THE FARMER'S FORUM
The Farmer's Forum The Next Step in American Agriculture By MILLARD R. MYERS ORGANIZED marketing of farm products is to be the next forward step in American agriculture. The broad acres still...
...It is doing good in more ways than you realize...
...Oi fought as much, ma'am," said Bridget cheerfully...
...Calves on Skim Milk WHICH are the skim milk calves, was the puzzle...
...I'm an American, and I can prove it," denied the victim...
...1 made somewhat larger gains and looked a little more thrifty, but during the next three months, Lot No...
...Ain't he got the 'foine...
...4. Are you co-operating in the purchase and use of improved farm machinery...
...Proof Positive The London police sergeant raised his eyes from the blotter as two policemen propelled the resisting victim before him...
...The broad acres still escaping cultivation are retarding and for a considerable time must continue to act as an obstruction to any rapid advance of intensive farming...
...It will take many sacrifices, no doubt, to make your local Union or farmers' club the effective organiza-tion it ought to be, but a better day is coming for the farmers and it can only come as a result of persistent, untiring "keepihg-everlastingly-at-it" on the part of just such little clubs all over the United States...
...milicious look...
...2. Are you planning to sell your cotton, tobacco, peanuts, or other staple crops co-operatively...
...During the first three months Lot No...
...Organization is the first step, but it should be proceeded by legislation to encourage and foster the work...
...6. Have you a co-operative telephone company...
...But whether the method of production be extensive or intensive, marketing is to be developed along lines that will consider both producer and consumer...
...Soldierly Attribute...
...Two lots of four calves each, one fed whole milk and the other skim milk and boiled flax seed...
...From then on, Lot No...
...The writer knows of his personal observation, a hundred times repeated, that measures for the farmers' benefit get scant attention if there is no organization behind them, but immediately become formidable when petitions from farmers' clubs, letters from Union members, etc., begin to pour in on the legislators...
...7. Have you co-operative or mutual fire insurance...
...gasped the first bobby...
...2 equal to those in Lot 1 in individual merit and development...
...If a farmers' organization accomplished nothing except to secure a better hearing for the farmer in legislative halls, it would be worth all it cost...
...A German spy, sir...
...My husband, Bridget," she said proudly, "is at the head of the State militia...
...To this was added one-tenth by weight of linseed meal...
...At six months several experienced dairy cattle breeders pronounced the calves in Lot No...
...1 was fed 8 pounds whole milk and 8 pounds skim milk daily, while Lot No...
...2 caught up...
...Peters, Animal Husbandman of the North Dakota Experiment Station, explained that the experiment was undertaken to determine how well dairy calves could be grown on skim milk...
...With the cost of living still soaring, and with the farmer still receiving but a small fraction of the price the public is paying for its food, there is a well defined task set for this Conference in framing legislation which shall at least eliminate the larger elements of waste which are responsible for a condition that is at once galling to both consumer and producer...
...According to the daily papers, the wife of a certain Governor was telling a servant about her husband...
...You are also missing a great chance if you are not trying to make your club or local Union a means of business co-operation in a score of ways, says The Progressive Farmer, hook over the following list of questions, see which ones suggest the best opportunity for practipal co-operatior among your members, and then keep pushing it until you win success—and then tackle another hard job and keep at it till you make a success of it also: 1. Are you buying fertilizers and feedstuffs co-operatively...
...Keep At ft...
...3. Have you any plans for marketing vegetables, poultry, eggs and other produce co-operatively...
...The two lots looked equally sleek and thrifty...
...Without organization, thorough and uniform as to character and widely spread in extent, little progress can be made in this movement...
...2 was given 1G pounds of skim milk and one pound of boiled flax seed, which replaced the fat taken out in the cream...
...The Third National Conference on Marketing and Farm Credits which is to be held at the Hotel Sherman, Chicago, November 29 to December 2, is to lay particular emphasis upon this problem...
...5. Have you bought any pure-bred sires co-operatively...
...Other legislation is needed to facilitate the establishing of standards in grading and packing various products as standardization is one of the essentials in developing a satisfactory system of marketing...
...The first three weeks both lots were fed whole milk...
...NOW is a good time for increased zeal or activity in behalf of your local Union or whatever other farmers' club you are a member of, Mr...
...That's what he says, but here's the evidence," interrupted the second bobby, triumphantly producing a bulky hotel register from beneath his arm and pointing to an entry...
...Gates," written in a flowing hand, was the record that met the astonished sergeant's gaze.—Ex...
...When the calves were five weeks old they were also fed clover hay and a grain ration made up of equal parts whole oats and bran...
...It cost $19.00 less per head to feed the skim milk calves than those fed half whole milk, to the age of six months...
...The work of this organization this year has taken on a definiteness of purpose, and leans less toward propaganda and more toward legislation than heretofore...
Vol. 7 • November 1915 • No. 11
