1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
2l5 
MILK PRODUCERS TRY AGAIN. 
The committee which has been trying- for some 
time past to formulate plans for the organization 
of all the milk producers supplying New York 
with milk, called a meeting for March 11 at the 
Broadway Central Hotel, and then met in another 
part of the city. Considerable time was spent in 
trying to settle the question as to whether this 
was a new organization, made up of delegates 
from unions recently organized, or whether it 
was the old committee continued. It was finally 
decided that the old committee was still in force, 
though most of the delegates present seemed 
doubtful whether this was really the case or not. 
Still steps were taken towards perfecting the 
organization toward which all have been look¬ 
ing—the Five States Milk Producers’ Associa- 
ciation. Committees were appointed on consti¬ 
tution and bylaws, on finance, on resolutions and 
on nominations. The next session was held at 
the place originally selected. Eight route unions 
were reported to be represented by the delegates 
present. The committee on resolutions reported 
as follows: 
“ Whereas , under present conditions, it is very 
obvious that the milk industry is not upon a pay¬ 
ing basis, for the farmer, therefore, 
“ Resolved, that we earnestly urge the producers 
along the different transportation lines which 
we represent thoroughly to organize themselves 
as the first step necessary to put the business 
upon a paying basis; and in order more thor¬ 
oughly and effectually to accomplish this, we 
recommend that every route line pay especial 
attention to the organization of its own local 
unions.” 
The delegates, who are representative milk 
producers and shippers, seem to feel that they 
have undertaken a heavy task, and that thor¬ 
ough organization and cooperation are necessary 
to success. They do not have in mind the distri¬ 
bution of milk to city consumers, but a better 
arrangement of the distribution to dealers, so 
that the producer may receive a more equable 
sharcofthe proceeds. As our forms close, the dele¬ 
gates are still struggling with the adoption of a 
constitution, but regardless of constitution or by¬ 
laws, they elected as president, H. E. Loomis, 
Deposit, N. Y., and as vice president, T. E. 
Foshay, Yorktown Heights, N. Y. The election 
of secretary and treasurer was deferred until 
another session. 
SCIENCE FROM THE STATIONS. 
REVIEWS OF IMPORTANT BULLETINS. 
The Ohio Experiment Station (Wooster) issues, 
in Bulletin 88 , a report of the cooperative experi¬ 
ments made by the Ohio Agricultural Students’ 
Union in 1896. These experiments, consisting 
chiefly in the use of fertilizers on corn and pota¬ 
toes, are certainly well worthy of the study of all 
progressive farmers in the Ohio Valley. There 
were, also, experiments with the use of corrosive 
sublimate to prevent Potato scab, Fall or Spring 
plowing for potatoes, as well as variety tests. 
The Delaware Experiment Station has issued 
Bulletin No. 38, by Prof. Powell, which discusses 
some principles in Delaware apple culture. It 
appears that apple culture is one of the least 
prominent of the horticultural interests of Dela¬ 
ware, and it has not yet been developed so as to 
give the State much prestige among apple 
growers. Prof. Powell says that the chief cause 
of the failure of Delaware apple orchards is the 
selection of varieties not suited to the climate. 
The bearing orchards are composed largely of 
northern varieties, which varieties were recom¬ 
mended at the time of planting by those who 
knew little of climatic conditions on the behavior 
of certain varieties. The soil and climate of 
Delaware are well adapted to apple growing, 
but in order to make it entirely successful, 
Delaware growers thus plant varieties, develop¬ 
ing in the following way: 
1. By producing seedling varieties from the 
best sorts already adapted to the climate. 
2. By introducing the most profitable varieties 
from apple districts in which the general cli¬ 
matic conditions are similar to those in Dela¬ 
ware. 
3. By improving the seedlings or the intro¬ 
duced varieties through the intelligent selection 
of buds and scions for propagation, only from 
trees which show especially good qualities in 
fruit, foliage, and bearing tendencies—the selec¬ 
tions conforming to preconceived ideal for the 
variety. 
The bulletin goes on with very practical and 
useful suggestions regarding apple culture, 
which cannot fail to be of value to the Delaware 
grower. The peculiar conditions which prevail 
on the Peninsula are well described, and the best 
varieties suited to that locality are described and 
pictured. For Winter apples the following vari¬ 
eties seem to be most popular among those who 
are planting largely: York Imperial, Stark, Par¬ 
agon, Winesap, Arkansas, Stay man’s Winesap, 
Jackson, and Missouri Pippin. This bulletin is 
certainly full of interest to fruit growers who are 
interested in southern apple-growing, as well as 
to those who are studying the possibilities of the 
South. 
The United States Department of Agriculture, 
Washington, D. C., has issued Farmers’ Bulletin 
No. 70, which discusses the principal insect en¬ 
emies of the grape. This bulletin is written by 
Prof. C. L. Marlatt, and gives in a brief, compre¬ 
hensive way, an account of the more common in¬ 
sects which are found on grape vines. 
Bulletin No. 49 from the Louisiana Station 
(Baton Rouge) gives analyses of commercial fer¬ 
tilizers and Paris-green, sold in toat State. Louis¬ 
iana has a law governing the sale of Paris-green. 
Under this law the Commissioner of Agriculture 
is obliged to have analyses made of all the brands 
of Paris-green that are sold in the State. These 
brands are divided into two classes—those that 
contain 50 per cent or more of arsenic, are marked 
“strictly pure,” while all falling below this per¬ 
centage are marked impure. This law was found 
necessary because of adulterations in Paris- 
green, which is very largely used in the South for 
poisoning the Cotton caterpillar. Farmers and 
planters bought large quantities of .Paris-green, 
but found that it gave very poor results, being 
adulterated so that it was of little use as poison. 
Since the law went into effect, the quality of the 
Paris-green appears to have improved, as out of 
40 samples analyzed, last year, only one fell be¬ 
low the required per cent of arsenic. 
The Georgia Experiment Station (Experiment) 
gives in Bulletin No. 37 the reports of a number 
of experiments in corn culture, which include 
varieties, fertilizing and methods of planting. 
Among other things, Director Redding concludes 
that at the South it is not expedient or profitable 
to apply raw bone meal as a source of phosphoric 
acid. In that part of the country, both for cotton 
and corn, the dissolved phosphate rock seems to 
give more profitable results. Another interest¬ 
ing corn experiment was tried to determine a 
theory about corn planting. A well-known 
Georgia farmer has claimed to obtain better re¬ 
sults by spacing the hills at double the usual dis¬ 
tance apart, and leaving two plants to each hill. 
In one series of experiments, the corn hills were 
made in rows four feet apart, and one plant every 
three feet in the row. Beside them in another 
plot, the hills were made six feet apart in the 
row, with two plants to the hill. The results were 
slightly in favor of the single plants, and other 
experiments gave uniformly similar results. 
Hence, it is concluded that the more nearly the 
individual plants are equi-distant. from adjacent 
plants, the greater the yield, other conditions 
being the same. Subsoiling corn land, on this 
Georgia farm, had no effect whatever, and it is 
not therefore recommended. The southern papers 
have had much to say about a certain Jackson’s 
Limbless cotton, for which great things have 
been claimed. According to this bulletin, this 
cotton is a fairly good variety on rich soils or 
under high culture, but will not carry out the 
extravagant claims that are made by the intro¬ 
ducer. 
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