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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 6, 1920 
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Northern Ohio Notes 
A Bequest to Agriculture. —The 
death occurred recently of Ohio C. Bar¬ 
ber of Akron, O., known all over the State 
as the “Match King,” he being the pro¬ 
moter of the consolidation of some 30 or 
more match companies in the United 
States, resulting in his immense wealth. 
Three million dollars of this wealth he 
put into the Anna Dean Farm, which he 
secured by buying nine farms in one 
body, and on which he erected palatial 
buildings of every kind, the dairy barn 
alone costing him quite $325,000. lie 
collected purebred stock of all sorts and 
breeds, regardless of price, provided he 
was satisfied that they were at the top of 
their classes. His Guernsey herd, with a 
world winner at the head, was unexcelled, 
if, indeed, they had even a close rival. 
Everything upon the farm in the way of 
cultivation was carried out in the most 
exacting conditions, under the care of 
trained experts. Actual acres were un¬ 
der glass, producing the choicest things 
for the market, and in carload lots; and 
yet, with all this outlay, Mr. Barber con¬ 
tended that the returns were showing a 
profit. Mr. Barber had no trade secrets. 
He claimed that his farm was an experi¬ 
ment station, and its results were always 
open to inspection by the honest inquiring 
visitor. Nothing delighted him more than 
to welcome delegations, institutes, horti¬ 
cultural societies, scientific agriculturists, 
and even the single individual, and for 
them details were freely given. The man 
had a love for the farm, and carried it 
out to his fullest idea, though possibly on 
a scale and expenditure of funds that had 
little in the way of practical adoption for 
the average farmer. He never claimed 
that the farm was made from its own de¬ 
velopment. But this farm may have its 
place as a school of agriculture, for by 
his will the farm and all of its appoint¬ 
ments are to go to the Western Reserve 
University in Cleveland for an agricul¬ 
tural school and experiment station of re¬ 
search. 
Dairymen’s Organization. — Efforts 
are being made to unite the dairymen of 
Northern Ohio into one large and com¬ 
plete organization, based somewhat upon 
the great “Ohio and Pennsylvania Co¬ 
operative,” a company that along the 
eastern row of Ohio counties, uniting with 
the Pennsylvania dairymen, supplies the 
city of Pittsburg with milk, under a plan 
of co-operation with the milk buyers'that 
seems to have attained a fair measure of 
success. It is a plan that the city buy- 
J ers concede has self-protection and preser¬ 
vation and so gives it a full voice in 
price-making. As it is in the Cleveland 
milk district, there is an absence of com¬ 
plete organization among the dairymen. 
While there is a large membership in the 
Northern Ohio Co-operative, it only sup¬ 
plies a part of the needed milk. Probably 
00 per cent of the milk purchased by the 
city is secured by the extended Belle Ver¬ 
non Company, and the Clover Meadow, 
and no small part of the milk made by 
association members, is sold by them to 
these companies, and no end of independ¬ 
ent city buyers, so that, struggle as the 
Co-operative Association may for equita¬ 
ble prices, they are, after all, about what 
you can got from the buyers, and it is to 
establish collective bargaining that the 
new move is instituted. A great State¬ 
wide society has been lately organized to 
get all local associations to work in uni¬ 
son, really to give aid and comfort to the 
small locals and enable them to demand 
and secure their rights as dairymen and 
secure a profitable return for their capital 
and labor. The necessity for a State¬ 
wide, strong organization of dairymen to 
look after their own interests is seen from 
the fact that at the recent State meeting 
of the Dairymen’s annual convention in 
Columbus, it was stated that out of 2S0,- 
000 farmers furnishing milk in some form 
to the markets, only 20,000 were mem¬ 
bers of associations of the different sorts, 
hence the oft repeated “hold ups” of inno¬ 
cent and defenseless dairymen. Why this 
showing? 
Auto Thefts. —For the past year or 
two one has heard much about the high 
numerical count in Ohio’s autos, as com¬ 
pared with other States, and how equally 
they were proportioned among the differ¬ 
ent classes of residents, and how their 
possession had about obliterated class and 
caste, but a very recent official report 
shows that quite a few “possessors” of 
autos are “temporarily” deprived of their 
use, for of the 1,687 inmates of the Mans¬ 
field State Reformatory, 840 have been 
committed for auto theft. Their selec¬ 
tions were pretty widely diffused, so that 
no one make of auto was more sought 
than the rest, a hint that all autos are 
now up to a high standard of quality. 
Farmers’ Week. —Farmers’ week at 
Columbus was a gathering place of the 
farmer’s clans to a magnitude of numbers 
never before attained. More than 6.000 
were registered for the week, despite 
“fiu” and severe Winter weather. What 
was best on the program cannot be told 
for a certainty, but the thing that drew 
largest, and attracted most attention out¬ 
side of the regular entertainments, was 
the great question of the federation of 
Farmers’ Bureaus. Every county in the 
State but two now has a Farm Agent, and 
to federate all into one great working 
force, and a paid-up membership of $10 
each, was easy, and direction is to be 
given to educational, mark^f and legisla¬ 
tive developments, putting all farm in¬ 
terests into an aggressive, as well as pro¬ 
tective movement. Of course Northern 
Ohio was well represented, and starts off 
well with the biggest dairy co-operative 
movement yet attempted, some needed re¬ 
forms in crop marketing ahead. True, 
the new organization is not as yet fairly 
through the woods, and the plan of battle 
not as yet well defined, but here’s hoping! 
Large Farms. —In the report of the 
State Agricultural Department it is said 
that there are no 1.000-acre farms in 
Northern Ohio, despite the fact that the 
Anna Dean Farm of the late O. C. Bar¬ 
ber containing 3.000 acres in one body, by 
far the largest in the State, was not men¬ 
tioned. It was carried on as one unit 
and under Mr. Barber’s own supervision. 
The facts are that there are several farms 
in Northern Ohio generously near 1.000 
acres. Once these farms were far from 
scattering, but, now some of them have 
been sold in allotments to make smaller 
farms, and others have been divided up 
by their owners into rent farms. One 
near the writer, of 800 acres, has, while 
still under the ownership and control of 
the owner, been divided into five farms, 
and this is the general rule, I think. This 
will be found true in a majority of in¬ 
stances, that these farms under the ten¬ 
antry may show larger results than the 
old ranch, yet there is a steady decline in 
fertility, for once these farms were in 
reality stock farms; now they are almost 
entirely devoted to dairying, little stock 
kept beside the dairies, and the milk 
sent to the cities, which, we are told, is a 
plan of a gradual sending of farm fer¬ 
tility beyond recovery. joiin gould. 
Orchard Heating in Missouri 
Several of our readers have asked about 
the use of orchard heaters to protect fruit 
at blooming time, when the mercury falls 
below freezing. Most growers in the East 
conclude that the heaters have little prac¬ 
tical value, but in the West the system 
is quite generally operated. Mr. W. A. 
Irvin of Springfield, Mo., gives the fol¬ 
lowing account of his plan : 
With regard to orchard heating I will 
say that if I had invested $300 in fuel 
oil last Spring and used my 5,000 heaters 
I would have saved $3,000 or $4,000 
worth of apples. However, there had been 
no late frosts here for nine years, and I 
was over-confident that the cycle would he 
completed. I look for late Spring frosts 
for the next nine or 10 years, and will 
use my heaters as an insurance. I have 
used most of the heaters in the market, 
and have fallen back on the stovepipe 
heater. Use 12 in. to 14 in. in length 
of the 8-in. diameter stovepipe. Have a 
groove made three-fourths of an inch 
from the end where the bottom is to be, 
to hold the concrete bottom, which chould 
be 1% in. thick, one part cement, two 
parts sand. I’lnce a baling wire handle 
at the top, and have a lid that fits not 
too loose nor too tight, as the wind will 
blow it off if too loose; also if too tight 
it will be difficult to remove when apply¬ 
ing a torch. In the first half of April I 
place the heaters in the ground, 6 ft., by 
guess, from the northwest outer limbs of 
the tree, because our storms come from 
that direction, and the heaters are almost 
equi-distant from the trees planted on the 
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