THtC RURAb NEW-YORKER 
137 
1911 . 
NEW YORK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The discussion at the New York State 
Agricultural Society on January 17-19 
clearly indicates that the farmers and 
agricultural students have at last fully 
wakened up to the necessity of the con¬ 
sideration of transportation and market¬ 
ing of agricultural products. More time 
and consideration was given to these 
subjects than to all of the other propo¬ 
sitions put together. As stated last 
week, Governor Dix in his address gave 
emphasis to the necessity of a parcels 
post and the elimination of the middle¬ 
man’s profit. On Wednesday, Ezra 
Tuttle, chairman of the committee on 
marketing, transportation and griev¬ 
ances, made a most excellent report 
along the same lines, and resolutions 
were unanimously adopted favoring his 
recommendation of a law to compel 
houses doing commission business in 
farm products in the State to take out 
a license and a surety bond to insure 
the faithful performance of their trust. 
Recommendations also provided that a 
commission house be obliged to keep a 
record of the transaction, including the 
name and address of the purchaser. His 
recommendation for a parcels post was 
also readily endorsed and the resolution 
adopted to send copies of his recommen¬ 
dation and of the resolution signed by 
the secretary and treasurer of the Asso¬ 
ciation to all members of Congress, in 
order that these legislatures may know 
the position of the New York State 
Agricultural Society and its efforts at 
the convention. 
Besides this representatives of the 
prominent railroad lines in the State 
were at the convention, and several of 
them made brief addresses on Wednes¬ 
day afternoon. This gave the shippers 
present an opportunity to present some 
of their grievances, which they did in a 
courteous and business-like way. We 
believe the representatives of these roads 
began to get a new conception of the 
farmer as a business man and of the 
value of his trade to their companies, 
and we predict that their mixing with 
the representative farmers of the State 
will result ultimately in greater satis¬ 
faction to the shippers and in greater 
profits to the roads. On Wednesday 
night, President Brown of the New 
York Central lines favored the conven¬ 
tion by his presence and with an ad¬ 
dress. The feature of his address that 
will be best remembered was probably 
his statement that five stations on the 
New York Central in New York State 
shipped more apples than all of the 
States of Oregon and Washington com¬ 
bined. Mr. Brown’s address was prin¬ 
cipally, however, devoted to the argu¬ 
ment that population and consumption 
are increasing in this country very much 
faster than production, and that there 
is no escaping future starvation except 
by an increased production per acre. We 
were sorry Mr. Brown was not in at¬ 
tendance at the session next morning 
when Dr. Jordan of the Geneva Experi¬ 
ment Station referred briefly but forci¬ 
bly to this feature of our economic situ¬ 
ation. As far as he went Dr. Jordan 
expressed our feelings and showed that 
we have nothing very much to fear from 
starvation, provided economic conditions 
should develop to such a condition that 
the farmer gets a fair share of the con¬ 
sumer’s dollar. Farming, like other en¬ 
terprises, is a business proposition, and 
its products are subject to economic 
conditions. It is useless to talk about 
the reclaiming of worn-out farms and 
restoring land to fertility while land that 
is already productive and in good state 
of cultivation can hardly be operated at 
a profit. Dr. Jordan reiterated our oft- 
expressed contention that farm lands of 
lower grade of fertility will come into 
cultivation just as fast as economic con¬ 
ditions make it profitable for the culti¬ 
vator to take them up. This is a feature 
of the case that President Brown and 
many others have persistently avoided, 
but it is up now and beginning to receive 
consideration from both economic and 
agricultural students. The argument in 
a nutshell is, provide means to allow 
the farmer a better share of the con¬ 
sumer’s dollar and extra production will 
take care of itself. 
Mr. Geo. K. Homer of the Bureau of 
Statistics of the United States Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture delivered a very 
valuable address on Wednesday evening, 
following President Brown. His inves¬ 
tigations seemed to indicate that the far¬ 
mer was getting 50 per cent, of the con¬ 
sumer’s price for general farm products, 
and about 36 per cent, on vegetables. 
His estimates were considerable higher 
than our records here would indicate, 
and at the close of his address one prom¬ 
inent grower reported sales for lettuce 
and asparagus which would seem to in¬ 
dicate that he was not receiving in ex¬ 
cess of 15 to 20 per cent, of the con¬ 
sumer’s price. This is more in harmony 
with our own records. 
Another valuable report was made by 
Mr. F. W. Sessions of Utica, N. Y., of 
the committee on publicity. Mr. Ses¬ 
sions evidently made an extended study 
of the subject consigned to his commit¬ 
tee, and made some very valuable sug¬ 
gestions, and if the appropriations for 
carrying out of the work be forthcoming 
he has begun a work which will be of 
vast importance to the agricultural in¬ 
terests of the whole State. 
The appointment of a committee was 
also authorized to present the sentiments 
of the convention and of the Society to 
Governor Dix in reference to the ap¬ 
pointment of a Commissioner of Agri¬ 
culture. Prominent men in the conven¬ 
tion announced themselves as Democrats 
in politics, but earnestly solicitous of 
retaining Commissioner Pearson in the 
position that he has for two years de¬ 
veloped and embellished. The general 
sentiment throughout the farmers in at¬ 
tendance seemed to be that for the two 
years past the affairs of the Department 
have been as much out of politics as it is 
possible to make it, and the unques¬ 
tioned sentiment was that it should re¬ 
main so. The convention named the 
following officers for the ensuing year: 
President, Raymond A. Pearson, Itha¬ 
ca; secretary, Edwin H. Chapman, Al¬ 
bany; treasurer, William B. Jones, Al¬ 
bany. Vice-presidents, first district, 
John J. Dillon, New York; third district, 
Gilbert M. Tucker, Albany; fourth dis¬ 
trict, George W. Sisson, Jr., Potsdam; 
fifth district, W. R. Smith, Syracuse; 
sixth district, O. U. Keller, Cortland; 
seventh district, Wm. C. Barry, Roches¬ 
ter; eighth district, A. E. Brown, Ba¬ 
tavia; ninth district, R. W. Rives, New 
Hamburg. Executive committee: E. 
Van Alstyne, Kinderhook; A. R. East¬ 
man, Waterville; A. Denniston, Wash- 
ingtonville; E. A. Parks, Syracuse; F. 
W. Sessions, Utica; Dr. Edward Moore, 
Albany; T. B. Wilson, Halls Corners; 
W. W. Ware, Batavia. 
I ordered a fireback for my stove from 
Warren, O., cost 70 cents. Express charges 
to Hart, Mich, (my nearest office), were 
85 cents. Needless to say I am in favor 
of parcels post. G. H. m. 
Walkerville, Mich. 
More Express Robbery —Here is another 
instance of express company. I have ex¬ 
perienced many. I bought last week a 
small pen of young pullets from an island in 
Casco Ray, at total value of $10 ; way 1)111 
called for 75 pounds, crate included. By 
boat to mainland at Portland they cost 
20 cents; by American Express across city 
to station and thence to destination, 18 
miles by train they cost 75 cents more; 
total, 95 cents for 75 pounds. Here is 
the point: I myself cross the city by elec¬ 
trics, same distance, for five cents; thence 
same train journey in comfortable, warm 
car, for 38 cents, full ticket (not mileage), 
or 43 cents total for 160 pounds, against 
95 cents for 75 pounds of fowls. h. 
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