590 
. Editorial Page of the American 
a will be given next week. Names of the contest- 
f \ M KRICAN ants and winners and other news regarding the 
progress of the contest during the summer will 
Agriculturist g * ven * n detail * n American agriculturist. 
Founded 1842 
■ ' .^ Ladd Appointed Extension Director 
Henry Morgenthau, Jr. Publisher . . , , , 
E. R. Eastman. Editor fTTHE announcement of the appointment oi 
Fred W. Ohm .Associate Editor Q E. Ladd as director of extension at the 
ISSkSS™. : : : : : N «F York State College of Agriculture will meet 
E. C. Weatherby .Circulation Manager with the enthusiastic approval of all the thou- 
contributing staff sands of farm people in the State who knoi\ Lr. 
Jared Van Wagenen, Jr.. G. T. Hughes H. E. Babcock Ladd. He will succeed M. C. Burritt, who recently 
■ ■ — 1 ■ — resigned to assume active management of his fruit 
OUR ADVERTISEMENTS GUARANTEED farm at Hilton, New York. 
_i i r • Dr. Ladd was born and raised on a farm at 
which it believes to be thoroughly honest. McLean, New \ ork, and he still owns ai d 
We positively guarantee to our readers fair and honest manages the home farni. All of hlS life has been 
treatment in dealing with our advertisers. connected directly or indirectly with agriculture. 
We guarantee to refund the price of goods purchased by Delaware County people will be especially pleased 
our subscribers from any advertiser who fails to make good at appointment because they came to know 
when the article purchased is found not to be as advertised. ^ ^ Dr Lad( j f or the fine chap he is when 
To benefit by this guarantee subscribers must say: I saw , j r li re otor of the State School at 
your ad in the American Agriculturist” when ordermg fCTVed P , ° r • . , 
from our advertisers. Delhi. Both from his experience m actual farming 
—-. and from his training as an extension professor 
Published Weekly by under Dr. George Warren, Ladd knows that farm 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, INC. people want no nonsensical nostrums in agricul- 
Address all correspondence for editorial, advertising, or subscription de- tural education. No man of OUr acquaintance, 
partments to^ F(mrth Ave ? New Yo rk, N. Y. unless it be Dr. Warren himself, has a better 
-—- - - ;—r—— understanding of the fundamental principles 
Entered as Second-Class Matter, December 15 , 1922 , at the Post Office , . ± l L.’li fLan U)r 
at New York, n. y„ under the Act of March 3,1879. upon which farm success must be bmlt tlian ur. 
Subscription price, payable in advance, $1 a year. Canadian ^ a( J dition to tk i s plain common-sense knowl- 
an d foreign, $2 a year . _ _ ^ ^ Ladd ^ & p?rsonaHty that makes 
VOL. 113 June 28, 1924 No. 26 friends of all who know him. Next to the dean 
■= of the College, the position of extension director 
is the most important. It is through this office 
A Hopeful Sign that the College will succeed or fail in its real 
T ___ . , , , 4.1 j j 4 .i „ service to farm people. In the appointment of 
™ price Of wheat recently advanced on the Lad(J to ^ ; mportant position> we f«J that the 
Chicago Board of Trade 13^ cents a bushel Col | authorities could not have done better, and 
in fourteen days. On June 18; it sold for we congratulate the College and the people of the 
$1.16M This is one Of the most hopeful events .« securing a man so ab , y fitted from every 
from a farm point of new in many a long y. stan( jp 0 ; nl to carry on the work which was so 
The reason for the advance in price is a shortage weU ^ tablished by M. C. Burritt. 
m the wheat crop, and every farmer knows that 
he gets more money when crops are short than 
when there is a large production. Only a Matter of Five Million 
i The wheat farmers have learned the truth of J . 
this through disastrous experience. The present TN a recent issue we answered an amusing letter 
acreage planted to wheat is approximately 53,- 1 from a farmer about the wages a hired man 
800,000, which is the smallest for any year since would receive if he started at a cent a day and had 
1917. Since 1919, when the price was guaran- his wages doubled each day for a month. The 
teed by the government, the wheat acreage has figures we gave for the entire month were $5,368,- 
constantly decreased. The present acreage is 709.12. . 
7 per cent, lower than it was a year ago and We received many letters saying that this an- 
31 per cent, lower than it was in 1919. This swer was incorrect and upon investigation we 
lessened production will have more effect on the found that it was. The above amount is what the 
price returned to the wheat farmer than all the hired man would have received for the thirtieth 
unsound uneconomic legislation and panaceas day, and for the entire month the answer should 
which have been proposed, and the same principle have been $10,737,418.23. 
applies to all the other farm products. But what is a little matter of five million dollars 
There is every likelihood that the price will go in the life of a hired man these days? 
still higher. This will put more money into -- 
hundreds of thousands of farm homes and aid _ . r> f Cn«;t <5 
toward better times on farms all the way along One Way to Beat High Costs 
the line. TN our issue of May 3rd there was an editorial 
-- 1 about beating the high costs of living by buying 
A nnn1in «nt less from the store and using more of the products 
Announcement of the f arm> as our fathers used to do. On this 
W E take pleasure in announcing a New York editorial W. H. Storie of St. Lawrence County 
State HORSESHOE PITCHING CON- writes as follows: 
TE ,? T p l ° i determine , the T clian , ipl0n , “I am telling you of one small way that keeping the 
Golfer for the entire State. Local county contests j - h cQgt Q f p v i ng down is done in our neighborhood, 
will be staged either at the county farm bureau About six of us farmers each buy a cheese in the fall, 
picnics or at the county fairs. Winners m all (Q ne of the number does the buying at some local 
counties competing will go to the Syracuse State factory.) Then we meet at one place some evening and 
Fair to compete for the State-wide championship have a ‘cheese cutting’ and a social time, each one 
and cash prizes. American Agriculturist of- taking home his share of the cheese. It is soon con¬ 
fers three prizes of $100, $50, and $25 for the three sumed, all in good condition. Then we assemble with 
farmersTaf 1 the State Fair wiio succeed in proving another «ghb£andsoon till we have been the rounds 
that they are the best pitchers in the State. We had a cutting last week. 
It is one of the policies of American Agri¬ 
culturist to encourage those things which lead Effect of Breeding 
to more recreation and fun on the farm. Pitching 
horseshoes or “barnyard golf” is a sport that Tp VERY little while some example comes along 
farm people have gotten a lot of pleasure out of JQj that impresses us with the almost uncanny 
for venerations. Lately, interest in it has been effect of good breeding upon succeeding genera- 
revived. We want to help this interest along, tions. It is not possible nor practical for every one 
so get your horseshoes out and begin to practice to own purebred cattle, but if every dairyman 
up Full rules and regulations for the contest could once realize what the effect of a good pure- 
American Agriculturist, June 28, 1924 
Agriculturist 
bred bull would be upon his herd, every farmer 
would have one. Our publisher, Mr. Morgen- 
thau, is very enthusiastic over some milk and 
butterfat tests which he has just completed on his 
farm at Hopewell Junction. The results of these 
tests are given as a matter of interest on page 600. 
Nine cows were in the test, six two-year-olds, and 
three three-year-olds. It will be noted that every 
one of the nine produced better than twenty 
pounds of butterfat in the seven days. 
And here is the chief reason. Every single one 
of the nine was the daughter of one bull, Dutch- 
land Colantha Sir Inka. 
What is the Most Neighborly Act 
You Know ? 
I N our June 14th issue we started a little contest 
with prizes for the best letters on the subject 
“The Most Neighborly Act I Know.” For the 
three best letters on this subject, we offered five, 
three and one dollars. In case of a tie, the full 
amount will be awarded to each contestant. This 
is just to remind you that the contest is still open 
and will continue until July 15th. 
We are receiving a nice lot of interesting letters, 
but we want to get more. The fundamental ob¬ 
ject is to prove what the most of us already know, 
that the real fundamental neighborliness and 
friendliness are not growing less in the world, 
particularly in farm communities. Letters should 
not be more than two hundred words long, and 
they should describe some actual occurrence in 
your own experience or that of some one you know. 
Eastman’s Chestnuts 
W HEN I came to New York to try to edit this 
paper for Mr. Morgenthau and for you, I 
looked around a long time to find a home as near as 
possible in conditions to those of the country I 
have known all of my life. Not long ago I was 
lucky enough to find a place a few miles out of the 
city where the woods grew across the road in front 
of the house, with fruit trees in the yard and with 
birds to sing us awake in the morning. 
But there was no garage, and being blessed or 
cursed—whichever way you look at it—with a car, 
I had to build one. This meant getting a con¬ 
tractor, and like most contractors in this neck of 
the woods, he was Irish, with that great apprecia¬ 
tion of a joke which most Irishmen possess. Next 
door there lives a neighbor who, although she is 
married, is a typical old maid (I am trusting that 
this paper will not fall into her hands). One morn¬ 
ing while the garage was being built an automobile 
stood in the street in front of her house and she 
came hurrying out and pitched into Tom, my 
contractor, about leaving his car in front of her 
house. 
“I think you have a nerve,” she said. “Re¬ 
move this car immediately!” 
“ ’Scuse me,” said Tom, “but I don’t think that 
I shall move that car.” 
They glared at each other for a moment and 
Tom went back to his work and the lady into her 
house to call the police. In a little while up came 
Tim, the cop, another Irishman, and said to Tom, 
the contractor: 
“ Tom, ye blitherin’ old fool, what did ye make 
me come way up here fer? What did ye annoy the 
lady fer? Why don’t ye put the car across the 
road?” 
To which Tom replied belligerently, “I won’t 
touch tha': car and be danged to ye!” 
“Ye won’t, hey?” said Tim. “I’ll show ye 
whether ye will or not! Why won’t ye? ” 
“Because, Tim darlint,” said Tom, with a twin¬ 
kle in his eye, “that car don’t happen to belong 
to me!” 
Quotations Worth While 
H IS reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in 
two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day 
ere you find them; and when you have them, 
they are not worth the search.— Shakespeare. 
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“Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass 
together.” —Deuteronomy 22 : 10. 
