Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-01-28
Mr.. Nash's Talk to Farmers.

Will Cne metlouS vi cO-OperaJlOn
used in other places for placing in the
best market, on the best terms for
the producer, tn. eggs and chickens
of a large district, by means of local
associations that are combined in one
county or district association.
Similar agencies can be, and are
at work to deal with the other pro-
ducts of the farm. This system has
been developed in France for good
many years to larger degree than
as yet in the U. S. SO far as | have
read.
But it is plain that the greater tie
volume of business done by a central
association the less the proportion
of expense that would fall on each
item brought in by any one subscri :
ber.
Each subscriber, therefore, would
have the double object, 1st to in
crease the quantity and the value
Of the products he brought in, and
End to enlist as many as possible of
his friends and neigh bors in the
association.
Even without the spur of member
ship in such an ASSOCIATION as have
sketched very many of our Lincoln
County farmers are engaged in the
worthy effort of increasing the
quantity and the value of their pro-
ducts. All honor to them!
Their efforts are mostly dairying,
to Judge by the cream cans waiting,
filled or empty at every depot along
our rail road.
Almost every ranch, near to or far
from the rail road that is our wav
out and in, shows the upturned cans
on the bench by the door, and the
bright milk pals hung on the fence.
The hum Of the separator fills the
air, night and morning, wherever
one goes.
The start has been made by every
one SO occupied along the upward
path and the number grows.
But just now is the time of test
and trial. The COWS are there, the
is there, the mixer is there
but how about the milk supply?
Ask this very question of first one
and then another of our friends.
One says The hay is heading out
pretty well and feed my COWS all
they will eat but they don't give as
much milk as | expected. Another
answers We'll | sowed three or four
acres of vetches and that lay is
great help" "A third one says Il
had good patch of carrots and rut-
abagas, and now the COWS look for
their feed and eat all up clean"
A fourth replies 4 heard so much
about kale for COW feed in the winter
that | thought l would try patch,
md it he.ps fne!'
Soyou see, it is nearly always
patch here, an piece there which
begins and ends the story. Every
nan of us has to try out each exp.ri-
nent for him self, and hardly one, 80
ar as | know, sets down in the early
spring and figures it out in tonnage
tonnage, mind you-not patches,
low much so many COWS must have
or so many months of each and all
he cows feeds needed to keep up
his milk supply which is now the
Ill necessary problem.
Can't we, or don't we believe
what agricultural papers and their
many correspondents, and all the
College people and the Secretary of
agriculture and his bulletins, have
,een telling us and keep on telling
is every week now for years past
bout this?
If Lincoln County farmers could |
lot be relied on to give us these crops
here would be no sense in my writ
ng this. But we know that it rests
N us, on each one in his place, to
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