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_DALLAS POST, DALLAS: PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1931
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__ Agricultural And Poultry Ne EWS Of
Farm Interest
Some of the Activities of Farmer-Owned Cooperatives
wool for growers of 12
kets butter -for 100,000 farmers
several states.
en who take the processing gg
and marketing of their products into
»" their own hands have built big enter-
prises, Sorting wool in a cooperative
warehouse in Portland which markets
states.
(Below) Hauling wheat to & |
Joconiathe elevator at Hoxie, Kans. {
Above) (Right) The big building is |
the Seattle branch of the Washington
Cooperative Egg and Poultry Asso- §
ciation. Land o’ Lakes’ Creameries,
Minneapolis, ownéd by farmers, mar-
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HOME GARDEN IS ioe
FARMER’S INSURANCE
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Recently W. R. Beattie, Senior Hor-
ticulturist of the Bureau of Plant In-
dustry, United States Department of
Agriculture, in a nationally broadcast
raido talk on the farm garden, stated
that in every economic crisis through
which the agriculture of any section of
the country has passed the home gar-
den and other sources of home food
supply have saved the day.
‘When the boll weevil struck the cot-
ton -growing sections, Mr, Beattie
pointed out, one of the first steps taken]
was to start a campaign for vegetable
gardens, poultry, pigs and cows on
‘every farm so that the land would at
least provide a means of Hvelihood.
Things haven't changed much and the
same principles apply today.' The
farmer, however hard times may be
for him, who plants and cultivates his
own garden has a form of insurance
against privation that is denied the
city worker, In this respect he is far
better off than the thounsands of un-
employed in the city,
left the farm at the time of industrial
prosperity and are now looking wist-
fully back at the land.
“If everybody engaged in farming,
Mr. Beattie said in his address, “will
produce plenty of fruits, vegetables,
milk and butter, poultry and eggs,
home grown and cured pork, also fresh
meats to some extent, they can at least
(have a good living at home and that
is more than a lot of people who are
out of employment have today. ‘But,’
says the pessimist, ‘that will only in-
crease the difficulty and reduce the
market for foods that are grown in a
large -way for sale.’ Perhaps, pro-
vided the farmer has the money with
which to buy the food, but suppose he
does not have the money, what then?
As a matter of fact ,it is good business
and economy to produce most of the
living for the farm family and the
hired help right on the farm.”
many of whom
In all parts of the country there are |
{foresighted agricultural I aders who
jare in agreement with Mr. Beattie in
ging atcively pushed.
Hq | preaching’ the advantages of “making
the farm as much as’ possible a self-
sufficing unit, not only in these times
of agricultural and general economic
depression, but as a permanent agri-
cultural .. policy. In South Carolina,
Virginia, Arkansas and other states,
statewide campaigns to bring about
the planting of farm gardens are be-
In these cam-
paigns the agricultural colleges and the
states’ home demonstration agents are
taking a leading part.
‘A well planted and cared for half-
acre garden will profiuce more vege-
tables than the average family can eat,
during the period when the crops are
maturing. Carrits, late cabbage, beets, |
onions, parsnips, potatoes and turnips |
can be grown and stored for use dur-
ing the winter, thus lutting the winter
food bills. - One acre of garden was
worth as much as 65 acres of cotton
on a farm in Texas last yearn whose
owner figured that the acre yielded a
profit of $400.
It is not only from the point of view
of cutting the family food bills, how~
ever, that the vegetable garden de-
serves a place on every farm. So much
has been said and written about vita-~
mins during the last few years that
practically everyone Knows they are
essential to good health. Fresh, green
vegetables are among the best sources
vitamins, but en-
of thse invaluable
Here's A Classified List of
Real Bargains
In New Farm Machinery:-
IF YOU ARE GOING TO NEED MACHINERY NOW OR THIS SUMMER, CHECK
THIS LIST. YOU'LL FIND GOOD PRICES HERE—EVERY MACHINE IN FIRST-
CLASS CONDITION—AND PRICED CHEAPER THAN YOU COULD BUY SECOND-
ONE NO. 16 WIARD
Walk-
to
Wood Beam—one-hourse
ing Plow, with sod cutter, 6
10-inch farrow.
Old Price, $18.00, Stock Re-
dueing Price, $14.88
HAND EQUIPMENT.
ONE NO. 43 WIARD
Steel Beam Walking Plow,
13-inch furrow.
Old Price, $28.20, Stock Re~
ducing Price, $22.75.
THREE WHEEL AND SHOE
9 to
ONE NO. 12 MOLINE
Iron Beam Walking Plow.
Old Price $23,00 Stock Re-
ducing Prife, $15.86
SPRING TOOTH HARROW
SECTIONS
Just the Harrow for one horse.
Old Price, $9.00, Stock Reduc-
ONE OLIVER E-14 INCH
Wood Beam Plow, particularly
adapted to sandy or gravelly
Old Price, $34.25. Stock Re-
ducing Price, $29.00.
ing Price, $4.50.
ONE EUREKA NO. 26
POTATO PLANTER WITH
FERTILIZER ATTACHMENT
Areal bargain.
"ONE ROLLER PULVERIZER
AND MULCHER
The most profitable implement
; om the farm, will pay for itself
in increased production.
Old Price, $99.35, Stock Re-
ducing Price, $72.85.
soil.
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Old Price, $146.00, Sale Re-
ducing Price, $114.50.
ONE JOHN DEERE VAN
BRUNT GRAIN DRILL
9-hoe with fertilizer attachmen.,
Old Price, $135.00, Stock Re-
ducing Price, $92.80,
ONE NO. 26 BLACKHAWK
~ MANURE SPREADER
One of the outstanding spread-
Old Price, $180, Stock Re-
ducing Price, $133.15.
es]
ONE MOLINE 30-TOOTH
SELF-DUMP SULKY HAY
- RAKE
Old Price, $57.65, Stock Re-
ducing Price, $34.20.
ONE TWO GANG 10-DISK
HARROW
Light Weight 2-Horse ‘Orchard
Outfit.
ONE OLIVER SUPERIOR NO.
26 GRAIN DRILL
9-hoe with fertilizer attachment
and grass seeder.
Old: Price, $148.50, Stock Re-
ducing Price, $108.50. °
ONE OHIO LIME AND FER-
LIZER SOWER
8-foot swath, 15 bushel capacity
with agitator.
Qid Price, $53.00, Stock Re-
ducing Price, $44.00.
16 Single Plow Handles, 35¢
8 Pair. John Deere Plow Hand-
30-FEET NATIONAL BARN
GOFT MEYERS HAY TRACK
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: 19%%¢c per foot.
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les, 4 Pair Oliver Handles, DOOR TRACK
$2.10 each.’ 8 cents per foot.
SPECIAL PRICES ON .ALL. | PLOWS =
JOHN DEERE MACHINERY HARROWS
IN STOCK CULTIVATORS
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WE WILL ALLOW A 10 PER CENT DISCOUNT FROM THE ABOVE PRICES FOR
| CASH OR WE WILL ACCEPT BANKABLE NOTES WITH APPROVED
SECURITY FOR ALL ITEMS COVER $10.00
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Risley-Major Co.
“Hardware for every where”
Dallas, Pa.
chicks are going out every day. A great
many folks will wonder this year why
they lose so many chicks, why thosu
they have don’t grow ‘well and look
weak, They wonder why it takes so
much longer than it should to get the
cocherels to a weight of two to two
and a half pounds, when they can be
most profitable put on the market as
Iwoilers.
Providing that the ration has a good
formula and is made of good ingredi-
ents the-big reason for slow growth,
lack fof uniformity and
loss, is the fact that few people use
enough hopper space.
If there are five people in our family
and the table is only large enough to
accommodate two, somebody either has
to wait a good while or go hungry.
The same thing applies to baby chicks.
enough hopper space to give the chicks
the right kind of a start and to give
them a chance to grow satisfactorily.
Seven: feet of hopper space is needed
for each hundred chicks. Less than
this will cause slow growth and in-
creased mortality. = Tn
Check up on hopper space. Be sure
you have enough and then watch the
chicks grow. But, above all, don’t be
guilty of cruelty to animals, because
that is what lack of hopper space
really is so far as baby chicks are
concerned.
tirely too frequently the farmer, busy
with his money crops, feels that he has
no time to bother with a garden even
though his wife and the older children
may easily be able to take care of it
once it is ploughed.
The result is that in many instances
the farm diet is too much restricted
to meat, potatoes and bread. Green
vegetables, one of nature's best preven-
tive medicines, have little place on the
menu. The various deficiency diseases
have a chance to creep in, breaking
down health and stamjna, Investiga~
tors have found that a large proportion
of ill health in rural districts is trace-
able to the absence of a well balanced
diet. No diet can be called well bal-
anced that lacks an abundance of
fresh, green vegetables. :
A vegetable garden planted this
spring will return ample dividends in
health and in" helping to make the
farm family self-sufficing, able to
weather any economic storm.
"CRUELTY TO BABY CHICKS |
By.
Prof. Paul G. Riley
The baby chick season is here. More
considerable
Not .one brooder house in fifty has{
Gay-Murray GO
Incorporated
Tunkhannock
Let our Asphalt and Slate Roof-
ing relieve your overhead worries
Bought in carload lots—sold at
a saving In price.
Heavy Slate Surfaced. $2.10 roll
Heavy Asphalt Smooth 2.10 “
Med. Asphalt Smooth. 1.65 “
Coverwell Heavy .... 1.65
Coverwell Medium 1.45 “
Coverwell Light ..... 1.20 “
We have several hundred rolls,
slightly damaged, to sell ‘at the
folowing prices:
Slate Surfaced ......$1.30 roll
Heavy Asphalt ... 1.15 «
Medium Asphalt .. 85 «
Light Asphalt .... : : a0 “
Our new crop bulk Garden
and Field Seeds are now ready—
Use them for best results.
Gay-Murray Go. Inc.
WE SELL FOR LESS
“PROF. P.G.
RILEY
CLASSIFIED ADS
GET BIG RESULTS
AT LITTLE
COST
Farm Population
Shows Increase
For the first time in ten years, an
increase in farm population is an-
| nowreea by the Federal bureau of
| agricultural economics, according .to
reports received here.
When the estimates ares compared,
[the results reveal 208,000 more people
were living on farms in the United
States on January 1, this year than on
the corresponding date year ago.
The estimates, by geographic ‘divi-
sions, show that, with one exception,
the Middle Atlantie division (in which
Pennsylvania is located) has the high-
est percentage increase in farm popu-
lation. In the West Pacific divisions,
more people are apparently still leav-
ing the farm than are coming back to
the country.
In 71930, it is estimated that 95,000
people left farms and 111,000 returned
to farm in the Middle Atlantic States.
BIGGER EGG PRODUCERS
AND HEAVIER BROILERS
Fed to chicks from the time they are hatched until
they are five months old, Chicatine will give you the best
possible development of pullets and fit them to be large egg
producers.
Hens must have strong constitutions to be big produc- ;
ers and Chicatine will produce the constitutions they need.
Chicatine will develop broilers more quickly and heav-
ler with out the losses which occur when they are forced
too much without receiving in the feed all the elements to
maintain their health and vigor.
You will make more money from your breilers when
Chicatine 1s fed.
DALLAS, PENNA.
5 RL
2%
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DEVENS MILLING COMPANY
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SERVICE
KUNKLE, PENNA.
A Carload of Nebraska
Horses
TUNKHANNOCK
March 25, 1931
SALE STARTS PROMPTLY AT 1:00 P.M. ALL HORSES
DIRECT FROM WESTERN FARMS, ELIMINATING MARKET
DISEASES, AND MARKET EXPENSES AND PROFITS.
SEE THESE HORSES, YOU CAN BUY THEM CHEAP FOR
CASH.
MOFFIT LIVESTOCK CO.
B. ©. Moftit, Auctioneer