Vol. xx. No.1 0 SATURDAY. OBER 3. 1942 Behind nOll YO ew Plant of Hemlock Co-op Creamery Co. the " 0 IL c Wheel EN UM With J. F. Ya.eger, Legislature Has Said Twice Director of Membershlp State N cds a Milk Relations Marketing Act o r CONFID NCE The Michigan State Farm Bureau, Recent blasts at President O'Neal the State Grange and other farm t. n and Vice-Pres. Smith of the Ameri- organizations are urging the public to ti-infl tio can Farm Bureau Federation, were uphold the Michigan Milk Marketing answered in' mid-August by the farm- Act by voting "YES" on the milk re ogniti referendum whi h will appear on the ers of Illinois - rallying to the Farm ballot at the general election Nov. 3. p ic s for f rm Bureau in that state. Over 10,000 The milk marketing new members joined the Illinois Farm acted by the 1·gtslature in 1939 and act was en- This photograph shows a front and As a co-operative or am ry, th or- plant is grading and handling about wI at 1 S5 than th f rm roup Bureau Federation during one week again in 1941 for the purpose of pro- side v~w of the handsome brick and ganization occupied the old huilding 10,000 ca es a year. The service soon th original bill. bringing the total membership in that tecting the public, farmers, and dis- steel plant built by the Hemlo k Co- for 18 years. It built an add ilion to prov d itself. The average price p id Co. at Hemlock, the creamery, and built an addition to for graded eggs in 1940 w 11k cent mb r 7 when the Pr id n of milk operative Creamery state close to the 100,000 mark. tributors The attack on Messers O'Neal and from the farm to the consumer. in the marketing Saginaw county, this summer. It has accommodate its Ieed business, and a dozen more than in ] 939, although tober 1 an nti·infl tion Smith was apparently launched in an I ntent of Act been in operation since July 26. bought another building across the eggs were higher in 1939! No one should quarrel with the in- Hemlock Co-operat lve Creamery has street, Finally, it outgrew its quart- _brOn J. Bauer, long an employe, oth r nd g attempt to split northern and south- ern state Farm Bureaus and to dis- tent of the Act. The legislature said an interesting hfstnry. It operated as ers and the decision was made to has been manager since 1932. His to b applied t credit these fight- it should guarantee consumers an am- a stock company f! om 1:>01 t 1924 build a new plant. The main building ability and application of co-operative ity. ing farm leaders ple supply of pure milk; it should pro- when it was fOJ' d to g through a is 50 by 80 feet. There is a boiler room principles to the business have put it in the minds of the mote efficiency in milk distribution; receivership. :.-lev ral farmers ho rt ow- wing that is 20 x 50 feet. where it is today. lIe is one of the farmers. Apparen t· it should eliminate unfair methods of ed money to keep the plant operating The creamery has three main lines leading distributors of Farm Bureau pre nt tiv ly the attack was competition and unfair trade prac- until it could be reorganized as the of business. It manufactures a first supplies and is a thorough co-operator launched fro m tices; it should determine and fix min- Hemlock Co-operat lve Creamery. The quality butter that is sold in Saginaw with the Farm Bureau and other co- t sked for the imum prices to producers which shall Production from Jan. 1 ops. some central 'source be the equivalent of a fair and Co-op started in February of 1921 with and Detroit. brevis d to as it appeared in reasonable '112 stockholders. That year they did to Sept. 1 of this year amounted to Officers are Charles Fox, pre ident; cost of production, to- a business of $90,930. Today the 212,101 lbs. A considerable business George Reynolds, vice-president; Er- stirn ed t t all sections of the gether with a fair and reasonable c 0 u n try and in profit to the producer. creamery has 406 stockholders and 69 is done in feeds and general, farm nest Fischer, secretary-treasurer; di s much s 120/0. various newspap- The milk marketing act has been other patrons. Last year the volume supplies. In June of 1939 the cream- rectors: 'V. Dale Turner, ugust ers and magazines opposed by certain distributors who of business was $239,569 and undoubt- ery established federal egg grading Fiting, William Beyersdorf, William at the same time. want to be free to handle producers edly will be larger for 1942. service, The service is popular and the Doyle. elude The rallying of as they please. They financed the the farmers of Illinois, Mr. Smith's referendum on the 1941 law. home state, is sufficient answer to frighten consumer groups by their mis- those who would attempt to destroy representations. Undoubtedly, They those Far Lader , Le t r distributors who 'have much to gain to Pre ident 00 e e confidence in farmer leadership. financially by defeat of the act will v. 12-1 Farmers are sticking with those who stop at nothing in their campaign fight their battles, come what may. literature and advertisements up to It is that sort of unity that is needed Nov. 3. now both in the war effort and in Work of _Milk Marketing Board w« hington D. September 18, 194u receive one never above. forget it.-ehllon. Buces or to the lchlgan Farm Bureau e s, founded January 12, 1923 Entered as IS cond cla s matter January 12, 1923. fit the post- otrice at Chart tte, Mlchigan, under the Act of arch 3, 1 79. Single rotein Concentrates W 11, But ~ ariety of Publl h d first aturdav Bureau at it publicatlon of each month by the flchigan State Farm office at 114 E. Lovatt St. Charlotte, Michigan. This Sugar-Rationing Thing Them Do Better ,Editorial and general offices, 221 Torth Cedar St., Lansing, Michigan. In Hiram anel in me there is a streak Postoffice Box 960. Telephone, Lan. Ing' 21-271. By R. H. ADDY EI AR UNGRE Editor and Business Manager Of rea-squirrel habit when the Pall is here; We like to crowd the c)"ibs until they squeak Farm Bureau. ervices, Inc. •.. - v •.• - In this, the in-gathering sea on 01 the year. Cows can do well on single protein supplement uch as oy bean ol] Subscription 25 cents per year; 4 years for $I, in advance. m al, cotton eed meal, lin eed oil ~AST YEAR, America's railroa Vol. XX SATU DAY OCTOBER 3, 1942 o. 10 meal, or gluten meal. This is es- moved 475 billion ton-miles of pe ially true of average or a little freight, history's greatest traffic Job: better than average cows. Ca 4 ail Wag An 8 Foot og? And likewise lor our elves ee gather in •fany dairymen with good cows of (We'd · e to tell you how many mU- Marathon Community Farm Bureau is named for a What all it take to ee us through till Spring; great produ Uve ability have come lions of soldiers and sailors we car- So that I 'roth r took onc on the cllin back to Farm Bureau Milkmaker township in Lapeer county. A few nigh~s ago the When first I met this "sugar·rationing" thing. after trying out single protein concen- rled, b t •••• ) trates. . members discussed the anti-inflation bills before Con- lV e've allcays k pt a hundred pound on lland They believe that the combination of This year the railroads may haul g~ 88. Becau e ·t's cheaper il you buy that way many quality proteins, along with And, fm·Ol rmorc, becau. e ce own thi land molo se and bone meal makes it eas- 50 miWon carloads of freight-l0%J to h y di cu s d wh t th farmer and otl er groups And here rce livc-and here roe ahn to staV. ier for good cows to produce heavily 15% more than in 1941{ handli g I r cr ps can do about starting a rice infla- I ttacea arcuna and I 'eel ttp what I had and reproduce rgulartly, Whether they tion, And got the cards like everybody did, are right or not, it is an established We did the 1941 job pretty easily But up till now it tuisn't. been so 'bad fact that it only costs about $2 per "'f.h y compared prices paid the farmer at the farm And I feel 'reassured and comfor.ted.. ton more tor the finished ration if because freight shippers and reeely· and prices paid by consumers for seve al farm crops. Milkmaker 34% protein is used with ra and the pubUc cooperated. W. The canning ration didn't can so much home grown grain, than it does for a can do this year's bi9ger JODU we If th farmer gave milk away, observed the Marathon gro p, ity 0 sumers would still pay up to 9 cents per (I could have cried at that one pound for With not a smitcli lor mnrmauuie and such) But all in all we 'made out pretty well jell single protein supplement. instance to prove it: Under average Here's an prices today of I aqain get that cooperation. quart, sine the f rm r vcrages bout ·~PA cents per For there ere only two of 'us, you know, about 1.80 per cwt. for a mixture of this all-out war requires all-out corn, oats, and wheat, $2.40 for soy- quar at th farm. If the f rmer gave whe t away, tui we have maple syrup every spr.ing. transportation. Uncle Sam is depend· II Uncle Bam. needs suga)'-'be it so; bean oil meal, and $2.85 for Milk- br ad would II at V2 c ts a loaf inst ad of 11. A We can abide tnis sugar-rationing thing. maker 34%, here's how it would tlgure Inq on the railroads for that. W.'re loaf contains about l1A cent", worth of whe t. There's R. S. Cla)"k out: handlineJ 70% of his miUtary freiflinL 315 ortti Grinnell Street To make about a 15 % protein feed about 3 cents worth of r w cotter in a $2.00 d ess shirt to go with real good alfalfa hay, take: To let him down would be traqic. Jackson, Michigan now selling or $2.25 or more. 500 Ibs. corn, oats, wheat.. $ 9.00 he arm Bu eau has no qu rrel with the nec ss ry or n 100 Ibs. Milkmaker 600 lbs, 34%.................... 2.85 $11.85 So "the tall man in the high har' processing and distrib tion expenses quired to bri g Cost per cwt. . $ 1.97Y2 comes first. The editor of the Farm News wrote to R. S. Clark, With Single Protein Concentrate farm products to consumers. . But it is obvio s that if who has been writing verses for him many years, and 700 Ibs. corn, oats, wheat $12.60 100 Ibs. soy bean oil meal 44%.... 2.40 At any time now there may be one. farm prices were doubled in some insta ces, a d if only he sez, sez he, "If you could say it in lines that are BOO lbs. $15.00 even two or three fewer cars IIi your that i r as w re passed on to consumers, it would shorter, we could increase the size type and make for Cost per owt $ 1.87Y2 For 10 cents per 100 Ibs. or $2.00 passen;er train. You'll excuse It, rna e little difkrence i retail prices. much easier reading. tt per ton you get all the advantages won't you? Uncle Sam will be uslnQ An incre se in farm prices is usually reflected in a that IMilkmaker 340/0 adds to the ra- The editor, of course, couldn't write acceptable verse tion, plus some new fortifications them. higher price to the consumer. The increase is often in any length of line, were he to be hung for failure to just added to Milkmaker. e plained as due to a higher price p id to the farmer, do so. But it's easy enough to tell the poet something There is irradiated yeast. Experi- Or your height may move out. or mental work shows that there is a whereas a m tter of fact it i ve y I rgely a increa e in about his business. possibility that this may help prevent come to you, a little latei than you had proc ssing, manuf cturing, transportation and di tribu- Presently the poet replied. He sez, sez he: milk fever. We know it wtll produce hoped. We're certain you'll overlook tion charges. milk richer in vitamin ,D. It will that, too. We'll be movin; ilbporlant "Long meter style is a smoother vehicle of expres- help cows assimilate calcium and Price dministrator Henderson told Congressman sion for me, and, once started, burbles along a good phosphorous, which should promote thinqs for Uncle Sam. health and better boned calves. Barden of North Carolina recently that prices for ca ned deal like pouring water out of a 'jug. Also, it is more goods were up 15 %. A IS cent can of beans, said Manganese sulphate with cobalt, We knew you would. ~d you'IJ of a humorous and quizzical stanza. F or example: copper and iron as trace minerals has been added to Milkmaker. Again be helping min, too. Barden, contains about a penny's worth of dry beans. John Gilpin's Ride, thus: some experimental work indicates a That I aves 14 c nts for the can, labor, and distribution John Gilpin was a citizen of credit and renown, possibility that these minerals may ...-v ...- charges. To blame the farmer for increases like that is A trained-band captain 'eke was he of famous London town. have a beneficial effect in preventing Bang's disease. It is a possibility like saying that a 4 inch tail can wag an 8 foot dog. HOn the other hand, the eight foot line is often used that this will be proved by further lohlgan RalJ1eoads for serious works and naturally keys to a little more work. In any case the addition of ir- arm ta d U and Ig doleful pitch. Consider these lines from Gray's Elegy radiated yeast and manganese sulphate The struggle in Congress over anti-inflation legisla- on a Country Church Yard: tion during the month of September focused on farm The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea. price ceilings and the question of whether or not farm "Nevertheless", sez the poet, HI enclose an 8-foo.ter- labor costs should be considered when arriving at such for your October 3rd edition and will try it again." ceilings. The struggle was joined when senators and repre- Be ind he Wheel the conforming citizen who follows (Continued from public opinion even when it errs. The sentatives from farm states, and the Farm Bureau, PU6 :J.) most patriotic man, ladies and gentle- States and Canada serving 2,478 reo Gra ge, and ational Council of Farmer Co-operatives tail outlets, says the magazine. It is men is sometimes the man who goes estimated that these have about 755,- in the direction that he thinks right said farm labor costs must be considered. 000 members and 1,500,000 customers. even when he sees the 'World against They were determined that the farmer should get any of the customers have accum- him. It is the dictate of patriotism lated a membership by patronage di- to sacrifice yourself if you think that equal treatment with industry, business and labor when is the path of honor and of duty. Do vidends which apply towards pur- price controls are established. ~ cha e of a share of voting stock. Na- not blame others if they do not agree tional Co-operatives itself claims an with you. Do not die with bitterness Farmers insisted that the bill include controls for in your heart because you did not con- 840/0 gain in business over 1940. other prices, wages, and salaries. They didn't object (Note-The Farm Bureau Services, vince the rest of the world, but die Inc., holds a hare of stock in a- happy 'because you believe that you to wages and salaries being stabilized at the level of tional Co-operatives, Inc. and has two tried to serve your country by not sell- September 15, 1942, with provisions for reasonable mem bel'S on the board of directors of ing your souI"-President Woodrow adjustments. ational.) Wilson in his 1914 speech on "The PATRIOTISM Meaning of the Declaration of Inde- No 0 e objected to 100 per ce t of parity prices to "The patriotic man is not always pendence." f rmers for their crops, as established by the parity to STATE GLAW formul d v loped in 1933. But wh n fa mers soug t for the first time to include Cia If I d The Michigan Act provides for State Control only in market areas where 51 % of the producers-c-or 51 % of the dealers or Clas Ifled adverti ements re cash with order at the following rates: in the c lculation of parity for farm prices the cost of 4 cents per word for one dition. Ads to appear in two or more editions a group of consumers PETITION FOR STATE REGULA- hired h lp a d the farm owner's labor in producing take the rate of 3 cents per word per edition. TIO ...J, and is designed to guarantee uniform minimum prices those rops, what happened? \h==~~~~=~~1 to the producer '-uniform minimum buying price' for the he dmini tration, th metropolitan press, and radio FARM MACHINERY SHROPSHIRE R MS f dealers, and a 'are rupply of milk for consumers, wherever MAPLE SYRUP EVAPORATORS- SHROPSHIRE BREEDERS-SELECT the Order i . operating. servic comm t tors rose as one to assail the special discount for cash when ordered one of our best rams now. For more during faU months. Order now and than 50 years we have maintained a "'0 EXPE ,E falls upon the producers, distributors, or con- one th t would wreck the a ti-i flation bill. get delivery. ext spring may be too noted flock of registered Shropshires and late. Write Sugar Bush Supplies Co.. all Ingleside ram at the head of your sumers where the act is TOT IN EFFECT-and no producer uth riti i Co es id that the inclusion of 217 North Cedar street, Lansing, Mich. flock will increase your prestige. Home for catalog and prices. (7-4t-38b) (A the 1940 All-American 2-year-old ram is forced to join any co-op or association. f rm lab r 1 the parity formula could raise the level -now a proven sire. Inglestde Farm, Stanley M. Powell, Ionia, Michigan WOOL GROWERS f p rity uch as 12 per c nt. IF YOU NEED SHEEP, CALL FIRST (10-2t-56b) ou A - o wI t; hould i du try and bus' ness figure cost a t Parson's Sheep ofii e, rand Ledge, LIVE STOCK j Hch., just as other farmers have done tor 50 years. Breeder of pure bred Ox- REGISTERED HEREFORD BULLS of I b eir price schedules, and agriculture leave ford. Hampshlre and Shropshire sheep. and heifers. We have a nice selectlpn, Rams for sale. (83t-24b) Sensible prices. . . Todd Co., ...Ien- it I bor WE GIVE YOU A YEAR AROUND tha, (14 miles northwest of Kalamazoo). (7-3-tt-22b) "001 market service. We buy or pool. I eft th co t of fa m I bor wa not i eluded Shlp to our warehouse, 634 Ea~t Grand MICHIGAN LIVE STOCK EXCHANGE, Iver Ave., orth Lansing, Michigan Co- a farmer owned and con trolled organi- In 1 .3 I formula for d termini g parity operative weer Marketing Ass'n. zation' Is in position to furnish rellable (10-2t-29b) feeder::; with feeder live itock, both cat- a d t t f rrn labor costs ould n ver tle and lamb, of the very },e,·t quality WE GIVE SPECIAL MARKET SER- and at satisfactory prices. 1.1.'0 flnance THIS ADVERTISEME T Iud d. h y hould be when univ r al price vice n iamb wool to feeders parti ipa.t- Ieedrng operations, with In crest at PONSORED BY in in the "shearling pelt" program. 'llh%. No investment in eLI pltal stock, c big d termi ed, and wh n farmers have 'hlp to our warehou ie, 63 Ea·t Grand no red tape. For further information, River Ave., orth Lanstng, Mich. Mich- inquire of J. H. 0' leal(y, Secretary. LAMAZOO MILK PRODUCER S'N wi th r time wag s to hire and to' hold igan Co-operative Wool Marketing Ass'n. Hudson, Mich. (10-12t-32b) (10-lt-61b) :ocrc GAN ST_ TE F BURE U POULTRY SUPPLIES F M BUREAU ERVIOES, INC. FARM FOR RENT ue has been ttled by a com- 200 CRE FARM FOR RENT, 1Y2 farmers POULTRY MEDICATION AT PRICES MIC IGAN STATE GRANGE can afford. Proto-4 for Blue mll ~ east of Ovid ( ltnton-Sntawae e omb prevention. One quart 1. v- MIOI:IGAN ELEVATOR EXOHANGE gricultur will get I s recognition o. line), share rent. Tenant must have Co-Tonic and mycosi.· prevention. his own sock and equipment. Wrn, J. Iodine ermicide Mer<"~,-Tapeworm MICH!G :MILK PRODUCERS SS'N I bor th n it sk d for, but m ch more han Herscher, Ovid R-1, .l: ich. Phone 29F-14 control and prev ntion of black head. MIOBl LIVE TOOK EXCHANGE Ovid. (10-H-n) " orm tablets at 5t per 100. Availabl th I pric ceil' ng bill pro:vided. at leading hatcheries, f('r>d stores and HELP WANTED Farm Bureau Services, lne., at their MICHIG If POTA~O GROWER EXCHANGE stores and co-ops. By mail, po rtpatd, feat the anti-inflation bill? EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY FOR if no d aler in your community. Hol- FARM BUREAU FRUIT PRODVOTS CO. ambtttous married couple a' car takers land Laboratories, Lnc., Holland, nch- :MICHIG N CO-OP WOOL MKTG. A . F. Fulmer, chairm n of the agri .. of fine resort hotel at Portag'e Lake. Igan. (7-tf-6 b) rani -tee county. \Vork includes care WA TED FAA.&WII. "D'" TO R"I:INT ommitt f the hou e, a ked during the of lawns, f1 v rs, .hrubberv, wa r pumps, hot water and oth I' auto- care of , ~ can' farmers, comprising 25 of the ana tic heating plant', sttton for right couple, tc. Alt-year po- Comfortable quarter '. w-u«, sta.ting age and qUal-] o. 11n). FOR RENT-200 ACRE mile east of Ovid (Clinton- "hiawa, s . FARM, hal' r nt. Tenant mu. ~ have 1Y2 c c i ing e s than 10 of the national re on ible for inflation?" Iflcattons, ~~ Onekama~ew~~~ill~ Pen;onal Mich. tntervtew ~~~~ arrana- ~10-2t-59~) 29F14 his own . tock and fu~~~Ovld,O~R~, qUi~ment. ~~~ Wrn. J. n~e10-ltn"l ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1942' MICHIGAN nother boy ho has made rapid spon Ibifity of feeding the nation. War Time Income Pays advancement since entering service incerely your • Off La Bank Loans wrote with much bit rness of the . GO , Ma t r Recent reports to the Farm redit home front--strike. political m neu- ational Grange Admini trat lon indicate that many vering, exces ive ages, dawdling on . C. TEAGUE, Pre ident farmers are utilizing the larger war the job, etc. He concluded with- ational Council of Farmer time income derived to r duce farm l-Iigh Wage Policy for Cities, country but rather Washington regu- "Wait until we get home again when Co-operat ive , mortgage debts. In 1 1 both the lations had been so ruthles that farm we will hold a good many people up H. E. BABCOCr, 1 t 'rice·Pr number and the amount of .payoffs Low Price for Farmer production could not reach the con- ational Council of Farmer the Quality & Amount of Protein for personal accounting." were greats t in the hist 0 Will Bring It sumer. Co-operatives, I feel certain that when these boys federal land 'bank syst m. aym nt Determine Rate Job Farmer is Doing come home they are going to have CHARLES 'OW. HOL f 4, Secretary on principal amounted to 7.3% of out- By MRS. EDITH .W. WAGAR But I wanted them to see the job ational Co-operativ Milk Pro- standing loans. 25,407 borrowers re- Of Gain much to say about the future of this B'riar Hill Farm, Carleton, Mom'oe 00. that the farmer was trying to perform ducer Federation, paid their loans in full as compared to country, regardless of the labor unions By R. H. ADDY and so I said. EDW RD A. 0' EAL, PI' sident 15,788 in 1940. The Seer ary of AgrIculture for- or the two old political parties or cap- Farm Bureau Services, Inc. "Let's analyze the situation and see American Farm Bureau Federatton. Commissioner loans are also Ibeing sees a great shortage of food in the ital or even farm blocs. They have Fast gains on young animals de· if you don't think we've done a pretty repaid faster. n ar future. He says also in the had to submit to army rules and reg- good job of it in going as far as we 24,704 were pa.id in velop large frames that enable the feeder to get a 200 lb. hog before he same speech that the farm labor sit- have." ulations Irregardte s or their individ- Dry ot in Wood Sign 14,545 during 1940. uation is serious. The next day he ual ideas or desires and they will knows it. issues a statement that farm machin- "In the first place there are less have earned a big place in the plan- of 20 Pct. Mois ure Porkrnaker 44% carries 4 % more farmers every year, and there's no Tlhere is no real "dry rot" that ery will he rationed and no farmer ning for all time to come. The veter- protein than the usual hog supple- real incentive for anyone to farm; but at cks wood and causes it to decay. can buy a combine, for example, un- ans of this war may be the one group ment. The open formula shows you at that we supply the food for not Wood must contain more than 20 less he pledges to cut the grain for that will have more weight than eith- just how much of quality ingredients only ourselves but for all other classes percent of moi ture before fungi can a given number of other farmers. er money or labor. such as fish meal, meat scraps, and in this country. On top of that we're A few days after the Secretary producing the food for our soldiers. What Farmers Can 00 tankage are used. thinks farmers are' inflationists be- Until that time farmers should pro- UNITED With these ingredients scarce, most not only in this country but also those cause they ask scattered all over the orld. Then tect their interests to the best of their STATES formulas have been changed. Open that labor costs bs we're producing for lend-lease to Eng- ability. They should not be swayed WAR formula Porkmaker the changes are. shows you what. considered in any land, Russia, Australia, and others of into indifference or opposition wards the leadership that is battling to- BONDS price ceilings for the United ations. Closed formula supplements do not for them. They must realize th t at AND their production. "Remember that our farm help is show changes because the manufact- , About the same times leaders are compelled to accept STAMPS urer never tells you how many pounds being taken by industry and for mili- orne things that are far differ en t time the farmer is tary service. are used at any time. than had been hoped for altho it may told that plans are "Now if the country doesn't wake Since home grown grains require be a step in the right direction. being made to im- up to the farmers' plight before long, ample quality proteins, it is only In Michigan today our farm folks port Mexican labor. meat will not be the only food that smart .to demand information as to could protect their own dairy inter- The farmer hiring will be scarce." how much and what quality proteins ests at the coming election if they DEAD ANIMALS them must pay the 'From that time on I heard no more are used. It is too late after you will only vote yes on the milk market- transportation up about high cost of living but rather have the supplement in your ration. ing act referendum. They can al 0 to 200 miles and they seemed to want more meat re- Many fog feeders like the self-feeder ,MRS. WAGAR also provide satis- preserve long fought for agricultural COST M.ONEY with the supplement mixture in one gardless of the price. factory housing and pay not less than benefits if they will but vote against hopper and shelled corn in the other. No Scarcity of Food Now 30 cents an hour and provide work the Detroit home rule amendment and Have plenty of water available. It Now I don't think this group or for at least three fourths of the time the same concerning a constitutional COPPER SULPHATE isn't a bad idea to have a simple min- any other consuming group is any dif- this labor is in the community not convention. NICOTINE SULPHATE eral mixture available. ferent .than other folks. When they counting Sundays. If these new propositions are writ- Porkmaker 44% now contains Ir- know there's plenty of food they want, IN TABLET FORM It is hard to decide what is best ten into our state constitution, it will radiated yeast (4,000,000 units of vit- it as cheap as they can get it. If there Million,'l of sheep have been to do. You can see a lot of hard work sometime later require another state- amin D per pound of yeast). This was a scarcity of food now, do you treated this easy and safe way. ahead of you if you continue as a wide vote to change them or take takes care of the sunshine vitamin re- think that Congress would have hag- farmer. You can see your wife and them out all together. quirements of brood sows or little pigs gled as" it has over the same wage your children working far beyond Study these questions before you during the dark, gloomy months of standard for farmers as has been giv- their strength early and late and no vote and if you do not thoroughly winter or when pigs are confined to en others or do you think Senator doubt see a part of your production understand them and their conse- pens. The feed also contains mangan- Brown would have sent out an appeal rot or freeze because you cannot har- quences, go to someone in whom you ese sulphate with cobalt and other to consumers "to flood represen ta- vest it alone. You can sell it under have confidence who makes a study of minerals. tives with letters and telegrams in price ceilings, far below what you all public matters and be guided by Only one tablet is a dose- favor of farm price ceilings." feel you are entitled to when com- their advice. WORM-I-CIDE TABLETS cost less Railroads in the seven months from On the other hand, we have the October 1, 1941 to June 1, 1942, put pared with all other classes. bomber plant not 30 miles away. It per sheep. See Dru~ &. Farm Supply Dealers in services 69,339 new freight cars But you can go to bed and sleep with a clear conscience. You have seems like the entire around us has gone bomber minded, community How She Does it and 500 new locomotives. For 20 years we have been impress- done your best to provide food and for almost every farm has someone ed by certain characteristics of Mrs. clothing for the boys in service and making plans on going there and shar- Wagar's "copy" for the Farm News. for tne starving folks allied with our ing the big money. I have been Farm Bureau REPAIR PARTS country Food Rationing May Come pretty warm 'When I've seen my son's wife mow away hay and dig potatoes It is written with a soft black pencil on plain yellow business size paper. She writes a firm round letterhead If there must be food rationing, I and shovel grain from the combine • PLOWS • HARVESTING MACHINERY don't care how quick it comes early and late because there was no hand. But, most remarkable to us is the fact that in 8 to 10 pages of such • HARROWS • TILLAGE TOOLS or how severe It is. That will be the manpower left for the reason that "copy" there won't be an erasure, a only way that the public will realize they could get far more money work- word crossed out, or an insertion. It's They're Getting Harder To Buy-Inspect Your Equipment Nowl the injustice that has been heaped ing for the government in a factory. perfect. We know that the work See Your Farm Bureau Dealer for Replacement. upon 'the farmer not only now but for It's all out of reason to think that this hasn't been recopied. years back. 'I'he average consumer can continue. So we asked Mrs. Wagar how she feels it is his right to have cheap Letters From the Soldiers does it. She told us. HOlD W food no matter how much others have Just lately two letters have come "When once I decide on the theme, had to sacrifice to produce it for him. to my notice, one from a city boy in I go around several days with that in I was in the city a short time ago service. He had spent several vaca- mind, and it must all be thought out and met a group of women who were tions on a farm. He wrote--"I know before I begin to write. much concerned about the so called you farmers will furnish the army "And when I start writing, I shoo shortage of meat. They asked me if 'With the best you have and I don't them (the family) oft to lied; unless GASOLINE NCREAES the farmers had fallen down on their job. Now, I could have told them that there 'Was no shortage of meat in the think there is a soldier in the army they are away. that has any doubt where his meals write when anyone is around." are coming from. flying if you keep them growing." We'll keep them There it is. write well. I never attempt That's one way to to FARM GROUPS T LIFE Beef Sale pay of any group in the nation. At the same time, factory workers on the average are working only 42 hours CRACK BACK AT a week with time and a half and double time for overtime, in addition SENATOR BROWN to the highest wages in the history of the nation. 3448-hour Test of Identical Tractors Tell Him That Food Shortage We feel it is most unfortunate this whole matter is being portrayed that Shows Distillate Wears Out Engine . Looms if Farmers Can't before the nation by administration Pay For Help spokesmen and much of the metro- politan press as a contest between the . Parts Twice as Fast as Gasoline "The farmer who uses gasoline is definitely reducing the danger of a COMPARISON OF WEAR ON TRACTOR Honorable September Elmer Thomas, Honorable Carl A. Hatch, 25, 1942 President and the congress, instead of facing the desperate realities that lie ahead of us. Neither the congress nor the farm organizati.ons initiated ~oesu.11mJr , Me United States Senate, !lny such contest. Congress is right- breakdown at "a time when every PARTS- GASOUNE Vs. DISnWTE Washington, D. C. )y carrying out its constitutional reo tractor hour counts and tractor parts are scarce," states one of the My dear Senators: sponsibility to enact the laws by engineers who made this compara- A member of the United States sen- which our nation is governed. The tive test of gasoline and distillate ate took occasion on the 11001' of the thing of vital concern to farmers and under actual operating conditions. senate yesterday to attack in the to the nation is not which side is most extreme manner farmers and going to win on capital hill, but A s FAR as the farmer is concerned, a man in uniform i a Two identical tractors were run farm organizations because they ex- whether we are to preserve constitu- .tl.. far better customer than a man in "civvies." for 1384 hours in the laboratory ercised their constitutional right to ~lonal government in this country and 2064 hours in the field - 3448 petition Congress and to present their and enable farmers to produce the The soldier eats, for e ample, more than twice as much meat hours total. One used gasoline, the recomendations to Congress in order maximum food and fiber needed to other distillate. Careful examina- win the war. as the a erage for folks at home. The figures ar : ] 53 pounds to meet the critical food situation. tion and measurement of engine This issue will not be solved by name- 2,000,000 Workers Leave Farms of meat a year for the average civilian-365 pounds for the H. J. GRAMLIOH parts before and after the test dis- calling, but by a careful consideration fighting man. Mr. Gramlich, secretary of the It is appalling that there is so lit- closed that the parts of the tractor With distillate there was- of the facts. tle understanding of the gravity of operated on distillate were, on the American Shorthorn Breeders Ass'n, (Editor's note--Senator Prentiss M. average, worn twice as much. (See CD 89% onMORE WEAR piston rings will speak at Lapeer Thursday even- ing, Oct. 8, at the Lapeer state home Brown of Michigan attacked the farm the food situation. are enabled Unless farmers to meet their rapidly It's almo t the same with fruits and vegetables. he folks at chart at right.) home average about 500 pounds. But the man in uniform ® 135% onMORE WEAR pistons dining rooms at the ,banquet which organizations in his speech to the Senate Sept. 24 in opposition to the rising wage costs, it is our considered judgment that the nation is headed accounts for over 800 pounds per man. Ample supply of gasoline available precedes the annual Lapeer Beef (!) 123% MORE WEAR Thomas-Hatch farm labor amendment for a major catastrophe in its food Breeders sale Oct. 9. The banquet to the anti-inflation bill.) Reduced passenger car driving on crankshaft journals and sale are attended annually by supply next year-particularly in the Moving these foodstuffs quickly and properly is anoth of creates a surplus of gasoline for @ 66% MORE WEAR more than 600 breeders and farmers. The farm leaders who were singled production of poultry, dairy products, the railroads' wartime responsibilities-for food is an im- tractor use. There is a shortage of on cyfmder waUs out for attack on the 11001' of the sen- livestock, sugar, and certain fruits distillate and fuel oil. ® 147% MORE WEAR Choice stock of the several breeds will be offered at the auction beef ate yesterday are elected by the farm- and vegetables, in which labor is such portant part of the million and a quarter tons of freight the on main bearings er-members of their organzations. Tractors operated on gasoline October 9. a major cost factor. Two million railroads move a mile every minute of the day and ni Tit • @ 78% MORE WEAR They are expressing the convictions workers have already left the farm, consume less lubricating oil, too. on connecting rod bearings and recommendations of these mil- At the end of the tests mentioned and the department of agriculture It accounts for many of the cars in the loaded freight train above, the gasoline-burning tractor Verold F. Gormely lions of farmers who great bulk of the food and fiber of the produce the estimates that at least a m!1lion more the railroads are sending off at fi e-second inter also Verold F. Gormely, 53, who was a workers may leave the farm next required one quart of oil per twenty- tailed information regarding a high- nation. All of the national farm or- member of the Michigan State Farm year. The situation has already be- four hours of operation .while the compression change-over may be ganizations, except one with a very To carryall the materials the railroads are asked to It nr 1 Bureau board of directors for a num- come so acute that plans are now distillate-burning tractor required obtained from your tractor dealer small membership, are in agreement ber of years during the late '20s and under consideration for rationing cars cannot be allowed to stand idle. eleven quarts. or your gasoline supplier or by on the necessity for the Thomas-Hatch early 30's, died suddenly at Newberry. meat and probably dairy products. writing to the Agricultural Divi- amendment. More power from gasoline sion of Ethyl. his former home, Sept. 23. Mr. Gorm- Cost-Plus and Cost-Minus We are seeking to give to Congress And you can help to keep th m moving. Just rememb r this: ely had been called there by the sud- our best judgment and to recommend load them as soon as they arrive-and load them to th Iimi • Gasoline provides more power than Farmers cannot understand why Gasoline ideal tractor fuel den death of his sister. He was a a policy which we believe is essential low-grade fuels in practically every they and their organizations should strong Farm Bureau member and in order to secure the maximum pro- tractor. What's more, changing to Summed up, gasoline is the ideal served the organization well. In 1932 be subjected to abuse and vi1lification, Then it will he up 10 the railroad 10 speed them on th ir ay gasoline plus high compression will wartime fuel for tractors because: and even be accused of "a crime duction of food and fiber so vitally -to get the double ration und r th ..fighters' h Its-and to Mr. Gormely accept d an appointment increase tractor power as much as 1. It is plentiful. 2. It lengthens against the President of the United needed for the wining of the war. to the state liquor control commission States," merely because they n.sk that With these objectives in mind, we get the usual food supplies to the foJ s at home. 30%. For this reason most new the life of vital engine parts, helps and later became its chairman. He ser- tractors today have high compres- farmers' increased wage costs be In- cannot give our approval to the so- prevent breakdowns. 3. It's more ved on the board for seven years and sion engines. eluded in maximum price cellings on called compromtse' hich leaves en- convenient to use-more flexible, with distinction as a good public agricultural commodities. They can- tirely to administrative discretion the •.. Many old tractors, with low com- gives easier starting. 4. It saves oil. servant. Of late years he had been not understand the attitude of those adjustments of price ceilings to take pression engines, are being con- 5. It gives more power. in the motor transport business in 'who give their approval to cost-plus account of increased farm wage costs. verted to high compression when Ethyl Corporation, Chrysler Detroit. He is survived by Mrs. Gor- for industry and industrial Iahor, but The record of administration of the ASSOCIATION OF they are overhauled. Installing high Bldg., New York City, PO mely and seven children. demand cost-mtnus for farmers. . rice control act to date does not jus- compression (high altitude) pis- manufacturers of anti- .••. ~~- ~~ Farmers are straining every' ettort tify leaving this fundamental policy tons, cold-type spark plugs, and knock fluid used by oil .! -~tI Kalamazoo County Farm Bureau to produce the greatest supply of food entirely to administrative discretion. setting the manifold to the cold companies to improve ~ _ :: believes its 14 Community Farm Bur- -, in the history of the country. w.orking We are solidly behind the Thomas- ~ •.~ eau groups are the most tor any pl\8ition is all that is required. De- gaso Iinee "." • ~ from 70 hours to as high as lO() hours Hatch farm labor amendment, and county. per week yet receiving the lowest leave to those who defeat it the re- •• ICHIGAN George Heiler, Bath fore, how significant Is the exact Walter Geisenhour, 8ath, R-1 po Itlon of prices or raw farm prod- J. R. Parker, Laingsburg, R-2 Albert J. Schaefer, St. Johns II ts as between 100 p r cent of p rity E. C. Norris, St. John , R-6 or 110 per cent 0 parity. Mrs. E. C. Norri, . hns, R.6 E. H. ultz, Ovid R-2 Must Be Labor &. Distribution Costa Mrs. Lillian SchUltz, Ovid, R-2 Etati tic publi hed by the U.S.D. Mr . A. J. SChaefer, St. Johns, R-e Mrs. Theo. Lietzke, DeWitt, R-1 from tim to time show the percent- Mrs. George Baird, DeWitt age of the retail price of food prod- Mr. Arthur Magsig, DeWitt, R-1 uct that gets back to the farmer. Saturday ight Meet Sends Alger Frederick Horning B. Sibley, DeWitt State College Economist Says On the average, it is about 50 per Farm Views to Michigan Archie E. Moore, DeWitt ot So Much; Quotes c nt. It varie as the g neral price George W. Baird, DeWitt Arthur Magsig, DeWitt, R-1 lev 1 varies. and, it varie by indi- Men in Congres Theodore Lietzke, DeWitt, R-1 Some Facts Vidual product depending primal ily Edward Seyfried upon the amount of proce sin.; that Upon advice from Wa shington that Florence Seyfried By R. Y. G J.T~ Mrs. Alger Sibley, DeWitt need to be done. During tl e de- admini tration leaders rere delayin G. V. Cathey, Lansing, R-4 Professor 01 Agr'l Economics pression p riod in the arly 30's when vot in the s nate on the Thoma - Oliver S. Angell, Lansing, R-4 .llichigan ):.tate Ootleqe all prices were relatively low, the Every five seconds throughout the Hatch farm labor amendment to the EATON COUNTY proportion ot: the con umer's food day and nigh t, a new freight train L. E. Johnson, Charlotte, R.4 re farm prices re ponsible for the anti-inflation bill in order to deluge Darwin T. Jaquette, Charlotte dollar that w nt to the farmer was departs on its way in some part of the incr asing ost of living? To some senator with wire and I tt r OPT Forrest D. King, Charlotte about 35 p I' cent. Latest figures, t nt, yes. But som information B. I. Hice, Charlotte, po ing the amendment, the _Iichigan Mrs. B. I. Hice, Charlotte, R-4 R-4 now that all prices are relatively United tates. or mi information on this subject al- " tate Farm Bureau swung into action Mrs. Gladys King, Charlotte high, show the proportion to average Mrs. Clyde Thornell, Charlotte, R-5 mo t comes under the heading of agt in Saturday noon,' pt. 26. about 52 per cent. Clyde Thornell, harlotte, R-5 propaganda. • ome would I ad us to Word to k y men among several Mrs. L. E. Johnson, Charlotte, R-4 b Iiev that the pre ent prices of Simple mathematical calculations hundred le i. 1 live Minute :vI e n K. W. King, Charlotte, Mrs. Keith King, Charlotte, R-4 R-4 farm products are the main factor in indl at then that this difference of among the County Farm Bureau - DeVere Grant, Charlotte causing the in reas in the ost of 10 p l' cent in the prices of raw fattn Frank W. Pifer, Charlotte living. One argum nt has been products mans only a 5 per cent brought upward of 200 of them to Alva West wh ther eillngs hould be put on difference in consumer retail food Lansing aturday night to he r ec- Martin Garn, Charlotte, R·5 C. H. Parr, Charlotte, R-1 farm pri es at 100 per cent of parity prte s. And, if food represents only retary . L. Brody report on 14 GRATIOT COUNTY or 110 p r cent of parity. d y. work at Wa. hington in behalf Clarence Muscott, Ithaca 10% Could be 2% to Consumer of the amendment, and to take action Chas. E. Hopper, Ithaca, R-2 Edw. A. Hooper, Ithaca, R-2 Assuming a ten per cent rise in the in behalf of the amendment GENESEE COUNTY pric R of raw farm products and no Farm Groups Almost Unanimous George A. Gillespie, Gaines INGHAM COUNTY change in distribution costs, there Brody aid that all farm organiza Dell Wolf, Williamston, R-1 ould be, on the average, only about ttons, except on small roup. favor George Van Denmark, Mason, R-2 a flv per cent rise in consumers' re- (On a cleaned basis, or an estimated shrink for cleaning) including farm labor costs for all farm Frank E. CollarChas. Van Denmark, Mason, R.2 tail prices. This is for retail prices produ ts in .the parity price formula Reitz Glynn of food. Bureau of Labor statistics JUNE CI:.OVER W. B. SWEET CLOVER by wr.iting it into the la through the Wm. Guerdon E. Frost, Williamston J. Renz, East Lansing, R-1 ALSIKE Y. B. BWEET CLOVER St agall amendment which pas. ed the Mrs. Wm. Renz, E. Lansing, R-1 Cow Teeters' Reports Prove MA~OTH ALFALFA Hou. e by 2 4 to 6, and by the Thom- Harvey A.L.Edwards, Ralph Leslie Gleason, Leslie, R-1 as-Hatch amendment in the senate. Bernard Stilson, Leslie Real ~rning Value of MICHIGAN GROWN TIMOTHY'BEED The adrnini traUon plan, and com- C. N. Sherman Loren J. Spink, Holt, R-1 Better Cow (Timothy bought subject to our test for germination) promise amendments including the Blanche Spink, Holt, R-1 O'Mahon y amendment, would permit Harold E. Spink, Hott, R-1 Simple ar ibhmett again proves it Send representative sample of your costs wherever he think Ralph Stillman the IPr . ident to include farm labor W. F. Grettenberger, it hould Wm. Kirkpatrick, John C. Grettenberger, Okemos Okemos Okemos pays to keep a cow willing and cap- abl of paying her board with a mar- FO I seed. Take some from each bag. he don. The farm organization, aid Roy B. Moore, East Lansing, R-1 gin tor profit for Michigan dairymen. ,Ve will quote you on sample, on a cleaned basis or on esti- Brody, think the whole matter would Carlyle C. Walt, Mason, R-3 Another year's records obtained by mated shrink. If you want some of cleaned seed returned for he ref ned to Hendel' on or omebody Stanley M. IONIA COUNTY Powell, Ionia cow testers in l. ichigan has Ibeen an- your use, we'll do that. 1 e and th t might be the' end of it. Chas. H. Mattison, Ionia alyzed by . Baltzer, extension aturday nigltt meet- A. Jay Chamberlain, Ionia, R-2 dairyman at Michigan State College. Lt Us Clean Vour Seed Brody said the E. G. Longfield, Ionia, R-4 ing was a sample of a mighty farm Mark Westbrook, Ionia He takes a cow giving 4,000 pounds protest going up through ut the na- C. A. Rumsbaugh of milk or 200 pounds of butterfat ISABELLA COUNTY and finds that she was alble to provide tion over the admini tration's hand- Howard Kennedy, Shepherd, R-3 po.,,,1 Pa,'e on penny o Dairy barn floor. o Manure pit. ana mail ling of the closely reI t d farm price M. S. Giemore, Mt. Pleasant, R-4 and farm .Iabor problem ... Earl Seybert, Jr., Mt. Pleasant, Earl C. Richards, Mt. Pleasant R.1 a product worth $33 more than the feed cost. Then he takes the figures for a If you have special problem. o oult houle fl or. Grain storag •• y Message to Congress The Minute Men sent the following Mrs. Victor Pohl, Mt. Pleasant, Victor Pohl, Mt. Pleasant, R-1 R-1 cow producing 12,000 ,pounds of milk Have your clover and alfalfa seed cleaned to A-I quality in o Feeding floors G Storage cellars E. F. Block, Mt. Pleasant, R-1 containing 420 pounds of 'butterfat. Our modern seed cleaning plant. Very reasonable rates. Send o Milk hous.s D Tanks, 'rou hs message Saturday night to Senators Mrs. E. F. Block, Mt. Pleasant, R-1 The feed cost rose, but the return D un lion D Farm repair Prentiss Brown and Arthur Vanden- JACKSON COUNTY over feed cost increased amazingly. IZ.. V. GUAJW sample for estimate. HAVE SEED CLEANED NOW. 'No Clarence Abbott, Albion, R-1 berg (both opposing the Thomas- George W. Dean, Parma, R.2 The roughage cost only $5 more and indicate that rood represents about seed can be received for cleaning after December 20, 1942. PORTLAND C MENT ASSOCI TION Hatch amendm nt) and to all Mich- J. M. Godfrey, Albion, R-1 the grain cost was but $15 more for o p't W10·4, Old Tower BldQ., one-third of the urban worker's cost Now E. C. Horton, Parma Lansing, Mich. igan members of the House: S. M. Garfield, Parma the better cow. Compare that with of living. Therefore, the influence of BUY WAR SAVINGS To Michigan Members of the Senate and House of Congress: F. M. Van Marter Leigh Van Marter the $102 that this better cow gave as a return over feed cost. an extra ten per cent in the prices of raw farm products on the workers' Order Your Hybrid Seed Corn TAMPS AND BONDS KALAMAZOO COUNTY Starting with the 4,000 pound milk The undersigned representatives Ilch lgan farmers in 45 counties, many of Niles Hagelshaw, Merle E. M x Hayward Climax Vosburg, Climax level, the 'D.H.I. . records indicate that the average COlWS take about a cost of living would be less than two per cent. Let us examine some of Your Farm Bureau Dealer has a supply of the following hybrid corns: KINGS- K1NGSrROST of whom drove as far as 150 miles in the .facts that lead, to these conclu- NOW'S the TIME... LAPEER COUNTY S7!~ the storm to meet at Lansing, Satur- Anthony Kreiner, Lapeer $2.10 feed cost increase for every ad- sions. eROST, Michigan grown 24-B, 25-B, 36-B Ervin HUkill, Lapeer, R-1 ditional 1,000 pounds of milk !but the Farm Price History Since 1910 day night, September 26, call upon George A. Greenlee, Metamora value I()V r feed cost averages $7.50 and 51-B which correspond with the Wis- all members of Congress to support Robert Myers, Lapeer County~ Press The concept of "parity" was intro- more. The 12,000 pound cow yielded eonsin 645, 606, 531 and 355, Michigan the Thomas-Hatch amendment to the H.Farm G. King, Lapeer three times the value over feed cost duced into the economic picture about anti-inflation bill to include farm la- Mrs. Mabel King, Lapeer 10 years ago. At first, "parity" was grown Ohio M-15 Hybrid Corn, and Ohio Grown K-23 M-I5 1 , when compared with the cow that a theoretical goal toward which farm- bor costs in the parity formula for Mrs. Frank Myus, Lapeer, R-1 producd 4,000 pounds of milk. M-20, K-24, and W-17. Those Leaky figuring farm price ceilings. Pearl E. Myus, Lapeer, R-1 Mrs. Clinton Ducker, Otter Lake ers were striving. It has now de- On a herd basis, a dairyman with veloped into real legislative import- We do not favor the O'Mahoney John W. Beattie, Columbiaville, Albert Seelye, Lapeer R-2 10 oows yielding an average ot 7,000 Buy at Farm Bureau Store" and (o .. op Ass ri s ance. What is parity? Parity can be amendement or other compromise pounds of milk testing 4.6 ,per cent LIVINGSTON COUNTY defined as a price relationship which amendments which seek to avoid Harold Copeland, Fowlerville tat obtained as much total value as gives to farmers returns in real pur- writing into the law deflnlte assur W. B. Clark, Howell the dairymen ho milked 23 cows C. D. Parsons, Fowlerville chasing power equal to that experi- ance regarding the inclusion of farm Gail Hoisington, FOWlerville, R-2 producing 4,000 unds of milk test- enced under some previous period labor costs in the farm parity price Claude Copeland, Fowlerville, R-2 ing 5 per cent fat. The latter is close approximating normality. That nor- Arnos Emmons, Fowlerville. R-2 to the average annual production of formula. mal period arbitrarily chosen was the SAGINAW COUNTY all Michigan milk cows in or out of This meeting is a sample of the ag- George Kueffner, Saginaw, R-4 pre-war period of World War 1, 1910 ricultural protest which is sweeping Peter Young, Saginaw, R-4 dairy herd cow testing. to 1914. If the cost of commodities Herbert Rathbun, Burt that farmers buy has advanced 60 the country agalnst the proposals to Chas. J. Minuchkle, Saginaw, R-4 treat the farmer in price ceiling legis- Martin Hoenline, Saginaw, RFD per cent above tile 1910-1914 period, Harold Frahm, Frankenmuth, R-1 then prices received by farmers lation on terms less favorable than Fred Reimer, Saginaw, R-2 those accorded to other groups. should also advance 50 per cent in SHIAWASSEE COUNTY order to be at parity. -Pr ice control for industry will in- Winifield H. Aldrich, Ovid, R-1 clude the cost of labor for manu- Earl Hyde, Ovid, R-1 At the peak of prices reached fol- Clifton D. Warren, Ovid lowing the close of World War 1, farm ractured product ; the "Little Steel" Charles W. Warren, Ovid • For RooF Replacement. Mrs. Charles W. Warren, Ovid prices, as reported by the U. S. Dep't wage formula is under consideration of Agr"l, rose to an index of about 225 and New Con.traction to protect the wage position of labor; Albert M. Bullock, Ovid J. H. Hubbard, Ovid from a base of 100 during 1910-14 agriculture is insisting upon a parity Mrs. J. H. Hubbard, Ovid Better Than 6 to 1 Bet That while prices paid by farmers rose to Itt F rm Sure uts formula that will definitely include VAN BUREN COUNTY Pulled Crop Will an index of approximately 200. In Carl E. Buskirk, Paw Paw the cost of labor as is provided for George C. SchUltz, Paw Paw other words, at that time and for a G in the Thomas-Hatch amendment. We Jay L. Dodge, Paw Paw Mrs. C. E. Buskirk, Paw Paw Get Wet period of two or three year's, farm appreciate fine support shown farm- Mrs. George Schultz, Paw Paw prices were relatively higher than and ers by members of House this week. Michigan's greatest navy bean crop prices paid by farmers by about 10 WASHTENAW COUNTY goes into the harvest stage with all :\[ICHIGA STATE FARM BUREAU Ray L. Smalley, Ypsilanti, R-1 or 15 per cent. Robert H. Gilbert, Gregory, R-2 emergency warning by crops special- Carl E. Buskirk, Chairman, Paw Paw. Lee J. Talladay, Milan Below Parity for 20 Years ists at Michigan State College to re- BARRY COUNTY Albert H. Amrheim, Ypsilanti, R-1 But after 1920 and until about a Charles McCalla, Ann Arbor, R·6 member the heavy losses encountered Mrs. Floyd Miller, Bellevue, R-3 C. M. Breining, Ypsilanti, R-1 year ago, farm prices were relatively Miss Coral Miller, Bellevue, R-3 a year ago when many growers fail- Walter Mast, Dexter much less than prices paid by farm- Mrs. Claude Hoffman, Dowling, R-1 Gordon Gill, Ypsilanti, R-3 ed to stack beans to counteract wet 'I'h re Claude Hoffman, Dowling, R-1 ers, In fact during the depression J. J. Waggoner, Dexter, R-3 weather. mr de. BERRIEN COUNTY Frank Kleinschmidt, Ann Arbor years, 1931-1934, farm prices averaged Crop statisticians indicate field L. R. Boyer, Watervliet WAYNE COUNTY only about 60 per cent of parity. It F:.oJand Laberdy beans can easily set a state record Lucian Strong, Berrien Center Mrs. Charles Scripture, Detroit is only in the last 12 months that of 6,864,000 hundred pound bags. Harry M. Nye, St. Joe, R-2 We reminds growers that weath- farm prices have been back up to R. C. File, Niles, R-3 parity. August 1942 was the first If you wanted to drive across a river and found the J. Burton Richards, Berrien Center er records show how futile it is to time in over 20 years that- average CALHOUN COUNTY try to outguess the weather. Septem- farm prices showed a tendency to bridge already crowded with Army -trucks,. tanks and 5 Robert J. Farley, Albion CASS COUNTY Clyde D. Waltz, Jones ber and October chances for rainfall are good for fall seeded grains, but really advance much above parity. guns, you' d cheerfully give them the right of way. They reached seven per cent above lack A phalt Roof CLINTON COUNTY too bad for the bean grower who parity for that month. used on all types G. V. Cathey, Jr., Lansing, R-1 doesn't stack. C. F. Openlander, Grand Ledge, R-3 Chances for rain are about as fol- Now, when Congress passed the Long distartce telephone lines are bridges of speech. of roof in r mat rials. lso on fence Vern Hand, St. Johns, R-5 price control act which was signed po ts and other items n eding a Don E. Smith, Ovid lows: It's a better than G to 1 Today they are crowded with military and war produc- by the PI' sident on January 30, 1942, good w ~ th r prot ding paint. Joseph W. Thelen, Fowler, R·2 Lavern Lirg, DeWitt Properly Fed, He Makes Good bet that any pulled bean crop in the it specifically stated that no ceilings Our I lhrutr d slJhalt at ing con- George Bateman, Grand Ledge, R-3 field five days will get wet and about should be put on raw farm products tion calls. tain asbe to fih r. Our Red King· Lee, Lansing, R-4 And Profitable Gains even that the bean crop will get a Herman F. Openlander, Grand Ledge, R-3 at less than 110 per cent of parity, or J tal I 1im I' retards rust and For Owner rain of at least a quarter inch in five Rollin oble, Grand Ledge, R-3 3 other choices, whichever was the p cling. It's the proper has for ROy Van Nelson, Laing burg days. highest. So when Mr. Henderson of It·s impossible to enlarge the telephone system nll metal paint. We have a lin R. L. Beckwith, Ovid Don't lose the early days in a pig's Experiences of three 'bean growers R. W. Sleight, Laingsburg the O.P.A. issued his price ceiling enough to handle all the increased volume of cal1a. of good I' r paint. in the 1941 harvest are cited by II. C. Arnold J .. SpitZley, Fowler life. Feed him a high protein supple- regulations on April 28, most raw W. J. Thelin, Fowler Rather, head of the college crops de- John A. Kramer, Fowler ment with his home grown grains, partment. farm and greenhouse products were Materials are even more urgently needed for ,war pro- F'I'm Bur au Services, Lansing H. R. Frizzell and watch him make a hog of htm- specifically mentioned as exempt from Wm. G. Gladden One farmer built good stacks, put- duction. So we must make the most efficient u e of self quickly and at a profit. price ceilings. Just why ceilings were Edward M. Thelen ting up 19 acres with the aid of a uy at Farm Bureau Urban Fox, St. Johns, R-4 To illustrate, let us tell you the ex- helper in 281h hours. He threshed in not set for raw farm products as ap- what we have . . . with the help of every telephone Wm. Seeger, Bath parently they could have been, just Stor s and Co-op A 'ns Willard Cable, Bath perience of two little pigs-Amos and November, had only a 2 per cent pick so they were not less than 10 per user. A. J. Cable, Bath, R-1 Andy-had with Farm Bureau's Pork- or a 22 cents a. hundred deduction for cent above parity, is not entirely maker 4 % protein upplement. They culls and received $4.33 a bundred clear. were fed by the Farmer Elevator at pounds. Another bean grower built poor stacks, had an 11 per cent pick Retail Price Ceilings Prove Point Che nina in a te t which started No- D ring the four months following Here' s how you can help: vember 10, 1941- and got a 1.21 deduction or a net of $3.34 a hundr d pound. third the issuance of price ceiling regula- Andy weighed but 31 lbs. on Nov. tions on Apr. 28, we find according to 10. He weighed 200 lbs, 79 days later. farmer didn't stack, his beans w l' 1. Keep all your telephone conversations as brief 35 per cent cull. This man got $1.25 the . S. Dep't of Agr'l, that the average He gained an average of 2.14 lbs. per a hundredweight from a sympathetic of all wholesale prices in the United as you can. day. The feed wa ground oats and elevator manager. States has remained stationarx at an wheat and shelled corn with Pork: index of 1 4. Retail price of cost of 2. Make only the most essential long distance calli. maker 44. He cons moo only 3.32 Ibs, What is taken from the fortune, al- living items, exclusive of food prices, 3. When possible, give the number of the distant of feed for each pound of grain. son may haply be so much lifted from advanced only one point. Retail food ,/ telephone you are call~. Amos weighed 35 Ibs. ov. 10. He he SOUl. The greatmess ot a loss, as prices during this p -iod have d- got the same grain ration, but no the proverb suggests, is determinable, vanc d about five per cent. On the Porkmaker. When Andy weighed 200 not so much by hat we have lost, as other hand, prices for farm products Ibs. Jan. 28, mo weighed but 98 by what we nave left.~Bovee. on the average have adv need about 15 per cent. War Call Must Go Throug lbs. He got Porkmaker in his ration of 2. 8 for his 116 days on feed, So, on August 15 the ratio of prices thereafter and went to town, March whereas Andy paid a profit of $5.90 in eceived to prices paid by farmers 6-1'16 days from the start- mos 79 days. was 107. Now the current debatable • • weighed 200 Ibs, The last 40 days he made an average gain of 2.65 Ibs. per day. These doors. pigs lived W tel' to drink. practically out fed correctly and grew fast and profit- ndy was question is whether ceilings on farm prices should be beld at the 110 per cent of parity as required under the c g • But It was too late to make Amos ably. Amos couldn't grow rapidly price control law, or hould it be put very profitable. e cleared profit until his ration was balanced. back to 100 per Cent of parity? There- .f e u members and d llnquent JuniiD Co can collect. Carried. GAINES GROUP-G ne e r Iany peopl capanle or holdin fices in our group were not wltlin ctfvifies do so. Some do after being elected. ery good ometime ork it i By EUGENE A. MALTZ Membership Relations d: Education no a very good id a to I' pIa ie 11 County officer because meetings m y not run Counsellors May NORTH THORNAP LE CO MUN· as mooth unless ome orricer' ith Have Training Session lTV FARM BUREAU-Barry County e perience re there to help the nev The duties of each new officer were officers. In November read from the Farm Bureau paper. ot having a puhlicity chairman Each member will bring the October ha caused us to loso some nov spaper The State Leader hip Training Farm ews to the October meeting in publicity that we might hav b en Camp ended successfully September 5. October at the home of Herbert able to get. Two weeks of intensive leadership Lamphier. training was engaged in by 175 rural SAGINAW' &. KOCHViLLE SOUTHWEST OAKLAND FARM GROUP-Saginaw young people from 36 counties. BU REAU-Oakland Aside from the usual leadership Ir, Reimer emphasized the nee s- Letters from Representative Don- sitv of going to the Dolls and ol ing. practice sessions, commodity exchange dero and Senators Brown and anden- talks, recreational activities, etc., the Mr. re also talked on government berg were read by Grant Steele. He conditions. camps added three accomplishments had been appointed to write them re- over previous years: garding their stand on the que tion of KILOWATT LAKE GROUP- Under the guidance of Dr. David Kalamazoo parity prices. Joe Pittinger, discus- Trout of Central Michigan College of sion leader gave a digest of an article Jay Bush made the motion that the Education the camps discussed pres- in the September Farm ews regard- group should go 011 record as bing ent camp practices and developed an ing the q altflcations of officers. in favor of retaining th Constitution entirely new procedure for the camps. in its present form at least for th VICKSBURG COMMUNITY duration. These recommendations are now in GROUP-Kalamaz.oo the hands of the camp committee. Conclusions drawn during the Merritt Harper, asked that we all cu sion of taxation were: -A second contribution came in the use out right to vote, both at the 1. We favor the maintaining of th form of a new device for studying primaries and the ovember election. 15 mill ta limitation which we llOW and learning organizational skills. The It is one of our greatest democratic have. campers on several occasions put their privileges, and that in this way we 2. An effort hould be made to ideas and techniques to the test by can help on the home front by elect- curtail public exp nse and dunlic - forming football teams. Each player ing the best men possible. tion in government agencies should be would have a special name and tunc- tiorl from which definite plays would BLOOMINGDALE-Van Buren eliminated. Ir. Schultz spoke on what the METAMORA GROUP-Lapeer T V r was love, or ratltude or develop to carry objectives and goals. bount practiced but with incr ~sing A third development was a request Farm Bureau has done and can do if Six young people from the Junior joy, which made the p raef.iaer st il l from the county counsellors to have a we all stand united. In closing, he Farm Bureau attended the III ling. more in 10 .e with the fail' act. training session exclusively for coun- said, "While we are winning this war, Charles Myus spoke about the $10,000 •.•..• Shaft ,SbUl·Y. ty counsellors of Junior Farm Bu- we must not lose our Democracy." ar Bond drive that the Junior Farm reaus. If approved and support is Mr. Dobbin suggested that we rea Bureau is putting on. Each town hip given to this venture by the commod- our Farm ews and study them is to be canvassed in the n t fe ity exchanges it will be held sometime thoroughly so that we would have a weeks and each f rmer may on- in November. clearer understanding of the Farm tribute a bu hel of wheat or its equiv- Junior Farm Bureaus in 40 coun- is the Intent of the Junior Farm Bur- Allee ana Helen Windel, and Esther Bureau activities. alent. This bond, upon maturity, will East Jordan Creamery ties are well along in their campaign eau to use the bond in the educational 'Schafley; Dan Stacey and Earl Sey- BROOKSIDE-Newaygo be used as a tudent loan fund. The work of the Junior Farm Bureau. bert, Jr., chairman of civilian defense Upon motion by Mrs. Joe Brinkman Metamora group voted to sponsor and Joins the Mid-Weat to buy $10,000 in war bonds with In the picture above are several for the State Junior Farm Bureau. a committee was appointed to make help these young poeple in their driv The ,Jordan Valley Co-operative wheat and other farm products don- arrangements for the supper to be for the bond. Roy Best kindly offered members of the Isabella Juniors and In mid-September Isabella Juniors re- Creamery of East Jordan, Michigan, ated to the Juniors by farmers. The some of the wheat they brought to the given to tile departing draftees. to assist them in this community. ported about 300 bushels of wheat, and has become affiliated with the Mid- campaign has been for a bushel of Mr. Greenlee reported later that West Producers' Creameries, Inc., Mt. Pleasant Co-op Elevator. The Washtenaw Juniors about 500 bushels BERRIEN CENTER-Berrien wheat from a farm. After the war it young Our discussion leader spoke on the our group went over the top with South Bend, Indiana, a regional mar- people are: Betty Powell, or its equivalent. year's topics for forum. He led the 68% in the group hospitalization plan. keting and purchasing co-operative, discussion of the duties of our officers. Much credit for this should go to Mr. Which serves producer creameries in Michigan, Indiana, Tennessee, Ohio Activities of counsellor. Reports were given by Lena Rader, LENTY BRIDGEPORT-Saginaw Chester Weston explained some of to the work. Greenlee as he has given much time and Illinois. H. C. Stephens of, Char- levoix, is president of the Jordan the Junior Ted Ward, and Melvin Jensen who attended the leadership training camp the amendments November. to be voted on in BINGHAM FORUM-Leelanau He urged all the people A resolution to accept the monthly FO Valley Co-operative Creamery and Mr. Percy Penfold is manager. Parrn Bm-eau at Waldenwoods August 30 to Septem- ber 5. Further plans for the wheat to vote. AUGUST-Washtenaw reports given by the Action Commit- tee group as the topic for our discus. The addition of the Jordan VaUey ~AY drive quota were discussed, and also Don Stark, specialist in co-operative sion for each month of the coming group to the Mid-West Producers' William 'Bateson, member of the plans for a membership drive which marketing at Michigan State College, year was passed unanimously by our Creamer.ies, Inc., brings their member, Bay County Farm Bureau board of di- will start at this meeting and con- Concentrates & Home Grown spoke on "Defense Transportation and group. The Action Committee men ship to 27 creameries with a butter rectors, installed the new officers of tinue uncil the fall state convention. Marketing." reported on the two monthly meetings production in excess of 30,000,000 the Bay County Junior Farm Bureau WASHTENAW Grains For Good, l.ow This ts a survey made by . S. C. held in July and August. With a camp Ibs, annually. New officers installed at the Sep- at their 94th meeting. New officers Cost Rations for the benetit of the farmers to de- fire and a corn roast, a social evening are: 'Stella .Schmrdt, president; Rob- tember meeting are: Albert Gall,pres- termine what is essential for farm was enjoyed by all. Million Lbs. of Sugar ert Ruhstorfer, vice president; Anita ident; Kathrene Boyce, vice presi- By R. H. ADDY transportation information during these war times. obtained by discussion Tomke, secretary-treasurer; and AI· dent; Gertrude Flick, secretary; Phyl- Feed Specialist, Earm. Bur. Sere Inc. Aim of 2 Sanilac men lis Glass, treasurer; Wilma Weber, and questionnaires is to be used for Gus Rickett and Henry J. Pries, vera Neumeyer, publicity 'chairman. publicity chairman; Amy Fee, camp A super-excellent corn crop along making recommendations and sug- r: Sanilac county farmers, 'are planning Plans were made for the wheat with fair crops of oats, barley, and gestions to the Office of Defense drive to be held September 22, with chairman; Dorothy Forshee; program wheat, gives t e Michigan farmer an Transportation. Mr. Stark also men- to produce a million pounds of beet members dividing into three compe- chairman; and Audrey Gilbert, recrea- opportunity to lower his feeding costs. tioned briefly the need for shear ling sugar in 1942. They expect to harvest 350 acres of beets. A 10.6 ton yield per acre will do H. In other years titive teams on a community basis. tion chairman. Reports were given by the campers Those who attended Wal enwoods This can be done by purchasing high protein supplements, adequately forti- pelts for aviator suits. MONTCALM-Montcalm c attending Waldenwoods Camp August camp were Albert Gall, Bee Boyce, field with quality proteins, needed Elsie Hansen moved that candi- • Let me point out to you how their yields have been around 11 tons 23 to August 29. After the meeting Mary Lesser, Lillian Haas and Robert per acre. The men have 1,560 acres moving pictures of the Bay County Gilbert. minerals, and essential vitamins. dates be asked their position on the State Farm Mutual's commonsense Where the feeder grows his own change of time. LeRoy Kelpein move coverage results in substantial sav- and expect -to have 1,000 acres in Junior Farm Bureau's activities of September 22, we discussed dividing ings, over a period of time, on the grain, it is smart to use it effectively that we send a resolution to the Mich- crops this year. "They planned 120 the past year were shown by Herb. the county group into community igan State Farm Bureau resolutions actual cost of automobile insur- acres for such cannmg crops as peas, Schmidt. by balancing it with open formula sup- ance. Already over half a million groups with each group having its committee to have the time changed. I See Vour Local carrots and red beets. They have a plement that tells him just how many car owner. are benefiting from this The wheat drive held September 22, own officers, and meeting on the 1:otions carried. STATE FARM MUTUAL herd of 80 purebred Holsteins produc- pounds of each ingredient he is pay- -economical more-for-your-money on a community Ibasis proved very second Tuesday of every month. The BANFIELD-Barry AUTO INS. AGENT ing for. Only in open formula feeds method of buying protection {or ing market milk.' These and 32 dairy Each member will try to write one successful with about 60 donations county group would meet the fourth can he get that information. themselves and familie . Investi- Stat. Farm Insurance Companl •• heifers and 60 head of Angus feeder membership and give it to the secre- being gathered. After the drive, all Tuesday of every month. Using his own grain, the feeder gets aatl today-no obligation, of BtoomlnQton, illinoIs cattle will use most of their beet tops. tary of the County Farm Bureau be- members met at the Farm Bureau ST. JOSEPH the ingredients at wholesale prices- fore the Roll Call drive. The partners employe 11 full time The Junior Farm Bureau members Store wlth their donatlons. The Bay what he would get for them if he sold 'hired men and have a $32,000 invest- County Junior Farm Bureau held its Installed officers, as follows: Pres- them. He pays no freight or middle- Ideas on what we can do as a group that we cannot do as indi- DRIVE SAFELY and CARRY IN'SURANCE ment in 5 caterpiUar and standard ident, Randall eaman; vice pres., Lo- tractors and other farm machinery. 95th meeting after the wheat drive. It ',was decided to continue this wheat la Fairchild; sec'y-treas., Lucille Bor- man's profit. viduals were as follows: :1 THAT WILL PROTECT YOUR INTERESTS The feeder must remember that We ean pass on to others knowl- This year ,they have used 80' tons or' campaign until September 30. A mo- get; publicity chairman, Burdena edge that we have gained in our "critical feeders" such as hogs and fertilizer. tion was made that the Junior Farm Decker. experience. poultry can't be fed efficiently or pI'O- Bureau express their thanks to the Plans were made for raising money We can help direct public opinion. fitably without the addition or animal Bay City Times for their co-oper- for our War Bond. Tickets are being proteins to home grown feeds. The We can learn first aid. ation on the news articles. sold on a registered calf, which we are We can co-operate to defeat John animal proteins containing superior The next meeting will be held Oc- giving alway at the fair on Saturday. Lewis' attempt to organize farmers. amino acids are fish meal, milk, meat We can pull together. tober 6, at the Beaver 'I'own Hall with September 26. The member selling scraps and tankage. the most tickets receives a prize. We can learn what and where mao the new officers i'n charge. He must also remember that sup- A very nice attendance enjoyed this terial is available for tire fighting. MONTCALM plements, because of the smaller We can fellowship together for meeting. The next meeting will be a The Montcalm County Junior Farm amount required, must be unusually spiritual uplift. party at the Mintdale Community hall Bureau met at the home of Perry rich in vitamins and minerals to SUMMIT PERE MARQUETTE on Saturday night, October 3rd. Rossman, September 10 New officers balance the larger amounts of home FORUM-Mason were installed: Melvin Jensen, pres- grown feed. Wesley Hawley, district representa- ident; . Lena Rader, vice president; To illustrate a high quality supple- tive, spoke of the advantages of hav- Madeline Mosier, secretary; Ted ment, let us use our own Mermade ing a local Farm Bureau paper. Our Ward, treasurer; Herman Hader, pub- Balancer 37 % protein. It is designed next issue will be a group hospitaliza- licitychairman; and Perry Rossman, tion special. We must keep com- to allow the feeder who has an ample munity groups active even though supply of homegrown grains a chance gas is rationed. A farmer who stays AMA Announces Expansion to u e a Mermash mash and use his at home and minds his own business own grains liberally. A Mermash does not help solve farm problems. of Program Used by 3,355 mash contains 10 % of Mermaker, The future of the people is up to Schools Last Year Merrnade Balancer 37 % is made of the people. There is no snort-cut to 1000 lbs. of Mermaker, 500 lbs. of de- peace, security and a genuine demo- The Agricultural Marketing Admin- hydrated alfalfa meal 17 % protein cratic victory. It will come slowly istration has announced that, during and 500 lbs, of first quality meat and painfully but surely if we work the current school year, the commun- scraps. This combination enables the toward that goal-when Freedom will ity school lunch and penny milk pro- feeder to use 400 lbs. of his grain to be a fact and not merely a word. The grams will be expanded in Michigan. 100 lbs. of Mer'made Balancer 37%. Farm Bureau motto is parity, equality The programs operated in 3,355 He will have a ratio of 200 lbs. of and justice for all. :\1ichigan schools last year and over Mermaker, 100 lbs: of me t scraps and BURLINGTON·RICH GROUP- You owe it to your country Lapeer a' well a' your 'elf to protect 1 5,000 school children received the 100 lbs. of dehydrated alfalfa meal per ton when using home grown grains hart discus ion of local topics fol- benefits of a wide variety of health- your property again st decay building foods which the AMA made at the ratio of 4 to 1. lowed the discussion of hospitaliza- tion. ~lIiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiil_iiand 1'0 t. available without cost to the spon- Dehydrated alfalfa meal is rich in !rhe labor situation on the farm buildinz mu t take a great deal of abu se SOl's. vitamins & G. The Farm Bureau and deferrment of farm help are Community chool lunch programs uses alfalfa meal for which 100,000 problems. Our group feel that the from broilinz sun, dri ing rain, sleet, heavy frosts. U I 0 are ponsored by local groups, such as units of vitamin A are guaranteed per ations looks to the American farmer PAl T provides a film of protection that stands guard over school boards, Parent-Teacher Assoc- pound. today for the great quantities of food your pI operty. iations, 4-H clubs, womens clubs, farm Only cod liver oil or feeding oil re- essential to Victory, but the farmer The young man, and the man in his prime, do s w 11 T e,t, Very Go • organizations, veteran, civic clubs, and fraternal and church groups. Ap- plications for AMA foods for Com- mains to be added to 'upply vitamin D in the quantity de ired. Additional vitamin G i recommend- is put on the spot for help. RE£MAN The chairman FORUM-Newaygo reported that the to save something as he goes along. State Farm Lif For beauty and protection u 'e pecially formulated paint' munity school lunch program pur- ed through the use of milk or whey if scrap iron was gathered and that Insurance is savings and protection for your fami y• I for .pecial surface s. A .k your local dealer or write U' for po es may be filed with any county producing eggs for hatching. there was 6600 pounds. The group our deserij tive circular and color chart. Ther is a U .•.100 welfare director. Farm Bureau Services at 221 orth discussed the parity blll and agreed 67,000 Michigan farm and city folk carry .----_ that if there was a parity price on PAL TT for eyery painting need .... For the present, the AMA's Penny Cedar street, Lan Ing, will supply on farm prtces, then .there should also be Farm Mutual utomobile Com any Insurance Milk program will be confined to com- request a booklet giving various VARNISHES HOU PAINTS J'~OR PAINTS munities with populations of less than formulas for home grain and Farm a parity price on labor. HASTINGS GROUP~arr.y Michigan a te .. _---- Farm ure u ., ENAt4EItS 10,000. This program makes milk Bureau concentrates. BARN PAINTS WALL PAINTS available to school children who need A list of ten names )Vas made out I 221 No. Cedar St., Lanaing, M•• hillian for the Farm ews for the next six Plea e . nd tate.F arm Ins. 0:8 inlor- I matron: F R BUREAU S V CES Lansing, Michigan it, at a cost of one cent per half-pint. community school lunch and penny months in order to interest them in The A. A is now receiving applica- milk programs may be secured from our organization. Motion was made Name ~_...........••....... 0 A --..•. _ ..•..••..•••••••..••. tions for this program from all parts the Agricultural Marketing Admini - by Charles oodrutr that the groups Buy at t=arm ~urpau Store~ and (o-op Ass,'ns of the state. tratlon, 10 Federal Building, Detroit, get paid a per cent of the due! col- Detailed information concerning the ichigan. lected, according to the Dumber of I SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1942 a e Here's Dependable COLD WEA THER em er allot 10 e Super Unico - tl- reeze Back round Material for Discus ion in October SUPER I 0 ANTI-FREEZE is of uniformly high quality 200 proof by our 295 Community arm Bureau roup Ethyl alcohol. Has a rust inhibitor protecting against rust of all five By STANLEY M. POW })1~I~ study commission. If the ratio of pr sent ounty office, or board, need b III tals in the automobile cooling sy em. It also contains a retard- r tain d under said charter, provided, ent against e ·cessive evaporation. The corner-stone of self-governm nt amendments to delegate was the arne as prevailed in the study com- ho 'e er, that nothing in this section is the sacred and 1 aders he privilege and ight of the franchise settling of ele ting OUt mis ion, there would he thr e times basic pol icle 6 or 204 changes in the con rtltut ion. shall aul hor izc any chan e in the ime and manner of election, t I'm of e ew Unico Permanent A n t-1-Freeze office, or jurisdiction of circuit hrough the use {)f the ballot. It is Of course, it i. n't the number of Farm Bureau's new nico Permanent ANTI-FREEZE is one of the judg or probate judges, 01' in th rtainly regr ettable that the di trac- chan es, but the character of them best anti-fre zes 011 the market. lias permanent qualities. Stands pro i ions of soctton 16 to 19, in- up und r severest cold. Does not evaporate or boil away. Ask your tions of th se hectic days re seem- which would be most seriou .. Prospects Farmers Should Face cIusi . , of this Article, pertaining to Farm Bureau Oil Dealer about it. ingly resulting in less genet al interest It is well within the realm of pos- township ." in the qualifications of candidates and the m rits of questions which ibility 'that a constttutlon drafted While a large number of civic lead- - For Quick Starts- Smooth Performance •.• under present conditions might r ult ers in D troit and 'Wayne county arc ar submltt d for decision at the polls. At the general election three important ovember 3, is ues will be submlt- in a basis of legislative ment which would give compl to con- apportion- apparently adoption strongly of this amendment, in favor of th other BU EAU-~E N or trol of the legislature to the metropoli- influential individu Is and organiza- ed to the voters for deci ion. Farm Bureau Community Discussion Groups tan areas, abolish the protection of th 15 mill tax limitation, and s stream- tions of Indust r ialists and prop r ty owners are opposed to it. It is also MIOCO MOTO OILS can rend r a great se vice to their Farm Bureau oils wear long and well. They are refined from bing opposed by the CIO. It has members and 1.0 the cause ot good line our form of government-state, P nnsylvania and Mid-Continent crude by superior processes. They county, and municipal-that many been condemned ])y a special study government by promoting an intellt- aid quick starting and give smooth performance. They're real oil checks and balances and lime-honored ommittee appoint d by the Stale As- gent study 0 these questions, so that values at the right prices. safeguards would be aboli hed. space sociation of Supel'visors. Since the there may be a cJ ar und rstanding here does not permit a detailed review Mlch igan State Farm Bureau ha tak- of just what is involved. eglecting en no official position regarding Pro- Wise Farmers Are Stocking Up for Fall to vote on any of th so matters would of the recommendations of the Gov- be inexcusable negligenc on the part ernor's study commtsston, but the posal O. 2, I sugge t that each of you and Heavy Spring Needs. most important of them w re outlined learn all you can about the merits of Stock up now for your fall and heavy spring needs. Due to tank of any citizen. Possibly, even worse the propo al and th n vote your con- than not voting at all would be to in the article in the July, 1942, ich- car shortages it will be extremely difficult to get your lubricating r Igan Farm ews, to which reference -ictions, being governed solely as to oil needs when you want them. A supply of Bureau Penn or Mioco vote ignorantly and, thus, run the risk has already been made. whether or not you fe 1 that it would motor oil in your barn may be invaluable to you later on. Don't of having one's b llot tend to retard The final portion of the resolution advance the cause of good govern- delay-buy NOW. progress and good government. on this subject, adopted by the dele- ment. Propos I No.1-Constitutional Proposal No.3-Milk Mktg. Act • GUN GREASE • TRANSMISSION OILS gates at the State Farm Bureau con- Convention Refer, ndum • CUP GREASE • HIGH PRESSURE OILS vention in November, 1941, is a fitting The first question on the special Propo al o. 3 is a referundum on • GREASE GUNS summary for this part of this article. • AXLE GREASE b 110t at the November 3 election will the milk marketing act, pa 'sed by the "In view of the above considera- be whether or not the voter desire 1941 legislature. This law would tions we earnestly urge that our mem- to have a constitutional convention have gone into effect several months Buy at F a 'r m Bur €' a u S tor e san d Co - 0 pAs s ' n.s bers vote 'No' on the proposal to call a ass mbled for the purpose of drafting ago, but its enemies circulated refer- Constitutional Convention which, as a new constitution for 'the state of endum petitions and secured just stated above, will automatically ap- Michigan, which would later be sub- enough valid signatures, after the il- pear on the ballot in the ovember mitted to the people for adoption or legal names had been thrown out by election in 1942." ejection. This matter comes on the the state board of canvas ers, to in- Proposal No.2-Wayne Co. ballot automatically, in accordance Home Rule sure putting this question on the 0- • n Milk aker with the provisions of our present vember ballot. Meanwhile, the law Proposal No. 2 is the so-called onstitution which specifies hat this remains inoperative. Home Rule tor Wayne county consti- question is to be submitted each 16 tutional amendment. This matter will The Farm Bur au, Gran~e and y ars, When the same proposition ap- other farm groups urge a YES vote be submitted to the voters as a result peared on the ballot in ovember, of initiatory petitions which were cir- to save the milk marketing act. 1926, it was rejected by the follow- culated by the Citizens Committee on Briefly, the history of legislation in ing vole: For, 119,491; against, 285,- Hohte Rule for Wayne county. this state on this subject is as follows: 252. If }this proposed amendment is In 1939, the milk marketing condi- No better feed goes into the manger than MILKMAKERS (34%. Farm Bureau Against Convention adopted, it would permit Wayne coun- tions in Michigan, particularly in the protein for you with lots of home grown grains or 24 % protein when At their last annual convention ty to set up its own form of govern- Detroit area, were especially chaotic nearly a year ago, the State Farm ment, which would be separate and and distressing. Through the efforts your supply of feed is limited). Bureau delegates urged our members distinct from that which prevails in of the dairy groups and .•Uchigan to vote NO on. this question. The the other 82 counties in the state. Al- farm organizations, a milk marketing BUT - the Farm Bureau, as a farmers' organization, tries to keep Farm Bureau resolution was, in part, though the proposal would apply di- law was enacted along the general up to every feed requirement as practice proves the need. Cattle as follows: rectly only to Wayne county, being an lines of measures which have been "We fear that such a procedure amendment to the state constitution, operating successfully in more than in many counties in Michigan suffer from COBALT DEPICIENCY might result in sertous confusion to it, of necessity, must be submitted to 20 other states. which often causes severe losses. the lectorate, and that the will of the voters of the entire state for The law was attacked in the courts the people would be expressed more adoption or rejection by a distributor who found it to his NOW - MILKMAKERS have sufficient cobalt when fed as a cl arly and sati faclorily by submit- This subject has arisen since the advantage to fight the law rather ting specific amendments to the con- than comply with it. The con titu- supplement to your home grains to correct this deficiency-and to la t annual meeting of the State Farm stitution, each ot which would then Bureau Board of Delegates and, hence, tionality of the act was attacked on furnish manganese to aid in reproduction. During the long dark be considered on its own merits. From there is no resolution on the subject five different points. After very ex- time to 'lime during recent years, the tended consideration, the supreme winter months cows often lack sufficient Vitamin D to insure proper to commit the State Farm Bureau for voters have adopted or rejected con- or against the proposal. 0 action court upheld the law on the four prin- assimilation of lime and phosphorC?us. stitutional amendments which have on the subject has been taken by the cipal contentions, but declared it un- ibeen !placed on a ballot either as a r ult of legislative action or through State Farm Bureau board of direct- constitutional cause certain on the fifth point, be- members of the board NOW-MILK AK S carry Irradiated Yeast to insure even better ors. the operation that this method of the initiatory visions of the constitution. mizes confusion and permits of revision pro- We feel mini- the vo- No 'Farm Bureau posing any plan which would help Wayne county improve member want to be placed in the light of op- would its govern- might have a selfish interest nection with rulings which they might make. This decision was a great sur- prise to supporters of the law, because in con- nutrition. It ill 11 ake better calves and better milk. Ask for MIL MAK with Irradiated Yea t and Manganese our cows will thank you with more milk and better health. Sulphate. MI.~ R ters to register their desires as to ment and rid itself from the deplor- the provisions of the Michigan act, as I each specific proposal for amend- able conditions Which have been relating to .the make-up of the state ment" brought to light by recent Grand Jury milk marketing board, were the same A Ie Your al Farm Bu eau Dealer or Write Us for 9ur N~w Feeding & Formula Folder Amendments very lection investigations. On the other hand, it as are contained in at least three- Ince 1910 fourths of the laws on this subject, FarmB reau CONCENTRATES Enable Home Grains might be said that honest and ef- That it i entirely ossible to make ficient government does not depend which are in effect in the more than desired changes in our state constitu- nearly as much on the form of the 20 other states tion without tearing it all to pieces government as on the individuals who Good Results From 1939 Act at anyone time i evident when we realize that since it went into effect in 1909, 80 separate constitutional are elected to positions of public trust and responsibility by the voters. During 1939 Michigan the 15 months milk marketing was in partial operation, even though when the law to Prod ce Meats, Milk and Eggs at a Lower Net Cost! Many people in out-state areas have amendments have been submitted the voters at April or Nov mber elec- tions, and of this number 34 have to voiced the fear that if home rule was granted to Wayne, other populous it was being attacked and full compli- ance had not been secured, farmers supplying the Detroit milk market fo Milk' for M RE Eggs' counties would soon demand similar Only 100 lbs. of l\IERl\lADE' BALANCER 37% protein con- actually been adopted and 46 have consideration and we would, thus, benefited from the law to the extent Only 100 lb . of ~rrLrd1! KER 34% protein concentrate is been rejected. In ,fact, at every April of $1,793,862.01, in addition to what centrate and 400 lbs. of your own grain and you have an disintegrate the uniformity of our ne dcd to balance 4 10 lb '. of your home grown grains when or November election from 1910 until county government and find it dif- they would have obtained had it not excellent 16% egg mash carrying 10% of our famous Mer- been for the benerrcial effects of this l' al good alfal fa hay is f d lib rally. This will make you 500 the present time, there have been icult to enact state laws which would maker along with dehydrated alfalfa meal 17% and top from one to several constitutional be readily applicable to the counties law. During this period and as a re- lbs. of profita lc 160/0 dairy ration. quality meat scraps. amendments on th ballot, with the having such divergent local govern- sult of milk marketing board action, ception of the elections held in mental machinery. the pool fee, averaging 4.8c per ewt., 192 , 1929, 1933, and 1937. As you robably recall reading r ther comprehensive article app art in If this proposed Home Rule amend- ment is adopted, charter commission a Wayne of 19 members county was eliminated, freight rates were re- duced an average of 5c per cwt., class 1 price was increased 18c per cwt., the or T, CHEAP Pork Gain :lng in the July, 1942, is sue of the would be elected to prepare a county market was stabilized, and the spread Last wnter tl e Ch s ning Farm rs Elevator bought two pigs, litte mates, not too thrifty. One named AMOS Itchlgan Farm ews, the Governor, between producer and consumer was charter. one of the member of this nd one A D l y were j laced in a pen on November 10 with water to drink, no he ted quarters or extra late in 1941 appointed a commis ion commission could be paid county, city, reduced. The 18c per cwt. increase in f 32 men and women to study our village, or township officials. Of the the price of class 1 milk in the Detroit c mfo ts. From th rc on tl y proved to themselves and many farmers that Porkmaker 4470 made pork raising present constitution and sug est what 19, 11 would be elected from the city area occurred during a period wh n ihanges, if any, hould be made in it. the condensary price of milk showed roht bl . ow are two tables showing how these pigs grew. of Detroit, one each from .the cities lt is significant that th se 32 men of Dearborn, Hamtramck, and High- a decline of 6c per cwt. nd women finally adopted recommen- land Park, and 5 from the remainder Because of the very substantial ben- A Y - born Sept. 20 - started test Nov. 10 - Feed: Porkmaker with d tions calling for 6 amendment to of the county. efits which had been realized from the operation of the 1939 milk market- ground oats, wheat, and shelled corn. our present state constitution. Borne Under 1he terms of the proposed CUMULATIVE LOSS r these changes vould be very dras- constitutional amendment, such a ing act, the dairy and general farm DA E AGE WEIGHT PROFIT FEED and, from the farmers' point of charter would provide for a chief ex- groups promptly prepared a new bill i w, e ceedingly dangerou . con- ecutive, a legislative body of not more on this subject meeting the objection y ov. Dec. 10 3 7 weeks 10 weeks 31 lbs, 56 lbs. 80 Ibs. $ .90 Utution I nv ntion would consist than 21 members, and other necessary which had been raised in the supreme 13% weeks 111 lbs. 275 lbs. 2.50 court decision and embodying certain D c. 27 of 96 delegat s-e-three time the num- county officers and employees. The 16% weeks 169 lbs. 430 lbs. 4.30 Jan. 15 b r of memb rs on the Governor's amendment specifically states, "No other changes, which experience with 1 % weeks 200 lbs. 561 lbs. 5.90 Jan. 28 the 1939 law had indicated as being desirable. ANDY a e 3.32 Ib ~ feed for each pound gain. , 10 'NSUR Ne One objectionable 1939 law was that it required feature of the the li- AMO born Sept. 20 - started test Nov. 10 - Feed: ground whe t and o ts and shelled corn to Jan. 25. From there on 4470 was censing of all milk dealers, even in PORKMAKER sections of the state which would ob- tain no direct benefit from the law. added. Thi feature was eliminated from the CUMULATIVE PROFIT LO S DATE AGE WEIGHT 1941 act. FEED The 1941 act has no direct effect T OV• 10 7 weeks 35 lbs. on producers, consumers, or the gen- Dec. 3 10 weeks 44 lbs. 45 lbs. $ .13 eral public, except where a special Dec. 27 13% weeks 56 lbs. 160 lbs. , .64 milk marketing area may be set up, Jan. 15 16% weeks 79 lbs. 265 Ibs, .13 after petition by con umers, pro- Jan. 25 18 weeks 9 lbs. 348 lbs. .3 Mar. 6 21 weeks 200 lbs. 708 lbs. 2.88 ducer , or distributors, and the hold, ing of a hearing on the subject. Any AMOS ate 4.29 lbs, feed for each pound gai co ts of .the program would be borne entirely by producers and di tributors by very nominal levies on he milk involved. I ---ie at 3 r er ev ors • DRIVE SAFELY and CARRY INSURANCE There are a great number of state I UR A FEED DEP'T, Lansins, Ie Isan boards and commi ions before whom THAT WILL PROTECT YOUR INTERESTS relatively minor groups of people can _J_