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erican Agriculturist, January 5, 1924 
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_____ Tells how I send Walsh No-Buckle 
Harness on 30 days free trial. Use it—prove for yourself 
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Savesrepairs. Walsh special 900steel test leather, which 
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breechingless, etc. *S sfter 30 days trial —balance is 
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easy terms. Sold direct to you by mail only. 
J. M. WALSH, Pres. 
WALSH HARNESS CO. .^7 ‘\< 
512 Keefe Ave., Milwaukee, , ‘ 
1 Prompt shipment from war a- 
house near you. T ^ 
ET US TAN 
OUR HIDE. 
lorse or Cowhide,Calf orotherskins 
.Kb hair or fur on, and make them 
_b to coats (for men and women),robes, 
rugs or gloves when so ordered; or we 
. can make your hides into Oak Tanned 
Harness or Slaughter Sole or Belt Leath¬ 
er ; your calfskins Into Shoe Leather. 
Colors, Gun Metal, Mahogany, Russet or 
lighters hade. Calfskins tanned in the 
lighter shades of shoe leather, also 
Take elegant aland and table covers: 
Veat for birthday, wedding and holl- 
ay gifts. 
LET US FIX YOUR 
WORN FURS 
heshen, repair and reshape them 
teeded. Furs are very light weight, 
_hereforeit would coat but little to send them in to US 
by Parcel Post and get our estimate of cost; then we 
will hold them aside awaiting your decision. If you say 
>go ahead,” very well; we will do so and hold them 
free of storage until you want them. If you say “no,” 
We will return them post-paid. 
yOur Illustrated catalog and style book combined gives 
ft lot of useful information. It tells how to take off 
and care for hides, About our safe dyeing process on 
” w and horse hides, calf and fur skins. About dressing 
ne fur skins and making’them into neckpieces, muffs 
Qd garments. About taxidermy and Head Mounting. 
The Crosby Frisian Fur Company, 
571 Lyell Ave., Rochester. N. Y. 
W£ TAN THEM-YOU WEAR THEM 
Spear Fur Clothing 
Made From Your Own Furs and Hides 
Stylish garments, warm and durable, made to your 
{romler. COW hides and HORSE hide3 made into coats 
and robes; gloves and caps from the trimmings. Vests, 
caps, robes, gloves and rugs made from the calf skins 
or c 07 skins. Coon, fox, Bkunk, mink, etc., into 
scarfs, muffs, stoles, etc. 
Wear furs every day—the cost is little 
enough. If you use your own 
pelts you save 60 to 76%. 
Free Booklet 
How to skin and care 
for pelts. All about 
sizes, styles and prices. 
Prompt reliable aervice 
from specialists in fur 
tanning, manufacturing * 
and taxidermy. 
Fur Dressing Co., Inc. 
523 
West Avenue 
Rochester, N. Y. 
/•As Low as $10% 
Buy your Baw direct from the factory at lowest fac- 
Every saw guaranteed absolutely satis¬ 
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illustrations, descrip¬ 
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farm. 
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MORRISVILLE FOUNDRY CO. 
Morrisville, Vt. 
Reflections on the Farm and Home Conference Meeting 
(Continued from page 6) 
e aus which are in the best shape are those 
which have stuck most closely to the idea of an 
educational and social rather than a com¬ 
mercial organization. 
The above comments on farm-bureau ac¬ 
tivities are in no way intended as unkindly 
or destructive criticism but only as a statement 
of actual conditions. It is good to be able to 
add that those people in closest touch with the 
situation believe that the corner has been 
turned and that the movement is really 
stronger because of a certain amount of ad¬ 
versity. The careless and the faint-hearted 
and the faithless have been shaken out and 
the present membership represents the loyal 
souls of the farm community. Unlike a 
commercial pooling organization, the usefulness 
of a farm bureau does'not depend upon enrolling 
any definite proportion of all the farmers. 
The present agitation for economy in public 
expenditures (a movement by the way that is 
eminently sound and much needed) has re¬ 
sulted in a good deal of pruning of county 
budgets by Boards of Supervisors, and some¬ 
times the farm-bureau appropriation has been 
deemed one of the least painful places to use 
the ax. When I remember that the entire sum 
of the annual budgets for the next ten years of 
the average Bureau will be about the cost of a 
single mile of State highway, I feel like asking 
the Board to be fair with the one official county 
agricultural organization. 
As I look over the large body of men and 
women who represent official extension teach¬ 
ing, I ask myself. Do they—do we—keep close 
to the viewpoint and spirit and hopes of the 
plain farmer—the man on the land who is not 
drawing a salary but is up at five o’clock in the 
morning milking cows? I devoutly hope we 
shall never lose touch and sympathy with him. 
Possibly there is some danger of this in the ease 
of the college because the university atmos¬ 
phere is something utterly different from that 
found on the farm, but on the other hand the 
Farm Bureau manager is in daily close contact 
with the farmer. I do not know any other job 
that is better calculated to comb out any 
“high-falutin”’ notions. The success of a 
manager depends primarily upon his tact and 
his ability to beget good-will and confidence. 
Primarily he need not be an orator or even an 
authority on technical agriculture, but he ought 
to be an outstanding gentleman richly en¬ 
dowed with the spirit of service and helpful¬ 
ness. Thus equipped, common sense will do 
the rest. Taken as a whole they are a hard¬ 
working lot and are not infrequently asked to 
accomplish the impossible. Probably few of 
their membership realize how very many 
evening meetings must be held in the course of 
the year and frequently the hour is late and a 
drive of ten or twenty or thirty miles over the 
hills night after night comes finally to be a very 
old story. Sometimes I have heard the rather 
critical assertion that the Farm Bureaus of the 
State were in the hands of a lot of boys and 
that it was a job where there could be no real 
objection to matured agricultural experience. 
Even so, the facts show that middle-aged 
men (there are few managers past forty years) 
do not take kindly to the physical hardships of 
late hours and long drives careless of roads or 
weather. 
Just a word concerning the Home Bureaus. 
These are a later development—perhaps an 
outgrowth of the Farm Bureau idea. At pres¬ 
ent they seem to be enjoying a larger measure 
of popularity and enthusiasm than their 
agricultural associates. I do not wonder at 
this because the farmer has been exhorted and 
preached to by all sorts of agricultural propa¬ 
gandists ever since he can remember, and it is 
not to be wondered at if he takes farm advice 
with a grain of salt. On the other hand, any 
effort to connect science arid the home is of 
very recent date and hence has all the charm 
of novelty. Also homemaking is altogether the 
finest and most important industry in the 
world and it ought to be more interesting than 
milking cows or growing cabbages. 
I have always felt that the most glowing 
tribute ever paid to the incomparable Teacher 
of Galilee was the simple phrase, “But the 
common people heard him gladly,” and I know 
that this might be paraphrased by the welcome 
given to some of our good, golden-hearted 
Home Bureau girls by the women of the farm. 
Theirs is almost a virgin field, undeveloped 
and uncultivated and of undreamed of possi¬ 
bilities, but the less fortunate Farm Bureau 
man must continue to delve in an already well- 
worn soil. 
I think the warmest session of the conference 
and one which brought out some sharp differ¬ 
ences of opinion and some dissent was the 
one which attempts! to deal with the rather 
explosive question of bovine tuberculosis. 
Admittedly the whole matter is in a difficult 
and unsatisfactory shape. The State continues 
year after year to pour out money like water— 
five millions at the last legislative session sup¬ 
nosed to cover old and new indemnity claims 
and already it is practically exhausted. Two 
counties, Essex and Steuben, are said to be 
clean, or practically so. Some other counties 
are actively wrestling with the problem while 
in others hardly a beginning has been made. 
The percentage of diseased animals varies 
widely, some localities showing only a light 
infection while in some important dairy town¬ 
ships there are nearly one-half of the cattle 
diseased. Progress seems discouragifigly slow. 
Worst of all there is the miserable suspicion 
(probably “fact” is the better word) that some 
scoundrels are under the law managing to sell 
diseased animals to the State. Whenever the 
indemnity is made liberal enough to protect the 
honest man, there arise knaves who scheme to 
profit by it. Probably the whole law needs 
revamping with this fact in mind. Some good 
men are asking if we are really getting any¬ 
where. I just venture a prophecy. Some day 
a Legislature will meet in Albany, and it will 
have a genuine desire to restrict the rising 
tide of public expenditures. It will have to 
begin somewhere and quite possibly this 
particular item of indemnities for tuberculous 
cattle will seem a good place to start. Then 
what -will happen? One thing is sure that, 
except in the case of a few breeders of registered 
stock, if indemnities are cut out the present 
crusade for accredited herds cannot be kept 
alive overnight. 
To the Farm Bureau manager, the T. B. 
question is a mighty live' issue because to a 
certain extent he is charged with the conduct 
of the campaign in his own county and the 
matter bristles with the possibilities of trouble. 
At this session of the conference Commissioner 
Pyrke was the real, even if not the nominal, 
presiding officer. My impression of him is that 
he is an able, conscientious gentleman who is 
fearless but who feels keenly the unsatisfactory 
factors in the case. 
Short Courses Started at Long 
Island State School 
{Continued from page 10) 
course will include a study of soils, their man¬ 
agement and the crops adapted to them, as 
found on Long Island and in the lower Hudson 
River Valley; work in poultry, horticulture, 
including fruit and vegetable growing; a study 
of farm machinery, including gas engines and 
tractors, and a brief consideration of the 
fundamentals of dairy farming. 
A special course for those interested primarily 
in poultry isTalso offered, covering the same 
period, but adapted to the needs of those who 
expect to make poultry their major enterprise. 
The Institute is also planning a three-day 
Tractor and Gas Engine Course during Janu¬ 
ary. This course is intended to give the stu¬ 
dent a good working knowledge of the construc¬ 
tion and operation of gas engines, essential to 
the intelligent use of tractors and power ma¬ 
chinery of a similar nature. Students will be 
required to take down and assemble engines, 
making necessary adjustments and repairs and 
to manipulate the school tractors. 
A course which the Institute is featuring for 
the first time is a slx weeks’ course, beginning 
January 15th, in Home Economics. 
NEW JERSEY COUNTY NOTES 
Cumberland Co.—With the mild weather 
holding out so late in the season, farmers have 
been able to get well along with their work. 
On the average, they had a very poor year. 
The dry weather cut short the hay and corn 
crops and prices have been low on others. 
Overhead expenses are greater than ever. The 
labor situation is the greatest drawback. Many 
farmers are selling out and turning to other en¬ 
terprises. Potatoes are a drug on the market. 
Dairying is a losing proposition, for the farmers 
have to buy hay at present high prices, to say 
nothing of grains.—A. D. S. 
Hunterdon Co.—We are having excellent 
weather for this time of the year. The tem¬ 
perature ranges anywhere from 40 to 60 de¬ 
grees. Christmas Day was more like an early 
fall day. During the past few weeks we have 
had plenty of rain. The corn crop has turned 
out well above the average and fodder is heavy. 
Hay and potatoes were far below average. 
Since the drop in the price of milk, cows are not 
in demand at all. The horse market is dead. 
Eggs 44c a doz., pork 10c, chickens 15 to 20c, 
hull calves 10 to 12c.—J. R. F. 
Mercer Co.—The first snow of the season 
came December 13. This followed a very warm 
spell. It was a sudden change. Fall grains 
are looking good. In fact some of them have 
grown a little too much on account of the warm 
weather. Rain is needed very much despite 
the foggy weather we have had. Following- 
such a dry summer and with such slight 
precipitation it is going to take a lot of water 
to fill up the wells and start streams again.— 
Mrs. J. E. H. 
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