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Show ORGANIZATION OF FARMERS Co-operation Is Team Work Hitched Together and Working Together for Each Other's Good. The very foundation of the farmers' organizations is co-operation. They are organized for working together, writes John C. Lawrence in Western Farmer. Co-operation is simply team work. It is being hitched together and pulling together. It is mor? than team work. It is good team work. Strong team work. A big team hitched together. A big team of big horses all pulling together. It is more than that. It is many teams of many horses hitched to work together Jn,-actually Jn,-actually working together, all puWrc together. It is no child's play. Boys cannot drive such a team. It is a man-size man-size job and it takes an experienced man, many experienced men. The driving of a single horse is not so difficult A team of two horses is not hard to manage. A one-armed man can do that. Four horses are not so hard after you are used to them. An energetic young man can drive such a team with one hand while having hav-ing an arm around his best girl. Six horses require more care. You have the leaders, the wheelers and the swing team and each must move promptly in place. But thirty horses, properly hitched and worked on a combine com-bine harvester, the driver needing only a pair of lines and a bean shooter, shoot-er, guiding with the lines and urging urg-ing on with the bean shooter or air gun, this is team work. In the organization of team work among tie farmers, there is a definite purpose. There are certain things to be done. Loads are to be moved. They can be moved only by organized effort, team work. What are the loads? The burdens which the farmer has to carry which he ought not to bear. He does not receive the full value for what he produces. He has nothing to say about the value. Another man who has nothing to do with farming, except farming the farm, fixes the price the farmer is to receive. Even this fellow does not fix the price. Another An-other man or set of men fixes it for him. He takes out his slice of profit and lets it go at that. Who finally fixes the price? Not the consumer? No. he pays a price fixed for him. Somewhere in between the farmer and the consumer there is an unseen power that fixes the price the farmer is to receive and again, in turn, the price the consumer is to pay. The difference differ-ence is very great. The producer and consumer are both dragging a useless load. Co-operation will do away with this. Co-operation in selling. This is the biggest problem. The first load to be removed. One alone cannot do it Two cannot, nor four nor six. Thirty makes a big team, but thirty cannot start this load. How many? All there are. Big, little, all must he hitched to this load. The balky must be dragged along until, after awhile, warmed up, they will be good pullers. The blind must be guided by the pulling of the other horses. The fractious must be held in check. The skittish, nervous ones must be reined in and held in place. The lazy must feel the lash and after a while, all will be pulling togrther. Some need blinders, they frighten so easily at every little thing. Suspicion here; distrust there. A tumble weed of doubt is set rolling by thp other fellow to scare the team until it will run away and pull apart. This one is snorting and that one is kicking over the traces. The harness for this team must be strong: organization. The lines must be made of good material: honesty. The driver must know his direction: leadership. The whip must have a good lash: energy. Everything must be in place and working togelher. How easily the load is moved. Once in motion it is carried on almost by its own momentum until it is out of the way. Almost the same experience is had in buying supplies for the farm and the home. The farmer does not fix the pri? he Is to pay for what he purchases. pur-chases. Another does that for him. The person of whom he buys does not fix the price. Another is before him. That other person does not fix the price, for he does not make tho article Somewhere between the manufacturer and the farmer there is the ability tr pile up added burdens of cost which the farmer must bear and suffer the penalty of the high cost of living himself him-self and bear the blame of the high cost of living for others. He can rid himself of this burden only by the same team work, co-operation. Luxury for Hogs. Kansas Is making mollycoddles of its hogs. The propaganda that th' ! state has been working on for clear liness in foods has actually been e? tended to the swine, and Kansas pro poses to give the hog a bath every vfiorning and a pen as clean as a Jkitchen. m All thif comes f.'om the result c some exr"Wnents a' (he Kansas Agri . ' cul urn 'o'llesc, showing that a con 1 t-'c-f! hog will put on three pound; , 7 fat while the unhappy one is col ' lecting two on the same amount o . ; food. , Poison Mash for Army Warm. , To make an effective poison marh - for army worms mix a patind of p;iris green and one quart of cheap mniat-sns with 25 pounds of wheat or corn bran and moistr-n with water as I , needed. Sprinkle this thickly acrosi-: acrosi-: ' tht-ir line of march. Renew as ncces- i sary. I A furrow plowed deeply and turned r toward the oncoming worms is al.c;o said to be elective as a check Keep Out Drafts. V,e sure to plug ui all hole?, chir.k , ' up all cracks, and make the three , ! windy sides of the building as tight a? 5 Ihey can be made. Drafts mem colcis. t Colds mean roup and pneumonia. t ; Fresh air is a good thing, but it f should come only from one side and r ( not in thin piercing streams. - Concrete Post Popular. I The concrete fence post is taking e the plate of the wooden post cn mans e i a farm. It is more durable and need" j less repairing when properly n ade. |