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this  asxnoial imi  lets  (•iigitged  itsvlf  in  to 
vhri-kma fc.  ill  po.ssiblv,  tin*  "rotting  teiid- 
onoy  of  tin*  Agriciilnir.il  Depavtittont  of 
not  only  the  Federal  <  Joverninent.  but  of 
this  State,  to  encourage  co-operative  Inly¬ 
ing  of  farm  commodities  at  wholesale,  or 
elimination  of  the  retail  dealer/” 
About  that  car  of  grain  which  went  to 
.lordanville  and  which  caused  so  much 
worry  to  the  grain  dealers,  Secretary 
King  wrote  to  Clmrles  Young,  a  member 
of  the  association  at  Mohawk,  evidently 
ill  response  to  the  hitter's  report  of  the 
arrival  of  the  “outlaw”  ear: 
“Am  enclosing  copy  of  letter  received 
from  Kemper  Mill  &  Elevator  Company 
in  relation  to  car  you  reported  which 
went  to  Jordanville.  Now,  this  is  rather 
an  evasive  reply  to  my  letter,  I  am 
gqing  after  them  again  to-day.  In  the 
meantime,  is  there  any  way  you  could 
learn  of  the  name  of  the  "other  concern,’ 
which  is.  of  course,  some  jobber.  I  have 
a  notion  it  is  some  of  those  Buffalo  fel¬ 
lows.  hut  of  course,  may  he  wrong.  If 
it  is,  would  like  to  put  it  up  to  the  Kem¬ 
per  people  good  aud  proper,  as  we  have 
some  of  them  oa  the  run.  If  there  is 
any  chance  of  ferreting  out  the  jobber 
through  whom  Kemper  placed  the  car  at 
Jordanville,  it  will  he  a  great  help.” 
To  the  Delaware  county  president  of 
grain  dealers’  Secretary  King  wrote  Au¬ 
gust.  21,  evidently  perturbed  over  what 
the  I  Vicks  committee  was  turning  up 
through  the  State: 
"l  don't  know  if  you  have  noticed  the 
recent  newspaper  articles  covering  tne 
meeting  of  the  Wicks  investigating  com¬ 
mittee  in  Utica.  It  might  be  well  to  call 
your  attention  at  this  time  to  the  matter, 
for  they  su6penaed  Mr.  Bodurtha.  repre¬ 
sentative  of  the  Corn  Products  Refining 
Company,  to  appear  before  the  committee 
at  this  T'tieo  meeting  and  endeavored  to 
make  him  admit  or  deny  that  the  manu¬ 
facturers  ami  jobbers  were  being  intimi¬ 
dated  by  the  feed  dealers’  associations 
against  selling  direct  to  farmers  aud 
farmers’  organizations;  also  tried  to  get 
him  to  admit  that  at  the  recent  Albany 
meeting  of  the  State  association  resolu¬ 
tions  were  passed  to  this  effect  and  that 
we  had  a  black  list.  The  origiu  of  this 
matter  probably  is  on  account  of  the 
party  at  Gouverneur.  *  *  *  A  man  by 
the  name  of  l’ike.  *  *  *  lie  endeavored 
to  buy  some  stuff  of  the  Corn  Products 
(Continued  on  page  12015) 
“‘When  the  State,  city,  town  or  vil¬ 
lage  goes  into  business  as  it  does  with 
the  Department  of  Foods  and  Markets,  it 
takes  its  first  leap  into  Socialism.  This 
proposition  can  well  become  worse  than 
the  parcel  post  mail-order  business.  The 
middleman  is  a  legitimate  means  for  dis- 
=-  tributiou — not  a  means  of  grafting  and 
robbery  as  self-appointed  fake  reformers 
her  in  and  uplifters  would  have  the  public  be- 
lother.  lieve.’  ” 
t  take  A  Sr.uR  ox  Farm  Bureau  Mex. — A 
nasty  slur  on  the  farm  bureau  men  of 
•i-  on/i  R'e  State  was  contained  in  a  letter  from 
'  '  Mi^  King  to  M.  C.  Burrilt.  director  of 
wrong  farm  bureau  work  in  the  State.  This 
i  boy.  letter  was  read  before  the  committee.  In 
it  the  fe-d  men  intimated  that  farm  bu- 
’  (v*  reau  men  were  getting  a  “rake-off”  on 
s  ,r  sales.  Regarding  this,  Mr.  Rurritt  says: 
s  are  “I  resent  the  insinuation.  *  i:‘  *  Why  do 
men  make  those  insinuations  if  they  have 
not  the  facts,  and  if  they  have  the  facts, 
why  do  they  not  submit  them  to  us?” 
That  hoards  of  supervisors  were  to  he 
used  to  “get  at’’  farm  bureau  agents  is 
indicated  in  a  letter  from  that  busy  little 
letter-writer.  Secretary  King,  to  J.  E. 
Uoautree  &  Co.,  of  Canastota.  dated  May 
12.  mid: 
“You  are  of  course  aware  of  the  ac¬ 
tivities  of  the  Farm  Bureau  and  the  dis¬ 
cussion  that  has  taken  place  of  late  in 
regard  to  the  position  of  this  institution 
respecting  the  functions  of  farm  bureau 
managers  in  the  various  counties  of  the 
State  as  applying  towards  influencing 
consumers  to  buy  at  wholesale. 
“At  a  recent  conference  of  manufac¬ 
turers.  jobbers  and  retail  feed  dealers 
called  under  the  auspices  of  this  associa¬ 
tion,  resolutions  were  adopted  in  opposi¬ 
tion  to  the  activities  of  farm  bureau 
agents  along  these  lines  and  the  same 
were  forwarded  to  various  agencies  hav¬ 
ing  control  over  the  Farm  Bureau,  i.  o.. 
the  Department  of  Agriculture  at.  Wash¬ 
ington,  tlie  Department  of  Agriculture  of 
New  York  State  and  the  chairman  of  the 
various  hoards  of  supervisors  of  counties 
of  the  State  appropriating  money  for  the 
support  of  the  Farm  Bureau  (some  36 
in  number). 
“The  correspondence  and  discussion 
which  has  resulted  is  of  very  great,  im¬ 
portance  to  the  food  dealer  aud  liis  busi¬ 
ness  is  such  that  lie  should  bestir  liitn- 
s-'!f  and*  gd  behind  the  movement  which 
Frank  of  Peach  Hill 
By  Geo.  B.  Fiske 
(Continued  from  page  1235) 
“<  )h.  no.  not  that,  sonny.  Nobody  gets 
a  divorce  here  in  the  country.  Divorced 
people  are  no  good  around  here.  We 
don't  think  much  of  them.  Might  as  well 
he  jail  birds,  or  any  of  these  fancy 
farmin’  sports.  We  leave  all  that  for 
the  city  folks.  Out  here  the  only  thing 
to  cure  a  bad  family  mix-up  is  to  or¬ 
ganize  a  sugar  trust.” 
“A  sugar  trust?” 
“Yep.  Git  all  the  sweetness  where  it 
will  do  most  good,  and  then  parcel  it  out 
at  a  profit.  A  trust  that  knows  its  busi¬ 
ness  can  do  well,  so  I've  heard,  on  not 
much  gennywine  capital  and  a  whole  lot 
of  guff  and  credit.  A  gal  may  not  think 
much  of  her  man  after  she  finds  him  out 
well,  hut  she  can  always  pick  out  some¬ 
thing  she  likes  in  him  and  keep  telling 
him  about  it.  A  man  always  thinks 
well  of  a  girl  that  will  hand  him  taffy  as 
if  she  meant  it.  If  she  keeps  on  doin’  it. 
he  will  like  her  better  and  maybe  praise 
her  good  taste  if  nothing  else,  and  biitte- 
bye  lie  will  mean  what  lie  says.  There's 
your  sugar  trust  well  started,  Sugary 
talk  is  like  those  balls  of  candy  the  chil¬ 
dren  like;  the  more  it  is  passed  back 
and  forth  among  the  kids,  the  more  (he 
sweetness  sticks  to  them.  All  you  must 
do  is  to  keep  on  making  sugar  and  keep¬ 
ing  tile  grit  out  of  it.  If  the  market 
gets  overstocked,  go  away  oil  a  visit  and 
so  make  homemade  sugar  seem  scarce. 
If  the  raw  stuff  gets  short  stock  the  fac¬ 
tory  by  praising  some  other  good  points. 
But  he  must  keep  the  factory  fires  burn¬ 
ing.  with  greenbacks  earned  by  good 
s.eady  work  and  she  must  learn  to  feed 
In. a  well,  cooking  up  other  things  be¬ 
stirs  sugar  candy.” 
“But.  if  the  factory  won’t  work?” 
“It  will  work  ’most  every  time. 
There’s  a  good  sugar-making  outfit  goes 
with  every  weddin’  ring,  and  a  pair  of 
rosy  spectacles  that  will  show  ’em  how 
to  run  it  if  they  will  put  ’em  on.” 
“But  it  must  be  better  to  have  plenty 
of  sugar  come  readymade  along  with  the 
ring  and  glasses?” 
“Sure  thing!  It”s  pretty  easy  if  they'd 
use  a  little  horse  sense  afore  it's  too  late. 
Why  should  u  boy  marry  just  because 
there’s  two  or  three  gals  he  knows,  and 
one  of  them  will  love  him,  aud  he  liaiu’t 
got  nothing  in  particular  against  her? 
Why  does  another  fellow  go  blind  to  a 
good  mate  that  he  knows  all  about  and 
go  off  and  marry  a  piece  of  dress  goods 
that  he  meets  at  a  dance,  aud  gets 
mighty  well  stung,  maybe. "for  his  pains? 
"Why  does  a  gal  turn  up  her  nose  at  the 
rough,  straight,  young  fellows  aud  take 
up  a  cuss  that  never  was  good  for  any¬ 
thing,  nor  his  father  before  him,  just 
because  ho  has  style  about  him,  smokes 
a  cigar  with  a  ribbon  on  it  and  sports  a 
bright  new  mail-order  buggy  to  take  her 
driving,  or  maybe,  she  grabs  a  city  chap 
that  everybody  can  see  is  full  of  sin  and 
whisky  that  makes  him  worse  than  poi¬ 
son  for  a  gal  to  live  with?  Why  does  a 
man  marry  a  toy  gal  with  backache  and 
lazyache,  wheu  his  mother  could  tell  him 
in  a  minute  that  the  gal  is  sickly  and 
would  be  a  load  to  him  iustid  of  a  help, 
and  his  children,  if  she  lmd  any,  would 
be  no  good?  ITow  can  the  world  get 
better  wheu  the  folks  is  mostly  fools,  I'd 
like  to  know?” 
“  Too  bad  they  don’t  all  come  to  you 
for  advice,  Mr.  Frost,”  I  observed,  with 
a  touch  of  sarcasm. 
“Nope,  gray  hairs  have  fool  lumps  un¬ 
der  ’em  too.  Likely  to  marry  for  money 
or  a  home,  aud  earn  it  mighty  hard,  too, 
sometimes.  Young  people  can  do  well 
enough  for  themselves  if  they  would  only 
use  what  brains  they  have  got  and  use 
it  early  before  their  feelings  get  the  bet¬ 
ter  of  ’em,  and  talk  it  over  with  their  old 
folks,  what’s  been  through  the  mill.  Just 
a  little  horse  sense  like  a  mau  uses  iu 
tradin’  for  a  piece  of  land.” 
“A  man  can  bo  very  sensible  in  his 
own  mind,”  I  declared  wisely,  “until  a 
sweet  girl  works  that  little  demure  smile 
on  him.” 
“Huh!  sounds  as  though  you’d  been 
stung  too.  Best  thing  to  do  with  a  fire 
in  the  bush  sometimes  is  to  start  a  back 
tire.  Find  another  girl  that's  sweet  and 
Feed  Dealers  and  Dairymen 
Taut  II. 
Tiie  First  Leap  Ixto  Socialism'. — 
Secretary  II.  M.  King  wrote  on  March 
27  io  W.  B.  Newell,  of  Kittle  Falls: 
“In  regard  to  the  other  end  of  this 
farm  bureau  proposition,  which  is  the 
Department  of  Foods  and  Markets  in 
this  State  with  John  J.  Dillon  at  its 
head,  I  Would  say  that  this  department 
is  meeting  with  much  opposition  on  the 
part  of  business  men  and  associations 
affected  by  its  activities,  just  the  same 
as  we  are  lighting  the  bureau  proposi¬ 
tion  in  so  far  as  their  encouragement 
for  co-operative  buying  is  concerned.  A 
number  of  strong  organizations  of  ship¬ 
pers  and  receivers  in  New  York  City  are 
after  the  Foods  and  Markets  Department 
and  arc  attempting  to  have  the  appro¬ 
priation  removed  for  the  support  of  same. 
From  a  letter  which  tln-se  associations 
have  sent  out  nil  over  the  State  1  have 
taken  the  following  clause: 
The  Standard  of  \ahie  and  Quality 
A  Real  Champ: 
In  every  type  of  contest— on  road,  track  But  that  is  not  a 
and  hill— Paige  cars  have  consistently  Despite  the  ear 
sSbURy  6  r  Stamina’  sPeed  and  atfthe  Cam?? 
To  be  sure,  there  are  cars  that  can  travel  £? 
faster  than  the  Paige,  but  there  is  no  above'the  sea* 
car  on  the  American  market  that  will  of  a  mile  bet 
travel  farther  at  sustained  speed  — and  mifes  f urthe; 
teency.  ^  °f  “Ut0rn°bile  ^  £?£d 
We  have  never  attempted  to  build  a  car  that  Thlr'e 
will  go  faster  than  60  miles  an  hour.  But  H 
we  have  always  taken  the  pains  to  build  T™.  tne 
a  car  that  will  go  twenty-four  hours  in  *  athfd.‘n  V? 
the  day — seven  days  in  the  week.  to  a  . 
You  see  we  are  old  fashioned  enough  to  be-  :  IrnpossWe^vou 
lieve  that  rugged  strength — staying  power  the  official  re< 
is  the  best  thing  that  a  manufacturer  newspaper  on 
can  put  into  his  car.  And,  so  do  you.  fater? 
Are  you  interested  in  proof — the  kind  of  tunity  to  act 
Pr^°f  that  is  based  on  actual  performance?  '  climb  on  the  s 
J  hen,  consider  the  recent  mountain-  ..  ing  picture  th< 
climbing  record  established  by  a  Paige  But,  best  of  all, 
Fairfield  Six-46"  at  Mount  Hood,  Oregon,  •  New  Series  P. 
on  July  tenth.  room  of  the  1c 
^>th  a  large  field  of  competitors,  the  convince  you 
Fairfield  was  the  first  car  of  the  year  to  A  single  dem 
reach  Government  Camp,  where  it  was  particular  au 
awarded  the  Pridemore  Silver  Trophy.  time. 
This  is  a  gruelling  climb  in  itself — the  For  Paige  owr 
classic  event  of  the  northwest.  Thev  have  “ai 
ion 
NEW  SERIES  FAIRFIELD  “SIX-46"  SEVEN-PASSENGER  $1375  f. 
NEW  SERIES  FLEETWOOD  “SIX-38"  FIVE-PASSENGER  $1090  f 
o.  b.  Detroit 
o.  b.  Detroit 
Paige-Detroit  Motor  Car  Company 
221  McKinstry  Ave.  Detroit,  Mich. 
