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ous Agr i cu l tu re MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU NEWS You a n d Your Ne ighbors—Tha t Is

The F a r m Bureau

P U B L I S H E D BY T H E MK7HIGAN FARM BUREAU F O R ITS M E M B E R S H I P

T H I R D YEAR, VOL. I l l , No. 21 OCTOBER Hi, 1925 ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY

BILL EVANS WRITES PRES. NOON WHAT HE HEARD IN CHICAGO MANY MEMBERS TO HEAR PRESIDENT

COOUDGE ADDRESS AMERICAN FARM - BUR. IN ANNUAL MEETING AT CHICAGO Farm Bureau Officers Assuring Every Member

Attending Dec. 7-9 Sessions Seat to Hear The President; Secretary Jardine,

Other Leaders to Be There

Chicago, Oct. 1 5.—For the seventh time the organized agriculture of America will assemble to outline its policies and develop plans for the expansion of its industry.

The occasion will be the Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Farm Bureau Federation, which will be held at the Sherman Hotel in Chicago, on December 7, 8 and 9.

At this meeting some 2,000 delegates, representing 1,800 county Farm Bureaus and the 45 state. Farm Bureau federations, will assemble to consider agricultural legislation, taxation, transportation and many other problems affecting America's eighty billion dollar industry—agriculture.

The importance and significance of this meeting is at­tested to by the acceptance of Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States, of an invitation to attend and address this gathering. Among other distinguished guests will be Wm. M. Jardine, Secretary of Agriculture, who will also address the Farm Bureau delegates.

Convention Hall Seats 4,500 The sessions of the A. F. B. F. annual meeting will be

held in the new ball room of the Sherman hotel. All general and sectional meetings are planned to be held in the new twenty-story section which has been lately opened by the Sherman House. In the ball room, where the general sessions will be held, there are seats for approximately 2,000. Opening from it are large lobbies and side rooms which will seat an additional 2,500.

At the time of the annual meeting of the A. F. B. F. there will be installed enunciators of the very latest type, which will make the voice of the speaker distinctly audible to everyone—not only to the 2,000 in the main ball room but to all others in different adjoining space.

Members Come First Farm Bureau officials, commenting on the arrangements

which are being made for the annual meeting, particularly emphasize the fact that the first thought would be for the Farm Bureau members, either delegates or visitors attending the meeting. The Farm Bureau folks will have first choice seats and every Farm Bureau member attending is assured by the officers of the A. F. B. F. that he will have a seat where he can hear and see President Coolidge when he addresses the Farm Bureau.

Special Railroad Rates Arrangements are being made to secure special railroad

rates for all Farm Bureau members attending the convention. Arrangements have already been completed which will insure Farm Bureau delegates having a newly furnished hotel room with bath at the rate of $2.50 to $3.00 a person. Details of these arrangements and instructions for obtaining the best possible service and accomodations will be made public through the columns of the News Letter from week to week.

Radio will play an important part in this year's annual convention of the A. F. B. F. It is contemplated to broad­cast all of the outstanding features of each session of the con­vention from two or three high-powered broadcasting sta­tions. The address by President Coolidge will be broadcast from stations covering the entire United States.

Arrange P r o g r a m s

A commit tee is now a t work de­

veloping the details of the p rog ram. In addi t ion to genera l sessions a t

Hillsdale Youngsters Cut Swath At Fair

Hillsdale, Oct. 5.—More than $ 1 , -8 00 in prize money was won by the Hil lsdale County Boys' & Girls ' Clubs at Michigan Sta te Fa i r th is year which is an increase over t h e a m o u n t won last year . Also, special t r ips were won as prizes for our boss and gir ls .

One hundred e ighty- three r ibbons won by the boys and girls as pre­miums have been on display at t he Fi rs t Nat ional Bank , Hillsdale.

Eighty-s ix men, women, boys and gir ls a t t ended the S ta te Jfair with the Club exhibit and were fed by the gir ls and mothe r s in a camp furnish­ed by the Sta te Fa i r Association.

MILK PRODUCERS CALL 9TH ANNUAL

MEETING OCT. 2 0 Will be Held in Agr'l Hall

At Michigan State College

HAVE HAD GOOD YEAR

Delegates to Number 390; Pres. Hull to Make

Address

HELP! HELP!

P r e s . thereof.

which speakers and o ther features of na t ional note will be heard and seen,

, the plan adopted last year of sec­t ional g roup meet ings will be again followed this year .

It is probable t h a t four sect ional meet ings will be held. One covering m a r k e t i n g ; one, organizat ion and home and commun i ty ; one, legisla­t ion and taxa t ion ; a n d one. t r ans ­por ta t ion .

The election of officers at th is sev­en th a n n u a l meet ing of the A. F . B. F . will hold added in teres t , as th i s year the officers will be elected un­der the new const i tu t ion of t h e F a r m Bureau , which provides t h a t t h e pres ident and vice-president be elect­ed for a period of*^wo years instead of one year as has been the former pract ice. Not only will the presi­dent and vice-president be elected for a two-year period, but a cer ta in propor t ion of the Board of Directors will be elected for a two-year period ins tead of for a one-year period.

Tha t agr icu l tu ra l legislat ive prob­lems will occupy an impor tan t por­t ion of the a t t en t ion of the F a r m Bureau de legates a t the a n n u a l mee t ing is insured by the fact t h a t Congress opens on the same day as th is a n n u a l meet ing and that The P res iden t ' s message to Congress will be delivered on one day and tha t the Pres iden t will del iver his message to the F a r m Bureau on the next day or day following.

Predicts Hectic Congn It has a l ready been predicted t h a t

the coming session of Congress will be hectic days for those represen t ­ing ag r i cu l tu ra l in te res t s . Taxa t ion , co-operat ive m a r k e t i n g , gove rnmen t

export corpora t ions for agr icu l tu ra l p roduc ts , tariff, Muscle Shoals, and a score of minor problems a re al­ready scheduled to m a k e life more in te res t ing to the legis la tors and more wor th while to the fa rmers .

Dur ing the pas t s u m m e r the Amer­ican F a r m Bureau Fede ra t ion has been quiet ly conduc t ing a referen­dum to ascer ta in the f a rmer s ' exact wishes r ega rd ing the var ious legis­lat ive ma t t e r s which a re scheduled to come before Congress. The re ­sul ts of this r e f e rendum have not been made public and probably will not be unt i l the t ime of the annua l mee t ing .

However, in discussing some of t h e quest ions covered in the legisla­tive ques t ionna i re , E. B. Reid, who rep resen t s the A. F . B. F., in Wash­ington, D C , touched on some of the ques t ions cover ing points which were recommended by the Presi­den t ' s Agr icu l tu ra l Commission last spr ing . He sa id :

Want Personal Reaction "Ques t ions covering the detai ls of

these r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s as they were embodied in bills in the last session a re covered in th i s ques t ionna i re to the fa rmers . F o r the p u r p o s e . of ge t t ing the i r persona l reaction in­s tead of tha t of t he var ious agricul­tu ra l Moses, which del ight in show­ing the fa rmers the beauty of the i r philosophy, this ques t ionna i re is be­ing circulated. In o the r words , we a r e t ry ing to find which Moses spoke t h r o u g h his beard and which one t h r o u g h his h a t . "

Again, in re fer r ing to the quest ion to de te rmine whe the r or not fa rmers favor legislat ion which will r equ i re color ing as the condit ion of en t ry of foreign seeds, Mr. Reid had this to s a y :

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P repa ra t ions a re being made for a big business day at the ninth annua l meet ing of the Michigan Milk Pro­ducers Ass 'n , which is to be held in Room 402, Agr icu l tu ra l Hall, a t the Michigan S ta te College, Tuesday, Oc­tober 20, s tar t fng a t KT a. m.

Delegates from each Milk Pro­ducers Local will be on the basis of

t w o delegates for the first 50 m e m b e r s in each local and one addi t ional delegate f o r each addi t ional 50 members or

\ . I*. Hull m a J ° r fraction This will give the Associa­

t ion abou t 390 vot ing delegates a t i ts mee t ing . This number is a lways swelled considerably by other mem­bers who come in for the meet ing and in teres ted fr iends from the S ta te College ag r i cu l t u r a l depa r tmen t s , and Michigan Sta te F a r m Bureau , and o ther farm organiza t ions .

Much business has been done by the Milk P roduce r s dur ing the pas t year . At t he las t a n n u a l meet ing it was es t imated t h a t th is year the Ass 'n would sell abou t $18,000,000 wor th of milk for i ts members . .

A repor t will be made on th is busi­ness. I t is announced tha t the Ass 'n is in a s t ronge r f inancial posi t ion than it has ever been before.

Las t year it was pointed out tha t t he Michigan Milk Producers Ass 'n charges about 1.6 cents for the sale of a ten gallon can of mi lk—less than a postage s t amp , and out ' of t h a t it not only sells the milk a t t h e best obta inable price, but it g u a r a n ­tees the f a rmer s ' r e tu rn , provides a reserve fund for pro tec t ing the m e m ­bers ' f inancial in te res t s as far as the organizat ion is concerned, and pays al l the Milk P roduce r s Ass'n ex­pense,—all of which is quite a re­markab le accomplishment .

One of the principal i tems before the delegates will be the election of four d i rec tors for a term of th ree years each. Those whose t e rms ex­pire a t th i s meet ing a r e : Pres. N. P. Hul l of Lans ing , Sec'y J. C. Near of F l a t Rock, J a m e s Brackenber ry of Bad Axe, and W. C. McKinney of Davidsburg.

The p rogram includes a shor t ad­dress by Pres . Hull and the repor t s of the Secre tary and the Treasu re r The Association will repor t its pro­duction and sales In its pr incipal m a r k e t s for the past two years . Prof. J. T. Horne r of the Sta te College Economics Dep' t will give his experi­ences and f indings while invest igat­ing the pr incipal fluid milk m a r k e t s of the eas te rn Uni ted Sta tes d u r i n g the past summer .

At noon the en t i re delegate body will t ake lunch toge the r in the new Union Memorial bui lding on the S ta te College campus . Other fea tures of the meet ing will be the resolu­t ions offered by the delegates and sugges t ions they may have for the coming year.

This is the way the strategy of the western railroads in asking for a five per cent rate increase at the same moment the Government is

asking them why they can't reduce their rates on agricultural products struck the cartoonist of the American Farm Bureau Federa­tion.

FARM BUREAU MAN HEARS RAILROADS j SEEKING RATE BOOST SAY FARMERS

ARE ABUNDANTLY ABLE TO PAY IT Western Roads Trying to Dodge Congressional

Rate Cut Order; Seek Increase Instead; Bill Understands Rate Slash Order

Better Than Rail Presidents l

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Chicago early in you were over to

Certain Interests Insist Farmer Is Getting Rich

EIGHT CO. BUREAUS LINE UP FOR 1926 MEMBERSHIP WORK

Expect That 30 Counties Will Be In Big Volunteer

Effort

Probab ly 30 Michigan County F a r m Bureaus will join with the S ta t e F a r m Bureau ear ly next sum­mer in a g igant ic volunteer mem­bersh ip worke r s ' campaign similar to t h a t which was conducted by 11 cen­t ra l Michigan County F a r m Bureaus last Augus t .

E igh t County F a r m Bureaus a re a l r eady a t work on the i r par t ' of the job . Many o the r s a re a r r a n g i n g for conferences wi th the S ta te F a r m Bu­reau Organiza t ion dep ' t so tha t they may have a place in the big member ­ship movement next summer . When this second phase of the volunteer membersh ip w o r k e r s campaign has been completed, some 40 c o u n t i e s — every th ing sou th of a l ine d rawn from Ludington to Bay Ci ty—wil l be organized on a p e r m a n e n t mem­bership b a s i s — m e m b e r s will join to stay jo ined—on a year to year bas i l . The eight counties a l ready enrolled in the 1926 campaign a r e :

Berrien Huron Lftpcor Livingston .Monroe Ottawa Similar St. Clair

Everywhere F a r m Bureau bers a r e approving of the plan the i r own organizat ion work, p lans tha t have been proved

Pres. Bradfute & E. S. Legge, I. H. C. Chief, Say It's

Propaganda

in e m -to do along sound

CO-OPERATIVE GROWTH "The first f a rmers ' co-operative in

this count ry was organized shor t ly before the Civil war . Today the re a re over 12,000 fa rmers ' co-opera­tive organ iza t ions wi th a member ­ship of about 2,500,000 fa rmers and doing an a n n u a l business of approxi­mately $2,500,000,000. Whi le th i s development is r emarkab le , t he re is no th ing mys te r ious about it. It is merely common sense applied to the m a r k e t i n g problems of the fa rmer . ' —Sec re t a ry of Agr icu l tu re W. M J a r d i n e .

in ac tua l Michigan, campaign much to campaign.

F a r m Bureau work in The good resul ts in the las t August will mean the workers in the 1926

Kent County Bureau To Hear Butterfield

Grand Rapids . Oct. 14. - Dr. Kenyon L. Butterf ield, president of Michigan Sta te College, is to addres s the annua l meet ing of the Kent County F a r m Bureau J a n u a r y 14, or 15.

BOYS WIN 9300 Livingston county Club worker

boys won about $300 in priz« the Michigan Sta te Fa i r with the i r Holstein, Guernsey, Black Top, De­la ine . Shropshire and fat sheep ex­hibi ts .

The re ' s a reason for ave rage low yields of crops, bu t i t is not a good reason.

"There seems to be a well organ­ized campaign being conducted th roughout the East and Midwest to convince the nat ion tha t the fa rmer is now in a highly prosperous con­di t ion," said O. E. Bradfute , pres i ­dent of the American F a r m Bureau Federa t ion, th is week, comment ing on newspaper repor t s quot ing var i ­ous individuals as to the economic condition of the farmer .

"The farmer is not yet ou t of t h e woods," cont inued Mr. Bradfu te . "During the past three years he has made some considerable improve­ment. That improvement has been somewhat spot ted. However, in the last crop year, which ended Ju ly 31 of this year, the re was not as much gain made as in the two years pre­ceding. Present indications for t he next crop year show tha t t he r e will be little or no progress in the farm­ers ' economic condition.

"The re a r e some br ight spots . There a re stil l some pre t ty black spots. But it is wrong 'to hold up a p i c tu re ' of ag r i cu l tu re in a highly prosperous condi t ion ."

Mr. Ledge 's Letter Along this same line, t he r e was

made public th is week a le t ter writ­ten by Alexander Legge, pres ident of the In t e rna t iona l Harves te r Com­pany. This le t te r was addressed to the Nat ional Indus t r i a l Conference Board, which me t in New y o r k City recently. It is in te res t ing to know that Mr. Legge, pres ident of a g r e a t business corporat ion, in his ana lys i s of the s i tua t ion , coincides closely with the position held by P r e s i d e n t Bradfute . In his let ter , Mr. Legge said, in p a r t :

• 'It is my notion tha t a la rge per­centage of our banking ins t i tu t ions and many lines of industry a r e very much disposed to sidestep th i s ques­tion at the present t ime and news­paper wri ters and so-called econo­mists find an improved feeling in certain sections of the count ry aud fill the papers with bombast as to the come-back of the farmer , bu t in our indus t ry we are too close to the actual facts to have any i l lusions on th is subject.

" T h e ' f a r m s i t u a t i o n ' i s be t te r than it was two years ago, but no th ing has happened looking toward a perma­nent improvement in his condi t ion aside from the fact tha t money r a t e s are easier and money is more plent i ­ful, fo that his burden in ca r ry ing his financial obligation is somewha t re­duced and the constant increase in population is consuming each year a larger propor t ion of wha t we may reasonably expect to raise, so that there will be more f requent occa­sions when t h e domest ic d e m a n d will t ake about al l t he re is of it.

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Mr. M. L. Noon, President, Michigan State Farm Bureau,

Lansing, Michigan. Dear Mike:

You know I told you I was going to September after a load of feeders the day my place looking at that prize heifer you think more of than you do of your right eye.

When I got there I found that it would be cheaper to wait a few days because feeders were scarcer than profits on my books and prices were high because there were enough buyers to carry all of the feeders home on their backs that was here. So I decided to stay a few days before I bought any. Besides, I wanted to see what was going on, and I thought about that fight which you said would be going on at the Edgewater Beach hotel when the government opened its investigation of Western railroad rates with a view to lower­ing them in accordance with the Hoch-Smith act passed by Congress.

600 On This Scrap So I asked a man how to get to that place. I started

quite early in the morning and got there the same day because I wanted to be in on that fight and also figured if it wasn't a private fight I might have a chance too, because I have to pay fare on feeders and it sometimes makes the difference wheth­er I make profits or not. But when I got to the place where the fight was going to be and got by a fellow with a uniform on who thought maybe 1 thought maybe it was the front door of the stockyards and went down to the place where there was about 600 western railroad lawyers and their witnesses, State Public Utilities Commission men, Farm Bureau, Manu­facturers' and other shippers' attorneys and others setting around tables and in chairs. I found it wasn't so rough as the fights they have around the stockyards. It was more like a court, which I am familiar with on account of having been on the jury, but this court didn't have a jury, but had a man that acted as judge. They told me he was Chairman Aitchi-son of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

While they was waiting for some more to come in and park their cigars on a window somewheres on account they didn't allow any smoking but chewing was all right, I talked to some of the men there and they told me what it was all about.

You remember last winter when we had so much snow. I couldn't get my milk to town for three days and I had plenty of time to read. I read all about the Hoch-Smith resolution which was passed by Congress then and which directed the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate the freight rates on farm products and livestock and said that those freight rates should be low enough so that we could ship our stuff to markets besides Detroit and Lansing and places right at our back door so to speak and maybe at the same time get almost as much out of fruit or potatoes as the railroad got for hauling it to those markets. This resolution said that it should be the policy to make freight rates so that farm products and products which are necessary to the country, as coal and ore and such, should have a preference over things like sewing machines and furniture and radios and automobiles which don't show up the freight charges like a sore thumb when they are added to the price,

it Hurt to Read It all seemed plain and reasonable

enough to me but a t th is hea r ing I heard a lot of big ra i l road pres idents and lawyers and such say t h a t they didn' t know wha t the Hoch-Smith resolut ion meant and it seemed to be a kind of disgrace to admi t t h a t they knew what any part of it meant . So It must be I am dense or I would have seen t h a t Congress d idn ' t mean wha t it said.

Along abou t the time the ra i l roads found they couldn ' t unders tand this Hoch-Smith reso lu t ion ,—or maybe it was when one of them who was dense like me begun to unders tand it and saw wha t it mean t to the nice easy pickings they a lways counted on when the crops were harves ted in the west , the wes te rn r a i l roads told the In t e r s t a t e Commerce Commission they woud have to have more money or bust because the law said they should get a fair r e t u r n and the com­mission said tha t 5 and % per cent was fair and tha t the law was fair because the commission also made their r a tes . I wish someone would say t h a t 5 and % per cent was fair for us fa rmers and would a r r a n g e our prices so t h a t we would ea rn t h a t much too. besides paying for our labor and seeds and fertiliz­er, etc. I see in t h e paper where the average fa rmer in th is country made $67 a mon th in 1924, so the re m u s t have been a lot of f a rmer s who didn' t make any th ing .

They told me tha t th is Hoch-Smith ac t invest igat ion looking forward to reducing agr icu l tu ra l and other freight r a t e s is called t h e Ra te

S t ruc tu re Invest igat ion. The west­ern ra i l roads sprung a s m a r t legal trick by making a back fire out of a petition for a five per cent increase in ra tes , which forces t h e govern­ment to invest igate t h a t s i tua t ion . The ra i l roads a re ask ing for more than 3.87 per cent r a t e increase on the valuat ion which they th ink is r ight for their proper ty . This sec­ond invest igat ion, going on a t the same t ime, is called Revenues in Western District.

The par t of the count ry which would be affected by the h igher ra tes is west of Chicago and the Mississip­pi River but it also includes t h e Up­per Pen insu la of Michigan, where my b ro the r lives. I am going to write him and tell him to tell farm­ers in the Upper Pen insu la what t h e ra i l roads are t rying to do to them.. My bro ther has a farm in Gogebic county and I know he will welcome h igher freight ra tes like cholera in hogs because his freight ra tes a re high enough already so tha t he works all win te r in the woods to make enough to ship his crops to m a r k e t next s u m m e r .

An Easy Touch The first lawyer for the ra i l roads

said t h a t they need 11 per cent in­crease in ra tes to make their 5 and % per cent but t ha t all they would ask for now is 5 per /cent and if t ha t isn ' t enough they would come again . Five per cent advance was probably about all they could chew bandy anyway at th is t ime. Tha t t h e etuff abou t t he farmer needing more

otinued on paK*

TWO M f C H I G A H F A R M B U R E A U N E W S FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1 9 2 5

MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU NEWS • v the Michigan State Farm Bureau at Char-

id general offices at State Farm Bureau head-

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Entered at the post office at Charlotte, Mich., as second class matter. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for In Sec. 1103, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, authorized January 12, 1923.

Subscription Price 50c Per Year, Included in dues of Farm Bureau Members.

E. E. UNOREN Editor • . if. roWKI-Ii Associate Editor

fllCHIOAN ST ATJrAPM flUPEAU

OFFICERS M ii President U. B. Mel Vlre-I'resident

Directora-nt-Large I MCPHERSON -. Loweii MRS. EDITH M. WAGAR Carleton EARL C. McCARTY Had Axe

Newberry J. O. BOYItB Buchanan W. W. BILLINGS Davison

Commodity Directors ffRBD HMITIf, JOlk Rapids Michigan Potato Growers Exchange M. L. NOON, Jackson Michigan Milk Producers Association 3. H. O'MEALEY, Hudson Michigan Live Stock Exchange GEO. W. McCALLA, Ypsllanti Michigan Elevator Exchange M. D. BUSKIRK, Paw Paw Michigan Fruit Growers, Inc.

STATE FARM BUREAU ORGANIZATION Clark L. Brody Sec'y-Treas.-Manager 8. M. Powell Ass't Secretary

DEPARTMENT HEADS Purchasing ^ . A. Thomas Seed C. F. Barnum Traffic • • • A- P. Mills

*• J* Jfellner Publicity K. E. Ungren Accounting •"• *"• " u l

inge (Detroit) W. O. Steiger Organization A. Bentall Michigan Commodity Marketing Associations

Affiliated With Michigan State Farm Bureau Michigan Potato Growers Kxchange . " • . • v ; ; i ' " 9 ? ^ l l l a ? Michigan Milk Producers Association 707 Owen Bldg., Detroit Michigan Live Stork Kxchange .Hudson Michigan Elevator Exchange Farm Bureau Bldg., Lansing Michigan Fruit Growers, Inc Benton Harbor

Directors and Officers of the Commodity Exchanges

MICH. ELEVATOR EXCH. H. D. Horton, Pres Kinde L C. Kamlowske, Vice-Pres

Washington Carl Martin, Sec.-Treas.Coldwater L. E. Osmer, Mgr Lansing C. S. Benton, Beans Lansing W. E.** Phillips Decatur George McCalla Ypsllantl Milton Burkholder Mailette M. R. Shlsler Caledonia P. M. Oehmke Sebewaing P. W. Hazelwood Mt. Pleasant

MICH POTATO GROWERS EXCH.

Henry Curtis, Pres Cadillac I. T. Bussey, Vice-Pres., rtovement

Hawkey, Bec'y Shelby P. J. Harger, Treas Efckanwood Geo. Wagar, Sales Mgr Cadillac J. D. Robinson Levering

Smith 101k I: E. A. Rasmussen Sheridan

MICH. MILK PRODUCERS ASS'N N. P. Hull, Pres Lansing John C. Near, Sec Flat Rock B. F. Beach, Ass't Sec Detroit H. W. Norton, Treas Howell M. L. Noon Jackson C. R. Watson" Imlay City L. W. Harwood Adrian W. J. Thomas Grand Rapids Ray Potts Washington Fred W. Meyer Fair Haven Dr. W. C. McKinney Davlsburg James J. Brakenberry- • • .Bad Axe Elmer Powers Clio

MICH. LIVE STOCK EXCH. E. A. Beamer, Pres Blissfleld W. J. Perry, Vice-Pres

Grand Blanc J. II. O'Mealey, Sec Hudson Alex LIndsey, Treas Decker Edward Dippey Perry

Woodruff Hastings Ray D. Harper St. Johns Charles Brown Sunfield Frank Obrest Breckenridge

MICHIGAN FRUIT GROWERS, INC.

M. D. Busklrk, Pres Paw Paw Amos Tucker, 1 V. Pres

South Haven Herbert Nafziger, 2 V. Pres

Millburg P . L. Bradford, Sec-Treas

Benton Harbor P. L. Granger, Sales Mgr

Hen ton Harbor !> II. Brake Fremont Henry Namitz Bridgman

Benton Harbor Miller Overton Bangor

John Miller ~. Coloma Allan B. Graham Elberta P. D. Leavenworth..Grand Rapids W. J. Schultz Hart L. A. Hawley .- Ludlngton ('. .1. Chrestensen..* Onekama H. W. Howdy Union Pier O. R. Gale Shelby John Lang Sodus John Bottema Spring Lake Bert Gleason Lawrence C, ],. Brody Lansing Harry Hogue Sodus

American Farm Burean Federation O E BRADFUT10 President GENERAL OPPICES' A.' P . " B . " F . ' . 58 East Washington St., Chicago EDWY B RJBID Washington Representative LEGISLATIVE HEADQUARTERS Munaey Bldg., Washington, D. C.

THE STATE FARM BUREAU'S PUBLIC SERVICE PROGRAM

TAXATION— Relief for sorely burdened farm prop­er ty by enaction of:

(a) Two cent gasoline tax for highway funds.

(ION A (TED, Jan. 29, 1924) (b) State Income Tax in place of State's gen-

i property levy. (c) Law forbidding any more tax exempt

securities. (d) Equalization of assessment of farm and

city property in accordance with tales values of same.

(Farm Bureau Investigations brought equalization in Calhoun, Ingham, Wash­tenaw, Monroe and Kalamazoo counties, saving farmer taxpayers $67,350 excess taxes annually.)

TRANSPORTATION—Immediate application of Michigan Zone Rate decision to save farmer shippers In 69 counties $500,000 annually.

(EFFECTIVE Sept. 10, 1925) MARKETING— tision of sound co-operative mar­

keting program now well under way In Michigan.

LEGISLATION— ige of the Capper-French Truth-In-Fabric bill, completion and operation of the U. S. Muscle Shoals Nitrates plant and manufacture of fertilizer; opposition to any form of sales tax or of consump­tion tax, retention of federal income tax.

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F A R M E R S L I B E R A L G I V E R S

F a n n e r s , far from being " t i g h t - w a d s , " ' are the most l iberal

\ of givers. Professor Gillin of the Universi ty of Wisconsin has

the facts to prove this s ta tement . He d u g them out of the s ta te

income tax repor ts .

F a r m e r s have only six per cent of the t axab le income of the

count ry . Yet out of t ha t income, they give 16 percent to chari­

table , religious and educat ional organizat ions . Trave l ing sales­

men, with four per cent of the na t iona l income, give away only

three percent of wha t they ea rn—a s t a r t l ing cont ras t .

Preachers and laborers r ank p re t t y well with fa rmers in

giving. Retired individuals and housekeepers give away seven

percent of their income; lawyers , office employes and manufac­

tu r e r s six percent ; and teachers and o ther public employes four

per cent.

Professor (Jillin deserves congra tu la t ions for compil ing

these figures. People who have been call ing the farmer s t ingy

will have a hard time expla in ing away these facts, jus t as those

who have been c la iming tha t city people are heal thier than those

l iving in the coun t ry are having a hard time ge t t ing away from

the facts p rov ing the con t ra ry to be t rue .

If folks wan t to call us names, le t '« make 'em prove i t . — W H E A T G R O W E R

F I N A N C I N G T H E F A R M ON A B U S I N E S S BASIS

Char les Emerson, a New York S ta te fa rmer about 54 yea r s of

age , l ived in a small ag r i cu l tu ra l communi ty t ha t has a l ready

t a k e n a p r ide in i ts communi ty ins t i tu t ions . The school and the

chu rch are especially well t aken care of, a n d farmers in t h a t

locali ty t ake a considerable pr ide in suppor t i ng communi ty move­

ments .

There were th ree chi ldren in this family, two boys and a girl ,

a n d every effort w a s m a d e to give them a good education, i n

schools which would fit them for c a r r y i n g out a useful l ifework.

Both boys, the older being 22, and the younger 17, have gradu­

a ted from an ag r i cu l tu ra l school, and one has been mar r ied and

lives in a re-buil t t e n a n t house located on one corner of the farm.

Mr. Emerson has deeded this home to his son, t oge the r wi th one

acre of land.

Upon the r e t u r n of the oldest boy from the ag r i cu l tu ra l school,

new ideas were b r o u g h t into opera t ion of t he farm, and new

tools and mach inery were purchased to the ex ten t of $1600 and

f inanced by a no te jg iven to a local Nat ional Bank . Addi t iona l

t i l lage land was purchased , so t h a t the amount of business to

be ca r r i ed on this p rope r ty would be large enough to keep t h e

t w o boys and the fa the r in teres ted and with a la rge enough in­

come to t ake care of two families. Good blooded stock was

purchased , which incur red a fu r the r indebtedness in addi t ion

to the small mor tgage "Which was being carr ied, to ta l l ing $4,000.

Considerable a t t en t ion was also given to a change in the crop­

p ing system on this farm. A good sized field of alfalfa was p u t

in, a s t a r t was made in the g rowing of certified seed pota toes ,

and 500 apple t rees of s t a n d a r d variet ies were set out , beside a

considerable n u m b e r of cher ry and p lum t rees , and some smal l

f rui t . These changes in opera t ion will add considerably to the

income of the farm, as previously th i s has been opera ted a s a

s t r a i gh t da i ry farm, wi th about 16 head of mi lk ing g rade , short­

horn cat t le .

I n o rder to b r ing all of these deb ts in to one place, so t ha t t h i s

could be f inanced on a long t e rm, easy p a y m e n t basis, applica­

t ion was made to the Fede ra l L a n d B a n k of Springfield, and a

$4,000 loan was secured . By a p a y m e n t of $130 every six

months , not only the 5 y 2 % in te res t charged by the F e d e r a l L a n d

B a n k on bor rowed money wil l be t a k e n care of, b\it the amount

of the pr inc ipa l will be s teadi ly reduced. If any especially good

yea r s are exper ienced, as t hey are bound to be, on a fa rm of

th i s type and u n d e r such management , special p a y m e n t s may be

made a t any t ime so t h a t in te res t of the loan r u n n i n g for 3 4 %

years , the l eng th of t ime for which the loan ' i s g ran ted , may be

mate r ia l ly cut down. If especially good years are experienced,

i t m a y be pa id in full a t the end of five years , if these people so

desire. U n d e r the non-callable fea ture of the m o r t g a g e no dif­

ficulties can be exper ienced in c a r r y i n g a loan of th is size, which

r ep resen t s approx imate ly 50% of t he va lua t ion of this f a rm.

A S O N E W O M A N S E E S T H E F A R M B U R E A U Mrs. Nellie War ren of Casnovia, .Muskegon county, spcak-

veral Kami Bureau meetings in her county d u r i n g the

m\ Volunteer Membership W o r k e d c a m p a i g n , gave in a few

Is H splendid pic ture of the Fa rm Bureau idea. It could not

be improved upon and we present it here as an ideal F a r m Bu-

" T o be cheerful ; to be ne ighbor ly ; to love little chi ldren

and cherish t! t to be well horn, well fed and well

bred • ' s homes whose influence for l ife 's best shall iighout our communi ty ; to be cordial

i our friends and helpful to every

huni our neighbor a l i t t le

pass a long what

rued win he home making or home keep-

word and act ion

i spr ings from unselfish

•ight l iv ing ; th

n th read runs t h rough the

-lv a l ink in the

Ifc, • - into finer communities. ' ~3SL. j K i i

Many Members to Hear Coolidge at Chicago

(Continued from page 1) "To the laymen it seems odd, in­

deed, that downright misrepresenta­tion and fraud is not stamped out rapidly by Congress. One arm of the Government, the Department of Ag riculture, has proved to the queen's taste that Italian cio_yer seed, when planted in this country, will not pro­duce a good crop. —Long, arduous experiments, for which the farmers have patiently waited, have proved that Italian clover seed is no good and that clover and alfalfa seed from some other countries is not much hitter. Farmers have been trying to get Congress to permit the De­partment of Agricullture to mark this seed in such a way that ev­ery farmer will know that it is worth­less if he buys it.

"That is the situation that has made it necessary for the farmers to go to Congress and insist that the seed trade be given a cleaning. Only recently Herbert Hoover tried to get the seed trade together to put its house in order, but from all reports he was not very successful. In re­spect to clover seed alone, we im­ported about 24,000,000 pounds in 1923 and produced only 1,500,000 pounds. Enough seed came from Italy to plant a million acres and yet none of this seed was sold as Italian seed; that is, it was passed off as good American or home-grown seed. Thus the farmer lost not only on the seed which he-planted on a million acres, but also his time and invest­ment."

* Discuss Ha t Railroad proposals to increase

their freight rates, particularly the request of 7 4 western railroads fona 5 per cent blanket increase on all rates, will come in for consideration and action. The last hearing set by the Interstate Commerce Commis­sion on this case is scheduled to be held in Kansas City on December 14, just live days after the A. F. B. F. annual meeting comes to a close. Un­doubtedly, plans for the final presen­

tation of the farmers' position in this hearing will be developed at the annual meeting.

The Constitution of the American Farm Bureau Federation provides that "any state shall be entitled to one voting delegate if it has paid for the current year into the Ameri­can Farm Bureau Federation Treas­ury all membership dues" as provid­ed in this constitution, such suras amounting to a sum not less than the dues for 500 members."

In addition to this one voting dele­gate, each state is entitled to an ad­ditional voting delegate for each 20,000 or major portion thereof paid-up members in the state organ­ization, or in the county and local organizations affiliated with the state organization.

In addition to the voting delegates, the constitution of the A. F . B. F . provides that each state is entitled to one non-voting delegate and one additional non-voting delegate for every 10,000 farmers in the state. The non-voting delegates sit with the voting delegates, have the privi­lege of the floor, but do not have the right to vote.

At the headquarters of the A. F. I B. F. it is freely predicted that this

will be the largest and most signi­ficant national meeting ever held by farmers. The influence and mem­bership of the American Farm Bu­reau Federation has grown steadily during the past year.

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The Right Combination

Boys and Girls Appreciate Opportunities We Give Them

* M r s . W a g a r N o t e s E n t h u s i a s m

O f O u r S c h o o l A g e

C i t i z e n s

BY MRS. EDITH M. WAGAR Chairman Farm Bureau Home and

Community Work

If anyone doubts the worthwhile-ness of Boys and Girls Club work, let them attend their exhibits at the State Fair or 'most any county fair. It will not take ver'y long to convince the most skeptical that this work is not a waste of time.

r-spent considerable time^ in the new building for club work exhibits at the recent Ann Arbor fair, and I was greater impressed with the ex­tent to which this work is going in Washtenaw county. The pens of

sheep, cattle, calves, pigs and chickens proved to all that the youngsters are i n t e r e s ted and know their jobs to the letter. The ea­gerness of those young folks to care for their exhibits a n d answer all questions that the onlooker might ask made one lose some of the present pes­simism concerning

the future of agri­culture. One could see that here were some boys and girls who would stay on the farm and that they had the right training to make them see greater possibilities than the present operators have dared to think about.

They Know Foodstuffs And then when we studied those

exhibits of special training such as individual posters on nutrition in all its forms—from the proper breakfast to the correct school lunch-—show­ing the food values of various foods and preparations and the harmful-ness of others—the healthfulness of milk and the many forms of serving it; the body building, bone forming and heat producing varieties of foods—all this training certainly must have its influence in forming habits during the growing period of a youngster's life, thereby enabling

FARM BUR. BENEFITS NATION IN GENERAL

Farm Bureau membership solicit­ors in a Minnesota county recently approached a ' threshing crew where 26 men were "working. It was found that 18 were already members and the remaining 8 signed up to make it unanimous. "In Minnesota we are working on the principle that the Farm Bureau organization is not only a benefit to the individual member, but to agriculture and the nation in general," says Mr. J. F. Reed, President of the Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation.

our boys and girls to develop them­selves far better than we could. But we have the pleasure of providing the means for their development.

Then I noticed the study some had given to commonplace things that most of us live with every day, yet never give a passing thought. There were classified samples of every con­ceivable kind of wood and leaves pe­culiar to various localities. When we have the example before our very eyes, we are astonished to see what we really have around us.

\ Community Opportunity And I am sure no better use of

money could be made than that that is contributed towards making this

iwork possible and no greater service could be performed just now than that of local leader to a group of boys and girls who have a taste for competitive effort. No better exten­sion could mbe made to any county fair than to erect early in the game a building to house club work exhib­its.

I trust agricultural educational work can gradually grow in space and interest until it practically elim­inates the midway and fake sideshow attractions.

As these young people advance in the work and earn opportunities to attend the international and the state gatherings, during which time they are permitted to go and see and have advantages that the boy or gir>l otherwise might never have, their outlook .on future farm work* is far

| different than that of the youngster

who lives a humdrum life, each day like the one flefore it. But much of this depends upon support and en­couragement from us older ones and of such organizations as our county and local Farm Bureau units. No one who watched the crowd of club champions and their leaders that spent a week of the past summer va­cation at the State College doing stunts, seeing sights, working togeth­er and playing together could help but see the benefit this work is do­ing for future farm business and or­ganization.

And how we almost- envy those that participate in the many differ­ent kinds of demonstrations—from canning peas to culling poultry, from judging stock to making a bootjack, from darning a sock to making a bed. All learn their jobs from A to Z and the best part of it is that they can tell others how and why they did so and so.

They Appreciate It Why cannot our County Farm Bu­

reaus contribute just a little more thought and effort and money to ad­vance and support this work? And don't you think we could stir up our neighborhood and create some inter­est in some line of club work and then some of us find time that we might serve as a leader to the group? And couldn't we find some way that we could just keep that work moving and growing at our fairs and neigh­borhood and county and state exhib­its? Perhaps we would be serving and preserving agricultural senti­ment by indulging in a little more .of boy and girl encouragement and not quite so much in the bigger and more spectacular things which are so often disappointing by too much indifference from those supposed to be helped.

I am sure we could gradually change our fairs from so much hot-dog, fake concessionist, low-prin­cipled show and gambling concerns to a real attractive exhibit of the ag­ricultural and industrial possibilities within the county or state. We as leaders of our organization should have the vision of greater advance ment of our cause by inaugurating a worth-while exhibit of our various statewide or even national wide ac­tivities and. combine them with, each county's best effort and in some such way show the people at large just what service the Farm Bureau is rendering its members. We could easily show that we are an institu­tion with high ideals, aiming to as­sist all that would be willing to ac­cept, and who knows but that the outcome might gradually change the methods^and motives and man­agement of our fairs until we do come back to the genuine agricultur­al exhibit whereby we might not only look and learn but participate

"and enjoy as well. Exhibits would not only tend to advertise but to educate as well. They would once a year serve as a realization of goals attained and yet be the setting of goals yet to be reached.

Cro£ Impr. Ass'n Plans M. S. C. Harvest Festival

One of the features of the Michi­gan Crop Improvement Ass^i HAR­VEST FESTIVAL to be held at Michigan State College, Friday ;md Saturday, Nov. tj-T, will be a trip through the Michigan Farm Bureau Seed Service and its cleaning plant at Lansing. The crop growers and their families are tovhave a big Hal­lowe'en holiday—a party in jthe new Union building on the campus, a husking bee, special contests, a trip around the college farms, and to take in the Toledo Universitv-Michi-v gan State football game on Nov. 6.

MOLASSES DOES MAGICAL THINGS

IN DAIRY RATION I m p r o v e s D a i r y m a n ' s R e t u r n

B y E n a b l i n g C o w T o

D o H e r B e s t

"Molasses—one of the most com­monplace ingredients in the Michigan Farm Bureau Supply Service's Milk-maker dairy ration—plays an inter­esting and highly important part in the success of the ration," says B, A. Rainey, ass't manager of the Farm Bureau Supply Service.

"It starts in by adding p a y a b i l ­ity to the ration, and then by its chemical properties, hastens and im­proves the digestive action of the cow, enables her to assimilate her food better and faster and thereby makes quicker returns possible.

"Digestion anfl assimilation of food is based on certain fermenta­tions and chemical actions that must take place. Starch is converted into various kinds of sugar. Here is where the molasses gets in its good work. It is a food that is converted very easily and very quickly and con­tains within itself ingredients that cause the chemical processes of di­gestion to proceed at a "more rapid rate than they normally would.

"Molasses also acts as a splendid conditioner, giving the animals a sleelr, glossy, well-kept appearance. Jn the days of livery and boarding stables, there were plenty of ex­amples of the good effects of mol­asses. At one place on Gratiot ave­nue, Detroit, 200 or more horses were kept for the winter and were fed mostly molasses and a little hay. They were the sleekest, smoothest lot of horses one could imagine.

"Many herd owners have observed the good effects of the molasses in Milkmaker. There are sound scientific reasons for its being there, most important of which are its very beneficial effects on the cow's diges­tion."

FOR YOU AND ME By Me

A man is often credited with be­ing conservative, when actually he is only a slow thinkej-.

The best we get out of life is not the money we acquire. It is not the acres we own.

A peaceful mind and a joyous heart and a conscience that is not disturbed—those are the things that put joy into our lives and make us glaji we are living.

"Doing things, and not alone for self, is one of our great privileges.

Have you interested yourself in your neighbor's welfare? Don't say that you believe in minding your own business. You owe it to your friend and neighbor to tell him of your organization. Let's go see him. Let's get acquainted with him. Yott know, you may like him.

Before you and I iaround the forty mark) have cashed in our chips, we are going to realize that It was just as important to attend to ,some organization problems or commodity duty—just as important, I say, as it was to hitch up the team and go to the fields. We can't see it yet, can we?

When we, through our farm or co-operative organizations, have en­rolled a vast majority of the farm­ers as members—when we have se­cured 40, 50 or 60 per cent of our products on contract, to be handled through our own co-operatives—• when we have more nearly ap­proached our goal—folks, listen— we will have accomplished it through our own individual efforts —not purchased efforts, but volun­teer efforts!

Husband (Looking at bills:) Good grief, Mary, you must think I am money itself. t

Mary: I wish to goodness you were, then I could change you—Chi­cago Phoenix.

He: I've had a tune running thru my head all evening.

Bored :*Nothing there to stop it.— Yale Record.

T h e T r u t h i n F e e d s

MILKMAKER N o w Be ing D i s t r i b u t e d a t 2 6 O P o i n t s In M i c h i g a n

TH I S tremendous distribution deserves attention. Are you feeding to the best

advantage? Cows fed Milkmaker produce more milk

and but ter fat. They are healthier and stronger animals. Your feed cost is lower.

Every one of the ten milkmaking in­gredients is listed on every bag, pound for pound. Not an ounce of filler. You know exactly what you are feeding. Milkmaker is always the same. Ask ua for booklet on Milkmaker and Feed

ing Suggestions. For Sale by

Local Co-op ASM'IIM

Michigan Farm Bureau Supply Service

Lans ing Michigan 1

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1925 M I C H I G A N F A R M B U R E A U N E W S THREE

DAIRY CATTLE OF STATE ARE BEING

FREED FROM T-B Other States Press Michigan

Hard for Position of Leadership

Michigan Is making great strides in the matter of freeing its dairy herds from bovine tuberculosis. A new biennium in the history of this work has recently been started and there is every indication that mark­ed changes will be made in the T. B. map of Michigan during this two year period.

On July 1st, 1925, Michigan had 9 counties in the modified accredited area list and 20 in which the work was in progress. In addition there were 25 counties on the waiting list, making a total of 54 of the 83 coun­ties of the state in which the area plan had been adopted.

During the present fiscal year it is planned to complete the work in most of the 20 counties where it is under way and to take on a number of new counties. Then during the next fiscal year the expectation is that the work will be started in the majority of the balance of the pres­ent waiting list so that by the end of June, 1927, the work should be com­pleted in more than one third of the counties of the state and well under way with a large number of others. The whole proposition is just a ques­tion of funds and with no increase in the amount available during the next two years we cannot hope for much greater progress than was made during the last two year pe­riod.

What Other States are Doing The progress of the eradication

work in the various states is depend­ent principally upon the percentage of infection in the cattle and upon the funds appropriated for payment of indemnities. Michigan has been very fortunate in the bovine tuber­culosis eradication campaign com­pared to the other states of the dairy belt, because of the relatively low percentage of infection found among the herds. This fact coupled with an early start in the area work, has placed our state well in the front during the past few years.

Much larger "appropriations for indemnities in most of the adjoining states will make it. difficult for Mich­igan to hold its present enviable po­sition among the leaders much long­er. The following figures show the amounts appropriated by some of the leading dairy states for indemnities during the fiscal year "starting July 1, 1925:

New York $4,000,000 Pennsylvania 1,050,000 Illinois 1,000,000 Iowa 780,000 Wisconsin 750,000 Minnesota 500,000 Ohio 350,000 Michigan 250,000 Massachusetts 200,000 Connecticut 200,000' Maryland 180,000 Nebraska 142,000 New Hampshire 130,000 Indiana l . 100,000 New Jersey 100,000 The combined appropriations for

indemnities in all the states amounts to $10,933,500 of which New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois are respon­sible for considerably more than one half. The federal funds available for this year amount to~$2,402,750, of which $110,000 has been allotted to Michigan.

Farm Bureau Blankets, Underwear in Demand

Popularity Of Virgin Wool Goods Proves Wearing

Qualities

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Cool weather has again stimulated interest in Michigan Farm Bureau 100% wpol underwear and blankets. The Farm Bureau Fabrics dep't is doing a lively business these days in supplying members and others with Farm Bureau underwear and Farm Bureau blankets.

Following is a description of the Farm Bureau underwear:

white, lavender and white. Size 70x80, double, weight 5 pounds. Prive $12.00.

The Huron—CainHs Hair — A single ^blanket with fancy design border, .bound on ends with brown sateen ribbon. Size 70x80. Price $12.50.

The Jaekson—JOO% Virgin Wool —Large checks, rose and white, blue and white, gold and white,-tan and white and lavender and white. Size 70x80, double, weight 5 pounds. Sateen bound. Price $13.50.

The Eaton—1UU% Virgin Wool—

Our Special, a very popular single blanket, in dark and light tan checks

100% wool shirts and drawers, gray,-—Regular sizes to 48, price, $3.49 per garment. ' Extra sizes, to 54, $4.29 per garment.

Winter weight wool union suits, salmon color, all sizes,—stouts, regu­lar and extra size&—$7.29 per gar­ment.

Winter weight wool union suits—-gray. All sizes, stouts, regulars and extra sizes—$6.97 per garment.

80% light weight wool union suits, gray. Regular sizes to 48 at $4.29 per garment. Extra sizes to 54 at $4.59 per garment.

Fann Bureau Blankets Following is a desc?iption of the

splendid line of Farm Bureau blankets being shown this season:

Large checks, blue and white, rose and white, tan and whitef gold and white, lavender and white and Copen­hagen and white. Size 72x84, weight 5%. pounds. Double. Price $16.00.

The Kent—100% Virgin Wool— A single blanket, solid color with­out border. Bound all around in wide satin ribbon. Colors—Cham­pagne, rose and tan. Size 72x84, weight 4 pounds. Price $19.00.

Auto Robes Again The Fabrics Dep't has returned an

old favorite this fall in Farm Bu­reau virgin wool auto robes. They are 58 by 80 inches and come in three grades, a^dark gre.y at $5; an assortment of plaids at $10 and at

FIRST COST KEEPS^ ELECTRIC POWER

BEYOND FARMERS Pres. Noon and Mrs. Wagar

Attended Conference at State College

Farm Bureau Virgin Wool Auto Robes make winter driving comfortable

NEARLY 18 CARS BEING DRIVEN

Automobiles and trucks registered in the United States for the first six months of 1925 totaled 17,716,709, or an increase of 13.9 per cent over last year. Pleasure cars outnumber trucks and other commercial cars 7 to 1. Some 798,460 cars are re­ported for 'Michigan. In connection with the above figures, Henry Ford, after advertising his twelve mil­lionth car, states that one-third, of the population of the United States is now riding in Fords. In seeking support for a wider Woodward ave­nue, the Detroit Free P'ress says that the number of new cars bought in Detroit alone for the month of June ^alone would make a line 38 miles long, thus giving us an idea of the growing traffic congestion in the cities.

Our Special—A single blanket in small block of dark and light tan, with a 4-inch brown vertical border. Floss bound. Size*66x84, weight 4 pounds. Price $9.00.

The Wayne—75% Virgin Wool— Large checks, blue and white, pink and white, £an and white, gray and white with sateen binding to match plaid. Size 70x80, double, weight 5 pounds. Price $9.00.

The Allegan—80% Virgin Wool— Large checks, blue and white, rose and white, tan and white, gold and

$15 a robe that is brown on one side and plaid on the other.

A high grade of men's hosiery is new this season. The Fabrics dep't offers men's light weight wool hose in black, cream, seal brown, olive green or gray at 69 cente a pftir. It also offers men's art silk and worst­ed half hose in green and brown heather, blue heather, and brown, at 87 cents a pair.

Much of the business being done with members in distant parts of the State is being done, by mail.

LOOK AT THE MAP AFTER READING THIS

Resorters Would Spend $50,000,000 on Roads

At its annual meeting at Muske­gon October 7, the Michigan Tourist and Resort Ass'n started agitation for another $50,000,000 bond issue for the paving of trunk line high­ways—principally the feeders to the resort sections. The A5s''n would have the interest paid by an increase in the present gas tax, and suggests that the $50,000,000 be retired as the present bonds are being retired, which we recall stood at a standstill until the enactment of the pri gas tax. Not much support is heard for the Tourist Ass'n proposal. Com­ment seems to be that we-had better take care of our main road system first and pay as we go.

"In Hawaii they have the same weather all the year round."

"How do their conversations star t?"

Interests Insist That Farmer Is Getting Rich

(Continued from page 1) "Some progress is being made in

the way of cutting down his costs through improved machinery. This is quite marked in. the case of the larger farming operations, but to a very much less degree in the case of Ihe small farm, where the amount of land operated is not sufficient »to justify the investments

Taxes Oreat Burden "To make the general situation

more difficult, we have had a wild period of' increased taxation of all kinds, so that in many sections of/ the country today the farmer is pay­ing each year in taxes as much as the rent of the land would have amounted to ten years ago. This is state and local taxation rather than national taxes.

"The point I am trying to develop is that if anybody comes in to your meeting Friday and tries to tell you that the farm problem is past or that it is automatically working to a sat­isfactory solution, I smggest you do not take that viewpoint too seri­ously.

"Others will bring up the proposi­tion that any attempt to do anything to relieve the agricultural situation is favoritism* or helping one class against the other. The answer is simple, and that is that the farmer's burden of today has been greatly in­creased through class legislation in favor of labor and industry, which does not bring any compensation in the way of return to the farmer. In other words, we have raised the cost of his operations and the cost of I everything he has to buy through. M r g N e w r i c h w a s f o n d o f n o w e r s special privilege granted to industry a n f l e s p e c I a l l v l i k e ( 1 t h e s alvia, but

,and labor, all of which has added to w & s n o t v e r y r e i iable in getting hies burden and for. which I can see n a m e s r i g n t S n e was giving direc-

•no compensation until we reach the t i o n s t o n e r g a r ( jener. "On this side time when substantially all that he o f t h e w aU( r" s h e s a i ( i t <i w a n t you produces may be consumed at home t o u u t o u t s o m e s a n V as . Now what and that will not happen during the w o u i d y o u 9Uggest Tor the other present generation." ' side?"

"Well, madam," answered the Write the Farm Bureau Supply gardener solemnly, "maybe it would

service at Lansing for its booklet on be a good idea to put some spittoon-Poultry Feeding. ias there."—Glasgow Heron.

Everyone knows Texas is the larg­est state in the Union, but few ap­preciate its true magnitude. Best comparison perhaps rs offered by imagining Michigan, Wisconsin, Il­linois, Indiana and Ohio thrown into one territory. Even then you would have to add West Virginia to equ*l Texas' expanse.

Or fancy a tract whose width is greater than the distance from New York to Chicago.

Considering its importance, Texas probably is the least known ot the states. The popula-r picture is one of an endless stretch of prairie and des­ert.

True, it has a semi-desert tu% size of Ohio. But it also has ' 8,Q0O.«MM> acres of pine forest land in the east, mountains 10,000 feet in altitude, a town higher than Denver, a 450 mile coast line—the lower part with a winter climate that rivals Florida. While snow covers the panhandle ranges, summer flowers are in bloom in the southern point.—Grand Rap­ids Press.

October 13 and 14 at the Michi­gan State College another confer­ence on ways and means of securing electric light and power for Michi­gan farmers was held.

This conference was under the aus­pices of the Public Ownership League and discussed largely the ad­vantages of securing power from public oWhed lighting plants. The State Farm Bureau was represented by Pres. Noon and Mrs. Wagar\ The State Grange, organized labor and cities and communities having pub­licly owned power plants were also represented.

Neither the State College nor the State Farm Bureau took the atti­tude of favoring either public or pri­vately owned electric power systems, but were agreed on the need o rural communities for such power. The great problem is how to make it available to farmers at rates they can afford.

Dean BisiWl of the State College Engineering dep't, who has been one of a number of Michigan men study­ing the problem of how to make power available to farms at rates which would have a popular accept­ance, pointed out some of the' diffi­culties confronting the power idea: "In 1920," said Dean Bissell, "only 170,000 out of 0,.">00,000 farms in the United States had elec­tric light and power. One reason for that is the unavoidable higher fixed charges in installing and maintain­ing rural service. In a short city block if there are 20 homes, there probably are 20 customers. In the country, the average is four cus­tomers to the mile. Add to that the accepted plan among power com panies that the farmer wishing ser­vice must pay the cost of building the line—about $1,200 per mile, or about $300 per family at the rate of four to the mile.

"Add tp that obstacle the sl&w de­velopment of electrified farm m a " chinery, the unwillingness of power companies to build service lines themselves and take a chance on ru­ral business paying out. Then there is an apparent unwillingness of the farmer to accept electric power as he has the automobile, and finally the ed the automobile, and finally the large first cost of electrical equip­ment." '

The State College, Michigan Pub­lic Utilities Commission, power com-panies^*and farm organizations have been studying the problem of rural electric power for some tim?. The problem has gotten down to the point of means to get it to the farms at rates and installation costs which the farmers feel that they can af­ford. A permanent committee i continuing its study along these lines.

"The farmer has come to look on the automobile as a necessity and we all have them," said Mrs. Wagar "When we make up our minds that the farm is the best place to live and that we intend to stay there always and that mother's work must be lightened, we will find means to get electric power, either co-operatively or by the installation of farm plants. The Wagar home is of moderate means, and we feel that we *annot afford anything more expensive than a Ford or like priced car, but for ten years we have felt that we could not afford to be without elec­tricity and running water and the equipment that goes with, them, so that we may have the comforts of a town home without the disadvantag­es of living in town. It takes money to equip a home with these devices, but it can be done a bit at a time We must keep in mind the labor saved and the cost of doing it the old way as compared to doing it the new way."

President Noon spoke on some of the practical problems concerned wjfh harnessing electricity to farm work, pointing out present difficul ties in belting the speed of electric motors to the different slow speed

MINNESOTA ON THE MAYFLOWER (St. Paul Pioneer Pre

Minnesota has found a permanent place on the President's yacht, the Mayflower, in its cuisine department. A contract was signed last week calling for the delivery of "Land O' Lakes" sweet cream butter to the steward of the ship, for the use of the Presidential entourage. Having already won recognition of the United States navy, for the use of Minnesota grown butter on the ships of the fleet, it was natural that the Mayflower should not lag behind in sharing the good things that Minnesota purveys to all the world.

The advertising value of the contract "is far beyond the cash profit Minnesota dairy farmers will reap by the sale. It calls atten­tion to a brand of butter made by a co-operative organization of farmers, whose quality fits it for use on the tables of the highest officer of the land. It accents again the benefits ef standardization of product, of the high advantage of quality made possible by doing together well, what once was done poorly by individual effort.

If thirty-five years ago Minnesota butter was used on the Presi­dent's table,—no one knows of it. It was just "butter,'' its quality uncertain and its supply equally so,,

Today the farmer joining hands with his fellows, signs a contract with you to furnish you the quantity and quality on the date speci­fied, like any other business man—and he fixes the price.

That's what Minnesota butter on the Mayflower simplifies.

Writes Pres. Noon What He Heard In Chicago

(Continued from page 1) money was all bunk and they would prove it; and that the farmer was getting more money for his products now than he did a while ago and that his money was worth, more now any­way, whether he knew it or not. The lawyer said he would prove that too by experts who know their business even if they didn't know farming.

The* Mr. Aitchison who seems to be a right handyJsort of man in such matters and knows just when to shut up lawyers and railroad presidents and such when they get to running wild and begin to orate about this and that and giving their opinions that the railroads are going to the dogs in a minute and argue about it on the witness stand by the hour, which I know they shouldn't^ having been on a jury myself and seeing how the judge does the same thing when witnesses get off the track, Mr. Aitchison said he wanted everything to be smart and snappy and he wants just the facts and that he has al­ready reserved a nice cool room down at Washington for them to ar­gue the case in. He wasn't going to take any chances on having them do their arguing there at a high priced hotel which the1 government was paying for.

Judge Cowen on Profits If was so good that I figured I

needed a little vacation, so for 8 days after that I set there and listen­ed to railroad presidents and mana­gers and experts and bankers tell how bad off the railroads in the Up­per Peninsula of Michigan and other

HANDS OFF CO-OP MARKETING IS CRY

OF DAIRY FARMERS Take Same Stand as Michigan

Farm Bureau Against Paternalism

because they were tired of listening, the railroads because they thought they had made a good showing, and the shippers' and farmers' repn tative because they wanted to get home and pull the railroad case to pieces to see what it was made of and get ready to cross-examine the railroad witnesses.

Then I talked to Mr. Murphy who was there with Mr, Mills for the Michigan State Farm Bureau, look­ing after the interests of the farm­ers in Michigan and he said that this hearing and the next one which would be on October 26 affected the Upper Peninsula of Michigan farm* ers only, but that whatever was de­cided in the case of the western roads would have a bearing on the case when the farmers of the Low­er Peninsula asked for lower rates on their products, to be made accord­ing to the principles of the Hoch-Smith resolution. The hearing on the Lower Peninsula rates will prob­ably take place sometime within the next few months. Mr. Murphy said that the Farm Bureau- would try to show at the next hearing on October 26 that some of the railroad figures were not correct and that the farm­ers in the Upper Peninsula were not in such a prosperous condition as the railroads said, and that instead of increasing the rates on their prod­ucts that some of them should be re­duced. The farmers in the Upper Peninsula should know about this case and maybe they will wonder who would go down to Chicago for them, to fight the case if they didn't have a Farm Bureau. We will have to get busy in the Lower Peninsula, too, and get ready for the hearings which will affect us because we all

That the position oHthe Michigan State Farm Bureau in opposing pa­ternalistic control of co-operative marketing is growing in popularity was evidenced recently when repre­sentatives of S&O.OQO dairy farmers meeting at Philadelphia petitioned President Coolidge to use his influ­ence to "keep the government's hands off" of co-operative marketing organizations.

Directors of the National Co-op­erative Milk Producers' Federation adopted a resolution asking the president to help stop any legisla­tion which would give the govern­ment control of business policies of farmer co-operative associations or of any other business trading or­ganizations.

A copy of the resolution was for­warded to President Coolidge.

"We voice the conviction that any legislation, either state or national, that requires or permits the licens­ing of co-operative marketing asso­ciations by either the state or fed­eral government or any governmen­tal or semi-governmental bureau or commission, or that gives to any such bureau or commission any voice in the control of the business or such co-operative association or a voice in determining their methods and poli­cies is fraught with grave danger to such marketing associations," the resolution said. "Bureaucratic con­trol of any concern engaged in com­merce is at best perilous; but if im­posed upon any group so engaged, it should be imposed upon all.

"The marvelous growth and de­velopment of commerce and indus­try has been possible because those thus engaged have been at liberty to exercise their initiative and their business ability unhampered by gov­ernmental or other outside interfer­ence."

The above sentiment is practically identical with that embodied in the following resolution which was adop­ted at the last annual meeting of the State Farm Bureau Board of Delegates:

"RESOLVED, That we are oppos­ed to any measure which would cre­ate a duplication of machinery for aid in marketing farm products, or which would tend toward a paternal­istic control of farmers' organiza­tions and we demand the right for a free and unhampered development of co-operative marketing."

parts of the west are and how rich* know that some of the rates on our

farm machinery and the present ex-pensivenes^s of getting around some of the problems.

He suggested that it would be de­sirable to have a uniform belt speed worked out by the manufacturers of electric motors and the manufactur­ers of farm equipment.

"Since you are discontented, why don't you sell your farm and move to the city?"

"I've done heard about them pric­es for flats," answered Farmer Corn-tossel. "I'd rather go on bein' dis­contented than take a chance on be-in' plain desperate."—Washington Star.

They were sitting on the piazza of a summer hotel swapping stories. "Ever hear this one?" asked tke dark young man. "A dog was tied to a rope 14 feet long. Twenty feet away was a fat, juicy bone. How did the dog get to the bone?"

"Ob, that's an old gag," said his companion. "You want me to say 'I give it up,' and then you'll say, "That's what the other cur did.' "

"No, you're wrong, for the dog got the bone." -•

"Well, how did he get it?" "Why. the other end of th,e rope

was not tied."—Boston Transcript.

Mary was newly engaged. "We un­derstand each other perfectly," she said. "Tom tells me everything he knows, and I tell him everything I know, too."

"Really!" exclaimed her candid friend, "And don't you sometimes find the silence rather oppressive?" •—Madrid Toro.

— Columbia Record—A political

prune is the matured product of a political plumf

and prosperous, the , farmers are along these railroads until I nearly decided to go up in the Upper Penin­sula or out west and buy a farm and make enough money so I could take a trip around the world after the corn is cut next fall (I mean in 1926). When I asked Mr. Mills, the Michigan Farm Bureau traffic mana­ger, when I could get a train out of Chicago he told me I had better think it over and come back to Chi­cago, October 26, when there will be another hearing and the railroad witnesses will be examined by the farmers' representatives and maybe I would change my mind. I was glad I didn't go out west right then or to the Upper Peninsula because a fel-

'low they call Judge Cowen said all these experts was telling him he was making money off his farm but- he knew damn well he wasn't making any.

You remember Dr. Friday who was president of the Michigan State College a few years ago? He was one of them who was trying to prove to Judge Cowen by a big bunch of figures that he was making money off his farm. I bet the judge will do a lot of hunting around in his old clothes when he gets, home to see if he didn't leave a $5 in them by mis­take. Then one day a fellow spilled the beans about why the railroads was only asking for a 5 per cent in-crease, instead of the 11 per cent which they said was promised to them. He was a Mr. Byram who works foi the Saint Paul railroad.

Help for the Needy Mr. Byram is now one of the re­

ceivers for the St. Paul and Mr. Pot­ter who was a member of the Inter­state Commerce Commission is an­other receiver. Mr. Potter has a plan for helping the western rail­roads out of their troubles which would require only a 5 per cent in­crease in rates. Under his plan if the railroads got a 5 per cent in­crease they would take the money which was made out of this 5 per cent increase and put it in a pool which would be distributed to the roads which did not make a 5 and % per cent return on their investment. This money in the pool would be given to these weak roads accord­ing to how bad they needed it and in time they would be able to. get bet­ter equipment and build up their roads so that they would also have a chance to make a return on their investment without any help from this 6 per cent increase and when that time came I suppose the 5 per cent increase would be taken off.

The plan seemed reasonable but 1 couldn't understand exactly how the farmer in the west and in the Up­per Peninsula cpuld make a fair re­turn also if he had to pay that •". per cent.

Everyone was satisfied when the hearing was over. The Commission.

products are too high. I think I'll need another vacation

about the time that the shippers' side of the case is presented in Chi­cago, and I think I'll go down and take it in and see just how we stand. Will let you hear from me.

Yours, BILL EVANS,

Oct. 2, 1925, Albion, Michigan. Member, Calhoun Co. Farm Bureau.

PUN WITH THE MEDICOS "Doctor,, can't you help my hus­

band?" "What's the matter with him,

madam?" "Oh, he worries so." "About wfiat?" "About his money. Can't you

please do something for him, Doc­tor?" •

"I think I can. Send him to me. I'll relieve him of at lea'st some of his trouble."—-Yonkers Statesman.

PRACTICAL POINTERS Heat oats or barley in the oven

and pour it into wet, soggy shoes at night. Set away in a warm place. The grain absorbs moisture from leather without making it hard and stiff so that the shoes may be com­fortably and safely worn the next day.

Windows will not steam over in the winter if you rub them with a glycerine oloth.

West Mich. Spud Show At Greenville Oct. 29-31

Greenville, Oct. 15.- The West Michigan Potato Show will be held here October 29 to 31. A splendid program has been prepared. State Comm. of Agr. L. Whitney Wat kin-will speak Thursday afternoon on "Grading Michigan Potatoes." Oth­ers to speak will be Prof, Geo. Grantham of the State College Soils Dep't, Clarence B. Lincoln, Green­ville potato grower; II. C. Moore, secy of the Mich. Potato Producers Ass'n; Prof. J. F. Cox, head of the State College Farm Crops Dep't; Roy Rossman, Lakeview grower; Prof. O. E. Reed, State College Dairy Dep't; P. W. Weston, State College potato specialist. Samuel Metzgar of'Greenville will speak on markets and Dr. Eben Mumford of State College on rural problems. A banquet will be held Friday ning. Judging contests for men. women and children will take place Saturday afternoon.

( OAJj STRIKE LOSSES

The present anthracite coal strike ising the coal hauling railroads

a loss of $3,500,000 weekly rev­enues, and* has laid off 19,000 rail­road workers.

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prrr** M I C H I G A N F A R M B U R E A U N E W S FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1925

MILK BUYERS QUIT; ASS'N COLLECTS

FARMERS' $ 1 1 , 8 0 0 T w o Instances S h o w H o w

Milk Producers Protects Its Farmers

GUARANTEES ALL SALES

Vegetarians Protest, But Stock Men Are Jubilant

Learned Professor Points to Many Virtues of Meat

as Food

Ass'n Gives Members Both Sales and Financial

Service

During the last two months the Melrose Creamery company of De­troit, together with the East Lawn Dairy and A. G. Riley Dairy of Flint, discontinued the milk busi­ness. In one of the cases the farm­ers suffered their own loss, while in the other two they had the protec­tion of the Michigan Milk Producers Association.

When the Melrose Creamery com­pany found they were losing a con­siderable amount of money, they de­cided to discontinue distributing milk and quit while still owing the milk producers approximately $10,-000.00 for milk. Due to the fact that the Association was carefully taking necessary steps to protect its inter­ests and thereby see that the farm­ers were paid for this milk, certain negotiations were carried out so the farmers received their money from the Association and the money is be­ing collected by the Association from certain assets and backing of the Melrose Creamery Company.

Several months ago the A. G. Riley Dairy of Flint was in such financial condition that the Association could no longer guarantee protection to the farmers. The farmers were no­tified and when Mr. Riley failed to pay for the milk which he had pur­chased, the producers were paid by the association. The Association in protecting its own interests obtain­ed quite a bit of creamery equip­ment and when this was sold it par­tially paid for the loss suffered by the Association.

The Riley Dairy Company continu­ed in business, being supplied with milk by outside milk concerns, and by farmers that were not members of the Association. The business con­tinued to go badly with them, and when they quit during the past month the independent farmers and outside concerns that had supplied the milk found themselves heavy los­ers. Fortunately the Association had forecasted this situation several months before, and had fairly well protected its interests and. of course, the members of the Association were fully protected. The second cream­ery to discontinue business in Flint. owing to its inability to pay for milk, was the East Lawn Dairy. In this case they were getting farther behind each week, and instead of going into bankruptcy either through force or voluntarily, closed its doors. This left the farmers with their milk on their hands but the worst feature of it was the fact that they had due them approximately $1,800.00 in payment for milk.

The Association has now settled with these farmers for their milk, and security has been given to the Association by the East Lawn Dairy whereby the Association fully ex­pects to be able to collect the amount of money due them. Within twenty-four hours after the East Lawn Dairy quit, milk from the farmers involved was sold to other Flint con­cerns.

These cases show the necessity of a farmers fluid milk organization, not only for the sale of their milk, but for the purpose of protecting their financial interests. It was not originally intended that the 2c per hundred which the association mem­bers have paid into the association would act as an insurance fund, but after several years it has built up a fund of sufficient size so that about two years ago a clause was put in the new contract stipulating that the association member was guaranteed pay for his milk. It has thereby been brought about that the 2c per hundred acts as a co-operative insur­ance fund to all members shipping to milk distributors as well as to pay the expense of operating the associa­tion. It further shows the necessity of keeping the association strong fi nancially so that it is in a position to financially protect* the farmers' interests.

In these cases mentioned we can­not say that all farmers would have lost their money if it had not been for the organization, but we are very sure that the Association, through its offices, is unquestionably in a better position to look after these matters, check up on them as need­ed, and thereby protect the farmers' interests better and cheaper than what he could do it himself as in­dividuals. The association may. from time to time, have some losses in spite of every effort they can put forth. However, everything is done that is possible in order to avoid taking undue risks. Then, if losses are sustained, there is no question but what through the Association and by all farmers protecting the in­terests of each other, the loss can be more easily sustained than it can by each individual standing his own

- higan Milk Messenger, Oc­tober 1. 1925.

WHK.llK THE KOKIX GOES

Who uses all the rosin this coun-Manufacturers of pa-

i>aper sixe. varnish, soap, rosin oil. pitch and printing ink, says the

Dep't of Agriculture,

Topeka, Kan., Sept. 24.—If you want to stay young longer, lengthen your span of life, and have plenty of pep and vigor, eat meat and other animal protein such as eggs and dairy products. This is the advice of James Rollin Slonaker, Professor of Physiology* at Stanford Univer­sity, California, who spoke here at the Meat Congress, a feature of the Kansas State Free Fair. Meat eaters also will show more initiative, Pro­fessor Slonaker stated, while races practicing vegetarianism will become extinct in the third generation.

"These conclusions were reached," he pointed out. "after 24 years of experimentation. Rats were used in the experiments becs|use rats and hu­man beings, both are omnivorous mammals, exhibiting a similar sort of physiology and living according to the same physiological laws. Both have the same type of digestive sys­tem, prefer the same type of food, and are governed by the same chem­ical laws. For these reasons, the re­sults obtained with rats are applic­able to human beings as well."

Affected Reproduction "We found in our investigations

with several hundred Albino rats that a restricted diet, that is a diet containing vegetables but no meat, greatly reduces the powers of repro­duction." said Dr. Slonaker. "In fact, this increased as time progres­sed and by the third generation the race of restricted feeders was entire­ly extinct. A marked increase in cannibalism was noted among the re­stricted feeders, this being evidence of the natural need for meat."

The speaker explained that the rats were divided into two groups. One group was subjected to a strict­ly vegetable diet and the other was fed the same vegetables supplanted by animal protein, principally meat. Aside from the differences recorded as to the ability to bear young, and cannabalastic tendencies, it was also shown, according to Dr. Slonaker, that the rats placed on a restricted diet were considerably below normal weight. The maximum weight of males was 35 per cent below normal and that of the females 25 to 28 per cent below normal. The young of restricted feeders were below weight at birth, the males 18 per cent and the females 14.5 per cent. This be came more pronounced in successive generations, he said, the growth of young males being 30 per cent and young females 23 per cent ' below normal.

Xo Meat-No Pep Further than this, the speaker

stated that the feeding of a strictly vegetable diet developed a sluggish­ness. The average ratio of voluntary activity showed that the rats fed meat and vegetables were about 17 times as active as those fed vege­tables alone. The females in each group were more active than the males.

Other detailed phases of the sub­ject comparing characteristics of the rats of the two groups were discuss­ed by the speaker, and in every in­stance he indicated the insufficiecy of a diet limited to vegetables.

The Mpat Congress at which Dr. Slonaker was one of the principal speakers is said to be the first event of its kind ever held in connection with a state fair. The idea was insti­tuted by J. H. Mercer, Secretary of the Kansas Live Stock Association.

MAY GO TO COURT OVER SPUD BUYING

Exchange Charges Illegal Overtures To Its

Growers

Cadillac, Oct. 12.—Legal action against buyers who encourage the growers to violate their five-year crop marketing Contracts with the Michigan Potato Growers Exchange may be taken in the near future, it was reported here Monday.

Representatives of the Exchange, it was learned, have been obtaining evidence against certain buyers said to be inducing farmers to violate their potato contracts.

Authority in l»2:$ Intu­it is alleged one large operator in

the state instructed buyers to offer growers holding contracts with the Exchange prices which were said to be 20 per cent higher than those usually paid at these buying sta­tions.

If legal action is taken it prob­ably will be started under the state anti-discriminating marketing law passed by the legislature in 1923. This law was drafted to protect co­operative and small shippers. The act prohibits a large dealer from paying higher prices at ofie point than at others, due allowance being made for difference in transporta­tion charges.—Grand Rapids Press.

Psalm 1925

II W I L L praise the Lord with my whole hea r t for His acts

of Creat ion and Providence. Fo r His gifts of Life, Hea l th

and S t r eng th .

I will praise Him with the plowshare. T will praise Him with the drill, 1 will praise Him with the cul t iva tor and hinder, I will praise Him with the threshing machine.

O let us worship the Lord with holiness in His Sanctu­

ary . His Sanctuary pi the Woods, the Fields, the

Meadows and the Marke t Place. Then shall His g lory

fill our houses and OUT barns . Then shall our cattle and

our crops br ing forth its increase.

O give thanks unto Our Fa the r for the Test Tube and

the Labora tory . For the class room and teacher . F o r

the Lecturer and the Invest igator . ,

Deliver us. Our plaster, from the sin of the small measure and the short weight . Deliver us from a proud spiri t and make us to be Humble. Then shall the fields and the catt le , the grain elevators and store bins show Thy mercy and all men shall call Thee Blessed.

EDITOR'S NOTE—The anti-dis­crimination law mentioned above was passed by the 1923 legislature with the assistance of the State Farm Bureau, the Bureau, Potato Grow­ers Exchange and other farmers' marketing bodies uniting on the mea­sure. The practice of certain big dealers of paying high in the co­operative community to "bust" the co-op and at the same time under­bid the market in a non-co-operative community to make up the differ­ence was raising havoc with both classes of farmers. The law was passed to put an end to that kind of competition, and, in the main, has worked pretty well without a test in court.

Ontonagon County Is Now Accredited Area

Ontonagon County was recently declared a modified accredited area, the percentage of bovine tuberculosis having been reduced to less than one-half of one per cent, the neces­sary low level to entitle this county to this rating from the U. S. Dep't of Agriculture. While Ontonagon County is the lOrti county to be desig­nated as a modified accredited area in Michigan, it is the first accredited county in the Upper Peninsula. How­ever, several others will qualify dur­ing the present fiscal year.

Only one other state. North Caro­lina, has more modified accredited counties than Michigan. Thirty-sev­en North Carolina counties have al­ready qualified. The rapid progress there is due to very light infection. In fact, every one of the 37 counties so far tested has qualified with less than half of one per cent on the first test.

Thumb of Michigan To Hold A Potato Show

Mayville, Oct. 14.—-The Thumb potato growers—with 40,000 acres of spuds—are to hold a potato show here Nov. 11-12-13. Counties includ­ed in the Thumb of Michigan Show are Huron, Sanilac, Tuscola, Bay, Saginaw, Genesee, Lapeer and St. Clair. Lapeer ranks fourth in the state for potato acreage and Tuscola seventh. About $750 is anticipated in prizes. Some growers in this area are growing a long Russet po­tato which they think can be de­veloped as a Baking potato for Mich­igan cities in place of western po­tatoes now being used.

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FOUND THE CLOUD A farmer who was always com­

plaining about everything, was showing the result of ..fine .growing weather and superior skill in cul­tivating, when his visitor said to him: "Well, you ought to be satis­fied with such crops as these. Thtic

is 'certainly nothing lacking. You have nothing to kick about this year."

The old farmer stood in a medita­tive mood for a moment, then re-Dlied: "Well, you know, son, such crops as these is pesky hard on the soil."

Let the Farm Bureau Clean Your Seed

Let the experience and unexcelled cleaning facilities of the MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU S E E D S E R V I C E help you put your home-grown seed in the cleanest and best possible condit ion.

Remember, we have the equipment tha t gets buckhorn , thistle, pigeon grass, mustard , dock and wild car ro t . Our cleaning prices are very reasonable, as is shown by the following schedule :

Carttfge (ou freight shipments) 3c per bu. Cleaning seed free from buckhorn 30c per bu. Cleaning seed for buckhorn $1.00 per bu. Cleaning over centr ifugal mill for removal

of thistle, pigeon grass or mus ta rd $1.00 per bu. Cleaning, scarifying and recleaning alfalfa

and hulled sweet clover 50c per bu. Cleaning and scarifying unhul led sweet

clover ' 50c per bu. P lus actual t ime required for hul l ing at $1.25 per hour <AU charges are based upon the weight of seed when

received.)

' W e are anxious and glad to buy clover, alfalfa or sweet clover seed.

Send us a sample of your seed. •• Let your F a r m Bureau serve you. "Write us.

Co-ops Ship Carlots To F. B. Poultry Exch.

Hamilton, Oct. 5—Two carloads of live poultry were shipped from the Hamilton Co-operative Ass'n and one carload from the Holland Co-opera­tive Ass'n membership to the Farm Bureau Poultry Exchange at De­troit during the past few days. By shipping in carloads, the expense of shipping is greatly reduced. Quite a tew Michigan co-op ass'n member­ships are now shipping poultry in carlots to the Farm Bureau Poultry Exchange at Detroit.

Tourists Paying Gas Tax Are Great Help

All states in the Union save four —Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jer­sey and New York—have turned to gasoline taxes" as the fairest means for raising their improved highway construction and maintenance costs. Thus, those who use the roads, are paying their fair share in highway upkeep. The usual tax is two cents per gallon. Farmers in the four states mentioned above are fighting for gasoline taxes. Chicago block­ed it in Illinois the last session of the Illinois legislature. The first six months of 1925 the gas tax raised $53,000,000 for highway building in 44 states. In Michigan it was $3.-385,000 to June 30 and when the tourist season opened it jumped to around $900,000 a month.

Two New Directors On Potato Exchange Board

Cadillac, Oct. 14.—^-Announcement .is made by the Michigan Potato Growers Exchange of the resignation of Directors J. D. Robinson of Lever­ing and Fred Smith of Elk Rapids. Mr. Smith continues* as acting gener­al manager. Wesley Diltworth, man­ager of the Boyne City Marketing Ass'n, has been named to succeed Mr. Robinson and George Herman of the Edmore Co-op Ass'n has been chos­en to succeed Mr. Smith.

Population on Farms Declined During 1924

The farm population of the Unit­ed States decreased approximately 182,000 during 1924, according to the estimates based on a survey of 25,000 representative farms recently made by U. S. Dep't of Agriculture. This is a drop of 0.6 per cent during that year, the estimated farm popu­lation on January 1, 1925, being 31,134,000 compared with 31,316,-000 on January 1, 1924. This esti­mate includes not only the agricul­tural workers, but all men, women, and children living on the farms on that date.

The movement from farms to cit­ies, towns and villages in 1924 is es­timated at 2,075,000; the move­ment to farms was 1,396,000, mak­ing a net movement from farms of 679,000 persons, or 2.2 per cent. Births among the farm population during 1924 are estimated at 763,-ooii, and deaths at 266,000, making a natural increase of 497,000, which reduced the loss due to the cityward movement to 182,000 or 0.6 per cent.

Top O' Mich. Potato Show to Open Nov. 3

Gaylord, Oct. 14.—The annual Top O' Michigan Potato and Apple show is to be held here Nov. 3-4-5, with farmers from Alpena, Antrim, Cheboygan, Crawford, Montmoren­cy. Otsego and Emmett counties. This show has come to be a great event for northern Michigan. Boys and Girls Club work has an import­ant place on the program Friday, No­vember 6. C. J. Franks, president of the Otsego County Farm Bureau, is a member of the Board of Directors of the show. The premium book and program is being distributed. .Cop­ies may be had on application to C. A. Lytle at Gaylord, Mich.

It's a hard world. By the time a man gets old enough and prosperous enough to sleep late, he wakes up regularly at 4 a. m.

Minnesota Co-op Sells Above N. Y. Price Level

A new record was established by the Minnesota Co-operative- Cream-eYies Association when it sold its total July butter shipments at one half a cent above New Yorkx Extras.

In July, the association sold the huge total of 9,142,326 pounds of butter, paying back to the members $3,967,891.22.

This was an average price 43.40 cents a pound. This feat of getting a total return above N. Y. Extras is a practical demonstration of the excellence of the sales sys­tem built up by the Minnesota dairy­men.

The association now is shipping butter to Haiti, the Dominican Re­public, the British West Indies, Mex­ico, Panama, Venezuela, Columbia, Peru, China, Japan and the Philip­pines.

Every pound of butter that is la­beled Land O* Lakes is accompanied by a government inspection- certif­icate which certifies the butter con­tained in the package scored 93 or better when inspected.

We Believe This Speaking of flavors, perhaps you

do not know that scientists regard quinine as the high mark in that line.

Cndilutpd quinine is so strong that it readily'can* be tasted by the aver­age person when one part is dissolv­ed in 152,000 parts of water. Even the morning after taste fades before it.—Grand Rapids Press.

Stick By Your Co-op Shipping Ass'n!

You all know how things have worked since the local co-op livestock shippers came in. The stock buyers took on a new lease on life and have been paying nearer the market price to get your business.

Let your co-op,die out and see what happens. Conditions would probably soon be back on about the old basis.

You believe in the co-op idea, now carry it one step farther. See that your stock is sent to the co-operative commission houses at Detroit and East Buffalo.

These firms have grown rap­idly in popular favor and in vol­ume of business handled. Ex­perienced and, capable managers and salesmen insure that you will get the top price and uni­formly good service.

Furthermore, your stock is handled at actual cost. You pay the regular commission to the co-op, but it returns any savings to you as a patronage dividend.

Next time, ship to the—

Mich. Livestock Exch. at Detroit

Prod. Co-op. Com. Ass'n at East Buffalo

BUSINESS NEWS 8c a word per Inser t ion for S or

more inser t ions ; 3}io a word for eacM of 2 Inser t ions ; 4 e e n t s a word for one Inser t ion . Coun t each word, abbrev ia t ion and f igure, In­c luding words in s i g n a t u r e , a* \ words . Cash m u s t a c c o m p a n y order . Mick. F a r m B u r e a u New*.

LIVE STOCK

FOR S A L E — DUROC BOARS O F April farrow. Loni? s t r e t chy fellows ready for se rv i l e . Sidney Phil l ips, Char ­lotte, Mich.

F O R S A L E J E R S E Y B U L L C A L V E S g randsons of F i n a n c i a l Sensa t ion . Calves out of Reg i s te r of Mint cows. F a r m located on M-29, 1% miles E a s t of Cold-w a t e r . Coldwate r J e r s e y F a r m , Cold-w a t e r , Mich. 9-10-30tf

W H I T T A K K I l ' S R H O D E I S L A N D R E D Cockerels will improve your color and production- Pr ices range from $4 for good birds from t r ap -nes t ed Grade A stock to $lo to $50 for birds pedigreed f r o m ' o u r best hens. Remember t h a t in the product ion of your young s tock the male is half your flock and t h a t a good bird is < heap, a poor one expens ive . Our Reds a r e the resul t of s ixteen y e a r s ca re ­ful breeding and a re recognized a s Michi­gan ' s leading s t r a in . Rose a n d Single Combs. Wr i t e for price list, I n t e r l a c e s F a r m , Box B, Lawrence , Mich. 10-15 IncTrtl

S H R O P S H I R E RAMS—ONE 2 Y E A R old Wardwel l s tock r am. Also year l ings and lambs and a few ewes. R i g h t good sheep a t r igh t prices. D. L . C h a p m a n & Son, S. Rockwood, Mich. 10-8-25

SALESMEN WANTED

F A R M E R S ! O P P O R T U N I T Y — AGAIN KNOCKS! F A R M E R A G E N T S

W A N T E D — We w a n t responsible f a rmers w h o de ­

sire to add to the i r income to a c t a s our County and S u b - A g e n t s sel l ing P - C Produc ts . Men who have had some ex­perience selling f i n d e r Twine , Fer t i l i z ­er. Shrubbery , F a r m Imp lemen t s , E tc . , will find our proposit ion especial ly profi t­able a s every f a rmer will be your pros­pective c u s t o m e r — B E C A U S E —

P - C P roduc t s consis t of an en t i re ly new line of Garden Tools, Sweep A t t a c h ­m e n t s for All Spr ing Tooth H a r r o w s and New Til lage Tools for all Types of Cul t i ­va tors .

The P -C Spr ing Tooth H a r r o w Sweep A t t a c h m e n t s m a k e a "Real Ti l lage Tool" out of the " m a k e s h i f t " sp r ing too th har ­row. T h e P-C Combinat ion Shovel and Sweep and Shield A t t a c h m e n t s for All Cul t iva tors m a k e s It possible for the farmer to do the kind of a job of cu l t iva t ­ing he a lways wan ted to do—and " C O U L D N ' T . "

The P-C Garden Tool is the Real Garden Tool the ga rdener needs. These new ti l lage tools a r e in the h a n d s of t h o u s a n d s of sat isf ied use r s and h u n ­dreds of t h o u s a n d s of p rospec t s a re wai t ing to be sold.

Your exper ience a s a f a rmer qua l i ­fies you a s a P -C Man . If you a re in­te res ted in a real, easy, s t r a i g h t - f o r w a r d , oppor tun i ty to increase your income while you still cont inue fa rming , wr i t e us a t once for informat ion a b o u t a n ex­clusive Agency cover ing your coun ty or locality-. P -C Manufac tu r i ng Co., H a s ­t ings, Mich. » 10-16

FARM FOR SALE

F O R SALE—162 A C R E S . H O U S E modern , b a r n near ly new, e x t r a good bindings , fences, w a t e r and land. T e r m s , t ime. OWner, F loyd Love, Howell , Mich­igan. 10-10-25

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Detroit Poultry Market

As given by Mich. Farm Bureau Poultry Kxch., 2610 Itiopelle street, Detroit, Oct. 15, 192.1:

Detroit poultry market has de­clined considerably the past 10 days in harmony with other markets. Al­though the movement of poultry has been heavy, the demand has been dull for any stock except fancy grade. Prospects are for a steady market or a little lower. Spr ings , Barred Rocks Mo Springs . Red Spr ings , Med. qua l i ty 21c-i'2<: Spr ings , Leghorn 18c Hens, ~i lbs. up -3c Rene, 1-5 lbs 24c Hens , Leghorn and small , under 4 lbs. 17c Cox Geese, young 19 Geese, old 18c Ducks, young, white. 5 lbe 22c-23c Ducks, sma 11. colored 20c Rabbi t s . 5 lhs. up l«c-17c

Poul try S h i p p e r s For result* and servlct send

your future shipment* of Llvt Poultry to FARM BUREAU POULTRY EXCH 2610 Riopalle St., Detroit, Mich.

Michigan State ExrmBureau

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Says: "I t is only a matter of time

when A L I J growers will select their trees from a nursery which selects their buds with care and discretion."

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The South Haven Peach is a Greening introduction and it has again demonstrated its HARDINESS in 1925!

But this remarkably hardy peach has other qualities which dis­tinguish it, and make it most desirable. Among them are its early bearing, productiveness, canning quality, size, beauty and its ability to stand shipping. Ripening about eighteen days before Elberta, it goes on the market at a time to fetch the highest prices. Also as a

Pollinator For The J. H. Hale it is a proved success. Ask for our NEW. FREE catalog, which will give you all the facts about this distinctive peach.

We introduced this peach in 1916. The genuine can be obtained only from us.

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