HIM 
-THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 12, 
WHAT THE N. Y. LEGISLATURE DID. 
The Legislature of New York State on 
July 21 took a recess until September 6, 
leaving in the hands of Governor Dix a 
large number of bills. Since that date the 
Governor has devoted his time solely to 
their consideration, and on Monday of this 
week (July .31) completed his task. 
Some of the results of the past session 
are these: 
New laws, 868 in number, as compared 
with 705 of the year before. 
Total approved appropriations amount to 
$42,824,458.30. 
Net decrease in total appropriations over 
those of last year, $1,950,379.16. 
Total amount of items disallowed is $5,- 
519,128.27. 
Ilills approved for charitable institutions 
and prisons (not maintenance) $1,010,907; 
for highway repairs $3,902,333 ; for capitol 
repairs and educational building, $1,650,- 
000 . 
The total approved amount carried by 
the annual appropriation and supply bills 
classed therein under the head “Agricul¬ 
tural,” is $1,583,876. The principal items 
going to make up this sum are: 
Department of Agriculture.$297,312 
San Jos6 scale extermination. 10,000 
Statistics . 8,000 
Enforcing vinegar and food laws.. 11,000 
Farmers’ Institutes . 36,000 
Contagious animal diseases. 80,000 
Dairy products inspection. 17,000 
Geneva Agricultural Experiment 
Station . 109,300 
Veterinary College at Cornell. 50,500 
Agricultural College at Cornell... 235,000 
Extension work . 53,000 
Summer School of Agriculture for 
Teachers . 4,000 
Instruction in physics and chemis¬ 
try to increased number of stu¬ 
dents in agricultural college. — 20,000 
St. Lawrence University. 52,666 
Morrisville Agricultural School... 55,600 
Additional land for Geneva Station 15,500 
Alfred University . 44,463 
State Fair Commission, premiums, 
salaries, etc. 99,950 
For agricultural fairs. 250,000 
Tubercular animals destroyed. 85,000 
Animals with glanders destroyed.. 35,000- 
Vetoes written by Governor Dix were 324 
in number—a record in vetoes. The only ] 
items under the heading of “Agricultural”! 
in the two bills that were disallowed by 
the Governor were these: 
Collection and maintenance of a 
food exhibit . $1,000 
Investigating condition of grape 
culture in Chautauqua County... 7,500 
Greenhouse at Agricultural College, 
Cornell . 20,000 
Heating and lighting plant at Mor¬ 
risville Agricultural School. 25,000 
Improvement grange building. State 
, fair grounds . 3,000 
Dept, of Agriculture, for litigation. 2,200 
Railroad transportation of delegates 
to attend agricultural conventions 
in other States. 1,500 
Improvement State fair buildings. . 3,000 
One of the last vetoes from the Gover¬ 
nor’s pen was that of Senator Ramsperger’s 
bill appropriating $3,000 for the establish¬ 
ment of a bureau of agricultural labor at 
Buffalo. 
Alfalfa for Horses. 
After having prepared an acre of land 
for Alfalfa, to be sown by the end of July, 
I am told that everyone around here who 
has tried this crop, has had to cope with 
colic in horses from feeding it to them. 
Could you give me any advice on this 
question ? m. b. 
Norwalk, Conn. 
Go right ahead with the Alfalfa. You 
will have no more trouble with it than with 
clover hay. It must be fed with judgment. 
Too much to begin with or green Alfalfa 
or wet or mouldy hay may cause colic or 
bloat, but thousands of farmers are feed¬ 
ing Alfalfa as the only forage, and get the 
best of results. 
Plowing in Buckwheat. 
Early this month I put in seven acres 
of buckwheat, expecting to cut it for the 
grain, and then follow with buckwheat and 
rye to plow in. It came up promptly, and 
grew about six inches, when the hot wave 
struck it. It stopped growing and com¬ 
menced to blossom. As it is too short to 
cut, of course the only thing to do is to 
plow it in, but when is the best time, to 
let it ripen and then plow, or harrow it in 
with the expectation of getting a crop 
from that seeding in time to sow again to 
plow in while green? What do you think 
about it? F. H. 
We should let it ripen and then plow 
shallow or disk so as to work the seed un¬ 
der. Then sow rye and harrow in. The 
buckwheat should come up first and make 
a fair growth before frost. Let it die 
down on the ground. The rye should grow 
up through it and make a fair crop. 
Florida Note. 
This is the slack season here, comparable 
to the leisure January brings to the farmer 
in the North. In fact, this is a cropping 
country rather than a farming country, and 
it is a safe guess that 95 per cent of the 
large acreage used exclusively for Winter 
truck growing is absolutely neglected from 
the time the crop is gathered in late Win¬ 
ter or Spring, until about November 1, 
when preparation for the next crop begins. 
Personally I am using different methods, 
have nine acres of Velvet beans growing 
for improvement crop and am plowing the 
rest of the farm in time for the heavy 
growth of weeds to decay, rather than burn 
as is the usual practice, d. l. haiitman. 
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