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For Every Kind 
of Spraying 
SMITH' 
SFHAyERS 
This handy sprayer fills the 
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COMPRESSED AIR SPRAYER 
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Manufacturer! of Quality Sprayers 
Since J8S6 
80 Main Street, Utica, N. Y 
The name SMITH on a sprayt 
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MAKE GOOD 
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Fruit 
Trees, small 
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and Shrubs from 
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Nursery. 
Write for Catalog 
and Price List. 
name. 
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Box IS Yalesville. Conn. 
Trees That Please 
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43 years’ reputation for square dealing. 
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1130 Main Street - Dansyille. N. Y. 
COPPER 
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We quote attractive prices. Special attention given 
to co-operative buying. 
We ship from any Atlantic port reducingfreiglit cost. 
Arsenical Spraying Material 
METEOR PRODUCTS CO., Inc. 
SS Park Place New York 
Maple Syrup Makers 
Profit by adopting the GRIMM SYSTEM 
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TE.\KESS£E MUB8ERY CO., Box 119, CleTeland, Tenn. 
A Question of Support 
Annual Meeting Shows 
S TRIKING the keynote of the day’s 
session, President Webb opened the 
second annual meeting of the share¬ 
holders of the Cooperative G. L. F. 
Exchange at Syracuse, February 5, by 
the following statement: “The success 
of this Exchange depends upon the sup¬ 
port of its members. The .reports that 
will be presented to-day are designed 
to show exactly where the organization 
stands. Considerable study and re¬ 
search has been given by the directors 
to place your Exchange on a solid and 
permanent basis. The departments 
that have been established are now 
operating in a business-like manner. 
The goods handled are of high quality 
and the service commendable. We 
firmly believe that the shareholders of 
the G. L. F. Exchange can derive mate¬ 
rial benefits by patronizing their own 
organization.” 
Following President Webb, Treas¬ 
urer Hitchings reported the financial 
condition of the Exchange. His state¬ 
ment showed that after all deprecia¬ 
tions on buildings and real estate had 
been absorbed, the total operating defi¬ 
cit since organiziation Was approxi¬ 
mately $47,000, a figure exceptionally 
low considering the newness of the or¬ 
ganization, the tremendous competition 
and the general economic strain of the 
past few years. 
Babcock Stres.ses Need of Volume 
Calling attention to the need of a 
greater volume of business, H. E. Bab¬ 
cock, General Manager of the Ex¬ 
change, stated that from the farmer’s 
viewpoint it looked to him as though 
the business we had set up was right 
on the verge of being a great success 
or an absolute failure. “As it stands 
to-day,” said Babcock, “your organiza¬ 
tion is set up to treble the volume with¬ 
out increasing the costs. Treble the vol¬ 
ume and you will make a great success. 
You own this company, your nine direc- 
,tors and the management have set up 
these four departments and a fifth to 
supervise and correlate activities. All 
five departments are functioning as 
they stand today, and are just about 
paying their way. Treble the present 
volume of business and you will get 
cheaper seeds, cheaper feeds and divi¬ 
dends. Restrict the volume, and, with 
the same costs to be borne, you might 
as well wipe the whole thing out and 
start over again. I believe that we 
have worked out a service and have a 
line of goods that we fanners want, 
and if we put the proper volume 
through the Exchange we can get the 
price.” 
Mr. Babcock further stated: “The 
proper way to use the Exchange is to 
give your order without price. Last 
fall our agents followed this plan and 
the Exchange made good, for to-day 
there are being unloaded cars of G. L. F. 
feeds at $10 per ton under the present 
market.” 
Throughout the afternoon session 
the shareholders present discussed with 
utter frankness and sincerity just the 
standing of the Exchange, what it 
needed, and how to gain the inci’eased 
volume which seems to be the one nec¬ 
essary requirement for success. The 
program of quality commodities bought 
as a user wants them bought and not 
as some one wants to sell him was 
stressed over and over again, and the 
determination of those present to stand 
on such a program ought to challenge 
the 38,000 shareholders to renewed ac¬ 
tion and patronage. 
It cost $750,000 to put the G. L. F. 
Exchange into action. Like any in¬ 
vestment, proper returns can never be 
expected unless the service which the 
Exchange can render is used to its 
fullest capacity. 
Directors Elected 
At the conclusion of Mr. Babcock’s 
report and the discussion which fol- 
owed, the election of three directors 
■;ook place. George A. Kirkland of 
Dewittville was elected to succeed him¬ 
self for a term of three years, repre¬ 
senting the New York State Grange. In 
the place of J. C. Griffiths of Sala¬ 
manca, Henry Burden of Cazenovia 
was elected to represent the Dairymen’s 
League, and Harry L. Brown of Wa- 
terport, representing the New York 
G-L-F Can Give Service 
State Farm Bureau Federation, was 
elected to succeed himself. 
Following the election of the direc¬ 
tors, the general meeting adjourned and 
the new Board convened, electing the 
following officers for the ensuing year: 
President, N. F. Webb, Cortland; Vice- 
president, Harry L. Brown, Water- 
port; secretary and treasurer, Ray¬ 
mond C. Hitchings, Syracuse. 
In the evening, the general meeting 
was again brought to order by Presi¬ 
dent Webb calling attention to the fact 
that shareholders and farmers through¬ 
out the territory should become better 
acquainted wjth the men they had em¬ 
ployed to serve them. In view of this 
fact. President Webb stated, it was a 
pleasure to announce that the complete 
staff of commodity department heads 
was present, and that he hoped the dis¬ 
cussion relative to the service which 
the Exchange could render would be 
beneficial when talked over with the 
men in charge. 
An Oft Debated Subject 
{Continued from jxige 138) 
would earn more in pile to be applied 
later than in the ground, for the soil 
moisture that should go to sustain the 
plants will be taken up by the manure. 
Of course only in exceptional cases does 
this last statement prove true, but 
when it does the loss is generally 100 
per cent. 
When I Apply It 
I would never apply strawy manure 
previous to seeding time; when ap¬ 
plied in late winter the spring rains 
and weathering will make it ordinarily 
pretty safe. We have one stable where 
shavings are used for bedding. I find 
less danger in using this manure late 
in the spring. 
As a guess, I should say that sheep 
manure with a normal amount of 
bedding and for the crops you mention, 
could be used in quantity about 40 per 
cent of cow manure and would be more 
effective if well rotted before using. 
If our friend has had experience with 
manures, he can I hope, read these gen¬ 
eralities and analyse them to his good, 
but if not, I would fear for the i-esults. 
There are so many factors—weather, 
manure itself, soil conditions and kind 
of plant that enter into a discussion of 
this sort, that one must have had a 
good deal of experience in order to make 
a safe interpretation, and then a yeai' 
will come along and upset the supposed 
knowledge of a veteran and make him a 
child again._ 
Shall Urge Our Boys To 
Be Farmers ? 
{Continued from, page 134) 
_ In 1909 he started a four year rota¬ 
tion. In accordance with his livestock 
program, he has fed a car load or there¬ 
abouts of fat cattle each winter, con¬ 
sequently there has been plenty of ma¬ 
nure available. Inste;id of using two 
hundred bushels of lime when the 
ground showed definite lime sickness, 
he now uses seven-hundred pounds per 
acre _ regularly with a .spreader. All 
the information regarding agriculture 
has, however, not come from lectures 
and observation. The reading table in 
the Burket home provides the most ap¬ 
proved material to be found in the farm 
papers, dailies, magazines and books. 
They are all read too. 
Speaking of the home part of the 
farm, thei’e are no city homes that 
provide more comfort and cheer than 
than that of the fine old brick house 
on the Burket farm. A hot-water fur¬ 
nace and bath room were installed in 
1914. Hot and cold water are, of 
course, in use all through the house. 
Electric light was installed in 1919. 
The large lawn makes the stranger 
who passes by wonder who lives there 
and makes him wish he were well 
enough acquainted to stop and call. 
Should he be 'bold enough to do so, he 
would receive a hearty welcome, for 
John Burket has not only made a suc¬ 
cess of farming on that one time poor 
limestone farm, but he is a friend of 
man.— Bruce Dunlap, Pennsylvania. 
American Agriculturist, February 17,^1923 
Certified 
Blue Tag 
Seed Potatoes 
Their actual use has shown a yieUl 2 or 3 
times greater than from the use of local seed. 
They are healthy, selected, high yielding 
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Machine graded and hand sorted to contain 
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I’acked in even weight sacks holding 8, 10 or 
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The nine Tag on every Bag is your protection 
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l.et us know your rcnuirements and the variety 
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Our supply is limited. Don’t delay. 
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503 Byrne Bldg., Syracuse, N. Y. 
Toanco No. 9 — College inspected, 
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$1.00 per bushel car lots, $1 20 in 
small lots. Russets, $1.25 — $1.50. 
Cobblers, $1.40 — $1.50, f. o. b., our 
station, 150 lb. sacks. All high- 
yielding strains. 
Alpha pedigreed two row barley. 
Highest yields, college trials, $3.75 
per 100 lbs., sacks free. Good seed is 
the first essential. Order today. 
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PERRY, N. Y. 
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Box A, Williamsport, Pa. 
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a transparent wa¬ 
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Sample 3x9 ft. P.P. $!• 
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FIREMEN, BRAKEMEN, beginners $l50-$250 monthly: 
railroads everywhere (which position?). 
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Glass Cloth 
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