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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 5, 1921 
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Farmer’s Week at Cornell 
A Helpful Gathering. —Farmers of 
the State, with their wives, have taken 
advantage of ideal weather and road con¬ 
ditions to attend the fourteenth annual 
farmers’ week event at Cornell in un¬ 
usual numbers. They seem to feel the 
need more than ever of consultation with 
men who have given a good part of their 
lives to careful study of farmers’ prob¬ 
lems. Just before the. opening up of 
Spring work the event is a. most timely 
help in determining in the minds of farm¬ 
ers just what and how much they will do 
in planting or preparing for the various 
crops in which they are interested. 
Farmers are more and more coming to see 
that a week spent at the State College, 
studying the great - quantity ol practical 
educational exhibits, the literature that 
has been prepared on the various lines of 
work, and listening to the best, experts to 
be found in their various lines of work 
is a good Spring investment. They are 
learning that it pays to plan their work 
in advance—to get away from it and to 
size it up from other and new viewpoints. 
Looking Forward. —There is much se¬ 
rious discussion of the future of farming, 
not only from the lecture platforms, but 
in the corridors, at the lunch tables and 
in every place where men come into con¬ 
versational contact with their fellows. 
Farmers have suffered from and are suf¬ 
fering so seriously from deflation of prices 
that they are more thoughtful than ever 
before. They want every bit of informa¬ 
tion on all phases of their work that is 
to be had. They are hesitant about the 
future. 
A Fine Program. —The college had 
prepared one of the widest ranged pro¬ 
grams it has ever put before farmers and 
some of the finest exhibits. New inter¬ 
ests creep into the program and the ex¬ 
hibits each year, marking the growth in 
our farming activities. The New York 
State extension leaders have come into 
considerable prominence in a leadership 
way. as they are meeting the demands of 
agriculture in a most helpful and prac¬ 
tical method. 
Co-operation. —Agricultural co-opera¬ 
tion in all its forms has had many boosts 
during the week. Speakers, many of them 
the most successful farmers in the lines 
they represent, invariably recommend 
more and better co-operation, particular¬ 
ly in marketing Fall food crops, as being 
about the only hope the farmer has or 
can have to secure a fair return for his 
work. They have not failed to question 
the wisdom of any farmer who refuses to 
sign the pooling contracts by means of 
which his milk will be better handled, to 
doubt the wisdom, even the sanity, of 
growers of any crops failing to co-oper¬ 
ate in the disposal of those crops. Many 
farmers’ co-operative organizations art 1 in 
business session this week, trying to come 
to working agreements and arrangements 
whereby their members’ interests shall be 
better looked after. 
The Milk Problem. —One of the big 
subjects of discussion, in which men rep¬ 
resenting all the phases of milk produc¬ 
tion and distribution have spoken or.will 
speak, is that of milk. John D. Miller, 
vice-president of the Dairymen’s League, 
as one of the first to have an inning, said 
that, all the subjects pertaining to milk 
that could be considered as controversial 
were to be discussed with care, and seri¬ 
ousness. with the idea of arriving at some 
common ground of agreement or a com¬ 
mon working point. He remarked that 
about the only subject under the head of 
milk production and distribution not open 
to controversy at the present tune was 
the statement that milk is produced by 
cows. Ilis look backward into general 
agricultural conditions and their relation 
to the other industries was most. con¬ 
vincing proof that manufacturing inter¬ 
ests can netfer thrive when the buying 
power of 45.000.000 farmers is curtailed 
about 60 per cent, a.s at present.. Nor 
can workingmen thrive when manufactur-' 
ing does not. Neither - 'can any of the 
other industries that depend on the pur¬ 
chasing power of the general public 
thrive when farmers do not thrive. He 
showed the changes the milk-producing 
areas have gone through in the past few 
years, and that the limit of reaching out 
for more milk for cities has been about 
reached. Where formerly milk for New 
York City came from a radius of 50 to 
100 miles around that city, it is now 
coming from 400 to 500 miles away and 
can no longer call on bigger areas. There¬ 
fore the industry in this area must be 
protected and preserved. In the past 
year the average price of milk to farmers 
in this area was lower than in that near 
any other city of the country. 
Surplus Milk.- —He si, wed the need 
of farmers earing for the'i surplus milk, 
that comparatively small amounts of 
wildcat supply be not allowed to ruin all 
milk prices as they are doing now. to the 
unmeasured injury of dairymen. Dean 
TT. E. Cook, formerly of Canton School of 
Agriculture, vis always a popular speaker 
with farmers, in the course of one of 
his talk said that he did not see how any 
dairyman can fail to sign the Dairymen’s 
League contracts. His idea of the need 
of dairymen’s needing to use better prac¬ 
tices in general agriculture, of their hav¬ 
ing other lines besides the dairy, were 
valuable for the downright common sense 
they contain. Dairymen are in general 
poor farmers, in the sense of general 
farming, he says. They are not skillful 
enough in growing on the farm the - things 
the cows need to eat. 
Living Conditions. —Permanency in 
farming as a business has been empha¬ 
sized by several practical men. If the 
right kind of labor is to be kept on the 
farm it must regard the farm from a co¬ 
partnership idea. It must have a co- 
interest with the farmer. The farm must 
be either a purely one-man or one-family 
ployees. Dr. .T. C. Gal pin of the United 
States Department of Agriculture, a for¬ 
mer New York State boy. greatly inter¬ 
ested some of the biggest audiences of 
the wcH- by his arguments in favor of 
better Homes and a higher standard of 
living for farmers. He has studied very 
closely the living conditions of tenant 
farmers in 16 States during the past 
year, and is emphatic in saying that 
farmers must live better if boys and girls 
of the farms are to be kept on the farms. 
He had very interesting suggestions as 
to improvement of farming communities, 
sketching the history of a farm survey 
recently taken in Bellville. N. Y. About 
throughout the week, and results of the 
discussions are bound to come soon. 
Rural Schools. —The rural school 
conference was a center of interest, and 
some of the 7/ f bi#gs determined by the 
three days’ discussions between farmers 
and educators will be one of the big 
things of the week, and must be told of 
later. 
Recreation — The rural recreation 
features are of intense interest. Great 
growth in the recognition of the need of 
this work in rural communities has been 
observed all the week. Audiences are 
crowded to capacity where this is the 
topic. The rural recreatjon practice 
period each afternoon at 5 p. m. has 
grown beyond bounds. The display of 
new books on rural recreation is one of 
the centers of attention and makes a 
Surprisingly big display. The evening 
games are this year so crowded by spec¬ 
tators, who are there to get something to 
carry back to home communities, that 
space to demonstrate games is at a pre¬ 
mium. Judging from the interest in this 
work better times are coming for the 
young folks on the farm. If any boy or 
girl or leader of any rural community has 
been unable to get to these meetings and 
wishes help they should send to the col¬ 
lege for the monthly instruction sheet in 
various lines of rural recreation that are 
being sent out by the college now to 
people interested. Relaxation, “loosening 
up,” real, live, old-fashioned fun. even 
to a square dance, with “Happy Rill” 
Daniels to play for it and to “call off.” 
are uniting Farmers' Week visitors to the 
"college to the extension workers and to 
each other as never 'before. We must 
learn to play together before we can work 
together satisfactorily is as true as any¬ 
thing can be. especially in the rural com¬ 
munities. F. 
.4 Rustic Summer House on Stilts 
affair to succeed ; or. better, it must be 
large enough to employ more than one 
hired man. No man likes to work alone, or 
will work alone long. There is inspira¬ 
tion in companionship. Much emphasis 
has been laid on the need, just at this 
particular time, as one means of getting 
farm life back onto its feet again, of giv¬ 
ing farmers a chance to improve housing 
conditions on their farms for themselves 
and families and for tenants and em- 
30 people from that place were present, 
wearing red badges giving the name of 
their community. The history of the 
rural communities, all facts concerning 
their growth or decay is of utmost im¬ 
portance to the State. Where have the 
young people gone, and why. and what 
could have kept them there, means things 
that it is worth while to tin* Government 
to know. The human side of farming has 
been a popular and favorable topic 
We have fine sleighing in Franklin 
county. Stove wood and pulp wood is 
being moved quite freely. The ice harvest 
is about completed. Farmers’ institutes 
are being held in several towns in the 
county. Farmers are forming co-opera¬ 
tive buying associations through the coun¬ 
ty. The potato market is very poor, 50c 
a bushel being the top price, with a large 
part of last year’s crop in producers’ 
hands. Farm labor more plentiful, with 
reduced wages. n. T. .t. 
Franklin Co.. N. Y. 
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