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Good Cows Fed Poor Feed 
and No Records Kept .... 
That’s what knocks the spots out of 
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If there are any cows who don’t pay 
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The Year’s Work 
Farm and Home Bureau Meetings Check Results 
T HE annual meetings of the New 
York State Federations of Farm and 
Home Bureaus held in Syracuse No¬ 
vember 20 and 21 were well attended. 
The programs were worth while, and 
the reviews of the work of the past year 
and the plans for the coming year of 
the two organizations showed much 
accomplished for the advancement of 
both the farm and the farm home. 
They also indicated that farm people 
were learning to use these, their organ¬ 
izations more and more to accomplish 
the things they want done. 
President Enos Lee, of Yorktown, 
opened the meeting on Tuesday morn¬ 
ing by giving the president’s annual 
report. We were particularly interested 
in the large amount of common sense 
Mr. Lee covered in his very short 
report. He stated that farmers’ affairs 
are at last looking up, that there was 
a general increasing feeling of optim¬ 
ism, and that we were working slowly 
but surely out of hard times. He 
pointed out that the farm bureau and 
the home bureau are educational service 
institutions, that nothing much can be 
accomplished in the way of legislation, 
better credit, transportation, coopera¬ 
tive marketing, farmers’ taxes, and im¬ 
migration problems unless farmers do 
it themselves; and that their organiza¬ 
tions are the machinery through which 
farmers can accomplish their purposes. 
The Doctrine of the Farm Bureau 
“Any lasting institution,” said Mr. 
Lee, “cannot be based upon selfishness. 
The farmers and this farmers’ organ¬ 
ization, the Farm Bureau, must work 
on the principle of equal rights for all. 
If we love God, we must also love man. 
Therefore, one of the leading farm bu¬ 
reau doctrines should be ‘Thou shalt 
love thy neighbor as thyself’.” 
Mrs. A. E. Brigden, president of the 
New York State Federation of Home 
Bureaus, in a fine talk reviewed some 
of the accomplishments and set forth 
some of the plans of the home bureau. 
She said: “Just as the wife is the 
‘other half’ in the farm home, so is the 
home bureau the ‘other half’ in farm 
organization. 
“A contented agriculture,” said Mrs. 
Brigden, “would make sure of a nation 
permanently established upon this earth. 
* * * * I am still old-fashioned. I 
still believe that men should be the 
wooers and women the wooed. * * * * 
I believe in a real partnership between 
men and women both in the home and 
in the public affairs of farmers. It 
should not be ‘my house, my home, my 
children’, but it should be instead ‘our 
house, our home and our children’. 
“Any individual or organization,” 
continued Mrs. Brigden, “must have a 
definite goal. The goal of the home 
bureaus is better homes.” 
Home Bureaus for School Bill 
Mrs. Brigden stated that the home 
bureau women believed in the Rural 
School Bill now before the New York 
State legislature because better schools 
mean better future citizens. 
“This does not mean that we do not 
have good schools now; it does mean 
that nothing can be too good for our 
children.” 
In a very comprehensive report—we 
wish we had more room to review it in 
detail—E. V. Underwood, secretary of 
the Farm Bureau Federation, summar¬ 
ized the activities of the organization 
during the past year. He said that all 
of the organizations of the State, in¬ 
cluding the farm bureau federation 
were more and more working together, 
chiefly through the New York State 
Conference Board of* Farm Organiza¬ 
tions, wherever their interests were at 
all common. 
Particular emphasis was made by the 
secretary on what had been accom¬ 
plished by the federation in securing 
for farmers better transportation ser¬ 
vice and in working out a tuberculosis 
eradication program for the State that 
would give better results than are now 
obtained in controlling cattle tuber¬ 
culosis. 
Cooperative Marketing Discussed 
Tuesday afternoon, the entire pro¬ 
gram was devoted to the problem of co¬ 
operative marketing. The first speaker 
on this subject was H. E. Babcock, who 
laid down several fundamental prin¬ 
ciples upon which he thought all suc¬ 
cessful cooperative work must be based. 
The first of these was a realization 
on the part of the farm men and women 
that they own their cooperative organ¬ 
izations and are responsible for them. 
On this subject, Mr. Babcock said that 
there were approximately five million 
dollars in cooperative securities, includ¬ 
ing the Dairymen’s League certificates 
of indebtedness and stock in the G. L. F. 
Exchange, which are now owned by 
farmers in New York State. 
“No one,” said the speaker, “can say 
what these securities are worth. But 
their real value will depend largely 
upon the farmers’ attitude toward 
them. He must realize that these 
securities and the property and organ¬ 
ization back of them all belong to him. 
This realization will lead him to talk up 
the value of these securities instead of 
talking them down.” 
Mr. Babcock was followed by Walter 
Peteet, director of the cooperative mar¬ 
keting program in the American Farm 
Bureau Federation. Mr. Peteet, in a 
very polished and enthusiastic address, 
reviewed what had been accomplished 
in cooperative work in America in the 
last few years and said that cooperation 
was bringing about a great agrarian 
revolution which would go down in his¬ 
tory as a most notable social and econ¬ 
omic achievement. Mr. Peteet empha¬ 
sized the Califorina plan of organizing 
and running a cooperative organization. 
He said that this co-called “California 
plan” was really the Danish plan and the 
Danes got it about a half century ago 
from Dutchess County, New York. A 
group of Danish farmers attended a 
world exposition at Philadelphia in 1876 
and while here they visited a little 
group of Dutchess County farmers who 
had organized a new kind of coopera¬ 
tive. The Danes liked it so well that 
they went back to Denmark and on it 
built the most successful system of co¬ 
operation in the world. Twenty-five 
years later it came to California, and 
now it has completed the cycle and got 
back to New York State.. 
Mr. Peteet laid down seven funda¬ 
mental principles upon which to build a 
successful cooperative. These were: 
first, organize on a commodity and not 
a local basis; second, organize on a 
non-stock and non-profit basis, letting 
This is the left side of the entrance to the New York exhibit at the 
Apple Show. To the left of the barrel may be seen the illuminated 
ball surmounting the dome of honey, the exhibit of the Honey Pro¬ 
ducers’ Cooperative 
