•• I " ~, Farm News~------ ...... THE ACTION PUBLICATION OF TN. MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU VOL. 60, NO.2, FEBRUARY 198J ~ IN THIS ISSUE Delegates Reaffirm Belief FBF Con-vention New Orleans in Market-Oriented Agriculture Delegates at the American Farm Bureau Federation 62nd annual meeting in New Orleans set forth a plainly-worded state- ment on national farm policy that reaffirmed belief in the strength of a market-oriented agriculture and which outlined a new profile for go_vern.ment programs. In the policy, delegates said, " ... We believe a market ori- ented agriculture is the most ef- ficient means of producing food and fiber and provides farmers with the greatest op- portunity for economic well be- • Assurance of unrestricted ac- be carefully designed and im- ing. This means that farmers cess to domestic and world plemented to avoid conditions and ranchers must be granted -markets so farmers can receive which are self perpetuating or the freedom to produce for a the highest 'possible market which exert an undue influence profit. G9vernment interven- prices; _ on market directed adjustments National.Fi;lrm Policy tion should be eliminated to allow market forces to func- • Programs to help farmers ob- tain needed crop and market in production and marketing. The delegate body resolved tion." - information, research, educa- to "seek an economic climate Delegates at the American tion assistance and credit; II I in which farmers can produce Farm Bureau Federation 62nd • Programs to provide workab e and market without the threat I annual meeting in New Orleans grades and standards and to of government-controlled sur- set forth a plainly-worded state- safeguard product quality pluses being used to manipu- ment on national farm policy through inspection services;' late markets. that reaffirmed belief in 'the • Programs to help farmers "A national farm policy car- strength of a market-oriented eradicate or control plant and ried out in this manner will as- agriculture and which outlined animal pests and diseases; sure a positive future for Amer- a profile for government pro- • Programs to encourage con- ica's family farms which are grams. I servation of land and water re- presently unequalled anywhere ommendation that U.S. farm sources; in the world in terms of perfor- policy be directed toward mini- • Programs to prevent the exer- mance and opportunity," they mizing the need for, and use cise of monopoly power; said. of, price and income support .Assurances of reliable, unfet- Finally, delegates called measures for agriculture. Other tered transportation for agri- upon the USDA to make early recommendations were specific cultural commodities; and program announcements to fa- in identifying areas which • Programs to strengthen farm- cilitate effective program imple- would complement a market- ers' power to bargain for a mentation. Delaying the an- M_chigan Farm Bureau oriented agriculture. price. nouncement is counterproduc- By their recommendations, AFBF delegates warned that tive to the agricultural sector, Brings tJome 5-Star H<:>nors delegates seek to obtain: government programs should they said. Reagan Extends Best Wishes to AFBF Conventioneers President-elect Ronald Reagan sent the following telegram to Robert B. Delano, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, as AFBF's 62nd annual meeting opened Jan. 12. Delano read the telegmm to the 7,000 delegates assembled for the opening session in the • Louisiana Superdome.. . Congratulations on -your 62nd annual meeting. As we form a new administration in Washington, I look forumrd with enthusiasm to working with the American Farm Bureau Federation .nnd egch of tJae individual state Farm Bureaus. The over 3 million families you represent am vitallY important to this nation. - Our victory in November was made especially gratifying because of the strong, positive sup- port we recerved from the farm and rural communities throughout the entire country. ~ As we move ahead, I am counting on you to help us expand and strengthen our agricultural · i' . economy. We must do this in the interest of farm families, rural communities, and also for the Farm News coverage of convention benefit of all Americans. speakers, workshops and programs Best wishes for a highly successful convention. Ronald Reagan begins on page 4. PAGE 2 FARM NEWS FEBRUARY 1981 From the Desk of the President Policies .. -.Directives -for Action We have spent the past several months ury ofJnactivity while we admire our han-. surfacing the concerns of the farm commu- diwork - those policies provide us not only nity, tapping the expertise of 5f>ecialists in with direction, but directives - directives our search for the best courses of action to for action. solve problems, and formulating position '/ statements on issues. Farm Bureau has the most effective, knowledgeable, highly-respected lobbyists I We've discussed - even \lad heated de- bates - on the positions our organization anywhere, and certainly, they use our poli- ./ should take on key issues. This is healthy cies as a directive. But it takes more than and effective and very appropriate for our their expertise, alone, to get the job done. It takes a united effort by farmers to infhi- I system of policy development, a system which encourages input at several levels ence the decision-makers in the county , courthouse, in the capitol building in Lans- / and from farmers with varying viewpoints and interests. ing, and the halls of Congress in Washing- ton, D.C. I think the Eaton County group (see I am proud of the professional manner in farmland preservation story in this issue) which our farmers conduct this annual acti- Our policy books provide a directive for proved how effective local action can be _ vity, providing us with a firm foundation action to every community action group, when a priority is determined .and a united for action. Imagine ho~ indecisive and in- every county, state and AFBF committee. - effort is made to Illake it happen - even effective we would be without clearly-de- It wouldn't be realistic - or even effective - against great odds., fined positions as a guide. for county Farm Bureaus to develop a pro- The searching, the discussion and de- Policy ~xecution meetings have been gram of work based on the entire contents bates, are over for this Farm Bureau year. held throughout the state to give you the of their county, state and national policies. We have completed the task of mapping opportunity to learn how to be most effec- Priorities are needed and these will - and out the direction for our organization at the tive in your efforts. State. and national should - vary from area to area. local, state and national levels. Much time legislative seminars -are scheduled to pro- and effort were invested in developing Protection in' bankruptcy proceedings vide you with the opportunity to' meet with these policies which will now serve as a may be of cruCial concern in areas where your. elected representatives in Lansing guide for the activities we undertake farmers have actually experienced financial and Washington, D. C. and share your through our county Farm Bureaus, our losses. The need for right to farm legisla- concerns and positions with them so they Michigan Farm Bureau and the Ame~ican tion may be felt more acutely in areas can make intelligent decisions. Farm Bureau Federation. where rural and suburban people have be- In Farm 'Bu~eau, there is la til}.l.efqr c~n- There are no "time outs" nor recesses come close neighbors. Farmland preserva- sideration and a time for action .. We. have between policy development and policy tion is sure to be a priority of those who live entered the seaso.n for action. Be ~ p'art of execution. With the many challenges farm- in an area where prime agricultural land is it; you are needed! ers will face in '81, we can't .afford the lux- threatened. Elton R. Smith Hometown Pride ... Slavery ... and Food Prices . • • she gave me and the entire or- In these days of equal rights, commercial-size bin containing news commentator talk about ganization lots of reasons to be it's hard to imagine what it the garbage of 11 other families 'runaway food prices,' don't proud. Bob Craig, manager of would be like not to be as liber- (yech!) to retrieve it. just say nasty words and grit MFB's Commodity Activities ated as we are. Not being able The times in between those your teeth. Take down the al1d Research Department, got to vote would be bad enough, two goofs when I may have commentator's name and ad- a royal welcome from me when but when Ken Wiles was re- been in danger of being sold dress, then mail him these facts DONNA he joined our staff; he can now help me handle those "What's an Ovid?" putdowns. Now that searching material for this month's discussion topic (page 12), he came across a real can- causes me t9 give thanks that it's now against the law! on what U.S. factory workers bought with one hour's pay ... No matter how far removed he's one of those select Michi- you-believe-that tidbit. Did you Funk's G-Hybrids recent Food Item 1950 1979 a person gets - in miles and gan Agriculture Leadership know that, once upon a time, a Early Riser publication had this White bread 1O.1Ibs. 15.8Ibs. years - from the old home- Program participants, I have man, who had absolute author- Frying chickens 2.4 Ibs. 9.8Ibs. advice for farmers who get riled Milk 7.5 qts. 13.5 qts. town, the emotional attach- ev~n more reason to proudly ity over his household, could by headlines about rising food Butter 2.0Ibs. 4.1Ibs. ment seems to remain. If it's a say, "I knew him when." actually sell his wife or children costs: Eggs 2.4 doz. 8.0 doz. small v.iIIage like mine, there's Most recently, the first' into slavery? The next time you hear a Pork 1.9lbs. 4.6Ibs. always a particular interest in woman to win our Young It got me thinking, if such a ~ the hometown-boy-or-girl- Farmer Discussion Meet lists practice were acceptable today, made-good (or occasionally, Ovid as her address. I nearly how many times I might have MICHIGAN FARM NEWS bad). busted my butt<;ms when Mar- gotten sold by my father or (lSSN 0026-2161) DIRECTORS: District 1. Arthur Bailey. The Michigan Farm News is published Schoolcraft; District 2. Lowell Eisenmann. I think my hometown has sha Brook won the state con- husband. monthly. on the first day, by the Michigan Farm - Blissfield: District 3. James Sayre. Bell~ville: scored pretty well, or maybe it test and got a special surge of The first time that I can Bureau Information and Pub/le Relations Divl. D\strlct4. Elton R. Smith. Caledonia; District5. sIon. Pubtlaltlon and editorllll offices at 7373 William Spike. Owosso: Distrk16. Jack Laurie. just seems that way after years pride when she did so well in remember was when I was four West Saginaw Highway. Lansing. Michigan Cass City: District 7. Robert Rider. Hart; District 48909. Post Office Box 30960, telephone. of having people say: "What's New Orleans - third in the na- years old and "helped daddy" Lansing 517-323.7000. Extension 508. Sub- 8. Lyle LeCronler. Freeland; District9, Donald Nugent. Frankfort; DIstrict 10. Margaret Kartes. an Ovid?" While it hasn't yet tion! by filling Jhe gas tank with scription price. $1.00 per year. Publication No. West Branch: District 11. Herman Robere. Fay- 345040. ette produced any U.S. presidents, Although I haven't moved water. (When you're out on the Established January 13. 1923. Second.class DIRECTORS AT LARGE: Dave Conklin. it has turned out some shiny. into the star category, there are prairies of South Dakota, that's postage paid at Lansing. Michigan and at addi- Corunna: Mlchae~ Pridgeon. Montgomery: tional mailing offices. Farm Bureau stars, giving me a lot of my high school teachers not good!). The last time was Robert Rattier. Fremont EDITORIAL: Donna Wilber, Editor: Marclll Dltchle, Connie Turbin. Associate Editors FARM BUREAU WOMEN: VIvian Lott. something to brag about. who are surprised that the dizzy yesterday when my husband's OFFICERS: Michigan Fann Bureau: Presl. MIlSOn For example, our last Farm blonde grew up to be an editor. beloved 100 Years of V of M dent. Elton R. Smith. Caledonia: Vice Presi. FARM BUREAU YOUNG FARMERS: Janis Sanford. Parma dent. Jack laurie. Cass City: Administrative Bureau Queen, Bunny Se- That's almost as satisfying as Football book got inadvertantly Director. Robert Braden. lansing; Treasurer POSTMASTER: In using form 3579. mad to: putting Ovid on the map. thrown out with our trash and MichIgan Farm News. 7373 West Saginaw mans, hailed from an Ovid and Chief Ananclal OffIcer, Max D. Dean: Highway. lansing. Michigan 48909. Sccrmry. ~iDlam S. Willclnson dairy farm. During her reign ••••• he had to scrounge through a FEBRUARY 1981 FARM NEWS PAGE 3 Survey Will Sample Member OPEN Interest in Financial Cooperative LETTE,RS Farm Bureau Employees Credit Union officials are con- sidering extending the services like to offer this same advan- tage to Farm Bureau mem- bers. " will be presented to the Michi- gan Farm Bureau board of di- rect?rs at their April meeting. offered to Farm Bureau em- Scharp said that in addition Please return survey to: Andrea Hofmeister ployees since 1933 to Farm to . already existing services, Farm Bureau Employees Cred- Michigan Farm Bureau Bureau members. conside!ation may be given to it Union, P.O. Box 30960 1980 Outstanding According to Harold Scharp, other services which Farm Bu':- Lansing, Mich. 48909. ' Young Farm Woman ,, Credit Union president, a ran- reau members indicate will be dom survey of Farm Bureau members . is being taken to of value to them, such as auto- matic transfer of insurance pay- Young Farmers -Dear Hubby, ~ measure the need and accep- tance of this added member- ments, including Blue Cross- B.lue Shield, and participation 'Can Build Skills I've taken the kids to town. Be back by noon. If you're going to see about a farm loan today, perhaps you'd consider asking for a ship benefit. in a statewide automatic teller machine for easy access to at Conference "This proposed member ser- little bit more than you calculated. I've gathered a few ideas that The 1~81 Michigan Farm vice is basically a 'financial co- funds. will save us money on taxes, but they require more capl!al outlay. Bureau Young Farmer Lead- operative,' owned and oper- If you are one of the mem- 1 read recen17y that a solar collector could save us money on ers' Conference will be held in ated by its members," Scharp bers who received the survey fuel. We ,cQuld bui.ld a 12'x24' solar collector for only $700, accor- Midland March 4, 5 and 6 at said. "The Farm Bureau Em- card, Credit Union officials are ding tq this ad 1 read in ~ magaz(ne. We'd heat our tool shed so the Valley Plaza Ramada Inn. ployees Credit Union has tradi- anxious for your response. If you cou!d po repair work in the winter. Of course, we'd need to " Conference workshops will tionally offered better than not, you have the opportunity insulate the tool shed, partition a workshop and reposition the' include stress management; competitive rates on' its savings to fill out the form below to in- roof for a southern exposure, but how much more could it be? financial and debt manage- and loan services, giving its dicate your interest in this pro- Best of all, we get an energy tax credit. Then, a more expensive ment; legal rights and responsi- members .an advantage in this posed member service. Survey solar drying unit for grain is a must these days. 1 don't know the bilities; partnerships, wills and ~ inflationary economy. We'd results' and recommendations exact cost, but it would all be depreciable. Of course, we'd need trusts; tax breaks; and com- storage facilities first. Before we get too far into the energy crunch, we ought to con- ~-------------~-----------~---------------- DYes, I would be interested in participating in a Credit munication skills. Cost of the three-day confer- sider our own ethanol production system. We grow plenty of corn Union. ence is $85 per person. Reser- and the set-up doesn't seem all that complicated. After all, during If yes, select the five services you would most like to have vations should be sent to Don prohibition even the simple minded could concoct a still, so why available to you through your credit union. Currey, Michigan Farm Bu- not us? 1 saw a figure put out by the Department of Energy of reau, P.O. Box 30960, Lans- o Loans OGroup Legal Services about $107,000. Seems high, but it's all depreciable. Olnterest Bearing Savings Drafts o Direct Deposit of Social Security ing, Mich. 48909, prior to Feb. Then, to augment that, why not try using methane gas to (checking) Checks 20. - power the place? I've heard of feedlots that power their whole OSavings OFree Notary Service operation on methane from animal wastes. First, we'd need some OChristmas Club ONo Fee Money- Orders ONo Fee Travelers Cheques OFree Financial Counseling stock, maybe cattle, but ~urely we could swing it. What can a few steers cost? 1 think they depreciate, too. An~ we .m,ust invest in a computerized data bank for each trac- _ OGroup Travel Programs OAutomatic Transfer Payment of Insurance Policies OFree Consumer Seminars OAutomatic Transfer Payment of BC/BS o Certificates DEALERS tor. It wm tell YOU' exhaust and oil temperature, PTO rpms, engine rpms and tire pressure. It gives you a cleanliness rating on all filters and beeps when it's time to hose down the exterior. Sounds great for a novice like me. Could save a lot on repair bills and you know OAutomatic Transfer Payment of MFB Dues D N.o, I would not be interested of Deposit in participating in a Credit WANTED! Union. If no, Why? _ what a nut 1 am about neatness. You guessed it - depreciable. Speaking-of computers, how abput a direct marketing hook- up? The equipment can't be that expensive. We can't really afford Are you presently being served by a "Credit Union?" our own marketing analyst, but these new TV hook-ups sound like fun. The hardware must wear out eventually, so we can DYes DNo depreciate that, too. The way 1 figure it, if we can depreciate enough items, the -------------------------------------------- government will owe us money. Just think - Acapulco, the Save With New Car Discounts Riviera ..... Thinking of purchasing a new car or truck? If so, Farm' I'll leave it to you to add up all these figures. I've got no head for Bureau members should remember that their membership this sort of thing. See yqu at noon. , . entitles them to special discounts at four different dealers in the state, said John VanderMolen, manager of the MFB P.S. Please pick up some milk if you can find a gallon for under Member Services Department. $2.00. I'depreciate it. According to VanderMolen, the recent addition of Huron Chevrolet-Olds-GMC Trucks, Inc. of Bad Axe to the list of dealers offering special member discounts, broadens this service sign ificantly . What's Happening? "With dealers in four key locations - Grand Rapids, Kala- mazoo; West Branch and Bad Axe - more members will be able to take advantage of this member benefit. When a pur- chaser can save hundreds, even thousands, of dollars, it's Feb. 2-5 Farm & Orchard Show Hilton Inn, With a leaders woodburning well worth driving a few miles," VanderMolen said. furnace odd-on the only chGllOe Grand Rapids Feb. 5-6 Michigan Pork Producers Long's Convention Participating dealers offer new cars out of stock or in your heating method Is the fuel ... and tremendous savings Association Meeting Center, Lansing ordered by MFB members at $150 over dealer cost. This on your energy bills. Feb. 12-13 Presidents' Conference Holiday Inn, price includes all dealer services and prep charges. Light • Connects to existing furnace Mt. Pleasant ductwork and chimney trucks, vans, medium-size and heavy-size trucks range from • Thermostat controlled Feb. 12-15 Mall Display Fashion Square Mall $150 to $900 over dealer cost. The lH30 features leaders double. Saginaw combustion concept Feb. 16-17 MFB Spring Commodity Harley Hotel, Lansing "When contacting dealers for price quotations, members • Two combustion chambers burn Conference should be sure to ask for the listed contact person and give the wood and the wood gases Feb. 26- Mall Display Genesee Valley Mall them the member-number from their Farm Bureau mem- • Burns longer - over 12 hours with March 1 Flint one load bership card," VanderMolen said. • Uses less wood - heats more March 4-6 Young Farmer Leaders' Valley Plaza Ramada - Quickly than 011 or gas Conference • Inn, Midland Current participating dealers are: • More efficient than a wood stove March -18 MASA Annual Meeting & Farm Pick Motor Inn, Dealer Location Phone Number Contact Person or fireplace .- Labor Conference Grand Rapids Huron Chev-Olds- 330 E. Huron Ave. 517-269-9968 AI Hanson or Call or Write March 21 MMPA Annual Meeting Michigan State University GMC Trucks, Inc. Bad Axe Roger Ewald East Lansing Seeyle Ford, Inc. 3820 Stadium Dr. 616-375-3820 Mike Seelye or March 23-27 Farmers' Week Michigan State University East Lansing Kalamazoo Ken Vos ~~ March 26 District 6 Farm Bureau Colony House Ben HOdges Chev- 2265 S. M-76 517 -345-1022 Terry Hodges ~RS HEAT PRODUCTS Women's Spring Rally Cass City Olds West Branch 11m 1M Arrow Hwy. Matt ... n, Mlchipn ... n March 30. Washington Legislative Seminar Washington, D.C. Jack Keller Ford 3385 Alpine, N.W. 616-364-7531 Bernie Lenau 'elephone Im)66l-»17 April i and Heritage Tour Grand Rapids PAGE 4 FARM NEWS FEBRUARY 1981 Leaders in Government and Agriculture Delano Esti~ates Embargo Economic Recovery Can Include Federal Tax Relief Price Tag at One Billion Doll~rs Addressing delegat~s to the year phase-in of fixed deprecia- Calling the year-old grain AFBF annual meeting Jan. 13, tion .periods for commercial embargo against the Soviets Congressmen Henson Moore and industrial buildings (10 "an economic and diplomatic (R-La.) outlined a plan that he years), equipment and machin- disaster," AFBF President believes can help enhance the ery (five years), and cars and Robert Delano asked Presi- nation's economic recovery. light trucks (three years), he ex- dent-elect Ronald Reagan to plained. The so-called .10-5-3 "We' can lower taxes without give high priority to his cam- -bill would provide 160,000 (it) being inflationary," he said. paign promise to end the em- jobs the first year and - create "We need to examine and bargo. over $100 billion in new private modify the very onerous inheri- Delano opened the Ameri- investment when fully in place tance tax, capital gains lax laws can Farm Bureau Federation's after five years, he said. and IRS regulations which 62nd annual meeting in New Another recommendation is make it difficult and sometimes Orleans with his annual ad- to make adjustments in individ- .impossible for one generation dress Jan. 12, telling some ual tax .rates to help relieve of family farmers to pass their 7,000 delegates that the em- "bracket creep," resulting from farm down to the next without bargo had cost the nation's inflation. "This across the paying huge taxes." farmers and ranchers a mini- board reduction in tax rates mum of one billion dolIars in Moore, who serves on the helps reverse' inflation thrusting cash grain income and resulted U.S. House Ways and Means the taxpayer into a higher tax \ in "permanent disruption of Committee, also called for re- bracket while at the same time grain trading patterns." placement of the outmoded his earning power remains the "Should further Soviet ag- "useful life" depreciation same or actually declines by in- " gression require sanctions, we AFBF PRESIDENT ROBERT DELANO schedule .. f1ated costs of goods' and ser- ask for a full embargo of all This would involve a five- vices." trade, technology, services and right to farm without undue involved in more legal contro- cultural contacts," Delano said, regulations, priority for ade- versies with federal agencies Young Farmer Discussion-Meet adding that American farmers quate farm energy supplies ~nd than at any time in the past 30 and ranchers will proudly en- dure economic hardships in- a stronger voice for farmers and'ranchers whenever agricul- years. Legal action has included Views on' Free Enterprise volving all segments economy in dealing with ,any of the I tural decisions are made. Delano singled out inflation moves against the Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Earn .Third Place for Brook national crisis. as the number-one farm and Management, Bureau of Indian I • .f •• J'u c"lJ1.Jq lJ.'Jnc.tt .... 1I~l.J ibJC:1I . Cu!~iig' ~ention- to the sub- national problem. He said citi- Affairs, Fish and Wildlife Ser- •• 'T j (,t 1,(tlrQ '16 '1' h~t'l9~rr stantial increase in membership zens everywhere "must insist vice and Bureau of Reclama- .,' in AFBF during the past year that Congress, the executive tion; the Department of Agri- (to more than 3,200,000 branch and the Federal Re- culture's Forest and Park Ser- member-families), Delano said serve System join jp accepting vices; the Department of La- he sees this growth as a man- fulI responsibility for bringing bor's Occupational Safety and date for Farm Bureau to seek inflation under control." Health Administration; the En- solutions to a long list of press- In defense of farmer and vironmental Protection Agen- ing farm problems, including rancher rights, the farm leader cy; and the Department of improved farm income, the said Farm Bureau has become Health and Human Services. U.S. Agriculture Must be Reliable - Wor1d Supplier, Brock Tells Delegat~s Secretary of Agriculture- the secretary-designate urged. designate John Block told Block also pledged to help farmers and ranchers attending return profitability to agricul- the American Farm Bureau ture. He said that without -6 Federation's 62nd annual healthy and prosperous agri- meeting in New Orleans Jan. culture, the economic prob- Clinton County's Marsha Brook said. "I love my farm. I 12 that food can be an effective lems confronting this nation Brook finished third in the love it because it's mine and economic tool in promoting cannot be turned around. AFBF Young Farmers and what we do there and what .... we world peace and stability. Ranchers discussion meet finals produce is ours. There's a basic He indicated he personally "Let's not selI this agricultural held in New Orleans Jan. 12. need for everyone to have self- favors a new four-year farm industry short," Block said. Brook had won county and worth, to be important and program rather than an exten- "Let's be positive and move district meets prior to becoming know they're doing the best sion of the present one, and forward." the first woman to win the state they can ... and I think this is that he would work to cut fed- He cautioned that this eco- contest in December. -what a free enterprise system is eral government regulations nomic tool can only be effective In....New Orleans, she com- all about." which are "tying us in knots." "if we are a reliable supplier of peted against 25 other state Brook and her husband Block said --that the nation products; if we are consistent in Farm Bureau winners, advanc- Doug, operate a dairy and cash needs expanded agri~ultural our supply; if we don't give it ing from quarter~and seroi-final crop farm near Ovid. They research. Without such re- out and pull it back like a carrot matches to participate in the have three children. search, he predicted, the coun- - becaus_e then, no one will finals. Winner of the national con- try cannot meet the many chal- count on us." The topic for discussion in test was Dennis Deonardi, a lenges of the 1980s. ~ Block said that we need to the final was "Why is a free dairy farmer from northern use this "great asset" to bring Block also said that) he enterprise system essential to a California. nations closer together a'nd cre- planned to work with other highly productive agriculture?" Contestants were judged on ate" an interdependency even agencies of government so "A free enterprise system is their ability to define and across ideological lines. they would understand the po- very essential to our agricul- analyze the topic, their prob- "Let's take advantage of the tential in'lpact of their actions JOHN BLOCK, U.S. ture. It allows us to produce lem-solving ability, delivery strength that agriculture has," AGRICULTURE SECRETARY more and be more efficient," and cooperative attitude. on food production. FEBRUARY 1981 FARM NEWS PAGES Look Ahead to New Administration Americans Will Face Hard Michigan Celebrates Choices in Fight Against Inflation Five-Star Honors Predicting that inflationary It's not every day that a dairy meeting, Smith received a farmer from Michigan gets to special plaque with five gold forces will remain strong, Paul A. Volcker, chairman of the ride into the famous New Or- stars for outstanding programs. board of the Federal Reserve leans Superdome on a float ... While Pete Fountain and his System, said that 'he has no but that's what happened to famous jazz band provided MFB President Elton R. Smith background music, Michigan choice but to continue his pres- at the AFBF convention. was recognized for its outstand- ent .tight mQney and credit poli- Sharing this experience with ing membership, information, cies. President Smith were other young farmer, marketing and In an address before the award-winning state presidents policy development programs. AFBF's 62nd annual meeting, Volcker said he could not pre- in the spotlight for their states' Reaching membership quota member program achieve- I was a requirement to qualify dict assuredly that the country's financial woes are over. ments. for the star awards. In a special recognition pro- The top state in the nation He said beating back infla- tion must become the first na- gram Jan. 13, held in conjunc- was the Iowa Farm Bureau tionalpriority and that "effec- tion with AFBF's 62nd annual with eight gold stars. tive actions will require hard and painful choices by the in- coming administration, Con- For Cost and Quality, gress and the American peo- pie." . U.S. Diet is Tops Volcker pointed out that re- It is a time for renewed public than that eaten by the average duced growth' in government confidence in the food Ameri- American. " spending is essential to con- PAUL A. VOLOurMembership In The the Eaton County group and to do? Are the governor and Caughey said -the group will MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU - _ l- the Michigan Department of lieutenant governor going to ig- not give up. Now Makes Available Transportation on where to nore the needs of Michigan as far as prime and essential "We intend to continue with locate a stretch of 1-6Q from Charlotte Transportation to Lansing, Secretary Neil U.S. farmland Caughey asked. is concerned?" our court cases - one in Eaton and another in Ingham - and Institutional Goldschmidt group's position'. supported The Michigan DOT wants to the "Their rhetoric in front of any agricultural group has been we may, if necessary, initiate a third," he said. .Liquid A~sets Designed to provide daily - locate the highway through money market income with Two Portfolios: farmland in Eaton County and the Citizens Concerned About At Pontiac Silverdome PRIME OBLIGATIONS GOVERNMENT 1-69 believe it should go along *16.70% 16.65% its temporary route on U.S. 27 . • Investment Adviser: THE FIRST-NATIONAL Even though the state DOT BANK OF CHICAGO is in no way legally bound to • Administrator and SALOMON BROTHERS follow the federal recommen- Distributor: dation, the citizens group does consider the recent U.S. De- , "Seven dey ennuellzed net Investment Incom. yield, computed by dividing the partment of Transportation Portfolio's everege delly net Investment Income per unit for the period .nded Januery 18, 1981 by S1.00 end multiplying the result by 365. On thet det. the vote of support a "tremendous evereg. portfolio meturltle. In Prime Ind Government were 18 deys Ind 15 day • victory. " respectively. The yields chlnge In rupons. to f1uctultlon. In Inte, •• t retes on portfolio Inv.stment end operetlng expense •. AgriGroups Abroad A prospectus containing more complete information including management fees and expenses, will be sent upon 1981 Tours receipt of the attached coupcm. Send the coupon to Michigan Hawaii: 15 days, 4 islands, Mar. National Bank, Trust'Department, at 77 Monroe emler, 14 Chicago departure, $1,035 P.D. Box 2804, Grand Rapid1;, Michigan 49501. Read the Ireland: 21 davs, Ireland, Scot- prospectus carefully befare you invest ar smd muney. Far land, England, May 2 Detroit c~rren1 yield inf()rmat~ call toUfree 800/621-2550. I departure r----------------------------------------------------, So. Pacific: 21 days, New Zea- : Mail to: Money Market Fund Program land, Australia, Fiji, Oct/Nov I (or Michigan Farm Bureau Members ,. Michigan National Bank, Trust Department departure, Chicago/West Coast I P.O. Box 2804, 77 Monroe Center Grand Rapids, MI 49501 Africa: 21 days, South and East, orchards, farms, production, o Please send me a prospectus. marketing, Victoria Falls, game Name (as it appears on membership records) reserves, departure, cost to be SATURDAY announced tOO p.m. Event -$6.00 Address World Experience: Visit China, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Egypt. 8:00 p.m. Event- $8.00 City State Zip Write for brochure: Children 12 and Under - $1.00 Membership no. AGRIGROUPS ABROAD Tickets at All C.lC. Outlets & Silverdome Gordon Schlubatis P.O. Box 461 FEB. 28 AND MARCH 1 Salomon Brothers Coldwater, Mich. 49036 517.27~2272 THREE COMPLETelY DIFFERENT SHOWS .~~~~~-~~-~~~-~~~-~~~~-~-~-~~-------------------------- FEBRUARY 1981 FARM NEWS PAGE 11 Farm Bureau Insurance Group, Michigan Farm Radio Network Power-Packed Program Honor 'Farmers of the Week' for Commodity Committees The Farmer of the Week A~ard, sponsored by the Michigan A line-up of distinguished government protection. "Peo- for Tuesday morning, followed Farm Radio Network and Farm Bureau Insurance Group, speakers "and knowledgeable ple making well-thought-out by a noon luncheon featuring recognizes Michigan farmers for their contributions to the agricul- agricultural experts has been decisions - not government Tom Reed, assistant manager ture industry and the community. _"' scheduled for the 1981 Michi- agencies - are the best regula- of the Michigan Live Stock Ex- In addition to recognition from the local news media, award gan Farm Bureau Spring Com- tors in the market place," she change and MFB's "Friend of winners receive a plaque and award buckle and belt from the local modity Advisory Conference, has said. Agriculture" who was elected FBIG agent. Feb. 16 and 17 at the Harley Individual commodity com- to the MSU board of Trustees. The Farmer of the Week Award recipients for December 1980 Hotel in Lansing. mittee sessions- are scheduled Reed will present the Stote' of ,,. were: Open to MFB commodity Michigan Stote address. committee members and MFB members who serve on Ameri- can Farm Bureau Federation commodity advisory commit- tees, the two-day session will address the various challenges faced by producers in 1981. The conference will begin on Monday, Feb. 16 with noon FEBRU~RY 2-27,1981 registration, followed by the State of Farm Bureau address' FREE from MFB President F:lton R. CARRY CASE Smith. Illinois Farm Bureau has long JOSEPH BACIAK ) been- recognized as an innova- tor in marketing services for its Week of Dee. I - Joseph Baciak, 67, a dairy farmer from Norway in - members and Mike Wagner, Dickinson County. A lifelong farmer, coordinator of the AgriVisor Baciak farms 250 acres and milks 52 Marketing Service, will be on cows. He is a member of the" Iron JACK TENBRINK Range Farm Bureau and St. Mary's Week of Dee. 22 - Jack TenBrink, the afternoon program with a when you buy Catholic Church in Norway. He served 35, who operates a dairy and fruit farm -'report of what's going on in any of these: as committeeman for the ASCS, was near New Era in Oceana County. He that state. He'll be foHowed named 1979 Farmer of the Year for farms 280 acres, raising cherries, plums with a state and national legis- .SUPER2 14" Dickinson County by the Norway- and asparagus, and has about 60 cows. lative update from MFB's lob- Vulcan Civic Club and he was the Iron He is a member of the local zoning .VISUPER2 16" byists, AI Almy and Bob Smith. Mountain Kiwanis Club's Outstanding board, the New Era Reformed Church, .150 AUTO 16" Family Farmer in 1979. Baciak and his the Oceana County Farm Bureau and - Agricultural finance issues wife, Fran, have three children. the 15,000 Pound MilkClub in Oceana will be the focus of a four-per- .SUPEREZ 16" County. He is treasurer of the local son panel .Monday afternoon . . I Week of Dee. 8 - Bud Leigh, 35, ' dairy committee. , TenBrink and his Dean Pridgeon, Michigan De- wife, Vicki, have twl? children. who raises cash crops and feeder cattle partment of Agriculture direc- . near Filion in H~ron County. Leigh, tor, will discuss bankruptcy who farms 500 acres, serves on the Hospital Board for Huron Memorial protection for farmers: prQb- Hospital In Bad Axe. He is a member lems and ..r:fw~~ible .~olutions. of the Huron County Farm Bureau and John Craig of the Farmers the Presbyterian Church in Bad Axe Home Administration will give and sponsors a local youn~ men's an ag lender's 'viewpoint for basketball team. Leigh, a graduate of farm/home generators Michigan State University, moved from farmers. William Henquinet of string trimmers Detroit to Huron County over five the Production Credit Associa- years ago to fulfillhis dream of owning agricultural pumps tion will tell participants what and operating his own farm. He and his the new Farm Credit Act wife, Theda, have three children .. amendments mean to Michi- gan farmers, and Roland Bau- Available through the following: mann II, MFB assistant general Bay City Farm Bureau Services, Inc. 517-893-3S77 counsel for MFB, will speak on Breckenridge Farmers Petroleum Cooperative. Inc. 517-842-3575 Caro Farmers Petroleum Cooperative. Inc. 517-67.1-7714 bankruptcy protection and 517-75.3-3457 Carrollton Farm Bureau Services, Inc./Saginaw Supplv Center JAMES SCHWASS prompt payment legislation. Carson City Farm Bureau Services. Inc. S 17..S84-66II Week of Dee. 29 - James'Schwass. The keynote speaker for the Cassopolis Farmers Petroleum Cooperative. Inc. 616-44 ....2311 Chesaning Chesaning Farmers ClH>P. Inc. S17~5-J(}4() 51, a Scottville dairy and cash crop evening banquet will be Bar- Farm Bureau Services. Inc. S17-179-8491 Coldwater farmer who farms 600 acres and milks bara Keating, founder of Con- COOlStoc/r. Pari.. Farmers Petroleum Cooperative. Inc. 61b-784-1071 about 50 registered Guernsey cows. Ellsworth Ellsworth Farmers Exchange 61b-583-2JOO He is an active member of Our Savior sumer Alert and member of Emmett Farmers Petroleum Cooperative. Inc 11.3-l84-1J 50 Lutheran Church and the Mason President Reagan's transition Gagetown Farm Bureau Services, Inc. 517.065-9975 County Farm Bureau and is president team on consumer affairs. Ru- Hart Farm Bureau Services. Inc. 61b-87J-2IS8 Highland Farmers Petroleum Cooperative. Inc. J1 J.887-4109 of the local FB community group. He mored to be a possible replace- lonesville Farmers Petroleum Cooperative. Inc. 517-849-9S01 also serves as a board member of the ment for the USDA's Carol Kalamazoo Farm Bureau Services. Inc. 61b-181-0596 Scottville State Savings Bank and is a 517-.S89-8148 past member of the county FB board. Tucker Foreman, Keating has Leslie Leslie (lH>P, Inc. Linwood Farmers Petroleum Cooperative, Inc. 517-6lJ7-576 I He and his wife, Alice, were named gained the reputation of being Marcellus Farm Bureau Services. Inc. 61b-64b-5115 Outstanding Yoimg Dairy Couple of a welcome contrast to the more Marion Marion ITCO 61b-74.3-183I Michigan in 1957. They are the parents prevalent consumer advocates Mendon SI. loseph County Farm Bureau Services 616-4%-2185 of five children. Midland Cohoons Elevator 517-815-7724 ROBERT NEELAND who demand cradle-to-grave MI. Pleasant farm Bureau Services, Inc. S17-77/-.1670 Petoskey larme;s Petroleum Cooperative. Inc. bIb- 147-J1W Week of Dee. IS - Robert Neeland, Pinconning. farm Bureau Services. Inc. 517-879-J411 41, a dairy farmer from Rosebush who 517-967-I.S II ~mv~l Remus farm Bureau Services. Inc. farms nearly 200 acres and milks 80 Rothbury Rothbury Hardware & farm Supply. Inc. 61b-8lJ4-8590 cows. He serves as a trustee on the E. Paul Johnson 616-948-2350 Sand Lake Anderson's Heatin/l 6 I6-6Jb- 5bl18 Isabella Township Board and as a 4-H Sandusky farmers Petroleum Cooperative, Inc. JlI-648-JO II Larry Poll 616-945-4626 616-679-4(16 1 leader in dairy, an activity he has been Schoolcraft farm Bureau Services. Inc. .Scottville Farm Bureau Services, Inc . 61b-757-37/JO Involved in for the past eight years. He FARM - HOME - LAKE PROPERTY Office 616-945-4627 Stanwood Burden's /TCO farm & Home Center 61b-8Z3-2W7 is a member of the Isabella County 1600 West Gf'fN!fJ lit (M-43) 517-114-7900 St.lohm farmers Petroleum Cooperative. Inc. Farm Bureau where he served on the board from 1973 to 1979. He belongs Hastings. MichifJIIII Leon Casey - Auctioneer Tra~ City farm Bureau ServIces. Inc. 61b-94b-58)6 J 13- 187-11lJ2 Yale St. Clair County farm Bureau Services. Inc. to the Clare Church of the Nazarene COMPLETE -For participating d.. l.... In your a,.., call toll free 1-8~2a2'2838, 873 or 875. and is a past member of the local ASCS ellt. committee. The Neeland Family Farm FARM PA"..... LAND is a registered Michigan Centennial Farm. Neeland and his wife, Shirley, DISPERSAL (I] ~~.:.. IN.TITU~ _"0.1 ISome items may not b(' stocked at all participating but are avai: ble and may be ordered.) dealers. have three children . ............. ,. - ..: ••••• .; w ~ •••••••••• _ ~.;, I A :._:.. , •• _, ".f •. I PAGE 12 FARM NEWS FEBRUARY 1981 Who Owns Your Land? This land is mine, mine to use and enjoy, mine to treat as I wish. This sentiment characterizes the feel- ing of many owners concerning their rights and land. It reflects a traditionally popular attitude about prop- erty ownership. It expresses what some have de- scribed as the "human territorial imperative." Land owners obviously possess many rights in the properties they hold. But do they really have all the [)I~CU".I()~ rights they claim? Various actions by governments and courts in recent years suggest that the property rights of private owners are shared with the public and that these rights can be limited, or taken for public use. T()VIC by KEN' WILES Manager, Member Relations In an economic sense .. owners often possess and use property in which mortgage lenders hold maior financial interest. From an ecological and philosophi- cal support came from the Old Testament which modern transportation facilities, recreation oppor- cal view, one can go even further to assert that no liv- speaks approvingly of man dwelling beside his own tunities and the main~enance of a pleasant environ- ing operator is more than a temporary tenant on this vine and fig tree .. ment. earth, that we are all part of the overall resource base An ,additional philosophical basis for their views . - Increased competition for our available re- and that, far from owning the .land, it is we who was provided by the writings of John Locke, an sources: Increa~ing population numbers and rising belong to the land. English political philosopher. In his now famous per capita demands have fueled expanding econom- Treatise on Civil Government, Locke argued that ic growth and have called for larger and larger sup- The Nature of Property Rights man has a natural right to life, liberty and property. plies of raV{materials. This has brought increasing As he saw it, the earth was given to mankind in com- competition for possession and ownership of the na- Property involves' the recognized and defendable mon, and individuals by combining their labor ~ith tion's relatively fixed resource base. Sharp competi- rights of individuals and other "legal persons" to the land found in nature could convert it to private tion for these resources has brought conflicts of in- possess, enjoy, use and dispose of eC0!10micgoods property. This natural right concept of p~operty terest that governments have been called upon to such as land and buildings. The existence of property gained wide acceptance in America. mediate. implies the presence of an owner or owners, proper- Legal support for a rugged, individualistic view of -Broader education: Much of our population of ty objects that can be appropriated to ownership and a sovereign power (government) that willprotect and rights in land was provided by Sir William Black- stone, a great British legal analyst, whose Commen- 200 years ago could hardly read or write. Students are now expected to go through high school, and .r defend the orooertv ri~hts. taries on the Laws of England appeared in 1765. about the same proportion of people in the 25 to 29 What we commonly call property really involves a ~ Blackstone defined property as "that sole and age bracket are college graduates as were high number of separable rights. These rights can be Iik- / despotic dominion which one man claims and e"xer- school graduates 50 years ago. This increase in ened to a bundle of sticks, with each stick represent- cises over the external things of the world, in total ex- educational training has affected the attitudes of most ing a separate right. Some of the more important l clusion of the right of any other individual in-the uni- citizens. Among other things, it has 'caused many of sticks represent the right to sell, to lease, to grant a verse." This much-quoted definition was accepted by them to demand more of government than earlier mortgage, to subdivide, to lease to an heir through a many as the final word on property rights. generations did. f ~f' J II . will (devise) and to grant easements. Other sticks in- Adam Smith, a Scottish moral philosopher and -Wider Suffrage: During the late 1700s, the right volve interests such as air, water, mineral and economist, added an economic justification for a to vote was limited to male property. owners. Fifty development rights. Each of the rights represented broad view of property rights with the arguments ad- . years later during the Jacksonian era, this right was by sticks in the bundle can be separated from the others and exercised separately, as is commonly done when one leases property to a tenant or grants lished in 1776: Smith argued for~_ vanced in his book, The Wealth of Nations, pub- .. a laissez faire economic system. He felt that a minimum of govern- extended to qualified males over 21. Women secured the right to vote during the next three quarters of a century, and suffrage for people be- a mortgage or an easement to others. mentci1 regulation would facilitate. operation of an tween 18 and 21 has been accepted in recent years. - When owners have all the rights individuals are economic system under which the activities and deci- Extension of the right to vote has made it possible for permitted to hold in property, they are called fee sim- sions of thousanas of independent operators, each gr'oups of citizens who lacked this right in the past to ple owners. As such, they possess most of the rights attempting to maximize his personal returns, would effectively demand new public services and ne.w in property. They can exercise and enjoy their,rights be coordinated by "an unseen guiding hand" to pro- regulations that may affect the rights of property to the exclusion of others. (While other owners in fee vide a maximum in public benefit. owners. , simple enjoy exclusive rights, their rights are not ab- Public policy in the United States emphasizes! both -Conservation and environmental concerns: solute.) There are four property sticks that never get complete private ownership rights and a laissez faire Newfound affluence and growing awareness of the into the private owner's bundle of property rights. economic philosophy until recent decades. These negative impacts that various activities can have on The powers represented by these sticks are reserved two concepts complemented each other and each environmental quality have prompted demands for for society and are exercised by its agent, the"state. tended to feed on the other. But, over time, de- public and private self discipline in those uses of re- The four powers 'reserved for the public include mands have risen for more public direction of both sources that affect the quality of the environment. the right to tax, the right to take for public use" the the way in which private property rights are exercised Environmentalists also are demanding that public right to regulate or control the use of, and ~heright of ~ and the manner in which the nation's economy oper- and private action be taken to protect our limited re- escheat. ates. sources so that we may extend opportunities to In addition to these formal rights in land, govern- Many citizens still cherish the individualistic views future generations to enjoy a standard of living com- ments can utilize other auxiliary powers to influenc.e that were popular on the American frontier. Review parable to that we now have. operators in their use of land. Important among of the many programs adopted by the state and these are the public spending power, the proprietary federal governments in recent decades, however, in- Significance of Our Changing Rights in Land or public ownership power, and the powers of exam- dicates we have moved to acceptance of a larger role Several observations may be made concerning the ple, persuasion, and public opinion. for government. present and future significance of our changing rights in land. Individuals may feel that their rights are American Views About Property sacred and inviolate, that they are God given, or that Acceptance of a Larger Role for Government Most of the settlers who came from Europe were they have been endowed by natural law. In practice, motivated by opportunities for acquiring land. The Why has the prevailing attitude concerning public however, the nature of one's rights always depends first settlers had a whole continent before them with and private rights in land changed so much in this upon the interpretations accepted by the society in thousands of acres available for the taking. Yet, they country in the last 200 years? Some of the more im- which one lives. Rights are real only when the ordinarily took the modest allotments assigned to portant reasons involve: sovereign power, which acts as the agent of society, them without questioning whether this was the best - Increasing population numbers: Two hundred recognizes them and is willing to defend them. land for them. They took what was offered to them years ago the nation had a population of 4 million It may also be noted that subtractions from fee sim- because this was the accepted behavior in the Euro- people. With today's population there is far more ple ownership do not necessarily mean that property pean societies from which they came. pressure against the available supply of land re- is less valuable or that it provides fewer satisfactions However, frontier life bred new attitudes towards sources. to its owners. Most residential owners grant ease- land as well as the spirit of independence that -Rising incomes and levels of living: Increasing ments to utility companies to service powerlines over blossomed with the American Revolution. The lead- worker producti~ity has made it possible for the na- or under their properties. These easements are a ers of that period were enthusiastic supporters o~the tion's citizens to enjoy steadily increasing' real in- subtraction from fee simple ownership, but they concept of fee simple ownership. They were also com~s. These incomes have been used to finance make properties more valuable because owners need men of intellect who sought religious, philosophical, higher levels of li~ing and have prompted greater in- access to power and other utilities. Similarly, zoning legal and economic justifications of their vie~s. Bibli- dividual demands' for varied diets, better housing, (continued on pqge 15) FEBRUARY 1981 FARM NEWS . PAGE 13 Governor Makes Appointments to Ag Labor Commission Dr. J. Franklin Bobbitt of Women, has served on the letter editor. She has served as tavia Township clerk, has Women and on the Branch Okemos has been appointed to commission as a producer state chairman of Women for served as a grower member County Fair Board. succeed Dr. Allen Shapley on member since 1979. She is a the Survival of Agriculture in since her appointment in 1977. Vargas, director of the the Agricultural Labor Com- member of the board of direc- Michigan and as national coor- She and her husband have a Latino Affairs Division of New mission for the remainder of a . tors of the Kent County Farm dinator of American Agri- 1,200-acre dairy farm and 400 Detroit, Inc., has served on the term expiring Nov. 6, 198!. Bureau and is information Women. head of cattle. She has been commission as a public mem- Dr. Bobbitt, a professor of agri- committee chairman and news- Rigg~ a homemaker and Ba- active in the Farm Bureau ber since 1977~ 'culture and natural resources education at Michigan State University, is chairman of the commission. Reappointed to the commis- sion were Sharon Steffens of Grand Rapids, Ruth M. Rigg of Coldwater and Horacio Vargas Jr. of Detroit, • Steffens, a farm wife and Warehouse Clearance SUPER SPECIAL PUS 'lIBEl CAlI WhlI ...... ...."It" 155Rx12MarkRM 145Rx13MarkRM 165Rx 14 Mark RM 155Rx15MarkRM 165RxISMarkRM Iladlab > .. 28.75 29.90 32.20 32.20 34.50 Add 'Em Up CR78x14 Mark VTwin Steel JR78x 15 Mark VTwin Steel . .. 28.75 37.95 Off Retd Motor Oils - Gear Lubricants - FR78x15UniroyaiTakeol/ 32.20 F70x14 Mark70 2+2 .. .28.75 PerGaUoD- Hydraulic Fluids. G70x14Mark70 j31oiI5MJtk70(\),:",.r ~)~ ~ '. 29.90 29.90' ,. ~ .... 1 Automatically! This may be the only time this year you'll see oil B78x 13 Director 120 .. 17.50 prices come down. So come on in and stock up E78x14Direetor 120 . ~ G78x 14 Director 120 .... .23.00 25.30 • More Off now on the motor oils and Iubrica ting fl uids you H78x14 Director 120 .. 29.90 J78x15Directorl20 .. - .. Ply 32.20 Per GaUOD If You need. See how your savings add up ... 600x 15 Sport King .. 600x 13 Sport King . S60xl5SportKing . ... 17.SO .... 17.50 l1.SO PayCUH This sale will be in effect during an advertised 3 S30x124 Ply Boat Tire . 8.00 day period sometime between February 1 and lit More Off . \ 12 + . ~ CABBY TRUCKI AOBl-TlRES March 15, 1981, at all Farmers Petroleum 7x17.56 ply Farm N'Market ... 40.25 650x166plyFarmN'Market 67Ox156plyFarmN'Market .. 32.20 ... 32.20 Per GaUon If You Cooperative Branches and participating Farmers Petroleum dealers. Sale may vary from one outlet 8x17.58plyFarmN'Market 670x156plyFarmN'Market 700x166plyFarmN'Market .. .. '.. 46.00 28.75 .... 34. SO ItHome to another .. Ask your FPC dealer today! 700x188plyFarmN'Market 52.90 7SOx178plyFarmN'Market 54.05 C TOTIlLSIlftNOS G78x156ply Cargo Carrier 42.SO l000x2212plyCargoCarrier 132.25 G78x 15 6 ply Country Squire 36.80 67Ox156plyCountrySquire .. 34.50 7SOx178 ply Country Squire . 63.25 700x188 ply Country Squire .51.75 650x166plyCountrySquire .. 40.25 Per GaDoD! 670x15RGSuperTrllction ... 17.25 l000x2212plyX.B.T .. 115.00 12x15RVL4plyRaisedWhiteLetters .. 57.50 9.5Lx 15 8 ply BFG Implement .28.75 750x184 plyTri Rib .43.70 l1Lxi56plyWagonTires .. 45.00 I1Lx168ply. SO.OO 7SOx 18Traction Implement .... 34. SO 7SOx20Traction Implement 40.25 12.4111x284plyFarmHand 75.00 3 DAYS 0 23.1 x268 ply Super Power Plus .. 375.00 16.9x266plySuper Power Plus 149.50 23. lx308 plv Super Power Plus . 499.00 24.5x32 10 ply Super Power Plus . 579.00 23. lx348 ply Super Power Plus . 525.00 15.5x38 6 ply Super Power Plus 179.00 20.8x38lOplySuper Power Plus 559.00 8.3x244 ply Super Power Plus 76.00 1400x2412plyRoadGradtlr 189.75 23.1 x26 10 ply Combine Diamond 431.25 Check The Other Tires On Sale, Too! FPC Branches Only Limited Quantities Farmen Petroleum Cooperative, Inc. Farmen Petrole_ Cooperallve, InC. Lansing, Michigan 4891 7 Lansing , Michigan 4891 7 11 - 16 PAGE 14 FARM NEWS FEBRUARY 1981 SELLING OR' BUYING A MICHIGAN FARM??? Then ask - exactly what does over 34 years '- Michigan farm real estate sales ex- perience mean when you put all you own - your life savings in farm real e~ate and personal property on the market and or - when you put your whole life and your Iifetim~ savings into purchasing a farm and the personal -property? YES - ASK THE MAN ON THE RIGHT - He, too, has lifetime experience in farm real estate and personal property!! Whether it's SELLING OR BUYING - why not put his ex- ~ perience and farm specialized knowledge to work for you??? Located at Coldwater east Dale A. Dean city limits stop light - then one mile north - Dale is NOT ASSOCIATED =-- with the 1946 "BeUer Homes & Gardens Office." D.A.D.'s #1 "Michigan Real Estate Team" ~-fil ~[IIDNI DALE A. DEAN'S UNLIMITED. 222 N. MICHIGAN AVE.;" COLDWATER, MI49036 At Coldwater's east city limits to stop light then 1 mile north to his farm and office .. No. 74-F - Only for the Qualified top Holstein dairy famiiy; BUT - this one has it all- total Grade A facilities built new in 1977-78 w/newer additions in 1979 & SO!!! Located in 100 bu. - 100 day and up maturity-country - less than 3 rr.iles from Lake Michigan and lake tempered for a May thru September frost free corn season!!! All Blues 20x40', 2-20x80', and 1980-419,000 gal. Harvestore Slurry-Store, [).4 Surge Sawtooth, 3" Ll>-line, 1000 gal.-filled, Sunset Bulk Tank, all totally auto wash & AUCTION CALEN.DAR automatic release milking, 78 free stall-total confinement. all auto feed dairy barn w/44,OOO gal. reception pit, pump. 2-U.S.D.H. approved Wells w/interconnect lines, separate calf to springer Heifer barn w/1 Sx60' stave silo, and concrete exer- THURSDAY, JANUARY 1 - NEW YEAR'S DAY - Raisinville Associate's Auction Sale SOLD!! cise lot. listing includes all New York and Pennsylvania Foundation stock, Holstein dairy herd w/well OVER 18,000 lb. DHIA - 952 acres - sold for $2,450 per acre - WITHOUT 5 old homes, which SOLD separate from the RHA October, 1980 actual!! Under 51 mo. average age - reached w/an annual, 12% cull factor!! - and mature older cows, main farm for OVER $100,000 MORE!!!'- The 94 acres of timber - 16" - at the stump - just freshening in NOV.-Dec.-Jan., plus 25 owner-l'aised springers!! - 11 '" of milking cows w/over 100 Ibs. - 2x, w/a top cow of 122 Ib.-day 2x-25,816 Ibs. M - actual 305 days. Herd and heifers - all from ABS-genetic sires!!! - 136 head TOT AU!! Over brought $35,000!!! Combined with dairy herd and farm machinery - RAISINVILLE ASSOCI- 100 00. 1980 shelled corn per acre w/ONL Y - 50 100. commercial fertilizer!!! balance Slurry-Store application of 49.3 Ibs. A TES - 960 ACRES - and PERSONAL AUCTION - TOTALED IN EXCESS OF $2,800,000!! - Nitrogen @ 1000 gal., 90'" liquid, tested!!! - Soil tests are PLU~P.H. w/22% test allalla, lime, fertilizer, minerals, etc. w/+ CONSIGNMENTS ADDED IN EXCESS OF $40,OOO!!! (for one of D.A.D.'s better days). factors in all!!! 206 acres w/lSO tillable and unlimited rental land at $20.00 per acre!! On home and rental 200 acres of top alfalfa. - All stored corn, haylage and all filled - included PLUS - total line 01 top tools including J.D. 4440 w/under 300 hrs., RAISINVILLE ASSOCIATES, the farm owners, were pleased with the sale. It took Dale ALL custom cab, etc., 2440, No. 3800 Forage Harvester - 3 heads, 19SO SP - No. 800 - 12' - Windrower, etc. HOME? - Yes - a OF SEPTEMBER and OCTOBER to sell on HIS suggested - NEW YEAR'S - day sale date. brick ranch style - 2 baths, living, kitchen, dining, offICe - wlbedrooms to handle a family of 6-8 people. Full basement Ask them today "what do you think of aNEW YEAR'S DAY AUCTION day?"!!! w/shower, wood and/or oil heated. It's a $75,000 home on a beautiful knoll wltree studded setting. - It will take $350,000 down to handle this one - and seeing will tell you, it's truly one of D.A.D.'s total package, best, in Michigan. - Let's discuss it, and then if you'd like more - visit it w/O/d DAD. Dean!!! SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1 - 2:30 p.m_ - Beautiful3-bedroom home, less than three years old, with attached 2-car garage, lull clear-span basement, pav~ drive and lake access to Craig Lake. Look at the terms: 10% of bid price sale date, then 10% ad- 273-F - 367-acre dairy farm in Wexford Co., 68 free stalls, 0-4 parlor, 675 gal. bulk tank, silos, 20x60 and 2Ox64, all just two ditional at closure on or before March 1, then balance by land contract based on 25-year amortization with monthly payments years old. For your wife, a 12-year-01d 3-bedroom brick ranch home with attached 2-car garage and walk out basement, over- and interest at only 10'/2 % with 3 year full pay-off balloon. Located 1 mile west of Coldwater, Mich. to River Road, then north looks the pictureSQue dairy facility. This dairy is now ready for your occupancy and has 540 tons of corn silage, 350 tons of 4 V2 miles to Riverview Drive, then next right to 238 Treasure Lane. SRYCE AND BARBARA TAYLOR. OWNERS. (BRANCH haylage, 100 tons of ear com and 2000 bushels of oats available as feed lor your herd. Long term 9Vz % and 7 % mortgages CO., are assumable. "" 703 - 132-ACRE GRADE A DAIRY. 40x55' Stanchion barn with 1 W' pipeline surge milking system, 2 silos, call barn, tool SATURDAY, MARCH 21,1981 -10 a.m. - Sharp! TOTALlIOUIDATION AUCTION - industrial real estate -totally modern, shed, new loafing barn. Completely remodeled farm horne. This one shows like a picture. (LIVINGSTON CO.) light manulacturing or. assembly line - SO'x120', plus 16'x24' truck well loading dock - and 24'x80' - separate storage building, all in excellent ready-to-use condition with top centrally located ~ highway location in Southwestern Michigan's 707.f= - 119.5 acres w/SO acres tillable, 3-bedroom remodeled home. Good barns, garage, and potato storage! Folks, if you rapidly expanding, thriving industrial Kalamazoo Valley growth area!! Just 7 miles west of Three Rivers-Constantine, 2 new want to lite in one 01 the most scenic counties in Michigan and be able to raise beef, potatoes, or run a small grain operation, General Motors plants - 22 miles south 01 Kalamazoo, '/z way between Chicago and Detroit. This facility on M-60 5 acre fron- this is IT. But if you just want a place to hunt and fish and enjoy the Black Lake State Forest that is only 1 mile away. - this is still tage, zoned light industrial, must be "Seen to appreciate!!! Open House previews: Sundays, February 22, March 1, March 7 and it. (7 bucks taken on this larm in the first two days of the season in 1979.) (PRESQUE ISLE CO.) March 14 from 1 to 4 p.m. Selling on unusually advantageous terms or only 15 % of bid price on sale dale. ~ only- 10 % addi- tional at closure, balance with 30 year amortization with monthly payments and interest at only 11 %!! Locked in for 5 year land 112 - 63D-ACRE GRAIN OR DAIRY FARM. 450 tillable, 24,000 bushel grain storage arid a super "S" dryer, home barn and contract. PLUS - 2 connecting 2V2 acre parcels of light industrially zoned land, selling alter factory building and 5 acres. (SEE other outbuildings and can be purchased with another home and 20 additional acres! (MONTCALM CO.) - 100 plus day MORE BELOW) maturily corn or bean ground • 274-F - 466 acres of level to slightly rolling farmland in Northwestern Michigan's potato country. 360 Iillable acres. This unit SATURDAY, MARCH 21 - 10 a.m. - 172 acres of level, highly productive farm, plus totally modern, residential brick family has a 3-bedroom ranch style home and several outbuildings. Negotiable long term land contract available. (ANTRIM CO.) home. Will sell as parcels - NO.1 of exceptionally fine home and 15 acres and pole barn buildings. NO.2 - 25 acres vacant '" ,..I land with Silver Lake Road home site frontage. NO.3 - 77 acres vacant farmland with total irrigation possible. NO.4 - 55 acres 308-8 - ThriVing used truck and heavy eqUipment business selling all on! Including complete machine shop, tools; major vacant farmland - 1 field!! Will sell separately and offered as one' unit with same terms as above on homes and buidllngs - overhaul tools, rolling stock, immaculate 3 bedroom home, landscaped lot, and 4 acres. This business is in current operation, monthly. quarterly or semi-annual on land contract. All at 11 % - 5 years - locked in interest rate. owner is forced to sell because of health reasons. This area is in dire need of a good man or men who can buy and sell truCks, and provide service for heavy trucks and trailers. The opportunity is here and excellent terms are available. Call lor more details. (DELTA CO., U.P.) SATURDAY, MARCH 21 -10 a.m. - Exceptionally good total line of late model farm machinery including 1978 Long 13100, 18x38" duals, 130 h.p., low, low hours! 1978, purchased new in 1979. White 89000 combine with 6 row 30" corn and 15' grain, quick cut, bean head with low hours. heavy line of 2 and 3 year old J.D. farm equipment and allied lines to farm t ,000 D.A.D.'5 No.1 acres. Will sell alter real estate, approximately 2 p.m .. MICHIGAN FARM REAL ESTATE TEAM 222 North Michigan Avenue, Coldwater, Michigan 49036 SATURDAY, MARCH 21 -10a.m. - Total line of complete, modern, well kept home furnishings and appliances. Will sell at 10 . Phone 517-279-9748 or Kalamazoo 616-385-5958 a.m. sharp! Watch lor or mail for full auction brochures.-sale bills for order of sale and complete listings of real estate' and per- Dale A. Dean - Auctloneer-Broker sonal which will sell. Located 2 miles west of Mendon, Mich. on M-60 to Silver Lake Road, then V. mile north to 902 Silver Darlyn Rohloff - Office Manager & Foreign Sales Coordinator Lake Road, in beautiful tree studded home site location. JAMES & DONNA EBERSTEIN, OWNERS. (ST. JOSEPH CO.) Robert Wiler - Farm Real Estate - Sales Manager Phone 517-279-9748 or 517-369-9001 SUNDAY, MARCH 29 - 2:30 p.m. sharp - 262 acres of vacant farmland in one chunck 01 1981's probably most outstanding, LOCATED AT EAST CITY LIMITS - STOP LIGHT - THEN 1 MI.LE'NORTH - TO HIS FARM DIVERSIFIED use, vacant land purchasing opportunities - will sell as 2 acres with blacktop home site frontage and all less than 1 mile from Marshall, Mich., city limits; and 2 equal 13D-acre vacant land parcels, then as 1 unit - with highest bid price deter- AND OFFICE. So to buy or' sell farms It's the office TRULY WITH 34 YEARS FARM SALES mining manner of sale! FARMERS, INVESTORS, SPECULA TORS, ATTENTION: DIVERSIFIED POSSIBILITIES UNLIMITED EXPERIENCE!! AND NOW WITH SEVERAL FOREIGN COUNTRY ASSOCIATES OFFICES. HERE!!! Approximately 200 acres, or more, rolling but total row cropped - tillable - land - utilized as pasture land by owner for DALE - IS NOT ASSOCIATED with the "Betler Homes & Garden's Office. II years - Fox & Hillsdale loam - with year around live slream crossing entire parcel lor tota"irrigation (not needed lor 125 bu., 115 day maturity corn!!!) - OR - 18 hole golf course with Condo's or multi-complexes or residential; Stallion Station & Brood HIS IS Mare Farm - with ~9 total exposure at west end of property and 40 acres of beautiful 10"015" clean, oak woods! See full - THE OFFICE WHERE - ONE CALL - DOES IT ALL!!! - photo ads - and full sale bills - you must see it to believe its totally unlimited possibilities! So bring your skis, snowmobile~ or 4 wheel drives!! Walk. drive, ski it! Located 1 mile north ~f Marshall, Mich., city limits on Old U.S. 27 or (1-94 old U.S. 27 exit) then 222 North Michigan Avenue, Coldwater, Michigan 49036 north V. mile to G Drive North, then only '/2 mile to farm sale site!!! RALPH & SHIRLEY SWAFFORD, OWNERS. (CALHOUN CO.) ------------------------------------------------------- WHY NOT CLIP & MAIL THIS TODAY? SATURDAY, APRIL 4 - Booked for farm real estate and machinery auction. TO: Dale A. Dean SATURDAY, APRIL 11 -1:30 p.m. - ABSOLUTElY UNBELIEVEABLE in a 7,000 sQ. It. Ultimate in living splendor, com- o Yes, we have a farm to sell: thru listing or possibly auction. fort and luxurious serenity!! - 6'12 SA THS, PLUS SAUNA!! 5 bedrooms, plus a studio apartment w/own full bath, bedroom, kitchen, living room - so cheerfully decorated and complete for your parents, guests, college students, weekends, summers, vacations or total use. Designed inlo this dream home as a totally functional parlfor homekeeper's use, but so discreetly their ACRES TYPE is total privacy!! Two fireplaces, 130' continuous slate tile exterior, entryway foyer. Master bedroom w/dressing room, bath w/roman tile D.A.D.'s No.1 - Michigan Real Estate Team, or heated lloor, heated drying wall pad, gold fixtures, total vanity dressing area. Massive recreation room wltotal kitchen and wet bar and fireplace. Ultra large living room wlfireplace, formal dining room, also total kitchen w/annexing butler's pantry, plus o Yes, we are interested in having a DALE A. DEAN'S AUCTION UNUMITED representative stainless steel grill and roast center island w/double fan, under all stainless steel hood. In brief- built and designed by a master see us for a free, no obligation current market evaluation of our farm, machinery and/or chef!! Dwelling has double brick walls, moat-like recessed exlerior walls, 14 Anderson double thermo pane sliding doors - dairy herd. opening onto overall 2,4 exterior patio - totally lighted with brass fixtures - 3-car heated garage, heated blacktop drive, canopy car/home entry, lawn entirely underground sprinkling and MORE, MORE, MORE!!! - Plus - beautiful pool w/cabana, 30'x1oo' PO'tYtype building structure wlblacktopped drive, parking area, finished ollice, shower bath, dOCk, etc. Name Phone ( LOCAnON? Yes - on 37 - scenic. wooded, wild acres. Secluded? At the end of a DEAD END. VIEW?? Built on top of highest elevation in Allegan Co. - From yOU" boardwalk terrace, you have before you - RVE (5) My address is IIk:hlgan counties - Allegan; to ..... Ottawa Co.; lOUth, Kalamazoo Co.; north, Kent Co.• Grand Rapids; "'., Barry Co.; AND with binoculars, you can see the sand dunes of lake Michigan!! You will be centrally located - well under 30 minutes 10: Holland, Zeeland and the tulips; 20 minutes to Grand Rapids; and Zip Kalamazoo, Benton Harbor, and Michigan's capitol - lansing - all under 45 minutes!!! CONDITION??? Meticulous. immaculate and spotless are futile adjectives. We welcome the moat discriminating at our Section Township County open house previews: Saturdays and Sundays - March 14 & 15, 21 & 22, 28 & 29 and April 4 & 5. and Friday, April'l 0 Irom 1 to 5 p.m. - Or by appointment only - w/AUCTIONEER-BROKER. Phone 517-279-9748. Some home lurnishings and per- sonal wi" sell, too. Located 1 V2 miles east of Wayland, Mich. to 7th Street. north to end of road - on your Ielt!!! 13560 - 7th Street - and more acreage may be available by sale date. Remember clipping or one call will do It alii!! with DALE A. DEAN's Farm Real Estate and Highly successful professionals, artists, retirees, sun lovers, spa edicts, go" course and club house. restaurateurs, foreign Auctions Services, 222 N. Michigan An. - Coldwater, MI 49036 - Mall above, or phone visa vacationers. (Should you have a relative or friends overseas, or anywhere, send this and full sale brochure.) - Call, send 517-279-9746. or wire for brochure - auctioneer-broker or owners - CHRIS & WILMA VAN NOLLER. (ALLEGAN CO.) --------------------------------------------------------- FEBRUARY 1981 FARM NEWS PAGE 15 Who Owns Your Land? (continued from page 12) ordinances can limit ownership right. But they can dent upon the attitudes of the people who make up attitudes of the general public. In every case, how- also expand an owner's rights by providing security our society. These people may worry about the pros- ever, proposals for adjustments in the rights we hold of expections concerning the permissible future uses pect of having their rights stripped away. in land should be carefully analyzed so that our deci- of neighboring properties. It should be recognized that there is considerable sions respecting these proposals will reflect rational History shows that our present system of fee sim- sentiment for moving towards wider acceptance of a t.hought and concern about the present and future ple ownership evolved from the feudal concept of stewardship or public trust view of rights in land. Ac- well-being of the American people. rights in land and that property is a dynamic and ceptance of this view will call for emphasis on the changing concept. No one knows what precise direc- responsibilities .as well as the rights of property Farm Bureau Policy tion this concept willtake in the future. Recent events ownership. It may also require more restrictions on It was with a view to the future rights of farmers suggest that. we may be moving towards a broader in- the rights of individual owners ,to exploit their land that voting delegates at the last Michigan Farm terpretation of the public powers in property. They resources or to develop them for uses not felt to be in Bureau annual meeting passed a resolution which also indicate that some sticks from the individual's the larger public's best interests. reads in part: bundle of property rights may be moving to the pile "We support legislation which will recognize the of public rights. Private rights to burn buildings and to Finally, it must be recognized that proposals for 'right-to-farm' within the state without fear of undue pollute air and water already have shifted, and other new public programs and regulations can lead to the harassment and include the right to carry out rights may follow. loss of valuable private rights. Those who feel that generally accepted agricultural practices necessary Some owners may be distressed that their rights.in their rights are infringed upon naturally will oppose for the production of food and fiber." land are subject to change and that they are depen- these moves. Various considerations will affect the Farm Bureau Market Place SPECIAL RATE TO FARM BUREAU MEMBERS: One free non-commerda125-word ad cents per word one edition, two or more editions, 10 cents per word. Copy deadline: 13th per month per membership, additional words, 10 cents each. Figures such as 12x16 or of month. MaUclassified ads to Michigan Farm News, P.O. Box 30960, Lansing, MI48909. S12.50 count as one word. NON-MEMBER and -ALL COMMERCIAL advertis~rs: 15 Publisher reserves right to reject any advertising copy submitted. FARM EQUIPMENT LIVESTOCK LIVESTOCK MISCELLANEOUS FOR HOMEMAKERS FOR SALE: USED STORAGE TANKS. 6000 ARABIANS ALL AGES, for breeding, pleasure or BROADVIEW FARMS PUREBRED SALE of FISH FOR POND STOCKING - Hybrid Sun SAUSAGEMAKERS, GREAT! RECIPES. to 20.000 gallon capacity. Vertical or horizontal. show. Special discounts for 4-H terms If desired. 100 head Yorkshire & Chester White bred gilts. fish. Catfish, also Rainbow Trout. Spring Valley Frankfurters. Summer. Bologna. Headcheese. Phone 616-798-1805. (I0-6t-15p) Dale Kirklin, phone 616-381-2774. (4-tf-l9f) open gilts, boars and young pigs. Sat., Feb. 14 at 1 Trout Farm. Dexter. Michigan. Phone 313- Venison. Pepperon~ S1.00. includes catalog! 45 p.m. Ann Arbor. Mich.. 4100 Stone School Road. 426-4772. (4-tf-l9f) more redpes available! Ham. bacon. curing. smok- NEW ALL WIRE RABBIT CAGES and equip- REGISTERED SHROPSHIRE SHEEP SINCE Bill McCalla & Family. Certified P.RV. ,herd'No. Ing. meat. fish pickling! Hamiltons. Box 652-131. ment nqw available. W'e can build cages to meet 1890. Breeding stock for sale at all times. Hewt!ns 101. HIGHEST QUAUTY NATURAL FOOD sup- New Ulm. Minn. 56073 (2-11.28p) your needs. Dettmers Bunny Patch. Carson City. Farm. 7400 Bemis Road. Ypsilanti. Mich. 48197. plements guaranteed. Organic cleaning and per- FREE SECRET FARMER'S SLOVAK & Mich. 48811. 517-584-3765. (5-tf-25b) Phone 313-482-2658. (5-tf-22f) FOR SALE: .Reglstered Holstein bulls from sonal' care items. wholesale. Free Information and POUSH COOKBOOKLETII Featuring pMka. AstronjlUt, Provin Ml. Ivanhoe Jewel. Marshfield price list. Send self-addressed. stamped envelope. cabbagerolls, nutrolls. plerogis. etc. WANTED: New Idea single row compicker. Phone FOR SALE: YORKSHIRE & SPOTTED ser- Elevation Tony and Glen Valley Star. Some from Enterprises. Box 623. Munising, Mich. 49862. S2.00/postage/handhng .• Revised royal family col- 517-523-2803 evenings. Pittsford. Mich. viceage boars and open gilts top bloodlines tested at embryo transfer. Dams and Grand-dams are VG (2-3t-27p) lection~ Recipes, Dept. Mich. News. 1863 Timothy. (I-tf-llf) MSU test station. All registered stock. Richard Cook, and excellent. Have 5-generation pedigree with over W. Mifflin.Pa. 15122. (2-2t-3Op) 112 mile east Mulliken, M-43. Phone 517-649-8988. 20.000 m. and 4% test. Albert Ter Haar. Phone ATTENTION THUMB REGION: Wanted - HAMILTON DISTRIBUTING CO.: Stormor (1l-tf-25f) 616-896-8207. (2-2t-42p) Community Group desiring $200. For more inf~- SPICES. HERBS, TEAS & COFFEES. Free Grain Bins. Farm Fans Dryers. G.T. TOlr-O-Wlk Dryers. Stormor Ezee-Drys. Four locations In DUROC & LANDRACE BOARS & GILTS. Also crossbred gilts. John Swearingen, 655 Prattville FOR SALE: Hampshire boars, breeding age. val- matlon. call 517-683-2101. RAM PUMPSI Water. powered. high volume resi- (2-lt-13f) mail order price list. Siers Spice Co .. 3730 Robinson Road. Snover. Mich. 48472. (2-11-18p) , Michigan. Phone 616-751-5161. (2-tf-2Ob) idated herd. Jerry Bozsany. Coleman. 517- 'load. Pittsford. Mich. 49271. Phone 517- dential and commercial models. free catalog. Tri- 465-6072. (2-2t-121) 567-8975. (3-tf-l9f) JAPANESE GREEN TEA. 4 oz. sample S2.50 MANURE PUMPS: pump direct from lagoon t" Rivers. Inc.. Box 502. Waverly Hall. Georgia postage paid. Siers Spr\ce Co .. 3730 Robinson field. utilizetraveler or movable guns. Plummer Sup- REGISTERED HOLSTEIN BULLS. 16 mo. 31831. QUARTER HORSES: Disposition for 4-H. ability Road. Snover. Mich. 48472. (2-lt-17p) ply. Bradley and U.S. 131 Exit. P.O. Box 177. Gay Burkgov. 23.493M 812F. Other Fond Master. (Il,..12t-21p) for cattle, conformation for show. Reasonable Bradley. Mich. 49311. 616-792-?215. (l0-tf-26b) Matt. Glendell sons. Grade Holstein heifers due prices. Customer satisfaction a priority. Visitors SEWING SUPPLIES. PEARL SNAP '\ March-April. records to 19.385M. George Robb. SEE! HEARl 20 rolls KODAK or FUJI film 50 cents welcome. Walton Farms, Rosebush. Phone 517- FASTENERS - 191 colors and styles. Free FARROWING STALLS - All steel. $124.20. In- Fowlerville, 517-223-9462. (2-lt-25f) (except movie or instant). $10 cash. check. or M.O. 433-2925. (3-tf.24f) catalog. Bee Lee Compan~. Box 2O~MF. Dallas. cludes feeder-waterer. top rail, rump rail. Weighs 20 redeemable coupons plus 2 for 1 prints or slides. Texas 75220. (2-12t-I9p) -204 Ibs. Free literature. Starr National. 219 Main. PERCENTAGE CHIANINA BULLS for sale: SUPER savings over $100. Try it! You'D like It or 7 FOR SALE: Landrace boars and gilts. also Duroc day refund! Need proof? One free coupon for name Colchester. IL 62326. 309-776-3446. (2-1t-24p) Brooklyn Farm. ChIaRina's. 5466 MarshaU Road. BLACK PEPPER from India, 4 oz. $1.50 postage boars and gilts. George Carpenter family, 6545 and address! DDS. Box 449. Carson City. Mich. Olivet. Mich. 49076.517-543-0092. (2-11-150 paid. Siers Spice Co .. 3730 Robinson Road. Cogswell Rd .. Romulus. Mich. 48174. Phone even- 48811. (I2-6t-58p) DON'T BUY, SELL. TRADE WITHOUT Mar- ings313-721-024O. (9-tf-23f) Snover. Mich. 48472. (2-11-17p) shall's Farm Equipment Guide. New 280 page 3rd FOR SALE: Four 3/4 Simmental bulls. nine months edition now available. Latest used equipment prices. to one year of age. One is polled. out of Cojac. UNUSUAL POCKET HANDWARMERII Uses REGISTERED HAMPSHIRE BOARS AND COFFEE BEANS from BruU. 4 oz. sample specifications. Nebraska tests. serial numbers. more. 906-482-3375. (2-1t-2Of) solid fuel. complete with 12 solid fuel sticks ... send GILTS for sale. Validated herd. Dale Terry. $1.75 postpaid. Siers Spice Co .. 3730 Robinson. Tractors. combines. balers, forage harvesters. ~ $5.,.00 to FANSLER'S. Department M14. Box 18. Palmyra. Mich. Phone 517 -263-5854. (l0-tf-15!) Snover. Mich. 48472. (2-lt-16p) windrowers 1965-up. $8.50 postpaid. Marshall SHEEP SALE: Over 100 Suffolk and Hampshire New Albany, Ind. 47150. (2-3t-24p) Publications. 306M Foshay Tower. Minneapolis. Club wethers. 20 Suffolk rams yearlings and lambs. CORRIEDALE SHEEP: Purebred breeding stock MN 55402 .• (l-3t-43b) for sale~ Paper optional. Waldo F. Dieterlie. 7285 '50 Suffolk ewe lambs. yearlings and mature. Some WANTED: FARM WORK. 30A homestead. rent/buy. J. Kleinhans. 312-423-6234. (2-2t-9p) NURSERY STOCK commercial ewe lambs. April 25. 1981. 12 noon. Textile Road, Saline. Mich. 48176. Phone FOR SALE: John Deere 434N comhead, good. George Buckham Farm. 1920 North 9th Street, Kal- TREES: hybred poplars. nut. firewood species 313-429-7874. (l-tf-l9f) GOOD CLEAN (RENTAL TYPE) WORK John Deere 1/115 Chuckwagon with 963 John amazoo. 1 mile west and 1 mile north of the U.S. Windy Hills Farm. 1565 E. Wilson Road. Scottville. Deere undergear. Heavy duty 21ft'ton GMC army 131 and M-43 junction. Phone 616-679-5544 fOf CLOTHES: 6 pants and 6 shirts. $19.95. postpaid. Mich. 49454. (12-3t-14p) REGISTERED ANGUS: Yearling bulls & ht!ifers. Send sizes with order to: Walt's Wholesale. 251 truck. 313-659-6535. (2-lt-25f) further information. (2-2t-25f-34p) club calves. Write or call Neona Farm. Neal Pearl Street. Darlington, S.C. 29532. (11-6t-26p) WOOD LOT TREES: White Ash or Bed Oak 1 Feikema. Evart. Mich. 49631. Phone 616- FOR SALE: Surge pipeline. Delaval units 310 NEW! "INTENSIVE SHEEP MANAGE- year seedlings. Hardy. moderate growth rate. ex- 734.2579. (2-tf-l9f) Sunset milk tank almost new compressor, Gehl 50 MENT," 248 pages. invaluable, $15.95. "VET S300 - $700 MONTHLY raising rabbits for us. cellent shade trees. S30 per 100 plus 10% for ship- mixer grinder. Phone 517-224-2775. (2-lt-l9f) SHEEP BOOK." recognition. treatments. \178 Details. 25 cents. LABORATORY ANIMALS. Box ping (early spring). Three Oaks Nursery Co .. U.S. PERFORMANCE TESTED ANGUS, quality pages. 300 photos. $14.95. SPECIAU Both above 2467 FN. Grand Rapids. Mich. 49501. 12 West. Three Oaks. Mich. 49128. 616-756-7396. registered Angus breeding stock and club calves. (12-3t-I8p) FOR SALE: 180 gal. "Milk Keeper:' stainless hardcover books. $28.95. "THE SHEEP DOG," Its (I-2t-4Op) Contact Bordner Angus Farms. 68730 County Farm steel bulk tank. Surge milker - two unit. Allin good work and training. $12.95 postpaid. Diamond Farm Rd .. Sturgis. Mich. 49091. Phone 616-651-3456. FOR SALE: A telephone you carry.with you. use condition. Phone 313-654-6049. (2-lt-2Of) Book Publishers. Dept. MFN. Box 266, Alexandria NEW. GOOD KEEPER LATE TOMATO. sow (l2-tf-241) Bay, NY 13607. (2-3t-45p) anywhere. Self contained PORTABLE/MOBILE seed in May. have tomatoes Christmas and after. 20 FOR SALE: Jamesway lIquamatic one-chain MILKING SHORTHORNS: Young bulls. year- MARK 900 Attache' Case style. IMTS dial and MTS seeds $1.00 or 50 seeds $2.00. Vic Underwood. manure elevator. new. stili In bundle. Albert Ter lings and calves for sale. Write or visit Stanley M. CATTLE BOOKS! "VET BOOK FOR STOCK manual capability for Bell system or affiliates. Com. Route 1. Box 14. Sheffield, Ala. 35660. (2-3t-29p) Haar. phone 616-896-8207. (2-2t-17f) Powell and Family, Ingleside Farm, Route 'I. 3248 FARMERS." on-the-farm prevention. symptoms. plete with aU accessories and manuals. Top quality Powell Hwy .. Ionia. Mich. 48846. (I2-tf-28f) treatments. 176 pages, 300 photos. $14.95. American made. Perfect condition. Write/call for In- FREE FRUIT CATALOG: Color catalog wilh 82 FOR SALE: N.H_ 1005 Bale Wagon, excellent "CALVING THE COW AND CARE OF THE formation. Postpaid $1,895.00. Don Gridley. Box strawberry varieties. plus all other fruits. Write for condition. 1776 Rex box and N.H. running gear. REGISTERED & GRADE HOLSTEIN BULLS CALF." 164 pages. 338 photos. $14.95. "PROm- 56. Ypsilanti. Mich. 48197. Phone 313-485-1757. free copy. Grower since 1837. DEAN FOSTER Gehl50 grinder mixer. Call 517-224.2775. for sale. Complete records. Clarkstead Holstein ABLE BEEF PRODUCTION." $13.95. SPECIAL! (2-lt-25f-3Op) NURSERIES. Dept. MFN. Hartford. Mich. 49057. (2-lt-21f) Farm. 819 Tamarack Road. Pittsford. Mich. Phone Complete beef library - 3 above hardcover books 616.621-2419. (2-2t-28b) 517-567.8626. (2-tf-l9f) $38.85 postpaid. "THE FARMERS DOG." best QUANTITY OF NEW LUMBER, 12 boards of WANTED: New I~ single row com picker. book training working dogs. $14.95. "GOOD wild cherry. fuIl4"x4" length white pine. planks. rail Phone 616-629-4518 evenings. Richland, Mich. FINNISH LANDRACE SHEEP: purebreds and DOG," $11.95. Diamond Farm Book Publishers, ties. Hay loader. manure spreader. double cultipack REAL ESTATE (2-lt-llf) crosses with either SuHolk-Columbian-Targhees- Dept. MFN. Box 266. Alexandria Bay. NY 13607. cpicken equipment. Switch time clock. 16 gal. exter. (2-3t-69p) nal stain color birch -1705-16. 517-592-2704 All FARMS - need farms for Midwest and Inter- Ramboliett-Montadale. Lee Breasbois. 9780 Gar- (2-lt-25f-lOp) national buyers. Top dollar. Details: John Peck. WANTED: 4 row cultivator for Oliver 88 tractor. field. Freeland. Mich. 48623. Phone 517- Four Seasons Realty of lansing. 517-349-4260. R. Krzeminski. 10305 Charlotte Road. Portland. 695-5692. (7-12t-18f) HOG BOOKS! "PIG FARMERS VETERINARY (4-13t-2Op) Mich. 48875. (2-1t-16f) BOOK." on-the-farm prevention, symptoms. WORK SHIRTS & PANTS $2.35 each. Cover. DUROC BOARS & GILTS and bred gilts. Ag- treatments. 180 pages. diagnosis chart. $15.95. ails $6.99 each. Jackets $5.00 each. all used rec;on. ditioned. Minimum order 5 items. New leather PEACH FARM - 35 acres in Watervliet Town- "THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN gressive and productive. Bred gilts are bred to "THE SOW - IMPROVING HER EFFICIENCY," gloves 6 palr/$19.00 Send check and sizes. Add ship. First class site. north slope. Write: Solid M. FARM TRACTORS," covers tractors from 1890s $2500. Magic brand. everyday sale day. Jim covers breeding. nutrition. farrowing, management. $2.50 postage & handling. Catalog $1.00. Sara Spread. Hartford 49057. or phone Solid-M- to 1979. 1,500 photos, fulldescrlptlons. Sections on Preuich, 517-467-2874, Route 1. Onsted. Mich. etc.. 311 pages. 80 illustrations. Invaluable. $16.95. "PIG HOUSING," 220 pages, 32-page "BLUE. Glove Co .. Box 4069-C95. Waterbury. Conn. Chateau 616-424-3752. $152.000.00 firm. components. ignitions. engines. etc. 352 large 49265. (8-tf-25f) 06704. (2-3tMb) (4-tf-250 pages. hard leatherette cover. $26.95. "FARM PRINT" section, hOUSing. equipment. $16.96. TRACTORS IN COLOR." 80 years tractor history. FOUR REGISTERED MORGANS top blood SPECIAU Complete pig library - 3 above hardcover U-PICK FRUIT FARM. 40 acres. Van Buren 118 fuU color photos, 183 pages. $11.95. SPE- lines. 7211 South Stony Creek Road. Monroe, books $39.75 postpaid. 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