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Report of a Dairy Meeting; Discussion 
of Differences 
(Continued from page 913) 
Publicity Needed.— The new plan 
makes no provision for accounting and 
publicity. 
Mr. Dillon would have regular business 
and financial reports, and full publicity. 
The meeting showed marked approval of 
this provision. The Country Milk Com¬ 
pany lost something like half a milion. 
No financial report was ever made even to 
the directors. If they had such reports, 
they probably would not have permitted 
the losses to accumulate. To repeat that 
experience on the proposed scale would be 
disastrous. - 
The new plan provides only for the 
manufacture of milk and the sale of it 
to the city dealers. It could hold milk 
back and probably force a price for the 
volume consumed ; but it leaves the trust 
free to advance the price to the consumer 
and reduce consumption. Liquid milk and 
condensed milk and powdered milk from 
outside the League territory could be used 
as substitutes for League milk. Instead 
of increasing the dairy industry, the num¬ 
ber of cows would be decreased. 
Mr. Dillon would break the power of 
the milk trust and increase the outlet for 
liquid milk. The League would establish 
plants in the city and furnish milk in 
cans and bottles to small independent 
dealers, and through them to stores. The 
League would be able to fix the price 
to the consumer. This competition would 
destroy the trust monopoly, and reduce 
the cost of distribution from two to six 
cents a quart. 
Other Differences. —The other points 
of difference in the plans are compara¬ 
tively unimportant. It is now conceded 
that one organization is enough and 
economical, and also that all members 
must ultimately be treated alike. The 
one important thing is the direct election 
of officers by secret ballot and the refer¬ 
endum on important policies. Provide 
this and there will be no division of 
sentiment. Everyone will cheerfully 
subordinate bis own preference and go 
with the majority. Organization is the 
hope of the dairyman, no matter whether 
it is the League in name or the associa¬ 
tion. Organization has helped during the 
past four years. It will do more during 
the next four years. It has aroused and 
encouraged dairymen as nothing else ever 
did. It has not, however, been fully sat¬ 
isfactory. It has, particularly, lost con¬ 
trol of the present situation, and a new 
plan is proposed by the management. 
Some of the most substantial members 
who are needed for success hesitate, or 
oppose. Give them a majority control 
of leaders and policies, and every one of 
them will jump into the front line with 
his influence and his money. Any plan 
endorsed by a majority will go with a 
whoop. 
Support the New York Sheep Growers’ 
Association 
Last Summer John C. Cottrell of Eagle 
Bridge, N. Y., wrote me that he believed 
the New York State Federation of Sheep 
Growers had made, for the grower, 10c 
per lb. on every pound of the season's clip 
of wool. This means that the organized 
efforts of the sheepmen in creating legiti¬ 
mate competition and in the adoption of 
more advantageous and business-like 
methods of selling in general, have placed 
about .$300,000 more money in the pockets 
°f the sheep growers. 
n? emphasize the truth of Mr. Cot¬ 
trells observation I want to recall a let¬ 
ter that I received from a large Boston 
wool house early last year in reply to my 
inquiry as to the probable trend of wool 
prices. They spoke of the uncertainty of 
the future, and gave as their idea that 
■ w iork State fine wools would sell 
around 40c per lb., and medium wools at 
alnuit doc. During the Spring the sheep 
growers of the State were kept informed 
as to wool values by the State Federation 
through the mediums of the county asso¬ 
ciations that make up the State Federa- 
loii. fe\y weeks after the receipt of the 
above-mentioned letter a wool buyer rep- 
loseiiting this same firm took dinner with 
ue at my home. He had been out looking 
or business, and was returning to the 
'’I' 1 /'*' determined to tell them that 
1 > would have to bid up if they expected 
mL ly f 2r m wool in New York State. 
le , tate Federation is valuable to 
<\ery sheepman in the State, and every 
^i^pman profited last year by the or- 
( ' efforts of those who belonged to 
•^socmtKms. We cannot measure the sav- 
e„m e difference iu price, because 
Petition boosted the prices received by 
,n associations. I doubt if there 
V V'Y’' H ' on • r>: ' am? 60c wool last 
% ^ Fiof been {*•>•• ;-*o n^Soc?.*>tion.S. 
Vhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
It seems unfair that all should profit by 
those sheepmen who are willing to help 
finance the movement, but such is the 
case. What I have is invested in the 
sheep business, and I want to see the 
State Federation exist even if only to do 
legislative work in the interest of sheep 
owners. Our much-amended dog law 
needs the attention at all times of men 
representing the people it is intended to 
protect. \Ve live in a press-agent age; 
the newspapers print what the various or¬ 
ganizations present to them. It is neces¬ 
sary that the sheepmen have press agents 
to present their side to the public. The 
weakest feature of the State Federation is 
their lack of adequate financial support 
from the people they are serving. Join a 
County Sheep Growers’ Association and 
help pay for the benefits you are receiving 
as a sheepman. mark j. smith. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Patriotic sheep show, sale and public 
shearing, Fair Grounds, Perry, N. Y., 
May 15. 
Annual meeting of the National Ayr¬ 
shire Breeders’ Association, Hotel Kim¬ 
ball, Springfield, Mass., June 9. 
Eastern Soil Fertility School, State 
College, Pa., June 2S. 
Apple Shippers’ Association, Chicago, 
Ill., August 11-14. 
Hornell Fair, Hornell, N. Y., August 
31-September 3. 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
May 14-15—-Ilolsteins. Abbott & Clark, 
Cortland,_N. Y. 
May 15—Sheep. Patriotic show, shear¬ 
ing and sale. Fair Grounds, Perry, N. Y. 
May 17—Ilolsteins. W. H. Mace, 
Cortland. N. Y. 
May IS—Ilolsteins. .Tabez Smith & 
Son. Newark Valley, N. Y. 
May IS—Ilolsteins and Ayrshires. 
Branford Farm, Groton, Conn. 
May 19—Guernseys and Berkshires. 
Branford Farm, Groton. Conn. 
May 20—Ayrshire Cattle Breeders’ As¬ 
sociation of New England, consignment 
sale, Springfield. Mass. A. II. Sagen- 
dorph, Spencer. Mass., sales manager. 
May 20—Ilolsteins. Tri-County Hol¬ 
stein Breeders’ Association. Sidney. N. Y. 
May 20—Ayrshires. New England 
Ayrshire Breeders’ Association, Spring- 
field, Mass. 
May 22—Ilolsteins. Niagara Maid 
Farm, East Aurora, N. Y. 
May 26-29—Ilolsteins. A. W. Green, 
Middlefield, O. 
May 31—Jerseys. T. S. Cooper & Son, 
Coopersburg, Pa. 
June 1—Jerseys. Inderkill Farm, 
Staatsburg. N. Y. 
June 1-2—Ilolsteins. Purebred Live 
Stock Sales Co., Brattleboro, Vt. 
June 3—Jerseys. Hood Farm, Lowell, 
Mass. 
June 3—Jerseys. Edmond Butler, Mt. 
Kisco, N. Y. 
June 4—Jerseys. W. It. Spann & Son. 
Morristown, N. J. 
June 10—Ilolsteins. J. B. Sissons’ 
Sons, Poughkeepsie. N. Y. 
June 10-—Ayrshires. Second national 
Ayrshire sale. Springfield, Mass. Arthur 
H. Sagendorph, Spencer. Mass., treasurer. 
June 12—Jerseys. Eugene F. Wells, 
Tully, N. Y. 
June 19—Berkshires. Piping Rock 
Farms, Greenwich, Conn. 
Rickets 
Young pigs about three months old are 
not constipated, and have good appetites, 
but they are stiff in their legs, and it is 
hard for them to rise after they have been 
lying. They walk with a limp and the 
front legs seem swollen at the first joint 
and slightly out of shape. They have 
not had much exercise during the last 
two months on account of the weather. 
But now I have changed them to an¬ 
other house and a much larger pen, so 
they can go in and out as they please. 
They do not show much inclination to 
stay out, seem to like to stay inside. I 
am feeding them crushed oats and shorts, 
and about a teaspoonful of hog tonic 
mixed with feed. This is all mixed to¬ 
gether with lukewarm water and given 
to them twice a day as a rule, and in 
between I usually give them shelled corn 
with raw sweet potatoes or shelled corn 
with cooked white potato skins. What 
can I do for them? A. M. 
New Jersey. 
Incomplete rations and lack of exercise 
have caused the condition described. Pigs 
cannot successfully be raised without 
milk. Give it twice a day and also allow 
free access to clover or Alfalfa hay. In 
addition feed wheat middlings, shelled 
corn and tankage from a self-feeder. Do 
not give medicine of any kind, but allow 
them to help themselves to wood ashes, 
wood charcoal and slaked lime, and to 
salt once a week. 
“Gome upstairs and let me wash your 
hands,” said Winnie's mother. ‘‘I don't 
want to go up,” wailed Winnie, aged 
three. “Let her wash them down here.” 
called grandma, “she can do it just as 
well.” “No,” her mother said firmly, “I 
want her to come up with me.” Winnie 
came upstairs as slowly as possible. “Oh,” 
she said, turning a wrathfully tearful 
face to her mother “why don’t you obey 
your mother?”—Pittsburg (Pa.) Sun. 
For the Land’s Sake—Use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers. They enrich the earth and 
those who till it.— Adv. 
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The Ayrshire Cattle-Breeders 
Association J k New 
of ' England 
Announce Their First Annual 
Consignment Sale 
70 Head of Top Notch 
Ayrshires Re °u '&« 
To be held at 
Springfield, Mass., Thurs. May 20, 1920 
An offering representing the best work of the best breeders in the United 
States, Scotland and Canada 
CONSIGNORS: 
Wendover Farm, Bernardsville, N. J. 
Alta Crest Farms, Spencer, Mass. 
A. Henry Higginson, So. Lincoln, 
Mass. 
Adam Seitz, Waukesha, Wis. 
R. L. Knight, Hope, R. I. 
II. P. Hinckley, Agawam, Mass. 
J. H. Black, Lachute, Que. 
S. J. Hamilton, St. Eustache, Que. 
H. A. Moses, Woronoco, Mass. 
John II. Baker, Buffalo, N. Y. 
John R. Valentine, Bryn Mawr. Pa. 
Weymouth Farms, No. Weymouth, 
Mass. 
Stephen Bull, Racine, Wis. 
G. McMillan, Huntingdon, Que. 
John Hunter, Grimsby. Out. 
L. W. Newton, Ashburnham, Mass. 
If you are looking for type, beauty, size, constitution, ability at the 
pail and the best blood of the breed, plan to attend this sale. 
Buyers have the privilege of a 60-90-day re-test. 
Registry and Transfer given purchaser on day of sale. 
Certificate of 
NOTHING BUT THE BEST 
The Catalogue tells the story. Mailed only on request. 
ARTHUR H. SAGENDORPH, Sale Manager, 
Box R, Spencer, 
Massachusetts 
Sale Purebred Holsteins 
Complete Dispersal 
To Settle Estate of l.ate John T. Hunt 
At His Farm Ridgefield, Conn. 
May 10, 1920; 10:30 A.M. 
Sixty choice animals, mostly registered. 
Papers filed for others. Tuberculin tested. 
Opportunity is here afforded for obtain¬ 
ing exceptionally well bred stock which 
would not be for sale except under exist¬ 
ing circumstances. Catalogs in prepara¬ 
tion. For further iuformation apply to 
MARY M. HUNT, Admx., Ridgefield, 
Conn. GEORGE W. BAXTER, Auc¬ 
tioneer, Pedigree Expert in Box. 
GRANDSON OF SIR VEEMAN HENGERVELD 
from 20.89-lb. four-year-old. Next dam 20 lbs. This 
call was born Nov 21. 1919, is evenly colored, well 
grown and nice individual. Grandson of SirVeemnn 
Hengerveld from 20.73-lb. show cow, born Mar. 21, 
1920, evenly colored and choice individual. Ready 
for light service, n son of 26.73-lb. eow, born May 2, 
1919, sired by a grandson of Judge Segis. Good indi¬ 
vidual, nicely marked. It. L).White, Locke, N.Y. 
DELAWARE FARMS Jg? 
200-acres apple much, 70 acres apples, best varieties, just 
in bearing. Prospect 810.000 crop this year. Close to 
Dover, the capital. Write for particulars. 250-acres 
stock and grain farm, $5.<H>o. Other bargains. Come to 
see me. OEOKOE \V. TEUO, Dover, Delaware 
Agricultural 
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A Proven Food for Alfalfa 
Clover and Other Crops 
Tests made in recent years by Agricultural Sta¬ 
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1. That alfalfa, slover, cow pens, soy beans, 
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