IF IT'S HELP YOU BED, B LP 0 uee D o. 66 -------==---==~~=--=:::::::::::===::::::~~~~:::~~~~~-~--.----....- SATURDAY, E 7, 1941 A BF CHIEF SKS F rm M rlcet Prospects as of J ESIDE T FAR LL Says ation Now Well Abl res dopt To Pay Farmers Pa iy L an 0 Fair Prices CHERRIES In lade Liv Cherry canner in th Tra- May 17, 1941 verse City area no started the talk Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt .0vr"'U'Uf nICS about 1 to I1h cent cherries last Pr sident of t11 United States POA'M'''IAItO May 26 President Roos -el '1l0DU,T'OIl 0' winter and h d growers all hot and The White House w'Uft trAN . spired bill adopt d by Congre M y 1 bothered wh n I w s in that area Wa. hington, D. C. mu t have rather red faces today. government loan on basic farm co odi i My dear President Roosevelt: With the ruinou surplu es which I am writing to respectfully urge b. 85 ~ of parity prices. The b sic crops were hanging over the market la t YO~ to give your approval to Senate winter reduc by heavy pring de- corn, cotton, rice and tobacco. JO'lDt Resolution 60, providing man. mand and the nor t crop in year datory 85 per cent loans on cotton, Federal officials have estimated that th ne I coming up, some of the private can- ners have already notions to a 2'h to 3 cent upped their price Prospects look even better than that, however. Offer being tendered basi. the corn, wheat, rice and tobacco for 1941 crops, approved gress. which was by both Houses overwhelmingly Ever since I talked with you about of Con- 0 ::::~. . ~~/; •. :' : $" ·..... ,:. '.::.:, .: ':": :: -.: 'ARM '''COMr AND eOlTs 'liS- ••••• WIL.L.TO' It40 'ICiURU. 'OOD ,IlICC$ ••ow COlllPMrD WIfH ,,"r I" CO"SUMI" ,NCOM(S. orize an average loan rate at pre en of 96 c nt wheat, 71 cents a bushel for corn, 89 cents a bu h 1 13.6 cents a pound for cotton, and 20 c nt b pou Farm Bureau ~ i Product Com- this matter late last' year, we have HAII~E5TIII' OF rllUCll ~rC'$ O'lIH' tobacco. The loan rates have the effec of t bli hi pany from cherry bu ers Indicate a pressed for action by tbe Congress to NO"TII. 1;01)0 VCLUW1. ~n!v'f"~ '0,. 'UIII lR MAIIlns. mum prices. Together with parity payment nd oil conser possibility of 3'h to 4 cents for the enact legislation which would give IlIlIt 1141 new pack and po ibly 10 cents per Ioo-- ~_. .._ vation payments, farmers co-operating i th farmers higher prices in the market- pound tor bac'kberrie. Even with place and would relieve the neces- program should realize full p rity price for Cross-currents are running now in damaged pasrure and reduced hay loans have aided farm markets. a short crop in tb Grand Traverse sity for pressing for larger annual the agricultural situation, the U. S_ prospects. Late t reports indicat Price of agricultural staple 1'0 e to area, grower ho hav cherrie may appropriations for parity payments. new mark in more than a year. The crops in 1941. realize more for their crop at the Department of Agriculture reported urgent need for rain practically every •.- This measure will accomplish this higher pric than th Y got last year, June ] On . th hi her . r where east of th . lis. Is ippi River. food-for-defense program ha raised The next mov In ongr s IS n for at least one year. The usual ap- hia . e IS e Ig el prIces. . . hen they h d 10 0 h rrie hut ' . .,:' Winter wheat Will soon be in har- the prices of livestock, poultry, and of parity principl to II far propriation for conservation pay- gher income, and higher costs In ve 1. The crop i practically made, dairy products. Prospect for farm sold at a low pi. ments and the $212,000,000 already prospect this year. The other is the a crop estimated at 653 million income in ] 941 are above earlier es- immediately after the pa sag of the bill, Congressman CHEAP FOOD approprtated for 1941 parity pay- anxiety From no Q armer re going to ments will be sufficient, on the basis over drought. The season bushels, the large t in 25 of the la t timates. Total agricultural produc- non of Kansas told the House that the legis} tion started off well with crops and live- 30 years. Total supply of wheat duro tion may be a little larger this year hear a lot bout the high co t of than last, notwithstanding the small- to one year, and does not apply directly to hog food. City ood co t r going up stock in ood condition but th 1 ing the comin~ year should he of near- g , e ong record proport ions. er 1941 pig crop - unless drought omewhat. h n r .. Hou i e om- should prevent. farm products. He said that the Hous committ dry spell in the east has seriously Higher government plain. th grocer and bnt her blam culture had started daily hearings pr paratory to it on the farmer. Hardly ever is it .1 ilk Marketing Bill which is consid- pointed out t t ~a'bor 0 t . increa ed profits, increas transportation egi tat r erably Ilk the new marketing pa sed 2 years ago hu t declared uncon- stttutlonal by the Supreme Court after bill comprehensive products at parity prices. bill to permanently stabiliz 11 costs, incr es. etc, have any- thing to do M ts. It' Itb increa ing in food I' to jll. t blame it 011 00 Far it had been in operation months. During that time it had re- sulted in substantial only 15 benefits to mille Sliding Scale to Replace P gging Passage of the parity price bill, sai Mr. n the farmer. . Writing in Uace' armer, Ed- Farm Bills Adopted Include ew Milk Marketing producer in the variou had been establi hed under its pro- areas which untenable the position of the federal pric dmini Itor Clifford Or gory on pril 5th put Board, Improved State Aid to School vi 10n. For instance, in the Detroit the U. S. Dep' t of Agriculture in th ir ffort to it this w y: ar a alone it had re ulted in added re- down farm prices while the price for all 0 h r "From no on, farmer are going And Many Others Long Desir turns to the milk producers totaling to heal' 10 about the high co t 1,793, 62.01. The new law meets the services moves ever upward. of food. Actually, By TANLEY M. POWELL constitutional point raised by the u- a' every farmer Fann Bureau. Legislative counset preme Court and also embodies other ..It was necessary to oppose the D partm n f 1- now., all agricul- improvements which experience with ture to pass the parity price bill," said Mr. Cannon. h tural products e - When the legislators completed the main art ion of their the old law had indicated a being other hand, it could never have been pass d withou c pt beef cattle, t 194 session May 28 and recessed until July 8, they left be .. de irable. veal calve and Lower Tax for Farm Vehicles and aggressive campaign and earnest co-oper tio I mbs are under hind a record of constructive enactments in harmony with Another hill which will be of direct organizations, parity. Hogs, for the desires of organized Michigan farmers. A resolution financial benefit to almo -t very farmer i the measure redefining In nee, should previously adopted had called for adjournment on May 27, motor vehicles and trailers and set- Commends Farm Bur u bringing an av- "I cannot refrain from expres ing th r ge of 9.24 on but as midnight approached the clocks were stopped and the ting up a new schedule of weight tax appr I rates. Among the benefit to farm farm to have the certain that all feel of th able and tactful ervi r id of April 15 parity prices, to assure law-makers toiled on through the night and until mid ..fore- famili povided by the bill are I' due- . me buying pow- tion in the farm truck rate from 50c Edward A. O' eal of the American Farm Bur full parity returns to co-operating noon before bringing their labors to a close. er a. in 1910-14. to 35c per cwt. and drastic cuts in producers of these five commodities His contribution to the American farmer in the nactment "But f w con. umer know what on their current production. We have Veteran legislative observers have commented that prob- farm trailer weight tax costs. Previ- "parity" mean. They do know. how- never sought and are not seeking now ously the rate on farm trail rs has this bill should move every farmer in the nation to pr m ever, that farm eren't getting un- appropriations ably no previous session ever enacted so many bills desired been 50c per cwt. up to 1,000 pounds to bring farm returns affiliate himself with his nearest farm organization." usually favorable price for food back above parity. Any funds that are not by farm folks or measures of such Far-reaching scope and so and 1.00 per cwt. for heavier trailers. Under the new bill the rate on all in th twentles. comparison with needed for !parity payments will be helpful to the farm families of the state. farm trailers and semi-trailers weigh- Under the 85 ~ of parity prices bill adopt d May 13, 1923, for in nee, show that the returned to the Treasury. total co. t 0 11 Ing for the average ing not more than 2,500 pounds will Congressman Cannon, the parity price of cor m y b I am amazed at some of the state- Resolutions adopted by the Farm Bureau Delegates last be 35c and heavier farm trailers 50c. family i no only 6.1 per cent of ments being made by so-called November had outlined a broad program of state legislation The definition of a farm truck or farm cents a bushel at the farm, and the farmer till r c iv what it wa then. spokesmen for the consumers with trailer is one owned by a farmer and full price in the open market. Hogs fatten d on 9S cen "There ar e Umates of the Na- respect to this legislation. The facts desired by the members. Since then other matters have come u ed exclusively in connection with tional Indu trial Conference Board. a show that consumers will not be sold at the pegged price of $9, d liv r d t group which ho no favoritism to mate reason to complain against this have no legiti- up regarding which the Farm Bureau's position has been the farming operations of uch farmer and not used for hire. cago. agriculture. The board report that measure, Its effect on the cost of defined by action of the State Farm Bureau board of directors Two provi ions of this bill refer to Criticizes U. S. Dept. of Agriculture +------,---------- food price are now 7. per cent Ii ving will be 0 little as to be in- or executive committee. Members of the legislature were rubber tired farm wagon. Just how Congressman Cannon in his address tactur d commodities at proporttou- of the 1923 tandard, while alnlOst consequential, since farmers' prices that will be administered remains to to the House said that the price ad- ate profit. a>ll other co t (the one e ception is for the raw products constitute such kept advised of the Farm Bureau' s attitude through daily be seen. In Section 1 under defini- ministration and the U. S. Dep't of Parity Prices for all Produce women's clothing) are above 0 per a small portion of the prices paid by personal contacts, presentations at committee meetings, testi .. tions the following sentence appears: "The term trailer shall not include Agriculture 'Suddenly repudiated the "A comprehensive bill to perman- cent. Con urn are buying food consumers. The fact is, consumers farm recovery program of the past ently stabilize all agrtcultural pro- cheaper than they are buying most are getting food and fiber o3Itbargain mony at public hearings and frequent letters from C_ L_ farm wagons having long tongues and designed primarily to be drawn by eight years and became agreeable to ducts at parity prices is all th farm- other things. prices and are well able to pay farm- Brody, executive secretary of the Farm Bureau. A compari .. horses, even when drawn by motor allowing the income of agriculture er asks. He is ready and willing and FARM PRICES LOW ers parity prices for their products. alone to be pegged at less than par- anxious to contribut his share ) And in the ay 3rd issue, Editor Factory wage rates are approximate- son of the Farm Bureau's legislative program and the actual vehicles." Then in Section 7 the bill provides: "For a farm wagon drawn ity. At the same time vast sums th national deten e. He is no ex- Or gory said: "Farm prices are far ly 35 per cent higher than in 1926. measures enacted during the recent session appears in this by a motor vehicle when u ed in con- from the lend lease appropriation peeting the high prices of th last out of line with prices of other things. while farm prices are 29 per cent low- article. nection with the farming operations were being .poured out without stint war-although labor and industry ar A lot of tim he been wasted, by er; retail prices of food. 20 per cent of such farmer and not used for hire, Milk Marketing Act or price-fixing restriction to labor getting more than in th last war. people who ere unwilling to admit lower and the cost of living 21 per State-Aid to Schools 1.00 per wagon regardles 0 weight." or industry in the highest -wages and "There are many who .•. will tell that farmers mu t have fair prices, in Probably the measure of most far- Another mea ur of headlin im- trying to find other cau es for farm cent lower. reaching benefit and the one which portanc was the Pater. on- cker Th bill definitely clears up confusion highest prices in the economic his- you that you cannot HoIv the farm There are 30 million people living (Continued on paA'6 Ii.) tory of the world. problem in Congress-that you can- troubles. 11 the other causes put on farms at a serious disparity with will affect favorably every rural ram- The plea that consumer buying not legislate prosp rlty. But that ily and taxpayer i the new law rela- together are in ignificant ed with low rices. as compar- industry and labor and the situation Now that con- is growing worse. Farmers are great- tive to State-aid amount of the appropriation for schools. The finally At the FarIn Prices power demanded refuted by recalling fixing hog prices is is exactly what Congr 8S has be n hogs at $21.50 doing for years. The economic 8Y8- sumers are beginning to shout again ly disturbed at the recent increases compnri: on of full parity price all ...Iichigan farm with p r cwt. and typical mechanics' wages tern of our fathers has h en Iegtslat- written into the law was $44,500,000. for cheap food, it is important to in industrial prices and wage rates Thi compares with 41.000,000 annual- average ])1'1('e. paid at the farm, and with". upporting prices" at 59 cents per hour in 1920; hogs ed out of existenc. The law of r member that. while most farm prices remain far ly during the past biennium. announced by the I.' .• '. Department of Agriculture. at $12.40 and wages at 70 cents in supply and demand has be n sup r- "Do you remember the story of the below parity. In the interests of From the rui al point of view, by far *Supporting Prices 1935; hog prices fixed at 9 in 1941 seded by laws establishing floor man who; when tung by a bee. turn- national unity, it is vitally important the most important feature of this bill Announced by U. S. and mechanic's wages at 97% cents and ceilings, quotas, embargoes. guar- ed around and kic ed the dog? Some in this critical time to close this gap i the new formula for the distribu- Parity Price Average Price Dept. of Agr_ May 3 an hour and still rising. anteeing returns on Investments, consumers are Uke that. Rents go SO as to restore and maintain a fail' tion of thi State-aid. The Farm on Michigan Received at What Farmers Have To Pay limiting competition, levying tariff •• up, wages go up, the cost of gadgets PRODUCT F rms Apr. 15 F A (Hogs. butter, poul- economic balance. Bmeau resolution had demanded that arm pro 15 try) Continuing, Mr. Cannon told the and so forth, creating up 1 ViSOll' goes up, so th 1. turn around and kick th farmer. By orne strange process charged This measure cannot properly as inflationary; be "In order to provide greater it merely and equality of educational equity opportun- "\, heat (hll) . '1.21 .. " .91 s . 6';'- House that the freight rate on a car agencies of eggs to New York is higher today and and otherwise disrupt in natural supplautin conomle of reasoning, they eem to think that seeks to establish ity w urge that a larger portion of 1 0 l'1l (hl1) . '1 .66 .54 a fail' exchange with eggs at 24 cents a dozen than it formulas. th additional money that have to paY value for farm products of which we the State-aid funds be devoted to Bean. (t'w1 ) -l.0.') a. n 3. ;) was when eggs were 50 cents a dozen, "All these arbitrary enactment I Hog .. (i-wt ) !/.·H 8.12 .50 for other thing ou~ht 0 be saved have a superabundance for the use of equalization and less distributed sole- but the pegged price was to be 22 islated money into the pocket of. in the cost of the food they buy. nhe American people. ly 011 the school cen u basis." #Bl1ttel' (lb) .ss .34- .30 nts per dozen. The lumber requir- classes and indu tri s. They oul Anot her thing b t puzzles me i why The new formula complie 100% Ponltrv (ib) .14 .17 .12 ed to build a poultry house is vastly not have been pass d if they ha 1 t This measure carries out the ob- so many so-caned llberals who think jectives of legi lation whicll .you an~ with the Farm Bureau recommenda- # Egg-. (doz) .Hl .19 ,20 higher today when poultry is selling legislated money to favor d roup that every increase in wage rates is Congress have supported durmg your tion. The new ba i is so drastically \\ hole milk (cwt 1. )9 1.95 for 24 cents than it was when poultry the favored groups who Iobbi d different than the old that although .:..6 a good thing are among the loudest administration. We feel confident the amount of the appropriation is :PA~ ~"'ool (lh) .40 was selling at 36 cents per pound, them. And, 0 course, wh 11 kickers when farm price, which are when you consider all of the facts, Potatoes (bu ) . 1 .49 but the price was to be "stabilized" at legislated money into the pock t 0 million dollar more than for the prev- the farmer ' wage • go up. you will give this mea ure your ap- iou two years orne city school dis- 15 cents a pound. The corn planter one group they had to Ie i lat i 0 "Speaking on the ational Farm proval. *Reduc d from "at Chicago" prices to "at farm" ba is. trict will receive con iderably less with which the farmer produces corn of the pockets of other group. 1 and Home Hour, prtl 12, President **Loan rate prior to enactment ! fay 26 of 1 gi Iatton tor 85% of to feed $8.45 hogs costs more than had to come from omewh re, Jl Respectfully yours. . State-aid than they hav been enjoy- Ed O' eal of the cAmerican Farm . n Farnl Bur au FederatIon parity prices. meuica . t tug. T 1"us I no t a COIld mnattou . 0f he paid for the same corn planter large part or it cam ou 0 Bureau, said: 'If farm prices had EDW AlRD A. 0' EAL, Preslden 'I the new formula but results from the ***Bas d on pres nt d com-hog ratio, with price for hog support d when hogs were selling for 21.50. pockets of h tanner, with no gone up in the ame proportion as fact that the old ba i wa so in- at 9 at Chicago. But the price administration is for pensatiug enac ment to 1 i 1 Iwage (stnc pre'"W' r d y ), cotton equitable and gave superftuou aid to pegging hogs at $9 at Chicago. hack. would now be llln at 2 cents a This Would Kill district. that were ,erfectly able to #Prices adju ted for seasonal variations. OTE-The e figures were compiled from information suppl; d by "It Is evident from the order fix- "But our experi n e nound in te d ~f 10 cents; wheat Live Stock Auctions provide ample educational facilities the economics dep't of the ~Itchlgan tat College, the research di- ing agricultural prices at less than prove conclu v ly ia 'ould be elling at 2.02 instead of There' is now pending before con- with onsiderably le state as i t- vi ion of th . Iichtgan office of the AAA, from federal marketing parity", he said, "that the farmer may islate money in 0 th PQC le 8 th n 70 cent . corn would be sell- gre s a proposed amendment to the ance. expect neither justice nor mercy at farmer as ell in 0 th 'P agencies, and from Mtchigan farmers' commodity marketing ex- in at 1.47 In. tead of slightly over packers and tockyards act .of 1921. The new law will provide substan- the hands of the price administration. any oth I' class. h m . tially more State-aid to each one-room changes. 60 cents, and bog would be selling The amendment if enacted into law His hogs which brought as high as thi I gi lation v 11 Eighty-five per c nt of parity price loans should establish the at $16.53 In tead of less than 9. would completely eliminate all local country school and will greatly bene- $21.50 in the la t war are being hip- plat d aft ct d th Even if we gr nt th t labor deserved fit the smaller high schools which have price of basic farm commodities and perhaps all farm commodities live tock auction markets or sale ped to England at today's mark t of e ch~ng in th na Ion." i wage increa e, It is plainly ap- barns. been known a equalization schools. at not lower than that figure, and on a sliding scale in accordance It elimina e the feature of the form- with other business. Pari y payments already appropriated for 1941, $8.45, while industrial products man- parent (prices) that the farmer' h ve lagg d far !behind." TELL THE STORY wages According erage healthy to en us figures, child, today has one the av- er law whereby money for each tuition pupil had to be ent by the local district the primary school to the and soil cons rvation payments added program. are xpected to bring full parity prices in 1941 to farmers co-operating with the national farm program. to the 85% of parity prices ufactured at a wage of 71 cents an hour in the last war are being ped to England hip- at today's ra es of doz D, i I lchl a ' hat if g And unle t rmer tell their side chance in 150.000 of being fatallY 97 cents an hOUT, and all oth r manu- or d graded distrIct attended by such pUJ,>tl. ot the storf. cit CODlum rs will get stricken by iDfantile par lysi • ) TWO American Farm Bureau. Mr •. P.arl E. Myna, Director fOT Michiga.n LIMERICK AND GRATIOT COMMUNITY GROUP ORCHESTRA POSTER CONTEST b . families in ')'he s ociated 'Vomen have an- F arm Bureau mem ei . . hb -I ood of the Bethany When I read each morning the news from over there, nounced a limerick and poster con- the neig 01 1 G' tilO t Of people maimed and slaughtered by land and sea and air, te t to advertise the food value of 'Community Farm Bureau of Iia t 1 -eantzed an ore res ra I wonder what Lord Jesus thinks about the whole affair. Michigan farm products. Mr. Ray county lave 01 ga . Th idea eilkirk of St Loui Gratiot county. which meets l'egulanly. . e 1 I think His wounds are bleeding. His heart is 8ick, I know He loathes the whole proceeding that shame His teaching so, chairman of ~ur ad~erti Ing commit- war developed by worn n ridmg home Bureau wo- Yet yearns for us in agony Who wrangle here below. tee pre ents the e rule for the can- together from a F arm dl t t: men's meeting at t.anstns. accor mg I think I heal' Him saying, "Oh tiny hearts of men es . . irk The orchestra Must I at your betraying be crucified again? Limerick &. Poster Contest Rules to ~11' • Ray 1 ellm . . tr 1 ommunity Farm Bureau hair- consi t8 of players for these in 1 u- 0.6 Were I to come and preach anew, would ye believe me then" men may appoint someone to collect ments: piano, 4 violins, one banjo, "1 his the Rule I taught ye-to waste and burn and kill? material in their group. Community one guitar, 3 accordion , 2 horns, a Or did I bid ye live in peace and do your Father's will? p, I died because I loved ye-and oh, I love ye still. Farm fBureau may have elimination saxophone. a piccolo, and a corn t. conte ts if they care to do o. J r d Y. anders, Jr., Congre man fro l Slana, "How gladly would I gather ye all beneath My wing If ye would only practice the truths I died tQ bring. 2. Entries, to be eligible for an CARMEL REFRIGERATOR told ongr 5S the other day th t fa m n st h v How dearly have I loved ye, and yet ye love Me not, award, mu t ib compiled by a Farm ICE CREAM But fly at one another like savages untaught. Bureau member. Scald 2 cups milk legi 1 tive help toward bett r prices. Others have h d 3. The limericks and posters are Sift 1 tabl spoon flour and 2 table- "I bade ye, 'Love your neighbor'. I told ye, 'Feed My Sheep', it for year. Yet into all your dealings the worms of malice creep. to show the food value of any Mich- poons sugar togeth r. With Satan's gory bill-hoetk his gristly crops ye reap. igan farm product. dd this with on 01' two egg yolks h r wo ld be n fc. rm robl m and no necessity for 4. Any limerick or poster consider- to tbe hot milk. CarlUelize 1 cup "Oh shame, ye puny earthlings; abandoned wretched race, legi lati g for a ity ri cea had it not been for I gisla- Who might abound as angels yet grovel in disgrace, ed worthy of an award and baving ad- sugar. Though fashioned in God's likeness ye now pit in His face. vertising value become tbe property While both are hot stir into the tio h ther dir ction for ly a c ntury. of the Michigan State Farm Bureau. bot custard. "God's heart is freshly broken when men kill other men. 5. The contest closes Sept. 31, 1941. Wben this is cold add 2 cups of Mr. nd rs said the fa m r n ds uch h lp because Implore ye His forgIveness and Le at peace again 6. Mail limericks and posters to And He will pardon freely-and Heaven will breathe' Amen, whipped cream and freeze. of m n d artifici I price vel through hig tariffs >II • Limerick & Poster on test Dep't, As- Use a small teaspoon of vanilla if Kilt all weed pesta a d mo c ntly wage and hour act, and other social I'm sure it hurts Him cruelly •. I know His heart is sore sociated Women of the Farm Bureau, desired. completely and per. When Jesus hears from Europe the news about the war 221 o. Cedar Street, Lan ing, Mich., Smooth and delicious. ~anen~ly by spray. 1 gis tio tha h s re ulted in the farmer h ing to p y Each day His wounds reopen and flow for us the more. not later tban Oct. 1, 194'1. Mrs. D lbert Pohlman, Ing With Atlacide the afer calcium n ar ificially high price for very thing he needs. 7. Competent judges will be pro- S1. Louis, n-i, Mich. chlorate weed kill. for it on their shelves. Refreshment stands are selling vided. er. Kills the roots too. Spray weed ''If p ic s De. 15, 1940 of selected i dustri al it by the glass. 8. Judgement of the posters will orchard (pg. 4) . p tches from now on, as per diree , be on the idea presented. Contestants On page 7, I read this: c mmodities urc ased by f rmers had follo ed prices Our Farm Bureau Fruit Products Company IS a need not be artists. tions. 7 gals. 5 Ibs. makes spray to "Farming is an occupation which fo led far commodities sold by farmers, the farm- pioneer producer of apple juice, In 1937 it began with 9. A prize of $1 will be given for usually amounts too providing the spray rod • 3 1;3 sq. er cou hav pure a d that 5-foot mower for $32.16 each poster or limerick accepted by farm operator and his family witb an xperimental pa k of 2,000 cases at the factory at the judges. can •••..........••........ $1.25 jobs." can ......•... , .•. , ....•.. , 2.00 instead of $97.14. H ould h e bo ght a 7..foot Coloma, Berrien county. The volum has increased And on page 5, I find that the drum ..•.•...•••..•••... ,. 5.25 bin er fo 92.66 i t ad f $259. He would have paid total' income for "Operator's Labor" 1.66 fo a orse blank t instead of $3.50 and so on. steadily. Behind for the year was only $525.00. As- drum .....••......••..•... Atlacide sold by 9.75 The far reaching possibilities of apple juice as a by- suming that the farmer works 3,000 "I do not beIi ve that ther i any fairness in applying product for the fruit growing industry is appreciated the Wheel (Continued from page one) hours a year (10 hours a day for 300 FARM BU EALERS artifici 1 a' d and subsidy and Federal assistanc to the fully by members of the Fruit Products Company. It the wrong impression of tbe wbole ot e groups in this country, and that the farmer should matter and again "take it out" on the broade s the market, reduces competition on the fresh farmer. Farmers need to memorize be depriv d of th as' stance he needs. Po if the farmer fruit market, and provides additional in orne. figures like the above and use them Experienc itb I rge mileages annot buy, ind ...try will not s I very much because as often as possible wben talking of secondary roads how that at to friends in tbe elty. Why not call under pent world onditio s where .s the market for least three-quarters of the mate- these manufactured products going to be except in our W 0 't n w Our Str gt meetings of farmens and city folks and tell the story so that they' will rial normally los through the ac- tion of abrasion, ind, or traffic own back yard. ,. With the help of modern machinery and equipment understand the truth of the matter? Is saved by alcinm hloride Sur- If farmers wan t their program to now at his disposal, it has been computed by the U. S. stand, they have a responsibility in face Consolidation. Dep't of Agriculture that a farmer can get as much seeing that others have the correct And in additton to the mainte- figures and the facts. Certainly city work done today as 70 tillers of the soil in Biblical times. folks will be hearing plenty on the ularly indicating savings in blade maintenance from 50% to 75%! Americans h e been assured tha there would be no t' s good to know that we are that good, but there's other side of the story. 14 CENTS AN HOUR profiteering in the defense program. The farmer has times when 70 extra hands could be turned to advantage And while we're talking about far- And in ad itlon. to th mainte- nance saving, olvay alcium been told that he will receive his share of the improved on a hundred and one jobs to be done. mer income, let's see wbat the- Mich- Chloride S rrface onsolldation ef- igan farmer gets for his work. I re- na ional income tl rough th efe se prog am by mean changes being made in the agricultur- fects a major improvement in the of higher prices for his products. Supporting al field? What would our agricultural cently read a bulletin published joint- ly by the Farm Management Depart- all-weather riding qualitie of the Farm Prices picture be today, if farmers had have ment, Michigan State College, and road. SE D FOR FREE BOOK- How are we doing? (Continued from page 6) taken more of an active part in dis- tbe United States Department of "Calcium Chloride Surface Con- up for this lost time, 10 thousand men cussing, analyzing and building poli- solidated Road ". Th def nse p 0 ram got under w y in 1939. De.. would hav t work y ars: cies for their o eupatton? It' not too Agriculture. igan Farm !Business It was entitled !Summary Mich- for partment of ommerce reports show that the net in- "To sucb a condition and its fearful late to start. Alklllietand Chernteat Products Manufactured by 1939. It was an analysis of the bus- implications, we call the attention of The Solvay Process C( mp .ny come for all corporatio s for the year J 938 was a little tbe people of this nation. With that, iness records kept Iby 1,346 farmers ov r one billion dollars. it would appeal' that our ills are not Co-op P rchasing Grows during tbe year. The average in- 7501 W. Jefferson Ave. Detroit, Mich. to end. We -are now faced witb the Growing rapidly during the past vestment per farm was $13,150 (house Local Distri butors For 1940 the Department reported a net income for prospect of a federal commodity price few years, tbe business of farm sup- not included), of which 38% was in FARM BUREAU SERVICES, INC. land, 26% in ·buildings and the bal- 221-227 N. Cedar St. policy designed to prev nt the prices ply co-ops bas already outstripped all corporations in the amount of fiv billion dollars. of farm products from materially rts- its nearest ompetitors and now oc- ance in Uves!ock, machinery, feed and Lansing, Mich. What about their stockh lders? Ing, design d to preserve tbi evil in- cupies third place among the various equity as between respective cla ses of commodity groups. The business of During 1940 corporations paid their stockholders a society, designed to keep the Ameri- farm supply co-ops now aggregates total of $4,800,000,000, according t the same report, can farmer the 'under dog'." $350,000,000 annually. It is constder- It appears tbat tbis is no time to ably ahead 0 the fourth-place bus- quoted to Cong es by Representativ Ros .sley of take a vacation from discussion. iness volume of the livestock co-ops Oklahoma. Work on agricultural problems and and the fruit and vegetable associa- policies are starting off with the rush tions in berth five; and is within a How about he farmer? of spring work on the land. If we tone's throw of the $375,000,000 co-op are going to build an active, construc- grain sales bu iness which now holds Congressm n annon of Kansas has said that in 1909 tive, farm pol icy for the land, we must second place. The dairy products farmers representing about a qua .er of our total 0 ula- keep abrea t with tbe times. Does co-ops, with annual sales of $650,000- your community group have this tion, had 16.4 c/ of the natio al income. philosophy? Can we afford not to 000, till bold fir!:)t place by a comfort- able margin. During 1940 f rmer had 5.9 70 of the In- bend every effort to keep ourselves and our neighbors in ormed as to the Great men come. It' fact lik the that have c used the Farm Bureau a other farm group to work for parity prices. They have aused b th hou es of Congress to agree on 85 Yo Classified advertisements are cash with order at the following rates: 4 cents per word for one edition. Ads to appear in two or more editions of parity loans 0 basic farm crop to help bring t e take the r-ate of 3 cent per word per edition. farmer n arer to his fair share of the improved national income! BABY CHICKS LIVE STOCK DEPENDABLE CHICKS, $3.95 _ PER REGISTERED HEREFORD BULLS hundred up. 'I'w nty bre ds, Old at Illi- and h if rs. We have a nice selection. nola-U. . Approved Hatchery, known enslbl prices. A. .1. Todd Co., fen- "" ..•"'. ll...,••.•.•II.er 0.; tor fair d altng. 1h st nu t Hatchery. Box tha. (14 miles northwest of Kalamazoo). Dot, .hesinut, Lllinoi.'. (5-4t-23b) (7-3-tf-22b) harges have be n made that pan y c to the BIG HUSKY CHICKS - MICHIGAN, REGISTERED MILKING SHORTHORN . ~. pproved. White Leghorn Chicks bulls for ·ale. to 13 months old . f mer for far products would impose a 20: 0 increase 100% bloodt ted for Pullorum disease. Husky haps. From cow testing ass'n Large ,type stock for larger profits. R.O.P. re cord dams. Come and ee for yourself . Nlc""I', broad .• athways call you on to new discoveries. This is Route U. 8.; 2, on the Lake Midlilan here. .n the os of living upon the co umers. Passing for the males. Barred and :Vhite Ro ks. Pullets Their growthiness and well tJeshedne and s xed oh icks. 'end for descriptive indicate the true dual purpo type. moment th fact that many consumers operating in pri e list. Wlnstrom Hatchery, Zeelaud, B B-7, Itchlgan. (4-3t-42b) Bang'S di. ease tested. • ever any Bang' dis ase on farm. D. .• 'lcPherson, m nuf cturing or trade are taking from the farmer all th traffic will be r, let's consider these statements: POUL.:TRY LITTER - SERVALL Lowell, rich. Phone 71-F2. MILK CAN COOLERS (5-2t-50bJ 10I 00 M-Ies of Plea ure • • • I AN' enator nkhead of Alabama told the Senat that (made from ru ar cane)-A dustless, GEE, AIN'T IT HOT? NOT YET, BUT odort ss, absorbent, steriliz d litter. Will it's coming, and you ttutd milk producers will have worrie. W have the famous th re i about 11/2 cnts worth of raw cotton in a $2 k ep poultry hous and brooder sanitary. The light color brightens the quar-ters-s- teinhorst Electric l\fillt Can Coolers. TH¥E'S more fun in Michigan-more to see and more keeps floor dry. 100-!lOund bales. An The YewYork Stat Co-operative League hirt. If the farm r got c nt for the cotton-and American farm produ t. Us e American has been selling 500 a year for the past to do - than in almost any state you could choose for litt r. I fo. t deal rs now have it. Ask four years. e your Farm Bureau deal- a acation. Ten thou and miles of fine State highways rit doe n' do that-th re would e no reasonable for des -rtpttv bookl t. giving dealer'u er. Write us for lit rature and prices. name. Harry ates 'ompany, Hudson. Farm Bureau Services, Inc.. Machinery heckon you, leading away to woodland, lake and hills gr und r dvan ing the pri of shirt to $2.40. In Mi higan distributor. (4-3t-57PJ D p't, Lan ing. (l-tf-61b) Michigan ha developed its natural re ources for th~ f h hirt hould continu to sell at $2. Congress" FARM MACmNERY BEEKEEPER'S SUPPLIES use and pleasure of it peopl . It State highways, fore ts n n told the House that the wheat farmer's ONLY Carmel's' program. FARMERS CAN BUILD nv farm tools you A SECTIONS, COMB and parks erve more than 11,000,000 vi itor each y ar, h re f the ret iI price of a loaf of bread is 15 per cent. need can be bought tram us. You get the tinest equipment at comp tttrv There YlOU can find treams for fi. hing, hunting grounds, pric s A. TD you help build a program dun and heache ,placc of scenic beauty and h' t . t n p nt in rase in he price paid the farmer for that has only your lnt r st: at heart. • • • , • 1 onc he t ould not ju tfy more than 2 j{ increase in the Write us your ne ds. Farm Bur au er- lDter~ t - all wlt~ln ea y driving di tance. Camp and vlces, Inc.. Machtnery Dept, 72 East Shia ~assee St., Lansing. (1-tf-53b) oad. Ide parks WIth all onvenience are maintained lor f )0 f br ad, or about one- ixth of a cent. ROLL DEVELOPED, 16 ARTISTIC tourt t by the State. State Petrie camping grounds like this one FOR SAL~NUSCELLANEOUS nrtnts perman nt prints only 25 cen . H prints ~ ents. upert r dev loping The telephone will help you plan your trip, map out in Grand T ver e County provide vaea' MICHIGAN SEPTIC TANK SIPHON and printing. ~lid- Test Photo ervlce, a route, tioni ts with water, table Ito el and loUet . arrange for accommodation . And on th e roa d',It and bell as recommended by State Col- D p't :>4, Janesville, Wi . (6-tf-25b) • lege Agr'l EngineerIng dep't. Build your facHitie fin ----... es own sentrc tank and sewage vst m. In- stall vhen tank i bullt. Installation and AT hand LAST, ALL YOUR color d. Roll dey I ped, PICTURES hand Will gI e you a con tant link with home. odern meric n is learning to dr i k hi op ration simple. cally. Have Discharge h n sold 16 't>arl'l. nu tomatt- 11 in eolored prlnt.', only 2:> cents. ored reprints :t cents. Hand ('01- maztng'ly beau- h has learn d to drink cann d orange it juice, pin apple jui e, and to accept d. il)' use and givin~ satt faction. st ruct lon with each siphon. Itv red $7, 5 which includes . ales tax, Pri ze, de- In- tiful. In.n . \,il1" "Tatinll I Photo rt, D p't 41 (6-tf-:lOb; Ie 10 LL T LE H NY C. O. D. charge.' are e trn. Farm Bureau ELECTRIC WATER SYSTEMS upply 'tore, 72 E. Shi wa see • t., Lan- ",A, 8t~te 'with Rlches Blest "-Another 01 a series 01 I mon juic ,-wit trem ndou ne sale out .. sin . (~-4-tt-60b) IF YOU NEED A PUMP, WHETHER advert18ements on Michi gan's atural Resources. I th f rui . growers. F ARM HELP WANTED it's to be a piston type, centrifugal or j t system, re have it. Our line com- WANTED-CAPABLE, SINGLE OR plete. Prices range from $39. 5 up. See ppl j ice is be oming a popular drink. It' married m n on 160 acre dairy farm, your Farm Bureau dealer, or write Farm near Howell. Four room t nant house. Bureau Servi es, Inc., Electrical Dep't, if go d. Gr cc y store are m king a place ~ rs, Jennie mile east or Howell. Ho 'ley, :1 miles north, (6-1t) 1 12 E. Shiawasaee St., Lansing. (3-U-f5b) Imer e We Need Only To Do What -- .'--------:------- Los Angeles at an expen e of $2.50 or Is Right In All 0 a clipper carrying 35 passengers might ill Pro id ur go from '" ew York to Paris for 7.50. Make Recommendations for It ill H Endeavors J. ow that may all eem far fetched Publicity and Relations but all of our modern convenien e Feed By stn«. EDITH 1\f. .1~"AGAR once seemed the same way to some Programs It wa my privilege to hear a lee- one and many at them to ome of u . By J. G. IJA.YE t ture a few weeks ago by a woman 'When we say, "Tho e things can County Farm Bureau lead I' from Dairy Dep't, 'tate College who e. caped from Ru ssia dur ing the never happen to us", we are simply 32 counties held their regular confer- "s lfalfa hay cut at initial or halr- great upheaval again. t the czar. expressing a wi h not: a fact. one of ence at the tate Farm Bureau at bloom tage Is markedly superior to She was the daughter of a general us want anything di agreeable to Lansing, 'June 4. President C. J. Reid alfalfa hay cut at full-bloom 'tag ." in th czar's army. Her family be- come our way, but are we doing all of the tate Farm Bureau presided. longed to those of high rank, yet she that we can to keep from it? Mrs. Laurence Porter of Dryden, La- Initial bloom is considered to be has experienced everything that Who's Doing Too Well? pe r county, was secretary. when 10 per cent of th plants ar in comes to tho 'e who must leave their We farmer are provoked and dis- Clark L. Brody, ecretary of the bloom, half-bloom when 50 1> r cent, country and their friends at a mo- gusted with the attitude of labor. We Stat Farm Bureau, cornpar d the full-bloom 90 per cent 01' better. ment's warning in do our hare of talking against it but unprepared agriculture of 1917 and A three year-long exp riment ju t Dri d Butt rlftilk order to live. She I wonder if we really do know the it' ubsequent price dtsadvantag es ompleted by the . S. D. ., summar- reached China and other side. I'm sure I don't, When with the organized agriculture of to- ized as above, ba 'es the conclusion on SUPREME BRAND day and its determination not to be The live tock producer of Ameri- lived the r e 18 we see great factories picketed, I feel th fact that the earlier cut hay e - Conden ed B tterlnilk ea and Mich igan agriculture i gener- plucked by labor and bu ines , what- years. She met that there's something back of it all c ded the late cut hay by: Quotations Made to Elevator. al lost a great and good friend May ever turn price may take. He aid 2.5% more protein By Wire or Mall an American army that I don't know about and I begin that we have an organized agriculture 14 when Elmer A. Beamer passed 4 % 1 ss fiber DRY MILK SALES DIVISION officer and mar- to think that maybe I'm ju t as and prospects for equality of treat- away at his farm home near Bliss- 22 o/t- more hay p r acre rred him and then ignorant of the problem of the labor- ment in prices and other matters di- Lansing o€.:Jti:j Michigan fi ld from a heart attack. came to his home ing man as he is of the problems of rectly as the re ult of the Farm Bu- 10 % more areen color The earlier cut hay outdid the late :\11'. Beamer's career In the live andp e 0 pie at the farmer. It's hard to convince the reau's work since 1919. sock industr-y is marked by the valu- cut in calcium and in phosphorus con- South Lyons, Mich. average consumer- that the farmer is President Reid announced the ap- able and nationally tive live tock marketing tions which he helped found and later known co-opera- organiza- _~~~~""""!" __ igan. She told me that the thing that dis t res s e s her not getting rich with his acres and stock and crops. We scold about the strikes but I I pointment re olutions of four m mbers of the committee Farm Bureau annual meeting in ~ 0- for the tate tent. Cows fed on the three grades of hay -that cut in initial bloom, half-bloom, admini tered so successfully for HR'. WA6A,f2 more than all else believe that attitude of indifference vember of 1941. Th yare: ;Valdo full-bloom-produced 5 to 10 PCI' cent many years. He helped organize is the lack of appreciation American and "get something for nothing" is a Phi1l~p" Van Buren county; Lloyd more butterfat on th earlier cut hay. the Michigan Live Stock Exchange in people have for the many blessings trait that hits all of us more or less. Ruesink, Lenawee county; Dan Reed, Expressed as "pound of milk pro- J{UK& Go\' rnment order for mllltary 191 and establish it on the Detroit that surround us. It took the farmer of our country Oceana county, and 1\11' • Hal Conkey duced per acre", initial-bloom-cut hay supplies are r suiting in a strong- wool Her Mother's Experience 20 years to get Congress to recognize ?f Huron county. He urged Commun- yielded 6,330 pounds of milk, half- mark t. Pro p·t look bright for the market as a sales agency in 1921. He balance of the y art By consigning to was president until he retired in 1939 It took her mother eight years to them on the same footing with other Ity and County F~rm Bureaus to start bloom 5,254 pounds; hay cut at late to the l\1khlgall Co-op 'Wool _I. rketing A.·- to accept an appointment by Gov. get away from Russia. When they folks and why? Well, too many people work on resoluttons soon and get full bloom only 3,970 pcuuds of milk. !lociation Pool you can s cure immedl- wer b h .' them to the State Farm Bureau for ately :.lOt per lb. on f dium wool, :.!ti¢ Fitzgerald as state commissioner ot e roug t together, the daughter think we are getting far. more than consideration by the committee. per lb. of Fine \\001 lid 20¢ per lb. on agriculture. Mr. Beamer helped or- could recognize nothing Whatever of we tell them we ~re getting and too The county 'leadel's' conference re- I.'ed Lamb \\001. ou. till retain your equity and wh n the wool Is 'old you ganize the Buffalo Producers Co-op- the mother she had to leave. She said many farmers walt for somebody to solved itself into committees on will receive all that It 11 t I.. th ad- erative Commission Ass'n in 1922 and ~er mother was one who in her early do somethi~g for them while they County Farm Bureau publicity, rela- vance. For sad's . nd shipping tag' or further Intormatlon writ to u '. erved continuously as its president. hfe had been protected in every way .. plug along III their own old way. Too tion ship of County Farm Bureaus to If you prefer to . 11 outright, we will He erved on the organization board But she had lost all semblance of her many members of Congress vote only other agencies serving farmers, and pay you f~ll mar-k t value 011 deliver.' to for the ~Tational Live Stock Producers former personality. She had crawled with their party in view rather than relationship of Junior and euler our Lansing warehous • A s'n in 1922 and was its president in miles and miles from brush to 'brush, what they think is good for the coun- Farm Bureaus. We present the com- MICHIGAN CO-OP WOOL MKTG. 1929-30. The l ational Producers was mostly on her hands and knees and try. mitteee recommendations: ASS'N re-organized in 1930 as the National most of the time at night, eating any. And what about our state Iegtsla- County Farm Bureau Publicity 221 N. Cedar Lansing, Mich. Live Stock Marketing Ass'n, :Mr. Bea- thing she could find on the way and ture? They all take an oath that "We believe that the County F ann REG U. S. PAT. OfF, •••••TENT PENOING • TR"'OE M"'RK mer ppresident 1937-39. every minute in fear. The daughter they'll serve thi state and then Bureau hould be alert in use of all Improvement of the live stock in- said one had to see those terrible they'll haggle about confirming ap- means at their command in ecurtn du try was a major interest life, so he accepted every opportunity in his changes in those one loves to fully realize what people in other parts of the world are suffering. She de- pointees, and do all they can "to give the Governor a headache" as I heard one boast about rather than get down adequate publicity. via newspapers, word of mouth, radio, etc" to pres nt the Farm Bureau program and pro- MAlNT I S - HIGH INS CT 0 OL I to be of service in that field. He took an active interest as a director of the ...[at.ioual Live Stock and Meat plored the fact that women can spend so much time at bridge or other per- to usiness and 'try to make old Mich. igan the best stat in the Union reo mote the wo.rk of the organi~ation. Because of this we approve publtshlng ew b!! Dosage Requirement Reduce Co t in the pr y I . . . the names of Farm Bureau members Board in promoting consumer interest son a pleasures but can find so little gardless of which party IS III power. by counties in the Farm ~ews when in meat. He spoke for live stock time or energy to help relieve the dis- I found out long a~o that the good the opportunity affords, and that this producers in the ...ational Council of tress of others who are denied any people were not all 111one party. We list be alphabatical with po t office comfort whatever, and thru no fault cannot be too severe with the short- addresses. Also, that ounty Farm SYNTHETIC ORGANIC INSECTICIDE DEVELOPED Fanner Co-operatives, Mr. Beamer was a member of the Farm Bureau of their awn either. comings of the laboring class, either Bureaus furnish member with a CHEMICAL COMPANY STANDS OUT AS AN from it beginning. For several Thoughts of Airplane Inventor shopworker or farmer, when law- mimeographed list of the membership, I heard a while ago that Wilbur makers ignore the laws already made. or arrange for the list to be publi hed RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENT yea 1'8 in the 1920's he was a state director representing the Michigan 'Wright, now an old man, wonders if We All Know What's Right in the local newspaper. he and his brothel' Orville did human- This would be a far different world We further recommend that the Reduce. Codling Moth Stings and Entrie to a New .lJlilli"um Li ve Stock Exchange. He was ap- Under Most Severe Conditions pointed state commi sioner of agri- ity all the good that they had hoped if each and everyone of us would give publicity chairman of the Community culture April 15, 1939 by Gov. Fitz- they would when they invented the good measure of service, time. money, and County Farm Bureaus arrange for airplane. They were so happy to give thought and care for everything that a meeting with representatives of Gives Control Never Before Equalled for Oriental Fruit Moth gerald. He erved with ability and it to the world as a new and swifter we are connected ith. If we expect newspapers and radio station for the distinction. He resigned April 17 of For the pa t everal years search program developed an method of transportation. But he now a "vacation with pay", it should be a purpo e of ecuring advise a to how this year. General Chemical Company's important place for Genicid sees his invention is being used to legitimate one all at one time and not to prepare and make the best use of Mr. Beamer was born Dec. 25, 18S1 bring distress and unhappiness to something taken every day on the new for Far~ Bureau ~urpo ses and new type insecticide, known in peach spray schedules for at Ogden, Mlchigan. Upon comple- millions of people. When we study the' job. to ..secure their co-operations. tion of hi studies at the Michigan as Genicide, has been giving control of Oriental Fruit power and possibilities of electricity Self-analysis wo Id do us all good. PUb~\ fu~'the\ rec~mnfle~d th.ath. the noteworthy high perform- Moth. Heretofore, this insect agricultural college, he took over the hC 1gan and. gasoline . and . hear of the Inven- I'm sure we would find we're not StatleCIFYal' mevaBr u l~len eau fO ~ he th e c oun- Ul'UlS ance in codling moth control, had defied all attempts at operation of a 330 acre farm near Bli field, pecializing in the pro- ttve gell1u~ of this age,. we must admit over-worked, un "aid, .Of over.w?r: ty Farm Bureaus from tinle to time especially in the Pacific chemical control de pit 20 duction of baby beef, as early as that nothmg, seems Impossible, and ried. when compared With the cltt- with news articles such as the County orthwest, where this insect years of investigational ~s the world s peoples we are com- zens of any other country, .none ex- Farm Bureau can adapt and secure 1904. is harde t to control. There, work. Experiment records 111g closer and closer everyday. cepted. We would all give more the publishing of in local new papers." He i survived by Mrs. Beamer, his I heard recently that a new type th ought to the preservation of our Mrs. Hoffman of Barry county acted spray schedules calling for show that the application of on, Mile, and daughter, Margaret. of power had been ,perfected and country and the privileges and com- as chairman of this committee. Genicide, beginning in the 3 Genicide sprays resulted in The board of directors of the Mich- would be within the reach of everyone forts it gives us. Relationship of Co. Farm Bureau to third cover spray, produced an average increase of 25% igan State Farm Bureau, meeting at in a short time, so that a 5-passenger Let's do it and see if we cannot be Other Agencies Serving Farmers Lansing, May 19. adopted a resolu- an average of about 15% in clean fruit as cornpar d car might go from _ew York City to better Americans in America! "We approve the aggressive action tion expressing their appreciation of of the State Farm Bureau in regard to more clean fruit than the with the best of other spray :\11'. Beamer as a former director and RIVES COMMUNITY FARM represeutattou and the presentation of best practical full lead arse- blocks. Compared with blocks leader of men, and for the unselfish ervice he gave farmers and their Comrrnrnity BUREAU-Jackson The men were to recite poems they the Farm Bureau view-point matter of the Land U e Planning in the nate schedules, applied under untreated for Oriental Fruit co-operatives. "He was our friend and fellow work- 'I'he resolution said, Earrn Bureau learned when boys and Lorenzo Mann led off with "The Wife Hunting Dea- movement other aeencie in ...Iichigan as well as erving farmers. v e the same conditions. An expansion of the Gen- Moth, Genicide blocks showed a 35% increase sprayed er in the Farm Bureau and farmers' co-operative work for more than 20 Activities con". BLUMFIELD • BUENA recommend that meetings by each County Farm Bureau for the be called eral Chemical Company' re- in clean fruit. By KEITH A. TANNER definite purpose of discu sing the re- ·N."' •.e _ year ... He spoke for the live stock Membership Relations and Education ViSTA-Saginaw lationship and work of the various producers, and he spoke to advance St. 0' It.R. No. _ co-operative effort among aU, farm- Many of the Community Farm Mrs. Young also asked if the Blum- agencie serving farmer and to pre- field-Buena Vista group was in favor sent the Farm Bureau viewpoint as IT WILL PAY YO TO GET THE FU Cit Bureaus are planning on holding ers." of the Board of Directors going before regard these activitie and that repre- joint summer picnic meetings, others are assisting the County Farm Bureau the Draft Board and ask them to leave sentatives of the various a tion Distributed by: the farm boys on the farm when they agencies serving farm rs be invited in planning a county-wide picnic, while some of the groups are holding are needed. to attend. Jesse Treiber of Tuscola picnic suppers with a discussion per- KOCHVILLE-Saglnaw coun ty acted as chairman of this iod to follow. An evening away from Mart Hoernlen made a motion that group. 221·227 North Cedar tr n in I hi our every-day work is always helpful. the county board be instructed to meet See article at top of page 5 headed with the Draft Bo rd to see what can "County Farm Bureau Leaders and PINE RIVER COMMUNITY FARM Junior F'arm Bureau." be done to keep the farm boys from BU REAU-Gratiot County being drafted when they are needed Roll call to be answered next month on the farm. by a school problems. Topic for dis- cussion, "School Meetings". Plannlng GARFIELD-Grand Traverse local project for coming year. BANFIELD COMMUNITY: Motion made and seconded that we have tlree ladies selected each meet- ings by the next presiding hostess to FULL-LENGTH •• FULL-STRENGTH FARM BUREAU-Barry furnish refreshments. Motion car- Mrs. Hoffman appointed the follow- ried. ing committee to act on the Barry GULL PRAIRIE-Kalamazoo County Farm Bureau Picnic-Mr. Mrs. and Rev. Felix announced that ~lay the "'elson Willison, Mr. and Mrs. 18th is to 'be Rural Life Sunday and I Fred Frey and Mrs. Emma Hobbs. invited all members to attend th. MERIDIAN COMMUNITY special services on that date. FARM BUREAU-Ingham CASTLEWOOD-Barry Mr. Powell gave a favorable report A communication was read from the on the meeting held at M. S. C. by the county board of directors as to our discu sion committee in regard to con- wishes about the ne t summer Farm sumer and producer relationship and Bureau picnic. national defense problems. MAYFIELD-Lapeer CENTRAL HILLSDALE COM. Ervin Haskill reported attending a FARM BUREAU-Hillsdale meeting of the Junior Farm Bureau at Mr. Woodman reported on discus- Lansing. He explained their work sion heard over WKAR ou tonight's and how their meetings were carried subject. on. CARRS COMMUNITY ARCHIE-Grand Traverse FARM BUREAU-Mason Motion was made that the chair Motion made and supported that we appoint a committee to stencil names buy cups for the hall. Carried. The on Farm Bureau signs. • 'lotion sup- School Commissioner will be asked to ported. Carried. the next meeting-roll called and each SOUTH THORNAPPLE-Barry It', hard to tell much about L ~ member r ponded by giving a sug- Mr. Bryant from the Farm Bureau tore at Hasting explained about the twine just by looking at it. r ou ce to gestion on how we could better QUI' have to rely pretty much on re- u I Co. community. wool pool. .n. • n, Illinois BROOKSIDE FARM BUREAU-Newaygo COMMUNITY The Brook ide Community Bureau has started work on a club Farm Ducks Do Come From Long Island putation. 11'a1'1n Bureau reput atior for qual' y. Twine 11a' a It is STATE FARM MUTUAL. AUTO INS. CO., Mich. State Farm Sur. State guaranteed for J ngth, ' tr ingth, project which will provide theni ith That the famed "Long Island duck" Agency, 221 North Cedar Street, L.ansing, Michigan a plendid meting place and a cen- is more than an advertising legend is and weight.rand again t de. truo- .......................................... ,..........................................• tel' for community activities. Plans amply demonstrated by the results of NAME tion by in ect '. It is '" meriean- Plea e send information call for the reconditioning of a build- the 1940 Cen us. abo~t auto insurance ing formerly u ed by the town hip Of the 12,138, 20 annual duck crop IU::H1c in modern mi IJ . /here ADDRESS ...................................•...•..... ~...•...•..•.... RFD ......•• for . toring road equipment into a a. shown by the Cen us, nearly one- praotical club hou e. The building i half-5,36 ,459-were raised in ew DRIVE SAFELY and CARRY INSURANCE 40 f et by 24 feet, leaving room at York 'late. Only ufficient duck are FARM BUREAU SERVICE, INC. one end for a kitchen and a cloak raised in the U. . to permit each l A N SIN G, M I CHI (; A tJ THAT WILL PROTECT YOUR INTERESTS room. ta~ilY to eat a dU~ .yery t~e. year . B seed 011 and close firm.-The De- Y J. F. YAEGE can Farm Bureau Federation said bacco whenever farmers adjust their . . I' 'th government trolt Free Press, May H, 19f1. Director 01 J[ 111 ber hip Relations, Michigan State Farm Bureau. that "when the farmer goes to the prcductlen In me WI market place to exchange his com- programs, and on any other commod- For years the Farm Bureau has argued that the modities for industrial goods and ity whenever the Federal Govern- services, he now mu t do it at a ter- farmer is entitled to a price for his products such as will rific penalty. ment requests the producers to ex- pand their production to meet the permit him to exchange those products for non-farm "Why is this? national emergency."-A.F.B.F. News "It is because we have erected in products on the same basis that he did in the years J 909- this country a vast protective system Letter, May 6, 1941. J 4. This theoretical price has been termed a "parity" for industry. transportation, finance price. and labor; but the AmerIcan farmer Eight has never been placed within our pro- FARM BUREAU PROGRAM The Farm Bureau has argued that IF' government is tective system on the basis of equality FOR AGRICULTURE with these other groups. Our whole to id labor and industry in securing a price for it prod- "On Wednesday and Thursdl}Y of economic structure is pumped up on last week. President O'Neal of the ucts, so agriculture is entitled to similar aid and sub- an artificial basis, which is the cre- ation of man-made law." A.F.B.F. and 11 other Farm Bureau sidies. The fight for such fair treatment has resulted The war and the defense program spokesmen appeared before the have intensified the problem, he said, House Committee on Agriculture to in a Congressional campaign this year and a victory tes,tify on the agricultural situation "we are headed for a great di aster for the Farm Bureau and for all agriculture. The story just a surely as we were at the end in general. of the other World War unless some- All of the speakers insisted that the of the fight is told in the following excerpts from various thing is done now to prevent it .••• parity goal for all of agriculture be newspapers. We must meet thi critical problem preserved. and asked for higher com- Without further delay. We ask action modity loans plus conservation and 'Farm Bureau members are urged to learn the story from this Congress for thi crop in parity payments in addition to bring- by heart or carry this printed story with them and to 1941... the fundamental remedy I to ing farm returns to parity."-A.F.B.F. restore farm prices in the market News Letter, May 6, 1941. tell their neighbors of it on every occasion. EVER Y place and farm income to a parity FARMER WILL BENEFIT BECAUSE FARM BUR- basis." II'. 0' eal outlined the es en- tial feature of the Farm Bureau com- Nine EAU MEMBERS HAVE FOUGHT A D WO THIS modity loan plan as follows: SEEK CROP PRICE INCREASE FI HT. Tar.. THAT TO YOUR EIGHBOR .. Utilize mandatory commodity loans Washington, May 1llth-A complete for all five basic commodities, the revision of the Government's "food- Here's the story: amount of the loans to be keyed and for denfense" program may be ex- Oe +-------------- "Another unu ual feature of this graduated to determinable duction and demand levels, with the current pro- pected. farm officials Congress votes higher crop loans. said today, i~ hearing was the large number of wit- amount of loans fixed at 85 per cent Many agricultural leaders in and WANT 85% PARITY LOAN nesses who testified for the Farm Bu- of parity price when such demand out of Congress, led by Senator John "We propose that all co-operating reau. As soon as the hearing was ar- shall be equal to or in excess of pro- producers of basic crops shall have B. Bankhead, Alabama, and the ranged, President O· eal called the duction. the definite right of mandatory com- Am,erican Eerm. Bureau Federation A. F. B. F. Executive Committee to Under this plan, farmers will get 85 modity loans, with the amount of are pressing for legislation which loan eyed and gradluated to Washington along with a number of per cent of parity price in the market- the .Farmer would put floors under prices of cot- prominent State Farm Bureau presi- place on their entire production, the determinable current supply and dents. who are especially qualified to price for butter will de- ton, corn, wheat, rice and tobacco at remaining 15 per cent to be supplied during recent months and years." demand levels lth the amount loan 85 per cent of parity. speak for the crops affected by the out of the annual appropriations for termine the pegged prices for other "We urge our national federation fixed at eighty-five per cent of Farm Bureau's commodity loan plan. The 85 per cent price-supporting the national farm progl'am.-A. F. B. dairy products. These will be an- to more aggressively pursue its et- parity price when such demand shall In all, 13 F arm Bureau representa- F. ews Letter. arch 11, 1941. nounced later. Pegged prices for oth- loan rate is 10 per cent higber than be equal to or in excess of such sup- for ts to secure parity prices as the tives made statements to the sub- er parts of the country will reflect the level upon which the Agriculture basis for government support of price ply. To justify loans at eighty-five per cen t of parity price, we recognize committee, whereas, 1 to 3 witnesses i the usual number allowed an organ- Four the usual market prices. relationship to Chicago levels-prices which it is believed Department has established gram designed to encourage a pro- farmers the need for amending the Act to BEFORE SENATE are fair to consumers as well as farm- ization. Under the program the federal gov- to produce more hogs, dairy and provide for an allotment of acreage APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE ers, and which will best serve the "President O· eal led off on the ernment will go into the markets as poultry products to meet British which will produce a supply not in first day of the hearings with a very " lans were laid last week for interests of the Nation." needs as well as an expanding dom- e cess of the current annual require- complete formal statement in which President Edward A. 0·.•.eal of the the occasion d mands and buy these estic market. ' ments, for domestic consumption exports. and increase the penalties in and he set forth he present situation of A.F.B.F. to go before the Senate products in sufficient volume to main- tain the pegged price at Chicago.- Seven Officials said that if Congress agriculture and outlined the Farm Committee on Appropriations early should require the loan rate to be the marketing quota provisions of the Michigan Farm ews, April 5, 1941. BEFORE HOUSE AGR'L COM. Bureau recommendations for full this week with a vigorous plea for ralsed to eighty-five per cent, the act as applied to non-co-operators. parity for the basic crops through full parity. "For fifteen years Congress has de- "We further propose that because clared it to be its policy to restore minimum prices for hogs,. dairy and commodity loans made at 85 per cent "It is estimated that approximately of the 10 of an unusually high per- and maintain parity for agriculture," poultry products would have to be of parity and supplemented by such $873,000,000 are needed for parity MID-WEST BUREAU LEADERS c ntag of foreign exports, the loans conservation. parity and export pay- said President Edw. A,. O'Neal of the increased. else ltl1ere would be no payments to assure farmers of parity PROTEST P ICE PEGS on cotton shall not be less than eighty- ments as may be necessary. A.F.B.F. in a statement on April 30 inducement for farmers to produce prices on the normal production of five per cent ot parity price for any "Citing the need for domestic unity Chicago, 1lli ois, April 11. 1941- before the House Committee on Agri- more of these prpducts.-The Detroit their 1941 acreage allotments. Free Press, May 12, 1941. marketing year hen the estimated in the present hour of grave inter- After carefull considering recent culture. 'That was the objective of production is not in excess of eleven "President 0' eal will point out in national crisis, President O' eal told changes ill th arm program as an- the old McNary-Haugen bill in 1924- million bales. and that the cotton pro- ducer should have additional consid- the committee tween agriculture, that a fair balance be- labor and industry his tatement farmer to the Committee that could be given full parity on nounced by Secretary of Agriculture 1928. It was the objective of the Ten eration for fforts directed toward bal- production to meet current needs Claude Wickard on April 3. and their Federal Farm Board Act of 1929. It HOPES OF 85 P. C. is vital to such unity. ancing his current production to the under the Farm Bureau's 5 per cent immediate and probable future ef- was the objective of the original AAA LOAN BOOSTS WHEAT "Parity has often been promised the probable current demand."-From loan plan for only slightly more fects on farmers, Farm Bureau lead- of 1933. It was the objective of the Chicago, May 13-Stimulated by a American farmer, and we have made ers from each of the 11 corn belt Soil Conservation and Domestic Al- Am rican Farm Bureau resolutions, a great deal of progress toward that money than the House has already conference committee agreement on adopted December 12, 1940. objective, he continued, but, 'at no approved for the present farm pro- states authorize the following state- lotment Act of 1936 and the objective 85 per cent of parity loan rates on ment. of the Agricultural Adjustment Act time have we reached our goal and gram."-A.F.B.F. News Letter, March five agricultural commodities, grata wo we are still considerably short of it.' 25, 1941. "Some conversion into reasonabl of surplus corn increases in produc- of 1938. "While we have made some pro- and provision prices hiked briskly AP EAR BEFORE HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS GROUP Pointing farmers out that have adjusted nearly 6,000,000 their acreage Five tion of pork, dairy and poultry pro- ducts seems to be warranted, but the gress toward the parity goal in recent upward today. Reports from Washington & that years, the cold hard fact remains "E haustive hearings before the of soil-depleting crops and are carry- U.S. PEGS PRICES FOR PORK, announced prices offered as an in- Senate and House Conference OOm- ing out a variety of soil-building prac- that the present farm program has House sub-committee on Agricultural BUTTER AND POULTRY ducement fail to recognize the basis mlttes members had agreed on the tices under the AAA, President O'Neal not brought parity to American agri- ppropriations gave the American The U. S. Dep't of Agriculture an- of parity wh'ich was adopted by Oon- culture. 85 per cent plan led to an early Farm Bureau Federation its first op- declared that farmers have done their nounced Aprll 3 a program of mini- gress in legi. lation. in 19.3.'1 and subse- bulge in prices. Wheat advanced portunity to make a formal presenta- part under the farm program. "Now mum prices for pork, dairy and poul- quently as the icorttiu and fair basis "The American Farm Bureau Fed- more than two cents a bushel and tion of its 1941 legislative program to it is up to Congress to carry out its try products as a part of the defense erauon takes the position that we corn was up a cent at the start. for American farm prices." Congress on February 11. 12 and 13. part by making the necessary ap- program. The object is to assure must have a provroni which will as- After registering gains of slightly "Farm organizations are usually propriations to protect the farmers' "We point out that While nine-cent sure lull parity not only to the five more than production of ample supplies, the hogs and the prices named for other a cent a bushel, corn given only a limited amount of time prices and income."-A. F. B. F. ews dep't said. The price pegging opera- farm products basic crops, but to all of American futures fluctuated within narrow In which to present their cases to the Letter, February, 25, 1941. may offer some tem- aoricuuure. tion on these commodities is schedul- porary inducement for increased pro- limits. Soy beans ran up sharply in appropri tions ubcommittee, but on ed to continu through June 30, 1943. duction, "To accomplish this objective we sympathy with industrial wages and with the strength shown thi occa ion Represen ative Clarence resnectrunv submit the Iollowing rec- in cotton and cottonseed The .S. Dept of Agriculture has farm production costs steadily rising, oil. Olos- C nnon, the subcommittee's chairman, BEFORE SENATE AGR'L ommendation to be made effective in ing prices were 3 to 3% cents higher set for the present the Icllowtng bot- the announced prices, by the time the told President Edward A. O'Neal to COMMITTEE 1941: tom prices at Chicago: and, at the extereme top, soy beans take all of the time necessary to pre- T stifying before the Senate om- increased production of these pro- "Amend the AAA of 1938 to pro- were up almost four cents. Hogs $9 per hundred; butter 31 ducts is ready for market, may leave Rye fol- sent the farm Bureau's complete mittee on Agriculture on February 27, vide mandatory commodity loans to lowed wheat mildly, as did oats. recommend tions. cents per pound; chickens 15 cents the farmer in just as serious dis- resident .E"'~ A. O· eal of the Ameri- per pound; eggs 22 cents per dozen. parity co-operating farmers at 85% of parity position as he has been in Lard responded to a stronger hog for cotton, corn, wheat, rice, and to- market and the up-swing in cotton- BERRIEN COUNTY Evans Alfred LITCHFIELD LAPEER COUNTY ------~ -~- BERRIEN SPRINGS OTTAWA COUNTY Twelve Mahler LeRoy Distefano Angelo COLOMA Allen E V FOWler H M MONTGOMERY NORTH ADAMS Walt:.r; Chas Lakebraok Harmer Fred Farm A'TTICA DRYDEN Posthuma Dick COOPERSVI LLE GRANDVILLE APPROVE QUOTA PRESIDENT Washington, SIGNS BILL May 26 (AP)-Presi· BRANCH COUNTY Fogelsong Hugh BRONSON Kibiloski Frank Holcomb A J Buckmaster C J OSSEO Wilcox Floyd Haines Adelbert Conley John T LAPEER LUM Leach George H Donnelly Clair L Kraai Jacob WEST OLIVE FO MARKETING dent Roosevelt approved lation providing higher today legis- Government Membership Dep't Reports Kosteff Thos Burkheart T W QUINCY READING Minch Ear' Crandall Donald Burkhart Cecil PITTSFORD READING Goodrich Robert Ducker Clinton OTTER LAKE SAGINAW COUNTY Savage Brothers BURT ' WHEAT loans 011 five major -and virtually assuring farm Wheat, cotton, corn, rice and tobacco crops- growers a 120 for May; Total Beckman Otto Hurst Dallas T LENAWEE COUNTY CHESANING Apply to All Plantings That "partty" return on their 1941 produc- CALHOUN COUNTY Brott CO&. Son Kulow Leon E Gaspur John Harris Lloyd C tion. Doe Ed L McClellan Herbert JASPER HEMLOCK Exceed 12,000 BURLINGTON HelmiCk J Newman Fred Ayers W L Dankwardt Max Exceed 15 Acres or 200 He signed into law a bill directing Cronkhite Ray S &. Son Hodson A L HOMER LIVING TON COUNTY SAGINAW Bushels Yield Government loans on these crops at Cutcher Harry WALDRON HOWELL Dietrich H J 85 per cent or parity. With the ad- In this edition of the Farm ews Gilbert Earnest MARSHALL Clements Gail ST. CHARLES dition of farm subsidies, including th Michigan tate Farm Bureau wel- Van Arman Claude INGHAfy1 COUNTY Bertotti A J Sanderson Leslie Nearly complete unofficial returns com to membership and publishes MASON COUNTY special parity and soil conservation UNION CITY MASON ST. CLAIR COUNTY indicate that wheat farmers on May tb name. of 1 0 families who be- Spoor Charles J Milligan Reed LUDINGTO payments, farm leaders said, the Butz John BROWN CITY 31 approved marketing quotas for came members during the Brody Roll Renshaw Louis grOWers undoubtedly will receive CASS COU TV IONIA COUNTY SCOTTVILLE the 1941 crop with a 80.8 vercent fav- parity. 11, or during the month of (May. The Pleincss FlOYd Wolfe Chas CAPAC orable vote, the U. S. Department of DOWAGIAC IONIA Phillips Violet Commodity Corporation officials Hillsdale ounty list is from the Vylonis Tony Abbey Wm &. Son MONROE COUNTY YALE Agriculture announced June 4. More Brody Roll all which closed March MARCELLUS MONROE Place Mary C estimated that the new legislation Wolfe Raymond PORTLAND than a half million Wheat fa;mers 31. .•.lore than 12,000 families in 50 Crosby Albert Nickel Fred would authorize a l~n rate of 13.6 ST. JOSEPH COUNTY voted in the referendum held in 40 CLINTON COUNTY LYONS MUSKEGO COUNTY cents a pound for cotton, 71 cents' a countie are memb r of the Farm Keefer Floyd LEONIDAS States. Of the 505,207 votes tabUlated OVID RAVENNA Shellenbarger Frank bushel for corn, 97 cents a bushel for Bureau. Nicholas Alwyn Mr &. Mrs PEWAMO to date 408.091 were in favor of Trierweiler Joseph Bonthuis C A MENDON Wheat. 89 cents a bushel fbr rice and ince J' nuary 1, 1941 a total of Schmitt Clair quotas, and 97,116 opposed. An estim- EATON COUNTY LAKE ODESSA· NEWAYGO COUNTY 20 cents a pound for tobaccQ. These 3. 46 familic have joined a County VanHouten Archie L THREE RIVERS ated 40.000 to 50.000 votes, principal- figures are averages. CHARLOTTE FREMONT Liby R L Farm Bureau and the Mlchigan State Moe Clarence L Simpson E E Sherman Henry ly absentee ballots. remain to be tab- The effect is to es ablish tbe8e al arm Bureau. Fdnal count for the MULLIKEN JACKSON COUNTY SHIAWASSEE COUNTY ulated. Bell Lyle C NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN minimum prices, since a ~ r can Brody Roll all including Hillsdale ALSION owosso This is the first time marketing SUNFIELD Keck Clyde CEDAR Donahu H B place his produce in storage under a ounty, i 3,690. Sackett Asher C Harp Edmund quotas, provided under the AgriCUl- Government loan made at this rate JONESVILLE During the calendar 2.117 families joined the Farm Bur- year of 1940, GENESEE COUNTY Watson Eli MUNITH Zeits Jrome LAKE LEELANAU (Antrim, TRI-COUNTY Charlevoix &. Kalkaska) tural Adjustment been applied to Wheat. Act or 1938, have Cotton, to- rather than sell it at Detroit Free Press-May * 10 r agure.- 17, 19ft. GRANO BLANC Wooster J W TRAVERSE CITY . u, The otal ince Jan. 1, 1940 i Iddins Henry McManus George CHARLEVOIX 'H bacco, and peanut growers preVious- 5 ne . member. Gregory Edd Smith Carlton , GRATIOT COUNTY KALAMAZOO COUNTY WILLIAMSBURG ly approved quotas. T.he Act provides within their allotments may market , III ent: Cox Walter &. Nysall TUSCOLA COUNTY BRECKENRIDGE FULTON that when supplies of wheat are 35 their entire production wit OU penal· Potter E E Smith Guy Trumble Orman OAKLAND COUNTY CARO Calberry Chas percent or more above normal dom- ty. Wheat produced on acre In eX- ~ RRY COU TY ITHACA KALAMAZOO ORTONVILLE REESE Dietrich Carl Kakabaker H Werner A Howes Ronald &. Eugene estic consumption and exports, mar- cess of the allotment will be ubject DELTO Ackerman Lewis Ortner RUdolph a ley arciu ST. LOUIS Weenink Henry PONTIAC Ortner Herman keting quotas must be proclaimed. to a per-bushel penalty of 50 percent H Bailor Lester W SharkeY Don PLAINWELL Johnson Farms Quotas remain in effect, h~wever, of the Ibasic loan rate. Krohn Robert Milleson Burt Brundage Elva G Allen Harvey W Hindes Harry N Bingham Austin C OCEANA COUNTY We Grow Some Tobacco only when approved by two-thirds MIDDLEVILLE HILLSDALE COUNTY Dun I e C RICHLAND HART of the whea t farmers voting in a na- CAMDE Brophy F F Kellogg Webster Only ten states reported no produc- tional referendum. Touri t Cabi Hinkle E M Hummon S P SCOTTS NEW ERA tion of tobacco in the 1940 Census. If all the cabins In h 13,53 tour· HILLSDALE Case ArChie Waldhanz Frank Quotas will apply on all farm Vanderwall Dick They were Arizona, Colorado, Dela- ist camps of the Unit could Convis Geo Kelley Ralph PENTWATER where wheat seeded for 1941 harvest Daglow Don Reynold Chauncey KENT COUNTY Lentz Carl ware, Idaho. Maine. evada, North be clu~tered to e h to it exceeds 15 acres, or normally yields JO ESVILLE CALEDONIA' SHELBY Dakota, OUUl Dnkhota, Utah, and 'Would make a city comparable in size en M mith Floyd . Waldeck G ·Wyoming. mor than 200 bu hels, rwhichever i cramer John M to such ciUes Inneapol ud Cin' larger. Farmers Who have seeded cinnatl. .:» SATURDAV, JU E 7, 1941 MICHIGAN FARM NEW e ta e • J tor arln COU TY FA M BUREAU EADE con um rs, The legtslature ed for a mea sure to put an end to was ask- A ea Wor A D JU 10 FA M BU AU thi unfair situation. were' companion mea ures to l' gul te Two bill vhich Las MOD h packaging and labeling of ond n-ed FO U • CLINTON Clinton COUNTY ounty Junior Farm Bur- County 11 al'l!l Bureau' lead '1'. meeting at Lansing, .Iune 4, named ~I COJll) i it.tee head d b.' 1I vard Bile of Ionia county, and vapora t d milk and to impo pedal tax on filled milk w I' pas ed by the Hou by a v ry , ul» tantial a Included in State College eau held a party May 15 to honor its t o ltIJ1kl' reconnnendations regarding the' relationship of the majority but were bottled up in the R .cretary, Phyll it Blough and it .J unior and •\~llior Ii arm Hureaux. 'I'he leaders zav unan- enat committee on agriculture, The Annu 1 Farmers' Day vice pre id nt, Charle A very who inftuen .e of th on plant making fill- iuions approval to this report by t.ho eomm it.tt e . d milk in ...Iichigan wa apparently Prosram w r married recently. The bride and trouger than that of all th dairy groom were PI' ented with a lamp bv "\V I' recommend the adoption of the JlI·ill(~iplc. of the the club. . producer and consumer '. A day ot fun and frolfe is in the 11nrm Bureaus approach to -luuior Farm Bureau work H. Various bills for taxing oleo offing tor Mich' an's rural folk. A Sunday, ~lay 18, members attended (1/' '('loped by t he rural youth orvanizat ion ill plannit " com- al 0 kept in ommitte hoth in the Michigan Farm portH F stlval is to a "Rural Lite . unday" program at senate and in th house, As far a' be held thl ye I' in conn ction with the Bath M. E. church. The program H1ittpt~ of the Am rican .Barm Bm'('ClU !1'pdel'u1ioll. in which is organized farmer; ar cone rn d th the Ann I ..id urnm r Farrners' empha Ized the advantages of living included 'bl'OCHl principles of the F1al'1H Bureau ' approach to mea ure: ar on the order of "un- Day at the Michigan tate 011 ge on' in thu country. the work a,' -tai('d by H. ,\\r. Blaekhurn , eel' tary of th fini lied busiues s." Friday, ugu t 1. 'Ve hav spent. orne time di CUSB- Amer-ican ,J:l1a1'Hl Bureau. (.JIl'. Bla .kburus statement of Dep't of Agr. Reorganiza ion Michigan Farm organization with in~ the Junior Farm Bureau camp The arm Bureau had a k d for ichigan State neg ar holding this . ummer and the selection of princip l .. concludes this art.icle.) r organization of th D partment of the festival for the purpos of bring- campers will be completed in the neal' Agriculture on a non-partit an ba i s. ing togeth r rut' I people in a pro- Iutur . "'\Ve further recommend that the Connty Farm Bureau, 'I'his as interpreted by the Ii ann ject to co-ordindat the activity of Th club 1. getting a soft-ball team and the .Junior Farm Bureaus joint ly con. i 11'1' the advisability Bureau board as heing ill line with the farm organizations, The v nt together which it xpects to enter in of selcct iue a om: ·1101' for the .Iunior I1'Hrm Bur au." th variou provisions of th Wal'h is an experiment. It will include oft- th Sports Festival on August 1st. hill which ne -er em rg d from th ball gam ,v rtou kind. of ra es and LIVINGSTON COUNTY PRINCIPLES STATED BY SECRETARY BLACKBURN house committee. 'I he Po t bill pro- relays, h r esho pitching, etc, Of great intere t to both the Junior "The Farm Bur au needs youth, not to build Farm Bureau, not v iding for • election of the cornmis- The co-operating organization. and and nior Farm Bureaus of Living- to shirt the organization burd ns to the young, not provid parti and stoner of agriculture by th tate agenct s Includ the Michigan State ton county is the recent planning of dancing for the young, not ju, t for the Rake or nrganiztn -but rather: board of agriculture, govei'n ing body Farm Bureau Michigan State Orange, of •.Michigan tate ionese. pa - d a farm rvice program within that "So together we can work for th solution of th prohl m or Future Farmers of m rica, 4-H the hous but was defeated in th en- county. arm groups in the county the farm, the farm home and th rural community, hy th use of ate after having been po itpou d many clubs, Michigan tate olleg and Ex- have responded well to this program recognized advantages of organiz d action. t nttou rvlce, _ 1chigan Farmer, time. which as first initiated by the s matters of interest to farm folks Junior Farm Bureau. "So farm families shall have hap pine and prosperity in th ir £ and local arm organlzatton and publt- d v lop d tollowin the annual meet- CllOS n work. cations, The proposed set-up at present is ing of th Farm Bur au th board of A me Ung was held of the e group the employing of a worker to handle "So farm people, through Farm Bureau, can represent, protect and director' or the executiv 3 conumtt e and a committee wa e up to be in the organizational activities of the advance the social, economic and educational iut r its of farm rs. analyzed th m and decided hat stand charge Of, the affair. John F. Yaegar, ounty Farm Bureau, Junior Farm "So organized farmers can cop vith their pI' blems, with Rural the state organization should take. Farm Bureau is chairman, Milon Bureau, Community groups, special Youth marching shoulder-to-shoulder with Mother and Dad. The directors wen on record in favor Grinnell, editor ot the. fichigan Farm- er, is publicity Tenny, I tate director, on ge i Other memb rs 0 the committ e are: and Ralph s cretary. projects, and other farm groups such as F.F,A, 4-H clubs, etc. Proposed projects soring of a second annual boat excur- are the spon- "So that the impacts of war, d fen. e and pea' nature of which cannot now be rores en, may b successfully met. "So that the democracy our forefathers settlements, fought and di d for shall the of the two am ndments to the constitution th voter which w r or decision April 7. They were aimed at putting an ud to fraud ubmitt d to tate F - u W. G. Arm trong, • faster of the State sion, continuing of the publlshtng of be pl'e:erv. d in our generation. in e mrIng signature 011 p tit.ions PROTECT YOUR BUILDI G WITH SAFE INSU Grange; H rbert chmidt, Junior the Co-operator, monthly Farm Bur- tor amending the state con uttutton "So that the problems, economic and ojherwi e, of conservation, • MI HIGA T'S Larg st Farm • t increas of 11 arly Farm Bur au; •.. L, Bailey, tate eau newspaper, organizing Commun- and for initiative an referendnm pro- distribution costs, farm credit, research, tauor-and-mdu try r lations, 1utual Fir Insurance Co. 9,000,000 in 1940. College vocational a ricultural ity groups and planning of an active po al s. With Farm Bureau .upport dep't ; monopoly and international trade may be und rsto d by Rural Youth. year around program in the county. th e constitutional amendments were Over $114,000,000 at risk. Clinton Ballard, county agricultural "So that Rural Youth may have an opportunity of training for • In uran , Inssified. nd • - adopted by a substantial majority, I leader; and H. E. K Hun n, 4-H club Two meetings of farm leaders have agricultural leader hip through understanding of vital agricultural • Over 336,000 in as. ets and SP. sed ac ord ing to IHIZ' rd. particularly in rural area . lead r. met thus far and a committee of six problems affecting farm people and having actual experien in resources. to draw up permanent plans has been Anti-Sabotage Act leadership," Anoth I' measure enacted with • Has paid 6234,026.16 ill Blanket policy on farm p r- The gros 1ncom from all chickens appointed. The six are: Claude • onal prop ,rty. Farm Bureau support wa the anti- losses. raised in • Uchigan i over 10 million 'Burkhart, Livingston County Farm dollars. Bureau president, Harold County Farm Bureau secretary, :\tIerle Copeland, Legislature Mak sa sabotag heavy penalties bill deflnin for abo tag nection vith defense indu trl s, This and providing in con- State Mutual Firtt Insuranc o. of M. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"I W. V. Burras, Pres. 702 Church sr., Flint, Mich. H. K. Fisk, Soe'y Crandall, C. Atkins, Howell 'Co-op manager; Howell t acher ; and Chester Clark, who will Smith-Hughes L. ood Fanrri ec r is inccrporated in th farm name. A groups but with the mea ure was bitterly oppo ed by 01'- ganized labor and ariou upport of the radical Phone 25221 (Continued from page one) be the employed worker of the pro- which ha existed regarding uabiltty regi tered nam may be tran [erred Farm Bur au veteran.' orgauizatlons gram if plans materialize. for licen es Oli farm tractors or imple- when the property hang s owner- vas finally enacted. OCEANA COUNTY ments. It specifically exempt imple- ship. Advertising Farm Products Thursday evening, May 15, at the ments of husbandry and definitely Laws Revised for Co-ops State-aid for adverti ing farm prod- county agent's office in Hart, 22 mem- states that farm tractors are not mo- Revision of the Michigan .o-opera- u·t was provided on a more liberal bers of the Oceana Junior Farm tor vehicles insofar as the operation tive organization law was uraed by ba i than heretofore. 32,500 a year Bureau attended a party and shower of this law is concerned. the Farm Bureau Delegates, Laws on was provided by the tate for a sist- honoring ...Iiss Doretta Burmeister Central Tax Collection this subject had been enacted in 1903, ing commodity organizations in the and Emerson VanAelst, whose mar- The Farm Bureau resolutions recom- 1913 and 1917 and orne of the sec- advert.i ing of farm product . For each riage will take place on June 7. The mended establishment of a central tions of these old tatutes vere in- 20 expended for uch advertising, revenue collection department to con- definite and 0 e details were conflict- farm groups can now qualify for ' 0 couple were given a blanket by the solrdate the collection of a variety of ing 0 that' u ion and misund r- in state-aid up to 6,000 for any or- group. The Mi ses Gertrude Ciark ganization. Applications for state-aid state taxes, licenses, fees, rents, standing result d. Their prov iston and Emma Jean Lewis were in charge needs either must be filed by October 1 of each royalties and other income and such a did not meet present of refreshment con i ting of wedding of new co-op- year with the commit sioner of agricul- measure was finally enacted. It is regarding organization cake and ice cream. not all-inclusive in scope but is a very eratives or in the operating of xi t- ture and he i authorized to prorate The May 29th meeting was post- definite step in this direction. ing co-operatives. Representative of available fund among the applicants. poned until June 5 on account of grad- Farm Land in Villages various groups developed a new bill The bill also appropriated 2,500 an- uation exercises at Hart. The Farm Bureau asked for passage and after it had been carefully ex- nually to advertl e dichigan farm WASHTENAW COUNTY of a bill to permit the di connection plained to Ieg i lativ leader it va products as a whole. Raymond .IeCalla entertained the of purely farm land from cities and adopted unanimously by both the en- Bill to repeal or amend the Bald- group at his home for a hayride on villages under certain conditions, ate and the House. It defines co-op- win Apple d erti sing La ~ died in I ,)lay 3rd. A regular business meeting and recreational program was a May cipal interests, De pite drastic opposition from muni- erative such a measure organizations in accordance was with the Federal J.;"arm redit Act of Farm Produce committee or wer killed on the ftoor. Hauling Exempt 13th event held at the ew Wastenaw finally enacted to be operative for the 1933. This will a tst co-operative. Complete exemption from th pro- Farm Bureau Store in Ann Arbor. two-year period. who desire to borrow money trom the vi ions of the Motor Carrier ct wa Bank for Co·op ratives. It clearly dis- granted for all trucks hauling farm at Lightning Speed Wa tenaw members attended the Col- Dairy Products lege Junior Farm 'Bureau Formal A dairy products Advertising advertising cam- tinguishes betw en "profit" and "non- product xcept liv tock from th farm to mark t. 'I'h is clarifi a situ- Portable, El ctric Party in East Lansing _lay 17th and paign to be financed through a levy of profit" organization . a tion which has giv n rio to con- Lc per pound on butt rfat produced Fair Premiums Hot Water Hater, .-n•••••••l:J5 they wish to express their apprecia- Definite provision in the budget for s iderable confusion and will be SPECIAL PRICE tion to the college members, May 23rd durrng a 2-weeks period was ad 0- espe .ially helpful around the Benton cated by the Farm Bureau and after payment by the tat of it lUll' of a rural youth dance was sponsored Regularily Sold at 5.95 having b en .d eteated both in the premium ~ at agricultural fail' was Harbor fruit market. by members to raise funds to send demanded by the Farm Bureau dele- Better Log Rule for Farmer See Your Farm Bureau Dealer House and the Senate and involved in camp rs to the Waldenwoods leader- Another bill advocat d by the Farm various delay this mea ure wa final- gates, Action in ac ordance with this ship camp in August. Some 200 were re olution wa taken by the Legtsla- Bureau director and na -t d by the H re' a portabl lectric water ly passed during the last few minutes in attendance. Dorothy Forshee wa of the esston. For 19-11, the period ture. In the past funds for such pur- legi 'latlu'e provide for th adoption heat r that orks ith amazing speed, Think of it! Hot water al- general chairman. [or collection of the money would be po e' have ome from ra .ing commis- of t H~ international rul for estimat- The O'roup's final event in .:\.Jay was the fir t 15 days in Octob r. Here- sion revenue. This ha prov d rather ing board feet in 100's unle s •om ways at your ommand for every a regular meeting and party at the after the tax would b collected dur- un sat isfactory and pr caricus. III the other rule i specified in the agree- need, Just plug it into the nearest Farm Bureau . tore on the 27th at ing the first 15 days of June of each future racing I' -enne will 0'0 directly ment bet, n the farmer and t11 lum- 110 volt C outl t. Amazing in a - which 1 Livingston Junior Farm year. In it final form the bill pro- into the g n ral fund and all rail' ber buy r. The international rule is tion-marvelou in cony ntence. Op- premiums and :l' .F.A. and 4-H awards much more favorable to the farm r Bur au members were gu sts. In vides that '/~C per pound of butterfat rating co t 1 of a cent for charge of the program were orma involved vould be paid by the pro- "ill be paid ou of the gen ral fund than th Doyle or S .rtbuer rule which quart. 0 mol' fu stng around ducer and 1,4c by the processor or and , ill not be dependent on racing ar often us d. Teachout. Audrey Gilbert, Raymond just a f w quart. of hot wat r, revenue. Michigan State COllege lcCalla and Junior Colby. State other handler of the dairy product. Tbi heater is simplicity It.-elf. A The funds 0 accumulated would be Animal Disease Indemnities Farm Bureau member were pIe • ed Trooper Jensen of the Ypsilanti non-rusting chrome-plated cylinder, 2 In the fi ld of animal di ea e pI' - ,-ith the lib ral treatm nt ac 'ord d Police Post spoke on Rural Safety, u ed for a broad promotional and du- inches in diam tel' nd 51 inches followed by a ational Defense ~lovie cational campaign to stimulate con- vention th Farlll Bur au r solution tll ~Jichigan tate Colleoe. rrhe ap- long (about the size of a half-pint snmption of dairy products. a ked an appropriation o[ 150,000 an- propriation for a 11 of the n xt 2 hown by H. S. 0 leI', county agr'l milk bottle) containing the non-cor- Weed Control Law nually for the tate'· hare of Buno·'L year ,'a' fixed at 2,950,000 ·which agent. 135,000 an- repre. ent a ub tantial incr ase over roding chrome h 81ting I ment that A group picnic, a picnic for pros- A weed control bill as advocated by dis a e indemnitie. and enables th heat r to giv you hot pective camper the Farm Bureau delegate was pre- nually for al'l'ying' on T. B, te ting of previous allotment. 1,000,000 wa and camp ponsor, cattle in the tate once each 3 years. appropriated for a new general cieuce wat r quick as flash. Can be used interesting pared and passed by both the Senate peakers, and business for the e pur- building for ~lichigan tate Colle e, constantly ithont ov rheating. Gnar- meeting and the Honse after haviu been once The amounts ranted are planned for June. defeat d by ea h body. It wa an- po' by the Legi latur w l' 'fhe legi latur pa d a bill provid- anteed for on ye r and ill la t other of the m asures which was not $100,000 annually for ach project. ing for validating th charter of non- indefiuit Iy wUh ordinary care. profit corporations which have failed John Cahell Breckenridge of Ken- finally adopted until the very last day However, in the pa t a considerable FARM BUREAU Electrical SERVICES, Dep't INC. tucky, who became vi e president 01' of the ses ion. It final provisions portion of the moneY'pecifically the Unit d States in 1 57 at the age were worked out by a conference com- propriated for the e proj ct has been the pre crib d fe s. This will enable ap- to make their prop r report ex- many defunct corporations and pay to b re- T 728 E. Shl wa8see, Lansing of 36, was the young st man ev l' mittee in the all-night meeting which u ed for gen ral departmental concluded the ' 'ion. It llrovid s pen e.. 'I'll allowanc for the gen- ived and either go into lmsiness lected 'to the position. • In too many homes, neglect or bulbsnatch- : an optional pl.ll of weed control ral expense of the department ·was again 01' make proper di 'po 'ition of Wl1ich may be adopted by th • uper- increa. ed 0 tha t it i hop d th t it their a et. ing has put wrong size lamp in plac s wh visors of any county or the governing will not b found nece' al'y to divert State Purchasing Reform Lost Ban '. or T. B. fund dmin the n xt Reforms in the administration or young ters study, where OCK RODUCER body or any municipality. official ar mad re, pon ible for con- 2 years. Highway stat pur ha ..ing of upplie had b en older people read or sew. trollino' noxious weeds within the Interstate Trade Barriers advocat d by the Farm Bureau and a ';I'he :\II higan Live Stoc'k E.·('hnnge i~ a farmer owned and con troll d ' Inter tate trade harri rs , re -ig- hill to carry out the'e purposes was nizat!on ffering th following ~ervl('es: right of way of the highway' uud l' 'Oil I their juri di 'tiOll. and railroad om- oroll.'ly ond mned by the Farm Bur- pa . ed by tll legislatlll'e but vetoed Eyestrain is serious. SELLING-Commission sales services in D troit and ~uff~l,O t_ermin~~ mar.k Feeders tllroll h national cOllnection~. C,ut furmsh '\far:i~~ panie must b re pon ible for COll- eau d legates < nd th I gi lature an- hy the Govel'Uor. Right ·size lamps cost pili. a. 'I: a' mabl handling charge all gTudes of feeding ~attle and < ' trolling weed on their property. Th acted a bill providing for th e tabli h- ~\ bill to liheraliz qualifications for t' n!'l of worthY FI ANCING-4~ ~ money available for f edlng °1H'ra to . . f u ' bill provide for d finit repeal of th mit of a tate commi'sion to aid in voting at chool election. wa consid- little to buy, little to use. fe d r~ who hn.... t2/d, r gardle.·. of wh re they pur -has their e er::l. bet\' 'eell ered in th hou e but defeated. Ex- form I' • Iichigan weed law, 'hich has a program of co-op ration MARKET day througl INFORMATION-Listen }i'rida' at 12.1:' P .• 1. uv r til to the Far'!' Ma~ke~ r.Repo~ter • folloWlIlg .\11 hlg,Ul J .Hlio ~ !~r-- b ell g nerally ignor d for many "1ichigan and the other tate and the pressions oming to 'tate Farlll Bu- Make sure, today, that years. Federal Cx~v rum nt for th promo- reau headquarters from .Huut lIen every socket is filled with "'ork 't Hon.: KIlo- tion of uniform I gi lalion and the 1- and di 'cussion groups indicated that Registration for Farm Names Station Loca Ion Ki:O- CY1C400es Station WOOD Grand Location Rapids eyel s 1300 One of the fir. t bills of direct inter- imination of trad barri r. and em- Farm Bur au entiment was very the right size lamp bulbs r WELL B ttle Creek . 1440 t to fanner' passed -during the bargo much opposed to this bill and in favor WIBM Jackson 1450 WBCM Bay. City 1240 of leaving the present qualification WFDF Flint 910 WJIM LanSing r cent se~sion wa. the mea ur pro- Filled Milk, Oleo Taxes Fail 'viding for tIl reO'istration and protec- 1 ot quite all of the reconllnenda- in ffect. Early markets at 6:40 A. M., over •.Ilchlgan State College Radio station w re Sunday Hunting R. 'uppll b;, tit • khigan Live Sto 'k }.... hang. tion of farm name when u ed in c n- tions of Farm Bureau delegates nection with ad erti ing or the com- ena ted by the legi:latul'e. The Farm Sunday hunting received consider- aU nUon to the ahle attention by he legislature hut GE Secretary's Office mercial condu ,t of farm operation , Bureau had called VESTOCK EXCHA Hudson, Michigan For a fe of $1.00 a farm nam may fact. th t fillerl milk ,-hich had been in he end nothing definite a done Frank Ober t, President; J. H. O'Mealey, Secretary &. Treasurer; b registered with tbe Stat Depart- outlawed in inter-state comm )'ce wa on this. ubject, Foul' bills permitting George J. Boutell, Manager ment of griculture and thereafter no being produced and being old bone vot rs in Clinton, Gratiot, Ingham and Ottawa co untie to vote as to whether PUBLISH 0 IN CO-OPERATtO IT M Z mp YOUR STOCK TO US AT other farm in that county can adopt plant in :\li higan. the am nam and u it comme)'cial- In many instances con. umers purcha ing it think they or not they wi 'hed to outlaw Sunday CONSUM RS POW R COMPA V Michigan Liv ock Exch. Producers Co-op Ass'n ly. If that name is desired by a are buying evaporated milk. aturally hunting were passed by the house but De roit Stockyards East Buffalo, N. Y. farmer in another county it may be this indu try is aetrimental to the defeated in the enate. The senate used providing the name of the county interests of both dairy farmers and passed a blll which would have re- MICHIGAN FARM EWS 44% PROTEI ackground Material for Discussion in June ba is, the buying power of ag industrial work r has the aver- risen 133 y: the 200 Community Farm ~ureau Groups p r cent but the purcha ing the farmer has fallen nearly power of one- third. By KEITH A. TANNER porting program should be based. What Farm Prices Should Be ow embership Relation & Education The supporting prices do not take "For a dairy farmer to k ep pace FOREWORD: • iekarrt Speaks on Gov- into c<>nsideration the relationship be. with the rapidly advancing ·tandards ernment 'upPQrt of .F arm Prtces . . . tween agriculture and labor or indus- of the city factory worker, the whole- l' arm firoup 'erves • 'oth'e on Pr-ice Fix- try. It is based upon the relationship Jllg • ,. arm Parity. I y be Abandon- sale price of butter today would have d •.• Th Futur-e Generation .:\IUHtnot between the price the farmer should to be over 52 c nts per pound. To be b T. d" ... So rea4 th head lines. receive for his product and the prices ('ondlt ons • re changing rapidly. But h . I h' h . t on a pal ity with the average factory w must keep up. \V mu t learn to dis- of t e materta s w IC goes In 0 pro. wage rate per hour, the whol ale FA cus B and analyze the ('000 itlons, Time ducing the commodity. ha only not to to allotted think about from but our tobusy talk days, over As you can probably . detect, . this is price of butter would exceed 60 cents th . important historv making changes. ort of a farmer panty philosophy. A per pound. To keep pace with the • ,W~ must k nov the trends of things parity between th vartou products movement of wholesale prices of all in ord r that we may have a "say so" '. non-farm products, the price ot but- in det rmining th dir ctlon they should rais d on the farm and produced from follow. . 'ow above all times, we must the farm. tel' would have to be 40 cent pel 1