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THE RURAL) NEW-YORKER 
March 23, 
NOTES FROM ALBANY. 
The racing interests—that is, running 
racing interests—are making every effort 
to secure, in these closing days of the 
legislative session, the enactment of a law 
which will relieve officers of associations 
from criminal responsibility for betting 
occurring on the grounds where racing is 
held. These interests are making it ap¬ 
pear that officials of all the county fair 
associations in the State are behind them 
in their demands. Their efforts are not as 
successful as they might desire, and prom¬ 
inent agriculturists in many parts of the 
State are writing letters of protest to their 
representatives in the Assembly against the 
Cuvillicr bill, which is clearly in the in¬ 
terests’ favor. Assemblyman T. B. Wilson, 
member from Ontario County and chairman 
of the Committee on Agriculture of the 
I-ower House, is out with a statement in 
which he declares that the statements of 
those urging the passage of the Cuvillicr 
bill and pretending to be so solicitous to 
relieve officers of fair associations from 
criminal responsibility in case of betting 
on trotting races at county fairs, are to 
be taken with a grain of salt. Mr. Wil¬ 
son says: “If there is any change in the 
law that will make it clear and definite 
who is responsible for gambling or pool 
selling when discovered to exist, all well 
and good, but I believe the law is good 
enough as it is. All this talk about the 
directors being in danger of prosecution in 
case two people should be discovered mak¬ 
ing a wager between themselves that a cer¬ 
tain horse would win, is all nonsense; no 
jury could be found to convict the directors 
for a bet of that kind, and the present law 
was not intended to apply in such a case; 
such talk is to frighten directors into giv¬ 
ing their support for a change in the law 
that will make it possible to do something 
that now cannot be done.” 
The Sullivan bill, on the lines of the 
Collin bill of last year, which provided for 
the licensing and bonding of commission 
men dealing in farm products, was last 
week reported out from the agricultural 
committee with certain amendments which 
the introducer has accepted. The bill in its 
present form provides for the issuing of 
licenses to middlemen by the Commissioner 
of Agriculture, he to prescribe certain regu¬ 
lations under which licenses will be 
granted. The fee for a license is set at $5 
per annum ; a bond of two thousand dollars 
is provided for witli forfeiture of license 
when a successful suit is maintained against 
a commission merchant for failing to abide 
by the contract for which the bond is given 
as surety. It will be interesting to watch 
the course of this bill—what its fate will 
bo—whether it will be permitted to pass 
out of the Assembly into the Senate where 
Senator Travis will have to do with it. 
A great rush to get bills before the As¬ 
sembly is now going on. The Legislature, 
it has been decided, will definitely end its 
session the 29th inst. 
It will be recalled that it was told in 
these columns not long since of 250 farms 
owned by the State which it was expected 
would shortly be sold by the State Comp¬ 
troller. Recently there was a bill intro¬ 
duced in both houses of the Legislature di¬ 
recting the Commissioner of Agriculture to 
examine, appraise and report upon all farm 
lands outside the forest preserves hereto¬ 
fore acquired by the State by tax sales, 
and by the foreclosure of mortgages by the 
State loan commission. Among other things 
the report must show the adaptability of 
each parcel of land to specified crops and 
the Commissioner’s estimate of its actual 
market value. The report must also state 
which tracts, if any, should, in the Com¬ 
missioner’s opinion, be held by the State 
for re-forestation and which of them would 
be suitable for experimental use by agri¬ 
cultural colleges and schools, and which of 
them should be sold. The sum of $3,000 is 
appropriated for the purposes of the inves¬ 
tigation, which must be concluded by Oc¬ 
tober 1 next. 
Governor Dix has signed the cider vine¬ 
gar bill, previously referred to in these 
columns, and the same is now a law. Un¬ 
der its terms the proportion by weight of 
absolute acetic acid which must be con¬ 
tained in cider vinegar, that it shall not 
be deemed adulterated, is reduced from 4% 
to four per cent. This new standard brings 
New York State’s vinegar law into harmony 
with the Federal statutes and those of most 
other States. 
By reason of the extremely cold weather 
existing generally throughout the State 
since January 5 practically every lake and 
stream in the middle and northern part of 
the State is frozen over, preventing wild 
ducks from feeding. As soon as the Con¬ 
servation Commission became aware of this 
fact, game protectors were ordered to pur¬ 
chase grain and give their attention to the 
feeding of the wild ducks. On Seneca Lake, 
in the vicinity of Geneva, there was esti¬ 
mated to be 5,000 wild duck of different 
species in one small opening in the lake. 
As soon as the grain was spread upon the 
ice the wild ducks fed upon it as readily 
as if they were domesticated. The same 
condition existed on Great South Bay and 
on Cayuga Lake, where the ducks have 
been in the habit of wintering. 
The news that deer are wintering well 
in the northern part of the State will be 
pleasant news to many farmers who have 
suffered (if reports be true) from the dep¬ 
redations of these cattle. The R. N.-Y. last 
September told of the stacking of wild hay 
in many portions of the Adirondacks as an 
experiment, for use of the deer during the 
Winter, when their natural food was scarce. 
Reports received at Albany show the experi¬ 
ment to have been a success, and that the 
deer' here ai>e helping themselves liberally 
from the stacks of wild hay. 
A period of five months has elapsed dur¬ 
ing which farmers, dairymen and others 
have been patiently awaiting the payment 
of their claims for the condemnation and 
slaughtering of diseased bovine cattle by 
the State. It would now appear that these 
claims will speedily be satisfied. Commis¬ 
sioner of Agriculture Calvin ,T. Iluson ad¬ 
dressed a communication to Governor Dix 
in which he stated that upon assuming the 
duties of his office he found claims for the 
condemnation and slaughtering of glandered 
horses and tuberculosus cows, amounting to 
$194,632.65, with not one dollar to pay 
fiscal year yet to run. In his letter to the 
Governor, Mr. Iluson said : “The farmers 
and dairymen of the State to whom these 
claims are due and owing, cannot under¬ 
stand why they are required to wait several 
months before their claims can be paid. In 
many cases the persons holding these 
claims are men of small means who are 
seriously inconvenienced by the delay.” 
Commissioner Iluson informed the Gover¬ 
nor that he had called upon Assemblyman 
Whitney, chairman of the Ways and Means 
Committee, and placed the exact situation 
before him. Chairman Whitney appreciated 
the seriousness of the situation and has per¬ 
sonally introduced a special bill, appropriat¬ 
ing $200,000, beside an item of $100,000 in 
the supply bill, with which to discharge ob¬ 
ligations already incurred and likely to ac¬ 
crue. Commissioner Iluson further said: 
“While these sums arc large in amount, still 
it is necessary that they be appropriated 
that the State may deal justly and promptly 
with its citizens whose property it has 
summarily taken.” 
The State Fair Commission at its last 
meeting, March 6, decided that at the com¬ 
ing fair no person, no matter who he may 
be, shall be admitted free. Thousands of 
free passes were issued in years gone by, 
but at this year’s exhibition every person 
passing into the grounds from Governor Dix 
down—even the Fair Commissioners them¬ 
selves—will be compelled to drop their half 
dollar into the turnstile box before gaining 
admission. In the case of laborers on the 
grounds and other employes, of course, pro¬ 
vision will be made so that they will not 
suffer financially by this new rule of the 
Commission; their pay allowances will be 
increased by the amount expended in en¬ 
trance fees. The Commissioners desire the 
widest announcement made of their action 
and are confident that it will meet with ap¬ 
proval except from those chronic deadheads 
who are always seeking to get something 
for nothing. It was time the State Fair 
Commission took this action ; there was no 
more reason why one class of persons 
should be granted free admission to the 
State Fair to the exclusion of any other 
class than there would be for granting 
them a cash present out of the State 
Treasury. 
It has been definitely decided that there 
will be no automobile racing at the State 
Fair next September. In its place, how¬ 
ever, an attraction far transcending any 
other sport is being planned for—nothing 
less than the appearance upon successive 
days of the candidates for the Presidency 
of the two great national parties. 
At this writing it does not seem prob¬ 
able that any of the many bills establishing 
agricultural schools will get through the 
Legislature at the present session. The 
State Agricultural Advisory Board had a 
hearing in the Capitol recently at which 
time there were many appearances of par¬ 
ties interested in the various bills. The 
conclusions arrived at by the Board have 
not yet been made public, but it is under¬ 
stood that the Board is not averse to the 
establishing of agricultural schools on Long 
Island, to be conducted by the Board of 
Education of New York City. c. 
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