MICHIGAN FaRm RM NEWS Bureau VOL. 53 NO.5 MAY 1,1974 Tax Relief Plan Waiting to Go One more vote could trigger the at the same time we want to make agreeable to the terms he can then sure that land speculators don't sign a contract with' Land Use take advantage of the tax break:' Office. Hosford says. If the applicant feels he is being their land in agriculture. Tightness of procedural rules treated unfairly he may appeal The Fannland and Open Space will depend very much on the final first to the local government, then Taxation Bill (H. 4244) looked like shape of the bill, Hosford says. to the State Land Use Agency and, a sure bet to be passed in March, "If the definition of a farmer is as a last resort, go to court. but the Senate failed by one vote to specifically stated in the bill then "This act will ha ve three ad- adopt the House amendements. we won't have any problem. If it vantages," Hosford says, "One, it The partisan vote in the Senate isn't, then we'll have to promulgate gives the owner agricultural had nothing to do with an open rules to keep the speculator out of assessment of his property. Two, if s(X!ce provision the House had it. From what I've seen of the bill property taxes exceed 7 percent of eliminated. so far, it's pretty tight on this." the household income, the dif- A House-Senate conference Upon passage of the bill ference is returned. Three, the coTnmittee appears~ be reaching H05ford's Offiee witt ~ to set up property can't be assessed for a solution, however, and favorable rt.lles, forms and explanatory utilities like sewers while under the action seems near as legislators materials, but, he says, fanners contract. I'm from a fann and I generally agree on the basic should be a ble to start making know how important that item is," issues. There seems to be little applications into the program the Land Use Chief says. opposition to omitting the 25 within two months after the signing Hosford won't be depending on percent penalty to be levied of the bill. Processing of ap- .his own expertise when setting up against those who failed to live up plications is expected to take about rules for the procedures. His first to agreements and granting land- three months.' So the first. action after the bill is passed will owners permission to take ad- agreements between fanners and be setting up an agricultural ad- vantage of both this bill and the- the State should go into effect by visory board. 1973property tax relief measures. late Summer or early Fall; barring "I think I'll go to Farm Bureau, As the bill now stands fanners who any long holO-ups in the the Michigan Department of receive tax relief under H. 4244will legislature. Agriculture, Extension, and to still be able to collect tax credits Fanners will be able to apply for fanners themselves to find out who for payments over 7 percent of tax relief through their county or to put on this committee," Hosford their household income. township. The local government says. Karl Hosford, head of the young will then advise'local and regional Though Hosford says he has an Office of Land Use in the Depart- planners as well as the farmers' excellent relationship with the ment of Natural Resources, has soil conserva tion district heads agricultural community, he been holding at the starting line before forwarding the farmers admits that he is aware that many plans to put the new law into effect. request to the State Land Use would like to see his job turned Though he hasn't yet seenJ:he final Office. over to the Department of law he feels he knows what his job The Land Use Office will advise Agriculture . will be once he's allowed to move. the state tax commission to make "But Agriculture, says Hosford, "We want to be sure that the initial assessment of the land has never dealt with land trans- procedures are as uncomplicated under the Act's provisions. Sub- actions. we (DNR) have the field as possible to make it easy for sequent assessment will be han- staff living in the areas we will be farmers ~ enter the prog~am, but dled locally. If the farmer is administering. " PAGE 2 MICHIGAN FARM NEWS MAY 1, 1974 Time Running Out for Local Land Use -Input Some fanners in Michigan act as though we have a choice between While little is being done at home, evidence accumulates to prove having land use policy or not. But those who are honest with themselves there is real need for planning in Michigan where both agriculture and know that such planning is a must. Statistics show that Michigan is manufacturing are both large and necessary industries. putting thousands of acres of good fannland out of production every As manufacturing presses out into rural areas the residences of year and trends point to the fact that by year 2000we will not have the Workers are built on good farmland. This doesn't mean that the necessary farmland to meet the needs of Michigan. economy must stop gro~ing, in order to have food land use. Legislators on the state and national level have looked at the statistics There are enough varieties of soil types in Michigan to keep for Michigan. Then they have looked at how precious little is being done agriculture healthy while allowing manufacturing to use land not fit for on the local to halt these and have decided that they will have to take fanning. We must not think of agricultural zoning and the lowest over the responsibility for local land use planninl!. designation for land. It could be the most important. Frankly speaking, land use planning Will be a fact of life. We have the means to save local control.-Face up to your local plan- The choice we are left with is whether or not land use planning for our ning needs. Talk them over in Farm Bureau Community Groups. Insist, communities will take place at home or in Washington. ITwe choose to as a member of your county Farm Bureau that your organization deal have local planning control, then we exercise that control or give it up to with planning needs on a county level. Then get your community and more remote authorities. county F:arm Bureau organizations to influence local policy in favor of Fann Bureau is trying to save local input in land use planning and sound planning and zoning before it is too late. zoning. On the national level, we llave opposed legislation that contains I'm pleased to find that there are members workiI)g for good land use provisions that would allow the federal government to corner local land control. In Ionia, Farm Bureau members on the County Board of use policy through monetary policy. This is because policy of the Commissioners stood their ground on the issue of effective land use American Fann Bureau Federation clearly states "We believe that planning. Farm Bureau members, acted on their own and through the land use planning can best be accomplished at the county or com- Fann Bureau young fanners who had such a stake in this issue to help · parable level of government." - the commissioners weather a recall bid. But while we hold the line on the national front, we look back and see too little being done in the communities and counties. Figures from 1972 This sort of commitment by members is a perfect example of what showed only 38percent of the local units of government in Michigan with Fann Bureau is all about -- cooperative action directed toward a goal. planning commissions and only 31percent with zoning commissions. Our goal of achieving local land use planning may be one of our most The only way we can win this battle for local control is to start local important goals over the long haul. planning, now. Our legislative efforts in Washington can only give us a We, as Farmers, have a legacy to protect. A source of food for little time. America and a way of life for generations to come. underlines: TERRY CANUP MICHIGAN FARM NEWS Committeed The New Literacy The Michigan FARM NEWS is Enterpreneur-quite a mouthful production costs, market func- published monthly. on the first day. by If you ever want to insult that they recognize that within an the Michigan Farm Bureau Information for a grown man to pronounce, tions, how to market a product, somebody, tell them they look like organization "proximous Division. at its publication office. 109 N. spell and define. So how would you revenue and profits. Lafayette St .• Greenville. Michigan. This "revolution" within the they've been put together by a visualization steadfastly yield Editorial ani general offices at 7m react if your 7-year-old second- committee. That means they look obstructionisms to - the per- West Saginaw Highway. Lansing. grader came home from school educational system has come like they've got all the wrong parts ceptualizations of wider spec- Michigan 48904. Post Office Box 960. and announced that he had become about because of a small group of in the right places or all the right trums." Te1ephooe. LansiQl 485-8121. Extension one? educators from Olivet College who 228. Sub;cription price. ~ per year . parts in all the wrong places or (Translation: People in Estaplished January 13. 1923. Secmd It's happening in some homes in . believe that economic literacy maybe just more parts than organizations sometimes can't see Class Postage paid at Greenville. Michigan. Second-graders, - who should be a part of everyone's Michigan. places. the forest for the trees. Or in other EDITORIAL: Editors: Terry W. know that an enterpreneur is a lifestyle. These educators and an It means they can't function well words, an organization can Canup ani Donna Wilber Person who organizes and advisory council, on which Farm enough to turn on a TV and if they sometimes function like a com- OFFICERS: Michigan Farm Bureau: Inanages a business undertaking, Bureau is represented, have President. Elton R. Smith. Caledonia. R- could they'd watch the antenna. mittee." . I: Vice President. Dean Pridgeon. assuming the risk for the sake of launched an attack against It means they usually do things Coming to this realization, Fann Montgomery. R-l: Administrative the profit -- are making such economic illiteracy and hope, backwards. Eat dessert and then Bureau has fonned a committee to Director. Robert Braden. Lansing. statem.ents to their astounded eventually, to make economics a DIRECTORS: District 1, Arthur say grace; take a shower and then "tend to revitalization of Fann Bailey. Schoolcraft: District 2. Dean parents. mandatory part of all school undress; brush their gums and put Bureau cogniscenti and to the Pridgem. Montgtmery. R-l: District 3. Even kindergarteners, through systems' educational programs. Andrew Jackson. Howell. R-l; District 4. in their teeth. purgationalization of non-input- Elton R. Smith. Caledonia. R-l; District effective teaching methods and Economics has been called the It means when they work they bearing facets of in- 5. William Spike. Owosso .. R-3: devices such as games, stories and "dark continent" of U.S. District 6: Jack Laurie. Cass City. R-3: start at the finish and never quite stitutionalization." (Translation: District 7. Kenneth Bull. Bailey. R-l: "comic" strips, understand the education. As Olivet College get to the end. Take a fr~h look at Fann Bureau District 8. Larry DeVuyst. Ithaca. R-4: concepts of producer, consumer, president, Ray Loeschner, states, This reputation that committees and get the lead out.) How can District 9. Donald Nugent. Frankfort. R- goods and services. They com- "Someone once said that the eighth 1: District 10. Richard Wieland. have may be earned and it may they do it? By having people on the Ellsworth. R-l: District 11. Franklin prehend such things as tangible wonder of the world is the not. Nobody really knows because committee that don't talk like Schwiderson. Dafter. and intangible goods, services and American economic system--and nobody has ever been able to figure committe people. Michigan Fann DIRECTORS Frahm. Frank"enmuth; AT LARGE: Walter James L. Sayre. bankruptcy. the ninth wonder is the American out what committees say. They Bureau has selected a cross- Belleville: Gerald Elentiaum. Owen- people's ignorance of that speak their own language. section of MFB staff, state farmer dale. One third-grade teacher divided system." leaders and members active on a WOMEN OF FARM BUREAU: Mrs. his class into two corporations. Committee - eeze Richard Wieland. Ellsworth. R-l. He believes that the survival of Take a few of the phrases I have local level. FARM BUREAU YOUNG FAR- Each corporation elected officers, our enterprise system and the high had translated for me. "We will We, on the staff, have been told MERS: Wayne Wood. Marlette. and sold stock for 13 cents a share- standard of living it has produced procure resources forthwith and nothing in the organization will be POSTMASTER: In using form 3579. using real money. Their products depends upon the economic recharmelize them into equally held sacred from review. Every mail to: Michigan Farm News. 7:r13 Were Mrican yo-yos and yardstick literacy of the American people. attributable bureaucratic program or action in the West Saginaw Highway. Lansing. covers--something every doting Michigan 48904 operations." (Translation: We're organization will be scrutinized in grandparent would love to buy. That farmers should support the going to rob Peter to pay Paul.) or: light of the question, "Does it work Second class postage They bought materials for their college's battle against economic "Those potential effectual social toward the goals of Farm paid at products on the open market and illiteracy is not surprising. One of Greenville, Mh:bigan hannonizations focusing audition Bureau?" "discovered" the law of supply and the statements included in "Farm upon the powers that be will find I was cogniscent of the desirous demand. Bureau Beliefs" is: "That one of gratification in the practice." nature among yourselves (Translation: The squeaky wheel references of knowledge which for FaRm~ Each treasurer corporation had a the grea test dangers threatening to keep the books, our republic and our system of gets greased.) might be quenched by my Well, Fann Bureau has a new -...dissertative effort. (Translation: I BUreaU recording expenditures and in- private competitive enterprise is come. Before the project was the apat~1 of the American committee and I have been told thought you'd like to know.) . finished, they had learned about people ... ANNOUNCEMENT The Farm News is now being published one week earlier than has been the practice up to now in order to facilitate more timely mailings. Editorial C9n- tributors, display and classified advertisers should have materials into the Farm News before the 13th of each month to meet new schedules. Teenagers learn .. the credit game." MAY 1,1974 MICHIGAN FARM NEWS PAGE 3 Trade, Technology Make New feed Possible "US Cattle Fed Grain - as World Starves" "We can cut feed costs in half with liquid read a headline a hove an article reflecting the feed," Henderson said. "But this wouldn't ~ thoughts of a young, self-taught nutritionist in ha ve been true two years ago, with the cheap a recent issue of a Michigan newspaper. feed grains we had then." Frances Lappe, author of the best seller Hand-in-hand with the economic savings for "Diet for a Small Planet," bemoaned the cattle feeders will come a new efficiency in practice of using 78 percent of the humanly protein use, Henderson adds. usable grain we produce to feed livestock "With liquid feed we will actually be able to which convert this protein into smaller turn livestock into protein factories that amounts of meat protein. produce humanly usable protein from non- The author's indictment on American agriculture is based on the concept of pro~in efficiency. She follows this maxim religiously humanly usable proteins." Henderson's liquid feed, unlike urea, would not be toxic and would be a complete source of I~'~_ .1 f. whether talking. about feeding cattle or energy. Eventually, need for any solid bulk feeding people. would be eliminted for slaughter ~nimals. ' "We can cut feed Following this guideline, she presents, in her book, over 100 predominately vegetarian The scientist has already proved his point to , his own satisfaction with the development of recipes, ranging from banana and nut stews Bactolac. which he and Dr. C. A. Reddy un- i to eggplant Parmesan. veiled last summer. Her concept throughout is never to use two parts of protein to make one by feeding it to This protein supplement is made from a ~ dairy by-product, whey, which up to an- costsin half"- an animal. nouncement of the new product was con- "These are proper statements, but she uses sidered nothing more than an environmental them completely out of context," said Dr. nuisance. Henderson claims that 300,000 Hugh E. Henderson, a scientist studying animal feeds at Michigan State University. cattle could be fed every year with the whey @i available in Michigan. I Dr. Hugh E. I "There's one simple reason we've been This is only an example of what can be using grain for feed - economics. When you done, according to Henderson, since most any. could buy soybean oil for $60 or $70 per ton, carbon-bearing substance with proper animals were doing mankind a favor by treatment will be able to be converted to feed taking it off the market." for cattle, hogs, poultry, sheep and dairy Any livestock feeder knows this is not the cows. case today: Because of high feed costs, hog and cattle feeders are going in the hole. It is The researcher already envisions large, Consumer protection measures, But limitations are necessary since people estimated cattle feeders are now losing $100 distillery-like structures being made to necessitating long research, add to the can be finicky about what they feed the to $200 for each market steer they sell. produce the liquid feed in mass volumes. consumer's bill as well, Henderson saYSr animals they invest so much money in. A'more affluent world trading more openly But Michigan farmers won't be able to find "They can add up to 50percent to the coSt of "People are funny," Wastell says. "If we with the US has changed the picture over the the whey product or any others of its kind at new products. And now they want to pass a put in more alfalfa than usual to take the last two years, Henderson says. The result? feed dealers now. new law that would give the President even place of another more expensive ingredient, Higher demand for protein sources and "It takes a minimum of $5 million and five wider consumer protection powers. If they're the color changes and people complain." higher prices for grains, which pushes the to ten years of research to get a new product concerned about the poor, they should keep Wastell, himself a cattle rancher before market system into freeing grain for human on the market after it is developed," Hen- the cost of adequate diets down instead of pursuing his PhD in animal nutrition, consumption. Livestock feeders can afford to derson says .. creating another bureaucratic monster." believes taste is an important limitation that do little elSe. Such extensive procedures for consumer While new cost-saving products fight to get must be evaluated when formulating feed, as Foreseeing such a situation Henderson and clearance by the government is stifling on the market, feed company nutritionists are well as other practical limitations such as other researchers at MSU have been ex- technology with unnecessarily strict left with the problem of getting the lowest weight and consistency. Too much molasses perimenting with possible substitutes for regulations, the scientist says. cost, fully balanced mixture of feed for instance can literally gum up the works, grains since 1965 and feel they have come up "There is noway we could get clearance to ingredients for feed from available com- he says. with the answer in liquid feed technology -- a put on the market any of the food we eat modities. While Wastell doesn't take issue with Food system of converting waste and food by- today, if it had to conform to consumer ., . and Drug Administration controls, his studies products into usable proteins for livestock by regulations," he adds. "They would just wipe ThiS IS no sr:nall ta~k when y~u consider th~t at Iowa State Univeristy on the effects of treating the substances with bacteria. everything out." a formula of mgredlents that IS the lowest ~n Selenium on hogs proved to him that cost last week may ~ot be the c~eapest thiS restrictions can be abusive. week ~ause of pnce fluctuations on the "The fact that Seleniwn was not FDA commodity r:narket. '" approved cost producers thousands of dollars Dr. M~rvm Wastell, entermg. hiS fIfth and the restrictions on DES were basically month With Farm. Bureau ~.rYlces Feed not justifiable," he says. Department, has thiS responslblhty, but ~as Yet, the nutritionist doesn't see any quick the he.lp of a. new ~mputer. system which changes for future feed ingredients. coordmat~s mg.redle~t prices (updated "I don't see any dramatic reduction in the weekly) With their nutnent values. use of feed grains," he says, "But I do see a trend toward putting cattle out in the rough to "The good thing about this computer is that forage and I see greater use of feed grain by- I can experiment, by saying 'what happens products:' if..... ' If corn goes to $4 per bushel, for instance." A degradation of nutritional standards to The computer can compensate for the bring down costs will not be tolerated by rising price of corn and chooses a less ex- Wastell in his program, however .. pensive but nutritionally equivalent sub- "Not while I'm here," he says, "Right now stitute. It is Wastell's job to give the computer we're reviewing all ingredients and final the right information to work with--u~to-date products APART from costs to assure high price listings, correct nutritional levels of nutritional standards." ingredie.nts and t~e right nutri~onal.goals for Wastell sees technology as a possible cost- the particular ammal the feed IS bemg made saver fOT feeders in the long run with new for. advances such as aquatic food harvesting. "Any limitations you place on this basic But the time it takes to put these advances Dr. Wastell checks a feed ingredient printout with his assistant in the FBS computer formula, generally, costs you money," into practice may be the factor that decides room. Wastell says. whether many livestock feeders will benefit. PAGE 4 MICHIGAN FARM NEWS MAY 1,1974 CAPITOL REPORT Robert E. Smith Petition Drives Attack Spending, fast Time Two of the petition drives now This idea is not entirely new. A has been started by a committee of underway in Michigan are aimed similar proposal put to a public organizations, including Michigan at establishing a set limit .to state vote in California was defeated by Farm Bureau, after legislation spending and putting Michigan on a 54 percent majority. It was also submitted by Sen. Gary Byker (R- Central Standard Time. Both argued that local governments Hudsonville) which requested the initiative petitions will need over would have taxed more heavily on federal government to place 300,000 signatures by the July 8 the local level under that proposal. Michigan in the Central Zone was deadline. Rep. Sharpe has tried to prevent not acted upon in the state Rep. Thomas Sharpe (R-HoweJD occasion for such arguments in his le~islature. announced plans to petition in proposal. The initiative petition drive order to place a proposed con- High government expenditures would place a proposed amend- stitutional amendment on the in relation to personal income are ment to the state constitution on November ballot after a House largely a phenomenon of the last 50 the ballot stating that Central committee failed to act upon a joint years. Standard Time would be the legal Thumb Women Face Picketers resolution calling for a spending Information has been compiled time throughout the state. limit. The proposal would freeze which points out that for the first Delegates at the state Farm state spending at the 1973 level at 150 years of US history, total Bureau convention voted to work Huron County Farm Bureau a member of a big price-fixing 8.8 percent of personal income in spending by federal, state, and toward putting Michigan in the members h~ld an open forum on dairy cooperative conspiracy Michigan. local governments never exceeded Central Standard Time Zone.- March 29 WIth members of one of which they said controlled 98 The purpose of Sharpe's proposal 15 percent of the national income, Geographically speaking, over 98 the mo~t outspoken food boycott percent of milk supplies. is to control growth of government except during a major war. percent of our state is in that time gr~uIE In tl.1e. country - Women MMPA President took issue with spending, stab_i1ize taxes, and Between 1932and 1950, this had zone. Umted for Action (WUA). Mrs. Bukowski as he spoke from maintain present levels of grown to 32 percent; and by 1973,it The time issue is a long-standing the floor. government services while taking Operation Food Price Rollback "All Michigan Milk Producer was estimated that total federal, and controversial issue. Michigan population growth and inflation uooer WUA has continued to call Association members are small state, and local government is presently in the Eastern Stan- into consideration. for a 25 percent rollback on meat and middle size farmers and all revenues exceeded 43 percent of dard Time Zone; and- Daylight The resolution, introduced by 38 and milk prices since the spring monies go to them, not the com- total personal income. Saving Time literally means food boycotts last year. pany ,.. \ he said telling the WUA legislators of both parties At this rate, it is estimated that "Double" Daylight Time, with the establishes a limit on all revenues total government revenues will be state actually two hours ahead of On January 24, the Detroit representative to check her facts. of the state, excluding federal aid. more than 50 percent of personal the sun. chapter of WUA took their cam- Lake added that farmers have At the same time, state monies to income by the early 1980's. One piece of time legislation has pa ign to the doorsteps of the the same right to organize as to local governments could not be The average wage earner today passed this year in an, attempt to Michigan Milk Producers la borers do and to bargain cut below the levels set at the time must work nearly five months of take' Michigan 9ff the federally collectively as unions do. Association headquarters. . the amendment is adopted and the the year to pay his total taxes to mandated Daylight Saving Time Mrs. Bukowski said WUA Picketing in front of the Detroit state could not make local units loca~ state, and federal goyem- for the winter months. This still offices, the group distributed planned a hearing in which small increase services unless new ments. Michigan's state ex- lea ves the problem of summer handbills reading, "Milk for and middle dairy farmers would be programs were paid for out of state penditures have paralleled this Daylight Saving' Time. People, Not for Profit." invited to question large coffers. national trend. For example, total cooperative spokesmen. Local units, on the other hand, state revenues were 4.53 percent of "The small farmer is not our Big costs for these small and would be prohibited from in- personal income in 1956, and 8.8 cr.emy but our ally, "Diane middle-sized farmers were creasing tax rates or levying new percent in 1973. Bukowski, one of the WUA discussed by Faye Adams and taxes without a majority vote of It is estimated that if total state picketers told the assembly in Bad Diane Wood of Sanilac County voters in that area. (This spending continues at the present Axe at the Huron County Farm during the meeting. limitation would not apply, growth rate, Michigan's total state Bureau Rural-Urban Dinner. The duo' showed slides of their however, to payment on bonds budget will increase from the own dairy operations to the group, already authorized'> current $5 billion to more than $30 The WUA education campaign pointing out the costs of farm State tax limitations could be billion by 1~88. was' meant to expose the reaL equipment, feed and the risks exceeded under the proposal if the culprit, she said, -- big business. involved in inveSting in dairy cows. legislature passed a declaration of The two Sanilac women are one emergency by a two-thirds vote. Double Daylight Saving Mrs. Bukowski, along with of the most active of the 28 MFB Such declarations could only be The petition drive to put colleague, Tova Klein, were in- Bureau Speakers' teams in the made on a year-to-year basis. Michigan in the Central Time Zone vjted to the dinner by the Huron state. County FB Women's Committee. County Women's Committees MMPA President Glenn Lake was are being called upon throughout also invited to the dinner on the the state to.contact church officials anniversary of the 1973 meat in-their area in a move to counter boycotts which spawned the WUA United Farm Worker (UFW) ef- organization. forts to get clergy support. MFB Women's Director Helen Mrs. Bukowski stressed that Atwood said every county com- WUA had much iri common with mittee would be contacted and small and middle farmers and they given material explaining that the should work together against giant UFW's fight is with the teamsters corporations who, she said, control union which has won over a 80 percent of American food majority of the UFW membership. production. From past statements, it seemed apparent that WUA included farmer cooperatives such as Roil Hearings Set Tax Cutter MMPA, which the group tagged as Hearings on the effect of rail Sen. Bursley (R-Ann Arbor), reorganization and cutbacks in. Chairman of the Senate Education Michigan ha ve been won for out Committee, is planning to in- state Michigan. Those who wish troduce legislation to provide for as much as a one-third cut in USDA Practicing to give testimony can par- ticipate in any of the following property taxes levied for school hearings. Appointments can be opera ting purposes. This would be accomplished by increasing the Birth Control made by calling the ICC Regional Office and asking for state personal and corporate in- • Erma Johnson at (313) 226-4966. come tax for financing public Mexican and US officials education. currently are negotiating with Date Place Time The idea is an extension of the contractors for construction of the May 13 Saginaw 9:30a.m. . Bursley "Equal Yield" School Aid main building of a facility in (Civic Center) Act that was passed last year southern Mexico in which to May 15 which guarantees an equal dollar produce more than 300 million & 16 Grand Rapids 9:30a.m. yield from each mill of property sexually sterile screw worm flies (County Ad Bldg.) tax. regardless of how poor the each week. May 20 Traverse City 9:30a.m. district might be. When the sterilized screwworm (Gov't Credit Union) Thank Yon Gentlemen Sen. Bursley does not expect that such a bill will pass this year but flies mate with screwworms. the eggs that result native &7:00p.m. May 21 (Gov't Credit Union) expects that public heariags can be are sterile, thus diminishing the 9:30a.m. Farm Bureau would like to thank the above legislators for being held during the summer and fall insects' ability to multiply. May 24 Marquette 9:30a.m. among the many that met with members this Spring. They are: Sen. with consideration of the Scientists plan a few tricks for (City Hall) Stanley Powell (R-Ionia), Sen. James Fleming (R-Jackson), Rep. Ray legislation by next year's gYIEY moths in Michigan. (See ~ehres (D-Monroe) and Rep. Kirby Holmes (R-Utica). Legisla ture. page 9>' MAY 1, 1974 MICHIGAN FARM NEWS PAGE 5 ~. ~ -\ NATIONAL NOTES Albert A. Almy Consumer Agency Hobert E. Smith Albert A. Almy Almost Here The House has passed, by a three off structures are eligible for funds Do I qualify for tax break? to one margin, a bill (HR 13163) .that would create an independent under REAP, but not RECP . With all feedlots subject to broad Consumer Protection Agency provisions of federal feedlot run off Q: In the December issue of the FARM ment will carry out the provISIons of the (CPA>' The bill, which was sent to regulations, farmers may find it NEWS, your column indicated that the resolution and extend the property tax relief the Senate, would authorize the worthwhile to use the REAP to Treasury Department had misinterpreted the to many more people living on fann and CPA to intervene in both informal help them comply. tax relief program law passed last year by horticultural lands. and formal proceedings of nearly requiring that the products sold from the The resolution was, however, restricted every federal agency to represent Land Use farm must total more than the household somewhat by Senate amendments. consumer interests. Also in the April issue of income in order to get full benefits of new The resolution says that all of a farmer's Consumer resistance to food Michigan Farm News, this column legislation. Has anything been done to clarify land is eligible for tax relief if the gross prices, support for export controls reported that federal land use this m isinterpreta lion? receipts from farming exceed household and resistance to. dairy price legisla tion recei ved a sudden and A: Yes. FarIll Bureau. and several income. supports are positions a CPA may unexpected setback on Feb. 26 legislators objected to the Treasury But there is still a chance for relief for those press upon the USDA. when the House Rules Committee Department's interpretation. who don't meet this condition. If an owner has In 1972, the USDA had 231 refused to clear for debate a House - Rep. Roy Spencer (R-Attica), introducer of lived on the land for 10or more years, full tax proceedings that, under this law, Bill (HR 10294>, which would the tax relief bill of 1973, provided the relief benefits will be maintained. Otherwise, would be subject to CPA in- esta blish a process for develop- leadership to introduce a resolution to clarify only the household and up to five acres of tervention. Those proceedings ment of a state land use plan which the legislative intent in the tax relief bill. property can be included in the tax program. dealt directly with such central includes federal strings with (Spencer .originally pushed for fanns to be It should be remembered, however, that issues as export and import control funding. included in the legislation.> this resolution is not a la w, but only a programs, acreage allotments, It would provide $100million per. It is expected that the Treasury Depart- clarifica~on for the Treasury Department. operations of CCC, meat grading, year for eight years in the form of milk programs, etc. If the House grants to states for development of vote is any indication of support, land use plans. To qualify for the Do agencies make own loVls? odds are in favor of the bill becoming law. federal grants, states would be required to meet specific criteria Q: Recently federal agencies have issued a required by the Act. Without such authority Farm Bureau opposes the established in the federal bill. lot of regulations about pesticides and run-off. delega ted by Congress, an individual affected establishment of any consumer Following the denial from the I don't understand how they can pass laws by the regulation would have good reason to agency having other than advisory Rules Committee, supporters of without the approval of Congress. challenge EPA on legal grounds. powers. the bill launched an effort to obtain A; This question is frequently asked by its clearance for a House vote, Issuance of emergency standards is an resulting in the scheduling of two members but especially so in recent weeks. action government agencies may take that Members are currently concerned because 1\lore Funds for Conservation additional days of hearings on the comes closest, in the view of many, to making For the rest of 1974,fanners will bill by a Subcommittee of the federal agencies have proposed regulations a law. Emergency regulations can be im- during the last year that affect nearly all be able to use two federal House Interior and Insular Mfairs posed when extreme danger or other similar programs to assist in im- Committee. farmers. These include regulations to prevent conditions ex.ist to the health and safety of the all run-off from feedlots entering navigable plementing conservation practices Michigan Farm Bureau sub- general public. and complying with federal mitted testimony to the hearing waters, machinery guards on all equipment These r~gulations do not require advance and pesticide re-entry standards. regulations. On April 3, the Rural held on April 25 in opposition to HR notice or solicitation of public comment. They Environmental Assistance 10294and any extension of federal Government agencies are for the most part may take - effect immediately and may Program (REAP> was officially authority over land use planning. administrators of laws enacted by legislative remain in effect until permanent regulations bodies such as Congress. A government reinstated through court action. He noted tha t com prehensi ve can be developed for public comment. This move freed $210 million of statewide land use planning and agency is not authorized to enact laws itself. The ,OSHA Emergency Pesticide Re-entry unused REAP funds that were legislation has been developed in An agency does, however, have authority to Standards issued by the Department of La bor impounded by President Nixon last Michigan .without federal develop regulations that will enable it to administer a law within its jurisdiction last year are an example. Fann Bureau and year in an effort to hold down assistance. He also noted that this others successfully repealed the OSHA federal spending. progress has been made with a passed by the C!Ppropriate legislative body. An example is the Federal Water Pollution Emergency Standards through court action The REAP plan now joins the $90 great deal of local input which Control Act which Congress passed over the on the basis that sufficient. evidence did not million Rural Environmental might be lost under federal in- exist to warrant such action. Conservation __Program (RECP) volvement. President's veto in 1972.The act establishes 1985as a goal to eliminate all discharges of which was set up by Congress to It is believed that the Rules Regulations can be out of line if the agency replace REAP. pollutants into navigable waters of this does not correctly interpret the intent of Committee may now reconsider If funds for both programs are H.R. 10294and it could be cleared nation. Congress established the goal and Congress or the law. Incorrect interpretations other intermediate deadlines, but left the not committed by the end of for a House vote this summer. of legislative intent leads to an agency im- December, they will revert to the responsibility of implementation to the En- posing regulations in areas not covered by the vironmental Pr.otection Aeencv (EPA). US Treasury. Price Controls law. While this does happen on occasion, it is The most nota ble difference Then EPA developed no-discharge feedlot . the job of Fann Bureau and others par- The authority for the President regulations under this mandate by Congress. between the two plans is that to impose wage and price controls ticipating in the public review of proposed pollution prevention practices such EPA is carrying out its reponsibility as regulations to catch these errors. is scheduled to expire April 30, as the construction of feedlot run 1974. Price controls originally imposed in August 1971 appear to be on the way out. Nevv Film Release Shovvs Professional Farmers Both the Senate Housing and Urban Banking, Affairs Comm~ttee and the House Banking In the midst of consumer "It shows the farmer as a school systems have already seen obtain a copy of the film can and Currency Committee have irritation over inflation and rising professional," says Bob Driscoll of the film and have asked to have it contact their county office or the tabled numerous bills that would food prices the Michigan, Ohio and the MFB information staff. added to their film libraries. state office at 7373 W. Saginaw, either extend price controls and Indiana Farm Bureaus have With footage shot in all three Farm Bureau groups wishing to Lansing, 48904. industries currently covered, released a half-hour feature film states and music specially scored retain price controls on a few called "Man and the Land" for the film, facts concerning specific industries, or provide depicting farmers' special needed capital investment as well standing controls to be used when problems in today's world. as risks involved with weather, the President felt they were market conditions and en- necessary. vironme.ntal controls are conveyed While the Committee action to in a pleasing manner. table price control bills is viewed "I think the fanner is seen as a by most observers as killing an businessman, planner and con- extension of wage and price con- serva tionist in this film," says trols, others believe that some MFB information head Larry form of legislation may still be Ewing. enacted . .. The film has been scheduled to Fann Bureau is continuing to ....• ~ ~ he aired on several TV stations ~ make its opposition against any . , ... throughout Michigan but Ewing extension of price controls known .~" . and Driscoll see much of its value to all members of Congress. :.• t. in use in public meetings. MFB Fann Bureau has been a leading ~ ... Speakers Bureau personnel are oponent of price controls as a ...., already using the film as part of means to control inflation. When ~ PI presentations to school children price controls were imposed in and municipal groups. 1971,Fann Bureau warned that the "The film is ideal for rural-urban result would be black markets, Faye Adams and Diane Wood of meetings," Ewing says, "Since it shortages and little effect on in- Sanilac Co. show school children does such a good job of informing flation. A glance backward from the way it used to be. Then, the film non-farmers about agriculture." the present to August 1971, we "Man on the Land" is shown to Perhaps the biggest use of the think, reveals the wisdom of this depict the present. film \\;U come in schools. Several warning. PAGE 6 MICHIGAN FARM NEWS MAY 1, 1974 Cherry Producers First Victim Packaging Shortage T"reatens Markets Despite a healthy demand for "Even though we're not talking "We're at a very critical cherries, Michigan producers may about that much steel, it's a matter period," MACMA General Man- find tha t they won't ha ve an outlet of priorities," says MFB ager Noel Stuckman says, "We Marl. But Right now I would say the parts problem is quite critical Yes, it's manure. And the lots of hardworking bacteria to Cobey doesn't claim to have a new but not so bad that there are people down and out. message, coming from the farm speed up the long, natural process idea. equipment industry, is that there is of composting that has made the "It's as old as buffalo chips," Farm :"Jews: Do you think fertilizer and fuel Shortages a lot of waste going to waste. fossil fuels we mine and drill for he said. "We have rediscovered an will alleviate the machinery demand? .'There is more than enough today. age-old source of energy." Jury: No. It may by next spring, but I think the farmer pnergy by several times over in A small amount of diesel fuel is The use of wastes as fuel has has some more disposable income to spend on that new f~d lot manures to replace all needed to run the rapid com poster indeed been well publicized, since piece of equipment he's been wanting for the last two or ft;cls used for drying grain in this the inventor says but heat an Englishman started filling his three-years. The machinery isn't purchased on what he Cl untry ," said inventor and farm produced by the bacteria itself is car tank with a fuel derived from anticipates to make this year but on what he made last {'(llipment enterpreneur, Herbert enough to eliminate health chicken waste a few years ago. year. T. Cobey. hazards. But Cobey sees this machine as a 'i'he former president of Cobey Moisture is eliminated from the very practical immediate step Farm News: As a coop manager, what do you think is (.( rporation has been con- manure, leaving a sulphur-free towards mass use of waste and the worst of the shortages facing farmers? ,entrating on environmental substance that Cobey says says the com poster is already in Jury: .Fertilizer. I don't think there is going to be (,ntrol engineering lately and says resembles lignite coal. full production. enough fertilizer to get maximum yields. MAY 1, 1974 MICHIGAN FARM NEWS PAGE 9 Moth Defoliates Michigan Counties by ROBERT C. ANDERSON This spring another battle will be fought transporting of the moth. Smith says that in Michigan's war against the gypsy moth. any of these items could have egg masses If we lose, thousands of acres surrounding attached to them which could start new Michigan farms could be disfigured infestations in the areas to which they are through defoliation. transported. Now is the time to search out and Giving moths the come-on destroy the pests so state and federal APHIS is also involved in detection anCi agriculture departments have imposed a attempts to eliminate present infestations quarantine on the areas of highest in- Smith said. The moths are detected by sex festation - Fremont Township and Rolland traps which look like paper cups and are township in Isabella County and Richland baited with a synthetic sex attractant. The Township in Montcalm County. 1'he substance attacts male moths from as far quarantine involves inspection of trees, away- as two miles. shrubs, timber, timber products, mobile The inner portion of the trap is coated homes and recreational vehicles that are • with a sticky substance called tanglefoot, taken out of the area. which does just that. Smith said 1,000 traps "So far we have a chance to eliminate were set around the state in the fall of 1973 the moths because we have only light and 2,000 moths were trapped in twenty- infestations," says Bruce Smith, assistant one counties. ~ to Richard Moore head of the USDA's Intensive searches for egg masses to Animal and Plant Health Inspection determine the extent of the moth Service (APHIS) in Michigan. They hope populations in these counties revealed that a combination of treatments in in- light infestations in Isabella, Mecosta, A researcher pulls gypsy moth from a tanglefoot trap. fested areas will lead to a method of Montcalm and Gratiot counties. As a eliminating the gypsy moth from result, Smith said 42,000acres in these four Michigan. counties will be treated this spring. A Predators have been imported into on the egg masses as well as the other "Mter all, who will want to camp in a variety of treatments will be used. For areas in the Northeast plagued by the stages may also be scared away from forest of trees with no leaves?" says example, 26,000acres will be sprayed with gypsy moth, but without added chemical inhabited areas. William Wallner, Michigan State a biodegradable insecticide called seven- controls they have had no appreciable University Entomologist. four-oil. effect, said Wallner. A virus which attacks Therefore summer cottages and urban This woodland pest has plagued the Although the Environmental Protection gypsy moths has been studied as a possible homes located in wooded areas are good Northeastern United States since 1869. It Agency has allowed the Forest Service to biological control. It has not been very places for infestations to begin. 'The moths was carried from its native home, use DDT to combat a similar problem with effective except when the population is can then spread from these areas by southern Europe, - to Boston, the Tussok moth in Washington state, ballooning, Wallner said. BallooniIu! is under stress from some other factor such Massachusetts by a naturalist. During his Oregon and Idaho, Smith said the situation dme by the newly hatched larvae which as climate or overpopulation. are thin and have long hairs all around experiments, some of the moths escaped in Michigan is not serious enough to Researchers are not able to predict and found a new home in the New England request the use of DDT. Much of the area their body. They climb to the top of the tree whether the gypsy moth will prosper in forests. They had very few enemies in to be treated is fann land and DDT could where the wind picks some of them up and Michigan because there is very little data their new home and plenty of their favorite carries them as far as a mile from their contaminate some of the crops. on how they react to our climate Wallner food, such as.aspen, oak, maple and beech Smith said 10,880 acres, including home tree. said. Research needs to be done on current leaves. portions treated with seven-four-oil, WIll infestations to establish this basic id~. Wallner also said that current in- Even though the female moths can't be sprayed with the sex attractant causing . It has been noted that the moths seem to festations in the state are bordered to the fly, they spread quickly. Egg masses a cruel confusion among male moths that be more prosperous near inhabited areas north oy more highly forested areas. _ attached to timber and timber products will prevent them from finding females to bordered by woodlands than in the forests. These areas contain many of the trees and recreational equipment were carried mate with. Wallner explained that this could be prefered by the gypsy moth. It is therefore into many new areas. Another 10,800 acres will be intensively caused by clearing of underbrush in which very important to stop the spread of the Since 1906, the USDA has attempted to trapped with 100,000 traps placed in trees rodents hide. Rodents eat many of the moth to prevent severe infestations like control the gypsy moth, but they are still by students from Ferris State and Mount moth's egg masses. Some birds which feed those in the Northeastern states. sprecrding. In some areas of the US all the Pleasant College. Students will also set leaves have been stripped from trees 11,000 traps throughout the state to detect giving an appearance of winter in July. any further infestations so next years Defoliation weakens trees, allowing other control program can be planned. diseases to infect them, causing some to Smith made a special request that all die. Many of these infested areas no longer persons in Michigan notify the MDA if they have such trees as aspen, oak, maple and see any buff colored egg masses on their beech. Only more resistant trees are left. property or in campsites this summer. One The gypsy moth entered Michigan's of the main infestations in Michigan was woodlands for the first time in 1954. The found by a man in his backyard woodlot, moths were det~cted in the Lansing area Smith said. and an intensive program was initiated to !f we are successful in eliminating the eliminate them. The Michigan Depart- gypsy moth from Michigan, an intensive ment of Agriculture (MDA) in cooperation detection program would have to be with the USDA, sprayed lOO,OOQ acres with maintained to prevent their return. DDT and other insecticides in the first Dean Lovitt, head of the Plant Industry year. Division, said that radio, news releases Eventually, portions of Eaton, Clinton, and co_unty extension agents inform the Calhoun, Ionia, Shiawassee and Jackson residents of quarantined areas. what the counties were treated. By 1962, no gypsy egg masses look like and places where moths could be found in Michigan. they may be found. They are also infonned Unfortunately, four years later, the when areas will be sprayed. Beekeepers pests returned and spotted in Calhoun are sent special notices explaining tha t the County near Duck Lake. Now gypsy moths _ seven-four~il may ~ harmful to their INTEREST ON DEBENTURES 5-10-15 year maturity have been trapped in twenty~ne counties hives and how they can protect them. in central Michigan. The Plant Industry Division is devising a The gypsy moth has four stages; moth, long range program to control gypsy moth 7% 5 Year Maturity $100.00 Minimum Purchase egg, larva and pupa. The larva or cater- populations if they are not eliminated. pillar is the destructive stage. One Multi-host parasites and predators will be 8% 15 Year Maturity $100.00 Minimum Purchase caterpillar can eat a square foot of leaf introduced to reduce future populations, surface in twenty-four hours. Lovitt said. A combination of these and 7%% 10 Year Maturity $1,000.00 Minimum Purchase Mobile homes, plants and timber are chemical controls is our best bet, Lovitt . being checked in crisis areas to prevent continued. 8%% 15 Year Maturity $5,000.00 Minimum Purchase Interest paid annually on September 1st. The purchaser to be offered the option to receive their interest in quarterly payments on September 1st, December 1st, March 1st, and June 1st. Interest would start the date of purchase. This is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation to buy these securities. The offering is made only by the prospectus. I -------------------------- Clip and mail this coupon to: -.lburF8rmeo.-. ....t I I Mr. C.A. Morrill FarmersPetroleumCooperative;Inc. FaRm BUreaU r1 I I I P. o. Box 960 I Lansing, Michigln 48904 FARMERS Pfimol.EUM I I I would like a copy of the prospectusand a call by a I I registeredsalesIgent. I I Name I I Road ------------R-F-O-N-O-.------ I II City -~-=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-~ Phone---------- County ---------~~~:-=--=--: II . GypS)' moths often travel by trailer and camper, like this one above . ...---------------------------- PAGE 10 MICHIGAN FARM NEWS MAY 1,1974 • World Trade • IMPORTS AND EXPORTS • What IS it Worth? Foreign trade means different things to different farm- ers. It means more markets. To others import com- petition. At first glance, these opposing views may seem irreconcilable, but this need not be the case. American agriculture has the capacity to produce far more food and fiber than our domestic economy can absorb. Even with a growing export trade there have been large surpluses of farm products in past years and the government has spent enormous sums of money to reduce the production of surplus crops. The basic task of every farmer is to find a profitable use for his resources - land, labor, and capital. In most cases agricultural resources can be used to produce a number of different commodities. If the producer of export crops could not export, sur- pluses of these commodities would accumulate, prices would fall, and some farmers would shift from export crops to the production of other products such as meat, milk, fruits, and vegetables for the domestic market. So, smaller export markets would mean lower prices for all US farmers. There's no simple answer to the question of how im- portant foreign trade is to us, but the following facts give some indication: • In recent years America normally exported the output of one crop-acre out of every four acres which were harvested . • While net farm income is affected by a number of factors in addition to foreign trade, recent increases in farm income ha ve been accompanied by increases in agricultural exports. In the fiscal year 1973exports of the 10 leading agricultural exports accounted for 29 to 76 . percent of estimated farm sales of such products . • Agricultural exports are substantia!lY larger than agricultural imports, and a substantial part of the agricultural imports consists of products which are not produced in the United States. General Public Benefits The nonfanning public has quite a stake in agricultural exports . • In most recent years the United States has had an TUVIC by KEN WILES Manager Member Relations unfavorable balance of international payments, which The United States has also sold government-owned For example, a country wishing to export'meat to the simply means that we have been spending more abroad commodities for less than market prices, paid export United States must maintain a meat inspection program than we have been taking in through dealings with other subsidies when US prices were above world prices due to which meets with the approval of US authorities. Im- countries. farm price supports, and provided credit or credit ported meat and some other products are also subject to This forced the United States to reduce the value of the guarantees for private sales. inspection jit the port of entry. dollar in relation to some other currencies. Since A;; a result of increased commercial demand, ship- The United States has a number of regulations which agricultural exports exceed agricultural imports, ments under government programs ha ve declined in total are designed to prevent the introduction of pests and agriculture has been a plus factor in the balance of and as a percentage of total exports, and the United States dieseases into this country. For example, fresh, chilled or payments statistics. In recent months increased has suspended all of its export subsidy programs. frozen meat may not be imported from countries which agricultural exports have contributed to a major im- Protection of Domestic Producers have foot-and-mouth dise!lse. provement in the balance of payments. Domestic producers of farm products are protected in 3' • It has been estimated that more than 5,000 jobs are US trade laws include an "escape cla,!se" which per- number of ways against. imports. mits the President to impose additional import restric- created in warehousing, transportation, trade, and Imports of most agricultural products which compete elsewhere for each $100million of grain exports and 4,200 tions where the Tariff Commission finds such action with domestic products are subject to tariffs; however, necessary to protect domestic producers from being in- for each $100 million of soybean exports. most tariff rates on agricultural products are relatively • A high level of agricultural exports reduces, and jured by an increase in imports as the result of a con- low. cession granted by this country in an international trade could eliminate, the need for the expenditure of govern- A provision of the law permits the President to restrict ment funds to control farm production and support farm agreement. imports through quotas or import fees whenever an US law provides for the imposition of countervailing prices. investigation by the Tariff Commission indicates such • Trade furthers understanding and respect among duties when the Secretary of the Treasury determines action is necessary to prevent material interference with that imported foreign articles are being subsidized by a nations and contributes to the objective of a more peaceful certain domestic farm programs. , world. "bounty or grant." Imports of sugar are limited by quotas assigned to Need to Trade various countries under the provisions of the Sugar Act. Different nations have different resources - different The United States has prevailed on a number of other soil, climates, mineral deposits, and worker skills - which countries to impose restrictions on the export of textile Farm Bureau Policy enable them to produce different things. International products to this country . Farm Bureau .... trade enables countries to obtain products and raw Domestic quality standards for tomatoes, raisins, olives • Believes that the economic health of any nation materials they do not have the resources to produce. (other than Spanish-style green olives), prunes, depends on its ability to trade with its neighbors. Beyond that, importing nations have to export in order avocados, mangoes, limes, grapefruit, green peppers, • Favors a high' level of mutually advantageous trade. to obtain the foreign currency needed to pay for imports. Irish potatoes, oranges, onions, walnuts, dates ana • Supports reciprocal reductions in the barriers of The need for trade increases with the development of eggplants may be extended to imports . international trade through international negotiations. industry and technology. A 1964law provides a formula for the establishment of. • Supports legislation to give the Administration ad- Additional trade is justified by what economists call quotas on imports of .certain meats (fresh, chilled or ditional authority to participate in multilateral "the law of comparative advantage." Since different frozen meat of cattle, goats, and sheep - other than lambs) negotiations on trade problems which are being conducted nations have different combinations of resources, the and directs the President to impose such quotas whenever within the framework of the General Agreement on amount of resources required to produce a particular it is estimated that imports, in the absence of such Tariffs and Trade (GAIT>' (GATT As an agreement product often differs from country to country. The restrictions, will equal or exceed 110percent of the quota negotiated in 1947 among 23 countries, including the countries which can produce a product with the smallest level. United States, to increase international trade by reducing total expenditure of resources - land, labor, and capital - Generally speaking, imports of agricultural products tariffs and other trade barriers. Today 66 countries have obviously have an advantage for the production of that are required to meet US sanitary standards. full participant status.) product. Differences in the amounts of resources required to produce a product provide a basic reason for trade. The resource cost of producing a particular product must be measured against alternative opportunities for the use of Topic Summary. available resources. The discussion topic on "The Missing Farm A: More up-to-date information on pending So, a country can gain by concentrating its productive Bureau Link" gave members an opportunity to legislation; workshops with group officers; stress efforts on the commodities for which it has the greatest review the Community Group Program. A great more young farmer community groups; more advantage, then trade such products for commodities for many recommendations for improving the program services available to members. which other countries have a greater advantage. at local, county and state level were received. Due Comparative advantage can be, and often is, offset by to space limitations only a few of the recom- 4. Q: How can the community group program be national policies which affect the cost of producing mendations are given in this summary. changed so as to be more meaningful to active various commodities or the prices at which they can be 1.97percent of the groups reported the members farmers? A: More active farmers participating in exported or imported. attended the meetings for socializing and in- groups instead of just belonging; by involving Examples of policies which interfere with the operation formation. Other reasons for attending included: community groups more in local committee affairs; of the law of comparative advantage include minimum work out common problems; current information; let groups know what Farm Bureau is doing; when wage laws and other government actions which af(ect and a desire to be part of the action. we as members realize our personal responsibility wage costs, import duties, export taxes, export subsidies, 2. Q: What do you think your county Farm _and alert our county Farm Bureau to our needs and and government payments - such as US farm program Bureau can do to improve the community group problems and work together to solve them. - payments - to domestic producers. program in your county? A: Organize more com- 5. Conclusions: Our group brings our neigh- Dependence of Government Programs munity groups; promote a membership attendance borhood closer together to talk matters over; if all Government programs are now a minor factor in the contest; county-wide educational meetings on groups got seriously involved we'd have a very agricultural export picture but in the past, substantial different interest areas; county officers visits to effective influence on others; community group exports were gained under foreign aid programs. Public community groups . program is the nucleus of Farm Bureau; little can .Law 480 authorized grants to other countries for 3. Q: What do you think Michigan Farm Bureau be done unless members put more importance on emergency relief, barter transactions, sales for foreign can do to improve the community group program? Farm Bureau meetings than on other activities. currency, and sales on easy credit terms. MAY 1,1974 MICHIGAN FARM NEWS PAGE 11 FARM BUREAU MARKET SPECIAL RATE TO FARM BUREAU MEMBERS: One free 25 word ad per month per membership, additional ads, 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 advertisers: 15 cents per word one edition, two or more editions, 10 cents per word. Copy deadline: of month. Mail classified ads to: Michigan Farm News, P. O. Box 960, Lansing, MI. 48904. Publisher reserves right to reject any advertising copy submitted. FARM EQUIPMENT FARM EQUIPMENT WANTED WANTED MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE - Kleenco equipment consisting of FOR SALE - 66 All Crop Harvester. Allis- WANTED - Old automobiles. light trucks. WANTED - Dairyman. married man for rull KODACOLOR FILM DEVELOPED. 12 expo automatic feeders. waterers. rollaway rlr 8.000 birds. Chicken feeders and electric nests Chalmers Roto-Baler. Ford 3 bottom plow. motorcycles. any make or' condition. time employment. Only experienced in field Roll $1.50. Cavalier CoIx2l)O by 3Ox200. ex- MILKING SHORTHORNS: Young Bulls. cellent condition. House and other outbuildings yearlings and calves for sale. Write f, Vivian Lott and MFB Information Director Larry Ewing chat with the host of "Rural cond .• 104" CA. 14' stake rack. 65.000 miles. (5-lt-I7P) very good condition. John M. Smith. Route 10", a farm ~Ievision program on WILX-TVJackson. \ Williamston. Mich. 48895. (517) 655-1104. FOR SALE - 7 open Registered Polled The two women are members of the MFB Speakers Bureau out of Ingham county .. Mrs. Lott was also (5-lt-25p) Herefocd Heifers and 5 yrl. Reg. PoUed recently appointed vice chairman of the MFB Study Committee, a group reviewing Farm Bureau programs. Hereford Buns. Call Duane Rushlo (517) 872- FORESTRY SERVICES - Appraisals. plans. :549. Cass City. Mich. (Ht-21p) coosultations. investigations relating to timber. shade am Christmas tree problems. Fire am theft losses. marketing. George Blair. 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This America's most appealing cities. couver Island. bustling city offers restful retreats Farm Bureau members will be It's the perfect voyage - long such as Stanley Park which holds able to take any of three, week-long enough to relax comfortably on sun remnants of giant trees and deep excursions into the Northwest, on decks and in restaurants, yet short green vegetation of the coastal rain member tours during June, August enough to prevent boredom forest on the harbor front. and September. associated with ocean cruises. Gastown, a city ~thin the city, The tour begins west of the Arriving in Victoria, visitors with laid-brick streets finds Rocky Moun tain foothills in discover what the word "quaint" patrons of its restaurants, open-air Spokane, which hosts international means. A ride through the city by cafes and shops staying afoot while visitors for Expo '74. One hundred car reveals modern shopping bumping from place to place. The acres of central Spokane is devoted dis tricts wi th hanging flower variety of food hailing from India to the fair, with bridges linking the baskets adorning the streets, but to Japan makes Vancouver an site to two islands in the Spokane those on foot can duck into narrow excellent spot to end the Northwest River. alleyways only a block away to find excursion. This smallest city to ever hold a themselves nestled by small shops Trips are planned for June 23, INTEREST ON DEBENTURES 5.10-15 year maturity world's fair will ha ve exhibits from and sid ew alk ca fes on each August 18 and September 15. Russia, Australia, the Orient, Iran shoulder-. Reservations and information are as well as many other states and The old structures of the available from Ken Wiles, 7% 5 Year Maturity $100.00 Minimum Purchase countries. Spokane, often called waterfront city have failed to Michigan Farm Bureau, P.O. Box the lilac city, also offers its own decay, but rather have been 960, Lansing 48904. 7%% 10 Year Maturity $100.00 Minimum Purchase home grown garden sites for visitors to enjoy. 8% 15 Year Meturity $100.00 Minimum Purchase The fourth day of the trip will find members flying into the 7%% 10 Year Maturity $1,000.00 Minimum Purchase shadows of the Olympic Mountains to Seattle. The cosmopolitan at- 8%% 15 Year Maturity $5,000.00 Minimum Purchase mosphere can continue for those who wish to stroll through Chinatown, but many may be Interest paid annually on September 1st. The purchaser to satisfied to drink in the view of the be offered the option to receive their interest in Quarterly Pugei Sound shielded by a back- payments on September 1st, December 1st, March 1st, and drop of white-ca pped peaks. June 1st. I nterest would start the date of purchase. This is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation to buy these securities. The offering is made only by the prospectus. 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All Farm Bureau Members, ages 18 through 70 are eligible. FACT: FARM BUREAU MEMBER LIFE INSURANCE is a participating policy. FARM BUREAU MEMBER LIFE policy- holders will share in any benefits which might result from favorable program experience. FACT: Coverage is automatically updating. When a Farm Bureau Member marries, as children arrive, protection is expanded automatically. Each child is automatically covered from the age of 15 days through 21 years (as long as the child is single and not holding a FARM BUREAU MEMBER LIFE POLICY). FACT: About 48C a week . . . $25 annually . . . can provide life insurance for every Michigan Farm Bureau Member, spouse and child. For you and yours . . . check these facts and others with Charlie Foster, your local Farm Bureau Insurance Agent and your Farm Bureau Secretary. And do it before May 31 . . . so you need not worry about passing a physical examination. 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