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American Agriculturist, November 3,1923 
Editorial Page of the American Agriculturist 
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Agriculturist 
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VOL. 112 November 3, 1923 18 
The Man and His Orchard 
“T DON’T think any dairyman could think 
X more of his cows than I do of my 
trees,” said a western New York apple grow¬ 
er recently. 
We have often heard familiar statements 
from our friends among the fruit growers. 
Why not? Certainly no dairyman could 
watch the growth of a prize herd with any 
more jealous care than these men care for 
their fruit trees. It takes a long time to 
grow a cow, a time of much work, of great 
skill and long patience; but it takes a still 
longer time to bring an apple tree into bear¬ 
ing, a longer period of work, constant atten¬ 
tion, expense and patience.' Those who suc¬ 
ceed best among either the dairymen or the 
orchard men are the ones naturally who 
give the most of themselves to their dairy 
or orchard. 
But how the orchard that is well cared 
for through the years does in the end justify 
the faith! Last spring at blossom time, we 
rode for many miles through the intensive 
orchard section of western New York, prob¬ 
ably the finest fruit-growing region in the 
world. Last week, in the midst of harvest, 
we went back into the same country. Most 
of our farm experience has been with dairy 
cows and from that experience*we have had 
a thorough understanding of all the ups and 
downs of raising and maintaining a good 
herd and producing milk. But after living 
for sometime in, and traveling through the 
apple country and seeing the hundreds of 
acres of beautifully cared-for orchards, we 
can understand, too, just why the fruit 
grower thinks so much of his trees. 
Announcement 
A MERICAN Agriculturist has made ar- 
. rangements to print some fact ar¬ 
ticles about some of our cooperative associa¬ 
tions. The first one is the feature article in 
this issue, written by M. C. Burritt on 
“Marketing Fruit is a Grower’s Problem.” 
This will be followed by one or two more 
on this same association. These discussions 
will not be onesided, for not even our coop¬ 
erative organizations are 100 per cent per¬ 
fect. No one expects that all mistakes will 
be avoided. There has been a perfectly nat¬ 
ural tendency to emphasize only the successes 
in cooperation because of the belief that 
farmers cannot face facts and will lose con¬ 
fidence if mistakes are discussed. This is a 
dangerous policy. Often more progress is 
to be gained from studying mistakes—than 
successes. When things do not go well with 
the cooperatives, the farmer members of 
course know it, and nothing makes them 
more likely to lose confidence in the organi¬ 
zation than not to know exactly what the 
trouble is. 
The cooperative movement has made tre¬ 
mendous progress in the last few years. In 
this movement, eastern farmers are well in 
the lead, and the eastern cooperatives have 
now been going long enough so as to ac¬ 
quire a considerable amount of experience. 
We are going to attempt to analyze this ex¬ 
perience in several of the different organiza¬ 
tions, discussing both the mistakes and the 
successes, believing that out of these discus¬ 
sions farmers will get some help to aid them 
in making even more progress in solving 
their marketing problems. We would be 
glad to have some short letters discussing 
your cooperative experience frankly, but 
fairly. Mere destructive criticism will not 
be printed, American Agriculturist believes 
the marketing problem must be solved by 
farmers themselves, working together. 
Charles B. Coleman 
W E are saddened to know of the death of 
Charles B. Coleman, who was killed in 
an elevator accident in the Dairymen’s 
League Cooperative Association New York 
office on October 22. 
Mr. Coleman’s home was in Goshen, 
Orange County, New York, where he has al¬ 
ways lived and where he farmed it before 
joining the employ of the fc Dairymen’s 
League. 
We worked with Charlie for years and 
knew him well. He was a faithful and con¬ 
scientious worker, a good team-mate, and a 
loyal friend. May his spirit forever travel 
the pleasant places. 
An Unofficial Envoy 
Y OU will be much interested in the follow¬ 
ing editorial taken from the October 23 
issue of the New York “Times.” Mr. Mor¬ 
genthau has been a regular contributor to 
American Agriculturist on the European sit¬ 
uation. Probably it is safe to say that np 
one in America has a better or more intimate 
understanding of the European chaos, par¬ 
ticularly in southeastern Europe than does 
Mr. Morgenthau. 
AN UNOFFICIAL ENVOY. 
Former Ambassador Morgenthau goes to-daj; on a 
mission which is comparable in importance with that 
of an official diplomat. He sails for Greece to take 
the active Chairmanship of the commission under 
the League of Nations for the settlement of refugees 
from Anatolia in Western Thrace and Macedonia. 
There are 600,000 of these exiles who, having fled 
from Anatolia, where their ancestors lived for gen¬ 
erations, are now given shelter by the Greek Govern¬ 
ment and the Greek people. More than a million 
acres of land (vacant lands and crown lands) have 
been deeded by the Greek Government to this use. 
The Greeks have undertaken to attempt to raise 
among themselves £1,000,000. The British have 
made a temporary loan of £1,000,000. And ' it is 
hoped to sell long-term bonds in the total amount of 
£6,000,000 for the constructive work of setting up 
these refugees in agriculture and elementary indus¬ 
tries. This great public enterprise is to be' carried 
forward under the direction of a committee of four 
members, named by the League of Nations, Mr. 
Morgenthau being the designated Chairman. 
The United States Government is in no way 
obligated to help forward this beneficent enterprise 
Mr. Morgenthau goes in a private capacity. But 
he will have back of him the good-will of a great 
body of citizens who feel that we should cooperate 
in every possible practical way to help a people who 
have, with all their mistakes, behaved most hos¬ 
pitably and generously toward others in distress. 
While the Red Cross and the Near East Relief and 
some other organizations have given a helpful hand 
since the great Smyrna disaster, the Greeks them¬ 
selves have given far more than all outside agencies 
—as two to one—in providing for these exiles, some 
of whom have no more claim upon the hospitality of 
Greece than upon that of the rest of Europe or of 
America. 
It is a work of rehabilitation which ought to suc¬ 
ceed, not only for the sake of those who will be 
directly aided but also because of the wholesome 
general influence which such a successful effort 
would have. What is needed is not another Deuca¬ 
lion and Pyrrha incident in Greece, for she is over- 
populated. Ceres needs to be propitiated with seed, 
plows and harrows and other agricultural imple¬ 
ments. The very valley in which Alexander the 
Great was born needs to be conquered by agricul¬ 
tural industry. If this is accomplished the flight 
of the refugees to Greece may turn out to be a 
blessing for that disturbed, historic land. 
Watch Out! 
HE Protective Service Bureau of Ameri¬ 
can Agriculturist has been besieged lately 
with letters from our subscribers asking help 
in the collection of money due for eggs and 
other produce shipped to unreliable commis¬ 
sion men. Last week we called particular 
attention to this on our Market Page. 
There seems to be a regular flood of 
shysters who open a place of business for a 
few weeks and advertise to farmers that 
they give great returns for produce shipped 
to them. They operate for two or three 
weeks, receive a lot of produce, fail to make 
returns on it and then disappear, perhaps to 
open another place of business under a dif¬ 
ferent name later. 
Therefore, Under no conditions should 
farmers ship produce of any kind to commis¬ 
sion men ivlio are not regularly licensed and 
bonded by the New York State Department 
of Farms and Markets. A list of such com¬ 
mission men will be furnished by American 
Agriculturist upon request or by the New 
York State Department of Farms and 
Markets. 
A Wedding in the Family 
W E are pleased to announce the wedding 
of Mr. Birge Kinne, Advertising Mana¬ 
ger of American Agriculturist, to Miss Mar¬ 
garet Co veil, on October 27. 
Mrs. Kinne is the daughter of the dean 
of the College of Engineering of the Oregon 
Agricultural College. The hundreds of 
friends of the young couple will join with 
us in wishing them all possible happiness 
in life’s finest relationship. 
Eastman’s Chestnuts 
B OTH men who figure in the following 
story will deny it vigorously, but the 
more emphatic their denials, the more cer¬ 
tain you may be of its truth. 
Rush Lewis, who is known in dairy sec¬ 
tions as the “Billy Sunday” of the Dairy¬ 
men’s League, was traveling one night on 
a sleeping car from New York to Utica. On 
the same car was H. J. Kershaw, director 
of the League from Chenango County, also 
known from one end of League territory to 
the other as a faithful fighter for the farm¬ 
ers’ best interests. 
The two men were in the little smoking 
compartment having a visit before retiring. 
Present also was the negro porter in charge 
of the car. Presently, Mr. Lewis interrupted 
his conversation with Mr. Kershaw to say 
to the porter: “My feet are asleep. I wonder 
if you would mind if I took my shoes off?” 
“No, suh; no, suh,” said the porter. “Go 
right ahead, boss.” 
So Mr. Lewis removed his shoes. 
Shortly after, the men noticed that the 
porter was showing signs of great discom¬ 
fort. 
Finally he said to Rush: “Pardon me, 
boss, but dem feet ain’t asleep; dey’s dead!” 
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