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American Agriculturist, October 27,1923 
Editorial Page of the American Agriculturist 
American 
Agriculturist 
Founded 1842 
Henry Morgenthau, Jr .Publisher 
E. R. Eastman .Editor 
Fred W. Ohm .Associate Editor 
Gabrielle Elliot .... Household Editor 
Birge Kinne .Advertising Manager 
E. C. Weatherby . . . Circulation Manager 
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VOL. 112 October 27, 1923 17 
The Apple Show 
AVE you written your New York City 
friends about the eastern States Apple 
Exposition? You know this is to be held in 
the Grand Central Palace, New York City, 
November 3-10. Without question it will be 
the largest fruit show ever seen in New York 
City and probably in the East. Its purpose 
is to advertise and increase the consumption 
of eastern grown apples and other fruits. 
Plans are being made to make this show 
a regular fairyland of fruit. It will be well 
worth anybody’s trip to New York City to 
see it; but if you cannot come you can at 
least get a friend to come. If that friend is 
a city resident, so much the better for the 
city folks are the ones upon whom we de¬ 
pend for our markets. 
Our New Dairy Building 
HE farmers and dairymen of New York 
State may well be proud of the new dairy 
building at the State College. The corner¬ 
stone of this building was laid on March 3, 
1922, and it was dedicated on October 13, 
1923. It contains 83,000 square feet of floor 
space and is equipped with all laboratories, 
cold storage plants and machinery necessary 
in teaching and studying one of the great¬ 
est and most important industries. 
Many of the delegates from the forty for¬ 
eign countries attending the World’s Dairy 
Congress were present when the college 
dairy building was dedicated and several of 
them said that without question this build¬ 
ing and its equipment was the best for its 
purposes in the world. 
In his dedication speech, Dean Mann said: 
“The adventure of building a democratic 
commonwealth finds its chief security in wide¬ 
spread education, sound, general education 
for the masses, higher and perhaps special¬ 
ized education for those who are to become 
leaders, teachers and carriers of responsi¬ 
bility. For America to fortify its democratic 
ideal, it must have on the land an educated 
competent body of citizens trained for pro¬ 
ductive usefulness in the art of farming and 
schooled in the ideals of the nation. ... If 
agriculture and country life are to reach an 
estate commensurate with the highest per¬ 
manent welfare and integrity of the com¬ 
monwealth and the nation, institutions to 
serve agriculture especially in the discovery 
and promotion of knowledge must be brought 
to high development.” 
The Dean emphasized the thought that the 
State colleges of agriculture were the proper¬ 
ty of the common people and that without the 
sympathetic support of the men and women 
back on the land, no State college could be 
worth while. He then concluded by saying: 
“Perhaps this can all be summed up by 
saying that the whole function of the State 
college is to make straight and clear the way 
for the liberation of the spirit of the man 
who works the land from whatever tyranny 
of time, place or condition there may be, not 
by running away from his task, but by 
mastering it.” _ 
Cornell Has New Dairy Chief 
HE New York State College at Ithaca 
starts work in its new dairy building 
with the announcement that Dr. James Mor¬ 
gan Sherman of the Dairy Division in the 
United States Department of Agriculture is 
to be the head of the Department of Dairy 
Industry at the College. 
Dr. Sherman has won much favorable at¬ 
tention as a scientist, investigator and 
teacher. He has been connected with the 
staff of the University of Wisconsin and with 
the Pennsylvania State College. Since 1917 
he has been bacteriologist in the Dairy Di¬ 
vision of the United States Department of 
Agriculture. With his training and experi¬ 
ence and with the finest dairy educational 
building and equipment in the world to work 
with, Dr. Sherman should be able to establish 
a Dairy Department at Cornell in keeping 
with New York’s greatest industry. 
The many friends of Professor W. A. 
Stocking will be glad to know that the Dairy 
Department of the college will not lose his 
services. Professor Stocking has rendered 
a splendid worth-while service to the dairy 
interests of the State and retirement from 
some of the active administrative duties of 
the department will give him more time for 
the teaching and research work which he 
wishes to do. _ 
Amendments at This Election 
OTERS in New York State will be called 
upon at the coming election, in addition 
to voting for different candidates, to ex¬ 
press their judgment upon the adoption of 
five proposed amendments to the New York 
State Constitution, and also upon a proposi¬ 
tion to bond the State for $50,000,000 to in¬ 
crease its hospital and charitable institu¬ 
tions and equipment. Each of the amend¬ 
ments proposed are given in full in this issue 
on page 284. 
Without commenting either way upon the 
amendments submitted, we would like to say 
a word about the proposition before the 
people to increase the facilities for properly 
caring for our dependents. There is not the 
least doubt that there is grave need for such 
facilities. Many of the insane asylums are 
from forty to seventy-five years old, poorly 
constructed, and dangerous fire-traps. The 
maximum capacity of all of them in the 
State put together is 31,000 patients, and 
yet there are over 38,000 crowded into them. 
The buildings and equipment for taking care 
of crippled children and curable cases of 
tuberculosis and other State unfortunates 
are far less than what they should be. 
In order to equalize the financial burden, 
it is proposed to raise the necessary money 
by bonds instead of trying to do it all by 
immediate taxation. Farm people as a rule 
vote against amendments which lead to in¬ 
creased taxation, and their judgment is good 
in doing so. It seems to us, however, that 
this case is one of plain duty toward the 
unfortunates of life and that, therefore, we 
ought to vote for this proposition. 
The Right Solution 
AT a conference held in Chicago on October 
jTa.8, plans were adopted for the organiza¬ 
tion of a series of State-wide wheat market¬ 
ing associations for the purpose of helping 
the wheat growers to get more for their prod¬ 
uct. The plans adopted were similar to those 
already being used by the organization of 
cotton growers and the organized tobacco 
producers. The principle has the endorse¬ 
ment of some of the most prominent men and 
students of economics in the country. As 
some one at the conference said: “This 
wheat situation is an economic one and it 
requires an economic remedy; and the eco¬ 
nomic remedy is cooperative selling.” 
In other words, those back of this move¬ 
ment fully realize that those who want bet¬ 
ter prices for their wheat must themselves 
work to get it through cooperation rather 
than try to solve it by the artificial means of 
political or government action. 
Eastman’s Chestnuts 
B IRGE KINNE, advertising manager of 
American Agriculturist, returned this 
morning from the National Dairy Show at 
Syracuse. Of course, the show ended Satur¬ 
day night and this is Tuesday, but you know 
it always takes some folks quite a spell to 
get back on the job after any celebration. 
Besides, that has nothing to do with this 
story. 
As soon as Birge got back, he came bust¬ 
ing into the editorial sanctum sanctorium 
without knocking (on the door) and says, 
says he: “Ed, you’ve got to cut out writin’ 
them there chestnuts on your editorial page.” 
And then I says, says I: “Birge in the 
first place, it seems that ’sociatin’ with a 
smart editor like me ought to make you quit 
using such bad grammar; and in the second 
place, what do you mean by coming in here 
and telling me how to run ‘The Good Old 
Reliable’ by cutting out my chestnuts?” 
“Well,” he says, says he: “I met a feller 
at the Dairy Show who said them there 
chestnuts is the only thing in the old Ameri¬ 
can Agriculturist worth readin’, and I’m 
afraid he is right. If you k*eep puttin’ them 
in, nobody will read nothin’ else.” 
Well I let it pass. An editor soon learns 
not to pay any attention to the advertising 
manager. 
But his speaking of the Dairy Show made 
me think of the large amount of good work 
done by W. E. Skinner, the manager, to 
make the show such a great success. And 
speaking of Manager Skinner gives me an 
excuse for telling a story about another 
Skinner, whose business it was to manage 
funerals instead of dairy shows. 
The story is contributed by a faithful 
reader of my chestnuts who said I had bet¬ 
ter leave out his name because the story is 
true. 
It seems that in a certain town there lived 
an undertaker by the name of Skinner, who 
had a helper whose name was Bill. The 
same town supported a butcher, called Bob 
by his friends, and Bob had a mother-in-law 
who died. Some are not so accommodating. 
Skinner came to prepare the body. Being 
a very large woman, the body was more than 
he could handle alone, so Bob sent a boy for 
Bill to come and help. 
The boy rang the bell. It was late in the 
evening, and Bill having started to retire, in¬ 
quired from an upper window what was 
wanted. 
“Bob’s mother-in-law is dead,” said the 
boy, “and he wants you to come up and help 
Skinner.” 
