THE FARMERS' MONTHLY, AUGUST, 1928 



My Trip To The 



National 4-H Camp 



Continued from pag^e 7. column 3 



was to the United States Capitol which 

 is considered one of the most magnificent 

 buildings in the world and houses the 

 governing control of the nation with the 

 Supreme Court room which is the highest 

 court in the land and which tries cases 

 not less than two thousand dollars. The 

 Senate Chamber and the House of Repre- 

 sentatives is seated in this building. The 

 longest corridor in the world runs along 

 the first floor to a distance of seven hun- 

 dred and fifty feet. The most interesting 

 room was Echo Hall, formerly an assem- 

 bly hall but now called Statuary Hall, so 

 called because it contains one or more 

 statues of famous men from the various 

 state.s. This room is the one in which 

 John Adams dropped dead and the parti- 

 cular spot is called the key upon which 

 one may hear the lowest whisper of a per- 

 son standing several feet away, echo in a 

 loud tone. 



Other buildings we visited were the 

 White House, the Pan American Building 

 and the Cocoran Art Gallery, which con- 

 tains paintings and statues of famous 

 painters and .sculptors. 



The original purposes for the National 

 4-H Club camp were to get the club mem- 

 bers of the various parts of the country 

 together and talk over what they are do- 

 ing in club work and the plans by which 

 they conduct club work in the clubs of 

 which they are local leaders. This has 

 been well carried out as was shown in the 

 talk.s over the radio and what I got out of 

 it my.self. The second purpose was for 

 the members to see their nation's capitol 

 and the important buildings in which 

 laws of the land are brought up and the 

 home of great projects of the country for 

 competition with the world not only in 

 agriculture but commerce as well. 



•J. Arthur Gould, Ware 



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Continued fi-om paj?e 'A, column 2 

 100 pounds of decaying organic matter 

 may hold as much as 190 pounds, or 

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 .soils are mixtures in varying proportions 

 of sand, clay, silt, and organic material. 

 As a rule the greater the proportion of 

 organic matter contained in the soil the 

 greater its water-absorptive capacity, 

 and the greater reserves of moisture it 

 will retain for resistance to droughty 

 and hot weather. 



Nearly three out of every four forest 

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 careful. 



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 Endorsement 



During the first 7 months of 1928, 

 farmers have ordered through the 

 Eastern States Farmers' Exchange 

 7.56 more carloads of feed and grain 

 than they ordered in the same 7 

 months of 1927. This is an average 

 monthly increase of more than 100 

 carloads. And this increase comes 

 on top of the increase which has 

 occurred annually for the past 10 

 years, or during the life of the 

 Eastern States Farmers' Exchange. 



In other words, farmers endorse 

 Eastern States Sei-vice with their 

 next order. In these days of wide- 

 ly circulated written testimonials, 

 the old fa.shioned measuring stick 

 "pi-actice what you preach" is more 

 impressive than ever. 



But there is a lot more to this 

 sort of endorsement that does not 

 appear to the casual reader. This 

 Ea.stern States tonnage represents 

 for the most part feed and grain 

 which busy farmers order in ad- 

 vance, take at the car door, and pay 

 for on delivery. That means some- 

 thing, too, when consumers are 

 drifting more and more into the 

 habit of service, installment buying 

 and the rest. It means that quali- 

 ty of the goods and the dependabili- 

 ty and the economies of the service 

 work to the benefit of the consum- 

 ing farmers. 



It represents tonnage priced on 

 the truly cooperative basis of one 

 price to all, large buyer and srnall 

 buyer, the basis which recognizes 

 that each general class contributes 

 volume to the whole which is mutu- 

 ally beneficial to all. In other words, 

 the large feeders who have come to 

 be regular users of Eastern States 

 service, and a lot have come in for 

 the first time during the last twelve 

 months, have standardized on the 

 sei-vice not because of special price 

 concessions but because of the value 

 of the service to them on the rigidly 

 cooperative price policy. 



The farmer who buys for cash is 

 the farmer who is always able to 

 .see to it that he gets full value 

 when he invests. That is why he 

 has cash to buy with. 



More records are being kept 

 every year, and that helps explain 

 why more Eastern States feed is 

 being distributed every year. 



Where reeorils :ire kept llnslern 

 Mates teed.s |»r4ne (lieip worth. 



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