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Jared Van Wagenen, Jr, . Van Wagenen Corner 
Herschel H. Jones . . . Market Department 
K. J. T. Ekblaw . Farm Engineering Department 
Paul Work .Vegetable Department 
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Dr. S. K. Johnson .... Veterinary Adviser 
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VOL. Ill February 24, 1923 NO. 8 
The Delayed Cattle Indemnities 
O NE of the biggest reasons why it has been 
impossible to clean up tubercular cattle is 
the slowness of the State in paying indemni¬ 
ties. 
It is nothing short of tragedy for a farmer 
to work a lifetime to establish a fine herd of 
cattle, only to lose them by the great scourge, 
and it is certainly the last straw to have, to 
wait for six to eighteen months after his reg¬ 
ular income has been shut off for the State 
indemnities. 
There is absolutely no reason or excuse for 
this long delay. It is just as practical and 
just as easy for the Legislators to appro¬ 
priate a sufficient amount in advance as it is 
to come dragging along months behind in the 
payment of the State’s obligations. Appro¬ 
priations made ahead so that the indemnities 
could be paid in thirty days would work 
miracles in helping dairymen to control a 
difficult, dangerous and discouraging situa¬ 
tion. Ask your Assemblyman and Senator 
to give thought to this suggestion. 
Farmers Still Read The Bible 
RECENT survey made by a Chicago 
publisher shows that of the approxi- 
Imately 23,000,000 families in the United 
States, only 15,000,000 own bibles. Of the 
7,000,000 families without bibles there are 
very few in the rural communities. This 
will bear out the statement often made that 
country people are more religiously inclined 
than are city dwellers. 
Since the bible was printed in the middle 
of the 15th Century, more than 660,000,000 
have been published. This would give one 
bible to half the individuals in the world now, 
or more than two copies to every family. 
The first bible ever printed is known as the 
“Gutenberg Bible,” and is still in existence. 
This bible is more than 450 years old. The 
first portion of the bible to be printed in 
English is “Tynsdale’s Translation of the 
New Testament,” which was published nearly 
one hundred years after the Gutenberg Bible. 
A number of copies of this translation are 
still in existence and our present authorized 
version, prepared during the reign of James 
the First, follows very closely the text of 
Tynsdale’s first English translation. 
Enforce the 18th Amendment 
E very right minded citizen whether a 
resident of Pennsylvania or of any other 
State will heartily approve the determined 
stand of Governor Pinchot that there shall 
be no government by bootleggers in Pennsyl¬ 
vania. 
It is about time that more Government 
officials and a larger public opinion recognize 
that the 18th Amendment to the United 
States Constitution is a law of the land and 
that therefore while it is, all violation of it 
is crime. , 
Low Labor Costs May Not Help 
W HICH would you rather have, cheap 
labor and plenty of it and lower prices 
for your farm products, or high wages for 
labor, with correspondingly high prices for 
farm products? Those who remember the 
hard times of the 90’s will have no hesitation 
in answering the question in favor of high 
priced times. 
We hear a great deal of loud talk about the 
too-high cost of labor. There is no doubt 
that some labor does cost too much and that 
some classes of labor are not producing; but 
there is also no doubt thatt the working 
man who gets small wages is a mighty poor 
customer for farm products or for any¬ 
thing else. 
Knowing this to be true, we refuse to get 
excited over the constant complaint of the 
high wages that the working man is sup¬ 
posed to get. We know it would be a calamity 
if labor prices in general went down too far. 
W(hat is most needed is not a lowering of the 
wage earners’ pay, but instead, a general 
raising of prices for farm products to be 
in line with what other business receives 
and with the cost of production. 
The present hard times, bad as they are, 
are far better than the bad old days when j 
plenty of labor could be had for $18 a month, 
but when corn sold for IV 2 cents a bushel 
that cost 16 cents to grow. 
Daylight Saving Still With Us 
T certainly beats all how difficult it is for 
the world to free itself from the curses 
which the great war fastened upon it. Not 
the least of these is that of daylight 
saving. 
To be sure every farmer, every traveler 
and more and more city people have come to 
recognize the foolishness and the economic 
wastefulness of the so-called daylight sav¬ 
ing. But there are still many with power¬ 
ful influence who insist on having daylight 
saving and we warn farmers to be on guard 
to prevent the return of this nuisance. No 
one should fool himself in thinking that he 
has seen the last of the absurd custom of 
tinkering with Father Time. 
Credit the Farm Home 
I N the large number of meetings to dis" 
cuss the problems of the rural schools 
which the Committee of twenty-one has re¬ 
cently held, the statement has often been 
made that the rural schools should have the 
credit for the great progress made in every 
business and profession by the men and 
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women who come from the country. Rapid 
progress of country bred boy and girl should 
be credited not to the schools, but to the farm 
and to the farm home. 
The farm chores have to be done on time. 
To do them on time it is necessary to “early 
to bed and early to rise” which Benjamin 
Franklin said “makes a man healthy, wealthy 
and wise.” Getting up early in the morn¬ 
ing may not necessarily make a man wealthy, 
but it is one of a long list of good habits 
which the exacting business of farming 
teaches. The boy knows the- cows must be 
brought to the barn at a certain hour. The 
calves, the hogs and the hens must be fed, 
the eggs gathered and the wood brought in 
no matter what other business or pleasure 
intervenes. Doing these small home tasks 
at the same hours of every day, week after 
week, during the early years of life when 
character is formed, gives an education in 
responsibility that can be acquired in no 
other way. It is a training that no city home 
can give, no matter what its other advantages 
are, and unfortunately it is a training which 
many farm parents are now failing to give 
their children. Too many parents, them¬ 
selves raised to hard labor and privation, 
are trying to save their children from this 
same hard experience when a little education 
in the “school of hard knocks” is just what 
the youngsters need. When mother washes 
the dishes while the daughter entertains com¬ 
pany in the parlor, she is not helping that 
daughter to prepare for the later responsi¬ 
bilities of home making in which so many 
women of this day are sadly failing. Too 
many modern girls know more about play¬ 
ing than they do about cooking. Nor is 
father really kind to his son when he does 
the boy’s chores that the boy may have more 
time to go skating or to get an early start 
to a party. 
It is not to be inferred from this that 
young folks should not have a good time, but 
father and mother are entitled to one too. 
In sacrificing constantly to save children 
from every responsibility, parents may find 
when too late, that all of their sacrifice was 
in vain, and that by it they took from their 
children the most valuable thing that the 
farm home or any home can give them— 
early training to meet the responsibilities 
which life is sure to bring. 
To Make the Public “Apple-wise” 
A S everyone connected with the business 
well knows, certain varieties of apples 
are at their best only when eaten at certain 
definite periods of the year—and yet the 
average consumer, generally unable to tell 
one variety from another, much less to deter¬ 
mine when it had best be eaten, loses the 
opportunity to so govern his apple buying 
as to get the maximum of satisfaction there¬ 
from. 
When it comes to advertising and sales, 
the Cooperative Apple Packing Associations 
of the Northwest are certainly ^ on the job. 
One of their recent stunts is the publication 
of a beautiful chart, entitled “The Right Time 
for Every Apple.” This pictures the ten 
principal varieties of apples grown and 
packed by the Wenatchee-Okanogan Co¬ 
operative Apple Packing Association in the 
State of Washington. Under each variety 
is its name and the months during which it 
can be eaten with the most enjoyment. 
For instance, Jonathan — October, Novem¬ 
ber, December. 
The slogan of the association, entitled 
“Delight in Every Bite,” is featured, as is 
also^ the different brands packed by the or¬ 
ganization. No consumer who sees this chart 
can help being impressed by it and with the 
need of getting to a fruit store as soon as 
possible to try out some of his newly obtained 
information. It pays to advertise. 
