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American Agriculturist, May 17, 1924 
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write for new book, written by 
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Ensilage Cutters 
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cutter money can buy. 
E. W. ROSS “•EKT* GO. 
Successors to The E. W. Ross Co., Est. 1850 
Dept. 326, SPRINGFIELD, OHIO 
PATENTS 
' personal opinion. CLARENCE A. O’BRIEN, Regis- 
ed Patent Lawyer, 733 Security Savings & Com 1 
Dealers Recommend Multiple Price Plan 
New York Conference Board and Non-Poolers Make Important Changes 
O N May 7, a committee representing were May sown, the winter’s average yield there are certain expenses that go on all 
dealers in the New York Milk that year was 42 bushels per acre, which the time no matter whether or not the 
wheels are turning. 
Conference Board met with the Executive 
Committee of the Non-Pool Dairymen’s 
Cooperative Association and a com¬ 
mittee from the Clover Farms Milk 
Producers’ Association to discuss changes 
in milk prices for May, made necessary 
by the League’s reduction in the pro¬ 
ducer’s prices for the same month. At 
the conclusion of the meeting, Mr. I. 
Elkin Nathans, Secretary of the Con¬ 
ference Board, issued the following state¬ 
ment to the dealer members of the 
Board recommending that milk in this 
territory no longer be purchased on the 
flat price basis: 
It has become increasingly apparent that 
the country situation is disturbed by the 
negotiation of a flat price for all milk without 
regard to classification. It appears that there 
is a tendency, probably through lack of proper 
understanding or perhaps with intention, to 
make a comparison between the flat price 
paid for all milk and the class No. 1 price 
is better than it has been the past few 
years with April seed, as so much depends 
upon the season. 
Sod is being turned for corn, but we 
hear of no one who is ready to plant corn 
until the w r eather is warmer. Clover seed 
has been sown. Nearly all seed sown was 
shipped into the counties in this section 
of the State. 
Hay is very much in demand at prices money he has spent on advertising. 
ranging from $18 to $30 per ton for loose - 
carloads of fresh cows are 
This, precisely, is why the retail 
merchants of the country are a necessary 
cog in the machinery of economical 
distribution. 
Generally speaking, an advertised 
article is safer to buy than a non-adver- 
tised article because its manufacturer 
must maintain his quality or he loses the 
hay. A few 
being shipped to eastern markets and 
some fat stock is changing hands. Very 
few horses were shipped from Central 
Pennsylvania this spring, but a number 
of carloads were shipped into this sec¬ 
tion. A few dairymen who lost their 
herds by having them tested for tuber¬ 
culosis are in the northern part of the 
State. They are buying tested cows to 
replenish their herds. 
With buildings going up, automobiles 
An Opportunity for Grange Leadership 
{Continued from, page 471) 
periods for play say that they not only 
are able to accomplish the work laid out 
for them in a briefer time, but that they 
do it better and with greater satisfaction. 
The trouble with too many of us is that 
we give a sort of intellectual assent to the 
truth of this statement, and never to the 
MILK 
CANS 
^ 20-30-40 qt. 
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sizes 
We sell only 
makes of high 
|£|ft quality — yet 
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PP our prices are 
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i reasonable. 
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l|i dairymen have 
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I plies and 
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p 1 equipment 
M ! ' M, ..Bfl 
rf 't ' Tim UflrodwuHH 
K from us since 
P 1889. 
J. S. BIESECKER 
Creamery, Dairy and Dairy 
Barn Equipment 
59 Murray St. 
New York City 
old habit of thinking that we are too busy 
paid for that portion of the milk used for city ^iiY^n^Xtlfinif^lTthree o™ basTsTof to a PP^ lt to ourselves - 
consumption, with the result that in order to f , , ‘ , We shall build a stronger, happier, 
_, „r«_j .™ m ™>titiv* two hundred per cent, above pre-war _ __j __ ° 
prices, and food costing only 50 per cent, 
above pre-war prices, farmers feel that 
they are not getting a square deal along 
with taxes on farm land nearly double 
what it was twelve years ago. There 
must be an adjustment of prices before 
long. 
meet alleged competition the competitive 
class No. 1 price has been unwarrantably 
depressed because the flat price for all milk 
happened to be lower. It is manifest that a 
flat price for all milk must necessarily be 
lower than a class No. T price which con¬ 
templates that the surplus going into by¬ 
products is taken care of in lower classification. 
Failure to take this situation into proper 
consideration has resulted on two occasions, 
i.e., November, 1923, and again in the current 
month, in the class No. 1 price of pooled milk 
being unduly reduced to the detriment of 
both Pool and Non-Pool producers. 
Therefore, in consequence of the failure to 
recognize this distinction and with a view to 
avoiding further unnecessary hardships to 
producers, the Conference Board Committee 
and the producers’ representatives reached a 
unanimous conclusion to abolish the flat price 
and in the future to negotiate only a classified 
price schedule instead of both flat and classified 
as in the past. 
The committee trusts that all dealers who 
purchase non-pooled milk will recognize the 
wisdom of this conclusion and will cooperate 
in the effort to return to the farmers the best 
possible price consistent with market condi¬ 
tions by adopting the classified schedule as 
negotiated. 
Following is a statement of Pool and Non- 
Pool prices for May 
more virile, and a more productive 
country life when we recognize the error 
of omitting deliberate provision for 
recreation from our programs, and give 
place to an amount and frequency of 
play which will keep the body and 
spirit fresh. 
Write today for free instruction 
book and Record of Invention 
blank. Send sketchy or model 
for 
tered Patent -- —. __ 
Bank Bldg., directly across street from Patent Office. 
Washington, D. C. 
Class No. 1 .. . . 
Class No. 2. . . . 
Class 2A. . 
Class 2B. . 
Class 2C. . 
Class No. 3.. . 
Class 3A. . . 
Class 3B. 
Class 4A— Butter quota¬ 
tions less. 
Class 4B — Cheese quota¬ 
tions less .. 
Pool 
Non-Pool 
$1.86 
$1.86 
1.70 
1.80 
, . . ... 
185 
1.85 
... .... 
1.60 
1.60 
1.45 
.05 
.05 
...03 
.031/$ 
Central Pennsylvania Notes 
J. N. Glover 
W ET weather 1ms delayed oat seeding. 
As a result more oats will be sown in 
May than in eight years. The last time 
when a good part of the oats in this section 
TRACTORS 
■ SINCE 1898 ■ 
HubeR 
THRESHERS 
■ SINCE 1879 ■ 
Get a Real Profit Out of Tractor Power! 
T HE Huber Super Four Tractor enough to travel on plowed ground 
and Huber Supreme Thresher is and will do all sorts of general 
farm work. It will pull three plows 
and turn an acre an hour. There is 
'HE Huber Super Four Tractor 
and Huber Supreme Thresher is 
an ideal outfit for the farmer who 
does threshing and uses his tractor 
for farm and belt work. It saves 
money by traveling faster over the 
roads, setting up quicker, starting 
quicker, and eliminating a man and 
team for water supply. 
Furthermore the tractor is light 
work for it every month in the year. 
A smaller tractor outfit for threshing 
is the Huber Light Four and Huber, 
Jr., Thresher. 
, Write for printed matter and prices. 
The Huber Manufacturing Co., Ill Center St., Marion, Ohio 
// 
George A. Smith, Noted Dairy- 
Man, Dies in His Eighty- 
Second Year 
G EORGE A. SMITH, for twenty-four 
years chief of the Dairy Division of 
the New York State Agricultural Experi¬ 
ment Station at Geneva and well known 
to New York Dairymen, died at the home 
of his daughter in Kingston, Saturday, 
April 19. 
Mr. Smith has long been recognized as 
one of the pioneer, progressive workers 
of the dairy industry of New York State. 
Born at Burlington, N. Y., in 1842, he 
was reared on a farm. In 1860 he began 
the successful career of cheesemaker and 
became one of the recognized leaders of 
the industry in central New York. 
In 1893 he was promoted to the director¬ 
ship of Farm Institutes and carried on this 
work with marked success. In 1898 he 
was called to the newly created position 
of Dairy Expert on the staff of the Geneva 
Station. This position he held until his 
retirement in November, 1921. 
For many years Mr. Smith was in the 
management of dairy exhibits at the New 
York State Fair. In recognition of his 
efficient experience, he was, in 1900, made 
a member of the State Fair Commission 
for eight years. He was active in making 
a success of the dairy exhibit of New York 
State at the World’s Fair hi Chicago in 
1893, and was placed in official charge of 
the Station dairy exhibit at the Buffalo 
Exposition in 1901. 
Mr. Smith’s activities as a member 
reach far back in the history of the New 
York State Dairymen’s Association, of 
which he was president for four years. 
Owing to the wide reach of his activities 
in the State for so long a period of service, 
Mr. Smith had a personal acquaintance 
with individual farmers, especially dairy¬ 
men, to an extent experienced by very 
few men. In all his ways, he was quiet, 
composed, and unassuming; always 
friendly and sympathetic. 7 
Who Pays for Advertising? 
{Continued from page 470) 
Need for More Music in Rural Schools 
Rural schools give much less attention 
to music than city schools, where its 
cultural, social and educational value is 
more fully realized. Thousands of farm 
people have no opportunity for training 
in music. The failure to sing is not 
usually due to voice defects or to actual 
disinclination, but to lack of encourage¬ 
ment and opportunity at the right time 
in life. In this important field also the 
Grange has distinct advantage among the 
organizations. Its frequency of meetings, 
its male and female voices, the fact that 
there are young folks whose voices are 
more flexible to help out the older ones, 
and the lack of restraint from the 
familiarity of the membership are all 
factors in its favor. 
Don’t be discouraged by the lack of a 
leader. Use the best you have. Progress 
always comes from using the best we have. 
Every community has some persons who 
have enough musical ability to lead the 
way. 
I would organize a committee on 
music, as I would one on play and recrea¬ 
tion, and keep them active. Chorus 
singing offers the simplest beginning, 
perhaps. But solos, duets, quartettes, 
and even glee clubs are possible. I 
would also not stop with singing, but 
utilize the resources in instrumental 
music. 
An Opportunity in Developing Music 
A piano and a violin constitute au 
orchestra. Usually a few instruments 
and players can be found. The rehearsals 
between Grange meetings can be made a 
means of much social enjoyment under 
good conditions. If the Grange will make 
the most of its opportunities for the 
development of music it can make its 
influence felt in wholly new and vital 
ways in the community. 
One of the primary purposes of the 
Grange is to help build a strong well-knit 
happy country life by means of education¬ 
al and social effort. When to play and 
music are added other things that bring 
out the best in human nature, we are 
doing fundamental good. Father and 
son, mother and daughter, banquets, 
hallowe’en and valentine parties, Christ¬ 
mas trees, observance of national holi¬ 
days to emphasize their real significance, 
produces a better and cheaper article. 
In most altruistic schemes for lowering 
costs to the public one thing is often —- t - - ----- - ^ . .. 
overlooked; and that is the necessity for plays and pageants, and a host of similar 
manufacturing and distributing goods 
steadily. The factory which has a great 
rush of orders at Qne season of the year 
and slackness at other seasons never can 
produce at the maximum of economy,, for 
occasions may be utilized by a resourceful 
lecturer to cement the order and to build 
community bonds which will promote 
community action in the more difficult 
material tasks of life. 
