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Tht RURAL N^w. YORKER 
February 19, 1921 
T HE outstanding feature of the Inter¬ 
national Manure Spreader, among 
a number of exceptional features, is its 
light draft. 
Equipped with roller bearings at seven 
points, it runs with almost the smoothness 
of a sewing machine. 
Two rapidly revolving steel beaters 
tearing tough chunks of manure into bits; 
a heavy load carried on the main axle, to be 
moved steadily back to the beaters — these 
things ordinarily would tend to create heavy draft. 
But roller bearings in the new International 
Spreader smooth out the hard work and convert 
what otherwise would be “heavy draft” into a 
borse*saving, spreader-saving “Easy-Pull”. 
v 
Your nearby International dealer will 
be glad to tell you more about this 
spreader. 
X 
STABILITY 
COUNTS 
Your Green Mountain Silo, 
■with the popular hip roof, will 
never need an apology. It is built 
to stand up permanently—just as 
any other farm building is ex¬ 
pected to do. Every groove and 
joint is made to fit tight—both 
for permanence and silage pro¬ 
tection. Every stave is treated 
in creosote preservative. Hoops 
are of extra heavy steel with 
rolled (not cut) threads. They 
cost us more but they stand 
unusual strains. Doors fit like 
a safe—always tight. 'Wooden 
ladder rungs; no iron to frost 
the fingers. Green Mountain 
Anchorage system bolds silo 
absolutely firm and upright* 
A beautiful silo—with nut- 
brown side walls and bright 
red cedar roof. Write today for 
detailed circulars. Special in¬ 
ducements for early orders. 
CREAMERY PACKAGE MF6., CO. 
338 WEST STREET, RUTLAND, VT. 
fell It Stand?YES 
When You Buy a RIB-STONE CONCRETE STAVE SILO 
you get the tu M made: manufactured, erected and iruar- 
anteed by Itlb-Mone Concrete Corporation, Bata¬ 
via, New York. Write for particulars. 
iKI * 1101.1, A It tN llOllt. SfU MF.MiETR 
patent patch for instantly mending leaks 
i all utensil s. Sample package free. 
MFC. CO., lirpt. 108. Amsterdam, N. Y. 
Agents * 
COLLETTE 
f - MR. FARMER 
IT’S WORTH YOUR WHILE TO GET ^ 
SOME INFORMATION ABOUT 
BARIUM- 
PHOSPHATE 
AN ALKALINE FERTILIZER 
Containing 
28% PHOSPHORIC ACID 
7% BARIUM SULPHIDE 
Write for booklets describing this 
material and its use on various 
crops. Carloads and less. 
NITRATE OF POTASH 
Analysing 
42% ACTUAL POTASH 
15% AMMONIA 
One ton of this material contains as 
much Potash as 1750 lbs. Sulphate 
of Potash and as much Ammonia as 
1650 lbs. of Nitrate of Soda, 3400 lbs. 
of the two combined, and you save 
$30 to $40 per ton. Carloads and less.- 
GROUND PHOSPHATE ROCK 
Containing 32% Phosphoric Acid 
NITRATE OF SODA and TANKAGE 
CARLOAD LOTS ONLY 
Get our prices before you order 
your fertilizers this year. 
Witherbee, Sherman & Company 
2 Rector Street, New York City J 
% • _ Write for my big Oata- 
hio Farms>^» ,5wf "“ s ' xny 
A llla size, price and terms. 
. MASTERS FARM AGENCY. Cimbridgc. Ohio 
State Grange Constructive Policies 
The forty-eighth annual session of New 
York State Grange, held in Utica, was 
designated by S. .T. Lowell, Master of the 
National Grange, as one of the most con¬ 
structive meetings he had ever attended. 
The resolutions adopted at the close of 
;i long and busy session will form a big 
part of the constructive agricultural pol¬ 
icy of that body. 
During the session a commission of 
“live wires” selected from the body of 
delegates was sent to Albany to partici¬ 
pate in a hearing on the repeal of the 
daylight-saving law, where their argu¬ 
ments for repeal were powerful and con¬ 
vincing. A total of 18 resolutions was 
offered, sent from different parts of the 
State, disapproving of daylight saving. 
This held the center of attention as to 
number of resolutions. The subject next, 
nearest the hearts of farmers, judging by 
the number of resolutions offered, was 
the need of amending the bunting and 
trespass laws. There were 17 resolutions 
on this topic. All resolutions on one 
topic, like these, were consolidated and 
passed. 
Five resolutions condemned the St. 
Lawrence canal project, and six endorsed 
the rural school Committee.of Twenty- 
one. To this committee were referred, 
very wisely, it is thought., all resolutions 
eoncerned with the problems this com¬ 
mittee was designed to solve. The 
Grange, as a leading farm organization 
of the State, has three members on that 
committee, as have three other leading 
farm organizations, and three of the edu¬ 
cational agencies of the State. The -1 
form the greatest opportunity for both 
farm and educational organizations to get 
together to form some really vale blc 
constructive policies that shall lead to 
the betterment of the rural educational 
system of the State. One of the resolu¬ 
tions referred to the Committee of 
Twenty-one favored direct election of dis¬ 
trict. school superintendents, one branch 
of the present system in need of revision. 
Other resolutions called for better pro¬ 
tection at railroad crossings, hotter in¬ 
spection of cheese factories; increase in 
the force ->f State troopers, the farmers’ 
best police protection: abolition of the 
Excise Department, and maintenance of 
the direct primary system in the State. 
Complete unanimity was manifest in 
daylight saving, and the need of more 
stringent trespass laws. The latter sen¬ 
timent called for written permit of owner 
to hunt on lands, with power given to 
land owners to arrest the trespasser with¬ 
out warrant if the law is disobeyed, and 
to seek a fine of three times the damage 
inflicted. Farmers are indignant at the 
multiplicity of outrages with no redress 
for very severe damages under the pres¬ 
ent system. W, N. Giles, the State mas¬ 
ter. said the agriculture of the State 
would be better off for enactment of such 
a law. Officers of the Grange will seek 
definite action on the question at once. 
A new and very promising outgrowth 
of the Grange session x\as a meeting held 
in Hotel Utica at the close of the Grange 
session. It was composed of representa¬ 
tives of the Grange, the Dairymen’s 
League, the State Farm Bureau Feder¬ 
ation, the sheep growers, the maple sap 
producers, canning crop growers, and the 
Grange League Federation Exchange. It 
decided 1 to use one county of the State as 
an experiment in seeking support of co¬ 
operation. Cortland will doubtless he the 
county chosen, and Charles Taylor, as¬ 
sistant county agent leader for the State, 
will probably he the expert chosen to he 
sent into the county to sec that every 
farmer is canvassed concerning his activ¬ 
ity in co-operation. Memberships in or¬ 
ganizations will he analyzed. The object 
is to work out more efficient methods of 
proving the value of co-operation to farm¬ 
ers. Cortland is a typical agricultural 
county, not too large for an experiment of 
this sort, and one where co-operative or¬ 
ganizations have played a fairly typical 
part in the agriculture of the country. 
The development of co-operation to its 
high mark point can never be attained un¬ 
til farmers are fully convinced of the 
value of it to them. 
One of the striking activities of the 
Grange session was the formation at its 
close of a joint committee of the Grange, 
the Dairymen’s League and the State 
Farm Bureau Federation to work out 
plans for contributing to aid the sufferers 
in Europe. Within 10 minutes of the 
recommendation that the Grange help 
there were $27.") in the hands of the secre- 
tray. and that was only a beginning. The 
work will be taken up at once in the 900 
Subordinate Granges of the State. f. 
Meeting of Grange - League - Federation 
Shareholders 
The meeting of the G. L. F. sharehold¬ 
ers at Utica was a good one, “full of pep 
and interest.” It was stated that the Ex¬ 
change has sold $082,740 of its capital 
stock, of which $162,950 was in cash .sub¬ 
scriptions. It is expected that the total 
capital stock will be raised hv July 1. 
Over 000 New York State banks have co¬ 
operated in delivering stock certificates. 
Twenty-four counties have subscribed 
their quota of stock and elected their local 
committees. Already contracts for 21 co¬ 
operative warehouses have been made, 
with 24 others on the way. Before July 
1 there promises to be 100 of these ware¬ 
houses stocked with Exchange goods and 
ready for business. 
As is known, this combination of the 
Grange, Dairymen’s League and Farm 
Bureau Federation took over the business 
oi rhe Grange Exchange. They have se¬ 
cured a warehouse property at Syracuse 
and paid $110,000 for an elevator and 
malt house at Buffalo. This oufit con¬ 
tains apparatus for storing and grinding 
grain and mixing feed. Through an agree¬ 
ment with the Producers’ Warehouse and 
Elevator Company, the stock of which is 
owned by the G. L. F. Exchange, ware¬ 
house receipts can be issued 'and made 
negotiable at banks. 
Bichard llall. the manager, stated that 
between January 1, 1920, and Jun 2, 
1920. the business was conducted by the 
old Grange Exchange. During that period 
it did a business of $454,829. The new 
Exchange took up the business cn June 
2. Between that time and December 
31 of last, year the sales handled by the 
commercial department, reported by Mr. 
I Tall, wore: 
Feed .. $609,191.18 
Grain . 12.24S.12 
Fertilizer . 31,593.24 
Groceries . 58,994.03 
Lime . 6,293 47 
Silos .. 11.644. 1 9 
Binder twine. ;••• 73,065.06 
Miscellaneous merchandise.. 2,500.00 
$914,519.70 
This makes a total business for the 
year of $1,369,349.20. Mr. Hall says 
there are now orders on hand for $280,000 
worth of seeds. $100,000 for spraying ma¬ 
terials and many others for feed, fertil¬ 
izers, lime and other merchandise. They 
also hold about $200,000 worth of wool 
for the New York Wool Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation. This has not been bought, hut 
is being warehoused and graded. The 
same service will probably be accepted by 
the Maple Sap Producers’, the Beekeep¬ 
ers’ and Potato Growers’ Associations. 
The net loss for the year, 1920, is given 
as $10,543.40. This loss is largely ac¬ 
counted for by inventories. Large quan¬ 
tities of grain were bought before the 
price dropped, hut the surplus on hand 
was invested at the market price—not at 
what it cost. Mr. Hall claims that the 
Exchange lias already saved the farmers 
of New York at lea sir $200,000 on goods 
purchased. It would, of course, be im¬ 
possible to prove any such statement by 
actual figures. There can be no question, 
however, that this Exchange represents 
the largest and most successful attempt 
to co-operate on the part of New 1 ork 
farmers yet attempted. The things for 
them to do are to decline to get a case of 
the “big head,” and to remember just 
what co-operation means. 
“How came you to steal the bicycle 
from outside the cemetery gate?” asked 
the judge. “Well, yr honor,” the culprit 
replied, “it had stood there so long that 
I thought the owner was being buried." 
—New York Globe. 
