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Vol. XVIII, No. 1 VARY 6, 1940 • Farm Bureau Makes Big Sla I Genesee President and Beet Loader • Behind CO-OPS I the GOING AFTER Wheel NAT'L INSTITUTE I With J. 1'. Yaeger, Will Entertain 3,000 Co-op Organization Starts New ~ ar with a p Director of Membership Relations Leaders at College Announcement for Farmer; e all In July Big Reduction in 1921 JUSTIFIED PRIDE Mason County Farm Bureau folks Michigan farm co-operatives are feel rather pr ud these days and well making an early and strong start in The Michigan Farm Bureau in I te Decemb r m d it may they be so. This County Farm their preparations to entertain the Bureau was the one picked from American Institute of Co-operation at membership and other patrons a holiday gr ting in the h p Michigan to make a typical County Michigan State College the week of of a sweeping reduction in fertilizer prices for spring Farm Bureau exhibit at the American July 7, 1940. The Institute will be 1940. Farm Bureau convention early in probably 3,000 farm co-operative lead- December. They sure did a good job ers of the United States together in Farm Bureau fertilizer pnces have be n r due d fro of it and as a result have received a great educational program. a very complimentary letter from The Michigan general committee $2 per ton on the lowest cost fertilizer to an av r g 0 those in charge of exhibits at the met at the Michigan 'State Farm Bu- around $5 per ton on the most popular analyses for gen r I convention. The letter, in part, says: reau 'Thursday, January 4. A. B. "We want to congratulate you on Love, chairman of the finance commit- farm use. On the higher analyses fertilizers the reduction the Mason County Farm Bureau ex- tee reported that splendid progress is even more. hibit-it set forth in fine shape an being made. All state-wide Michigan excellent County Farm Bureau pro- commodity marketing organizations Farmer Gets The Benefit gram-and with the publicity scrap have pledged generous support. Thirty Here is Wilbur Short of Swartz Creek, president of the Genesee' County Farm Bureau for many year, and "There is nothing mysterious about the r duction in books-made a real contribution to of the first 32 local farmers ass'ns to the sugar beet loader which he and his son Lyle constructed last summer to handle 15 acres of beet . an extremely interesting exhibit. It report have made a contribution to The Shorts farm 225 acres in Mundy township. The idea of building the loader originated with Lyle who F~rm Bureau fertilizer prices", said Clark L. Brody, ecutiv helped make the all states County help finance the school. Many others read of a beet loader coming onto the market. Father and son decided to try their hand at building one. An secretary of the Farm Bureau. HBy agreement the arm Farm Bureau exhibit a real success." will be heard from wi thin the next old gasoline motor, spare planks and boards, wheels and other parts from disc~rded farm implements were few weeks. Large farmers' marketing used. They bought only two pulleys and a metal base for the loading -chute, Bureau Services, Inc., and the plant manufacturing ou ACTION AND RESULTS and purchasing groups in adjoining The loader is attached to a truck. With two men forking beets into the loader they were able to load nd Under the leadership of member- fertilizers have changed from the manufacture of larg states will also help finance the school. haul as much as 21% tons of beets in one day with one truck. It was much faster and much easier than the ship chairman, Eugene Kurtz, the Holman Describes Institute old way. Wilbur and Lyle Short are now interested in perfecting their loader so that it will pick the beets number of fertilizer analyses to 12, all of which are recom- Genesee County Farm Bureau "went Charles Holman of Washington, sec- off the ground. . to town" recently in a membership mended for Michigan crops and soils, and have be n most retary of the Institute of Co-operation, and collection and also secretary of the Nat'l Milk popular among Michigan farmers. The list for spring 1940 campaign. Over 80 Producers Ass'n, was present and Packing Co. per cent of all de- includes such favorites as 0~20-0, 0-12-12, 0-14-6, 0-20-20, described the Institute. BUREAU FIGHTS linquent member- Has 3,600 Stockholders AL The Institute, said Mr. Holman, is 2-12-2, 2-12-6, 2-8-16, 2-16-8, 3-18-9, 4-10-6, and ships were collect- The co-operative Detroit Packing an educational ass'n for the farmers' ed in two days 50 peT. CUT IN Company will invite 3,600 live stock 4-16-4, and 4-24-12. co-operative movement. It was organ- and nearly 50 new producer-shipper stockholder members ized as a college at Washington 16 members add e d. to its annual meeting, March 9, 1940, "This economy in manufacturing", said Mr. Brody, years ago. It may employe a faculty BEAN TA IFF Not satisfied, the at Detroit. U and grant degrees as a college. The together with a situation in the fertilizer industry, plus th folks are already Since going on a revolving stock Institute operates at Washington making plans for Proposed Trade Agreement plan, whereby every farmer shipper Farm Bureau and 137 Co-op large scale buying power exercised by the Farm Bureau Ser- throughout the year as an educational contacting tho s e becomes a. stockholder through a organization. Its annual schools are With Chile Had This Stockholders Told of vices and associated farmers' co-operatives for the benefit who weren't home small retain from each shipment, the held on the campus of some college f/. F. Y'AEGEJe on the two-day Provision membership of the Packing Company Progress of Michigan farmers has resulted in savings which we ar or university. The Institute is sup- campaign and getting the new mem- has increased by 3,200 in two years. passing on to the Farm Bureau membership and patrons of ported by voluntary contributions Shall the U. S. tariff on beans be bers- organized into Community Farm The voluntary retain program helps Alfred George of Buchanan, presi- from co-operatives. reduced 50% in connection with the Farm Bureau dealers in lower prices for Farm Bureau fertili- Bureaus. Says Eugene, "Membership provide the company with needed dent of the Farm Bureau Services, The annual sessions are open to all pending reciprocal trade agreement is the County Farm Bureau's respon- working capital and qualifies farmer Inc., was re-elected for another year zers. It is the same high quality fertilizer that the Farm interested co-operators. The proceed- with Chile, and thereby be extended sibility imd far be it from us to side- shippers for membership in the co-op- at the annual meeting of the tock- ings receive much attention from the to many other nations under the Bureau has offered for years. st~p H.l1 . erative. press and magazines. 'Some of the ad- most favored nation clause? holders at the Michl an tate Farm Not far from Genesee County is The system provides that certltl- Farmer Support Will Count dresses are ·broadcast. The Iustitute The American Farm Bureau Feder- Bureau at Lansing, December 14. Mr. ~aginaw county and Tuscola county. ca.tes issued for the retains shall be Report usually makes a book of 700 ation, the Michigan State Farm Bur- George became president at the 1936 HAs yet, said Mr. Brody in a statement to the Farm Farm Bureau leaders up that way called for payment of principal to the or more 'pages which goes to agricul- annual meeting, and has been re- must feel about as Mr. Kurtz does. eau and the Michigan Elevator Ex- tural and other colleges and to li- farmer owner within a few years. elected each year since. Bureau membership, "not all of the competing companies Saginaw has already reported shoot- change have said "No!" to the U. S. braries throughout the nation, and even Series 1938 will be retired before Stock in .the Farm Bureau Services ing at 700 or more paid up members Department of State. in our state have lowered their quotations to our price lev 1, abroad. The Report is used as a Series 1939 and so on. In the mean- for 1940. Tuscola has set "250 or The Farm Bureau and the Ex- reference by writers and by those time the certificates may draw up to but some have and undoubtedly all will have to do so. I feel more" change have spoken and continue to building farm co-operatives. speak for 57,000 Michigan farmers 5 % interest. Last October the di- Congratulations folks, we know it important to advise you at this time that you can greatly The Michigan Program who grow 80% of the white pea rectors voted that the 1938 certificates you'Il make it!! aid the efforts of your State Farm Bureau by buying Farm To the Michigan meeting will come beans produced in the United States. shall draw 40/0 interest for the year . INTELLIGENT PUBLIC OPINION co-operative sales managers, 'Public Our Surplus 3,500,000 Bags! 1939. Bureau fertilizer from your local organization, and by urg- In answer to a letter written him relations and advertising men, finance Last year Michigan bean growers ing your neighbors to do likewise. In completing the ar- by Junior Farm Bureau Director Ben- men, buyers of farm supplies, build- had a surplus of 3,500,000 hundred jamin Hennink, Mr. M. L. Wilson, ers of merchandising organizations pound bags of white pea beans-a NO SH RTAGE OF rangements we have laid much stress on the addit~o.nalton .. Under Secretary of -Agrlculture at and others who have made national surplus that was relieved only by the nage to be obtained. By using Farm Bureau fertilizer you Washington, D. C., writes, "I sym- reputations for themselves in the co- Farm Bureau, the Exchange, and pathize very greatly with the problem operative field. They will represent other groups inducing the Federal POTASH FERTILIZE will be getting the highest quality product and at the same that is under consideration by your such commodities as grain, beans, live Surplus Commodities Corporation to time you will aid greatly in holding the volume at a poin Junior Farm Bureau folks. I am par- stock, fruit, vegetables, milk, butter, buy more than 1,000 carloads of American Production Re- ticularily impressed with the sen- where the maximum purchasing advantages can be main- citrus fruits, cotton, nuts, farm sup- Michigan beans for relief purposes. moves Scarcity We Had tence, 'It seems to us that after we plies, co-operative manufacturing of These purchases relieved the sur- tained. have come up through these training (Conttmred on page 2.) plus and increased the price of beans in World War processes and established a respect appreciably, but there is no short- "Whether or not the Farm Bureau can maintain this for ourselves in tile community, that age of beans in the nation. Far from There is no danger of a shortage of position on fertilizer prices for this and other seasons will certainly there should be some it. FARMERS' WEEK potash fentilizers for 1940, according method whereby we are able to es- Should the U. S. State department depend upon the purchasing support given by the m mbers." to the American Potash Institute. tablish ourselves on the land and in include 50% tariff reduction on beans Since the war broke out in Europe the Mr. Brody estimated that the Farm. • our communities.' Tltis is a very fair AT COLLEGE in its reciprocal trade agreement question has been raised of a po aibil- Bureau's reduction of fertilizer prices Fruit Growers sta ement of a very fundamental pro- with Chile, floods of Japanese and ity of such a shortage. During the might save Mic~i~an farmers up- Meet Jan. 15-19 blem. Farmers, young and old, Chilean beans would soon appear at JANa 29· FEB. 3 World war there was a critical scarity ward of a half mlllion dollars on the everywhere ought to be thinking our ports. ot only Michigan bean of potash and the price sykrocketed. is held by the Michigan State Farm fertilizer to be used next spring. Promise of a peek at what Mi hi- about it as you are in Michigan. producers would be damaged, but Farmers co-operative ass'ns and New Field House Has Seating III those days potash came from Bureau as majority stockholder, and gan's fruit industry may tiee by 1950 For democratio accomplish1nent best growers of pea beans, great north- other Farm Bureau fertilizer dealers grows out of in!01'1ncd and intelligent Capacity Twice That of erns and other varieties in New York, Europe. During the war it became by 137 associated farmers elevators, is offered in announcement of the an- almost impossible to get potash, and fruit ass'ns, co-op creameries and have been taking orders for spring pu.blic opinion." Montana, Idaho and California. nual fruit growers' conference to b Demonstration Hall yields and quality of many crops uf- other co-operatives groups. The meet- and summer requirements at their It Hasn't Happened held at Michigan State College Jan. 15 OUTSTANDING new prices. The Farm Bureau has So far the protests of the Farm fered from lack of this important ing was attended by nearly 200 repre- to 19. Ruth Davenport of Lapeer, says Plans for the 20th annual Farmers plant food. entative of the stockholders. advised members and other patrons The leading professional mall in Bureau and the Michigan Elevator that the price reduction will be main- the Detroit Free Press in its "Around Week program at Michigan State Col- Today the situation is far different. Problem is Volume pomology in eastern, states, Dr. H. B. lege are under way with the announce. Exchange appear to have been ef- tained as long as possible. Fertilizer The State" column, is the outstanding There are several sources of American "The pa t year 11a shown consid- Tukey, chief of research at the New ment that the dates for the nationally fective, The Chilean trade agree- ordered at the new prices, said the girl of 1939 in Michigan 4-H canning production, in California and 1 ew erable progress in n wand improved York Experiment station at Geneva, outstanding event at East Lansing are ment is still pending. Farm Bureau, is assured at those activities. In nine years of member- Mexico. They supply a large share of lliues of merchandi e, better standards, is scheduled for three talks in the Monday through Saturday, Jan. 29- Early last fall, when Secretary prices as those orders will be protect- ship, she has canned 3,666 llints of merican potash requirement . specification and reduced prices on five days. Feb. 3. Brody of the Michigan Farm Bureau ed. fruit, vegetables, pickles, jellies, jams The potash deposit in California many items, said Clark L. Brody, exe- Guest speakers will include Rob rt E. L. Anthony, dean of agriculture learned what was contemplated re- Older members of the Farm Bureau and meats with a total value of $871. consists of a porous crystalline mass cutive secretary, in his annual report. Anderson, fruit grower at Covert; H. and general chairman, is anticipating garding beans from cnue, ne supplied will recall that in 1921 the first co- 75. which is permeated by a dense alka- Pointing out that the opportunities B. Beiseigel, Huron Farms company even greater service to those who at- the American Farm Bureau at Wash- operative distribution of fertilizer by What a lucky chap the young man ington with information regarding line brine. This 'brine is pumped out for increased earnings for co-operative manager at Ann Arbor; Russ 11 Bra- will be who marries Ruth. She's the tend, for the college is able to utilize and put throuah a refinery which stockholders and patronage dividends the Farm Bureaus was credited in the three new .building.s. the situation in Michigan. He asked lowering of fertilizer prices an aver- man, fruit grower at Grand Rapid ; daughter of 1MI',and Mrs. Ralph Dav- that the proposed tariff reduction for takes out impurities and turn out a to their memberships lie in increased ,V. C. Dutton, East Lansing, horticul- enport, leaders in Farm Bureau and In the new fieldhouse the general pure, high-grade muriate of potash. business with the Farm Bureau Servo age of $10 a ton. Some years later evening programs in which rural visi- beans from Chile be protested as ag- ture director for the Dow Chemical other organized farmer activities in The deposits in ew Iexieo are in ice, . II'. Brody said: the Federal Trade Commission in- tors gain a better picture of the state's gravating an already distressed in- company; George Farley, rrutt grow- the county. the form of salt 'beds about a thousand "Sometimes we heal' managers say cluded that observation in a report agricultural greatness can be by dustry. er at Albion; Fred L. Granger, mana- seen feet below .the surface of the ground. that they mu t handle brand: of mer- on fertilizer prices. SINClE 1872 twice the huge crowds which in prev- The Michigan Elevator Exchange gel' of the Producers' corporation at Potash salts in a pure state are simi- chandise other than Farm Bureau be- In Manistee county lives Mr. Arlie ious years have consistently squeezed proceeded through its legal repre- Benton Harbor; Erwin Klenk, fruit Iar in appearance to ordinary table can e their customers will demand Bureau Seeks Marketing Hopkins, first president of the Coun- into Demonstration Hall Wednesday sentative at Washington, and was grower at Sparta; and C. C. 'I'aylor, alt, and in fact, this is the principal them and if they do not supply this ty Farm Bureau. He is a life mem- and Thursday nights. Even at that assured help from the American Farm Agreements for Cherries Albion fruit grower. impurity in the potash deposits. 'I'hese demand, the customers will buy from ber in the organization. Before the the arena open for events will be Bureau. Under the leadership of the Mich- In addition to horticulture depar - salts are blasted loose and taken to their competitor. E. perience in op- county extension system was under- larger. Farm Bureau Files Protest igan State Farm Bureau, Michigan ment staff members, the p ogram will the surface where they are sent erating the Farm Bureau branches way, Mr. Hopkins worked in connec- Use of the new music building; will On ovember 11, 1939 President cherry growers started a movement include material from the College de- through a refinery. The product from and management contract points tion with Michigan State College as provide other space previously not 0' eal of the American Farm Bureau at a recent meeting at Grand Rapids partment of botany, entomolo y and these plants also is a very high grade show that handling only Farm Bu- an institute speaker. He also spent available. Music and speech depart- filed a brief with the State Depart- to ask Congress to qualify the cherry soils. of muriate of potash. reau item reduces the neces ary in- two years in South Dakota at this ment programs are planned. ment's Committee on Reciprocity In- crop for marketing agreements under v ntory, improves the rate of in- work. He also has been very active Then there is the new livestock formation. He protested any reduc- ten request for the privilege to offer the Agr'I Adjustment Administration. ventory turnover and does not handi- in the State Horticulture Society pavilion offering a sizeable arena and tions or concession in existing tariffs testimony. but having nothing to In order to do so J. F. Yaeger told cap volume. and has served on its board of direct- seats for more than 3,000 spectators. on beans and certain other commod- add to its written brief it did not the growers the AAA act must be Seed Service ors and as president. Livestock judging for the annual colt ities in the proposed Chilean agree- testify. amended to include processed fruits Commenting upon the operations of Mr. Hopkins operates a large fruit development, swine, sheep and beef ment that would hold or reduce dom- Since the ovember 27 hearing and vegetables grown for processing. Farm Bureau service departments, Mr. farm in a very businesslike and pro- production contests will culminate in estic prices for these commodities the American Farm Bureau has con- Cherries are canned. Brody said, in part: fitable manner. He keeps a complete this space, a swell as the students' below parity price levels . . . which tinued its discussion of the proposed "The cleaning and handling of field Under such an amendment growers set of records and usually ends up Little International fitting and show- are quite a ways above present prices Chilean trade agreement with offic- seed was one of the early projects of could petition and if 60% of the pro- the year in "the black". In addition manship competition. for beans. The O'Neal statement ials of the State Department, urg- ducers and tonnage of the cherry in- Resumption of the annual turkey the Farm Bureau. For 20 year Farm to producing ousands of apples each was con idered a complete statement ing that careful COIl ideration be dustry should so vote, the secretary of show will be permitted through use Bureau brand seeds have set the year, the fa produces many acres of Michigan interests. given to the Farm Bureau's repre- agriculture could establi h a market- of some of the space in the huge new tandard of quality for Michigan. Most of alfalfa and Mr. Hopkins usually November, 27 the State Department sentations of the damage that would ing agreement for cherries. An in- fieldhouse. of you present here today remember has some feeder steers to turn out. held a hearing on the Chilean agree- be done to the bean industry should dustry committee would be appointed The many-sided educational affair the situation when unadapted and On this farm that Mr. Hopkins has ment. At that time interested parties the tariff be reduced 60%. to exercise control over marketable places in review all phases of the foreign seed failed to stand our winter lived since 1872 and has managed it who had filed written briefs could supplies and to fix minimum prices state's agricultural problems and their submit additional material. The Farm conditions. They cost farmers of the since he wa 16 years old. to producers and to develop new u es scien titfic solu tton. The envelope for letter was in- . tat thousands of dollars through the (Continued on Paae J.) Burea u protected itself with a ~rit- vent d in the nlted Sta te iu 1 4:7. (Continued on pac. 2) and outl ts, o MICHIGAN FARM NEWS SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1940 j Alfred George Heads Services Tlie Associated Women (Continued from page 1) cost of the seed that failed to produce .f the a crop, to say nothing of the loss of ucceeaor to the MIchIgan Farm Bureau News, founded the crop itself and the on sequent dis- Bureau January 12, 1923 turbance of the crop rotation. In the Farm managers report on the activities of Mrs. Pearl E. Myus# Director for Michigan Entered a econd class matter January 12, 1923, at the post- office at Charlotte, nchigan, under the Act of March 3. 187'. the Seed Department, Roy Bennett ... this to say: ~bJlSh d first Saturday of each month by the MichIgan State Farm " 'Another good seed year just pass- MICmGAN WOMEN - AT THE AMERIOAN '\. Bur au at Ita publication attice at 114 Lovett St., Charlotte, Michigan. Fun to Be Sick ed and we are sure you are proud of FARM BUREAU CONVENTION I like to be sick, helping to complete 20 years of dis- dltorial and general offices, 221 North Cedar St., Lansing, MichIgan. If I ain't too sick, Postotrice Box 960. Telephone, Lansing 21-271. tributing good seed to Michigan farm- MRS. LAURENCE PORTER their pleaslng accent. People intro- Say just a cold in the head; ers. We find, however, to keep up LAPEER COUNTY duced themselves and their con- And after the morning chores are done to go right back to bed. our high standards of quality we are "Win or lose, you can't help but versations turned to the Farm All UNGREN Editor and Business Manager Not so sick as to suffer much but Just enough to show ( Bureau. Three thousand people How much my Marthy can do for me when I am weak and low. constantly adding new cleaning equip- derive a great deal of pleasure and profit from the experience of par- came from many states to stand Subscription 25 cents per year; 4 Y16arstor $1, In advance. ment. More strange weeds are coming She brings me water to soak my feet, and a towel to soak my head, into the state each year, which shows tidpating in a Farm Bureau Wo- tog ther in building the Farm She keeps one hot and the other cold and I feel right comforted. men's Speaking Contest". Bureau program." Vol. XVIU SATURDAY, JANUARY 6,1940 No.1 there are too many just selUng "seed" She ties a pork-rind on my throat to loosen it up aomewhat, without regard for damage resulting Mrs. Porter, who won in Mich- MRS. ADA WURZEL, She brews a kettle of catnip tea and makes me drink a lot. from the e weeds which are ,foreign igan, represented her state in the ST. CLAIR COUNTY She covers me up with a patchwork quilt till I sweat at every pore, to our state. Sell more Farm Bureau finals at the Chicago convention. "When I think of a group of ov s to Mak:e Us Pay Tribute She tucks me in and I take a nap--and then get doped some more, seeds and scatter less weeds. In a close contest, the national farmers building such an organiza- The action of an egg candlers' union at Chicago And what with treatments of sundry sorts and various kinds of tea "'For two years we have been fav- honors went to Mrs. Marshall of tion that they can bring such She Just proceeds to sweat and dope that cold right out of me. ored with late falls, which have been the Connecticut Farm Bureau. The speakers to -their banquet table as in demanding a recandling of Hamilton Farm Bureau ideal for late maturing of certain hy- subject lor 1940 is "Producer and Secretary of ,State Cordell Hull, Now in the course of my daily life I wait on fowl and beast brid corns that are not adapted tor Consumer Relations." Mrs. Porter Secretary of Agriculture Henry eggs from Michigan which had been graded and sealed And ncbody fetches and lugs for me, outside the house at least. our state. Sooner or later our Mich- said she found the Michigan State Wallace, Mayor Kelly of Chicago, at Hamilton by federal inspectors brought home an So Just to be tended, hand and foot, is a treat that's pretty slick igan farmers are going to get stung. Library a good source of material of That's why I say beln' sick ain't bad if you ain't too gol-darn sick. Governor Townsend Indiana inkling of tactics that may be used by some labor Be careful and don't be a party to sell- in preparing her manuscript. and others, we must carry some organizations to "unionize" Michigan farming. Of course it isn't near so nice when a man is curled up tight ing corn that won't mature in 8J norm- MRL RALPH BABCOCK weight in the nation." With pills and bed-pans and fever-charts, and not much rest at night. al year'." ST. CLAIR COUNTY MRS. ARTHUR MARTIUS, When the Chicago egg candlers' union leaders pro- Then he gets to thinking long tired thoughts and can't quite think 'em Petroleum Products "I didn't realize that the women LAPEER COUNTY through, ceeded to disregard federal grades and create an addi- "The fiscal year just closed shows of the American Farm Bureau were "The loyalty and interest of And wonders if he has lived Just right, and what will Marthy do. tional marketing expense to be charged back to the a good increase all along the line, but -carrying such an important part of F'anm Bureau members in their or- particularly in gasoline sales. This producers of the eggs, their sole interest was i~ pro~id- But Just the regular run-of-the-mill, bad cold. and belly-ache the program. gantzatton impressed me. With all And grippe or a touch of the rheumatiz are not too hard to take gain is largely due to the addition ot "It was interesting to me to the attractions of the ,big city and ing something to do and pay for members of then union. When they make you a king in your own good right, born to be tended to. 12 new bulk plants durlng the pas't observe on the Sunday evening in their freedom to choose, each ses- But they backed off when the Hamilton Farm Bureau, I like to be sick- year; however, & checkup on the old the Stevens -lobby so many people sion was attended ,by a large ma- If I ain't too sick; plants shows that they have, almost arriving from. different states, and jority of the delegates and visiting the Michigan State Farm Bureau and the American Farm Just once In a While, without exception, increased their especially the southerners wi,th members." Bureau protested to federal authorities the disregard Don't you? gallonage. "The following plants were installed ed representing the associated co-op for federal grading laws. budget when they proposed the original Triple-A back been a director. Mr. Walworth re- during the past year: Emmett, Hills- stockholders: Alfred George, of members the first car purchased by Michigan farm co-operatives and others sending in 1933. For two and a half years, until the Hoosac dale, Hudsonville, Imlay City, James. Buchanan; ~,y Allen of Oxford; the County Farm Bureau for the agri- trucks into the Chicago and other markets have gone Mills decision of the Supreme Court in 1936, this pro- town, Lapeer, Mason, McBain, OXford, Thomas Berghouse of Falmouth; cultural agent. He recalls that it Richmond, 'Snover, Vriesland. . Merle Crandall, of Howell. along in the matter of their drivers being made memb~rs gram was self-financing. It is not the farmers' fault, was the first model to have a closed Farm Machinery H. H. Sandford' was elected :vice- top and that "was something". Shl- of a city truck drivers union; they have put up WIth said Mr. Wallace, that since that time the farm program "An oustanding development in this president. Clark L. IBrody was re- awassee was one .or the first 'County the business of paying union dock works to unload has had to be financed by appropriations from the department was to become distribu- engaged as executive secretary and Farm Bureaus to have a woman on treasurer. their trucks, but such tactics as the foregoing egg general treasury. tors of the line of wheel and crawler its board of directors, Mr. Walworth tractors made ,by the Cleveland Tract- J. , said. candling deal are nothing less than a racket. or Company. A considerable volume Only a strong Farm Bureau organization that can go of business has .been done on these Some ody Wants to Put a Damper on Us Behind Potato Champion to the legislature as a representative farm group can tractors. Sales on Unlco tires have ben very good. Arrangements were If, as articles in the newspapers suggest, the decision the J. D. Robinson,' veteran Farm Bu- protect Michigan farmers against such drives for tribute. made through the National Co-opera- Wheel of Secretary Wallace to exercise active control over all (Cont1n~&il ·~m page 1) reau member of Pellston, Emmett Congressman of Allegan described some Uves to secure cream separators under COUNTY SECRETARY county, produced 615 buahels of certi- services of the Farm Credit Administration is to be fol- I the Co-op trade-mark. They are made of them when he said to the House on July 20, 1939: For 16 years, IMr. Floyd Walworth fied Russett Rural seed 'Potatoes per lowed by a change of policy that will put a damper on by a reliable manufacturer and have has been secretary and a director of acre on the best 5 acres of his 18 many improved features. Throu.gh In California it (the labor union) demands that poultry and the Shiawassee. C,ounty Farm Bureau. acre potato field. It's a new state loans to farmers' co-operative marketing and purchasing this group we were able to reduce farm products put on city markets shall bear a union label. It At first he was secretary but not record, and Mr. Robinson is king of ass'ns, that is fighting news. prices materially. demands that dairy products, milk, butter, cream, and cheese, shall a director. SJ~ce 1923 he has also the, certified seed potato producers. be sold by the farmer only when he can show that it has been hauled But, we are inclined to the belief that these articles "During the year arrangements to market by a union teamster; that the cows which gave the milk were completed through the United have been fed on hay and grain hauled by a union teamster. do not reflect the Secretary's views, but rather wishful Co-operatives to secure such new In Wisconsin it has demanded that employees of farmers' co- thinking on the part of interests who have always items as Unlco poultry equtpment, operatives join its ranks and pay tribute to it; that otherwise they found farmers' co-operatives irritating. The newspapers forks, rakes, hoes, and shovels. This ,shall not process the farmer's milk; they shall not can nor handle the department is showlng marked im- ,farmer's fruit and vegetables which he has for sale. do us a service by calling attention to the new direction provement, 'but needs more customer In the South it demands that berries before shipment bear a in which pressure will be exerted. and dealer support in order that union label; b handled by union labor. volume may be built up to a point The Bank for Co-operatives appears to be the target where it wfll ,be a more important When Michigan farmers ship their eggs to New York (and because it makes rather low cost loans to co-operatives factor in reducing 'prices and increas- Chicago), again this organization would levy tribute, although their ing income ..• product has passed State and Federal inspection. on ,merchandise on banking terms, and makes mort- Feeds 'Ever closer to the home, to the daily activities of the American gage loans to co-operatives to help them build or improve "The feed department of the Fan1t farmer, this organization is coming. It is not too late, if the farmer their property for service. Objectors charge the money Bureau Services is still the most im- now wakens to his p ril and at the poll repudiates all those who is borrowed from government funds, or .s money avail- portant from the standpoint of volume 'bear the label of and owe allegiance to this organization, which would completely wreck him, financially destroy his independence, and able from the sale of tax exempt bonds. andlliepo~lliilit~s~fhcl~~s~k~ ..• We wish to acknowledge the help. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~= make him subject to the orders of a racketeering so-called union-labor We ask you, from whence have come the funds of the ful co-operatron of the Poultry De- leader. Reconstruction Finance Corporation for loans to rail- partment at Michigan State College', Unless he meets and defeats this force at the polls, the merican and particularly, Prof. J. A. Davidson farm r will either surrender his independence, acknowledge his serf- roads, banks and to industrial concerns to save them, of that department, who has been con- dom, or by force do physical battle with tho e who are seeking to or to improve their facilities, as in the case of the rail- sulted frequently in respect to bring him under the yoke so successfully imposed upon many of the roads ~ Why from government loans, of course. Both changes necessary to improve old industrial workers. formulas and proposed new teeds -to RFC and Bank for Co-operative Loans are being repaid be added to the line. . • by the borrowers. The results from these loans have Fertilizer ram Ie been good. No one is going to damper the Bank for "A radically changed fertilizer sales We knew Clem Bramble for quite a number of years. Co-operatives without having a fight on his hands. program has been perfected to' 'be presented to our stockholders and When he passed away the night of December 4 as the distributors for the 1940 spring sea- result of an automobile accident, we lost a good friend. Co-ops Going son. Again our organizatioa has taken He had a lot of friends. He had acquired them through After Institute the lead in offering materially reduced (Continued from Page 1) fertilizer prices which will mean sav- a long and useful life. Mr. Bramble was 79, but he feeds, fertilizers, machinery and other TV ings to all Michigan farmers. . • . w s a vigorous man for any age. For 50 years and items. They have stories to tell and Paints know how to tell them. more he was a member of the Grange. During those Increases Crop Yields; Helps "Since the inoeptton of the Farm years he rose through the ranks to become Master in The Institute opens with a general Bureau soya paint program in August, session each morning and splits 'Up Get Stands of Alfalfa 1938, this department has -been de- 1932. into perhaps a score of commodity and Clos-er veloping very sattsractortly. A more As Master of the Grange, Mr. Bramble brought with and service sections for the remainder intelligent and aggressive sales pro- of each day. There will be occasional gram has Good is in charge of a "go- volume of fruit that grapes in the ing concern". I do not believe He has state sometimes are overlooked. But HAD A FROZ turned His world over to Mr. Hitler a statewide estimate indicates there or to Mr. Chamber lain, to Mr. Roose- velt or to Mr. Dickinson, to the Pro- are approximately 18 mfllton vines WELCOME Pro iding They Ha e which in 193 bore enough fruit to testants or to the Catholics, to the give the state thir d place nationally. C. 1. O. or to the A. F. of L., to the To Produce; Better For National Wool Marketing Anti-Saloon or to the Liquor Control Ass'n ; Today Boston Commission, to the industrialists, or Pay II to the farmer. We are all of His peo- is Much Nicer ple and if we will only have faith in Twenty thousand ourselves and our fellowmen and fill wrona. The progress which has been made our hearts with hope for the best to in the co-operative marketing of wool be foremost, this world will shape it- So the figures obtained from herd in Michigan and thruout the United self into peace and contentment and a in Michigan pro·e con lusively that States was considered and discussed bright future. with wi e selection of feeds it er- at a conference held at the Michigan 1940 for each of us will be largely tainly pays to feed a good milk pro- State Farm Bureau headquarters in ducer. Dollar return above fe d what we let it be. 0 doubt it will Lansing, Thursday, January 4. The have its dissappointments and its costs rise surprisingly within reason- able limits. meeting was attended by leading grow- heartaches and grief. If we give up to This sign in colors and 28x44 inches in size is being erected by Farm ers and by extension speetalists from them, we will drop back into the rear A year ago a mass of figur s went Bureau members in Genesee and adjoining counties in a pot near their Michigan State College, and several ranks and be ready to say we were into federal tabulators in Washington farm homes where it will attract the attention of passing motorists. A county agricultural agents. C. J. Faw- given a raw deal. who searched for results from th cett of Boston, general manager of the smaller size, 22x33 inches, is available for fann trucks. There'll be those who will think Michigan dairy h I'd improvement a - National Wool Marketing Corporation, For several years the Genesee County Farm Bureau has been promot- that they alway come out of the lit- ociatlons records. traced in a very interesting way the ing the propel' advertising of Michigan farm products by farmer pro- tle end of the horn, but it is to be Some of the animals fell into each history of co-operative wool market- ducers. The board of directors agreed that the design above would serve hoped they'll be in a small minority. of the various dollar return groups. ing during the past tew years. When their purpose. The board has made arrangements to have the signs made The history of 1940 may be the pivot In th lower brackets were sorn 156 the National Wool Marketing Corpora- in the two sizes described. They attract a great deal of attention, and on which the world turned to peace pound butterfat average cows ~'hose tion decided that it should move its the reception to this form of advertising by farmers is favorable indeed. and prosperity. feed cost $52 and Who managed to headquarters from Chicago to Boston, Signs are furnished Farm Bureau members at cost by the Genesee, return the small snm of 24 above no bank that was a member of the Lapeer, St. Clair, Sanilac, Huron and Oakland County Farm Bureaus. In feed cost to the dairymen ov nlng Boston cleraing house would accept Genesee county, President Wilbur Short of Swartz Creek heads the sales them. the $100,000 which the growers organ- group, which includes members of the board of directors, as follows: O'NEAL HEADS Contrast this, says A. C. Baltzer, ization sought to place on deposit. It Mr. and Mrs. \Fred Lang, Burton township; ...rr. and Irs. Eugene extension dairyman at Michigan State was also impossible to secure any Kurtz, Atlas township; Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Torrey, Mundy township; College, with the top dollar earning space in a public warehouse in Boston Mr. and Mrs. eil Gifford, Davison township, and 11'. and Mrs. Ward AFBF OR cows. Their butterfat production or to hire any Boston wool grader. Perry, Grand Blanc township. This was because the sentiment of the averaged 544 pounds for 12 month, D contains minimum ot firmly intrenched old-line wool trade FIFTH TERM their fe d cost was 88, yet their re- P units of it min and was so strong against the co-operative turn above feed cost was $159. 1940 for Us Will be Largely C cluck unit. of vitamin YOUB HENS KNOW movement that no established busi- st Convention Attended by For an average of all the records, 21 D, per rs m. Ask for Poultry HEN AND BOW MUCH ness agency in that city dared be What We Let it Be 3,200 Delegates from the cows produced 7,966 pounds of friendly to the co-operative institution. milk which contained 328 pounds of Feeds containing VITAND. +------39 States butterfat and gave dairymen an av r- laying hens know when Sales ,10 Carloads Daily It's a Good W orId, and W wrote me urging me to voice dtsap- I they need oyster shell and In contrast to that situation which e pro val of the fast growing habits of age I' turn of ov r feed 0 t. Edward A. 0' eal of Alabama, presi- . J. just how much. the more prevailed only a few years ago, the Enjoy Life More if girls bobbing their hair and rolling National Wool Marketing Corpora- dent of the American Farm Bureau eggs they lay, the more We'll Admit It their stockings, and wearing high heels tion now handles more wool than any and no hats, etc. Well! Bless her heart, Federation for the past eight years, oyster shell needed. other firm in the United Sta tes and it would have been wrong if she had was unanimously re-elected for another Car Is ama e pilot brand is all pure oyster altho its commission charges are no By MRS. EDITH M. WAGAR indulged in any of those notions, for two-year term at the 21st annual con- vention of the Federation at Chicago, A State Farm full coverae Automo-o shell and every flake is higher than any other firm and in fact Happy New Yearl How we always she was of the straight-laced kind, bile Insarance policy Itt not nearly •• purified. have been repeatedly decreased, it has hail the coming of a new yearl And but there were those in my day who Dec. 4-8. Earl C. Smith of Illinois, expensive ILl moat peoplethink. Actual- vice-president since 1936, was also re- ly only a few eenta more per month accumulated an unlmpatred surplus of how fast these New Years creep up were just as shocked over the "rats" may prevent you from payin~ a larare over $1,000,000. Last year they mer- on us! We crowd so many things I wore in my hair and the thin soled elected unanimously. repair bill. chandised over 60,000,000 pounds of of interest to us into a week or a shoes I put on my feet. Let me ezplaln our fun eoveran policy-planned to fit the averaa man'. wool which would average 10 carloads month that a year passes before we What We Do Speaks so Loudly pocketbook. daily. It handled this huge amount of realize just what has happened. I'll admit I'm not certain that I can SEE OUR LOCAL AGENT wool with absolutely no credit loss I recall my mother saying, "T'm so put my stamp of approval on some of For Fur-ther- Information, \Trite and paid the railroads $1,050,000 in hungry to see another woman and to our modern books as the best kind of . Mich. State Farm Bureau, State Agt., 221 No. Cedar, Lan Ing .• freight charges. have an opportunity to talk with her; reading. I really believe those auth- STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTO INSURANCE COM ANY BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS Mr. Fawcett emphasied that in I haven't been beyond our gate in ors could have put across their ideas, this country wool is a defieiency com- four months." What a difference! their themes in good wholesome Eng- modity in that we normally consume And why? lish without injecting actual filth in more wool each year than we produce. There were several things that order to say what they wanted to say. Hence thru proper marketing the made mother's life no different than But maybe they wanted to be sure domestic price should be maintained many others of the neighborhood. We there would be a demand for their at importing parity, by which is recall the means for travel, the old- writings. If so, I'm sure they have meant the world price of wool plus time winter weather, and the roads. accomplished their purpose. And it the cost of brtnglng foreign wool here There was a family of little ones and isn't only young folks who are on the and paying tI ansportatton and tariff no definite call to go elsewhere. waiting lists at our libraries for these charges. The National. Wool, Market- We Take a New Start salacious books either. ing Corporation has exerted a We've left 1939 behind us. To many Help or Kick? strengthening and stabilizing Influenea it was a disappointment. Perhaps How easy it is to condemn those on wool prices and by the competition they had set their stakes too high. who think and act different than we which it has given to old-line wool To many it was a do! In almost every group of folks dealers has reduced the spread be- w 0 I' I' y. The r e congregated these days, there'll be tween growers ell1'i '\ft)el~ -mills by at were war clouds some who will denounce the other fel- least 5c per pound. It is owned and hovering over the low as a "communist" or "anarchist" controlled by about twenty member world in general associations of which the Michigan Co- and the fear of just because. they ?o not see eye to operative Wool Marketing Association bel d . t I eye on public affatrs. El>WIiRl> 11, Q'NEII/..e emg rawn m 0 It's too bad that we shorten our is one. It secures funds for advances thde mess fPrevent- vision until we cannot see but one Directors from the variou regions f to the growers thru the Central Bank e many rom en- . " were re-elected for two-year terms, as for Co-operatives at low interest rates. .0 in more the SIde to a quest~on 0: Importance. follows: ortheastern Region, H. P. In seven years out of ten, the market ~ie : sin g s sur- There's no publtc pfficIal's record so King) Trumansburg, ew York; advances with the season so that is n d . n them bad, but what one can find some good r 0 u I g . t"'f I '11' George i. Putman, Concord, ew one reason why the :consignor usually B t 0 we have spo s In It I we are on y WI mg to Hampshire. Southern Region, H. E. receives more for his wool than the entered w a new see them. Why spend our time in Short, Brinkley, Arkansas; Ransom grow ir who sells locally at shearing yea I' We can condemning, in abusing, in spreading Aldrich, Michigan City, Missis ippi; time. . leave' the old be- malicious stories! How much better :\Iidwestern Region, Dr. O. O. Wolf, Final settlements on the 1939 Mich- MR6. w,..,~ hind us and take job we might do if we would only Ottawa, Kansas; Hassi! E. Schenck, OU can double your igan Wool Pool were sent out during a fresh start. We may have felt that offer our assistance or grant them an Lebanon, Indiana; Murray E. Lincoln, Y the first week in December and in most ('very thing had gone to the dogs, un.hamper~d hand! They might su.r- Columbus, Ohio; Western Region, "If the railroads are so good home comfort and en- that the world was nothing more prIse us, If only allowed to do their joyment by providing run- instances represented substanttaj George Wilson, Clarksburg, California. profits to the growers over what they or less than a maelstrom of evil. It best. At least it might be wise if we The convention was said by offic- ning water and modern would have obtained by selling to does look bad when we allow our- would only ask ourselves if we woul.d plumbing. A concrete septic ials to have .been the most success- old-line buyers. selves to look only on one side of the do any better if we had been the one ful in Farm Bureau history, with more - UJ4J' QmI/ /A~ nmf/H tank will dispose of all hu- During February several County picture, but we don't have to go back chosen to do the job. than 3,200 delegates from 39 states man and household wastes Wool Producers' Associations will be so many years to convince ourselves The Best Time for Living registered. Attendance at the ban- and protect your drinking that the world has really made a Yes, 1940 is here ready to begin its holding their annual meetings and on quet on Tuesday, addressed by Sec- HAT'S a sensible question, Or it includes cost of service- water against contamination. March 6 the Michigan Co-operative steady improvement. march into history. This is a grand retary of State Cordell Hull, exceeded A wise investment in health Wool Marketing Association will hold It's within the memory of folks age that we are living in. The world 1,900. Tand we'd like to answer it, and the railroads today haul a and heppiness! its annual meeting in Lansing. ~ill liv~g lli~ many ~ o~ c~~y because business success in these ton a mile at an average cost supported slavery as a divine institu- ~t~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~; A booklet that gives com- tion; most of them were silent on the United States is judged pretty that's about the same you pay, plete construction details for Minion Fishing liquor traffic, many approved of it much by whether or not you're for a penny postcard concrete septic tanks and Licenses for 1940 and even a few were engaged in it. Classified Ads able to make money. well protection is yours for How long would we now tolerate Classified advertisemenu are cash with order at the followlna The Michigan fisherman may get an rates: 4 cen~~ per word for one edition. Ada to appear in two or But when it comes to finaNcial the asking. Also booklets idea of how numerous his fellow a minister who invested his meager more edItions take the rate of 3 cents per word per edition. showing how to build other But when you talk about the success-you run into this situa- anglers are by realizing that the col- savings in brewery or distillery •. concrete improvements lective weight of the more than a stock? railroads you have to deal with tion: needed on the modern farm. million 1940 licenses, packed for 2,200 It's a Better World CEqCKB & PULLETS FARM FOR RENT two kinds of success that don't ~ dealers, exceeds three tons. Each In our own country we've made Railroads meet all their own QU can do concrete work PULLETS, CERTIFIED LEGHORNS license is a small printed card. rapid and tremendous strides in our 1ro ACRES FOR RENT ON HALVES have much relation to each other. yourself. Or ask your cement and Barred Rocks, ready now. Winter or hire man by month. Near Lansing, costs and help support the gov- The 1940 one dollar resident licenses efforts for a universal education; broiler Chicks. Write or Visit, Lowden Write qualifi ations to RLB, Michigan dealer to recommend a good Farms, R. O. P. Breeder. P. O. Rives are necessary for any kind of fishing against the evils of child labor; in Farm News, 221 No. Cedar St., Lansing, On the one hand is 0peratil1g _ ernmenr as well. They operate concrete contractor. Junction. Location, Henrietta. Phone :\lich. (10-H) arter January 1, and good for all kinds. caring for the afflicted and for the 15-F23. (11-tf-25) success. under the strict control of rules Paste lilt on pOital and mail for free Forty cents Ifrom each license sold sick; in the prevention of epidemics; literature on lubjects checked. FOR SALE-~SCELLANEOUS FARM HELP and regulations built up over the will go toward purchase of lake and in caring for the needy and in sani- That includes, for instance, stream ,frontage to insure continued tation and health conditions. MICHIGAN SEPTIC TANK SIPHON SINGLE MAN, MIDDLE AGED, past 50 years on the theory that PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION and bell as recommended by State Col- wants farm wor-k, Joe Barnum, 212% safety, and on this score the Dept. W 1-4 Olds rewer Sw,.,1aDaiIr. Mich. public access to fishing grounds and While we deplore the existence of North Washington Ave., Lansing. (l-H) crime surrounding us, we cannot say lege Agr'l Engineering dep't. Build your they are a monopoly, but actually o "Guard Hilt Health with a Con- for lake and stream improvement and own septic tank and sewage 8Yl!ltem.In- :American railroads have. the Ws getting the start of us at all. We stall When tank is built. Installation and SINGLE MAN, 23, WANTS FARM crete Septic Tank" 0 Barn Floor. research. work, dairy or general farm. Ernest they compete with other form o Foundationl 0 Feeding Floor. must remember that our population operation simple. Discharges automati- finest record in the world. o Poultry Housel 0 Milk Housea cally. Have been sold 16 years. All in Brown, daple Rapids, R-l, Mich. (I-H) of transportation which are pro .• o Storage Cellars 0 Silos 0 Home Caro Farmers Co-operative Elevator has increased far more rapidly as daily use and giving satisfaction. In- Improvementl 0 Fireproof Home. structtons with each siphon. Price, de- YOUNG MARRIED MAN WANTS Or it includes ability to handle o ConcreteMaking. Company celebrated its 25th annivers- well as our means of information, but livered, $7.60 which includes sales tax, farm work by month or year. Refer- moted and subsidized by govern. ary year during 1939. the ratio of crime never has been C. O. D. charges are extra. Farm Bureau ences. Donald E. McDiarmid, Lake the traffic and in 1939 - when mente lower. Supply Store, 728 E. Shiawassee St., Lan- Odessa, R-l, Mich. (I-H) siDa". (3-4-tt-60b) records of grain receipts for a We are too apt to think and speak YOUNG MAN, EXPERIENCED FARM The effect of such inequality is of the things that we are not in ac- WATER FILTER help, wants farm work. ~r. Bladdie, ., 1305 West fain street, LanSing. (I-H) day, for a week, or for a whole LIVE cord with and all the same time hesi- . to decrease railroad traffic and STOCK PRODUCERS HARD WATER TROUBLE? SEND US season were again broken at im- tate to give any thought or expres- a sample of the water. Give size of fam- YOUNG, SINGLE MAN, EXPERIENCED reduce railroad arnings. Michi~a~ Live Stock Exchange has operated a successful live stock ily. We give )'OU a free estimate on farm help, wants work on general farm portant markets in both the win- commrssron selling agency on the Detroit and ButTalo markets Since 1922. sion of the great number of good equipment needed to glet rid of the Gust ~Iesick, 1115 North Logan St., Lan~ things that touch us on every side. trouble. Co-op Water Softener with new SlDg. (I-H) ter and spring wheat belts-the There is no question of the rail- B'ECAUSE How About Ourselves? type of mineral, all in one tank, sottens It maintains a thoroughly trained and experienced personnel water sorter than rain water. Re.moves MILKING MACmNES railroads handled the job with- roads' ability to do the job for It is represented on every principal mal"ket in the United States by There's the young folks of today. I iron, objectional taste, odor and color -:--:-:-:"":'-:-=:-:-:- _ Producer owned and operated agencies. don't believe they're any worse, in now present in water. Saves its cost . in one Year. Semi-automatic. Requires co U NT Y DISTRIBUTORS FOR out a sign of car shortage .• farmers or for the nation from (&) It renders better information and market service to its members. fact, I'm sure they're not anywhere World's best portable milker. One sale (4) It can furnish 4¥.a% money for financing feeding operations. only three minutes attention to regener- ~. near as bad as young folks were in ate. Priced from $90 to $150. See your each week beats working- for someone an operating standpoint. Farm Bureau dealer, or write Fann Bur- else. Wri~e Michigan Milker Co., 810 Or it includes speed - and the / PLUS days gone by. To be sure they take East MichIgan Avenue, Lansing. eau SerVices, Electrical Dep't, 728 E. railroads in the past twenty years features of good practice In the live stock commission the breath out of some of us old Shiawassee St., Lansing, Mich. (9-2-83b) C12-2t-25b) From the standpoin of earnings, fogies by their talk and their ideas LIVE STOCK have stepped up freight speed all they need to mak a living REMEMBER and their actions and their dress. by more than 60%-with similar is a fair chance to meet other When you patronize the Michigan Live Stock Exchange you are building But at heart they are true, they REGISTERED HEREFORD, your own live stock marketing agency. are loyal, they are good. They only and heifers. We have &. nice electlen. improvements in passenger on e Sensible prices. A.:\1. Todd ce., Men- form of tran portation ual Reports furnished Michigan State College Ra(lio Station WKAR for early look at life with different eyes than tha. (14 mUes northweet of Kalamazoo). markets at 6:45 a. m, . schedules terms" we do and 110 doubt they will do a (7-3-tf-22b) better job for their country and its MICHIGAN LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE Secretary'. Office Hud •• n, Michigan people than we have. SE AME ICA IY RAIlROAD- SnOB fOR Frank Ober.t, President; J. H. O'Mealey, Secretary & Trealurer; I confess right now that I don't ALL MAPLE SYRUP MAKING AND marketing supplies, including "Old Re- Gu D (. CLE Ask , . George J. Boutell, Manager A FAIR FIELD. lou ••• think we should be very proud of the liable" Felt FIlter Bag for cleansing. NO GOYERNMEKT FAYOR_ Three color labels, thermometers, hydro- BEEKEEPER'S SUPPLIES YOUR STOCK TO US AT mess we've been in and are still in IN TRANSPORTATION smp quite deep. I'm certain our fore- meters, buckets, flat bottom pans, tin and glass containers, "King EVAPO- BEE HIVES, SECTIONS, COMB ~-~ lttichigaJlLivestock Exch. Producers Co-opAss'n fa thers expeoted far more of us. The RATORS," sap storage tanks, sugaring foundations, etc. Outfits for beginners. Send for catalog. GRAFT! G WAX for Detroit Stockyards East Buffalo, N. Y. generations to follow can do no off rigs, sugar moulds, etc. For catalog and prices, write usar Bush upply orchardists. Both hand and brush wax D I,..".r-..•.•-p;.••••• worse. Company. Display room and office, 217 BERRY BASKETS AND CRATES: MAPLE SYRUP CANS. Send for prices. A few years &10 ODe ~f P1~ trieD@ N. Cedar St., Lansing, Mich. (next door to JJtate po m :Sur u.l ~1-tt.67b) M. H. Hunt & Son, 511 • Cedar St., LaniWr. MlohlraD, l.at."b~ MICHIGAN FARM NEWS SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1940 - e aug

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RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED AT 21ST AMERICAN FARM BUREAU FEDERATION CONVENTION AT CHICAGO, DECEMBER 7 , 1 939

FARM PARITY AND NATIONAL PROSPERITY pects: in co-operatlon with farmer position to such agreement by all to PI' serve the inherent advantages EXTENSION OF MARKETING tial mineral elements in our soils. In committee or other o-opera in a rtcultural groups. of each. AGREEMENTS ACT partt ular, the universal deficiency in year ago the Federation made the uncompromising groups and that adequat fund he 'Ve Iurth r insi t that in the nego- Ea h Hou e of Congres has pass- We urge early enactment by Con- phosphate is being felt and the urg- statement that prosperity could not and would not tran terred to the E. t n ion rvic tiation of trade agreement, onomic ed a tran portation hill, both of which gre s of pending legislation to extend ency of its replacement made evident. in tates and countt s to provide the factors be given con ider tion equiv- ar no v pending betor a Conference the order provisions of the Agricul- The experimental concentrated b restored except through the attainment of a sound, nec sary personnel for uch ser- alent to the wight accord nded to pro- nation-wide effect , we ur e that a We urge that the Federal Govern- f ir price and income basis. the nation for educational use in R cognizing the fact tbat our tari f vide that no agreement h consum- reasona bl time be p rmitted the in- ment appropriate adequate funds for practical farm programs which the With much greater emphasis we reiterate that posi- poltcie had failed to prot ct the do- mated unless unanimou ly approved tere ted public to tudy the bill when tobacco grading under the Tobacco reported by th Conference Commit- Inspection Act. . farmers themselves evolve under the tion. Either there must be a readjustment of industrial • te before its final consid ration and guidance of the County Agent, and and labor policies to bring industrial prices to a level e'U d I Toget enactment by Congress. FEED LEGISLATION through the Agricultural Conserva- in relation to farm prices which will insure maximum In the formulation of such bill, we We urge that Congress pass nec- tion Program, as grants of aid for urge that the Interstate Commerce essary livestock and poultry feed soil building practices. consumption of the products of both agriculture and Commis ion be directed to give more control legislation to prevent the We recognize the soundness of the industry: or agriculture will be forced to demand of attention to the rightful interests of movement in interstate and import Tennessee Valley Authority's experi- Congress appropriations adequate to make the AAA 'shippers in the regulation of trans- commerce of feeds containing live mental large scale production of con- noxious weed seeds, and to prevent cen trat.ed fertilizers and their distri- fully effective in bringing farm income to a level which portation systems, to investigate and remove any unjus t discrtmlna tions misrepresentation of feeds in inter- bution for widespread educational will permit farmers to buy the products of industry In ..~'.::nst regions or commodities with- state and import commerce. use by State Agricultural Colleges and normal volume. in any particular type of transporta- MARKETING SERVICE practical farmers. We I ecommend tion, and we especially insist that no We urge that the United States the introduction of improve plant Th parity price concept of agriculture as set forth provision of law or regulation permit- Department of Agrteulture, the Land food products in those areas which In he Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 attests ted thereunder, restri t any natural Grant Colleges, and the Extension have not yet benefited by their use. In areas where these fertilizers have the sincerity of farmers because in that Act they ask or inherent advantages of any type of Service place increased emphasis up- transportation where such advantages on research in the field of marketing proved their value we recommend only for farm prices high enough to insure a fair in rates and services are reflected to and distribution of farm products, more extensive use through AAA dis- e change of farm products for the products of industry. the shipping public. and to further assist in fostering, tribution, such as is now in effect +------~------developing, and improving marketing co-operatively with the Authority and AAA HAS HELPED .. and service to its member borrowers. LABOR services for farm commodities. To private industry. We urse adequate 'V reaffirm our unc~m~rOmISmg Until the parity position of farmers The American Farm Bureau Feder- the extent necessary, additional Congressional support of the Fertili- support of toe broad prmcIP1.s s~t is greatly improved we further rec- ation ha always supported organiz- funds should be provided by Con- zer Program of the Tennessee Valley forth in the AA of .193 , WhICh IS ommend continuation subject to Con- ed labor in all reasonable and legit- gress for this purpose. If carried Authority. the mo t .ompr h nsi e and ff~ct- gressional review, of the present em- imate efforts to improve the income out, current proposals that appropria- STUDY OF LJVESTOC ..K AND ive law v r writt n by and or farm- ergency interest rates on Federal of workers and where necessary to tions be made available to other DAI RY PROBLEMS 1'8. nder the A program pro- Land Bank loans and Commissioner achieve these ends, their full rights agencies of Federal or State Govern- The American 'Farm Bureau Fed- gr g toward parity has been made Loans; extension of the authority to through collective bargaining, We ments for this purpose would only eration set in motion in 1920, through hut we are still f~r from our g~~l make Land Bank Commissioner loans I shall continue to support the rights result in duplication and confusion the appointment of a representative b c us we have trt d to pull a I - and an amendment to the Bankhead- of working people in this respect. and would not be conducive to the committee of livestock farmers and horse load vlth a two-horse team. Jones Farm Tenant Purchase Act to However, we deplore the use of greatest measure of attainment. ranchmen, a comprehensive Ist'udy r iontrol of production has not b.een extend the same consideration to violence, boycotts, lockouts, failure to FOREST CONSERVATION covering the field of livestock mar- rigid enough to raise market prices worthy distressed farm owners now recognize duly constituted govern- We reaffirm forest conservation keting. The results of this study and to parity lev Is, although it has kept extended to tenants. mental authority, disregard of con- th m corisld rably above the levels to resolutions adopted at Nashville, De- the action of this committee were tracts and other irresponsible acts, or vhleh they would h ve otherwise fal- ADMINISTRATIVE cember, 1934, and supplemented 'an- comprehensive and have had the con- any form of intimidation or coercion l 11. At th sam time appropria- CO-ORDINATION nually, with special emphasis on: tinuous support of the American either by labor or employers, any tions for parity payments have been Throughout recent years there has 0; Farm forestry; adequate and regu- Farm Burea u Federation. . \ all of which result in the obstruction inad quat to bridge the gap between developed from the enactment of laws lar funds for administration of the Changes since 1920 in the field of of the orderly flow of goods and ser- marketing livestock and livestock OJ> 11 11 ~ rket pric s and parity. and amendments thereto the several Prairie States Forestry Project; more vices to the detriment of the public. We insis that it is time to face lines of agricultural Credit and the adequate control of forest fires, in- products have been many and are For the p.rotection of the public this situation squarely. We believe various types of action programs and sects, and diseases on private lands far-reaching in their influence upon mestic price of basi farm commodi- by the Secretaries of State, interest, consideration should be giv- that failure to raise agriculture's in- administrative agencie for the im- through full federal participation un- livestock producers. It would appear ties generally produced in surplus merce, and Agriculture. ell to the creation of impartial arbi- come to parIty is the major cause for provement of agricultural commodity der the principle of the Clarke-Me- that these changes fully justify a volume in this country, and further tration and judicial tribunals fpr the the unemployment which has cost the prices and rural conditions generally. PROPOSED TRADE AGREEMENT Nary Act; federal research in all reappraisement of conditions in live. that such policies had contributed to settlement or jurisdictional and all Fed ral Government billions of dol- They are well merited and have ac- WITH ARGENTINA phases of forestry; early completion, stock marketing by a representative th disparity that had developed be- other labor disputes and grievances, lara in relief appropriations. complished much for the betterment ten farm price on the one hand With respect to the proposed Ar- of the Forest Survey; speeding up committee of livestock producers. We and that in industries handling and believe the need is so great and the Furthermore, billions have been of agricultural conditions. and indu trial prices and wages on gentine Trade Agreement, we believe acquisition and addition to the Na- processing perishable or semi-perish- moment so timety that the Board of ap lit for pump priming, without Bing developed at different times, the oth 1', the merlcan Farm Bureau that it will be extremely difficult to tional Forests of forest and submar- able agricultural commodities, the Directors of the Federatlc should solving th fundam ntal problem. it was only natural that what appears F d ration in 1934 authorized its negotiate an agl eement with the Ar- ginal lands mainly unsuited to pri- submission of disputes to such trib- take the necessary steps to appoint 'I'hls approach has ailed because to be more lines of administrative Board of Director to support legis- gentine which is not fraught with vate ownership, with equitable com- unals be made mandatory. a Committee in co-operation with oth- mo t of the priming has gone into the machinery than are necessary have lation permitting the negotia ion and grave danger to American agricul- pensation to local governing units for We insist upon early action by er interested groups with authority wrong pumps. Labor needs more been put into operation that now consummation of reciprocal trade tur-e, for the reason that the bulk of loss of taxes; improved administra- Congress to provide a proper defini- and direction to carryon the study [oh and business needs more cus- reach into the respective tates and agreements with other nations; in- Argentine expor s are directly com- tion of the National Forests, especial- tion of agricultural labor in the Na- and make recommenqattons, and tom rs. Both of these needs can be the various counties therein. sisting, however, that in negotiating petitive with th products of Ameri- ly in management of range, wild life tional Labor Relations Act and to with appropriate arrangements made 111 t if th buying power of agricul- In the interest of' greater economy, can farms. A similar principle is and recreational areas in control such agreements no concessions be clarify the exemptions in the Fair tur , the basic industry, is re tared to a higher degree of efficiency, the re- involved in the proposed trade agree- of fire and diseases, in developing to finance adequately such a project. made which might have the effect of Labor Standards Act (Wages and We· likewise recommend that the Ia ir position. This buying power can moval of duplication of effort, better ments with Chile and Uruguay. 1'0 ds and other improvements., reducing or holding the domestic Hour Law) relating to "area of pro- c m only. from parity prices. understanding and permanency, we We again direct the attention of We authorize our Board of Direc- American Farm Bureau Federation price of any agricultural commodity ~uction" and the seasonal and per- give especial study to the various We repeat that if industrial and recommend: that the Board of Direc- below the parity level. the State Department to our brief on tors, after a thorough study, to take Ishable commodities. suggestions that have been made for labor policies are not modified so as tors give careful consideration to the The Federation recently sponsored this subject, til d by the American such action as they deem desirable the improvement of the dairy indus- to bring Industrial prices into fair advisability of securing such modifi- a study by recognized economistsv of Farm Bureau Federation with the ILLEGAL RESTRAINTS on the 'so-called forest restoration relation with farm prices, then agri- cation of law or laws as seems neces- Committee for Reciprocity Informa- try, embracing research and the ex- the economic effects of all important We heartily commend and support plan for voluntary co-operative or culture mu t a k for adequate appro- sary to provide for placing the full tion on October 4, 1939, in which we pansion of the use of dairy products. existing trade agreements. This the Department of' Juatice in their leasing agreements between the Sec- pr atlons or. other equally effective administrative responsibility of all Insist that no c ncessions be granted study seems to reveal that there has efforts to enforce the anti-trust laws retary of Agriculture and private TRUTH-IN-FABRICS means of bringing farm prices and lines of co-operative farm credit and to the Argentine which might reduce been a substantially larger increase against unlawful restraints, illegal owners to secure good forest prac- We commend the United States Industrial price into mutual focus at all types of agricultural commodity or hold the domestic price of any in xports to agreement than to non- monopolies and practices, whether tices on farm woodlots and other I Senate for passlng the T'ruth-In-Fab- a level which will permit maximum programs under the direction of two agricultural commodity below the agreement countries, and that there fostered by labor, industry or agrt- pr~v~te .lands not primarily suited to rtcs Bill to requir: the honest label- exchange of goods and services by all independent federal boards operating has not been any appreciable differ- parity level. To do so would force culture. cu tlvatlOn.. ing of wool products, and we urge group. within or properly correlated with ence in the percentage of increase in American farmers to condemn such In carrying out, these features of ea rly approval of such legislation by To the extent that federal appro- the Department of Agriculture. imports from agreement and non- an agreement and would seriously de- TRANSFER OF FOREST SERVICE the above. ~rogram affect'n~ farm the House. We insist that Congress priation a pe l' to be the only avail- tract from their otherwi e support of LOCAL CO-ORDINATIO OF agreement countries. Iany factors We reiterate our uncompromising lands, we tnstst that all agencies con- no longer delay action on this bill to abl means of bringing about fair have no doubt contributed to thts this fundament 1 policy of foreign opposition to the transfer of the For- cerned, both Federal and State, work protect the wool growers and the con- conomic balanc between farmers AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS trade. We view with deep concern the increased trade, including our gold est Service from the Department of through and in co-operation with the surning public against deception and and other rou 'e authortze the growing tendency of governmental policy and a general upturn in world Agriculture to any other branch of Land Grant institutions and organ- misrepresentation. . Board of Directors of the merican agencies to set up special field per- business. government. We insist that all the ized farmers. 'Ve favor the greatest Fum Bureau Federation to insist SUGAR LEGISLATION sonnel to contact farmers every time From all facts thus far available, functions of government relating to possible local responsibility consist- upon adequate appropriations there- Conditions within the sugar indus- a new program is to be developed or it appears that while the greatest plant and animal life be retained in ent with good administration. for and if necessary, t support such try of the United States require en- a new job is to be done. portion of increased exports has been Agriculture. tao measur as may appear to be FERTILIZER PROGRAM OF actment of legislation for its sound The Extension Service of our Land- in industrial products from whrch TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY 111, f asihle and 1110 t effective to AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY economic adjustment. giving due con- rant oUe es has definitely proven agriculture has only indirectly ben- a slst in ral ing the required r venue. COUNCIL The American farmers must restore sideration to the rights of the con- it elf the best qualified agency to efited, yet this study, together with and maintain the fertility of their \Ve are deeply con cious of the We commend the action of the Sec- suming public. The Federation will carry out the educational work in other information available to the farms, It is recognized that the nec- public demand for substantial reduc- retary of griculture in creating a support such legislation as will pro- connection with Fed ral programs Federation, reveals that the net ef- essary processes of husbandry are tion in F d ral exp nditures and farm- ational Advisory Council, composed vide moderate expansion on th; con- aff cting rural people. fect of the agreements has been help- gradually reducing the store of essen- (Continued on page 6), 1'8 om pl t ly agr that the bus- In the interest of economy and ful rather than hurtful. of producers, processors, and distri- I iness of Gov rum nt must be put on efficiency, and to avoid duplication, In giving our support to the con- butors of farm products, and repre- a sound basi . e 'ertll less, ve be- • confusion and conflicts of policy, we tinuance of reciprocal trade agree- sentatives of labor and the general Lamp IS Ours to Use li v that he pres nt exc ive cost urge that the Extension Service in ments, we renew, with increased em- public, to advise with him regard- of meeting emerg ncy needs is the the states and counties be utilized as phasis, our demand that no agreement ing the problems which have resulted result of failure to olve the farm the educational and co-ordinating be consummated, the effect of which or may result from the present Euro- ]}ri<'e probl m. In oth r vords, it is pean war. agen 'y to contact and assi t farmer might be to force or hold domestic ('0 ling th Government billions be- in planning and arrying out all prices for any farm commodity below We recommend that the Council caus it is not doing the ou thing agricultural programs, exclusive of parity level. Any other ourse would use its influ'ence to bring about the hieh ill solve at once the twin their regulatory and enforcement as- justify the condemnation of and op- co-ordination of all agencies in the pI hl lUS f 10 farm price and I'---:----:.------~------.-----:..------..• ------Federal Government toward maintain- wid pre d unemployment. ing parity price standards among all 'J he Ul settled condition of the • • principle commodities of the nation. vortd makes it increasingly impera- y a tal eace" Because of its widespread organiza- ti '. tha the United States put its tion of trained personnel, reaching dom sttc af ail in ord I' rithout fur- TO 1939 RESOLUTIONS into states, counties and commun- t I' d lay The cost of accomplishing ities, and because of its long years of thi 1>y estoring agriculture to om- The merican arm Bureau Fed- over reason and parliamentary, dern- of all is th maintenance of peace experience in this field, the Depart- plet }>c rIty i hardl a drop in the eration cam into being during the ocratic procedure.' with the other nations of the world. ment of Agriculture is better quali- huck t compared to th cost of neg- Our own problems ince the first 'onsistent with the responsibilities economic collapse hich followed the fied than any other agency of govern- Ie till to do th one thing zhich World War have been many and com- of a great hristian nation our coun- ment to handle all emergencies relat- 'ill olv our difficultie . frightful period of the first World ple c. In meeting those problems the try must maintain peace. ing to the food and fiber supply for T have t tnportzed with this rital 'Val'. meri an Farm Bureau Federation has Military and naval armaments dome 'tic or foreign use; therefore ion too long. Te mu t not In 1921, the Federation in resolu- rendered tremendous service to agrt- must he limited to a size which will we urge that whatever action may be- l' d lay ff ct ive a ition. tion offered a heartfelt prayer that culture and to the nation. Our Farm m et the reasonable requirements of come necessary in that field be car- the p oples of the earth should never Bureau achievement have proved national deten e. In these days of ried 011 through the U. S. Department again ngage in vars or xp rience the state manship of th far-seeing national turmoil reason must not be of griculture. vision of the founders of our organi- dethroned in our deliberations. Fed- the horrors attendant ther to. It i MONETARY POLICIES l' grettable and disheartening to rec- zation and today w reconsecrate eral income and credit must not be We commend the action of the oguiz the fact that that oufiict did ours lve to the ideal which they so dis ipated in e pendttures for unnec- nited States Senate authorizing its not p nnanenUy impr the peoples couraaeou ly and so resolutely pro- es ary impl ments of war. On the Banking and Currency Committee to engaged in it with the futility of claimed 20 years ago. contrary, Our national assets must be make a pecial study of monetary armed force in decidin fundamental The fight of organized agriculture conser ed for creative and repro- problems and policies and their effect international is ues. for the merican farmer has been ductive purposes. Con istent with and is no v tor equal opportunity and the necessary reasonable restratnts upon commodity price levels. We re- parity post ion with the other great which our complex economy requires, quest the Board of Directors or its group. It is our conviction that the economic freedom must be main- authorized representatives to co-op- creation and maintenance of fair ec- tained. Con i tent with our rights erate wi h thi Committee in any onomic balance is essential to the of assemblage and free speech free- mann l' that may appear to be de- attainm nt of national pro perity. dom must not be di honored through irable and exercise their influence S rlous a our domestic problems the diffu ion of subversive alien tbeo- Within policies h retofore adopted by are, 'till today the greatest prohl m 1'i s and philo ophies, this Federation.

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operative programs the e tension ser- Governor to the bill as pa sed two are ne vice broadca ts information available T is Story years ago. About the last la pas ed in every department at the college. by the Legislature fixed $39,000.000 This type of service to the state is Back-Fired as the amount of state aid for each available in ach of the 3 .•Iich- of the next two years and provided igan counties, admini tered by the that under certain circumstances the college tart througti 72 offices main- On Us schools might get an additional tained out in the state. College ex- 2.000,000. On the whole, the form- tension specialists correlate their Clarence J. Reid at 44 may be the ula for the division of this aid to the 630,000 Turkeys Were work with that of county agricultural youngest State Farm Bureau president Bureau Assisted in Enactment individual school districts embodied agents, 4-H club agents and home the recommendations of the Farm Raised In State; Yield Of in the nation today, but he isn't the of J 2 Laws Important u. S. Lab Probes demonstration agent. younge t man to be elected president Bureau. 6 J 5 bu. Of Potatoes of the Iichigau State Farm Bureau. to Farmers 10. Prohibi ing False Advertising Fowl Paralysis of Dairy Products. Under the terms We said so in our Decem bel' 2 edi- of this law it will be unlawful to use Farm Prices Must tion, but the paper had hardly reached First key to unlock th ecr t of By O. L. BRODY the name of any breed of dairy cattle More turkeys than the state ever the last member fowl paralysis has been demon trat d Be High Enough From 1939 Annual Report in any advertisement, trade-mark, or' produced before, 630,000 of them. a before some one re- in research at the federal regional During the 1939 session of the Leg- brand unless the product so advertis- new all time Michigan record of 615 (Continued from page 4) minded us t hat poultry research laborator located on islation. the Michigan State Farm ed is produced from that particular lbushels an acre in potatoes, nearly Waldo Phillips of the farms of Michigan tate ollege. tinent and the maintenance of all Bureau exerted a major influence in breed of cattle or from cattle contain- 60.00U rural youths engaged in lboys' Decatur was elect- It is anitation, ob erves Dr. J. necessary elements of the industry securing the enactment of the fol- ing at least 90% of the blood of the and girls' 4-H club work, 136,000 ed president in 1923 Holmes Martin, laboratory director. upon a properly remunerative level. lowing legislation: breed named. housewives obtaining home economics when he was 39 This first conclusion comes near the PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE 1. Farm Produce Storage Law. STATE LEGISLATION OPPOSED information. These are facts found in years of age. end of the first year of OJ) ration in We oppose any extension of time This measure was demanded by farm- The following legislation was suc- a year-end survey of how Michigan We were editor which 7,000 chicks wer hatched and for the complete independence of the ers and rural groups to protect and cessfully opposed by the Farm Bur- State College is serving the state. of this paper in subjected to controls and tests. Fowl T.he college did not produce the Philippines, and insist that future facilitate the farmer's interest in eau: 1923 and reported 1. Plumbing Code. An effort to turkeys nor the potatoes. but members trade relations be consistent with the stored grain and beans and other the election of so make the plumbing code applicable to of the staff were involved in direct reciprocal trade policies of the Fed- farm produce, also to provide for young a State Farm rural districts was killed in the and indirect ways. eration. warehouse receipts which would Bureau president. have definite legal value and facili- House after it had been passed in J. D. Robinson grew the 615 bushel FARM BUREAU EXTENSION owever, this lapse ta te the borrowing of money by using the Senate. This would have made yield as an average of al ,five acre RELATIONSHIPS of memory over a such I eceipts and stored commodities it very difficult and expensive to in- field at Pellston in Emmet county. Ir- In a large number of states. county W. E. Phillips 1923period of 16 years as collateral. stall. maintain. or improve plumbing rigation was the secret of the yield. Farm Bureaus have been es tablished merely proves that we can be mis- 2. Milk Marketing Act. This was in rural areas. a phase of production in which college by law or by mutual agreement as taken on a subject like this at inter- undoubtedly one or the most impor- 2. "New Food." An attempt to agricultural engineers have helped the official local unit of the co-opera- vals of 16 years. tant agricultural measures enacted legalize a butter SUbstitute made farmers throughout the state in this tive extension service in agriculture Well, let's have a look at former during the 1939 session. This mea- from soy bean oil and to be kno n as and other crops. and home economics. In many oth- President Phillips as he was when sure provides for the establishment " ew Food" was killed in committee. As for the turkey production. men ers. although not so designated. the elected president in of a State Milk Marketing Board to 3. Sales Tax on Farm Supplies. In poultry extension work have help- county Farm Bureaus work in close 1923 at the age of have control of prices paid Michigan An attempt to repeal the sales tax ed sponsor a quality grading and mar- co-operation with the county farm 39 . . . Above is farmers for fluid milk and to exer- exemption on farm supplies was de- keting program to maintain Michigan agents, home demonstration agents the same news- cise rather broad control over milk feated in committee. producers' reputations and profits. and 4-H Club agents. The county paper 'Cut we used marketing activities il the state. The 4. Repeal of the Potato Grading Ten grading stations set up in 1939 to Farm Bureau movement was organ- then. Below we new board has been functioning act- Act. A proposal to repeal the pres- U8~ federal grades and observe phases ized for this and other service to have him as vice ively for the past few months and is ent potato grading act was held in WHAT'S NEW IN of a new state law are included in the making a real effort to give the Committee. farmers. This friendly working re- president in 1935. DORMANT SPRAYS? program. lationship should be maintained' and In that year Mr. producers more equitable returns for 5. Reapportionment of Legislative Through federal-state-county eo- strengthened in these states and ex- Phillips b e cam e their milk. with due regard for the Districts. A resolution proposing a tended to such other states in which president upon the interests of the consumer as well. constitutional amendment providing Michigan DeLuxe it is possible for the Farm Bureau to death of Watson 3. Release of Agricultural Lands for a new basis of apportioning leg- 4-HMILKER co-operate with the Extension Ser- W. Billings. The in Cities and Villages. The Farm islative districts to give greatly in- Separate milk heads. Bureau was very active in securing creased representation to urban areas MUks in two cream vice in developing and carrying out 1935 photo is a cans for testing. Many agricultural programs. We will re- good likeness to- the passage of the DeLano Bill which never emerged from the committee new features. Milks sist all efforts 'to destroy or impair day. makes it possible for purely agricul- to which it was referred. faster. easier cleaned. tural land lying within the limits of 6. Wine Tax Amendments. Var- Production made low- this fundamental teamwork of educa- From now er price. See your cities and villages of more than 500 ious proposals to decrease or repeal tion and organization which has they've got to come younger than 39 dealer or write for and less than 7.000 population to be the present advantage enjoyed by demonstrnnon. meant so much to the welfare of for us to make any noise about it. Michigan Milker Co.• disconnected from such municipal- Iicbigan grape growers under the farm people throughout the years. It's possible. They're through in the 810 East Michigan Ave., Lansing, Mieh. ities and attached to the appropriate terms of the wine tax law were de- Junior Farm Bureau at 28. We have township. This provides sadly need- feated. one 20 year Senior Farm Bureau mem- ed tax relief to farmers. who have It is impracticable to record all of ber who is 31. He beganas a boy of in many instances. been paying taxes the legislative activities of your or- 5 11. Yes. indeed. it can happen. for muicipal services which they ganization in this regard. Many / A State Farm Mutual ~tandard Oom- have not been receiving. times the most valuable services ren- bi~ation Automobile Insurance Policy 4. Intangibles Tax. The Legisla- dered lie in informal counsels and con- wlll completely protect you if your car lature made a start toward the tax- tacts with members of the Legislature is destroyed by fire _ _ • or if anyone They Joined of a dozen 01' more other mishaps occur. ation of stocks and bonds and evi- and other groups. In fact. some of ELGETOL is a dormant sp'ray that combines ovicidal, Let me explain our full coverage policy dences of indebtedness. The new law the most valuable accomplishments planned to fit the average man's pOCket- Farm Bureau was enacted during the closing lie in the early suggestions made by insecticidal and fungicidal action. ELGETOl contains book. No obligation of course I hours of the session and will undoubt- the Farm Bureau representative when no oil and is non-corrosive. ELGETOL is water soluble SEE OU R LOCAL AGENT in Deoernber- edly require some amendments. It the bills are being drawn or still in For Further Information, Write is expected that it will produce a the formative stage. often long before and easy to use. Mich. State Farm Bureau. State Agt .• 221 NO. Cedar, Lansing The Michigan State Farm Bureau very substantial amount of tax rev- being presented to the Legislature. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTO INSURANCE COMPANY enue from a type of wealth which Sometimes such discouragement is BLOOMINGTON. ILLINOIS welcomed to membership 79 families STANDA~D.,.AG~I~~i.TURAL CHEMICALS,' INC. during the month of December. We has been largely evading taxation registered regarding' unde irable , ,~303 JEFFERSON·ST., ,sTRm llOIO.KEN, N. J. . list the new members and their Coun- and it should to that extent reduce measures for the farmer so that they ty Farm Bureaus, and their homes the burden on farms and other real estate. in this column. 5. Over-run Law. This law es- ALLEGAN COUNTY Mrs. A. Smith Dorr tablishes the legal over-run in butter Martha H. Stream Fennville, R-1 and sets up a system of records and COLD BARRY COUNTY supervision for c eameries so that it o Leon Younp Hastings A. J. Hauer Woodland, R-1 will insure accurate and honest but- BERRIEN COUNTY terfat tests for cream purchased from COL W. Worth Bean, Jr Benton Harbor farmers. The major purpose of the TOO John W. Read, Jr B. Harbor, R-3 measure is fairer competition be- Clyde E. Pennell Berrien Springs Herman Rudloff Berrien Springs tween creameries. Its enforcement Henry Steltner Berrien Springs will render it difficult for a cream ry Carleton N. Harris Coloma. R-2 Warren Lamb Galien. R-1 to deceive the farmer by boosting Norw'ay Gallon J. A. Merrill Riverside the price per pound of butterfat and $1.00 Ed. King & Sons Sodus taking it out of the producer by cut- Three quarts does work of 4 John H. Miller Three Oaks. R-1 ting his test. This measure is a Anti-Freeze of ordinary alcohol. CASS COUNTY Vera Jones Smith Mareellus protection to both the producer and e GENESEE COUNTY the honestly conducted creamery en- 0, W. Sears Cleo. R-3 terprise. OWen Rayner Davison, R-2 UNfCO ~~~Of ALCOHOL Andrew Riegle Davison, R-2 6. Advertising Agricultural Pro- Priced low. Won't corrode cooling system. John D. Stephens Davison. R-2 ducts. A state appropriation of Charles A. Bird Davison, R-3 $20,000 was granted to be expended W. A. Tenny Davison. R-3 J. R. Bertolozzi. Flint for promoting the popula rity of nch- Perry R. Dodge Flint, R-3 igan agricultural products. not more 8 u y at F a ,r,Q1. Bu.r e ~ u' Stor e 5 . Q' n d Co- 0 p .A ~5 J n 5 . Clarence S. Hill Flint, R-3 OWHERE do I get so much for so little • -. , • • t than $4,000 to be allowed to any "N Ernest L. Hill Flint, R-3 Vernon W. Morrish Flint, R-5 commodity and the amount to be Ernest F. McNiel. Flint. R-6 matched by a producers' organization. cost as I do with electric service." Harry Seaver Grand Blanc, R-2 Arthur Somers Grand Blanc, R-2 Commercial apple growers secured Harold D. Auten Goodrich the enactment of a bill setting up Rupert F. Gage Goodrich their own promotional board and pro- Fred O. Green Goodrich F. E. McCandlish & Son Goodrieh viding the levy of 1e per bushel to Mr. A. M. Johnson, one of our good customers R. W. Porter Goodrich finance their advertising campaign. Ries Bros Goodrich The first 300 bushels produced by LOllis Ross Goodrich on Route Two, Battle Creek, wrote us that, and L. E. Sharland Goodrich 'any grower annually are exempt from Bert Short Goodrich this levy. Mary A. Stimson Goodrich it is his way of saying that Consumers Power Ellis J. Horton Goodrich, R-1 7. Egg Marketing Law. This re- Louis D. Baker Swartz Creek, R·1 peals and supersedes the statute on John S. Jennings Swartz Creek. R-1 this subject enacted twenty years Company rates ar low. Mr. John on is not alone Sam Roska Swartz Creek, R-1 William Burton Swartz Creek. R-2 ago which has proved inadequate and Thos. E. Lawther ..Swartz Creek. R-2 unenforceable. All prosecutions in thinking so-many Michigan farmers have re- GRATIOT COUNTY formerly had to be made under the Floyd Hoard St. Louis. R-1 General Food Law, which relates centlyexpres ed a similar conclusion. They came HURON COUNTY solely to adulteration. which is a John Jurgess & Son Ubly Thos. Murray Ubly term not applicable to the quality of to that conclusion after comparing the modest INGHAM COUNTY eggs. because spoilage is not due to R. E. Doane Lansing adulteration but to natural deteriora- amounts of their bills with the many services KALAMAZOO COUNTY tion of the contents. The new law Mrs. L. R. Frost & Sons Fulton defines the vartous grades. which KENT COUNTY received from the electricity they used. Many J. W. Griswold Cedar Springs. R-1 are in harmony with the federal LAPEER COUNTY standards, and specifies candling as Henry Sohn Brown City the means of determining the condi- who use numerous electrical appliances say that C. C. Fairbanks Grosse Pt. Hollis C. Moule Lapeer tion of the egg. There will be no LIVINGSTON COUNTY direct regulation of the producers the pleasure of dependable electric light alone is Roy EJlsworth Howell. R-2 under the terms of the new law but MASON COUNTY the retailer will be forced to sell Raymond Pieczynski. Freesoil, R-1 worth the entire amount of their bills. Anthony W. Thurston Freesoil, R-1 what he advertises. The voluntary Walter .T. Zagar ~ Scottville, R.3 co-operation of producers and both MANISTEE COUNTY private and co-operative egg market- Sharon Grossnickle Copemish, R-1 ing enterprises in making the changes If you are not making full use of electric serv .. OAKLAND COUNTY afforded by this law effective should H. L. Miller & Son Oxford, R-2 Robert McCrory South Lyons. R-1 greatly improve the reputation of ST. CLAIR COUNTY Michigan eggs in the consuming mar- vice in your horne, inquire about the rates the Walter Gabbard Capac kets of the nation. Frank Kegler Capac Harvey Kersten Capac 8. Bang's Disease Appropriation. next time you pay your bill, and learn how the William Klann Capae In accordance with the instructions Fred Plauman Capac Richard P. Shutt.. Capac from its members. the Farm Bureau rate goes down with increased use of electricity. vigorously and persistently used its ~:~~ t~in~·iii·.·.·.·..:...:·..:..:::::::::::::::::::::::::::g:~:~ influence to secure adequate appro- Wesley Ledebuhr Capac, R-1 S. Schimmelfenig Capac. R-1 priations to finance the state's share The young man, and the man in his Henry Klann Capac, R-2 of the expenses for indemnities for prime, does well Louis A. WeiJ.. Port HUI'on Bang's Disease reactors. An emer- Vernie D. Harmer Port Huron. R-3 to save something as he goes along. State Farm Life Bert Middleton Yale gency appropriation of $25,000 to pay TUSCOLA COUNTY the state's share of indemnities dur- Insurance is savings and protection for your family. Emory L,oun.bury Cas8 City, R-2 ing lay and June. 1939. was granted. VANBUREN COUNTY but the appropriation for this pur- Hans Winther Lawrence pose for the coming fiscal year was 4:7,000 Michigan farm and city folk carry State WASTENAW COU'NTY Gottlieb Horning & Son . set at only $75,000. $100,000 was al- Fa.rm Mutual Automobile Company Insurance ...... Manchester. R-1 lowed for the following year. These WAYNE COUNTY amounts are inadequate to permit ------George H. Grissel Wayne, R-1 continuance of the program without State Farm .-MichIgan- -State Farm- -Bureau- State- Alt., I 221 No. Cedar St., L.ansing, Michigan drastic curtailment. 9. State Aid for Schools. Early in Insur nc I Please send State Farm In. Co.' infor- For Chapped Hands mation: the session the Legislature passed Comp nies lame 0 Auto Soak hands in hot soapy water lor an emergency appropriation of I ten to fifteen minutes, rinse well, dry $2,500,000 state aid for schools to re- Bloomington, III. • Address _•...... •_•....••.•••..••..••.•.••.._••...•••...0 Life carefully, then apply camphor ice, place a portion of tbe cuts necessitat- cold cream or vaseline. ed by reductions made by a previous MICHIGAN FARM EWS SATURDAV, JANUARY 6, 1940

M BUREAU Per Ton or nd Mare on GANIZATION STATE FARM BUREAU PRESENTS BACKGROUND MATERIAL FOR DISCUSSION BY COMMUNITY GROUPS DURING JANUARY Company closed its doors. The Farm Activities in the Michigan Farm Farm Bureau Fertilizers Bureau Fruit Products Company su- Bureau center around: pervises locally owned canning plants 1-A legislative and research divi- at Coloma, Hart and Bay City. sion. The Hart plant was opened in 1936. 2--Co-operatlve business. Cherries, peaches, plums, crab apples 3-Educatlon and leadership train- and pears are canned. ing. for Spring 1940 The Coloma plant was not operated until ovember, 1936. Only a few 4-Membership Organization. pears were canned at that time. How- 1-Legislatlve and Research-Both ever, in 1937 the Coloma plant ran at the American Farm Bureau and the Once more the Farm Bureau and associated full capacity. The plant cans aspara- Michigan State Farm Bureau main- \ gus, raspberries, cherries, tomatoes, tain legislative and research depart- peaches and pears. It is expected ments regarding those matters affect- dealers lead with a smashing reduction in fertil- that there will be expansion in the ing the farmer. The Michigan Farm canning lines wherever the Fruit Pro- Bureau legislative activity deals with izer prices. DOLLARS SAVED FOR YOU! ducts Company can be of service. For all phases of state legislation, both that reason, canning of tomatoes at protective and creative. The AFBF Bay City, asked for by local growers, creative program of legislation deals Undoubtedly all competing companies will have was instituted in 1938. quite largely with bringing about the COUNTY FARM BUREAUS "parity price" concept. to meet the reduction. You can help yourself The County Farm Bureaus are 2-Co-operative Business - The made up of the Farm Bureau mem- Farm Bureau program in general in- and your organization by ordering Farm Bureau be", in each county and name one cludes a definite commitment to the delegate to the state annual meeting co-operative movement. It encourages fertilizer for Spring 1940and urging your neigh- for each 50 members in the county. the development of co-operative busi- In this organization each County ness, both local and national. The Farm Bureau has its own board of Farm Bureau program in Michigan bors to do likewise. It's the same high quality directors and officers and its own goes a step further. ot only has annual meeting and county program. the program encouraged eo-operative fertilizer. Nitrogen is 95% water soluble and COMMUNITY FARM BUREAUS business but has actually brought 'Community Farm Bureaus are made about the organizing and financing of quickly available. That's STARTING Nitrogen! up of 'Farm Bureau members in any a fruit co-operative, a wholesale mer- County who voluntarily organize for chandising co-operative, a wool mar- the purpose of discussion, etc. keting co-operative, a grain and bean Phosphate and potash are the best. Perfect marketing co-operative, as well as THE JUNIOR FARM BUREAU many retail co-operatives. It also acts The Junior Farm Bureau is an or- mechanical condition for drilling. Use fertilizer as the insurance agent for a mutual ganization of young people in local insurance company. organizations which are affiliated order coupon at bottom of this advertisement. with the State Farm Bureau by virtue 3-Education and Leadership Train- of holding one adult membership in ing-Education is carried on by the the State Farm Bureau. The Junior AFBF chiefly through "news flashes", WE ARE PAYING BEST MARKET PRICES. SEND Farm Bureau has 32 local organiza- speak rs and the organization maga- Alfalf. us an 8 ounce sample of your seed. Make it represent- zine, "The Nation's Agriculture". The tions in 28 counties and has a total " uYlng ative by taking, equal amounts from each bag to make up membership of 1,200 members. Michigan State Farm Bureau carries Clover on its educational program through OTHER GROUPS a general sample lot. We send seed sample mailing the Community and County Farm Bu- Local merchandising institutions F'ield Seeds envelopes on request. Tell us the amount of seed you reaus, through membership cam- Goo Seed using the name "Farm Bureau" in paigns, through the columns of "The I have and we will quote you. their titles mayor may not be at- Michigan Farm News" and via speak-] filiated with the Farm Bureau Ser- ers, meetings, etc. The program of vices, Inc. These local merchandis- leadership training is carried on ing units include the Farm Bureau chiefly through the Community and retail stores, local co-operatives who Junior Farm Bureaus, For MORE EGGS and MORE MILK own stock in the Farm Bureau Ser- vices, Inc., and local merchandising 4--Memberahip OrganizCl(tion---The institutions that may have no con- Farm Bureau carries on its program nection with the Farm Bureau Sere of member 0r~anization through a Balance Home Grains with these Concentrates vices, Ine., whatever. program information as to accom- plishments, through membership ac- FARM BUREAU INCOME quisition and maintainance projects. Farm Bureau Farm Bureau 3. What are the income resources ote-All the above, in the Farm of the various Farm Bureau organi- Bureau program, are related chiefly zations and what is the money used POU try SuppleInent MILKMAKER for? to the economic problems of the farm- er, rather than to social or fraternal Answer: The annual dues a Farm 32% Protein 34% Protein problems. Bureau member in the various Farm LBS. OF FARM BUREAU POULTRY LBS. OF MILKMAKER 34% PRO Bureaus pays totals $5.00. $1.00 of BENEFITS FROM THE FARM this is retained in the county organ- BUREAU PROGRAM Supplement 32% protein (or Mermaid TEIN, or Mermaid Milkma.ker 32%, ization; 50c goes to the American 6--What benefits have resulted to 1 Balancer 32%) with 300 Ibs. of farm 100 mixed with 300 lbs. of any mixture Farm Bureau Federation; $3.50 goes Michigan farmers because of the grains will make one of the best 16% poultry mashes. of farm grains will make 400 lbs.•of an excellent 16% to the State Farm Bureau. In addi- Farm Bureau program? tion to the dues the State Farm Bur- Withou g ing into details it is Use 100 lbs. COl'!I1, 100 lbs. barley (or corn) 50 lbs. wheat dairy ration. Feed with alfalfa ha.y. With clover ha.y eau also realizes an income from the estimated that the saving in taxes 50 lbs. oats. use 200 lbs. of farm grains to 100 of concentrate. Michigan Farm ews, the insurance brought about by the Farm Bureau department. Co-op ass'ns contribute legislative program and the saving to a legislative fund. That portion of in merchandising and insurance costs dues which goes to the County Farm brought about by the service program Bureau is used for carrying out the benefits every farmer in the State PORKMAKER county program. The portion that of Michigan to the extent of $160 to goes to the American Farm Bureau $200 annually. It is estimated that Federation is used to carry on a na- the 'Michigan farm income was in- tional office, national legislative pro- creased in 1937 by $50,000,000 as a re- 16% Protein gram and various research depart- sult of the national Farm Bureau pro- ments. The portion which goes to gram. This figure includes price in- the State Farm Bureau is used for creases and benefit payments. 44% Protein maintaining an executive office, legis- 7-Who are the officers and di- lative program, a membership rela- rectors of the Michigan State Farm FARM BUREAU PORKMAKER 16% and 44% protein tions department, a Junior Farm Bureau, the Farm Bureau Services, concentrate is designed to produce 100 lbs. of pork as Bureau, to keep membership records Inc., and the Farm Bureau Fruit Pro- for the 43 county Farm Bureaus and ducts Company? cheaply as possible, and to produce 100 lbs. of pork in the to carryon such general and miscel- The officers and directors are as shortest possible time. Forty pounds of Porkmaker 44 and laneous programs as will be of bene- follows: 51h bushels of corn makes 100 lbs. of pork. PorkmAker fit to the membership. MICHIGAN STATE FA"M BUREAU KEEP MERMASH BEFORE HENS AT ALL TIMES 16% is an excellent feed for brood sows and young pigs. FARM BUREAU SERVICES Presldent---C. J. Rid, Avoca. INCOME Vice-President-Paul Beglck, Bay City. F ED SORATOH GRAINS AT NIGHT The income of the Farm Bureau Sec'y-Treas.-C. L. Brody·, Lansing. Services, Inc., comes chiefly from its Dlrectora: J. T. Bussey, Lake Leelanau; wholesale operations, its retail stores H. H. Sandford-, Battle Creek; John Houk, Ludington; Forr-est King. Char- and from certain patronage dividends lotte; George McCalla, Ypsilanti; Carl co-os resulting from its affiliations with Steimle-, Sodus; Woo. Bristow, Flat United and National Co-operatives. Rock; G. S. Coffman-, Coldwater; Mrs. Pear) lyu. Lapeer: :Mark Westbrook, This money is disbursed in the con- Ionia; C. A. Woodruff, Hastings; Lloyd * T HYING duct of business, with whatever sur- Rueaink, Adrian; Jame Harris, Traverse City; V{aldo Phillips, Decatur. plus there is being divided among * ERFO MANCE the 138 co-operatives stockholders FARM BUREAU SERVICES, INC. TWO-HORSE in proportion to the 'business each PresIdent- !fred George-, Buchanan. does with The Services, Inc. Vice-Pres.-Howell Sandrords, Battle in Cold Weather..• Creek. In addition, there is set aside each Sec'y-Treas.-C. L. Brody-, Lansing. year for promotion, a sum which is SPREADER Dlrectora: Merle Crandall-, Howell; 'So light in draft, you can pull it by one hand with beaters in action. turned over to the Farm Bureau Thos. Berg house", Falmouth; C. J. Reid, Automotive type wheel swing for making sharp turns. Passes through members as a membership credit and Avoca; Paul Begtck, Bay City; Charles EAU~ Woodruff, Hastings. narrow doors. Top of box only 3 feet from ground. Less work to load. is allotted on the basis of business Plenty ()f clearance. Fits under carrier. Shreds and pulverizes manure done with local distributors of Farm FARM BUREAU FRUIT PRODUCTS thoroughly. 60 bus. capacity. Wide, even spread. Broad tread. See thi. Bureau branded commodities. COMPANY PE time-and-labor-saving spreader ~oday at your Co-op store. . President-O. R. Gale, Shelby. There is, at present, a program to VIce-Pres.-Carl BuskIrk, Paw Paw. substitute the issuing of patronage Sec·y·Treas---C. L. Brody", Lansing. SAVES yOU •••SAVES HOSS FLESH dividends in place of the membership D ctor: Clayton Riley, Mears; John credit the patronage dividend being Houk, Ludington; H. H. Bandrordv, Bat- tle Creek; James ThaI', Hartford; E. R. more in line with sound co-operative King, Bay City; George Badour, Essex- practice. ville; Waldo Phillip. Decatur. USE TIDS ORDER COUPON The income of the Farm Bureau *These men are managers of farm- Fruit Products Company results from ers co-operative organizations. Some To ...... • the supervision of the locally owned also own farms. The balance of the (Your Farm Bureau Fertilizer. Dealer) canning plants and a commission on officers and directors are all farmers, Date ~ . the sale of canned fruits canned at living on farms and securing their I want to be protected on Farm Bureau fertilizer for the those plants.' The money is used for livelihood from farming. Our 100% pure Pennsylvania oU is free flowin; In- ~e 1940 spring season. I 'place my order for: the conduct of the business with the ...... Bags of at $...... •ton surplus being pro-rated back to the coldest weather. Improved for quick startlnq cmd low oU local group this in turn being pro- Tracks Start Gullies consumptioa for winter drivinq. Bureau Penn Is one ...... Bag8 of at $ ton rated to the farmer stockholder. Moving a wagon loaded with crops ...... Bags of at $ ton downhill may cause a gully more of the best motor oils on the market reqardless of price. 4. What was th& ba8ic principle costly than the value of the produce, on which the Farm Bureau was organ- Mioco or mld.continent is our next best 00. These oUa SIG. ED . it is pointed out by soil conservation ized? are sold in quart 5 qt., 2 qal. and 5 qal. cans. Good oils ADDRESS ...... • "The Farm Bureau is founded on specialists. In early stages some of the principle that the security of the survey work in Michigan coun- and priced riqhtl ties has shown that a set of wheel TAKE THIS FORM TO YOUR FARM BUREAU DEALER farmers is dependent upon their abil- AND GET PRICE OF FERTILIZER DESIRED. ity to maintain an organization in tracks has been the source of costly . hieh they can assemble and analyze erosion. Where slopes are not too the facts relating to their own bust- steep it is good farming practice to ness, write their own program as a pull the load across the slope instead result of thi analysis, and make it of up and down. ar rea rand u lies a 3 0 Farmers EI,v or effective through the strength of that organization. ,t An organization will not go ahead FARM BEAU VICES, nsins, Michisan 6. What does the Mlchig n Farm much faster than the members Willi Bureau progr m include? permit. L_------~------IIIi------~..---~------..