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Western New York Notes—League News 
American Agriculturist, December 20, 1924 
Gomes In Black 
A ?TER a week or ten days of quite cold 
la weather, during which the thermometer 
dropped as low as 14 0 above zero and 
three or four inches of snow fell,—a real 
taste of winter—the temperature rose again 
to 40 ° and a moderate rain fell all night 
of December 5 . This removed what little 
frost there was in the ground and today it 
is a little muddy on top. This rain put a 
little water in dry cisterns, and with the 
melted snow brightened up wheat, but 
helped the low wells not at all. 
Farmers are at work out doors again 
today after nearly two weeks of inside and 
yard work. Several neighbors are fall 
plowing, not a few are doing belated ditch¬ 
ing out of wet fields.' We used the day to 
get in a few bushels of carrots caught by 
the early freeze. They were apparently 
not injured in the least. Readers of pre¬ 
vious notes may be interested to know, too, 
that the cabbage reported as frozen solid 
on November 18 and 19 , not only went to 
distant markets in good condition after it 
had thawed out, but one car even brought 
a compliment from the buyer on its good 
quality. Of course, this frozen cabbage 
went immediately into consumption. Some 
that was stored is beginning to show a 
few black hearts. Incidentally, our co¬ 
operative membership netted us better than 
three dollars a ton more than we could 
have sold for locally. One Car netted five 
dollars more. Here is a profit of consid¬ 
erably more than one hundred dollars due 
to good cooperative service. 
* ■ * * 
One of the "chores” that has to be reck¬ 
oned with this time of the year is getting 
the children back and forth to school. The 
roads and weather have compelled the put¬ 
ting up of bicycles, and while the children 
can drive a horse most of them are carried 
back and forth in autos. With an average 
of two and a half miles to drive not less 
than one half hour twice a day is required. 
Coming at different times and in the mid¬ 
dle of the morning and the afternoon as 
they do, with the consequent interruptions 
of other work this "chore” takes at least 
two hours five days a week. By changing 
off with two neighbors this time is of 
course, reduced for each one. We have 
eight children of school age among us, 
four of whom are left at the district school 
and the other four are taken to high school 
two and a half miles away. If one were 
to compute the value of this time at cur¬ 
rent wages, he would find the cost of edu¬ 
cation in the country, still further in¬ 
creased. Many real advantages of farm 
and country life in training children may 
be cited to offset it, but the cost of an edu¬ 
cation for farm children is much greater 
than in the cities—Tiften with much poorer 
facilities and teaching too—thanks to the 
enemies of better education. 
—M. C. Burritt. 
serving milk to all of the City Depart¬ 
ment of Health infant feeding stations 
of which there are over 60. The com¬ 
pany handles more grade "A” milk in 
proportion to its daily supply than any 
other concern in New York City. 
The country plants which have been 
taken over by the League are situated 
as follows: Homer, Solon, and Preble, 
Cortland County; Afton, Chenango 
County; Rock Glen, Wyoming County; 
Shekomeko, Dutchess County, and 
Jacksonburg, Herkimer County. Four of 
these plants have grade "A” permits. 
Started "with One Lone Wagon” 
Clover Farms, Inc., had its origin in 
November, 1891, as L. L. Campbell & 
Bro., starting in business with one lone 
milk wagon, the driver of which was 
Mn L. L. Campbell. The first day’s 
deliveries consisted of 68 quarts. The 
company now has 160 delivery routes. 
It was incorporated four or five years 
later as the Clover Farms Company. 
The name was changed to Clover Farms, 
Inc., in 1913, when the Dairy Demon¬ 
stration Company was taken over. The 
Dairy Demonstration Company was or¬ 
ganized in 1908 by a number of promi¬ 
nent New Yorkers interested in infant 
welfare work. A plant was built at 
Homer and after much educational work 
among farmers, the company began to 
supply milk to infant feeding stations 
which had been established by the New 
T ork Milk Committee. These stations 
were taken over later by the New York 
City Department of Health. Since 1913, 
Clover Farms, Inc., has continued this 
service to the city without a break, 
making the name of its Homer milk 
famous. 
When United States Senator Royal S. 
Copeland was City Commissioner o: 
Health, he said of the Homer plant 
"This milk station in point of sanitation 
and the low bacterial count of its milk 
is one of the finest in the United States.” 
Clover Farms, Inc., was built up by 
the efforts of two men—Luther Camp¬ 
bell, its president, and J. J. Weisenfluh, 
its treasurer. 
Down 
Puts this Olde-Tan 
Metal- to-Metal 
Harness on Your Horses 
We trust you wherever you live. Only $7:50 
down. Pay the rest monthly. Write forfree 
harness book. Learn all about this improved metal- 
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there is wear or strain. No old-fashioned buckles. 
an J Ga Jher produced 70 years ago. Now 
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Known throughout America for lta pronounced 
superiority. Olde-Tan harness is made by a tanner- 
manufacturer who follows every step from the 
raw-hide to the completed harness. 
Write for Free Book 
. . JTVT , harness book. 
I^arn ail about our $7.50 down and easy payment 
end the Olde-Tan metal-to-metol harness. 
BABSON BROS., Dept.30-69 
lg l h Stf t »nd Marshall Blvd., Chicago, III. 
Platrgmtora and 
MILL-ENDS 
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African Brown, new Blues, Grays and Black. Each 
Mill-End guaranteed to be perfect and large dress or 
suit pattern, not less than 5 yards, and not less 
than 36 inches wide. Retailers, as you know, charge 
three times our price for same goods cut off the 
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know, with correct addresses. Cut out and mail 
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$3.65 with mail man, examine, test and compare 
with goods costing three times as much. If you are 
not thoroughly satisfied with your bargain, we will 
refund every cent. As our Mill-Ends are limited, 
write today. WATERLOO MILLS CO., 
Mill-End Dept. 703 Waterloo, N. Y, ' 
League Buys Clover Farms 
r_ THE Dairymen’s League Cooperative 
Association, Inc., has purchased the 
properties and business of Clover Farms, 
Inc., an old established high grade milk 
distributing company in New York City, 
according to an announcement by G. W. 
Slocum, president of the dairy farmers’ 
organization. The formal transfer will 
take place on Tuesday, Dec. 16. The 
purchase is in line with the League’s 
policy to obtain more and more of the 
best fluid markets for the milk of its 
members. 
The League will retain the country 
properties consisting of seven modern 
milk receiving stations in New York 
State. It has contracted to sell the city 
holdings and retail business to Borden’s 
Farm Products Company, which is a 100 
percent buyer of League milk. 
The Clover Farms’ city properties in¬ 
clude a large distributing plant at 470 
West 128th Street. Besides carrying 
on a retail business, the company is 
County Notes 
Ontario County. —November was a 
fine month to get fall work completed. 
We had a very hard freeze the middle 
of the month that caught potatoes in 
the barn and cabbage in the fields. Of 
course, they were frozen but there is 
still enough left of both these crops to 
meet the trade needs. Corn is mostly 
in the field. Those who have been 
husking find a large amount of poor 
corn and little or none is good for seed. 
Red kidney beans have turned out rather 
poor in yield and quality. Some stock 
was still running on pasture at the first 
of December. There was very little fall 
plowing done on account of the ground 
being so dry.—E. T. B. 
* * * 
Tioga County. —Potatoes were all dug 
about the middle of November. The 
yield was excellent, although there were 
some reports of rot. Prices have fallen 
almost to zero. The very finest went 
as low as 30c a bushel at the cars. One 
farmer I know took a truck load to the 
market at Endicott and was able to sell 
very few. There was no sale whatever 
even at 50c per bushel. Several of our 
farmers have been going to the markets 
of Johnston and Endicott regularly, with 
their garden truck and have made quite 
a good thing of it. Honey has been sell¬ 
ing well also. Fall work on the farms 
was well cleaned up. The fine weather 
gave ample opportunity for everybody to 
bring outdeor work up to schedule. We 
had a regular blizzard on November 16 
with high winds. It brought us to the 
sudden realization that winter was here, 
much in contrast to the very mild weath¬ 
er that we have had. —Mrs. C. A. B. 
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Salesmen 
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write us a letter and state just 
what experience you have had 
in selling. 
E. C. WEATHERBY 
461 Fourth Ave., 
New York City. 
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