The Furrow News and Views About the Farm

FARMERS' ORGANIZATIONS TO BE TAKEN UP AT STATE FARM SHOW Much Interest Is belne shown by fiirmerh' business organiutidiis throughout the Suite in the meelinjc that will be held in connection with the Farm Products Show which will he held In Harrisburg. January 2«-2&. Thia meeting has been arranged for discussion of one of the most important problems that are before such organizations at this time. While the meeting is being called for the primary benefit of managers and officers of such associations other Interested persons are invited. Mr. F. S. Rnggles. who Is in charge of the organization work of the United Slates Bureau of MarV<-ts, will discuss ways of securing better organizations. Mr. W. B. Connell, of State College, will explain th.» work which has been done in the selling of wool in Pennsylvania. and Mr. B. B. Mason, of State College, will report on the accounting systems which are in u.>e by farmers organizations. There will also be an explanation of th“ future work of the Burau of of Agriculture with such organizations. Thu balance of the program will be devoted to a genrai discussion of the problems which individual associations have at the preeent time. This portion of the program will be of particular value to everyone attending the meeting.

CONDITION OF WHEAT AND RYE The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture reports the condition of fail sown wheat, for 1921 harvest, at 100 per coni compared with normal. The condition of rye is 99 per cent. The germination and growth of grain was handicapped by drought during

the Month of October but copious lainss the newly acquired animals In

and favorable weather during November hare had their beneficial effect and advanced the condition to ap-

proximately normal.

The condition of wheat on December 1 last rear was 103 per cent and

rye 102 per cent

failed to secure licenses for their dogs who permitWJ their dog to ru large, particularly at night. The game w-ardens of the State and the county authorities materially aided agents of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture in the enforcing of the law and the rounding up of the delinquents. Washlngtonton county, the principal sheep raising county of the State, furnished the greatest number of prosecutions during the year. There were <21 prosecutions entered In this county while Montgomery county ran second with 289. l-cbaniii with 267. Bucks with ICS and Greene county with IIP were amung the counties at the top of the list. l*>g owners have from the 1st to the 15th of January to secure th<ir licenses for 1921. After the 15th of January, the unlicensed dog becomes an outlaw and the owner becomes liable to prosecution. Justices of the peace mar only issue licenses until January 15. after which time ther must be secured from the county treasurers of •he respective counties.

DEPARTMENT WIIL AID IN SECUr.iNG COAL FOR POULTRYMEN Poultry breeders in Pennsylvanic a o faced with a difficult situation as a result of the shortage of anthracite coal In many sections of the State. Breeders everywhere complain that they face heavy losss unless an adequate supply of coal is secured for their breeding pens. Under the regulations governing the anthracite trade in F mnsylvanla. it is impossible for the poultrymcn to buy their coal direct from the mines In every case it must go through the hands of a local dealer or Jobber. While It Is impossible for the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture t ochange the stated order of things in the anthracite i.-ade. the department will '.oe Its offices to assist the pcultoTien who are unable to secure sufficient coal to carry on their business. Breedrs who find themselves in this predlcavient should communicate with t ie Pennsylvania Depart- •*? Agriculture at Marrishurg. A prompt effort will be made to assist in relieving me conditions as they are reported.

Now that the fail work is practically completed and the season for rash work over, fanners will find more tlnii to devote to the things usually neglected In the busy spring, summer

and fall months.

“One of the things most frequently neglected or overlooked is farm building sanitation and nothing is more Impel tan t," says T. E. Munce. head of the Bureau of Animal Industry. Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. “It too frequently happens that much time and hard earned money are spent in buying good stock with th» view of building up a good herd, only to place

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badly ventilated and frequently damp stable, to become exposed to the diseases that usually lurk In such places. “Aside from the question of health. Is a known fact that oxygen is requlrd to produce milk und beef. Herd owners who have not yet come to realize that 1 does not pay to raise and feed di ised stock certainly know that it pays, from a milk-producing point of view, to stable their cattle In quarters provided with plenty of fresh air and sunlight Remember that fresh air (oxygen I and sunlight are absolutely essential In milk and beef produ-lion: also that they the best and chespes* disinfectants known Since they cost nothing and '•ntlal to food production, why exclude them from the barn, bog pen and poultry house* Why not use “It is Important, therefore, during the aimer months fbr the breeders and dairymen whose barns are defective in this repect. to place them In

least better shape. It

will pay to do il. The Pennsylvania Burau of Animal industry. Department of Agriculture, will give advice, on how this may be ntosi economically

done."

as compared with 99 per cent last year and 93 per cent the average condition for the past ten years on December 1. RYE The acreage of rje sown this fall, as in the case of whet shows a decline from a year ago. The area seeded is estimated at 95 per cent of 'sat year’s acreage of 64,000 acres The condition on Decimber 1 was 96 per cent of a normal as compared with 94 per cent last year, and 92 per cenL the average condition for the past ten years on December 1. Apple* It 1* estimated that 60 per cent of the total apple crop has been or will be : hipped out of the counties a here grown this season a* compared with 43 per cert last year, and 46 per c«ut In 1916 Yield of Straw Fer Acre It i« estimated that the average ylel d >f straw per acre Oit* season for tb different grains is as follows: Wheat 1.14 tons; oats, 1.85 tons. rye. 1.45 U ns. Fall Flowing It * estimated that 17 per cent of farm Und has hern plowed this fall for m xt year's crops as compared with 18 pe: cent in 1916. Firewood It Is estimated that farmers burning w. vd ha-e averaged tight cords per farm this year as compared with aecen ords in 1919. This Is probably due to he unusually high price of coal. The average price per cord is estimated .it $7.50 In four foot lengths and |95' in stove lengths.

Pennsy.vanU is rapidly forging to

the front in the number of herds of cattle that are officially accredited as being free from tuberculosis. Reports of Dr T. E. Munce. head of the Bureau of Animal Industry. Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture show that there are 402 full yaccredlted herds m Pennsylvania, which rank fourth in the United States in point of numbers.

The greatest satisfaction to the oi-

licials of the Pennsylvania I>epartment howev-err. is the fact that the quality of the inspection work done is showing up exceptionally well. Of the 65 hrds that have passed thlr first year under the accredited plan, every herd has passed its annual examina-

tion with a perfec score. This

ditton enn only be obtained when the first testing work is done in a thorough and scientific manner, as hrrds

that are free of Inhere- losis w! finally tested, may easily acquire

herculosis in a year s time, unless the surrounding conditions are almost per- Winter W 1*°! The unsr.tisfsctory prices of all farm

products and high prices of lab" tillzer. and impl-nmt*. have

the farmers to reduce the ac-rage . j sow nthis fall for next year’s harvest, ■m- mo „un>o»*~i .11 ir-nou, | Tie ujl>1 ^ u records for vigorous enforc ement e*! ^ ^ ^ of year's or 101.000 me Dog 1 jaw of 1M7. IHirlng the year ; acres •» roinpard with 92.000 acres, just closing, a total of 1836 pnvsecu 1 the average area a-eded seeded for tions were entered throughout the the past ten years Weather condl State for violations of the provisions tions so far have been favorable and • t j, e jjog the crop has gone into the winter in Practically all of these prosecutions goo dcondlticn. The condition on Dew._»re entered against dog owners who cumber 1 was 95 per c*r’ of a normal

Samp!, s of seeds are now being lifted throughout Pennsylvania, by special agents under the direction of E. M. Gress. recently appointed State Botanist by Secretary of Agriculture. Fred Rasmussen. The work formerly done under the direction of the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture, but Dr. Gress aud his assistants have been attached to the Bureau of Plant in-

dustry.

A complete laboratory for the testing of seeds, both for purity and germination. has been fitted up in the State Capitol and the seed sample* taken wil' be thoroughly analyzed. movement is on foot among officials of the I>epartmar.t of Agriculture of the various Slates, to adopt a uniform seed law. with provisions for the ample protection of the farmer against the agent selling not only pure seeds but seeds in which the vital.ty If low. The uniform seed law • ill likely he adopted before January 1. after which it will be presented the ja-gislature of the several States for their approval.

Big Potver Scheme On the Colorado Washington—An outline of a 3.000.000 horsepower ’ ydro-electric powerdevelopment pro*3CL now under sideratlon for the Colorado river, in Utah and Arf-ona, is contained in a memorandum issued recently by the Federal Power Commission, composed of the secretaries of war, interior and agriculture, announcing receipt of additional power-development applications up to December 16. With these included, the commission now has 129 arplicatiouB before it Six of the eight new applications were on California projects, the others coming from Idaho and Alaska. The memorandum adds. *-•'*. ever, that in the 129 proposals submitted are pro knls ranging from ten-horsepower plants for summer cottages in Wyoming to “the tremendous" Utah-Arizona 3.ObO.000-horsepower scheme. “This projet contemplates." the mmorandum said, “the construction of a high dam at Lees Ferry. Arizona. Just south of ihe Utah line. The dam will form a reservoir or Inland lake 300 miles long, backing up the waters of the Upper Colorado rive: and its tributaries, and having sufficient pacity effectively in control the annual run-off of the Colorado rlvt above the dam. thus giving a constant source of power in the river below the dam and v irtually eliminatin gthe disastrous floods that periodically cause so much damage in the irrigation districts along the lower stretches of the It is proposed to develop the power by a series of installations, beginning at the dam and extending along '.he river to the western boundry of Arizona. with the exception of part of the er lying within the Grand Canyon National 1’ark. which is excluded from the proposed dev.opment." The Only Way to “Get In” With Big Men The question Is most frequently asked me. especially by salesmen." says B. O Forbes, famous business writer, “is how I have been able to get the very biggest financial. Indus trial, railroad, and ni'-rc-antim- leaders in Anp-rica to open up and talk to * unreservedly. 'Hr. -ny. you must earn the reputation for unimpeachable truthfulness, for accuracy, for fairness, and for knowing your Job. Win confidence of one leader in any line and he will gladly recommend others no' afraid to have dea'ings with you. The •Ichest man In the world gave mo as the most important step to success. •First earn a credit, a character, a rep-

utation.'

"The only way to earn a reputation is to fill your Job better than it has lai-n filled_ before, to tell the truth, and to save enough money so that you can be able to tell any cm- w ho tries to put anything over on > plumb to where he belongs, teous; he gentlemanly: be obliging: do everything yo- can for others: hut Mck nobody's hunts. Kow-tow t .one, FVar no one. Every real whether lie be a multlmtlllonalr ployer or a day laborer, admire* a man who neither swsggera nor cringi who respects himself too much show disrespect to others

respect"

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Business Revival Expected in 1921 The Review of Reviews askeo various men. among them bankets, students and captains of Industry', the i following questions. First. Is 1921 to be a year of acute . Industrial depression snd great suffer-! will current readjustment soon : merge Into normal times* Second. Are prices on their way to j or near pre-war level*, or will they halt considerably above such levels* Third. Will reductions of wage costs follow reductions in cost of living at some reasonable interval? To these interrogatories rather extor ded answers were made In some Instances. For brevity only the most Impcrtant point in each reply is given here, as follows: Prof. Irving Fisher. Yale—We may expect hard times and business depression only through the winter and in less degree, in the spring. In 'he latter half, at least. 192i should be a year of prosperity. Prof. Warren M. Persons. Harvard An industrial crisis (or downward m in business activity and wholesale commodity prices) occurred last April. The subsequent business tinsettlement and recession in commodity prices have now continued for nine months. In pre-war times the corresponding phase of the business cycle lasted ten to sixteen months before it was replaced by business revival. Judging ®y pre-war experience it Is probable that business revival will begin between February and July or, to pic ka single month, in April. 1921. Elbow. H .Gary, United States Steel :'orporatios.—Readjustments are not in sll respects proceeding satisfactorily. because of the indifference or defiance of certain business men—including particularly retailers or middlemen In some lines, whose selling price* are much higher than they ought to be. B it the law of rnpply and demand is controlling the situation. and we should return to reasonable and normal conditions within six months, and probably sooner. A. Barton Hepburn. Chase National Bank—You cannot go on a spree without suffering in the cold gray dawn of the morning after, and whether our suffering be limited to the morning or extend till the evening depends upon the attitude of the public. If wi.h patience. Industry and. above all. economy. we will put together the period of prosperity, which is inevitable, will » vrry much hastened. Frank B. Anderson. Bank of California—1 do not believe we cm have normal times until: First, the present form of the revenue bill is changed basis that will reward the results saving and punish spending: second, undigrsted Liberty Bonds are absorb jd by the InvesUng public: third, con turners get the benefit of drastic dec'tnes which have occurred in most of the basic things ihat enter into the Ugh cost of living: fot-rth. labor is willing to accept lower wages, which minimize to the extent it Improve* Its efficiency: fifth, the possibility of trading with these great masses of population outside of our borders is restored; sixth, the government's floating debt is founded and Liberty Bonds refunded on a Unger

bvais.

Daniel Willard. President Baltimore nad Ohio Railroad—I do not expect prices or wages as a whole go back to pre-war levels. I do expect see prices much lower than they are. and. as prices go down, wages will probably go down tc some extent but I do not think that either material prices or wages are likely to reach pre-war levels in the immediate

future.

Clark Howell, editor Atlanta Constitution—The pendulum had to swing back, and th*t It has done so with a sudden Jerk nm? knock some of the props of business out of place ;but. after all. it may be for the bst. for the reaction must Inevitably be rs sudden In the other direction. And when it- comes it will carry everything before It. Just as happened when it turned with collapsing force to swe*-p the values of agricult is: .l commodities a few mnoths ago. William C. Edgar. Editor Western Miller—Prices probably will not reach and remain permanently at pre-war levels, but they must inevitably fall until, as in the esse of service renerwi. commodities are offered l* buyer on the basis of their e value and not on that more or less imaginary worth. The ooet of living probably will decline more rapidly than wages, but there cannot be a very great Interval between them and. necessarily, they Must come to a proper relation before th" readjustment is complete. We hat 9 been living in a period of preposterous valuations absed on extravagant, inflated and distorted notions, rather than on intrinsic worth. Those who have anything to offoc to the world, whether it be oompiodltles or service, migiit as -.-11 realize that the time has come to take the loss between the artificial and the real. Samuel 1\ Colt, United States Rubber Co.—1 ana strongly inclined to believe that current readjustments will

See Him Box; Dog’s Appetite He’s a Bear’ Jastidiou m • „ |q pui when off'ied How would you like to have a five- Refusal of og* dislike fia R l0B * iKiund black silky bundle of animation only food whl ® * , ure 0 , mnine handed you in a suit case as a soure- been recognlz.-d •** obE( . n - e ni denlr. only to see it grow by leaps and temperament. ucriiTlrrini - bounds into a giant six-foot r. which clan-. Indeed, that d Rs only . yoone !,»»• ~n boU. U. d~.b »il>" b“ “> minds one of the fairy tal wherein they have prejudice a^ the fisherman picks up a bottle on the Ar . interesting “ seashore, uncorks it and a tremendous subject Is made by i ' genie la evolved out of the «noke son. the Arctic explorer, a which emerges. But the fisherman in the Scientific Monthly, in _ ' gels cold feet, you'll remember, and by tic regions dogs are va ua e ‘ a ruse (tersuades the giant to re enter power and are carefully watc the receptacle. Then he cast it back guarded with special attention into the so«. health and all that effects IL Not so our hero, who happens to bo Mr. Stefansson intimab s t ‘ a Philadelphian. Dr. J. William Lin- ,-hich have been regularly fed on putberg. an dresides at 228 North Fift- nd meat sometimes refuse to «»t third street. Five y rs ago on a trip t Trs „ meat of the same sort aod to Florida, a friend of th doctor per- Q D d* that dogs which have from their suaded him to bring North a black (C nuct with men. been tnindt. to eat Florldabeer. then no bigger than an ia any kinds of food, take mor* readily average fox terrier. Being a veteri- lo uy new iood than if they b. narian. graduate of the U- of P.. class | lW , n reared in a more primitive way 1912. a natural lover of animals. Dr. wuh only one or two foods available. Unbars consented, and today that As an instance of his experiences he “ilule baby bear" weighs 500 pounds, sgyt: measures six feet two in his slocking | n 1914 «* bad in Northwest Banks feet and is a boxer extraordinary. Ask j g | Bn d a team of dogs none of which any kid in the neighborhood, or : presumably had eaten wolf meat. It square mile 'round for that matter. lg very Im-onventent to have a few We went out to see the bear xst anlmuls that will not eat any food week and had Dr. Unbent tell with iha | happens to he available, so we pride of Jack's—yes, that’s the bear’s , mnko a practice <>t firos zing all our name—prowess with the gloves. Well ^ og(1 0 f *n their iood prejudices when seeing's believing, isn't it* Jack will when „- c cn. We now happened to sit on his hauches. "hall" up his paws jju a wo if _ n d. although we bad plenty and play by the hour—If you will per- of ^p,- mra i. we took the occasion mil him—making passes and blocking lo break our team to the eating of wolf blows. meat, thinking that some time we might find il convenient to be able to

! feed them wolf.

We did not know exactly the ages of I our dogs, bci could judge them roughly by the teeth. One of the dogs was pre-

T nrlpr sumably two or three years older lhan LA UUI ;in y 0 ther member of the team. There

1 were six dogs altogether. W< offered That France today Is immune free ihem the meat for three or four days Bolshevist propaganda Is the opinion before any of them ate any of iL of Emile Leder. French hotelraan Then the)- began to eat it. and they on a visit here. Moncieur Leder. who commenced to est " in the order of has a European reputation as a host their age, the youngest being the first

and is proprietor of the Hotel Europe, j 0 pjve in.

at Alx-les-Bains. frequently enter The oldest dog went for two w.-eks mined Queen Victoria. without swallowing any of the wolf "The Bolshevists have no chance in meat, although he occasionally took a France." said Monsieur Leder, ' for. piece of it in his mouth and dropped the great mass of peasants ar • against „ aga j n He bad been lat at the bethem. The pesantry is getting rich K inninc of the experiment and hid and farmers are gettin gbetter price >>ecome skin-poor, when at the end ol for their products than ever before. t wo weeks we had to commence travelThey have never been so prosperous. ing and were forced to feed him on "And while they are becoming pros- caribou meat, for we needed his perous they wlil never Join the labor strength in the work we were doing, elements of the towns and cities. If We never nao the time to break this city labor should come into the conn- dog to the eating of wolf meat It is try and talk bolshevism they would , possible that act ml starvation would he driven away." never have done this with the fresh When asked how reconstruction is lnfat - '• UI be coord have been taught being effected he said; “Work in re- 10 ‘' at 11 *•>' feeding him putrid wolf construction is slow and the effec-s are fln!, “nd then later on pieces of already felt In the mining regions w,lf 'neat that were fresher. We did the flooded coal mines are rapidly be-, ‘"dur.- him to swallow some s.uall Ing drained and re vlred. We will flees of wolf meat by dipping them have enough coal to increase ' n rancid seal oil. Obviously he did

‘Reds” Chances Poor in France

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train service."

no*, smell or taste anything but the seal nil and took these pieces to he

Economists Praise Federal Reserve Bolivian Cocaine

Federal taxation and the Foder.-.; Reserve banking sv.'Ujm were the outstanding topics today in the national convention of the American Economic

Association.

Fred Rogers Fairchild, professor of political economy in Yale University, [ in urging an early abandonment by Congress of the corporate Income tax- | asserted that H works an injustice to 1 thousands of small stockholders, and j actually deprives a number of small1 scale shareholders of the benefit of ; exemption!' and tbo low normal rate ! to which they ar.* entitled. He adro- , ruled that dividens be taxed exactly j like other Income and. assuming that ! the excess profits tax is to be repealed, i that a tax be imposed on the undistributed Income of corporations. Conditions under which the Federal j Reserve B ard has worked up to this time have beer so extraordinary, that six years at least of trial under normal conditions will be required to deter- , mine the full possibilities and the 1 shortcoming* of the system. O M. \V , Sprague, of Harvard University told | the convention It is one of the inestimable advantages of the Reoerve system." he said, "that the brakes were applied bfore the supply of credit was exhuusti-d aud before the trade activity had culminated in a crisis. We are still in the midst of 11 period of necessa'/ readjustment and liquidation, but the immense superiority of the Reserve system Is compared wit hour former means of meeting simlsr situation! is already corspicuously evident " <n the next six months merge Into sub?,',antially normal tiroes. I believe that prices will hold somewhat ahovi ptv-war levels. Reductions in wage costs will, I belL ve, follow reductions in the cost of living. 1 think, however, that wage costs will remain on a higher level than la-fore the w«u

. Th ‘' “"“i profitable ' product of Bolivia i* th : from which she anaext! 1 Is derived. Th- world d* :for its .applies of coca the Kansas City Star, up

i American country.

The Bolivian nativei i ch, ’ v " f" r i's narcotic “hies the Indian burden witout food for a Jong ; work long stretches with fortunately, it, contlnui Jurioui. to the nervous * ! ““PP 0 '*! to have much t ' dwtratioii of the natii

j Bolivian plateau.

The coea plant is a si | four feet ’-igh. i taleM oval shajK* and light gre. Is frown on terraci*. bu MILM™ Tha,. Im ,„ P-'ti* of .«rth faced wl ‘“"""I The terracing eavy rain* from washl plantation down the m “ad also holds th- moist

I rool, ‘ of ll "' Plant

| Young shoots are gp j . , r ' >f < * r, od banana

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