Crops tested for germination; certified seed carries a statement of the percentage Because so many 1934 spring seedings were ruined by the drouth, we expect much in- of viability. Bureau's Michigan grown certified Hardigan and certified terest in emergency hay crops this year. If we have a spring with plenty of moisture* Grimm, our Michigan Variegated, and our Western Grimm and 1 bu. of oats and 1 bu. of Canada field peas makes fine hay crop. Cut when oats are in INGHAM HAS NEW common alfalfas can't be beaten for hardiness and crop yields. the milk. We have Michigan grown SOY BEANS. Also, RYE and VETCH and SUDAN GRASS. For muck land, Michigan grown SIBERIAN MILLET. CO. FARM BUREAU CJVlany farms are short of alfalfa for the stock they have. Two HUSKING AND ENSILAGE CORN Bureau Just as Good acres per cow is good measure. Alfalfa has the greatest feed Certified M. A. C, Pickets, Golden Glow, Polar Dent, Ferden's Yellow Dent. All butted as and tipped. All varieties grow and mature in sections of Michigan for which intended. Members Make It, value of any hay or pasture and is the cheapest source of protein High, vigorous germination. Field selected, dried, shelled, and graded by corn specialists. Brody Says for all classes of stock. When other pastures are gone, alfalfa OUR ENSILAGE CORN: Farm Bureau Yellow Ensilage, White Cap, Mason—The newly organized Ing- fields are green. No crop stands drought better than alfalfa. Red Cob, Learning, Eureka, Sweepstakes, Reid's Yellow Dent. ham County Farm Bureau met at the North Aurelius church Feb. 11 for a potluck dinner and educational pro- FARM BUREAU SEED GUARANTEE DELIVERED IN SEALED SACKS gram. Thirty farm families in this For Farm Bureau ALFALFA SEED vicinity have pledged their support The Farm Bureau Services, Inc., of Lansing, guaran- Farm Bureau Brand Seeds are delivered to you by for farm co-operative effort. tees to the farmer to the full purchase price of its seed —see your local distributor your distributor in sealed, trade-marked Farm Bureau Clark L. Brody, secretary of the the vitality, description, origin and purity to be as de- Brand bushel sacks, direct from our warehouse. See Michigan State Farm Bureau, said of Farm Bureau Seeds our seed guarantee. Good seed is a good start. that activities in behalf of farmers scribed on the analysis tag on scaled Farm Bureau bag. such as the Farm Bureau's sales tax suit to exempt farm supplies for pro- ducing farm products to be sold, could not be carried on were it not for farmers having an organization to do it. "The Farm Bureau has been through FARM OIL FOR SPRING WORK its experimental stage", said Mr. Brody, adding that its management FARM BUREAU'S 100% PARAFFIN BASE oils lubricate is sound and is under the direction perfectly. They help hold compression to give you additional of 16 farmer directors who are repre- sentative of Michigan's varied agri- BUREAU mileage from fuel consumed in your car, truck or tractor. culture. "The Farm Bureau is just Bearings wear longer when lubricated with paraffin base oil. as good as its members make it", Mr. Brody said. "There are endless advantages to be reaped through the Farm Bureau FERTILIZERS FREEDOM FROM GUMMING AND CARBON is important. We ran a test car 42,000 miles on our MIOCO oil, and found from a business standpoint," Mr. that the only adjustment needed was grinding the valves. We Brody continued. He described the Hamilton, Michigan, Farm Bureau have had men report 1,000 tractor hours on Farm Bureau oil. which "started as a small feed store. Today it has been developed to the FOR The oil drained was good. They've had no motor trouble. point where it ships for its members two carloads of eggs per week to 25,000 MICHIGAN, OHIO, INDIANA farmers buy oil and eastern markets, as two gasoline and gasoline from their Farm Bureaus for quality and to save oil trucks serving the community, and is a commanding influence in the community. People in that commun- YIELD R. D. VAN VELZOR money. Ask your co-op about Farm Bureau oil. ity have built on a Farm Bureau CORN POTATOES FARM BUREAU OIL DEP'T MGR. membership that represents the in- BEANS BEETS vestment of a hen's egg per day." The Ingham County Farm Bureau is soon to have another meeting at NITROGEN in Farm Bureau fertilizers is 95'I soluble in water. State law requires only 70'i. MERMASH FOR BABY CHICKS State Farm Bureau headquarters at Farm Bureau fertilizer nitrogen is designed to Lansing, according to R. C. Lott, sec- retary. The members will see the be available to young plants when they profit various services of their State organi- most by it. zation, and will inspect the ware- houses and the farm machinery pro- FARM BUREAU uses the best sources of gram now being developed by the phosphorus and potash. We condition our Farm Bureau. fertilizers to be extra fine and granular to regu- Detroit Healthiest Lar^e City late easily in the drill. The Census Bureau figures show that Detroit with a deatli rate of 7.3 /fiuiinusuumtiK a thousand is the most healthy city Zosm in the United States. 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