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-Ghe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 2, 1918 
Why? 
Farmers’ Week Excels Itself 
Part I. 
No one expected the Farmers’ Week at¬ 
tendance to come up to last year’s record- 
breaking figure, when 5.000 persons, rep¬ 
resenting 57 counties of the State, 21 
States and four foreign countries, signed 
the register. Transportation troubles, lack 
of help to keep things going on the farm, 
the shipping season’s demands and other 
conditions seemed to point to diminished 
attendance this year. Yet the balmy, 
Spring-like weather and the keen interest 
of the public in the highly practical pro¬ 
gram sf.-heduled hy the State College of 
Agriculture turned the faces of a large 
number of the State’s rural workers to¬ 
wards the institution that has come to 
mean so much to them. By Wednesdiiy 
the register showed a great increase in at¬ 
tendance over any previous record for the 
day, and the crowds continued to grow all 
the week. 
The main interest of the week centered 
on the deliberations and the subsequent 
utterances of the various members of the 
was present as an emissary of Mr. Hoov¬ 
er and drew an,audience of over 3,000 
persons—all the seating and standing 
room of beautiful Bailey Hall being used 
to its utmost with hearers filling all the 
exists and reaching into the corridors on 
both floors. She was introduced by Presi¬ 
dent Schurman. and in a voice that car¬ 
ried to the farthest of. her hearer-s she 
told of I'hirope’s conditions, her urgent 
need of food, our own duty in using all 
our resources to tlieir utmost, and the 
task the women of our nation have in con¬ 
serving foods, in directing the use of sul)- 
stitutes, their own part in increasing i)ro- 
duction and supervising children who 
.shall hel]) to swell the pnKlucts of the 
farms and gardens. Food, its production 
and conservation and- methods of stimu¬ 
lating i»roduction. may be said to be the 
toi)ic of the wet'k, or the one towards 
which all others tended. President Schur¬ 
man. in introducing .John Mitchell, chair¬ 
man of the State Food t’ommission, in a 
brief but energetic address, denounced 
the priiHuple of ]irice fixing as sure to 
bring paralysis (tf production, making 
what was probably tin* most popular tiilk 
of tin* week. Indeed, the attitude of 
every speaker 1 eard during the week, with 
perhaps one exception, the members of the 
State ('ollege faculty being perhaps most 
H ere are the names of a few of the many famous 
breeders of registered dairy cows of every breed, 
who use EMPIRE MILKING MACHINES; • 
Grand Champion Pen of Barrows (Berkshire) at the International Live Stock Show, 1817 
Exhibited by Hood Farm of Massachusetts 
Oliver Cabana, Jr., Pine Grove Farm, 
Elma Center, N. Y.; Senator A. T. 
Fancher, Fancher Farm, Salamanca, 
N. Y,; Charles Pratt Estate, Glen Cove, 
L. I.; Sherwin Farm, Willoughby, O.; 
Woronoak Farm, Westfield, Mass. 
And these are a few of the thousands 
of market milk producers who use 
EMPIRES: 
E. W. Smith, Richford, Vt.; Glen W. 
Jeffers, DeKalb Junction, N. Y.; Frank 
Baumgartner, Joliet, Ill.? Fred Pabst, 
Oconomowoc, Wis.; C. P. Fisher, 
Owatonna, Minn.; Chas. McFrederick, 
Jerusalem, Ohio; F. M. Helm, Fresno, 
Cal.; C. H. Conrey, Durango, Colo. 
Why do the foremost breeders 
and the most successful dairymen of 
every class use EMPIRE MILKING 
MACHINES? 
The reasons are these: Empire Milk¬ 
ing Machines solve their labor prob¬ 
lems and at the same time safeguard 
their cows. They milk uniformly the 
same way every day. They lengthen 
the cow’s period of lactation. They 
make it possible for one man to do the 
work of three or four hand milkers, thus 
saving many times their cost in wages 
in a remarkably short time. They 
produce better, cleaner milk than is 
possible by hand milking—and fre¬ 
quently increase the milk flow. They 
work equally well on easy and hard 
milking cows. 
If you’re milking more than eight 
cows you will want an Empire Milker 
—you need it. Our factory is over¬ 
crowded with orders, so see the Em¬ 
pire Dealer at once, so you will not 
have to wait for your Empire Outfit. 
Federal and State Food Commissions 
who were present, and who entered into 
practical give and take intercourse with 
the farmers. It is an undoubted fact that 
farmers went home fi-om the great meet¬ 
ing feeling much greater confidence in the 
intentions of the various commissions, a 
better understanding of the attitudes of 
each regarding the present food, cro)) and 
price situation, and encouragement to do 
their utmost to meet the Avorld’s needs for 
food, and still more food. 
In spite of the frequency of the slogan 
“Food will win the war.’’ for the first 
time New York State farmers had a 
chance to leai-n the real food situation in 
not only the warring countries of Europe, 
but the nearby neutrals, and other parts 
of the world that have a bearing on the 
great struggle in progress. For the first 
time they have seen the utter need of 
most of the people of the world and their 
absolute inability to meet the situation. 
They have learned that the destiny of the 
world depends on the Aherican farmer; 
that he constitutes one-third of the entire 
population of our country ; and that his 
efficiency as a producer exceeds that of 
the producers of any other country, owing 
to general u.se of improved machinery and 
higher plane of intelligence and knowl¬ 
edge. lie knows now that if the_ maxi¬ 
mum production of staple foods is pro¬ 
duced to sustain them, the man power of 
all the Allied nations will prevail against 
autocracy, and he has faith to believe that 
our government is going to correct some 
errors and broaden its policies and make 
it possible for him to do his utmost to 
meet the demands upon him. 
Those members of the two commissions 
present who addressed the farmers were: 
President Schurman of Cornell Tiniver- 
sity. John Mitchell, chairman of the State 
Food Commission: Chas. E. Treman of 
Ithaca, State representative of the Fed¬ 
eral Food Commission. Arthur Williams, 
New York City representative of the 
commission; Frederick Walcott, personal 
representative of Herbert C. Hoover. Fed¬ 
eral Food Administrator; IT. E. Babcock, 
head of the State Conservation Division ; 
Dr. Jacobs, head of the bakery division of 
the administration, and Dr. W. 11. Jordan 
of the Federal milk committee. Other 
representatives were present at the con¬ 
ferences, which held several important 
sessions. 
Perhaps no agricultural event in the 
country has called so many men and 
women figuring very largely in recent 
nation wide policies and undertakings as 
were assembled in Ithaca for Farmers’ 
Week. Miss Jane Addams of Chicago 
emphatic, was that of hearty disaproval 
of all i)rice-fixing regulations, except as 
th(‘y iipplied to profite(*i-ing or hoarding. 
.lolin ^litchell. the “most commissioned’’ 
man in .Vuiericii. complimented the farm¬ 
ers on their organisations and- advised still 
more complete ('i-ganizatioii as tln*ir surest 
protection. He said there are only two 
ways to stimulatt* production—to maki* 
it j)rofitahle and to ai)peal to the patriot¬ 
ism of the producers. He would not fail 
to do the latter, but thought the former 
fill* more effective. He sjiid America had 
not yet waked up to the stringency in till 
food matters that faces her, not only be¬ 
yond the seas, but in our midst_ within 
twelve months, lie referred to his thre(* 
sons in service at the front, saying he 
was glad they wt*nt. and he would rather 
they never -came back than that the Pi’in- 
cii)ies of lib(*rty and justice fail to win in 
the great struggle. Tf the Kaiser Avius 
life will not be worth livitig. money xvill 
not be worth h:iving. Everyone can and 
muxt help. If too old or too young or 
l)hysically unfit to wear the uniform, _we 
can help in agriculture or the industries, 
and sex is no hindrance in the service Ave 
cjiii rVnder. If Ave <lo our A'ery utmost 
our burdens Avill be as nothing compared 
to those of our boys “oA-er thei-e.’’ and_Ave 
will only r»*alize this Avhen the long lists 
of casualties begin to appear in our pa¬ 
pers. as they surely will. And AA’heu the 
boys, or Avhat is left of them, come home, 
no one Avill feel he or she has done too 
much. ^i* G* F. 
The Wife as Hired Man 
E.. in his article. “The Wife as Hired 
Man.’’ i)age KiT. asks Avhat is the matter 
Avith us. anyhoAV. I AA'onder if Tj. eA'er 
saAv a dairy farm. I live right in_ a 
daii'A' section, and no man Avith a dairy 
of lb or 1(> coAvs Avould think of hiring a 
man. With tin* ju-ices aa’C luiA-e been re- 
ceiA’ing it Avould be impossible to make 
both ends meet. There are thousands of 
men aa’Iio Asould think that they had 
struck heaven Avith the program f.. has 
mapped out. Thei-e are i)lenty of farm¬ 
ers Avho Avill go into this season with 
from 20 to 40 coavs Avithout any help 
except their Avives. as it Avill be impos¬ 
sible to hire unless the Government sends 
out men from the cities, and hiring in- 
ex]»erienced men simply increases the 
Avork of the Avomen—one more to Avash. 
cook and clean for. As city men are of 
little use on a dairy farm it seems like a 
great mistake Avhen they take our help 
from the farms. T do not think that 
they realize how utterly Avorthless a city 
mail is on the average dairy farm. I 
have tried tAVO men from the city and 
huA'e had enough. I Avould not take 
another if he Avould come for his board, 
and most of us have made hired men of 
our AvKes too long noAV. L. C. 
St. LaAvrence Go.. N. Y. 
Write for catalogue No. 23 
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