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THE FARMERS' MONTHLY, NOVEMBER, 1928 



Rev. Kenneth C. MacAithur 



Gives Inspiring Address 



Continued from pagre 1, column 3 

 "Rewards of Rural Leadership" 



This was the subject of the inspiring 

 address which Rev. Kenneth C. Mac- 

 Arthur presented to the very attentive 

 audience, an audience which was attentive 

 because it was held by the pleasant per- 

 sonality of the speaker and by his earnest- 

 ill putting across his subject. 



He stated that criticism is one of the 

 rewards of leadership and pointed out 

 that such leaders as Robert Fulton who 

 developed the steamboat and the Wright 

 Bros, who developed airplanes were 

 greatly criticized in their time. Real 

 leaders are not intolerant of people with 

 ideas dissimilar to their own. Leaders 

 must be one of a group with whom they 

 are working and yet they must continual- 

 ly be ahead of the group if they are to do 

 constructive work. 



An important quality which leadership 

 developes is mastery of one's subject and 

 mastery of one's self for in getting some- 

 thing across to others we get it across to 

 ourselves even more completely. Self con- 

 trol of a positive sort, to do that which 

 we should do, is as important as to pre- 

 vent ourselves from doing that which 

 shouldn't be done. 



Self expression and self forgetfulness 

 are both attributes of those who qualify 

 as leaders. A definite feeling that life is 

 worth living is carried by most people 

 who are doing a constructive piece of 

 work in their communities. A wonderful 

 opportunity to make friends with a mul- 

 titude of people and to have fellowship 

 with other leaders are definite rewards 

 of leadership. The opportunity to be use- 

 ful through life by means of sei-vice to 

 others is a reward which comes to those 

 whose lives are most worth while. 



Happiness is definitely associated with 

 these factors of usfulness and according 

 to Mr. MacArthur it is the greatest re- 

 ward of all which conies to those, who 

 have the opportunity and privilege to 

 serve as leaders. 



Speaking of Apple Storages 



It makes no difference how well planned 

 and well built a farm storage is it will 

 not give satisfactory results without pro- 

 per management and handling. There are 

 several fundamental rules connected with 

 storage operation that may be mentioned. 

 One rule that lies somewhere in the twi- 

 light zone between production and storage 

 is this ; storing does not make the apples 

 any better; you take out only what you 

 put in. But that is a production problem 

 and the County Agent and Pomology 

 Specialist will worry our readers about 

 that. 



Here is a fundamental that the Stor- 

 age Specialist wants to hammer home; 

 keep the cooling flues, inlet and outlet, 

 open all the time that the outside tempera- 

 ture is colder than that of the storage, 

 down to .32° F. Not only this, but even 

 if the outside temperature is 23° during a 

 night of the hai-vest season, keep the flues 

 open. It takes a long time after the stor- 

 age room temperature reaches .32° for the 

 middle of a box of apples to reach that 

 temperature. Try it out. Place a ther- 

 mometer in the middle of a box of apples 

 which is in turn in the middle of a pile or 

 stack of 50 or 100 boxes and watch it. 

 You will be surprised. 



REUPHOLSTERED CHAIRS 



FINISHED 



The Huntington group is to be comple- 

 mented on the lovely work which they 

 have done in the reupholstering class. 

 All of the articles finished look as though 

 done by a commercial worker. 



From the reports sent in, we find that 

 a great saving was made by the women 

 doing the work themselves, therefore 

 making it possible for many to have what 

 they otherwise couldn't have afforded. 



We hope to be able to exhibit these 

 articles at our summary meeting. 



It will not hurt at all if the tempera- 

 ture in the storage room goes down to 29° 

 or 30° during the frosty nights in October. 

 It will not stay down very long with those 

 warm bushels of Mcintosh or Baldwins in 

 there. 



Here is another one. Keep the door 

 and window openings screened at all 

 times. Old Blan Rat does not like the 

 cold any better than the rest of us. He 

 will make a break for a warm berth in a 

 good, clean apple cellar right promptly 

 and if he gets in he can do $100 worth of 

 damage all by himself in a month or two. 

 He is a good weather prophet; he can 

 smell cold weather coming and he will 

 sneak into the cellar right in broad day- 

 light if the invitation door is left open. 



Do not be afraid of moisture. The best 

 degree of humidity is around 90; almost 

 at the precipitation stage. Again keep in 

 mind that this is aimed at the real apple 

 grower, the chap who puts his fruit into 

 the cellar clean. 



Through the storage season, after No- 

 vember 1st or thereabouts, open up the 

 flue system once a week and give the 

 apples some good, clean, 30° to 32° air. 

 They are like humans and other animals 

 and they sleep better with some fresh air 

 now and then, than they do breathing 

 foul, vitiated worn out atmosphere. 



grow naturally falls under the first head- 

 ing; a thinned and improved tract of 

 woodland falls under the latter. 



The Extension Forester has met three 

 individuals who are busy making their 

 woodlots into gold mines; L. G. Burlin- 

 game of Dudley, William Walker of 

 Greenwich and Ralph Damon of A.shby. 

 Each one claims that they have more 

 wood now than they had before commenc- 

 ing to improve the woodlot by removing 

 the undesirable trees. Their concise 

 statement of how to make a better wood- 

 lot is as follows : 



Cut 



1. Crooked trees. 



A SCRUB WOODLOT 



OR A GOLD MINE 



A woodlot that has been allowed to 



THE RED CROSS ASKS FOR 



FIVE MILLION MEMBERS 



On Armistice Day, November 11, 

 the American Red Cross will 

 launch its TWELFTH annual Roll 

 Call, during which the people of the 

 United States will be asked to as- 

 sure the continued effectiveness of 

 Red Cross national services by the 

 support of their membership. 



For the coming year, the Ameri- 

 can Red Cross seeks an enrollment 

 of five million members. Year by 

 year, since the World War, demands 

 for Red Cross service along varied 

 lines have increased. The Ameri- 

 can Red Cross is the chartered 

 agency of the American people 

 through which the people can ac- 

 complish humanitarian sei-vice. 

 Such service is made possible by the 

 solid support of Americans every- 

 where through membership in the 

 organization. Membership neces- 

 sarily should be representative of 

 the great body of the people. 



In asking for five million mem- 

 bers for the coming year, the Red 

 Cro.ss has set a modest goal. It 

 means that only about four out of 

 every hundred people in the country 

 will have joined, if the full goal is 

 achieved. 



These four out of each hundred 

 of the nation's population, will be 

 actively supporting through their 

 membership in the American Red 

 Cross; the foremost disaster relief 

 organization in the woi-ld; a recog- 

 nized medium of assistance in be- 

 half of the people to service and ex- 

 sen-ice men and their families ; and 

 many other nation-wide services dc- 

 .■signed to meet present day needs of 

 the people. 



The annual Roll Call will open 

 on November 11, and close Novem- 

 ber 29, during which new members 

 will be asked to join. 



HAVE YOU JOINED YET? 



