1007. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
789 
WAITING FOR THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
The gentlemen of the Executive Committee of the 
A. J. C. C. now have the details of two of Mr. Daw- 
ley’s Jersey cattle transactions. One of these is the now 
famous Rogers complaint. The other is the case of a 
prominent and highly respected farmer of Jefferson 
County, who occupies a farm that has been in the 
family for more than a hundred years. 
The Rogers original complaint is insignificant com- 
.pared to the allegations in this new case. The 
story has been presented to the officers of the 
Club in full, and enough of it has been cor¬ 
roborated by sworn affidavit to impress the Com¬ 
mittee with the gravity of the situation. In the light 
of this new complaint and additional evidence there 
can be no doubt that the Committee will conduct a com¬ 
plete and searching investigation of the whole affair. 
The Club owes this not only to itself and to Jersey 
breeders generally, but also to the whole registered 
cattle industry. No club could ignore such allega¬ 
tions against one of its own members. The 
people have been watching this case as we have never 
known them to watch a matter of the kind before. 
We have given only an intimation of the contents of 
the new complaint, but even this has aroused indigna¬ 
tion. Whatever excuse there may have been for hesi¬ 
tation before there is every reason for prompt and 
vigorous action now. Delay would demand an apology, 
and the farmers are in no temper to receive excuses. 
They have a right to know whether any mem¬ 
ber of the Club has bought grade heifers and 
later sold them as registered purebred Jerseys. 
A failure to meet this question squarely would be 
regarded as indifference on the part of the Club as to 
the character of its membership or the accuracy of its 
official records. The farmers know that the suits 
against The R. N.-Y. may be delayed indefinitely and 
ultimately abandoned. In the meantime cows are 
dying and other evidence is being erased by time. 
Mr. Dawley’s associates in the institute work, attaches 
of the Agricultural Department and plain farmers all 
over the country, in one voice, demand to know the 
whole truth. We know that some of the A. J. C. C. 
Executive Committee are of the same mind. We do 
not think that the influence of Mr. Dawley’s friends in 
the Club will be able to prevent action at the next 
meeting of the Committee. We believe that President 
Darling and at least some of his associates appreciate 
the responsibility of the Club in this matter. They 
must also know that the future of the registered cattle 
business is in their hands at this critical time. If they 
would check the rising suspicion of the people and 
restore confidence in pedigree records, they must take 
the people into their confidence and meet this situation 
squarely. - Let us have all the available evidence for and 
against, and then let the verdict be in accordance with 
the faots. 
CONDITIONS OF FARMING . 
The principal source of Income to the farmers In this 
county is from their dairies, and I doubt very much if any 
year during the past 25 farmers or dairymen in this sec¬ 
tion have handled as much money as In 1907. My receipts 
for the year ending September 30 amount to $1,800 on 70 
acres; another near here receives $800 on 130 acres, which 
shows the difference on different farms, but the dairymen are 
handling a good deal of money, that is very certain. 
Delaware Co., N. Y. e. e. s. 
There has been a great change during the past 40 years 
in this section in respect to agriculture. During the six¬ 
ties I cannot call to mind that there was a single person 
who gained his living exclusively from the tilling of the soil 
in this vicinity, but at the present time there are a goodly 
number who are quite wholly dependent upon that industry 
for their daily bread. At the earlier date the Summer resort 
of this county was in its infancy, and thus made small de¬ 
mands upon the farmers, but now it has reached such pro¬ 
portions that its demands are very great upon that class. It 
Is an unquestionable fact that the average farmer handles 
much more cash each year in this section than 25 or 40 
years ago. e. w. w. 
Hancock Co., Maine. 
It is very difficult to make a very accurate estimate of 
the returns of the farms of this section, as they vary from 
those which scarcely produce a living to those which are 
bringing a good profit. The principal crops in the order 
named would probably be hay, hogs, milk or butter, beans, 
wool and lambs, beef, potatoes and apples. It is a very 
diversified farming, hardly two farms producing the same 
crops. The best farms must produce something like $800 
to $1,000 per year for farms of 80 to 120 acres. Sometimes 
we meet one whose sales will amount to $1,500 per year. 
There is a good creamery with about 200 patrons, which 
does about $80,000 to $35,000 worth of business annually. 
It is co-operative. Farmers here seem to be selling more 
than formerly, but they are also buying more, as many are 
now buying their flour and fuel. As near as I can find out 
but very few farmers keep any books, so this is only an 
estimate. a. m/b. 
Lapeer Co., Mich. 
The majority of people here are dependent upon their cows. 
Considerable milk from this town is sold in Boston. There 
are also several retail teams driven to the neighboring town 
of Exeter. This is also quite a fruit section, many thousand 
barrels of apples being shipped in the apple year. Peaches 
are beginning to receive considerable attention, though the 
past Winter killed a great many trees. In the past few 
years market gardening has been entered into quite extensive¬ 
ly by some with marked success. There is no doubt that our 
people in this section are handling more money than they 
did 25 years ago, but with the increased cost of living I 
doubt if the majority are able to save much more than they 
did then. s. m. p. 
Rockingham Co., N. H. 
The principal “money crop” in this section is Jersey 
cows; by this I mean that dairying is the rule in this sec¬ 
tion of our State and very few farmers attempt any other 
lines of agriculture. Every effort put forth by our farmers 
is to increase the productiveness of the dairy. Every town 
in this county has its creamery and some of them have two, 
and they are all well patronized. We consider pork a by¬ 
product of the dairy, and pork and pigs are a source of con¬ 
siderable income to many. Some sell a certain amount of 
hay each year, raising coni for silage to offset the hay sold, 
and a few potatoes are sometimes grown as a sort of side 
issue, but it is the dairy that is depended on to supply the 
cash. There is no doubt that our farmers are handling 
from 50 to 100 per cent more cash to-day than 25 to 40 
years ago, due largely to an increased production, though 
prices are rather better now than then. As to the amount 
of cash a farmer will have in hand each year I am unable 
to give a very accurate statement, so much depends upon the 
size of the dairy, and the man who is behind it. I can, 
however, say this, that the farmers in Orleans County are, 
as a rule, well-to-do, they have good houses, both for their 
families and their stock; they buy good tools, have gobd 
teams, wear good clothes and to all appearances get fully 
their share of the good things of life. They look upon their 
farm not alone as a home for themselves and their families, 
but as a business proposition; they are not satisfied with a 
living, it is a living and a profit on their investment, the 
same as any other business man would do. Not a few of 
them to-day are young men who have chosen the farm not 
because they could do nothing else, but because they could 
see a dollar in It, and fitted themselves with more or less 
labor and expense to enable them to get that dollar, and they 
are getting it, too. I have made no mention of the maple 
sugar industry of our State. Perhaps three-fourths of our 
dairymen own sugar orchards, and probably most of them 
are operated each Spring, and of course the sugar brings in 
some money, but I question if it brings in much profit. To 
make first quality sugar requires comparatively expensive 
outfits, and no little skill to operate, and taken all in all I 
doubt if it is a money-making operation to the average 
farmer. w. e. k. 
Orleans Co., Vt. 
I would give grapes first place as a money crop here in the 
“Chautauqua Belt,’’ for in spite of fungus and insect pests 
they seem to pay back more dollars for the capital and labor 
involved than any other crop grown here, and they are by 
far the easiest to get harvested, for everyone likes to pick 
grapes. Next to grapes probably would come trucking for 
the canning companies. There are seven large canning fac¬ 
tories located within from four to nine miles of our farm, 
and •where one has suitable soil for Lima beans, tomatoes, 
garden beans, peas, sweet corn, garden beets, spinach and 
berries, these canning companies make a fine market for the 
crops named. In fact, some few of these crops are found 
receiving their share of attention from most of our grape 
growers. Potatoes are grown to some extent, and I think 
where the soil is suitable and the man behind the plow is 
interested, they pay as well as, or better than, most of the 
crops mentioned. I live about four miles—as the crow flies 
—south of Lake Erie, and when you go as much farther 
south you are out of the “grape belt'’ and truck region and 
in the hill country, where the peaceful cow is the chief 
source of income to the farm. There we find the cheese fac¬ 
tories of ante-bellum days “doing business at the old stand,’’ 
while some raise veals or ship milk and cream to Buffalo. 
I do not know of any large dairies making a specialty of 
butter. Does the farmer of to-day handle as much cash or 
more than he did 25 or 40 years ago? I think he does, for 
farming is developing more and more into a business and 
is not, as formerly, a mere job of work for the farmer and 
his family. I know one man who sells about $5,000 worth 
a year from a 75-acre farm, and with the exception of a few 
grapes the crop is all sold and delivered to a canning factory 
less than a mile away from his farm. But he is favored 
with a better soil and a better head than the great rank 
and file of us, and probably half that amount would be high 
for the average of us. j. y. v. s. 
Chautauqua Co., N. Y._ 
LIVE STOCK EXHIBITS.—I do not like to read your 
slighting criticism of the exhibitors of rare varieties that go 
from show to show. There are many breeders who like 
these rare varieties and who supply these exhibitors. One 
helps supply three exhibitors every Fall, and through them 
his stock is at all the Fall shows, and sometimes at Madison 
Square to be enjoyed by the lovers of beauty. Now these 
exhibitors have to have these many varieties raised some¬ 
where, and it is a pleasure and profit for some lover of 
these varieties to raise them. Why join the ranks of those 
who are trying to crowd out all but the “great American 
mongrels,’’ Dotts and Rox? e. w. 
Ixmg Island. _ 
We have no frost as yet here (October 15), and the garden 
is still supplying the table. To those who have a sunny 
window let me suggest that pleasure can be had in the 
possession of orange trees. I bought a dozen trees six feet 
high from Reasoner Bros., Florida, last Spring. The blos¬ 
soms were exquisite and now the promise of fruit interests 
us. E. W. 
Long island. 
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doubtless know that you do. If so, do not make the 
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that matter even another month. Buy it NOW, and it 
will have more than half paid for itself by Spring. 
Butter prices at present are unusually high, and it is 
being predicted that first class butter will retail at 50 cents 
per pound in the large cities this coming Winter. With 
butter values so high, can you afford to waste from one- 
third to one-half your butter fat, as you are surely doing 
without a separator ? A separator will save the very last 
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work in half. 
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