MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU NEWS F. B. Members In "Make Farming A Counties Read Business—As Well 62 The NEWS. As An Occupation." PUBLISHED BY THE MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU FOR ITS MEMBERSHIP VOL. II, No. 15 AUGUST 15, 1924 Issued Semi-Monthly CO-OPERATIVE GRAIN MARKETING CO. One of the Great Elevators Taken Over CHAIRMAN OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE TAKES OVER THE ELEVATOR SYSTEMS . By Farmers* Grain Marketing Company OF MICE STATE GRANGE SHOWS FARM OF FIVE NATION-WIDE CORPORATIONS BUREAU DELEGATES NEED OF LOYALTY Big Firm Started by the American F a r m Bureau Declares V a l u e of Organization Clearly S h o w n ; Now Handling N e w Crop; Old Management N o w F a r m e r ' s Duty T o Support—Not Leave Is Retained to Direct the Business It All To Leaders, If The Greatest During Transition Period Success Is T o Be Secured •i- Chicago, August 12.—Some weeks ago the American Farm Bureau Fed- eration astonished the country by PLANS ALL MADE Probably there is no man in Michigan whose advice and counsel commands greater respect than does that of N. P. announcing a proposed co-operative Grain Marketing Company of farm- ers and their organizations for thn FOR DAIRY PICNIC Hull of Lansing, chairman of the Executive Committee of the purpose of taking over and operating in a co-operative way the properties ATM. A. C. AUG. 22 Michigan State Grange, President of the Michigan Milk Pro- ducers' Ass'n and officer in several national dairy organiza- of five of the largest terminal ele- vator and grain marketing firms in Everything In Readiness For tions. the country. Events have moved quickly and Record Breaking Crowd Partly because of the prominence of the man and partly since August 1 the Grain Marketing Of Dairymen because of the solid worth of the address, we are giving NEWS Company has been operating the great terminal elevator properties readers herewith rather complete extracts from Mr. Hull'» and other facilities of the Armour MILLER & GLOVER SPEAK very timely speech to the last meeting of the Michigan State Grain Company, Rosenbaum Grain Corporation and Rosenbaum Broth- fr Above is the Northwestern Grain* Farm Bureau Board of Delegates. It was all so good that we ers, the J. C. Shaffer and Company Each Minute of the Day Will Elevator at South Chicago, ten mil- wished to print it in full, but it was a little too long for that. and the Davis-Noland-Merrill Grain Company, retaining the necessary Be Packed With Fun WOOL POOL SELLS lion bushels capacity at one time, formerly owned .'by the Armour SAFESEED, INC., TO But anyway read this. It might well be read aloud at your And Instruction operating management of each of these companies to insure the suc- cess of the one big co-operative grain Friday, August 22nd will be a 2 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 POUNDS Grain Corporation, now a co-opera- tive elevator under direction of the Farmers' Grain Marketing Company. SERVE MICHIGAN local Grange, Farmers' Club, or Community meeting. It is a gem of sound counsel and stern advice which we should all marketing organization. The Grain red letter day for Michigan dairy- This company, organized by the National Co-op Seed House heed and take very much to heart. Marketing Company is purchasing men and especially for members of Michigan-Ohio Growers Are American Farm Bureau, has taken the above properties at a valuation the Michigan Milk Producers Asso- Moving Clip to Market over the holdings of five great ele- Now Lining Up Supplies Long Interest in Farm Organizations to be fixed by competent,^disinter- ciation. On that date more than 5,- vator corporations and will operate ested appraisers. Stock in the Grain 000 dairymen are expected to gather Rapidly them co-operatively as one farmers' of Alfalfa "Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Fellow Farmers: Marketing Company will be held by on the M. A. C. campus for a big pic- concern. The transaction involves "I am rather glad to be here and am going to assure you grain farmers and their organiza- nic and out-door meeting. Head- Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 13.—Sales scores of elevator ownerships and Michigan's connection with SAFE- tions. line attractions on the speaking pro- of approximately 2,000,000 pounds leaseholds throughout the nation. SEED, INC., the national co-opera- that I won't misuse your courtesy by talking too long, and Provides Co-op Service gram include two of the foremost of 1924 wool belonging to Michigan August 8 and 9 the editor of the tive seed buying concern organized another thing that I want to assure you of, I have no desire The purpose of the Grain Market- authorities on dairy problems, Judge and Ohio Wool Growers Co-opera- Michigan Farm Bureau News and recently at Chicago, will probably be- ing Company is to provide grain John D. Miller of Susquehanna, Pa., tive Marketing Ass'n members have Mr. Neil Bass, Representing the come apparent with the new crop of this afternoon in the short time I will be before you to make growers with complete co-operative President of the National Milk Pro- been announced by officials of the Michigan Elevator Exchange, to- northwestern grown Grimm and a speech. There is a temptation to a man when he can to get grain marketing facilities, starting ducers' Federation, and A. J. Glo- Ohio Ass'n in charge of the 1924 gether with the editors of Farm Bu- Utah alfalfas. In behalf of the Michi- with completely equipped and suc- ver, of Ft. Atkinson, Wis., editor of wool pool warehouses here. Receipts reau newspapers and Bureau grain gan, Ohio, Indiana, New England and in a lot of flowery language and to bring out some of the cessfully operating elevators and Hoards Dairyman. of wool up to the present indicate marketing men of Illinois, Ohio, Ne- other state Farm Bureaus, SAFE- adjectives that have flowed over his tongue several times so that the Ohio-Michigan- pool will braska, North and SEED, INC., is in the west lining up other facilities in all the great ter- This picnic is being held on the South Dakota. minal markets—and connecting M. A. C. campus as a result of an have about 4,000,000 pounds. This Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota and New stocks of alfalfa seed. It probably they come easier, for rhetorical effect, but next to my own therewith existing local and state- invitation of the Dairy Department year. Prices received^ for the above York were in Chicago at the invita- will be shipped to the various state wide co-operative grain marketing of the College which was extended wool have been very satisfactory, ac- tion of the Grain .Marketing Com- Farm Bureaus in SAFESEED, INC., personal interests and the interests of my family, for the last cording to officials of the Ass'n. De- pany, inspected thi* plant, heard the sacks. In Michigan such seed would institutions and developing more of to the dairymen at the annual meet- take on the Michigan State Bureau thirty years the interests of farm organizations have been up- them. ing of the delegates to the Michigan livered east, Delaine wools have organization plan of the farmers' seed analysis tag, and guarantee and It develops that this plan of co- Milk Producers Association last Oc- brought as high as 50 to 54 cents. national co-operative Grain Market- be distributed as before, only in permost in my mind. operative purchase and operation of tober. The working out of the plans This year members of the newly ing Company and how it is operat- SAFESEED sacks. "I can remember the day when people said to me, 'It is a the above properties has been under for the picnic and the splendid pro- organized Michigan Wool Growers ing. consideration for the past ten gram which was prepared has been Co-operative Marketing Ass'n are co- A Regular Giant With the growth of Farm Bureau forlorn hope, Hull, you cannot get farmers to get together The elevator above is the largest seed accomplished by the co-operation of operating -with the Ohio folks at services in the various states months, that the irresistible growth and stick. It can't be done.' I felt that it could be done. I of the co-op marketing movement to- the College Dairy Department and their invitation. Michigan members in the world and the most efficient. the need for a central seed buying the Michigan Milk Producers' Asso- are guaranteed a handling and sales It is mammoth in proportions and and financing agency for handling have had confidence in the farmers all these days and I have ward a national grain marketing plan and the success of farmer legis- ciation. charge of 2 and three-fourths cents all its operations, and handles grain western seed became apparent. confidence in them yet. Today we have demonstrated that lation affecting grain marketing Better Come Early per pound. Every man in the pool at a cost of five-eights cents per SAFESEED, INC., was organized to have had considerable to do with the During the forenoon Mr. O. E. stands his own wool freight, which bushel. Concrete and steel through- bandl^ this work co-operatively for we can get together and have demonstrated that we are stick- situation. Reed, Professor of Dairy Husbandry amounts to about one cent a pound. out, so many of its processes are au- the Farm Bureaus. J. W. Nicolson, ing together a great deal better than we ever stuck before. The Michigan wool pool closing date for four years the head of the Michi- Location of Properties of M. A. C , will have charge of a tomatically controlled that one is gan State Farm Bureau Seed dep't, The Grain Marketing Company demonstration by the Dairy Depart- was August 1, for counties south of impressed by the few men needed to was called to Chicago to manage the " I am not so milch interested iitf- will purchase the elevator-properties ment to show what is being done in Saginaw Bay. September 1 is the keep it in operation. new concern. At present he is in any more farm organizations. The ing to give something of his time and and leaseholds of the five above cor- a practical way toward bettering closing date for the northern coun- Twenty-four carloads of grain the northwest, looking up alfalfa great t h i n g t h a t invites my i n t e r effort along with his.fellows to pro- porations at the following termi- dairy conditions in Michigan. This, ties. No wool was accepted except may be unloaded at once in the shed seed from the growers' organizations tect and elevate the industry he is nals: Chicago, Minneapolis, Kan- together with inspcetion tours, etc., on the contract of the new Wool in the foreground. As fast as it is just as he did for the Michigan Farm est a n d attention is t h a t we shall putting his life into! There is some- sas City, Texas City, Tex., Savannah, will take up the forenoon period. Growers Ass'n. Every member of unloaded, hoists take it high up to Bureau only today he has the buy- m a k e our organizations stronger thing wrong with him somewhere. 111., Erie, Pa., Fairport, Ohio, Depot Several contests and stunts have the 19 24 pool is a member of the the weighing tanks where it is ing power of several states. Either he has not the mental pow- Ass'n. Non-Farm Bureau members more effective, more powerful to er that he should have or he has not Harbor, Canada, Fort Worth, Tex., been scheduled for the middle of the weighed automatically, each car be- SAFESEED, INC., will purchase Omaha, Galveston, Tex., Norfolk, day with very liberal cash prizes. are paying half a cent a pound extra ing kept separate this far in the only certified seed, backed up as to the back bone that God Almighty ex- Va., Winona, Minn. There will be a buttermilk drinking handling charge. process. The recording scales punch origin, genuineness of strain, etc., by pects him to have. According to the contract entered contest and an attendance contest Ship By Local Freight the weight figures through a special affidavits of the growers and their Value of Organization into between the Grain Marketing open to the various locals in the No more wool should be shipped ticket. No chances for reading or organizations. This is the policy of "Now, I am sure it is not neces- Company and the above corporations Michigan Milk Producers Ass'n, an to Lansing. Any wool grower liv- clerical error. Then the grain is the Michigan Farm Bureau. All seed sary for me to spend any time to the selling price of the above prop- attendance contest for the various ing south of Saginaw Bay and hold- ready to be processed or shifted to records of the SAFESEED organiza- clearly demonstrate to any man here erties and lease holds is to be the cow testing associations and special ing a^Wool Growers Ass'n pool con- bins for storage. tion will be open to inspection by the the value of organization—-the ef- figure decided by a disinterested prizes for the person who is present tract should ship direct by freight The storage bins seen at the left Michigan and other interested Farm fectiveness of organization. It seems board of appraisers. The Grain Mar- with the largest number of children, to the Ohio Wool Growers Ass'n are 142 in number. Each is 108 Bureau seed dep'ts. The result will to me that that day has gone by. keting Company is purchasing only for the father who brings the larg- warehouse at South Columbus, Ohio, feet deep, 35 feet in diameter and be stronger co-operative seed organ- This has been demonstrated repeat- the physical assets of the elevator est number of sons, for the heaviest not forgetting to put stout cards holds about 40,000 bushels of grain. ization. edly. If any man who has any per- corporations — elevators, railroad man, the lightest man, the tallest bearing his name and address and There are numerous smaller bins of ception at all, looking about him, es- sidings, office and other equipment. man, the shortest man, the man com- weight of wool both inside and out- large capacity. Wheat, corn, oats, pecially if he is a farmer, can con- If they find any of the elevators are out of date, they may reject them. ing the longest distance by auto and the man who walks the farthest to side of the wool sack. Write the Ass'n when you ship; if you want a cash advance, say so. Until Sept. rye, barley are moved from place to place through the enormous struc- ture on wide belts, four feet wide, PROF. F A. SPRAGG ceive of any way whereby he can use his influence to protect his own business and protect his own life and Nothing is to be paid for "good will" attend the meeting. All of these lat- or other intangible property of that kind. ter special prizes are limited to mem- bers of the Michigan Milk Producers' 1 the Michigan Wool Growers Co-op Marketing Ass'n at Farm Bureau traveling at 25 miles or more an hour and moving grain at the rate KILLED IN WRECK the life of his family and industry, and can do it effectively in any other Its Capitalization Association. headquarters, Lansing, will accept of 25,000 bushels an hour per belt— way than through organized co-op- The Grain Marketing Company is Hull vs. Moon applications for wool 'marketing con- this means about 22 carloads an W a s K n o w n T h r o u g h o u t N a - eration, then I would be glad to have to be capitalized at $26,000,000, to One of the unusual features of tracts from wool growers living hour per belt! By means of many him come up here and make this north of Saginaw Bay. This wool special mills which wrap the enor- t i o n a s N o t e d P l a n t speech and I will sit down. be financed by the sale of 1,OV)0,000 the picnic which is attracting more shares of membership stock at $1 than ordinary attention is the milk- would also be shipped direct to mous belt over one "finger" and un- Breeder "I have had the opportunity of vis- each and 1,000,000 shares of " A " ing contest for the state of Michigan South Columbus, Ohio. der another, these rivers of grain are iting with a great many of the best stock at $2 5 each, to be sold large championship which will be held be- diverted from the belts to any bin or Michigan farmers learn with sor- farmers in Michigan and in other tween Mr. N. P. Hull, president of to any chute. Grain can be shift- row of the tragic death of Frank A. states, and not only that, but I have grain producers and co-operative ass'ns as financing stock. Only pro- ducers may hold this stock. For the Michigan Milk Producers' Ass'n, and Mr. M. L. Noon, director of LOWDEN SPEAKS AT ed from any one of the 142 bins to Spragg, Associate Professor of Farm another by means of these belts. Crops at the Michigan Agricultural come in contact with some of the best minds along other walks of life, early financing purposes the Com- pany is issuing 500,000 shares of that organization and president of the Michigan State Farm Bureau. Too much cannot be said as to POTATO MEETING This grain travels so fast that when College, his wife and youngest son, one pokes his hand into it, the sen- which occurred the evening of Aug. X. P. HULL and I have yet to find one single, solitary individual who has even sug- sation of solidity is something like 13, when their car was struck by a do good to that class of people gested any other way whereby a man non-voting " B " stock at $50 a share which is to be retired as soon as the ability of the two exceptionally poking the hand into so much shot. Pere Marquette passenger train at a that God knows needs something in the industry of agriculture can Cadillac Exchange Holds Sixth All Processes Exact grade crossing near Okemos, a few hope to effectively protect himself sales of the "A" stock will permit. strong speakers who will talk to the Both the $25 and $50 stock will pay dairymen in the afternoon. Judge Annual Meeting August Nothing is left to guesswork in miles from the college. The Spraggs done for them. to the extent that he owes it to him- 8 per cent dividend, less two per John D. Miller is not only president this region of enormous storage cav- were returning from a trip to Cincin- Agricultural Slackers self to be protected, in any other way cent, which will be set aside as a of the National Milk Producers' Fed- 20 and 21 erns and process facilities. Donkey nati and were almost within sight "I heard the Master of the Na- than through the power of organized reserve fund. Any earnings over eration, but is also first vice-presi- engines and cables capable of hand- of their home. Two young sons, 11 tional Grange say yesterday upon co-operation. I might spend all the that amount are to be pro-rated dent and general counsel of the Cadillac, Aug. 14.—Frank O. Low- ling 32 cars at once replace switch and 9 years of age, survive. this campus that the man engaged in afternoon bringing up illustrations back on a patronage basis. Dairymen's League Co-operative den, former governor of Illinois, who engines. Down the center of each Prof. Spragg had been with the farming who is not a member of to force that thought home, but as I In order that the Grain Marketing Ass'n, Inc. of New York City. Mr. refused the Republican nomination great storage tanks runs a steel tube College some 20 years and was con- either the Grange or the Farm Bu- say I am sure that is not necessary. Company might get under way with Miller is considered one of the best for vice-president, and Herbert F. and out of it every five feet are sidered a national authority on plant reau is today an agricultural slack- Personal Kxperienoe the new crop, it entered into an informed men on the matter of pro- Baker, of Cheboygan, candidate for electric terminals for determining breeding. He is best known for his er, and I believe he is right. I be- "But what is necessary—and I am agreement with the grain firms to ducers' organizations for marketing the Republican nomination for gov- the heat of the grain. In a thermo- scientific labors which gave to Mich- lieve that his industry, that his com- not talking from theory because I lease their property for one year at dairy products that can be found in ernor, are to be the principal speak- meter room each of these tubes is igan' agriculture such improvements munity, that his family, his own in- have been in this business and close- 8 per cent of its value. In the mean- the United States. He has been ers at the sixth annual meeting of connected to a knob with some 22 in grain varieties as Red Rock and terests, aye, if you please, his state ly associated with it not only with time the properties will be apprais- closely connected with co-operative the Michigan Potato Growers Ex- contacts on it. One man does noth- Berkley Rock wheat—hard winter and nation demand of him that he the Michigan Milk Producers* Asso- ed. The grain companies have ad- dairy marketing organizations for change, to be held here Wednesday ing else but connect an electric tem- wheat varieties; Rosen rye; the shall be a sufficiently good citizen to ciation and the other dairy associa- vanced the Grain Marketing Com- many years and it has been the and Thursday, August 20-21. Mr. perature reading device to each of Worthy, Wolverine and Alexander stand shoulder to shoulder with his tions, but with the Grange organiza- pany $4,000,000 as operating capi- genius of Mr. Miller as a lawyer and Lowden is equally known as the these knobs and three times a week varieties of oats; the Michigan two- fellows that today the industry of tion in Michigan and many other tal, which is the first money to be re- a man who understands the desires president of the Holstein-Friesian he takes temperature readings on row, the Michigan Black Barbless agriculture may be raised to the lines—and what today we farmers— paid. and needs of farmers that has guid- Ass'n of America and is prominent every five feet of the 142 tanks, and Michigan Winter varieties of plane that it should occupy in Ameri- all of us, need— is not to be con- ed the great Eastern farm organiza- in co-operative marketing work. making some 8,400 recorded read- barley; Robust beans and Hardigan ca and that it must occupy, my vinced of the necessity of organiza- Krtain Key Men By a contract between the Grain tion in a legal way to many notable Business sessions will be held at ings in all. - No grain gets a chance alfalfa. Mr. Spragg's work was res- friends, if America is to go onward tion, but that our mental attitude Marketing Company and the grain achievements. the Cadillac Opera house. The dele- to heat here. ponsible for a tremendous advance- and upward as she has a right to go. shall be so adjusted that we shall elevators, the key men of the eleva- Mr. Miller has represented the gates will have a free banquet Wed- In the structure immediately be- ment in Michigan agriculture along "I believe it is a duty that we owe be able to be true co-operators; that tor managements, together with all Dairymen's League as their attorney nesday evening in the pavilion at the hind the big pipes in the foreground farm crop lines. not only to ourselves but to our com- we can bring ourselves to the mental necessary assistants, become the in several big law suits instituted by Park of the Lakes. of the photograph is perhaps the munity and state and nation. What attitude where we can be loyal to sales force for the Grain Marketing enemies of the organized farmers' During the first session on Wed- largest grain drying capacity in Course in Co-op M ' k Y g can be said of the man who is willing somebody else. I will put that Company within the next five years. program and has won important le- nesday afternoon the various phases America. Grain too high in moisture in the face of all the proof today of stronger than that, and make it loy- The employment of these experts gal victories that have made it easier of co-operative marketing as ap- works down through 35 feet of dry- A t Cornell University what can be done by organized co- al to ourselves. Let me repe» who have a life-time of familiarity for farmers' organizations to keep plied to potatoes will be considered. ing space, at the rate of^thousands operation and what cannot be done you are putting your life into the with the intricacies of grain market- up the good fight. He has this same Two new directors will be elected of bushels per hour and is subjected The New York Legislature during without it—I say— in the face of all great industry of agriculture and you ing is an insurance against any well- convincing ability as a platform at the business meeting on Thurs- to hot, dry air. Experienced opera- its recent session, appropriated $45,- that proof, how any man can look are not willing to adjust your men- meaning but costly moves which speaker and on many occasions has day, the terms of Ernest Snyder of tors can determine at once the speed 000 for the purpose of establishing himself or his family in the face, de- tal attitude and your actions on a might be taken by those not so well had audiences of dairy farmers fair- Lakeview and Fred Smith of Elk which certain moisture grain should a course in co-operative marketing at voting his life to the great industry plane that will enable you to better ntiniiPd on page tliree) ontlmied on page four) Rapids expiring at this time. (Continued on page three) Cornell University. 'of agriculture aj>d then not be will- fd on page thre*) • TWO MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU NEWS August ir>, 1P24 U N W A R R A N T E D ATTACKS ON THE INCOME TAX three miles away, with direct and j WOULDN'T MISS MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU NEWS As the date of the November election d r a w s eloser. when the OPPORTUNITY OF A frequent «electric car service. Ttoe| advantages of a larger city are there-! 30 .PCT. OF HENS Published twice a month t>y the Michigan State Farm Bureau a t Char- lotte, Michigan. Editorial and general offices at State Farm Bureau head- voters of Michigan will have a chance to shift about $12,000,000 of .state t a x off the shoulders of over-burdened real estate own- LIFETIME OFFERED fore at hand, with the college still far enough removed to dominate its There are approximately 13,000,- own community and avoid the dis- 000 hens in the State of Michigan, quarters, Lansing, Michi ers Over to the more equitable income t a x basis, the interests hostile to the proposal to raise state revenues from an income YOUTH BY M.JLC advantages of city life. r cent o# which could be elim- Applications for admission are be- inated without any noticeable de- VOL. II. AUGUST 15, 1924 No. 10 t a x are becoming increasingly active. ing received in large numbers by crease in production except during College Has Many Courses Miss Elida Yakeley, the registrar of the spring months when we have an Leaders of Michigan farm organizations which took p a r t in the college, and rooms in the various over production of eggs. Reports Entered at the post office at Charlotte, Mich., as second class Preparing Students For matter. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided uring the necessary .signatures to place this m a t t e r on the college dormitories are also being credit the average Michigan hen with for In Sec. 1103, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, authorized January 12, 1923. ballot for the November election are finding that their prophecy Life Work taken rapidly. There is yet plenty of an average production of 60 eggs time for enrollment. These are in- per year. Under commercial condi- Subscription Price 50c Per Yeaf, included in dues of Farm that the income t a x would get very little support from the big dications that the "oldest land grant tions such hens would be maintained Bureau Members. • city p a p e r s is p r o v i n g distressingly true. Several of Michi- SCHOOL OPENS SEPT. 22 college in America" will enjoy the- at a loss. Under farm conditions of g a n ' s metropolitan dailies have come out with editorial and news most successful and serviceable year free range a very small margin of JO. E. UNOBEN Editor in its history in 1924-2f>. For fur- profit may result. S. M. POWELL Ass't Editor comment which clearly proves t h a t they a r e more friendly to Free Tuition; Other Expenses ther information, write Miss Yake- Every farm flock can be classed those with large incomes than to the a v e r a g e p r o p e r t y owners. Reasonable; Ambitious ley, Registrar, Mich. Agr'l College, into three distinct productive East Lansing, Mich. MICHIGAN gTATMTABM flUPEAU Rarely are a t t a c k s made, in the press or elsewhere, on the Folk Welcome groups. About ten per cent of the principle of the income t a x . R a t h e r do its opponents confine hens are out-standing layers and OFFICERS their objections to specific provisions of t h e proposed consti- tutional a m e n d m e n t . One of their favorite objections seems to Michigan Agricultural College will open its sixty-eighth year September INTERSTATE RATES should be used for foundation breed- ing purposes, sixty per cent are me- diocre layers and return a fair mar- M. h. N O O N . Jackflon President M. B. McPHERSON, Lowell Directors-at-Large Vice-President be t h a t the a m e n d m e n t to be voted on this fall contains too many details, such as the r a t e s and exemption, yet as pointed out in 'I'l, 1924, under the most promising circumstances. One new course, the Applied Science course, has already ON BEETS REDUCED gin of profit, thirty per cent are star boarders. Plan to attend your near- proved itself valuable and popular, est poultry culling demonstration M. B. MCPHERSON Loweii A .new scale of rates to apply to and learn how to tell these classes our editorial on this subject in our last issue of the N E W S it and another, the Liberal Arts course, MRS. EDITH M. WAGAR Carleton the transportation of sugar beets apart. EARL C. McCARTT Bad Axe was precisely on the g r o u n d t h a t the income tax a m e n d m e n t open to students this fall, joins with handled in interstate commerce in VER< HA) F. «SORM ELY Newberry which was before t h e voters t w o y e a r s ago contained no such the Applied Science course to pre- Ohio and Michigan was ordered by GEORGE WHEELER M t I'leasant sent a strong appeal to a class of the Interstate Commerce Commis- provisions and protections as to what type of income t a x law the students who formerly enrolled in W. W. BILLINGS Commodity D i r e c t o r s Davison L e g i s l a t u r e might d r a f t t h a t these same objectors u r g e d Mich- other institutions. sion in a recent decision. Wayiie Grange-Bureau FRED BMTTH, Eft Rapids Michigan Potato Growers Exchange The continental Sugar Company, Picnic Is Big Success i g a n citizens to vote against the income t a x at that t i m e ! The building program of the past operating sugar factories at Bliss- M. L NO< on Michigan Milk Producers Association two years has provided the campus .1. II. O'MEALEY, Hudson Michigan Live Stock Exchange As one contemplates this situation he is reminded t h a t there field, Mich., and Fremont and Find- with a new Library, a new Home lay, Ohio, attacked the present inter- Trenton, Aug. 9. — The annual WALDO B. I'HILLII'K, Decatur Michigan Elevator Exchange are none so blind a s r t h o s e who will not see and none so hard to Economics Building and a concrete state rates because-of the disparity Wayne County Farm Bureau and H. W. GOWDY, Union Pier Michigan Fruit Growers, Inc. stadium with a capacity of over 16,- CLARK L. RRODY, Lansing Sec*y-Treas.-Gen. Manager convince as those who have m a d e u p their minds in advance. between those rates and the rates Grange picnic held at Elizabeth Park 000 spectators. The building program applying on the intrastate movement success here today was pronounced a decided S t a t e Farm Bureau B u s i n e s s Departments at L a n s i n g I n w r i t i n g to an editor who had severely criticised the income for the next two years will provide by the large number of mem- Reed Traffic, Claims Service General Offices of sugar beets within the states of bers of both organizations who at- t a x a m e n d m e n t , Mr. A. B . Cook, Master of the S t a t e G r a n g e , a new horticultural building and Ohio and Michigan. Purchasing Wool Fabrics Advertising four new greenhouses, a hospital tended. After a bounteous picnic At Detroit says .- The new interstate rates, which dinner enjoyed by family and com- building, a concrete bridge across will become effective not later than munity groups, a snappy and inter- Michigan Farm Bureau Produce Exchange ..2610-16 Rlopelle St. " Y o u refer to the proposed a m e n d m e n t as a ' d i s q u i e t i n g the Red Cedar river, and a modern A t Grand I tap ids October 8th, will result in a reduc- esting program of sports and races p r o p o s i t i o n . ' On t h e other h a n d , we believe it will be a wonder- power plant. A magnificent student tion" of 16 cents per ton for hauls was run off. A contest for the Barn E. L. EWING, State Farm Bureau Traffic Counsel Murray Bklg. Union building is also under con- ful pacifier,! as it will relieve the present overburdened real p r o p - of 10 miles or less, 11 cents for 15 Yard Golf championship of Wayne Michigan Commodity Marketing Associations struction, besides other additions miles, 6 cents for 20 miles and 1 county disclosed some exceptionally erty of the state to the extent of $12,000,000, and not a dollar of which are planned. skilled talent along that line. Affiliated W i t h Michigan State F a r m Bureau cent for hauls of 25 miles. Michigan Potato Growers Exchange Cadillac this will be exacted from any citizen who is not enjoying^ a net New President on Job The following program was in At the same time the Interstate charge of Mrs. Edith M. Wagar of Michigan Milk Producers Association 707 Owen Bldg., Detroit a n n u a l income of more t h a n $4,000 p e r y e a r . The most dis- September 1 Dr. Kenyon L. But- Commission condemned the Ohio Carleton, lecturer of Wayne County Michigan Live Stock Exchange Hudson terfield, until recently president of and Michigan intrastate scales as Pomona grange: q u i e t i n g situation is to have taxes to pay a n d n o t h i n g to p a y Massachusetts Agricultural College, Michigan Elevator Exchange Farm Bureau Bldg., Lansing prejudicial., to interstate shippers, "America"—Audience. Michigan Fruit Growers, lnc Benton Harbor 9 them with. This a m e n d m e n t , if it becomes operative, will deprive becomes president of the M. A. C. unduly preferential to intrastate Music—Flat Rock Quartette. Directors and Officers of the Commodity Exchanges no child of reasonable educational opportunities, no family of Close observers feel that under the shippers in Ohio and Michigan, and leadership of Dean R. S. Shaw as Recitation—Miss Virginia Giles MICH. ELEVATOR EXCH. MICH. MILK PRODUCERS ASS'N reasonable comforts, and will confiscate no p r o p e r t y . unjustly discriminatory against in- Plymouth. acting president, the College has terstate commerce between the two "Some Legislative Problems"— H. D. Horton, Pees Kinde N. P. Hull, Pres. Lansing " Y o u say ' n o p r e c e d e n t . ' Our reply is t h a t it has been ex- been placed on a highly stable and states. Stanley M. Powell, Ass't Sec'y Mich. L. C. Kamlowske, Vice-Ties John C. Near, Sec Flat Rock ceedingly difficult to get an income t a x of a n y kind in any state satisfactory basis, and that Dr. But- State Farm Bureau. Washington B. F. Beach, Ass't See Detroit terfield will take over the manage- Music—Flat Rock Quartette. Carl Martin, Sec-Treas... Cold water II. W. Norton, Treas Howell from a state legislature. As far as we k n o w , this is the first ment of the institution with affairs Things even up. Europe has fin- L. E. Ostner, Mgr Lansing M. L. Noon Jackson er art galleries, but she can't com- "The Star Spangled Banner"— time when so large and r e p r e s e n t a t i v e a body of the a v e r a g e in excellent condition for growth and C, 8. Benton, Beans Lansing C. R. Watson Imlay City pare with us in the matter of bill- Audience. D. P. ffowte, Hay Lansing citizens of any state have had a hand in w r i t i n g the t e r m s of an progress. boards. —Duluth Herald. Ball Game—Canton vs. East Nan- L. W. Harwood Adrian kin. W. E. Phillips Decatur W. J. Thomas Grand Rapids The faculty of the College in- income t a x . However, no new or u n t r i e d p r i n c i p l e ' i s involved. cludes more than two hundred pro- George Met'alia Ypsilanti Ray Pot.tS Washington John Nicolson Marlette Fred W. Meyer Fair Haven " Y o u fear the rich may leave t h e state. If we have prosper- fessors and instructors in the various M. K. Shisler Caledonia Dr. W. C. McKinney... .Davlsburg ous citizens who will leave this fair state which has given t h e m departments, and is characterized by F. M. Oehinke Baxh James J. Brakenberry... .Bad Axe the high training and ability of its 3. L. Miner Dowagiac Elmer Powers Clio their o p p o r t u n i t y , because asked to pay t o w a r d the expenses of members. MICH. POTATO GROWERS Henry Curtis, Pres EXCH. Cadillac MICH. LIVE STOCK EXCH. E. A. Beamer, Pres W. J. Perry, Vice-Pres Blissfield this state, a s h a r e of those expenses based on benefits received and ability to pay, let us hope t h a t their places may be t a k e n The College offers the highest grade of laboratory and research work in connection with the class Fall Grains Fred Smith, Vicc-Prcs. Elk Rapids Grand Blanc by those with more public spirit. I n p r a c t i c e , the experience of room instruction. Over sixty build- Now is the time to see your co-op and order your Farm S. E. Rogers, Sec East Jordan J. H. O'Mealey, See Hudson Wisconsin and o t h e r states indicates t h a t t h e income t a x does ings are used to house the various O. S. Wood, Treas Barryton Bureau Brand fall grains. We offer the following Mich- Alex Lindsey, Treas Decker divisions of the College. The gym- i iio. Wagar, Kales Mgr....Cadillac Edward Dippey Perry / not drive people out of the states a d o p t i n g t h e system. igan Crop Improvement Ass'n varieties: nasium is one of the largest and best J. I». Robinson Levering ('ha s. Woodruff Hastings '"You d e p r e c a t e w r i t i n g details into the Constitution. There college athletic plants in the coun- RED ROCK—The old reliable bearded red wheat. J. T. Bussey Provernont L. E. Willett Laingsburg are only enough details w r i t t e n in to insure every v o t e r ' s know- try, and houses one of the largest Ernest Snyder Lake View ('. V. Tracy Ithaca Holds practically all Michigan records for yield. i n g exactly w h a t he is voting for. The feeling of our people inclosed swimming^ pool*. The Ag- MICHIGAN FRUIT Frank Obrest Breckenridge ricultural Building, the Engineering BERKLEY ROCK—Bearded, hard red wheat, stiff M. D. Buskirk, Pies Paw Paw GROWERS, INC. t o w a r d the legislature is such t h a t they a r e unwilling to give to Building and Shops, and all other A. J. Rogers, 1 V. Pres Beulah Allan B. Graham Elberta straw, winter hardy, smut resistant. the legislature t h e final a u t h o r i t y in w o r k i n g out the details of buildings of the campus group con- Amos Tucker, 2 V. P. South Haven P. I). Leavenworth. .Grand Rapids tain the most modern and complete AMERICAN BANNER—White Wheat, beardless, stiff, F. L. Bradford, Sec-Treas W. J. Schultz Hart a n income t a x . This was d e m o n s t r a t e d by the vote t w o years ago. Benton Harbor equipment for laboratory and class- winter hardy, heavy yielder. Best variety for lighter L. A. Ha-wloy Ludington " I f experience indicated t h a t the a m e n d m e n t needed changing, room work. F. L. Granger, Sales Mgr I l i i b e r t Nafaiger.. .Benton Harbor wheat soils. Benton Harbor such c h a n g e could be easily a n d quickly accomplished by sub- AlLIIound Training C. J. Chresiensen Onekama ROSEN RYE—Outstanding heavy yielding rye, large D. H. Brake Fremont H. W. Go.vdy Union Pier mission to the people by the legislature, or the initiative. If it Outside the classroom, students at Henry Namitz Bridgman O. R. Jalc Shelby M. A. C. will enjoy this year addi- plump berries, well filled heads. w o r k s in a m a n n e r satisfactory to t h e people, it should not, and tions and expansions to the broad J. F. Higree Benton Harbor John Lang . . Sodus Miller Overton American Bangor Farm Bureau John Federation BottMTia Spring Lake could not, be c h a n g e d . " field of campus activities Avhich of- O. E. BRADFUTE Bert Gleason Lawrence President fers opportunity for development to every student. The Athletic De- MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU J. W. COVERDALE GENERAL OFFICES A. F. R. F 58 East Washington St., Chicago Secretary In view of the fact that Michigan raised 6,000,000 bushels of partment has Ralph H. Young at its Seed Department Lansing, Mich. beans last year one wonders what Boston would do without us.— head for the second year, with a well GRAY SILVER Washington Representative LEGISLATIVE HEADQUARTERS Munsey Bldg., Washington, D. C. DETROIT FREE PRESS. trained and competent staff of as- sistants. A complete program of in- co-operative marketing in Michigan tercollegiate athletics is supplement- DETROIT FEARS STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION Self-appointed saviors of D e t r o i t ' s p r o p e r t y o w n e r s a n d JAMESTOWN HAS was sketched by Mr. Powell. He went on to show that the local co-op ed by inter-class and inter-frater- nity games, a plan which brings could never render the service which professional t a x and assessment testifiers are r e p o r t e d to be MONSTER CO-OP was expected of it without state- hundreds of men and women stu- even more than usually busy j u s t now devising last-minute a r g u m e n t s and evidence to be presented to the S t a t e Board ELEVATOR PICNIC wide service organizations to look after the big problems of the locals and give them a sales service. The dents into actual competitive, play. Dramatics, music, journalism, de- bating and others of the many or- How Concrete of Equalization when it meets at Lansing, A u g u s t 18. This unusual activity on t h e i r part is caused by the fact that a report just made by tin* State T a x Commission r e c o m m e n d s 2,000 Farmers Gather For Day speaker told of the development and present strength of the five powerful commodity exchanges affiliated with ganized activities, are yearly becom- ing more highly developed and offer training and experience of untold value to M. A. C. men and women. Helps the Farmer of Fun, Frolic, Music the State Farm Bureau. Eighteen men's and eight girls' Farmers who have the advantages of that the S t a t e Board of Equalizatoin increase W a y n e C o u n t y ' s and Instruction That a central organization, even fraternities and societies form the portion of the state tax something less than \\-j.' < of the state more general and comprehensive basis for an important part of the permanent, expense-proof buildings save total. than the commodity exchanges, is es- social life of the student body. Be- time and money that would otherwise go Jamestown, Augu&t 1—That farm- sential if the interests of the farm- The report of the S t a t e Tax Commission r e c o m m e n d i n g t h a t ers living in the vicinity of James- ers are to be protected, was one of sides these, several honorary fra- to keep ramshackle buildings fit for use. ternities and a number of special the main increase in t h e assessed valuation of Michigan this town realize that there is something the big points made by Mr. Powell. groups and clubs combine with the Concrete dairy barns mean healthier year be placed upon W a y n e came as considerable of a s u r p r i s e to agriculture and rural life besides He told how through the Michigan college class organizations to make cows that give more milk; and that means growing and harvesting crops was State Farm Bureau the united pow- up important parts of the broad so- to many people who had h a r d l y expected such action at t h e evidenced by the immense crowd of er of organized agriculture in Michi- bigger milk checks. cial life of the college. Wholesome hands of the present commission, yet a knowledge of the real about 2,000 people who gathered gan is brought to bear for the solu- fellowship and democratic associa- conditions as they exist in Michigan today commends this report here today for the annual picnic of tion of the great problems of trans- tion is the keynote of the relation Concrete silos make possible economi- as a logical and equitable step which is very much in o r d e r at the Farmers Co-operative Elevator portation, legislation, taxation, fair, between the students. Through con- cal, dependable feed the year 'round— Co., held in Forest Grove Park. This friendly publicity, seed service, gen- this time. extremely beautiful park, well equip- eral promotion of co-operative mar- tact with fellow students from all which also means more milk. parts of Michigan, as well as from George Lord, who is the Detroit member of the S t a t e T a x ped for just such an occasion, an keting and central purchasing of sup- ideal day, complete arrangements, plies. many other states, and with those Concrete manure pits prevent loss of Commission and also the c h a i r m a n of the S t a t e Hoard of E q u a l - from other divisions of the college, band music, snappy sports, interest- The speaker reviewed the present M. A. C. students gain experience valuable fertilizing elements in manure. ization, has never been accused of being any too friendly to t h e ing addresses and a very evident unfair tax situation in Michigan to- which is not the least valuable con- farmers and u p s t a t e t a x payers, yet t h e D e t r o i t F r e e P r e s s spirit of community co-operation day and discussed the remedies tribution of college life. Concrete corn cribs keep out rats and combined to make this picnic an which the Farm Bureau is seeking mice. You can't sell these pests so why quotes Mr. bond as j u s t i f y i n g W a y n e c o u n t y ' s additional outstanding success. Bxpenae Reasonable to have applied. The problem of expense, an im- fatten them? equalized valuation, pointing out what everyone knows to be true, Cars and More Cars Tiluia Lays Plat form portant consideration with most col- namely, " t h a t farm values have deflated, copper c o u n t r y indus- The spacious park was literally The second speaker of the after- lege students, is not so difficult to Concrete feeding floors and hog houses try is at a standstill, resort t r a d e has been bad, and only Detroit full of cars by noon and yet the noon was Hon. George P. Tilma of meet at M. A. C , as at many other make healthy, profitable hogs. crowd kept coming. Since this co- Grand Ttapids, formerly mayor of institutions. No tuition fee is re- has continued r e m a r k a b l e building development a n d g r o w t h . " operative elevator association has ."i.io live-wire stockholders and op- that city and now a candidate for quired of residents of the state. Concrete protects the home, and other One cannot help but wonder w h e t h e r or not the recent Mi- Congress. Mr. Tilma laid down his Fees in the various courses are lim- erates elevators at Jamestown, Hud- platform and told of the special pro- ited to the actual material used in farm buildings against fire. tigations iuto assessment conditions c o n d u c t e d j o i n t l y by sonville and Vriesland, and did a jects for which he would work if laboratory and classroom work. the Michigan S t a t e F a r m Bureau and several County Kami business last year of $335,000, it is sent to Washington, stressing es- Large scale, co-operative buying and Wouldn't you like to know more about Bureaus had a n y t h i n g to do with this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n . I t will not strange that these annual James- pecially the need for the develop- management keeps the cost of board Concrete —how to mix and use it, and town picnics have grown to assume ment of Lake Michigan harbors for in the college dining clubs to a mod- be remembered t h a t these F a r m Bureau investigations revealed a county-wide character. more extensive commerce, and gov- how to.estimate quantities of materials? erate figure. Room rents for those that farm and village p r o p e r t y was being fairly equitably The formal afternoon program was ernmental aid for promoting the in the college dormitories, and for We will gladly send you this informa- ^sed, but in every instance city p r o p e r t y a v e r a g e d much presided over by Mr. N. DeWeerd, poultry industry in that section of those who live "off campus" in the tion without charge, if you will write lower, when compared on the basis of sales value. the vice-president, in the absence of the state. city of East Lansing, are relatively president J. J. Nyenhuis, who was low. and let us know what you are planning If the city property in the so-called r u r a l counties is being Following the speaking program ; detained by sickness. Mr. De Weerd the audience was entertained by a A large proportion of M. A. C. stu- to build. Why not write today? lower than the farm and village p r o p e r t y , is it not introduced Stanley M. Powell of variety of stunts performed on the dents earn part, or nearly all of the logieal to suppose that such a county as W a y n e , which is pre- Lansing, Assistant Secretary of the platform. Bottle sucking, balloon expenses of their college course dur- Our booklet F-14 tella all about the uses of concrete State Farm Bureau, as the first blowing, nail driving and other con- ing the years they are in school. en the dairy farm. Send for your wpy. p o n d e r a n t l y u r b a n , is grossly under-assessed when c o m p a r e d speaker of the afternoon. Mr. Pow- oontributed to the amusement. Employment agencies are main- with the up-^tate counties which a r e largely rural.' ell praised the assembled farmers for Horse shoe throwing, various freak tained by both the roilege Y. M. C. PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION It need not be feared that the ease of the r u r a l counties will their splendid spirit of practical races, band music and a ball game A. and the Y. W. C. A., which seek community co-operation, discussed Dime Bank Building lack a friend in court when the Board of Equalization meets completed the day's program. to find work for the student who present agricultural conditions and D E T R O I T , MICH. The following are the officers of must help finance his education. 18. M. B. McBherson of Lowell, vice-president of the advocated sound co-operative mar- the Farmers Co-operative Elevator M. A. C. is particularly fortunate QA National Organization to Improve and Farm B u r e a u and president of the organization keting and strong central organiza- in its location. East Lansing, the Extend the Uses of Concrete Company: J. J. Nyenhuis, presi- tions as the most effective solutions "college city," la a .community of i Officer In 29 Cities »om t h e eounties o t h e r t h a n AYayne. has called dent; X. De Weerd, vice president; to these difficulties. homes with the wholesome atmos- Alexander Klooster, secretary and that body to meet at L a n s i n g t h a t d a y . It will be interesting Commodity Exchanges Needed treasurer and D. E. Smallegan, man- phere of a typical college commun- licit the developments. The history of the development of ager. ity. Lansing, the state Capital, is ^I^HHflHHHi August 15, 1921 MICHIGAN F A R M B V R E A U N F, W S * iiuimn all other operations are on an equal Grange Leader Urges MICHIGAN FEEDERS Elevator Taken Qver ly la: ronie up Michigan Fruit Growers Inc. Dep't Farm Bureau Loyalty (Continued from page one) protect your life work, then there is •STRESS NEED FOR By Grain Mktg. Co. (Continued from page one) take in going through the drying at the rear and dis cargoes. The Northwestern K . take on tor has loaded out 240,000 bushels of grain in 17 minutes. It has load- Of Interest to All Fruit Men something wrong with you. "There have been times when not even the most loyal champion of ag- riculture could say that it is the most STOP-OVERRATES section to come out as desired. Be- low the drying section it goes through 3 5 feet of cooling, using for ed out 640,000 hi grain to boats in one day. The day the edi- tors of various State Farm Bureau cooling purposes the air on its way Michigan Has Adopted profitable. I was never a big enough Urge All Michigan Railroads to be heated for the drying work. tapers and Farm Bureau grain GRADING, PACKING U. S. Grades For Pears FRUIT PRODUCTION story teller to say that was true al- ways, but there is one thing that I To Grant Privilege Enjoy- Bleaching Oats A battery of oat clippers, the marketing men were there the ©le vator was loading ".> 70,0 0 0 bushels have dinged over and over again, TAKE FOREGROUND Michigan pears will "be packed and shipped under the Federal grades ESTIMATES FOUND and that may be called a drawback— the farmer is the most independent ed In Other States length of the building, clips hun- dreds of thousands of bushels of of grain into two boats besides car- rying on all its regular work. ma~n on the face of God's green earth, The plant has its own power h' AS APPLES RIPEN this season as a result of the promul- gation of these standards as the le- TO VARY WIDELY and I ha^fc congratulated myself that BUR. TRAFFIC MAN AIDS conducted to the top of the building the farmers in my state are so in- oats daily. Oats to be bleached are and dropped through a long cylinder and large railroad track t'aeilitit is of late construction, having been gal grades by Commissioner of Ag- dependent. My friends, we have Livestock built in 1917 and improved in 15)21. riculture Watkins at Lansing. The Short been too independent. Mefi Say High filled with sulphur dioxide fumes, Scab and Insect Injury Make new grades which became effective Apple, Plum, Pear, are bleached, later cooled and come It has the record of handling grain Too Much Independence Rates Cause Idle Land out aristocrats for feeding purposes. at a lower cost than any other great Knowledge of Grading July 14, were promulgated at the Grape Crop Seen; More "Now when we are willing to be About 300 pounds of sulphur are elevator and will be one of the o u t - request of pesl* grower* in south- good enough farmers to be sufficient- and Wasted Grass standing properties of the co-opera- Laws Essential western Michigan, who want the Peaches This Year consumed daily in this operation. ly loyal to ourselves to give up a lit- Loading out, blending, mixing and tive Grain Marketing Company.v same protection against, the careless tle of that boasted independence and At the call of Commissioner of Ag- Benton Harbor, Aug. 14—Trans- packer as now enjoyed by apple, Benton JIarber, Aug. 11.—Due be willing to be good American citi- riculture L. Whitney Watkins, and parent and Dutchess apples are peach and grape growers. largely we think to abnormal weath- zens and abide by the majority and officials of the Michigan Live Stock about ready to harvest in the south- er conditions suffered by various be loyal to ourselves and our indus- Exchange, about 30 representatives ern counties of the state, hence it is fruit growing areas in the United try and our organizations, then we of the larger livestock feeders of the time to give attention to the mat- ter of correct grading and packing. COST OF GROWING States, Government and private esti- will be getting into a frame of mind state met at Lansing, July 30, for a mates on the fruit production of the where we can accomplish something. conference with railway officials on "During all the days I have known Alfalfa Seed Situation Due to plentiful rainfall, a consid- country are so much at variance at in agriculture and other walks the request of the shippers that all Not much genuine, northern grown alfalfa seed is avail- erable proportion of the crop on the trees is showing more or less scab APPLES GOES UP this time that it is difficult to quote men anything like accurate figures.* Cali- of life, there is one thing about th'e Michigan railways grant a stop-over farmer that has been absolutely true. feeding-in-transit rate to livestock able. Weather conditions have been splendid for starting and insect injury. This will necessi- fornia, Oregon, Washington and Ida- There has been a little more of jeal- being shipped into Michigan for new seedings and the demand has been very heavy. Those tate close grading to conform to the Six Times As Much Today As ho have suffered to varying degrees ousy, a little more of misunderstand- feeding purposes. The new conces- who want high grade alfalfa for this season had b%tter get grading requirements as promulgat- It Was 75 Years Ago On by drouth and inadequate water sup- ings and a little less of getting to- sion along this line recently granted it now. The new crop of seed will not be available until ed by the State Department of Agri- plies, while the Eastern sections gether and having an understanding by certain branches of the Michigan late fall. culture in accordance with the law Same Farm have suffered from a cold, backward with his neighbors, than with any Central Railroad was held up by the The Farm Bureau Seed Dep 't offers limited stocks of— passed by the legislature of 1923. spring and an excess of rain, causing other class of people. That is natur- livestock men as an example of what We are advised by Mr. W. P, Hart- Seventy-five years ago a fruit j considerable drop in most tree fruitsf-al, because the farmer lives to him- FARM BUREAU BRAND GRIMM No. IB—high purity self alone a little more than other they desire in this connection. man, Director of the Bureau of farmer in Hilton, N. Y., noted in his! and materially damaging the quality men. .No man can ever be a success Tells of Idle .Vies and germination test. Trace of sweet clover and not so Foods and Standards at Lansing, account book that it cost $24 to grow of that remaining on the trees. as a banker, a lawyer, a doctor, or Farmers present* told the railroad good an appearance as No. 1 makes it IB. Will give sat- that the State Administrative Board an acre of apples. His profit on the In the matter of the apple supply other business man in the city and be men that in Michigan today there isfaction. has granted an emergency appro- acre was $54.75. The cost per bar- the last Government report indicated distrustful of his neighbors as have are large acreages of splendid pas- FARM BUREAU BRAND ONTARIO VARIEGATED— priation to the Bureau for the pur- rel of raising this crop of apples was some two million barrels promise been the farmers of the past. sture land lying idle and the grass Ranks next to Grimm. Is No. 1 seed. Several carloads pose of carrying on. the inspection thirty cents. under last year's production of thir- "It is not because God Almighty going to waste because the present sold this summer are already showing excellent stands. services this season, thus enabling His son, M. C. Burritt, formerly di- ty-three million barrels. There is made you any different than the high freight rates rendered it un- Not much left. a better and closer application of the rector of Extension at Cornell Uni- little question that the Government's banker, lawyer or doctor, but be- profitable to ship in stock for graz- law than heretofore. This action of versity, and now plain fruit farmer figures will be revised downward in cause of the very fact of your en- ing purposes. If you want Farm Bureau alfalfa seed for this season, on his father's farm at Hilton, com- vironment. You live on the farm; see your co-op manager about it at once, or write the State Administrative Board is to August 1st estimate, at least that is you do not get in close cbntact with Mr. King of Charlotte, one of the be highly commended since Michigan pared these costs of seventy-five the Michigan grower's idea of pro- other people; you raise more largely state's largest stock feeders, declar- is one of the important states in the years ago with those of today in a duction. The International Apple the stuff you use; you are the ed that Michigan could feed lambs MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU commercial production of apples and radio address broadcasted recently Shippers' Association hold their an- proprietor, very often the laboring better than any other state if we Seed Department it is essential that rigid standards of from Station WGY, Schenectady. Mr. nual convention at St. Louis August man, the executive committee and were granted the same stop-over packing and grading be adopted and Burritt was one of three speakers on 12th, 13th and 14th and no doubt God knows what you are not, and privileges which western feeders en Lansing Michigan enforced if we are to compete with the radio program of the New York the best available private figures as you get that feeling of self-suf- joy. Mr. King fed about 50 cars of the highly specialized apple produc- State Farm Bureau Federation. to apple production will be brought ficiency that you do uoT need the lambs last year. If he had had the ing areas in the West. Nowadays spraying alone, Mr. Bur- out at that time. It will be interest- other fellow, that has been true in advantage of a feeding-in-transit ar- Growers Should Know Law ritt pointed out, costs fifty cents a ing to, compare these figures with atherespect past. We have not had as large for the other man's opinion rangement similar to that just grant- In this connection it seems there barrel. In 1922 it cost $150 an acre Government estimate as of August 1. as we ought to have. We are not in- ed by the Michigan Central it would has been some confusion in the to raise apples on the same farm It is generally conceded that the herently up to the mark as ideal have saved him more than $1,500 in minds of the growers' as to the ap- where in 1849 costs were $24 per plum and pear crops of the country American citizens in that we are not freight bills. plication of the law and some grow- acre. , are considerably under last year's always willing to cheerfully abide by Freight Hates Big Factor ers were under the impression that Must Face Facts production, peaches slightly over the will of the majority. Other farmers stressed the fact they might be able to pack their The producer must f<*6e these facts, last year's crop and grapes slightly Each Farmer's Duty that land is reverting for taxes and fruit under United States or other Mr. Burritt said, and meet them by under last year. We hope that by "I do not know any way whereby becoming a public liability, which, standards. The Bureau of Stan- better methods of distribution. "In- the time we go to press again we will the delegates to this annual conven- with a satisfactory feeding-in-transit dards makes it plain that only Mich- dividual growers must grow better have more or less accurate figures tion of the State Farm Bureau, or the rate might be devoted to successful igan Apple Grades as defined by Act products; they must grade and pack of what we may expect 'in fruit pro- delegates to any other annual conven- feeding operations. The fact was No. 266 of the Public Acts of 1923, these .products better and advertise duction this season in order that tion of this Farm Bureau, or the brought out that livestock feeding can be used in packing Michigan them. This merchandising must in- growers may arrive at some "conclu- other members of this Farm Bureau or any organization, can fairly expect keeps up the fertility of our farms, fruit. In other words, there is no clude better retailing methods, more sion as to fair prices for their prod- to do what they ought to do and thus paving the way for a prosper- option in the matter and the use of attractive displays of eastern fruits ucts. what they are in duty bound to do, ous agriculture in the future. any other grade or standard than and vegetables. We must consider not for somebody else but for them- The railway representatives were the Michigan law will subject the that the consumer chooses the prod- selves and families, until they are reminded that a large amount of grower or packer to penalty. ucts he buys largely upon the basis' Grain Marketing Co. willing to contribute of their thought, grain is shipped into Michigan to Further, it is pointed out that tol- of appearance, uniformity and qual- of their best mental efforts, of their feed livestock being fattened here erance in grades is established to ity as related to price. Starts Big Business time and their energy and their and that with more favorable freight "protect packers and shippers where "The future of the fruit and vgee- (Continued from page one) money to this organization and the occasional error or oversight oc- table industry depends largely upon versed in the business of grain mar- other organizations they belong to, rates the volume of these grain have their opinion and express that shipments would be increased. curs, but when shippers consistent- sound organization, locally, regional- keting. These men have been suc- opinion, but when the majority of Farm Bureau Active ly continue to pack apples to secure ly, and nationally. Co-operative sell- cessful in their work and it is rea- opinion is against them, to be good Authentic facts regarding various the full amount of tolerance on all ing by growers encourages the grow- sonable to expect that they will con- enough American citizens to say that forms of feeding-in-transit rates shipments, it is obvious that their er to produce better products, to tinue to be so. This will permit the 'as long as the majority is that way were presented to the conference by action is not in sympathy with the grade, to pack them uniformly and training of farmer representatives I am going with them until I can Mr. D. F. Murphy, traffic manager spirit of the regulations and such ac- makes possible good merchandising, to fill these positions eventually. convince them they are wrong.' of the Michigan State Farm Bureau. tion will be subject to prosecution. advertising and distribution on a na- These managers become the employ- "To be loyal to yourself is all I ask Mr. Murphy had made considerable Value of Grades tional and efficient scale. Eventual- es of the Grain Marketing Company of you this afternoon. It is the plea The benefits accruing from the ly, it means a better supply of high and will direct the work, under poli- loyal I am here to make to you. To be study of this matter and his report quality products to the consumer at cies laid down by the Grain Market- to your Farm Bureau, to be was a real contribution to the suc- shipping of standardized farm prod- loyal to the Grange, the Michigan cess of the meeting. The State Farm ucts are understood and appreciated reasonable prices and a larger share ing Company's Board of Directors, Milk Producers' Association and Bureau was also represented by by practically all shippers and the of what the consumer pays to the composed of 15 directors elected by other associations you are associated President M. L. Noon and Assistant Bureau of Foods and Standards is grower, which is the one way to the stockholders of the Grain Mar- with, not because of Mr. Brody or Secretary S. M. Powell. expecting the co-operation of all fac- maintain these industries satisfac- keting Company. Mr. Phillips or any other man, but I The railway representatives- were torily." The Grain Marketing Company make this appeal to you because you tors to the desired end. A standard- much impressed by the facts and ized product, properly branded, in- has gotten under way and is hand- can't do your duty by yourselves in creases the popularity of Michigan INSPECTED PRODUCTS ling grain, assured of a large volume any other way, you can't do your duty ideas presented and declared that of the grain that the grain corpora- to your families in any other way, the conference had given them a products, insuring increased demand aad jrou ca*'t do your duty to the very clear idea of the desires of the and better prices, and we hope that ARE FAVORED ABROAD pecting tions have been handling and ex- to get a lot more from the best nation God's sun ever shqpe feeder^. They announced that they growers generally will give Mr. would hold a conference and agree Hartman, Mr. Esslinger and his corps Foreign markets are tending to fa- thousands of co-operative elevators downWhose upon and do anything else. Organization Is It? upon a uniform line of action. There of assistants the cordial support they vor American products that have in the nation. It expects to effect "There is one other appeal I want is a strong probability that they will deserve. J been officially inspected at shipping considerable economies in the mar- to make to you. If you are a mem- grant some form of stop-over priv- An official verbatim copy of the points, according to advices received keting of grain by operating all the ber of the Grange or the State Farm ilege. The meeting was adjourned apple grades and laws applying to by the United States Department of elevator properties under one direc- Bureau or the Michigan Milk Pro- until August 20th.' Order Your Farm tion, operating a few to full capacity ducers' Association, no matter who shipments of apples this season may Agriculture. be obtained by writing to W. P. Sales of American apples in Liver- rather than a number of competing are its officers,'that hasn't anything Hartman, Bureau of Foods & Stan- pool are made by samples, and buy- elevators at a fraction of their ca- to do with it—the one great thought FARM BUR. SUITS Bureau Fertilizer Now dards, State Office Building, Lan- ers declare they have found that the pacity; to get along with one com- I want to leave with you other than sing, Mich. Federal-State inspected apples can be plete nation-wide wire system instead that you shall be loyal to yourselves, Railroad service is good. Prompt delivery is relied upon to be of uniform quality of 5 complete competing systems and yourself and your own heart: Whose and condition, and that the samples thereby eliminate most of such ex- organization is this Michigan State is that you take this thing home to' SAVE HIM $25.00 assured. See your Co-op manager at once. 1431 Melville Place, Michigan Organizes 38 can be depended upon to be indica- similar reduction of duplicating, ca- Farm Bureau? Oh, of course, it is pense, to make other economies by Chicago, Illinois tive of the quality and condition of Waldo Phillips' and Clark Brody's Michigan State Farm Bureau, WE OFFER Cow Testing Ass'ns the entire shipments. ble tolls, sales forces, office forces, and if everything does not go right, 221 North Cedar St., financing arrangements, buyers, etc. cuss 'em. They are here to be 0-10-0 O-IO-IO 2-12-0 Liverpool buyers state that in Lansing, Michigan. 0-20-0 0-12-12 2-10-2 Michigaii farmers have organized many instances the quality of fruit The officers of the Company are blamed. Gentlemen: 0-12-2 0-8-21 2-8-10 38 new cow testing ass'ns within the in non-inspected shipments has a Gray Silver of Martinsburg, W. Va.; "Gentlemen, if it is your notion Enclosed please find money order 0-12-0 2-12-2 past seven months and lead all states wide range" and that purchasers by first vice-president, Harry Keefe, that this organization is Clark in the amount of $20 to pay for five tf-8-0 O-14-l 2-10-4 3-12-4 in that respect for 1924. Minnesota samples of such shipments are al- Wathill, Neb.; 2nd vice-president, Brody's or Waldo Phillips' organiza- yards of the enclosed sample. Please 1-8-1 2-8-10 organized 35. Wisconsin leads in ways subject to discount on account G. M. Dyer, Spencer, la.; secretary- tion, go home and go into your closet send 4 % yards of this to Gunkel & 4-8-0 the number of ass'ns with 163, Mich- of the element of uncertainty. treasurer, John W. Coverdale, Ames, and sit down with yourself and have Novy (Farm Bureau's tailors) and High quality is the foundation of both Farm Bureau igan is Second with 91 and Minneso- la. , a revival meeting and you better the" remaining % yard to me for use Fertilizers and Farm Bureau Seeds. The analysis is ta third with 90. This means that make it a protracted revival meeting, in repairs later on. Monday was once just wash day. and do not come out of that meeting The above is to be a four piece suit stamped on every sack of fertilizer and the goods are year by year more of our dairy cows Now it is the day we get the list of guaranteed to be as represented. are being placed on yearly tests with killed and injured in Sunday's auto- Feed Cows Some Grain until you have gotten yourself into for my boy. ^My suit will be ready the frame of mind where you can say next Tuesday afternoon at which resulting economies and better re- mobile accidents.—Kalamazoo Ga- turns in operating the farm dairy. To Help Out Pasture 'This is my organizat ion.' time I will call for it and my boy will This is the second year the Michigan, Ohio and Indiana zette. "If there is anything that makes go along to be measured up for his. Farm Bureaus have combined their buying power to Menominee, Aug. 6.—"It is a me tired it is to see a farmer or any- Had a fitting today 'and will say take the output of a new, modernly equipped, fertilizer common practice not to feed our body else railing against the banker city there is not another tailor in this 'BETTER BE THERE"! because the banker is organized. that could do it any better. Was plant. Everybody has been well satisfied with the high milk cows grain while on pasture," also shown some of the goods used quality and condition of the fertilizer. I I Why my good friends, they are says Karl Knaus, Menominee' Co. who are putting their life into im- for lining, etc., and in my humble men Agr'l Ag't, "but those who do find proving their conditions and the con- opinion it is about as good as money that their cows maintain their flow ditions of their families, and they are can buy, no matter how big a price much more steadily through the sea- doing just what they ought to do. one pays. You save me just about BETTER FERTILIZER We use Florida pebble rock phosphate which is drier ATTRACTIONS GALORE! son when they are badly pestered But if you and I are puting our lives $25.00 on the deal. Used to pay with flies, and especially when the into agriculture, let's do the same $75.00 to $80.00 but never again. than ordinary Tennessee phosphate and not inclined to get gummy. grass becomes short. If pastures are thing. Let's think of this organiza- Do you have goods for fall over- This Year as Never Before good, cows will sometimes not care tion as ours, and understand when coats? If so you may send a few All other ingredients are of superior quality and avail- WEST MICHIGAN FAIR for grain in the evening, but they something is done for our industry it samples when you send the samples ability as plant food. is going to be done because we do it of goods for winter suits. |! will usually eat a reasonable feed in ourselves and not wait for someone Very truly, Will be the .'Mecca of Thrilling—Stupendous the morning. It is impossible for a else to do it. There can be no ques- This Farm Bureau fertilizer is thoroughly cured and and Educational Attractions. Prizes of ( a s h Frank C. Pauler. for Oldest Auto Driven to Fair (Grounds. high producing cow to eat enough tion about it. Then think of the seasoned. After it is properly aged it is re-ground. It Jiesf Band, Etc. Buy. Thkets i; a ily. grass to provide the necessary food Michigan State Farm Bureau as my nation, but I am sure every man up- will not cake or get hard. You can spread it more evenly to maintain her flesh and high milk organization, and, if it is not doing on the farm that knows conditions of and without difficulty. • production. The medium and low all it should do, instead of condemn- agriculture, the amount of taxes you | producing cow, however, will usually ing it do the best you can to bring have to pay, the expense of things increase to a certain extent on about conditions so that it can do you have to buy, appreciates t h a t for READY FOR SHIPMENT grass.'' more. the last few years the farmer as an agriculturist has been getting the ' Flenty of the above goods are ready for shipment in All Depends on Loyalty little end industrially, and I am sure straight or mixed cars of 15 tons or more. Place your *- "Mr. President, if 1 talked three or you appreciate that it is not right Alfalfa 18 Years Old four hours I could not give you a bet- and you will appreciate that you owe order with your co-op manager and urge him to get his /<;HT ter doctrine, nor would it be of any it to yourself to improve the situa- j BEWEP BE THEREt " Bagley, Aug. 5.—Henry Walker of special value for me to talk about tion, and I do not believe there is any | order to us at once. For further information, write direct. this place, Menominee county, re- anything else, because I have put man hero who questions that he owes ] WEST MICHIGAN RHR ports a two acre field of alfalfa across here the thing not that I it to his country to help lift* agri-j think, gentlemen, but the thing I which was seeded 1Vagar connected with it people that are this edition. If you wish the livered by Mr. A. J. Glover, Editor Wheat Markets tend the big picnic at M. A. C , but certified seeds available for distribu- Chairman, Farm Bureau Home and known in this state?" and again, paper continued, write the of Hoards' Dairymen, which is prob- it will be a most profitable invest- tion any time in season. Community Work "Have 1 money that I can spare at Michigan Farm Bureau News, ably the leading dairy paper of the this time that may not b ^ n g me re- Lansing, Mich., for particulars. ment of time and gasoline. Better WHITE COMES TO FRONT Other Factors Also Important During these days of. agitation concerning the coming election when turns for some time, aRhough in This does not obligate you in United States. Mr. Glover travels plan to pack a lunch for the noon While quality seed is important any way. The paper is sent widely and keeps in the closest picnic and plan to come early and in securing a successful crop of any we hear so much about just or un- time may prove to be a good invest touch with the dairy interests in the Often Commands Premium; ONLY on the direct order of ac- take advantage of all the good kind, it is well to remember that it just taxation, misuse of funds, over- ment for me " tive Farm Bureau members. United States. He has extensive and My advice to those holding stock things in store for those who attend. Berkeley Rock Resists is not a cure-all. Quality seed does stepping of power, favoritism, class Keep your News coming and be not excuse poor tillage, does not distinction, indifference to duty, etc., would be to admit that I was not informed on what's going on in Stinking Smut make up for a lack of plant food, we sometimes wonder if there are forced, to invest in anything that, if organized agriculture. does not eliminate barberry, the host any honest men, we begin to doubt there are disappointments, that I was Cordially yours, By H. C\ Rather, Sec'y plant for the destructive stem rust. everybody, even our best friends,— as much to blame as anyone. If I Mulligan Farm Bureau News. Mich. Crop Improvement Ass'n "What kind of wheat shall I sow? Wheat's important place in the Mich- A good, clean, well-worked seed bed should be provided early enough so wheat may be planted at the earl- and almost ourselves. had my doubts about any of the op- Then again we take more earnest erations, I would thoroughly investi thought and we are compelled to gate and know positively the facts Keep Your Automobile igan rotation and its improved po- sition on the market has caused this iest fly-free seeding date. Two hun- dred to three hundred pounds per acknowledge that anyone assuming before I would condemn anyone or any public office or trust lends him- anything. I know of one man that took his BUSINESS NEWS Insured question to replace the one, "Shall acre of 16 per cent acid phosphate self to all kinds of unjust criticisms 3c a word per Insertion for S or I sow wheat?" which Michigan will pay for itself in better filled and misrepresentations. Anyone do- annual statement of a company he mors Insertions; SVfcc a word for each of 2 Insertions; 4 cents a word Traffic Accidents Are On The Increase farmers were asking a year heads of plumper grain. The com- ing anything whatever outside of his was interested in, to his banker and for one insertion. Count each If you are the driver or owner of a motor car or truck, mon barberry will spread rust for own private business, anything that asked his opinion upon it and was «%rd, abbreviation and figure, in- ago. It is a good question too, and cluding words in signature, as can you really feel SAFE AND SECURE without automobile Michigan's varied soil conditions, miles and cause a promising crop to involves the interests of others must very much relieved and gratified to words. Cash must accompany insurance? yield only shrunken grain. Federal in these days expect to be called up- hear this business man say that he order. Hick. Farm Bureau News. together with her unusual market Suppose tomorrow you should be held liable in damages needs, make it important for the workers should be assisted in lo- on the floor, so to speak, and ex- only wished he had some holdings in to the extent of $5,000.00, would you be able to make an Michigan grower to answer it intel- cating and destroying these plants plain all that they have or have not the same concern for the large re- LIVE STOCK immediate payment without embarrassment? If not why ligently. wherever they exist. They are being done, especially if there is any mon- serve proved it to be valuable prop- not let our company carry your risk? With our State wide found in both domestic and wild ey involved. Verily, it was said erty to own. This man did just what REG. JERSEY BULLS, READY FOR organization of Adjusters, Agents, Attorneys and Officials White Wheat Gaining service. Bred for size and production. we are able to assume your risks and give you efficient areas all over the state. truthfully, "Money is the root of all we should all do—go to those that Tuberculin tested. J. K. Hatfield, Remus, One of the first leads the grower service. must follow in seeking his answer With barberry plants eliminated, evil." How our whole lives center can enlighten us if we are not sure Mich. 8-8-24 is to loam his local market demand. with proper seed bed preparation, around that wofd "money"! While of our own knowledge — such a REG. GUERNSEY BULL CALF 9 Our company is now finishing the tenth season and we and with judicious use of manure none of us want to admit it, never- course would save us all many un- months old. A good one. A. R. Dam, have built up large assets with one yearly payment. Where the wheat is to be sold to an Gilmore Brothers, Camden, Mich. 9-11-24 elevator for later resale the Michi- and fertilizers, varieties such as theless it is true, we are all human necessary misgivings and again we Total Assets December* 3 1 , 1921 $137,392.51 gan farmer will do well to consider those described above will pay great- enough so that we respond just a lit- must remember that the fellow that FARMS FOR SALE Total Assets December 2 1 , 1923 407,683.55 some good white variety. est profits- on the time and money re- tle quicker to a request or to an in- tries to establish these worthy co Line, IDEAL STOCK FARM ON TRUNK 11 miles from St. Pohns, 240 acres of Total Assets August 1, 1924 561,543.23 Michigan mills are developing an quired to .produce and sell a crop of quiry if it has some commercial val- operative affairs is a man right here gravely loam in fertile section. 185 acres CLAIMS PAID SINCE ORGANIZA- wheat. ue to it. How much needless misery where we know all about him, he cultivated, 15 woods, 40 pasture with run- TION 1,930,195.26 extensive pastry flour trade and the has his faults and shortcomings just ning water. Owned by one family for 50 best pastry flour comes from white it has caused! That brings me to years; one ten room and one six room CLAIMS PAID THE FIRST SIX wheat. Her great food products fac- the thought that I want to write you the same as we all have, for he is gamnrel house; shady lawns: gravel walks, two MONTHS OF 1924 222,021.73 tories also prefer the soft, starchy, white varieties. So important has COURT HOLDS VETS about in this issue. Many I'nrair Attacks human, but we should be generous 30x14; two new garages; two roof barns enough to overlook and allow for hen house; tool shed, etc. Buildings rod- ed and newly painted, 30x96 and 32x48; silo windmill, new sheds, two wells, The above assets have been accumulated with one annual to pay the claims each year and to add something to the and consider the motive behind two cisterns, water tanks with new payment per year. The rate charged has been sufficient become this demand that for two or three years the average Michigan NEED NO WARRANT In these days of co-operative it all. movements of all kinds, we hear We are too eager to condemn the apple orchard; gravel pit; sy2 miles woven wire fence; unsurpassed in Value pipes; $26,000; surplus. The company has never made a special assess- ment and has, therefore, been non-assessable by expe- market has favored white wheat to much that is discouraging and most man we know and too willing to be terms. Kinsey & Buys Co., 423 Mich. rience, i The yearly charge being sufficient to meet the the extent that farmers have been getting 'ly-t to 4 cents per bushel TOMAKET.B.TEST of the criticisms are unwarranted drawn in by the crafty slicker from Michigan. and unfair, and almost all are parts unknown. Trust Bldg., Both phones, Grand Rapids, claims each year and to increase the assets, placing the company on a firm financial basis. premium for it over the ordinary brought about through misunder- MISCELLANEOUS With selected membership of over 54,000 policy holders soft reds. W a y n e Circuit Judge Decides standing. GATES—THE EVERLASTING ALL- the company is prepared to meet every claim promptly. American Banner Productive Fortunately growers in this state can quickly take advantage of this Important Case Against 70 Dissenters We farm folks are too new to these co-operative ways of doing business to fully realize that it will POTATO EXCHANGE Steel, Double-Truss gate. Never sags and will last A lifetime. Write for catalogue and price list. E. C. Harrlss, distributor, Allegan, Mich. 8-8-24 "Insure today, tomorrow may be too late." Call on the Local Agent or write the situation with a variety which gives them many productive advantages. take time before we can expect "divi- James Vreeland, a Wayne county dends" on money invested. We CROP CONTRACTS SELF-SERVE CITIZENS' MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY American Banner is a beardless, red- farmer, and 69 of his neighbors were must look on this advanced way of POULTRY FEEDER Howell, Michigan chaffed, white winter wheat develop- handed a severe jolt by Judge De- attending to our own affairs just as ed by plant breeders at M. A. C. It Witt H. Merriam, who in a decision we do when we begin to secure a MEET WITH FAVOR The one you have been w i s h i n g for. wag originally released at a time handed down in Wayne County Cir- farm, or we tile our farm, or we provides fresh clean when white wheat was not in favor cuit Court July 24th, upheld the make a start in better livestock or Many Growers Are Signing feed at all times. May be used out of doors. and was carried along in only a limit- right of officials of the State Animal build a new building, it is a long Reasonable in price. ed way for several years. Today it is Industry Department to enter farms time before we really see any ma- Five Year Marketing Made in three sizes. Write f o r booklet. coming to its own and the Michigan and test cattle without first obtain- terial "dividends" on the money in- Agreement Reliable dealers want- Crop' Improvement Association is ing a judicial warrant. finding considerable call for approv- vested—yet almost always in the Mr. Vreeland and the other 69 long run we must admit that these id. Manufactured by IRA P. H A Y E S The Truth Feeds Cadillac, Aug. 14.—Michigan po- ed seed of this variety. Wayne county farmers sought to movements of ours paid us well. Dep't B-11 tato growers, according to R. A. Wi- Eckford, Mich. The characteristics which gave show that the Animal Industry De- Living as we do withing the De- ley, organization manager for the American Banner wheat great favor partment officers were administra- troit area of milk production and Michigan Potato Growers' Exchange, are its winter hardiness, its stiff tive officials bnly and that they also within notice of the new Pro- have generally decided to go sled- straw, its vigorous stooling habit, its could not enter farm property in ducers Plant at Adrian, I have been length in an effort to put the potato BREEDERS' DIRECTORY long, well filled heads and its ap- carrying on the T. B. test without brought in contact with many mis- marketing business on a safe and parent ability to make the most out usurping judicial functions, and that understandings, especially among permanent basis, and , as a means Reg. Duroc Jersey Boars, Bred Sows & of poils of only fair fertility. White such entry upon farms could not be the women. to this end, are signing the new five Gilts. L. O. Klaty, Carsonville. Mich. 6-25 wheats, being low in protein, require made without Judicial warrant. In the first place an investment year marketing agreements in sur less nitrogen in the soil to turn out Arrested and Found Guilty made into that plant was strictly prising numbers. ow a successful yield than do the harder This stand on the part of Mr. a business investment on the part of At a recent membership meeting Hereford$! -*"C.h ~ dMcCarty, 0 f S a?e Earl " V ? s by -Badde Axe, Huron Co. 8-15-25 reds, and under the great average Vreeland was responsible for his ar- the producer—just the same as it at Edmore in Montcalm county of wheat growing conditions Ameri- rest about a year ago. He was charg- would be if that money was used to growers of over 400 acres, or ap can Banner is apt to prove the Michi- ed with a misdemeanor for obstruct- build a silo or a milk house or to buy proximately 100 car loads, signed the gan growers' most profitable variety. ing and resisting the test. This caBe equipment, and it should be thought marketing agreements. A solicitor Parley Brothers of Albion, Geo. which has been pending in one form of in that way, not as money invest- will visit the rest of the members Wheeler, Mt. Pleasant, and Jay or another during the past year, and ed in a stock company with the ex- and it is expected that Edmore will Bradley, Blissfield, are among the which has aroused considerable in- pectations of getting quick returns in soon have the largest acreage under many growers who have had excel- terest because of its wide applica- the way of cash dividends or larger contract of any of the potato ship- Here's Our lent success with American Banner tion, was decided against Mr. Vree- interest. We women must look upon ping locals. wheat, and it is also of no little im- land and the other dissenters on July these calls for support as simply a portance to consider that American 24th. Judge Merriam, in handing part of "our business." Of course, belt all but a few of the local asso- In the northern part of the potato Platform Feeding Facts and Banner grown in Michigan won all down his decision, declared: five prizes on soft white winter wheat I fully believe we should be inter- ciations have signed up 50 per cent "Administrative officials must on ested enough afterward to watch or more of the acreage grown in the awarded at the last two International occasion perform duties which affect that things were operated as effici- various communities. At Central Grain & Hay Shows. private property and its possession. ently as possible. S E R V I C E to shipper.. jj]fficiency in operation. Milk Production— Lake the sign-up was nearly 100 Jfcefund of profits, For many years no one knew exactly what food a cow Red Rock is Outstanding It is the abuse of their authority We must remember that we prob- per cent. At Mesick, Phelps, and By far the greatest quality wheat, which first concerns the court. ably are losing far more than these Ellsworth 80 per cent or more of the needs to sustain herself and to produce a given amount of y olume decreases expenses. milk. probably the best baking soft red "Entrance upon private property investments every month by failing acreage was secured. Kingsley se- winter wheat ever developed, and and investigation of private property to know if our cows are paying a cured between 80 and 85 per cent Jnterest in farmers' problems. Professor F. B. Morrison of the Animal Husbandry De- the variety that holds practically all are constantly being made to deter- dividend above their keep or by dis- of the normal acreage and at Charle- partment of the University of Wisconsin saw the need of of Michigan's yield records is Red mine whether animals are diseased, couraging use of the best of seeds voix more than 90 per cent was (Country wide organization. Rock. Year by year it has stood whether articles of food carry di- for the crops we grow—there are pledged to the association. such information. After a number of years experimenting the test of time and while some sease germs and are unfit for use, hundreds of ways that we can make Economical marketing. with hundreds of animals he was able to give us figures on The campaign for members is now the food requirements of our different farm animals. These variety may have surpassed it in a whether elevators and stairways are unprofitable investments in our being conducted in the Mecosta- single season, nothing has ever con- safe. every day manner of conducting our Montcalm territory. At the present This platform is lived up to. figures have become the standard of farmers and dairymen sistently outyielded this famous "All this is done under a legisla- own private individual business. But rate the minimum acreage for the Treating shippers right has giv- throughout the world. variety. tive warrant and without judicial there are many things that must be state should be secured by the first en the producers co-op sales of- Professor Morrison found that a dairy cow weighing 1,000 Where growers are supplying warrant. If judicial process were re- done in a co-operative way If done of November. A complete report of fices the largest business on ev- lbs. needs 7.9 lbs. of digestible nutrients every day, of which wheat to local bread flour mills, or quired in each case it is clear that at all and we should be loyal enough the work of the organization depart- ery market. For the six months .7 lbs. should be digestible crude protein, in order to keep special starch and gluten products the state agencies created to safe- to our job to be willing to do our ment will be made at the annual ending June 30, 1J?24, these companies, where they have a strong guard the health of the people could part. meeting of the Exchange at Cadil- agencies throughout the U. S. her body in the same condition and not lose any weight. well-drained soil, nicely suited to not function." Smooth Interests At Work lac, August 20-21. have set aside 1400,000 in sav- He also found that in order to give 30 pounds of 47c milk wheat growing, then Red Rock is Just now there seems to be an ings for return to local ass'ns. she must have an additional 9.9 lbs. of digestible nutrients, probably the best answer to their Buffalo and Detroit are doing Are Public Formulas agitation to discourage anybody including 1.8 lbs. of protein. question of "What Variety?" Berkeley Rock Promising New Wheat Responsible For This? holding stock along certain lines, co-operative and other legitimate GREAT FIREWORKS their share of this work. Bet- ' ter prices, better treatment Putting this together we find that a 1,000 lb. cow giving A variety which promises to rival lines that temporarily may be in the have brought this success. Ship 30 lbs. of 4% milk daily needs 17.8 lbs. of digestible nutri- Red Rock in its established bread Second hand bag dealers report "dumps." Letters and cards are fre- flour field is the new Berkeley Rock that the material collected from the quently received by such stockhold- AT DETROIT FAIR to ents including 2.5 lbs. of protein. wheat, progeny of an M. A. C. cross cleaning of used bags, which until ers with offers to buy stock at a list- Mich. Livestock Exch. MILKMAKER A SCIENTIFIC FEED between Red Rock and Genesee Berk- recently was readily salable to mill- ed price and the prices given are in- Detroit, August 14.—Two of the eley. While showing its hybrid ing concerns for use in ready mixed deed discouraging to the individual greatest fireworks spectacles ever at Detroit Michigan Milkmaker 24% protein dairy ration was de- characteristics, Berkeley Rock has dairy rations, now has practically no that bought this stock with glowing produced are promised for the State veloped by the Michigan State Farm Bureau along the same been Classified by the Chicago Board market at any price. Fair in Detroit, August 29 to Sep- expectations of success. Too often tember 7. They are "Tokyo— Prod. Co-op. Com. Ass'n lines of scientific study. This truth-in-feeds, public formula of Trade as a hard red winter wheat One of the effects of the farmer these same stockholders trade Through Earthquake and Fire," and • t East Buffalo dairy feed is built to secure more economical production and and Michigan samples were good going into the feed business on a their holdings for some other stock, "The Founding of Detroit." to keep the animals in high condition and good health. In enough to place well up in this class quality basis seems to be that of forc- frequently that of some far away These productions are so big, and addition, thousands of feeders have found that it materially at the last International. ing commercial feed concerns to "oil company." necessarily so costly, the program increases milk flow. Milkmaker is a combination of the It is a bearded wheat, not quite raise the quality of their products. My advice would be to ask your- must be divided between them. The choicest feeding stuffs and contains the correct proteins for so stiff strawed as Red Rock but per- first three nights of the fair, Friday, haps slightly more winter hardy. Saturday and Sunday, "The Found- economical milk production. ing of Detroit" will be shown and Both varieties possess unusual mer- Attention! Four parts of Milkmaker and one part of oats (or corn or it in these essential characteristics. In addition to its exceptional qual- ity, Berkeley Rock possesses another Market Conditions the remaining nights "Tokyo" will have the sky. The "Founding of Detroit" made specially for the Seventy-Fifth State Mr. Monument Buyer barley) as the concentrate or grain ration and good clover or alfalfa hay and ensilage as the roughage and succulent feed gives us an excellent dairy ration. characteristic of great worth. Dr. As Reported by the Michigan Elevator Exchange Fair, will tell the story in fireworks G. H. Coons, plant pathologist at M. WHEAT—The whole grain situa- OATS AND RYE will be forced of the old Fort Ponchartrain days, When feeding Milkmaker to the 30 lb. cow mentioned A. C , reports after three years of tion looks to us like "good and bet- to follow in sympathy with other the battles between the French and above, one pound of the above grain ration to 4 lbs. of milk trials that this variety is essentially English and Indians for the vantage furnishes the cow with enough digestible nutrients to sup- ter times ahead." We are selling grains. point where now stands .one of the immune to stinking smut or bunt. BEANS—The bean situation in greatest cities of the world. plement the roughage and succulent feed; therefore, this 30 In tests where the seed was saturat- wheat today practically in the midst Michigan for the past 2 weeks has "Tokyo" will show in lines of fire lb. cow needs 7y2 lbs. of the above Milkmaker and oats com- ed with bunt spores only an occa- of our harvest at 30 to 35 cents per been on the decline. This is undoubt- against a black sky the scenes of bination. In most cases Milkmaker would give this 30 lbs. sional smutted head of Berkeley bushel over last year's prices and edly due to the heavy amount of rain- horror that gripped Japan in 1923, Hock appeared while other varieties are of the opinion that these will fall throughout the state generally. the falling buildings, the lightning cow what she needs to increase her production. similarly treated showed an infection be about the lowest on this crop, un- Farmers were unable to do any other and the fire. 1 260 co-operative ass'ns handle Michigan Milkmaker. to 70 per cent. Your manager can supply you. For information write, Inspectors for the Michigan Crop less conditions in the Canadian work and took this opportunity to Improvement Association have also Northwest develop a whole lot for market their beans. The growing No Mystery Purchasing Department *»» .mm •» , crop throughout the state is very Co-operative marketing applied to reported unusual freedom from the the better. We would not be surprised spotted. Bad reports are still com- troublesome loose smut, a disease to see wheat sell in Michigan at ing in. wheat is bound to produce the very MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU, Lansing, Michigan \ controlled only by the difficult hot $1.50 or better loading point same good results that co-operative W r i t e us today for our special proposi- on Sizing up the whole situation for marketing has produced when ap- tion on Best Everlasting Vermont Granite water treatment. If Berkeley Rock this crop. continues its apparent disease im- I the UT S., we can see no reason why Monuments and Markers. Highest qual- plied to cotton, tobacco, fruit and i t y ; lowest prices. ****3* MICHIGAN «fr CORN is in a very strong posi- the new crop of beans should not many other farm products. There is R. W . CARR M O N U M E N T CO. munity or resistance, it will deserve tion Milkmaker even though it is selling at rec- bring better prices than the average nothing mysterious about wheat.— 107 South Ave. Battle Creek, Mich.] -ful consideration by ord prices today. of last year's crop. Robert W, Bingham, Kentucky. ••••••••••••••••ttt+f+ou