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Four Good Ones at Atamannsit Farms, E. Falmouth, Mass. 
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at Atamannsit Farms 
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who considers his dairy farm a business enter¬ 
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Every A. R. cow in the herd has done better 
than 500 lbs. butter fat in 1 year. 
In 1923 twenty-one cows averaged 630'"lbs. 
butter fat each. 
La Noce’s May Rose, one of the great ones, 
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one year and is the new World’s Champion 
Guernsey, Class D. 
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American Agriculturist, March 1, 1924 
I Am Glad That I Went.., 
To Ithaca for Farmers Week 
HESE few ran- By JARED VAN 
dom notes con¬ 
cerning Cornell’s Farmers’ Week can by 
no possible stretch of truth be considered 
a “report” of that educational feast. 
Furthermore, no complete report will ever 
be written. The perplexities of the boy 
who wished to witness every last event in 
a three-ring circus were slight compared 
with the difficulties of the‘well-meaning 
person who goes to Ithaca with the mis¬ 
taken hope that he may be able to absorb 
any considerable proportion of the infor¬ 
mation and inspiration and recreation 
there offered. It is literally true that the 
show opens at 9 a. m., and with the excep¬ 
tion of brief hours off for meals it is one 
continuous performance until late—in 
some cases very late—at night. Often 
a dozen acts will be pulled off at the same 
time. The visitor, be he ever so conscien¬ 
tious in the pursuit of knowledge, must 
make his own choice. For example, at 
a given hour shall he attend a lecture 
dealing with the correct principles of 
rural taxation—or a discussion of dairy 
cost accounting or shall he listen to a talk 
of the technique of incubating duck eggs 
or attend a conference on the problems 
of the rural church or will he learn how 
to arrange for and present rural dramatics 
or shall he wend his way to Bailey Audi¬ 
torium and dream while a Master makes 
the great college organ sigh or ripple or 
thunder and roll beneath his touch? 
Program Too Diversified 
These are only a very few of the things 
that he may do. If I should venture 
a criticism (and I have very little wish to 
do so), it might be that the great program 
is needlessly diversified. Somehow it 
reminds me of a great city restaurant with 
a menu including hundreds of viands and 
yet we need only two or three of them. 
I am going to set down simply my im¬ 
pressions of the week as a whole, and then 
a very little concerning a few outstanding 
men and what they said. 
First—and rather to my surprise—the 
attendance was excellent—perhaps as 
large as at any time in the past. There 
were probably about 4,500 visitors during 
the week. I'was especially glad to note 
this because it had seemed probable that 
the agricultural depression and the result¬ 
ing feeling of discouragement as well as 
the necessity for rigid economy might be 
reflected in a decreased attendance. It is 
good to know that about the usual num¬ 
ber of farm folks have enough interest in 
their business and confidence in the future 
as well as financial resources to bring them 
to Ithaca. I feel sure that this week has 
for many farmers and their wives become 
their regular annual outing and vacation 
and it would be hard to think of a better 
one. Those who have been observing 
Farmers’ Week crowds for many years 
agree that the character of the attendance 
steadily improves. One factor is that 
many of these folks have been here 
before and they have come to know the 
WAGENEN, JR. campus, to know 
what they want ^ 
to hear and how to go after it. 
One thing is sure: that the present 
troublous years are changing men’s view, 
point. Someone „ observed that those 
lectures which dealt purely with hard, 
cold, technical “subject matter” were not 
enjoying a large attendance. On the 
other hand, mention any phase of econo¬ 
mies or cooperation or organization and 
a full attendance is assured. 
Warren An All-Star Cast 
Perhaps it is not diplomatic or wise to 
pick out any one man as the outstanding 
figure of the week, but no one who knows 
will dispute the fact that year after year 
Prof. Warren, head of the Department of 
Farm Management, remains the popular 
favorite. He constitutes an all star cast by 
himself. Not only is his subject one that 
above all others appeals to farmers just 
at this particular time, but in addition his 
work is given with a grace and incjsive- 
ness of speech and a unique caustic humor 
that makes him a perpetual delight. To 
report all that he said in various lectures 
and conferences would make a big book. 
Of course it was demanded of him that he 
assume something of the role of the 
prophet—a procedure always fraught 
with danger. Possibly his conclusions 
might be briefly summarized something 
like this: We have just passed through 
the worst panic agriculture ever experi¬ 
enced. We seem to have touched bottom 
and begun to come up a little. We need 
not look for sudden and complete return 
to normal. Lastly it is a very good time 
to begin farming if you have a little capi¬ 
tal and are prepared to stick it out for 
ten years or more. Like other people, I 
have the feeling that his predictions were 
not especially rosy. 
Bailey Auditorium seats 2,200 people, 
and when Hon. Henry Wallace, United 
States Secretary of Agriculture, spoke, it 
was crowded and overflowing. I think 
I may say that Mr. Secretary made a most 
favorable impression. He makes no pre¬ 
tense to being a spectacular orator, for he 
speaks quietly, almost conversationally, 
with very little gesture, but he emphati¬ 
cally did impress one as a quiet, able, 
dependable man who was familiar with 
and in heartiest sympathy with the plain 
farmer on the land. He expressly repudi¬ 
ated the idea that government or legisla¬ 
tion could work economic miracles, and 
his speech had in it no hint of the claptrap 
of the cheap politician. Facts are that we 
too often ask the impossible of our public 
men and then murmur because we do not 
get it. 
Taber the Granger 
The only other man that I shall pick 
out for special mention is the new Master 
of the National Grange—Mr. L. J. Taber, 
of Ohio. A good many people said that 
he made the outstanding address of the 
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A demonstration of the movement undertaken by farmers and farm organizations 
of New York demanding less legislation and a reduction of taxes. 
