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There's a practical, common sense use for the Kodak on every well regu- lated farm. It's rapidly becoming a necessity to the business farmer. Pictures of stock and poultry to be sent to prospective customers, pic- tures of crops at certain stages of their growth as a matter of valuable record, pictures of fat or lean cattle and hogs and horses as a record of certain methods of feeding, pictures of buildings that are to be re-modeled, pictures of desirable features in other peoples buildings — you can use all these to advantage in your business.

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The price to be paid for storage eggs has been an unsettled question. Receipts are now coming well above the amounts for im- mediate use, and something will have to be done with the surplus, but so far as I have noted egg-buyers hardly care to offer above eighteen cents. For this reason I look for a drop in fresh goods soon, though select hennery eggs are well above twenty cents.

Reports from the South and West give the supply well above' last year at this time, and quite a goodly amount of this stock is coming east. This helps to swell the receipts in the eastern markets. If this sup- ply keeps up. there can be but one conclu- sion. Prices will fall. Some are looking for the lowest price for years this spring, and a few are now saying we will have twelve- cent eggs this year from the producer. I am not so sure as some in this view, but we will not exg^ect the price to keep as high as last year. The Middle West is giving us plenty of stock now. and the outlook and reports from there show that we will have larger shipments than usual from there this year.

The egg operators held their annual meet- ing in St. Louis last week. Nearly every western State sent delegates, and some, eastern States were represented. In an ad- dress by Paul Mandeville of Chicago he noted that there has been a big increase in the consumption of eggs east of Chicago the past year. Mr. Mandeville placed the number of cases in storage in the United States last season at 10,000,000 to 13.000,- 000 cases.

All in all, I am of the opinion we will see eggs somewhat irregular for the month of April, but I see no reason for twelve-cent eggs.

No Horses to Feed in Town

By Clarence A. Purchase 'T'HE .complete output of a farm of 187 acres is carried by this truck to market, a distance of twenty-three miles, which is easily covered in two and one-half hours. As by horse from seven to eight hours are required, the saving in expense is obvious.

Before the truck was used two loads left each day during the marketing season. Both loads required an extra tow-team. The fol- lowing day another crew alternated. By

this system twelve horses and six men were continually in service. Here another item should be considered, that of boarding and lodging men and horses while at market. On the other hand, the truck requires but

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Buy Home-Grown Seed-Corn

By Geo. W. Brown P>RETTY soon we will be getting out our seed-corn testing-boxes again, to know how much life our seed-corn contains.

It is not enough to test a portion of the ears. Every ear to be planted should be tested, and it is not enough to have our test grade seventy or eighty per cent. ; we must get it up as close as possible to one hundred. Even then our chances are bad enough w-hen we consider the weather, crows, cutworms and wireworms to be en- countered after planting.

The variety must be adapted to our zone. The best seed-corn we ever had was bought from a near-by German neighbor, and the. poorest corn we ever grew was raised from seed shipped to us from a prominent seed firm. It was thoroughly reliable and good Seed, but our climate did not fit it We tried for three years to acclimate it on a small scale, but gave it up.

If you have to buy seed, buy it from your neighbor, or at least from someone in your county, but best of all raise and select it j-ourself and you'll be sure it will grow.

Farm and Fireside, April 12, 1913

Jewish Holidays and Poultry Products

By O. F. Sampson

'J'\\ O of the most important points in mar- keting sometimes overlooked are the choice of the market and the time of mar- keting. If we send our product to the mar- ket at a wrong time, or to the wrong place, we will suffer by receiving less for the goods. Those who receive most for their goods keep close watch on the conditions of the markets.

It is not generally understood that the Jewish holidays play an important part in the prices for poultry and eggs on the Xew York TOarkets. For this reason I am giN ing below the dates of these holidays this year and the best days to get the goods to the market for good" prices. If you desire further information along this line, you can get it by writing to your commission house.

Dates of Jewish Holidays, 1913

PASSOVER: April 22d. 23d; best mar- ket days, April 16th to 19th; kinds most in demand, turkeys, heavy fowl, fat ducks and

LAST P.\SSOVER: April 28th. 29th; best market days. April 23d to 26th ; kinds .most in demand, fine poultry of all kinds.

FEAST OF THE WEEKS : June Uth to 12th; kinds most in demand, good fowls of any kind ; best market days, June- 5th to 9th.

Getting the goods to the market in good condition goes a long way toward the best prices for them. Another thing is note- worthy in this connection. Eastern markets are usually higher in all poultry produce than western or southern markets, and when there is difference enough to warrant the dealers in other sections ship large quanti- ties of poultry and eggs to the New York, Philadelphia, Boston and other eastern mar- kets.

This fact came into prominence the past winter, when New England eggs for market showed a big falling off in shipments from last year, yet the total receipts of eggs in the New York market were more than a year ago. The goods, whether western or eastern, that reach the market in best con- dition and .at the best time give the best returns to the grower or shipper.

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NE can see the signs of it all around Washington nowa- days. There are evidences of the formation of lobbies. Press agenc'es are beginning to bloom into existence. Organizations that one never before heard of are stepping to the front to announce in a few modest, well-chosen words, delivered in strident tones of blatant assurance, that they're on the job, looking for the' chance, if need be. to die for the cause.

The cause, of course, is the great American agricul- , tural interest. The farmer is once more threatened. He must be looked after. As he doesn't know enough to look after himself, these thoughtful gentry will do it for him. Under no circumstances will his sacrifice be permitted; not while there's plenty of money in the till with which to fight his sham battle.

For, you see, we're confronting another revision of the taritT, and the time has come to line the farmer up against making it a real revision. If the farmer will just stick — and consent to be stuck — there'll still be a chance to fend off any worth-while measure of reduc- tion in the schedules.

Uncle Trusty and the Manikin

THEY are fixing up the scarecrow farmer right now, stuffing it with straw. Before long the effigy will be pushed out to the center of the congressional stage, and the curtain will go up on the scene that will show the farmer pleading for his life. He will be begging not to have the protection taken ol¥ his wheat, oats, cotton, corn and all the rest of the things he raises. He will shed a bunch of well-organized tears, provided the plumbing inside the scarecrow doesn't get out of whack, about the loss of his home market.

If I were an artist, Td produce a cartoon of this performance. I would have our friend Uncle Trusty sitting in the middle of the stage, as a ventriloquist, with a wooden manikin on his knee labeled "The Farmer." The conversation would run somewhat thus : Uncle Trusty— "Now, my handy little friend, what are your views on this matter of tariff revision?"

The Manikin (vigorously working his jaws as Uncle Trusty pulls the string) — "Aw, Uncle, you saj' it for me. I don't remember what you told me to say."

Uncle Trusty (startled at his thoughtless slip) — "No, that isn't what you were to think. Now, try again."

The Manikin — "All right. Uncle. What you told me to say was that if they take away my protection, the peasants of Tibet, the Sahara, Kamchatka and Mada- gascar will rush in their pauper-raised farm things, wrest my market from me and ruin my power to buy your products."

Uncle Trusty — "Fine. What next?" The Manikin — "And when you won't buy from me, and I can't buy from you, we'll both go down the tobog to ruin in a handbasket. We mustn't let any of the schedules be interfered with."

Whereupon there should be sheet-iron thunder, deaf- ening applause from the claque of Uncle Trusty's pals, and phonographic shouts of approval from the straw- stuffed farmers on the front benches.

Remember the Meat Inspection Scare ?

IT'S a good old game, but chances are against its success this time. There has been so much crying of wolf about the farmer, and the wolf hasn't bitten anybody very hard yet, that one inclines to doubt whether there is any wolf.

Recollect when, six years or less, ago, the meat- inspection legislation came up in Congress ? There was a wild alarm about how it was going to ruin the American meat business, destroy the foreign market, put the farmer out of business and scatter trouble 'all over this continent. Well, a casual study of the com- parative prices of live stock and meat at that time and now will convince you that at least the farmer wasn't the man whd suffered.

He is getting something like thirty per cent, more, I am informed, on an average, for what he raises, than

r. Wil son an d Mr. Brv

By Judson C. Welliver

he did when the inspection legislation passed. It was all fake, plain bunk; the farmer was made to play the part of Uncle Trusty's little wooden-headed friend on that occasion, as he always is asked to do when Uncle's tariff schedules are in the way of being mussed up.

The Gold Going Abroad Represents Our Last Year's Crops

EVER stop to think what he has done for the world in the last few months? He began by raising record- breaking crops last year. That was because he was lucky; the sunshine and rain got well distributed. Then just about the time that huge crop was ready to be eaten and worn the Balkan war broke out. A war means just so much waste; so many men killing each other instead of raising crops and making goods ; burn- ing powder and wearing out clothes and cannon that must be paid for ; making widows and orphans that must be supported ; in short, less production and more consumption.

So when this Balkan war turned loose, there was big demand for the surplus of American farm products. We sold them to Europe, and Europe sent us money or credited us with it on the books. Now Europe, in addi- tion to having the waste of the Balkan war on its hands, confronts the necessity of paying for the increasing armies and navies that a lot of frightened nations are investing their money in. So they are drawing on us for the use of some of our big stock of gold; and that explains the shipments of gold abroad. That gold is nothing on earth but the gilded and coined surplus of the American farms last year ; and right to-day it is keeping the world off the rocks of financial disaster. Take off your hats to yourselves, you farmers, pat your- selves on the backs, and don't start ghost dancing.

Bryan Doesn't Want to Smash Things

THE new administration is with us, the President and cabinet are settled down to business, and with nearly everybody accepting that the tariff is sure to be substantially reorganized there is already speculation as to the next step after that. Apparently it will be currency and banking legislation, especially currency, which the country needs. Everybody expects this sub- ject to command much attention at the long session of Congress beginning next December; probably there will be legislation, and if there is it will be based on the general scheme outlined in the Aldrich measure. They are not going to get very far" away from that bill.

In connection with all the discussion of prospective legislation, policies and programs there still crops out a deal of inquiry as to how President Wilson and Mr. Bryan are going to make out together. My guess is that they will make it very satisfactorily. Mr. Bryan didn't go into the Wilson cabinet in order to have a good chance to smash things. He doesn't want 'em smashed. He wants this Wilson administration to be a success. He's a good deal more responsible for it than anybod}' else ; if it fails, the American people will be convinced at last, once for all, that they guessed right the three times when they rejected Mr. Bryan's advice, and made their sole mistake when they accepted it. That would finish Mr. Bryan, and Mr. Bryan knows it. Whatever chance he has to be president in 1916 or 1920, depends absolutely on the success of the Democratic party in the next four years. If Wilson fails, it'll be like the core of the small boy's apple : there won't be any 1916 or 1920 for the Democratic party. Mr. Bryan knows all that, and is determined to do all that lies in his power to save 1916 and 1920. President Wilson understands it, too. The last thing that will happen will be a vital disagreement between these two men. They are going to hang together because it's preferable to hanging separately.

There's more danger of the rank and file of Demo- crats doing damage than that the party leadership will

do it. I mean, rather, the rank and file of the minor politicians who want the jobs. Patron- age is going to be a big and vexing problem for a long time to come. It always will, until the coun- try gets sane enough to take patronage out of politics. Of course, there are a comparatively small number of the higher positions which have to do with execution of administration policies that ought to be, and always will be filled by men designated by the President.

But the vast body of government workers ought to be selected for their qualifications to do the work, not because of their politics. Take the postal service, and compare it, say, to the Standard Oil Company. In the Standard Oil a good man who proves himself in a minor capacity gets promoted to a better place. If he makes good as agent in a small place, he is sent to a big place, perhaps at the other end of the country. If he makes good there, he becomes a minor executive in charge of a territory or a department of the business.

If the postal service were placed on a corresponding basis, it would work like this : A clerk in a post-office at Squash Center would be promoted to be postmaster when a vacancy occurred. If he proved a good post- master, he might be called away to the county-seat, as assistant postmaster; thence would rise to postmaster.

The Spoils System is Still with Us

I\TER he would have charge of a big territory's mail ^service; and, if the excellence of his service war- ranted it, earned it, he might rise to the top of the whole system as director of posts. His career would be in his own hands. Instead of becoming postmaster at his home village because he was a Successful ward boss, serving in that place till the administration changed, and then being fired without reference to his qualifications, he would find the government service a profession, with a future.

That scheme, applied to the whole government busi- ness by proper extension of the civil service rules, would put the Government on a business basis. It would make economy and efficiency and unmake ex- travagance and incompetency. It would relieve the administration of all the petty troubles that the patron- age power imposes.

We have traveled, on the whole, a long way toward that ideal ; but none the less there is still a powerful sentiment that the spoils belong to the victors, and that there ought to be enough spoils to go around.

This town of Washington is jammed full of office- seekers, and they are making life a burden to cabinet members, congressmen, senators and every friend they suspect of a bit of pull. Each one represents some elements of political strength. The disappointed ones will go home disgusted and sore. There's no way to prevent that, and hy the time four years have rolled around the disaffection, no matter how unreasonable, will be a serious factor. It is a vastly bigger danger to the administration than any quarrel between Wilson and Bryan, or between the administration and the senate leaders, or between Mr. \\ ilson and Speaker Clark. A lot of nonsense is being written and read, and to some extent believed, about feuds among the big men of the Government. Forget it. Little things and little men are going to do the most harm.

He Knows How Medicine Tastes

TWO years ago Mr. Bryan came to Washington and made a bitter fight for control of the Democratic senate caucus. Though beaten, he has been fighting ever since for the victory at this year's reorganization. Yet, when the victory was in his grasp, he gave it up. He was willing to accept the dictum of the man who has now become his chief. It must have caused some acute pangs, but he took the dose and stood by the President. There isn't likely to be a more distasteful concoction served to the Secretary of State during an entire administration.. The fact that he looked pleasant- and took the medicine on this occasion goes far to convince me that he is determined to be a good soldier, amenable to discipline: to work in harness, and to do everything he can for the administration's success.

Washington is jammed full of office-seekers, and they are making life a burden to cabinet members, congressmen, senators and every friend they suspect of a bit of pull. The disappointed ones will go home disgusted and sore. A lot of nonsense is being written about feuds among the big men in the Government, Forget it. Little things and little men are going to do the most harm.

Farm and Fireside, April 12, ISI3

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