
Sunday — We figure that one good 
thing for the family to do on the last 
Sunday. of the old year is to bundle 
up in warm clothes and galoshes and 
take a walk together all over the 
farm. Did you ever think how few 
times in quite a span of years all of 
you see and talk about conditions 
and plans place by place around your 
farm? Molly started this little proj- 
ect years ago. She said if I didn’t 
watch out my wife’s idea of the farm 
would become a set of ‘‘grumble 
spots’ muttered about just before 
bedtime, but never seen nor under- 
stood by the audience. It will amaze 
you, too, how much the kids enjoy 
this trek. 
Monday — Somewhere I read that 
lowa farmers spend six to 15 minutes 
in producing a bushel of corn. At 
two cents a pound for shelled corn 
the six minute farmers made their 
corn time worth a gross of $11.20 
an hour; at three cents a pound, 
$16.80. But the ag engineers at the 
state experiment station worked up 
and demonstrated a way to cut the 
time to 2.7 minutes. That figures 
better than $33 an hour. Sounds 
awfully good. It shows a glimpse 
of a way more of us ought to figure 
some of the things we do on the farm. 
But I suppose if farmers left such 
figures lying around some dope will 
figure $33 times 40 hours is $1320 a 
week straight time and for 20 hours 
more at time-and-a-half it runs the 
pay up to $2310 a week!!! 
But, of course, you have to deduct 
the cost of running the farm from these 
wages and that makes some difference! 
Tuesday — Those of us who have 
hammered away on a productive 
roughage program can gloat a bit 
this winter. Not far from here a 
dairyman sold out and the 50 tons of 
reasonably good timothy-and-alfalfa 
hay in his barn sold at auction for 
$51 a ton! At that rate the Eastern 
States fertilizer and seed used on our 
hay and pasture plots has made us 
some terrific savings! 
Wednesday — Our fall brood of 
broilers sold at a small profit over 
direct costs. Whoever figured OPA 
ceilings must have turned a deaf ear 
to the differences in present and past 
relations of feed prices and poultry 
meat prices. The only part of this 
broiler flock that will really give us 
much satisfaction will be the birds 
we put in our freezer for our own 
eating. 
Thursday — How hope springs eter- 
nally in the human breast is never 
better shown than in George, our 
poultryman neighbor. This has been 
a so-so year for his market egg busi- 
ness, but he’s bragging already about 
the brood of sexed pullets that have 
followed his not very profitable broil- 
ers. 
Friday — I’ve written before about 
The Shadow — the elusive black cat 
that de-ratted Henry’s turkey farm. 
Well, Henry hadn’t seen The Shadow 
for many weeks and the other day he 
saw a tat run under a brooder house. 
Henry was quite upset. Last night he 
called up, so happy he just had to tell 
somebody. He’d seen The Shadow 
again — and right there at the hole 
under the brooder house! 
Saturday —\'m satisfied that one 
of the least appreciated and biggest 
values in the whole list of supplies 
we buy cooperatively is Eastern States 
Dairy Cleanser. 1 say least appreciated 
because few farmers have given it 
patient attention enough to observe 
its merit in comparison with compet- 
ing items. Downtown today I looked 
over a shelf full of these products. For 
the 85 cents a 10-pound package of 
Eastern States Dairy Cleanser costs, 
you could buy anywhere from an 
eighth to a third as much of these 
other more dilute cleansers! 
yx GEAR LUBE dispensers are now 
available through Eastern States. One 
is a large pump type holding 25 
pounds with hose and a goose neck 
pipe; the other, a 12-ounce hand suc- 
tion gun with a flexible pipe suitable 
for either removing old gear lube 
or introducing the new in smaller 
amounts. Get further details from 
your representative or warehouse. 
EASTERN STATES 
Used BAGS 
Eastern States Feed Bags are now 
leased directly to members at 15.5 
cents each. Thus the bags are con- 
Stantly the property of the Eastern 
States Farmers’ Exchange. Bags no 
longer serviceable in transporting 
Eastern States feed will be released 
to the commercial bag market and 
members will receive the market 
price. 
Your local representative or regional 
warehouse will accept your bags and 
return them to a bag house authorized 
to grade and recondition Eastern 
States bags. You may return as few 
as 10 in one bundle. 
Tag the bundle plainly with the name 
of your representative (or warehouse) 
on the front of the tag; put your name 
on the hack, together with the number 
of bags in the bundle. Get shipping 
tags from your representative or 
warehouse. 
These are the only authorized Eastern 
States hag houses: 
GENERAL BAG & BURLAP COMPANY 
1617-25 North Second St. 
Philadelphia, Penn. 
CARL BURWICK & COMPANY 
81 Thomas St. 
Worcester, Mass. 
CARL BURWICK & COMPANY 
314-324 Grote St. 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
A. BRODER BAG COMPANY 
28—52 Wasson St. 
Buffalo 10, N. Y. 

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