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American Agriculturist, March 10,1923 
Make Every Seed Count 
With a well prepared seed bed and good seeds 
you can’t afford to use an old or inefficient 
planter. 
The E-B No. 32 Planter will make every seed 
count. It is accurate, easy to operate, simple 
and durable. You can d^end on every hill 
getting the same number of seeds and planted 
at uniform depth. An E-B Planter will pay 
for itself. 
After accurate planting, the fields must be 
properly cultivated to get the best yield. The 
El-B No. 48 Cultivator not only does good 
work, but does it with ease — both for opera¬ 
tor and team. Furnished with gang and shovel 
equipment adapted for any territory and 
method of cultivation. 
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At present low prices, this IH Horse¬ 
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cheapest farm help any man can have. It 
does more work for less money than any 
other aid you can employ. 
Uses gasoline alone. Has high tension bat¬ 
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six speed changes. Carburetor requires no 
adjusting. A remarkable value. 
The magneto equipt \yi H. P., 3 H. P., 
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1>/2H.P.$71 3H.P.$105 6H.P.$168 
Other Engines up to 20 H. P. 
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New England Cooperation 
Reviewing Results Gained by the Eastern States League 
T he Eastern States By Pres. H, 
Agricultural and In¬ 
dustrial League has just completed 
what might be considered the most suc¬ 
cessful year of its history. The activi¬ 
ties of the Eastern States League em¬ 
brace the Eastern States Farmers’ 
Exchange, the Junior Achievement Bu¬ 
reau, of which the Springfield Junior 
Achievement Foundation is a part, and 
the Home Bureau. (I will touch upon 
the principal accomplishments of each 
of these organizations very briefly and 
more details will be reported by the 
directors of these bureaus.) 
Over 2,200 carloads of commodities, 
valued at $2,020,691, an increase of 35 
per cent over the previous year; the 
successful promotion of a 30,000-ton 
Dairy Feed Pool and a 10,500-ton Fer¬ 
tilizer Pool are the prominent features 
of the accomplishments of the Eastern 
States Farmers’ Exchange for the past 
year. The business is not concentrated 
within a limited territory, but is widely 
distributed throughout the six New 
England States and Delaware. The 
shipments during 1922 reached approxi¬ 
mately 700 towns located in 66 coun¬ 
ties. The 30,000-ton Feed Pool is un¬ 
doubtedly the most significant effort of 
the Eastern States Farmers’ Exchange 
from several standpoints. First, the 
rations which the New England farm¬ 
ers purchased through the medium of 
the pool were accepted by the farmers 
because they were determined upon by 
dairy ration experts of the leading 
Eastern agricultural colleges who had 
no commercial interest in the matter. 
Three such formulas were decided upon 
—an important step toward the stand¬ 
ardization of dairy rations and the con¬ 
sequent reduction of haphazard methods 
and overhead costs in distribution. 
Effects Big Saving 
Second, through the organization of 
a pool the Farmers’ Exchange was en¬ 
abled to purchase the raw materials 
necessary for the mixing of these ra¬ 
tions at a time of the year when the 
market in these commodities was at its 
low point and the volume being suffi¬ 
ciently large to receive the most favor¬ 
able consideration from the sources of 
supply; this means a reduction in ac¬ 
tual cost for the farmer. 
Third, as a result of the active co¬ 
operation and assistance of the business 
men on the directorate of the Eastern 
States Farmers’ Exchange and the 
Eastern States League, the financing 
of this pool was made possible and the 
purchaser was required, merely to give 
his note for ten dollars on each ton of 
feed purchased, the New England 
banks financing the operation over a 
six months’ period of time and the obli¬ 
gations being reduced each month by 
the payment on the part of the farmer 
for the feeds as he receives them in 
equal quantities each month. But for 
this cooperation it would have been 
practically impossible for individual 
farmers or even small groups of farm¬ 
ers to have engineered the proposition. 
The total value of the tonnage pur¬ 
chased exceeded a million and a quar¬ 
ter dollars and the financing of this 
operation, made possible through the 
efforts of members of the directorate of 
the Eastern States Agricultural and 
Industrial League, illustrates once more 
the necessity of and the benefits which 
can Ite derived from a “farmer-business¬ 
man” combination — a Country-City 
Get-together. Eight leading New Eng¬ 
land banks cooperated in financing the 
pool over a six months’ period of time. 
While I am on the subject of finances 
I want to give you a brief illustration 
of the confidence which the business 
men are placing in the future of the 
Eastern States Farmers’ Exchange. 
The Eastern States Farmers’ Exchange 
was organized five years ago without 
any capital stock. Its existence was 
made possible through what was known 
as the Eastern States Trust. This con¬ 
sisted of twenty-nine men who each 
signed notes aggregating- $43,000. These 
notes were deposited with a bank and 
furnished the basis of credit on which 
the Farmers’ Exchange operated. This 
trust agreement expired day before yes¬ 
terday. Forty men have renewed this 
trust for the next three years and have 
increased tlie amount to $72,500. 
A. MOSES Through death and 
other circumstances, 
some of these men are not the same as 
the original twenty-nine, but it is sig¬ 
nificant to note that among the present 
underwriters are included several farm¬ 
ers. In the work which the Eastern 
States League is doing with boys and 
girls we have also some fine results to 
point out. During the past year the 
Junior Achievement Bureau of the 
Eastern States League has organized 
380 achievement clubs with a member¬ 
ship of 4,667 boys and girls. 
-The Home Bureau of the Eastern 
States League has also had a very suc¬ 
cessful year. ^ The activities of this 
bureau are divided into three phases. 
First, the organization and promotion 
of Home Information Centers; second, 
demonstrations and lectures arranged 
at the Eastern States Exposition and 
in connection with the Home Beautiful 
Expositions;* third, classes, lecture 
courses, and demonstrations, arranged 
and conducted for women’s organiza¬ 
tions. 
Started Over Ten Years Ago 
I wish to mention here that this won¬ 
derful work which we are doing 
throughout the Eastern States had its 
inception over ten years ago when we 
of Hampden County organized what is 
now known as the Hampden County 
Improvement League. It was the busi¬ 
ness men of this county who realized 
the importance of close cooperation be¬ 
tween the industrial and agricultural 
interests of a community. We realize 
the absolute interdependence between 
the city and the country. I remember 
going down to Washington and inter¬ 
viewing the Secretary of Agriculture, 
Mr. Houston, and explaining the whole 
idea to him. He was very much inter¬ 
ested and said that a great deal could 
be done along these lines, but he also 
realized the difficulties which would 
confront us. I am sure that every one 
of our members are pleased at the 
strides which have been made along 
these lines during the past ten years, 
and it is particularly gratifying to us 
of Hampden County to think that any¬ 
thing we have done has proved suffi¬ 
ciently successful to extend it to in¬ 
clude the ten Eastern States. You will 
all be interested to know that we are 
receiving requests from all over the 
United States to explain just how our 
organization was originally formed and 
how we conduct it. As a matter of 
fact, our organization has attracted at¬ 
tention beyond the confines of this 
county, and letters requesting informa¬ 
tion from us have been received from 
different parts of the world. 1 wish at 
this time to acknowledge again the 
wonderful support which this move¬ 
ment has received from Mr. Theodore 
N. Vail, who died in 1920. Mr. Vail 
was one of the men most actively in¬ 
terested in this movement and gave me 
a great deal of valuable assistance and 
help in getting this organization under 
way. Mr. Vail was in this movement 
from the very beginning, and it was 
his intention when he retired as active 
president of the Telephone Company to 
devote all of his time to the junior 
achievement work which we are now 
carrying on. He was an original sub¬ 
scriber to all of our activities and was 
the first vice president of the Eastern 
States League. 
City and Country Interdependent 
The sum and substance of this whffie 
movement, as I perceive it, is the 
greater realization from day to day on 
the part of thinking men and women 
that it is necessary for city and country 
to get together to work out their com¬ 
mon problem for mutual good. Our 
movement is aimed to strengthen both 
industry and agriculture politically, 
economically, and socially. Through the 
League’s threefold apprpach —that is, 
the Farmers’ Exchange, the boys’ and 
girls’ work, and the Home Department 
we aim to bring about a prosperous 
economic and industrial situation and 
a more stable social condition in New 
England and the East. 
The real beginnings come, in April: 
“As ye sow, ye are like to reap.” 
