HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



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Prevent Weed Seeds 



Continued from page 10. column 1 

 The better we satisfy our buyers, and 

 particularly the consumers, the larger our 

 business will grow. To have all of our 

 growers growing the best varieties will 

 be to increase our market for our goods. 

 There are many other things beside seed 

 quality which enter into this cjue-stion, but 

 this is a fundamental. 



The American Farm Bureau Federa- 

 tion has worked out a definite and com- 

 prehensive plan for storing .suiplus wheat 

 on farms and financing it under the new 

 Intermediate Credit and Warehouse Acts. 

 The plan was proposed by Gray Silver, 

 Washington Repre.sentative. Minnesota 

 is the first State Farm Bureau to approve 

 the plan. The plan as passed upon by 

 the executive officers of the American 

 Farm Buieau Federation is enunciated 

 by President O. E. Bradfute in the fol- 

 lowing statement : 



"Wheat selling below $1 per bushel is a 

 national tragedy in America. It is 

 tragedy not only to the farmer who gi'ows 

 the wheat at a loss, but also to the con- 

 sumer — the business man and the laborer 

 — who must ultimately depend on that 

 farmer's wheat dollar for their continued 

 prosperity and happiness. 



"The American Farm Bureau Federa- 

 tion believes that cooperative marketing 

 is the ultimate solution to the national 

 wheat price problem. We are now at 

 work on a national cooperative grain mar- 

 keting policy being formulated upon in- 

 struction from our members. Under this 

 plan, the growers of the Nation will in 

 effect place their grain in a common bin 

 and will merchandise it in an orderly 

 way over the consumptive period, instead 

 of dumping it on an already overloaded 

 market during the four months following 

 harvest. Cooperative marketing of wheat 

 will unquestionably solve the price prob- 

 lem to the benefit of both producer and 

 consumer. But e.xcept, in a few sections 

 the southwest and the northwest, coopera- 

 tive marketing is not ready to meet the 

 present wheat crisis." 



lone, two or three dollar debt, gets a name 

 for carelessness that stays with him. The 

 young farmer is poor. He always will 

 be poor. The reason for it lies in the 

 fact that he thinks of too many oppor- 

 tunities and projects that he would like 

 to carry out. But it must be remember- 

 ed that as a rule a man is pom' either at 

 the beginning or the end of his life. The 

 man who starts on a salary is not poor 

 at the beginning; his poverty comes in 

 his old age. The young man who takes 

 up farming, acts wisely and works dil- 

 igently, is poor in his youth, but not in 

 his old age." 



DID YOU GO IN? 



The last week in July, a farmer came 

 in to see us, looking pretty glum. You 

 couldn't help but notice that something 

 was on his mind. He looked as if his 

 herd had been tuberculin condemned, at 

 the very least. We were ready to hear 

 the worst — but it wasn't as bad as that. 

 We showed him before he got through 

 that he didn't need much sympathy. 



"I was calculating to get all my feed 

 this year through the Pool." he explained, 

 "but when the Eastern States man came 

 around I wasn't quite sure of how much 

 I'd need, so I didn't sign. I promised 

 the fellow I'd send in my order as soon 

 a I'd decided, but I put it off and put 

 it off. When I finally got around to fill- 

 ing out the blank last night, my wife told 

 me .she'd read that the Pool had closed 

 the Friday before. I wouldn't believe 

 her, because I could have sworn that it 

 was to stay open until the last of July. 

 But she showed me where it said July 

 20th, in the last issue of the 'News.' 

 Don't suppose there's any use in sending 

 in the contract now, do you?" 



We told him that his wife was right — 

 that to the best of our knowledge the Pool 



had closed positively a week before and 

 that his Pool order probably couldn't be 

 accepted now. His face fell about a mile. 



"I feel like kicking myself," he said, 

 "Got hold of a few bags of that Milkmore 

 last year, and liked it so well I thought 

 I'd go in heavy for it this winter. Had 

 the contract all ready, except for filling 

 in the tonnage, and then let the Pool slip 

 by — just plain careless, that's all. Don't 

 know of anyone who'd sell me some of 

 theirs' later on do you? I'd be willing 

 to pay someone a good bit over what it 

 cost them, in order to have that feed for 

 my stock this winter. Seems a shame to 

 make those cows go another year on what 

 I've been feeding — especially when it'll 

 probably cost just as much as Milkmore." 



We found that this farmer had the idea 

 that now the Pool was over he couldn't 

 buy the feeds again until next year's 

 Pool. We explained to him that the en- 

 tire line of Eastern States Dairy and 

 Poultry Feeds are manufactured and sold 

 the year round. The Pool is merely a 

 special campaign for volume, to pass on 

 to the farmer the savings made by buying 

 on the low summer market, for winter 

 use. And this man's failure to order 

 through the Pool doesn't mean that he 

 must go without the feeds a whole year, 

 or even a month. He can order them any 

 time, at market prices which lose the 

 special Pool savings, but which are al- 

 ways favoj-able to the current price- 

 schedule. 



We wonder if any more of our readers 

 are robbing themselves of these feeds, 

 just because they "missed out" on the 

 Pool. We advise such self-made martyrs 

 to write to Springfield and let the East- 

 ern States Farmers' Exchange show them 

 how easily and economically they can sup- 

 ply themselves with these good feeds at 

 any time — Pool or no Pool. 



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CAPITAL COMES UST 



Professor Warren's Opinion 



"Last of all the young man who is 

 going into farming needs capital. The 

 young man is likely to think that this 

 is the first and gi-eatest need, but it is 

 not. He needs to know how to u.se the 

 capital before it comes into his possession 

 and it is almost invariably true that a 

 man is able to borrow all the capital that 

 he can wisely use. If a man wants capi- 

 tal, he should go to the bank. 



"The young man who wishes to secure 

 the control of capital, that is, credit, must 

 ever be careful about paying his .small 

 debts. The man who doesn't pay the 



GRADES OR PUREBREDS? 



Judging Ij.v tlic purchuse price of some Mooded stock, tlie.y 

 should Ije I'ed iiotliiug clieuper than molten gold. And yet, 

 a $10,000 purebred doesn't need any more or better feed than 

 dfies tile .^lOO grade on llie ne.xt farm. 



Whatever the original investment, it i.s false ec(jnomy to 

 stint on feeding costs. Noduirymun can atiord to feed a ration 

 of unknown (iiuility to iiis niilcli cows. Regardless of their 

 cusii value, better feeding can better tlieir production. 



The Eastern States Rations give your cows every chance in 

 tiie world to make good. 



LET'S GET TOGETHER- NEIGHBOR! 



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SPRINGFIELD 



Co-operative Distributors of Feed, Grain, Seeds, 

 Fertilizers. Spray Materials, Etc. 



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