EEP UP On News Interesting to Farmers Through the Farm News Vol. XVI, No.8 SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1938 Behind FIm All SOYA PAl TS for MICHI--- FARMS AUGUST IS t e MID-W L AN ALFALFA W el ATPU MONTH ew Seedings, Treatment for With J. F. Yaeger, Michigan Invites Membership Thin Stands, Can Be Director of Membership Done Now E cellent Progr Relations Conference Here For Farm rg niz ti In 1939 August is an alfalfa month. Day t F ir Fifty Michigan County Farm Bur- First half of the month is an ideal CHICKENS time for summer seeding, especially Friday morning, ugust 19, i F I'm eau Leaders from 25 county organiza- 27 000 Leghorn pullets and hens. when moisture conditions have been Organization Day at the annual oni tions attended the annual Mid-West It' was like a sea of white moving as favorable as they have been this Free Fair. Farm Bureau States training school, over green and plowed fields as I summer. The sandier soils will get The Farm Bures u nd the I ngo which was held at Purdue University, watched the mighty fiock scratch for Lafayette, Ind., July 17-21. their share of alfalfa this summer. u ua lly pack the big grandstand rIth their food on the poultry farm of Many good stands have been had i iting Farm Bureau and Grange tam- Annually state and county Farm Cruthers Brothers in Shiawassee town- from late August seedings when con- iIi and their friends for an e c Ilent Bureau leaders in membership work ship, Shiawassee county. ditions are good, but as a rule, early pro ram of entertainm nt and edu - gather from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, It was the largest fiock of Leghorns August seedings are in better shape tion, all 0 which is suppli d b mem- Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Miss- I'd ever seen. About a third were for the winter. So says Prof. C. R. bers and representatives of the farm ouri, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota, laying hens. I tried to imagine the Megee, forage crops man for the organizations. and Wisconsin to discuss the general yellow blotch one day's collection of Michigan State College Farm Crops This year the Farm Bureau supplies program of the Farm Bureau, and eggs from that flock would make if Dep't. the spea cer, who is to be Mrs. Charle means for interesting more people in one dropped 'em. Timothy For Thin Stands W. Sewell, for many years an 0 Ic r of it. In their spare time the boys milk 64 ow is the time we are confronted the Ameri an Farm Bureau, and aery Announcement was made that the cows and till the 1,200 acres. 0, yes, by stands of alfalfa that are thin in fine public peaker, Her speaking en- Farm Bureau now has county organi- Mrs. Charles" . Sewell of Otterbein, the Cruthers are Farm Bureau mem- spots, or generally. It's better to fill gagements have taken her throughout zations in nearly every county in 39 Ind., for years one of the best speakers in with timothy during August rather bers. states. Principal Farm Bureau pro- on the American Farm Bureau staff, the nited tate, and her vote is than alfalfa, according to Prof. Me- familiar to ational Broadcasting MUSIC gram activities discussed at the con- has accepted the invitation of th gee. The application of alfalfa fails When farmer groups in ,Shiawassee ference were: organized effort to im- Ionia County Farm Bureau to address Company Farm & Home hour 11 ten- more often than it succeeds. After county want a bit of entertainment prove farm income, the Farm Bureau the Farm Organization Da crowd at er. The Farm Bureau and Grange the second cutting in August, go supply speakers in lternate ye rs. they just call on County Agricultural interest in agr'l extension service, co- the Ionia Free Fair, Friday morning, through the stand with a spring The 1938 program will start with a Agent Hancock. He has just what operative marketing and purchasing, August 19. tooth drag, and broadcast from 4 to band concert at 9: 30 a. m. Foot and they want. It's a and the Farm Bureau's state and na- 5 Ibs. of timothy per acre, or bi ycle races for boy and girls, .nt 1'- group of boys and tional legislative and taxation pro- Chemist at lant manufacturing Farm Bureau Soya Pints demonstrating where needed. You've got some- tainment, and stunts, including a "doo- girls. They d0 gram. themselves tproud with a "hill-billy" The Michigan State Farm Bureau the grinding p ess in the manufacture American grown soy beans. of paints contal ing soya oil from The miniature stone mill hown above is an thing. ext summer there'll be timo- thy hay in those bare or thin places Junior dlebug tractor" race will be staged in front of the grandst nd. After the and the Michigan State College in- orchestra and trio of as neat a a vited the Mid-West Training School to come to East Lansing for its 1939 ses- exact model of the large mills used in the factory to grind paint ingredients, pigments and oil together in a smooth, fine and permanent union. instead of weeds, Alfalfa and September Farnt address of the day and folIo vlng' even ts, the Farm Bureau and Grange group of tap danc- sion. Those attending the Purdue con- September is the month to stay off alfalfa, insofar as heavy pasturing Burea folk will adjourn to the picnic ers as one ever wished to see. The ference from Michigan were: Bay City John Ziegler Farnt Bureau Brings oya or close cutting is concerned. If there Personal Comment 'I grounds for a basket dinner. is a good growth of alfalfa, it won't group entertained at the meeting of Battle Creek Mr. and Mrs. A. Edmunds Carleton Carleton Mrs. Edith M. Wagar Joe Schmitt Paints to Michigan Fesrrris +--------;-------- do any harm to run the stock on it a little. The man with a good seed About Young People SAGI AW VAL E tI. F. YAE(J~ the Shiawassee- Vernon Community Farm Bureau last month and brought Charlotte Clifford Dewitt Carson Parr Ernest McCready provement made i paints in years, L. J. McNaughton Largest and One of Oldest the Forest City plant production man- Plants in the Industry agel' told us. Linseed oil is the famil- crop in prospect September following without crop. can harvest damage it in to the The Berrien Junior starts Farm ugust 7 on the 1,000 mile trip ureau PICNIC UGU T down the house. E. Lansing Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hennink But heavy pasturing or cutting of to the several Farm Bureau Indust- f I am informed that the boys and Fremont Grand Ledge Mrs. Koos Karnemaa.t C. F. Openlander to Make Them iar oil for paint, ut since soy bean ries. Big Crowd Expect d oil makes a white paint whiter, and alfalfa in September can damage the girls first met at a home talent show 'Goodells 0. COWles stand. The Farm Crops dep't at State Last spring the Berrien group plac- Annual Bay, Saginaw, Goodells Mr. and Mrs. Roy Welt By E. E. UNGREN gives paints in colors and tints bright- given for the benefit of the county fair Hart Ernest McC'arty Early in July we had the privilege er color values, soya oil paints are in College says that in September al- ed first in a contest among 29 Junior Tuscola Outing and have stuck together ever since. Hastings Mrs. Warren Bolton falfa stores food in the roots. The Farm Bureaus for the best line of That walt two years ago. They've been Hastings Mrs. ClaUde R. Hoffman of being conducted through the plant demand. Paint manufacturers have Junior Farm Bureau activities over Howell Mrs. Claude Burkhart and laboratories of the Forest City observed that surfaces painted with plant begins a hardening process, The Saginaw Valley County Farm popular ever since. looking to winter. Close pasturing or a several months period. Bureau's picnic is an event for Thurs- Ionia Charles Mattison Paint & Varnish Company at Cleve- soy bean or "soya' oil paints do not Jackson Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Cobb land, Ohio. This is a division of the yellow with age. cutting delays the hardening process The group will visit the Farm Bur- day, August 11, at the Saginaw fair FtNANCING ya oil paints make Jonesville Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Hawkes by causing the plants to start new eau fertilizer plant at Lockland, Ohio; grounds. Mr. -James Nicol of South Haven, a Lansing Boyd Rainey Glidden Paint Company. The plant tougher paints fo wear, with less growth. The new -ahoots are frosted the machinery plant at Louisville, Farm Bureau families and their former president of the Michigan Lansing Robert H. Addy which we visited is the largest manu- peeling and crackl g than is experi- Lansing J. F. Yaeger back, and the plants are weakened. Ky.; the Farm Bureau's oil blending guests from Bay, Saginaw and Tus- State Farm Bureau said recently, "The Lapeer Mr. and Mrs. E. Richards facturing plant in the world which is enced with linseed oil paint. In its bulletin on alfalfa manage- and gasoline plant at Indianoplts, and greatest mistake the Farm Bureau ever Lapeer Raymond Bohnsack devoted entirely to the manufacture of Farmers e would think that clover seed from 1. G nerally one should stay with- Poland, in central Europe, would get by in Michigan. But he stand d esn't compare with that from Michigan in his own field. That is, speak from your own experience and your work. 2. Consider the audience and pre- Li t a oog grow ed. pare material to appeal to that audi- ow for a Wet Cycle of Years? ence. PURPOSE OF SPEECH Talks given before groups of people 9 E sentials generally fall into one of four classi- Plen iful rains so far this year, following those of 1937, uggest the possibility that the recent long drought cycle has spent itse f and that the years immediately fications as to their purpose: 1. To instruct or to inform. 2. To convince. 3. To impress. In this instance or Mod rn Far ah d may bring more adequate rainfall to the United the audience and speaker are in agree- States, ys J. B. . cer of the U. S. Weather Bureau at ment on the subject. For example, A Washington. Memorial Day Address. 4. ~o entertain. "the ner ly dry cycle that I sted fr m 1930 through INTRODUCTION 19 6, Mr. incer aid, was the first extended drought The salutation should include: Farm population of the United eriod after the one that lasted from about 1886 through 1. Statement of the topic for dis- tates on January 1, 1938 has been estimated at 31,819,000. This com- Mowing the pasture when there is A recent issue of a farm paper lists the 1 95. ollowing that p riod of deficient moi st re came cus ion. an appreciable amount of uneaten 2. Rela iouship of selt to topic. pares with 31,729,000 reported a year grass 01' weeds ungrazed is good farm following conveniences as essential to the seri s f y a -1896 through 1909-when rainfall Background of perience, etc. earlier. w s compar ti vely abundant. 3. Relation hip of audience to practice. complete comfort and livability of the h fi t h f of 1938 wa outsta ding for its plentiful subject; why it should be interested. 4. taternent of the phases of the modern farm horne: ipit tion. bout 0 per cent of the United States topic that will be di cussed. d mor than normal rainfall. The country as a whole BODY OF SPEECH TELEPHONE g 12 per cent above normal. This condition- Develop each phase of the topic. Classified advertisements are cash wittl order at the fOllowing rates:. 4 cen~s.per word for one edition. Ads to appear in two or r i t weather hi tory of the United States-and the with illustrations support them. and quotations to more edItIons take the rate of 3 cents per word per edition. Electric or gas lights bund nt oistur of last year are in marked contrast CONCLUSION Power for heavy work it co dition 1934 and 1936, with their widespread Restate topic and briefly sum- martz points made. Include an ap- HARNESS Hea t in all rooms defici tur . peal for action if action is wanted. REGISTERED HEREFORDS, BULLS and heifers. e h ve a nice selection. Screens ensible prices. A. M. Todd Co., Ien- ogre s in J ly tha, (1 mile' north est of Kalamazoo). -a-rr-aai» Refrigera tion ceana Farm Bureau (7 C nsumers P wer Co. p titioned the Running water ornrnis ion for permi sion to f rther ·rectors Meet r r I power line plan by building lines free, The Oce na ~ounty Farm Bureau Modern bathroom hoard of director at its July meeting s f the number of patrons per mile. It would decided to resume membership work Eff ectiv ewage disposal the second week in ugu t. It will to ask a monthly rev ue guarantee of $12.30 ponsor candidates for a county con- , test in the annual Farm Bureau wo- In contr-ibuting its share, the telephone Joseph M. Donnelly was men' speaking contest, which tarts throughout the nation with the Coun- provide pro ection in emergencies, mak- "is welcomed by this ty Farm Bureau. ounty con te twin- . . is an advance that n 1'8 0 to di trict final. The win- ing it possible to summon doctor, veteri- n r proceed to tate final. tate narian or other help instantly . .. ocial hampton appear at a pecial conte t inder, chief engineer of the Com- preceding the mertcan Farm Bureau "'I"rII--·e ce , enabling farm families to h r c erized the plan as "unfair" and as one annual meeting in Dec mber. The keep in touch with friend and neighbors hi h •. ill lead onl to bitter disappointment on the national champion addres es the con- f the farm population," and uld rai e rural v ntion. prizes. he rec ive The subject thi appropriate year is in any weather, and hare their good times Ii co rath r than 10 er them. "Better Sohools for Rural ~ merica." ... b i aid, help in the marketing of The dir ctors voted to send a Junior tilitie mmis ion in a formal press statement F arm Bureau repres ntative to the farm products at be t prices. hat •.in ie of the pos ibility of inducing the 'alden wood amp, and to send Ern- COJnlP61ny t e f rth r concessions" a hearing would e t '1cCal'ty and MI' . J. H. Birdsall to th Mld-West Training . chool t th matter. Pur due. ugu t 16 is the date of the t annual Farm Bureau picnic. • e po WI ~'!'~p Trac r _"",I,V.vdyear Pr· Duri Apt c••• The' '001 Pool III continue to re- c iv con ignments during August ac- ordiu to an announcement by the Iichigun lo-op rative , 001 Market- ing ~ rn. About Sept mber 1 all con- ·ig intents not previously forwarded to Boston will e shi ped from Lan- s ing to th 1 ational Wool Marketing 'orpOl'ution at Boston. Individual grade heets and Govern- ment appr isal report covering sev- eral hundred more consignments were received at the ssoctation' office at Lansing early thi week. Second ad- va nces on these lots of wool are now heing computed and forwarded to the .growers. These second payments represent the difference bet ween the initial advance and the full Govern- ment loan available on each grower's clip. Recent market trends have been decid dly ill fa VOl' of consignors and indicate that pooling will be advan- tageous to the growers and net them substantially more for their fleeces than those received who sold out- righ; to local buyers. The initial cash advance which is Approximately 19,000 miles of road paid when the wool is received at have been abandoned by the railroads he Association's warehouse at 728 E. since 1920. Shiawassee St., Lansing, continues to be 15c per pound. DEAD ANIMALS For each pound of coal consumed, COST MO E the railroads in 1937 hauled 8 3/5 ton I of freight and equipment one mile, the best record in fuel efficiency ever at- tained by them. Frank Baldwin of Lapeer, astride the Co-op No.2 Tractor he wrote about in a national contest on rubber tired farm implements sponsored by the Goodyear Company. His essay was one of ten winners. Early lumbering operations in The boys won a ten day trip to Akron, Niagara Falls and Canada as guests of the Goodyear president. Michigan were concentrated first on SHEEP- HOeS - POULTRY - Does virgin pine and reached their peak Frank Baldwin wrote his prize win-I Said Frank in hIS es ay: ranking factors whicn pneumatic tire AT DRUG AND FARMER'S STORES ! about 1900. ning essay out of a plenty of expert- "Jobs such as pto ing tough sod provide: Economizing effect on ga \=~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~JI ence wtth Co~p Tractors. ~e Bald- 01' clay, drawing tand m hitche , or and oil, smoothne s and efficiency in wins operate a 440 acre farm. For doing road work req ire plenty of performance, comfort and health for FA M 5! I SU E I MICHIGAN'S two seasons all the work has been done with a Co-op o. 1 tractor with traction. floundered: Still the rub er tires never in fact, because we have the operator, speed on the road, last- Largest Farm Mutual Fire Insurance Co. two 12 inch plows, and a Co-op o. 2 no horses, the tractor ust be used on, ing effect on machinery, and pride to with to 14 inch plows. Everything every kind of job. Th y have prov n their owner. In hort, the smoothness New.Members New Insurance beyond a doubt capabl of performing OUR RECORD June 1937 570 $1,290,385 from plowing to hauling a combine with which they cause machinery to June 1938 758 $1,722,375 andhauIing trailers into town has their task very efficiently and satis- January to June 1938 inc., 3,627 $8,942,705 factorily. operate ha a tendency to cut down Over $95,000,000 at Risk been done with the tractors. The Bald- "According to my observation aud depreciation costs and lengthen their BETTER BE SAFE THAN SORRY win family are members of the Lapeer County Farm Bureau. experiences these are some of the period of usefulne s." A pollcy with this safe conservative farm fire insurance company is a guarantee ag-ainst total financial loss in case of loss. A Blanket Policv on Farm Personal in case of Loss often pays double a classified policy. Assess- Dust Treatment for ment rate as low as $2.94 per $1,000. Insurance classified and assessed ac- cording to hazard. Sardine D scribed a t e Seed Wheat Diseases WRITE FOR LITERATURE AND FINANCIAL STANDING Hobo of the Ocean It costs as little as 2 cents to treat State Mutual Fire Insurance Co. ichis n .'--------------- pared by laboratory officials after a bu hel of wheat with Cere u du t treatment for controlling smut and w. V. Burras, Pres. 702 Church se., Flint, Mich. H. K. Fisk, see'y Fish of Many Uses Travels checking for 18 years the sizes, matur- other seed-borne diseases of wheat. Far; And May Reach ity, spawning grou ds, anatomical A quart or so of grain pays for treat- Right. Farming takes no holidays. ight 'n' d y An Old Age characteristics and lie nse tag attach- ing the seed for an acre. Treatment year 'round ... crops are growing, soil is ch ngi ed to them, the sardines inhabiting of seed wheat increases yields. the coast from Lowe' California to and livestock needs attention. Feeding and a score of There are some interesting stories Canada are one migrat ry group. other chores about the farmstead ha e to be attend d to to be told about materials that come It has been develop d further that Lig tning Causes from far a way places to Michigan most of the spawning occurs off the Few Forest Fires EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR. farms. coast of Southern Oa,lit rnia and Low- Lightning cau es scarcely one out of Pacific Ocean fish meal is an in- er California. The young remain in 100 forest fires in ...Iichigan. Causes, Electricity TAKES 0 HOLIDAYS eith r. Mo n- gredient of Farm Bureau Mermash the warm southern wat rs for a while, in order of importance, have been list- poultry feed. In accordance with the then they get the trav 1 urge and be- ed as carelessness of smokers, incen- ing, noon and night electricity surges through mil aft r Ford Farm season, fishmeal may be made largely gin their northward s im. diarism, land clearing operations, mile of lines. And with Consumers Power C mp ~ Market Reporter from sardines coast. taken off our Pacific The hobo instinot d velops as they grow in size. At first they are only campers, railroads, lightning and lum- bering. customers, a snap of the switch connects th ir lights 12:30 to- 2:4& p. m. The sardine, says the California able to get as far as entral Califor- and motors with nearly sixt po er p an . Monday thru Friday State Fisheries Laboratory, after 18 nian waters, returning the following r orth America has 13 veterinary over all stations years observation of its life history, is spring to the spawning grounds in the colleges; ten are in the United States truly a hobo of the ocean. Its wander- south. But what's BACK-OF ..THE--SWITCH is import- MICHIGAN in Iudiug that at State college, East Radio Network ings, in fact, are so great that the fish Reach San Francisco Lansing, ...Ilchigan ; two are in Canada, ant too. Reliability, adequate reserves of pow r, a threatens to involve international The next year they manage to reach and one is in ...Iexico. WFDF Flint complications with Japan, Mexico and the vicinity of San Francisco, or even RURAL ELECTRIFICATION PLAN and rates, are WOOD Grand Rapids W BCM Bay City possibly other countries. orthern California before having to "bumper facts" when considering electric s rvic . WJIM Lansing The system which the California hurry back home to spa n. WXYZ WELL WI BM Detroit Battle Creek Jackson laboratory has employed has been to catch sardines, tag them and then Each year however, the travel urge grows more potent in the sardine, and It was these facts, coupled with the co-operation 0 W KZO Kalamazoo keep records of where they eventually by the time it has reached the vener- Michigan farmers and Micnigan farm organizations, th t .Morning Markets 645 A. M. were caught again. Termed Migratory Fish able age of 10 years the fish gets as far north as British Columbia. But it won the THOMAS W. MARTIN AWARD for Con- This has been made necessary by still goes back to Southern California sumers Power Company ... being chosen among all t e over the controversy of whether the sar- for another spawning eason. State College Radio Station IKAR dines caught off the Japanese, ican and Russian coasts were Cali- Mex- This goes on year after year, the ho- bo instinct glowing deeper and deeper utility companies in the United States for outstanding achievements in the field of rural electrification. WE ARE A FARMER OWNED AND CONTROLLED organization offering you fornia sardines or whether the various until one fine day the husky Califor- livestock commission sales service on the Detroit & Buffalo terminal markets; secttons of the seas harbor distinct nia sardine sets out in the warm cur- we can furrush all grades of feeding cattle & lambs; also 5% financing for sardine populations of their own. All rents that carry. it off to Japan, where feeding operations. evidence to date indicates that the sar- it is caught by Japanese fishermen, dine is a migratory 'fish. canned and ent back to the nited MICHIGAN LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE Secretary's HUdson, Michigan Office According to the first report pre- States. SHIP YOUR STOCK TO US AT Michigan Livestock Exchange Produoers Co-op Ass'n Detroit Stockyards East BUffalo, N. Y. Butter Needs Expert Sales Pr'orrrotiori Wor w'n P bli .~--------~----- induced the con umer through ad- Price 1 go up as u IC vertising campaigns to use their pro- Is Sold on Use of duct. w« as producers of one of the More Butter finest and most nutritious and health-giving products have set back By E. J. RYGER, Mgl·. and said nothing to this buyer. ..Mid-West Producers reamedes, Inc. \Ve can lower our c sts of procure- ment and costs of manufacturing. The co-operative creameries United States have grown in the past thirty years to a place where they in the Still have gained little. have done nothing to encourage as we con- ow now hold a very enviable position in sumption and sell our product to the the manufacturing and processing consumer on a higher price basis. All field of the butter industry. The re- future gains the Co-operative cream- markable growth is due because they eries make must result from ob- have better served the producers of taining for their producers a larger butterfat-served them better by pro- portion of the consumer's dollar spent viding the type of service and served them better by returning desired for food. If the consumers and re-told many times the story of are told Protect 'lour Home a much greater portion of the con- butter. the nutritious value of the sumer's dollar spent for butter. They product. the health and growth giv- provide a better outlet for the pro- in qualities and are made conscious of the fact that all tbes things can Here's 'house paint that lasts years FALL-APPUCATION of Granular AERo ducers' milk and cream. If this were not true the co-operative creameries b obtained in a pound of butter. the longer, gives better protection I Don't let cheap paints ruin your Cyanamid has the advantage ofgetting the would not be manufacturing 36% of consumers will us much gr ater paint job, buy a quality paint and quantities and be willing to pay high- make sure that your home Will job out of the way of Spring work. More- th butter produced in this country. er prices for the product. look beautiful for years. On the other hand during the past over, in the Spring unfavorable weather ten years we have been receiving less Is butter going to be worth what may interfere with applying the nitrogen of the consumer's dollar spent for we can obtain from the consumers by merely off ring it or sale. or is early enough to produce the best results. food each year; that is. less butter is being consumed though butter price each year even are considerably butter going to b merchandised other packaged foods and obtain as c y o 1)011- (i, 2. erKd job .Granular ~ERO Cyanamid does-not greater con umption and higher leach. Tree roots absorb it and store it up lower than they W re during The following cate that. figures clearly 1925. indi- prices hy real. aggres Ive adverti ing and merchandising? Protect Witla o S __:.. sf 1 \1fo coat ~. Hnd job. for use in the Spring. Year Chicago Per Capita Guard against decay, rot and qenetal deterioration of fann }'or a lucce' U It wUl buildinq. with this luperior Barn Paint. Farm building. use this prUner. • to Play safe! Apply Granular AERO Cyana- Extra Market Price Consumption of Butter ck P e last longer when they I p811euate deeply us: ood and tonn 1925 44.00c 17.7 Ibs. are protected with .mid to your orchard this Fall, while you 1930 35.20c 17.3 " ai tenance Law paint. Protect your in- the ~ d betWee1l the 1931 27.00c 18.0 " The merican Farm Bureau has firm n • t 1932 2O.10c 18.1 " vestment • • • keep luda~ aIiD: still have good weather. vigorou ly but un uccessfully op- buildings in shape r 1933 2O.80c 17.6 " wood itlell. 1934 24.79c 18.0 and they'll 1ut you tid tk tnd 1tk UK«f oj.fjHUcf IIIfJtJ 1935 1936 1937 28.nc 32.03c 33.22c (Est.) 17.1 " 16.6 15.0" po ad resale pric maintenance They amount to price fi lng tor manu- factured product , at the dictation laws. of ODger. ~~ cr~~D Wj ite lor Leaflet F-142 ~"'(.:..~.~~~)t',MERICAN CYANAMID (OMPANY Why this decrease when our butter prices fairly low compared price? in consumption have been the manufacturer. The Eederal Trade ommi ion has i ned a report with the 1925 Pre ident Roosevelt on y which would have nor- erea e in Ii ing 0 ts to monopoli tic blaming the in- to 30 RC'CKr:FELlER PlA?,:1\ NEW v0P.Y ,~. Y. mally been spent for butter is now p ctices in bu In . of hich the going to the enterprising manufactur- price maintenance laws are an ex- ers of o her food. produots ho b e ample. 938 ; woods Camp, Livingston county. The by giving them our whole-hearted ••e next meeting will e at the Daniel W. support and having at least one joint Dwyer home, onday evening, August meeting per year; and 29. The following resolution was Also, by having all meetings open The Rich-Burlington ommunity adopted: so that Juniors may attend and feel Farm Bureau of Lapeer county met Re olved, that the Senior Farm Bu- free to participate in any and all dis- at the home of Bruce Clothier the reau community group of Rich and cussions. evening of July 25. Reports were Burlington townships go on record as Rich & Burlington Community Between 20 and 30 Thousand given by II s. lothier and Mrs. Eld- favoring a closer relationship 'between Farm Bureau, Plan Two Camps to Handle red tephens on the recent member- the Junior and Senior members. We Dan W. Dwyer, Sec'y Rural Young Peoples' Acres in Michigan hip workers conference at Walden- feel th t this can be accomplished July 25, 1938 Training School This Year The State College Farm Crops dep't says the time to harvest soy bean The third leadership training camp hay in uguat is when the beans are for rural young people, under spon- about half grown, and before the sorship of the Michigan State Farm leaves start to yellow and drop off. ureau and associated commodityi Beans that were planted in May marketing ass'ns, local farmers' co- should be ready for a hay harvest the operatives and County Farm Bureaus latter part of August. Those planted convenes at Waldenwoods, Living- in June will come along in Septem- ston county, Aug. 26 to Sept. 3. ber. When cut in the foregoing stage, A second camp will open Sept. 5-10 both the yield and protein content of to accommodate the overflow of stu- the hay are highest. There are pro- dents expected this year. Last year bably 20 to 30 thousand acres of soy about 100 young people attended. The bean hay in Michigan this year. camp is directed by the Michigan If the hay is free of crabgrass, fox- There's always a good market for fine quality Junior Farm Bureau. tail or other eeds, it may be har- butter. For farmer owners of co-operative cream- State groups participating in the vested with a grain binder, tied in camp are the Michigan Milk Pro- bundles and shocked. If weeds are eries, there's never a better opportunity than the ducers Ass'n, the Michigan Elevator present, the hay will mold in bundles. hot. months for winning new customers. Exchange, Michigan Livestock Ex- In that case. it i cut with a mower, change, Farmers and Manufacturers raked into windrows and cured in Beet Sugar Ass'n, the Mid-West Pro- cocks. Soy bean hay is harder to cure. HOT WEATHER SUGGESTIONS ducers Creameries, Ine., and the Farm For taking a seed crop, harvest by Bureau Fruit Products Co. FOR PRODUCERS combine is successful when the seeds At the camp the young men and have hardened down. Soy beans may • Filter milk immediately. women study a program intended to be permitted to stand in the field dur- develop leadership abtuty in com- ing the fall and be harvested when it • Cool cream promptly. Keep it cool. munity and co-operative ass'n work. is convenient. They have been com- • Never add warm cream to cold cream. Th yare instructed regarding the bined after the ground has frozen, operations of Michigan farmers' co- with very little loss by shattering. • Market often aJ.:'dregularly. operative businesses. The oil content and germination of R. A. Walte of the American Youth such late harvested beans is as good We have a real opportunity for producers of Foundation will conduct classes for first and second year campers. Dr. Business Experts Speak Well as any. Ianchu soy beans, the pop- ular variety for Michigan, does not high quality cream. Co-operative creameries are David Trout will teach in the same invited to investigate the marketing, manufactur- group. Second and third year stu- of Farrrr Bureau at Purdue shatter in harv st. If soy beans contain more than ing, group purchasing and other advantages in dents wUI study with representatives +._------------- 17 % moisture, they are likely to heat from the commodity e changes. Boyd Declare Farm Bureau Off r lish. We must aim to win public if stored in quantity. a Mid-West Producers' Creameries membership. Rainey of the Farm Bureau Services . es favor; get folks to have confidence will teach a class on farmers co-op- Most Opportunity for _ in us and our program; have a pro- erative purchasing. The State Farm Membership Cost gressive local program and see to it MARKET YOUR CREAM THROUGH A PRODUCERS' CREAMERY Bureau and the exchanges will assign instructors to the camps. By MRS. EDITH M. WAGAR that other folks know what we are working tor. Solvay sri cultural Ernest Anthony, dean of agricul- ture, and R. W. Tenny, director of The Mld-Weat Farm Bureau Train- ing School is a part of Farm Bureau We were urged to create commun- ity Farm Bureaus wherever possible Li estone OFF ICE S - - 2 2 4 W. J E F FER S 0 N~ S T R E E T. SOU T H BEN D. ·1N D 1 A N A short courses at Michigan State col- lege, and E. E. Gallup, state advisor work that our members should know more about, for it is at these gather- and encourage them to hold regular meetings for consideration of affairs Michigan Producers of PULVERIZ D LIMESTONE 1 N D tAN A Portland-Farm Bureau Cr. • M 1 CHI G A N Marcellus Co-op Creamery Columbus-Farmers Mktg. Ass'n Rushville-E. Cent. Co-op Cr. Coldwater Dairy Company NashvUle-Farmers Creamery to the Future Farmers of America, ings that many upon whose shoulders touching farm life. Niles-Producers Dairy will appear on the program at wai- the planning of the organization rests, LIMESTONE MEAL Crawfordsville-Farmers Prod. Ass'n TEN N E SSE E Constantine Co-op Creamery St. Louis Co-op Creamery The president of Purdue University, Middlebury Co-op Creamery Carson City-Dairyland Cr. get together in regular school fashion, Gallatin-Sumner Co. Co-qp Cr. Fremont Co-op Creamery denwoods. Dr. Elliott, welcomed us with a strong Available At our Nearest Dealer Marion-Producers Creamery Murfreesboro-Rutherford Co-op Cr. Grant Co-op Creamery 1 L LIN 0 1 S Third year students ill spend con- and work out mutual problems. encouraging address. Among the many Orleans-Producers Mktg. Ass'n Nolensville Co-op Creamery Lawrence Co-op Creamery Atwood Co-op Creamery siderable time this year in studying This training school has been held Solvay Sales Corporation fine thoughts advanced, he said, "I~ the work and problems of farmers' now for thirteen years. Each year it crises maehmes will only work well 7501 W. Jefferson Ave. 70e ~ake 26,OfJO,OOOpounds o~hut~e".ANNUALLY has grown in value to those who at- DETR IT, MICH. commodity marketing exchanges in for those who love them."-"If the Michigan. tend. American land grant colleges fail, Registration for both camps closes The idea originated at a conference then democracy fails, and if the Farm August 20. The limit for each camp is of Farm Bureau worker who were Bureau fails then agriculture will fail faced with some diff'tcurt problems of A as will also democracy faiI.".-"There SEEDINGS 110 students. Further information is to be had from Benjamin director of the Junior Farm Bureau, 221 No. Cedar street, Lansing. Hennink, organlsation. George Fox, then secre- tary of the Illinois Farm Bureau, ex- pressed a wish that farm people might is somethi g in the blood stream of agriculture from destroying that prevents its enemies it, whether it be ALFA FOR AUGUST have training along sales organiza- climate, pests or politics."-"The tion lines just as big business does. enemies of agriculture are (1) stupid- Cer ified HARDIGAM MICHIGAN KANSAS COMMON ined for Speeding Business calls in its salesmen for sev- ity, (2) superstition and (3) human UTAH COMMON Wi h a Co-op Tractor eral days at a time each year. It selfishness." I IGAM-MIN ESOTA GRIMM GRIMM gives them definite instructions on the (From Regina, Saska.tchewan, Post) "The Farm Bureau's goal should be article or service they are to sell and Trailed at 28 miles an hour by a just how and when to approach pros- motorcycle constable, Earl E. Robinson pective buyers. In this way every to create a new volume of sanity in the world. Let us be sensible that we Grains Sweet Clover We Buy Seed may have a world to live in." has the distinction of being possibly salesman the 1'rst man in Canada to be fined for on his ,product, and the advantage of has complete information A Job of Convincing Our certified Wheat and Rye out yield ordinary seed, Timotlly We are in market for alsike. Send speeding with a farm tractor. We have educated the public to and produce top quality grain, Always a wise choice. In court, Mr. Robinson said the trac- new sales methods. The Farm Bureaus decided to try know that there is an agricultural BERKLEY ROCK, Beard- AM E RIC A N BANNER, Winter Vetch 8 ounce representative sample .for tor had been driven to Regina from some such an experiment problem. Now our big job is to con- once and vince our farm people that we must less, soft, red winter wheat. White, soft, winter wheat. Sow 10 lbs, vetch with 1V2 bu. rye per bid. We buy Michigan alfalfa and St. Paul, Minn., passing along the watch results. Beardless, stiff straw. Best A. late August or September for good Big yielder. Resists lodg- streets of such large cities as St. Paul Have Something To Sell all work together for unity of action ing. for light soils. pasture next spring. clover. We clean seeds. Write Us. and Winnipeg without police object- if we ever hope to reach the same The I1irst training school for Farm ing to the speed. He claimed the trac- Bureau folks was held at Saugatuck, standards of other classes. Farmers ROSEN RYE, Best, heavy tor has a normal speed from 2% to 30 Michigan. It was crude in comparison are now only 24% of the nation's yield! ng rye. Large and Buy at Farm Bureau Stores and Co-op Ass'"s plump berrie miles an hour and averaged 28 miles with those held in recent years, yet population, and % of these farmers an hour on the long trip. receive less than $400 per year as an it was a wonderful beginning. A - CO-OP TRACTOR Mr. Robinson started to tell the court income. It means every blooming soul The same talent for instruction in that Hon. J. G. Gardiner had spoken salesmanship of us must 'band together if we ever was secured that had at Ottawa of the excessive prices been engaged ,by other business. At hope to better ourselves. Farmers are charged for farm machinery, and said Saugatuck producers of new wealth and should and at every conference, farmers of Saskatchewan could save including that at Purdue this July, receive a return of $5 for every $1 in- $500 on the "co-operative" tractor, such these trained teachers have marveled vested. a the one responsible for the speeding at what we have to offer the farm In 1921 the united business of farm supplies purchased co-operatively was or Your Fall Plowing charge. public. They have been very frank in "Is this a political speech?" in- telling us that the Farm B~reau offers a. little over $200,000,000 while last • Self starter • Rubber tires quired Magistrate A. R. Tingley, ask- more in exchange for a membership year's report showed that this busi- ness had grown until it had reached • Battery & generator • Trnck brakes ing Mr. Robinson to stick to the sub- fee than any other business in the • Electric headlights • Truck steering the 400,000,000 mark. ject of the charge before the court. world offers for a, like sum. This year it was very gratifying to We were urged to forget party lines Upon Mr. Robinson's plea of guilty, and stay Iby the fellow in Congress Our Co-op Tractor in one plow and 2 and 3 plow sizes has plenty of the penalty was a fine and costs see so many of our .Michigan members power and it can take it. See it at Farm Bureau Stores & Co-ops. there who had never before attended who has stood by the farmer. amounting to $7. a like meeting. We know they under- Mathematics of Price Fixing We were warned against advocating "This incident went over the news- stand their organization all the better price fixing for farm commodities, for paper wires to every paper from Ta- for attending, and that now it will be ronto to Vancouver. It was used by a much easier tasx ror them to ap- population and three-tourths th news broadcaster for the Canadian proach their neighbor and solicit his consumers, we cannot hope to get a, radio network. I have been showered membership. when we are only one-fourth of the are town A with long distance telephone calls and We are hoping that next year, this price set for us that will be on a • LOW for easy loading 1 tters for more information about the school will come again to our state job as farmers to see to it that our parity with other business. It's our IS tractor," said Mr. Robin on. He is a and that great crowds of our people business is put on the same business dir tor of the askatchewan Wheat will flock in for at least a part of the practices that others enjoy and we To see it is to want it. The top of the box is but three Pool, which is marketing the tractor. time. 2,000 Members Per Countyl never can do that until we unite with feet from the ground. This spreader has 60 bu. capac- II'. Robinson knew before hand that if any vehicle e ceeded the 15 mile Michigan people think they have our fellow farmers in the support of ity a d regulates for 6, 12, 18 or 24 loads per acre. an agricultural program. speed limit in Regina the driver would been hit pretty hard and that farm- Soil Conservation Act The nstruction will please you. See it at Co-ops. e arre ted. "That 7 11ne has brought ers cannot afford to join an organiza- The soil conservation program was us thou auds of dollars of advertis- tion. But when we get with groups from other states of this great mid- thoroughly discussed, not only by ing:' chuckled Robinson. west we find we are indeed fortunate those administering it, but by farm PLOW D AGS RAKES in our diversification in farming and people who worked for it. While all One pint of milk gives about the not at all in the straights of many agreed it is faulty and weak in many DISCS DRILLS WAGO sam amount of calcium as a comb in- others. We learn that there are coun- respects, they were convinced that it tion of flv oranges, five apples, five ties in other states with over 2,000 should be preserved and participated er ing of canned peas, and one head members at a larger member hip fee in. But we should hasten to correct o cabbage. than we have. We fin..d states :where the defects so that it can be wliole eed the tension Department, the Soil heartedly endorsed by all. Conservation Department and the We were urged to give intensive County Farm Bureau work hand in study to farm tenancy and different r ow hand, aiming to each bolster the other taxation systems; to study the propa- D COLLECT EGGS T I in assisting the farmer. ganda that is springing up on all corn- NOTICE TO EMBERS: Purchase. We were entertained by 8, County ers in order to side-track the farmer, F ALL AND WINTER WHE MERMASH of Farm Bureau Brand dairy and poultr fe ds, seeds, fertllzers and Farm Bureau band of about 60 young from the true facts in the case, such EGGS ARE HIGH! '4 n e from }our local eaier; also, folks, some quite small. They were as the import and e 'port trade as '6% 0'111 fOltllUU urchases from our clothing and well trained and eager to play for us. affecting farm production. We must lankets dep't at Lansing, are ellgble t member hip credits when declare A chorus of about 30 Farm Bureau exert every effort in getting the facts M IL YOUR DEALER SALES women, .all from one county, enter- and not allow ourselves to jump at LI to the Ichigan State Farm tained us for about half an hour. We conclusions. We InU t first know we ur au, embership Dep't, 221 North ed r Str et, Lansing, about every wondered if some place in our state, are right and the protect 01;11' own I a County Far m Bureau could not spon- interests. thr month. E URE Farm Bureau bra.nd goods sor a lband for young people from This training school was a serious Farm Bureau ar nter d on lip as "Farm Bur au Farm Bureau familie or a chorus of gathering of deep thinking farm folks r lfalf t • II •• ilkrnak t," •• ermash," women. who aimed to face facts as they actual-I We hea d of a county in Illinois ly exist and, while there were many L where 502 member canvassed the social features Injected in the the en- 2-12-6 IS THE OLD RELIABLE and most popular fertilizer for county and igned 2,206 members in tire program, yet all realized that the I a real job ahead I wheat. We have it in Farm Bureau brand. Its Nitrogen is 95% one day. Their leader aid they spent Farm Bureau ha almost a year in training before they ot. it if iwe keep farm life on the up_I water soluble and quickly available to give plants a strong start. e Live toct. fort went out. I"hey knew the Farm Bu- ward grade. I I ,OUR 3-18-9 FOR WHEAT has the same plant food units balance as reau tory 0 ell that they could an wer all question put to them. o satisfactory rule can be given 2-12-6, but a bag of 3-18-9 does the work of llh bags of 2-12-6. Plant r. .rvi e People Must Know for feeding cows on pasture. Watch food is cheaper per unit in 3-18-9, and you have less fertilizer to Inc. t the 193 chool at Purdue great closely the milk production nd con- stre a pIa ed on proper publicity dition of the cow; when either begins handle. o-ops have our complete line of fertilizers for wheat, Lan.in., Michi6an bout hat e are aiming 0 aecemp- to drop, the co is being underfed.