MICHIGAN Vol. KEEP UP On News Interesting to Farmers Through the Farm News XIV, No. 1 SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1936 ittWS PUBLISHED For 19,000 Farm Families in 55 Michigan Counties Published Monthly Behind PRESIDENT SPEAKS Horse Racing Revenues WOOL POOL CUTS Back Bovine T-B Work INFLUENTIAL DETROIT EDISON AND CONSUMERS ARE the ON FARM PROGRAM Lansing—State revenues from horse racing in Michigan are depended upon NEW YEAR MELON READY TO BUILD FARM POWER LINES Wheel TO FARM BUREAU to finance the continuous check-up on bovine tuberculosis. This season the State's revenue from FOR ITS MEMBERS AT THEIR COST UNDER REVENUE PLAN with J. F. Yaeger, racing was $60,000 less than expected. Final Settlement Closes a Organization Director 400 Mich. Members Among The State Department of Agriculture Farm News Summarizes Terms and Conditions 19,000 at American Good Year; Outlook is asking the Administrative Board for an emergency .appropriation of Bright for 1936 Whereby an Average of Five Farmers Per Inspiring, Educational Farm Bureau The 17th annual convention of the $45,000 to carry on the tuberculosis Mile May Secure Power Lines for eradication work for the six months A pleasing way of extending a American Farm Bureau Federation About 400 Michigan Farm Bureau ending June 30, 1936. The sum of "Happy New Year" was demonstrated Assuring Paying Revenues held at Chicago, December 8-11, was,members heard President Roosevelt $105,000 had been set aside from rac- by the Michigan Co-operative Wool to me, and I think to everyone pres- address 19,000 Farm Bureau members ing revenues to carry on the tuber- Marketing Ass'n when late in Decem- Farmers in the Detroit Edison Company and the Consum- ent, a great inspiration and education. at Chicago's International Amphithea- culosis eradication work. ber it mailed final dividend checks to The meeting of the 19,000 farm people tre, Dec. 9. It was the largest Farm ers Power Company territories can now secure farni power Since Michigan became a modified its 1935 consignors. to hear President Roosevelt, the edu- Bureau meeting of all time, and open- lines without paying a construction charge. Such lines tre cational discussion of the resolutions, ed the most impressive American accredited area several years ago Each member received with his final in return for sustaining revenues, where there is an average the informative and inspiring talks by Farm Bureau Federation convention (less than 1V2% cattle re-acting to statement a check. In many cases famous speakers, the Parade of States, in its 17 years of existence. the bovine tuberculosis test), the State the final dividend check mailed to of five original customers per mile of the proposed extension. the naming of organization as the has provided a continuous check-up the grower was larger than the Terms and regulations of both companies have been approved President Roosevelt's address was on dairy cattle, which means that once amount of the advance which he re- most important project of the Farm by the Michigan Public Utilities Commission and are in effect. Bureau, were among many other mat- both a defense and a prophecy of the in three years the cattle in a county ceived when his consignment reached ters which made the convention one farm program, which includes the are re-tested. the pool last spring or early summer. Recently the press quoted Dan E. Karn, general manager never to be forgotten.^ AAA. For background he said: Revenue from racing during the In fact, the total of the final payments of the Consumers Power Company, as stating that the Con- "Three and four years ago . . . present fiscal year is being expended was practically as large as the ag- These things stood out: The scope as follows: State Fair bonds and in- gregate of the advances. sumers will spend $2,000,000 on rural electrification in 1936, and importance of Farm Bureau things in city and country had both terest $88,400; Upper Peninsula Fair At the time when most of the con- SECRETARY WALLACE which will extend lines to 6,000 farms. The Detroit Edison projects. The fine spirit which pre- got out of balance and purchasing power had declined to the point where $20,000; operation of racing commis- signments were made to the 1935 Farmers will be interested to know is continuing an active program in this respect. vailed, and the unselfish way in sion $30,000; tubercular testing of Pool, the wool market was very un- which one section of the country people in the cities did not have the cattle $105,000, barberry eradication certain. Had it not been for the that their representative in the Presi- Many Use Farm Bureaus Petitions would agree on money to buy farm produce and peo- in co-operation with federal govern- stabilizing influence of the pool, there dent's cabinet is rated by most ob- programs that ple on the farms did not have the ment $5,000; Boys' and Girls' Club is no question but that dealers' bids servers to be the most able* and most A thousand or more farm groups have been furnished influential man of the President's of- the Michigan State Farm Bureau's Application for Electric seemed to the ad- money to buy city products . . . Jus- Work $35,000; County and District would have been lower. ficial family. Henry A. Wallace, in vantage of agricul- tice and old-fashioned common sense Fairs $70,000. demanded that in the building of pur- Not only did the Wool Association's his early 40's, is credited with being] Service petition, which is to enable farm groups to qualify ture throughout the program of co-operative merchandis- in more direct contact with more for farm power lines without construction cost to farmers, nation, even though chasing power we had to start with at this time it ap- pears to the disad- agriculture." In defense of the surplus control FARM OWNERSHIP ing have a wholesome effect on wool American citizens than any other where there are five or more customers per mile. The petition prices in the country, but the pooled government official. More than wool was handled in such a manner 3,000,000 farm families take part in appears to provide all the preliminary information needed. vantage of that features of the AAA and the neces- particular section. sity for nation-wide, effective agree- Still another was ment on surplus control measures un- MORE ATTRACTIVE as to improve the market at Boston. the Agr'l Adjustment program in every It is also a survey of the equipment farmers plan to install. The Michigan Co-operative Wool Mar- part of the nation. His department is Petition blanks may be had by writing the Michigan State keting Ass'n and 27 other State and directing the greatest co-operative ef- Farm Bureau, 221 North Cedar Street, Lansing. the recognition by der the AAA, the President said: Better Outlook for Owners regional Pools are affiliated with the fort of all times in the AAA program. leaders outside ag- "One of the greatest curses of The new farm power line policy is the outgrowth of the National Wool Marketing Corporation The Wallace effort to eliminate farm riculture of the im- American life has been . . . the invol- In Next 15 Years, «/. F. portance of agri- untary speculation of the farmer when at Boston, their national co-operative surpluses and bring production into Farm Bureau proposal to the Public Utilities Commission last Is Prediction sales and service agency. profitable relation with demand has July at a farm electrification meeting "that the time had come culture in the affairs and progress of he puts his crops into the ground. The 30,000,000 pounds of 1935 wool no parallel in American agricultural the nation. Organized agriculture is How can it be healthy for a country /Ownership of farms will probably handled by this co-operative sales or industrial history. He has under when power companies should build farm lines at their own coming into its own. Never in the to have the price of crops vary 300 be more desirable during the next agency was at all 'times in strong his administration the Farm Credit cost in exchange for sustaining revenues at rates farmers can history of Farm Bureau conventions, and 500 and 700 per cent, all in less fifteen years than during the past hands and was merchandised in an Administration, which has refinanced I am told, has this been so apparent than a generation? fifteen, according to Professor F. A. orderly way so as to benefit the grow- probably 25 per cent of all farm mort- afford to pay." ^ as at this 1935 convention. "You and I . . . know . . . that 48 Harper of the New York state coll- ers. gages, with the interest rate this year The Farm Bureau submitted a p l a n * ~ I feel sure that the 400 or more separate sovereign States, acting each ege of agriculture. adopted by the Utilities Commission, Net returns to the 1935 consignors ending June 30, 1936, to be 3 ^ % . the principles of which were later is most liberal to farmer customers. from Michigan who heard the Roose- one a s a separate unit, never were One of the most important decis- are regarded as satisfactory and in the adopted in large part by the Rural velt address and the 135 that stayed able and never will be able to legis- ions young men must make, he says, majority of instances represent sub- Electrification Committee, which was The Consumers' regulations are much for all the sessions came back with late or to administer individual laws is "shall I buy and own a farm now stantial profits to the growers over Annual Meetings associated with the Public Utilities more exacting. added pride in the fact that they are adequately to balance the agricultural or continue 9 as a farm laborer or the best local offers available from Three western Michigan County Commission. The Farm Bureau, In general, the Detroit Edison pro- life of a nation so greatly dependent tenant " Farm Bureaus will hold their annual Grange, Farmer's Union, private and poses to make electric line extensions members of a great farm organization. on nationally grown crops." In making the decision, Prof. local dealers at the time when the meetings next week, beginning in municipal power companies, and the at its own cost where the cost will The First For 1936 wool was placed in the Pool. Again Mr. James Nicol of South As to the results to date and his Harper urges that first consideration The Michigan Co-operative Wool each instance with the business ses- State College were represented on the nue expected. not be out of proportion to the reve- be given to the trend during the next Rural Electrification Committee. M. Haven, Allegan County, is the first to hopes for the future, the President few years of the general price level, Marketing Ass'n thus goes into the sion at 10 A. M., to be followed by In its new rules for farm line ex- pay his 1936 Farm Bureau dues after said: because "ownership of property is new year with all settlements made dinner at noon, and a program during B. McPherson represented the Farm tensions, the Detroit Edison makes the New Year statements were issued "The relative purchasing power ofr more desirable when the price level and no accounts hanging fire. It has the afternoon. John F. Yaeger, or- Bureau. recently. For the past several years the farmer had fallen to less than 50 is rising than when it is falling." a high batting average, for in the ganization director of the Michigan New Rules and Regulations it possible for an average of 5 custom* Mr. Nicol has had this honor. Mr. per cent of normal in early 1933 . . . The best evidence at the present time great majority of the years that it has State Farm Bureau, will speak at The Detroit Edison Company terms ers per mile to have the line Without Nicol was president of the Michigan Let the record say that a relative pur- suggests that the general price level operated the net returns made to the each meeting. The meeting dates: and conditions for rural electric line construction cost. It also provides State Farm Bureau during 1921-23 chasing power of below 50 per cent has passed its low point and in a few consignors have considerably exceed- Jan. 9—Oceana County Farm Bu- extensions at company cost were ac- for less than 5 customers per mile, and does not require the guarantee and has always been a staunch mem- has now moved up today to better years is likely to be higher than ed the average prices received by reau at the Shelby High School audi- cepted by the Michigan Public Utili- ber. He is paying on the plan to ma- than 90 per cent." now. growers who have sold outright to torium. ties Commission Dec. 1, 1935, and $150 or other flat sum per mile, of ture his life membership. Wallace Defends Treaty "Changes in the general level of local dealers. Jan. 10—Muskegon County Farm became immediately effective in all but will abide by the income from its standard electric rate. However, we Why A Farm Bureau J Secretary of Agriculture Wallace prices also exerts the most influence Last season the growers in many Bureau at Sunshine Hall, Pine at Detroit Edison territory, including gather that the proposed line must Here's the answer: The total in- came to the convention to make a very on whether the hired man or the counties organized County Wool Pro- Muskegon Ave. Potluck dinner at the Thumb counties served by its Lake indicate a reasonable earning power. come to farmers in the United States able presentation in behalf of the owner receives more for a year's ducers' Ass'ns, affiliated with the noon. Huron Division, formerly the Michi- For line construction, the Detroit has increased from the low point of Canadian reciprocal tariff treaty. His work. From 1914 to 1919 when the State Association. These groups will Jan. 11—Newaygo County Farm Bu- gan Power and Light Company. $4,300,000,000 in 1932 to $6,800,000,000 strongest point was the "very small" ers general price level was rising, farm- hold their annual meetings during reau at the Community hall, Fremont. The Consumers Power Company Edison requires that the proposed who kept cost accounts in New (estimated) for 1935. The increase to quota limitations placed on important York received considerably more February. The annual meeting of the terms and conditions for the free con- customers contribute $500 per mile. the Michigan farmer is announced as Canadian farm exports to us, as com-than the average wages paid farm State Association will be held at Lan- Soil Moisture struction of lines for an average of Since there is a credit of $100 per farm customer when connected to being from the $118,000,000 low point pared to our national production of labor. sing on Thursday, March 5. The soil moisture map of the U. S. five customers per mile in return for service, that means five customers per in 1932 to $170,000,000 (estimated) for those items. All Farm Bureau States Prospects for wool prices during Department of Agriculture as of Jan. a guarantee of total net revenues of "Serious declines in labor incomes mile get their line free. If there 1935. The difference between what along the Canadian border listened to owners accompanied a falling 1936 are decidedly encouraging. The 1, 1936, shows Michigan and the east- $150 per year per mile of the exten- are less than 5 the $100 credit ap- the farmer pays for things he buys closely when the President and later price level in 1920-21 and 1930-33. excessive carry-over which was on ern half of the United States, east of sion was accepted by the Commission plies to each original customer. If and what the farmer gets for things Secretary Wallace promised to nego- During the period from 1920 to 1932 hand a year ago has been consumed, the South Dakota and Nebraska and Dec. 2, 1935, and became effective Jan. additional customers come on, the he sells is the least since the 1929-30 tiate changes if needed. farming conditions were so bad that along with most of the 1935 clip. The south to have "mostly ample soil 2, 1936. original group is awarded $60 for each period, and less than the years just Chester Davis, AAA Administrator, in eight out of these thirteen years demand continues steady and there is moisture" at this time. The western Detroit Edison Plan such customer until 5 years have previous to or after that period. The said that many changes for simplifi- the labor incomes of owners of cost nothing in. sight but an encouraging plains States to the Rockies need In our opinion, the Detroit Edison's passed, or until they have received a agricultural program that has in a cation and more local responsibility account farms were less than wages future for co-operative wool market- more moisure in most places. manner of application of the "sustain- total to equal their original invest- large measure been responsible for are developing in the AAA, and that paid farm labor." ing. There is every evidence that 1936 ing revenues in exchange for free ment in the line. the much improved situation can be the plan will go on. The Convention will be another good year to pool, ac- There are 25 beet sugar factories in rural power line construction" pro- There is no monthly guarantee from traced directly to such national farm endorsed the principle of such changes, The first railroad reached Indianap- cording to Stanley M. Powell, field Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Wiscon- posal offered by the Michigan State (Continued on Page 2.) (Continued on Page 2.) olis in 1847. representative for the Association. sin. Farm Bureau in July, 1935, and later the customers except the minimum (Continued on pajre five.) "As Farmer Prospers, So Does Nation" — General Wood belts, store sales vary exactly with that farmers constitute scarcely 25% Middle Atlantic States have been slow been the fixed policy of the British know, without reference to any theo- Farm Prices and Income the income of the farmer around the of the gainfully employed, but this to realize the effect of farm income Government for the past three years retical indices, that the advance in town, which is the trading area, and statement does not tell the story, for on their welfare. In the last analy- to increase the price level on basic prices since the spring- of 1933 hag Fix Nat'l Buying Power aspayroll. store sales decline, so does the 40% of our population is directly sis, the salary of the bank clerk in commodities. There has been a sub- been small, and not anywhere in pro- dependent on agriculture, and the New York City will ultimately come stantial advance in those commodi- portion to the rise in income. In a town in Texas, our sales other 60% of the population is indi- to the level of cotton, wheat and corn ties, and employment and payrolls in Agriculture Desperate First BenMdj. Sears, Roebuck President Makes Outstanding dropped from $227,000 in 1929 to rectly dependent on agriculture as the prices. If the depression had con- England have risen steadily since $114,000 in 1932; in a town in the source of primary wealth. tinued, the worker in New York and 1931. In the spring of 1933, the position Address to American Farm Bureau; Says wheat belt the sales dropped from Boston would have come to a level in Says Incomes Up More Than Prices. of was American agriculture as a whole, desperate. With a farm mortgage $226,000 in 1929 to $150,000 in 1932; wages and salaries of five cent cotton Agriculture, Like Industry, Right in in a town in the corn belt the sales and ten cent corn. Manufacturing payrolls in the U. S. debt of over $8,000,000,000, heavy in- have risen and are rising, and they terest charges and heavy taxes, with Gearing Itself to Markets dropped from $211,000 to $147,000. Payrolls in these stores also dropped. F. S. Industrialists Short Sighted? are rising about in proportion to the the index of farm prices down to 43.6 What is not generally realized by rise in farm income. Yet if the cost from 104.9 in 1929, American agricul- By GENERAL R. E. WOOD purchases of goods from manufactur- Farm or Factory First? our bankers and industrialists is that of living rises faster than wages or ture was at the bottom of the depres- Perhaps more than other business ers decreased from $283,000,000 in 1929 We have all heard the question— the bulk of the worlS's population is payrolls, there is no real gain to the sion. Many thousands of farmers men, I can appreciate the farm prob- to $178,000,000 in 1932, a decrease of Which comes first, the chicken or the still engaged on the production of the industrial worker. If many of the were on the verge of bankruptcy and lem. Sears, Roebuck and Co. have for $103,000,000. egg? Did factory and store wages basic commodities, from the tillage of metropolitan papers, particularly in foreclosure action had already been fifty years done business on a na- What did thak mean? It meant the decline because of the decline in farm the soil. There are only three great the industrial East, are to be believed, taken against other thousands. tional scale with the farmers of the practical disappearances of profits to income, or did farm income decline industrial nations besides the United such is the case. However, the facts The first remedy applied was a mon- nation, north, south, east and west. the manufacturer as an employer, and because of the decrease in factory States—Germany, England and Japan do not bear it out. True, there has etary one—we went off gold and the For twenty years our mail order sales continuous lay offs, reductions in wages? I believe all the weight of and in the latter the farm population been a very decided increase in the dollar was devalued. In two months, have approximated 2% of the annual hours and wage rates of wages to the evidence shows that industrial wages outnumbers the industrial population. costs of certain foods, particularly of cotton went from 6.35 to 8.95 cents gross farm income. As the farmer employees in manufacturing plants. and payrolls are almost wholly de- In a broad sense, the factories of the those commodities most effected by per pound, wheat from 45 to 75 cents, prospers, so do we prosper; as his Expressed in figures, during this ter- pendent on farm income. world are dependent for their mar- the great drouth, but the sum total corn from 24 to 46 cents and wool rific decrease in farm income in the The U. S. is the foremost industrial income falls, so does ours. kets on the raw material producers of the items that go into the cost of from 17 to 24 cents. Precisely the period 1929-1932, factory wages de- nation in the world, it is likewise the Looking at our customers, we see clined from $11,621,000,000 in 1929 toleading agricultural nation of the of the world. World factory payrolls living of the ordinary worker have in- same effects had been previously felt the farm picture. Dealing on a large $5,022,000,000, an almost exact parallel world. There are 6,000,000 farms, but as well as those in the United States, creased relatively little. In Decem- in other countries leaving the gold scale in practically every known man- with the decrease in farm income. rise or fall with the rise or fall of the ber, 1929, that index stood at 171.4, in standard, particularly in great agri- ufactured article, we get an excellent the small town storekeeper, doctor and income of the basic raw material pro- June of 1933 at 128.3, in July of 1935 cultural producing countries like Aus- Not only was this true in these lawyer are just as dependent for their GENERAL WOOD ducers of the world. at 140.2, 1 1 % above the low, but 18% tralia, The Argentine, Canada, New picture of the whole manufacturing three years but it has been equally income on agriculture as the farmer below December, 1929. You cannot Zealand, and Denmark. South Africa, All our new wealth comes from the Great Britain is essentially a great industry of the U. S., with the excep- true since 1923; for the past ten years, himself. The population classed as soil, the farm, the mine and the forest. trading, manufacturing and financial have your cake and eat it. the greatest gold producer of the tion of the food industries. We can the amount of gross farm income and rural—towns of 2500 and under— It did very little good to the indus- world, went off gold because the pres- see the relation between the two— factory payrolls has been almost amounts to 53,000,000 or approximate- Manufacturing processes it and adds nation. Its own agriculture is neg- the farm and the factory—and the identical. wealth to it, but the bulk of it orig- ligible, but British manufacturers trial worker in Detroit to have pork sure caused by staying on wag too ly 40 % of our population, and all of inates on the farm. Farm prices and sell to the raw material producers of chops low in 1932, for he was either great for its agriculture. effect of the loss of farm income. Factory Payrolls Follow Farmer this population may be said to be farm income ultimately and largely out of work or working very short Concretely expressed, gross farm in- Factory employees comprise a little directly dependent on agriculture. Not determine the purchasing power of the world outside of the U. S. When hours at a very low rate of pay. In Not enough credit has ever been come dropped from 12 billions in 1929 less than one-third of the gainfully only the population of the small town, the United States. Australian wool, New Zealand dairy given to this first and very important to $5,200,000,000 in 1932; our total employed in the U. S. There are but also the bulk of the population of products, Malay States rubber, and 1935, pork chops have risen, but the act of the present administration. The Cities like Dallas, Minneapolis and Bolivian tin fell in 1931 to unheard of worker's cost of living has not risen farm organizations had and have a sales from $443,000,000 in 1929 to nearly 6,000,000 people employed in other larger towns and cities in the Kansas City feel at once th'e impact of depths, the manufacturers of England in anything like the proportion to the far better understanding of the influ- $278,000,000 in 1932. But our mail retailing and wholesaling. Payrolls territory west of the Mississippi are increase of his income from 1932 toence of the drastic decline of the price order sales (made primarily to the in distribution have almost the same dependent on Agriculture, for there is loss of farm income. Short crops or received few orders, their business 1935. In our catalogue we have a level, and of the influence of a fixed tanners) dropped from $240,000,000 in relation to farm income. In our own low farm prices or both, are imme- fell off, and in England, as in the U. little manufacturing in this section. diately felt in those cities. But the in-S.( manufacturing payrolls declined pretty reliable index of our own. I price of gold on that price I 1929 to $105,000,000 in 1932. Our stores in the wheat, corn and cotton You frequently see the statement dustrial East, New England, and the and unemployment increased. It has am familiar with. Vts pricing, and I , (Continued on pac« 4./ TWO M I ( I I 1 <; A N F A R M N E W S S A T U R D A Y , . T V M A R Y 4 , 1936 COLLEGE STATION The hairsprings in watches are! More than three-quarters of a made by drawing a piece of steel million farmers through a hole in a diamond. A pound stock individually own in permanWf t$ co-operative FARM R'AM and WKAR GETS MORE of steel, worth only a few dollars, is credit institutions under the Farm worth $60,000 as watch hairsprings. Credit Administration. Successor to the Michigan Farm Bureau News, founded January 12, 1923 HSE2LR.THA. POWER AND TIME INSURE YOUR FARM PROPERTY Entered as second class matter January 12, 1923, at the post- office at Charlotte, Michigan, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Education, Government And in Michigan's Largest Farm Mutual Fire Irisurance peri rial property which often pays double amount of a Published first Saturday of each month by the Michigan State Farm Entertainment Features pany. Assets, over one Quarter Million Dol- December t, Lt86 classified policy. A Bureau at its publication office at 114 Lovett St., Charlotte, Michigan. New Year's Resolutions Announced lars of which aver 1150,000 is in cash or State Mutual Fire lnsur- < !o. broad and liberal pol- icy contract particu- larly adapted to in- Government Bonds. ir Sirs: Received Editorial and general offices, 221 North Cedar St., Lansing, Michigan. What's that you're writing, Hiram? Oh you don't need to tell. owns its own office check for loss on barn surance requirements Postoffice Box 960. Telephone, Lansing, 21-271. I know without your saying, 'cause I know you so well. East Lansing.—A greater service to buildings thereby sav- and personal and am well of the farmer. First It's New Year's Resolutions, and if you keep just one the people of Michigan has been made ing hiKM rental for of- satisfied with the adjust- Farm Mutual Company possible from radio station WKAR by fice space as Well as ment made on the loss. in Michigan to employ E. E. UNGREN Editor and Business Manager Of all the list you'll be ahead of what you've ever done! being a c c e s s il>I We will have the new full time inspectors. You're just like that, you set and think of what you aim to do, the Federal Communications Commis- members calling al of- barn completed in about Careful underwriting Subscription 25 cents per year; 4 years for | 1 , in advance. But when it comes to doing it—that's not the way with you. sion granting an increased number fice. Michigan State ten days and want it in- ami systematic inspec- Board of Agriculture sured as soon as it is tion, eliminating unde- I claim a person might as well not do so much resolving of daylight operating hours and of carries Insurance on complete. sirable risks and fire Vol. XIV SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1936 No. 1 But maybe do some trifling bit to keep the world revolving. permission to change the frequency State Kxperimental Thanking; you for your Hazards', result in few- assignment. The change in frequency Farms in this Com- promptness and adjust- er losses. Insurance Now I could name a dozen ways; yes, easy twice that many pany. Loeaea satis- ment of loss. In which you could improve yourself and yet not hurt you any. will not be made until after January factorily adjusted and classified and assessed Yours truly, according to hazard. Just let me take that list of yours and add some more below it, 14, but the program changes will be promptly paid. Over One .Million. Dollars Thos. & Meadle -ment rate as low Odds Are 4 to 1 in Favor of Local Co-op For you are not quite perfect yet, and oh, how well I know it. made immediately. The new fre- new business written Tunnel], Pfnconning, as $?.9.4 per $iono. Rea- The average farmers' co-operative enterprise in Michigan is a pretty each month for the sonable terms granted Now, Marthy, don't get all wrought up and start a family jar quency will be 850 Kilocycl' past six months. First U. 8, .Mich. to all members. Write sound institution, and a rather safe and profitable investment for the About these things I've written here, and not know what they are. Headlining the new programs, Gov- C o m p a n y t<; writ< for literature and interested farmers. nket policy on financial standing of company. It may be in my ignorance I've stumbled on a fact ernor Frank D. Fitzgerald will apeak In a report made by a State College man recently, it was said: Or caught some bashful little truth and showed it how to act. each Friday at 4:45 P. M. In this State Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of Michigan Perhaps I may be right for once. I sometimes was at first, "Governor's Hour," Gov. Fitzgerald "Few farmers recognize that the co-operative grain and bean ele- W . V. Burras, Pres. 702 Church St., Flint, Mich. H. K. Fisk, Sec'y So please don't strike me, Dear, in wrath until you know the worst. will discuss affairs of state govern- vators are sound business investments that have a 4 to 1 chance of re- turning a good interest on the investment over long periods of time. Just listen now: Resolved this year to be a better man; ment of interest to all the people of To treat my dear wife, Marthy, just as kindly as I can; Michigan. The Dept. of State will "The co-operative association is the only sound, logical medium for To do Just what she wants me to, just like she wants it done, broadcast messages in connection with the expression of the marketing desires of the farmers of any community. And not forget a single thing, and not neglect a one; the state-wide safety campaign with "Co-operative elevators need and can create harmony of purpose on But with this purpose firmly fixed and single in my mind, marketing problems. Co-operative service in any community can be To be in thought and word and deed considerate and kind. Orville Atwood, Secretary of State, as the first speaker on January 10. The JURIES ARC GENEROUS - greatly increased through closer co-operation of its co-operatiye associa- tion with co-operative jobbing agencies such as the Michigan* Elevator No, Hiram, you can't fool me yet. You ought to blush with shame State Dept. of Public Instruction will WITH OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY For what you wrote and what you read ain't anywise the same. conduct a teachers' hour each Thurs- Exchange and the Farm Bureau Services, Inc." You think you're being funny now. You ought to take my part day. Dr. Eugene B. Elliott, State These conclusions were drawn following a series of conferences at And not go 'round a-cracking jokes and thinking you're so smart. Supt., will open this series. The Mich- But just so you can see yourself the way your Marthy sees you igan State Police will describe the which some 58 farmers' co-operatives in 36 counties were taken apart and Now let me try my feeble hand and see if that will please you. studied for their strong and their weak points. work of the police both in criminal It was observed that the average oo-operative elevator in Michigan, R E S O L V E D , by Hiram and by me, that in the coming year detection and in civil protection. The assembled from the experience of the 58 under discussion, has been oper- We'll think and talk and work and pray with just this one idear; State Dept. of Agriculture and the To try to live the Golden Rule, without no noise or fuss, State Highway Dept. will continue ating about 16.4 years, and handles grain, beans and farm supplies. Over To do our best and serve our God, as He has prospered us. their broadcasts. this average period, about 46 of the elevators earned 6.54% annually for 9.4 good years, or 3.75% for the 16.4 year period. About 16 of these For those interested in education, elevators paid patronage dividends of 3 % % in addition t o their regular the Michigan State College of the Air interest earnings. About 12 of the elevators earned no interest through- provides six courses by radio. Three out their life. broadcasts each week direct from the The greatest need of Michigan farmers' co-operatives today, said classroom will be made of the course the Teport, is a practical continuous plan of securing members. The Survey of English Literature. Span- Sentiment and sympathy are likely to influence a verdict in ish lessons will continue with Prof. trend of the co-ops today is towards a recognition of this need. With J. O. Swain conducting the course. a damage suit arising out of an automobile accident. Con- three customers for every member, the co-operative elevator cannot sequently, juries are often very generous with other people's New courses include Rural Sociology, fully express the will of the community. The extreme need for a contin- Farm Electrification, Planning and money when damages are awarded. uing membership is evidenced by the fact that the average age of the Remodeling Farm Buildings, and Child members at the start was about 40, and today they are around 55 years Development. Information and en- The most careful driver may find himself involved in an of age. Ten t o 25% of the membership is retired and non-producing. rollment blanks a r e now being sent More young men are needed. accident. He may fail to prove his innocence in court against to those "who wish to pursue these The better the financial condition of the farmers' elevator, said the courses. the testimony of persons in the other car. An unfavorable report, the more apparent becomes the need of the members to represent Many other new features are add- verdict may ruin him . . . unless he carries good insurance. the thought of the community in matters of public interest. Roosevelt Speaks to What ed to the programs, both in education and as entertainment. The high Why ctarry such a great risk yourself when the State Farm A Cause for Action American Farm Bureau Mutual provides adequate public liability and property dam- It has come to our attention that farmers in some counties are not (Continued From Fajje One) To Feed schools of the state are being invited to participate with bands, orchestras, age insurance at very reasonable rates? Should you have an getting the benefits they believe they should in the matter of lower road taxes and better township roads under the local administration of the and the processing tax as the source of revenue. Birds and glee clubs. A series of vocational guidance will begin on Jan. 13, with auto accident, it will defend your interests in court and else- where in accordance with the protection provided by the policy. McNitt-Smith-Holbeck township road law, and the Horton Act of 1932. Other Resolutions Pres. R. S. Shaw of Michigan State It cannot be repeated too often that College as the first speaker. An early We have more than 500,000 policyholders and 7,000 agents From other counties we have splendid reports of the substantial bene- Other resolutions urged that the it is hunger that kills the birds, not morning program is to be given daily in 35 states in this national Legal Reserve Company fits to rural taxpayers, both in greatly reduced highway taxes, and the temporary 3 % % interest rate on fed- cold. Let our local agent explain our policy to you. eral farm mortgages be continued at at 6:00 A. M. Special events, such as enjoyment of much better township roads. Seeds are the food of a large pro- Farmers Week meetings, are being least two more years; dairy farmers portion of the birds. Wheat, oats, sun- If a county road commission or other interests are blocking farmers from the greatest savings under these Acts, here is a place where the got together with beef producers and flower, corn, or any prepared bird scheduled. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTO INS. CO. cotton men to recommend a 10c per seed are very "welcome. Other birds Program bulletin containing the County Farm Bureau and farmers' co-operatives within the county can Bloomington, 111. lb. federal tax on all oleo made in eat insects, and any meat product complete schedule are available to all do something. They can demand reforms, and set about to enforce them. whole or in part from imported fats such as suet and lard scraps will radio listeners on request of WKAR. MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU, State Agent—Lansing We are reminded of the rather recent action of the Ionia County and oils, and 5c a lb. on oleo of do- attract these birds. Suet rubbed into The increased schedule will enable Farm Bureau, which objected to several county officers adding to their mestic origin. The federal g*Jv*t was the bark of trees will be dug out by the station to serve the state with edu- salary income certain of the fees paid their offices by the public. The urged to increase revenues and de- the Brown Creeper. cation, government and entertainment. Farm Bureau held that the salary system had been provided in lieu of crease expenditures to balance budget the fee system of recompense for the officials, and that all the fees col- Common birds which come for suet and reduce the debt. Junior Farm are: the Nuthatches, both White and lected belonged to the county funds. When the officials paid no attention, the Farm Bureau went to court. While the Farm Bureau was unable to Bureau work was endorsed. Exten- Red-breasted, Chicadees and their Texas States Its Vast compel a change by court action, the proceedings were effective. Public opinion was aroused. The offending officials pulled in their horns while there was yet time. sive reforms in food distribution costs relatives the Titmice, Brown Creepers, were urged, to be worked out through Hairy and Downy woodpeckers, etc. the Sec'y of Agriculture. Purpose of Bluejays will eat almost anything. Area in Striking Terms Texas extends over thirteen degrees reciprocal trade treaties is to restore Cardinals are partial to sunflower of west longitude and more than ten IN THE PUBLIC General Wood Talks to Farmers "Farm prices and farm income ultimately and largely determine the trade, and we agree, said a resolution, seeds. but not at expense of agriculture. and one-half degrees north latitude. Juncos ask only hay chaff, an inex- This extent of longitude makes a dif- President Edward A. O'Neal was re- pensive food which will gladden their ference of nearly two hours in time of elected for a two year term. About little hearts these snowy days. They sunrise and sunset. INTEREST purchasing power of the United States . . . in t h e last analysis the salary of the bank clerk in New York City will ultimately come to the 3,500 attended the convention sessions remember where it is and will dig Texas comprises one-twelfth of the level of cotton, wheat and corn prices . . . the farm organizations had Dec. 9-10-11, including l.r>0 from Michi- down through a fresh light fall of area of the entire United States. Texas Every business exists by catering, directly or indi- gan. rectly, to the public. The dealings of some are and have a far better understanding of the influence of the drastic decline snow, They will also eat other small is larger by 83,000 square miles than of the price level than the great majority of bankers and industrialists seeds. Germany; by 53,000 square miles than limited to a small group; but a business such as the . . . As the farmer prospers, so do we prosper; as his income falls, so does ours." Behind Water is very scarce in the winter, France. The only European country and although it will always draw with an area larger than Texas is Michigan Bell Telephone Company, which caters to every one, which keeps an important product These are excerpts from the address to the American Farm Bureau Federation convention at Chicago, Dec. 10, 1935 by General Robert E. the birds, in the winter it is even more Russia. appreciated; Texas is as large as Maine, New available to all at any hour of the day or night, can Wood, president of Sears Roebuck and Company. Discussing farm in- come and factory payrolls today, General Wood spoke from long ex- Wheel The extra thrill in feeding winter Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, birds comes when a stranger makes Rhode Island, Connecticut, New be truly said to be engaged in-public service. (Continued from page one.) perience as one of the nation's leading manufacturers of goods bought organizations as the Farm Bureau a call at the feeding station. In Mich- Jersey, New York, Delaware, Penn- Those conducting such a business assume an obli- igan we sometimes see the Arctic sylvania, Ohio and Illinois. by farmers and city people; as one of the largest customers of American Federation which sponsored the pro- Three-toed Woodpecker, Evening Gros- The finest farm house in the world gation which does not apply to every business. industry; and as perhaps the largest merchandiser to farmers in every part of the United States. General Wood sees that nation coming back gram and has supported it since its beak, Pine Grosbeak, White-winged is the Santa Gertrudis ranch house on The very fact that telephone service vitally affects inception. because the farmer is coming back. He sees eye t o eye with the Farm Crossbill and Bohemian Waxwing. the King ranch, Texas. The. ranch is Readers of this column don't have Any such unusual visitors should be larger than the state of Delaware. the public welfare, and is of daily importance in Bureau and other farm organizations on these things: The farm tariff to take my word for this. Here is reported, with a complete description, The front door of the house is eigh- the social and business life of Michigan, places a benefits through the AAA; the benefits to farm prices from leaving the what others have to say: to Audubon headquarters at the Kent teen miles from the gate. serious responsibility upon the Michigan Bell gold standard; and the homes that have been saved by the Farm Credit "When you look back and survey Scientific Museum, Grand Rapids. Administration refinancing farm mortgages. the work the Farm Bureau has done, The natural resources of Texas are Telephone Company. Do not abandon your station in the estimated to be about 15 per cent General Wood's picture of the farm situation, past and present, is so the things it has accomplished, cer- spring. Keep it supplied and watch developed. Less than half of its till- In accepting that responsibility, the Michigan Bell interesting and informative that we reproduce his address in this edition. tainly those of you who have had a the summer procession of birds. In able land is under cultivation. It has part in it have reason to feel highly late summer the parent Chicadees and a population of 22.2 persons per square Telephone Company established the following prin- The Presidents to the Man of Family gratified. Not alone because of the Titmice Will bring their young to the mile. The national average is 41.3. ciple as its fundamental policy: To supply the You may have differed in politics and in thought from our Presidents, oiiilding of this great organization, but station. Texas could accommodate within its people of Michigan with the best possible telephone . . . because of what has grown out past and present, but you must be impressed with the fact that they have of this organization movement, be- borders one-third of the population of service at the least possible cost that will maintain represented the leadership of this country. Their views on such a matter Cold discovered at site of Helena, the United States and still be no more existing standards and assure the improvements cause the voice of agriculture has been Mont., 1S64. densely populated than Ohio. as life insurance are well worth considering. Here is what they have heard in the states and at Washington of the future. said: as never before in all our history."— "To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation."— HENRY C. WALLACE, former Secre- This is not a mere theoretical motto. It is a plain Franklin D. Roosevelt. tary of Agriculture. statement of the permanent policy that governs this "The wide distribution of insurance in this country is an invalu- "The most helpful movement of Classified Ads company's activities. Its importance is shown by able factor in our daily life and one of the finest results of our modern times in agriculture is the Classified advertisements are cash with order at thfc Tallowing Toll national development."—Herbert Hoover. Farm Bureau . . . I have more faith in rates: 4 cents per word for one edition. Ads to appear in two or more editions take the rate of 3 cents per word per edition. the improvements which a faithful observance of "Our companies are on so sure a foundation that there is no an improved and permanent agricul- that policy has produced in the service. argument against the taking of life insurance and there is no ture through the agency of the Farm medium that te better than life insurance."—Calvin Coolidge. Bureau than in any other single LIVE STOCK MAPLE SYRUP SUPPLIES These improvements, revealed by accurate daily "We are in this world to provide not for ourselves but for others agency we have."—FRANK O. LOW- EVERY MAPLE SYRUP MAKING records, include a greater proportion of out-of-town 1>KN, former Governor, State of Illi- REGISTERED HEREFORD BULLS— and that is the basis of economy."—Woodrow Wilson. nois. Best Blood Lines. Two young bull calves Item, including "OlOPS not use tobacco. Charles Oakes, Sears R-l, Mich. (1-4) MICHIGAN BELL meeting of the stockholders of the talks on all that has been accomplish- ration held at Chicago, Decem- ber 10. Mr. King succeeds the late Wife (heatedly): You're lazy, you're worthless, you're bad-tempered, you're ed by the Michigan State Farm Bu- reau, T felt that a person cannot but AGENTS WANTED. HAVE SOME M A R R I E D M A N , M I D D L E A G E D , NO very tine territory open for the salt- of family, wants steady farm work. Thor- heavy duty tractors, ^threshing machin- oughly expeii- in i d . I a not smoke or TELEPHONE CO. \V \V BHllntft, Who for many w a r s shiftless, you're a thorough liar." feel proud of being a member of such ery ami l>e;ui hullers. For further par- Fqiior. Ri mention "good represented Michigan on the national Husband (reasonably): "Well, my an organization."—R. K. Baas, Route ticulars address The Huber Manufaetur- habits, good morals, fine around chil- dear, no man is perfect." 2, Mi-Bain, Michigan. ompany, Lansing, Michigan. dren." r C i .Ingenfelter, KIL'T Cady I of directors. U-4-2t-30b)|Court, Lansing, .\n<-h. (1-4-lt) S A T T I t D A Y , J A N U A R Y 4, 1936 M I T H T G A U F A R If XFTTS THUFT BO T h a t Iho sal.- of adililion.il voluim- Once When Big Production INGHAM CO. ROADS The Need for the New Year Brought Farmer More Cash not always produce return to tho pnuh. is More Straight Thinking A GREETING TO HIRAM AND MARTHA AMONG FIRST 2 0 So Says Mrs. Wagar, In A If we keep America in the place Hiram and Martha, How do you do! It's pleased we are to be meeting you. The value of organized effort is brought out in this single paragraph Hie, Hike and Hug SYSTEMS IN U. S. Remarkable New Year's she has all reason to want to be, we must get down to earnest thinking on the fundamental principals that make In the Farm Bureau paper you've been our guest, We are happy to greet you nevertheless. I'm asking your pardon for being so slow by Secretary B. F. Beach of the Michigan Milk Producers ks&'n in his 1'Jo.*) annual report: "Intoxicated driving, uiuonli thumbing, and indiscrimin.t a 11 attic report d e l , Message and keep a nation great. But where the time goes to I really don't know. "We produced 72% more hay this among the major menaces of our high- Entire Cost from Weight and The adult population must set the Like you, we are busy most night and day year than last year, and in spite of \," Or to put it own more Gas Tax Acts Backed By -T//.'.s'. EDITH M. WAGAR Getting adjusted to the AAA. j that the value is 30% less than the briefly—hie, hike and hug. example of thrift, ambition, The New Year brings new hopes, new self-denial and self-respect that will sobriety, 1934 crop. We had more milk this By Farm Bureau ambitions, new problems and also re- instill in the youth a desire to acquire For in spite of our bonus, it is still up to me To make over clothes for the children three, year marketed in the Detroit market newed courage to face them. While I do that,—My "Hiram" says than any time during the history of Cornell University takes part Infiham county folks are justly From all sides we have the assur- the same ideals. Then America will He's telling the government what he has raised. the organization. However, the new plan for the Lami-Urant college proud of their roads. This county's ance that life looks brighter, that be safe. handing of milk is on such a radio hour that will be launched m highway system is listed among the changes have been made favorable to We older folks have no right to dic- How many pigs our mother pig had. that we received $2,000,000 or ap- 1936. Program! will go out trow first 20 county highway systems in the the average person. Peace of mind tate to or to criticise the growing If our farm crops turned out to be better or bad. proximately Id', more this year than eleven institutions over the farm and He has answered questions from A to Z home network of the national broad- entire United States, according to and- contentment may again reign generation if we do not have the back- Except what prices our products should be. a year ago. It. is one of the crops United States highway officials. bone to curb our own selfish weak- that has been well enough organized casting system. throughout America. Out-of-state motorists frequently When asked the other day what in nesses. In our domestic life, Martha, I extend sympathy. note not only the beauty of many of my opinion was the greatest need of Some years ago, a ne'er do well of My "Hiram" is sometimes a puzzle to me. Ingham county's drives, but also ex- our neighborhood was always telling But the "Hirams", I guess, all over the land the hour, it brought "what the government owed him." Are hard for their wives to quite understand. press approval of road conditions and me face to face Everybody accepted this statement as of the trimly kept roadsides freed of with many current a loose remark by a weak-brained fel- They have lovable hearts in them all just the same. unsightly brush and weeds, under su- Always are handy to pet or to blame. problems. There is low who needed pity rather than con- So all in all it seems certain to me pervision of the county road depart- the question of war, demnation because he was mentally ment. They also commend the county This world lonely without them would be. system whereby, throughout the win- with all of its hor- light,—but what do we find today? Here's to Hiram and Martha of Old Michigan ter, snow is kept removed from state rors; its costs; its On every corner and many times be- From an ardent admirer and Farm Bureau friend. trunk lines and through-country roads opportunities - for tween, we find people who are looking greed and exploita- for "hand outs" without a thought of Ionia, R. 5 at all times, and side roads are clear- ed as rapidly as possible. tion. We must be how it will come or what it may cost Dec. 9, 1935 —MRS. JOHN COCHRUN t WERE FERTILIZED on our guard lest the country that their forefathers' Editor's Note—To Mrs. Cochrun: Thank you, Mrs. Cochrun, for the nice Ing-ham county's road system de- rives its entire revenue from weight some unforeseen straight thinking created. compliment to Hiram and Martha, and for understanding us Hirams. LAST YEAR WITH maneuver draw us We find leadership whom we have and gas tax moneys distributed to counties under the McNitt-Smith-Hol- beck township road act and the Hort- on Act of 1932, both of which were takes the right move into an overseas all reason to believe down in their Mas. tMCAH * conflict. It on the It only hearts condemn the idea, but for sel- part of a fish reasons refrain from saying so. are entitled to "certificates of con- supported by the Michigan State Farm scheming nation to find one's self on We can curb all thought of war if venience and necessity" from the I. Bounties on Pests *AeraCyanamid Bureau. the defense in the checkerboard of we will but will it so. When worldly 2. C, and makes the motor carriers goods are conscripted with the same ubject to the same type of regulation animal The bounty system of predatory FERTILIZE No direct tax is, or has been for life. control, put into effect a year YOUR * * u l T t some years, levied either for road build- I recall the number of times I have determination as human souls, there'll hat applies to the railroads. I WRITE TODAY j , LEAFLET ago, cost Michigan $32,415.50 of the •AeroCyanamid ing or road maintenance in this coun- heard loose talk during the past year be more sentiment for peace and less According- to the American Farm $40,000 appropriation in the first 11 I F-103 "FERTILIZE YOUR FRUIT THIS 1 SPRING WITH 'AERO' CYANAMID"! ty. More than that, Ingham county's about it taking another war to settle for war. It's all in the hands of those Bureau, the act needs amending: first, months of the past year. road business is a pay-as-you-go busi- things and that such an experience who would be asked to participate as o remove the freight regulatory ness, and the county's highways have might bring a return of good jobs and to which way a difficulty is settled. eatures, and to insert in it regula- no bonded indebtedness against them, high wages! When the public demands respect ions for weight, speeds, and dimen- New York's Dairy Cows while the road department maintains Then there's the question of crime for law and order from everyone; de- sional requirements needed for the Less than four per cent of the dairy .AMERICAN CYANAMID COMPANY a substantial balance for emergencies. and how to deal with it. Every week mands full protection and considera- protection of the public and the cows in New* York state are being PRODUCERS OF G R A N U L A R FERTILIZERS The past year much has been ac- or two, the entire nation is shocked tion for respectable citizens and none preservation of the highways. tested in dairy herd improvement as- 'Aero' Cyanamid-'Ammo Phos' '-32% 'Aero' Super Phosphate complished under supervision of the with the report of some hideous deed. for criminals; then we may hear less The effective date of the motor sociations. They average 8,077 pounds NEW YORK, N. Y. ATI AN T A. OA. county road system's efficient man- Newspapers are filled with every mi- about crime waves and more about carrier act has been advanced to of milk and 307 pounds of butterfat a April 1, 1936, by the I. C. C. THE NON-LEACHING NITROGEN-PLUS-LIME FERTILIZER agement. Listed under 1935 construc- nute detail in connection with each stable America. year. tion are 80 miles of township roads occurance and the horror of it all is It's going to take firm, sane lead- graded and graveled; 50 miles of newdragged along through the prolonged ership to keep this country balanced. blacktop construction, as well as sev- publicity through the press and over We cannot expect results of the right eral small bridges and culverts built, the air. What are we going to do sort df those with influence are impuls- and some 120,000 cubic yards of about it is another question for us all ive, and unstable and willing to de- crushed gravel produced. This work to think about! viate from justice for all, in order to was distributed throughout the coun- Then my thoughts turn to the fast gain a selfish point. Not only in pub- ty, some of it in each of the town- growing tendency of covetousness lic matters must we adhere to straight ships. among our American people. So many thinking but in every day family life Under county maintenance during want to share what the other fellow as well. 1935 the county system has kept in has acquired no matter how or why. Organizations have a big part to order 327.2 miles of gravel road; 146.0 We criticize the unfortunate victim play in shaping the nation's future miles of. blacktop road; 99.7 miles of of circumstance who has been com- There may be times when the immedi- state trunk line; 700 miles of plat pelled to accept a public dole in order ate present would appear more at- streets; 627.6 miles of township roads. to live at all, and we very freely and tractive if an organization would as- Of the latter all but 100 miles are vociferously denounce the "chiselers" sume a spectacular program of short graded and graveled. yet in the same breath we demand sighted demands, but the organization The" buildings owned by the coun- something we haven't earned. that actually accomplishes something ty's road department include the of- More Straight Thinking is the one that looks on all sides of fice and garage at Mason; a storage In my own mind I thanked the good question and uses its influence for the building at Mason, and three mainten- friend who set my mind running along good of all. ance garages, one at Williamston, an- this channel when he asked my opin- Not only does this type of organi- other at Stockbridge, and the third ion on the greatest need of the hour. zation need men strong of character in Onondaga. I decided the thing most essential for and sober in its planning but it need*) County-owned road equipment now America today was more straight the influence and encouragement of in use includes two gravel producing thinking on the part of its citizens. far seeing women. There has never plants; three power shovels; 16 float before been a time when such leader trucks; 16 small trucks; 4 passenger ship was more needed than now, am cars; 2 Ball wagon graders; 2 asphalt years ago and when this is accom- in the Farm Bureau program for this distributor trucks; 6 large blade grad- plished all of Ingham county's former year, we hope each and every member ers, 2 blacktop mixers, 9 caterpillar township roads will have been im- will offer their loyalty and their ca tractors, 26 snow plows, 1 motor grad- proved since they were accepted into operation and their best thinking to er, and numerous other pieces of the county road system. Another the end that we may mobilize the best equipment. 100 miles will be surfaced with black- agricultural brains into a united ac- During the coming year (1936) the top if present plans mature as ex- tion for those things best for all. program as outlined and approved by pected during the coming year. Be- I make a special appeal to our wo- both the county highway department sides this, numerous small bridges and men to enter into the Farm Bureau and the board of supervisors proposes culverts will be built, in addition to work as co-partners with our men to grade and gravel the remaining the regular maintenance which will with the thought that many hands 100 miles of township roads taken be kept at its usual high standard make lighter work. There are many into the county system some two of excellence. problems facing us today that neec every thoughtful woman's support When the appeal goes out for help in any way be ready- to do your mite PARTNERS...FOR FIFTY YEARS All things are secured according to "Give me your hand. The cold, unfriendly years and threshed it with flesh and blood horsepower, the dispatch and the strength of the hitched to a wooden sweep. Those were the days response from the home districts Have been more friendly and less cold, because of you. Without this support, all efforts fail when his wife's hands were just as calloused as his When strength was spent and hopes were choked in fears, own . . . when she lugged water up from the spring Your same calm smile, still glistened through your tears; in cedar buckets, boiled the clothes in an iron kettle A M , MORTGAGES" And, after that, the fight I thought was through We fought again, and WON . . . because of you." and scrubbed them on a washboard . . . with chil- dren clinging to her skirts. . Farm Bureau MOTOR FREIGHTS Today his car eats no man's dust. No wave length is barred against him. Bankers ask, anxiously, about Spray Materials BEFORE CONGRESS * FIFTY YEARS AGO Sears, Roebuck and Co. entered into a partnership with the American Farmer. After his health. Statesmen, like weather vanes, whirl to his slightest wish. And Sears-Roebuck, who fifty years appeals to me Chester Gray Sees Legislation In Making on These half a century of getting acquainted, both parties to the arrangement seem pretty well satisfied . . . Sears still call the farmer "our best customer"; and the ago staked all on the farmer, have no reason to regret the decision. HE consistent results which growers have Subjects farmer still calls Sears "our favorite place to trade." • • • T had with Farm Bureau Brand Insecticides • and Fungicides bear out the statements we Washington.—Chester Gray of the American Farm Bureau Federation The farmer likes the idea of shopping sitting down Back in the old days, where the hill was steepest, made last year about their high quality. They legislative department here says tha . . . of these little nightly rocking-chair journeys they used to throw up what they called a "thank- are manufactured under contract with General the present Congress will consider through Searsland. He likes to have the markets of you-marm" . . . a ridge of dirt to chock the wheels these questions which are important I the world bound into a book and laid in his lap. He Chemical Company whose scientific control to the man on the farm: and give the team a chance to blow and get its of every step of their making assures absolute likes the money-back guarantee that never argues or Fntnre of the AAA strength back for the pull still ahead. In a way this uniformity and exact adherence to stated The forthcoming decision of the Su- side-steps, but ungrudgingly and gladly makes good Sears Golden Jubilee is like that. . . just a "thank- analyses. We have satisfied ourselves that no preme Court will determine much. If down to the last penny. And, best of all, he likes the you-marm" in the middle of the hill. better materials are available, nor fairer prices. the decision is largely favorable to the steady Sears HIGH QUALITY at the steady Sears LOW AAA, nothing of great importance is PRICE because he knows it SAVES HIM MONEY. likely to be done in amending the Act. For fifty years we, and those before us, have put For exceptionally severe infestations or viru- If, on the other hand, the decision all we had into this job . . . given our best to it. And lent fungous diseases you may require materials should be adverse, and sweeping, as No association ever endures that isn't founded on we aren't fooling ourselves for a minute . . . with other than the Farm Bureau Six (see list). To the opponents of the Agricultural Ad- understanding; and certainly, after all these years, farm requirements getting more and more exacting round out our service we bring you also the justment Administration wish, much Sears-Roebuck and the farmer understand each will be done in Congress to re-enact every day, we know that the next fifty years may be General Chemical Company's Orchard Brand the AAA in conformity with the Su- other. even harder. But whatever the future holds, this specialties noted below. preme Court decision, whatever it may company will try so to conduct itself that the greater be. We have seen him grit his teeth and bore through, Sears, Roebuck and Co. of tomorrow and your Farm Bureau Farm Mortgage Interest. Farmers having Federal Farm Cred- when any man with less hickory in his heart would have signed away the farm and let them have it. We children's children may still be . . . PARTNERS. Services, Inc. it Administration mortgages, (feder- al farm loans) are now paying 3%% have heard the air ring with the bite of his Sears saw 221-227 North Cedar St., interest for one year beginning July and felt the ground tremble under trees felled with LANSING, MICHIGAN 1, 1935. The Farm Bureau is in favor his Sears ax. of continuing that special rate of in- terest for at least two years, perhaps Sears can remember when farmers cut their wheat SEARS, ROEBUCK AND CO. A R S E N A T E OF LEAD C A L C I U M A R S E N AT E longer. Efforts will be made by the BORDEAUX MIXTURE 'ASTRIHOINT Farm Bureau to have bills introduced with a cradle, bound it with twists of its own straw DRY L I M E SULPHUR in both Senate and House to provide LIME S U L P H U R SOL'N continuation of the Zy2% interest CVnd. OIL EMULSION rate during 1936 and 1937. Motor Carrier Act of 1935. Also ORCHARD BRAND Oil Emulsion "83", "Astringent" This law placed motor carriers un- Arsenate of Lead. Basic Zinc Arsenate, Dritomic Sulphur, "Potato Spray", Bordeaux-Arsenical, Rotenone and Other der regulation of the Interstate Com- Dusts, Nicotine Sulphate, Paradichlorobenzene, X-13 (Pyre- merce Commission, and provides for thrum Extract), Paris Green. freight rate regulation by the I. C. C, requires motor lines to show that they °© 1936 S. R. & Co. FO! R If I C H I G A > V V R J L J L I W S SAirUDAV. .!AM AHV I, 1936 What Causes PLANT DISEASES "Acting on information California last winter, prediction were made in the spring of 1935 tha from A* Farms Prosper, So Does Nation, Gen. Wood [number of farms in this country and the total farm population have re- mained almost constant in number so out of balance, and we will sow the seeds of another upset. I hope the depression has taught all of us that Milk Producers Rap Canadian Reciprocity SCOURS i" FORECAST COMING mildew would be severe in New York (Continued from Page 1.) that the proportion of farm to total unless the season was very dry the great majority of bankers and population has steadily decreased Since the growing season was no Industrialists. Furthermore, the influ- from 35% in 1910 to 25% in 1935. one simple fact. I have always liked the definition Detroit—The sales committee of the of a liberal as a practical idealist. Michigan Milk Producers Ass'n has CALVES? Long Range Predictions May very dry, there was plenty of mil ence of that step is still at work, and Each farmer has, therefore, become dew. The average reduction in yielt will continue to be felt in the future. individually more efficient, has im- Let us try to have our ideals, let us be receptive to new ideas, let us put declared that the Canadian reciprocal trade agreement will work a hardship R e a d this Help Farmers With was estimated at fifteen per cent o I feel certain that there will continue provement in productive ability run- the best of our new ideas into prac- on Michigan dairy farmers, without Hook . . . Control Plans a loss, roughly, of more than half i to be a slow but gradual rise in the ning parallel to the technological ad- tice, but in the application of these, in any way providing them with a million dollars. price of world basic commodities. vance in industry. reduction in the cost of manufactured GKT t h e a n s w e r to t•••< let us be practical, hard-headed and q u e s t i o n . Learn how t o Ithaca, N. Y.—A new role for the "Prospects for 1936 are no End of Surpluses—Financial Aid. not too hasty in execution. Reform articles they have to buy. Their reso- avoid •eour3 in calves—how Some think that when overproduc- to escape profit-destroying digestive up-scts. . . With "plant doctor" in coming years, bright. Both California and Mich The AAA was passed May 12, 1933. tion has occurred in farm products is an evolution and cannot be accom- lution of protest has been forwarded this book as your guide,you that of forecasting severity of crop igan suffered heavily from mildew Prices of basic commodities continued or when there is capacity to produce plished over night, and impractical to President Roosevelt, Secretary of diseases for the next growing season, on the seed crop during the pas to rise rapidly until the fall of 1933, an amount greater than can be cur- can fallow the beat prac- tices of the topnotrh herda- idealists often do more harm than Agriculture Wallace, and all members is predicted by A. G. Newhall of the summer. New York growers wil when they became more stable. Be- rently consumed, the natural process mcn throughout America. reactionaries or crooks. of Congress from Michigan. TESTED A N D PROVED New York state college of agricult- have to buy that seed because th< tween the AAA and the great drouth of elimination of marginal producers The principles described are those pract iced on the coun- ure. State does not have enough home try'a most successful dairy farms, in* R„ Carnation - Your When farmers know in advance grown, disease-free, onion seed of 1934, farm surpluses were pretty should take place and enough farms New Ice Fishing Rules Spearing Season Opens Farms, where more than 300 calves nre raised yearly, eady. well eliminated. should go out of production to restore copy of "The Key to Successful Calf Raising" is r< that potato blight will be severe, available. As a result, considerable The Farm Credit Administration the balance. When applied to our Were Effective Jan. 1 Write for it Today that sweet corn may face heavy in- reduction in yield of onions fron — It's FREE — mildew in the northeastern states is has been doing a splendid and wise job total number of farms the process is The two-month season for spearing CARNATION COMPANY fections of wilt, that celery blight predicted for 1936 unless the season in the refunding of farm mortgages. unsound from the viewpoint of the Michigan's new ice-fishing regula- through the ice opens Jan. 1. This Dapt. M - F Oconomowoc, Wlm. will abound, or that onion mildew Farm taxes have dropped from $601,- tions for inland waters, which have will be severe, they may be able to from July 1 through to harvest is ex 000,000 annually in 1929 to $400,000,- stability of our economic structure. been the subject of controversy in season is open during January and ceptionally dry. February on all inland waters, except THE BETTER WAY TO FEED CALVES do something to protect themselves, "As for celery, there are at least 000 in 1934, interest charges from a To correct long-term changes over period of years it may be necessary sportsmen's circles, were effective trout streams and waters not other- as more intensive spraying or seed treatment, Dr. Newhall believes. two seed-borne diseases. Most o $682,000,000 in 1929 to $500,000,000 in to reduce or increase the farm acreage January 1st. wise closed to spearing. The use of "Some of this forecasting is under the seed comes from one or two 1934, a total decrease of nearly $400,- in production, or certain sections Inland lake fishermen are limited artificial light while spearing is for- way now. In New York State there states, and when blight prevails on 000,000 in fixed charges annually which have been devoted to raising a to the use of two ice-lines with not bidden. is considerable reason to predict that the seed crop, farmers in the east within the space of five years. The particular crop may have to diversify more than one hook attached to each The species of fish that may legally CHICAGO'S some diseases will be more severe can expect trouble the next year. than usual in 1936. "Prospects are no brighter than farmer has been gaining at both ends, their crops and introduce new ones. —in a rise in prices for his products But to attempt to control short-term line. These lines must be held in the hand or be under immediate control. be taken with the spear are: Carp, suckers, mullet, redhorse, sheepshead, "Late blight of potatoes, for ex- a year ago on celery blights. Be- and in a decline in his fixed charges. variations in consumption by taking The regulations also apply to the lake trout, smelt, great northern, GREATEST ample, seems to come and go in cause some celery seed is always While the gross farm income is still farms out of production in times of "tip-up" or any similar mechanical grass pike and pickerel, muskellunge, cycles of from three to five years. carried over to the next year and be- one-third below the 1929 figure, the low consumption and starting them up device used for the taking of fish from whitefish, ciscoes, pilotfish or menom- HOTEL Past records show that New York is cause the weather has not been too difference is not as great as appears again when consumption improves oh the "up" side of one of these •favorable in the seed growing re- from the face of the figures. the inland waters. No more than two "tip-ups" may be used by an individ- inee whitefish, dogfish and garpike. would entail a capital loss and dis- VALUE cycles. After a lapse of six years, gions, the prediction is that celery The farm problem should not be a turbance of our farm population ual fisherman and these must be hue blight appeared again last year. blights will again give much trouble political problem, though from the which we cannot accept. Continuity under immediate control. Wiring a Home The most important single thing to in 1936 unless the season is excep- nature of our institutions, it is bound of ownership and production is vital HOTEL watch is July rainfall. tionally dry. to get into politics. It is primarily to their well-being and equally im- Smelt fishermen in recognized smelt waters are also restricted to the use First step: Plan the job to get the "One of the best recent examples, an economic and a social problem. SHERMAN 1700 ROOMS "Rainfall was excessively heavy this past July in a large part of New of successful long range forecasting York. Predictions were made last was done by Dr. Stevens of the Bound to Have Farm Problem. From the economic side, when a portant to those who do business with them. of two lines, but may use any number of hooks on a line. The two ice-line regulations, how- most from the new service and to avoid the usual mistakes. Get the help of a reliable electrician. Good United States Department of Agri- 1700 BATHS spring that considerable blight rot country is almost equally divided be- Prosperous Agriculture Is Basic. ever, do not apply to the Great Lakes wiring means, safety, efficiency and would probably occur by the end of culture who found that a good deal tween manufacturing industry and I have referred to the social side or connecting waters of the Great economy. Write Michigan State Col- September unless August and Sept- of bacterial wilt of sweet corn it agriculture, there ia bound to be a of the farm problem, and in many Lakes where five ice-lines, the number lege Agr'l Engineering Dep't for its ember were exceedingly dry. Au- northern states accompanied mild farm problem when there is a high ways it is the most important side of allowed last winter, is still legal. booklet on wiring the farm home and gust was somewhat drier than nor- winters and that severe winters protective tariff. If there were no the problem. If I read my history buildings. mal, hence only about a million caused a decline. This find tariff, there would be relatively little rightly no urban civilization has per- Cost of Distribution Favorite Chicago bushels, or one in twenty, were lost has given a valuable index on which petuated itself. There are many rea- Home of American throughout the state. to base a prediction, and it proved justification for farm aid from the sons for this—time forbids my going According to Secretary of Agri- . „ ? " « NEUHAUSER GOOD LUCK CHICKS Business Men "In some counties where rainfall remarkably trustworthy in predict- economic side. This is a fact that the culture Wallace when the average lbs. Purina Chick Startena FREE into them. A body of independent was the most abundant, losses were ing almost no trouble from sweet manufacturers of New England and freeholders living on the land, has family spends $19.06 for food, the with Each 100 "Good Luck" Chicks Think of il. 2S )b>. of JWI FREE with 100 chick.... 90 three times as high. Based on past corn wilt in New York in 1935." the Middle Atlantic States have per- farmer gets about $7.34 of it. The lb*. FREE with 200 chick.. .Ic.. by booking ordW 3 WMh. sistently ignored. been in all times and at all places the in oJ.anc. fill b i ^ d n . bloodlMUd. Low P r i c . Your Car experience, the chances are more strength of a state. If our American remaining $11.72 is consumed in SEXCO CHICKS . . . ~1K» da old pulUto • SO5S S.« Guaiant... r Right into *hz Hotel Sherman than fifty-fifty that late blight will be troublesome in 1936." Similar experiences point to a SENATOR GRADES Now, I do not believe you can eliminate the tariff without causing state is to endure, we need the sta- very severe injury to the whole body bility, sound thinking and patriotism processing and distribution cost and charges between the producer and consumer. H-LINHCDHybrMh.fatfs.owu.mok. good lay.nl or capon.. NEUHAUSCR CHICK MATCHCHICS I 63 N«rOUOH. OMO of industry. As long as there are the of the 6,000,000 American farmers. If HOME OF THE gloomy outlook for disease in onion and celery crops in 1936. LANSING LOBBYISTS present great difference in living they become impoverished, if we have standards between the workers of the a body of poor farm tenants renting Wrist Watch or other FREE GIFT BOOK COLLEGE "Onion mildew is carried both by seed and soil. Most of the seed is Farm Bureau Man Is Given different races of the world, you can- order will indeed be threatened. As raised in California and Michigan. Public Servant Rating not withdraw this protection to the from large land holders, our social American manufacturer and his em- I see it, it is the patriotic duty and Sifts shows Famous HOLLYWOOD CAMERA, Case and Films; 32-Pc. GLASS DINNER SET; Dial TYPEWRITER; real TALKING MOVIE; UKULELE; INK GEORGE OLSEN - ETHEL SHUTTA Records of past years show that New York growers usually suffer much from this disease the year following By Legislator ployees. You may modify the tariff the very deep interest of every Amer- but you cannot eliminate it. ican industrialist, to do everything in etc. given for easy selling of our fine Vegetable and 'Flower Seeds at 10c large pack. Or Cash Commission of one third. Write for 40 packs and Gift Book TOD AY. Send No Money. We trust AND THE ICE SKATING SHOW an outbreak on the seed crop in Cal- his power to promote the stability Fremont—Senator Don Vanderwerp AAA or Something for Farmer. and the prosperity of the American you. American Seed Co. Dept. A-49 Lancaster, Pa. ifornia. of Fremont discussed lobbying before On the other hand, as long as a farmer. It is equally the duty of la- BE FIRST—WIN 1936 FORD or other large cash awards a group of co-operative managers and great body of our farmers have to bor, for, in the last analysis, the jobs their wives and friends meeting at the export their products and sell in a and wages of labor depend on the flow Fremont Community Hall, Tuesday, world market, you must have an AAA of new primary wealth from the farm. Livestock Feeders! PROFITABLE feeding operation! this year will require that live November 26. The meeting followed or some method of giving an equiva- same group visited a number of plants what the McNary-Haugen I believe we are emerging from a trip several weeks ago when the lent of tariff protection to the farmer. this depression—the worst in our eco- This was nomic history. I believe our course is stock be PURCHASED as cheaply as possible, FINANCED at a reasonable manufacturing Farm Bureau brand Bill attempted to do, and political his- upward, and will continue upward for interest rate and when finished SOLD at the highest market value. commodities. tory has been changed by the twice some time. But we cannot build on a Senator Vanderwerp classed lobby- repeated veto of a New England presi- firm foundation, unless we keep this PURCHASING ists as of three sorts: (1) those in- dent. country in balance. If any one of the The Michigan Live Stork exchange through its NATIONAL connections can terested in organization matters for Now, I do not believe the AAA is leading groups—whether capital, labor furnish at rust piny a reasonable handling charge, all grades of feeding perfect. Mistakes in policy and mis- lambs, cattle an assortment at our Daily Markets is now- the general Welfare; (2) thos« in- or agriculture—gets too greedy, wants kept on hand at St. Johns and Battle Creek at all times. terested in only one bill for private takes in administration have been too much for its share, we will get 5% FINANCING interests; (3) those interested in made, which were bound to occur in a FIT MONEY is available for the feedinp operations of all worthy feeders the promotion of rather questionable new instrument operating on such a who have feed, regardless of where they purchase their feeders. projects for such interests as gam- large scale. But the AAA served a SELLING Our new enlarged complete Selling Service now consists of not only Com- blers, racing, liquor, etc. The speak- reat and useful purpose in the agri- mission Bales Agencies on Detroit and Buffalo terminal markets, but er classed Farm Bureau legislation as ultural crisis of 1932 and 1933. daily market at St. Johns, and Battle Creek where all species of live constructive, unselfish and for the Furthermore, it has taught co-opera- The Same Btoi k are pu~chased each day and moved direct to the packers or the public market. All grades of dairy cows bought and sold at Battle Creek. general promotion of valuable agricul- tion and some unity of effort to the For complete information phone or write tural projects. He characterized it as jreat mass of 6,000,000 individualistic a good program, splendidly presented. armers, who were at a serious disad- Michigan Live Stock' Exchange Senator Vanderwerp spoke highly vantage between well organized indus- ;ry on the one hand and highly or- of R. Wayne Newton, legislative repre- Secretary's Office, Hudson, Mich. janized labor on the other. Daily Markets Terminal Markets sentative of the Michigan State Farm Bureau. Mr. Newton, said Senator But the AAA cannot remain static; Organization St. Johns & Battle Creek Detroit, & Producers Co-op at Buffalo, N. Y. Vanderwerp, belongs in the general t must be changed as conditions Market Quotations—Mon., Tues., Wed., and ThursX> Gtation WXYZ and Michigan Radio Network at 12:15 P. M. welfare group of lobbyists and has re- :hange, and the conditions of today spect of the legislators. He is always are not those of 1932 and 1933. on the job and courteous and is ag- Fair Prices, Profits and Wages. gressive but never offensive, said the The Brookings Institute has recent- senator from Newaygo county. y completed its studies of economic Senator Vanderwerp has been in conditions in the U. S. While I do LIFE INSURANCE PROTECTS the legislature two sessions. He not agree with all of their conclu- publishes the Fremont Times Indica- sions, I do believe firmly in their tor. main premise, which is, that it is of Michigan Farmers That— Others who spoke at the meeting in- he main function of capitalism to The Family Circle cluded Mr. Martin Schwass, manager produce and distribute goods to the eople at the lowest possible prices, CSecured relief from the 3 per cent sales tax on farm supplies. of the Mason County Marketing Asso- consistent with fair profits and fair ciation at Scottville, Mr. E. R. Steen, wages. As we advance in technology, manager of the Shelby branch of the we must give the people the benefit CSecured State policy of paying up to $65 tuition for all high Great Lakes Fruit Industries, Inc., )f lowered prices. If manufacturers school students, thus assisting every rural school district. and Mr. L. A. Hawley, manager of the >r merchants succeed in this, the peo- Ludington Fruit Exchange. Each ple give them a reward, which is emphasized the need for a closer re- ailed profits, if capitalism does not C,Won the fight for removal of tax on farm property for town- lationship between the local co-opera- accomplish this, it is not entitled to a tives and the State Farm Bureau. eward. ship roads. Compare your tax statements. Each attributed increased success in This is also true of agriculture. The their various businesses to the activ- ndustrial worker cannot be expected ities of the Farm Bureau in their trade o pay in the cost of his food, interest ^Slashed $12 a ton off the price of fertilizers years ago and territories. n inflated farm land values or, for introduced open formula feeds, and alfalfa and clover seeds of The program was preceded by a co- hat matter, for the cost of inefficient operative luncheon served by the wives r wasteful farming. He should and northern origin, high purity and germination. of those in attendance. Mr. L. A. Haw- must pay a price consistent with a ley led the community singing and air return on the capital and labor sang a solo. Morris Robinson of Fre- n the average farm. It is better for n the zone freight case of 1923-24 which saved farmers of mont High School played the accom- he farmer, as well as the manufac- paniment. Mr. Wesley Hawley of urer and the merchant, to get larger Michigan a half million dollars annually. Ludington, district representative of rolume with moderate prices, rather the Farm Bureau, was chairman. J. F. han low volume with high prices. In CCaused the equalization of farm property to be corrected so Yaeger of the State organization was )ther words, agriculture as well as When the head of a family gets somewhere near the half- also present. ndustry, cannot permanently aim for as to compare with urban property. way point in bringing up his family, he is probably around ny economy of scarcity. the same point in paying for his home. He finds it very Cortez Brought Cattle Agricnltore Should Protect Itself. difficult to make substantial cash savings as the years go by. He longs for financial security. And Horse Here in 1518 But agriculture, like industry, should protect itself from the ruin- Is Today Working For usly low prices caused by an over- He can assure himself and his family a large measure of Texas leads all states in the produc- whelming surplus. If a manufacturer CRural electrification that will extend rural lines without con- financial security by purchasing a fair amount of life insur- tion of cattle, sheep, goats, horses, has a big inventory and no orders, he struction cost to the customers, and make available electrical ance. Immediately it is issued, he may assure his family and mules. Since horses and cattle shuts down his plant and stops pro- a sum that will pay for the home, and raise the family in are not natives of North America but ducing. I see no crime in the farmer equipment at reasonable prices and easy terms. comfort should he be taken away. were first introduced into this coun- doing the same thing. Every factory try by Hernando Cortez in 1518, it is has production control geared to its Paying for life insurance each year, a little at a time, a man reasonable to assume that Texas was )rders, every merchant has inventory to market roads that will bring farmers off the main saves money, protects his family and property, and builds the first state of the Union to have ontrol geared to his sales; so I can- a fund to provide income for his own old age. Isn't it a cattle and horses within its borders. not see that the American farmer highways "out of the mud" through the use of federal money wise program? Despite a 20 per cent decrease from should be blamed for desiring some government program and drouth, measure of production and inventory allocated for the relief of the unemployed. State Farm' Life insurance policy plans are especially Texas had, at the end of 1934, 1,388,000 ontrol. But the ideal for the farmer, adapted to farmers' needs. You should know what we have to offer before you buy a policy anywhere. We are glad to head of dairy cattle and 6,640,000 head is well as for the manufacturer and of cattle of all kinds, which was more merchant, is to run his plant to full C.A more just portion for farmers of the Nation's annual in- explain, and without obligation. than 2,000,000 head than Iowa had, its apacity at moderate prices, provided come and a more equitable price for farm produce. Mortality Tables Say that of 1,000 Men Aged 40, Ten Will Die nearest rival. There are twice as he can earn a living by so doing. I Within the Next Year. many cattle as people in Texas. The do not believe in the theory of over STATE FARM LIFE INSURANCE CO. State produces twice as many sheep production. I believe that in the fu- as any other State. ure we will solve the problem of un- der consumption, and that farm, fac- Join the Michigan State Farm Bureau Bloomington, Illinois Will Carleton, author of "Over the tory and mine will all run to capacity. MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU, State Agent, Lansing Hills to the Poorhouse" was born at Can't Lay Farmers Off. i Hudson, Lenawee county, in 1845. For the past twenty-five years the SATURDAY, JAXTARY 4, 1936 I f H I fi A 5 FARM >TEW8 YWY I point a member of the group as their ! Farm Taxpayers Save About $2,100,000 Tuition Try This representative to the Company. The . Company will investigate and advise Measuring regarding the arrangements under FPP Y0I If CC\\ OR The first payment of $2,100,000 paid this fall under the new State aid act Stick for for schools went to pay tuition for A Talk with Bennett About Seeds which an extension can be made. That may lead to formal agreement be- L\J\J 1 ULIY VULUIV rural high school students. When this Farm Line tween the Company and the interest The King of Optimists is the Man Who Expects a Good Crop ed farmers for the line and service. Light Yellow to Deep Orange bill was before the Legislature, the from Seed of Unknown Origin KaniH'rs' Tart Tints Produced Almost Michigan State Farm Bureau saw to it The Consumers Power Co. now of- that the payment of high school tui- fers farmers a choice of two plans The next step, says the Consumers As Desired tion should be by the State, and NOT When groups of farmers visit MR. BENNETT: By 1926 Farm also began to include in each statement, follows signing of the for securing a rural power line ex- the Seed Department of the Farm Bureau Brand alfalfa and clover sealed sack of seed a postcard and formal agreement. The Company will by the rural school districts as in the Ithaca. X. Y Bgga with a light tension: Bureau Services, Inc., at Lansing, seeds had become so well known other literature to enable the farm- determine the best location for the yellow yolk, or eggs with yolks color- past. Farmers can thank the Farm >o. 1 Bureau for this saving. they are shown through the plant and in such demand that we re- er to register that field with us in line, and will prepare and furnish ed a deep orange, the poultr>man The old plan. Farmers to finance by its manager, Mr. Roy W. Ben- solved to protect both our dealers case he should later want to take papers for securing rights of way. Ap- can get either color according to the the line. That is, they pay $1,000 per First steamboat on Great Lakes left nett, who has been with this de- and farmer customers by packing a seed crop, and prove the variety plicants for the line will then secure kind of feed given to the hen. mile for the line. 'The Company al- Buffalo Oct. 10, 1818. partment since the day it opened. them in sealed, Farm Bureau and other important facts regard- and deliver to the Company the neces- Housewives like deeply colored lows a credit of $100 each to original ing his seed crop to all comers. sary rights of way and tree trim- yolks to impart a golden color to Farmers watch the various opera- customers, and $60 for each additional This has been a valuable service. ming permits in advance of any con- their cakes and to make richly tinted tions, and they ask questions like customer witliin 5 years, to be divided 4 0 EGGS MORE among the original customers, up to these: The cost of seed is always an im- struction work. ice cream. But the hen is not con- Construction of the line will start as cerned with how eggs are used the time the original group gets its Mr. Bennett, how long has the portant item. Why not use more soon as possible, the statement says, pending on what she eats, the hen can COST 3 CENTS line investment back. No revenue guarantee is required, except the Farm Bureau been guaranteeing its seed to farmers? of cheaper seed and get the same results? after the construction plan require- transfer different shades of yellow to MR. BENNETT: You may pay ments above have been completed, the yolk, says Professor L. i standard rate provision for 50c per ME. BENNETT: The Michigan To make egg shell, the average hen more money for high quality seed, and the farm premises are wired, or of the New York state college of agri- month minimum charge. Farm Bureau is going into its 17th eats 3-lbs. of oyster shell a year at a but you can sow less of it per acre, contracted for wiring. culture. year of guaranteeing to farmers cost around 3-cents per hen. and have a much better stand. . Customers shall stand the expense Substitute white coin for yellow that its alfalfa, clover and other The new plan. Where an average Your labor and the crop you expect of their home and other wiring in ac- corn, limit the amount of green She lays about 40 more eggs—so field seeds are of northern origin, of 5 new customers per mile on a is worth something, and so is good, cordance with accepted standards. and the hen tends to produce eggs with a 3-cent cost with eggs at 18-cts. are adapted to Michigan, and are proposed extension will guarantee high quality seed. The risks that Farm customers shall have three-wire with light yellow yolks. of the purity, germination and a dozen, she makes 60-cts. more—100 $12.50 per month ($150 per year) a farmer takes in seeds are that service connections of not less than 60 If the poultryman keeps his laying description as stated on the analy- hens $60.00 more. revenue, the Company will build the they might not be adapted to Mich- ampere capacity. All ordinary farm flock confined and uses little or no sis tag. When we opened in March line at its own cost. Five customers igan; they may be of low vitality customers will receive adequate ser- green feed, says Professor Weaver, he To insure this result keep Pilot 1920 we began to guarantee these at $12.50 per month is an average of or. low germination, and in some vice from a transformer of 5 5 kv-a or must be careful to supply some other Brand Oyster Shell Flake before facts to the farmer to the full pur- $2.50 minimum bill per customer, per instances, may contain noxious less, the Consumers' regulations say. source of vitamin A when he uses your flock at all times. chase price of the seed. So far as month. "*- weeds. It's too late after the seed The Company shall own and main- white corn which has relatively little we know, no other seed firm was No waste—no odor—no poisonous TO COMPARE THE PLAITS then making any such guarantee. is in the ground. It costs money tain all rural line extensions, includ- of this vitamin. To supply this, he matter. (a) Assume that one set of 5 We were told many times in the to make good field run seed A No. 1 ing lights of way, transformers, ser- can mix a suitable quantity of cod- farmers finance a line under Plan 1. beginning that it could not be done. stock. vice connections and meters. Connec- liver oil with the evening's feeding of After $100 credits, each still has $100 But we have been successful at it. tion to the customer's premises will scratch grain. tied up in the line, providing no other When can farmers or farm groups be made without charge except where Yolks with richer ihadea of yellow FF.FD It is a fact that the farmer-owned visit your seed department? customers connect in that mile. A Farm Bureau seed service has J2.. W. GEA/A/ETT 'J more than one pole is required after come from increasing the amount of DEALERS problem in Michigan seems to be to MR. BENNETT: Any time. More the line leaves the right of way. yellow corn and green feed. Too much paved the way for general improve- EVERYWHERE average 5 customers per mile. ments in the marketing of field Brand sacks in convenient sizes, farmers should visit this farmer- green feed, however, tends to give (b) Assume that under Plan 2 seeds. We began by making our- which turned out to be bushel and owned seed service and see for B1KDS OF A FEATHEB the yolk a brown or green "offtint." each of another set of five customers selves wholly responsible to the half-bushel sacks. We were thus themselves how seeds are selected, A distinguished visitor to a lunatic Small amounts of pimento or chili per mile guarantee the Company $2.50 farmer for the quality of the seed. enabled to double check each indi- tested, cleaned, and what we take asylum went to the telephone and pepper, included in the regular per month. vidual sack of seed by stamping out of field run seeds before they found difficulty in getting his connec- rations, give yolks a deep orangi No. 7 are ready for Michigan farmers, Now, for purposes of comparison, What put the idea into your head on the sack the variety name of tion. Exasperated, he shouted to ex- color, according to Professor Weaver. assume that each customer under to pack your seeds in sealed bushel the seed and the lot number to cor- according to our judgment of what change: and half-bushel bags? Is it prac- NATIONAL respond with the analysis tag. We constitutes good seed. Plan 2 actually consumes only $1.50 of electricity per month, and therefor tical? "Look here, girl, do you know who I am?" Consumers Are Exempt The Agricultural Adjustment Admin- "loses" $1 per month or $12 per "No," came back the calm reply, istration has announced that consum- year on the deal. "but I know where you are!" ers buying potatoes in the ordinary Each of the 5 farmers per mile under Plan 1 has $100 construction cost tied up in the line, to stay tied WARNS FARMERS Edison and Consumers Offer Farm Line Plans guarantee payments, in the amount of at least $150 per year for 5 years, the foregoing monthly guarantee THROUGH FOK THK i m Groucho: "Didn't some brainless way are exempt from penalties under the Potato Act of 1935. up unless sufficient other customers connect for service in that mile. Arithmetic TO BE READY AS (Continued from }J:ige 1.) rates provided in the Detroit Edison rate schedule. schedule is to be dropped. Application for Service The Consumers terms and condi- idiot propose to you before we were married?" Paddlefish The paddlefish is the queerest and (c) Divide the actual $100 per cus- tomer tied up in Plan 1 by the as- PAY DAY NEARS The Consumers Power Plan Consumers Power Company tions state that interested groups should file their petition at the near- married him." plan follows very closely the Michigan est office of the Company, and ap- The Mrs.: "Yes." rarest of all Michigan fish. It has Groucho: "I wish to goodness you'd a long, oar-like snout and is known to have been taken only once in Mich- sumed "loss" of $1 per month per i Public Utilities order on that Com- The Mrs.: "I did." igan waters. customer in the Plan 2 situation Farmer May Need Protection above. It will be 100 months of the pany of Oct. 5, 1935. The order re- same situation before the possible When U. S. Drafts New quires that where an average of five "losses" or under-consumption per customers per mile shall agree to • Tax Program guarantee the Company revenues to customer in Plan 2 will equal the $100 total $12.50 per month or $150 per CARBIDE tied up, possibly permanently, by each Michigan farmers were warned here year per mile of proposed rural exten- customer in the Plan 1 example. Thursday that pay day for the heavy Additional customers on the mile federal expenditures probably will sion, the Company shall build the VITAMIN, FOR YOUR HEN! under Plan 1 would cut the $100 tied come in 1937 in the form of new and line without charge to the farmers. up at the rate of $60 per new cus- higher taxes and they should be on This order was based on the average tomer, or $12 refund to each of the guard against an unjust share being line construction cost of $1,000 per original five customers. And so would placed upon agriculture. change the figure to be divided by the final result. mile. The $12.50 per month per mile is calculated to provide revenues to Addressing the eighteenth annual cover interest, taxes, upkeep, depre- assumed $1 monthly "loss", and the convention of the Michigan State ciation, manufacture and distribution Farm Bureau, Chester H. Gray of of power, and a reasonable return on AN IDEA Under Plan 2 each additional cus- Washington, legislative representative the investment. MEN LAUGHED AT tomer would reduce the monthly of the American Farm Bureau federa- The Consumers announces that it EGOS guarantee for all customers. Under tion, declared "farmers will need to Plan 2, use of any piece of major watch with the greatest care the fed- will consider each rural extension a FOR YOU electrical equipment, such as a range, eral tax program in 1937." separate, distinct unit. Each further Not only does refrigerator, or water heater, in ad- extension is a separate unit, The As pay day for the great federal ex- farm customer is the owner of a sufficient vitamin dition to lights and small appliances penditures approaches, Gray said tax- A mean heavier egg production in the home, would provide monthly es to get the money to balance the typical farm. Non-farm rural line through the winter months, but it electric bills in excess of $2.50, and budget and retire or reduce the public customers shall include tenant houses, also insures healthier, more vigorous to the customers satisfaction, in our debt will then be prominently before commercial establishment, summer Over a period of years, Swift & Company's net profits from opinion. cottages, churches, schools, and non- birds, faster growth, lower mor- the nation. farm dwellings, whose permanence all sources have averaged only a fraction of a cent per pound. tality and a longer laying season. OUR FORMULA "Some persons and interests," he and use of service will determine CLO-TRATE, the concentrated cod Here is our formula for comparing warned, "will want to soak the rich their rating as equivalent of farm liver oil, is rich in vitamin A (and Plan 1, and Plan 2 for any number and get all the revenue from that customers. in vitamin D,too). Buy CLO-TRATED of customers per mile, to show how source. Others will want to spread Consumers Const motion Rules 3 they're going to be devised, which would enable consumers feeds, make greater poultry profits. long it will take any average under- the tax basis along income and cor- The Consumers will construct a consumption "loss" under Plan 2 to poration tax lines so that more per- rural line at its own cost where there sell ham,bacon and to identify the brand name on the retail HEALTH PRODUCTS CORP. equal the first cost under Plan 1. sons will contribute to the support of is an average of 5 or more farm NEWARK, N. J. SIX CUSTOMERS PER MILK the federal government on the basis customers (or the equivalent) per lard in packages, are cuts. Numerous other obstacles had to be CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO ( U N D E R P L A N 1) of ability to pay. Still others will mile, and each original customer has they?"snickered critics hurdled. $1,000 line cost to farmers swing to a manufacturers excise tax guaranteed the Company as a mini- 600 credit or a general sales tax, both of which mum monthly payment an amount when Swift's Premium Years of painstaking study and investi- $ 400 left with Company will be paid on the basis of necessity which shall aggregate at least $12.50 $ 400 == $66.66, net cost of to consume when the citizen buys his per month per mile of the extension. Ham and Bacon, and gation followed. Finally, in 1928, Swift & line per farm if no daily wants over the retailer's coun- 6 others connect That means that five customers per Swift's Silverleaf Pure Company began selling fresh beef HOW TO ( U N D E R P L A N 2) Line is free if average of 5 cus- income per mile per year ter. mile shall not necessarily each guar- "The fanner should be particularly antee $2.50 per month each, but they tomers per mile guarantee $150 on guard that neither the federal sales may guarantee in accordance with the Lard first appeared, toward the close of the u past century. They'll never make a go of it. and lamb, stamped with the name "Swift" in dots. The beef was sold BUILD tax nor the manufacturers' excise tax equipment they install. $ 150 = $25, av. annual should be loaded on his shoulders and Additional Customers People won't buy enough of'em, I tell you." as Swift's Premium, Swift's Select, guarantee for each 6 of 6 customers on thos-e of. other consuming groups." The Consumers provides that when $ 25 $2.C8 av. monthly Mr. Gray said there was little dan- new customers connect to the exten- But the American housewife thought and Swift's; the lamb was sold as firesafe, long-lasting guarantee per ger that any major federal tax legis- sion, each shall pay the average mini- 12 customer differently. She had been wanting brands Swift's Premium Lamb. concrete farm structures lation would be enacted in 1936 as mum monthly payment of all custom- NOW ASSUME neither the republicans nor the demo- ers previously connected to the line. whose uniform quality could be depended Today, Swift & Company is placing its That average consumption of crats desired a tax fight in a presi- This remains in force until the next electricity is as low as $1.50 per month per customer dential year. anniversary of the line. Thirty days upon, from week to week, name on more than 95 per cent of all the Reciprocal Tresilios Rapped before each anniversary date, custom- $ 2.08 Mo. Guarantee 1.50 Av. mo. consumption Turning to a discussion of the agri- ers on that extension will be notified and year to year. So sales beef and lamb handled by it which meet 58c Av. mo. "loss" cultural adjustment program. Gray by the Company that they have an op- steadily grew. the requirements of its brands. More than said it was time for the nation to con- portunity to reapportion their guar- COMPARE SUCH COSTS As item after item was added to this list, $66.66 Plan 1 = 11434 Mos. sider co-ordinating its policies with anteed monthly minimum payments one-third of all the beef and lamb sold by those looking toward the establish- so that the aggregate per mile will 58c Plan 2 ment of a permanent agriculture. He total at least $12.50 monthly as be- a persistent demand for branded beef and it falls within this class. Or 9 years and 6?4 months before an warned that progress in that direc- fore. If customers do not avail them- lamb began to arise. Though Swift & Com- av. under-consumption "loss" of 58c per selves of this right and do not notify Producers are gaining much month per customer under Plan 2 would tion cannot he made under a national totaf the $66.66 net line cost per customer policy which fosters reciprocal trade the company before the anniversary pany knew the problem of branding fresh from all these efforts of Swift & tinder Plan 1 for the same line. treaties with foreign nations at the date, the old minimum guarantees per Desirable things that could happen in expense of the farmers' home market, customer will remain in force another beef and lamb was one of the most difficult Company to raise the standard of the 9 years: Increase in electric equip- ment on line to actually use much more or in promoting reclamation projects year, as above. This appears to pro- ones it had ever been asked to solve, it set its many products, and create a than $150 of current per mile per year. to increase production in the face of vide for reducing the guarantee per Under such conditions, end of the guar- month all around when new custom- to work at once. The antee period after 5 years of such con- existing surpluses. He believed agri- demand for them through use Concrete is permanent and sumption. Also, unforeseen improvements culture is entitled to adequate tariff ers come on the line, and to provide firesafe; improves working in rates and policies in favor of the cus- opportunity for .other rate adjust- .•%!• difficulties were many. of national advertising. Swift & Com- tomer in keeping with the. march of protection to safeguard the home mar- conditions, increases produc- progress in electric service. ket against foreign competition. ments within the group. •#V» *• Producers must supply a tiveness and gives you real "American farmers cannot surren- pany's efficient merchandising is helping If Customers Quit pride in your place. der any portion of the home market If there is a decrease in the num- f*»$"l * regular quantity of qual- to build up wider outlets for livestock, Our 72-page book, "Plans for Southwest Business in exchange for a promise of an equal ber of customers per mile, the Com- Leaders Support AAA portion of some foreign market," said pany will give notice 30 days before ••* ity beef and lamb in each and dairy and poultry products, and Concrete Farm. Buildings," Gray as he denounced the proposed the anniversary date so that the cus- establish higher price levels for these raw gives detailed information on "The farmer is entitled to the same reciprocity trade agreement with Can- tomers may make their own reappor- of the twelve months how to mix,form, reinforce and tionment of monthly guarantee. If place concrete. Shows plans benefits industry enjoys," said the ada. He declared agriculture would throughout the year. Also some attractive farm products, than would otherwise be southwestern division of the Chamber get the short end of any such a deal. they do not, the company will in- for all types of farm buildings of Commerce of the United States at AAV l'hui N (!»•- justment. SIX MICHIGAN FARM NEWS SATl R I U Y , JANUARY 4, ST. CLA1R GROUP AT LANSING PLANT Farm Bureau Members See State Organization in Action THE PICTURE TELLS THE STORY hardy alfalfa (and clover) seeds of the most productive varieties Twenty-three members of the St. Clair County Farm Bureau drove to for Michigan. They are genuine varieties such as Grimm, Hardi- Lansing December 27 where they saw the seed, supplies, insurance, member- gan, Michigan Variegated alfalfas-heavy yielders, free from ship and other departments of the weeds and crop mixtures. Their purity, quality and germina- Farm Bureau in action. For a number It was their first visit. Very interest- tion are top notch. See our guarantee below, as it appears on our ing to them was the improvement in quality that the Farm Bureau's seed seed analysis tag, which describes seed as "Michigan Grown", etc. cleaning brought in seed that looke< pretty good to start. They were tolt Cjt's expensive,-and almost needlessly so, when a farmer sees it had to be good to be accepted. Then they saw the seed go over a mill that a promising stand of alfalfa (or clover) winter killed, or riddled separated out the choice No. 1 seeds A large stream of excellent seed anc by summer diseases that unadapted alfalfa or clover can't resist. a smaller stream of shriveled seet and other matter passed before their ^Planting time is far off, but Farm Bureau's seed service is eyes. As one member expressed it busy assembling, testing, cleaning and storing Michigan grown "If I hadn't have seen it, I wouldn't have believed it." alfalfa and clover seeds of the best, highly productive varieties At the Farm Bureau's Shiawassee street warehouse they saw Lansing for you next spring. and central Michigan wholesale anci retail stocks of Farm Bureau seeds CEvery lot must be of northern origin. Our weed seed expert THE SECOND SUMMER feeds, fertilizers, etc. One of the LEFT: Alfalfa not adapted to Michigan. WINTER-KILLED. passes a judgment that is final. Processions of seed samples five floors is devoted to Farm Bureau machinery. Another floor is devoted RIGHT: Alfalfa from Michigan Seed. (State College Photo) march through our germination tests. Our requirements are to wire, fencing, steel roofing. Fre- quently, this large five story building indeed a test for high quality. Daily our modern seed cleaning is cramped to accomodate the Farm are two plots of alfalfa on test in their second summer plant elevates vast quantities of seed from cleaning mill to Bureau's warehouse needs. The visi- tors were mnth interested in the at the Michigan State College. Failure, at the left. Success at cleaning mill, according to the treatment required. Farm Bu- Farm Bureau's display of Westing- house electric refrigerators, washing the right. Why? reau seed is cleaned to super-fine quality. machines, mangles, vacuum sweepers, radios and lamps. The party was CThe pk)t at the right was sown to Michigan grown seed, such CNext spring as usual, you can depend on Farm Bureau seeds entertained at lunch and heard Farm Bureau department heads explain their as the Farm Bureau provides Michigan farmers. Note how thick for the best stands and the high yields. The secret is our selec- vdrk. Those in the party were: and luxuriant the stand is! Plenty of cheap legume hay in a field tion of seed. Ask your Co-op to get Farm Bureau seed for you. Abbotsford—Albert E. Scheffler, W m A. Nolte. of alfalfa like that. For this year and the years to come. Columbus—Fred Winn. Capac—Louis A. Sass, Roy W . Hazzard CThe plot at the left was sown to seed NOT adapted to Mich- FARM BUREAU BRAND SEEDS Irvin Graybiet, Paul Leader, Fred Knoll Are delivered to you in sealed, trade-marked, J. C. Cook, Duane Cook, Harry Tosch. Emmett—Louis Neaton, W . H. V a n . igan (seed from the southern States or South America,-known Farm Bureau Brand bushel and half-bushel Master, Peter E. Neaton. Goodells—Geo. Smith, Fred Badgero, origin, but not adapted here). Winter killing ruined that plot. sacks, direct from our warehouse to you. G. A. Bubel. Memphis—J. C. Plagens, Glenn Merrick A field sown to such unadapted seed would suffer a similar fate. Chester Shirkey. FARM BUREAU SEED Port Huron—Howard Johnston. Smiths Creek—Harry Phillips, Arthur C,The seed for each of these plots appeared equally good. So GUARANTEE Fish. Others in the party were Austin did the stand the first summer. How can you tell hardy alfalfa Farm Bureau Services, Inc., of Lansing, Michigan, guarantees the vitality, descrip- Gwinn of Lapeer, Stanley Sherman of seed from alfalfa that will pass out the first winter? You can't by tion, origin and purity of its Farm Bureau Imlay City, Kenneth Williams of Pontiac, and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Welt looking at it. You must know that you have seed of guaranteed Brands of Seeds to be as represented on the price card and analysis tag to the full of Brown City. northern origin and winter hardiness. amount of the purchase price if received Farm Bureau Seed Cleaning Mills by the customer in our original, sealed and Christmas Tree Harvest BUREAU GUARANTEES northern grown, winter branded bags. Assure Superfine Quality- Damage Isn't Important As a deforestation factor in Mich- igan, the cutting of Christmas trees annually during the pre-holiday season is negligible, believes E. C. Mandenberg, in charge of orchard CO-OP SPREADER FOR TOP EGG PRODUCTION and nursery inspection for Michigan Department of Agriculture. "As a rough, but I believe fair Low, Large Capacity, Pulls Easy estimate, I would say that some- where between 700,000 and 1,000,- 000 Christmas trees are cut in Mich- igan each winter," Mandenberg said. "Probably no more than a half- million Michigan treee actually are used within the State, the surplus of several hundred thousand being burned or thrown away." Mandenberg does not think that 1 * the cutting of spruce, balsam, pine or cedar trees for Christmas tree purposes is of so great a consequence as people generally belijeve. An especially regrettable feature, how- ever, is the destructive manner in BUREAU MERMASH MAKES BUSINESS GOOD which the trees are frequently cut, he says. "All of the trees annually cut in Michigan could be grown on a good- Built Right FEED size southern Michigan farm. There Easy to Load light Draft are Christmas tree plantations in the state that are growing 4,800 trees to the acre." Thousands of Christmas trees are shipped into Michigan each holiday Top of box only 36" from ground. 60 bu. capacity. Sets for 6, 12, 18, 24 loads Weighs 1,200 lbs. or 100 to 500 less than usual. Wide tread wheels, self- Steel angle frame. Heavy steel axles, chains, levers, spokes, teeth. Shreds; pul- Mermash season from Canada, Maine, Ver- per acre. Has 14" road aligning, closed bearings verises manure in wide, With Cod Liver Oil mont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, clearance. Will turn short. with oil chambers. even blanket of fertility. Massachusetts, Idaho,, Washington Less sunshine, colder weather lowers the vitality of hard and California. working hens. Supply this vigor and boost the flocks laying Hay Producers Glum Sault Ste. Marie—Chippewa county, BEFORE BUYING HARNESS average by feeding Mermash. This feed is priced right. a large hay producer, is concerned over the tariff reduction on hay from $5 to $3 per ton, through the Canadian reciprocal trade agreement, effective Ask Your FARM BUREAU ZERO OILS Jan. 1, 1936, according to J. H. Smart, Co-op About manager of the Chippewa county Co- operative Ass'n. "This will permit still more serious FARM competition from Canadian hay in our Always country," he said. "Last year, under the higher tariff, about 300,000 tons BUREAU Start Easy of Canadian hay were distributed in the northwestern States to avert a HARNESSES hay shortage while Chippewa county hay remained unsold." Long We use only No. 1 selected Wearing CREDITS ON PURCHASES steer hides in all harness Help Pay Farm Bureau Dues! and strap work. We get NOTICE TO MEMBERS: Purchases of Farm Bureau Brand dairy and the best in workmanship Lubricate poultry feeds, seeds, fertilizers and fence from your local dealer; also, and hardware. Traces, Perfectly purchases from our clothing and blankets dep't at Lansing, are eligible breechings, strap work Farm Bureau Oil Company now has its own tank cars for gasoline distribu- to membership credits when declared. are extra strong for long tion. Farm Bureau motor oils, refined by the best processes, are highest MAIL YOUR DEALER SALES wear. Write for our quality lubricajits. Thousands of Michigan, Indiana and Ohio Farm Bureau SLIP8 to the Michigan State Farm Bureau, Membership Dep't, 221 North members and other farmers use them. Ask your Co-op Ass 'n for Farm Bureau Buy at ir Street, Lansing, about every harness circular. motor oils and greases. Ask for our MIOCO or Bureau Penn Oils. Your Co-op three months. BE SURE Farm Bureau brand goods are entered on slip as "Farm Bureau Alfalfa," "Milkmaker," "Mermash," etc. For Farm Bureau Supplies flO annual dues mature life mem- >iips; $5 annual dues do not, but I i« ipate in Membership Credits, Which reduce the amount of dues pay- Means Means Life members receive their Merri- MoneymaKer MoneymaKer ll once a year. We furnish addressed, postage SEE YOUR CO-OP OR FARM BUREAU DEALER MILKMAKER FORMULAS p r e p a i d envelopes for this purpose on your request. MILKMAKER FORMULAS Write Us If You Have No Dealer 16, 24 and 32% Protein FARM BUREAU SERVICES, Inc., Lansing, Mich. 16, 24 and 32% Protein M M H H W s | \ I F FARM BI'RE XV Lansing, Michigan