The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1921-01-28
Solebury Club to
Revise Constitution
on New Members

| January ", 1921, at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Isaac VanPelt. The retiring
president made few remarks appre-
ciative of the support of the club
members in making the past year
success, and the new officers took their
| places.
Reports of committees were called
for. For the Anniversary Committee
Mr.. Hurley said that the main pro-
gram of the fifth anniversary meet
ing, to be held on February 10 at
Worthington's Hall, New Hope, will
be before supper. Invitations have
| been issued.
Of the standing committees, Mr..
Hurley reported on Dairy and Dairy
Products that the outlook is not so
good as it has been for while past.
| Milk has gone down in price perhaps
| because the importation Of dairy prod
ucts from foreign countries has been
heavy What shall the farmer do?
| Shall he sell his cows to curtail the
| product? 1t would seem a good time
! to sell out all his weak stock. Then
i he may find it advisable to get cows
which will produce better milk. By
the use of a pure bred sire he can
/ increase the efficiency Of his stock.
?
! through cooperation not in small lots
! for it so costs more. Also he may
work for better marketing facilities.
Let the farmers work together to ad-
| vertise their goods. All other manu-
facturers spend thousands of dollars
advertising, so why not the farmer?
What is milk but one of the most
/ valuable of products to life, especially
for children? Oleomargarine cannot
be compared with butter in value for
/ them. A penalty has not been de-
vised severe enough for the farmer
who sells his products and then buys
oleo for his family use. This is
I directly hurting the dairy business.
Mrs Frampton reported New York
/ State making their own condensed
milk, and suggested Pennsylvania fol-
lowing the example Mr.. Hurley 1e-
piled that there is already a drug on
the market of condensed milk. Mr..
Reuben P Ely thinks farmers should
cooperate in buying feeds SO as to
do away with this small lot buying.
! Mr.. Blackfan thinks the Grange is
the organization for this purpose be-
cause it's buying can be county or
Statewide, whereas the farmers clubs
are only local. But should the farm
ers clubs take on this cooperative
buying, then there would arise COM
petition with the Grange and so defeat
the very purpose that the suggestion
for cooperation makes for. Mr..
George H. Ely thinks cooperative.
buying too implicated q machine to-
work for the Farmers Club. Mr..
johnson quoted Mercer County as hav-
ing done good work in breaking the
hold Of the fertilizer trust, bringing
this community down several dollars
ton.
Under Experiments and Domestic
Science, Mrs. Hurley reported recent
experiment by which phosphoric acid
an be liberated from phosphate rock
by use of heat instead of by sulphuric
a1id. Mr.. johnson said phosphate is
| quoted at $40 ton by the Mercer
J County Cooperative Association.
Mrs. Reuben P. Ely advised keep
ing a paint brush and a pair of scis-
sors in the kitchen, as they will be
found to be two very valuable devices.
Mrs Frampton asked why canned
! strawberries cooked last summer had
turned white in the jars Mr.. Barrett
said this is due probably TO the fruit
having been cooked too long.
For Crops and Marketing, Mr.. Mat
.ison reported this years crops
bumper in almost ever case. Now
prices have fallen for many products.
Though oats are still up, hay is $40
ton lower. Wheat has dropped to
sixty cents bushel and there is Is
per cent. drop in milk Mr.. Mattison
| prophesies a still greater fall in farm
! prodtce during 1921 judging from con-
ditions after the Civil War.
Inc president appointed the new
committees as follows:
Crops and Marketing-Asker Matti-
son, Chester A. Magill, Edwin
IolIoy.
Dairy and Dairy Producta--C. j.
| Roller, Edward Kinsey, M. Hubert
Walton.
Experiments and Domestic Science
Mrs. g. R. Johnson, Mrs NJ. H.
Walton, Mrs. Edward Blackfan.
Fruit and Fruit Culture-Reuben
| p Ely, Edw. NJ. Paxson.
Legislature-W. w. Cottman, E. S.
Perkins and Edw Blaclfan.
Table-Mrs. Reuben P. Ely.
Club Journal Expiring in ApriD-
Edna H. Lear, Mrs. George H. Ely,
Mrs. Robert Cooke, Eugene Roberts
| and Mrs. d. A. Davenport.
Entertainment-Mrs Maxwell, Mrs.
Cottman and Mrs. Alvarez.
Under miscellaneous business Mr..
Hurley announced the Farmers Insti-
tate to be held at New Hope on Feb
ruary 8 at 100 and 7.30 z. NJ. Club
members are requested to bring
basket lunch as for club. The pro-
gram read as follows:
Afternoon Session
Remarks by the county chairman,
Wilmer A. Twining, Wycombe, Pa.
"Legumes, Alfalfa and Soy Beans,
II. II. McCallum, Wernersville, Pa.
Discussion, VIM. W. Hurley, New
Hope, Pa.
Feeding Hens and Chicks Success
fully and Economically" W. Theo.
Whitman, Mt. Gretna, Pa.
Discussion, Cornelius v Ely, Sole
! bury, Pa; Harvey R. Smith, Pineville,
| Pa.
Evening Session
Music.
Recitation, Ethel NJ. Short, New
Hope High School.
"Improving and Feeding the Dairy
Herd" NJ H. McCallum.
Discussion, c. j. Roller, Solebury,
Pa.
"Better Rural Schools Leon j.
Russell, Dept. of Public Instruction,
Harrisburg, Pa.
Discussion, J. Cooper Pidcock,