140 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



operate a 70,000 bushels as cheaply as a 50,000 bushels capacity plant. 

 The idea is to keep this overhead expense down. 



Question: Is the railroad company compelled to deliver refrigerator 

 cars uniced? 



Answer: Yes. If the law of Michigan did not permit any grower 

 in the State of Midiigan io get from the railroad company a refriger- 

 ator car nniced, and alloAV you to ice it yourself, there is something 

 the matter with the law. 



A Member: I tried that but tlie Michigan Central would not do it. 



Answer: They wanted to blnfl' you— Avanted to sell you two or three 

 tons of ice and charge you |.5 or .|g a ton. 



FARM MANAGEMENT DEMONSTRATIONS IN NEWAYGO 



COUNTY. 



C. r. UEED^ EAST LANSING. 



For some years the Michigan Agricultural College lias been endeavor- 

 ing to give to farmers of this State, the best methods of handling the 

 soil; the best methods of handling the farm crops; the best methods 

 of growing and marketing fruit; the best methods of feeding and caring 

 for the dair}^ cow; the best methods of producing and marketing poultry, 

 and has made no attempt to advise how these different lines of farm 

 enterprise can be combined into one profitable farm business. Last 

 year the College, in co-operation with the United States Department of 

 agriculture appointed a Farm ]\ranagement Demonstrator, whose duty 

 is to give advice of this kind. His work does not conllict with the 

 work of the older lines of agricultural extension work, but supplements 

 them. The Farm Management Demonstrator's duty is to advise the 

 farmer what proportion of his income should be derived from crops, 

 what proportion from animals, what proportion from fruits, under his 

 circumstances and what to do to alter those circumstances when neces- 

 sary, but the crop specialist, the live stock specialist and the fruit 

 specialist advise the best methods to employ in raising those crops, those 

 animals and those fruits. 



The Farm Management Demonstrator can not base his advice on 

 hasty or snap judgment but must base it upon the pas.t experiences of 

 that farmer and his neighbors, properly correlated AA'ith the experiences 

 of farmers in similar areas. This requires a comprehensive and detailed 

 study of the farm business. In making this study we seldom find a 

 farmer who knows what he has received for his year's work, but in 

 most cases he has his business sufficiently well in mind to give the data 

 necessarj^ to make a summary as shown in the following chart: 



