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American Agriculturist, September 29,1923 
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The School Bill and The Farmers' Taxes 
(Continued from page 207) 
EGGS AND POULTRY 
SO MANY ELEMENTS enter into the ship¬ 
ping of day-old chicks and eggs by our ad¬ 
vertisers, and the hatching of same by our 
subscribers that the publishers of this paper 
cannot guarantee the safe arrival of day-old 
chicks, or that eggs shipped shall reach the 
buyer unbroken, nor can they guarantee the 
hatching of eggs. We shall continue to exer¬ 
cise the greatest care in allowing poultry and 
egg advertisers to use this paper, but our re¬ 
sponsibility must end with that. 
CHICKENS—Two-weeks-old White Leghorn, 
$16 per 100. Yearling hens, $1.25 each. 
EMPIRE HATCHERY, Seward, N. Y. 
FALL AND WINTER CHICKS—Rocks, Reds, 
Leghorn^. Catalog. WM. F. HILLPOT, Box 
29, Frenchtown, N. J. 
POULTRY SUPPLIES 
ATTENTION, CUSTOMERS !—We’re making 
prompt shipments now. Prices reduced, order 
to-day. Satisfaction guaranteed. Correspond¬ 
ence solicited. STANDARD EGG CASE COM¬ 
PANY, 60a West 114th Street, New York. 
SHEEP 
40 SPLENDID RAMBOUILLET, Dorset, 
Delaine, Cheviot and Southdouse rams, also 
ewes. Taxpayer and Defender Duroc swine 
all ages. Pure Rosin rye. D. H. TOWNSEND 
& SONS, Interlaken, N. Y. 
REGISTERED DELAINES—Sixty, 1 and 2 
year old rams. Combing size, form, fleece, 
constitution, hardy, well grown. Satisfaction 
guaranteed J. C. WEATHERBY, Trumans- 
burg, N. Y. 
REGISTERED SHROPSHIRE RAMS—Good 
individuals at reasonable prices. field stock 
in good condition for breeding ARTHUR S 
DAVIS, Chili, N Y 
REGISTERED DORSET SHEEP — One ram 
three years old ; one ram lamb and a few ewes 
and ewe iambs. CHARLES LAFFBRTY, Lit¬ 
tle Valley, N. Y. 
REGISTERED HAMPSHIRE SHEEP—Ewes, 
ewe iambs, and few ram lambs. A-l breeding, 
$20 to $40. A, L. MERRY, R 3, Belmont, 
New York. 
HAMPSHIRE RAMS, ram lambs, breeding 
ewes, yearling ewes, ewe lambs Largest flock 
in the East. C & M. BIGHAM, Gettysburg, Pa. 
FOR SALE — Eight Registered Hampshire 
Bwee and one buck ; good stock ; price for flock 
$175. SCUTT FARMS, R„ 2, Olean, N. Y. 
DOGS AND PET STOCK 
ENGLISH AND WELSH SHEPHERDS — 
Thirty generations’ breeding, from proven sires 
and dams, from natural heelers. Few Blue 
Highland pups, GEORGE BOORMAN, Mara¬ 
thon, N. Y. 
ENGLISH SHEPHERD PUPS — 2 litters, 
several males, 5 to 8 months, at bargain prices. 
W. W. NORTON, Ogdensburg, N. Y. 
PEDIGREED COLLIE PUPS —$10, $15. 
White Leghorn hens, $1. EL BRITON FARM, 
R. 1, Hudson, N. Y. 
WANTED—Farm-raised rabbit hound, give 
full description. DANA SLTTLIFF, Sehick- 
shinny, Pa. 
COLLIE PUPS AND BREEDERS — Best 
blood PAINE’S KENNELS, South Royalton, Vt. 
HORSES 
THIRTY SHETLAND AND WELSH PONIES 
- — All ages for sale cheap to quick buyers. 
SENECA PONY FARMS, Salamanca. N. Y. 
SWINE 
PEDIGREED O. 1. C. PIGS — $6.50. Eli 
BRITON F ARM, R 1, Hudson, N. Y. 
CATTLE 
MILKING SHORTHORNS — Tested herd, 
young things. WM. E. SUTTON, Windham, 
N. Y. 
REGISTERED HOLSTEIN BULL CALVES 
—From a high-producing herd at farmers’ 
prices, free from any disease. L. E. BROWN, 
Princeton, W. Va. 
FOR SALE —• Pure-bred Guernseys, males 
and females, all ages, from accredited herds. 
May Rose and other popular blood lines for 
foundation herds. Reasonable prices. Extra 
good values. Special mention bull calves by 
Oxford Boy of Pencoyd and Langwater Recluse. 
JOHN K. CORBETT, Lancaster, Pa. 
REGISTERED JERSEYS—Bargains in young 
bulls, $45.00 up. Females all ages. Good 
stock. Reasonable prices. Write, HENRY 
INGALLS, Greenville, N. Y. 
REAL ESTATE 
SMALL FARM FOR SALE — Thirty acres 
sixteen hundred dollars. Good nine-room house 
and well, dairy and horse barns, hen and hog 
house, apple orchard, small sugar bush, plenty 
shade trees ; good neighborhood ; rural free de¬ 
livery ; good road to store one mile ; railroad 
station to Oswego, N. Y., about thirty-five ; 
Syracuse forty ; and Utica forty-seven. Make 
an ideal summer home where boating, bathing 
and fishing can be enjoyed at the several near¬ 
by lakes and streams ; dancing at the pavilion, 
and hiking through the woods. Inquire, BOX 
308, American Agricultufist, 461 Fourth Ave,, 
New York City. 
SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCKS 
FRUiT TREES direct to planters in large 
or small lots by express, freight or parcel 
post It will pay you to get our prices be¬ 
fore buying Free 68 page catalog. Peaches, 
apples, plums, pears, cherries, grapes, nuts, 
berries, pecans, vines. Ornamental trees, 
vines and shrubs TENN NURSERY CO., 
Box 119, Cleveland, Tenn 
ALFALFA AND TIMOTHY HAY FOR SALE 
—Several cars for immediate or later loading. 
Also straw W A, WITHROW, R 4, Syracuse, 
New York. 
TOBACCO 
TOBACCO — Kentucky's pride ; extra fine 
chewing, 10 pounds, $3 ; smoking, 10 pounds, 
$2; 20 pounds, $3.50. FARMERS’ CLUB. 
Mayfield, Ky. 
HELP WANTED 
ALL men, women, boys, girls, 17 to 60, will¬ 
ing to accept Government positions, $117-$190, 
traveling or stationary, write MR. OZMENT, 
258 St. Louis. Mo., immediately. 
MARRIED FARMER —• Experienced with 
cows, horses, tractors and other implements. 
MOHEGAN FARM. Mohegan Lake, N. Y. 
AGENTS WANTED 
MEN’S SHIRTS — Easy to sell. Big demand 
everywhere. Make $15 daily. Undersell stores. 
Complete line. Exclusive patterns. Free sam¬ 
ples. CHICAGO SHIRT MANUFACTURERS. 
241 W. Van Buren, Factory 159, Chicago. 
AGENTS WANTED — Agents make a dol¬ 
lar an hour. Sell Mendets, a patent patch 
for instant mending leaks in all utensils. 
Sample package free. COLLETTE MFG. CO. 
Dept. 210, Amsterdam, N. Y. 
WOMEN’S WANTS 
PATCHWORK —’ Send fifteen cents for 
household package, bright new calicoes and 
percales. Your money’s worth every time 
PATCHWORK COMPANY, Meriden, Conn. 
KING TUT PORCH DRESSES—Sample 
$1.98. Best ginghams $2.49 Regular $3.75 
grade. BENNETT MFG'S,, Schuylerville, 
N Y. 
rural schools. Of this aid, direct from 
the State, the cities would pay approx¬ 
imately 87 per cent. Therefore, if 
school facilities should remain as they 
are, and no improvements be made, 
school taxes of rural patrons would be 
greatly reduced in a great majority of 
the rural school districts, and if the 
rural people wished, under this pro¬ 
vision of the bill, better teachers could 
be hired, and more facilities, equipment 
and repairs put into the school build¬ 
ings to the extent of ten million dollars, 
without increasing local taxes. 
If you do not remember anything else 
in this article we hope you will this, 
because it is the most important point 
and the one least understood. 
Largest State Aid to Poorest Districts 
The community plan of taxation will 
equalize taxes among the districts in 
the same communities. There will, of 
course, still be inequalities among the 
taxes of different community districts. 
To partially overcome this and to en¬ 
courage the weaker schools to get better 
teachers and equipment, the proposed 
bill provides for distributing the State 
aid to the weaker districts which need 
it the most and to those districts which 
make the most effort to help themselves 
to better schools through hiring well- 
prepared teachers, etc. 
Putting it another way, State aid 
would be apportioned in accordance 
with the taxable resources of community 
districts and expenditures which such 
districts are required to make to pro¬ 
vide for the maintenance of their pub¬ 
lic schools. State aid would be given 
on the basis of valuation per teacher. 
The State standard of actual valuation 
per teacher is fixed in the bill at 
$300,000. Community districts which 
would have a true or actual valuation 
per teacher of less than this amount 
would be entitled to receive from the 
State a certain percentage of the total 
amount of their expenses during the 
current year. 
If the true valuation per teacher in 
the community district decreases, the 
State aid would be increased. For ex¬ 
ample, a corfimunity district having a 
true valuation of $ 100,000 per teacher 
would receive 66^3 per cent of its total 
maintenance cost from the State. A 
district having a $30,000 actual valua¬ 
tion for each teacher would receive 90 
per cent of its maintenance cost from 
the State, Each district also would re¬ 
ceive at least $200 for each teacher 
employed. 
Provision is made too for more State 
aid in the erection of buildings and for 
the transportation of high school pupils. 
Most districts have a valuation per 
teacher of much less than $300,000. 
As a concrete example, in the town 
of McDonough in Chenango County, the 
equalized valuation for the year 1921-22 
was $297,472. The equalized or true 
valuation per teacher was $42,496. This 
valuation per teacher, according to the 
plan in the proposed bill, would make 
the percent of State aid for McDonough 
86 . The school expenses in McDonough 
for 1921-22 were $11,481.91. Under 
the present law, this town received 
from the State $4,849.21. Under the 
new law, it would have received 
$9,874.44, If it had built any school 
buildings, the State would have paid 
30 per cent of their cost. In other 
words, had the new bill been in oper¬ 
ation in 1921-22, this town would have 
received more than twice as much help 
from the State as it received under the 
present law. These figures are only 
approximate, because the apportion¬ 
ment would be made on a community 
SITUATIONS WANTED 
WIDOW with a two-year-old child wishes 
to find a steady position in a good, respectable 
home. BOX 309, American Agriculturist, 461 
Fourth Avenue, New York City. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
LATEST STYLE SANITARY MILK TICK¬ 
ETS save money and time. Free delivery. 
Send for samples. TRAVERS BROTHERS, 
Dept. A, Gardner, Mass. 
ROLL DEVELOPED — Six post cards, 25c. 
Trial enlargement 5x7, 10c. Prints, 3c. 
COMMERCIAL STUDIO, Carthage, Missouri. 
WANTED — Wild cherry bark, dry, from 
young and old trees Write, HARRY TEAL, 
Sand Lake, N. Y 
unit basis instead of using a town for 
a basis. 
Let us take one more example of a 
richer town where the valuation per 
teacher is higher. In the town of 
Afton, in Chenango County, the valua¬ 
tion per teacher was $102,606 for 1921- 
22. This would bring the per cent of 
State aid under the new bill to 66 . The 
school expenses in that town for 1921-22 
were $28,603.69. Under the present 
law the town received $13,838.84 from 
the State. Under the new bill, it 
would have received $18,878.44, besides 
the help which the State would have 
given had there been any school build¬ 
ings erected. 
In order to be perfectly clear, how¬ 
ever, we want to repeat that there 
would be rich districts where the school 
taxes are now too low, compared with 
what other farmers have to pay in 
poorer districts, which would no doubt 
pay some higher taxes than they do 
now because of the equalization pro¬ 
vision in the bill. But after all, while 
the farmers must be determined to 
keep taxes of all kinds within reason¬ 
able limits, the majority of them look 
upon money that is well spent in main¬ 
taining good schools as an investment 
and not as a expense. 
In future issues, we will discuss other 
features of the proposed bill and answer 
specific questions in regard to it. 
The Stranger Within Our 
Gates 
(Continued from page 210 ) 
dition and not a theory that confronts 
us,” for the alien has come to our 
farms and in the East the movement 
is apparently just beginning. We can 
choose either one of two courses toward 
these strange peoples. We can bid 
them flock by themselves and serve 
warning notice that we want no deal¬ 
ings or contact or fellowship with them 
and if so we may have little Italys and 
Russias and Polands and Jewrys scat¬ 
tered all over our farm country—-or we 
may choose the other course—frankly 
recognize that they are with us whether 
we will or not and then do what we 
can in every way to build up a spirit 
of neighborliness and kindliness and 
good will and mutual regard. I know 
that the foreigner is often hungry for 
a word of appreciation and good cheer 
and that he will not repell our ad¬ 
vances. “Americanization”—a word of 
which we hear much—is not solely a 
problem of the "big cities and the min 
ing regions. I know where it has come 
to the remote Hill Country of the State. 
It is a work in which the school and 
the Grange can easily have a part. The 
Farm Bureau can be especially useful 
for. the immigrant turns to it very 
easily and naturally and not infrequent 
ly is a more loyal supporter than the 
native farmer. The Protestant Church 
may not find it easy to get in touch with 
the eastern European, but I do feel very 
sure that he is a human being who will 
respond to genuine kindness and in¬ 
terest and good will. 
In meeting the alien thus we shall 
show ourselves worthy of that high 
characterization: “tolerant” and toler¬ 
ance I take it is one of the fine products 
of education and contact with the world 
whereby we acquire the grace to see 
both sides of a question and to over¬ 
look some of the ways in which other 
folk differ from us folk. 
All of which is respectfully submitted 
to my good friends w'ho do not see this 
question of the immigrant eye to eye 
with me. 
At the World’s Dairy Congress, 
which meets in Washington, October 2 
and 3; in Philadelphia, October 4 , and 
at the National Dairy Show from Oc¬ 
tober 5 to 10 , there will be a program 
of speakers on dairy subjects from 37 
governments of the world. Over half 
of the speakers will be foreigners, 
many of whom will deliver their ad¬ 
dresses in their own official language; 
but provision will be made for inter¬ 
preting, and no English-sneaking per¬ 
son will have any difficulty in follow¬ 
ing the proceedings. The Congress 
will be welcomed in Washington by 
President Coolidge, 
