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J»t RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
January 25, 1919 
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Wayne County. N. Y., Home Economics 
Committee 
The picture given on this page shows 
the executive committee of Wayne County 
Home Economics Department. We under¬ 
stand that the Wayne County organiza¬ 
tion stands first in the State, leading all 
others in its war work. Such an organi¬ 
zation. conducted as these women are 
callable of conducting it, will prove of 
immense value to the county, and in a 
lesser way to the State. We hope that 
these organizations will be maintained 
and kept up in a way to utilize the powers 
of these women in the betterment of rural 
affairs. 
Up-State Farm Notes 
To Build Much Road. —The highway 
officials of Oswego County are planning 
to build Kit) miles of improved highways 
next year. This will involve an expendi¬ 
ture of $325,000, which is available for 
the purpose. Work will be provided for 
1,000 laborers, and officials will co-oper¬ 
ate in assigning jobs, giving preference to 
returned soldiers and sailors, when ready 
to begin the work. 
Many Tributes to Col. Roosevelt.— 
Never has the death of any public man 
been given wider attention in this gener¬ 
ation than has that of Col. Roosevelt.. 
Practically every church in Syracuse paid 
sincerest tribute to his remarkable char¬ 
acter last Sunday, as was done in many 
appointing his investigating committee, 
though he named two of the leading 
League officials upon it, is looked upon 
with suspicion, inasmuch as the city offi¬ 
cials and the consumers of New York 
have so long been known to he friendly 
to the moneyed dealers’ interests and hos¬ 
tile f<> the farmers’. Only by the fact that 
the farmers’ cause is absolutely right can 
justice ever be secured from a commis¬ 
sion of this make-up—and even so the 
farmers’ advocate:- will have need of the 
wisdom of Solomon and logic and persu¬ 
asiveness unequalcd. The public watches 
their deliberations with keenest interest. 
There is one feature of the milk war that 
is undoubted, and that is that each con¬ 
test of this sort with the dealers has 
taught the farmers more and more their 
own strength, and, best of all, how to use 
it. A bright feature of the contest has 
been the rallying of non-League milk 
producers, and their voluntary withholding 
of milk in support of their neighboring 
farmers’ interests. New memberships in 
the League have been coming in very 
rapidly. At several big county meetings 
of dairymen this week this has been suit¬ 
ably recognized by a vote of thanks from 
League members to non-members for their 
hearty support. The milk situation at 
Syracuse, which had been troublesome be¬ 
fore the strike, is now satisfactorily ar¬ 
ranged. and Syracuse is now considered 
as the best market in the State. There 
is no surplus now, and producers are paid 
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PEACE FINDS 
A HUNGRY WORLD 
Asst. Sec’y Ousley, U. S. Dept, of Agriculture says: 
“The moment we conclude peace with the Central Powers, 
they will be in the market for our food, and they, and half 
the world around them, are hungry after four years of pri- 
, vation.” Our own people also will gladly make an increase 
in their rations. It is therefore reasonable to expect good 
prices for farm products the coming season. 
We have fertilizer compounded to suit the particular 
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If in doubt what brands to select consult our free 
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quick reply and a “square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
Executive Committee of Wayne Co., N. Y. Home Economics Department 
other cities of the State. Chancellor Day 
of Syracuse, in a most comprehensive 
survey of the character of this “greatest 
American since Abraham Lincoln,” ren¬ 
dered one of the most eloquent of trib¬ 
utes, and censure certain international 
policies, saying that a man of Roosevelt’s 
caliber is most sadly needed by our nation 
now. 
Favoring the Troopers.—A leading up¬ 
state daily (Syracuse Post-Standard) in 
a canvass of leading men in the various 
counties of the State, including city, 
county and town police officers, clergy¬ 
men, legislators, editors, farmers and bus¬ 
iness men, reports 17 as favorable to the 
continuance of this service, and three who 
are opposed to the service or uncertain 
of its value. Hx-Senator Elon R. Brown’s 
statement that, all government is for pro¬ 
tection and that in this service the people 
get the most efficient protection for the 
least expenditure of money, seems to state 
the matter in a form satisfactory to a big 
majority of the people. 
Milk Question Dominant. —The 
chief topic of interest in tin 1 greater part 
of rural and a large part of urban New 
York is still the milk question. Farmers 
and their wives are losing much money 
that was sorely needed for other purposes, 
but they are doing it most cheerfully and 
willingly, and they are salvaging what 
they can out of tin' loss in the form of 
much fine butter, cottage cheese and by¬ 
products. Never before were the dairy¬ 
men of the State more solidly of one mind 
than now, in the third week of a com¬ 
plete “strike” in shipping milk. They 
cannot see that they are starving or rob¬ 
bing anyone by this concerted action to 
secure a just price for their own product, 
which they know the full cost of better 
than anyone else, unless it be real stu¬ 
dents of farm problems. They cheerfully 
pay the manufacturer, the merchant, Ifie 
editor, in fact every producer of .other 
lines of goods their prices on their re¬ 
spective products, and they expect and 
demand the same privilege, with the ex¬ 
ception that heretofore they have not 
and are not now demanding any profits. 
According to a unanimous resolution 
passed at the big mass meeting of dairy¬ 
men held in Utica last week, nevei again 
will farmers accept a price that does not 
cover costs. This meeting was very large¬ 
ly attended, every county of this State 
having delegations of dairymen present, 
several of these being 200 strong, while 
five Counties of Pennsylvania sent fann¬ 
ers, as did New Jersey, Connecticut. Ver¬ 
mont and Massachusetts. A unanimous 
resolution was passed by this great body 
of dairymen to support tin' Warren for¬ 
mula as their basis in price fixing until 
the Department of Agriculture condemned 
it, or furnished a substitute. A big com¬ 
mittee, composed of one dairyman from 
each milk-producing county of the five 
States represented, was appointed to wait 
personally upon Governor Smith in behalf 
of the farmers. A telegram was sent at 
once to him, appealing for his support of 
their cause. The Governor’s action in 
$4.25 per 100 lbs., or 24c above the 
League price for New York. 
Making Farmers Independent of 
Milk Dealers. —The most recent up¬ 
state developments in regard tc the milk 
situation are the meetings of dairymen in 
practically every county, and often in most 
of the towns of the counties to organize 
the fanners for the purpose of building 
creameries and cheese factories at once 
for the home care of the farmers’ milk. 
This is in recognition of the length of 
time the contest may cover, and also for 
Ifie future protection of milk producers. 
Many of the Cortland County milk cen¬ 
ters have already arranged to care for 
their product But a meeting is being 
held at the courthouse today in the in¬ 
terests of those sections not yet provided 
for. Hartford Mills has leased a factory 
and will equip at once. Chenango Forks 
and Homer nave also taken similar ac¬ 
tion, as has Marathon, Cincinnatus and 
Willet. The latter place had a co-opera¬ 
tive factory, owned by the farmers, who 
were unwise enough last year to lease it 
to a milk dealer—and now they cannot 
use their own plant and must hurriedly 
equip another. This county is withold¬ 
ing 2,000 cans daily, from 22.000 cows. 
A number of Tompkins County sections 
have leased or equipped factories. Oran, 
.Tamesville and Apulia will have their 
own plants in Onondaga County. The 
Baldwinsville farmers already owned a 
creamery which is receiving milk from a 
large territory, as is Tully, where the 
farmers also owned their plant. Many 
such cheese factories are making up three 
batches of cheese a day. Ramson will 
soon be ready to build a farmer-owned 
plant, with 140 farmers, who own 5.000 
cows, to share the expense pro rata. La¬ 
fayette is the only branch in Onondaga 
County that is not considering owning its 
own plant, but is thoroughly organized 
and informed as to the situation. But so 
many of these farmers raise hogs and 
calves that they can make good use of 
their skim-milk, and will make their 
cream into butter. Delphi Falls will .ship 
its milk to the fanner-owned plant at 
Oran, and Ponipey and Fubius will cart 
their niflk to a similar plant at Apulia. 
Here a $2,000 stock company lias been 
formed, and their plant will cost $3,000 
to $5,000. As soon as cheese can be made 
in the new plant work will he started on 
a new shipping station here. The Oran 
plant is differently financed. With 220 
members, representing 4.000 cows, each 
member will he assessed $5 for each of his 
cows to pay initial cost of construction. 
Farmers are allowed to give their notes 
for the amounts due. If more money is 
needed, 10c a can will be collected. A 
receiving station will be built at Delphi. 
Onondaga farmers passed a vote of thanks 
to non-League members for their sup¬ 
port, as was done at I’ulaski, and at a big 
Cayuga County meeting. Individual 
farmers with small separators are work¬ 
ing their machines valiantly, many three 
to 10-cow separators caring for the milk 
from 50 to 100 cows. M. G. F. 
