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A CALL FOR ORGANIZATION. 
On Thursday, September 2, the Farmers' Club and 
Dairymen’s League, of Pawling, Dutchess County, N. Y., 
held a most interesting and instructive meeting. An invita¬ 
tion was sent out to members of neighboring leagues and all 
farmers to be present. There were several able speakers; 
Kev. W. H. Willson, late of Quaker Hill, Mr. John Krouse, 
of Orange County, N. Y.; Mr. Brill, from the farm of Mr. 
M. A. Low, and Mr. Winters, of Fairfield Dairy, Mont¬ 
clair, N. J., men who are well acquainted with milk pro¬ 
duction in its various phases, and who know the business 
not only from the farmer’s standpoint, but also under¬ 
stand the dealer’s side and the consumer’s relation to 
both. Farmers present could not fail to receive benefit 
from their remarks, nor listen without enthusiasm and a 
feeling that there is now, as never before, a great oppor¬ 
tunity for dairymen to better conditions, if they will but 
arouse and work together to that end. The speakers came 
some distance and gave of their abundance to a small 
number of farmers and many empty seats. What excuse 
was there for any of the farmers nearby to prevent them 
from attending that meeting? I heard of one man who 
couldn’t he away so long, but he attended a clam-bake 
that week. I wonder if the clams, etc., compensated for 
the loss of much valuable instruction? It might, if he 
were dealing in dams instead of milk. We hear farmers 
complaining of high prices of cattle feed, labor and living, 
and low prices of milk. What can they expect when they 
take no steps toward organization, nor to inform them¬ 
selves of modern ways and means? Look at the fruit 
growers of California and other lines of business, how 
they organize for mutual protection and advantage ! 
It would take some time even to touch on all the points 
these men discussed and made plain to us. Organization, a 
right and clear conception of the position of producers, deal¬ 
ers and consumers, milk production, cost, price, ventilation, 
cleanliness, care of cows and keeping acoount of the milk 
from each by weighing; weeding out the unprofitable cows 
and much more. It made one feel like taking a fresh start 
and making all possible advance even though there was 
no better price paid than for last year, but it was plainly 
stated that an advance is absolutely necessary to be in 
keeping with the increased cost of everything else. We 
hear the cry continually the dealers! the dealers! They 
'certainly have managed to bring about this state of affairs 
but are they' really to blame for making a good bargain 
and buying at the lowest possible prices? Don’t let us 
find fault with them when it is in our power to stop it 
in a very short time. Would not you farmers do the same, 
if you used the same keen judgment and farsightedness 
as did they? If you sold as carefully as they buy some 
of the wealth they possess might have been yours. How 
long are you farmers going to keep on traveling this old 
road to ruin, trying singly to compete with a great army 
—an organized host? Will you never learn that inde¬ 
pendence to our country only came by many loyal men 
marching out to fight as one man, not each trying to do 
the deed alone? If our forefathers had been as slow and 
lukewarm in the cause of liberty, and many of them waited 
at home to see how things were coming out before taking 
any part in the conflict, America would never have been 
the “Land of the Free.” They answered their country's 
call at once, and just so, if we are to control the price 
and sale of the products of our farms, we must all take 
a share in the work of organization. Unite with the Dairy¬ 
men’s League, help form a branch in your neighborhood, 
or help on the one already formed. Wake up! Ask 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
for a better price for milk, and get ready to produce milk 
that is well worth the price you ask. This matter is not 
to be considered with lukewarmness or indifference. It 
means dollars and cents; business principles; success. Let 
us remember the motto: 
“Good—better—best! 
Never let it rest, 
Till you make the good, better— 
And the better, best!” 
M. B. H. 
CROP PROSPECTS. 
Trospects for Winter apples below the average. Fall 
fruit about normal. Pears rather a light crop. Plums 
average. Grapes above the average, with few raised in 
this immediate vicinity. Ground very dry and continued 
dry weather wilt injure all crops not harvested. 
Lunenburg, Mass. H. o. si. 
It is very dry here; no rain of any importance since 
June. Wheat seeding is in bad shape ; commenced to cut 
corn to-day, a good crop for such a dry season. Apples are a 
fiat failure; aphis and dry weather the cause. Peaches 
and pears good ; quinces good. Pasture gone. I am hoping 
that we get parcels post and direct primaries. W. J. w. 
Geneva, N. Y. 
All the crops are fairly good here except apples, which 
are the nearest to 'a complete failure 1 have seen in 30 
years. It is too dry for plowing sod, and pastures have 
suffered greatly the past two months. Uind within four 
miles of town that is good and well improved is selling 
from $100 to $125 per acre. Butter is retailing at 30 
cents, and this county is well adapted to dairying and 
stock raising. Oats, now, are bringing 34 cents at the 
railroad. All we need is freedom from saloon slavery and 
politics. w. s. 
Jo Daviess Co., Ill. 
Crops in this section of the country are showing up 
well. Apples, a full crop in this immediate vicinity, and 
perfectly clean. Gravonsteins are tine. Buyers are offer¬ 
ing $2 for No. 1 and $1.50 for No. 2 Gravensteins. Most 
growers ship on their own account. A shipment of Graven¬ 
steins goes forward from here to Glasgow direct on Sep¬ 
tember 18 on consignment. Potatoes still (September 11) 
as green as they were in June, and tubers growing rapidly; 
will not he ripe enough to dig before October 1-10. Prom¬ 
ise a large yield; buyers paying 40 cents per bushel for 
export to Cuba. Oats yielding on good land 50 bushels to 
acre, price 50 cents. Wheat, 30 bushels per acre; $1 a 
bushel. m- I. l. 
Nova Scotia. 
Let me say to I* P., who desires a farm in the South, 
for health reasons, but. “fears Virginia because everybody 
here wants to sell,” that while we all have our price and 
would sell, if we could get it, this he will find to be true 
of every State in the Union. I came from the West and 
before buying here traveled quite extensively. Everywhere 
I found people ready to dispose of their ralty holdings, 
city or farm, provided, as stated above, they could get 
their price. If L. P. will come to Virginia and look the 
situation over for himself (preferably I would say some¬ 
where in the salt water section), examine the opportunities 
and advantages this particular locality offers, his precon¬ 
ceived prejudice may be changed and the probabilities are 
he will find here Just what he is looking for. A. h. G. 
Wake, Va. __ 
GOOD HOADS MEETING.—The second annual National 
Good Roads convention was held at Cleveland, O., Sep¬ 
tember 21-23. The first address was delivered by former 
Gov. N. J. B'atchelder, of New Hampshire, Master of the 
National Grange, who talked on “The National Grange 
and Good Roads.” The same afternoon an address on 
“The New England Plan for Connecting Lines of Trunk 
Highways,” was given by George S. Ladd, special good 
roads lecturer of the National Grange; lion. T. C. Laylin, 
Master Ohio State Grange, talked on “The Farmers’ In¬ 
terest in Road Improvement”; Hon. F. N. Godfrey. Mas¬ 
ter New York State Grange, talked on “The New York 
State Grange and Good Roads Legislation in that State.” 
September 22 II. II. Gross, president of the Illinois Farm¬ 
ers’ Good Roads League, spoke on “Illinois Good Roads,” 
and I>. Ward King, who was a farmer of Maitland, Mo., 
before he became a member of the Missouri State Board 
of Agriculture, and who has become famous all over 
the country by his invention of the King split-log drag, 
spoke on “Treatment, of Earth Roads,” in which the split- 
log drag can be used to great advantage. The present 
widespread interest in the movement for improved high¬ 
ways is shown by the fact that several hundred delegates 
attended the convention as representatives of the follow¬ 
ing organizations in addition to those who are officers 
or members' of the Grange: American Automobile Asso¬ 
ciation, American Road Makers’ Association, National As¬ 
sociation of Automobile Manufacturers, Association of 
Licensed Automobile Manufacturers and the American 
Motor Car Manufacturers’ Association. The United States 
Office of Public Roads, in the Department of Agriculture, 
at Washington, was represented by Logan Waller Page, 
director, and several members of his staff. In addition 
to the delegates representing the organizations named, 
the Governors of nearly every State in the Union have 
appointed prominent citizens of their States to attend 
the gathering. An important feature of the convention 
was the large number of delegates from southern and 
far western States. Governor Brown, of Georgia, has ap¬ 
pointed no less than 54 delegates, representing every im¬ 
portant section of bis State. Louisiana, Tennessee, Mis¬ 
sissippi and Alabama, where the good roads interest has 
been actively aroused this year, were all largely repre¬ 
sented.. There were goodly delegations from California, 
Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Iowa, New Mexico. Wisconsin. 
Nebraska, Missouri, Oregon and Kansas. Governor 
Hughes, of New York, named among the delegates the 
State Highway Commissioners, headed by Chairman S. 
Percy Hooker, and W. Pierrepont White and Albert R. 
Shattuck. 
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MORE EXPRESS CHARGES.—While you are getting 
express company experiences, I might add a typical one. 
The clerk in the local office here said the American Express 
Co. ran into Greenwich, N. Y., so I ordered two plow 
points which would cost 35' cents by freight. When 
they came they were billed National Express and 
fit) cents charges. I asked the agent about it, and he 
said it was all the same thing; the treasurer of the Na¬ 
tional and American were the same person. “Yes.” I said, 
“for beating the public.” Now, ns far south as Springfield, 
Mass., I can get a reasonable rate, for an express com¬ 
pany, but if I wished anything from Hartford, 25 miles 
south of there, the charges are about doubled, two ex¬ 
press companies sharing the charges, and both, I presume, 
having the same treasurer. f. ii. 
Vermont. 
FRUIT IN KANSAS^—The Kansas Horticultural Society 
has issued a report for September. For the State, apples, 
15 per cent; pears, 10 per cent; grapes, 41 per cent of a 
full crop. The peach crop failed to show a yield of 
one per cent for the whole State, and the same can be 
said of pears in the seventh and eighth districts. Late 
Spring frosts are mostly responsible for the small fruit 
crop In this State. This season has not been ns favorable, 
on the whole, as last for the orchards and vineyards. 
The condition of apples' has fallen off six per cent since 
the June report, and grapes 17 per cent, while pears have 
gained two per cent. The second Congressional District 
leads In apples with the sixth district second. The second 
district also has the largest amount of grapes with the 
first district next in amount. 
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