THE FARMER'S FORUM
The Farmer's Forum A Rural School Nurse GRAND FORKS county in North Dakota is very much alive to one important need of every rural community—that of a school nurse. Along with the movement toward...
...THREE THINGS—selection, curing, and germination, can do more toward producing a better and bigger corn crop than anything else...
...skim-milk, $9,-058,107...
...Along with the movement toward consolidated schools in this county, there has been marked improvement in the one-teacher schools...
...milk other than that furnished cheese factories, creameries and condensaries, $9,807,000...
...A farmer in Indiana left his valuable farm in trust to his unthrifty son, to go to his granddaughter on her twenty-first birthday...
...but the louseis now identified as the agent...
...in too many instances hardship and loss have been suffered because of a similar lack of indisputable birth records...
...So often is this question asked that the United States Department of Agriculture has worked out rules for popping corn so you can get the largest possible amount of buttered crispness and hardly any "old maids...
...And that the soldiers, both officers and men, have had their heads either clipped close or shaved...
...From three to six middlemen intervene beween the farmer and the consumer in the marketing of cheese, and each must have a profit ranging from five-eighths of a cent to five cents or more per pound," he said...
...Put in just enough barely to cover the bottom of the popper one kernel deep...
...Her work has resulted in improved school room sanitation, in greater attention to personal hygiene, in checking the spread of contagious diseases, and most of all, in developing among pupils, patrons, and teachers, a higher appre-iation of good health and thorough instruction in ways of dealing with defective teeth, sight, and hearing...
...Wisconsin's Dairy Industry A Real Gold Mine DAIRY products in Wisconsin each year amount to more than $100,-000,000...
...Be careful also to have the corn free from chaff, which scorches quickly and may give the corn a burnt taste even though the kernels themselves are not overheated...
...It has been called by many names,— putrid fever, jail fever, but what causes ithasonlyinrecent years been learned...
...When a farmer raises quality stock, it is a good plan to use a cut of his record cow, or prize hen, together with its record on the letter-head...
...You farmers are apt to find fault with the amount of taxes you have to pay, but if we gave taxes to the extent that we were overpaying the members of cheese combinations a few years ago for marketing our cheese, our taxes would have been more than three times as high as they were...
...It is a splendid example...
...The county superintendent has three assistants, two of whom assist in the field work— one as a school supervisor and the other as a school nurse...
...These figures are contained in the last report of the state Dairy and Food Commissioner...
...Who wins...
...One pint of unpppped corn will give from fifteen to twenty pints of popped corn when these simple rules are observed...
...The Guilty Louse It Spreads Typhoid Fever TYPHUS is one of the most dreadful of diseases...
...There is of course the social value...
...They show an increase of more than 85 per cent...
...Well, you see, mum, I've always stayed in wan place until the people died...
...Advertising Helps TO MARKET high class products at profitable prices usually requires the use of some form of advertising...
...The right time for good corn to start popping is in just a minute and a half...
...Now there is hardly a town or village along the railroads without a farmers' co-operative elevator...
...Emery, the able commissioner, who has been deposed by Governor Philipp, explains that the figures are not meant to be exact, nevertheless they are a careful and accurate estimate...
...Farmers will find a school nurse one of their best investments...
...You must place yourselves so that you can demand for your cheese a price that will net you a reasonable return above cost...
...After stating that no other producer could long remain solvent if he had as little knowledge of and control over his business, Mr...
...His farm books showed that he had done so, and the date of birth of the girl was thus established...
...Then measure out your pop corn into the popper...
...Riley said: "You farmers must compute your costs as nearly as possible...
...Paul, Minneapolis, Dubuque, and other points outside of Wisconsin, $2,854,500...
...What it costs to get the farmer's product from him to the consumer is a tax on him—even if it does not show on his tax receipt...
...A. Moore and J. J. Garland, University of Wisconsin...
...Is it not as important to conserve the health and well-being of the boys and girls as it is to watch over the health and well-being of the livestock...
...Not only has the material equipment been improved, but such organization has also been effected that the interests of the home, the community, and the school are being developed together...
...He advocates a state-wide cooperative organization composed of local co-operative associations, to promote the interests of farmers engaged in the production of cheese in Wisconsin, and said that such an organization was necessary if there is to be real efficiency in the production and distribution of that product...
...estimated market cream including that used for ice cream manufacture, $3,500,000...
...The school nurse works also under the direction of the county board of health, thus bringing the school organization into closer touch with the other organizations of the county...
...by properly curing it, he insures himself against seed which is of low vitality...
...but does it ever happen that such registration results in personal advantage...
...If it takes longer you either have too little heat, the corn is poor, or there are drafts in the room which cool the popper...
...One of the first problems to be taken up by the Agricultural Experiment Station at Madison was the development of the dairy industry of the state...
...At last a neighbor remembered that a valuable cow belonging to the grandfather had given birth to a calf on the day the girl was born, and he could swear to the coincidence...
...perhaps the grandfather had recorded the date of the birth of the calf...
...The family Bible was consulted, but the leaf with the record was gone...
...This is a delectable morsel of news for every farmer in this state...
...Every piece of advertising should be backed up by keeping the stock up to the standard set...
...Letter-heads, post cards, circulars, booklets, catalogs, and advertisements in the newspapers by individuals as well as by community or county breeders' associations, help to boost the farm business...
...A few years ago it was supposed that the guilty insect was the flea...
...This was done to make it less likely that they would contract a certain fever now existing in those parts...
...Here is a striking illustration of the value to the farmer, in dollars and cents, of scientific investigation and expert assistance...
...A little story is recorded by May C. McDonald of the North Dakota Experiment Station that bears interestingly on this question...
...First have a good hot fire all ready...
...He said: "The dairymen of Wisconsin are indebted to the dairymen of Sheboygan County, who organized the federation, that the power of the trust has been broken, and it will remain broken as long as the farmers of Wisconsin will uphold the association and help to make it a success...
...Co-operation is Spreacing THE 1915 report of the Montana state grain inspector, recently issued, shows that 25 per cent...
...When the whole herd of cows has a high record, it may be well to put a picture of the herd, together with the record on the letter-head...
...In advertising, the farmer should advertise only the truth...
...The court was in a quandary...
...Start the corn heating slowly, so the kernels will not scorch...
...And he added: "The fight that Sheboygan County farmers made on the Cheese Trust, which led up to the organization of the federation, has been the cause of putting millions of dollars into the pockets of Wisconsin farmers...
...The average cheese factory patron has been benefited much more than all his state and local taxes amounted to during that time...
...If you take more the pop corn will not be so crisp and flaky...
...condensed milk, $6,845,706...
...When she believed she was twenty-one and claimed her inheritance, her father disputed her age, saying she was only nineteen...
...selection, the farmer improves his corn, growing larger, heavier, and better ears...
...When a farmer advertises a farm sale, he should not use the sale as a dumping ground for low grade stock...
...Co-operative marketing of grain has been developing wonderfully in the Northwest during the last few years...
...For we now know the manner in which typhus is communicated...
...factory-made cheese, $28,428,600...
...Did you read in the newspapers the other day that our soldiers in Mexico are warned not to use Mexican bedding, nor sleep in Mexican houses, and avoid association with the people of the country...
...Registering Birthdays IS THERE any value in birth registration...
...And in serving the state in this respect it has given to the whole world such wonderful discoveries as the "Babcock test" and the "Hart test...
...It is a good business policy," he says, "for the farmer to use one, or several forms of advertising if ha finds that it helps him...
...Here is his best estimate of the value of all Wisconsin dairy products for the year 1915: Creamery butter, $31,010,300...
...Livingston explained that the University in this manner "wishes to show the farmers in the less settled sections of Wisconsin how it is possible for two, three, four, or five to combine in the purchase of adequate stump-pulling machinery and clear their stump lands by cooperation, when it might be difficult for many of them to find the money to buy a machine individually...
...in five years...
...These farmers listened to a speech by Ex-Senator Henry Krumrey, in which he told of the plight of the Sheboygan County farmers before they organized, and the success which the Sheboygan County Cheese Producers' Federation has met in breaking the power of the Cheese Trust to exploit the producers and consumers of American cheese...
...Clearing Land Through Co-operation A DEMONSTRATION trip in stump pulling and land clearing was conducted by the University of Wisconsin recently in the sparsely-settled northern part of the state...
...And in quality these dairy products have made Wisconsin known as "the banner dairy state of the Union...
...Typhus is the badge of misery, low civilization, poverty, ignorance.—Herbert Quick...
...total, $100,078,500...
...A Cheerful Prospect "You say you have no references as a cook...
...How is that...
...All of these forms of advertising aid in improving and increasing the farmers' sales," says D. H. Otis of the College of Agriculture who has had charge of Wisconsin's farm management contest...
...These figures in themselves constitute a remarkable tribute to the University of Wisconsin...
...They let the other fellow, who is as ignorant of costs as they are, fix the price...
...farm-made cheese, $101,659...
...The farmer receives for his cheese about half as much as the housewife pays the retailer for it...
...What Grand Forks county is doing should be done by every other agricultural county in the United States...
...Untruthful advertising always has a 'come back.' "The farmer should have a neat letter-head...
...whey, $2,738,761...
...It is by the bites of parasitic insects...
...Popping Corn WHAT is the best way to pop corn...
...He added, "by a combination of dynamite and machinery and letting Nature give the proper assistance, northern Wisconsin is susceptible of immediate development into one of the greatest producing regions in America...
...farm-made butter, $5,733,867...
...This story has a cheerful ending...
...A special train in charge of Carl D. Livingston made a six-weeks' tour, showing the farmers by practical work the most effective way to prepare this new land for cultivation...
...Miles C. Riley, general counsel for the National Agricultural Organization association, with headquarters at Madison, said the farmer does not know what it costs him to produce cheese, and that he has little, if anything to say about the price he gets for it...
...of the 450 grain elevators in that state are under the management of farmers' organizations...
...Many farmers are using a typewriter effectively...
...New Marketing Organization of Cheese Producers CO-OPERATIVE marketing among Wisconsin farmers received another impetus when on April 8 four hundred farmers gathered at Marsh-field for the purpose of discussing and taking steps preliminary to the organization of a co-operative sales agency for the marketing of their cheese...
...The winners of the farm management contests for several years have been farmers who used advertising in some form or other...
...by a germination test he avoids the sterile ears, and plants only seed which will make the most profitable return.—R...
...Few, if any, farmers know what it costs them to produce cheese—and they have little, if anything, to say about how much they are to pay for it...
...estimated value of milk and cream shipped to Chicago, St...
...The type-written letter is more easily read than the average hand-writing, and makes a stronger appeal...
...The name of his farm, his own name, and if possible, a good illustration should be used...
Vol. 8 • May 1916 • No. 5
