7 KEEP UP MICHIGAN PUBLISHED On News Interesting to For 19,000 Farm Families Farmers Through the In 55 Michigan Farm News FAR*! NEWS Counties Vol. XIV, No. 6 \ SATURDAY, JUNE,6, 1936 Published Monthly NEW FARM POWER Future Farmers Going LIVINGSTON FARM Behind STATE COUNCIL OF JUNIOR FARM BUREAU To Kansas City in Fall The Michigan State Farm Bureau BUREAU HAS GREAT the LINE TOTAL NEARS through its Young People's Depart- ment announces the sponsoring of Wheel THOUSAND the second annual trip of the Michi- TIME AT HOWELL gan Future Farmers of America with J. F. Yaeger, Presidents to the National FFA Con- Organization Director - Months of Michigan Plan vention ;it Kansas City from October Entertains 102 New Members Brings Service to 10 to 16. at Dinner; Hears Lehner Present indications are that more From Indiana One does a lot of thinking when one 5,000 Families than 100 of the chapters will send a sits behind the wheel watching the representative. The party will Nearly :!OH Livingston County Farm black night blot out everything ex- Figures available June 1 indicate travel by special train to Kansas City Bureau members had dinner together cept that strip of gray in the path of that nearly 1,000 miles of rural power and return with stops en route to the evening of May 18 to celebrate the the car's headlights. . . .One sees lots lines, to serve probably 5,000 farm visit interesting points. cessation of hostilities between a of things if he takes the trouble to homes, have been approved for con- Approximately six days wi\J be group in the north half of the county look about as he motors throughout struction since January 1, under the spent en route, at the- convention, and another in the south half. Michigan Plan. The plan was develop- the State. Those things cause one and sight-seeing. Th<> cost of the In a membership contest engineer- to wonder, to ask questions, t« analyze ed by the State Farm Bureau, State trip will be borne- by the local chap- Grange, State College and power com- er by Charles Oprnlander and Hen and to think—that is if one cares to ters and interested parties in the lo-Hennink of the State Farm Bureau be bothered with thinking. panies, in co-operation with the Mich- cal communities. igan Public Utilities Commission. staff, the northern Yanks group, cap- I spent some time in the southwest- tained by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Marr re- ern part of Michigan recently in that Under the Michigan Plan, power ported 52 new members, against 50 companies build rural service lines at area ibetween Detroit and Toledo. It Meet the young men who direct the are Junior Farm Bureaus at: Bangor, Marzen, Okemos; Richard Cook, Du- CALIFORNIA TOUR new members reported by the south- was the first time that I'd been in their own expense, if farmers agree to local and State activities of Junior Battle Creek, Charlotte, Coldwater, rand; Ben Hennink, State Farm Bu- ern Rebels, under command of Mr. that area and it set me to thinking. take electricity in volume that will and Mrs. William Haack. The con- Farm Bureau groups in Michigan. The Fremont, Howell, Ionia. Leslie, Mt. reau director of Junior groups, Lan- Through it run* highways on which support the line. The plan requires BEING CONSIDERED test was completed in a few days. an average of five customers per mile young men in these groups are farm- Pleasant, Morris, Okemos, St. Johns, sing; Coplin, Olivet; Arthur Barnes, there, is more traffic 'then in most any St. Louis, Woodland. (vice president), Coldwater; Ivan Gil- President Jakway of the State Farm to get a free line. In Consumers ing. They are agricultural high other part of Michigan. Great trucks The State Council consists of two lespe, Mt. Pleasant. Bureau, and State Secretary C. L. carry the products of the great cities, Power Co. territory, the revenue BY FARM BUREAU chool or 4-H club graduates. They young men from each group. It Rear row: George Sleder, Ithaca; Brody came to take part in the re- and continue along those roads in guarantee is $150 per mile per year, meet to discuss matters of interest to meets quarterly and suggests the pro- Wenzel Gruner, Coldwater; Walter ception and dinner given the new endless streams. Great cities are lo-which averages $2.50 per month for Trip to December Convention young men coming up in farming. gram for the next three months. Schroeder, Lapeer; Richard Kline, • members and their cated there. There is an air of hustle each of five customers per mile. The Members of the Council, above, are: Vermontville; Harry Johnson (presi- Includes Two Weeks of ; wives by the old and bustle about that section and Detroit Edison asks no monthly cur- Educators, farmers and other busi- rent consumption guarantee. ness men are glad to talk to them. Front row, left to right: Richard dent), St. Louis; Martin Garn, Char- Sight Seeing • members of the yet— | Livingston County Rural line construction report fig- Some of these young men share father Christenson, Newaygo; Max Kempf, lotte. Somehow the countryside gave me Newaygo; Harold Cunningham, Mor- Members of the State Council not For the past two years, Michigan | Farm Bureau at a peculiar feeling as though every- ures obtained at the Public Utilities and son Farm Bureau memberships. | the Presbyterian Commission show that new lines ap- ris; Paul Spencer, Shepherd; Leslie in the picture are Charles Whitney has been well represented at the na- thing wasn't just as it should be, as Farm Bureau membership is not a Ogenberg, Bangor. (sec'y-treas.), Leslie; Norman Hull, tional conventions of the American j church at Howell. though folks had lost interest. It proved and construction completed in requirement for their group. There I Merle Crandall of April exceeded the total for January, Middle row, left to ri.^lit: George Bangor. Farm Bureau Federation. One hun- gives one a weigh- dred forty-two attended the conven- I the Livingston Co. ed down feeling February and March. In May the 1 Co-operative Ass'n, Consumers expects to exceed all pre- tion at Nashville two years ago; 123 and seems to stifle were at Chicago last December. i was chairman. Ben enthusiasm. I won- vious construction totals for 1936. JACKSON BOOSTS YttLOW BARLEY This year the national Farm Bureau | Hennink, campaign dered why and ask- The Michigan Plan is in effect in Michigan Farmers | advisor for the ed. Here's what I Consumers, Detroit Edison, and Citi- convention is to be held at Pasadena, ROLL THREE TIMES MAY LACK FOOD California, December 8-9-10-11. The | ftebel team, came was told: zens Light & Power (serving parts of Got These Prices \ to lead the singing. Monroe and Lenawee counties). These Michigan State Farm Bureau is an- That not so many Four Community Groups nouncing preliminary plans for join- * Anthony Lehner years ago the farm- companies serve more than three- in 1886 Soils Man Observes Plants of the Indiana Farm Bureau Fed- fifths of lower Michigan. Here is the Active; to Visit Postum ing the mid-west and eastern State ers of that area On Fertilized Fields Farm Bureaus in sponsoring a trip eration was the speaker of the even- saw a great future farm power line construction they ing. have approved or completed since Plant in June Stay Green to the convention. through eo-opera- Recently we came into possession Although details of costs are not Mr. liphiit r's Talk t i o n. Organized January 1, 1936: Jackson—Jackson County Farm Bu- of a copy of the State Republican for Built or Families to The unusual amount of yellow con- complete as yet, it is expected that "The world's greatest need is bread, %t.F.Y/t£<}E/2. groups of farmers Approved Be Served reau members during the first three March 3, 1886. The Republican was dition of young barley plants this the expense, aside from the three days beauty and brotherhood," said Mr. numbered two thousand or more mem- Consumers (4 mos)....641 mi. 3,683 the daily newspaper published at Lan- weeks of May increased their mem- spring has commonly been thought actually spent at Pasadena, will be Lehner, quoting Udwin C. Markham, bers. Buying and selling, merchan- Detroit Ed. (3 mos) 187 mi. 1,019 bership from 103 to more than 300 sing. At that time people were say- to be caused by frost, but Andrew G. in the neighborhood of $155 per person the poet for a text, upon which he dising activities, were started. It went Citizens L&P (4 mos) 38 mi. 191 farm families. ing that the Civil War' ended nearly Weidemann of the State College soils builded a convincing argument for fine for a time, but individual selfish- 20 years ago. Today we recall that from Chicago. This will include all such 866 mi. 4,893 During the first 10 days, 73 mem- staff has made observations which costs as transportation, meals, sleep- more co-operative effort among ness crept in, mistakes were made, a bers were signed. On one six mile the World War ended nearly 18 ears Farm groups interested in the indicate that lack of plant food has ing accommodations and sightseeing farmers and all classes of people. few tried to profit at the expense of Michigan Plan for electric service in stretch of road south and west of ago. much to do with it. trips. The trip will take 16 days, "Perhaps we can't change thousands the many and the co-operative idea areas served by these power com- Rives Junction, every farmer is a On the soils experiment plots at With these backgrounds of war leaving Lansing at 11:27 a. m. Wed-of years of human nature," said- Mr. was given a set back. panies must first know that their pro- Farm Bureau member. Rives township and wartime prices in niind, you mayState College, Mr. Weidemann obser- nesday, December 2, 1936 and return- Lehner, "but we can change human And then the boom times came on. posed line will average 5 customers has 53 memberships. Starting from a find it interesting to read what cen- ved this spring that while the barley beliavior. We can place against the per mile. Next step is to apply to total of 3 members, Tompkins town- tral Michigan farmers i were getting on certain plots was green and ing to that point at 5:15 a. m. Friday, Farmers sold their land at $400 and December 18, 1936. ruthless law of the jungle the law of $500 an acre. They foresaw no de-the power company office for a peti- ship now has 20 in good standing. The for their produce 20 jf^ars after the healthy looking from the time of its Christianity, which is the exaltation tion for electric service blank. In Henrietta township membership of 34 Civil War. You know what you arefirst appearance up to the present The 'trip to California will be made of human values. pression era and accepted small down through the central and southwestern payments, reinvesting what cash they time, the Utilities Commission order has been doubled. receiving in your local markets for time, that on other plots showed portion of the United States. Inter- "The law of the jungle is the sur- did get. Road building iboomed, long provides that areas having four, or The membership campaign was the same products nearly IS years varying degrees of yellowing. vival of the fittest. The strong des- three, or less customers per mile will staged through the excellent co-opera- after the World War. The price paid A careful study of the situation esting peaces to be visited en route strips of concrete were built at great revealed the following facts: The troy the weaker. In civilization we cost. And then came the depression. be able to get service under the Mich- tion of the Jackson County Farm Bu- for wheat today and 50 years ago is include: The International Livestock have the law oC barley on plots that were treated in Show at Chicago, city of Omaha, irri- The farms came back with foack igan Plan by meeting the same reau board. Arthur Perrine of Rives nearly the same. Most other products the jungle when revenue guarantee per mile. Several 1932 and again in 1935 with ten tons gation and reclamation projects at taxes unpaid, buildings were neglect- Junction is president of the county were bringing less in 1886. Dried' of manure per acre was all green. A money and power of the smaller Michigan companies organization. Local workers have fruits are not quoted any more. Here's Kearney, Denver, Colorado Springs, become the su- ed. The properties were without stock plot treated with five tons of manure the Royal Gorge and inspection of the or tools. The money accepted as the continue to work upon an application made excellent records in enlisting what it was like in 1886: preme things to be per acre in 1933 had only traces of canyon, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, down payment and reinvested was lost. of the Michigan plan to their terri- their neighbors in the organization. desired. In time LANSING WHOLESALE MARKETS yellow. Wherever either 2-J 2-6 or San Francisco and Los Angeles. The road building alone represented, tories. Mrs. Day of Napoleon, a member of Lansing, March •"., 1886—Wheat, white 0-14-6 fertilizers were drilled with that comes to in some areas, a tax of $15 an acre. the county board, brought 17 of her and red, firm, S3 @ 84c. the barley it was green and healthy The return trip will be through the mean great profits Farming became a profitless business. neighbors in the organization in three Apples wanted ;tt :::• ><\ 6©c. looking. But on the plots that have- southern part of the United States or wealth for the Beans: Stock poor and market weak; with stops at the Grand Canyon, Clo- Starting again looked like a hopeless days. Other board members left their handpicked, $1.00; unpi<-:u- $5.00. barley was yellow. On a special we have today, and organized in the county. The Rives Corn: In ear, 20 (g '!'><•; shelled, 50cmanur. e experiment where manure sightseeing trips. A special trip they lead to eco- farmers have heavy debts and taxes. to visit the World's Fair at San Diego No capital to get a fresh start with. Junction group is in the northwestern Dressed hogs, $4.25 l§ $4.40. was applied in 1935 for corn the bar- nomic and social Farm Bureaus Furs: Mink, 25 (r sound stock. varying degrees of yellowing. various States will gather. Accom- hoping that some miracle will happen Jc Haines. No, this isn't a misprint tions. Soon we're ready for warfare those in the southwestern part of the LANSING FAMILY MARKET There was, of course, some green modations will consist of pullmans. to save them. Few are willing to ac- and they shouldn't be initials. The Corrected daily by H. E. Johnson, 200 barley on all of the affected plots and destruction again. county. Each of these Community Washington Avenue South, and 105 Alle- Dining car meals will be served cept the responsibility for a long time first name is Jc. You pronounce it but the yellow barley so predominat- "The co-operative movement is not Farm Bureaus is holding a series of gan Street. The following are the prices throughout the trip. program that would eventually help like J. C. but that's all there is to it. paid to farmers and producers for the ed that these plots could easily be interested in wealth for the few and monthly meetings with a program of articles mentioned: In order that the Michigan State them all-^. You see Jc's parents couldn't agree on picked out at a distance. resulting scarcity for the many. It's activities which will include discus- Apples, preen, per bn 40 @ 50c Farm Bureau may know how many It sets one to thinking. a name so they simply gave him the Apples, dried per lb l>£c Theso observations were made only driving force is to be of the greatest sions, tours, picnics, etc. On June 11, may be interested in the trip and who initials except that they don't stand Beans, hand picked, per bu 80 @ 90c on Sparton barley. There is some service to all people, and through, Looking Backward the entire membership in the county is Bacon, per lb 7c desire more details, the following cou- for a name so really aren't initials at dried per lb 10c thought that Sparton barley has a mutual understanding und accom- The co-operative movement started participating in a tour to Battle Creek all. Butter, per lb 13 (u ISc greater tendency to turn yellow than pon is attached for convenience. If plishment to provide economic and 90 years ago at Rochdale, England, where they will be guests of the Beeswax, per lb 20 ' you desire more details, fill it out and Anyway, no matter what that Jc Butternuts, per bu 50c other varieties, but the fact remains social stability, and a hopeful expec- where a group of weavers, in desper- Postum Cereal Company. Carrots, per bu 20 <>• that under certain treatment this mail to Organization Service, Michi- tation for tomorrow. ate financial circumstances, set up stands for, Mr. Haines is pretty pop- Cherries, dried, per lb 9 •• year it had a tendency to get yellow gan State Farm Bureau, 221-22£ North ular in Oakland County. He has been All campaign work and other activ- Chickens, dressed, per lb 7 @ 8c a co-operative group. The Rochdale ities is under the supervision of Dis-Cabbage, per head 5 @ 8c while under other treatments it re- Cedar St., Lansing, Michigan. weavers adopted a set of co-operative on the board of directors of the Cranberries, per bu $2.00 mained green and apparently county Farm Bureau for the past six trict Organization Representative Ar- Celery, per doz 25c Counties Out For principles which have been adhered Cider, per bbl $2.50 healthy. years and was named president last thur Edmunds and his assistant Earl to through all the years. Johnson. Ducks dressed, per lb 8c Sanilac, Genesee Group Membership Honors February. He has been a member KRPTS, per doz 15c Among these principles and /ules Geese, dressed, per lb 7c FARM EXPORTS GAIN Visit the Farm Bureau are: ever since there was a Farm Bureau in Hay, bated, per ton $12 60c 17 per cent. Our exports gains in through the Michigan State Farm result an interesting contest has organization. The Haines farm is lo- About 95% of the flies about the Parsnips, per bu 30 March this year consisted mostly of cash capital for expansion of co-op- bouse are the common house fly Popcorn, per bu 40 <•< Bureau headquarters and Shiawas- developed. Other County Farm eration. cated in Addison township and in- Peaches, dried, per lb 10 (a) 12cfarm products; import gains consist- see street warehouse before attend- Bureaus have accepted the La- cludes 180 acres with general farming species capable of spreading typhoid, Potatoes, per bu 35 40c ed of sugar, wool, furs, textiles, 3. Payment of net earnings after dysentery and tuberculosis germs, Rutabagas, per bu 26c ing the Jersey sale at State College peer challenge. The standing practiced. Shoulders, per lb :.<• hides, paper stock and news prints. that afternoon. Lunch was served fund, divided as follows: (a) a small according to E. I. McDaniel, associate Sauerkraut, per bbl $3.00 of the leading counties at this deduction of reserves and educational professor in entomology at Michigan Straw, baled, per ton $5.50 in the Farm Bureau dining room. half way point (June 1) in the Turnips, per bu 20 <<• Austin Gwinn of Lapeer was in interest on shares, (1 backed by son. Order NOW and you get absolutely FREE 25 lbs. of Farm Opportunities Here and Abroad every wool grower. 16 years of breeding for large egg produc- Purina Startena with every Not long ago when reading the publication of the Farm Bureau in tion. FREE CATALOG. Get y>ur copy 100 "AA" and "AAA" "Good From the standpoint of the Ameri- today, together with our new iow prices. Luck" .Chicks. Illinois we were struck by the large number of Illinois Farm Bureau can wool grower the situation is made members who are tenant farmers. This week the Prairie Farmer of brighter by the fact that foreign NEUHAUSER CHICK HATCHERIES BOX 163 NAPOLEON,OHIO Illinois, in commenting upon a 10% increase in farm tenancy in that Joe Keddle Will Brown wool is scarce and prices are firm at State since 1930, observes that 44 out of every 100 Illinois farms are Frank Sharp Henry Herbst favorable levels. Most of the wool Behind John Herbst Amos Emmons being operated by tenants. Some tenancy is necessary as a preliminary Louis Herbst Aaron Dean which is available for importation to farm ownership, but the present percentage is too high for Illinois, the Wheel P. R. Almond Ray Miller into the United States comes from INSURE YOUR FARM PROPERTY said the Prairie Farmer. In Michigan in 1935, nineteen in 100 farms Wlllard Hoyt Sam Spare ountries located in the southern hemi- (Continued from page 1) Wm. S. Griffin John Weimister In Michigan's Largest Farm Mutual Fire Insurance Company. In 1936 a were being operated by tenants. Our percentage of tenant farms is farms given numbers just like streets Geo. Harter J. T. Chambers sphere. In these regions shearing net gain of over $7,000,000 in property at risk. A gain of over $36,800 in quite a lot lower than it was in 1930. In Indiana nearly 32 in 100 Carl Lillywhite & Son net assets after material reduction in assessment rates. Total net assets and city residences are named and Will Shehan Lloyd Morgan occurs in the fall and moat of the over $288,250.00. Owns U. S. Government Bonds and other Bonds guaranteed farms are being operated by tenants. It appears that the door remains numbered. The idea was worked out Clifford Van Horn Geo. Austin wool is sold in big auctions held dur- by U. S. Government valued at $113,124.38, which is more than is owned by invitingly open to farm ownership in our middle west. Bruce Beatty Ira Conkwright any other Farm Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Michigan, earning by the Detroit- Edison Power Com- Arthur Drew David Murningham ing the winter and spring months. interest annualiy of $3,765.00. Interest earned annually on other invest- C J. Hicks James Hart These foreign sales are now virtual- ments $1,737.70, making total of $5,502.70. In contrast, we heard Anthony Lehner of the Indiana Farm Bureau pany in order that they might readily Wilbur Street Emil Gallop say recently at Howell that in Denmark 97 in 100 farms are operated locate any of their patrons of which Ray Jenks Mrs. Agnes Norton ly over for this season and very little State Insurance Department writes "Your members are to be congratulated C. E. Carpenter Ray Horwood imported wool will be available for on the efficiency of your management of their business. The progress by the owners. We have read that the German government is providing they have nearly 2,000 in the rural John K. Bowman Wm. Coddington shown in the increase of insurance and the very moderate cost of procuring by law that German farm owners shall remain on the farm; that the areas in that county. A recent map J. M. Brigham W. G. Chubb purchase until late next fall after this increased business is evidence of thorough knowledge of the business Harold Emery Glenn Berry and attention to detail." eldest son of a German farmer shall be first in the line of succession made by them has 'been accepted as W. J. Nash &. Son another wool clip has been shorn and Michigan State Board of Agriculture carry insurance on State Experimental to take over and operate the farm, and that German farms shall not the official map for the county. When made ready for market. Even on such Farms in this Company. First Company te write a blanket policy on farm personal property which often pays double the amount of classified policy. be sold or merged with other farm property without the consent of the you want to locate a farmer in Mon- foreign wool as is purchased by First Farm Mutual Company in Michigan to employ full time Inspectors. German government. Farm families are to remain farm families in roe County you look for his street American manufacturers there is a Careful underwriting and systematic inspection eliminating undesirable risks and fire hazards. Insurance classified and assessed according to Germany for reasons of State. So there are places in the world where number on a certain named road and GRADING OF WOOL tariff of 34c per clean pound which hazard. Assessment rate as low as $2.94 per $1000. Reasonable terms farming is practically a closed* corporation. there he is—unless he's moved. is quite an insurance against cheap granted to all members. Write for literature and financial standing. $1,000,000 a Par IN 1936 POOL TO wool from any source. The Man on the Land Do you know that co-operative busi- For some weeks the wool market at State Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of Michigan "The man on the land says to the industrialists: 'When you were ness in the United States total $1,000,- Boston was relatively inactive. Both W. V. Burras, Pres. 702 Church St., Flint, Mich. H. K. Fisk, Sec'y plowing man-power out of your plants and into the streets, my neigh- 000 a day? That the various co-op- START NEXT WEEK top-makers and manufacturers had bors and I were absorbing man-power on our farms. The farming erative merchandising and marketing sufficient inventories to take care of industry shows not only the greatest increase in total population in organizations in Michigan are leaders Market Conditions Favorabl their current requirements and they the last five years but also the greatest increase in the number of indi- in their respective fields? That Roger adopt the policy of lying low in order vidual producing units of any of our industries. Now then, Mr. In- Babson, that well known, conserva- For Better Prices; to attempt to weaken the wool mar- dustrialist, if you really have the economic welfare of the country at tive economist, recently told "Big Boost Advance ket at the season when many grow- heart, and not merely political expediency, do your share by absorbing Business" that the co-operative was ers were selling their clips. How- labor, cutting some of your unwarranted profits, and putting out con- rapidly becoming a serious competitor? By STANLEY M. POWELL ever, a sufficient proportion of the sumer goods in larger quantities and at a cheaper price'."—Edward A. That the increase of co-operative busi- leading growers of the nation were Have You Seen Mich. Co-op Wool Mktff. Ass'n O'Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. ness in the United States for 1935 Each day sees additional deliveries sufficiently well informed as to the was 20 per cent over that of 1934of wool to the 1936 Pool being opera situation so that they refused to sell The Man off the Land and is rapidly growing? The next ted by the Michigan Co-operativ< their wool at less than they felt to "It seems that farm hands would rather work on federal projects time someone tells you that farmers Wool Marketing Association at Lan be full value. As a result of this just won't "hang together", that they sing. The rate of advance on each intelligent policy of holding or con- the Sights in than on the farm. Naturally," says the Grand Rapids Press. "What farmers can equal even the minimum WPA terms of $42 a m6nth for four won't co-operate, you just tell them type of wool was increased lc pe signing wool, prices have gradually days a week and eight hours a day? And how many workers would this and they may change their minds. pound on May 29. strengthened. The top futures mar- deliberately choose to work for an individual who must get the maximum The fact is that they've been so busy Grading of the pooled wool is ket has registered an upward tend- results instead of at a job that is created to make employment? Hence, co-operating that they haven't taken expected to commence Tuesday, Jun ency and strength prevails rather the labor shortage which seriously threatens this year's crops. any time to tell folks about it—and 9. After that date growers who bring than weakness in the New York cloth Michigan perhaps that's a weakness. market. "Labor, like capital, ordinarily flows toward the point of greatest in their wool may remain and see Too Late- it graded. The grading will be done return. Since this reduces the supply, the present shortage might be Jim and Fred were neighbors true, Why Buyers Are Active expected to increase farm wages, However, State Agricultural Commis- What Jim had done, Fred would also do. by Mr. John Riley, a Federally The prices at which the balance of Jim joined at first the Farm Bureau, licensed grader, secured through the sioner James E. Thompson says it is simply causing women to work in Fred waited to see how it would go. the 1936 clip will go into consumption To many people, the ideal vacation is one devoted the fields instead of hired men." National Wool Marketing Corporation will depend very largely on the grow- The U. S. made the Triple A; at Boston. to sightseeing. In order to enjoy themselves fully, Jim joined the program right away. ers themselves. No one denies the School Financing of the Future Fred said, "The darn thing don't make Prices Strengthen strong statistical position in which "The State of Michigan once paid 10 per cent of the educational sense, The shortage of wool, to which we wool rests at the present time. This such vacationists require three things: Sights worth program. It will pay 50 per cent after this year. A conservative analysis I'll watch it from this side of the fence". have been calling attention in pre-is the reason wliy local buyers are Jim got his check from Uncle Sam. seeing; something to travel in; and good roads to of the entire situation indicates that the State will probably be called Fred said, "What a great big fool I am." upon to pay at least up to 60 per cent of the program, including appro- "I'll join the program now," said Fred Too latel The Court declared the 3A get there. priations for capital expenditures."—Arthur B. Moehlman, professor of dead. school administration at the University of Michigan, in a discussion of Contributed by Robert Beattie, Michigan's educational problems. Farm Bureau member, Columbiaville, Classified Ads Very few parts of the Union offer as much in these Lapeer County, Michigan. Classified advertisements are cash with order at the following rates: 4 cents per word for one edition. Ads to appear in two or more respects as the State of Michigan. Here are many Tariff Between OUT States editions take the rate of 3 cents per word per edition. "The statesmen of 1787 got their stomachs full of sectional and state Livingston Bureau Has spots well worth visiting—historic buildings and warfare along economic lines. Under the Articles of Confederation, Great Time at Howell States could set up tariffs and iBsue money by themselves. New York could (Continued from page 1) LIVE STOCK BEEKEEPER'S SUPPLIES grounds, interesting cities, and open country of un- and did put a duty on firewood from Connecticut and cabbages from spiritual advance. We have forgot- REGISTERED HEREFORD BULLS— BEE HIVES, SECTIONS, COMB Pennsylvania. The whole thing resulted in confusion. The framers ten that we must move on together. Best Blood Lines. Two young bull calves foundations, etc. Outfits for beginners. surpassed scenic beauty. The journey itself be- carrying over 25% "Anxiety 4th" blood. Send for catalog. GRAFTING WAX for of the Constitution erased these State economic barriers and conceived Now we are beginning to look around Should appeal to registered owners. orchardists. Both hand and brush wax. comes a separate pleasure, a real addition to the joys a government which would insure national economic unity for all time. and to talk in terms of the co-opera- DAIRY FAKMKRS—cull your dairy herds BERRY BASKETS AND CRATES. Send and use a Hereford and see the quality for prices. M. H. HUNT & SON, 511 No. The United States grew to continent-wide size, and still this idea of a tive movement. of veals. Don't feed scrubs any longer. Cedar St., Lansing. Mich. (5-2-lt-39b) of vacation. Splendid highways, fine lake liners, country without economic or social barriers of any kind has remained The Jiew Memberg A. M. Todd Company (14 miles N. W. Kalamazoo) Mentha, Michigan. World's our most precious heritage.—Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture. Following are the Yank and Rebel Largest Mint Farm. (3-2-tf-55b) PHOTO FINISHING trains, buses, planes—all these means of transpor- membership teams and the new Farm REGISTERED CHESTER WHITE $100 PRIZE OFFER WITH EVERY tation, comfortable and economical, stand at the In Memory of Michigan Grindstones Bureau members they brought into boars. Ready for service. Also, spring roll developed, Including 8 beautiful the Livingston County organization: pigs, either sex. Ready to ship. Charles prints. Professional oil painted enlarge- "Woodward avenue in Detroit was first paved with stone from the I la, Ann Arbor, R-6. (6-6-lt-2Ob) ment, 25c. Individual attention. Quick service of those who are planning to see the sights. Grindstone City (Huron county) quarries. Grindstones of all sizes from NORTH SIDE YANKS service. Janesville Film, A-43, Janesvllle, Captain, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Marr; Wis. (6-3t-23b) large ones, which filled a flat car, to small ones which could be carried Lieutenants, Claude Burkhart, Stanley WANTED—TEN GOOD GUERNSEY Have you cpnsidered Michigan for your own sight- in the hand, were fashioned here", says the Pigeon Progress. Latson, Bruce Fawcett, Ora H. Holmes, cows. Tuberculosis and Bangs Accredit- ROLL DEVELOPED, 8 PERMANENT O. F. Merrithew, A. C. Henry and their ed. Arnold Riebow, Dewitt, Michigan. prints, two double weight, portraitlike "The grindstone industry, which once provided employment for wives. (5-2-13p) professional enlargements, prize coupon, seeing? Have you told your out-of-state friends hundreds of men at the Tip of the Thumb, was established about 100 THEIR NEW MEMBERS 25c. Extra fast service. Midwest Photo, Cyrus H. Wolf Fred Kirkland FOR SALE—MISCELLANEOUS Janesville, Wis. (6-3t-21b) of the exceptional advantages here? If so, you have years ago. It declined with the discovery of carborundum and emery." Harry Cook Pearl Hill Soon a bronze tablet will be placed in a large grindstone at the C. H. Madden Mrs. F. Pettibone FENCE Allbright & Brown & Son MICHIGAN SEPTIC TANK SIPHON done them a favor—and promoted good will for northern end of M-53, at Port Austin. The inscription will read: "This Otis Webb C. L. Spaulding and bell aa recommended by State Col- ELECTRIC FENCE. BIG CUT IN monument marks the end of the Earle Memorial Highway and recalls Geo. Pell Preston McGill lege Agr'l Engineering dep't. Build your price for 30 daye. $22.60. Wayne Latson, the Wolverine State. Carl Raddatz Clifford Boutell own .septic tank and sewage system. In- Howell, R-3, Mich. (4-4-3t-p) the grindstone industry, once nationally known." W. F. Klein L. G. Koseris stall when tank is built. Installation and J. Frederickson V. & B. Stelzer operation simple. Discharges automati- & Son Herbert Filkins cally. Have been sold 16 years. All In FARM PROPERTY As our part in such promotion, this series of adver- Roy Lannen & Sons W. D. Johnson daily use and giving satisfaction. In- The Oleo War 50 Years Ago John Layton Geo. Ellwart structions with each «iphon. Price, de- FOR RENT—TEN YOUNG GUERNSEY For some years State and National dairy interests have been trying R. A. McCook &. Son Geo. Kellogg & Sons livered, $7.21 which includes sales tax. cows. Freshening. At $5 per month for tisements is being published throughout the State Wiggins Bros. Orrin Osborne Farm Bureau Supply, 728 E. Shiawassee one year, with privilege of 3 years. Byran to get a federal tax of 10 cents per pound upon oleomargarine. The fight Geo. Barron Mrs. Wm, Hawley St., Lansing. (3-4-tf,60b) Chrouch, Lansing, R-l, 1% mil. w. on goes back a long time. We quote from national capital news from the Wendelin Sorg Speed Hagen St. Joe St. Phone 28676. of Michigan by an organization that can prosper J. Birkenstock Leo. P. Howell daily State Republican, of Lansing, for March 3, 1886: L. B. Gallup & Son J. R. McNamara FARM LANDS FOR SALE FARM WORK WANTED only as the other citizens of Michigan prosper. "A sub-committee of the House heard arguments from the oleo- Robt. Robertson E. D. Findley eorge Haller Forest Wyckoff WANTED—WORK ON FARM BY margarine and butteriue people Tuesday against the proposed bill to Taft & Taylor Claude Fawcett FOR SALE OR TRADE FOR FARM married man, age 27, with 1 child. Ex- tax imitation butter 10 cents per pound. Georgfc Tupper of Iowa spoke Fred A. Smith M. Vermette A Son property, six room Lansing semi-bunga- perienced in general and dairy farming. Roy Placeway Sidney Morgan low and bath. Three bedrooms. House Clyde Hodges, 1435 Roosevelt, Lansing, in favor of the bill." C. E. Parker Roy Oliver 28x30. Lot 44 wide. Well located, south letcher Hubbell Clyde Maas end near Reo. Free and clear. Trade Michigan. (6-6-lt) Geo. Trollman Max Johnston for good farm property, Ingham county WANTED—WORK ON FARM BY SOUTH SIDE REBELS ntral Mchigan. Elmer Wood, 217 married man, age 2.". Experienced in MICHIGAN BELL Alcohol and Asphalt Products From Oil Captain, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Haack; Smith St., Lansing. (6-lt) both genor;il and dniry farming. Ex- Alcohol can be produced cheaply Lieutenants, Burr Clark, Dave Hoover, perience with tractor. J. D. Clark, 1007 While most people think of oil as Clay Musson, Lee Horwood, Leslie Lat- 600 ACRES. GOOD FOR STOCK North Larch St., Lansing, Michigan. from gases omitted in refining crude source of power and lubrication, oil son and their wives. ranch. Marl pits, black flirt. 50,000 ft. (6-6-lt) oil, and can be made non-intoxicat- THEIR NEW MEMBERS of timber. Sawmill. Plenty of game— TELEPHONE CO. products enter the manufacture of Albert Herbst Roy Phillips deer, partridge, pheasants, ducks. Bound- SINGLE MAN, 19, EXPERIENCED ing. More asphalt Is produced from drugs, paints, perfumes, ink, tires, Frank White Geo. E. Bushnell ed by river that flows into lake that opens farm holp. big and strong, wants general Oscar Schoenfals A. Dinkel A Son into Lake Michigan. Muskegon county. farm work. Good milker. Can handle crude oil than from any other chemicals, paper, cloth, and countless Write Conklln Farm, Montague, Michigan. tractor, truck. James Nichols, % Dale ecourca. Martin Holforth H. J. Itsell other products. Ed. Coddington Clarence Taylor Oarey, 524 Christiancy St., Lansing. (6-lt) SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 198« MICHIGAN FARM HEWS THRFF. Oil Production In U. 8. Michigan Men on Nat'l operating in making the day a Kalamazoo, Ionia and i Other More than 2,500,000 barrels of oil The Weather Bureau Lends cess. Mr. Patent of Port Huron, a campaigns art i the are produced daily in the United Co-operative Program THUMB COUNTIES Y. M. C A. worker in that city, will counties of Kent, I Buren States. The average daily produc- A Hand to Those Who Farm have charge of the sports program. and Shiawassee. T s are tion of American oil wells is only Cornelius Bus, manager of the The Yale Exchange club is to en-aside from those in pi t the South Haven Fruit Exchange, and N HONOR GRAY AND about eight barrels. There are 250,- Twice a Day Weather in the ning, in Washington from land and tertain the several county Farm Bu- eight Thumb-of-M counties, 000 wells which produce less than P. Hull, president of the Michigan sea, from remote and near observation reau chairmen and their wives at the four counties in the southoa one barrel per day. Some oil wells Milk Producers Asa'n and the Na Making Is Summarized stations, is essential in the making of NEWTON JULY 16 Yale on June 10. Details of the part of Michigan and in a namb< have been producing for more than tional Co-operative Milk Producers that forecast. To simplify their in- July 16 meeting will be aranged at communities in northern Michigan. 50 years. Federation, will appear on the pro For You gram of the American Institute ot terpretation, chartmen record the re-To Present Them With Many this meeting. Co-operatiou at the University o Washington—It's eight o'clock In ports pouring in. Because words are The July 16 meeting is the second Illinois, June 15 to 19. Mr. Bus wil the morning. Telegraph, radio, and bulky and not so easily and quickly Memberships at Yale meeting of this type to be held in the teletype messages start pouring Into read, weather facts must be translated Thumb area. Earlier in the year, the MAGIC EGGS appear before the perishable pro- Summer Party Will kill lice on poultry. We are pleat- duce men, and Mr. Hull will follow an angular, gaunt, red brick building back Into simpler form. They are district honored President J. J. Jak- ed to announce that you can purchase Kills Flies! J. B. Eastmen, transportation co-or- in Washington—not one of the show marked as symbols or figures on maps way of the Michigan State Farm Bu- MAGIC EGGS direct from Farm of the United States. Setting a goal of 1,000 new Farm Bureau Supply stores and farmer* dinator of the Interstate Commerce places of a city resplendent with great Bureau memberships to present to Mr. reau at Lapeer, by presenting him elevators in many communities. Safe. Commission, in a discussion on farm pillard buildings, but the headquarters Now comes the expert interpreters with over 400 memberships. The Clean. Effective. Economical. FLY Chester Gray of Washington and to DEARBORN PRODUCTS CO. transportation matters. of a branch of the Department of Agri- of these reports, the District Fore- Mr. R. Wayne Newton of Lansing, the July meeting will precede a fall pre- Dearborn, Michigan culture which figures more conspicu- casters at Chicago, Denver, San Thumb of Michigan counties are plan- convention meet being planned for SPRAY 400 Year Old Pines ously in the lives of the citizens of itsFrancisco, New Orleans and Jackson- ning a big summer party at Yale on that area. It is expected that the country than any other. ville, who must be at their desks each July 16 in honor of these two men. talks to be given by Mr. Gray and The flora of Isle Royale includes Strange jumbles of words come in morning and evening at 8:30, ready Mr. Gray is legislative representa- Mr. Newton on July 16 will give coun- Guarantees Live at least 21 species of trees of which these messages: "ARTHUR FIEND- when the charts are completed, to tive of the American Farm Bureau ty delegates much information re- 13 are deciduous and the balance ISH RAKE SIRDAR UNFURL TEP- spell out of those symbols and signs Federation while Mr. Newton acts in garding legislative matters' which Buckwheat Stock Comfort evergreens. The dominant species ID" read one. Another, "BETHEL the portents of weather to come. Years will guide them as representatives of the same capacity for the Michigan their counties at the annual Michigan If it remains so dry you can't get of the tree3 are the balsam fir, the EIGHT REVELLED NAILBALL GIG of special training in meteorology, State Farm Bureau, one of the 37 In certain crops, remember, Buck* white or canoe birch and the black FORGOT." Still more click in through years of study and experience, are be- State organizations in the American State Farm Bureau convention in No- wheat, wet or dry, and sow by the or cherry birch. Some of the up-the busy instruments in the main re- hind the District Forecaster as he Farm Bureau. vember. Fourth of July. steps up to the maps twice daily and land pines are more than 400 years ceiving room. Here's one from the ______The eight county We are advised that there is a old. South, "MIAMI ANNOY GULLISH in a few minutes only is able to make growing scarcity of buckwheat in his interpretations and predictions of Farm Bureaus in Membership Campaigns RENOWED MORAL CATSUP." the Thumb area are the country. The poultry feed No whimsical humor of a too imag- probable turns In weather. Planned This Month business is taking more and more already promoting of it. This should be a good year inative Government clerk lurks be- Within two hours after the morning membership con- KILL WEEDS hind these words. They bear serious observations have been taken, these A number of County Farm Bureaus for buckwheat. Ask your co-op tests, and have a are conducting membership campaigns for Farm Bureau buckwheat seed. messages to be put, to serious uses. forecasts are telegraphed to nearly series of communi- By Complete Penetration during June. Campaigns started this FARM BUREAU SERVICES, Inc. Packed in 1 & 5 gal. Cans They have been selected by scientists 2,000 principal distributing points. ty and county cam- 15, 30, 55 gal. Drums with who know the supreme importance of From there they are scattered far and paigns organized. week in, the counties of St. .Joseph, accuracy and precision In reporting, wide by telegraph, telephone, radio, Those in charge of For Cattle, Other Live Stock, ATLACIDE and the necessity for economy. They and mail. the activities in the Barns, Etc. are a code for reporting weather con- Even a 24 or a 36 hour warning to various counties the chlorate weed killer, used as a ditions hither and yon over the coun- farmers can make the difference be- spray. Kills leaves, stems, complete are either special Farm Bureau Fly Sprays are made root systems of weeds. Used by U. S. try and supply the basis for the re-tween success or failure. The Weath- chairmen or county Farm Bureau Paint from petroleum products with 1 Ib. Gov't and Agr'l Exp. Stations. Mil- er Bureau helps them to choose their lions of pounds sold to kill: ports you will be reading shortly in presidents. The of pyrethrum per gallon of spray, your newspaper or hearing from your planting time. It helps at harvesting. leaders in each gov't formula. Quick, stainless, Canada Thistle Quack Grass radio. When cutting time comes, the farmer House Barn Roof Enamel Varnishes taintless, harmless to man or ani- Bind Weed Poison Ivy county are: mals. Sprays of similar effective- Willows Brush While you linger over your break- wants to know what are the chances Lapeer county—President Ralph White Top Sow Thistle of rain. Hay has to cure in the sun ness usually sell for at least 15% Wild Oat Grass Other Weeds fast coffee, weather observers at some Davenport, who is being assisted by more. 300 stations in the United States, Rain injures it. His Weather Bureau Stanley Sherman of Imlay City and Atlacide is safe to use when applied report helps him to decide whether FARM BUREAU KILL-FLY for In weed, killing solutions as recom- Canada, Alaska, and the West Indies Paul Engle of Lapeer; Huron county mended. Non-poisonous to live stock. are at work reading their instruments, tomorrow he will start his harvesting. household use. In pints, quarts, Treat weeds this summer. They won't —President Ted Leipprandt and Floyd gallon cans. Won't soil or stain. come back next spring. Our circular completing their observations, trans- Fruit growers watch weather fore- Richmond; St. Clair county— Presi- contains full directions and weed casts to know when they should spray spray chart. Cost per weed patch is lating measures of heat and cold, wind dent Clarence Reid with Howard low. Atlacide is packed in 5, 15, 60, and clouds and moisture in the airtheir trees. There is not much use inJohnston of Port Huron assisting; Buy at Your 100 and 200 lb. drums. See your Farm Bureau dealer. Soil building benefits into code and transmitting these code spraying before a heavy rain. Fruits Genesee county—President Wilbur Co-op Ass'n can be earned by weed killing, under words to each of the Weather Bureau's should be picked in advance of rain, Short with Mr. Ivan Parsons and Soil Conservation Act. five forecast centers, chief of which is so they can be shipped dry. Erving Schlabach, both of Grand Manufactured for FARM BUREAU SERVICES, Inc. in Washington. Vegetables dug in dry weather, too, Blanc, assisting; Macomb county—Mr. FARM BUREAU SERVICES, Inc. 221 No. Cedar Lansing, Mich. Wind, heat and cold, humidity, are shipped in better condition. John Rinke with Mr. Jesse Blow as- clouds, rain—these humors of the Warnings of frost, issued 24 to 36sisting; Tuscola county—President great ocean of air at the bottom of hours in advance, have often saved Henry Lane with Mr. Dorr Perry and which we live, that start or stop the whole orchards. In Pacific States Mr. M. H. Graham assisting; Sanilac alone some 4 million orchard heaters ONE GALLON OF FARM BUREAU HOUSE PAINT will cover 300 sq. ft. activities of all living things on the county—Mr. Milton Burkholder and two coats on average surfaces. It's a job that settles the paint question earth, that go their ways uncontrolled are in use, in the operation of which Mr. James Mahaffy with Mr. VanSickle for many years. Our house paints are a combination of lead, zinc, and We Will Cpiutrantee and uncontrollable by earthbound growers depend largely on advices assisting; Oakland county— President inert with pure linseed oil and thinners. Good paint makes the best reatures—these are the great forces and warnings given by the Weather J. C. Haines and Mr. Ray Allen. The wearing and the cheapest Job. about which telegrams and radio mes- Bureau. campaign is under the general super- FARM BUREAU QUICK DRYING 4 HOUR ENAMELS come in 14 colors, Your Family sages are dispatched to the Weather Cold wave notices are the signal to vision of District Representative W. including black and white. Brilliant gloss ... no brush marks . . . Bureau each morning and again each other growers to pick beans, grapes, A. Gwinn, who is being assisted by washable . . . not expensive . . . and cover well. SI.OOO K2.5OO $3,500 vening at the same hour. Scientists and tobacco. Potato digging must be Mr. Roy Welt and Mrs. Pearl Myus. OUR PERSIAN GOLF RED OXIDE BARN PAINT is bright red and mve learned enough about weather suspended. Dug potatoes must be re- will not fade. We have a fine line of roof paints . . . wall paints . . . in event of your death, if each six months you will pay us changes to be able, with precise re- moved from the field. Sugar cane July 16 at Yale promises to be aluminum paint . . . and floor paints. $5 or $12.50 or $17.50 in premiums for our PAYMASTER ports at hand on present. atmospheric must be cutand windrowed. Cran- a big day. There will be contests and Life Insurance policies in the above amounts. berry bogs must be flooded until other sports, to be climaxed by a BUY FROM YOUR FARM BUREAU DEALER onditions, to make forecasts of what baseball game between the Yale busi- This sound, legal reserve insurance plan to meet the needs will likely happen in this ocean of air after the cold weather spell has pass- Farm Bureau Services, Inc., Lansing, Michigan ed or the danger of frost is over, ness men's team and a team of farm- of small or moderate incomes will fit any insurance pro- during the next 36 to 48 hours, and ers. The Yale business men are co- gram. It is not available elsewhere. These small premiums heir forecasts will be at least within Truck growers must protect their assure considerable sums to pay off a mortgage, to educate 20 percent of complete accuracy and tender vegetables by covering with children, or to care for the family for a long time. often much better than that. paper, cloth, or soil. All these grow- Each detail of each weather report ers look to the Weather Bureau for After age 45 these fixed premiums will received at 8 o'clock, morning and eve- its help in forestalling losses. STATE FARM LIFE INS. CO. buy less Paymaster insurance each Michigan State Farm Bureau, State Agent, year. Policy fee with application is 221 No. Cedar St., Laming, Midi. $5, $12.50 or $17.50. Premium guar- "Without obligation to me, please send more anteed not to increase. Please use information about your Paymaster life in* 8O Community Farm Bureau coupon for more information. surance policies. STATE FARM LIFE INSURANCE CO. NAME Groups Are Holding Meetings Bloomington, Illinois ADDRESS May; Hart Community, Mrs. Harold Birdsall; Ferry Community, Ora Archer; Discuss Matters of Current Shelby Community, Mrs. Opal Dunham. Muskegon .County—Ravenna group, Interest; Active in Stephen McNItt and Mrs. Jake Spoelman. ON THESE FARM ACRES ARE Mason County—Custer area, Wm. Sum- Local Projects merfeldt; Victory Township, Sam Hjort- holm; Summitt area, Harold O. Fitch. Newaygo County—Howard City area, Livestock Feeders! Nels Hanson; Newaygo area, Fred Ack- Soil conservation, rural electrifica- land; White Cloud area, Elbert Johnson. PROFITABLE feeding operations this year will require that live Antrim County—Bellaire area, Leon Btock be PURCHASED as cheaply as possible, FINANCED at a reasonable tion, wool marketing, standard brands, Van Liew; ManoeJona area, Gerald Biehl. interest rate and when finished SOLD at the highest market value. co-operative marketing, group pur- Charlevoix County—Ellsworth Commun- ity, Peter Wieland. chasing and similar topics have furn- Saginaw County—Kochville area, Mack PURCHASING shed interesting subjects for discus- Miller. The Michigan Live Stock exchange through its NATIONAL connections can furnish at cost plus a reasonable handling charge, all grades of feeding sion at the monthly meetings of the lambs, cattle and calves. A large assortment at our Daily Markets is now 80 Community Farm Bureaus or- Westinghouse Offers kept on hand at St. Johns and Battle Creek at all times. anized in 31 counties in Michigan 5% FINANCING during the past six months. Aside Farm Electric Contest 5% MONEY is available for the feeding operations of all worthy feeders who have feed, regardless of where they purchase their feeders. from the discussion activities, the The Westinghouse Electric & SELLING :ommunity groups are active in mem- Manufacturing Company of East Our new enlarged complete Selling Service now consists of not only Com- bership campaigns, local projects, etc. Pittsburgh, Pa., is offering $400, mission Sales Agencies on Detroit and Buffalo terminal markets, but daily market at St. Johns, and Battle Creek where all species of live The counties in which the commun- $300 and $200 college scholarships, stock are purchased each day and moved direct to the packers or the ty Farm Bureaus are organized, the eight educational trips to the 4-H public market. All grades of dairy cows bought and sold at Battle Creek. communities and leaders are as fol-Club Congress at Chicago this win- For complete information phone or write ows: ter, State caslh prizes and county ROTECTED" for profit! Spraying is not an Grand Traverse County—Peninsula, Roy Hooper; Williamsburg Township, Herbert gold medals to winners in a 4-H Na- Michigan Live Stock Exchange Burfiend, Northport Township, Fred Bas- tional Rural Electrification program Texpense. It's an investment* Every dollar se tt; Kingsley Township, E. W. Rawlings. it is sponsoring this summer. Secretary's Office, Hudson, Mich. Hillsdale County—Fayette and Cambria spent on pest control comes back at harvest Daily Markets Terminal Markets Townships, Ralph Bach; Northeast quar- Contestants will be asked to make St. Johns & Battle Creek Detroit, &. Producers Co-op at Buffalo. N. Y. ter of county, Mrs. W. A. Lawrence; Scipio Township, J. D. Hawkes; Mont- a plan of all home farm buildings and time and brings an extra profit with it, pro* Listen to the Farm Market Reporter, sponsored by the gomery area, John Pridgeon. spot on the plan the equipment Ford Dealers of Michigan via Station WXYZ and Michigan Ottawa County—Hudsonville area, H. which in the judgment of the club Radio Network, Mon.f Tues., Wed., Thurs., Fri. at 12:15 p. m. R. Andre; Holland area, William Zonne- vided that quality materials are used and ap- belt; Coopersville area, J. W. Lang. member would be practical and eco- Barry County—Woodland area, Walter nomical to use to completely electrify Fisher; Middleville area, Philip Garbow. plication is thoroughly made ••.It is a sound Kent County—Kent City area, Charles the farm. They will write an article VIontgomery; Rockford area, Mrs. S. J. on the subject, and report on their starting point to standardize on Farm Bureau owan. Jackson County—Rives Junction local, activities in promoting electric ser- . A. Pulver; Henrietta local, Vaughn vice. The club members general re- Brand materials. You have the combined Tanner; Napoleon group, Mrs. Fred Day; cord in other work will count up to Parma community, Leland Cuff. assurance of ourselves and our manufactur- Let Us Help You Calhoun County—Marshall and Emmett 40 points; his activities and article Townships, Ray Flanders; Battle Creek on rural electrification up to 60 area, Frank Martin; Marshall community, ers, General Chemical Company, that these Frank McDermid. points in the contest. Descriptive Van Buren County—Bangor community, entry blanks may be had from the Gorman Hull; Hartford area, Ward Plant; are insecticides and fungicides of highest Sell Your Wool Paw Paw area, Carl Buskirk. National Committee on boys and St. Joseph County—Three Rivers area, girls Club work, Auditorium Tower, Raymond Krull; Constantine area, Calvin quality, consistently effective and economical arber; Sturgis area, Verne Schaeffer. 56 E. Congress street, Chicago. This Association doesn't buy wool, but it does assist growers Cass County—Marcellus local. Roy to use* Ease of mixing and absence of sedi- Stevens; Dowagiac area, Roy Ward. to sell their fleeces in an orderly manner. The wool is mer- Berrien County—Eau Clair area, Al Reidel; Buchanan area, Alfred George; Prefer to Sell or Lend ment are definite advantages. You can pin chandised direct to mills, thus eliminating unnecessary middle- Benton Harbor area, J. J. Jakway; Three Oaks area, J. C. Hollenbeck. To Country Bred Vets men's expenses. You receive the entire net returns. Speculators Ionia County—Mulliken area, Ernest your faith to Farm Bureau Spray Materials! Wonser; North Plains group, Charles get no "rake off" out of your pooled wooL Settlements are Mattison. i Washington—Veterans seeking to Eaton County—East half of county, use bonus payments to buy farms made on a graded basis, thus rewarding quality and care. Charles Kelsey; West half of county, Mr. PROOUCR and Mrs. Joseph Schroeder. have been notified by W. I. Myers, Farm Bureau Services Present conditions of supply and demand are all in the grower's Ingham County—Mason area, Walter Farm Credit Administration Gover- favor. On May 1, 1936, the stock of apparel wools, including all ,'arven; Lansing area, H. J. Himmel- nor, to apply first to the local farm old and new clip wools in all hands, and the estimated unshorn berger; Aurelius area, H. R. Bullen. Livingston County—Fowlerville area, association in their home localities Lansing, Michigan portion of the new clip, was only 76% of the average stock on May 1 O. D. Parsons; Howell area, William before writing to Washington. of the past four years. Woolen mills have orders for yardage greatly Haack. 221-227 North Cedar Street in excess of those of a year ago. Foreign prices are exceptionally Oratiot County—Southern part, Clyde Myers said the Washington office Downs; Northern part, Harry Johnson; of the Farm Credit Administration high and firm. Breckenridge area, A. L. Walters. Isabella County—Mt. Pleasant area, is receiving more and more requests PRESENT RATE OF ADVANCES Ray Cook. from ex-servicemen who want to use ARSEN ATE OF LEAD Medium Wool 20c per Ib. Shiawassee County—Vernon-Hazelton Forum, Charles Cook; bonus money as down payments on Fine Wools 17c per Ib. Forum, J. M. Hubbard. Burton-Carland farm purchases financed through the CALCIUM AR SEN AT E Fed Lamb Wools 15c per Ib. Huron County—Pigeon area, Ted Lelp- ASTRMGEN1 arandt. Farm Credit Administration and that BORDEAUX MIXTURE BY CONSIGNING TO THIS ASSOCIATION you receive an immediate Genesee County—Grand Blanc commun- some farmers are even sending their cash advance and retain an equity in your wool so that you are ity, Ivan Parsons. DRY LIME SULPHUR Lapeer County—North Branch group, bonus certificate numbers to the in position to profit by seasonal advances In values up until time Mrs. Bruce Clothier; Almont group, Reed Washington office. [I ORCHARD of final sale and settlement. Wool sacks and shipping tags will be Rider; Imlay City group, Mrs. Hugh LIME SULPHUR SOL'N l! BRAND I loaned you without charge. Write for full information and name of Youngs; Lapeer group, Frank Brown. Oakland County—Oxford area, tRay Uncle Ab says that much good con- OAU± OIL EMULSION our local representative in your territory. Allen; Wixon area, Joe Pittenger. versation owes most of its success to St. Clair County—Avoea area, H. N. Wixson; Yale group, Clifford Halsey. someone who says nothing. Also ORCHARD BRAND "ASTRINGENT" ARSENATE OF LEAD—BASIC ZINC ARSENATE MICHIGAN 00-OPERATIVE WOOL MARKETING ASS'N Washtenaw County—Saline group, Wil- Of all the uses of electricity on the DRITOMIC-SULPHUR-"POTATO SPRAV-BORDEAUX-ARSENICAL, VEOET-AID DUST liam Austin, Aaron Feldkamp: Julius AND OTHER DUSTS — NICOTINE 8ULPHATE — PARADICH LOROBENZENE — X-13 Secretary's Office 221 No. Cedar St., Lansing Bredernitz, C. D. Finkbinder; Mark farm, few save as much time and la- (PYRETHRUM EXTRACT) — PARIS GREEN Swaetland and O. C. Hogan. bor and give as much satisfaction as Oceana County—Mears Community, Ward Gilliland; Elbridge Community, Mas pumping water. FOUR MICHIGAN FARM HEWS SATURDAY, JTNE 6, 19S6 CERTAIN FERTILIZER PAYMENTS UNDER SOIL CONS. ACT Farm Bureau's Trouble-Free Twine Soil Building Pay for Certain Uses of Lime, Potash And Phosphates 6 Reasons Why You'll Like It Certain applications of lime, phoso BUY FARM BUREAU MACHINERY phate materials, and muriate of pot ash will be considered as among the approved practices which will qualify « It's a blend of sisal and manila in correct pro- Greater Values • • • Extra Strong • • • farmers for soil building payments under the Soil Conservation Act, ac portions to produce A-l quality twine. Treated Designed for Long Service cording to an announcement from to repel insects. Washington to all States in the North Ask Your Co-op Central region. Under the Act, participating farm m Patent criss-cross cover prevents breaks, snarling, ers may qualify for a soil building or bunching. Twine runs free to the last foot. payment of $1 per acre on all acres they have in soil building crops, o will put into soil building crops in *» Strong and uniform. Tested thoroughly at every Champion 1936, if they perform certain soi ^ step in manufacture. Our mill knows twine. It Grain building practices on their farms in makes 30,000 tons a year. 19:56, at rates set by the Secretary o Binder Agriculture. For example, a farmer having 40 A Every ball is guaranteed full length and strength. Relief rake, feed, knot- acres in soil conserving crops may ^ Every bundle will be tied tightly. ting, elevator, balanc- qualify for a maximum of $40 in soi building payments by sowing alfalfa ing improvements make in 1936. $2 per acre will be "earned' Farm Bureau quality twine is priced right. It's this the choice of care- under the Act. He may sow clover; trouble-free features will save you time in the ful buyers. $1.50 per acre will be "earned". He harvest field where time is money. may apply ground limestone at $1 to $2.50 per acre, etc. When the tota of such operations in 1936 equals $40 that farmer has qualified for his soi building payment. 6 EXTRA! Limestone Principal change in rules is to al- We have made the rope low credit for applying less than two Pull Cut tons of ground limestone per acre used to tie a bale of Farm The use of hydrated lime or marl in Mower equivalent quantities is allowed. The Bureau Twine just the right new ruling: Revolutionary improve- Ground limestone or its equivalent length and weight for a ments put this mower may be applied to crop land or non- Two 8 Ib. balls of crop pasture land between Jan. 1, 1936 Farm Bureau twine halter rope. Also, the sack is far ahead of anything and Sept. 30, 1936, as soil building in twine can (cut practice for these credits or "earn- away) to show how full length, and paper lined. in the field. Have a ings" to qualify for the soil building patented criss-cross look at it. payment: cover insures all APPLICATION twine running out PER ACRE PAYMENT without snarling. 2 Tons PER ACRE 1 Ton $2.50 500 lbs. 1.25 Vz T. (fine) on pasture 1.00 2.00 Phosphates 8 LB. BALL 5 LB. BALL Side Delivery May be applied Jan. 1 to Sept. 30 Rake and Tedder 1936, on crop land used for growing Criss-cross cover Standard Cover grasses or legumes and from which 500 ft. per pound 500 ft. per pound Flexible, with ample crop land no soil depleting crop is strength for the heaviest harvested in 1936 or planted for har- 600 ft. per pound 600 ft. per pound vest in 1937, or on non-crop pasture hay. Many good fea- land. APPLICATION PAYMENT tures in this machine. PER ACRE PER ACRE 200 lbs. 16% or equivalent $1.50 Buy Farm Bureau Twine at Your Co-op Ass'n 300 lbs. 16% 2.25 500 lbs. rock phosphate 2.25 Potash Application time and conditions same as for phosphates, and limited MERMASH A COMPLETE FEED to 50% muriate of potash or equiva- lent, in areas approved by State Soi Cylinder Hay Conservation Act Committee. 1936, and Sept. 30, 1936: Use it as a Loader APPLICATION PAYMENT PER ACRE PER ACRE Sturdy Steel Frame 100 lbs. $1.00 Legumes lor Green Manure CHICK STARTER Light Draft $1.50 per acre shall be allowed for Easy Running plowing under as green manure be- tween Jan. 1 and Sept. 30 an entire GROWING RATION crop of soy beans, cow peas or Canadian field peas. («reen Man tin; After Truck Crop $1.00 per acre for plowing or disc- Makes Hens ing under as green manure, these crops grown on crop land, if two Our Repair Parts Service months or more growth is attained: Lay and Pay Rye, oats, barley, annual grasses, or B. F. Avery & Sons C. of Louisville, Ky., manufacturers of Farm Bureau's mixtures of any of these with legumes, Beeded following harvesting of any Co-op Machinery, can supply parts for every machine they have made . . . commercial truck crop, including po- as far back as 50 years. Farm Bureau Services has a stock of Co-op machinery tatoes. Core? Crops, Orchards, Vineyards parts at Lansing. Your local Farm Bureau dealer can supply you. $1.00 per acre for plowing or disc- ing under between March 1 and July 1, 1936, of the following winter cover crops on crop lands in orchards or vineyards provided crop is not past- tured or harvested for grain or hay: Special Hay and Pasture Crops Rye, oats, barley, annual grasses or mixtures of any of these with le- MERMASH CONTAINS SUDAN GRASS gumes. THE BEST New Seed ings Ask your co-op ass'n for Farm Bureau Sudan Grass. Native grown. High Ground yellow corn, pure wheat Payments for new seedings, under bran, flour midds, meat* and quality and germination. Sudan grass pasture will keep the milk flow coming. the Act, when made between Oct. 1, bone scraps .alfalfa leaf meal, SEEDING PAYMENT Half an acre of Sudan will keep a cow right up to frost time. Drill or broad- PER ACRE Mermaker, which is Pacific Alfalfa $2.00 ocean kelp and fish meal (Man- cast up to June 15 or a little later. Start pasturing when ten inches high. amar formula) to supply essen- Red or *L&UREAU MZRMASH MAKES BUSINESS QOOO Mammoth Clover 1.50 tial mineral elements. Other clovers 1.00 SOY BEANS Mixtures with 50%up of alfalfa Farm Bureau's Manchu Soy Beans are adapted to Michigan. Uniform or red clover 1.50 Mixtures with size and drill well. High germinating stock. Good for emergency hay or less than 50% alfalfa, any clover 1.00 LATE CROPS NEED FERTILIZER pasture crop. Also O. K. for soil building purposes under Soil Conservation Pay For Weed Control Act, if turned under before Septmbcr 30. Any acreage of crop land in 1936 clean cultivated or treated with a Farm Bureau Fertilizers Can Make chlorate solution for the eradication of such of the following perennial nox- the difference between a fair MILLETS ious weeds as are designated by the Co-ops have our Farm Bureau Hungarian Millet and German Millet. Good state committee, shall be regarded as used for the production of soil-con- ! crop and good crops stuff. For muck soils, use our Siberian Millet. Plant about June 15. Hay serving crops: Weeds designated as crop in 60 days. Cut before seed forms. perennial noxious weeds include: Bindweed or wild morning glory, leafy • Farm Bureau fertilizer nitrogen is 95% water soluble. spurge, Russian Knapwood, Canada WILD LIFE MIXTURE thistle, hoary cress or perennial pep- • That's about perfect for fertilizer nitrogen. pergrass, perennial sow-thistle, horse If you have swales or other game bird cover, or like to provide bird life nettle, quackgrass, silver-leaved pov- erty weed or white weed. • It gives plants a strong, quick start. with winter food, we have the Conservation Dep't Wild Life Mixture for Before such land may be classified planting such places. as used for a soil conserving practice • Our fertilizers drill perfectly. it must be inspected by a member of the county committee who shall determine that such weeds really are growing on the field in question. Lat- er in»the season the county committee MILKMAKER must certify that adequate weed con- Means trol measures have been practiced. See Your Farm Bureau Dealer MoneytnaKer However, the acreage which may be designated under weed control for soil conserving payment must not be FOR FARM BUREAU SUPPLIES in excess of 7%% of the total 1935 MILKMAKER FORMULAS MILKMAKER FORMULAS Write Us If You Have No Dealer soil depleting base. 16, 24, 32, and 34% Land which is summer fallowed and 16, 24, 32 and 34% FARM BUREAU SERVICES, Inc., Lansing, Mich. fallowed by a legume seeded without a nurse crop before September 1, 1936, • will be classified as soil conserving.