E UP On News Interesting to Farmers Through the Farm New. Vol. XVIII, No.6 Behind co-op CLINICS Active in (0-0 eratlve • nstltute • the TO RESUME Wh el JUNE 3-13 With J. F. Yaeger, Co-ops Interested in System Best lmformed Men in Farm Co-op Director of Membership to Increase Membership Goming to State Call Jul Relations and Business to Present School for p LEADERS The second of a series of Co-oper- A year ago the Berrien County ative Clinic meetings for managers Effects of the European war upon m rIC n rr ultu Farm Bureau adopted a ruling that and directors of farmers' co-opera- no person could be a director or hold tives is to be held during the period and steps that farm co-operatives mu t t k to k office in the organization for more June 3-13. The meetings will be in grams to the adjustments in agricultur occasion than two consecutive terms. That re- the evening at the places named ill sulted in the automatic withdrawal this article. Mrar,will be major topics as the merican Institu from the board of two men who have The object of the meetings is all eration holds its 16th annual session at Michig n St t been directors of the County Farm educational discussion whereby farm' Bureau for years. They are Jesse ers' co-operatives may become better lege, July 8 to 12. Boyle of Buchanan and James A. informed on methods for building co- operative membership, for 'building Numerous subjects of equal timelin s h v Richards of Eau Claire. Mr. Boyle was first named to the their businesses and for keeping rec- nounced by Charles W. Holman, Washington, D. ords that assist the co-ops in their V. A. FOGG HON. HENRY A. WALLACE DR. H. '. PATTO~'" county board in 1922 and in 1924 was taxation and other business problems. Grange League of N. Y. The Secretary of Agn~u1ture Economics Dep't, Mich. tate Col. tary of the Institute. He said that this year's five-d y S Ion elected president, a position that he Speaks Wednesday, July 10 Speaks Th'llrsday Evening, July it Chairman, Program Committee held until 1939 when he withdrew as Clinics Well Attended will offer unusual program features n ver b for sch dul d president but remained as a director At the first co-operative clinic held by the Institute. for another Mr. Richards year. was elected vice- during attendance March there of 50 managers was an average and di- BROME GRASS Farrri ureau EIGHTY COll TV Improvements for Co-operative rectors at the eight meetings. It was Offers Prizes A M BUREAU president in January ed that office to become tary-treasurer six months 1924 but resign- the secre- later. He agreed operatives that a major doing business problem for co- with memo AND ALFALFA For S ng The underlying themes of the 1940 Institut "F undamentals of Co-operation," and "Improving Co-op r .. will b held when tha he position retired. until Jim, this as he year is bel'S and themselves operatives. other qualified Articles patrons is to keep as farmers' and by-laws co- do SEEDINGS The board ot directors of the Mich- LEADE EET tives Business Practices." More than 100 speak rs will p" known to all, has been the hub of pear before the 3,000 farm leaders, educators, and oth rs who Farm Bureau activities in the county not make a co-operative. The man- Problem with Smooth Brome igan State Farm Bureau has author- To Take Over Membership ner in which a co-op lives does deter- ized a contest to provide a song for will attend. ever since he took over the job of sec- mine its standing and its future. IS to Distribute the the use of the Farm Bureau and its Building and Dues retary. In his job he has kept the associated organizations. The con- Collections Over 60 distinct meetings, ranging from n dv nc d organization functioning and has seen Speakers from the Farm Bureau Seed Evenly it make much progress. Services, Inc., the Michigan Elevator test is now open to all citizens of the discussions on merchandising practic s to inform 1 lunch on Exchange and the Michigan State state of Michigan. It closes August Eighty County Farm Bureau lead- Charles Heckathorne of Three Oaks Now that so many Michigan farm- conferences, are planned for the five-day p riod. Soci I College economics dep't will continue 31, 1940. ers attended the quarterly cont renee takes Mr. Boyles' place and Burton ers are mixing smooth brome grass the discussion on co-operative memo The words of the song may deal at the State F'arm Bureau at Lansing activity will center about a co-operative ball on th op ning Richards, Jim's son, is the new sec- and alfalfa for an ideal pasture bershlp, business building, etc., start- with the beauty of rural Michigan, May 28. retary. If these two men do as good growth, there is need for knowing evening, Monday, July 8. ed at the first clinic. the desirability of fann life, etc., but Since the County 'Farm Bureaus are a job as their predecessors, the more about the several methods be- these points mus be associated with soon to take over the membership County Farm Bureau will continue to Information presented at the first ing employed to get the two types of the Farm Bureau. In .other words, building program and dues collection One of the many live topics up for discussion is "The clinic revealed that four out of five seed sown. be a leader. . . . the organization wants a song with work under agreemnets with the future of the Farm Credit Administration". Promin n , Michigan farm co-operatives are in An ~ven. .dlstrIbutIon of brome inspiration and ith dignity. EXPLODES Michigan State Farm Bureau, the Over in Sanilac county Marshall position to increase both their mem- grass. IS difficult be~ause. the seeds The prize for an acceptable poem county leaders at their' lay 2 meet- qualified speakers will look into the future of this governm nt berships and business by installing ar~ Iight, flat, and wmg tipped. They will be $35, and for an acceptable mus- Miller, secretary of the County Farm a patronage dividend system that ap- ing resolved themselves into commit- agency which has figured so prominently in the news in r c nt weigh but 14 lbs. to the bushel. ical setting an additional 35. Any Bureau, thinks explodes of the increased every time demands he of plies to all patrons ship is increased alike. by a provision Member- that :h~se Michigan State methods are report~d College I by .the contestant farm ClOPS song and music submitting a prize winning ill receive the $70. tees to work on the arrangements. O. R. Gale of Oceana county and Jay months, and discuss the general set-up of rural cr dit, pr s nt people for government money. "We've Dodge of VanBuren county were and future. for non-members the first patronage department and by farmers: In case a desirable poem is accepted chairman and secretary for the con- got to stop it or we'll go broke" says dividends are applied to a purchase (1) Spring and summer-sow al- by the judges, but no suitable music ference. "Early bird" meetings each morning of th s sion will he. "We're pretty close to that now of a share of stock in the co-op. One- falta at rate of 5 to 7 lbs. per acre is submitted by anyone, the contest Effective Sept. 1 or Sooner and folks still want new WPA grants, fiftq. of farmers co-ops in this state through grass seeder attachment on may be continued in order to secure The committee on ounty Farm be built around the general topic, "Co-op ration in Ameri .. new buildings, new this and new that. are working on this plan, and to their grain drill. Sow brome grass at rate a proper musical setting. Bureau relationships, Mrs. Edith Wa- can Life". They will cover an analysis of co-operativ prin- Where will we ever get the money decided advantage. Their 'business is of 5 to 7 lbs. per acre by mixing it Five competent persons will judge gar of 'Monroe county 'Chairman, rec- to pay for it? What about the starv- ing thousands while we spend money gaining and they are fully qualified with oats (or barley) in grain box for all entries. Ton of the judges will ommended that all agreements be ef- ciples, a a the relation of co-operatives to the individu I, before the law as co-operatives. fe tive September 1, 1940, except for for fancy items?" better distribution. Watch drill box be associated wit the Farm Bureau. counties that ish to 'put th n into community and modern society. Adopt the Plan to keep brorne evenly mi-xed as it Decision of the Judges will be final. 'Alcu i- in an unofficial capacity and purely as individual, Mr. Miller re- A number of Michigan farm co-ops feeds out. The brome needs covering They reserve the right to reject any effect ooner. Th ommittee rec- Federal policy toward co-operation, and legi I tion ne d.. have completed since Jan. 1 or have but not too deeply. or all material. ommended acceptance of full mem- cently put his ideas into action. The under way a reorganization to go onto (2) At the State College farms All entries must be mailed to the bership payments, rather than partial ed for the encouragement and protection of co-op rativ s, occasion was the dedication of the new federal postoffice in Sandusky. the general patronage dividend they have seeded alfalfa with the Music Contest, ichigan State Farm payments on dues. These recommen- will receive detailed consideration at the Institute. Still other system to increase their member- drill and broadcast the brome grass Bureau, 221 No. Cedar St., Lansing, dations were adopted. The commit- After the dedication speeches had ships. They are the co-ops at: Ben- ahead of the drill. They have followed Michigan. The postmark should be tee discussed Farm Bureau si ns for topics listed will cover college co-ops, credit unions, co-oper .. been made and all the fine things farms, and will present further infor- ton Center, Coloma, Deerfield, Fre- with a cultl-packer and have had very net later than July 31, 1940. tive health associations, refrigerated food lock r pl nts, nd had been said, Mr. Miller asked for a mont, Litchfield, Martin, Montague, good results. mation at the next meeting. chance to talk and this was granted. and Montgomery. Farmers have reported suc- The committee for a uniform the progress of co-operation in this country and Canad . Launching on his favorite theme, Mr. The June series of Co-operative ("3) cess in sowing brome at 5 to 7 lbs. Oceana Member Helps system of keeping membership Many Commodity Conferences .---------:---;......------ Miller pointed out that the $70,000 it took to build the new postoffice was Clinics start with dinner at 6: 30 per acre with fall seeded grains. The 4-H Poultry Club Boys records recommended: Iby County Farm (1) Adoption Bureaus by Coun- Institute A standard feature of the annual The Educational Workshop, a popu- o'clock at these points: alfalfa goes in the following spring. Clarence Wilder, Oceana County programs, the commodity con- lar daily feature inaugurated at the the equivalent of the income of starv- ty Farm Bureaus of a book form de- ferences, will again be popular gather- 1939 Institute at Chicago, will be re- June The smooth brome is slow to start. Farm Bureau member of Weare twp., ing thousands and represented 20 3-Shelby at Co-op Bldg. veloped by the State Farm Bureau ings. The application of co-operative peated this year, stressing the teach- In the first year the mixture in the is an able poultry farm and hatchery miles of 40 acre farms, etc., etc. 4-Grand Rapids Y. M. C. A. membership relations dep'ts; (2) That marketing to dairy products, poultry ing of co-operation ,to high school stu- 5--St. Joseph, Whitcomb hotel pasture proba bly will not be more operator, and very much a success in "But they howled me down," said 6-Hillsdale, Keefer hotel membership relations dep't notify and eggs, sugar beets, fruits and vege- dents. than one-fourth brome. In the second interesting young people into a suc- Mr. Miller. "Guess they didn't like 1O-St. Louis, Park hotel each member by postcard, and notity tables, livestock and grain, and co- Study PUblic Relations 11-New Haven, Farmers Elevator year this likely will increase to 50 cessful poultry program. 11'. Wilder the picture I painted or perhaps folks 12-Howell, Co-op building the County Farm Bureau seer tary, operative purchasing through farmers' Two luncheon conferences, inform- per cent and later as the alfalfa thins likes Barred Rocks, and he thinks a think all this money don't have to 13-Caro, Montague hotel the amount of membership credits elevators will provide subject matter ally conducted, will/be held ach n0011. out the brome grass should fill in the great deal of Farm Bureau's Iermash be paid back. Maybe they don't like earned by the membe ras credit on for these afternoon confer nces. One will deal with co-op ratlve pu'bli- vacan t spots normally taken over by poultry feed. He uses it by the ton. to get under the surface and face the Michigan Supplies June grass or annual weeds. His poultry exhibits are prize win- dues by reason of Farm Bur au sales !Running concurrently with the com- catious and public relations, the other slips sent to the state office in e ch modity meetings, the seminars on with membership relations work. facts. thought I don't know but I have had a letter what they all or World's Bromine Experience indicates, the farm ners. This year when a 4·H poultry membership year. The recommen- merchandising practices will d al with Visual ducation will I' ceiv atten- Michigan supplies the bulk of the crops dep't said, that the best pre- club was formed, M.r. Wilder furnish- more technical topics of interest to tion in two forms. Plans are under- two endorsing my viewpoint since dations were adopted. Carl Buskirk bromine used in the United States. paration for both seedings is to have ed the boys with chicks and a sack then." of VanBuren county headed this com- co-operative officials. Similarly of in- way whereby farm co-operatives in Should gases be used in large quanti- a firm, clean seed bed, fertilized and of Mermash to get them started right. terest to those who dir ct the opera- Michigan and nearby states will erect mittee. FREE TRIP ties in this war, Michigan will be call- limed as required for alfalfa. The boys will pay for their chicks tions of farrn co-operatives will be the displays portraying their acti vities, A Program of Information Said Mr. Charles Nobel of Perry, from the sale of their cockerels this "school for directors," ed upon for bromine. It is a compon- The Committee on collection of proposed a new and movies on v rlous topics of farm Michigan, in Shiawassee county, Farm Bureau seeds and fertilizers ent of tear gas. Bromine is also an fall. Mrs. J. H. Birdsall is leader of Farm Bureau membership dues rec- Institute feature which it is plann d interest are to be shown. (Continued on page 5.) important part of "leaded gasoline." are partners for better crops. the club. to conduct on a classroom basis. (Continued on page 3.) (Corrttnued on page 4.) They Joined the arID B ea Duri a There are 601 Farriilies . .....,....---------------------------------------------------------------- Adolph Heyman Ira Braun Oland Eichler QUINCY Earl Keiller Leon Holmes Wm. Eichler. Jr. Francis EATON COUNTY Bust CHARLOTTE Melvin Southward Geo. D. Beck Ed. A. Wightman HOLT LANSING Gerald L. Bond Norman Schneider BROWN CITY CLIFFORD E. D. Holmes Geo. Urbon Frank White MANISTEE Joseph Zeb r Ed. M rritt Ellsworth Hard E. M. Luxenburger LAPEER PENTWATER Joe S. Heydon Joe Houck LESLIE Wm. Beard. in the Group Glenn Burleson A. T. Curtis Frank Stauder Oscar Van Patten Forbes GENESSEE Merkley FLINT COUNTY Frank Corbin Paul C. Rowe MASON A. T. Ingall Ed. Eifert Paul B. Taylor Robert Wittstock NORTH BRANCH Clair Carey Vincent Benak SCOTTVILLE Mason Co. Agr'l The Michigan state Farm Bureau • BERRIEN COUNTY R. C. Wise &. Son Lynn G. Whitmore RAY, IND. SHERWOOD Grant E. Mohr Leroy Cummings J. P. Pratt &. Sons GOODRICH Asa L. Field E. D. Franklin J. H. Lavis Clyde Snow, Jr. Hugh C. Smith Russell Smith Harry Steward LENAWEE Wesley Wilson COUNTY W. W. Appleton Anton Kaminski Henry Terryn Percy M. Gordon Con. J. J. Pleiness Chas. Major Vince t Ontl welcomed to mem'berahlp 601 families BERRI EN CENTER OKEMOS ADRAIN Geo. Chevis Hans J. Hansen Donald Parks Loris Curtis F. Harland &. Sons Medford ~fi.stcr &. during the months of April and May. Ruth Waibel GRATIOT COUNTY Earl Thomas Raymond takenas TEKONSHA FOWLER Earl C. Kidd &. Son Roy GrIffin Chas. K. Hansen BENTON HARBOR Ralph Olney We list the new members and their Alta Wright BRECKENRIDGE James O'Neil Harry H. Randolph UNION CITY Alva Baker Jay Coleman IONIA &. Son MISSAUKE COU TY County Farm Bureaus, and their homes BERRIEN SPRINGS Union City National William Maess Bert W. Graham W. W. Widdicombe C. A. Rumbaugh CLAYTON Walter Garland Thurston R. Hurd Bank Clyde Rosenberry C. J. &. W. P. Hart MC BAIN in this~olumn. ITHACA LAKE ODESSA COLOMA Glyn Havens Clyde Rosenberry JASPER Hugo Walonjus Editor'. Note-Membership in the Albert Kurth Harold Molter A. J. &. G. H. Floyd Smith Elmer Royce C. Dawn Dale B. Shetterly Farm Bureau is a family member- Mathews MERRILL PORTLAND J. P. Witt MONTCALM COUNTY EAU CLAIRE Geo. Gierman &. Son Roy Rumfrey TECUMSEH ship. Husband or wife may vote the Berrien Co. Pkg. Co. E. L. Carpenter Elmer Gould GREENVILL membership in meeting. Each has S. Rybicki SARANAC Eugene K. Thompson CALHOUN COUNTY ST. LOUIS H. F. Gilbert Vina C. H n n all the privileges of membership. Ac- Ivan F. Cole &. Sons Fred A. Comstock Leslie J. Sykes . TIPTON Milo A. Johnson E &. Louise Mulick cordingly, many write their member- GALIEN John Deering Lyle Richter ALBION WHEELER SUNFIELD R. G. Conlin Robert A. Scott W. M. ackett ships as "George Adama & wife" or E. E. French &. M. Clawson Wm. Petrie &. Son Elmond L. Strong H. H. Hanson &. Son "Mr. & Mr . Donald Miller" or "Mr. Carl Benson Roy McPherson W. J. &. Morris Bush MACOMB COUNTY & Mrs. H. F. Bowers & Son." A NILES BATTLE CREEK John W. Allen Mrs. John P. Story John D. Pichitino Fred S. Collier ISABELLE COUNTY ROMEO MUSKEGON COUNTY large share of the memberships are C. L. Haslett Donald Wagener Clarence Smith &. Son written in that way. In fact, that's Herbert Stelter C. H. Hicks C. H. Kaschafsky MT. PLEASANT E. F. Fisher Farms BAILEY what they all mean. However, in Jacob &. Julius R. Paul John R. Veit Kenneth Bull Emm I Port en SAWYER HILLSDALE COUNTY MANISTEE COUNTY reporting new memberships in this Emil Renack Leo W. Bueghly CE~ESCO Floyd Bull Wm. A. Week column, we are unable to squeeze E. J. Coffman JONESVILLE JACKSON COUNTY ARCADIA H. S. Seaman into the length of line available for , THREE OAKS E. K. Warren MARSHALL Claude Thompson ALBION C. J. Milarch CASNOVIA each nam th compl te Intormatton Claud Rasey LITCHFIELD Herbert P. Wright ONEKEMA Vernon Bull John D. r leigh set forth above. So, when we report Hess Claude A. Grove M. E. Smith J. E. Ulery J. E. Humphrey H rry Norris the new membership for George BRANCH COUNTY Claude CLARK LAKE CASS COUNTY W. O. Reed &. Son COOPER VILLE Adams, we mean Mr. and Irs. BRONSON HURON COU NTY MASON COUNTY Abraham Post George Adams, G. C. Carpenter Albert L. Martin CASSOPOLIS JACKSON R. T. Hayden Mrs. D. Ferron BAD AXE D. A. Salsbury &. K. T. Ward BRANCH GRANT Aden Fair Roy J. Keeslar Martin Sofka Ernest Wills Chas. B. Moore BARRY COUNTY Emmett Smith Clarence May Frank M. Cooper Samuel H. Beach E. C. Sackrider D. C. Spulter Leo LaPointe Howard Langwell Harold B. Strang Lyle E. Morris Wm. Spencer Fred &. Vernon Lee Maurer PARMA Andrew Cole John Manales MUSK GON FREEPORT Edna Bishop Chas. R. Jones Kuntz Sheridan Hadley Edgar Horton Charles Frank E. H. Potter F. B. McKelvey . Workman &. on Forrest J. Buehler BURR OAK CASEVILLE Clarence Campbell Eli Tyndall Peter Van Dyke Henry W. Grove DOWAGIAC . HASTINGS Ford S. Lake Miles C. Rogers John Depner, Sr. John Petzold CUSTER RAV W. J. Watkins L. Christiansen COLDWATER Wilbur Meiser F. D. Tumbleson ELKTON , KALAMAZOO COU NTY Ollie Reynolds E. E. Morr-iuon Joseph Goebel Elmer Roulh Everett J. Youngs Carl R. M. Connell Geo. H. Brodt Robert F. Nodruff Roy Krohn Gordon Beattie Sigurd Hansen .'0 C. v ansconia Henry Behler Jerry Andrus S. B. Rowley Southern Michigan Merle L. Corey BATTLE CREEK National Bank Howard Watson MARCELLUS UBLY Chas. Willison Frank Maleckas Frank Vermeiren John W. Goebel Forest Falconer Wm. P. Hale LeRoy Lightfoot Chas. H. Swartz Paul Reid E. E. Pierson Elmer Gillespie O. N. Kaiser S. A. &. Roy Bloom S. E. Weage Jos. Block Roy Cranston CLIMAX John F. Criswell Leland Layman Stanley A. Haas Homer Swartz Ternes Brothers Stanley R. Glaza Harold Dyer John R. Lundy FOUNTAIN Mrs. C. Bennett C. B. Tomp ins A. C. Clark Francis Stanard E. O. Erickson Geo. H. Green Glen Luce Dan McMillan Lee Mcintyre Fred Juhnke Nick Terpstra Sam Boushke MIDDLEVILLE Harvey J. Bates Levi Tift NILES Milton S. Cranston George FIsher John Robertson KALAMAZOO FREESOIL John B. Fisher Floyd A. Foster Jay E. Tompkins Frank Reynolds Harold Stoll A. B. Leonard Arnold Anderson Edward S. Karas NASHVILLE M. M. Russell C. A. Sticken &. Sons Leon Heiss INGHAM COUNTY PLAINWELL Chas. Jacobson J. J. Howell Roy Bassett &. Vane Wotring Wm. Armstrong Lee Tompkins CLINTON COUNTY Louis C. Helfer WOODLAND liugene Crissman Milo Thayer DANSVILLE Ernest Jackson Marlin Donbrock Jay C. Swan BATH SCOTTS LUDINGTON E. J. Bates E. E. Vender Ralph Glyn Harold Gallic W. A. Raw~on W. H. Crockford &. Floyd Gallup F. Stanl~y Tic'e T. E. Wheeler George Heiler &. Sons Harold Fenwick A. Foster Smith B. F. Edward Moore John W. Frost EAST LANSING Wm. Schmidt C. D. Ki.tler Co. Carl S. Odean Sons ELSIE Herbert Ney J. E. Wojtaszak A. M. Henry E. E. Knight Wm. Donley BAY COUNTY MONTGOMERY LAPEER COUNTY Vern panielson Julius Loxen &. Guy K. Barr Chas. &. Harry Miller Vernon Earlick W. A. Oberlin EATON RAPIDS Mrs. Fred ~. Ewald E. E. Peterson AUBURN Glen D. Prid"~on John Sherer LAINGSBURG C. E. Puffenberger Carl Topliff ATTICA -Cha.. Johnson A. B. RalChka John A. Tomk &. Son H. M. Jon 8 " Son E. J. Topliff &. Son Tho. McCoy iWm. G. Keson Paul W in rt __ _ =-- ......•. j c_~_~o._.,.o T 0 NEWS SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1940 HEMLOCK T ey Joi ed the Farm c. W. Wardin SAGINAW B eau I• A Mrs. Thos. Phoenix Edwin Knoerr ontin d from page one) • and May -'- _ ST. CLAIR BI;;AI E COUNTY Vern L: Graham Clyde F. Britton Gault Van Ernst MONTAGUE CAPAC or to the Michigan Farm Bureau News. founded Harvey Matthews E. Westenfelder Ed. Rogers Arthur Meyers Charles Becker January 12, 1923 Henry J. Bode Maynard Kempf NEW ERA NORTH STREET L. J. Bihn Milford MeJlon H. VanderMay, Jr. John Wybenga Austin Robbins F 1'Jntere4 •• second class matter January 12, 1923, at the poet- Fred 8ultman Karl N. M le~sen ROTHBURiV pO T HURON office al. Charlotte, Iehlgan, under the Act of March a. 1811. Howard Brumm Henry Scott Ralph Reichle W. E. Brown Guy Teeple H. Daniel Duer $maJ:igan ~ro~. bllii firet 8aturday of each month u at Ita pUbltcatlon office at 114 JAvett by the Michigan State Farm St., Charlotte, Michigan. Graduation Ti e Walter Dummer R. Frens &. Son Joe VanHemert Geo. L. VanLiew Ray Inglis Edward Gifford SHELBY Chas. Morse Rense M. Hiddema ST. JOSEPH COUNTY GRANT WHITE PIGEON Well, Mabel's Junior passed his grade, and proudly we drove down Leonard Osborn Chas. Eady OTTAWA ~OUNTY Glen Wade BcUtorlal and g nera offices, 221 North Cedar St., Lansing, MIch1g Do And saw him graduate in style from High School there in town. Joe &. Geo. Zerlaut Postofflce Box 960. Telephone, LansIng 21-271. Another milestone lies behind for Mabel and for Ben- NEWAYGO BYRON CENTER SHIAWASSEE COUNTY Ernest E. Brown Harris McDuffee Arthur DeKock Their eldest nevermore will be a little boy again. BENNINGTON NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COOPERSVILLE All UNGREN Edttor and Business Manager Of course he's grown up gradually, (we note it more than they Theodore DeMaagd John R. Perrin Harold S. Kline BENZIE - LEELANAU AND GRAND Leonard &. Laurence Ernest T. Meerman CORUNNA Because we do not see the boy as they do, every day) DeNeff John H. SiCt31"'1:l Joe Field F. R. Gilna BUCKLEY David E. Ellis &. Sons Subee1iptlon 2i cents per year; 4 years for $1, In advance. But all of a sudden now he'. big, a High School Graduate, Earl Cook A. Dyksterhouse E. J. Walbrin •• Which makes that certain evening seem a memorable date. R. M. Ossewaarde Wm. J. Swart;: DURAND CEDAR Jacob Busman Clark A. Paine Don Sh~nk H. A. Brannan Stephen Bugai DORR E. G. Chapman M. V. Terry SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1940 No,6 There must have been a hundred youths upon the ro trum there, KINGSLEY P. J. Allen &. Sons Alfred Vincent All dressed in graduation caps-the kind that's flat and square, Frank Clous Victor Clous Verner Sieffert GRAND HAVEN . LAINGSBURG And long grey gowns to match the caps, a splendid sight to see; L. R. Arnold Wm. Goetze C. E. Schlicker o g and Hour Change But there was Junior with the rest as natural as could be! LAKE LEELANAU Fred Boutain Ed. Hohnke Peter Linguar Edmund Richard GRANDV1LLE Martin Holleman M. E. Kronemeyer Harry Harmer LENNON The girls wore Just such gowns and caps, outside their party things, OWOSSO There win be no change in the federal wages and Henry Dunklow Theodore Skeba HOLLAND And all the dads and mothers were as proud of them as kings. Gilbert J. Hop Peter Siersma V. O. Braun I. C. Babcock SUTTONS BAY Proud of their young folks, each and all, with high and lofty pride; Harold Alpers Milton Groesser Gerald Kamphuis Harry Vinkemulder Enrecl< Shumunec hours act in this session of Congress. In our May 4 Not for the caps but for the minds they knew were hid inside; D. J. O'Handly Wencil Sedlacek Abel E. Nienhuis Hermanes Weener Claude Boone Walter Reincke Abel P. Nienhuis Joe C. Westrate TRI-eOUNTY edi .on we repor ed that the House had amended the act Not for the gowns and dignity; not the parade and show; Edward Donner Walter Vanderburg Philip H. Vinkemulder ANTRIM, CHARLEVOIX &. THOMPSONVILLE HUDSONVILLE But for the dauntless hearts of youth, for faces all aglow KALKASKA CO'S. to exempt workers engaged in processing or canning With high ambition shining there, for honor and for truth, Richard Zue Fred Johnson Mrs. M. E. Drew John Ernzer Peter Dys Albert Sail Sam Riley W. B. Dixon BOYNE CITY f rm products. Another amendment served to throw For all that warms our colder hearts before the fires of youth! Ivan W. Schworm Nick Dykema Andrew Hoffman Stevens Brothers Eugene TenBrink Martin E. SChaff 1- TRAVERSE CITY Arthur J. Lockhart VanTimmeran Bros. CHARLEVOIX Perhaps another Lincoln sat among those lads that night, out the area of production limits for exemptions affect .. C. L. Anderson Cherryland Rural Leslie Jamison Clarence Kroupa Henry J. H. Loeke H. H. Vruggink Sam Straw -D. L. Rising Awaiting but the appointed hour to champion the right. . Clifford Rynbrandt Leon E. Ocobock ELLSWORTH Elec. Co-op Ass'n George Kroupa i g worker on farm products. The Earm Bureau and Perhaps there was a Melba there among those fair young faces, Gale R. Gleason John Kroupa Harry Bos John Dykema John G. Peuler Gerrit Redder Howard Bearss Bernie DeYoung A voice to echo clear and sweet in future times and places. A. Howard W. E. Montgomery Bert DeYoung Wm. D. Slough Fred A. Ensink Luke Roberts L.eonard Hillman other farm groups began to figure they were getting Elmer Brown John J. Courtade Grit Brothers Robert Sneden And then again perhaps that roll contained no single name A. G. Brosch Ray Core Peter Hoezee Zenas Vande Bunte J. G. Boursaw Will Alpers TUSCOLA COUNTY s mewhere with needed reforms. But so many amend- That ever will be widely known by songs or deeds of fame, Alex Carroll &. Son Harold Chamberlin Kamps Brothers H. J. Vander Molen Vet, even so, we still are proud, for Just plain people here W. M. Mesbergen Jacob Paule •• UNIONVILLE Frank Christopher Geo. C. Drake Jacob D. Nyenhuis men s were accepted that the House came to the con" Have much that all the Great of Earth acknowledge and hold dear. Fred Cooledge Thos. Ghering Arthur Dehmel Leon Van Steen house Samuel J. McCreedy Elmer Crompton William Marshall JAMESTOWN John Leeks dusio tha with all of them in effect the wages and In our America today a common simple man Grace C. Morgan Elmer McManus JENISON VAN BUREN COUNTY Holding his own best sett- respect in fullest measure can Mitchell Paradis Geo. A. McManus Ruth Waldron A. T. McManus Roy H. Lowinq John Potgeter, Jr. LAWRENCE hou s bill was done for. So the House reconsidered the Live out the scroll of destiny, aspiring to the end; Fred &. Wm. Dohm C. F. O. Nelson Arie J. Potgeter Mrs. Jennie Rosema Otto Arndt Walking with God from day to day, with every man his friend. Tony Dohm Robert Seaberg MARNE whole matter and sent the surviving Norton bill and Its F. S. FowleI' Oscar Sundeen GertrUde Burns Lester W. Martin WASHTENAW COUNTY Merton A. Gilmore Ray A. Swanson amendmen s back to the House labor committee. It and the nation as a whole. Weare opposed to mono" Wm. W. Goble Will Fromholz Mac Easterly NUNICA Fred Nehmer B. W. Wheeler ANN ARBOR R. T. Dobson, Jr. Henry Gore Marshall Thompson Ervin Hecksel N. J. Wilkinson 1 certain to remai there for' the remainder of this plies and other unnatural restraints on trade, including Victor D. Grabell V. H. Helfrich J. W. Spaulding, Jr. Cyril Spike, Mgr., Chas. Klintworth Fred Fritz DEXTER Frank Butler Edward Post Harold Gerathy John Hill Cronenwith Farms s SS10 • laws which would increase the cost of distribution by Earl Hodge Frank McMullen John Echorn &. Sons GRASS LAKE Vern Hodge SPRING LAKE Raymond C. Jacob placing discriminatory taxes on some types of distri- OAKLAND COUNTY' Andy Bunker Geo. Chittenden NORTtiVI LL~ Dewey Chittenden B. A. Nelson butors." CLARKSTON WES'T OLIVE YPSILANTI anizations for Life During the same week Congress placed 21 2 million George Miller HOLLY Shipper Brothers ZEELAND Duane Crittenden Emory Mulholland W. F. Patterson Adolph Siekman James DeKleine The average annual earnings of Clarence Poe, editor .of the Progressive Farmer, the dollars in the agricultural appropriations bill for parity Albert Trost Adolph Siekma'l OXFORD Albert H. Lanning railway employees in 1939 was more Roy H. Huff E. G. Moshier great farm paper of the South, has this to say in his payments to farmers in 1941. It appropriated 85 Ralph Hickmatt &. Son than 100 per cent higher than in 1916. SAGINAW COUNTY While the number of railway em- May: edition: millions for removal of agr'l surpluses, and granted 500 OCEANA COUNTY BRIDGEPORT Fred Vance ployees in 1939 was forty per cent HART It is not easy to have successful community organi- R. L. McCarty Geo. Harriss less than in 1916, the aggregate pay- million dollars to continue the national soil conservation Fred Pringle Dougell FOSTER McCormick roll was 26.9 per cent greater. . zations in the country, but the need for them is so program. These programs have had strong support great that all of us are called on to make sacrifices for from the Farm Bureau. their success. Music, singing, games, contests, ice I cream parties, picnics, watermelon cuttings, etc., must Time for What You Want t Do be mixed in with the more serious work. "F ood, Fun, The busiest people can find time to do some remark .. Forward-Looking, scription for farm organizations and Fellowship" is the "4 ..F" pre- I have often recom .. able things that are out of their regular line of business. We should consider Henry Wallace, Secretary of the Best, Most Used, towed in. Cost mended; there need not be food at every meeting but U. S. Department of Agriculture, as a person in the even lemonade, apples, or peanuts eaten together won" midst of great responsibilities and deeply occupied with o derfully promote sociability and enjoyment. City them. people themselves were never able to make heir CIVIC On May 14 at Washington, Mr. Wallace delivered organizations succeed until they hit upon the idea of an address in Spanish before the Eighth American "luncheon clubs." Scientific Congress of the republics of orth and South The curse of agriculture has been our "in-and-out" America. It was remarkable because the Secretary had -first "in" and then "out'J-e-attitude toward farm or- begun the study of Spanish only a few years ago. He ganizations. What we need to do now is to develop a had become interested in Latin and South America. He life long habit of organization right straight on "from continued his study as time permitted. Mr. Wallace the cradle to the grave". We need to enlist boys and girls delivered his address in Spanish because of the occasion in 4..H clubs as soon as they' are old enough; then In and audience and also to emphasize the importance of Future Farmer and Future Homemaker groups; then In a knowledge of the Spanish language, and of the culture America's telephone service gives such good value that it is die most juvenile sections of farm organizations, and finally In of the Spanish speaking nations on the merican con- used telephone service in the world. This is the direct result of a Farm Bureau, Grange, etc., which they should join as tinent. long-estahlished Bell System policy that strives to make the telephone they would join the church-" for life. tt of constantly increasing usefulness to a constantly increasing public. No The more one reflects upon an accomplishment like that, the better he likes it. Mr. Wallace started from factor in this growth is more important than the "spirit of service" pre- Wa Sliri ki g 19. S. Farm Exports scratch as a student of Spanish. When he made his vailing among telephone workers • • . trained men and women whO' feel that it is their personal responsihility to serve the public well. Before the invasion of the Netherlands and Belgium debut as a speaker in his new tongue, it was before ea ly in May, the European war had shrunk exports of an international audience of scientists. And Mr. American farm products an average of $10,000,000 a Wallace did it well. month, according to foreign trade reports from Wash- teria or' its restaurant at shore prices. Junior Offer Farm A four piece orchestra and a floor ing on. Th Netherlands and Belgium are small nations, Bureau a Boat Trip show will be furnished by the D. & C. MI~DIGAN BEL~ TELEPHON. but they have been among the important export outlets The Livingston County Junior IFarm The Junior Farm Bureau will also £OMPANY for American agricultural products. In fact, together Bureau is sponsoring an all day boat have an entertainment program. • Bringing '0 the People of Michigan th« Adf1011tagea of the Nation-wide Bell Telephone Sy.tem trip on Lake Huron for members of Tickets for the boat trip are $1.25 they took about 10% of United States agricultural ex- the Junior and Senior Farm Bureaus. and should be purchased before June The date will probably be Monday, 25. Miss Frances Sharp of Howell is rts to all countries. They ranked fourth and fifth as our foreign farm markets. Together they bought about July 15. So far some 300 Farm Bur- eau folks from Livingston county are in charge of arrangements. I!.et interested in the trip. Possibly a TO REDUCE SOOT $66,000,000 of American farm products each year. Ac- thousand Farm Bureau folks will go. cordin to these figures, the war has cut U. S. farm ex- port about 30 7~ or 151/2 million dollars a month. Most The trip will be made on one of the Detroit & Cleveland largest passenger avigation Co's boats - Detroit The occasional sprinkling of a handful of table salt on the fire in the stove, grate or furnace, with the dampers left open for half an hour fARM BU EAU III· £ of our export crops have suffered. Only cotton and Third or Cleveland third. The boat will reduce soot deposits in flues. See You Through This Haroest. will leave at 10 a. m. for the 60 mile soy beans a e better off than th y were from an export trip into Lake Huron. Meals may be Matches should be kept in st ndpoint. purchased on the boat from its cafe- glass or earthen containers. Nearly every binder will do better work at Wash· g C assifi~"" Ad when its needle is threaded with smoooth, uniform Farm Bureau Twine. This Ameri .. Speaking to the farmers of America recently in a Classified advertisements are cash with order at the following rates: 4 cents per word for one edition. Ads to appea In two or can-made twine comes from modern mills r dio addr 5, President Edward O'Neal of the Ameri .. more editions take the rate of 3 cents per word p edition. n Farm Bureau said he was happy that Congress had where skilled workers utilize the best fiber ympath tic for the most part at this session with the and latest twine science to assure you satis- m objective of the Farm Bureau's legislative pro- FOR SAL&-NnSOELLANEOUS WATER faction. gram. President 0' eal summed up for the Farm Bur- MICHIGAN SEPTIC TANK and bell as recommended by State Col- SIPHON HARD WATER TROU8LE? SEND US a sample of the water. Give size of fam- lege Agr'l Engineering dep't, Bulld your lly. We give You a free estimate en eau in these ords: own septic tank and sewage system. In- equipment needed to get rid of the Order your twine for harvest now. And tall when tank Is built. Installa.tion and trouble. Co-op Water Softener with new "Our legislati e program is very broad. Its primary operation simple. DIscharges automati- type of mineral, all in one tank, sortene cally. Have been sold 16 years. All in water softer than rain water. Removes while you're about it, remember to take daUy use and gIving sattstactton. In- Iron, objectional taste, odor and color obj cti e i the restoration of farm prices and farm in .. tructlons with each stphon. PrIce, de- now present in water. Saves ita cost home a few balls for corn harvest. This livered, $7.60 whIch includes sales tax, In one year. Semi-automatic. Requires me t a parity with industrial prices, wages, and city C. O. D. charges are e tra. Farm Bureau only three mInutes attention to regener- Supply Store. 728 E. Shiawassee St., Lan- ate. Priced from $50 to $150. See your twine comes packed in strong, serviceable "iml'. incom ant to conserve the soil, control surpluses, (It-4.tf-R/lh) Farm Bureau dealer, or write Farm Bur- eau SerVices, Electrical Dep't, 728 E. bags you can use around the farm for grain 10 er the co t of distribution for the benefit of both PHOTO FINISHING ShJawaesee St.•, Lansing, !Hch. (9-2-83b) or potatoes. Each bale is tied with a good and consumers, maintain a sound agricultura AT LASTl ALL YOUR SNAPSHOTS LIVE STOCK natural colors! Roll developed, natural tern, afeguard the health and provide ade .. color prints, only 25 cents. Reprint 3 rope that will make two strong halter ties. cents. Amazingly beautiful atural REGISTERED HEREFORD, BULLS olor Photo, Room 41, Janesvllle, Wis- and heifers. A phone call to your Farm Bur dealer ucational facili ic for rural peopl ; increa e con in. (3-tf-Z-b) ensible price. We have a nice selection. . 1. Todd Co., Men- tha. (14 mile northwe t of Kalamazoo). will reserve your supply. rt outlet throu h reciprocal trad treati and FARM MACHINERY (7-3-tf-22b) JU t t; obtain constructi e legislation on FOR SALE-JOHN DEERE MODEL REG. GUERNSEY BULL CALVES UP 10-20 General purpose tractor, steel to one year old. rit for pictures and ranseortati d monetary que tions. In short, we he Is with e 'tension rtms. nd ase 14 records. Hooks Acres, BrIghton, ncb. inch two bottom plow. 11 good condi- (5-2t-1 -p) I gi lation hich e feel ould contri .• tion. A bargain for ca h. Iso used ci!'\- REGISTERED HAMPSHIRE SPRING tern electric pressure pump. See or g-iltR. One hr d g-ilt. One choice 10 . 1 ono ic welfar of farm peo e "rite Fred T. Huxtable, R-1, lQW RQad, La-nsln&,. "est "'il- (6-1t-45p) month" boar. Mich. Hook. Acr , Brighton, (5-2t-16p) iURDAV, JUNE 1, 1940 MICHIGAN FARM NEW Clothes should never be cleaned with gasoline. pounds for this U'l,!>ose. There are safe com- Arnerfcan Earrn Life • Needs Appreciation • So Much to be Thankful for .-----------_.:.-_-- There's so many elements in garden- G ing that are there but are not brought If We Will Take Time to light. There is a General Scarcity Kill all weed pests . To See It This "back to the farm" movement Of Wool Throughout completely and per- may be the solution for unrest, and manontly by spray- The World Ing with Atlacide, discontent even if we do think it is the safer calcium By MRS. EDITH M. WAGAR unfair to the farmer who has never Growing appreciation of the far chlo te weed kill- ft"'~'"'lr'J..:o:~ flung benefits of the program of the er. Kills the roots I have spent much more time this left the farm. 0 group or class or too. Spray weed spring "out-of-doors" than I have al- individual can have a monopoly on wool pool in Michigan and confidence patcl11ts from now as to future prospects for higher wool on, a per direc- together in several springs of the farm life. tions. 5 Ibs. makes past. ot that I've had more time. Cools Us Off prices as the sea on advances have. 7 • spray to spr 3 1/3 sq. but I've taken it. For a few years I've Not only have I spent hours and undoubtedly, been major factors rods. wanted to make a complete overhaul- days out in the yard and garden, but which have substantially increased ing of the shrubbery and the per en- I've spent a greater amount of time the tonnage of wool and the number 5 lb. can $1.25 15 b. can 2.00 nials but kept putting it off for a sorting and classifying an accumula- of consignments to the 1940 Wool 50 lb. drum 5.25 more convenient time. Consequent- tion of clippings gathered from time Pool. 100 lb. drum........................................9.75 ly they became too thick and grassed to time throughout my busier years. Wool already delivered to the 1940 over and in some instances com- There's history. bits of verse. unusual pool is 40% more than for the cor- Atlacide sold by pletely "ran out". happenings, and data of all sorts that responding date in 1939 and is prac- It's been most interesting to divide at the time I felt would be useful tically as great as the entire ton age FARM BUREAU DEALERS and to reset, to discard that portion reference at some future date. Much for last season. This growth in vol- that was no longer of it is still all that I had hoped it ume has come in spit of a very back- satisfactory, and would be, but there's some that its Clark L. Brody h s served as gen- ward spring and persistent rains and to add new varie- only value is in pointing out how eral chairman for all committees from cold weather, which have greatly de- EVERY ties. This was all often our troubles are nothing more farm co-operatives and the Michigan done in the hope than false alarms. of permanency. We get all wrought up over some can Institute State College in arranging the Ameri- of Co-operation at the layed shearing and wool marketing. Quality is Good The first few carloads of pooled YOUNG There has been new idea and either a com for tin g cannot live without it or we are sure thought feel that we college July 8-12. Mr. Brody will Michigan speak Wednesday morning, July 10, graded by the that kept our country will go. to absolute ruin a- on the subject. "The Co-operative as ing Conporatton at Boston. Officials wool have already ational Wool Iarket- been MAN pace with the work tion if it is put into effect. After a few an Instrument involved and that years of cooling off we can readily for Democracy." ther have reported to Lansing that they were very well pleased with the was t hat e a c h see it is but another dose of poltttca! quality Michigan. of the consignments The fleeces were said to from Solvay Sales Corporation plant and e a c h bunk. 7501 W. .J fferson Av nue, Does well to store some- bulb and each Farmers and Social Changes be bright and in excellent condition. Detroit, l Itchtgan thing as he goes along . . . shrub would es- It's too bad that we can be so Growers who had wool in these first Local Distributors: for himself, and, for the tablish itself in its easily convinced that changes are few carloads will soon receive th ir Farm Bureau Services. Inc. new home and needed. It's also too bad that more grading reports. 221-227 North Cedar Street family he expects to have I soon pay its rent in flowers of all ot us haven't the foresight to peer Growers who still have 1940 fleeces Lansing, Michigan ... and for that older man kinds and colors. into the future far enough to see to market are naturally anxious to se- whom some day he will Thinking of Others what the outcome of a proposed cure any possible advance informa- Throughout these hours of plan- change is going to be. For instance, tion as to what may be expected re- recognize as himself. garding wool values during the bal- ning and planting I thought of those what is the 40 hour a week leading See Your State Farm Mutual parts of the world filled with tragedy to? Can farmers ever regulate their ance of this season. This is a year of Agent. Write our State of- and sorrow; I thought of refugees job to fit in with it in a general way? great changes in valuations and it is fice for insurance information trydng to reach some place of safety What's going to follow social secur- of course, Imposslble to predict def- and of scattered families, and the de- ity? Will the farmer always be con- initely just what may happen to prices STATE FARM LIFE stroyed homes and crops and land. tent to be exempt and at the same for any commodity very far in ad- How utterly futile the future must time pay his share on everything he vance. However, there are many cir- INSURANCE CO. cumstances which point strongly to- be to those people! purchases? Bloomington, Illinois If hostilities should stop 'today, how Has it been the right thing for us ward an improvement in wool values many decades would pass before the to "wobble" in our thinking on pro- during the next few months. TIl re MICHIG.AN STATE FARM is a general scarcity of wool both BUREAU people of those countries could be hibition matters? Can our problems classed a carefree, ,peace loving be settled for the good of all and at in this country and throughout the State Agent, Lansing world. War always results in a trem- group? the same time keep us from becoming Dr. R. V. Gunn of the tate College Childhood in Europe hysterical in our thinking? endous acceleration in wool consump- economics department is secretary for What type of citizen is that little One for Us to Answer the group of Michigan farm co-opera- tion. child going to develop into after I heard a man say a while ago that tives and State college farm depart- Army Needs Up Six Times having spent his childhood in terror farmers like to feel that they're the ment men in charge of arrangements There is now introduced in the and privation, loaded down with a gas under dog; that they enjoy depress- and program for the Institute. Dr. Senate a bill providing an appropria- mask, not knowing what the next ing times and low prices, for it gives Gunn is chairman for the livestock tion of 66,245,981 to the army for day will mean to him? them something to talk about and to conference July 10. clothing, equipage, etc. This compared We, who are going about day by get stirred up over, altho they are not with $10.956,046 in the original War day enjoying the innumerable plea- prone to give any assistance in work- Co-operative Wool Marketing Ass'n, Dep't measure. There is little doubt sures and blessings that this great ing out a remedy. Mid-West Co-op C eameries, ~Iichlgan but what this law will pass in sub- country pours out so freely have no I wonder if there's any truth in it·? district. Farm Bureau Fruit Products stantially its present form without de- conception of the misery and de- Do we enjoy airing our grievances Company, Michigan State Farm Bu- lay, for it is in line with requests vastation in the war stricken coun- like a few people we have met who reau, Farm Burea Services, Inc .• and made by the President of the nited ~ ',\..: l - ,M, /:-' ~~·~iiIE • v.•••• ,\,"'-'- Although VITAND may not make your chicks feel quite so peppy as tries. every day life that cause us to feel about it? we have a grievance, but if we would reaJlly to enjoy a fit of sickness, There are many happenings in our juging from their eagerness We Have Much to Appreciate to talk I the State Depart '1'j ent of Agriculture. Fires should never be started with gasoline or kerosene. States in his recent speech to Con- gress upon prepar dness. It is very evident, therefore, if and when this bill passes heavy that W See your local Farm 'n ~ve lliem time enoug~ lli~ wo~d li we oo~d o~y furm a habit of ------~~------------------~-----~.----------------------~--~------- th~ little fellow, it sure makes for in many cases adjust themselves to telling about the many many advan- a good poultry feed. It is a de- something so paltry that our hard- tages and blessings of farm life so pendable, potent Vitamin A and D ships would appear imaginary. We liberally sprinkled with birds and supplement for Starting, Growing, really do not know what actual flowers and sunshine and beauty and Laying and 'Breeding Feeds. trouble is. space and vision, we'd soon have all Our American Farm Life eyes of the nation focused upon us. VITA VITAMIN A and DOlL D An American farmer's life is so in- All would be eager to mend the de- teresting to appreciate if he would but take time tects that were brought to their at- it. He can make any tention as to make farm life some- crop a real study. There's satisfac- thing more than a source of food and For Poultry and Animal Feeds tion in a straight furrow, in a fine clothing and raw material. contains minimums of 3,000 USP but firm seed-bed, and in a well I believe farm people could so sing units of vitamin A and 400 AOAC regulated planting. There'.s hopeful the praises of their own craft that its chick units of vitamin D, 'Per gram. anxiety in watching the germination. effect would help to make the nation Ask your Farm Bureau dealer for There's contentment in the growing itself more serene and stable. PATENT PENDING. TRADE MARK REG U S. PAT. Off. feeds containing VITAND; if you period and gratification in the har- A calm America might then wield mix your own feeds, ask' for quota- vest. a tremendous influence in a frenzied tio s on the VITAND oil. There's great need in our rural world. NAPTHOLE, INC. districts for more home pride; many It's a great thing to be able to stay of us might well spend a little time in calm during a riot. It's the hot heads -TYPE CODLING MOTH I SECTICIDE· •• BOONTON, N. J. slicking up our premises. Appear- who cause all of the mischief and ances do count when placing a value who prolong the turmoil. on the farm. To be sure it takes time an a little cash and a desire for an Strife that Hinders Progress Peacemakers are lileeded every- ON-TOXIC TO HUMANS··· SAfE fO TREES attractive ,home. They don't just where, not only in warring nations come to folks. but in industrial centers and in labor- People Are Changing ing groups. They're needed among GE ICIDE is an absolute departure from an adhesive was tested against the combination of lead arsenate I like to see all of these little farm organizations and in local com- other presently used spray materials such as and summer oil, also against the various lead-oil combination homes going up that we see on the munities. arsenicals, nicotine, fluorine, etc. It is revo- used in the Pacific Northwest, the result was a substantially outskirts of every city and in every Strife hinders progress and should lutionary in its development and in its greater yield of clean fruit with a marked reduction in stung town. It proves to me that our 'Peo- not be encouraged. It has kept many performance. fruit in favor of the GENICIDE schedule. Resulting higher ple are getting more stable. Some a family down. has ruined many a market returns enable the GENICIDE spray schedule to com- have had their fling for house cars neighborhood, has retarded govern- GENICIDE is the highly important answer pare in cost with lead arsenate-oil combinations and,in addition- and crowded apartments. Now they ment and has filled many a country . to the two-fold codling moth and spray want a home of their own with a bit with misery and degradation. . re idue problem. To find a spray material The GENICIDE spray residue was easily removed, whereas the of garden and lots of fresh air. Leadership, broad and liberal in its that would adequately solve this problem, the insecticide indus- lead-oil residue necessitated a complicated washing program to One cannot always measure the thinking should be encouraged at try, and cores of experimenters as well, have been striving for meet the tolerance. worth of a garden by the dollar sign. every hand. many years. GE ICIDE is the direct result of long and exhaus- NICOTINE-BENTONITE-Oll COMBINATIONS: The various nicotine- tive research conducted exclu ively by the laboratory and field bentonite-oil combinations used in the tests fell far short of Programs Ready Soon Institute Next Big organization of the General Chemical Company. It represents the GENICIDE schedule in the "pack-out" of clean fruit. General subject matter announce- Co-operative Event ment programs for the Institute will one of the most significant and successful research programs GENICIDE, since it is used in the same stages as lead arsenate (Continued from page one) be mailed to Michigan co-op managers ever conducted on an insecticide. or lead arsenate-oil, does not call for any additional applica- An Inexpensive Opportunity and directors soon. Later a final In- To the commercial apple grower, GE ICIDE is a most impor- tions. On the basis of the same comparison, the nicotine- The student 'body at the Institute stitute 'Program will show the speak- tant development in the field of insecticides. It is non-toxic to bentonite-oil spray schedule requires at least one, and probably will be hard to distinguish from its ers assigned to the subjects. humans and, therefore, is the long-looked-for solution to the two, additional applications. In fact, the market value of the lecturers or teachers, for both come in The Institute announcement pro, spray residue problem. At the same time, GENICIDE excels all GENICIDE-sprayed fruit was so much greater than that sprayed the role of students. Students at the gram will state that college dormitory other codling moth spray in kill- with the nicotine-bentonite-oil com- 16th annual session of the Institute rooms will 'be $I per day per person, FEE boolelet that tells will include some 3,000 managers, di- two persons to the room. Single room ing speed and in all-around spray binations as to effect a substantial protection . • • and yet it is safe economy in favor of GENI IDE. ho to malee and use rectors and members from large and accommodations are 2 per day. Men fir •• afe, lons-Iast,ins small co-operatives throughout the na- tion. They will represent thousands will be assigned Stevens T. Mason dormitory. rooms in the new Fam- for the trees. 8 IMPORTANT GENICIDE TO THE APPLE ADVANTAGES GROWER NOTE: Tests were based on the various spray combinations being of members of the farm co-operatives. ilies and women will room at Mary SOLVES THE RESIDUE PROBLEM C CRETE for a The majority of them will come from Mayo hall, another new dormitory. 1. Non-toxic to humans and safe for the trees. applied in direct comparison under GENICIDE reduces the residue re- 2. Solves the residue problem and makes expen- identical orchard conditions, uch the Middle West, Ibut they'll be here Requests for room reservations should from California and Maine and the be sent to Prot. R. V. Gunn, Eco- moval problem to simple brushing sive, complicated washing programs unneces- as location, variety, timeliness, etc. Dairy Bam Hog House M House Septic Tank deep South. nomics Dep't, Michigan State College, . or non-injurious washing. This sary. . Poultry House Storage Cellar For managers, directors and memo means that when the GE ICIDE 3. Maintains the vigor of trees which increases Granary Corn Crib bel'S of some 300 farm co-operatives East Lansing. Campus restaurants, including the spray schedule is followed, the yields." • Potato Cellar Feeding Floor in Michigan, the week of July 8-12 is Union cafeteria, 'Will serve meals at cleaning of the fruit will be for 4. Steps up the market value of the crop by ub- Ice House Smoke House stantial increases in the percentage of dean ORCHARD BRA D AND fARM U AU an opportunity, and an inexpensive very reasonable prices. appearance only! Machine Shed Water Trough fruit and premium grades. SPRAY MATERIAL opportunity, to participate in a great Sponsors for Institute Cooling Tank Fann Homestead 5. Simplifies handling of crop due to reduction school or experience. The sessions The Institute headquarters during 4 YEARS OF ORCHARD TESTING Write for your COpy. are free to everyone interested in, a the sessions will ,be at the new audi- in percentage of culls. Di fribufed by: (Use penny postcard or this coupon) discussion of the various problems be- torium on the campus. Morning and IN PRI C P L PRODUCING AREAS 6. Enables grower to clean fruit right on his own fore a farmers co-operative business. evening sessions of the Institute will UNDERSEVERE INSECT CONDITIONS property. i ---------- j Michigan is Entertaining be 'held in the Fairchitld theatre at the 7. Does not interfere with soil productiveness or Po tland Cement Association, I Iichigan State College and 'Mich- PROVE GENICIDE'S ADVANTAGES growing of cover crops. auditorium. Livestock, poultry and I Dept. W6-4 Olds Tower Bldg. 8. Not objectionable to workmen. igan farmers co-operatives are -hosts other sessions will be held in a dozen Tested Against Lead Arsenate and I Lansing, Michigan for the 1940 Institute. The College or more buildings on the campus. GE ICIDE does not contain Arsenic • Lead 221·227 0 T I F se send me "Plans for Concrete I has offered its class rooms, auditor- Michigan co-operatives and other Other Apple Spray Combinations Fluorine • Nicotine • Pyrethrum • Rotenone I Buildings". I Iums, dormitories and other facilities. farm groups joining with the College • LA S G, in entertaining the Institute include: LEAD ARSE ATE-OIL COMBINATIONS: GENICIDE IS A ENTIRELY NEW I SECTICIDE ime .- ...•..__ _ _ _ _._ 1 Farmers co-operatives and the Col- When GE ICIDE, together with I lege economics staff have collaborated Michigan Elevator- Exchange, Mich- WITH E CONTROL EFFICIE CY I St. or R.R. 0._ ••••.••.•.•..•.•..••••....••.. - I _.••.•..••••• with Charles Holman, secretary of the igan lMilk Producers Ass'n, Michigan I I Instltute, in preparing the program at Livestock Exchange, Michigan Potato City State - I 120 speakers. There is an average of Growers Exchange, Farmers & Manu- A PRODUCT OF GENERAL CHEMICAL COMPANY RESEARC~ ,_ _ _ _ _ _ - - - - - - - - two speakers per conference. facturers Beet SUgat: Ass'nl Michj~a~ J MICHIGAN FARM N Stock Feeders Day performed with his kind of salt the I ment which as based 'merely on result , no doubt, would have been opinion and contrary to practical ex- At College June 14 more decisive. peri en e and 'ch, copied by the Friday, June 14 is livestock feed- It should also be remembered that pre of oth r t te has done darn- ers' day at _f ichlgan State college. hay put up with salt is more palatable ag to a 1 gitiniate Michigan industry. Many angles of live tock eeding will to tock, not only becau e it i mois- In the interests of fair pIa we be- he discussed and demonstrated. a- WORLD'S FAIR AUG. 12-17 Palatability Increased, Dust ter, bu also b cause of the salty li ve thi side of the story should be chinery for making grass ensilage and flavor. published, . E. Schaefer. the methods will get much attention. NIAGARA FALLS - NEW YOK - W HINGTO ND And Fire Hazards are The statement that the use of salt The program start at 10: 15 and in- BALTIMORE - - EARLY DEpEMBER Reduced in putting up hay is a waste of cludes: In pection of exp rim ental money cannot be true because in any cattle; com par ion of molasses-alfal- fa silage, alfalfa hay and corn silage The Itchigan State Farm Bureau i thi tours into the ea t I'll part of the ntted a two By E. SOH EFER case the salt is not 10 t and replaces Solvay A rieu ]!allagcl', aatnaio alt Product.'? Oo. salt that would have to be fed to the August and is sponsored in co-operation wlth th for fattening heifer calves; mola s s- alfalfa silage as the only feed for It is to be to iagara Falls, ew York tty Considerable publicity was given to stock anyways. ost cattle do not Limes on It will he a trip similar to the two conducted au article publi hed in the [ichigan get enough alt and the use of salt wintering cows; five year experience in h y is more than fire insurance. Michigan Producers of repeated because of popular demand. Farm ews in June of 1939. This in wintering and gI azing breeding It is a good form of live stock health PULVERIZED LIMESTONE article wa by J. G. Hays of the ich- cows; four years experience in feed- The other comes in early December and will include i iag ra in Ul'anc . igan State ollege and belittled the LIMESTONE MEAL ing out home grown calve; eros Falls, ew York City, Washington and th American Farm Bureau Michigan is the largest producer of use of salt in uring hay. The im- Available At Your earest Dealer breeding for pork production. Ree e Federation convention at Baltimore. This tour i similar to the one salt in the country. This industry pression given by the article was that VanVranken of Climax, Kalamazoo sponsored each year at the time of the A. F. B. F. convention. on iderable work had been done is an important one to the state and Solvay Sales Corporation county, will speak on "Atlas Sorghum it is indeed unfortunate that a Mich- 7501 W. Jefferson Ave. Both tours vill be conducted tours giving those panti .lpating a at the college on this subject. as a Feed." igan college had to issue a state- DETROIT, MICH. low-cost, no-worry vacation trip such as has pleased so many In estigation dev loped, and Mr. Women To Aid hundreds in the past. ll-expense tour costs are lower this Hays admit in a 1 tter dated June year. The tours will have the same see-everything-ln-comfort- 21, 1939, that Michigan State College State's Beauty and-style quality as in the past. They are truly the greate t travel has done no experimenting whatso- Alfred George, general manager of Efforts of nearly members of horne economics exten- 30,000 women, bargains we have been able to offer our folk. Travel will be in ever along this line and the state- LIVE STOCK PRODUCERS farm co-operatives at Buchanan, Three the finest air-conditioned coaches. Over night stops will he in the ments made by him are simply opin- Oak, and a. 'opolis, i one of the sion groups in 83 counties in Michigan Mlchi~a~ Live. Stock Exchange has operated a successful ltve stock best hotels. Sightseeing will cover all points of interest at Tiagara, i ions based on experiments in another commisaton selling agency on the Detroit and Buffalo markets since 192!. speakers at the Conference on Co- to clean UP and beautify the tate, ew York and other places listed for e ch tour. Th e tour' offer state. op fa tive Purcha ing July ~.'1 at the promise wirspread effect according low-cost, travel opportunities not to be overlooked. He refers to a bulletin by E. O. BECAUSE merlcan In titute of o-operation at to plans already underway. Pollock of Washington, D. C., who, in It malntalns a thoroughly trained and experienced personnel. State ollege. .11'. George is also The committee making the plan The Michigan Farmer- .• ichigan Farm Bureau World's Fair tour It IS represented. on every principal market in the United States by turn refers to some experimental Producer owned and operated agencies. president of the Farm Bureau erv- lists such concrete ideas as clean off w1ll leave Detroit late in the afternoon of the first day. We stay at (3) It renders better information and market service to Its members work done at Cornell University, (4) It can furnish 4%% money for financing feeding operations. • ice, Inc. the front porch; fix the fence, repair iagara Falls the fir t night. After sight eeing the ne rt morning Ithaca, . Y. This article concludes if needed; plant native trees and we resume our ride, arriving in ew York City that night in time that there was no difference between PLUS shrubs; fix mail box; keep the lawn to visit Radio City and look down on America's greatest metropolis salted and unsalted hay in these All the regular business. fea tures of good practice in the live stock commission mowed. Following the e suggestions from Observation Roof, 70 stories above the ground. The next two experiments in odor or color. It ig- will cost little or no real money and days are given over to the orld's Fair, and you n vel' saw or learn- nores the very important matter of REMEMBER the effort in cleaning up unsightly ed so much in your life in the same length' of time as you will there. fire losses from unsalted hay. When you patronize the Michigan Live Stock Exchange you are bunding corn rs will reflect in every commun- It covers some 1,200 acres and cost about $150,000,000. Sightseeing in However, in an article entitled your own live stock marketing agency. ity, according to the committee. and around ew York fill our third and la t day, and the job is so "Spontaneous Heating And Ignition Reports furnished Michigan State College Radio Station WKAR for early thoroughly done that you will know more about the city when markets at 6:45 a. m. Iembers who drew final plans from ,: ~Iay" by Harry Roethe in Agrl- ideas sent from women all over the you leave than many persons who have always lived within its culture Engineering December, 1939, MICHIGAN LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE Secretary'. O~flc. state were Mrs. E. E. Bjork of Gwinn, limits. Late that aft moon most of us will return to our train and eleven semi-large scale experiments HUdson, Michigan Marquette county; nnette Wegner, head back toward Michigan, getting into Detroit the following morn- were made. It was found that salted Frank Oberst, President; J. H. O'Mealey, Secretary & Treasurer; ing. Those going to Washington will leave at about the same George J. Boutell, Manager • Riga, Lena Nee county; Estelle hay held moisture to a greater de- Brown, n. Pleasant, Isabella coun- time, arriving in the ation's Capital that evening, to spend the next gree during the course of the experi- SHIP YOUR STOCK TO US AT ty, and Mrs. Doris Puffenberger couple of days sightseeing before returning horne. ment than the unsalted hay, as the Eaton Rapids, Ingham county. Michigan Livestock Exch. Producers Co-op Ass 'n We would like to send you a free copy of the folders giving unsalted hay ran about 11% and the Detroit Stockyards East Buffalo, N. Y. full details about the trips including the all-expense cost. There salted hay about 13% moisture when 600 members attended the Co-opera- is no obligation on your part. Just clip the oupon appearing taken out of the barn. tive Detroit Packing Co.'s annual below, fill it out, attach it to a post card or en lose it in an envelope A conference on Spontaneous Heat- meeting at Detroit, (larch 7. and mail it in. DO IT TOD Y! ing and 'Ignition of Agricultural and I Industrial Products was called in No- Electric wiring should be vember, 1929, at Washington by the by a competent inspector. Michigan State Farm Bureau Department of Agriculture. The re- Department of embership Relations sults were printed in a report under stitute of Co-opera-tion. d.r. Beamer 221-227 orth Cedar St. has been president of the Michigan date of April, 1930, from which we Lansing, Michigan quote: "In connection with the Ver- When you buy your salt for haying be sure to ask for Livestock Exchange, the ational Livestock Producers Ass'n, and the I would like a copy of the folder telling me about (check the one mont study, a number of farmers liv- Sagina.w Medium N -C brand because you will find that Co-operative Detroit Packing Com- desired) : ing near the Canadian border were pany. visited. Several of these farmers 1. Y'Qu will have less danger from bairn fires becau e this salt O The 1940 Michigan Farmer-Michigan tion Tour to New York City and the World's Fair, August 12-17. State Farm Bureau vaca- claimed to have had marked success in stopping spontaneous heating of contains some calcium chloride and so it will keep your hay moister. u The 1940 Micbigan State Farm Bureau Tour to ew York City, hay 'by the application of large quan- D Niagara Falls, Washington and the American Farm Bureau tities of salt." This article also stated 2. Your 'hay will be less dusty 'and more palatable to your ••• Federation convention early in December . I understand this does not obligate me in any way .. that Fire Marshal Heaton of Tor- onto, Ont., investigated 400 barn fires and gave among his conclusions "the 3. stock. Your hay will be healthier for your stock because of the old time custom of salting hay in the well known beneficial effects of calcium compound in Fa Effective Name ............................................................•................................................... mow has largely disappeared. This is the diet of animals. , regarded as unfortunate as salting has Control of Blight Address R. F. D . been an accepted means for retarding combustion!' ,- 4. Your hay will bring a better price if you resell it because, 'being moister the stems and leaves will not separate so Farm Bureau Services, Inc., announces the County . Many of the experiments perform- rapidly. establishment of modern manufacturing facil- ed did not give definite results as (If you want this same material sent to ds, send their there were so many variable tactors. 5. Saginaw Medium N-C Salt being eoarser thatr ordi i1 treet plant at Lansing for the production of names and addresses in also on a separate sheet of paper). It should also be remembered that salt will TIJotsift down throug:h the hay and congregate in UNICO BRA D D STS for the effective control of blights and these experiments were performed pockets so that your hay will be salted moore evenly. ertain insects which attack sugar -beets, pickles, tomatoes, celery and other crops. 80 County Farm L.yle Mitchell MONTCAL.M Karl S. King with ordinary salt, which is quite MUSKEGON dry. The salt produced at Saginaw, Follow the experience of thousands of practical farmers Bureau Leaders Meet Milton VanFrank W. M. Blank Michigan, because of its calcium and use Saginaw N-C Salt this year for your haying. Made INCREASE CROP RETURNS WITH UNICO DUSTS (Contined from page one) MONROE chloride content keeps hay moister ommended: (l)l That securing and Mrs. Edith Waga~ only by . ROTENONE MASON than ordinary salt. The experience COPPER SULPHATE COPPER LIME maintaining Farm Bureau members is Ervon Kistler Mr. & Mrs. Wesley of thousands of practical farmers has MONO-HYDRATED COPPER SULPHATE SULPHUR DUST INSOLUBLE COPPER DUSTS an educational project, and that mem- bers contacted on dues collections should receive more information on Edna M. Eschels J. H. Hubbard SHIAWASSEE Hawley Charles Warren demonstrated that the use of this type of salt does prevent the salt from SAGINAW SALT PRODUCTS CO. We Can Also Supply Combinations of these Dusts F. F. Walworth Geo. Pardonnet drying out and lessens the danger of Saginaw Michigan the work of the Farm Bureau (2) that NORTH fire. Had those experiments been - -- every phase of the County Farm Bur- H. W. L.autner C. B. Carey James Harris Efuy at ~ar!"", Bur.PQu St~res o"nd Co-op Ass'ns eaus' membership relations should ST. CL.AIR be conducted on an educational basis Mr. & Mrs. C. J. Mrs. Eugene Fox Reid Paul Heussner to inform the membership to the best TUSCOL.A co-oe Eel of our ability regarding the work and program of the Farm Bureau (3) That Mr. & Mrs. Carl Smith Jessie Treiber .8 cu. f. t VA BUREN County Farm Bureau officers select carefully for qualifications and ability C. E. Buskirk NEWAYGO Jay Dodge REFRIGE ATOR . ,eaplc~ty the persons who will represent the Greeta Ensing County Farm Bureau in membership OCEANA Daniel E. Reed J. H. Birdsall work. Mrs. Greeta Ensing of eway- O. R. Gale go county was chairman of this com- OAKL.AND mittee. F. G. Beardsley J. S. Mitchell Harold Albertson R. W. Blackburn There SAGINAW R. W. Blackburn, secretary of the Mrs. Peter Young John Marthey Herbert O. Stark Fred Reimer American Farm Bureau, defined the WASHTENAW Farm Bureau as "folks coming to- R. L.. Smalley Robert F. Garrod gether, thinking together, keeping to- gether and working together." Farmers ca ave the best diets in Mr. Blackburn said that the Ameri- the United States if they want to. can Farm Bureau has committees of leading producers at work to improve / farm markets and farm income from livestock, fruit, poultry, dairy pro- ducts, and other crops. The Ameri- can Farm Bureau is attempting to reflect accurately the farm viewpoint in problems arising out of the nation- al defense program, international trade arrangements in these times, the future of farm credit, transporta- tion, etc. Tho e present at the May 28 meet- ing: BARRY Mrs. C. Hoffman Geo. H. Eddy Mrs. Warren Bolton Everett Young rive carefully and ave! State Farm policy.• BAY hold s ar saving important money in the cost Alvin Green W. S. Anderson of bodily inj ury and property damage liability: BEfJRIEN J. B. Richards R. C. File insurance as compared to the prevailing confer .• W. Alex Gale A. J. George nee tarif . herever you drive you can get Earl Huntley BRANCH L. Dean Steffey prom t, intelligent claim service from one of the CASS 7,000 tate Farm representatives. Even the Pa\J1 Savage Sam Thomson CALHOUN mo t dependable drivers sometimes have serious, A. M. Edmunds L. J. Decker costly accidents. Be protected by good insurance. EATON or complete information on "Why the Greatest Mrs. Frank Pifer Mrs. Martin Garn Mrs. C. L.. Moe umber of otorists Prefer State Farm Protec- GRATIOT This is a splendid value in a well- tion" rite or telephone today. - Mrs. A. Ballinger Mr. & Mrs. arranged 6 cubic foot storage capac- Mrs. Ray Neikirk Salden Eugene Smalty ity electrlc refrigerator that is GENESEE Wilbur: Short modern to the minute. Built in IONIA standard and deluxe styles, with Mr. & Mrs. Mark Mr. & Mrs. Charles Westbrook Mattison open or hemetically sealed freezing ISABEL.L.A compressor units. Mr. & Mrs. Pat Mrs. John Farner Hathaway Earl Richards e • Mr. & Mrs. V. Pohl Mr. & Mrs. E. F • L.oren Black Block PRICES INGHAM $ 89.50 Standard, Open Unit Distributed by -- ----------- UTUAL. AUTO IN • CO•• Mich. Stat Farm Bur. State Ag'y, I H. R. Bullen L.eland Cuff JACKSON KALAMAZOO Thos. Haggerty $126.50 $131.50 DeLuxe, Deluxe, Sealed Unit Sealed Unit FARM BUREAU SERVICES, INC. ., Lansin , Michigan I Clair Brown Cyril Root $149.50 Super DeL. Open Unit Wright Wiley L.APEER 154.50 Super DeL. Sealed Unit I E ....•....•..•...............•.....••.....•..•....•...•.. DDIE ... _. _ ......•..•..............•.......•.....•.•....••...•.....•••••._-- I Murray Phelps W. R. Broecker Carl Raddatz L.IVINGSTON Anthonry Harold Kreiner Copeland Buy At Farm Bureau Stores and Co-op ASs 'ns co-oP S' -- ...•.. -------- I H. H. Helman MANISTEE David Joseph 1, 1940 MICHIOA SPEAKS GOOD Challenge of Living is . Three Man on a orse WORD FOR CHA Met by Farrri Mothers Dairymen planning to ma e ilage thi ~ prtng hould b plans as to their mol s s n ds, ac- Mid-West Co-op Creameries .'----------,...------ cording to E. C. cheidenhelm, d irv Women Go Forth Today to and They thought of a Saturday morning the tow-headed boy who watched e tension p cia list at Michigan Says They Serve Butter College. Improve the WorId a busy hurrying Mother baking pies. Makers Well They remember her promise that if Delays in filling ilos may be -oid- They Live in thoy kept from underfoot and kept ed, he said, by ha ing all equipm nt the wood box filled, she would reward and supplies on hand. Lo s du to Chaln store food organizations rain on grasses cut for hay may be both corporations and vOluntar; By fRFJ. CHARDEH W. HEWELD them with a large piece of pie and Allm inistratine Director of the As- a slice of warm bread. Perhaps they avoided to a considerable degree if gr~Up8, have a good word from the sociatea Women of the Farm Bureau the crop can be ensilag d immediat - MId-West Producers Creameries, Inc., have not forgotten the definition by a ly. Generally speaking, mo t attempts a co-operative serving 22 member A short time ago, as I crossed the six year old boy, who when asked crowded loop here in Chicago, I noticed wha t loving kindness meant, replied, at making grass silage have been sat- farmers' creameries, 11 of which are isfactory in the state. Filling rapid- in Michigan. a sizeable crowd in front of a restaur- "Well, when I ask you for a piece of ant window. With the proverbial curi- ly, cutting fine, and packing well are During the past year, said E. J. bread and butter, and you give it to osity of Mother Eve, I attempted to three cardinal principles to remember. N Ryger, general manager, the member me--that's kindness, but when you get near enough to see what was go- Packing qualitie are larg ly deter- creameries marketed directly to put jam on it, that's loving kindness." Michig n mined by dry matter content. Most ing on. It's a great disadvantage As one passes into maturity, bless- 'Chain stores a total of 8,002,530 lbs. authoritie advise 30 to 35 per cent at times, not to be tall, and this was ed, indeed is the man or woman who of butter, which is about 29% of their totat production. He said that the one of those times. A second morn- carries with them the benediction of ing was the same experience repeat- a wonderful Mother. The memory of 22 creameries serve 26,617 milk and ed. and finally upon the third consec- her thrift and industry; of her unsel- cream. producers. manufactured The total butter by this group amount- ed to 27,860,000 lbs, last year. utive day, I took the time to really see what it was all about. fishness and tolerance; vice to her community; her patience of her ser- and loved. 1940 Wool P091 Ahead; -I The group was mainly composed of anted. LO LO and broad sympathy; and withal, her MAKE YOUR OUR At no time said Mr. Ryger have the men, mostly past their middle age, sense of humor does much to sweet- is good enough for Prospects Good chain store buying units asked the 'Co-operatives to reduce prices nor well dressed, well groomed and com- placent; and they were watching en life for all members of the family. Somehow, in the national obser- kings because it is earned. Where money is not so important as loving- (Continued from page 3) 160,000 yards of 18 ounce elastic. All • ,MIOHIGAN',S Largest Farm Mutual Fire Insurance Co. • veraged month 1,000,000 p r in 11 w in suran ie have they at any time refused to take kindness. Where even the teakettle during 1939. vance of Mother's Day, the concep- of these fabrics require the use of the regular volumes of butter arrang- ed for. In many cases the chain out- lets have netted the creameries an tion seems generally to be of an aged mother, who sits quietly in her rock- sings from happiness. -God bless it!" That is home worsted wool. In addition, the army late this month will buy 105,000 all- • Over $100,000,000 at risk. • Insurance classitl. d and as- sess d according to hazard. wool blankets for delivery as soon as additional their former 1c per pound more than sales outlets. Chain ing chair with hands folded, passive and resigned, taking little or no part possible. Continuance of this sort of • Over 250,000 in assets resourc s. and tBlanket 'Policy on pel' onal prop rty. { I'm in things of this present life. buying, of course, will force price store sales outlets and their storage upward and prompt users of civilian facilities have been helpful in hand- Beautiful as this picture is, my cloths to cover their requirements State Mutual Fir Insur nc (0. of ling the high production in summer heart and thoughts go out today to 702 Church se., Flint, Mich. H. K. more liberally than they have been W. V. Burras, Pres. months, Mr. Ryger said. the countless thousands of mothers (Continued from page one) Phone 25221 who with the courage and bravery "Sure I attended the federal credit doing. In view of the bill now before Mr. Ryger made these statements of the pioneer mother, go forth each meeting in St. Paul today. There are the Senate carrying 66,245,9 1 for before the House ways and means day to meet the challenge of living. 20 of us here from this county, our "clothing and equipage" which will 'Committee in Congress early in May evidently pass, it would seem that One of the earliest memories of my full quota, and 679 from the state. We in oppoattion to a proposal for a fed- tremendous government orders would life is that of the grief of my young made the trip in co-operation with eral system of taxes on chain stores, be forthcoming in the summer and Mother at the death of a beautiful the soil conservation committee and which orne hold are not designed to are to receive pay for coming. The fall months. tax the chains, but to kill them. baby boy-my little brother. No pasteurization of milk, no inspection trip cost $14. I operate a 160 acre Consignments to the Michigan Pool of dairy cows, no refrigeration or farm". (Statements made to inquir- are being delivered daily at the As- SMOK1NG IN BED ing reporters at time of St. Paul sociation's warehouse at 728 E. Shia- condensed milk to help her care for Some people have the foolish idea meeting). wassee Street, Lansing. The Associa- the food of the precious baby. Con- that if they do fall asleep while MUSIC tion would be glad to send you full ditions beyond her power conspired to smoking in bed, they will be aroused Mrs. Dana Bennett, music teacher information regarding its plans and bring on the dreaded cholera infant- , by the heat before it is too late. But at Lawrence High School in south- methods and advise you as to the urn, the scourags of babies fifty years usually the smoke "gets" them before western Michigan, has a habit of win- name of its local representative in ago, which claimed the little one. they can wake up, and then it is ning music contests. So effective your neighborhood. He would be Indeed, it as not uncommon for generally too late. Most bed, chair did her music pupils perform while glad to call on you and talk with many homes in the same community and couch smokers are unconscious MR~Cf/flS, W--..SflWEl...l. she taught at Decatur, her former yOU personally regarding your wool to undergo a similar experience. or dead before the fire really gets what-of all things-a woman baking position, that a state ruling was marketing problems. under way, because they inhale the Associated Women Help pies. She was neither young or passed that any school that won fumes. Smoking in bed is such a Mothers of today have gone about three times was to compete in a high- Rags soaked with good looking. She was neat, clean dangerous practice that one wonders the creation of sentiment and the en- er class. Musical organizations should never be left and efficient, and her pies turned out why anybody does it. Yet fatalities actment of legislation to safeguard coached by Mrs. Bennett have won They easily burst into flames a reasonable facsimile of pies like due to this cause are of almost daily the health of their children and great more times in contests then they spontaneous combustion. We believe it is the best Mother used to bake. occurrence. have been their accomplishments. have come home empty handed. I and most economical "That's Loving Kindness" In 1939, railways operating But as I went on my way, I fancied The Associated Women have co-op- 40.7 those men never saw the woman in erated in all endeavors to protect the heard a group of nine girls and three boys, the school orchestra at Law- Wo I Gr .v r live stock spray mad . per cent of the total mileage of Class the window or the city around them, interests of mothers and babies and rence, play at the Community Farm T ke Advaatale 01 tbe Buy our Kill-Fly for today, point with pride to a down- Bureau meeting there recently and household use. 1 railroads failed to earn their fixed but in retrospect, their minds went charges, compared with 4.2 per cent back to a clean, warm, country kit- ward trend in the mortality of moth- they sure did a fine job. Pool M retial Plan! ers from conditions resultant from Shearing season is usually the most un- in '1929. chen, perhaps many miles away. Mrs. Bennett is the sister of Carl favorable time of the year to sell your child-bearing. On Mother's Day in Buskirk, Farm Bureau leader in Van wool. By consigning to the Michigan 1940, organized farm mothers are Co-op Wool larketing Association Pool 5if Buren county. you can secure immediately 20 per deeply interested in plans to provide lb. on medium wool, 18¢ per lb. on IRISH adequate medical care and hospital- fine wool and 15¢ per lb. on fed lamb Thirty years ago, Samuel Bird, wool. There will be a second advance ization for rural families. For in now of Ionia county with a fine farm after grading and you still retain your spite of many advances, there is still equity and when the wool is sold you I' stallation is Guaranteed for' Three Years much to be done. in Orleans T family together, hip, gathered his acked his belong- vances. 'ill receive all that it nets Ie s these ad- For sacks and shipping tags or further information write to the We Install It It has come to be accepted, some- how, that whenever the church needs ings and came to America from Ire- MICHIGAN CO-OP WOOL MKTG. ASS'N 221 N. Cedar Lansing, Michigan land. It wasn't that the new land a new roof; the pastor's salary is in promised so much more in wordly SAFF;GUARD THE HEALTH of your family and have the arrears; or there is money needed possessions then the Bird family had greatest convenience electricity can bring to the farm in a for a community house or play- in Ireland. TO, it wasn't that be- Farm Bureau automatic, electric water system. Four Models. ground, that the mothers of the vicin- cause the Bird family had much more ity will set in motion plans to accom- plish the desired goal. For after all, in Ireland then they have had in America . . . . that is, with one ex- ~RUNNING 'kJideh, MeQIU AURORA these interests are only the enlarge- ment of the interests homes and are well termed "com- of individual ception, peace. . "There was too much turmoil and o Y•• H cuui H P!PINE:SS political strife," remembers III'. Bird. Turbine Type munity housekeeping." days, mothers believed that if child- ren could be kept at home and in In. earlier "We had a fine farm and home, were more comfortable then most. But the unrest and dissatisfaction, the take- TO 'ito«' A 0 YO U R dJ.~ SHALLOW WELL PUMP the rural community, their safety it-a way-from-those-that-have attitude There is only one moving part. No was assured and they were sure to belts, gears, valves, or springs. No was an uncomfortable environment grow up into useful citizens. to say the least. I returned to Ireland noise or pipe hammering. A life APCO Master New Problems to be Met a few years ago on a visit and found time pump. Capacities Pump In a II from 325 to 3,000 gal- stzes for homes, With the introduction of hard sur- that much of what I had feared had lons per hour. Prices: schools, dairies, faced roads ani! motor transporta- etc., with stor- come true. Many of those who won- 325 gal. per hour pump age tanks. tion, the boundaries of the commun- dered at my leaving are now dead, complete at $60.{)0. Completely Au- ity have been extended. The some- killed in the Irish revolutions 325 gal. per hour water tomatic. Guar- and anteed. Priced times undesirable amusements of the uprisings. The conservative DeValera system com'Plete $71.50 at- up. Guaranteed to city, as well as those worthwhile, of today was then the radical leader. lift water 28 feet at have crept out into the rural areas. Independence from England was the sea level. Installation charge extra. $60 UP Modern mothers co-operate to meet political issue. I'm glad we got out these challenges by providing recrea- when we did." tional opportunities calculated to off- COULD BE Water set, so far as possible, the <1..uestion- able varieties and to provide outlet for the social impulses of the youth eau: Reports a Community Farm Bur-, "We should discuss and exchange Softeners who represent the several homes of a given community. ideas . . . . . . . respe t the other party's view . . . . . . . because he The Farm Bureau semi-auto- Likewise, these mothers of today might I be right and we could be matic water softener changes are not content to gather their robes wrong. For example: one of our memo hard water to water that is and their families about them, repeat- bel'S said that many years ago his softtr than rain water. The ing like the pharisee of old, "Thank father, a practical farmer, said at a water Is right for drinking, God, we are not as other men are", Farmer's Institute that he fed yellow cooking, and all other purposes. when they see ignorance, disease and corn because it put better "kinks" in Softener costs less than a cis- po.verty about them. They are wise the pigs' tails. aid a College prof. tern, and saves its cost in about enough to know that as long as one "Bosh"! "And yet today scientists a year for a family. Our soften- family is uneducated, ill-fed, poorly tell us that yellow corn has that er requires only THREE MIN- housed or sick, their own homes and certain something that other corn UTES attention to regenerate. loved ones are not safe. Someone does not have." has said: "Women are wiser than If you are troubled with your men because they know less and CORRESPONDENCE kitchen sink and bathroom understand more." So we constantly The writer of this column likes to plumbing being streaked and find these present day model mothers receive comments from Farm Bureau stained with iron from your trying to discover ways and means to folks. But when those comments are water supply, a CO-OP Water made by folks who don't have enough do something about it. Softener and Iron Removal of the courage of their convictions to Today, the hearts of mothers Filter-all 1n one tank-will around the world beat quicker as we sign their names, we file the corres- hear the rumblings of War. We trem- pondence in the waste paper basket. stop your troubles. ble lest the world lose those things If its worth taking the time to write, USE TH IS COUPON we hold most dear-dignity, honor, its worth bac~ing up with a signa- Farm Bureau Services justice, liberty and freedom. e pray ture. Hope we'll be hearing from Elect rical Dep't 728 E. Bhiawassee, Lansing, Mich. God that its shadow may pass. So you but be sure to sign Plea: e send information on- there is much to challenge the busy your name. o I "hallow well pump. For lift of active mother of today. 2l) feet or less. That beloved Mother-the lament- o Deep Well Pump. For lift of 26 ed Ernestine Schuman-Heink has Borax Preven Flies feet 01' more. given us a beautiful definition of and Mosqu· oes o Co-op Water Softener. home as a place where there are: Borax in powdered and liquid form o Iron or Taste Removal Filter. "Four walls to keep out wind, a roof is recommended by Hchigan State o Electric Pump Jack. to keep out rain, floors to keep out College for keeping down the number o Electric Water Heater. STA-RITE AUTOMATIC Electric Deep well pump unit cold, yes, but home is more than that: It is the laugh of a baby, the song of of flies and mosquitoes. If the treat- ment is used in the right places and NA I with V2 HP motor, 42 gal. stor- age tank. E •..•" ..............•.......•...•...........................•.•• 250 Gal. per hr. For lifts greater than 25 feet. Com. a mother, the strength of a father. early enough there'll e few of these plete and installed at: Warmth of loving hearts, light from pests. Powdered borax is recom- happy eyes, kindness, loyalty, com- mended for outdoor toilets. Lime ADDRESS 125.00 radeship. Home is first school and first church for young ones. Where doesn't kill fly maggots. ounces of borax in ten gallons of Eleven We Stock Jet Type STA-RI-rE SHALLOW WELL UNIT with % H. P. motor, 225 gal. per hr., they learn what is right, hat is good water will treat eight bushels of Deep Well Pumps 18 gal. storage tank, $63.00 installed. and what is kind. Where they go for "table manure. Borax added to For literature and other information, write Farm Bureau Services, comfort when they are hurt or sick. standing water, or water stored for Electrical Dep't., 728 Shiawas'3ee St., Lansing, Mich. Where joy is shared and sorrow is was hing purposes will prevent mos- eased. \'~here fathers and mothers quito trouble. , , MICHIGAN FARM NEW SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1940 Agriculture, or • Certified a ~-g r ne' Craft lJ1I KEITH STATE FARM BUREAU PRESENTS FOR COMMUNITY A. TANNER GROUP DISCUSSIONS Danish and Swedish 'People njoying their every day life, their gardens, BACKGROUND MATERIAL DURING JUNE so completely isolate its If from urban influences as to stand completely on a a t u er Membership Relations and Education 'I'he following material is their books, their music, folk 8 hool its own feet. There is the constant s FOREWORD: pre ent d with the hope of motivating and other non-economic factors. One interchange of populations and the I qu stlon , pre nUng a background and stimulating thtuk ing' among th mem- is also impressed 'With the happiness market relationships. ost of the hers 0 they will dlSCU.'Hthese problems of the ipeople in this land. There market demand for farm products ori- with th Ir netghbors when they meet to- seems to .be less strain and stre s, gether in their Community Farm Bureau ginates in cities, and farmers in turn groups. more natur alness and more exuber- buy annually billions of dollars' worth The major portion of the ideas pre- ance of spirit. They weigh those of products from cities. Over a sented in this article comes from things which contribute to t'".~ir hap- period of the last 20 years, there has cont rences with people and groups. piness, the pleasures of their neigh- been an annual average of 1,641,000 any of farmers follow their occupa- bors and community, and contribute tion because they like Nature, like to to the general welfare of their fam- farm people who have towns and cities and an annual aver- moved to The best alfalfa fields in Mic igan for quality and see things grow, teel it is the best ilies, again t factors which contribute environment for growing children, only to material gain. Doe this at- titude bear consideration? age of 567,200 town and city people who have moved to farms. With the yields of pasture, hay, or seed are those planted to and th y like to work the soil. "You interchange of goods, and especially can take the boy or girl out of the Pride in Ones Craft "Never give a man up until he has with the interchange of people, there Michigan Crop Improvement Ass'n certified Hardigan country but you can't take the conn- is a constant interchange of fur- failed at something he likes", is a quo- tryout of the DOy or girl". Definition of Culture' tation worth considering. Pride seems ban and rural culture, and it is pos- sible that rural areas are contribut- or 'Grimm. Every farmer wants such alfalfa. HERE'S In order to get a better idea of what to be a big factor in determining the we mean by culture, let's analyze a degree of success, the attitude of the ing very much more to urban culture than we have been in the habit of im- YOU OPPORTU ITY! Not since 1936 have prices definition given before the ational individual and the manner in which agining. Rural Forum by Willem Van De Wall, problems are approached. professor of mu ic education, ni- What do we take pride in doing? "In the first place, there are many been so low for certified Hardigan or Grimm seed, vel' ·ity of Kentucky. He says, "By Many seem to feel that acquiring more people born and reared in the culture we mean an attitude marked more land than the neighbors is a country who go to the city than And it's eligible for re-certification for seed produc- by a di crimin te preference for the source of great .sattsfactton ; another's there are who move in the opposite better, for the more refined, for the pride is based on owning a better car more beautiful, in the most socialized than the Jones's; being well read and direction. In the second place, it is highly probably that rural attitudes tion. Why not have the best, and the yields, quality sense of the word. A cultured person well informed on classical and current carried to the city run much deeper will select, uphold and further the topics appeals to .some. Seeing that and are less modifiable than urban and long life that goes with it? At bargain prices! best that civilization has to offer. If their children have a normal and hap- attitudes brought to the co mtry. his ideals and standards met, he will u cannot be py life is a pride objective of many. his initiative and Others like to see crops and livestock Rural attitudes much longer standing, and modes are of are built up Order from your Farm Bureau dealer now! Stocks ener y to co-operate for a desired grow and develop. ost people like improvem nt. He is continuously 'a healthful environment; the open during the first 15 or 20 years of life, and are thereby supposed to be more R .W. BENNETT Mgr., Farm Bureau Seed Service are limited. mindful of the worries and hopes of spaces and the feeling of freedom af- highly conditioning 1n their influence his fellow men. He cannot be beaten forded 'by Mother - RAPE ature, A certain by untoward circum tances or lack of few like to be associated material necessities. His mind and community work, arranging meetings will are set to overcome whatever the and getting an exchange of rural ideas. with rural than any other attitudes. more, the relatively time it has taken to develop the ur- Further- short period of y BEA S MANCHU SOY BEANS are best for Michigan. - SUDA GRASS Our stocks are high germinating. MILLET Plant good pasture. before seed Millet about German Hay crop in 60 days. forma. They or Hungarian June 15 for are Cut good Have you analyzed the things in ban part of our society would suggest handicaps. Cultural attitudes, inter- MUKDEN Soy Beans are little earlier and they yield very well. Both good emergency hay crops. that the general nature of the popula- ests 'and activities strive for humane which you take particular pride? re they inclined to be cultural considera- tion of our cities in outlook and at- buys for emergency pasture or hay crop, or for soil building purposes. FARM progress along all lines of endeavor." We have good Culture in Agriculture or Pride in tions? Rural Life and National Welfare titude is not so very far removed from the pioneering days of the Na- BUREAU SUDAN GRASS comes from Texas. High Quality seed, and of good BUCKWHEAT seed. Wet or Ones Craft is a. topic on which every- germination. Sow Farm Bureau RAPE now, Good pasture for sheep or hogs. dry sow by 4th of July. one should Ibe able to express his view- Mr. Carl Taylor, head of the division tion itself, and these pioneering days point. Does the grass look greener of farm population and rural welfare were certainly shot through and on the other side of the fence? Are for the U. S. Dep't of Agriculture, in through with rural idealogies, at- you envying the factory worker, the hts add res before the American storekeeper or any of the average city sociation employees? of School Administrators Do you know how the at ·St. Loui , Missouri, in February of s- titudes, and impulses. Let me there- fore repeat that it is highly probable that rural culture is today influenc- ing city culture far more profoundly Far Bureau MACHINERY Makes farmer who moved to the city feels this y ar, gave some very interesting about the real value of city life as deductions on rural life. The follow- compared to country life? If you have an opportunity to dis- ing are excerpts from his talk. "The importance of rural life in the than is generally known or appreciat- ed. Hay g and Harvesting. Farmer a Valuable Citizen AVERY'· cuss or talk with anyone who might national welfare is relatively greater " or can we overlook the rather an ......... sier Job!! olarify this in your mind, don't let the than the proportion the tanm popula- occasion paas, What Do We Want? This 'brings a quotation tion is of the national 'Population, be- causes each generation of farm people to mind, contributes more than its share of widespreal belief that every nation's well-being depends to a considerable extent upon the maintenance of a fair- ly high percentage of its citizens on CO-OP "When man is in earnest and knows people to the next generation, what he is about, his work is half because agriculture produces and more the farm and upon an abiding knowl- edge and appreciation of the funda- SID'E DELIVERY RA·KE done." than its share of the ,primary neces- mental importance 'of agriculture and Places hay in light, fluffy windrows with leaves in and stems re we in earnest and know what sities of life. Furthermore, farming rural life to national stability and per- out. Keeps it from parching and drying out. Prevents shat .• we want? The material and tangible as a way of Iife in actual behavior, petuity. tering when loading. Preserves color, moisture content and factors have always possessed a great and even more so in .thought and "The American farmer, with' all his d al of appeal to the average Ameri- philosophy, Is a body of tradition ac- faults, has been a peculiarly valuable full feeding value. Rake and tedder combined. Easiest and can citizen. It s ems, in many cases, cepted by millions of people who do citizen because of the characteristics best way to cure hay. Follow your Avery Pull-Cut Mower the dollar sign stands so close to us not live on the farm. Psychologically, he has developed out of his past way with an Avery Side Delivery. At your Co-op store. that we do not see life itself. We sub- we are still a rural nation, although of doing things. He has been -funda- stitute price values for individual hap- the rural population constitutes less mentally a producer, not a money -CUT MOWER piness and social co-operations. than one- half, and the farm popula- maker; tundamentally a creator, not We often have to stop and consider ew front-lift construction takes all neck weight off the team, a mere laborer; a keeper of the earth, wh ther it i of more importance to always think in terms of material tion less than one-fourth, of the total population. Our cities have been not a juggler of markets and prices; a worker, not a speculator; an ob- puts it on the shoe to keep the cutter. bar at work and le,:ves the frame weight on the wheels to insure perfect tractlO? See Our built to a very large extent, and are Cuts all kinds of hay with lightest draft. Gears sealed In value or to lay our plans so as to do server, not a calculator; fundamental- those things which give us real en- still being constantly replenished from joyment, pride, a happy relationship the reservoir of farm population. ly democratic in nature, not the rank individualist of which he has Ibeen ac- oil. See this remarkable mower at your Co-op store today. Push.Bar with our neighbors and community, Something like 20 million persons cused, and certainly not a communist enthusiastic panionship friends or a healthy com- born and reared on farms are now with our children. Some living in American towns and cities, or fascist; a lover of life rather than a lover of things. fS-ome of these char- Co-op people state we should take our nose and I roughly estimate that at least acteristics and attitudes may be hand- long enough to 25 million additional persons now liv- icaps to him, but they are what three I from the grindstone look around and see how other people ing in towns and cities are the sons are living, to make plans for the fu- and daughters of farm-born and farm- hundred years of 'Pioneer life and I nation-building have made !him and it Hay Loader:', . ture and to enjl>y .ufe. 'People who reared 'Parents. is from them that we must develop [.:,;.""""" ••• ~..-+ .•..•.•.••••.. =.. have learned to assemble facts and our rural life of tomorrow." . "Because we are in the habit of analyze their problem in reference to thinking that culture originates in and Humanity Belongs to the Land WITH their own business have found they flows from cities, we are very likely save themselves many step and a to overlook the fact that there is a great d al of time, which allows them constant flow of people moving from to do some of the things they take farms to urban centers, taking with In concluding this article, I would like to quote a paragraph article, "The 32,000,000 Farmers", Fortune Magazine for February, 1940: from the in SOYA PAl' Growing Chic"s pride in accomplishing. A tandard of Living them habits and attitudes, traditions, and a culture which are customs, " 0 nation, mercantile whether or industrial, argicultural, has yet EARS OF PROTECTION Do 50 well on Merma5h! Many will probably wonder how we emancipated itself from the soil. Hu- essentially rural. can consider the intangible and still manity belongs to the land and has House paint that will last years longer! Soya paints have an elastic, MERMASH IS THE BEST STARTING, GROWING maintain a high standard of living. Rural Life Advantages not evolved-and may never evolve- hard film that withstands all weather exposure, gives years of pro- AND LAYING MASH IN THE OPINION OF POUL- Possibly, first we will have to define "Rural life has certain advantages to the point where it can live abund- tection. 'They present a fine surface for repainting when that time TRY RAISERS. HAVE WELL DEVELOPED what we oonsider is meant by a stand- over urban life which have prevailed antly land virtuously in stone and PULLETS AND HAVE THEM READY WHEN comes. Soya oil adds life to whiteness in paint, and tone to the ard of living. It is determined by the in rural cultures in many parts of the macadam, clusterec around elevator THEY SHOULD BE THIS FALL. MERMASH HAS colors. kind of car we drive, number of acres world and for a long period of time. shafts, in the mldst of a synthetic WHAT IT TAKES FOR GROWING CHICKS AND we farm, the quality of clothes we Studies show that while male farm- PULLETS AND FOR PROFITABLE EGG PRODUC· flora and funa created by the captains wear, the type of books we read, the ers constitute 18.6 percent of the oc- TION. music we listen to, the number of cupational population, they constitute miles we drive, the church we attend, only 3.3 percent of all criminals. of industry. Humanity cannot leave the land, and for this reason the men of the soil limit the level to which B PAl T or what does con titute the standard Rural crime rates are lower than ur- a civilization may arise." FOR LASTING SATISFACTION MERMASH of living we are maintaining? Is it ban and lower than for other occupa- JULY DISCUSSION TOPIC-CON- USE FARM BUREAU SOYA passed upon economic values, cultural BARN PAINT. IT COVERS 16% tions. Similarly, suicide rates are SUMER • PRODUCER RELATION- OPEII fORMULA factor , or a combination of both! SHIPS. WELL IN ONE COAT AND WILL lower in rural than in urban areas Others, when speaking about cul- WEAR FOR YEARS. PROTECT tural prtd and co-operating with nearly everywhere in the world and YOUR FARM BUILDINGS fAIIM BUREAu.ii.i.iNG CO, Inc. others, fe 1 that the general philosophy are lower in agriculture than in other Seed Corn, Sealed in Cold, AGAINST ROT AND DECAY CItlCAGO.Ill. and thinking of people will have to occupations. Urban population had a WITH THIS GOOD PAINT. RED bo modified. They will have to learn conspicuously higher rate of divorce Keeps Life After 6 Years AND IN GREY. to weigh emotional factors, things than the rural population, and the Seed corn dried thoroughly, sealed which give them a .feeling of satisfac- rate tends to increase with the in- hermetically, and stored at freezing tion, pride and joy, with tangible and crease of the size of cities. The same temperature or colder has kept its m terial gains. relationships apply to desertion and power to germinate after 6 years. -FAR BREAU ROOF COATINGS on Good Pasture Person traveling in the Scandi- separation in the rural and urban This has led scientists to renewed navian oountries before the second population and in agriculture as com- interest in methods of seed storage Aluminum No.1 & 10 Zinc Dust (Grey) orld war reported they found the pared with other occupations. What that may eventually prove of value to Asphalt Roof Coating (fibre) EED GRAIN! these facts mean is that the greater farmers and the seed trade. Asphalt Roof Paint stability of family life in rural than The U. S. Dept of Agriculture ex- in urban areas constitutes one of the periments grew out of the need of COWS ON GOOD PASTURE 'NEED greatest values which inhere in the the breeders of hybrid corn for rural way of life. some practical method of insuring SOME GRAIN. They need more grain "Probably the greatest value of the against the loss of valuable strains of breeding material. Some of these All··Late Planted Crops when on poor pasture. Milkmaker pro/tein rural mode of living, which is not subject to precise measurement, actual and potential capacity for self- is its strains represent years work that might be wlp d out in a of patient ) Need ~ Fertilizer concentrate mixed with your home gr wn grains will provide a good, balanced dMrY sufficiency which is not only economic season by a rlocd, windstorm, drought but social and psychological as well. or insect attack. ration for either dry lot or pasture feed- Stable family life; enduring social If other seeds can be preserved by Farm Bureau Fertilizei' nitro en ing. Farm relationships of friends and neigh- dry cold storage, the Federal scient- Our' fertutzers use the bors of long standing; intimate con- ists say it may lead to changes of highest grades of phos- is 95% water solu~le to give phorous and potash. tact with the soil, plants, and ani- importance in the seed business mak- ~Iants a quick, strong Ifart. Bureau brand mals; absence of complex economic and social machinery which produces ing practical seeds after abundant long time storage harvests from of They're kiln dried to drill perfectly. -.. MILKMA nervous tensions and tends to break down primary group relationships; plants that are not ordinarily reliable seeders. Sealing of seed in air tight Farm Barcau rrices Lan in&.Mich. ".lclt Ac""" Nitro ••• 14% 8nd 34% P el• ,. What ro ••Nee" Now I all these are values to be found in the tins would not be difficult or expen- country to a far greater e tent than sive, and sold storage is now avail- em- year. URE U in the city. Our Influence on Cities able at moderate cost. F!S·•••. urea rand u lies at 30 Farmers E evators "There i , of course, a great fallacy Every home, e pecially on farms, and lack of under tanding in the as- hould have a special water supply FARM U EAU SERVICES, L.nsin" ichi,8n • umption tho t 1 \11'<)1 life an or should for fip,'hting fire.