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UNIVERSITY MISSOXJRIAN. FIFTH YEAR COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1913 NUMKR94 DEALERS CAUSE HIGH PRICES, SAYS WATERS Former Missouri Dean De clares Producers Get Little of the Retail Cost. PREDICTS COLDER WEATHER rOO MUCH SHIPPING Lack of Cooperation Among Farmers Makes High Transportation Charges. The cost of living in the United States is too high and at the same time the farmers do not receive enough for their productB. (The ex planation is in transportation charges and middlemen's profits. These statements were the basis of the talk in the University Auditorium last night by H. J. Waters, former dean of the College of Agriculture and vnow president or tne Kansas btate rJcrlcultural College. Cooperation Ituiung uic lamiuia in uujiug uuu ceil ing is the remedy he offers for these conditions. "The road from the farm to the kitchen has been lengthened," Mr. Waters said. "The high cost of living Is not caused so much by the prices the farmers receive but rather by the cost of getting the products to the consumer. What the farmer gets is often too low. This is shown by the fact that meat is high yet the price paid for meat animals has not been enough to Justify raising them. "Causing the farmer to take less for what he raises would cause land values to shrink. If the farmer Is to have good schools, good roads, cora fnrfo wliirli nrp Imrt in town, a cood wKurch in short. If he is to have a social life which will hold the boys and girls on the farm he must re ceive more for his products." Must lie Business Man. To accomplish these results the speaker said that the farmer must im prove in two ways. He must become a better, farmer and a better business man. The average farm is not large enough to support two men, one a business man and tne other a farmer. But Mr. Waters' plan for better busi ness methods in buying and selling on the farm is that the farmers co operate and employ a man of busi ness ability to market their products for them. With charts, Mr. "Waters illustrated that at the time of high market prices for eggs and other products there was always the smallest supply; yet the prices the consumer paid remain ed practically the same at all times. He said the middlemen bought when othe market was low and sold out when "W prices were highest With co dcration Mr. Waters thinks that the farmers' business agent could hold the products until the price was right, and this extra profit would go to the farmers instead of to the dealers, This system would make It possible for the growers to fix the prices for their products. Mr. Waters showed that this co operative plan would work with the same advantages In selling live stock and in handling grain by a system of grain elevators under the direction of their business adviser. Useless Shipping Back and Forth. It was pointed out that the towns and farms are becoming too inde pendent of each other. Farmers sell their products in the markets of dis tant cities. The merchants in the towns buy these products in some form and have them shipped back again from the cities. According to the Department of Agriculture, this ;jy Uig and reshipplng, and other ets of getting farm products to the consumers, cost seven billion dollars last year. This was one billion more than the farmers got for their pro ducts. Mr. Waters said that coopera tion between the farmers and the town merchants would cause home products to be used at home with the consumers paying less than they do now because the charges of shipping and rc-shlpplng would be eliminated. He suggested that the College of Agriculture establish a bureau to aid the farmers of Missouri in organiz ing for such cooperation. In closing he said: "The college must turne out men who not only know how to fix a broken machine or build up a run down farm but also know how to build up a run-down rural community and hoy to build up the social life of a down church." F. S. Weather Bareaa Says Tempera ture Will Be Bear Freezing Tonight. The official weather forecast today is: "Mostly cloudy and unsettled weather tonight and Saturday; colder tonight, temperature about freezing." The temperatures today: 7 a. m 50 11 a. m 45 8 a. m 47 11 (noon) 47 9 a. m. ......46 10 a. m 45 1 P. 2 P. m. m. .50 .50 reputation of Missouri's saddle horses and other lhe stock. E. R. Lake, who is connected with the work of the United States Department of Agricul ture in Oregon, told of irrigation, planting, pruning and marketing the fruit of the orchards of the North west His lecture was illustrated with lantern slides. CORN MEN ELECTED Business Sessions Heldby the State Association Here Yesterday. Officers for the coming year were elected at the business meeting of the Missouri Corn Grower's Association yesterday afternoon. The officers are: President, George If. Sly. Rockport; ice-president northwest section: Thomas Swanson of Rea, Mo; vice-president northeast section, Alonzo White, Palmyra, Mo.; vice president central section, E. L. Hughes of Glasgow, Mo.; vice-president southwest section, Simon Baum gartner of Pierce City, Mo.; vice president southeast section, M. M. McC.iuley of Doniphan, Mo.; secretary, T. R. Douglass of Columbia. The secretary was instructed by the association to telegraph to President-elect Woodrow Wilson indorsing H. J. Waters of the Kansas State Ag ricultural College for Secretary of Agriculture. The matter of funds needed to car ry on the work already begun among tho boys as corn growers was dls cussed and it was voted to ask the legislature for $5,000 to be used in the next biennial period. The boy members of the association constitute an ever Increasing part of it. Counting the boys, the association now has 3700 members, according to Secretary Douglass. At the meeting of the Missouri Dairy Association yesterday after noon In the Agricultural Building, W. W. Marple of the Fox River Butter Company spoke on "Protect the Dairy Cow." In his speech Mr. Marple told of the value of the cow, not only to the dairyman but to the country as a whole. Through her products, ha said, the cow is one of our greatest food agents. George B. Ellis, editor of the Mis souri Farmer and Breeder, then spoke on "Effective Organization and Co operation." Mr. Ellis favors an imme diate thorough organization of the dairy association throughout the state. P. M. Brandt, secretary of the assa- ciation, gave a sketch of what the organization had done in the last year and what it was trying to do at present Other men spoke or asked ques tions concerning the different phases of the dairy question. A. J. McDowell, dairy agent for the Frisco railroad, said that he believed that now more than ever before the extension work In the dairy business needed push ing to the front The Missouri State Dairy Associa tion elected all Its present officers for another year. They are: President, Marshall Gordon; vice-president, C. W. Kent; secretary, P. M. Brandt; treasurer, Rudolph Miller. feeder, it is not more profitable to feed the young animal for beef than the old, as immature cattle require a long er feeding period than the mature, ac cording to Dean F. B. Mumford. In speaking of his experience he said: "Quality and breeding are of next importance. The quality of quick ma turing is highly desirable and is the aim of the breeders of the beef herds. "Thin animals are not profitable, as was proved by an experiment with two calves, each weiglng 200 pounds at the start and kept on special feed for thirty-eight months. One was fed a maintenance ration for a year and held to 200 pounds. The other receiv ed a fattening ration throughout the entire time. The first, though it re ceived only enough to Jkeep it at 200 pounds weight, grew In size and bone. When put on a fattening ra tion it made faster and more economi cal gains than the latter but never made the final weight "All our experiments point that the thinner the animal the less food re quired to make a pound of gain; that it costs nearly twice aB much to put gain on during the last half of the feeding period as it does during the first half." BANQUET ENDS WEEK FORFARMERSTONIGHT 500 Will Go to U. D. Club to Eat Prize Meat and Hear Toasts. I DR. HILL TO PRESIDE Visitors to Occupy (Student Places and Eat the Best From State Farm. SIMPLIFIES FARM ACCOUNTS Prof. Johnson Originates System of Systematic Bookkeeping. The farm management department hac a simplified nystem for keeping farm accounts. Prof ). i: Johnson is the originator ami bis '-vork wl.l soon be available to tlie farmers of the state in bullet'n form. f.ingle-entry bookkeeping under dif ferent hei-ls, such as field crour, stock, .ator and machinery, is a sinij-le and meritorious system. lrofessor John on's 'Farm Dlmy is mor-j detail ed. WITH THE VISIT RS Practical Results Obtained From Farmers' Week, They Say. W.. R- Hcdpeth of Cooper County came to Farmers' Week "just to see what was going on". He is interested especially in corn growing. Cooper is a fine corn county, according to Mr. Hedpeth. "I set my boy up with 160 acres of land but wish I had given him a high school education and sent him to the College of Agriculture here in stead." Thus Charles W. Leazenby, who owns half section of Harrison County land, expressed his impres sion of the college here. This Is his first visit to Columbia. James A. Smith of Ray County thinks the farmers of Northwest Missouri are the most progressive in the state. He says the farmers in his section use intensive methods of farming," and keep up with all the new methods of soil cultivation. Mr. Smith will stay here the entire week. He has a son attending the College of Agriculture. Five hundred farmers will assemble at 6 o'clock tonight at the eighth an nual banquet given at the University Dining Club to those attending Farm ers Week. President A. Ross Hiil will act as toastmaster and talks will be made by ten persons. President H. J. Waters of the Kan sas State Agricultural College will talk on "Agriculture and the State;" P. P. Lewis, president of the State Board of Agriculture, on "The Modern Farmer;" T. F. Mornall, a former member of the Board of Curators, on "The College of Agriculture;" Sam uel M. Jordan, county farm adviser of Pettis County, on "There's More in the Man than there is in the Lan';- M. L. Houser of Mandovi, Wis., on The Rural Life;" M. M. Maple of Chicago on "The Milky Way;" Doc tor Paul Evans of Mountain Grove on "The Witchcraft of Plant Breed ing;" Richard Dalton of Hannibal on "The Faithful Earth, ' and Miss Maud Griffith of Clinton on "The Farmers' Home." The menu of the banquet is printed in an eight-page program of old Eng lish type. Four pages are quotations from the Greek poets. The menu con sists of sweet pickles, U. of M. celer3", escalloped oysters, U. of M. grand prize roast beef, mashec potatoes, peas, Boston brown bread, U. of M. dairy butter, fruit salad, mayonnaise dres sing, sweet cider, bread, University Dining Club mince pie, U. of M. dairy THEY HATE A COMMON DESTISY Farmer and Basiaess Man Mast Co operate, Says Speaker. "There can be no question but what the business man in town and the farmer have a destiny In com mon. Both need a good country town. To the end of mutual benefit the farmer should belong to the com mercial club." William HIrth of Columbia, presi dent of the state federation of com mercial clubs, said this at the rural life conference yesterday. "The Coun try Town" was the subject of the dis cussion. Mr. Hirth says that busi ness men are getting behind the far mers because they recognize It is good business to do so. "Agriculture is the largest busi ness in the country," Mr. HIrth said. "The farmers must organize and solve their own problems. The con solidated rural school will be a real aid." S. M. Jordan, farm adviser of Pet tis County, laid emphasis on the need of providing -a condition that will make it possible for every far mer to own his own farm. He favors some scheme of aid such as Den mark has, whereby the government buys the land of absentee owners and sells it to tenants. The land itself Is good security. "We've grown up by standing on our own pegs and we rather enjoy it But we'll have to get together," he said. PARCEL POST DOES BIG BUSINESS HERE Since the Service Began More Than 3,000 Pieces Have Been Handled. IS SEVENTH IN STATE MISSOURI 28, AMESJ4 Good Team Work Gives Basketball Tigers Easy Victory Over Iowans. Columbia's Receipts Double Those of Hannibal Ex penses Increase. This city ranks seventh in the state on receipts from the parcel post. It is ahead of Jefferson City, Hannibal and other larger cities. The post master of Columbia is asking for $743.60 to conduct the service until June 30. From July 1, 1313 to July 1, 1914 he' is asking for $1622.40. For the first sixteen days in the month of January the expense for the additional service was $36.40. The av erage weight for a package was one pound and two' ounces. During that time the postoffice has received 2,160 pieces and has sent out 371. Tho amount received here is twice the amount received at Hannibal. In the first fifteen days $83.28 was taken in from the sale of stamps. HERE TO INSPECT GYMNASIUM cheese, ice cream, cake, mints, al monds, prize apples, coffee and cigar?. Not as much will be served this year from the department of horticul ture because not as much was raised. The cafeteria will be opened at 5 o'clock so as to furnish supper to the regular boarders of the University Dining Club who are giving up their tables for the banquet CHURCH SOCIETIES TO CONFER Chris Smith of Bunceton, Cooper County, has attended Farmers' Week nine times. That he has been bene fited by his visits here can be proved by the fact that this time he won both grand championships in the corn show. This Is hfs first year to win this honor. According to Mr. Smith, Cooper County grows some very fine cob corn, out of which the corn-cob pipe is made. fatt Cohen, a horseman of Lexing ton, Ky., gave a short talk in which he complimented the farmers on the "Rations for fattening cattle should always be highly digestible," said Professor H. O. Allison to the Mis souri Cattle Breeders Association yesterday afternoon. "Clover, alfalfa, cowpea hay, or a nitrogenous con centrate should always be used with corn if the best results are to be ob tained," be said. President Waters of the Kansas State Agricultural College, told of silage experiments in Kansas. He corroborated Mr. Allison and added that silage made from kaffir corn and cane was also "excellent for fattening purposes. TELLS HOW TO FEED CATTLE Dean F. B. Mamfora' Gives Besalts of Experiment of College of AgriealtBre. Experiments at the College of Agrl-j culture show that for the general! Lewis Edison, who lives near Boon- vllle, said he was Interested more in the hog cholera serum than anything else. He said that out of twenty hogs that were affected he saved flv6 by giving them this treatment Out of sixty-six that he treated different ly, he saved only one and began the treatment of the sixty-six before they were sick. Prof. H. S. Colwell (o Lead Meetings ob Work of YoHHg People. A series of conferences on young people's work are to be held in the parlors of the Christian Church tomorrow and Sunday. They will be held at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow after noon, at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow night, and at 2:30 o'clock Sunday after noon. These conferences are to be followed by a rally of all the young people's societies at the Baptist Church at 6:15 o'clock Sunday night The meetings are all to be under the leadership of Prof. Howard S. Colwell of St Louis, secretary of the Baptist Young People's Union of Missouri. At 7:30 tonight Pro fessor Colwell will give an ad dress at the Baptist Church on "The Arcadia Valley Assembly." This meet ing will be followed by a social hour and is open to all the young people of Columbia. BUSSED PAPER FOB A LIGHT "There is a great deal to be learned at the corn show," said E. E. William son. "I think that I can learn some thing here that will do me good in the managing of my farm when I go back home. I am 'mostly interested In stock raising. That's the way I make most of my money." Mr. Williamson lives at Huntsdale, Mo. He is one cf the farmers that is here for practical observation. ' R. A. Hatfield of Trenton, Grundy County, a grower of the improved Yellow Dent seed corn, has been ex perimenting and improving this va riety of corn for the last seven years. Mr. Hatfield says: "I have been improving the Reed's Dent corn (Continued on page fonr.) Then a Fire at Athens Bowling Al leys Did $3 Damage. A small fire at the Athens Bowling Alleys, on Tenth street burned a hole in the floor, causing a loss of about $3 this morning. C. P. Hale, the pro prietor, had been examining one of the pin setters, using a piece of burning paper for a light, and thinks this dropped on the floor, starting the fire. Editors DIscbss Country Paper. Ovid Bell of Fulton, president of the Missouri Press Association, Jewell Mayes of Richmond and Mitchell White of Mexico were among the speakers at the Rural Life Conference this afternoon. They discussed the country town newspaper. M. K. T. General Manager Here. W. A. Webb, general manager of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad. Is in Columbia today on an inspection trip. Good team work by Missouri was the cause of Ames's crushing defeat last night by the Tigers. The score was 28 to 14. Ames's poor team work figured almost as much in the result as Missouri's good work did. The Iowans were clearly outclass-jd and at no time threatened to make it eten interesting for the Tigers. In the last part of the second half, when four substitutes were sent into the game, the Cyclones did a little better and added 'six points to their score. The game was free from rough work and did not furnish much excitement Personal fouls were few. Stern, playing right guard, in place of Captain Edwards, who has an in jured leg, was a star for the Tigers. Craig, who scored ten of Missouri's points, made several goals by clever work. He camped under his own goal and took long throws from the other end of the court and made the bas kets unmolested. Palfreyman, the speed boy, made the most sensational basket of the year when he dropped the ball In from almost the middle of the court He received a round of applause for his difficult shot Although the game with Ames was the first conference battle for the Tigers, It will not count in the cham pionship reckoning, as Ames is in tho northern division. The game tonight will be called at 7:45. The line-up: Missouri Craig, Goldman l.f. Taaffe, Macom r.'f. Bcrnet, Carson c. Palfreyman, Brodle l.g. Stern r.g. Summary: Goals Craig 4, Taaffe 2, Bernet 4, Palfreyman 1, Bisbee 2, Rodcer 1. Millar 1. Free throws Taaffe 4. Craig 2, Pfund 2, Rath 4. Fouls Missouri 12, Ames 12. The score at the end of the first half was 16 to 4 in favor of Missouri. Officials: Hoover (Baker), referee; Anderson (Missouri), timekeeper. Five men of the gymnasium classes will give an exhibition between the halves of the basketball game .to night These men are training for the try-out of the gymndslum team which will be held at the Director of Athletics at Colorado University Ylslts M. U. Frank Castleman, director of ath letics at the Unviersity of Colorado, Inspected Rothwcll Gymnasium and the athletic equipment here yester day. He is making a trip of inspec tion through this part of the coun try visiting all the larger schools. Mr. Castleman is a . graduate of Colgate University and is famous as a hurdler on its track team. He was on the Olympic team In 1304. ELECTTHMICERS F. H. Russell Is President of Farmers' Exchange Fur ther Plans Discussed. Ames Bisbee Rodger Pfund, Millar Rath Hansel F. H. Russell was elected president, and T. E. Atkins vice-president of the Farmers' Exchange at a meeting yes terday. The purpose of the organization was again explained by D. H. Doane, asso ciate professor of farm management in the College of Agriculture. It is simply a cooperative concern for the buying and selling of farm products through a general secretary, who re ceives a small commission on eaca sale The discussion brought out that the association is not designed to inter fere in any way with the Independence of any member, or of anyone. No one is bound to buy or sell through the Exchange, if he prefers some other way. Buying and selling Is not to be confined to members. Any farmer may carry on his business through it if he wishes. This afternoon the organization will be completed. An advisory board. composed of members from each asso ciation represented in the Exchange, a committee to draw up a constitution and by-laws and a general secretary are to be appointed. WOULD CONTROL HOG SEBUM end of March. The men making the team will go to the Big Nine Conference meet The men working tonight will be: Schrader, Werner, Gray, Meyer and Richards. Before the regular game tonight the freshmen team will play the High School team. This preliminary game will start at 7:15 o'clock. The Varsity game will start at 7:45. Captain Edwards will not be able to get in the game tonight He spent last night in the hospital. Stern will play in his place. The attendance at the game last night was 1,550. The fating capac ity of the gymnasium la estimated at 1.600. T. C WHsoa AdTocates Laws to Reg alate MaaafaetBre and Sale. Legislation controlling the manu facture and sale of hog cholera serum was recommended by T. C. Wilson, secretary of the State Board of Agri culture, in his report to the board Wednesday. He also recomtnended a special organizer for farmers' insti tutes. Reports from the other offi cers were also made to the board. CHARLES E. .YEATER HERE Member of Board of Cantors At tends Farmers' Week. Mr. Charles E. Yeater of Sedalia is attending Farmers' Week here. Mr. Yeater is a member of the Board of Curators of the University. Late Wabash Special for Farmers. The Wabash Railroad will run a special train from Columbia to Cen tralla tonight The train will leave Columbia at 11:30 o'clock. Cantors Meet Tomorrow. The Board ,of Curators of the Uni versity will meet in Academic Hall I tomorrow morning. ,iJ ;J CH M