ICH1CAN Vol. KEEP UP On News Interesting to Farmers Through the Farm News XIV, No. 11 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1936 fflWS PUBLISHED For 19,000 Farm Families in 55 Michigan Counties Published Monthly FARM BUREAU CONVENTION NOV. 12-13 AT STATE COLLEGE Behind WARN FARMERS TO Where Farm Bureau Will Hold Annual Meeting Nov. 12-13 ORGANIZATION IS CLOSING ONE OF ITS the BEWARE FOREIGN BEST YEARS; MEMBERSHIP AND FARM Wheel SEED NEXT SPRING ELECTRIFICATION PROGRAMS DO WEL with J. F. Yaeger, Organization Director Clover and Alfalfa Situation Will Bring in Seed of Michigan Bureau Ranks Third in U. S. for Gain Democracy Poor Value In Membership; Sees 52,500 Farms Assured H. G. Wells has called civilization a "contest between education and Farmers are being warned by Prof Electric Power on Plan It Helped Write; catastrophe." That is probably truer Howard C. Rather of the State College today than ever before. And democ- Farm Crops dep't, and by seedsmen Social Events Feature Meeting racy, in America or anywhere else, has that they will probably find on the to think straight or go under. market next spring large offerings of The Michigan State Farm Bureau is preparing to close "There are now among us those foreign grown clover seeds not well one of the greatest years in its history at the 19th annual who would give up, those who have adapted to our climate. lost their faith in the common man The United States Dep't of Agricul- meeting to be held at the Union Memorial building at Mich- and his ability to function in a democ ture has estimated a general 20% re- igan State College, Thursday and Friday, Nov. 1 2 and 13. racy," says M. L. Wilson, assistant duction for 1936 in the normal amount secretary of agriculture, in an address of clover and alfalfa seeds produced. Between 400 and 500 voting delegates from 55 County It to the American Country Life asso portations. is predicting that there will be im- Farm Bureaus and 1 13 associated farmers' elevators, cream- elation. "There are others who have "If Michigan farmers use imported eries and merchandise associations will assemble for the busi- a blind hope that somehow fate will seed to fill their needs, not only will ness sessions. Many members will attend. take care of us; and there are other they have reduced production, but who have an abiding faith in democ- they will ruin the reputation they They will hear their state officers report very substanial racy, and a faith that the common man have as producers of good clover gains in membership this year, and that the Michigan Farm when assisted by educational process seed," said Professor Rather. es, can think things through and can He said that clover seed brought In Bureau ranks third among the 37 State Farm Bureaus for come to sound conclusions which will from European countries will yield at membership acquisition in 1936. They will hear that under thereby safeguard and develop democ- best only 80% of a normal Michigan the Michigan Plan for inducing power companies to build racy." crop. Many stands will not do that rural electric lines at their own expense, Michigan power Tolerance well. After the second cutting from companies have committed themselves to extend lines to Over in Montcalm County in the such stock, the grower can expect community of McBrides, J. DeLeon only 50% of a crop. The same ap- 52,500 farm homes in 1936 and 1937. So far this year the Smith, farmer, is guiding a group of plies to the stand that shows up the Presides companies have built or given assurances on 3,000 miles of young lads in 4-Hfollowing year. livestock club ac- Smooth stemmed European clovers PROGRAM line, to bring service to more than 1 5,000 farm homes. The tivities. Once a are easy prey to leaf hoppers. They plan was proposed by the Farm Bureau and has the support month, usually on a spread clover anthracnose, a disease of the Michigan State Grange. Monday evening, that causes heavy loss to the crop. 19th Annual Meeting The delegates will hear their state officers report the the group meets in Domestic, hairy stemmed clovers re- the local school to sist hopper damage. MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU further growth of their automobile, life and fire insurance discuss progr e s s Recalling 1926 and previous years services; progress in legislation and tax reduction for farm- made. With the when there were enormous importa- 10th Annual Meeting , ers; the rise of a Junior Farm Bureau movement within the youngsters c o m o tions of French and Italian clover their parents. While seeds, and of African, Argentine, Peru- STATE FARM INSURANCE COMPANIES AGENTS Farm Bureau, and upon a long list of commercial services* the boys are hold vian, Italian alfalfa seeds, Roy Ben- The organization will report itself in excellent financial condi- ing their club meet nett of the Farm Bureau Seed Ser- WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11 tion, and enjoying a steady growth in all fields of its endeavor. «/. F. YA£GE&. ing, the parents vice, said that such seeds or mixtures of them with domestic grown seeds 10:00 a. m.—State Farm Mutual Automobile and State Farm Chester Gray, Washington representative of the Ameri- gather together for a round-table dis- Life Co. agents in all day meeting at Union cussion on timely topics. may be sold as much as $6 a bushel under the price of No. 1 Michigan Memorial Building, State College, East Lansing. can Farm Bureau, appears on the program Thursday after- "Some of us belong to farm organ grown or other domestic origin seed noon to discuss the national legislative work of the Farm izations and co-ops, others do not,"adapted to Michigan. 12:00 p. m.—Agents' annual luncheon and program Speakers: says one of the members. "Some are In 1926 and preceding years mil- Pres. J. G. Mecherle of the State Farm Mutual, Bureau and to interpret the November election as far as the New Dealers and some are Old Deal- lions of pounds of clover and alfalfa Vice-Pres. Morris J. Fuller of the State Farm Life future farm program is concerned. Mr. Gray has a national ers. But we have learned to be tole- seeds were imported and mixed in Co.; Vice-Pres. Fred C. Snapp of the State Farm reputation as one of the ablest legislative representatives rant, and I think all of us are honestly with domestic stock. The resulting Life Co. trying to understand what we must do hullabaloo about winter killing and before Congress. He knows what's going on, and has a to have prosperity and stability." 7:30 p. m.—Open House at State Farm Bureau, 221 North pretty good idea of events that will govern the future, and disease losses enabled the Michigan, Cedar St., for members and guests. Surely such procedure, as Mr. Wil- Ohio and New York Farm Bureaus knows how to tell about it. For several years he has appeared son remarks, is "the basis for a great and those of the west, together with hope for democracy." the American Farm Bureau, to have THURSDAY, Nov. 12 President Jakway, Berrien county on the Michigan Farm Bureau program in this capacity, and Deer ongress enact the Gooding-Ketcham 9:30 a. m.—Annual business meeting of Michigan State Farm fruit grower, will preside and will is considered a No. 1 attraction. With the coming deer hunting sea- federal seed staining law. That law Bureau at Union Memorial Building, State College. open the 19th annual meeting of the Social Events *' son, the usual run of stories is going provides that imported clover and al- Ample parking facilities nearby. State Farm Bureau at State College, Socially the Farm Bureau will have Farm Bureau Women's the rounds. One that struck us as be- alfa seeds must be stained at the President's Address Thursday morning, Nov. 12, with the a good time. Wednesday some 350 ing a particularly good one is told by U. S. port of entry to indicate their Executive Secretary's Report president's address. State Farm Mutual insurance agents Breakfast Is Thursday Fred Dobbyn, Farm Bureau represen- country of origin, and how well they and their wives will have their an- tative in northern Michigan. It seems are adapted to our climatic conditions. 2:00 p. m.—ADDRESS—By Mr. Chester Gray, Washington Speaker nual meeting and luncheon. By MRS. EDITH M. WAGAR that Fred and a buddy were hunting When such seeds arrive, federal in- representative of the American Farm Bureau. Wednesday evening the Junior Farm We extend to our women a last birds recently when Fred saw a fine spectors squirt a quantity of eosin Presentation of Resolutions. Bureau will hold open house at State minute invitation to attend all ses- antlered buck lying on the ground. dye of the proper color into the sack Farm Bureau headquarters in Lan-sions of our coming annual State As Fred remarked that some hunter of seed. Even though the seeds be THURSDAY EVENING sing for all early arrivals for the Farm Bureau meeting at State Col- had beat the season considerably his mingled with domestic stock, the tell- convention. ege, November 12 and 13. partner kicked the carcass at their tale colored seeds are always to be 6:15 p. m.—12th Annual Dinner and Old Time Square Dance of Dispense With Speeches All will want to see our Junior feet. To their surprise the deer jump- 'ound. the State Farm Bureau at Union Memorial Bldg., Thursday evening the Farm Bu- Farm Bureau in action on Wednesday ed to its feet and with but one look Federal requirements for coloring State College, East Lansing. Tickets 75c. reau will have its annual dinner and evening. Thursday morning at 7:30 at the men made off into the woods at mported alfalfa and red clover seed old time party at the Union Memorial sharp our women will take breakfast Pres. J. J. Jakway, presiding building. This year the program together in the Union Building at top speed. Fred says, "I don't know are: Program of Music which was the more surprised, the RED COLOR—Seed not adapted In committee has dispensed with speech Michigan State College and listen to a he United States. Presence of any Other Entertainment es. Following the dinner will come program given by the women. deer or us." Old Time Dancing Party Beat that one. red colored seeds should be sufficient a program of entertainment. Then A little later on that same morning Friends warning. Red color is applied to red the old time party with plenty of the general session will begin. Every FRIDAY, NOT. 18 square and round dancing. From 600 Farm Bureau woman will be Interest- As I stood looking into a store win- clover from Italy and alfalfa grown to 700 attend this event. ed In what has been accomplished and dow on Front Street, Traverse City, n Africa and Turkestan. Ten per 9:80 a. m.—Farm Bureau business meeting at Union Building. :ent of such seeds are stained red. Resolutions Resolutions Committee what we hope to do In the future by Dave Netzorg, the proprietor, came out, introduced himself, asked about GREEN COLOR—Seed adapted only Election of Directors The resolutions committee will united effort. my health, business, where I hailed o certain sections of' the United New Business assemble at Lansing Tuesday to be- from, etc. We were soon acquainted States. Green color applied to all Adjournment gin work on the proposals that have and chatted for a half hour. red clover and alfalfa seeds from any been offered by County Farm Bu- Clover, Alfalfa Seed other foreign country except Canada. reaus for determining the Farm Bu- Crops Cut by Drought "You may think it odd," said Friend One per cent of such seed stained ROOMS reau program of work for 1937. The Dave, "that I approach you, a strang- reen. Room reservations for East Lansing or Lansing residences or committee will complete its work er, in this way but making friends is VIOLET—Seed from Canada. Well Lansing hotels should be made early as rooms are in strong sometime Thursday by presenting a Washington—A 20 per cent reduc- my hobby. I like people, like to know adapted to Michigan and anywhere demand. The Farm Bureau will be glad to make reservations committee report to the delegates for tion in the production of clover and all about them and make it a point to n the U. S. The color is irridescent for you. Write us at once, or see us promptly on arrival. their consideration. From there on alfalfa seed has been reported by the remember them." iolet and is applied to 1% of the the resolutions of policy are consid- Bureau of Agricultural Economics. The As he spoke he hailed a dozen or eed. High spot In the speaking program ered separately on the floor, and de-production of seed of various grasses more passing folk by their first names DINNER TICKETS of the Farm Bureau convention will bate among the delegates gets under has been cut in half. The reduction and they returned the greeting in For Farm Bureau dinner and square dance Thursday evening be the address Thursday afternoon by way. is mainly the result of drought. kind. Dave introduced me to several. Michigan Wools Win are 75c each. Early reservations will be appreciated by the Chester Gray, Washington represen- The State Farm Bureau convention Of the Important grasses and clov- I soon found that Dave is a Farm committee. tative of the American Farm Bureau. Bureau member although not a farm- In Pacific Coast Show His analysis of the national farm sit- will conclude sometime Friday next ers commonly sown in the spring, only alsike clover exceeded the 1935 pro- uation and the legislative possibili- with the election of half the state er. Michigan has won some new laurels board of directors. The directors will duction this year. The grasses suf- "We make a lot of fuss about tour- n wool production and this time from ties is given much consideration by Dip Baby Perch From the delegates when they come to reso- organize by electing a president, vice fered more from the drought than did ists, in this town," said Dave, "but western states where fleeces are far Another Large Wheat lutions on national affairs. president and naming an executive the legumes, with largest decreases forget that the tourist business is our more numerous. Five fleeces selected Acreage Is With Us secretary and treasurer for the ensu- in seed production reported for tinv 'pie and ice cream' while the farmer 'rom winners at the recent state fair Big Lakes for Anglers ing year. othy, Kentucky bluegrass, orchard business is our 'meat and potatoes' n Detroit were sent out to the recent Branch Junior Farm Other outstanding Farm Bureau grass, and Sudan grass. the year around. I believe in sup- enth annual Pacific International Washington—Another large wheat porting the farmer's activities. He wool show at Portland, Ore. D. H. acreage is in prospect in this country, the annual heavy runs of fingerling Fisheries authorities are waiting for Bureau Has Meeting accomplishments include an for the year 1935-36 The bureau said that in general the important part in defeat- carry-over of grass and clover seed 10 supports my business. That's why I'm aVoi, extension specialist in animal said the Bureau of Agricultural Eco- perch from the Great Lakes waters so Wednesday evening, October 14th, Ing three proposed constitutional smaller than in 1935. Notable excep- the Junior Farm Bureau of Branch a Farm Bureau member." husbandry at Michigan State College, nomics in its monthly summary of that the harvest of these fish can be county held its first 1936 meeting at amendments in November that threat- tions are timothy, redtop, and Sudan And that'8 how I met Dave Nort- received word that four of them took world wheat prospects. started on time for stocking inland ened farm tax and school Interests; grass, of which the carryover is much zorg. sweepstakes at the western show. It pointed out that wheat prices are waters, particularly the designated the Southeast Coldwater Community the opening of a Farm Bureau cherry larger than usual. But the carry over House. About thirty boys and girls and other fruits canning plant at of alsike clover, red clover, and sweet Bees They were exhibited by O. W. Sober more attractive than at seeding time "pike" lakes. spent an enjoyable evening together Up in Leelanau County, James Hil- and Sons, Fowlerville, two Shropshire last year or this spring. Seedings for With the exception of a very few and made definite plans for the future Hart and a plant at Coloma; the de- clover is the smallest In a number of bert of Bingham is known as the bee trophies; L. E. and Sidney Howard, harvest in 1936 of both winter and years, immense schools of young of this organization. velopment of the Junior Farm Bu- years. king. Jim has hundreds of colonies Alanson, Hampshire fleece; and spring wheat were approximately perch have appeared at certain places They plan to meet twice monthly. reau; offering of Farm Bureau ser- It is expected that prospective of bees which he rents to the cherry Jeorge Haist, Chelsea, Black Top De- 74,500,000 acres, the largest on record along the shorelines of Lakes Mich- At these meetings, group discussions vice in farm and town fire insurance, shortages of certain kinds of seeds growers of that area. They want bees aine fleece. Other entries are await- xcept for 1919. Abandonment and igan and Huron in the fall and in will be held, also a social period will and new developments In the Farm commercial services, Includ- will be offset in part by larger imports in their orchards during the time that ng judging in the Texas Centennial crop loss due to unfavorable weather some instances have run up stream. be enjoyed. Some high lights of fu- Bureau's ing the new and rather sensational than in several years, and by such sub- the fruit blossoms are being pollinated. at Dallas and more Michigan compe- were exceptionally large and resulted Fisheries workers depend upon these ture meetings will be a talk by a Co-op tractor. stitutions as alsike clover and timothy The story is told that Jim's father, tition of perhaps 30 fleeces will be in in small production relative to acre- runs for their annual iperch stocking State Trooper, a visit from the State seed for red clover, soybeans for other also a bee man, conceived the idea state show and individual judging age sown. supplies, since perch are not propa- Director of the Junior Farm Bureau, In 1936 the State Farm Bureau had legumes, and by smaller rates of of taking his bees to Cuba to avoid at the International Live Stock ex- If yields should turn out to be near gated at the hatcheries for planting in also various business men and M. S. C. 55 County Farm Bureaus; had 350seeding. winter. Jim's dad calculated upon a position in Chicago in late November. average or above for the 1937 crop, inland waters. insurance agents In the field, and was extension workers will be guests. represented in its commercial services crop of honey the year 'round. He did the bureau said, "production would be Just that but the bees got wise to the Spain produces almost one-half of in excess of domestic requirements Holland immigrants came to Mich- Uncle Ab says that one flood which Bureau by 300 farmers' elevators and 12 Farm Uncle Ab says if you keep out of fact that they did'nt have to store the world's olive oil and twice the and prices in the United States would igan after the Island of Java was never does any barm la a flood of not served branch stores serving areas bad places when you're alive, you amount produced by Italy. by other farmers co-opera needn't worry much about the b*4 (Continued on Page 6.) fall to export levels." closed to them, Ideas, tlref. placet after 70a are dead. TWO IT I f TT I (i V \ F A I? I f NKW S SATTRDAY, NOVEMBER 7, California Tour Returns by Will Report Way of Texas, New Orleans WkA.'M.and later, through the Louisiana Purchase, Buocessor to the Michigan Farm Bureau News, founded January 12, 1923 Farm Bureau Folks to Travel Mississippi Valley For 912 Miles the Stars and Stripes were unfurled to the breeze over the Place d' Arnes, now Jackson Square. (MARTHA CLARK i Entered at second class matter January 12, 1923, at the post- 912 Miles to Chicago office at Charlotte, Michigan, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Editor's Note—December 2, Farm From Now Orleans we travel over Bureau members from many - Published first Saturday of each month by the Michigan State Farm Bureau at its publication office at 114 Lovett St., Charlotte, Michigan. will leave Chicago by special train for the American Farm Bureau con- vention at Pasadena, Cal., Dec. 7-8- the 912-mile route of the Illinois Cen- tral System to Chicago, the oldest rail- Hiram, On Digging Potatoes ri-lfi-n. The Michigan Farm Bureau road linking New Orleans with the In general I like the work I do, Editorial and general offices, 221 North Cedar St., Lansing, Michigan. will join them for a tour by way of Postoffice Box 250. Telephone, Lansing 21-271. Denver, the Royal Gorge and Boulder North. Swinging westward to round (Kind Heaven pity any man who doesn't: Dam, and to return by way of the Lake Pontchartrain, we cross the Bon- Who has to drive himself to carry through; Grand Canyon and N«w Orleans. The Who finds life hard, and wishes that it wasn't). EINAR UNGREN Editor and Business Manager Michigan group will get home about net Carre Spillway, recently completed Dec 19. to divert the waters of the Mississippi I like to drive the team. I like to plow Subscription 25 cents per year; 4 years for $1, in advance. Would you like to go to. California in time of flood for the protection of And work a seedbed up that's soft and mellow. to attend the American Farm Bureau New Orleans. IVe pass through many I like to build a stack, or milk a cow I like to work as well as any fellow. Vol. XIV SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1936 No. 11 convention at Pasadena Dec. 8-12, and miles of cypress and bayou country. spend 18 days, December 2-19, sight- After crossing the Manchac River, And yet there are exceptions to the rule. seeing along the way, visiting many leading from Lake Maurepas, we en- For instance, this potato digging chore Riles up in me a temper like a mule, interesting places in the west and ter the nation's greatest strawberry Three Amendments Lose southwest? belt in Tangipahoa Parish, which ships And makes me uglier than I was before. Returns from half the state's voting precincts, including the more The Michigan Farm Bureau will con- thousands of carloads of the delicious I do not like to fork the stubborn clay populous centers, indicate that proposed Constitutional Amendments Or shake each forkful as I have to do duct a tour whereby $158.95 will pay berries to northern markets each year. To loosen off the dirt. I cannot say No. 3 and No. 4 are lost beyond question. They were opposed by the Farm Bureau, Grange and many city and farm groups interested in main- the expense for one person for rail- Hammond, La., is the center of the It pleases me to spear a spud or two. CLARK i. BRQDY taining state aid for schools, and fearful that No. 4 would wreck local road fare, meals, sightseeing trips, strawberry industry. Or hump my back and pick them, when they're dry, incidentals and a Pullman lower berth Mississippi Executive Secretary and Treasurer governments and their finances. The size of the favorable vote for these Up into crates, or load them on the boat, Brody will report the accomplish- amendments shows that the farm and city groups opposed were wise in for the trip from Chicago to the west Through Southern Mississippi, for- Or carry each one down the cellar-way and return. For those taking an up- ests of yellow pine gradually give way When each seems like the last one I can tote. ments of the State Farm Bureau for starting early and intensive campaigns of discussion regarding them. the past year when the annual meet- The Farm Bureau held amendments meetings in every part of the state per berth, the rate is $154.45. For to cotton fields. At Crystal Springs The wind blows chill around me while I sweat, each of two persons sharing a lower ing opens Thursday morning next. As for two months preceding the election. Proposal No. 1 had general sup- we are in the midst of a flourishing And usually my nose runs quite a lot, usual his report will analyze the port and carried. Opinion was divided on No. 2 and it appears to have berth, $147.70. vegetable belt, producing thousands of (Whereon I use my glove) and you can bet The general effect is not so hot. standing of the organization and make lost. The Associated Press gave this count on the amendments for half carloads of tomatoes and other vege- recommendations for the future. Be- the state: tables each year. At Jackson, the I like to sit and husk the yellow corn tween annual meetings of the Farm capital, metropolis and railway center And haul it in and heap the corncrib high. No. 1—To amend the Constitution to admit in court as The Indian Summer haze at early morn Bureau, its program is carried on and of Mississippi, we may glimpse the adapted to the times by a board of 16 evidence dangerous weapons seized in automobiles Is like a benediction to my eye. beautiful state capitol on the left. state directors. The executive secre- and elsewhere outside of home by police officers. Speeding northward from Jackson we But, as you may surmise from what I've said, tary is responsible to the board for YES 431,489 pass through Canton, Durant and Gren- I have my weakness, same as everyone, And I'll be glad the night I go to bed the administration and the general NO 257,947 ada with their ante-bellum homes and Murmuring "There, by gosh, that job is done!" management of the Farm Bureau's No. 2—To amend Constitution to permit counties to change memories of old plantation days, public relations and broad program of their form of government; provided a majority in where King Cotton is still supreme. business services that are of interest principal city of county, and a majority in all the Memphis to probably 75,000 Michigan farm rest of the county agree to the change in form. Memphis, the metropolis of Tennes- families. YES 317,445 see, with a population of 253,000, is NO 336,698 the world's largest hardwood lumber New Angle No. 3—To amend the Constitution to provide sales tax market and a leading inland cotton A school teacher trying to impress shall not be collected on common articles of food. market. It has a diversity of manufac- her class with the destructive effect YES 320,816 WAY DOWN SOUTH turing enterprises, carries on an ex- of alcohol, procured two earth-worms, NO 440,314 tensive wholesale trade and is served one of which she dropped in a bottle The above figures do not include ex- by ten railway systems. of alcohol and the other into a bottle No. 4—To amend the constitution to abolish personal and property taxes for local or state purposes and sub- penses while spending four days- at The route northward from Memphis of water. stitute therefor a state income tax, to be distribut- Pasadena, nor the expense from home passes through an important cotton- Next day the worm in alcohol was ed to local schools and governments by the state. to Chicago and return. producing region. Tobacco is an im- dead; the one in water, still alive. YES 203,501 For this trip, preliminary reserva- portant crop in northern Tennessee "Now children," she said primly, NO 497,321 tions, accompanied by a deposit of and western Kentucky. The region "you see what happened here. What $20 must be with the Michigan State between Dyersburg and Fulton was CONTROL. BY CORPORATIONS ceive 43.3 per cent of the total in- do you think alcohol do^s to a man?" Farm Bureau at Lansing by Nov. 15.the hunting ground of Davy Crockett, The size of some of the big corpor- come of the 300,000 corporations, ac- Silence and deep thought—maybe— What Was Said in the Campaign? The total travel expense for each per- the famous frontiersman who lost his ations is staggering. Of the 300,000 cording to the New York Times. by children. At last one youngster By MRS. EDITH M. WAGAR son must be paid to the Farm Bureau life in the Battle of the Alamo. A few non-banking corporations, 200, con-They control almost two-fifths of all hazarded. "By the time this gets in print the election will be over. management by November 23. About miles west of Obionls Reelfoo%t Lake, sisting of 42 railroads, 52 utilities business wealth, and almost one-fif- "Well, he wouldn't have worms, "Every woman an intelligent voter" has been a slogan of the women 75 persons have interested themselves which was created by an earthquake and 106 industrial enterprises, re- th of all the wealth in this country. that's sure!" of the American Farm Bureau Federation for many years. in the Michigan tour. The New This slogan had a definite purpose. It was intended to arouse the England and New York Farm civic sense of every farm woman to the point that she might become Bureau delegations will connect more interested in politics that affect agriculture, and also in the public with the Michigan group at Chi- officials administering those policies. cago. It was also intended to create a desire among rural women to know In our last edition we describ- more about public questions before making a decision. ed the trip as far as Houston, But after one has gone through a campaign such as we have endured Tex. We complete the descrip- J this fall, how can one feel certain about the intelligence exhibited by tion in this edition: anyone On to New Orleans How could anyone, no matter how intelligent, distinguish between Leaving Houston behind, our fact and propaganda, when seemingly every side of every public problem train carries us eastward over Is distorted and misrepresented to fit the whims of over zealous poli- the coastal plain through fields ticians? of rice and cotton and truck SufHi This is democracy in free speech and a free press, but there's a crops and through forests of cy- demoralizing danger in the practice unless this freedom is bound by the mm moral laws of integrity. press and other growth strange And is it always free speech with the common people? Just try it to Northern eyes. Petroleum, once and one will soon learn that you cannot give your neighbor the sulphur and salt mining are im- epithets that anyone from any political platform can heap on the head of portant sources of wealth in this a president, a governor, a United States senator, or any other citizen region. in public office. It would be malicious slander if you were to try it on Speeding eastward through someone outside of the public eye. Louisiana's famous "Cajun Land" I wonder how comfortable were some of those attending the funeral we pass quaint little villages of the late Senator Couzens, should they recall their bitter denunciations where dwell descendants of the of him so short a time before? How shameful it seemed to read the French Acadians who were ban- fine tributes expressed by some former associates and by the metropolitan ished from Nova Scotia and press, when so short a time before they had attacked him. Why! Oh found refuge here nearly two Why! could not some of the kind words have been spoken while he was centuries ago. here to know that at least there were a few of his good deeds appreciated? Then through the nation's I have been more disturbed about the effects of the recent campaign "Sugar Bowl", past immense on the youth of today than I have been by the political side of it. Just fields of sugar cane, with here • i • what will be the opinions formed by developing minds from the tirades and there a village built around MISSISSIPPI BRIDGE AT CAIRO of abuse from pulpits, from members of faculties of national institutions a huge sugar refinery. We are re- of learning, and from those whom they have a right to believe are to minded that Louisiana produces more guide them into upright manhood? than 90 per cent of all the sugar cane The Mississippi River is again It may be I was born thirty years too soon, but I would relish a little grown in the United States. Bright reached at Wickliffe, noted for its mores respect and decency injected into some of our civic functions, so that we may perform our duty with a little more enthusiasm, and feel sure that we have had presented to us an unbiased statement of facts on and early in the morning we are up to prehistoric mounds, and a few miles catch glimpses of picturesque bayous beyond we cross into Illinois over the and old plantation homes nestling Cairo Bridge. At the time it was built, How To Get Your Share which to base our judgment. peacefully among moss-draped oaks. in 1889, the Cairo Bridge was the Your natural soil is just about ahead if you plant beets every Soon we are crossing the great world's longest metallic structure "made to order" for a profit- single year. After the Election Comment bridge spanning the Mississippi, and across a river, its length between abut- able planting of Sugar Beets. "The country has approved of the New Deal. In the most emphatic New Orleans spreads majestically be- ments is about four miles. Now here is another important endorsement ever registered by the Voters of the nation, President F. D. fore us—New Orleans, the Crescent The Corn Belt The essential consideration, point: Beets are unusually Roosevelt has been returned to office. Only two states—Maine and City, with its mile upon mile of busy From Centralia to Chicago, a dis- from every standpoint, in the "tough". They can "stand Vermont—failed to join the coast to coast avalanche of approval. It is docks and wharves where ships of the tance of 250 miles, the railroad tra- the gaff". As a matter of fact, not the time to complain, the people are behind the presidential program," seven seas load and unload their car- verses an almost unbroken prairie, profitable growing of Sugar wrote republican editor Murl H. DeFoe in his Charlotte Republican- goes—cotton, lumber, machinery, pe- where corn, oats and livestock are the Beets, is to stick to a regular beets, more than any other Tribune. Continuing, Mr. DeFoe said: troleum, coffee, bananas, sisal, sugar, principal agricultural products. Mat- acreage in beets every single crop, develop in wet weather, "The everyday American took no stock in the charge that Roosevelt cocoanuts and what not. toon is the center of a rich broom- year. If you do that you will in dry weather, in hot weath- is a communist and aspires to be a dictator. In the first place neither We shall find much to hold our in- corn belt. At Champaign is located er and in cold weather. story is true. It can't happen here. Roosevelt's Americanism is just terest during our days in this strang- the University of Illinois. At Rantoul make more money in the long as deep rooted as that of any other eastern seaboard family. His ante- est of all American cities, with its is located Chanute Flying Field of run. This means that when you cedents go back to the earliest Dutch colony days in New York. No Creole atmosphere, its Old French the United States Army. Here's why: Sugar Beets fit grow beets and get up against American of his birth and breeding has any such notion. America is too Quarter, its historic Jackson Square, Soon we enter the outlying suburbs into your rotation program adverse weather conditions, big and too sound for any such talk. The communistic-dictator charge its storied cabildo, its Audobon Park, of Chicago—Matteson, Flossmoor, can hardly be classed as silly. It doesn't even rate such a dignity. its old French Market, its quaint Homewood, Harvey and Pullman, admirably. you are more certain of a good America is greater than any man or set of men. The people have streets and courtyards, its many in- where the great Pullman Works are yield than you are with any spoken definitely on this point. Such a charge has no place in our teresting shops. located. We pass the University of For you grow beets not only to other cultivated crop. national thinking." New Orleans was founded in 1718, Chicago and the site of the World's make money but also for the You can make more money on Nor is there anything in our opinion to the talk that the republican and became the capitol of Louisiana Columbian Exposition. Our last few beneficial effect on your soil. Sugar Beets on a year in and party is disintegrating. While Mr. Roosevelt won 519 votes in the territory in 1721. During the first miles are along Lake Front Park, site electoral college to 8 for Mr. Landon, it is to be remembered that the The growing and proper culti- year out basis than you can popular vote presents an entirely different picture. Mr Roosevelt vation of beets gives to your from any other crop, and there received more than 24,000,000 votes, including the solid south Mr Landon received the support of 15,000,OOD voters. That doesn't appear to soil those necessary elements are ample facts to back this be disintegration. It suggests bed rock support. required to keep it healthy, statement. fertile and productive of You'll always get your just other crops in the natural share of Michigan's $10,000,- Packaged Meats Build ping, and so speed up sales, and be- cycle of rotation* 000 Sugar Beet crop if you cause they can be displayed in win- Up Livestock Markets dows and on counters so easily and Your rotation might be clover, stick to a regular Sugar Beet The use of packaged meats, and attractively. Since meats, and dairy corn, then Sugar Beets, then planting year after year, after and poultry products, in wrappers and dairy and poultry products, is build- containers stimulate sales in retail oats or barley, but whatever year. ing up bigger and more stable nation- shops, and tend to offset the alluring might be the best rotation for wide markets for these essential foods appeals of competing foods, they are Farmers and Manufacturers Beet in all parts of the land. Housewives providing raisers of cattle, hogs, your locality, you'll be money Sugar Association, Saginaw, Mich. accustomed to the use of these pack- lambs and poultry with wider outlets aged and containered foods like them for meat animals, and poultry and because they are offered by retailers dairy produce, than would otherwise KING COTTON REIGNS IN MISSISSIPPI in convenient sizes, are sanitary and be possible. wholesome, and are helping to elimi- eighty-three years of its history it was of the Century of Progress Exposition. For Reliable Year In and Year Out Profits nate waste from evaporation and spoilage. They also like them because Vt>s AIM! \ O He: "And so you think women have peopled and ruled first by the French Our train brings us into Central Sta- and later by the Spaniards. In 1801tion, adjacent to Grand Park and com- the trade-marks and brand names great strength of mind? Do you be-the city and province were ceded back manding a magnificent view of the YOU CANT BEAT SUGAR BEETS printed outside are unfailing guides lieve any woman would do as Caesar to France, under Napoleon, but the world-famed Michigan Boulevard, and to quality. Dealers like packaged! did and refuse a crown?" treaty was kept secret until 1S03, when we are almost home again . . . after meats and other such foods because She: "I think so. Of course, she the Spanish standard gave place to nearly 5,000 miles of travel together. they need neither weighing nor wrap- might try it on to see how it looked." th« French tri-color, and a few months - A . S.ATI'RDAY. \ O V K M R F R 7. 19JM5 M ir H i A If F A K M N E W S THREE GREASE IS CHEAP Dogs Far Better Than Farm Bureau in 1936 . . . Opens Fruit Canning Plant at Hart Cats in Catching Rats PROTECTION FOR Ithaca, N. Y.—Only a few oats are IDLE MACHINERY good at catching vats, and small fe- male casts are more efficient ratters than are large torn cats, according to a Cornell bulletin on the control of Prevents Rust and Assures rats. Better Operation Next Many dogs are without peer at the Spring art the bulletin said. The smaller breeds, such as terriers, are especially There may be some question about efficient, but airdales have likewise Dayton Water Systems whether it costs less to house ma- been proved in battle. A single ter- chinery than to let it weather and rier killed 80 of the pests in a ware- Dayton has the largest selling, highest quality and lowest priced line of farm depreciate faster, but there is no house in a single night. electric automatic water systems on the market. question that grease is cheaper than "Unlike the cat, dogs waste no time For full particulars and descriptive rust and wear, says E. C. Sauve, of in torturing their prey, but, with a literature see your Farm Bureau deal- the agricultural engineering depart- savage shake, throw down the dead er, or write Farm Bureau Services, Lansing, Mich., or write ment at Michigan State College. Frequently Sauve is asked by a rat and proceed to destroy all that re- DAYTON PUMP & MFQ. COMPANY 116 No. Hosmer Lansing, Mich. farmer, "How long will my tractor main. last?" There seems to be no specific answer, says Sauve, but for the pur- pose of estimating annual depreciation he approximates the average life of FARMERS! a tractor at ten years. Annual de- preciation is thus ten per cent, and Cherries are washed, then sent to Where empty cans and cherries Insure in Michigan's Largest Farm Mutual this estimate applies as well to other these sorting tables, and on to get together for their trip to the farm machinery. the pitting machines. cookers. Fire Insurance Company "Depreciation in farm machinery is Assets and resources nearly $300,000 over half of which Is In cash, Govern- due to two causes, wear and deteri- ment Bonds and Bonds guaranteed by the U. S. Government. Have paid oration from weather. Wear may be farmers in Michigan over $5,235,617.00 in losses since organization. Losses satisfactorily adjusted and promptly paid. -caused by necessity of producing work, Blanket policy on farm personal which often pays double a classified policy. while deterioration may be caused by Bureau Products Company Credits In assessments allowed for approved fire extinguishers, lire resisting Plant at Hart, Michigan. roof on dwellings and lightning rods. Assessment as low as $2.94 per $1000. neglect on the ipart of the owner in Careful underwriting and systematic inspection reducing overinaurance and properly caring for his equipment. eliminating undesirable risks and fire hazards. "It need not be argued that such DON'T JUST BUT INSURANCE—BUY PROTECTION, For further lnfor- machines as tractors, combines, bind- mation write Home Office. ers, mowers, hayloaders and plows should be placed under cover when State Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of Michigan not in use. These machines also will W. V. Burras, Pres. 702 Church St., Flint, Mich. H. K. Fisk, Sec'y have years of additional life if they are given an occasional coat of paint." Sauve suggests that polished work- ing surfaces such as plow bottoms, coulters, cultivator shovels and har- row disks be protected from weather- ing by a coating of grease. Grease is cheaper protection and should be used whenever it is advisable to pre- Co-op Separator vent rusting and to insure better op- eration when the equipment again is put into use. Pie bakeries buy cherries in large 2. Three of eight cherry pitting cans. Cherries are being pre- machines at Farm Bureau Fruit heated before going to sealers Little Beef and Lamb Products plant at Hart. and the cookers. Are Put Into Storage When the1 Farm Bureau stepped growers had more cherries than grow- machinery a few years back as a It is significant that the success at The American public likes fresh into the cherry canning industry at ers in other parts of the country. On cherry canning plant, This year it Hart and the influence of the Farm beef and lamb roasts, steaks and other Hart this summer, the industry sat request of its members in Oceana has been converted to handle other Bureau on the entire cherry market in such cuts far more than it does those up and took notice. The price to county, the State Farm Bureau took fruits. Plums, peaches, Bartlett pears that region has developed a willing- from frozen beef and lamb. Because growers for cherries moved up. Every an option on the Great Lakes plant. and some tomatoes have been canned. ness by other interests to pay consid- High of this, practically no beef and lamb grower in Oceana and many in Ma- The growers organized the Oceana The plant was completing a run oferably more for the Hart and Coloma are put into what is commonly known son county benefited. as cold storage. Although frozen beef Fruit Growers, Inc., to contract de- several weeks on Keifer pears early in plants than is called for in the option For Farm Bureau members and livery of cherries. The Farm Bureau November. and lamb are as nutritious and pala- associated growers, the Farm Bureau Fruit Products Company was set up The Farm Bureau plant is probably fruit growers. held by the Farm Bureau and the Skimming table as fresh beef and lamb, the Fruit Products Company canned to operate the plant and market the the only plant in Michigan which is C. N. Hinman is managing the Farm moment the fresh carcasses are froz- 2,800,000 pounds of cherries on a co- pack. equipped to process large tree fruits Bureau Fruit Products Co. for the en the price at which they may beoperative basis. Before the Farm Bu- The venture has been successful. on the belt conveyor system from Farm Bureau Services. Wilson Beam sold over the retail butcher's block reau came in the former Great So far the growers have had the 21,4 c start to finish. continues as the long time superin- immediately falls from two to three Lakes Fruit Products plant at Hart which was to be their top price . . . The Farm Bureau Products Com- tendent of the Hart plant, and Joe Cox Efficiency cents a pound. Storage costs further stood idle. It was understood that and they still have a substantial pay- pany is also operating and has an op-at the Coloma plant. O. E. Hawley of add to the unprofitableness of such a 214c would be the top price to grow- ment coming. tion on an older general processing Shelby and George Foster of Hart venture. ers. The Farm Bureau Fruit Products plant for all fruits at Coloma in Ber-are president and secretary of the As a matter of fact, practically all 1936 was a year when Michigan plant above, was equipped with new rien county. Oceana Fruit Growers, Inc. at of the beef and lamb which is put in to storage is later used not for roasts, steaks and other such cuts but for sausage products and other prepared Simple Treatment Protects vainly to find some sure means of combat. But none was found for Mint Hay Danger Low hundreds of years. meats. The amount of beef and lamb Children from Diphtheria In 1826 a French physician, Pierce Danger of posioning cattle, sheep which is frozen by the packers repre- Brettonneau, performed thefirstsuc-and horses from mint hay carrying a sents only a very small percentage case of any disease known to be con- cessful surgery ever tried in a diph- residue of calcium arsenate should of all the beef and lamb which is sold. Painless, Harmless Process tagious occurred. But when the very theria case. His patient was a little be watched closely this fall in the Even though, at times, the beef and lamb in storage may run into millions Said to Be Almost Certain ' first case of diphtheria appeared, the child, choking and dying. He opened opinion of the farm crops department Preventative blast of the "Shofar" was sounded at the trachea, just below the larynx, at Michigan State College. Most mint Cost of pounds, only a relatively small once. and -inserted a tube so that, although growers follow the accepted practice number pf meat animals shipped to Parents are constantly urged to Down through the ages diphtheria the child could no 'longer obtain air of dusting with the poison to control market in a year's time are handled protect their children from the wrought its dreadful work. Epidemic through the mouth and nasal passages, the mint flea beetle. Lack of rain this Here is one of the best separators made. Our manufacturer in this way. During the past year, ravages of diphtheria. after epidemic occurred. The year he could obtain it through the tra-summer to wash off this residue has Swift & Company, one of the largest Protective treatment is simple, al- 1492 is known to us chiefly as thechea, or, as most people know it, the left dangerous amounts in some of has been a leader in the field for 40 years. You will find it packers, froze and temporarily held most painless, and certainly harmless. year in which Columbus discovered wind-pipe. The child lived, and one the mint hay cured after distilling. a good value. only about one-third of one per cent of anti-toxin and toxin America, to students of medical his- more victory was credited to the sur- The feding value of mint hay is well of its lamb, about three per cent of its Developments anti-toxin marks an important step in tory it is known as the year of thegeon's knife and skill. recognized. Where any danger is See the model which many Farm Bureau dealers have on dis- beef, and a small fraction of one per the conquest of the disease. great diphtheria epidemic. Time went on. What is known as possible in feeding the hay, reducing cent of its veal. play. The National Co-op guarantees the satisfactory Back in the dawn of recorded his- Again and again the waves of dis-the germ theory began to be developed. the amount fed per day and using operation of its cream separators and maintains convenient NEBRASKA IS THE 40TH tory, its devastation was known. Little ease rolled over stricken Europe. In 188JJ the germ of diphtheria was other forages is recommended. Dairy Diphtheria was only one type of ter- discovered by a German named Klebs, stocks of supplies. Nebraska has become the 40th else about\. it was understood save rible contagion. There were others. and the germ was later isolated by an- cattle are subject to sickness, lessened State to be certified as a modified ac- that it appeared in epidemic form and production and even death. Sheep credited area and practically free seemed to spread among the people But none caused deeper sorrow than other German named Loeffler. How and horses also may be affected if SEE YOUR FARM BUREAU DEALER from bovin tuberculosis. Michigan as fire on a wind-swept prairie, and diphtheria because so regularly it important is in the the isolation of the germ too much of the dusting powder is re- advancement of scientific tained in the hay. was one of the first. New York, it was feared even as the pioneers took the young, left mothers weeping New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, feared the prairie fire. for their children. The children be- medicine few realize. When dozens of Vermont and Rhode Island, South It was the custom among the He-tween babyhood and 10 years of age different forms of one-celled life are Dakota and California have yet to brews to sound a blast of the horn were its favorite victims. Various all massed together it is utterly im- complete the work. known as the "Shofar" when the third physicians studied the disease, sought possible to tell what is the effect of any single one of them. So it remains for the patient worker, dealing with Sales Are Being Made by Wool Marketing Ass'n forms of life so tiny that they can only be seen with powerful micro- scopes, to separate them out, one by Insist it move by one, then to know them in quantity, and to experiment with them until it is learned what will be the result railroad . . . . when each or any is introduced into a living organism. This is the why of experiments on animals. Without the animal as a When there's freight to go, when there's freight means of study of the effect of strange but powerful microscopic organisms, to come, insist it move By railroad. Sample bags of the unnumbered human lives would have graded wool of the been sacrificed to one disease after Freight via railroad means efficient handling, Michigan Co-opera- another. Following the work of Klebs speedy movement, on-time arrival tive Wool Marketing and Loeffler, other workers, patiently toiling away in the quite and isolation Ass 'n displayed on of their own crude laboratories, made Freight via railroad means a protected shipper, the sales floor of the independent discoveries, all of which a protected shipment, a protected delivery- National Wool Mar- totalled up to the one great fact that Freight via railroad means using the only trans- if the serum from certain animals that keting Corporation had (been immunized against the toxins at Boston. or poisons produced in diphtheria, it agency whose average charge is less than_a were used on other animals, the de- structive power of the diphtheria poi- penny a ton a mile. sons was neutralized. So it came about that we have anti-toxin, to ad- Make this a habit: Have all freight go—and minister when the disease actually come—by raiL exisits in the patient; toxin-anti-toxin, administered only a few years ago as a preventive of the disease, is replaced today by1 the simple, wonderful one- MICHIGAN RAILROADS ASSOCIATION dose toxoid which is almost 100 per cent successful in protecting those Sales of the wool consigned by him- were forwarded to the National Wool as being generally in the interest of to whom it has been administered dreds of leading growers to the 1936 Marketing Corporation at Boston. the growers. Any further radical rise from developing diphtheria. Pool conducted by the Michigan Co-j The major grades were retained in in wool prices is not anticipated for operative Wool Marketing Ass'n are the Federally bonded warehouse stor- as soon as domestic values attain full Friend: "My wife had a dream last being made gradually in accordance I a*ge of the Association at Lansing. world parity levels the flood of foreign night antf thought she was married to with the Association's established pro- Buyers inspect the sample bags at imports check any further advance. a millionaire." gram of orderly marketing, according Boston and make their purchases. Last year the Michigan Wool Pool Man: "My wife has dreams like to Stanley M. Powell, field representa- Shipments are then made direct from completed its sales and accounting that in the daytime." tive. the warehouse at Lansing. so that all final settlement checks Grading of the pooled wool was Wool values have been firm and were mailed within the calendar year. Leaking flues in the chimney are completed soon after the pool was prices have been gradually strength- If sales continue brisk, it is hoped likely to cause heating troubles and closed for consignments last August. ening. Market conditions both in that an equally prompt and satisfac- high fuel bills, as well as destructive • . We Serve Michigan Sample bags and the minor grades this country and abroad are regarded tory record may be repeated this year. fires. Foi * M I C H I G A N FARM JEWS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 19S« FARM BUREAU ADDS 1,500 MEMBERS Farm Bureau in 1936 . . . This Modern Elevator built at Hart BUGS BED DOWN When Rabbits Fight, They Fight. Ever See Them Go? TO ROLL IN OCTOBER; TWO THOUSAND FOR WINTER NAP Trout Lake—When rabbits fight, they fight. You have it on the word of MORE ARE EXPECTED IN NOVEMBER LWO conservation officers here who Some Will Freeze Solid But blundered into the amazing spectacle Next Spring Are Up O f one timorous, cunning Easter rabbit trying to destroy another. kWorlc Jhis Year Places Organization Strength And Coming "First we saw a furry ball, rolling, At Greatest in 7 Years; Michigan Ranks bouncing, whirling out into the road," Michigan's hosts of insects and bugs said F. P. Furlong, district supervisor, Jhird in Nation for Gains; Starts can't migrate to Florida for the winter who with Irving Ladd was out on .100 Community Farm Bureaus but they do bed themselves down for patrol. "It broke apart and our car fairly comfortable winter quarters, struck one of the twisting, kicking says Ray Hutson, head of the en-objects and left it still kicking in the Fifteen hundred farm families became members of th tomology department at Michigan road. Michigan State Farm Bureau during the month of October State College, in describing where insects go and what they do to com- "While we watched through the The organization is making preparations to take in 2,00( bat the cold. back window, the other rabbit came more families during November. They may freeze solid, but they'll back in like a flash and took the injured thaw out again and be out in spring one its mouth. It then shook it Michigan jumped from fourth to second place among to do their good or evil with crops like a dog does a cat. Tiring of this, State Farm Bureaus of the middle west last month for in and other vegetation next spring. One it would spring on its face and strike crease in Farm Bureau membership. This State now ranks exception is the grasshopper, lively the inert body with, its hind feet so third among 37 in the American Farm Bureau Federation for now, but due to cease his hopping and tiard as to be thrown forward a yard jumping acrobatics when he freezes. or so. Then it would jump quickly membership increase made during the year. Females have laid eggs for next sea- back, kick and bounce away again. We Michigan County Farm Bureaus have been reporting paic son'fl crop, so the present generation watched for several minutes, then is ready for an insect cemetery. drove on." in advance memberships by the hundreds. The campaign FAR.M QuR.lZ.AU' /I/JO /IT But the plum curculio has crawled Although they had never before they started last spring has been gaining momentum through into fence rows, beneath logs and into seen a rabbit fight, the two officers out the summer and fall. The paid up membership of the high grass. He looks like an elephant hadn't thought rabbits put so much ac- Michigan Farm Bureau is the greatest that it has been in in shape but is small. The codling tion into their arguments. moth, apple menace, has crawled into seven years. The new Farm Bureau store crevices where there will be pressure at Hart, Oceana county, pro- around his body. His own air condi- According to a recent United States Officers, directors and members of the Calhoun County tioning plant will maintain his com- Public Health Service report, more Farm Bureau in a two day effort in October added 1 50 new vides members and patrons than twice as many children, from fort until spring. with one of the largest and members to their roll; Grand Traverse county took in 67 Then there is the tarnished plant one to fifteen years of age, die from members in one day; Mason county added 124 families. best equipped warehouses in bug, who carries a coat of colors like automobile accidents as from measles, Michigan for handling grain, a dead leaf. He is harmless looking scarlet fever and diphtheria, the seri- During the summer and fall months the County Farm beans, potatoes, and farm but because of numbers does consider- ous childhood diseases. Bureaus have been putting on membership campaigns of one supplies. able damage. Right now he has to several days duration. The October report of new mem- •rawled into rubbish, weeds and trash for the winter. The corn borer is bers from other counties included: Branch, 42, Lapeer, 99; seeking wintering quarters in corn Ionia, 66; Berrien, 79; Livingston, 45; Saginaw, 44; Kal- Ualks and stubble. Cutworms have kaska, Antrim and Charlevoix counties* Tri-County Farm Five hundred Farm Bureau mem- stalled at the left front corner of the i at the rear is three stories in heighth. made snug nests in leaves and logs. Hutson suggests that stubble and rub- Bureau, 53; St. Clair, Sanilac, Clinton, Van Buren and bers and patrons of "the Hart Farm building. The gasoline pump shown is • Grain may be unloaded on either bish in fields and gardens can be Ottawa from 30 to 50 each. All had previously added from Bureau Supply Store met June 17 topart of a pump and tank wagon gas side of the building into hoppers, It destroyed or plowed under to cut 50 to 150 new members open the new and completely equipped and oil service. moves into hopper scales for weighing. down infestations. Weeds and waste Ionia in First Place Previously Ottawa county added + place of business. The Farm Bureau a Behind the office and sales room is After weighing the scales are tipped rass may also be destroyed along 50x50 first floor warehouse space. and the grain is released to the base- fields and in fence rows, weighing the FREE BOOK CARNATION COMPANY WILL TELL HIS I I1LL V U U I 1 YOU Services at Lansing built the property Over the office and show room is a ment for elevation to the top of the 60 ain in fighting insects against loss nearly 200 members. Ionia was the Grange Master to replace an old structure that was large balcony for the display of farm foot elevator and distribution to one in cover for game birds and animals. Dept. M F Oconomowoc, Wis. Drop a card to above address first to exceed its 1936 quota of new and this free book will guide members when it turned in 225 gain partially destroyed by fire last Febru- machinery. I or more of the ten 600 bushel capac- TtlanncL you in raising better calves. ary. The full basement provides ample ity bins. Handling of all grain and for the year to date. The new building is 50 feet wide and storage space for merchandise. One beans is controlled by latest type elec- Branch Plans Tour to THE BETTER WAY CALVE! All of the County Farm Bureaus 85 feet deep. It is built of new lum- section of it is built for potato stor- tric equipment on the ground floor. have substantial new membership ber and structural steel throughout, age. Other new machinery includes a one International Dec. 1-3 quotas for 1936. Sanilac, Mason, Liv- and completely covered with fire-proof An older building at the rear has ton feed mixer, a hammer mill, a corn Coldwater—The Branch C o u n t y ingston, Lapeer, Oceana and Jackson steel roofing and siding. been completely reconditioned with cracker, equipment to clean grain and Farm Bureau annual meeting was to are fighting it put for second place In the front are the offices, and a new floors, etc., to provide a two story, beans. In the basement is a gravity be held here Saturday, Nov. 7. Dr. honors. The contest closes November 20x34 sales room for merchandise. A connected addition. storage tank for a carload of lime sul- Howard Y. McClusky of the University 25. During the past year and a half new 22 ton set of scales has been in- The grain and bean elevator seen phur solution. of Michigan was to speak on "A Pro- gram for 1937." Aero' the State and County Farm Bureaus have re-built their organization activi- Remember When the Whisker December 1-2-3 the Branch County Life Begins With '40? Farm Bureau is having a tour by train Cyanamid ties. J. F. Yaeger, State organization to the International Live Stock Show director, directs the work of a score Industry Was Important? Freshmen and sophomores at Mich- at Chicago. They will travel to Chi- NITROGEN + LIME of district representatives, each In igan State College took time out from cago and return, have admission tic- FERTILIZER charge of several counties. They co- Christmas gift from mother to father. studies last week, donned their old kets to the show, bus fares, sightsee- operate with officers, directors and Time Was When Most Men Father had to have some barrier at clothes and staged the annual class ing trips and accommodations at the PE EDS THE CROP organization field men, and members Wore 4 Beards and Were the rim of his tea-cup or his sweeping battle in front of Wells hall. For LaSalle hotel at Chicago for $11.70 SWEETENS THE SOIL the first time in years the freshmen per person. The figure does not in- located In the County Farm Bureaus. Proud of Them mustache dunked itself to such an All State Farm Bureau employes extent that the coffee tasted, no doubt class of 1940, were far more numer- clude meals. ous. Nearly all the sophomores who play their part In membership work. Times have changed, and the whisk- now and then, of snuff and tobacco. er industry isn't what it once was. Paddy Whiskers were brave enough after thefirsten- Community Groups Active counter to yell their class numerals During 1936 one hundred Commun- But there is a man in Lansing who re- Now as to whiskers, there was the alls vividly the golden age for whisk- were picked up by from four to seven paddy kind; a fringe of hair starting ity Farm Bureau groups have been ers. freshmen and taken down to the Red at the ears, and trained along the Cedar river and thrown in. Others Our New organized. They hold regular rneet- C. H. BRAMBLE B. Hawkins, says a writer eavestrough of the lower jaw. The ings o£ a social, business and d*~cus- State Master C. H. Bramble and all George lost some of their clothing. But the Bion nature. They work on the same other State Grange Officers with one n the State Journal at Lansing, has "paddy" whiskers dropped under the rivalry was so good natured that after Farm Fire Policy . . . )een mowing down whiskers since chin and oscillated when the Adam's an hour of battle the sophomores in- programs. In October they held gen- exception were re-elected at the an-1885, when as a small boy he began apple took a notion to vibrate. The duced the freshmen to join them in a eral meetings to discuss the proposed nual convention at Sturgis the last earning the trade of a barber in his old time barber shaved that part of serenade of the two women's dormi- Covers dwellings, barns, other buildings, live stock, crops amendments to the State Constitution of week in October. Cyrus H. Jasperse the face appearing above this fringe, harvested and on the farm, and other property. The five Grand Rapids, elected lecturer, is ather's shop at Vermontville, in Eat- tories, the student union and a snake and went out to work for the defeat the first man to hold that office in 30 >n county. In 1893 he moved to Lan- leaving the customer's face out in the dance through the business district year farm policy is payable in annual installments. We of Amendments No. 3 and No. 4. years. ing and has conducted a shop in the open and clean shaved except as toof -East Lansing. have a complete fire insurance service for farm, village, At the State Farm Bureau annual The Grange declared for major re- tusiness district ever since. the underjaw fringe which waved in Proud of Their Beards vagrant breezes and kept the neck and city properties. See your State Farm Mutual Auto- meeting Nov. 12 and 13 the County forms in the State's liquor control Some Comfort Farm Bureaus and farmers co-opera- program, including midnight closing, Harking back to the days of 1885 covered but cool. mobile Insurance agent. tive elevators associated with the a ban on serving beer to minors, to and the early nineties, Mr. Hawkins Burnsides Imparted Dignity "Waiter, these are very small oys- There was also the burnsides, a ters." Farm Bureau will be entitled to be-close suburban drinking places, and bserves that the years have brought natty hirsute adornment popular with tween 400 and 500 voting delegates. to provide for county local option hanges in the manner in which men "Yes, sir." State Farm Fire Insurance Co. elections every two years. esire to wear their faces. Back in professional men .and preachers. Some "And they don't appear to be very Farm Bureau Minute Men 885 and the early nineties, he menwore this facial upholstery with a fresh." of Bloomington, Illlinois Nearly 400 Farm Bureau Minute Other Grange resolutions rapped trade agreements, urged had pride in their beards. A man goatee, and that was a sad combina- "Then it's lucky they're small, ain't Men, pledged to the promotion of thereciprocal State aid to pay tuition of 7th, 8thwithout a beard, or at least a sweep- tion for a nervous barber. It was like it, sir?"—Grit. Farm Bureau program and the ad-grade and junior college students; ng growth of hair on the upper lip, mowing with a scythe around a stumpy vancement of organized agriculture opposed constitutional amendments considered effeminate and wasfield. are located throughout Michigan. No. 3 and 4, and urged action to per- lassed with a male cigaret smoker. . . Then there was the face entirely They receive timely information mit a sound State income tax. s a pansy, as we put it today. covered with brush but which had to from the State Farm Bureau to aid State Master Bramble said the Mich- Now it was a skittish business to be trimmed occasionally especially in them In carrying out the Farm Bureau igan Plan for rural electrification was rim some men's beards, for they set zero weather or icicle time. Some- program locally. Some of these min- a major achievement of organized great store by them. Let a barber times these ice coated beards had to ute men are county Farm Bureau of- agriculture during the past year. make one misstep with his shears or be thawed out after they had ridden ficers, others are co-operative ass'n Other State Grange officers: Over- azor and remove a single hair, and atop a load of stove wood for 10 or Let Westinghouse - managers, others are farmers and seer, W. G. Armstrong, Niles; stew- he customer screamed with wrath. 15 miles on a winter day. make it a real T H A N K S G I V I N G farm women, They have been very ard, Mark Crawford, Coldwater; ass't Dry Cleaned and Curled Some men doted on those patriar- active in the1936 membership pro- steward, Marc Cutler, DeWitt; chap- Dry cleaning whiskers was consid- chal whiskers which found root on the gram. lain, Mrs. Bernice Curtlss, Charlotte; erable of a chore for old time barbers. chin and when too long, flopped in the treasurer, Wm. Hill, Davison; secre- Then there was also the business of wind like a two-piece undersuit on a Isn't It So? tary, Mrs. Maude E. Lovejoy, Perry. using a hot iron, heated over a kero- clothes line in March. YOU'LL BE THANKFUL ALL YEAR 'ROUND FOR Mrs.: "Did you notice the chin- ene lamp, to put a curl in the facial Yes, sir, times have changed. And chilla coat on the lady in front of us Many dogs are without peer at amouflage of some customers. so have hair cuts. The old pompadour THE ADDED CONVENIENCE—ECONOMY AND FOOD in church, today?" catching rats. The smaller breeds, Then there was the vain gentleman has practically disappeared. At one SAVINGS WITH A WESTINGHOUSE REFRIGERA- Mr.: "Er-no. Afraid I was dozing." such as terriers, are especially ef- who either was or hoped to be a favor- time high school students, back in the TOR . . . BECAUSE PROPER PRESERVATION OF Mrs.: "Huh! A lot of good the ficient, but airedales have likewise te among the ladies. When December days when tariffs and women's rights FOOD IS AS ESSENTIAL IN WINTER MONTHS service did you!" been proved in battle. of life began snowing on his set of were hot political combinations, want- whiskers, the wearer wanted them col- ed their hair left long but trimmed AS IN SUMMER. ored. And so dyeing whiskers and evenly so that their head resembled mustaches was a business in itself and an old plush covered ottoman offered Wesinghouse Refrigerators have all the fea- Classified Ads a barber had to learn it. Back in the at an auctioneer's sale. ighties and nineties it was not un- As Mr. Hawkins points out, there tures you've been wanting . . . Hermetically- Sealed Mechanism . . . 5 Years Protection on Classified advertisements are cash with order at t h * following the sealed-in unit. . . Big, fast-freezing Froster rates: 4 cents per word for one edition. Ads to appear In two or more common to see a man with coal black are few whiskers in this age, but occa- editions take the rat* of 3 cents per word per edition. whiskers like a bear, and a gray head. sionally a mustache of scant propor- . . . Welded all-steel Cabinet . . . Many other And many a gent had the color of his tions. Men of today want a clean features. mustache changed from red to black, shave and keep their hair trimmed to LIVE STOCK FOR SALE—MISCELLANEOUS t was always black, as that was a a short length. No more do lumber- avorite hair color of the man of that jacks come out of the woods all hairy REGISTERED HEREFORD CATTLE, MICHIGAN SEPTIC TANK SIPHON bulls and heifers. Best blood lines. Start and bell as recommended by State Col- lay. and odoriferous with pancake smoke a registered herd now. Dairy farmers, lege Agr'l Engineering dep't. Build your Cups With Fenders and plunk themselves into a barber's YOU'LL BE THANKFUL ALL YEAR 'ROUND FOR use a Hereford bull and get real veals. own septic tank and sewage system. In- THE DELICIOUS MEALS PREPARED SO EASILY Don't raise scrubs. A. M. Todd Co. (14stall when tank is built. Installation and And there were many whiskers chair for a year's cleanup. The male miles northwest of Kalamazoo) Mentha, operation simple. Discharges automati- of today is particular about his hair, Mich. World's Largest Mint Farms- . . . . cally. Have been sold 16 years. All In tyles and mustache styles, although AND SO TASTILY ON A WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC daily use and giving satisfaction. In- he mustache mode was one which so particular that he wants little of it, RANGE. structions with each siphon. Price, de- made the mustache cup a favorite and so he shaves often. WHEN YOU THINK OF MILKINGlivered, $7.21 which includes sales tax. Shorthorns, Shropshire Sheep or Dark Farm Bureau Supply Store, 728 E Shia- Full Porcelain Ovens . . . High Speed Units Plymouth Rook Poultry, think of Ingle- wassee St., Lansing. (3-4-tf-60b) side Farm. Young bulls and heifers, rams for fast cooking . . . Roller Bearing Storage and cockerels for sale at reasonable prices. Stanley M. Powell, Manager, FARM WORK WANTED Paul Savage Better Land Bank Farms Drawers . . . And a host of other features that Ionia. Mich. (ll-7-35b) Paul Savage of Marcellus, long time The land bank has one farm to sell your nearest Farm Bureau Dealer will be glad POULTRY MARRIED MAN WITH FAMILY ecretary of the Cass County Farm for every 36 renters In St. Paul dis- to tell you about . . . Visit one of the dealers wants farm* work by month or year. trict, which includes Michigan. In listed below. Would rent furnished farm. Has al-Bureau, writes that he is slowly im- PHJLLETSI PULLETS! READY NOW, ready worked on farm. References. proving in health, but probably will other words there are 36 renters in Leghorns and Barred Rocks. Also breed- Charles Oakes, Sears R-l, Mich. (11-7-lt) e confined to his home for several this district for every farm the land FARM BUREAU SERVICES DEALERS Ing cockerels. A Michigan R.O.F. breed- \ isit or write Lowden Farms, P.O. bank has to sell, most of whom have ALLEGAN—Farmers Co-op Itives Junction, Mich. (Farm Bureau SINGLE MAN WANTS GENERAL weeks yet. farming ability, livestock and ma- ANN ARBOR—Chas. McCalla, R-6 GRAND BLANC—Co-op Elev Co GREENVILLE—Co-op Co? CITY-Farm Bureau members). Location, Pleasant Lake. farm work. Working on farm past two BAD AXE—Farmers' Elevator HART—Farm Bureau Store JACKSON—Farm Bureau Store (10-3-tX 30b) years. Do not care for dairy farm. E. R. chinery. BATTLE CREEK—Farm Bureau HARTFORD—Gleaners Co-op LANSING—Farm Bureau Store Fisher, General Delivery, Battle Creek, Pullet|j that are decidedly under- BUCHANAN—Buchanan Co-ops HASLETT—Farmers Elevator LAPEER—Farm Bureau Store Mich. (11-7-lt) Ized for their age may well be culled, Attention to upstream engineering COLDWATER—Coldwater Co-op h c ^ o E M 0 ^ 0 0 - 0 * Company ', FARM PROPERTY DOWAGIAC—Farmers Elevator HASTINGS—Farm Bureau Elev. HEMLOCK—Co-op Elev. MEMPHIS—Co-op Company FOR SALE—105 ACRES DAIRY FARM WINDMILL, MOD-S, IN GOOD CON- s they seldom become good layers; is the latest development in the pre- EAU CLAIRE—Co-op Exchfl. HUDSONVILLE—Co-op Elev. OWOSSO-Kings Service y THREE RIVERS—Reynolds Store north out of Grand Rapids. Walker dltion. Inquire Wayne Otis farm, Mason, he same may be true of pullets that vention of floods and the conservation VERMONTVILLE—L. R. Tubb» equipped—term*. W. O. Holmea, R-4, Mich., 2tt mile» south of Okemos art very large and coarse. Keat City, fcicbig&o. i»-i-3t-18p) on kla»oa Road. iU-7-l»-lt) of foil _ SATFBDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 19Si IlfHIBAI FARM I 1 W I AMERICAN FARM Farm Bureau in 1936 . . . Electricity for Farms LIGHTS IN YARDS Good Hunting 1st Hunter: "Hey. Bill." 2nd Hunter: "Yeah." Hugs yield a greater proportion of edible meat than any other meat animals. Cornell bulletin K-272 BUREAU MEET A In late 1935 Michigan Every day during 1936 HIT FARM THIEVES 1st Hunter: "Are you all right?" 2nd Hunter: "Yeah." Can Kill a Hog," may be had free from the x • State Oolle*. 1st Hunter: "Then I've shot a Agriculture at Ithaca. New York. COLORFUL EVENT power companies and the public utilities commission sixty to 75 farm families qualified under the Mich- They Can Be Connected I Work With Burglar bear." Uncle Ab says the only reason for adopted the * Michigan One broken tile may make a whole caring for money is in having it care Several Thousand Delegates igan Plan for electric serv- Alarm line of drainage worthless. for you. State Farm Bureau and ice. In August the utilities And Members Going Grange proposal t h a t commission announced Better lighting in the farm home To California and other farm buildings is the prin- power companies should that the Detroit Edison, Pasadena, Calif.—Farmers from the Green Mountain State of Vermont will build rural lines at their own expense where farm the Consumers and 30 smaller power companies cipal motive which actuates farmers to secure electric service. This bet- ter lighting however is too often con- fined to the interior of the buildings Market Information rub elbows with cottpn planters from customers average five per are planning to take on Mississippi, corn growers from Iowa, mile. This is in return 23,000 new farm customers only. On many of the electrified farms the kerosene lantern still serves as Daily at 12:15 cattlemen from Wyoming, tobacco for a reasonable monthly growers from North Carolina, and in 1936. They expect to thp only source of light in the yard. with fellow farmers from a total of 37 revenue to be guaranteed add 29,500 more farm Yard lighting is desirable on every states as they stand in line to drink by each farm customer. It farm, says D. G. Ebinger. agricultural homes in 1937. They plan engineering department at Michigan orange juice at the 18th annual con- is called the Michigan to invest more than $13,- vention of the American Farm Bureau State College. It sometimes becomes Plan, and is bringing 000,000 in new farm lines. necessary to guard against thieves and Federation in Pasadena, California, December 9-11. electricity to thousands other night prowlers. Properly lo- By special train, by bus, by airplane of farms. cated yard light helps serve this pur- and by auto caravan, several thousand pose. The cost of these lights is often Farm Bureau members will gather for paid back several times by a notice- this important farm gathering. Cali- able decrease in theft. Wherever they fornia was selected as the scene of are installed they should flood the the 1936 convention for a definite barnyard with light. reason. The Federation represents "The proper number and location of farmers from all sections of the coun- yard lights will depend largely on the try; hence officials of the organization farm layout," Ebinger suggests. "They believe it is desirable that members should be placed as high as is practi- be informed concerning the problems cal and may be mounted either on a of their brother farmers who may live pole o% on the side of the house or LISTEN TO THE FARM MARKET REPORTER sponsored by the under widely varying conditions, and barn and should be fitted with a shal- Ford dealers of Michigan each market day at 12:15 p. m. over the those problems are peculiar to trie v low dome or angle type reflector to Michigan Radio Network: region. A trip to the convention in obtain the most satisfactory illumina- Station Location Kilocycles Station Location Kilocycle* December will help to bring about tion. Lamps of 150 to 200 watts are WXYZ Detroit 1240 WFDF Flint WOOD Grand Rapids 1310 1270 WELL Battle Creek 1420 better understanding among farmers recommended. The yard lights should WIBM Jackson 1370 WBCM Bay City 1410 from the different states. be controlled by three point or four WKZO Kalamazoo 590 WJIM Lansing 1210 point switches. One of these switches P R H F I T A R I F feeding operations this year will require that live National Figures Coming may be located at the rear door of the * r V v / r 1 1 n D U J stock be Purchased as cheaply as possible. Financed Henry Wallace, Secretary of Agri- at a reasonable interest rate and when finished sold at the highest market house and the others at the garage, value. culture, and Chester Davis, Federal barn, poultry house or wherever need- 1 T n e Michigan Live Stock Exchange through Its Reserve Board member, will bead an PI IRPH A^IIW * *-T\.\_,n.rYiJll^iV» national connections can furnish at cost plus a ed. impressive list of speakers who have "Some farmers are now using, and reasonable handling charge, all grades of feeding lambs, cattle, and calves. At our daily market at Battle Creek a large assortment is kept on hand accepted invitations to address the others are contemplating the installa- at all times. convention. C. V. Gregory, Editor of tion of burglar alarm systems. It is f FIM A M r I N f ^ I o n e v a t 5 % i s available for the feeding operations Prairie Farmer, Chicago, Pres. R. G. possible and practical to have the cir- /€ n i l / * l ! V * l l ^ V * ,,f ;,n worthy feeder! who have feed, regardless of where they may purchase their feeders. Sproul of the University of California, cuits so arranged that when the alarm and Marvin Jones, chairman of the Our new, enlarged, complete selling service now consists is given by the opening of protected of not only commission sales agencies on the Detroit and agricultural committee of the House Buffalo terminal markets, but a daily market at Battle Creek where all of Representatives, are other speakers. doors or windows, the yards at the species of live stock are purchased each day and moved direct to packer* same time will be automatically flood- or the public market. Francis Lederer, noted screen star, will address the women of the Farm ed with light." For complete information phone or writ* Bureau on the subject of World Peace. Inquiries regarding the installation COMSC77A/G FARM TO hJCtf RURJJL POW£JL L/K/£ Their convention will be held during of yard lights either separately or in combination with a burglar alarm Michigan Live Stock Exchange the two days preceding the Farm Bu- In the photograph attove, Mr. R. Z.ting the line into service the latter of smaller companies now building Secretary's Office, Hudson, Mich. reau convention. Gallup, owner of the farm, is shown part of September. rural extensions under the Michigan system, should be sent to the Agri- cultural Engineering Department, Daily Market • Terminal Markets Battle Creek Detroit, & Producers Co-op at Buffalo, N. Y . A subject that may arouse stormy standing at the roadside, watching Rural electrification continues to plan. Michigan State College, East Lansing. debate is federal crop insurance. linemen connect his property with a make substantial gains each month un- Here is the total miles of farm line Henry Wallace, secretary of agri- new rural power line built under the der the Michigan Plan. During Sep- extensions approved (much of it un- culture, has been crusading for the Michigan Plan. tember, the Consumers Power Co. ap- der construction) by two companies idea. He has a corps of investigators This farm is located west of Allen, proved 154 additional miles of con-serving more than three-fifths of the at work, making the most exhaustive in Hillsdale county, and along US-112. struction, which will bring service to rural areas of lower Michigan: study of the subject yet undertaken. The extension by the Consumers Pow- 875 new farm customers. The Detroit Built or Families to He doubtless will make a strong plea er Company is three miles long. Last Edison total stepped up 238 miles, to Approved Be Served in favor of the federal government June fifteen farmers qualified for a bring service to 790 additional farm Consumers (9 mos) 1,804 10,332 entering the field. free line by averaging- 5 per mile, and customers. Detroit Editor (9 mos) 1,111 5,078 C. V. Gregory, editor of the Prairie agreeing to a minimum monthly guar- In the first nine months of 1936 the The 1936 schedule for these com- Farmer, who was in Europe last sum- antee of $2.50 each. Permits and Detroit Edison had approved 670 farm panies is to assure electric service to mer to investigate consumer co-opera- rights of way were secured, the engi- line extensions, and the Consumers 23,500 additional farm customers; tion will discuss the subject. Mr. neers staked out the line, and here Power 1,329 new farm extensions. Fig- their 1937 schedule is to add 29,500 Gregory's talk will be his first on the we have the construction crew put- ures are not available for a smaller more. subject since his return, and it will attract wide interest. Chester H. Rowell, editor of the San It is a matter of wonder to many leaders and members may see andon the question of butter substitutes. Francisco Chronicle since 1932, will people that the State Farm Bureaus, study the conditions under which other The producer of grain in the Middle speak on the problem of medical care with their conflicting interests, have farmers operate their business. West joins with the farmer in New for rural communities. Mr. Rowell's been able to work together for 17 The theory is that once he under- England who buys the grain and life has been spent largely in traveling, years, pretty well united on a pro- stands the problems facing his broth- feeds it to cows and chickens. One lecturing and newspaper writing. He gram, and relatively undisturbed by er farmer in a remote section, the bet- wants a high price, while the other is a trustee of the World Peace Foun- sectional fights. It has been the ter he will be able to co-operate with hopes for a low price. For the two dation. The rich experiences of his policy of the A. F. B. F. to encourage him in organization affairs. It is a to get together and agree on a pro- busy life have given him an excellent frequent meeting of people from the fact that a lot of understanding and gram for the industry is to put quite background for his discussion of this various sections, and to take the a lot of mutual forbearance are re-a strain on human nature. problem, which is one of the major annual meeting to different regions quired to enable cotton growers to The trip to California this winter projects of the Associated Women. whenever practicable, in order that get along at all with dairy farmers will be high spot in conventions for the Farm Bureau. Longer distances will be travelled by the delegates, on Farm Bureau in 1936 . . . A Tour to California the average, than for any previous meeting. Thousands of people will get a new appreciation of the vast- ness of our country, and a new vision of the possiblities of organized action by the farmers of the nation, aa a result of the trip. Where From 1936? Swift & Company wants to know more about the problems The 1936 meeting will be an im- portant one for the Farm Bureau. of the livestock and dairy and poultry producers of America. Conditions affecting our basic in- dustry have been changing with dra- We also want to acquaint producers with our problems. matic suddenness. No sooner had the nation adapted our practices to ad- justment programs in the surplus- A \ Some idea of the problems of the producer is gained producing areas, than the Supreme :: ; ; Court at one stroke eliminated the ^p by us when our representatives attend meetings of : : :-:::v":::: • programs entirely. In a remarkable j - i i i i i s i i i i i i i i f w ••- short time, organized agriculture had producers' organizations, and when our livestock N v \^ss m % > ^ I f s§f ^ perfected substitute legislation and guided it through Congress. But this w buyers talk with livestock men. However, none of legislation is not the answer to the these contacts gives us as complete information as we would farm problem. The states must as- sume charge, pass conservation legis- like to have. lation and set up organizations to administer it. A thousand problems never anticipated will appear before ^L ^ Swift & Company feels that it can improve its v Comfortable tourist Pullmans make all this has been accomplished, and op the Farm Bureau Special. in every state agriculture will need ^m methods only by finding out what producers think the sober thinking and the considered judgment of the best leaders. about the company. Only by knowing what others 9 think of us can we make an active and sincere effort Horton Trespass Law Skips Our Wild Lands to improve our methods, and so better serve producers. Generally speaking, hunters who go In the interests of mutual understanding, will you please north to hunt deer this month may ditch their fears of trespass. send us your suggestions as to how we can better serve The Horton trespass law, which has involved a hunting program in the you? And also ask us any questions you may have in mind predominantly agricultural areas of southern Michigan, does not apply to about the packing industry? wild forest lands and openings that are not legally posted against tres- pass or otherwise closed to public We ask you to do this in order that we and you may better hunting as in the case of game ta Dining: car service Is included tat Boulder Dam guides will conduct the party for an extensive tour. refuges, public parks, private shoot- understand each other's problems. Farm Bureau's all-expense ing preserves, conservation author- trip to California, ities say. Under the Horton law anyone enter- December 2 probably one hundred England andfNew York members. The Farm Bureau tour or more Michigan Farm Bureau The Farm Bureau group will travel enable quite a number to realize a ing for the purpose of hunting upon is going to members will gather at Chicago to nearly 6,000 miles, with side trips. lifetime desire to see a lot of this farm lands or contiguous farm wood- begin a trip to the American Farm Their Pullman accommodations, meals country, and especially the west. The lots, whether fenced, posted or not, Swift & Company Bureau convention at Pasadena, Cal., on the diner and elsewhere en route other day a man came in to see about without permission of owner or lessee 4230 Packers Avenue, Chicago, Illinois with an 18 day Farm Bureau tour of are included in one low cost trans- the trip. He said that since he and commits a misdemeanor and is sub- the west to include Denver, Salt Lake portation charge. The group will be his wife hadn't done any real. travel- ject to arrest and fine. City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, home Dec. 19, hut the tickets are good ing in 36 years, it Is about time they Catalina Island, and return by wayfor six months. Any member of the Actual tests show that an apple Over a period of years, Swift & Company's net pro/its from all sources have averaged of the Grand Canyon, Texas, New Or- party may stop to visit and return at started. Another said the best thing loses as much keeping quality in one only a fraction of a cunt per pound. leans and up the Mississippi Valley. his convenience over the route taken about him is that he doesn't worry. day at 85 degrees Fahrenheit as it will The Michigan folks will be Joined at by the party and with the same ac- Once the chores are out of sight, he in about three weeks at 32 degrees Chicago by a Pullman train of Newcommodation*, can forget them till hj cornea back. Fahrenheit, II T (i A N K V H M \ I \\ S SAT! I!1>\Y. NOVORFR 7. stein herd. He raises all his feed. Accident or Violation Bars Michigan Future Farmers Delegates off for Kansas City CHRISTMAS LIQUOR Presidents of otatoes are a main crop, and under ;anvas hose irrigation. Mr. and Mrs. Van der Meulen have Deer Hunter From Woods ADS MUST GO, SAY Michigan County our sous and two daughters: Everett A total of 5W persons will have no a student at State College; son Ruford legal right to hunt fleer during the Farm Bureaus and Miss Effie on the home farm; lti-day open season beginning Nov. 15 SOME AUTHORITIES eter, farming in Missaukee county; because state law (dviMs the issuance, John, on a large dairy farm at Coop- of licenses to those who have violated ersville; and Mrs. Jennie Katz, farm the deer laws or killed or wounded an- State Boards Object to the More than 30 years £ago Fred wife in Missaukee county. other hunter in the woods. Many of Van der Meulen of McBain, R. 2, these hunters must remain without Linking Liquor With president of the Mlssaukee County Uncle Ab says most men begin to deer-hunting privileges not only tor Sacred Day Farm Bureau, brought his small fam- slump when the chest slips down this year, but for the next two, three, ily from the Netherlands to Missaukee under the belt. four or live years. Rallying to a demand to clean up county, "Michigan. HDe was In his State law provides that an individ- holiday liquor advertising, alcohol con- twenties. Probably the best storage tempera- ual who is convicted of violating the trol boards in a number of states are His first job was in a saw mill. There ture for po'atoes is between 32 anddeer laws forfeits his right to procure on record today pledging their support he stayed for two years. Fn the mean- 34 degrees Fahrenheit. a license it' within the three years to a campaign to eliminate Santa time he learned the language and the next preceding application he has Claus and Bible characters from beer, country. Next we see the Van der When feed prices are high, poor violated the game laws as applied to Meulens earning and clearing up an ows lose more money for their own- deer or if within the next five years wine, and liquor advertisements dur- 80 acres. That was the beginning rs. Close culling is recommended, preceding application he has wounded ing the forthcoming Christmas sea- of a steady development that has but animals that are retained should or killed, accidentally or otherwise, son. brought the family into the operation be well fed. a fellow hunter. "The attitude of this board," wrote ot -•<() acres, and to Fred Van der Oeorge W. Offutt, chairman of the Meulens the reputation of being one Alcoholic Control Board of the Dis- of the best and most progressive trict of Columbia, in response to an appeal from Ethel Hubler, member of the National Temperance Council, "is Michigan's Young Farmers CORN BORER GOES farmers in Michigan. His connection with the farmers' co-operative move- LIFE INSURANCE PROTECTS definitely against any advertising copy Win Honors at Kansas City ment is a similar development. which links liquor to the Bible, or which pictures Santa Claus dealing or education, the trip meant much to the SOUTH; DROUGHT Mr. Van der Meulen helped organize the first farmers' co-operative in The Family Circle carrying in any wise alcoholic bever- Attend Convention and Royal Future Farmers movement in Michi- Missaukee county. He has been a di- ages." The Idaho Liquor Control Commis- Stock Show; Have Good gan. He said that many of the boys have never been on a train. .Many of NIFS HIM IN WEST rector of the Falmouth Co-op for all of its 19 years, and president every sion wrote: "We will refuse to per- Experiences them have never been out of their mit liquor advertising to appear in own state: many of the presidents Borer Has More Than Helc Idaho publications which in any way Here is the delegation of 151 farm have now been In contact frith the His Own in Regions links liquor with the Bible or pictures youths that Future Farmers of Amer- officers of other chapters. Infested Santa Claus, or in any way connects ica chapters in Michigan agricultural The boys met with other young the sale of liquor with Christmas as high schools sent to their national con- men from Other statfcs and found or.l Washington—The European corn a sacred holiday." what the chapters In those states were borer appedred this year, for the first vention and to the American Royal "This department thoroughly agrees Stock Show at Kansas City, October doing. They spent three days at thc- ttrne, on the mainland of Virginia- with such a campaign," wrote the Flor- 19-20-21. Royal Stock Show. The Michigan n s farthest south it has ever gone. It complimentary is not known to have spread west of ida Beverage Department. The trip was made possible largely presidents put on a CJporge M. Stout, state liquor admin- through the co-operation of the Mich luncheon for the four Hawaiian dale- its previous boundary, however. The istrator of California, expressed him- gates and listened to the discussion l!t:!t; survey by the V. S. Department ii State F;irm Bureau which se- self as "absolutely in accord on thecured group transportation and hotel of, the home projects of these neople. of Agriculture revealed that the corn Riibjpct of coupling liquor and reli- accommodations for the boys at rates They listened to national leaders in borer has more than held its own gion in advertising." agriculture. They stayed in the best throughout this territory as a whole, which made it possible for so many "The Liquor Control Commission of of them to take the trip. The boys hot < Is. They attended banquets. They despite marked decreases from the Ttah is a 'dry' commission and will assembled at Lansing October 16 had a meal on a dining car whhh v.as drought in western N'cw York and in be glad to co-operate in an attempt where they were overnight guests of a new experience for everyone of the Large areas In .Michigan, Ohio, and to eliminate any reference to sacred the Farm Bureau. Ben Hennink of boys. All these things do young fel- Indiana. books or characters or to Santa Claus," the Junior Farm Bureau was in charge lows good. These young fanners n< re. The survey of 1,388 corn fields in the wrote Hugh M. Brown, Utah liquor of their train. traveling and making contacts and en- Lake States showed a definite decrease When the head of a family gets somewhere.near the half- administrator. Other state liquor larging their experience. in the 1936 infestation, over that of way point in bringing up his family, he is probably around Two Michigan boys, Kenneth Olsen boards expressed similar opinions. of Howell and Robert Eifert of Wil- 1935. in eastern Indiana, in the lower FRED VAN DER MEULEN the same point in paying for his home. He finds it very Several weeks ago, in an appeal to liamston were among the 62 top-notch Dairy Products Prices two-thirds of the western half of Ohio, year since the first. Today that difficult to make substantial cash savings. every state liquor control board 'n young farmers at the convention to and in Michigan's "thumb". The north- co-op operates important branches at the country, Miss Ethel Hubler, edi- win the medal and title of American And Use to Increase western corner of Ohio and southeast- McBain and Merritt. He can assure himself and his family a large measure of tor of a national temperance news- Farmer, on the basis of their student ern Michigan, west of Lake Erie, had Co-operative effort was not new to paper, called attention to the "grow- record and farm management at home. Washington—Increased consumer as many borers this year as last, with him, for farmers in Holland have financial security by purchasing a fair amount of life insur- ing practice of linking liquor to the There were 1,200 Future Farmers dele- demand and some rise in prices for significant increases in 11 of the 23been in business co-operatively for ance. He may assure his family a sum that will pay for the Bible and picturing Santa Claus astrad- gates at Kansas City. dairy products in 1937 is forecast by counties surveyed. The New York 150 years. They own their sugar beet home, and raise the family in comfort. dle a beer keg." She protested such the Bureau of Agricultural Economics counties bordering Lake Ontario and factories, and a great paper mill that Michigan occupied the spotlight at State Farm Life insurance policy plans are especially advertising methods. in its annual dairy outlook report. Lake Erie, however, stayed cLt the rel- converts farm wastes into strawboard; the National Convention of the Future "The increase in the purchasing atively low borer levels of 1935. the country has hundreds of co- adapted to farmers' needs. You should know what we have Farmers at Kansas City. Michigan .power of consumers and prospects operative creameries. As a young Initial Soil Program had the official band for the Conven-1 that it will continue through 1937 and East Lansing—Shredding corn stalks man. Mr. Van der" Meulen worked in to offer before you buy a policy anywhere. We are glad to tlon which was composed of sixty explain, and without obligation. Payments to Be Made pieces representing about forty of our beyond, is an important factor in im- even for bedding is a profitable prac- the co-op paper mill. In Holland, said proving the dairy outlook. tice in dollars and cents in combatting Fred, farmers represent wealth. Their S m i t h-Hughes agricultural high "The decline in consumption of the corn borer, suggests C. B. Dibble, farms go from generation to genera- The Agricultural Adjustment Ad- schools. fluid milk and cream and ice cream research assistant in insect control tion. Land is high in price. STATE FARM LIFE INSURANCE CO. ministration announced in early Octo- The boys of the band have been two Bloomington, Illinois ber that initial payments of 90 peryears preparing for this event. The which occurred during the depression at Michigan State College. In addi- So it's not surprising that the Mich- cent would be made to producers band was dressed in white duck trous- has been halted and consumption is tion to taking care of the borers, igan Potato Growers Exchange found MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU, Stata Agent, Lansing under the 1936 Agricultural Conserva- now increasing. Dibble finds, the shredding and tearing him one of the first members; that tion Program in the North Central, "The outlook for the next several of the stalks opens up the pith so that he helped organize the county's first years is for further increases in the it can absorb valuable liquids in the cow testing ass'n; that he rose high Western and East Central Reguon*s. Producers in the Southern Region American Farmers consumption of fluid milk and cream manure. He estimates that the fer-in the ass'n for producing certified will receive 90 per cent of the Class 1 KENNETH OLSEN, 19, oraduate and ice cream. tility saved is alone worth the labor seed potatoes; that he helped organize payments and 100 per cent of the Howell school agricultural course "The outlook for the next few years and cost of shredding. the local federal farm loan and the 1934. Has managed his mother's production credit ass'ns and was Clans 2 payments, and producers in is for some rise in butter prices in re- farm of 120 acres since his father's the Northeast Region will receive full death, which came when the boy lation to prices of other commodities, years. If the birth rate continues named president of both of them. payment. Payments will be made as was in the tenth grade. Kenneth including commodities which farmers to decline at this rate,", Dr. Baker Seven years ago he returned to Hol- rapidly as possible, but due to the has investments in grains, live buy. This will strengthen fluid milk says, "a maximum population will be land. Thirty years ago few if any amount of work involved several stock, farm machinery, life insur- prices in city markets. reached by 1945 or 1950. Thereafter, Dutch farmers had electricity. Now weeks will elapse before they can ance, bank deposits. Uses regis- "Prices of milk cows will probably the population will decline; declining all have it. Farms are small and dist- tered seed and purebred stock. increase materially during the next slowly at first, then at an accelerating ances are short. Electric power anc go out in volume. Plans short course at State College. two years, and are likely to average rate." railroads are government owned. Gooc H. R. Tolley, Administrator of the ROBERT EIFERT, 19, graduate of rather high for four or five years." The consequences will develop slow- roads are made from washed grave Agricultural Adjustment Act and re- lated Acts, said: "The decision to Williamston High school agricul- ly and silently, he predicts, adding from the ocean. Every i-oad has i make initial payments of 90 per cent tural course in 1935. Is in partner- Population Peak in 1950 that it probably will be 25 years be- pedestrian sidewalk or path off the in some Regions is in line with the ship with his father. Robert has fore many people will realize what is road. All adults take part in the gov- investments in live stock, grains, ernment. It costs them abput $5.00 policy previously followed. In form- life insurance, etc. Good judge of A declining national population is taking place. inevitable within 15 years unless the "Fifty years from now," Dr. Baker under the compulsory voting law i er years administrative expenses have live stock and grain. Father and been deducted from the second part son interested in building up dairy birth rate should rise or immigration says, "there may be only a third as they fail to vote, and without good of the payment, and th» same pro- herd. increase according to Dr. O. E. Baker many children in the nation as now,reason. Mr. Van der Meulen brough cedure will be followed this year. of the Bureau of Agricultural Eco- and only half as many women of back some Dutch winter barley o Complete information on participation ers with the official FFA jacket and nomics. child-bearing age. There will be which he had 16 acres this summer and expenses will not be available for bank caps. A fine tribute was given "The birth rate has declined more nearly three times as many old peo- On the Van der Meulen farm are than 25 per cent during the last ten ple. 100 acres of alfalfa, and a good Hoi several weeks," Mr. Tolley added, "al- the band by the vast audience at the though it is known that the nunibei Royal Stock show when the band led of farmers taking part in the program the parade into the arena. Ten thous- is in the neighborhood of 4,000,000. and people in the stands came to their This is substantially in excess of feet with a' roar of applause for the Farm Bureau in 1936 Exhibits at Many Fairs participation for any one year under music and perfect marching by the the adjustment programs." band. ' Besides the schools represented in This summer thousands of Behind the band, seventy FFA chapters in the people became better ac- state sent their presidents or repre- quainted with the work the Wheel sentatives to the convention. The par- and the services of the ty left Lansing on October 17 in three (Continued from page 1) Farm Bureau organiza- honey for a winter that never came. special cars with Mr. O. B. Price of The second year they refused to store the Michigan Central Railroad as one tion, insurance, machinery, up any surplus. That kind of broke of the advisors for the party. At Chi- seeds,'feeds, ferilizefs and up the plan, and now Jim keeps his cago, the party walKed across the lc? p Dhter departments through Telephone calls to Distant points now cost less . . . bees at home. so that -they might>see State Street in its brilliant lighting. Special coaches exhibits at some forty Potatoes With potatoes not too plentiful and were boarded at the Milwaukee and fairs. day or night . . . than ever before, reductions good seed expected to bring a fancy St. Paul Railroad station. The party applying to both station-to-station and person-to- price next season, Ernest Otto of arrived at Kansas City at eight o'clock /Rj/136 Cedar, and Russell Bush of Buckley, Sunday morning. The day was spent person messages. lift happy with their cot-tiffed seefl in sightseeing. crop running better than 300 bushels The convention occupied the dele- Iff to the acre. Otto has five acres and gates during the rest of the stay. One Bush has nine acres. of the chapter presidents of the Mich- The lowest rates to most points are in effect after 7 Leaders igan delegation said, t h a t . i t was the While Bill Bobier, Grand Ledge, Is thrill of his life to see a boy of his every night and all day Sunday. Take advantage still talking about the fine Junior own age get up and conduct a national Farm Bureau Co-operative Leadership meeting as smoothly and as efficiently of the new telephone bargains! Training Camp that he attended at as did the 18 year old national p.-esi- Waldonwoods two months ago, hisdent of the Future Farmers of Ameri- young brother is also "showing his ca. head above the crowd". • Young Bob There were about 1,2*0.boys from Sunday rates are in effect from 7 p. m. has recently been elected president of the 4,500 agricultural high schools in the Senior Class at Charlotte high the United States in* attendance* at Saturday until 4:30 a. m> Monday. <>ol. the Convention. Dr. Studebaker, II. S. Individualism Commissioner of Education was pres- R. J. Keeran. who at 65 runs a 160- ent, as was Secretary Ogg ot the acre farm in Mayfield twp., Lapeer American Farm Bureau Federation. county, says he is strong for rugged Mr. Taber, Master of the National individualism, believes in farmers and Grange, Mr. Dripps of the National $ body running their own business. Broadcasting Company and others. "You can't change human nature with The Michigan delegation was by far alphabet soup," he says. "Some folks the largest. Amazement was express- i money no matter how poor the ed on the part of the other state year is and some of 'em would starve groups that such a trip could be finan- -fitrlYl aUKh.HU to death in the Garden of Eden." ced for so little. The entire trip was Whenever ,they began to demon- they are, tiip'bunrii around the tractor eral Co-op tractors, Co-op tillage 1 then just to prove that he isn't accomplished without mishap. This at the left* of this photograph. tools, electric water systems, harness, altogether individualistic. R. J. joins again is a tribute to the Future Fann- strate the power of- the co-op tractors The lair machinery exhibit was fence, and a dis-play trailer so show its Farm Bureau because the farmer ers: they co-operate with leaders. at the Farm Bureau machinery ex- most complete and" was attended by line of Westinghouse electric ranges, must be organized if he is to get any According*to TNIr. Galftip, the state hibit at the Ionia Free Fair, folks left the leading manufacturers. The refrigerators, washers and other ap- supervisor of vocational agricultural everything else to have a look. There Farm Bureau's display included sev- pliances. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1938 M I C H I G A N F A R M N E W S SEED FIRM BEFORE The Farm Bureau in 1936 . . . The Junior Farm Bureau Is Organized LARGEST TURKEY (QNTRO COURT NINTH TIME CROP ON RECORD and FOR MISBRANDING jThird Larger Than Last Year, But Demand Should DISEASE . . . . wiili Sun-Field Seed Service Gets Be Better In Trouble Over Its The biggest turkey crop on record— about 20,000,000 birds—was reported FARM BUREAU SERVICES Oat Deals recently by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. This is a third larger 221 N. Cedar St., Lansing For the ninth time a U. S. court has than last year's production of about found seed oats shipped by the "Sun- 15,000,000 turkeys, and compares with Field Seed Service" of Chicago mis- preceding record crops of nearly branded in violation of the Federal 19,000,000 birds in 1932 and 1933. Seed Act. The ninth case was termi- The bureau pointed out, however, nated when the U. S. District Court of that many birds which go to market this year \fill be younger and lighter Carbide Little Rock, Arkansas, ordered 20 bushels of oats—shipped to Little weight on account of the short feed Rock from New Orleans—sold by the situation resulting from the drought. U. S. marshal and the proceeds depos- An increased demand for turkeys was ited with the U. S. treasury. The forecast owing to the somewhat small- court's decision is announced by the er supply of other meats In prospect U. S. Department of Agriculture in and to increased buying power of con- CARBIDE connection with a report of cases sumers. Many specialized turkey farms havf- OF HIGHEST terminated during September. QUALITY The Department notes that "Sun- come into existence in recent years. and on the west coast a big business • Field Seed Service" is an alternate name used by the American Field Seed Company of Chicago, Illinois. Three of shipping turkey eggs to the central states has developed. For years the National Carbide UUkKOK. FARM &UREAU AT WALDENWQQDS- shipments of oats into Kansas in 1934 CO~OR£.fZATtVE. were seized because they were said TRA1MIVG turkey industry had been declining due to heavy production losses. Corporation to be winter-hardy and labeled "New Lincoln Bldq.New York Victory". In 1935, six shipments were made into Arkansas, Mississippi, and Junior Farm Bureau Is for State Council Directs Affairs of Junior Farm Bureau Alabama, where they were seized be- cause the seed was labeled "Mammoth Young Folk and They Run It Cluster". Reports have reached the Department that these oats are nowGroup In Their Twenties Are fertilizer plant at Lockland, Ohio, the being sold in the Northeast under the farm machinery plant at Louisville, name "Royal Banner". The oats in all Learning to Work Ky., and the Farm Bureau oil and these cases were found to be Victory Together gasoline plant at Indianapolis. From oats grown in the Pacific Northwest. time to time short trips are taken by PILOT Victory oats are adapted to the North- groups to see the operations of a BRAND ern States only. The "Sun-Field Seed By BENJAMIN F. HENNINK OYSTER SHELL Service" claimed these oats were sugar beet plant, to the live stock FLAKE The Junior Farm Bureau in Mich- grown in the vicinity of Chicago. igan was organized during the past market at Detroit, to see the milk year by the Michigan State Farm Bu- distribution system in Detroit, and so reau in order to give rural young on. MILK PRODUCERS people a part in the Farm Bureau pro- This summer several groups attend- gram, and to provide for future de- ed general meetings of similarly in- T velopment of the entire organization. terested young people in other states. FOR POULTRY IN ANNUAL MEETING Through 4-H Club Work, the Future In November the Junior Farm Bureau Farmers Chapters of the agr'-l high sponsored a trip to the Future Farm- schools, and through the work of the ers Convention and the Fat Stock A consistently supe- schools, thousands of young men and Show at Kansas City. One hundred Meet the young men who direct the Morris, Okemos, St. Johns, St. Louis, Newaygo; Harold Cunningham, Mor- rior product over a Organization Markets F o r women study agriculture and related and fifty went. ocal and State activities of Junior and Woodland. ris; Paul Spencer, Shepherd; Leslie long term of years has 18,237 Farmers in Nine work. They learn to participate in The first week in September 79 Farm Bureau groups in Michigan. Since this photograph was made in Ogenberg, Bangor. organized groups. Many of these young men and women of the Junior These young farmers are agricultural June, Junior groups have been or- Middle row, left to right: George made Pilot Brand Cities of State young people intend to make farming Farm Bureau attended a week's study high school or 4-H club graduates, ganized at Adrian, Lake Odessa, North Marzen, Okemos; Richard Cook, Du- Oyster Shell the ac- their life work. It is this group that of Michigan farm co-operatives at ducators, farmers and other business rand; Ben Hennink, State Farm Bu- Branch, Oxford, Portland, Port Huron, reau director of Junior groups; cepted standard of The Michigan Milk Producers Ass'n is interested in developing the Junior Waldenwoods Camp in Livingston men are glad to talk to them. Some and Shelby. They are represented on Lansing Coplin, Olivet; Arthur Barnes at its 20th annual meeting at State Farm Bureau. county. They learned how to build a if the young men share father and their state council. (vice president), Coldwater; Ivan quality the world over. College, Nov. 5, reported that it is Today there are 22 Junior Farm Bu- Junior Farm Bureau and how to keep Gillespe, Mt. Pleasant. selling milk for 18,237 Michigan reaus, with a total membership of an organization going forward. The ;on Farm Bureau memberships. Farm The State Council consists of two Rear row: George Sleder, Ithaca; farms. The membership increased 308 more than 300. Most of the groups group is shown in the large picture Bureau membership is not a require- young men from each group. It Wenzel Gruner, Coldwater; Walter Its use for laying hens meets quarterly and suggests the pro- members during the year. meet every two weeks and have a pro- at the top of the page. They came ment for their group. insures increased egg Besides marketing milk in Detroit, gram that operates on the discussion from all parts of lower Michigan. This group represents the Junior gram for the next three months. Mem-Schroeder, Lapeer; Richard Kline, bers of the Council, above, are: Vermontville; Harry Johnson (presi- lay, strong, healthy, Milk Producers members serve Ann method. They enjoy entertainment For 1936 and 1937 their general pro- Farm Bureaus at Bangor, Battle Arbor, Flint, Bay City, Saginaw, Jack- and singing. Most of the programs gram includes a study of rural com- !reek, Charlotte, Coldwater, Fremont, Christienson, Front row, left to right: Richard dent), St. Louis; Martin Garn, Char- son, Lansing, Battle Creek and Mus-deal with matters of interest to farm- munities, the farm co-operative move- Howell, Ionia, Leslie, Mt. Pleasant, Newaygo; Max Kempf, lotte. meaty birds. kegon. The Association operates sev- ing. Often the groups invite farmers, ment in Michigan, and rural recrea- eral processing plants. business leaders, teachers and others tion. They plan to have a co-opera- Shelterbelt Project. He said he had Saving on light by using small Secretary Beach's report said that to speak to them on their particular tive institute in March. The Junior Say Shelterbelt Trees More thun half the ffasoliae service seen farmers voluntarily cutivating lectric light bulbs may result in stations In the 0. 8. »<'ll less than milk sales had increased $1,300,000 subject. Farm Bureau will have its first an- plantations to protect the trees when oor eyesight and poor health. during the year, to a total of $18,951,- The young people get around to see nual convention at Lansing at the Are Becoming Effective temperatures soared around the 107 5,000 gallons a month. 193. The Association's reserve fund what's being done in farmer owned time of the State Farm Bureau meet- degree mark. to guarantee all producers pay foraffairs. This year 40 of them made a ing. The Farm Bureau is seeding the Washington—Trees planted for shel- Final figures reported by Mr. Tinker their milk, and for other contingenc- party that visited the Farm Bureau young men into the general activities erbelt purposes in the Great Plains ies, has risen to $145,895. The Milk of the organization. during the last two years have reached show that in the years 1935 and 1936, Producers reported a net worth of $276,748. President N. P. Hull has served as Drought Brings Smallest Airplane Patrol Spots protection sufficient size in a number of areas a total of 1,281 miles of shelterbelt o begin being effective in according strips and 6,415 acres of farmsteads from winds, according to have been planted with a total of 23,- A Splendid Gift! head of the organization from the be- Meat Supply in 15 Years Illegal Fish Nets Easily Earl W. Tinker, Assistant Chief of 771,000 A trees. total of 4,364 farmers participated A Farm Bureau Wool Blanket ginning. He confirmed his previous the Forest Service, U. S. Department announcement that he would not be a Washington—The smallest supply of of Agriculture. in these plantings, he said, and on candidate for re-election, and wished meats in more than fifteen years as a The steady drone of an airplane In spite of drought conditions, July 1, 1936, there were still 2,860 ap- For Xmas . . . or to Newiyweds to retire in favor of a younger man. result of the drought was forecast for propeller is putting the fear of the hecks on July 1 showed an average plications from farmers on file for He will serve two remaining years of 1937 by the Bureau of Agricultural law into poachers who sneak forth survival of 81 per cent, or approxi- shelterbelt planting. his present term of three as a direct- Economics in its report issued today during closed seasons on the Great mately 20 million trees out of the or. He saw the Milk Producers Ass'n on the outlook for meat animals and Lakes for an illegal catch of lake 23,700,000 planted by the Forest Ser- 200 at Ionia Annual grow from 100 members to today's meat. The 1937 meat supply, how- trout or whitefish. vice in the last two years. Ionia—Two hundred attended the total of 18,236. ever, may be about equal to that of Conservation authorities here say "Many thousands of the young trees annual meeting and dinner of the Directors elected by the Milk Pro- 1935. that the aerial patrol of commercial planted during the 1935 season are Ionia County Farm Bureau at the ducers were: Frank Hein, Brighton; "The reduction," the bureau said in fishing grounds has proved one of the now six feet high and are already Methodist church here Nov. 6. Sec'y Wm. Myers, Adair; Elmer Powers, a summary, "will be most pronounced most effective instruments of law en-bringing about a lessening of wind C. L. Brody of the State Farm Bureau Flint. The board of directors is to in pork and in the better grades of forcement yet tried. movement within their protective was the speaker. Mark Westbrook of meet at Detroit, November 12 to or-beef," adding that "as further improve- "Nets set illegally and in closed range," he said. "Height growths up Ionia was re-elected president. Direc- ganize, which will include electing a ment in consumer demand is in pro- fishing seasons may be quickly spotted to 16 feet have been noted in some tors elected are: Wyman Lewis, Port- successor to Mr. Hull from among the spect, the general level of livestock from the air and at long distances so instances. I saw fields of cantaloupes land; Clark Palmer, Belding; Allen directors. and meat prices is expected to be that it is practically impossible for a and watermelons growing in what Wilcox, Portland; Mrs. J. Chamber- higher than for several years. It hard- net to elude detection within range of were formerly dust fields, protected by lain, Ionia; Stanley Powell, Ionia; Many trees and shrubs are still ly seems probable that total slaughter a pilot's vision," commented H. R. rows of the newly planted trees. severe winter freezing of 1933-34. equal to the 1930-34 average." forcement. Charles Brooks, Sunfield Tn~e direct- Buffering from the after effects of thesupplies will reach before 1940, a level Sayre, chief of conservation law en- Mr. Tinker reported nearly 100 per ors were named delegates to the ent co-operation by farmers on theState Farm Bureau annual meeting. .95 Annual meeting visitors, see these blankets at our show- Farm Bureau in 1936 . . . Builds Co-op Tractor Wire Cloth Helped to Reduce room! Or you may order by mail from this advertise- ment. Satisfaction is guaranteed. Shipped prepaid. Casket Demand at Panama Choice of colors given below. Soft, thick, carefully woven. Binding is 4 inch sateen ribbon. Weight 4% Common Protection Against liberal use of wire screen cloth in win- pounds. dows, doors and porches. Insects Requires Skill The manufacture of wire screen Farm Bureau Special With Steel cloth is a matter of great care in the manufacture of very fine steel wire Double—Plaids—70x80 as will be appreciated in a short re- Michigan State Farm Bureau, .1936 Ferdinand de Lesseps won fame by view of the process. 728 E. Shiawassee St., his successful achievement in build- Lake Superior region iron ore and Lansing, Mich. ing the Suez canal, but later he tried Pennsylvania coke are brought togeth- to construct the Panama canal and er to make pig 'iron. In an open Please send me blankets to be shipped postage prepaid. failed. hearth furnace or a Bessemer convert Hardly had the project been launch- er, the pig iron is refined into molten Rose and White Peach and White Red and Black ed, says Stephen J. Daly, writing in steel, which is poured as billets 2( the Du Pont Magazine, when the bat- inches square. Tan and White Gold and White Blue and White tle of de Lesseps and Anopheles, the Then begins a series of reheatings Green and White Orchid and White malarial carrying mosquito, began, and serious trouble ensued. Soon his and steel mill reducing processes tha men were dying at a rapid rate. In brings the ingot to a wire about 5/16 (CHECK BELOW) Name his best showmanship style de Les- Thus farin of an inch diameter. the process is considered Ship C. O. D. P. O R. F. D seps tried to make them feel that it was an honor to die for the project. as rather rough treatment. The ob I enclose payment Member Co. Farm Bureau He buried them in expensive caskets, jective of now becomes a fine steel wir conducting the funerals with the great- 1/100 an inch in diameter. Grea care is exercised in heating the rod t est extravagance. Eventually, it be- proper Fall and Winter came difficult to keep workmen on the throughtemperature before it is forcei a series of smaller and small job. Finally de Lesseps lost the fight er tungsten or diamond dies, finall TAILORED FARM BUREAU SUITS & OVERCOATS and returned to France. arriving at 1 100 of an inch. When the United States Engineers A wire cloth weaving machine, load SUITS $30.00 $35.00 No tractor attracted more attention sula of Michigan to show it to farm- Charlotte, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo at the fairs and from farmers every- ers and their co-operative ass'n man- Paw Paw, Lawrence, Hartford, Eau moved in to complete the project the ed to produce a full roll of wire cloth With Extra Trousers $37.50 $42.50 where this summer and fall than the agers. The tractor is made in two,Claire, Buchanan, Niles, Marcellus Anopheles problem was turned over to requires 1,360 miles of the fine wire an army medical officer, Col. W. L. A OVERCOATS $25.00 $27.50 $30.00 $32.50 three and four bottom plow new Co-op tractor being manufactured r a v e l s 2 5 t 0 3 0 m i l e s a n n o u r sizes. It Three Rivers, Constantine, Coldwater machine will produce 40 to 50 squar by the Farm Bureau Services aa*jf on the Litchfield, Jonesville, Albion, Marshall Gorgas, idea, who reversed the de Lesseps feet considering it a disgrace for a of cloth an hour. Wire scree FARM BUREAU MEMBER: In addition to this special price, a associated co-operatives. Powered by highways, and will do considerably sonville, Plainwell, Allegan, Hamilton, Hud that is to be enameled is cleaned, the patronage dividend will be credited on your next membership dues. Holland, Byron Center, Dorr workman to contract malaria, or yel- a Chrysler industrial motor, and niore. The first few days that Frank tried Middleville, Hastings, Lansing, Itha low fever. When one died, he waswith zinc is made chemically clean run through a batch of enamel. Clot handling like an automobile, it has out his new idea for getting around cu, Mt. Pleasant, Barryton, Big Rapids luried in a plain casket, and the money CLOTHING DEPARTMENT great power at the drawbar and forand showing his wares, nine farmers Stanwood, White Cloud, Fremont saved was used in an effort to exter- and electroplated with zinc that is MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU the belt. It handles on the road as decided they needed one. They put Brunswick, Shelby, Hart, Scottville. minate the fever carrying mosquito. 99.9% pure. Zinc coated screen is 729 E. Shiawassee St. Lansing, Michigan easily as a truck. Frank Till,"the Frank to traveling. Here are some The photograph was taken at Alle Stagnant water pools were treated given it a protective coating to protect against tarnish or discoloration as driver shown In this picture, drove of the places he has been with that gan. He was just rearin' back t with chemicals. Homes, office build- a result of finger prints. this tractor all over the lower penin- tractor; take off for Hamilton. ings and hospitals were protected by VAlfl H«Wi SATURDAY, WOTEHTBEB 7, 1WW WE ARE IN THE MARKET FOR SEEDS JOIN NOW Answering S. O. S. calls from all parts of the Nation when wind, floods, fires or other forces of nature strike a community has long been an estab- lished Red Cross service. Liist year the Red Cross started out to give aid to the victims of another type of disaster—highway disasters which take an average daily toll of more than 100 lives and cause Injury to nearly three times that number. To reduce deaths and needless suffer- ing from highway accidents the Red Cross Initiated a system of Highway Emergency First Aid Stations, now numbering more than 1000, along ma- 8t<3 YtE.LDS. SEED CLEANING SERVICE m CWe clean seed! Deliver your seed, or you may ship it by freight to Farm Bureau Services, Lansing, or to our Farm Bureau ele- vator at 220 Bristol St., Saginaw. Tag each bag with name and address of shipper. Write us a letter stating the total num- ber of bags, and giving full instructions as to how you want 1 jor routes of traffic to give Intelligent help to accident victims before the your seed cleaned. Advise if you want the seed cleaned and doctor comes. Existing highway facilities, such THE FARM BUREAU returned to you, or do you want a price quoted on the cleaned as garages, filling stations, wayside seed ? inns and state police substations are used. At least two persons at each station receive the standard training PAYS WELL FOR in first aid, and the station is provided C.At Lansing we have installed two more modern cleaning mills with the necessary equipment and marked by an appropriate roadside GOOD QUALITY STOCK and have every facility to do your work. You can bring seed sign. » In addition to these permanent first in the morning and take it home cleaned the same day. aid highway stations the Red Cross Is organizing mobile units through the CWe are in the market as usual at this time o f the year for PLAN ON co-operation of motorized highway patrols, state highway maintenance Michigan grown June, Mammoth, Alsike, Sweet Clovers and departments and utility companies. FARM BUREAU SEED FOR 1937 Many of these units have already been Alfalfa seeds. Send us an 8 ounce sample of your seed. Make trained by the Red Cross In first aid and It is now proposed to provide it representative by taking equal amounts from each bag to Bureau has guaranteed Michigan farmers northern their vehicles with first aid kits so that the crews will be better able to make up the general sample lot. Write us the amount of seed origin, winter hardy, alfalfas and clovers since 1920. They sur- give help to those hurt on the high- way. you have, and we will quote you. We send sample mailing vive our winters. We are now selecting strong, A-l quality seeds For example, one of the highway first aid stations established by the bags on request. We buy other field seeds. of the best varieties for you for next spring. Their quality, germ- Toledo, Ohio, Chapter recently report- ination and purity must be right. ed the following accident which oc- curred on the Dixie Highway near C.The Farm Bureau specializes in the handling of Michigan Perrysburg, killing two persons and eeriously injuring six. A touring car grown, winter hardy alfalfas and clovers. You will find that we CWe pack Farm Bureau field seeds in sealed bushel and half failed to stop at an Intersection and crashed into the side of a Cincinnati appreciate quality in seed. Let us make you a price on your bushel bags. Farm Bureau brand seeds are guaranteed to you and Lake Erie bus. The smaller car was hurled 150 feet, landing against seed. to their full purchase price to be as represented on analysis bag. the side of the home of a gasoline service station attendant who, fortun- ately, was a Red Cross trained first aider. The bus crashed into a steel pole In front of the gas station and turned over in a complete revolution. "I looked out and saw this huge bus which looked as If it were not MERMASH TO SEE Has What It Takes going to stop until It landed on top of the station," said J. W. Dorcas, owner of the filling station which had but two weeks previously been desig- This Spreader is to Want it nated a Red Cross Highway first aid post. "Then I saw the sedan in flames over against my house. "I rushed into the house, brought out the fire extinguisher and put out the blaze, then dashed over to the bus and started pulling out the six victims, most of whom were uncon- scious. "One woman had been hurled Low through the window from the side of the bus and was lying a few feet away with a crushed skull. When I Down to ascertained she was dead, I centered my attention on the others. My as- sistant rushed to the telephone and Save Work called three ambulances and two of the nearest doctors whose names were on a list which each Red Cross sta- tion must keep up to date. He then PKOOiKGS UIQH QiMtUTV &XS called the state patrol which arrived immediately and cleared the crowd so that we could give first aid to the victims. One by one we gave emerg- ency first aid treatment to the vic- FOR HIGH PRODUCTION LOADS EASY LIGHT DRAFT BUILT RIGHT tims until the ambulances arrived." Top of box only 36" from Weighs 1,200 lbs. or. 100 Steel angle frame. Heavy This service to the motoring public is without charge, and the men and AND HEALTHIER FLOCKS ground. 60 bu. capacity. to 500 less than usual. steel axles, chains, levers, women first aiders manning the sta- Sets for 6, 12, 18, 24 loads tions are volunteers. If you are In Wide tread wheels, self- spokes, teeth. Shreds, pul- an automobile accident you will want per acre. Has 14" road aligning, closed bearings verizes manure in wide, a doctor as soon as possible; but you clearance. Will tarn short. have no wish to die before the physi- with oil chambers. even blanket of fertility. cian arrives because of arterial bleed- ing, neither do you want to be bundled into a passing car by a well-meaning but ignorant bystander If your In- juries are serious. Now is the Time First alders are not physicians, but they have been thoroughly trained in making correctly a simple diagnosis. They can tell shock when they see it to Cash in on WHY NOT and they know how to treat it. They have been taught how to stop arterial bleeding by the pressure point method. They know how to properly dress severe burns so that the immediate High Egg Prices Make This Savings? danger of infection is minimized. They know how to splint a fractured FARM BUREAlTlMLLINfi C * I At this time you may contract with your co-op for a year's supply of Farm long bone so that the victim can be CHtCAfiO moved without running the risk of Bureau oils and greases, paying for them as you take delivery. The plan has permanently crippling him and they know when to Insist that the injured no inconvenience in it for you, and it gives you the benefit of a quantity person not be moved. YOU CAN START ON MERMASH ANY TIME purchase. , Tractor Tire Pump Wise tractor operators carry along some type of air pump accessory in field operations if their tractors are equipped with rubber tires, says H. H. Musselman, head of the agricultural engineering department at Michigan Means See Your Farm Bureau Dealer Means State College. Some of the larger FOR FARM BUREAU SUPPLIES Money tires can hardly be inflated with a hand pump, so he suggests some type Write Us If You Have No Dealer MILKMAKER FORMULAS of pump which the tractor motor will MILKMAKER FORMULAS FARM BUREAU SERVICES, Inc., Lansing, Mich. 16, 24, 32 and 34% operate. Proper inflation Increases 16, 24, 32 and 34% the life of a tire as well as insuring good traction and economy in fuel