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PUBLISHED BY THE MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU FOR ITS MEMBERSHIP
FEBRUARY 25, 1927
FIFTH YEAR, VOL. V., No. 4
ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY
FARM BUREAU WINS LONG FIGHT FOR McNARY HAUGEN BILL
Seed Service Cup Awarded LIVE STOCK EXCH.
Washtenaw County Farmer MADE GOOD GAINS
Captured, Confined in Cold Type,
Sentenced to Serve Our Members
Farm Relief Measure
Minute Men .Mustered
Do you know who is the Farm Bureau Legislative Minute Man for
your community, and if so, do you
understand what he is doing for
Michigan agriculture? Dotted all
over the state are several hundred
of these Minute Men who have been
chosen by their county or community
Farm Bureau or local co-operativr
association to represent that group
in legislative matters.
Despite the fact that R. N. Holsaple, executive secretary of the
Michigan Anti-Saloon
League, sits
up in the Senate gallery nearly every day, one of the Senators has recently been noticed to display quite
openly nearly a quart of alcoholic
concoction
which he admits he
brought home from Canada. However, no one is tempted to drink the
stuff because it is contaminated with
several dozen quite husky European
corn borers.
An interesting exhibit on Sen. Morton's desk is a case in which all the
various stages of the corn borer's
existence are shown, including the
eggs, larvae, worms and moths.
Senator Horton has introduced a
bill giving the State Department of
Agriculture the necessary authority
to enforce clean-up measures in the
areas infested with the corn borer
and appropriating $200,000 for each
of the next two years for this purpose.
Over 3 50 bills have been introduced in the Legislature thus fai
this session, and the flood of new
proposals continues unabated. Year
by year the rows of law books grow
longer and the provisions of our
statutes more difficult to understand
and interpret. One hopeful sign is
the introduction of a bill by Sen.
Howard F. Baxter of Grand Rapids
which provides for the repeal of 140
acts or parts of acts constituting 715
•sections all of which are said to be
obsolete. Sen. Baxters' bill is the
product of th3 work of a legislative
commission established
two years
ago with Sen. Baxter' as chairman,
which has been carefully scrutinizing the laws of the State Avith a view
of cutting out the dead timber. This
sort of pruning should meet the approval of Michigan farmers.
OHIO POULTRY MEN
HOLD RECORD MEET
Interest In Co-operative
Found Very Keen In
That State
Is
That Michigan poultrymen who
contemplate building up a co-operative marketing agency of their own
for the mrarketing of eggs and poultry products have some well organized neighbors engaged in this business was demonstrated a week ago
when, at Wauseon, O., headquarters
of the Ohio Poultry Producers' Cooperative Association, more than
1,000 farmers and poultrymen gathered for their annual convention.
Confining his efforts to production of improved certified Red Rock
seed wheat for several years, C. D.
Finkbeiner, of Clinton, Washtenaw
county, has been successful in winning a silver loving cup awarded by
the Seed Service of the Michigan
State Farm Bureau. The trophy was
awarded to the Michigan
farmer
winning first honors with wheat a*
the annual Michigan Hay and Grain
Show three times.
Mr. Finkbeiner took first honors
this winter and first a year ago and
was the first one to win the cup for
one year when the Farm
Bureau
Seed Service offered it five years
ago.
Since the first winning of the
cup, two other farmers have been
successful in holding it for a year.
These are A. \V. Jewett, Jr., of Mason, Ingham county, who won it in
the second contest, and J. A. Wilk,
of Alma, Gratiot county, who held
it during the third year.
Between 15 and 20 entries were
registered in the contest this year.
A recent order issued by the Interstate Commerce Commission, relative
to freight rates on commercial fertilizers shipped from point to point in
Central Freight Association terri
tory, including lower Michigan, wi'l
mean a saving of $50,000 annually
to Michigan farmers.'The new order,
however, does not become effective
in time to benefit the farmers on th»bulk of shipments made this spring,
the »rder taking effect on May 17.
Under the new rate, a reduction of
about 50 cents a ton is made from
the current prevailing rate. This reduction has been brought about by
the efforts of the Ohio Farm-Bureau
Federation.
GOODSEED, POULTRY,
IMPROVED LIVE STOCK
NEEDED ON THE FARM
Good seed, good cows and good
poultry were the topics oT several
lectures given to a total of some 1,300 farmers of Sanilac county in -J
series of meetings extending through
February 8 and 9, at Croswell arid
Deckerville.
The speeches made gave, indication of a trend toward more scientific
production and operation of the
farms in Michigan.
Howard Rather, crops specialist of
Michigan State College, talked on
the improving of and the use of improved seed to better crop production
and crop prices. He brought out the
fact that possibilities are strong for
raising legumes successfully in Sanilac county and he urged use of
known brand of seed, claiming that
good grades of seed are as essential
as consideration of soil conditions.
Don G. Rieman, agricultural teacher of Croswell high school, F. C. Gilbert, of the Roach Canning compnay,
James Hays, dairy expert of State
College and John D. Martin, countv
agricultural agent of Sanilac county, appeared on the speaking programs at the two-days' sessions.
These meetings were sponsored by
farmers' clubs and business men's
clubs of the vicinity.
Government Will Preserve
Historic Longhorn Cattle
The Agricultural Appropriation BUI Signed by President CooUdge, Recently,
Carries an Item for Their Purchase and Maintenance on the
Wichita National Forest in Oklahoma
The Wichita national forest lies
That the long-homed, or Spanish right in the heart of the range of the
breed of cattle, once so numerous in old southern herds of plains buffalo,
the Southwest
may be preserved and is a part of the region formerlv
from complete extinction, the Forest known as the Indian Territory, where
Service, United States Department of now live more than fifty thousand InAgriculture, will maintain a herd on dians.
Wichita National Forest in OklahoHere also grazed some of the pioma, according to an announcement neer herds of these long-horned catmade today by Col. W. B. Greeley, tle when the livestock industry in
Chief Forester.
the southwest was in its infancy.
The agricultural appropriation bil There are still a few living members
signed by President Coolidge on Jan- of this once numerous breed of catuary 17, carries an item for their tle to be found in Texas. The herd
purchase and maintenance.
for the Government will be selected
The department has for several by expert cattlemen familiar with the
years urged the necessity for a small characteristics of the cattle and of
herd of these picturesque examples the southwestern ranges. They will
of early pioneer life of the Southwest be grazed in a pasture immediately
for the benefit and education of fu- adjoining the «one occupied by the
ture generations interested in pio-j herd of buffalo now established on
neer history.
I the forest.
Michigan
Organization
Refunding $14,000
To Members
IN MEMBERSHIP W0RK|
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FROM MICHIGAN SPLITTING 7 TO 6
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La3t Year This Bill Received But Three Michigan
Votes, Increase Shows Change In Views.
Senate Previously Adopted Bill;
Now Up To The President
CO-OP NOW FOURTH
Three Directors Were Picked
At Eighth Annual
Convention
In the face of a general market
condition showing a considerable deIn each instance, Michigan State crease in total shipments for the
College authorities say, the cup has year, the Michigan Live Stock Exbeen won on showings of certified change reported, at its eighth annual meeting in Lansing last week,
Red Rock wheat.
Mr. Finkbeiner, now owner of the an increase of 3 per cent in volume
trophy, has been awarded highest of business done during 1926, as
honors at the International Hay and compared with 1925.
Grain Show at Chicago three times,
This is a remarkable showing for
and Mr. Jewett, it is claimed, has the success Of the organization,
been awarded more honors at that which has handled a total of 21,017
big exposition than any other farm- cars of livestock since it was organer in Michigan. This indicates the ized in 1922.' This business repreclass of contestants competing for the sents a valuation of $36,840,350, its
valuable trophy which has just been officers showed in their report. Comawarded the Washtenaw county missions on the total shipments have
farmer.
amounted to $360,058 of which
amount $65,671 has been a net profit, $47,465 of which has been refunded to the members and a reserve of $18,206 has been set up, not
including a $3,500 holding of stock
recently purchased in the Eastern
States Company,—a live stock handling agency at Buffalo
Eighteen per cent of all commissions paid on shipments last year is
Agricultural Study Tour In being returned to the members, the
delegates at the annual meeting
August and September,
were informed. This refund will
amount to $14,215.12, the treasurer
A. F. B. F. Plan
showed, leaving $2,217.54 to add to
the surplus.
MANY INQUIRIES MADE
Michigan Exchange is First
The Michigan
Live Stock
ExSeveral Hundred Farmers And change ranks first on the Detroit
market and is the fourth largest coOthers Expected To
operative marketing agency in the
producers' family in America, folMake The Trip
lowing in order, Chicago, St. Louis
and Indianapolis.
Many Michigan people have rePresident E. A. Beamer. in his responded to the invitation from the port
to the delegates at the annual
American Farm Bureau Federation convention,
the assertion that
to join the 1927 co-operative pilgrim- the Packers made
and Stockyards Act.
age which the Federation has ar- sponsored
the farmers and liveranged to provide a unique, unusual stock men by
of the entire country and
opportunity for farm people desiring especially by
co-operatives, has
to visit Europe. The pilgrimage is not operated tothe
the benefit of the coscheduled to start July 30, the par- op shipper to the
that many
ty sailing from New York on that had anticipated. Inextent
many instances.
date for a two months' educational Mr. Beamer said, instead
this legand pleasure tour of the British Isles islation working to the ofbenefit
of
and the mainland of Europe.
them, it has been a detriment.
The pilgrimage is not limited to
"I am not prepared to say whethFarm Bureau members, but is for
people engaged in agriculture or in- er the trouble lies in the act itself
timately connected with it in one or in, the administering of it," the
phase or another. It is estimated that president of the organization declarfully r>00 will take part in the trip. ed. "Nevertheless, regardless of our
almost super-human efforts to carThis pilgrimage was organized as ry out its provisions, we feel that
the result of an insistent demand. in several instances we have not had
The U. S. Department of Agriculture fair treatment from some of the ofhas reported that there has been, ficials charged with administration
within the past three years, an in- of the act," he added.
creasingly large number of requests
Overhead Cost Low
forwarded to the Department by farm
The overhead cost of operation for
people planning European trips and
asking what particular points of ag- the year was shown to be $14.67 per
ricultural interest could be viewed in car of livestock handled, which was
the countries to be visited. It is this lower than for any other co-operademand on the part of the farm peo- tive organization in the country.
In purchasing stock of the Eastern
ple that has led to the organization
States Company, President Beamer
of this tour.
explained, the Michigan Live Stock
Visit Seven Count lies
Arrangements have been made Exchange >has been enabled to set itwith public and private agencies self up as an equal shareholder in
which will insure to those making the Buffalo organization along with
this tour the privilege of viewing at the Buffalo, Cleveland and Pittsfirst hand the most outstanding and burgh Producers' Association, the
interesting agricultural features in Ohio Live Stock Shipping Associaseven of the great European coun- tion and the Indiana State Farm Butries. Opportunity will be afforded of reau Federation. This gives an open
seeing and learning things which the outlet for Michigan live stock whenprivate tourist could never see or ever needed, Mr. Beamer explained.
The Exchange closed its sessions
learn.
Many echoes have reached t hi ~j by adopting a resolution urging
country of successful
agricultural President Coolidge to sign the Mcpractices in Europe which may or Nary-Haugen bill, which had just
may not be adaptable to meeting been passed by both houses of Consome of the serious problems facing gress, and by electing three directors
American agriculture. Very few agri- for terms of three years each. The
culturally 'trained observers have new directors are, Nate Patterson, of
seen these things in Europe. It is the Caro; W. J. Perry, of Grand Blanc
belief of the American Farm Bureau and J. R. Pettis, of Sparta.
Federation that if the practices and
methods developed in Europe could 61 Farmers Enrolled
be studied by a group of intelligent
American farm people, this knowLapeer 50 Year Club
ledge, brought back to our own country, could bo applied successfully to
Enrollment in a 'Half Century
the general benefit of our farm peo-. Farmers' Club" has stepped up rappie. This tour has been
carefully idly in Lapeer county during the few
planned to provide a maximum edu- weeks since it was organized by the
cational' opportunity, while at the Lapeer County Press, and now tosame time it provides all of the tals 61 members. Eligibility to mempleasures of the usual sightseeing bership means that those joining
European tour.
shall have lived a half century on a
One of the important advantages farm in that county. The organizaof the trip will be the bringing to- tion is attracting nation-wide attengether for a period of two months, of tion and has been commended by
the agricultural leadership of Ameri- William M. Jardine, U. S. Sec. of
ca. Of unusual interest will be the Agriculture, by congressmen anr*
special dinner arranged in each of other prominent agricultural leadthe cities of Copenhagen, Berlin and ers of the country, it is being the
London, at which all members of the first club of its kind in America.
pilgrimage will be guests and to Memberships are strictly honorary
which distinguished officials of each and include men of pioneer families
of these countries will be invited, es- of the state, some members having
pecially those who devote their pri- resided in the county since about
mary attention to agriculture.
the time Michigan became a state.
$ 5 0 , 0 0 0 IS SAVED EUROPEAN TOUR IS
BY FREIGHT ORDER ATTRACTING A LOT
Order Reducing Rates Will
OF STATEFARMERS
Apply After May 17.
Helps Farmer
i FARM RELIEF MEASURE PASSED BY
ON'26 BUSINESS
C. D. Finkbeiner, Three Times
Winner, Possesses It
Permanently
Sparks From the
Legislative
Anvil
LEADING SHIAWASSEE
FRANK W. BENNETT
Shiawassee County Farm Bureau
has engaged a full time organization
man, Frank W. Bennett, of the organization staff of the State Farm
Bureau, to head up the membership
work being carried on in each of the
townships of the county.
The county is to be "covered" by
volunteer workers in each township
much as the state was worked by
volunteer teams in each of 30 counties last summer. In that campaign
Mr. Bennett led team workers Ir.
Oceana, Mason and Manistee counties to success and since that time
has conducted some very valuable
membership work in Newaygo, Montcalm and Jackson counties.
He is a Barry county farmer and
formerly was county
agricultural
agent of that county.
From the spirit displayed in the
arranging of the present campaign,
the members of the Shiawassee
County Farm Bureau are determined to set up their own organization
as one of the strongest County Farm
Bureaus in Michigan during 1927.
WOOL COOPERATIVES
SET UP COMMISSION
National Board Established
To Check Actions Of
Member Co-ops
29 WOOL POOLS REPORT
Only 10 Per Cent Of
Wool In Country Is
Sold By Pool
All
It will be impossible for the
American farmer to get far toward
the successful marketing of his wool
as long as only about one-tenth of
the wools raised in this country are
solckjhrough pools.
Thus W. \\\ Billings, vice-prosident of the Michigan Stale Farm
Bureau, summarized the wool situation upon his return from Washington where representatives of 2 9 of
the principal wool pools of the United States convened to study and discuss the problem
of co-operative
marketing of wool.
A striking thing which this big
conference revealed, Mr. Billings declared, is the fact that about the
same situation prevails in all pools:
only a small percentage of all the
available wool in tlie respective territory is turned in to the co-operative for marketing. The biggest pool,
the one having some 14,000,000
pounds of fleeces last year, had only
one-fourth of the available wool, he
learned.
One big thing accomplished at the
conference was the establishing of
a national wool pool commission
whose duties and function it will be
to advise and inform the memberpools of the activities of all the wool
fo-operatives.
By this move, it is
aimed to prevent the speculative
element from using one pool as a
leverage against another co-operative.
Mr. Billings will give more in detail concerning the Washington conference in the next issue of the
NEWS. He was scheduled to attend
the annual meeting of the Ohio Woo)
Pool, at Columbus, O., Tuesday and
Wednesday, Feb. 22 and 23. At
Washington he had the good fortune of being present while the V.
S. Senate ratified the McNaryHaugen bill.
Cass County Holstein men who last
month took preliminary steps toward
organizing are to meet again Saturday afternoon. February 26, in the
basement of the public library at
Dowagiac. J. G. Hayes, Sec'y of the
Michigan Holsteru. Association, will
again be present and, also, E. M.
Clark, of the national association.
President Calvin Coolidge has not been left in doubt as to
the attitude of Michigan farmers regarding the McNaryHaugen farm relief bill passed by Congress and referred to
him for his signature. Not only are many farmers writing
and wiring their views to the President, but telegrams have
been sent by state officials urging him to give his approval to
the measure.
Governor Fred W. Green in wiring the President called attention to the fact that the McNary-Haugen bill does not involve an untried principle, in that other countries have successfully employed similar plans of surplus control.
The U. S. House of Representatives passed the bill, 214 to
178.
Our Michigan Congressmen voted as follows: For the
hiH—Crampton, Hooper, Hudson, James, Ketcham, Michener
and Woodruff; Against the bill—McLaughlin, Mapes, Scott,
Sosnowski, Vincent and McLeod.
It is now up to President Coolidge to sign or veto it. He is in a
tight place because his metropolitan
supporters are expecting him to veto
it, and if he does, it would cost him
hundreds of thousands of farm votes
if he should decide to run for a
third term.
Those who predict a veto admit
that the President has not said anything definite which would justify
them in such a statement. Friends
of the measure point out that the
President has left the way open for
him to give it his approval.
The approval of the McNaryHaugen bill by the Senate and the
House marks the culmination of a
long and bitter fight. With each succeeding Congress the farm issue has
loomed larger and larger in importance until it has now attained such
proportions that it is generally conceded that it will continue to be the
major issue before the country until
a satisfactory solution is made. Despite the bitter attacks and gross
misrepresentation of the aims and
purposes of the McNary-Haugen bill,
the sentiment behind this measure
has been growing by leaps and
bounds. So widely has it gained favor among the farmers and farm
leaders in every section of the'nation
from New England to the Pacific
Coast and from the Canadian Border
to the Gulf States that its enemieR
can n6 longer claim that the support,
of the measure is sectional.
Appeals from farmers and farm
organizations are being made to the
President to sign the McNary-Haugen bill so that it may become a law
and aford relief to agriculture. It is
pointed out that this is the last opportunity which remains during this
session of Congress to give relief to
agriculture. All that remains now to
afford the relief offered by the McNary-Haugen bill is for the President to affix1 his signature to the
measure. If he should veto it and
Congress should fail to re-enact it
by two-thirds vote it would be too
late to secure the passage of any
farm relief measure before the final
adjournment of Congress on March
4.
As the next Congress does not
convene until next December, the
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farmers would then be forced to produce another crop under the inequality and handicaps with which they
have had to contend in the past without the assistance which would be
afforded if the McNary-Haugen bill
were enacted into law.
PORTLAND BUREAU
CLOSES BIG YEAR
Portland Farm Bureau, during
1926, carried on one of its most successful years of business development. At its recent annual meeting
the financial reports of ltd several
branches showed good net results
for the past year's business.
Eight directors were elected for
the ensuing year. These are, William
Spitzley, William Pryer, Fred Klotz.
George Fisher, Martin Itamlow, Le?ter M. Campbell, Veryl Tyler and Ed.
HiiiiB.
"A Fool There Wa« And
He Made His Prayer"
Henry Ford spoke hit little piece
recently when he suggested, In a
newspaper Interview, that farmers
quit raising corn for two years so
the corn borer would starve.
All right, Henry, you may take
your place at the foot of the class
now.
The American farmer has shown
considerable understanding of business in his co-operative marketing
undertakings in recent years but
the big business men seem to persist in showing that they know
practically nothing about farming
when they are brought to a showdown on some very simple agricultural problems.
Show us the worm that will
starve
rather
than feed upon
vegetation of its second choice and
we will show you a million farmers
that will gladly serve as pall bearers at their funerals.
A corn borer that will refuse to
eat simply because he can't have
the succulent stalks of certain
brands of sweet corn is the type
of corn borer scientists have been
looking for for years.
Come on, Henry, tell us where
they are and we'll put you up to
the head of the class again. Now
don't hold out on us or we won't
play with you any more.
That
isn't fair.
All The World Enjoyediff
Fa rm Bureau Dance Party
Broadcasting of Ninth Annual Slate Farm Bureau Banquet on February 3
Brought in Many Letters of Appreciation of the Old Time
Marie and the Mcrrhnaking of the Party
Farm Bureau folk apparently were
not the only ones to have a "hell of
a time," the evening of the ninth annual banquet, when old-fashioned
square dancing closed the bill of
events at an early hour of the day
following. About two dozen
communications, sent in from nearly as
many different places about the country, are evidence of the fact that the
old time music is still appreciated by
many in the unseen audience of the
radio.
W. A. MoConnel, of Fall River,
Mass., tells us that, "In the words
of Mike Noon, of Jackson, "We had
a H—of a time, too."
"Well, did we break 'er down last
nignt? I'll say we did. That old time
dance was a wow." he wrote, the day
after the Farm Bureau dancing party. "When I heard the announcer
say, 'Old time dance,' we got busy
on the phone and had four sets going
in no time, all neignbors*of ours," he
added, in his letter of commendation
of the party and the music.
From other places came letters a ad
post cards. William Lee Guckes, of
Philadelphia, Pa.; Mrs. Ruth Nelson,
of Providence, R. I.: Mr. and Mrs F.
A. Gehman, of Terre Haute, Ind.;
Edwin M. Lee, of Buffalo, N. Y.; Mrs.
G. A. Garlock, of Oswego, N. Y.;
Spencer Divver, of Beardstown, 111.;
Charles E. Morrell. Jr., of Boston,
Mass.; Thomas E. Oates, of Portland,
Me.; Charles L. Pepper, of Melroae,
Mass.; John R. Meacham, of Pittsfield, Mass.; S. C. Dalton and wife,
of Cedar Rapids, la.; Mrs. Harry
Bangs, of Springfield, Vt.; Erastus
Cornell, of Highmore, S. Dakota;
George A. Diem, of Rochester, N. Y.:
William A. Carter, of Pawtucket, R.
I., and Oscar Whiting of Hartford,
Conn., where among those to write
in regarding the reception of the
dancing program.
Mr. and Mrs. Gehman stated they
wanted to have the caller send them
the calls for quadrilles and square
dances.
-ir Whiting, of Connecticut said
that when "Sullivan and Sp'
danced a jig it sounded like a happy
bunch, all right."
S. C. Dalton and wife, of lows,
wrote that it seemed good to hear
from home. They came from Eaton
Rapids, Mr. Dalton stated, and woulJ
like to hear from a Mr* John Hollister. They gave their address as
YL'A C Ave., E., Cedar Rapids, la.
THTRSTUY, FEB. 2-1, 1027
MICHIGAN F A R M B U R E A U
MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU NEWS
Published twice a month by the Michigan State Farm Bureau at Charlotte, Michigan. Editorial and general offices at State Farm Bureau headquarters, Lansing, Michigan.
Xo.
FEBRUARY 26, 1027
VOL. V
Subscription Price 50c Per Year, included in dues of Farm
Bureau Members.
LEE CHILSON
STANLEY M. POVVKLL
-Editor
Associate Editor
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OFFICERS
Iff. L. NOON, Jackson
W. W. BILLINGS, l>.ivison
M Y COUNTRY
"My country—when right, to be k e p t r i g h t ; when
wrong, to be p u t r i g h t . "
C a r l Schurz.
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Entered at the post office at Charlotte, Mich., as second class
matter. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided
for in Sec. 1103, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, authorized Januarv 12, 1923.
President
Vice-President
His inclinations a r e g e n e r a l l y felt to h a v e b e e n quite decidejy
' n o " in t h e p a s t but, w i t h t h e s t o r m r e c e n t l y r a g i n g h e a v y for
the f a r m i n t e r e s t s the c o u n t r y over a n d w i t h the s u p p o r t Conegress h a s given t h e M c N a r y - H a n g e n m e a s u r e — h a v i n g all t h e
voices of organized a g r i c u l t u r e p l e a d i n g f o r it and d e m a n d i n g
legislation designed t o relieve the s i t u a t i o n for the f a r m e r —
there is b u t one t h i n g now for the Chief Executive t o w e i g h :
politics.
It is " s t i c k or b u s t " w i t h t h e old boy n o w . To stick w i t h the
old line e a s t e r n R e p u b l i c a n s or b r e a k his political ties in favor
of common sense a n d t h e insisteut d e m a n d s of the b r e a d winners of t h e n a t i o n .
Directors-at-Large
M. B. MCPHERSON
MRS. EDITH M. WAGAR
EARL C. McCARTY
VEROLD F. GORMELY
J. G. BOYLE
W. W. BILLINGS
Lowe«
Carleton
Bad Axe
Newberry
Buchanan
Davison
Commodity Directors
GEORGE HERMAN, Edmore
M. L. NOON, Jackson
J. H. O'MEALEY, Hudson
GEO. W. McCALLA, Ypsilanti
M. D. BUSKIRK, Paw Paw
Michigan Potato Growers Exchange
Michigan Milk Producers Association
Michigan Live Stock Exchange
Michigan Elevator Exchange
Michigan Fruit Growers, Inc.
S T A T E FARM
BUREAU
ORGANIZATION
Clark L. Brody
S. M. Powell
Sec'y-Treas-Manager
Ass't Secretary
DEPARTMENT
Traffic
Fabrics
Publicity
Accounting
Organization
SUBSIDIARY
HEADS
A. P. Mills
F. L. Kelner
Lee Chilson
E. E. Ungren
A. Bentall
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CORPORATIONS OF T H E
F A R M BUREAU
MICHIGAN
Michigan Farm Bureau Seed Service
Michigan Farm Bureau Supply Service
Farm Bureau Poultry Exchange
Michigan Farm Bureau Wool Pool
C.
L.
W.
C.
F.
A.
O.
F.
STATE
Barnum
Thomas
Steiger
Barnum
Michigan Commodity Marketing Associations
Affiliated With Michigan State F a r m Bureau
Michigan
Michigan
Michigan
Michigan
Michigan
Potato Growers Exchange
Milk Producers Association
Live Stock Exchange
Elevator Exchange .%
Fruit Growers, lnc
.Cadillac
707 Owen Bldg., Detroit
Hudson
Farm Bureau Bldg., Lansing
Benton Harbor
Directors and Officers of the Commodity Exchanges
MICH. MILK PRODUCERS ASS*N
MICH. ELEVATOR EXCH.
N. P. Hull, Pres
Lansing
Carl Martin, Pres
Coldwater
R. G. Totts, Vice-Pres. Washington
L. C. Kamlowske, V. P. Washington
John C. Near, Sec
Flat Rock
H. D. Horton, Sec.-Treas ...Kinde
B. F. Beach, Ass't Sec
Detroit
L. E. Osmer, Mgr
Lansing
H. W. Norton, Treas
Howell
C. S. Benton, Bean Dep't, Lansing
M. L. Noon
Jackson
W. E. Phillips
Decatur
Ii. L. Taylor
Lapeer
George McCalla
Ypsilanti
L. W. Harwood
Adrian
Milton Burkholder
Marlette
W. J. Thomas
Grand Rapids
M. R. Shisler
Caledonia
Fred W. Meyer
Fair Haven
F . M. Oehmke
Sebewalng
Dr. W. C. McKinney.. .Davisburg
W. J. Hazelwood
Mt. Pleasant
MICH. POTATO GROWERS
James J. Brakenberry
Bad Axe
EXCH.
Elmer Powers
....Clio
Henry Curtis, Pres
Cadillac
MICH. LIVE STOCK EXCH.
J. T. Bussey, Vice-Pros. Provemont
E. A. Beamer, Pres
Blissfleld
O. E. Hawley, Sec'y
Shelby
W. J. Perry, Vice-Pres
F. J. Harger, Treas
Stanwood
Grand Blanc
F. P. Hibst, Gen. Mgr
Cadillac
J. H. O'Mealey, Sec
Hudson
C. A. Rlchner, Sales Mgr... Cad iliac
Nate Patterson
Caro
Leon G. VanLeuw
Bellaire
Edward Dippey
Perry
George Herman
Edmore
Clias. Woodruff
Hastings
E. A. Rasmussen
Sheridan
Ray D. Harper
St. Johns
MICHIGAN FRUIT Charles Brown
Sunfield
M. D. Buaklrk, I'res
Faw Paw
Frank Obrest
4 . . . . Breckenridge
Amos Tucker, 1 V. Pres
GROWERS, INC.
...South Haven
John Miller
CQlorna
Herbert Nafziger, 2 V. Pres...
Allan B. o r a h a m
Elberta
Mlllburg
P. D. Leaven worth.. Grand Rapids
F. L. Bradford, Sec. -Treas
W. J. Schultz
,
Hart
Benton Harbor
L. A. Hawley
Ludlngton
F. L. Granger, Sales Mgr
C. I. Chrestensen
Onekama
Benton Harbor
H. W. Gowdy
Union Pier
D. H. Brake
Fremont
O. R. Gale
Shelby
Henry Namitz
Bridgman
John Lang
Sodus
American
Farm Bureau
J. F. Higbee
Benton Harbor
John Federation
Bottema
Spring Lake
8AM
H.
THOMPSON
President
Miller Overton
Bangor
Bert Gleason
Lawrence
GENERAL OFFICES A. F. B. F . . . '
Washington St., Chicago
C.58 L.East
Brody
Lansing
CHESTER H. GRAY
Representative
Harry Washington
Hogue
Sodus
LEGISLATIVE HEADQUARTERS
Munsey Bldg.. Washington, D. C.
f^
STATE FARM BUREAU'S PUBLIC
SERVICE PROGRAM
LEGISLATION
Passage of the Capper-French Truth-InFabric bill; completion and operation of
the U. S. Muscle Shoals Nitrates plant
and manufacture of fertilizer: opposition
to anv form of sales tax or of consumption tax; retention of federal income tax;
Passage of Gooding-Ketcham Seed Stalnins bffl.
BNACTED APR. 26, 1926
TAXATION
ENACTED JAN. 29, 1925 (a)
(b
(c)
TAXES REDUCED
$67,350 A N N U A L L Y
SINCE 1924
(d)
Relief for sorely burdened farm property
by enactment of:
Two cent gasoline tax for highway
funds.
State Income Tax in place of State's
genera] property levy.
Law forbidding any more tax exempt
securities.
Equalization of assessment of farm and
city property in accordance with sales
values of same.
(Farm Bureau Investigations brought
equalization in Calhoun, Ingham, Washtenaw, Monroe and Kalamazoo counties,
saving farmer taxpayers $67,350 excess
taxes annually.)
E F F E C T I V E SEPT. 10,
1925
TRANSPORTATION
Immediate,
application
of
Michigan
Zone Rate decision to save farmer shippers in 69 counties $500,000 annually.
MARKETING
Extension of sound co-operative marketing program now well under way in
Michigan.
EFFECTIVE OCT. 20,
1926
AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE
Adequate protection for farmers against
loss by fire, theft, collision, property damage and public liability furnished at reasonable rates.
V
" S T I C K OR B U S T "
The old checker hoard has been crossed ami re-crossed many
t i m e s iu t h e p a s t few years ami the moves have been I'ast ami
the game a hot one d u r i n g the present session of Congress, in
t r e a t i n g ot" the needs and the d e m a n d s of Ameriean a g r i c u l t u r e .
The farmer has made his final p l a y : two men a r e left on the
s i t i n g the ' m o v e of the k i n g " on the other side.
m o \ e will determine w h e t h e r the farmer wins or loses in the
first heat.
The f a r m e r s ' men in t h e g a m e a r e the t w o houses of Congress.
Each ha* moved in favor of M e X a r y - l i a u g h e n legislation and the
President is the only one now to m a k e or b r e a k t h e game for
africuftttre.
MICHIGAN'S CORN BORER WORK
The b e g i n n i n g of one of t h e most i n t e n s i v e c a m p a i g n s ever
waged against a p l a n t pest w a s m a r k e d w i t h t h e signing of t h e
corn b o r e r control act b y P r e s i d e n t Coolidge. W i t h t h i s a c t
there is p r o v i d e d ten million dollars a s a n a p p r o p r i a t i o n by
Congress for eradication of t h e E u r o p e a n c o r n borer.
If this eradication w o r k is to be effective, full c o o p e r a t i o n
must be given by the i n d i v i d u a l f a r m e r i n a i d i n g s t a t e a n d
federal a u t h o r i t i e s to c a r r y out t h e p r o g r a m n o w b e i n g outlined.
It m e a n s t h a t all c o r n s t a l k s a n d coarse v e g e t a t i o n refuse on
the land m u s t be b u r n e d a n d destroyed before M a y 1 to p r e v e n t
the moths from e m e r g i n g a n d g e t t i n g t h e e a r l y s t a r t for t h e
season t h a t m a k e s it t h e more difficult to c o m b a t t h e m .
This m e a n s t h a t every f a r m e r must do s o m e t h i n g t o h e l p in
the conquest. The pest c a n n o t be e r a d i c a t e d this s u m m e r b u t
much can be accomplished by p r e v e n t i n g t h e s p r e a d i n g of it as
much as possible.
E x p e r i e n c e has shown t h a t the best m e t h o d for d e s t r o y i n g t h e
corn borer in stalks a n d d e b r i s left s t a n d i n g in t h e field is poling,
r a k i n g a n d b u r n i n g t h e m a t e r i a l s before M a y 1, and t h e n plowing to cover a n y m a t e r i a l t h a t m a y r e m a i n .
This p r o c e d u r e will be r e q u i r e d at the discretion of enforcement officials. E x c e p t i o n s will have to be m a d e in cases w h e r e
s p r i n g p l o w i n g a n d t h e condition of t h e fields is such 'as t o assure the officials t h a t e v e r y t h i n g p r a c t i c a b l e h a s been done to
control increase of the b o r e r .
As soon as the federal a p p r o p r i a t i o n is m a d e available b y Congress, final r e g u l a t i o n s will be p r o m u l g a t e d b y the U. S. D e p a r t m e n t of A g r i c u l t u r e .
I n the m e a n t i m e M r . Michigan F a r m e r will do well t o p l a n a
little for his p a r t in t h i s b a t t l e .
F i g h t i n g t h e pest i s n ' t g o i n g to hejp the m e m b e r s of C o n g r e s s
who h a v e set aside t h i s $10,000,000 for eradication w o r k a n d
for control of the b o r e r b u t it is g o i n g t o m e a n the s a v i n g of
inestimable sums to t h e a g r i c u l t u r e of Michigan.
I t ' s y o u r fight a n d m i n e ; l e t ' s get set for t h e first offensive
this spring.
1887—THAT D A Y I S N O W HERE!—1927
F r o m a l e t t e r to E x e c u t i v e D i r e c t o r C h a r l e s P . Craig, of t h e
•St. L a w r e n c e w a t e r w a y commission:
" A w a y back in the eighties, t h e Boston p e o p l e w e r e considering the advisability of b u i l d i n g a r a i l r o a d from Buffalo t o Boston, in o r d e r t o secure some of t h e w e s t e r n t r a d e a n d business.
Mr. J a m e s F . J o y , of D e t r o i t , p r e s i d e n t of t h e Michigan C e n t r a l ,
who w a s considered t h e foremost a n d l e a d i n g a u t h o r i t y on railr o a d m a s t e r s , w a s called before a legislative committee i n Boston. C o m p l y i n g w i t h t h e r e q u e s t , t h i s is, in -substance, w h a t he
s a i d : ' G e n t l e m e n , d o n ' t hesitate, have n o fear, b u i l d y o u r r o a d ,
and it will have p l e n t y of business. T h e N e w Y o r k C e n t r a l i s
now l a y i n g its f o u r t h t r a c k from Buffalo to New Y o r k in o r d e r
to h a n d l e t h e business of t h e M i c h i g a n C e n t r a l a n d L a k e S h o r e
Roads. These r o a d s in t u r n a r e c r o w d e d w i t h t h e business out of
Chicago, t e r m i n a t i n g t h e r e b y t h e B u r l i n g t o n , R o c k I s l a n d , Chicago & N o r t h w e s t e r n , w h o c a n ' t k e e p pace w i t h t h e u p b u i l d i n g
of the W e s t e r n S t a t e s , t r i b u t a r y to t h e i r respective r o a d s . '
" A s k e d w h a t he w o u l d s u g g e s t as a r e m e d y for this s t a t e of
affairs, he r e p l i e d :
' W h e n t h e d a y comes, w h e n f r e i g h t cau be s h i p p e d b y
w a t e r from D u l u t h , t h r o u g h to Liverpool, w i t h o u t b r e a k i n g
hulk, t h a t day will b r i n g a godsend a n d relief t o t h e A m e r i c a n
railroads, who a r e n o w h a u l i n g h e a v y freight across t h e continent, foreign to their i n t e r e s t a n d p u r p o s e s , which w a s to handle
light freight, express m a t t e r s a n d p a s s e n g e r s in r a p i d t r a n s i t . '
" H E N R Y GERNER,
" S a n Diego, C a l i f . "
CAPPER TINCHER LEGISLATION
Occasionally the big p a c k e r s p u t u p a b r a v e fight for the sake
of p r o t e c t i n g a g r i c u l t u r a l i n t e r e s t s . They d o n ' t w a n t a n y legislation to be put across t h a t might l a t e r p r o v e injurious t o t h e
live stock m a r k e t of the c o u n t r y . This they oppose merely to
protect the helpless, f a r m e r and, incidentally, t o i n d i r e c t l y benefit t h e i r won business, t h e y would have it a p p e a r .
S e n a t o r C a p p e r a n d Congressman Tincher have i n t r o d u c e d
hills, simultaneously, into the U. S. S e n a t e a n d t h e H o u s e of
Representatives a i m i n g to prohibit a p r a c t i c e of livestock b u y i n g
which is t h r e a t e n i n g to d e s t r o y open, competitive b u y i n g . This
is a practice carried on hy the big p a c k e r s in which tliey maintain p r i v a t e b u y i n g y a r d s in a d d i t i o n t o the basic livestock
y a r d s a n d considerable b u y i n g is d o n e t h r o u g h these p r i v a t e
y a r d s by dealing w i t h favored s h i p p e r s .
The p r a c t i c e is opposed by p r a c t i c a l l y all the big f a r m organizations, including t h e A m e r i c a n F a r m B u r e a u , t h e N a t i o n a l
Grange and o t h e r such influential a n d intelligent bodies of a g r i culturists.
Despite this fact, the p a c k e r s , w h o a r e t h e only ones to benefit
by such practice, have d e c l a r e d t h e i r opposition t o t h e p r o posed federal legislation i n t r o d u c e d b y Mr. C a p p e r a n d Mr.
Tincher is merely to p r o t e c t t h e m a r k e t i n g i n t e r e s t s of t h e
farmer.
J u d g i n g from their s t a n d in the past, w h e n e v e r t h e r e has been
legislation proposed a f f e c t i n g t h e s h i p p i n g or m a r k e t i n g of live
stock, the p a c k e r s a r e looking oift for t h e f a r m e r i n t e r e s t s t o t h e
e x t e n t of k e e p i n g to themselvs benefits t h a t the f a r m e r h a s n o
c o n t r o l over. T h e y a r e f i g h t i n g t h e p r o p o s e d C a p p e r - T i n c h e r
bills j u s t as t h e y have f o u g h t o t h e r legislation which has aimed
a t control of t h e i r business a n d t h e fight in t h e p a s t has not
been weak ou their p a r t . .
FEBRUARY 23, 1927
NEWS
In their present fight to hold the favor of live stock producers, the p a c k e r s a r e e n d e a v o r i n g to show t h a t t h e Capper>
T i n c h e r legislation w o u l d restrict b u y i n g to certain y a r d s ; somet h i n g , they claim which would p r o v e v e r y harmful to the shipp e r s ' interests a n d t h e i n t e r e s t s of the producers. They aim to
show it would p r o h i b i t direct sales by t h e producers.
The t h i n g to be b r o u g h t about b y t h e proposed legislation is
elimination, principally, of delayed b u y i n g t h r o u g h off-market
channels. This b u y i n g is done by some packers, b y collecting
large s h i p m e n t s of stock from p r o t e c t e d local b u y e r s a n d holdi n g t h e stock in p r i v a t e y a r d s u n t i l a price can be fixed acc o r d i n g to the p r i c e s on t h e open m a r k e t s . This practice tends
to l o w e r the public m a r k e t prices a n d , therefore, enables the
p a c k e r s to engage in a wholesale, indirect price fixing which
affects t h e prices of live stock t h r o u g h o u t the entire c o u n t r y .
T h u s t h e d e g r e e of their i n t e r e s t in t h e f a r m e r - p r o d u c e r of
live stock is very evident. I t is a b o u t as k e e n as it h a s been in
p r e v i o u s " b a t t l e s " in which they have used every weapon at
t h e i r eommond to p r o t e c t t h e i r own interests.
B a d will be t h e d a y for every m a n when he becomes adsolutely
c o n t e n t e d with t h e life t h a t he is living, with the t h o u g h t s t h a t
he is t h i n k i n g , w i t h t h e deeds t h a t he is doing, when t h e r e is not
forever b e a t i n g at t h e doors of his soul some great desire to do
s o m e t h i n g larger, which he k n o w s t h a t he w a s m e a n t a n d made
to do because he is still, in spite of all, the child of God.
—Phillips Brooks.
US FARMERS
Us f a r m e r s in the c o u n t r y , as the seasons go and come.
I s p u r t y much like other folks—we're a p t to grumble s o m e !
The s p r i n g ' s too b a c k w a r d fer us, e r too f o r - a r d — a r y one—
W e ' l l j a w a b o u t it anyhow, a n d have o u r w a y er n o n e !
The t h a w ' s set in too s u d d e n t ; er the f r o s t ' s stayed in the soil
Too long to give the w h e a t a chance, a n d crops is b o u n d to spoil!
The w e a t h e r ' s e i t h e r most too mild, e r too o u t r a g e o u s r o u g h ,
A n d a l t o g e t h e r too much 4*ain, er not half e n o u g h !
N o w w h a t I ' d like a n d w h a t y o u ' d like is plain e n o u g h to s e e :
I t ' s j e s t to have old Providence d r o p a r o u n d on y b u a n d me
and ast u s w h a t o u r views is first, r e g a r d i n ' shine er r a i n ,
A n d post 'em w h e n to shet h e r off, er let h e r on a g a i n !
A n d yit I ' d r u t h e r , a f t e r a l l — c o n s i d e r i n ' o t h e r chores
1 got on h a n d s , a'-tendin' both t o m y affairs a n d y o u r s —
I ' d r a t h e r miss t h e blame I ' d git, a - r u l i n ' t h i n g s u p t h e r e ,
A n d spend m y e x t r y time in praise a n d g r a t i t u d e a n d p r a y e r .
— J a m e s W h i t c o m b Riley.
OPEN FORUM
The
N E W S welcome* letter*
from the membership on questions
Interesting to the membership.
Such letters must be signed and
be reasonably short because of our
limited space—500 words is a good
limit; they should be temperate in
language and offer a constructive
answer to the question in hand.
Communications are invited.
"Editor Farm Bureau News:
"Mr. Geo. Roberts, vice-president
of the National City Bank, N. Y., in
a recent article in the Netroit News
opposes the McNary-HaUgen bill, and
among other statements he says
this: 'The fundamental objection to
the plan is that it proposes an arbitratory interference with the free
play of economic forces; impractical
because the undertaking is far too
great to be entrusted to such a body
as is proposed.'
"How is it that Mr. Roberts did
not worry about the 'interference
With the free play of economic forces' when, after the war, the Reserve
Banks refused loans to the farmers
and thereby forced them to dump
their crops on the market, while, at
the same time these same Reserve
Banks loaned more money to the
business men of N. Y. City than to
all the farmers in seven agricultural
states?
"For this very reason agricultural
prices dropped to the lowest level,
while the farmer was obliged to pay
nearly war prices for most thhings
and is largely doing so yet.
"The Federal Reserve system is
supposed to make the supply of
money
"elastic."
The
McNaryHaiigen bill intends to do the same
thing with farm commodities. Mr.
Robert says: "There is something
abnormal and repugnant in the idea
of selling food stuffs and other necessaries a/broad, below prices fixed
to our own people.'
"If Mr. Roberts is so much concerned about this matter, then why
does he not go after the manufacturers of farm machinery, who are
doing this very thing?
"It seems that Mr. Roberts belongs to that class who are able to
make 100 per cent profit out of other people's money, and he is welcome to it as far as the writer is concerned, if he refrains from giving
uncalled for advise in agricultural
matters and if he will please remem
ber that a great many farmers could
also tell him many ways how money
could be made more available to the
public and at lower rates.
"Respectfully.
THEO. BENGEL,
Fowler. Michigan."
MICHIGAN MAN WINNER
OF LAND BANKS' AWARD
Guy G. Tefft, of Sherwood, Mich.,
was awarded a cash prize by the federal land bank of St. Paul, in a recent contest for the best letter setting forth methods used by farmers
in meeing payments on bank loans.
A. J. Schmidt, of Chaska, Minn., was
awarded the first cash prize.
Second prize was awarded to Allen Klemme, of W'otverton, Minn.,
while the third prize went to Mrs.
Tom Sparrow, of Portland, N. D.
The winners of ien special cash
prizes are announe- I as follows: H.
D. Ward of Solon R - ings. Wis.. H.
A. H. Blegen of I
D., Guy
G. Tefft of Sher vood. Michigan,
Charles W. Farrell i •: South Haven,
Michigan, Robert H. Johnson of Ful*
lerton, N. D., G. A. B.-unstad of Chippewa Falls, Wis., Martin A. Eliason
of Appleton, Minn., A. E. Paulson of
Underwood, N. D., T. S. Skarsgard of
Ryder, N. D., and Mrs. Henry Neuvilic of Sturgeon Bay, Wis.
GENESEE STIRRED
WITH ENTHUSIASM
500 Hear Farm Bureau
Given By Dr.
Of
Talk
Diehl
Charlotte
Enthusiasm ran unusually high for
Farm Bureau activity for the ensuing year when some 500 Genese°.
county farmers and their
families
gathered at the Masonic temple, in
Flint, Feb. 21, for the sixth annual
Farm Bureau banquet, under the
chairmanship of W. W.
Billings,
president of the county organization
and vice-president of the Michigan
State Farm Bureau.
There were three "ringers" on the
program: "Mike" Noon, of JacksonT
known also by the official title of
president of the State Farm Bureau,
Dr. W. W. Diehl, Methodist preacher,
of Charlotte, and Mrs. Frank Evans,
wife of Frank Evans, the general
marketing counsel of the A. F. B. F.
Her talk treated of
the property
rights of women and followed closely along the lines of her address at
the ninth annual convention of the
Michigan State Farm Bureau, earlier
in the month. This talk carried with
it a weight of thought that her hearers find hard to shake, even long
after they have heard her give it.
Mr. Noon was toastmaster and in
this capacity put across some very
timely points.
To hear Dr. Diehl enumerate the
recent accomplishments made possible for agriculture meant to hear the
spelling out of the success of Farm
Bureau in its truest and broadest
sense, Dr. Diehl was one of the
founders of Farm Bureau and
through his talks, such as he gave
at this meeting, he instills the very
essence of co-operative spirit in the
minds of his hearers.
Although the preacher, was there
to see that the party broke up early,
not later than midnight, the insistence was so great and the urge so
strong for "more" that the old time
music masters were obliged to fiddle
away.until the last few "sets" were
satisfied.
PLAN BIG DOINGS
AT MINTDALE HALL SUCCESS ATTENDS
St. Joseph County Bureau To
T O W M P DRIVES
Hold A Supper On
March I
The first of four big county meetings planned for 1927, to be staged
by the St. Joseph County Farm Bureau, is definitely set for the evening of March 1, to be held in the
community hall at Mintdale, beginning at 7 o'clock.
The board of directors of the
county Farm Bureau met on Feb.
16 to arrange details of the program
for this occasion. They picked M. L.
Noon, of Jackson, as principal speaker. Mr. Noon is the new president of
the State Farm Bureau and will be
assisted on the program by one or
two others from the staff of the state
organization.
The four big meetings have been
planned as a means of strengthening
the Farm Bureau in the county. In
those counties where such quarterly
meetings are being held, much is being accomplished. Some are adopting the policy of inviting in township committees at the
quarterly
meetings of their boards and report
this to be a very satisfactory way of
setting up a stronger working unit
throughout the county.
In St. Joseph county the Farm
Bureau sentiment appears to be
growing firmer and more widespread.
This was manifested recently When
four communities entered bids to entertain the county organization at
the county meetings, the "first of
which is scheduled for the Mintdale
community hall, next Tuesday evening.
Muskegon County Workers In
Series Of Meetings
Sign Members
The one-week drives for members
in Muskegon county ran true to
schedule in Casnovia and Ravenna
townships during the first half of
February. A substantial number of
new members were added and tho
old members changed to the new plan
of continuous membership.
Assisting A. M. Edmunds, of the
State Farm Bureau staff, volunteer
workers have taken their automobiles and gope into the townships
where intensive campaigning
was
carried out to build up a strong organization for the county.
In each township the week's work
closed with a booster meeting of all
members and their families. A big
dinner was served in each place. At
the Trent Grange hall, in Casnovia
township, about 100 persons participated in the event and at Ravenna,
about 200 took part.
Community singing , short talks
and entertainment comprised the
evenings' programs. Karl Kopf, county agricultural agent, led in the singsong and short talks were given by
Mr. Edmunds and by P. G. Hoiden,
of the International Harvester company.
Mr. Edmunds told of Farm Bureau
accomplishments and explained the
more recently added Farm Bureau
service: Automobile insurance. Mr.
Hoiden sppke on "Community Building."
In Casnovia township the follow(
ing committee was chosen: Mrs..Erwin Rull, Mrs. Emmil Parteen, C. S.
Breeden, Ray Rykert and Charles
Lewis. The committee chosen for Ravenna township was Mrs.
Frank
Farm taxes take more than half Haas, Mrs. Robert Rassmussen, S. J.
the rents of farms in the lower pen- Link, Tom S. Rogers and Roy Haas.
insula of Michigan, the Michigan
State College has announced, following a survey of 1,133 farms, in
co-operation with the U. S. Department of Agriculture.
Taxes averaged 52 per cent of
the net rents to farm owners during
the seven years, 1919-1925. The avIn 13 years the ppet office at Zeeerage gross rent per acre for the
seven years was $4.88 per acre, but land has jumped from a third to a
repairs, depreciation and operating first-class office.
expenses paid by owners,
reduced
In 1914 the receipts were about
the net rent to $2.79, with taxes $7,000 while now they have exceeded
averaging $1.4 3 per acre still to be $40,000. The year 1922 marked the
deducted.
inauguration of city delivery and the
Rents were highest and taxes low- business done that year totaled $19,est in 1919, according to the fig- 000. In the past four years the reures. In that year 521 farm owners ceipts have more than doubled. Last
reported an average gross rent of year there was an increase of $6,500
$6.51 per acre, and a net rent be- over 1925.
fore paying taxes of $4.31 per acre.
There are very few cities with the
The 1919 tax averaged $1.29 or 30 population of Zeeland that can boast
per cent of net rents.
a-'first-lass /pcfetoffice.
Residents
Rents were lowest and taxes high- are enthusiastic about this new eviest in 1921. Gross rents for that dence of Zeeland's prosperity. Facyear averaged $4.15 per acre on 415
farms. Net rents with taxes still to tories long idle are beginning operabe paid were $2.17 per acre. Taxes tions and most of the hatcheries are
averaged $1.53 per acre, or 70 per increasing their capacities. The chick
industry in no small way is responsicent of net rents.
The year 1925, the latest for ble for the large volume of postal
which data is available, was almost business done there.
an average year. Gross rents from
Silage fed to cow 8 an hour before
1,018 farms averaged $1.84 per acre,
net rents $2.69, and taxes $1.46 or milking leaves an odor in the milk.
Better feed it after milking, experi54 per cent of net rents.
enced dairymen agree.
It pays to use pure-bred dairy sires.
South Dakota State college has found
The cow producing five gallons of
that their use on scrub or grade cowa milk daily cannot maintain her proincreases production in the first cross duction long without some conabout 67 per cent.
icentrated feed.
Michigan Farm Tax
Consumes One-Half
Of Total Net Rent
CHICKS GIVE TOWN
FIRST CLASS P. 0.
FEBRUARY 25, 1027
M I C H I G A X.
V A R -M
BV RK \ r
LEGISLATURE AIMS NEWTON DEVOTES Former Michigan Student
DAYTO BUREAU
EFFORTS AT CRIME
Emancipator Of The Jews
WAVEPREVENTION Seventy-Five People Attend DR. JOSEPHROSEN,?
A n n u a l Meeting Of
Death Penalty, Longer Terms,
T o w n Bureau
MICHIGAN RYE MAN,
Fewer Paroles S e e n
A s Remedies
RECLAIMS STEPPES
PASS BAN ON LOBBYISTS
Chicken Thief Bill Passed B y
H o u s e With But O n e
V o t e T o Spare
T h e H o u s e of R e p r e s e n t a t i v e s passed t h e A r m s t r o n g c a p i t a l p u n i s h m e n t
bill F e b . 2 4 , a f t e r a t h r e e h o u r d e b a t e . T h e v o t e w a s 6 0 i n f a v o r of
t h e bill a n d 3 3 a g a i n s t i t .
T h e N e w t o n T o w n s h i p F a r m Bur e a u , of C a l h o u n c o u n t y , held a r o u s ing all-day
meeting
at
Stanley
G r a n g e H a l l , F e b . 12, a t t e n d e d by
seventy-five people. T h e
forenoon
w a s devoted to a b u s i n e s s session at
which t h e officers of t h e T o w n s h i p
F a r m B u r e a u w e r e chosen a n d deleg a t e s elected for t h e n e x t
annual
,meeting of t h e C a l h o u n C o u n t y F a r m
Bureau.
Following
a sumptuous
dinner
s e r v e d by t h e ladies of Stanley
G r a n g e , a splendid p r o g r a m of F a r m
B u r e a u speeches a n d a d d r e s s e s was
given w i t h t h e t o w n s h i p F a r m Bureau president, Albert
Hagelshaw,
p r e s i d i n g . E l m e r E. Ball, s e c r e t a r y
of t h e C o u n t y F a r m B u r e a u , m a d e a
clear a n d convincing e x p l a n a t i o n o :
Farm Bureau automobile insurance
a n d E. C. S a c k r i d e r , C a l h o u n county
club l e a d e r , told of t h e p r o g r e s s of
Boys' a n d G i r l s ' Club w o r k in t h e
c o u n t y a n d discussed t h e h a b i t s a n d
c o n t r o l of t h e E u r o p e a n corn b o r e r
T h e services of t h e S t a t e F a r m
B u r e a u w e r e outlined by S t a n l e y M.
P o w e l l , A s s i s t a n t S e c r e t a r y of t h a t
organization.
F o l l o w i n g a s h o r t recess a n d m u sic by t h e S t a n l e y G r a n g e q u a r t e t and
a t a l k on t h e b e a u t i e s a n d possibilities of N o r t h e r n Michigan, by Niles
H a g e l s h a w , Mr. Powell m a d e a seco n d a d d r e s s in which h e discussed
s t a t e a n d n a t i o n a l legislative issues
a n d t h e services of t h e F a r m B u r e a u
in r e p r e s e n t i n g t h e r u r a l viewpoint
at Landing a n d at Washington.
T h e m e e t i n g r e s u l t e d in g r e a t l y inc r e a s i n g t h e enthufciasm a n d loyalty
of t h e F a r m B u r e a u m e m b e r s p r e s ent, for t h e i r o r g a n i z a t i o n , a n d in
demonstrating to the -non-members
who attended that the F a r m Bureau
is v e r y m u c h w o r t h w h i l e
a n d is
a c h i e v i n g v a l u a b l e r e s u l t s for farm
people.
S t a t e Capitol, F e b . 2 4 . — T h e oratorical climax of t h e p r e s e n t session
of t h e S t a t e L e g i s l a t u r e is expected
t o be r e a c h e d t h i s a f t e r n o o n when
t h e A r m s t r o n g bill, p r o v i d i n g capital
p u n i s h m e n t by e l e c t r o c u t i o n , comes
up for final d e b a t e a n d v o t e in t h e
House of R e p r e s e n t a t i v e s . Seventeen
m e m b e r s h a v e notified S p e a k e r Lynn
C. G a r d n e r t h a t they i n t e n d to t a k e
p a r t in t h e d e b a t e .
T h e public h e a r i n g held on t h i s
m e a s u r e y e s t e r d a y by t h e J u d i c i a r y
C o m m i t t e e of t h e Senate was o n e of
t h e m o s t l a r g e l y a t t e n d e d in State
history.
T h e h e a r i n g began a t 3 : 0 0 o'clock
in t h e a f t e r n o o n a n d w a s n o t finally
a d j o u r n e d u n t i l after 1 0 : 0 0 o'clock
in t h e e v e n i n g .
Highway F u n d s Puzzle
While t h e c a p i t a l p u n i s h m e n t discussions h a v e occupied t h e c e n t e r of
t h e s t a g e a n d have beeu most obvious
to t h e o n - l o o k e r s , a n o t h e r issue of
even g r e a t e r i m p o r t a n c e h a s been
m u c h discussed by little g r o u p s in
b o t h t h e S e n a t e a n d t h e H o u s e . This
is t h e k n o t t y p r o b l e m of h i g h w a y fin a n c e a n d w h a t t o do a b o u t t h e prese n t g a s t a x a n d w e i g h t levies.
An i n f l u e n t i a l g r o u p of legislative
leaders are supporting a program
which is in c o m p l e t e a c c o r d w i t h t h e
r e s o l u t i o n on t h i s s u b j e c t a d o p t e d a t
P l a n s for m a k i n g
Chicago
the
t h e r e c e n t a n n u a l m e e t i n g of t h e
signifiMichigan S t a t e F a r m B u r e a u .
I n h e a d q u a r t e r s for t h e most
in t h e a n n a l s
of
brief, t h i s p l a n would p r o v i d e for a c a n t " g a t h e r i n g
have
beeu
4c g a s t a x , p e r m a n e n t licenses f o r A m e r i c a n c o - o p e r a t i o n
p a s s e n g e r c a r s a n d a n a n n u a l w e i g h t laid for a m e e t i n g of t h e A m e r i c a n
I n s t i t u t e of Co-operation for i t s sumt a x for t r u c k s a n d buses. A f u r t h e r
m e r session a t N o r t h w e s t e r n Unif e a t u r e of t h i s plan provides t h a t t h e v e r s i t y , J u n e 20 t o J u l y 17, incluc o u n t i e s should receive a t least eight sive.
million d o l l a r s a n n u a l l y of t h e S t a t e
" T h e first s u m m e r session
was
h i g h w a y r e v e n u e i n s t e a d of six mil- h e l d in 1 9 2 5 a t t h e U n i v e r s i t y of
lion d o l l a r s a s a t p r e s e n t .
P e n n s y l v a n i a , at P h i l a d e l p h i a ; t h e
Stop P o u l t r y Stealing
second in 1 9 2 6 a t t h e U n i v e r s i t y of
T h e bill by R e p . L u t h e r E . H a l l of M i n n e s o t a , St. P a u l , Minn.
I n i a , w h i c h is d e s i g n e d to c u r b chickT h e i n s t i t u t e is a u n i q u e e d u c a en t h i e v e s , w a s fibally p a s s e d by t h e t i o n a l e n t e r p r i s e . I n its w o r k it is
H o u s e w i t h b u t o n e v o t e to s p a r e , a c o m b i n a t i o n of high g r a d e t e c h n i t h e tally being 52 to 3 7 . R e p . H a l l ' s cal school a n d a conference body for
bill would r e q u i r e t h a t all p u r c h a s e r s e x c h a n g e of practical i n f o r m a t i o n by
of
p o u l t r y fill o u t b l a n k s to be l e a d e r s a n d skilled w o r k e r s in t h e
b u s i n e s s ors e c u r e d from t h e S e c r e t a r y of S t a t e , f a r m e r s ' co-operative
By d e m o n s t r a t i n g a d giving c e r t a i n specified i n f o r m a t i o n . g a n i z a t i o n s .
v a n c e d m e t h o d s , it s e e k s t o i m p r o v e
Lobbyists Ruled O u t
B o t h t h e S e n a t e a n d t h e H o u s e t h e t e a c h i n g s t a n d a r d s of A m e r i c a n
a c t e d favorably u p o n t h e recom- schools a n d colleges w i t h respect t o
t h i s p h a s e of A m e r i c a n b u s i n e s s . I t
m e n d a t i o n s of Governor F r e d W .
also s e r v e s to give special technical
Green a n d h a v e a m e n d e d t h e i r r u l e s
t r a i n i n g t o e m p l o y e e s of co-operative
to forbid a n y lobbyist to be p r e s e n t a s s o c i a t i o n s a n d t o p e r s o n s i n t e n d on t h e floor d u r i n g t h e daily session. i n g t o m a k e t h i s t y p e
of activity
Two bills a i m e d a t lessening Mich- t h e i r life w o r k .
i g a n ' s c r i m e wave w e r e passed u n a n i The invitation
of
Northwestern
m o u s l y by t h e S e n a t e a t i t s Monday U n i v e r s i t y h a s been given t h e s u p e v e n i n g session. One of t h e m m a k e s p o r t of t h e A m e r i c a n F a r m B u r e a u
life i m p r i s o n m e n t m a n d a t o r y for per- F e d e r a t i o n , t h e N a t i o n a l Livestock
sons convicted of a s s a u l t i n g a n o t h e r P r o d u c e r s ' Association, t h e Illinois
w i t h i n t e n t t o r o b o r s t e a l w h i l e a r m - A g r i c u l t u r a l Association a n d severai
ed w i t h a n y d a n g e r o u s w e a p o n . T h e of t h e s t r o n g m i d d l e - w e s t e r n
state
c o m p a n i o n bill would forbid t h e par- F a r m
Bureaus
and
co-operative
V J
ole of p r i s o n e r s convicted of first g r o u p s .
degree murder.
Rep. S n o w ' s r e s o l u t i o n p r o p o s i n g a
constitutional a m e n d m e n t t o emp o w e r t h e L e g i s l a t u r e t o r e v i s e Michi g a n ' s t a x l a w s a n d to i n c l u d e a s t a t e
R i g h t now y o u r t i m e is n o t
i n c o m e t a x in t h e n e w s y s t e m , if they
a s v a l u a b l e t o y o u a s it will be
should d e s i r e so to do, h a s b e e n r e n e x t s p r i n g . W h y not h a u l o u t
r e f e r r e d to t h e H o u s e c o m m i t t e e on
t h a t corn p l a n t e r a n d m a k e a
g e n e r a l t a x a t i o n upon m o t i o n of R e p .
n e w t o n g u e to r e p l a c e t h e split
Snow, w h o wishes to d e l a y final vote
a n d p a t c h e d one? W h y n o t g e t
until t h e people back h o m e h a v e h a d
t h o s e plow s h a r e s s h a r p e n e d
m o r e c h a n c e t o m a k e t h e i r desires
now a n d be r e a d y w h e n " p l o w heard.
t i m e " does come?
N o w tha>:
C o n s i d e r a b l e stiffening
of t h e
you come to t h i n k of it, t h e r e
g r a d e s for Michigan a p p l e s is proare a number
of l'epair jobs
posed in a bill i n t r o d u c e d in t h e
t h a t need t o be a t t e n d e d t o .
H o u s e by R e p . L u t h e r E . Hall of
R i g h t now is t h e t i m e t o m a k e
Ionia, c h a i r m a n of t h e H o u s e Comall necessary r e p a i r s
on t h e
m i t t e e on H o r t i c u l t u r e .
T h i s bill
m a c h i n e r y you will
use this
would m a t e r i a l l y d e c r e a s e t h e tolerspring and summer.
Any reance in t h e v a r i o u s g r a d e s for apples
p a i r s t h a t need t o be o r d e r e d
l a c k i n g p r o p e r color a n d h a v i n g o t h e r
can be o r d e r e d n o w . Such ordefects. R e p . Hall c o n t e n d s t h a t only
d e r s a l w a y s r e q u i r e a few d a y s
by h a v i n g s t r i c t g r a d e s a n d considerand
s o m e t i m e s a w e e k for
ing a t a l l t i m e s t h e desires of t h e con-,
s h i p m e n t . A t w o w e e k s ' wait a t
s u m e r s c a n Michigan a p p l e s compete
t h i s t i m e of y e a r m e a n s n o t h ing, b u t a few d a y s ' w a i t next
successfully w i t h t h e carefully g r a d s p r i n g m a y m e a n t h e differed-pack of t h e w e s t e r n o r c h a r d i s t s .
ence between a crop a n d no
A proposal t h a t b e g i n n i n g a t t h e
crop.
April election in 1929 s u p e r v i s o r s be
elected for t w o - y e a r t e r m s , is e m bodied in t h e c o n s t i t u t i o n a l a m e n d m e n t i n t r o d u c e d by Sen. V i n c e n t A.
Martin of F r u i t p o r t .
Co-operation Institute
In Chicago This Year
"Right Now"
Chamber of Commerce
Purchase Seedlings
MARKETING ASS'N
TO IMPROVE SPUDS
Harvard
Organization
See?
T h e b o a r d of d i r e c t o r s of t h e S o u t h
Need of Stressing
H a v e n C h a m b e r of C o m m e r c e ha^s
High Quality
a d o p t e d t h e r e p o r t of i t s a g r i c u l t u r a l
committee, through Chairman F r a n k
E. W a r n e r , r e c o m m e n d i n g t h a t pine
"Quality Potatoes" was the theme
t r e e s e e d l i n g s be p u r c h a s e d
by t h e of discussion a t a r e c e n t m e m b e r s h i p
C h a m b e r of C o m m e r c e for free dis- m e e t i n g of t h e H a r w a r d M a r k e t i n g
t r i b u t i o n to t h o s e w h o w o u l d p l a n t Association a t t h e S p e n c e r G r a n g e
t h e m . A b o u t 3 5,000 s e e d l i n g
pine H a l l . C. E . A t w a t e r , fieldman of t h e
t r e e s will be a v a i l a b l e by t h i s action, Michigan P o t a t o G r o w e r s E x c h a n g e ,
w h i c h is t h e d i r e c t r e s u l t of t h e work discussed w a y s a n d m e a n s of p r o d u c of t h e e x t e n s i o n schools held in t h e i n g a b e t t e r q u a l i t y p o t a t o a n d w h a t
county, w h e r e i n R. F . K r o o d s m a , ex- t h e e x c h a n g e would do w i t h t h e lot e n s i o n specialist in f o r e s t r y , M. S. cal m a r k e t i n g association in developC , f e a t u r e d t h e possibilities
a l o n g i n g a q u a l i t y b r a n d . F r a n k T r u l l , of
reforestation lines.
j t h e soils d e p a r t m e n t ,
of Michigan
Welfare Worker In Russia
Helping T o G e t J e w s
Back O n Farm
MILLIONS TO BE SAVED
Three Years' Work H a s Put
4 0 , 0 0 0 Families O n
Earning Basis
It was a
miserable
Jew
that
b r o u g h t in foreign seed which now
is s c a t t e r e d over a million a n d a half
f a r m i n g acres of t h e mid-west. H e
was a m i s e r a b l e J e w a n d h e b r o u g h t
in t h i s seed with t h e evident p u r p o s e
of h a v i n g it s p r e a d over t h e e n t i r e
c o u n t r y if possible.
DR. J O S E P H KOKKN
Now he is back in R u s s i a , in his
own c o u n t r y , a n d a r o u n d h i m a r e
200,0u0 o t h e r s of his kind, s t r u g g l i n g to m a k e a c o m f o r t a b l e living
on t h e g r e a t R u s s i a n plains.
T h e seed t h i s J e w b r o u g h t
to
Michigan from R u s s i a w a s a little
p a c k e t of r y e — a b o u t a litre, possibly a q u a r t — a n d today, b e a r i n g his
n a m e , Rosen r y e is acclaimed t h e
best r y e in A m e r i c a a n d h a s been
a w a r d e d h i g h e s t h o n o r s four t i m e s
at t h e International H a y and Grain
show.
T h i s J e w , m i s e r a b l e when he left
his h o m e l a n d a s a n exile, a n d miserably poor w h e n h e r e a c h e d Michig a n a n d t h e Michigan S t a t e College,
less t h a n t w o decades a g o , no l o n g e r
is poor or m i s e r a b l e . He is Dr. J o s e p h
R o s e n , t h e e m a n c i p a t o r of t h e J e w s
of Russia, T h e 200,000 o t h e r s of his
k i n d n o w w o r k i n g t o m a k e a living
by t i l l i n g t h e soil in s o u t h e r n R u s sia, h a v e been l i t e r a l l y saved from a
death
by s t a r v a t i o n ,
principally
t h r o u g h t h e u n t i r i n g a n d sincere efforts jOf this o n e b i g s c h o l a r a n d
worker.
Never S o u g h t P u b l i c i t y
No b l a r i n g publicity h e r a l d e d his
c o m i n g to Michigan as a s t u d e n t of
a g r i c u l t u r e ; n o t m u c h w a s said w h e n
he left.
In his g r e a t
undertaking
a m o n g h i s own r a c e , s t a r t i n g singleh a n d e d a n d w i t h c o m p a r a t i v e l y limited m e a n s , h e s o u g h t n o
publicity
a n d received b u t little. H e t h o u g h t
a n d worked a n d organized. H e o r ganized w o r k e r s to assist h i m in h i s
plan of g e t t i n g his people back o n t o
t h e soil, from w h e n c e t h e y h a d ' b e e n
driven h u n d r e d s of y e a r s a g o . H e
o r g a n i z e d t h e m so t h a t they could
w o r k t o t h e best a d v a n t a g e by c o o p e r a t i n g with t h e n e w government.
of R u s s i a to o b t a i n g r a n t s of land.
In t h r e e y e a r s of t h i s w o r k — b a n d ing t o g e t h e r t h o s e w h o showed a will i n g n e s s to m a k e t h e i r living from
t h e soil a n d g e t t i n g t h e Soviet gove r n m e n t to set a s i d e l a n d s for t h e m ,
Dr. Rosen h a s b r o u g h t back s o m e
40,00'0 families from t h e b r i n k of th«?
g r a v e , so t o s p e a k , a n d they h a v e
m a d e a w o n d e r f u l s h o w i n g on t h e
start.
For more than a hundred years
t h e J e w s h a d existed in colonies i n
R u s s i a , b u t it w a s o n l y t h r o u g h s p e cial d i s p e n s a t i o n t h a t t h e y w e r e perm i t t e d t o form colonies for t i l l i n g
t h e soil a n d in t h i s they merely existed a n d persisted in t h e face of u n told h a r d s h i p s
among
unfriendly
neighbors.
|
Jews Formerly Pastorial
I n p a s t ages t h e J e w s were a p a s t o r i a l people a n d i t w a s t h r o u g h n o
choice of t h e i r s t h a t t h e y were d r i v en from t h e soil a n d forced t o scatt e r over t h e world, h o u n d e d
and
h a u n t e d a n d with no p e r m a n e n t place
of r e s i d e n c e because of t h e i r varied
c h a n n e l s of activity. F o r t h e m o s t
p a r t t h e y t u r n e d to t r a d i n g , a n d in
R u s s i a n l a n d s t o d a y , it Is found t h a t
fully t h r e e - f o u r t h s of t h e J e w s r e g ister a s t r a d e r s in t h e r e c l a m a t i o n
w o r k u n d e r t a k e n by D r . Rosen.
A million a c r e s of fertile l a n d s lie
open to t h e s e t t l e r i n S o u t h e r n R u s sia a n d t h i s t h e Soviet g o v e r n m e n t
gives w i t h o u t c h a r g e t o t h e t e n a n t
for p e r p e t u a l t i l l a g e .
W i t h 75 p e r . t e n t of t h e J e w i s h
p o p u l a t i o n e n g a g e d in c o m m e r c e a n d
w i t h t h e new g o v e r n m e n t e n g a g e d in
business and tolerating private t r a d e
only insofar a s i t fits i n between t h e
g o v e r n m e n t b u s i n e s s a n d co-operative t r a d e , t h e ' m i l l i o n s of " l i t t l e
J e w s " h a v e been forced into m i s e r a b l e s t r a i t s ; too poor to move o u t
of t h e c o u n t r y a n d w i t h practically
e v e r y o t h e r c o u n t r y excluding t h e m
from i m m i g r a t i o n .
It w a s in t h e face of these condit i o n s t h a t Dr. R o s e n , t h e n t h e misera b l e J e w t h a t h e w a s — a s poor a s
t h e poorest of t o d a y — m a d e h i s w a y
i n t o A m e r i c a a f t e r being exiled from
R u s s i a , a n d j o i n e d t h e y o u t h of Michi g a n , a t t e n d i n g M i c h i g a n State College, s o m e 20 y e a r s a g o .
I t w a s while h e w a s a t Michigan
S t a t e College t h a t h e conceived t h e
idea of i n t r o d u c i n g t h e R u s s i a n r y e
i n t o t h i s c o u n t r y , b e c a u s e , as h e said
t h e n , it s e e m e d t o be b e t t e r t h a n a n y
r y e w e t h e n h a d . H e b r o u g h t in th/j
little p a c k e t of seed a n d , t h r o u g h ex
p e r i m e n t a l w o r k a t t h e college, sufficient seed w a s a v a i l a b l e in a few
y e a r s t o supply all w h o w a n t e d
it
a n d t h e yields p e r a c r e v* e r e p r a c t i cally d o u b l e t h o s e f r o m . o t h e r , » r > » ,
It w a s this seed t h a t m a d e Michig a n t h e biggest r y e p r o d u c i n g s t a t e
in t h e c o u n t r y d u r i n g t h e w a r period
w h e n r y e w a s s u b s t i t u t e d for w h e a t
t o a c o n s i d e r a b l e e x t e n t for m a k i n g
breadstuff^.
O r g a n i z a t i o n Succeeds
S t a r t i n g in 1 9 2 4 , on his w o r k of
rehabilitation among
the
Russian
J e w s by o r g a n i z i n g t h e m . Dr. R o s e n
r e p o r t e d r e c e n t l y t h a t at t h e close
of 1926 t h e y s h o w e d , in a p r e l i m i n a r y s u r v e y or e s t i m a t e , to h a v e r a i s ed g r a i n s w o r t h m o r e t h a n t h e t o t a l
cost of e s t a b l i s h i n g t h e s e 40,000 families o n t h e i r l i t t l e f a r m s , w h i l e t h e
v a l u e of t h e b u i l d i n g s ,
equipment
a n d livestock a n d o t h e r h o l d i n g s h a s
i n c r e a s e d beyond t h e a c t u a l cost bec a u s e of t h e n a t u r a l increase in t h e
h e r d s , t h e n a t u r a l increase i n v a l u e
of o r c h a r d s a n d v i n e y a r d s a n d b e c a u s e of t h e l a b o r t h a t has. been p u t
i n t o t h e d e v e l o p m e n t projects.
Dr. Rosen, in c o m m e n t i n g u p o n
p a r t of t h e w o r k , explains t h a t it h a s
THBUm
\ KW *
has
been t h r o u g h o r g a n i z a t i o n a n d co-op- m i t t e e w i t h which D r . R o s e n
The loans are
e r a t i v e effort e n t i r e l y t h a t h i s plan w o r k e d as l e a d e r .
h a s been p a r t l y realized. F o r a fam- m a d e to t h e c o - o p e r a t i v e o r g r o u p
in
ily to settle on t h e heavy plains and a n d t h e s e g r o u p s a n d colonies
a t t e m p t to farm it single h a n d e d , t u r n m a k e l o a n s t o t h e i r m e m b e r s .
with t h e limited m e a n s of t h e R u s - On t h e o r i g i n a l l o a n s a n - Interest
sian J e w i s h
family,
would
h a v e c h a r g e of 3 p e r cent a y e a r is m a d e
m e a n t failure.
By o r g a n i z i n g i n t o t o be paid a t t h e close of t h e h a r v e s t
s m a l l colonies a n d co-operating in year, Oct. 1. In o r d e r to 1 g e t s t a r t e d
t h e use of m a c h i n e r y a n d e q u i p m e n t "on a fairly firm f i n a n c i a l basis, a p t h e y h a v e been a b l e t o till t h e heavy p l i c a n t s for l a n d g r a n t s t h r o u g h this
soil a n d accomplish m u c h on t h e s y s t e m h a v e b e e n r e q u i r e d to furn i s h a b o u t $ 1 5 0 for e a c h family. I n
start.
"They h a v e s t a r t e d with a l m o s t no co-operatives t h i s is n o t a l w a y s r e funds of t h e i r o w n , a n d h a v e been q u i r e d of s o m e families w h e r e t h e
given s o m e financial aid a s g r o u p s family h a s a t r a d e s m a n o r c r a f t s m a n
or colonies, from a fund raised p r i n - whose skill in h i s p a r t i c u l a r l i n e of
cipally in t h i s c o u n t r y for this s p e - w o r k m i g h t be of g r e a t e r v a l u e to
I N T E R h a s n o t e r r o r s for
cific work. On t h e s t a r t it w a s seen, t h e g r o u p t h a n t h e r e q u i r e d * 3 0 0
Non-Caking salt users.
in a survey c o v e r i n g n e a r l y 7,000 r o u b l e s . I n such cases, t h e r e q u i r e d
capital
for
t
h
e
family
is
u
n
d
e
r
w
r
i
t
families t h a t m a d e application for
The Genuine N - 0
t a k i n g u p l a n d s , t h a t more t h a n 50 t e n by t h e o t h e r s of t h e g r o u p if t h e
(non-caking salt)
per cent of t h e s e families h a d n o family h a s n o f u n d s .
Is s t r i c t l y n o n - c a k i n g a n d p r a c m o n e y w h a t e v e r , o n e - f o u r t h h a d less
It is a n i n t e r e s t i n g s t o r y , t h e story
tically non-freezing.
t h a n $50 a n d t h e r e s t had from $40 of Dr. R o s e n ' s w o r k in
his h o m e to $200 or $300 a t t h e most. T h e y l a n d , b u t it is a s t o r y t h a t
cannot
N o n - C a k i n g s a l t is p a c k e d in
wefe poor p i o n e e r s , indeed, Dr. R o - be w r i t t e n in full for m a n y y e a r s . It
b a r r e l s , 1 4 0 , 1 0 0 , 7 0 , 50 a n d
sen explains, b u t t h e y h a v e t a k e n is today, m e r e l y a s t o r y of t h e s t a r t
25 p o u n d n o n - s w e a t i n g s a c k s .
t h e i r h a r d s h i p s w i t h a smile of d e - a n d of t h e p r o s p e c t s in s t o r e for t h e
t e r m i n a t i o n to succeed, a n d a n o t h e r next g e n e r a t i o n of h i s k i n d .
Get T h e Genuine
21) ' y e a r s will find t h e J e w i s h r a c e
If t h e s p i r i t of d e t e r m i n a t i o n ; t h e
w i t h a different f u t u r e a h e a d of t h e m spirit of c o - o p e r a t i o n a n d of o r g a n i zzJ
if t h e t r e n d of t o d a y carries on a n d zation c a r r i e d o u t by t h e J e w s of
t h e J e w s r e t u r n t o t h e pastorial, liv- R u s s i a could be applied t o t h e F a r m
spect fr om the OtlH If indust ries of the
i n g of t h e i r f o r e f a t h e r s .
B u r e a u in all ito e n d e a v o r s , A m e r !
world.
can a g r i c u l t u r e of t h e n e x t d e c a d e
M u c h L u n d Available
Dr. Rosen says t h e r e a r e 500,000 w o u l d a s s u m e a decided c h a n g e of
"Success is w o n by h a r d blows,
a c r e s of fertile l a n d s
along
t h e a s p e c t in its e n t i r e t y a n d a c h a n g e
s h o r e s of t h e Azoff sea which h a s tc t h a t w o u l d win for it t h e h i g h e s t r e - not by b l o w h a r d s . " — B o s t o n T r a n s cript.
b e d r a i n e d before using, a million
a c r e s in t h e C r i m e a , if action is t a k en i m m e d i a t e l y , 600,000 acres of t h e
D n i e p e r l o w l a n d s t h a t can be a m e l iorized, 300,000 t o 400,000 acres of
l a n d in W h i t e R u s s i a , c o n s i d e r a b l e
l a n d in E u r o p e a n Russia a n d o t h e r
l a n d s t h a t c a n be secured for J e w ish s e t t l e m e n t a s soon as funds a r e
a v a i l a b l e . T h e r e is e n o u g h l a n d to
Often c a r r y o v e r c h a r g e s .
Do you h a v e y o u r bills a u d i t e d ?
s e t t l e 100,000 families, it is s h o w n ,
b u t t h e l i m i t i n g f a c t o r is capital, p a r t
Of t h e Michigan S t a t e F a r m B u r e a u will check up t h e c h a r g e s
of w h i c h , i t is p l a n n e d , is t o be set
on y o u r freight bills file o v e r c h a r g e c l a i m s ; file loss a n d damage,
u p by r e t u r n p a y m e n t s m a d e on t h e
c l a i m s ; w a t c h all freight r a t e s on you r f a r m p r o d u c t s and supplies
l o a n s or a d v a n c e s a p p o r t i o n e d in t h i s
a n d be y o u r p e r s o n a l r e p r e s e n t a t i v e to t h e r a i l r o a d s . Claims cols c h e m e of r e h a b i l i t a t i o n .
lected a t cost.
These loafis a r e m a d e from t h e
Xo C h a r g e F o r A u d i t i n g
g e n e r a l fund, controlled by a com-
BEST FOR WINTER
w
FREIGHT RATES
On Farm Commodities
THE TRAFFIC SERVICE DEPARTMENT
Farm Bureau Traffic Department
2 2 1 - 2 2 7 X. C e d a r St.
The Things
You Want
W h e n y o u ' v e p u t in a lot of
t i m e a n d m o n e y in p r e p a r i n g
stock for m a r k e t , you w a n t to
be s u r e t h a t y o u ' r e going t o g e t
t h e best price t h a t it will b r i n g
a n d all t h a t ' s c o m i n g to y o u .
You w a n t it to be sold by m e n
who have your interests a t
h e a r t a n d w a n t to see you g e t
all t h a t y o u can g e t o u t of
y o u r stock.
T h a t ' s , t h e .policy of t h e P r o d u c e r s Co-operative C o m m i s sion Ass'n a t E a s t Buffalo a n d
t h e Michigan Live Stock E x change Commission Merchants
a t Detroit—-(both co-operative
m a r k e t i n g offices of t h e Michig a n Live S t o c k E x c h a n g e .
S o m e w h e r e n e a r you is a local s h i p p i n g a s s ' n of t h e Michig a n Live Stock E x c h a n g e . Ship
t h r o u g h i t f o r b e t t e r service
and better returns.
If y o u
h a v e n o local shipping a s s ' n
w r i t e u s for i n f o r m a t i o n .
Mich. Livestock Exchange
Producers Co-Op Com. Ass'n
E a s t B u f f a l o , N. Y.
I will sell a t auction t h e following s t o c k :
25 head of p u r e - b r e d H o l s t e i n s
30 head 1 of h i g h - g r a d e S h r o p s h i r e sheep a n d d a i r y e q u i p m e n t
and DeLaval milker.
J. Roy Buckham
R. 9, Kalamazoo
S t a t e College, discussed soil conditions for p o t a t o e s , a n d use of fertilizers a n d g r e e n
manure
crops.
County Agent Vining discussed s p r a y ing a n d d u s t i n g of p o t a t o e s a n d gave
t h e r e s u l t s of d e m o n s t r a t i o n s c a r r i e d
on by Michigan S t a t e College d u r i n g
t h e p a s t s u m m e r . One h u n d r e d t w e n ty-five m e n a n d w o m e n a t t e n d e d t h e
meeting. Sentiment was very strong
to g o a h e a d on a q u a l i t y p r o g r a m for
A l l i n Favor
o f Alfalfa S e e d
We arc all .sold out of Medium Red
Clover.
Don't
Clover.
take
a chance
on
Imported
T h e P r i c e of o n e b u s h e l of
c l o v e r w i l l b u y t w o b u s h e l s of c o m m o n
alfalfa—one
Orftario
and
a half
Variegated
bushel
and more
of
'than
o n e b u s h e l of G r i m m .
feed
prices on
your
requirements.
Michigan Farm
Bureau S e e d S e r v i c e
Lansing, Mich.
N e w York Shippers Penalized
For Poor S h o w i n g
O n Markets
" H a v e you e n o u g h money to tip
the waiter?"
" Y e s , so l i t t l e i t ' s
e n o u g h t o upset h i m . "
ARE
D e t r o i t , Mich
AUCTION SALE
UPSKTTIM;
The Odds
Allow us to quote
GRAPE MEN AIDED
BY GRADING LAWS
F i g u r e s . a l l in, t h e New York g r a p e
g r o w e r s c a m e to t h e realization t h a t
Michigan g r o w e r s h a v e b e a t e n t h e m
on t h e m a r k e t s t h i s y e a r to t h e t u n e
of a b o u t $3 p e r t o n a n d t h a t , owing
to t h e Michigan g r a d i n g laws, t h e
Michigan pack h a s s h o w n s u p e r i o r .
T h i s s t a t e of affairs c a m e somew h a t a s a s u r p r i s e to t h e Michigan
g r a p e m a r k e t e r s a s t h e r e h a s been a
c o n s t a n t a s s e r t i o n on t h e p a r t of buye r s t h a t New York g r a p e s were better graded and were bringing more
m o n e y t h a n Michigan g r a p e s . T h e
fact s e e m s to be t h a t New York h a s
no g r a d i n g l a w , t h a t t h e i r m a r k e t i n g
agencies a r e n o t u s i n g t h e federal
inspection service a n d t h a t t h e i r
g r a p e s have g o n e to m a r k e t t h i s fall
in such s h a p e t h a t t h e y h a v e been
penalized s e v e r a l h u n d r e d t h o u s a n d
of d o l l a r s .
L a n s i n g , Mich.
Wednesday Noon, March 9
4 /2 Miles W. Main St., Kalamazoo
J
"More MilK
with More Cow Left at
t h e E n d of t h e Year".
Milkmakcr, a Public Formula
Builds for t h e F u t u r e
^ A3
Get the most
W
more
actual
lime waft
SOIVAY
.\
«X
Joryour
limestonem
dollar
Here's h o w — w h e n y o u b u y lime
y o u a r c really b u y i n g lime oxide (its
active chemical property), a n d t h i s is w h a t y o u g e t :
For $125.00 yon can buy, on an avenge, deHrered to jwn station,
25 ton* SoWay Pulverized Limestone containing 12 jjj tons of lime oxiie, «r
9 tons Bnrnt Lime containing 7 1 2 tons lime oxide, or
10 tons Hydrated Lime containing 1% tons lime oxide.
You obtain 66% more actual lime for (your money when
you buy Solvay Pulverized Limestone.j
Spread Solvay this year—note the bumper crops—and
youll spread Solvay every year!
Write for booklet.
SOLVAY S.M.K.N r n f i P o l l A T I o . N
Detroit, Mich.
**
yfy**
Sold by
LOCAL DEALERS
Jtation,
The important part that Milkmaker plays in Michigan dairying is
probably best set forth in the claims
made by hundreds of Michigan's
leading dairymen who have used
Milkmakcr continuously for one or
more years.
These dairymen tell us that they
have secured the following results by the use of Milkmakcr, viz:
J. Cows have kept up in better flesh and better physical condition.
2. Cows have maintained a larger and more even flow of milk.
3. Calves better developed and stronger at birth.
4. Freedom from trouble with cows at calving time; no retained
afterbirth and no udder trouble.
The (Strongest advocates of course are those dairymen who have
used Milkmaker continuously since it came on the market in 1922.
BUYING A BETTER HERD
These men have realized that in buying and using Milkmaker they
are assuring themselves of a better herd of cows two or three yeara
hence.
In buying a bag of dairy feed, you do not buy the feed for the feed
itself, but for the ultimate results obtained. The results to be obtained are not necessarily determined by the price of the feed. The
teal value of the feed is determined by the per cent of digestible
protein and digestible nutrients, both of which determine
A common phrase among users of Milkmaker is "More milk with
more cow left at the end of the year.''
Ask for booklet on "How to Feed for Economical Milk Production."
Michigan Farm Bureau Supply Service
LANSING, MICHIGAN
MICHIG A X
ron*
ORGANIZE ATTICA
TOWNSHIP BUREAU
Men And Women, On Their
Own Initiative, Set Up
Local Unit
A live Farm Bureau unit ha«
sprung up in Attica township, in Lapeer county, and a community organization has been established, unassisted by the State Farm Bureau.
A group of real progressive Farm
Bureau members in that township decided recently that considerably more
could be accomplished in their coun
ty if they worked more in unison, so
the Attica Township Farm Bureau
was organized and started out on a
tentative year's program on Feb. 10.
Oliver Youngs was elected chairman of the organization, to head its
activities during tho ensuing year, to
be assisted by Wellington Dennis, as
secretary-treasurer, and an executive
committee consisting of Mr. and Mr?
William Blackmore, Route 1, Imlay
City; Fred Ft. Williams, Route 2, Attica; Mr. and Mrs. Otto Whitney,
Route 1, Attica; Mr. and Mrs. A. R.
Cliown, of Attica and Mr. and Mrs.
Claude Miller, also of Attica.
Claude Miller and Otto Whitney
were picked as members of the township committee on roads. J. L. Payne
was chosen township "Minute Man,"
to work in close touch with the Staf<'Farm Bureau in legislative matters
and other matters of direct concern
to both the state organization and
the township Farm Bureau.
The organization voted to call its
first business meeting on Feb. 24, at
which time It was planned to have
several speakers assist in laying out
a program for the future. Meetings
are to be held regularly, every fourth
Thursday, following the. meeting on
Feb. 24.
Those who assisted in the organization work for Attica township are
Otto Whitney, J. L. Payne, Hugh
Youngs, Oliver Youngs, Henry Ouckwitz, Fred R. Williams, Fred Neilson, Fred Youngs, William Blackmore and Wellington Dennis, local
members, and R. L. Taylor, president
of the Lapeer County Farm Bureau;
Clinton Smith, Lapeer County Farm
Bureau manager and Herman Ratering, manager of the Imlay City Cooperative company.
P O l L T B Y SCHOOLS
Poultry Sohools
are scheduled for
and 25 and are to
and Cedar Springs
for Kent county
Feb. 22, 23,^24,
be held at Sparta
on these dates.
Flat Tires and Blowouts
By MBS. EDITH M. WAGAIl
In these crowded, unsettled times,
substitutes for the genuine things of
life are in demand everywhere—
something that will answer the purpose to some degree, yet doea not
cost so much money, care or responsibility. But try as we may, we have
been able to find no substitute for
that institution called Home.
Our ideas of home are not all
alike, and I fear we, as a nation, as
we become more commercialized,
have been drifting away from our
love and demand of home ownership. To be sure, we farm folks still
cling to our love for a home of our
own; we may be renters at first, but
we have as a goal for the future, the
hope of owning a piece of land some
day, and making a home out of it.
But far too many of our town
folks seem willing and satisfied to
rent, so as to be free to move when
the "fit takes us." And it seems to
be an established custom
of city
folks to have at first a furnished
room for light housekeeping, then
it furnished apartment in a flat or
hotel, with no personal belongings
greater than can be carried to the
next place in a pillow case.
Home Ownership Wanes
In New York City less than 3 per
cent of the inhabitants have any interest in home ownership and other
industrial cities are fast
reaching
this mark. Yet wages never were
higher nor opportunities greater for
those willing to economize and sacrifice for that most wanted. And
what has brought it about?
Is this an age of selfishness and
shiftlessness? Are Ave as a nation
encouraging
irresponsibility
anl
spendthrift ways?
Are our demands more than we can pay for?
And are we too eager to forget the
thrift and home loving spirit of past
generations that we might taste the
joys of aristocratic life?
Are we older ones instilling in the
minds of the growing generation
that pride in home independence so
essential to progress. Our very citizenship is built upon home and its
security, and it is our duty to protect it and improve it as much as
possible within our power.
I fear we are apt to hold too
lightly our ancestors' idea of self
pride; our young people too often
feel that if the job is lost or sickness comes that there's still a place
with Dad, and when their feet are
once more under his table,
that
things are not so worse after all;
and Dad has become a little more
softened than his father was, and
would far rather help the kid out
than see him face life's battles when
they take on the aspect of self dental and genuine hardship.
But it's those very battles which
bring out true worth of the man or
woman and the person who is willing to face them even if he fails to
pull through in the attempt, is of
the kind that America must have, to
keep the home loving spirit from the
suggestion of encroaching decay.
It is within the memory of many
I, when any thought of the Infirmary or Comity House was looked
upoh as an unforgivable
disgrace,
but I fear that attitude is fast going
into decline. They are now looked
Hospitals for the aged and
unfortunate.
Home F o r u m
Planned
It is with the idea of turning the
spotlight on the
American Home
that a three-day congress or forum
will be held in Des Moines, Iowa,
March 8-11. It will be the beginning
of a "back to the home" drive and
is sponsored by the women of the
nation from all walks of life. It grew
out of an idea in the mind of a great
home lover who knew that the home
was the one point of common interest of all humanity, and she hoped
for more attention to be centered
around it.
This home spirit must really permeate through the* hearts of our
women before it again becomes the
national thought of our people, and
so it is most fitting that our women's clubs and organizations take
the initial step to restore those qualities that tend to keep life going in
the right channels.
Few, perhaps none, of our Michigan folks can attend this gathering,
but we can be with them in heart
and can be thought and energies
to a desire for home betterment from
the point of financing to the question of maintaining and with an idea
of comfort and health and management for the best development of
family life. And along with family
life, I want to briefly mention the
need of presemt legislative consideration of motherhood.
Our American Family
Much concern is given
to the
thought of the American family of
the future—families
are
getting
smaller and quite often are not at all
and many question what the years
to come will find as a result, yet
America, out of % sixteen countries,
stands second high in maternity
deaths.
It is a situation that not only
alarms our women, but concerns the
very future of our nation, and it was
with that glaring fact before us that
the Sheppard Towner bill became an
experimental act four and one-half
years ago, and the results have been
equal to our most hopeful expectations.
In Michigan alone, timely instruction, advice and help have been given to thousands of women, and babv
clinics have been held all over the
state—yet the annual cost to the
state has been but a trifle more than
the cost of one-half mile of hard
surfaced road.
How much are the Mothers of
Michigan worth to us anyway? Perhaps this high death rate is the result of improper care or wrong living, perhaps women do not
face
motherhood in the spirit that her
kind once did. or perhaps we artgrowing weaker but, whatever the
reason, it is high time we discover
the real cause and took steps to
remedy it, and the knowledge learned will help to train the growing
mothers to a better understanding
of her own life and the welfare of a
family.
This is one of the first requests
that Mother has asked of her state
for herself, and the greater part of
that is with a thought of her daughter in the future, and it is hopeful
that the request will be freely granted. The bill has been introduced before this session of the Legislature
and is known as Senate Bill No. 55;
and is now with the committee on
Public Health.
FEBRUARY 25, 1f>27
X E \V S
UTILITIES PROVIDE
SPEAKER SERVICE
When Cholera Took All But Special Lecture Service
Three Of His Pigs He
Made Available To
Butchered 'em
Local Bureaus
The first step in our membership and organization work for l!i27
is a conference of County Farm Bureau representatives at State
Farm Bureau headquarters, Wednesday, March 9, at 10 o'clock,
Eastern Standard Time.
We are requesting each County Farm Bureau to send one delegate to this conference. Preferably, this representative should be
the person who is most actively interested in membership work in
your county, such as your former campaign manager, president,
secretary, or other official or person.
This is to be essentially a working conference through which we
hope to assemble all of the good suggestions regarding membership
sighing and maintenance from the various counties into a reasonably
well defined, workable and, so far as possible, uniform membership
maintenance program. It is hoped that this can then be approved
by the State Farm Bureau Board of Directors and the various
County Farm Bureaus of the state.
The experience of the past two years has stimulated a great deal
of thought and developed many new ideas as well as a much better
morale in the Farm Bureau membership. While the membership
problem is still a hard one and yields very slowly, with the proper
co-ordination of all our activities we can make substantial progress
this year.
Lucius E. Wilson, who directed the big organization campaign in
30 counties in 19126, will be present to assist with the meeting
March 9. A complimentary dinner will be furnished at the Kerns
Hotel by the Michigan State Farm Bureau.
The maintenance of the Farm Bureau membership is the foundation for all of our other activities, and we will greatly appreciate
the co-operation of your County Farm Bureau in making this most
important conference a success.
Kindly send us at your earliest convenience the name and address
of your representative in order that we may get in touch with him
about any further development if necessary.
Mr. Wilson has been engaged to assist with a series of five county
booster rallies, on March 7, 8 and 9. The first of these is to be in
St. Clair county on the evening of the 7th; the second, in Saginaw
county, on the afternoon of March S and in the evening of that date
in Shiawassee county and on the afternoon of March 10, in Mt. Calm
county and in Eaton county that evening.
Cucumber mosaic, a disease prevalent in practically all cucumbercrowing sections in the Central and
Eastern states, can be largely controlled by following certain methods
outlined by the United States Department of Agriculture calculated to remove weeds and other plants on
Which the disease lives through the
winter.
Bf HE AV
Darkey Fed Shotes
"Slops F'm Hotel",
Not Table Scraps
"COME ON, GANG!"
Control of Mosaic Is
Found For Cucumbers
F A RM
INSURANCE AGENTS
URGE FARM RELIEF
BY U.S. CONGRESS
400 Delegates Strong For
Program Sponsored By
Farm Bureau
McNARY BILL FAVORED
Hog cnolera was reported to exist
on 46 - premises in Maryland during
January against 23 a year ago. Of
the primary outbreaks, 25 were due
to infected pork in garbage, table
scraps, etc. Ten were due to the purchase of new stock.
On the premises where hog cholera was reported to exist during the
month, there were 1.403 hogs when
the disease started. However, 379 of
rbese were dead, and 168 visibly sick
before two cases were reported.
A, colored man whose entire herd
was suffering from cholera was asked if he had been feeding kitchen
scraps. His reply was, "On, no, Boss,
but I feeds nice slops from de colo'ed
restaurants down de road."
A certain party who owned a nice
bunch of hogs heard that hog cholera was on an adjoining farm, and
decided to have his swine treated.
When he got home he found that th*>
veterinarian had given the "lifetime" treatment. In ten days the
hogs began to sicken and nine of tbe
herd went to the Happy Rooting
Grounds as a result of the treatment.
A truck farmer was' the possessor
of nine thrifty shoats,» among which
cholera appeared. When the first one
was taken ill he began to "doctor
them." To his disappointment, however, one after another sickened until one day the last three refused to
eat. Here was where patience ceased
to be a virtue, and he promptly dressed these three animals for food, as
the children just had t to have their
meat.
HORTICULTURISTS
BUSY FOR SPRING
Horticultural Society includes a meet-
K
Much of interest and of an educational nature is to be obtained from
the lectures and addresses made
available to local Farm Bureaus and
other rural organizations through
courtesy of the Michigan gas and
electric companies. These big concerns have set up a public speaking
service which is available to the
farmers of the state for merely the
asking; reasonable notice (at least
10 days) and some preference of subject to be discussed is all that is
necessary. Arrangements can be
completed through the managers of
local utilities or by communicating
direct with the Michigan Committee
on Public Utility Information, 212
\\\ Huron street, Ann Arbor.
A number of educational motion
pictures are available for schools and
organizations that can provide equipment and an operator.
Every assistance is given to program committees of women's clubs
>--'
ture will give a talk on asparagus.
This should be of interest in the
Paw Paw section. The argument
between dusts and liquid sprays on
grapes will receive some airing by
E. J. Hartsell of Geneva, New York.
C. W. Bennett, our own plant pathologist, will take up the "dead arm"
of grapes at one-thirty in the afternoon. This will be followed by Dr.
Newton L. Partridge who will tell of
the factors influencing the sugar content of grapes, which is a very important thing to grape growers at the
present time.
Many Farmers To Join
Ton Litter Pig Clubs
Announcement of the 1927 Ton
Litter contest has recently been made
and the rules governing it sent out
by its Michigan sponsor, Verne A.
Freeman, live stock specialist of the
Michigan State College.
Under these rules any Michigan
farmer is entitled to enter as many
litters as he cares to without charge.
All who join the club and produce
one or more litters weighing a ton
or over at six months of age will re
ceive a gold medal. Other cash prizes, put up by packers and breed associations, that are well worth striving for, will be announced later.
Several Cass county hog grower^
have declared their intention of joining the 1927 club and more should
get in. The value of the work is well
established in determining methods
of hastening maturity and cutting
down production costs. Rules, entry
blanks, and other necessary literature can be secured from any county
agricultural agent.
The average price received for
eggs by members of the Ohio Poultry Producers Co-operative Association has been 1 cent higher than local
prices in the
four
northwestern
counties in which the organization
operates, and prices paid by local
dealers have been higher by eighttenths of a cent than they would
have been withbut the existence of
this co-operative selling agency, the
Rural Economics Department of
Ohio State University has announced
following a study of the situation.
Southern Michigan
poultrymen.
organizing the Wolverine
Poultry
and Egg Exchange, plan to market
through this Ohio organization to
obtain advantages of "big market
OUT
The Farm Bureau
Poultry Exchange
Which formerly operated
at 2610 Riopelle street, Detroit, has gone out of business. This business has been
taken over by the
Garlock Williams Co., Inc
2463 Riopelle St.
Detroit
Thumb Hatchery, Inc.
Sandusky,
Michigan
Or John D. Martin, Co. Agr'l Ag't.
crurix £*rie P££M^X
POULTRY
MICHIGAN ACCREDITED CHICKS.
Buy our biff, husky chicks that will make
profits for you. S. C. Reds, Barred
Rocks, S. C. White Leghorns. 100 per
cent delivery guaranteed. Prices upon
request. Maple Hill Hatchery, Martin,
Mich.
2-25-27
DOWNS STRAIN WHITE LEGHORNS.
Bred 20 years for high average egg production flocks. Strong, livable chicks.
100% live delivery guaranteed. All Michigan Accredited. W. A. Downs, Route 1,
Romeo, Michigan.
1-28-27
MICHIGAN ACCREDITED CHICKS—
Barred Rocks, R. I. Reds, strong husky
chicks from bred to lay stock. March deliveries, $15.00 per 100. Order now.
Howe's Accredited Hatchery, Essexville,
Mich.
2-25-27-p
DEAN'S MICHIGAN ACCREDITED
Chicks White Leghorns, Barred and
White Rocks, R. I. Reds, White and S. (\
Wyandottes, Minoreas and Anconas-: Bred,
Hatched, Shipped, and Priced Right. Two
Hatches weekly after February 15th. Send
for price list, etc. Dean Egg Farm and
Hatchery, Box F., Birmingham, Mich.
3-25-27-p
500,000 HIGH GRADE HOLLYWOOD
Sired White Leghorn Accredited Chicks.
Males and females passed and bunded by
state poultry association.
Sturdy and
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Box 25.
3-25-b
EGGS, SINGLE COMB REDS. SPLENdid type, color, layers. Prize winners a t
farmers' prices. Six hundred prepaid.
Mary Mac Farm, Homer, Mich.
3-26-p
EGGS — SINGLE
COMB
REDS.
Splendid type, color, layers. Prize winners at farmers' prices. Six hundred prepaid. Mary Mae Farm, Homer, Michigan.
3r25-p
MISCELLANEOUS
SEND US YOUR WOOL AND HAVE
a genuine, pure virgin wool batt made.
Write for particulars. K. A. Maupin
Woolen. Mills, Eaton Rapids, Mich.
REGISTERED AND CERTIFIED SEED
CORN. Clement's white cap yellow dent
and Duncan's yellow dent. Fire dried
on racks, ear tested and germination
guaranteed. Also Certified Worthy oats,
good seed is scarce, order yours early.
Paul Clement, Britton, Michigan. Member of the Michigan Crop Improvement
Association.
2-11-27
96 Uncalled Pullets Lay
7611 Eggs From Sept. 1,
1926, to January 1, 1927,
writes customer
from
Muskegon, Michigan. This is an average of 21 eggs per pullet per
month. YOU can do the same with our stoi >k which is the result of
H years of breeding for S1ZK, TYPE, WINTER EGGS and HIGH
FLOCK AVERAGE, instead of a few high individuals. We have HOLLYWOOD,
TANCRED, and KNGLISH type S. C. White Leghorns, SHEPPARD'S Anconas.
Brown Leghorns and Barred Rocks. Hollywood foundation stock from 260-290 egg
record; Tancred foundation stock from 250 up egg record stock. Ancona foundation
direct from Sheppard. The very best in Brown Leghorns and Barred Rocks. Our
chicks are HEALTHY, VIGOROUS, Newton hatched .hicks from free range breeders The strongest proof of the quality of our chicks is that \v«j have doubled our
hatching capacity over last vear. .With "TOWNLIXE" you also get "PERSONAL
SERVICE." LARGE NEW CATALOG FREE.
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MICHIGAN ACCREDITED
NOTE T H E S E LOW PRICES
100
500
English type S. C W. Leg...$13.00 $60.00 Anconas & Br.
Hollywood or Tancred
15.00
70.00 Barred Rocks
100
500
$14.00 $65.00
16.00
75.00
Leg
ASSOUTEL) OR MIXED CHICKS 10c EACH
Chicks shipped postpaid. 100% live delivery guaranteed. Discount on early orders.
J. H. GEERLINGS, Mgr.
R. F. D. No. 1, Box N
Zeeland, Mich.
0^8.000,000
Michigan Accredited
BABYCHICKS
T
Michigan accredition provides Competent
Inspection of all flocks, hatcheries and chicks
for 117 member hatcheries of the Michigan
Poultry Improvement Association, furnishing
Michigan Accredited or Certified Chicks and
Eggs of known high quality. All inspection
under supervision of Michigan State College.
1927
Accredited Clucks are Irom Inspected flocks, hatched in
Inspected Halcheries and carefully culled before shipment.
Certified Chiclts are from Inspected Flocks, sired by 2C0
egg males, hatched in an Inspected- Hatchery and carefully culled before shipping
.
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TorTuttParticulars anda List of Michigan Accredited Hatcherie
Write J-A-HANNAH-Michigan State (bllege
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FLANSBURGH'S
STRAWBERRY
Plants. Catalog free, only best varieties,
the finest on the market. Premier %l per
100 postpaid. Write for prices on 500
to 5,000 or more ^delivered to your door
prepaid. Fresh dug and no delay. Forty
years growing strawberries. Home of the
Everbearers. All about the new Latham
Red Raspberrv. Flansburgh & Son, Route
7, Jackson, Mich.
2-25-27
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Feeding the Baby Chicks
N
ATURE provides sufficient food for the
first three days, for the chick absorbs the
yolk of the egg just before it is hatched. This
food is rich in fats and carbohydrates. From
the third day to the sixth week, Michigan Chick
Starter assists nature by giving the chicks a
similar feed that is easily seen, easily digested
and nutritious. Michigan Chick Starter is rich
in vitamine content, balanced with the necessary
cereal and animal proteins to give the highest
feeding efficiency. Michigan Chick Starter is not
waste material from the mill. It is based on
the latest scientific formula for baby chick
feeding. Ask /or a pamphlet of our poultry
feeds containing valuable feeding suggestions.
American Freight Was
53,000,000 Cars In '26
Poultrymen Benefit By
Co-operative Marketing
Unclean surroundings are detrimental to the milk flow, for milk
absorbs flavors and odors readily.
* * * «
No farmer is a good citizen unless
he is actively interested in the welfare of his community.
At Ordinary Prices
AVIIITE LEGHORN^—BARRKD ROCKS
SANILAC COUNTY RHODE ISLAND REDS
Five cents a word for one Insertion; 4'/2 cents per word for each of
two insertions; 4 cents a word per
Insertion for each of three insertions, and at the 4 cent rate for
succeeding insertions. Count each
word, abbreviation and figure, including words in signature as
Cash must
accompany
words
Michigan Farm
Bureau
order.
News,
REGISTERED
AND
CERTIFIED
Pickett yelow dent seed corn, fire dried
on racks. Germination guaranteed.
Certified Worthy oats grown from certified
seed. Certified Robust beans. Good seed
is scarce. Write for circular. Faiigrove
Associated Seed Growers; W. R. Kirk.
3-ll-p
Railroad freight shipments during Secretary, Fairgrove, Mich.
1926 showed a considerable increase
FOR SALE OR TRADE lt>0 ACRE
in volume over previous years' rec- farm in Menominee county. M. L. White,
3-11-27-p
ords despite the fact that motor Hermansville, Mich.
truck transportation has become an
appreciable factor in this country's
transportation system. Figures obtained by the Farm Bureau Traffic
Department show that a total of 53,309,644 car loads of freight were
handled by the railroads in the United States last year.
Up to 1926, a million cars of
freight in one week was a record
made but once. During 1926 the
weekly average, it is seen, was better than a million cars for the entire
52-week period, a world record for
freight movement.
Developing new uses for
gas;
heating of homes;
refrigeration,
cooking, baking and water heating;
incineration of waste.
Development of new uses of electricity:
Light and power for the
farm; refrigeration;
cooking and
heating; street and highway lighting.
QUALITY CHICKS
BUSINESS NEWS
WHITTAKER'S MICHIGAN CERTIfied Reds, both combs, trapnested, bloodtested, Michigan's greatest color and egg
The grape section of the program strain. Chicks, eggs, cbckerels. Catalog
free. Interlakes Farm, Box B, Lawrence,
for the spring meetings of the^State Mich.
Special Awards Were Made ing at Paw Paw High school, March
1.
To District Agents In
The program states that George W.
Starr, extension specialist in horticulBig Contest
A special committee of five, comprising delegates of the state insurance agencies of the State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance company,
of Bloomington, 111., representing
Michigan, Tennessee, Missouri, Minnesota and Indiana, was appointed at
the first convention of agents of this
company, in which Michigan was represented, at Bloomington, Feb. 8, and
drafted a resolution favoring
and
urging adoption of the McNary-Haugen farm relief measure in Congress.
This committee was picked
from
some 400 delegates in attendance at
the insurance meeting and its message telegraphed to representatives
and senators in Congress from seven
mid-west states, was based upon the
stand the Farm Bureau ha3 taken in
these states.
Thus this big commercial organization went on record as being in
lino with the Farm Bureau forces in
seeking national legislation which
tends to bring about equality for agriculture.
The Michigan agency of the State
Farm Mutual Auto Insurance company was represented at this convention by Clark L. Brody, secretarytreasurer and general manager of the
Michigan State Farm Bureau; Alfred
Bentall, state agency manager; managers of each of the company's six
districts in Michigan; R. G. Gibbens.
A. N. Brown. C. H. Fowler, H. R.
Andre, C. M. Kidman and J. Lee Morford and the office secretary of the
state agency, Miss Fannie Bailey.
Special awards were made by the
parent company to district agents
in each state making the best
showing of new business since
last November. Mr. Fowler, of
the third Michigan district, received
the first award, Gibbens, the second
award and Brown, the third. The
agent receiving the first award had
written 120 applications during the
period of the contest this winter.
From the talks given on the floor
of the convention, it was made very
evident that the idea of mutual automobile insurance, made reasonable
in price by being confined to farm
risks only, is growing very rapidly,
and that the Farm Bureaus in the
several states represented are doing
a very valuable service to he farmers in their respective states.
Anyone attending this big meeting
could not help being impressed with
the idea that farniers are coming to
the front rapidly in the matter of
conducting their own business along
many lines in a co-operative way, and
that the business of insurance is no
exception.
The convention closed with a banquet at the Illinois Hotel, given in
honor of the seven State Farm Bureaus now affiliated with the company.
During the day, delegates visited
the big headquarters of the insurance company, where about 40 employes are engaged. The headquarters of this concern occupy the entire second floor of a large office
"building in Bloomington. The delegates gained first hand knowledge
of how the insurance applications and
policies are handled.
During the morning and
afte
neon sessions, different angles of th'
automobile insurance business were
discussed by E. J. Carmody, adjuster
of claims for the company, and its
Two attorneys. E. A. Meyers and A.
ri. Rust. The secretary's report indicated a decided increase in the
business of the concern.
Is
and to association officers arranging
convention programs, who must plan
their activities several months in advance.
Developments of great
interest
that concern everyone, are coming to
light daily. The manufactured gas industry is providing completely automatic, heating systems for the home,
while preparing to operate the family
refrigerator. Electricity is being sent
by super-power transmission systems
more than half way across the continent". New uses of heat, light and
power in the home, store, factory,
hospital, public 'building, highwav
and farm are being perfected, making a most interesting story when
told by informed men and women.
Topic Suggestions
A few of the many interesting topics upon which speakers may be had
to lecture are given here:
Lighting:
By arrangement with
the Michigan section of the Illuminating Engineering Society, talks can
be arranged on the fascinating and
important subject of lighting. Several women speakers are available
to tell about proper home lighting
for illumination and decorativeness.
Lighting as applied to the hospital
and schoolroom can be discussed.
The relation of light to public safety
to prevent crime and/accidents, is a
recent addition of
importance to
this program.
That O n e Thing
PROTECTION
Is provided in a State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance policy.
coverage insurance at a price you can afford to pay.
It gives full
State Farm Bureaus of seven states have accepted this form of automobile insurance because of its low cost to the insured, the equitable terms of settlement of
claims and because of the soundness of the principle and the responsibleness of the
insuring company.
This Service
To farmers of Michigan is available through the
Michigan State Farm Bureau
A local agent in your community
221-227 N. Cedar St.
Lansing, Mich.