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MAINE FARMERS’ WEEK. 
The week of March 8-13 was “Farm¬ 
ers’ Week” here at the University, start¬ 
ing with the opening registration Mon¬ 
day evening and ending with a banquet in 
Bangor Saturday evening. During the 
week 365 farmers of the State registered; 
beside these, many of the students of 
i he college availed themselves of the op¬ 
portunity of attending the lectures given 
by Dr. Aley, president of the University; 
I lean Merrill, of the Agricultural Col¬ 
lege, and many instructors and practical 
farmers. Wednesday morning Mr. Stet¬ 
son, Master of the Maine State Grange, 
lectured. The features of the week were 
the florists’ exhibit from the College 
greenhouses, the exhibit of the domestic 
science students, the inspection of the ex¬ 
periment station and College poultry 
plants, and the inspection of the model 
barns and dairy equipment of the dairy. 
Among the farmers present were many 
former graduates of the college, returning 
to renew acquaintances and holding their 
annual reunions. j. c. 8. 
Orono, Me. 
Good black and white grade Ilolsteins 
selling from $65 to $80; dairy butter, 
30c; full cream cheese, 17c, wholesale; 
Spy apples, 30 cents a bushel; potatoes, 
30 cents, loaded in cars. c. w. M. 
Rossburg, N. Y. 
March 14.—We have been having a 
cold north wind for two weeks; snow 
about all gone and roads almost dry; 
everything points to an early Spring. 
Fruit buds have passed the Winter safely 
and prospects are for plenty of fruit of 
all kinds. Cows and horses are consider¬ 
ably lower in price than for some time. 
A number of crops of potatoes were held 
over and 25 cents is all that is offered. 
A few farmers have sold their wheat at 
$1.50, but a number of large crops are 
still held, and only $1.35 is now offered. 
Interlaken, N. Y. w. A. B. 
Taken altogether, the season has thus 
far been quite favorable to both the 
vegetable and flower forcers in this sec¬ 
tion. Excepting the month of December, 
when the weather was quite severe, and 
greenhouse men had hard work battling 
against the storms, the season has been 
quite mild. Not in many years has the 
Winter season had so much sunshine, and 
as a result crops of all kinds under glass 
have done extra well. The hot-watcr 
system of heating is used in most of the 
greenhouses. Lettuce growers are just 
cleaning up their second crops, while 
tomato growers are in the midst of their 
second .crops. Some vegetable green¬ 
houses have lately been sown in part to 
beets and radishes, and considerable space 
is also given to rhubarb. The more up- 
to-date vegetable growers, who carry on 
the work the year around, have started 
their vegetable plants for Spring setting 
in the greenhouse, some having begun the 
work in January, while the “Summer 
gardeners” have just started their hot¬ 
beds. The prices of forced vegetables to 
the consumer at the present are: Let¬ 
tuce, 35 cents per pound; tomatoes, 35 
cents per pound; radishes, 10 to 15 cents 
per bunch; rhubarb, 20 cents per pound; 
cucumbers, 35 to 40 cents per pound. 
Elkhart Co., Ind. l>. L. 
Milk Sy 2 cents per quart delivered at 
station, butter 35; cows $75 to $125, ac¬ 
cording to quality. Potatoes 35 cents per 
basket; apples 40; hay $14 to $18. Corn 
85 at mill and about $1 a bushel at auc¬ 
tion where credit is given. H. L. E. 
Vincentown, N. J. 
Ninety per cent, of the forest fires in 
the forest and wood lots of New York 
are preventable, is the opinion of the 
State College of Forestry. By timely use 
of the right timber in the Adirondacks 
and Catskills, the State can save annual¬ 
ly from destruction by fire, insects and 
fungi, millions of feet of lumber. It also 
says there are 20,000 miles of streets in 
the State of New York capable of sus¬ 
taining 5,000,000 shade trees which can 
be made worth $100,000,000. The Col¬ 
lege seeks to make Arbor Day forest day 
instead of tree day, with the hopes of 
interesting the high schools each to plant 
a thousand or more trees on that day. 
When boys see $7.70 for each 10-hour 
day spent on their prize acre of corn, they 
will forget fishing, baseball, and going to 
town when older. All West Virginia lads 
did well and returns from the boys’ corn 
clubs show that it took about 103 hours 
work to produce each acre. The profits 
average $77.92, which means about $7.70 
for each 10-hour day. Of 118 members, 
the average yield of 68.8 bushels of 
shelled corn was produced at a cost of 
35 cents per bushel. Where 133 bushels 
were produced the low cost of 16 cents 
was reached. 
Madison County, Ky., is in the Blue 
grass region of that State, and an inter¬ 
esting survey of 60 farms averaging 600 
acres each has been announced. An av¬ 
erage of 50 steers, 75 hogs, and 25 lambs 
were sold from these farms, and the sur¬ 
rey has determined the labor require¬ 
ments of these animals. The steers re¬ 
quired each one man day, and one horse 
day; hogs, each three man hours and one- 
half horse hour, ewes with lambs two man 
hours, and one-quarter horse hour. There 
is less man labor and horse labor than on 
farms farther north. Steers remain on 
the farm about a year, and fatten on the 
pasture. Pigs are farrowed in April and 
September, and Fall pigs follow steers, 
with 143 pounds of grain per hog. They 
pasture on clover and rye in the Spring, 
with about 312 pounds of grain per hog 
for about 60 days before marketing. On 
some farms sheep are on pasture prac¬ 
tically the whole year. It has been fig¬ 
ured that the production of one animal 
requires about the same labor as one 
acre of wheat in the same locality. 
The Carolina poplar and soft maple 
have generally been planted as shade 
trees. Both of these are quick-growing, 
which probably is the only reason why 
these have been selected, and the New 
York State College of Forestry advises 
that these trees should be rarely planted, 
and then only as temporary trees between 
other more permanent varieties such as 
elm, Norway maple and Red and Pin 
oaks. 
Land Banks Everywhere. —In a 
number of States farmers are trying to 
establish a land bank after the plan of 
the bank just organized in New York. 
Here and there are a few far-sighted men 
who see the advantage of such a bank 
and what is to come from it in the future, 
and so they are trying to develop a sen¬ 
timent in its favor. In Connecticut there 
are several farmers who are endeavoring 
to bring this about. In Michigan several 
influential members of the Legislature are 
studying the subject, and will introduce a 
bill organizing a bank adapted to local 
conditions. We are asked by many of 
these people if we cannot push a national 
law of this kind. It seems as if the work 
can be done better under State govern¬ 
ment. Most business men to whom the 
plan is made plain promptly see the ad¬ 
vantage of it, for everyone can see what 
a live building and loan association has 
done or can do in developing a town. 
When such men understand that the land 
bank is designed to do for the surround¬ 
ing country what the building association 
has already done for the town itself, they 
promptly see how much such service 
would add to local business, and to the 
local strength of the community. We 
hope that farmers everywhere will care¬ 
fully study the principles underlying this 
Land Bank, and do their best to interest 
legislators and local associations in the 
matter. 
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The Goodrich Tire, like the 
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and muscle—no fat 
T HE old Olympic Game pro¬ 
motors were great for what 
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Symmetry, proportion, soundness 
and proper balance out-bid bulging 
muscles for favor—yes, and out-won, 
too, just as they will today. 
Mere bulk never was synonymous 
with endurance—and the truth of this 
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when you apply it to tires. 
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I F thick, heavy tires were the last 
word in tire construction, we 
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Goodrich Research and Test Depart¬ 
ment employing seventy people. We 
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automobiles that run twenty-four hours 
a day and every day in the year, grind¬ 
ing tires of all makes to pieces, just for the 
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economy to the user of Goodrich Tires. 
There is where we learn to cut out 
of a tire the material which gets the 
user nothing. 
Of course, when we stripped tire 
price lists of their padding—fictitious 
values—we expected rivals to say we 
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Note the following table of comparative prices 
on non-skid tire*. Columns headed r ‘A,” “B,” "C” 
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Size 
Goodrichl 
Safety 
Tread 
OTHER MAKES 
“A” 
“B” 
“C" 
“D” 
30x3 
30x334 
32x334 
34x4 “ 
36x434 
37x5 
$ 9.45 
12.20 
14.00 
20.35 
28.70 
33.90 
$10.55 
13.35 
15.40 
22.30 
32.15 
39.80 
$10.95 
14.20 
16.30 
23.80 
33.60 
41.80 
$16.35 
21.70 
22.85 
31.15 
41.85 
49.85 
$18.10 
23.60 
25.30 
33.55 
41.40 
52.05 
If you are charged Ins for any other make 
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They had to say that, in strip¬ 
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sumer and left no room for injurious 
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our tires of some quality, too. 
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There are padded tires as well as 
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Now don’t forget this—we are talk¬ 
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per cent of our factory output for resale. 
Furthermore, while we have put 
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on the run, the evil of padded prices 
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Goodrich Safety Tread oon-skids are j udged 
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