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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.