Vol. XXI, No. 3 SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1943 21st Year EDITORIAL HOOVER. SAYS • MER1S PROGRAM for 1945 rrl What's 175,000Farm Hours Daily? FARMERS EED Since Michigan adopted central war time by act of the legislature Feb. 15, there has been a parade of cities and MEN A D P CES towns to stay on or get back on eastern war time. It To Achieve Food Production Southwestern Michigan Gr appears that industrialists in those communities want Needed for Ourselves New High 'for Mem eastern war time because it "gears" them to Washing ... And Allies Countie M ing ton or other war production plants in some manner. Just Herbert Hoover spoke to the Na- how was never made clear to the legislature. tional Industrial Conference at ew Berrien County Farm Bureau h s incr as d it m York city, January 21 on "Food Sup- ship from 1,400 families to 1,911 so far In th Here at the Michigan State Farm Bureau we handle a plies for This War." His address was a plea to govern- roll call canvass of farmers for Farm Bur au m mb large volume of mail, telephone and telegraph, commun ... ment and others in this country to ication, and shipment of goods to points in and out of Berrien has set another new high for County F rrn ur u place agriculture in the first rank of Michigan. We adjusted our activities on central war the war effort, to recognize the imper- membership for the past 20 years. Berri n may c ed it ative necessity for maximum food goal for 1943 by 500 members. time to mail trains and other transportation operating production, and that the American on eastern war time in one day and with no loss in effic ... farmer will do it if he is given a Ottawa County Farm Bureau reported 851 m mb r up t chance. Mr. Hoover said, in part: iency. In fact, we made some. improvements. March 3. Its goal was 645. Branch IS n ring the 1, 100 "The burden of furnishing food sup- We have no quarrel with factories or cities operating plies to the United Nations now and mark, compared to a goal of 925. to a starving world after the war on eastern war time. Weather or lack of daylight doesn't rests largely upon the American and Other large memberships reported to M rch 3 In Iud : bother around the clock factory operation. But we wish Canadian farmer. Saginaw 800, Van Buren 750, Allegan 750, St. Jo ph 492, "And at once let me say I have no they'd leave the far~er alone, and that some small corn- . sympathy with attacks being made by Kalamazoo 400. All of the foregoing campaign nd tho munities would remember that they are serving the sur- armchair consumers upon the Ameri- of 37 other County Farm Bureaus ar still under w y. can farmer. He is working a 70 hour rounding farm areas. week. He is working for a far less Severe weather conditions during January nd bru y The city council of Saginaw has decided to return to average income than any group in in- interfered with membership solicitation in very county. dustry. No one is working harder to eastern war time. It has also started a movement to win the war. Every County Farm Bureau reports that memberships h v compel the entire state to do likewi~. Shortage of Meats and Fats been much easier to get this year. The number of n w "That there is today an acute short- Let's remember-and city people, especially-that age in meats and fats in all the members is a large percentage of the people call d upon. we adopted central war time largely because 175,000 United Nations, including ourselves, People are ready to join the Farm Bureau. needs no demonstration. And fats in- or more Michigan farmers were losing an hour a day clude lard, milk, butter, cheese and Forty-five County Farm Bureaus are working for a tot 1 edible oil products. membership of possibly 20,000 for 1943. during the growing season,-waiting for the sun to "All over Europe the flocks and make it possible to cultivate, hay, spray, or.,. harvest. herds are being consumed. There is County Farm Bureau Reports +------------,------ Gratiot's membership will exceed Many farmers couldn't recover that hour at the end of already desperate shortage of meats 500. Most of the 361 old m mbers and fats in every country ravaged by have renewed. Eight membership the day because hired help quits by the clo~k. the Germans. And that shortage will chairmen, directed by Harry F. John- grow steadily worse right up to the Live Stock Exchange Shippers Charges at AAA Meets Seen son, county chairman, led 60 work rs Saginaw's proposal comes when the people have been end of the war. Britain and Russia Sold 224,000 Head at As Start to Discredit in campaigns conducted in the rationed to less than half the canned goods they usually are short of animal products and north and south halves of the county .. must be supplied by us. Detroit All Criticism 200 new members so far. Clyde consume. Rationing for meats and other foods is here. "While we have Germany blockaded Down of Ithaca enrolled 20 members; Perhaps we may expect more drastic rationing than we from overseas food, her submarines The Michigan Live Stock Exchange Since the inception of the A the Edward Hooper, Junior Farm Bureau Ask Continued Enforcement now have. . have done a fairly effective job of cut- held its 25th annual meeting at Lan- Farm Bureau has been at times one president, was a close second. George Of Laws on Dairy ting off much of British and our own sing, February 21. of its best friends at other one of its Cox of Ithaca is chairman of a new . ILet's remember, too, that Michigan is one of the prin . meats and fats from the southern George Boutell, manager of the Ex· sharpest critics. Of late there has community group in ewark township. Substitutes hemisphere. The Japanese conquests change's sales offic s at the Detroit been much criticism of subsidies to Hillsdale workers battled much cipal producers of canning crops. In fact, we are a lead . have stopped much of our own and stockyards, told 233 delegates that farmers instead of good market snow during February but enrolled 90 Twenty-five co-operativ creameri s ing producer of fruits, vegetables, dairy, poultry and live British vegetable oils from Asia and 26,000 member shippers had marketed prices; effecys of some farm price new members on their way to 400 in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois the Indies. Russia has lost a con- 224,000 head of stock at Detroit during ceilings, deductions of parity pay- for 1943. Dewey Stratton of Litch- and Tennessee, memb rs of the Mid- stock products. ment from parity price figures, op- field signed 28. A. . Brown West Producers Cream ri s, Inc., gave siderable part of her food areas and 1942. The sales to led 7,900,000. must have some support from us. R. D. Foley of the Producers Co-op- position to including cost of farm Everett Roberts of Jonesville signed their support to the obbs anti- Two times are a nuisance. The farmer would rather labor in figuring parity prices, etc. 10. The team of R. K. Duryea and racketeering bill at the Mid-West China is cut off in every direction. erative Commis ion Ass'n, Inc., at the have one. But we can't have eastern war time on the We Have Less of Livestock East Buffalo, N. Y., yards, said that In recent days the Farm Bureau V-,T. H. Bro ne of Reading signed 16. annual meeting at South Dend, Ind., "We had all these burdens and dif- Michigan Live Stock Exchange ship- as been assailed in AAA committee- Henry E. Van Dusen is campaign F b. 25. farms and get the same efficiency of production that we men meetings at Saginaw, Kalama- manager. ficulties in the last war. Yet today pel'S marketed 177 carloads of stock The Hobbs bill before Congr ss can with central war time. We tried that In 1942. we are exporting less than half the there, out of a total of 945 cars sold zoo, Traverse City, Ann Arbor, Mar- Macomb has a goal of 400 and has would make it a felony to interf 1'- shall, Gaylord and other places in er- enrolled 160, including 40 new mem- tere with any delivery of agr'l com- meats and fats to our Allies than we by the Producers. In addition, the forts to discredit the Farm Bureau bers. Weather has held up the cam- modity in interestate commer e. (The did in the last war, for then we had Producers handled truck shipments of Cure for Time Muddles to support France, Belgium and Italy. I ~attle, calves, hogs and sheep amount- with farmers. ber of farmers At Ann Arbor a num- walked out of the paign but it is going again. Rowley of Richmond enrolled Arthur 12. house of the Michigan legislature has passed HB 103, a similar bill apply- • Yet, with this lesser burden of ex- mg to 94,953 head, or the equivalent Allen F. Rush is campaign manager. The. cure for the comparatively few mix ...ups over ports we are threatened with greater of 1,451 single deck cars. meeting. Speakers were challenged ing to the transportation of farm St. Joseph has more than 500 mem- shortages of meats and fats on our Resolutions adopted: (1) Legisla- on the truthfulness of their state- commodities within Michigan.) An- central war time and eastern war time in Michigan is ments at other meetings. bers against the goal of 600 set own home front than in World War I. ture asked to provide funds to enable for 1943. Eighty campaign workers other resolution adopted by the Mid- within the communities affected. "Our difficulties are increased be- state to enforce recent law regulating Calhoun AAA committeemen were ,~.est asked all government agencies have signed 175 new members. Frank cause American livestock has decreas- live stock auctions with respect to told, for example, that the AAA is Krull of Fabius enrolled six new to continue to enforce laws protecting Any city, town, or village government that keeps being sabotaged by the Farm Bureau, consumers against substitutes for ed in propootion to the growth of the fluancial responsibility, correct weights, members and six old; D. H. Dermott the business affairs of the town on eastern war time has population since the last war. disease control: (2) recommended that the Farm Bureau speaks only for of Constantine nine new and two Lutter and other dairy products. "At the end of that war we had state license or other identification wealthy farmers, that the Farm Bu- old. Team reports: 12 by George General Manager E. J. Ryger said also the job of explaining itself to its community and ' reau is a political machine, that it is 26% more beef cattle for each 1,000,- and regulation of all slaughterers to Aurand and Lowell Kline of Mott- Mid-West cream ries sold more than the surrounding countryside. The people want to 000 of human population than we had control black markets on meats; .(3) trying to change the A A in the ville; 11 by Bud Russell and L. C. :.'0,000,000 Ibs. of butter and bought know why? 23 years later on Jan. 1, 1942. We had opposed subsidy payments to farmers north to the southern political sys- Dyer of Constantine. C. \V. Copen- $500,000 worth of creamery supplies 26% more hogs and 5% more milch in place of fair market prices; (4) tern, that the Farm Bloc had given hater, campaign manager, said a large co-operatt vely in 1942. Detroit, Flint, Saginaw, Pontiac, Bay City and Jackson cows than now. told Congress that farm price ceilings Mr. Wickard 30 days to get in line, number of people are just waiting Michigan members are co-operative and so on. for some one to invite them to mem- creameries at: Coldwater, Carson could more reasonably be expected to go for the fast "We can build up our flocks and which do not include farm labor At Kalamazoo farmers were told bership. City, Elsie, East Jordan, Fremont, herds and consequently their produc- costs are forcing most productive time, but what about such rural communities as that any opposition to incentive pay- Cass has 400 members toward the Grant, Lawrence, Marc llus, Nashville, tion. We did it during the last war. farmers to reduce operations because rnents is inflationary, that farmers 1943 goal of 525. Thirty campaign iles and St. Louis. Howell, Lapeer, Greenville, Bronson, and others? Over the whole period of that war our they can't afford to hire labor they sbould ignore wages paid in industry, workers have been working under the Fred H. Suhre of Columbus, Ind., hog population increased by 22%, our must have; (5) told Congress no leadership of L. H. Schrump, John Hundreds of Michjgan villages and cities, including but should think rather in terms of was elected president, Fred D. Walker beef cattle by 27%, and our milch cows one should be paid overtime on any L. Cook, and Martin Pierce. J olm L. poor consumers and low income of Carson City, Mich., vice president, Lansing, Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, and Muskegon by 10%. It was this increa~e in pro- part of a 4 hour work week for Cook has enrolled 20 members. groups. President 0' eal of the AFBF Melvin E. Plank of Middlebury, Ind., duction that enabled us to supply our the duration; (6) asked government Ottawa has enrolled 382 new mem- are on central war time. and Sec'y Brody of the Michigan sec'y-treas. Allies and prevented hardships on OUr, agencies to forget all restrictions on bers in reaching its total of 51 to Farm Bureau were charged with own home front. farm machinery repairs in the inter- date. Goal was 645. Seventy cam- We think the trend is for more central war time. leading farmers astray. The farm We're Not Doing Well ests of food production. paign workers. Sam Rymer has sign- State and county business is conducted on it. We "That the progress we are making George Wheeler of Mt. Pleasant and bloc in Congress was said to be made up of southern democrats, tied' up ed 107 new members, all paid up, and W CROP GOAL understand that our railroads and bus lines and com ... munications systems would welcome the Interstate today is not satisfactory onstrated. ade on possible production are obvi- can be dem- The causes of the block- Allen Rush of Romeo were el cted to the board of directors and Shepherd of Onsted was re-elected, all ward with silver interests etc. in the west, has renewed 31 old memberships. Oer- rit Elzinga is campaign manager. Bc:rrien's complete story is yet to A Ee MICHIG ous: for terms of three years. Other mem- come, but Roy DeWitt, state vice ~ommerce Commission placing them on central war president of the Junior Farm Bureau, Offer Production Payments time. So would all of us. The legislature approached 1. Some 2,000,000 men have been drained from farm labor into muni- bel'S of the board are Frank Oberst of Breckenridge; John H. O'Mealey of FARM BU EAU enrolled 23 farmers. Alexander Gale On Dry Beans, Potato 8, s tions. Hudson; Nate Pattison, Caro; Fred of Sodus was campaign manager. J. the ICC on that question last week but got nowhere. Gov. Kelly and leaders in the legislature said March 2. The methods of food price con- trol by which prices to the farmers in Engel, West Branch; Arthur Ingold, Riga; William McCarty, Bad Axe. 8DS.O D ECI Burton Richards of Berrien Center, secretary, handled the advertising and and Truck Crops ~ no further action would be taken on fast and slow tIme.. . They said both serve useful ends in farming and many instances are lower than costs' of production. 3. The manufacture chinery has been reduced 75 %. of farm ma- Officers elected for 1943 are: Frank Oberst, treas. president; Vice president; ate Patterson, John O'Mealey, sec'y- MEE MA cn 15 publicity preparation ty'S 11 newspapers in Berrien coun- and did other work that helped make the campaign a success. Secretary substantial Wickard has asked for increases In the 1943 pro- duction goals set some time ago for beans, potatoes and truck crops. munitIons producing areas. Will Take Action on Bills Allegan may have 1,000 members or 4. 'Ve still go on subsidiZing the Michigan will be affected substan Ial- more. It has 750 of an announced farmer to restrict production of some Now Being Considered goal of 825. ly, since we rank near the top for Branch County Has 14 production of these crops. For the Amounts to a Conviction commodities. Farmers Forced to Reduce Community Farm Bureaus I By Legislature Tuscola's goal is 700 by March 25. John Koepf of Unionville, campaign crop year of 1942 we were first for "Word comes from farmers in Sherwood Community Farm Bur- manager in half the county, reports dry beans, 8th for potatoes, and from Ed Will is a farmer in New York state. He is a mem ... Boards of directors of the Mich- 1st to 8th for production of twelve many parts of the country that unless eau is the 14th Community Farm igan State Farm Bureau and the 268 erolled, including 68 new mem- ber of the Farm Bureau there. their difficulties be remedied they bers. His goal is 70. Grover Bates vgetabl s: beans, carrots, cucumbers, Bureau to be organized within the Farm Bureau Services, Inc., will meet will be compelled to reduce plantings Branch County Farm Bureau. Officers at Lansing, March 15 and 16, to take in managing the campaign in the celery, onions, tomatoes, beets, lima Writing in the Saturday Evening Post for January this spring. And they are compelled other half. beans, snap beans, cabbage, gren peas, are: Earl Mallow, chairman; Grant action on many bills before the Mich- ~7 as "a middle ...c1ass farmer whose sole support is the to limit their herds below what they Mohr, vice chairman; Mrs. Florence gan legislature which are of interest Oakland County Farm Bureau is potatoes. could otherwise do. The farmer is Mallow, sec'y-treas.; Arthur J. Jones, to Michigan farmers. going ahead with its campaign. Mrs. Farmers have been asked to in- l~co~e from his farm," Ed Will said much on the farm Iva Miller, campaign manager, enroll- crease the national potato acreage by sending his dairy cows to slaughter discussion leader; Harold Cline, rec- State Farm Bureau officers and sltua.tIon for 3,000,000 subscribers to that magazine to for lack of labor. This is amply veri- reational leader; Mrs. ettie Jones, directors are: President C. J. Reid ed 25 old and new members in one 100,000 acres, dry beans by 500,000 fied by arrivals at slaughter houses. week. Went out another day and got acres, and truck crops to th limit 0 consider. Most of them are city people. publicity leader; Irs. Jessie Mohr, of Avoca; Vice-Pres. C. E. Buskirk of 8 more. "And if we keep travelling in this Paw Paw; other directors are: Mrs. their ability. song leader; Don Parks, legislative Ed Will considers the present farm outlook as rather dlrectton, we will see more of hard- action committeeman; Glen Cline, war Ray Neikirk, St. Louis, John Houk, The government will pay upportin bleak. Farm labor is still being lost to industry because ships at home if we supply our llies service committeeman; Aura Arney. I .udington, W. E. Phillips, Decatur; Onion Champion prices of 50 cents pel bu hel on pot . and the armies. And with such a stt- Sr., hospitalization service agent. Jesse Treiber, Unionville; Mark West- s. J. Hering of Fremont, Newaygo toes 011 all produc ion above 0% of of sh~rter ?ours, higher pay, and easier work. Farm uation it is nonsense to talk about brook, Ionia; J ames Harris, Traverse county, produced 1,035 bushels of the farm goal and up to 110 % 0 th t furnishing meat and supplies to 300,- City; Russell File, Niles; Lloyd Rue- onions per acre in 1942 to take Mich- goal. 'I he gov't upportin p i for rnachjnery IS scarce. Taking his own neighborhood as Red Cross War 000,000 additional famine stricken sink, Adrian; Norris E. Young, Ber- igan honors. . S. No. 1 dry b an will b n I' a a sample, he thinks there will be less land farmed this people after this war is won. Fund Campaign rien Center; \Villiam Bristow, Flat from $5.35 to 5.60]> r und d "Agriculture simply must be envis- The War Fund campaign of the Rock; Frank Oberst, Breckenridge; Paw Paw; Alfred Roberts, Pigeon; pounds, ilu $20 an acre to all ye~r and that farmers will put in more of crops that re ... aged as a munitions industry. The tar- American Red Cross, March 1-31, to George McCalla, Ypsilanti; J. T. Bus- Everett Collar, Coopersville; Thorn- above 90% of oal an p to quire less labor. raise 125,000,000 to finance the great- sey, Lake Leelanau; Forrest King, as Berghouse, Falmouth, and dir c- of the goal et or the t rrn, mer tnust be given 'men and tools it he is to periorm. his part. est program in its history will be Charlotte; G. S. Coffman, Coldwater. tors C. J. Reid, W. E. Phillips, Rus· crops a productto 1 p Y 1 of •• ':e said .that a major cause of the situation is the taken to every city, town, village and Farm Bureau Services, Inc., officers sell File and G. S. Coffman. lark IJ. acre ill h p id 0 cr in "The first major remedy is to cease failure to permit farm prices to rise enoug h to pay the draft of labor from the farm into rural section of the nation through and directors are President Roy D. Brody of Lansing is executive eere- 90(~. an up to 110 ~ of (Continued on page Z.) (Continued on page three.) the 3,755 Red Cross chapters. Ward, Dowagiac; Carl E. Buskirk, tary and treasurer of both boards. the farm. T 0 MICHIGAN FARM NEWS SATURDAY, MARCH 6. 1943 the Pre ident acting as an amused ref- The necessity for the proposed law grows out of the eree. Pictures of the contestants were growing practice of certain elements in the teamsters' published and the story told how the young liberal Patton, representing n union to waylay trucks as they enter ew York city and virile organization of progressive other centers. By intimidation or iolence the truckers farmers, had worst d the old war are forced to pay a day's wages to union drivers whose hor e, 0'. eal, who repr sented the re- actionary c; pilalistic farm rs. It left services are neither wanted or needed. the impression that the Patton group was running the O' Teal group out of The amount? 9.42 for a large truck, 8.41 for a the national scene. It was a well writ- ()fflpf'". 221 • forth 1:0' !JfjO. 'I'f IpIJhunt>, Cerla r Rt., La.nxlng Lans lng, 21-271. Mlch lg an, Hiram on Farm Prices small truck in ew York City. ten art lcle and '1' ated wid SI)1' au comment. 'I'h e icorst feature 1CUS that ~ 1 think 1 know what Patriotism is. When they began stopping farmers, the Farm Bureau thC1"Cwas not a icora ot truth hI it . . . . . . . Editor and Business Manager .Most fanners have it, for their roots at e deep, took a hand in it. The federal anti-racketeering act of "I att nded the confer nee which Suhsc rill Ion 21) cents pel' year; 4 years for $1, In advance, It 'means a man 10ill give all that is hi was so entertaining-Iy described and 110 [live, that 1 e tuul his secure may sleep. 1934 was invoked. When the case went to the U. S. 0'1 Teal and Patton did not say a single Vol. XXI SATU DAY, ARC 6, 1943 No.3 it means a mun 'Will nut all thought of gain supreme court, the court held that Congress had not word to each other from the time we Out of his head. It mans that he will {Jrin ntered the President's office until the Con t inu ed f'rom pag( 1) AmI {/rit his teeth and 'raise the meat and grain intended the act to apply to labor organizations. Justice time we left. 'l'hc article which Wd alphabetica lly for ach township. "The fight occurred in the Presi- Shiawassee-Publish d a seri s of Farm Bureau member- President Bushman began by including some com- dent's study. Franklin Roosevelt had ship adverttsemeuts on the Iarm page of the daily Owosso ment on current farm topics along with County Farm called in five farm spokesmen to get Argus ..Press. their views on farm prices, wages and Bureau news offered for publication. The editor of the inflation. Included among County Farm Bureaus which mailed from 100 to 500 copi s of th D camber, January 01' F bruary mem- farm page liked the comments. Presently Mr. Bushman "O'Neal, who knows that Patton has h rship editions of the Ichigan Farm ews to prospective the respect and support of A.F. of L., was invited to be a regular contributor. C.I.O. and the Railway Brotherhoods, members were: Barry, Branch, Cass, Clinton, Genesee, Gratiot, Hillsdale, Huron, Ionia, Isab illa, Jackson, Lap 1', Lenawee, Our farmer-columnist is on his own as far as choice romped and stomped over Patton's Livingston, Kalamazoo, acomb, M scosta, Montana, T waygo, promise that the farmer and organ- Oakland, Oc ana, Ottawa, St. Clair, St. Joseph, Tuscola, Tri- of subject matter is concerned. He write some articles ized labor can be brought to agree to County, asht naw. from the viewpoint of a County Farm Bureau president, wage and fair-price ceilings. O'Neal, on no such good terms with labor, others just as Bushman sees it personally. In a recent swore it could not be so. If O'Neal I tarted with r er' air article he suggested that there are times when the farmer was right, any effective inrlattou-ccn- trol program was a political impossi- Along about July 4 last year Director Joseph B. East- would like to be treated as industry is. T is is Column- bility. His big head bobbing in em- m n, director of the Office of Defense Transportation, ist Bushman speaking: phasis, Patton drove home his answ- c 11 d upon the managements of 2,200 state and county ers. Patton remained calm, sure of his Throughout Michigan and the nation, the Bell "Everywhere farmers are being congratulate tor the won- ground. O'Neal was mad enough to fairs to postpone them for the duration to save rubber. derful job of producing food for freedom. This is as it should burst. For once the President let · System emblem is the familiar sign of a well-trained be, for the farmer has done a wonderful job but congratulations o hers talk, sat back enjoying Challen- team of communication companies, working together We observed that farmers would forget their fairs do not pay taxes or buy war bonds. ger Patton's able performance. "When the government places an order with a factory for a to provide the telephone service so necessary In peace right cheerfully to save rubber and to contribute to the "It was Jim Patton's second White tank and the tank is completed, he factory is pai for it regard- House visit within a fortnight. The . . . . so indispensable in war. w r effort. But why not ask 20 million people to stop less of whether the tank is ever used or not. This is only good first time, in his rumbling organ dri ing to the movies each week, and other hundreds of business. 'voice, he promised Farmers Union's The benefits of nation-wide Bell telephone service thou ands not to rive to he bas ba I games and to "The government tells the farmer to raise a crop. After the support for the President's anti-in- were never so clear as today. farmer has put in his labor, paid for his fertilizer, seed and har- flation program. He insisted that nec- coll g and prof ssional football games and other vesting and produc d a rop, but through no fault of his, '.'In, c n- essary wartime food production can t ~ not harvest and market that crop b cause there i a sho. tage 0: come only from the individual farm- ell. it's here. One C' n get a ticket and perhaps help in th factori s, a lack of transportation the farmer is left holding the bag. or other caus s, . er, with emphasis away from wheat and one-crop products - to hell, he I THE B y M I se his gasoline ratio card for driving to an amuse- "This happened last summer in the case of soy bea sand said, with bigger AAA payments for farmers who do not produce." American Telephone & Telegraph Company co-ordi- ment place or to a social event in the east. It has be .. some canning farmers. rops, It has caused much dissati faction among STOBY A FAKE, SAID GOSS 1 nates all System activities. co e II impor ant to get gasoline to Africa or any other Referring to widespread falsi fica- "It would seem that if it is fair to pay for a tank that is not Twenty-one Associated Companies, including Mich- nited ations front, to s pply fuel oil to keep war used, then it would also be fair for the farmer to be paid for a ion of facts regarding I farmers and heir organizations, Albert S. Goss, 2 igan Bell Telephone Company, provide telephone crop that is ordered but not used." I nt i 0 r ion, and to heat homes, school, hos .. . aster of the ational Grange, speak- service in their own territories . ing before the ational Industrial pitals and 0 h r buildings equipped only for fuel oil. Long Lines Department of A. T. &. T. handles inter- of them can't get other equipment. o Immunity for Slu gers Conference Board in cently, said: ew York re- 3 state and overseas calls. a olin and fuel oil ar precious beyond price when Before Congress is a bil] that proposes severe penal .. "The whole blame should not be placed upon the press gen rally or all 4 Bell Telephone Laboratories carries on scientific reacearch (is today engaged in the development of u c n't g tit. duced transportation facilities and ties for those who stop a farmer s truck and force the t columnists and radio comment uors. vital communications devices for the armed forces). Although they have lambast II us n nd h v made it that way in the east. Undoubt .. driver to pay for unwanted services rather than risk around the clock from Maine to nli- Western Electric Company is the manUfacturing, h middl t may b doing less driving being slugged. The bill would apply to all tr: ckers en- fornia, they themselves have been t ae 5 purchasing, and distributing unit (today busy on the victims of false information comtur: gaged in interstate commerce. production of war communication eqUipment). {rom sources which ought to be de- Representative Hobbs' bill, HR 653, was before Con" pendable hut which ar organized to t? gress la e in the last session. It had the support of the zfve out propaganda, and unfortunate- ly are not to be r lied on. ntator n n s from ashington American Farm Bureau Federation and the opposition "As one x mple, some of you m y • • f high r fa m pric s ha become of the . F. of L. and the CIa. It has the same support I' call an arti le in one of America's leading we kly magazines not long Ie an e or anized agricultur nd union and the same opposition in this Congress. ago telling of a battle royal staged in SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1943 MICHIGAN FARM NEWS More than 5,500,000 first aid train- Farm Bureau Porkmaker cone n- lng certificates have been awarded by trate is a profit maker. the American Red Cross since Pearl Farmers buy one-third of consumer JOB OF 8,425,000 Sonne easo s Fo Harbor. goods. U.S. F S TO Farrri Auction Sa e Every American Farmer EED 500 MI LIO Farmers ot Quitting But On woman said. "Yes, I feel we are facing serious inflation unles farm- It." Should do his utmost to Many Are Being ers are patriotic enough to keep prices Nation Asked, Was Ever So Forced Out down". Another one said, "We al- Set 8 War Un· I eRE E PRODUCTIO Outstanding Growers in 21 different states use Much Required of The great So Few? task before American By MRS. EDITH M. WAGAR ready have it for a $1 bill only goes about half as far as it used to ... We Briar Hill Farm, Carleton, Monroe 00. must check rising living coats.?' Floor for Def rme In our January edition "\ e quot d Early in the winter there was an I slept better that night, for I wrote release o. 16 for local ele ti o r- farmers in this war was told recently epidemic of farm auction sales. Peo- both of those women a letter telling vice boards, providing that produc- Chief Petoskey rand by Congressman Georgia. He said: Stephen Pace of ple who were thought to be permanent farmers were selling out. There were to inflation. them how far the farmer contributed One of my ew Year's tion of 16 war units of essential food products should rate a farmer or "At certain seasons last year there farm worker as an ess ntial man Certified Seed Potatoes was in excess of 12,000,000 people working on the farms, but when re- some of course who were too old to resolutions was to reply to such slaps carry the load alone when no help directed at farmers and that resolu- for agriculture as far as selective ser- vice is concerned. 'We published the Grown under the rigid certification requirements of was available. Another group saw tlon hasn't been broken. duced to a year around basis, the unit values assigned to arious types The State of Michigan greener pastures in industry. Then Recognition Helps of farm production. number on farms was: Operators 5,- there was a third group, city men with Awards to those ~,OOO or so farmers Since many farms do not have land Only the BEST SEED can produce the 140,000, hired workers 2,085,000, fam- BEST RESULTS money whose hobby was a country es- during Farmers' Week for outstanding and machinery for turning out that ily workers 1,250,000, making a total tate where they could gradually build production was fine. They all deserv- much production, the selective ser- Order now while good stock is available of 8,425,000. up a farm that excelled everything ed it, but it did not go far enough. vice system has set 8 war units as a "It is fully understoo,d what that around them. Their farms were equip- means? There are many ~~mmon everyday _floor for considering deferment. Six- Michigan Potato Growers "This group of 8,425,00 must not ped with the latest machinery and farmers who are grvmg every ounce teen war units is the production go I blooded livestock, but operated by hir- of energy and working under terrible for each full time farmer. a Exchange, Inc. only produce food and fiber Ito sustain themselves and the 20,000,000 mem- ed help. They had no alternative but handicaps. They can never reach the Cadillac, Michigan to sell out. high production required recognized bers of their own families, but also an army and navy totaling over 10,000,- 000 persons. Then we saw a lull and we thought by such awards, yet they are doing those who were their best and I do not doubt would WE MUST Grow Nilr gen... You have seen the plctur of Car- nation Ormsby Madcap ayne, th IF A YONE IS INJURED q "Our farmers must feed the 21,300,- 000 who labor in mines and factories left were the food do just as well if placed in like cir- producers of our cumstances. Because Nitrogen is at WAR new world champion mll the newspapers, the mo I , the ma azlnes. 0, ou have r ad ot her- tn section. These peo- amazing performance, producln •• It would ease the load and lift their I YOUR CAR ••• ~?h • A new kind of Automobile Insurance now pro- of the nation, and also the remaining 57,200,000 of our civilian population, including several million government employes. "Then on top of that, we must pro- ple were conscious hearts if they knew their effort was of the scarcity of appreciated too. help, but determin- I am thinking now of my own home, ed to "manage" in for I know it best and I know you Nitrogen is needed fQr explosives and lthe shortage of nitrogen fertil- izers will seriously reduce crop production and soil-U LESS- nearly 42,000 Ibs, (about 5000 al- lons) ot milk In a year. noted her great size (wei ht 1750 lb .), her unusual depth of body, ou have her ablUty to convert cheap rou hI. age into milk. But never before, perhaps, ha farmers inoculate all legumes. tects your fellow passengers should they be in- some way. readers can all bring this question you seen the picture ot her sho n duce also the food for millions and Uninoculated legumes add no ni- here, the picture hlch sho 8 her jured while you are driving your car! State Farm I have always right to your homes and neighborhood. at the most critical time ot her life. millions (estimated by former Gov. trogen to the soil. Properly inocul- Thl was taken befor he had th t Mutual's new Medical Payment Coverage no", felt that the farm, My son and his wife, each 47 years Lehman at 350,000,000) of those allied ated legumes may add as much ni- slze, that capacity. that almost per- pays medical and hospital expenses (up to ; 500 er will continue old, put in hours and did manual labor fect functioning ot the vital organ a person) regardless of whether you ~re respon- with us in the war and those in can- trogen as 600 lbs. of nitrogen fer- required to produce an average of longer on hope and last year that was nothing short of . 115 lbs. (13 gallons) of milk every •ible for the accident or not. The cost is nommaL quered countries who must be fed im- tilizer per acre . day for 365 days. faith than any oth- wicked. He has been afflicted with Let me give you full details. mediately upon their liberation. For the first 9 months of her life er class in the asthma for 40 years and has never Scientific tests prove that nodu- she had Calf Manna as part ot her "Our 8,425,000 farmers must supply State Farm Insurance Companies world. seen a day of actual comfort in that les alone do not guarantee proper ration, and the significant thin is the food and fiber for around 500,000,- that many ot the gre test cows, and of Bloomington, Ulinoie Results of Two OPA Rulings time. There was no help at any price inoculation and that legumes must the greate t horses, and the great- 000 people. Was there ever so much est beet cattle, and hogs..l.and heep Dairy farmers took new hope when so the wife mowed away some 70 tons be inoculated each year as the only required of so few?" have likewise received calt Manna they heard that they had been granted of hay, shoveled every bushel of wheat means by which proper inoculation In those first months when bodtes a small increase in the price of milk and oats from the trailer into the may be certain. and body functions are being de- y!!oped. Send for free pam- THREE BILLS T on February 1st. But imagine their hopper of the elevator that carries the consternation when the report came grain to the bins. During combing UNI-CULTURE Costing only a few cents per acre phlet World "How Champion ~he LANSING wmen that OPA had decreed that all milk season she rode the tractor. Cow Was FedH• She help- may fix $10.00 per acre in nitrogen Addre sCalf M n- prices paid to the farmer were frozen ed shock the corn and did dozens of value. na, Department 24, for 60 days to the January level. other hard jobs. Ocertcmowoc, Wis., Buy from Farm Bureau Seed Dealers or Albers Millin INTEREST FARMERS And right on top of this order, the We stress dairying and they had to farmers heard of a new OPA ruling be on that job 7 days a week. There's for labor in defense areas requiring a similar examples in every farm neigh- Kalo Inoculant Co., Quincy, Ill. Company. Dept. 24, 1060 Stuart Seattle, ton. Bldg., Washing- Would Protect and Aid Farm 48 hour a week to replace thee 40 hour borhood. Yet in everyone of these week, but the last 8 hours of the 48 neighborhoods are men and women Truckers; Move to Tax at pay and a half. working in some defense plant. rent- Farm Supplies As the result, the milk price wasn't ing the farm or doing what they can frozen any harder than the farmer's in off hours but drawing pay on their The legislative program embodied heart. There's no farmer around here job of 85c to 1.50 per hour and taking in the resolution adopted by the dele- who smiles on his job any more. Many their word for it. "doing but little gates at the annual meeting of the have resorted to the auction sales as hard work". Mlchlgan State Farm Bureau last the way out. There aren't days It takes patriotism, selt-determtna- November is making encouraging enough in the week on which to hold tion, hope and genuine love for farm progress. The bill for central war them. living for folks to stay on the farm. time called for by a Farm Bureau No farmer wants to see a single one We older ones can't help much with resolution was the first law passed. of the boys in service go hungry. The the work, but we can help fight for It is regrettable that several munici boys in service and those fighting our them and their cause. Let's not let. palities, chiefly in southeastern Mich- battles must be fed first and civilians an opportunity go by for doing just igan, have seen fit to confuse the situ- will have to take what's left. that. We can tell our Congressman ation by insisting on the double fast One Way to Sleep Better what we want. We can encourage that time. In the February 27th issue of the De- Farm Bloc to stick to its guns, and we Protection for Farm Deliveries Protection of transportation, load- troit Free Press "Inquiring Reporter" furnish some ammunition. We can ing and unloading of farm products column the question was asked of write a "thank yOU" letter to our na- and supplies as proposed by house some employed in the Federal Build- tional Farm Bureau once in a while, bill 103 was approved by the house by ing. "Do you believe there is danger of we can even tell Mr. Wickard we want a vote of 58 to 30 after one of the serious inflation in the United him to keep in mind he is supposed most prolonged and heated debates of States?" to represent agriculture. Let's do it! the present session. The leader of the opposition tried to make the point that present laws adequately cover Hoover Says Farnters the situations for which this bill was prepared. If that were the case, it Need en and Prices is strange that there has been such a (Continued from page 1) tions of price control should be vested. powerful and persistent lobby against arms and munitions. in the Secretary of Agriculture in- it. The bill has now gone to the sen- "The second is for industry to rigid- stead of several other places as at ate where it has been referred to the ly economize on labor and release the present. senate committee on judiciary. economies to the farmer. "The third is to import Mexican "Above all, the best remedy to run- If you have had any difficulty with the transportation of marketing of farm labor. away prices is increased production. your farm products or feel that other "The fourth is to consider the "Above all the greatest remedy to farmers may need protection afforded method of .European armies,-to fur- rationing is production and more pro- by this bill, we suggest that YOUim- duction. lough farm boys from the army for mediately let your senator know that the few months of peak planting and The Big Job Before Us spread over a you want him to do his utmost to harvest, they remaining under mili- "We can appreciate how great the " , 6 million farms see that this bill is enacted promptly. job before us is if we look at Germany. America s tary direction, and in our case draw Bill to Help Farm Hauling both the army and farmer's pay. We have a third more population than balf-billion acres. , By the provisions of another bill Germany but have undertaken a far ~fthting acres. farmers would be permitted to use Prices and Price Controls "h w these are .ue • "Obviously price control of short greater task. The Germans have call- Rig t no 7 .nion soldiers their trucks bearing farm commercial commodities is necessary. Food can- ed about 9% of their people to the " t least »11 • licenses to haul farm produce, live- We are calling 8 % . They're feeding a f hom eats nearly tWice not be allowed to go to the highest armed forces. stock, supplies or equipment for their bidder. Prices and wages must be But the Germans are using 6,000,000 and sal"Ior s, each 0 wge civilian. " neighbors without the necessity of se- the avera curing a utility license when this ser- controlled to check inflation. But prisoners and imported labor, a large as muc h as " , 35 million prices can be the most powerfuL stimu- part working on her farms. d. America s vice was performed on a trade work lant to produ.ction. We give enormous "Germany is impressing the me- They're fee Ing basis with no cash involved. This is wages and prices to stimulate planes chanics, machine shops and food of. in harmony with one of the Farm Bur- families. " they've sl1Pplied 1% And to top aU thlS f food to our lend- and ships. Increased production of 180,000,000 conquered peoples to her eau resolutions. The bill was spon- h is GET HIGH PRODUCTION meats and fats is today just as Im- support. She does not need to build sored by Senator Elwood Bonine of portant to win the war as planes and merchant ships-she billion dollars hwolrtst months. is not building Cass county and passed the senate un- ships. Some bacon to the consumer at. much of a navy except submarines. lease ales m intea • d by the rail- animously and is now being consider- a few cents more is better than too She is not supplying her allies with was carrie Most of this pro dnee BY CO VERTI G TO ed by the House Committee on Agri- little bacon. "d in addition to the food or munitions,-she is taking from culture. It is predicted that in the "Alt best price controls of food can them. She has much less mileage of ds to the ports - carrie .litary machin s house an amendment will be proposed be only a brake upon the pressures railroads to operate for her whole roa t of troops, »11 to exempt livestock haulers from the vast movemen d of shortage and inflation. We con- population is in an area less than that h ar goo s. HIGH· COM ESSION provisions of the utility license law. To Tax Farm Production Supplies? Just at present there is nothing de- finite to report as to what may be sidered the method of retail price of Texas. ceilings on food were a failure in the last war. "Yet Germany with all these dif- And they have failed to ferences in her favor is badly strain- and ot er W To keep it all :ff on the molve'dd heavily oa e the railroads are freight train "11· keep the promises made for them in ed. starting 0 a d are hauling a ml Ion Altitude pistons plus gasoline give done regarding house Bill 206 which n every four seco s - f freight a mile very this war. "We have undertaken to place al- would entirely rewrite provisions of arter tons 0 Fix Prices For Production up to 30% more tractor power the present law relative to exemptions "The first reform needed is to most as many men under arms. We and a qu h d y and night. of farm supplies from the sales tax must fight a war from 3,000 to 3,800 minute of tea res Ing abandon retail price ceilings on food miles from our shores. We must build " tob the railroads face p program the power of your tractor up to act. This bill, which is being sponsor- T HE FOOD FOR FREEDOM for 1943 puts a tremendous re- 12 per cent by using gasoline and ed by the state department of revenue. is being considered by the house com- and substitute the methods developed in the last war. That method is to a host of merchant ships and a larger navy. We must furnish vast quant- In doing th~:J:' to the farmers'. problems Sl • Ined th arm sponsibility on every American making a few simple adjustments. fix prices as near to the farm as pos- mittee on general taxation. One hear- ities of munitions and food to our Al- en have )0 • farmer. To meet the quotas the Set the manifold to "cold" position, sible. The consumer can be more ef- lies. We must finance our Allies. We A lot of our m 11 the xtra engine ing has already been held on it and government expects of you-in install "cold type" spark plugs, and the hearing will be continued Tuesday fectively and more simply protected do not have 6,000,000 imported labor W cannot get a " by regulating the turnover and profits forces" e h f work require • spite of shortages of manpower, fer- adjust the carburetor for gasoline. forenoon, March 9. or prisoners. We exact no contribu- d cars the rus 0 of the food processor and the markups an are going all-out 0 tilizers and farm equipment-you Farm Bureau leaders have compar- tions of goods or munitions from oc- If you are having your tractor of the wholesaler and retailer. must make the most efficient use of overhauled this year, why not con- ed the exemptions which would be "The second reform is that all tunc- cupied countries. But JOust as the farmer Iri they n, w '11 0 ou every machine you have. made under the new language with "But Germany is in the fourth year produce everyt ~ng arry everything h y vert it to high compression? It costs those now in effect and report that of total war. We are in the first year. One way to do this is to use the be well if you would impress upon 1b t to contlDueto e h little or nothing extra and the addi- the proposed amendment would sub- She has passed the zenith of her leve e . and reliably as wealway a your representative the seriousness of most efficient fuel. By using gaso- tional power will help you get bigger ject to the sales tax a large number strength. We are on the ascendant. groWas swIftly . tampering with this act. Its present line and convertingyourtractorfrom crops. For complete information, of important farm supplies Which, Time runs in our favor. But we may provisions are now well understood by low compression to high compression see your implement dealer or write under the present provisions and regu- farmers and dealers. Through the past run so fast that we get out of breath. you can gain as much as 30 per cent to the Agricultural Division, Ethyl lations, are definitely tax exempt. decade there have been various court Trying to do too much too fast may in power. If you are putting your Corporation, Chrysler Building, This is an old fight which is re- decisions which have clarified the act, delay the inevitable Axis defeat. tractor in for an overhaul this newed at practically every session of so that it is generally understood "We urgently need to determine ew York City month, ask your dealer to installhigh the legislature. The Farm Bureau about what articles are taxable and what we can do within our strength - manufacturer altitude pistons and make the other has always taken the lead in protect- what are exempt. Drastic amendment of manpower, materials, shops, and xssocnrrox OF of an tiknock ing the interests of farm folks against agriculture, and the bottlenecks with of these provisions would result in adjustments needed to take full ad- vantage of gasoline's extra pow~r. fluids used by petroleum refin- double taxation. That is, tax on sup- plies which are used to produce a pro- several years of confusion. while, farmers would be paying sal s Mean- which we must contend. We need to determine which of our tasks comes E C Even if you do not need an over- ers to improve duct which itself would be subject to tax on a large number of supplies first. haul this spring, you can increase gasoline. the tax when sold at retail. It would which are now definitely exempt. "And if we determine rightly we will EWS SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1943 would halp ontrol distribution or Car oad of era ler scarce ingredients. ractors for armers t the same time the office of price Farm Bur au Services, Inc., recel v- admini tration announced price ceil· d a carload f agr'I crawler tractors ings on mixed feeds for poultry and for 19,13 to go through local rationing live tock, effective January 22. The boards and dealers to farmers. 11 Ask Processing Facilities to . Dep't of gricul ture announced have been spoken for. ervice ha that it would buy dairy cows rather Legislator Points to Parity Segment Meets Held in All an opportunity to secure a number of Make More Concentrates than permit them to go to the block, farm tra tors for 1ichigan where cus- but didn't say just how the purchas- Price and Labor Cost States to Reduce tomers comply with gov't regulations. From Crops es would be made. Intent is to move Practices Services is engaged in repairing and uch cows back into production on Travel reconditioning all make of farm The S. dep't of gricultur has other farms. James Byrnes director of economic tractors in 60 repair shops operated been notified by the merican Feed stabilization, said in his recent radio Each year since the organization by its dealers. Full information can Manufacturers Ass'n that a 23 % in- address. "The stabilization act of Oct. of the Stat Farm Mutual utomobil be had from any Farm Bureau Ser- crease in the supply of 12 essential Rap Detroit Retailers 2, 1942 contains the most beneficial Insurance Company in 1922 a nation- vices machinery dealer. feed ingredients is needed for 1943. J. For Glut of Eggs legislation enacted for farmers since Last year the Michigan Potato al convention has been held up until . McConnell, general manager of the Feb. 14 the Detroit Free Press re- the agr'I adjustment act." Growers Exchange of Cadillac intro- six years ago at the home of the com- Lenawee Bureau Grange League Federation Exchange ported wholesalers and distributors of In reply, Rep. Stephan P ce of duced "Sergeant Spud" to the public pany, Bloomington, Illinois. of ew York said the present short- eggs complaining to Ithe OPA office in Georgia in a national radio addres , of Detroit in a small test of advertis- The Convention got so large that Names Directors age of protein concentrates will get Detroit that unduly high prices charg- Lenawee County Farm Bureau of- worse for the next 90 days at a time ed by retailers had so retarded sales charged that in two respects the of- ing. it was quite impo sible for our home ficers and directors for 1943 are: when 40% of the nation's cows will that a glut of eggs had developed. fice of price administration is inten- February 8, 1943 the ergeant made city of Bloomington to take care of the President, George \V. Kunze, Adrian; freshen and will need more feed. He Eggs were plentiful, the wholesalers tionally disregarding the law at the his appearance in Iilwaukee, Wis .. attendance so it as moved to Chi- vice-pres., Leo "Wagner, Jasper; sec'y, expense of farmers. Said Representa- where he has been advertising the vir- cago. For the pa t several years it was Lyle Whealan, Tipton; treas., Lloyd said feed manufacturers were reduc- aid, and were available at 30 to 35c a tive Pace: tues of Lake Land Russet'rural pota- held in the teven Hotel. ing protein content of dairy feeds and dozen wholesale for the best grades. Ruesink, Adrian; other directors, Ash- were eliminating formulas which They said retailers "First, the law provides that no ceil- toes gro on in Michigan. However, the United tates rmy were asking so land Hunt and Allen Baker, Adrian; tended to duplicate feeds. ing price shall be established for any .•Iat h 1 Sergeant Spud resumed his has taken over the Steven, and so Carl , alper Blissfield; Paul . Gieg- much more, nearly double in some in- agricultural commodity below the par- advertising appeal to the consumers in for this reason plus the restriction in The feed manufacturers asked for stances, so that sales were very poor. er, Clinton; Donald Gust, Ottawa Lake. more processing machinery for mak- ity price. It does not say parity Detroit in behalf of Torthland brand long distance travel, The State Farm prices less conservation and other of Green Mountain potatoes. Insurance Cornpani s this year have ing soybean, cotton seed and linseed payments made to farmers. The on- Sergeant Spud is a copyri hted held a large number of segment con- oil meals. They aid more feed grind- chol- gross expressly refused to authorize character to call attention to Iich igan vention meetings. Eight of these were ers are needed, and that price ceili such deductions. Yet in every price potatoes. He is the creation and prop- held in Michigan. With a very few ceiling fixed by Ithe OPA these pay· erty of the Ilch igan Potato Grow 1'8 exceptions all meetings were held on ments are being deducted. Exchange. Wa hingtori's birthday. "How can it help the farmer to give Itchiaan'a eight meetings were held him a parity payment of 11 cents a at Kalamazoo, Albion, Ann Arbor, bushel on his corn and reduce the Grand Rapids, Alma, Marlette, Pon- price of his corn 11 cents when he tiac, and Cadillac, with a total atten- State Grange Master Tells goes to sell it? dance of 454 agents and wives. Congress What He is "Why should not these payments be At each of these segment conven- tions messages were read from home Observing deducted? Because the farmer has ex- pended time, money and effort and reo office officials by agents in each of E. T. Taylor, master of the Idaho duced production to earn them. the territories where the meetings State Grange wrote U. S. Senator John "Second, the other respect in which were held in recognition of the ser- Thomas at Washtngton recently to the OPA is disregarding a provision Senate and House Committees vices. these agents had performed dur- prote t what the present farm price of the prlce stabilization act of Oct 2 Reply Promptly With ing the past year. These were the ceiling program is doing to farm pro- is its failure to carry out the follow- same messages a would have been duction in Idaho. We quote excerpts Blows at Policies ing provision of that law: delivered by the various company of- from the letter as published in the " 'Modification shall be made in Early in February Economic Stabil- ficals if a one-meeting national con- Congressional Record for February 8: maximum prices established for any izer Byrnes made a radio address to vention were held. In fact, through- "The time has come when a con- commodity in any case where it ap- the nation in which he said the ad- out the United States other agents structive policy toward the farmer pears that such modification is neces- ministration "will hold the line" were reading the same messages in will have to be put into effect if the sary to increase the production of against further farm price increases other segment state conventions of American public is going to eat ... such commodity for war purposes.' and rises in wages of labor. State Farm Iutual Agents. "The Office of Price Adminstration A concrete paved barnyard is a big aid to dairymen producing high "In no instance has it come to my In the same speech he announced The reports covered all the activities ceiling prices on the farmer, while quality milk. all, winter, spring attention that any farm price ceiling a 48 hour work week, beginning in of the three State Farm Insurance wages are allowed to run hog wild, and summer ithelps keep cows out of mud, dust, filth-cuts down work has been modified to take care of the 32 war production areas, with -the pro- Companies-auto, life, and fire-and has driven farmers to sell out and APP E . 0 C* ULFUR ... A sulfur fungicide of cleaning cows before milking. A increased cost of farm labor. vi ion that time and a half must be showed a very fine' situation of all abandon their life's work. The snow- made exclusively for apples. Its patented Sodium Thiosulfate feature big factor now that farm help is "In the present calculation \Of par- paid for all over 40 hours. The public three companies as regards increase storm of farm sales over this country -an "extra wallop" found in no other wettable sulfur-steps up short and every effort is being made ity prices a farm wage rate of only saw it as a 30% wage increase for in assets and in business written. The tells the story of a crazy bureaucracy apple scab control. Apple Dritomic Sulfur is especially processed for to increase milk production. $1.41 a day is included. Yet the records 20% more work. reports showed that the State Farm run wild ... this tough job! Economical due to low dosage requirements. When cows ade through mud of the dep't of agriculture show that The repercussions in Congress and Mutual Auto had at the end of 1942 "Farmers who must know what they they waste energy needed for pro- the average farm wage rate for the elsewhere were prompt and heavy, and 890,149 policies in force of which 68,- are going to do in 1943 find them- D ITO C* Ul. U ,THE "OLD RELIABLE" FOR PEACHES! ducing milk. Owners say a paved nation on Jan. 1 was $2.83 per day. In they continue. 882 were in the state of Michigan. selves confounded with rules and regu- barnyard soon pays for itself by The life company report showed $102,- lations, restrictions and stalling at the Among the earliest of wettable sulfurs. High in pure elemental helping produce more and better many sections farmers are required to 1. "Cotton Ed" Smith, chairman of 000,000 life insurance in force, and the time when the 1943 plans sulfur content, and, of fine particle size. An established leader for quality milk. pay $5 and $6 per day to farm work- the senate committee on agriculture, must be control of peach brown rot. Also effective for apple scab. Paste coupon on penny postal and ers. and Congressman Pace told Congress fire insurance company a coverage of made. mail today for free instructions for "Government records show that la- they would "blow the lid off so the over $300,000,000 fire insurance. "In Idaho there will be less sugar paving your barnyard or building bor represents 32% of the cost of farm public will know the desperate outlook The marathon prizes that would beets, less potatoes, less onions, less MICRO-SP AY* SULFU FOR THE GROWER WHO PRE- other durable, thrifty, sanitary production, the biggest single item en- for food production due to price-fix- have been distributed at the big na- milk, and less livestock due to the FERS EXTRA FINE PARTICLE SULFURl A favorite because it's fine structures with concrete. tional convention were distributed at above causes. tering into the production of a crop. ing, the manpower shortage, and the as the finest ... films evenly and thoroughly ... is high in pure ele- the segment groups in Michigan. In "In view of the refusal of the OP lack of farm machinery." "Less help, less' machinery, less mental sulfur content. PORTlAN CEMENT ASSOCIATION to adjust prices to conform to increas- 2. The New York Times called Mr. the Ianagers' Group A. Hiram R. An- transportation means less food, and Dept. W3-4, Ohls rower Bldg., Lusing, ldich. dre was first; Rolan W. Sleight, sec- Send instructions for paving dairy barn- yard with concrete-no reinforcing steel ed farm labor costs, and realizing that Byrnes' speech "the most inflationary failure to include all farm labor costs single positive step the administration ond; and C. H. Fowler, third. don't let any of the alphabet group tell In you otherwise. SPRAYCOP*... A neutral copper fungicide, with high perform- needed. Group B Arvid Mu nen, our Upper ance records for control of blotch and bitter rot of apples; leaf spot Al 0 "how to build" booklets on im- in parity prices will limit he ability has yet taken." "The farmer wants to produce to the of cherries; black rot of grapes; and other copper-responding fun- provements checked: of farmers to continue to produce, the 3. The next day after the speech, P ninsula manager; roup C Fred S limit, but he must be given a chance. gous diseases. Easier to use and more effective than haphazard o Milk house 0 Dairy barn floor House committee on agriculture has the senate agr'I committe sponsored Hilliard of Lansing; Group D George . . . The new Congress would do the o anure pit 0 Poultry house floor H. Kimball, Jr., of Pontiac. home-made Bordeaux mixtures. SprayCop contains no free or uncom- o Granary 0 Water tanks, troughs reported out a bill to amend the par- a bill by Senator Bankhead to stop the whole American cause a great good if bined lime which often causes injury to plants in the "lime-sensitive" Name _ . Local agents winning marathon ity formula to include all labor costs." practise of setting farm price ceilings its first task was to clean up the mess prizes in 1ichigan were: Group 1- group. Street or RR No. _ by subtracting from parity prices the that now engulfs agriculture." ity State _ benefit payments to fanners for A J. F. Meerrnan, E. C. Scholl, R. A. Market day-buy stamps or bonds. work. The senate committee said: Weeks, and Ben Van Lente; Group II third. In fire insurance Randall FILMFAST* ... Makes spray materials go further and last, -C. Meyering, Howard Paquin, Ar- Weeks was first; Harold Gallte, sec- longer! Spreads insecticides and fungicides evenly over the surfaces "The situation in regard to the food thur Haradirie, and Harold Peterson; ond; and C. Van Malsen, third. of foliage, fruits and vegetables. Stops spotted spraying. supply of the United States has reach- Group III-John Gettel, Walter Keller, Gold Medal men in life insurance * Reg, U. S. Pat. MANY AUTO • Evcn though you're not to blame for an accident, you often have to pay the bills! Be sure you own auto insurance ed an alarming point due to lack of farm labor, low farm prices, shortages of machinery, fertilizer, feed and oth- Charles McCalla, and L. B. Fishbeck; Group IV-F. were as follows: Clarence Crittenden, O. Rhodes, Maynard Earl Scholl, C. E. Groos, Randall Orchard 'prand Spray and Dust Materials OIr. that gives you adequate protection. To- Mohr, Bob Andre, and George Bate- Weeks, and Ralph Hayward. Silver ACCIDENl: morrow may be too late. Investigate to- day the State Farm Plan which gives you more automobile insurance for your er commodities necessary to crop and live stock production. "The situation has been further ag- man. Charles Standish of Jackson was B. Richman, Medal men in life insurance were: L. E. M. Dobson, G. H. Distributed by: FARM BUREAU SERVICES, Inc. money. More car owners are now enjoy- high man in auto production; Hayden Smith, William Hart, and Arthur Har- 221-227 N. Cedar Street, Lansing, Michigan f OT ing the benefits of the State Farm Com- mon Sense Plan than in any other auto gravated through the pronouncement of the executive department of policies R. Smith, second; and Earl Scholl, adine. "See Your County Farm Bureau Cooperative" casualty company in the world. A full whkhared~~tlywntrMy~fuewill ~~~===============~=======~~~~~===~:~ t. fDR/VER'S explanation will obligate you in no way. SEE YOUR LOCAL AGENT Write Mich. State Farm Bureau, of the people of the United States as expressed by their elected representa- tives in Congress. Classified Ads FAULT ••• State Agent, 221 N. Cedar, Lansing State Farm Insurance Companies "Unless certain conditions so pro- duced ... are corrected ... the people of our cities will certainly come to Classified advertisements 4 cents per word for one edition. take the rate of are cash with order at the following Ads to appear cents per word per edition. of Bloomington, Illinois suffer from hunger." 'I 4. Congressional opposition to the LIVE STOCK MAPLE SYRUP EQUIPMENT "incentive payment" program as a sub- REGISTERED H REFORD BULLS ATTRACTIVE, 2 COLOR, MAPLE sidy came to a head Feb. 16 when the and heifers. We have a nice selection. Syrup labels with your name and ad- house appropriations committee refus- Sensible prices. A. . Todd Co., fen- dl ess. 4x5% inches for gallon cans. ed 6 to 1 -to recommend appropriating tha, (14 miles northwest of Kalamazoo). Price 100 75c, each additional hundred (7-3-tf-22b) 25c. Cash with order. McGrath-DeFoe $100,000,000 for incentive payments. Co., Charlotte, Mich. ra-re-an» The committee heard 'V. R. Ogg of PLA TS JARS FOR MAPLE SYRUP WITH Get 'em With the American Farm Bureau F dera- GIANT CULTIVATED BLUEBERRY white enameled caps. Let' us quote you tion say that the incentive payments plants, 1 year old, 2 for 50c; 2 year." old, prices on quarts and gallon jars with openings to take Mason caps. M. J. URE U were another form of subsidy to g t 2 for $l.00; 3 years old, 2 for $1.60. Ev 1'- B ck, ucce .sor to M. H. Hunt & S n, production and at the same time keep hearing ~Iastadon Strawberry 20, 2.50; 510 "'orth Cedar Street, Lansing, Mich- prices to consumers below full parity Gem J£verbearing 200, 2.25; Premier 200, igan. (3-lt-4b) 2.00; Dunlop 200, .1. 5. Postpaid. orth Good Adapted prices. The subsidies, said Ogg, would Michigan Nursery, West Olive, Michigan. discount fair prices for food to con- SPECIAL MAPLE (3-3t-38p) for gla s and tin containers. SYRUP LABELS Attractive all-over illustration in three colors of sumers and load the cost thereof on sugar bush in operation. Place for your the taxpayers. OFFICE HELP farm name. 'Ve print that for you. Label designed to draw attention to and sell 5. David Lawrence, a noted writer YOUNG WOMEN, HIGH SCHOOL your syrup. Label for can covers three graduate,', or vith further training in sides of can. Carries recipes too. For on national affairs for more than a office work 01' st nography are invited to samples and prices, write Sugar Bush Th generation, wrote: write us stating qu lttfcattons and ex- Supplies a diff r nee. The best of seed IS the pcrtence. ddress. iss Gladys Stevens, street, Lansing, Michigan. Company, 217 orth Cedar "The nation's food supply is imperil- • Itchiga n State (1-tt-66b) Farm Bureau, 221 • "'orth liE PE T when you look at the extra yield and the led because prices permitted are not Cedar street, Lansing, • Itch. (3) ESSENTIAL MAPLE SYRUP MAK- high enough to keep normal incentives ing and marketing equipment and sup- quality of the crop. eware of che p, inferior, un- WHITE ROCKS pli s, including felt filter bags for to production ... The farmer can't get cleansing, thermometers, hydrometers, ad pted eed. labor at his own wage scale ... but if The Two·Profit Breed-HOL.TZAPPLE tin and glass containers, fancy labels, Strain White Plymouth Rocks, Get sap spouts, etc. New King Evaporators he were to meet the competition of the BOTH high broilers roftts and high egg and buckets are classified as farm ma- E •• citie , he couldn't get higher prices profits. for his products because of short-sight- Breeding flocks Include 12,000 chinery, production of which is regulated dau hters of R.O.P. females . . . 1,000 by the governmen t. ales are restricted R.O.P. pedlg'reed cockerels with dams' to nece ssary repairs. We urge producers ed policies of price control. . . The records of 200-298 eggs and sires' dam ' to order all supplies early to be assured records of 200-306 e g! 95% livability of d livery in time for spring use. For answer lies in keeping as close to ec- guaranteed! U. S. pullorum tested, Ohio- prices and information, write Sugar onomic law a po sible," U. S. approved. Send a post card for big, Bu .h Supplies Company, 217 orth colorful, 2 -page illustrated catalog. It's edar St., Lansing, Hch. ( ext door FREE. Send today. Holtzapple POUl- to State Farm Bureau.) (1-tf-89b) p y Give Higher Y· el s try Farm, Box 82, Elida, Ohio. (12-4t-75b) BABY CHICKS OU UPPLY of June, lsike. Mammoth or t Follow Legumes POULTRY UPPLIES EGGS AND .Iore money with MEAT ilver NEEDED-MAKE ard, ~1ichigan The young man, and the man .n his prime, does well Good alfalfa seed is scarce, but the bred chicks from stock carefully cull d d top quality Alfalfas and Brome Grass POULTRY MEDICATION AT PRICES for size and vigor, bloodtested for pull- to save something as he goes along. State Farm Life need for a legume in a crop rota ion farmers can afford. Proto-a for Blue orum. Profits for hundred of Michigan e ug t that you us 5 lbs, of Alfalfa with 3 lbs, is important in view of wartime de- omb prevention. One quart $1. My- poultry raisers prove their value. ar- Insurance is savings and protection for "y~ur family. Co-Tonic and myco is pr vention. ron or Hanson White Leghorns up to and 5 lbs, of Brome Grass per acre. See your mands for high production, says . G. Iodine Vermicide erck,-Tapeworm 354-e rg breeding; Barred Rocks. White control and prevention of black head. de I r for the following': "' - idemann, Michigan State College "orm tablet at 85¢ per 100. vatlable Rocks, R ds, Anconas, Black Minorca , Whrte Giants, Leghorncas, Leg-Rocks, 69,686 Michigan farm and city folk carry State research a istant in soils. at leading hatcheries, feed stores and Red-Rocks, turkey'. Chicks grow rap- un GRASS MICHELITE BE NS In a four-year rotation with clover Farm Bureau stores and co-ops. Servlces, Inc., at their By mail, postpaid, idly into heavy producers of big eggs. Farm utual Automobile Company Insurance o E G T S ROBUST BEANS OYBE NS average annual yields of corn were 6.7 more bushels an acre, barley if. no dealer in your community. land Laboratories, t~an. Ine., Holland, Hol- ich- l7-tf-6 b) e. ed chicks. Poults. Wrtte, OD hipment Fr e catalog, reasonable prices, early or- der discounts. lso, quality liver Ward Hatchery, it desired. Turkey, St te .------------ Michigan State Farm Bureau Stat. Agto, v.59 more bushels an acre and vheat POULTRY LITTER-USE SERVALL I 221 No. Cedar sr., Lansing, Michigan r ur au ervices, lne., Lansing, Mich. 1. .tra bushels an acre over yields T ZDRY for ugar cane. ..'0 dust-no conomv. ~lade from dirt-goes far- Box 100, Zeeland, Ilch, (1-6t-96b) I sur nee t Plea senti mation: State Farm Ins. Coo's Intor- CHICKS - MICHIGAN APPROVED • of fields where a three-year crop ro- ther-la:-ts lon er er. ,nn keep brooder and poultry house floors dry. 100 pound chicks from large type hens, White Leg- horns, White and Barred Rocks. Get Comp nles lame 0 Auto _ ..................................•.....•..•..•....••. Buy at Fcrrm Bu r e e u Stores and Co-op Ass'ns tation without clover vas followed. ales. .10 't feed d alers have it. Ask these better chick for more eggs for de- for descrtpt ive bookt t. Harr ompany, Hudson, D. Gates :Michigan distribu- fense. prices. • ed and uns xed. Write for Winstrom Hatchery, Box B-7, loomi S I I. tor. (1-6t-46p) Zeeland, Michigan. 1-6t-35B SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1943 MICHIGAN FARM NEWS r te By MRS. MARJORIE KLEIN of Fowlerville, State Publicity Chairman for the JUNIOR FA BURE U It Happened in the Mic rrrrrnr ity BRIDGEPORT-Saginaw All members declar d that if Japan- LAWTO -VanBuren The o'eneral attitud tor, I'd th I ese laborers are sent to l' pla e Amr i- ast f . Junior Earrn Burea Bure u can boys on the farm ,farm 'omen farm I' has changed in th months, and op n eli us ion of a n- • will take up arms. Our group aid: cultural issues is the b st '. y tor WASHTENAW Washtenaw Junior Farm Bureau County Farm Bureau BERRIEN February 17. e If Japanese are good American citi- mer to get an intelligent UU( r tand- 1- held a box social March 2. The sec- By E -GENE A. MA.LTZ zens, let them take their place at the ing. Berrien County Junior Farm Bu- ond meeting in Iar h is to be a Membership Relations & Education front in ew Guinea and orth BETHANY-Gratiot reau met at Berrien Center, Monday Gas and Tire Situation Cuts "patch sewing" meeting. Mr. McCalla evening, February ,with 50 members ELMWOOD-Leelanau Africa and prove it. Many of our Bethany Community Farm Bureau at the Farm Bureau Store is paying fighting men are of German birth or with 117 members is the largest rOUI Down County Meeting pre. ent. 'I'he bu iness meeting was Farmers should be organized to be sons of German born parents, but no the members cents a bag to mend conducted by Pre ident Raymond in Gratiot county. Th memb 1'S re- able to carryon a better Iegtslattve Progra.m the holes for him. We are also plan- DeWitt. Iembership drive plans were .L program. Farm organizations have one has thought of keeping them in modelled a church that wa not being ning a quilting bee for the members. discussed. Josephine Taylor, Helen the background. Why nd our Am- used into a community hall. At the Community Junior Farm Bureaus made great strides in the past, but The quilt will be sold at a dance to Preston, Bob Tillstrom and Arnold erican boys to the front and k ep th February 16 III eting Robert Baldwin, are a new development. Gasoline and there are lots more people that should be given late in the spring. Hafer were appointed as the com- Japs behind the lines in safety? cashier of the Farmers State Bank at tire rationing emphasize the import- ISABELLA belong to the Farm Bureau or other mittee in charge of a box social to be DELHI-AURELIUS-ingham Breckenridge spol e on 1912 farm in- an ce of saving mileage. Union Community Junior Farm farm organizations. held later in the month. Dean Av ry conducted the discus- come tax returns. Presid nt John 1 4 To solve this problem many count Bureau held a sleigh ride party on Refre hmen ts were served. The ROSEBUSH-Isabella d sion on the topic "What I have gained Longanback reported 3 new m mbers Junior Farm Bureaus are meeting on February 9. Stanley and Shirley committee in charge was Bob Strong, The war, rationing, and snow '\ ill onduct three cont st tht 'l 1': in the last year from my Farm Bur- in the township and more to come. a community basis, with occasional Klump entertained. The February Barbara French, and Katie and Bob storms this winter are bringing the 1-Farm Bure: u \ tom 11'S !H a] In eau membership": (1) Recent action Frank Hufford, Perry llen, Harry county meetings during the year.' 19 meeting was held at the home of Koenigshof. neighbors closer together. • e discuss- contest. Topic, "The F arm Tom 11 taken by Congress against subsidies. Blackmer and .i rt ur Ballinger enter- Overisel, Fennville and Fillmore Esther Schlafiey. Earl Seybert, Jr., A shadow box social was held Mon- ed the crucial n ed for the farm rs to Faces n to Her Problem .' \ I II Junior Farm Bureaus in Allegan coun- (2) Turning clock back to entral tained as the Old Time Lumberjack's gave a short talk on "Junior-Senior day evening, February 22, at the organize now, to protect themselves. ha 'e the usual 111 mb rshlp dist rid ol- ty have adopted this practice. Relationship". Committees were ap- War Time. (3) Increased amounts of orch stra. Dis ussion leader, Howard Berrien Center town hall with 60 CAPAC-St. Clair lminatton on tests in efilly f 11; is- Overisel group has 29 members. pointed to work on the Junior-Senior steel for farm machine! v, (4) Effect Krick took up the ork of the Farm, members present. Games were en- We discu sed "Why will the farmer on a Community of havinz 12 monthly trict '\ inner. par icipat in tat con- Russell Koopman is president. It Box social to be held on March 13. joyed and the girls were auctioned Bureau organization and the duti s of meets every two weeks. Recently need his organization in the future?" meetings, considering agricultural men selected to lead the wor t st at • tate Farm Bureau aunual CASS behind a screen, Bob Smith, a former this group purchased a hospital bed February 13, Cass County Junior (1) The farmer will need an organ- problems. me ting in ovemb 1'; tate v inn I Cass county member who is now in and presented it to the local doctor. Farm Bureau had a "Victory Square ization as well as any other busine s r pr esents us at na tional 101lh l t the service was one of the guests Unfinished business for farmers in- It is to be used in homes in the Dance" for the purpose of