Dairymen’s League Meeting 
The annual nieetin;' of the I )airyineirs Leaftne, 
held in Jersey ('ity, New Jersey, on Deceinher K), 
was attended hy about 1)00 dele?:ates from local 
branches, and 000 other memhers. With the excep¬ 
tion of one address the session was devoted to the 
leports of officers and eomniittees and the election 
of otlicers. 
The address was made hy Mr. Milo D. Campbell, 
Clearwater, Mich. Mr. Campbell made an eloipient 
and patriotic address, punctured with sound dairy 
farm arguments, which he drove home with frecpient 
illustrations of pointed stories. We think he was in 
error in condemning the principle of commercial 
democracy as contrary to the interests of farmers. 
Democracy is always opposed to autocracy and 
monopoly, both of which always opjjose the interests 
of the farm, ff commercial democr.acy means, as 
we understand it do<*s, a fair division of tlie wealth 
created hy the imm who create or produce it, we 
cannot see how it could affect farmers unfiivorahly. 
It seems rather the things for wliich wo contend. 
?.ir. Canii)l)ell nnuh^ a point in his denunciation of 
tlie continuous performance of investigations of dairy 
conditions, and he was esi)ecially telling in his com- 
Itarisen of the tn'atment of dairy interests in 
('hicago as comiiared with the immuiuty to the 
meat trust. 
In his report the president suggested the reor¬ 
ganization of the League on cotiperative lines; and 
that some of the funds of the League should he 
turned over to local hranches for the i)ayment of 
local expenses; and that the organization must con¬ 
trol the product after it leaves tlie farmer’s hand, 
'bhese are principles that this paper has agitated 
from the start, and two of them for many years. 
Wo hope to see them put into immediate execution. 
'The secretary reported that tlu' nnmlx'r of liranches 
within the year had increa.sed from SOS to Do-l; the 
niimher of stock suliscrihers from IT,!)!*! to 01,0()0: 
the numiiei' of cows from .W1,0!)l. to 082,7111. being 
an increase of SO hranches, 12,()!)() memliers and 
121,051 cows. The average price of milk for 11)17 
was .$2.11, and for IDIS ,$2.01 jier 100 Ihs. The sec¬ 
retary expres.sed appreciation of the .society for tlie 
(<»<'.]teration and work of the farm bureaus in their 
resiK'ctive counties. 
'riie 'rreasurer presented the following ri'porl : 
I nconio— 
('oniinission on Milk Sales. ,$201.1)12.51 
Brokerage on Feed Sales. 2S2.15 
Discount . 20.S2 
Interest on Investinmits. 2,002.51) 
Miscellaneous Income . 44.0S 
Total . 
Fxpendit ure.s— 
Odicers’ Salaries . 
Otlicers’ Expenses . 
Directors’ Expenses . 
Organization . 
(’oiinty I*r(!sidents’ Salaries. 
(’ounty I’residents’ Expenses. 
(’oniinission Auditor.s’ Expenses. 
Local Branch Expen.ses. 
Buffalo Ohice Exiien.se. 
Bochester Otlice Exiiense. 
.\ational Milk I’roducers Federation... 
Local Sah's (loininitti'c Exju'iises - 
Milton. I’a. 
Syracuse, N. Y. 
Utica. Y... . 
Kingston, N. Y. 
Scranton, Pa. 
Alliany, N. Y. 
Field Expenses . 
Stockholder.s’ Meeting Expenses. 
Legal Expeiif^es. 
Hearings and Investigations Exiiensi'S. 
Otlice Salaries . 
Rent . 
(leneral Otlice Expense. 
Stationery and Printing. 
Telephone and Teh'graiili. 
Postage . 
Taxes . 
Exchange and ('ollection. 
.Vdvertising . 
Auditing and .\ccounting... 
Depreciation, Furniture and Fixtures. . 
Total . 
E.xcess of Income over Expenditure..,, 
.$205, 
.‘555.0(5 
,21(5.88 
824.24 
17, 
,.‘50(5..5!) 
T), 
IL’L.'l!) 
(545.04 
•) 
,(I82.!)7 
4, 
,.‘542.48 
•) 
,(115.80 
7, 
,.‘570.(57 
o 
,0.‘50..52 
4, 
,000.00 
51.21 
22(5.10 
415.20 
.‘5(5.47 
554.44 
521.11 
20 
.1(51 8(i 
n 
,8(;.‘5.2(5 
12, 
,207 0(5 
000 58 
25 
.4(;s.(57 
5 
.48.‘5 25 
(» 
,441.22 
1 
,222.28 
4 
,052 0(5 
5 
,210.88 
'TTr ( \ 1 
i i < .iM 
0.80 
12 
.420 17 
202 50 
008 '.)5 
$177 
. 108.85 
.$28,150.21 
Supplemental to this the report showed an income 
on Dairymen’s League New.s .$s,U51).50 and an expen.se 
of .$22,212.08, leaving a ddlcit of .$15,254.18. This 
made the total income .$212,414.5<i and a total ex¬ 
penditure of .$2fK),512.52, and a net balance of 
$12,1)02.02. The repoi’t does not .seem to account for 
any receipts for the sale of stock of inemhership. 
An audit committee of members not holding oflice, 
composed of Mr. M. E. Martin, Edw. F. Vincent and 
IT. A. Walter, reported they had examined the treas¬ 
urer’s accounts and compared with the vouchers. 
They also examined the vouchors on the different 
accounts and found them to he conservative charges. 
This committee recommended that the salaries and 
exiiense ilems of tlie otlicers he changed in the future 
to .straight salary to cover their maintenance while 
7»/>e RURAL NEW-YORKER 
in New York; exiienses to he paid them only while 
cn oflicial hu.siness outside the city of New Y'ork. 
This reeommendation is along the lines of efncienc.v 
and good business practice. The reipiirement that 
accounts should he clK'cked and audited hy disin¬ 
terested committees is, of course, no rellection on 
the per.'-on presenting the account or contracting the 
exiienses. It is simply a good business practice. 
The ri'.solutions committee reported that .some .50 
<,.'.d re.solutions had been handed in, hut none of 
them were reported as jiresented, and the committee 
generalized what it considered pertinent and proper 
t.i report, in seven or eight jiaragraphs. .\mong these 
were the recommendation that country organization 
work he continued hut consideration he given to the 
(pu'stion as to whether new styckholders should he 
adinitt(‘d wlio hav(' heretofore negh'Cted to support 
the f.eague: that efforts he made to extend the 
freight zone; that otlicers should give their time 
.suhstantially to the work of the T.eague and not 
accept other .salaried positions; that all dealers he 
required to make .semi-monthly pa.vments promptl.v 
and to give each pati'on delivering milk a written 
o; printi'd slip of the weight in each delivery; that 
the .State law requiring (bailers to give bonds he 
strictly enforced and if necessary the haw he 
amended so as to give producers ade<iuate protec¬ 
tion ; that methods he adopted hy which all memhers 
contributing to the siqiport of the Txaigue receive 
cijual henetits; that those memhers whose milk is 
sold at League prici's he requiivd to contrihute to a 
.special fund controlled hy the League and used to 
reimhiirso those memhers whose milk Ix'caiise of a 
suriilus the League is unable to sell at League 
1 ’. rices. 
Our readers will observe that the measures and 
iniprov(Miients here adopted include a large part of 
the principles that we have advocated, and tiiat 
were formulated hy the memhers some time hack and 
published at their reipu'st. For one session the 
progress is niost encouraging. 
The otlicers clect(‘(l W'ere: 
I’ri'.sidf'iit. R. I). (’ooiH'r, Little Fulls, II(>rkimer (ki., 
N. Y.; vice-pre-sideiit, .1. 1). MilDr, Sus(|ueliaiina, .Sus- 
quoluinna ('o., I’a.; secretary, Albert Mamiiiig, Otis- 
villi>. Orange Oo., N. Y. ; tnaisurer, M. \V. Davison, 
(’aiii.slec), Steuben ('o.. .\. Y. 
EXE( ’ 1 T'l' 1 V E (’OM MI 'P'r E E. 
R. D. ('’oojx'r, ('haiiaiuin (e.x-ofru;io). 
Albert Manning, F. 11. 'riioinson, *11. .1. Ker.sliaw, 
L. (5. Kirkland. 
The di ectors elect('d w(‘re : 
.\KW VOKK. 
(k)Uiity Name 
Broome, Portland.N. F. WVd)!) 
(kittaraugus, (’hautaiKiua.L. (!. Kirkland 
Olienango .*11. ,L Kershaw 
I)iitcli(>ss, W(‘stclu>ster, I’ntnam, 
State of Oonn.*llarry W. Oulver 
Delaware .Bruce il. Kiljiatrick 
Erie, .\iagira .(Jeorge S. I’ickens 
h'ranklin, Clinton.Kenneth I'^ree 
Herkimer, Montgomery, Fulton... R. 1). Cooiier 
.leflerson, Lewis .*ChaH. O. (Jordon 
Madi.son.*('has. M. Coe 
Oneida .I’’. H. ’riiomsou 
Orange .Harry I'.ull 
Osw(‘go, Onondag!i, Cayuga.*Crant Farrington 
Otsego .r. 1). Beardslee 
St(‘uh(>n. .MIegany ..Milton W. Davison 
St. Lawr(uic(> .I. M. Putnam 
'I’inga. 'rompkins, Chemung, 
Schuyler, Seneca .Paul Smith 
FIster. Sullivan, Cr(>en(> and 
Schoharie. .Irving (i’,. Barnes 
\Viishing1on, ('olumhia, Sarato¬ 
ga, Rensseliuu-, .\lhaiiy, Scheii- 
(‘ctady, and N’t.Ldin .S. Petteys 
Wyoming .*C. .M, Drake 
NKW JKIISKY. 
,Suss(‘x .Louis .M. Hardin 
)>K.\.\SYI,V.\.NIA. 
Tioga, McKean, Erie, Warren, 
Crawford .,T, K. Campbell 
Northumberland, Lyconung, Mon¬ 
tour, Columbia, Fnion, .Sny¬ 
der, Lancaster, Luzerne, 
Northampton, Bradford .R. H. Fleming 
Su.scpudianna, Wayne, NN'i-oming, 
Lackawanna .*.L D. Miller 
* Indicates that this otlicer is both Director and 
County League I’resident. 
Potato Shipping Situation and Markets 
The crop is moving rapidly and remaining stock 
much less than last .season. T’he bulk of shipment.s 
after November are from th(‘ 12 States: California, 
(’olorado, Idaho. Maine, .Michigan, Miniu'sota, Nevada, 
New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Wash¬ 
ington and Wisconsin. For tlie season of December 2, 
inclusive, this group of Winter and Spring shiptiing 
States has moved tit),271 cars, comparc'd with 4(1,Old 
cars for the corresponding time last year, a gain of 
14,225 cars this year, notwithstanding this year’s much 
lighter crop. 
The average volume of a large number of oflicially re¬ 
corded carlot shipments from three prominent shipping 
sections, east and west, this ycuir is a little ovi'r 7()() 
bushels per car. Applying that figure to the crop yiidd 
for the two last seasons gives 210,772 cars for lOlS, 
based on the official October estimate, which was stateil 
as 222,840,000 bushels, compared with 254,085 cars, or 
247,850,000 bushels, tlie final 1017 estimate for these 
12 Stat. . 
Last season’s shipments of the 12 States to this time 
were 40,040 cars out of a season’s total from the same 
1407 
States of 102,218. The shipments were about 20 per 
cent of the total estimated crop of these States. 
At the opening of the Fall shipping season. New 
.Jersey (Jinnts sold at $’2.SO to .$2.25 per cwt. in con¬ 
suming markets, and Alinnesota .stock, carlots, sacked, 
ranged .$2.20 to $2.4.5 per cwt. in (Chicago. By the mid¬ 
dle of October the (Chicago carlot price had gradually 
declined to $1.70, and to .$1.50 to .$1.00 by the middle 
of November, then ri'covered somewhat, reaching $1.80 
December 10. On thi.s date, Maine Orc'en Mountains 
and New York round whites rangc'd .$2.2.5 to $2.75 in 
Eastern .iobhing markets. Colorado white sacked stock 
rangi'd $2.05 to $2.40, including carlot sales. 
In 1017, at the opening of the Fall potato season. 
New .Tersey (Jiants were selling to the jobbing trade in 
the large consuming markets at $1.10 to $1.25 per bu., 
or around .$2 per cwt. High points were rwiched the 
middle of last October, when the general jobbing range 
was .$2.50 to .$2 per cwt. for New .Tersi'y (Jiants. D('- 
climi began about November 1, and the trend of values 
continui'd downward throughout mo.st of the Winter. 
For the week ending December 1(5, 1017, Minnesota 
white stock in carlots ranged $1.80 to .$2.(15 per cwt. 
sacked. New York and Maine white stock in jobbing 
markets ranged $2 to $2.(52, and Colorado stock in 
Southw('.stern markets, including carlot sales, $1.50 to 
$2..2.5. In early December this year the average values 
were about the same as for the corresponding time last 
year, although in 1017 the rang(*s were wider and the 
markets in various parts of the country much more 
irn'gular than this year. 
Apart from this unevenness and irregularity of price 
ranges in 1017, the chief dilTerence in the situation this 
year, conqiared with last year, is the much lighter 
supply shown to be in the producing .sections at the 
opening of the Winter smmon. o. n. F. 
Up-State Farm Notes 
fJROW'ITI OF FARM AND HOME BUREATLS.— 
During the past year the number of farm bureaus in 
(his State increa.sed from 45 to .55, and the membership 
from 22,!)()() to 42,(I()(). The average membership is 
702, 1(5 having a memhership of over 1,000. Otsi'go 
County leads with 1,782 members. Before another year 
it is hoped to make the membership over f5.5,()()(). 'I’lie 
women’s departments have made an eipial growth. 
There are six organized counties with a regular home 
demonstrator especially trained for the work, .some hav¬ 
ing also assistants. Tlu'se counties are Nassau, Erie, 
Broome, Wayne, Cayuga and Cortland. The latter has 
a membership of over 200, with two trained women 
experts. Mo.st of the memberships will run larger than 
this. Besid(*s this, in nearly all the organized counties 
an emergency home (‘cononiics work has been carried 
on the past year, and many of these expect to have 
regular organized departments .soon. Onondaga County 
is now organizing, and .s(‘ems to have chosen the name 
most suitable for this work, the “Home Bureau,” work¬ 
ing <*o(5peratively with the Farm Bureau. 
WHAT TO DO WITH S. A. T. C.—Syracuse Uni¬ 
versity will pay the tuition of its Student Army ’Train¬ 
ing (’oriw until the simond semester. In doing so the 
college is more generous than many, which are termi¬ 
nating the present order as fast as the men take off the 
uniform.s. It is a grmit trial to many boys who had 
planiK'd on the year’s work to be turned out with such 
short notice'. 
TW’O DAYS’ rjRANOE AIEETING.--^’Tlie Fall 
quarterly meeting of Cayuga County I’oniona Orange 
had .so much busine.ss and matters of interest to (*onsider 
that it will hold a two days’ meeting at its usual De- 
cemher session. This is a step in the right diri'ction. 
The usual quarterly .se.ssions are so full of interest and 
vital toiiics for discussion that the one day’s si'ssion 
gives far too little time to allow of sutlicient detail. 
Delegates to the State Orange nu'eting at Lockport are 
heing elected at all the Fall .sessions of I’omonas, and 
many eh'ct their officers at this time, whih* never was 
there a time when farmers had .so many (piestions to 
diiscu.ss a.H now. 
(JR.VIN BOATS IN ICE.—Ice-breaking oiii'rations 
have b('en necessary along the canalizi'd Mohawk River 
to liberate wheat-laden boats bound east. ’I'liere are 
now 4(5 boats in the canal, 42 loadc'd with wheat, which 
is valued at a million dollars. 'I’lie other three boats 
are two large steel trawlers, bound from Superior, NN’is., 
to the Atlantic coast, and the new concrete barge just 
construct(>d for the government at Ithaca. All of the 
boats have been released, and unless weather conditions 
grow worse, are exiiected to reach tlnur destinations. 
NEED.S OF 1!)R).—Senator Sag(>, chairman of finance 
committee, says the State’s budget must be greater by 
$1.5.()(l(),()0() iK'xt year. The estimated resources an* 
$12,()0().()()() less for next year. The cash halance will 
also b(‘ less hy about .$!),()()(),()()(). Receipts from excis(> 
taxes will be $5.75(),()(M) l('s.s. Our people must jiay 
inori* taxes, or the State will be bankrupt. 'I’liere is a 
big increa.se in overhead expensi's, not considering huild- 
ing or repair work as demanded by various departments, 
amounting to .$8,(K)(),()()(), or 1.5 per cent of the iiresent. 
fiscal y(>ar. “The greatest task the Legislature has this 
year,” says Senator Sage, “is not the approval or dis¬ 
approval of a Federal prohibition amendment, but the 
(‘stablishment of a sound method of taxation and a 
careful retrenchment wherever possible in its constantly 
mounting expenses.” 
FUTURE OF DEHYDRATION.—About 1(5,()()(),()(M) 
pounds of dehydrati'd vegetabh'S have bemi contracted 
for hy the govemnn'iit, mostly from Western New York 
factories. Much pioneer work by the United States 
Department of Agriculture has been done, showing how 
dehydration can be done at home and comiiK'rcially. 
Several farmers’ club.s have been startl'd to do dehydrat¬ 
ing for home use. In Europi' oflicial vegetable dehydra¬ 
tion has bi'en carried on for year.s. The large truck 
areas of Central and Wc'stern New York now have a 
great future before them in this work. The vegetable.s 
now in use by the government in drii'd form are onions, 
potatoi's, carrots, turnips, celery, cabbage, various greens 
and soup mixtures. 
MODEL BRANCH LEAGUE.—Too often the an¬ 
nual meeting of the Dairymen’s League branches an* 
neglected and ill attended. These agencies that are 
doing so much for the farmers should be made commun¬ 
ity affairs, as was done in L’ulaski. Here a day full of 
intere.st was held. The editor of the Li'ague News gave 
an address on strengthening the organization. 'I'he 
president, Frank Farrington, director for Cayuga, 
Onondaga and Oswego counties, gave an address out¬ 
lining the work for last year ami exjilaining tin' diffi¬ 
culties of working with food admini.stration officials, 
who are not familar with the farmers’ problems. He 
said drastic action must be taken by food oflii'ials or 
cows 'll Cayuga (’ounty would di.sappear, showing how 
the numbers have decreased in the past year. A reso¬ 
lution was pa.ssed that farmers discontinue the u.se of 
butter substitutes. M. G. F. 
