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American Agriculturist, May 5, 1923 
WOLVERINE 
Comfort Shoe 
Of Double-Tanned Horsehide 
“I bought a pair 
of Wolverine 1000 
Mile Shoes at Nevada 
last year and have 
■worn them over 14 
months every day. I 
wish to buy another 
pair for myself and 
family. Please give 
me the name of a 
dealer in Wichita, 
Kansas.” 
(Signed) 
W. F. GRANGER, 
Winfield, Kans. 
Comfort Shoe 
A shoe so pliable and soft, you can 
double it up like a moccasin. It 
wears like iron, yet you’ll hardly 
know you have it on. For dry 
weather or if you have tender 
feet. Ask for Stock No. 760. 
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Double-Tatmed Horsehide 
Wears Like Iron—Stays Soft 
We are the only makers of 
Wolverine double-tanned horse¬ 
hide work shoes, the best wear¬ 
ing outdoor, or indoor shoe on 
earth. 
In our own tanneries we double 
tan horsehide — the 
toughest leather 
known r— by our 
secret, exclusive 
process, to the soft¬ 
ness and flexibility 
of buckskin. 
Then we make up 
this double-tanned 
horsehide into work 
shoes. We make no 
other shoes. All our 
resources are com¬ 
bined to make the 
best, longest wear¬ 
ing work shoe in the world. 
Horsehide is known for its 
toughness of fibre. It is the only 
leather used to cover league 
baseballs because it is the only 
leather tough enough to stand 
the pounding. Treated by our 
process its toughness and ability 
to resist wear are increased. Yet 
we tan this thick, tough hide so 
that it is soft as velvet. 
Our double-tanned horsehide 
has another quality you will ap¬ 
preciate. It dries soft. Wet it, 
soak it in water, mud, then dry 
it out and it will be as soft as 
before. No other leather like it. 
Ordinary leather dries hard as a 
board. But Wolver¬ 
ine horsehide shoes 
never lose their flex¬ 
ibility, ease and com¬ 
fort. 
Whether you get 
a Wolverine Hi-Cut, 
Wolverine Dread¬ 
nought, W olverine 
Plowboy, Wolverine 
Planter, or a Wol¬ 
verine Comfort Shoe 
you’ll find it the best 
wearing and most 
comfortable work 
shoe you ever had on your feet. 
All are horsehide through and 
through. And all are built to 
stand wear and tear and give 
double satisfaction. You’ll find 
the Wolverine the most econom¬ 
ical shoe you can buy. 
If your dealer can’t supply you 
with Wolverine Shoes, write to 
us and they will be furnished 
through our nearest dealer. Ask 
for our catalog. 
We specialize in 
Work Shoes 
—a Work Shoe for 
every purpose 
All made of 
double-tanned 
horsehide 
They wear and wear 
and wear! 
Wolverine Shoe & Tanning Corp* 
Formerly The Michigan Shoemakers 
(A change of name only) 
Dept. 231 Rockford, Michigan 
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New Cooperatives Started 
For Seed and Cherry Growers—Albany Farm News 
A nother New By M. K. FENNELL farm 10 cents a pound. 
York State Co- About that time the 
operative association has been formed. 
It is called the New York Seed Im¬ 
provement Cooperative Association, 
Inc., and its aim is the use of better 
seed by New York farmers. The asso¬ 
ciation is now set up and ready to 
inspect and certify crop seed raised by 
members. 
Every year in New York, as in other 
States, millions of dollars are lost 
through lessened production resulting 
from inferior seeds — Southern grown 
seed that cannot survive the Northern 
climate, seeds with a high percentage 
of impurity, seeds of low yielding 
ability. It is not unusual to find a 
statement like this with a bag of seed: 
“We give no warranty as to the de¬ 
scription, purity, quality, or productive¬ 
ness of these seeds and cannot be 
responsible in any way for the crop.” 
Where farmers are using 5,000,000 
bushels of grain and other seeds and 
3,500,000 bushels of potatoes, investing 
annually close to $20,000,000 in seeds, 
some guarantee of a crop might well 
be considered essential. 
The principle of pure breeding may 
be applied to seeds as well as to cows. 
There ■ are strains of oats that yield 
more bushels of grain per acre and 
withstand storms better than other 
strains. The same is true with wheat 
and barley. There are varieties of 
cabbage, potatoes, and beans which are 
particularly resistant to disease and 
yield more tons or bushels to the acre 
than do others not carefully bred or 
selected. 
Membership Requirements 
Any bona-fide grower, contract grow¬ 
er or prospective grower, ' of any crop 
seeds in New York State may apply 
for membership in the seed associa¬ 
tion. Cancellations will be received 
during a ’withdrawal period. When a 
grower is received in the association 
he receives the services of the organi¬ 
zation, which is the only State-wide 
body prepared to officially inspect and 
certify New York State crop seeds. 
While membership is on the individ¬ 
ual basis, provision has been made for 
group representation by crops through 
advisory committees elected by the 
growers of the various kinds of crop 
seeds. Besides these crop committees 
there will be an advisory council made 
up of representatives of the State 
College of Agriculture, the Geneva Ex¬ 
periment Station, and such other per¬ 
sons as the board of directors may 
appoint. There will also be a com¬ 
mittee of reviews to check all inspec¬ 
tions and hear and pass upon com¬ 
plaints. 
A board of directors of five has been 
elected for one year. Bruce F. Jones 
of Hall is President, and Elmer E. 
Hults of Marathon, Vice-President. The 
other members of the board are Lyman 
L. Foote, Malone, H. B. Munger, Bergen, 
and A. M. Reed, Cortland. 
CHERRY GROWERS ORGANIZE 
New York’s cherry crop is the latest 
recruit to cooperation. Recently at a 
meeting of directors of the New York 
Canning Crops Cooperative Associa¬ 
tion, Inc., it was voted to handle the 
cherry crop of members of the associa¬ 
tion and pitters have already been 
secured which will be installed at 
certain points in cherry producing 
territory. After the fruit is pitted it 
will be put into gallon tins or barrels 
and placed in cold storage and frozen. 
Sales will then be made as the market 
price is right. During the past few 
years the consumption of cherries has 
been enormously increased by the 
fashion of adding preserved cherries 
to many drinks and ices. The great 
bulk of the cherry crop is canned and 
sold in the large cities. 
New York growers are following a 
precedent successfully established by 
cherry producers of Wisconsin and 
Michigan where for the past two years 
the farmers have owned their own 
plants and factories. In 1921 a grow¬ 
ers’ organization in Michigan, known 
as the Grand Traverse Packing Com¬ 
pany, canned 1,200,000 pounds of 
cherries, paying the grower at his 
New York growers were getting 5 cr 
5% cents a pound. 
The sale of the cherry crop in New 
York has been highly speculative, be¬ 
cause growers have had no storage 
facilities and no sales organization to 
develop new markets. New York 
cherries have been sold to the can¬ 
neries on contract annually and at the 
lowest price. The Canning Crops 
Association hopes to largely remove 
the speculative element by cold pack¬ 
ing I^ruit and seeking new markets. 
Association members have been asked 
to report an estimate of their crop to 
the organization, for control of the New 
York crop is essential to the success 
of the enterprise. Meetings are being 
calleci in the cherry producing sections 
of the State where plans will be dis¬ 
cussed by the producers. 
FARM NEWS FROM ALBANY 
The Downing-Hutchinsop Education 
Bill, which embpdies the suggestions 
of the Coihmittee of Twenty-one, passed 
the Senate Tuesday, April 23. Only 
six Senators voted against this bill. 
The bill is still under consideration in 
the Assembly at this writing. 
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A very important bill affecting the 
cooperative law provides for the issuing 
of bonds or preferred stock where new 
or additional capital is required, pay¬ 
ing a rate of interest not exceeding 
8 per cent. This would allow the estab¬ 
lishment of some cooperative enter¬ 
prises without the investment of so 
much capital by the farmers them¬ 
selves. * * * 
A bill providing for the joint ad¬ 
ministration of the Cornell Agricul¬ 
tural College and the Geneva Experi¬ 
ment Station has passed the Assembly 
and is now pending in the Senate 
Committee. The only opposition to 
this bill comes from the city of Geneva 
which fears that some of the activities 
of the station might be removed from 
Geneva to Ithaca. The consolidation, 
has the approval of Dean A. R. Mann, 
of the College of Agriculture and Dr. 
Roscoe Thatcher, director of the Ex¬ 
periment Station, and the trustees of 
both institutions. 
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A third bill bearing on indemnities 
for slaughtered tubercular cattle has 
passed both houses and is before the 
Governor for his signature. This bill 
provides funds for payment of slaugh¬ 
tered cattle during the fiscal year 1923 
to 1924. It is expected that the three 
bills, the first two of which have been 
previously reported, will pay for in¬ 
demnities for slaughtered cattle until 
June, 1924. ^ ^ 
The Assembly has passed one of 
Governor Smith’s reconstruction bills 
proposing the constitutional amend¬ 
ment to consolidate 180 State depart¬ 
ments and bureaus into 20 major de¬ 
partments and reducing the number of 
elective State officers from 7 to 4. As 
this bill is recommended by the Gover¬ 
nor, it is now certain to become a./ law 
so that the proposed amendment will 
be submitted to the people of the State, 
* * * ' 
A bill has passed both the Assembly 
and the Senate, amending the Farms 
and Markets Law relative to changing 
grade and packing labels on barreled or 
boxed apples. 
* * * 
The present automobile license fee 
system would be replaced by a one-cent 
tax on gasoline, according to the bill 
introduced into the Assembly. _ The 
measure also provides fo'^- arflat license 
fee of three dollars for pleasure cars 
and ten dollars for elcjitric machines. 
This gasoline tax is k law in some 
States now, and has b^en discussed for 
some time as a possible law in New 
York. 
One of the new la^s of 1923 will pro¬ 
vide for a hunter ^ain wearing a but¬ 
ton showing that \}fe ‘has a license. This 
button will be vs^rn in a conspicu()US 
place. The law/ will become effective 
January 1, 192fi. 
