1912. 
895 
THE RUR A-I> NEW-YORKER 
LARGE PUBLIC QUESTIONS. 
[Editor's Note. —Under this heading we intend to 
have discussed questions which particularly interest 
country people. We do not agree with all that our 
correspondents say, but we shall give men and women 
who possess the courage of conviction an opportunity to 
say what they think about certain things which interest 
country peoplej. 
FOR GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK. 
James W. Wadsworth, Jr., is an avowed 
candidate on a farmer’s platform. Wo 
have asked our readers for an expression 
of opinion regarding Mr. Wadsworth's fit¬ 
ness for the position. Following are fair 
samples of the letters thus far received: 
In Favor of Wadsworth. 
“Young Jim” Wadsworth, as all the 
farmers of the valley call our former As¬ 
semblyman and Speaker of the House, is 
in high favor in this section. From pres¬ 
ent indications, it appears that he will re¬ 
ceive the indorsement of practically all the 
Republicans and Independents. The Roose¬ 
velt party is finding favor with many farm¬ 
ers. To be exact, I found nine out of 10 
Republicans in one group to be strong 
Roosevelt men. and yet ready to give Mr. 
Wadsworth their unqualified support for 
Governor. In the large towns throughout 
the county no such Roosevelt enthusiasm 
can be found, but Wadsworth for Governor 
meets with universal approbation. 
Now when we make all due allowances 
for the loyal support that a candidate for 
Governor would naturally get in his own 
county among his own friends, there are 
still a host of thinking farmers here who 
can give strong reasons for favoring the 
candidacy of Mr. Wadsworth. His record 
is absolutely clean. He became active in 
politics a few years ago after completing 
his college education and entered into pub¬ 
lic affairs with the highest ideals. He 
served the county faithfully as member of 
Assembly and the State as a whole in act¬ 
ing in the capacity of Speaker of the 
House. It was while holding this latter 
position that he gave evidences of marked 
intellectual and statesmanlike qualities and 
won the admiration of thousands of think¬ 
ing citizens who were following closely the 
trend of events at Albany during 'those 
eventful years when Hughes was Governor 
of the State. 
To take another point. We have all been 
told the difference between a statesman 
and a politician. I shall not attempt to 
define the terms, but one quality of a 
statesman, as I take it, is that he will de¬ 
fend the cause he believes to lie right and 
when the people will not follow him. go 
down to defeat with his cause rather than 
be an accomplice in folly or wrong. A 
politician, on the other hand, is a weather- 
vane. blown around by every wind. He 
usually tides to advocate the popular craze 
of the hour, to “fill” with the people, to 
“recover” quickly when he attempts any¬ 
thing that does not happen to become a 
popular issue. These bosses or politicians 
around this way are all flopping back and 
forth now in a mad scramble to get on 
the Taft wagon or the Roosevelt wagon, 
whiehever cart they think is going to win. 
It seems to me we need statesmen at this 
time if we ever needed them in the na¬ 
tion s history. From the viewpoint of 
hereditary disposition, education and train¬ 
ing. James Wadsworth. Jr., is a true states¬ 
man. You can get his views on every issue 
of importance. He will stand by his prin¬ 
ciples to the end. He is absolutely honest 
and fearless and at the same time most 
considerate and gentlemanly in respect to 
the rights and opinions of others. Lastly. 
Mr. Wadsworth understands the needs of 
the farmers of the State. lie is a farmer 
himself. lie may be found right out in the 
field tending to his crops during the grow¬ 
ing season on his farm a few miles from 
Geneseo, N. Y. He therefore appreciates 
the difficulties with which we all contend 
who rely on the soil for a living, m. k. 
From the opinions expressed by the 
farmers of this community and the resi¬ 
dents of the village, James W. Wadsworth, 
Jr., is the. only name they are taking into 
consideration so far. They consider while 
somewhat younger in years than the major¬ 
ity of candidates, he has had the experi¬ 
ence of but few as Speaker. While this 
community is Republican, his candidacy is 
more acceptable to the Democratic farmers 
than any so far proposed on either side. 
While we believe he is a machine man, we 
think his election would bo to the interest 
of the farming community more than any 
candidate so far talked of as Governor. 
Genesee Co., N. Y. ' a. p. f. 
I believe that there is no man in the 
State who would be as acceptable to the 
farmers of this section as Mr. Wadsworth. 
I spent a little time yesterday on a trip 
to feel of the sentiment here. I find some 
opposition on account of his direct primary 
views, also some opposition because of his 
connection with “Barnes of Albany,” but 
we realize that it is a hard matter to se¬ 
cure a man .who entertains all our views 
of things needed and the way to secure 
them. There is a strong sentiment here, 
but lacks a leader, for the third party 
movement. The direct primary law as now 
constituted will be very much of a hind¬ 
rance to a better law. Farmers, without 
regard to party, are heartily sick of the 
present law. c. r. n. 
Livingston Co., N. Y. 
Opposed to Wadsworth. 
While we consider James W. Wadsworth, 
Jr., a young man of ability, many of us 
feel that his training, experience and sym¬ 
pathies are not of the kind to make him 
the best possible candidate for Governor 
of New York, at least from the farmers’ 
standpoint. His reactionary position on 
reform measures initiated during the ad¬ 
ministration of Gov. Hughes is still fresh 
in the minds of many. We want a can¬ 
didate who is in sympathy, with country 
life and who understands country condi¬ 
tions. There are such men in both' parties. 
Lewis Co., N. Y. a. w. t. 
Speaking for my friends and for myself 
will say that we believe Wadsworth is not 
suitable. We dislike him for opposing Gov. 
Hughes. Wo want a man who will work 
for the public good. We should have a 
Hughes type of man. a man who will bring 
high ideals into polities, a man capable of 
noble motives, with brains enough to know 
and with character enough to show that he 
believes “the noblest motive is the public 
good." I believe a man nominated inde¬ 
pendent of the parties which are about to 
give us a Dix and a Wadsworth, provided 
that man was a strong supporter of 
Hughes, could be elected Governor of New 
York. What's the matter with Senator 
Davenport? He was a strong supporter of 
Hughes. a. T. 
Genesee Co., N. Y. 
I have made a canvass of this section 
and I have arrived at the impression that 
Mr. Wadsworth will receive 25 per cent, 
Job Hedges 25 per cent and the Progressive 
candidate the 50 per cent. I favor the 
Progressive which according to rumors prob¬ 
ably will be Mr. Hotchkiss. In order to 
give you the way the straw blows in this 
town I will give you the result of a 
ballot vote taken by the audience at a 
moving picture show held in Bath recently: 
223 voted for Mr. Roosevelt, five or six for 
Mr. Taft and five or six for Mr. Wilson. 
Steuben Co., N. Y. j. t>. 
Do you remember the story of the 
brothers, one of whom was wise and sharp, 
the other foolish? The father left a valu¬ 
able flock of sheep, among which was a 
bell wether which was a pet of the fool¬ 
ish brother. When they met to divide the 
sheep, the sharp brother put the best sheep 
intone flock and the culls in the other, and 
thinking the foolish brother would surely 
take his pet. he put the bell wether with 
the culls. To his chagrin the fool, who 
was not all a fool, looked them over and said : 
“Bell wether, bell wether, it breaks my 
heart to part with you, but I don’t like 
your companions.” So it is with the people 
here, especially the farmers. While they 
like Jim pretty well, they don't like his 
close fellowship with Barnes. They class 
Barnes and Murphy as one no better than 
the other, and - - better than 
either. This county is normally 1500 Re¬ 
publican. but. Taft will lose it by more 
than 1500 majority. There never was a 
time when the independent voter counted 
as he will this Fall. I am among the farm¬ 
ers much of the time and am surprised at 
the strong sentiment there is against Taft 
and in favor of Roosevelt. 
Niagara Co., N. Y. j. s. woodward. 
I enclose a quotation from a bulletin 
from the New York Civic League contain¬ 
ing an article regarding James W. Wads¬ 
worth, .Tr. I have also read his letter pub¬ 
lished in The R. N.-Y. of August 10. Now 
which is one to believe? “We gave three 
reasons why thousands of Christian people 
of this State would never vote for Wads¬ 
worth for Governor. First, because he op¬ 
posed direct, primaries. Second, because he 
opposed the anti-racetrack gambling bill, 
and third, because he favored the bill to 
legalize professional baseball on Sundays. 
We have other objections, but these ought 
to be enough to forever prevent his being 
elected to any high office in this State.” 
Rome. N. Y. A. C. 
MARKETING TIME ON A SOUTH JERSEY 
TRUCK FARM. 
Part I. 
This is Saturday evening. August 10. I 
had planned to spend this evening, as many 
others, with my brother in the beeyard and 
give the bees extra room for the Fall honey 
flow, which is just commencing, but be¬ 
cause of a shower just before supper the 
bees were in no mood for handling, and that 
must be postponed until Monday. In the 
bee-yard we find a change from the routine 
of truck farm work, working with bees 
gives us much pleasure, and is one kind 
of recreation that we enjoy. 
Market Time Is Hebe. —For two months 
now we have been as busy as we could be. 
During Juno strawberries claimed most of 
our attention. Returns from the crop were 
entirely satisfactory. We grow the Gandy 
as the main variety. It gave a good yield 
and was far more profitable than the earlier 
or softer berries. We sold to dealers, who 
shipped to Boston in iced cars, at an aver¬ 
age of about $2 a crate for the season. 
The nearby markets were badly glutted dur¬ 
ing most of the berry season, and the only 
thing this time that made the difference 
between good prices and poor prices; a 
profitable crop and a failure, was the fact 
that we had a berry that would stand up 
well under rough handling and ship a long 
distance. During July and until the pres¬ 
ent time there lias been a variety of crops 
to market, and the quantity with us has 
been steadily increasing until this week 
when it seems to have reached the high 
water mark. Tomatoes were in the lead. 
Shipments for the week (August 5 to 10), 
all in five-eighths bushyel baskets) were 
made up as follows: Tomatoes 1040, egg¬ 
plants 382. squash 04, onions 05, peppers 
57. apples 45. and cucumbers 41 : making a 
total of 2,324 baskets of produce for the 
week. We usually have more of a variety 
than this, but this week there was a day 
off for the Gloucester County Grange picnic 
at Alcyon Park, and because of the quan¬ 
tity of tomatoes, we gathered only those 
crops that could not hold over. 
Tomatoes.— The tomatoes this week 
were the last pickings of Earliana and all 
were sold for shipment to Baltimore can 
houses at 20 to 20% cents a basket. Next 
week there will be six or eight hundred more 
baskets and that will end the early tomato 
crop. Our yield will be something over 
6,000 baskets from a little less than nine 
acres or 110 sash. With most growers 
throughout this section eaidy tomatoes have 
been profitable. The yield and price has 
been good. All of the first tomatoes were 
sold in crates holding about 20 quarts 
and they have gone from here this year by 
the trainload. Swedesboro is the main ship¬ 
ping point, and is without question the best 
marker. Many dealers are there to buy the 
tomatoes from the farmers as they come in, 
and they almost always pay from 10 to 
25 cents a crate more than dealers at 
other praces can pay; and more than the 
individual grower can get when shipping 
independently. Shipments of 20.000 to 
30.000 crates of tomatoes a day from 
Swedesboro are not at all exceptional. They 
go to most of the large eastern cities and 
often to Canada. There is a big outlet for 
tomatoes, and the early shipments usually 
go at good prices. We do not live near 
enougn to Swedesboro to market our early 
tomatoes there, but have found prices re¬ 
ceived by shipping independently to New York 
and by selling to dealers at Pedricktown 
very satisfactory, even if they were some¬ 
what below Swedesboro prices. At the 
start this year tomatoes sold for $1.25 to 
$2 a crate; they dropped gradually, but 
did not get below 50 cents until about 
August 1. Picking commenced soon after 
June 20. so that gave’a full month of mar¬ 
keting at good prices. After the price got 
to 50 cents a crate the canners took hold 
and paid 25 cents a basket. Then when 
tomatoes began to come to the canners in 
qauntity they dropped the price to 18 and 
20 cents a five-eighths bushel basket. To 
date it has not dropped below those figures, 
and it looks as though it would not until 
the end of the season. During the past two 
weeks tens of thousands of baskets have 
gone to Baltimore. Canners are buying 
everything, big and little; they only ask 
that the tomato be solid and ripe, and 
when they get through there will be noth¬ 
ing left in the fields but vines. 
New Jersey. trucker, jr. 
Commerce Commission. An amendment, 
offered by Senator Reed, barring the canal 
to vessels of companies violating the anti¬ 
trust law was also attached to the measure. 
The conference report on the agricultural 
appropriation bill was adopted by the 
House August 8 and now goes-to the Presi¬ 
dent. The measure carried $16,651,490, an 
increase of $718,130 over the amount orig¬ 
inally appropriated. 
August 13 the House passed the wool 
bill over the President’s veto. 
PARCELS POST.—The Senate August 
I- passed tile Bourne amendment to the 
post office appropriation, providing for a 
zone system of parcels post. Another im¬ 
portant amendment adopted by the Senate 
the same day provides for the appointment 
or a joint committee of three members of 
the Senate Committee on Post Offices and 
Lost Hoads and three members of the 
House Committee to make a report on the 
subject of Federal aid in the construction 
ot highways. Five thousand dollars was 
appropriated to cover expenses of the in¬ 
quiry. The House provision on this sub- 
ject contemplated a scheme of road ini- 
provement requiring $15,000,000 a year, 
the federal Government paying the money 
foi use of the State roads. The zone sys¬ 
tem of parcels post proposed by Senator 
Bourne, of Oregon, chairman of* the com¬ 
mittee, which was incorporated in the 
measure, divides continental United States 
into units of area 30 miles square. Plight 
postal zones are thus established. The 
first zone includes an area having a mean 
radial distance of 50 miles from the centre, 
lho second zone extends from the 50 mile 
limit to 1:>0 miles and so on. The charge 
for the first zone will be five cents for the 
first pound or fraction thereof and three 
cents for each additional pound. The limit 
of weight is fixed at 11 pounds and no 
package shall be larger than 72 inches in 
length ami girth combined. One amend¬ 
ment provides that all newspapers, maga¬ 
zines, periodicals and other publications, 
excepting religious, temperance, scientific 
and similar publications, shall file with the 
postmaster in the city of publication a 
statement twice a year showing the names 
ot owners, editor or business manager, the 
names of known bondholders, mortgage and 
other security holders. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Fully a ton of 
butter, the property Of Cincinnati house¬ 
wives belonging to the National House¬ 
wives' Cooperative League, is to be placed 
in a Cincinnati cold storage warehouse 
awaiting the Fall rise iu price. The action 
was decided on at a meeting of the execu¬ 
tive committee of the organization. Each 
member is buying a tub of butter weighing 
30 pounds at 20 cents a pound. “We will 
pay for keeping the butter in cold storage 
and still be able to average not more thSn 
29 cents a pound for our Winter’s butter,” 
said Mrs. J. W. Ell ms, president of the 
league. 
The fifth annual meeting of the Interna¬ 
tional (now American) Association of In¬ 
structors and Investigators in Poultry 
Husbandry was held June 20, 27 and 28, at 
Michigan Agricultural College, East Lan¬ 
sing. Mich. The programme was carried 
out substantially as published and sent to 
each member prior to the meeting. In the 
absence of the president, F. C. El ford, and 
the first vice-president. F. II. Stoneburn, 
the second vice-president. Horace Atwood, 
presided. The amendment to the constitu¬ 
tion submitted to the members in a circu¬ 
lar letter sent out under date of May 21. 
the purpose of which was to change the 
name of the association to American Asso¬ 
ciation of Instructors and Investigators in 
Poultry Husbandry, was unanimously 
adopted and the members are particularly 
requested to note the change. The second 
amendment submitted in the circular letter, 
increasing the annual dues to $2. was also 
unanimously adopted. This increase ap¬ 
plies to the present year. A committee on 
membership was appointed to prepare an 
amendment to Article 3, Section 1, revis 
ing conditions of membership. The report 
of the committee will be submitted to mem¬ 
bers at a later date. 
There was a meeting in Albany at the 
office of the Commissioner of Agriculture, 
•August 10, 1912. at 10 A. M.. for consid¬ 
eration of the best means for promotion of 
the passage of national oleomargarine legis¬ 
lation desired by the consuming public and 
the dairymen. There was presented at that 
meeting a copy of a bill which has been 
prepared under the auspices of the National 
Dairy Union in conjunction with represen¬ 
tatives of the following: National Butter 
Makers’ Association. American Creamery 
Butter Manufacturers’ Association. Ameri¬ 
can Dairy Farmers’ Association. National 
Dairy Show Association, Farmers National 
Congress, National Grange. 
Governor Dix was the principal speaker 
August 13 at the field day and picnic of 
the I lster County Pomona Grange, at 
Kingston. X. Y. lie spoke on conservation 
of national resources and urged that more 
scientific methods be applied to farming in 
order to produce the best results. The 
State and Grange are each working toward 
the same end. the Governor said, which 
was to husband the resources within their 
reach. 
Dr. T. .T. Headier. State entomologist and 
professor of entomology at the Kansas 
Agricultural College, has accepted a call 
to New Brunswick, N. .T„ and will leave 
November 1. His work in that State will 
be similar to the position he fills in Kan¬ 
sas. although he will have much more 
money for experimental work and a salary 
nearly double his present one. Much of 
his attention will be given to the exter¬ 
mination of mosquitoes. For this work he 
has available a fund of $20,000. During 
his five years at the Kansas Agricultural 
College, Dr. Headlee, has built a very ef¬ 
ficient department of entomology and 
zoology—one which has few equals in the 
realm of agricultural colleges. By Tiis 
fight on all sorts of injurious pests in that 
State, chinch bugs, Hessian flies, San .Tost; 
scale, green bugs, grasshoppers. Codling 
moths and apple diseases. Dr. Headlee has 
saved thousands of dollars to farmers. 
The Housewives’ League of New York 
wants the tariff on meat removed, and has 
petitioned Mr. Taft, Mr. Wilson and Mr. 
Roosevelt to this effect. Mrs. Julian 
Heath, president of the league, says: 
“There is good meat in Argentina, Mexico 
and Canada, and we want it here. We 
don’t intend to go on paying 33 per cent 
more for our own meat than foreigners 
do.” 
WASHINGTON.—Disregarding the pro¬ 
test of the British Government the Senate 
August 9 passed the Panama Canal bill, 
providing for the maintenance and opera¬ 
tion of the canal and the establishment of 
a government in the Canal Zone, by a, vote 
of 47 to 15. The measure as passed pro¬ 
vides for the remission of tolls to Ameri¬ 
can vessels engaged both in coastwise and 
foreign traffic, prohibits railroad owned 
vessels from using the canal, admits to 
American register American owned for¬ 
eign built ships not in coastwise trade, and 
contains a modification of the House pro¬ 
vision divesting the railroads of their 
steamship lines in an amendment, offered 
by Senator Bourne, placing this questiou 
C R OPS 
The New York Baldwin Crop. 
I he Hudson Valley and eastern part of 
New York have a light set of apples, but 
the present indications are that the Bald¬ 
win crop of Western N. Y. will be the heav¬ 
iest on record. It is thought that the yield 
around Lockport, Medina and Albion will 
be one-fourth larger than last year. * Near 
Hilton the promise is still greater. Sodus, 
Williamson, North Rose and Wolcott all 
show a heavy load of Baldwins. In Seneca 
County the. outlook is better than was ex¬ 
pected earlier in the season but not equal 
to last year. The yield of Greenings will 
be much lighter than last year, but the 
plantings of Western N. Y~ are so largely 
Baldwin that) the failure of another varietv 
makes, little impression there. Of course 
there is still time for heavy damage to the 
crop by storms. 
The season has been peculiar. May was 
a very wet month, not that a large amount 
of water fell so much as it remained cloudv 
and drizzly and the land did not dry out 
sufficient to work, thus making planting 
late. For three nights just previous to 
June 10 there were heavy frosts on all land 
except some very high hills; nearly all 
early stuff was killed. Then it come on 
dry and remained cold through .Tune. The 
first of .Tune indications pointed to a 
record-breaking hay crop, but the dry 
weather had its effect and just about an 
average hay crop has been harvested. Juiv 
3 it begun to be hot and from that time 
till the. 13th it w<is ideal hay weather. 
Stout Timothy and clover could be moved 
and hauled in the same day, something 
that never was done before so early in 
the haying season. Meantime all crops 
came to a standstill, pastures dried up, 
springs failed and conditions were rapidlv 
becoming serious with no rain to speak of 
since .Tune 1, when there was a showc* on 
the night of July 13 and one week inter. 
July 21 and 22, there were heavy ra'.ns 
that fully relieved drought conct tirns. 
Since that time the weather has been bad 
for haying; there yet remains considerable 
hay . unharvested, and it is impossible to 
get it until the weather changes. Potatoes 
are making a rapid growth and if they es¬ 
cape blight and rot a good crop is assured. 
Corn, especially sweet corn, is very back 
ward, and conditions must be exceptional!v 
favorable from now on or the -rop will b<> 
a failure. Grain is good, although tiiat 
which neaded out before the rains came is 
short-strawed, but the heads are large and 
it is filling well. Pastures have started up 
and are now good. Butter is 30 cents per 
pound; eggs, 24 cents a dozen : cream, 33 
cents per _ pound of indicated butter fac; 
corn. $1.85; meal, $1.75; cotton-seed meal 
$1.70; gluten feed, $1.80; mixed feed. 
$1.75; bran, $1.00 at the railroad station; 
wool, 22 cents per pound. Beef is so high 
that the local meat carts have stopped run¬ 
ning and people are buying canned meats 
at the stores, costing about 20 cents per 
pound for very poor beef. r. w. h. 
Thorndike, Maine. 
The crop conditions in the vicinity of 
Alden, N. Y r ., are not very good. Oats and 
corn are turning out very poor. What 
apples I saw appeared as though thev 
would yield a fair crop. Potatoes, while 
on some farms they looked very good, ou 
the whole did not look as well as thev 
might. _ The hay crop was much the same. 
Some informed me that their crops were 
up to the average yearly yield, but most 
farmers complain of a short crop. There 
was only one crop which really had a 
healthy appearance. I saw some 
finest looking beans I ever saw, and 
are grown quite extensively in that 
they will, if they continue to 
peusate, in a measure at least, 
condition of other crops. 
Alden, N. Y. 
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