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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
April 5, 
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— DANDY GATE 
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PEERLESS WIRE FENCE CO. 
215 Mich St. Adrian, Michigan 
AMERICAN CO-OPERATION. 
The writer is greately interested 
the report of the successful working 
of the Monmouth, (N. J.) Farmers’ 
Exchange, which appeared in The R. 
N.-Y., page 161. Being always inter¬ 
ested in this cooperative effort it is 
very pleasing indeed to find such 
splendid work done in America. So 
much is said of the effort put forth 
in Europe that it would almost appear 
as if there is something wanting co¬ 
operatively in the make-up of the aver¬ 
age American farmer. Evidently this 
is not so. For information’s sake the 
writer would like to inquire if this is 
a genuine cooperative effort and not 
a joint stock corporation. For it is 
to be regretted that many successful 
efforts in this way have in the past 
gone over to the capitalistic side be¬ 
cause they were not at the start begun 
cooperatively. The following remarks 
are written upon the assumption that 
the Monmouth (N. J.) Farmers’ Ex¬ 
change is a genuine cooperative effort, 
and will not later be swallowed up by 
a few large stockholders but will con¬ 
tinue as it has evidently begun by 
being a farmers’ agricultural cooper¬ 
ative society in the best sense of the 
word. 
The writer has had considerable ex¬ 
perience of cooperative societies in Eng- 
The writer has spoken to farmers on 
in~^this subject, but invariably the reply has 
been, “Oh, all this is.no doubt as you 
say, but you must not forget that the 
American farmer is very, very individ¬ 
ualistic, and (this is generally the 
clincher) you cannot produce any record 
of any successful cooperative efforts on 
this side anywhere among farmers. 
There are some joint stock concerns 
doing work, but cooperation—no, sir— 
none whatever.” That generally winds 
up the discussion. 
There is another point disclosed in the 
by-law which, if generally adopted by 
efforts in this direction, offers a solution 
to a very prevalent difficulty in all such 
efforts. And that is that every member 
guarantees his business to the society 
unless he can do better to the extent of 
at least five per cent. Now, this is an 
easy afid a very reasonable solution. 
Loyalty preached at large is apt to be 
too general to hit anybody very hard. 
Many promising societies have failed 
because the members were not loyal 
enough to their own society. But a 
guarantee of this nature drives home, as 
it were, such loyalty that members can 
become conscious of its need. And the 
management can more easily secure the 
business by reminding their members of 
the by-law. Again, the last point which 
appears to be working in the right direc¬ 
tion is the retaining of the profits to 
build up a sound reserve fund. This 
is again a very important matter. The 
members of societies are apt to be short¬ 
sighted in this matter; instead of prac¬ 
tising self-denial they demand a division 
of the profits and the society frequently 
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Toronto Montreal Winnipeg Vancouver 1967 
AN OHIO PEACH AND CHERRY ORCHARD. 
land, and therefore offers the following 
remarks with some knowledge of the 
subject matter. The record of this so¬ 
ciety is one of which its members, board 
of directors and officials may well be 
proud. It is very doubtful if this rec¬ 
ord can be duplicated by anything in 
Great Britain. What is meant is this: 
the time during which the society has 
been in existence is so short. Many 
societies over there would feel proud of 
the same record during an existence of 
10 to 15 years. Also the large member¬ 
ship proclaims loudly the fact that given 
the cooperative effort a fair deal it is 
bound to come out on top. This record 
speaks volumes of the energy and per¬ 
sistence of the board of directors and 
the officers of the society. The rules or 
by-laws, page 173, are admirably drawn 
up so far as you print them. There are 
evidently others covering voting powers 
of members, amount of stock to qualify 
for membership, disposition of profits, 
etc., all of which are needed for a suc¬ 
cessful society. 
Now for one or two questions. Is 
this very successful cooperative effort 
doing any missionary work? This is 
just the body to undertake successfully 
the work of spreading the light. These 
can go and preach to others not a theory 
of what might be done, but a very suc¬ 
cessful practice of something that has 
been done. And if this can be done in 
one place, human nature being very 
much the same in other districts, given 
the enthusiasm and the knowing how to 
begin, there is no earthly reason why 
the same thing may not come true of 
other counties or districts. 
has to borrow money to carry on its 
operations. Where the members are 
loyal to their society and also willing to 
allow the dividend to remain to build 
up a strong reserve, such a society is 
built upon the rock and the storms of 
competition, etc., shall not prevail 
against it. Occasionally the writer has 
come across the reports of successful 
societies; there may be many such, and 
one wonders if it is not possible to 
federate these various isolated societies. 
Such a body would soon become a great 
help to the individual society. Such a 
body would be in a position to offer its 
experience to new societies and so ex¬ 
tend the movement enormously. Legis¬ 
lative effort is all right to protect such 
societies, but it is not wise to expect too 
much in that direction. The only help 
of value is to help people to help them¬ 
selves. E. T. 
An Ohio Peach and Cherry Orchard. 
Above shows my peach and cherry or¬ 
chard, which was planted the Spring of 
1009. Trees were headed at 18' inches, 
yearling trees planted. The first year’s 
growth was cut hack to six to eight iheh<4>, 
the second year headed back to 18 to 20 
inches. The past Spring trees were headed 
quite severely as there was no fruit buds. 
All limbs pointing up or in have been 
removed each Spring. This orchard con ; 
tains 1,100 trees, planted 17 feet each way. 
Many of the trees now have a spread of 
15 to 17 feet and are eight to nine feet 
in height. It has dust mulch cultivation 
until July 1 , then cover crop. Wo sow 
oats and turnips for cover crop, and allow 
the late weeds to grow. In the Spring as 
early as possible we use Cutaway disk 
harrow often enough to keep a dust mulch 
all the time until cover crop is sown. 1 
have taken great pride in this orchard, 
keeping it clean in the early Spring and 
Summer. So far tho orchard is free from 
scale, hut the borers give considerable trou¬ 
ble. We have tried spraying the trunks 
of the trees with a strong solution of 
lime-sulphur, 11 llowing the liquid to run 
into the ground around the trees, lint we 
bad a large number of grubs to dig out this 
Fall. This application was made late in 
June or early July. We mound our trees, 
which holds the grubs in the body of the 
tree, and keeps them from getting down 
among the roots. w . e. d. 
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