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Vie RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 19, 1924 
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Organized Co-operation 
A NEW BOOK By JOHN J. DILLON 
This book is written in three 
parts. 
PART ONE.—The Develop¬ 
ment of the Agricultural Indus¬ 
try. In five chapters. 
PART TWO. — Fundamental 
Principles and Adaptable Forms 
of Co-operative Organization. In 
ten chapters. 
PART THREE. — Application 
of Co-operation to Efficient and 
Economic Distribution of Farm 
Products. In seven chapters. 
This is a new treatment of the 
co-operative subject. Heretofore 
writers of books have contented 
themselves with accounts of co¬ 
operative work where established. 
It has been mostly propaganda 
and exhortation. This was all 
good in its time. But we have 
grown beyond it. Farmers are 
now committed to co-operation. 
Once shy of it, they are at last a 
unit for it. What they want now 
is principles and definite policies 
that have proved successful. This 
book is the first real attempt to 
supply this want. Other, and it 
is to be hopwd better, books will 
follow on this line; but for the 
present there is no other book 
seriously treating the subject of 
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The Rural New-Yorker, 333 West 30th St., New York 
Things To Think About 
A Connecticut Child Crop 
Having been a reader of Tup R. N.-Y. 
for a good many years, I have been deep¬ 
ly interested in your “Hope Farm Notes” 
and what you have been doing for chil¬ 
dren. Ho thinking you might be inter¬ 
ested I am sending you a snapshot of my 
wife, myself and our three adopted chil¬ 
dren, aged 1G, 14 and 2. In the Fall of 
1916 we moved here from a large city 
and started farming on a badly run-down 
hillside farm that was covered with 
stones and brush, but by hard work have 
succeeded beyond our expectations. Hav¬ 
ing no children of our own, and feeling 
that they' are needed to make a home 
what it should be we took two boys, 
brothers, from a home, and after a year 
had passed legally adopted them. Last 
Hummer we adopted a baby girl two years 
old. and she is certainly the life of our 
home. Perhaps we were fortunate in 
finding just the children we did, but we 
both believe our affections for them are 
as deep as though they were our own off¬ 
spring. 
Perhaps I should have stated in the be¬ 
ginning that when living in the city I 
worked at my trade as a carpenter and 
had only my weekly wages to depend 
on. so started farming with very little 
working capital, but succeeded from the 
the merchant pays us a fair price for our 
products and will not sell on the street, 
we farmers would far rather sell him our 
products than not. It is far easier for 
us to come into town and unload our 
goods at the stores than to sell from 
house to house, but we cannot afford to 
give the merchant whit has cost us hours 
of hard labor and wear and tear on our 
horses and machinery, and the farmer 
cannot take all trade, either. We have 
to have some cash to carry on the busi¬ 
ness of the farm, the same as the mer¬ 
chants. MBS. A. C. COBB. 
New York. 
What About These Dogs? 
Last Fall hunters were on my farm. 
They had two English setter dogs with 
them. When these men were through 
hunting they gave the two dogs to us. 
saying that they were through with the 
dogs, and did not want them. They also 
said the dogs were registered and that 
they would send us the papers. The men 
failed to send the papers as promised. 
On February 1 I wrote these men about 
the dogs and also asked about the reg¬ 
istry papers that they promised to 
send; they answered and said they would 
The Happy Family on a Connecticut Farm 
first. In our opinion children are no 
drawback to poor people, as in our case 
our income has increased as our family 
increased in number. A. A. O. 
Connecticut. 
R. N.-Y.—Our experience has been that 
good children, whether our own or adopt¬ 
ed, are needed to make the country home 
what it should be—and somehow that 
proves a profitable investment. What 
finer contribution to society can anyone 
make than this child training which A. A. 
C. has accomplished? 
Too Many Stores 
I was much interested in the article 
nder the heading “A Dozen Htores to 
ic Acre,” on page 3. It is not the large 
ities like New York and Chicago that 
re robbing us farmers of our rights, but 
Either it is the retired farmer who has 
one to the small town and gone into bus- 
less who is the greatest trouble the farm- 
r has to deal with. I will state a few 
acts to prove what I say. Heven miles, 
com where I live on a farifi there is a 
our mill, but when we take our wheat 
o the mill they will not, grind our gram 
ml give us flour, as was formerly done, 
ut will take our wheat at $1 per bushel 
nd sell us flour at $1.05 for a 24-lb. 
ack. What becomes of the other 36 lbs.. 
f we want bran we can get 100 lbs. tor 
,2, yet we only get $2 for 120 lbs. of 
dieat. We take our butter to any of the 
mall towns around here and they will 
ive us 40c per lb. in trade, and in 10 
ninutes will sell the same crocks of but- 
er out for 60 to 65c, cash. I have had 
his happen several times before I left the 
tore. This man is a retired farmer and 
he owner of a fine farm. This hall, 
,-hen apples sold readily on the street at 
l. 50 to $2 a bushel, all these men would 
ffer for them was $1 in trade. hen 
lotatoes sold on the street for $1.50 per 
m. these men would only offer ooc m 
rade. The time has come when the 
armers must combine and demand a rea- 
onable price for their products or go out 
f business. , , 
I got arou d the difficulty this year by 
idling on the street; I and two children 
led 10 and " v years, disposed of 100 bu. 
l’ potatoes ai the same of apples on the 
treets at from **1.50 to $1 per bu. for pot¬ 
atoes. and apples at $1. $1.50 and $2 a 
m wher all stores would offer was o5e 
oi‘ potatoes and $1 for the best apples, so 
•ou can readily see that the merchants of 
he small town are not giving the farmer 
i square deal by any means. They do 
lot like to see the farmer selling on the 
street; they say it hurts their trade. It 
send me the registration papers if I 
would buy the dogs. The price of the 
dogs is $150 each, or $300 for the two 
dogs, and they also stated that the dogs 
were insured for $500 each, and if the 
dogs would get lost, strayed or stolen 
they would hold us responsible for them 
and that they would enter suit against 
us for the loss of the dogs. I wrote these 
men saying that I would give them three 
days to get the dogs off my farm, and if 
they failed to be here on the third day 
that the dogs would be sold. The men 
never answered my letter. Can I sell 
the dogs and not get in any trouble, as 
I do not want the dogs nor do I want 
trouble? E. J. B. 
Pennsylvania. 
R. N.-Y.—Under the circumstances we 
should advertise these dogs for sale — 
sending a notice of the sale to these men 
Going to the Garden 
—and then sell them for what they will 
bring. It looks to us like a new kind of 
skin game to get money out of a farmer. 
“Mr. Deputy, I want you to find a 
government post for my boy.” “Is he in¬ 
telligent?” “If he were I shouldn’t be 
worrying you for a government job. I 
could use him in my own business. — 
Journal Amusant. 
