MICHIGAN V FARM SEWS KEEP UP PUBLISHED On News Interesting to For 19.000 Farm FamlllM Farmers Through the In 65 Michigan Farm News Count!** Vol. XV, No. I SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1937 Published Monthly Impressions COUNTY BUREAUS This Machine Will Record Ballots by Members of House NEW ORDER BRINGS FARM ELECTRIC of the NAME OFFICERS LINES TO CONSUMERS POWER AREAS West FORTHISYEAR WITH LESS THAN 5 FARMS PER MILE with J. F. Yaeger, Organization Director Five Northwestern Counties « Report Total of 1,000 Recommendations by the Michigan State College I saw hundreds of miles of waste Members , Seek to Provide Any Number of Farms land in Arizona, Nebraska, Utah and Texas, not sand, but desert land just County Farm Bureau annual meet- Per Mile With Electric Service On ings have been setting up the 1937 the same with an occasional gathering of shacks and people attempting to programs and naming the men and Equally Favorable Terms eke out a existence. . . I set my watch women to carry them out. Most of the Michigan farm communities averaging less than five ahead an hotir at Kearney, Nebraska, county organizations are reporting farmers per mile of road are assured farm power lines in Con- instead of setting it back and got up the largest membership in years, and at 4 a. m. instead of at 6 o'clock and are enlisting many of those members sumers Power territory on favorable terms, in accordance then wondered why others slept so in committee work and the operations with an order issued by the Michigan Public Utilities Com- late. . . Of getting up later than any- of Community Farm Bureau groups. mission December 3 I. one else ever after that with the ad- Oceana County vantage of having the drawing room Shelby—O. K. Gale of Shelby was Acting upon recommendations of the Michigan State all to myself for shaving. (That is elected president of the Oceana Coun- College, the utilities commission ordered the Consumers to with the exception of Ben Hennink ty Farm Bureau at the recent annual revise its present "optional" plan of constructing rural who also managed to sleep in as late meeting. Max May of Elbridge is as possible). . . Upon viewing the vice president, and Henry Henrick- electric extensions on the basis of $1,000 per mile, less wide, well laid out streets of Salt Lake son of Shelby, secretary and treas- $ 1 00 credit for each farm customer. City and wondered what sort of a man urer. Mrs. Mildred Wenk of Ferry Brigham Young must have been to was elected to the board of directors. From now on, said the commission, that plan is $500 have foreseen the need of streets so Five county Farm Bureaus in north- per mile construction charge, less $ 100 for each farm wide. western Michigan now account for customer connected, or the equivalent, and will include Grand Canyon more than 1,000 members, said Presi- a guaranteed minimum monthly revenue of $12.50 per mile Standing on the brink of the Grand dent Gale in commenting upon a Canyon and having the size of the nice increase in Oceana's paid-up of extension. thing nearly scare me to death. . .Of membership in 1936. Important Farm Two Plans Brought Together watching A. W. Bureau projects in Oceana county are Courtesy of State Journal Prillwitz stand on the Farm Bureau Services branch Thus the Michigan Plan providing a free line for an the edge of a 1,000 elevator, potato warehouse and mer- average of five or more customers per mile in return for the foot cliff and keep chandise plant at Hart, and the Farm $12.50 monthly minimum revenue, and the old $1,000 per his balance while Bureau Fruit Products canning plant ADAMS Cft 2 HATCH throwing stones at Hart. ADAMS CJ, a HELME mile construction charge plan with no guarantee, have been over the edge The same week the Shelby Co-op AlDRICH 3 HERRiCK brought together in such a way that any number of farm "just to see how had a nice supper and entertainment AlLAftD JARVIS customers per mile can get service on equal terms by appli- far they'd go". . . which was provided by 70 families BARRETT .. o KAMINSKJ Of hearing the for- who are stockholders in that co-op- BELEN MRS. 0 KAffLM cation of the new order, according to the commission. The est rangers at the erative enterprise. . BERKA order also reduces the guarantee period from five to three Grand Canyon tell Clinton County years, and is retroactive to all lines built under the Michigan BROWN of the making of St. Johns—When the Clinton County Farm Bureau assembled for its annual BUCKLEY Plan since January 1, 1936. BUZA lustrate by pointing out the proof in meeting recently it sat down to a Savings to thousands of potential rural electric cus- the canyon, that open book to those chicken dinner at Wacousta. King CAIVERT 0 who study geology. . . Seeing the Lee, Lawrence Crosby and Floyd An- CLANCY O tomers in the 48 counties served by Consumers are seen in mountains and feeling rather small in derson were elected directors. The CUNES p the order, which permits extension of service into areas the scheme of things. . . first two are new members on the COURTBR j averaging less than five farms per mile at greatly reduced Politics board. DECKER ; j At St. Johns, Dec. 5, the directors cost to the prospective customers. Under the $1,000 a Watching men from the various DELANO states and regions get together in organized by electing R. L. Beckwith, DIEHL " Mile Plan, the payment required of four customers was $600. small informal caucuses on the train, Victor township, president. He suc- DfONAN On the basis of $500 per mile, the payment from four cus- eventually agreeing on a "plan of ac- ceeds Floyd Anderson of Essex, who DOMBROWSKJ I tomers will total $100 with an average monthly minimum tion" and then putting it into effect headed the bureau for several years. at the convention. . . Listening to Sec- King Lee of Watertown was named Courtesy of State Journal DOUYJILE 'X- payment of $3.13 per customer, on the basis of 4 per mile. EATON According to the commission, the difference of $400 will retary of Agriculture Wallace and vice president, and Arthur Gage of knowing that his speech was being Bingham was re-elected secretary- Here are views of the electric voting machinery ESPIE treasurer. which has been installed in the state house of rep- FAIRCLOTH V pay a minimum monthly bill of $1 2.50 per mile for 3.3 years broadcast over a radio network that reached the entire nation. . . Wonder- At the annual meeting Charles Open- resentatives for use in the 1937 session. FAULKNER § for four customers. ing how I could ever put the conven- lander spoke on the "Power of Or- TOP—Behind the scenes, or the terminal panel FEENSTRA | : Farm Groups Comment tion into words that would let the ganization" and J. F. Yaeger on "Re- room where 700 electrical connections govern the FENLON V Motion Picture Screen Commenting on the order, Sec'y folks at home know how well their sponsibility and Your Own Welfare." working of the system. rTTZOERAU) s C. L. Brody of the Michigan State representatives functioned. . . The Cass County ABOVE—How the voting dial appears on each of GALLAGHER >* Dark Half the Time Farm Bureau said, "The new order necessity of having more such repre- Cassopolis—Directors for 1937 elect- 100 desks in the house of representatives. The is an improvement upon the present GARTNER g sentatives from Michigan attending ed at the recent annual meeting are middle button permits the member to change his GLASS There is no such thing as a moving plan. It makes possible the construc- the national conventions and a larger Carl Burgener, Roy Stevens, Sam vote while he has time to do so. The page button picture. What we term moving or tion of farm electric lines for hun- Thomson, Leonard Jerne, Paul Sav- summons a house page to his desk. HAILWOOD • membership to back them up. motion pictures is nothing more than dreds of farm communities averaging Harmony age, D. E. Harvey, J. W. Philips, and HAMILTON ' RIGHT—Two electric boards, one on either side of the display of a series of snap shots three and four prospective farm cus- HAMPTON :«5 Hearing the fine mixed chorus of C. B. Rockwell. the speaker's rostrum, show a '"yes" vote by a blue taken at the rate of 24 per second and tomers per mile. These communities the California State Farm Bureau fill Earl Bishop acted as secretary. in light, a " n o " vote by a red light, opposite the mem- HARMA displayed to us so rapidly that one had no way to qualify under th« that wonderful Municipal Auditorium the absence of Paul Savage, who has ber's name. At the clerk's desk the yes, no and photograph blends with the next, thus 1936 plan, which required an average at Pasadena with music and wonder- been ill. This was the first annual not voting totals are stamped on a sheet for the forming the optical illusion of motion. of five customers per mile." permanent record the instant the vote is closed. ing if Michigan couldn't have one just meeting that Mr. Savage has missed These separate snapshots are pro- ('. H. Bramble, Master of the Mich- as fine. . . Hearing the extension di- in the twelve years that he has been Michigan Farm News Photo. jected at the rate of 1,400 a minute igan State Grange, said "The new rectors of numerous States express secretary. appreciation to the American Farm Legislators to Cast Votes labor was used, however. If anything and at the split second each picture is order is another progressive step in goes wrong in 1937, Callison will be thrown on the screen, the picture is the electrification of rural Michigan." Bureau Federation for its assistance in securing additional national funds for extension work and pledging al- CHECKS FOR HART By Electric System in 1937 too far away to do anything about it is stopped. There are 16 pictures to The order is the seventh issued by in a hurry, as he leaves for Capetown, the foot of film, and 90 feet of the film the commission during the past four- South Africa, as soon as the Michigan is run through the projection machine teen months based on recommenda- legiance to this farmer organization. . . Listening in while the voting dele- CHERRYGROWERS Voice of Clerk in Roll Calls Will be Stilled for job is done, to start putting in a sim- each minute. In two hours time; tions made by the State Committee on ilar job for the South African parlia- therefore, the average length of a Rural Electrification. gates of the various states expressed ment. show, the audience sees about 175,000 their views and noting the differences Oceana Fruit Growers Want First Time in State History for . A large electric gong will sound in separate pictures. Refunds for Additional Customers Co-op Canning Plant The order also reduces the length in regions and the final pledge to join hands in promoting the program of Time Saving Device the house cloakroom when t h e clerk Another remarkable fact is that the of time an extension is under contract To Continue opens the voting circuit, warning the screen is actually dark for one-half as to monthly guarantees from a the organization in spite of regional When the 100 members of Michgan's a machine turning out doughnuts. members. It should be stressed that the time the picture is being shown. minimum of five years to a minimum differences. . . Noting that the New Two days before Christmas, Sec'y house of representatives assemble at Mixed in with the really important the machine permits quick voting. This darkness, however, is unnoticed of three years and provides for re- England states were opposed to crop C. L. Brody of the State Farm Bureau noon, January 6 for the regular ses- No Room for Lobbying because it is perfectly intermingled fund's to subscribers averaging less bills are those of little or no import- control in the # main (excepting the and C. N. Hinman, manager of the sion of the 59th legislature, one of the As to the consequences trailing in with the light periods. Both darkness than 5 per mile when additional cus- ance, which are dragged out of com- tobacco growers) with the southern, Farm Bureau Fruit Products Co. at most familiar of legislative features the wake of electrical voting: and light are regulated by a rotary tomers take service. Refunds will western and corn-hog states more in Hart presented checks to the growers will be missing—the stentorian voice mittees and "put through the wringer" In the first place, desks and chairs shutter which, at the instant the be on the basis of $100 per farm cus- when the majority of the lawmakers favor of the program. for another three-fourths of a cent of the clerk calling the roll. of .house members have been spread picture is exposed, is open, but when tomer. The company will extend are too tired to care much. Hollywood per pound on 2,800,000 lbs. of cherries For nearly 100 years the clerk has out so that they will reach from wall the film is moving, closes. The speeds service from the main line to the cus- Visiting Hollywood only to find that canned at the plant here last sum- been heard calling the roll, but in the Old Way Took Time Thus, the clerk must call the roll of to wall. This will prevent visitors, in- of the shutter, are of course gauged in tomer's premises a distance of 300 the motion picture industry has out- mer. The total payment is now 3 1937 session roll calls will be taken by cluding lobbyists, from sitting on the thousands of a second, so that the only grown that town and now is located cents per pound, and equals the best an electrical recording system, says a 100 names, over and over. Gray esti- black leather lounges at the sides of evidence of its presence is an almost feet from the center of the highway mates that the last eight weeks of a without cost; distances in excess of chiefly in surrounding, less thickly price paid any grower during the writer in The State Journal at Lan- populated communities. . . The homes season. regular session can be compressed into the chamber, and disturbing members unnoticeable flicker. 300 feet will be at the rate of five sing. The Senate of 43 members will by whispering, persuasively or other- cents per lineal foot instead of the of many of the stars not in Holly- The growers, organized as the; continue to have its roll called by its six, by the elimination of the oral wise. The public space will be con- previous $10 or $20 pole charge. roll call. Thus half of the time saved wood either. . . Being shown the home Oceana Fruit Growers, Inc., were clerk. of some movie star only to be told guests of Hart businessmen at a during the whole session would be fined to the back of the chamber. Winter Highway Map Since January 1, said the commis- With the stilling of the voice of the For a decade, Miles F. Gray has that he (or she) occupied it but a luncheon to express appreciation of clerk of the house, who, since Michi- saved during the tail-end of it. held down the job of clerk of the sion, Consumers Power Company has few days each year and were perhaps the community for the Farm Bureau gan first began operating its territori- The 1937 house of representatives house. Whether he is displaced or Lansing—For the first time, a win- completed nearly 1,500 miles of rural living in one of their other $100,000 enterprises. In addition to providing al legislature, has intoned thousands may. not like this touch of modernity not, the electric voting machine will ter edition of the official Michigan line, providing electric service to homes at this time of the year. . . Driv- a top market for so much fruit, the of roll calls, many far-reaching conse- to their proceedings. Unless the leg- supplant the house of one of its best state highway map is now available to 8,770 rural customers. The total ing through Hollywood at night and Farm Bureau operated the cannery quences will result from this innova- islature approves the $35,000 instal- known points of interest: Gray in ac- the public. number of farm customers served by being very much dazzled by the best for a total of 12 weeks and had a tion in legislative procedure. lation, the firm which installed it gets In publishing a winter edition the the company a t November 30, amount- lighted street in America with its payroll which reached 250 workers at not a dime. Eighty per cent of the tion, calling the roll or rapping on the state highway commission was moti- ed to 25,853 as compared with 17,934 Month of Roll Calling 1935 house membership approved this desk to make members alert when a many colored lighting effects. . . Look- the peak. vated by two reasons. The first ob- a year ago. The company is supple- ing down on the Los Angeles region Most important, however, is the contingent sort of agreement by mail "show of hands" is in order on a jective is to emphasize winter-sport menting its program of extending The Oceana Growers voted unani- question before them. at night and seeing from the .nearby mously to ask the Farm Bureau to fact that it has been estimated that before installation started, but a new The Show of Hands development in Michigan and the electric service to farms with fre» hills literally millions of lights flick- operate the plant in 1937, and to carry the clerk of the house spends one sol- legislature will be on the job in 1937. second to make the map itself more ac- agricultural engineering service, iaid- For years, when the speaker of the ering, waving and changing shape on negotiations for purchase of the id month each session—just in call- In any event, the maze of electrical house has called for "a show of curate. Since the September issue of ing farmers in their wiring problems and color for miles and miles, a sight plant in their interest. ing the roll! Miles F. Gray, clerk of equipment under the floor and behind the map was published, hundreds of and in the econojnical use of electric never to be forgotten. the house since 1927, finds that it re- the walls, stays there, undisturbed, if hands," Gray has rappped his wooden miles of highways indicated at that energy and the selection of proper quires him about 15 minutes, on the the lawmakers decide against electric roll call board smartly on a front Traveling Grape Vine Lumber average, to call the 100 names, wait voting after a trial. desk, and walked briskly down the time as under construction, have now electrical equipment and motors. Watching lanky Martin Johnson of for those who change their minds, Just what members are likely to do middle aisle, counting silently. Mem- been completed. i _ _ ^ _ Saginaw County get into his upper bers, by tradition, needlessly seek The new maps-are available to the M. B. McPherson tells the story and then announce the results. berth every night. . . Attempting to that a number of years ago in clear- with the complicated system, is some- his attention by snapping their fingers. public free of charge. They can be ob- Sand for Auto stay in my own berth with the train ing some land they came across a During the final phases of every thing that time alone can tell. There tained by writing to Commissioner hitting 76 miles an hour on a spur of rsgular sessdon, legislative fights over are 23 miles of wiring buried in the Outwardly, the electric voting ma- grape vine of such girth that they closely-contended bills are numerous. walls and floors—in cement. There hine is simple. Actually its complex- Van Wagnor, State Highway Dep't, Who hasn't been fascinated b j the Santa Fe while en route to Hous- ities are those of an electric adding Lansing. watching a locomotive engineer sand decided to have a log sawed from it. Every inch of the way is hedged in are two miles of circuits, in which the ton, Texas. . . Feeling sorry for Mrs. a slippery track? A New York in- C. L. Brody of Lansing and Mrs. Edith It made several boards from 7 to 8 with debate and roll calls. Every individual wires are carried. There machine. On the desk of each member is an ventor has patented a sanding device Lamoreaux of Rochester who were ill inches usual, wide. partly The grain because of was most the un- curling trick known on the parliamentary j are 1,200 connections in the recording electric dial on which he can dial Township Debt Small for automobiles. Set it for slippery during their entire stay in California floor, including that of moving for ad- box on the speaker's desk alone. The tendency of the vine. The wood re- journment and demanding a roll call terminal board, in what was once 'Aye" or "No", or call a house page driving. Tramp on the brake, and and confined to their beds while the to his desk. In the center of the unit During 1935 Michigan's 8,000 gov- out of a pipe curved in front of each rest of us enjoyed five beautiful days sembles mahogany somewhat in color. on the motion, is introduced as op- (and again may be) the house docu- is a button by which he can change ernmental units reduced their out- rear wheel will spout a supply of sand of warmth and sunshine. . . Wonder- A manufacturer in Grand Rapids has posing forces maneuver for advantag- ment room could give an Einstein a his vote, if he thinks fast enough. In- standing debts by more than $15,100,- to provide traction and non-skid sur- ing whether the switchman had done used it to entice many an expert on es. first class headache if he looked inside cidentally, Mr. Gray and a house 000, leaving a balance of 601 millions face. his duty as I stood on the observation woods into a losing bet. Legislatures may do about 90 per it. committee, went to Madison, Wiscon- outstanding. The debts are owed by platform of our special train on a sid- cent of their work in the last two South Africa Takes One sin, after the 1936 session, watched a counties, cities, villages, townships "The trend of tour hit travel if ing and watched the Twilight Limited Farm Credit Administration helped months of a session; often no vital W. H. Callison, of the American roll call in the house there and clock- and school districts. Of the amount swinging heavily and swiftly toward approach at 75 miles an hour and tear 20,000 farmers buy farms the past bills are passed until the last jDins are passed uniu tne last week, Signal week. oignai Corporation, corporation, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, su- su- ed the whole procedure from the com-1,270 townships owe a little more (Continued on page 2.) year. the trailer car," says Walter J, King- |The last 24 hours produces bills like perintended the installation. Lansing (Continued on pa^e 2.) than $4,000,000. scott, superintendent of state parks. TWO I C III G AX F A R M N E W S SATURDAY, JANUARY '-'. Legislators to Vote by Electric System in '37 Royal Marriage (Continued from page l) By CHESTER H. ROWELL nand: 'The clerk will open the dr- Mr. Rowell, editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, addressed uit (permitting voting), to: The American Farm Bureau Federation at Pasadena, Cal., in lerk will close the circuit." at 11 sec- December on medical care for rural communities. Hia article on Royal Marriage appeared in the Chronicle. Successor to the Michigan Farm Bureau News, founded S . CLARK onds flat, but it was "rehearsed." January 12, 1 Entered a t second class matter January 12, 1923, a t the post- office a t Charlotte, Michigan, under the Act of Ma;ch 3, 1879. The Memory Quilt Ancient Practices Go With electricity, some ancient prac- vrill disappear from the house. T HE TRADITION' of royal intermarriage had reduced the taon- aivhs of Kurope, m«R before t h e w a r . to the social siattts of a village on the steppes of Russia or.of an island in the S o u t h \lemhers who have refused to speak Seas, in which all the population are related ilmmjrli successive Published first Saturday of each month by the Michigan State Farm Bureau a t its publication office at 114 Lovett St., Charlotte, Michigan. It's needed doing quite a spell, but now I have it done ntelligibly—those who change their •ross-mjirriaires. T h e number of eligible princesses for each young I'd almost like to start again and put that binding on, ninds after the result is announced— wince w a s strictly limited, and n e a r l y all of these were his cousins Editorial and general offices, 221 North Cedar St., Lansing, Michigan. For it has caused me many a smile and also several sighs ry to blame the clerk for an "error" Postoffice Box 250. Telephone, l^ansing 21-L'T!. To work on this old crazy quilt, as you may well surmise. n the record—all these things will within n few decrees, h was a bijr family of a small village, with Now see this piece of gingham here, with checks of white and blue, anish. Dozens of timers Gray has ill its limitations. EINAR UNGREN Editor and Business Manager pleaded with noisy members to make * * * * It's from a dress that Mabel wore when she was only two. Remember her, how cute she was? And then this yellow scrap ess noise so he can hear some of the Kxcept for t w o sources of supply, the institution would have Subscription 25 cents per year; 4 years for $1, in advance. Is from an apron Mother had before she married Pap. more strident ones as they howl their bred itself out. a c e n t u r y ago, These were Queen Victoria's healthy She liked bright colors, Mother did, this piece of green percale otes during stormy sessions. In >roireny a n d the German princelings Of which Victoria's consort Vol. XV SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1937 No. 1 Is gome she bought for me a waist, long years ago. by mail. 0::7, members will find their votes was one. Victoria herself was literally bred for t h e throne. T h e She was a quilter in her time, and wanted I should be. inerringly and instantly blazoned She treasured all such priceless bits, and passed them on to me. orth, secure from misunderstanding, lynasty of t h e decadent Georges had nearly r u n out a n d there w a s debate or argument. danger of its extinction. Sjo her father, an unimportant Prince of The New Electrification Order This piece is one Aunt Mabel wore. Her husband was a wretch, Facing the house members, from the the House of Hanover, whose descendants, if lie had any. would be The December 31, 193t> order of the Michigan Public Utilities Com- And so she had to stretch each cent as far as it could stretch. I well recall how pleased she was when Mother gave her this— north wall, will be two electric "score n line for tht.' succession, was married, late in life and much against mission upon the Consumers Power Company makes it possible for any Her weakness was for pretty things, just like our Mabel's is. >oards" which will blaze out the re- his will, to a healthy Princess, eugenically selected, and Victoria farm community in that company's territory to secure electric service on qult of the voting much as the electric was the product. favorable terms. Heretofore, that company's most favorable terms have Then these two blocks my sisters pieced, Mary and Ruth, you know. They died when they were in their teens one winter long ago, corehoard does football games—%mly * # * * been limited by commission order to groups averaging five or more farm t ten times as fast. The boards So Mother saved the blocks for me, the first ones they had made, customers per mile. The new order applies much the same terms to any And I should hate to lose them, too, though they are getting frayed. vill be duplicates, each carrying the Victoria was a stodgy but virtuous person, sound in body, mind group having less than an average of five customers per mile. names of each of the 100 members. and character. She married one of the Hock of German princelings These pieces came from Cinthy Hicks. I gave her some I had It is recognized that the capital cost for poles, line and construction The winter when Clem broke his leg and she took on so bad. )pposite each name will be a red who were then the most numerous eligibles. Germany was then not is heavier for each of two, three, or four customers per mile than it is Seems like we used to neighbor then more than folks do today. ipht and a blue light, indicating "no" i national State or Empire, but a flock of independent States, for five. Transformer and house connection per customer is a compara- And this was old Aunt Emetine's. She always dressed in gray. ind "yes", respectively. On the clerk's ranging from the mighty Kingdom hi Prussia and the Imperial tively small item. The new order fixes it so that any number of custom- You know, I like this quilt so much I sometimes almost doubt lesk will be the master recorder. House of Ilapsburir down to "Thun und Taxis" and other petty ers per mile can get a line, even though others along the road are not in- If I should use it any more. It's bound to wear it out. When the switch is closed, a sheet principalities. But the head of each of these was an independent ted now. Later, should they come on, the original customers will be But then I think I may as well, because I like it so, >earing the house members' names, sovereign. His brothers and sisters, nephews and nieces, were eligible reimbursed at the rate of $100 per additional customer until the average For Mabel wouldn't value it—and no one else would -know will pop out, perforated, showing—for to marry into royal houses. Of five per mile is reached, and the original customers no longer have any The heart throbs and the memories these scraps of cloth comprise, preservation as a legal record—the line investment. At the same time their monthly minimum bill is re- * * * * And sometimes as I sewed today the tears stood in my eyes. •esult. Each man's vote is not only duced toward the rate of five per mile. The new order also reduces the It's needed doing quite a spell, but now I have it done abulated, but the total votes "yes," Thus these German families intermarried everywhere. And guarantee period from five to three years. I'd almost like to start again and put this binding on. 'no" and "not voting" is also stamp- Queen Victoria not only had healthy and decent children, but she The new order is indeed a stimulating beginning for the 1937 pro- ed on the sheet when it. comes out the reigned long enough to marry them and her grandchildren, her gram of rural electrification in Michigan. Two principal companies, the nstant the voting circuit is closed. nephews and nieces and their cousins and aunts, all over Europe. Detroit Edison and the Consumers Power, have territories that include for attendance record roll calls, those The Kaiser is her grandson. Queen Marie of Rumania is descended About three-fifths of rural lower Michigan. Their combined program is to iresent will vote "aye," for similar on one side from Victoria and on the other from, the Czar Alexander. bring electric service to 52,500 farms in 1936 and J937. Their accomplish- •ecord. mtnt in 1936 was not far from 20,000 farm connections. Now, the door An Aid to the Press Her son, Carol, married (and deserted) Princess Helen of Greece, lias been opened to a complete program in 1937 and ensuing years. Sounds complicated—and it is— who was a Hohenzollern and so of the families both of the Kaiser nit it has worked well and successful- and of Victoria. The deposed Queen of Spain was a grand-niece of ly in several other states. Victoria. The Czarina was princess of a minor German house. Eighteen Short Days For press row, the new machine So, by ancestry, was Queen .Mary. Princess Juliana, of Holland, is Yesterday, January 1, ended the eighteen days of minimum day- will he a change. In the past, every marrying another German princeling, further to dilute the blood of light that we experience each year. We have always thought that De- important roll call meant a tense, pa- William of Orange. And so on, through the whole inbred tribe. cember 21, the beginning of winter, is the shortest day of the year. tient checking of the names by each * * * * But the East Lansing weather bureau says that from December 13 to house correspondent, as members vot- January 1, though the time of sunrise and sunset varies, we have exactly ed, followed by a thundering of rep- One result was that the sovereigns of Europe were nearly all nine hours of daylight each day. On January 1 the amount of sunlight ortorial feet for the nearby press room foreigners by blood. The roj'al house of Greece was German, increases to nine and one-hundredth hours, as it was on December 12. We have always thought that June 21, the beginning of summer, is TELLS HOW SOME Mixtures Aqe Permanent Pastures chines Best for where telephones and teletype ma- though its native language, always used in the family, was English. are located. With the new ma The Czar and Czarina spoke English to each other, though one was the longest day of the year. According to the government station at East Lansing, from June 16 to June 26 we experience fifteen and four- tenths hours of daylight each day. SEED FIRMS DUCK chine, the speaker's recorder will German and the other Russian. The British royal house is largely Farmers who wan: to establish punch out as many copies of any rol German, since George 1, who could not speak English. King permanent pasture's are askMg, "Wha call as desired. Five sheets at a Edward's mother is German, though English born; his grand- They Can Go To High School STATE, U. S. LAWS shall we seed?" Pasture men Irk the U. S. Dep' time can be inserted for identical re cording. mother was Danish, and his great-grandfather German. The late The "bellweather" of past houses King George was the first British sovereign for two hundred years of Agriculture say it seldom is advis The Farm Bureau and the Grange stood for the Thacher-Saur Act Dealer Selling to Farmer in able to seed land intended for perman he man whose vote carries those of whose speech did not betray his German origin. Queen Victoria to bring $22,500,000 of state aid annually to local schools, including the Another State Can out pasture to any on« grazing plant ome other members with it, will be herself preferred to speak German. The Kaiser's mother tongue payment of high school tuition for pupils from rural districts. Not only Tell Tall Tales A mixture of grasses and legumes re omewhat cramped. During the time is English. was a marked reduction in rural school taxes madte certain, but it was suits In a more uniform stand or long the switch is open, if one member's • * * # predicted that the enrollment of rural students in high schools would be er season, and higher production. In vote is followed by a veritable blaze Another more serious result is biological. There are certain doubled within three years. Washington—Unfair seed trade any mixture there are likely to be of color on the board, as many other practices made possible by weak- plants adapted to any soil condition members tardily vote, the effect wil conditions, like albinism, hemophilia or colorblindness which are According to M. B. McPherson, chairman of the state tax commis- nesses in the federal seed law were in a pasture. Mixtures give a uniform be too apparent to be followed often hereditary. Albinism or colorblindness do little harm, but hemo- sion, and a director of the Farm Bureau, rural high school attendance has brought out recently by Walter A. seasonal production because differen The vote of the speaker of the house philia is serious. It is inherited by male children through mothers almost doubled itself within two years. Most of the town and city high Davidson of the Bureau of Plant In- plants have differing periods of flush can still be taken last, as a courtesy who do not themselves have it, from male ancestors who did. On schools have been Tn position to take the large increase from rural dis- dustry. tricts without much difficulty. The Act has made it possible for many growth. A mixture of grasses and le-to the presiding officer. a South Sea island, if there is one case of albinism, a few generations The preseni Mr. Davidson gumes provides a better balanced ra- may bring many, through inbreeding. In a country like Europe or boys and girls to go on with their school education. pointed out. was intended to supple- tion as legumes are richer in both pro- ment state seed laws, but experience tein and minerals. They also help Impressions America, it breeds out, and the proportionate number of cases does not increase. It never happened to start in Europe's royalty. Unemployment Insurance For Farm Help? has shown that some seed dealers keep up the nitrogen supply. For the present, among the largest classes of people excluded by have a way of side-stepping the state "Many so-called permanent pastures of the West Hemophilia disappears even more ra'pidly, since boys born with it, in ordinary circumstances, are liable to bleed to death before they law from the unemployment insurance and old age pension provisions of label requirements. are simply wornout or unproductive (Continued from Page t.l Under the present wording 'a seed past like a hurricane to be almost im reach the age of parenthood. But Avhen it once entered the royal the federal social security act are farm help and domestic help. How- dealer can sell directly to the farm- meadows," says II. \\ Vinall of the mediately swallowed up in the dark tribe it was preserved and distributed, until it has now become ever, we learn that they were included in the original bill, but were er in another state without labeling Bureau of Plant Industry. "Others ness ahead. . . Ge4ting the thrill of mj almost a disease of royalty. Fortunately the House of Windsor, dropped when the U. S. Treasury pointed out the difficulty of collect- as to variety, germination, purity, result when uncultivated fields are life as at Las Vegas I sat for the firs so far, is exempt. ing the monthly premiiums or taxes from them and their employers. content of noxious weed, seeds, inert occupied by plants aggressive enough time in a locomotive and Ben took * # * * Now it has been made known that the Social Security Boar'd at Wash- matter, origin, or content of other to spread without th» help of man, a picture. Now the war, having toppled most of the thrones, leaves the ington will propose to the new Congress a voluntary government insur- crop seed. However, if he sells to a slow and wasteful process. The aver- family still smaller. Unless a British Prince, for instance, is to ance system for these citizens. To be administered by the Board, it may dealer in another state, where there age low production of pastures in the Feeling proud of Michigan and its accept premiums of $1 per month and upwards, to provide certain un- is a seed law, the seed will have to United States is largely due to poor Junior Farm Bureau as the talks o marry the scion of some house already repudiated in its own employment insurance and old age pension benefits. be labeled before it is sold to the soil, a lack of planning, and a desire Miss Ruth Kerr of Shelby and Rich country, his choice is limited to the remaining reigning families farmer. to avoid expense for iabor, seed and ard Christiaansen of Fremont wer and these are too few to continue the stock. . . . the rule that royalty Employers and workers in factories and other establishments com- fertilizer in starting the pasture. Ad- received by the convention with must marry royalty is ended. There is not enough royalty left ing under the Act will find that every pay day becomes a statement of "The practice of obtaining seed ditional expense for thorough prepara- rounds of applause, , . The clever wa to keep it going. earnings and the distribution thereof. With his check or pay envelope, stocks from the grain trade and sell- ing them as a designated variety is tion usually is balanced by increased in which President Ed. O'Neil handl the employe will receive a statement of tax deductions for state unem- ployment, federal unemployment and federal old age pension funds. certain to result in misrepresentation production in the first two years." ed the convention and the occasiona One Farm Can Produce ting of young spruce, balsam, pine The following mix;ures-with pounds cuss words he threw in. . . The grea and even cedar trees on northern Employers, employee, state and federal governments are expected to keep to the grower," Mr. Davidson de- of seed per acre- are recommended amount of interest the women folks State's Xmas Tree Cutwild lands each year, but foresters do track of these deductions. The United States Government will have about clared. "This is not fair to seed deal- by the Department: took in the convention and the elec not think that this removal of young 26,000,000 employe accounts. ers who advocate the use of approved varieties and make sure that they Northeastern States, including Mich- tion of our own Mrs. Wagar as one o Lansing—-Northern 'Michigan can trees is a very serious deforestation have true-to-name seed when they igan: f o r good, wdl-drained soils: the four delegates from the Associat continue indefinitely to supply the en-factor. Some Bills Are Cats and Dogs sell to the farmer." Kentucky bluegrass 5 lbs., orchard ed Women's group to the American tire state with Christmas trees with- It has been variously estimated that With nearly half the membership of the Michigan legislature to For the farmer, misrepresentation grass 4, timothy 4. redtop 2, alsike Farm Bureau session. . . Folks look out suffering serious or notable dam- a million or more young Chrismas change in January, there is good prospect that scores of proposals that of a seed variety is, perhaps a most clover 2, red clover 2, and white clov- ing to Mr. C. L. Brody for advice age to its forest cover, forestry trees are cut annually and sold in have been rejected by previous legislatures will be presented for consid- discouraging form of seed cheating, er 1, which is 20 pounds an acre. For throughout the convention. From th specialists of the deparment of con- all parts of the state, the largest poor, well-drained soils: Orchard standpoint of service, he is one of th servation believe. markets being in the southern centers eration again. Davidson said. Records of the seed grass .".. Canada bluegrass 5, redtop 4, Speaker George A. Schroeder, to whose desk as chairman of the leg- investigation division reveal examples alsike clover 2, and white clover 1— state. . . Every county banner in the allOne oldest in Farm Bureau work in an authority has estimated that of heavy population; many trees are exported, as well as imported into of seed pranded as sorgo for syrup of the trees cut for Christmas use Michigan from Canada and eastern islative council have come many of the measures old and new members Michigan section was carried by Mich on Michigan lands in one season have in mind, made this comment recently to the press: production, that was actually grain a total of 20 pounds an acre. igan people in the Parade of States states. sorghum: allegedly late-maturing soy- could be produced on a good-size "It looks as though they are going to drag out. all the old cats and beans thai were planted for hay. only Benjamin Franklin Wrote at the big barbecue on Wednesday. . southern Michigan farm, growing dogs and add a lot of new ones." Michigan with over 75 people presen to produce stunted, early-maturing This Letter for a Stranger had one of the largest delegations a 4,800 trees to the acre. One hundred years ago there were Past experience lias taught us that regardless of a legislative council plants; so-called Abruzzi rye which Much concern has been expressed 25 states in the Union, and Michigan showed farmers by mid-winter that the convention. by many persons over the heavy cut- was to be the 26th. to sift worthless and unfair legislation from desirable proposals, that When you are courtesy-bound to Homo no matter what the council or any other body thinks of a bill, it is likely ihey had a "creeping" rye; oat seed write a tetter of recommendation to After 8,000 miles of comparing farm to find its way into legislative channels, and circumstances may bring bought at high prices as a new variety a friend and do not wish to risk ing country with Michigan, I am still about its enactment. : > f winter-hardy oats and which died betraying him . . . do as Benjamin of the opinion that Michigan isn't at the first frost; and many another Franklin did. (From Tree to Trade.) such a bad place to live in. . . Getting In recent years the Farm Bureau and the Grange and associated groups have sponsored important highway and school legislation that example in which the farmer not only Paris, April 2, 1777 home to find snow on the ground for Classified Ads has brought much state aid for local roads and for local schools. These was defrauded of the price of the seed, Fir— Classified advertisments are cash with order at the following but also lost the potential income Tl ! " this, who la the first time this winter and being rates: 4 cents per word for one edition. Ads to appear in two or more fiinds come from the gasoline and license plate taxes, and from the sales to America, presses me to give htm told that "the weather was fine while editions take the rate of 3 cents per word per edition. tax. Attempts have been made before to divert these monies to other from the crop. immeiMlation, though you folks were away." I know nothing of him, not even his uses. No doubt, other attempts will be made in the 19:>7 session. Look name. This may seem extraordi- Keconl nary, but 1 assmv you it is not un- at your reduced road and school taxes and ask yourself if an organized Cook Co. Has Chicago and common here. Sometime*, indeed, Feeling proud that we ate steak LIVE STOCK MAPLE SYRUP SUPPLIES agriculture isn't the best insurance you can have in such matters. one unknown person brings another (as opposed to beans for the losers) REGISTERED HEREFORD CATTLE, ALL MAPLE SYRUP MAKING AND Farm Bureau Members equally unknown to recommend one ana) I in the membership contest for mid-bulls and heifers. J.est blood lines. Start MAKKKTIXC, STJPPLJE8, Including "Old (). (I. Rarratt, once county agri- As to this gentleman, I must re- western states. . . And prouder that auseregistered herd 'now. Dairy l'armers, Reliable" Felt Filter Bag for cleansing. Our Junior Live Stock Show ou to liiinsfi; for his chai we stood second in our percentage of Don't a Hereford 1 >n 11 and get real veals. Phree color labels, thermometers, hydro- raise scrubs. A. M. Todd Co. (14 . flat bottom pahs, tin cultnral agent for Mason count}', and merits, with wHIch he i miles northwest of Kalamazoo) Mentha, and glass containers, "Kl.Xi; KVAPO- Seven annual 4-H Club Shows have been held at the Detroit Stock Michigan was a caller at the State tainly better acquainted than J can quota secured among the 12 mid-west Mich. Worlds Largest Mint Farms. i : \ T u U S - . sap storage tanks, sugaring Yards. The last, in early December, had 110 calf entries, and 85 lamb possibly be. I recommend him, Farm Bureau this week. For ten irer, to those civilities which States, sixth in the total increase in (7-4-tf-l2b> oft" ri.i. Moulds, etc. For catalog entries for the several breeds of cattle and sheep. When the exhibitors every stranger, of whom one knows membership among the 37 State Farm uid | Sugar ] :11sh Supply and their friends sat down to a banquet and for the awarding of prizes, p:;st he h;;s been employed in no harm, has a ri^ht to; and to FOR SALE—PUREBRED REGISTER- Company, Dwpifty room in Farm Bureau the same capacity by the Cook County request yon will do him all the Bureaus and 13th in total membership fd Chester White bred Kilts for spring 31dg,, T:^ East Shlawassee St.. Lansing there were 600 of them! favor that, on further acquaint among the 37 state Farm Bureaus. immunized. fairow, March ami April. Also, fall piK*. U 1 ~ - Farm Bureau of Illinois. you shall find him to deserve. I 1 Ready for shipment. This Competition was keener than in any previous show, say those who Cook county includes the city of have the honor to be, etc. Note: The above impressions may herd lias had grand champion sow and followed the judging. No finer crowd of boys and girls could be found BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. seem a bit jumbled and, frankly, they last boar, and Michigan premier breeder the FARM MACHINERY Chicago, but strange to say. there three years. Charles McColla, Ann in any state. Those who won deserved to win, and were handsomely re- are few counties in Illinois that have a re. After all one can't travel 8,000 Arbor, R-6. Phone 726-F4. (l*2-2t-45b) McCORMICK-DEERING 22-36 TRAC- warded by the prices their stock brought. In fact, most of the sales were more farmers than there are in New York's Apple Trees miles, see the entire southwest portion sale. Al a r e old a n d in at good to fancy premiums. The runner-ups took it with a smile and POULTRY good condition. Wesley Dilv.-orth, Boyne Cook county. The Cook County Farm About one-third of the apple trees in of the United States Avest of the Mis- City Co-operative Ass'n, Boyne <"ity, an earnest determination to come back and win next year. Bureau has about 1,8000 farmer mem- ii Ww York were between 40 sissippi, attend a national American PULLETS! PULLETS! READY NOW, Mi SATTTtBAY, JA>TAKY 2, 1W7 IKHTflAlf FARM THUFt Pigs Halt Sailing, and PUBUC RESPONDS Snow Removal Issue is Headed for 1937 Legislature COLLEGE SPEAKS Nearly Cause a Mutiny ed tour da\ al may be inuzli: ' *•*!" TO PROMOTION OF WELL OF BEETS hundred poun. San Francisco—Four pigs recently while his consignment awaited tangled a ship's sailing schedule, other ship witl Q whom -nmed • MICHIGAN SUGAR caused a strike and a near mutiny of is pigs". S u g g e s t s R o t a t i o n s U s e d tO the crew, and were held over, gvunt- park had 400,000 Meet Different Farm ing their disapproval, for another ship, visitors than in l!>;<;». or l,17o.0O0 1936 Production Will be Sold Programs sailing from this port for Shanghai for 1 !•::«. in State; Crop Can be Saginaw Extension bulletin No. 67, four days later. issued by Michigan State College, S t a t e The porkers were sent from Iowa Expanded The "Sampson" is a vare type of states, Beets can be grown regularly j Agricultural College and were coyote. It lias dose, curly hair of a in three, four or five year rotations consigned to Shanghai, China. They light tan color. Saginaw—According to Arthur A. under proper conditions with satisfact- w e r e shipped west by railway express, Schupp, executive secretary of the ory results. Soil fertility can be which carries annually hundreds of Alfalfa seed from Argentine is Fanners and Manufacturers Beet maintained and actually imreased t h e I o w a h ° S s to San Framiso and to stained orange red in part. Sugar association. "During the past with this crop in the rotation when t h e d o c k - There they waited ship- four years the demand for Michigan- sufficient attention is given to the use »»«»t, grunting happily, made beet sugar has been steadily in- of green manure crops, barnyard ma-J Th<> crane reached a giant arm over creasing. According to reports from nure, and commercial fertilizers. j l h ( 1 dock and the tackle was made fast sugar brokers, wholesalers and re- "Sugar beets follow corn or beans.about the pig crate. Then a heave, tail grocers throughout the state it for the largest acreage in Michigan in and the outraged swine hung suspend- is expected that practically all of the such rotations as: (1) Alfalfa, Clover ed in mid-air. And that is as far as Carbide sugar produced in Michigan this year or Mixed Seeding; (2) Hay or Pas- they got. For the ship's rail sudden- will lie marketed within the state." ture; (3) Hay or Pasture; (4) Corn or ly swarmed with slim, dark men in When asked to explain the reason Beans; (5) Beets; (6) Oats or Bar- white turbans. Mohammedans every for the increased demand for Mich- ley (seeded). one. to whom the pig is the most un- igan-made beet sugar, Mr. Schupp "Beets and grain crops are includ- clean of animals. said, "The educational and advertis- ed in the rotation: (1) Red or Sweet The captain and the other officers ing campaigns conducted by the OA; Clover; (2) Beans, Corn or Beets; (3) pleaded, cursed, expostulated to no CARBIDE Farmers and Manufacturers Beet Wheat or Oats (seeded); (4) Red or avail. Why should a man endanger OF HIGHEST Sugar association have sold the peo- ple on Michigan beet sugar. Through the co-operation of the press and the Highway Chief Wants to Turn WALLACE PROGRAM Sweet Clover; (5) Beets, Beans or his soul by harboring even college- Corn; (6) Oats or Barley (seeded). l)i ed hogs? The crew was defiant in QUALITY • "Fall plowed sod and can be used nine Mohammedan languages. And retail merchants the buying public are beginning to recognize the im- Auto Sales Tax into Koads GIVEN ATTPASADENA for beet production but, ordinarily, it the suspended pigs added to the hub- National Carbide is advisable to grow one cultivated hub. portance of the beet sugar industry to Michigan agriculture and labor. Thinks That Would Provide use of this money off the Federal Aid system. As a result, the commissioner crop preceding the sugar beets. The The officer* .nave in. the crate was Corporation said, state trunklines off the Federal Program Designed to Improve following rotation is suggested for! lowered to the dock and the ship sail- Lincoln Bldq.New York Iu addition, it is now an established Millions for Construction, those who are not able to fall plow ed, pigless, but with a crew exhilarat- fact that Michigan-made sugar is Aid system are suffering from the and Steady Farm anything but sod fields: (1) Alfalfa or ed by spiritual victory. equal in every respect to the highest Snow Removal lack of improvements. quality sugar produced anywhere in A delegation representing northern Income Clover; (2) Alfalfa or Clover; (3) Which explains why the pigs of Mr. Beets; (4) Oats or Barley; (5) the world. All of these factors have and upper peninsula counties last Wheat (seeded). The snow-removal issue will rear Pasadena, Cal.—"What agriculture operated to encourage homemakers spring appealed to the state admin- "Get profitable returns from boets its head in the 1937 legislature. needs is the economic, legal and moral istrative board for an emergency ap- and food manufacturers throughout Michigan to demand and use home- grown sugar." This much was assured when Slate Highway Commissioner Murray D. propriation for snow-removal. The application was denied, but Commis- equivalent of the modern corporation" to carry out its program of organizing by growing them in a well planned crop rotation on a drained, fertile soil FARMERS! Van Wagoner told a Michigan Road where good cultural practices are us- sioner Van Wagoner and Aud.-Gen. the business of farming in farmers' Referring to the possibility of in- Show banquet audience here recently John J. O'Hara -advanced payments to interests, said See'y Henry A. Wallace ed." There's a Feeling of Security creasing the production of Michigan- that his department- would have made beet sugar in order to meet the the counties on their future returns. to the annual convention of the Am- With a policy in Michigan's Largest Farm Mutual Kiiv Insurance Company. demand for the article, Mr. Schupp, recommendations to submit on the subject at the next session. The McNitt law appropriates $4,- erican Farm Bureau here Dec. 10. Still Building Highways •I?AAA, : u , Resources in excess of One Quarter Million Dollars. Over stated, "With the farmers of Michigan 000,000 a year to the counties for the Speaking of reciprocal trade agree- 19,000,000 of new Insurance written in last nine months. impressing the opinion that there is ments with other nations to promote During this year 665 more miles of Featuring a BLANKET POLICY on personal property. CREDITS for U«ht- seeking to materially increase their maintenance of the 62,200 miles of need for revision of the McNitt town- return of our agri< ultural export trade, state highways were improved, in- mng rods, are resisting roots and approved tire extinguishers. A purchasing power we feel confident former township coads absorbed by ship road law act, the commissioner Sec'y Wallace said: cluding 270 miles of concrete pave- rate as low as $L'.!H per $1,000. that they will make it possible for the the counties in the last five years. said that "a number of counties, par- beet sugar companies to operate their This is a per-mileage allowance of "I still feel strongly the interests of ment, 11 miles of concrete pavement Specific insurance not required to cover farm personal when in dwelling: ticularly those in northern Michigan, or registered stock or personal on land owned or rented within a radius of factories at capacity next year and slightly more than $64. Mileage is agriculture will be served best by con widening, six of sheet asphalt and one liberal a v e r a g e C f:m " ' ° t h * r I"'ovisicmH w h i l h m a k o a b l o a d a n d have found that their payments under thus enable them to meet the demand the sole factor now used in the tinuing the reciprocal trade program of brick surfacing, 225 miles of oil ag- this law are insufficient to meet their for Michigan-made beet sugar which formula for allocating McNitt funds. under which agreements have been gregate surfacing, and 65 miles of bi- maintenance burden occasioned by tuminous concrete pavement. Twen- a Loal has been created during recent years. concluded with 11 countries." write H o m T o m ° »»iJ A * • <>v further Information the absorption of township road mile- ty-nine grade separations were con- "Sugar beets have been a most age. Said the Michigan State Farm Bu- Farm Bureau opinion has come to structed at railroad crossings at a profitable major farm crop in Mich- reau annual meeting in November be that these agreements should be cost of more than $5,000,000 and igan during the past six years. In "These counties have suffered a particular hardship in meeting their concerning the township road main- arrived at after open hearings and twenty bridges were erected during State Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of Michigan addition, sugar beets are the only tenance and snow removal: that they should have the confirmation the year. W. V. Burras, Pres. 702 Church St., Flint, Mich. H. K. Fisk, Sec'y snow-removal budgets. There ap- of the U. S. Senate. The Michigan major non-surplus crop grown in the pears to be every reason why there "An additional $4,000,000 is neces- state. In view of these facts, we have sary to provide for snow removal and Farm Bureau adopted such a resolu- should be a change in the formula for tion at its annual meeting last No- sufficient confidence in Michigan the allocation of McNitt funds." for the care of streets and alleys out- farmers to feel assured that a maxi- side the incorporated places, which vember. * The commissioner said that recom- mum acreage will be devoted to sugar will become a county burden in the Sec'y Wallace spoke in favor of an mendations on this and other prob- beets next year and that every farm- sixth year of the (McNitt) law, but 11 point farm program for the future, lems will be forthcoming from the LETS er with suitable soil, properly located, for which no financial provision has and which would indicate legislation Highway Planning Survey instituted will grasp the opportunity to increase been made. We urge that our of- to be introduced into the Congress this year. He added that he expected his income by co-operating with the ficers take the proper steps to secure this winter that will deal with present information from the survey to guide processors in their endeavor to meet this additional aid so that the present and proposed farm legislation. Mr. highway policies, local and state, for the growing demand for sugar grown funds for township road maintenance Wallace's program suggested: the next twenty years. and made in Michigan." will not be unduly reduced." 1. Right of farmers effectively to Commissioner Van Wagoner has organize in their own interest. indicated he favors ear-marking sales 2. Stabilization of "fair farm Triplets tax revenue from automobiles, gaso- Township Roads & Taxes Go prices" on a basis of "reasonable line, oil, and accessories for highway equality with non-farming income." purposes. This revenue, estimated at The last of 62,000 miles of township On exhibition in the Michigan Live $7,000,000 a year, would be used for 3. Foreign policies to provide ex- roads were taken over by the county port of American farm products. Stock Exchange cattle alley in early a state construction fund and for road systems last April, to complete December were three Holstein steers snow removal purposes. 4. Regulation of farm production BELOW THE a five-year transfer period under the with respect to domestic and foreign raised and consigned by Miss Anna The commissioner said he would McNitt-Smith-Holbeck act. The transi- White, Onsted, Michigan. These steers demand. oppose any effort to increase returns tion left the township road commis- were triplets, 25 months, and weighed to the counties from existing highway 5. Soil conservation. . sioner a constitutional officer with 6. Retirement of submarginal land 5,740 lbs. They sold to Newton Pack- revenues. He pointed out that three- but minor duties and without salary from cultivation and its "use for pur- SURFACE ing Company for 9 cents per pound. fifths of all such revenue is now re- —and ends the tax on farm property Mies White owns and very successful- turned to the counties and the bal- poses for which it is best suited." and other real estate for road pur- 7. Crop insurance. ly operates a 300 acre farm in Lena- ance of state highway money is so poses. Gasoline taxes and license wee county, producing and marketing largely obligated by statute that less 8. Storage of reserve supplies of plate fees now carry the burden. food and fiber. some of the best live stock. Mr. Al- than $3,500,000 a year has remained bert Pocklington, 73, is in charge of for construction. Federal Aid match- 9. Security for farm tenants and op- A vegetable oil having the prop- portunity to acquire ownership of the feeding operations for Miss White. ing requirements have absorbed this erties of the sperm oil of whales has land. money, but regulations prohibit the been found in our southwest. 10. Increased opportunity for farm- ers whose "standard of living is now The picture on the left shows a One Man's Study of Tiny Bug barely on a subsistence level." 11. Industrial policies to encourage fully developed sugar beet just PIL OT Important Throughout World abundance of wage and salary earners for farming. as it appears in your soil. BRAND When this main root is pulled OYSTER SHELL- Difficult to Identify, Insects identify an insect in the family of thousands of little fibrous root- |[ FLA Chloropidae, authorities then know Dressing Per Cent, and Less lets are left in the soil. These re- • Cause Crop Damage, what diseasJI are likely to be trans- Human Ills mitted and can treat or even prevent Fancy Cuts Fix Meat Prices maining rootlets average about these diseases. Meat makes up only a part of every a ton to an acre. When these East Lansing—A hobby and the There are ill winds and good winds little roots finally rot they deposit years of service in a scientific study to Sabrosky's work. The insects are animal sent to market. Seventy to by an instructor at Michigan State so small that the largest are but five 75 per cent of a hog is pork. Fifty to a rich humus in the lower strata College have given the college recogT to the inch, end to end, and the 60 per cent of a steer is beef. Forty- of your soil. five to 50 per cent of a lamb is meat. nition in nearly all parts of the globe average is about a dozen to the inch As they decompose, tiny channels The extra egg because of the health protection in- when placed end to end. Microscopic These figures include not only meat, but bone. This accounts for much of or open spaces are left, permit- volved in phases of his work. study is necessary for identification. profit made by The man is Curtis W. Sabrosky, in- Yet he can mount more than 700 in a the difference between what produc- ting the entrance of air. All of structor in entomology. And his box seven inches wide and 12 inches ers get per pound for livestock and which keeps your soil in excellent what consumer pays per pound for feeding PILOT study involves the collection, identifi- long. Imagine looking over more than 150,000 specimens as he plans meat, according to one of the nation's condition for succeeding crops. cation and drawing and description largest packers. What is the best money crop you BRAND Oyster of members of the family of Chloro- pidae. These small winged insects to do. When the packer pays 10 cents a can produce? Sugar Beets! Then again, there are possibilities Shell to laying cause some crop damage, and one that the insect has some useful char- pound for hogs, he really pays from What makes intensive cultivation kind, the "eye-gnats", are great acteristics. One kind has been found 14 to 16 cents per pound for pork. pay and destroys weeds and pests? nuisances in the United States. In feeding upon egg sacks of the When he pays nine cents a pound for hens hasmade it other parts of the world they trans- poisonous black widow spider. And in cattle, he actually pays from 15 to Sugar Beets! mit pink eye and human yaws and the west the larvae of another kind 18 cents per pound for beef. When he What fits into a well balanced crop the preference also they feed upon and damage are considered the chief predators or pays 10 cents a pound for lambs, he rotation system? Sugar Beets! grasses and cereal grain crops. eaters of sugar beet ro»t lice. really pays from 16 to 19 cents a What comes through best in bad of poultrymen Sabrosky confines his study to His collection trips have taken him pound for lamb. When an animal is identifications. Yet his work has to Isle Royale, to museums in the east, dressed, every part which can be uti- weather? Sugar Beets! throughout the aided health programs in Jamaica, to Arizona, New Mexico, West Texas, lized is converted into useful by-prod- What is the ideal non-surplus South Africa, India, the Belgian Con- into the Rockies, and into Louisiana, ucts. Continued research has devel- crop? Sugar Beets! lUnited States. go and Morocco. When he is able to the Gulf Coast of Texas and Mexico. oped about 140 of these by-products. Today the thoughtful farmer is By-products sales, in the case of cat- tle and sheep, are usually large more enlightened than ever be- enough to pay expenses of preparing fore. Today he realizes, what has THE MOST SUCCESSFUL FEEDS the animals for the retailer. Though the choice cuts of meat are been proven in thousands of Add natural sweetness to the many advantages of using dry skimmilk always in demand, some of the others • The Beet root cases, that an annual definite in your feed formulas. Green Valley Brand is natural, sweet, fresh ai-e wanted hardly at all. In order to spreads to a depth of 6 or 7 feet. These planting of Sugar Beets will milk, bought sweet and kept sweet until dried. Only fat and water get rid of all cuts of meat equally well, rootlets cause a bring him the most profit over a are removed. retailers are compelled to maintain useful disturb- period of years. Your most valuable protein ingredient—yes; the outstanding source a wide range of prices on various cuts. ance of the soil. Grow Sugar Beets! of Vitamin G, milk minerals and milk sugar (lactose)—each in itself Thus, while porterhouse steaks, or meriting first choice for this leading milk product. The combination pork and lamb chops, may be selling Farmers and Manufacturers Beet Sugar for four or five times the cost per Association, Saginaw, Mich. of ALL these valuable qualities in NATURAL form accounts for its pound of the live animal, less desir- wide use in the most successful feeds. able cuts may be priced at little more Remember, too, dry skim milk is sold on grade. Use the best—and or less than the cost per pound of the enough of it to insure real milk results. Green Valley Brand is choice live animal. grade and gives dependable results. Community Fire Departments Many small-town fire departments For Reliable Year in and Year out Profits in New York state, unsupported by Lansing DRY M I L K S A L E S Michigan D I V I S I O N taxation, raise money by putting on community dances, amateur plays, socials, suppers, and all kinds of home talent activities. YOU CANT BEAT SUGAR BEETS FOTH MICHIGAN FARM H f f S SATTRDAY, J A M A R T 2, 1937 FARM GROUPS TO Pat and Mike Weigh Over 6,000 Pounds 128,000 MICHIGAN New President From Norman Thomas farmer, and wheat farmer. There are as many farm problems as there are kinds of fanners. The bond that holds HELP CUT DOWN FARMERS DOING 63 "Just as it is true that farmers as a class cannot be separated from the general community, cannot be kept in them is a rural setting for life rather than identity of economic interest."— Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate CANCER HAZARD MILLION IN CO-OPS poverty without impairing its prosper- ity, or rise to prosperity regardless of its poverty, so is it true that farmers for president, at the Wisconsin State Fair, Aug. 28, 193G. among themselves have not an abso- Health Agencies Say Early After Long Struggle They lute identity of interest. There is no Automobile accidents took an aver- age toll of four lives daily in Mich- Knowledge Would Save Are on Sound Basis one farm problem which is the same igan for the first 10 months of the Perhaps Half for landlord, tenant, plantation owner year, according to the state dep't of And Valuable and share-cropper, fruit farmer, dairy health. icer will be tbfl object of an in- Hast Lansing—After yean of strug tensive state-wide educational cam- Sling, the agricultural co-operatives in paign in Michigan according to the Michigan in general are on a sounfi plans adopted by the 23 organizations making up the Joint Committee on basis and rapidly increasing in their MR. LIVESTOCK PRODUCER service and value to memberships. The Michigan Livestock Exchange la a farmer owned and controlled Public Health Education. » This is the deduction of members of organisation—.-offering you the following tervlce*: These organizations, together with th<> agricultural economies extension Grange, Farm Bureau, and SELLING department at Michigan State Callege other co-operating groups are work- Commission sales service on Detroit and Buffalo terminal markets from their years of contact with near Feeders through national connections, can furnish at dost plus a ing shoulder to shoulder in a life ly 400 co-operatives. liable handling charge, all grades of feeding cattle and lambs. saving venture to inform the people Bellevue—Live stock men •oeileve Martin when they were less than a "Nearly all of the co-operatives have of Michigan as to what cancer is, its the team of oxen which Pres. Frank year old, and were broken to harness. reached a better understanding of the FINANCING early signs and the necessity of im- Martin of the Calhoun County Farm Soon they were tilling the soil on value of financing, keeping their fin FRED W. MEYER 5% Money available for feeding operations of worthy feeders who mediate action in securing prompt Bureau is shown driving, is the larg- Mary Lane farm. Their muscles de- have feed, regardless of where they purchase their feeders. ancial structure in proper balance," Fred W. Meyer of Fair Haven, St. and propec medical care. est in the world. Pat and Mike weigh veloped and they grew apace with says Arthur Howland, one member of Clair county, is the new president of MARKET INFORMATION Cancer, the greatest single natural more than 6,000 pounds. They are proper feeding. Today they stand 5 the department. He finds that many the Michigan Milk Producers Associ- Listen to the Farm Market Reporter, sponsored by the Ford Dealers kept on Mr. Martin's 230 acre Mary feet and 6 inches at the shoulders. of Michigan each market day a t 12:15 P. M. over the Michigan Radio hazard to life, caused 5,191 deaths of them are adopting the patronage ation. He succeeds Nathan P. Hull, Network. in thin state last year. One death in Lane Park farm near Bellevue. The oxen have done quite a lot of dividend basis as a means of attract- who served as president for 20 years, every ten is charged to this disease, Eight years ago last Feb. 28, Pat traveling. County fairs and centen- ing greater participation and volume and has been the first and only presi- Kilo- Kilo- Station Location cycles Station Location cycles and in the case of women, the mortal- and Mike were just a pair of twin nial parades are old stories to them. WXYZ Detroit 1240 W F D F Flint 1310 of business. dent of the organization. Mr. Hull ity is even higher—one death in Durham calves born into the pure- They were a big attraction at the WELL Battle Creek 1420 WOOD Grand Rapids 1270 Credit to associations for more vol- announced his retirement as president seven being caused by this malignant bred herd of E. C. Corey, Olivet farm- Michigan State Fair, where it is said WIBM Jackson 1370 WBCM Bay City 1410 that they sort of stole the show. .ime is attributed in part by Gilbert prior to the Association's annual WKZO Kalamazoo W J I M Lansing 1210 growth. When it is considered that er. They were purchased by Mr. 590 Patch, another member of the agri- meeting November 5. President Meyer one-fourth to one-half of these deaths ;ultural economics staff, to the at- was elected by the Ass'n board of di- MICHIGAN LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE, Detroit Stock Yards might have been prevented through earlier and more exact diagnoses and First Impressions of a Lady ention the co-operatives have paid to rectors when they organized the last quality programs. Low prices of the week in November. prompt treatment, the potential life saving possibilities of this campaign Here from the Netherlands past few years emphasized the need Mr. Meyer, a director of the Milk or quality, he says, with co-operative Producers for 15 years, and treasurer become apparent. memberships finding value in appreci- or a number of years, lives on his Heyns after they had traveled some Out of these statistics has risen the Our Commonplace Conven- distance. And then it was explained ating quality of what they sell as well farm in Ira township, St. Clair county, firm resolve that Michigan can do as quality of supplies and machinery and maintains a herd of Jersey cattle. much to combat the challenge of iences Are Something that he watched the highway markers. they are purchasing for members. It was some time, however, before it He has been a regular shipper to the cancer. Medical authorities agree to Remember was all understandable, and then she Milk, livestock and potatoes are Detroit market for 20 years. that this disease, typified as "the among the principal ventures in Mich- Elmer Powers of Clio was re-elect- anarchy of the cell", need not be the joined in and watched the numbered Vastness of America, speed of signs. She thought it was fun. The gan. Other commodities include d vice-president, and William Bris- major hazard to life that it is today. traffic, merchandising methods and speed was all right with her. She poultry, eggs, fruit, beans and grain, tow of Flat Rock is the new treasurer. Thus, the Joint Committee members the people all combine to make this liked it. wool, seeds, celery and truck crops, Other directors for 1937 a r e : B. F. and co-operating agencies are embark- country truly a new world for Mrs. rop porcessing is another phase, in- lothier, North Branch; A. H. Dafoe, ing upon a continuous, state-wide edu- Her first meal in America was Ryna Heyns, who has spent all of her grand. American waffles were fine, cluding the co-operative at Traverse Yale; John Haas, Ann Arbor; Jack cational program which will bring to 74 years in South Holland, The Neth- but when she found the order served ity which canned and cold packed Jarvey, Utica; Ed. Hyne, Brighton; L. every interested organization and in- erlands. 16 million pounds of cherries this W. Harwood, Adrian; N. P. Hull, dividual the facts regarding this her in the Albany, N. Y., restaurant Of course she had read about Amer- was too much for her, she wrapped year. Also, the Farm Bureau Fruit Lansing; C. Johnson, Casnovia; I. K. disease. ica, the land to which her two sons the leftover in a napkin and ate it Products plant at Hart which canned Maystead, Osseo. To make these facts about cancer had gone 25 years ago. She had read en route. learly 3,000,000 lbs. of cherries. The Michigan Milk Producers as- more generally available, the Joint that the State of Michigan was a third A survey by the United States de- sociation is the central sales agency Committee / will provide a three-fold She had heard about Niagara Falls; larger than all of Holland. She had the splendor of the scene thrilled her. partment of agriculture of the busi- for nearly 18,500 dairymen, who sup- service to all interested organizations read of the credit extended in the op- Hotels were new in her life. She ness of 302 co-operatives in Michigan ply milk to consumers in Detroit, and individuals. This free service in- eration of business enterprises. for the year 1935-36 indicates a total Flint, Saginaw, Bay City, Ann Arbor, cludes educational leaflets and a 30- had seen them on her visits to Rot- And It Was All True! terdam, the metropolis and seaport of business of more than 63 million Jackson, Lansing, Battle Creek, page detailed pamphlet upon the But not until she arrived here a her native state, but now she had dollars through participation by rand Rapids and Muskegon. Its sales cause, prevention and cure of cancer, few days ago did she realize that all spent two nights in them! 128,000 members. Largest in volume during the past year exceeded $18,000,- both of which can be obtained in any of the things she had read about were Are You Insured as And when the party crossed the s the Michigan Milk Producers as- 000, or an average of $1,000 per pro- quantity required for general distri- true says a writer in the Grand Rap- river at Port Huron and landed in sociation with more than 17 million ducer. bution. The committee is also mak- ids Press. Michigan, surely they must be near dollars of business for 18,000 members. ing arrangements for the presenta- "I'm quite tired, let's hurry home," home. tion of an illustrated lecture pre- she told her son, Matt Heyns, of Telephone Was Born The young man, and the man in his pared by the Cancer Committee of the State Medical Society. This lecture is given before interested groups by Grand Rapids, who met her at the Distance, Distance, Distance! boat in New York to take her by mo- It was 2 o'clock in the afternoon when they arrived at Owosso. Matt, BRANCH BUREAlf Nearly 60 Years Ago prime, does well to store something as he goes along... for the family, and much physicians. Individuals or groups interested in torcar to his home here for a visit. And then the ride! At a speed she went into a drug store to telephone never expected to experience, the car his brother, John, in Grand Rapids, HAS ORGANIZATION The systematized manufacturing of telephone equipment had its genesis for that older man that he will come to know as himself. co-operating in this campaign may arrange for the lecture or obtain pamphlets and leaflets through the sped across New York state, through advising him to arrange for dinner. Ontario and. then across Michigan. "All in two days!" John," Matt told his mother. sixty years ago when, on September 1, "I just talked on the phone with Work Will be Done by Seven 1876, Alexander Graham Bell, together with Gardiner G. Hubbard and Thom- Committees, With Plenty as Sanders, his only financial backers The man who orders $1,000 "to $5,000 as Joint Commitee, University of Mich- "How does Matt know the way Then, after riding an hour more, worth of life insurance knows his an- igan Extension Division, Ann Arbor. Of Help n the development of the telephone nual premiums guarantee that much to home?" she inquired of Mrs. Matt she began to realize that John must lave been a long way from where Matt had telephoned and she marveled ing and of certain other of his inventions, Coldwater—At its first regular meet- ntered into a contract with Thomas the recently elected Branch A. Watson. Dr. Bell transmitted the his family should he be taken away. your at the ease with which people in County Farm Bureau board of direct- irst complete sentence of speech by Life insurance is one investment the America communicate. family doesn't have to finish paying And Then the Palace! ors, delegated its activities to telephone at Boston, March 10, 1876. directors and instructed them to name Bell was a student of sound and had for. Our local agents are glad to ex- home? An American Parade But her greatest thrills were yet to members to their committees. :ome. She arrived at Matt's fine The following committee chairmen mastered the fundamentals of electric- lome. Matt, her son, who at the age were named: legislative, L. E. Russ- ty, but had little or no manual or of 17 had left his father's dairy farm 11; youth committee, Arthur Barnes; mechanical aptitude. It was for this plain our policies. STATE FARM LIFE INSURANCE CO. of Progress eason that the agreement with Wat- to go to America. She had seen beau- publicity, U. S. Newell; marketing, son recited the desire of the three iful homes in the NeTherlands, but Arden Johnson; recreational, L. Dean original promoters of telephone de-, this one—her son's—was it possible? Steffey; membership, B. M. Dobson; velopment "to associate with them a Bloomington, Illinois MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU, Stats Agent, Lansing There were many things about the representative to the Associated practical mechanician of sufficient louse that fascinated Mrs. Heyns. Women of the Farm -Bureau, William skill and ability, under the direction The glistening white box in the kit- Smith. of Mr. Bell, to make these inventions In the parade of American progress, there can be no rest- :hen she learned was a device to keep The committee chairman later re- pecuniarily successful." Watson agreed ing on yesterday's laurels. To stand still is to fall be- hings cold. And the plant in the ported the following committee mem- to "devote one-half of each day to basement was a steam boiler, fired for bers: the adapting, perfecting, devising and hind, to drop out of the parade. the purpose of heating the house! Associated Women: Alta Cotting- manufacturing of instruments for de- And now, she still can't feel the ham, general chairmen, assisted by veloping said patents and introducing Tin1 automobile or radio of a few years ago, for example, logic of shoveling fuel into the furnace Mrs. W. E. Dobson, Mrs. G. Schlubatis, them to the public." For his services would find no market today. Refrigerators, clothing, to heat the entire house, not just a Mrs. Will Smith, Mrs. Roy Brandt, and he was to be paid at the r^te of three OAfiaeras, office equipment—in all industries the old mod- couple of rooms, as is customary in Mrs. Howard Thompson. dollars a day. her native land, and then installing Legislative Committee: L. E. Russ- els are constantly being rendered obsolete by improv- This was the modest beginning of a machine that operates 24 hours a ell, chairman, assisted by D. E. Will- the great service of manufacture and tnents in style, value or performance. day to .cool the foodstuffs. It's waste iams, Harry Gowdy, Otis Barnes, Hor- supply now provided for the Bell Michigan's telephone service has kept pace with this to bor way of reasoning. She fre- ace Spencer. quently reminds Matt that he "had better training at home." System by the Western Electric Com- Youth Committee: Arthur Barnes, pany. This company manufactures chairman, assisted by Gordon R. most of the equipment used in the i Farm Bureau gfeal march of progress. There is little resemblance be- tween the original service and that of today—as little as there is between the first "horseless carriages" and tin; And then Matt explained to her Schlubatis, E. T. May, Dr. Howard Bell System and acts as purchaser American merchandising methods and McCluskey. took her to visit a store—also his! for it of such supplies as it does not Spray Materials Publicity Committee: U. S. Newell, itself produce. splendid, efficient automobiles that Michigan is now sup- plying to the modern world. The Marvels of Business chairman, assisted by E. M. Dobson, The standardization of manufactur- She found groceries, vegetables, Gordon Schlubatis, Edna Eggleston, ing and the centralization of purchas- baked goods, meats and other pro- Grace Moore, L. P. Vincent, Lloyd Lat- ing thus made possible are vitally im- appeals to me ! visions. In The Netherlands business- chaw, Ross Hilton, L. Hill, Homer portant contributions to the render- HE consistent results which growers have The tremendous advance in telephone service was achieved by years of research in the famous Bell labora- tories; by the engineering skill of the Western Electric es are operated differently, each com- Moore. modity being sold in a separate store. Marketing Committee: Here she paused to chastise her son, chairman, assisted by Mervin Arden John- ing of efficient and economical tele- phone service. T had with Farm Bureau Brand Insecticides • and Fungicides bear out the statements we son. She thought he was "greedy," Wallace, Lucille Greening, Russell made last year about their high quality. They Company in producing dependable, standardized equip- trying to keep his competitors from Laramer, Stanley Tice, L. Dean Stef- Alarm Clock Can Snap are manufactured under contract with General doing business." The baker, the fey, G. C. Coffman, T. C. Etheridge, ment ; by the efficiency and loyalty of operating and ad- butcher and the fruit merchant, she and Marshall Howell. On Light for Long Day Chemical Company whose scientific control ministraive personnel. Thus, American's world su- said, each should handle his line and of every step of their making assures absolute premacy in telephonic communication was won by tire- Matt should handle his own specialty. Where there»is electric service, an uniformity and exact adherence to stated less effort co-ordinated under this unchanging policy: And she still cant understand why Has Supper in Lansing; alarm clock attachment to a poultry analyses. We have satisfied ourselves that no To supply the best .service, and the most, at the least x>os- merchants light the front of their shops after closing hours. Dinner in Puerto Rico house switch is an inexpensive way to put hens on an earlier and longer better materials nor fairer prices are available. sible cost. In the few days she has been in Talbert Abrams, a Lansing young working day, to eat more feed, to pro- Grand Rapids she has met friends main, has a national reputation as a duce more eggs, according to Prof. For exceptionally severe infestations or viru- That policy has stood behind your telephone for more she had known in The Netherlands. map-maker from the air. A flyer since G. C. Card of >the State College poul- lent fungous diseases you may require materials Mrs. Heyns came here in the the World war, he has perfected the try dep't. other than the Farm Bureau Six (see list). To than half a century. Year by year it has made the ser- twenty-fifth wedding anniversary year business of making photographic maps Mr. Card contends that while feed vice swifter, more convenient, freer from error. It has of her son Matt. Her mother, only of regions, states and even countries prices are higher, so are the egg round out our service we bring you also the brought the telephone within the reach of all—has made three months short of 100 years old, from planes flying at great altitudes prices, and these would pay for the in- General Chemical Company's Orchard Brand it a valuable factor in the domestic and industrial life of died about a year ago. Hundreds of photographs are taken creased consumption of feed. "It specialties noted below. then piece together to form a perfect takes about eight dozen eggs to pay a modern Michigan. picture. To engineers and other in- year's feed bill for a hen," he explain Beards Were Beards terested parties such picture maps tell ed. "If flocks are culled so that the Farm Bureau Sincere and thorough, the search for improvement must everything and save much time and hens left will produce more than that continue in order that the telephone shall maintain its Beards come back in the film play money. Mr. Abrams and his staff the farmer can expect a profit. If he "Parnell". It is London in the 1880's. mapped the Isle Royale. Each day makes his hens work overtime in Services, \\\c. well-deserved place in America's parade of progress. Sixty of 84 actors in one scene are they flew out from Houghton. They winter, that profit will be greater." 221-227 North Cedar St., T I bearded . . . in a dozen varieties of have mapped large areas of the Miss- LANSING, MICHIGAN style. Each day after work the actor issippi river bottoms for governmen Truffles checked his whiskers on a numbered engineers. At present they are map- Truffle-growing is new to the Unitec AR S E N A T E O F & E A D peg, to be gone over by the crew of ping the entire island of Puerto Rico States. To date, however, no report CALCIUM ARSE NATE beard experts, and checked out again To get there Mr. Abrams boards a has been made of the training of pigs BORDEAUX MIXTURE MICHIGAN BELL in the morning to the proper actor. plane at Lansing after supper. The as in Europe, to root out this delicacy next day he has dinner at San Juan a fungus similar to the mushroom ex DRY L I M E S U L P H U R LIME S U L P H U R SOl'N Of six remaining Civil war veterans Puerto Rico. cept that it grows underground. cmd OIL EMULSION TELEPHONE CO. at the Michigan Soldiers Home at Grand Rapids, five are hospital The first cultivated cranberries Chicken canned on the bone is Also ORCHARD BRAND OIL Emulsion "83", "Astringent" Arsenate of Lead, Zintox. a Basic Zinc Arsenate, Dritomic patients. They range from 88 to 98 were raised by Massachusetts farmers better flavored than chicken meat Sulphur, "Potato Spray". Bordeaux-Arsenical, Rotenone, and Other Dusts, Nicotine Sulphate, Paradiclilorobenzene, of age. Charles P. Hurd, 90, is in 1S12; before that wild cranberries stripped from the bone and canned by X-13 (Pyrethrum Extract), Paris Green. able to be about. were used. itself. SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1987 M I C H I G A N FARM N E W S SHEEP AND GAME INSURANCECO. New Fishing Licenses Needed for '37 Season NATIONAL WOOL Coon, Wool and I Of particular in \ THREATENED BY HAD 9,000 AUTO MARKETING ASS'N of the Mi \ l the Congratulations Lansing—The department of con- appointment o. COYOTES, WOLVES CLAIMS IN 1936 servation today reminded fishermen that their general fishing licenses ex- pire on January 1, the date on which ANNUAL MEETING eriy with the Chicago Livestock ducers, later with Prodi. Publicity and ©l City the new fishing licenses for 1937 go satlon Director for the National ( To These Good Farmers — From Farm Bureau Service Settled into effect. All dealers and conser- F. D. King and Stanley Powell Marketing Corp. Mi. Evans will be Hunters and Sheepmen Ask Many Accident Cases vation officers in various parts of the Represent Michigan able to assist us greatly in getting State to Exterminate Their Own Organization For Farmers state will be fully supplied with the Growers better information about the National These Pests new licenses before that date. marketing of the wool, price trends, There are no major changes in to our memht "This year we have stood between Coyotes and other predators luring in the vicinity of Grayling on De- THE FARM BUREAU many Michigan farmers and serious trouble," said Alfred Bentall, director fishing regulations for the new year, fisheries men say. Not more than two single ice lines, with one hook The annual meetings of the Stock- holders and Directors of the National Wool Marketing Corporation were At the annual meeting of th< tional's Board of Directors all officers unanimously re-elected. Presi- cember 16, 1936 we're assured, receiv- of insurance for the Michigan State ed scant comfort by the sentiments We're proud of the fine showing that Lapeer Farm Bureau, in commenting on the to each line, is permitted each fisher- held at Chicago. December 7th to 9th. dent, Chas. Reed, La Sal, Utah; Vice man and these lines must be "held The Michigan Co-operative Wool Mar- President, Edward Sargent, Ch-ama, expressed by a group of 130 sheep county farmers have made in state and national growing financial risk in driving a in the hand or under immediate con- keting Association is one of the Stock- New Mexico; Secretary-Treasurer, D. raisers, sportsmen, conservation offic- car. ers and county agricultural agents. competitions . . . We call your attention to prizes "We have handled 9,000 automobile trol." In the case of smelt fishing holder members and President. F. 1). King of Charlotte, represents the E. Jndd, Boston, Ml neral any number of hooks may be used on Manager. C. ,). Fawcett, Boston. \ They had gathered from 19 counties won by these Lapeer County Farm Bureau farmers claims for farmers and others insured a line. Authorities construe the "tip- Association on the National's Hoard. in both peninsulas to confer as to the in the State Farm Mutual Automobile Both Mr. King and Stanley M. Powell, proper steps to take in dealing with in recent shows: Insurance Co., for which the State up," an ice fishing device, as a single line and rule it is legal so long as Field Representative of the Michigan Isle Royale History destructive wild animals. Farm Bureau is state agent. Among Association, attended the meetings. the operator remains within reason- Evidently, here was an issue on JAMES P O R T E R nearly 40,000 policyholders, that is a able sight distance. Several speakers of national repu- The early maps of Lake Superior which sportsmen and farm folks could Lapeer, first and third on wool fleeces at Interna- ratio of nearly one loss to a little tation spoke and all agreed the Na- showed a large island named "Min- find a common meeting ground. It more than four policyholders, and tional Wool Marketing Corporation ong"—"great island." By 1755 it was was brought out by several of the tional Livestock Exposition at Chicago; third at somewhere near the national aver- Unusual Explosion Shows and its member associations are- fast correctly placed and marked Isle Koy- Junior Livestock show at Detroit. age. speakers that coyotes and other preda- tory animals not only attack the sheep Pressure of Oil Well Gas establishing an enviable reputation ale. The island was first attached to •rf-"""' among the nation's leading co-opera- Ontonagon county (1S43), then Hough- flocks, but are destructive to many MISS LOUISE PORTER tives. Among the speakers were Mr. ton (184&) and Keweenaw (1861) be- forms of game, including rabbits, Gladwin—An oil well "explosion" Lapeer, daughter of James Porter, she is the of a type unprecedented in Michigan S. D. Sanders. Co-operative Bank fore it became separate in 1875. It ground nesting birds, and even deer. Commissioner, Washington, D. C.J failed to Sourish and in 1891 it was owner of the Grand Champion Angus steer at the occurred at a Gulf Refining Co. well in None of those who spoke favored the Chas. SH'wart. Assistant Commis- again made a part of Keweenaw idea of protecting any predatory ani- Junior Livestock show at Detroit. the Clayton pool of Arenac county. Be- tween 700 and 800 feet of 10-inch steel sioner in charge of Production Credit county.—Grand Rapids Press. mals in any way for sport purpos- es. There was an unanimous agree- MISS FRANCES WALKER pipe casing was blown out of the Associations; C. B, Penman. Presi- ground and to a height of 300 feet by dent National Livestock Marketing 1'iule Ah says, as between keeping ment that all efforts should be bent Lapeer. Three premiums on Cheviot lambs at In- terrific natural gas pressure in the A s s ' n ; F. B. Marshall, Sec'y National resolutions and a diary, it's better to toward their control and if possible ternational Livestock Exposition. Wool G r o w e r s ' Association] and .1. M. stick io the resolutions. their extermination. ground. Referring to the history of coyotes, MISS ELLEN RAUH • The derrick of the well was. demol- in Michigan, Mr. P. J. Hoffmaster, di- ished but none of the well workers Lapeer. Red ribbon on entry of canned vegetables rector of the state conservation com- were hurt. at International Livestock Exposition. Operators were attempting with mission, declared that although coy- otes had been known in the lower AND THESE WINNERS mud to "seal off" the porous rock Our New peninsula only 15 or 16 years they have been spreading constantly down of other premiums at the Detroit Junior Livestock stratum from which the gas was com- ing when the accident occurred. It Farm Fire Policy . . . state and have now been found as far show: Betty and Margaret Williamson, Lapeer; was the intention of the operators to south as Berrien county. Marjorie Beattie, Columbiaville; Patty Bolander, La- drill deeper in the hope of striking Covers dwellings, barns, other buildings, live stock, crops oil. He reviewed the experiences of con- peer; Ted Paslean, Hadley; Chris Rauh, Lapeer; harvested and on the farm, and other property. The five servation officers in dealing with coy- The pressure of the natural ga3 otes and other predatory animals un- Bob Thorn, Columbiaville; Bob Currey, Almont; Carl together with the pressure caused by year farm policy is payable in annual installments. We der the state trapper system and the Gerwolds, Oregon township; Kenneth Fick and Bob pumping the mud into the casing have a complete fire insurance service for farm, village, bounty system. In his opinion boun- Lucas, Mayfield; Edwin and John Beattie, Columbia- combined to cause the "explosion". and city properties. See your State Farm Mutual Auto- ties are more effective and satisfact- ville; Jack Bishop, Betty Shoemaker and Bobby Shoe- -ALFRED BENTALL* mobile Insurance agent. ory than state trappers in dealing with maker, Almont. "To be sure, the great majority of Menu this problem. The money which has automobile claims cover small col- been used for such bounties has been On a monthly basis, a 1200 pound taken from the' hunters' and trappers' lision losses and minor property dam- age . . . but there arc serious cases. cow that produces 40 pounds of three State Farm Fire Insurance Co. licenses and can not be increased with- out some new^ source of revenues. FARM BUREAU SERVICES, Inc. Many of them. The most careful and one-half per cent milk will require 360 pounds of mixed hay, 1,080 pounds of Bloomington, Illlinois T h e F a r m e r O w n e d S t o r e driver may find himself involved in Farmers and county agents from a traffic accident, and faced with a of silage, and 345 pounds of a properly various counties gave startling re- Lapeer Imlay City suit for damages. We have seen many varied concentrate mixture. ports as to the increasing depreda- a man who would have lost his farm tions being inflicted by coyotes to the property and the work of a lifetime sheep flocks in their section of the (From Their Advertisement in The Lapeer County Press) in a damage suit, had not this farm state. organization convinced him months Casper Blumer, Alcona county agri- or years ago that he should carry cultural agent, stated that the first adequate automobile, insurance. This •••'. ?m sheep loss in that county that was od of marketing eliminates all unnec- year we have paid out many thous- known to be caused by coyotes occur- red in 1932 and that now 60 sheep men 1936 WOOL POOL essary handling and speculators' prof- ands of dollars to protect the interests its, insures the grower the full net re- of farmers and others insured in this in Alcona County have reported such losses. Mr. A. F. Longpre, a farmer living near Curran, said he had lost FINAL PAYMENTS turn from the sale of his wool on a company. graded basis and gives him. the bene- "When you get behind the wheel of 60 sheep this season as a result of coyote killings. MADEFOR XMAS fit of the rise of wool prices which normally occurs during the months from shearing until the wool is uti- a car or truck and start out on the highway, all is well . . . unless you have an accident. Then you may PROFITS MIGHT A Clare county ' spokesman said, mately purchased by the mills, which BV FREEZING "We must chase the coyotes out or Total Returns Indicate That is usually during the late fall months. find that your property, your savings and your future earnings may bal- LAMB WHEN J they will chase us out." In northern Pooling Paid Well 3fembers Helped Market Advance ance on the outcome of a lawsuit. AND HOLDING Clare county last year 171 sheep were reported as killed by coyotes. H. L. For Most In connection with the recent distri- Even the man who says he hasn't UNTIL PRICES / 5 bution of settlement checks the Asso- anything and is judgment proof is Barnum, Missaukee county agricultur- By Stanley M. Powell ciation wrote its members a letter likely to be surprised. A judgment al agent, reported that one young Christmas mail always contains from which the following paragraph is good for ten years and can be re- sheep man trapped and killed 7 coy- wealth of welcome and acceptable may be of interest. newed for another ten. He can otes last year and another coyote was "The past season has demonstrated be garnisheed and hounded for years gifts and remembrances. For the trapped twice, but got away each members of the Michigan Co-operative clearly the value of co-eperative effort for the collection of that debt. time. He said, "we believe in bigger Wool Marketing Ass'n, along with in wool marketing. The way in which and better bounties." "The hazards of driving being what their greeting cards and festive pack- the co-operatively consigned wool was Mr. W. A. Crandell of West Branch ages there was a business-like en- handled played a large part in keep- they are, it is comforting to know made the point that the goal should velope that was universally welcomed ing the market steady throughout the that so many farmers are protecting be not control or reduction, but com- for it contained the member's final Summer and building it gradually up- their own financial interests and that plete extermination of these enemies settlement check for wool consigned ward during the Fall and early Win- of the public with insurance. Careful of sheep and game. driving and insurance go together. to the 1936 Pool. ter. By consigning your wool to this A resolutions committee of seven Farmers and Life Insurance At a time when corporations were Association you not only protect your "Lift insurance is coming more and members representing the various el- declaring special dividends to their own personal interest, but you also ements attending the hearing brought stockholders and bonuses to their em- helped improve conditions for the en- more into favor with farm people out this report which was adopted ployees, such a practical distribution tire wool growing industry." as a sound investment. There is unanimously: much to be done. Hardly more than of revenues was very much in style. The recent distribution of final set- 1. The coyote has increased in suf- After the inroads made on the family tlement checks is but another demon- half of our Michigan farm families ficient numbers in Michigan to prove purse by Christmas spending and with stration of the truth of the statement, are protected by life insurance. Among a serious liability to the propagation tax notices clamoring for attention, "Co-operative Marketing of Wool on those renting farms, only 47 in 100 of certain classes of our more impor- about the most welcome mail imagin- a Grade and Quality Basis Year After have any life insurance. In the last tant wild life as well as sheep raising, able is a letter beginning, "Enclosed Year Does Pay Dividends." few years our State Farm Life In- one of the principal branches of agri- please find check." surance Company has brought in- surance to more than 5,000 families, LOWER PRICES FOR culture. Growers Profited by Pooling most of whom were without insur- 2. The state department of conser- vation should adopt a policy provid- Another pleasant feature of this dis- Snow Removal ance. tribution of final settlements for the ing for early and complete extermina- "Life insurance is one investment 1936 Pool was that the total net re- tion of the coyotes and wolves. Last February three successive bliz- that enables a family to carry on turns received by the members were 3: The bounty system appears to be zards in Michigan, accompanied by with the farm, to educate children. in most cases considerably higher than FROZEN BEEF LAMB the most efficient method for exter- 60 mile an hour winds at time, and It is one investment that the family they would have secured if they had mination of coyotes and wolves. The sub-zero temperatures, put up 25 doesn't have to finish paying for. It sold locally at shearing time. This amount of such bounty should be in- foot drifts. State highway trucks is complete when it is needed most, was in harmony with the Association's creased to $20.00 per head. plowed 8,819 miles of road. Snow re- and, beyond that, life insurance com- repeated prediction that wool values 4. There should be a < moval costs for the winter were $1,- panies pay more money to living would probably advance during the trapping season whereby the game 145,000. policyholders than they do to estates." calendar year of 1936. division of the department of conser- vation would set up and organize a The only sad feature of the situation There is a difference in the kind of as unfrozen. On the average only corps of competent trapping instruct- ors whose duty would be to aid and was that so many wool growers failed to heed the Association's advice and 4-H Girl's "College Hope" Calf refrigeration used for fresh meat and about 1.9 per cent of the total instruct resident trappers of coyote and wolf infested areas of the state sold locally to dealers and speculators and so were not in a position to profit Permits Her to Enter M. S. C. for freezing meat. When meat is beef produced in the United States and that adequate funds be appropriat- by the seasonal advance in wool frozen, the ordinary layman says in one year and approximately values. ed by the Legislature to encourage Growers consigning to the 1936 Six years of 4-H club competition that it is put in "cold storage." Less .9 per cent of the total lamb are such co-operative trapping. 5. Bear should be removed from the Pool had received a substantial down in livestock projects has put than two per cent of its beef and frozen. These small amounts of payment or cash advance at the time enough money in the bank for protected list of animals. 6. It was recommended that the de- when they delivered their wool last lamb is placed by Swift & Company beef and lamb that are frozen are Spring or early Summer. The wool Louise Porter, 16, Lapeer High partment of conservation assume the was then graded or classified accord- School senior, to count on entering in what is termed "cold storage." mainly used in the manufacture responsibility for trapping coyotes and wolves on all privately owned ing to Government standards and each Michigan State College next fall. Retail meat dealers will not pay of sausage products and other grower Vfcas furnished a report as to lands and state game refuges now the grading of his fleeces. The wool Recently the Black Angus calf within two or three cents a pound prepared meats. closed to public trapping, thereby eliminating possible free breeding was sold on its merits by the Nation- which she holds in the picture, won as much for beef and lamb that have From this it can be seen that meat al Wool Marketing Corporation at the championship honors at the grounds for such predators. 7. The director of conservation was Boston, which is the central sales 4-H show in Detroit, adding more been frozen and from which they packers do not buy cattle and lambs agency for nearly 30 co-operative Wool instructed to enter into- negotiations Pools throughout the nation.o The than $1,000 to her bank account. expect to cut steaks, chops, roasts, in times of big receipts, freeze the with the states of Wisconsin and Min- nesota for the establishment of uni- settlement checks mailed recently to Appropriately the animal had been etc., as they will for unfrozen. meat from them, and in that way j the members, and totalling many named "College Hope." form bounties and regulations looking thousands of dollars, represented the This difference in price is made make a big profit. Over a period of to the elimination of predatory ani- mals. balance of the net proceeds from the Her ability in livestock work and notwithstanding the fact that Swift years, Swift & Company's net prof- wool over and above the advance made showmanship was evident a year 8. The final resolution embodied a at the time of delivery. ago when at the Detroit show she & Company believes frozen beef its from all sources have averaged compliment from the assembled sportsmen and farmers to the depart- Pool HJIS Hade Good Record won grand championships for and lamb are worth just as much only a fraction of a cent per pound. ment of conservation for the work During the 18 years that Wool single lamb and pen of lambs with thus far done and a pledge for sup- Pools have been operated in Michigan some Shropshires. port in the promotion of a more vig- therfe have been only a few seasons orous program of predatory animal control and extermination. when growers who consigned did find it profitable to do so. This meth- not At East Lansing she intends to en- ter the Liberal Arts division. After Swift & Company While the attendance generally was In daily touch with every meat, poultry and dairy consuming the preliminary two years she will composed of farmers and sportsmen animal husbandry department of select a major study for a four city, town, and hamlet in the United States. for the Upper Peninsula and northern Michigan State College, and Stanley half of the Lower Peninsula. Michigan M. Powell, field representative of the year degree. sheep men in general were represent- Michigan Co-operative Wool Market- ed by Professor G. A. Brown of the ing Ass'n. SIX M I C H I G A N F A R M H E W S SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 19S7 UTILITIES UNDERBID REA IN MICHIGAN AND INNEW YORK Writer in Country Gentleman THREE GOOD BUYS FOR YOUR FARM Compares Their Offers To Farmers Michigan and New York are two states where private electric power CO-OP firms seem to be going Uncle Sam's REA one better by offering a more attractive rural electrification pro gram, writes Arthur W. Baum in a 3 MANURE recent issue of the Country Gentle man. STYLES Consequently, said Mr. Baum, up to this time no rural electrification SPREADER administration lines have been built in Michigan or New York. "Unlike other good things of life, electricity does not come free," Baum writes, although in Michigan it is KING brought "free" of line construction costs to the farmer's door where an average of five customers per mile SUPER-SERVICE guarantee a monthly income of 12.50 per mile for five years. Loads easily . . . Top of box only 3 ft. from "The rural man must learn," Baum adds, "if he doesn't know it already, HEAVY that no matter whose money is used ground . . . 60 bushel capacity . . . See i t ! to put up the poles and pay the line- DUTY man's salary, there must be adequate economic support for the investment, otherwise someone will get hurt and frequently it will be the rural man himself. CO-OP RKA in some cases is adventuring into a thinner territory than the SEPARATOR utilities have dared to enter, but even KKA is indulging in a form of skim- FARM BUREAU HARNESSES, ming the cream, as they so often accuse the power companies of doing, for REA will not lend on what it con- ALL LEATHER . . . FROM No. 1 built siders insupportable projects. And insupportable projects a r e usually those where there are less than three SELECTED STEER HIDES to last customers to the mile, which means REA will have to skip many, many miles of farm country. and for "The job of securing the line itself can be accomplished if there is suf- high ficient revenue in sight for the* builder, either private or REA. A This Year ANCHOR IDE Hardware . . . typical REA co-operative asks for $180 revenue from each mile per skimming year to justify construction. Most utilities in country that is not too New—5 times more rust resisting than rough, or too far removed from efficiency powers, will put up free lines with that much revenue guaranteed by the Japan or Cadmium . . . No Extra Cost! customers. Some states have laws Forty years of manufacturing experience have made forcing the utilities to erect lines this machine a leader for low cost skimming effi- wherever prospective customers guar- ciency. Wearing you highly desirable features in antee revenue of V/z to 2 per cent of construction costs, which, on $1,000 a WRITE FOR FREE CATALOG design for long service and for convenience. mile construction, means $180 to $200 per mile per year. "Many of the private utilities go this yardstick one better. Michigan utilities ask for only $150 revenue a mile where there are five customers to the mile, and it is notable that REA has made no headway in this YOU CAN START MILKMAKER state. In New York state, Niagara Hudson Power corporation will take a chance if 3% customers to the mile with Mermash Anytime are willing jointly to guarantee $84 a year in revenue, or $2.50 per month each. Niagara Hudson's lines average 4 customers to the mile. Con- Means Money Maker sumers Power and Detroit Edison in Michigan average less than 5 to the MERMASH mile. REA's projected average is just under 4 to the mile." With Cod Liver Oil The PROOF Winter Feed HERD AVERAGE 626 LBS. OF BUTTERFAT Calcium Carbide Gun The best ground yellow corn, pure wheat bran, For Frightening Birds flour midds, meat and Raymond Wurzel, North bone scraps, alfalfa leaf Street, St. Clair County, A bird frightening apparatus that meal and Mermaker, may save Michigan orchard which is Pacific Ocean dairyman, fed these Hol- owners much of their crops in future kelp and fish meal, are steins Milkmaker 24% years is being tested by H. A. Car- used in Mermash. with home grown grains. dinell research associate in horticul- ture at Michigan State College. The first experiment in Allegan county give promise of results, especially practical in small orchards. The equipment now under test consists of a calcium carbide gun which MERMASH PROOF explodes at long or short intervals. With the gun is a swinging and clat- tering apparatus that helps frighten 16% HAS WHAT IT TAKES HERD AVERAGE 539 LBS. OF BUTTERFAT away the marauding robins, starlings Paul Schiffer, Mecosta and other birds without killing them. At the end of the season after tests in various parts of the fruit belts in FOR HIGH PRODUCTION county dairyman, makes the state, the college will summar- FARM BUREAU MILLING CO. records and profits with OUCAN.U. ize findings. The experiment will Milkmaker 32% and home describe the apparatus and present grown grains. information BO that orchard owners will be able to learn where the bird frightening equipment is practical or impractical, cost figures and us- age. LEGAL USE OF FERRETS SPEAK NOW FOR PROOF Mgljl HERD AVERAGE Nurserymen and fruit growers may own and use ferrets in protection of their property against rabbits by se- curing a permit from the director of j Clover andAlfalfa Seed 621 LBS. OF BUTTERFAT The Doan Straub Herd of 8 cows, Berrien county, m ' *$ the department of conservation. We believe it's good advice for 1937. It may save you some money. averaged 480, 563 and All prices may be higher in seeding season. Give your Farm 621 lbs. of butterfat in * '4 CREDITS ON PURCHASES 3 years. The ration, Milk- Help Pay Farm Bureau Dues! NOTICE TO MEMBERS: Purchases Bureau dealer a chance to do his best for you. maker 32% and home grown grains. i f of Farm Bureau Brand, dairy ann slip as "Farm Bureau ia," 'Millmaker." "Mermash," $10 annual dues mature life mem- berships; $5 annual dues do not, but participate i» Membership Credits, which reduce the amount of dues pay- able. Means M o n e ymaker See Your Farm Bureau Dealer Means MoneymaKe Life members receive their Mem- ihtp Credits in cash once a year. FOR FARM BUREAU SUPPLIES furnish addressed, postage l>aid envelope for this MILKMAKER FORMULAS Write Us If You Have No Dealer MILKMAKER FORMULAS on your request. 16, 24, 32 and 34% FARM BUREAU SERVICES, Inc., laming, Mich. 16, 24, 32 and 34% ST\TK FARM BlRFAl Lansing:, Michigan ' f