o/ia RURAL NEW-YORKER 
273 
General Farm Topics 
Colorado Beet Growers Combine 
I am enclosing card wliich givos the 
constitution and by-laws of oui- beet 
growers’ association, recently fonned. To 
what degree we are going to be successful 
in controlling and retaining contracts of 
the beet acreage I cannot say, but that 
there is a necessity for control on the part 
of a good executive committee of the beet 
growers there is no question. In doing 
some preparatory work in connectiou 
with this organization I compiled, as ac¬ 
curately as the figures T had access to 
would allow, some st.atistics regarding in¬ 
vestment by growers and cost of work, 
also returns from tbe beets. 
The growers of Colorado iuvesti'd in 
1015 about .$05,000,000 in land and plant; 
cost of labor, ,$S.040.000 ; return for sugar 
sold by factories and by-products was 
about $20..0.“)0.000; given to gi-ow- 
ers for beets, S10,.0.07.000. Invest¬ 
ments in 14 factories, jirobably .$10.- 
000,000. Their labor could not have 
been much over one-third of labor ac¬ 
count of growers. The entii’e risk in 
growing falls on the grower. IVe have to 
produce sound beets carrying not less 
than 12 per cent, sugar. Here then the 
growers’ investment is times the 
manufacturers, his labor bill i)robably 
times as much (I believe it is morel. 
The returns are divided in the ratio of 
10;2G 1.2; over 2yj times what the 
gi-ower gets goes to the manufacturer. 
The most striking and effective argu¬ 
ment you put up in the milk fight was the 
investment by the Bordens and their 
watered stock. Would it not be a still 
more striking and effective illustration of 
the injustice done if an accurate estimate 
of the investment and labor on the part 
of the producers of milk were made in 
comparison with the investment and labor 
on the part of the handlers? 
We have had a small organization for 
the past five years for buying coal, pota¬ 
toes, apples, and corn in carload lots. 
This organization has held together fairly 
well and wo are now about to build (have 
the money) a warehouse and coal sheds 
to handle our stuff more readily, probably 
will build an elevator, but this is not yet 
in sight. I noticofl. however, in our 
campaign for the Beet Growers’ As.socia- 
tion, that those who had been together 
the past five years and knew something 
about organization we had no difficulty in 
secui-ing as members of the Beet Growers’ 
Association. There was no .‘irgiiment 
necessary, there was a quick, hearty re¬ 
sponse. With those not accustomed to 
any organization there was talk and hold¬ 
ing back. This is the important reason 
why Ibistern farmers should take tip rural 
credits. w. a. m. 
I.amar, Col. 
A New York Corn Variety 
Can you tell me anything about Luce’s 
Favorite F.nsil.nge corn? I .see by iiu ag¬ 
ricultural palter it has preference in I)el- 
jiware Co., Southeastern New York, for 
silage. A. o. 
Ghio. 
I.uce’s Favorite is a kind of silage corn 
that has been grown to a limited extent 
in our county for a few years. In tests 
that have been made under the direction 
of our farm bureau it has quite generally 
proved its value. The manager of the 
bureau is planning further tt!sts with it 
for the coming season. He thinks it likely 
to produce the largest amount of dry mtit- 
ter to the acre of any variety. It is not 
(|uite so large a grower .as some of the 
other varieties, but matures well and 
gives satisfactory results when fed. If I 
were to make a test it would be on a 
rather small scale, and if found stitisfac- 
tory I would then save my own staal. 
Home-grown seed is tbe best, and by se¬ 
lection one can improve year by year, be¬ 
sides it becomes better acclimated. 
This vanety is related to Hall’s (bdd 
Nugget, which has been considered a good 
silage variety where seasons are short, as 
it matures early. It too often happens 
that a variety is used that is a heavy 
grower, but does not full.v mature. It is 
important that full maturity be reach'd, 
and for this reason I am inclined to rec¬ 
ommend Lucees Faborite, particularly 
where the season may not be such as to 
niatiin> some of the other varieties. 
H. H. L. 
The Township System of Schools Proposed 
for New York 
Part III. 
If majority of the voters in each 
unit favor this proposition, then a 
single town board shall be chosen to 
administer the affairs of all the .schools 
in the town. The town board of educa¬ 
tion shall organize, elect one of it? mem- 
b('rs president, and appoint a clerk and a 
town school treasurer who are not mem¬ 
bers of the board. This town board 
shall hire the teachers, purchase sup- 
plies. make repairs, hire janitor.s, pro¬ 
vide, when necessary for the transpor¬ 
tation of children living at considerable 
distances from the school buildings; es¬ 
tablish and maintain element.nry, high, 
industrial, vocational, agricultural and 
night schools, if such be deemed neces¬ 
sary; establish and maintain school li¬ 
braries; authorize a uniform and gen¬ 
eral course of stud.v; Arrange for the 
schooling pf any children living within 
the town in the schools of an adjoining 
Pjwn providing the schools of the ad¬ 
joining town are more convenient for 
such pupils ; ma.v acquire new schoolhouse 
sites, enlarge or improve old sites. This 
is a long list of the things that a town 
board of education may do under the 
township system, but it contains no pow¬ 
ers not possessed by present rural trus¬ 
tees and boards of education of union 
free school districts. 
The Sciiooi. BunoET. —The town 
bo.-ird of education sh.all prepare a school 
budget before the first d.ay of .Tuly each 
ye.-ir. This budget shall state the prob¬ 
able antount of public money that will 
be received b.v the town from the State, 
and the estimated amounts that will be 
received from all other sources. The 
budget shall also contain an itemized list 
of probable expenditures. This budget 
shall be published in two town papers, or 
if there is only one paper published in 
the town in this one paper or in a pa- 
l>er published outside of the town but 
having a general circulation within the 
town. The budget shall appear each 
week for four wrecks prior to August 
first and .a copy of the budget shall be 
posted in at least five public places with¬ 
in tbe town at least 20 days prior to 
the first day of August. A certified copy 
of the budget .shall he filed with the town 
clerk and a copy given to the supervisor 
of the town. The supervisor sh.all pre¬ 
sent the budget to the board of sui»er- 
visors at their annual meeting and they 
slnill provide for the collection of the 
school tax by the town collector at the * 
Siime time and in the same manner as 
the other town taxes shall be collected. 
4’lie town board of education shall not 
expend a sum in excess of $5,000 in any 
one year for repairs, remodelling or 
building new school buildings without 
submitting the matter to the voters at 
an annual or a special meeting called 
for such purpose. 
Annual School Meeting. —The an¬ 
nual school meeting shall be held in the 
most accessible seboolhouse in the town 
or the board of education may divide the 
town into election districts if such an 
arrangement is more convenient for the 
voters of the town. The meetings shall 
be held in school houses and the jiolls 
shall be open from nine in the morning 
until seven in the afternoon. Notices 
of the ai.nual meeting shall be published 
in the town paper, if there is one, each 
week for four weeks prior to the date of 
the meeting or a copy shall be jtosted on 
the door of each school house in the 
town and in at lea.st 10 other public 
places 20 days before the annujil meet¬ 
ing. Gandidates for the school board 
shall be nominated by petition, 25 sign¬ 
ers being needed. The petitions shall be 
filed with the clerk of the board of edu¬ 
cation at least 15 days before the an¬ 
nual meeting. The ballots shall be 
printed and uniform. The names of the 
candidates shall appear in alphabetical 
order and there shall be blank spaces, so 
that the voters may vote for persons 
other than those whose names appear 
on the ballot. At each election district 
there shall be three inspectors of elec¬ 
tion whose duties are similar to the du¬ 
ties of in.spectors at a general election. 
The arrangements for the first election 
under the new law shall be made by the 
district superintendent of schools and the 
succeeding elections shall be arranged 
for by the clerk of the board. These are 
the main features of the township sys¬ 
tem proposed for this State. The law 
provides for the issuing of school bonds 
when approved by the voters; for an in¬ 
ventory of school property; and for the 
nreparatit.n of a list of these qualified to 
vc‘e on a school meeting. 
TIIOS. B. stoel. 
A SOCIETY for disseminating literature 
sent a bundle of tracts to a railway man¬ 
ager for placing in the waiting room, 
with the title “A Route to New .Teriisa- 
lem.” He returned them with the mes¬ 
sage: “We cannot place the tracts, as 
New .Terusaleiu is not on our system.”— 
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