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HOW AMERICA LIVES” 
ae ae ae: 
Picture and story of an Eastern States member’s 
family, appearing in the December issue of 
Ladies’ Home Journal. 
sj: Meet the Smiths of New Hamp- 
ton, New Hampshire, in the Decem- 
ber Ladies’ Home Journal — and you'll 
meet a genuine Eastern States family. 
Leslie Smith has long been a member 
of the Exchange. The Journal story 
that features the way the Smith fam- 
ily lives, works and enjoys life is one 
of a series this tremendously popular 
magazine has been featuring under 
the title “‘How America Lives.”’ 
Much of the story is told in pic- 
tures. One shows the Smith farm 
house which was painted with East- 
ern States two years ago. This co- 
operative’s feed, fertilizer, seed, spray 
materials, flours and cereals contrib- 
ute to helping the Smiths live well on 
their very American fruit farm. It 
gives us sort of a thrill to find one of 
our neighbors selected for so impor- 
tant a spot in the limelight of major 
magazine publicity. 
yy Lights were turned off— but 
ideas were turned on — when a 55- 
minute blackout collided with the 
time for Dr. E. A. Perregaux’s talk at 
the annual meeting of Connecticut 
Poultry Producers, Inc., November 
17. It was about the plan to consoli- 
date this association with two Con- 
necticut auctions that Dr. Perregaux 
was speaking and members could see 
what he meant even in the dark. The 
plan would unite a network of collec- 
tion and distribution enterprises cen- 
tering in Hartford and New Haven, 
thus conserving tires, gas, time and 
equipment. It would round out a 
grading, packaging, wholesaling 
market service with a foot in both 
important outlet doors: auction and 
branded package wholesale. 
Balloting on a referendum of this 
plan which the directors of the three 
cooperatives are referring to their 
members showed 231 in favor, 17 
opposed. 
On 1941 business the association 
paid in December a dividend of 1.8 
percent; will pay 3.2 percent later, on 
1942 business. Leo A. Grouten of 
Farmington was reelected president; 
H. W. Bermender 1s the manager. 
yx Among the books that writers are 
writing and publishers are publishing 
to help make the farmers rich like 
the writers and publishers are these 
that have been brought to our digni- 
fied editorial attention: 
Weed Control — by Robbins, Crafts 
and Raynor, experiment station bot- 
anists; published by McGraw-Hill 
Book Company, New York City; 

Your editor thinks gardeners and housewives 
haven’t done right by kohlrabi. It is one of 
the cleanest, easiest-to-grow vegetables. Its flavor 
is mild — slightly on the order of turnips and 
cabbage — yet a flavor that is good for its own 
qualities. It is delicious used raw as a novelty 
added to “spring” garden salads. Diced or sliced 
and cooked as you would turnips or carrots, it 
is also very good — especially when coated with 
butter just before serving. 
price, $5.00. An editorial staff mem- 
ber eyed this whopping 518-page 
volume and remarked that if farmers 
knew that much about weeds they’d 
be scared out of business. Anyway the 
authors have produced a mighty im- 
pressive textbook and manual — and 
it’s our guess a lot of farmers are mad 
enough at their weed problems to 
spend a five-spot to learn how to “‘rub 
“em out’’ in the most expert ways. 
yx Improved Milk Goats, by Will 
L. Te Walt, Orange Judd Publishing 
Company, New York City; price, 
$1.50. 
A little book just full of goats — 
their breeds, housing, care, dairy 
methods and exhibition. Not a prize 
piece of literature, but fundamental 
and to the point. 
sx Just a little item in regard to my 
results with 200 Leghorn pullets. I 
bought them July 21, 1941, for $1.25 
apiece. They were just starting to lay. 
I put them in the houses and worked 
with them to get them used to the 
change of places. They started right 
off to increase in production. They 
were fed Eastern States feed all the 
time — all they wanted. I keep a rec- 
ord of everything. I have used your 
feed for seven years and find it will 
get results every time. 
I just have a small place and have 
time to look after my garden and 
chickens and flowers as I am a cripple 
and use crutches. So this gives me 
something to do. Also, it makes a 
little money —a profit of $651.12 
after deducting feed cost. We had all 
the eggs we wanted to use in the 
home for the four in our family. 
I put in about an average of three 
hours a day with my chickens. — 
R. E. Riley, Christiana, Pennsylvania. 
No Extras 
There are no “‘extra’’ issues of this 
vegetable seed number of the CoopERATOR. 
Only enough to supply the mem- 
bership mailing list are being printed. 
A condensed, abbreviated edition 
will be published as a booklet and 
used in answer to requests for Eastern 
States vegetable seed information 
made to the field service and ware- 
houses or the headquarters office. 
If you loan your January copy, 
better ‘keepastring’’ onit . . . you 
can’t get another one this year. 
