The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Something We Cannot Understand 
The state of Vermont is making a hard fight to 
eradicate bovine tuberculosis. The last Legislature 
appropriated .‘£200.000 to be used by the live stock 
department largely for lighting this dread disease. 
The work is being done in co-operation with tin* 
Federal Government on what is known as the 
accredited herd plan, i'nder this pian a farmer will 
receive compensation when diseased cattle are 
slaughtered, and signs an agreement to keep his 
herd free from the disease in the future. The work 
is being done thoroughly and well, and ft’ persisted 
in will absolutely clean the State of bovine tuber¬ 
culosis. It will seem like an insult to the intelli¬ 
gence of any man who is capable of thought to argue 
that such an outcome would mean the greatest busi¬ 
ness asset that Vermont can possibly obtain. For 
Vermont is an agricultural State, and can hardly 
expect to develop any industry that can ever com¬ 
pare with dairying. The cow must ever remain her 
leading citizen, and when Vermont can say to the 
world that her leading citizen is clean and healthy 
beyond doubt, or question she will have a dairy ad¬ 
vantage over every other state in the Union. 
Seriously, there is no State problem which com¬ 
pares in importance with this one of thoroughly 
eradicating bovine tuberculosis. Clean out the con¬ 
sumptive cows! In this age when the entire world 
is making its great fight against the great white 
plague here is a chance for Vermont to lead the pro¬ 
cession to her everlasting credit and her permanent 
business advantage. The lines are being drawn 
tighter and tighter t<> protect the public from sus¬ 
picious milk. The first State to come forward with 
certificate of freedom from disease will have every 
advantage in the market. 
The thing is so clear and simple and Vermont 
people are so quick to see a business advantage that 
we cannot understand how any man who aspires to 
he a leader can oppose ‘the present State plan. Yet 
we are informed that 1 >r. I. S. O-ohurn* of Milton, 
Chittenden County, has come out as a candidate for 
ihe State Senate ou a platform which bitterly op¬ 
poses the bovine tuberculosis law. Chittenden is a 
great agricultural county. The last census shows 
:;x.219 cattle, worth. $2,800,450. with dairy products 
valued at $3,079,870. There seems t<> he consider¬ 
able bovine tuberculosis in the county, and we must 
confess to a feeling of amazement that a man should 
come and ask farmers to vote for him on any such 
platform. As a physician he must understand the 
horrors of consumption. lie is under a moral obli¬ 
gation to protect his people from the disease and lie 
must understand I he‘principle at stake in the State's 
campaign to eradicate the disease and clean the 
herds. One would think that such a man would 
make use of his profession and of his standing in 
the community so as to be of genuine help to the 
fanners. They need his help. He might -make them 
see the larger motive and the 'bigger and nobler 
thiugMn this tuberculosis campaign. What a shame 
that -a man in' Dr. Coburn’s position should try to 
embitter this neighbors with small and* petty little 
criticisms* when lie might do them a great service 
by getting* straight back of the law. 
A Farm Candidate for Congress 
There* seems to tie a lively contest for the Repub¬ 
lican nVmiination for Congress in the Thirty-fourth 
New York District. This district includes Steuben. 
Schuyler. Chemung. Tompkins and Tioga counties. 
There are four candidates, including the present 
Congressman, who was elected at the special election 
last April. Frank C. Platt of Steuben County is out 
with a direct appeal to farmers. His statement to 
the voters is so much of a novelty that we print 
parts of it here: 
"Many people believe that a Congressman should be 
a man of great intellect—super-man as it were 
"My idea of a good Congressman is one who is first 
honest; second, has common sense and backbone; third, 
who will have a higher regard for his constituents' in¬ 
terest than for his own political job or his political 
party. . , 
"Since 1850 the Congressional District of which 
Steuben County lias been a part has been represented 
by eight lawyers, two bankers, one capitalist, two busi 
ness men. two newspaper men and one manufacturer— 
no farmers. 
"If the Republican party desires to remain strong and 
successful it must listen to the appeal of the farmers 
and laboring men for one who represents-them and lias 
sympathy with them. 
"An industry which comprises such a large portion 
of the wealth and population <>f a country and the suc¬ 
cess of which affects the well-being and very existence 
of a people is entitled to a larger representation in the 
House of Representatives than 21 out of 435. while 
at the same time the number of lawyers in die House 
of Representatives is over 250. 
"Farmers are no: so much in need of class legislation 
as they are of real protection. They not only need a 
tariff high enough to equalize the difference in eost of 
production of food products in this country and other 
countries with their cheap labor and lower standards 
of living, but they want the Federal Government to 
stop creating competition by the reclamation and open¬ 
ing up of more land. This policy commenced in 1802 
and carried on very industriously by the Federal Gov¬ 
ernment ever since, thereby increasing production faster 
than consumption, lias done more to ruin the farming 
industry than any oilier one tiling. What the farmer 
wants is justice, not favors. I stand squarely with the 
founders of our country—equal opportunity for all. 
"I personally' believe (hat the policy of our Govern¬ 
ment permit ling emigrants to enter this country while 
our labor market is glutted and millions of our men are 
out of employment is wrong." 
On the question of prohibition Mr. Platt, expresses 
bis own views as follows: 
"For more than 30 years I have not tasted intoxi¬ 
cating liquors of any kind. Personally, I believe in the 
Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act. and he* 
lieve if the law was honestly and fairly enforced that 
thin would be the greatest nation on the face of the 
earth. I do not, however, believe in an enforcement 
that permits one class of people to enjoy privileges not 
enjoyed by another. If prohibition is good for the poor 
man. it is good for the rich man. I nave endeavored to 
gauge public sentiment on this question, bur am unable 
to do so. Some people believe I hat the Volstead Act 
should be amended to put “teeth" in it. and then to 
rigidly enforce it: while other people with just as high 
standards of morality believe that light wines and beer 
should be permitted to be sold for borne consumption 
only. Others have other ideas." 
Mr, Platt says that if elected he will at nice take 
a post card ballot of all voters in the district an tin* 
question of enforcement. He thinks majority will 
vote “dry." hut if they vote "wet" lie will pledge 
himself to carry out the wishes of the majority. 
This is one of the most remarkable statements ever 
made by a candidate for Congress in New York, and 
we shall be interested to see what the farmers of 
that district think ol' it. 
The Attack Upon Milk 
The a evidently nerd some one like von to boost 
milk as a food in Old England. r. b. simmons. 
Massaeh n setts. 
Mr. Simmons sends a clipping from the Manchester 
Onardian which contains the following literary gem: 
A CASE FOR PROHIBITION 
| "I maintain that much milk cannot be taken by 
man with impunity, and. further, that it is responsible 
for more disease and deaths than alcohol."—-A ITarley 
Street physician in a letter to the Times,] 
My heart siuks down when I behold 
A milkman in the street— 
Better a brewer’s dray. I'm told, 
Or kegs of whisky neat. 
Although he looks a harmless sort, 
A decent kind of man. 
Destruction lurks in every quart 
And death in every can. 
Oh. take to vodka, absinthe, rum. 
Wood alcohol or gin— 
Such tipples, though deplored by some. 
Are safer forms of sin ! 
But as for milk, its sale and use 
The law should not allow: 
Oh. shun, my friends, the ■baleful juice 
Exuded from the cow ! —l.rcio. 
We would like to take the job of popularizing 
milk drinking in England. Some work along that 
line is evidently needed. Wo have recently seen 
several printed notes purporting to come from Eng¬ 
lish physicians in which effort ; are made to belittle 
the value of milk as a food. We cannot understand 
how such things start, but it is easy to see that the 
whole thing is being turned into a form of propa¬ 
ganda against milk and dairy products. We think 
it is being conducted systematically by the oleo in¬ 
ti-rests who are pushing substitutes for milk and 
butter. They think they can make the people be¬ 
lieve that milk is not a life necessity. In fact, lr 
is the most imiHU-tant food the world has ever 
known. 
A List of Hebrew and Legal Holidays 
Every year our readers ask for dates of the 
Hebrew mid other holidays. These are dates when 
special markets are provided for poultry stock of all 
sorts. The following list is furnished by the De¬ 
partment of Foods and Markets. Better keep it for 
reference: 
Jewish New Year. Sept. 23; market days. Sepi. 18- 
21 Fat fowls, turkeys, ducks and geese in demand. 
Day of Atonement. Oct, 2 : market days. Sept. 2(5-29— 
All prime stock, especially White Leghorn chickens and 
roosters. 
Feast of Tabernacles. Oct. O: market days. (>cr. 2-1—• 
Ducks, fowls and fat geese. 
Columbus Day, Oct. 12: market days. Oct. 9-11 Live 
chickens, fowls and rabbits. 
Thanksgiving Day. Nov. 30 ; market days. Nov. 22-28— 
Turkeys, geese, fowls, capons, suckliug pigs and rabbits. 
Feast of Law. Dec. 15; market days, Dec. 11-13— 
Brittle quality of all kinds. 
Christmas Day. Dec. 25; market days. Dec. 19-22— 
Turkeys, geese fowls, capons, suckling pigs, live rab¬ 
bits nud live goats. 
New Year, Jan. 1 ; market days. Dec. 20-29—Tur¬ 
keys. geese, fowls, capons, -inkling pigs, live rabbits 
and live goats. 
1923 
I’urim. March 2; market days. Feb. 26-March 1— 
Fowls and hen turkeys. 
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Easter. April 1 : market days, March 20-29—Fowls, 
capons, ducks, geese, rabbits. Spring lambs and prime 
veal calves. 
Passover, April 1 ; market days, March 26-29-—Tur¬ 
keys. fat fowls, ducks and geese. 
Last Passover April 0; market days. April 2-6—• 
Prime quality of all kinds. 
Feast of Weeks. May 21 ; market days. May 15-18— 
Very little extra for tins holiday. 
Decoration Day, May JO; marker days. May 24-29— 
Broilers and prime stock or all kinds. 
Independence Day, July 4; market days, June 23- 
•Iilly 3 Broilers especially. 
Jewish New Year. Sept. 11; market days. Sept. 5-8— 
Fat fowls, turkeys, ducks and geese. 
Day of Atonement. Sept. 20: market days. Sept. 17- 
18—All prime stock, especially White Leghorn chickens 
and roosters. 
Feast of Tabernacles, Sept. 24; market days. Sept. 
18-21—Docks, fowls and fat geese. 
Columbus Day, Oct. 12; market days, Oct. 9-11— 
Live chickens, fowls and rabbits. 
Thanksgiving Day. Nov. 29; market days, Nov. 22-28 
—Turkeys, geese, fowls, capons, young pigs and rabbits. 
Feast of Law, Dec. 3; market days. Nov. 28-30— 
Prime quality of ail kinds. 
Christmas Day. Dec. 25; market days. Dec. 19-23— 
Turkeys, geese, fowls, capons, suckling pigs, live rab¬ 
bits and live goats. 
New Year. Jan. 1; market days. Dec. 26-30—Tur¬ 
keys. geese, fowls, capons, suckling pigs, live rabbits 
and live goats. 
August Milk Prices Higher 
The Dairymen’s League reports the following milk 
prices for August : 
Producers’ milk prices for August will be practically 
one cent a quart higher than those prevailing for July, 
according to the recommendation of the Board of 
Directors of the Dairymen's League Co-operative ,\sso- 
eiatioti, Inc., at their meeting in New York City. July 
19 and 20. Prices recommended for August milk are 
as follows : 
Class 1.—Milk used for fluid consumption. 82.69. 
Class 2.—Milk used chiefly for the manufacture of 
ctearn and ice cream. #2. 
Class 3 is subdivided into two subdivisions: 3A, 
milk used chiefly for the manufacturing of canned milk, 
price to be determined by the market quotation of but¬ 
ter for August plus a differential of 40 cents per 100 
lbs.; Class MB. milk to be manufactured chiefly into the 
form of fancy hard cheese, price to be determined on 
the market quotations of butter plus an increased dif¬ 
ferential of 30 cents per 100 lbs. 
Class 4.—Milk used in the manufacture of butter and 
American cheese, price to he determined by market 
quotations for August. 
The June price for Class 1 milk testing 3 per cent at 
the 201-210-ruile zone was 81.75. The July price for 
the same class was 82.22. and the price for August, as 
recommended by the League, means another one cent 
tier quart raise, or $2.69. 
New York State News 
Reports from over the State are to the effect that 
apple scab has made quite a start. The growers who 
sprayed thoroughly, however, are not so badly hit. 
Many early apples coming on the market are badly 
affected. 
One of the most striking things that I notice in 
many of the dairy sections of the State is the atten¬ 
tion that is being given to pasture improvement. Not 
so many years ago it was thought by many that a 
pasture was a place where nothing else could happen 
but some form of wild grass. I roamed over a rugged 
hill in Broome County today* with a farmer who has 
adopted a system of pasture improvement. Part of 
his pasture was plowed iu the Spring of 1921. and the 
seed was sown with a nurse crop of oats. The re¬ 
mainder of the field was plowed during the Summer of 
1!>21 at odd times, when the farmer could not work in 
bis hay. Both pieces are looking fine and furnish an 
abundance of pasture. The field that was plowed in 
the Summer, however, shows a great improvement 
over the other strip. The Summer plowing apparently 
hurt the weed seeds much more than the Spring plant¬ 
ing. Lime was used on the entire area, and the pas¬ 
ture showed a rank growth of Canadian and Kentucky 
Blue grass. About one pound of White clover was 
sown to the acre, and even with this small amount 
showed up over the entire field. Orchard grass was 
sown almost exclusively under the trees near the woods. 
The farmer stated that the work to get the pasture in 
shape was considerable, but it was bringing results 
worthy of the effort. 
The State Horticultural Society will hold its Summer 
meeting at the State College of Agriculture this year. 
The meeting will he held August 9. Last year the 
Summer meeting was held at Geneva, and the station 
is arranging t«> entertain any farmers who may care 
«•> visit the Station on August S or 10. The change 
this year is so thut the growers may become familiar 
with experimental orchards at Cornell. In the word 
sent out by the society, it. wishes if understood that 
the meeting is not confined exclusively to members. 
Roy P. McPherson, secretary of the society, is making 
plans foi a short program in addition to the visits to 
the experiments, 
The State Fair this year will offer an attraction 
which should be of great interest to the sheep breeders 
of the State in the exhibit of the grades of wool. Many 
breeders are asking questions about this, because until 
a few years ago the wool In most parts of the State 
was sold on an ungraded basis, the grower receiving 
the same for a wool of low grade as a high one. Since 
the inauguration of the pool this has changed, and ttie 
graded basis is the on£ that is rapidly becoming the 
standard, and rightly so. Co-operation in the sale 
<if farm products will never make much progress until 
the producers learn that standardization must become 
a part of it. This will enable everyone to be used 
fairly. 
The Wolcott Co-operative Association, Inc., will be 
one of the new branches of the Western New York 
Fruit Growers' Association, The purpose of the asso¬ 
ciation will he to pack, ship and sell fancy apples and 
pears under a standard grade The association has 
purchased a storehouse neai the railroad, and will 
use it for packing their fruit. Inspectors will be pres¬ 
ent to inspect and stamp the pack. At the present 
time there are 250 acres represented, and when the 
association gets 50 more acres they have will have 
reached a maximum for the facilities which they have 
at their disposal. e. a. f. 
