Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 5 January 1923 — Page 4

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1913.

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Feeders Brought Directly to Ohio Feed Lots From Colorado by the Ohio Farm j Bureau Federation and Live Stock Shippers. : Ohio livestock feeders are well pleased with the plan of buyin? feeders dl- j rectly from the ranges, judging from the use they are making of the plan. Dur- 1 ing the month of October, 28 carloads of feeder cattle were brought to Ohio feedlots directly from Colorado through the purchasing agents of the Ohio Farm Bureau federation and Ohio Livestock Shippers’ association in co-opera-tion with the Colorado Farm Bureau federation. The first purchases were made by Sir. Scott O’Day, a well-known cattle feeder of Ohio. He was unable to fill all of the orders received for the first shipments, and so great was the number of orders that another man was necessary on the purchasing end on the second lot. Mr. O’Day and Harry G. Beale, a cattle feeder of Ohio, left for the range again the last week in October with orders for about 90 carloads of stock, which were largely filled during early November. Feeders who obtained their cattle on the first shipments were well pleased with the plan, according to reports they sent into the federation oflices. A number of letters stated that the purchasers found them a uniform lot of good quality stock and reported them cheaper than the same quality feeders could have been purchased at terminal markets. Ono man reported a saving of slightly over $200 on one carload of feeders.

Here’s How New York Fiopes to Solve Traffic Problem

A FTTOMOBLLES have eiven to all the world's big cities a traffic problem each finds it hard to solve, but undoubtedly New York's is most puzzling The metropolis is installing a series of bronze towers from which officials in control will do their work This is the first of them, at Fifth Avenue, and Forty-second Street. Its 23 feet high and from it all traffic, signals will be flashed in every direction

GUNNELS HAS JOINED AMERICAN INSTITUTE

Quits as Treasurer and Director of Organization Department of Bureau. Charles E. Gunnels has joined the staff of the American Institute of Agriculture as director of its extension department. Mr. Gunnels resigned as treasurer and director of the organization department of the American Farm Bureau federation, taking effect after the annual meeting. He also resigned as treasurer of the United States Grain Growers, Inc. The American Institute of Agriculture has headquarters iu Chicago, azid was organized by George Livingston,

TRADE-MARK TERMED BIG BUSINESS ASSET

Charles E. Gunnels. formerly chief of the United States bureau of markets, to train men by correspondence courses in agricultural marketing. Mr. Gunnels joined the staff of the American Farm Bureau federation as assistant secretary early in 1920. He was later elected treasurer and at the annual meeting of the American Farm Bureau federation in Atlanta last j-ear, was appointed director of the organization department. Before coming to the American Farm Bureau federation, Mr. Gunnels was in the states relations service of the Department of Agriculture at Washington, and previous to that was director of the agricultural extension service and county agent leader in the University of Nebraska.

TO PLAN NEXT YEAR'S WORK

Ohio Farmers to Hold Annual Meeting of State Farm Bureau at State University. Ohio farmers will plan the next year’s work of their state farm bureau federation at the annual meeting of that organization which will be held January 30 and 31. The sessions will be held at the Ohio State university and will occur at the same time that representative farmers from all over the state are in' Columbus attendingthe annual farmers’ week. The program outlined will consist of a report to the delegates of work accomplished during the past year. Officers state that their activities dum ing the phst year have repaid the efforts and financing many times over to the farmers of> the state. Work has been conducted in fruit, live stock, dairy, wool, and vegetable marketing, and the co-operative purchase of fertilizers, twine, feeder cattle and feeds. In addition to this major work has been done on transportation problems, in legislative matters, investigation and service in legal, auditing, publicity and other depart-

ments.

Every ono of the 88 counties will have delegates at the coming meeting, and every delegate will come from a functioning farm bureau organization. Plans for the coming year’s work will also he outlined.

West Virginia Association First to Take Advantage of Registration Service. The Inwood Fruit Growers’ association of West Virginia was the first to take advantage c£ the American Farm Bureau federation’s new federal trade-mark registration service A large number of farmers of West Virginia market their fruit through the big state-owned demonstrational packing house at Intvood, which was established for the purpose of standardising the pack throughout that section of West Virginia and the adjoining territory in Virginia and Maryland. This is accomplished by conducting a school for packers who return home and have the standard pack adopted in their locality. The trade-mark registered by the Inwood association, the “Johnny Appleseed Brand” is distinctive in that it not only plays up the words “Johnny Appleseed” but there is reproduced a picture of a face on an appleseed. The name was derived from the story which is told of a unique character who in pioneer days walked over the old Cumberland trail eating apples and scattering or planting the seeds along the way. So persistent was he in his efforts to start trees in this way that he was given the nickname of “Johnny Appleseed.” Johnny’s name and face are now saved to posterity and the growers assured of protection of their investment in a trade-mark. The American Farm Bureau federation through its Washington office, will secure the registration of trade-marks for agricultural co-operative marketing associations and farmers at actual cost of the service. The trade-mark is a business asset. An association or farmer doing business on a small scale may neglect to register a trade-mark, feeling that because of a limited amount of business it is not worth while. When the business grows, however, the trade-mark rapidly assumes very important pro-pox-tions. The business has invested large sums in advertising the trademark as well as the product. It frequently happens at this period of the business that it is disrupted because someone, else has registered the trademark.

BUREAU ANNUAL CONVENTION

Representatives to Number of 250 Expected to Meet in Hotel

Sherman, Chicago.

From December 11 to 14, the Sherman hotel in Chicago was the scene of the annual convention of the Americau Farm Bureau Federation, attended by 250 or more representatives from all over the United States. Reduced rates on all railroads secured by the American Farm Bureau Federation are making it possible for many farmers to be there who would otherwise not come. Many farm bureau members will come early to attend the International Live Stock exposition which is held the week preceding the farm bureau convention.

CASH REQUIRED FOR BUREAU Investigation in Appanoose County, Iowa, Shows Each Farmer Pays

$1.28 Yearly.

The Appanoose county (Iowa) farm' bureau has made recent investigation of the amount of taxes required per capita in Appanoose county to maintain the farm bureau organization. It was found that only two-thirds of a one mill leyy was required to pay the $5,000 appropriation by the county board of supervisors for this work. This investigation also showed that on the 170 farms surveyed each farmer pays $1.28 per year toward the support of the farm bureau. The average acreage of these farms was 157.0.

HORSE KILLS GIRL IN CAR Fleet, Eng.—Seated in her father’s automobile, 12-year-old Stella Straiten was kicked by a frig'btcned horse and killed.

MEASURES YOUR SMELLER London—A physician has invented an *.Ifm n ct or v Inch tests the sense of smell in patients with nasal troubles.

Farmer Finds Prices Are at Lowest Level; He is Left Stranded

Rural Worker Is Confronted Witlh Most Serious Question Following Deflation of Land Values

By C. M. Ginlher. Dayton Daily News

Tho farmer is sleeping on the floor. He can’t fall out of bed. Deflation in the prices of everything the farmer has to sell including the very land on which he grows his crops, has brought his affairs to a very low level. The turning wheel of business has dragged him from the high point to the lowest and there seems to have stopped, with the motive power shut

off.

When farm prices started to de- . cline from the high level of 1919, the fall was the most violent ever known in history. It was entirely out of proportion to the decline of other commodities. The present condition of agriculture, as a ccnsequgnee of this disproportion, is by far the most disturbing element of instability in the present domestic situation. Dozens of theories have been advanced to account for the slump, the one most frequently repeated being the “rotation of the business cycle in our productive industries.” but theories salve no wounds. It is a most serious endition that confronts the farmer. The farmer’s trouble is not due to short production. The year 1922, while not the greatest production year, was one of the most productive in American farming. He has done everything he could to help himself, but elements in the situation that are entirely beyond his ability to control, have placed him where he is. Some of the things he cannot control are high freight; rates, war-time wages paid for producing the commodities he must buy, production greater than domestic demand can consume and i foreign markets all but destroyed. j If the relationship between prices now were )tuclh as existed before | the war this year of 1922 would be ! a prosperous year for agriculture, and consequently a prosperous year for the nation. With the distorted relationship of prices at the present time, farmers notwithstanding their hard work and large production- are

laboring under a terrible disadvantage as compared with otner groups. The chief difficulty cf farmers in the present disturbed state of tneir affairs is not so much in the prices they are getting as in the “spread” of prices Ixffween what they sell and the prices they have to pay for practically everything they buy. Farmers can not more stop buying than they can stop selling. They must have tools, implements, machinery, fuel,

Ready for War i In Himalayas,,

have reached England lately. So the Sepoys,- or native British-Indian troops, are on the alert. The picture shows a detachment of them holding a Himalayan mountain pass. From the steepness of the slope, it looks as if hanging on might be even harder work than it would be to iight^ )

clothes, cement, lumber, hardware, and dozens of other articles- every one of which is produced by labor that is paid wages but slightly reduced from war-time rates. They do not complain that workers in factories are receiving good pay, their discontent arises from their own inability to make ends meet because of the unfair and inescapable conditions under which they must operate. In 1913 the prices of many farm products were very close to what they are now for the same commodities. In that year, 1913, hogs were quoted at the Dayton stock yards at $7.81 and $7.90, cattle $7.00 and $7.75, wheat in Chicago at 90 cents a bushel and corn in Cincinnati at 77 cents a hundred pounds. On December 22, 1922, hogs were quoted at the Dayton stock yards at ij8.25 and cattle $7.25 and $8.00. If the prices of the things farmers must buy in 1922 were as nearly proportional with the prices of the things he has to sell as they were in 1913, there would not be so much room for complaint- but they are very different. In 1913 a hundred pound hog would buy a ton and half of coal, while now it will buy two-thirds of a ton. In 1913 it would buy a fair overcoat for the boy, while today it will take the price of two such hogs to buy an overcoat no better. In 1913 one such hog would buy two pairs of good shoes. In 1922 it took it all to buy one pair. Then it would buy about five gallons of paint, while now it will buy three. In the purchase of furniture, carpets, gasoline, oil, clothing, musical instruments and dozens of other commodities that must be used on a farm the price of a hundred pound hog would go 50 to 75 per cent farther in 1913 than it will today. The same is true of mechanical equipment for the farm. Everything is much higher than in 1913- and whether the farmer buys a hoe or a self-binder, boards for a fence or material for a silo, nails or cement, he is confronted with tfie same alternative, pay the price or go without, and he cannot go without. The same thing meets him when he goes to buy his tax receipt. That, too, is higher, and since taxes are paid out of the net profits farmers are all but distracted to find money to pay with. Hundreds in every community are forces to borrow to meet these inescapable charges- and they see their future mortgaged to meet these requirements, with a recurrence of the samv staring them in the face with the return of each

year.

The situation is deplorable for all, but not unendurable for all, because there are land owners who, having debt, are able to apply their income to the discharge of current obligations as they arise. But there is a very large class of farmers who assumed obligations during the days of peak prices for farm products. These men paid high prices for land, or promised to pay, and mortgaged their acres for whatever amount they could not pay down. Had prices of farm products remained as they were when the obligations were assumed, all would have been well. But when prices dropped and sagged below pre-war levels- and pay day came around such men realized they were ruined. They saw their savings of years of toil swept away, they were called on to pay and could not, suffered ejectment through foreclosure and faced the world penniless and worses, because 'many Remained in debt for equipment bought to carry on their larger operations when they bought more land. No community escaped. All southwestern Ohio suffered in common with every other agricultural section. Through all his difficulties the farmer has continued to produce. He had no alternative. He cannot shut down his farm like a manufacturer closes his factory because ho has not the means to live on without constant production. He must go on and does go on, producing without cessa-

tion.

The farmers have produced food in abundance, and this contributes to the prosperity of business and industry for a time, but the inadequate return which the farmer isreceiving and has received for three years, inevitably must result in readjustments in the number of people on the farms and in the cities- which will not be for the continuing good of the nation. While the price of some farm products has advanced over last year this advnge has been accompanied by equally large or larger advances in the prices of other commodities. Many thousands of farmers have not been able to weather the storm, notwithstanding their most strenuous efforts. Frantic |efforts have hpen made by Congress through legislation to help the situation, but much of it was ill-advised and mostly ineffectual. It has been made easy for landed farmers to go into debt, but conditions continue hard for them to get out of debt. Farmers know what they need, and that is unrestricted markets to consume all they can produce at prices that cover cost of production with a reasonable Jtet profit, which is not unfair, and should not be withheld from them by legislation, politics or interested business policy.

URGES GREAT CARE IN HANDLING MILK

Great care to prevent contamination of the milk, now that the cows are in the barns is urged by dairymen. The cows should be curried and their flanks and udders washed or wiped with damp cloth when soiled. The hands of the milkers should never be wet with milk. One with a bad cold should he particularly careful and no one with a fever or severe sore throat should handle milk at all. If a cow gives lumpy, stringy, or bloody milk, her milk should not be used until sometime after this condition has cleared up. If the cow’s udder is hard or swollen her milk is not safe. Only a few cases of tuberculosis and other diseases are carried by milk compared with the number contracted directly from other people; hut there are enough cases ! to make careful, cleanly methods necessary.

Film Star in a New Frock

rrillis is Gladys Walton, the film star, in a new dinner gown <£; which dressmakers rave over. It's of black net and cream princess lace, with sash of black satin ribbon, c-otin with rhinestCuO

A great renaissance of western civilization, providing we take advan- i tage of several fundamental ideas of , the race was prophieised in a recent ] lecture on the Troy Chautauqua a | few years ago. Mr, Frank pointed ! out that just now there is a more ■ definite literature of despair than there is of optimism. This literature, he said, is motivated by several fears which may be designated as those induced by mob psychology, biology, economics, administration, moral ideas and philosophy. The biological rear, he defiined as the idea that the best blood of the race is turning to water. The basis of the mob fear is that individuality may be driven to the wall. The success of this literature of despair, said Mr. Frank, may be attributed to the facts that pessimism is more ! sensational and makes better news than the brighter looking ideas.

A MIRROR stands in our big front room where the folks who come and go mu:,! pass the thing a dozen times a day And h really see-ms that this bn or glass is in a place to know a lot oi things in its reflecting way Ii watches mother ai her work it watches tots at play It easts a liv ing picture of then acts It s Pound to see the happenings that transpire every day it cannot hel; Put reg:» ter the facts And when Dad corrn-s n evening time it sees tvs smiling face Oi pos sibly it : casts a sulky trown It knows the bil ot cheet ot gloom he spreads around the place and also wbethei spirit s up o- down Ah tola the silent minoi has a story that is held within its soul—a soul that s framed m gold To set the things that happen is this article compelled—and ye- its story never ear, he told

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Stata of Indiana, Delaware County, ss r— In Delaware Superior Court, November term, 1922. In Re—The petition of Charles A. Barley, et al., for drainage. No. 3591. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, to whom was assigned the construction of the ditch and drain described' in the final report of the drainage commissioners in the above entitled' cause, will on Tuesday, January 16th, 1923, at the hour of 11 o’clock a. m., receive bids at the law office of Omar G. Weir, Room 9, Anthony Block, Muncie, Indiana, for the construction of said ditch and drain. Said contract will be let to the lowest bidder. Bond or certified check of $500.00 to accompany bid' for construction of said work. The right to reject any and all bids is reserved. CHARLES M. REASONER, Superintendent of Construction. Dec. 29. 1922, Jan. 5, 1923. Dated' December 26. 1922.

Send us your old furniture. We return It like new. You can have no real conception of what skilled workmanship can accomplish with old and dilapidated

HERE’S A MEAN THIEF Orange, N. J.—While crippled Edna Harris was attending a moving 1 ictuA; show her H ieeLchair was stolen.

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