The Belding banner-news., 1921-10-05
EMERGENCY BOARD
ANNOUNCES COUNTY
G|FT---GRA|N QUOTAS
WINTER DEATH THREATENS
CHILDREN AS STARVATION
SPREADS OVER LAND


tas by VIII ;ch Michigan farmers will
contribute the States share of lOO,-
coo bushels of grain in the National
gift of 100000 bushels to keep the
hundress of thousands of children of
Armenia and neighboring lands OF
Asia Minor from starv ng to death
this winter, is made by the Emer-
gency Grain Board Of the Michigan
Committee of Near East Relief, thru
it's executive committee.
Governor Groesbeck as honorary
chairman of the Michigan committee
gency board whose officers constl-
tute its executive committee. They
are: Chairman, Mr. Herman H. Hal
laday of Lansing, State Commits
sioner of Agriculture; vice-chairman,
Professor David Friday of Ann Ar
Dor, Presdent-elect of Michigan Ag-
r.cultural College; secretary, Mr.
L. Whitney Watkins of Watkins
Farms, Jackson county, one of the
most widely known farmers in the
Peninsulas.
The Emergency Grain Board, fol-
( lowing the plan used in compil 'ng the
United States census, has divided the
SO counties of the state into nine ag-
ricultural districts-the Upper Pen
/ insula district, Northwest district,
Northeast, West Central, Central,
East Central, Southwest, Southern,
and South east.
While the county quotas (Which
were determined by the board with
I great care in orter to assure exact
fairness) are expressed in terms Of
dollars, the contributions may be
made in either corn, wheat, barley,
rye, oats, beans, buckwheat, potatoes
beets, apples or other farm commo-
dity, or in money with which to pur-
chase corn or wheat. The choice Of
the form of gift is left wholly to the
individual farmer, and where 1T is
more convenient for him to give
money some commodity other
than corn or wheat his contribution
will be Exchanged for corn or wheat
in his district by the Emergency
Grain Board assisted by the eleva-
tor interests, to the end that the Ma
tional call for those two standard
sh pping grains may be carried out.
The grain campaign is purely
emergency measure undertaken at
this time in order to get life-saving
foodstuffs into the Near East before
the early winter SHOWS of the Cau-
casus block the roads and make inn
possible the handling of pack trains
into the stricken interior. To pre-
vent the horrors of wholesale fam
inc and countless Ceath, the grain
must be in hand by the last day of
October.
Then in December, or earlier where
circumstances persuade, the regular
annual money campaign Will be
launched and carried out in the towns
and exclusively, as hereto
fore, among the non-farming popula-
tion of the state, who thus for four
consecutive years will have rallied to
the relief call in behalf of the oldest
Christian race on earth, the Armeni-
ans. and the peoples Of their neigh
boring destitute lands, where there
have been no harvests in five years.
The value of each commodity gift
raised and contributed in the grain
campaign will be determined by its
net value at the Atlantic seaboard
and the value of each county's total
gift-its allotted quota-will be ere
dited to the county and applied on
the county quota for the whole fiscal
year.
Inc Emergency Gfaln Board an
nounces the following county quotas
for the Southern district:
Barry county S2,145. Branch 3d.
638, Calhoun .$2,932, Clinton SO ,408
Eaton S3.110, Hillsdale S2,147, Ing
ham $2,847, Ionia $2,029, Jackson
$2,997, st. Joseph $2,197, Shiwassee
S2097; total for the district $751;
SAT.
In this district there are 1924
farms and 675,410 acres were this
year planted to corn and wheat The
quota for the il counties comprising
the district is 22,511.
All of the established agricultural
organizations of the state and also
the elevator and other distinctive in
terests, are cooperating actively with
the Emergency Grain Board for The
quick success of the grain campaign
The Grand Trunk Railway announces
officially that it will transport Mich.
igan's total commodity contribution
to shipside without charge.
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