MICHIGAN FaRm FARM NEWS Bureau VOL. 52 NO. 11 MAKE IT HAPPEN NOVEM Issues Aired for Decem-ber Meeting In October farmers considered is now in the process of setting up the best ways to solve their procedures and administrative problems through the Farm rules. Albert Possible Executive Bureau organization. Many other challenging issues From individual farmers, were faced effectively by Farm community groups, commodity Bureau in 1973, including the fight Ford Called Good- Pick committees, polley development committees, resolutions regarding issues of importance to agriculture were formulated and acted upon at to keep Michigan's standards for comminuted reforms, and meats, tax Resolutions shaping future Farm election relief. Less than a week after the county , Farm Bureau annual Bureau action will be considered , Michigan Farm Bureau sent a meetings throughout the state. by the Policy Development congratulatory telegram to The next step in this grass-roots Committee when it meets in Grand Congressman Gerald R. Ford policy development procedure is Rapids next month. for his nomination as Vice the deliberation of these Labor President, a series of crises resolutions by the state PD Labor problems will be a big delayed what was expected to Committee. The resulting package concern to farmers in 1974. Some be a speedy confirmation. will be presented to the delegate possible areas of consideration in In the telegram to Ford, MFB body of the Michigan Farm Bureau this area include: lowering the President Elton R. Smith Annual Meeting in December, and base for Workmen's Compensation showed his pleasure with Ford's the adopted resolutions become the to $1,000, premiums in terms of nomination by saying, "We policies of the organization. These actual percentage of wages paid to know that you will take with you stands on issues form the basis for seasonal help, reduction 01 in your new responsibilities policy execution and the minimum.. . premium, and your qualities of honesty, effectiveness of this process can be legitimization of piece rates. fairness, and desire to serve measured by past "victories" Delega tes will probably also ask your fellow man. gained by the organiztion. for no further increase in the "Farm Bureau members have '73 Success Stories minimum wage, the elimination of appreciated your support in While farmers boast a long and secondary boycotts, more Congress on agricultural issues. admirable history of en- educational emphasis by OSHA, As you enter your new position, vironmental concern, this year and the availability of safety you can be certain that you are they were involved in several equipment through Farm Bureau doing so with the heartfelt battles against what they Services. appreciation, best wishes, pride considered to be "unrealistic" Transportation and prayers of the farmers of federal regulations. They had Movement of agricultural Michigan." Gerald R. Ford much at stake in these products is hea vily dependent upon Highly-respected by leaders confrontations. If much of the railroads, trucks, airlines and of both parties, it was expected proposed legislation had become water transportation. Expansion of many of the year's key issues. organization on such issues as law, the costs of complying would costly regulations, loss of by most national observers that But, Albert's voting record in the Minimum Wage Bill, Ford's nomination would be ha ve put some farmers out of competition and shortage of 1971includes "nay" votes on the diversion of highway trust business. transportation. Expansion of confirmed. Michel amendment to the funds, and the national However, Congress The OSHA "emergency" re- costly regulations, loss of Agricultural-Environment and Agriculture Marketing and competition and shortage of threatened to refuse to confirm Consumer Protection Ap- Bargaining Bill was en- entry pesticide standard was one Ford as Spiro Agnew's suc- of these and Farm Bureau won two transportation equipment are propriations Act which would couraging. serious problems for agriculture. cessor while the possibility of have prohibited food stamps On several occasions this legal battles to have it delayed. impeaching President Nixon EPA's proposed "zero discharge" This is an area where delegates' being made available to year Ford voiced support of attention is certain to be focused. was studied after the President strikers. Farm Bureau policy. He urged standards for feedlots had farmers had Watergate prosecutor fearing fer the lives of average-size Also likely to be considered will He also voted no on the the Cost of Living Council to be mandatory bicycle training and Archibald Cox dismissed, Findley amendment which remove controls on fertilizer family enterprises, until pressures Deputy Attorney General from agriculture brought a certification, a 50 mph. speed limit would ha ve prohibited OSHA and on cherry prices, and voted on secondary roads as well as William Ruckelshaus fired and inspection of firms employing in line with Farm Bureau's "clarification" that it would apply Attorney General Ellrot uniferm traffic laws. 25 or fewer persons in the 1m stand on proposed legislation only to feedlots with 1,000or more Richardson resigned increasing fiscal year. Yet, Albert also which would have rolled back animal units. (continued Page 4) the chances of a second man voted no on the Ruess Amend- prices to the Jan. 10 level. The advent of MI-QSHA is closer coming to the chief White House ment to the Federal Water UH he doesn't run for office to reality this year. With a ~t. Pollution Control act, which again in three years," said Michigan administration and House Speaker Carl Albert would succeed Nixon if he was required industries to use,.the "best available" water MFB counsel Albert Almy, "we'll be sorry to see him go." regulation of occupational safety, farmers believe that the accent Index removed before a Vice pollution control technology by In November, 1972,Ford was will be more on training and President was named. 1981. re-elected to his 13th con- education rather than on heavy- Classified 15 Carl Albert, a Democrat from secutive term as a member of handed enfercement. Discussion Topic 14 Oklahoma, has been a member Legislative Notes 4, 5 of Congress since 1947 and the - Congress, having served since The passage of S. 1225, the Marketing 7,8 Ford's Record January 3, 1949. He was chosen Marketing and Bargaining Act, in Democratic Whip from 1955 Over the years Ford's voting Minority Leader of the House of 1972, on which Farm Bureau On the Market 15 through 1961. He was Majority record has had a lot going for Representatives in 1965. In his members worked diligently, was Possibilities 12 Leader from 1962-1!r70,and has Michigan agriculture. Not only 24-year tenure in Congress, he chalked up as another major Present Issues 13 been Speaker since 1!r71,which was he a native son, but his has maintained an attendance victory. This year a board was Women 11 means he wasn't able to vote on compatibility with the record of over 90%. appointed to implement the act and World 10 The big, bit buyers - Japan - Page 10 PAGE 2 MICHIGAN FARM NEWS NOVEMBER 1,1973 Conservation Should be Thoughtful Newsweek magazine once described the environmental movement as The farmer is the custodian of large and irreplaceable portions of the "part religion, part science fiction and part suburban weekend frolic, earth's surface and he has been doing a good job of protecting that land with a pinch of Rachel Carson and a drop of spoiled oil, all stirred for a long time. Good stewardship of the land has been a part of our relentlessly by the news media." heritage and each generation of farm families has felt its responsibility Like so many causes that become movements, I'm afraid the ecology to pass the land to the next generation in at least as good, if not better, movement has become part of our social manners rather than a well cond~tion than it was received. This practice has done a great deal to thought out process for constructing a better society. A dangerous side improve the environment for all mankind, and has been done by the effect of such a ~arrow movement is that people have been unable to individual farmer at very little cost to the public. realize that we not only must fight pollution but we must also meet the We must continue to take our share of responsibility in our nation's challenge of an age of scarcity. The result has been unrealistic pollution efforts to protect the environment. As an organization, we need to be as controls which threaten to worsen the food, product and energy shor- actively involved FOR a high-quality environment as we are AGAINST tages. unrealistic pollution control measures. Long before the socially accepted environmental movement, fanners We can do this by taking rbe leadership in the search for solutions to practiced what were known as conservation practices as part of their our environmental problems, by supporting research to prevent or normal production methods. We did so quietly without fanfare and control any poosible pollution from fanning operations, and by con- continue to act responsibly toward the land we depend on so much. tinually using ecologically-sound methods in our individual farming But agriculture is now looking in from the outside of the popular en- operations. vironmental movement and farmers are placed in the position of wearing the black hats by opposing pollution controls. Consequently, convincing the public that farmers are concerned about our environment is not always easy. But, unrealistic controls have hit consumers at home in the cost of their food and they have realized a basic premise-that environmental controls cost money. But this fight we're in the middle of - being FOR environmental under line s: TERRY CANUP protection and AGAINST certain pollution controls that would squelch the productivity of American agriculture - is bound to be a continuing one .•It's not a comfortable situation and perhaps the time has come to Selling Farm Bureau preach what we practice. Maybe-we've been too quiet about our stand in ecology. Our record of soil and water conservation throughout the country is Young blood. That's what I figured we had when I found out I'd be one of the greatest stories in the history of private land management. working with Dave Cook and Kenn Wimmer on the Thumb area FB No segment of our economy or society has written a greater record of - membership drive. They were both ymmg fellas with fresh ideas, conservation and no government has managed land as capably as suitable for the space age, I figured. American farmers. We will continue to produce an abundant supply of Taik about a-let Clown.You know what they wanted to do to get people safe food and fibre if we are permitted to apply new technology of to join Farm Bureau? They wanted to talk to people and tell them why it equipment, new crop varieties, farm chemicals and pesticides. was worthwhile to join Farm Bureau. "If we could just reason with people .... ," they said. "Reason with people!?" I said, "Hey, man we are in the age of the DONNA MICHIGAN FARM NEWS electronic media. People don't want to be reasoned with. They don't understand things any more. They get impressions, ya know, feelings about things. It rubs 'ern right or it rubs 'em wrong." They were looking at me as if to say , "You punk, you're in your Farm Bureau diapers. What do you know?" Getting Involved "Look," I said, "Do you realize that advertisers don't even take a THE ACTION PUBUCATlON minute on TV to tell people about their products anymore?" OF TIlE - ''They take 30 seconds, 20 seconds, even 10 seconds. ZAP! They give Once upon a time there was a small gray mouse. He was a wise little MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU the product name. ZAP! They leave an impression. Ya know, like love, fellow in some respects. He knew where the best corn was stored, he laughter, youth, freedom; anything that'll rub the viewer right. So knew the coziest nook for a nest and he took pride that he was an up-and- every time you see their product you get this good feeling. You can do it coming member of his group. The Michigan FARM NEWS is with anything. You can look at a box of Krunk's Corn Starch and feel published monthly, on the first day. by There was, however, one area where the little fellow failed. When a the Michigan Farm Bureau Information freedom tingle in your bones if they advertise it right. " controversial subject arose, he found it more to his liking to stay in his Division. at its publication office. 109 N. The boys thought I was nuts. comfortable niche munching away on the tasty corn. He preferred to let Lafayette S1.. Greenville. Michigan. Editorial am general offices at 7373 "Look," I told 'em, "Just give me a chance to write up a.30 second somebody else get involved in finding a solution to the problem. West Saginaw Highway, Lansing. spot for local TV. Just let me write it up and see if you don't like it." Thankfully, there are few gray mice types in the ranks of Farm . Michigan 48904. Post Office Box 960. I went home and figured what I'd need. We'd have to have a rock Bureau members, especially when policies are developed for the Telephone. Lansing 485-8121. Exteffiioo band, with lotsa heavy bass and a group of men and women to sing and 228. Sutlicription price, ~ per year. organization. They get involved in policy development and policy Esta.blished January 13. 1923. Secood chant. That's all we'd need for the sound. Then I could set it up like this: execution because the issues they tackle involve them and their way of Class Postage paid at Greenville. life. They don't believe in the "let George do it" philosophy (being wed Michigan. EDITORIAL: Editors: Terry W. Seconds Music Video Chorus to a George for 25 years, I can vouch for the fact that he doesn't get the Canup and Donna Wilber Iatmdry done) .. OFFICERS: Michigan Farm Bureau; 1 Bass alone with hard Man on tractor tqkes President. Elton R. Smith. Caledonia. R- driving beat off hat with FB em- This grass-roots member-involvment in the development of policies 1; Vice President, Dean Pridgeon. 2 for an organization as big and effective as Farm Bureau never ceases to Montgomery. R-1; Administrative 3 blem and looks up to impress me even thwgh I've seen it in operation for many years (would Director. Robert Braden. Lansing. 4 the sky with a huge you believe Cedar Street and Mr. Brody?). DIRECTORS: District 1. Arthur 5 Bailey, Schoolcraft; District 2, Dean smile. LIVE!!! To those of you who will author the 1974policy book, many thanks Pridgeoo. Montgmtery. R-l; District 3. 6 Band joins in A large group of from one who constantly refers to its pages. It may not make the best- Andrew Jackson, Howell. R-1; District 4. 8 with hard beat young people with Elton R. Smith, Caledonia, R-l; District seller list, but at least one copy will be tattered, smudged, referenc~ 5. David Morris. Gram Ledge, R-3; lotsa great looking checked, and coffee-stained. District 6; Jack Laurie. Cass City, R-3; 10 chicks in bright Annuals of the Past District 7, Kenneth Bull. Bailey. R-1; 12 colored shorts dance District 8. Larry DeVuY5l, Ithaca. R-4; In last month's Michigan Farm News, we annoonced the dance on District 9. Donald Nugent. Frankfort. R- through the field, Wednesday evening, December 12, as a "fIrSt" on the annual meeting 1; District 10. Richard Wieland. climb onto the trac- agenda. Not so! Checking back in old issues of the Farm News, we find Ellsw by Agricultural Experiment easement period, the development Gov. Milliken to serve on an im- Stations. rights revert back to the owner general election on a so-called non- portant Environmental Review partisan ballot. They may also consider policy on without penalty, and the easement Board. The newly created Board the elimination of more than one expires. He proposed that both the Studded Tires consists of fifteen members, nine school election per year. This is a short summary of some Supreme Court justices and judges Legislation banning studded from the general public and six Other resolutions dealing with key points of the legislation, any of on the Court of Appeals should be tires cmtinues to be an issue. The from departments of state government spending, daylight which may change through con- appointed by the Governor with Senate passed a bill early in the government. A Senate con- savings time, court procedures, sideration by the Taxation Com- names of six candidates submitted year. The House has just passed firmation is not required with these the teacher tenure act, and many mittee. by the governor to a Special the Senate bill but with major appointments. other issues will be considered by Gov. Milliken has also an- Judicial Qualifications Com- amendments. Mr. Reed's background in the delegates. nounced that he will introduce a mission made up of members of The House version would permit agriculture and long service to the The ~ichigan Farm Bureau plan to give fanners a rebate of all the State Bar. studded tires from Dec. 1to April 1, Michigan farmer will assure a annual meeting, during which the property taxes paid in excess of 8 The Commission would review 1974, and the same period in 1974- voice at the highest level on behalf organiztion's policies for 1974 will percent of household income. To the legal background and 75. 1bis cuts two months off the of agricultural problems resulting be decided, is scheduled for receive such a rebate, fanners qualifications of the candidates. He present Nov. 1 - May 1 period. from environmental regulations. December 11-15. NOVEMBER 1, 1973 MICHIGAN FARM NEWS PAGE 5 Fertilizer may be lifted by the US Cost of Lid Considered The price ceiling on fertilizer nitrogen may have to be relied on, resulting in higher costs. by Council phosphate historically fertilizer 10% lower than were NATIONAL NOTES Living Council after they were told Farmer's buying fertilizer from domestic prices, frozen US prices that the control was causing a US Farm Bureau Services may not were surpassed as far back as 1970. Albert A. Almy fertilizer shortage. have felt the fertilizer pinch so As a result, phosphate fertilizer Government officials had been badly since FBS supplier, CF exports were 30% higher in 1973 warned by Farm Bureau that a Industries, pledged to sell only on than 1972. Dry nitrogen exports fertilizer shortage would stifle "the the domestic market. were up 31% and the story was expansion of 1974farm production thdt the Administration was hoping for in order to keep food prices NCFC figures showed how in- vestment-oriented producers had increased sales to the more similar for others. The USDA had predicted a shortage of one million tons of nitrogen fertilizer and Freeing Natural Gas down. lucrative foreign market. 700,000 tons of phosphate fertilizer MFB legislative counsel Albert .Whereas export prices for in 1974. The 1973 session of the 93rd The bill would make P & SA Almy said price controls en- Congress is rapidly drawing to a responsbile for providing egg couraged some fertilizer com- close. Many issues affecting producers some degree of financial panies to sell supplies overseas. agriculture have been considered protection and to assure that unfair "Fertilizer has been selling in the export markets at $25-$35 per Dedicated Dozen during the first ten months of the practices do not prevail within the session. Many more issues im- egg industry. ton higher than in our price con- trolled market," he said. , Talking 8ig portant to agriculture are still The FTC has had jurisdiction pending before Congress. These over egg marketing practices since Representative Gerald Ford and . include export controls," in- 1958 and has shown remarkably Senator Hubert Humphrey were Each year county Fann Bureaus 1301 and .over me'!lbership ternational trade, marketing little interest in exercising its among those in Washington that compete to become members of a ~ategory. ThIS gB:ve us hrst. place practices and fuel supplies. authority . appea.led for a lift of the price select group which is known as the 10 our category In the DedIcated Since P & SA already has ceiling. Dedicated Dozen. Membership on Dozen. We are planning on filling Natural Gas authority over various aspects of Humphrey told the Senate that this group is reserved for those that s~ot again in 1974. We are The Senate Commerce Com- livestock and poultry marketing, 30% of US crop production was counties who achieve their accepting any and all challenges mittee has held hearings on including turkeys and fowl, the directly dependent on fertilizer and membership goal first in their for th~ honor." - Dave Pohl, legislation that would stop price transfer of iurisdiction would be added that the fertilizer industry respective membership categories Campaign Manager. lati f tural at the desirable. was dependent on natural gas and of 1-300 members; 301-800 mem- "We have over 30 percent of our regu OIlS 0 na gas HR 10547 is now pending before had to be assured natural gas bers; 801-1300members; and over b hi. mem ers p 10 n~w. e WI w.n k. k wellhead. IC This is important to the food the Dairy and Poultry Sub- supplies. 1300members. off Nov. 1 and will have o~ ne~ production capacity of this country committee of the House The National Council of F.ar- Last year's winners made the ~ember goal by Nov. 15. This will since natural gas is used by many - Agriculture Committee. Farm mers' Cooperatives (NCFC) following challenges for the up- gIve us the extra ~~e t~ repeat ~ur farmers and elevators to dry grain. Bureau has called for prompt and reported to the USDA that natural coming year. Number One PffiItiO~ 10 1974. - Now that farmers are res pm- favorable action by the Sub- gas supplies for nitrogen are not "In 1973 Clinton County was the Bob Gregory,. C~mpaign Manager, ding to the need for increased food committee. encoura~ing and foreign sources of first county to make goal in the Northwest MIchigan. production shortages of natural . "Ottawa <;ounty vows to be the gas and other crop-dryer fuels are Trade Reform Act fIrst county In the 801-1~ member particularly untimely. The 1973Trade Reform Act (HR category to make goal 10 1974. We The shortage of natural gas has 10710) that would give the Travel Deductions Illegal further a~cept any and a.ll in turn contributed to a shortage of President c~all~nges 10 the race to obtam nitrogen fertilizer since natural special authority to enter into negotiations that could fIr~t. - Eleanor Busman, Cam- gas is the primary ingredient in promote international trade is Farm employers may be leaving (b) No deduction that cuts into pa,~n Manager ... nitrogen production. considered to be a top priority themselves open to prosecution the minimum wage may be made "/,~ plan t? make I~ three In a Since 1954, the Federal Power issue this year. due to ignorance of US Depart- for transporation of the worker ro~ . - Reinhard LIske, Cam- Commission has regulated the The bill, that should be acted ment of Labor regulation. The rule, from the point of hire and return to pa,~n Manager, Alpena Co~ty. price of natural gas at the upm soon by the house, has a which even many USDL personnel that point. This is an expense Everyone kn~~~ we are g~ng wellhead. By 1970, exploratory provision that would expand the aren't aware of, states that which the employer must bear as to be ~umber 1. - Paul Kovmk, drilling for natural gas declined 50 President's authority to take ac- deductions from workers pay part of his recruitment costs. Campalgn Manager, Cheboygan percent. Deregulation of natural tioo against foreign countries that packets for transportation from County. gas would provide a much needed maintain unreasonable import point of hire are illegal. Cash advances against wages incentive for exploration and restrictions or subsidize experts to The regulation came to light are legally permissible deductions. "We plan to do our level best to development of natural gas America. when a routine investigation be first in the state in all sources to meet the steadily This provision is especially revealed that a farm employer who This announcement is to advise categories!" - Royce Schlicher, growing domestic demand. importan t to segments of had advanced bus and air fare to you that if you advance trans- Campaign Manager, Mont- Egg Marketing Practices agriculture, such as the dairy workers from Tex~s, Mississippi portation to workers, you cannot morency. A bill (HR 10547) has been 10- industry, that have difficulty and ~uerto Rico~ used the w~ll- legally deduct the transportation troduced in the House that would competing with subsidized estabhshed practice of deduct~g advances in any pay period which "The Upper Peninsula will be the transfer regulatory authority over producers from abroad. Actions by large amounts from the first. would result in a reduction of the first region to achieve goal in the the egg industry from the Federal the President under this authority checks of. hi~ workers in. order to earnings of an employee below the state." - Otto Flatt, Campaign Trade Commission (FTC) to the would be subject to ~ngressional protect his Investment. The em- Federal Minimum Wage Manager, Mac-Luce. USDA's Packers and Stockyards veto. ployer was then cited when it was (presently $1.30 per hour)." How's all that for conceit? Administration (P & SA). Michigan farm Bureau has found that the deductions cut into contacted each member of the the workers minimum wage. Michigan Congressional delegation "No one knew the administrative to express that Fann Bureau in- rules were in effect," said M.J. ternational trade policy strongly Buschlen of the Michigan supports the purpffie of free world Agricultural Services Association trade expressed in the bill. Two who was called in to counsel the amendments, however, were employer. recommended. But, wage and hour compliance First, it was recommended that officers will cite employers when an explicit provision be added to their practices are contrary to the require joint negotiations on following statement issued by the agricultural and industrial USDL. products. Secondly, it was "For several years the USDL recommended that provisions has been taking the position, and allowing the US to participate in enforcing an administration rule interna tional commodity that says, in effect, that trans- agreement be deleted from the bill. portation is part of the Cffit of Export Controls recruitment and the cost of On September 6, the House transportation is to be borne by the passed HR 8547, which would in- employer. crease the Administration's Any announcement or publicity authority to impffie export controls concerning this administrative on agricultural commodities. One rule has been either non-existent or harvested acre in four is exported so limited that very few, if any, and the net incomes of all agricultural employers were alltural producers would be ad- aware of their obligation as the versely affected by a drop in ex- result of this rule. p~~~':}t.~ scheduled for the Michigan Fann women working in the Farm Bureau Organization. Berrien Co. Farm Bureau. .,<:,:;'~'),r;;~~; ~~~~~;~~~~~~ inmg;~~ " ,"'" ,,~~~"'..< ,. f '"~"~ """ ""!f.; The Wielands farm, a 700-acre ~ dairy operation which is a part- ';f~.:<:: nership of her husband Dick, his J" brother, Tom, and their son, Dan . . They have four children, two .'~ Candidate Doris Wieland daughters and two sons, and one grandchild. In addition to her Fann Bureau activities, Doris is active in 4-H, Extension, PT A, her church, and the Elk River Watershed Com- mittee. Her hobbies are reading, sewing and antiques. Dick also serves on the Michigan Farm Bureau Board of Directors, A farm girl who married before representing District 10. finishing high school, graduated The Jacksons are also dairy from a university with two degrees fanners, milking 100 registered 42 years later, and served as a Holsteins on their nO-acre fann. state senator, will be the speaker They have one married daughter at the Michigan Farm Bureau and a grandson. Claudine is in- Women's Annual Meeting in volved in political, health, safety, December. church and historical society Berta Lee White, chainnan of activities, Daughters of American the Mississippi Farm bureau Revolution, and is a member of the Women and director of the Consumers Alliance of Michigan. Southern Region Farm Bureau Her hobbies include collecting Women, will address the Michigan demi-tasse spoons, stamps and women at their session on Dec. 12 Christmas plates, and travel. in Grand Rapids. Andrew serves on the MFB board, Agriculture and Farm Bureau • representing District 3. are part of Mrs. White's heritage. '1 Both women have been delegates Raising white-face Herefords and ~ to the Associated Country Women Black Angus cattle is the main of the World, and are members of enterprise on the White's 200-acre, the Farm Bureau Women's Bailey, Mississippi, farm. One Candidate Claudine Jackson Speakers' Bureau. hundred acres was previously owned by her parents and grand- parents and 100 acres formerly belonging to her husband's family. Both of Mrs. White's parents were charter members of Farm Bureau, and when the county Farm Bureau was reorganized following World War II, Berta and her husband, Gordon, became active members. She was active in the county's membership drives for several years, until she was named state Women's chairman and state board member in 1953, positions she has held since that time. The mother' of four children, Berta Lee White 4- eight grandchildren, three step- grandchildren and one great- grandchild, Mrs. White received her bachelors degree in Political Science from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1970. OFFICE CALLS , She was elected to the Mississippi Legislature as a Representative in 1964and in 1968 Shield then process claims and was elected as a State Senator QUESTION: What is the relationship between the make payments in behalf of the from a four-county district. She government. This ad- Now available at Kroger stores was re-elected in 1!171and has government Medicare program throughout Michigan ..• "Florida's and Blue Cross and Blue ministration of Medicare by served on many committees, in- Blue Cross and Blue Shield is a Best" frozen concentrated orange juice in cluding Agriculture, Ap- Shield? 6 and 12 ounce sizes. You have enjoyed separate and d~tinct operation propriations, Educati~n, from regular Blue Cross and "Florida's Best" citrus through our Penitentiary and TransportatIon ANSWER: Blue Cross and Blue Blue Shield business. As a part farmer-to-farmer marketing program, now that same great Committees. Shield of Michigan ha ve been of its regular business, Blue flavor is available frozen from your friends at Florida Farm A 4-H leader for 30 years, she, appointed by the government Cross and Blue Shield offer Bureau - packers of "The Good Stuff." was named the "Outstanding 4-H as one of a group of "fiscal coverage which helps extend Leader of Mississippi" in 1~0. Her intermediaries" to assist in the and fill-in gap; in Medicare many other honors include handling of Medicare claims coverage for those who are "Citizen of the Year," "Woman of Get Some the Year" and "Woman of and payments. Blue Cross and eligible for Medicare. This is ~er Today! Achievement" organizations, "Who's titles by various and listing in Who of American Blue Shield work with the Social Security Administration in verifying eligibility benefits. Blue Cross and Blue for called "Complementary Coverage" and is in no way connected with the government Medicare appoinbnent. I Women." PAGE 12 MICHIGAN FARM NEWS NOVEMBER 1. 1973 POSSIBiliTIES The Oregon (No Throw) Bottle Bill Remember the old days when The first changes became ap- you had to carry around can parent on the grocery shelves. openers and lug bottles back to the Before the law was e a ted 8% f store. Well the answer was pull-tab the soft d'nk ta' n c , 0 cans and non-returnable bottles . n con Iners were non- The only trouble with that was that refillable bottles and 41%. were not only did people feel they didn't cans. After the law ref~lable ha ve to carry can openers but they bottles made up all but a fr~ctIon of didn't think they had to carry the a .percent of the. soft d~nk con- containers from the point where tamers, the remamda: bemg cans. they finished their beverage to a The result was vIrtuallr the receptacle. The state highway sa~e for beer contamers. department found itself spending RefIllabl~ bottles. made up 99.5~ of $827 ,000 a year rlor hi ghway clean from the con tamers WIth cans droppmg 350<' of the share -t0 0 .501' up 70 70. The results were particularly . Th~ effect of bottle deposits ~m bad for fanners. Traveling parties littenng was eyen more dramatIc. on coonty roads found adjoining The .Oregon Highway ~partment fields perfect places to ditch studies showed that lItter from bottles and cans which were not beverage bottles. and cans only unsightly but a costly hazard dec~sed 96% after the bill was The Michigan Fann Bureau ha~ p~t Into effect. This fi~ure received numerous letters from dISCounted non-returnable litter members complaining of problems that was bought befo~ the law due to the throw-away bottles such enactment or brought In from mt . d tr ac t or t'Ires, c a1'.th as rume ves WI of state. feet caught in glass a crippled ~~ny of the f~rs of the op- hunting dog and a hug~ clean-uD of posItion to the bill appea~ed un-: 150 bottles in one fanner's field. warran~. There was neIther a In response Farm Bureau has decrease m sales of beverages to supported legislation to either ban ~rm the. man';lfacturers, nor an recently enacted that makes the The bottle bill in Oregon has been If glass containers are the moot non-returnable bottles and con- mcrease m pnces to ~pset the driver of a vehicle responsible for tainers or impose a mandato custom~r .. There was In !act a d_escribed as a great success but dangerous to farmers and their deposit on both bottles and cans. h sm~ll rISe m .beer sales dunng the' there are important questions macllinery, l1vestock and crops, an adverse effect could be predicted. any litter coming from his vehicle. However, Farm Bureau recognizes is ~~law, but unfo~ately not in I:f:I~ ~r110wmg the passage of the posed when considering the effects of the legislation in Oregon. One But if Oregon's statistics are valid that because of enforcement MIchigan. " when they claim nearly a 100% problems, no law can replace one Whil .... Local mdustry was shown to .. e such legISlatIon failed In have enjoyed a competitive ad- obvious result of the legislation drop in beverage litter with that gets at the source of the MIchIgan, Oregon lawmakers vantage in some respects due to which banned pull-tabs and in- mandatory depooits, the law could problem like the Oregon law and acted when th~y found out that the bill. Brewers of the Pacific sisted on depooits for all beverage be well worth the risk. the Bureau will continue to push beverag~ co~tamers made up 62% Northwest found it easier to shi containers, was that more, not Farm Bureau has helped attain for'such pin-pointed legislation in of roadsIde btt~r. In October 1972refillable bottles to processin~ less, glasS containers were made: stricter littering _laws, such as one this state. th~ ~regon legIs~ature passed the plants from colI t' . t Mlmmum DeposIt Act which has .. ec Ion pom s since become known a~ the "bottle economIcally SInce they were bill." An EPA report on the results closer. to the stores they serv~. of the first six, months of com-' ObvIously, the me~ con~mer 'th. mdustry was harmed rmmedIately p liance WI this ~aw shows the law by the Oregon bill and the glass to be a su<=<:~sIn most w~ys .. container industry gained almost The oPpos!tI.ont~ such legISlatIon the entire mark t f b was substantial In Oregon. Con-. e or everage tainer manufacturers brewers contamers. But of course the bottle and soft drink man~facturers manufacture~ had ,chang.e-over figured they all stood to lose B t expenses and if bottles continue to an Oregon Circuit Court upheld t~e be reu~. several. times they will Paying for Land legislation as constitutional after !lot be nd!-Dgas hIgh as they were these factions filed suit and the bill In the fIrst few months after stood. It stated that there would be passage of the bot.tle bill: . a minimum 2e deposit on beer and Research~rs think a SIzeable Kept in Farming pop containers that could be reused number .of J.obs may be created in by more than one manufacturer the bottlm~ Industry to make u~ for Today, people ha ve to pay in Though neither of the land use 'that could have been obtained for and minimum of se for all other th.ooe lost m other areas and Jobs order to stay in fanning. With the specialists believe that about $2,000 if they had used in- beverage containers. Pull-tabs wIll be c~~ted to handle bottles on prices developers are offering for property tax assessment should be formation that was already were also outlawed. the retailIng level. land, it is literally money out of the evaluated on an area basis, they available in print," Kimball said. It is Kimball's goal to have a pocket for a fanner who resists the claimed that a Hillsdale Co. study temptation to sell and continue to showed that tax relief for fanners township information system that farm, wasn't enough to keep all the will allow local planning boards to Prof. William Kimball of farmers on their land. get the information they need to Michigan State University and To preserve farmlands they make land use decisions. extension agent Boyd Wiggins think agricultural areas will ha ve One of the most fascinating tools foresee a day when fanners will be to be designated and the farmers tha t will be used to a ppraise land paid back that loss by the govern- within the block compensated for use is remote sensing. This is me~, f keeping their land in agriculture. basically the use of aerial "When you simply zone a fann Kimball insists that agriculture photography from various and say it. can't be developed, designation would not be a con- altitudes ranging from hundreds of you're actually taking away money demnation process. feet to space sattelite heights. from the landowner, " Kimball "Area farmers will have to get Remote sensing, should it live up said, referring to potential cash together and agree that they want to its expectations will be able to value fanners could get for the to get such designation," he said, cut much of the work involved in land. "and petition land use boards for obtaining needed information. iSOto wlggens aIXl KImball said it. " Instead of conducting extensIve that many older landowners Kimball says the biggest surveys or filing through endless wanted the option of selling their stumbling block to wise land use is records, an aerial view of an area land after they were retired from the lack of goals on a national and may be able to provide instant farming. state level and consequently lack information. Even if zoning boards wanted to of direction on local levels. And Remote sensing can detect high give edicts of blanket agricultural Kimball pointed out that Michigan water tables, pollution and dif- zoning, ita ppea rs tha t the courts was one of the last three states to ferent crops. Hopefully in the would not allow them to do so. have a land use planning office. future population will be able to be "One court decision in Penn- A number of researchers in estimated from the air and crop sylvania even said that an area resource development at MSU are yields estimated. could not exclude residential trying to correct the lack of All this information may help settlement because it was in the knowledge on land use in local planning boards choose areas na tural pa th of urban develop- Michigan. One of the major for designation as prime farmland ment," Kimball said. projects is compiling fact books according to a state plan. "According to recent rulings that relate information on land use Kimball feels that the future will each zoning area (usually town- that can be used by local planning bring a period of trade-offs be- ~ HEY. HOW ABOUT THAT NEW ships) has to allow space for every boards. tween private good and public MILK REPLACER HE GAVE US type of land use need - industrial, "There was a case of one county good. If so it can only be hoped that THIS MORN' N(j /1" residential and agricultural. that spent $100,000for information it is dooe wisely. NOVEMBER 1, 1973 MICHIGAN FARM NEWS PAGE 13 PRESENT ISSUES: The following are not expressions of Farm Bureau policy Railroad Not Allovved to Function Editor's Note: The following Decisions such as those call for money are not needed; that if we Again, I'm avoiding specific The Administration's proposal article is a collection of excerpts lengthy sessions before the In- allow the railroad properties to be detail. But as you probably know, that went to Capitol Hill late in the from Federal Railroad Ad- terstate Commerce Commission, sensibly restructured so that a officials of the Penn Central have Spring called for the establishment ministrator John Ingram's address sometimes taking five years just to money-making business climbs out already pinpointed some 9,000 of just such a pared-down for-profit to the Economic Club of Detroit change a tariff. Management of the wreck of the Penn Central, it miles of track they think they could corporation -- issuing stock to the this fall. Ingram spells out the simply has not had the opportunity will attract investment and earn a do without. And they didn't con- present creditors of the bankrupt Administration's rationale for to manage. sensible profit for the investors. sider duplication with other solvent railroads - and getting started paring down the Penn Central Railroads compete against each I suspect the best way to lines. So a physical restructuring is with a dose of Federal seed money Railroad lines as suggested in the other and against other modes. establish what's fair is to let people quite obviously needed. and some two billion dollars in loan Department of Transportation There is just no way to say that the experiment. Let someone deter- Third, there won't be a rail guarantees. reorganization plan. industry is profiting by monopoly, mine an area of experimentation in system left in the Northeast United Feet in the Fire Railroading is not a consumer- although monopoly-oriented railroad rate-making, and not ask States unless there is an infusion of Economist Eliot Janeway has oriented industry. Railroad regulatory. procedures are very the industry to wait five years - or. new capital. I think I made myself recently written (and I quote) companies deal with shippers, with much in effect. five months - while the new rates clear when I suggested that this ... "putting the government on manufacturers, with rate bureaus The Penn Central problems are are being agreed upon. In any need not be Federal money derived the spot to protect the investment it and freight forwarders. simple - too much track and too event, no price should be required from hard-working taxpayers. insures would keep its feet to the Yet, the transportation problems much manpower. The excess real to be below cost. fire to develop a transportation we face today have a very direct, estate not only has to be kept; Second, as I mentioned a Money Could Come policy that relied on the railroads impact on the man~n-the-street management is also told by the moment ago, the physical aspect of We run into a lot of flak on this to do their part of the overall job and the quicker he realizes that the government that it must be kept the industry needs to be restruc- when we go to Capitol Hill; some of am permitted them to do it." better. It is extremely unfortunate, ~p. Instead of abandoning a losing tured. our contacts there simply refuse to As one member of the govern- but the fate of low-cost freight branch line, you take part of your Railroad tracks still reach out to believe that any sane investor ment, I'd be delighted to have my transportation in this country depleting resources and maintain areas that generate one truckload wants to put private money into a feet to the fire as we work to today rests in the hands of that branch line; and that means of goods a day -- goods that will fit railroad. There are two answers to develop a transportation policy government - all three branches of you have fewer resources to in a truck and should go in a truck. this. that utilizes rail transport the way government - and government is maintain the money-making part First, a restructured Northeast it should be used. When you have three railroads, Railroad Corporation has the Our legislation, frankly, got no more than the collective will of of your company, the main line. the people. Service deteriorates because you an Interstate Highway, two potential to be one of the most dropped in the hopper and lost in scheduled airlines, one of the Great profitable in the world. The rate. the hopper. But similar legislation I won't go into a lot of historical have to go slow on the main line. Lakes and a pipeline network all in structure is favorable on sufficient - on both the House and Senate detail, but it seems to me that After you've done that long operation between Buffalo and freight where shippers have been sides - is now pending. certain segments of our society enough - and have paid (in- Cleveland, maybe you don't need paying the price. ~ look forward to a positive want the railroads to provide more directly, but, nevertheless, the three railroads (two of them Second, this potentially- response from the Congress - and than just transportation. H they'd hard way) for unprecedented truck bankrupt). be satisfied with just trans- production - you find that by the profitable system has many areas the regulatory agencies -- in porta tion, then we have sufficient end of the fourth quarter you'll be Yet, intercity trackage isn't the where improvements are needed -- reaffinning that the American technology, the equipment, the completely out of money. And the only example of needless improvements that will demon- railroad business is neither rights~f-way and the manpower. judge with whom your frustees are duplication. I doubt if there's a strably improve the profitability of ruthless nor stupid. I've come this But railroads over the years dealing says liquidate the river city in America that doesn't the system itself. Electrification, far with the impression that have been asked to provide social property. ha ve railroad yards on both sides new yards, new signal systems America is the land of opportunity - services as well. Railroads have of the river -- and in most of those allowing for more efficient - and I hope you will join me in been told to maintain non- Out of the Wreck locations the city fathers can think utilization, not to mention rolling working to keep the pathways of productive segments of their The Administration's position is of a better use for the land on at stock, will all help the railroad opportunity open to those who are business. They have been ordered that large amounts of free Federal least one side of the river. return a better dollar. willing to make the system work. to charge non-productive rates, and have been crippled frequently by rules and regulations that date back more than a century. Answer to George Borgstrom Railroads are being asked -- "ordered" is a better word -- to provide socially-desirable services at the expense of other parts of their business. The only problem today is that the "other parts" don't make any money now either. farmers Know True Costs Unable to Manage Besides, you know, fertilizer In the September issue of Farm if those scrawny trash-fed cows What would good management dissolves in the least little bit of produced any, which is unlikely. have done? Would good News Prof. Georg Borgstrom of Michigan State University claimed water or even a heavy dew and You know, that is why so few of management have moved swiftly except in a torrential downpour American agricultural practices the Indians of India were able to to cut off the excess baggage -- to goes only down to grow good trees were too costly in terms of ecology use the dried milk we sent to dismantle unprofitable lines and other crops. It ca{lnot knock and energy. In the following ar- prevent starvation. Since those snaking up into coal fields full of out nature's own nitrogen since it is ticle, a member takes i&sue with babies do not have milk they lose unmarketable high-sulfur coal? the same thing, so it works with the ability to digest it and milk Would good management have Borgstrom's suggestions. whatever is already there. makes them sick. gone out and purchased the 50,000 Cost stops too many of Uncle to 75,000 new freight cars the ex- Dear Mr. Borgstrom; It is an excellent idea to raise the Fred's friends from putting on Really, I do not think farmers perts say are needed? enough fertilizer or pesticide if the like my Uncle Fred are doing so They should have. But they questions that you have asked concerning the true costs of food crop being grown has been priced badly. Each one feeds more than couldn't. too low. There are not too many fifty city people. Their riches may production, since too often people The railroads may not be the farmers who can live without be in the magnificence of their own best managed industry in the do take them for granted. Your Iowa soybean field is a buying groceries too. sunset, but that is because they nation, but we must accept the fact I am surprised that you consider know the con t r a stand have good example, however, farmers that under existing laws, they can't hogs and poultry as food com- watched the sun set in rain or hail Dec. 12 - 2 to 10 P. M. really do not raise those soybeans make decisions like that. petitors. It seems to me that I or wind that destroyed their fruit principally for their oil. Since few people are able to use tractor oil heard somewhere that corn or fiela or garden. Did you ever Grand Rapids directly as food, it must be con- produced . a very poor protein lose your whole year's income in a Civic Auditorium ... -.. verted. called zein, which is best fed to half hour? . Therefore, oil powers the animals and even then has to be Everyone Welcomed machinery to raise healthy supplemented. Uncle Fred and his friends cannot protect themselves against Reactions? soybeans for innumerable pur- poses, especially as a "meat by the What kind of hogs do the people of China have? Do you really want natural disasters, yet. But they can bushel" ingredient speeding the to return to the high mortality rate and do help each other all over the Dec. 12 growth of beef cattle, hogs and and plagues which history shows. world by figuring oilt how to add Send them to: poultry. prevailed when animals i oamed natural products to foods to make Annual Meetings Really, Mr. Borgstrom, farmers the streets in the Middle Ages. You them better, protect them scien- Farm Bureau Services do not use any more fertilizer than probably know better than I that tifically so that the natural they actually have to because it the disease ridden rat follows loose vitamins are retained for the Farmers Petroleum Farm News costs so much. Why, my Aunt Mary animals in those streets. That rat consumer and also by preserving ga ve Uncle Fred a lot of trouble in foods to store or ship until and Pantlind Hotel would not speak to my Uncle Fred for two weeks because he used a his barn too, un ti1 Unele Fred where needed. P.o. Box 960 recommended application nitrogen instead of buying her a of found a good poison for him. Maybe the Indian vegetable Now, that is not so bad after all, is it? FaRm~ lansing, 48904 new refrigerator. Uncle Fred said that his soil test showed the land market you saw was somewhere other than in the I,ndia I have heard BUreaU was hungry and the following year of, because the cows I heard tell of Sincerely, MFB Annual Meetings he did have enough increase to buy in India are protected by such a Deni L. Hooper December 11-14 her a bigger refrigerator than she hea vy religious taboo that n(H)ne Hooper Farms .... ---------- .... had asked for. could touch the mille That is, even Traverse City PAGE 14 MICHIGAN FARM NEWS NOVEMBER 1, 1973 by KEN W.ILES Manager Member Relations TINSTAAFL Sooner or later, any speculation on directions our Topic Summa~y The replies received on Sep- society is taking and where we are likely to wind up at the end of this century gets down to the question of economic tember's discussion dealing With growth. The scale and direction of economic activities of No-Fault insurance indicate that any country determines its progress, stagnation or Farm Bureau Insurance agents decline. were guests of many of the groups' There has been a tendency to ignore or push aside the meetings. They were able to an- subject of economics. As a result, I1)any people do not swer many questions and greatly understand our basic economic system and extreme helped the members in un- positions on the issue of economic growth have developed. derstanding the subject matter. On one side we have "utopians" who appear to believe Following is the tabulation of the that growth can solve all our present and future problems. replies to the questions. On the other hand, we have the "cassandras" who prophesy that economic growth is the path to destruction. 1. Some people have expressed the Both positions can be dangerous - one because it en- thought that No-Fault insurance courages unreasonable expectations, and the other represents an immoral and because it fosters fatalism and submission. coercive inroad into one of the However, these points of view do exist and must be few remaining citadels of free reckoned with. It would seem the rational course of action choice. Do you agree With this? falls somewhere between these extreme positions. A brief Yes: 47 percent No: 53 percent look at each of the positions might assist in understanding 2. In your opinion, will No-Fault the alternatives. While the examples given may appear to insurance encourage bad be over simplified, it must be remembered that so too are driving? Yes: 16percent No: 84 some of the views. percent The "utopians" have optimism. Economic utopianism _ - 3. The Consumers Federation of goes back to the destruction by technology of the theory America has been credited with that gains of economic growth would be eliminated by saying that Michigan has the population growth. Once the falsity of this theory was only acceptable No-Fault in- exploded by technological advances, the conclusion was surance. Do you feel this is reached that all the bonds of economic restraint had been advantagous for Michigan broken and that there was no limit. residents? Yes: 75 percent No:. But, this conclusion ignores a basic economic law, a 25 percent fundamental principal which governs all business, all our 4. In your opinion, will No-Fault commerce -- virtually everything we do. It is a factor insurance be instrumental in when we buy, sell or trade anything. It is a factor that is discouraging negligent conduct just as true in a socialistic society as a capitalistic one - on the part of drivers? Yes: 39 just as much in an emerging nation as in a highly in- percent No: 61 percent dustrialized one. 5. Comments: "Had our insurance The principal is frequently denied by those who should agent speak and now we un- know better. It is forgetten, tampered with and ignored. derstand it better"; "let's give But it still remains a solid, sound and significant factor in no-fault a fair try"; "it would be society. The fundamental-economic law is that there is no a good idea for all states to have such thing as a free lunch - TINST AAFL .. the same insurance laws"; Tinstaan is such a basic law, and the principle appears "right of free choice is ham- so obvious that one wonders why more people don't accept pered when it is made com- it; why schools don't teach it; why do we forget; why have pulsory." so many learned it the hard way, and some have never learned it at all. There are apples to pick, berries to gather, and fish to satisfactory living standard shouid be shared equally catch. These things don't cost money unless the law among a stabilized world population. Some time before Believing in Santa catches one appropriating another's fruit. However, even the end of the next century, according to the computer in this situation, the meal is not free -- one has to expend printout, the world system will reach a point where the We were taught just the opposite when we were the effort to pick, gather or catch. population can no longer be supported by existing children. The idea that there could be something for Work is the basis of economy and the starting point for resources, and catastrophic population decline is the nothing from Santa, the Easter Bunny or the tooth fairy any and everything we have. Someone had to wor~ to projected result. was planted in our heads. Most of us grew up and learned invent someone worked to gather raw materIals, that Santa and the Easter Bunny were "make believe." someo~e worked to pay for materials and someone But a lot of people continue through life expecting that worked to put it together. Some people may obtain their they really can get something for nothing. "lunches" with a lot less effort than others, but somebody . The End is Nigh? Tinstaan is a harsh idea. And most people are slow to pays for each and every lunch. realize that they have to work for all they get or take Unfortunately, the fact that we must pay our way, This gloomy prognosis has been highly publicized. Some advantage of another's toil. It would really be nice if once collectively as well as individually, is not always obvious have greeted it with despair and others have challenged in awhile one could get a little free lunch, but this is just in our complex society, and it has become possible for it. Common sense would seem to tell us that there is some not economically possible. many individuals to reach the conclusion that this country merit in the warning for it would appear that today's It can be argued that there is such a thing as free lunch is somehow so advanced that TINST AAFL no longer accelerating pace of economic growth will have to run into for those willing to profit from the industry of others. applies. shortages of supply in some particular items at some point in time. Yet, the record shows that raw material supplies can Too Great Expectations also be increased. It is quite possible that breakthroughs to fusion and harness solar power will ena ble us to extract The utopian vision has led to promises to eliminate minerals from rocks. Foreseeable new technology may poverty, rebuild our cities, eliminate pollution, and to release agriculture from its reliance on unharnessed work a series of other miracles. All this had led to what sunpower and sharply raise the supply of food. some peOple consider undesirable results. The ex- The magnitude of the disasters outlined by the pectations of various groups have been raised to such "doomsday" approach provides a breeding ground for levels that even progress toward such objectives is drastic measures proposed by more excitable elements, dismissed as inadequate, thus creating widespread some of which could prove to be irrelevant or harmful. A dissatisfaction. The other unpleasant outcome has been a further objection is that the doomsday approach tends to major contribution to an unending series of federal cast science and technology as villains, whereas this deficits, leading to accelerated inflation, loss of con- appears to be the major hope for solution. Living fidence in the dollar abroad, and the ungluing of the in- creatures ha ve survived and evolved on this planet over a u terna tiona 1 monetary system. period of several billion years, but only in recent years s No free lunch applies just as unflinchingly, just as has any perceptible expansion of human freedom or A unbending, just as surely in government as in any facet of improvement in human conditions been seen - and most our society. Despite all the evidence to the contrary, there of this is directly attributable to technology. are many who believe that the government, in the final This is not to say that some reappraisals of our direc- analysis, can provide free lunches. But the trusty old tions are not in order. What has to be developed is a economic law - tinstaafl-- still applies just as vigorously technology higher in social benefits and lower in social in Washington, in Lansing, or in local government. When costs. There is a need to develop a new standard of Congress, state legislators or local officials approve measurements for the impact of technological change, expenditures, it is the taxpayers' money they spend. and there is a pressing need to bring about a more rational The "cassandras" argue that growth itself contains the balance between the frequently contradictory demands of seeds of our destruction. In recent years it has become economic growtp and environmental preservation. There fashionable to take a pessimistic view regarding the is growing recognition of the need to devote greater at- future of mankind. Negative attitudes toward what lies tention to the quality of life, rather than merely quan- ahead extend from students to political figures. titative and material aspects. However, the foundation of Accocding to one report, the growth of capital in- progress in any of these areas will have to be economic vestment, as well as population, a computer study has growth. ~ I UNDERSTANDHE GOT IT FROM indicated that the highest possible standard of living this In short, if options are exercised wisely, there is every GOVERNMENT SURPLUS FOR HALF TH E PR'(f planet can afford is one that stagnates at half the level reason for the next generation and those which follow to OF A REGULAR SILO. Q found today in North America. and that this un- ha ve prospects as promising as any which ha ve preceded. NOVEMBER 1, 1973 MICHIGAN FARM NEWS PAGE 15 Deere Me! For this Winter John Deere has expanded its line to control the pitch of snow as it is JIeavy-duty and powerful, with blown to either side. with a truck, circular pure robber of rotary snow plows to include a automatic safety shut-off. seal to shut off the water. The neck new, economy model and a large The Model 275 is 93 inches wide. Produces 150,000 BTU's of cir- Dual 13-inch fluted augers and big of the bottle acts as the hinge. unit with dual augers to utilize the culated heat. Built-in thermostat Thus, there are no internal metal power available in tractors of up to 27-inch rotor provide capacity for for temperature control. fast removal of snow even after working parts to rust or corrode. 125-hp. Big job heater for indoors or relatively heavy storms. The Rotating the bottle prolongs the life outdoors. Produces 180,000 BTU's of the robber seal. The Model 240 mounts on the Model 275 can be mounted on the of circulating, odorless heat. The water inlet orifice is a rear of tractors in the up-to-6O-hp rear of tractors of up to 125-hp Equipped with solid state ignition separate molded part and can be range equipped with a 54o-rpm equipped with either Category 1 or system and safety shut-off. easily and inexpensively replaced PTO and Category 1 3-point hitch. 2 3-point hitch; or, with frames and Dare Products has introduced a if it becomes damaged. Outer It is six feet wide. The discharge brackets available as eXtra fann stock tank valve that is housing is molded of a special a11- spout may be equipped with either equipment, can be mounted on the conventional in outward ap- weather plastic compound. manual or hydraulic controls; a front of similarly powered tractors pearance but radically different Height of the valve over the edge manual deflector is also available equipped with a mid-PTO. internally. of the tank can be adjusted. Metal The floating unit is a heavy hanging straps are plated against walled, linear polyethylene bottle rost. Remember Ray 'Price Dec. II at the MFB Annual Meeting 50,000 BTU's See Your County Secretary for Tickets 50.000 BYU's of circulated heat. Equipped with automatic safety shut-off for sAfe unattended operatioo. Thermostat optional. FARM BUREAU ALL CLASSIFIED MARKET ADS MUST BE PREPAID PLACE SPECIAL RATE TO FARM BUREAU MEMBERS: 25 words for $2.00 each edition. Additional words, 10 cents each. Figures such as 12 or $12.50 count as one word. NON-MEMBER adV8l'- tisers: 15 cents per word one edition, two or more editions, 10 cents per word. Copy deadline: 20th of the month. Mail classified ads to: Michigan Farm News, P. O. Box 960, Lan I in g, MI 48904. Publisher reserves right to reject any advertising copy submitted. FARM EQUIPMENT LIVESTOCK LIVESTOCK MISCELLANEOUS MISCELLANEOUS IIARLEY ROCK PICKERS. Picks 1 to 16" CATfLE MINERAL FEEDERS - 100 lb. 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