The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-05-26
NATION WIDE CAMPAIGN.

= FOCeeuluS on Jue JneO1y JnaJ Jle
Conege-bred, scientific farmer is a
factor for good or evil in the rural
community into which he casts his
lot the Board of Education of the
Presbyterian church, leading all
other denominations in this specific
work, is planning a nation wide cam
paign looking to the fostering of
higher moral standards in all state
aided institutions of higher educa-
ton.
1T State College, Pennsylvania
Iii ersity, it is proposed to invest
/ SIS, 900 in a new church which will
| be institutional in the sense that it
/ Will cooperate with the Faculty of
! State College in the higher moral
Development of the 400 Presbyter-
ian students enrolled in the college
+ all of whom are practically barred
! from attending the local Presbyter-
ian church because it seats only
zoo persons; less than the Presby-
! terian population of the village of
State College.
Rev. Joseph Wilson Cochran, Sec
retary of the Presbyterian Board
of Education, goes to Atlantic City
next week with an exhibit showing
the vast achievements of this Board
in connection with the universities
of America and he will undertake
to demonstrate the peculiar needs
of State College where, singularly
enough, the church facilities of all
denominations are particularly poor
while the general religious atmos-
phere of the institution is better
than that of almost any other State
aided school in the country.
To illustrate the far reaching in
fluence of those identified with State
College DR.. Cochran directs attention
to the lectures and demonstrations
made by the instructors and stu
dents of the institution for the ben
eft of those denied the opportunity
to study scientific farming. Prof
Van Norman, probably the best in
formed man on the subject in Amer
lea, discussed the fianancing of a
model farm before a gathering of
practical and embryo farmers say
ing
''The phrase scientific manage
ment' has caught the attention of
the public. 1t means finding the
quickest, easiest and cheapest way
to do efficient work in a given time.
1t means the elimination of guess
work. The idea which it represents
has just as much application in the
agricultural world as it has in the
manufacturing world It's import
ance is less only in proportion as the
volume of business on the farm is
less. Science as related to the growth
of plant and animal life has done
much for the farmer, but this is
not sufficient. The science of busi-
ness is his next need and just as
guess methods for fertilizing, for
feeding and other things are being
superseded by exact knowledge of
fundamentals, so must the guess
methods relating to the cost of pro-
duction on the farm give way to ex-
act knowledge.
There are only two ways to in-
crease profits. One is to increase the
selling prices; the other is to re-
duce cost of production. Where the
selling price is fixed by general
market conditions the producers
only recourse is in reduced cost of
production. Figures from the Cow
Test Association, organized among
the patrons of the State College
Creamery, show that on one farm
l COWS produced margin of 5000
above the cost of their feed, for one
! year. That four COWS consumed $40
worth of feed more than they pro-
duced milk enough to pay for, so
that the herd of 1 5 only produced
$50 above the cost of feed. Sta
ted in other words, had this farmer
only kept the best II COWS instead
of Is he would have had $40 more
margin; he would have saved the
unnecessary labor of milking and
caring for four improbable COWS;
would have had the feed which they
consumed for other use.
LAS it was he kept these unprofit-
able coWs-these sometimes called
'robber cows because he did not
know which ones they were before
he joined the Cow Testing Associa-
ton. He kept them because the
whole herd showed a margin, and he
did not realize that the best COW
in his herd returned $2.13 worth of
milk for each 81 worth of feed con-
sumed, while four of the cows pro-
duced only 97c. to csc. worth of
milk for a 81 worth of feed He
did not have this information be-
cause, like the average farmer, oc-
cupied with a multitude of varied
duties, he found it difficult and often
impracticable to do the clerical
work involved in securing this in
formation.
"Out of this condition which ex-
lists on thousands of farms has come
the organization of associations of
neighbors, who, in common, realiz-
ing the need of learning which are
the Improbable cows and what it
costs them to produce milk, join
their efforts and employ a man to
visit their farms regularly one day
a month, weigh the feed consumed
by each COW, weigh the milk pro-
duced and submit to the owner a
monthly statement showing what
each COW in the herd is doing for the
current month. At the end of the
year the owner has figures which
show conclusively the relative pro-
duction by and cost of production of
each cow in his herd. The plan is
[ just the same as may be found in
the city when several storekeepers
finding it irksome to keep their own
books, yet not needing a bookkeeper
all of the time, each employs part
of the time of a bookkeeper to keen