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Booklet,  “How  1  Discovered  The  Grimm  Alfalfa.” 
and  sample  tree.  Will  also  send  testimonials  from 
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General  Farm  Topics 
S.  J.  Lowell,  Worthy  Master  of  N.Y.  Grange 
We  are  very  glad  to  print  on  page  548 
a  picture  of  8.  J.  Lowell,  the  Worthy 
Master  of  the  New  York  State  Grange. 
Mr.  Lowell  was  elected  to  that  office  the 
last  annual  session,  held  in  Jamestown  on 
Feb.  14  of  Ibis  year. 
Mr.  Lowell  is  a  farmer,  and  has  always 
been  one.  lie  was  born  on  the  farm 
which  he  now  owns  in  Chautauqua 
Couuty,  near  Fredonia.  Here  he  has 
lived  all  his  life,  raised  his  family  and 
helped  to  work  out  some  of  the  hard 
problems  of  agriculture.  He  has  a  good 
family,  consisting  of  his  wife  and  two  big 
sons.  These  young  men  are  in  the  twen¬ 
ties,  and  have  remained  on  the  farm, 
where  they  find  plenty  to  do.  This  farm 
is  devoted  to  the  production  of  small 
fruits,  and  it  includes  25  acres  of  grapes, 
peaches  and  bay,  Surely  as  the  Grange 
professes  to  be  a  farm  organization  its 
Worthy  Master  ought  to  come  out  of  the 
soil,  and  that  is  just  what  Mr.  Lowell 
hails  from. 
And  Air.  Lowell  is  as  much  a  Patron 
of  Husbandry  as  he  is  an  ordinary  far¬ 
mer.  In  the  year  1900  he  became  a 
member  of  Fredonia  Grange  No.  1.  This 
has  a  membership  of  about  700  Patrons, 
and  has  tW  distinction  of  being  the  first 
Grange  ever  organized  in  New  York.  It 
has  been  highly  successful  in  every  way, 
and  is  just  completing  a  club  house  at  a 
cost  of  $1,400,  It  is  interesting  to  learn 
that  one  of  Mr.  Lowell's  sons  is  Master, 
while  the  other  is  Steward  of  this  local 
Grange  at  the  present  time.  Mr.  Lowell 
became  Master  of  his  local  organization 
in  1905.  He  did  good  work,  and  took  a 
deep  interest  in  Grange  affairs,  and  his 
advancement  in  the  order  was  rapid.  He 
became  Master  of  the  Pomona  County 
Grange,  was  then  State  delegate;  from 
Chautauqua  County  Assistant  to  Steward 
and  then  Lecturer  for  the  past  two  years, 
now  being  elected  “Worthy  Master”  of 
the  State  Grange. 
Thus  we  have  a  man  at  the  head  of  this 
great  organization  who  is  a  practical  far¬ 
mer.  and  one  who  thoroughly  understands 
farm  conditions  and  Grange  affairs. 
When  he  was  elected  the  New  York 
Grange  received  several  commissions  from 
the  farmers  of  the  State.  These  commis¬ 
sions  are  new  and  progressive.  They 
mean  that  several  new  and  important  op¬ 
erations  und  new  responsibilities  are  to 
he  added  to  the  Grange  State  administra¬ 
tion.  This  is  well,  for  it  gives  great  op¬ 
portunity  for  strong  and  comprehensive 
leadership  and  a  greater  service  than  ever 
before,  not  only  to  the  membership  of  the 
Grange,  but  to  all  the  people  of  the  State, 
and  particularly  to  the  farmers.  There  is 
great  need  to-day  of  just  this  kind  of 
strong  and  fearless  leadership,  and  the 
Grange  has  its  greatest  opportunity  at 
the  present  time. 
Corn  Blight 
Will  you  give  advice  about  corn 
blight?  For  the  past  five  or  six  years 
many  fields  of  corn  in  this  vicinity  have 
been  attacked  with  some  kind  of  blight 
about  the  time  the  ears  were  half  grown. 
In  the  affected  corn  the  tassel  dies  and 
usually  about  half  the  length  of  the  corn 
leaves  die  rather  suddenly,  giving  the 
field  of  corn  something  of  the  appearance 
of  corn  that  has  boon  frosted.  The  ears 
stop  growing  and  the  result  is  a  poor 
crop  of  nubbins  and  inferior  corn  fodder. 
Long  Island,  N.  Y.  B.  F,  ir. 
Your  corn  was  evidently  affected  with 
one  of  the  many  definite  diseases  which 
are  becoming  so  destructive  to  that  crop 
the  last  few  years.  Most  of  the  cases  are 
being  reported  from  Long  Island  and 
New  Jersey,  where  sweet  corn  especially 
is  being  grown  year  after  year  on  the 
same  fields.  Many  of  the  various  diseases 
sometime*  Spoken  of  as  corn  ear-rot,  wilt, 
dry  rot,  mold  and  mildew  originally  come 
to  the  farm  in  affected  seed.  It  has  been 
conclusively  proven  that  seed  grown  on 
stalks  affected  with  some  of  these  diseases 
will  produce  stalks  that  will  develop  the 
same  disease.  Some  of  these  diseases  will 
be  retained  in  the  soil  ready  to  infect 
subsequent  corn  crops,  also  diseased 
stalks  may  carry  infection  if  manure 
made  from  them  is  spread  on  uninfected 
fields. 
Corn  growers  have  been  disregarding 
corn  diseases.  However,  this  crop,  like 
most  others,  must  be  looked  aftei’.  If  a 
grower  is  sure  his  crop  is  free  from 
disease  he  should  save  his  own  seed  by 
careful  selection.  Kars  grown  on  sickly 
looking  stalks  should  be  eliminated.  Be¬ 
fore  the  corn  is  shelled  all  kernels  show¬ 
ing  false  coloration,  mold,  weakness  or 
softness  should  be  picked  out  and  de¬ 
stroyed.  Rotation  should  be  practiced  as 
much  as  possible,  and  infected  fields 
should  not  receive  a  corn  crop  for  a  few 
years.  If  stalks  from  an  infected  field 
must  be  used  for  feeding  purposes,  the 
manure  should  not  be  put  on  uninfected 
fields.  R.  B.  D. 
Blue  Ridge  Silage  Corn 
Will  you  give  information  concerning 
Blue  Ridge  silage  corn?  Will  it  grow 
better  than  Learning  in  this  part  of  the 
State?  c.  h.  m. 
The  Blue  Ridge  silage  Corn  so  ex¬ 
tensively  planted  in  Northern  Ohio  is  a 
product  of  the  high  plateaus  of  Albemarle 
Co..  Virginia,  and  seems,  like  the  Albe¬ 
marle  Pippin,  to  attain  its  greatest  per¬ 
fection  in  that  locality.  It  is  a  rapid 
and  strong  grower,  ears  profusely  and 
is  ready  for  the  silo  within  110  to  120 
days  from  planting.  In  this  section 
nothing  approaches  it  in  the  produced 
food  units  per  acre.  At  the  Ohio  Experi¬ 
ment  Station  in  a  five-year  trial  of  all 
best-known  varieties,  none  approached 
within  1,100  food  units  per  acre  of  the 
Blue  Ridge,  and  th"  Station  silos  are 
filled  with  it.  Just  what  the  Blue  Ridge 
would  do  in  your  section  of  New  York 
I  do  not  know :  it  might  not  be  fully 
adapted  to  it.  but  this  could  be  ascer¬ 
tained  on  trial.  While  it  matures  in 
this  section  of  Northeastern  Ohio  the 
saved  seed  will  not  reproduce  itself,  so 
we  g"t  the  imported  seed  each  year  and  it 
is  planted  in  this  section  by  the  thousand 
acres.  It  comes  all  “sized”  and  graded, 
and  is  warranted  to  germinate  9S  per 
cent.,  a  warrant  that  has  held  good  with 
me  for  15  years.  J.  g. 
New  York  City  Manure 
I  am  informed  by  a  man  who  has  been 
using  25  carloads  of  New  York  city  ma¬ 
nure  annually  until  this  year,  that  the 
City  Board  of  Health  have  a  ruling  that 
there  must  be  a  grate  under  every  horse 
and  for  this  reason  all  the  valuable  liq¬ 
uids  are  lost  in  the  sewer.  You  well  know 
that  the  liquids  carry  all  the  potash  aud 
much  of  the  nitrogen.  I  have  also  heard 
that  the  manure  was  leached  at  the 
storage  yards  and  the  leachings  sold  for 
other  purposes.  It  does  seem  too  bad 
that  we  farmers  and  truckers  who  use 
large  quantities  of  this  manure  at  $2  to 
$2.50  should  not  positively  know  whether 
we  are  getting  good  manure  or  water- 
soaked  straw  for  our  hard-earned  money. 
Fallsington,  Pa.  R.  P.  L. 
A  copy  of  the  rules  and  regulations  of 
the  Department  of  Health  in  New  l'ork 
city  contains  the  following: 
Regulation  7.  Floors  to  be  watertight, 
drainage. — The  floors  of  stable  shall  be 
watertight  and  preferably  of  non-absorb¬ 
ent  material.  The  floors  of  stalls  shall  be 
of  concrete  or  other  watertight,  non-ab¬ 
sorbent  material  so  graded  and  drained 
as  to  disehard  all  liquid  matter  into 
properly  trapped,  sewer  or  cesspool  con¬ 
nected  valley  drains.  All  floor  racks 
provided  in  stalls  shall  be  removable. 
Nothing  is  said  about  grates  under  the 
stalls  or  horses.  There  must  be  a  public 
sewer,  however,  connected  with  the 
stable.  The  floors  are  to  be  made  water¬ 
tight.  usually  of  concrete,  und  are  to  be 
washed  off  frequently.  The  manure  must 
be  removed  daily  or  pressed  into  bales 
or  barrels  and  property  cleaned  so  as  to 
keep  it  away  from  flies.  Where  the  ma¬ 
nure  is  baled  or  barrelled  or  treated  with 
chemicals,  it  shall  be  removed  at  least 
twice  each  week.  The  bedding  cannot 
be  dried  on  the  street  and  the  yards 
must  be  kept  in  a  clean  condition. 
Wherever  it  is  shown  that  stables  permit 
the  breeding  of  flies  they  may  be  reported 
a  nuisance.  It  does  not  appear  therefore 
that  the  grates  under  the  horses  are  re¬ 
quired.  The  floors  are  washed  off  and 
of  course  some  of  the  liquids  are  lost 
in  this*  way.  but  much  of  the  liquid  is 
evidently  carried  away  with  the  manure. 
There  is  a  general  complaint  around  New 
York  about  the  low  quality  of  manure. 
Most  it  seems  to  have  lost  much  of  the 
solid  and  is  largely  decayed  straw.  Some 
of  our  farmers  believe  that  the  manure 
solids  are  taken  out,  dried,  and  ground 
to  be  used  as  lawn  dressings. 
