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American Agriculturist, September 22,1923 
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VOL. 112 September 22, 1923 No. 12 
A Right Verdict After the True Facts 
N Page 190, we are printing the first .of 
the series of discussions on the New 
York State Rural School Bill. We hope you 
will find time to read and study these articles 
because there is so much at stake. We hope 
also that you will feel free to ask any ques¬ 
tions about points which you do not under¬ 
stand. During the past year we have talked 
with thousands of farmers at meetings and 
we have had hundreds of letters about the 
principles in this proposed Rural School Bill. 
From this experience, we unhesitatingly say 
that farm people who understand the prin¬ 
ciples in this bill are for them. 
Anyway, if after these principles are well 
understood a majority of the people of the 
State are opposed to them they, of course, 
should not become a law. So both those who 
oppose the bill and those who are for it are 
agreed upon one thing, and that is, that there 
should be every effort made to get correct 
understanding of the principles involved be- 
• fore you. The final verdict must be and 
should be in your own hands. 
Storing Heat 
ITH the approach of another winter of 
fuel shortage, farmers will be urged to 
conserve coal by burning wood. This is 
dangerous advice. It is all right to cut down 
the trees and burn the wood that will grow no 
more, but the rapid destruction of the forests 
is a calamity to this country and not even a 
fuel shortage is an excuse for destroying the 
comparatively few remaining growing trees. 
It would seem as if the farmers’ fight 
with the weather gets worse every year. If 
this is true, one of the chief reasons for it 
is the loss of our good friends, the trees. 
Most sections of the East have had terrible 
droughts this summer, causing farmers 
losses that run into hundreds of thousands 
of dollars. More woods would have pre¬ 
vented much of this loss by holding the 
moisture in the ground. 
Some day in the future people will laugh 
£t our helplessness in obtaining fuel. We 
heard a farmer say the other day that it 
will be a good thing when the coal all dis¬ 
appears because then necessity will force 
men to get the stored heat of the sun through 
some other much cheaper and easier way. 
For instance, there is enough water power 
in nearly every eastern State to furnish by 
electricity all the fuel needs of man; and 
there is heat enough from the direct rays of 
the sun wasted every summer on a single 
acre to keep all the inhabitants of the whole 
town warm all winter. All that is necessary 
is to find some means of catching it and 
storing it up for future use. Man has ac¬ 
complished just as difficult tasks as this, and 
when necessity forces him to, he will har¬ 
ness the sun easily and cheaply to drive his 
factories and transportation, and warm his 
home. 
“The Broad Highway” 
OTHING has given us more pleasure in 
some time than when we found that we 
were able to secure “The Broad Highway” 
by Jeffery Farnol, to publish as a serial in 
American Agriculturist, Some years ago 
we accidentally ran across one of Farnol’s 
books. We read it and hurried back to the 
library for more and Mrs. Eastman was able 
to get very little work out of us at home 
until we had finished everything that we 
could find that Farnol had ever written. Of 
the several fine stories that he has written, 
“The Broad Highway” is easily the best. 
Its very name will make every country-bred 
person want to read it. 
Our requirements for fiction in American 
Agriculturist are vlry exacting, for we be¬ 
lieve our people should have the very best 
in English, style and interest. But “The 
Broad Highway” more than meets all of 
these requirements and is in our opinion 
the best story we have been able to give you 
yet. The first installment is in this issue. 
Milk Prices Improving 
AS announced on Page 196, the Dairymen’s 
XJLLeague Cooperative Association net pool 
price for August is $2,085. The August price 
is 33 cents greater than the pool price for 
August price last year. It is the ^highest 
August pool price ever paid by the fcooper- 
rative Association. 
Of course, some of this better price is due 
to the usual seasonal increase; some of it 
is due also to the bad conditions that have 
prevailed on the dairy farm during the past 
summer. But most of it is a result of good 
organization. There has been no real short¬ 
age of milk this summer, in spite of the fact 
that pastures in some sections have been 
dry. There has been a fairly good market, 
and dairymen have been able to take ad¬ 
vantage of good market conditions because 
they were organized. Another factor to be 
given credit is the fact that there has been 
a slow but constant gain by the association 
in transferring milk from the lower price 
classes to Classes 1 and 2, thus raising the 
net pool price to farmers. In this connection 
it is significant to note that the fluid price 
paid by dealers for milk in August, 1922 was 
$2.90, whereas the fluid price for August, 
1923 milk was $2.43 for the first half of the 
month and $2.73 for the last half or an aver¬ 
age of $2.58. In other words, although the 
price paid the association by dealers for Class 
2 milk during this August was 32 cents less 
than August a year ago, the net pool price 
realized by the farmers is 33 cents higher. 
The Eastern States Association, composed 
of several independent cooperative cream¬ 
eries also reports improving milk prices, in¬ 
dicating good work done for its members. 
We get the same story from the New Eng¬ 
land Milk Producers’ Association with head¬ 
quarters at Boston and from the Interstate 
Milk Producers’ Association at Philadelphia. 
There is, of course, much to be done by 
all of these dairy marketing organizations, 
of which the League is the largest, but for 
two years now milk prices have been higher 
than almost any other farm product, and 
without doubt the chief reason is that 
the dairymen are better organized than other 
farmers to market their products in a busi¬ 
ness way. 
An Education In a Week 
F OR the dairyman interested in learning 
a lot about his business in a short time, 
the World’s Dairy Congress and National 
♦ Dairy Show to be held in Syracuse from Oc¬ 
tober 5 to 13 offer the opportunity of a life¬ 
time. Never in the history of the dairy in¬ 
dustry have there been so many people in 
one place interested in dairying and so many 
dairy exhibits as will be gathered in Syra¬ 
cuse at the World’s Dairy Congress. 
There will be representatives and exhibits 
from all the States of the Union and from 
thirty-nine other countries. In the program 
there will be addresses and papers on dairy 
research education given by teachers, investi¬ 
gators, officials and engineers interested in 
the solution of dairy problems. Men en¬ 
gaged in breeding dairy cattle and in produc¬ 
ing, manufacturing, exporting, importing, 
storing and distributing dairy products and 
equipment will deliver addresses. State, na¬ 
tional, municipal and private officials con¬ 
cerned with milk standards, adulterations, 
sanitation and animal disease control will be 
on the program and there will also be talks 
by representatives of consumers interested 
in the milk consumption problem, such as 
public health and nutrition workers, philan¬ 
thropists, social welfare workers and stu¬ 
dents of the influence of the diet on the health 
and vigor of all nations. 
Farmers will be particularly interested in 
the many discussions planned on cooperative 
milk organizations and in the discussions of 
prices of milk and costs of production. The 
program will contain discussions also on the 
use of all kinds of dairy machinery such as 
the milking machine and separator. Cattle 
breeders will discuss their many problems 
and particular attention will be devoted to 
the diseases of cattle and their control. 
One of the many dangers of a great con¬ 
vention of this kind is to prepare too much 
for the needs of the big breeders and dairy¬ 
men whose problems are not always the same 
as those of the average farmer. The Na¬ 
tional Dairy Show has taken particular pains 
in its exhibit and program this year to pre¬ 
pare. to entertain and help the average man 
with only ten or twelve cows. 
Substantial reductions in railroad fares 
to Syracuse have been obtained for this show. 
Round trips to the exposition will be a fare 
and a half for all over the United States and 
Canada. Hotel accommodations should be 
obtained immediately. 
The Woman Who Did What She Could 
ALL of our people who read Mr. Van Wag- 
xJL enen’s rather pathetic story entitled, 
“The Woman Who Did What She Could” 
will be very sorry to know that this same 
woman was recently very seriously injured 
by an automobile. While crossing the State 
road at night in front of her home, she was 
struck- by a car which fled on in the night 
without stopping. She lay for many hours 
unconscious, but now is in a fair way to re¬ 
cover. Mr. Van Wagenen writes: “I thought 
you would be interested in knowing how 
tragedy seems to follow ‘The woman who 
did what she could.’” 
Have you arranged for signs for your 
autos? _ Let the world know you are going to 
the Dairy Show, and where you are from. 
