thoroughly understand the organiza- 
tion and lose no opportunity to pass on 
information about it to farm neighbors 
and townspeople. 
Your Eastern States director of pub- 
lic relations believes that the field is so 
broad and there is so much to be done 
that all employees and members should 
accept a responsibility for public rela- 
tions work. Every person associated in 
any way with Eastern States is con- 
stantly making impressions. By giving 
some thought and attention to the mat- 
ter, those impressions can all be favor- 
able. Cooperatives are judged at least 
in part by the words and actions of the 
people who are a part of them. 
GARDEN 



FOR 
ICTORY 
STARTED PLANTS 
You can perform a 
real service to yourself and others in 
your community by encouraging gar- 
den plant starters to use seed of the 
Eastern States selected varieties. Plant 
starting is a specialty line and hun- 
dreds of home gardeners will be de- 
pendent on the strains and varieties 
which one plant starter selects. The 
plant starter and all who buy from him 
will benefit when his plants are backed 
by the quality of Eastern States strains 
and extreme care in selection of stocks 
for distribution. 
FROM BOTH ENDS 
“Ilr ts in reduction in 
the cost of production supplies and dis- 
tribution that farmer cooperatives can 
and will, I believe, render yeoman 
service in the postwar period,’ John 
H. Davis, executive secretary of the 
National Council of Farmer Coopera- 
tives, told his listeners at the Third 
New England War Conference. 
“Through their cooperatives, farmers 
teduce their cost of production, and of 
marketing — thus freeing purchasing 
power for the other things which in- 
dustry produces. Through their coop- 
eratives, farmers foster better grading 
and standardization of products, better 
varieties, improved storage facilities, 
and reduced costs and increased values 
to the ultimate buyer. In brief, coop- 
etatives have narrowed distribution 
margins from both ends — thus mak- 
ing both the producer’s and consumer’s 
dollars go farther.”’ 
WELL-FED SOIL 
Mlatnutrition has 
become evident on a national scale 
through physical rejection by local 
draft boards for military service. Soil 
fertility plays an important part in 
physical fitness of people. 
Very recently you have noted ref- 
erences which show an increased con- 
cern on the part of those who make a 
study of human nutrition over the 
nutrient contents of the vegetables we 
eat. For instance, it is evident that 
there is spinach and spinach; that spin- 
ach with a low content of calcium, 
grown on calcium-deficient soils, not 
only is not particularly good for Junior 
but may actually reduce his body’s 
reserve of that nutrient which this 
particular. crop supposedly supplies. 
Everyone who plants a vegetable gat- 
den will do well to have conspicuously 
posted in the kitchen this statement, 
“Food is fabricated soil fertility.”’ 
Well-fed soil will not only produce 
larger crops for the labor and materials 
invested, but those crops will also very 
likely be much more nutritious and 
help the family to maintain physical 
vigor and mental alertness. 
KENNETH HINSHAW 
Editor 
WALTER ELLIS 
Associate Editor 
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OFFICERS 
President, Raymond Taylor, 
Newtown, Pa.; Vice-Presidents, 
George Fuller, Deerfield, Mass.; 
Fred J. Nutter, Corinna, Me.; C. 
Marsden Bacon, Middletown, 
Ct.; Treasurer, Harry L. Lane, 
Springfield, Mass.; Clerk and 
General Manager, Quentin Rey- 
nolds, Springfield, Mass. 
DIRECTORS 
Connecticut — C, Marsden 
Bacon, Middletown; S. McLean 
Buckingham, Watertown; Rob- 
ert E. Foote, Andover; Tudor F. 
Holcomb, West Granby; Louis 
S. Moseley, Scotland; Walter C. 
Wood, New Canaan. 
Delaware —H. C. Milliken, 
Newark; Alden P,. Short, George- 
town. 
Maine — Frank B. Day, Lisbon 
Falls; George P. Findlen, Fort 
Fairfield; Frank W. Lord, Kezar 
Falls; Fred J. Nutter, Corinna; 
Carl R. Smith, Exeter. 
Maryland — William H. Hollo- 
way, Newark. 
Massachusetts — Charles S. 
Bliss, Attleboro; Clark P. Com- 
atock, Housatonic; Jonathan 
Davis, Sterling; William M. 
Fiske, Westhampton; George 
Fuller, Deerfield; Alfred G. 
Lunn, Halifax; Horace A. Moses, 
Springfield; E. B. Parmenter, 
Franklin; Curtis Peckham, 
Taunton; Floyd Verrill, Con- 
cord. : 
New Hampshire — J. Ralph 
Graham, Boscawen; W. Thurston 
Whittle, Milford. 
Pennsylvania — C. G. Bucher, 
Lebanon; Wilmer Claar, Queen; 
J. Howard Cliffe, Ivyland; Noah 
Hershey, Parkesburg; Ben W. 
Jacobs, Waynesburg; Frank E. 
McCoy, Emlenton; Floyd M. 
Merkel, Hamburg; John S&S. 
Miller, Somerset; James S. 
Nicholson, Muncy; William H. 
Oaks, Greencastle; Clark Pol- 
lock, Marion Center; Francis 
Reiter, Mars; Reuben H, Ringer, 
Schnecksville; Joseph W. Sieber, 
McAlisterville; H. H. Snavely, 
Willow Street; Harry W. Stuart, 
Newville; Raymond S. Taylor, 
Newtown; M. W. Wert, Rebers- 
burg; Mark N. Witmer, Dal- 
matia. 
Rhode Island — J. W.S. Lilli- 
bridge, East Greenwich. 
Vermont — Henry Chamberlin, 
Brattleboro; Park H. Newton, 
St. Albans; Seeley Reynolds, 
Middlebury; A. Leroy Smith, 
Barre. 
Copyrighi 1945 by 
The Eastern States Farmers’ 
Exchange 
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